President Trump told CNN that Cuba 'is going to fall pretty soon' in a phone interview while touting US military success in his second term. https://cnn.it/3OV2kKO
"Unconditional Surrender"
Why did Iran fire 4 drones at the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan yesterday? There's been well-grounded speculation for years that Baku has allowed Israel to fly surveillance drones into Iran from Azerbaijani territory.
This π from last year:
www.rferl.org/a/azerbaijan...
U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children.
π₯SCOOP: Putin tasked Sergei Kiriyenko to run a Moldova-style election meddling operation in Hungary for OrbΓ‘n, sending three GRU-linked political technologists with diplomatic or service passports to operate from the Russian Embassy in Budapest. More in my newsletter: vsquare.org/goulash-krem...
Massive explosions in Bahrain, where I am. Media reporting that the oil refinery has been hit
Iran fired 4 drones in total at Azerbaijan, per Azeri Defense Ministry: 1 was downed by air defense, 1 fell short of its target, 1 hit the Nakhchivan airport, 1 hit a school building.
mod.gov.az/az/news/azer...
"This Russian activity in the Alaskan and Canadian ADIZ occurs regularly and is not seen as a threat." www.norad.mil/Newsroom/Pre...
these are pretty routine; happens every month or so. not anything of the ordinary.
Two Iranian drones struck locations in Azerbaijan today, incl. the airport in the exclave of Nakhichevan and a school. Two civilians were wounded. (Azerbaijan says it's hauled in Iran's ambassador.) This π is one of several video circulating on Azeri social media channels.
mfa.gov.az/en/news/no07...
βI donβt know whatβs going on β we have nothing to do with any of this.β
Fear and anger spread in Lebanon as Israel begins targeting areas outside traditional Hezbollah strongholds.
My report from Sidon
The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
x.com/WhiteHouse/s...
Images 9-10: Dubai's Jebel Port. (Feb. 26, 2026; Mar. 1, 2026)
Images 5-8: Buildings at the Kermanshah missile base. (Feb. 21, 2026; March 4, 2026). pbs.twimg.com/media/HCl5z1...
Images 3-4: buildings at the Isfahan missile/military base, northwest of Tehran. (Feb. 27, 2026; Mar. 3, 2026)
new before/after satellite imagery from multiple locations in Iran. Images 1-2: the Shajareh Tayyebeh girlsβ school in Minab, where officials say as many as 165 students were killed. (May 14, 2024; Mar. 4, 2026). Planet Lab
The US Agency for Global Media, which is run by Kari Lake, has just failed an audit. The organization's finances are too chaotic even to assess.
www.stateoig.gov/report/aud-f...
Hegseth: "Death & destruction from the sky all day. We're playing for keeps. Our warfighters have maximum authorities granted personally by POTUS & yours truly. Our rules of engagement are bold, precise designed to unleash American power, not shackle it ... we are punching them while they are down"
π·πΊπ§πΎ Several air defense and electronic warfare installations appear to have cropped up around a site in Belarus where #Russia may have deployed a nuclear-capable, hypersonic missile system called Oreshnik, recent satellite imagery indicates.
www.rferl.org/a/russian-or...
backstory on the problem here:
www.rferl.org/a/baikonur-l...
Roscosmos says it has successfully repaired the launch pad Baikonur 31/6, where its Soyuz manned capsules are launched from. The pad was damaged last November during a (still unexplained) launch mishap.
Qatar says it's shot down two Iranian Su-24 jets flying from Iran.
RFE/RL's Radio Farda isn't shut down. x.com/RadioFarda_
New arms race! Woo hoo!
U.S. service members killed: Another U.S. service member died Monday from injuries sustained in the initial Iranian attacks, U.S. Central Command said, bringing to four the total number of American forces killed. Two U.S. officials had told The Washington Post that the three previous fatalities were members of a sustainment unit in Kuwait. Trump warned more U.S. casualties were likely.
Four Americans were killed in the 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi and it became a Republican mega-scandal for many years
Hegseth: "To the media outlets and political left screaming 'Endless wars!' Stop. This is not Iraq. This is not endlessβ¦[Trump] called the last 20 years of nation-building wars dumb and he's right. This is the opposite."
The USS Thomas Hudner guided missile cruiser firing Tomahawk cruise missiles at Iranian targets on March 1. (official US Navy footage).
Trump has told four different journalists completely contradictory things about his aims.
It's going to be over in three days or four weeks... it's about regime change but he also wants to start talks again with the current regime...he's killed all the possible replacement leaders.
Considering Dzhabrailov attempted suicide in 2020, he might have legitimately offed himself this time
πReports that Chechen billionaire property developer (and ex-member of parliament) Umar Dzhabrailov was found dead in central Moscow (Tverskoy Bulvar), with a pistol beside his body. (type of thing not seen since the wooly 1990s). Police say possible suicide
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