Targeting a joint American-Bahraini base in the Al-Sakhir region with an Iranian drone.

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"We'll see it all at gas stations". Europe will very soon feel the war in Iran

Europe will soon start suffering from the consequences of the US and Israel's attack on Iran, cites Polsat TV diplomat Robert Pszczel. If the situation does not change, it will hit Europeans with a surge in gas prices. At the same time, the crisis will be more fatal and long-term if chaos begins in Iran. However, it's too early to talk about this now.

"The regime is already a very large group of people, and in fact, the current agenda includes issues concerning, for example, the role that Iranian state structures, the Ministry of Defense, the headquarters, and so on will play. There is a guard, which is actually the pillar of this regime. It is still operating," noted Pszczel.

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Trumpism • Air Defense Bluff

Donald Trump: The US has an unlimited supply of medium and high-level interceptor missiles.

Media:
- Lockheed Martin proudly reported that it has increased the production of Patriot air defense missiles to 620 (six hundred and twenty) units per year. Over the next three years, it is expected to increase production to 1,970 units per year. Ukraine needs that much in a week.

- Lockheed Martin proudly reported that it has produced 96 (ninety-six) THAAD air defense missiles per year. The plan is to increase production to 400 missiles per year in seven years.

There is no publicly available information on Iran, but the fact that the US is having trouble with missile production is a reality. Otherwise, they wouldn't be hiding in underground parking lots in Dubai and withdrawing troops. And the aircraft carrier Lincoln was stationed in the middle of the Strait of Hormuz.

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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iranian drones have launched new strikes on a US base in Bahrain

- A major fire is raging at the facility.

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President Emmanuel Macron of France has persistently called for Europe to act decisively to defend itself and its own interests in a world where Russia is on the march, China is economically aggressive and the United States is turning away.

Mr. Macron first talked of the need for European strategic “autonomy” in 2017. In the last year, with trans-Atlantic relations spinning downward, Europeans seem to have heard the message: They need to do more and spend more in their own defense.

But there is a built-in political problem. Germany is already spending much more money than its European partners, according to military spending trackers, like that of the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based research organization. After years of aversion to war because of its history and a hope that the collapse of the Soviet Union would bring about a more peaceful world, the German military had shrunk badly.

Now, it is trying to catch up. And because Berlin has committed to putting more money into the military in the next few years, it will probably end up spending more than France and Britain, both nuclear powers, combined — and all of it on conventional warfare, not on an expensive nuclear deterrent.

Inevitably, much of Berlin’s spending will be on German companies, like Rheinmetall, which are growing quickly in response to lavish new funding.

Strategic autonomy, senior French, Italian and Polish officials fear, will increasingly have a German accent.

Mark Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, an international think tank, said he was surprised by how many top officials in Paris “talked spontaneously about how worried they are about sustained German defense spending.”

“Take out the nuclear, just compare conventional spending, and the balances are even worse,” said Jacob Funk Kirkegaard of Bruegel, a Brussels-based economic think tank. “I’m not sure that the true implications have really dawned on the rest of Europe.”

Experts say those implications are broad.

Even if the money is spent badly or inefficiently, it will have a big impact on the military marketplace, experts added.

In France, Mr. Mölling said, the huge increase in German military spending was seen as “unbalancing the old relationship we have over the defense-industrial base in Europe.”

Poles work on your German

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🇷🇺 Russian gas tanker attacked in the Mediterranean Sea, - Russian Transport Ministry

- A shot of the Arctic Metagaz LNG tanker that burned after the attack was taken by a Turkish patrol plane.

- The Transport Ministry called the attack on the Russian gas tanker an act of international terrorism and maritime piracy.

- The attack was carried out from the coast of Libya by unmanned Ukrainian boats.

- All 30 crew members of the gas tanker (Russian citizens), attacked in the Mediterranean Sea, were rescued.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russian army is intensifying its strike on the enemy's logistics: The railway infrastructure is under attack

- "Ukrzaliznytsia" stated that since the beginning of spring, there has been a sharp increase in drone attacks on railway facilities.

- On average, it is claimed, there are about six attacks per day on the logistics infrastructure.

- Since the beginning of March, 41 facilities have been damaged, including 17 units of rolling stock.

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🇹🇷🇮🇷An Iranian missile was shot down in Turkey: Ankara reserves the right to respond - Defense Ministry

- The Turkish Foreign Ministry stated that a ballistic missile launched from Iran and flying through Iraq and Syria was intercepted by a NATO air defense system in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

- According to Ankara, the debris fell in the Dörtyol area (Hatay province). There were no casualties.

- The Turkish side stressed that it would take decisive measures to protect its territory and reserves the right to respond in the event of hostile actions.

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Despite the hunt for launch pads, the number of Iranian "Shahid" drones is increasing. For now, Iran is focused on hitting targets in Bahrain and the UAE. Both of Iran's opponents report that everything is being shot down, but as it turns out, this is far from the case.

The Iranians are currently attacking Bahrain particularly fiercely, but the greatest effectiveness in terms of military targets has been achieved in the UAE.

In the video - the destruction of a "Shahid-136" drone targeting a US Fifth Fleet facility in Bahrain.

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Satellite images show the extent of the damage caused by Iranian strikes on American military facilities in the Middle East.

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Democratic Senator Chris Murphy after a closed-door briefing in Congress on Iran:

Everything is heading towards Trump being pressured and hindered from going to war. Whether this is good or not - time will tell.

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USA from Massachusetts, Ed Markey, after a closed briefing in Congress on Iran.

Once again, we repeat that Democrats will now use the situation around Iran to their maximum advantage and they cannot be trusted, but it cannot be denied that something is going completely wrong as Washington originally planned.

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American Dem Senator Sanders writes on X.

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