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📱 Congratulations to the PR team behind the MAX messenger on making it into the Western press.

Headline: “The Kremlin’s creation of a state messenger upsets some people.”

One hundred million some people.

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❗️The FSB says it has prevented a high-profile terrorist attack in Moscow that Ukraine’s Security Service, the SBU, was allegedly planning against a senior figure in Russia’s law enforcement system.

An electric scooter parked near the entrance to a business center was identified, with a powerful improvised explosive device hidden in its trunk compartment.

According to the FSB, the SBU planned to detonate the device remotely while the intended target was visiting the business center.

💥 The explosion could have caused a large number of civilian casualties.

At the scene, FSB bomb technicians recovered the IED, which consisted of 1.5 kilograms of plastic explosive, shrapnel elements in the form of bolts and nuts, and a triggering mechanism operated via a Wi-Fi relay from a smart home system and a 4G modem.

A criminal case has been opened under Article 222.1 of the Russian Criminal Code — covering the illegal transfer, acquisition, sale, storage, transport, shipment, or carrying of explosives or explosive devices — with further qualification expected under Part 2 of Article 30 and Article 205, relating to preparation for carrying out a terrorist attack.

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⚙️ The war against Iran has exposed just how heavily the American defense industry depends on tungsten — a market controlled by China, Foreign Policy writes.

As the conflict in the Middle East shows no sign of easing, analysts warn that ammunition stockpiles could be depleted rapidly — and without tungsten, they cannot be replenished quickly or easily replaced. On top of that, prices for the metal have surged by more than 500 percent since the conflict began.

“We are seeing that there is not enough tungsten in the supply chain right now, and no one really knows how this shortfall will be covered in the near future,” said Pini Althaus, managing partner at the U.S. investment firm Cove Capital, which plans to build a tungsten mining and processing plant in Kazakhstan.

🌍 The global tungsten market is dominated by China, which leads in production, imports, and consumption of the metal. The United States lags behind, focusing more on processing and imports.

The last commercial tungsten mining operation in the U.S. shut down more than a decade ago. Washington has been stockpiling strategic metals, but the exact contents of those reserves remain classified.

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⚓ Iran has developed a system for regulating shipping through the Strait of Hormuz:

All states are to be divided into “hostile,” “neutral,” and “friendly.”

“Hostile” states will be barred from passing through the strait.

“Neutral” states will have to pay higher fees.

“Friendly” states will be allowed to use the route without restrictions.

— Al Jazeera

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🚁 Iranian police are firing at American Black Hawks.

So that was an option all along?

Makes you think of that video of our patrol officer, AKS-74U slung over his shoulder, casually picking his nose while drones flew overhead.

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🔫 Local militia are firing shotguns at U.S. Air Force HH-60G Pave Hawk search-and-rescue helicopters as they search for the pilots of a downed F-15E Strike Eagle near Yasuj, Iran.

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