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20 July 2026 06:48

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "If they had told me 3 years ago that we would control 70% of Gaza, I wouldn't have believed it. There will be Jewish settler settlements throughout Gaza and we will encourage the expulsion of the Palestinians. Gaza is ours" - Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israeli Minister of National Security.

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20 July 2026 06:29

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- "A U.S. Coast Guard cutter shadowed a Chinese ship bound for the Arctic this week — the first time this year that Chinese vessels have appeared in areas the U.S. has designated as within its extended sphere of interest, the Coast Guard said late Friday.

The Chinese research ship Xue Long transited north through the U.S. “exclusive economic zone” — known as the EEZ — and over the extended North American continental shelf in the Bering Sea.

The Coast Guard said the ship had the “declared destination” of the Arctic, where it would rendezvous with a second Chinese ship, Xue Long 2, another research vessel." - Stars and Stripes, a US military newspaper.

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20 July 2026 04:50

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷Map of the US strikes on Iran tonight, 7/19/2026

🇺🇸⚡️Confirmed US impacts: Tabriz, Bandar Imam Khomeini, Bandar-e-Mahshahr, Khormoj, Sirik, Bandar-e-Jask, Chabahar, and Konarak

🇺🇸⁉️Unconfirmed US Impacts: Bandar Abbas, Bushehr, Abadan, and Khorramabad

🇰🇼⁉️There are also unconfirmed reports that Kuwait took part in the attack on Bandar Imam Khomeini, although it is most likely that only American missiles struck the town

@GeoPWatch

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20 July 2026 04:07

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- “U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) successfully completed the ninth consecutive evening of strikes against Iran, July 19, at 10 p.m. ET.

CENTCOM assets targeted Iranian military command centers, air defense and coastal surveillance sites, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and communications networks to further diminish Iran's ability to attack commercial vessels and civilian mariners transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

The U.S. military is holding Iran accountable at the Commander in Chief's direction. CENTCOM forces remain highly vigilant, focused, lethal, and ready.” - US Central Command.

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20 July 2026 03:07

📝 👨‍🚒 🚒 Hotshot Anon: "Giant ass megafires shouldn't even be a thing. Nearly every forest that is managed, or has been managed in the past will explode because what should be a normal understory burn becomes an uncontrolled disaster. Poor logging habits compounded by the literal hippy environmentalist retards of the 1960s. A huge wave of legislation was passed in like the 70s and 80s to impair logging, and most companies basically just dropped everything and walked off. Most forests in the US are ugly and unhealthy. They're overgrown and scraggly, or sparse and overwhelmed. Where there should be ponderosa trees there are ugly field oaks; where there should be cottonwoods and birches there is barren soil. Decades of fire suppression has ensured the opposite of healthy resilience. In the east, they have terrible bugkill. Agencies typically don't do serious post-fire rehabilitation. We've taken natural fire out of the equation and now forests are slowly dying from poor care and misplaced priorities."

"Climate change is basically a slur for me at this point. Fires are getting larger and more dangerous because there isn't anything substantial being done to mitigate fuel loading and availability. Grass gets greener and grows taller; brush, vines, and smaller species grow thicker and die and are grown over by more of their offspring; and trees are haphazardly allowed to grow in dense stands with variable or no substantial forester oversight. Log-decks, slash piles, dead-and-down, harvest piles, junk wood that's piled high, all of these are growing because there isn't enough fire to keep fuel loading low. Fires aren't isolated, tragic events that just happen. I'd recommend reading up on the Big Burn of 1910 to better understand why it gets this bad."

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20 July 2026 02:34

📢 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Trump: "We hit Iran very hard again tonight, and we did that in honor of the probably three, it's probably three, as opposed to two, great patriots."

📎 AZ Intel

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20 July 2026 02:24

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Another image allegedly showing the aftermath of the US attacks on Sirik, southeast Iran.

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20 July 2026 01:58

🇴🇲🇮🇷⚡️ — UKMTO reports a ship is on fire for an unknown reason 8 nautical miles northwest of Kumzar, Oman.

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20 July 2026 01:43

🇺🇸🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Tabriz Missile Site entries are seen engulfed in flames after being bombed by the United States Air Force

@BellumActaNews

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20 July 2026 01:21

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 - CENTCOM announces the beginning of the 9th Round of strikes on Iran!

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20 July 2026 00:53

📝 🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Debasification: Iranian air war strategy

The broad picture of the Iranian air war in this phase has been a steady wave of concentrated missile and drone strikes sweeping its way across the region. In contrast to the previous hot phase of the war, in which Iran targeted bases across the entire theater simultaneously, this wave started with the targets close to Iranian shores, and has progressed steadily to the Israeli border. After destroying much of the radar network protecting regional US Axis bases in the previous hot phase of the war, Iranian planners have prioritized targeting fuel storage, drone hangers, refueling tankers, and barracks. The American response has been to pull assets back ever further from Iran, to bases in Israel and Jordan. We’ll call this process debasification. Iran’s debasification strategy takes advantage of the inherent asymmetry between the vastly different force structure and capabilities of Iranian rocket forces and US Axis air forces.

The first asymmetry we’ll cover is the American need for casualty avoidance. Political support for the war is low, and US narratives to shore it up hinge on overwhelming American superiority and a perception of the war presenting minimal risk. Casualties and the loss of major assets fly in the face of this narrative and erode support for the war. The Department of War clearly takes this seriously, as evidenced by their decision to evacuate the most vulnerable bases (moving personnel to hotels) before the war began. When the US force in the region has taken major risks by leaving valuable assets in the open at bases subject to Iranian targeting, the results have been disastrous, with the loss of near-irreplaceable assets like the E-3 Sentry destroyed on the tarmac at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. Iranian military sources claimed to have damaged refueling tankers on the ground at Al Udeid in Qatar, Al Kharj in Saudi Arabia, and Muwaffaq Salti in Jordan in a single wave of attacks on Friday.

Multiple US personnel were killed and as many as dozens injured two days ago in an Iranian missile attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. Subsequent disclosures from the New York Times revealed that this was the fourth Iranian attack on Jordan to result in casualties and major losses of air assets in the previous week. A strike on King Faisal Air Base days prior wounded five, and another attack on a base—unidentified by the NYT but confirmed by mappers to be Prince Hassan Air Base—damaged multiple Black Hawk helicopters on the ground. Then, 20 personnel were wounded in an attack on Muwaffaq Salti on the 16th. The attack that killed at least two US personnel occurred the next day.

The next line of bases for US air forces to fall back to is within Israel itself. While falling back to Israel will bring US assets within the protective range of Israeli air defenses, it isn’t clear that the Israelis want any part in this phase of the war. There’s also little reason to think they’ve been able to replenish their own interceptor stocks in the brief pause in the fighting, and the IDF was facing a crisis in that area before the pause. Even when interceptors were more plentiful, the Israelis were unable to fully protect their own airbases.

⬇️ Continued:

https://www.amerikanets.com/p/debasification

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19 July 2026 23:21

🇺🇸📈 The cost of financing US debt is rapidly rising:

On Tuesday, the US sold 30-year Treasury bonds at a 5.06% yield, the highest auction result since 2007.

At the same time, the 30-year Treasury yield jumped back above 5.00%, though it remains below the May 20th peak of 5.20%, the highest since July 2007.

By comparison, auctions for the same maturity were priced at around 2.00% in early 2022.

Long-term yields are increasing as the US debt burden expands, with heavier Treasury supply, rising inflation risks, and concerns over future borrowing needs forcing the government to pay more to attract investors.

Furthermore, the AI investment boom is adding another layer of pressure, as tech companies issue record amounts of debt to fund AI infrastructure, competing with the government for the same pool of capital and pushing long-term borrowing costs higher.

The US debt crisis is intensifying.

🔗 Kobeissi Letter

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19 July 2026 22:58

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — The Pentagon is planning for a "wider war" and has been increasing the number of military aircraft deployed to the region, according to WaPo, citing a U.S. official.

➡️ The official said any expansion of U.S. operations would be constrained by dwindling stockpiles of air defense and long-range munitions, as well as limits on the military's ability to surge additional troops and aircraft into the region due to battle damage.

"We do not have enough to safely sustain operations, and I don't think the White House is aware of that," the official said.

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19 July 2026 22:00

🪽 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Faytuks Intel Team:
Within the last few days the U.S has deployed the following to CENTCOM’s AOR:

- 15x F-35A’s from RAF Lakenheath
- 12x F-15’s from RAF Lakenheath
- 12x F-16’s from Aviano Air Base
- 12x F-16s from Spangdahlem Air Base

Notably, these units have only just returned from being deployed within CENTCOM. Many of the jets are already sporting nose markings from action during Operation Epic Fury

📎 Faytuks Network

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19 July 2026 21:54

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 🇮🇱 Operation Epic Fury - Documenting visually confirmed Equipment Losses during the 2026 Israel/USA - Iran War

https://open.substack.com/pub/elmustek/p/operation-epic-fury-documenting-equipment

📎 Elmustek

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20 July 2026 06:48

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "Israel’s defence and finance ministers announced plans for three illegal settlements in Gaza and more than $400m (£300m) in funding to expand construction in the occupied West Bank, as Israel’s military commander for the region celebrated violent outposts as his “security partners”.

The defence minister, Israel Katz, said he intended to set up three “Nahal” outposts in northern Gaza, a type of military community that for decades has paved the way for Israeli civilian settlements." - The Guardian.

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20 July 2026 05:33

🇺🇦 ❌️ 🇷🇺 Wildberries distribution center burns in Podolsk, Moscow Oblast, following a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack this morning against capital region of Russia.

📎 OSINTdefender

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20 July 2026 04:16

🇺🇦 ❌️ 🇷🇺 Another Wildberries distribution center burns near Moscow this morning following a Ukrainian drone attack.

📎 Woofers

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20 July 2026 03:41

🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — Iran's IRGC announces two oil tankers intending to transit the Strait of Hormuz through the southern route were struck and brought to a halt late last night.

➡️ They warned the U.S. military to prepare for what it described as a "punitive operation" in response to the violation.

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20 July 2026 03:04

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡️ — President Trump on Canadian wildfires:

I told Carney, "You got to get it stopped."

It's really forest management, and they should know how to do that.

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20 July 2026 02:24

🇺🇸🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Iranian channels in Khuzestan shared a video showing the aftermath of the USAF bombings against Sarbandar, Khuzestan Province

@BellumActaNews

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20 July 2026 02:24

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Photo from the Bandar-e Emam Khomeini Port in southwestern Iran following U.S. strikes.

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20 July 2026 01:53

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡- "The U.S. Embassy has information to suggest that Iran may seek to target unspecified locations in central Manama.

We urge all Americans to remain vigilant, follow local authorities’ instructions, and review the latest guidance from the U.S. Embassy," - U.S. Embassy in Bahrain.

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20 July 2026 01:43

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — U.S. strikes against Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran.

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20 July 2026 00:57

🪽 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 US Air Bases in the Iran War

https://www.amerikanets.com/p/debasification

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20 July 2026 00:38

🔼 🇮🇷 🛢 Brent crude oil prices surge above $90/barrel as the Iran War escalates.

📎 KobeissiLetter

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19 July 2026 23:15

—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇶 NEW: Explosions in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan

@Middle_East_Spectator

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19 July 2026 22:57

🛢 🇺🇸 📉 The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is now at its lowest level since April 1983. Over the past 5 years we've seen a drawdown of 305 million barrels (49% decline).

https://www.spglobal.com/energy/en/news-research/latest-news/crude-oil/071526-us-strategic-oil-reserve-falls-to-lowest-level-since-1983

📎 Charlie Bilello

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19 July 2026 21:55

🇮🇶🇮🇷⚡️ — Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi will visit Tehran within the coming week, according to state media.

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19 July 2026 21:34

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 U.S. Central Command full statement:

‘Yesterday, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the passing of two U.S. service members and the missing status of one in Jordan following an Iranian attack on July 17.

After a thorough search, U.S. military personnel found unidentified remains at the location earlier today. An examination process to verify the remains is ongoing.

Separately, a U.S. service member in northern Iraq was killed in action July 18 during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone.

A second service member was wounded and continues to receive medical treatment for a minor injury.’

@Middle_East_Spectator