⚡ Fragments of a Russian cruise missile identified as “Izdeliye-30,” used in a strike on Kharkiv on March 7, contained electronic components produced in US, along with parts manufactured in the Belarus, Europe, and Taiwan.

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Tuesday March 10 page of The Far Side desk calendar. Featured cartoon shows two cows sitting on a couch watching TV when a rotary phone on a side table across the room begins to ring. they stare at the phone and one says to the other, "Well, there it goes again... And we just sit here without opposable thumbs."

happy tuesday

One more good talk with "constructive" Putin

Trump:
"I had a very good call with Putin.We obviously talked then about the Middle East,he wants to be helpful.I said, 'You could be more helpful by getting the Ukraine-Russia war over with’But we had a very good talk,he wants to be very constructive."

Ukraine's Armed Forces have liberated almost all of Dnipropetrovsk region, with three small settlements remaining to be taken and two to be cleared, General Staff operations chief Maj. Gen. Oleksandr Komarenko announced. The operation is carried out by air assault units & mech. brigades. #Ukraine

Analysis: Trump contradicts himself on Iran repeatedly in just a few hours | CNN Politics President Donald Trump's rhetoric about the war with Iran has been confusing and contradictory since well before the first strikes began.

"President Donald Trump’s rhetoric about the war with Iran has been confusing and contradictory since well before the first strikes began," writes Aaron Blake | Analysis https://cnn.it/4b3ffmA

Ukraine's air defense shot down 122 of 137 Russian strike drones overnight, including Shaheds, Gerbers, and Italmas launched from seven directions including Russian-occupied Crimea. Twelve UAVs struck 10 locations and debris fell on 10 more. The attack is ongoing. #Ukraine

The Air and Missile Defence Battalion of Ukraine's 92nd Assault Brigade shot down a Russian Shahed drone using a Strela-10 short range air defense system. #Ukraine

Ukraine's Air Assault Forces killed 10 Russian troops and destroyed 2 vehicles and 3 quad bikes used for troop movement in a single strike near Poltavka, Oleksandrivka axis, the command announced. #Ukraine

Overnight Russian attacks on Dnipro and Kharkiv injure at least 20 Russian overnight attacks on March 10 struck the Ukrainian cities of Dnipro and Kharkiv, leaving at least 20 people injured as emergency crews continued assessing the damage.

⚡️Overnight Russian attacks on Dnipro and Kharkiv injure at least 20.

Russian overnight attacks on March 10 struck the Ukrainian cities of Dnipro and Kharkiv, leaving at least 20 people injured as emergency crews continue assessing the damage.

This was Russia today Monday, March 9, 2026 — Meduza

Political analyst Mikhail Komin spoke to Meduza this week about the escalating clan war within the Russian Defense Ministry. Lots to chew on: the military's internal division of rents & responsibilities, high-stakes blame games, and how Putin manages amid a drawn-out war. meduza.io/en/brief/202...

Image: Bundeswehr

1/2 — The German MoD confirmed to SPIEGEL that it had been able to secure slightly fewer than the originally planned 30 PAC-3 missiles from partner nations (including the Netherlands) and would now deliver these to #Ukraine together with five additional ones from Germany.

The mystery of a globetrotting iPhone-hacking toolkit Tools used in a series of hacking campaigns by hackers in Russia, Ukraine, and China may have originated inside U.S. government contractor L3Harris, TechCrunch has learned.

A mass hacking campaign targeting iPhone users in Ukraine & China used tools that were likely designed by U.S. military contractor L3Harris. Intended for Western spies, the tools "wound up in the hands of various hacking groups, including Russian govt spooks & Chinese cybercriminals."

"Ready to surrender. No strength left, haven’t eaten for 3 weeks. We need food and communication." - Russians on the Lyman direction are asking Ukrainian soldiers to take them prisoner because they are starving.
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Forecast by the Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies on Russia’s likely next moves with its disgraced Black Sea Fleet:

Once navigation opens along the river route Don-Volga-Ladoga-Gulf of Finland (…via the White Sea-Baltic Canal to the Barents Sea)-

In the evening, Trump spoke with Putin about the war in Iran and resolving the war in Ukraine. He could have asked why, if Russia wants peace, it is still striking with missiles and killing peaceful Ukrainians. But he didn't.

Great how Europe is redeploying some of its best equipment away from Russia to deal with a crisis created by our "security guarantor."

Zelenskyy announced that the US-Ukraine-Russia meeting scheduled for this week is being postponed due to the situation in Iran.

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Russia forged new cyber weapons to attack Ukraine. Now they're going international At the end of December, the person manning the digital boards at PSE, Poland's national electricity operator, noticed a flurry of solar stations suddenly flicker off grid. Poland in the dead of winte...

Poland’s electricity operator detected a suspicious disruption in late December when several solar power stations suddenly disconnected from the grid despite continuing to generate power.

So far, the war in Iran is playing in Russia's hands, and Putin will, no doubt, use this situation to weaponize Russian oil further and use it as a tool for blackmail.

Putin: Oil production, which depends on the use of the Strait of Hormuz, risks coming to a complete halt as early as next month.

Opinion | There are two winners in Iran. Neither one is America. Oil disruption benefits Russia, as does less U.S. aid for Ukraine. And Iran distracts from China.

It’s too soon to tell who will win the war between the United States and Iran. But, at this point, my money would be on Russia and China. wapo.st/4ui9QzJ

The Iranians don’t have to prevail militarily. They just have to outlast Trump. My discussion on MS NOW.

I mean, I genuinely think that's a valid way ahead...

It's *supposed* to be quite difficult. But apparently the US stopped paying attention to the Constitution a while back.

But I thought Trump held *all* the cards. Is that not an automatic win?

4-panel comic: Astronomers asking researchers from different departments to help them identify the “little red dots” in JWST images: (1) Entomologists [Person 1 behind easel that is black with red dots on it, looked at by Person 2 with shoulder-length hair.] PERSON 2: Clover mites. (2) Computer Scientists [Person 1 behind easel that is black with red dots on it, looked at by Person 3 with beanie.] PERSON 3: Stuck pixels. (3) Dermatologists [Person 1 behind easel that is black with red dots on it, looked at by Person 4 with ponytail.] PERSON 4: Cherry angiomas. (4) Graphic designers [Person 1 behind easel that is black with red dots on it, looked at by Person 5 with short hair.] PERSON 5: No, those are vermillion, or maybe jasper. Can I see your color settings?

Little Red Dots

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In first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocratic While other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...

I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.

Since people are rediscovering "clobbering" of cruise missiles, let me explain: Tomahawks use "terrain contour matching" (TERCOM) to find their way to targets. For reasons, about 1-2% of Tomahawks "clobber" -- get lost and fly into the ground -- en route to target.

Drone interceptor was last year's innovation. Ukraine has already moved on - Euromaidan Press Ukraine deploys next-generation ground robotic systems to transport cargo, evacuate the wounded, and control combat drones.

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Anti-war feminists could be focusing on raising awareness about russian war crimes against Ukrainian women instead of posting performative nonsense that undermines support for Ukraine’s defence. Russia holds civilian women hostage and rarely agrees to exchange them: www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...