Interested in #intelligence | sometimes IMINT et al. | Looking at 🇨🇳🇷🇺 global strategic acting especially in LatAm and Africa | proliferation & sanctions

Joined February 2022
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A 23-year old of German, Polish and Moroccan citizenship has been arrested at Cologne/Bonn Airport accused of supporting ISKP. ‼️He applied also for security accreditation as a helper for the football #EURO2024 a few days ago. 🧵@terrorismus tagesschau.de/inland/innenpo…
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Satellite imagery show damage and Iranian media videos show small holes in an Iranian water facility, @MunitionsPortal identifies parts of GBU-39 precision-guided munitions
Drinking water installations are quintessentially “objects indispensable to survival,” a category with heightened protection in international law. Attacks directed against such installations are presumptively unlawful. This report strongly indicates precision strikes on two.
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"Unfortunately, we cannot drone strike Andrew Tate," Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces tells the internet, to widespread disappointment.
Ok, fellas, we see all your tags and we get it. But. Being a shitty person doesn't make someone a legitimate military target under international law. Climbing on a tank for internet clout isn't enough to become a combatant. Do something that actually qualifies — then we can talk. Until then, we'll keep our drones for real military targets 😉
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🇺🇸🇨🇳Pentagon released its updated Section 1260H list, which designates Chinese companies as supporting Beijing’s military-civil fusion program. It now includes major publicly traded Chinese technology firms such as Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD fdd.org/analysis/2026/06/09/…
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If this identity is confirmed, it would be Ukraine's biggest achievement for Syrians ever. General Maksimtsev oversaw the aerial bombardment campaign that began Russia's intervention in #Syria (2015) - a wall of fire that caused countless victims, esp. from Hama to Aleppo. He's believed to have been killed in today's car bomb in Moscow.
Unofficial Russian media reports that the general assassinated in Moscow today is Lt. Gen. Alexander Maksimtsev, chief of general staff and first deputy commander of Russia’s Aerospace Forces. *No confirmation yet* In 2015, he was the commander of the Russian air component in Syria, and in his roles was responsible for many Ukrainian — and Syrian — civilian deaths. He was under European and other sanctions. Source: t.me/russicaRU/68659
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“After months of efforts to rescue the project, Chancellor Friedrich Merz told President Emmanuel Macron during a meeting in Montenegro on Friday that it would be better to end the partnership on the aircraft, according to German government insiders. “Instead, Merz proposed that the two countries and Spain, which is also a partner, continue working together on the so-called combat cloud — the software architecture designed to connect aircraft, sensors, radars, drones and satellites in real time, the officials added.”
!! FCAS is dead - that's it ! Berlin pulls plug on Franco-German fighter jet ft.com/content/c13f2931-f2b5… via @ft
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While the fighter aircraft FCAS is dead "the integration of various weapon systems, platforms and sensors into a so-called ‘Combat Cloud’ should be continued"
Replying to @Pl_Maurice
* ➡️ La coopération continue uniquement sur le système numérique reliant avions, drones et satellites. ➡️ Dassault développera son propre appareil pour la France ➡️ Airbus travaillera sur une solution allemande, possiblement avec Saab. 2/ 🧶 #FCAS #SCAF
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Nord Stream is suing Lloyd's for €580 in damages from the destruction of the pipelines; the insurers say war is not covered. The insurers' lawyers are using my reporting & @ronzheimer pod to argue that they should not be paying anything to the Russians dropbox.com/scl/fi/n92ip2qby…
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Turkey re-exported German and Croatian optical sights to a long-term FSB supplier and American micrometers to the Alabuga special economic zone, where Shahed drones are produced, The Insider reported. In 2025 the country also served as a transit point for Western flow meters and level sensors used by Russian fuel exporters. Turkey remains one of the main hubs for supplying sanctioned dual-use equipment to Russia.
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SCOOP #NSA is using #Mythos to conduct offensive cyber operations. Anthropic engineers are embedded in the US intelligence agency. (@CristinaCriddle & me @AsiaLens) ft.com/content/d02d91b3-2636…
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NEW: MI5 and Five Eyes partner agencies have just issued what they say is an unprecedented joint warning about attempts by Chinese spies to use LinkedIn to recruit Western assets
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Russia knows that Ukraine is short of Patriot interceptors and threatens to obliterate Kyiv.
⚡️ ВC Российской Федерации приступают к нанесению системных ударов по предприятиям украинского ВПК в Киеве. Предупреждаем иностранных граждан, включая персонал дипмиссий и представительств международных организаций, о необходимости покинуть город. 📄 t.me/MID_Russia/82470
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Given the patterns in this war, we should interpret these alerts as a signal that Russia is preparing its latest Oreshnik missile strike and just satisfied the requirements of the 1988 ballistic missile notification agreement by alerting the U.S.
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Exclusive: Xi Jinping will visit North Korea for a second state visit, perhaps as early as next week, two sources with knowledge of the trip told me time.com/article/2026/05/20/…
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The Financial Times reports that during his talks with Xi Jinping Donald Trump floated the idea that the US, China and Russia should co-operate against the International Criminal Court.
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Russia is starting to lose ground in Ukraine Our tracker suggests it has suffered its first sustained net loss since October 2023 economist.com/graphic-detail…
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I see people & media confusing the request of arrest warrants by the prosecutor’s office and the actual issuing of arr warrants by ICC judges. It’s the request that is probably processed & affects 3 politicians (probably ministers Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, Strook) & 2 military leaders
BREAKING: For Gaza-related allegations, the most plausible political figures would be those directly involved in the conduct of hostilities, humanitarian access restrictions, or public incitement. In that category, the names most likely are indeed, Itamar Ben-Gvir (National Security), Bezalel Smotrich (Additional MoD and Finance), and Israel Katz (MoD). If, however, the focus is broader annexation, destruction of property, forcible transfer of protected persons and unlawful transfer of population into occupied territory, then the likely trio shifts somewhat to possibly include Yariv Levin (Justice) or Orit Strook (Settlements) instead of Katz. Plausible Gaza-related military commanders would include Herzi Halevi (Chief of General Staff), Yaron Finkelman (Southern Command), and Ghassan Alian (COGAT), particularly regarding humanitarian access, aid restrictions, and civilian survival conditions. Yehuda Fuchs (Central Command, Military Commander of oPt) together with Alian are likely for crimes committed in the West Bank.
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Ukraine carried out the biggest drone attack on Moscow in years, hitting a refinery, a fuel depot and industrial facilities. Drone debris was burning on the tarmac of the Sheremetyevo airport. Authorities say 3 people were killed, more than a dozen injured. Ukraine struck after Russia carried out a massive raid on Kyiv last week, killing 24 Ukrainian civilians.
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After reading that, it’s hard to imagine that China waits for Trump’s presidency to be over to try to establish control over Taiwan
Trump on Taiwan: “The Chinese just don’t want to see this place — we’ll call it a place, because nobody knows how to define it — but they don’t want to see it go independent. I’d like to see everybody making chips in Taiwan come over to us in America. I’m not looking to have somebody go independent. And, you know, are we supposed to travel 9,500 miles to fight a war? I’m not looking for that. When you look at the odds, China is a very, very powerful and big country. That’s a very small island. Think of it; it’s 59 miles away. We’re 9,500 miles away. That’s a little bit of a difficult problem. If you look at the history, Taiwan was developed because we had presidents that didn’t know what the hell they were doing. They stole our chip industry” 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼
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