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Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 12 January 2026. Find out more about Defence Intelligence's use of language: ow.ly/xh9U50XU2iu #StandWithUkraine

@strangerous10 What utter rubbish!

BREAKING: Donald Trump claims more people attended his assasination attempt than Kennedy’s assasination.

Do you understand yet how crazy it is going to get? These drones can synchronize and fly autonomously through almost any vegetation and forrest.

A beautiful Scottish day

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The IDF are conducting another assault in the North of Gaza, around Jabalia (see @2023gazawar’s excellent map, below). Critics are asking why the IDF are repeatedly going into areas they have already cleared and claiming this is a flaw in operational design. These critics have totally misunderstood what Israel is trying to do. Here’s what I think: The answer is simple: the IDF have absolutely no intention of using the clear / hold / build counterinsurgency tactics the West tried in Afghanistan. Why would they? Those tactics were a disaster in Afghanistan. The flaw in Western analysis is always the same: “we wouldn’t do it that way”. See Russia in Ukraine for another example of another country catching out Western analysts (me included). If you look at what’s possible, what the best version of “success” looks like, and what Israel are doing… I put it to you that in Gaza we are seeing a masterpiece of operational design. Ignore the “destroy Hamas” political rhetoric. The IDF are not *trying* to clear Gaza. So what are they doing? What’s possible? Any kind of political solution? Definitely not. No-one on the international stage has expressed any interest in helping with governance in Gaza. According to polling, 2% of Gazans support an Israeli-backed administration. The majority want Hamas back. Israel’s solution? Let them have Hamas. But the version of Hamas they’ll get is one heavily degraded militarily, but most importantly, with vast swathes of their tunnels and civilian-embedded infrastructure destroyed. “Never again is now” isn’t just an empty slogan. Israeli operational design isn’t built around destroying Hamas, or regime change, or political change in Gaza. Those things aren’t possible. The operation is built around making sure 7th October can never happen again. Absent the possibility of any enduring political solution, that’s what success for them looks like for Israel. Israel have methodically razed what civilian-embedded Hamas infrastructure they could find in Gaza City, Khan Younis, and now Rafah. They have secured the Netzarim corridor (middle of the map) to control freedom of movement from South to North. It looks like they are trying to do the same thing along the Philadelphi corridor and Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, to cut off the inflow of weapons and supplies to Hamas (see the blue, bottom right corner of the map as the IDF break in to Rafah). Facial recognition software in controlled areas allows the IDF to stop known Hamas commanders moving around. This also allows the IDF to strike as and when concentrations of Hamas are identified, to degrade their manpower, then withdraw again (see the Shifa hospital operation and the current Jabalia operation). At the same time they have destroyed buildings to create a 1km buffer zone around the Gaza border. This will prevent any repeat of 7 October. Nobody in Gaza is getting anywhere near the border. The operational end state here is significant infrastructure destroyed, Hamas fighting capability degraded, and the border secure; with the IDF retaining the capability to strike into Gaza at will. All whilst shifting hundreds of thousands of civilians out of harm’s way and minimising innocent casualties (Hamas’ human shield tactics aside). The downsides: the destruction of Hamas-infested civil infrastructure has caused enormous damage. Urban warfare always comes with civilian casualties. The Egyptians look very twitchy about Israeli control of the Southern border. This isn’t a long-term political solution. The destruction has, of course, drawn huge international condemnation. Failure to communicate the plan has damaged Israel’s international standing, and they have been crushed in the global information war for the narrative. But: none of these are show-stoppers yet, strategically speaking. Debate the morality in the comments. But, militarily, this is quite brilliant operational design within the bounds of what was realistically possible.

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Australia is at serious risk of loosing its status as an advanced economy as long as nuclear power is illegal. Data centres will be key to our future prosperity. To operate, they need abundant, reliable power. Renewables alone cannot provide that. It’s why companies such as Microsoft and Amazon have announced plans to use nuclear to power their data centres. Yesterday @CraigScroggie ( CEO @NEXTDC) said that nuclear must be on the table to power their data centres in Australia. NEXTDC is worth nearly $10 billion. The cost of not having nuclear power is far greater than the cost it would require to have it. ✍️Sign the petition: nuclearforaustralia.com/petition

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✍️Sign & share our petition today: nuclearforaustralia.com/petition We need data centres and data centres need abundant, reliable power. Whether it is Microsoft, Amazon or Australia’s NEXTDC, they’re all looking at nuclear to help provide that.

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A Swiss retiree on holiday Down Under has given a scathing assessment of Australia, stating exactly what the nation needs to thrive. news.com.au/finance/econom…

🚨 #BREAKINGNEWS Everyone around President Biden including Republican Senators are coming out saying there is nothing wrong with President Biden's mental capacity. Now let's talk about people who have been around Donald Trump. "Everybody questions whether this guy really has the psychological capacity to be a candidate for president, let alone president again," -Chris Christie “He does not have the discipline, he does not have the ability for strategic thinking and linear thinking or setting priorities or how to get things done in the system. It is a horror show when he is left to his own devices,” -Trump Former AG Bill Barr “We have an ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trump's dangerous mental illness.” -Dr. John Gartner from John Hopkins University "Worse than just being a liar or a narcissist, in addition he is paranoid, delusional and grandiose thinking and he proved that to the country the first day he was President. -Yale School of Medicine. It’s Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America.” So, on this week’s Deconstructed, Donald Trump isn’t a well man. Why aren’t we talking about this? -David Cay Johnson Trump Biographer "The change in him has been quite dramatic. Before going into the White House, I never heard him slur his words." -Omarosa Manigault In December of 2019, 350 mental health professionals co-signed a letter to Congress stating that Donald Trump's "deteriorating mental health" constituted a "threat to the safety of our nation." "Donald Trump has the real potential to become ever more dangerous, a threat to the safety of our nation," said Drs. Bandy Lee, a Yale psychiatrist, Jerrold Post, a former CIA profiler, and John Zinner, a psychiatrist at George Washington University. 40 Trump Cabinet members said they will not endorse Donald Trump for election in 2024. He's unfit to be President This is what the Media should be talking about. We didn't even touch on the 4 Indictments and 91 felony charges. 🚨

“Defence spending will have to increase…as the only realistic mitigation measure against a more dangerous world. If this sounds politically unappealing – or too costly – there is an easier & cheaper solution: giving #Ukraine what it needs to win.” rusi.org/explore-our-re…

Wow, what a cover

The New World: New ideas. New magazine @TheNewWorldmag

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This week’s cover

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“”Giving us money or giving us weapons, you support yourself. You save your children, not ours.” Mr Zelensky is right. But his message is not getting through.” From @TheEconomist economist.com/leaders/2024/0…

Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard has announced he has “always had trouble” with the concept of multiculturalism. news.com.au/finance/work/l…

Now here is a lot of sense. Multiculturalism has a lot to answer for. It has never been a sensible policy news.com.au/finance/work/l…

@WarintheFuture @abcnews Mick, Why have we not seen the use of smoke, to conceal activities, in the war in Ukraine, please?