Day: October 20, 2026
According to a report attributed to Reuters, Tehran is deliberately slowing negotiations in an effort to influence the political environment surrounding the US elections. A Reuters/Ipsos poll reportedly places Trump’s approval rating at 31%, its lowest level of his second presidency. Meanwhile, Brent crude oil is reported to have climbed to $111.50 per barrel. The alleged Iranian strategy remains an attributed assessment rather than an independently established motive.
Prolonged negotiations could increase pressure on Washington by extending uncertainty over regional security and energy supplies. Sustained high oil prices may also intensify domestic economic concerns ahead of the midterms. Tehran could view these conditions as diplomatic leverage, although the extent to which negotiations influence American voters or US policy remains uncertain.
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Russia Patrushev FSB
x.com/mikenov/status/2111936…Michael Novakhov (@mikenov)Director of FSB (1999–2008)
On 9 August 1999, a decree by President Boris Yeltsin promoted him to director, replacing his close friend Vladimir Putin.In September 1999, a series of explosions hit four apartment blocks in three Russian cities, killing more than 300. The bombings, together with the Invasion of Dagestan, triggered the Second Chechen War. The handling of the crisis by Vladimir Putin, who was prime minister at the time, boosted his popularity greatly and helped him attain the presidency within a few months.[11] A suspicious device resembling those used in the bombings was found and defused in an apartment block in the Russian city of Ryazan on 22 September 1999.[12] On 23 September, Vladimir Putin praised the vigilance of the inhabitants of Ryazan and ordered the air bombing of Grozny, which marked the beginning of the Second Chechen War.[13] Three FSB agents who had planted the devices at Ryazan were arrested by the local police.[14] The next day, Patrushev announced that the incident in Ryazan had been an anti-terror drill and the device found there contained only sugar, and freed the FSB agents involved.[15] FSB also issued a public apology about the incident.[16]
Although the bombings were widely blamed on Chechen rebels, their guilt was never conclusively proven. A number of historians and investigative journalists have instead called the bombings a false flag attack perpetrated by the FSB to win public support for a new war in Chechnya and to boost the popularity of Vladimir Putin, the former head of the FSB, prior to the upcoming presidential elections.[14]
Former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko, who blamed the FSB for the bombings and was a critic of Putin, was assassinated in London in 2006. The United Kingdom public inquiry into the poisoning of Litvinenko found that “the FSB operation to kill Mr Litvinenko was probably approved by Mr Patrushev and also by President Putin.”[17]
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Putin – Bush
x.com/mikenov/status/2112185…Michael Novakhov (@mikenov)Bush family financial interests and Putin – Google Search google.com/search?q=Bush+fam…— https://x.com/mikenov/status/2112185594004849053— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Oct 20, 2026
Guillaume Guérin, mayor of Limoges, gives a tour of his town hall, destroyed by “French student” rioters.
“It is essential that everyone sees these images.”
The fking scumbags who did this are SICK!!! 😡
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