President Donald Trump said in a summit in France earlier this month that he was impressed by Ukraine’s ability to inflict damage on soft targets in Russia, which prompted the Kremlin to wonder how sincere the White House is about ending the war, according to a report.
The Iran and Ukraine wars have been beneficial to startups in the defense-tech sector that have benefited from $12.3 billion from venture capital firms since the start of the year, which the Financial Times noted eclipsed the $9.95 billion raised all last year.
Crimea declared a state of emergency last week after suffering weeks of drone and missile strikes carried out by the Ukrainian military, which appeared to be opening a new front in the war and is seen as a potential Russian vulnerability.
The UN released a report last week that offered a glimpse into the amount of damage that the IDF has inflicted on southern Lebanon since 2 March and found that a total of 11,095 buildings have been destroyed in the region.
Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, said last week that the IDF will not withdraw from its strongholds inside Lebanon, despite Iranian demands during peace negotiations with the United States that an end to the war in Lebanon is required for the deal to be approved.
A newly released survey conducted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found that 92 percent of Israeli respondents said they believe that Iran emerged victorious against the U.S. and Israel in the war that started on 28 February.
A day before Iran’s military attacked a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, Christopher Wright, the U.S. energy secretary, told a conference in New York that Tehran does not have the ability to shut down the vital waterway.
The U.S. announced that it carried out strikes on targets inside Iran Friday, just minutes after the U.S. stock market closed, which has been the White House’s theme since the start of the war.
President Donald Trump announced early last week that the Iranians made a major concession vis-à-vis their nuclear program and, under the terms of the memorandum of understanding (MOU), “fully and completely agreed” to allow the “highest level Nuclear inspections” inside the country “long into the future (Infinity!!!).
The U.S. military and Iran exchanged military fire on consecutive days last week after both sides accused the other of violating the memorandum of understanding (MOU) in the Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran said included retaliatory strikes on eight U.S. “installations” across the region, including the U.S. Fifth Fleet headquarters at Salman Port in Bahrain.