The News And Times Review - NewsAndTimes.org https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Legal, Geopolitical Tensions Escalate Amid Storms and Policy Shifts Legal, Geopolitical Tensions Escalate Amid Storms and Policy Shifts Gaza News Video Security and Intelligence Putin and Putinism Israel and the Middle East Headline News FBI News Elon Musk Blogs Proxy Wars, Hemispheres, and AI – Google Search … #CIA #Trump #Putin PROXY WARS AND THE GLOBAL PEACE Global #Security and #Intelligence #News Review Proxy Wars, Hemispheres, and AI Prompt – My Opinion: In targeting air attacks, with satellites and AI, there is a certain symmetry in this asymmetric world and wars: US vitally assists Ukraine in its deep strikes in Russia, and Russia does the same by vitally helping Iran to target the CIA sites in the Middle East. Lavrov and Rubio had nothing much to talk about in Manila, in this context. Also, with regard to the hemispheres, aren’t they more cultural-political, than geographic; what are their true boundaries, and who determines them? Gemini: The symmetry you are observin Global #Security and #Intelligence #News Review Proxy Wars, Hemispheres, and AI The symmetry you are observing is the defining architecture of modern great-power competition. Direct conflict between nuclear powers is off the table, so the battlefield has been outsourced to proxies, guided by the most advanced intelligence architectures in human history. The Architecture of Reciprocal Proxy Attrition Both Washington and Moscow are leveraging their satellite intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) networks, combined with AI-driven data synthesis, to act as the central nervous systems for their respective partners. By supplying precise targe Articles and Tweets US investigating #Russia-n assistance to #Iran during targeting of #CIA bases RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: The U.S. is surging forces, medics and weaponry to the Middle East to give President Trump more muscular military options as he considers expanding the conflict against Iran, according to people familiar with the matter. RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: The meeting between Secretary Rubio and Lavrov lasted about 35 minutes, according to reports. Russian Telegram channels say that Lavrov told Rubio Moscow was ready to follow the suggestions voiced in Anchorage (in June, Rubio said no agreements were reached there). #Iran BOMBARDS #CIA Bases With Precision; U.S. In Shock Over Precision Strikes With ‘#Russia’s Help’ RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🚨 US intelligence probing whether Russia helped Iran target CIA facilities in the Gulf with drone strikes, sources say. 🇺🇸🇷🇺 #Iran #Russia #CIA RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: “Iran strikes on #CIA #facilities prompt questions about possible Russian role.” 🕵️‍♀️ RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: India is importing record volumes of Russian oil, effectively becoming Moscow’s largest remaining market for crude exports, according to Bloomberg. In June, Indian ports received more than 2.3 million barrels of Russian oil per day. Reuters estimates the figure even higher, at 2.64 million barrels per day—roughly half of India’s total oil imports for the month. Russian crude has increasingly replaced supplies from the Middle East, which have been disrupted by the conflict with Iran and shipping constraints in the Strait of Hormuz. Analysts say Indian demand has become a critical lifeline for Russia, allowing Moscow to maintain oil production and exports despit Posts Review In Brief – newsandtimes.org RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: It states that the intelligence community did not definitively establish that large-scale electronic fraud altered the outcome of specific Venezuelan elections, including the 2012 presidential contest. Link: #venezuela #elections #cia #hugochavez #nicolasmaduro #imperialism #CIA #FBI #Mossad Global Security and Intelligence Review Here is a review of today’s global security and intelligence developments, structured for macro-level analysis of current geopolitical and organizational shifts. Geopolitical Flashpoints & Strategic Conflicts The widening U.S.–Iran conflict continues to dominate global security, presenting cascading risks to international energy supply chains. U.S.–Iran Strikes: The U.S. military conducted its 11th consecutive night of strikes on Iranian targets. In retaliation, Iran’s military launched drone attacks against U.S. facilities in Kuwait, Jordan (Al Azraq air base), and Bahrain (Sheikh Isa Air Base RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Breaking: Denmark says it will trade in Yaun c Currency globally instead of the US dollar RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Iranian drone attacks on #CIA facilities in the Gulf have prompted US #intelligence analysts to investigate whether #Russia assisted by providing targeting information. RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: BREAKING: Yemen’s Houthis say it will close all doors of Red Sea for Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia also seeks military support from the US against Iran and Houthis if they pose danger to it Pakistan is also a key strategic partner of Saudi Arabia. RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: A Secret Service agent on Vice President JD Vance’s security detail is under internal review and has been put on administrative leave after being suspected of leaking information for a news story that included details about Vance’s travel, a source familiar with the matter said. RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷🔥 US House Passes $1.15 Trillion military bill expanding Israel-US Merge under NDAA act and may possibly launch ground Invasion of Iran. 🚨Reports indicates, CIA has started sharing intelligence, AI, and regional military Information to IDF. RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 American forces could probably seize Iran’s Gulf islands. Holding them is the part nobody has solved… The military logic is seductive. Kharg moves roughly 90 percent of Iran’s crude exports. Qeshm hosts the fast boat fleet harassing shipping. Larak watches the strait. Take those three and the chokehold weakens overnight. Geography ruins it. Kharg sits about 25 kilometers off the mainland, which means any garrison lands inside artillery, drone, and missile range of a country that has spent five months proving it keeps firing no matter what gets bombed. Marines would be defending fixed positions with the sea behind them and Iranian television filming RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Iranian drone attacks on #CIA facilities in the Gulf have prompted U.S. intelligence analysts to investigate whether Russia assisted by providing targeting information or advanced drone technology, said four people familiar with U.S. intelligence. #Iran RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: #CIA #Iran #Russia #CIA #FBI #Mossad Seismic shifts at the apex of both the Ukrainian and Israeli security apparatuses reveal a shared trajectory. #Security Shake-ups: #Ukraine, #Israel – Google Gemini These recent, seismic shifts at the apex of both the Ukrainian and Israeli security apparatuses reveal a shared trajectory. Leaders navigating protracted, existential conflicts are actively dismantling traditional organizational frameworks, choosing to override entrenched bureaucracies in favor of loyalists, outsiders, and commanders who can force immediate tactical pivots. Here is how the command structures in both nations are being rewired. Ukraine: The Tech Vanguard and the Intelligence Executive President Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent maneuvers represent a complete overhaul of how Ukraine RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Breaking: China plans to sign petrol-yuan deals with Kuwait and UAE to replace Petro-dollar agreements. China wants to cover Middle Eastern countries with Yuan settlement instead of the US dollar. Middle Eastern countries also want to switch from Petro dollar to Petro Yaun deals EXCLUSIVE: #Iran strikes on #CIA facilities prompt questions about possible #Russia-n role RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🇷🇺🇺🇦RUSSIA is redeploying it’s strategic bombers to Olenya airfield for the next combined missile and drone attack on UKRAINE. “The Ukrainian government’s resignation last week has become something of an annual ritual. Each iteration is presented as a fresh start, yet together they point to a far more significant problem — a persistent crisis of governance,” writes Olena Tregub Russian Information Warfare: GRU Unit 29155 — the same team behind the Skripal poisoning — blew up a Czech arms depot in 2014 to choke off weapons bound for Ukraine. Moscow’s response 7 years later: call the evidence a “fake” and expel 20 diplomats. # Global Tensions Spike as US, Ukraine, and Iran Make Moves #CIA #FBI #Mossad The Trump And Trample Doctrine Update US asserts dominance in Western Hemisphere amid Venezuelan backlash — A Trump administration ambassador declared the Western Hemisphere off-limits to Russia, China, and Iran at the UN, provoking outrage from Venezuela. The statement reflects a hardening US stance on regional influence and geopolitical competition. The modern assertion of U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere has been dramatically renewed under the current Trump administration. It centers on a revived, highly assertive interpretation of the 19th-century Monroe Do RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: And that’s it? Russian-American talks have ended The “historic” meeting between Lavrov and Rubio in the Philippines lasted only 35 minutes. It’s impossible to discuss anything truly serious in that amount of time. One can assume that Lavrov, as usual, started repeating the same talking points about “denazification” and “demilitarization” of Ukraine — and Rubio simply got tired of hearing it for the hundredth time. RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: #CIA do your thing. RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: James #Woolsey, #CIA director under Bill #Clinton, dies at 84. ..Clinton had lost faith in his ability to overhaul CIA operations and reshape its priorities. RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: “Russia’s Daily Disaster Report: July 23 Edition” Ukraine’s General Staff has dropped the latest numbers, and let’s just say: Russia had another terrible day at the office. 1,460 troops lost in 24 hours — and the total since February 2022 is now an almost surreal 1,434,690. That’s not an army. That’s a statistical tragedy. Equipment losses? A shopping list from hell: – 28 tanks – 12 armored vehicles – 78 artillery systems – 1,688 drones (yes, in one day) – 541 vehicles Plus assorted rockets, special gear and the usual “nothing new in the air today.” Ukraine stresses these are their estimates — independent sources confirm thousands of named Russian deaths, but News Review RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: US expected to announce deal allowing Saudi Arabia a nuclear programme Posts – newsandtimes.org