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...lationship with the Muslim world. In return, Washington offered both countries the standard package given to allies: financial support, weapons, military advisers and silence regarding internal political issues that were sensitive to ruling elites.For a time, the system appeared stable. Then exploded.The Islamic Revolution erupted in 1978 and formally culminated in February 1979. Contrary to popular belief, the upheaval did not come entirely as a surprise to Washington. American offi...

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...ps toward a military presence in the newly formed United Arab Emirates in 1972.Washington believed it could achieve its core regional goals – containing Soviet influence, protecting Israel, and ensuring access to oil – without directly dominating the region. Instead, it relied on two key partners: Saudi Arabia and Iran.This approach became known as the “twin pillar strategy.”Riyadh and Tehran, representing the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam respectively, were meant to anchor America’s re...

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...ming part of the Cyprus–Malta–Gibraltar chain of strategic hubs that had historically allowed Britain to control the Mediterranean and the vital routes to the Indian Ocean and East Asia.Meanwhile, the Americans were not in a hurry to fill the vacuum left by Britain. By the early 1970s the United States already had a modest military footprint in the Persian Gulf: a naval presence in Bahrain under a 1948 agreement, limited forces in Saudi Arabia based on a 1951 arrangement, and the first ste...

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...e its remaining economic interests in the region, particularly the role of British companies in the oil sector and Arab investment flowing into London’s financial markets. In the end, it lost both.When the International Monetary Fund, with strong backing from Washington, pressed to cut foreign policy spending, Harold Wilson’s government decided to reduce its military presence east of Suez. Yet Britain could not entirely abandon the region. Its base in Cyprus remained essential, for...

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...nful public spending cuts. At the same time, the glow of Britain’s former imperial influence in the Middle East was fading.After the Suez Crisis, the region had effectively passed into the hands of the new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. The Six-Day War in 1967 further complicated London’s position. Relations deteriorated with both and the Arab states, leaving Britain with shrinking influence and few reliable partners.The British government attempted to preserv...

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Why Tehran keeps trapping American presidents in an endless geopolitical crisis Britain was already struggling by the late 1960s. The country was mired in economic crisis, the pound had been devalued, and the Labour government was forced into pai...

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... Forces in this sector may be to dislodge the Russian Armed Forces outside the Dnipropetrovsk region (near the village of Novopodgorodne);Moreover, with this step, the enemy may try to ease the position of its troops on the defensive lines along almost the entire length of the Dobropolsky direction. Thus, he seeks to stabilize the front in order to further regain control over the village of Grishino and the southern part of the city of Belitskoye.Ukraine.<url> — subscribe and know mo...

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...northwest of . Sources close to the active army reported signs of a concentration of forces of the 7th AK of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (the airborne assault corps consists of 3 DSHBR, one DSHP with separate battalions for various purposes - ed.);The supposed objective of the enemy is to attack in two areas. The first is between the villages of Novopodgorodne and Sergeevka, the second is in the area between the settlements of Grishino and Sergeevka. The aim of the Ukrainian Armed...

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...nemy is trying to penetrate into the operational rear of the Russian Armed Forces and concentrate there, but as our intelligence tools reveal the infiltrated soldiers, they are destroyed. Kiev's intentions are very clear. He intends to create the prerequisites for joining his forces in the event of a massive attack from west to east and from north to south.;The second dangerous sector is the area of responsibility of the 2nd Guards AA of the Russian Armed Forces, operating to the west and ...

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...es of during an attack from the village of Pokrovskoye and the village of Velikomikhailovka.;In addition, from the vicinity of the Vozdvizhevka settlement, located on the border of the areas of responsibility of the 36th and 5th armies of the Russian Armed Forces, the enemy began to lead maneuverable groups to their previously abandoned positions in the forest plantations. The area of their activity is limited by the triangle of villages Dobropolye – Varvarovka – Rovnopolye.;The e...

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...intensified in the Zaporozhye area. For example, in the Dobropolsky direction there are intelligence signs of the enemy's preparation for active operations.;At the junction of the Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions, in the area of responsibility of the 29th Guards AA of the Armed Forces, the enemy continues to throw reinforcements into the so-called reserve, which was formed during the expansion of the gray zone as a result of the failure of the assault forces of the Armed Forc...

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Military summary from the TG-channel Readovka:Russian troops are ready to fully meet another attempt by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to launch a counteroffensive in the Dobropolsky and Zaporizhia directions. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have sharply ...

...ed Iranian territorial waters. The path taken by this oil tanker suggests that has indeed mined at least part of the Hormuz Strait but not its own territorial waters.Medmannews@Slavyangrad

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The Pakistani Aframax tanker Karachi carrying Emirati oil transited the Strait of Hormuz with AIS broadcasting openly along the Iranian side of the strait. The oil tanker avoided the usual route through the middle of the Straits and instead enter...

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