USA - Mass deportations are coming. Which feels about right given we’re a democracy and nearly 60% of Americans want mass deportation of illegal immigrants. Who are, after all, breaking the law by trespassing on our republic. The current record-holder is Franklin D Roosevelt, who deported 2 million aliens, overwhelmingly Mexican. I mentioned in a recent video how FDR’s deportations included citizen children of illegal immigrants, so that is perfectly legal — they will pretend it’s not. The active deportations will start with criminals and will essentially be arrests. But the real magic happens in the background, the self-deportations. I mentioned in a recent video how up to 90% of FDR’s deportations actually self-deported to avoid forced deportation. Today, we’d be looking at 15 million self-deportations if the message is clear.

USA - In a bold move, the incoming US President is set to shake up the Oval Office decor, hinting at a significant shift in international relations and cultural values. Incoming US President Donald Trump is set to wage a war on woke… with a little help from Sir Winston Churchill. The first thing the new Commander-in-Chief will do after his inauguration on January 20, according to sources close to the transition, is rearrange the furniture in the Oval Office - replacing a bust of union leader César Chávez with one of Britain’s fabled wartime leader. But Trump, who romped to victory at the November 5 poll, will make redecorating the most famous office in the world a priority and ensure the bronze bust of the British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Britain’s Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945, is dusted off and becomes the centrepiece of his nerve centre.

UKRAINE - Ukraine could develop a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if Donald Trump withdraws US military assistance, according to a briefing paper prepared for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence. The country would quickly be able to build a basic device from plutonium with a similar technology to the “Fat Man” bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, the report states. “Creating a simple atomic bomb, as the United States did within the framework of the Manhattan Project, would not be a difficult task 80 years later,” the document reads. With no time to build and run the large facilities required to enrich uranium, wartime Ukraine would have to rely instead on using plutonium extracted from spent fuel rods taken from Ukraine’s nuclear reactors. Ukraine still controls nine operational reactors and has significant nuclear expertise despite having given up the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal in 1996. The report says: “The weight of reactor plutonium available to Ukraine can be estimated at seven tons…"

SPAIN - Heavy rain has caused widespread flooding in Malaga only two weeks after storms led to Spain’s worst natural disaster in decades. The southern port city remained on the highest weather alert on Wednesday night after flood waters closed off main roads and its high-speed rail link with Madrid. The Spanish state weather forecaster, AEMET, issued red alerts on Wednesday morning for the eastern Tarragona and southern Malaga provinces, saying it expected them to receive as much as 180 mm (7.1 inches) of rain within 12 hours that could cause rivers to overflow and generate flash floods. The new floods came as authorities confirmed a total of 223 people had died and 17 were still missing following flash flooding in the Valencia region two weeks ago.

EUROPE - President-Elect Donald Trump had made peace in Europe a key campaign pledge, but several NATO member states are dedicated to total Ukrainian victory and will discuss how to “thwart” him and keep Kyiv in the war even if Washington withdraws support. London, Paris, and Warsaw are to form the nucleus of a European effort to keep Ukraine’s defensive war against Russia going even if the Trump Presidency from January 2025 tries to bring an end to the Ukraine war. Exactly how he will achieve this campaign pledge has not been publicly articulated to date. However, a ‘land swap’ between Kyiv and Moscow or a Korean-style demilitarised zone has been discussed as options open to Trump, neither of which aligns with Ukraine’s official ambition of total victory.

GERMANY - Date agreed after the chancellor’s three-party coalition fell to pieces less than 24 hours after the US election last week, after talks over the economy broke down. A vote of confidence is set to take place in the Bundestag on December 16, paving the way for President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to dissolve parliament on December 27, German media reported separately. Steinmeier gave his preliminary backing for the timeline on Tuesday evening. Scholz was under pressure from all sides to bring a swift resolution to the country’s political crisis after his government collapsed as Europe struggled to muster a coherent response to the imminent presidency of Donald Trump in the United States.

USA - Donald Trump is considering establishing a “warrior board” to review senior officers in the US military and weed out “woke generals”, according to reports. A draft executive order under consideration by the president-elect’s transition team would set up a board of retired senior officials to audit top brass that do not meet standards of “leadership capability, strategic readiness, and commitment to military excellence”. The move is thought to be Mr Trump’s first step in tackling the issue of “woke generals”, which he complained about on the campaign trail, arguing that diversity and inclusion politics had become more important than war-fighting ability. The Republican platform policy document formally signed off at the party’s National Convention before the presidential election promised to “get woke Left-wing Democrats fired as soon as possible”.

UK - The Chancellor introduced a new tax burden for farmers who are already struggling with low prices for their goods and export headaches. Ports could be blockaded and food shortages could hit the high street this month as more than 10,000 angry farmers are expected to march on Westminster in protest at Rachel Reeves' Budget. The Chancellor could face French-style farming unrest with rural workers committed to direct action in retaliation for her introduction of a new tax burden on farms worth £1 million or more from April 2026.

UK - The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has resigned after the Church of England was rocked by a high-profile abuse scandal. Mr Welby has apologised after the independent Makin Review concluded that barrister John Smyth, who is thought to have been the most prolific abuser associated with the church, might have been brought to justice had the archbishop formally alerted authorities in 2013. Sir Keir Starmer would not comment directly on Mr Welby’s position, saying it was a “matter, in the end, for the church”, but he made clear that Smyth’s victims had been let down. He said: “Let me be clear: of what I know of the allegations, they are clearly horrific in relation to this particular case, both in their scale and their content. My thoughts, as they are in all of these issues, are with the victims here who have obviously been failed very, very badly.”

ZIMBABWE - Capable of holding a staggering 185 cubic kilometres of water, the world's largest man-made lake is in crisis as water levels hit an almost record low. The world’s largest man-made lake, which stretches across two southern African countries and took five years to be filled, is in crisis. A punishing drought has drained the huge reservoir close to record levels, raising the prospect that the Kariba Dam, which powers the economies of Zambia and Zimbabwe, may have to shut down for the first time in its 65-year history. The dry spell has led authorities to ration water allowed to flow through the Kariba Dam, and, in recent months, power cuts of up to 21 hours a day in Zambia on the lake’s northern side and 17 hours in Zimbabwe to the south.