💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 📝Russia and Iran’s Interests Intersect in Sudan📝

Recently, two aircraft landed in Port Sudan, which is under the control of the country’s armed forces: an Il-76 from Astrakhan and a Boeing 747 affiliated with the IRGC. These aircraft were previously involved in the transportation of military equipment.

🔸From Russia, spare parts for aircraft repair are most likely to support the Sudanese armed forces. The Iranian side, on the other hand, has probably provided the Sudanese with the Mohajer-6 strike UAVs.

The Sudanese army is currently achieving some successes, but some formations are in decline. There are also significant problems with government aviation. Rebel UAVs are destroying aircraft on airfields, and outdated models require immediate repair.

❗️Given the above, Sudan is becoming a point of intersection of the strategic interests of the Russian and Iranian authorities.

The upcoming conference organized by the West to recognize the rebel government in London adds relevance to these events. This means that the Russian-British confrontation in the region may reach a new level.
[Note whom Russia overflies, but which Iran carefully skirts, even though both head to the same destination over a “BRICS Brother”. The flight path of the Iranian flight is most eloquent on the true nature of the Iranian-Saudi “rapprochement”]
⭕️ Israeli warplanes have targeted the only functioning hospital in Gaza: Baptist Hospital in central Gaza City with two missiles.

The Israeli airstrike targeted the surgical operations building at the Baptist Hospital and the medical oxygen generation station for intensive care patients in central Gaza City.

The airstrike on the Baptist Hospital resulted in the destruction of several buildings and completely destroyed Al Jazeera’s live broadcast vehicle.

This is just criminal.

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇴🇲 NEW: CNN confirms that the Iranian and American delegations did not engage in direct talks, despite President Trump’s insistence on direct negotiations

For now, America seems to be the side that’s making concessions. But we have to wait and see if the conditions remain favorable – we all know the U.S. can’t be trusted. The devil is in the details, as they say.
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: According to the Wall Street Journal, the Iranian delegation presented the following demands in the negotiations:

1. Immediate access to billions of dollars of Iran’s frozen assets abroad.
2. Reducing major restrictions on Iran’s oil exports.
3. Rapid easing of sanctions on the Iranian nuclear program.

Reports indicate that the United States has already made some concessions in order to start the negotiations, and Trump is willing to sign a short-term temporary nuclear deal based on ‘good faith’, with ‘little to no formal monitoring mechanisms’, per CNN.
[As with Russia’s core insistence on meeting “root causes”, these are demands impossible for the disintegrating Empire to meet. Even for short-term deception as they prepare the decapitation strike. But the process is not in vain for Persians, per the ancient principle of keeping enemies closest, to obtain a pulse of the criminals, and to confirm the Murder-Suicide is on]
⭕— 🇺🇸/🇦🇪/🇮🇷 NEW: The United Arab Emirates is providing a large portion of the fuel for U.S. strategic bombers and planes stationed on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ | With the prolongation of the Gaza war and the violation of the ceasefire agreement, dissatisfaction among Israeli soldiers has reached its peak, and more than 100,000 reservists have refused to serve in the army.
⭕ The Israeli Talmud terrorists bombed the Al-Ahli [Baptist] hospital in Gaza City overnight.

Israel claims it targeted a Khamas site within the hospital compound (are they seriously still using this as an excuse?) |media|

💠 @Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ The Baptist Hospital was engulfed in flames following Israeli airstrikes that targeted it.

The nation of a billion sleeps…
⭕ A member of the Supreme Political Council in Yemen, Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi, stated: “The enemy’s options in Yemen are failing. Neither the American aggression through bombings will succeed in halting support for Gaza, nor will any ground military action achieve success. Rather, it will be met with the fury and strength of the honest. Trying what has already failed will yield no different results, and the inevitable outcome is victory by God’s permission.

America must understand that the continuation of its aggression is a continuation of the erosion of deterrence and the depletion of its capabilities, leading to losses in any upcoming battle.”
⭕ The American President, the terrorist Donald Trump, stated, “The Houthis are indeed manufacturing rockets. It never crossed anyone’s mind. They are making rockets.”
[a real genius, stating one of the Secrets of the Galaxy]
⭕ 🔴 To the greatest Satan – America – it is a confirmed fact that Yemen, with its leadership, people, and fighters, remains resilient against submission and defeat. Yemen will not waver in its support for Gaza and its resistance against aggression. It will not surrender, nor will it raise the white flag. Tomorrow, God willing, we shall hear the undeniable news.
⭕ 🔴 #Breaking – The “Media Line” reports: The Houthis have openly declared that they are targeting “Ben Gurion Airport” in “Israel,” disrupting airline operations and putting the local tourism sector in a predicament.
⭕ 🔴 #Breaking – Mark Feldman, the CEO of the travel agency “Zion Tours” in occupied Jerusalem, stated to “The Media Line”: Foreign airlines have confirmed that they will immediately withdraw from “Israel” if rockets land near “Ben Gurion Airport” again.
⭕ 🔴 #Breaking – The CEO of the travel agency “Zion Tours” in occupied Jerusalem told “The Media Line”: “The Houthis know exactly what they are doing; they are targeting Ben Gurion Airport because they understand that hitting tourism economically and psychologically harms ‘Israel.’ Unfortunately, it has been successful so far.

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ retweet:
⚡️Gaza – Israel bombs the Baptist Hospital:

The massive destruction left by the occupation’s bombing of the Baptist Hospital in central #Gaza City
⭕ retweet:
IL has built a military road across the Gaza Strip to the sea running between Rafah and Khan Yunis. Rafah is militarily occupied. Access to the sea is cut off. EG has silently agreed to this. Aid delivery is restricted, civvy movement near impossible. PalState no longer possible |link|
[this is what abject dying demons do unto their last breath: dig in the dagger on the weakest member of their sea of enemies, even as the futility guarantees a commensurate total annihilation of themselves. A mindless scorpion – kill and be killed. Their entire civilization and paradigm reduced to this primal impulse. Imagine the abject situation! They INCREASE the military garrisoning and butchery in Gaza even as the billion surrounding them devote themselves and their progenies to finish them off! How can one reason with such states of exceptionalist stupidity, beyond self-preservation???]
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Trita Parsi: A campaign to get @SteveWitkoff fired and to denigrate Oman started weeks ago by Israeli operatives (see below) and pro-Israel voices in DC.

The reason is crystal clear: They wanted to push Trump towards war with Iran. To do that, they needed to discredit pro-diplomacy voices inside the administration (Witkoff) and US partners who could help make talks succeed (Oman, Qatar).

Their campaign will probably intensify now, but they are playing with fire. Trump will likely not tolerate Israel sabotaging diplomacy and influential MAGA voices are increasingly turning against Israel for seeking to once again drag the US into an unnecessary war in the Middle East…

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕❗️The Israeli Defense Minister announced the expansion of military operations throughout the Gaza Strip.

He also said that Israel had turned the area from the border of the Gaza Strip and Egypt to Khan Yunis into a security zone, and the entire city of Rafah was there.

💠@Venezuela News:
⭕ The Russian ship “Admiral Vladimirsky” arrived in Venezuela as part of military cooperation. |media|
[a pleasant sail to Venezuela to show the Flag, after all the self-important noise and loose talk about Panama and Mexico and most besides in the Galaxy…]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕❗️Russian troops have liberated the settlement of Yelizavetovka in the DPR, the country’s defense ministry reports
[Kramatorsk, and what is left to reclaim of the Donbass, draws closer by the hour. Keep in mind, for those who value soil and subsoil resources and posturing over all human lives, the relentless roll of the Russian Tide is more agonizing for their side than the daily toll of Palestinian lives for our side…]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 🤔 So … despite never having been confirmed by the US Senate as Secretary of State, Steve Witkoff is clearly serving in that capacity.

What is Little Marco Rubio doing these days?
[grabbing with his grubby and busy little hands what ain’t nailed down in State and all willing to be extorted in his frequent travels abroad.. What is going down on Rome by the Potomac marches in lockstep with the Cokehead’s furious last moments in Kiev, or the rapturous orgies of Pompeii for that matter even as Vesuvius was clearing his throat]
🔻 Richard Vermillion, JM, MBA🌟: He’s a special envoy. Those have been a part of international law and relations for millennia.
🔻 maxdixie: He’s doing nothing – I hope. I wonder if he got the job just to get him out of that Florida Senate seat.
🔻 صالح فايز | Saleh Fayez: Witkoff’s out here freelancing foreign policy like it’s a condo pitch.

Marco? Somewhere between a prayer breakfast and a Fox News hit.

One can’t spell diplomacy.
The other can’t find it on a map.

And somehow… this is the A-team
🔻 — GEROMAN — time will tell – 👀 –: I think Rubio is one of the Quota neocons Trump had to take into his cabinet.
🔻 BorderTroop3r 𓂀: The Secretary of State is expected to be a principal advisor on foreign policy, maintaining a degree of independence to represent U.S. interests globally, even if that means occasionally challenging the president. Rubio’s effusive praise—framing Trump as a world-reordering figure—suggests a lack of critical distance, prioritizing personal loyalty over professional responsibility.
🔻 Priscilla RivasLoria, Ph.D. ☦️ 🇪🇸🇵🇷🇺🇸: Screwing Venezuela
⭕ cont. thread:
‼️ CSG-1 (USS Carl Vinson) Update

CSG-1 has reportedly arrived in the Gulf of Oman, in advance of tomorrow’s Iran/US talks.

I do not believe the talks will go well.

Will the US then immediately launch attacks on Iran?

It’s madness, but I would not dismiss the possibility.
🔻 WS: 🔸 Most people are convinced Russia and China will do nothing to assist Iran in a war against the United States.

I believe Russia and China will likely assist Iran in much the same fashion as the US has assisted Ukraine against Russia.

I believe Iran is that important to them.
🔻 Sophia: One answer: The Caucasus and the Caspian sea.

Most people don’t look at maps nowadays. Maps used to be a central part of what makes a mind educated about the world.
🔻 WS: I always have browser tabs open to Google Maps and Google Earth. There is rarely a day that passes that I do not use them.
🔻 WS: 📜 Geography

If the US is foolish enough to start a big war against Iran, then 2025 is likely to demonstrate yet again that, combined with firepower, geography is the indomitable god of war.
🔻 C1: ‼️ Important Iran Maps

Geography is very meaningful. |media|
⭕ cont. thread:
‼️ Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

If Putin were to agree to something even remotely approximating the proposal described below, I am convinced the majority of Russians would regard it as snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

I believe Putin would be deposed.
[this is the DOA Kellogg’s proposal to have Anglo-French “peacekeepers” control western 404, amid other degenerate ravings]
🔻 Mwangi Kimani: The Russians are actually looking at it fairly seriously. It’s not that unpalatable.

However it’s important to get Poland, not France, as the EU major player in Western Ukraine.
🔻 WS: Nonsense. There is ZERO evidence the Russians are considering this proposal.

That said, they would not object to Poland, Hungary, and Romania taking back their respective lands that were stolen to create western Ukraine.
[Lavrov et al already nixed the very idea of any NATO “peacekeepers”. They would be instant fertilizer..]
🔻 Sahib3030🌍🌎🌏: You are absolutely correct here.
The secondary forces within the Kremlin would indeed dispose of Putin if he dares to make such an ill conceived agreement with Trump.
Russia will never accept their losses of a 100,000 troops without the eradication of the “root causes” of the Russian Ukraine conflict and attaining the objectives of the SMO.
[and therein we can see the contours of the desperate Orange Pitch – to maneuver VVP and the top Leningraders of the RSC to accept the madness, in order to instantly create vicious internal division and infighting of Russian elite. Nyet! It remains a Murder-Suicide against any and every one of the civilizational-states]
⭕🔻 WarVehicleTracker🇵🇱 ☧:
I just don’t see how taunting soldiers should be ok in any way.

Imagine experiencing the last moments of your life in this situation, knowing your gonna die for 1 straight minute but trying desperately to stay alive
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Many of the drone videos that emerge on the Ukrainian side are clearly staged executions of prisoners of war or – as there’s too many released for their stock of Russian POWs – resistant Ukrainian conscripts.

The individual in this clip, for instance, clearly had no ammunition.

The Ukrainians routinely pass off the work of blocking detachments on retreating troops as attacks on Russian forces. Anyone remember the infamous Stryker video?
🔻 WS: Perpetua has been, from the very beginning of this war to the present day, a perpetual fountain of this sort of manufactured snuff-film propaganda (along with run-of-the-mill stat porn nonsense).

He is a particularly contemptible person.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: He’s absolute scum.
🔻 Para II: also isn’t russian camo a darker shade than what we see in that video? 🤨🤨🤨
🔻 ymg3: I agree with the contemptible and scum qualitative. I also appreciate the fact that you did not repost is B.S.
[I won’t repost either. And I rarely if ever watch these field videos. Apparently the despairing Anglo-Zionists are reduced to filming these snuff films on their own goons, to maintain what is left of disintegrating discipline and enforcement of command through sheer terror]
⭕🔻 Velina Tchakarova:
The very fact that Europe’s initial reaction to Trump’s tariff policies is to organize a summit with China, while discussing the removal of tariffs on Chinese EVs that will devastate the European automobile industry, speaks volumes about how detached our political and bureaucratic elites have become from reality. Instead of launching an urgent collective mission to Washington, or at the very least convening an ad hoc EU summit to engage directly with Trump and protect the interests of European citizens and industries, we are witnessing Spain’s Prime Minister Sánchez make his third visit to China.

Driven by petty egos and an absurd desire to appear “tough” amid the gravest systemic threats and risks on the old continent – an enduring conventional war in Ukraine and a non-conventional war against Europe’s security order – these elites seem more interested in punishing Trump for being Trump than in delivering real solutions. They would rather play to the public’s emotions – rage, disappointment, confusion – than demonstrate ruthless pragmatism and rise above their own shadows, even once in their careers, to do what is best for Europe.

Let me be clear: the so-called “de-risking” approach to China is now mutating into a “re-risking” strategy. It is deepening Europe’s dependencies and exposing even greater vulnerabilities – potentially with more catastrophic consequences than the infamous „Wandel durch Handel“ policy toward Russia. That, too, was a „brilliant“ German/EU invention, aimed at engagement and pacification of a great power. We all saw how that ended.

In the end, this is not only a fundamentally flawed approach to China – it’s also strategically incoherent. It will do absolutely nothing to change Trump’s calculus. He will simply engage with Xi directly, bypassing Europe altogether. Worse still, by aligning with China in this critical moment, Europe is effectively siding with the Dragonbear alliance in the midst of Cold War 2 with America. It is not just misguided – it is dangerously self-defeating.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: These are the exact same idiots that were talking about “confronting” China mere weeks ago. The Chinese are going to eat them.

I’ve pointed out before that the Davos Regime is a putative world government – and this is absolutely Davos at work – but that doesn’t make them smart.
🔻 WS: Velina is as delusional as ever.

It sorely vexes her that the DragonBear has become effectively indomitable, even as the AngloAmerican empire descends into the abyss of irreversible decline.
🔻 Fred: DragonBear is a misnomer – these are two separate, independent entities with aligned interests… much stronger than a “union”
🔻 ukcy: Rather than conceding defeat, will the Anglo-American empire go scorched-earth as it descends into irreversible decline? Considering their viciousness, It would seem they have plans somewhere.
🔻 IQWACP: She really hates China.
[this appears the defining motivation of the nomenklatura and apparatchiks of the Last Satanic Empire. Propelled forward by a tank full of bile]
⭕‼️ On the Path to War with Iran

Alastair Crooke, Glenn Diesen, Alexander Mercouris

To me, this was a very worthwhile hour spent. |media|
⭕ ‼️ I knew I could count on Simplicius to provide a comprehensive analysis of these reports on the embarrassing inefficacy of German (and NATO) weaponry in Ukraine.

All of NATO is an empty shell.

* HIGHLY RECOMMENDED *
links:
🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ: ⚡️‼️🚨New:
Bombshell Reports: “German Weapons Not Made for War” |link|
🔻 The Alex Malejewicz Project 🇷🇺: I used to invest in German heavy industry 20 years ago and even then it was known that German war fighting materiel was not fit for purpose.
It looked great though!
German politicians loved being photographed standing next to it, for sure!
⭕🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️:
Two Carriers Now Bombard Houthi Forces “Around the Clock”
🔻 WS: There is no evidence (nor CENTCOM statements) that CSG-1 (USS Vinson) has launched ANY strikes against Yemen at this point. You are disseminating misinformation, Sal. |link|
[hey! The guys gotta earn his keep]

American economist Jeffrey Sachs: (at Antalya Diplomacy Forum)

This region (Middle East) has been manipulated by Britain, France and the U.S. for 100 years since the Treaty of Versailles.

It will not have safety or peace until the U.S. is out of this region. If you think your… pic.twitter.com/EOJ8eDCuSK

— Clash Report (@clashreport) April 12, 2025

I distrust the condescending and sanctimonious professor. Look who he lectures! In TURKEY, the very people who took GCC-Anglo-Zionist $$$ to bring in, train and command the Horde sent into Syria. They know everything he says, and better. It is like lecturing Netanyahoo or Nazis on avoidance of wars of extermination. (!!)

None of his audience is unfamiliar with whom precisely are their external enemies. Most take fat suitcases of cash dollars from them! They are PART of the regional problem.

The gaslighting is beyond brazen. I really dislike these shameless actors, both the speakers and the ostensible audience.

So the audience is not Turkey. It is us. To get us to hate the West, especially USA, and ensure permanent global isolation. A smooth operator.

Remember the Big Club is SUPRANATIONAL. Their exalted exceptional class hovers way above our petty grimy and mundane drudgery. They SHAPE the world, in their lord the Moshiach’s will and design.

He made his bones on the murder of millions of Russians in his glorious youth, perhaps another Illinois indiscretion.. nowadays gets trotted out to kick the Yanquis outta Europe, Arabia, and everywhere.

So what if he tells 95% of the truth. He is like the slick AI-generated pan-African videos. It pays to sell the West down the river – and isn’t this what the Bankster said in the US Senate of 1946? “We shall have One World Government … by consent or conquest.” Bringing down the USA was always the end stop.

If it’s too good to be true… and didnt Orange retweet him!

Laith said it best: if these types are sincere, their battlefield is among their own kind, not hectoring the useless brown compradores incapable of change. Guns and fists shall settle it here, and back where he came from. The era of mindwashing and slick snake oil men draw to a close …..

this hairy knuckle-dragger has a worthy mug. Gotta give him that. Like the grizzly old soviets of old that used to march face first into machine gun fire and deflect it with leathery skins as if they had tank armor welded in place. Can u imagine if Yanqui arms and fighting doctrines matched their looks??

Oh, we’re gonna have fun with Orange soon. He’s gonna let it rip. “Lock her up”. We shall be entertained — but first, he’s got to take the plunge and cross a little river

💠 “Trump defies court order to stop blacklisting journalists — The White House continues to bar the Associated Press from his events”
☝️ the new Emperor takes baby steps across the Rubicon .. how much can he get away with?

☝️ Interesting parallel between response of Mao’s China during standoff with MacArthur/Truman to the current predicament of Iran

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ People who complain about AnsarAllah’s attack’s effectiveness do not really realise the objectives of these attacks.

I’ve got one name for you: Chinese Water Torture.
⭕ Explanation:

The Chinese water torture correlates metaphorically. Both rely on sustained, repetitive actions. AnsarAllah’s attacks, like the water drips, are not always individually damaging but aim to wear down the target through constant pressure.

The psychological effect of sowing fear, forcing Israelis to flee towards shelters repeatedly. Even when intercepted, the attacks trigger sirens and disrupt daily life, creating insecurity.

Both the attacks and the torture aim to exhaust the target psychologically. And at one point, these repetitive actions become unbearable.
⭕ 🇮🇷🇺🇸| Contrary to foreign media claims, Iran & the US are expected to hold their 2nd round of talks in Oman 🇴🇲 again on Saturday — Iranian MFA

💠 @kuluary_zaliva (В кулуарах Залива):
⭕ Saudi Arabia to pay off Syria’s debts to the World Bank

Saudi Arabia plans to pay off Syria’s debts to the World Bank, sources say. Syria owes the organization about $15 million, which must be repaid before the bank can approve grants to help rebuild the country , which has suffered from a long civil war.

The new Syrian authorities are experiencing a shortage of foreign currency , and a previously developed plan to pay off debts using frozen assets abroad has not been implemented.

Riyadh’s move could be the first precedent of the kingdom’s material support for Syria since the change of power there. Representatives of the KSA Foreign Ministry have not yet commented on the information.
[Note how abject the position of Syria as cannot afford such a payment! And who rushes to return their “arab brother” into usurious debt slavery]

💠 @New Atlas Channel:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 On US-Iran “Negotiations”

• Iran seeks time and space to continue building deterrence against US regime change;
• The US seeks regime change at most, significant containment and the continued undermining of Iran at minimum – all while posing as wanting “diplomacy;”
• There is no circumstance under which the US will ever negotiate in good faith – it has no right in the first place to intervene against Iran and everything it does is part of continuity of an agenda that includes the invasion/destruction of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria;
• Everything Iran is doing is done to avoid becoming the next Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, or Syria, recognizing limits to its military and economic power and thus required to compromise to place the US in as awkward a position as possible diplomaticly and militarily were it to launch strikes;
• The problem is that as the US runs out of time and becomes more desperate, it becomes more dangerous and thus more likely to launch aggression indifferent to world opinion/reaction – it is also very willing to use Israel to trigger wider conflict and absorb global scorn;

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ If you are a Palestinian who stands up for his people and his country, or a non-American who stands up against Israel’s crimes and lives in the United States, you are at risk of deportation.
⭕ If the US is honest in its negotiations with Iran and doesn’t pull out of a new deal, not far from the one already signed, as Donald Trump did in 2018, then there will be no obstacle to direct negotiations between the US and Iran.
[It is impossible for a Scorpion to change nature]
⭕ Donald Trump “any bullet fired by Yemen is Iran”s responsibility and will be accountable “. Yemen is downing one MQ-9 after another (19 so far), firing missiles on Israel and engaged in long hours fighting with US fleet. So? What did Donald Trump do with his threat to Iran? Just a show man.
⭕ According to Al Jazeera, Egypt has offered Hamas total disarmament and the release of all Israeli prisoners, dead or alive, within 45 days. In return, the ‘cessation of hostilities’ could be extended, and humanitarian aid allowed into the starving Strip.

If true, this is a death sentence for the Palestinians and deportation for those who remain alive, because in the Egyptian proposed deal, Israel won’t commit to stopping the war.

Al Jazeera quoting a Hamas leader saying that the Egyptian proposal was rejected.
⭕️ “Make America Great Again”:
The Chinese government has imposed additional tariffs, restricting entry and effectively halted direct imports of major US commodities—including beef, poultry, and liquefied natural gas—through a mix of bureaucratic hurdles and indirect third-party sales mechanisms.
⭕️ To please Israel and violate freedom of speech and “pretended values”, Trump admin Will Freeze $2 Billion After Harvard Refuses Demands to submit to requests to overhaul hiring and report international students who “break rules” off criticising Israel.

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸Trump has been asked to stop American funding for the UN and NATO, Associated Press reports, citing sources.

“There are plans to completely stop funding the UN, a key logistical partner in many humanitarian initiatives around the world, and other major non-governmental organizations, including NATO,” the publication writes.

Elsewhere in the article it states that it is only cutting funding for NATO headquarters.

The White House Office of Management and Budget also proposed cutting the State Department’s budget by nearly half, closing a number of foreign diplomatic missions, significantly cutting the number of diplomatic personnel, and ending funding for almost all international organizations.

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ Two indications of the imminent US-led ground confrontations in Yemen.

1. Today’s US bombing focused on the eastern regions under Sana’a’s control. Specifically, the bombing targeted defensive lines in Ma’rib and Al-Jawf governorates.
This indicates that US aircraft have begun their mission of providing air cover and aerial bombardment for the ground advance.

2. The US aircraft carrier USS Vinson is stationed in southeastern Yemen, despite Yemeni missiles and drones being launched from northern and western Yemen.
This means that the USS Vinson’s deployment in southeastern Yemen is intended to enable US aircraft to cover the eastern regions more quickly, targeting moving targets such as supplies and troops on the ground. The eastern regions have no connection to what is happening in the Red Sea.

This is clear evidence that a ground battle is about to begin in Yemen, led, supported, and provided by US air cover, Yemeni mercenaries, and terrorist elements such as Al-Qaeda and ISIS, with the possible participation of the Muslim Brotherhood.

(Repost from Ahmad Hassan on X)
[they know it is futile, like continuing the Vietnam War after Tet. So these are delaying tactics, as in 404, so as not to have to admit the War in the Red Sea was lost by the US Navy (and all it implies going forward for “gunboat diplomacy”). And to buy Pax Judea another day of survival, through optical posturing and suiciding of the Yanqui lads. The problem: both Russkie in 404 and Yemeni can keep the torture going for another millennia, and still win in the end. Indeed, neither has significantly used their capability, preferring the slow boiler. So the very fact of the nazi persistence let’s us know that dastardly “hail Mary’s” are in the offing]

🇭🇰 🇨🇳 🇺🇸
Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office Director Xia Baolong, on US tariffs:

• makes it clear the US cannot tolerate Hong Kong's prosperity and stability

"Let those American peasants wail before the 5,000-year-old civilisation of the Chinese nation!" pic.twitter.com/khJ44TUM9V

— Aaron Busch (@tripperhead) April 15, 2025

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ 🇺🇸/🇨🇳 NEW: Chinese social media users are incredibly amused, after White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was seen wearing a Chinese-made dress from ‘Taobao’, the Chinese equivalent of Amazon, while talking about imposing tariffs on China and bringing manufacturing ‘back to America’
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei:

‘The Iran-US talks are being conducted in a good and professional way, and our red lines are clear. We will not have a repeat of the JCPOA.

I urge the officials to stay on this path, and the talks can either become fruitful or not. But don’t tie the country’s affairs to these negotiations; have faith in our nation’s capabilities, don’t put all your eggs in one basket – pursue other affairs alongside this.

If the negotiations work, they work, and if they do not, then they don’t. In the meantime, we should continue our national progress and not be blindsighted by these talks.’
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇷🇺 NEW: Iran has rejected a U.S. proposal to relocate its uranium stocks to Russia, stating that Iran must retain full control and sovereignity over its nuclear program
[Good to see the NYETS accruing. These “negotiations” merely fight to while away the time]
⭕ The President of the Maldives has ratified legislation banning Israelis from entering the country, effective immediately.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ cont. thread:
🔻 Sal Mercogliano: Two Carriers Now Bombard Houthi Forces “Around the Clock”
🔻 WS: There is no evidence (nor CENTCOM statements) that CSG-1 (USS Vinson) has launched ANY strikes against Yemen at this point. You are disseminating misinformation, Sal.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano: CENTCOM reports Vinson working alongside Truman and released photos of their planes being launched with ordnance. |media|
[oop! Did our Sal the Sailorman just burn the OSINT crew?]
🔻 WS: You misread / misinterpreted Chowdah’s somewhat deceptive PR release, Sal. He did NOT say they were working together. The launch videos were separately filmed and displayed side by side. You should be more discerning. USS Vinson has not launched strikes against Yemen.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano: You should take up your complaints with CENTCOM, who said the carriers are working side by side, and @Mar_Ex whose article I reposted.

The Vinson was sent into the region to support Truman in the operation against Yemen. |media|
[that retreat is too fast Sal! And that “false authority” fallacy.. we know CENTCOM is as truthful as its zionazi brother]
🔻 WS: I read all their releases.

CSG-8 (USS Trembling Puppy) is cowering in the far northern reaches of the Red Sea. CSG-1 (USS Carl Vinson) is in the northern Arabian Sea. 2500 km apart. There have been no reports or claims that CVN-70 has launched any combat sorties against Yemen.
[he posts the leading map. This was from 2-3 days ago and is now dated. The second floating carrier tomb subsequently moved much closer to Yemen]
🔻 Sal Mercogliano: Truman does not appear to be afraid of the #Houthis based on the number of leaders they have eliminated and the sorties flown against them.
[Oh Sal! Did you swallow that sinker too?]
🔻 WS: Other than an entire apartment building the US destroyed in order to kill one particular man who was allegedly involved in the Yemeni missile program, there is ZERO credible evidence that a “number of leaders” have been killed. You are simply echoing unfounded CENTCOM propaganda.
🔻 WS: As for CSG-8 and the USS Trembling Puppy, they have deliberately remained 1200+ kms away in the northern reaches of the Red Sea — well beyond the effective range of the limited Yemeni missile arsenal.

And I predict the Trembling Puppy will not dare venture into the southern Red Sea, let alone attempt to transit the Bab-el-Mandeb — because they know very well that doing so would expose them to very credible risk of being struck by Yemeni missiles.

CSG-8 is effectively “bottled up” in the northern Red Sea, and is therefore useless in the event of war breaking out with Iran. This is why CSG-1 was dispatched to CENTCOM, so that at least one strike group could credibly threaten Iranian targets.

That said, I also predict the Vinson will remain in the Arabian Sea well outside Yemeni and Iranian missile range, just as CSG-9 (USS Teddy Bear) and CSG-3 (USS Fraidy Abe) were careful to “stand afar off” when they conducted their token deployments to the region last summer.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano: Much like you echo unfounded reports about hitting US ships and forcing them to retreat.
[Professor Sal is cracking]
🔻 WS: I have never ONCE suggested that a US ship has been struck by a Yemeni missile. You have obviously mistaken me with someone else.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano: You posted yesterday about Houthi attacks on US ships.
links Will’s Apr 12: “Bold talk.

Meanwhile the USS Trembling Puppy and its quivering entourage remain bottled up in the northern Red Sea, fending off daily salvos of ad hoc missiles built by Yemeni hands deep within desert mountains.”
🔻 WS: I have never once argued that a US ship has been struck by Yemeni missiles. Never.

That said, they have come close several times, which is precisely why US ships have remained well out of range since both the Trembling Puppy and the Fraidy Abe had “close calls” last summer.
🔻 WS: I am also mystified and disappointed that you would misrepresent what I have written on this topic. I have been consistent and precise in all I have ever posted.

At any rate, no one is denying that there have been MANY close calls over the course of the past 18 months.
[Sal left the Chat…]
🔻 WS: CSG-1 didn’t roll into CENTCOM to play whack-a-mole in Yemen. It’s there to menace Iran.

As for CSG-8, they don’t even dare venture south of Jeddah, let alone try to run the gauntlet of the Bab-el-Mandeb.

Those two carriers are NOT working “side by side”.
🔻 WS: The real question is WHY CENTCOM is playing word games with the public regarding the activities of these two CSGs. Given how easy it is these days to identify the general location of a CSG, it makes no sense to me why they are dispensing this thinly veiled misinformation.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano: Actually, many are denying what the Houhtis allege when it comes to attacks.

They have repeatedly attacked ships not connected to Israel.

They have killed mariners not connected to the conflict in Gaza.

They have alleged they have damaged warships when there is ZERO evidence.
[“After these messages… we’ll be riiiight back!” Sal got uploaded the stale talking points. They’re outta ideas.. and commits another logical fallacy in the process, promptly rapped on the knuckles]
🔻 WS: Non sequitur.

This is only relevant military / geostrategic consideration:

Ansarullah has effected a selective blockade of the Red Sea, and remains the gatekeeper of the Bab-el-Mandeb, while simultaneously attriting mountains of American precision-guided munitions.
🔻 Royrogers55: The only effective strategy here is one of two options. First, stop supporting IDF’s genocide in Gaza and force the Israelis to restore Palestinian control of the Gaza Strip. The second option would be to attack Yemen’s water supply. Collateral damage would be significant.
🔻 WS: What makes you think inflicting massive damage and hardship on the populace of Yemen would break the shipping blockade and open the Bab-el-Mandeb?
[it wouldn’t. They’ve promised not to flinch even from nuclear terrorism, and chanted in millions “we don’t care – make it a world war”. There is a reason Yemen is prophesied as one of the Ten Major Signs of the End Times – as they were also told to have the most powerful civilization in human history – abominable giants that taught wickedness to Babylon, before being buried under a sea of sand that today forms 1/4 of the Arabian peninsula. It looks like they’re atoning in a major way for the earlier waywardness, and helping bury what remains of the Last Babylonian iteration]
🔻 Royrogers55: They are a hard people, and I don’t know that it would work, but if you were committed to using force, that’s how it would have to happen. Now to whatever degree it would be successful is another story. Interdiction and direct action, however, are not viable options.
🔻 WS: So here is the reasoning you suggest:

“We have no military means at our disposal to break this blockade, and so we will simply attempt to annihilate the populace of Yemen in the uncertain hope that will solve the problem.”

In other words: Genocide is the answer.
🔻 Royrogers55: No, I suggest restoring Palestinian control of Palestine. The bombing campaign is ineffective and strategically stupid. Yemen, however, is particularly sensitive in the area of water supply, and has been for over 50 years. In the context of strategic options, I am merely pointing out that if one were militarily committed to forcing their hand, that would be the way. I do not condone it for many reasons, not the least of which is the collateral damage on civilians–which is why I am completely against the US’ support of the IDF, and the IDF’s incursion into sovereign Palestinian land.
🔻 WS: I understood that. I was speaking rhetorically, not of you personally. Sorry that wasn’t clear.
[but Roy is onto the nazi gestalt. And what they’ve already started – the same collective punishment as seen throughout Greater Syria]
🔻 Bananas: Ain’t that what the US does best?
🔻 HilltopFool: So 2 Genocides are a better result than simply allowing food and water back into Gaza.
⭕🔥 Yemen MQ-9 Score Update — XIX

Meanwhile, the Yemeni, using domestically produced missiles, have shot down yet another MQ-9, bringing the total to NINETEEN over the past year+.

The US MQ-9 Reaper is obsolete on 21st century battlefields.
📜 Scorch Marks in the Sand
🔻 Peace & Prosperity: Will Yemen exhaust the US military before they try to attack Iran? 😅
🔻 WS: Notwithstanding they have yet to achieve a successful strike against a warship, the Yemeni have nonetheless inflicted 18 straight months of strategic defeat against the US Navy.

They have now humiliated four successive carrier strike groups.

#TheBigAttrition continues unabated.
#NoEasyWarsLeftToFight
🔻 Framed Mollusk: Humiliation sure, but a defeat? I don’t see how.
🔻 WS: There is a profound difference between tactical defeat and strategic defeat.

Iraq and Afghanistan are two cases in point: both were decisive strategic defeats.

The US Navy is now 18 months into a decisive strategic defeat in the Battle of the Red Sea.
🔻 MrMojoRising: Gone the same way as the Bayraktar TB2 – basically useless against any adversary who has any kind of AD…
🔻 Boris Badenov: It’s an effective counter-insurgency weapon against an opponent with 0 air defenses, but against an opponent with even rudimentary AA capability it’s a sitting duck
🔻 SenshelMenshel Coastguard: I wonder if the reason we’re seemingly seeing an increased rate of reaper-downing is because Ansarallah is getting better at targeting them, or because there are simply so many more being sent over Yemen?
(I’m sure it’s both but I wonder what the primary reason is)
🔻 Chris 💜: Are we sure they’re domestically produced missiles? Russia did threaten to supply US enemies during Biden admin because of missile strikes in Russia.
🔻 WS: There is no indication whatsoever that ANY Russian weaponry has been delivered to Yemen.
[for that we may give Thanks. Most of us woulda been already Raptured if Russkie had lost the plot and forked them over to the aching mountain warriors]
⭕🔻 DD Geopolitics: 🇨🇳 Same conductor, same country, 26 years later.
🔻 WS: 🔸 In my view, one of the most ridiculous “China Is Evil” arguments is that “China steals American creativity”.

America does not have a monopoly on creativity, invention, and innovation.

And all products of human creativity spread rapidly and inexorably across the planet.
🔻 TexasPuma: I’d assume that they go 110% on stealing IP, developing engineers, so that they have the best stuff… I’ve always been told they steal stuff, don’t they?
🔻 WS: I’m sure the Chinese “steal” anything they can in terms of technological innovations, though they’re not as adept as were the Americans in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Chinese have distinguished themselves when it comes to innovating on top of the inventions of others.
🔻 TexasPuma: Yeah, the older I get the more I realize there are a lot of narratives that are ingrained in us.
🔻 Caldwell49: What high speed rail does the US have to steal?!?!
🔻 WS: 👏 Congratulations. You are the first person to understand my point, and why I said what I said in a repost of that particular image.
🔻 JethroBoateng: Actually, they stole the technology by reversing Japanese bullet trains given to them by the Japanese government
[LOL. was waiting for this spin. Not quite. Larry Romanoff demonstrated this was not the case. They surpassed the tech of Japanese and Frenchie and the Spaniards and others…]
🔻 hem day: The very idea of owning creativity stems from a flawed system: laws born in the age of printing presses, pushed by publishers to guard their investments, not to protect creators. Those rules assume ideas can be property, like a chair or a plot of land, yet they cannot. Share an idea, and you lose nothing. It is not diminished, only multiplied. Contemporary technology now exposes this flaw more than ever. Copying texts and designs takes seconds, costing nearly nothing, making control over ideas a losing battle.
🔻 Suicidal ZZZapling ♋️: There’s a saying where I come from:

“Nothing is created; everything is copied.”
[or alternatively, “we all stand on shoulders of giants” – and this is a pun, given the size of our ancestors. And “nothing new under the sun” or “new bottle, same wine..”]
🔻 Chris: The US appears to be in cope and denial mode.

China has spent a lot of time and energy investing in itself. It hasn’t been perfect, but overall the growth has been very positive, with major increases in living standards.

By contrast the US waged losing wars and declined.
[you are what you eat, or your daily thoughts.. And if you’re preoccupied with killin’….]
⭕🔻 Ian Ellis: I count at least 439 U.S. strikes against the Houthi since 15 March 2025 based on data from @TheStudyofWar
🔻 WS: 🤦‍♂️ Ignoring for the moment the embarrassment you should feel in citing the monumentally clownish “Institute for the Study of War”, this is the only relevant military / geostrategic consideration:

Ansarullah has effected a selective blockade of the Red Sea, and remains the gatekeeper of the Bab-el-Mandeb, while simultaneously attriting mountains of American precision-guided munitions.

The Battle of the Red Sea has become quite arguably the single most decisive strategic defeat the US Navy has ever suffered.
🔻 Lee Slusher: The claim of restoring “freedom of navigation,” and of doing so largely on behalf of European shipping, is much funnier in light of the fact that a French CSG just transited the Suez from the Indian Ocean. |media|
[and several weeks ago, the same French CSG went the opposite way through the Bab on the way to strut in the China Seas.. what a clown show]
🔻 WS: The fact that Ansarullah is imposing a “selective blockade” is one of the most impressive aspects of the Battle of the Red Sea.

They are the gatekeepers. They decide who shall pass and who shall not.
[what did Frenchie have to pay to transit?? I bet Charon takes a lesser toll than Yemenis]
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: That’s why the US is so upset. There is a narrative that this is hurting Europe, but it’s actually hurting Israel quite a bit an the reality is nothing sails through the Red Sea without the say-so of the Yemenis. They haven’t needed to sink anything, just get ships to withdraw.
🔻 CS: The fact that the US Navy could not break the Houthis blockade of the Red Sea even after supposed 439 strikes, should make Trump more likely to strike a deal with Iran, rather than going kinetic, their tone has already softened from complete denuclearization to JCPOA terms
⭕🔻 Mario Nawfal: 🚨🇺🇸NGOS RAN A PARALLEL GOVERNMENT UNDER BIDEN—AND NO ONE VOTED FOR IT

What started as humanitarian aid turned into an unaccountable empire. NGOs had the funding, the infrastructure, and the cover of virtue—but no voters, no oversight, and no checks.

Under Biden, they didn’t just assist the government—they became it. From day one, they executed policies outside the chain of command: mass immigration, ideological programming, and public manipulation—without ever facing the public.

This wasn’t a glitch. It was the plan.

While officials dodged blame, NGOs operated in the shadows—a bloodless coup hiding in plain sight.

Source: @DataRepublican
🔻 Bill Bottrell: Yes, but let’s not pretend this was only “under Biden”
The shadow system that vast and powerful took decades to grow.
🔻 WS: Yes. It has spanned our lifetimes, Bill.
⭕🔻 Glenn Diesen:
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatens deep strikes into Iran if negotiations fail.
– Threatening the use of force is illegal under international law, but near obligatory under the “rules-based international order” |media|
🔻 WS: Bold talk.

Meanwhile the USS Trembling Puppy and its quivering entourage remain bottled up in the northern Red Sea, fending off daily salvos of ad hoc missiles built by Yemeni hands deep within desert mountains.

And Hegseth thinks Iran is an easy mark? These people are nuts.
🔻 Sahib3030🌍🌎🌏: I wonder if Hegseth understands how “Deep” is required for Deep strikes inside Iran.
It is as if the Pentagon is thinking there is zero AD over Iran !!
🔻 WS: Important Iran Maps |media|
🔻 Ikkyu Sojun: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s threat of “deep strikes into Iran” if talks fail reeks of delusional bravado.

Iran’s no easy target—decades of fortifying defenses, advanced missiles, and layered air systems make it a tough nut to crack.

Strikes would face fierce resistance, with retaliation likely hitting U.S. bases hard.

Recent struggles in Yemen, dwindling missile stocks and naval constraints, hint at overreach, yet Hegseth acts like victory’s assured.

Threatening force flouts international law (UN Charter, Article 2(4)), despite being a “rules-based order” reflex.

It’s reckless talk, blind to Iran’s resilience, risking escalation over success.
🔻 Kristian Thyregod: Frat boys rarely think that far ahead.

Mr. Hegseth is no exception, but then again, paraphrasing Upton Sinclair:

“It’s difficult for a man to understand something, when the support from his puppet master depends on him not understanding it.”
🔻 EvaG: USS Truman apparently now docked for repairs. Yemen claimed it’s because of their missiles strikes ?

⭕‼️ Trump’s Revisionist History

Trump is trying to wash his hands of culpability for the Ukraine War. This is what you call “Revisionist History”.
📜 Some Sins Will Not Wash Away
🔻 IQWACP: He should have done this day one, but then he owned it.
Now he is stuck with the hot potato.

Art of the deal indeed.
⭕ ▪️ Trump Owns the Ukraine War
reposts his older:
“‼️ Trump Owns the Ukraine War

By claiming to be the first POTUS to send serious US weaponry to Ukraine, and boasting that “lots” of Russian tanks were thereby destroyed, and then saying arms shipments will continue until Putin “makes a deal”, Trump has now assumed ownership of the Ukraine War.”
🔻 NotABot: The only thing he does not own is himself.
🔻 Truth-B-Told: And Gaza – he’s proven to be nothing other than another stooge of the crumbling empire.
⭕ 🤔 So the Germans want to clean up rubble and ashes in Berlin again?

Oh … and exactly how are these Taurus missiles going to be launched? As I recall, neither Soviet-era aircraft nor F-16s can carry and launch the Taurus.
🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ: |fine print|
🔻 Sheldon Stack 💹🧲: “Willing” makes for good headlines, without necessarily “doing.”
🔻 Sophia_Atossa 🇩🇪🕊🇷🇺: Definitely.

And the attrition of the Federal Armed Forces matériel continues unabated. Ukraine demands all 150 including the platforms to deliver them.

Sometimes peace is the result of not having anything left to fight with. It seems that Germany is heading this way.
⭕🔻 zerohedge: Tariff Shock Delayed For Dollar Tree & Home Depot By Several Months
🔻 WS: Pretty soon there will be more exceptions than tariffs.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 3,500 Children Have Died in Last Ten Years Attempting to Cross Mediterranean: UNICEF

Approximately 3,500 children have died or gone missing while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea over the past decade, equating to one child death every day, UNICEF reported, specifying that about seven in ten make the journey alone or separated from their parents.

In the same period, at least 20,803 people have died or gone missing on the Central Mediterranean maritime migration route.

However, the actual number of victims may be much higher due to the many shipwrecks that leave no survivors and are therefore not recorded.
[recall the impetus for this silent tragedy are wholly at the feet of the combined West. They destroyed their countries, then facilitated the massive migration, in part to divide the West internally (“Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan”), to bring in cheaper labor, and to effect brain-drain/loss of youth from targeted African regions]
⭕ ‘Tragic Drama Out of Thin Air’: Analyst Slams Western Narrative on Sumy Strike

“The West creates the most tragic drama out of thin air in Ukraine, while rivers of blood are flowing in Palestine,” Lebanese international relations expert Ali Darbaj told Sputnik.

He criticized Western media for what he calls a manipulative response to Russia’s strike on Sumy.

“They have not provided any evidence to support their claims that this was an attack on civilians. This is because no such evidence exists,” Darbaj said.

He believes the Sumy incident is being manipulated to mask growing frustration over Moscow–Washington talks.

ℹ️ On Sunday, the Russian military carried out strikes aimed at the location where the Ukrainian army command staff was gathered in Sumy. More than 60 soldiers were eliminated, the Russian MoD reported.
⭕ Major World Events by Morning of April 16, 2025

• Hong Kong Post stopped accepting ground shipments of goods destined for the United States on April 16. Air shipments will be suspended on April 27.
• The Russian ruble has become the world’s highest-yielding currency, rising 38% against the US dollar in over-the-counter trading, according to Western media.
• The Indonesian leadership is determined not to join the anti-Russian sanctions, Russia’s trade representative in the country said.

⭕ ❗️ The Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out six attacks on Russian energy facilities over the past 24 hours, the Russian MoD reports

Facilities in the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk and Kherson regions were attacked.
[as with daily toll of Palestinians, these daily terrorism by Rules-based Terrorism Inc against Russian energy infrastructure appear the chosen vehicle of demonstrating virility, impunity and that still relevant in war and the region. What a sad and diseased paradigm]
⭕❗️Russian troops liberated the settlement of Kalinovo in the DPR, the Russian MoD reports

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇷🇸🇷🇺Serbia may be prevented from joining the EU if its president goes to Moscow for the Victory Parade, The Telegraph reports.

The publication writes that European officials warned Vucic that his visit would violate the bloc’s membership criteria and undermine his country’s ambitions to join the EU.

“We must ensure that they understand that certain decisions have a price. The consequence of this is that they do not join the European Union,” said Jonathan Vseviov, Secretary General of the Estonian Foreign Ministry.

Earlier, the head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, warned of “consequences” for those European leaders who travel to Moscow to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Victory Day.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico responded by saying that he would still go to Moscow.
⭕️ 🇸🇰🇷🇺🇪🇺Robert Fico said that no one can stop him from coming to Moscow on May 9

This is how the Prime Minister of Slovakia responded to the words of the head of EU diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, that trips to Russia to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Victory “will have consequences.”
⭕ 🇷🇺Radio Liberty has suspended broadcasting in Russian in the medium-wave range, as reported on its Telegram channel.

The reason for the suspension is a lack of funding. The period for which is not specified.

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇮🇷| Ayatollah Khamenei:

The situation in Gaza — truly, this criminal gang that rules over Palestine has gone beyond all bounds. Their crimes have exceeded every limit.

I honestly can’t recall ever witnessing such actions — carried out so calculatedly and deliberately, targeting the most vulnerable: children, the sick, journalists, hospitals, ambulances.

It’s truly astonishing. This level of brutality requires an extraordinary degree of cruelty, and this evil, criminal group clearly possesses it.

In my view, the Islamic world must take action. There needs to be serious coordination — economically, politically, and if necessary, operationally. The Islamic world must collectively think and act on this issue.

And of course, they should expect the punishment of God. With this level of injustice, there is no doubt a severe divine response will come.

But that does not reduce our responsibility — not the responsibility of the people, nor of governments. God will do His part — and we must do ours.

💠 @New Rules:
⭕ 🇺🇸🚨🇾🇪US commits MASS MURDER in Yemen while FALSELY accusing Russia of ‘war crimes’

All the Western media are shouting out loud that the Russian attack on a military awards ceremony in Sumy was “the crime of the century”, while US airstrikes have been battering Yemen since February, killing:

• 117 civilians—32 women and children among them.
• Wounding 221.

Hodeidah’s homes and Sanaa’s markets lie in ruins. Yet, the West shrugs. Compare this to Sumy recently. Western leaders screamed “war crime,” demanding justice, but Yemen’s toll rise up to:

• 300 US-UK strikes in 2025 alone
• 85 civilian deaths by February
• A ceramics factory strike killed 5, injured 13.

Where are the humanitarians crying for Ukraine now? Western bombs don’t discriminate.
[the center no longer holds. Habitual lies are exposed in real time on another front.. the abject drown in the global storm]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ —❗️🇷🇺 NEW: Russia’s UVB-76 military communications radio, sometimes dubbed ‘Doomsday Radio’, broadcasted 4 sudden mysterious codes, purpose unknown

1. NZHTI – 33 702 – NEPTUN – 66-52-20-75
2. NZHTI – 8002 361 – TIMUS – 56-85
3. NZHTI – 7000 0 8002 – LISOPLASH – 67-203-0808-0809
4. NZHTI – 62 505 – NUTOBAKS – 78 15 92 71

The radio station’s purpose is unknown, but is sometimes associated with Russia’s nuclear triad and the Western Military Sector. |media|
[apparently an interesting last evening, which included Putin being rushed to the Kremlin late at night. The drowning Pirates, beleaguered and nearly overcome on countless fronts, are expected to go full retard soon enough…]

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇧🇬🇭🇷🇦🇱(🇽🇰) Bulgaria has formally confirmed that it will be joining the new military alliance created by Croatia, Albania and unrecognised Kosovo.
[NB they surround Serbia. What a sick loser bunch. Minions of Empire playing the same stale games as in last two world wars. And to same futility]
⭕ 🏁🇺🇦 NATO Secretary General Rutti Frutti visited Odessa today, and declared “unwavering” support for Ukraine.

If anyone cares…
[Note their aching need to post the DATE on the podia! Yes, “we still hold Odessa, for now“]

⭕ 🇬🇱🇨🇳Greenland Seeks Closer Ties with China, May Conclude Free Trade Agreement – ​​Greenlandic Foreign Ministry
[What days. Laughed off the World-Island]
⭕ 🇧🇬🇭🇷🇦🇱(🇽🇰) The Bulgarian Government has denied earlier reports that the country had expressed interest in joining the new military alliance between Croatia, Albania and unrecognised Kosovo.

At no point was the Ministry – or the Bulgarian side – consulted about the initiative by the initiators, nor was an official invitation extended to include us in it…

The official statement was made in response to an earlier claim made by the so-called Kosovan Government that Bulgaria had formally agreed to join the new military alliance.
[So the weasels wanted a double-secret alliance which leaked??]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇨🇳 WSJ: Trump Plans Global Push to Isolate China in Exchange for Tariff Relief

Donald Trump is reportedly preparing a plan to pressure over 70 countries to limit their economic ties with China in return for U.S. tariff concessions, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the proposal.

Under the plan, the U.S. would ask these countries to stop buying cheap Chinese goods, avoid re-exporting American products to China, and prevent Chinese companies from using foreign registrations to bypass U.S. tariffs.

The goal is to weaken China’s global leverage and force it to return to the negotiating table under less favorable conditions.

Trump himself hinted at this strategy, stating he would consider forcing countries to choose between doing business with the U.S. or with China.

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ If US negotiators and officials continue to walk back previously stated positions on the Iran–US nuclear deal, the negotiations are unlikely to hold much longer. While next Saturday’s meeting carries political weight, it should not be mistaken for progress toward a resolution. The gap between the two sides remains wide. Beneath the diplomatic niceties and carefully worded statements, the substance of the deal still lacks clarity and cohesion.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Roberta Sutton: “Not a collapse but an evolution” from US dominance to the multipolar world. Both RU & CN still ascending. Does anyone feel bound to follow the rules the Anglos make? Not powers but ways of wielding power: sharing/helping versus bossing/forcing. DC falls to corridors & BRICS pay |link|
[synopsis of his latest article]
⭕ Ashkenazi Jews, who make up a significant proportion of Israel’s Jewish population, come from Europe – mainly Central and Eastern Europe – and are not Semitic in origin.
Immigrants from the USA, Latin America and the former Soviet republics (including some who converted to Judaism or are descendants of converts) do not have Semitic ancestry.
⭕ It is not anti-Semitic to oppose the policies of the Israeli government or to criticise the political ideology of Zionism. What is anti-Semitic is the hatred of all Semites—regardless of religion—through physical attacks, verbal abuse, or the spread of dangerous stereotypes and conspiracy theories.
Ironically, in today’s context, no entity has been responsible for the death and displacement of more Semitic people—particularly Palestinians—than Israel. This reality is often ignored in Western narratives that equate Semitism exclusively with Jewish identity, while overlooking the Semitic heritage of Arab populations who bear the brunt of Israeli military actions.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ What a time to be alive.
🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ: |score card|
🔻 uptohere: We interrupt with a message from our sponsor
🔻 JT: What if someone were to perform an objective analysis and carefully weigh out the relative moral and ethical standing of Israel and their mortal enemies? Has it ever happened? Is such a thing even possible in this world? Seems a ledge too narrow for any to stand, much less walk
🔻 blindpig/1966: The death cult being zionism
⭕ 🎞️ 🧵 Favorite War Movies

The following are three of my all-time favorite war movies.

Memphis Belle (1990)
(Matthew Modine)

One of the most authentic WW2 movies ever. |THREAD|
🔻 John LeGalt: What, no Patton?
🔻 WS: My extremely unpopular opinion:

Patton (1970) the movie is mediocre.

And I think George S. Patton is a vastly overrated general who had the good fortune to always face inferior under-supplied forces while he enjoyed overwhelming numbers and almost limitless supplies.

If Patton, using the tactics for which he is revered, had taken on the 1942-44 Wehrmacht or the 1943-45 Red Army, his armies would have been ripped to shreds.
🔻 Timothy Leary’s Dead 🏴‍☠️🌱🐑🐕 🎣🎇👀🐈‍⬛⚠️🎲: Did you ever see this one: It’s my favorite |media|
🔻 WS: Yes, that is a great movie.
⭕ 🤔 The Great Deceiver

Soon AI entities will be trained to be subtly mendacious — to, with malice aforethought, purposefully persuade people to believe things which are not true.

“… and thus the devil cheateth their souls, and leadeth them away carefully down to hell.”
🔻 Joe: My only disagreement is that you should have back-dated your post. We’ve been living it for some time now.
🔻 I’m Douglass Truth Art: eventually face-to-face will be the only trusted communication – it might be a relative’s voice trying to convince you…
[excellent comment. It was prophesied the Moshiach would mimic the Messiah to bring the dead back to life, (really using demons and AI inhabiting meat suits using the copious data pre-harvested of the dead mark). Terrible days ahead]
🔻 oz4caster: The Deep State and their sponsors have already been teaching people to believe lies for many decades at least. AI just adds another tool for them.

⭕🔻 Russians With Attitude: The 27th is a bit of a special brigade, by the way. It’s the only Ukrainian military unit that is (officially) armed with HIMARS. So, at least formally, the Lord of all Ukrainian HIMARS was killed
🔻 Russians With Attitude: Also, Ukrainian military commanders don’t really like hanging out anywhere near the frontlines, so this guy was one of only like three Ukrainian brigade commanders that were killed in the last two years. Juicy target.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Remember how the Russians destroyed the entire Ukrainian war effort in the Black Sea with one missile strike on an awards ceremony last year?

The Ukrainian Army’s NATO-trained and equipped missile forces seem to have obligingly stood in formation in Sumy for a repeat.
🔻 WS: Their chest weighed down heavy with medals, no doubt.

Vanity of vanities.
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ American exceptionalist delusions run amok.
links:
🔻 zerohedge: China Would Lose A ‘Trade War’ With The US… “Gradually, Then Suddenly” |link|
🔻 Dr. Anton: Crazy people everywhere |link|
🔻 Cato The Censor: “Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness” – enough said. #winning
🔻 Timbot2002: They should change thier name to Epoch Hedge
🔻 BenLayZenji: To paraphrase an old Dr. Seuss book I used to read to my kids, “Every day, from here to there, deranged lunatics are everywhere.”
🔻 readysetgo888@yahoo: It‘s becoming really exhausting and to be honest, kind of embarrassing
🔻 BuboAsper: Boeing vs China:
[links:
🔻 Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹: “China typically buys 60–170 Boeing planes yearly, worth $4.2–$16.5 billion, plus parts and services, totaling $7–$10 billion annually (Reuters, 2025, April 15). With China halting all Boeing orders on April 15, 2025, due to U.S. tariffs, Boeing faces a yearly loss of $7–$10 billion. This trade dispute also saw Boeing’s stock drop 2.47%, while Airbus rose 4%.”]
🔻 Marta: Zerohedge? .da non credere🤣
⭕ Even if this were true (which it almost certainly is not), what does it matter, and what exactly does the US think it can do to alter this reality?
[links:
🔻 U.S. Asia Pacific Media Hub: .@statedeptspox: China is a major enabler of Russia in the war in Ukraine. China provides nearly 80 percent of the dual-use items Russia needs to sustain the war.”]
[hey! State is not aligned with the War Dep. It should be “Indo-Pacific” not “Asia Pacific”]
🔻 Em Grove: 80% is likely exaggerated but I suspect it’s true China is selling a lot of important goods to Rus. They’re also buying a lot of resources from Rus.

What the US, & Europe, can do about it is not much. We’ve already seen the global south buy from Rus despite west saber rattling
🔻 Gary L: Stoking the hate flames for China is essential for future action against it, whatever it may be.
🔻 Happy Corgi Pants: They know they can’t do anything about it.

They are using it as propaganda to groom us against their enemy.
🔻 WorldlyChristian: And the US provides >90% of the MILITARY equipment to Ukraine…
🔻 Halide Edip: just ginning up support for our war on China
⭕🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ:
⚡️🇺🇦Big surprise:

Ukraine has shifted its rhetoric after the downing of an F-16.

Now, officials there claim that American aircraft fundamentally cannot compete on equal terms with modern Russian fighters. |link|
🔻 WS: It was one of the easiest predictions to make from the first moment it was suggested F-16s should be sent to Ukraine.

📜 Flying Coffins
🔻 Gil⚡Gamesh: Flying coffins good only to bombard weddings in countries without any air defense. Perfect for the kind of ‘war’ that USA usually does, ie. beating dead horses and call it a win.
⭕🔻 ayden:
Russian sources are reporting that an FPV strike that occurred in the Chasiv Yar direction utilized the new “Ovod” drone which is controlled by the “Orbita” system.

This means that a team on the ground in Ukraine put the drone out and a drone pilot in Moscow completed the strike. In the future this innovation could lessen the risk to drone teams as they would not need to be positioned within 20km of the front.
🔻 m x: So, they can do what US is already doing eg Predators are flying over Iraq while pilots are in Tucson.
🔻 WS: reposts his older: “🔥 Yemen MQ-9 Score Update — XIX

Meanwhile, the Yemeni, using domestically produced missiles, have shot down yet another MQ-9, bringing the total to NINETEEN over the past year+.

The US MQ-9 Reaper is obsolete on 21st century battlefields.”
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ Given that CSG-1 (USS Carl Vinson) is in the Gulf of Oman (over 2000 km distant from Yemeni targets), this is almost certainly disinformation being disseminated by CENTCOM.
[links:
🔻 U.S. Central Command: 24/7 strikes from USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) and USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) across multiple Iran-backed Houthi locations…
#HouthisAreTerrorists”]
[note the strident hashtag at the end… like posting dates on the podium at Odessa.. yeah. Some do need to comfort themselves, like a neonate longing to return to the warm, watery, dark embrace of the womb… the world’s a bright, noisy, and unpredictable place without cushioning indeed]
🔻 SenshelMenshel Coastguard🔻: Do you have any trusted OSINT twitter accounts?
🔻 WS: It is necessary to approach ALL of them with a critical eye. Even those who “get it right” most of the time will nevertheless sometimes misinterpret and/or misrepresent their “open-source intelligence”.

One needs to look for corroborating or disproving secondary indicators.
⭕🤔 I cannot conceive of a credible mission for this single-missile TEL. In what potential future battle scenario would this be deployed? |link|
[to launch Scotty bodily at the Aye-Raanians??]
🔻 Ricky Worthey ✝️: Breaking up a domestic prostest
🔻 Rune: It goes along with the 2017 CPG. USMC expects such high attrition in war with China, that they decided to focus on masses of small expendable systems they can scatter everywhere. They probably don’t expect most to survive after the first launch.
🔻 The Skeptic🤔🤔: Land mount mk 41 launcher is a pretty interesting idea. Distributed launchers aren’t a terrible idea in the days of drones.
🔻 Tod🏁🚩🏴🏳️: In the future battle scenario when the US can’t afford 2, or more, missiles! 😄
🔻 IonCannon47801: I think that it would be very useful in the way the west would fight, i.e giving these to a country like say, Phillipines, and having them launch cruise missiles whilst hiding deep within cities amongst civilians (like how Ukr/US/UK has adapted to Rus long range fire).
[disturbing days, when such scenarios can’t be dismissed..]
⭕🔻 DD Geopolitics: 🇷🇺 Moscow is not joking: the Russian army has acquired Starlink “killers.”

Moscow is developing various methods of deterring and suppressing Starlink , TNI writes. Thus, the Kalinka and Tobol electronic warfare systems are designed specifically to disrupt satellite communications and navigation. The Pentagon and the Ukrainian Armed Forces are sounding the alarm: for them, this is a real threat.

The authors were seriously alarmed and admitted that Russia is a space superpower. The presence of systems effective against Starlink means that Russia has already surpassed the US in these technologies. Moreover, Moscow has clearly made it clear that it considers the conflict in Ukraine decisive for its own future, and therefore will continue to improve its means of struggle.
🔻 WS: I don’t know much about this, but there have been rumors for well over a year that the Russians had been able to block Starlink on at least a local level. Wouldn’t surprise me at all if they have expanded that capability.
⭕🔻 Congressman Pat Harrigan: “China could sink the entire U.S. carrier fleet in 20 minutes.”

That’s not a headline from the future, it’s a real-time warning from our own @SecDef.

While Washington stalled, Beijing armed itself with hypersonic missiles built to cripple our military before we can even respond. Systems like the DF-17 and DF-27 weren’t developed for deterrence, they were built to strike first and win fast.

America can’t afford more complacency. We need to outpace, outbuild, and outfight the Chinese military. They’re not preparing for peace, and neither should we.
🔻 WS: He’s said this dating back before he was made SecDef.
[Young Temple Mount Hegseth keeps reminding me of a young Rummy… And former CIA Burns said whilst Ambassador to Russia that bringing in 404 into the western orbit was a Russian red line, over which blood would flow.. then promptly changed tune when in nominal power. Funny how that works]
⭕ 📜 An Epoch of Great Changes Is Upon Us

(Originally published January 19, 2024)
🔻 Francesco Sylos Labini: I think so as well
🔻 WS: To me, it is now undeniable that NATO and the EU are disintegrating before our eyes.
⭕ ⚓️ The USS Truxton (DDG-103) has transited the Suez Canal and joined up with CSG-8 (USS Trembling Puppy) in the northern Red Sea.

I hope CSG-8 does not now attempt to run the gauntlet of the Bab-el-Mandeb in order to join CSG-1 (USS Carl Vinson) in the Gulf of Oman.
📜 “Wall of Steel”
🔻 Johanna deMartin: The only reason I believe you mean that is because running the gauntlet would needlessly risk a lot of lives, but otherwise..

Who knows, maybe the PLAN out of Djibouti could mount a rescue operation in case of the gauntlet ending in fire.
⭕ ⚓️🤔 Sailor Starlink OPSEC

Given that the US Navy is engaged in active combat in the region, I find it somewhat concerning that sailors on US warships are being permitted to use Starlink. It strikes me as a complacent lapse in OPSEC (Operations Security).
🔻 C1: I could see it being OK if it was just receiving, but since Starlink has uplink …
🔻 WS: Crew members are communicating with their families.

Maybe they’re using an AI censor for all communications … but I doubt it.
🔻 Joe A.: They need their porn.
🔻 Vrai Nom: I hope for the Navy’s sake that the Chinese or Russians do not manage to break into the Starlink servers…
🔻 The Poets Of Zwan ⭕️🪶🏴‍☠️: It’s simply just the new reality of modern military. Morale would be on empty if you don’t give these kids, who plopped out of their mommas with a device in their hands, access to the internet.
⭕ Russia is also now producing in quantity the jet-engine variants based on the Shahed-238. |link|
⭕🔻 — GEROMAN — time will tell – 👀 –: The special services of Russia and Belarus are ready to act preemptively in the face of NATO activity and increasing escalation from Europe around Ukraine, said Sergei Naryshkin, director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.

We see an increase in military activity by NATO countries near our borders, we feel and see that European countries, especially France, Great Britain and Germany, are increasing the level of escalation around the Ukrainian conflict, so we need to act preemptively. We are ready for this.
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: Wait’ll he hears about Estonian seizing Russia-bound ships in the Baltic…
🔻 WS: I suspect the Europeans are engaging in a delusionary calculation that they can “stretch” Russia to the breaking point with these mad maneuvers.

They also have probably convinced themselves the US will feel compelled to “help out” if the Russians give Europe a bloody nose.
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: I think the second of these is the more salient one. And if the US doesn’t come through–for the Balts, this may be their last best chance at the white whale before NATO is too weak to offer any resistance at all.
🔻 William C: I have little doubt that elements in the US estab & media are quietly collaborating with EU actors to precipitate events that would compel the Trump Admin to enter the conflict. Might take a 9/11 grade event. Trust MI5 to conjure up something.
[and so? How would they materially stop or reverse Defeat to Russkie? Another unicorn, like activating “Article V”]
🔻 Rune: It’s not just their calculation, it’s RAND’s (Extending Russia) and Brzezinski’s (The Grand Chessboard), +they know US isn’t giving more help, because they were ordered to fight Russia while US focuses on China, by Hegseth in Feb. They don’t mind losing Euro playing pieces.
🔻 whitemonkey1: these are the same europeans that think sanctions will destroy RUSSIA

these are the same europeans that boasted their modern weapons will defeat russia in SMO

is there anything realistic coming from them ?
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ This is such ridiculous silly talk.

“What are you going to do, bleed on me?”

(Great photo below, btw. 🤣)
[links:
🔻 Zlatti71: 🇳🇱 Netherlands preparing for war, presumably with Russia — Le Monde.

76,000 Dutch military personnel — both active and civilian — have been ordered to prepare for military operations “as quickly as possible.”

The letter was signed by the highest-ranking officer of the Dutch army, combat commander Onno Eichelsheim. The general believes that the Netherlands may be forced to mobilize “faster than expected.”
– FRWL”]
🔻 Tziganesco ☢️🔳⛏️: Those are Luxembourgish, the blue of their flag is lighter
🔻 Zlatti71: Sorry for the wrong picture showing soldiers from Luxembourg. 🤦🏻‍♂️
🔻 JimDeSoutzi: They will deploy 3 battalions of figure skaters at the front line.
🔻 Seth Overdijk: I am from the Netherlands. Russia doesn’t have to worry about our military, they are a bunch of losers.
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: The Russians can be expected to launch a large offensive in Ukraine at some point between next week and the end of June, but probably after the May 9th Victory Day commemoration.

Essentially all conditions are set and they’ve been shaping the battlefield for years by now.⬇️

Let’s review:

Troops: Russia now deploys a well-trained, battle-hardened army with about a million men either already at the front or in strategic reserve in some capacity. Ukraine probably has about half that in the field, generally of far lower quality. There’s a reason the Russians are winning close combat engagements at a 20:1 ratio.

War Materiel: The Russian army mentioned above is fully equipped and has the backend production and repair capability to make up losses. The Ukrainian one is not by any measure, nor does NATO have any remaining capacity to pull another April 2022 and hand over a new one to replace losses without disbanding the Bundeswehr Heer or something… although now that I’ve said it out loud that’s far from outside the realm of possibility if the AFU starts to collapse.

Tech: Russian forces now not only deploy more and better tactical drones than the Ukrainians, they have developed and deployed at mass scale the necessary countermeasures (new tactics, armor designs, electronic warfare systems and hard-kill interceptors) to restore mobility following this latest revolution in battlefield lethality.

Logistics: The Russians have radically improved rail and road infrastructure throughout the Donbass (and particularly in Zaporozhie, this will come up later) at this point, and will be able to immediately push logistics where it is needed at the front. They have also developed a sufficiently large and precise cruise drone force so as to be able to shut down the Ukrainian rail network running to the front without much trouble and take the Dniper Bridges out of commission.

Front-Line Position: Russian forces have driven the AFU out of their long-term fortifications across several broad sectors and established four “bridgeheads” into the Ukrainian hinterland, one of which is a literal bridgehead: north of Kupyansk, south of Pokrovsk, the Velika Novoselka sector, and southwest of Orekhovo. And this is just in the Donbass, they’re also developing a position in Sumy atop the ruins of last year’s Ukrainian Kursk Offensive.

Politics: Negotiations have now been tried and have manifestly failed, with the Ukrainians ostentatiously spitting on even the most basic confidence-building measures such as the “electrical ceasefire” (which will expire in a few days). By all accounts, Russian delegates have moved on to demanding a wide-ranging, permanent postwar settlement from their American interlocutors, one in which Ukraine and Ukrainian interests does not seem to figure at all. The Russians aren’t stupid or naive in thinking the US can actually deliver any of this – they’re laying out the terms under which they want to conduct business with NATO following the conquest or unconditional surrender of Ukraine.

Pictured: A scheme of operations based on the Russians continuing to develop their shaping operations from the last year, with a main effort in Zaporozhie oriented on Dnipropetrovsk and a supporting effort in Kharkov oriented on Izyum and Balakleya. Not pictured would be a second supporting effort in Sumy. Rather interestingly, this supporting effort in Izyum would naturally develop into a reconquest of the Liman area. Of course if the AFU collapses and routs we’d be talking about Kharkov and Brovary a couple weeks after, but this represents a reasonable campaign plan for the next few months that will politically and militarily put the screws to Ukraine and potentially spark a revolution and/or capitulation. A sort of Meuse-Argonne on the Dniper, if you will.

In any event, I suspect there’s a clock in the Russian Ministry of Defense counting down to H-Hour right now. We shall have to see how things pan out.
🔻 WS: Not to worry, the Dutch will come to the rescue.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 unusual_whales: BREAKING: Donald Trump right now: We may want countries to choose between us or China
🔻 Midwest Antiquarian: Good thing we’re currently on really great terms with all of our ally’s
🔻 Emily: It’s a good thing Trump spent the last 3 months strengthening our international relationships by showing the world we’re a rock solid partner that would never betray our allies
🔻 Luke Gromen: China buys 434m smartphones and 26 million new cars a year; the U.S. 144m smartphones and 16m cars (the same # of new cars the US bought 25 yrs ago, BTW.)

There are multiple different ways this may not go the way Trump thinks it will:
[posts leading image]
🔻 Michael McNair: The important statistic isn’t their respective domestic demand figures, but domestic demand relative to domestic production – net demand is what is important to trading partners
🔻 Luke Gromen: Good point…challenge is how do we calculate that when parts are cross-contaminated in both directions?

IKD, but what I can say w/certainty is that given that cross-contamination, global supply chains will collapse (followed by the global economy) if this continues too long

⭕ retweet:
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: links leading image and:
🔻 Bloomberg: President Donald Trump called on China to reach out to him in order to kick off negotiations aimed at resolving the escalating trade fight between the world’s two largest economies. |link|
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: The rest of the quote is that if you seem desperate to make a deal, “that makes the other guy smell blood, and then you’re dead.”

Rumor has it that Trump not only didn’t write the book but didn’t even read it. Maybe he should…
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Zlatti71: For three years, I’ve been reporting on a war – a needless war that has ended, destroyed, and forever changed the lives of innocent people. A conflict unleashed at a time when tensions had been building – much like the lead-up to the First World War.

All of our lives have been thrown off course by it – and they continue to be. We watch the shadows on the wall, trying to interpret what the invisible powers – the ones who truly hold influence – are planning for our world. Hoping to recognize a pattern that might point us toward a path.

Some begin to form their own views, to question what seems obvious. Others, meanwhile, graze peacefully in the meadow, enjoying the moment – until the next shearing comes.

My goal remains to reflect the many facets of this unfolding reality as truthfully as possible – in the hope of discerning a pattern that helps me understand it all. I want to share it, have it questioned – and continue searching for what we call reason.

Thanks for being around here with me.

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ Conchita Vance-Wurst |media|

A nice recap of what happened to the Yemeni Jewish king who annihilated the Christian People of the Trench. How History rhymes! It was prophesied another Jewish tyrant would arise shortly before the Second Coming and similarly holocaust the oppressed.
PS – Axumites were themselves majority ancestrally Yemeni. It was like the Yanquis coming back to rule over Perfide, which i suppose was formalized by Eisenhower during Suez Crisis

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ US Reportedly Plans to Close Dozens of Diplomatic Missions Overseas, Including Six in Africa

🗣 “The Trump administration is considering plans to close 10 embassies and 17 consulates and reduce or consolidate the staff of several other foreign missions,” US media reported, citing an internal document from the US State Department.

The report noted that as a result of such changes, the US presence will be reduced “on nearly every continent”.

👉 In Africa, six US embassies are expected to be closed:

• South Africa,
• Eritrea,
• Gambia,
• Lesotho,
• DR Congo
• South Sudan

🗣 “The memo also suggests either significantly downsizing or eliminating the U.S. embassy presence in Mogadishu, Somalia,” the report said.

👉 Expected changes in other parts of the world:

• Two US embassies are expected to be affected – in Luxembourg and Malta
• Diplomatic missions in Grenada and the Maldives are expected to closed
• Five consulates in France, two in Germany and two more in Bosnia and Herzegovina could also be closed
• Several other diplomatic missions in Greece, Italy and Portugal could be shuttered.
• Consular support in countries with multiple consulates – such as Japan and Canada – may be consolidated in one location.

[Hallelujah!!]

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕🚨 Al-Manar correspondent:
—
Within 24 hours, zionist violations amounted to nearly 10 attacks, distributed across the following towns:

• Aitaroun (drone strike)
• Tair Harfa (prefabricated house and center for the Islamic Message Scouts)
  Sheheen (prefabricated rooms)
• Wadi al-Hujayr (drone strike)
• Hanin (drone strike)
• Aita al-Shaab (sound bomb + maintenance work on the concrete wall)
• Wadi Madhlam (3 drone strikes)
• Meis al-Jabal (gunfire)

[Ceasefire violations inside Lebanon]
⭕️ 🇮🇷🇺🇸| Iran’s Deputy FM Gharibabadi:

Saturday’s Iran-US talks set in Rome, mediated by Oman. Location is not a primary issue. We’ve agreed to location changes multiple times already, showing this side issue isn’t the priority.

He means, Iran is serious about talks and is not looking for excuses to sabotage talks.
⭕️ 🇮🇷🇺🇸| Iran’s Deputy FM Gharibabadi:

One of the reasons why Iran does not accept direct negotiations is threats and sanctions. If they threaten, Iran also has its own tools.

If 2 parties have a deep disagreement, they should first examine whether it is possible to resolve the disagreement.

Threats and pressure are incompatible with negotiation.
⭕️ 🇮🇷🇺🇸| Iran’s Deputy FM Gharibabadi:

If the US enters the 2nd round like the first round in Muscat, it won’t take long to reach an agreement. However, It’s too early to judge right now.

Witkoff’s position in the US is higher than that of a minister.

Witkoff spoke with Putin himself for 5 hours.

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🪙❗️The exchange price of gold has exceeded $3,355 per troy ounce for the first time in history
⭕️ 🇺🇸🇸🇾❗️The United States has begun withdrawing its forces from a military base located near the largest gas field “Konico” [Syria] in the province of Deir ez-Zor, the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reports, citing its own source in the US-allied Kurdish formation “Syrian Democratic Forces” (SDF).
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️Trump extends ban on accepting Russian ships in US ports for a year
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦The Russian Armed Forces have liberated Kalinovo in the DPR, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ retweet:
🇾🇪📊#Saudi Coalition & #US Aircraft Losses In Yemen War:
— Since the onset of the Yemeni war, 115 aircraft have been downed: 63 from Saudi Arabia, 22 from the UAE, “26 from the US”, and one each from Morocco, Bahrain, and Jordan.

Read the details here: |link|
⭕ Hezbollah will neither integrate into the Lebanese Army nor agree to disarm beyond the Litani River. As the conflict dynamics shift, significant (Hezbollah) pressure is expected on the Lebanese government to initiate reconstruction efforts—or face a tougher political stance.
🔻 David Said: Why should the lebanese government pay for construction for a war Hezbollah iniated? And didn’t hezbollah say to the citizens not to worry they will cover all the costs.
[the commentator appears an arab Christian. It is dolts like this, not understanding ALL are considered Amalek, that perpetuate the agony of zionazidom, and unending imperial external interference]
🔻 EM: If the government doesn’t obey Israel’s instruction to prevent the necessary Iranian money to reach Lebanon for the reconstruction.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Roberta Sutton: US is now deporting foreign students who object to Israel’s behaviour on grounds they are anti-Semitic. This breaks the US tradition of free campus dissent. Fed’l funding is cut to Univs that permit free-speech. Jews were persecuted in EUR since 13th cent. Many sent to Palestine |link|

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 🤔 I assess the probability near zero that the US/Iran “negotiations” will produce a positive outcome. And therefore the odds of a US/Israel airstrike campaign against Iran are increasing with each passing day.
[links:
🔻 Iran Observer: “⚡️BREAKING

Iran is playing the game smartly

US offer to transfer Iran’s 60% enriched uranium stockpile to third countries got rejected by Iran

The enriched uranium will remain in Iran”]
🔻 WS: 📜 A US Air War Against Iran Would Be Disastrous
[and the World waits, with full bowls of impatient popcorn, for the coming Suicide Charge of the Light Brigades. And the Yanquis shall eclipse their accursed cousins at Crimea]
🔻 C2: How (if at all) do you foresee Russia helping out Iran if the West attacks them?
Ty 🙏
🔻 WS: As I have said previously, I believe Russia (and China) will “help” Iran against the US in a fashion similar to how the US “helped” Ukraine against Russia.
🔻 KidoftheBlackHole 👿👽👾🔥🧨🧧💀💣: Well Russia already admitted they’re not going to start WW3 over it
🔻 WS: Russia “already admitted” no such thing. In fact, the Russians have explicitly warned the US to NOT attack Iran because of the potential consequences.
🔻 KidoftheBlackHole 👿👽👾🔥🧨🧧💀💣: If the “potential consequence” was hot WW3 they would just say that
🔻 WS: Well … first of all, the third (and last) world war has already begun. As for Russia’s and China’s reaction to the US launching a war against Iran, I stand by what I wrote last week on that question:
reposts: “🔸 Most people are convinced Russia and China will do nothing to assist Iran in a war against the United States.

I believe Russia and China will likely assist Iran in much the same fashion as the US has assisted Ukraine against Russia.

I believe Iran is that important to them.”
🔻 Hazkaz2001: I think the opposite will happen. Yemen taught American a lesson that air power is useless. If USA attack Iran same way they did to Yemen just air power, we would be riding horses to work by now. No oil is leaving the Middle East in case war with Iran
🔻 WS: “I think the opposite will happen.”

Huh?

Your post is incoherent.
🔻 Hazkaz2001: An agreement will be reached no war
🔻 WS: Iran will agree to no terms that dictate they relinquish their nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

If the US backs off its demands, war can be avoided.
[and backing off its demands is incompatible with hegemonic maintenance, therefor….]
🔻 Abou Mitri: In fact , a war is the only way to distract the masses during the current tariff war which is going to create a lot of economical and financial chaos in the near future.
🔻 WS: “Distraction” of this type only “works” in the context of “easy” wars.

But now there are #NoEasyWarsLeftToFight.
🔻 Timothy Leary’s Dead 🏴‍☠️🌱🐑🐕 🎣🎇👀🐈‍⬛⚠️🎲: I think that the US getting its nose bloodied by Iran would be beneficial in the long run.
🔻 WS: Agreed. But it is hard to predict what the US reaction would be to the loss of several strike aircraft and powerful Iranian counterstrikes against US warships and bases in the region.
[reposts his older: “I doubt the US will nuke Iran.

But, if they do, I am convinced it will mean war against Russia and China, who will then move decisively — and in concert — to secure their strategic depth.

Engagements will escalate; aircraft and ships will be attacked.”]
🔻 Timothy Leary’s Dead 🏴‍☠️🌱🐑🐕 🎣🎇👀🐈‍⬛⚠️🎲: Yes, especially with the clowns now running the show. Unfortunately, I think a US strike is inevitable considering the incompetence on the part of the administration and Congress. Hubris will be in charge as usual.
🔻 Şah İsmail Hatayi: I saw some outlets that mention iranian bavar air defence system could detect f-35 stealth aircrafts. If this is true, airstrike campaign against iran would hurt more seriously.
🔻 WS: Detecting and tracking “stealth” aircraft is not the trick. Targeting and killing them is the challenge. The Russians can almost certainly do it. The Chinese can probably do it.

Iran claims the Bavar-373 can track, target, and kill stealth aircraft at distances up to 300 km.
[well the hypothesis is gonna be tested every which way, and soon]
🔻 Şah İsmail Hatayi: I think it would not be wrong to draw the following conclusion from what you have written. Iran can at least keep heavy bombers like the B-2 out of its airspace
🔻 WS: I think it would better stated that Iran can very conceivably defeat US stealth aircraft that gets within 200-300 km of the high-value assets they are defending with layered, integrated air defenses.

The US would achieve some successful strikes, but at a high cost.
🔻 Timothy Leary’s Dead 🏴‍☠️🌱🐑🐕 🎣🎇👀🐈‍⬛⚠️🎲: I know that they have also taken delivery of some of the SU-35s that they had ordered from Russia. They could make things interesting, especially if armed with R-37M AA missiles with 400km range or P-800 Oniks anti-ship missiles.
It won’t be a cakewalk.
🔻 WS: ⁉️ Does Iran Possess A Credible Su-35 Threat?

I have seen no credible evidence so far that Iran has received any meaningful numbers of Su-35s — possibly only 2 at this point. Nor is it likely there are many Iranian pilots sufficiently well-trained to form a squadron, even if air frames were available.

That said, it is possible they have received more than we have been led to believe, and that they have a enough well-trained pilots for them.

If so, even a dozen Su-35s could wreak havoc on a US/Israel airstrike — perhaps most meaningfully by attacking the many refueling tankers such an airstrike would necessitate.

They would also pose a potent threat against US strike aircraft — particularly the vanguard of SEAD platforms.

I would also not summarily dismiss the possibility that Russia would “supplement” a partial squadron of Iranian Su-35s with Russian Su-35s launched from southern Russia and refueled in the southern Caspian Sea — from where they could range in an arc stretching from the Gulf of Oman well into western Iraq.

Many will reflexively reply: “No way would the Russians dare to do such a thing!” Maybe they’re right. I would simply note that Russian-piloted MiGs flew against American aircraft in both Korea and Vietnam.

The Russian “cup of wrath” towards the Americans has been filled to overflowing as a result of the Ukraine War. I would not put it past them to exact a little revenge if given an opportunity like a big American airstrike against Iran.
🔻 Şah İsmail Hatayi: I understand much better. Thank you. I hope they don’t try such stupidity, but it looks like they will do.
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: Su-35s’ve been so long coming that one is tempted to wonder if they’ve been training in Southern Russia, so as not to alarm Saudis, for example. The cup of wrath must indeed be overflowing. Su-35s firing on US tankers though, given the easy ride NATO recon has had in Black Sea?
🔻 Timothy Leary’s Dead 🏴‍☠️🌱🐑🐕 🎣🎇👀🐈‍⬛⚠️🎲: The Iranian’s Yak-130 trainers were delivered in September of 23. That should be plenty of time to train some pilots.
🔻 Timothy Leary’s Dead 🏴‍☠️🌱🐑🐕 🎣🎇👀🐈‍⬛⚠️🎲: I heard that they received 6 of the 24 they ordered, but that was a year ago. I believe Iran ordered them before Algeria, which had some delivered last month. I can’t find any definite public info. I guess we’ll just wait and see.
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ Once upon a time, H I Sutton wasn’t a hopelessly silly propagandist. A propagandist, yes. But not a hopelessly silly one.

Alas, that was a long time ago.
[links:
🔻 H I Sutton: **Ukraine’s Winning Cards Against Russia In The Black Sea**

#Ukraine can continue to dominate the #Russia Navy in the Black Sea. It is a space where most of the cards are now in Ukraine’s hand.” |link|]
[hey, it takes WORK, serious work, to get the EUroCrazies to suicide themselves. They are being left breadcrumbs and delicacies, on the path. “Trust the Plan.”]
🔻 Rokossovsky Respecter: I kept looking for 2023 on that post.
🔻 RodinaSun: Sutton == Dream World Barbie

⭕🔻 Director Michael Kratsios: The Golden Age of American innovation is on our horizon, if we choose it.

Today we shared the Trump Administration’s technology policy agenda.
🔻 Ashton Forbes: WTF?!?

Kratsios casually says we intentionally stagnated our technology in the 70s and we now have tech to manipulate space and time.

Wow.🤯 |link|
🔻 WS: “Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”

― Euripides
[another filthy satanic mockery. The little devils know the real score. They’re not in charge of their OWN fate, much less Time and Space.
NB. note the Black N Red motif – as with BiDon’s satanic speech in the City of Brotherly Love. A degenerate cesspit to the dregs]
⭕The “Killer Bunny” takes on an airliner. |media|
[links:
🔻 Breaking911: United Airlines flight engine catches fire after takeoff due to a rare RABBIT strike” |media|]
[this appears another satanic ritual and mockery. Bugs Bunny, and rabbits in general with their long ears, are an occult metaphor for the two horned devil. So a calling card of risible sabotage or a simple accident mis-attributed…]
🔻 Marcia Olson: A rabbit strike?
As in the rabbit jumped up hi enough to get sucked in?
Strange!
🔻 Mark Valorian: How do you spend 75 minutes in the air with an engine on fire??
🔻 DaVe.: Can we just stop gaslighting people with fear porn?

These planes are designed to handle this situation. The safety equipment worked perfectly.
No need to panic
🔻 Chris1966.: Any news on the rabbit?
🔻 Brandon: No wonder China is selling off their fleet of Boeings. Who could blame them?
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: 🫡 Is that the “soft landing” we have been waiting for?

I had a feeling bunnies would be involved. ✌️
🔻 Johanna deMartin: So @Boeing is now just having ATCs call Boeing’s design and manufacturing incompetence a ‘rabbit’?

That seems speculative
🔻 zed z: Poor little bunny 😔
🔻 Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn: Hoppy Easter!
🔻 Andrew: Unfortunately this flight crew was not packing a holy hand grenade of Antioch.
⭕🔻 Kelley B. Vlahos: NEW from me at @amconmag : We are bleeding our weapons stockpiles in the Red Sea and the Middle East and even military insiders are now pushing back. |link|
[Why? Because the Moshiach will be birthed no matter the cost, even the total sacrifice of the combined West. Some being more equal than others..]
🔻 Michael Vlahos: The word needs to get out, and the word is this: American military power is — no more or no less — a performative instrument of US world authority. Yet it is also a fragile rod. See Kelley Vlahos’ takedown: US military strength has winnowed to swat the most wretched of the earth!
[there goes the risible Deep State lingo — “performative”. Their language is undigestable. And what happens to those flagging senile instruments beyond even the boost of Viagra??]
🔻 WS: #TheBigAttrition continues apace.

Bear in mind, whereas the Yemeni can launch salvos of maybe two dozen antiquated backyard workshop missiles and drones at a time, Russia and China could very conceivably launch salvos of 500+ top-shelf precision-guided missiles and drones.
⭕‼️ If you missed this back in February, you now have an opportunity to remedy your oversight.
[links his older: “‼️ Malcom Kyeyune expounds on the hopeless insanity and essentially irremediable state of affairs in the US military here in 2025.

Lengthy, but highly recommended. |link|”]
🔻 Emily: For someone who lives outside the US but still near its sphere of influence it is very, idk how to describe it, calming maybe? that their military apparatus is on its way to collapse and with no solution in sight
🔻 what do you think of this one vega?: great article, thanks. i think the worst part is that i don’t know a single person who isn’t still being duped by the illusion of strength put on by the US military, and both of my uncles were engineers at major defense contractors.
⭕🇱🇻 “Once more unto the breach!”
links:
🔻 Nina 🐙 Byzantina: “Is Latvia getting ready for its Russian offensive with a million euros’ worth of sabres 🗡️🤣?” |link|
🔻 American Unexceptionalist: Seeing as it’s Latvia, I’m guessing that all 900,000 sabres are just for rattling.
🔻 Franki B: Well they had a Teutonic order, Brotherhood of the Sword.
Baltic Slavs are staunch & sadly will be the next lot of mince meat dragging, Russia’s next generation into this war
Europe has a hard-on for this entire region
🔻 🇧🇷 🇭🇺 SilentGhost ✝️🇻🇦: Shouldn’t they be investing in shovels instead? 🤔
🔻 WS: I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there. If you can’t laugh at that, you need to get outta here. |link|
🔻 Stephen Johnson: Somehow “…or stop up the wall with our Latvian dead…” just doesn’t scan quite so well, eh?
🔻 D.P. Jones: Latvia has experienced war a lot more recently than we have.
🔻 Halide Edip: you would think they wouldn’t act so stupid
🔻 D.P. Jones: I know very little of them.
🔻 Halide Edip: you haven’t seen their belligerence to their neighbor to the east?
or their crackdown on native Russian speakers?
🔻 WS: The Latvians were among the worst Nazi-collaborators of WW2.
⭕ 📜 How to Lose A Carrier Strike Group in An Afternoon
🔻 TheCakeisaLie: Just one?
🔻 Sophia: Admiral Fabuloso. |link|
[I’ve discussed this sad little specimen with the Napoleon Complex on and off during the last years. Grandson of the Greeks ethnically cleansed by the Turks from ancient Smyrna on Anatolia at the tail of WW1, he’s devoted his career to revenge and suiciding the Turks at Russian hands. And he shall get it]
⭕ People correctly follow gold as an indicator of trouble ahead, but there is a very good reason the “powers-that-be” work so hard to contain the price of silver. When silver finally makes new all-time highs, serious trouble is imminent.
🔻 Sniper: Uncle will…. What u think about this space and time manipulation they talking about at the White House ?… I suppose now we can get the tariffs to teleport too 😭😭😭
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: My only reservation with the above statement is the word at the end: “imminent.”

Based on what I have been able to gather, serious trouble has already started by the time Silver achieves new all-time highs.

I’m entirely certain why that is the case.

However, in general (based on consumer and investor behavior analysis), considering a set of comparatively valuable/desirable, competing commodities, when the most valuable/desirable commodity achieves a new unusually maximum value/price, where its market desirability diminishes, investor focus shifts to the next valuable/desirable commodity, thereby driving up its value/price, and the process continues to the next comparatively valuable/desirable commodity in the set.

If this explanation holds, then the price of Gold is a more advanced indicator of trouble compared to that of Silver.

That said, I agree with @imetatronink’s instinct to buy Silver when the ratio of Gold to Silver approaches the highest Gold to Silver ratio on record (somewhere between 100 and 120?).
🔻 blindpig/1966: How does the 71% of industrial users and the futures pressure they control to contain price, get overwhelmed though. In gold the buying pressure from central banks for a decade and heavy retail starting to come online, not to mention Chinese domestic demand via gold bank accts, plus now their insurance companies are hedging all their contracts with gold just started purchases. I get gold demand overcoming the short paper contracts but in Silver, I’m not convinced this time. Throughout history, silver WAS MOSTLY monetary with cutlery and vases but with the industrial demand these days, the majority of buyers don’t want higher prices.
[the end of fiat is on the near-horizon. And after those unforgivable western shenanigans, most will want money that rings and makes sound when they rap their knuckles on it]
⭕ No one seems to understand that the definition of “enemies of the state” can easily change from one presidential term to the next in America. |link|
🔻 TJSMCMLXII: The translation is ‘Anyone that might potentially oppose the will of the Oligarchs’ whichever of their Parties is in charge.
🔻 Rokossovsky Respecter: That would be so hilarious to see Trump admin officials end up in Salvadorean prisons for the rest of their lives.
🔻 Tony TT: The same racists MAGAturds who are cheering Trump on right now will be the same ones screaming hysterically when a Dem president deports their ‘homegrown’ arse to a gulag in a foreign country.
⭕ ⚡️ The US has deployed 5 carrier strike groups, 100s of airstrikes from regional bases, and now is using much of its B-2 bomber fleet — all in a futile effort to break the Yemeni blockade of the Red Sea.

And people believe Iran would be a pushover. 🤦‍♂️ |link|
🔻 𝑬𝑺𝑲𝑶😇”But by the grace of God I am what I am”: Things are lining up now in God´s timetable.
Here is what have been shown:
A BIG EARTHQUAKE coming to California approximately till June 20-22.
Causes, naturally, BIG CHANGES; especially in world economy. USA will obviously take the biggest hit.
Time of great confusion and disarray will follow.

BRICS 2025 summit 6-7 July is going to introduce at the same time a new payment method.
Tables will be turning in the world economy and monetary policy.
New global payment methods will emerge.
New kind of order will be taken place.
A lot of uncertanties involved of course.
Following…
🔻 Philip Soos: Will, remember in Dec-2023 when the legions of liberal idiots enthusiastically stated the reason why the US doesn’t have public health care is because the government instead spends on the military, which would severely punish the Houthis & end the blockade? It’s been over a year.
🔻 Woolly Rhinoceros: Iran would be supplied by China and Russia too. We would be there for 30 years and still lose.

007 let us know how the Tariff-first act against the Celestial Empire shall end… “Let the Sky fall”

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇩🇪🇷🇺🇺🇦Rheinmetall CEO Papperger on sending Taurus missiles to Ukraine:

They won’t change anything in the war. Taurus is not a game changer. Besides, Ukraine already has cruise missiles with a similar range.

Classic artillery ammunition is a game changer. Only with it can Ukraine keep the Russians at bay.
[so when the new Reichsführer pulls the trigger, it will be for the same reason as Orange raising Chinese tariffs to 245%: a demonstration of visceral hatred and intent on the Last Drang against their perceived top enemy]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that Russian Armed Forces fighters have completely captured the settlement of Preobrazhenka (DPR).

💠@TASS – Agencia rusa de noticias:
⭕ 🇪🇸🇷🇺 The Spanish frigate Álvaro de Bazán monitored the passage of Russian military ships through the Mediterranean Sea, according to a statement from the Iberian country’s General Staff.

According to the military, the Spanish Navy ship was carrying out surveillance and tracking tasks for the Russian submarine Krasnodar in the waters of the eastern Mediterranean. Subsequently, the route of two other Russian vessels, the frigates Almirante Golovko and Almirante Grigorovich, was monitored, Madrid reported.

According to the report, Álvaro de Bazán is part of NATO’s permanent maritime grouping (SNMG-2), which provides a “permanent maritime presence” for the military bloc in the region.

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ Saudi’s Defense Minister, Prince Khalid bin Salman, arrived in Tehran this morning.

This is the highest-level visit by a Saudi official to Iran since the resumption of diplomatic relations. Prince Khalid is scheduled to hold a series of important meetings with senior Iranian military and political officials.

Regional issues including Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq & Persian Gulf security/stability are on the table.
[this is son of the king, and brother of the heir presumptive]
⭕ Saudi’s Defense Minister was in fact invited by Iran’s Chief of Staff, Mohammad Bagheri, hence why he was welcomed by him personally.
⭕ As Iran’s FM visits Moscow to deliver Putin the letter by Ayatollah Khamenei, Qatar’s Emir is also in Russia.

He met with Putin moments ago at the Kremlin.
[a flurry of activity by the desperate desert bedouins. Too little too late. Their suzerain decided on the Murder-Suicide. What now?? Adios, modernity..]

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸 Explosion Destroys Part of Northrop Grumman Facility in Utah

An explosion occurred at a Northrop Grumman plant in the U.S. state of Utah, according to Newsweek. One of the facility’s buildings was destroyed. The cause of the explosion has not been disclosed.
⭕ 🇷🇺🇪🇪 Russia Warns of Response to Any Estonian Actions Against Its Ships in the Baltic

Russia will respond proportionally to any threats or risks posed by Estonia as a NATO member if it takes unlawful actions against Russian vessels in the Baltic Sea, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated.
[as Yemenis and Palestinians like to say, “he who has warned, is excused” from subsequent responsibility for retaliation..]
⭕ Negotiations aimed at resolving the conflict in Ukraine are advancing with considerable difficulty, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.
[iow, Orange crew refuses to concede a lost war. Onwards holy warriors…]
⭕ Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman visited Tehran, the highest-ranking Saudi visit to Iran since 1997.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Oman is refusing to allow U.S. Navy vessels and carrier strike groups to refuel and replenish stocks in Omani ports
[this is not mere defiance nor impudence of a usually compliant GCC stooge. It is now existential, as those floating coffins, and all who refit and replenish them, are BFTs under the persian gun-sights just across Hormuz. So we can take this as additional metric for the closeness of the Murder-Suicide]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Vladimir Putin holds talks with the Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani |media|
[what a tie! Who does it remind you of? The trumpet of the Moshiach?? It is a Big Club…]

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕️ Busy day for Iran: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei received a Saudi envoy who conveyed Riyadh’s desire to advance bilateral relations and reaffirmed the Kingdom’s rejection of any use of its territory for attacks against Iran. Meanwhile, President Vladimir Putin received a letter from Sayyed Khamenei outlining proposals for strategic cooperation and addressing nuclear-related concerns.
⭕️ Iran was reportedly preparing to target Israel’s nuclear facility at Dimona with hundreds of hypersonic missiles when President Donald Trump intervened, sending a diplomatically worded message to Tehran proposing a path toward negotiation.

💠 @Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ The Trump administration proposed the forced displacement of Palestinians from their land in Gaza, actively traveling around the world—excluding its allied Western nations—to persuade other countries to accept the Palestinians they intend to displace while simultaneously preventing any Palestinian migrants from entering the U.S. This prohibition includes several countries whose citizens are barred from entering American territory.

Furthermore, America has not included European nations or any of its Western allies in its appeal to host those it seeks to relocate, despite the ongoing and horrific genocide and ethnic cleansing being perpetrated by the Israeli state against the Palestinians in Gaza. This brutal campaign has been waged for over a year and a half, utilizing deadly American weaponry, resulting in nearly a quarter of a million Palestinians killed, injured, or missing.

The administration’s narrative, claiming that this displacement is voluntary, is deeply disingenuous. The scale and brutality of the actions taken against the Palestinian people cannot be ignored, and yet there is a lack of shame in their portrayal of this situation. The reality remains that this is not about voluntary migration, but rather a systematic attempt to erase a people from their homeland.
⭕ ✍ The crossings established by the expanding Israeli occupier in the Gaza Strip, such as the Nitsareem crossing and the Morag crossing, along with control over the Salah al-Din Corridor (Philadelphi Route), cut through the region from east to west and divide it into three isolated areas. This fragmentation severely disrupts familial ties and communication among the residents of Gaza, tightening the noose around them and making life unbearable in an attempt to force them to abandon their homeland and land.

After the Israeli occupation has destroyed approximately 80% of residential and civilian infrastructure, it imposes realities on the ground through brutal force to implement its plan of establishing tribal and familial local authorities under the supervision and guidance of the occupying forces. These areas, which are divided and isolated by the crossings or corridors, obliterate the geographic continuity of the Gaza Strip.

This strategy serves a dual purpose: on one hand, it aims at forced displacement, and on the other, it seeks to erase the Palestinian cause and the national rights of the Palestinian people, along with the establishment of their national state—a right enshrined by international legitimacy since 1947.
⭕ More than 68 U.S. airstrikes in northern, central, and western Yemen in the last 24 hours.
⭕ 🔴 Our hearts ache for the situation in Gaza, the crimes against it, and the suffering of its people, even as we stand with them, facing one of the world’s largest armies on their behalf and doing everything in our power to support them.

So, how do you feel, those of you who abandon her? Do you see what we see? Do you even have hearts at all?
#We_Will_Not_Abandon_Gaza
⭕🇾🇪The important thing is that we, as the Yemeni people, have not abandoned Gaza, nor have we stood by as spectators. Let them bombard us until they grow weary; the outcome of our struggle is victory.

By God, we would rather be killed for the sake of Allah a thousand times than endure the shame of abandoning the children and women of Gaza.

Blessed are those who share in Gaza’s sacrifices, struggle, glory, and rewards.

#We_Will_Not_Abandon_Gaza

💠 @BhadraPunchline:
⭕🔻 Dmitry Medvedev: Chancellor candidate Fritz Merz is haunted by the memory of his father, who served in Hitler’s Wehrmacht. Now Merz has suggested a strike on the Crimean Bridge. Think twice, Nazi!
🔻 DD Geopolitics: 🇩🇪 If you wondered why Medvedev called out Merz today… here is some context.

Friedrich Merz, soon to be Germany’s chancellor, is drenched in his family’s filthy Nazi stench.

His grandfather, Josef Paul Sauvigny, joined the Sturmabteilung—Hitler’s brutal “Brownshirt” thugs who beat Jews and crushed dissent—in 1933, became an NSDAP member, and as Brilon’s mayor, plastered streets with Hitler and Göring’s names.

Merz allegedly called this Nazi scum “admirable” in a 2004 speech during a local election campaign.

Later, in a statement to the Berliner Zeitung, Merz described his grandfather as an “impressive personality” and a “successful mayor.”
🔻 MKB: Aren’t they all the same from the master race with the filthy Nazi pedigree — Ursula von der Leyen, Annalena Baerbock, Friedrich Merz?
⭕ 1/2 Trump-Putin summit? Steve Witkoff reportedly discussed it with Putin at St. Petersburg April 11. Witkoff later told Fox News that he had a “compelling” 5-hour meeting, and Putin appeared open to lasting peace in Ukraine.  |TASS|
⭕ 2/2 Witkoff: “I think we might be on the verge of something very important for the world”; saw a deal “emerging”; “a possibility to reshape Russian-United States relationship through some very compelling commercial opportunities that I think give real stability to the region too.”
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Yawen Xu: 🇨🇳🇻🇳China and Vietnam sign $8.4 billion game-changing railway deal!

During President Xi Jinping’s two-day visit to Vietnam this week, China and Vietnam signed 45 cooperation agreements — with a major highlight being a $8.4 billion railway project connecting China’s Yunnan province and northern Vietnam.

This 391-kilmoeter railway will link the city of Lao Cai on the border with China to Hanoi and the key port city of Haiphong.

It’s worth noting that the railway will use standard-gauge tracks (1435mm), matching China’s high-speed rail system – a move that enables smoother cross-border freight and passenger services.

Construction is set to begin in late 2024 and be completed by 2030.

This is a major step forward for regional trade and China-Vietnam connectivity!  |media|

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Trump says he expects a response from Russia regarding the ceasefire proposal in Ukraine by the end of this week
[That would make it about the April 20th birthday of Herr Merz’s idolized predecessor .. and it ain’t cause the Beautiful & Damned are nearly outta Time.. numerology and the Big Club!]

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ Ballistic missile launched from Yemen triggers air raid sirens across central Israel.

Air raid sirens echoed across central Israel, including Jerusalem, after a ballistic missile was launched from Yemen. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that air defense systems are actively engaged in intercepting the missile.
⭕️ 🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, stated that a ceasefire in Ukraine is not realistic “at this stage.”

“We had an attempt at a limited ceasefire concerning energy infrastructure, which was not observed by the Ukrainian side. Under these circumstances, it is simply unrealistic to talk about a ceasefire at this point,” he told reporters.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇸🇾 U.S. Begins Troop Drawdown in Northeastern Syria, Closes Three Outposts

The United States has begun withdrawing hundreds of troops from northeastern Syria, according to a report by The New York Times on Thursday.

The move includes the closure of three out of eight small U.S. military outposts in the region, with total troop numbers expected to drop from around 2,000 to approximately 1,400, the report said, citing two senior American officials.

🐻 They came there pretending to fight ISIS—and now that ISIS is literally in power, they’re leaving.
[This is not about ISIS. Its about Iran. Urgent need to reduce corn-fed hostages in too many Big Fat Targets.. Another metric of impending Murder-Suicide]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇸🇾 A large U.S. military convoy has withdrawn from the Conoco Gas Field base in northeastern Deir ez-Zor, heading toward the Al-Shaddadi base in southern Hasakah, Syria.

This comes as The New York Times, citing U.S. officials, reported that the U.S. military has shut down three of its eight small operational outposts in northeastern Syria. |media|
⭕ 🇺🇸💥🇾🇪 Massive fires are raging at Yemen’s Ras Isa port on the western coast after U.S. airstrikes targeted the facility in an apparent attempt to destroy it. |media|
[What are the odds the main oil terminal named “the Head of Jesus” was incinerated on Good Friday by the Last Satanic Empire?]
⭕ 🇺🇸💥🇾🇪 U.S. Central Command released a statement regarding the strikes on Ras Isa port in Yemen:

Destruction of Houthi Controlled Ras Isa Fuel Port

The Houthis have continued to benefit economically and militarily from countries and companies that provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. The Iran-backed Houthis use fuel to sustain their military operations, as a weapon of control, and to benefit economically from embezzling the profits from the import. This fuel should be legitimately supplied to the people of Yemen. Despite the Foreign Terrorist Designation that went into effect on 05 April, ships have continued to supply fuel via the port of Ras Isa. Profits from these illegal sales are directly funding and sustaining Houthi terrorist efforts.

Today, US forces took action to eliminate this source of fuel for the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists and deprive them of illegal revenue that has funded Houthi efforts to terrorize the entire region for over 10 years. The objective of these strikes was to degrade the economic source of power of the Houthis, who continue to exploit and bring great pain upon their fellow countrymen. This strike was not intended to harm the people of Yemen, who rightly want to throw off the yoke of Houthi subjugation and live peacefully.

The Houthis, their Iranian masters, and those who knowingly aid and abet their terrorist actions should be put on notice that the world will not accept illicit smuggling of fuel and war material to a terrorist organization.

🐻 “This strike was not intended to harm the people of Yemen…” – In reality, harming the people of Yemen was exactly the purpose of these strikes.
⭕ 🇺🇸💥🇾🇪 U.S. airstrikes on Ras Isa port have killed at least 17 workers and port staff, with dozens more injured.
[This is the main oil sea terminal for all north Yemen]
⭕ The death toll from the US bombing of the Ras Isa oil facility has risen to 33 killed and 80 wounded, according to local media.

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel, under the current government, does not appear intent on ending the war. Instead, it is pursuing a limited agreement or temporary truce, primarily to regroup and resume military operations in Gaza at a later stage. Israeli leadership has shown little interest in Hamas’s latest proposal, which includes the release of all Israeli captives in exchange for a complete ceasefire and a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
⭕ The death toll from a US military airstrike on the Ras Isa port in Yemen’s Hodeidah governorate has risen to at least 38. An estimated 102 others have been injured. The strike targeted one of Yemen’s main oil facilities, leaving dozens of port workers, paramedics, and civilians among the wounded.
⭕ The US occupation forces in Syria have reduced their troop presence from 2,000 to 1,400, but there are no signs of a full withdrawal anytime soon. Don’t be misled. This is not an end to the occupation, and false hopes should be avoided.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Last night, American aggression targeted the Ras Issa port in Hodeidah, killing port employees. Airstrikes subsequently struck ambulance crews and civil defense teams that arrived in the area

In an announcement, U.S. CENTCOM claimed the objective was to ‘degrade the economic power of the Houthis, who bring great pain upon their fellow countrymen,’ as the U.S. continues to cause civilian deaths every night. |media|
[note the traditional Anglo double-tap on the first responders]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Hamas Ready for Ceasefire Talks in Gaza Strip, Release of Hostages, Head of Movement Says

Hamas is ready to negotiate and release Israeli hostages, “in exchange for a complete end to the war and the complete withdrawal of the occupation forces,” said the head of the movement in the Gaza Strip, Khalil al-Hayya.

Meanwhile, over 30 people were reportedly killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip on Friday morning.

On March 18, Israel resumed strikes on Gaza, citing Hamas’ rejection of the US ceasefire extension. It also cut electricity to a Gaza desalination plant and blocked humanitarian aid.

A video from social media allegedly shows the aftermath of a Friday Israeli strike in northern Gaza |media|
[the steady holocaust of arabs continues, every single day….]
⭕ Russian Orthodox Church Denounces Moldova’s ‘Blatant’ Actions in Blocking Access to Holy Fire from Jerusalem

“The advisors of the Moldovan authorities, obviously far from Christianity, think that they will solve some political task of their own by this. Do you think that you will separate people from Christ, prevent them from rejoicing at the Easter holiday?” Russian Orthodox Church spokesman Vladimir Legoida noted.

The bishop of the Moldovan Metropolis was not allowed from Chisinau to Israel for the Holy Fire, reports said earlier.

☝️ note how even at this late hour, when all arabs are being merrily holocausted as “amalek” by Anglo-Zionist savages, how the PetroSheikhs serve them in Syria! It says it all, wrt to sincerity of approach to Persia, BRICS, or multipolarity.. they’re mere kept chattel, or concubines, bereft of basic self-preservation, like the wider disintegrating realm of which they are a unit

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ 🇾🇪/🇺🇸 BREAKING: The Yemeni Armed Forces have shot down an American MQ-9 ‘Reaper’ drone in Sanaa.
⭕ The Yemeni Armed Forces have announced that they targeted the USS ‘Carl Vinson’ aircraft carrier for the first time since its arrival, using cruise missiles and drones.
[willkommen an CENTCOM!]
⭕ Trump asked the new US ambassador to Israel, Huckabee, to place a memorial plaque in his honor on the Western Wall.
[will he request special adrenochrome prepared by choice chaste and chosen vestal virgins to be brought back from the Holy Land too?? What days]
⭕ The Iran-US talks will be held at the Omani embassy in Rome
[they better stop trolling the Orange wrecking crew. These simpletons do have a most shallow reservoir. They could end our world through reflexive exasperation!]

💠@Yemeni Armed Forces:
⭕ Syed [Al Houthi, leader of Ansarullah]:

• During the month, the armed forces carried out 78 operations, including operations deep inside the Israeli enemy entity and 33 engagements with a US aircraft carrier.
• The arrival of a new aircraft carrier, B-2 bombers, and the Diego Garcia base are clear evidence of the failure of the American enemy in Yemen.
• We will never accept that our response to God be below the level of American permission.
• Our operations continue, and Sunday’s hypersonic missile operation was a Passover gift. [LOL]
• I call upon you with God’s call: “Go forth, whether light or heavy.” Go forth as part of your jihad in response to God Almighty, in support of the oppressed Palestinian people and in order to frustrate the morale of the enemies.

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ ❗️The US will stop trying to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine within days unless there are clear signs that a deal can be reached – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
[what does this crap even mean??? The complicit pimp wipes his hands of the spent prostitute? But I bet the liars will continue the ISR and pumping weapons til the last EUroCrazy croaks]

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Iran Doubts US Sincerity on Iranian Nuclear Program, Foreign Minister Says

More statements by Abbas Araghchi:

• Unrealistic US requests will only make it less possible to reach agreement on nuclear program;
• Iran rules out holding direct talks with US;
• Iran cannot hold direct talks with us while Washington holding policy of maximum pressure against Tehran;
• Iran hopes Russia to play role in any possible agreement between Iran, US on nuclear program;
• Iran expects Putin to pay visit to Tehran this year.

⭕ Iran-US Talks on the Country’s Nuclear Program Must Take Into Account Tehran’s Lgitimate Interests, Lavrov Says

More statements by the Russian foreign minister:

• Russia ready to facilitate negotiation process between Iran, us on Iranian nuclear program;
• Lavrov discussed JCPOA with Iranian foreign minister, Russia welcomes dialogue between Iran, US;
• Iran ready in full to seek agreement with us on its nuclear program in framework of treaty on prohibition of nuclear weapons;
• Russia considers “dangerous” attempts to add to US-Iran talks issues unrelated to nuclear program;  [i.e. demilitarization of ballistic missiles/drones, abandonment of regional allies, and ending civilian nuclear program — all satanic superfluity sought by demented zionazi internationale, led by the abjectly possessed Orange Camacho Gang]

💠 @GASPARYAN:
⭕ Mercenaries of the farm who left for hell from the Kursk region. The most and by a large margin belong to the whore – 1963 corpses.
[Almost 5k in this single direction of a huge front! And only over eight months. Satanism is a sad dead end for the haters]

An Iskander breakfast in 404, a Fateh dinner off the shores of the Persian Gulf! The curious diet of modern nazis…

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ Explosion destroys Northrop Grumman building on remote ‘Rocket Ranch’ |link|
⭕ cont. thread:
⁉️ Does Iran Possess A Credible Su-35 Threat?

I have seen no credible evidence so far that Iran has received any meaningful numbers of Su-35s — possibly only 2 at this point. Nor is it likely there are many Iranian pilots sufficiently well-trained to form a squadron, even if air frames were available.

That said, it is possible they have received more than we have been led to believe, and that they have enough well-trained pilots for them.

If so, even a dozen Su-35s could wreak havoc on a US/Israel airstrike — perhaps most meaningfully by attacking the many refueling tankers such an airstrike would necessitate.

They would also pose a potent threat against US strike aircraft — particularly the vanguard of SEAD platforms.

I would also not summarily dismiss the possibility that Russia would “supplement” a partial squadron of Iranian Su-35s with Russian Su-35s launched from southern Russia and refueled in the southern Caspian Sea — from where they could range in an arc stretching from the Gulf of Oman well into western Iraq.

Many will reflexively reply: “No way would the Russians dare to do such a thing!” Maybe they’re right. I would simply note that Russian-piloted MiGs flew against American aircraft in both Korea and Vietnam.

The Russian “cup of wrath” towards the Americans has been filled to overflowing as a result of the Ukraine War. I would not put it past them to exact a little revenge if given an opportunity like a big American airstrike against Iran.
🔻 Johanna deMartin: The Russian sphere of influence losing Central Asia is now coming back to bite them. The Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan US bases can swiftly become a thorn in the entire Asian Century.
🔻 WS: I think it is easy to forget how acutely diluted US military power is around the globe. Just because you nominally have a “base” somewhere doesn’t mean you can staff it and equip it with anything even approaching a meaningful force.

What can the US possibly do with these bases?
🔻 Johanna deMartin: You are the expert (and I don’t mean that derogatorily).

If you tell me that a regional evacuation base cannot be turned into Bagram or Al Udeid overnight I believe you, and that actually impacts the way I’d estimate the viability of the Asian Cooperation if the US goes even more fully ham.
🔻 WS: Pull up a map and ask these questions in the context of US bases in the heart of central Asia:

1) What is the purpose?
2) How can they be supplied?
3) Who in the neighborhood would oppose them, and how strong are they?

In my view, it is a material and logistical impossibility. |map|
🔻 Rune: The main purpose of most US military bases globally is CIA operations, rather than conventional military ones. Excellent discussion of this in L. Fletcher Prouty’s The Secret Team. These bases in Central Asia are to support CIA proxies and help in potential political capture.
🔻 Ben: Russia has a military base in Kyrgyzstan & Tajikistan and they also have an integrated air defense agreement as well!
[and China by some accounts has a presence in Afghan too? What days]
🔻 Shivan Mahendrarajah: Probable scenario under Biden, but with Trump eager to strike a deal with Russia over Ukraine, will Putin risk his ire? 🤔 Isr. is Trump’s one true love.
🔻 WS: No one would ever know if they were Iranian or Russian pilots in those Su-35s. And even if they did, what are they gonna do about it?

I don’t believe AT ALL that Putin cares about Trump’s “ire”. Trump should be worried about Putin’s ire.

⭕ If this report is accurate, it suggests that the US Navy has no intention to refuel and replenish in Bahrain.

Smart move.

As I have said many times, the Persian Gulf is effectively an Iranian pond, and the US Navy could not operate there in a war scenario against Iran.
[links:
🔻 Current Report: BREAKING:

Oman refused to allow US Navy vessels and carrier strike groups to refuel and replenish stocks in Omani ports.”]
🔻 Mamad: They are refuelling in UaE ports and they are in Persian gulf too.
🔻 WS: You are misinformed.

Not since CSG-9 (USS Teddy Bear CVN-71) made a brief resupply port-of-call in Bahrain last summer (which the Iranians generously permitted), no US Navy warships have transited the Strait of Hormuz; none are in the Persian Gulf.
🔻 Mamad: Doesn’t this count?
This is how they have been doing it for a while now. |link|
[Fujairah is NOT inside the Persian Gulf – see this map]
🔻 WS: I rest my case.
🔻 WS: My argument has long been that Iran is the gatekeeper of the Strait of Hormuz, and that, in a scenario of risk of war, or war itself, the US Navy could absolutely not operate in the Persian Gulf.

Resupplying a CSG via a single USNS cargo ship is a confirmation of that reality.
🔻 Christo: Us carriers can be refueled in Yemen’s Aden harbor.
Yemen is a gas station with a flag, since USS Cole times.
[I cannot believe the insouciance of some! As if the doomed US Navy would dare to float within a thousand km or so of any Yemeni shore at this point during the ongoing holocaust of the region]
🔻 Pablo Hernández Ramos: The US should gtfo everywhere.
[patience. This is mere months away]
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Alex Cole: Not gonna lie, China trolling the White House is hilarious. 🤣
[the Chinese EMBASSY in the den of the Beast. What times. And what is with the spox-creature?? It must know the provenance of the said outfits. A silent plea for forgiveness and forbearance from the demented Orange clique?? Mad “It was Worth it” Madeleine used to signal with brooches, so…]
🔻 Mitch Mitchem: Everything in America is from China.
🔻 Kayn: @grok summarize
🔻 Hung Nguyen Tuan: Chinese embassy is trolling really well XD
🔻 Nick McLarty: Is that a dress made in China or is that a Chinese knockoff of a dress made in Italy.
[what if I told u even the ones “Made in Italia” were made by Chinese labor in specially-created free trade zones in the Milan region? The same ones attacked by AZE with covid in early 2020, almost concurrent with assault on Persia]
🔻 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐊𝐎𝐌𝐒𝐀 | 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇵🇱🇺🇦: No need for China to troll the White House, they do most of the work themselves. |link|
[that chin implant to craft the oval facial layout is so in your face… abominations, lock, stock and barrel]
🔻 Russ Shimon: Cook the frauds
🔻 Daniel Tenner: They’re baiting her.

Either she says they are super expensive luxury brands and looks out of touch…

Or admits she bought stuff from China
⭕🔻 MenchOsint:
Yemen’s Ansarallah Leader:

The arrival of a new aircraft carrier, B-2 bombers, and the Diego Garcia base are clear evidence of the failure of the American enemy in Yemen.
🔻 WS: Hard to argue with the logic of his argument.
reposts his older: “⚡️ The US has deployed 5 carrier strike groups, 100s of airstrikes from regional bases, and now is using much of its B-2 bomber fleet — all in a futile effort to break the Yemeni blockade of the Red Sea.

And people believe Iran would be a pushover. 🤦‍♂️”
⭕ cont thread:
🤔 I assess the probability near zero that the US/Iran “negotiations” will produce a positive outcome. And therefore the odds of a US/Israel airstrike campaign against Iran are increasing with each passing day.
🔻 Stockley Karlmichael: I’d say on the contrary, deal is almost sealed; Iran has a good offer and will take it. They are currently finalizing details with Russian help and advice.
Russians didn’t want a nuclear Iran either, so they’ll be good guarantors at least with Israel’s military-intelligence wing
🔻 WS: What “offer” are you talking about?
[and the Iranian FM said the drowning Yanquis were unserious in front of Lavrov. There are NO offers acceptable to Iran, and vice versa]
⭕🔻 Chris Martenson:
“Stop the lies!” say democrats. Where were they when Fauci was spreading lies about the #covid vaccines?
[this guy’s very name gives me PTSD. What a wasted time of my life. Either a limited hangout or an aching hypochondriac. He wore masks BEFORE Orange declared a FEMA national emergency on the numerologically charged 3.13.2020, nevermind before any mandate by the crashtestdummy]
🔻 WS: My all-time favorite Richard Feynman quote succinctly encapsulates everything I have come to understand about “The Science” over the course of my many years:

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
🔻 Fecund Stench: The good news is they are working on an oral application of the GLP-1 agonist, so I can stop injecting Gila Monster venom.
🔻 WS: Yes, but have they synthesized an analogue of peyote that doesn’t make you puke before the ride begins? 😏
🔻 Fecund Stench: Not to my knowledge. Of course, I stopped reading Casteneda and fooling with Mescalito decades, ago.

All my friends are dead, now. They never listened to their wives.
🔻 #Liderazgoinnovador: Technology is the opium of the people
[even the Rooskie is making and distributing mRNA like candy. What a crazy world. May we survive them all, madmen one and all]
⭕🇺🇸 Skedaddle

Multiple reports confirm the US is withdrawing troops from Syrian bases.

It occurs to me the immediate motivation for this move is that the bases where these troops are currently deployed would be counterstrike targets if the US launches attacks against Iran.
🔻 The Surgeon: Where are they heading?
[to fewer, better protected bunkers and ratholes, within the region. USUK came to die on the very rich soil of the Holy Land and shall encounter the Destiny they seek]
🔻 WS: Probably Greenland. 😏
🔻 C2: 1400 troops are remaining – for the time being, at least. Also, isn’t this something Trump wanted to do in his first term?

(don’t mind me, just trying hard to stay optimistic)
🔻 WS: They are currently withdrawing from NE Syria — the most extended and vulnerable US bases.

I would expect a further concentration of dispersed US forces in the region.

They have been damn fools to leave them so dispersed and isolated for so long in the face of rising threats.
🔻 C2: I totally defer to you there – I know so little about our situation in Syria. I just hope to God this isn’t a sign that war w/ Iran is imminent.
[say yer prayers laddie]
🔻 C3: Any benign reason you see other than preparation for war?
🔻 WS: I suppose it is possibly a smart defensive move preparatory to withdrawing all US forces from the Persian Gulf region.

There is quite literally ZERO possibility the US can fight a land war against Iran. Anyone who believes otherwise is misinformed, delusional, or both.
🔻 C3: One reason I can see is fully handing over the partition of Syria to Erdogan and Bibi.

Is the base used for the anti air defense network – perhaps Trump admin is removing assets that would assist Israel to deter attacks?
🔻 WS: The purpose of the bases was to secure the production and shipment of the oil being plundered from Syria all these years.
🔻 C3: Unfortunately it worked. Assad couldn’t compete with the Jihadi salaries.
🔻 Barmak: Syria’s border with Israel and Lebanon is now under al-Qaida control. Al-Qaida is shielding Israel from Iran, so US presence is not needed. US still has tens of thousands of troops close to Iranian border.
🔻 WS: This is misinformed nonsense.
[it is far from nonsense…]
🔻 Barmak: Your weird theory is that US is running away from Iran because they want to attack Iran. US has tens of thousands of troops in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, that are much closer to Iranian border. I suppose US will abandon those base too.
🔻 WS: The US has no more than about 35k combat effectives in the region.

The US fielded an army of ~1 million soldiers to attack Iraq in 1991. How many would the US need to take on Iran in 2025?
[who said the plan is to take Iran?? One can create black holes without taking anything]
🔻 Barmak: Iran has a bucket of 60% peaceful enriched uranium. They can move that bucket to a secret location in 2 minutes. Problem solved. Iran is not scared of empty threats. The are only negotiating because they want to sell oil.
🔻 WS: Non sequitur.
🔻 Kristal Met Dejmon: Maybe there is a plan for massive air campaign and not for ground invasion. That would be reason enough to pull the troops from those bases but fact is, all other bases in region are well within the reach of Iranian ballistic missiles.
🔻 Kenan Beg: So many pieces coming together .another one here. Israel and US won’t wait much after Witkoff’s meeting with Iran on Saturday
[links:
🔻 Suppressed News: ⚡️”JUST IN:

The United States continues to transfer hundreds of bombs to Israel through an unprecedented airlift not seen in years.

Within 24 hours, 9 American cargo planes landed at Nevatim Airbase carrying hundreds of bombs.

The bombs delivered are intended to enable Israel to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities if negotiations fail.

Source: Israeli Broadcasting Authority”]
⭕ ‼️⚓️ The US Navy has been unable for many years to simultaneously put to sea more than THREE combat-capable carrier strike groups. They lack sufficient crew and air wings to deploy more than 3 of the 11 US carriers.

They can only deploy 50-60 surface warships at any given time. |link|
🔻 IQWACP: So, they move crew from one to another?
Aren’t they exhausted?
🔻 WS: I’m sure it’s a rotation of 5 or so relatively complete CSG crews and air wings. Otherwise not even 3 CSGs could be simultaneously deployed.

In any case, there is much evidence that CSG crews ARE exhausted by the demands of deploying just THREE CSGs at any given time.
🔻 Mist – Free speech 🥩 🥚: The US political class doesn’t understand how overstretched the military is. The bluster will flip to sheer panic when the myth of US power is revealed. The fall of the US$ chapter one in this story.
[wouldn’t count on the stormtroopers keeling over. They got alotta assistance from Dope Inc. The last batch of nazis fought backwards all the bitter way down into the sturdy Berlin Bunker]
🔻 AJ: Looks like the Brits are going to sail one of their carriers through the Red Sea in a few weeks. Operation Highmast.
🔻 WS: Source link?
[i gave it a few days ago. But maybe it was disinfo by some limey rag]
⭕ cont. thread:
🔻 Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret.: My latest in @Bloomberg @opinion |premature spew|
📜 How to Lose A Carrier Strike Group in An Afternoon
🔻 Rak Vulture: Do you see any viable means to protect a big surface ship against such an attack in the near or middle-term future?
🔻 WS: Remain well out of range of your adversary’s firepower.
🔻 Rak Vulture: That’s a good one!
How about directed energy weapons? I know you need Megawatts of power and the US military’s experiments with lasers didn’t take fruit.
So ships are sitting ducks and use weapons with longer range than the adversary’s ASMs?
🔻 WS: There is ZERO credible evidence that the US has “directed energy weapons” capable of protecting ships from the threats they would face in a peer-adversary combat scenario.
⭕ ⁉️ Why is the US Navy unable to break the Yemeni blockade of the Red Sea?

According to scrupulously unnamed “official sources”, the Financial Times reports IT IS CHINA’S FAULT! 🤦‍♂️

“Evil China” has helped to defeat the US in Ukraine AND in the Red Sea! |link|
[Oh Amarynth! That is where the psyop originated that China was supplying ISR to Yemen, lol. Another Limey rag. The demented needed to justify ANOTHER imperial loss. And did so by doubling down to slander the target of the very next Drang… unbelievable. A degenerate lying cesspit paradigm beyond redemption. It wouldn’t do to admit a buncha brown shoeless warriors without even a navy chased them off, eh?? And may have the self-sufficiency and wherewithal, after a friendly blueprint or two, courtesy of Persia?? So let us switch narratives, back onto our favorite Red Menace of the Yellow Peril]
🔻 Daisy_B: US, keeping up appearances
🔻 Michael Adu: Not Iran’s anymore?
🔻 Anti Cringe Warlord: Previously it was Russia btw
🔻 EvaG: Trump admin inadvertently admitting China is more powerful than US – since it’s always there in every war to defeat the US !!
🔻 Gary L: It will always be someone else’s fault. So it will never get any better
⭕ I was not hardly the only one, but I was among the relative few who argued as early as late 2023 that the ATACMS missile was proving to be an embarrassing bust.

Now that view has become the consensus “received wisdom”.

The Russian Iskander has been an impressive “game-changer”.
🧵 Empty Quiver
🔻 Caligula’s Horse: In light of the above (with which I agree), 1) does it follow that higher-tier Russian missile defense systems are capable of similar success versus American nuclear capabilities; and if so, 2) what would this mean for the empire at all costs cult?
🔻 WS: It does “follow”.

Although I have deliberately refrained from writing on this topic, I have been thinking about it ever since it became apparent the Russians were routinely shooting down Ukrainian Tochka-U SRBMs in early 2022.

No doubt their capability extends to other realms.
🔻 Caligula’s Horse: I suspect that one reason for this war is that given Russian technological advances in the strategic weapons realm, the Empire wanted an outpost from which it could launch cruise missiles (ie non-ballistic, terrain-hugging weapons) that could fly under Russian radar and AD cover
🔻 WS: Iskander obliterates US HIMARS launcher, GMLRS rockets, and crew.

Russian response time for these kinds of strikes is now down to mere minutes from target detection to destruction. |link|
🔻 Orlando: I don’t know if you have this data Will, just ask: How many Iskander may have been intercepted by Western (OR non-Western) Air Defense assets in Ukraine during these 3 years?
🔻 WS: Very likely ZERO. I know of no credible claims to the contrary.
🔻 Orlando: I have asked you because I consider you to be someone very well informed, I have not heard that they may have shot down any Iskander, including the grotesque lies of the Ukrainians. I almost died laughing when I saw V. Klistchko showing the Kinzhal they had shot down.
🔻 MrX: They had to sell thousands to Poland!
🔻 WS: There were never “thousands” to begin with, and Poland received fewer than 100.
🔻 MrX: I meant the ammunition and launchers.
🔻 WS: You are misinformed. Poland has received only 20 HIMARS launchers and fewer than 100 ATACMS missiles. How many of those were subsequently delivered to Ukraine is, at this point, unknown.
🔻 MrX: Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak in 2023 approved a framework deal to buy 486 launcher-loader module kits for its M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems. Each launcher can hold 6 rockets
🔻 WS: You need to look up the difference between ATACMS and GMLRS. And then look up the difference between “delivered” and “promised”, and the projected delivery dates for launchers that haven’t even been built yet (and may never be).
[exactly. Precisely why the Poles and other panicking east Europeans chihuahuas are busy buying south Korean hardware and ammo like hotcakes. They bought the suicide from an Uncle Schmuel who himself had the pants around the ankles, but found out too late they came to a fight to the death with blanks “Made in USA”]
🔻 Mike Mihajlovic: Indeed. Saga of ATACMS is 90% of marketing and 10% of value.
🔻 Beto Ochoa: But we have secret weapons that will disintegrate fabric of time.
⭕🔻 Arnaud Bertrand:
This might be the biggest sign of the failure of Trump’s tariffs yet.

The Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index is probably the best metric to understand if the U.S. is “bringing manufacturing back home”.

And it’s absolutely cratering: -26.4, one of the lowest readings in memory.

Which makes sense: to manufacture stuff, you need inputs, which often come from imports. In fact according to the US National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) a whopping 56% (!) of goods imported to the U.S. are manufacturing inputs (nam.org/issues/trade/). You get rid of those, or tariff them so they dry up, and the result is that you destroy American manufacturing.
[links:
🔻 First Squawk: “U.S PHILADELPHIA FED MANUFACTURING INDEX (APR) ACTUAL: -26.4 VS 12.5 PREVIOUS; EST 2.2”]
🔻 Simulacra66 – 🌞🌛: the entire premise of bringing manufacturing ‘back home’ after all the manufacturers/bankers/ and power players decided to take it to China and elsewhere in the first place has to be one of the more crazy and stupid attempts to show a ‘power move’ when there is absolutely nothing there to show..

manufacturing is not here, in the US, by design..
no one ‘stole it’ from us..

this is crazy, delusional shit meant for moronic American consumption..
🔻 WS: “Trust the plan.”
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Kathleen Tyson: Iran’s scientists and engineers have been independently developing technologies no one else has or knows about since 1979.
Iran cooperation with Saudi on defence is an important signal for the future of West Asia. |THREAD|
🔻 Kathleen Tyson: Iran leads the world in STEM graduates at 44%, and 60% of those STEM graduates are women. That’s a lot of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
[links:
🔻 Policy Tensor: “STEM graduates (% all graduates). US: 18%, Iran 44%, India 33%, Russia 31%, Germany 37%.”]
[China: Bing didn’t put it on the map, at 23%]
🔻 Kathleen Tyson: They are planning the end of imperial coercion and violence.
🔻 Kathleen Tyson: A new global security order is emerging by regional diplomacy and cooperation, not extortion and war.
🔻 Fauxtograferprophet: ElectroMagnetic devices can be surprisingly powerful.
🔻 Kathleen Tyson: Yes, Iran had EMP in 1970s. No way to know what they have now.
[buncha corn-fed lads will learn for us all, just after these messages…]

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ The Russian government has officially terminated its cooperation agreements with Norway, Sweden, and Finland related to the Barents region.
⭕ BREAKING! U.S. Airstrike Hits Yemeni Capital Sana’a with Heavy Explosive Bombs

The airstrike targeted the Al-Hafa area in the Al-Sabeen district, in the heart of the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, with multiple raids.
[this was overnight. CentCom is deliberately understating the savagery. They listed some 350 “strikes” in last month, whereas a single day had about 90 recorded by Yemenis. (!!) Wouldn’t do to publicize your Satanic Drang so openly]
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇩🇪Maria Zakharova:

“Friedrich Merz: “Germany will take responsibility again – in Europe and in the world. Not loudly, but reliably. Not arrogantly, but in a spirit of partnership”

“Again” – is this a repetition of what historical era, I would like him to clarify?

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️ Russian troops have liberated the village of Oleshnya in the Kursk region, the country’s defense ministry reports
⭕ ❗️The Russian army has liberated the settlement of Shevchenko in the DPR, the country’s defense ministry reports

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Hezbollah Secretary general Naeim Qassem:

“Those who think we are weak are delusional. We are giving diplomacy a chance, and this chance is not open.
The first problem in Lebanon is not the resistance’s weapon but rather the Israeli occupation. We will not allow anyone to disarm the resistance. Those who calls for disarming Hezbollah are serving the Israeli enemy and this is a strife that will not take place. The Defense strategy is not about disarming the resistance, but rather it’s a discussion of the diplomatic, economic, and military levels of an integrated defense policy.
The ceasefire agreement is limited to the area south of the Litani River, we have been fully committed to the deal.”

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ This post continues to age extremely well.
[links his older:
“‼️ “DOGE”

For the record:

“DOGE” is a mirage. Nothing meaningful and enduring will come of it.

It’s nothing but an illusory bone thrown to the gullible masses.”]
🔻 WS: links:
🔻 Spencer Hakimian: “It’s pretty insane that DOGE is already voluntarily lowering its guidance by -97% and it’s not even Easter yet.

One of the biggest failures in political history.

And it was *so* obvious both ex ante and ex post.” |depreciation|
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: I wonder how Trump will be able to maintain the facade that he is a MAGA President for 4 yrs! Even one year looks a stretch now…
[he will compensate through emotional reality show – such as his coming next head wound… and subsequently demonic bloodletting on the world]
🔻 Chrishenrywang: At least the dog is cute.
🔻 Pavel Velikhov: The USAID thing was nice though
🔻 WS: Meh. They’ve just rebranded it and shuffled the funding from one nefarious program to others they like better.
🔻 Pavel Velikhov: Sure, but the in the process a lot of fun details were exposed
⭕ retweet:
Bit by bit, the West is waking up to the brutal reality that Russia is an adversary in a whole different league. Meanwhile, the brainwashed Ukrainians are being crushed on the battlefield, despite billions in Western aid and endless propaganda.

It’s all been for nothing , Russia is steamrolling ahead.
And for the smug elites and deluded masses in the West, that truth is going to hit like a punch to the gut. |link|
⭕🔻 Russian Market: US READY TO RECOGNIZE CRIMEA AS RUSSIA’S IN UKRAINE PEACE DEAL
🔻 WS: I initially (February 27, 2022) thought this would be the most likely outcome of the war …
[reposts his leading older map]
🔻 WS: But I am increasingly persuaded that everything but the blue on this map will be annexed by the Russians: |link|
⭕ 🧵 Post-War Disposition of Territories

I initially (February 27, 2022) thought this would be the most likely outcome of the war … |THREAD|
🔻 Игорь KирилловZV🇷🇺 🇧🇾🇷🇸🇨🇳: Minimum program?
🔻 WS: More or less. But I suspect that we have reached a point where the “maximum” has already entered the game.
🔻 readysetgo888@yahoo: That is what I am thinking as well. Hopefully, Russians are smart enough to realize, that is what they need to do if they want to get on top of this war.
🔻 6180339X: Odessa and Mykolaiv are going to hold independence referendums, just like Lugansk and Donetsk, they are just waiting for Zelensky’s junta to lose power.
🔻 Carlos_Banger: Yeah, if there are Russians boots on the ground somewhere in Ukraine now, it’s probably gonna be Russian territory forever. Not sure how that goes the other way.
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: Plausible map, but wondering now if
a) RF’ll want to keep at least E. bank of Dnieper all the way into Belarus, to police UKR efforts to send nastiness (mines, marine drones, toxins) down the river, & to stay within artillery range of Kiev.
b) little blue strip to Transcarpathia?
🔻 Brandon: Very likely. But why not just cede Western Ukraine to Poland?
🔻 WS: I don’t see that they need to “cede” anything. They can simply let things happen in the natural course of events.

Let Poland, Hungary, Romania et al. sort out the problems left over from the end of WW1.

That said, the Russians will oppose the militarization of the region.
🔻 Walter Kurtz: Dniepr, a large river, would be easy border to control from Bielorussia to approx Kmremetchouk.
Kiev would be divided with chekpoints on the bridges.
Difficult border would be west of Dniepr
🔻 WS: Maybe @witte_sergei would like to update his map.

Either way, I only meant it to give a “general idea” of the question.
🔻 Walter Kurtz: No problem.
Anyway, I think it’s a very long way till Odessa…
🔻 WS: As I have been saying all along, I am convinced Odessa to the Danube, and Transnistria, will be reassimilated into Mother Russia effectively without a fight.
🔻 Cat of Estonia: Genuinely wondering, why you think so? Putin hasn’t said that, and militarily they are have not managed to occupy even the four provinces they annexed.
🔻 WS: I think most people have failed to listen closely to what Putin (and many others) have been saying all along. The map above is consistent with those things, as Putin also touched upon in the Tucker Carlson interview.
⭕ 📜 Fall Like A Thunderbolt

Over two and a half years later, this commentary is as relevant as ever — especially now that we know the degree to which the US/NATO have been running the show all along, and the Russians have lured them into multiple traps.
⭕ cont. thread:
🇺🇸 Skedaddle

Multiple reports confirm the US is withdrawing troops from Syrian bases.

It occurs to me the immediate motivation for this move is that the bases where these troops are currently deployed would be counterstrike targets if the US launches attacks against Iran.
🔻 Karen: Trump wants Bagram back. Maybe they already got it back..Seems like a good spot to have to poke at Russia, China & Iran some more. Oh,Trump wants US weapons back! Like the ones more likely than not sold in black market! |media|
🔻 WS: This thread (including most of my replies) speaks specifically about the absurd notion of the US attempting to move back into Afghanistan:
reposts his older, “🤦‍♂️ Absurd

In the context of a war against Iran, there is ZERO strategic logic for the US to control Bagram Airbase.”
⭕🔻 U.S. Naval Institute:
#OTD in 1988, the U.S. Navy engaged in its largest surface battle since WWII when it launched Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian targets. The operation was in retaliation to the Iranian mining of the Persian Gulf that had severely damaged the frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts. |media|
🔻 WS: 🤦‍♂️ 1988 was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Now an entire carrier strike group is bottled-up in the northern Red Sea by the Yemeni, and the US Navy would be unable to transit the Strait of Hormuz, nor operate in the Persian Gulf in the context of a war against Iran.
🔻 William C: There is no shifting the US myth of overwhelming military might. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, are summarily consigned to dusty history books & documentary reels, while Desert Storm & such are pumped as glorious victory. I’m not sure the sinking of 3 Carriers would move the needle
⭕ 🔥 Yemen MQ-9 Score Update — XX

The Yemeni, using domestically produced missiles, have shot down yet another MQ-9, bringing the total to TWENTY over the past year+.

The US MQ-9 Reaper is obsolete on 21st century battlefields, even against the supposedly lowly Yemeni.
📜 Scorch Marks in the Sand
🔻 Craig Corcoran: And so are aircraft carriers!
🔻 TheCakeisaLie: At 56-100 million a pop fully loaded and armed (according to Deepseek which may or may not be accurate) that’s a lot of money wasted to facilitate Israel’s genocide.
🔻 Dirty Lowdown Rabble: It isn’t a battlefield weapon, the MQ-9 is an assassination tool used to murder the unaware and momentarily exposed.

The fact that Trump is spending this much money – hundreds of millions – misusing this device – is ironic, given the screeching about ‘waste’ in government.
⭕ cont. thread:
I was not hardly the only one, but I was among the relative few who argued as early as late 2023 that the ATACMS missile was proving to be an embarrassing bust.

Now that view has become the consensus “received wisdom”.

The Russian Iskander has been an impressive “game-changer”.
🔻 C1: From what I heard, the ATACMS was quite effective at first but they were overused so, over time, the Russians were able to map their radar profile and then intercept them. But I am no military expert.
🔻 WS: The ATACMS went from about a 25% success rate for the first few weeks to <5% in the last year of their use in Ukraine. They were an abysmal failure.

The Storm Shadow cruise missile was just as bad, if not worse.
[it is astounding how EVERY weapon system, and most platforms, were profiled and rapidly digested in the two hot battlefields. And this the Last Drang of the International Pirates Coalition. There is no time nor means nor societal vigor and reservoir to innovate, rebuild, refit and relaunch a next Drang on mankind. They’ve blown the wad. They’re reduced to naked Rules-based Terrorism, to be hunted down as the criminals they stand exposed, without even a fig leaf]
⭕🔻 Z.O.V Military:
Five Russian stormtroopers appeared on the horizon and a crowd of English-speaking mercenaries ran back shouting: “There are five of them!” |media|
🔻 WS: Apparently the fun safari they were promised didn’t quite meet their expectations.

And presumably, this helmet cam footage came from one of them who didn’t run away quite fast enough.
🔻 jojon_s@jojono: Kalian dibayar untuk melawan rusia tp kenapa kalian lari seperti melihat hantu yg menakutkan 🙂
🔻 Ragy Eleish: The guys in the footage are more than 5. He is screaming as if there are 5 Godzillas.
🔻 PaintSandRepeat: I like the part where they bunch up while running away.

Making it more economical for any Russian drone operators
🔻 DonkeyGopnik: Aussie accent
🔻 Tlacuache Táctico de Asalto.🇲🇽: And spanish words too, one of them was asking for torniquete turniquets
[so likely the ubiquitous Columbians mercs, infesting most Anglo-Zionist battlefields – from Gaza, Sudan, etc]
🔻 Kaleidoscope: 😂 they thought it will be easy money…
🔻 DJSmith: There has to be at least 20 ‘mercs’ in the vicinity — and they’re running from FIVE Russian troopers.

I guess they thought it would be a great idea to go to Ukraine and live out their Grand Theft Auto fantasies in real time.
🔻 Xxx Yyy: “There are five of them, but ten of us alone.
🔻 Framed Mollusk: THERE ARE FIVE OF THEM AND 100 OF US ARE ALONE! RUN!!!”
🔻 Foxexpress: South of England accents, young.
🔻 Geronticus: Lily-livered spineless little ghouls, can dish it out but they can’t take it.
🔻 Mobile Infantry 🚜: Who would have guess that watching youtube mil porn videos would lead to one’s inglorious death.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Chuck Petras: Modern airspace picture per US Army airspace summit (Feb ’25)
🔻 Armchair Warlord: In other news, it’s the Year of Our Lord 2025 and Big Army thinks they’re going to be able to fly tons of aircraft beyond the front line on leisurely hunts for the enemy.

It’s actually kind of depressing to realize just how little official attention has been paid to Ukraine.
🔻 InfantryDort: Hilarious innit?
🔻 Armchair Warlord: It’s like some weird official conspiracy to pretend that nothing at all has happened in Eastern Europe in the last three years.
🔻 Parmigiano Rilnigano: you just know this dumb picture was someone’s magnum opus
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Some dude spent an entire pay period making this slide and getting it laboriously approved.

This slide probably cost the taxpayer something like $3000
[yeah, we each deal with unbearable psychic trauma in our way little way. Some just burrow deeper into the Rabbit Hole]
⭕🔻 Walmart Battle Orc:
Just saw a quote on a TikTok video abt SU-57 vs F-35

“T-80 turrets have more flight time than an SU-57.”

😭😭😭😭
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Su-57s have more aerial kills right now than every active pilot in the US military combined, so there’s that…
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Nobody tell the USAF that the Russians probably have real flying aces right now, who got their kill marks against people they trained lmao
🔻 Heath H: Bullshit.

If they did, it would have been on every propaganda blog.

The Russians are such a joke they don’t even try to make the claim.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Three years in and the UAF hasn’t gotten a single air-to-air kill, btw.

Just figured you’d like that statistic. 😉
🔻 WS: I still regularly see posts claiming that the Russians have never achieved air dominance over Ukraine.

#TheImaginaryWar will live on in the hearts and minds of these people forever and a day.

Tomorrow is April 20th, Hitler’s BD….. I recall [HT?] saying this period, the Aries-Taurus cusp is a disturbing period. Anyway, the nazis set a deadline for Russia by the 20th, which by happenstance, SHALL be observed for 30 hours, beginning 2.5 hours ago. But it shall grind on, and likely within hours. THEN? The Dam should break, and perhaps more than in Europe

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — ❗️’The prevailing Israeli assessment after the second round of talks is that the United States has abandoned its demands to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program’ – Channel 12
⭕ — ❗️ The Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs is in Rome, to immediately be updated about the progress of US-Iran talks

Yesterday, the Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, as well as the Mossad Chief, met with U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in Paris before the talks, in order to influence his positions ahead of the talks in Rome.

Make no mistake: Israel is actively trying to influence and sabotage the US-Iran nuclear talks, and Benjamin Netanyahu wants a military strike on Iran no matter what.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran and the United States agreed in Rome on the principles and goals of a future agreement on the nuclear deal, with technical group talks scheduled to be held in Oman, Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi said.

According to the Iranian Foreign Ministry, a new round of talks is scheduled for April 26.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Iran-US indirect talks in Rome have ended as planned, sources say the atmosphere was ‘positive’ once again
⭕ ❗️🇺🇸/🇾🇪 BREAKING: The Yemeni Armed Forces announce in an official statement that they have shot down another American MQ-9 ‘Reaper’ drone above Sanaa, the second in 24 hours, and the 25th in total
⭕ 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The third round of US-Iran talks will be held next Saturday, April 26th
⭕ 🇮🇷/🇺🇸 Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi: ‘Talks between nuclear experts of our countries [US & Iran] will begin on Wednesday in Oman, and on Saturday we will have the third round of talks, also in Oman, which will discuss the findings of the experts’
[note the tempo, as between the anxious crew of Orange and Russkies … those began with cheery noises too, before rapidly going south]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Iran’s 2,000 kilometer range ‘Sepehr’ OTH Radar has finally become operational, satellite imagery seems to confirm

The radar array is one of Iran’s most advanced over-the-horizon radars, more than 1,5 kilometers in length. It can detect takeoffs of individual aircraft or ballistic missile launches at a range of up to 2,000 kilometers, including inside the entirety of Israel.

Only a handful of countries have mastered such advanced OTH radar technology, and the radar provides Iran with valuable early warning of an imminent attack.
[So much for having become weakened with loss of Syria as first layer early warning. And note the new platforms and hardware and MIC products that are unveiled by the week. Why would Persia pour so much of its scant wealth into War – if it didn’t expect it, and the imperative to prepare, even if its people must eat grass in the meanwhile?? Some of the most bestial aggression in human history were prophesied for them in the bitter End Times. They know what comes]

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸❔ Foxconn: Why Trump’s Plan to Bring Manufacturing Back to the U.S. Fell Flat

2025 is not Trump’s first attempt to “bring manufacturing back home”: in 2017, he stood in Wisconsin and called the new Foxconn factory “the Eighth Wonder of the World.” The promise? 13,000 jobs and a high-tech manufacturing boom, in exchange for nearly $3 billion in tax breaks.

But years later, the reality is hard to ignore: the factory employs only about 1,100 full-time workers, and the grand plans for advanced LCD screens quietly vanished. As reporter Chuck Quirmbach put it:

“After the groundbreaking, Foxconn soon started to scale back its projections, saying business conditions had changed for the larger computer and television screens they originally promised to make.”

Even local business leaders are clear-eyed about why the plan didn’t work. Dale Kooyenga, president of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, pointed out that tariffs did more harm than good:

“The problem with some of these tariffs is that it rolls up into the manufacturing cost. And it’s not only the cost — this is $600 billion, which is the largest tax increase in U.S. history if you consider tariff taxes, which nearly all economists do.”

And the uncertainty created by tariff wars and shifting global conditions left factories — and workers — in limbo. Kooyenga summed it up perfectly:

“No one knows what’s going to happen at factories and how long any tariffs will stay on.”

Kooyenga also noted that Wisconsin has a lot of what’s called “advanced manufacturing” – items made overseas by lower-wage workers are put into more sophisticated products in the US.

Despite all the big speeches and groundbreakings, the Foxconn plant in Racine County stands as a quiet reminder of the gap between political promises and economic reality.
[these appear insincere “vanity projects” used to rope in insouciant bobble-heads pining for the return of manufacturing. Like singing similar performance chorals of being “a peacemaker” shortly before ramping up the savagery and bringing on the Last War. The reality is THEY LACK TIME. And are NOT interesting in the prior templates – now realizing they can neither grind the civilizational-states into submission, nor wait them out. All this protectionism talk is a decent dose of euthanasia for the home front, to prevent them from being a headache until it is too late and the dirty deed done.]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ The guys from Ansarullah celebrating another scorch mark.
📜 Scorch Marks in the Sand
🔻 C1: They have too many MQ9, which is outdated. There are no buyera, even from Africa.

As long as Pentagon keeps them in operation, new fleets will not have defence budget allocation. Hence, Yemen is the burial ground for these outdated older version MQ9s. Both side wins.
🔻 WS: Nonsense. They don’t intend to get them shot down. They simply have nothing else to use for the job at hand.
🔻 Spaceman 🇺🇲: Reminds me of how useful the Bayraktar TB2 drones were against Russia.

The original game changer. Lol
🔻 WS: 📜 Scorch Marks in the Sand
⭕ cont. thread:
⁉️ Does Iran Possess A Credible Su-35 Threat?

I have seen no credible evidence so far that Iran has received any meaningful numbers of Su-35s — possibly only 2 at this point. Nor is it likely there are many Iranian pilots sufficiently well-trained to form a squadron, even if air frames were available. ….
🔻 ᛉ 𝓣𝓸𝓪𝓭 𝓞𝓯 𝓦𝓪𝓻 🇺🇸: A lot of Su-35 capability depends on getting data-link from ground based radar and AWACS, as well as the types of missiles it is armed with.

It’s still a strong aircraft without those things, but it’s a significant disadvantage to not have them.
🔻 Ashwin Baindur: Iran and Russia have a defence agreement signed a few days before Trump came to office. So why do you feel that Iranian Su-35s won’t have these especially in the case of a conflict?
🔻 WS: Most people assume the Iranians are too dumb to develop sophisticated radars and data links between air platforms.

I would not make that mistake.
🔻 Gary L: I’ll say again, the Iranians I have worked with were the engineering and creative stars of the corporation. Yes, possibly a selective sample, but probably not.
⭕ 📷 Great Basin National Park

As the crow flies, about 100 miles from our house, just across the Utah / Nevada border in the heart of the Great Basin. Probably one of the less-visited national parks in the United States.
⭕🔸 Secondary Indicators

Russian Army volunteers are running ~1500/day in 2025.

Major Russian political, diplomatic, and military leaders exude unprecedented confidence and satisfaction in the state of affairs.

These are highly meaningful secondary indicators of Russian losses.
reposts his older, “‼️ Clues That Matter Most

I have often been asked how I can be so certain that the Russians have not suffered nearly as many as even the lowest western estimates of their casualties.

It’s because that reality is confirmed via indirect indicators:

– Russian volunteers are still running at about 1000/day, as they have been for well over a year

– Putin garnered 85%+ approbation in the recent election

These are some of the most meaningful and accurate indications of Russian military success in the ongoing war.”
🔻 Canadian Tire Battle Ork: It’s the prisoner exchanges that give it away. Recently they’ve almost been 10:1.
[closer to 20:1]
⭕ cont thread:
🔥 Yemen MQ-9 Score Update — XX

The Yemeni, using domestically produced missiles, have shot down yet another MQ-9, bringing the total to TWENTY over the past year+.
🔻 C1: On the other hand they haven’t shot down any fighter jet / bomber yet which have been bombing them at will – which doesn’t bode well for Iran, if Yemen is a test-run of a “mini-Iran”.
🔻 C2: We don’t know if they have shot down jets or not, it’s not like the USA would admit to it. The Houthis shot down Saudi f 15s and other modern fighters when they fought. I’m pretty sure we have lost some f 18s over the last couple years and it’s been covered up.
🔻 WS: This graphic is now about a year old. It reflects adversary losses over the past decade+ of war in Yemen. |link|
🔻 Kristian Thyregod: “We’ve shown a capability to go far, deep and big,” Hegseth said.

Yes, Sir.

Ohh, wait.
🔻 WS: So long as no one shoots back.
🔻 Kristian Thyregod: Ouch.

True dat.
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: Yup, that hole is big, deep and far … keeping on digging makes it bigger, deeper and further down.
⭕ cont thread:
🧵 Empty Quiver
🔻 Caligula’s Horse: In light of the above (with which I agree), 1) does it follow that higher-tier Russian missile defense systems are capable of similar success versus American nuclear capabilities; and if so, 2) what would this mean for the empire at all costs cult?
🔻 C2: ICBM’s are in a total different category altogether.

Basically only boost or mid course (exoatmospheric, in space) interceptions are possible. Nobody serious even attempts to claim terminal interception of such, even MRBMs are tough with Israel failing to do so with Arrow
🔻 C2: So the ridiculously ancient, rebuilt down to the component level, Minuteman II missile with its pen aids should be alright.

Suppressed trajectory sub launched BM’s have a somewhat risky approach, but they should be alright.

Stealthy terrain following cruise missiles are diciest
🔻 C2: They have the advantage of terrain occlusion, but with even partial awacs coverage and the new generation of active radar sam missiles, they will face the heaviest attrition.

I’m of the opinion of “the bombers will always get through”.
🔻 WS: You are woefully misinformed, and probably irredeemably so.

In any case, I will make a few notes and then leave you to your fantasizing:

The Russians have already demonstrated a dominant capability to intercept SRBMs in the terminal phase. ATACMS wasn’t really much of challenge for them, but they were shooting down the much faster Tochka-U at the start of the war — and they were doing with their short-range and point defense SAMs.

Whether or not top-shelf long-range Russian SAMs (e.g. S-500) can intercept ICBMs or SLBMs remains to be seen. But if those get launched, it means nuclear war, and the Russians will respond accordingly.

I don’t believe the Masters of the Declining Empire are suicidal — at least not yet.

Also, the US does not currently field IRBMs, so that discussion is moot.

As for PAC-3 (Patriot), SM-3 and SM-6 (AEGIS), and THAAD, all of them were embarrassingly defeated by the Iranian strikes of April 13 and October 1, 2024. Anyone who denies this reality has simply not been paying attention, or is willfully disinformed by the US and Israeli nonsense propaganda that followed those missile attacks — strikes which were carefully calibrated to be no more than demonstrations of capability.

As for “the bomber always getting through”, all it will take to answer that question is for the US to mount a major air campaign against Russia, China, or even Iran, as I recently wrote about in the essay linked below:
📜 Hold My Beer
⭕ I strongly suspect we are witnessing the proverbial calm before the storm.
[links:
🔻 Mats Nilsson: “Since Putin announced the Easter truce, there have been no air raid sirens in Ukraine. This follows from data from Ukrainian monitoring applications and official resources about alarms.”]
🔻 WS: 📜 Fall Like A Thunderbolt
🔻 Milan Ilić ❤️Z❤️: I’ve been waiting for the long-arrows Russian offensive for 3 years and still nothing
🔻 〰️: May Day 👀
🔻 oz4caster: If Trump drops Ukraine (as he should and NATO too), things will go downhill quickly for the Banderites.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: It would be psychologically pretty brutal to have a temporary ceasefire right before the gates of Hell opened wide.

Something similar happened in Afghanistan in 2018 on the occasion of Eid, actually.
🔻 WS: War is a brutal business in general. Coups de grâce are necessarily particularly brutal.

Perhaps the Russians will opt to continue the low-gear bulldozer approach. But it wouldn’t surprise me to see them “fall like a thunderbolt” when the time is ripe.

⭕🔻 Lord Bebo: 🇺🇸 Strawberry pickers in the US earn $2.35 per box.

The stamina on the workers is insane.

I’d be dying out of breath |link|
🔻 WS: When I was 10-12 years old, I picked cherries for $1.00 per box. (And all you could eat, of course.) The foothills on the western slope of the Wasatch Mountains are excellent fruit tree country.
[but that was a half century or more ago, and fair for a young lad looking for pocket money. This is akin to the slavery of the ancient Israelites in Pharaonic Egypt, with a neocolonial twist]
⭕ How to make friends and influence people.
links:
🔻 StarBoySAR 🇭🇰 🇨🇳 🥭: 🇨🇳 China’s Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co. is offering its high-performance, low-cost Kuanfu 02B series satellites to countries involved in China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

These satellites are lighter, more efficient, and can cover large areas quickly, making them ideal for various applications like land monitoring and emergency response.

Imagine covering cities like Beijing and Taipei in a single swoop! With a jaw-dropping 0.5m resolution, this satellite can identify surface features across a whopping 150km swath—10 times more efficient than its competitors. That means it can monitor over 2 million square kilometers in just one day!

At the same time, the weight of the new satellite has been slashed from the hefty 1,200kg (2,650lbs) of its predecessor Kuanfu 01 to just 230kg, making it the lightest of its kind on the market, and drastically cutting production and launch costs.

Chang Guang, one of the few Chinese aerospace companies with a complete industry chain – right up to post-launch operations and data processing

The company aims to expand its Jilin-1 constellation to 300 satellites by 2027 and has the capacity to produce 200 communication and 200 remote sensing satellites per year |link|
🔻 Mikkel 🇩🇰✨: China doubling down on the markets, the US is shutting itself out off 🥴
🔻 James: @pswnsn this is wild because 3rd world countries could monitor the bases of those in their own country.

Plus intel of foreign countries.

African warlords having spy satellites isn’t easy to counter.
🔻 Holger Lehmann: Not as good as bombing them round the clock. 🤨

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Due to a complete breakdown of trust, segments of Israeli society and families of the hostages are turning not to their own prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, but to a foreign leader—Donald Trump—to secure the release of prisoners and push for an end to the war in Gaza.
⭕ While the Lebanese army is busy investigating who launched a rocket on Israel weeks ago, Israeli air force bombed several locations in Lebanon and Israel’s drones killed 4 Lebanese citizens in separate strikes inside the country, yet another flagrant breach of the so-called ceasefire—already violated over 2,700 times. Under Article 51 of the UN Charter, Lebanon and its people have every legal and moral right to defend themselves against an aggressor and an occupying force. When a state is either unwilling or unable to protect its sovereignty, that right extends to its population. Silence in the face of such provocations is complicity.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕❗️Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi:

‘Russia has always been a great friend to the Islamic Republic of Iran, and has given good input and ideas on the nuclear issue, and it has been a pioneer in this field.

In my discussions with Minister Lavrov and President Putin, I mentioned that we believe Russia can help us reach a fair deal with the United States, and play a constructive role in the ongoing indirect negotiations.

Iran has proven that it does not respond to threat-based dialogue, despite America’s continued military threats and policy of extremism. Perhaps they wanted to test our resolve, and I think they saw the result of their test.

We have not retreated from any of our positions or red lines, and we will not give up our dignity, honor, or interests due to pressure and threats from others.

I highly doubt their threats will reach the point of implementation, it’s just a negotiating technique.

The path of diplomacy is open, as far as we are concerned. But if our enemies push us into another situation, we know very well how to defend ourselves.

Israel continues to say it wants to carry out an attack. I say clearly: Israel is not capable of carrying out its threats. They don’t have the guts. Not now, not in the past, and not in the future.’

💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ Yemeni President Mahdi Al-Mashat, during a meeting of the National Defense Council on April 20, 2025, stated:

• We thank our steadfast people and our heroic fighters in the armed forces and security.
• In this meeting, we are launching into a battle of jihad and work, as action is paramount for the upcoming phase.
• The government must take action, local authorities must take action, and judicial bodies must take action. Serve the citizens; everyone must act within the framework of their responsibilities.
• I assure you that the aggression has failed from day one. We had previously obtained information to thwart the aggression before it occurred, which spared us many damages that could have happened had we not succeeded, by God’s grace, in obtaining this information.
• Whenever you hear that the American enemy, with its insane administration, has amassed more forces, rest assured.
• If the Americans have mobilized more, it means that their weapons have failed.
• Our confirmed information indicates that Truman has lost its leadership and control and has been out of service since the early days of the aggression.
• The aggression against our country has come once or twice from Truman, and the rest from other locations, which we are monitoring.
• Truman has achieved nothing for the enemy, forcing it to bring in more forces and use other weapons.
• Our position in supporting our brothers in Gaza is steadfast, and we will never retreat from it.
• We will not back down from our principled, ethical, Islamic, and humanitarian stance in supporting Gaza until the aggression against it ceases and the siege is lifted.
• It saddens us that there is unprecedented Arab complacency that has reached the level of collusion.
• We do not care about any challenges resulting from our honorable stance with Gaza.
• The horrific crimes in Gaza and its siege, along with the Arab betrayal, compel us to take a stand, no matter the consequences.
• We support Iranian diplomacy in its efforts to resolve its issues with its adversaries, just as we supported, encouraged, and congratulated its success with Saudi Arabia.
• We are currently facing American aggression as a result of our rejection of the genocidal crimes in Gaza.
• The American role has come in the context of supporting Zionist crimes in Gaza.
• The Americans and Israelis are attempting to isolate the Palestinian people, which is unacceptable to the people of faith and wisdom.
• We cannot allow the Americans and Israelis to isolate the Palestinian people in Gaza.
• “The madness” of the criminal Trump may proceed with certain peoples, but the essence of the Arabs is nobility, and this cannot be overlooked.
• Neither you nor your father, Trump, can prevent us from fulfilling our humanitarian, ethical, and religious duty towards the people of Gaza, no matter what.
• Addressing the criminal Trump: You stand before the people of faith and wisdom, and the world has seen a man and a woman undeterred by your American bombardment, as if they were a mountain from the mountains of Yemen.
• Addressing the criminal Trump: That man, who remained unshaken by your airstrikes, has become an icon for millions of Yemenis who are unperturbed by your missiles, bombs, and strategic bombers.
• The Yemeni woman withstood five bombs from your strategic bomber while Trump trembled when shot at and injured in the ear.
• The leader’s strong positions rely on this resilient and original people, fulfilling their aspirations.
• The American aggression against our country is a violation, transgression, and challenge to all international agreements and laws.
• The criminal Trump will be held accountable for all that he has done against civilians and civilian properties, whether he remains in office or not.
• Trump perhaps thought he was coming for a leisure trip, but he has fallen into a strategic quagmire.
• To Trump: Your presidential term is not enough to achieve your ambitions.
• We do not pose a threat to anyone except the “Israeli” and the “American” for their aggression against our country.
• The American is trying to instill fear in this and that from us; we would like to reaffirm that we do not pose a threat to anyone except to the Israeli and American due to their support for Israel and its aggression against our country.
• Those who attack our country and support the Israeli crimes are the ones we pose a threat to.
• We do not care at all about anyone’s support of the Americans for “Israel”; we only advise them not to be shamed and disgraced by this crime.
• We are prepared for all scenarios and ready to defend our country.
• The situation is reassuring on all military, security, and economic levels.
• We are all ready to defend our country and to take down any aggressor against our nation.
• We do not wish for anyone to get involved in this battle supporting the Israeli enemy, as it will bring shame, disgrace, and defeat.
• We rely on a strategic strength represented by unified leadership under Mr. Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, and a united people under the leadership of the Commander, along with a government and official institutions that support this harmony.
• We thank the security forces; they are highly vigilant and are monitoring anyone who gets involved in this battle.
• This battle has no title; it is neither “Muslim killing Muslim” nor “legitimacy”; it is now Jewish against Muslim.
• We will be strict against anyone who stands with the American and Israeli forces in this battle; the security agencies are monitoring and will deal with them sternly.
• I thank the honorable ones who have rejected dollars and dirhams in exchange for their honorable stance.
• Our security agencies are aware of many attempts.
• I thank the honorable ones who reject the dollar, the riyal, and the dirham in exchange for their honorable stance and the justice of the cause.
• Many Yemeni figures, like mountains, have stood firm against all attempts and temptations, and I extend my gratitude to them; they know themselves.
• We are approaching a great victory, and God will distinguish the righteous from the wicked.
• To anyone tempted by the devil, I say: we are approaching victory.
• Before every victory, there comes a shaking to distinguish the righteous from the wicked, and victory will come after this pure garment is cleansed in a manner befitting victory.
• I advise anyone tempted by the devil to hold onto honor; this is the shaking before victory, the shaking before the opening; the person prays to God to keep them steadfast.
• In recent rounds, there have been tremors, strong positions, and rumors, but this is the shaking before victory according to divine custom to distinguish the righteous from the wicked.
• We direct the security agencies and the judiciary to be firm against anyone involved in this battle.
• I have been informed that there is a tribal movement among many tribes to create a document of honor against the traitors; legally and constitutionally, the penalty is clear: it is death.
• The armed forces are monitoring movements and preparing for any possible scenarios; we have all the elements of strength after God: the strength of the leader, the strength of the people, and the justice of the cause.
• We will launch our battle, and we will continue to support Gaza no matter the challenges; victory is ours, God willing.
• The conspiracies of the enemies, as they failed before, will fail again, God willing.
• To those betting on Trump, I say: what do you see in him after you have tried him? What are you betting on?
• There are communications and attempts to spare some Arab regimes and many powers from involvement.
• Trump sank into the quagmire of Yemen and sowed resentment towards America in the hearts of the world; he must be left in his quagmire.
• Trump has shown that Americans are a key partner in all of his Zionist crimes.
• Trump has brought disgrace and shame to everything happening in Palestine, now reflected on the American face.
• The American people must realize that Trump has brought you shame for nothing in return.
• Addressing the American people: Now the seeds of resentment against you are in the hearts of everyone in the world because of this reckless fool.
• Trump achieved nothing in Yemen except for the killing of civilians and the decline of America’s reputation due to his recklessness.
• The foolish criminal Trump has burned all of America’s cards, including aircraft carriers, strategic bombers, and electromagnetic systems.
• The three options, oh American people, were pushed forward by your fool in Yemen.
• America has burned all its cards that it threatens its adversaries with in Yemen.
• I say to all who oppose America: extend your efforts and do not be concerned.
• On the military level, we have not been harmed by even 1% in all that the Americans have done.
• All the massacres were civilian and civilian facilities.
• In ten days, our forces surpassed the “electromagnetic interception” systems that the Americans were threatening Russia and China with

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 U.S. Fleet Forces: We are the most lethal and advanced naval force in the world.

📍ATLANTIC OCEAN (March24, 2025) USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28) launches a Rolling Airframe Missile during a live-fire exercise while underway conducting training evolutions in support of deployment readiness.
🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ: The “most lethal and advanced naval force in the world” wouldn’t have to tell the world it’s “the most lethal and advanced naval force in the world”
[they can ask the Royal Navy the climb-down process for leaving the status of Supermensch – and being reduced entirely to their glorious tradition of “rum, the lash and sodomy”, per Churchill]
🔻 WS: 🔸 The Severe Limitations of the US Navy’s Air Defense Systems

The RIM-116 “Rolling Airframe Missile” is a 1970s-era design, modestly upgraded over the years. The US Navy ordered ~1500 of them, not all of which have been delivered.

Only ~500 of the latest generation Block 2 (RIM-116C) missiles have been ordered. Delivery numbers to-date are unknown.

How many have already been expended in the ongoing Battle of the Red Sea is also unknown, but it is unquestionably a substantial number.

The Mk-49 launcher (of which only two are fitted on US aircraft carriers) carry only 21 missiles each.

The Phalanx CIWS on US guided-missile destroyers is being gradually replaced by the Mk-49 system, but only a few have been converted so far. DDGs will only carry one Mk-49 launcher.

Keeping in mind that it is standard procedure to launch at least 2 air defense missiles at each incoming threat, it is not too hard to do the math if you imagine a carrier strike group being attacked by a modest salvo of 150 drones and 50 antiship cruise missiles — the only missile types which the Mach-2 RIM-116 can hope to intercept.

And then, after imagining the results of a modest salvo of 200 drones/missiles, imagine that salvo being followed, within minutes, by another modest salvo of 200 drones/missiles.

And then ANOTHER modest salvo the following day.

The Iranians are unquestionably capable of launching multiple 200 drone/missile salvos at a US carrier strike group in the Persian Gulf or northern Arabian Sea.

The Chinese are undoubtedly capable of launching multiple 1000 drone/missile salvos at a US carrier strike group in the South or East China seas — and do it day after day after day after day …

You see the problem here? |media|
🔻 Lord Devlin: US Navy should build a new generation of Phalanx with two GAU-8 cannon – something that can match the performance of the Russian Kashtan and Chinese Type 1130. It would be a bit of a monster, but far more straightforward than hypersonic missiles
🔻 WS: In my opinion, if you’re forced to use any of these types of CIWS (Close-in Weapons Systems), you’re in BIG trouble. Because against the major powers on the planet, you’re gonna run out of ammo long before the other guy runs out of things to shoot at.
🔻 Lord Devlin: The scenarios you describe are the modern version of “a ship’s a fool that fights a fort”. Not much has changed in that regard
🔻 hans koenig: The issue is not the ammo amount. It’s that US CIWS guns are not adequate (too small) and that the targets got a lot faster. They were created against subsonic missiles and you need to destroy those at a decent range to the ship. All the peer opponents have high supersonic ASM’s.
🔻 UPLAND: The US is 20 years behind China and Russia in conventional weapons, and Iran will have new weapons such as the hydrogen bomb without uranium developed by China. The US is falling apart.
[yep. the era of risible pretensions draw to a close. The roles are being reversed. It is THEM playing the role of the Injun’ or African charging with bows and arrows against Gatling machine gun fire. And the other side will incinerate the demented pirates off the World-Island, and without hesitation if they refuse to read and process the memo]
🔻 Nexus Six: Pretty much. However the US has the lead in satellite ISR and comms. Also, the submarine force is world class. There may be something else the US is ahead in but not sure.
[yes, like UkroNazis in 404, the Yanquis shall have the honor of monitoring the incoming hellfire that sends them straight to Bandera. That is the most useful function of ISR without adequate AD]
🔻 WS: The US sub fleet has huge problems across the board. I’d take the Russian sub fleet over the US fleet in a heartbeat.
⭕ Captain Soggy Cookie of the USS Trembling Puppy has been crafting very curious posts over the course of the past few weeks. 🤔 |media|
[this is the skipper of the USS Truman floating tomb in the north Red Sea…]
🔻 Mamad: Interesting, they have loaded those f-18s with JDAM-ERs.
🔻 WS: I don’t think we’re getting an accurate picture of what is really going on in the continuing Battle of the Red Sea.
🔻 WINE TRAVEL: If Russians have to use glide bombs for their jets ,which the US don’t have. How could US jets get near Yemen without being sitting duck targets
[exactly. That clip posted above by Chowdah lad is pure disinfo. He was caught lying last year too, reposting an older clip of another floating tomb to make it look the deck was still operational. However, for the Truman, the Yemeni Prez just said it hadn’t been active in most of last month, disabled somehow… ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave/When first we practice to deceive’]
🔻 Rune: “Both carriers are *definitely* operating, and as proof, here’s just one of them operating.” 🧐
⭕ cont thread:
🇺🇸 Strawberry pickers in the US earn $2.35 per box.

The stamina on the workers is insane.

I’d be dying out of breath.
🔻 WS: When I was 10-12 years old, I picked cherries for $1.00 per box. (And all you could eat, of course.) The foothills on the western slope of the Wasatch Mountains are excellent fruit tree country.
🔻 The Surgeon: Will, do you think that inflation went up 235% since you were a kid?
🔻 WS: I know I used to be able to buy a Snickers candy bar for ten cents. Now they cost $2.50, and they’re only ~50% the size they were when I was a kid.
[and the difference ain’t going to the laborers!]
⭕ Please forgive me for a moment as I laughingly scoff at the threat of the French and British to insert a few brigades of troops into Odessa, presumably backed up by French and British airpower (so-called).

🤣😂😆🤣😂😆
[the lunatics will do it too! Unbelievable. And the same two villains who created the Crimea debacle in 1850s. Have any served the Moshiach as faithfully and for as long as the Anglo-French??]
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: Say they attempt to infiltrate troops and provide air cover. How do you see that playing out?
[ooooh. I can see Uncle Gerasimov on his knurly knees, abjectly begging the Lord for the privilege of such blessed undertaking]
🔻 WS: I firmly believe French and British forces would become priority targets if they enter into Odessa. I think they would be struck immediately, ruthlessly, and relentlessly.
🔻 WINE TRAVEL: My feeling Will is the Russians are itching for revenge against the British and would relish the chance to confront them, not unlike in the 1850 war of Crimea
[so many neat bows to tie off at the End, no?? Mete]
🔻 Marta: Una bella lezione🥳🥳🥳
🔻 Red Pill Mafioso: You obviously don’t know @ Operation Gladio that set up all the stay-behind units to overthrow gov’t, create terror attacks, assassinations, & run out of NATO. Run by the International Syndicate that has overthrown 100 countries with their little NAZIs.
[LOL. Keep dreaming old-timer. And this ain’t weak-kneed already-nazi-leaning Olde Europe. The filth were cleansed of Novorossiya last time too, after ww2]
🔻 WS: You are mistaken about what I know.

And it’s not the Cold War anymore.
🔻 Fisherthem: British servicemen are not willing to fight a proxy war for the current British government. Resigning in droves.
[not because of the limey bosses. They’ve seen and tasted the rich, fat, black soil of holy Novorossiya. They didn’t sign up to fight men, or non-safari missions for that matter]
🔻 alfred venison: They’ll be crèmed, fraîche !
🔻 Lovelace 🏴‍☠️: La France envisage d’envoyer la 11e brigade parachutiste qui est sa brigade d’élite. Le 28e groupe géographique cartographie en ce moment même la « porte de Focsani » pour permettre le déploiement des troupes à Odessa via la Roumanie.
🔻 Lovelace 🏴‍☠️: Cela n’a rien de drôle car malgré le format réduit de ses forces, la France est une puissance militaire sérieuse et surtout nucléaire. Cette dangereuse escalade ne devrait pas être tournée en dérision car elle est une réelle menace pour la sécurité du continent européen.
[Garçon! BISTRO!]
🔻 WS: The French are not suicidal. Macron would be overthrown by a coup before the French military would go kamikaze against the Russians.
[i disagree. Recall which messianic troops guarded the Berlin Führerbunker at the bitter end. There is a proud nazi tradition spanning nearly a millennia among the Franks, especially when it comes to the hated Russkie]
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Wow, this is quite something: Vietnam officially recognizes that 300,000 Chinese PLA soldiers fought alongside them in North Vietnam against the US in the Vietnam war.
links:
🔻 C Nguyen: Amid the ongoing 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War this month, in an article for VietnamNet, this is the first time ever that Vietnam openly recognizes that over 300,000 PLA personnel served in the Vietnam War (mostly in northern Vietnam).
🔻 C Nguyen: Such recognition has been steadily growing in recent years as the VCP has become more confident to manage popular nationalism & historical narratives. It’s also an indicator of warming ties, while it remains complicated elsewhere. |link|
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: This had been acknowledged by the Chinese side since the 1980s (link) but I believe this is the first time that the Vietnamese side officially acknowledges China’s help.
[that trip to Vietnam by XJP and Uncle Wang may be a watershed moment.. the Barbarians have the mother of all wars on their crackling hands]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️After the Easter truce, the Russian army struck a Ukrainian military airfield: MoD

Earlier, the ministry reported a total of 4,900 ceasefire violations by Ukraine.
⭕ ❗️ Pope Francis has died, the Vatican reports

• The 88-year-old pontiff, who was released from the hospital on March 23 after pneumonia treatment, had only been home for less than a month;
• On Sunday, the day before his death, Francis congratulated Catholics on Easter from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican;
• Elected in March 2013, Francis (then Jorge Mario Bergoglio) became the first pope from the New World, being Argentinian, and the first non-European pope in over 1,200 years;
• Francis died at 2:35 GMT, the Vatican reported.
• [this is bad news. “Francis” was prophesied to be the Last Catholic Pope. So many strands coming to a head in the demented West. The criminals are pulling the entire show on the cave wall. Note his death age – the same double ouroboros homage to Trump – back to the future at 88 mph]

⭕ 🟠 The price of gold has updated its historical record, exceeding $3,400 per troy ounce;
⭕ Sudan Condemns London Conference on Crisis in Country

🗣”We consider it unacceptable to hold a conference on the situation in Sudan without the participation of its legitimate government,” Sudanese Ambassador to Russia Mohammed Elghazali Eltigani Sirrag told Sputnik.

The diplomat condemned the use of “parties to the conflict” for both the official authorities and the RSF, viewing it as an unacceptable legitimization of armed groups committing atrocities.

The conference was held in London on April 15; however, it ended with no joint communiqué as the Arab states refused to sign it, media reported.
[wow. The Limeys are so disparaged and toxic now, even their abject arab concubines refuse to sign the dotted line]

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Ukrainian Telegram channel RezidentUA writes:

Syrskyi is effectively preparing for the surrender of three key regions, which are becoming increasingly vulnerable as the Russian army advances, and the Commander-in-Chief is unable to stabilize the front.

The situation on the front line is critical for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and there are almost no reserves left to plug the gaps. The tempo and direction of military operations are now determined by the Russian army. The Ukrainian military has been in a defensive position for over a year, losing key territories in Donbass, Dnepropetrovsk, and Kharkov, and after the failure of the “Kursk adventure,” the situation in the northern part of the country is worsening as well. This situation is reflected in reports from Rand Corporation, where experts acknowledge that the numerical and resource imbalance makes any counterattacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces extremely vulnerable.

At the same time, the defense of Sumy, Kharkov, and Dnepropetrovsk regions has been a failure for the Ukrainian military command. The West is aware of this issue, as even CNN emphasizes that Dnepropetrovsk is already under pressure from Russian forces. However, knowledge and understanding do not provide help, as the Ukrainian military is lacking not only equipment but also basic personnel. Additionally, Western aid supplies are running out, and new shipments are delayed or blocked due to political disagreements, according to European sources.

Against this background, the lack of any clear actions to strengthen the regions by Kiev can only be seen as preparation for surrender.
⭕ 🇻🇦 The Pope’s last public appearance took place on April 20 during the Easter service.
[yes. The Nazi Internationale DID warn all three civilizational-states to settle the accounts afore this historic date, afore Hell is unleashed]
⭕ 🇻🇦 JD Vance was one of the last people to meet Pope Francis on Easter Sunday at the Vatican. |media|
[wow. The Manchurian Candidate himself gave the kiss of death…]
⭕ 🇨🇭 Klaus Schwab Steps Down as World Economic Forum Chair

Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, will step down as chair of the WEF board of trustees with immediate effect, according to a statement from the Geneva-based institution on Monday.
[they’re cashiering the whole lot!]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Hebrew media reports a ‘difficult security incident’ in Gaza.
[I’ve not reported them, but the hunting and attrition of zionazis has resumed throughout Gaza]

☝️ Just the first ~13 min, goes fast at 2.0x speed. Even less time needed for significance of number 88. One more VIP point he reminds is that yesterday the pope gave his Easter greeting from same balcony on which he was introduced for first time as a new Pope (ahem – on 13.03 exactly seven years before Orange declared his FEMA emergency on 2020). So yeah, this was a bookend ritual.

As Shakespeare noted of the Anglo-Zionist realm,
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.”

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇻🇦⚡️Pope Francis has died, Reuters reports, citing the Vatican

According to a medieval prophecy about the popes, the current one is the last one before the apocalypse and the second coming of Christ…

I’ve always disliked this song, but it is connected to the pope’s ritual. He officially died on April 21st, not the 20th.  I discussed the 4:21 (U = 21st letter) before somewhere on Salon..

Some occult truther channel said Prince, or his muses, encoded this song and its title for Queen Elizabeth II, born on a 4:21. And the singer Prince himself officially died on a 4:21. But I wonder, whether it really is a homage to the greatest narcissist of all – the Moshiach??

Prince’s album was a huge hit in pop music back in the day. #1 for 24 consecutive weeks (so a reverse 421), and this song peaked at #8; Rolling Stone ranked the album number 8 on its 2020 list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” ..  (so another double ouroborous, fingering the snake Trump). It was one of most successful albums in modern western music history …

I post the version in which you can focus on and read the lyrics, without the distraction of his disturbingly androgynous personality. A disturbing self-love is put in your face from the get go! A song crafted by an Exalted to us ants. A sacred Androgyne, or baphomet. Even admits he’s a moshiach, and many little forerunners were prophesied.

“And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.”

Anyway, what a weird cult. And 4:21 is connected to the dominant personalities of the Western world that launched the first (Vatican) and last crusades (Anglo-Saxons) on the Orthodox-Islamic worlds. The defeat in both series of Crusades is consummated in the Holy Land.

PS – Sudhi, thx, was looking for Malachy’s prophesy, widely anticipated when the deceased chose to assume his papal name of Francis (carefully avoided to date). Note the number 19 is within the 109 “future popes”. In the satanic system, the zero is dropped. The dreadful judge is likely the Moshiach, whose new zionazi Host will be aiming their nukes at ancient Rome on zero hour. The Great Reset, or tabula rasa

🚨🇮🇱🇮🇷 BREAKING: ISRAEL THREATENS TO BOMB IRANIAN NUCLEAR SITES

On today’s episode of Legitimate Targets, Jackson Hinkle speaks with Elijah Magnier (@ejmalrai) about Hezbollah’s REFUSAL to DISARM, ZIONIST espionage in the Axis of Resistance & Trump's OPPOSITION to BOMBING IRAN. pic.twitter.com/2Tj913e7hg

— Legitimate Targets (@LegitTargets) April 21, 2025

Russia: The main obstacle to the globalist project of world reordering

historically, there were certain key individuals, or societies, that functioned as the last levee holding off the cresting and tsunami of Legion. Russia is ours in the End Times. May she hold

💠”China warns countries not to align with US in trade”
“Beijing has issued a warning to countries considering limiting their trade with China in hopes of gaining tariff relief from the US, saying it will retaliate against any such moves.

The administration of US President Donald Trump plans to pressure other countries into limiting trade with China, including imposing monetary sanctions, in return for better trade terms, according to media reports.

China “firmly opposes any party reaching a deal at the expense of China’s interests,” the Commerce Ministry said in a statement on Monday, adding that Beijing would “resolutely take countermeasures.””

💠”Chinese envoy calls Trump tariffs an ‘echo of Great Depression’”
well we can safely predict at the end of this process, what comes will be more than “an echo” – it will make the terrible 1930s seem like a little dust kicked up by a babe in the bowl of her cradle

💠”California mayor proposes tackling homelessness with fentanyl”
Good Lord. The devils openly preen & prance in California. They aim to summarily clear the slate and otherwise accelerate the mass suicide in motion

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel has effectively abandoned its prisoners in Gaza, prioritizing the destruction of the Strip and the forced displacement of Palestinians over the lives of its own citizens.
The founding principle of “never leave anyone behind,” once a cornerstone of Israeli military and national identity, has been discarded. In its place stands a new doctrine—one where the lives of Israeli captives are expendable, sacrificed for the ideological ambitions of the extremist leadership now in power. The goal is no longer recovery, but conquest.
⭕ Israel targeted and destroyed a car in Ba’warta, Shouf, Lebanon, violating the ceasefire with impunity. The number of casualties is unknown.
The Lebanese government and its prime minister rarely condemn these violations (over 2700 so far) and the Israeli killing of Lebanese citizens, as if these are not part of the country.
⭕ To the Palestinians:

The arrest of Khaled Khaled, head of operations for Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in Syria, alongside several other PIJ figures, marks a sharp turn in Syria’s posture toward the so-called Axis of Resistance. Far from a routine security measure, the move reflects external pressure—chiefly from Israel via the United States.

During the Trump administration, one of the quieter conditions for potential sanctions relief on Syria was the curtailment of Iranian influence and its affiliated non-state actors, including Hamas and the PIJ. The arrest of a high-ranking PIJ commander doesn’t serve Syrian strategic interests directly. It serves only and solely Israel’s.

This act points to a deeper, more transactional shift inside the Syrian leadership. Targeting a group like PIJ—long funded and supported by Iran—suggests a willingness among key figures in Damascus to entertain US-Israeli security interests, even at the expense of ideological commitments that have shaped Syria’s alliances for decades.

In short, this isn’t just a crackdown. It’s a signal. Syria, devastated by over a decade of war and strangled by sanctions, is looking for a rapprochement with Israel, economic relief and diplomatic rehabilitation. Arresting PIJ operatives is intended to show Washington that Damascus is open to quiet compromise and can be a partner in “counterterrorism” and an anti-Palestinian campaign when it suits.

But the cost is real. This move erode Damascus’s credibility among Palestinian factions in exodus and resistance movements against Israel, for whom Syria was once a safe haven.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Putin signs a law ratifying a strategic partnership agreement with Iran

The document provides for the strengthening of cooperation in the areas of security and defense.

• Its third article stipulates that if one of the parties faces aggression, the other must not provide any assistance to the aggressor;
• The parties will also refrain from joining third-country sanctions against them and will guarantee the non-application of unilateral coercive measures;
• The agreement was concluded for 20 years, with automatic renewal for five-year periods.

⭕ Gold to the Rescue: How African Nations Are Banking on Bullion

As global financial uncertainty persists, several African countries have been turning to gold as a strategic tool—to stabilize currencies, build reserves, and shield their economies from volatility. With prices now surpassing $3,400 per troy ounce, their gold-focused policies are gaining even more relevance:

• Zimbabwe launched a gold-backed currency (ZiG) in April 2024 to fight hyperinflation and bring financial stability;
• Uganda plans to buy domestic gold from artisanal miners to boost its foreign exchange reserves and reduce reliance on volatile global markets;
• South Sudan aims to diversify reserves by adding gold, according to Central Bank Governor James Alic Garang;
• Madagascar’s central bank is investing in gold to offset falling vanilla exports and support the national currency;
• Tanzania began requiring miners and traders to sell 20% of their gold to the central bank, strengthening reserves;
• Nigeria is considering legislation to have 30% of reserves in gold, with the Central Bank becoming the main buyer.

⭕ ❗️ Russian troops liberated Gornal St. Nicholas Belogorsky Monastery in the Kursk region, bordering Ukraine, a source in the military group that carried out the liberation tells Sputnik

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 💵❗️Gold prices exceeded $3,500 per ounce for the first time in history

I’ve disliked and avoided both video games and especially first-person shooter games. This interesting movie called Gamer (2009) let’s slip about remote controlling the real living fighter, like the planes that hit the Twin Towers (if they weren’t CGI). Apparently various drugs (ahem – c-19) can open portals to remote possession too. Several other movies did too, like the Matrix. This may explain the unusual warrior abilities of UkroNazis and Salafis and other proxies, who just keep on fighting, even after being shot up and dying, like zombies of the Apocalypse. What days. Remember to read the drug’s fine print, o nazi warrior! For ser you’ll get the ride of your lives
NB. the villain in the movie is tech billionaire hellbent on controlling mankind via neural technology, like Neuralink. mElon, our Red Horse??

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ Last Sunday, the 20th April 2025, coincided with the first futuristic mission in the 2012 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

Some notable plot elements of the game’s single-player campaign’s storyline, often hailed as one of the best in the long-running first-person shooter franchise:

– The US military conducts military operations against armed militia movements in Yemen.
– AI and the usage of drones becomes standard in warfare.
– A new cold war emerges between the United States and China.
– China halts all exports of its rare earth materials.
– Additional: Somebody has just reminded us that a US carrier gets sunk as well. Foreshadowing…?

Of course, this is all just a work of video game fiction.

Wait a minute…
[file this one as another example of burrowing deeper into the Rabbit Hole. If Reality is too traumatizing.. the sea of enemies can be “handled” in video games]
⭕ 🇨🇭🇷🇺 Switzerland has joined EU sanctions by imposing restrictions on eight Russian media outlets, including Zvezda, Lenta.ru, and EADaily.
[a Sign, for those who think the EuroCrazies, like the zionazis, can retreat, or that the Anglo-French won’t openly enter Odessa. ALL bridges were burnt to settlement with the civilized world]
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇺🇸🇺🇦Russia continues contacts with the US, but the settlement on Ukraine should not be put into a short time frame — Peskov

🐻 Translation: there will be no deal this week, regardless of what Trump has been saying
⭕ 🇺🇦🇬🇧 Ukrainian channel RezidentUA writes:

According to sources, MI6, together with the GUR, is preparing an operation involving a humanitarian catastrophe in order to discredit the peace process. The option involving phosphorus or poisonous gas was rejected by British intelligence. The main scenario now is either the explosion of a reactor at a nuclear power plant or the death of children in a missile strike.
[lemme guess. Those will be Russian children, east of the Dneiper??]
⭕⚠️🇺🇸🇮🇷 USA expanded the sanctions against Iran
[a good sign! They pile on the sanctions when unable to physically attack…]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Kiev Buys Russian Gas That Comes to Europe Via TurkStream, Ukrainian MP Admits

“We cannot determine the origin of the molecules,” Oleksiy Kucherenko said.

👉 For the next heating season, Ukraine will need to purchase between 4.5 and 6 billion cubic meters of gas on the European market, he added.

Part of this volume will inevitably be of Russian origin, said the parliamentarian, a member of the energy committee.
[LOL. NB. the same TurkStream they and the Limeys are trying to blow up! Their last significant lifeline]
⭕❗️Russian troops liberated the settlement of Sukhaya Balka in the DPR, the Russian MoD reports
⭕ The American roots of German Nazism, Part 7: How Nazi propaganda copied the aesthetic of American westerns

“The idea of parallels between the conquest of territories in Eastern Europe and the American West was widely spread in Nazi Germany,” Yegor Yakovlev, a lecturer on Nazi crimes at St. Petersburg State University, tells Sputnik.

👉 In this video from our exclusive series, the historian, who specializes in the origins and rise of Nazism, explains how the aesthetics of American Westerns influenced Nazi propaganda, which convinced both adults and youth that the people in the East were “savages” and encouraged the conquest and colonization of their lands.

#Victory80 |media|
⭕Major World Events by Evening of April 22

• The US wants to help India develop its natural resources, including offshore natural gas reserves and critical minerals, US Vice President JD Vance said;  [we hope India won’t be found dead tomorrow!]
• Over 100 American universities have signed a letter condemning US authorities for reducing or terminating their funding;  [what was that saying about knowing who is naked when the Tide goes out?? USAID was only one among many rotten sugar daddies. Must say though – the sledge hammer being taken to Uncle Ray’s Academia is heartwarming. They do deserve the Orange Storm]
• A court in Germany has allowed German intelligence not to share information about the origin of the coronavirus with the media.
  [well this is indirect proof, an admission through their law of omerta, as with the Nordstreams, no??]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Yemen Military 🇾🇪: Soon,
[this appears a Yemeni military channel? They posted a US B-2 bomber under one of their target sights, like the countless ones already provided of the downed Reaper drones]
🔻 WS: The odds of Yemen downing a B-2 are very slim. Of course, no one believed 18 months ago they could shoot down 21 MQ-9s.

And I bet Iran can shoot down B-2s. Maybe they’ll find a way to assist the Yemeni. That would throw a big stick in the spokes of US plans to attack Iran.
🔻 C1: What are they shooting down the mq-9’s with, does anyone know or is it just speculative?
🔻 WS: Surface to air missiles. They’ve posted lots of video of the shootdowns.
🔻 C2: the design is for evade ground radar stations ,of course is possible if the Yemen start to use AWACS
🔻 WS: If a B-2 ventures too close and flies too low and the Yemeni can get a missile up above it, it can be targeted. Yes, that’s a lot of “IF”s, but it’s not an impossibility.
🔻 C2: Remember that plane has a small echo,you will see a small ping on your screen ,if you will able to see something,then after the launch 🚀 maybe the rocket won’t be able to find and acquire the target
🔻 WS: The B-2 is much more visible from above than below. A missile can be guided not only via data link from ground radars, but it can use active radar, optical, and infrared sensors in the terminal targeting phase.
🔻 C2: Of course the plane is done if after the launch the rocket can level and acquire the target ,who knows what kind of systems the houthis have ? Maybe old Soviets systems or more capable Iranian systems!!got your point.
🔻 WS: I highly doubt the Yemeni can bring down a B-2. But I’ll bet the Iranians can if B-2s attempt to penetrate Iranian airspace in order to deliver bunker-buster bombs on hardened targets.
🔻 Baba Yagga: So why will the B2 fly too low?
🔻 WS: “Too low” relative to how high the SAM can ascend.
🔻 C4: Iran probably has good odds due to Russia supplying the air defense.
🔻 WS: Iran’s air defenses are predominantly domestic-build, albeit mostly originating in Soviet/Russian designs.
🔻 C4: Really? I swear roughly 6 months ago I saw an article saying they’d done a deal and Russia was basing some of their top tier air defense there
🔻 WS: The rumor was that S-400s were delivered, but there was never any subsequent evidence it had happened. And even if a few have been delivered, they would represent a small portion of Iranian AD. Iran produces excellent indigenous AD systems.
🔻 C5: Yemen is shooting down nothing.

Russia/China are testing gear.
🔻 WS: You are misinformed.
🔻 C5: Quite possible.

Reuters/U.S. State Department = Highly unreliable. |link|
🔻 WS: Yeah, I commented on this report the other day.

I don’t believe any Russian or Chinese weaponry is being used by the Yemeni, but they could very well be using various Russian/Chinese components in missiles, sensors, radars, etc.
🔻 RedCowNewz: Iran can absolutely shoot down the B-2’s as well as the flankers that are running interference.
🔻 WS: You touch upon an important point: I think the Iranians can shoot down several aircraft in the vanguard SEAD strike. And, if they do, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the remainder of the strike abruptly aborted.
🔻 Mamad: They are using stand off missiles such as JASSMs.
🔻 WS: There is no point for the B-2 to be used to launch JASSMs against Yemen, given that they can be launched by a wide variety of other US platforms (B-52, F-15E, F-16, F/A-18). The B-2 is designed to penetrate enemy air defenses. Using it in a stand-off role against Yemen is dumb.
🔻 Mamad: I know it’s dumb, but that’s what they have been doing. |source|
🔻 WS: OSINTtechnical is a notoriously unreliable site.

And the JASSM is not particularly “stealthy”.

In any case, as I’ve said many times, if the US wants to use B-2s and JASSMs to strike at Yemen, the Iranians will gladly provide aviation fuel and sandwiches for the ground crew.
🔻 Mamad: I agree with you, but this time he was quoting a reporter covering the Pentagon.

Imo, B-2s won’t be effective against Iran, and Americans know it. They are just trying to project power using B-2s, but they are very careful not to lose one to a minor faction such as Ansarallah.
🔻 Jonah Cray: On May 2, 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the Serbian 250th Rocket Brigade shot down a B-2, “The Spirit of Missouri” (AB-810 88-0329), with two rockets. The plane crashed in Spachva Forest near Vinkovci, Croatia.
🔻 Daniele Gatti: No, a F-117 was shot down that year (27 March) in Serbia, not a B-2.
🔻 Jonah Cray: On March 27, 1999, the Serbian 250th Rocket Brigade shot down an F-117 and an F-16. Less than two months later, on May 20, 1999, they downed a B-2.
🔻 WS: You are misinformed. No B-2 was shot down by the Serbs. Of the 21 built, one B-2 (Spirit of Kansas) crashed on take-off in Guam in 2008. It was a total loss. IIRC, another was damaged on landing at Whiteman AFB, and was eventually deemed too expensive to repair.
⭕ In recent years I have encountered people who not only believe Japan would fight alongside the Americans in a war against China, but even some who believe Japan is militarily superior to China.

Both these beliefs are ridiculous nonsense. Japan can see the weather vane.
links:
🔻 S.L. Kanthan: How Japan got its groove back!

“If Japan concedes everything [to Trump], we won’t be able to secure our national interest,” Prime Minister Ishiba said in parliament on Monday.

Japan needs to export cars and protect its agriculture. And it cannot afford to decouple from China.
🔻 #Liderazgoinnovador: What do you think about this?
[links:
🔻 Alon Mizrahi: As I predicted a few days ago, Hegseth is being destroyed by the Israel lobby for his objection to an Iran war. They won’t let him off the hook – and that’s before kompromat. He’s going to be replaced by a pro-war hawk” |link|]
[as if Temple Mount Hegseth has ANY agency, even over his own bodily functions whilst in the Pentagram. More Cirque du Soleil]
🔻 WS: I think Hegseth is in way over his head. And there are probably a lot of people who want to see him gone, for many different reasons.

That said, I think he correctly concludes there is HIGH RISK and low probability of strategic success in launching an air campaign against Iran.
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: but it’s sort of comforting to see that the Japanese looked down and they spotted the tiny balls… to conjure up the courage to try and stand up to the US….
[LOL. this should go in the next idiom dictionary edition, under “damning with faint praise”]
🔻 whitemonkey1: when Japan have more backbone than South Korean govt, it is obvious which one is the most loyal house slave in asia
🔻 Aaron A: Japan is an occupied vassal. But even vassals have their limits.
⭕🔻 Douglas Macgregor:
Iran is strategically vital to Russia.

This is exactly why Russia will not stand by and do nothing if we unleash a massive attack on Iran.

Take a look at the history of the region, especially during WW II.
[can u feel the sonorous and solemn intonation with their precise cadence vibrating in the air??]
🔻 Brian McDonald: If Iran were “strategically vital” to Russia, Moscow would’ve signed a defense pact like it did with North Korea. It didn’t. That tells you everything. Moscow didn’t risk it for Armenia. It’s not about to jump into an Israel–Iran showdown.
🔻 WS: I doubt the Iranians want a pact like the DPRK made — but that does not mean Iran is not “strategically vital” to Russia.

I think Russia (and China) will “help” Iran against the US in a fashion similar to how the US “helped” Ukraine against Russia. And that will suffice.
⭕🔻 The War Zone: USMC Anti-Ship Missile Deployment To Highly Strategic Luzon Strait Is Unprecedented

From the Batanes Islands, Naval Strike Missiles would be able to engage any surface vessel transiting the channel between Taiwan and The Philippines. |link|
🔻 MenchOsint: With this deployment, the US military communicates that it is ready to target Chinese warship, in a scenario where China invaded Taiwan.

PLA Generals having a good laugh, this & surrounding US Navy warships would be destroyed in a minute if they acted irresponsibly.

This threat to Chinese PLA Navy navigation will be dealt with in the first seconds if things heat up.
🔻 WS: Meh. There have only been a relative handful of these $2M/each missiles produced, and the USMC only has a few launchers on these Filipino islands. They are subsonic and have limited range. But yes, they will be targeted in the initial stages of any US/China conflict.
⭕‼️ Gresham’s Law

Some believe the US dollar still being used for ~50% of global transactions is somehow contradictory to reports of its increasing deprecation.

The USD is still being used for ~50% of global transactions precisely because it is increasingly deprecated.
links:
🔻 unusual_whales: “U.S. Dollar is now used in nearly 50% of global payments, the highest level in more than 12 years,” per Macrobond
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Roi Lopez Rivas: Última hora: Juan Guaidó se acaba de autoproclamar Papa en una cancha de padel en Miami.
[why not? It would liven up the freakshow. But first: lift the hem and confirm its got one of each. Exceptional days require unique equipment in the exalted halls of the gated Inner Garden..]
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Kit Klarenberg:
🧵: With news that Israel is still contemplating a “limited strike” on Iran, important to understand why the US is so resistant to this, why it would be a complete and utter disaster of epic proportions for the Empire, and why fears of a wider war on Iran are overblown… |THREAD|
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Luke Gromen: “What currency is going to replace the USD as global reserve currency?”

Central Banks: “No currency is going to replace the USD, but gold has been replacing USTs as primary reserve asset for 11 yrs. Gold has crushed USTs in that time, but most still refuse to accept reality.”
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Armchair Warlord: People are somehow still reluctant to believe that the casualty ratio is frighteningly lopsided in this war when the Ukrainians themselves admit that they only have one effective weapon system left and their MEDEVAC is terrible.

Yes, Virginia, the side whose most-casualty producing weapons are artillery and airstrikes is going to inflict a lot more casualties than the side whose most-casualty producing weapon is an RPG warhead taped to a drone.
🔻 Unclean: Syrskyi said something like ~24k Russian projectiles are impacting daily last week.
Be extremely charitable and let’s say only 25% are having any effect.
That’s 6k rounds effecting somebody as only artillery can. Per day. 42k rds/week. 180k/month.
“The Somme” doesn’t even cut it.
🔻 MarsAutomatic🇺🇲: They still believe Ukraine is killing Russians at 10:1 ratios despite a constant imbalance in drones, artillery, manpower, air support, etc, because western weapons and intelligence are simply advanced enough to mitigate these deficits. And they take the static line as proof.
🔻 mntahoe: I feel like we are finally reaching the end of the cope cycle and sooner or later there will be a full admission that the nato side got their clock cleaned in this war. The usa is gearing up for a shift back to the middle east and the pacific anyway
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: This is interesting: Justin Yifu Lin, former Chief Economist of the World Bank and a China’s State Council Counsellor, explaining why in the trade war “the losses for the United States will be greater than those of China”.

He essentially frames a trade war as an economic war of attrition where market size ultimately determines which side can maintain the R&D investments necessary for technological leadership.

As he explains the “U.S. is a high-income nation [that mainly relies] on high-tech industries. A defining characteristic of high-tech industries is that maintaining technological leadership requires substantial R&D investment.

The profits generated from R&D are determined by the market size. China constitutes a market twice as large [as the U.S.]. With [China’s] market support, technology enterprises can achieve high profits. Without access to the Chinese market, [U.S. companies’] profits would be lower, potentially rendering them unprofitable.

Moreover these high-tech enterprises need to continuously invest in R&D. If profits remain low or nonexistent, they will be unable to sustain their technological leadership.”

To sum-up, to him, China has effectively two key advantages:
1) it’s less of a “one-trick pony” than the high-income US that heavily depends on high-tech industries, giving it greater resilience during trade conflicts;
2) and second its massive domestic market – now twice the size of the U.S. – means that in an economic “war of attrition”, which is what a trade war is, China can both provide its own firms with higher profits than the US can with its own firms, and China can hurt American high-tech firms more than America can hurt Chinese firms. |link|
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: This is another reason why, as I’ve already argued, Trump’s extreme tariffs on China are much the same strategic miscalculation we’ve witnessed in the Russia sanctions regime 👇

In Ukraine, NATO decided to go on a war of attrition against a Russia that proved to have greater industrial capacity for arms production than the West, and proved to be less dependent on the West than the West was dependent on Russian energy resources, creating a fundamental asymmetry in economic leverage.

With China, Trump is choosing to go on an economic war of attrition against an economy that has both greater manufacturing diversity and a larger domestic market than the US, giving it the same relative advantage of resilience. |link|

⭕ “officials and sources”

🤦‍♂️
[he quotes and links a since-deleted Al Arabiya, which deserves to be in quotations too, like NYT and BBC and other presstitutes. They had boasted about 500 “Houthis” killed by Yanquis in last month. It will get there at current rate of savagery, but not yet..]
🔻 WS: Meanwhile, the Yemeni are the gatekeepers of the Bab-el-Mandeb, and the USS Trembling Puppy remains bottled up in the northern Red Sea
🔻 Dr. Resistance 🔻: The death toll is 500 when you add up every dead woman, children, senior citizen and stay dogs, so I guess everyone must be houthis in Washingtons eyes🤦‍♂️this is what happens when you kill civilians because you have no intelligence on “houthis” due to them shooting down your MQ9😆
🔻 Old Greybeard: It’s not the “Gate of Tears” for nothing 😁😭😁
⭕The US is preparing a GROUND INVASION of Yemen?

With what forces? And how will they get there? |link|
🔻 Jeffrey Jensen: Arabs. And humvees.
[LOL. Ain’t no evil arabs with balls left willing to re-invade Yemen, esp not under current regional dynamics and Yemeni mood. For one thing, they need those goons to save their own thrones right now from their own masses]
🔻 Jagdpanthercat🐱: Certain people in our ruling class have talked about using all three marine divisions there. John McCain looking up would be pleased. “Boots on the ground!”
🔻 RuhRoh: They’re talking about using other Yemeni factions to do it(floated by UAE), but I doubt it’ll ever take off. Saudis aren’t on board with it
🔻 WINE TRAVEL: Seems they want to use UAE and Saudi Arabia supported groups in the rest of Yemen to take the port