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Saturday, May 2, 2026

Trump obfuscates May 1 -- use of Terminated -- says his "Cease-Fire" declared on U.S. terms (April 7) stops the "clock" on a 60-day war Count-Up

 The White House - Trump 2.0

asserted in a "letter to Congress"

(i.e. President Pro Tempore

of the Senate : Chuck Grassley

U.S. Senator (Iowa) &

Mike Johnson, House speaker)

that

hostilities with Iran have "terminated"

despite

U.S. military forces there and surrounding

that region of the global oceans and

neighbors of IRAN from many directions.

May 2026 blog statistics 9K +

 May 1 - 30, 2026

First Friday

5/1/             6,516

Sat. 5/2        2,795

until 

Fifth Monday (5/31)

Total for entire month =

9,311

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Last month April 1 - 30

was 

246,825

Spirit Airlines -- suffers its second bankruptcy in 2 years

 May 2, 2026

the low-fare airline has

canceled its flights effective

May 2026 and told its

ticketed passengers not to

go to airports expecting

flights

nytimes.com/2026/05/02/business/

spirit-airlines-shutdown.html

Niraj Chokshi reporter

Central Berlin, Germany's 16 km of rubble and 400 million cubic meters of debris that blanketed urban locales

 Who changed what was a Bombed-

Out city?

the Truemmerfrauen -- women

who cleared the debris / rubble

2023 online informative article

the-berliner.com/berlin/

trummerfrauen-rubble-women-history-debris

"like grey cellar mice who emerged to find

an inferno" / we had to do something

Friedrich Merz

 Germany's Chancellor

Comments -- EUROPE -- 27 April

2026

"Iran's Leadership is humiliating

the United States and getting officials

to travel to Pakistan and then to

leave without results"

J POST dot-com

Jerusalem Post reporter =

REUTERS news agency coverage

Trump threatens to Pull American Bases & TROOPS from Germany : this "TOP-DOWN" revenge-retribution shocks Pentagon planners - - - May 1 continued griping by thin-skinned POTUS

FURTHER

details -- POLITICO. com

4/30/2026


 David Sanger - lead writer /

coverage of past 5 U.S. Presidents

nytimes.com/ April 29 wed. evening

us/politics/trump-germany-us-troops.html

Germany is the

HUB

of the American presence in Europe

(35,000 troops based there)

see [ subscription required ]

coverage of the after-effects of

TRUMP - NETANYAHU freezing

out the allies from the 

Feb. 28 - ongoing war notification

that is now an ongoing "Forever War"

Trump's petulance : Pentagon now (May 2, 2026) begins to remove U.S. Troops from German locations (since 1945, war's conclusion)

 PENTAGON Spokesperson

Sean Parnell

made the announcement about

the 5,000 troop removal

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nytimes.com/2026/05/01

story posted online

by Julian Barnes & Helene Cooper

us/politics/us-troops-germany.html