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The late Valery Bolotov proclaims the Act of Independence of the Lugansk People’s Republic, May 12, 2014/Wiki Commons. While the world is fixated on Middle East tensions, Russian forces continue pounding military and strategic targets all over Ukraine. Having amassed an enormous cache of kamikaze drones and missiles, Moscow is methodically implementing its ‘war of attrition’. As we have often discussed here on TGP, in this kind of warfare the main objective is not so much territorial gains, but rather a campaign to degrade the enemy’s capabilities to the point it can’t fight anymore. The only reason why this ‘attrition’…

Will Somerindyke founded a military supply chain and logistics company called Regulus Global a decade ago. Now, he’s raising hundreds of millions for a new defense tech play — and Regulus is the first customer. For years, Will Somerindyke sold weapons of war around the world: artillery shells to Ukraine, grenades to U.S.-backed rebels in Syria. With relationships with dozens of top military buyers, he quickly turned his company Regulus Global into one of America’s major international arms dealers. Now, as Silicon Valley investors swarm to back multi-billion dollar defense startups with increasing fervor, Somerindyke is looking to make the…

Senior Shiite Muslim clerics in Iran have issued religious edicts, or fatwas, condemning President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The fatwa issued by Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi on Sunday reportedly damned Trump and Netanyahu as “warlords” using the term mohareb, which Islam defines as a supreme heretic and blasphemer, someone who wages war against Allah. Iranian law specifies various horrific punishments for a mohareb, including torture and execution. Dissident Iranian journalist Niyak Ghorbani, who supported Israeli airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear program as “everything the Iranian people have dreamed of for the past 46 years,” said on…

On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Greg Kelly Reports,” Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon stated that virtually no American university has followed federal law on non-discrimination in admissions, “and particularly the most elite ones. They have quotas. They have discrimination.” While discussing findings that Harvard violated federal law, Dhillon said that “even if they never took a penny of federal funding again in the future, they’ve taken billions annually over the past many years. And so, the United States has jurisdiction over discrimination that has occurred during the time. And, to be very clear, every time…

Under the new scheme in Austria’s Burgenland, asylum seekers who refuse to work will face welfare benefit cuts Burgenland state in Austria has introduced a scheme requiring asylum seekers to work for their host municipalities. Those who repeatedly refuse will see their welfare benefits cut to the bare minimum.Speaking last Wednesday, State Councilor Daniela Winkler from the Social Democratic Party (SPO) explained that “migration must be financially and socially viable,” adding that the measures are meant to reflect “fairness towards the population.”The ‘Burgenland Model’, approved by the regional legislature in December 2024, is set to launch on July 1.Winkler argued…

Sunni Shia Divide – Atomic Jihad – Screenshot Guest post by Joel Gilbert To understand Iran’s obsession with destroying Israel, one must look to the centuries-old sectarian rift within Islam between Shia and Sunni Muslims. Most Iranians are Shia Muslims, while worldwide about 90% of all Muslims are Sunni. Within this divide is the real basis for Iran’s relentless opposition to the Jewish state because, at its core, Iran’s obsession with Israel is about a Shia Muslim inferiority complex within Islam. For centuries of Islamic history, Shia Muslims were persecuted minorities, politically sidelined and religiously denounced by Sunni rulers. This…

Green Bay Packers wide receiver Romeo Doubs is trying to bounce back after an up and down 2024 … More season.Getty Images The Green Bay Packers went 11-6 last season, sweeping the NFC West and the AFC South along the way. Overall, though, no one in the building was happy. The Packers failed to build on their terrific finish to the 2023 campaign, settled for the No. 7 seed in the NFC playoffs, and lost a Wild Card game to eventual Super Bowl champion Philadelphia. Afterwards, general manager Brian Gutekunst turned up the heat on everybody in the building. “We…

Revenge savinggetty OBSERVATIONS FROM THE FINTECH SNARK TANK Americans’ financial behaviors are going through another period of transformation. The pent-up consumption as COVID lockdowns eased—revenge spending–is giving way to a new, equally impactful trend: revenge saving. Revenge saving is the intentional, and often emotionally driven, acceleration of personal savings following a period of financial uncertainty or loss of control. Understanding this phenomenon is critical for banks, fintechs, and wealth managers looking to attract new customers and navigate the evolving landscape of personal finance. What Is Revenge Saving? At its core, revenge saving is a response to vulnerability. During the pandemic,…

President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele said on Sunday that his country is willing to send deported illegal migrants detained at the CECOT mega-prison to France after Mexican-American fashion designer Willy Chavarria held a performance “inspired” by the detainees at the Paris Fashion Week show. Chavarria, a California-based designer reportedly described as “Chicano and queer and proud of it,” held a fashion show in Paris on Friday titled “Huron” that included 35 male models dressed and styled as CECOT inmates. The models wore white tall tees and sported crew cuts while walking out to José Feliciano’s acoustic version of “California…

During an interview with CBS News’ “The Takeout” on Monday, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) said that New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) “is a big deal” and is “transformative.” And Connecticut is doing or has done some of his policies already. CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent and host Major Garrett asked, “So, as you know, last week, there was a primary in New York City, Zohran Mamdani won. One of his big issues was housing and affordability. You just vetoed a piece of legislation that a lot of people thought had been negotiated with your office. What’s…