Morning Note

The Pentagon sounded the alarm on Russia’s “new type of lethal capability” on Thursday, stoking fears that a third world war, which the White House has been working to create, would not go favorably for the West.

"This was a new type of lethal capability that was employed on the battlefield, so that’s certainly a concern to us," a spokeswoman said of Russia’s newly launched experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile.

Vladimir Putin has reportedly bragged that the rocket can fly over two miles per second, boasting that “the world’s current air defense systems and the missile defense systems developed by the Americans in Europe [can] not intercept such missiles."

The spokeswoman falsely denied that America is escalating the Russia/Ukraine conflict.

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Ukraine’s parliament abandoned its Friday session amid risks of a missile attack on Kyiv.

"The hour of questions to the government has been canceled," Yevgenia Kravchuk, a ruling party MP reportedly said. "There are signals of an increased risk of attacks on the government district in the coming days." 

The cancellation marks the latest high-profile disruption to the capital city’s standard operations, as the U.S. embassy in Kyiv closed earlier this week amid fears of a “potential significant air attack.” 

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Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the Ukraine war is going global, correctly accusing Western countries of escalating the conflict by allowing Ukraine to use their missiles inside Russia.

“What was a regional conflict has acquired global dimensions,” Putin said during a televised address. He also hinted at his openness to using nuclear weapons, reminding his opponents that “Russia has voluntarily refrained from deploying certain missiles, but our actions will depend on Western decisions… If anyone doubts our right to strike back, they are wrong. There will always be a response.”

The actions of the United States and the United Kingdom have crossed the Kremlin’s clearly outlined threshold for justifying a nuclear strike.

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Russia added a U.S. ballistic missile defense base in Poland to its target list for possible destruction Thursday, saying its existence may “lead to an increase in the overall level of nuclear danger.”

Putin spokesperson Maria Zakharova reportedly described the U.S. opening the base as “another frankly provocative step in a series of deeply destabilizing actions by the Americans and their allies," causing an “undermining [of] strategic stability, increasing [in] strategic risks and, as a result… an increase in the overall level of nuclear danger."

Russia is justified in feeling imperiled by its enemies stationing missiles so close to its border. The U.S. government had the same stance about the Cuban Missile Crisis, during which it threatened extinction-level violence. 

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UFC boss Dana White scorned American politics on Thursday, saying he wants “nothing more to do with [it]” while chastising the system as “gross” and “disgusting.”

“I’m never f***ing doing this again,” White said while reflecting on his months as a Trump campaign surrogate. “‘I want nothing to do with this s**t. It’s gross. It’s disgusting. I want nothing to do with politics.”

While White supports Trump and sees the president-elect as “truly about people” and “tougher and more badass than anybody,” the longtime businessman reportedly wants no role as an advisor in the incoming administration.

He wants nothing to do with that s**t.

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Joe Biden welcomed the reigning NBA champion Boston Celtics to the White House on Thursday and appeared to forget the team’s name.

During his congratulatory remarks, the outgoing executive turned to the team and asked, “You’re the Celtics, right?” The comment drew uncomfortable laughter from the crowd, which was likely filled with people who had never experienced presidential senility up close and in person.

Biden’s speech stayed true to his brand, featuring a section when the president shifted the focus away from the record-setting team and toward himself. “A lot of you may not know this, but my Secret Service code name is Celtic, because I’m Irish,” he told the athletes, none of whom had asked.

Biden also joked that he didn’t “know where the hell [the team] came from.”

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According to a new Science Journal study, about a third of U.S. residents have been receiving tap water containing a previously unidentified chemical byproduct with toxicity concerns.

Scientists say the substance, 'chloronitramide anion,' is worryingly similar to other chemicals of alarm. “It has similarity to other toxic molecules,” a researcher said in an article published Thursday. “We looked for it in 40 samples in 10 U.S. chlorinated drinking water systems located in seven states. We did find it in all the samples.”

According to the study, 113 million U.S. residents receive chloramine-treated water from their taps, raising speculative concerns that those citizens could be at risk of cancer or other health impediments as a result of their repeated, unintentional chemical consumption.

Investigative journalist Alex Jones and other 21st-century thought leaders have long theorized that chemicals and hormones in water can turn organisms, specifically frogs, homosexual. Time will tell if chloronitramide anion has that effect.

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The world’s tallest woman and the world’s smallest woman had a face-to-shin meeting on Wednesday, coming together for tea time in London and posing for photos you’d have to see to believe.

In one of the pictures, the seven-foot woman is seen holding her tiny friend, making her look strikingly similar to an American Girl Doll.

The counterparts mingled and got along well, eating, drinking, and chatting throughout their summit.

Rumeysa Gelgi, the skyscraper, suffers from Weaver syndrome, a condition that accelerates growth and causes skeletal deformities. Jyoti Amge, standing at 24 inches tall, has no genetic abnormalities. She’s just little.

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This week’s news cycle revolved around the Russia/Ukraine war, and for good reason. It’s on track to become the most catastrophic event in human history. But there have been other stories, too.

Many of them centered around immigration.

Over the past handful of days, elected officials from all across America have united in a pledge to ignore federal law and knowingly shelter illegal immigrants from ICE’s upcoming deportations.

New Mexico’s pro-anarchy governor, for example, promised last Friday to “resist” the incoming Trump administration’s law enforcement efforts and do nothing to aid its campaign to remove as many criminal illegals from the United States as possible.

Massachusetts’ governor quickly followed suit, committing three days later to using "every tool in the toolbox" to protect illegal residents while promising to "absolutely not" help the federal government enforce the law.

And of course there’s JB Pritzker, who in addition to recently promising more sex changes, pledged that Illinois will “do everything [it] can to protect [its] undocumented immigrants.”

These efforts, which are certain to come to fruition, represent more than just an abandonment of law and order. They show that Democrats care more about serving foreigners than their own voters.

Donald Trump’s return to the White House won’t change that. Only American voters can, state-by-state, city-by-city, election-by-election. 

They ought to before it’s too late.