Germany’s Panther KF51: Russian Tank-Killing Wunderwaffe or Roided Up Leopard 2?

German weapons giant Rheinmetall wants to send its brand new Panther KF51 main battle tank to Ukraine. If deliveries proceed, the Panther would be the most advanced piece of NATO armor taking part in the West’s hybrid war against Russia. What are the KF51’s characteristics, and how big of a threat would they be to Russian tankmen?

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😬🇺🇸 Vice President Kamala Harris really loves school buses

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Musk Confirms Kiev Won’t Be Allowed to ‘Weaponize’ Starlink Satellites ‘That May Lead to WW3’

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has confirmed the Ukrainian military won’t be allowed to use the company’s Starlink internet satellites for combat purposes for fear of being an accomplice to the start of World War III.

Numerous media reports have exposed the Ukrainian military’s extensive use of Starlink in the conflict, including a naval drone found near the Russian port of Sevastopol with a Starlink antenna lashed to its stern.

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☄️ 🌎 An asteroid was caught on camera moving through the sky over southern England on Monday morning, igniting over the English Channel and putting on a mesmerizing show for those who were lucky enough to see its bright green tail and flashes of orange as it burned.

▪️ This asteroid marks the seventh time in history that a “shooting star” has been forecasted ahead of time. The European Space Agency (ESA) tweeted that the asteroid had been detected approximately seven hours before its impact.

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Washington Officials Say Likely to Provide Ukraine With Combat Jets With Time, Reports Say

The issue of the possible fighter jet supply will be discussed at a NATO defense officials' meeting in Brussels on Tuesday.

According to sources, however, acquiring the aircraft is a longer-term objective for Ukraine, whereas a priority for Kiev is artillery supply.

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‘Damn Stupid’: US Journalist Behind Nord Stream Bombshell Takes Aim at Biden, Legacy Media

American journalist Seymour Hersh is “taking heat” over his recent explosive report documenting how the US sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines, the legendary reporter revealed in a new interview.

In a wide-ranging discussion on the War Nerd podcast, Hersh called on US President Joe Biden to come clean to the American people about the Biden administration’s role in the attack. The journalist underscored that the US public is being misinformed about the proxy war in Ukraine en masse.

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🧐 Former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, who lives in Russia, said the panic over the possible alien or extraterrestrial origin of flying objects downed above the United States and Canada is designed to distract journalists from investigating Nord Stream pipeline blasts.

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🇷🇺🇿🇦 Russian military frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" docks in Cape Town, South Africa

▪️The battleship is on its way to Durban to take part in joint naval exercises involving Russia, China and South Africa, the Russian consulate in Cape Town announced on social media.

▪️The drills, dubbed "Mosi" (which means "smoke" in the southern African Tswana language), will take place from 17 to 27 February near the shore of the KwaZulu-Natal province.

▪️The exercises will be conducted so that the three nations are able to share "operational skills and knowledge", and will involve more than 350 South African military personnel, according to a representative of the country’s armed forces, as cited by the media.

▪️"Admiral Gorshkov" is equipped with the Zircon missile system, which, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin, "has no equal"

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‼️BREAKING: Income Tax officials raid BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai

This comes amid the controversy over a scandalous BBC documentary targeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the 2002 Gujarat riots. Multiple politicians and organizations in India have called for placing a ban on airing the documentary in the country.

📹 Russian servicemen aid to Syrians affected by earthquake (video courtesy of Russian MoD)

🇷🇺🇸🇾 The Russian Centre for the Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in the Syrian Arab Republic in the city of Aleppo continue to deliver food kits and bare necessities to humanitarian aid distribution points.

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Mystery Object Downed by US Air Force Over Alaska Reportedly 'Interfered' With Aircraft Sensors

Pilots of the cutting-edge F-35 stealth jet fighter-bombers that were dispatched to investigate the "octagonal" unidentified aircraft over Lake Huron on February 12, reportedly revealed that it "interfered with the sensors of their aircraft."

The flying craft had been the fourth in a succession of puzzling high-altitude objects, each reportedly different from the others, that had floated over North America and was downed in just over week. Pilots were described as having offered different accounts of what they observed after flying in proximity to the object, according to a source briefed on the matter and cited by US media.

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Sweden's Economy Is EU's Worst Performer, Bloc's Own Forecast Proclaims

Sweden's economy is the worst performer of all the EU's 27 member states, according to the European Commission's latest forecast. Its GDP is even expected to shrink this year by 0.8 percent, making Sweden likely to become the EU's only member state with negative growth.

"Households will adjust their consumption expenditure further in response to the loss of real disposable income, the high level of uncertainty and increasing unemployment," the Commission said about Sweden, placing the once-booming economy in the bottom tier.

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Turkish Opposition Leader Says Elections Should Not Be Postponed

On Monday, former Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc suggested postponing the election because "the country must get rid of the pre-election stress" amid the quakes.

The opposition believes that any demands to postpone the election are a pretext for incumbent authorities to avoid it altogether.

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❗️ Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️ NATO is an organization hostile to Russia that confirms this every day and makes its involvement in the conflict in Ukraine more and more clear;

▪️ Russian rescuers have worked heroically in Turkey and Syria after the earthquakes;

▪️ President Putin may meet with his Belarusian counterpart Lukashenko on Friday.

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