day two hundred fifty (13. 977)

Travel chaos and delays continue at US airports as the Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Transportation blame routine maintenance for the full ground stop, and not overloading air traffic control systems with Super Intelligence, installed by a government contracting firm that the agency director is heavily invested in. Democrats take the governorship in Alaska and are poised to gain one more senate seat. In three party negotiations, the US floats the idea of Ukraine ceding the Donbas region to Russia in exchange for NATO membership. Ecuadorian fishermen who survived American strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific sue the Trump administration. World leaders prepare to depart from the COP 31 climate conference in Türkiye for Shenzhen, main venue of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Revolutionary Guard strikes a US base in Bahrain, Tehran refusing to held in a state of limbo, neither war nor peace. Iran still has an estimated arsenal of two thousand five hundred missiles.  Gadi Eisenkot rejects Netanyahu’s appeal to form a national unity government with the opposition, dismissing it as his latest bluff to hold on to power.