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🇷🇺⚫️ CIG #commentary | Despite solid evidence that the Islamic State is behind the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack, with ISIS themselves claiming responsibility, Russian news channels and other pro-Russian Western pundits are pushing the narrative that Ukraine and Vladimir Zelensky are the real masterminds.
Vladimir Putin and the Federal Security Service (FSB) are trying to cover up their embarrassing failure which allowed 4 jihadists to torch a concert hall in Moscow and kill over 143 people and then attempt an escape after receiving a heads up from U.S. intelligence three weeks ago about potential ISIS/ISKP activity in Russia. They are trying to spin it up as being the work of the SBU by falsely claiming that the terrorists are either Chechens and are affiliated with the Ajnad-al-Kavkaz group or that they are simply jihadist Tadjiks recruited by Ukraine and fight an irregular war against Russia.
Perhaps after annihilating two ISKP cells in Ingushetia earlier this month, the FSB let its guard down thinking they terminated all threats coming from ISKP but they were wrong. The ISKP remains ISIS' strongest and most prolific franchise with a number of cells in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with links to jihadists in India and likely receiving aid from Pakistani intelligence.
The ISKP has been able to penetrate Iran, bombing the city of Kerman in January 2024, where IRGC general, Qassem Soleimani is buried.
ISIS is on the rise again not just in Central Asia, but also in the Middle East, now that the eyes of the powers who were dealing with ISIS are focused elsewhere, Russia's FSB on Ukrainian sabotage, Iran and the U.S. on events in Gaza and Lebanon. Attacks like the Crocus City Hall will become more common unless the security agencies all over the world take ISIS and its branches seriously.
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Ukrainian forces have begun training and testing exoskeletons for battlefield use. Soldiers from the 147th Separate Artillery Brigade are using them in the Pokrovsk sector for both logistics and frontline operations. The goal is to reduce physical strain, especially when loading heavy artillery shells into howitzers without automatic loaders. Artillery crews can handle up to 1200 kg of ammunition per day, and early tests show that exoskeletons help them work faster and with less fatigue Above all, by improving the conditions for those soldiers on the front lines who handle such heavy loads, plus the stress of work. Seeking to reduce overall fatigue in the troops
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🇮🇷🇮🇱 - 14 wounded in Iranian missile strike in central Israel, according to Israeli media.
🇬🇧🇮🇶 - A drone struck British Castrol oil warehouses in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, causing extensive damage.
🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Iran launched 9 missiles towards Israel this morning alone, with at least 3 of them being cluster missiles.
🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Over the past 12 hours, Hezbollah launched counterattacks in Khiam and Qantara, in the Nabatieh direction, southeast Lebanon. Hezbollah recaptured northern Khiam, with fighting ongoing for the south of the town. Hezbollah units also re-entered Qantara; frontline sources reported clashes in the center of the town last night.
🇱🇧🇮🇱 - 48 IDF soldiers have been wounded in clashes with Hezbollah over the last 24 hours in southern Lebanon, according to the Israeli Army.
🇱🇧🇮🇱 - "The Israeli army is barely catching its breath in southern Lebanon, and its resources are less than in the previous round of fighting," - Haaretz....
🇺🇸 Blue Owl Capital just disclosed that investors tried to pull 40.7% of one fund and 21.9% of another in a single quarter, and both funds gave the same answer, you can only have 5% back, and everyone else waits in line.
This is a bank run, not a normal withdrawal.
Wall Street spent the last decade selling millions of investors on something called semi-liquid private credit, higher yields, steady income and the promise you could get your money back every quarter if you needed it. What they buried in the fine print was what happens when too many people try to leave at the same time.
Analysts who have covered private credit for decades say nothing on this scale has ever been reported before at any major private credit manager.
These funds do not hold stocks you can sell on a Tuesday afternoon, they hold private loans to mid sized companies that cannot be liquidated quickly without destroying the price for every investor still trapped inside.
This product was originally designed for ...
🇺🇸 President Trump wants to switch to war economy in 2027 with massive increase in military spending and massive cuts to healthcare and other domestic agencies
Once a deficit hawk — he said in 2016 that he thought he could balance the budget in five years — Trump ended his first term with $7.8 trillion in added debt. His 2027 proposal is expected to give an update on 10-year deficit projections currently estimated at around $16 trillion.
The GOP's message for the Midterms will be focused on the "need" for a massive defense build up while the Democrats' message will be focused on affordability.
The fiscal 2027 budget will be the first time Trump puts his second-term governing agenda into one comprehensive document — with the numbers to back it up. The budget he released last year lacked detailed line-by-line spending targets and the economic assumptions necessary to project the long-term cost of his proposals.
Investors in US Treasuries will be looking to see if the debt and ...
