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⚡️🌍⚽️ Official UEFA statement on the boycott.

@wfwitness

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online.

A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that ⁠signals it was made with OpenAI tools. The company said it was investigating the report.

Meanwhile the State Department claims that a staffer made hasty changes before the presentation

This dude kept popping up in my recommended on instagram so much i had to block his ass, and the worst part is that he was ALWAYS so factually wrong about whatever he was rambling about it’d be comparable to me insisting germany geographically part of south america

This dumbass thought a tunnel detonation in Southern Lebanon was a tactical nuke

When will Iran finally develop nuclear bombs and drop them on DataCenters on the US mainland

my guess is never

🇷🇺🇺🇦For the fourth month, Ukraine launched more drones into Russia than Russia launched drones into Ukraine

With a much bigger territory, Russia is more difficult to defend, but Russian strikes can easily reach all of Ukraine.

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The U.S. Senate advanced Lindsey Graham’s Russia sanctions bill by 86–12.

The 12 “No” votes:

• Rand Paul — Republican
• Bernie Sanders — Independent
• Elizabeth Warren — Democrat — Visited Kyiv in 2023
• Lisa Blunt Rochester — Democrat
• Maggie Hassan — Democrat — Visited Kyiv in 2024
• Mazie Hirono — Democrat
• Andy Kim — Democrat
• Ed Markey — Democrat
• Jon Ossoff — Democrat
• Alex Padilla — Democrat
• Peter Welch — Democrat
• Ron Wyden — Democrat

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Russian e-commerce giant Ozon painted "This is not Wildberries, please fly away" on the roof of its major Nizhny Novgorod logistics hub.

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Lockheed Martin received a 7y contract modification worth up to $53.86 billion for PAC-3 MSE interceptors.

 Production to increase from 620 to 2,000/y missiles by the end of 2030.

Why not go faster—or beyond 2,000?

Because the PAC-3 MSE is not a commercial product Lockheed Martin can just mass-produce on its own. The U.S. Army sets the requirements and production levels, the Pentagon awards the contracts, and Congress must approve the funding. The company can only expand factories, equipment, staff, and suppliers once the government commits to steady, long-term demand.

Even this threefold increase still depends on Washington actually funding what it has ordered.

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Wildberries reportedly asked the Russian government for ₽800 billion ($10 billion):

- ₽500 billion for losses
- ₽300 billion to set up air defense for their sites.

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SBI and General Staff are investigating +100 Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Centers (TRC)

They are accused of corruption and abuse of power.

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The U.S. DoD has awarded shipbuilding contracts worth a combined $76.6 billion for:

▪️ 5 additional Columbia-class SSBNs, bringing the total under contract to 7
▪️ 9 Virginia-class Block VI SSNs covering FY2025–29
▪️ Further investments in shipyard productivity

The 14 nuclear submarines will be built by General Dynamics Electric Boat and HII Newport News Shipbuilding.

The largest U.S. undersea shipbuilding commitment in decades.

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This scale of ordering is notable because the U.S. has not placed submarine and major combatant orders at this sustained volume since the height of the Cold War “600-ship Navy” buildup under the Reagan administration in the 1980s, and in some respects not since the World War II industrial surge when American yards were producing vessels at mass-production rates.

More recently, the closest modern parallel has been the Virginia-class “block buy” and multiyear procurement strategy (beginning in the late 2000s and continuing through successive blocks), where the Navy deliberately committed to multiple submarines at once to stabilize demand, reduce unit costs through learning-curve effects, and give shipbuilders confidence to invest in workforce and facilities.

This approach is also part of a broader shift across the wider U.S. military toward multiyear and block-buy procurement. For example, the Air Force has used multiyear contracts for platforms like the KC-46 tanker and F-35 support packages, while the Army has applied similar logic to munitions and air defense systems such as Patriot interceptors. In each case, the goal is the same: trade short-term budget flexibility for long-term industrial stability, lower per-unit costs, and more predictable delivery timelines.

Taken together, this signals a structural change in how the United States is approaching defense acquisition. Rather than treating procurement as a year-to-year budgeting exercise, the Pentagon is increasingly locking in long-term production pipelines to rebuild industrial capacity, reduce fragility in critical supply chains, and ensure sustained output in a more contested global security environment.

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Taiwan plans to acquire 178 domestically developed Cheetah 8×8 fire-support vehicles between 2027–33, with the fleet potentially expanding to 350.

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The first vehicles are expected to reinforce Kinmen, just of the coast of West Taiwan, replacing retired WW2 M41D light tanks.

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The 28-ton Cheetah carries a stabilized 105mm gun, frontal armour resistant against 30mm.

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Andy Burnham has “announced” £8.4bn for the next phase of Britain’s Dreadnought nuclear-submarine programme:

▪️ £5.9bn to BAE Systems
▪️ The remainder to Rolls-Royce and the wider supply chain
▪️ HMS Dreadnought prepared for service in the early 2030s

The government also advertises 22,000 apprenticeships by 2035, although that figure covers the wider nuclear programme not 22,000 newly created by today’s package. More importantly, both the submarines and this spending phase were already planned.

Britain’s newest defence capability is apparently re-announcing the same programmes every few months until Russia assumes the armed forces is three times larger than it really is.