🇬🇧🇷🇺 BREAKING: Putin has sent a Russian warship to escort sanctioned vessels through the English Channel after UK PM Keir Starmer threatened to seize them, escalating tensions at sea between Russia and the UK.
🇮🇷🇺🇸 The Wall Street Journal reports that after Iran shot down a US fighter jet, Trump yelled at his aides for several hours.
He kept repeating: “The Europeans are not helping.”
The president repeatedly referenced the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis and Carter’s failed rescue attempt (which involved helicopters and contributed to Carter losing the 1980 election).
Trump told advisers something along the lines of: “If you look at what happened with Jimmy Carter…with the helicopters and the hostages, it cost them the election. What a mess.”
This historical parallel weighed heavily on him during the F-15E incident.
🚨Alert: Iran launches attacks on US Naval warships that are blocking their commercial vessels. US just hit a cargo ship and Iran has vowed revenge! Iran launches attack drones and rockets! War about to reignite!!
🇮🇷 #Iran: Iran’s Low-Cost 358 Missile Takes Out Million-Dollar US Assets
🇨🇳 In China, state media has taken a look at the Iranian-designed counter-drone loitering interceptor’s reported role in bringing down multiple uncrewed aerial vehicles, or drones, like the MQ-9 “Reaper” in the US-Israel war on Iran.
The 358 missile, also known as the SA-67, weighs about 50kg (110lbs). Powered by a micro-turbojet and solid rocket booster, it cruises subsonically at about Mach 0.6 for 100-150km (62-93 miles) and employs an infrared seeker for target guidance.
The 358 has “no problem at all” taking down slower-flying, turboprop-powered Medium-Altitude, Long-Endurance (MALE) drones like the Reaper, and its main benefit is its extremely low cost - 🇭🇰SCMP
300+ articles in Iranian defense publications analyzing every lesson from drone tactics to 3D-printed weapons to how a smaller force sustains itself against a superpower.
The finding's striking: Iran didn't just watch Ukraine, it used it as a blueprint. Cheap mass-produced drones, mobile combat units, decentralized manufacturing, AI weaponry... all recommended by Iranian military analysts before the war with the US even started.
Ukraine taught the world how to fight a bigger enemy on a budget and Iran was taking notes in the front row.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump was reportedly barred from the Situation Room during the high-stakes recovery operation in Iran. His unruly temperament and unpredictability were cited as the reasons.
The need to invoke the 25th Amendment is becoming more glaringly obvious with each passing day. When will Republicans step up and put an end to this?
🇷🇺 A Russian influencer has gone viral with strong criticism of President Putin.
Victoria Bonya, a well-known blogger with millions of followers, posted an 18-minute video on Instagram. It has already been viewed more than 26 million times.
In the video, she says: “People are afraid of you. Artists are afraid. Governors are afraid.” She warns that Russians feel under pressure “like a coiled spring” and that one day it could suddenly snap.
She points out problems such as floods in Dagestan, oil pollution in the Black Sea, issues with animals in Siberia, internet blackouts, and economic difficulties for small businesses.
In an unusual move, the Kremlin responded publicly. Officials said they have seen the video and that work is already underway to solve the problems she mentioned.$GTC $BLUR $PHB
A Potential Oil Shift in the Gulf: Is the Era of the Yuan Replacing the Dollar Beginning?
Iranian media outlets report that China is shifting its oil trade in the Gulf from the US dollar to the Chinese yuan.
In fact, Iran has previously announced that it will impose fees on every barrel of oil transported through the Strait of Hormuz, not in dollars, but in yuan and cryptocurrencies.
If China does indeed implement this policy, it would indicate that China has decided the time is right to capitalize on the US's failure in Iran and restructure financial and resource flows in the Gulf, replacing the US dollar with Iranian assistance.
This could all be part of a larger Chinese strategy, where it is not directly involved in the conflict but is indirectly aiding Iran, thereby undermining the dollar's dominance in the Middle East and attempting to link a portion of oil flows to the yuan.
The United States is unlikely to agree to this willingly, and if it realizes that the yuan will indeed begin replacing the dollar in global settlements under a stalemate scenario—an indication of Israel's failure as the region's policeman—it is more likely to set the entire region ablaze rather than allow China to enjoy the potential triumph of its economic strategy.
The simplest way to do this is to cripple Iran's oil industry and wait for Iran to cripple the Gulf's oil industry.
JUST IN:🚨Strait of Hormuz crisis could leave Europe facing a jet fuel shortage within six weeks.
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🇫🇷 French Navy Chief Admiral Nicolas Vaujour announces an upgrade to the FDI frigate's vertical launch system — increasing the number of VLS cells from 16 to 32.
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