NEW: Trump and Rubio's doctrine of destroy and deal — On wars and foreign policy, they combine neoconservatism with transactionalism. They prefer regime compliance, not change. They attack weaker powers while courting China and Russia. But Iran retaliates. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/u...
EXCLUSIVE: Military leaders warned Hegseth not to gut the offices that limit risk to civilians. He ignored them.
The decision faces renewed attention as the Pentagon investigates a strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed hundreds of children.
Europe is getting involved slowly but steadily. Whether it wants to or not.
Read David Petraeus and Isaac C. Flanagan on why “the U.S. military must first develop sound operational and tactical concepts for autonomous warfare before fielding these systems at scale.”
All depending on the point of view. The Russian budget was calculated with a barrel price in mind, that so far was undercut, bleeding the Russians dry. That is changing now. And as long China continues to get oil out of the Persian Gulf...
Yes.
The whole planet world can pay more for petroleum products, and additionally loads of infrastructure is broken in Israel, Iran and in loads of other countries and we have a four digit civilian death count. Benefits? Khamenei the Elder being dead is somewhat universally cheered, but ... 🤷🏻♂️
"The more THAADs and Patriots you shoot, the more risk you assume in the Indo-Pacific and in Ukraine"
Es gibt auch noch gute Nachrichten: Das Europäische Parlament will die freiwillige #Chatkontrolle auf Verdachtsfälle beschränken - und erteilt damit der Massenüberwachung eine Abfuhr.
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New investigation from the Iran war by Nilo Tabrizy and Chris Osieck for New Lines:
Satellite imagery and open-source evidence show a March 5 airstrike destroyed an Iranian emergency medical base in a Shiraz park, while a military site 200 meters away was untouched newlinesmag.com/spotlight/ai...
In a 2025 essay, Akbar Ganji argued that if Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is succeeded by his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s political system is unlikely to change:
Niedersachsen geht in die Topliga der Überwachungsstaaten.
Trauriges Bild der obsessiven Massenüberwachung für einen kommenden Polizeistaat " :|
Dobrindt findet das bestimmt wundervoll 🤢
#OffensichtlichVerfassungswidrig
Neues Polizeigesetz im Innenausschuss
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Interesting, TIL.
"BeiDou’s integrated short-message communication capability allows encrypted text transmission via satellite without reliance on terrestrial networks, provides Iran with an additional layer of command-and-control redundancy"
defencesecurityasia.com/en/iran-aban....
"Special relationship" and all. More like abusive relationship.
Iranian ayatollahs call to hasten announcement of supreme leader "to disappoint the enemy" and to "preserve unity of the nation, which is currently intact".
So it definitely isn't intact.
aje.news/ozn6u2?updat... via @aljazeera.com
This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
Satellite images from NASA Worldview on March 5 reveal the extent of the blackout in Cuba. A failure at the most important power plant, combined with the US blockade on fuel shipments in the country has left nearly 70% of the island's inhabitants without power.
Dann hoffen wir mal, dass das Kanzleramt das Formular für Great Power Politics rechtzeitig eingereicht hat. Mal sehen, wo das Geld für die notwendigen Rüstungsausgaben hergequetscht werden können, bei der Rente wird ja offenkundig nicht gespart werden.
As war erupts in the Middle East again, China is keeping its distance.
He has a PhD in masochism? :o
If it wasn't clear how little the current US admin understands how the region functions at all:
Also bisher gab es ja noch garkeine kohärente Begründung des Krieges, oder?
Ohhhhhhhh pivot to WEST Asia, it all makes sense now
„If Europe wants to prepare for digital conflicts, it should not just swap vendors. It should leave obsolete work models behind [, …] not replacing bad software with wobbly clones. Europe does not need a European Microsoft [but …] a post-Office model of writing, calculating, and presenting.“
Was nützt die semantisch saubere Attribuierung der Verantwortung für ein Morgen, wenn bereits gestern für die Entscheidungen von vorgestern (wie bereits im Fall des Iraks) niemand trotz dieser sehr theoretischen Verantwortung zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden?
Noteworthy, according to @spiegel.de, it was the Israeli government and not the US who informed the German government of the upcoming attack.
Since then, Merz and Netanyahu have spoken on the phone today.
It is fairly easy, if there is a defined amount of heads to be cut off, and if the entity requires its head to survive in the first place. Or as @alihashem.bsky.social put it in @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/28/i...
‘Significant damage’ to runway at Kuwait’s Ali Al Salem airbase hosting Italian troops: Italy ara.tv/062wp
And @rferl.org.web.brid.gy reports another internet blackout from Iran.
