Daniel Kochis

Russian parliament has just passed an internal bill to legalise Russian military incursions into Baltic countries in order to protect "Russian people." They are legalising future invasion attempts beyond Ukraine...

News: Germany is ready to deploy minesweepers and maritime reconnaissance planes to the Straight of Hormuz "to ensure freedom of navigation", a German official tells me. Plans will be discussed tomorrow in Paris — but in contrast to Macron, Merz wants to involve the U.S. in the mission (even though they don't have to lead). Four conditions: 1. End of hostilities 2. An international mandate 3. An approval by the German Parliament 4. A thorough military and political concept More soon on POLITICO.

Bessent says U.S. won't be renewing waivers for Iranian and Russian oil

Talk about giving the people the exact opposite of what they voted for. Spanish regularisation of illegals: Police estimate almost triples government figure brusselssignal.eu/2026/02/spanis…

UK defence secretary John Healey says Russian casualties reached the most on record for a single month in March, more than 35,000 He says for four straight months Russia has lost more men than it’s recruited Says that shows Russia’s narrative that it’s winning the war is wrong

Sweden foiled pro-Russian cyber attack on heating plant, minister says sverigesradio.se/artikel/civil-…

🚨New @ft scoop: In late 2024 Iran’s Revolutionary Guards secretly acquired a Chinese-launched satellite in space using an “in orbit” delivery. The $36.6mn deal gave the IRGC a powerful new capability to target US military bases across the Middle East during the recent war.

"Ukrainian intelligence sources estimate several thousand [Cuban fighters] are deployed directly to the Ukrainian front." This has long been known. Nice for the State Department to finally notice. It's long overdue for the Trump Admin to do something about it.

Nordic/Baltic states are creating system to allow offline card payment purchases for essentials like gas/medicine/food to continue in case of internet/grid outage due to war/cyber/sabotage. Systems supposed to be in place this yr. Announcement last yr: reuters.com/business/finan…

US has reinstated full sanctions on Russia after temporary lifting was not extended.

Very disturbing. Another Chinese student has been caught sneaking dangerous pathogens into the US. This time at Indiana University. This follows multiple cases at the University of Michigan and dangerous labs in California and Nevada. justice.gov/usao-sdin/pr/i…

Hungary election results live: Orbán concedes to Magyar's Tisza after projections show opposition winning two-thirds majority reuters.com/world/hungary-…

This is a significant win, a place where the U.S. is right to put its foot down. Dead for now, but not yet buried, Labour will attempt to resurrect this zombie bill at some stage. UK drops bill to hand Chagos Islands to Mauritius after US opposition ft.com/content/971be4…

Ukraine has signed a 10 year security agreement with many Gulf countries to defend their key infrastructures from drone attacks and train their forces in exchanged for funding and air defence assets. Great deal...

!!! NATO willing to play role in possible Strait of Hormuz mission, Rutte says

For Putin, the Iran War Is About Ukraine — Bleeding America, Splitting NATO, and Keeping Tehran’s Regime Alive All Serve One Purpose - 19fortyfive.com/2026/04/for-pu…

Germany's Merz: We do not want NATO to split over U.S.-Iran war

Significant news. A huge NATO delegation will visit Japan next month, to drive defence alignment and cooperation. Japan has been a vital external partner to NATO and a major supporter of Ukraine. Comes three years after France scuppered plans for a NATO Tokyo liaison office...

BREAKING: The UK says its military has exposed a month-long, covert Russian submarine operation in the Atlantic, north of the UK. One attack submarine is thought to have been used as a decoy as a number of “undersea naval units” from the Main Directorate of Deep Sea Research (known as GUGI)! conducted “nefarious activity over critical undersea infrastructure”