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Trump confirms: No US boots on the ground in Ukraine.
Europe is responsible for any boots on the ground security guarantees.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-assures-no-us-boots-ground-enforce-peace-deal-ukraine
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
August 19, 2025
Giant Galaxies in Pavo
Over 500,000 light years across, NGC 6872 (bottom left) is a truly enormous barred spiral galaxy. At least 5 times the size of our own large Milky Way, NGC 6872 is the largest known spiral galaxy. About 200 million light-years distant toward the southern constellation Pavo, the Peacock, the appearance of this giant galaxy's stretched out spiral arms suggest the wings of a giant bird. So its popular moniker is the Condor galaxy. Lined with massive young, bluish star clusters and star-forming regions, the extended and distorted spiral arms are due to NGC 6872's past gravitational interactions with the nearby smaller galaxy IC 4970, visible here below the giant spiral galaxy's core. Other members of the southern Pavo galaxy group are scattered through this magnificent galaxy group portrait, with the dominant giant elliptical galaxy, NGC 6876, above and right of the soaring Condor galaxy.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
4,500 Marines and sailors deploy to Caribbean for anti-cartel mission
Nicholas Slayton
Mon, August 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM EDT
U.S. Marines with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable)and U.S. Navy sailors with the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS San Antonio (LPD 17),Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Groupprepare to depart for deployment during a man the rails ceremony aboard the San Antonio while in port at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, August 14, 2025. This ceremony signifies that the IWO ARG and 22d Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) are officially underway for their regularly scheduled deployment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Maurion Moore)
==The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit are going to the southern Caribbean in a show of force.
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The Navy and Marine Corps deployed thousands of sailors and Marines to the southern Caribbean on Friday in support of anti-drug cartel operations.
The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit set sail out of Naval Station Norfolk on Aug. 14. The force includes more than 4,500 sailors and Marines on three ships: The Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, the USS Iwo Jima, and San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships the USS San Antonio and USS Fort Lauderdale.
The Navy described it as a “regularly scheduled deployment” and did not specify where it would be heading or for what purpose.
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However, Reuters and CNN both reported, citing defense officials familiar with the operation, that the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) is heading to the southern Caribbean as part of anti-drug trafficking efforts. A defense official familiar with the situation confirmed those reports to Task & Purpose.
The Iwo Jima ARG and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) are part of a wider repositioning of air and naval forces to the waters around Latin America in a show of force. In addition to the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group’s ships and air power — including AV-8B Harriers and rotary aircraft — P-8 Poseidon spy planes, a submarine, and a warship are set to head to the region as part of that effort, per Reuters.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/4-500-marines-sailors-deploy-183509039.html
ABC IS LOOKING FOR EVIDENCE OF VOTER FRAUD
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President Trump wrote in a post to his social media platform that he will lead a "movement" to get rid of mail-in ballots and voting machines, claiming, without providing evidence, that they lead to voter fraud.
x.com/ABC/status/1957846783909925216
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Evidence of Jan6 highly irregular decisions & evidence for court proceedings
https://hereistheevidence.com/capitol-protest-1-6-21/
White House Is Preparing for Trump-Putin-Zelensky Trilateral Meeting in Budapest: REPORT
by Paul Serran Aug. 19, 2025 2:30 pm
Peace may break out in Budapest.
Probably the biggest development out of the historic peace talks in DC between Donald J. Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky plus the European leaders is the perspective of trilateral talks between US and Ukrainian leaders with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
While there’s a whirlwind of misinformation going around regarding proposals and other details of the peace process, a report has arisen that seems very plausible.
It says that the White House plans for the much-awaited trilateral meeting to be held in the Hungarian capital of Budapest.
more:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/white-house-is-preparing-trump-putin-zelensky-trilateral/
White House names team for facilitating Putin-Zelensky meeting
19 Aug, 2025 18:05
The White House has announced that several senior US officials will be working to expedite a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky.
Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and presidential envoy Steve Witkoff will lead coordination efforts to make the talks happen “as soon as possible,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Tuesday.
She said that US President Donald Trump spoke with Putin by phone, “and he agreed to begin the next phase of the peace process,” referring to the Russian president meeting with Zelensky, which “would be followed, if necessary, by a trilateral meeting.”
Trump held a summit with Putin in Alaska last week, and later hosted Zelensky along with his Western European backers for talks focused on the peace process.
Moscow has confirmed its readiness to take part in further discussions aimed at achieving a lasting solution to the Ukraine conflict.
The US president has since begun efforts to arrange a Putin-Zelensky meeting, while simultaneously urging the Ukrainian leader to be “more flexible.”
https://www.rt.com/news/623290-white-house-putin-zelensky-talks/
Russia hands over remains of 1,000 troops to Ukraine – Putin aide
19 Aug, 2025 12:24
Moscow has returned the bodies of another 1,000 fallen Ukrainian soldiers, Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky has said.
Russia has received the remains of 19 of its soldiers from Ukraine in return, Medinsky, Moscow’s top negotiator during the talks with Kiev in Türkiye, wrote on Telegram on Tuesday.
The bodies were returned to Kiev “in line with the Istanbul agreements,” he added.
Ukraine's Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War confirmed that it had received the remains of 1,000 servicemen.
The swap follows a summit on Friday between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump in Anchorage, Alaska, and the US president’s meetings in Washington on Monday with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky and Western European leaders, during which a possible settlement of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev was discussed.
Moscow offered to repatriate the remains of over 6,000 of Kiev’s troops as a humanitarian gesture during the second round of talks between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul in early June.
The promised number of bodies was transferred to Ukraine in the following weeks in several stages. Russia received the remains of 79 of its fallen soldiers in exchange.
Putin announced later that Moscow was ready to return another 3,000 bodies to Kiev.
https://www.RT.com/news/623278-russia-ukraine-peace-deal-troops/
New in the West Wing.🔥🇺🇸
3:04 PM · Aug 19, 2025
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1957881325656109290