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Iran Says The Strait Of Hormuz Is “An Unbreakable Red Line”: The Iranian IRGC warned that the Strait of Hormuz was an “unbreakable red line” after the US escalated air strikes against it.
The IRGC added that it would destroy “all infrastructure throughout the region” if President Trump acted on this threat to attack Iranian bridges and civilian infrastructure.
Beijing Is Preparing for Putin’s Death, Engaging with His Potential Successors: The PRC was once highly dependent on Russia for most of what made it a world power. But in 2026, not only does the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping feel no need to ingratiate himself with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but he and the other top leaders in Beijing are openly planning for what they will be demanding from Moscow once former KGB Lt. Col. Putin is dead or is deposed – or both.
In 1941, the United States Embassy gave Mildred Gillars a way out. She didn’t take it.
Gillars worked for Third Reich Radio in Germany, and as her broadcasts became more anti-American and anti-Semitic, the Americans took notice. Embassy officials wanted Gillars, a native of Portland, Maine, to quit her job and go home to the U.S.
After she refused, they took her passport.
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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
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Ryan Finnerty, Flight Global
The test event over the Mojave Desert involved an externally carried Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM radar-guided missile.