I'm speaking from a 3rd party perspective here. When I said "one can only hope", I meant that objectively, from the Iranian perspective. In a clash between Israel and Iran I lean towards the Israeli side, but not by much. More than anything I'm just genuinely curious to see if Iran has any kind...
Seeing reports that the following important figures have been confirmed killed in strikes.
Major General Hossein Salami, Head of the IRGC
Major General Gholam Ali Rashid, Commander of Iran's Armed Forces Central Headquarters
Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi and Dr. Fereydoon Abassi-Davani, two...
Russia, Lebanon (Hezbollah), Iraq, Yemen (Houthis). They're also friendly with the likes of China. The list continues to grow if we talk about countries that have serious opposition to Israel's actions in the region, but won't dare get involved with the conflict for a variety of reasons.
The other thing that is incredibly obvious is that Iran's 🇮🇷 "allies" are all talk and largely allergic to meaningful action. In the Realpolitik word that we live in, nobody is rushing to Iran's aid or defense, regardless of how connected they are ethically, morally, religiously, etc.
It's time...
One can only hope that Iran 🇮🇷 can get it's shit together enough to mount a credible counter attack, that achieves reasonable damage, on Israel. Otherwise, their credibility will be entirely shot. After they looked feckless last time around, anything short or a saturation attack that achieves...
The much "vaunted" Iranian 🇮🇷 air defense systems that I constantly hear about seem to have been to be extremely ineffective and perform exceptionally poorly...
I'll wait to see how this plays out, but Iran can't seem to defend itself from the air.
Ukraine's layered air defense continues to improve, this time bolstered by the announcement that they'll receive numerous British made RapidRanger mobile air defense systems in 2025. The $2.2 Billion loan from Britain 🇬🇧 will be used to purchase both vehicle mounted air defense system and 5000...
Reports are surfacing that Ukraine has pulled off another element of Operation Spiderweb. This time they appear to have targeted a Russian train carrying 13 MBTs and more than 100 armored vehicles. Apparently the train was also carrying grain cars, which Ukraine snuck drones into. Preliminary...
I think Western intelligence needs to do as much of this as possible through Ukrainian actors. There are a lot of ultra poor Russians that could likely be bought as well. As you noted, Russia is a massive country and with so many of it's assets dedicated to the Ukrainian front, all kinds of it's...
Truthfully, I'm not. If it was a nuclear power, surely, but I'm not convinced the same protection would be guaranteed to a non-nuclear member.
Although, God willing, it would. Watching the people of Moscow or another major Russian city vaporized into the history books due to the Government...
That's not what I said, at all.
I said that a tactical nuclear weapon used in Ukraine would lead to the West imposing a no fly zone over Ukraine, which would spell disaster for the Russian war effort on the ground.
I said that only a nuclear weapon used on a NATO city would lead to a nuclear...
Let's be very clear, Putin is not using a nuclear weapon. If he does use a tactical nuke it will immediately draw the much more powerful West into the war, they'll put a "no fly zone" over Ukraine, Russia's land forces will be sitting ducks, and the Chinese will immediately cut ties with Russia...
Ukraine 🇺🇦 has met the neccessary prerequisites to receive a new $500 million usd tranche of funding through the IMF. The funds will be transferred to Ukraine in the coming days.
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/kharkiv-under-fire-and-ukraine-gets-new-imf-1748584149.html
Interesting development on something I originally mentioned over a year ago. Switzerland 🇨🇭 has officially sold 71 Leopard 1A5 MBTs to Germany 🇩🇪, under the condition that they are not sent to Ukraine via Germany. This fleet of Leopard 1s is located in Italy and owned by Swiss company Ruag...
I've seen several sources indicating that Germany intends to work with Ukraine to quickly produce their own domestic long range missiles. I'm sure they'll send Taurus in a limited quantity at some point, but Germany only ever ordered 600 units and some have been used, while others reportedly...
Germany 🇩🇪 announced $5.65 Billion usd in fresh military aid for Ukraine today. The package represents the largest single commitment by Germany to this point in the war. Granual details were not announced, however, the following details were shared:
- A $2.4 Billion usd contract was signed...
Britain 🇬🇧 and Ukraine 🇺🇦 have jointly announced a deal that will see Britain spend $3 Billion usd on weapons for Ukraine sourced from Ukraine's domestic defense industry and partners around the world. The funds will be released in 3 installments in 2025 and 2026 and will be funded by frozen...
The European Union 🇪🇺 has officalliy adopted a $170 Billion usd fund called SAFE (Security Action For Europe) as part of a broader plan to rearm Europe. The fund will help see European weapons production effectively double and member states + Ukraine 🇺🇦 can take low interest loans from the pot...
