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BREAKING: Qatar just signed a 10-year defence co-production agreement with Ukraine. Not an advisory partnership. Not a training exchange. Co-production facilities. Joint defence industry projects. Technological partnerships between companies. Signed by the Chiefs of General Staff of both nations on March 28 per Zelensky’s verified account and Qatar News Agency. Qatar shares the world’s largest natural gas field with Iran. The North Field / South Pars reservoir holds 1,800 trillion cubic feet of gas per the IEA. Two-thirds lies in Qatari waters. Ten days ago, Iran hit Ras Laffan Industrial City, the facility that processes all the gas from Qatar’s side of their shared field per CNN and QatarEnergy. Seventeen percent of Qatar’s LNG capacity is offline for three to five years. Fourteen percent of helium exports are cut. Force majeure declared. Iran bombed the other half of its own shared gas field. And now Qatar is building weapons factories with the country that mastered killing the drone Iran used to do it. The drone is the Shahed-136. Iran designed it. Russia industrialised it. Russia fired it at Ukrainian cities for four years. Ukraine developed the $2,100 Sting interceptor that kills it at a 70 percent rate. Zelensky told The National he can deliver 1,000 interceptors per day. The 10-year deal ensures Qatar will not just buy these weapons. It will manufacture them on Qatari soil with Ukrainian technology. This is the first time in the history of this war that a Gulf state has committed to building the production line, not just purchasing the product. Saudi Arabia signed a defence cooperation agreement on March 27. The UAE agreed to security cooperation on March 28. But Qatar went further. Co-production means factories. Factories mean sovereignty over supply. Qatar will no longer depend on anyone for the weapon that protects the gas field that powers 30 percent of the world’s helium. Zelensky met Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani. He updated them on Russia’s ongoing attacks and its cooperation with the Iranian regime. He told them air defence remains Ukraine’s absolute priority. Then he asked for what he has asked every Gulf leader this week: Patriot missiles that the Gulf possesses and that Ukraine desperately needs to stop Russian missiles that use the same guidance components from the same Chinese rare earth processing chain. The exchange is now visible across three countries in 48 hours. Ukraine gives cheap interceptors and expertise. Gulf states give expensive missiles and investment. Ukraine gets what it needs for Russia. The Gulf gets what it needs for Iran. And the drone that connects both wars, the Shahed that Iran designed and Russia upgraded, becomes the mechanism through which two separate conflicts merge into a single weapons economy. Trump called Zelensky “the greatest salesman on Earth.” In 48 hours, Zelensky signed three defence agreements across three Gulf capitals, secured a 10-year industrial partnership, deployed over 200 specialists, and positioned Ukraine as the sole provider of the one capability America’s $3.9 million Patriot cannot replicate: cheap, high-volume, battle-proven drone interception at $2,100 per unit. The country America said it did not need just locked in a decade of Gulf defence contracts while America raids Swiss accounts to cover its own interceptor shortfall. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

I have worked on every side of environmental compliance in the past 26 years. Government (regulatory), consulting, and industry. I left govt for many reasons, but the top one was that it had collectively gotten drunk on power. Air is exponentially cleaner than when the CAA enacted requirements in the 70s. We are now in the Law of Diminishing Returns phase. Net Zero is the final nail in the coffin. I watched 100s of manufacturers built offshore because of regulations. We ALL still share the same air on this planet. China has a major pollution problem. India too. But the birdseed brigade PROtesters have been useful idiots for globalists. Why should China get a pass on emissions while we strangle our own industries to death? I wish I had a way to show rational people what environmental regulatory compliance really looks like under the hood. People like me scream into the void on a daily basis. It is only getting worse. Countries are offloading their survival in the name of self-congratulatory social engineering experiments. I cringe every time I read an article like this one. I want people to see the stupidity of it all.

The UK produces around 5–6 million tonnes of salt per year, supporting industries worth tens of billions, from chemicals and water treatment to food processing and pharmaceuticals. The UK chemicals sector alone contributes £30 billion+ to the economy, and salt is a foundational feedstock for it. It’s also used in 90% of medicines, underpins winter road safety, and supports thousands of skilled jobs across the North West and Yorkshire. If domestic production collapses, we don’t just import salt. We export jobs, supply chain security, and industrial capability. Ed Miliband isn’t protecting the economy, he’s dismantling it, piece by piece

🚨 US company Ubiquiti is a serial sanctions violator, supplying terror regimes across the world with connectivity. In 2014, Ubiquiti was fined for selling its equipment to Iran. Now, Ubiquiti is complicit in Russian war crimes against Ukrainians. 💰

Two of Russia's largest oil companies, Rosneft and Gazprom, helped the Russian government and President Vladimir Putin abduct roughly 2,000 Ukrainian children to send to Russian indoctrination camps since the start of the war in 2022, Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab found. CBS News' chief foreign affairs correspondent @margbrennan explains what we learned from the report.

Like the Allies found middle ground with Hitler during WW2 ? What a load of old horsefeathers

JUST IN: Iran gave Russia its Shahed drones. Russia improved them in Ukraine. Now Western intelligence says Russia is shipping the upgraded versions back to Iran. And the country that learned how to kill those drones on the battlefield just sent 228 experts to the Gulf to teach five countries how to do the same thing. The full circle is extraordinary. Iran supplied thousands of Shahed-136 kamikaze drones to Russia starting in 2022 for use against Ukraine. Russia rebranded them Geran-2 and, over three years of combat, upgraded the navigation systems, added anti-jamming capabilities, improved the engines, and refined the payload delivery. The Financial Times and AP reported on March 26 citing Western intelligence that Russia is now in the final stages of shipping those upgraded Geran-2 drones back to Iran’s IRGC, along with medicine and food supplies. Kremlin spokesman Peskov called the reports “lies” and “fake news dumps.” Meanwhile, Zelensky arrived in Saudi Arabia on March 26 for an unannounced visit, met Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, signed a defense cooperation deal focused on air defense and drone expertise, and departed Jeddah on March 28. Ukraine has deployed 201 to 228 military drone specialists to five Gulf and Middle Eastern countries: the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Jordan. Another 34 are ready per Zelensky’s statement on March 17. These specialists are not there as a symbolic gesture. They bring the single most effective counter to Shahed drones that exists anywhere on earth. Ukraine developed FPV interceptor drones that account for roughly 70 percent of all Shahed and Geran-2 shootdowns in Ukraine per Forces News and Atlantic Council reporting. The method: radar and acoustic sensors detect the incoming drone at 20 to 50 kilometres. A cheap, fast quadcopter or fixed-wing interceptor launches from a mobile platform. An operator pilots it at high speed toward the target. It destroys the Shahed through kamikaze collision or a small explosive payload on impact. Cost per intercept: a fraction of what a surface-to-air missile costs. Militarnyi reported on March 22 that Ukrainian teams have already confirmed multiple Shahed shootdowns in the Middle East. The arms race running through this war is now a closed loop. Iran builds the drone. Russia tests it, improves it, and allegedly sends the improved version back. Ukraine learns to kill it through three years of battlefield iteration. Ukraine exports that knowledge to the Gulf states Iran is attacking. The Gulf states pay Ukraine in money, technology, and diplomatic support. Russia denies everything while the drones fly in both directions. This is not a bilateral conflict. It is a global drone ecosystem where every improvement by one side is studied, countered, and re-exported by the other. The Shahed that hits a refinery in Bahrain tonight may carry Russian-upgraded navigation. The interceptor that destroys it may be piloted by a Ukrainian operator trained in Zaporizhzhia. The defense deal that funded the deployment was signed in Jeddah while the war it was designed to address raged 1,500 kilometres to the northeast. SpaceX’s Starlink provides the communications backbone for these teams in contested environments where terrestrial networks are degraded by the same war. The same helium shortage threatening semiconductor fabs and quantum computers is threatening the rocket launches that put Starlink satellites in orbit. The same strait carrying the oil carries the data cables that the drones are trying to protect. Every domain connects through the same 39 kilometres of water. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Good to see our salt story followed up here👇 The slow motion collapse (actually no longer slow motion) of Britain's chemicals industry is a BIG deal. But NB it's not just salt. Ammonia, sulphuric acid, ethanol, and a host of other foundational chemicals too. All going or gone

🚨BREAKING: Scotland Yard has REOPENED the investigation into the alleged theft of Morgan Mcsweeneys phone 🇬🇧 This comes after questions begin to swirl around the event, with many calling it highly suspicious.

The Labour‑run Commons has just scrapped the traditional Easter adjournment debate – quietly, with no explanation. An MP had to stand up and ask why Easter is being airbrushed out of Parliament in what is still meant to be a Christian country. If they can casually delete Easter from our traditions, what else are they prepared to erase?

Britain is on the brink of becoming a net importer of salt for the first time in history, a resource we’ve produced for centuries, with reserves that could last decades. Salt underpins entire industries, from chemicals to pharmaceuticals, it's used in 90% of medicines, and if domestic production collapses, those industries will follow or relocate. This isn’t just about seasoning food, it’s about national resilience, jobs, and the survival of British manufacturing. Ed Miliband is trying to shut down all Britain’s industry except Net Zero.

SYRIA: A group of young Muslims entered the Christian town of Al-Suqaylabiyah in Hama and tried to rape Christian girls. Brave Christian men fought them and kicked them out. They later returned with a government-backed mob, looted homes and properties, opened fire, and arrested several Christian men who they plan to execute. This is daily life for Christians living under Islamic rule.

@chalavyishmael Give the arms to the Ukraine Army….

Israeli naval commandos just raided a school in Khiam, Lebanon and uncovered hundreds of Hezbollah weapons, missiles, explosives, and rifles. Alongside the weapons were items bearing the UNHCR logo. I guarantee you won't see this story on CNN or the BBC.

Beautiful, can’t wait!

God Save The King

Absolute corruption at the heart of Government. STINKS… I’VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT

Honestly, the Chagossians just deciding to unilaterally establish their own pro-British government and go resettle the islands was a stroke of genius. Immediately makes the Starmer surrender deal so much more difficult to sell and implement. God speed to them

New houses recently built in Poundbury If it was not for HM The King, architecture would not have witnessed a revival in this country. His efforts have revived craftsmanship, natural materials, and much-loved traditional details.

I suspect dear Lenny thinks that Britain invented slavery And that the Pryramids were presumably built by volunteers

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