🇱🇧 Something was shot down over southern Lebanon. Most likely an Israeli drone.

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🇷🇺 JUST IN! Putin signed a decree setting the authorized staffing level of the Russian Armed Forces at 2.4 million, including 1.5 million servicemen.

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🇷🇺 Clarification:

Vladimir Putin has signed a decree setting the authorized strength of Russia’s Armed Forces at 2,391,770 personnel, including 1,502,640 active servicemen.

The decree replaces the 2024 order that set the number of servicemen at 1,500,000. Since 2023, presidential decrees have increased the authorized number of Russian servicemen by 172,640 in total.

🐻 Basically this is just Russian bureaucracy. By law, a new decree is required once the number of active servicemen exceeds the limit set in the previous decree.

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🇺🇸 "Iran declared war on us. We aren't at war right now." - Speaker Mike Johnson word salad.

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🇧🇭🇺🇸 Images of debris from a MIM-104 Patriot interceptor reportedly used by a Patriot system deployed in Qatar suggest U.S. crews have begun using PAC-2 missiles manufactured in 2000.

If the images are authentic, it may indicate that U.S. PAC-3 interceptor stocks are being depleted, due to heavy use against Iranian drones and ballistic missiles, as well as continued deliveries of air defense missiles to Ukraine.

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🇮🇶🇺🇸 A logistics center of the U.S. Embassy near Baghdad International Airport has come under attack, according to Al Araby, citing a source in Iraqi security services.

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🇪🇺 European Foreign Policy Embarrassment Kaja Kalas is the gift that keeps on giving.

What's happening in the Middle East is bad for Ukraine and Europe but good because "Russia lost an ally."

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🇮🇷 Iran has launched a new wave of missile strikes, according to the state broadcaster.

The Iranian military also reports drone strikes against Israel as well as US bases in Bahrain and Kuwait.

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❗️🛢🇷🇺🇪🇺PUTIN:

IT MIGHT BE MORE BENEFICIAL FOR RUSSIA TO STOP GAS SUPPLIES TO EUROPE RIGHT NOW AND TURN TO OTHER MARKETS, WITHOUT WAITING FOR A TOTAL BAN

A TEMPORARY WITHDRAWAL FROM THE EU GAS MARKET IS STILL JUST A "THOUGHT IN PASSING"; I WILL INSTRUCT THE GOVERNMENT TO STUDY THIS ISSUE IN DETAIL TOGETHER WITH THE COMPANIES

Putin: some traditional suppliers will leave Europe for premium buyers who pay more

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🏴‍☠️🇺🇦🇷🇺Putin called the attack by Ukrainian maritime drones on the Russian gas tanker "Arctic Methanol" in the Mediterranean Sea a terrorist attack.

He stressed that Kiev is biting the hand that feeds it, as such attacks exacerbate the situation on the European energy market.

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🚫🇮🇷🇮🇱Iran in the Persian Gulf will strike any ships heading to Israel - IRGC

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🇺🇸🇨🇾US State Department: We urge our citizens to reconsider their travel plans to Cyprus.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷US Secretary of State Narco Rubio:

"We are on the right track to achieve the goals of the 'Epic Fury' campaign.

We are on the right path to destroy Iran's missile platforms, factories, and naval fleet.

We will achieve our goals so that Iran cannot hide behind missile platforms to develop nuclear weapons."

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🇳🇱🇮🇷Dutch Foreign Minister Tom Berendsen:

"We summoned the Iranian ambassador in Amsterdam in light of the Iranian attacks on Gulf countries."

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🇺🇸🇮🇷The US Deputy Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Michael Duffey, refused to confirm Trump's assertions that the American military has unlimited supplies of ammunition amid ongoing attacks on Iran.

"I believe we have the necessary weapons, and I work daily to ensure their uninterrupted supply in unlimited quantities," Duffey said in Congress in response to a request to confirm Trump's statements about unlimited US ammunition reserves.

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🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷Axios:

Netanyahu asked the White House whether there are currently secret talks going on with Iran

Israeli intelligence has obtained information that has raised suspicions about the existence of some kind of contact between Iran and Washington.

The White House informed Netanyahu that the Trump administration was not talking to the Iranians.

Witkoff and Kushner are talking almost daily with Netanyahu, the Mossad director, and other Israeli officials.

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🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷Axios, citing a US official: The Israelis know that we are not talking to the Iranians.

Tehran sent messages to Washington via countries in the Gulf and the region, but the US did not respond.

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🇱🇧🇮🇱Israeli Channel 13 citing an anonymous Israeli official:

"We did not think that Hezbollah would join the battle with such force

We miscalculated about the force with which Hezbollah joined the battle."

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🇱🇧🇮🇱Israeli Channel 13 reports an Israeli official saying: "We made a mistake regarding Hezbollah and didn't expect them to launch rockets to this extent."

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