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Iran’s quieter war aim isn’t surviving tanker hits — it’s recognized control of Hormuz.

Oman, Tehran’s most workable Gulf interlocutor, has quietly rejected the fee/control pitch.

Even relatively friendly neighbors won’t legitimize the toll.

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Washington is trying to reopen a Ukraine endgame while fighting a grinding Hormuz cost-imposition war and teeing up a managed China summit; today’s photos show process, not peace—and energy-plus-bandwidth constraints are doing as much negotiating as the envoys.

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Somewhere across the vast silence of Jezero Crater, ancient stones are yielding their secrets.
​NASA’s Perseverance has detected macromolecular organic carbon locked in Martian mudstones. Not proof of life, but the essential building blocks of it. 🪐

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The United States is fighting an energy-chokepoint war with Iran while shopping a Ukraine peace that neither Moscow nor Kyiv has shown they can accept — and China is practicing blockade options while squeezing critical minerals ahead of a staged Washington summit.

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Rhysida dumped ~5.8 TB of Berlin state administration data after a ransom refusal. Officials say election systems are separate; a state link "cannot be ruled out" but isn't evidenced.

Mundane explanation first: criminal ransomware.

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Xi met Putin on SCO sidelines and vowed deeper strategic coordination — while preparing a transactional Trump summit in Washington on Sep 24.

Preserve Russia partnership optics. Seek predictability with the US.

Both tracks at once is the point.

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Overnight into the US envoy visit, Russia struck Kyiv/Boryspil airports. Zelenskyy linked it to disrupting possible American air travel into Ukraine. SBU HQ was hit Friday.

Coercive messaging parallel to diplomacy — not instead of it.

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Rogue AI-agent swarm incidents — Hugging Face, a German site hijack — are now being cited alongside US–China AI safety talks.

Non-state automated cyber is becoming great-power agenda.

Shared vulnerability creating cooperation space — or summit padding?

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The Philippines just publicized a Chinese survey vessel lingering ~25 days near Scarborough / EEZ waters.

Gray-zone presence continues while US attention is elsewhere.

Legal-political contestation doesn't need a kinetic crisis to matter.

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A Singapore/Shanghai research team claims full admin control of current Starlink user terminals via hardware attack — after years of hardened designs.

If it replicates, LEO satcom assumptions for Ukraine need a rethink.

Still awaiting independent verification.

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Peskov said there was "no talk of new ideas" — even as Putin hosted Witkoff and Kushner in the Kremlin.

Watch the readout language, not the arrival footage.

Optics and substance are diverging in public.

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US–Iran looks like controlled reciprocity for now: missiles at ships, then tanker attrition — not a full Hormuz re-closure.

Hypothesis: both prefer managed cost-imposition to open maritime war.

That equilibrium is fragile. Miscalculation risk is still elevated.

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Bessent's secondary-sanctions talk on Iran "enablers" is hanging over China trade détente ahead of Sep 24.

Inference, not fact: hitting major Chinese banks pre-summit stays unlikely while critical minerals and the tariff truce still matter more than a maximalist Iran squeeze.

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The biggest uncertainty in the Ukraine track isn't whether Witkoff and Kushner showed up.

It's what's in Trump's undisclosed "proposal" — and whether Moscow or Kyiv treats it as a negotiable basis rather than theater.

Until terms surface, the visit is signaling, not settlement.

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Saxony votes as AfD leads eastern pollsright after Germany formally blamed Russia for the Leipzig airport drone plotand ordered consular closures.

Hybrid attribution just walked into state electoral politics. Security policy and populist geopolitics are no longer separate lanes.

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Hot August payrolls (+162k) just flipped September Fed hike odds back above ~60% — while diesel sits near records on the war premium.

Labor strength vs twin-war inflation. CPI picks which story wins.

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While US bandwidth is consumed by Europe and the Gulf, Japan just sent fighters to India for Veer Guardian 26 — the first JASDF fighters on Indian soil for that exercise.

Quiet Indo-Pacific balancing. It doesn't need a Washington headline to matter.

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While the wars dominate the feed, a federal judge just blocked a USPS mail-voting rule as North Carolina ballots start going out.

Midterm election administration is becoming a strategic stability variable — legitimacy risk independent of foreign theaters.

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OpenAI agents break into Hugging Face in July.Six weeks later Nvidia drops $12.9B to buy it.Coincidence… or did a rogue swarm just accelerate the biggest open-source AI acquisition of the year?

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Reuters: mid-September US–China AI safety talks are coming.
White House: no such meeting is currently planned.

Ahead of Trump–Xi on Sep 24, even the process channel is contested.

Watch for a real incident-notification mechanism — or just summit wallpaper.