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🇷🇺🛠📉 Russia experienced a massive industrial collapse. Rosstat Pumps -38% Bearings -37% Tractors -61% Bulldozers -53% Elevators -37% Internal combustion engines -48% Cars -34% Buses -17%-28% Trucks -43% Car bodies -38% Trailers -33% Electric locomotives …
Rosstat is Russia’s official statistics agency and operates under strong political constraints and Kremlin influence, it is more likely to downplay economic weakness than exaggerate it.

The fact that such large declines are reported suggests the real contraction in private industries is likely significantly worse.
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🇰🇿🇺🇦SBU arrested a Kazakh national who attempted to eliminate Ukrainian HUR officer in Kyiv for $50,000.
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Spain ordered 4 Patriot batteries worth $1.7 billion.

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The amazingly low price is because the 51 PAC-3MSE interceptors weren't ordered. Those costed $1.1 billion.

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The deal only included radars, launchers and support vehicles but no missiles.
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🇹🇭🇨🇳 Another Chinese-made Thai VT-4 tank has lost its gun barrel.
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Argentina has purchased a small lot of Norinco(Chinese) 105mm APDSFS shells for the TAM and these are the results.

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They got replaced by Elbit's M426 and recently M428.
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There is a talk of Congress invoking letters of Marque from the constitution on Trump's behalf to fight "drugs".

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It would legalise privateers:


1. To use force by private individuals on behalf of the government on specific groups.

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2. Private individuals to sieze enemy property on behalf of the government and recive cash price or portion of the seized goods.
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🇰🇵 - North Korea unveils its first Nuclear Submarine.
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North Korean ?nuclear? powered and likely armed.

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At 8,700 tons displacement it's 5x larger than anything currently commissioned.

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Likely to carry between 3 and 10 SLBMs and 6 torpedo tubes can be seen at the front.

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Most likely to a Russian design, technology, expertise and weapons.
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Forwarded from Conflicthistory and News (Mr Elbit)
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Reactor Pressure Vessel.

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Ingot for which needs to be the most uniform, from the highest grade of steel and weight more than 500t. Reactor Pressure Vessel that's made from it costs $350 to + $500 million. Lead time is 10 years and is expected to rise sharply in the 2030s.

Only these can make them:
🇯🇵 JSW (Japan)
🇬🇧 Forgemasters (UK)
🇷🇺 OMZ (Russia)
🇨🇳 Shanghai Electric (China)
🇨🇳 CFHO (China)
🇫🇷 Framatome (France)

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Last time US was able to make them was in the 80s.

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It's unclear if US has the electricity available to regain this metalurgic capability and where it will take the electricity from to make Data centres.
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CQB in practice, and CQB in reality..

Footage in the end is from a lone IDF machine gunner in Jabalia, Gaza, 2024. Clearing out rooms with his "Negev NG-7", fitted with a "Meprolight RDS Pro V2" holographic sight.
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🇸🇴 - About Somaliland

✍️ So far the reactions have been not that great.

🇪🇬🇩🇯🇹🇷 Egypt, Djibouti and Turkey, allies of the central gov in Mogadishu, have all rejected the recognition and condemned it

🇸🇦 The Arab league also condemned the recognition and said it's a "fragrant infringement" on Somali sovereignity

🇸🇴 Somalia itself is also ofc outraged but they are realistically more irrelevant in this conversation than Djibouti.
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🇸🇴 - About Somaliland ✍️ So far the reactions have been not that great. 🇪🇬🇩🇯🇹🇷 Egypt, Djibouti and Turkey, allies of the central gov in Mogadishu, have all rejected the recognition and condemned it 🇸🇦 The Arab league also condemned the recognition and…
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👀 Now that Israel took the first step it's likely that countries aligned to Somaliland geopolitically will be more likely to also recognize it

🇺🇸 Rumours have been swirling since even before Trump took office for the second time that America might recognize Somaliland.

🇦🇪 The UAE, main backer of Somaliland, and their possy are most likely also interested in recognizing Somaliland.

🇪🇹🇸🇸 Especially states like Ethiopia and South Sudan who want good terms with Somaliland due to the Berbera port
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🇸🇦🇾🇪 - The Yemeni government calls on the Saudi-led coalition to take "military measures" to support it.
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Let's just hope both sides destroy each other

Fuck the Saudis, fuck the Emiratis
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