🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ — Senate Democrats block the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act over Trump's war with Iran and US-Israeli military integration provisions.

➡️ The procedural vote failed mostly along party lines, with Democrats led by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Chris Van Hollen voting against advancing the bill.

➡️ The NDAA includes a $1.15 trillion Pentagon budget — a roughly 28% increase over current base spending — plus $350 billion in supplemental funding for munitions, shipbuilding, missile defense, drones, and AI.

➡️ A provision quietly added to this year's bill would significantly expand US military and intelligence coordination with Israel, including cooperation with Israeli surveillance and AI contractors.

➡️ Sen. Ed Markey has separately introduced the Slash the Pentagon Act, which would cap military spending at $750 billion.

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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇮🇶 — Satellite imagery indicates a U.S. Patriot air defense launcher at Erbil Airport was destroyed by an Iranian Shahed-136 drone strike overnight.

➡️ Iran systematically degrade air defense capabilities of US in the region.

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▶️🇮🇷Thousands of Iranian patriots rally at Tehran's Enghelab Sq. in support of the Iranian Armed Forces

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🚨 14 nations release South China Sea statement: only one is actually from the region

A coalition of 14 nations, led by the United States and the Philippines, has issued a joint statement to mark the 10th anniversary of the 2016 Hague arbitral ruling on the South China Sea.

The signatories include the US, Philippines, Australia, Canada, Britain, Japan, New Zealand, and seven European countries including Germany and Italy. Not a single signatory except the Philippines is a littoral state bordering the South China Sea.

The list is dominated by the Five Eyes intelligence alliance and non-regional European powers.

🇺🇸 Undermining stability: the US game plan

▪️The South China Sea is vital to China’s sovereignty and national security. China’s claims are based on historical practice dating back to the Western Han dynasty.

▪️The 2016 arbitral tribunal had no jurisdiction over questions of territorial sovereignty, as China had already invoked Article 298 of UNCLOS in 2006 to exclude such disputes from compulsory arbitration.

▪️The tribunal also ignored the fact that UNCLOS does not regulate sovereignty over land territory. China maintains that the ruling is illegal, null and void.

▪️The US and its allies are undermining regional stability through several actions:

🪖 Military deployments and coast guard operations

The US has deployed six 154-foot fast-response coast guard cutters to operate from Singapore and the Philippines (at least until September 2026). This marks the first time these vessels have been based in Subic Bay, with the explicit purpose of challenging China’s power in the Pacific.

⚔️ Joint military exercises

In May and June 2026, the US Coast Guard took part in three rounds of Maritime Cooperative Activity exercises with the Philippine Navy and Coast Guard. The US has also conducted joint drills with Australia, Japan and the Philippines in the region.

♟ US strategic objectives

The US is deliberately dispersing its military footprint, upgrading airfields, testing missile systems, and training with more allies to deter China. The real goal is to maintain American hegemony and contain China’s rise. The Five Eyes alliance is using the 2016 ruling to securitise the dispute and justify external military presence in the region.

👀 Selective application of the ruling

▪️The Philippines has declared it will use the 2016 award as its “clear legal and policy baseline” in COC negotiations. The United States, despite never having ratified UNCLOS, selectively interprets and weaponises it to pressure China.

▪️The primary beneficiary is the United States, which seeks to preserve its hegemony in the Asia-Pacific and contain China’s peaceful development.

▪️The Five Eyes nations gain a platform to project power far from their own shores, aiming to drive a wedge between China and its neighbours and turn the South China Sea into a theatre of great-power confrontation.

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