🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 #US Military Buildup in the Middle East

➡️ Air Mobility & Logistics:

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇮🇷At least five USTRANSCOM Boeing 747s have been deployed from the US to #Europe and subsequently to the Middle East from Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy bases.
🤍Aerial refueling tankers are accompanying F-35 fighters heading to the Middle East.


➡️Special Operations / CSAR Capablities:

🛰🇺🇸🇴🇲🇮🇷 Satellite imagery confirms three CMV-22B Osprey aircraft at Duqm Airport (#Oman). They arrived from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) on January 26.

⚓️Naval Assets (5th Fleet Area of Operations):

Currently deployed in the region:

• 1 Aircraft Carrier (USS Abraham Lincoln)
• 8 Arleigh Burke-class Destroyers
• 3 Littoral Combat Ships (LCS)
• 2 Nuclear Submarines

📄Deployment Details:

🤍 Arabian Sea: USS Abraham Lincoln CSG + Strike Group 3.
🤍Persian Gulf: Destroyers USS McFaul and USS Mitscher, plus LCS units.
🤍Red Sea / Mediterranean: Destroyers USS Roosevelt (DDG-80), USS Bulkeley (DDG-84), and USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119). All are Arleigh Burke-class (Flight IIA).

🚀 Strike Potential (Tomahawk Count):

• USS Georgia (SSGN-729): Ohio-class guided-missile submarine carrying 154 BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles.

• USS South Dakota (SSN-790): Virginia-class (Block III) submarine carrying 12 Tomahawk missiles.

⏺Total Estimated Firepower: Analysts calculate approximately 422 Tomahawk cruise missiles currently in theater, ready to strike high-value targets.

➡️ 🇮🇷🇷🇺🇨🇳 #Iran, #Russia, and #China announced that they will hold joint naval exercises called "Maritime Security Belt" in the northern Indian Ocean in February, the Iranian Tasnim news agency reported.


⚡️⚡️UPD: MAJOR SHIFT

New Reports indicate the sudden CANCELLATION of joint naval exercises between Iran, Russia, and China.

• Analysis: The removal of these "allied" assets from the potential combat zone removes a significant geopolitical "shield" for Iran.

#MiddleEast

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Sunday Digest: Earth and Space

Part 1 🌍 EARTH

#UAE #Russia #Ukraine
⚡️🧠❌🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸 The meeting between Ukraine, Russia, and the US scheduled for today in Abu Dhabi will not take place — Reuters.
Preliminary data suggests the aborted round of negotiations has been rescheduled for February 4-5. Zelensky stated that Kyiv is awaiting additional information from Washington.

#USA #Finance
⚡️🇺🇸🪙 The US Government has shut down again, this time due to funding delays in the House of Representatives.
Congress is expected to return from forced recess on Monday. Meanwhile, Trump has signaled a softening of his deportation policy amidst plummeting popularity ahead of the midterms.

#Economy
📉 Crash in gold and silver prices triggers "panic" in New York's Diamond District — FT.

Recap:
🧱 Global silver prices plunged 36% — a historic anti-record.
🧱 Gold lost 12% — the sharpest drop in over 40 years.
The massive sell-off in global precious metals markets occurred on January 30.

Following in Keir Starmer's footsteps:
⚡️🇷🇺🛩🇨🇳 Former Russian Defense Minister, now Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu, has arrived in Beijing for an official visit — TASS.
Odd detail: For some reason, he flew on an Il-96-400 (RA-96102) belonging to the Russian Aerospace Forces, rather than the government flight detachment.

#USA & #China
⚡️🇺🇸🛞🇨🇳 Ford holds talks with Chinese giant Xiaomi regarding a partnership in the EV sector — FT.

⚡️🇨🇳🇹🇼 Xi Jinping has secured full personal control over the army, removing 5 out of 6 high-ranking generals who could have obstructed him. The last to be purged was Zhang Youxia, accused of espionage for the #USA.
According to WSJ, nothing and no one can now stand in the way of Beijing's plans for a military takeover of Taiwan.

#Middle_East
⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump is forced to publicly retreat again.

Sentinel-2 satellite imagery taken a few hours ago shows the aircraft carrier CVN 72 Abraham Lincoln leaving the Sea of Oman and heading back toward the Indian Ocean.

➡️Furthermore, satellite images of the US base at Diego Garcia this morning show no American bombers present at the base.

#Ukraine & #Starlink
⚡️🇺🇦🇺🇸🛰❌🇷🇺 New Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov (in office since Jan 14, 2026) stated that Kyiv, together with SpaceX, has finally managed to restrict unauthorized Starlink terminals in occupied territories — and over the front line.

According to Fedorov, only authorized terminals will now function in Ukraine. All "non-Ukrainian" Starlinks will be disabled. Unverified terminals will be cut off.
We shall see.

⏺Reminder: One of Fedorov's first moves as Defense Minister (Jan 18) was an agreement with #Palantir to create an "advanced AI data center" (Brave1 Dataroom). However, it immediately surfaced that Fedorov had actually signed the contract with Palantir back in May 2023, while still Minister of Digital Transformation.

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NUCLEAR MONDAY NEWS

🌍 #Europe
🇸🇪☢️🇬🇧🇫🇷 #Sweden has been in talks with the #UK and #France regarding the development of its own nuclear weapons or their deployment on its territory — since 1968.

🌎 #USA #Middle_East
🇮🇷☢️ ⚔️🇺🇸#Iran is preparing to defend its key nuclear facilities, despite WSJ reports that US airstrikes on Iran are not expected in the immediate future.

However, according to the publication, "the US continues to deploy air defense systems to the region in case of an Iranian response."
This phrase itself sounds quite surreal — a "response" to an "unasked question"? Well, ok.

New imagery released by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) shows:

• Activity at a tunnel in Isfahan

• Renovations of surface buildings in Isfahan and Karaj
(details)

🇺🇸✈️ At least a pair of US Navy EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft deployed to the Middle East on January 30 were equipped with the latest ALQ-249 jamming pods, developed under the Next Generation Jammer program.

The new electronic suppression system replaces the previous ALQ-99 jammers and reached operational capability at the turn of 2024-2025.

Like its predecessor, the cutting-edge ALQ-249 handles the suppression of air defense systems, radars, and communication channels, but with significantly greater efficiency and range. According to Venezuelan military testimonies, the new complexes were used, among other things, to provide aerial electronic cover during the US operation to capture Maduro on January 3.

‼️ #Russia #Kremlin_Gambit
🇷🇺☢️🇮🇷 On January 29, Reuters and other outlets reported (citing TASS and Interfax): "Russia is preparing its personnel at the Bushehr nuclear power plant for evacuation from #Iran."
State corporation Rosatom announced its readiness to evacuate up to 400 Russian specialists from the Bushehr NPP in Iran amid the threat of US military strikes — TRT.

Although this news from official Russian sources was deleted just as quickly as the "nuclear train" story on January 27, it had the effect of a bombshell. As a result, Trump quickly backpedaled, as we reported yesterday.

As is well known to everyone, Rosatom does not build nuclear power plants on credit around the world out of charity (especially in key locations and areas near American military bases, as was once the case in Egypt).

Previously, Likhachev unequivocally warned that "any attack on Bushehr could cause a catastrophe comparable to the Chernobyl accident in 1986."

Now, the CEO of Rosatom has added that a "ban on purchases of Russian nuclear fuel would 'jeopardize' Europe's nuclear safety."

🔴 The most surprising thing here is that on Sunday morning, February 1, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 occurred in the city of Asaluyeh in Bushehr province.

➡️According to the Turkish news agency Anadolu, citing IRNA, the epicenter of the earthquake was at a depth of 18 kilometers (11 miles); tremors were recorded 24 km (15 miles) from Asaluyeh, 32 km (20 miles) from Kushkrar in Hormozgan province, and 45 km (28 miles) from Galehdar in Fars province.

"Coincidence? We don't think so."

❗️🇷🇺☢️🇺🇸The last major nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia (New START / SNV-3) expires on February 5, 2026 — the new scheduled date for the final deal in Abu Dhabi.

Key provisions of the treaty included:
● A limit of 1,550 deployed strategic nuclear warheads.
● A limit of 700 deployed delivery systems (ICBMs, SLBMs, and heavy bombers).

🇺🇸🇮🇷 WSJ: Official American sources have informed countries in the region that Trump has still not made a decision on whether to attack Iran.

#Russia issues Ultimatum
🇷🇺🇺🇸 "Russia has handed over proposals to the US to remove barriers to a full recovery of relations between Moscow and Washington" — Russian Foreign Ministry.

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🌍 #TroubledTimes #News

#China: Nuclear Renaissance
🇨🇳☢️ Satellite imagery of secret nuclear sites reveals that Beijing has begun expanding its nuclear arsenal following the disappearance of the last global restrictions on nuclear weapons — NYT


🇺🇸☢️ Washington has launched a project for "subcritical nuclear tests," also known as "micro-nuclear explosions." Warheads for the Sentinel missiles and the new sea-based ICBM will have to be created "from scratch."
⏺ #USA intends to resume nuclear testing on terms comparable to #Russia and #China, but does not plan to conduct megaton-class explosions in the atmosphere," stated Christopher Yeaw, Associate Assistant Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs.


🇬🇧 🇺🇸 The #UK Ministry of Defence is accelerating the development of its own hypersonic weapons, engaging the American company Amentum for "engineering and program management services."


🇩🇪 #Germany is significantly expanding the powers of its foreign intelligence agency, fearing that the #USA might stop sharing intelligence data — Politico
The BND has received authority for offensive cyber operations and AI-assisted surveillance to expand espionage capabilities.


🇵🇱 🇨🇳 #Poland has banned the entry of Chinese-made vehicles onto its military bases due to fears they are linked to PRC intelligence activities.


⚡️🇨🇳 🇺🇸 #China is rapidly ramping up the construction of nuclear submarines, surpassing the US in the number of launches and total tonnage — IISS

Chinese nuclear submarines are being built by Bohai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co. (BSHIC) / 渤海船舶重工有限责任公司 at its shipyard in Huludao, northern China.

A crucial milestone was the launch of the 7th and 8th Type 094 SSBNs, strengthening the naval component of the Celestial Empire's nuclear triad. Parallel serial production of nine Type 093B attack submarines has been deployed.

❗️Key findings of the report (data for 2021–2025):

➡️ Quantity:
⏺ China — launched 10 nuclear submarines
⏺ USA — 7

➡️ Tonnage:
⏺ China — 79,000 tons
⏺ USA — 55,500 tons

📈🇨🇳 China's Submarine Fleet at the start of 2025:

• 12 nuclear submarines: 6 ballistic missile submarines + 6 missile/attack submarines
• 46 conventional submarines

Of these:
• Two Type 094 nuclear submarines, capable of launching nuclear-armed missiles, were launched in Bohai.
• Production of the next-generation Type 096 submarines will begin in Bohai later this decade, with commissioning in the late 2020s or early 2030s.
• At least 6 hulls of nuclear-powered guided-missile submarines equipped with vertical launch systems capable of firing new high-speed anti-ship missiles have been put into production.

📉🇺🇸US Submarine Fleet:

• 65 submarines in total, including 14 ballistic missile submarines.

• No conventional submarines.

• Shipyards planned to build at least two Virginia-class attack ships per year, but since 2022 have been delivering only 1.1–1.2 per year, while Beijing has reached "1+2" figures annually.

• The Columbia-class ballistic submarine program is running a year behind schedule.

⚠️ CONCLUSIONS:
The world is preparing for a hot phase. China is closing its weakest link (the naval nuclear component) with frightening speed. The US is trying to catch a departing train by resuscitating nuclear test sites.
Europe, realizing it will soon be left alone between two fires, is urgently pumping up its intelligence services.

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🏁Zugzwang: Epstein as a "Nuclear Button"

The Nuclear Quid Pro Quo
🇺🇸 🤝☢️ 🇸🇦 The White House has informed Congress of a potential civil nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia that weakens previous non-proliferation safeguards.
➡️Translation: Riyadh's price for supporting (or not obstructing) the Iran operation is the right to enrich uranium. The irony is staggering — a strike justified by "non-proliferation" is being paid for with proliferation.

The Kill List
🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Axios reports, citing Trump administration sources, that the President has been briefed on military options including targeted strikes to eliminate Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his son Mojtaba, considered his likely successor.
➡️No final decision has been made. Meanwhile, hundreds of US personnel have been evacuated from Al Udeid Air Base in #Qatar (NYT, citing Pentagon officials).

⚡️Iran issues NOTAM related to air defense drills

Politico suggests the strike could begin as early as this weekend.

Iran's Response
⚡️🇮🇷🚀Tehran test-fired its first naval SAM missile, Sayyad-3G, from the warship Shahid Sayyad Shirazi in the Strait of Hormuz during "Smart Control" naval exercises, extending Iran's naval air defense radius to 150 km.
➡️Separately, #Iran has deployed decoys at Isfahan air base, replacing its S-300 air defense system with an older, non-functional S-200 launcher — a classic deception tactic signaling they expect the strike and are actively preparing.

Britain Breaks Ranks
❗️🇬🇧❌🇺🇸 #UK PM Keir Starmer has denied the US access to British military bases — including Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and RAF Fairford — for potential strikes on Iran (The Times).
➡️Diego Garcia is the only forward base capable of launching B-2 Spirit stealth bombers carrying GBU-57 bunker-busting munitions — the only weapon that can credibly threaten Iran's underground Fordow enrichment facility. Without it, B-2s must fly 30+ hours from Whiteman AFB in Missouri.
⏺ This either cripples the deep-strike component of the operation or is public theater ahead of a quiet compromise.

"Biblical Right" to Control the Middle East
🇺🇸🤝🇮🇱 US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee declared that "Israel has a biblical right to control the Middle East."
➡️This is not diplomacy — it's theological justification for regional dominance, spoken by an official US representative.
And this inevitably raised questions: Is Washington acting under pressure from Jerusalem? Entirely possible, given that Epstein was a Mossad agent.

Yellow Sea Provocation
🇺🇸 🇰🇷⚔️🇨🇳 Bloomberg reports that US and Chinese fighter jets "clashed" over the Yellow Sea on February 18. Approximately 10 US fighters launched from Pyeongtaek Air Base conducted unannounced exercises over international waters off #SouthKorea's west coast. Beijing scrambled interceptors.
⏺ Notably, South Korean military and officials were not informed in advance — Seoul learned of the incident after the fact.
➡️The message to Beijing: "We operate in your backyard without asking permission." The message to Seoul: "Your consent is optional."

#Cuba: The Oil Tanker Test
🇷🇺🇨🇺⚔️🇺🇸The #Russia-linked tanker SEA HORSE (IMO 9278686), carrying 200,000 barrels of oil, is attempting to breach the US blockade to deliver "critically needed fuel" to Cuba.
What else may be aboard remains undisclosed.
➡️А harmless humanitarian delivery or a probe of American response capacity on a secondary front?

Tariffs vs. The Supreme Court
🇺🇸⚖️The #US Supreme Court has ruled Trump's tariffs illegal. Trump responded by imposing an additional 10% tariff on top of the tariffs already declared unconstitutional, announcing this via his personal social network Truth Social.
➡️In any other era, this would be a constitutional crisis. Today, it's buried beneath the Iran headlines — which may be the point.

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#US vs. #IRAN — Middle East #War: Market Meltdown

⚡️💸📉Bitcoin crashed to $68,000. The entire crypto market is bleeding.

⚠️📉 Not just crypto — the entire US stock market is on fire because of Trump's war.
Investors lost over $800 billion in minutes.

⚡️🛢📈 Brent crude surged to $92/barrel — first time since 2024. Oil is up 43% since the start of this year.
@banki_oil

➡️ The Strait of Hormuz remains closed.

Key stats: ~25% of all global seaborne oil trade passes through Hormuz.

• 🇸🇦 37% — #Saudi Arabia

• 🇮🇶🇦🇪🇮🇷🇰🇼 Followed by #Iraq, #UAE, #Iran, #Kuwait

Top buyers:

• 🇨🇳 #China — 37.7% of all shipments

• 🇮🇳 #India — 14.7%

For comparison, in 2017:

• 🇨🇳 China bought 26% of Iranian oil

• 🇮🇳 India — 20%

• 🇪🇺 Europe — 19%

• 🇰🇷 South Korea — 12%

Today Europe buys zero — nearly all its oil comes from #Russia (including via India).

Conclusion: The Kremlin is playing by its own rules — and winning.

🇺🇸🛢 Depleted oil reserves make the US vulnerable if the war with Iran drags on — Financial Times

➡️ Here's why Trump needs this war: The US economy "unexpectedly" lost 92,000 jobs in February 2026 alone — WSJ (confirmed: PBS, NBC, EPI — unemployment rose to 4.4%)

🇦🇪💵🪖❌🇺🇦 Gulf states are willing to pay more for weapons: The US approved a $184M Patriot missile system deal for the UAE — instead of Ukraine. (confirmed: Raytheon contract, $183.7M, approved March 4-5)

⚡️⚡️UPD:
❌💸 BlackRock just froze $1.2B in withdrawal requests at its private credit fund.

What happened:
• Investors in BlackRock's $26B fund asked to pull out 9.3% of their money
• BlackRock said no — capped withdrawals at 5%
• Blackstone's $82B fund saw record withdrawal requests the same week
• Blackstone had to put in $400M of its own cash to cover the exits

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#US vs. #IRAN #War
🌎 EVENTS and FACTS

➡️ What politicians and military say:

🇮🇱 IDF Spokesperson: We have eliminated over 1,900 Iranian regime combatants.
#Israel plans to boost its defense budget by ~$13 billion to bankroll the war with Iran — Bloomberg.

🇱🇧⏺Human Rights Watch: Israel dropped white phosphorus munitions on the Lebanese city of Yahmor on March 3.

⚡️UNICEF: Since March 2, at least 83 children have been killed and 254 injured in Lebanon amid the Israel-Hezbollah escalation. That's an average of 10+ kids killed and 36 injured daily.

⚡️🇨🇦 An unidentified gunman opened fire on the US consulate in Toronto — Reuters.

⚡️🇺🇸 Boeing Secures $289 Million Contract to Supply Israel with Up to 5,000 Smart Bombs


🇺🇸 Trump:

"If we had waited three days, I think they would have attacked us."

➡️ Putin after the invasion of Ukraine in 2022: "If we hadn't attacked them, they would have attacked us in 3 days."

🇺🇸☎️ 🇷🇺 Agent Krasnov reported on his chat with his Kremlin handler regarding the Iran op's successes:
"Putin was impressed by our operation in Iran. He told me he had never seen anything like it before."
Now he just needs to share the joy with Kim Jong-un... and Adolf.

🇷🇺🫡 "Putin assured Trump that Russia is not providing Iran with data for strikes on US facilities," — Vitkoff (CNBC).

"Yesterday, during a conversation with the president, the Russians stated that they had not shared intelligence data. We can take them at their word."

➡️ So the CIA, Pentagon, and WP are lying to the WH? The audacity! And apparently, the Iranian Foreign Ministry is lying too, despite publicly confirming Russian and Chinese assistance...

🇺🇸🇷🇺🛢Trump:

"We are lifting some sanctions on Russian oil to drive down prices. Just until the situation is resolved..."

⚡️ John Bolton:

"Trump is manipulating the stock markets; we know that oil prices have risen sharply."

🇩🇪 German Chancellor Merz:

"From our perspective — and mine personally — there is zero justification for easing sanctions on Russia. If forced to choose between sanctions and solidarity, our stance is clear: we stand with Ukraine. We are deeply concerned by the apparent lack of any coherent plan to end this war swiftly and decisively."

🕔💰The Strait of Hormuz remains sealed off to all shipping for a second week.
Commercial vessels are stranded on both sides due to missile and drone threats.

🪖 General Dan Caine:

"CENTCOM continues to strike the Iranian Navy and its capabilities to ensure sustained movement through the Strait of Hormuz. We will keep hitting their minelaying vessels."

⚡️📝 Iran has already started mining the Strait of Hormuz — CBS.


💵MARKETS:
🛢📉 WTI crude dropped to $85/bbl following Trump's verbal interventions about an imminent end to the war.

Following Trump's remarks on a potential early US exit from the Iran conflict and the lifting of Russian oil sanctions, May Brent futures dipped to $86.99/bbl, though it continues to trade sideways around $92.04/bbl.

⚡️🇨🇳🇷🇺🇮🇷🇻🇪 Off the coast of #China, record stockpiles of sanctioned oil from #Russia, #Iran, and #Venezuela have piled up — 40 million barrels are sitting on tankers waiting to offload — Kpler.

That's a 17% spike compared to the week before the Iran war kicked off. The crude is floating storage, acting as a buffer for Chinese refineries amid supply chain disruptions from the Persian Gulf.

⚡️🇮🇳 Indian refiners have swept up all available Russian crude — Bloomberg.
The haul totaled roughly 30 million barrels, pricing at a $2-$8 premium over Brent.

⚡️🇶🇦⛽️LNG markets have taken a massive hit from the disruption of Qatari supplies.

💰Contract prices have surged to $13 — up 53% from 2025.

🇺🇸 The US domestic LNG price sits at $3.63.
🇪🇺 Meanwhile, the US is offloading gas to Europe and Asia (68% of its LNG exports) at $12-$13.

UPD:
🚨🇺🇸 US Senator Richard Blumenthal after the briefing:

"We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any of the potential objectives here."

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#US vs. #IRAN
Against the backdrop of war

March 12
❌🌐 Global Telegram outage: messenger went down in the US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Turkey, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, and the Netherlands
The same day, Grok on X went fully paid
In Russia, Telegram is still down — RBC

Medieval Ages 2:0: #Russia under the heel of RKN
🇷🇺❌🌐 Moscow and St. Petersburg have finally returned to Russia — mobile internet has been down in both capitals for the second week running

Residents cannot contact their families or call a taxi. In Moscow, sales of pagers, walkie-talkies, and paper maps have surged, while mobile fire teams — pickups with machine guns and soldiers — have been deployed around the Kremlin

In restaurants where a glass of water costs 820 rubles (>$10) and there's still no internet, they're now debating how much to charge guests for surfing: "A thousand per minute?"

March 13
🇺🇸🚀🛢 US forces struck Kharg Island
Consequences:

• 90 targets hit, but oil infrastructure left untouched

• All 55 crude oil storage tanks undamaged

• 10 Iranian (NITC) tankers successfully began loading 2.7 million barrels of crude oil on March 14

• Nothing is burning

Axios — the Trump administration is privately considering "boots on the ground": a commando raid on nuclear sites with occupation of Kharg. That's about the extent of what their forces can handle

The Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group — the USS Tripoli (LHA-7) and amphibious docks USS New Orleans (LPD-18) and USS San Diego (LPD-22), carrying 2,500 Marines from the 31st MEU plus 20 F-35B Lightning II fighters — is moving from the Sea of Japan toward the Persian Gulf. Attack helicopters are also aboard

If Kharg is occupied, 90% of Iran's oil exports will be cut off. This isn't a military victory, but it is economic strangulation. Iran without Kharg is a corpse, and Trump knows it

❗️🇺🇸 Before the war, Kaine warned Trump about the danger of Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz, yet Trump started the war anyway — WSJ

⚡️Hegseth ignored military warnings and slashed the staff responsible for civilian casualty prevention from 200 to fewer than 40 — Politico

➡️ The Telegraph: Trump is throwing "embarrassment" Hegseth under the bus, turning him into a "human shield"

March 14
🇺🇸🇬🇧 10 F-35A Lightning II USAF fighters deployed to RAF Lakenheath, #UK:

• F-35A Lightning II (388th FW) / s/n 18-5477 / callsign TABOR81

• F-35A Lightning II (56th FW) / 20-5610 / TABOR82

• F-35A Lightning II (354th FW) / 20-5568 / TABOR83

• F-35A Lightning II (388th FW) / 20-5566 / TABOR84

• F-35A Lightning II (388th FW) / 17-5259 / TABOR85

• F-35A Lightning II (419th FW) / 17-5282 / TABOR86

• F-35A Lightning II (388th FW) / 17-5237 / TABOR91

• F-35A Lightning II (388th FW) / 17-5262 / TABOR92

• F-35A Lightning II (388th FW) / 17-5260 / TABOR93

• F-35A Lightning II (388th FW) / 20-5611 / TABOR94

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The Pentagon has deployed 10,000 AI-powered Merops interceptor drones to the Middle East, developed by Perennial Autonomy and tested in Ukraine — Bloomberg

🇺🇸 Palantir CEO: AI gives the US an advantage in the conflict with Iran

Alex Karp confirmed that the Pentagon uses Palantir's Maven AI system to plan strikes on Iran
Military operators create a task card, select a strike zone, and the system recommends which weapon to use

❗️The problem: Maven's Computer Visual Detection is lagging, causing heavy AI models to see "things that aren't there" (e.g. Grok)

March 15
🇮🇷❌🌐 Iran has been without internet for nearly 400 hours
OSINT monitors report that today one of the strikes on Iran hit the vicinity of a telecommunications hub in Hamadan, causing internet to drop below 1% due to issues with AS12880, used by state telecom infrastructure and ISP networks — NetBlocks

🇮🇱 🇱🇧 #Israel has informed the US of a critical shortage of ballistic missile interceptors (The Scoop) and announced the mobilization of four military units, including the Golani Brigade, on the northern front with Lebanon

🇯🇵 Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi held a video conference with Hegseth on the Middle East situation

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