Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Yu No Hu: They're sending a message to an already existing bad actor
U.S. confirms for first time it has weapons deployed in space
... “It’s a strategic consideration to not disclose what exactly this is,” Juliana Suess at the German Institute of International and Security Affairs and an expert in space security told CNBC.
The capability of the weaponry could range from reversible interference, such as jamming, to kinetic, permanently destructive effects, she said.
“This could be anything. The only thing that we know is that it is based in space, so this is not a sort of missile based on Earth that could hit a satellite in orbit.” ...
Add another $1.8 billion minimum for blockade costs to date, not to mention all the knock-on costs in the tens of billions to economies and consumers globally
Iranian foreign minister will head to China for talks, as Pentagon reveals financial cost of war
... The Iran war cost an estimated $33.4 billion as of June 29, according to the U.S. Department of Defense, which released a lead inspector general report to Congress on the Iran war Monday tracking the conflict up to the end of June. That includes $184 million in physical damage to U.S. diplomatic facilities in four countries — Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — from Iranian strikes, it said. ...
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