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Federal authorities arrested a Michigan man Friday for allegedly threatening to kill Federal Bureau of Investigation Director (FBI) Kash Patel and one of his associates.

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An alleged intruder in a Halloween costume was shot by a father with an AR-15 about 2:20 a.m. Thursday and hospitalized in critical condition in Houston, Texas.

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The longest truce of the Ukraine war, brokered by US First Lady Melania Trump and limited to just the Kherson region, was set to end on Sunday evening after neither side announced an extension.

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These are stressful times for the American people. Election season tends to be that way. 

Elections matter, and Americans are blessed to live in a country where we are guaranteed the right to vote for our representatives.  

If you love your country, you want to see it flourish, and there are probably candidates you believe will hurt it. That is frightening. At the end of the day, though, not every race across the nation will go the way that you want it to.  

But the question we must all ask ourselves is this: Does the uncertainty of the midterms—or any political venture—control me? 

When we feel stress and anxiety about the future, we must turn to God. Whether it is worries about the midterms, our family, finances, health, or anything else, unbridled anxiety without hope can be crippling.  

Ultimately, any desire to have absolute control over the future is a facade. We can and should work hard to bring about justice and healthy change in our government, families, and communities. However, so long as we are doing our part, all we can do is entrust the results to God and tag along for the ride. Fear of what could be does nothing good.  

For this reason, Jesus preached to the crowds: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light” (Matthew 11:28-30).  

The “yoke” was the wooden harness for oxen in Jesus’ time used for plowing purposes. Every ox was paired with another one to work together in the fields. Jesus, then, wants us to take up His yoke so that He can help us complete the work to which we are called.  

He will not take every single challenge or uncertainty away from our lives. But He will help us in our struggles, working with us and supporting us. Through it all, He carries the weight of our lives and of our fears with us. He seeks to take the burden and reveal loving care that can bring us through anything.  

The purpose of God becoming one of us was manifold, but one of the most important reasons was for us to know that we never have to lose hope. No one suffers alone. God took on flesh, suffered, died, and rose from the grave. There is no situation that He cannot renew. 

On this celebration of All Saints Day, we can learn from the words of two important saints regarding fear of the future. The first is St. Francis de Sales, who said, “Do not fear what may happen tomorrow. The same understanding Father who cares for you today will take care of you then and every day.” 

This is tied to the words of Jesus, “Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span?” (Matthew 6:27). Stress about what will happen, which is out of our control, is literally useless. What never fails, however, is prayerful trust.  

Prayer, intentional communication with God, unites us to the One who is the source of our existence. Denying that He will always provide for us simply breeds more stress. Clinging to prayer and asking for peace amidst what we cannot control is the best preparation for entering into the unknown.  

The words of St. Teresa of Avila can aid our worrying souls. She said: “Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you, all things are passing away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things, whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices.” 

Prayer will lead us to deeper trust. This trust grounds us in an unshakable patience. It allows us to see with the vision of God, who remains beyond, but in control, of all of the worldly affairs of this life. So, in uncertain times, cling to faith. Be a person of deep prayer who patiently trusts that God will always reign victorious, no matter the (election) season.  

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A leading leftist mayor in France has called on the government to outlaw public discussion of the "Great Replacement", thereby potentially turning large sections of the native population into thought criminals.

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Critical minerals power nearly everything in our modern lives. But much of the world has been coming to grips with an ill-advised reliance on China for these materials. Today, we report from Madrid, Spain on how Europe is playing catch up to America’s strategy to dig out of a bad situation.

The following is a transcript of a report from “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson.”
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“Critical minerals” include about 50 substances designated by the U.S. Geological Survey under the Interior Department. They’re considered essential to the economy and national security, and include lithium, graphite, tungsten, and cobalt.

“Rare earths” are a subgroup of 17 similar elements with unique magnetic and electronic properties vital to high-tech. They include: neodymium, dysprosium, and cerium.

Fighter jets, missiles, and electronics use them.

But as globalization took off in the 80s, the U.S. and Europe starting relying on China to refine critical minerals into usable form. Today China dominates, processing up to 95% of rare earths.

Sharyl: How is it that the U.S. and Europe woke up one day and were super reliant on China? Did China foresee things that we did not plan for?

Santiago Cuesta Lopez: That’s right.

Santiago Cuesta Lopez is a Spanish representative to the European Union on critical raw materials.

Sharyl: What is the danger of Europe, United States, or anybody else having to rely on an adversary for supplies of these critical things?

Lopez: There are different moments that we were realizing and detecting that this was very dangerous and that the different value chains were affected. For instance, the next crisis on rare earths. So we started to see all our lasers or our permanent magnets, we are relying on rare earths. What we are going to do? Without permanent magnets we cannot have electrical vehicles, we cannot have magnetic resonance, cannot have little actuators, we cannot have the hard disc actuators.

Cesar Luaces Frades is a member of the European Commission’s Raw Materials Supply Group.

Cesar Luaces Frades: The problem is that these countries can just open or stop the supply of these raw materials to these economies. And then the economy and the industry of these countries is completely on the hands of these other third countries. So the risk is that is an economic risk. It’s a risk for the industry. It’s a risk for the strategic autonomy and also for the defense.

But both European experts told us America has been far quicker to address the vulnerabilities.

Sharyl: What is the difference you see between where the US is on all of this and where Europe is?

Frades: USA is in a much better position than Europe. Why? For different reasons. European Union can take a policy, let’s say, to decide we should go in that direction, but then it’s to member states to implement the policy. And this is not always that evident while in USA it’s a much more integrated approach. So they are much faster taking the measures. And the economic capacity of USA is the first economy in the world. Is bigger. So they are in a much better position than we are in Europe.

In February, President Trump announced Project Vault to address the critical minerals risk in a way nobody had done before.

President Donald Trump (February 2): For years, American businesses have risked running out of critical minerals during market disruptions. Today we’re launching what will be known as Project Vault to ensure that American businesses and workers are never harmed by any shortage. We don’t want to ever go through what we went through a year ago.

A year before, the world got a taste of China weaponizing its dominance. The country limited exports of rare earths and related materials. It triggered sharp disruptions among European automakers and defense contractors.

Now, Project Vault is just beginning to buy and store critical minerals to protect American supplies.

Lopez: United States has a strategic stockpile. They are doing super well because they have a particular Critical Minerals Institute. They have a United States Geological Survey institute. And they created a politics of critical raw materials. That’s what the United States is doing. So the situation is very different because, Trump, in Europe, not all, but some people say ‘Trump is crazy, President Donald Trump has no strategy.’ No, President Donald Trump has a very perfect strategy. A step-by-step.

Sharyl (on-camera): Spain is among the EU countries pushing move quickly on a Critical Raw Materials Act passed in 2024. It seeks to limit imports from a single country and speed permits for mining and refinery projects at home, which take 10-15 years to build.

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After crossing with his army into Asia, Alexander the Great stopped at Gordium (in modern-day Turkey). He approached the famous Gordian knot—a tangled mass of bark tying an ox cart to a pole, so intricate and tight that no one could unravel it. When told that anyone who could untie the mess would rule all of Asia, Alexander simply pulled out his sword and cut through it—solving the problem and fulfilling the prophecy.

The Ukraine war may be our Gordian knot, but—in our current nuclear age—it is dangerous to cut rather than unravel it.

A European Stalingrad

No one knows exactly how many people have been killed in the Ukraine war, which has now lasted four years and eight months—longer than World War II in the Pacific, the American Civil War, or World War I. There is still no end in sight. Estimates of the human toll vary widely, since it is in the interest of both sides to exaggerate the losses of the enemy while under-reporting their own casualties.

Nonetheless, most sources agree that more than half a million have died. Other estimates put the total fatalities closer to 1 million. At least another million and a half have been wounded or are missing. Some calibrate well over 30,000 total civilian deaths, the overwhelming majority of them Ukrainians. On average, well over 1,500 Ukrainians and Russians are being killed or wounded each day.

To outside observers, the war appears different from most other current armed conflicts, in which religion or ethnicity is the cause, or at least the force multiplier, of the conflict. Despite Ukrainian political independence, both sides are ethnically similar and—when it comes to almost half of Ukraine’s prewar population—linguistically identical. Both sides are indistinguishable in superficial appearance. Both are predominantly Orthodox Christian. They fought alongside each other in World War II and often shared a common history.

In February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin planned to decapitate Ukraine with a lightning strike on Kyiv, thereby bringing the entire country within days into his envisioned new Russian empire. That operation, reminiscent of the “Thunder Runs” to capture Baghdad in 2003 with a shock-and-awe wave, utterly failed in the face of remarkable Ukrainian courage and savvy.

What followed, however, has become even more nightmarish than the death cauldrons at Verdun or Stalingrad.

A Slaughterhouse War

Ukraine’s economy is ruined. A fourth of the population has been displaced. Perhaps 15% has fled abroad. The Zelenskyy government relies on Western aid and the heroism of its troops for survival. The latter has established a nearly impenetrable line of defense in the contested Donetsk Oblast, one of the richest and most urbanized regions of Ukraine.

If the Russians were to break through that line, there would be little left to stop them from marching on Kyiv, and thus little to prevent the collapse of Ukraine’s entire resistance. Yet for now, the Russians, in tragically ironic fashion, are playing the role of the trapped German aggressors at Stalingrad: a hemorrhaging army that can no longer advance and won’t retreat.

But as we approach the end of the fifth year of this insane war in late 2026, the Ukrainians—now with roughly one-fifth of Russia’s population, one-twelfth of its gross domestic product, and one twenty-eighth of its area—are starting to run out of men, money, and support. Ukraine’s last chance of salvation is to keep sending its vast drone fleet—brilliantly created all but ex nihilo—against Russian industrial targets, especially fuel refineries.

Russian strategy, by contrast, aims at hitting more civilian targets in Ukraine to kill enough noncombatants to demoralize the population.

The longer the war drags on, the more Russia—its military humiliated, its oil-exporting economy under strain, its losses staggering—grows desperate and dangerous, as its image as a major power erodes further. As a result, Russia hopes to stop European aid to Ukraine by quietly sending “mysterious” drones over European nations—nations Putin despises for their humanitarian affectations and military weakness.

The Russians seek to counter American aid through a renewed partnership with America’s chief rival, China; by stealthily aiding Iran with intelligence, satellite reconnaissance, and smuggled weapons; by hoping that soaring global fuel costs will demoralize the American public on the eve of the midterms; and by making wild threats of nuclear and conventional attacks against the entire NATO alliance.

A Fragmenting West

The war has certainly further deepened the long-standing divisions between the United States and Europe, which transcend President Donald Trump’s occasional furor at Europe and Europe’s own bouts of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

The U.S. is seething at European calls for additional transatlantic solidarity. The U.S. has already provided Ukraine with well over $100 billion in total logistics, weaponry, reconnaissance, and economic aid to prevent Russians from pouring into European countries, but such help has not been matched by the Europeans when it comes to stopping a nuclear Iran.

For decades, European leaders have warned that a nuclear-armed Iran would pose an existential danger. But European denial of dual-use NATO bases to the American military, the prohibition on even flying Middle East-bound U.S. military or logistical aircraft over several European nations, and the constant rhetorical attacks on the American military effort to stop an Iranian bomb are all starting to fragment the alliance’s support for Ukraine.

Europe sees the future of the West as hinging on stopping Russian aggression. The U.S. may agree but sees an unhinged nuclear Iran as an even greater danger. Europe is peeved that Trump is ending fuel sanctions against Russia to lower sky-high global diesel prices. America is even angrier that green and vehemently anti-Russian Europe has been the chief buyer of Russian natural gas since the war began. And on and on the acrimony goes.

It does not help that the framing of the war as European democracy against Russian totalitarian aggression is undermined somewhat by the desperate Zelenskyy government’s banning of allegedly pro-Russian political parties, restrictions on opposition media, and suspension of scheduled elections. Such suspension of elections is something that the U.S. never entertained during the darkest days of World War II. Winston Churchill was voted out of office even as the war in the Pacific raged on.

Adding to the mess, Europe is itself in crisis.

France and Italy have been aflame for weeks. The rioting and upheavals have no easy solution. Native students, socialists, communists, and anarchists have been joined by first- and second-generation immigrants (mostly Muslims from the Middle East and Africa) in calling for more government expenditures for social causes—or else. But a dangerously indebted France already spends nearly 60% of its budget on social welfare programs of some sort.

Suicidal European energy policies have nearly wrecked the once robust European economy. Despite having 100 million more citizens, the EU has a GDP that is $10 trillion smaller than America’s. And NATO’s European members—until recently de facto unarmed—are scrambling to increase their military budgets beyond a meager 2% of GDP.

In short, Europe’s problem is not a dearth of redistributive social welfare programs but an inert economy that cannot even afford its present welfare generosity.

Worse, Europe’s borders are still mostly open. Dismal European fertility ensures an aging and shrinking indigenous population. Meanwhile, the growing immigrant population remains poorly assimilated, poorly integrated, and poorly acculturated to European values—and increasingly angry at its magnanimous hosts.

When or How Will It All End?

So, given these dismal facts, will this horrific war ever end?

There are lots of scenarios for a conclusion to the madness, but most are either unlikely or terrifying.

1) After nearly five years of frightening human costs, economic ruin, and global ostracism, Russia could agree to an armistice based on the status quo of the current battlefront. It would keep Crimea and its eastern Ukrainian acquisitions. It could thus claim victory before its disenchanted population. Ukraine would also be able to declare victory for stopping the Russian colossus from pushing farther into the country.

Ukraine would not join NATO. But during the peace, it would arm itself to the teeth. Ukraine would fortify its new eastern border to deter further Russian aggression, given that Putin’s ultimate agenda is to absorb all the former Soviet republics either by outright conquest or through puppet governments, and so to claim a status like Peter the Great’s by restoring millions of new “Russians” to the current shrinking Russian Federation. This conclusion would not please either side or its allies. And therefore it might be the only realistic way to stop the slaughter.

2) Ukrainian elections might result in a coalition government willing to negotiate a more generous settlement for Putin. The war would end, but with an even greater Russian threat to Ukraine and the rest of Europe than either faced before the war.

3) The unsustainable human and economic costs of the war could result in a coup removing Putin and installing a more realistic oligarchy that would negotiate a peace and blame the deposed Putin for the catastrophe. Putin’s political longevity so far (now well into a third decade in power, having survived a number of existential political crises) makes this notion unlikely.

4) A hollowed-out Russian military could finally collapse, allowing Ukraine to advance to its pre-February 2022 borders.

5) A strapped Ukraine, with its European allies under economic and social strain and the United States occupied with Iran, simply collapses. Russia then annexes most or all of the country. Or perhaps Putin sympathizers win an election, seek to capitulate, and hand over the rest of the country, along with Crimea and the Donbas, to Russia.

6) The war could simply drag on for years, resembling the bella interrupta of the Middle East.

Strange War, Stranger Reactions to It

Finally, there is something surreal about the politics of the Ukraine war. Almost no one is talking about either its catastrophic human costs or the concrete details of how it might end.

Western campuses are silent about the bloodletting. Yet we witnessed violent demonstrations damning Israel for “genocide” and calling on us to “Free Palestine”—even though the death toll following Oct. 7 represents only around six months’ losses in Ukraine. Meanwhile, some on the ultraright who damn Israel’s “aggression” are openly supportive of the Russian invader.

The supposedly antiwar Left talks only of more arms for Ukraine, without any real agenda for how Ukraine can win or stop the slaughter.

Any talk of Western negotiations with Putin is declared proof of appeasement or collaboration, even though the Obama Left gave us the “Russian reset” of 2009 as what it claimed was the only sensible way to deal with the prior Russian invasion of Georgia.

The Right, too, damns the idea of Trump meeting with Putin, even though Ronald Reagan met with the Soviet dictator when the USSR had thousands of nuclear weapons targeting the United States.

After Oct. 7, the West pressed Israel constantly on issues of “proportionality,” “negotiations,” and “collateral damage”—not to mention new elections—but such vocabulary is absent from discussions of the far more lethal Ukraine war.

In sum, someone had better start thinking of ending this godless war before something or someone else far scarier ends it for us.

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