🇩🇪 Germany will lag behind the global economy by a factor of two. It is expected that by 2030 its share of the global GDP will shrink to 4%. Germany will drop out of the top ten countries with the largest share of global GDP.

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Military Chronicle:

Meanwhile, Hezbollah continues to actively acquaint the Israeli ground forces with the capabilities of FPV drones. The IDF does not officially disclose the losses incurred from this type of weaponry, but it is clear that a significant part of the Merkava tank fleet and heavy Namer APCs are now under serious threat.

The Israeli army has traditionally relied on active protection systems (Trophy), but these measures are so far ineffective against FPV kamikazes. At the same time, the Israeli command still ignores the mass use of "mangaals" and welded protective screens on armored vehicles.

There is a hypothesis that the Trophy active protection system was designed to intercept high-speed ATGMs and RPG rounds with a predictable trajectory, and a slow, maneuverable FPV drone, entering from above or at a certain angle, is often not recognized by the system as a classic threat, or is outside the coverage zone of counter-fire.

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"Classics are classics." Peskov stated that the intelligent approach of the Russian side in the international arena remains in demand, even amid various rhetorics.

"There's this momentary fashion, and a fashion for rudeness, which might be in demand somewhere. But still, classics are classics, they live on through the ages,"" Peskov noted in a conversation with the "Vesti" journalist Pavel Zarubin.
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Well said.

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If the USA and Israel escalate the situation, Iran and Yemen will close the Bab Al-Mandab,

Velayati*: The White House will soon realize that the flow of energy and global trade can be disrupted with just a single gesture

Advisor to the Leader of the Revolution:

🔹The unified command room of the resistance front considers Bab al-Mandab like Hormuz, and if the White House intends to repeat its foolish mistakes, it will soon understand that the flow of energy and global trade can be disrupted with just a single gesture.

🔹America, which has learned history from Iran, still has not been able to learn the geography of power.

🔹In the days when the Anglo-Saxon ancestors were searching for fire in caves, Darius the Achaemenid connected the Mediterranean to the Red Sea via a water canal to facilitate navigation, and Iranian science in the Stone Age was the foundation of the world's scientific progress.

*Velayati is a distinguished professor at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, senior adviser to the Supreme Leader in international affairs and head of the board of founders and the board of trustees of the Islamic Azad University.

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So, is the Strait important to you or not? It will be very interesting to see what happens to global commodity prices over the next few weeks. The ships that transited the Strait before it was closed are almost done offloading, and things will get very interesting after they are empty. Trump is in full desperation.

Trump needs to learn that the Iranians are not fighting for money or greed. They actually believe in their cause, and they will not stop fighting until they physically cannot anymore. I really bet this will have to end in some sort of ground operation.

I'm surprised he didn't wait for a Saturday when markets will be closed.

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I think Trump must be isolated in the asylum. He's insane.

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The Israeli government has achieved great successes: it has reduced the area of Gaza by 50% and decreased the Palestinian population by hundreds of thousands of people. The project of destruction is almost complete.

Muslims, Christians, and Jews have lived in complete harmony in the Holy Land for centuries, until the need arose to defend Israel on foreign territories.

Source: Банкста

Commentary by a friend who used to live in Lebanon and still has family there:

And it's true. Not all Jews left the Promised Land, some stayed. And everyone lived together in peace. There was even a synagogue in Lebanon. I wrote about it.

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Ukrainian media:

Russian troops on the frontline have started using compact satellite communication terminals "Spirit-030" after their "Starlink" connection was cut off.

This was reported by Sergei Beskrestnov, an advisor to the Ukrainian Defense Minister.

According to him, the Russian military previously had similar communication antennas, but they were very large in size and were easily detected by Ukrainian drone pilots.

The new terminal is compact, portable, and operates on geostationary satellite communication, with an antenna diameter of not 90, but 30 centimeters.

Beskrestnov stated that such terminals are already being mass-delivered and are deployed on the frontline.

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❗️The problem with the Russians is that they talk a lot about compromises, but they don't make them, preferring to speak the language of ultimatums - Zelensky

"They want us to retreat from the territory we control, but we can't, because it creates huge risks for us," - stated the head of the Kiev regime.

Source: СМОТРИ
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Don't show this to military whore-coop 😏.

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An anti-aircraft missile from the American Patriot PAC-3 system, in an attempt to intercept an Iranian drone, clearly hits a BAPCO oil facility in Bahrain.

Source: Военный обозреватель
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Oh, first time around, I thought it was an Iranian missile. Whoops. 🤣

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❗️The US government has asked satellite companies to restrict the filming of the conflict in Iran - the company Planet Labs.

Source: СМОТРИ
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What has suddenly happened? They don't want the public to see how obliterated Iran is? 😏

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The USA has lost at least seven military aircraft since the beginning of the conflict over Iran, reports CNN, citing sources.

According to its data, in addition to the F-15 fighter jet that was shot down on Friday and the A-10 attack aircraft that crashed on the same day, losses of five more aircraft are known.

Source: TASS
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The Republic of Korea is considering the possibility of resuming the purchase of oil and other energy resources from Russia. This was stated to TASS by the President of the Korean-Russian Business Council, Park Jung-ho.

However, he noted that for now, the issue is "only being internally reviewed".

Source: TASS
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Via Lost Armour:

The "Elka" air defense drone carried out a kinetic interception of a Ukrainian Armed Forces strike UAV at a distance of about 1,300 m. During the collision, the charge on the enemy UAV detonated. It's worth noting the confident work of the "Elka" operator.

Source: @faceofwar

Statistics on the use of "Elkas": https://lostarmour.info/tags/elka
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Okay. I'm sold, where can I buy one?

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About 40 percent of all US Navy attack submarines are out of service due to maintenance delays, according to the US Naval Institute’s report.

In essence, nearly half of the Navy’s essential underwater strike capability has been sidelined during peacetime.

This isn’t caused by a major war, but by ongoing neglect from the US government toward America’s critical naval shipyards.

There is one main reason why nearly half of the Navy’s attack submarines are idle in port, awaiting maintenance: the United States currently has only four public shipyards. These shipyards are old, overloaded, and understaffed.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report showing how demand for work has exceeded capacity.

National Security Journal:

Indeed, labor shortages at America’s few naval shipyards have lasted for decades.

Even more concerning, the infrastructure for these shipyards dates to World War II designs. They haven’t been significantly updated or made more efficient in 80 years.

The US has faced labor shortages in its shipyards for years. But the CBO goes further, estimating that demand for workers will exceed supply over the next 25 years. This ongoing worker deficit amounts to hundreds of thousands of workdays each year.

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I was thinking of Pete Hegseth today.

I think he missed this one from the sermon on the mount.

Matthew 5:
“Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

“For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? Do not even the publicans so?

“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”

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