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"...🇷🇺 A military unit called "Bars Kaskad" is recruiting #Russia's elite, the UK Ministry of Defence said.

The unit is mostly involved in drone operations far from the front lines in #Ukraine

It likely allows recruits to "sidestep" usual service requirements "with guaranteed safety," said the MoD..."

"...Report

Egypt to join South Africa’s ICJ genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.

Egypt says the move is due to the worsening severity & scope of Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.

However, Egypt has repeatedly warned Israel that Israel's military operations along the Egypt-Gaza border could endanger the peace treaty between the two..."

Because Skynet needs a submarine!


"...The United States has completed the first full-scale test at sea of a futuristic underwater drone able to hibernate on the seabed.
The Manta Ray prototype, produced by US aviation giant Northrop Grumman, is part of a US navy project to develop a new class of underwater drones capable of carrying out much longer missions.
The autonomous craft, which dwarfed the small boat it was pictured with, has been designed to move through the ocean “for very long periods of time” without supervision or the need to refuel.
“Once deployed, the vehicle uses efficient, buoyancy-driven gliding to move through the water,” said Dr Kyle Woerner, Manta Ray program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known by its acronym, Darpa.
Defense analysts have speculated that the US Navy wants to develop a drone capable of long missions to scour the seas for Russian and Chinese submarines.
“The craft is designed with several payload bays of multiple sizes and types to enable a wide variety of naval mission sets,” said Dr Woerner...."

"..."The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the past 60 years, it has passed every great moral test American foreign policy has forced upon the public, including the Vietnam war,  apartheid South Africa, and the Iraq war." ..."