Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say.
Perhaps Iran isn't entirely bereft of Russian support. One might think US policy should more broadly reflect this recognition.
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This is after Iran not only supplied Russia with huge volumes of drones, Iran was a faithful backer of Russia's framing of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. www.jstor.org/stable/27384...
Australia might consider offering them asylum.
This is what a Russian strategic partnership buys: an expectation of support to Russia but as Iran found out, it isn't reciprocal.
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Australians are on submarines involved in combat operations against Iran
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No signs of defections or a crumbling regime in Iran
Iran’s regime maintains its grip, despite devastating losses
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Ukraine will have a critical defense industry and knowledge base necessary to fight wars in this century.
This can be a great place for Ukraine to demonstrate its value to the US in a second theater in the same war.
LIEU: Did Amalia commit a crime?
NOEM: She did not. She's with her family
LIEU: The reason she's with her family is because she almost died in ICE detention until folks brought a lawsuit forcing her release
Brilliant new work, these findings will challenge assumptions about how much Taiwanese people care about defending offshore islands:
"Respondents’ approval for defending offshore islands...was statistically indistinguishable from their average approval for defending Taiwan proper."
Too much is being made of the comments today about the state of the US-UK relationship. President Trump was critical of Europe in the past, now he finds the relationship more valuable. This too will change and the UK has a lot to offer the US in the Middle East.
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Will this produce the same partisan uproar as the disagreement over DHS funding and its consequences for national security?
12/ "For now, the skies over the Middle East are reliably covered only in the area of Israel, but additional forces are already being deployed to the region, and proposals are being made to involve Ukrainian air defence units in protecting the skies.
The end game in Iran turns significantly on whether the Iranian internal security forces remain capable. As long as they remain intact, it is hard to see how the people rise up and take back their country. Even then, the coalescing of civil society can be dicey. understandingwar.org/research/mid...
Guys, China’s risk calculus on Taiwan is not determined by some global scale of the acceptability of aggression
In terms of ICMBs, DIA estimates indicate that Iran had no missiles that could reach the US, though they would have 60 by 2035. Missile threats are not the only threat that Iran poses. www.dia.mil/Portals/110/...
Having worked at the FBI in counterintelligence and foreign influence during the time in question, I just want to reiterate the notion that John Solomon hasn’t a single of value to say about any of this.
Hmmmm. But he took no military action against Russia.
Ukraine has a lot of experience defending against Shahed drones. America surely has learned a lot from them.
So Ukraine, fighting an existential battle against Russia would bother to divert their efforts to attack a NATO member while seeking to become a NATO member? This is embarrassingly bad propaganda.
Clippy says: Look's like you're trying to start a global thermonuclear war. Would you like me to decide when to launch?
Ukraine has completely destroyed Russia's Black Sea Fleet headquarters www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukr...
💬 "What we're seeing is not just a spike in deepfakes but a shift in how influence is produced," said a defence and security analyst.
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The enemy always gets a vote in war. If the US attacks Iran, they could respond with sustained attacks against US interests. Do we walk away? What does that do for America's standing and its ability to deter?
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The PRC did far less in 2020 than Russia.
Apart from the constitutional hurdles to the president taking control of elections, the factual predicate of foreign intervention manifests as influence operations, historically supporting him, not undocumented voters. And the offices to combat it were gutted
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Things like this happen when you make bold policy statements and try to manage complex negotiations without relying on specialists in Iran and proliferation issues to guide the policy and lead the talks.
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How could executive privilege shield communications about someone who is not part of the executive? And if the claims are false, this intercept couldn't refer to a real executive action for which the president could claim a privilege.
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Saying no so they do not deploy a peacekeeping force is a lot easier than attacking the forces of a country backed by a nuclear deterrent. Is Russia willing to risk the survival of humanity if they cannot take Ukraine? If Putin is really that dangerous, policy responses to him should be more serious
