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Turkey's Brics membership hopes are dashed for now
Turkey's Brics membership hopes are dashed for now
One year on, Ankara's wish to become a full member to the club lost steam as tensions with India spiked over Turkish aid to Pakistan
www.middleeasteye.net
July 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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US ends foreign terrorist designation on Syria's Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham group
US ends foreign terrorist designation on Syria's Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham group
Move underscores how rapidly the Trump administration is trying to undue decades of sanctions on Syria
www.middleeasteye.net
July 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Russian-Ukrainian negotiations in Istanbul going well today…
May 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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***BREAKING***

You heard it on BlueSky first….

Candid Image Gives First Evidence Of China’s Secretive Armed Underwater Drone

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Candid Image Gives First Evidence Of China's Secretive Armed Underwater Drone - Naval News
China continues to innovate in the underwater arena. A fresh image reveals one of its latest creations, an extra-large underwater drone
www.navalnews.com
May 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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***EXCLUSIVE***
Naval News has first image of Ukraine’s Sidewinder-armed Magura V7 surface drone (USV) which shot down two Russian Su-30 FLANKER jets
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First Image Of Ukraine's Sidewinder-Armed Magura V7 Surface Drone - Naval News
Ukraine has successfully shot down two Russian jets sent to interdict their surface drones in the Black Sea. We can reveal the previously unreported surface drone (USV) which scored the kills using Am...
www.navalnews.com
May 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Reports of Houthi fighters’ formation of the Nasrallah Battalion in Iraq and Houthi fighters’ integration into PMF units, if accurate, may be consistent with growing Houthi cooperation with Iranian-backed Iraqi militias in recent months: www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/ira... 🧵
April 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Fascinating article about Bill Moon and his team that visited Russian nuclear weapons storage sites before things went south. inews.co.uk/news/america...
How Americans gained access to secret Russian nuclear sites - and what they found
A small group of US officials were granted exclusive access and documented their closely monitored visits before the joint program ended
inews.co.uk
March 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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"Boosted by increased military spending and reoriented trade flows, the Russian economy has proven unexpectedly resilient." HOWEVER, "growth propelled by military spending may not translate into improved living standards for ordinary Russians." publications.bof.fi/bitstream/ha...
March 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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"The stability of Putin’s regime and the trajectory of the war depend in part on whether economic hardship generates public discontent. As of late 2023, our analysis finds little evidence of rising dissatisfaction that could translate into political unrest...."
"Boosted by increased military spending and reoriented trade flows, the Russian economy has proven unexpectedly resilient." HOWEVER, "growth propelled by military spending may not translate into improved living standards for ordinary Russians." publications.bof.fi/bitstream/ha...
March 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM