The goat still alive and disproving all the baseless slander

Greece's only redeeming quality is that they are not Turkey

Explosions occurred near Macron's hotel in Damascus

Macron is on a state visit to Syria and meeting with Al Jolani

Macron seemingly had already left the hotel a while before the explosion happened and was thus out of harms way

Reports of casualties among the local civilian populace

⚡️🇸🇾 Footage shows moment one of the explosions took place in Damascus.

@wfwitness

Very embarrassing for the Jolani government ngl

First major western leader to visit Syria in idk how long and this happens

Ain't no one else coming to Damascus anytime soon lol

He’s supposed to visit Lebanon next, they’re trying to gatekeep him

some footage closer to the scene

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Lovely Chinese propaganda.

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The 14 Polish MiG-29s meant for Ukraine are reportedly not flyworthy.

🛠 The jets would need extensive repairs before they could become operational again.

💸 The cost of those repairs has now created an impasse in negotiations over the transfer.

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Love or hate, the issue still comes down to money.

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The UK has given 9 Jaguar jets to India this year:

• 5 Jaguar GR1
• 4 Jaguar T2

✈️ These are among the oldest variants — the GR1 dates back to the 1970s, while the T2 is a similar-era training variant.

📦 Despite the RAF retiring the Jaguar in 2007, there are still 42 Jaguars in RAF storage.

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Pre-mined or not?

💥 Russian FPV drone destroys a pre-mined bridge in Vesele, Kharkiv Oblast.

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Pre-mining bridges is risky in the drone age and arguably always was because any large explosion nearby can potentially trigger the charges early.

📍 50.173492, 36.525157

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Egypt opened world's largest military headquarters, 8 times larger than the Pentagon, the Octagon with 4.7 million m² floor area.

Sisi nearly bankrupted Egypt to build his new $58 billion capital city so he could move state institutions far from the reach of future Egyptian protestors.

He also drove poverty so high (30% in 2020) that Egypt stopped publishing data.

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Turkey inaugurated its new “Ay Yıldız” Joint Headquarters in Ankara:

🏛️ The new Crescent and Star complex is designed to bring Türkiye’s defence ministry, general staff, army, navy and air force commands under one roof.

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Which is funny, because regional powers seem to be doing the exact opposite of what helped Iran survive.

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RCH-155 155MM SPG is now officially "Combat Proven"

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First vehicles arrived in Ukraine in late 2025/early 2026, with training ongoing in Germany since early 2025.

🇮🇪🇺🇦 Ukraine refused Ireland’s gift of 27 RG-32M LTV armoured vehicles:

🚙 The vehicles were bought for Irish peacekeeping missions around 2010.

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They were so unreliable and expensive to maintain that they were barely used before being put into storage in 2026.

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Canada has chosen the German Type 212CD as its next submarine:

⚓ TKMS beat South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean KSS-III bid.

📊 The plan:

• up to 12 submarines
• first boat expected around 2033
• first 4 hoped for by 2034
• deal worth more than $12 billion

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This is a huge jump from Canada’s current fleet of just 4 British cast-off Victoria-class submarines.

🇫🇷 France’s only Caesar shell-body factory risks disappearing:

🏭 Forges de Tarbes is the only French site producing hollow bodies for 155mm Caesar artillery shells.

📊 The numbers:

• around 80 employees
• almost stopped in 2022
• around 60,000 shell bodies produced in 2024
• target/need rising toward 150,000+ per year
• revenue rose from €14.4m in 2024 to €19.8m in 2025

💥 The war in Ukraine turned this small factory into a strategic bottleneck for French artillery production.

KNDS has signed a 3-year deal for:

• 60,000 to 150,000 shell bodies from 2026–2028
• possible 3-year extension
• plus a 50,000 large-calibre order linked to Czechia, currently suspended pending tests

⚠️ But the factory’s owner, Europlasma, is in trouble.

The group reportedly lost around €35m in 2025, while other subsidiaries have gone into liquidation.

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Clean UkrAF F-16.

A rare sight.

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It was Russian Verba MANPADS team that shot down the Ka-52.