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Moshe Feiglin, leader of the Zehut party, has allied with Bezalel Smotrich's Religious Zionism party for the upcoming elections

By Dave De Camp, antiwar.com

Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin, the leader of Israel’s Zehut party, who has a clear path to a seat in the Knesset in the upcoming election, has said in a new interview that it would be “moral” to kill babies in Gaza.

Posted by Tyler Durden: Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com,

The Iran war could claim a casualty far more consequential than a missile battery, an air base, or an oil tanker: the petrodollar system.

For more than 50 years, US protection of the Gulf monarchies has helped support global demand for dollars and US government debt. That bargain may now be coming under strain.

by Tyler Durden

Back in July, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda declared that his country must be part of the NATO alliance's nuclear sharing program: "We would like to be the integral part of this nuclear deterrence," he had said at the time.

He was addressing a big hurdle written into Lithuanian law, namely the existent constitutional ban on nuclear weapons from Lithuanian territory.

by Tyler Durden

Russia has just wrapped up hosting mass military drills involving troops and defense technology from eight countries which state media hailed as applying lessons learned from the Ukraine war.

The Tsentr-2026, or Centre-2026, drills ran throughout all last week into Saturday, located in the central western Chelyabinsk region, which is situated in the southern Ural Mountains - with on Friday President Putin being on hand to observe the exercise.

Posted by Tyler Durden;  Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,

Regardless of why Putin might have held off on this for so long, he's now arguably motivated at least in part by the tantalizing possibility of reaching big-ticket resource deals with the US after the conflict ends, the details of which his and Trump's envoys have been negotiating for over a year already.

The US stopped refueling Saudi warplanes in 2018, several months after the Saudis bombed a school bus in Yemen

Dave De Camp, antiwar.com

The US is refueling Saudi fighter jets as part of its support for Riyadh’s war in Yemen, a US official has told Al Jazeera, marking an escalation of US involvement in the conflict.