Eric Salat 🌈
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Eric Salat 🌈
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Militant associatif & Représentant des Usagers accès aux soins Patient - Enseignant Universitaire - Consultant Affaires Publiques 🇺🇦slava Urkraini

JUST IN: The country that learned to shoot down Iranian drones over Kyiv is now teaching the Gulf to shoot them down over refineries. Nobody asked Trump. The Gulf asked Ukraine. President Zelensky confirmed at the UK Parliament on March 18 that 201 Ukrainian military specialists are already deployed across UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, with teams en route to Kuwait and 34 more ready to go. These are active-duty government military personnel, not private contractors. They are sharing combat-proven expertise from three years of intercepting Iranian Shahed drones over Ukrainian cities, power grids, and civilian infrastructure. The Gulf states requested the assistance. Saudi Arabia explicitly approached Ukraine. The arrangement is reciprocal: Ukraine provides the expertise that no other country possesses at this depth of operational experience, and the Gulf provides what Ukraine needs most, funding, technology, and air defence systems. Zelensky specifically highlighted Patriot missiles as part of the exchange. The country that cannot get enough Patriots from the West is earning them from the Gulf by teaching drone interception. Trump did not request this deployment. No reporting in any outlet, from Reuters to Al Jazeera to the Kyiv Post, indicates American coordination or approval. The recent Trump-Zelensky tensions over aid disputes and public friction are well documented. This is not a Washington-orchestrated move. It is a bilateral arrangement between Ukraine and Gulf capitals that bypasses Washington entirely. Zelensky built a parallel channel to the Gulf that gives Ukraine what America has been reluctant to provide while giving the Gulf what America’s $23.5 billion arms surge does not include: the people who know how to fight Shaheds because they have been fighting them every night for three years. The expertise is specific and irreplaceable. Ukraine has intercepted thousands of Shahed-136 and Shahed-238 drones since 2022. It has developed detection protocols, jamming techniques, acoustic tracking, small-arms interception methods, and integrated air defence coordination that no training manual teaches. The Gulf states purchased Patriot batteries, THAAD radars, and anti-drone systems through the $23.5 billion arms package. The hardware is American. The operational knowledge of how to use it against the exact Iranian drone variants now striking Gulf refineries is Ukrainian. Israel views this positively. Anything that strengthens Gulf air defences against Iranian drones reduces the threat environment for every country in the region, including Israel. Ukrainian-Gulf cooperation reinforces the anti-Iran alignment that the Abraham Accords established. Israel and Ukraine share a common adversary’s weapons system: Iran builds the Shaheds, Russia deploys them against Ukraine, and the IRGC deploys them against the Gulf. The expertise flows in one direction. The threat originates from the same factory. The Putin dimension is real but secondary. Iran supplies Russia with Shahed drones for use against Ukraine. Ukraine now teaches Gulf states to destroy those same drones when Iran uses them directly. The feedback loop is elegant: every Ukrainian lesson learned from shooting down Russian-deployed Shaheds over Odesa is now applied to IRGC-deployed Shaheds over Ras Laffan. Putin’s Iranian drone supplier is being countered by the country Putin is fighting, on a battlefield 4,000 kilometres from the front line. The irony is structural. The aggravation is intentional. Two hundred and one experts. Government military, not contractors. Gulf-requested, not Trump-directed. Shahed-specific, not generic. And the country with the most relevant expertise on Earth got there before the $23.5 billion in hardware arrived. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…







🇹🇼🇨🇳La Chine a relancé les opérations militaires en force autour de Taïwan. Pour le moment, c'est 26 avions chinois qui ont été repérés autour de l'île ainsi que 7 navires de guerre. La trêve n'aura duré que deux semaines avant que la Chine recommence ses pressions militaires contre Taïwan. On ne sait toujours pas pourquoi la Chine a ralenti ces dernières semaines mais elle reprend les opérations avec force. C'est justement ce que j'expliquais auparavant : la volonté pour la Chine de souffler le chaud et le froid afin d'essayer de déstabiliser Taïwan dans sa posture défensive. Tout ceci est planifié, organisé et exécuté par Pékin pour fragiliser la défense taïwanaise. Il est probable que, dans les jours à venir, les pressions augmentent encore davantage. C'est également un message envoyé à Donald Trump alors qu'il est censé rendre visite à Xi Jinping en Chine dans deux semaines. Le leader chinois prouve qu'il n'en a rien à faire de l'opinion de Washington sur la question de Taïwan. Une situation difficile à gérer pour Taïwan 🇹🇼 #Partenariat






Iran Leader Death Mojtaba Khamenei was in a coma at Loghman Hospital and is now dead.








Hegseth announces that Ukraine is cut off. Serving Putin is the core focus of the Trump administration.














