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Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – March 22, 2024
Greetings from Tyler, Having just written the monthly letter, the realization struck me that nothing had been said about the war in Ukraine. We’re not hearing much. I wonder why. The big peace deal to stop the war in Gaza officially fell apart. But there’s no shortage of criticism about how the IDF is doing…
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U.S. sends Ukraine thousands of confiscated Iranian guns, rocket launchers
April 10 (UPI) — The United States has transferred to Ukraine thousands of weapons along with hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition that it seized from Iran en route to its Houthi rebels in Yemen. The Justice Department said Tuesday that the United States transferred more than 5,000 AK-47s, machine guns, sniper rifles and…
