❓Europe’s high-tech headache: What happens if Uncle Sam pulls the plug?

European leaders are starting to realize that their shiny, high-tech weapons come with a Made-in-USA catch. According to The Washington Post, there’s growing anxiety that the Trump White House might stop servicing the complex US-made systems Europe relies on – like missile defenses, spy drones and early-warning aircraft.

The fine print? Some of the gear can only be maintained by US firms, and even European-made equipment with American parts is tangled in Washington’s rules.

As one European official put it, “It’s not like Trump can push a button and all our planes fall from the sky…”

Dependency: it’s not just a feeling – it’s a policy.

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❌ X REFUSES Turkish request to suspend 700+ accounts during countrywide protests

Labels Türkiye’s move as “ILLEGAL”

“X will always defend freedom of speech,” the statement reads.

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Iran’s master stroke: anti-air and anti-ship missiles on key islands could BLOCKADE US forces in the Gulf

The IRGC has stationed new air and coastal defense missile systems on Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa -three highly strategic islands west of the Strait of Hormuz global energy trade chokepoint.

With the deployment, IRGC Navy commander Alireza Tangsiri announced that Iran now has the capability attack “enemy bases, vessels, and assets in the region” at ranges up to 600 km.

Tangsiri did not specify which systems were deployed, but an Iranian TV report offered hints, showing the commander inspecting troops and a line-up of ground-based mobile missile systems and speedboats.

Air defense coverage: complete

If the IRGC’s SAM deployment includes systems like:
🟠the Bavar-373-II (range up to 300 km)
🟠the S-300PMU-2 (200 km)
🟠the legacy S-200VE (250-300 km)
🟠the Khordad-15 (120 km)
🟠and/or the 3rd of Khordad (105 km)

IRGC coverage of the eastern Persian Gulf is complete, stretching from Iran’s northern coastline in the north to Gulf countries to the south.

From its island strongholds, Iran can target the US-garrisoned Al Dhafra Air Base in the Emirates, and block American warplanes flying out of bases in Bahrain, Qatar or Kuwait from approaching the Hormuz Strait, in the event of enemy aggression.

Anti-ship coverage? Even more extensive

If coastal anti-ship defenses on the islands include:

🟠the Abu Mahdi anti-ship cruise missile (600 km range), seemingly alluded to by General Tangsiri

🟠the Khalij Fars anti-ship missile (300 km range)

🟠or the Qader cruise missile (300 km range, widely fielded)

IRGC control of the sea extends all the way to the Al Udeid Air Base in Doha – the largest US military base in the region, and Naval Support Activity Bahrain, HQ of CENTCOM and home of the US Fifth Fleet.

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🗣 ‘Paramilitary TERRORIST groups are extremely USEFUL to US statecraft’ – Mike Benz

💬 “USAID cannot directly provide funding to terrorist groups, but their CONTRACTORS are not required under the grant agreements to go through those... counterterrorism financing [rules]… And so this is how you have USAID giving, you know, just last week, $120 MILLION to ISIS*,” explained Mike Benz, a former Trump State Department official.

*terrorist organization banned in Russia

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😂 ‘CHINESE THREAT’ strikes again: Americans LOSE THEIR MINDS over a WHOPPING 0.1% of farmland sold to Chinese businesses

💬 “As of 2023, Chinese owners had just over 277,000 acres of agricultural land, less than 1% of all the foreign-held land here in the United States. And it's actually DOWN from a year earlier, when you're at 347,000, just about, in terms of 347,000 acres,” News Nation’s Connell McShane said, sounding like he wasn’t quite sure what the fuss was about.

Meanwhile, Brian Enten, reporting from Oklahoma, BRAVELY INVESTIGATED the real threat: A BARN.

💬 “There’s a dog. That tells me somebody’s here,” he declared, after honking his horn and failing to provoke a response from the alleged "Chinese infiltrators".

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🗳 Dilma Rousseff RE-ELECTED as head of the BRICS New Development Bank – reports

💬 "I was re-elected, the board approved it unanimously," O Globo newspaper quoted Rousseff as saying.

At the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia proposed extending Brazil's presidency and the mandate of the bank's president, Rousseff.

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⚔️ South Korea's Constitutional Court OVERTURNS PM Han Duck-soo's impeachment, RESTORES his powers – reports

The decision comes after Han was impeached as acting president more than two months ago, following clashes with the opposition-led parliament over judicial appointments and his alleged role in President Yoon Suk-yeol's short-lived martial law declaration.

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