🇷🇺🤝🇨🇳 Russia and China jointly search for a solution on how to kill Elon Musk's Starlink

Secret documents from a series of clandestine Russian-Chinese military forums reveal a joint plan to defeat Elon Musk’s Starlink and a weapons development partnership far deeper than either country will admit. From air- and missile-defense systems to AI-enhanced drone capabilities, cooperation between Moscow and Beijing is allowing Russian forces to keep pace with Ukrainian innovations while China gains the opportunity to test its wares under combat conditions. Although the threat of increased Western sanctions continues to place constraints on their “no limits” partnership, Russia and China are moving forward with several joint projects — and former U.S. military officers are concerned about Washington’s will to stop them.

By the fall of 2023, Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite internet network, had become a primary means of communication on the Ukrainian battlefield. Medics used its terminals to coordinate evacuations, artillery crews to correct their fire, and drone operators to fly in real time. “Starlink is now actually the blood of our entire communications infrastructure,” Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s then-minister of digital transformation and now its defense minister, said that September. As of November, SpaceX had delivered more than 40,000 terminals to Ukraine, and the system had grown so central to the country’s war effort that U.S. officials described it as irreplaceable.

That same month, in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, engineers from China’s most important space and defense institutions gathered for a secret meeting. One of the items on their agenda was how to destroy Starlink, a prized possession in Elon Musk’s expansive business empire, which awkwardly straddles a geopolitical divide. SpaceX is the Pentagon’s most important space contractor, responsible for building and carrying U.S. spy satellites into orbit, while the U.S. government-run Starshield, the hard variant of Starlink, ensures resilient military connectivity. Meanwhile, Tesla, Musk’s electric car company, whose largest factory is in Shanghai, is heavily reliant on Chinese state loans and the indulgence of the Chinese Communist Party.

📝Anon: Biden and Trump's aggressive anti-China policies pushed Moscow and Beijing closer rather than dividing them, making them cooperate in fields both were previously reluctant to such as missile defense and anti-satellite weaponry. Colossal failure of U.S. foreign policy.

🔗 https://theins.press/en/inv/294635

🇪🇬⚡️ — Egypt has officially inaugurated The Octagon, its new State Strategic Command Headquarters in the New Administrative Capital, a military command complex designed to strengthen national security, crisis management, and military coordination.

Opened by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the 22,000-acre facility is the largest military command center in the world. Its name comes from its eight-sided architectural design, inspired by ancient Egyptian and Islamic architecture, drawing comparisons to the U.S. Pentagon.

The Octagon integrates military operations, strategic planning, sovereign institutions, and national emergency management into a single command center.

Spanning 13 strategic and logistical zones, it features advanced digital infrastructure, including artificial intelligence systems that analyze real-time data to support decision-making and improve responses to cyber threats, security challenges, and national emergencies.

The complex was designed and built entirely by Egyptian companies and experts.