💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇸🇾🇹🇷 There has been no progress in the rapprochement between Damascus and Ankara, despite the efforts of mediator countries, said Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, speaking before the new session of the country’s parliament.

“Russia, Iran, and Iraq have put forward initiatives for reconciliation with Turkey, and we responded positively to them, but no progress has been made despite the sincerity of the mediators.”

Assad denied claims that Syria is allegedly not ready for full normalization of relations until Turkish forces are withdrawn from its territory, but emphasized the importance of clearly outlining the steps for rapprochement.
[Imran Hosein called it. Turkey will remain loyal to NATO, unto the zionazi Rapture.. then it shall be torn to shreds and join its western friends in the dumpster of history]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ ⚡️- American officials estimate that Iran may attack Israel in the next 72 hours
⭕ I’m not even Christian, but Jesus Christ
Please not this again
⭕ Al-Qassam Brigades eliminate an Israeli soldier with a ‘Ghoul’ sniper. |media|
[something’s off! Their clothes look cleaner than mine. And in Elmer’s last video with EI, they had fresh fruit.. there’s a Voentorg getting in. Some soul remains in Egypt, and/or the starving folks above ground share the little they have..]
⭕ Earlier today, Al-Qassam Brigades carried out an ambush operation in the southern area of the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City by detonating minefield, hitting an Israeli armored force. Israeli helicopters were dispatched to evacuate their dead and injured troops from the site.

💠@Strategika51:
⭕ A little reflection on Pavel Durov, born in Russia in 1984 and founder of Telegram 📱 and VK 📱 . He is considered a very pro-Western liberal, with proven links to Zionism. He wasn’t too fond of Russia and had problems with the Russian federal state. He left the country and settled in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, after a few spells in Germany and elsewhere.

It’s likely that his girlfriend was approached by the CIA or some other subcontracted service (Dubai is teeming with secret agents). Durov believed deeply in so-called Western values and even found a link with Ukraine through his mother’s lineage, refusing to take any position on the war in Ukraine. He took French, Emirati and Saint Kitts and Nevis nationality, two vassals of the empire and a tax haven.

In contrast, the founder of Tik Tok 📱 (ByteDance), Zhang Yiming, born in China in 1983, has remained in China, despite his total fascination with Western values (he’s a pro-Western liberal and makes no secret of it). His fast-rising application is plagued by problems caused by Washington’s anti-Chinese policies, and all Zhang Yiming had to do was leave China and move to Dubai, and all Tik Tok’s worries, brilliantly handled by regional CEOs in Singapore and the USA, would disappear.

Pavel Durov left Russia for safety. He ended up in a French prison.

Zhang Yiming, more pragmatic, did not frequent Zionist circles, and it is unlikely that the CIA would have approached his circle. Despite his problems with the Chinese central state, which are not at all easy to deal with, he has remained in China and is running his business as best he can…

He didn’t end up in a French prison.

There are always lessons to be learned from this kind of situation.
[western liberalism and Zionism are in a dead heat sprinting down – into the Gutter of History..]
⭕ Abu Obeida, military spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades:

– We welcome the initial reaction of our Hezbollah brothers to the assassination of Major Fouad Shukr. We appreciate the precious sacrifices of our people in Lebanon and their heroic resistance.

– Hezbollah’s operation reaffirms the change in the entity’s strategic reality since the Al-Aqsa Flood operation. The enemy is not immune from retribution, and there are no limits to the possibility of striking anywhere and from any front.

– All fronts will continue to burn and intensify against the enemy as long as the aggression against our people continues.

💠@Two Majors:
⭕ 🇷🇴🇺🇸 In addition to the post by Two Majors about the deployment of the LTR-25 radar station in Romanian Catalonia, we would like to note that the radar has already begun to function in the Black Sea region.

The capabilities of the radar will allow the Alliance to cover a wide range of tasks both in identifying surface and air targets. And who all this will be aimed at – there is no need to explain.

And these are not pacifist tasks at all. With the advent of F-16 fighters, this radar will significantly simplify the work of Ukrainian formations in targeting the now important Crimea and Kherson region.

It’s an interesting situation. There are more and more military assets off the Russian coast. After all, this station is just the tip of the iceberg. There are also dozens of drones and planes, not to mention satellites.

@rybar

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ Sirens activated in central Tel Aviv due to rocket fire from Gaza
⭕ Al-Qassam Brigades announced shelling Tel Aviv with a M90 rocket.
⭕ The M90 rocket was fired from Gaza’s southern city, Khan Younis, and struck an area in Rishon Lezion in Tel Aviv, bypassing the Iron Dome.

This rocket was meant to deliver a message that Hamas’ capabilities are still in tact.

☝️Amarynth quoted on another thread this statement by the Yemeni Minister of Defense, Major General Mohammed Al-Atefi, in Sanaa, made right after Hezbollah’s first salvo. At the end of her comment is the written statement he reads in this video.

☝️He makes good point, this new crazed document from Empire is “a nuclear EMPLOYMENT guidance” – an internal document, rather than an external policy deterrent! I disagree in one aspect that this is a measured return to the Cold War nuclear posture. As documented by Eric Zuesse, the operative posture of the Exceptionals is “Nuclear Primacy.” They’ve deluded themselves into believing they can wage and win such wars… and in the setting of extreme desperation of hegemonic-econonmic-financial-societal collapse, they do not have another 40 years to slowly work to submit the civilizational-states a second time. It’s Nuke or Kneel Time – right now. And the Moshiach waits to be born inside the rapidly dying Zionist project..

Note the symmetry: the zionist spy base struck was in northern suburb of the Zion’s capital, the way their killed commander was in southern suburb of their capital Beirut. Hezbollah and Yemen keep their word.

So Yemen’s next move should be to attack a civilian equivalent of the splashy Hodeidah oil storage and electricity aggression. A Hot Summer for Zion! And we’re not talking yet of Iran, Iraq, or even little Hamas, which now has more freedom as Gaza is largely theirs to rove and from which to launch rockets.

Another point made by Magnier: Hezbollah this time launched many drones/missiles from Bekaa (north Lebanon, beyond the Litani). In prior wars, their tech development largely limited them to south Lebanon, which was also easier to find and destroy by NATO. Now they’re dispersed, and inside mountains and forests, throughout Lebanon.. and were still able to fly the longer ranges, avoid NATO air defense, and hit their targets with precision.. another demonstration bolstering Deterrence..

💠@Seyed Mohammad Marandi:
⭕ Gaza is not alone.
⭕ Based on this claim, there must be hundreds of Hezbollah casualties. Like Palestine, Lebanon is a small country. So we will know within hours whether the Zionist regime is lying or not.

I know they are lying, but the genocide loving Western media will repeat their propaganda.
[response to preceding tweet]
⭕ “Why did you leave me and go?”
As we slept last night, the Nazi holocaust continued.
[a lot of killed today in Deir Al Balah, where some 1M are packed. Here, one boy weeps over his killed brother]
⭕ Israel was totally caught off guard by Hezbollah.

Blurred footage of the regime’s “pre-emptive” airstrikes against Lebanon, which they claim involved over 100 fighter jets, shows nothing substantial.

No martyrs and no major damage means the failed strikes weren’t pre-emptive.
⭕ Hezbollah’s successful attack on an Israeli naval ship says a lot about the quality of this morning’s retaliation against the regime. |media|
⭕ Two Palestinians were murdered in an airstrike by the Zionist regime targeting civilians outside a car repair shop in central Khan Younis.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ Poland spent 3.3% of its GDP on aid to Ukraine – over $26 billion.

… almost 1,000 T-72, PT-91 Twardy, Leopard tanks and various armored personnel carriers were transferred to Ukraine.

Kiev received 10 MiG-29 fighters and 10 helicopters from Warsaw.

t.me/Slavyangrad/107029
[actually iirc, the Poles were suckered by USUK, as usual. They were promised exchange with newer US junk, which will obviously never come.]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ An explosive device was detonated, targeting a bus of settlers near Bethlehem in the West Bank.
[this is exhausting just to follow. It is worse than Chinese death by a thousand cuts, or drops of water – the Siege on Zion is 360° and total. And will not relent]
⭕ The heads of three municipal councils in the north of Israel said they would sever contact with all government officials until there is a ‘full and complete solution’ for the residents of the northern border settlements.

“The reality today is that Israel’s border has moved 40 kilometers south. We continue to lose more and more parts of the north with each passing week.” Giora Zaltz, head of the Upper Galilee Regional Council said.
⭕ Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi: ”We call on the Security Council to take deterrent and effective measures against Netanyahu and his ministers. Netanyahu is obstructing the exchange deal and wants to push the region towards a regional war to save his political future and implement his racist ideology.”
[when abject vassals plead in public!!]
⭕ Palestinian Ministry of Health reports that Polio vaccines have been delivered to Gaza.
[this is as criminal as taking the mpox cocktails! We humans are truly lemmings, from north to south, east to west, and all points in between. And the UN and WHO have full access to Gaza, with the Palestinians officially led by the compradore Abbas and Hamas distracted in war… ]

☝️ “Embrace your children”

”I’m not one of those who left their land’
by Anna Akhmatova of Odessa

‘I’m not one of those who left their land
To the mercy of the enemy.
I was deaf to their gross flattery.
I won’t grant them my songs.

But to me the exile’s always wretched,
Like a convict, or a patient.
Wanderer your road is dark,
And the bread of strangers tastes bitter.

But in the blinding smoke, the flames,
Destroying the remains of youth,
We have refused to evade
A single blow against ourselves.

And we know that in the final reckoning,
Each hour will stand justified…
No people on earth shed fewer tears,
Are simpler, or more filled with pride.’

💠 “Ukrainian drones strike apartment blocks deep inside Russia”

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️ In the morning, at about 6:00 local time, Saratov and Engels were attacked by enemy drones.

Hits in residential apartment buildings were recorded. In Engels, a UAV hit the roof of a building on Pushkin Street, in Saratov – in the Volga Sky residential complex.

Preliminary reports indicate that two people were injured when a drone crashed into the 38-story Volga Sky residential complex in Saratov.  |media|
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️Monitoring resources report serious activity by the strategic aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces, as well as carriers of Kalibr cruise missiles in the Black Sea.

A significant “presence” of the Geran-2 kamikaze UAV has been noted in Ukrainian airspace.

Launches of air-launched Kh-101 cruise missiles by Tu-95MS bombers have been announced. Eleven “strategists” and several MiG-31Ks with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles have been reported.
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️According to Ukrainian resources, there are currently at least 4 carriers of Kalibr cruise missiles in the Black Sea with a total salvo of up to 28 missiles.

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸US intends to prosecute countries that allow Russian banks to open branches on their territories — US Treasury Department
⭕ 🔥🔥Reports are coming in of a massive Russian missile and drone strike on Ukraine. 🔥🔥

11x TU-95s have fired their missiles, in two salvos.
Up to 20 Kalibrs coming in from the Black Sea.
9 MiG-31s ready to launch
Swarms of drones in the air

This could be one of the biggest strikes of the war. We will keep you updated as it happens. First missiles should hit in 30 minutes.
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦2 SU-57s confirmed in the sky, plus another wing of 6 TU-22 Bombers. Even more missiles are coming in!!
⭕ 🇺🇦🇷🇺Ballistics on the way from both Crimea and Kursk!

Multiple Iskander launches have been confirmed.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Russian military launches large-scale strikes on defense industry facilities in Ukraine

▪️ An air alert was declared in Ukraine after 6 am Moscow time.

▪️ Ukrainian media reported explosions in several regions: Kiev and its region, as well as the regions of Kharkov, Sumy, Poltava, Vinnitsa, Kirovograd, Dnepropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankovsk, Lvov and Odessa.

▪️ A series of explosions in Kiev has led to power outages. In total, about a dozen explosions were heard in the city, according to the pro-Russian resistance.

👆🏽📹  A video of the Ukrainian national TV channel stopping broadcasting during the air strikes went viral.

▪️ A power plant in Odessa was hit, pro-Russian resistance coordinator Sergey Lebedev told Sputnik.

▪️ In the Lvov region, in the town of Stry, there was a serious explosion after the strike, and the lights went out.

▪️ In Ivano-Frankovsk, the strike hit a hangar with equipment, the explosion occurred in an area where the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hiding two F-16s, the pro-Russian underground told Sputnik.

▪️ In Volyn, a strike was carried out at a Ukrainian military base.
⭕ 🇷🇺 Four people injured after a drone attack on Russia’s Saratov, regional health ministry says

🗣 “One woman was hospitalized in serious condition in one of the medical institutions of the city of Saratov. Three injured persons received assistance on the spot,” the regional health ministry told Sputnik.

Temporary restrictions on the arrival and departure of aircraft were introduced at the Saratov international airport “Gagarin” after the drone attack on the region, the airport’s press service told Sputnik.

Earlier, Saratov Region Governor Roman Busargin said that debris from destroyed drones had hit residential buildings in Saratov and neighboring Engels, adding that one woman was hospitalized in serious condition.

👉 Russia’s air defense destroyed 20 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones over Russia this night, including nine over the Saratov region, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Shutting down social media is a blatant breach of international law & signals the erosion of EU values, paving the way for authoritarianism & pervasive censorship. Beyond stifling free expression, it undermines the ability of intel agencies to collect vital open-source intel.
⭕ retweet:
[New] #Iranian Foreign Minister: “Our response to the #Israeli terrorist attack in #Tehran will be decisive and well-calculated. We do not fear escalation, but we do not seek it, unlike Israel.”

404 is going dark.. it is merciful of the Russkies to begin now, in the tolerable summer, facilitating the westward Stampede to the Everlasting Glorious Garden

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦Ukrainian strike map
⭕️ 🇷🇺🇺🇦The explosions have finally reached western Ukraine, with reports of loud noises in Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv

It is also reported that rockets are suddenly flying towards Zakarpattia. Repeated explosions have been recorded in Zhitomir.
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦Power outages in Kyiv confirmed by Klitschko.
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️Emergency power outages introduced throughout Ukraine — energy company
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️There is no water in Shevchenkivskyi, Svyatoshinskyi, Solomenskyi and Goloseevskyi districts of Kiev — local media
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦There is almost no air defense work in Ukraine. It worked once in the Vinnytsia region, several times in Kyiv and that’s it.

Apparently, all air defense forces have been pulled to the border of the Kursk region.
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦Kiev, Odessa, Nikolaev, Zaporozhye, Zhitomir – no electricity at all.

https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/contractors-kursk-polish-french-details

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🔥 🔥 🔥 The bear is awake, and he is angry! 🔥 🔥 🔥

Each Tu-95 can carry six cruise missiles, giving us a total of 66.
Each Tu-22M can carry three cruise missiles, giving us a total of 18.
Each Su-57 can carry 4, giving us a total of 8.
The ships in the Black Sea combine for a total of 20 missiles.
Reports are saying as many as 100 Gerans are airborne.
At least 3 Iskanders
Possible Khinzals, although none confirmed yet.

All told, we could be looking at over 200 pieces of ordinance in the air.  Some of these will be decoys, but regardless, Ukraine will be having a very hot day.
⭕ Zhulyany airport in Kiev has just been hit! This is home to several patriot missile batteries.
⭕ 🇷🇺🚀🇺🇦 “Our children will go to schools and kindergartens – their children [in Donbass] will sit in basements”
– Petro Poroshenko years ago

Kiev today  |media|
[Not just the children, most appear inside their subway system]
⭕ 💣CONFIRMED EXPLOSIONS IN💣

💥Mirgorod
💥Kharkov
💥Krivoy Rog
💥Kremenchuk
💥Vinnitsa
💥Kropivnitsky
💥Khmelnitsky
💥Zaporozhye
💥Dnepropetrovsk
💥Brovary
💥Chernigov
💥Kiev
💥Nikolaev
💥Lutsk
💥Odessa
💥Ivano-Frankovsk
💥Lvov

Some of these were hit multiple times. Looks like a productive night for Russian aviation, and perhaps the greatest failure of Ukrainian air defense so far.
[FAFO, nazis!]
⭕ 🇺🇦💬Ukraine reports power outages on its railway infrastructure in several regions
[Don’t worry, NATO is resilient and persistent. They’ll haul catapults and boiling oil by horse, ox, and strapped-nazis]
⭕️ 🇷🇺🚀🇺🇦 This morning, the Russian Armed Forces launched a massive strike with high-precision weapons against critical energy infrastructure facilities that supported the operation of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex. All designated targets were hit.

– the Russian Ministry of Defense commented on the strikes in Ukraine.
⭕ Urgent |Japan: Kyodo news: For the first time in history, Chinese military aircraft violated Japanese airspace
⭕ Urgent | North Korea Foreign Ministry: Pyongyang is concerned about US leadership on the use of nuclear weapons and will develop its nuclear forces

☝️ The problem facing mankind is the Christian Zionists, shock troops of the Moshiach, who hide behind the messianic jews. They were and are present in every phase of establishing Pax Judaica, since the 1800s. Jews are their useful golem

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Foreign Affairs today condemned the threats made by Israel’s Minister of Security Ithmar Benghvir concerning the Esplanade of the Mosques in Jerusalem.

Ithmar Benghvir stated publicly that if he were free to do as he pleased, he would have raised the Israeli flag on the Temple Mount and established a synagogue on the site.

For the Palestinian ministry, these statements are a confirmation of Israel’s real aims to rebuild Jerusalem’s Third Temple.
⭕ The Lebanese Hezbollah carefully avoided an escalation of the conflict by targeting only three objectives, and above all by publicly revealing these targets in detail.
Israel, for its part, could go no further and ended its air campaign, which only lasted a few hours.

This means that they will continue to circumscribe the fight within a limited and precise framework and not exceed certain limits imposed by Washington in order to avoid the situation getting out of hand.
⭕ Massive use of drones and ground robots by Ukrainian/NATO forces in Kursk oblast.

Robots place mines and artillery shells along the routes of Russian detachments. Other ground drones conduct reconnaissance in trenches and marauding kamikaze drones occupy the air.
⭕ Almost a month ago, a group of young Russian “computer scientists” fleeing their country arrived in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. They were immediately arrested and extradited to the USA on the pretext that they were helping Russia to circumvent sanctions. None of the media covered the story.
[Techies live in a childish bubble. They shall be brought into modern-medieval Reality of the Western Security State. “Got your own state to protect ya” ??]
⭕ “The enemy’s political, military and security leaders know that if they had been able to destroy 6,000 to 8,000 strategic missiles in half an hour, they would have repeated their attacks several times, before invading Lebanon to complete the “most important” mission of destroying and crushing Hezbollah.

What happened was that Netanyahu, who was in a hurry to declare victory, had to hold back and stay in front of the screens watching and listening to the military news surrounding him, as it informed him that Hezbollah’s missiles and drones had crossed the border towards places inside Israel and as far as Tel Aviv.

What Hezbollah did yesterday is entirely in line with the strategy it has adopted from day one.

Hezbollah does not want a full-scale war and, consequently, it will not take any action that would lead to a war that it has not chosen in terms of timing, arena and form.

But he doesn’t want to give the enemy the moment of calm it needs to concentrate its efforts in Gaza and the West Bank; on the contrary, he wants to get it to devote a third of its military, security and political efforts to the confrontation with Lebanon.”

Ibrahim Amin, Lebanese political analyst.
⭕ There are many false beliefs about Jews in the West. Let’s just say that they have a good back. You can’t possibly attribute all the world’s misfortunes to them, when they too have suffered great injustices that have never been rectified, and we’re not talking about what happened during the Second World War.

This racist vision doesn’t come from anywhere outside Europe, North America or Australia, and reminds us that the nature of the current regime in these countries is inextricably linked to violence and war as a mode of economic operation.

I think it would be useful to correct certain stereotypes that are propagated by ignorant and highly racist people.

The problems of Zionism as an ideology, the excesses of Israeli ultra-nationalism and the historical rise of sects and secret societies in the West must not be confused with other fundamental notions, or Jews singled out for the secular vindictiveness of Europe’s racists.

We strongly condemn this barbaric conflation. 

Yemeni Jews, of whom there are many, have no problems in a country destroyed by war. Nor do Jews in Iran or elsewhere.
[See the handsome lad in our Daily Chronicles, the Orthodox jew, protesting against assassination of Ishmael Haniyah and barbarism of his state. There are many good Jews. The Qur’an proclaims some will remain righteous and adhere to the Truth in the Torah until Kingdom Come. The issue is the dominant crazed zionazi faction, and above all their fellow traveller Christian Zionists, and imperialists, in the West]

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ Israeli War Minister Yoav Gallant (center), at a meeting with US Army Chief of Staff Brown (left) and Israeli Chief of Staff Halevy (right):
“Iranian aggression is breaking records and, to counter it, we must strengthen joint capabilities in all theaters of war.”

They don’t know where they are or where they’re going… This is what happens when you appoint incompetent extremists and spare them in government.
⭕ A video shows an ambush by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza against 23 Israeli soldiers entrenched in a house, and footage of an Israeli force trapped at the entrance to an underground tunnel.

The occupied house was targeted by thermobaric and anti-tank rockets.

These images are nothing short of miraculous. The resistance is still fighting after 70,000 tons of explosives were dropped on its head…   |media|

💠 @kuluary_zaliva (В кулуарах Залива):
⭕ Iraq, Türkiye, UAE and Qatar to Continue Implementing Development Path

Turkey will host a quadrilateral meeting this week with Iraq, the UAE and Qatar to advance work on a major infrastructure project that could eventually link the Persian Gulf to Europe .

Officials from the four countries will meet in Istanbul on Thursday to discuss details of a $17 billion rail and road infrastructure project dubbed the “Development Path.” The meeting will be the first since a memorandum of cooperation on the project was signed during Turkish President Erdogan’s visit to Baghdad in April.

According to the Turkish authorities, for whom the project is extremely beneficial economically, the “Development Path” is being created with the aim of maintaining the stability of world trade , ensuring the diversification of international trade corridors and providing a replacement, including for the Suez Canal , through which shipping remains dangerous.

Moreover, the Development Path is an alternative to another major trade corridor, India-Middle East-Europe (IMEC) , which is planned to be launched with US support. However, the advantage of the Turkish route is that it does not pass through the extremely unstable Israel today.
[This still serves Zion. The railroad from UAE & Qatar would have to traverse KSA, and thus still feed into the IMEC. And Zion plans to expand to all this territory as part of Pax Judaica anyway — from the Nile to the Euphrates, which runs from Turkey to Iraq. This is how a Parasite prepares its next Host]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Head Professor of Iran Studies at Tel Aviv University: ‘Israel cannot enter into a war against Iran without the United States, we have no chance in an isolated military confrontation. Either the U.S. joins in, or Israel does not go to war.’

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸☢️ The American nuclear arsenal and its related infrastructure are significantly outdated and in need of refurbishment, writes the Wall Street Journal, citing sources.

The projected 10-year service life of the missiles located in 450 launch silos expired decades ago. The cost of modernization is estimated at around $141 billion, according to WSJ.

🐻 What could possibly go wrong? Just when you thought having a demented grandpa in charge of nukes was the worst thing, the Americans somehow manage to make it even worse…
[Are those welders using chisels to pry off the rust, and duck tape and spit for the serious work?! We shudder to know.]
⭕️ 🇺🇦🏁Ukrainian Channel RezidentUA writes:
Our source in the Office of the President reported that all NATO advisors in Ukraine are undercover, holding the status of journalists/consultants or representatives of diplomatic missions. The personnel operating Patriot air defense systems and HIMARS are labeled as volunteers. These cover stories allow the West to publicly claim that their military is not directly involved in the war in Ukraine.
⭕ 🇨🇦🇨🇳 Canada to impose new 100% duties on chinese electric cars

Canada to impose new 25% duties on chinese steel and aluminum

— Justin Trudeau

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Russian Defense Ministry gives details of massive strike on Ukrainian targets

🟠 The targets of the strike were electrical substations in the Kiev, Vinnitsa, Zhitomir, Khmelnitskiy, Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, Nikolaev, Kirovograd and Odessa regions;

🟠 Gas compressor stations in the Lvov, Ivano-Frankovsk and Kharkov regions, which ensure the functioning of the Ukrainian gas transportation system, were also hit;

🟠 In addition, the strikes targeted storage sites for aircraft weapons transferred to Kiev by Western countries at airfields in the Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk regions;

🟠 All designated targets were hit, resulting in power outages and disrupting rail transportation of weapons and ammunition to the frontline.
⭕ 🇷🇺 The losses of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk direction in one day amounted to more than 400 people and 27 armored vehicles, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports

More statements from the ministry:

🟠   The Ukrainian armed forces have lost more than 6,200 servicepeople and 73 tanks since the beginning of the operation in the Kursk direction;

🟠  Russian troops repelled attacks in the direction of Kremyanoye, Malaya Loknya and Nechayev in Kursk’s region, Russia;

🟠  Attempts to attack in the direction of Komarovka, Spalnoye, Korenevo, Pogrebki and Olgovka near Kursk were thwarted; The Ukrainian forces lost up to 30 people killed and wounded;

🟠   The Russian military launched a massive strike with precision weapons and drones on critical energy infrastructure facilities that supported the operation of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex;

🟠   The units of the Russian “Yug” (South) group of forces occupied more advantageous positions within 24 hours, the enemy lost up to 570 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle and four field ammunition depots;

🟠   The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 90 servicemen in one day in the area of operations of the Russian “Sever” (North) group of forces in the Kharkov and Sumy regions;

🟠   The units of the Russian “Tsentr” (Center) group of forces repelled seven counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in one day, the enemy lost up to 585 servicemen, three tanks, a Marder infantry fighting vehicle and an armored personnel carrier.

💠 @Seyed Mohammad Marandi:
⭕ As we slept last night, the US, UK, and EU backed #GazaHolocaust continued.
Silence is complicity.

The two blunderbusses are neither novelty nor surprise, but Junior has really exposed himself! His main street cred was hustling against the Vaxx and he joins forces with the Sith Lord Trump who rolled out the Pentagram’s Operation Warp Speed during the Great Poisoning of Covid!! Maybe it isn’t a dead worm inside his skull but the prototype Neuralink??

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ Rumble founder Chris Pavlovski accused French President Emmanuel Macron of lying about his commitment to free speech, in response to Pavel Durov’s arrest.
⭕️ The Lebanese Hezbollah announced that it had carried out an air attack with a squadron of attack drones on the new headquarters of the 146th Division Command in the “Sharaga” barracks near Acre. The drones hit their targets with precision.

Since this morning, Israeli air strikes have targeted a dozen sites in southern Lebanon.
⭕ In response to Israeli air strikes on villages in southern Lebanon, Lebanese Hezbollah launched an air strike with a squadron of drones on the new 91st Division headquarters in Ayelet Hashahar, targeting the positions of its officers and soldiers; the targets were hit with precision (3-metre CEP).
⭕ Video taken by a smartphone showing the moment of attack by a squadron of Lebanese Hezbollah kamikaze drones in Ayalet HaShahar targeting the 91st Division headquarters in Safad.

The drones reached their target when the sirens sounded. This proves that they were not detected.

This attack comes at the same time as the visit of the Chief of Staff of the US Armed Forces to the north of the entity.  |media|
⭕ A Russian missile got lucky in Odessa: it fell on a convoy of 40 trucks carrying weapons from the former free world…  |media|
⭕ Israeli forces are currently taking revenge on Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the West Bank.

In a surprising and never-before-seen development, the White House has publicly complained about the latest drone attacks by Lebanon’s Hezbollah… We must have missed something big…
⭕ The United Arab Emirates are urgently asking the French government to provide full consular services to Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who [also] holds UAE citizenship.
[This is a delicious fiasco for Empire! What an own-goal. Anything run from UAE and Holland was on borrowed time anyway, being imperial playgrounds. New better platforms shall arise]
⭕ The Indian government is hinting that it may ban the Telegram application, and an investigation is underway to assess the appropriateness of such a decision.

India has the largest number of Telegram users in the world.  [This is disturbing on several levels! Is India as abject a compradore as France?! This appears coordinated with France. And it is a way to disconnect India socially from the Russian Mir which has a strong TG presence. Not good optics at the least. It would be an unwise quid-pro-quo concession by Indian compradore elites to the West for a breather, but at what cost. And it won’t help either, but harm both] 
⭕ Former State Department official Mike Benz accuses the State Department of complicity in the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel in France; he asks the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee to subpoena all communications between the U.S. Embassy in Paris, prosecutors and government officials prior to Durov’s arrest in France.
⭕ The Belgian regulator responsible for overseeing Telegram in the EU has stated that it had nothing to do with Durov’s arrest in France, and that it had received no information about any violations committed by the messaging app.

It seems more and more likely that the order came from the USA and that the French government, totally submissive, complied without a second thought.

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Israeli media reports a ‘serious security incident’ in the ‘Netzarim’ corridor.
⭕ Israel carried out an airstrike in Noor Shams Camp in the West Bank; reports that the target was ‘Abu Shujaa’, the leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Tulkarm Brigade in the West Bank. [we saw him freed from the hospital Siege by the traitorous Palestinian Authority just over a week ago]
⭕ The United States has completed 500 air deliveries of weapons to Israel since October, totaling over 50,000 tons of military equipment. Additionally, the Biden administration has sent 107 shipments of military supplies to Israel by sea.
⭕ EU’s Red Sea naval mission reports that the ‘SOUNION’ oil tanker has been on fire since August 23, after being attacked by Yemen’s Ansarullah.
[A Holy Fire and Yemen go together in the End Times, as paired in the spiritual realm as the opposing Unholy West & Genocide. The madmen will rue the little that remains of their hegemony for having set Yemen alight..]

💠 @imetatronink:
⭕️ Hezbollah Katyusha (Grad) rockets achieving a surprisingly tight spread on Israeli military base targets.   |media|

#DemocratizationOfFirepower
#NoEasyWarsLeftToFight

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ The Russians have targeted another hotel, this time in Krivoy Rog, with a Kinjal hypersonic missile.

They no longer want to promote tourism in Ukraine…
⭕ A sign that nerves are frayed: a simple rumor spread in Israel about the kidnapping of a female settler in the West Bank set the house on fire. Hundreds of armed settlers went berserk, ransacking everything in their path. A young Palestinian from Bethlehem was shot dead by one of them.
The rumor turned out to be false and unfounded.
The Palestinians of the West Bank will not hold out for long. They will revolt.
[And which zionazi started the “rumor” to move along the Palestinian ‘Exodus-Annihilation paradigm’ ? Note every nazi society has its odious ideological shock troops — the SS for Germania back in the day, the Azov et al for UkroNazis, and these million strong “settlers” for Zion. They express the “purity” of the racist project, and torch what is meant to be torched, and open up the desired lebensraum]
⭕ Update: the death toll from settler violence in the West Bank has risen to six, with dozens more injured.

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ The “preemptive attack” that “Israel” falsely claimed was aimed at Hezbollah’s rocket and drone launchers cost $120 million, according to a senior Israeli defense industry source who spoke to Globes.

To counter its tarnished image after the Lebanese Resistance’s response, the Israeli occupation force fabricated a preemptive attack narrative, alleging that “thousands of Hezbollah rocket launchers were simultaneously struck by approximately 100 IAF fighter jets.”

The Israeli military stated that the attack involved 4,000 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) bombs, each costing $25,000, 100 aircraft operating for six hours at a total cost of around $18 million, and drone operations for 12 hours estimated at $1.08 million. This brings the total expenditure to nearly $120 million, not including reserve duty compensation costs.
⭕ ❗Russia hit a hotel where foreign instructors were stationed in Krivoy Rog ⚡

According to Sergei Lebedev, coordinator of the pro-Russian resistance in Nikolaev, 15 English-speaking instructors had to be evacuated by military medics. |media|
[Well, they checked out of our Hotel California, in express Russian-style — straight to Bandera without even a cackle from Cupid Stunt]

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ retweet: Iranian TV Posted this vid Saying “it’s the Iranian Turn.” |media|

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ Jews are beaten up in the streets by the Israeli regime.
Haridim Jews refuse forced incorporation, and one of them in the photograph from the Kodkod network carries a sign reading “Israel is an anti-Semitic country”.
⭕️ The Baluchistan separatists who have been active for years in West Pakistan on the border with Iran are throwing off the mask and revealing their masters and sponsors by threatening China and, more specifically, Chinese interests in Pakistan.

For a long time they have been accused by Pakistan of being financed by the Indian RAW, but the facts show that they are supported by Washington and London. The demands of the Baluchistan separatists are perfectly in line with the geostrategic interests of the United States in this part of the world: to displace China and cut off its routes of “economic prosperity” to the Arabian Sea.

Their role is similar to that of Daech [ISIS] in Africa today.

Yesterday, four simultaneous attacks by Baluchistan Liberation Army gunmen left over 70 people dead, including 12 Pakistani soldiers.   |media|

💠 @RT News:
⭕️❗️Pavel Durov will not disclose sensitive data to the West, Russian Foreign Intelligence Director Sergey Naryshkin believes

“I really hope that he will not allow this,” the SVR head told TASS.

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦The Russian Federation has transferred 30,000 military personnel from Ukraine to the Kursk region, said Syrsky.

According to him, “this figure is growing.”

The commander-in-chief clarified that troops were being withdrawn from the south of Ukraine. Although in the Zaporozhye region, in the area of Rabotino and on the Dnieper in the Kherson region, the Russian Federation continues to storm. And also actively steps on In the Pokrovsky direction of the Donetsk region, building up forces.
[The Plan appears to surge with what remains of nazidom into Russia proper..]
⭕ 🇷🇺☢️The doctrine of Russia’s use of nuclear weapons is “being clarified now,” Sergey Lavrov said
⭕ Urgent | Occupied Palestine: More than 20 dead from IDF attacks since this morning in Gaza.
⭕ 🇫🇮🇺🇦🇷🇺Finland has allowed the Armed Forces of Ukraine to hit Russia with their weapons.

Finnish President Stubb said: Helsinki has not set restrictions on what Kiev will do with the transferred weapons if they are used “for defensive purposes” and “in accordance with international law.”
⭕ Urgent | Russian Foreign Minister: Israeli forces consider the people of Gaza to be non-civilians and every child over 3 years old to be a terrorist, which is terrifying.
[And per zionazi rabbis, raping those under three preserves the “regenerative” hymen and doesn’t count as rape]
⭕ 🇫🇷🇷🇺France detained Pavel Durov on someone’s advice and is threatening terrible punishment, hoping to get encryption codes, Lavrov said.

He noted: by such actions, Paris has shown that Telegram is a reliable and popular network.
[LOL. So the second Russian honcho to smirk the truth today: Russkies have the encryption keys. The West can pound sand!]

💠 @RiseGS:
⭕ 🤔 Aug 21: ‘Israel Tries to Censor the Internet’ after Classified Israeli Govt and IDF Documents are Leaked on Telegram (Haaretz)

Aug 24: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is arrested upon landing in France.

💠 @GlobalSouth.co:
⭕ The US War Against Tik-Tok is 100% Jewish

I sense it was more BS that an Iron Dome interceptor was responsible for that ship strike.. Yemen has garnered plenty of experience. And the Resistance is generous in sharing approaches against the supranational nazi alliance..

💠 @Africa Intel:
⭕ 🇪🇬🇵🇸 Israel has no intention of withdrawing its forces from the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has denied media reports that Israel has agreed to reduce its forces in the so-called “Philadelphia Corridor” in order to reach a ceasefire in Gaza and exchange detainees. Netanyahu “adheres to the principle that Israel will effectively remain on the Philadelphia axis, from the Kerem Shalom crossing to the sea.”

The Philadelphi Gap is a narrow, 14-kilometer-long section of land on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. It is a major point of contention in the ceasefire talks, as Israel deployed forces there months ago (in violation of agreements signed with Egypt, by the way) and now refuses to withdraw them. Egypt, for its part, has repeatedly stressed that it does not accept any Israeli presence at the Rafah crossing or on the Philadelphi axis.

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸 On the dispersal of AWACS aircraft to European air bases

On August 23, NATO command announced the raising of the security level at the Geilenkirchen air base to “Charlie”, meaning there was a threat based on intelligence data. Subsequently, the threat was lowered to “Bravo+”, but aviation in Germany was still dispersed.

Six NATO E-3A AWACS aircraft were transferred to the Rygge air base in Norway and Konya in Turkey (three each). Only four units remained at Geilenkirchen itself. Another one is in Ingolstadt, three are in Italy.

As can be clearly seen, at the slightest hint of a threat, the Alliance quickly moved strategically important aircraft to several other air bases. Moreover, part of the aviation of this type was redeployed to Italy back in 2022 as the SMO progressed.

This is indeed an important point, indicating NATO’s careful attitude towards its aircraft. Of course, they presented it as routine pilot training, but nevertheless, they took precautionary measures.

🔻We are now observing the same tactic. There is a threat – the aviation is withdrawn from the strike. And this is the right and working technique. Unfortunately, it took the loss of several aircraft for this to happen, but progress is being made nonetheless.

So maybe someday we’ll reach the stage where airfields and air bases will always be equipped with the necessary protective infrastructure, from revetments to the infamous hangars that are simply necessary to preserve aviation.

❗️At the same time, it is impossible not to note that in this rather straightforward way, the Alliance moved two AWACS groups closer to the northern and southern borders of Russia. Three E-3As will be able to effectively cover reconnaissance in their area on a daily basis (the average E-3A flight is 8 hours).
[One can play as cute as possible whilst ever escalating to a war which will inevitably come. To the last demented USUK!]

What is mistranslating as “kisses” should say “Qibla” which means “Direction of Prayer.” Muslims in their first years used to pray towards Jerusalem like the jews, then it was changed to Makkah. The importance of the holiness (and consequences of destroying Al Aqsa Mosque) is compounded by the special journey the Islamic Prophet took from it to the Heavens.

So he spends time berating his listeners with this implied history. But most Muslims today are weak in faith & unity and busy themselves in daily life as do most humans and lack solidarity with either the oppressed Palestinians or the unique significance of Jerusalem.

Note at end he speaks of the terrible price the Resistance is imposing on Zion for its assassinations – the total paralysis of fear, broken economy, and counter Siege. Like Magnier, he seems to think this price is sufficient deterrence now. However the zionazi head goon himself said that they would continue!

I agree rather with Almassian and Laith Marouf that they have no choice. They’ve already committed such unforgivable crimes and plotted such a wider war, and have the recent ww2 history of sacrificing jews for the larger purpose, that they will continue until they detonate the Apocalypse. And that is easy for one side to do under limitless messianic passion.

💠 @Seyed Mohammad Marandi:
⭕ The US backed Nazi holocaust never ends.
⭕ US, UK, and EU backed Zionists have slaughtered fishermen at Rafah, including this man’s son.

The collective West is your enemy  |media|
⭕ Watch NATO backed Zionists bomb crowded markets. Legacy media is silent.   |media|
#GazaHolocaust
⭕ The German backed #GazaHolocaust continues.
⭕ In 2 separate airstrikes today, the Western backed Zionist regime has targeted and murdered political analyst Arafat Abu Zayed as well as journalist Ali Taima.
#GazaHolocaust
⭕ Zionists bombed another car in the “safe zone” and murdered 5 people. The objective of the colonizers is to make sure Palestinian families always live in fear.
#GazaHolocaust
⭕ Western backed Zionists gun down Palestinian civilians and shoot at anyone who approaches the bodies.
#GazaHolocaust
⭕ Another airstrike on another Palestinian home this afternoon. Most of the dead are children.
Watch.
Western media hides these from the public in order to provide political cover for the
#GazaHolocaust

💠 “As part of that support, the Secretary [Lord Raytheon] has ordered the presence of two Carrier Strike Groups to remain in the region.”

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕️ The translation into Arabic of the CentCom videos, initiated as a new form of public relations operation aimed at Arab opinion, is totally catastrophic and is making Arab Internet users in the Middle East hilarious. The A-10 Thunderbolt II ground attack aircraft is described as supersonic; the F-16 Viper as hypersonic. The F22 Raptor is described in the same terms used in the Superman movie, and the translator was so zealous that he flew the Raptor into orbit over Iran… If this was to impress the Bedouins, it’s a complete failure.
⭕ The Chinese are much too kind. They received a guy named Sullivan. In a normal world, no country would have accepted him.
⭕ Rockets fired from Syria into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

Israeli deterrence no longer works.
⭕ Did you know? Censors dislike satirical and humorous content more than crude, structured and modulated counter-propaganda.

The invasion, displacement of civilians and their mass extermination in the West Bank has begun….

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇳🇦 🚢 Namibia denies entry to a ship possibly carrying Israeli arms, local media reports

Justice Minister Yvonne Dausab demanded that the ship Kathrin, set to enter the port of Walvis Bay in Namibia, be denied entry, according to the publication. The Namibian government has not disclosed the type of military cargo potentially on board the Kathrin or the port where it was loaded.

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ The Israeli military has launched its largest operation in the West Bank in 22 years, focusing on resistance strongholds such as Jenin, Tulkarm, Nablus, and Tubas.

This large-scale operation involves thousands of IDF soldiers and is expected to last several days. Reports also indicate collaboration between the Palestinian Authority and Israeli forces in abducting and disarming fighters.
⭕ Saraya Al-Quds, Al-Qassam Brigades, and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Jenin and Tulkarm have declared their readiness to confront the Israeli invasion in the West Bank, with clashes currently ongoing.
⭕ Israeli newspaper Haaretz has reported that Telegram has posed a ‘significant challenge for Israel’, just days before CEO Pavel Durov’s arrest: “Many tech firms have streamlined mechanisms through which states can reach out to them to censor content, but Telegram is the least cooperative of them all.” They also add that Telegram has failed to remove antisemitic content.
⭕ Yedioth Ahronoth reports that since October, more than 5,600 IDF soldiers have arrived at Galilee Medical Center in ‘Nahariya,’ north of Israel. This includes approximately 1,700 combat-wounded from battles with Hezbollah and around 3,500 dealing with ‘diseases’ and other issues.
[This appear casualties from Hezbollah, not Gaza..]
⭕ Israeli forces have reportedly closed all roads leading to Jenin [WB] and are planning to cut off electricity to the area

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ Aljazeera correspondent:
The Occupation forces besiege hospitals in Jenin city and prevent ambulance crews from moving.
⭕ More updates on the Israeli Large-Scale operation against the West Bank:

– The army has launched a large-scale operation in the northern West Bank that will continue for weeks in Tulkarm and Jenin and other parts of the West Bank.

– The Israeli army is using helicopters and fighter jets extensively in its operation in the northern West Bank.

– Paratroopers landed in the City of Tubas to attack the Far’aa Refugee Camp.

– The operation launched by the army in the northern West Bank is the largest since Operation Defensive Shield in 2002.

– The army and security services prepared for the operation in the northern West Bank for weeks. The army has mobilized thousands of soldiers from special units in preparation for the large-scale operation in the northern West Bank.
⭕ ❗️Israeli media announces this invasion, which will reportedly involve thousands of soldiers and last for days, as the ‘largest military operation in the occupied West Bank since 2002.’

Yedioth Ahronoth reports that the army plans to evacuate a number of civilian neighborhoods in order to “deal” with the resistance.
⭕ Israeli Air Force carries out airstrikes on both Tulkarem and Tubas cities in the West Bank.

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ Binance @binance has proceeded with the outright seizure of all Palestinian crypto-currency wallets, including those living in the West Bank or Israel, after a formal request from Israel.

It’s irrational for a crypto-currency exchange to carry out such seizures without discernment or prior investigation. This sets a serious precedent that could be detrimental to the company, since no crypto wallets are safe on Binance.

We once dealt with Binance and realized from the very first contact that they were a bunch of crooks meeting all the criteria for this title.
⭕ Emergency NATO meeting on August 28, 2024, at Ukraine’s request.

Nothing seems to be going according to plan.
[Says it all by the one who called it. A de facto member..]
⭕ There was a time when the slightest stone thrown at Israel’s border led to massive air strikes on the country where the gesture took place. Those days are gone.

The Lebanese Hezbollah now strikes Israeli military sites within visual range every day with twin-tube anti-aircraft guns and mortar shells, with little concern for retaliation.

This is a major strategic shift. It means that whatever happens, someone will always hit Israel.

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ Urgent | Israeli Foreign Minister: We must deal with the threat in the West Bank like Gaza and implement a temporary evacuation of the population, as this is a war over everything
⭕️ Israeli media: Foreign Minister Israel Katz: The Palestinians must be temporarily evacuated from the West Bank and any required step taken “against the threat” there.
⭕ 🇷🇺💬Russia wants a more objective and clear expression of position from the IAEA — Maria Zakharova
[Perhaps the nazis shall pompously intone; “The Kursk NPP is confirmed to be controlled and manned by Russkies, unlike the Zaporizhzhya NPP!”]
⭕ 🇺🇦💥 The moment of an explosion in Krivoy Rog today
🐻Immediately switched to Russian after the explosion   |media|
[😂🤣 when the Fear of God arrives for the deviant nazis of this Earth, No Time for BS! The facial expression, roll of eyeballs, trampoline neck — all priceless]
⭕ 🇺🇦💬The Ukrainian energy system, following widespread damage, has been relying on emergency assistance from Slovakia and Poland for the second day in a row.

This was reported by Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy, noting that on August 28, power outage schedules will once again be introduced across the country for a full day.
⭕ 🇷🇺 The Russian National Guard destroyed a downed HIMARS missile in the Kursk region.

According to the agency, a fragment of the missile was found five kilometers from the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant. It was loaded with 180 unexploded submunitions. The warhead of the missile embedded itself in the ground.

The cluster munition was destroyed on-site with safety precautions.  |media|
[Mind-blowing. Cluster bombing a NPP with US precision weaponry! Some are eager to suicide the USA! Finish updating the nuclear doctrine and do let the Lotus and Lil Blinkie know! This retarded Empire does appear doomed. If this was the good old Soviets, there would already be a radioactive pit where CONUS used to be]

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel targets occupied West Bank, killing at least nine Palestinians: Israel deploys hundreds of soldiers and air force in an attack that its media described as biggest since 2002.
@Netanyahu’s 2d front
⭕ Israel wants to destroy the West Bank. @Netanyahu has 2 years to “finish the job”, jumping from one war to another to stay in power & end the Palestinian presence. He reduced #Gaza to an uninhabitable place, and now he is starting a similar plan in the West Bank
⭕ Israel is preparing a major operation in Jenin & the West Bank. It will destroy the infrastructure in specific camps to invite the resistance to retaliate and repeat in the West Bank the crimes and genocide committed in Gaza. It may also transfer Palestinians to “safe zones”.

💠 @BhadraPunchline:
⭕ 1/2 BIG NEWS from Tehran: Ayatollah Khamenei approves resumption of nuclear talks with US. This follows FM Abbas Araghchi’s calls EU-3 counterparts; Zarif’s return as Vice President
⭕ 2/2 Qatari FM’s visit to Tehran & Araghchi voices support for talks on Gaza deal to continue. Meanwhile, for all purposes, Iran’s retaliation against Israel will remain on hold. Chairman joint chiefs Gen. Brown signals chances of a regional war erupting have “somewhat” eased
[And that’s how pros do it. Make mollifying noises and dance rituals leading nowhere, to lower the heat on raving Barbarian Monkeys with Big Grenades, whilst calculating and timing the inevitable stiletto strike on little Zion]

LOL. How much pained projection by the good Admiral! << It is WE that are AUTHORIZED to terrorize mankind and lay the Seas waste and carry out environmental Catastrophes! >> He should save his breath. I can already hear the wicked Yemenis chortling over the slurs and abject pleas to save the environment and climate. Is this what the Mighty Empire is reduced to??!!

NB. Yemenis love fires, the bigger the merrier, especially on property of their foolish enemies. Note they turn the knife and forbid the vessel to be saved (all ship owners will note), and additionally humiliate USUK and further expose their lost power in the process. Very Bitter Days ahead for the demented and Genocide-friendly shippers

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ The house of citizen Adel Al-Salhi was destroyed by Israeli air strikes in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, for posting a status on X insulting Netanyahu.
The owner of the house survived and joined the resistance.
⭕️ Simultaneously with the difficulties faced by Chinese banks, 55 of which have simply disappeared, 94 US banks, including seven American financial giants, have all reported a ratio of uninsured deposits to total deposits of 50% or more.

One of these banks, BNY Mellon, reached 100% uninsured deposits.

It is followed by State Street Bank with 92.6% uninsured deposits and
Northern Trust with 73.9%.

Citibank had 72.5% uninsured deposits, HSBC Bank 69.8, JP Morgan Chase 51.7% and U.S. Bank 50.4%.

The first bank failure of 2024 involved Republic First Bank in Pennsylvania, which had 51.5% uninsured deposits.
[The civilizational-states will exhaust every possibility of averting Armageddon. With diplomacy largely exhausted, and the conventional war victories insufficient, will they activate economic collapse to paralyze the deranged? But that also appears insufficient, and already part of the satanic calculation. They would stagger on, like a zombie of the Apocalypse, still waging mayhem. Cyber war is another avenue, of which all three civilizational-states are potent, and the West is most vulnerable]
⭕ Unconfirmed information on the destruction of a US fighter jet in Syria. Verification in progress.
⭕ Preliminary information suggests an F-35A.
[Mission achieved with the released photos!?]
⭕️ A Turkish Air Force KC-135R tanker refueled a NATO E-3A AWACS aircraft over Romanian airspace on August 22 while it was monitoring southern Russia and Ukraine.

Türkiye is one of the main pillars of NATO.

💠 @imetatronink:
⭕ ‼️ “On paper” the US Navy has 11 aircraft carriers.

And yet, despite what is arguably the most geopolitically tense period since WW2, only TWO carriers are deployed — both of them positioned in the Gulf of Oman.

There are ZERO carriers deployed in the Pacific Ocean.
⭕ ‼️ Revealing Interview ‼️

Ward Carroll is primarily an #EmpirePropagandist. His interviews with RUSI’s Justin Bronk are consistently cringe-inducing.

But this short interview with Rear Admiral Marc Miguez in exceptionally revealing.
* RECOMMENDED *
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel is closing the road to Jenin camp in the West Bank and surrounding it. That is a war crime and a violation of the Geneva Convention
⭕ “Saraya Al-Quds” of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad announces the martyrdom of the resistance fighters: Osama Muwaffaq Arisha, Hussam Ziad Arisha, and Firas Hussein Qassem, assassinated in #Damascus, #Syria by an Israeli missile that hit their car.

💠 RT: “Zelensky claims Kiev tests first ballistic missile” – “The Ukrainian leader did not give details, but said he wanted the public to appreciate domestic defense producers”
☝️ So either repainted Soviet or Warsaw-pact missiles or more western crap renamed as UkroNazi! This will save neither the vassals nor USUK if those are used inside Russia.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Russia had banned entry to Wall Street Journal staff, as well as five New York Times and four Washington Post journalists, state news agency RIA reported

💠@Strategika51:
⭕ Pro-Syrian defense militias claim to have shot down a flying object over Deir Ezzor. Militiamen found debris and a parachute at the crash site.
[it was not an F-35. Drone??]
⭕ Sullivan’s mission 🇺🇸 to China 🇨🇳 ended in complete failure.

The U.S. National Security Advisor left in a huff, having been confronted by an impassive wall where not even the occasional sneer was to be found. Sullivan merely reiterated that the United States has an obligation to defend its allies in the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans. Following their established habits, the Chinese received him, listened and thanked him, showing him the way to the plane without saying a word.
On the plane, Sullivan condemned China’s “destabilizing actions” in many parts of the world.

Did he know that the Chinese were not at all happy?
⭕ An unidentified member of the Chinese CP is said to have said something to Sullivan, between two sessions, that made him very uncomfortable.

Since the Chinese aren’t very talkative, we had to wait for a Weibo account close to the government in Beijing to get a few snippets: “How can a country with such prestigious universities as Harvard, Stanford, Yale or MIT, factories of young elites, only afford to have a Trump or Biden or two closed clans taking turns…? Where have your elites gone Mr. Sullivan?”

That’s what a banana republic is all about 🍌…
[LOL! If true. Sadly, I doubt the Chinese would say this. Why interrupt an epic suicide in motion?]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇻🇪🌍🌍🌍 Venezuelan top diplomat says country currently “on orbit” of BRICS

“We may say that Venezuela is inside BRICS… Our ministers are taking part in the BRICS conferences, we participate in commissions, meetings of heads of the foreign ministries… We are on the orbit of BRICS, we are working,” Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil told the national La Iguana TV broadcaster in an interview.

Earlier in August, Gil said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had received an invitation to attend the next BRICS summit, which will take place in the Russian city of Kazan in October.

Venezuela announced its BRICS bid in 2023, with Maduro saying that the Latin American country expected to join the group at the BRICS summit in Russia in October 2024.
[As sung by my fav lip-syncers Boney M, “Those Russians!” Was it all dust in our eyes, and that there WILL be new entrants in about six weeks??]

💠 @Seyed Mohammad Marandi:
⭕ Zionist soldiers wearing the undergarments of their female victims and standing beside the beheaded doll of a child.

These are the genocidal monsters that Western journalists, diplomats, and elites are desperately trying to protect and empower
⭕️ This is not #Gaza.

Many Palestinians in the occupied West Bank will be massacred by Zionists today.
⭕ Filthy Zionists celebrating the murder of a Palestinian civilian.

The collective West is a full partner in the #GazaHolocaust. The collective West is your enemy  |media|
⭕ 1- Telegram doesn’t support human rights or free speech. Like Meta and Twitter, it has suppressed pro-Resistance and anti-genocide voices. It’s also cooperating with the UAE, a regime that polices social media.

Nevertheless, Pavel Durov’s arrest exposes Western hypocrisy.  |media|
⭕ Watch the sheer evil of Zionism.

Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Britain, France, Germany, the rest of the EU, and the US are all barbaric and Satanic regimes that are equal partners in the #GazaHolocaust |media|
⭕ As we slept last night, the French backed #GazaHolocaust continued.

The children…

Imagine the fate of 8 Billion ostensibly in hands of characters named Kamala the Lotus, Little Blinkie, Sully and Lord Raytheon! We’re in the Denouement of the Apocalypse and these orifices function as representatives of one side… some ensured a Reset will be in the works!

And imagine after the message of Gaza that Turks, Egyptians and desert Bedouins continue to piddle little boys and graze grass. What does it say about their survival instinct, and what comes next to them, per Father Niemöller’s dictum?

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ retweet:
Legendary Merkava!!! Israeli tank graveyard, a significant number attacked by resistance forces in Gaza!   |media|

💠 @imetatronink:
⭕ My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
⭕ ‼️ USS Truman CSG Said to Deploy Soon

@ianellisjones is an excellent follow if you want to keep close track on naval deployments. I don’t always agree with his interpretations and perspectives, but he is one of my favorite follows  |media|
⭕ 🎯
Response to:  “The Russians will advance when there is no longer a Ukrainian army standing in front of them. 🤷🏼‍♂️”

☝️“Houthis’ own backyard” was meant as a measured plea, but was a mistake, a telling Freudian slip.
Who said, “Paint it Black?” Yemenis prefer the fire ball. Fires move the human psyche in incalculable ways, being most eloquently primal. A stacked function message indeed. And not only to the demented overt enemies (“Got Energy,” EU?), but the local kept Oil Haciendas who need to live in the neighborhood going forward..

He makes several excellent points, observing the eagle’s view of the current stand-off in the Holy Land:

1. Zion initially counted on threats of invasion to halt Hezbollah, and on the US Navy for the Houthis, and Air Force the Iraqis and Iran. However none of that brought relief
2. Now it has hunkered down in defense mode, and redoubled the mass murder of Palestinians (opening campaign against West Bank) to invite the inevitably coming invasions from every quadrant.

This fits the MO of aggressors who wish to dress themselves as defensive victims, ie. Pearl Harbor or 911-type setups. Think of it as The Holocaust Industry on steroids. Pax Judaica requires this invasion on itself to be born and to justify the even more terrible deeds it intends to do, otherwise indefensible during the post-West Order.

Armageddon will be stoked, come Hell or Highwater.

The center was lost long ago. A dead system persists on inertia.. Will the US deplorables be told when their criminal elite have been decapitated? Or will they learn through wafting foul odor??

☝️ “what more can you expect from the Americans?” 🤣 😂 Ah Red Ryder, if yea merely had the discernment of Little Red Riding Hood! Carry on with the Manly Monitoring and Situational ASSessing!

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ The United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 cancels a US$20 billion contract with France 🇫🇷 because of Durov 🇷🇺 🇫🇷 🇦🇪 🇰🇳.

The diplomatic fallout from the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov continues to worsen. The United Arab Emirates has decided to cancel its $20 billion contract with France for 80 Dassault Rafale fighter jets. The decision follows Durov’s brief detention by French authorities, a move that has strained relations between the UAE and France, despite Durov’s release on bail. It seems that Arabs value personal relationships above all else, and don’t take kindly to betrayal or letting down a guest. Durov is close friends with the son of the United Arab Emirates’ most powerful emir, and they now perceive Macron as a phony capable of doing anything, even against his own interests.

Doctorow is unduly alarmist with the specific scenario.

• Klintsevich appears hysterical!
• Decapitation of Russia is not possible without suicide.
• The two Aircraft carriers are in the upper Indian Ocean, even further away from key parts of Russia than East Med. They appear slotted for the Iranian Drang.
• Alaudinov doesn’t lie or sugar coat.
• More measured MILITARY pros such as Smoothie detail the unholy grind going on – so what if the loons inserted another 5-7k fodder?? It sped up denazification and demilitarization. Thanks!
• Sorry, but you remember I’ve never trusted Doctorow since our early Cafe days..

The Truth of Kursk appears half way between the Cassandras and the Pollyannas..

The difficulty dislodging the suicide squad from Kursk has been apparent from day one — Pepe spoke of it in his last interview above (w/ Nima). It has been mostly due to terrain and small dispersed units nature of the nazis, that Russians insisted on NOT bringing in the heavy forces from main front or reserves, and they wanted to maintain an open firebag to oblige and bleed NATO. Both sides take risks for very different reasons…

We discussed it weeks ago, that from supranational nazi alliance POV, Kursk WAS a victory of sorts, hugging Russia even tighter and heightening risk to sensitive sites, by the already condemned. Ukie losses are irrelevant to them, like playing with house money. The US may not win wars, but once it occupies land, a titanium tapeworm may have a looser grip on the soft bowel. And it appears the retarded will give their nazis the verboten long range weapons, and whence used then?? And with what “upgrades”?

The issue is not the USA’s direct attack, but their continuing delusional belief they can use the UkroNazi proxy full throated without repercussion – again slapped down by Lavrov.

This appears the main hesitation/weakness with both Russia and Iran — knowing the Zionist gameplan to detonate Armageddon — they avoid kinetic contact with USA at any cost. But this CANNOT be maintained indefinitely in face of unending provocations and increasingly dire escalations.

And we know zionazis need to suicide USUK to birth the NWO – so they will keep prodding and maneuvering them until obtain the desired response from Russia.

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t!!

So, within parameters of what IS in their power, Russia and the West Asian Resistance have the identical race: can they attrit the nominally sane opposing militaries (US / the IDF) into surrender due to running out of manpower, means and failing hearts, or will the messianic behind both scenes obtain the final opening to escalate to Armageddon. It is a close call atm on both theatres.

** History informs “the passion of the worst” is usually decisive, overcoming the peacemakers. **

We agree with the general pessimistic drift of the confrontation, but a knockout blow from NATO ain’t coming, nor maybe consequential infrastructure terrorism bringing the desired nuclear escalation. So what’s left?? I feel like I’m watching that horrible reoccurring scene in The Deer Hunter with the broken Vietnam vet playing Russian Roulette..

The devils are cunning, persistent and fully immersed in the detail. Perhaps such massive civilian losses as Gaza has suffered… a sizable city like Rostov or Sevastopol.. that may do the trick. Maybe this will get them over the hump.

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ A strike was carried out on the port in Odessa, where foreign mercenaries responsible for receiving Western equipment were located, according to a source cited by RIA Novosti.
⭕ The Israeli military is intensifying its terrorist large-scale operation against the cities of Jenin, Tulkarm, and Tubas [in West Bank (WB)].

– The occupation actions involve extensive vandalism of streets, damage to infrastructure, and the demolition of homes.

– Earlier this morning, the Tulkarm Battalion reported that its commander, “Abu Shujaa’,” along with four other fighters, were martyred in a prolonged battle with Israeli special forces and border guards.

– The Israeli forces are rotating units and sending reinforcements throughout the day to both Jenin and Tulkarm, while the intensity of the fighting in Tubas has decreased, with fewer forces present in the city.

– In response, Palestinian resistance factions have announced a wide range of operations against the invading troops, including close-quarters combat and the detonation of improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
⭕ EU foreign ministers agreed not to recognize Maduro as the democratically elected president of Venezuela, Borrell stated.
[you know, one benefit of Armageddon will be to stop hearing from the irrelevant bloviations of these possessed crazies] 
⭕ ❗️ ‘Zelensky and Umerov to arrive in US tomorrow to provide Biden administration with list of targets in Russia’ – CNN
[the banality with which Armageddon is discussed by CNN…]
⭕ In a new IDF attack, 9 dead, including children, as a result of the IDF bombing three apartments in the Al-Salihi residential building in Nusseirat camp, central Gaza Strip.

Among the dead was a fetus and his dead mother, pictured with his sister and his mother.
[photos omitted. The daily offering of 30-100 Palestinians well in hand]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Preliminary reports indicate a missile attack on the U.S. base in the Conoco oil field in Syria.
⭕ Al-Mayadeen officially confirms that 6 Hezbollah drones successfully struck the Headquarters of the IDF’s ‘Unit 8200’, the ‘Glilot’ base near Tel Aviv, during Operation Arbaeen

According to Al-Mayadeen, immediately after the drones struck, the IDF imposed an emergency security perimeter around the base to prevent any access of journalists. This was confirmed by independent sources inside the Israeli entity.

Unit 8200 is the IDF intelligence unit responsible for clandestine operations, intelligence and counter-intelligence, and is a subordinate of ‘Aman’, the Israeli Military Intelligence. The unit was responsible for planning the assassination of Hezbollah commander Fouad Shokr in Beirut.
[this is the op a few days ago with 320 or 340 Katyushas + drones..]
⭕ Al-Mayadeen correspondent in Beirut: ‘If people think that the Israelis will be honest and simply admit the success of the operation, and they don’t believe in the huge military censorship that goes on within the entity, they are very gullible’
‘The Arbaeen operation was a total success in what it aimed to achieve; punishing those directly responsible for the murder of Shaheed Fouad Shokr. But the Israelis will never admit this.’
⭕ A couple of hours ago, bombs were seen being detonated by Palestinian factions to stop IDF vehicles within the city of Jenin, as clashes between Palestinian fighters and elements of the IDF intensify in the city.
[this is WB]
⭕ Initial reports suggest that Israeli forces are withdrawing from Tulkarm, West Bank, nearly 45 hours after the start of the operation.
[to pace and save themselves, they’ll do what is being done to Gaza – constant entry/exit rampages to seek and destroy as much as possible in a short time. WB is much larger. But they lack the tunnels and arms…]

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ For the first time since 1945, the US Navy has almost completely abandoned the Pacific and Indian Oceans to focus on the Middle East. Pentagon officials describe the situation as very serious.
⭕ China 🇨🇳 condemns Israel’s military operation in the West Bank at the Security Council.
[even the GCC, busy bankrolling and cheering on the proceedings, openly “condemn.” Words are cheap at this point…]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ Wake up, Sal. It’s a war. And you may regard them as primitive savages, or whatever. But the Yemeni clearly “know what they are doing”.

They have made themselves the gatekeepers of the Suez and the Bab-el-Mandeb, and chased a US carrier strike group from the Red Sea. |Sal & Will THREAD|
⭕ Sal, I like you. You seem like a good guy. You provide a lot of good content. But your persistent naïveté is embarrassing, and your American exceptionalist blind spot has severely impaired your capacity to see things through the eyes of the other people on this planet.

One man’s “terrorist” is another man’s “freedom fighter”.

The US and its vassals have been making war against Yemen for a decade. They have killed uncounted thousands. And yet the Yemeni somehow prevailed, notwithstanding the odds were stacked so high against them.

As for the term “gatekeeper”, that is exactly what the Yemeni have become. Blockades are a routine feature of war. And the Yemeni have imposed a selective blockade of the Red Sea — a very punishing blockade for those nations they regard as their enemies, including the United States.

Perhaps even more impressively, the Yemeni have now shot down at least 9 American MQ-9 Reaper drones.

You may choose to denigrate them as mere “terrorists”, but Ansarullah is clearly a professional military organization, engaged in conventional military activities.

You take exception to my having said the Yemeni “chased an American carrier strike group” out of the Red Sea. You disingenuously assert the US Navy simply chose not to take their mission seriously, their attention span waned, and they wandered away in a fit of boredom.

That is demonstrably false.

As the commander of the strike group, Rear Adm. Marc Miguez, makes perfectly clear in the short interview linked below, the CSG was under nearly incessant fire during its entire stay in the Red Sea. They were constantly forced to aggressively maneuver to avoid strikes; had several close calls, and (most importantly) THEY WERE FORCED TO RUN AWAY BECAUSE THEIR AMMUNITION MAGAZINES WERE EXHAUSTED!

The Yemeni proved capable of seriously menacing the strike group, methodically attrited its munitions, and because of the very real risk of having defenseless ships struck, damaged, or sunk, THEY WERE COMPELLED TO RUN AWAY!

This is the plain and simple truth of what happened over the course of the protracted battle. So you can vainly attempt to mitigate that reality by calling the Yemeni “terrorists” and pretend all they have done is shoot at defenseless mariners, but that is a gross distortion of what REALLY happened.

And, lest this additional realization eludes you: if the lowly Yemeni have been able to chase away the mighty US Navy, you can be certain Iran, Russia, and China would pose FAR GREATER threats to mythical US naval supremacy

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇧🇾On August 30th Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko turns 70. Here are some of his legendary quotes:
🔸️It’s better to be a dictator than to be gay
🔸️If you drink every day – don’t vote for me, I won’t be friends with such people.
🔸️They say that I have a double working for me… Feel me up occasionally
🔸️We don’t need a democracy with all the noise. We need a democracy where a person works, gets a decent salary to buy bread, milk, sour cream, cottage cheese, sometimes a piece of meat to feed a child and so on.
🔸️Take the shovel and dig, if you don’t dig – it means that today you’ll stay hungry.
🔸️My remaining hair stood on end when I learned about the state of affairs in the economy.
🔸️I don’t pressure you. You decide. But it will be as I told you!
🔸️Ordinary official, where did you get the money?! You don’t milk cows. Your mother does not raise a herd of sheep or bulls, you did not sell them. Where?!
🔸️You can’t butter your bread with dollar
🔸️How you treat nature and animals is how your life will turn out
🔸️When it comes to lesbians, I don’t blame them. It’s our fault, mine and yours. We underperformed.
🔸️Everything will be ok. Sometimes it will even be good.
⭕️ 🇷🇺🇺🇳🔥 “It is the United States that bears the main responsibility for what is happening in Gaza right now.  If the rest of my colleagues lack the courage to say this to your face, I have no such problem.”

Deputy Ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, SLAMS the U.S. at a Security Council meeting, accusing Washington of being responsible for the tragedy in Gaza and urging them to stop interfering with efforts to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.​  |media|
⭕ 🎥 (A message from Yemen to the American)
We made it simple for the American in his language so he understands it well.
Game over.  |media|

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕️ US intelligence provided Ukraine with satellite images of the Kursk region from the start of its invasion

“We made available commercial imagery through a portal called G-EGD,” Frank Whitworth, Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, told the Intelligence and National Security Summit.

“The availability of the commercial industry is sustained,” Whitworth said. “If that is what they are using for purposes of this particular campaign in Kursk, then I will refer to them to confirm that, but the availability is always there.”

Since the start of the offensive, the US and UK have provided Ukraine with satellite imagery and other information about the Kursk region, the New York Times claimed based on comments by two unidentified ‘officials’.

The Kremlin regards Western countries’ assistance to Ukraine as evidence of their direct involvement in the conflict.

“Many countries of the so-called collective West have already got into this conflict up to their ears,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.  |media|

💠 @ Dmitry_Medvedev: 
⭕ Why are Kyiv neo-Nazis so eager to take back Donbass, which is completely alien to them? Why are they desperately supported in this by all the rabid animals who guard the Western world today: from Biden’s half-dead dog to the insignificant homunculi standing by a stinking trough in the so-called Baltics? The reason is banal: they need money. Cash – or money, in other words. And for Zelensky’s criminal clique, which has stolen to smithereens, which has led the economy of a dying country to disaster, but which will have to pay the bills of the sponsors of the bloody massacre, and for the sponsors themselves, parasitizing on the decaying body of Ukraine. The latter have spent a lot on someone else’s war, which irritates the peoples of their countries. So, a payback is needed. The issue is not about a sick cocaine boy in a dirty green T-shirt. The boy will soon be gone, but the debt will remain. And it must be repaid with interest.

However, the empty coffers of the neo-Nazi state will not fill up by themselves. Its patrons understand this perfectly well. Their goal is not to benefit the unfortunate Ukrainian people, whom they have never cared about. Access to mineral resources is what can compensate for the flows of irretrievable money that are melting right before our eyes in the process of endless theft by Kyiv’s corrupt scum.

What to do? We need to find the source. And it has been found! Think about it: according to open sources, the total value of Ukraine’s mineral resource base is estimated at almost $14.8 trillion. At the same time, $7.3 trillion comes from the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics . That is, almost half of the national wealth of the former Ukraine is Donbass ! Another $821 billion is estimated at the resources of Crimea, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, which have returned to Russia. All this is almost 63% of the coal deposits of the former Ukraine, 42% of metal deposits and 33% of rare earth and other important materials, including lithium.

And in the lands of the Bandera Westerners there are resources worth only $723 billion, which does not exceed 5% of all reserves.

Therefore, what was lost by the neo-Nazi regime must be returned at any cost! The lives of ordinary Ukrainians do not matter. That is the entire cynical interest of the green meat and hairy dung flies from the Anglo-Saxon world.

In order to gain the coveted access to mineral resources, Western parasites shamelessly demand that their protégés wage war to the last Ukrainian. They are already openly and shamelessly voicing such plans. Like, the debts will have to be paid very soon. Hurry up, conscious ones! The bosom buddy of the former Ukraine, the fat toilet maggot Senator Graham, recently called Ukrainian mineral resources “critically important, [they] will be used by both it and the West in the event of its victory.” Well, quite sincerely, without fuss!

Western corpse-eaters can continue to pour endless funds into their Kyiv bastards and reap their sad harvest. But the fact remains: the economic foundation of Ukrainian statehood has been undermined. The resource base illegally obtained by Bandera’s creatures at the end of the 20th century has returned to their native country. There is nothing left to parasitize on. The abundant Western aid will soon end for quite prosaic reasons. There is very little of our own left. And then there is only rapid decomposition and inevitable collapse…

💠 @Seyed Mohammad Marandi:
⭕ Zionists murdered this young girl in an airstrike this morning.

From Australia to Canada, Western media is desperately trying to demonize the victims and the Resistance as well as normalize the #GazaHolocaust
⭕ This is not #Gaza.

Over the past 2 days Zionist forces have murdered 17 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

The Western backed genocide is expanding
⭕Thanks to Ansar Allah, this is the fate of ships moving towards Israeli ports. The Zionist regime’s economy is collapsing, and it will never recover.
[The last torched ship, of which General Ryder above whined so pathetically. But I think the death of the prior fake economy of Zion is irrelevant.. The Moshiach has planned cruelly for this day of his children becoming besieged and total pariahs.. where did all that gold in Fort Knox, NYC, London and trillions in interest and plunder go?? Wealth has been vacuumed on earth on unprecedented scale. Waiting for economic collapse is a losing game. So Legion will still need to be expunged, to the last nazi.]
⭕ As we slept last night, the unforgivable Western backed #GazaHolocaust continued.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ US was not notified in advance about Israel’s operations in West Bank, Pentagon says

“We were not notified about operations in the West Bank,” Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said during a press briefing.

Earlier in the day, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced the completion of its “counterterrorism operation” in the Far’a area of the West Bank. The operations involved the destruction of an “armed terrorist cell inside a vehicle” and the discovery of an explosives laboratory and operations center in a local mosque, where weapons, explosive devices, and military equipment were found, according to the IDF.

Eleven people were killed, and 26 others injured as a result of the Israeli military’s actions in the West Bank, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Thursday.
[up to this point in History, this may be the most cowardly Empire of all… one that has never even dared declare itself one, and since its satanic mission is against All Mankind, additionally never dares acknowledge its sea of crimes. And neither will save the Liars for Nemesis has docked..]
⭕ 📌 Main world events by the morning of August 30:
🟠 The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of 18 Ukrainian UAVs overnight: 11 over the Bryansk region, four over the Kaluga region, two over Crimea, and one over the Belgorod region;

🟠 Putin awarded the President of Belarus the Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle the First-Called;

🟠 The Director General of the IAEA stressed the necessity of avoiding a nuclear accident at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant at all costs ahead of his visit to the site next week;
[“Do it AFTER my visit!” Another zionazi paper-pusher]

🟠 The US’ escalation course is becoming increasingly provocative. The US is apparently preparing to give Kiev the green light to use practically any weapons, including those deep within Russian territory, stated Maria Zakharova, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman;
⭕ 📹 The first minutes following another Israeli strike on a residential neighborhood in the Gaza Strip, with a drone’s view of the region |media|
⭕ 🇷🇺 Kiev apparently given carte blanche for operations in Russian regions, Russian MFA says

🇺🇸 Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said on Thursday that the US allows Ukraine to counterattack Russia with US weapons during the terrorist attack in the Kursk region.

White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby said Monday that the United States and Ukraine will continue having conversations concerning the allowed use of US-supplied weapons for striking Russian territory, but those discussions will remain private.

💬 “Extremely serious conclusions follow from all this. Ukraine has been given complete carte blanche for operations in Russian regions. Moreover, the Joe Biden administration is obviously preparing to make new concessions to [Volodymyr] Zelensky and untie his hands to use virtually any type of American weapons, including deep into Russian territory,” said Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

📈 She added that the US escalation course is becoming increasingly provocative.

💠@Africa Intel:
⭕ 🇱🇾 Libya’s oil output falls more than half due to political standoff

More than half of Libya’s oil production, or about 700,000 barrels per day, was offline on Thursday and exports were halted at several ports as a standoff between rival political factions over the central bank and oil revenue threatens to end a four-year period of relative peace.

The crisis over control of the Central Bank of Libya threatens a new bout of instability in the country, a major oil producer that is split between eastern and western factions.

Ports in Libya’s hydrocarbon-rich Oil Crescent – Es Sidra, Brega, Zueitina and Ras Lanuf – halted export operations on Thursday, two engineers at the ports said.

Four vessels had loaded 600,000 barrels of oil each in the eastern region that accounts for the bulk of the country’s exports – two at Es Sidra, one at Brega and one at Zueitina – and departed earlier on Thursday, the engineers said.
[More of Europe’s energy supplies going offline, even before detonation of the Persian Gulf… self-inflicted through the NATO obliteration of Gaddafi’s stable arrangements.. how’s the karma of Chaos working out??]
⭕ 🇫🇷🇳🇪 French nuclear giant slips into the red following Niger-French breakup

French nuclear giant Orano ended the first half of the year with a loss of €133 million, weighed down by difficulties in its mining activities in Niger due to a “highly degraded” political context since a military regime came to power a year ago.

The coup in Niger on 26 July last year led to a halt in imports of critical materials necessary for uranium exploitation in Orano’s Somaïr mine, such as soda ash, carbonate, nitrates and sulphur.

And although uranium extraction continued in the first quarter of 2024 “after several months of early maintenance,” Somaïr’s sales were unable to resume “due to a lack of logistics solutions approved by the Niger authorities”.

In late June, Niger decided to withdraw the licence of Imouraren SA, a company jointly operated by Orano, Niger Mining and Korea Electric Power, and which ran the Somaïr mine.

The situation could eventually lead to “insolvency in the short to medium term, in the coming months”, Claverie said.
[and more harbingers of Dark Winters…]

given parts of my childhood, maybe I have Mexican genes!

💠The Cradle:
⭕ “Israeli ministers vote to keep troops on Egypt–Gaza border in blow to ceasefire talks”
⭕ A Zionazi Vice roy is named for the indefinite occupation of Gaza

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇮🇷 Commander of the Iranian Army Air Defense Force:

We detect & monitor every enemy stealth aircraft from miles away. We are among the most prepared armed forces in the world right now.

Considering the threats from global arrogance, we have upgraded/advanced our defense capabilities ahead of them.

We are closely monitoring Israel.
[the price for setting Iran back will be total. A guaranteed murder-suicide of the combined West, for the cascade will build towards completion of Armageddon. Thereafter they will wander the wilderness in perpetuity, the tiny survivors becoming irrelevant waifs like the modern descendants of the Mongols or Assyrians or Babylonians.. So the zionazi Parasite must time it perfectly. They’ll get only one shot at it. Then an entire Paradigm will be discarded in the Trashbin of History]

What fascinates me is the bullishness expressed by both Sal and the US Navy. There is more to the refusal to see reason.

Recall the statement by the traumatized Rear-Admiral: we requested STRONGER rules of engagement against Yemen, which were (at that time) denied for higher political reasons. A despairing request such as once asked by MacArthur of Truman for Korea??

Now we know the criminals in Whitehall and its derivatives are no less bellicose, indeed pen-pushers tend to be vastly greater warmongers.. so the delay and calculation have to do with TIMING and PRIORITY. Russia hasn’t bit the nuclear escalation apple in Europe, and Yemen’s not the priority.

Iran remains the bête noire, the main and first target of the gadgets. They won’t send it first on already leveled arabs, who have the lesser capability and tech and power anyhow. And they may not get a second chance for Iran, given entangling global alliances.

Prophecy informs Iran will get it first, then the others.. note the only two deployed carrier battle groups on the Seven Seas are currently swimming distance off Iran.

They could be the sacrificial goats sent to justify what comes; they could be carrying first strike packages, along with the subs and other platforms in the region. Either way, they were willfully sent in harm’s way on their very last missions, even AFTER Yemen exposed their era had been brought to a close…

Pharaoh’s Indian Ocean Chariots

☝️ WB. Now the real battle begins. I am not a military guy, but amazing prophesies were similarly forecast for the Palestinians on this front. They will likely withdraw or be annihilated en toto on the WB, but they will hold the line on the EAST Bank of the the River Jordan…

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ China has launched a CERES-1 carrier from the sea near Shandong province, placing six satellites in orbit around the Earth.

This is the third sea launch by Beijing-based private company Galactic Energy, which carries remote sensing satellites for commercial customers.  |media|
⭕ In Ukraine, things will start to change when Kiev bans Russian oil from passing through its territory. In the last two years, not a single strike has affected the pipelines carrying Russian oil to Central European countries via Ukraine. There seems to be an unspoken compromise between kyiv and Moscow, but this may change in October 2024.
⭕ Experts say no one knows where the servers used by the Telegram app are located.
[I bet Medvedev and Patrushev know! LOL]
⭕ US TOW anti-tank missiles introduced by the Jordanian regime to Syrian rebels in Deraa province in southern Syria during the war against Syria and discovered in April 2020.

Bottom: December 2023 Weapons from Syria and Iran, including RPG-22 anti-armor launchers, RPO launchers and 107 mm rockets that the Jordanian regime prevented from being smuggled into the West Bank. The young and very young Palestinian resistance fighters of Tulkaram, Tubas and Jenin in the northern West Bank are now paying the ultimate price, dying defenseless against the barbaric Zionist hordes.

A double standard.
⭕ As a reminder, American TOW missiles smuggled in with the CIA by the Jordanian regime during the years of war against Syria were used by Syrian rebels against the Syrian army and to destroy and target Syrian air defense sites and radars in the Golan Heights to weaken Syria against Israel. In particular, the rebels destroyed a Chinese-made JYL-1 tracking and early warning radar for Syrian air defense to enable Israeli air attacks.

In Syria, the world discovered that the Islamist rebels were working hand in hand with Zionism, and this did not please the empire’s propaganda.
[In latest Dune 2 movie, at the end, when the major houses of the Empire war on each other and use atomics, the AntiChrist leads the “terrorist” factions. Predictive programming]
⭕ Israeli military analyst Alon Ben-David on Maariv:

“In the days of my distant youth, somewhere in the previous millennium, the disaster movie genre flourished in the cinema, the plot of these films was clear, a bunch of familiar actors who find themselves in a place where a catastrophe is about to happen, a tower on fire, a plane that has lost its engines, a ship on its way to the depths, it was clear to the audience from the first moment that the catastrophe was inevitable, and they would just try to guess which of their favorite actors would finish the film alive and which would not. Who believed then, in the 1970s and 1980s, when we still went to the cinema to watch disasters, that one day we’d all be actors in a disaster movie…. But most Israelis continue to act as if they’re watching, not realizing that they themselves are taking part in the film, are outraged to hear every day of more fallen fighters in a war that will never end, and keep going as they watch our country hurtle towards the abyss, as if we were on the outside of a car about to crash.”
⭕ The Great Shark Strategy: The United States “Offers” the Philippines Military Escort for its Ships in the South China Sea.

Once bellicose, always bellicose…
⭕ MacArthur’s spirit has never disappeared.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️The Russian Tsentr (Center) battlegroup liberated the settlements of Orlovka, Kamyshevka, Nikolayevka, and Novozhelannoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) within a week, country’s MoD reports

The Yug (South) battlegroup freed Konstantinovka [named after Constantine and Constantinople, also the favored palace of last Romanovs, built by Peter I in St. Petersburg – see preceding time capsule] DPR, and the Zapad (West) battlegroup liberated Stelmakhovka in the Lugansk People’s Republic and Sinkovka in the Kharkov region.
⭕ 🇵🇸 📹 The death toll from the Israeli military operation in the West Bank has risen to 19, the Palestinian Health Ministry said

Videos from social media show the aftermath of the military operation in some areas of the West Bank.   |media|
⭕ 💉 🇨🇩 In the next few days, the first shipment of mpox vaccines is anticipated to reach the DR Congo, according to the head of the World Health Organization

“We hope to have the first delivery in the next few days,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva.
[Yes. This belongs in the Apocalypse thread!]

it is interesting the unusual calamities besetting the Sahelian Juntas, Sudan and Yemen all at once. Biblical type flooding. Unusual rains, but also ruptured dams.. who has HAARP, sabotage ability of such critical infrastructure, and a millennial history of Totalen Krieg to submit recalcitrant foes?? These were already among poorest lands on earth, most plagued by civil wars (stirred by you know who), and with limited margins.. now entire villages swept away and also crumbling the already tenuous food security due to drowned crops. I recall the prophesy that the AntiChrist will control the Weather and starve those who do not submit.. the End Times is a bitter time

☝️💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🌍🇷🇺 African countries have not yet asked Russia for help in adopting any document in the UN Security Council regarding Kiev’s support of terrorists in the Sahel, the first deputy permanent representative of Russia to the UN says

“They have not contacted us about any document yet. I believe that the statement by Mali’s representative was powerful and self-explanatory. In my opinion, at this stage, it is sufficient, and we will monitor the situation as it develops,” Dmitry Polyansky told the Russian media.

🇲🇱 Earlier on Friday, Issa Konfourou, Mali’s Permanent Representative to the UN, declared at a UNSC meeting that a significant part of weapons supplied by the West to Ukraine are ending up in the Sahel region, contributing to increased crime and terrorism.

“We requested to participate in this meeting to express our serious concerns about the consequences of weapons deliveries to Ukraine. It was clearly established that a significant portion of the weapons sent to Ukraine ultimately fuels terrorism and crime in the Sahel region. This risks further destabilization of the situation,” he said.

💠 @imetatronink:
⭕ John Helmer Interview

I just finished watching John Helmer @bears_with interviewed on The Duran (linked below).

As some may be aware, John and I engaged in a somewhat acrimonious exchange the other day.

I confess I do not follow Helmer closely, although I have read several of his Dances with Bears articles over the years.

In my view, Helmer is an interesting source when it comes to things he actually knows about. But, as was confirmed yet again to me by this most recent interview, I think Helmer often veers off into subject matter where his actual knowledge is limited, and where his prejudices lead him to false interpretations.

I also believe, as I wrote a few days ago, that he often embellishes rumors, and fallaciously appeals to the imagined authority of unreliable sources within Russia.

Helmer is like a great many Russians and Russophiles who tend to have a very narrow perspective on the hard realities of the geopolitical complexities of our day. This typically manifests itself in what I regard as misconceived and unwarranted criticism of Vladimir Putin.

I have written on this topic several times over the past few years.

As it pertains to the most recent controversy over the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk region, Helmer believes the Russian military was largely cognizant of the AFU buildup in Sumy, and desired to act preemptively, but that their hands were tied by Putin’s shortsightedness and reluctance to act boldly and decisively against both Ukraine and its NATO allies.

Helmer consistently paints a picture of Putin’s alleged ineptitude, indecisiveness, and vacillations hamstringing the Russian high command. He appears to believe Putin is a weak character who will always be inclined to yield to western pressure and intimidation, and that he will ultimately lead Russia into a resolution of this war that leaves Russia’s proclaimed objectives unfulfilled.

In my view, this is utter nonsense.

I address this topic at some length in my late December 2022 article entitled In for A Pound (https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/in-for-a-pound).

I also expand upon these concepts in Part 2 of my analysis of Tucker Carlson’s interview of Vladimir Putin in February 2024 (https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/the-vladimir-putin-interview-part-209).

Indeed, it is this latter article that most directly addresses what I consider to be Helmer’s misconceptions and misinterpretations in relation to Vladimir Putin. I am confident Helmer will refuse to read either of my articles linked above, but I recommend them to the rest of you.

I remain convinced this war will be decided on the battlefield, and that Russia will dictate hard terms to the west and the remnant of the hapless Ukrainians who chose to destroy their own people in service to the rapidly crumbling Anglo-American empire.
[These two have a serious feud.. but Will has some valid points.

Helmer is a “conspiracist” like some of us here, and can get ahead of himself. Most glaringly, there is a contradiction within his last two interviews: he says Putin is vacillating and sabotaging the General Staff almost singlehandedly here, yet in the Gorilla radio show said the western pundits have a silly caricature of Putin being a Tyrant who runs things singlehandedly but Russia really has a capable stavka which works a potent consensus! You cannot have both.

Even remote, attentive and honest Russia watchers can tell the latter characterization is more approximate.. so Helmer has curious gaps and foibles, or perhaps he’s just embellishing the stew through rhetorical flourish. I can’t tell not knowing him or Russian politics well enough.

History and the existential War underway both inform Putin is highly unlikely to be micro managing or running the war off the hip given the terrible Enemy and high subspecialization and professionalism of modern war]

☝️WB ethnic cleansing in progress. Exodus or Annihilation

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ Incredible but true! “Help us feed Israeli soldiers at the Lebanon border”. No comment!
🔸️C1: I’m going to make a donation, almas rpg sauce, garnished with a molotov cocktail sauce.
[Why are we not surprised, that zionazi elite are stiffing and stealing from their troops the way UkroNazis do in 404? Perhaps the saner elements similarly fleece the near-terminal outpost, while they still can, and prepare to jet off to the Garden!]
⭕ US-made HIMARS rockets hit a highway in the Russian oblast of Belgorod. At least one car is destroyed. The driver of the vehicle, who is filming the scene, continues on his way, not even turning off his radio.  |media|

Russia is helping Iran ensure the coming atomics use of the demented will be a murder-suicide. The last measure of spite of the Last Satanic Empire leading to total loss of hegemony and position worldwide

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇧🇷❗️The Supreme Court of Brazil has ordered the immediate suspension of the social network X (Twitter) in the country due to its refusal to appoint a company representative in the country.
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦New footage of yesterday’s Ukrainian Armed Forces strike on Belgorod  |media|
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦The attack on Belgorod left 46 people injured, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.

Previously, it was known that five people were killed and 37 were injured.

With US Diplomacy expired and in cold storage, Burns (CIA) speaks for State in West Asia, and Sully (electioneer-gopher) in East Asia. The Shame! They’ve sent the last working carrier group in the Pacific to Iran, and really do try to delay aggression against China… BUT. They’re certifiably insane. China knows the crazies are all in. Somethings brewing in their theatre too

For sure, their pet ISIS didn’t bomb the Big Satan! An Empire of Illusions & Lies. Can Illusions and Lies win kinetic wars of attrition?? That is the Question

The civilizational-states are in a quandary. How to deal with Legion? Nuclear guns are held to their temples, as the holocausting of West Asia is leisurely completed. They are next either way – through the express nuclear route, or when they run out of proxies and/or conventional means. Decisions

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ Since 2018, Starlink, a wholly owned subsidiary of SpaceX, has launched a total of 6,917 satellites.

The company hopes to eventually have 42,000 satellites.

As of August 2024, 119 Starlink satellites have been placed in orbit.
[Aside from the effort at military “full spectrum dominance” note the kabbala numerology: 6300 so far, drop the zeros = 63 or 6×3 or 666. 119 sent up this month = a 911. Haditha mass-murder of innocents ritual took place on Nov 19, another 911. And so on. Note the imagery of satellites covering the skies! The devils wish to create a full-spectrum artificial reality for mankind. A return to the womb where we’re essentially deaf, dumb and blind to the outside world. What a demented project. As viable as full spectrum dominance]
⭕ 🇨🇭 A group of experts including diplomats, Swiss military officers and international security specialists has recommended abandoning the neutrality that the country has maintained for 500 years, since 1515.

– A group of experts has published a report recommending that Switzerland work on a “common defence capability” with the EU and NATO.

– This review is motivated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and changing security dynamics in Europe.

– There are concerns about how neutrality affects arms sales and national defense.

– Swiss arms exports fell by 27% in 2023 to less than 700 million Swiss francs.

– The current policy prohibits arms sales to countries at war, which affects relations with countries wishing to send weapons to Ukraine.

– The report recommends lifting the ban on the re-export of weapons.  [Suisse has never truly been neutral. It was integral member of the West, designated “safe zone” for various purposes, including secret societies and seat for the “church of Pergamum.” The Leningrader intel-prof in the 1990s video spoke of the crucial importance of the semblance of Swiss neutrality. Its ongoing overt abandonment is ominous indeed. All Europe’s marshalled now for the Last Drang.]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇮🇷 NEW: In an executive order, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic has appointed Mr. Baqeri Kani as a member of the Strategic Council of Foreign Relations

Imam Khamenei rarely issues such executive orders, despite theoretically holding total authority.

This decree serves as a message to the new reformist government, that the Supreme Leader wants to see a continuation of President Raeesi’s foreign policy to some extent. Baqeri Kani was the Deputy FM during the Raeesi administration.

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺💥🇺🇦 Russian missile troops tracked and destroyed an AFU M270 MLRS launcher in Sumy Oblast, the German made vehicle is capable of firing HIMARS. The vehicle and its crew were destroyed with an Iskander-M missile.
Via: @the_wrong_side
🐻 Fun fact ‘Iskander’ is Turkish for ‘Alexander.’  |media|
[For the arrogant satanists who arrogated to themselves the delusion of ruling all mankind, this Iskander has particular terror for them. Unstoppable. And Look how it arrives! Like “a bolt from Zeus above.” A fitting epitaph for little Icari that thought themselves gods.]
⭕ 🇱🇹🇺🇦🇷🇺Lithuanian National Defence Minister Laurynas Kaščiūnas called on the leadership of the EU and member states to allow Ukraine to strike Russia with long-range missiles received from them.

“We must allow the Ukrainians to show their full power against Russia. The European Union and member states must clearly state that there are no restrictions on the use of the weapons provided, including long-range systems, missiles or drones,” the head of the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said at an informal meeting of EU defence ministers in Brussels, the ministry’s press service quotes him as saying.
[Do we have a volunteer for the Demonstration??]

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇧🇾Belarus is actively transferring armored units to the Ukrainian border.

The tactical sign “B” was applied to the equipment

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Western & Arab silence on #Israel’s crimes & genocide in #Gaza has emboldened @Netanyahu to gradually repeat his crimes in the West Bank.

💠 @imetatronink:
⭕ retweet:
There’s this narrative at the moment that Russia – or indeed Putin – has no red lines. Indeed, I read that one of Zelensky’s reasons for the Kursk invasion is to prove that there are no such red lines and that Ukraine should be relieved of all Western constraints in carrying out strikes against Russia.

It’s a very dangerous and foolish line of thinking. The evidence that Russia has red lines and will act on them is right before your eyes. It’s called the Russo-Ukraine war.

Putin for years signaled to the West that interference in Ukraine was a matter of significant concern to Russia. William Burns, now the head of the CIA, referred to NATO enlargement in Ukraine as being ‘the brightest of red lines’. Nobody paid attention because nobody believed Russia would do anything about it. In fact, outside of the US administration, nobody in Europe, including Zelensky himself, believed that Russia would do anything. They simply didn’t believe that there was a red line or that it had been crossed. Not even on the very eve of the invasion. Nor, I remind you, did the Russians say they were going to invade. They simply did it when they decided to do it. That was when everyone discovered that, indeed, a red line had been crossed.

It’s true that the Russians have raised concerns and ‘red lines’ about various things in this war and then done nothing out of the usual. But that’s also how Putin behaved for many years after his speech at the Munich Security Conference in February 2007, when everyone sniggered at the concerns he raised. What you’re seeing now is consistent with this pattern of Russian behavior – they do nothing until they decide to do something and it’s only then that everyone finds out the red line has indeed finally been crossed. It’s really very Russian. Be forewarned.