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Earlier this week, the American President Donald Trump appeared confident in America’s position vis-à-vis the war in Iran, and sure that the United States would be able to leverage its position over Tehran to ensure that shipping transiting the Strait of Hormuz could do so safely.

“The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran. We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named because it is only stopping Iran’s ships or customers from entering or leaving,” the president wrote on Truth Social.

Independent polling in Russia is notoriously difficult. And while the Russian president’s position is hardly insecure given his iron grip on the reins of power in the Kremlin, he is facing multiple mounting crises both at home and abroad in Ukraine. The war, which he began with the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022, is no longer limited to Ukraine but has spread widely into Russia itself.

In what appears to be a desperate move by Moscow, satellite imagery reveals that vital military installations in Russia’s far northern Arctic regions have been stripped of their air defense batteries. These anti-air assets are being moved to the interior of Russia, as the Kremlin seeks to find some response to an increasingly successful Ukrainian 40-day  drone campaign.

The campaign of drone warfare being carried out by Ukraine against Russian oil tankers, merchant ships, and naval vessels in the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea has entered a new, decisive phase. If the effectiveness and level of success achieved so far are maintained, it will have ripple effects that reach all the way back to Moscow.

For that reason, the campaign has been nicknamed МоЛоЧКа (MoLoChKa), an acronym for the Russian phrase meaning “Moscow Will Fall Through Crimea.

Mishra, Interesting Engineering
Kratos claims that it’s the only company delivering both propulsion and flyer systems.

Dylan Malyasov, Defence Blog
The U.S.

Ryan Finnerty, Flight Global
The test event over the Mojave Desert involved an externally carried Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM radar-guided missile.

JV Venable, RealClearDefense
Air Superiority over Battlefields Demands Both Standoff and Penetrating Airpower

Tectonic
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A Washington inmate used jail phones to call VA medical centers and convince staff members to hand over personal information of seriously ill veterans receiving care at the hospitals.
With a second call, the inmate then tried to scam their close relatives out of money.
Repeating the same scam over 60 times, Darryl Lamont Young, 41, took family members of sick veterans for $8,900 between late 2021 and early 2023, a federal jury in Seattle found Monday. The jury convicted Young of 14 counts of aggravated identity theft and wire fraud in the scam after a four-day trial.