Poland Signs $4.83B Deal for Three Saab A26 Stealth Submarines

⚓ BALTIC — Warsaw just bought stealth it can't afford to wait for. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: The A26's AIP keeps subs submerged weeks undetected — purpose-built for Baltic sea denial. Poland signing now, while US forces are Gulf-committed and NATO's eastern flank is stretched, signals Warsaw building autonomous deterrence, not waiting for alliance cover. Russia's Baltic Fleet calculus shifts when a near-peer stealth threat enters its own littoral.

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Iran Drone Strike Targets Iranian-Kurdish Group in Iraqi Kurdistan

🎯 KURDISTAN — Tehran is bombing its exiled opposition while signaling it wants a deal. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: IRGC drone strikes on Kurdish groups in Iraq are a recurring instrument — but timing against active diplomacy signals Khamenei hardliners asserting control. These groups (KDPI, Komala) are domestic threats, not Hormuz actors. Erbil can'

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Palestinian Envoy Tells UNSC West Bank Annexation Reached Point of No Return

🏗️ WEST BANK — The word "irreversible" at the UNSC is a legal trigger, not just a speech. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Framing annexation as a "point of no return" shifts Palestinian strategy from protest to legal remedy — ICC referrals, treaty obligations, sanctions triggers. With Smotrich's "revolution&

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Iran Seizes Intact US JASSM Cruise Missile, Plans Reverse-Engineering

🎖️ TEHRAN — A missile that didn't explode may cost more than one that did. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: An intact JASSM is a catastrophic intelligence loss — stealth coating, guidance logic, and propulsion all exposed. Iran reverse-engineered the RQ-170 drone in 2011; this is a higher-value asset. Russia and

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EU Commissioner Demands Israel Respect UN Premises After East Jerusalem Raid

🇺🇳 UN PREMISES — Israel raids a UN site; Brussels demands answers. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Raiding a UN site in East Jerusalem — not a combat zone — directly tests Brussels' tolerance threshold. The commissioner's demand has no enforcement mechanism but compounds EU-Israel friction already pushed by Gaza and Smotrich'

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Iran Drone Strike Targets Iranian-Kurdish Group in Iraqi Kurdistan

Palestinian Envoy Tells UNSC West Bank Annexation Reached Point of No Return

Iran Seizes Intact US JASSM Cruise Missile, Plans Reverse-Engineering

EU Commissioner Demands Israel Respect UN Premises After East Jerusalem Raid