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🌅 COMBATE Morning Roundup | September 21, 2026

• Tanker struck by unidentified projectile in Strait of Hormuz — UKMTO said an inbound tanker was hit with two crew members lightly wounded; the vessel kept sailing under its own power. Kepler data showed Hormuz transits slumping to 12 ships over the weekend from 35 a week earlier.

• Trump called off prepared airstrikes on Yemen — The New York Times said the Pentagon had strikes ready for Yemen's Ansar Allah after a personal request from bin Salman, but Trump scrapped the operation; most of his circle opposed joining the Saudi war, citing strain from the Iran conflict.

• Iran downs US MQ-1 over Hormuz; earlier "Orbiter" was a decoy — IRGC air defenses destroyed the drone over the strait; analysts said the object first identified as an Orbiter UAV was actually a US ADM-160 MALD decoy meant to bait air defenses into revealing themselves.

• Qatar relays US assurances it wants a deal with Iran — Mediators exchanging ideas with both sides for two weeks said US officials confirmed Washington wants an agreement; US UN ambassador Waltz said a return to talks would be welcomed.

• Pentagon probe blames AI overreliance for Minab school strike — Participants in an internal review cited faulty intelligence, stale satellite imagery and excessive trust in artificial intelligence for the strike on the Iranian school.

• Grand Ayatollah Shobeiri Zanjani dies at 98 — The senior Shia source of emulation's death closed Qom's seminaries for the week; Qom declared three days of mourning and a Wednesday holiday for his funeral beside the Fatima Masumeh shrine.

• Xi Jinping to make first US state visit since 2015 — Beijing confirmed the September 23-25 trip after Treasury Secretary Bessent called New York trade and AI talks with He Lifeng "very successful."

• United Russia takes record 355 Duma seats — Final counts gave the party about 57.8% and its largest-ever seat haul, with Kadyrov re-elected in Chechnya on 99.85%. In Germany, the CDU fell below the 5% threshold in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for the first time.

• Russia downs 244 drones overnight, tightens Kharkov pocket — Moscow said its forces took two settlements cutting resupply to surrounded Ukrainian troops, who lost over 35 men in a failed breakout; Peskov voiced hope trilateral talks would resume.

• Pakistan bombs eastern Afghanistan — Jets struck Kunar province leaving dead and wounded; Islamabad claimed 28 fighters killed a day after Kabul threatened reprisals. Pakistan's interior minister arrived in Tehran for talks unrelated to Iran-US messaging.

• French diesel hits record €2.41 a liter — Macron urged the G7 to weigh another release of strategic oil reserves as war disruption squeezes supply, reroutes Saudi oil through Hormuz and pushes freight to records.

• Romania arrests ex-presidential candidate Georgescu — Anti-organized crime prosecutors detained the former frontrunner on fraud suspicions.

📖 Full report: https://telegra.ph/COMBATE-Digest---combate-20260921-1200Z-09-21

📡 @uphold_reality

Alemania prepara a los hombres para la guerra con Rusia: en el país, incluso a los jóvenes de 18 años se les obliga a someterse a exámenes médicos.

Según informes de los medios alemanes, todos los hombres de 18 años con ciudadanía alemana están obligados a completar un formulario militar. Serán citados para un examen médico obligatorio, incluso si se han negado a servir en el Bundeswehr (ejército alemán).

Al mismo tiempo, las autoridades están preparando los hospitales para recibir a un gran número de heridos en caso de una guerra con Rusia.

En el Reino Unido, también se insta a la población a prepararse para acciones militares y a almacenar provisiones.


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The US Army broadcasts an encrypted emergency message (EAM) consisting of only 17 characters.

It is one of the shortest EAM messages on record, and all known cases of this length occurred this year after the outbreak of war in Iran.

@SimurghRes

🌆 COMBATE Evening Roundup | September 21, 2026

• IRGC-linked channel claims missile strike on Mossad site in Erbil — A Guards battalion channel said five ballistic missiles hit a Mossad building near Erbil's airport during a meeting with a Kurdish party's operatives; Kurdish authorities called the blasts military exercises.

• Trump: "very big things" coming on Iran — He told Fox News he is in "deciding mode" between wiping Iran out, letting its economy rot, or making a deal, and again floated a meeting with Pezeshkian.

• Iran downs advanced drone over Strait of Hormuz — Air defenses destroyed an Orbiter reconnaissance UAV over the strait at 18:30; Iranian channels said the type is operated by the UAE, not the US.

• Tehran files NPT exit bill as military warns of unlimited strikes — Lawmakers submitted a triple-urgency bill to quit the Non-Proliferation Treaty, while the Khatam al-Anbiya command warned any US aggression would bring sustained "painful" attacks on all American bases and told neighbors not to side with Washington.

• United Russia wins Duma vote after record drone raid — Early counts give the ruling party about 57.5% on 57% turnout; Moscow vowed to intensify strikes on military targets in Kyiv in response to attacks on civilian infrastructure.

• Trump pressed Zelensky to stop hitting Russian refineries — Axios reported Trump repeatedly demanded an end to the strikes over diesel prices, with a meeting now being planned.

• AfD wins German state vote; Merz calls result a "disaster" — The party took Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with 37% as the Left topped Berlin; the chancellor ruled out resigning.

• Trump to meet Venezuela's Delcy Rodríguez on Tuesday — Their first meeting since Maduro's arrest in January; the US is also preparing sweeping sanctions on the ICC, WSJ reported.

• Saudi stocks fall as Yemen strikes Riyadh and Yanbu — Yemeni attacks hit fuel depots at Riyadh's airport and Aramco's Yanbu; Sanaa counted 760 Saudi airstrikes on Yemen, and a CNN reporter said Trump held a Camp David session on Yemen attack options.

• North Korea fires second missile salvo in a week — Japan tracked a second launch hours after a first; US Indo-Pacific Command said the tests pose no direct threat.

• Iran seals French embassy language center — Prosecutors closed the CLF over national-security claims including facilitating elite emigration; Paris called it unacceptable and will summon Iran's ambassador.

📖 Full report: https://telegra.ph/COMBATE-Digest---combate-20260921-0000Z-09-21

📡 @uphold_reality

😭 He cooking Saud

🔗 https://x.com/upholdreality/status/2101776450940469304

🇺🇸 US embassies across the Middle East issued coordinated security alerts

Event: Due to tensions in the Middle East, the security environment remains complex with the potential for unforeseen escalation.

Americans currently in the Middle East should exercise heightened vigilance and be aware of potential flight cancellations, airspace closures, and travel disruptions.

🇮🇷 Iran – Do Not Travel; leave now
🇮🇶 Iraq – Do Not Travel
🇱🇧 Lebanon – Do Not Travel
🇸🇾 Syria – Do Not Travel
🇾🇪 Yemen – Do Not Travel
🇵🇸 Gaza – Do Not Travel
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia – Reconsider Travel
🇧🇭 Bahrain – alert issued
🇴🇲 Oman – alert issued
🇶🇦 Qatar – alert issued
🇰🇼 Kuwait – alert issued
🇦🇪 UAE - alert issued
🇯🇴 Jordan – alert issued

🔴@DDGeopolitics

🌅 COMBATE Morning Roundup | September 20, 2026

• Moscow repels war's largest Ukrainian drone attack — Russia said it downed more than 1,600 drones since Saturday, 450 approaching the capital; two civilians were killed and 20 wounded as the Kapotnya refinery burned and investigators opened a terrorism case. Duma voting closed with turnout above 44 percent.

• Tehran: Hormuz stays shut until Washington honors Iran's terms — Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf, head of Iran's team negotiating with the US, said there is no path back to talks or to reopening the strait until American commitments are carried out, adding Iran must "both fight and negotiate."

• Washington Post: US toll in Iran war higher than Pentagon admits — Sources cited up to 23 fallen US soldiers; War Secretary Hegseth called the report a "lie." A Congress report says rebuilding depleted US missile stocks will take at least five years, Bloomberg reported.

• Yemen's Ansar Allah threatens Turkey and Pakistan — Senior official al-Bukhaiti warned both would be struck with an "iron fist" if they back Saudi Arabia, as million-strong marches supporting Yemen's armed forces filled cities including newly taken Red Sea coast towns.

• US strike kills four on Caribbean boat — SouthCom claimed the vessel was drug-running but provided no evidence; the raid came 10 days after another that killed three.

• US-China negotiators meet in New York before Trump-Xi summit — Bessent and He Lifeng discussed AI, tariffs and critical minerals to preserve a truce expiring in November; the summit is set for this week in Washington.

• North Korea fires ballistic missile toward Sea of Japan — South Korea and Japan confirmed the launch.

• Ukraine's steel industry goes dark — Metinvest said strikes disabled Zaporozhstal, Kametstal and ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, the last three major plants.

• Germany to restore conscription from July 2027 — Draft notices went to 18-year-olds who did not volunteer; Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern voted in state elections.

• Sheinbaum confronts governor over US agents inside Mexico — She said anyone who broke the law must face prosecution after Chihuahua's governor allegedly let US operatives work in the Sierra Tarahumara without federal approval.

• Uganda suspends military cooperation with Turkey — Kampala acted after Ankara refused to extradite exiled government critic Fred Lumbuye.

• New US push to end Sudan's war — Trump adviser Massad Boulos outlined a path of three-month humanitarian truce, ceasefire, then civilian-led political transition.

📖 Full report: https://telegra.ph/COMBATE-Digest---combate-20260920-1200Z-09-20

📡 @uphold_reality

El canciller alemán, Friedrich Merz, declaró que la amistad entre Alemania y Estados Unidos, que se forjó después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, ha llegado a su fin.

La causa de esta ruptura es la creciente tensión entre Washington y Berlín, así como las amenazas de Donald Trump de imponer nuevos aranceles contra la Unión Europea, según informa Bloomberg.

"Al otro lado del Atlántico, estamos observando un cambio en las perspectivas políticas, un cambio en la actitud hacia la alianza transatlántica, que hace poco parecía imposible", concluyó el político alemán.

O sea que… Han roto relaciones con Rusia por esa “amistad”, han perdido el acceso a recursos energéticos baratos, han reventado su economía, han dejado el país en la ruina… Básicamente para nada. Para darse cuenta de que EEUU jamás quiso su bienestar. Genios. ¡Ahora a disfrutarlo!

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🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia's trillion-dollar "NEOM" project is reportedly cancelled, and all construction materials have now been put up for sale.

@SimurghRes

🌆 COMBATE Evening Roundup | September 20, 2026

• Iran sends war-ending terms to Washington via Qatari mediators — Iran's top security official Rezaei said Tehran's conditions — ending the war on all fronts, releasing frozen assets and lifting the naval blockade — were conveyed through Doha; seven demands are on the table and Trump's reply is awaited.

• Tehran warns it could quit the NPT — Rezaei said US and Israeli actions give Iran the right to withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty, though no decision has been made and the nuclear doctrine remains unchanged.

• Pentagon probe finds 'cascade of preventable failures' behind Minab school strike — Flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and overreliance on artificial intelligence led to the US missile strike on the Iranian school, investigators said.

• US embassies across West Asia issue urgent security alerts — Missions in 10 countries warned of possible sudden escalation; a B-1B bomber left Britain as Iran reportedly raised military readiness to maximum. CENTCOM unveiled a joint air-defense plan with regional states.

• Huckabee predicts 'another uprising' in Iran — The US ambassador to Israel said Iranians could be "better prepared, armed" to resist a weakened government; Iran separately indicted 159 US and Israeli officials over the Leader's assassination.

• Syrian arms depot blasts kill and wound dozens — Two explosions at security facilities of the Damascus government left 54 casualties; the latest depot blast near Ayash killed 11.

• Gaza death toll nears 74,000 — The health ministry counts 73,910 killed and 174,914 wounded since the war began, as collapsing war-damaged buildings add to the count.

• Russian drones smash Ukrainian radars and airfield command post — Geran strikes hit 35D6 and P-18 radar stations in Kharkov region and a launch command post at Voznesensk airfield; Duma election turnout reached 35.55 percent.

• Bundeswehr bars Russian-origin soldiers from NATO's east flank — Troops with Russian or Belarusian roots failed vetting for the Lithuania brigade; several European governments warned of possible Russian "kinetic action," with Germany preparing hospitals and shelters.

• EU fuel prices hit 20-year records — A 50-liter diesel fill averages €108 as Brent reached $104 on Saudi supply disruption; the Pentagon told Congress the Iran war has cost $45.1 billion.

• Cuba restores power after eighth national blackout — Nearly 40 percent of customers and 44 hospitals were reconnected after the latest grid collapse.

📖 Full report: https://telegra.ph/COMBATE-Digest---combate-20260920-0000Z-09-20

📡 @uphold_reality

Jimmy Dore is right. Capitalism died long ago.

The rentier elites no longer need a market. They need the state, and they have it: an economy planned by Wall Street and enforced by the Federal Reserve. Bail out the banks, print the money, inflate the assets, freeze the wage.

They invented the "welfare queen" so you would spend four decades furious at a woman buying steak with food stamps.

The real welfare queens are oligarchs with a treasury and a printing press.

They socialize the losses, extract the wealth, and bill you three times: in frozen wages, in rising rents, in ever-growing debts.

🔗 https://x.com/upholdreality/status/2101392002357047777

🇺🇸🇬🇱🇩🇰 Seems like Trump finally managed to bully Greenland and Denmark into submission.

The Cheeto-in-Chief says the US will immediately begin building up its military presence in Greenland under an agreement with Denmark.

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🇾🇪 Meanwhile in Yemen: "I tell Bin Salman that the one who wants to target Mecca and is targeting it is the one who brought dancers and prostitutes to Mecca and made it a place of pilgrimage for dancers and prostitutes."

🔗 https://x.com/upholdreality/status/2101361388132118639

The last Soviet leader ended up in a Pizza Hut commercial. For $1 million, while the people he left behind were surviving on $50 a month.

1997. The man who dismantled a superpower reduced to selling cheap pizza on Western TV.

This is what they mean when they talk about the glory of the 1990s

✨Just a reminder.

⚡️Two Majors

🌅 COMBATE Morning Roundup | September 19, 2026

• Yemeni missiles strike Riyadh as sirens sound across Saudi capital — Saudi civil defense issued alerts for Riyadh and Kharj; video showed a missile passing through Patriot interceptors over the city. Smoke rose near King Khalid Airport, flights were suspended and the alert was lifted hours later. A senior official of Yemen's Ansar Allah said Patriots are ineffective and Saudi Arabia is no longer a safe country.

• First images reveal massive destruction at US base in Kuwait — Photos show buildings leveled by Iranian strikes, a bunker directly hit by a drone and a heavily damaged airfield; reports say US bases in the region suffered potentially irreparable damage.

• CNN: AI-forged intelligence nearly triggered a US war with China — During the Iran war a false AI-generated report pushed the US military to the brink of attacking a Chinese ship carrying nuclear-program material; checks found the data "completely false."

• NYT: US weighs trade deals with Russia to end Ukraine war — Moscow confirmed a possible Lavrov-Rubio meeting on the UN General Assembly sidelines for detailed talks on Ukraine.

• Russia downs 344 Ukrainian drones overnight — Geran drones hit two cargo ships bound for Odesa and a Kiev-region hub distributing European military cargo; five settlements were taken in a day as the Kharkov encirclement tightened.

• Medvedev urges nationalizing Western assets in Russia — After Trump's "hell sanctions" he called for uncompensated seizure of firms such as Nestlé and Auchan and for answering Washington "in the language of direct military deterrence."

• Greenland deal: US military rights without sovereignty transfer — Washington may expand its Arctic presence and block Russian or Chinese bases and investments; Danish and Greenlandic leaders welcomed the accord.

• F-35 parts shipment vanished in Hong Kong; Congress probes — Spares sent from Australia for repair surfaced under Chinese rule, raising leak fears; a Pentagon contractor separately sent secret technology to China.

• Israel to demand "compensation" arms over US F-35 sale to Riyadh — Hebrew media say Tel Aviv will seek systems Washington long refused; Trump will skip meeting Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly.

• Duma election day two: turnout tops 30 percent — Moscow's e-voting system repelled sustained cyberattacks; drones ferried ballots for the first time.

• Lula blames US-Iran war for Brazil's price surge — He said the war "is blocking oil" and hitting the whole production chain, warning Washington eyes Brazil's oil, minerals and rare earths.

• IDF strikes south Lebanon after IED wounds two soldiers — Israel hit Hezbollah infrastructure after an engineering vehicle ran over an explosive; a hospital in Meis el-Jabal burned in continuing strikes.

📖 Full report: https://telegra.ph/COMBATE-Digest---combate-20260919-1200Z-09-19

📡 @uphold_reality

❗️Las facultades de mi cargo son simplemente increíbles. Podría prohibir la pesca. Probablemente, lo haré — Trump.

Con cada nueva declaración, Trump se parece cada vez más a Biden...


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🇨🇳🇺🇸 China is drastically reducing its holdings of the US Treasury Bonds, in order to limit damage from the potential financial fallout of the pedophile Trump regime's war of aggression on Iran.

@SimurghRes

🌆 COMBATE Evening Roundup | September 19, 2026

• Trump signs Russia-Iran sanctions into law — The "Lindsey Graham Russia and Iran Sanctions Act of 2026" cleared Congress and was signed by the president; its core authorizes secondary sanctions on countries trading with Russia.

• Aramco halts October crude deliveries to Europe — Saudi Aramco told at least two European refiners they will receive no crude next month after the attack on the East-West pipeline shut the kingdom's key export route.

• Türkiye shuts Iran's Bank Mellat in Istanbul — The banking regulator revoked the Iranian state bank's license, ending a presence dating to 1982, after US sanctions had already cut off its SWIFT access.

• Iran war tab: $43.6 billion, hidden casualties — A CENTCOM estimate counts $28B for munitions replenishment alone; the Washington Post says at least 22-23 troops died against 18 officially listed, and allies were warned of weapons delays up to five years.

• Trump claims 'permanent control' of Greenland security — He announced a deal with Denmark and Greenland; Copenhagen confirmed the Arctic defense accord is signed next week at the UN General Assembly.

• Drone strike hits Kursk nuclear plant cooling tower — The IAEA was informed of Thursday's strike; Russia's Ulyanov accused the EU of turning a blind eye to Ukrainian attacks on nuclear facilities.

• Duma vote 'under fire'; Russia advances — A Zaporizhzhia polling-station chief was killed by a drone as Moscow denounced "atrocious attacks" on election commissions; Putin voted online amid mounting cyberattacks. Forces liberated 10 settlements in a week, claiming 9,325 Ukrainian losses.

• Putin to the West: live in peace or "we will respond" — He cited NATO Baltic drills practicing seizure of civilian vessels and said Russia cannot be intimidated; drone output rose tenfold and the arms export order book tops $70 billion.

• Fico: Slovakia stays out of war even under NATO Article 5 — Zelensky opened his "Carpathian Eight" summit pleading an "astronomical" budget deficit and demanding more funds.

• Fuel crisis squeezes Europe — Macron convened party leaders as retail chief Leclerc admitted the surge "completely escapes us" and conceded Hormuz remains effectively closed; Germany planned a 17-cent fuel tax cut from October 1.

• Trump bars CNN, Politico and MSNOW from the White House — Citing "fake news" and promising more bans; CNN vowed legal action.

• Cuba suffers new total blackout — The grid collapsed again, leaving some nine million without power; the Pentagon will shift MQ-9 Reaper drones from Africa to Latin America for counternarcotics operations.

📖 Full report: https://telegra.ph/COMBATE-Digest---combate-20260919-0000Z-09-19

📡 @uphold_reality

🇧🇾 Lukashenko on Iran:

"Well, why was it necessary to fight with the heirs of Persia? They have never knelt before anyone. The reason is Iran's wealth. Today a battle is underway. Today the redistribution of the world is happening before your eyes."

🔗 https://x.com/upholdreality/status/2101041505800536569

Retired four-star Gen. Wesley Clark defends the anti-Iran MEK cult.

Mehdi Hasan: "Have you been paid by this Iranian group to make the case for regime change?"

Clark: "Yes. Uh-huh. Yes, I've given many speeches there."

🔗 https://x.com/upholdreality/status/2101039795203940507