Important Takeaways:
- Russia captures US weaponry handed to Ukraine in nightmare blow for Joe Biden
- Russia has released images of US and German-made heavy artillery seized on the frontline in Ukraine – describing the vehicles as “trophies”.
- In a taunt to Kyiv’s allies in the West, the Russian defense ministry detailed how the equipment – Leopard 2 tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles – was captured during a battle in the Zaporizhzhia region.
- Alongside a short clip, the ministry said in a statement: “Leopard tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. These are our trophies.
- “Equipment of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Zaporizhzhia region.”
- It comes less than a fortnight after President Biden announced a new $300m military aid package to Ukraine, which includes sophisticated weaponry such as drones to allow strikes from range.
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Important Takeaways:
- McConnell calls China, Russia, Iran new ‘axis of evil’ that US must deal with: ‘This is an emergency’
- “You have to respond to conditions that actually exist that are a threat to the United States. The Iranians are a threat to us as well. And so, this is an emergency. It’s an emergency that we step up and deal with this axis of evil – China, Russia, Iran – because it’s an immediate threat to the United States,” McConnell said.
- “In many ways the world is more endangered today than it has been in my lifetime,” McConnell said, recalling that unlike when the Berlin Wall fell, the world faces a “big power competition” coinciding with the terrorism threats in the Middle East and culminating in Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists.
- “I think the Biden administration sent the wrong signal and they had the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. I think that was like giving a green light to Putin to go into Ukraine. And we see that Iran, principal sponsor of terrorism, sending drones to the Russians and attacking – Hezbollah and in this particular situation, Hamas – attacking the Israelis with drones. So it’s all connected. You can’t separate out one part of it and say we’re only gonna deal with this. It’s all connected.”
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Important Takeaways:
- One key question about the Russo-Ukraine War is: how long can the Russian economy keep it up? After all, the intention of Western economic and financial sanctions against Russia was to cripple Russian growth and render its war machine incapable of maintaining the fight.
- Russia’s heavily-oil-dependent economy is estimated to have lost over $100 billion as a consequence of oil sanctions.
- Yet economies at war often find a way to keep going for longer than one might think, provided that domestic citizens retain faith in their leaders
- The current violent attacks by Hamas on Israel may even have had, as one of their goals, a rise in oil prices – after all, Russia is a significant Hamas backer.
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Important Takeaways:
- The United States must prepare for possible simultaneous wars with Russia and China by expanding its conventional forces, strengthening alliances and enhancing its nuclear weapons modernization program, a congressionally appointed bipartisan panel said on Thursday.
- The report from the Strategic Posture Commission comes amid tensions with China over Taiwan and other issues and worsening frictions with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
- “We worry … there may be ultimate coordination between them in some way, which gets us to this two-war construct,” the official said on condition of anonymity.
- The findings would upend current U.S. national security strategy calling for winning one conflict while deterring another and require huge defense spending increases with uncertain congressional support.
- The report contrasts with U.S. President Joe Biden’s position that the current U.S. nuclear arsenal is sufficient to deter the combined forces of Russia and China.
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Important Takeaways:
- DeSantis calls for policy reversal at southern border — says system ‘spits in the faces of those who respect our laws’
- Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis called for a reversal of policies at the southwest land border that has seen record surges of illegal immigrants, while recent reports showed thousands of migrants had been apprehended from the middle east.
- “I would also ask the president to consider reversing his policies on the southern border. We are vulnerable when you have all these military-age men coming in. Do you think that our enemies have not been looking at that weakness?”
- “We know people from Iran have come, we know people from Russia have come, and we know China and other parts of the Middle East.
- Israel probably has the strongest border security in the world, and yet, this happened to them,” the governor added.
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Important Takeaways:
- WAIL OF DEATH Chilling moment ‘nuke incoming’ sirens sound & schoolkids wear gas masks in war drills as Putin readies Russians for WW3
- SIRENS blared out across Russia today and children donned gas masks as part of a terrifying drill for an incoming nuclear attack.
- The eerie siren could be heard across the country and chilling messages were broadcast live as Putin forced his citizens to endure a WW3 drill.
- It was Russia’s first nationwide civil defense exercise as Putin indoctrinates his people about the danger of the West triggering nuclear war.
- A message sounded declaring: “Attention everyone,” “There is a check of readiness of the warning system to the population. “Please remain calm.”
- In one city Volgograd, two shelters were used as part of the drill.
- One could accommodate up to 36,000 people.
- “The main goal of the drills is to check our readiness for specific actions,” said emergencies minister Alexander Kurenkov who oversaw the drills.
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Important Takeaways:
- Putin’s attack dog Medvedev rattles the sabre AGAIN: Now ranting ex-President claims Russia is ‘running out of options’ in Ukraine other than a full-blown ground war with NATO which would lead to a greater ‘cost to humanity’ than WW2
- The deputy chairman of Russia’s security council has publicly claimed that Russia is running out of options and may resort to a full war with NATO.
- Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president, warned that this would lead to a third world war, which would have greater consequences than World War II.
- ‘It seems that Russia is being left with fewer and fewer options but to come into direct conflict on the ground with NATO,’ he said.
- The 74-year-old alliance ‘has become an openly fascist bloc like Hitler’s Axis, only bigger’, he claimed.
- ‘We are ready, although the result will be achieved at a much greater cost to humanity than in 1945.’
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Important Takeaways:
- China and Russia: The New Axis of Evil
- Xi has been eyeing the South and East China Seas, coopting the Solomon Islands, building and militarizing his own artificial islands, and threatening not only Taiwan, but neighbors such as Australia, India and Japan.
- Putin seized and occupied territory in Georgia in 2008, and Ukraine in 2014 (Crimea) and 2023, not to mention his relentless bellicosity towards the Baltic states and eastern Europe.
- There are mounting concerns… in Western security circles that in return for providing any uplift in military support for Russia, Kim wants Moscow to provide technical assistance for his missile and satellite programs, which would seriously enhance North Korea’s ability to threaten the West with its nuclear arsenal.
- Any attempt by Russia to help improve North Korea’s military strength will also benefit China’s Communist rulers: it will provide North Korea with the ability to intensify the threat that all three countries pose to the US and its allies — and to global security.
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Important Takeaways:
- Ukraine endured a deadly nationwide Russian missile barrage targeting energy facilities in Kyiv and other cities on Thursday, just hours before President Volodymyr Zelensky was set to meet US President Joe Biden at the White House
- Officials called it “a terrible night for Kherson city,” with at least three people killed and six injured, noting that apartment buildings and cars were also damaged in Russian shelling on residential areas.
- Just as the country gears up for colder seasons that will require more energy use for heating
- The air raid alarms, which frequently blare on loudspeakers throughout the city and on residents’ cell phones, are so commonplace that government officials have had to appeal to residents to continue to use bomb shelters.
- The latest round of missile strikes comes after a contentious United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, where Zelensky argued that removing Russia’s veto power “will be the first necessary step.”
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Important Takeaways:
- FIRE AND FURY Putin sub and warship blasted by ‘Storm Shadow missiles & kamikaze drone boats’ in massive Crimea port blitz
- UKRAINE unleashed a barrage of ten cruise missiles along with kamikaze drones in a massive assault on Russia’s powerful Black Sea Fleet.
- Vladimir Putin’s forces were rocked as a submarine and an assault ship were blasted during the onslaught on the Crimean port of Sevastopol.
- British-made Storm Shadow missiles and explosive-packed drone boats are believed to have been used in the biggest attack of its kind on the fleet – marking the first time such weapons have been used in Crimea.
- Shocking footage showed huge plumes of smoke and flames seen for miles around rising from the blitzed base.
- It is the latest blow to embattled Putin’s war effort – and was a major embarrassment for Vlad as he sat down with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un some 5,500 miles away.
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