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Articles and Tweets Tweets - Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) / Twitter

RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Exclusive: The Pentagon is evaluating its military footprint in the Middle East in an early sign of the Iran war’s potential to transform the U.S. presence in the region, according to people familiar with the matter.

Post author By wawiimuy
Post date August 18, 2026

Exclusive: The Pentagon is evaluating its military footprint in the Middle East in an early sign of the Iran war’s potential to transform the U.S. presence in the region, according to people familiar with the matter. wapo.st/4qrSMFV

— @washingtonpost Aug 18, 2026

Articles and Tweets Tweets - Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) / Twitter

RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇻🇪 The US is confiscating Venezuela’s gold from the UK bank All of Venezuela’s gold reserves, totaling 31 tons, which are held at the Bank of England, will be transferred to the United States, per EL Nacional. The value amounts to $4 billion, resulting in the loss of Venezuelan sovereignty over the resources.

Post author By wawiimuy
Post date August 18, 2026

BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇻🇪 The US is confiscating Venezuela’s gold from the UK bank

All of Venezuela’s gold reserves, totaling 31 tons, which are held at the Bank of England, will be transferred to the United States, per EL Nacional.

The value amounts to $4 billion, resulting in the loss of Venezuelan sovereignty over the resources.

— @Megatron_ron Aug 18, 2026

Articles and Tweets Tweets - Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) / Twitter

Russian opposition politician Lev Shlosberg has been sentenced to 11 years and one month in a penal colony after being convicted of criticising Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine.

Post author By wawiimuy
Post date August 18, 2026

Russian opposition politician Lev Shlosberg has been sentenced to 11 years and one month in a penal colony after being convicted of criticising Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine. anewz.tv/world/world-news/23… x.com/Anewz_tv/status/208972…AnewZ (@Anewz_tv)Russian opposition politician Lev Shlosberg has been sentenced to 11 years and one month in a penal colony after being convicted of criticising Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine.

anewz.tv/world/world-news/23…— https://x.com/Anewz_tv/status/2089725963630448890

— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Aug 18, 2026

Articles and Tweets Tweets - Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) / Twitter

RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: “If you bastards don’t answer me right now, I’ll open fire on you with a tank.” WELT publishes intercepted Russian military communications In the recordings provided to WELT by the Ukrainian military, commanders can be heard threatening their soldiers and forcing them into assaults. “I swear, none of you will come back until you take this settlement. No one,” one commander says. Ukrainian troops also claim Russian soldiers are not allowed to retreat: those who turn back risk being shot by their own forces. In other intercepted conversations, soldiers complain about hunger and thirst. One says they had to drink their own urine, while a Ukrainian intelligence of

Post author By wawiimuy
Post date August 18, 2026

“If you bastards don’t answer me right now, I’ll open fire on you with a tank.” WELT publishes intercepted Russian military communications

In the recordings provided to WELT by the Ukrainian military, commanders can be heard threatening their soldiers and forcing them into assaults.

“I swear, none of you will come back until you take this settlement. No one,” one commander says.

Ukrainian troops also claim Russian soldiers are not allowed to retreat: those who turn back risk being shot by their own forces.

In other intercepted conversations, soldiers complain about hunger and thirst. One says they had to drink their own urine, while a Ukrainian intelligence officer claims some Russians even talked about eating cats because they had no food.

— @nexta_tv Aug 18, 2026

Articles and Tweets Tweets - Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) / Twitter

EXPLAINER – Can Washington revive stalled Russia-Ukraine peace talks?

Post author By wawiimuy
Post date August 18, 2026

Burç Eruygur18 August 2026•Update: 18 August 2026Media reports suggest visit by US envoys to Moscow, Kyiv to revive stalled Russia-Ukraine peace talks Despite US-mediated talks earlier this year, negotiations have been on hold as Washington’s focus shifts to Mideast Recent media reports concerning a

Articles and Tweets Tweets - Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) / Twitter

RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: USS Abraham Lincoln’s supply crisis stemmed from Iran destroying the main US naval logistics hub in Bahrain early in the war, forcing resupply from Diego Garcia 2,200 miles away, according to national security reporter David Rohde. Rohde says Defense Secretary Hegseth “hid” the scale of the damage rather than publicly acknowledging it. Hegseth has called reports of crisis conditions on the Lincoln “completely misrepresented.” The carrier has been at sea over 250 days with reported food rationing, broken plumbing, and mental health strain. WSJ put Bahrain reconstruction costs at roughly $400 million. The USS George Washington is en route as relief.

Post author By wawiimuy
Post date August 18, 2026

USS Abraham Lincoln’s supply crisis stemmed from Iran destroying the main US naval logistics hub in Bahrain early in the war, forcing resupply from Diego Garcia 2,200 miles away, according to national security reporter David Rohde.

Rohde says Defense Secretary Hegseth “hid” the scale of the damage rather than publicly acknowledging it.

Hegseth has called reports of crisis conditions on the Lincoln “completely misrepresented.”

The carrier has been at sea over 250 days with reported food rationing, broken plumbing, and mental health strain.

WSJ put Bahrain reconstruction costs at roughly $400 million.

The USS George Washington is en route as relief.

— @clashreport Aug 18, 2026