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South Korea says it cannot stop US forces from redeploying weapons to Middle East South Korea cannot stop Washington from redeploying some weapons stationed in the country, President Lee Jae Myung said on Tuesday, after reports ‌that U.S. Patriot missile defence systems were being ...

South Korea cannot stop Washington from redeploying some weapons stationed in the country, President Lee Jae Myung said, after reports that US Patriot missile defense systems were being sent to the conflict in the Middle East reut.rs/4sEUtje

Trump: All of the people that died through the roadside bombs. Died and are right now walking around with no legs.

“It mixes up different elements of the nuclear program and their potential proliferation capabilities,” Sokova said. “Research reactors are not capable of doing enrichment of uranium, whether for civil or military purposes.” Witkoff and Kushner chose not to have nuclear technical experts present during negotiations in Geneva, a senior Middle East diplomat with knowledge of the talks told MS NOW. The United States then chose to skip out on technical talks scheduled for last Monday in Vienna.

Elena Sokova, the executive director of the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, told MS NOW that the administration’s “confusing and misleading” assessment of the reactor was laden with “technical errors.”

This is what happens when you send people who don't understand the issues.

Trump says US Navy sank Iran's warship off the coast of Sri Lanka because "it's more fun" to sink ships than capture them.

The Royal Danish Defence College invites applications for Associate Professor in Military Operations or Assistant Professor We are looking for expertise in the study of warfare and military operations, including (but not limited to) intelligence, military theory, country- or region-s

Three open positions at the assistant/associate level at the Royal Danish Defence College. 📅 Deadline 29 March.

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The truck and truck-masculinity culture here cannot be overstated.

North Korea Is Getting Serious About Space Weapons The new chapter in defense planning seems like a direct response to Trump’s Golden Dome.

My latest in @foreignpolicy.com: with a war in the Middle East, the world appears to have missed that North Korea is now officially getting into the space weapons game (with strong incentives to put nukes in space). My analysis: foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/09/n...

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

Indonesia says it has entered agreement with India to procure BrahMos missiles Indonesia has entered an agreement ​with India to procure ‌the BrahMos missile system, its defence ministry spokesperson Rico Ricardo Sirait ​told Reuters on Monday.

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Helluva way for the president to refer to dead soldiers — soldiers killed in a war he started.

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True independent thinkers don't change their clocks just because everyone else does. I will do my own research and determine what time it is

Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.

Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.

A quick thread:

Oil and gas prices rapidly rise as Iran war shows no signs of letting up NEW YORK (AP) — The price of oil surged higher and showed no signs of halting its rapid climb a week after the U.S. and Israel launched major attacks on Iran that escalated into a war in the Middle…

The price of oil surged higher and showed no signs of halting its rapid climb a week after the U.S. and Israel launched major attacks on Iran that escalated into a war in the Middle East.
https://www.wpri.com/news/national/oil-and-gas-prices-rapidly-rise-as-iran-war-shows-no-signs-of-letting-up/ 

Just this photo choice. “Are my methods unsound?”

Lack of interest in off-ramps or complications to invading a country? Hunger to keep expanding the conflict and “jump in the deep end” for the hell of it? Sounds familiar to me!

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dudes rock

“With about three weeks before leaders of the world's two largest economies are due to meet, preparation for Trump's state visit to Beijing has been frantic, raising concerns that the U.S. position could be undermined, according to people familiar with the planning. The National Security Council coordinates with multiple agencies to set possible goals for such meetings, but it was significantly downsized last May and overhauled by Trump, who directed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to oversee the security body along with his other duties. The visit is also being administered by the Treasury and Trade Representative, according to a former American diplomat with knowledge of the plan.”

Treasury and USTR running the planning for the Trump-Xi summit rather than NSC - asia.nikkei.com/politics/int...

YouTube video by FM Attack - Topic Timeless

Friday #synthwave -

Hearing “Oberlin” triggers the thousand-yard stare

South Korea, US militaries discuss moving Patriot missiles to Iran war, Seoul says South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said on Friday the ​U.S. and South Korean militaries are discussing the possible redeployment of some ‌U.S. Patriot missile defence systems based in South Korea to be used in the war against Iran.

South Korea, US militaries discuss moving Patriot missiles to Iran war, Seoul says reut.rs/3OJNdnA

Iranian Ship Was Leaving Indian Naval Exercise When Sunk, Raising Concerns in New Delhi The Iranian frigate sunk by a U.S. submarine last week had just left an Indian naval exercise. Now India's political opposition is demanding answers.

My lord! The frigate the US submarine torpedoed, the one the White House has been bragging about, was unarmed and headed home from an international naval exercise, hosted by India, that the US pulled out of at the last minute! www.military.com/daily-news/i...

"Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

Quite the headline from People.com

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Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, questioned why Noem wasn’t fired officially today during a press scrum. “I mean look, Kristi Noem has done a great disservice to the Department of Homeland Security, to what it has stood for, to what has it meant historically,” she said. Healey said Noem, who also oversaw U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was an “absolutely terrible appointment.” “Under her watch, ICE has made us less safe, not just in Massachusetts, but all around this county. She had no business being in that role in the first place, and I’m glad she’s gone,” said Healey.

Even when criticizing Kristi Noem, Maura Healey can't help but reveal her inner cop.

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Sorry, should be “either election” rather than “both elections”

What would have been truly nasty would
be to then ask Colby who won in 2024.

Then depending on how he answers, ask a) why he can give an answer for 2024 but not 2020 or b) ask him what he thinks the sitting President would make of his refusal to answer for both elections.

Congresswoman going deep into the Colby lore

The First 36 Hours of War Consumed Over 3,000 U.S.-Israeli Munitions Replenishing stockpiles depends on vulnerable critical mineral chains.

"This is a polite way of saying the American military should be hoping the next salvo with Iran is smaller—and that China won’t do the math to figure out what is left of American precision-guided munitions to defend Taiwan." foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/i...

i really don't think Hegseth realized the diplomatic consequences of that strike