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HEADLINE: America strikes back: F-16s conduct airstrikes against Iranian proxy forces in Syria in retaliation for more than a dozen rocket attacks that have injured 21 US troops since Hamas atrocities by Harriet Alexander 

• Can you give me a definition of ‘proxy force’?
• Would America be considered a ‘proxy force’ for Ukraine against Russia?
• The attacks against multiple U.S.-controlled sites in the region resulted in minor injuries to 21 U.S. service members, and the death of an American contractor, who died from a heart attack during one attack.
• ‘The United States does not seek conflict and has no intention nor desire to engage in further hostilities, but these Iranian-backed attacks against U.S. forces are unacceptable and must stop,’ said Lloyd Austin, the Defense Secretary, in a statement announcing the Syrian strikes.
• The United States has 2,500 troops in Iraq, and 900 more in neighboring Syria.
• Everyone knows we have to ‘fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here’. 
• We are sending weapons to Ukraine to lob into Russia so aren’t we doing the same thing?

HEADLINE: Slovakia’s new populist PM announces halt of military aid to Ukraine by News Wires 

HEADLINE: Slovakia Says It’s Halting Arms Deliveries to Ukraine by Andrew Higgins 

• That would make Slovakia the first among those countries that have sent weapons to Kyiv since the war broke out to say it would stop. Slovakia’s commercial defense contracts with Ukraine for Slovak-made artillery and other defense systems, however, are expected to continue.

AUDIO/VIDEO: Tucker Carlson w/ Bob Amsterdam on Ukraine persecuting Christians – A lot of what’s happening in the world seems like an attack on Christianity. The US government has effectively funded the killing of Christians in Syria. In Ukraine the government has banned an entire Christian denomination.

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