Could Canada join a European army? Since the second term of President Trump, the relationship between Canada and the U.S. has broken down—with neither side covering itself in glory. One result is that Canada has moved much closer to Europe. Andrew Miiller shows in today’s main story why this is a grave danger to the U.S.

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Riots spread to other U.S. cities: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass proclaimed a curfew last night, barring nonresidents from a square mile of downtown L.A. from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Police have arrested 378 people since Saturday, and seven officers have been injured. As a result of the curfew, the L.A. protests were much smaller, but more demonstrations broke out across the country. At least 80 were arrested in New York, where thousands stormed police barricades, protesting ice and wearing pro-Palestinian kaffiyehs. Fourteen were arrested in protests in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, over a dozen in Austin, Texas, and at least one in Dallas. Protests were held in 25 locations across the country. Some had hundreds of protesters; others were tiny, with only 50 gathering in Seattle, Washington.

“Generations of Army heroes did not shed their blood on distant shores only to watch our country be destroyed by invasion and Third World lawlessness like is happening in California,” President Trump told troops at a speech at Fort Bragg while celebrating 250 years of the U.S. Army.

Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi changed the historical record to attack the president. “On January 6 … we begged the president of the United States to send in the National Guard,” she said. “He would not do it. … And yet, in a contra-constitutional way, he has sent the National Guard into California. Something is very wrong with this picture.” That’s very different from her statement at the time, saying, “I take responsibility for not having them just prepared for more.” President Trump had asked for 10,000 national guardsmen, and it was Pelosi who blocked it.

“America is in a serious crisis!” wrote Trumpet executive editor Stephen Flurry yesterday. “President Trump has sealed the border, but he cannot heal the deep political division between red states and blue states. Only God can heal this division, but first all Americans need to understand why such deep political dysfunction afflicts the nation. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, you need to recognize God’s warning and turn to the only hope left: repentance toward God!”

Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway have placed sanctions on two of Israel’s top leaders in a shameful capitulation to radical terrorism. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir are banned from visiting those countries, and assets they hold there will be frozen. They’re accused of “inciting violence against the Palestinian people.”

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio rebuked the countries for their stance, encouraging them “not to forget who the real enemy is.”

“The two ministers are not being targeted for something they have done but for what they have said,” noted the Telegraph. It is unprecedented for Britain to treat politicians serving in the government of a friendly power in this way.

Ben-Gvir responded by comparing his attackers to Neville Chamberlain. But it’s much worse than that. Chamberlain was horribly wrong—but at least he was on the right side. The leaders of Britain and the other countries would be placing sanctions on Winston Churchill for saying mean things about the Nazis.

Most of the countries attacking Israel are part of the British Commonwealth, descended from the Israelite tribe of Ephraim (see Mr. Armstrong’s book The United States and Britain in Prophecy). Isaiah 10 and 11 describe enmity between Ephraim and Judah as a curse. “Manasseh shall devour Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; Together they shall be against Judah” (Isaiah 9:21; New King James Version). Division between these two powers anciently helped pave the way for them both to be conquered.

While discord is a curse, unity is a blessing, and one God promises to bring soon. The turmoil in this world is leading to the rise of a new world, where nations will be taught to obey God. Then “[t]he envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim” (Isaiah 11:13).

Britain’s most important remaining sea gate will soon lie behind the EU’s borders. British Foreign Secretary David Lammy arrived in Gibraltar last night to finalize an agreement over its status. Gibraltar will join the EU’s Schengen Area. It will remain British territory, but British citizens flying there from the UK will have to show their passport to do so—and Spanish border guards may deny them entry. And this will allow 15,000 Spanish workers who cross the border into Gibraltar daily to continue to do so. The Telegraph cited anonymous sources saying that “it’s the closest we’ve ever been” to a deal. Herbert W. Armstrong showed that control over vital sea gates like Gibraltar was prophesied in the Bible. He also showed how God would take these away if our nations refused to obey God.

“As the ‘pride of our power’ continues to be broken, as the British continue to lose their foreign sea gates and possessions around the Earth, as America signs away ownership of the Panama Canal—control over this vital sea gate … this focal prophecy alone represents giant proof as to where the modern ‘remnant’ of the peoples of Israel resides today!” he wrote in The United States and Britain in Prophecy. If British people can’t travel to Gibraltar without permission from Spain, do they really own it?

IN OTHER NEWS

Riots have broken out in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, after two Romanian teens were charged with trying to rape a girl. “There must be no more violence,” said Paul Few from the Democratic Unionist Party. “People are really scared, frightened, about immigration, about the fact our government doesn’t seem to be able to control our borders.”

President Trump’s tariffs will remain in place for now, after a federal appeals court decided to leave them be while it considers their legality. The U.S. Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments on the tariffs on July 31, so the tariffs should remain in place for at least two more months.

“I regret some of my posts about president @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far,” posted Elon Musk last night.

Russia wants NATO troops out of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania before it will end the war in Ukraine, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Russian state media on Monday. In 2008, Gerald Flurry drew attention to Russia’s invasion of the former Soviet nation of Georgia, calling it the “first military strike of a rising Asian superpower.” He warned: “There will be more!” Russia continues to aggressively spread its influence over other countries—as our In Brief explains.

Russia has a new 25-year plan for developing its navy, the head of Russia’s Maritime Collegium said in an interview published Monday. It aims to spend nearly $100 billion on new warships. Our In Brief has more.