Alarmed by shifting U.S. public opinion, Israeli officials are pursuing a long-term strategy to more deeply embed Israel within America's military and national security establishment, making the alliance harder for future administrations to unwind, according to a confidential CIA assessment. Source: Capital & Empire

— 🇺🇸/🇪🇬/🇮🇷Egypt says the cause of the incident involving an explosion of a American Oil tanker at Egyptian ports will be investigated.

🇷🇺🇲🇱 Intense footage of Russia's Africa Corps battling (JNIM) militants in Mali The shooter in the video quickly directs his team and takes out several targets by himself JNIM — Jama'a Nusrat al-Islam wa al-Muslimin

Germany's Chancellor Merz on Israel: Germany has a special responsibility toward the State of Israel. We cannot and will not support a general sanctions regime against Israel. That position will remain unchanged for the foreseeable future. Also in same speech Germany's Chancellor Merz: Over the next four years, the German federal government will reduce the number of positions in the federal administration by 8 percent. That is why I also want to say to the European Commission: it is not acceptable for 2,500 new positions to be created for the European institutions. We will not accept that.

Venezuela's Foreign Ministry summoned Iranian Ambassador Ali Chegini and handed him a formal note of protest over "disparaging and inappropriate" remarks about Venezuelan institutions and authorities. The comments came from Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in a Mehr News interview, where he said: This is not Venezuela, where you take one person and everyone else gets scared and backs down.

🇷🇺 Russia Gains Ground in Madagascar — and the West Is Scrambling Madagascar sits beside the Mozambique Channel and holds major deposits of graphite, nickel, cobalt and rare earths. Now its new leadership is bringing Russia into both its security and economic plans — and Western strategists are calling for a response. Relations accelerated after Colonel Michael Randrianirina took power in October 2025. In January, Russia supplied military equipment and sent specialists to train Madagascar’s armed forces. On February 19, Randrianirina made Moscow his first official destination outside Africa, becoming the first leader of Madagascar to visit Russia in almost 50 years. During talks with Vladimir Putin, the two sides identified agriculture, geological exploration, energy, healthcare and education as priorities. Madagascar also expressed interest in infrastructure, hydrocarbons and deeper military cooperation. The agenda became more concrete in May. Prime Minister Mamitiana Rajaonarison met Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu and outlined talks on fuel storage facilities, a joint economic zone, agricultural cooperation, higher education and additional military training. Madagascar is also seeking BRICS partner status. Its government describes this not as a break with existing partners, but as a policy of diversification — building new relationships without allowing any single bloc to dictate its choices. That is precisely what worries Washington. An Atlantic Council paper co-authored by a former senior Pentagon official urged the United States to prevent its rivals from gaining access to strategic assets in Madagascar and called greater US security involvement a “strategic necessity.” Washington is already responding. The US International Development Finance Corporation has committed up to $4.84M for preliminary work on Madagascar’s $150M Ampasindava rare earths project, while the State Department has openly placed the island inside its struggle against rival control of critical-mineral supply chains. Russia does not need Madagascar to expel France or cut ties with the United States. It only needs to end the old Western monopoly. Every new Russian option gives Madagascar more room to bargain — and leaves the West with less power to dictate terms.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 At least 624 US troops have been wounded since President Trump ordered strikes on Iran in February, according to the Pentagon. Newly obtained records show over 400 casualties, 17 life-threatening injuries, and 6 troops killed in an Iranian drone strike on 1 March.

🇺🇦🇺🇸🇮🇱 Zelensky met with Bibi Netanyahu at Lindsey Graham's funeral What did Bibi say to provoke Zelensky's poker face?

🇺🇸 Former U.S. health official Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment during a Republican-led Senate hearing on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, declining to answer questions on the advice of his attorneys. Fauci said he was exercising his constitutional right because of what he described as Sen. Rand Paul's longstanding efforts to have him prosecuted, adding that the senator's recent release of his private writings, in which Fauci mused about his fame and the origins of COVID, reinforced his decision. Despite Fauci's repeated invocation of the Fifth Amendment, Republican senators continued questioning him about NIH-funded research and the origins of COVID-19. During the hearing, Paul's staff also had Fauci's attorney, David Schertler, escorted from the room after he repeatedly attempted to interject and invoke Fauci's Fifth Amendment rights on his client's behalf. Fauci stared straight ahead, repeatedly invoking his Fifth Amendment right.

🇺🇸⚡️ — U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright says blue states are "scapegoating" data centers and claims, "Places that develop data centers are the places that will see electricity prices go down, not up."

In Ukraine they are printing drones in civilian apartments. So we need to remember this video.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - President Trump to Fox News : "We are going to beat the fucking shit out of Iran."

🇸🇦🇾🇪🇾🇪Leaked Saudi government cables published by Drop Site News reveal the existence of a secret Saudi committee that has overseen the kingdom's Yemen policy since 1962 and how they handled the conflict against the Houthis (Ansarallah). Then-Defense Minister Salman bin Abdulaziz directed the committee in January 2012 to deepen divisions between northern Yemen's Zaydi community and Salafi groups, while supporting tribes fighting Ansarallah (the Houthis) and ensuring the conflict did not appear to be a Saudi-backed Sunni-Shia war. The cables describe Saudi funding, weapons, and support for anti-Houthi forces, as well as monthly payments to tribal leaders and intelligence reports used to shape Riyadh's long-term strategy in Yemen. They also claim former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh secretly backed the Houthis as a counterweight to Salafi forces. The covert conflict later escalated into the 2015 Saudi-led military intervention, backed by the U.S. and other coalition partners. Despite years of fighting, Ansarallah continues to control much of northern Yemen, including the capital, Sana'a.

Boeing Network Supplied Weapons, Mercenaries to Sudanese Paramilitary(RSF): UN A forthcoming UN report reveals that a fleet of Boeing 727s tied to a former US military contractor transported weapons, drones, and mercenaries to Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov: They promise one thing and do another. We've already gotten used to it—or at least we should have. But every time, in the spirit of the Russian soul, you still want to believe in the best. But eventually, patience runs out. And not without reason. Shortly after the start of the special military operation, President Putin summed it up: "Things will never again be as they were before February 2022."

🇺🇸— SpaceX plans to launch up to 1 million satellites into low Earth orbit to create a space-based AI data center powered by solar energy, NBC News reports. ➡️ The company argues that orbital computing could eventually become cheaper than Earth-based data centers. ➡️ However, scientists and astronomers have raised concerns that the project could significantly increase space collision risks, release large amounts of vaporized spacecraft material into Earth's atmosphere as satellites re-enter, and allow a single company to dominate a substantial portion of usable orbital space.

🇮🇷🇴🇲 — Iran has rejected Oman's Gulf-backed proposal for the joint management of the Strait of Hormuz, with a senior Iranian official telling Reuters the plan was "unreasonable." ➡️ The official said the proposed 50-50 control arrangement with Oman would not serve Iran's interests. Instead, Tehran is seeking sole control over the inbound shipping lane and partial control over the outbound lane.

—🇾🇪 Yemen is considering tolls in the Mandab Strait – Reuters

🇷🇺 Pavel Durov (Telegram CEO) has been declared wanted internationally, according to the FSB. Durov has been charged with a crime related to assisting terrorist activities. The FSB emphasized that numerous channels, chats, and bots on Telegram are actively used by Ukrainian intelligence services, terrorists, and extremists to prepare acts of sabotage and mass killings in Russia. None of these groups have been removed from the messenger.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡️ — The U.S. Senate voted 86-12 to advance the bipartisan bill championed by the late Senator Lindsey Graham that would impose tougher sanctions on Russia and Iran. I wonder if the message is now clear to China. The US will never negotiate in good faith, its not about whats good for citizens, or even whats good for the state of a country, its decisions made for multi national oligarchs. ➡️ The procedural vote came hours after senators honored Graham's memory and immediately following a closed-door meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky, who watched the vote from the Senate chamber. ➡️ The bill would authorize 100% secondary tariffs on countries that continue purchasing Russian oil and natural gas, target Russia's "shadow fleet" of oil tankers used to evade sanctions, and renew U.S. sanctions on Iran that are due to expire at the end of the year.