💥 KYIV — Mass Russian strike lands as NATO manages two crisis fronts. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: The overnight Oreshnik report is now a confirmed mass strike on civilian districts. Moscow's timing is deliberate: Washington is mid-Iran MOU, NATO assets are split, and Article 5 consultations cannot accelerate. The variable that shifts: whether European capitals call an emergency NATO council session — or absorb it and wait.
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💥 SOUTH LEBANON — Double-tap on civilians while the MOU clock is running. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: A double-tap strike — hitting rescuers after the first bomb — in al-Duwayr escalates Israel's Lebanon campaign at the worst possible moment for the deal. Hezbollah struck first yesterday; Netanyahu now answers with maximum-force optics. Washington must
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A Pakistani field marshal lands in Tehran on a Saturday morning and spends six hours in a building that, three months ago, didn't officially exist as a diplomatic channel. He carries a document. The document has been approved by Witkoff, initialled by Qalibaf's team, blessed by
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Somewhere over the Persian Gulf, a tanker idles at anchor. Its captain has received clearance from the IRGC Navy — one of 33 ships waved through in the last 24 hours, each one logged, each one a data point in Iran's quiet demonstration that it controls the toll booth
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A Pakistani field marshal lands in Teheran at dawn. He has been on four flights in three days. His phone is dead. He has not slept. He sits across from Iranian negotiators in a room where the air conditioning has been broken since February, and he reads out the terms