Ukraine Is Fighting Russia in Africa


Iran-linked ships are using new names and radio codes associated with Nicaragua while still transmitting ship identification numbers on the U.S. sanctions list. The new codes follow a shared pattern, but the records do not confirm official Nicaraguan registration or reveal who issued them.
Read the Analysis →IMAGE //Genmar Companion (IMO 9255933), later listed by Treasury as Ocean Koi, at Skarvikshamnen, Gothenburg, 9 July 2011. Source: Bo Randstedt / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Kyiv is using drone expertise to expand its reach from Libya’s coast to northern Mali, while operations against Russia bring diplomatic costs.
Alabuga is adding defenses and reportedly assembling Chinese-origin antennas on site, giving the factory an antenna supply route outside Cheboksary.
US officials linked the Jordan strike to imagery from Chinese entities. Global Recon reconstructed four midday passes near the base by a satellite reportedly acquired by Iran. Its role in supplying that imagery remains unconfirmed.
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The Iran campaign did not empty the Pacific arsenal. It emptied the shelf slowest to restock, and the plan to refill it from another direction runs through a supply line Beijing can shut.

Russia’s advantage on NATO’s eastern flank is not control of every drone. It is the political crisis created when no one can prove why the drone crossed.

Belarus turned its frontier into a multi-use pressure system. Migrants, tunnels, drones, balloons, and saboteurs are different payloads moving through the same operating space.
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