Open Source Intel
France FM puts out statement against Israel violence in the ‘West Bank’ https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/2111737158524391578/photo/1
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Open Source Intel
The Houthis have released a video showing the moment they shot down a Saudi AH-6i helicopter over Najran with a SAM. https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/2111742504626524517/video/1

The Saudi coalition says an AH-6i reconnaissance helicopter crashed in the Najran region due to a “technical malfunction,” killing 2 officers aboard. - Open Source Intel
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WarMonitor
These escalations are because Russia feels emboldened by appeasements from Trump, and they'll continue to get worse until NATO has no choice but to respond kinetically.

Experts warned of this, but were often ignored due to political ignorance.

This places us much closer to WW3.

Unknown drones being reported simultaneously tonight over Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, while NATO fighter aircraft have been scrambled over Poland, amid a large-scale Russian attack against Ukraine. - OSINTdefender
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Nuno Felix
RT @Gerashchenko_en: So far, here is the list of attacked objects in St. Petersburg and Leningrad region of Russia:

▪️Ruchyi oil depot - the largest fuel terminal in St. Petersburg, with a total capacity of 73,900 m³.

▪️A VKontakte data center in the Leningrad Region. The data center contains four server rooms, 640 server racks, and over 20,000 servers.

▪️ The St. Petersburg Oil Terminal: one of the largest liquid cargo transshipment terminals in the Baltic region. The facility has 21 storage tanks for petroleum products, and the terminal has a total throughput capacity of 12.5 million tonnes per year.

▪️ An Ozon logistics hub in St. Petersburg - one of the busiest Ozon warehouses in the region. Ozon has closed it down for now.

▪️ The "Vostochnaya" 330 kV electrical substation - one of the most important infrastructure objects of the Russian energy system in the region. It is the key link and a crucial node in St Petersburg Energy Ring.

▪️ A cable-stayed bridge across the Korabelny Fairway - a critical 8-lane section, the main transportation artery connecting the northern and southern parts of St Petersburg.

St Petersburg oil terminal and Vkontakte data center on fire after a massive drone attack on Russia's Leningrad region. https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/2111667041467830696/video/1 - Anton Gerashchenko
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Nuno Felix
RT @Mpolymer: We need Gang of 8 brief, order to retain all records, full IG probe, hearings, etc. - just too important to sweep under by Rubio. If the USG (anyone, Musk, WH or DoD) deliberately withheld a force protection measure that ended up killing Ukrainians, and putting US personnel at Embassy Kyiv and American citizens in Ukraine at risk, that is a very big deal.

Not helping the situation that no one outside the DoD itself seems to understand Starlink and Starshield/MILNET/SDN-B, or what Ukraine has access to. - John Ridge
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Nuno Felix
RT @AdrianBonenber1: I was a captain in Afghanistan commanding infantrymen from 2010-11. We conducted combat operations alongside German paratroopers, benefitted from German air support, and wouldn't have enjoyed the same level of success we achieved against the Taliban alone

Hegseth on Afghanistan:

I was a captain in Afghanistan, and we would go to the headquarters in Kabul, and there would be 50 flags at the headquarters.

It was a beautiful thing to see 50 different countries contributing to the NATO alliance and the ISAF mission there.

Except there were like maybe five that contributed. It was actually closer to one or two that, by the end, were actually involved in kinetic operations.

In fact, the ISAF patch, we would joke that it meant "I Saw Americans Fighting." - Clash Report
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Nuno Felix
RT @JimmySecUK: This is untrue. Rubio is either misinformed, or he is lying.

.@SecRubio on defense product Starshield: "It's not at this moment available to Ukraine." https://twitter.com/cspan/status/2111608955847802991/video/1 - CSPAN
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Nuno Felix
RT @slantchev: Either Marco just admitted that the US government does not control Starshield and we are at the mercy of a ketamine junkie’s whims or that the government does not control what the Pentagon does or that Marco is pathetically out of the decision loop altogether. Embarrassing.

SECRETARY RUBIO: In the United States, nobody ordered that Starlink's speed be slowed down. https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/2111623525018558727/video/1 - Department of State
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Nuno Felix
This is definitely an important read

Regime Change in Iran Will Not Solve all of Israel’s Strategic Problems

Even the collapse of the Islamic Republic would neither resolve Israel’s fundamental security challenges nor automatically pave the way for normalization with the Arab world. Suggesting otherwise reflects a profound misunderstanding of the region’s political and strategic realities.

Let us assume, for the sake of argument, that the Iranian regime collapses tomorrow. Would that lead to the lifting of international sanctions imposed in response to Israeli policies in the West Bank? Would Hamas suddenly surrender? Would Hezbollah disappear? Even the so-called Axis of Resistance, while undoubtedly weakened, would not simply cease to exist. And is Israel really prepared to occupy Lebanon in an attempt to eliminate Hezbollah once and for all?

There is no question that the collapse of the Islamic Republic could significantly improve Israel’s strategic environment. Iran is a major source of regional instability, and weakening its ability to project power would be a substantial achievement. But a more favorable strategic environment is not the same as a solution to Israel’s fundamental security challenges.

More importantly, this argument reflects a much broader strategic misconception that has shaped Israeli policy for decades: the belief that Israel can bypass the Palestinian question by focusing on shared threats, particularly Iran, and that common security interests will eventually translate into normalization with Arab states.

The latest war should have exposed the limitations of this approach. Israel is increasingly perceived by several regional governments as a destabilizing actor in its own right, even as those same governments remain deeply concerned about Iran's behavior and regional ambitions. From their perspective, Israel's efforts to encourage Washington to launch another military campaign against Iran threatened their own security, economic stability, and strategic interests.

This is not to suggest that Arab governments suddenly regard Iran as a benign actor. Far from it. Rather, opposition to Iran does not automatically translate into support for Israeli policies, let alone a willingness to normalize relations while the Palestinian issue remains unresolved.

The assumption that removing the Iranian threat would somehow eliminate the political obstacles to normalization is therefore fundamentally flawed.

Indeed, Israel's persistent attempts to circumvent the Palestinian question have contributed to one of the most serious crises of international legitimacy it has faced since its establishment. The developments in the West Bank over the past two days alone should serve as a reminder that Israel's challenges extend far beyond Tehran.

Ultimately, Iran is a major strategic challenge for Israel, but it is neither Israel's only challenge nor an exclusively Israeli problem. The Palestinian question, Israel's relations with its immediate neighbors, and its deteriorating international standing will remain central to its national security regardless of who governs Tehran.

Regime change in Iran might improve Israel's strategic position. It will not substitute for a coherent Israeli strategy toward the Palestinians, the Arab world, or the broader region.

Confusing the two is precisely the kind of strategic thinking that has brought Israel to its current predicament.

#iran - Danny (Dennis) Citrinowicz ,داني سيترينوفيتش
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WarMonitor
Not good at all.

A doctor tells CBC News that Wainwright’s health-care facilities have been “completely overwhelmed” by the number of patients

"It is more patients than any of us want to count right now. It’s a disaster"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/livestory/cfb-wainwright-fire-live-updates-9.7385537?id=9.7385537.16766 - Faytuks News
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Nuno Felix
RT @Teoyaomiquu: I know it's incredibly long read. But as someone involved in a tech sector specifically working with the products that will suffer from this, I want you to please read my article below

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America went much further than that with its recent Starshield/Starlink restrictions on Ukraine. Let me explain the effects.

Starlink is a technology that provides critical communication service to government and civilian sector, I repeat the service is critical.

So what happened, and why it matters?

Someone wanted a 2 cent lower diesel prices before the midterms, or was promised something by putin in exchange for this, maybe he just had a bad mood.

Many say Ukraine is not an ally, so the USA can just do whatever it wants, however the service that was crippled by American political leadership or at their silent approval is sold to Germany and Poland, which are part of NATO and are in critical interests of these countries to keep Ukrainian operations running, you may argue, but it's official position by the elected political leadership of these states.

Many say it's a blow to the starlink, others that it's a blow to American military industries.

I think it's much wider, it's a significant in blow to the American tech and industrial sector which has been driving Americans economy for the past decades.

I am a cloud infrastructure engineer developing on premise, hybrid and sovereign solutions. This cloud infrastructure hosts data services used in production facilities, telecom, AI, mining industries and energy sector. Essentially all critical services to a functioning state.

Right now everything is run via remote control planes. Here are more concrete 3 example in the thread below: - ✙ Constantine ✙
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