Day: July 25, 2026

🇨🇳🇾🇪🇸🇦 China is now operating with a strategy built decades in advance. Following the Houthi blockade of the Bab el Mandeb, while the region faces growing disruption, China appears to be calmly maintaining access to its energy supplies through the Strait of Hormuz, while its commercial vessels continue transiting the Red Sea without facing significant interference.

Why?

China identified the world’s key strategic chokepoints years ago and began establishing military and logistical footholds near them long before today’s crises emerged.

At present, two Chinese commercial vessels are reportedly loading oil at Yanbu and continuing their journey through the Red Sea toward the Arabian Sea. The Houthis have issued warnings and imposed a blockade, yet Chinese shipping continues to move.

The reason is simple. China has a military presence in Djibouti, positioned near the Bab el Mandeb. Any serious attack on Chinese shipping could trigger a much stronger response.

This is the advantage of long term strategic planning. China is not reacting to the crisis today. It positioned itself for it years ago.
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— @DI313_ Jul 25, 2026

Pics from yesterday’s Putin propaganda show in Irkutsk show a thoroughly beaten man.

This little bastard is about to pay.

— @JayinKyiv Jul 25, 2026

Ukraine appears to have struck at least 10 Wildberries warehouses across Russia and occupied Ukraine this week. Wildberries = Russia’s Amazon. Ukraine: “We hit logistics, economy and daily life — all at once.”
🔥 Key insights
• Attacks strain Russia’s already stretched air‑defense network • Russian consumers increasingly feel the war • Russian Central Bank cuts rates again to project “stability” • Romania shoots down an unidentified drone • Explosion damages a cargo ship headed for Ukraine • Ukraine continues long‑range strikes on Russian energy & logistics • Russia launched 5 Kh‑59/69 missiles and 180 drones overnight • No confirmed territorial changes on July 24

🎯 Bottom line
Ukraine is targeting Russia’s economic arteries, not just the battlefield. This is the new phase of drone warfare: strategic attrition.
Read full ISW update  #Ukraine  #Russia  #Wildberries  #ISW 🇬🇧

— @jalle51 Jul 25, 2026