Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak resigned on Friday, several hours after investigators from the anti-corruption agency raided his house, Axios reports.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney offered a bleak assessment of the U.S.-Canadian relationship, CTV News reports.

Said Carney: “We know that this decades-long process of our ever-closer economic relationship between Canada and the United States has ended, and as a consequence of that, many of our strengths have become our vulnerabilities, particularly in those industries that are most tightly integrated with the United States.”

President Trump suggested that the United States is preparing to take new action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela, telling service members during a Thanksgiving call that efforts for strikes on land will be starting “very soon,” CNN reports.

Said Trump: “In recent weeks, you’ve been working to deter Venezuelan drug traffickers, of which there are many. Of course, there aren’t too many coming in by sea anymore.”

He added: “You probably noticed that people aren’t wanting to be delivering by sea, and we’ll be starting to stop them by land also. The land is easier, but that’s going to start very soon.”

Wall Street Journal: “In Europe, Russia is seeking to exploit Trump’s desire to halt the war in Ukraine and strike business deals with Moscow by shaping a peace plan that meets many of its strategic objectives, including winning chunks of Ukrainian territory and closing off any hope Kyiv had of joining NATO.”

“In Asia, Chinese leader Xi Jinping is attempting to steer Trump toward abandoning Taiwan in exchange for an expansive U.S.-China trade accord, a key Trump goal. China claims the self-ruled island as its own and hasn’t ruled out taking it by force.”

“Chinese leader Xi Jinping was angry, and President Trump was listening,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Days after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi outraged China by suggesting a Chinese attack on Taiwan could mobilize a Tokyo military response, Xi spent half of an hourlong phone call with Trump, people briefed on the matter said, hammering home China’s historic claim to the democratic self-governing island as well as Washington and Beijing’s joint responsibility to manage the world order.”

“Later the same day, Trump set up a call with Takaichi and advised her not to provoke Beijing on the question of Taiwan’s sovereignty, said Japanese officials and an American briefed on the call.”

“France is creating a paid, voluntary military service for young people and aims to enroll up to 50,000 of them over the next decade,” the New York Times reports.

“The announcement came days after the French Army chief, Gen. Fabien Mandon, set off a national uproar for saying that France must accept the possible loss of its children in a potential future conflict. Those comments were made against the backdrop of a growing threat from Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.”

“Russia said on that the leak of a recording of a call between top advisers to Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was an unacceptable attempt to undermine Ukraine peace negotiations and amounted to hybrid warfare,” Reuters reports.

Simon Shuster: “The most consistent thing about Trump’s 10-month search for an end to the war in Ukraine has been his inconsistency.”

“Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told European allies that the U.S. wants a peace deal before it agrees to any security guarantees for Ukraine,” Politico reports.

“Trump has said he won’t invite Ukraine’s leader to the White House until a deal is signed.”

Tucker Carlson declared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be “the main enemy” of Western civilization during an interview.

“Senior officials from the US, Denmark and Greenland are expected to meet in Nuuk in December to discuss military and civil cooperation, the first formal three-party talks since President Donald Trump stunned his allies by demanding ownership of Greenland,” Bloomberg reports.

“Trump’s repeated suggestions earlier this year that he’d want to take control of the territory caused the Arctic island to become a point of tension in Copenhagen and Nuuk’s diplomatic relations with Washington.”

Playbook: “Enormous questions swirl this morning. Chief among them: Who obtained a recording of this top secret call and leaked the whole thing to the press? (Presumably they’re not a fan of Witkoff’s approach.) Was it a Trump administration rival? The Deep State? And — crucially — could there be more leaked material to come?”

“First things first: If you haven’t read the full transcript, published by Bloomberg yesterday, you really should. Leaks like this are incredibly rare and, as we saw with the Signalgate fiasco, offer an unparalleled view of how government officials operate when they think no one’s listening.”

“But this is not just nose-against-glass voyeurism. This transcript appears to show one of the president’s top negotiators offering help and advice to Moscow on how to handle Trump — and on how to get ahead of a high-stakes meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who’s meant to be a U.S. ally.”

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Reason that President Trump’s MAGA “movement” will be “dissolved” if he gives more money to Ukraine or invades Venezuela.

Said Paul: “I actually think Trump is the one who is least likely to want to do these things, but he is surrounded by people who believe in regime change and are goading him on.”

He added: “I do think, though, that if he invades Venezuela or if he approves significant arms sales, which are really gifts to Ukraine or more welfare to Ukraine, if he does either of those, the rift with Marjorie Greene will pale in comparison to what happens to his movement. If he invades Venezuela or gives more money to Ukraine, his movement will dissolve.”

“U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump,” Bloomberg reports.

“The conversation for the first time offers direct insight into Witkoff’s recent tactics for negotiating with Russia and what appears to be the genesis of the 28-point peace proposal that emerged earlier this month – which the U.S. has pushed Ukraine to accept as the basis of a deal.”

“The meeting between President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman last week got heated when they discussed the possibility of Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords and normalizing relations with Israel,” Axios reports.

“Brazil’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to start serving a 27-year sentence for overseeing a failed plot to hold onto power after losing the country’s last election,” the New York Times reports.

“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wants to meet President Trump ‘as soon as possible’ — possibly over Thanksgiving — to finalize a joint U.S.-Ukrainian agreement on the terms for ending the war,” Axios reports.

“U.S. and Ukrainian officials have agreed in principle on most aspects of the plan, which has been modified heavily from the initial 28-point U.S. proposal. But Zelensky wants to negotiate on the matter of territorial concessions with Trump himself.”