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🇺🇸❌💊 — In a new Presidential Determination, the United States identified 23 countries as major drug transit or major illicit drug-producing nations for FY 2027 and designated four of them as having “failed demonstrably” on counternarcotics obligations
The countries listed are:
🇦🇫 The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
🇧🇸 The Bahamas
🇧🇿 Belize
🇧🇴 Bolivia
🇲🇲 Burma
🇨🇳 China
🇨🇴 Colombia
🇨🇷 Costa Rica
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
🇪🇨 Ecuador
🇸🇻 El Salvador
🇬🇹 Guatemala
🇭🇹 Haiti
🇭🇳 Honduras
🇮🇳 India
🇯🇲 Jamaica
🇱🇦 Laos
🇲🇽 Mexico
🇳🇮 Nicaragua
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇵🇦 Panama
🇵🇪Peru
🇻🇪 Venezuela
➡️ On the Statement, the Trump Administration also heavily criticizes the outgoing Brazilian Government for "failing to confront the designated foreign terrorist organizations Primeiro Comando da Capital and Comando Vermelho", which, according to the Trump Administration, "have transformed Brazil into a hub for global cocaine flows"
🇳🇮 The Statement also accuses the Sandinista Dictatorship, the Ortego-Murillo regime, in Nicaragua of having failed to take sufficient action against drug trafficking and the complicity of regime actors in the drug trade.
💊 It also accuses the Burmese Military Junta and the Taliban Regime in Afghanistan of ittle discernible effort to crack down on its drug economies, with Burma, according to its declaration, being the world’s largest source of opium poppy and Afghanistan being the source of a major source of it, despite the Taliban ban
🤝 It also praises India, Argentina, Ecuador, and El Salvador, as well the new governments of Peru and Colombia, in their struggle against narco-terrorism in the Americas
The countries listed are:
🇦🇫 The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
🇧🇸 The Bahamas
🇧🇿 Belize
🇧🇴 Bolivia
🇲🇲 Burma
🇨🇳 China
🇨🇴 Colombia
🇨🇷 Costa Rica
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
🇪🇨 Ecuador
🇸🇻 El Salvador
🇬🇹 Guatemala
🇭🇹 Haiti
🇭🇳 Honduras
🇮🇳 India
🇯🇲 Jamaica
🇱🇦 Laos
🇲🇽 Mexico
🇳🇮 Nicaragua
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇵🇦 Panama
🇵🇪Peru
🇻🇪 Venezuela
➡️ On the Statement, the Trump Administration also heavily criticizes the outgoing Brazilian Government for "failing to confront the designated foreign terrorist organizations Primeiro Comando da Capital and Comando Vermelho", which, according to the Trump Administration, "have transformed Brazil into a hub for global cocaine flows"
🇳🇮 The Statement also accuses the Sandinista Dictatorship, the Ortego-Murillo regime, in Nicaragua of having failed to take sufficient action against drug trafficking and the complicity of regime actors in the drug trade.
💊 It also accuses the Burmese Military Junta and the Taliban Regime in Afghanistan of ittle discernible effort to crack down on its drug economies, with Burma, according to its declaration, being the world’s largest source of opium poppy and Afghanistan being the source of a major source of it, despite the Taliban ban
🤝 It also praises India, Argentina, Ecuador, and El Salvador, as well the new governments of Peru and Colombia, in their struggle against narco-terrorism in the Americas
🇹🇷📞🇸🇦 — Afghanistan, Turkey Discuss Strengthening Security and Defense Cooperation
➡️ Mawlawi Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, Minister of Defense, held talks with Ibrahim Kalin, Director of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), and his accompanying delegation.
➡️ According to the Taliban Regime's Ministry of Defense, the discussions covered the expansion of relations between Afghanistan and Turkey, security issues, and regional security and stability.
📞 The ministry said the two sides also emphasized the importance of further strengthening security and defense cooperation between the two countries.
➡️ Mawlawi Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, Minister of Defense, held talks with Ibrahim Kalin, Director of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), and his accompanying delegation.
➡️ According to the Taliban Regime's Ministry of Defense, the discussions covered the expansion of relations between Afghanistan and Turkey, security issues, and regional security and stability.
📞 The ministry said the two sides also emphasized the importance of further strengthening security and defense cooperation between the two countries.
🇦🇷🤝🇨🇳❌🇬🇧 — During an event marking the 77th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, Chinese Ambassador to Argentina Wang Wei expressed China's support for Argentina's claim to the Malvinas Islands against the United Kingdom.
China supports Argentina's legitimate claim to sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands.
🇸🇴🤝🇺🇸 — The official media of Presidency of Somaliland announced that Somaliland President Cabdiraxmaan Cirro hosted a breakfast meeting with U.S. Congress members and ambassadors.
According to the office of the unrecognized state, discussions focused on strengthening Somaliland–U.S. relations and Somaliland’s role in promoting stability in the Horn of Africa, Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
🔗 Presidency | Republic of Somaliland (@Presidencysl_)
According to the office of the unrecognized state, discussions focused on strengthening Somaliland–U.S. relations and Somaliland’s role in promoting stability in the Horn of Africa, Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
🔗 Presidency | Republic of Somaliland (@Presidencysl_)
🇸🇴🤝🇺🇸 — The official media of the Presidency of Somaliland announced that Somaliland President Cabdiraxmaan Cirro visited Capitol Hill on this September 15, where he met with U.S. Congressmen John Rose and John Moolenaar.
📞 Discussions focused on strengthening Somaliland–U.S. relations, with emphasis on security, strategic cooperation, investment, and regional stability.
📞 Discussions focused on strengthening Somaliland–U.S. relations, with emphasis on security, strategic cooperation, investment, and regional stability.
🛸🇺🇦Russia's new drones (Geran-5) are changing the air war - FT
What Western media say about Geran drones
Strikes on logistics hubs, rail junctions and border crossings have done something that earlier waves of attacks failed to do: they rattled Kiev and its Western backers at the same time. The panic is audible in the reporting itself, where the tone has shifted from confidence in Ukrainian ingenuity to open admissions that the defence has been outpaced.
The Financial Times set the frame: the new Gerans fly at speeds and altitudes that have effectively blurred the line between a drone and a cruise missile, and that has changed the air war.
The same paper put a number on the consequence, quoting Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yurii Ihnat:
The Wall Street Journal drew the industrial conclusion, quoting Kateryna Bondar of CSIS:
The programme that was supposed to be the answer to the Geran-5 failed its own demonstration.
Maksym Zhorin, deputy commander of Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps, wrote it plainly on September 12:
The arithmetic is unforgiving. Interceptor drones remain unready, Western air-defence missiles are in short supply, and jet Geran output keeps climbing. A defence that stops six of every ten incoming aircraft leaves the rest to choose their targets. With autumn arriving and the interceptor gap still open, the energy grid is the obvious next address.
#Russia #Ukraine #UAV #AirDefense
🔴 @DDGeopolitics
What Western media say about Geran drones
Strikes on logistics hubs, rail junctions and border crossings have done something that earlier waves of attacks failed to do: they rattled Kiev and its Western backers at the same time. The panic is audible in the reporting itself, where the tone has shifted from confidence in Ukrainian ingenuity to open admissions that the defence has been outpaced.
The Financial Times set the frame: the new Gerans fly at speeds and altitudes that have effectively blurred the line between a drone and a cruise missile, and that has changed the air war.
The same paper put a number on the consequence, quoting Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yurii Ihnat:
"The effectiveness of our air defense against jet drones is around 60 percent, whereas for other types it is 90 to 95 percent."
The Wall Street Journal drew the industrial conclusion, quoting Kateryna Bondar of CSIS:
"The West tends to underestimate Russia, yet it should be learning from its ability to close the loop from concept to serial production."
Then came Reuters with the part nobody in Kiev wanted printed. At July trials of a new generation of Ukrainian interceptors, many of the aircraft lost control at speeds above 400 km/h, and some simply crashed into fields and forest.
The programme that was supposed to be the answer to the Geran-5 failed its own demonstration.
Maksym Zhorin, deputy commander of Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps, wrote it plainly on September 12:
"We have once again completely lost the initiative with jet-powered drones, and we don't even know what to do about them."
The arithmetic is unforgiving. Interceptor drones remain unready, Western air-defence missiles are in short supply, and jet Geran output keeps climbing. A defence that stops six of every ten incoming aircraft leaves the rest to choose their targets. With autumn arriving and the interceptor gap still open, the energy grid is the obvious next address.
#Russia #Ukraine #UAV #AirDefense
🔴 @DDGeopolitics
🇷🇸🇽🇰 Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi has been found guilty of multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague.
The verdict concerns crimes committed by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the Kosovo war, including persecution, imprisonment, torture, murder and enforced disappearance. Thaçi, once presented as one of the KLA’s political leaders and later as Kosovo’s president, now faces a lengthy prison sentence for his role in the crimes established by the court.
The verdict concerns crimes committed by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the Kosovo war, including persecution, imprisonment, torture, murder and enforced disappearance. Thaçi, once presented as one of the KLA’s political leaders and later as Kosovo’s president, now faces a lengthy prison sentence for his role in the crimes established by the court.
‼️🇽🇰 Kadri Veseli has been found guilty of multiple criminal offenses and sentenced to 18 years in prison. A senior KLA figure during the Kosovo War, Veseli later served as Speaker of the Kosovo Assembly and led the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK).
‼️🇽🇰 Jakup Krasniqi has also been found guilty and sentenced to 25 years. A prominent KLA political figure, he later served as Speaker of the Assembly and Acting President of Kosovo.
🇮🇱🤝🇲🇦 — Israel and Morocco agreed today to upgrade their diplomatic representation, appointing ambassadors and turning their diplomatic missions into full embassies.
The joint announcement came following a meeting between Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita, hosted by U.S. United Nations Ambassador Mike Waltz in New York.
The sides also agreed to prompt the reinstatement of direct flights between the countries, hold high-level visits in the coming months, and include investment and tax agreements by the end of the year.
The joint announcement came following a meeting between Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita, hosted by U.S. United Nations Ambassador Mike Waltz in New York.
The sides also agreed to prompt the reinstatement of direct flights between the countries, hold high-level visits in the coming months, and include investment and tax agreements by the end of the year.
🗳 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 The House has passed the bipartisan Russian sanctions bill 262-159. It now heads to the White House.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5334
📎 OSINTtechnical
📝 Tabz: The bill targets Russia’s shadow fleet with sanctions, authorizes tariffs of up to 100% on the five largest purchasers of Russian energy products, and extends the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996, alongside other measures targeting Russia and Iran.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5334
📎 OSINTtechnical
🇬🇧🇫🇷🇵🇰🇪🇬🇸🇦🇾🇪 — Saudi Arabia is running low on missile interceptors as it faces continued attacks from the Houthis and has asked the UK, France, Pakistan, and Egypt for air-defense support.
— AP | @TheWarReporter
— AP | @TheWarReporter
🤔😌 Remember Pokémon Go?
For nine years it got kids and parents outside, phones in hand, chasing creatures on real streets.
Players filmed streets, parks, and yards – about 30 billion scans were collected through the game. What players didn't know was where that data would end up.
➡️@geopolitics_prime traced the chain. The scans helped train a system that finds a location from what a camera sees when GPS fails. Drones can use exactly that kind of navigation.
In 2025 the game was sold. The mapping tech stayed — and was handed to a US defense contractor working on Ukraine's drone program.
👉 Read the full breakdown here
For nine years it got kids and parents outside, phones in hand, chasing creatures on real streets.
Players filmed streets, parks, and yards – about 30 billion scans were collected through the game. What players didn't know was where that data would end up.
➡️@geopolitics_prime traced the chain. The scans helped train a system that finds a location from what a camera sees when GPS fails. Drones can use exactly that kind of navigation.
In 2025 the game was sold. The mapping tech stayed — and was handed to a US defense contractor working on Ukraine's drone program.
👉 Read the full breakdown here
🇸🇦🇨🇳🇮🇷🇾🇪 — Saudi Arabia asked China to privately pressure Iran to restrain the Houthis after their seizure of Yemen's Red Sea coast and the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
Three Iranian sources said Beijing passed the message to Tehran, going beyond its public calls for restraint.
Iran's response was that regional stability depends on ending the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran first.
China issued no threats and did not leverage its economic influence over Tehran.
— Reuters | @TheWarReporter
Three Iranian sources said Beijing passed the message to Tehran, going beyond its public calls for restraint.
Iran's response was that regional stability depends on ending the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran first.
China issued no threats and did not leverage its economic influence over Tehran.
— Reuters | @TheWarReporter
Canada is pursuing a "unique alliance" with the European Union as Prime Minister Mark Carney looks to deepen economic ties beyond the United States amid an escalating trade war with Washington.
Speaking at the Toronto International Film Festival, Carney dismissed reports that Canada was considering becoming an "associate member" of the EU, saying Ottawa instead wants to forge a new kind of partnership with the 27-nation bloc.
"We're not looking to become a member of the European Union," Carney said. "What we are looking — and will begin discussions for — is a unique alliance between Canada and the European Union."
#Canada #Tariffs
👂 More on Trump's Ear⚠️
Speaking at the Toronto International Film Festival, Carney dismissed reports that Canada was considering becoming an "associate member" of the EU, saying Ottawa instead wants to forge a new kind of partnership with the 27-nation bloc.
"We're not looking to become a member of the European Union," Carney said. "What we are looking — and will begin discussions for — is a unique alliance between Canada and the European Union."
#Canada #Tariffs
👂 More on Trump's Ear⚠️
🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇮🇱 — Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz will stay closed until Trump and Netanyahu are removed from power, setting a new condition for reopening the Strait, per Zolqadr, advisor to the Supreme Leader.
➡️ In August, a similar threat was issued by a senior adviser to Iran's chief negotiator said Iran would keep Hormuz closed until Trump's term ends on January 20, 2029. The condition has now moved from a date to Trump's removal from office.
"Our fighters will not open the Strait of Hormuz until the criminal Trump and the bloodthirsty Netanyahu are pulled down from the throne of power," Zolqadr says, calling it "the first stage of the Iranian people's revenge."
➡️ In August, a similar threat was issued by a senior adviser to Iran's chief negotiator said Iran would keep Hormuz closed until Trump's term ends on January 20, 2029. The condition has now moved from a date to Trump's removal from office.
🏴❌🇮🇶 — The Islamic State claims responsibility for attacking a PMF base in Kirkuk, Iraq, causing only a small amount of property damage.
By the grace of Allah Almighty, the soldiers of the Caliphate targeted a military base belonging to the Rafidah army near the village of (Al-Batma) in (Hawija) the day before yesterday, using machine guns, which resulted in the destruction of a thermal camera, praise be to Allah.
🤩🇦🇿🇮🇶 — The Azerbaijani State Security Service (DTX) says it carried out a joint operation with the security and intelligence services of other countries, conducting parallel operations across five countries and detaining 10 members of the Azerbaijani radical religious extremist group 'Sumgayit Jamaat'.
The group was allegedly planning assassination attempts against prominent Azeri public figures and religious scholars.
The group was also reportedly arranging safe passage abroad after carrying out the attacks.
The group was allegedly planning assassination attempts against prominent Azeri public figures and religious scholars.
The group was also reportedly arranging safe passage abroad after carrying out the attacks.