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Former CIA officers talk Russia, China, Iran, North Korea; international security, geopolitics, military, intel operations, sanctions and economic power plays Including daily news drops beyond the headlines (human analysis leveraging AI).It's RH. restrictedhandling.substack.com
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RH 9.16.26 | Iran and the Middle East | Four Ships, $38 Billion, Mecca Drone (opens the original)
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👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast https://www.restrictedhandling.com/ The Strait of Hormuz is not fully closed. It may be worse than that for planners and markets. Just enough traffic is moving to prevent a clean break, but far too little to restore confidence. Today's Iran and the Middle East edition of the RH Daily Intel Brief examines shipping data showing only four tracked Hormuz crossings on Tuesday, the $38 billion direct US cost of the Iran war, a Houthi drone intercepted sou
RH 9.16.26 | China | Trade Talks, Second Shock, Space Race (opens the original)
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👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast https://www.restrictedhandling.com/ China's factories are moving faster than its consumers, and the rest of the world is starting to push back. Today's China edition of the RH Daily Intel Brief breaks down upcoming talks between US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, the European Union's warning about a second China shock, August economic data, the Xiangshan defense forum, Beijing's warning about space weapons and Ch
RH 9.16.26 | Russia | Truce Terms, Train Strikes, Cheap Missiles (opens the original)
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👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast https://www.restrictedhandling.com/ China's factories are moving faster than its consumers, and the rest of the world is starting to push back. Today's China edition of the RH Daily Intel Brief breaks down upcoming talks between US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, the European Union's warning about a second China shock, August economic data, the Xiangshan defense forum, Beijing's warning about space weapons and Ch
RH 9.16.26 | Deep Dive | The Strait at Four Ships (opens the original)
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👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast https://www.restrictedhandling.com/ The Strait of Hormuz is not fully closed. Four tracked ships crossed on Tuesday. That number tells us more about the crisis than a dramatic declaration ever could. This edition of The Restricted File goes deep on an energy chokepoint trapped between war and normal commerce. The ten-day average was eighteen crossings. No very large crude carrier or liquefied-natural-gas vessel appeared in the Tuesday data reviewed
RH 9.15.26 | Deep Dive | When the Shahed Learned to Sprint (opens the original)
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👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast https://www.restrictedhandling.com/ Ukraine built a cheap, clever defense against Russia's slow Shahed drones. Then Russia put the concept on jet power and changed the contest again. This edition of The Restricted File follows the rapid evolution of Russia's Geran drone family and the race to build an affordable defense before winter. Ukrainian military data indicate that Russia increased jet-powered drone launches from roughly 450 in June to about
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