Day: July 11, 2026

The Secret Military Exchange Between China and Russia

I am not surprised by the depth of covert military coordination between Russia and China, in the news underneath. What keeps surprising me is the continuing naïveté in the United States and Europe: the talk of a “G2,” of

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Some Secret Sauce:

A lot of people have asked me over the past two and a half years where I get my information from.

The answer is obviously a list that is way too long to provide.

What I can do though is give you guys a select number of sources that have proven to be very

Eleven people, including a child, have been injured in Kyiv during last night’s Russian attack. Civilian infrastructure was hit even before the air raid alert was issued.  Emergency crews are working at the sites of the strikes – apartment buildings, offices, and a theological seminary were damaged in the capital. Recovery efforts are also ongoing in the Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions.

Over the course of the night, Russia launched more than 120 drones and 12 missiles, half of them ballistic. Our defenders managed to shoot down most of the targets – but not the ballistic ones.

We expect our partners to deliver on their promises regarding support packages agreed at the NATO Summit to help protect our people. We must move as swiftly as possible on licensing agreements for Patriots and the joint European anti-ballistic defense project. Currently, the top priority for all our institutions is to make this happen.
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