🇷🇺🚀📡📶🛰🇪🇺 — 📰 Financial Times | Russian spy spacecraft have intercepted Europe’s key satellites, officials believe | Unencrypted European communications are being targeted by Moscow | February 4, 2026:

"European security officials believe two Russian space vehicles have intercepted the communications of at least a dozen key satellites over the continent.

Officials believe that the likely interceptions, which have not previously been reported, risk not only compromising sensitive information transmitted by the satellites but could also allow Moscow to manipulate their trajectories or even crash them.

Russian space vehicles have shadowed European satellites more intensively over the past three years, at a time of high tension between the Kremlin and the west following Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

For several years, military and civilian space authorities in the west have been tracking the activities of Luch-1 and Luch-2 — two Russian objects that have carried out repeated suspicious manoeuvres in orbit.

Both vehicles have made risky close approaches to some of Europe’s most important geostationary satellites, which operate high above the Earth and service the continent, including the UK, as well as large parts of Africa and the Middle East."

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🇨🇳🔫❌📡⚡️🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — 📰 Remix News | China takes step towards ‘Starlink killer,’ could be game changer in Ukraine | China's ground-based microwave weapon with a power of over 20 gigawatt could be capable of seriously disrupting or even damaging satellites in low Earth orbit | February 6, 2026:

"A new, compact, high-power microwave weapon, the TPG1000Cs, has been developed at a Shanghai Nuclear Technology Institute, which could become one of the most serious threats to the Starlink satellite network. The device can deliver 20 gigawatts of energy for up to a full minute, the 
South China Morning Post reported, cited by Portfolio.

The TPG1000Cs, the world’s first compact driver for high-power microwave weapons, has been created at the Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology in Shanghai. The device can deliver 20 gigawatts of power for up to one minute.

At just four meters long and weighing just five tons, the device is small enough to be mounted on trucks, warships, airplanes, or even satellites. Some Chinese experts estimate that a ground-based microwave weapon with a power of over 1 gigawatt could be capable of seriously disrupting or even damaging satellites in low Earth orbit, such as Starlink, being used in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Previously known similar systems could operate continuously for no more than three seconds and were much larger. The Russian Sinus-7 drive, for example, was operational for about a second, delivered about 100 pulses per shot, and weighed up to 10 tons.

China has repeatedly signaled that Starlink poses a serious threat to its national security. Chinese military researchers are currently developing new “Starlink killer” weapons, including high-powered microwave systems and lasers, that could be used to relatively cheaply combat large constellations of low-orbit satellites if necessary."

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🇺🇸🇵🇷⚡️ — Bad Bunny ended off his Super Bowl LX halftime show by saying, "God bless America," and gave a shoutout to every country in the Americas, displaying their flags during the performance.

➡️ A display in the background reads, "The only thing more powerful than hate is love," and the football he's holding and eventually throws reads, "Together, We Are America."

🇮🇱⚔️🇮🇷 The Jerusalem Post reports that Israeli defense officials have warned U.S. counterparts that Iran’s ballistic missile program now constitutes an ‘existential threat’ to Israel and could trigger unilateral Israeli military action.

According to senior security sources, Israel has set a clear ballistic missile red line and has informed Washington it will strike alone if Iran crosses it. Officials said Israel is not yet at that threshold but is closely monitoring missile production and activity inside Iran.

Israeli defense officials outlined plans to dismantle Iran’s missile capabilities and production infrastructure, presenting operational concepts that include strikes on manufacturing sites and supporting facilities. One official described the current moment as a historic opportunity to severely degrade Iran’s missile program and remove a strategic threat to Israel and the region.

The report also cites Israeli concern that President Trump could favor a limited U.S. strike model, similar to past actions against the Houthis, targeting only select sites and leaving Iran’s core missile capabilities intact. Israeli officials warned such an approach would fail to eliminate the long term threat and leave Israel exposed.

IDF Brig. Gen. Omer Tishler, the incoming Israeli Air Force commander, is set to accompany Prime Minister Netanyahu on Wednesday’s U.S. visit, where they are expected to meet President Trump and other U.S. officials.

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🇵🇹🗳 A socialist wins the Portuguese presidential election for the first time in 20+ years

António José Seguro defeats the anti-mass immigration candidate André Ventura with 65% against 35%. The victory was made possible by center-right voters supporting the socialist AJS

📝Christian Heiens: Every single European election always features the same thing.

“Conservatives” and “Centrists” uniting with Socialists, Greens, and literal gender goblins from the designated Gay Race Communist Party to defeat the “Please stop importing the Third World” Party.

It happened in France, it happened in Germany, and now it has happened in Portugal.

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🇹🇼🇺🇸⚡️ — Taiwan’s Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun rejected U.S. suggestions that 40% of Taiwan’s semiconductor production be shifted to the United States, calling the idea “impossible.”

➡️ She said Taiwan’s chipmaking ecosystem "cannot simply be relocated" and made clear to Washington that such a target is unrealistic.

➡️ While emphasizing that semiconductor capacity will continue expanding in Taiwan, she added that companies can still increase their presence and investment in the U.S. without moving core operations.

🇺🇸🇮🇱📱❌🇮🇷 — On Tiktok, Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reposted yesterday describing potential strikes by the United States Navy against Iran, involving the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and her Carrier Strike Group currently deployed to the Arabian Sea.

The video so far got there 1.8 Million views and, as expected, made netizens worry about what could happen in the next days.

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSmemreo8/

🇺🇸🔄🤝🇦🇲 — United States Vice President JD. Vance and Armenian Prime-Minister Pashinyan sign an agreement on peaceful nuclear cooperation between the USA and Armenia

🇮🇳🤝🇫🇷❗️ — India is considering making a "major order" for French SCALP cruise missiles.

▶️The SCALP is the French variant of the British Storm Shadow missile, which the two European countries jointly produce. India already has some of these missiles but has used some in its fighting with Pakistan, and needs to replenish its stocks.

🇹🇷☢️📹 — CNN Türk Reporter asks Turkish Foreign Minister on whether Turkey should get nuclears bombs:

Should Türkiye have nuclear weapons?

Turkish FM Fidan: 🤐

Reporter:

You can say “No comment.”

Turkish FM Fidan: 🤐

🇨🇳‼️😀🚫🇺🇸💵 — 📰 ZeroHedge | China Tells Banks To Limit Exposure To US Treasuries, But To Some This Is "Hardly An Issue At All" | February 9, 2026:

"Treasury yields hit session highs shortly after midnight ET, when Bloomberg reported that Chinese regulators had advised financial institutions to rein in their holdings of US Treasuries, citing concerns over concentration risks and market volatility.

Citing anonymous "people familiar with the matter" Bloonberg added that officials urged banks to limit purchases of US government bonds and instructed those with high exposure to pare down their positions. The directive doesn’t apply to China’s state holdings of US Treasuries.

Communicated verbally to some of the nation’s biggest banks in recent weeks, the guidance reflects growing wariness among officials that large holdings of US government debt may expose banks to sharp swing . The worries echo those made by governments and fund managers elsewhere amid a brewing debate over the safe haven status of US debt and the appeal of the dollar."

#Geoeconomics #WWT

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