🇨🇳🇾🇪🇸🇦 China is now operating with a strategy built decades in advance. Following the Houthi blockade of the Bab el Mandeb, while the region faces growing disruption, China appears to be calmly maintaining access to its energy supplies through the Strait of Hormuz, while its commercial vessels continue transiting the Red Sea without facing significant interference.
Why?
China identified the world’s key strategic chokepoints years ago and began establishing military and logistical footholds near them long before today’s crises emerged.
At present, two Chinese commercial vessels are reportedly loading oil at Yanbu and continuing their journey through the Red Sea toward the Arabian Sea. The Houthis have issued warnings and imposed a blockade, yet Chinese shipping continues to move.
The reason is simple. China has a military presence in Djibouti, positioned near the Bab el Mandeb. Any serious attack on Chinese shipping could trigger a much stronger response.
This is the advantage of long term strategic planning. China is not reacting to the crisis today. It positioned itself for it years ago.
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— @DI313_ Jul 25, 2026
Day: July 25, 2026
Pics from yesterday’s Putin propaganda show in Irkutsk show a thoroughly beaten man.
This little bastard is about to pay.
— @JayinKyiv Jul 25, 2026
Ukraine appears to have struck at least 10 Wildberries warehouses across Russia and occupied Ukraine this week. Wildberries = Russia’s Amazon. Ukraine: “We hit logistics, economy and daily life — all at once.”
🔥 Key insights
• Attacks strain Russia’s already stretched air‑defense network • Russian consumers increasingly feel the war • Russian Central Bank cuts rates again to project “stability” • Romania shoots down an unidentified drone • Explosion damages a cargo ship headed for Ukraine • Ukraine continues long‑range strikes on Russian energy & logistics • Russia launched 5 Kh‑59/69 missiles and 180 drones overnight • No confirmed territorial changes on July 24🎯 Bottom line
Ukraine is targeting Russia’s economic arteries, not just the battlefield. This is the new phase of drone warfare: strategic attrition.
Read full ISW update #Ukraine #Russia #Wildberries #ISW 🇬🇧— @jalle51 Jul 25, 2026
🇺🇦 Ukraine’s drone revolution has started a war inside its own military.
The latest leadership crisis in Kyiv has exposed a much bigger debate than a cabinet reshuffle.
At its core is a fight between 2 visions of warfare: the Soviet-era model built around artillery, hierarchy and attrition, and a younger generation that believes drones, rapid innovation and lower troop losses will decide the future of war.
That divide is embodied by former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
At 35, he became the face of Ukraine’s drone revolution, redirecting funding toward domestic drone production, reforming military procurement and pushing technology over traditional firepower.
Supporters argue those reforms threatened entrenched interests inside the defense establishment, while critics of the old system say it has been too slow to adapt to a battlefield that has fundamentally changed.
The protests that followed his removal weren’t just about 1 politician.
They reflected a broader belief, especially among younger Ukrainians, that the country can’t fight a 21st century war with 20th century institutions.
Syrskyi’s removal and the promotion of the more drone-friendly Mykhailo Drapatyi show that change is happening, but only partially.
Fedorov remains outside the Defense Ministry, highlighting how institutions can embrace new ideas without giving up real power.
A bigger question is whether Ukraine becomes the first country to fully hand military leadership to a drone-native generation, or whether the old command structure simply absorbs the technology while preserving the same hierarchy.
The answer could shape not only Ukraine’s future, but how modern wars are fought for decades to come.
Source: WarFronts YT / Writer: Lucas
— @MarioNawfal Jul 25, 2026
🚨Update: This is a bunker buster bomb so heavy it can only be carried by a heavy bomber, and it exists for one job: to reach the things enemies bury deepest. It’s the GBU-57, America’s 13.6-tonne bunker-buster!
The GBU-57 weighs about 30,000 pounds and stretches over 20 feet, but most of that is not explosive. It is a long, dense, hardened-steel spike designed to punch through many metres of rock and reinforced concrete before it does anything at all.
Only then does a delayed fuze trigger the charge buried in its tail, so the blast goes off deep underground rather than on the surface. Because of its sheer size, the B-2 Spirit is the aircraft built to carry it, hauling one or two of these into the target.
— @defense_civil25 Jul 25, 2026