Vicious circle

The US, Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Palestine, India, and Colombia.

Beginning, Kenneth Noland, 1958, acrylic on canvas, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC.

The five things you need to know today:

• UNITED STATES. Trump sends the military into Los Angeles.

• ISRAEL. PALESTINE. Netanyahu’s ship comes sailing in.

• UKRAINE. RUSSIA. A ‘bone-crushing’ sanctions bill comes into contention.

• INDIA. Renewed violence further slows regional integration.

• COLOMBIA. An assassination attempt worsens a constitutional crisis.

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UNITED STATES. Fire and ICE

Trump sends the military into Los Angeles.

California Governor Gavin Newsom said Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles was “illegal, immoral and unconstitutional”. Trump said protesters against immigration enforcement were "paid insurrectionists".

INTELLIGENCE. Since late Friday, a series of small riots have broken out across Los Angeles, initially in protest of Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests. So far, there have been no fatalities, and the protests are not a shade on the George Floyd protests of 2020, let alone the Rodney King riots of 1992. To many locals, the involvement of the National Guard and potentially the Marines, against the wishes of the state, represents an unnecessary escalation.

FOR BUSINESS. In the first non-consensual national guard deployment since 1965, Trump will see good politics. He has again wedged Newsom on law and order, galvanised his base, and distracted his opponents from debacles on trade and Elon Musk. Further, he has signalled to other governors he won’t be deterred by legal niceties. Nationwide protests are expected Saturday, including in Washington, where an army parade will coincide with Trump’s birthday.

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ISRAEL. PALESTINE. Non, je ne Greta rien

Netanyahu’s ship comes sailing in.

Twelve activists, including Greta Thunberg, were detained Sunday after their yacht was boarded by the IDF off Gaza's coast. Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet approved a new process to sack the attorney-general, likely to face an injunction.

INTELLIGENCE. Netanyahu is facing a potential Knesset dissolution, which, on current polling, could end a decades-