🇺🇸🇦🇺🇨🇳🇭🇰⚡️ — BREAKING: China is in possession of sensitive F-35 stealth fighter components after a UPS shipment from Australia to the U.S. was unexpectedly diverted to Hong Kong, according to Bloomberg.

The shipment contained a cockpit canopy and weapons-bay door from an Australian F-35, which were being sent to the U.S. in late May for inspection and possible repair or disposal.

The Pentagon says it is working to recover the components.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ — A U.S. Air Force B-1 Lancer conducted a flyover as President Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ — President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping react as the U.S. Air Force B-1 Lancer conducts a flyover.

Trump certainly looks impressed.

🇺🇸⚡️ — The White House press pool boycott has left President Trump without proper microphone coverage, making his remarks very difficult to understand.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇪🇸🇮🇹🇫🇷⚡️ — The CIA has warned European governments that Russia is preparing possible drone attacks against Mediterranean countries like Spain, France, and Italy, according to Spanish newspaper El Mundo.

The plan involves concealing Gerbera drones (600 km range) inside shipping containers aboard merchant vessels and launching them from international waters. The relatively small drones could reach targets hundreds of kilometers inland.

The CIA shared intelligence about the suspected operation with several European governments following Director John Ratcliffe’s visit to Moscow in August. French authorities have taken the warning seriously, which led President Macron to convene high-level security meetings earlier this month.

European security sources believe such attacks are intended to undermine support for Ukraine, create divisions within NATO, and spread public anxiety without triggering a full-scale military confrontation.

🇺🇸🇵🇱🇷🇺⚡️ — The CIA has warned Poland of a possible Russian operation targeting undersea telecommunications cables that support the international banking system, according to Newsweek Polska.

U.S. intelligence believes Russia has extensively mapped critical cables linking Europe and North America, as well as connections across the Baltic Sea and between Britain and continental Europe.

Polish authorities have been urged to prepare their banking infrastructure for potential disruptions that could interfere with international financial transactions.

Although the network is designed to reroute traffic when individual cables fail, officials are treating the possibility of coordinated sabotage as a serious threat.

🇨🇳🇮🇷⚡️ — China has continued supplying Iran with components used in drones and ballistic missiles throughout its war with the U.S., according to WSJ.

Iranian customs records show roughly 1,300 shipments of dual-use components from China to Iran’s Defense Ministry in the first six months of 2026, including electronics, GPS devices, motors, and aircraft parts. Following the U.S. naval blockade, Iran expanded its air cargo operations, with Mahan Air operating 39 flights from China in the first week of September.

The records also show that China shipped 300 tons of chemical compounds to Iran’s Defense Ministry just days before the U.S.-Iran war began.

China denies wrongdoing, maintains that its trade with Iran complies with international rules, and rejects U.S. sanctions.

🇨🇦🇺🇸⚡️ — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says that his government has spent the past year preparing for the remote possibility of U.S. military action against Canada following President Trump’s threats to make the country America’s 51st state.

In an interview with NYT, Carney outlined plans to reduce Canada’s dependence on the U.S., including moving away from Starlink, reconsidering its planned purchase of 88 American F-35 fighter jets in favor of alternatives such as Sweden’s Gripen, and expanding economic ties with China.

Despite the tensions, Carney said he continues to speak frequently with Trump, even after bilateral trade negotiations collapsed in August.

He expressed confidence that a new agreement could be reached, potentially involving Canadian potash supplies. He also clarified that Canada is reluctant to leverage energy exports to the U.S.

🇮🇱🗳 The Israeli Knesset voted to ban Arab parties from running in the upcoming elections.

Polling showed Arab parties were going to gain at least 10 seats in the next election and would have been according to the polling firm, either the 4th or 5th biggest party in the Israeli Knesset and thus would have swayed significant influence over the creation of a new Israeli cabinet and could have blocked important legislation discriminating against Arabs from being passed.

The Israeli Supreme Court might overturn the decision.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 The Zapad disaster for Russia in Krasny Lyman continues, and is now extending further south, as the Ukrainian counteroffensive enters its 5th month.

Ukrainian forces have the initiative are now advancing along a 70 km-long front, reversing over a year of Russian progress. Counterattacks have now spread to the Slovyansk direction too, where progress is being made.

🔗 AMK Mapping

🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 Ukrainian forces have now recaptured around 532 km² of previously Russian-controlled territory and grey-zones in the Krasny Lyman direction, as a result of their last 4 months of counteroffensive operations and some smaller clearing operations in early 2026.

Of this, around 479 km² were in Donetsk Oblast, ~32 km² were in Lugansk Oblast, and ~21 km² were in Kharkov Oblast. The large Russian bridgehead west of the Zherebets River has now been reduced to four smaller bridgehead, including one larger section connected to the Slavyansk direction, and 3 smaller, partially-isolated footholds further north. All four of these remaining bridgeheads are shrinking day-by-day

Extremely heavy Ukrainian artillery and MLRS shelling, along with intense drone attacks, continue on Russian positions close to the frontline, as well as in the tactical and strategic rear, supporting the ongoing offensive operations.

🔗 AMK Mapping