🇲🇦 🇮🇱 🇪🇸 Morocco allows Israeli warship to dock after Spain refused

🔶️ The Moroccan authorities allowed an Israeli warship to dock in the port of Tangier to allow its crew to replenish fuel and food supplies en route from the US, after the Spanish government refused the vessel permission to use its ports. The decision by Rabat has been condemned by the National Action Group for Palestine in the kingdom.

🔶️ An Israeli online news site reported that the INS Komemiyut arrived in Israel from the US after stopping in Morocco to obtain supplies. It said that it confirmed this from informed sources as well as through ship records. “This deepens defence cooperation between Israel and Morocco,” the site added.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240626-morocco-allows-israeli-warship-to-dock-after-spain-refused/

🇷🇺 🇱🇧 🇸🇾 Some people are belatedly realizing Russia can truck in weapons to Lebanon from its naval and air bases in Syria. | Carolina Lion

🔶️ U.S. Defense and Intelligence Officials are now Concerned that an Israeli Invasion of Southern Lebanon and Full-Scale War with Hezbollah could potentially involve not just Iran, but also Russia.

🔶️ With Reports suggesting that Russia in Late 2023 was preparing to provide Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles, possibly a Land-Launched Variant of the Kh-31, to the Houthi Terrorist Group in Yemen, with the Transfer not occurring at the request of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who Personally Spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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"Len Pen's Land"

The final opinion polls before the French election have been released, and Le Pen's National Rally is in a strong lead.

They are by far the largest party in the polls, leading with roughly 37% of the vote.

But more significantly, Le Pen's party has shown as winning a majority of seats in several of the latest polls.

This would make National Rally the first Nationalist party of any description to take power in Western Europe.

Le Pen is already preparing to challenge the established order of the Republic. Wanting to take the foreign policy and defence remits traditionally reserved for the president for herself.

Madame Le Pen has also said she wants to take any budgetary authority the president has traditionally exercised and make use of it herself.

While Jordan Bardella, Le Pen's pick for Prime Minister, has said he will not allow French troops near active conflict zones such as Ukraine or Israel.

Madame Le Pen and Jordan Bardella will have much to prove once they get into office. Will they govern for the benefit of the native French?

Will they slow and reverse the Great Replacement? Abandon neoliberal economics? Push for fundamental Reform of the European Union?

It remains to be seen, but if they are the first nationalists to win a majority they have a great responsibility to prove the viability of their ideas.

Read more about the Great Replacement in France here on our Substack.

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Sick people

"A Nationalist Look at National Rally's Immigration Policies"

White Papers takes a look at the immigration policies put forward in National Rally's recently released manifesto titled L’Union Fait la France.

Madame Le Pen and her protégé, Jordan Bardella make a series of sweeping promises wrapped up in grand language.

Ending birthright citizenship, deporting illegal criminals, amending the constitution, and restricting immigrant access to benefits.

The party also promises to radically reduce legal immigration, a very necessary step to reverse the demographic trends of the Great Replacement.

Still, the policies put forward by National Rally seem insufficient for their self-proclaimed task of preserving the French nation.

More than 2 million immigrants in France entered the country illegally, but Le Pen focuses only on the criminals.

And while the manifesto promises to radically reduce legal immigration it does not go into detail as to how.

Le Pen has, in the past, made promises to denaturalize and deport criminals and fraudsters, but this pledge did not make it into the current manifesto.

Nationalists can only hope that Le Pen and Bardella's intentions are much broader than those laid out in their published election paper.

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🏭 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 In an exclusive interview with Daily Mail, retired U.S. Army Major General John G. Ferrari said he had 'grave concerns' about America's ongoing reliance on China to equip its military.

🔶️ Chinese manufacturers are deeply embedded in U.S. defense systems, providing critical technology and raw materials used in everything from air-to-air missiles to fighter jets.

🔶️ General Ferrari, who served as a deputy commander for NATO in Afghanistan, admitted that Beijing could cripple America's ability to arm itself by cutting off supply lines.

🔶️ 'If we were in a war with China and it stopped providing parts, we wouldn't be able to build the planes and weapons we needed,' he said.

No quick fix

🔶️ A startling report released earlier this year revealed Chinese firms have a stranglehold across 12 critical technologies that are vital to US national security, including nuclear modernization, hypersonic and space technologies.

🔶️ The study, which was carried out by defense software firm Govini, delivered a damning indictment on the American armaments industry.

🔶️ 'U.S. domestic production capacity is a shriveled shadow of its former self,' the report said.

🔶️ 'Crucial categories of industry for U.S. national defense are no longer built in any of the 50 states.'

🔶️ Perhaps most worryingly, Govini found that more than 40 per cent of the semiconductors that sustain Department of Defense (DoD) weapons systems are now sourced from China.

🔶️ Advanced semiconductors are crucial components of missile guidance systems, cyberware and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.

🔶️ It has sparked fears that Beijing has been left with an array of tools to sabotage American defenses, from planting defective chips into air-to-air missiles to embedding spyware into DoD systems.

🔶️ 'You can't just turn around on a dime because the [manufacturing] capacity doesn't exist here,' he said.

🔶️ He added that it could take 10 to 15 years for the U.S. to disentangle itself from China.

🔶️ 'It should be "Buy Allies", because the U.S. does not have the capacity to solve the problem on its own.'

🔶️ The US built up its reliance on Chinese manufacturing during an era of relative harmony between the two nations following the 1990s.

🔶️ Yet the DoD's reliance on Chinese equipment has continued to grow. Between 2014 and 2022, American dependence on Chinese electronics increased by 600 per cent, according to Govini.

🔶️ Courtney Manning, senior research scientist at the nonpartisan American Security Project, said the trend has been 'driven by profit'.

🔶️ But contractors have pointed to a dearth of domestic options, with U.S. manufacturing in terminal decline.

🔶️ A study by think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies has said the conflict in Eastern Europe has highlighted how quickly the U.S. military would run out of munitions in a potential conflict with China in the Indo-Pacific.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13551371/China-military-supplies-war.html

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 US in talks to send Israel’s Patriot systems to Ukraine

🇷🇺 Transfer of up to eight batteries would mark shift in Israel’s relations with Moscow

🔶️ But the batteries, which have been used in Israel’s current war with Hamas, have not yet been discontinued due to concerns that tensions with the Iran-backed Hizbollah militant group could erupt into a full-blown war.

🔶️ Israel has been cautious about taking sides over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine given the clout Moscow holds in Syria, where the Israeli air force often acts against Iranian proxies.

🔶️ Former officials and analysts said the Israeli systems would most likely be sold back to the US, which could then send them on to Ukraine.

🔶️ But they added that the bigger question is whether Israel is prepared to alienate its on-off ally Russia, despite Moscow’s ever-closer relationship with Iran.

🔶️ Israel has previously denied Ukrainian requests for air defence systems. It also has an agreement with Russia that allows Israeli jets to access Syrian air space.

📎 Financial Times

— 🇮🇷/🇺🇳 Iran's Permanent Mission to the United Nations:

'While Iran deems the Zionist regime's threats to launch an attack on Lebanon as psychological warfare, should it embark on full-scale military aggression, an obliterating war will ensue.

All options, including the full involvement of all Resistance Fronts, including the Islamic Republic of Iran, are on the table.'

@Middle_East_Spectator