🇺🇸🛡🇮🇱 The U.S. Army is expanding its THAAD ballistic missile defense base in Israel at (31°29'53"N 34°48'19"E) with ~5 more launch sites (pads) in addition to the 6 that are already in use.

There are also some extra launch sites that were already constructed there, so, the U.S. could deploy up to three THAAD batteries at this one base if they really needed to which would represent ~38% of the total amount of U.S. Army THAADs…

The U.S. really only has 8 operational THAAD batteries as of September 2025 (42~48 launchers) along with maybe ~550 interceptor missiles (rough estimate) so it’s a very exclusive system.

It’s also been estimated recently that the U.S. had used ~25% of its THAAD interceptor missiles to defend Israel from Iran’s missile waves during the 12-day war. To put that in perspective, U.S. Army THAADs accounted for nearly ~50% of all U.S.-Israeli interceptions of Iranian MRBMs

Here’s closer imagery of the U.S. Army THAAD anti-ballistic missile site in Israel at (31°29'53"N 34°48'19"E) with six launching sites in use with a THAAD launcher visibly inside each of their shelters & tilted south.

The base itself is operated by U.S. Army personnel (main camp at the right) along with at least one, maybe two, U.S. Army X-band AN/TPY-2 early warning radar(s) as well. This is an older image showing the AN/TPY-2 radar positioned south, facing Yemen’s Houthis, back when they posed a ballistic missile threat to Israel.

There already were some extra THAAD launch sites (pads) that weren’t being used, though they didn’t yet have shelters like the six operational sites. If you add up the total amount of launch pads right now, then it’s possible that the U.S. has contingency plans to deploy up to 3 THAAD batteries in Israel. Currently, the U.S. Army has two THAAD batteries in Israel, with the first being deployed in October 2024, and the second being more recently deployed in April 2025..

🔗 Cairo X

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Over the past two months, Russian forces have made consistent progress towards the town of Pokrovske in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, largely matching my prediction in this analysis from 1 month ago.

They have advanced around 21 km from Vilne Pole to Verbove, putting them just 13.4 km from the crucial logistical hub of Pokrovske.

As I said last month, the goal of this offensive is likely to eventually bypass the stronghold city of Hulyaipole (Zaporizhzhia Oblast), taking it into a pocket.

🔗 AMK Mapping

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🇺🇸🌎 POTUS notifies Congress: U.S. engaged in "non-international armed conflict" with drug cartels, designates as "unlawful combatants" (NYT)

New SOUTHCOM map and update:

- U.S. Special Operations mothership MV Ocean Trader confirmed in theater, spotted off St. Croix
- USS Truxton chopped into U.S. 4th Fleet. Four destroyers remain on station in the Caribbean (Stockdale transited the Panama Canal, and Sampson returned to San Diego)
- "U.S. military officials are drawing up options to target drug traffickers inside Venezuela... Strikes could happen in the next several weeks... But the president has not approved anything yet." (NBC)
- At least 3 U.S. strikes targeting and destroying boats affiliated with Venezuelan cartels to date. 17 reported KIA.

🔗 Ian Ellis

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🚢📉 Container shipping costs are plunging again:

The spot rate for a 40-foot container from Shanghai to Rotterdam fell to $1,735 last week, the lowest since mid-December 2023.

This marks the 8th consecutive weekly decline in rates to Europe.

Shipping costs from Shanghai to Los Angeles dropped to $2,311, also the lowest since December 2023.

Weaker global demand, price wars, and excess shipping capacity have driven the decline.

Meanwhile, US import volumes are expected to continue declining toward year-end, with January 2026 projected to be -19% lower YoY.

Global trade disruptions are in full swing.

🔗 The Kobeissi Letter

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🇺🇸🇻🇪 The Washington Examiner understands that military planners believe the assembled forces are now sufficient to seize and hold key strategic facilities such as ports and airfields on Venezuelan territory

"The U.S. military buildup around Venezuela should no longer be seen through the lens of a purely counter-drug trafficking concern. The current deployment structure is just too big, too expensive, and too varied in capabilities for it to be designed for that mission alone".

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3831654/us-military-buildup-venezuela-invasion/

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👃💸🇮🇱👏🇮🇱 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Israel Paying US Social Media Influencers $7,000 Per Post As Right-Wing Support Craters | October 1, 2025:

"Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting in New York on Friday with a group of pro-Israel influencers, we learn that Israel is likely paying them a whopping $7,000 per pro-Israel social-media post in a desperate drive to bolster plummeting support of Israel among America's young conservatives.

That's the conclusion of Responsible Statecraft's Nick Cleveland-Stout, based on analysis of a disclosure filed with the US Department of Justice as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). While pro-Israel lobbying heavyweight AIPAC is notoriously exempt from FARA registration, the social media operation comes under the transparency law's provisions because Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is paying for it.

The influence campaign is being facilitated by Bridge Partners, a DC-based firm owned by founders Yair Levi and Uri Steinberg. "[Bridge Partners] has also enlisted the help of a former major in the IDF spokesperson unit, Nadav Shtrauchler," writes Cleveland-Stout. "For legal counsel, Levi and Steinberg have turned to Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, a firm that previously worked for controversial Israeli spyware company NSO Group."

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—❗️🇺🇸 EXCLUSIVE: Middle East Spectator has discovered that a massive leak of highly classified U.S. government documents has occured within the U.S. Department of Defense, dated January 2025

This time, we will not share the contents of the documents due to their sensitive nature and for legal reasons. We are only sharing the cover pages of the document sets, to prove our claim and to make the public aware that a leak has occured.

Dozens of files regarding strategic U.S. policy, Russian & American weapons systems, NATO posturing in Ukraine and bases in the Asia-Pacific have been leaked. The leaker apparently wants $3000 dollars for the full set of documents.

@Middle_East_Spectator

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🇷🇺📞🇪🇺 — Russian leader Vladimir Putin, at Valdai Discussion Club, called the European Union a powerful but fading center

Uncontrolled migration is eating Europe from the inside

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🏴❌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🕎 — Multiple people stabbed at synagogue in Manchester, England

BBC Radio 5 says Northwest Ambulance service has declared a major incident

The Police shot dead the attacker Outside Heaton Park Synagogue

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🇺🇸🤝🇮🇱 The U.S. Air Force has shifted over 30 tanker aircraft from Europe to the Middle East, while the Navy has deployed Gerald Ford aircraft carrier to the Mediterranean.

The buildup strongly echoes the military posture seen in the days before the 12-day war between Israel & Iran.

🔗 Egypt’s Intel Observer

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🇷🇺🤝🇮🇷 Exclusive: Russia has been airlifting large quantities of military equipment to Iran in recent weeks, with flights expected to increase in frequency.

According to my sources, I can confirm that Russia has delivered the S-400 Long-Range Surface-to-Air missile (SAM) System (as I previously reported), along with fighter aircraft, most likely MiG-29s, though the exact type has not yet been independently verified.

🔗 OSINT Warfare

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🇫🇷🇲🇦 19-year-old Philippine Le Noir de Carlan, a brilliant student and scout leader, went for a walk in Paris during lunchtime.

In what should have been a safe part of the city, Philippine crossed paths with Taha Oualidat. This 22-year-old Moroccan was already convicted of rape and should have been in prison — but wasn’t.
Oualidat had also received a deportation order but this too wasn’t brought into effect because Morocco refused to accept him back.

The next day, after a big search was launched, Philippine’s family found her partially buried body. She had been raped and strangled.

For Philippine and for thousands of other victims, we demand remigration for the hostile invaders and prison for Emmanuel Macron and his open-border-cronies.

🔗 Dries van Langenhove

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🇮🇱🇵🇸⛵️- The Israeli ministry has published a video displaying the moment Greta Thunberg was detained by the IDF's Navy, while on one of the intercepted boats of the "Global Sumud" Flotilla.

The ministry has also labeled the flotilla "hamas" once again, stating:

Already several vessels of the Hamas-Sumud flotilla have been safely stopped and their passengers are being transferred to an Israeli port. Greta and her friends are safe and healthy.

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Nick Fuentes discusses the FBI and the ADL's falling out over designating TPUSA as a hate group.

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— Solid Iranian source confirms to me Russia has been airlifting large quantities of 'stuff' to Iran, but won't comment on what it is.

I asked him if it's fighter jets (Su-35, Su-30 or MiG-29) and he said 'You think I'm gonna answer that?'

Anyways, take this info as you wish.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Example of very well-built Ukrainian trench systems northeast of Uspenovka, in the Pokrovskoye direction.

A series of 37 trench systems like this were built in early 2025 to defend against exactly this "folding" of the Ukrainian lines in the sector after the fall of Velykaya Novoselka

The trenches are small, independent and covered, with only protected firing positions sticking out of the system.

In absence of Ukrainian forces manning these systems, they quickly fall to rapidly advancing Russians, which effectively use them as reinforced accumulation points.

🔗 Playfra

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🇷🇺🚀🇺🇦 Financial Times: Russian missile upgrade outpaces Ukraine’s Patriot defences

Kyiv’s interception rates fall as enemy strikes dodge US interceptors in final seconds

Months of devastating Russian air attacks suggest Moscow has succeeded in altering its missiles to evade Ukraine’s air defences, according to Ukrainian and western officials.

Bombardments that targeted Ukrainian drone makers this summer were a prominent example of Russia improving its ballistic missiles to better defeat US Patriot batteries, current and former Ukrainian and western officials told the Financial Times.

Russia was likely to have modified its Iskander-M mobile system, which launches missiles with an estimated range of up to 500km, as well as Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missiles, which can fly up to 480km, they added.

The missiles now follow a typical trajectory before diverting and plunging into a steep terminal dive or executing manoeuvres that “confuse and avoid” Patriot interceptors.

It is a “game-changer for Russia”, said one former Ukrainian official. With Kyiv also contending with slower deliveries of air defence interceptors from the US, the missile campaign has destroyed key military facilities and critical infrastructure ahead of winter.

Ukraine’s ballistic missile interception rate improved over the summer, reaching 37 per cent in August, but it plummeted to 6 per cent in September, despite fewer launches, according to public Ukrainian air force data compiled by the London-based Centre for Information Resilience and analysed by the Financial Times.

At least four drone-making plants in and around Kyiv were badly damaged by missiles this summer, said current and former Ukrainian officials. This included a strike on August 28 on a facility producing Turkish Bayraktar drones, according to public posts by local officials.

🔗 https://archive.ph/ocQ34

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🇺🇸🚩 Andy Ngo on X: The International Antifa Defence Fund, who Antifa militant and RU History Dept academic Mark Bray donates to, has announced it has shut down its donation infrastructure to "protect our donors and recipients" after the U.S. President declared Antifa terrorists.

They claim to be relocating their operations overseas, suggesting that they were previously based in the U.S. They utilized American platforms Patreon, FundRazr, The Action Network for fundraising.

🔗 Andy Ngo

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🇺🇸🚩 In one 18-month period in the early 1970s, there were 2,500 bombings on American soil—nearly 5 a day.

Did you know that? Many Americans don't.

These leftist terrorists who declared war on America went on to work at top law firms, nonprofits, and Ivy League universities.

🧵 https://fxtwitter.com/Eric_Schmitt/status/1973838125681291537

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🇺🇸🇮🇱 Pro-Israel journalist Bari Weiss, whose media blog The Free Press is being purchased by Paramount for $150 million, is slated to become CBS News’ editor-in-chief.

Unconventionally, she will report straight to Paramount CEO David Ellison, bypassing both CBS News President Tom Cibrowski and Paramount’s head of television, George Cheeks.

🔗 AF Post

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🇺🇸🌾📉‼️🇨🇳🤝🇧🇷 — 📰 Financial Times | US soyabean farmers squeezed as China blocks imports and stockpiles rise | Overseas sales of top US export crop plummet as trade talks between Washington and Beijing stall | September 27, 2025:

"Overseas sales of the US’s top farm export have plummeted as China shuns American soyabeans in a “devastating” blow to the country’s farmers.

The new export season for soyabeans has opened with no sales or shipments to China, government data shows — a sharp break from a year ago, when it had already booked 6.5mn tons. Meanwhile, inventories have begun to pile up with the onset of the fall US harvest season.

For decades, more than half of all US soyabeans went to China, the world’s biggest buyer. But this year, as trade talks between Washington and Beijing stall, not a single American soyabean has headed east, leaving farmers struggling to stay afloat as bins fill and prices sag while China turns to record supplies from Brazil."

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🇷🇺📞🇪🇺🇪🇺 — Russian leader Vladimir Putin says that Europe is dying due to migration and economic policies:

The Europe we all loved so much is disappearing

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🇭🇺❌🇺🇦🇪🇺 'No membership at all,' Hungary's Orbán says as he continues to block Ukraine's accession talks

Arriving at the Copenhagen summit, the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said that Budapest remained opposed to the idea of accepting Ukraine as a member of the European Union.

“The Hungarians would not like to belong to the same integration format, even a military one like Nato, [or] a political economic one like European Union, with the Ukrainians. So my proposal, the Hungarian proposal is to have [a] strategic agreement [with Ukraine], not [a] membership,” he said.

“Ukraine is a heroic country. We have to support them. No question of that. The question is the form how we do that. Membership is too much,” he said.

Orbán stressed that it wasn’t his view, but “a decision of the Hungarian people.”

Repeatedly asked about his opposition, he insisted his view was there should be “no membership at all.”

“Nobody knows what will happen in 100 years … but today is obviously no, no membership, … [it] would mean, first, that war would come into the European Union; second, the money from European Union would go to Ukraine. Both [would be] bad,” he said.

He also dismissed suggestions that the bloc could change its rules on opening negotiations with new member states to circumvent the Hungarian veto.

“There is a legal, strictly settled procedure how to do it. We have to stick to that. It means unanimous decision,” he stressed.

Orbán also defended his earlier comments, in which he argued that Ukraine is no longer a sovereign country.

He said:

“They don’t have money to maintain themselves. We pay the army, we pay the public bureaucracy, we pay the pension, we pay everything. If you are paid [for] by somebody else, you’re not a sovereign country. It’s not a moral statement, it’s just a financial fact.”

The Hungarian PM also offered a bit of advice to Denmark over recent drone incursions, saying his advice would be to “shoot them down.”

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/01/mette-frederiksen-denmark-europe-russia-vladimir-putin-volodymyr-zelenskyy-ukraine-hybrid-war-security-europe-live-news

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🇮🇱📱 FARA registration shows Israel paid $900K for US Influencers from July-Dec 2025

This is a list of identified Pro-Israel Influencers who attended Israel Influencer events between Aug-Sept:

- Israel365 Trip to Israel
- Bill Ackman’s Hamptons Retreat
- Natanyahu’s Influencer Event

🔗 GenXGirl

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🤖 Data centers and AI are gobbling up electricity, but the share differs significantly by state.

Between 2010 and 2025, data centers went from less than 5% to roughly 40% of Virginia's electricity consumption. Sweet jesus.

🔗 Derek Thompson

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🇺🇸 Great story in the WSJ.

The housing market is so trash that home sellers are giving up and putting their homes up for rent, thus creating a rental supply glut that’s hurting returns for large institutional investors in SFHs.

🔗 Bobby

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 The U.S. is weighing deliveries to Ukraine of Tomahawks and Barracudas and other American-made ground- and air-launched missiles that have ranges of around 500 miles (800 KMs), administration officials tell WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/world/u-s-to-provide-ukraine-with-intelligence-for-missile-strikes-deep-inside-russia-ca7b2276

🔗 Faytuks News

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🇩🇪 German authorities are investigating multiple drone sightings over Schleswig-Holstein last week, including near key infrastructure like Kiel University Hospital, a power plant, and the state government headquarters. The drones reportedly flew in coordinated paths

https://apnews.com/article/germany-drone-critical-infrastructure-russia-nato-investigation-a9670df4bfe877b54094b7894aa125a5

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— 🇮🇷/🇷🇺 NOTE: There is a 'rumor' (with at least some credibility) that Russia has been sending some of its very own MiG-29s to Iran as part of a temporary lease contract to make up for the delayed delivery of the Su-35s

Recently a member of Iran's parliamentary committee on foreign relations revealed that Iran had received MiG-29 fighter jets from Russia as a 'short term solution', but he was quickly reprimanded and told to shut up by the integrity commission for 'leaking info'.

Additionally, a video taken some days ago shows a MiG-29 patrolling the skies of Tehran, with lack of a clear smoke trail pointing towards its engine being a modern variant (i.e. recently acquired from Russia).

Russia's modern MiG-29s are quite capable. They're not on par with the majority of the Israeli Air Force, but they're a significant step up from Iran's F-14 Tomcats, F-4 Phantoms and older generation MiGs, and could serve a big role in defending Iranian airspace and missile bases.

@Middle_East_Spectator

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🇮🇷🇷🇺⚡️- Russian cargo plane (RA-76842) is headed towards Iran, this is one of many "unannounced visits" made by Russian and Iranian aircraft to each others countries over the last few days. This matches a large build up by American military assets into the region.

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