🇷🇺🇰🇵 As part of his visit to Russia, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

He visited the aircraft plant. Yu. Gagarin, producing military and civilian equipment.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In the Kherson direction, a high-precision weapon strike destroyed a temporary deployment point of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with personnel.

🇷🇺 Today, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited AAK Progress , where he looked at the production of new Ka-52M attack helicopters for the Russian Armed Forces, and also looked at the helicopter’s training complex.

During a working meeting with the plant’s management, the minister focused the attention of the plant’s management on continuing work to improve the combat capabilities of the helicopter and increase the security of pilots.

— 🇮🇷/🇷🇺 BREAKING: The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation will build a 'research spacecraft' together

The joint comission has already been formed, and the University of Tehran & the University of Moscow will collaborate on the project.

Iranian-Russian collaboration in the field of space exploration is contantly evolving and reaching new heights. In August 2022, Iran sent its homegrown satellite 'Khayyam' into orbit on board of a Russian Soyuz rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇺🇲🇺🇦⚡️US authorities are studying the possibility of transferring ATACMS long-range missiles to Kiev this fall, writes WSJ, citing sources in the White House.

🇧🇾🇷🇺 Lukashenko flew to Russia for negotiations with Putin. Based on Putin’s meeting with Kim Jong-un, he proposed to “think for three” and develop cooperation between three – Russia, Belarus, and the DPRK.

🇬🇧🇷🇺 The UK Home Office has added Wagner PMC to its list of terrorist organizations, Reuters reports.

Thus, assistance to PMCs and approval of their activities will be subject to criminal prosecution in the kingdom - up to and including imprisonment.

And assets associated with Wagner found in Britain will be subject to confiscation.

🇮🇷 Iran reported that it detained two tankers in the Persian Gulf - one under the flag of Tanzania, the other under the flag of Panama. 1.5 million liters of fuel were found on them. 37 crew members were also detained. Obviously a response to the US seizure of an Iranian tanker and the theft of Iranian oil.

🪖🇱🇻 Latvia has begun to organize it's military equipment around Riga, possibly as part of Namejs 2023. Given the scale of this exercise, we're likely to see many videos just like this.

Opportunities such as this give us a good idea as to the equipment in use by the Latvian military, the numbers they can field, the speed, and methods used to do so. Opportunities like this also give us the chance to post an article written earlier to give some insight into the Latvian military, their mentalities, and what exercises like this mean for the minority populations in the country.

It can be read here:
https://telegra.ph/Namejs-2023-and-the-Ticking-Clock-on-Russians-in-Latvia-09-15

🇺🇸🇲🇽🪖 Americans broadly support military strikes in Mexico, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

About half of Americans support sending U.S. military personnel into Mexico to fight drug cartels, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll, though there is less backing for sending troops without Mexico's approval.

The findings show broad public support for calls by most major candidates in the 2024 Republican presidential nomination contest to send special forces into Mexico, the U.S.'s biggest trading partner, or conducting missile or drone strikes there. Some of the candidates have said they would be prepared to send military forces without first receiving permission from the Mexican government.

- Reuters

🇺🇸🇲🇽🪖 Crenshaw says using U.S. military force in Mexico isn’t as extreme as it sounds

One of Congress’ leading proponents for using military force against Mexican drug cartels said he’d consider restricting armed action until Mexico approves of it — all to get Democrats more comfortable with the aggressive messaging.

In January, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), chair of the Republican-led Task Force to Combat Mexican Drug Cartels, alongside Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) introduced a bill seeking authorization for the use of military force to “put us at war with the cartels.”

- Politico

⚡️🇺🇸🇲🇽 “Mexico is the only country we need, from an economic point of view. It’s the only one we can’t turn our backs on.” - Peter Zeihan

“Mexico is our most important ally.” - Dan Crenshaw

🇺🇸🇲🇽 A War in Mexico would mean War in America

The Global Drug Trade is valued 200-300 billion per year the vast majority of which passes through the Central American Cartels… If they capture merely 1/3-1/2 of that that’s more than the value of all foreign Aid to Ukraine since the start of the war… And they do that every year.

This is in addition to all the money the Cartels receive from protection rackets they run, the cartelization of other industries they’ve affected (every avocado you buy is significantly overpriced thanks to their schemes), and the massive amount of money they and their associates bring in by effectively taking over and governing large swathes of Mexico, mostly under a Mexican Government coat of paint. US Northern Command estimates 30-35% of Mexico is effectively ungoverned, ie. Cartel Governed… that’s an area the size of Texas and a population comparable to Iraq.

A US intervention against the Mexican Cartels would be taking on organized forces that have been under arms longer than the Taliban, are better funded than Ukraine, Have a population and territory bigger than Saddam had in Iraq, and some of whom, as in the case of the Los Zetas Cartel, are themselves former Special Forces trained by American Green Berets.

- Anarchonomicon

🇷🇺🇺🇦 First-person view of the TOS-1A "Solntsepek" arriving at Ukrainian positions in the Rabotino area.

🇺🇸 Union of Auto Workers (UAW) officially begins strike with 12,700 workers at three plants.

This includes workers at Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis.

The strike could impact as many as 146,000 workers by next week.

What does this mean?

46% of US auto production is set to go offline as a result of the UAW strike.

We have $90+ oil prices and a potential large jump in car prices.

Another curveball for the Fed.

According to Bloomberg, a 10-day UAW strike would reduce US GDP by $5.6 billion.

The auto industry accounts for 3% of US GDP.

A strike longer than a few days would send many midwest states into a recession.

📎 Kobeissi Letter

🇪🇺🇺🇦 There it is:

— The European Commission has decided not to extend the embargo on grain supplies from Ukraine, which expires on September 15 at midnight;

— Poland, Hungary and Slovakia will unilaterally extend the ban on the import of grain and other agricultural products from Ukraine;

— Zelensky promised to respond to “neighbors who violate EU rules.”

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Operators of FPV drones of the BOBR detachment destroyed vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

🇷🇺🇰🇵 UAC publishes video footage of Kim Jong-un 's visit to the KnAAZ aircraft plant named after. Yu.A. Gagarin."