🚨 BREAKING: It appears the Russian Tu-22M3 supersonic bomber was shot down by Ukraine with a long-range missile as it was returning to base after launching cruise missiles at Odesa. Crash site is at the very least 400km away from the frontline in the Stavropol region of Russia.

BREAKING: The Jerusalem Post reports that Israel has sent a 'clear message' to Iran by striking 'almost right next door' to a nuclear site in Isfahan, meaning that 'we chose not to hit your nuclear sites this time, but we could have done worse right here'.

A brilliant response by Timothy Snyder to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s accusation of Nazis in Ukraine. As a leading scholar on the subject of nationalism, Snyder makes three points:
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The Islamic Republic has been openly at war with Israel (& the US) for years. But there was always a common understanding that they use proxies for attacks and in return Israel and the US would only respond targeting those proxies or the IRGC members assisting them.

The attack…

israeli strike against iran is deescalatory.

had to take some sort of action.

restrained compared to attacks on damascus that precipitated the crisis.

BREAKING: Israel has conducted missile strikes on Iran

BREAKING: Reuters reports the 🇺🇸 FBI Director Christopher Wray saying that Chinese government-linked hackers are working on the 'ability to physically wreak havoc on our critical infrastructure' and are waiting for 'just the right moment to deal a devastating blow'

In America, young people are economically...doing fine. Higher incomes than previous generations, income growing faster than any other group, low unemployment.

How much have our brains been rotted from listening to depressed people on X? This place is a zoo of human misery.

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Javier Milei dropped a bombshell today by submitting an official request for Argentina to join NATO.

His Defense Minister said:

'I met with Deputy Secretary General of NATO... I transmitted a letter of intent to him, which contains a request from Argentina to become…

Third 155mm factory to suffer explosion/fire this week.
2 in the United States
1 in the UK

2 Russian saboteurs were arrested in Germany.

Russia has a long track record of this
Since 2014 they have blown up
6 in Ukraine
2 in the Czech Republic
1 in Bulgaria

The Ukrainian removal of this Russian over the horizon backscatter (OTH-B) radar is a major strategic accomplishment by Ukraine.

It's destruction means Russia has not only lost early warning of PSU Su-24 carried Storm Shadow missile strikes.

This protect PSU F-16 operations…

BREAKING:

Argentine President Javier Milei submits a request to NATO to become a global partner of the military alliance.

Looks like Ukraine could suddenly receive artillery shells and other weapons from an unexpected source

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80% of the spending for Ukraine is replenishment of American weapons and stocks.

That's a really important thing for our own U.S. industrial base and defense base,”

says Speaker Johnson in CNN interview

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UAE society in a nutshell - during flash flooding.

Mariupol had a population of half a million, like Toulouse, Bologna or Miami before Russia razed it to the ground. Kharkiv at 1.5m is the size of Munich & Prague. Aleppo was even bigger before Putin helped Assad destroy it. The West is worried more about hypothetical escalation…

Getting the Russians out is never easy.

Tblisi.

Dutch PM offered to buy back Patriot from countries unwilling to hand them over to Ukraine- The Guardian

'A lot of countries are sitting with a lot of Patriot systems, perhaps not wanting to supply them directly. We can buy it from them, we can deliver it to Ukraine, we have the…

When asked why he is willing to lose his job when going forward with the foreign aid bills, Johnson responds: ‘I'm doing what I think is right here. I think providing lethal aid to Ukraine right now is critically important. I believe Putin will march through Europe otherwise. We…

So much for 'The first generation that will be poorer than their parents'.

economist.com/finance-and-ec…

The Ukraine aid bill is really impressive. Just excerpts of it:

- Allocation of more than $60 billion, most of it is military aid, especially the 'Operation and Maintenance' (Defense-Wide) section with $27.9 billion makes the largest package
- It also includes support for the…