Marki
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🇺🇸🇺🇬 Two CDC biocontainment jets departed Crete for Uganda this morning. Mission: extract an American Ebola patient and high-risk contacts from the DRC. Patient will go to Germany for treatment. The Gulfstream IIIs carry sealed isolation pods, the Aeromedical Biological Containment System, developed jointly by the CDC and Pentagon for exactly this scenario. Source: @sentdefender




🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukraine reached into Russia's backyard and made it count. Zelensky confirmed strikes on Primorsk Port in the Baltic Sea, hitting a Karakurt-class missile corvette, a patrol boat, a shadow fleet oil tanker, and port infrastructure in a single operation. The tanker is the most significant target. Russia's shadow fleet is how Moscow quietly keeps oil revenue flowing despite Western sanctions, and Ukraine just put a hole in that pipeline, literally and financially. Taking out the corvette removes a Kalibr cruise missile platform. Taking out the tanker hits the war chest. One attack, two different kinds of damage. Source: AP







🇺🇸🇮🇷 The U.S. blockade will not break Iran, and Washington may be the last to accept that. Iran has absorbed sanctions, assassinations, airstrikes, and now a naval blockade, and each time the expectation was that the pressure would eventually force capitulation, and each time it did not. The regime does not calculate the way Washington assumes it does: Economic pain gets absorbed, deflected onto the population, and reframed as foreign aggression, so it does not translate into political concessions. What Iran is doing right now is not stalling, it is positioning, seizing ships, closing the strait, and calibrating harassment to shift the pressure back onto Washington and the world economy. The blockade is not a stable strategy, it is a transitional phase that ends in one of two places: a negotiated deal that requires U.S. concessions, or military escalation that risks a broader regional war. There is no third option where Iran simply “breaks.” The U.S. must make the same decision they have faced in this region for decades: Escalate or concede, and find a way to call whichever one you choose a victory.














