🇺🇸❌🇻🇪🇻🇪 — Via Truth Social, United States President Donald J. Trump says US Military conducted yet another drone strike against a vessel carrying drugs out of Venezuela

A boat loaded with enough drugs to kill 25 TO 50 THOUSAND PEOPLE was stopped, early this morning off the Coast of Venezuela, from entering American Territory.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Example of very well-built Ukrainian trench systems northeast of Uspenovka, in the Pokrovskoye direction.

A series of 37 trench systems like this were built in early 2025 to defend against exactly this "folding" of the Ukrainian lines in the sector after the fall of Velykaya Novoselka

The trenches are small, independent and covered, with only protected firing positions sticking out of the system.

In absence of Ukrainian forces manning these systems, they quickly fall to rapidly advancing Russians, which effectively use them as reinforced accumulation points.

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🇺🇸🛡🇮🇱 The U.S. Army is expanding its THAAD ballistic missile defense base in Israel at (31°29'53"N 34°48'19"E) with ~5 more launch sites (pads) in addition to the 6 that are already in use.

There are also some extra launch sites that were already constructed there, so, the U.S. could deploy up to three THAAD batteries at this one base if they really needed to which would represent ~38% of the total amount of U.S. Army THAADs…

The U.S. really only has 8 operational THAAD batteries as of September 2025 (42~48 launchers) along with maybe ~550 interceptor missiles (rough estimate) so it’s a very exclusive system.

It’s also been estimated recently that the U.S. had used ~25% of its THAAD interceptor missiles to defend Israel from Iran’s missile waves during the 12-day war. To put that in perspective, U.S. Army THAADs accounted for nearly ~50% of all U.S.-Israeli interceptions of Iranian MRBMs

Here’s closer imagery of the U.S. Army THAAD anti-ballistic missile site in Israel at (31°29'53"N 34°48'19"E) with six launching sites in use with a THAAD launcher visibly inside each of their shelters & tilted south.

The base itself is operated by U.S. Army personnel (main camp at the right) along with at least one, maybe two, U.S. Army X-band AN/TPY-2 early warning radar(s) as well. This is an older image showing the AN/TPY-2 radar positioned south, facing Yemen’s Houthis, back when they posed a ballistic missile threat to Israel.

There already were some extra THAAD launch sites (pads) that weren’t being used, though they didn’t yet have shelters like the six operational sites. If you add up the total amount of launch pads right now, then it’s possible that the U.S. has contingency plans to deploy up to 3 THAAD batteries in Israel. Currently, the U.S. Army has two THAAD batteries in Israel, with the first being deployed in October 2024, and the second being more recently deployed in April 2025..

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🟨❌🟦🟨 An intel note authored by the Security and Intelligence Service (SIS) of Moldova declares Romanian politician, George Simion, as a "subversive and extremist" foreign actor which wanted to carry out "acts which undermined the national security of the Moldovan state".

The SIS declares the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) and Simion's older project, Acțiunea 2012 (Action 2012) as ”extremist organisations” due to their association with Simion. The "extremist acts" Simion is being accused of were organising protests together with other Moldovan citizens who wanted to reunite with Romania. Unionist sentiment flared up in the country after 2009 with the fall of the Communist government and presidency and continued to be popular under the first [Vlad] Filat cabinet (2009-2013) which was the first friendly government to Romania since the year 2000. In other words, Moldova's top brass declared Romanian-Moldovan unionism to be "extremist and subversive" which sets an awful precedent.

Because Simion was declared an "extremist" and "subversive foreign agent" by the SIS, his public support for the Democracy at Home Party (PDA) and the suspicion that the PDA allegedly "illegally manipulated" the TikTok algorithm to gain views, this represents grounds for the expulsion of the PDA from the Moldovan Parliament.

SIS did not write this conclusion into their note as their whole purpose was to inform the relevant authority in this discussion which is the Constitutional Court of Moldova (CCM) who will decide, based on this note, if the PDA deserves to remain in Parliament.

If you think this sounds exactly like what happened in the 2024 Romanian presidential elections you are absolutely right!

For comparison, last year, the Romanian and Foreign Intelligence Services (SRI and SIE) were asked by Romania's National Supreme Defense Council (CSAT) to write a report on the 2024 presidential elections. The SRI and SIE wrote in those reports that the elections were "compromised by Russian interference" citing cyber attacks and alleging TikTok algorithm manipulation in favor of Călin Georgescu by a state actor who the SRI and SIE suspected to be Russia but without definitive proof.

Based on those intelligence reports, the Romanian Constitutional Court (CCR) cancelled the 2024 presidential elections and banned Călin Georgescu from participating in the 2025 presidential elections.

Remains to be seen if the CCM will ban the PDA or invalidate the election results and order for new ones to be organised.

From a legal perspective, the intel report provided by the SIS is "the truth". The CCM is not competent to judge if the SIS was telling the truth or not (just like the CCR was with the reports made by the SRI and SIE), they just take it into consideration (unlikely that they will ignore it) and decide based on what the report says, the request of the Central Electoral Commission to ban the PDA and any other relevant information.

@Wallachian_Gazette