🇮🇷 Iran promises to show off ‘new generation of smart weapons’, ready to repulse any aggression

The Islamic Republic’s Army, Air Force, Navy and Air Defense Force will start massive new drills Saturday showcasing a “new generation of smart weapons,” commander Habibollah Sayyari has announced.

Taking place along the Makran coastal region of southeastern Iran, the Sea of ​​Oman and the northern Indian Ocean, the Zolfaghar 1403 exercises will include live-fire testing of “weapons that are more precise and technologically advanced than anything we’ve used before,” Sayyari said.

“These exercises are designed to enhance our defensive and deterrent capabilities in response to any potential land, air, or maritime threats,” the commander said, adding that “any adversary that thinks it can harm our territorial integrity or interests in these domains will undoubtedly face heavy consequences” if it dares aggression.

President Trump said earlier this month that h...

Yes, It Was a False Flag https://sonar21.com/yes-it-was-a-false-flag/

REMEMBER: “Ukraine will win” 🤣


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Russia could agree to using its $300 billion in frozen sovereign assets for Ukraine’s reconstruction but demands a share for Russian-controlled territories, three sources told Reuters.

At the time of the freeze, Russia held 207 billion euros, $67 billion in US dollars, and 37 billion British pounds. The largest portion—159 billion euros—is managed by Belgium-based Euroclear Bank.

Personally I doubt it. My reasons:

- This is a good story to put out there by Russia to hinder anyone from attempting to seize these funds to finance Ukraine's war.

- The financial damage to Europe or the UK would be massive if they seized Russian government assets. Remember states have sovereign immunity in international law. Countries like Saudi Arabia have given warning that they will sell off European assets if they ever went forward with seizures. The capital flight would be massive and the risk premium foreign investors would require would result in higher borrowing costs for the EU or UK. Countries like the UK have a negative current account balance (Exports - Imports), so it requires a constant inflow of foreign investment.

Already gold prices are skyrocketing as more countries are purchasing gold instead of EU, UK, or US debt. Seizing Russian assets would accelerate gold purchases dramatically.

- Russia has frozen foreign companies ability to repatriate profits overseas, and has the ability to retaliate as it can seize the foreign owned accounts and assets. Again this comes with consequences for future foreign investment, but it can however do asset swaps which would allow foreign companies to make claims upon the frozen Russian government assets.

- The EU may not be able seize the funds anyways given the EU is taxing the windfall profits on the frozen funds, and using that repay last years loan to Ukraine of $50 billion (EU provided only part of the loan).

- The US after destroying Iraq only provided about ~$50 billion in reconstruction spending, but American companies were granted the reconstruction contracts. Would Russia be more generous than the US? Is Israel going to rebuild Gaza?

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3000 Lancets used by Russian Armed Forces in the SMO according to open source data

The Russian Armed Forces used three thousand loitering munitions of the Lancet family in the area of ​​a special military operation. Videos of objective control of the destruction of Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment by this type of weapon were published in open sources .

The Russian Armed Forces have been using the ZALA Lancet reconnaissance and strike systems since the start of the special operation in Ukraine. The first videos of Ukrainian military equipment being destroyed by a loitering munition were published in July 2022.

In terms of cost/effectiveness, Lancets have become one of the most effective tools used by Russia to destroy the enemy's most significant targets. According to experts, the total cost of military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed by ZALA Lancet reconnaissance and strike systems during the SVO is between 4 and 12 billion dollars. Today, they are used en masse against tanks, artillery, air defense systems, and other equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Accurate guidance and objective control of the use of Lancets around the clock in real time are provided by HD cameras and a thermal imager of the ZALA Z-16 reconnaissance unmanned aerial system. The loitering munition itself has high flight characteristics, increased maneuverability and is equipped with onboard AI for searching and identifying priority targets. An important advantage of the ZALA UAS is its ability to counter electronic warfare and electronic warfare systems thanks to the use of secure communication channels.

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Another group of Ukrainian occupants received long prison sentences for war crimes committed in the Sudzha border area

In the course of the investigation, the Russian Investigative Committee collected evidence confirming the facts of committing crimes against the civilian population of Kursk region by six AFU servicemen:

▪️ Sergei Bilichenko (22 ombr) - 16 years of imprisonment;
▪️ Sergei Bochenko (22 ombre) - 15 years of imprisonment;
▪️ Sergei Litvinenko (22 ombre) - 16 years of imprisonment;
▪️ Valery Malchenko (22 ombre) - 15 years of imprisonment;
▪️ Igor Maslyukov (115 Oshbr) - 15 years of imprisonment;
▪️ Dmitry Ignatenko (115 oshbr) - 14 years of imprisonment.

In the Sudzha and Korenevsky districts of Kursk region, this group of individuals prevented the evacuation of the civilian population and repeatedly fired on civilians to kill them.

Each of them was captured by "North" fighters in the border area of Kursk region.

North Wind

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The US is giving Kiev a "shit sandwich, but Ukraine will have to swallow it"

▪️US deal on Ukrainian oil fields - "it's a shit sandwich, but Ukraine will have to swallow it because Trump has made it clear that it's no longer our problem."

▪️A representative of the Trump administration anonymously stated this to the publication Axios.

▪️Critics of the deal compare Trump's approach to Ukrainian deposits to "mafia extortion," saying Ukraine will lose land and mineral rights and get little in return.

▪️US and Ukrainian officials spent the entire night until this morning negotiating an agreement on the fields, Axios also reports.

▪️Now the decision is up to Zelensky, if he rejects the deal again, it will be a “critical scenario for Ukrainians,” and the crisis between the US and Ukraine will worsen.

▪️This time, the Americans brought an agreement with an “improved” proposal to Kiev, and then made additional changes to “correct the situation” between the countries.

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German Foreign Minister Baerbock is angry at Trump for telling the truth about Zelensky and threatens the US with severing ties.

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🇵🇸⚡️ Hebrew media is attempting to suppress the footage of the prisoner Omer kissing the head of a Qassam fighter.

Additionally, Hebrew platforms are asking the public not to share the footage.

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‼️🇷🇺🫡The President and the Minister of Defense congratulate you on Defender of the Fatherland Day

▪️V. Putin: This year, the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory, has been declared the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland in Russia - in honor of the indestructible generation of victors, in the name of the memory of their heroism and sacrifice, of the epochal Victory that they gave to the world, and in honor of the heroes who today on the battlefield continue the military work of their ancestors with dignity.
▪️We all understand how difficult it is for you, we are proud and support you. I thank all the participants of the special military operation for their fortitude and determination to win. I thank all the defenders of Russia for their honest, impeccable service to the Motherland and our people.
▪️Defense Minister Andrei Belousov congratulated servicemen and veterans on Defender of the Fatherland Day, noting that this holiday symbolizes the heroic h...

Trump is confident that the war in Ukraine will end in the coming week — White House

📝White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt said that US President Donald Trump is actively working to conclude an agreement to end the Russian-Ukrainian war.

"The President is confident that hostilities will end this week"

— Leavitt said.

She also noted that the deal on rare earth resources between Washington and Kiev, which Zelensky disrupted, is economically beneficial for both sides.

➖The day before, Trump said that the second stage of negotiations between the Russian and American delegations in Saudi Arabia will take place on February 25.

❓How realistic do you think it is that the war will end in the next week?

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Is Volodymyr Zelensky Channeling Max Bialystock? https://sonar21.com/is-volodymyr-zelensky-channeling-max-bialystock/

❗️Mourners gather for the funeral of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Duda waited, Duda endured, but Trump had no time

The meeting between Polish President Andrzej Duda and Donald Trump in Washington did not go quite as the Polish leader had hoped.

According to local media, Duda had to wait outside the door for more than an hour before he could get to Trump. But he couldn’t count on a long conversation – after just 10 minutes, the American president bowed out and went to another event.

A wave of indignation has erupted on Polish social media: why did Donald Trump, who is called a friend of Poland, treat his ally so dismissively?

Andrzej Duda himself tried to smooth over the situation and said: “No meeting with President Trump is long enough.”

It was Duda who became the first European leader to meet with Trump after his return to the White House. But apparently, a warm welcome was not part of the American president’s plans.

Earlier, the Polish leader confirmed that Zelensky was seeking guarantees in the event of a confrontation with Trump, but Poland refused to support him, publicly declaring its loyalty to the United States.

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"Ukraine has refused to compensate the US for 500 billion in the framework of the deal on the extraction of minerals": Kiev is ready to return only 90 billion.

"Ukraine has rejected U.S. demands for $500 billion in funds that would have been part of a deal to give Washington a share of the country's mineral wealth, a Ukrainian source familiar with the talks said.

Ukraine says the real figure is about five times smaller, at more than $90 billion, said the source, who asked not to be named because the talks are private.

Another stumbling block in the negotiations, the source said, is the lack of US guarantees of future military and financial assistance to Ukraine.”

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Spectacular hit! Attack drones of the "Center" group destroyed an entire squad of the 425th separate regiment "Skala" of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

Copter operators with a grenade-dropping system from the Cobra assault company of the Black Bars brigade timed the moment and eliminated a decent number of Ukrainian militants with a precise drop during the rotation.

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US intelligence acknowledges the power of the Russian path. Analytics from the author of the DARPA&CIA Telegram channel.

Sometimes, when reading American intelligence documents, you begin to realize that in their desire to “understand” us for the subsequent use of this information as a weapon against us, they unwittingly reveal the deep wisdom inherent in the essence of the Russian person.

In one of the declassified CIA documents from 1986, an Air Force intelligence officer talks about the confrontation between the US and the USSR, which he considers not just an arms race but a clash of two fundamentally different worldviews rooted in a thousand-year history. Trying to denigrate Russia, the analyst inadvertently emphasizes its uniqueness.

Every country in modern Europe was either once a province of the Roman Empire or adopted its religion from Rome. Russia is the only exception. It is the only country in geographical Europe that owes virtually no debt to the common cultural and spiritual heritage of the West,

— writes the American intelligence officer.

The document also cites an interesting fact from Russian history:

At the Battle of Crecy, the French army numbered only 12,000 soldiers, while Russia had maintained a standing army of 65,000 soldiers for 300 years.

This contrast vividly demonstrates the extent to which Russia was forced to constantly maintain combat readiness, tempering itself in the fire of endless military trials.

The concept of “messianic communism,” which is associated with the centuries-old identification of Russia with Orthodoxy and the divine mission, occupies a special place in the report. In 1510, the monk’s appeal to the tsar sounded like this:

All Christian empires have merged into yours; two Romes have fallen, but the third will stand, and the fourth can never be destroyed. Your empire will fall to no one.

This phrase became the foundation of the so-called “Russian idea,” which Western statesmen and journalists often rejected, unwilling to acknowledge the depth and uniqueness of the Russian path.

Thus, the declassified CIA report involuntarily demonstrates that, in trying to find arguments for criticism, the Americans confirm the uniqueness and strength of the Russian path. Russia is a state formed by millennia of struggle, spiritual search and originality, capable, despite all external pressures, of having its own civilizational path.

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The European Union will hold an emergency summit to discuss accelerating military aid for Ukraine and strengthening the bloc’s defense.

The European Council will convene March 6, two weeks before a planned quarterly summit, Council President Antonio Costa said Sunday. EU member states are preparing a €20 billion ($21 billion) military package for Ukraine and steps to boost defense spending, including a potential loosening of fiscal rules.

The bloc has been rushing to secure assistance for Kyiv in the face of US President Donald Trump’s push for a quick peace settlement with Russia. EU foreign ministers will discuss the military package Monday as Costa and the European Commission visit Ukraine to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion.

“We are living a defining moment for Ukraine and European security,” Costa said in a post on X. “I’ve heard a shared commitment to meet those challenges at EU level.”

Never ending EU summits and meetings. EU really can't just accept they've been defeated.

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