Officials: US is now weighing the benefits of drone intel against the risks of escalation with Russia

The US is conducting an assessment of its drone operations in the Black Sea area, weighing the costs and benefits of the flights after Russia forced down one of the aircraft earlier this week, several officials told CNN.

The US has not stopped the flights entirely while it completes the analysis — the military sent the same model of drone, an MQ-9 Reaper, on a mission in approximately the same area over the Black Sea shortly after the collision occurred, US officials said. That aircraft was meant to survey the crash site and monitor Russians looking for the debris.

But the US military is “taking a close look” at the drones' routes and assessing how to better reduce the risk of conflict with Russia's military, which regularly flies fighter jets in and out of Crimea, the officials said.

The Pentagon plans to analyze the overall costs and benefits of flying these missions, comparing the potential intelligence value of a particular route versus the risk of escalation with Russia.

Russia may have recovered some small pieces of debris from the drone, according to a US official. - CNN

Pentagon (Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder) statements on the drone incident

"We assess it's very unlikely that they would be able to recover anything useful given a couple of factors. One, the fact -- and I'm not going to go into details -- but that we took steps to protect information aboard that aircraft. And two, the fact that it crashed in extremely deep water,"

Mr Ryder also said the US did not ask Russia for an apology after the drone incident in the Black Sea.

Meanwhile in Denmark...
Copenhagen will not allow Russia to participate in the investigation of the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions, Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has declared.

"In Denmark, Sweden and Germany the rule of law prevails and our investigations can be trusted"
"We have told the Russians that we will carry out a thorough investigation . And once it is finished, we will announce the results".

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The US Congress: The war on drug cartels should be the only war of the United States The United States should focus on the war against Mexican drug cartels, and not on the Ukrainian conflict, according to Marjorie Taylor Green (Republican, Georgia), a member of the US House of Representatives.

In early March, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham called for legislation that would equate some Mexican drug cartels with " foreign terrorist groups." In turn, a member of the House of Representatives, Republican Dan Crenshaw recalled that in January he proposed to authorize the use of military force against drug cartels in Mexico.I don't listen to foreign war drums. The only war we have to wage is against the Mexican cartels, because they are already at war with us, killing Americans every day, " she wrote on Twitter on March 16.

In early March, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham called for legislation that would equate some Mexican drug cartels with " foreign terrorist groups." In turn, a member of the House of Representatives, Republican Dan Crenshaw recalled that in January he proposed to authorize the use of military force against drug cartels in Mexico

Former Silicon Valley Bank President Greg Becker flew to Hawaii after bankruptcy. He cashed in 12,500 shares for nearly $3.5 million just two weeks before his institution went bankrupt.

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Китай сократил вложения в госдолг США до самого низкого уровня с 2009 года: китайские вложения в ценные бумаги Казначейства США в январе уменьшились до 859,4 млрд долл.

Процесс выхода Китая из американских долговых бумаг не прекращается, КНР избавляется от сотен миллиардов долларов, каждый день в США возвращают их макулатуру в гигантских количествах, таким образом нанося удар по всем странам НАТО.

Если раньше Китай был самым крупным держателем американских ценных бумаг, теперь только наивные дураки могут держать свои активы в странах НАТО, ведь санкциями это все могут просто конфисковать без каких-либо правовых оснований.

Наконец мир прозрел и понял, нельзя хранить свои деньги в стране грабителей, мародеров и коррупционеров.
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China cuts investment in US government debt to its lowest level since 2009: Chinese investment in US Treasury securities fell to $859.4 billion in January.

the process of China's exit from American debt securities does not stop, China gets rid of hundreds of billions of dollars, every day their waste paper is returned to the United States in gigantic quantities, thus striking a blow to all NATO countries.

if before China was the largest holder of American securities, now only naive fools can keep their assets in NATO countries, because sanctions can simply confiscate everything without any legal grounds.

Finally, the world has seen the light and understood that it is impossible to keep your money in the country of robbers, marauders and corrupt officials.
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💢United Nations said that Saudi Arabia has killed and wounded more than 10,200 children in Yemen

According to Vedomosti on April 6th President Putin will meet with President Lukashenko of Belarus for a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State.

🇺🇸 Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo explained why Washington will be in this conflict to the very end:

“If we allow Putin to defeat Ukraine, then our adversaries will question America's resolve. And there is nothing more dangerous to our national security.”

Turkish Bayraktar TB2S UAV with satellite control channel spotted in Libya 🇱🇾

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