Sarah
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump's Iran victory lap isn't adding up He's been pushing one story: the Iran war is nearly done and a complete success. The New York Times looked at that claim this week and said it doesn't hold up. After years of bending reality to fit his narrative, he now faces a situation that won't cooperate with the story he's telling. The most generous take is that there's been a change in leadership in Iran. War supporters can dress that up however they want, but calling it a positive shift is flat out wrong. Source: New York Times












If the provision in the NDAA to integrate/synchronize the U.S. and Israeli militaries (section 224) makes it out of committee, I’ll offer an amendment to strip it from the bill on the floor. We are a sovereign country. armedservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…





EXCLUSIVE; House defense bill authorizes US-Israel data fusion & network integration The fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, released May 27 by Armed Services chair Mike Rogers and ranking member Adam Smith, authorizes “network integration, data fusion, and contested logistics” between the US and Israeli militaries. The language appears in Section 224, the United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative, which the full committee marks up Thursday, June 4. Section 224 directs the Secretary of Defense to designate an executive agent to synchronize and accelerate bilateral defense technology cooperation, with data fusion and network integration named among ten authorized domains. The same list reaches artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, cyber defense, directed energy, and biotechnology, extending the framework across nearly every category of emerging military technology. Data fusion involves merging sensor, targeting, and intelligence feeds across separate systems into a shared operational picture. Network integration links those systems directly. The bill names both as objects of US-Israel cooperation without defining their limits, leaving the scope to executive-branch implementation and the annual reports the section requires through 2030. Quincy Institute analyst Ben Freeman warns Section 224 would integrate the two countries’ defense sectors more deeply than the more than $300 billion in US military assistance Israel has received since 1948, and has urged lawmakers to strike it down during markup.



If the provision in the NDAA to integrate/synchronize the U.S. and Israeli militaries (section 224) makes it out of committee, I’ll offer an amendment to strip it from the bill on the floor. We are a sovereign country. armedservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…


"At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the U.S. to the Israeli military more than ever before." Here's the story: 🧵














