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Yale University students have re-established their campus pro-Palestine encampment according to media reports. Footage shows dozens of people gathered at the school's campus demonstrating against US military support for Israel's operation in Gaza, which has resulted in the death of over 34,000 and the wounding of more than 77,000 Palestinians. Protestors are also calling for Yale's divestment from US and Israeli weapons manufacturers and other financial interests linked to Israel's occupation. Boost us! | Subscribe to @geopolitics_live

The Russian armed forces struck a major railroad hub in the settlement of Borovaya, the Kharkov region, where Ukrainian forces were distributing servicemen, equipment, and ammunition to the frontlines, Sergei Lebedev, the coordinator of the Nikolayev underground, told Sputnik, citing his colleagues. Boost us! | Subscribe to @geopolitics_live

US police have detained around 900 people over the past 10 days at pro-Palestinian demonstrations held on the campuses of some of the nation's largest universities, the Washington Post reported. According to the newspaper, the detentions were the largest law enforcement response to student-led protests “in recent years,” which the Post said threatens police with “myriad potential challenges.” Boost us! | Subscribe to @geopolitics_live

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Night hunt: a crew of the Uragan MLRS of the Russian Battlegroup Vostok destroyed a Ukrainian command post to the south of Donetsk. Boost us! | Subscribe to @geopolitics_live

Factors that may drag down Britain’s hypersonic high hopes Britain will have difficulty fielding its £1 billion Mach 5+ hypersonic cruise missile by the MoD’s deadline of the year 2030, with scientists first having to solve an extensive array of fundamental scientific problems which took the USSR and Russia decades to iron out, says Dmitry Drozdenko, a renowned Russian military observer and missile expert. “Basically, objects flying at hypersonic speeds move in a cloud of plasma, and plasma is the fourth aggregate state of matter, which does not transmit radio signals, and behaves differently” compared to other physical states, Drozdenko told Sputnik.

“To break through these physical phenomena and learn to use them, one would need to have a fundamental scientific knowledge in the fields of the physics of bodies, the dynamics of physics and materials science. This comes down not to some design engineers, computers or billions in funding, but to the scientists who work in universities and institutes,” Drozdenko emphasized.

It’s no accident that Russia was the first country in the world to develop hypersonic weaponry, the observer noted, pointing to the knowledge amassed during the Soviet period into plasma physics. “The Americans have good scientists, but they simply have not reached this level,” Drozdenko stressed, adding that as far as the UK is concerned, “their level of competence in this area is even lower than that of the Americans.”

“A certain fetish exists around hypersonics today. The task is not to get a projectile flying at hypersonic speeds. A tank round flies at a hypersonic speed at the moment it exits from the tank gun’s barrel. Any vehicle reentering the atmosphere from space is traveling at hypersonic speed. That’s not the issue. The issue is not flying at this speed, but being able to maneuver at this speed,” Drozdenko clarified.

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China's 'upper hand over US' in many fields feeds into mutual tensions – scholar China has "the upper hand over America in many fields," raising tensions between the two countries, Francesco Sisci, a Beijing-based China expert, author, and columnist, told Sputnik. Beijing’s advantage over Washington lies in “possessing, so far, the only comprehensive production capacity in the world,” he noted. “China can produce anything without going to other countries,” he said, adding that no other country is as “industrially self-sufficient,” and this is “a major advantage in times of great competition.” Time will show whether the US, “trying to restore some of its industrial capacity,” will be able to do so in a “capacity similar to that of China,” said the China scholar. China boasts “overcapacity,” to use US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's words, "in many innovative fields, say, new energy, batteries, solar panels, some types of chips that are almost uniquely produced in China. Having these industrial capacities in other countries is possible, but will require time,” Sisci remarked. A succession of US leaders, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, have visited China of late, irked by strong ties between Moscow and Beijing and peddling accusations of unfair trade practices and the new “overproduction" hype about China. China has continuously refuted the unfounded allegations as part of “ill-intended attempts to contain" its development. Boost us! | Subscribe to @geopolitics_live

After the strike of Russian troops on Nikolaev, 14 foreign mercenaries were killed and 8 were wounded, Lebedev, coordinator of the Nikolayev underground, told Sputnik. Subscribe to @SputnikInt

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Israel reportedly frets Biden may throw Netanyahu ‘under the bus’ at the ICC Neither the US nor Israel are signatories to the International Criminal Court’s Rome Statute, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed concerns that a move by the Court to issue arrest warrants against himself and members of his government would set a “dangerous precedent.” “Where is Biden? Why is he quiet while Israel will potentially be thrown under the bus?” an Israeli diplomatic source told the Jerusalem Post Sunday, amid reports earlier this week that The Hague could not have considered the idea of arrest warrants without a nod from the White House. “The sources at The Hague said that it is impossible that the chief prosecutor would have decided on such a dramatic step, in a war that is still ongoing…if he had not at least had a ‘green light’ from the Americans. If this is true, this is another unprecedented low in relations between Israel and the US,” Israeli journalist Amit Segal wrote in a report cited by JNS. Separately on Sunday, Walla News reported that Netanyahu had spearheaded a “nonstop push over the telephone,” focused on calls to the White House, to prevent ICC warrants from being issued. Netanyahu warned on Friday that under his leadership, Israel would “never accept any attempt by the ICC to undermine its inherent right of self-defense.” Senior Israeli cabinet officials have held several emergency meetings to discuss the possible ICC warrants, which according to reports could target Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, over the way Israel has pursued its war in Gaza, which has resulted in the maiming and/or killing of over five percent of the Strip’s prewar population.