Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis: Even if you think that Türkiye is about to invade us, do you really think that this strategic alliance with Israel is going to help us militarily? Do you think, do you ever, ever think that Israel is going to lift its little finger maybe against the Turkish air force if needs be? Under no circumstances. So we are not gaining anything by siding with a genocidal state, but we're losing a lot because Greece's good name has been dragged through the mud in the United Nations General Assembly.

Netanyahu on AI: I am setting a goal: within five years, we will be the third AI power. There is the United States, there is China — not small countries — but I want Israel to become, and with God’s help it will become, the third power.

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa: When I visited Trump at the White House, when he said the Golan Heights belongs to Israel, I made the joke, “Why don’t you give New Jersey to the Israelis? You don’t own the Golan Heights to give, but you own New Jersey.” I believe New Jersey is full of Democrats, and they are not voting for Trump, so it would be good to give it to the Israelis. At least this is something you own. Trump doesn’t own the Golan Heights. Regardless of this joke, the Golan Heights is owned by its own people. It is neither the Syrian president’s, the American president’s, nor any other person’s to abandon or give up to others.

NEW: Trump administration proposed a $5 billion investment fund ("PACT") to rebuild Middle Eastern energy infrastructure damaged in the Iran war, seeking matching contributions from eight Gulf/regional partners for a $10 billion total. It's a tacit admission the seven-month conflict has wrecked regional pipelines and refineries. Gulf officials are skeptical. Rebuilding without a peace deal risks Iran targeting new infrastructure, and smaller states like Kuwait and Qatar still depend on the Strait of Hormuz regardless. The fund would be managed by the US Development Finance Corporation, an agency that normally targets developing countries, not wealthy Gulf monarchies. Source: WSJ

A Ukrainian drone attack on September 20 halted crude processing at Moscow’s major Gazprom Neft refinery after fires damaged both primary crude distillation units. Sources told Reuters repairs could take several weeks. Source: Reuters

Canadian PM Mark Carney: There are only four countries at the forefront of AI: France, Canada, China and the United States. We must join forces to ensure an appropriate framework so that AI is safe and effective.

BREAKING: Trump: I am pleased to announce that the United States of America has entered into an Agreement with The Kingdom of Denmark, and Greenland, that gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many U.S. concerns. There will be NO COST to the United States! At my direction, we worked with representatives of Denmark and Greenland to guarantee that the United States will FOREVER have the complete ability to do what is necessary in Greenland in order to secure and defend the security of Greenland, and the United States of America. Additionally, from now on, no U.S. adversary can EVER have a base in Greenland, have a military presence in Greenland, or make sensitive investments in Greenland, without our express written approval. This is an “Infinite Life” Agreement, there is no end! We are very honored and proud of what has just taken place, and everything agreed to today will be cherished by the American People. We will immediately begin the process of developing a large Military presence in the appropriate part of Greenland, of which there are many. We will work with the people of Greenland in its development and construction. This solution is a great one for the United States of America, Denmark, Greenland, and all of our Allies. We look forward to working with the wonderful people of Denmark and Greenland toward a magnificent future with respect to this large, and highly strategic, parcel of land. We will be very protective of it! This is a dream come true for the United States of America, one that is very important, historic, and special. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: We must continue to ensure that the United States of America can strike anywhere on the globe at the time and place of our choosing and sustain that force.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken: If you’re part of the crowd "from the river to the sea" that says you want Israel to go away — guess what? It’s not. If you’re a part of the Greater Israel crowd that wants the Palestinians to go away — guess what? They’re not. There are 7 million Jews. There are 7 million Arabs. No one is going anywhere. And until you reconcile that basic reality, you are part of the problem, not the solution. What is the solution? The solution is what it’s been, even though no one seems to believe it anymore: a secure Israel, a sovereign Palestine.

China is building what appears to be the world's first mothership designed to deploy giant submarine drones, spotted at a Shanghai shipyard. The ship has a well-deck, a lowering cradle system, and an internal hangar that could hold around four uncrewed submarines. China already has two types of XXLUUVs (35m and 45m long) under testing — 6 to 8 times the size of the US Navy's Orca drone sub. H I Sutton at Naval News says the only plausible explanation is a combat drone submarine mothership, not research. China is now well ahead of any other country in fielding full-sized unmanned submarines.

Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski: China is taking over the Russian market. Russia will become a very, very junior partner to China. If I were a Russian nationalist, I would be horrified of this.

Anthropic's new threat report reveals that a cell in northern Yemen (highly likely Houthi-linked) used Claude Code as a substitute for an entire missile engineering team. They ran multiple Claude instances simultaneously — one writing code, one researching, one reviewing — to develop guidance software for a tactical guided rocket, a 2,000+ km ballistic missile, and a hypersonic glide vehicle variant called "R2000." The specific tasks: integrating open-source autopilot onto a phone-class flight computer, writing navigation and control software, running six-degree-of-freedom trajectory simulations, and using reinforcement learning to tune flight-control algorithms. They compiled everything into a standalone offline executable so they could keep working without Claude. They actually test-fired a guided rocket in Yemen. It appears to have failed. Within hours they were back in Claude doing post-test failure analysis on the telemetry data. Anthropic's safeguards blocked many requests but the operators evaded them by hiding the end use, splitting work across many sessions, and using other workarounds. Linked accounts were banned. Anthropic says there's no evidence they fielded an operational weapon — but they already had an offline toolkit that no longer needed Claude. This is one of six conventional-weapons cases in the report (three China, two Russia, one Yemen), alongside cyber ops, influence campaigns, a Mali-linked mass surveillance platform, bio-misuse attempts, and Chinese labs illegally distilling Claude.