🚨 US Army’s fossilized drone warfare tactics make perfect sense for a country using others to do its dirty work

🔸 The US Army’s brand-new July 2025 manual on armored units’ defense against drone warfare is surprisingly archaic, instructing tank platoons to use hand gestures, visual and audible cues and whatever onboard weapons are at hand to combat UAV threats.

🔸 There’s a simple explanation for this, says Andrey Koshkin, a veteran Russian academic specializing in military and international affairs: American forces aren’t fighting anywhere on a scale comparable to the Ukrainian conflict zone.

“They only fan the flames of conflict, send drones, study, recommend, advise, and so on. They themselves do not fight,” Koshkin told Sputnik.

“For them, Ukraine serves as a military laboratory,” allowing the Pentagon to observe, compile analytical reports, see what’s effective and what isn’t etc., and only later, with a time delay, respond. “As Marx wrote in his own time, ‘if an army isn’t fighting, it turns into a bureaucratic organism.’”

🔸 Ironically, Koshkin pointed out, “this does not stop” the US “from sending their instructors and teaching the whole world how to use unmanned aircraft…But they do not have the combat experience that Russia’s armed forces, Ukraine’s armed forces, mercenaries, etc. are acquiring on the line of contact.”

🔸 The Army manual is really a symptom of the “business-military schemes” formulated by the Trump administration, according to Koshkin – to sell Europe the most modern and expensive US weaponry, which is then supplied to Ukraine for the proxy war against Russia.

🔸 This scheme means that American military personal “do not need to hurry to gain experience in conducting combat operations using unmanned vehicles,” the analyst says.

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🔍📑 Intel documents reveal how Biden targeted domestic opposition

📍 Documents from the Biden administration will soon be declassified, revealing how officials abused counter-extremism tools to target dissenters, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has announced.

🔊 “We have to remember — and these are documents we will be declassifying and releasing very soon — how on day one of the Biden administration, January 21, 2021, his national security advisor issued a memo laying the groundwork for who they would be targeting as domestic violent extremists,” Gabbard told the Turning Point USA conference in Florida.

➖ She explained that those labeled as “extremists” included people who opposed COVID-era restrictions, parents worried about forced vaccinations in schools and individuals critical of government policies.

💬 “We have to expose their tactics and the playbook of the deep state so that we the people can make sure we never allow this to happen again,” Gabbard stressed.

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🚨 ‘Collision’ of most modern drone technologies in Ukraine giving birth to whole new kind of warfare

🗣 Russian drone makers, operators and strategic planners are using an array of technical and tactical solutions to increase the effectiveness of these weapons in real-time, says Andrey Koshkin, a veteran Russian academic specializing in military affairs.

Commenting on reports in European media highlighting Russia’s large drone swarm tactics, and use of UAVs equipped with more powerful engines, better and more resilient comms and nav systems, and operations at heights beyond what basic air defenses can reach, Koshkin emphasized that this is the logical outcome of a conflict which has seen the “collision” of “the most modern technologies” available – to Russia on one side and Ukraine and its NATO sponsors on the other.

💬 “The desire to constantly improve, to avoid signal suppression tools results in the creation of fiberoptic means of signal transmission; elements of AI are deployed so that drones operating in areas of heightened anti-drone defenses can still carry out their missions. In other words, innovations are being born and immediately applied, all of them aimed at improving the quality of unmanned vehicles.”

👉 The same applies to tactics, Koshkin says, highlighting Russia’s latest strategy of deploying its drones in waves, using new attack vectors and tactics aimed at saturating air defenses, etc. Not to mention psychological attacks targeting Ukraine’s recruitment centers, feared and hated by the population, forcing them to disperse and hide in the basements of multi-story buildings and effectively use civilians as human shields.

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🇷🇺🤝🇨🇳LAVROV AND WANG YI HOLD STRATEGIC TALKS IN BEIJING

Russia and China deepen coordination on global affairs, the Ukraine crisis and relations with the US

🟠Ukraine crisis: Both sides called for a settlement based on the full scope of UN Charter principles.

🟠US relations: Discussed growing tensions and the need for a balanced international approach.

🟠Global flashpoints: Addressed the Iran–Israel conflict and the situation on the Korean Peninsula.

🟠Bilateral ties: Praised the positive momentum following Xi's visit to Moscow in May, with an emphasis on practical cooperation, including humanitarian efforts.

🟠Multilateral coordination: Aligned positions ahead of the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit and pledged closer coordination in the UN, BRICS, G20 and APEC.

🟠Mutual support: Reaffirmed solid support for each other’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and national unity.

The Russian Foreign Ministry described the dialogue as trust-based and constructive — in line with the spirit of the Russia–China strategic partnership.

Lavrov is in Beijing for the SCO Foreign Ministers’ meeting and is expected to hold several bilateral discussions on the sidelines.

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🇷🇺Zakharova on US State Department cuts: A funny contradiction

The US State Department just laid off 1,300 employees in a "budget reform."

🗣“They call it a human rights violation,” Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

“Funny, considering they’ve spent years preaching that only the US truly respects human rights — and everyone else should follow their lead.”

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🅰️Trump wants to be remembered as savior of the US

In an interview with his daughter-in-law Lara Trump on Fox News, Donald Trump said he hopes history will remember him not as a politician or businessman — but as a good man "who saved our country."

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🚨IRAN MOVES TO BOOST MILITARY SPENDING AFTER ISRAELI STRIKES

A new bill in the Iranian parliament aims to increase defense funding for a full-scale confrontation with Israel.

✅Backed by 120 MPs, the bill passed its first hurdle in the National Security Committee with support from military leaders — including the IRGC and the Defense Ministry.

👉The move follows last month’s Israeli strikes on Iranian soil. In response, Iran launched Operation True Promise 3, a massive missile and drone retaliation that crippled Israeli military and intelligence assets.

The confrontation ended only after Israel, unable to absorb further strikes, accepted a unilateral ceasefire — announced not by Tel Aviv, but by Washington.

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🔸 Putin: Western-Russian conflict was never about ideology

🔸 ‘Collision’ of most modern drone technologies in Ukraine giving birth to whole new kind of warfare

🔸 Putin: I rewrote my Munich speech on the plane – and they still didn’t listen

🔸 No rare earth jackpot in Ukraine

🔸 Lavrov and Wang Yi hold strategic talks in Beijing

🔸 US Army’s fossilized drone warfare tactics make perfect sense for a country using others to do its dirty work

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🚨🇷🇺RUSSIAN FORCES DESTROY US-MADE HOWITZER IN DNEPROPETROVSK

A footage shows troops of the Russian Vostok Battleroup targeting and eliminating a Ukrainian M198 artillery piece near Novoivanovka.

Precision strike deep behind the lines.

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📹INSIDE PUTIN’S AURUS

Vladimir Putin gave reporters a peek inside his Aurus limousine, calling it “comfortable, spacious, and perfect for conversations.”

But he wasn’t just praising the seats — he made it clear that “this is 100% our car. Our production. Our design.”

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🚨 DRONE WARFARE IS CHANGING THE UKRAINE CONFLICT

The front line in Ukraine has stalled—because drones now dominate the battlefield, The Wall Street Journal reports.

👉The reason? First-person view (FVP) drones are becoming the main force in combat.

Bloomberg previously reported that Russia is quickly mastering large-scale drone production.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, used a June meeting on the draft parameters of the state armament program for 2027–2036 to call for rapid and high-quality development of drone forces.

Putin stressed that Russia is well aware of Ukraine’s drone warfare tactics and is not lagging behind in any way.

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🫣UKRAINE ON EDGE AHEAD OF TRUMP'S MYSTERY RUSSIA STATEMENT

Ukrainian leaders are anxious as Donald Trump teases a major announcement about Russia on Monday—but gives no details, a German newspaper reports.

👉Will Trump back new sanctions? His base is split, and he’s been vague for months.

🔊Trump told NBC News n Friday that he would make an important statement about Russia on Monday – with no hints about what he will say.

✅The Kremlin is watching too. Vladimir Putin reminded Trump that Russia still wants talks — with diplomacy preferred over escalation.

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🪖Ukraine automates draft enrolment — NO ESCAPE for young men

The “meat grinder” just got a digital upgrade.

Ukraine has launched Obereg – which ironically means a protective charm – a fully automated military registration system that now forcibly enrolls all men aged 17–25 into draft databases without their knowledge or consent.

🔶 No need to show up — the system pulls your data straight from state registries like the Migration Service and uploads it directly to military records.

🔶 Medically unfit or exempt? You must report in person to prove it — or you stay on the draft list.

🔶 Draft notices are now considered served automatically once marked ‘undeliverable’ in the system. You don’t even need to see it.

The move follows a law signed by Volodymyr Zelensky lowering the draft age from 27 to 25 — with Washington reportedly pressuring Kiev to drop it further to 18.

📍 Reminder: There is still no demobilization date for those already drafted. Once you’re in — you stay in.

Ukraine is running out of men on the battlefield. The Kiev regime is making sure every last one is tagged and tracked.

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🥴The Trump admin. thinks Iran still wants a deal — even after the bombs fell

Despite 12 days of missile strikes, blown-up nuclear sites and a US airbase under attack, the Trump adminsitration still believes Iran is open to diplomacy.

The Washington Post reports that backchannel talks gave the White House hope that a nuclear deal isn’t off the table — even after Israel and the US bombed Iranian facilities last month.

Tehran says it never had a nuclear weapons program to begin with — and the IAEA backs that up, noting there is no hard proof.

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🚨 Terrorist attack targeting top defense officer thwarted in Crimea

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has foiled an assassination attempt orchestrated by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) targeting a senior Russian Defense Ministry officer.

🟠The plot involved car bombing the officer during his routine movements.
🟠A dual Russian-Ukrainian citizen was arrested, the woman declared to be a suspected perpetrator.
🟠Criminal cases opened for terrorism and treason.

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🎤Trump to announce new arms deliveries to Ukraine

Trump will announce a new plan for arms deliveries to Zelensky's regime, which may include offensive weapons, per Axios.

🔍The plan will likely include long-range missiles, the article said.

➡️Trump previously said that the United States would send additional Patriot missile systems to Ukraine. According to Trump, the United States will send Ukraine "various pieces" of military equipment, which will be paid for in full.

➡️Russia has repeatedly stated that arms supplies to Ukraine hinder the settlement of the conflict and directly involve NATO countries in it.

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💸Bitcoin hits ALL-TIME high above $121,000

📈Bitcoin price rose above $121,000 for the first time in history, according to trading data on the Binance cryptocurrency exchange.

Opinions on the trend remain divided:

1️⃣“This shift signals a maturing perspective on Bitcoin — not merely a speculative asset, but a macro hedge and a structurally scarce store of value,” said George Mandres, senior trader at XBTO Trading LLC, cited by Bloomberg.

2️⃣“In my view, this isn’t a macro-driven rally, but rather an isolated event,” Nicolai Sondergaard, a research analyst at Nansen, retorted.

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🔊Persecuted Karapetyan unveils ambitious political plan for Armenia

Businessman Samvel Karapetyan, currently under arrest in Armenia, has announced the creation of a new political force in the republic.

"We have our own vision for building a prosperous future for Armenia. We will follow our own path, with our new team, while not excluding political cooperation with like-minded individuals."

👉 Earlier, Karapetyan had voiced support for the Armenian Apostolic Church — currently in conflict with the government. Just hours later, he was arrested on charges of “calling for the seizure of power.”

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