🇺🇸 💌 🇨🇳 Trump invites Xi to visit the White House on 24th September and toasts to "the rich and enduring ties between the American and Chinese people."

📎 Disclosetv

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 The Russian MoD published a compilation of FPV drone strikes on Ukrainian unmanned ground logistics vehicles (UGVs) in the Konstantinovka sector.

There are dozens of destroyed logistics UGVs along the H-20 highway, the main supply artery for the AFU defenders in Konstantinovka and surrounding areas, showing just how many casualties the AFU would have incurred had they not switched from using trucks driven by servicemen to crewless vehicles.

@CIG_telegram

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 CENTCOM Commander, Adm. Brad Cooper testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the 3rd Gulf War, claimed that Iran had just 10% of industrial base left and would be unable to produce new drones and missiles for several years forward:

"In less than 40 days CENTCOM achieved its military objectives, most notably we degraded Iran's ability to project power outside its borders, threaten the region and our interests. As an example, we all remember April and October 2024 when thousands of Iranian missiles rained over the Middle East. Today, Iran can no longer attack with that mass and scale. Further, with 90% of its industrial base destroyed, Iran will not be able to reconstitute that force for years (...)

Today, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis are all cutoff from Iranian weapons supplies (...)

Operation Epic Fury had one mission: to degrade Iran's ability to project power over its neighbours and U.S. interests in the region. The mission had three components: degrade its missile arsenal and the defense industrial base supplying that, degrade its drone arsenal and the industrial base supplying that and degrade its navy and the industrial base supplying that. To give an example, the industrial base for Iran's missiles, drones and navy was degraded by 90%. (...) According our estimates, we believe Iran won't be able to rebuild its navy for the next 5-10 years (...)"

🔗 https://youtu.be/Z3-MU8CNF44

— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 WATCH: In this video, Hezbollah carried out a combined FPV attack against multiple Israeli targets in southern Lebanon

They struck an Israeli military SUV, killing those inside; they struck a Merkava tank, and they destroyed an IDF command truck.

In the video, the targets can be seen burning (filmed with other FPV drones), indicating successful hits.

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇳🇱 In the Dutch small town of Leusden (8,600 inhabitants), the plan to accommodate 110 adult male asylum seekers triggered massive protests.

The accommodation was to be built right next to the hockey club for young girls!

The previous year, 17-year-old Lisa had been killed by an asylum seeker in Duivendrecht (5,300 inhabitants).

More than 3,000 residents (35%) signed a petition against the project. Nevertheless, a court approved the construction on the grounds that “humanitarian obligations” took precedence.

Residents then protested for three weeks, night after night. The government ignored them.

On the day of the move-in, the situation escalated:

The accommodation was set on fire by desperate locals, and demonstrators also blocked access to the fire brigade.

🔗 Martin Sellner

🇮🇱❌📰 Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, is suing The New York Times and one of its journalists for publishing an article documenting the systemic rape and sexual abuse Palestinians suffer inside Israeli prisons

Netanyahu claims that the NYT article is a form of blood libel.

@CIG_telegram

🇵🇭 The power struggle in the Philippines has now escalated to the point of using armed force.

Marcos Jr. has been trying to impeach Sara Duterte. He secured a victory in the House of Representatives, but things haven't been going smoothly in the Senate. The pro-Duterte camp launched a surprise vote, removing Senate President Tito Sotto — a Marcos ally — with 13 votes, and replaced him with former Duterte-era foreign secretary Alan Peter Cayetano. This has significantly reduced the chances of the impeachment motion passing in the Senate.

Unwilling to accept defeat, the Marcos camp then attempted to send in military and police forces to storm the Senate and arrest a pro-Duterte senator, Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa. Dela Rosa served as police chief and was the point person for the drug war under Duterte. He also played a key role in the Senate vote that removed Sotto.

The two sides reportedly exchanged gunfire in the Senate, and the Marcos camp ultimately failed to take Dela Rosa away. The intensity of the confrontation between the two factions in the Philippines now surpasses even that of South Korea's political scene. The Marcos and Duterte camps are no longer just political rivals — they have become mortal enemies, where one side's victory means the other's annihilation. With the 2028 presidential election on the horizon, it seems clear that an even more intense showdown lies ahead.

🔗 BeijingDai

🏹 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 In the last 24 hours, Russia launched 1,567 drones in their largest attack since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022.

To put that in perspective, that's more drones since yesterday morning than the first 11 months of drone use between September 2022 and July 2023.

📎 Kyle Glen

🗳 🇩🇪 📊 The AfD reaches a record-high 42% in the latest opinion poll ahead of the state election in Saxony-Anhalt.

If they win 44+% of the votes in the Sept. election, they’ll likely win a majority in the state parliament & Saxony-Anhalt will become the 1st state ruled by AfD

📎 Visegrad24

🤖 🇺🇸 🔋U.S. company Figure AI says its humanoid robots can now autonomously work full eight-hour shifts using its Helix-02 AI system.

📎 NEXTA

🔼 🇺🇸 🕯 The S&P 500 closes at its highest level on record, now up +19% since the March 30th bottom.

That's +$11 TRILLION in market cap in under 7 weeks.

📎 KobeissiLetter