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🇮🇷🇸🇦⚡️- Air traffic has been temporarily halted in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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The group says it targeted technical and maintenance infrastructure as well as areas housing fighter jets at both bases, claiming to have caused heavy damage.
The IRGC warned that further attacks would not weaken Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz and said any additional strikes would be met with an "even more crushing response."
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Look what VANDALS did to the grass connecting the vandalized World War II Monument and the vandalized Reflecting Pool, which will be opened again, and better than ever, shortly.
Anybody who thinks the Reflecting Pool wasn’t vandalized should go back to Law School!
The grass is being replaced shortly, and the Reflecting Pool is almost completely fixed, including the various inflow and outflow pipes, which we were saving for the end of the year, but will do now.
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📝 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 A classified Pentagon assessment has directly warned Trump's Secretary of War Hegseth that extending the Iran war will leave the US military dangerously weakened, including for China and Russia, with senior US commanders directly telling him "America can no longer afford to fight this conflict without breaking itself," per WaPo.
Leaders of US European Command, US Pacific Command, US Southern Command, and the Navy's top admiral all filed a formal "non-concur" against Hegseth's order to extend their forces in the Iran war, saying prolonged large-scale operations against Iran are "unsustainable" and risk "weakening US ability to confront threats elsewhere, including the US homeland." The overall tenor is that the Iran war has been "too much for too long."
US Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Daryl Caudle directly told Hegseth the US Navy cannot sustain its current level of support for the Iran conflict because there is no anticipated end date, with barely 1/4 of the US Navy's destroyer fleet currently ready to deploy, a sharp decline from prewar levels. Caudle directly said "the enemy gets a vote." The US Navy's only dedicated aircraft carrier in the Pacific, a keystone of the US military's plan to deter China, was sent to the Middle East to relieve another carrier deployed for more than 300 days.
US allies in the Pacific have directly warned that the Pentagon’s already catastrophic depletion of missiles and air defense interceptors leave them vulnerable to China.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/08/30/military-leaders-warn-hegseth-against-extending-iran-war-operations/
https://archive.ph/OViRw
📎 The Hormuz Letter
Leaders of US European Command, US Pacific Command, US Southern Command, and the Navy's top admiral all filed a formal "non-concur" against Hegseth's order to extend their forces in the Iran war, saying prolonged large-scale operations against Iran are "unsustainable" and risk "weakening US ability to confront threats elsewhere, including the US homeland." The overall tenor is that the Iran war has been "too much for too long."
US Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Daryl Caudle directly told Hegseth the US Navy cannot sustain its current level of support for the Iran conflict because there is no anticipated end date, with barely 1/4 of the US Navy's destroyer fleet currently ready to deploy, a sharp decline from prewar levels. Caudle directly said "the enemy gets a vote." The US Navy's only dedicated aircraft carrier in the Pacific, a keystone of the US military's plan to deter China, was sent to the Middle East to relieve another carrier deployed for more than 300 days.
US allies in the Pacific have directly warned that the Pentagon’s already catastrophic depletion of missiles and air defense interceptors leave them vulnerable to China.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/08/30/military-leaders-warn-hegseth-against-extending-iran-war-operations/
https://archive.ph/OViRw
📎 The Hormuz Letter
🇦🇺 🇫🇯 🇵🇬 Australia has signed two mutual defence treaties, with Fiji and PNG, over the past year—the first new alliances in the Asia Pacific since the early days of the Cold War.
🇨🇳 Australia builds a Pacific alliance system to keep China out
https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/08/27/australia-builds-a-pacific-alliance-system-to-keep-china-out
https://archive.ph/LIKfG
📎 Aaron Connelly
🇨🇳 Australia builds a Pacific alliance system to keep China out
https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/08/27/australia-builds-a-pacific-alliance-system-to-keep-china-out
https://archive.ph/LIKfG
📎 Aaron Connelly
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“Canada is perfectly within her rights in selecting the persons whom we regard as desirable future citizens. It is not a ‘fundamental human right’ of any alien to enter Canada. It is a privilege… There will, I am sure, be general agreement with the view that…
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📢 🇨🇦 🚷 Dominion Society of Canada on X: In case you couldn't be there, Welcome to DOMCON26
📎 Dominion Society of Canada
📎 Dominion Society of Canada
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The Garibaldi set sail from Italy earlier this week, and is expected to arrive to Indonesia between September 15 and 20, escorted by some Italian frigates.
The four-decade-old ship is expected to be used mainly as a helicopter-capable platform. Indonesia will be the second Southeast Asian country to operate an aircraft carrier, 30 years after Thailand got its own.
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Several field commanders are among the defectors, including Abu Bakr Hamouda Dahloub, the head of the RSF Special Missions Intelligence Division in the North Kordofan State.
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🇸🇩 ❌️ 🇹🇩 Amid reports of a SAF strike on an RSF supply convoy today, satellite imagery confirms a strike inside Chad, ~78 km from the Sudanese border, with at least 39 burn scars & vehicle fires visible. Significant if carried out by SAF due to its scale…
Satellite imagery confirms work is under way on the first 75 km of the highway from East Oweinat to Libya, within Egyptian territory.
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Japan spent 15.4 trillion yen ($96 billion) to boost the yen between late July and late August, the finance ministry said Friday, the largest monthly intervention on record.
The July intervention was the first time since 2011 when the United States and Japan -- and other G7 members -- sold yen to stop it rising after a huge earthquake.
The last time Washington and Tokyo bought yen was 1998.
Experts say the Trump administration also acted to reduce the US trade deficit -- a weak yen helps Japanese exporters -- and to help Japan invest $550 billion in the United States as promised under a 2025 trade deal.
While good for its big exporters like Sony and Toyota, a weak yen inflates import costs for resource-poor Japan, especially oil just as the Middle East war strangles supplies from the Gulf.
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France 24
Japan spent record $96 bn in yen interventions: ministry
Japan spent 15.4 trillion yen ($96 billion) to boost the yen between late July and late August, the finance ministry said Friday, the largest monthly intervention on record.
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The SPR has strict quality requirements such as a maximum of 1.99% sulfur content. Venezuelan oil is 5.7% sulfur, which is considered insanely "sour." It also happens to be highly acidic which would eat away at the storage cave walls, likely causing cave-ins and collapse.
There are other requirements, too, such as API gravity. Venezuelan oil doesn't qualify. If you pour it in, you can never get it back out. Too sludgy. It basically just becomes a giant "tar cave" of sludge that's unpumpable.
So once again, Trump is lying about the whole thing. There's much more to this story, too, such as the fact that the 65 billion barrels of oil can't possibly be tapped without at least A FULL DECADE of infrastructure investment in Venezuela, and at least $100 billion in investment funds, plus you have to find all the experts around the world who know how to do these things and somehow entice them to move to what is effectively a war zone where local resistance groups will be targeting them constantly.
So nope, your gas prices aren't going to get any better tomorrow. It's all just smoke and mirrors. As usual.
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Trump is of course a liar about using Venezuelan heavy crude oil to refill the SPR.
The SPR has strict quality requirements such as a maximum of 1.99% sulfur content. Venezuelan oil is 5.7% sulfu…
The SPR has strict quality requirements such as a maximum of 1.99% sulfur content. Venezuelan oil is 5.7% sulfu…
This revelation comes a week after DataRepublican was exposed as a Dept of War employee.
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Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said Kabul would welcome U.S. investment in mining, infrastructure, agriculture and trade.
Afghanistan is estimated to hold more than $1 trillion in largely untapped minerals, including copper, lithium, cobalt and gold.
The outreach comes as the Taliban tries to end its diplomatic isolation despite criticism over severe restrictions on women and girls.
Trump has shown little interest in closer ties and has instead called for the return of Bagram air base, which the Taliban rejects.
Source: FT
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