Russian Military Must Be Ready to Respond Quickly to Potential External Threats – Putin

Russian Military Must Be Ready to Respond Quickly to Potential External Threats – Putin

Sputnik

The Russian armed forces and security agencies must be prepared to respond quickly and effectively to potential external threats, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. 

Speaking at a meeting of the Military-Industrial Commission, Putin said that the agenda included discussions on the draft of the new State Armament Program and the Program for the Development of the Defense-Industrial Complex. 

"They will serve as the foundation for the development and serial production of modern weapons systems and hardware to equip our army and other security agencies, ensuring they are ready to respond quickly and effectively to potential external threats," Putin said.

NATO is expanding and moving into different regions of the world, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

“NATO is growing, expanding, and is already moving into other regions of the world. Some European leaders openly say that they are preparing for war with Russia,” Putin said.

Furthermore, NATO conducted exercises in the Baltic Sea, one of the goals of which was to practice seizing civilian vessels.

Putin urged the West to live in harmony, warning that otherwise Moscow would have to respond.

On Relations With Europe

European authorities are covering up their economic policy mistakes by citing an alleged threat from Russia.

"Some European leaders are openly declaring that they are preparing for war with Russia. In my view, they are simply trying to salvage their plummeting approval ratings and mask failures in economic and social policy — but it is not really working; it is not helping," Putin said during a meeting of the Military-Industrial Commission.

Instead of pausing to listen to their citizens, who do not want war with Russia, European leaders are further escalating the situation, the Russian president added.

"I want to say once again that Russia has no aggressive intentions towards Europe or European countries. We simply have no grounds for that," Putin stated

At the same time, Russia is ready to cooperate and restore relations with its European neighbors, Putin noted.

On Ukraine

European leaders are using Ukrainians as “cannon fodder,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said. 

He added that European arguments about Ukraine defending “European values, European civilization and democracy” were false, claiming that Ukraine’s authorities could not defend democracy because, in his words, the country’s political system had “degenerated into a dictatorship.”

"Power [in Ukraine] has been usurped by a 'bunch of embezzlers' and corrupt officials who need war in order to remain in power without elections," Putin said at a meeting of the military industry commission.

The regime in Ukraine cannot defend democracy because it has degenerated into a dictatorship itself, Putin added.

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AI Said She Was Guilty — So They Put Her in Jail

AI Said She Was Guilty — So They Put Her in Jail

Martin Armstrong

I wrote about Angela Lipps back in March because her case demonstrated exactly what happens when government begins trusting a computer more than basic human investigation. Now this 50-year-old Tennessee grandmother is suing the City of Fargo and a former detective for $10 million after spending nearly six months behind bars for crimes she says she could not possibly have committed. She had never even been to North Dakota before this nightmare began, yet facial recognition software identified her as a possible match in a bank fraud investigation and the government machinery took over from there.

Lipps was arrested at gunpoint by U.S. Marshals in Tennessee in July 2025 while babysitting four children. Fargo police were investigating a woman who allegedly used fraudulent identification to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars from banks, and facial recognition technology produced Lipps as a possible match. According to the lawsuit, investigators then compared photographs from her driver’s license and social media and proceeded against her. She eventually faced eight felony charges, including offenses carrying the possibility of years in prison, while basic financial records later showed she was more than 1,000 miles away in Tennessee when the crimes occurred.

AI did not walk into her house and put handcuffs on her. PEOPLE did that. The computer produced a possible identification and human beings entrusted with the power of the state allegedly failed to perform the basic investigation necessary before destroying someone’s life. Technology gives government enormous power while simultaneously giving bureaucrats something else to blame when they get it wrong.

Lipps reportedly spent 108 days jailed in Tennessee before being transported to North Dakota and remained incarcerated for months until her attorney produced records supporting that she was in Tennessee when the thefts occurred. The charges were dismissed on Christmas Eve. By then, according to her lawsuit and attorneys, she had lost her home, car, possessions, and even her dog because she could not pay her bills while sitting in jail. She was released in Fargo during winter without a coat and with practically nothing to her name. No computer experiences those consequences because the computer simply produces another output and moves on.

Facial recognition poses a serious threat to privacy, and as I warned years ago, would eventually track ordinary people simply walking through public places. At the time, this sounded like something out of Minority Report. Now facial recognition is embedded throughout policing, airports, border systems, private security networks, and massive surveillance databases. I recently wrote about Flock’s network of more than 120,000 cameras spread across 49 states, where law enforcement agencies can search vehicle movements across jurisdictions. Add facial recognition and AI to that infrastructure and government gains the ability to identify, locate, categorize, and investigate people on a scale that previous governments could never have imagined.

The problem is that AI is not some all-knowing intelligence. It identifies patterns and probabilities based upon the information and methodology behind the system. A match is not proof that someone committed a crime, yet people have an extraordinary tendency to surrender their own judgment once a computer produces an answer.

Angela Lipps is hardly the only person caught in this mess. The ACLU says more than a dozen people in the United States are now publicly known to have been wrongfully arrested after police reliance on facial-recognition results. Kimberlee Williams of Oklahoma was arrested because Maryland authorities were looking for somebody else even though she said she had never been to Maryland. These are not harmless glitches where Netflix recommends the wrong movie. When government plugs imperfect technology into the criminal justice system, an error can mean armed agents at your door, jail, extradition, lost employment, financial destruction, and months of your life that nobody can ever return.

 Governments are increasingly collecting facial scans, fingerprints, iris patterns, location records, license plate data, financial information, and countless other identifiers. AI can connect those databases in seconds. Once that infrastructure exists, government does not need to follow you physically because the cameras, databases, banks, phones, cars, and computers can reconstruct your life for them.

People respond by saying they have nothing to hide, but Angela Lipps apparently did not need anything to hide. The entire point of due process is that government must prove YOU committed the crime rather than forcing you to prove that the computer picked the wrong face. When technology reverses that burden, we have abandoned one of the most fundamental principles of a free society.

Mark Hitchcock: AI, The Antichrist, And The Fall Feasts

Can AI Destroy Humanity? What the Bible Actually Says

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Mark Hitchcock

AI insiders are calling it the greatest existential threat since nuclear weapons. A 27-year-old former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher went public last week predicting a 10% chance AI wipes out humanity within the decade. The godfather of AI agrees. So should believers be afraid? Dr. Mark Hitchcock opens scripture and shows exactly why AI cannot destroy the human race, what the Bible says the Antichrist will actually use it for, and why God's Word settles the question. He also answers viewer questions on the Feast of Trumpets and the rapture, whether AI is the Antichrist,

From Yom Kippur to October 7: When Israel’s Holy Days Become Opportunities For Her Enemies To Strike

From Yom Kippur to October 7: When Israel’s Holy Days Become Opportunities For Her Enemies To Strike

Paul Scharf 

As Jewish people around the world are in the midst of observing their High Holy Days, they do so this year with a mixture of anticipation and trepidation. While these holidays hold great spiritual significance to so many, the Jewish people remember that these days can be mixed with tragedy.

God gave the children of Israel three fall feasts:

• The Feast of Trumpets, or Rosh Hashanah (Tishri 1; Leviticus 23:23–25; Numbers 29:1–6). This two-day celebration marks the beginning of a new year for the people of Israel.

• The Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur (Tishri 10; Leviticus 23:26–32; Numbers 29:7–11). This day of elaborate ceremony (Leviticus 16:1–34) foreshadowed the forthcoming, final sacrifice of the Messiah to remove our sins forever (Hebrews 9:6–14).

• The Feast of Tabernacles, Booths, or Ingathering, also called Sukkot (Tishri 15–21; Leviticus 23:33–36, 39–43; Numbers 29:12–39; Deuteronomy 16:13–17; Ezekiel 45:25; Zechariah 14:16–19; one of three Pilgrim Feasts requiring the presence of every Israelite man [Deuteronomy 16:16–17]). This beautiful harvest celebration of thanksgiving was intended for the whole family and the whole nation.

In this year of 2026, the fall feasts take place as follows:

• The Feast of Trumpets: September 11–13

• The Day of Atonement: September 20–21

• The Feast of Tabernacles: September 25–October 2

These feasts were intended to be holy times of celebration. Even today, they point back to ancient biblical traditions while also foreshadowing major events in the prophetic future. Sadly, however, in at least two major cases, they have become reminders of the most unholy ambitions of Israel’s enemies.

The October 7 Massacre

These events happened almost exactly 50 years apart. The most recent one, in 2023, reshaped the world, including our own United States due to the alliance we share with Israel on so many levels. It had much the same effect on the people of Israel as September 11, 2001, did on us here in America.

Hamas savagely kidnapped, raped, and murdered Israelis after infiltrating the nation’s border with Gaza on Saturday, October 7, 2023. These attacks took place on the Sabbath, which was also Shemini Atzeret, the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:36; Numbers 29:35), and also Simchat Torah, a rabbinic holiday formulated to encourage rejoicing in the Torah. This slaughter devastated the people and nation of Israel and continues to play out before us in the news on a daily basis.

The Yom Kippur War

Many believe that the terrorists who carried out these horrific attacks three years ago were hearkening back to the events of October 6, 1973, another Sabbath day, when a coalition of mostly Arab countries, led by Egypt and Syria, carried out a surprise military attack on Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year.

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Looking Beyond Today’s Lawlessness And Corruption To Our Ultimate Hope

Looking Beyond Today’s Lawlessness And Corruption To Our Ultimate Hope

Jonathan Brentner

When we look at what the New Testament reveals about the early saints, we see they shared many of the same struggles that persist today in the body of Christ. But perhaps the most glaring difference I see is this: for these early believers, longing for Jesus’ appearing was a lifestyle, not just a belief.

Although I have read the New Testament many times, I constantly find new evidence that they watched for, and even yearned for, Jesus’ appearing. It happened again as I recently finished reading through 2 Peter. After writing about the Lord’s return and the events of the Day of the Lord, the apostle began the conclusion of his book with these words: “Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these….” (2 Peter 3:14, emphasis added). In the verses that follow, he referenced what Paul wrote about the end times, which would include the Rapture.

Perhaps Peter had in mind what his fellow apostle wrote in Philippians 3:20-21: “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself” (emphasis added).

The phrase “eagerly wait” accurately translates the Greek word Paul used in verse 20, apekdechomai. New Testament writers often strengthened a word’s meaning by adding a preposition. With apekdechomai, the apostle added two prepositions to the word meaning “to welcome,” resulting in our English phrase, “eagerly wait,” which implies an attitude of excited expectation for what lies ahead.

The saints of New Testament times yearned for the time Jesus would appear and take them home. It was truly their “blessed hope.”

What’s missing today is not just the daily anticipation of meeting Jesus in the air, but also the many benefits that come with doing so.

Regardless of what we experience in this lifetime, we know it’s temporary. Nothing, not even death, can alter the fact that when we meet our Savior in the air, He will give us immortal bodies. How can that not infuse hope into our daily struggles with weakness and aging? Does that not greatly exceed any earthly aspiration?

This short life is not all we have; there’s a better day on the horizon that’s far superior to even the rosiest of futures here below.

In Romans 8:23-25, Paul used the same Greek word, apekdechomai, two more times to emphasize the early church’s excited expectation for the Lord’s appearing again: “Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance” (Romans 8:24-25, emphasis added).

The phrase “redemption of our body” refers to the transforming of “our lowly body” that Paul wrote about in Philippians 3:20-21 and 1 Corinthians 15:50-55. Why did he again refer to our Rapture? He did so in reference to his words a few verses earlier: “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us” (Romans 8:18).

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