🇺🇸🇷🇺 American military leaders oppose helping the [Hague] court investigate Russians because they fear setting a precedent that might help pave the way for it to prosecute Americans.

📎 New York Times

🇺🇸🇦🇺🇬🇧 AUKUS details trickling out. Bloomberg says Australia will go for "modified British design w/ US parts". Guardian says "British design" w/ "heavy use of US tech." That's late 2030s. Reuters says gap filled with US fwd deployment to Aus & then Aus operating 3-5 Virginia-class.

Astute-class as interim was always tall order. Australia operating up to five Virginia-class would be big deal—but also big diversion from US navy orders. USN demand for Virginia-class already outstrips supply, w/ shipyards producing six in five years rather than expected ten.

📎 Shashank Joshi

🇺🇸🇷🇺 Trump says he might let Russia take over areas of Ukraine as part of peace deal

Fox News cut out comments by former President Donald Trump in which he said he would have considered letting Russia have parts of Ukraine as part of a peace deal between the nations. 

In an interview on Fox News host Sean Hannity's radio show on Monday, which is not broadcast by Fox, Trump revealed how he would try and broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine in the wake of Russia's invasion last year. 

Trump has claimed he can quickly bring an end to the war as he seeks election again in 2024. 

In the interview, he boasted of how Russia would not have dared to launch an attack during his presidency, and added: "I could have negotiated. At worst, I could've made a deal to take over something, there are certain areas that are Russian-speaking areas, frankly, but you could've worked a deal."

The Daily Beast's Justin Baragona reported that when Hannity played excerpts from the interview later that day on his prime time Fox News show, the part where Trump suggests he may have backed an agreement handing parts of Ukraine to Russia was edited out, with the excerpt cutting out after Trump says "I could've negotiated."

- Business Insider

🇺🇸🇲🇽 Sen. Lindsey Graham will introduce a bill that would allow the US military to use force in Mexico less than a month after President AMLO moved forward with plans to nationalize Mexico's lithium.

“I would tell the Mexican government if you don’t clean up your act, we’re going to clean it up for you.”

Sen. Graham claims the bill is a response to the kidnapping of four US citizens in northern Mexico, at least two of whom have reportedly been killed.

📎 Mint Press News

Anon: The Russians had the good take with Mexican nationalization actually just meaning cutting off US market access for Chinese companies.

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The four Americans who came to the border city of Matamoros last week stumbled into a city under the control of factions of the Gulf Cartel, one of Mexico’s oldest and most powerful criminal organizations

📎 Wall Street Journal

⚡️🇲🇽 Video shows a very heavy gun battle between Gulf Cartel and CDN/Zetas cartel in Tamaulipas.

Both sides are seen using technicals and locally made up-armored vehicles (monstruos). Both sides are seen using technicals and locally made up-armored vehicles (monstruos).

📎 The informant

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 A lot of Russian strategic aviation activity reported now. 6-7 Tu-22m bombers and 10-15 TU-95 bombers are airborne. Three Kalibr missile carriers are also in the black sea.

📎 FayTuks

🇺🇸🇷🇺 USAF Global Hawk turned on transponder over the Black Sea

📎 Okabeep

🇺🇸💵 At some point the music stops…right?

📎 Genco Capital