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Murtaza Hussain

"The German chancellor has said that Germany, along with Ukraine’s other main western supporters, will remove range restrictions on weapons delivered to Kyiv for the first time, to enable it to defend itself against Russia. Friedrich Merz said Germany, Britain, France and the US had lifted the restrictions to enable Ukraine to be better able to hit military targets on Russian territory. “There are no longer any range restrictions on weapons delivered to Ukraine – neither by the British, nor by the French, nor by us, nor by the Americans,” he said on Monday, following Russia’s largest drone attack on Ukraine of the war to date." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/26/germany-and-ukraines-other-allies-scrap-range-limits-on-arms-sent-to-kyiv

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The world is moving towards a model of cheap, decentralized warfare while defense budgets are still stuck in a 20th century large military spending paradigm. In addition to Chinese manufacturing this can be expected to cause political upheavals. Old defense firms might wind up falling victim to the Blockbuster Video phenomenon.

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New article on Substack: Did Al Qaeda Win the War on Terror? https://mazmhussain.substack.com/p/did-al-qaeda-win-the-war-on-terror

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U.S. defense contractors are developing one-way attack drones that they say will be much more affordable than present models. Iran, China, and Ukraine have been pioneering cheap loitering munitions while the U.S. is stuck with expensive models: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2025/05/20/cinder-is-a-new-american-autonomous-attack-drone/

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Japanese minister resigns after saying he's never bought rice because he gets it free https://news.sky.com/story/japanese-minister-resigns-after-saying-hes-never-bought-rice-because-he-gets-it-free-13371911?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter

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"Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has accepted an invitation to visit Pakistan, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday, following a telephonic conversation between the two leaders." https://www.arabnews.com/node/2601515/pakistan

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"For years, theorists have posited the onset of a “Chinese century”: a world in which China finally harnesses its vast economic and technological potential to surpass the United States and reorient global power around a pole that runs through Beijing. That century may already have dawned, and when historians look back they may very well pinpoint the early months of President Trump’s second term as the watershed moment when China pulled away and left the United States behind." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/opinion/china-us-trade-tariffs.html

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"The Chinese military’s lack of real-world combat experience — it has not fought a war in more than 40 years — is a longstanding source of concern for some in Beijing. But China’s leader, Xi Jinping, has made modernizing the military a priority. China has increased its defense spending even as economic growth has slowed, and it is now the fourth-largest arms exporter globally. Chinese and Taiwanese analysts alike said the recent conflict suggested that Chinese weapons were now on par with Western ones." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/world/asia/china-military-jets-india-pakistan.html

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"Pakistan's army chief General Asim Munir will be promoted to the rank of field marshal, the prime minister's office said in a statement on Tuesday, the first time in almost 60 years that a general has been elevated to the role." I guess he promoted himself? https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-army-chief-asim-munir-be-promoted-field-marshal-rank-2025-05-20/

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Trump said he talked to Putin and everything went great. The war will end soon? Doesn't sound like anything else I'm hearing. It seems like Trump really does WANT peace in all areas but he has no real sense of the complications.

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"President Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir V. Putin, spoke for more than two hours by phone about the war in Ukraine, after officials from the United States and Russia played down expectations. Mr. Putin told reporters the discussion was “very meaningful and quite frank” but did not reveal any breakthroughs. Mr. Trump was set to speak with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine later in the day." https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/19/us/trump-news

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"President Trump’s tariff war against Canada has unleashed widespread anxiety in Windsor, Ontario, the country’s auto-making capital. Much of it has focused on the fate of large vehicle assembly plants. But the concern is just as high, or higher, throughout the roughly 100 smaller auto-parts plants in Windsor and the surrounding county that employ some 9,000 workers. By comparison, about 5,400 people work for the three auto factories in Windsor. Many parts makers are small businesses without the financial cushion that auto giants can lean on to soften the blow from the 25 percent tariffs Mr. Trump applied." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/world/canada/trump-tariffs-ontario.html

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“Peace talks on Ukraine are at a dead end — we realize that,” said Vance. “It seems Putin doesn’t quite know how to get out of this war,” he added. (via @Noelreports)

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Joe Biden has reportedly been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer:

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