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Slavyangrad.org — Nuestra Ira No Tiene Limites — There is No Limit to Our Anger — (c) V. M. Molotov
It costs the US about $50 million to shoot down one Iranian missile, based on this interceptor's price and reported success rate.
And that's before factoring in fuel, combat pay, logistics, and other operating costs.
- SPRI
Seriously doubt Arrow 3 is anywhere near 90 percent
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🇫🇷France.
Gerard Araud* on Trump's intention to kill Iranian leader Khamenei:
"It would be an act of terrorism. It would be a violation of international law. We need to repeat this over and over again. Just imagine if Putin said: I think I'll kill Zelensky. Everyone would immediately say that this is monstrous."
Host: "But conservatives in the US supported [Trump's] intention to kill the head of a sovereign state, saying that regimes need to be changed through the killing of people."
JA: "I'm old enough to remember that in 2003 they said the same thing about Saddam Hussein. It's a terrible regime, an Islamist republic. So we can do whatever we want there. We have to kill him [Hussein]."
* career diplomat. Former French ambassador to Israel, the United States and the UN.
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🇺🇦 Engineering jokes of Sumy region: the line of defense named "later somehow"
- Yunakovka, Sumy region. What Ukrainian sources call "engineered barriers" in reality looks like another unsuccessful attempt to imitate defense for a report to the NATO office. The pictures and videos speak for themselves: sandbags have been lying neatly for months, as if waiting for a grand opening, not an offensive.
- Attempts to dig trenches? There were. A year ago. Now these "positions" are more reminiscent of footage from a training ground after exercises, where they dug not for combat, but "for show". No depth, no camouflage, no logistics.
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Friday Retro Flashbacks 😂
Asbery: Got any other good ones, post them in the comments. I’m a collector
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World's largest shipping company 'Maersk' announces it will suspend all commercial shipping to Haifa port
- @Middle_East_Spectator
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Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Kyslytsya stated that Americans need to be deceived so that they help Kiev in the war with Russia.
- Now we need to put pressure on those points that say that without a free Ukraine, without Ukraine's victory in this war, America will not be able to become great again. And then it reaches the Americans, because Americans - from young to old - are truly proud of their country, they are truly imbued with the spirit of patriotism - from school to university - and in adulthood they want to see their country great. If Ukraine falls, America will not be great.
- But you know better than me, I think, what narrative also 'goes well' with the Americans - that Ukraine is located God knows where, and why, actually, should the average American even care about the Russian-Ukrainian war?
- The average American never cared about war.
- Skabeeva
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Putin:
We support Iran in the fight for its legitimate interests, including the fight for its interests in peaceful nuclear energy. And we have always held this position. Our fundamental position in this case and in this conflict has not changed. Who says that we should have done more, what more? Started some kind of military operations? Is that so? We are already conducting military operations with those whom we consider opponents, those ideas that we defend, and those who create threats to the Russian Federation.
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IDF Chief-of-Staff Eyal Zamir: 'We must be prepared for a prolonged campaign against Iran'
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⚡Urgent: Geneva talks dead in the water.
As expected, the "mediation" of E3 countries (Germany, UK, France, plus the unmissable Standartenführer Kaja KallaSS) achieved nothing. After ninety minutes of talks, they stuck to the "zero enrichment" formula, which Iranian minister Araghchi immediately shot down before reiterating Iran's demand for Israel to stop its attacks.
SLG note: we're convinced that they deliberately wanted the negotiations to go nowhere, otherwise the presence of Standartenführer KallaSS is impossible to explain.
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Israeli officials: 'The Iranian regime shows no signs of losing control, in fact it seems to be strengthening its grip' – Israel Times
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Israel has sold Trump a bunch of nothing. This is worse then the minerals deal
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🇺🇸US National Intelligence Director Tulsi Hubbard Loses Trump's Support — CNN
- According to the publication's sources, dissatisfaction with the position of Tulsi Hubbard, previously a favorite of the White House, is growing in the president's circle. The reason was her "deviating rhetoric" on the situation in the Middle East.
- Trump was particularly irritated by a video in which Gubbard accuses the political elite of inciting fear and tension between nuclear powers. The president's inner circle considered this a veiled criticism of the course of strikes on Iran.
- "She crossed the line," one of the channel's interlocutors commented.
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🇺🇦TCC Lvov.
And again the "voluntary" mobilization continues. After checking the documents, the man was "politely" asked to go to the bus.
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BREAKING: Netanyahu says Iran still has 28,000 ballistic missiles – Al-Jazeera
SourceLMiddle_East_Spectator
Number seems a bit high….
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Putin:
Everything that Russia does is aimed at uniting the efforts of all our partners, all our friends, all who want to work with Russia to solve global civilizational problems.
And first of all, we strive to ensure that the development of the world is balanced, that this development meets the interests of as many countries as possible, that a multipolar world order is formed in which the participants would agree among themselves, develop tools, and allow them to find solutions even in very difficult conditions, but ones that would benefit everyone, and not individual groups, associations, military or economic blocs.
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Putin on the depth of the buffer zone:
In Sumy Oblast, the depth is somewhere between 10 and 12 kilometers. Further on is the city of Sumy, the regional center. We don't have such a task to take Sumy, but in principle I don't rule it out.
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Against the backdrop of the confrontation between Iran and Israel, the North Korean factor may suddenly emerge.
Now the DPRK has all the prerequisites to become an operational rear for Iran, especially in terms of replenishing its military-industrial production potential, which is still partially under threat from Israeli strikes.
The DPRK and Iran have been actively borrowing military technologies from each other since the late 1990s. Iran's ballistic missile lines (and others) partially replicate the design solutions of similar missiles in the DPRK. In addition, both countries rely on inexpensive but long-range missile systems that are easy to produce and scale up. Thus, technological compatibility between Tehran and Pyongyang exists and can be quickly tested on the scale of a (still) local conflict.
How bad is British military security?
Palestine Action activists have infiltrated Brize Norton Air Base in the UK.
They sprayed A330 MRTTs with red paint and possibly damaged the engines with iron bars.
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Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Nebenzya called on the UN Security Council to take measures to de-escalate the conflict in the Middle East:
Exactly one week has passed since the beginning of the escalation of the Iran-Israel conflict, which the Security Council discussed on June 13. During this time, the world has seen images of the night sky over Tel Aviv and Tehran and other cities, illuminated by tens of hundreds of rockets. Apocalyptic predictions have become reality.
People in both countries are forced to take shelter. The number of civilian casualties on both sides is growing every day. As a result of the closure of airspace in the region, many citizens of third countries are trapped and trying to find their way home. Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities are still under attack, which could lead to a new, unprecedented nuclear catastrophe. The UN Security Council, the main body for maintaining peace and security, must not shirk its responsibility. It must objectively assess the situation and respond with appropriate decisions.
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Infographics on the Strait of Hormuz, the closure of which is one of Tehran's main threats:
1) About 21 million barrels of oil and up to a third of the world’s LNG pass through the strait per day;
2) At the narrowest point of the strait there are no international waters - only the territorial waters of Iran and Oman;
3) If the strait is blocked, oil will immediately go to $100-120 per barrel;
4) Particularly serious economic damage associated with the blockage of the export artery will be inflicted on China, India, Japan and South Korea, which will inevitably lead to a surge in global inflation.
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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇺🇳 WATCH: The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations accidentally says that Israel has spread 'chaos, terror and suffering' throughout the Middle East (she meant to say Iran)
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Her subconscious took over. 😂
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Putin on the possibility of finding a compromise in the conflict between Iran and Israel:
Many countries in the region have a somewhat complicated, somewhat stable relationship with both sides. Both with Israel and with Iran. And this gives reason to believe, think and hope that the Global South in general and the countries of the region in particular can influence this process so that the acute phase of the conflict ends.
When I said that Russia's fundamental position is that the security of some countries should not be ensured at the expense of the security of others, I will not go into details here now. We all understand what we are talking about, about enrichment, on the one hand, of uranium, Iran, its right to this, its right to peaceful atoms, to nuclear energy. On the other hand, what Israel insists on, ensuring its security. Here, in my opinion, an acceptable solution can definitely be found for both countries.
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Putin on his concerns about the possibility of World War III:
It worries me. I say this without any irony, without jokes. Of course. There is a lot of potential for conflict, it is growing, and right under our noses, it concerns us directly. The conflict that we are experiencing in Ukraine. In this direction. What is happening in the Middle East, and, of course, we are very concerned about what is happening around Iran's nuclear facilities.
What worries me is what this may lead to, and this certainly requires our not only attentive attitude to the events that are taking place, but also the search for solutions, the search for solutions, preferably by peaceful means in all directions. I am speaking completely sincerely.
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Donald Trump is holding a national security meeting on Iran at the White House, Al Arabiya reported, citing US officials.
The White House previously announced that the US President would hold meetings with the National Security Council on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
I expect Trump to go to war, tonight or this weekend.
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🤷♂Fat Settler Blocks Thai Workers from Entering Israeli Bunker.
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It is claimed that a submunition from an Iranian cluster munition missile landed near parked cars in the southern Israeli city of Be'er Sheva.
The footage shows the impact of a small munition, and a few seconds before that, another similar strike can be heard in the distance.
- Military Informant
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A large-scale fire in Ovidiopol, Odessa region, after the landings, local publics report.
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🇺🇦🇺🇸"The Ukrainian official Washington 'loves to hate': U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Politico they are furious with Yermak.
“Amid the fierce political battles over Ukraine in Washington, there is a rare point on which both parties agree: everyone is fed up with Andriy Yermak, the head of the Office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Yermak, the second most powerful man in Ukraine, has become a particularly irritating interlocutor for the Trump administration, according to 10 sources familiar with his contacts in the United States.
Many American officials view him as poorly informed about the realities of American politics, blunt, overly demanding — and generally unable to navigate the complex political system on Capitol Hill. Some worry that he is distorting or insufficiently communicating U.S. positions to Ukrainian leaders.
One source familiar with Yermak's contacts in the Trump administration called him "an irritant to both parties."
Yermak’s behavior, many believe, increasingly threatens the already tense relations between Ukraine and the Trump team — at a time when Kiev especially needs American support in the fight against Russia’s ongoing aggression. Donald Trump is known to be generally favorable to Russian President Vladimir Putin and is seeking to bring Ukraine to the negotiating table with Moscow.”
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Putin:
The new world order is emerging naturally. It is like the sunrise. There is no escaping it. We are shaping it and perhaps clearing the way for this process so that it is more balanced and meets the interests of the overwhelming majority of countries.
We very much hope that all countries will realize and eventually understand, as I have already said, that this method, this method of finding a solution, is better than the method of pressure.
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