SEN. ANGUS KING: We're shooting down $35,000 drones with $2.7 million missiles. The math simply doesn't add up.

HOST: Why were we so unprepared?

SEN. ANGUS KING: Great question. We should've learned from Ukraine — the war there has been drone-dominated for 3 years.

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Emirati Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan said the country “will never be blackmailed by terrorists.”

He made the comment on X in response to former French diplomat and UN envoy Gerard Araud, who argued that “dependence” on the US had led the UAE “into a disastrous conflict without caring about your interests.”

Like other Arab states hosting US bases, the UAE has been hit by Iranian missile and drone strikes.

https://x.com/ABZayed/status/2035794203863863626

Powerful explosions have been reported across Tehran, shortly after Israel said it had launched a “wave of extensive strikes” targeting government infrastructure in the city.

Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Suhaib al-Asa described the scale and intensity of the blasts in the eastern part of the Iranian capital as “unprecedented.”

Airstrikes were also reported in the southern city of Bushehr, home to Iran’s only nuclear power plant.

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