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Feb 23

Putin on Defender of the Fatherland Day.

Greetings (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/79210)

We will continue large-scale work to strengthen the Army and Navy with due regard to international developments, building on the combat experience gained during the special military operation, relying on the powerful capabilities of our industry, science, and industrial and high-tech companies.

The development of the nuclear triad, which guarantees Russia’s security and enables us to effectively ensure strategic deterrence and balance of power in the world, remains our unconditional priority.

We will continue to enhance the quality and the potential of all other branches and services of the Armed Forces, improve their combat readiness and mobility, their ability to operate in any, including the most difficult, conditions. And, of course, we will speed up the development of advanced systems for the Armed Forces.

I am confident that this equipment will always be in reliable hands, which is the most important thing. Our soldiers and officers – the pillar and support of the state and society – are true patriots and people of special breed and unbending will.

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Iran We may be having a moment of respite, or the US will again announce talks and attack anyway. Timing pressures are mounting: Tomorrow night is Trump’s State of the Union Address, Soon is the World Cup Soccer, Holding a major part of the US military in a ready state is very expensive, The sailors on the aboard USS Gerald R. Ford are just about in a state of mutiny because they have not had their shore leave and toilets are a problem.

Despite this all, Israel will not cease pressure on the US. A strike on Iran will happen, all things being equal.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has welcomed an “encouraging” signal in indirect talks with the United States about Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program while expressing the country’s readiness for “any potential scenario.”

THE PLANNED U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN has a hitch: most of the missile-targeting crew are queuing for toilets on the lead vessel, the USS Gerald R Ford.

This is not a joke. A set of emails was obtained by NPR, a US public broadcasting group, revealing that toilet wars have broken out… pic.twitter.com/2rbq7d5CK2

— Nury Vittachi (@NuryVittachi) February 23, 2026

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This is from RT Channel (it may need a sprinkle of salt)

EXCLUSIVE: US could assign Iran strike mission to ISRAEL — military source to RT’s Tehran bureau chief

Washington ‘seeking to shift political and military costs of direct action off its own shoulders’

US would ‘aim to refrain from being cast as ‘initiator of war’ while serving as effective offensive and defensive backer for Israel’

‘Iran views ANY military action by Netanyahu as coordinated with political will of Trump’

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On the face of it and we may see material changes!

📈 Trump’s tariffs math: Allies lose, Global South wins

The new 15% global tariff flips the board on US trade policy—and the irony is brutal.

📹 The winners: China and Brazil got a better deal than before. They were facing 25–50% under IEEPA.

💵 The losers: UK, EU, Japan get hit hardest, from ~10% to 15%.

“The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said it will halt collections of tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act at 12:01 a.m. EST (0501 GMT) on Tuesday,” – Reuters.

China’s MOFCOM urges US to revoke unilateral tariffs as US Supreme Court rules duties unlawful.

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Scott Ritter reports on an intermediate range missile, ‘Flamingo’, striking Russia’s Votkinsk Machine Building Plant. Scott generally overstates so read carefully. He does know missiles of course. I’m posting this because of Mr.Putin’s statement on priority development of Russia’s nuclear triad above, and also, because of the touchpoint with Prof. Karaganov’s work.

He says: “This attack is as close to an act of war by both the United States and the United Kingdom as one can imagine. Suddenly Karaganov’s June 2023 nuclear posturing doesn’t seem so far-fetched. Russia is at a crossroads.”

In the short term, Russia needs to find a solution to the Flamingo threat to Votkinsk and other strategic defense industries located in the Ural regions that are now under threat of attack (a solid rocket motor production facility in Perm, for example.) Given the role played by Europe in designing, funding, and manufacturing the Flamingo, a response limited to striking targets inside Ukraine would achieve no fundamental change.

https://scottritter.substack.com/p/the-flamingo-effect