🇷🇺📞🇳🇴🇫🇮 Putin on his phone calls with the President of Finland and the Prime Minister of Norway:

🔶 Stubb and Støre emphasized at the beginning of the conversation that they were not representing the EU, but were calling "in a national capacity."

🔶 Russia supports any steps aimed at restoring full-fledged and constructive relations with European countries.

🔶 Many in Europe are only talking about preparing for war by 2030. "We are ready, but we do not want any war with Europe."

🔶 The EU will not be able to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, "and if it goes too far, there will be no winners at all."

🔶 Russia would not want a situation to develop in the Baltic Sea similar to that in the Strait of Hormuz, but it will respond to provocations.

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🗳 🇮🇱 📊 2026 Final Israeli Election Results Dashboard (Pending Verification)

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🇾🇪❌🇸🇦 — Ansarallah announces conducting five military operations against KSA airports and oil facilities with ballistic missiles in response to Saudi strikes against Ansarallah-controlled Yemen which caused dozens of casualties:

- Ras Tanura Refinery, Abqaiq Plants, Petro Rabigh
- King Khalid Int'l Airport, Riyadh; King Fahd Int'l Airport, Dammam

King Khalid Int'l Airport was targeted with multiple ballistic missiles, and all other mentioned facilities were targeted with one ballistic missile each.

Ansarallah also announced targeting a Saudi military headquarters in Najran Province, causing deaths and injuries among Saudi forces.

🇮🇷⚡️ — More missiles were launched from Qeshm Island. Contradictory reports; some sources say they're surface-to-air missiles, while others say they're anti-ship cruise missiles.

They were launched from Tula, central Qeshm Island and flew in a southern direction.

🇮🇶⚡️ — Fighter jet activity in northeastern and central-eastern Iraq, another probing/simulated airstrike round by American/Israeli fighter jets.

They entered through the west; Israeli Air Force fighter jets and/or U.S. Air Force fighter jets based in Israel/Muwaffaq Salti AB, Jordan are participating.

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 The top U.S. commander in the Middle East briefed President Trump Thursday on military options for Iran, a rare in-person visit to the White House as the U.S. weighs resuming major combat operations. —WSJ

While according to war journalist for VOAnews, US official told them Trump admin plans to strike Iran following US elections next week, “aircraft are moving into position. MOAB use expected.”

This is happening while currently the US keeps sending Iran useless and ridiculous requests for political resolutions, which is obviously to buy time to get their military into position.

Iranian leadership knows this as well.

🔗 Arya

🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸 Top defense officials are expressing increasing worry about the vulnerability of U.S. bases around the world and even within the United States as cheap drone technology upends long-standing defense strategies.

The fear is mounting after a series recent attacks and threats against ground targets, including the destruction of key bases in the Middle East by Iran, plots against mega-bases in Europe, including to U.S. bombers at a British air base, and a Russian campaign that damaged European military facilities, according to two government officials.

While the Pentagon is notorious for inflating threats to press for additional funding, the officials stressed that the anxiety is real, not invented. Despite the U.S. military’s enormous budget, they say, the United States now finds itself scrambling strengthen its fortifications, protect its costly equipment, and recall personnel from some locations.

“Now all the world knows what the SecDef should have,” said one of the officials.

Foreign adversaries have taken notice of Iran’s ability to defeat U.S. air defenses using missiles and drones, they said. The officials drew specific attention to Tehran’s ability to damage or destroy bases that have been the key to U.S. power-projection and war-making for decades in the Middle East.

An Iranian missile and drone attack on February 28 destroyed Navy facilities in Manama, Bahrain, the region’s most critical logistics hub. The Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, was severely damaged by Iranian missiles early in the war, rendering it inoperable. Both were recently attacked again, raising questions about whether either will ever be rebuilt. The destruction of these bases has fundamentally altered America’s future force posture in the region, according to the officials. One of them called it a “seismic shift.”

On Friday, the Trump administration leaked highly classified intelligence to Fox News and Axios suggesting Iran has “substantially increased” efforts to target U.S. diplomats and other officials in the Middle East and beyond. The October 23 memo claimed that “the lethal plotting efforts by the Iranians against U.S. citizens have reached advanced stages.” A U.S. official confirmed the accuracy of the intelligence but questioned the motives of the “official leak,” suggesting it’s part of a case being built to justify renewing the failed war.

The leak came as the State Department ordered a further reduction in staff at multiple diplomatic posts across the Middle East, including in Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. One of the officials said the move “definitely” spoke to America’s inability to defend its assets overseas. Those fears now extend to the United States, according to the officials.

Last month, buried in an unhinged address to troops in which he attacked the press and those within the military he calls beardos, weirdos, and wimps, self-styled War Secretary Pete Hegseth tacitly acknowledged the vulnerability of U.S. domestic bases, noting that the Pentagon was now “hardening every installation on American soil” against “sabotage and drones.” And last week, the Pentagon quietly began seeking advice on new ways to protect bases by using innovative advanced materials, camouflaging facilities, obscuring their thermal and electromagnetic signatures, hiding them underground, and making them more resilient in the face of successful attack by adversaries, according to a special notice issued by a top Pentagon official.

🔗 https://theintercept.com/2026/10/27/pentagon-drone-attacks-military-bases/