[AnNahar] Israel said it killed Tuesday in south Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... the head of a money exchange firm that was allegedly transferring money from Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... to Hezbollah for military purposes.
"Haytham Abdullah Bakri, the head of the ’Al-Sadiq’ Currency Exchange who operated with Hezbollah to transfer funds for Hezbollah terrorist activities, was eliminated by the IDF (Israeli army) in southern Lebanon," the Israeli army said.
"The ’Al-Sadiq’ Currency Exchange serves as a funds storage and transfer mechanism for Hezbollah, for funds originating from the Iranian Quds Force," it added.
"These funds are used by Hezbollah for military purposes including purchasing weapons, manufacturing means, and providing salaries to operatives, and are diverted for terrorist purposes and to finance the continuation of Hezbollah's terrorist activities," the Israeli army claimed.
[AnNahar] U.S. President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... said on Wednesday that the ceasefire that ended 12 days of war between ally Israel and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... was going "very well", while leaked U.S. intelligence cast doubt on the damage caused by U.S. strikes to Tehran's nuclear program.
Here are the latest developments on the the second day of the ceasefire:
- 'DECADES' OF DAMAGE -
Trump insisted on Wednesday that U.S. strikes resulted in the "total obliteration" of Iran's nuclear capabilities, setting the country's atomic program back by "decades".
"They're not going to be building bombs for a long time," said Trump, who added that the ceasefire since Tuesday was going "very well".
U.S. media earlier cited people familiar with a preliminary U.S. intelligence report as saying that weekend strikes did not fully eliminate Iran's centrifuges or stockpile of enriched uranium.
The U.S. bombardments sealed off entrances to some facilities without destroying underground buildings, setting Iran's nuclear program back by several months, according to the Defense Intelligence Agency report.
- 'SIGNIFICANT HIT' -
The Israeli military said it had delivered a "significant hit" to Iran's nuclear program, but added that it was "still early to assess the results of the operation".
"I believe we have delivered a significant hit to the nuclear program, and I can also say that we have delayed it by several years," military front man Brigadier General Effie Defrin said in a televised presser.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday hailed a "historic victory" in the 12-day conflict and vowed to thwart "any attempt" by Iran to rebuild its nuclear program.
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Tuesday the Islamic republic will continue to "assert its legitimate rights" to the peaceful use of atomic power.
- STATE FUNERALS -
Iran will hold state funerals on Saturday for senior military commanders and top scientists killed during the war.
Hossein Salami, the Revolutionary Guards chief killed by Israel on the war's first day on June 13, will be laid to rest in central Iran on Thursday.
According to the Iranian health ministry, Israeli strikes during the war killed at least 610 civilians.
Iran's attacks on Israel killed 28 people, according to official Israeli figures.
- 'TERROR' DESIGNATION -
Israel's defense minister on Wednesday designated Iran's central bank a "terror organization."
"Part of Israel's broader campaign against Iran", the move aims "to target the heart of the Iranian regime's terror financing system, which funds, arms and directs terror throughout the Middle East", said a statement from Minister Israel Katz's office.
- IRAN MPS ON IAEA -
Iranian politicians voted Wednesday in favor of suspending cooperation with the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... ' nuclear watchdog.
"The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency, which refused to even marginally condemn the attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, put its international credibility up for auction," Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said, according to state TV.
The decision still requires the approval of the Guardian Council, a body empowered to vet legislation.
[AnNahar] The World Bank announced on Wednesday it had approved a $250 million project to support Leb ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... 's reconstruction and recovery following last year's devastating war between Israel and Hezbollah.
The bank had previously estimated reconstruction and recovery to cost around $11 billion.
"The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved yesterday a US$250 million financing to Lebanon to support the most urgent repair and reconstruction of damaged critical public infrastructure and lifeline services, and the sustainable management of rubble in conflict-affected areas," it said in a statement.
Jean-Christophe Carret, the World Bank Middle East Department's division director, said that "given Lebanon's large reconstruction needs, the (project) is structured as a $1 billion scalable framework with an initial $250 million contribution from the World Bank."
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam welcomed the decision, calling the project "a key step in reconstruction by responding to damage to critical infrastructure and essential services in war-affected areas."
"This support strengthens recovery efforts within the state-led implementation framework and leverages much-needed additional financing," he said.
More than a year of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, including a full-blown war that began in September, ended with a ceasefire agreement in late November.
The conflict caused massive destruction across Lebanon, particularly in Hezbollah strongholds in the country's south and east and in Beirut's southern suburbs, and further exacerbated economic woes caused by an economic crisis that started in 2019.
Reconstruction remains one of the greatest challenges facing Lebanon's government, with Beirut seeking foreign aid to finance the post-war recovery.
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Reconstruction remains one of the greatest challenges facing Lebanon's government, with Beirut seeking foreign aid to finance the post-war recovery.
No, that really isn't one of their "greatest challenges."
[AnNahar] The Lebanese Army said it has arrested the suspected leader of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... after implicating him in planning several operations.
"Following a series of security, surveillance and monitoring operations, the Intelligence Directorate arrested citizen R.F., nicknamed "Qasoura", a prominent leader of the terrorist organization ISIS," the army said, using the Arabic acronym for IS.
Weapons and ammunitions were also seized.
According to the army, Qasoura took over the group's Lebanon branch after the arrest of several prominent figures in December.
The announcement comes days after a jacket wallah killed at least 25 people in a church in neighboring Syria, with authorities there blaming IS.
IS and other Sunni bad boy groups fought several battles with the Lebanese Army in the 2010s and carried out a series of deadly bombings targeting Shiite Death Eater group Hezbollah and its supporters.
He was described as ISIS’s top leader in Lebanon and “one of the most prominent leaders of the terrorist organization ISIS.”
Qaswara is accused of “participating in the planning of various destabilizing security operations,” the statement noted, adding that the arrest followed “extensive surveillance and intelligence efforts” by the Lebanese Army’s Intelligence Directorate.
According to the army, Qaswara assumed leadership of ISIS operations in Lebanon following the arrest of his predecessor - another Lebanese citizen identified by the initials “M.K.” and known as “Abu Said al-Shami” - who, along with several other ISIS commanders, was detained in December.
During Qaswara’s apprehension, authorities “seized a significant cache of weapons, ammunition, electronic devices, and equipment used for manufacturing drones.”
ISIS’s presence in Lebanon stems largely from the spillover of the Syrian Civil War, which began in 2011. The group exploited the porous 375-kilometer border between the two countries. While ISIS never controlled substantial territory inside Lebanon, it sought to destabilize the country through attacks and recruitment.
Its early operations in 2013–2014 included targeting Hezbollah and predominantly Shiite areas with bombings. ISIS also collaborated with the al-Nusra Front in clashes against the Lebanese Army and Hezbollah near the Syrian border, particularly in the Sunni-majority town of Arsal in August 2014 and July 2017.
The group was also responsible for a number of high-profile attacks, including the November 2015 twin suicide bombings in Beirut’s southern suburb, a Hezbollah powerbase.
[AnNahar] Iran said Tuesday it had begun efforts to rebuild residential areas and public infrastructure damaged in Israeli strikes over 12 days.
"We witnessed attacks on residential areas, as well as on scientific centres, research institutes, healthcare facilities and civilians... therefore we are facing a major task ahead in terms of reconstruction," government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani told state TV, adding that the authorities have begun to assess the extent of the damage.
The real Khamenei or the Disney Animatronic version? If any of his underlings were feeling lean and hungry, this would be a great time to nudge him aside. For the People! *snort*
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The Supreme Leader has no idea about the conditions — he’s been hiding incommunicado for the past week or so. And I suspect that inspecting the premises in question is not only ill advised but impossible.
[IsraelTimes] ‘We may sign an agreement, I don’t know,’ Trump tells NATO conference, claiming US and Israel destroyed Iran’s nuclear program and ‘I don’t care if I have an agreement or not’
Yes, but five-plus years is much better than two weeks, NN2N1. Given how much mischief Mossad got up to with Hezbollah and Iran heading into this war, I can’t even think how imaginative their readdressal would be.
[IsraelTimes] Activists say the now-weakened regime in Tehran has put paramilitary police on guard for internal unrest; ‘We are being extremely cautious right now’
Iranian authorities are pivoting from a ceasefire with Israel to intensifying an internal security crackdown across the country with mass arrests, executions and military deployments, particularly in the restive Kurdish region, officials and activists said.
Within days of Israel’s Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s beginning on June 13, Iranian security forces started a campaign of widespread arrests accompanied by an intensified street presence based around checkpoints, the officials and activists said.
Some in Israel and exiled opposition groups had hoped the military campaign, which targeted Revolutionary Guards and internal security forces as well as nuclear sites, would spark a mass uprising and the overthrow of the Islamic Theocratic RepublicWhile Rooters has spoken to numerous Iranians angry at the government for policies they believed had led to the Israeli attack, there has been no sign yet of any significant protests against the authorities.
However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... one senior Iranian security official and two other bigwigs briefed on internal security issues said the authorities were focused on the threat of possible internal unrest, particularly in Kurdish areas.
Revolutionary Guard and Basij paramilitary units were put on alert and internal security was now the primary focus, said the security bigshot.
The official said authorities were worried about Israeli agents, ethnic separatists, and the People’s Mujahideen Organization, an exiled opposition group that has previously staged attacks inside Iran.
Activists within the country are lying low.
"We are being extremely cautious right now because there’s a real concern the regime might use this situation as a pretext," said a rights activist in Tehran who was incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! during mass protests in 2022.
Iranian rights group HRNA said on Monday it had recorded arrests of 705 people on political or security charges since the start of the war.
Many of those arrested have been accused of spying for Israel, HRNA said. Iranian state media reported three were executed on Tuesday in Urmia, near the Ottoman Turkish border, and the Iranian-Kurdish rights group Hengaw said they were all Kurdish.
Iran’s Foreign and Interior Ministries did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
CHECKPOINTS AND SEARCHES
One of the officials briefed on security said troops had been deployed to the borders of Pakistain, Iraq and Azerbaijan to stop infiltration by what the official called terrorists. The other official briefed on security acknowledged that hundreds had been arrested.
Iran’s mostly Sunni Moslem Kurdish and Baluch minorities have long been a source of opposition to the Islamic Theocratic Republic, chafing against rule from the Persian-speaking, Shi’ite government in Tehran.
The three main Iranian Kurdish separatist factions based in Iraqi Kurdistan said some of their activists and fighters had been arrested and described widespread military and security movements by Iranian authorities.
Ribaz Khalili from the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI) said Revolutionary Guards units had deployed in schools in Iran’s Kurdish provinces within three days of Israel’s strikes beginning and gone house-to-house for suspects and arms.
The Guards had taken protective measures too, evacuating an industrial zone near their barracks and closing major roads for their own use in bringing reinforcements to Kermanshah and Sanandaj, two major cities in the Kurdish region.
A cadre from the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK), who gave her nom de guerre of Fatma Ahmed, said the party had counted more than 500 opposition members being detained in Kurdish provinces since the airstrikes began.
Ahmed and an official from the Kurdish Komala party, who spoke on condition of anonymity, both described checkpoints being set up across Kurdish areas with physical searches of people as well as checks of their phones and documents.
[IsraelTimes] Mahmoud M., 35, was allegedly a Raqqa-area operative for the terror group until 2016; authorities say he stabbed four people outside Bar in Bielefeld in May as part of ‘holy war’
A Syrian migrant accused of stabbing four people outside a bar in the German city of Bielefeld was a member of the Islamic State group, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The suspect, identified as Mahmoud M.,
… more fully Mahmoud Mhemed, he attacked with a bunch of knives, a homemade spear, and gasoline, which suggest nefarious intent…
35, is accused of randomly attacking customers with knives at the bar in Bielefeld in the early hours of May 18, leaving four people seriously injured.
He then allegedly fled the scene but was arrested and detained the next day, around 170 kilometers (105 miles) away, on suspicion of attempted murder and grievous bodily harm.
The case was then handed over to federal prosecutors after evidence suggested the attack might have been motivated by Islamist beliefs.
On Wednesday, prosecutors issued a new arrest warrant for Mahmoud M. that also accused him of membership in a terrorist organization.
“Mahmoud M. follows an Islamist-jihadist ideology,” the federal prosecutors said.
He allegedly joined the Islamic State group in Syria before December 2014, working as a watchman and border guard in the Raqqa area until early 2016.
Mahmoud M. wanted to “kill as many randomly selected people in Germany as possible in the name of a global ‘holy war,'” the prosecutors said.
Islamist extremists have committed several attacks in Germany in recent years, the deadliest being a truck rampage at a Berlin Christmas market in December 2016 that killed 12 people.
More recently, Islamist motives are suspected in several of a string of deadly attacks blamed on migrants ahead of Germany’s elections in February.
Last month, a Syrian man suspected of belonging to IS went on trial over the murder of three people in a stabbing spree at a street festival in the western city of Solingen.
An alleged IS sympathizer from Afghanistan is also on trial on charges of killing a policeman and wounding five others in a knife attack at an anti-Islam rally in Mannheim last year.
[IsraelTimes] Beating Cuomo in Democratic mayoral primary, ‘globalize the intifada’ advocate who’d arrest Netanyahu says he’ll work to ‘understand the perspectives’ of those he disagrees with
New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani,
…the red diaper baby of ethnic Indian immigrant academics (Columbia U, natch) parrots all the usual anti-Jew/Israel shibboleths — BDS, Israel in Gaza = genocide — while insisting he is also a Shiite Moslem, suggesting an important Iran connection…
after winning a stunning upset in the city’s Democratic party mayoral primary on Tuesday night, vowed to adhere to his views on foreign affairs, while grappling with other perspectives.
Mamdani is a longtime anti-Israel activist who alarmed many Jewish New Yorkers with his rhetoric and policy promises during the caustic campaign for the mayoral primary. His leading opponent, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, had leaned into the Jewish vote and his pro-Israel bona fides throughout the campaign. The winner of the Democratic party primary typically wins the general election for mayor.
“There are millions of New Yorkers who have strong feelings about what happens overseas. I am one of them, and I will not abandon my beliefs or my commitments grounded in a demand for equality,” Mamdani said at a raucous victory party in the Queens neighborhood of Long Island City after Cuomo conceded.
“You have my word to reach further to understand the perspectives of those with whom I disagree and to wrestle with those disagreements,” he said.
Mamdani did not explicitly mention the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but has said that the plight of the Palestinians is central to his identity and the reason he got into politics. He is a longtime anti-Israel activist who set up his campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine at Bowdoin College in the 2010s and, as a state assemblyman, introduced a widely-criticized bill to strip the nonprofit status of organizations with any links to Israeli settlements and identified as an anti-Zionist. The day after the October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel, Mamdani focused his criticism on Israel.
During the campaign, Mamdani refused to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state; defended the phrase “globalize the intifada”; vowed to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, although he would have no legal authority to do so as mayor; and repeatedly accused Israel of genocide.
[IsraelTimes] In numbers released ahead of ceasefire announcement, Tax Authority official predicts claims will likely reach NIS 5 billion as Israel picks up pieces from powerful missile strikes
The cost of property damages from Iranian missile and drone attacks on Israel over the past 12 days is estimated to be around double the sum of claims stemming from the October 7 attack and all 615 days since, the head of the Tax Authority’s compensation department said Monday.
The likely NIS 5 billion ($1.47 billion) price tag calculated by Amir Dahan underlined the destructive power of the few Iranian missiles to make it through Israel’s air defense shield, carrying massive warheads that reduced whole apartment buildings to rubble and sent out blast waves that shattered windows and caused other damage over a wide area.
"These are figures we have never seen for direct property damage," Dahan told the Knesset Finance Committee on Monday.
According to Dahan, damage claims resulting from ballistic missile attacks from Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... had already reached NIS 4.5 billion ($1.32 billion) as of Monday and were expected to climb by another NIS 500 million. By comparison, Israeli property owners had incurred some NIS 2.5 billion ($735 million) in damage resulting from the October 7 attack and since, including months of heavy fighting in the north.
Some 40,000 property claims over the war have already been filed, a figure that Dahan predicted would likely reach 50,000 or more, including claims from factories still assessing the extent of damage. It was not clear if the forecast was based on a longer timeline for the war, which appeared to end abruptly Tuesday morning following a US-brokered ceasefire.
Despite the higher cost, the number was less than the 70,000 claims filed for damages between October 7, 2023, and June 12, 2025, including by those harmed by attacks from Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , Hezbollah in Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... and the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... According to Israeli figures, Iran fired over 550 ballistic missiles at Israel during the war, though only 31 ballistic missile impacts were reported in populated areas. A single drone also hit a home in Beit She’an, out of around 1,000 launched by Tehran. Shrapnel from missiles and interceptors also caused scattered damage.
Direct hits from Iran on the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot and the Bazan oil refinery in Haifa were particularly destructive, Dahan said, without providing specific values.
Of 38,700 claims filed before the rocket barrage Tuesday morning, which destroyed a building in Beersheba and killed four people, some 31,000 claims were made for damage to buildings, 3,700 for vehicle damage, and 4,000 for other property, including furniture and appliances, according to the Tax Authority.
These included some 25,000 claims made in Tel Aviv, 10,800 in Ashkelon, 2,600 in Haifa and Acre, and 94 in Jerusalem, among other districts, according to incomplete Tax Authority data.
For those evacuated from homes damaged by rockets, about 11,000 people have been placed in hotels, and an estimated 4,000 have gone to live with friends and relatives, according to the Federation of Local Authorities.
Owners of properties rendered unusable due to damage from the war will not be liable for property taxes, the Interior Ministry ruled last week.
Israel’s funds for property reparations stood at NIS 9 billion ($2.64 billion) before the start of Israel’s preemptive attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities on June 13, Dahan said. It currently has claims on the table of NIS 6 billion ($1.76 billion) from the Iran attack, including NIS 1.5 billion ($440 million) in outstanding claims from October 7 and ensuing fighting.
The Tax Authority has 130 teams of appraisers charged with visiting every site filing a claim, ideally on the day the claim is filed, Dahan said. A new computerized system will allow claimants to upload photos of their damages to receive up to NIS 30,000 ($8,815) within 72 hours, he noted.
Regarding damages to the contents of a home, Israeli law provides that owners can be compensated up to a certain value for different objects. For example, families can be compensated up to NIS 25,187 ($7,400) for damaged furniture and up to NIS 30,914 ($9,084) for electronics and appliances. The Tax Authority offers insurance for higher payouts, at a premium of 0.3 percent of the additional value.
While only 600 Israelis had signed up for this additional coverage before the war, more than 50,000 have joined since the beginning of the Rising Lion operation, according to a report in the Hebrew daily Calcalist.
COMPENSATION FOR BUSINESSES
Economic damage from the war has extended far beyond missile damage, with businesses and schools closed due to restrictions on gatherings.
On Monday, Israel’s Finance Ministry revealed a plan to compensate those affected financially, including grants for businesses and furloughed workers.
Businesses bringing in less than NIS 300,000 ($86,000) a year will be eligible for a fixed business continuity grant "depending on the level of damage to the business," while businesses earning NIS 300,000 to NIS 400 million will be eligible for the reimbursement of 7%-22% of their expenses, "depending on the rate of damage to business turnover, as well as a refund of 75% of salary expenses in relation to the level of damage."
Businesses with an annual turnover of NIS 300,000 to NIS 100 million ($28 million) will have compensation capped at NIS 600,000 ($172,000).
Employees placed on unpaid leave due to the cessation of economic activity during the war will receive payments from the National Insurance Institute and will not be forced to use any of their accrued vacation days.
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Today I'm going to meet a tech who'll give me a proposal for fixing my son's apartment - damaged in Iranian strike on Ramat Aviv. Then I'm going to submit it (in my son's name) to tax authority. Wish me luck.
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Grom, is your son OK? Good luck with the repairs.
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^Thanks. My son is a clerk (has 45/97 med profile - platfus & staff). Repairs: turns out it's not so urgent to the renters - so not so urgent for me.
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Not a good look: Sending religious dissenters [anti-muslims] to these areas is tantamount to putting them in ideological exile—if not outright danger. The message is clear: oppose Islam in Russia, and you will be handed over to those who live and rule by it.
[FoxNews] Michael LaRosa, Jill Biden's former spokesperson, told Fox News Digital that 'no one' spent more time with the Biden family than Bernal
The House Oversight Committee says it will subpoena top Biden family aide, Anthony Bernal,
…Dr. Jill’s work husband…
after the committee said he refused to testify as part of their investigation into former President Biden's mental acuity and his use of an automatic signature tool that allowed aides to sign pardons, memos and other important documents on Biden's behalf.
"Jill Biden’s longtime aide Anthony Bernal is DEFYING Congress and REFUSING to testify tomorrow about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline after the White House waived his executive privilege," the committee posted on X Wednesday after Bernal was expected to testify on Thursday morning.
"He’s running scared. The cover-up is collapsing. We will subpoena him immediately."
By proxy, as the first lady's top aide, Bernal became one of the most influential people in the White House, according to recent reports, and he was expected to face tough questions about what he knew and when he knew about Biden’s mental decline.
"No one spent more time, whether it was in the motorcade, on the plane, in the private residence at the White House, Camp David, and at both houses in Delaware, nobody spent more personal time around them and their family and the Biden family than Anthony," Democratic strategist Michael LaRosa, who served as press secretary to former first lady Jill Biden, told Fox News Digital.
LaRosa told Fox News Digital that Bernal, former special assistant to Biden and deputy director of Oval Office Operations, was an "indispensable" part of the Biden team whose top priority was "protecting the Bidens," even if it was politically harmful due to a "personal and emotional attachment" that became more of a familial relationship than a professional one.
Fox News Digital previously reported on how the book "Original Sin," by CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios political correspondent Alex Thompson, described Bernal as one of the most influential people in the White House who wielded loyalty as a weapon to weed out the defectors.
During the pandemic, Biden traded the campaign trail for lockdown. Bernal and Annie Tomasini, who is expected to testify next month, found their way into Joe and Jill Biden's pod, shifting the power dynamic of Biden's so-called "Politiburo," the group of advisors who steered Biden's political orbit, the book explained.
"The significance of Bernal and Tomasini is the degree to which their rise in the Biden White House signaled the success of people whose allegiance was to the Biden family – not to the presidency, not to the American people, not to the country, but to the Biden theology," the authors wrote.
"Their instincts, to hide the ball on often frivolous issues is what ultimately got them in trouble," LaRosa told Fox News Digital about the "bunker mentality" from Bernal and other aides around Biden.
"Their reflexive need to hide and protect was a deficiency and a blind spot and I never understood it."
A former White House staffer fired back against Tapper and Thompson's allegations about Bernal in a statement to Fox News Digital earlier this year.
"A lot of vignettes in this book are either false, exaggerated, or purposefully omit viewpoints that don’t fit the narrative they want to push. Anthony was a strong leader with high standards and a mentor to many. He’s the type of person you want on a team - he’s incredibly strategic, effective, and cares deeply about the people he manages," the former White House staffer said.
Politico reported in 2021 that Bernal’s management style was viewed by some as "toxic" and would sometimes lead to crying staffers.
LaRosa told Fox News Digital that Bernal has a "big heart" but acknowledged he was one of the more "challenging" people he had to work with.
Bernal’s appearance before the committee, if it happens, follows testimony from former Biden aide Neera Tanden, who said she was authorized to direct autopen signatures but was unaware of who in the president's inner circle was giving her final clearance.
When Tanden was asked whether she ever discussed Biden's health or his fitness to serve as president during her time as a top aide, including during the period of the former president's widely criticized debate performance last summer, Tanden said she did not. Lawmakers laid out a list of names of officials she could have potentially discussed it with, and Tanden said "no" to each name, according to a source familiar with her closed-door testimony.
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At the heart of the Potemkin Presidency and Dr. Jill's role in it, you gotta hope someone is monitoring this little weasels movements and safety. He might be thinking of travel plans but he ought to be wondering if folks from "Arkansas" might have a different vacation plan in mind.
[FoxNews] The new military zone marks the third such designation in recent months
The Pentagon announced Wednesday that it is establishing an expansive new military buffer zone in Texas aimed at bolstering border security as illegal crossings continue to plummet to record lows.
The zone, known as a National Defense Area (NDA), will span 250 miles along the Rio Grande River through Cameron and Hidalgo counties with temporary barriers and signage being set up to secure the area.
Members of the Joint Task Force-Southern Border, under the direction of NORTHCOM will operate the zone and they will be responsible for monitoring and carrying out patrols. They will not carry out law enforcement duties but do have the authority to detain border and transfer them to Border Patrol.
The zone sits on land transferred from the International Boundary and Water Commission and will fall under the administration of Joint Base San Antonio, the Air Force announced.
The designation marks the latest in a series of NDAs established to strengthen interagency coordination and bolster security operations along the U.S. southern border, the Air Force said.
A 170-mile NDA was set up in New Mexico in April, attached to Fort Huachuca in Arizona while a 63-mile zone was established in West Texas attached to Fort Bliss in May, bringing the total area to well over 480 miles.
"These efforts reflect USNORTHCOM’s ongoing mission as the DoD’s operational lead for homeland defense, ensuring the territorial integrity of the United States’ southern border," the Air Force said.
A 100-mile NDA will also be set up in Arizona, according to an ABC News report citing a U.S. official. Fox News Digital has reached out to the Pentagon to confirm this report.
Despite the NDA’s being set up this year, 98 illegal migrants who crossed into the New Mexico zone had their trespassing charges dismissed last month with a judge ruling the immigrants did not know they were entering the military zone – and therefore could not be charged, according to court documents.
The new Texas NDA comes as the Trump administration continues to see record-low levels of illegal crossings.
Between June 1 and June 22, there were 5,414 apprehensions at the border, with the busiest sector being El Paso. During that same timeframe, there have been 986 known "gotaways." Both numbers are the lowest ever recorded.
In May, there were just under 9,000 apprehensions of illegal immigrants at the border, compared with roughly 118,000 the year prior under the Biden administration by CBP.
When President Donald Trump took office in January, the first 11 days saw only 9,086 encounters, and since the numbers have been roughly similar or lower since then.
In 2023, there were points when roughly 10,000 migrants were crossing into the U.S. illegally daily, as many people were able to apply for asylum through the CBP One app.
[Daily Caller] Democrat California Rep. Lateefah Simon
…San Francisco Maoist cadre who went into politics from the STORM Revolutionary Movement, mentored by Kamala Harris during the SF district attorney stage of her illustrious career…
lashed out at Republican witnesses at the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday for quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Senility has been a smooth transition for me.
Simon told the witnesses to keep King’s name "out of their mouth[s]" during a hearing on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). The witnesses she addressed were Dan Lennington of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, Judge Glock of the Manhattan Institute and Erec Smith of the Cato Institute.
Simon accused President Donald Trump’s administration “used Dr. King’s name” to argue in favor of pushing the U.S. back to a “segregated America” based on race, sex, ethnicity, national origin and gender identity.
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"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Sounds rather like Trump's vision of America than the Democrat's. In fairness to Lateefah, she probably went to a public school in a large blue city where she learned words be racis'.
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I'm sick and tired of tedious little people like this thinking they can tell other people what they can and cannot say. Bitch, we have a thing in this country called the First Amendment and, if you don't like that, we also have a Second Amendment.
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[Breitbart] California’s gas taxes will rise on July 1, and new "low carbon" fuel standards will take effect, pushing gas prices up by as much as 65 cents per gallon or more, forcing drivers to pay an estimated $6 per gallon.
San Diego’s local CBS affiliate, KFMB-TV, reported on Tuesday:
California drivers are bracing for a substantial increase in gas prices starting July 1, as multiple new taxes and regulations take effect. Experts are divided on just how high prices will climb, but some estimates suggest they could reach up to $6 per gallon.
The first factor contributing to the price hike is an increase in the state’s excise tax, which will rise by 1.6 cents per gallon. However, this is just the beginning of the cost increases.
A more significant impact is expected from the Low Carbon Fuel Standard program, approved by the state’s air resources board in November. This program aims to reduce California’s greenhouse gas emissions, but will result in stricter regulations on gas producers.
Warnings have been circulating for weeks that gas prices could rise even higher in the state — perhaps as high as $9 per gallon. High taxes and fuel standards already make California’s gas the most expensive in the U.S., and new taxes passed by the Democrat-controlled legislature and signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom mean there is no end in sight.
[FoxNews] The new authority was granted by Congress pursuant to the Fentanyl Sanctions Act and the FEND Off Fentanyl Act
The Trump administration on Wednesday, for the first time, used a new authority to require U.S. financial institutions to cut ties with three Mexico-based banks for laundering money on behalf of cartels.
The Treasury Department identified cartels that have "exploited Mexico-based financial institutions to move money," which Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said enables the "vicious fentanyl supply chain that has poisoned countless Americans."
"Through the first use of a new powerful authority granted by Congress, Treasury will effectively require U.S. financial institutions to sever ties with 3 Mexico-based financial institutions for laundering money on behalf of cartels," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday.
The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued orders identifying three Mexico-based banks—CIBanco S.A., Institution de Banca Multiple (CIBanco), Intercam Banco S.A., Institución de Banca Multiple (Intercam), and Vector Casa de Bolsa, S.A. de C.V. (Vector)—as being of "primary money laundering concern in connection with illicit opioid trafficking.
The orders also prohibit certain transmittals of funds involving CIBanco, Intercam, and Vector.
The orders are the first actions by FinCEN pursuant to the Fentanyl Sanctions Act and the FEND Off Fentanyl Act. That act provides the Treasury Department with additional authorities to target money laundering associated with the trafficking of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, including by cartels.
FinCEN said CIBanco and Intercam are commercial banks with more than $7 and $4 billion in total assets, respectively. Vector is a brokerage firm managing nearly $11 billion in assets.
[RedState] On Wednesday morning, while talking about New York's mayoral primary with the host on a live radio spot, I heard myself saying something alarming. Only days ago, I would have bet serious money that those words would never be uttered by me. The fateful words were these: "It would have been better if Cuomo had won."
“Vote for the crook. It’s important.” Governor Cuomo missed a really great campaign opportunity. Oh well.
I know, right?
The guy who won, full-bore Communist Zohran Mamdani, is now making all kinds of promises, and while we all know that his mouth is writing checks his butt can't cash on many of these, he can do enough to make things very unpleasant on the very people who keep the Big Apple's economy afloat. Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio started this trend, and now, assuming he wins - and he's well-positioned to do so - he'll be de Blasio on steroids.
Predictably, those same people, the productive, the few people who can still make money in New York, the few people who pay most of the taxes, are looking to the exits.
Within minutes of Zohran Mamdani clinching the Democratic nomination Tuesday night, real estate agents like Ryan Serhant were flooded with calls from clients looking to walk away from deals to buy apartments in NYC. High-end buyers are now looking to purchase property outside of the city.
“My number one job will be moving people from New York to Florida. Again,” Serhant told me. “Based on the results, clients are going to hold off on making any kind of investment in New York City.”
According to a note I reviewed, one client who had made an offer on a Chelsea apartment sent her broker an email minutes after former Governor Cuomo conceded to Zohran Mamdani. “We are going to take a break from looking until there’s more clarity on the mayoral election,” the client wrote.
Let's just hope these same people don't take their New York voting habits with them.
Of course, there's still the general election to come, and it's not certain that Mamdani will win, although his clinching the Democratic nomination puts him in a strong spot in that deep-blue city. People's reactions to that speak for themselves:
“There are plenty of other places to live,” he said. Agents in the Sunshine Belt, which covers the southern part of the U.S., including Arizona, Texas, and Florida, have been the busiest since lat night, Serhant noted.
Of course, it might not be all bad. Another source told me that the number of New Yorkers looking to flee the possibility of a socialist mayor could create a significant “Mamdani discount” in the real estate market.
Yeah, except it's a fair bet no one will be willing to buy - and the commie Mamdani may just take over those buildings for "free" housing, since playing Santa Claus seems to be his bag.
🚨 JUST IN: The low income people in New York City voted en masse AGAINST the guy who promised to create government-run grocery stores and “freeze” the rent.
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Look for NYPD to slowly avoid Muslim areas and the emergence of No-Go zones with Sharia street rules to follow. I wonder if the screenwriters for Snake Pliskin movies saw this coming?
[IsraelTimes] Activists in Gaza say on social media that Ahmad al-Masri, a known figure in the anti-Hamas protests in the northern Strip, was beaten by Hamas operatives and hospitalized in recent days.
In footage and images circulated online, Al-Masri can be seen with injuries to his legs, apparently as a result of the attack.
According to the reports, he was hospitalized at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. His condition is currently unclear.
Al-Masri, a resident of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, had been filmed in recent months holding a sign during protests that read, “Hamas does not represent us,” referring to the people of Gaza.
In another video from a demonstration, he is heard saying: “We don’t want Hamas. Hamas has destroyed us. Enough!”
Go for it, dude — this isn’t your first rodeo, so you don’t need any help from The Big Guy, who is busy doing important president things. Bibi is in the phone book — give him a call.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....> pens a letter to Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... in which he hails the US president for securing a ceasefire between Israel and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and reiterates his readiness to reach a comprehensive peace deal with Israel.
Abbas says the Iran ceasefire is an important step toward defusing broader regional tensions.
The PA president thanked Trump for his recent "courageous" calls to end the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... "This constitutes an additional step in [your] important efforts to achieve a just and comprehensive peace between us, the Israelis, and the entire world," Abbas writes.
The letter states Abbas "reiterated our full readiness to work closely with [Trump] and relevant Arab and international parties to immediately negotiate and implement a comprehensive peace agreement within a clear and binding timeframe that ends the occupation and achieves security and stability for all, a just and lasting peace."
"With you, we can achieve what seemed impossible: a recognized, free, sovereign and secure Paleostine, a recognized and secure Israel, and a region that enjoys peace, prosperity and integration," Abbas tells Trump.
Abbas has been working for months to curry favor in the eyes of the Trump administration, signing a decree that ended a controversial policy that granted welfare stipends to the families of slain snuffies and Paleostinian security prisoners based on the length of their sentence.
Abbas has repeatedly condemned Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... and demanded the release of the hostages, and earlier this month, he condemned Hamas’s October 7 attack for the first time.
But Washington’s attention has largely been elsewhere, and its contacts with Ramallah have been very limited. US hostage envoy Adam Boehler held unprecedented meetings with Hamas officials earlier this year to try and secure the release of American hostages, while Trump has not spoken to Abbas since a November call in which the PA president congratulated Trump on his election victory.
[ShabelleMedia] Security sources in southern Somalia say Jubaland regional forces, in coordination with the U.S.-trained Danab special forces and the 56th Battalion of the Somali National Army’s 11th Division, have carried out a planned military operation targeting al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... strongholds in several areas of Lower Juba region.
The joint offensive reportedly took place in the areas of Malaaleey, Araare, Koban, Janaale Jay, and Reeynero, all located along the banks of the Jubba River in southern Somalia.
In a statement released by the Jubaland administration, authorities said the operation targeted key al-Shabaab hideouts and defensive positions, resulting in what they described as "heavy losses" for the group. Several holy warrior hideouts were destroyed, and numerous fighters were reportedly killed, though independent verification remains limited.
The operation forms part of an ongoing military campaign by Jubaland forces and the Somali National Army aimed at dislodging al-Shabaab from rural areas and districts under the group’s control.
Al-Shabaab continues to maintain a strong presence in the Middle and Lower Juba regions, as well as parts of Gedo, where they impose their own administration and conduct attacks on security forces and civilians.
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the congregants were being herded into the paddy wagon... Kenyan Defence Forces stationed under the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) continue to support Jubaland authorities in securing key urban centers such as Kismayo ...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (always assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region.... , Afmadow, and Dhobley, which remain relatively stable compared to rural conflict zones.
[IsraelTimes] An Italian supermarket chain says it has stopped selling Israeli products in solidarity with Palestinians affected by war and hunger in the Gaza Strip.
The decision will mean that Coop Alleanza 3.0 will remove Israeli peanuts, tahini sauce, and SodaStream carbonated water makers from its shelves, a statement says.
…all of which can no doubt be ordered from Amazon.it without any trouble at all, but now the co-op won’t collect the profit…
In an additional sign of support for people in Gaza, where Israel is fighting the Hamas terror group in a war sparked by its October 7, 2023, attack, supermarkets have also started selling the pro-Palestinian Gaza Cola fizzy drink, the statement adds.
Coke and Pepsi products can be bought everywhere. And Europeans are not one-stop shoppers, but make the rounds to all the specialty shops. The suppliers are likely not seeing any change in their overall sales, just in how much product is delivered where.
Coop Alleanza 3.0 is the largest cooperative in the Coop Italia network, comprising almost 350 stores in eight Italian regions from Friuli-Venezia Giulia in the north to Puglia in the south.
The cooperative “cannot remain indifferent to the ongoing violence in the Gaza Strip and [is] united in calling for the immediate cessation of military operations,” it says.
Coop supermarket chains in Florence and the central regions of Tuscany, Lazio and Umbria are also no longer stocking Israeli products, spokespeople say, insisting, however, that this did not amount to a formal boycott of Israeli products.
[ShabelleMedia] Somali government troops backed by local militias have launched a large-scale military operation in the central Middle Shabelle region, targeting areas previously controlled by the Al-Qaeda-linked group Al-Shabaab, security sources and residents said on Thursday.
The operation is concentrated around Masaajid Cali Gaduud, a strategic town recently recaptured by Somali forces after being held by Al-Shabaab fighters for several months. The offensive has since expanded to nearby villages, including Towfiiq, where heavy troop movements have been observed.
Residents reported seeing heavily armed Somali National Army (SNA) soldiers and allied Macawiisley militias streaming into the area in a push to dislodge remaining militants.
Following the retaking of Masaajid Cali Gaduud, the army conducted mine clearance operations to secure key roads and infrastructure. Military officials said the town was used by Al-Shabaab as a launch point for attacks in Hirshabelle state and surrounding regions.
“Al-Shabaab has suffered heavy losses and has been forced to withdraw from several villages,” a military spokesperson told Radio Shabelle, requesting anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the press.
[ShabelleMedia] U.S. President Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... launched a scathing verbal attack on Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side. She is a member of The Squad, and would like to make the country look a lot more like Mogadishu... after she strongly criticized the government’s domestic security policies, particularly the deployment of military forces in response to protests.
Omar, a Somali-American representative from Minnesota, condemned the use of the National Guard in Los Angeles amid demonstrations against the treatment of migrants colonists, calling it a sign that the U.S. is "turning into one of the worst countries in the world."
Trump, in a sharp rebuke, responded by questioning Omar’s loyalty and background:
"Ilhan Omar, who constantly complains about our country, comes from Somalia—a failed state with no real government, struggling with crime and poverty. It’s considered one of the worst countries on Earth, if it’s even ranked."
The remarks follow a pattern of inflammatory statements Trump has made about Somalia and Omar, drawing widespread condemnation from rights groups and political opponents who view his comments as xenophobic and divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... .
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[Regnum The bodies of five people with their hands and feet tied were found by the Spanish Civil Guard on the beaches of a popular resort on the Balearic Sea. This was reported by the British newspaper Daily Mail.
"Off the coast of Ibiza, members of the Spanish Civil Guard have pulled the remains of at least five people from the water. Police have launched an investigation," the publication on June 23 said.
Local authorities believe the victims were migrants from Algeria who were trying to reach Europe by boat. According to the author of the article, the newcomers are aware of their illegal status, which is why they do not report the abuse.
The publication's source said that over the past six months, about 30 bodies have washed up on the coast of the Balearic Islands, which is why local journalists have nicknamed these beaches "cemetery beaches."
[IsraelTimes] Israeli commando forces operated inside Iran amid the war, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir says in a video statement.
"We caused significant damage to [Iran’s] missile capabilities, we removed hundreds of launchers, and we caused a significant delay with their force build-up plans. In addition, we managed to achieve intelligence, technological, and aerial superiority. We reached a level of operational freedom in the skies of Iran and in every location we chose to act in," Zamir says.
He says these achievements "were made possible, among other things, thanks to full coordination and deception by air and ground commando forces."
"These forces operated covertly deep in enemy territory and carried out operations that granted us operational freedom of action," Zamir says.
It is unclear if Zamir is referring to Mosssd ...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end... commandos who, at the start of the operation, carried out actions to neutralize Iranian air defenses and ballistic missiles, or whether he is revealing for the first time actions by IDF commandos.
The IDF declines to clarify when asked by The Times of Israel.
[Garowe] The Somali National Army (SNA) and the al-Shabaab militants suffered casualties following intense fighting within the Bay region of Southwest, multiple sources revealed, in the latest clashes involving the two teams.
According to reports, several government soldiers as well as al-Shabaab fighters were killed after the militants attacked a military outpost, Burjeed, about 12km south of Baidoa, on Monday, within the restless Southwest State.
Sources in the region say the militants briefly entered the outpost before government forces retook it. Intense fighting ensued, leading to multiple deaths, but both teams have yet to disclose the extent of the damage.
The al-Shabaab fighters usually target military bases since they cannot wage an effective frontline challenge against the Somali National Army and allies, whose ground combat capability is greatly enhanced with the support of modern technology.
Meanwhile, the commander of Sector 60 of the national army, which operates in the area, Brigadier Hassan Isaq Omar, has been replaced. Colonel Mohamed Yarisow was appointed to replace him. The removal is not related to the Monday attack, sources said.
[IsraelTimes] Israel has halted aid deliveries into Gaza, according to Channel 12 news, which cites an Israeli official.
The report comes shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced that he ordered the military to present a plan within the next two days on how to keep Hamas from stealing humanitarian assistance.
The Israeli official quoted by Channel 12 says the statement from the Prime Minister’s Office came after Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich threatened that he could no longer remain in the government if immediate action wasn’t taken to prevent aid from reaching Hamas.
The official say the pause on aid deliveries will remain in place until the IDF presents its plan.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas is taking control of humanitarian aid entering the northern Gaza Strip and stealing it from Gazan civilians, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz in a joint late-night statement.
They instruct the IDF to present to them within 48 hours a plan to keep Hamas from stealing aid, according to the statement.
The announcement comes an hour after former prime minister Naftali Bennett, who looks to be a leading challenger to Netanyahu in the next election, posted on X a video of armed men he says are Hamas operatives riding on trucks full of humanitarian aid that they had taken over. He wrote that soldiers in the ground told him their orders are to let trucks in to Gaza with no attempt to control what happens to them.
[ShabelleMedia] The governor of Boosaaso, the commercial capital of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , Abdifitah Mohamed Osman, issued strict orders demanding local businesses and traders contribute financially to support Puntland security forces battling ISIS.
In a public statement, Governor Abdifitah warned that any company or business that fails to comply with the fundraising directive will face closure or removal from the city.
“Businesses that do not participate in supporting our defense forces will no longer operate in Boosaaso. Those who ignore this order will be legally dealt with,” he said.
The announcement comes amid Puntland’s intensified military campaign against ISIS militants, currently in its fourth phase.
Puntland forces have recently recaptured key strategic positions from the group in the mountainous areas of Bari.
Officials say sustained financial backing from the local community is critical to maintaining momentum in ongoing counterterrorism operations against extremist elements entrenched in the region.
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[Regnum] Over the past weekend, 12 people have already been detained in France in connection with the attack with syringes on women and girls during a music festival. However, the search for the criminals is still ongoing, the British newspaper The Guardian reported. Moreover, at least two suspects have already been released.
Local law enforcement agencies do not rule out that illegal migrants and minors were among the attackers, but they have not made any official statements on this matter.
The Fete de la musique music festival is held annually in France. Last weekend, millions of people took to the streets across the country, with local authorities in Paris reporting “unprecedented crowds.”
Shortly before the festival, feminist influencer Abrej Soer posted a warning on her social media page about an impending attack on women, calling for attention and seeking help if necessary.
As a result, during the festival, 145 people sought help after syringe attacks. Most of them were young women and teenage girls. Many complained of feeling unwell, dizziness, and some even required hospitalization. Some were sent to the hospital for toxicological tests.
It is currently unknown what the attackers' purpose was. It may have been to confuse the victim, make her vulnerable, and rape her. Most of the injections were made in the arm, back, or buttocks, so that the victim would not have the opportunity to see the attacker.
During the festival, more than 370 people were arrested for various offenses. Among them, only 12 were arrested in connection with the case of pricking women with syringes. In particular, two suspects were detained in Metz thanks to CCTV cameras, one of them was a 20-year-old man previously convicted of rape. However, the police were forced to release both: one was in very poor health, and they could not gather enough evidence against the other.
This year's attacks are not the first cases of women being stabbed with syringes in France. In 2022, before a music festival, messages were distributed calling for men and women to be attacked with syringes in clubs, bars, music events and even theatres. As reported by Regnum, in 2022, women filed several hundred complaints about such attacks all over France.
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[Regnum] The Southern District Military Court sentenced two members of Shamil Basayev's gang,
…Shamil Salmanovich Basayev, also known as Emir Abdullah Shamil Abu-Idrisand by his kunya, “Abu Idris” (1965-2006). Basayev was a Chechen warlord in the post-Soviet Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which after his death became the Al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate. In 2015 most of the hard boys changed their allegiance to the local Islamic State affiliate, Vilayat Kavkaz, whereupon a majority chose to escape the Spetsnaz hunting them by making hijra to the caliphate in Syria — those that survived the reconquest and the SDF prison camps are about to become the property of the HTS government of Syria, which will be educational, one way or another. Some of Basayev’s projects were the 2004 Beslan school siege and the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis (the Nord-Ost siege)…
Vakhit Khamzatkhanov and Takhir Begeldiev (both are included in the Russian Federation's list of terrorists and extremists), to 21 and 24 years in a strict regime penal colony for participating in an attack on Russian servicemen in Chechnya in 1999. The court hearing was held on June 25.
The investigation established that the convicted men joined the gang of Basayev and Amir Khattab in 1999. In October, as part of a detachment of about 400 militants, they ambushed Russian fighters in the village of Chervlennaya in the Shelkovsky district. In the shootout, 15 Russian soldiers were killed and another 28 were wounded.
Begeldiev and Khamzatkhanov were found guilty under Article 317 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer or military serviceman." Cases were also brought against them under Article 209 ("Banditry") and Article 279 ("Armed rebellion"), but they were dropped due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in May the FSB published a video of the arrest of four members of the Basayev and Khattab gang, involved in attacks on Russian servicemen in 1999-2000. The operations took place in Stavropol Krai, Ingushetia, Dagestan and Astrakhan Oblast. The detainees were also in an ambush in the village of Chervlennaya. In addition, they participated in a battle with Pskov paratroopers near the village of Ulus-Kert in February 2000.
In October 2024, security forces detained three members of the Basayev and Khattab gang in Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia and the Volgograd region. They participated in the militants' attack on the Pskov paratroopers.
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[Regnum] The US administration intends to restrict access to classified information to the US Congress in the wake of a data leak that showed that the US military's attack on Iran's nuclear facilities was not as successful as White House chief Donald Trump claimed. This was reported on June 25 by the Axios portal.
"The leak of the Defense Intelligence Agency's preliminary 'Battle Damage Assessment' has angered the president and top U.S. officials, who said it was incomplete and intended to undermine Trump's claims that Iran's nuclear facilities had been 'destroyed,' " the article explains. "purported to show". It was a low-confidence report not verified with other agencies. A political hack job
The "estimate" in question was posted to CAPNET, a system used to send classified information to Congress, on the evening of June 23. The following day, CNN and The New York Times published the data from the material. Trump was outraged by the publication.
The FBI is investigating the circumstances of the leak of classified information. At the same time, they are working on how to tighten control over information in order to prevent such leaks in the future.
It is noted that Trump has been suspicious of the intelligence community since his first presidency, and the situation played into the hands of his suspicion.
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that US President Trump's triumph at the NATO summit in The Hague was disrupted by the leak of a US intelligence report that the damage done to Iran's nuclear program was insignificant.
On June 24, American media, citing a report by the Pentagon Intelligence Agency, stated that the US Air Force bomber strikes on three sites Washington links to Iran's nuclear program had not destroyed them. It was noted that the main components of the alleged Iranian nuclear program had been preserved and the US attacks had only delayed its development by several months.
The White House denied these statements, and the US President's special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, called the leak of this kind of information treason, calling for an investigation into the fact.
Trump himself said on June 25 that CNN and the New York Times were trying to discredit the US military strikes on Iran with such statements. According to him, Iran's alleged nuclear facilities were completely destroyed.
The restoration of Iran's nuclear facilities after US airstrikes will take many years; they will have to be built from scratch. This statement was made by US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on the social network X.
"If Iran decides to rebuild the lost sites, they will have to build all three from scratch, which will take years," Gabbard wrote.
She added that the nuclear facilities in Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan, according to updated US intelligence estimates, have been completely destroyed.
As Gabbard explained, media reports about the partial nature of the destruction are based on “leaks of classified information with a low level of reliability.” According to her, the press thus attempted to discredit the decisions of US President Donald Trump and the actions of the US military.
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that US President Trump demanded that the American television channel CNN fire journalist Natasha Bertrand “like a dog” when she stated in her coverage of national security issues that the US Air Force did not destroy nuclear program facilities during its strikes on Iran.
Adding this from yesterday’s discussion in order to get it into the searchable record — hat tip to the team of NoMoreBS and Bobby:
Days ago, we were all looking at the pictures of Al Fordow to ascertain how badly the site was damaged following the B-2 strike using MOPs (gbu-57s).
The strike was clever-- first six went went through the air shafts as evidenced by the before and after the ventilation shaft…
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"purported to show". It was a low-confidence report not verified with other agencies. A political hack job
Being of a suspicious nature, I cannot help but wonder if this was a setup, given how quickly it was refuted by sat photos. We have seen the low-level leaker play with characters like 'Flounder' often enough that the media are primed to take the bait. "Oh, look! Orange Man bad! And incompetent and... oopsie!.
Or the intel community could be infested with disloyal crap weasels. I figure the odds be 50-50.
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Dunno about the Slimes and CNN but David Muir on ABC was gloating over this report. He looked like he could hardly contain his glee. It was like Muir really wants Iran to get a nuclear weapon. Pretty sure that's what Baraq has always wanted.
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I guess if you consider that Muir works for Disney and Disney is beholden to the CCP for the billions of dollars they make in China, it's no surprise that he wants Trump to fail.
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Gotta remember how the Democrats will use this power if / when they return to office
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[REGNUM] “Israel has suffered very badly, especially in the last couple of days… from [Iranian] ballistic missiles,” US President Donald Trump admitted on June 25 during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on the sidelines of the alliance summit.
At the same time, as TASS reports, Trump praised Israel, which “performed magnificently” during the armed conflict, which the US president has already dubbed the “twelve-day war.”
Earlier, on June 24, Trump said that the governments of Iran and Israel had approved the US-proposed plan for a peaceful resolution of the conflict, agreeing to a ceasefire. If the "twelve-day war" really did end, it ended without a clear winner. Both sides managed to declare their military victory, achieved thanks to the courage of their armed forces and the use of the most modern military developments.
And although the conflict has not yet revealed a clear winner,
..an opinion, to be sure. Not realistic, but he did think it with his very own brain, so there’s that…
it is already possible to draw some conclusions about who was better prepared for war and who inflicted greater damage on the enemy. Moreover, neither Iran nor Israel have fully exhausted their capabilities for escalating the conflict.
Outlining the goals of the operation against Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the targets of the attacks would be facilities related to its nuclear and missile programs. A number of Arabic-language media outlets believe that the Israeli army command planned to knock out the command staff of the Iranian Armed Forces with one blow, thus depriving the enemy of the opportunity to respond.
If this is indeed the case, then the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) headquarters made a strategic miscalculation. About 20 hours after the war began, Iran launched its first powerful strike on central Israel, including Tel Aviv.
The parties to the conflict differ in their estimates of the number of missiles fired at Israel, but approximately 400-500 launches are being discussed (21 waves of attack with 15-20 missiles in each). The number of missiles "missed" by the Israeli missile defense system is estimated at approximately 15-20% of the total.
I thought it was 5%. Maybe it went up in the last day or two…
The first wave of the attack used Shahab-3 ballistic missiles (translated from Farsi as "Meteor-3"), which have a range of up to 1,200-1,300 km. The missile itself was sent into serial production back in the mid-2000s and is not a new product.
In essence, at the first stage of the conflict, Iran sought to exhaust the stockpiles of Israeli missile defense missiles in order to then use more powerful missiles. And they partially succeeded. Later, a new modification of the Shahab-3 with a cluster warhead was used. Its warhead opens at an altitude of several kilometers above the target, throwing five to ten small submunitions that strike within a radius of 500-800 meters.
The use of such missiles has become a major challenge for Israel, since the David's Sling missile defense system is designed to destroy unitary warheads, while the Iron Dome system is not designed to destroy this type of munitions and specializes in destroying rockets.
IT IS DIFFICULT TO DESTROY THE TERRACOTTA WITH THE ARROW
Before the conflict, Israeli media were extremely skeptical about the Iranian missile program. It was assumed that most Iranian missiles were outdated, had extremely low accuracy, and would be easily destroyed by layered missile defense forces. However, Iran was able to demonstrate a number of new developments, the emergence of which significantly changes the balance of power in the Middle East. First of all, we are talking about the Sajil-2 (Terracotta-2) class ballistic missiles.
Unlike traditional liquid-fuel rockets, which require preliminary refueling, Sajil-2 runs on solid fuel, which allows it to be kept in a state of constant combat readiness. The first single launch took place on the fifth day of the conflict. Residents of a number of countries witnessed a strange phenomenon - a luminous "path" in the night sky. According to experts, this trace appeared as a result of atmospheric vapor compression, which occurred when the second stage engines were activated in the near-stratospheric space. The spiral trace that appeared in the sky indicated the successful separation of the stages.
Unlike the Shahabs, the Sajil-2 has a greater range of up to 2,500 km and carries a 500 kg warhead. Outside the Earth's atmosphere, the missile becomes inaccessible to most air defense/missile defense systems. At the same time, at the final stage, it develops hypersonic speed, which leaves the Israeli Hetz (Arrow) systems, which specialize in hitting ballistic targets, only 60-90 seconds to respond.
One of the missiles of this class hit the headquarters of the C4I unit (IDF General Staff Communications and Computer Systems Directorate) in the city of Be'er Sheva. Local residents filmed the moment of "arrival", in which the sound wave that appeared after the explosion is clearly visible.
ACES UP THE SLEEVE
A number of experts believe that in the final stage of the conflict, Iran began to use up to three or four missiles of different types in one salvo. The first was to "overload" the Israeli missile defense system, while the second carried out a pinpoint strike. Such tactics were tested when striking Israeli army bases on the Golan Heights.
The first wave of the attack involved the launch of short- and medium-range Zulfiqar and Dezful high-speed missiles, which attracted missile defense fire. The most advanced Heibar Sheqan missiles, which Iran first introduced in 2022, were then used against military targets.
The missile with a 550 kg warhead was specially designed to counter the layered missile defense system. The triconical shape of the Heybar Shekan body is designed to provide minimal resistance when leaving the Earth's atmosphere and when re-entering. When approaching the target, the missile develops a speed of 2-3 Mach (approximately 2500-3600 km/h), which makes it an extremely difficult target to intercept. Moreover, the warhead can maneuver, evading interceptor missiles.
In essence, Iran demonstrated in practice its tactics of multi-level ballistic attacks, which previously existed only in theory. Using missiles flying at different altitudes, with different speeds and trajectories in one attack, the Iranians were able to partially "suppress" Israel's missile defense counteraction and deliver quite sensitive strikes. However, not all of Iran's missile arsenal was used during the conflict.
Experts believe that, having achieved superiority over the enemy's missile defense, the Islamic Republic could use the Khorramshahr missiles. Unlike all previously used models, this weapon has a more powerful warhead of 1,800 kg and a range of up to 2,000 km. In the future, Iran could use them to destroy underground fortified facilities or Israeli Air Force airfields.
In other words, Iran is far from exhausting its ability to increase the intensity of its attacks.
PENETRATOR BOMB
It is noteworthy that Israel, even after declaring that it had “seized dominance” in the skies over Iran, was unable to prevent the missile strikes.
Each day they destroyed more launchers, so fewer could be shot off at once. And each day they destroyed more missile caches, so Iran had fewer to shoot off. It was a race to the end.
In preparation for a possible conflict, the Islamic Republic had placed warehouses with finished products and launchers in advance in underground shelters and bunkers in the mountainous regions of the country.
During the raids, Israel used F-16 and F-35 aircraft armed with American-made air-to-air munitions. First of all, we are talking about GBU-38 high-explosive air bombs, which are equipped with the JDAM guidance and control system. These munitions are highly accurate and effective in hitting individual buildings, military installations or infrastructure. But the mass of the warhead is 207 kg (446 lb), which is clearly not enough to hit objects located under tens of meters of rock.
Israel has also made active use of Elbit Hermes 900 tactical drones, equipped with small-sized guided aerial bombs "Miholit". These bombs are also well suited for pinpoint destruction of individual unarmored targets, and even for attacking missile launchers, but clearly not for strikes on bunkers.
The only weapons that could cause critical damage to Iranian military facilities are the American GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), used during Operation Midnight Hammer to strike Iranian nuclear facilities.
The mass of one bomb is more than 13,600 kg with a warhead of 2,500 kg. The Penetrator's body is designed to withstand the resistance of concrete and granite at supersonic speed. The bomb is equipped with a penetrating warhead that penetrates the bunker ceiling by tens of meters, after which the "smart detonator" makes a decision to detonate.
However, the US Army only has a few dozen of these high-tech munitions at its disposal. Moreover, only the B-2 Spirit strategic bomber can drop them – one aircraft can lift about two bombs at a time.
So for now, the Iranian missile program and missile silos remain an elusive target for the Israeli army. And in that sense, ending the conflict before it escalated into a global war of attrition was a win-win for both sides.
Israel did not tempt fate by taking hits from increasingly powerful missiles that each time penetrated the Iron Dome air defense system, and Iran was able to keep its strategic military installations safe.
Some of them, anyway. But it’s odd how many sites Israel seemed to know the location of…
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#1
Rising Lioness (not lion) have showed that Iranian military is just a bunch of terrorists - exactly like their proxies Hamas and Hezbollah. Push come to shove, Israel will simple ignore "international law" invented by the degenerate nihilists of Western Europe and bomb Iran into 5th century.
#3
Its missile stock is depleted, but Iran’s arsenal may still be a threat
The bottleneck isn't the issue. Iran still has an estimated 2000 of them. It is the lack of launchers.
Estimated 300-400 launchers and Israel has put a nice size dent in them, so maybe 200-300 left with not all in service or in range. Maybe 150 for maximum launch effort at someone.
#5
Most muslim armies have been paper tigers except maybe Saladin and some of his proteges. The Turk military might I would argue were their christian auxiliaries Janissaries, Martolos, and Voynuks.
It took the Spaniards a few hundred years, but finally once they got organized - they were able to march the islamist out of Iberia. When did Spain ever have a major army? That's the point, and they still got it done.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Malek Dudakov
[REGNUM] The entire past week was spent in an atmosphere of foreign policy somersaults by the Donald Trump administration. Washington tried to implement its classic strategy of “escalate to de-escalate.” Ooooohhhh, classic!
First, the White House sharply raised the stakes to the limit, practically bringing the situation to the brink of a nuclear conflict in the Middle East. And then, just as sharply, it lowered them, trying to enter into new negotiations. However, the results of this were perceived extremely contradictorily - both inside the US and outside of America.
Trump ran for office with the promise to stop all wars and go down in modern history as almost the main peacemaker.
In the first five months of his term, he failed to resolve the conflict in Ukraine or stop the fighting in the Gaza Strip.
I vote for arc lighting Gaza from south to north — that’ll get their attention.
At the same time, the US allowed itself to launch direct strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities for the first time. The risks were extremely high - but Trump was very lucky, and the world got off with a light scare. The Strait of Hormuz was not closed, and instead of a powerful strike on American bases, Iran responded symbolically.
Within the United States, the Iranian drama has caused a very powerful rift.
All the polls showed that the American public was against direct involvement in the conflict with Iran. For the first time, the broad MAGA coalition of Trump supporters, which had brought him to power, also experienced severe discord. Isolationists in both parties were furious, demanding that the president’s war powers be limited.
Sure, but that’s only 10% of Republicans. The Democrats have so many problems this practically doesn’t rate.
Trump's overall ratings have also begun to fall - they now average around 40%.
The questions must have been shaped as carefully as the demographics of those questioned, and just as far from matching reality.
This is much lower than what Joe Biden had at the beginning of summer 2021, for example.
The Middle East crisis has begun to directly influence electoral processes in America.
It was against this backdrop that the dramatic Democratic primaries for the New York City mayoral elections took place. They were sensationally won by a 33-year-old representative of the left faction of the Democratic Party named Zohran Mamdani. He is from a family of Indian Muslims. Mamdani ran on an anti-war and Israel-critical platform. He has a very good chance of becoming the next mayor of New York.
The 2026 midterm elections will see the left gain ground and elect many of its candidates to Congress. The isolationist faction within the Democratic camp will grow.
We are witnessing a process of elite change within the Democratic Party. Young left-wing politicians are replacing the old guard of centrist Democrats in the spirit of Biden, Nancy Pelosi, or Senate Caucus Leader Chuck Schumer, supporters of interventionism and foreign policy adventures.
De facto, this is the Republican equivalent of the MAGA revolution, only now it is affecting the Democrats. The division of America will clearly continue to intensify.
Perspicacious.
And in 2028, we may see two diametrically opposed views of the future of the United States.
One, very right-wing, could be articulated by Vice President J.D. Vance, a Trumpist. The other, far left, would be personified by the Democratic Party candidates.
By that point they may have given up the “Democratic Party” figleaf and gone straight to calling the party Democratic Socialists.
But they could agree on a common desire for isolationism.
Trump clearly feels the demand of American society, so it is extremely important for him to appear as a "peacemaker". Immediately after its attack on Iranian facilities, the White House declared victory and the complete destruction of Tehran's nuclear program. Washington began to call on the Iranians to sit down at the negotiating table as soon as possible, if only to avoid further escalation.
However, things did not go according to Trump's team's plan right away.
They had to enter into another clinch with the US intelligence community, which was extremely skeptical about the consequences of the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. They can be restored in literally a couple of months. There is no talk of complete destruction.
Trump critics in the US intelligence services will likely be fired in the near future.
One can only hope so.
But more and more inconvenient facts about the real consequences of the attack on Iran will likely emerge.
At the same time, things are not going well on the European track either.
The recent NATO summit in The Hague was once again held under the shadow of all the contradictions that have accumulated in relations between Europeans and Americans. Moreover, they have not been able to be resolved.
Tariff wars continue. On the issue of sanctions against Russia and support for Ukraine, European countries are again isolated. The only thing they can offer the US is a promise to increase military spending at some point in the future.
However, the Americans do not really believe the unfounded assurances of their European NATO allies.
Some have been known to make promises they had no intention of keeping, just to shut us up…
Many of them still cannot even reach 2% of their GDP in defense budgets, let alone the 3.5% or 5% that is currently being discussed. This is an impossible task for almost everyone - with the possible exception of Poland alone.
The Europeans have to engage in outright eyewash. For example, they include everything in military spending, such as expenses on the green transition, the development of civilian infrastructure, or the fight against migrants.
Moreover, many European elites are now blackmailing the US with the opportunity to spend more money on developing their military-industrial complex as opposed to the American one.
This, too, is clearly not understood by Trump's team.
However, at the summit, NATO bureaucracy tried in every way to avoid all the pressing issues. Just to show some illusion of internal unity. Otherwise, the Americans could have announced a reduction of their presence in Europe right during the event.
The summit was kept as short as possible to avoid any reason to anger Trump.
The American president himself also benefited from maintaining his reputation as a "peacemaker", so he did not start any major squabbles with the Europeans at the summit. Even Trump's meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky was quite routine and orderly. However, there was no progress for the Ukrainian lobby here either.
No one made firm promises to allocate new tranches to Kyiv, they got away with general non-binding formulations. Trump directly stated that the scarce missiles for air defense systems are now more needed by Israel and America than by Ukraine.
The White House is not at all against doing something on the Ukrainian track after its Middle East somersaults. But Trump's team still can't quite figure out what to do.
The Americans are in no hurry to agree to Russia's conditions, or to soften sanctions. Washington does not yet have the political will to arrange a regime change in Kyiv and bring someone capable of reaching an agreement to power. Trump's team cannot and will not increase the degree of confrontation with Russia.
The result is a largely paradoxical situation of political paralysis.
Although the negotiation process on working and technical issues between Russia and the US is ongoing, partial normalization of the work of diplomatic services or the resumption of direct air traffic is possible.
But it is still unclear what could trigger the Trump team to seriously return to the topic of de-escalation in Ukraine. After all, the Americans showed with all their appearance at the NATO summit that they already have other issues on the agenda.
The main result of the last week is the shift of the White House's focus to problems outside Europe and Ukraine. Hence the poorly concealed panic of the NATO summit participants. After all, they understand that Trump's interest in dealing with their problems is decreasing with each passing day.
Even though the American president has agreed not to discredit Article 5 of the alliance charter on mutual assistance, Europeans subconsciously understand that US security guarantees are gradually dissolving into thin air.
Especially in the context of general global instability and division within America, which are diverting all the forces of Trump’s team.
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[REGNUM] 75 years ago, on June 25, 1950, the administration of US President Harry Truman brought the "Korean question" to the UN Security Council for discussion. At the same time, more than 8,000 kilometers from Washington, units of the Korean People's Army crossed the demarcation line that the US and USSR had drawn along the 38th parallel.
The Korean War began, which lasted three years and is formally still ongoing.
The conflict, which cost the lives of 9 million Koreans (80% of them civilians), is often called a civil war. In form, it was, at least until the direct intervention of the "UN troops", that is, the US and its allies, and until the arrival of the million-strong corps of "Chinese People's Volunteers".
Moreover, the war developed according to the plot of the American Civil War: North versus South.
But in fact, less than five years after the end of World War II, the planet was closer than ever to the start of World War III.
The recent allies, the Soviet Union and the United States, were on the brink of direct conflict.
Thanks to the help of the USSR and the intervention of China, the war was "slowed down" and stopped. But the conflict could not have matured without the participation of another great power - the United States.
This is worth remembering now, when the will of the Americans determines whether a war in another corner of Asia will flare up to a global level or stop.
Translation: Our side can start all the trouble it wants, but it only becomes a war when America chooses to fight back.
BURIED DISCHARGE
In January 1951, when the war on the peninsula was at its height, Pablo Picasso unveiled his painting Massacre in Korea in Paris. This expressionist painting is not as well known as Guernica, but it is executed in the same manner and serves as a “continuation” of the famous 1937 painting.
The scene of the Americans shooting peaceful Korean women and children is depicted in the same way as the aftermath of the bombing of the Spanish city of Guernica by the Luftwaffe Condor Legion. The artist equated the soldiers of the "UN peacekeeping corps" with the Nazis - and Picasso was not the only one who thought so.
I’m fairly ignorant about art history. Until just now I didn’t realize exactly how much of a posturing ass Mr. Picasso was.
But how did it happen that the recent liberators of Western Europe turned out to be punishers?
In the final stages of World War II, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (who died in April 1945) was determined to achieve a lasting peace with the USSR. The American leader believed that involving “Red Russia” in the establishment of a new post-war order would reduce the likelihood of confrontation with Western countries. Addressing Congress in March 1945, the already seriously ill president noted that after victory, the world order could not be based on the dominance of “one man, one party, or one nation”; all countries needed to move away from the policy of confrontation and unite for joint creation.
In essence, Roosevelt formulated the principles of “international détente” – this rhetoric would be used by both Republicans and Democrats – from John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon to Barack Obama and Donald Trump. But in 1944-45, it was not just about rhetoric. At this stage, Washington organized the Lend-Lease program for its Soviet ally. At the Yalta Conference, Roosevelt “removed” the Polish question by agreeing to recognize the Curzon Line as the border between the Soviet Union and Poland. In return, the USSR took part in the UN and even signed the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1944, which abolished the gold standard and recognized the dollar as the international currency of account.
Roosevelt's line still looks optimal: while conceding on points that were insignificant for American national interests, he sought to reach an agreement with Joseph Stalin on the USSR's participation in international settlement institutions. In our time, this policy of building bridges is consistently pursued by Moscow (demonstrating a readiness for dialogue with Washington) and is very inconsistently pursued by the Trump administration.
Oh dear. That poor writer sprained his wrist patting himself on the back…
But back then, in the late 1940s, "détente" was buried by Roosevelt's death.
Truman had already called on Congress in March 1947 to allocate funds to fight communist Russia. The formal pretext was the creation of a buffer zone in Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union.
CLAWS OF THE "HAWKS"
There was a strong isolationist sentiment among the ruling Republicans then, as now, but, as now, the tone is set by the "hawks" with a fixation on a power foreign policy.
Senator Arthur Vandenberg pushed through both houses of Congress, convincing them to approve the Truman Doctrine and vote on spending to counter the Red threat. And soon an opportunity arose to load the American military-industrial complex with military orders - although it "flared up" not in Central Europe (the first Berlin crisis of 1948-49 was the lightning bolt of which), but in the Far East.
In the autumn of 1945, the victorious powers, the USSR and the USA, divided Korea, liberated from Japanese colonial rule, into two occupation zones. This regime was supposed to last for 5 years, after which it was supposed to recreate a single state (as happened with Austria). But the plans were thwarted by the onset of the Cold War.
On September 7, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur issued Proclamation No. 1, which declared the introduction of a military dictatorship. Disobedience to the administration was punishable by death, and English was declared the official language of the occupation zone.
According to contemporaries, the pace and progress of reconstruction in the Soviet zone (and the way these successes were presented by propaganda) inspired greater optimism at the time, which provoked the growth of leftist sentiments in the South, including in the middle class. Understanding that reliance on big business and landlords alone was not enough to build a pro-Western democracy, Truman relied on a “strong hand.” Dr. Syngman Rhee, brought from exile on MacArthur’s personal plane and elected president of the Republic of Korea in 1948, became the first in a series of Seoul-based pro-American dictators.
The following year, 1949, when Mao Zedong emerged victorious from the Chinese Civil War, the Truman administration faced a barrage of criticism from the right, with hawks accusing the White House of weakness. In order not to lose the Korean Peninsula after mainland China, the United States stepped up support for its partners in Seoul.
INEVITABLE COLLISION
In June 1949 alone, the Americans transferred to their ally 50,000 carbines with ammunition, 2,000 rocket launchers, 40,000 vehicles, light guns and mortars, 70,000 shells for a total of $5.6 million. That's almost $76 million in today's dollars.
And this helped to increase the total number of personnel in the security forces of the South to 104 thousand people.
In January 1950, the United States signed an agreement with Seoul, according to which its army received 140 thousand rifles (40 thousand Japanese), 2 thousand anti-tank bazookas, a large number of artillery pieces, tanks and aircraft, and 4,900 vehicles.
The "Korean Military Advisory Group," made up of American officers, conducted training courses for South Korean soldiers and provided them with technical and material support.
In total, the US spent $190 million, or $2.5 billion in today's money, adjusted for inflation, on arming the South Koreans in 1949. And in March 1950, Congress appropriated another $100 million (or $1.33 billion in today's dollars) to "provide military and other assistance to the Republic of Korea."
After the start of the war and until 1953, the Americans invested 1.17 billion dollars at the time, or 15 billion today, in rearmament and other assistance to their South Korean wards.
To compare the scale, according to the Pentagon, from 2014 to 2022 the US allocated 2.7 billion in military aid to Ukraine. After the start of the Second World War, the pumping increased several times, by another 66.5 billion dollars, according to official data from the State Department.
The logic of the Cold War dictated the need for a mirror response from the USSR and North Korea.
Given that the USSR started it, mirror is not quite the right word.
Since 1949, the leader of the DPRK, Kim Il Sung, had been asking Stalin to support the Korean People's Army's (KPA) march to the South, insisting that once the war began, the South Koreans themselves would overthrow the puppet pro-American regime. Politically, Moscow held back its allies, but at the same time, Soviet military aid to the North Koreans was in full swing. A clash became inevitable.
INTERVENTION OF "PEACEKEEPERS"
Early in the morning of June 25, a 175,000-strong KPA force, supported by 172 combat aircraft and 150 T-34 tanks, crossed the border. South Korean historiography generally believes that the North attacked first. Pyongyang, however, points out that the start of the war was preceded by numerous (up to several thousand in recent months) armed provocations from the South.
Be that as it may, on June 26 the United States entered the war.
Truman, without seeking congressional approval, appealed to the UN, which gave the go-ahead for the so-called police action in Korea. The USSR boycotted the Security Council sessions, demanding that communist China be included instead of Taiwan. Thus, in September 1950, the only armed intervention of its kind by the "UN peacekeepers" began - the USA and its allies, including those in the newly formed NATO (Britain and Turkey played a real role), launched a frontal attack on Kim Il Sung's troops.
At that time, Democrat Truman, like Democrat Joe Biden now, was harshly criticized by some Republicans for interfering in a war on the other side of the world. In particular, by former President Herbert Hoover and influential Ohio Senator Robert Taft, son of President William Taft. The same Taft Jr., by the way, harshly criticized US participation in NATO, like today's isolationist Trumpists.
But the decisive “yes” to the war was said by the American military-industrial complex.
If, on the occasion of the end of World War II, Truman cut the defense budget to $13.5 billion, then in December 1950 the same president gave the Pentagon $50 billion. Translated into today's money, this is $667 billion - more than the military department had in the mid-2010s, but less than now (at the moment, the Pentagon has $886 billion).
During the Korean War, "civilian" business in America was going through hard times - the White House raised corporate and income taxes, and credit conditions were tightened. But defense contracts brought huge profits to companies such as Lockheed, Northrop, and Boeing, and they were able to increase the defense budget to 15% of GDP in 1952.
DANGEROUS LEGACY
During 1950, the US became increasingly involved in the war, to a degree not comparable to its current involvement in the Ukrainian or Middle Eastern conflicts. It seemed that the “UN troops” were winning – Pyongyang had been taken, the North’s army was pressed to the Chinese border.
After the arrival of the "Chinese volunteers" and the turning point in the war, Commander MacArthur advocated maximum escalation - bombing China, an invasion of the Kuomintang from Taiwan and, if necessary, atomic bombings. At that time, the PRC did not yet have a nuclear arsenal (as Iran does now), and by 1951 our country already had 15 RDS-1 bombs at its disposal.
Truman had the good sense to back down after the conflict had been brought to the brink of World War III. MacArthur's proposals were shelved, and in April 1951 he was removed from command altogether.
The US intervention in a conflict in another part of the world began under a Democratic president, and the US was withdrawn from the war and the conflict itself was ended by a Republican president.
Dwight Eisenhower did what Donald Trump would probably like to achieve: in 1953, the Korean War ended in a military draw on terms acceptable to the United States. The US-dependent South Korean regime was preserved, the front line slowed down at the same 38th parallel, turning into one of the most closed and guarded borders in the world.
The Cold War did not develop into a nuclear Armageddon, which can also be considered a happy ending.
But it was after the Korean conflict that US policy began to mutate in a dangerous direction.
America finally consolidated its role as the only superpower of the “free world” and “guarantor of democracy.” Since the mid-1950s, the role of the military-industrial complex (and this term itself appeared at that time) as one of the locomotives of the American economy has sharply increased, and the connections between the Pentagon, the defense industry, and lobbyists of Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and General Electric in Congress that still exist today were formed. Since that moment, military spending has rarely fallen below 10-12% of GDP.
The Korean War was the first in a series of local wars that the United States fought in the Eastern Hemisphere. Vietnam, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were only logical continuations.
Now, when America is struggling to get rid of “aid” to Kiev and is balancing on the brink of yet another “export of democracy,” this time to Iran,
…no need for that. The Iranians know how to do democracy as they’ve been going through the motions for several generations, should they exert themselves to either drive out the Mullahcracy in bloody revolution or more slowly evolve in a less totalitarian direction…
it is more obvious than ever that the United States will be able to return to the Monroe Doctrine, limit itself to the affairs of the Western Hemisphere, or focus on domestic affairs, if it succeeds, only with great difficulty.
#2
Speaking of South Korea A reality check against ‘We do too much for Israel’ For those who have a basketball-sized burr up their butt over President Trump’s recent action against Iran and who thus accuse him of being a “puppet of Israel,” here’s something that should make such malcontents three times more angry: our relationship with South Korea.
#4
After WWII, Eisenhower and others said that the failure was that Hitler and Tojo and Mussolini were not stopped when they were early in their ascent(s).
Eisenhower said unapologetically that boys from the heartland had to become soldiers only when intelligence agencies fail.
Sooo, the CIA was very active 1952-1960, when Ike was president ... and no wars.
The US turned away from this "Nip it in the bud" approach after President Eisenhower left office ... and long story short, here we are.
(If Eisenhower were president, one doubts nyc mayoral race yesterday would occur jmo)
#5
Korean happened after the Soviet coup in Czechoslovakia. Moscow supplied insurgency in Greece and Turkey, and the Berlin Blockade. The latter of which caused a reintroduction of the 'peacetime' draft.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] Analysts have recorded the occupation of several settlements in the Donetsk region.
The enemy occupied Andreevka and Constantinople, and also advanced near Alekseevka, Dneproenergiya and Shevchenko.
Russian troops captured Andreevka and Konstantinopol in the Velikonovoselkovsky community of the Volnovakha district of the Donetsk region. In addition, the Russians advanced in the area of the settlements of Dneproenergia and Shevchenko, which are located just a few kilometers from the administrative border with Dnepropetrovsk region. This was reported by DeepState analysts on Wednesday, June 25.
"The enemy has occupied Andreevka and Constantinople, and has also advanced near Alekseevka, Dneproenergia and Shevchenko," says a DeepState report.
The information was confirmed by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: on the maps published on Wednesday, both villages are shown as controlled by Russian troops. While the advance in the area of Dneproenergiya and Shevchenko is shown even further than on the DeepState maps.
An updated report from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) on June 24 also lists Andreevka and Constantinople as occupied, with the surrounding area as a gray zone. However, DeepState clarified that no new information about advances in these areas had been received in the past few days.
Let us recall that 151 combat clashes were recorded on the front over the past 24 hours. The hottest ones were in the Pokrovsky, Limansky, Toretsky and Novopavlovsky directions.
Operation Midnight Hammer was one of the most precise and complex missions in recent military history. In this video, Captain Steeeve walks us through how operations like this are planned, coordinated, and executed. No politics—just a deep dive into the logistics, teamwork, and decision-making that made this mission possible.
From mission prep to boots on the ground, Steeeve draws on his own experience to explain how the military pulls off high-stakes operations under pressure.
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[Regnum] The US Air Force strike on the Iranian city of Fordow destroyed critical infrastructure, causing the uranium enrichment facility to be out of action. This was reported on June 25 by the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, citing the National Atomic Energy Commission.
"The devastating US attack on the Fordow facility destroyed key infrastructure and disabled the enrichment complex," the statement said.
The office added that, in their opinion, the US military strikes on Iranian targets, coupled with Israeli strikes, have set back Tehran's ability to develop nuclear weapons for many years.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 22, American B-2 bombers attacked the Iranian cities of Isfahan, Natanz and Fordow. According to US President Donald Trump, the strikes allegedly hit Iranian nuclear facilities. At the same time, on June 25, American intelligence denied the words of the head of the White House about the destruction of the main components of the Iranian nuclear program.
In addition, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi noted on June 18 that there was no evidence that Tehran was developing nuclear weapons. The Iranian Foreign Ministry, in turn, called Washington's attack criminal, and the attacked facilities were peaceful and under IAEA control.
Russian President Vladimir Putin also condemned the American aggression and called the US attack unfounded, noting that there is no justification for it. He also said that Russia is working to help the Iranian people.
[IsraelTimes] Iran’s Foreign Ministry front man Esmail Baghaei on Wednesday confirmed the country’s nuclear facilities had been "badly damaged" in American strikes over the weekend, amid clashing evaluations on the extent of the success of operations against Tehran’s nuclear program.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Baghaei refused to go into detail but conceded the Sunday strikes by American B-2 bombers using bunker-buster bombs had been significant.
"Our nuclear installations have been badly damaged, that’s for sure," he said.
UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said Wednesday that there is a chance much of Iran’s highly enriched uranium was moved by Tehran soon after the first strikes, and thus survived the attacks.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... reportedly informed the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency on June 13, the first day of Israeli strikes, that it would take "special measures" to protect its nuclear materials and equipment.
"They did not get into details as to what that meant but clearly that was the implicit meaning of that, so we can imagine that this material is there," Grossi told a presser with members of the Austrian government.
Conclusive findings may take months, if they are obtained at all, a source told the US network.
Israel and Iran entered open conflict on June 13 when Israel launched a wave of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeting Iran’s top military leaders, nuclear scientists, uranium enrichment sites and ballistic missile program. Israel said the campaign was necessary to prevent the Islamic Theocratic Republic from realizing its declared plan to destroy the Jewish state. On June 22, the US struck key Iranian nuclear facilities at Natanz, Fordo and Isfahan.
Iranian officials say more than 600 people were killed in the strikes, a figure that does not differentiate between civilians and members of Iran’s armed forces.
Iran retaliated for Israel’s attacks by launching over 550 ballistic missiles and around 1,000 drones at Israel. Iran’s missile attacks killed 28 people and maimed thousands in Israel, according to health officials. Missiles hit apartment buildings, two universities and a hospital, causing heavy damage. Iran also fired at a US base in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... after the American strikes, with no injuries reported.
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Hopefully, right now, IMI is working on a bunker buster that's a fraction of size of American ones.
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I really don't see how you can miniaturize a "bunker buster". It all comes down to the Physics of needing a big, heavy penetrator to deliver the explosives into the target. The same reason the 7.62x51 rifle rounds do things that the 5.56 rounds can't...
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[Regnum] US President Donald Trump's recent statement on Article 5 of the NATO Charter on collective security has jeopardized the alliance's summit in The Hague. This was reported on June 25 by the Financial Times, citing three European officials.
Earlier, when asked whether he remained committed to the principle of collective defense, Trump told a reporter that the decision “depends on what definition you subscribe to.”
"Three European officials attending the summit said the comments had cast a shadow over the meeting and threatened to derail the event," the report said.
According to the newspaper's source, the outcome of the meeting depends on the decision Trump makes.
"We are all sitting here waiting for him to tell us whether he will defend Europe," the source said.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the NATO summit in The Hague took place on June 24 and 25. Following its results, the participants of the meeting made a joint statement, in which they indicated that Russia remains a long-term threat to Euro-Atlantic security. The leaders of the countries that are members of the alliance also confirmed their commitment to the principle of collective defense.
Deputy Director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the Higher School of Economics, Valdai Club expert Dmitry Suslov told the Regnum news agency that NATO is seriously preparing for war with Russia, and the bloc does not need pretexts like the Ukrainian crisis. NATO statements that the "Russian threat" is the main one for the bloc are heard regularly in various formulations: both from its individual representatives and at the communiqué level. There is nothing surprising about this, Suslov believes. The expert also recalled that NATO is actively strengthening the military infrastructure on the Russian borders.
[Regnum] The Federal Security Service (FSB) has published a video recording of the prevention of a terrorist attack against a Russian serviceman, which was being prepared by accomplices of the Ukrainian special services in the Moscow region.
Security forces found two Russians who were taking a homemade explosive device from a cache near a gardening non-profit partnership in the Moscow region. Two Ukrainian agents offered armed resistance during their arrest and were neutralized.
FSB officers found Makarov pistols and ammunition at the cache site. In addition, communication devices with correspondence were found, during which the planned terrorist act was discussed.
The investigation opened a criminal case under paragraph “a” of Part 3 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code of Russia (“Illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation, shipment or carrying of explosive substances or explosive devices”).
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[NewsFront] 21:10 Assault groups supported by T-72B3M tanks broke through the Ukrainian Armed Forces fortified area in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
The combined actions of the armored and infantry units of the Center group of forces made it possible to overcome the deeply echeloned defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
After the breakthrough, Russian servicemen quickly consolidated their positions at new lines, setting up positions to repel possible counterattacks. Engineering units began installing defensive structures —video.
20:26 Russian Ministry of Defense:
In the period from 17:00 Moscow time to 20:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type:
Seven UAVs over the territory of the Bryansk region,
Four UAVs over the territory of the Ulyanovsk region,
Three UAVs over the territory of the Voronezh region,
Two UAVs each over the territories of the Kursk and Saratov regions.
19:50 Recorded terrorist attack by an enemy UAV on a private house in the Kuibyshev municipal district.
As a result, the glazing and roof of the house were damaged. Fortunately, there were no casualties. Another unprincipled attack. Emergency services are working on the scene.
18:50 Scouts of the 44th Army Corps of the North group discovered ZU-23-2 VSU camouflaged in a forest belt – video.
The FPV drone operator masterfully flew through the entire sparse forest and destroyed the enemy's anti-aircraft gun with a precise hit.
18:10 It's coming massive artillery shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces of the Tokmak municipal district.
The enemy fired a UAV at an apartment building, damaging the building's windows. There were no casualties.
The village of Gogolevka was attacked in the Kuibyshevsky municipal district. The Ukrainian UAV was shot down over the territory of an uninhabited house. There is no information about victims or injured.
17:30 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS crews of the Vostok group of forces destroyed enemy manpower and equipment in the South Donetsk direction.
16:50 RF Armed Forces destroyed camouflaged 152mm howitzer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
16:10 Drone drivers continue to destroy identified targets
– Servicemen of the 4th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the “Southern” group of forces destroyed a 105mm M-119 gun and an ammunition depot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the settlement of Aleksandro-Shultino in the DPR.
– Crews of attack UAVs of a separate special forces battalion of the 51st Guards Army destroy heavy drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
15:30 In the village of Prilipka, three kilometers west of Volchansk, Russian intelligence officers opened movement of the enemy combat group. The enemy tried to take cover in one of the buildings.
Our UAV operators from the 44th Army Corps of the Leningrad Military District worked on the Ukrainian occupiers, first piercing the roof of the building with drone drops.
14:45 Servicemen of the 36th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the "East" group of forces in less than three days installed full control over the settlement of Yalta in the DPR, driving out the Ukrainian nationalists.
Having secured a foothold in the settlement, the stormtroopers cleared all the buildings and unfurled Russian flags, while engineering and sapper groups cleared areas of mines and the territory adjacent to the settlement.
14:05 In the period from 11:00 Moscow time to 13:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed 25 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
– 22 UAVs – over the territory of the Voronezh region,
– Two UAVs – over the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan,
– One UAV – over the territory of the Tambov region.
13:30 Governor of Kursk region reported, that today pthe FPV drone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked a civilian KAMAZ in the Belovsky district of the Kursk region. The driver was a 52-year-old man, he has a blind shrapnel wound to the left forearm, a closed craniocerebral injury, and a concussion.
My comrades from the front received from me the moment of interception of a picture from an enemy copter, which attacked a civilian truck.
After this, they are surprised by the reaction of society and shout something about the Geneva Convention.
13:15 Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of the Special Operation as of 05/25/2025
Units of the North group of forces improved their position along the front line. They defeated the manpower and equipment of two heavy mechanized, mechanized, two airborne assault brigades, two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Radyanskoye, Andreyevka, Novaya Sich, Alekseyevka, Kondratovka, Khrapovshchina, Yunakovka and Sadki in the Sumy region.
In the Khar'kov direction, units of the mechanized, motorized infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Peschanoye, Shabelnoye, Granov, Udy, Volchanskiye Khutor and Volchansk in the Khar'kov region.
The enemy's losses amounted to 160 servicemen, four combat armored vehicles, eight cars and seven field artillery guns. An ammunition depot and a supply depot were destroyed.
Units of the "West" group of forces improved their position along the front line. They defeated formations of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a territorial defense brigade and two border detachments of the Ukrainian border service in the areas of the settlements of Grigorovka, Gorokhovatka, Kupyansk in the Khar'kov region, Srednee, Shandrigolovo and Karpovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
Ukrainian armed forces lost up to 200 servicemen, seven vehicles, a British-made 105mm L-119 howitzer, three electronic warfare stations and four ammunition depots.
The units of the "Southern" group of troops took up more advantageous lines and positions. They defeated the manpower and equipment of three mechanized, mountain assault, airmobile brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard Brigade "Azov" in the areas of the settlements of Serebryanka, Lipovka, Petrovka, Seversk, Privolye, Reznikovka, Chasov Yar and Ivanopolye of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 165 servicemen, four vehicles and an artillery piece.
Units of the Center group of forces continued to advance deep into the enemy's defenses. They defeated formations of five mechanized, airborne, mountain assault brigades, two assault regiments, a brigade of unmanned systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two brigades of naval infantry and two brigades of the National Guard in the areas of the settlements of Grishino, Udachnoye, Lenina, Krasnoarmeysk, Novovodanoye, Yablonovka, Petrovskoye and Novopavlovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to 510 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles "Kazak", six cars, six field artillery guns, including a 155mm self-propelled artillery unit "Bogdana", an ammunition depot and a US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station.
They inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades, an assault regiment, an unmanned systems regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and a naval infantry brigade in the areas of the populated areas of Kamyshevakha, Voskresenka, Shevchenko in the Donetsk People's Republic, Uspenovka and Sladkoe in the Zaporizhia region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 190 servicemen, a tank, an armored combat vehicle, seven vehicles and three artillery pieces.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Primorskoye, Stepnogorsk and Novopavlovka in the Zaporizhia region.
More than 80 Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, 12 vehicles, four field artillery guns, five electronic warfare stations, an ammunition depot and a fuel depot were destroyed.
12:40 Units of the "East" group of forces, as a result of active and decisive actions released the settlement of Yalta in the Donetsk People's Republic.
12:18 A Strela-10M air defense missile system crew from Novorossiysk paratroopers destroyed an enemy reconnaissance UAV in the Orekhov direction in the Zaporizhia region —video.
11:50 Criminal Kyiv regime continues shelling civilian infrastructure of populated areas of the left bank of the Kherson region
Yesterday, during the day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces released:
– Three rounds in the village of Novaya Mayachka;
– Five rounds to the village of Aleshki;
– According to n.p. Novaya Kakhovka three rounds;
– Four rounds to the settlement of Kairy;
– According to n.p. Kakhovka four rounds.
In Novaya Mayachka, two trucks were damaged as a result of shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as a result of which two citizens were injured. In the Lyubimovsky territorial department, three civilians were injured in an attack by a Ukrainian drone.During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the villages of Kakhovka, Mala Lepetikha, Aleshky, and Solontsy, firing a total of 19 rounds from barrel artillery. Civilian casualties and infrastructure destruction are being clarified.
11:32 Around 9.40 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed one Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle of the airplane type over the territory of the Voronezh region.
10:58 Calculations of unmanned aerial vehicles of the Geranium type struck the assembly shop for Ukrainian Armed Forces UAVs at the Kramatorsk airfield.
10:06 Servicemen of the "East" military group releasedthe settlement of Komar in the DPR. The commander of the assault platoon with the call sign "Milkman" tells how the onslaught of our guys forced the enemy to flee in disgrace.
09:19 In the period from 7.00 Moscow time to 8.30 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territory of the Voronezh region.
08:39 Su-34 crew inflicted a strike on a temporary deployment point of a Ukrainian Armed Forces unit with aerial bombs with a universal planning and correction module.
07:32 Changes tomapover the past 24 hours:
Novosergeevka has been liberated
Village of Dyleevka has been liberated
Clarification of the control zone in the Udachny area in favor of ours
07:30 During the past night from 22:45 Moscow time on June 24 to 05:40 Moscow time on June 25, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 18 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
Seven UAVs over the territory of the Rostov region,
Four UAVs over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,
Two UAVs over the territory of the Krasnodar region,
Two UAVs over the territory of the Kursk region,
Two UAVs over the waters of the Black Sea,
One UAV over the territory of the Bryansk region.
O5:15 Servicemen of the motorized rifle regiment of the "East" group of forces evacuated civilians from the village of Bogatyr in the DPR.
[IsraelNationalNews] Turkey has been a dominant and strategic partner to Hamas and its leadership, Egypt was the conduit through which arms flowed into Gaza. Beware of consequences.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, published, back in 2011, his book entitled "Palestine." In explicit detail, the leader of Iran laid out his vision of how to destroy the "Zionist entity" phase by phase:
Make life in Israel miserable and unbearable with daily terror from the Palestinian Arabs in Judea and Samaria, from Hamas in Gaza, and from Hezbollah in Lebanon creating a never ending instability - militarily, politically, economically, and culturally - thereby threatening the national cohesion of the State of Israel.
The final goal in his book ends with the dispersion of the Jews to their previous countries, those from which they fled or immigrated. It was no surprise that when lethal Iranian ballistic missiles were launched on Israel twelve days ago, Palestinian Arabs everywhere celebrated and danced in the streets and on their rooftops, handed out sweets to passersby, and cheered on the destruction and havoc caused by these bus size ballistic missiles carrying 1.5 ton warheads.
Yet despite this apocalyptic Islamist fantasy, and as the temporary ceasefire brokered by President Trump between Iran and Israel went into effect, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is holed up in some descript bunker in the north of Iran with his immediate family, cut off from the world, exhausted and consumed with his hatred of the Jews and the State of Israel, wondering about the moment Israel decides to finish him off.
The current Iranian regime’s stated goal from its inception has been the total annihilation of the State of Israel. This is not a slogan, but a cornerstone of Iranian religious, political, and military doctrine. Iran and its current leadership are indeed an "existential threat" to the State of Israel, but had their nuclear arsenal and capabilities destroyed by Israel literally at the last moment.
The Iranian plan was to surround the State of Israel and coordinate an attack with its terror proxies; Hamas terror organization in Gaza, Palestinian Arab terrorists in Judea and Samaria, Hezbollah terror organization in Lebanon, the Houthis terror organization from Yemen, the Syrian Army, beginning with the barbaric and savage attack on Israel on October 7th, with thousands sadistically murdered, wounded, and taken hostage.
Yet, from that dark day, from the depths of unfathomable suffering when Israel was caught unprepared for the murderous onslaught, we have arisen and can proudly raise our heads. We succeeded in destroying Iran’s nuclear capabilities that endangered the continuing existence of the State of Israel, destroying the Hamas terror organization, destroying the Hezbollah terror organization, destroying the Syrian Army.
To my uneducated eye, the Assad Syrian army appeared to have pretty much evaporated over the past decade-plus, while Hayat Tahrir al Sham hard boys appear no better than their ISIS competition — fine for conquering terrified civilians and corrupt Arab “professional” armies, but no match for modern Western combined arms. What say you, dear Reader?
The political and military leadership of all these enemies has been eliminated one by one and at times in clusters.
In the aftermath of the ten day war between Israel and Iran, Israel’s decision makers must calibrate their thinking about how to deter future adversaries who despite being perceived as deterred, were able to coordinate an offensive initiative, rooted in the element of surprise, and inflict death and destruction on a local level, severely weakening Israel’s strategic capabilities and dominance in the Middle East. Israel launched Operation Rising Lion to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel's very survival, but no less to send a very specific lesson to future adversaries such as the nations of Egypt and Turkey. Both of these nations have quietly abetted and provided political and strategic support to the very same terror proxies trained and funded by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Egypt and Israel signed an historic peace agreement in March 1979 to end hostilities and normalize relations. It marked the first treaty of its kind between an Arab country and Israel. The peace agreement between Egypt and Israel was viewed at the time as having reshaped the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict for the better.
Egypt’s claim to de-escalate and bring an end to the conflict between Israel and her neighbors would be much more credible had they neutralized and prevented the construction of hundreds of underground tunnels between the Gaza Strip and the adjacent Sinai Peninsula, the eastern border of Egypt for the past two decades, These tunnels, some large enough to allow motor vehicles to pass through, enabled Hamas to import arsenals of weapons and unlimited materials that came through the tunnels that went from Egypt to enable the construction of an underground military capacity that threatened the State of Israel.
And reportedly President al Sisi’s nephew took a cut for every every shipment, or close enough. Had President Hosni Mubarak (1981-2011), or perhaps his sons, done the same?
Although Egypt is a poor country, with a low GNP per capita rating, with tens of millions of Egyptians forced to live in cemeteries or boxes as a substitute for a home, Egypt has built up the strongest army among the Arab nations of the Middle East with over: 5,000 tanks, hundreds of advanced fighter warplanes and helicopters, over 100 naval vessels and submarines, and an estimated one million soldiers in uniform.
That’s a lot of cannon fodder, if only they could be trusted to stand their ground. They didn’t in 1973…
A study by the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies reported that Egypt's air force has undergone the most significant modernization of any military in the Arab world. "From the point of view of weapon systems," the author concluded, "the military-technological gap between the Egyptian and Israeli Air Forces is gradually narrowing." In addition, the "Egyptian Air Force’s increasing confidence is reflected in its acquisition of aircraft for deep-penetration strikes into enemy territory."
Egypt now has some of the most sophisticated U.S.-made weapons, including Abrams tanks, F-16 fighter planes, and Apache attack helicopters. Western intelligence agencies are aware of and have leaked that Israel - the country Egypt signed a peace treaty with - is the "enemy" in all of Egypt's war games. The thing about Arabs is that they think they're smartest - fooling all their enemies (i.e., the rest of humanity). Actually, it's easier for Israel to deal with an enemy armed with American weapons - which all came with backdoors in their extensive electronics.
Tricky, complex American technology meets inshallah maintenance — how well do they do when held together by duct tape?
Turkey is one of the few countries in the world that most Americans do not visit, probably in response to the 1978 movie "Midnight Express", portraying Turkey for what it is, a backward, sadistic, and corrupt nation.
Despite its 85 million citizens, Turkey has failed to position itself as an influential regional power. The current Islamist government’s new policy, which is premised on Neo-Ottomanization (a return to the Ottoman Empire’s glory days,) registered a series of stinging diplomatic failures in recent years. Yet Prime Minister Erodgan and his party have reinforced their political status within Turkey through the daily scapegoating of Israel in the "best" of Islamic tradition.
Only recently Turkey expelled the Israeli ambassador,
…again…
suspended defense contracts with Jerusalem,
…again…
announced legal action against senior Israeli figures in European courts, threatened to bring the dispute before the international court and "take measures for freedom of maritime movement in the Mediterranean" including positioning her Navy so as to interfere with the free movement of Israeli shipping and mining expeditions in the Mediterranean Sea.
Turkey has also been a dominant and strategic partner to Hamas and its leadership, enabling terror leaders to operate, coordinate, fund, and train terrorists in Turkey.
…again.
The epilogue to the current period ends with the total humiliation of Iran; militarily, technologically, and politically, while exposing Iran as nothing more than a "paper tiger", and nothing close to the regional superpowerhood the Iranians have falsely claimed. The lesson should not be lost on the nations of Egypt and Turkey. Both nations have large populations of poor and uneducated citizens, allowing them to become just another Islamic nation that can be overthrown at any time.
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That's not what I meant TW. Briefly: I was once told that the most important unit in IDF is the one charged with finding and neutralizing backdoors in American equipment. The staff sold to Egypt/Jordan/Oil Ticks has the same backdoors.
Text taken from the V Kontakte page of Armed Forces of Novorossiya (AFN) Russia implements non-judicial military punishment.
[VK] Previously, only military courts had this right. Now, unit commanders will be able to send soldiers to the guardhouse for misconduct. The changes are provided for by a decree signed the day before by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The heads of military police agencies and garrison commanders are now granted a similar right. The presidential decree also changed the procedure for lifting sanctions imposed on military personnel. The above-mentioned officials will be able not only to impose punishments, but also to cancel them.
An arrest can be lifted from a serviceman provided that he has not committed a new disciplinary offense. Moreover, from soldiers and sailors - not earlier than three months, from sergeants and petty officers - not earlier than six months, from warrant officers and midshipmen - not earlier than a year.
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[Korrespondent] The Ukrainian Armed Forces are engaged in heavy fighting in the east and south of Ukraine.
The Pokrovskoe direction remains the hottest. There, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have already repelled 26 attacks near 11 populated areas.
Since the beginning of the current day, 72 combat clashes have occurred on the front. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational report on Wednesday, June 25.
Thus, four out of five Russian attacks have been repelled in the Severo-Slobodskoye (Sumy region) and Kursk directions. The battle is currently ongoing.
In the South Slobodskoy direction, the enemy attacked three times near Vovchansk and Liptsy and received a worthy rebuff.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy advanced three times in the areas of Golubovka, Stepova Novoselovka and Novaya Kruglyakovka. One battle continues.
In the Liman direction, the invading army attacked 11 times near the settlements of Grekovka, Kopanki, Nadezhda, Ridkodub, Kolodtsy, Zelenaya Dolina and Torskoye. The defense forces successfully stopped eight assaults, the remaining battles continue.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy tried to advance in the Verkhnekamyansky area.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the Russians attacked five times in the direction of Stupochki and Belaya Gora.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy attacked four times in the area of Toretsk, Nelipovka and in the direction of Aleksandro-Kalinovo. There is currently one combat clash.
In the Pokrovsk direction, the occupiers carried out 31 attacks near the settlements of Poltavka, Mirnoye, Koptevo, Mirolyubovka, Lisovka, Zvirovo, Udachnoye, Novosergeevka, Novomikolaevka, Gorekhovoe and Alekseyevka. The defense forces repelled twenty-six attacks, five clashes are still ongoing.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy stormed six times near the settlements of Zaporozhye, Volnoye Pole and Shevchenko. One battle is still ongoing.
In the Gulyai-Polye direction, the enemy once attempted to advance on the positions of our troops in the Malinovka area.
In the Orekhov direction, the aggressor made one attempt to advance towards Novoandreyevka.
Earlier on Wednesday, the General Staff confirmed the loss of two villages in Donetsk region. The enemy occupied Andreevka and Constantinople, and also advanced near Alekseevka, Dneproenergia and Shevchenko.
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Interesting concept from the Chinese to launch UAVs using artillery shells.
NEW HORIZONS FOR UAVS
China is actively developing the Tianyan project, the purpose of which is to deliver a UAV to a specified area using artillery.
The Tianyan product is a 155mm projectile of an unusual design, inside which a UAV and a set of auxiliary devices are placed. The system is compatible with existing artillery guns. After firing, the projectile opens in the air, releasing the UAV, which is then capable of performing various tasks, including reconnaissance or strikes.
This delivery method offers several significant advantages. Modern artillery systems are capable of firing tens of kilometers, which significantly increases the combat radius and reduces the time it takes for the UAV to reach the required area. In addition, thanks to the projectile, the UAV saves its own energy, which allows it to increase the range and duration of the flight after deployment.
However, this technology has its limitations. The dimensions of the projectile container limit the size of the UAV, which imposes limits on its functionality and payload. Also, the UAV must be designed in such a way as to withstand extremely high overloads when fired. Another technical challenge is to accurately and safely separate the projectile and its payload at a predetermined point in the trajectory.
The Tianyan project vividly illustrates the trend towards integrating unmanned technologies with traditional weapons, opening up new horizons for their application. The future of UAV development will increasingly focus on creating multifunctional, low-observable and quickly deployable systems, as well as improving the methods of their delivery and launch.
That’ll help the revolution… or tracking down the revolutionaries, depending how clever the Mullahs are.
[IsraelTimes] Iranian authorities announce the gradual easing of internet restrictions imposed during the 12-day war with Israel, following the implementation of a ceasefire.
“The communication network is gradually returning to its previous state,” says the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ cybersecurity command in a statement carried by state media.
The country’s communications minister, Sattar Hashemi, says in a post on X: “With the normalization of conditions, the state of communication access has returned to its previous conditions.”
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....
[AnNahar] Iran said Tuesday it had begun efforts to rebuild residential areas and public infrastructure damaged in Israeli strikes over 12 days.
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[IsraelTimes] Mahmoud M., 35, was allegedly a Raqqa-area operative for the terror group until 2016; authorities say he stabbed four people outside Bar in Bielefeld in May as part of ‘holy war’
[IsraelTimes] In numbers released ahead of ceasefire announcement, Tax Authority official predicts claims will likely reach NIS 5 billion as Israel picks up pieces from powerful missile strikes
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
[Daily Caller] Democrat California Rep. 
[RedState] On Wednesday morning, while talking about New York's mayoral primary with the host on a live radio spot, I heard myself saying something alarming. Only days ago, I would have bet serious money that those words would never be uttered by me. The fateful words were these: "It would have been better if Cuomo had won."
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!...
...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end...
[IsraelTimes] Israel has halted aid deliveries into Gaza, according to Channel 12 news, which cites an Israeli official.
The parties to the conflict differ in their estimates of the number of missiles fired at Israel, but approximately 400-500 launches are being discussed (21 waves of attack with 15-20 missiles in each). The number of missiles "missed" by the Israeli missile defense system is estimated at approximately 15-20% of the total. 
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Egypt and Israel signed an historic peace agreement in March 1979 to end hostilities and normalize relations. It marked the first treaty of its kind between an Arab country and Israel. The peace agreement between Egypt and Israel was viewed at the time as having reshaped the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict for the better.
Turkey is one of the few countries in the world that most Americans do not visit, probably in response to the 1978 movie "Midnight Express", portraying Turkey for what it is, a backward, sadistic, and corrupt nation.
