Wow. Career ending in any normal times. "A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter." www.ft.com/content/744e...
Morgan Stanley wealth manager approached BlackRock about multimillion-dollar investment for US defence secretary
#BREAKING Indonesia announces fuel rationing, orders civil servants to work from home one day a week, amid price hikes due to Mideast war
"Our goal is to completely replace existing Russian crude," - CEO of Georgia's oil refinery, Black Sea Petroleum.
He said they are now replacing Russian oil with oil from Turkmenistan, and plan to use Kazakh and other alternatives later.
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Anton Gerashchenko
"We see a large company, but we do not see it facing the realities of frontline combat against one of the largest military powers among nuclear-armed states," writes Bohdan Krotevych, Ex-Chief of Staff of the 12th Azov Brigade of Ukraine’s National Guard, in this op-ed.
When evaluating military technology, it helps to distinguish between two domains: the industrial and the battlefield. Rheinmetall is unquestionably a large company that produces effective weapons syst...
And of course NATO and Asian allies will be blamed for an outcome if Iran 🇮🇷 remains in control of straits of Hormuz. Bottom-lines: end of 80 years of US regulated energy order in MENA and US-centric alliance system in Europe & Asia compromised. Nuclear order also in peril as 🇮🇷 mulls NPT exit
Going TACO. Aka US loses its war of choice. Israel will be blamed for the whole mess. Gulfies will be dropped like old socks, to use a French expression. And the global economy can croak.
Indeed. It was worth listening to him yesrday evening live on Al Jazeera spelling out the chapter and rhe verse. A calamitous US defeat if Trump follows through
⚡️Foreign fighters in Russian ranks rise to 27,407, Ukraine says.
SITREP 🇺🇦 DAY 1497
1. Expect big strategic consequences if Trump throws in towel vs Iran as hinted
2. Zelensky confirms US wants 🇺🇦 troop withdrawal without security guarantees or other conditions
3. 🇺🇦 says 24 407 foreigners from 135 countries serve in 🇷🇺 ranks
4. ~200 Shaheds, 20 leakers
🔴🇺🇦🇺🇸 The negotiations in Miami did not yield any results. The US sees only one way to end the war. They see no other way to stop Putin than to withdraw Ukrainian troops from our territory. But why should we pay for it? We are not aggressors, - Zelensky
