🚨🇨🇺🇺🇸 Cuba quietly announcing it's been in talks with the United States.

"International factors have facilitated these exchanges."

Translation: the Iran war reshuffled enough geopolitical cards that Washington and Havana found reason to talk.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi could convey this position to U.S. President Donald Trump at their summit meeting scheduled to be held in Washington next week, according to multiple Japanese government sources.

The government aims to work closely with the United States on the joint development of interceptor missiles and the creation of a satellite network that will bolster the ability to deal with such threats as hypersonic glide vehicles, which are being developed by China and Russia.

Takaichi is set to hold talks with Trump at the White House on Thursday. It will be Takaichi’s first visit to the United States since becoming prime minister in October.

At the meeting, the leaders are expected to discuss the envisioned missile defense system that the Trump administration will start operating before January 2029. Takaichi is expected to tell Trump that Japan is willing to take part in the project, according to the sources.

Nine out of twelve.

That's how many leaders inside Iraq's Coordination Framework have now agreed to drop Nouri al-Maliki's bid for prime minister. He's been notified directly. The CF is preparing a formal statement.

For anyone who's been watching this political logjam since November's election, that number matters more than anything coming out of the war coverage right now.

Here's why.

We've said it before and we'll say it again..
Maliki wasn't just a candidate. He was the last structural blockage between Iraq and a fully formed, reform-friendly government.

His ties to Iran's militia networks, to the PMF funding corridors, to the shadow dollar flows that kept Tehran's sanctions evasion running through Iraqi banks for years.

All of that influence sat in one chair. And nine voices just pulled it out from under him. (Just like we predicted weeks ago)

The CF is now leaning hard toward Sudani continuity.
No surprises there..

Meetings are being scheduled as early as this Sunday. The Kurdish bloc is ready to move on the presidency. Fuad Hussein and one other candidate are being floated.

Once that vote happens, they can simultaneously seat the prime minister.
And it could happen before Eid ends on the 20th.

Meanwhile, Finance Minister Taif Sammy met with a World Bank delegation today.
Not a courtesy call. Active discussions on new financing packages, expanded cooperation, private sector empowerment.
Heavy signal flow right there.

She used language like "attractive investment environment for global companies."
Not at 1300-1310...

The World Bank responded with concrete talks on scaling up IFC support, including new advisory offices in Baghdad.

That's not the language of a country waiting. That's the language of a country positioning.

The CBI announced an auction liquidity management program specifically designed to reinforce dinar stability.

Foreign currency reserves continue building. Basel III compliance confirmed. And the Bank of International Settlements is publicly targeting reduced cross-border payment costs by 2027.

Iraq is inside that framework now.

On the ground, citizens are pulling cash from banks in volume.

The budget jumped from 87 trillion to 101 trillion and credit usage exceeded cash last year.

Some bank branches are asking customers to come back later for full withdrawals. That's a liquidity squeeze. And liquidity squeezes on a currency held at an artificial program rate have one resolution....

Still watching the Sunday meeting closely.

The political cleanup, the fiscal reform push, the CBI's stability infrastructure, the gatekeeper engagement.

All of it accelerating in the same 72-hour window.

Nine of twelve CF leaders didn't just reject Maliki. They cleared the last obstacle between Iraq's banking system and what the IMF, World Bank, and US Treasury have been building toward for three years.

And I know you want my opinon, so here it is:
The formation window is now open. And every institutional signal says they're ready to walk through it.

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Hegseth: “The only thing prohibiting transit in [Hormuz] right now is Iran shooting at shipping.”

“It is open for transit should Iran not do that”

Uber $UBER and Motional launch IONIQ 5 robotaxi rides in Las Vegas.

Available at no extra cost along the Strip, the service currently uses safety drivers with a goal of fully driverless operations by late 2026.

"Building on what NASA learned [from Ingenuity], Dragonfly will be bigger and powered by nuclear energy, not the sun.

The Titan drone is also a full mission, costing about $3.35 billion while Ingenuity was a technology demonstrator with a price tag of just $85 million.

Dragonfly is expected to launch in 2028 toward Titan, the largest moon of Saturn and second-largest satellite in the solar system, behind Jupiter's Ganymede."

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FirstNet have updated their website and it heavily features AST SpaceMobile.

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🚨 IRAN MAY SOON FACE THE A-10 WARTHOG

Reports suggest the United States could deploy the A-10 Thunderbolt II — the legendary “Warthog” — against Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Basij units as the conflict intensifies.

The A-10 is built for one purpose: destroying ground forces.

Armed with its devastating 30mm GAU-8 cannon, the aircraft was designed to hunt tanks, vehicles, and entrenched troops — delivering overwhelming close-air support on the battlefield.

If deployed against regime forces, the Warthog would signal a shift toward direct pressure on Iran’s military and paramilitary units on the ground.

The aircraft’s reputation is well known:
When the Warthog arrives, it means ground targets are about to be erased.

Gen. Razin Caine says the U.S. is launching its heaviest bombing of Iran so far today, with strikes focused on mine-laying forces and capabilities that could threaten the Strait of Hormuz.

UPDATE 🔴

RAF Fairford now has six B-52 bombers and 12 B-1 Lancers on the ground. Two B-1s launched this morning. Bunker-busting munitions continue flowing in.

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$OKLO $SMR $LEU $UUUU $UEC | Japan marks a watershed moment as TEPCO restarts Kashiwazaki Kariwa Unit 6, the first since the 2011 disaster.

The 8.2GW facility is the world’s largest, with this single reactor expected to save $630M annually by displacing LNG imports.

$MP $UUUU $UAMY $USAR $LAC $CRML | USTR Greer tells CNBC the U.S. seeks "continued stability" with China while securing critical rare earths for manufacturing.

Ahead of Paris talks, Greer aims to protect U.S. supply chains from export curbs and excess capacity.

$UEC $CCJ $UUUU $LEU $OKLO | Uranium supply crunch intensifies as Kazatomprom confirms a 10% production cut for 2026.

With 15 new reactors starting up and AI data centers surging, the current 50M lb deficit is driving a multi year bull market for the nuclear energy sector.

$AMZN $NVDA $AMD | AWS and Cerebras partner to launch the world’s fastest AI inference on Bedrock.

Using "disaggregated" architecture, AWS Trainium handles prefill while Cerebras CS-3 accelerates decode, delivering 5x capacity for real time agentic AI.

$OKLO $SMR $LEU $UUUU $MP | German Chancellor Merz: "German federal governments had previously decided to phase out nuclear energy. The decision is irreversible."

$IREN $CIFR $WULF $NBIS $BITF | Nscale is in talks to acquire an 8GW AI campus in West Virginia.

As one of the largest U.S. sites, the Monarch Compute Campus targets 2GW online by 2027 using on site gas generation. Amazon and Meta are also reportedly eyeing the property.

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