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Aug 23

Prof Marandi : In the days ahead, the military conflict will quite possibly reignite. Any regime that cooperated with Trump and Bessent to starve Iranian civilians will be dealt with brutally. The global economy is on the brink.

Iran is preparing for “a very long war” by transitioning to a wartime economy “when the United States initiates this new phase of economic warfare.” He further warned that Gulf states including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait should “be very careful about their actions in the days and weeks ahead,” arguing that if they assist US operations against Iranian civilians, “they will be severely punished and their regimes will probably not survive.” Marandi asserted that Iran is preparing not only for prolonged war but for the economic and political challenges that come with it, with the Supreme National Security Council positioned to oversee “all aspects of life in Iran, not just war.”

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Good news from Iran:  Iran discovers massive NEW GAS FIELD — Iran Intl

More than 7.5 trillion cubic feet of NATURAL GAS has been found in southern Fars province, according to Iran’s oil minister Paknejad.  More than 5.7 trillion is considered recoverable & could bring Iran TENS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS

And a little more from Iran:

Iran will not allow “a single drop” of Persian Gulf oil to leave by any route if the U.S.-led economic blockade continues, Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei warned.

Rezaei said countries in the region that participate in Washington’s economic campaign against Iran will be treated as enemies and their interests will be targeted.

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China helps Asia build sovereign AI & ditch Silicon Valley’s rental model

At the recent APEC digital & AI forum in Chengdu, Asia-Pacific ministers backed China’s open-source AI, which can help build capacity without surrendering control to foreign platforms, reports the South China Morning Post.

🟠 Chinese open-weight models such as Qwen and DeepSeek can be downloaded, modified and stay on local servers without sending data abroad

🟠 Open weights are 60–90% cheaper to operate than the leading American systems

🟠 Singapore shifted its SEA-LION project from Meta’s Llama to Alibaba’s Qwen

🟠 Kazakhstan’s AlemLLM was built by 01.AI on DeepSeek

🟠 Chinese systems are being embedded directly into public services across the region

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We’ve been talking about Israeli infiltration in the LAC and certain parts of Europe as well as Africa.  Now, the one that I did not know about .. here comes Panama.  These LAC countries were all served by Cuba’s medical doctors.  Panama is a leader in ophthalmology – which is not generally known.

A five-member Israeli medical delegation treated more than 600 patients during a three-day mission last week in Panama City.  The Ichilov Aid delegation included specialists in obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and ophthalmology, as well as an optometrist, who worked alongside Panamanian medical personnel.

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Russian Fellow making his position clear at Bondi Beach

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Still in the commentary, speechifying and gossip pages but on the watchlist.

🔹The DPRK and Iran are talking about a security agreement.  North Korea has stated its intention to sign a defense agreement with Iran.  If finalized, this move could lead to a deepening of military cooperation between Pyongyang and Tehran.  If this is so (and I think it is) we may expect a similar agreement as exists between the DPRK and Russia.

🔹There is more discussion in Iran on obtaining nukes as weapons.  The basis is that the US wanted to deprive Iran of civilian nuclear activities and failed.  Now the issue is becoming more important. There are comments from the leadership that membership of the NPT is not in their interests. My own perspective is that Iran has at least tactical nukes or the makings even now.  In terms of the two Fatwas, all that is necessary is that a new Fatwa is written in terms of what I found out. (Strangely enough, the previous Fatwas stated that Iran will not use weapons of mass destruction, not that they may not have them).   Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Rezaei says Washington has created global nuclear insecurity and this must be responded to.

🔹There is discussion that the three countries in the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan, are quietly probing if Iran would join and opening up the possibility. For Saudi Arabia, they will have to make peace with AnsarAllah, before this will even be received by Iran. Turkey and Israel are slinging threats but it is so that Turkey can devastate Israel very quickly.

Iran has reportedly been invited to join the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Türkiye. Mehdi Rahimi, head of the Iranian parliament’s official news agency Khaneh Mellat, told Al-Mayadeen that Iran received an invitation and that “the matter is under consideration.” For now, however, the invitation has not been independently confirmed by Iran’s Foreign Ministry or senior leadership, nor publicly by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, or Türkiye.

These three watchlist items tell us two things. First, The US and collective West has lost this war and will lose the economic war whichever form it takes. Second Iran is now beginning to be recognized as the regional leader.

🔹There is one other on the watchlist and this is the view of Israel on the appointment of a new Secretary-General of UNGA. They are getting really worried, knowing that this act will most probably change their status as ‘protected wildlife’ at UNGA. The US is throwing more candidates into the pool to hopefully increase their chances. We will see another straw pole at the UNSC this coming Friday. These results are not public.

This is a clip from Israeli media. “The next UN Secretary-General could shape the world body’s stance on Israel for the next decade — and this week the race gets more crowded. As the Security Council prepares for another round of voting Friday, a new candidate has entered the field: Ecuadorian diplomat Ivonne A-Baki, who once proposed turning Jerusalem into neutral, Vatican-like territory. Front-runner Rebeca Grynspan is seen in Jerusalem as pragmatic and moderate — but others in the race carry a far more troubling record on Israel.”

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❗️Over the past 24 hours, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued to launch strikes at ports and ships used for delivering cargo to the AFU.

💥 As a result of UAVs strikes in the port of Yuzhny in Odessa region, five POL tanks and port infrastructure facilities used for unloading and storing military cargo were hit.

Aug 22

Excellent quote from Seyed Abbas Araghchi

Same bull. Different bullies.

: “Most crippling sanctions in history.” Failed. 8 years ago: “Maximum pressure.” Failed. 5 months ago: “Unconditional surrender.” Failed. Today: “Most crushing economic operation ever.” Bound to fail. We have seen this movie before. Same bull. Different bullies.

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Strait of Hormuz: Barak Ravid
@BarakRavid
🚨🚢🛢️Around 40 tankers transited in and out of the Strait of Hormuz through the southern deep channel on Friday night. Around 16 million barrels of oil moved out of the strait through the southern channel on Friday night, three U.S. officials told me.—

OK, sounds nice. But he does not know that there are hundreds of people watching every move in the Strait. The Ship’s trackers are asking:  “My Friday night SAR image is asking if you believe in Santa Claus. Please count 40 tankers for me.”

As the OSINT community has already demonstrated today, the Axios report claiming that around 40 ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday night is completely fabricated.

In any case, traders no longer believe the words of American media outlets aligned with the government, so this attempt to drive down the price of Brent Crude Oil failed.

According to Kepler’s tracking data, only 7 vessels were visible on Thursday.

Satellite data also shows that no tankers traveled from west to east on Friday and that no oil was transported out through the route that day.

The end of Trump’s Oil Market Manipulation?

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BREAKING: Iran is preparing a full withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a revision of Iran’s defense doctrine, saying “there is no reason for Iran to remain in the NPT” after US attacks, with the proposal being formally submitted to Iran’s parliament…

— The Hormuz Letter (@HormuzLetter) August 21, 2026

I don’t know whether I’ve mentioned this and it is really important. For a week or two now Ukraine fails to intercept any of Russia’s overnight strikes, or they do not even use anti missile or anti drone munitions. It looks like they are dry and have none.

Ukraine was once again unable to repel overnight Russian drone and missile strikes, according to Ukrainian armed forces’ statistics.

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Kim Yo-jong: “If Japan attempts military expansion, it will immediately face a devastating strike from North Korea.” pic.twitter.com/qivAnuVN0c

— China pulse 🇨🇳 (@Eng_china5) August 22, 2026

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There are visible signals of change from South Korea. In one of the last (strange) communiques, I noted this sentence and from memory, South Korea does not need US military protection any longer. We can do it ourselves. We will see if they stand by those words.  Currently communiques and media are confusing.

South Korea’s cargo ship sets sail testing the Arctic route — Reuters

A container ship has departed Busan for a 40–45 day voyage through Russia’s Northern Sea Route carrying cargo to the UK, the Netherlands & Poland

Seoul hopes melting Arctic ice can open a major new trade lane.

China and South Korea Revive Dialogue Amid Tensions on the Korean Peninsula

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s 19–20 August visit to South Korea, the first by a Chinese foreign minister in five years, renewed efforts to strengthen bilateral ties amid tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Beijing and Seoul agreed to accelerate negotiations on the second phase of their Free Trade Agreement and expand cooperation in trade, supply chains, technology, and cultural exchanges. Wang called for South Korea to pursue external relations in an ‘independent, autonomous, balanced and non-conflicting manner’ and urged Washington to change its ‘hostile policy’ towards Pyongyang. China reaffirmed its commitment to peaceful resolution and regional stability; Seoul reiterated the one-China principle. Beijing is considering a Xi–Lee summit at November’s APEC in Shenzhen.

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Key statements by President Putin at the United Russia congress

🔸 The upcoming elections will confirm Russia’s resilience and its ability to withstand any external threats

🔸 Even in the most difficult conditions, Russia will not abandon the principles of democracy — elections will be held across the entire country

🔸 Putin called the Russian people the source of power and reaffirmed the inviolability of citizens’ constitutional right to choose their representatives

🔸 The harder the situation for the enemy on the front, the more brutal and barbaric the attacks by the Kiev regime become

🔸 Putin expressed his support for United Russia and wished the party success in the upcoming State Duma elections

🔸 Putin closed his address with the words, “Victory will be ours.”

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The kill rate in Gaza has increased and there is no sign that Israel will stop. Israel has to be stopped by military means otherwise they will continue their carnage on humans and animals and life. How can one even at this stage internalize that we have a genocide and a war on country after country and besides words, there is no action. Gaza’s Ministry of Health: 10 Palestinians were killed and 25 others injured in Israeli airstrikes over the past 24 hours.

The latest from the West Bank is that water well after water well is being poisoned, or the water is diverted to Israeli swimming pools. The Israelis laugh and post social media of themselves playing in the water while they brutally denude water for the rest of the countryside. It is not even worth talking about international law.

This warmongering in the region, besides oil and money, is for Israel; Greater Israel. We may have to wait for a new UNGA leader before anyone takes this seriously. There are few alternative journalists even saying anything. We have the few local journalists, The Cradle and Al Mayadeen and a few more as regular and reliable witnesses but in the rest of the alt community it is now normalized to have Palestinians murdered every day and every night.

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At first glance, I genuinely believed this was a delicate silk dress.

Turns out it’s entirely sculpted from #Dehua white porcelain.

Making hard clay look as soft and weightless as sheer gauze,the level of Chinese craftsmanship is mind-blowing😲#ChineseCulture #CultureHeritage pic.twitter.com/ZlihBDCyGt

— Beyond the Clouds (@BeyondCloud12) August 20, 2026

Aug 20

Pakistan’s ex-PM Imran Khan is back in jail after a brief hospital visit – Khan was moved early on Friday from jail to the private Shifa International Hospital, where he spent a few hours before being returned to prison.  It was reported that he would stay a week or more in hospital but reports and actuality are never one thing out of Pakistan.  This was a gross political ouster and one can call Pakistan a military junta, if you apply those words correctly.  According to many, including Khan himself and George Galloway, a US regime change.   Those are the exact same people that seemingly are negotiating between Iran and the US, creating incredible feats of magical negotiation while keeping China ‘secretly’ at their backs.  Khan is not a major focus for us, but we will give him a few hours of pride of place on our humble site as people have short memories and forget those incarcerated just because they say the wrong things to the wrong people.   Khan did his job well and was a good PM for Pakistan.  He is and was highly popular and even beloved.   https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/20/pakistans-ex-pm-imran-khan-transferred-from-jail-to-hospital

And here it starts: It was a stitch up: Imran Khan’s personal physician says he was tricked by Pakistani authorities during last night’s hospital saga. Dr. Faisal Sultan told reporters he was taken into police custody on his way to Adiala Jail, believing he was being brought to see Imran. Instead he was driven in a convoy to Shifa International Hospital, while officials acted as though Imran was with them.

He says he waited nearly 4 hours, asking again and again where Imran was. Each time, he was told the former prime minister was on his way. Then they told him Imran had already been taken back to Adiala. If everything here was above board, why put his doctor in a fake convoy and leave him waiting on a patient who was never coming?

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The word is turning fast. Israel shot up the main airport in Syria because according to them, Turkish warplanes and other war bmaterial was gathering there. Israel has publicly already threatened both Syria and Turkey. Generally it may not be a good thing to mess with Erdogan in certain circumstances. This is more performative than anything else, but it sounds good.

Türkiye Requests Interpol Red Notices for Netanyahu Over Genocide Charge

Türkiye has asked for Interpol red notices for Benjamin Netanyahu and Afek Moskovitch over genocide and other crimes linked to the Global Sumud Flotilla attack.https://t.co/MVkTrAEdUA

— Clash Report (@clashreport) August 21, 2026

Would Erdogan actually go to war with Israel?

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The Chinese Foreign Ministry says it does not recognize U.S. sanctions against Iran and that China will not comply with the ‘economic warfare’ campaign initiated by President Trump this week

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It was Venezuea, then Colombia, and now Peru.

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Prof Marandi: If Trump escalates, Iran will immediately escalate. The era of strategic patience is over. The Islamic Republic knows that the US economy is approaching a crisis.

I hope some participants listened to the short video from the Sirius Report posted yesterday. Here is what is happening. It looks like this economic horse is out of the stable but will wait for Hudson and Wolff to hear their analysis.

The Kobeisi Letter:

At 8:15 AM ET yesterday, the 10Y Note Yield was trading at 4.68% when the US Treasury announced it would be increasing bond buybacks to $4 billion.

The yield fell to a low of 4.63% as the US Treasury pledged to provide “liquidity support.”

Exactly 24 hours later, the 10Y Note Yield is ABOVE levels seen prior to the announcement, at 4.71%.

It’s going to take a lot more intervention to tame this beast.

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Trump on Truth Social – declares ‘economic warfare and isolation on an unprecedented scale’ against Iran and anyone else worldwide doing business with Iran :

Text:
‘No one has given the Islamic Republic of Iran a greater opportunity to make a Deal than me. TRAGICALLY, for them, they have failed to take it. Therefore, today, I am announcing the MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY! This will be Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale.

Their navy is gone, their air force is destroyed, their military factories are now rubble, their currency is worthless, and their country is hanging by a thread.

Today, I am also announcing that ANY country that allows its financial institutions, businesses, airports, or government entities to provide any type of lifeline to Iran will itself face TREMENDOUS Economic Consequences. Oil smuggling, swap lines, cash transfers, exchange houses, ship registries, front companies — It all needs to stop NOW. You know who you are. This will be an ECONOMIC D-DAY, and we need all of our Allies to stand with the United States of America to isolate, and defeat, the Iran threat.

These maniacs are on the ropes, and these HISTORIC MEASURES will cripple them and their ability to project terror worldwide. IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!’

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A reminder of the Russia-China-Iran Trilateral Strategic Pact signed in January 2026 – specifically to overcome economic coercion and isolation:    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260129-iran-china-and-russia-sign-trilateral-strategic-pact/.

Has Trump handed to Bessent his very own war of tilting at windmills. We will see within short weeks who considers their business with the US more important than their business with the rest of the world and the dollar will be further abandoned as it is a weapon, not a currency.  The MECCA Suni pact has a challenge ahead of them.  The five land corridors that Pakistan made available will be under pressure, if they accept the pressure.

We need a new slogan: Abandon the Dollar.

Araghchi – Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs:

Text:  America’s insistence on a failed policy will only bring more failures.  Insisting on the continuation of failed policies will only bring more failures and enmity of Iranians.

The threat of “starting economic operations” against Iran is actually to divert American public opinion from the domestic financial crises: that is, unprecedented debts and skyrocketing bank interest rates in America.

Insisting on the continuation of failed policies will only bring more failures and enmity of Iranians.

American economic terrorism threatens the global economy and the national sovereignty of countries around the world.

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Iranian MP Ebrahim Rezaei:

Text:  The best response to Trump’s escalation of the economic war is to withdraw from the NPT.

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Greater Israel is in a major diaspora to plant themselves everywhere. This movement is fully part of the empirical drang to world primacy.

Yanis Varoufakis
@yanisvaroufakis
The transformation of Greece into an Israeli satellite is proceeding at breakneck speed. This bodes ill for the majority of Greeks, for peace in our region and for Europe and West Asia more broadly. It must be resisted.
From middleeasteye.net

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt
@FranceskAlbs
Translated from Italian
Italians, starting with those from Salento, Apulia, and the entire South, should understand what is happening to Greece. Defending Palestine from Apartheid (a political model that is expanding) is not an act of charity, but of self-preservation, before the danger breathes down our necks.

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❗️ Last night, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a massive strike with ground-, air-, and sea-launched high-precision weapons as well as long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, which hit enterprises of the defence industry, a transport and logistics centre and depots in Kiev and Kiev region.

📍 The following targets were hit in Kiev:

▫️ the Fire Point LLC enterprise, which produced components for long- and medium-range strike UAVs, assembled, and stored boosters for Flamingo cruise missiles;

▫️ a wholesale and distribution centre of the Ukrspecsystems Company, which produced components for long-range and medium-range strike UAVs, assembled, and stored fixed-wing drones;

▫️ an assembly facility of the aviation industry;

▫️ the Antonov Serial Production Plant. It produced the An-196 Lyuty fixed-wing UAVs. Various types of drones were designed and manufactured there;

▫️ an ammunition depot containing M-900 thermobaric bombs, anti-tank mines, and ammunition for Baba-Yaga UAVs.

📍 In Kiev region, the following targets were engaged:

▫️ Martusovka Transportation and Logistics Centre (the Zammler Group Logistic Centre) which stored and distributed dual-use goods, including those for the production of long- and medium-range UAVs, robots, and electronic warfare systems;

▫️ the Brovary POL Depot, which contained up to eight thousand cubic metres of fuel intended for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

💥 Moreover, on the evening of 19 August, warehouses with military materiel were hit in the ports of Chernomorsk and Yuzhny.

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Only in China

At a concert in China, a spring platform was set up for spectators who were too lazy to dance themselves. pic.twitter.com/bLd8KRio38

— China pulse 🇨🇳 (@Eng_china5) August 20, 2026

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Peskov decided to be funny having to field questions whether President Putin will meet with Kanye West. He says: ‘You have to understand, this is not our topic’. ‘This is not the Moscow Concert Hall, this is the presidential administration’.

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CK Hutchison, the organization that Panama kicked out of the two ports that they managed on the Panama Canal, is now seeking more than HK$11.7 billion from Panama in international arbitration.
Together with its subsidiary’s separate claim, the total demands exceed HK$27.3 billion.

Aug 19

Periol mentioned this morning on the Apocalypse thread in the Salon: “I am getting altogether too much news about USA and Israel coming my way. ”

There are some major projects running … for the mid-terms, for the Israeli elections, for a possible hellscape unfolding around the Brazilian elections, to hide the Iran fiasco, and to make Israel great again. These, driven from think-tanks mainly, are saturating the US LLM’s. There are no secrets here – it is clearly said that Truth does not matter and fill up those LLM’s. Hence the AI slop everywhere … Hence the God-Model taking shape – with sheer intimidation present in all the slop.

I see it on X as well, where I set up a generally controlled environment with lists for myself, many years ago. Some of those old and reliable commentators have gone bananas. So I am searching out reliable journalists and commentators and not even then can I take what they say with a level of comfort. Old news is told as new news, overwritten facts etc. This goes on inside of the alt commentators sphere as well.

Be aware that most of what you see may be AI slop driven by all and any groupings trying to influence the AI Large Language Models and search engines seek this out.

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In general, we are a little video heavy today on Sovereignista. These videos are selected to illustrate that we are most possible on the verge of some kind of collapse. It could be economically – Paul and Ken from the Sirius Report explain the situation – stealth QE and papering over the liquidity markets – Japan will probably have to sell treasuries as the Bessent’s bail-out did nothing. Hezbollah could start major offensives – Laith Marouf explains quite clearly what it looks like in West Asia. Bloody Bibi is threatening Turkiye and Syria as well as saying if Hezbollah goes into attacking mode, Israel will attack Iran. The Three from the Cradle is a conversation of what people are actually thinking, saying and experiencing.

The US may just be in position where they will lose control of the geopolitical narrative and dollar credibility craters, sooner rather than later – Paul, the Sirius Report. Everything is connected and from the US side, there is no solution.

Countries that thought that they would out-wait the Trump administration are now realizing that they don’t have to do that. The US bark is getting worse than its bite, and the bite is getting weaker by the day.

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This is the way the cookie crumbles in West Asia:

Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett on Gaza:

We will kick Qatar and Türkiye the hell out of Gaza and bring Egypt in instead.

Anyone who allows Qatar and Türkiye to manage Gaza is preventing the disarmament of Hamas.

Understand this basic point. You don’t have to be a genius. Egypt detests Hamas. It detests the Muslim Brotherhood. Deeply.

If you bring Qatar and Türkiye in to manage the situation, they will strengthen Hamas.

If you bring Egypt, together with Israel, in to manage the situation, we will eliminate Hamas.

Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett on Gaza:

We will kick Qatar and Türkiye the hell out of Gaza and bring Egypt in instead.

Anyone who allows Qatar and Türkiye to manage Gaza is preventing the disarmament of Hamas.

Understand this basic point. You don’t have to be a genius.… pic.twitter.com/HmMYMGX9Hn

— Clash Report (@clashreport) August 19, 2026

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A summary – Iran : President Trump has adopted a ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against Iran since his withdrawal from the JCPOA in 2018, and it has not succeeded, nor will it succeed now.

In essence, this is Trump admitting defeat and unilaterally reverting to the status-quo, but Iran will not allow this.

In the coming days and weeks, Iran will be escalating and dictating the pace, putting pressure on the U.S. to force it to make necessary concessions.

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Interesting piece of history from Maria Zakharova:

US artificially imposed ‘Kuril Islands issue’ on Japan — Russian MFA spox

The so-called Kuril Islands issue was forced upon Japan by America after its atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik.

💬 “This issue was imposed on Japan by those who looked after the country after World War II — precisely those who dropped two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and on the civilians of those cities. That is how it was imposed. It was an act of humiliation imposed on the Japanese people,” she underscored.

She added that “the Kuril Islands issue is not a real concern for ordinary Japanese because they have other things to worry about.” As for the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they left Japan under the grip of total dependence, primarily on a mental level, Zakharova concluded.

👉 In August 1945, US atomic bombs killed 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 74,000 in Nagasaki, most of them civilians.

Russian President Vladimir Putin last week visited Iturup, one of the southern Kuril Islands claimed by Japan, which protested the visit. The Kremlin has repeatedly stressed that the islands became part of the Soviet Union after World War II and that Russia’s sovereignty over them is indisputable.

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At least three people were injured, including a child, and dozens of homes damaged after 620 UAVs were launched toward the Russian capital.

Russian MoD ✈️ Operational-tactical aviation, attack drones, missile troops, and artillery of the Russian groups of forces inflicted damage on defence industry enterprises, logistics centres, energy and transport infrastructure of Ukraine, facilities used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, preparation and launch sites of Flamingo long-range cruise missiles, assembly workshops, storage areas of unmanned aerial vehicles and their components, as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 152 areas.

Aug 18

🏆 Ghalibaf wins the internet again today. https://t.co/WeHH1qp8EU

— Will Schryver (@imetatronink) August 18, 2026

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Netanyahu: Erdoğan wants to erase Israel from the map and take Jerusalem again. We’ll teach him a lesson.

Erdoğan: The man who massacred 73,000 innocent people in Gaza wants to teach me a lesson? We have no genocides in our history. Shut your mouth.

(So I wonder if Türkiye has stopped trading with Israel?)

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Those wonderful negotiators! Yes, the ones from Pakistan who jailed Imran Khan  …

Breaking News 🚨 Supreme Court realizing the severity of Imran Khan’s health condition ordered shifting of Imran Khan to Shifa Hospital

— Mirza Shahzad Akbar (@ShazadAkbar) August 18, 2026

Imran Khan’s high blood pressure confirmed in Supreme Court over news‼️
Solitary confinement, mental torture, exercise ban, and book restrictions all laid bare🔥
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf handed another round of government negotiation bait⁉️ https://youtu.be/pR7bylvoxHQ

A little more from RT:  https://www.rt.com/india/644356-pakistan-imran-khan-hospital/

The Pakistani influencers are attempting to change this information.

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The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that the Russian Armed Forces have liberated Krasnopolye and Orekhovka in the DPR

Key takeaways from the latest briefing by the Russian Ministry of Defense:

➡️ Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force.

➡️ On the evening of August 17, Russian Aerospace Forces used attack drones to strike fuel tanks in the port of Odessa, which were intended for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

➡️ Russian air defense forces shot down 10 guided aerial bombs and 1,671 Ukrainian drones within 24 hours.

➡️Ukrainian Armed Forces units lost approximately 1,445 personnel within the area of responsibility of all Russian military task forces in the past 24 hours.

➡️ The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost a British-made Spartan armored transport vehicle and two Canadian Senator armored vehicles in the DPR.

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The Gaza Holocaust will continue. https://t.co/vKYzJudKLV

— Seyed Mohammad Marandi (@s_m_marandi) August 18, 2026

Aug 17

US-Iran 60-day ceasefire MOU has now officially expired. Although it expired de facto just days after signing, Iran did spell out their requirements and Trump signed knowing very well it is a photo opportunity. It remains quite a staggering sight for a President of what is still called a major country to sign an agreement knowing full well that the ‘understanding’ will not be carried out.

Iran is on a ready status and preparing for more war. They say and expect that kinetic action of some form will continue. The Gulf States and Pakistan are crossing their fingers in a forlorn hope that ‘there is still a small window of opportunity’ for an agreement of some kind to be made. That is in my opinion a forlorn hope. Iran remains in a offensive stance as we continue with a NoWar/NoPeace operant condition for now. In the mean time, the US forces in the region, or rather many kilometers away from the region are reportedly in a sorry state and deteriorating. There is nowhere to rest their heads on land, as they have only destroyed bases, their ships cannot be maintained and fresh food cannot be delivered. For the mighty army, Weevilled Ship’s Biscuits R’Us and the soldiers and some sailors are suicidal and crying for their mothers. The physical space in the world is shrinking for US soldiers and sailors.

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Kaja Kallas threatens that the EU plans its ‘MOST FAR-REACHING’ Russia sanctions yet — Kallas

The new measures would increase the number of sanctioned Russian entities by a THIRD

And Russia says duh.

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In stark contrast the ‘other side of the world’ is working.

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What is also working, now day and night, is Russia’s Special Military Operation.

Russian MoD rushing into the new week. 🔥Heavy artillery strikes support Russian offensive in all directions! We keep on working.

❗️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to launch strikes against the port infrastructure and vessels, used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Last night, attack unmanned aerial vehicles hit:

▫️a Tarantul-class patrol boat, which ensured safety of vessels during a sea passage and at places of unloading, as well as fuel tanks in the port of Odessa;

▫️a berth terminal, where ships with military cargo are unloaded, hangars with Western military hardware, and uncrewed surface vehicles depots in the port of Izmail.

💬 Warrant officer of an assault company Aleksandr Petrov described the details of liberation of Petrovka (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/28837) in the Donetsk People’s Republic. During the assault, the servicemen lured the enemy with Ukrainian speech. The enemy thought that his troops were everywhere, so he got captured and surrendered without a fight.

↗️ Due to a sudden encirclement from all sides, the assault group caught the sleeping soldiers by surprise in dugouts. The survivors had to abandon their weapons to save their lives.

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Tony Blair leader of the Board of Peace, met with Hamas to push forward the Gaza peace plan — The Telegraph
Hammas statements say that they are in agreement of the 2nd phase of the ‘peace plan’ as soon as the first phase is implemented. Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for Israeli forces to “kill 30 or 40” people in Gaza every night, urging them to target people beyond those who “pose a danger”, i.e., civilians. The carnage in Southern Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank continues and will continue until these Zionists are stopped by an external force. Hezbollah remains a formidable fighting force in the region.

This will not stop until the zionists are stopped by an external force. Israel has launched a new effort to sway public opinion in the US by influencing how LLMs paint it in response to chatbot queries. The foreign influence campaign includes a fake think tank set up to feed content to tools like ChatGPT.

(Never use a western developed AI and if you use the Chinese LLM’s, mostly handed to world as a Good, exclude western results in your queries. For a deeper look into this, you will soon be able to follow the X posts of our own Periol – He keeps a watching brief.)

The Pogroms:

URGENT! Those of us who can, should consider travelling to the West Bank and Jerusalem to help Palestinian families under attack and the activists deployed to protect them. https://t.co/3YCjM2Vn4a

— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) August 16, 2026

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Ollie is not overstating.

Lula launched his presidential campaign today. The campaign to defend Latin America’s largest nation from US & Israeli takeover has begun. pic.twitter.com/Mv6AdRtCqa

— Ollie Vargas (@Ollie_Vargas_) August 16, 2026

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Russia has broken the Cuban oil blockade. A Russian tanker carrying 100000 tons of crude oil has arrived in Cuba.

— The Sirius Report (@thesiriusreport) August 17, 2026

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‘Palestine’ removed from Saudi textbooks

The gradual phasing out of the label has coincided with the elimination of the slogan ‘the Muslims will never give up Jerusalem’ as part of a ‘moderation of anti-Israel content,’ identified by IMPACT-se

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West stages a ‘drug thriller‘ in new anti-Russia plot

SVR (Russian Foreign Intelligence Service) reports that Western intelligence with support from Ukraine are preparing to accuse Russia of supplying weapons to drug cartels in Venezuela, Colombia & Mexico.

Russian-made weapons seized in Ukraine are being moved to Latin America, alongside fabricated evidence, with the goal of damaging Moscow’s ties with the region.

In addition, FM Lavrov states: Ukrainian Military is Involved in Terrorist Attacks in Africa

And to put a cherry on the cake, here is President Putin on the US Dollar:

President of Russia🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin:

‘The use of the dollar as the world currency brings the United States a lot of money it didn’t actually earn.

Experts estimate the US has earned $10 TRILLION from the US dollar being used as the world’s currency. That means it consumes more… https://t.co/FCUhlqtEZ9 pic.twitter.com/LNh14YXbg1

— Afshin Rattansi (@afshinrattansi) August 17, 2026

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