“Serbia, one of Moscow’s strongest allies in the Balkans, plans to purchase a dozen Rafale aircraft from Dassault Aviation worth €3 billion, marking a long-term commitment to the West after decades of reliance on Russian aircraft.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1779584373500637673
Wonder what they uncovered and who was displeased.
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Kremlin snuff box, 04/14/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
A group of inspectors from Moscow disappeared in the DPR
Not far from Donetsk, on Friday a group of inspectors from the Ministry of Defense, which arrived in the DPR in the middle of last week, stopped communicating.
Sources close to Defense Minister Shoigu informed us about this. According to rumors, the verification was not easy.
In preparation for the summer offensive campaign, unscheduled inspections are being carried out in the troops in order to identify a lack of property, transport, and equipment for the military.
What exactly happened to the inspectors is not yet clear.
There are rumors that they could simply go on a drinking binge. However, it is extremely strange that there is no connection with 3 high-ranking officers at once.
“Strikes Upend Israel’s Belief About Iran’s Willingness to Fight It Directly”
“Israel had grown used to targeting Iranian officials without head-on retaliation from Iran, an assumption overturned by Iran’s attacks on Saturday.”
“Iran’s unprecedented strikes on Israel this weekend have shaken Israel’s assumptions about its foe, undermining its long-held calculation that Iran would be best deterred by greater Israeli aggression.
For years, Israeli officials have argued, both in public and in private, that the harder Iran is hit, the warier it will be about fighting back. Iran’s barrage of more than 300 drones and missiles on Saturday — the first direct attack by Iran on Israel — has overturned that logic.
The attack was a response to Israel’s strike earlier this month in Syria that killed seven Iranian military officials there. Analysts said it showed that leaders in Tehran are no longer content with battling Israel through their various proxies, like Hezbollah in Lebanon or the Houthis in Yemen, but instead are prepared to take on Israel directly.
“I think we miscalculated,” said Sima Shine, a former head of research for the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency.
“The accumulated experience of Israel is that Iran doesn’t have good means to retaliate,” Ms. Shine added. “There was a strong feeling that they don’t want to be involved in the war.”
Instead, Iran has created “a completely new paradigm,” Ms. Shine said.”