Month: August 2026

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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: BREAKING: The Senate has passed a punishing Russian sanctions bill negotiated by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham to bolster support for Ukraine.

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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🚨 JUST IN: Over 300 bank accounts linked to Donald Trump have just been closed over alleged money laundering.

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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: From @WSJopinion: Putin’s War and Kirill’s blasphemy: The head of Russia’s Orthodox Church betrays his faith to support the state, writes George Weigel

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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Vladimir Putin is allegedly increasingly leaning on the FSB to run the country.

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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: UPDATE | Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, turning yesterday’s expected deal into a formal trilateral defence pact. The agreement states that an armed attack on any one of the three countries will be treated as an attack on all. It does not specify whether a military response would be automatic or what assistance each signatory would be required to provide. The pact follows nearly a year of negotiations, so it was not improvised in response to this week’s Saudi security warning. Turkey says it is purely defensive and not aimed at any specific country; Riyadh says it is not linked to nuclear ambitions or an arms ra

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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: FSB gets to control more and mor but what do the others say? Desperate Putin launches crackdowns as he feels power slipping away. He’s handing the security service more and more authority to keep his grip, but the elite are worried the FSB is becoming completely out of control. Feels like the regime is really shaking now. What do you think happens next? Source: (Russia’s elite fear the FSB is out of control as Putin tasks his security agency with maintaining his grip on power)

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Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan pledge mutual defence as Middle East turmoil escalates

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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇮🇱 Mojtaba Khamenei Fighting for His Life After Israeli “Golden Horizon” Strike Two Iranian sources close to President Masoud Pezeshkian told IranWire that Mojtaba Khamenei is in critical condition and could die at any moment. The sources claim Mojtaba was inside the same bunker as his father, Ali Khamenei, when multiple Israeli “Golden Horizon” missile struck, killing the elder Khamenei and leaving his son severely injured.

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#CIA #FBI #Mossad THE MECCA AGREEMENT

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GLOBAL #SECURITY AND #INTELLIGENCE #NEWS REVIEW Mecca Pact Redraws Middle East Security The ink is barely dry on the Mecca Agreement, and it already represents a seismic shift that makes the Abraham Accords look like a relic of a bygone unipolar era. By signing a trilateral “attack on one is an attack on all” mutual defense pact today, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan have essentially bypassed the Washington-brokered security architecture in favor of an independent, heavily armed Muslim coalition. Two Competing Visions for the Middle East Jared Kushner’s Abraham Accords were built on a specific premise: unify Arab economic power with Israeli securi