🇮🇷 [Thread] Iranian newspaper’s front pages

📰| Keyhan: “182 Sanctions in 100 Days; In What Language Should Trump Say He Has No Goodwill?!”

Keyhan accused Trump’s admin of hypocrisy and aggression. Despite claims of diplomacy, the US has imposed 182 new sanctions in just 100… pic.twitter.com/EhCOuynfzt
— Arya – آریا (@AryJeay) May 2, 2025

☝️☝️☝️ click to Twitter and keep scrolling down to see the rest of this thread of translated Iranian newspapers highlighting the damage of the Orange Wrecking Crew against their country in just 100 days…

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ UN Secretary General to Present Reform Proposals to Member States Soon, Spokesman Says

The reform proposal will be presented within a few weeks, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said during a media briefing.

🇺🇳 According to the spokesman, the “ambitious” reforms will focus on:

⦁ resource optimization;
⦁ mandate reorganization;
⦁ structural changes within the UN system.

In March, Antonio Guterres launched the UN-80 Initiative, including an audit of its operations to cut costs. The reforms come as the US reduces UN funding under Trump.
⭕ US State Dept. Approves Possible $310 Million Sale of F-16 Equipment to Ukraine, Pentagon Says

The potential deal includes aircraft upgrades, training, spare parts and ground handling equipment, according to the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency.

The US currently has no talk of “abandonment” of Ukraine, State Department Tammy Bruce said on Friday.

The US paused military aid to Ukraine in early March following a dispute between Trump and Zelensky, but resumed support after a March 11 meeting in which Ukraine agreed to a 30-day halt on attacks against energy facilities—a deal it later violated more than 140 times.

🚫 Russia has repeatedly said that Western arms to Ukraine block the peace process and make NATO nations part of the conflict.
⭕ ❗️ Zelensky Rejects Moscow’s Offer of Truce During the Celebration of the 80th Anniversary of Victory

He also said that the Kiev regime cannot guarantee the safety of foreign guests of the May 9 parade in Moscow.

💠 @Dmitry_Medvedev:
⭕ The unshaven green douchebag says he rejects Putin’s proposal of a 3-day ceasefire to commemorate May 9 and cannot guarantee the safety of the world leaders in Moscow.

Who was asking him for guarantees? This is nothing more than a verbal provocation.

The louse knows that, if there’s a real provocation on Victory Day, no one will be able to guarantee that Kiev will live to see May 10.

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇮🇷🇺🇸| Russia emphasizes Iran’s right to enrich

“I completely agree with Araqchi”

Russia’s permanent representative to international organizations based in Vienna said the Iranian FM’s statements regarding Tehran’s right to have a full nuclear fuel cycle are within Iran’s full rights and Russia supports it.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇮🇷| US: Iran must choose war or give up weapons

Marco Rubio—newly appointed acting national security adviser and US Secretary of State—says:

“The issue of enrichment level is completely irrelevant. If you can enrich 3.67%, you can reach 90% for weapons in a few weeks. If Iran does not accept the path of peace, it must expect the consequences: the destruction of nuclear facilities, the destruction of refineries, poverty and ultimately regime change.”
⭕ Me, an Iranian: Oh my! You truly scared us Rubio! (🥱)
⭕ US: No enrichment 🫵🏽
Iran: No. 🇮🇷
⭕ — 🇮🇱🇸🇾| The Israeli airstrikes in Syria’s Hama & Latakia hit the regime’s air defense sites to put Erdogan back in its place (supposedly).

The attacks come at a time when this morning, after Israel bombed Damascus, Turkish F-16 jets conducted patrol flights over Syria, especially the north of Syria to show air superiority (supposedly), Erdogan also had threatened Israel (supposedly).

✍ I write supposedly as these back-and-forth actions are merely a show. Backdoor, Turkey is a vital partner of Israel. The victims? Syrian people.
[these were aerial bombardments overnight]
⭕ Israel carried out one of its most intense air aggressions on Syria and targeted:

• Around the city of Harasta in the suburbs of Damascus
• Near Harasta Military Hospital
• Northern countryside of Daraa
• Around the city of Ezra in the central suburbs of Daraa
• Red Hills in Quneitra
• Shatahi village in the northwestern outskirts of Hama
• An air defense battalion in the Jabal al-Shu’ara area in Latakia
⭕ 🇾🇪| NEW: Yemen announced BANNING US crude oil exports starting on the 17th of this May.

Fleets of companies will be prohibited from crossing the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab, the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean.

Companies violating the ban will be placed on the sanctions list for perpetrators of aggression against Yemen.
[get ready Yanquis! Mad Max was on the ball: You’re gonna see the rise of warlords and tribes duking it over the Last Oil]
⭕ ❗️Kuwait Specialized Hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza:

• “Severe shortage of most essential medicines and basic food supplies needed for patients.”
• “The stock of medicines and medical supplies will not last more than a week.”
• “Gaza Strip is suffering from a severe shortage of more than 75% of essential medicines.”
• “The ability to continue providing medical services is now at stake.”

⭕ 🇾🇪| Yemen has launched 3 missiles & a drone over the past 24 hours against Israel.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ ❗️🇮🇱/🇹🇷/🇸🇾 BREAKING: Turkish and Israeli fighter jets are involved in an ‘aerial standoff’ in the skies of Syria

No shots or missiles have been fired, but pilots are exchanging threats over comms.
[even Bollywood or Turkish dramas can do better than this! What a sad spectacle. Two incestuous turkic cousins pretend to fight…]
⭕ More than 20 Israeli airstrikes against Syria so far, in Damascus, Hama, Idlib, Daraa and Latakia
[around midnight last night]
⭕ An Israeli military helicopter landed in Suwayda, dropping advanced weapons and ammunition for the Druze
⭕ Iranian Foreign Ministry: ‘The Islamic Republic unequivocally and strongly condemns the blatant Zionist aggression against Syria, and reiterates the need for an inclusive and strong Syrian state, representing all of the Syrian people’
⭕ Still waiting for the imminent Indian attack |media|
⭕ (Please nobody bring up True Promise-3)
⭕ Marco Rubio is expected to serve as both Secretary of State and National Security Adviser for at least six months, with several top advisers to President Donald Trump interested in making the arrangement permanent. – Politico
[not a problem. I’ve noticed how frozen and empty he looked recently – like a waiting robot. All the A.I. and principalities needed from Legion shall animate his meatsuit. One scary movie recounted 24 different such beasts pouring into one such human vessel. So everythings going according to script for the Last Satanic Empire. Into the Rabbit Hole]
⭕ Sirens in central Israel after a ballistic missile was launched from Yemen.
[about nine hours ago. Reported in above bulletin of the Yemeni Armed Forces]
⭕ — 🇮🇱/🇺🇸 WATCH: The inaugural Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) International Policy Summit held last week in Jerusalem included many controversial statements

• Former U.S. Senator Norm Coleman acknowledged that the majority of Gen-Z have a negative opinion of Israel, ending his statement with ‘The masters of the universe are Jews’
• Republican Jewish Coalition CEO Matt Brooks stated that Americans, especially those who support the Republican party and ‘MAGA,’ should not be allowed to criticize Israel or claim it’s not an ally of the United States.
• JNS co-founder Amelia Katzen mistakenly said that the news agency ‘is stomping on the truth about the IDF,’ before quickly correcting herself.
• JNS editor Melanie Phillips claimed, ‘The West will only survive if it decides to love the Jewish people,’ and noted that the West ‘is paralyzed before the Islamist death cult that threatens it.’
• Jordana Cutler, ‘Jewish Diaspora Policy Chief’ at Meta, boasted about censoring and banning critics of Israel and Zionists.

JNS stated that the summit’s goal was ‘to tackle Israel’s challenges and opportunities in a post-Oct. 7 world.’ |media|
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇾🇪 NEW: It has become increasingly clear that U.S. CENTCOM used incorrect ‘intelligence’ from a Twitter user with the handle ‘VleckieHond’ in an airstrike on Yemen last week, resulting in the deaths of 8 civilians instead of the intended target

The Twitter account has been obsessively publishing data and satellite imagery from Yemen for years, speculating on potential Ansarullah (Houthis) bases, and its activity increased alongside the intensifying U.S. aggression against Yemen during the Trump administration.

Evidence suggests that her work is taken seriously by U.S. military analysts and officials. As uncovered by Drop Site News, prior to the U.S. aggression against the Ras Issa port, ‘VleckieHond’ shared data about the location, which was later cited in an issue of the ‘CTC Sentinel,’ published by the ‘Combating Terrorism Center’ at the U.S. Military Academy.

In response to the lives lost, ‘VleckieHond’ published screenshots showing a €500 donation to two foreign organizations that are are not even Yemeni charities.

Despite having ‘Ceasefire Now’ in her bio, older tweets indicate that she is sympathetic towards Israel.

💠@Arab_Africa:
⭕ 🇲🇦🇺🇸 Washington Launches F-16 Fighter Jet Production Project in Casablanca

Local sources report that a major industrial project to produce and assemble F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets has officially been launched in the Midpark industrial zone on the outskirts of Casablanca between Morocco and the United States.

The planned plant will produce and assemble fuselages and major components of the F-16, particularly its latest version, the F-16V Viper, which is equipped with advanced electronic warfare and weapons systems.

It is likely that the fighters produced in Morocco will be equipped with the new Viper Shield electronic warfare and jamming system from the American company L3Harris Technologies. The company has previously conducted the first flight test of this system, designed for F-16 aircraft that will be integrated into the fleet of the Royal Moroccan Air Force.
[As India is being raised against Pakistan, so shall Morocco be raised against Algeria. Both of the latter are feared, and potential allies of arabs being exterminated en masse at this very moment. An Annihilation for which there is no planned stop, to the last arab. And prophesy says it shall mostly be accomplished, even unto the stupid salafi compradore masses (as you see begun in Syria). Whatever it takes, the Moshiach shall be raised]

💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ **Statement of the Million-Man March: “Steadfast with Gaza and Palestine… In Confrontation with the Killers and Oppressors”**
**4 Dhul-Qi’dah 1446 AH | 2 May 2025**

– On the anniversary of the annual cry, the greatness of the Quranic project is manifested.

• **Statement of the Marches:**
• On this anniversary of the cry, we recall the early beginnings of the Quranic movement, its steadfast steps, and the extent of the challenges and conspiracies it has faced.
• We call upon our nation to return sincerely to the path of the great Quran, to raise voices in disavowal of the enemies of Allah, and to activate economic boycotts.
• We affirm our steadfast position with Gaza and Palestine, and we clarify that the support from the U.S. to the Zionist enemy and its aggression against us will not prevent us from supporting Gaza.
• Our armed forces have dealt successive blows to the American enemy, the latest being what happened to the USS Truman aircraft carrier and its planes.

⭕ A milion-man “human flood”, “With Gaza and Palestine in the face of murderers and arrogant”

• If West governments side with the ongoing Israeli-American genocide in Gaza, [Islamic] nations’ free individuals must be obeys to their human conscience and uphold #Gaza, with the courage shown by the Yemeni people. |media|
• Yemen’s insistence on continuing to ban Israeli maritime navigation in the Arabian and Red Seas aims to pressure the West to stop the genocide in #Gaza, therefore, western support to Israel and its aggression against #Yemen unjustified.
• The Yemeni people, its state, and leadership salute all free people in Europe and the Americas who actively stood in solidarity with the oppressed people of #Gaza and bravely sacrificed to condemn the Zionist genocide, and call on them to continue doing so.
  #yemen

⭕ The Intercept reports Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna:

• The Trump administration is concealing the number of American casualties in the war on Yemen.
  The Trump administration should be transparent about the number of American casualties resulting from strikes in Yemen.

⭕ 🎞 A renewed human wave at the Million-Strong Event (With Gaza and Palestine… Against the Murderers and Oppressors) in Al-Sab’een Square, the capital Sana’a – 4th of Dhu al-Qi’dah 1446 AH | May 2, 2025 AD. |media|
⭕ Breaking News:

The Humanitarian Operations Coordination Center in the Republic of Yemen:

• issues a decision to ban the export of U.S. crude oil by sea, effective May 17, 2025, in response to U.S. aggression.
• the American enemy continues to launch airstrikes on various Yemeni provinces, targeting civilians and civilian objects, resulting in the deaths and injuries of hundreds, including women and children.
• the American enemy has targeted the Ras Issa oil port in Al Hudaydah, hitting civilian facilities, workers, and employees in a horrific crime considered one of the most heinous massacres against humanity, attempting to besiege the Yemeni people.
• The American enemy seeks to destroy Yemen’s economic resources, and thus the Republic of Yemen has the right to respond to the crimes and massacres and war crimes committed by the enemy against the Yemeni people, its infrastructure, and its resources.
• has decided to ban the export, re-export, transfer, loading, purchase, or sale of U.S. crude oil (HS Code 2709.00) from U.S. ports, whether directly or indirectly.
• The ban on the export, re-export, transfer, loading, purchase, or sale of U.S. crude oil includes ship-to-ship (STS) transfers, whether fully or partially, including through third parties.
• The ban decision includes the possibility of granting exceptions or permits for humanitarian purposes or for countries and companies opposing U.S. policies and decisions, through submitting a request to the email Licensing@hocc.gov.ye.
• Companies violating the ban on transporting U.S. oil will be included in the sanctions list of perpetrators of aggression against Yemen or any Arab or Islamic country.
• The fleets of companies violating the U.S. oil ban will be prohibited from passing through the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab, the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean, and they will be targeted anywhere within the reach of the Yemeni armed forces.
• It is prohibited for countries, entities, and individuals to deal with U.S. companies listed in the sanctions in any way.
• It is prohibited to use agents, intermediary companies, shell companies, or third parties to carry out prohibited transactions on behalf of U.S. companies listed in the sanctions.
• Sanctions against companies violating the ban may extend to include entities that these companies contribute to, as well as senior executives or actual owners of the listed companies.
• It should be understood that the measures taken today through sanctions on oil and U.S. companies come within the legitimate right of the Republic of Yemen to respond to the war crimes committed by the U.S. enemy against the Yemeni people, its infrastructure, and its resources.

[one should never start totalen krieg and economic wars against the descendants of the first superpower that wrote the books on such, and overall wickedness. Yemenis have extremely long memories, and indomitable wills. It will not merely boomerang and come to bite on the ass. It will leave solely dust in the mouths of the raving.
NB. As Yemen exposed and humiliated the US Navy – so her current gambit also is a thrust of the civilizational-states to counter the crazed Sanctions “and Oil banning” runaway train. And Yemen can enforce its will. Can the other side??]

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ Admiral Samuel Paparo, commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, said the United States was currently capable of defeating China in a potential conflict over Taiwan.

He warned, however, that China’s rapidly growing military power was making the situation increasingly difficult.
[yeah. the estrogen-rich fella is a ringing endorsement of capability, no? Why not post him to CentCom and try his hand at Yemen first?]

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Israeli Army:

During the night, five Syrian Druze citizens were evacuated to Israel for medical treatment.

The Israeli army is deployed in southern Syria and is preparing to prevent hostile forces from entering Druze villages. The Israeli army continues to monitor the situation, preparing for defense and various scenarios.

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺💬The Ukrainian Armed Forces used guided missiles, unmanned boats and aircraft-type UAVs in a massive attack on Novorossiysk.

Russian military spent the entire night repelling attempts by the Kiev regime to damage the city’s infrastructure. The threat of an enemy attack still remains. The scene of the incident is currently being examined, special services are working – city mayor Kravchenko.

Two children and two adults were injured in a drone attack on Novorossiysk, the region’s governor Kondratyev reported.

The victims are receiving medical assistance.

He specified that residential buildings were damaged as a result of the strike. In addition, three tanks at the grain terminal were damaged. Firefighters are working at the scene. |link|
[this is northeastern Black Sea. iirc the MAIN grain and oil transshipment port of Russia in her entire south. The one warm water port – the ancient bête noire of the accursed British Empire. A major hub for the entire global south. This should be seen in tandem with attack on Iranian oil on our global food and energy security, conducive to ushering in universal Dark Winters…

These raids are usually launched from around Odessa or the Danube estuary by the Anglo-UkroNazis. A similar massive combined drone attack was launched against Crimea the night before last. A visible uptempo by the nazi international, both to “commemorate” their loss in 1945, and to substitute for deep losses in 404 through terrorism]
⭕ 🇷🇺There were no casualties at the KSK terminal in Novorossiysk following the UAV attack; the fire was extinguished by the company’s own emergency teams in coordination with the Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM). The “DeloPorts” terminals are operating as normal, according to the Delo Group.

Employees responded in a coordinated and professional manner during the attack, noted Sergey Shishkaryov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Delo Group.

“Many of them have a military background, and they acted with military precision and speed, showing composure and courage,” he added.
[ALL ports of civilizational-states should station such military folks henceforth. The aggression will not let up, until the last nazi is expunged]
⭕ Air defense forces shot down 170 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions overnight, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

Russian air defense destroyed eight Storm Shadow cruise missiles and three Ukrainian Neptune-MD missiles over the Black Sea.
[the semi-useless british missiles appear back in action]
⭕ 🇬🇧80 years ago, Brits brutally murdered several thousand Soviet prisoners of war from Nazi concentration camps in the Baltic.

FSB has published declassified archival documents about how on May 3, 1945, the British sank three German ships in the Bay of Lübeck: the Cap Arcona, the Thielbek and Deutschland, on which the Germans were transporting prisoners to Norway.

The British cold-bloodedly bombed and shot defenseless people from the air, even though they begged for mercy, and then finished off those who tried to escape from boats.

According to various estimates, 7000 to 12000 people died. The overwhelming majority of them were Soviet PoWs. Only 300 people were saved. The crime occurred despite the Red Cross info about the upcoming convoy.
Vasily Salomatkin, who survived the tragedy, said that the British were no different from the Nazis in their atrocities. The British did not even want to bury the dead and the few survivors were placed in a camp, where they were tortured in every possible way. |link|
[the steady release of Anglo crimes does not bode well for the Last Satanic Empire which has one hydra-head headquartered in London]
⭕ 🇷🇺 Medvedev dismissed Trump’s claim that the United States played the leading role in winning World War II, calling it “pretentious nonsense.”

Trump recently announced that the United States made the main contribution to the Victory in World War II and that he would establish a holiday on May 8. A holiday is not bad. But the first conclusion is pretentious nonsense. Let him remember (or ask) who took Berlin. Who was destroying the enemy for more than four years. Who liberated ungrateful Europe.

Our people laid down 27 million lives of their sons and daughters in the name of destroying the damned fascism.

That is why Victory Day is ours and it is May 9! It was, it is, it will always be!
[don’t waste time on the Mad Hatter. Just finish off his legions. The rest shall fall in place… we can then leave barking dogs in the wake of our multi-nodal caravan]

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ The United States owes the world an apology—and compensation—for its role in the COVID-19 disaster. With increasing public statements, including recent remarks by the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, pointing to the virus’s origins in a Wuhan lab funded by American institutions, the question of accountability can no longer be dismissed as conspiracy or speculation.

The global toll has been catastrophic. Millions died. Businesses collapsed under lockdown policies. Entire economies were paralyzed. Governments declared “war” to impose restrictions but found themselves unable to compensate citizens for the forced closures that dragged on for months or even years. People were coerced into taking hastily developed vaccines just to travel or keep their jobs—policies that now raise serious legal and ethical questions.

Because US-linked funding and oversight were involved in the creation or accidental release of the virus, the responsibility does not end with investigations. It demands reparations—trillions of dollars in economic restitution for the lives disrupted and lost. The pandemic wasn’t just a natural disaster; it was, in many ways, a man-made catastrophe, shrouded in secrecy and deflection.

Until there is transparency, accountability, and compensation, the global community will remain justified in its outrage. The cost of silence has already been far too high.
⭕ After years of systematically weakening Lebanon, Israel has now turned its attention to Syria—methodically eroding what remains of the state’s sovereignty. With nearly 80% of Syria’s military infrastructure dismantled and destroyed in the last few months only, Israel is reviving a strategic vision first outlined in 1954: the isolation and separation of the Druze community to carve out an Israeli-friendly buffer zone in the south.

As of 2025, this policy has moved from archival blueprint to active implementation. Israel is escalating pressure on the Syrian presidency (bombing a few hundred meters from the presidential palace) and obstructing military redeployments, capitalising on the fractured and volatile post-Assad landscape.

Paradoxically, for Lebanon—and particularly Hezbollah—the weakening of Syria under this new leadership may not be entirely unwelcome. A fragmented Syrian front poses fewer constraints on Hezbollah’s regional maneuvering and may complicate Israeli efforts to encircle or confront it directly.

Just yesterday, Israel conducted seven separate airstrikes within Syrian territory, a stark reminder of its unchecked freedom of action. Israeli drones now patrol Syrian airspace as routinely as they do over Lebanon, solidifying a normalised pattern of violations with no meaningful pushback. The goal is unmistakable: to splinter Syria further, neutralise the little remaining of its deterrent capacity, and redraw the region’s balance of power in Israel’s favor piece by piece.

Ironically, during the era of Bashar al-Assad, international outrage was focused on Iran’s presence in Syria and the broader Levant. Today, as Israel expands its de facto occupation of Syrian territory and encroaches deeper into the country’s sovereign space, the global response is muted. No condemnations. No sanctions. No accountability. The silence is not accidental—it is strategic. And it is deeply complicit.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ cont thread:
🔥 War, War, War …

Just a little more than 100 days into his second term, Donald J. Trump is making a strong play to become the most pro-war president in American history.

Great dangers lie ahead.
🔻 WS: So … Trump has pledged close to another half billion to keep the war against Russia going.

Meanwhile the Yemeni have corralled a carrier strike group in the Red Sea, and Little Pistol Pete has promised strikes against Iran.

Something bad will happen before this year is over.
🔻 Bill Bottrell: The idea of trading minerals for wasted performative warfare does not pass the strategic, diplomatic, political, or moral smell test.
🔻 WS: Especially when you consider the fact there are no meaningful economic mineral deposits in whatever will remain of the former Ukraine — and even if there were, it would take 15 – 20 years to develop them.

It’s all a ridiculous joke.
🔻 Basedboy: Promised? Someone already striked “we know what you are doing, you will pay dearly” mumble mumble. |media|
🔻 WS: Ho notato che gli israeliani hanno negato il loro coinvolgimento in questo attacco. Di solito o rivendicano la responsabilità o non dicono nulla. E se non sono stati gli israeliani, allora è molto probabile che si sia trattato di un’operazione delle forze speciali statunitensi.
🔻 Alasdair Stirling: When did Trump pledge another half billion?
🔻 WS: Earlier this week $50M was announced. Today another $310M was announced. And more is rumored to be “in the pipeline”. I’ll bet it grows to at least $1B by the end of the month.

Trump is rather upset that Putin has defied him. |media|
🔻 Jeorj jeorj: Zugzwang is a term from chess that means a situation where a player is forced to make a move that will worsen their position. It often occurs in endgames, where any legal move leads to a disadvantage.
🔻 no to blue 🇮🇪 Z: Half a billion dollars to be fair isn’t going to last very long by the time everyone involved gets their cut.
🔻 Silvie Amst: Something bad will happen.
Fortunately, chances are much bigger than ever before that this “something bad” will happen to the U.S.
Like USS Truman landing on the bottom of the Red sea.
🔻 JJ✝️: So another promise broken and the money laundering will continue. I hope MAGA is proud of their master.
🔻 John Kayoss: MIGA cucks gonna cuck
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: That ‘minerals’ agreement is simply a vehicle to wash the cash through.
🔻 The multipolar world has arrived. 🎉🌟🤝 🎉🌟: He’s weak and he’s stupid.
The orange chimp is like a straw in the wind –

As i said before, all civilizations has an expiration date.
And if we look at the ‘quality’ of politicians and media in the West – Unfortunately, we seem to be getting closer and closer.
⭕ cont. thread:
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Did Trump just announce that China will “not be allowed to do business with the US in any way, shape or form”? Or isn’t he even aware of the implications of what he’s posting?

In either case, characteristically irresponsible.
🔻 WS: If I had to bet, I’d wager Trump simply doesn’t even know that China buys 90%+ of Iranian oil exports.

I am convinced there is no practicable way to enforce a ban on Iranian oil. Any US attempt to do so via “hard power” will produce a cascade of very undesirable consequences.
🔻 Bubbasmo.: I would like to counter your wager because I bet he does- I agree that getting these issues under control so we benefit are going to be painful but many times in life that is true- just don’t know how many people today will be up to the challenge!
🔻 WS: You’re missing the point.

China — defying US “sanctions” against it — has monopolized the market for Iranian oil.

And there is no practicable way to enforce a ban on Iranian oil. Any US attempt to do so via “hard power” will produce a cascade of very undesirable consequences.
[well some of those cascades were just launched by Yemen – banning Yanqui-bound oil from seas under their control. The role of Yemen shall only continue to rise and rise in the End Times, as they herd us all to wonders in the Holy Land. They were prophesied to be one of the major Ten Signs of the End Times, right up with the Legion of the Moshiach (Rising of the Sun from the West) and the true Messiah]
🔻 KaliConservativ63: It’s an excuse for a showdown, Taiwan best watch it’s six o clock
🔻 Aki K: China’s apparent discounts for the Iranian and also Russian oil have guaranteed it a cheaper source of energy than what the grandstanding West is able to get.
[it’s far bigger than “grandstanding”. It’s for all the marbles. we shall soon see sea piracy and sea jousts the likes of which weren’t dreamt of by even Jules Verne]
⭕ cont. thread:
🤦‍♂️ Trump’s historical illiteracy and American exceptionalist delusions have jumped the shark.
[referring to Orange tweet to recast Victory Day in ww2 as May 8th]
🔻 My Cat’s name is Charles David: Why does it bother ppl how AMERICA celebrates “ending” these wars?
🔻 WS: Non sequitur.

My point was narrowly focused: Trump’s historical illiteracy and American exceptionalist delusions have jumped the shark.

All crumbling empires cling to the illusion of greatness through celebrations of their imagined martial might and mythological victories.
🔻 TruthsayerUK: Not long before the Brits see the back of our incompetent warmonger!😀 |media|
[Starmer a lame duck dead horse. IOW, like Biden, perfect for the Murder-Suicide, being a totally empty and servicable meatsuit for principalities and A.I.]
🔻 WS: The United Kingdom should return to an absolute monarchy, but choosing the sovereign by totally random lottery, with a five-year term (or until abdication or assassination).

Term-limited absolute power.

Couldn’t be worse than the current system. Might be a vast improvement.
⭕ 🔸 The Hollywood Army

With scant few exceptions, the demonstrable fact is that the Americans have never manifest a particular acumen for warfare.

The belief that the US has ever been some brilliant maneuver army is a total Hollywood fabrication with no basis in actual history.
📜 The Myth of Western Military Prowess
🔻 Michael Rauls: I tried to think of well planned out, well executed, successful US operations that weren’t just blunt force stumbling.
I came up with Midway and The palm Sunday Massacre. Other than that, not much.
🔻 WS: I have read MANY books about the Battle of Midway. It was a stunning and decisive American victory. But it was anything but “well planned”. It was a crazy series of screwups punctuated by an amazingly propitious coincidence of American good luck and Japanese bad luck.
⭕ ‼️ Essential Reading

Lyn Alden puts together a great thread below.

And I have to laugh at all the “usual suspects” who try so hard to argue that the facts Lyn presents are not as important as they appear to be, because “US financial sanction power” is allegedly so omnipotent.
links:
🔻 Lyn Alden: For context, out of China’s total exports in a given year, the US buys like 10-15% of them.

Many people don’t seem to appreciate this. |THREAD|
⭕🔻 Dan Collins: Genetics matter. Every horse racing this weekend in the Kentucky Derby is a descendent of Secretariat.
🔻 WS: Most Europeans and Anglo-Saxon Americans are descendants of Charlemagne. I am.

Charlemagne aggressively “spread his seed”.

Thoroughbred breeders buy horse semen that has Secretariat in its genealogy.
[I read somewhere one in eight Koreans were descended from another serial rapist – Genghis Khan. And all humans alive today are reportedly descended from three men during prior bottlenecks in time, including Adam and Noah. But, whether from a devil or a prophet, we are each accountable for ourselves, and only ourselves…]
🔻 WS: And, of course, of all Secretariat’s progeny, none has ever broken his record time at Belmont. He was a once in a century horse. Maybe once in a millennium.
[which exposes the superstition behind much of genetics!]
⭕ Dog fights are back!

Where have you gone Ender Wiggins? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you. |media|

a point of difference: the Qataris DO worship SOMETHING.. a self-replicating, widely-dispersed, autonomous, amoral, pre-programmed and highly focused intelligence. unlike anything else on the dimensions

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Israel has approved plans to expand fighting in Gaza, requiring the conscription of tens of thousands of reserve troops.

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇸 Serbian President Vučić Remains in Military Hospital After Cutting U.S. Visit Short

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić is currently being treated at a military hospital, and further details about his condition are expected in the coming days, a source told TASS.
[this appears a mechanism to escape attending the Moscow Victory Day commemoration. How sad for the liberal compradore]

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸The US could face massive power outages this summer due to huge difficulties in generating electricity

We saw what happened this week in Spain. It could happen in America this summer – Interior Minister Doug Burgum.

He blamed the previous US administration for the deplorable state of the country’s energy system.
[what about upgrading a grid built mostly during and right after the Gilded Age??
NB the criminals plan to cut Russian uranium and other sources of energy generation! They’re CYA in advance]
⭕ ❗️Turkish skies closed to Israeli flights, no exception for Netanyahu’s flight to Azerbaijan — Turkish Center for Combating Disinformation
[why is Satanyahoo in Azerbaijan? That’s the dangerous thing. It is on Iran’s northern border and an expected front on zero hour]
⭕ 🇮🇳🇷🇺Indian Defense Minister Cancels Victory Parade Visit in Moscow Following Prime Minister

This was reported by India Today, citing sources among Russian officials. According to the publication, the decision was made against the backdrop of growing tensions between India and Pakistan .

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was supposed to attend the parade to mark the 80th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War instead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who also cancelled a visit to Moscow in late April .

India will now be represented at the parade by Deputy Defence Minister Sanjay Seth.

Earlier it became known that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico cancelled work events due to illness.

Against this background, it is unknown whether they will come to Moscow. Earlier, the Kremlin confirmed their participation in the parade.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇸🇾A historical event, of course.

The US-led international coalition has completely withdrawn its troops from the Syrian Al-Omar oil field in Deir ez-Zor.

American troops are no longer present, coalition troops have moved to Iraq. |media|
[“mission accomplished”. Syria dismembered, demilitarized, and raped/being raped every single day. Western values transiently triumphed. On to the next savaging…]

With belated thanks to dear Emerson. Am catching up. Simply too much. Lost in tsunami of noise and action is the ongoing strangling of supply chains to CONUS. There are good reasons for Orange’s urgency to erect FEMA camps and other gulags, with “justification” and precedent set by his friends in El Salvador and Blackwater

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/tariff-tit-for-tat-has-seattle-waiting-for-the-ships-to-come-in/

☝️☝️ What good are supply chains if the deplorables have been immiserated through odious usurious debt and wage slavery into maxed out cards, despair and sheer fear of spending given mounting uncertainties and gathering chaos? I’m talking about the sane minority outside the doomed megalopolises, where they’re not partying like it’s 1999 or kievan cokeheads on their last high

Can we now call it “Rabbit Hole Economics”?? It’s moved beyond Col’s eCONomics! It’s flat out insanity. Even the ancient Babylonians would shake their exquisite oiled locks at our pitiful state

God Bless Yemen.. she’s already let out the genie from the bottle, or as the ancient Greeks would say admiringly, opened Pandora’s box

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ Mexican President Sheinbaum confirmed that Trump had offered to send US troops to Mexico to combat drug trafficking, but she declined the offer.

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦The Russian Ministry of Defense reports a drone attack on the Murmansk region.

Three drones were reported to have been shot down.
[This is the stuff of nightmares. Like attacking Norfolk in USA.. what days. And note the distance from 404. This is part of an irregular probing attack likely originating from the Balts and Scandinavians. Their rapture is nigh]

sorry amigos, have been swamped with work and home commitments. A sudden crushing load.. it may continue for a few weeks – it is seasonal for us, and had additional family commitment – a perfect storm.

How about that Yemeni missile! A SINGLE missile, which pierced so many AD layers – the best of Empire. And this is little Yemen. A fraction of the heft and capability and stocks and size of Iran. At same time, Iran unveiled new IRBM with CEP of 1.0m or less (more accurate than Yemeni) and less likely to be jammed, not being reliant on GPS.. The packaged political message of the year? If they were sane, they would immediately sue for peace, pack bags, and return to Europe and CONUS. Alas! The Passion of the Worst shall not be deterred by lost conventional wars. Onwards men of the Moshiach. The Murder-Suicide is fated

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️China and Russia will continue to oppose unilateral actions and intimidation, and jointly promote an equal multipolar world, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said

The Kremlin said, in turn, that Xi Jinping will pay official visit to Russia on May 7-10 at Putin’s invitation.
⭕ Iran Unveils New Ballistic Missile: 1,200 km Threat That Outsmarts Top US & Israeli Defenses

The Qassem Basir is a solid-fuel ballistic missile with the ability to maneuver that can evade top air and missile defense systems, including US THAAD and Patriot, Iranian Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh said.

“This missile finds a specific target among many and hits it without even a meter of deviation and without using the GPS navigation system,” the IRIB news agency quoted him as saying.

💥 What else is known about the new missile?

• Iran successfully test-fired the Qassem Basir missile on April 17; test footage aired on state TV Sunday;
• Nasirzadeh said the missile’s development used lessons from Iran’s 2024 “True Promise” strikes on Israel;
• Iran will not hesitate to target US bases in the region if attacked by Washington, he warned. |media|

⭕ Major World Events by Morning of May 5

…. 🟠Pakistan requested urgent consultations at the UN Security Council due to escalating tensions in its relations with India;
⭕ Putin-Trump Meeting is Necessary, But Must Be Prepared Accordingly, Kremlin Spokesman Says

Currently, Putin has no trips to the Middle East (which has been listed as a possible meeting place) scheduled for mid-May, Dmitry Peskov said.

Key statements from the official:

• Moscow values its relations with both Delhi and Islamabad, and hopes that the sides will be able to agree on measures that will reduce tensions;
• the Kremlin is watching the situation on the border between India and Pakistan with great concern, where a tense atmosphere has developed;

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 Zakharova Comments on UK Decision to Invite Ukrainian Troops to May 8 Parade

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented on the British government’s decision to invite Ukrainian Armed Forces to a May 8 parade in London, saying the move had shocked even the UK itself.

“What could be more shameful, humiliating, and defeatist than allowing dishonorable neo-Nazi thugs onto the main square of your capital on Victory Day? I feel sorry for ordinary Britons — no one has ever strategically humiliated them like this before,” the diplomat remarked.
⭕ 🇨🇳🇷🇺Xi Jinping will visit Russia for four days :

“Chairman of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping, at the invitation of his Russian counterpart, will pay an official visit to Russia from May 7 to 10 and take part in the ceremonial events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

During the talks, the main issues of further development of relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction, as well as current issues of the international and regional agenda will be discussed.”
⭕ 👨‍🦲💬Vladimir Putin is constantly thinking about who could become his successor but the choice will be up to the citizens, he emphasized in a documentary film on the Rossiya TV channel.

He stressed that several people must appear who could gain the people’s trust.

I always think about this. Ultimately, it is clear that there are election technologies, there is an administrative resource. But still, in the end, the choice is up to the people, the Russian people, the citizens, the voters. A person who does not have the people’s trust is unlikely to have a chance to do something serious.

This is an absolutely fundamental question. Therefore, when I think about this, and I think about this constantly, of course, I think that a person, or better yet several people, should appear, so that people have a choice, who could gain this trust of the citizens of the country.

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇾🇪 Distance of the USS Harry S. Truman from Yemen:

April 25th: 870 kilometers

April 28th: 970 kilometers

May 3rd: 1,150 kilometers

Notice a pattern?

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ retweet:
A new mural was unveiled in Palestine Square Tehran!

Iran Supports Yemen 🇮🇷❤️🇾🇪
⭕ Without a collective popular resistance, Syria is doomed:
Israel claims to have delivered weapons and so-called “humanitarian assistance” to the Druze in Suweida, southern Syria—even as it continues to impose a brutal humanitarian siege on Palestinians in Gaza. This selective morality reveals a broader agenda: while punishing one population, Israel seeks to cultivate another as a strategic foothold. The ultimate aim is clear—annex Suweida and expand its control over additional Syrian territory under the guise of protection and aid.
⭕ The explosion of pagers in Lebanon immediately triggered a sweeping response in Iran and Yemen. Both countries undertook rapid and thorough overhauls of their communication systems, relocating key leaders and commanders, and redistributing ballistic and hypersonic missiles. One reason the United States has failed to deter Yemen—and faces a limited target set—is precisely because of the drastic security measures implemented in the wake of the intelligence breach within Hezbollah. The lesson, though costly, has been absorbed. It now forms the backbone of future war preparedness
⭕ retweet:
The firing of national security advisor Mike Waltz appears to be part of the battle between the ultra pro-Israel and ultra-ultra pro-Israel wings of the @realDonaldTrump administration |link|
⭕ retweet:
A direct Yemeni hypersonic missile hit near Ben Gurion airport, evading Israeli and US defences |link|
⭕ retweet:
A massive crater can been seen at the impact site

*The crater is said to be 25 meter deep. |link|
⭕ Benjamin Netanyahu, under an ICC arrest warrant for his war crimes, will plan to hit Yemen but will achieve the opposite effect:
1. Embarrassing the US that failed to deter Yemen after almost a bloody intensely and expensive bombing campaign.
2. Kill civilians and hit civilian infrastructure due to the absence of objectives.
3. Encourages Yemen to continue the bombing of Israel unless the humanitarian siege is lifted on Gaza.
⭕ Yemen and Lebanon are paying a heavy price for the support of the Palestinians in Gaza while the Syrian new leadership arrest the Palestinian resistance leaders in Damascus and close their offices.
⭕ It seems no US or Israeli interception missiles can stop the Iranian hypersonic technology.
⭕ Iranian missile technology can hit a target 2000 km away in 7 minutes without being intercepted by the US forces and bases deployed on the trajectory and all the various interceptions deployed in Israel to hit incoming missiles.
⭕ The US have been bombing Yemen for the last two months and much before that under Biden administration. Therefore, there are no real military high value objectives left behind. In consequence, Israel is expected to cause a large number of civilian Yemeni casualties. And if Israel dares to bomb Iran, the consequences will be unexpected. But Netanyahu will be threatening to hit Iran to blackmail the US so Donald Trump send all the weapons Israel needs to avoid a wider war.
⭕ A missile launched from 2,000 kilometers away, evading US-THAAD, Israel Arrow-3, Arrow-4, David’s Sling, and the Iron Dome, and striking precisely within the airport perimeter — this is an event that won’t be forgotten.
⭕ Yemen Escalates Economic Pressure on U.S. Oil Exports

In a significant escalation, Yemen’s Humanitarian Affairs Authority in Sana’a has announced a ban on the passage of US oil through the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean, warning international shipping companies of penalties for violations. The move is a direct response to US sanctions on oil tankers that delivered shipments to Yemen’s Ras Isa terminal last month.

Yemeni officials say this is just the beginning of a broader economic counteroffensive. The ban is expected to increase US oil transportation costs, raise insurance premiums, and disrupt supply chains, all at a time when American exports had reached 4.1 million barrels per day by the end of last year.

Washington’s imports of Arab oil may be affected next, with the decision set to take effect mid-month. The message is clear: Yemen has economic tools to pressure Washington and is prepared to use them.
⭕ Yemen’s armed forces have declared their intention to enforce a “complete air blockade” on Israel, in retaliation for Tel Aviv’s continued military expansion in Gaza. The statement warns international airlines to suspend flights to Israeli airports, citing escalating risks to aviation safety.
⭕ US President Donald Trump has declared his desire to see “the entire Iranian nuclear program dismantled.” Given his limited grasp of the complexities of international diplomacy—and the gap between rhetoric and realistic outcomes—it’s difficult to determine how seriously to take such a statement. But if he truly means what he says, then any prospect of a negotiated deal with Tehran becomes virtually impossible.
⭕ The Israeli cabinet has decided to enlarge its killing in Gaza, disregarding Donald Trump’s call to allow humanitarian aids into the Strip. Israel will maintain the humanitarian siege that mount to war crime and crimes against humanity. The US complicity is certain.
⭕ One hypersonic missile hit Israel—and it’s about to rewrite the entire US and Middle Eastern defense strategy.

Full breakdown in my upcoming article.

💠 @Two Majors:
⭕ On the effectiveness of decisive measures

German media reported the passage of a convoy of Russian ships through the Baltic Sea , accompanied by a military ship .

It is reported that the Ro-Ro cargo ships MV BALTIC LEADER and PATRIA , as well as the dry cargo ship SIYANIE SEVERA, left the port of Baltiysk (Kaliningrad Region) in the direction of the Mediterranean Sea together with the corvette Boykiy (bailiff number 532) of the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Navy . The purpose is allegedly the delivery of military equipment to Africa.

✨ Cowards🇩🇪 Fritzes and🇩🇰 This time the Danes watched the legal passage from afar 🇷🇺 Russian ships through their waters, without even daring to get close (a German coast guard patrol boat was sailing at a noticeable distance), let alone stopping or other illegal 🏴‍☠piratical actions that they had previously taken against unprotected civilian ships in the Baltic Sea.

✨⭐️ All this bravura🚩 NATO “heroes” ends immediately when the threat of retaliatory measures is more real and closer than the infinitely distant nuclear club or “red lines”. We hope that the crew of “Boykiy” was given the appropriate powers.

he makes the excellent point: the age of ceasefires draw to a close, on all fronts. The “agreement-incapable” oath-breakers are skewered fatally on their own bayonets. Time no longer permits it.. it is to the finish for the nazi internationale, on each front, and going forward. Those reliant on optics can no longer afford it, even to save themselves.

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ The Israeli terrorists are boasting about bombing Hodeidah port.

But they didn’t. The Israeli terrorist regime bombed Yemen’s Bajil Cement factory, some 50km from the Al-Hudeidah port.

Flames = for media boasting
Effectiveness? The cement in Yemen’s missiles are gonna be stalled … |media|
[Yemen’s prepped for the Last Drang, the final war of Eschatology. Everything and anything worth saving is assuredly squirreled away deep inside mountains or in nooks here and there in the desert. They are a resourceful people]

💠 @Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ Currently, there is a Zionist-American aggression happening in Yemen. However, no matter what they do, no matter how much they bombard or kill, they will not shake us. They will not stop our efforts to support the Palestinian people and their noble resistance in Gaza. Therefore, we tell the Zionist children: the Yemeni response will come to you swiftly. Just wait, you criminals.

Yemen is on its way!
⭕ One Yemeni missile ignited a fire within the rotten lungs of the Zionists. One Yemeni missile compelled the entity to send 40 warplanes to participate in a wide-scale attack on Yemen. This is clear evidence that the enemy is drowning in fear, terrified and trembling from the Yemeni dagger that threatens the security of the temporary entity.
⭕ ⭕️ The enemy’s media announces the end of the Zionist attack on Yemen.

Have their airports resumed operations? Or have they lifted the naval blockade? Not at all.
⭕ Hodeidah: American and Israeli aggression targets a cement factory in Bajil.
⭕ Statement Issued by Hezbollah:

Hezbollah strongly condemns the “Israeli”-American aggression against dear Yemen, which targeted vital facilities, civilian infrastructure, and essential sites in the port of Al-Hudaydah—a blatant war crime that violates all international laws, norms, and conventions.

The resilient Yemeni people—undeterred by fleets, warplanes, and tons of destructive missiles, and having sacrificed hundreds of martyrs and wounded—remain resolute under their steadfast and courageous leadership in their honorable support for Gaza and its people. This aggression will only increase their determination and resolve to continue backing the Palestinian people by imposing new equations and intensifying the air and naval blockade on the Zionist enemy, regardless of the cost in sacrifices.

Hezbollah expresses its full solidarity with the proud Yemeni people, salutes their wise and brave leadership, and calls upon all free nations and active forces in the world to condemn and denounce this aggression at the highest level. Hezbollah affirms that this attack demands urgent and effective action from the Arab and Islamic world to shoulder its responsibilities and raise its voice loud against Zionist-American arrogance.

Monday, May 5, 2025
7 Dhul Qa’dah 1446
⭕ A Yemeni military source: Our recent strike on Ben Gurion Airport was merely a warning, and we are serious about imposing an aerial blockade on the Israeli enemy.
⭕ 🔴Urgent🔴

• Ben Gurion Airport
• Ramon Airport
• Haifa Airport
• Hatzor Airbase
• Ramat David Airbase
• Nevatim Airbase
• Tel Nof Airbase
• Ovda Airbase

We do not know when, but soon they will be destroyed by the Yemenis. ⏳🇾🇪
⭕ effects of bombing Yemen by Legion |media|

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🌏 Arnaud Bertrand on X: 

This is quite consequential.

China, Japan, South Korea and the countries of ASEAN just issued a joint statement in which they take a unified stance against “escalating trade protectionism”, a clear reference to Trump’s tariffs. [link]

They write that their common “policy priority” is “to reinforce long-term resilience” of the region, which given the policies they detail clearly means building financial and trade infrastructure that aims at reducing their exposure to the US.

The statement outlines a comprehensive strategy to strengthen trade between the signatories, enhance local currency bond markets and reduce dependence on Western financial institutions (via, for instance, the expansion of the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation, CMIM).

Particularly notable is their explicit support for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) – the world’s largest trade agreement that includes all the signatories but not the US.

All in all, Trump is achieving the unthinkable: bringing East and Southeast Asia together in an economic bloc that seeks to derisk itself from America.

🔗 Arnaud Bertrand
[almost as amazing as the statement (declaration of economic war on Anglos??) is the location from which they made the statement]
⭕ 🇮🇳Apple will manufacture all iPhones in India in the coming years

This was announced by the Minister of Communications of the South Asian republic, Jyotiraditya Sindia.
[the age of smartphones may be coming to an end anyhow, at least in the West.. this appears a red rag of seduction towards India, to help her take the Leap off the Cliff]

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ With the US support, Israel is bombing al-Hodeida harbour in Yemen. 30 Israeli jets are participating in the attack.
⭕ Israeli airstrikes on Yemen will not deter the launch of Yemeni hypersonic missiles toward Israel. Sanaa understands the costs and is prepared to absorb the consequences. The real question is whether Israel is equally ready to endure sustained strategic retaliation. Time will tell who truly has the stomach for escalation.
⭕ There was evidently no better display of the U.S.-Israel military might than striking a civilian port and a cement factory. It speaks volumes about the lack of credible targets and the growing frustration on their end. Meanwhile, the Yemeni forces have proven remarkably effective in safeguarding their command and control structure, concealing decision-makers, and shielding missile warehouses from detection. In a desperate attempt to “save face,” Netanyahu—alongside his U.S. backers—has only succeeded in making both look increasingly inept. The choice of such irrelevant targets does not project strength; it exposes strategic bankruptcy.
⭕ Benjamin Netanyahu wants a “victory” so it is bombing Janta, in the Lebanese Bekaa Valley. Nothing more than humiliating the Lebanese government and army and undermining their authorities.
⭕ Before the bombing, Yemeni fighters walked without shoes. After the bombing, they’ll walk without shoes, only with more resolve and sharper aim.
⭕ Israel warned it will bomb the Sanaa airport. This was expected but will change nothing. Israel Prime Minister (with an ICC arrest warrant for his war crime) Benjamin Netanyahu’s source of life is war and Yemen is not an easy enemy to defeat.
⭕ Israel acknowledge having committed war crimes against Yemen. Nothing unusual for a war criminal with an ICC arrest warrant: “We have bombed and destroyed a civilian aircraft, the passenger transfer building and civilian services at the airport. We have also destroyed electricity power stations and cement factory”.
[most of yemen is used to living without municipal electricity. The more well off have generators and solar panels are increasingly used]
⭕Again, Israel and the US are confirming they are lacking military objectives to bomb. This is why both attack civilian infrastructure in Yemen. This is not how anyone can win a war, on the contrary, military speaking, it is a sign of weakness and incapability that encourages the Yemeni to continue engaging with the US and Israel fearlessly.
⭕ Sanaa, Yemen, airport bombed by Israel was operating only two flights per week to Amman, Jordan, and two power stations out of service for the last 10 years, bombed by Saudi Arabia during the 8-years of war and bombed by the US in the last weeks.
⭕ One important point:

Despite Israel’s demonstrable capability to strike deep into regional airspaces—such as Syria, Lebanon, and even Yemen—the claim that up to 30 Israeli fighter jets simultaneously entered Yemeni airspace raises logistical and operational questions. Israeli air force doctrine typically relies on aerial refueling for extended-range missions, a complex operation requiring US logistical support and airspace access coordination. While Israel possesses this capacity, it is highly unlikely that such a large fleet could sustain continuous sorties over Yemen without regional intermediate stops.

Given the geostrategic terrain and political constraints, Israeli aircraft may be operating from staging grounds closer to the Gulf or Red Sea corridor. The suspicion that these jets may have landed at or coordinated from airfields in Gulf countries—or possibly in Djibouti or Eritrea—before penetrating Yemeni airspace is more plausible than direct long-range sorties from Israel alone.

This operational ambiguity highlights a broader theme: military power projection often relies on regional alignments and silent partnerships, not purely on technological supremacy. The mythologizing of Israeli omnipotence, including narratives of 30 jets striking Yemen autonomously, should be read critically—not to deny Israel’s reach, but to interrogate the regional infrastructure of its deterrence and intervention architecture.
[or whether 30 jets were even used. They’ve been caught lying before, in order to amplify their potential]
⭕ poll:
Yemen is expected to launch a missile on Israel in the next:
63% 24 hours
19% 48 hours
18% 72 hours

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔥 @KitKlarenberg provides a one-stop-shopping summary of the US Navy’s continuing debacle in the Battle of the Red Sea.

As I have argued for some time now, I consider this the US Navy’s most humiliating strategic defeat since WW2. |link|
🔻 Kit Klarenberg: God bless you for sharing, Will. A humbling and flattering commendation to be sure.
🔻 mariko ryouko: The offer of “counseling and treatment” is being considered for thousands of U.S. Navy employees and their families who suffer from “post-traumatic stress” due to “Houthi-launched missiles.”…🫣
🔻 Spyros Marchetos: Operation Genocide Guardian.
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: This war the US is waging against Yemen without congressional approval is an unmitigated failure and disaster.
🔻 Fuck Israel: Long live Yemen 🇾🇪
Long live Houthis ❤️
🔻 Paulo: Last sentence “the flurry of mainstream interest over the USS Harry S. Truman’s recent troubles is indicative of a determination by the Pentagon to end Washington’s renewed malevolence against Yemen before Ansar Allah inflicts yet another historic defeat on the US Empire”
🔻 MAKE LOVE AND NOT WAR: Worst of all, there are 3 strike groups with super aircraft carriers and escorts in the region that are unable to approach Yemen Coast and fulfill the task of allowing free navigation. |link|
🔻 This account doesn’t exist 🇵🇸 🇸🇴 🇭🇹 🇿🇦: So much trouble and expense to keep ¡$ra€l’s baby slaughter and land grab humming
⭕In mid-December 2024, this essay was not well received by those who believed the newly elected Donald Trump was going to change the world.

Now that it is clear Putin is recalcitrant in the face of his demands, Trump is itching to do something to soothe the sting of humiliation.
📜 Dictating Terms
⭕‼️ Then and Now

In 1945, the British and Americans dropped 3,900 tons of bombs on Dresden, Germany.

The most recent estimates are that Israel has now dropped 85,000 tons of American bombs on Gaza.
[and that’s why they’re going back in to bayonet the babies and women. Bombing has not worked fast enough, nor has starvation, nor terror, nor disease, nor isolation, nor nor nor nor nor]
🔻 Casa ChiChi 🦀 #M4A 🚑: We are the bad guys and more people need to let that sink in, even though the truth hurts 😒
🔻 O Gato Bonito: To our everlasting shame.
🔻 F. B.: While this is a useful comparison, IMO it doesn’t reflect the severity. Gaza’s area is ~1/5 of that of Dresden (much higher bombing per unit surface area). Also, current explosives generally pack much higher punch per unit weight than their 1945 counterparts.
⭕ repost:
🔻 Brian Berletic: 🇺🇸🇪🇺US-Europe Waste No Time in Fully Restarting Proxy War with Russia

▪️US-Europe have aided Ukraine in a number of attacks over the last day or so with Western intel assets guiding naval drones, cruise missiles, and other Western-provided munitions in attacks across Crimea and other Russian territory.

Western military commanders and assets are being used including surveillance drones to oversee the operations, and as the New York Times has since revealed, these strikes are planned and directed by US, not Ukrainian, commanders;

▪️This follows failed efforts by the “Trump administration” to dupe Russian into a ceasefire European troops (as directed by US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth) could then use to create a long-desired buffer zone in Ukraine to freeze the conflict just as the US did in Syria following failed attempts to topple the government there;

▪️Russia, for its part, never appeared to pause even for a moment and is likely fully prepared to continue advancing while weathering these Western-armed and enabled attacks;

▪️It’s unlikely the US-Europe have given up on the idea of a buffer zone, it will now devise a way to do it the “hard way;”

▪️Hopefully this is a wake up call for Trump supporters – Trump not only tried to dupe Russia, he blatantly lied to his support base about seeking peace while surrounding himself with neocons who instead always sought to win their proxy war;
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ THAAD has already been defeated multiple times by both Iranian and Yemeni ballistic missiles.

People forget THAAD is so ineffective that it only went to operational status after the US dumbed down the testing scenarios multiple times until it could intercept a target missile.
[links, apparently in relation to the Yemeni missile that nailed zionazi airport:
🔻 Habitual Linecrosser: “OK got my own source info I retract all previous statements it was a miss. The first miss of the system ever. I mean it only hit dirt but still. I’m sure this guy will call it a win and in some ways he might be right. For me credibility is more important than being right.”]
🔻 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩: Will, I don’t doubt you.

Do you have citations for the testing?
🔻 WS: It was widely reported over multiple years during the THAAD testing phase. As I recall, there was even talk about terminating the program. But they eventually set up scenarios where they knew EXACTLY where the target missiles were going, and finally achieved some intercepts.
🔻 WS: I don’t have time to search right now. If you haven’t turned up sources by the time I check back later, I’m sure I can find some. It was a big scandal over a few years. There was a lot of commentary on the topic
🔻 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩: No surprise, i will find and share.

The usual suspects always whine.
[and lie easier than they breath]
🔻 Eomar – Diligent News: Same story, different war!

during the first Iraq war, Iraq sought to break the coalition against it by striking israel and getting them directly involved. Our ‘advanced systems’ were similarly embarrassed. The MiC overhypes specs and wildly under delivers. Yemen is shattering our false image of strength.
🔻 bitquoter: Imagine if Iran unleashes her full potential on Israel in case of an attack on Iran..

Wars have changed, missile technology and drones will dominate warfare. And Iran isn’t a small player on this front.

The war in Ukraine teaches many lessons.
🔻 Latin_Casanova: The zionist felt protected but as usual it was gimmick
⭕ 🤡🌍 Captain Soggy Cookie is just glad the news cycle ran out of steam on the story of him flinging overboard one of his fighter aircraft.

Meanwhile the Yemeni remain the gatekeepers of the Bab-el-Mandeb.
🧵 Evasive Maneuvers
⭕🤡🌎 Trump has gone haywire.

#NonComposMentis |link|
🔻 Heliopause: Alcatraz Decision Tree
[leading image. There were some good movies about that hellhole]
🔻 hans koenig: He just announced that American cinema needs to be saved through 100% tariffs. The people that tried to destroy him nonstop. What a brainlet, there is no plan, just one idiocy after another.
🔻 Perdido na Bagaçeira: The previous one, at least, was «clinically» insane.
[this one is “banally” off his rocker, marked by endless stream of consciousness verbal diarrhea]
⭕🤦‍♂️ US Army Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Ben Hodges proposes that Ukraine launch “hundreds” of drones at the May 9th parade in Moscow; says it is a “legitimate military target”.
links:
🔻 Ben Hodges: Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges – Rain Fire on Putin’s 9th May Parade – A Legitimate… |link|
🔻 The Skeptic🤔🤔: Imagine going through life being this wrong and sociopathic.

It is remarkable that this guy was a flag officer. |link|
🔻 WS: The past few years have convinced me that it is the rule, not the exception, that flag officers in every branch of the American military are grasping imbeciles almost entirely detached from objective reality.
🔻 Johanna deMartin: Nazis gonna keep on naziing themselves into a grave that cannot come soon enough.
🔻 RAMJUGGLER: Killing people is their business. Despicable
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: Deluded & dangerous.
🔻 155 AUF1: That’s the kind of people chosen to lead US military. It explains a lot.
🔻 BenLayZenji: We live in depraved times, when the most transparently criminal and stupid ideas can be proudly presented and amplified.
🔻 El Jefe: They are all batshit crazy
🔻 Halide Edip: Colonel Wilkerson says that you will not find a 3 star general or admiral with a brain. None which understand the realities of combat.

They look out the door of the Pentagon with eyes on
7,8 and even 9 figure jobs with Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.
🔻 The Skeptic🤔🤔: It is telling that a 3 star doesn’t have an brain but is expecting a huge sinecure from a MIC. Makes me wonder how poor the leadership of the MICs actually are.

I’m in DC now for my annual meeting with some of these clowns. Wish me luck.
🔻 WS: The crisis of competency in America already has a few generations of momentum. There is no stopping this train.
⭕🔻 Russians With Attitude: What’s gonna happen in Romania if the Simion guy wins and Brussels just says ‘lol no’ again
🔻 Armchair Warlord: They’re just going to keep having elections until the voters get the message, I guess?
🔻 WS: I continue to believe the most strategically meaningful consequence of the ongoing shenanigans in Romania is that the Russians will dip their feet in the Danube sooner than later.
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: 👇 @RWApodcast
[links:
🔻 Thomas Fazi: “There’s a reason Simion was allowed to run — unlike Georgescu. While Simion holds far more radical positions than Georgescu on issues such as the rights of ethnic minorities in Romania — positions that arguably justify the “far-right” label — he aligns closely with the establishment on matters that truly count: the EU, NATO and the proxy war in Ukraine. In many ways, he is Romania’s version of Giorgia Meloni — whom he openly admires.

This exposes just how disingenuous the establishment’s fear-mongering about the “far right” really is. The label is weaponised to discredit anyone who challenges the prevailing order, yet the very same establishment is happy to embrace genuine far-right figures — as long as they remain loyal on economic and geopolitical fundamentals.”]
🔻 Walking Sadman 🇵🇸: My evil thought is the Empire is now sponsoring a pro NATO right winger to collect the Georgescu voters.
Elections with uncertain outcome are to prevent. Every candidate must be our candidate: so go and vote.
That’s democracy: fascism in disguise.
🔻 BuboAsper: An der schönen blauen Donau…
[one of my all time favorites.. i walked by his birth home or final residence in Wien just some months after the Berlin wall fell. A prince of the Gilded Age / Belle Epoque]

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇾🇪🇺🇸| Dhaifallah al-Shami, AnsarAllah political bureau member, in response to Trump’s statements:

When Trump makes such remarks, it means he wants to preserve his dignity in the face of the heavy defeat he suffered in Yemen and his aggression against the Yemeni people.

He was completely defeated in his aggression, and this is what forced the Zionist enemy to directly attack after the strike on Ben Gurion Airport. The Zionist attacks frustrated the Americans and demonstrated to the world that the American aggression and their aircraft carriers achieved nothing.
Today, he lies just as he always lies, claiming he received calls from here and there—he feels no shame in lying to escape a crisis.

We say: “Say whatever you want, but your stance will have no effect and will change nothing — no Zionist ship will reach the Israeli ports unless the siege ends and the aggression against Gaza stops.’”
[a man with a most propitious name: “Dhaif-Allah” (ضيف الله) means “the guest of Allah”. For example, the pilgrims to Makkah in the Hajj or for any minor visit, are called by the same title, the honored]
⭕ 🇾🇪🇺🇸| The US lost in Yemen

POTUS Trump, today, claimed Yemen told him they would not attack US ships. Trump says he’ll “respect” their decision and stop attacking Yemen.

— What actually happened: US asked AnsarAllah to stop attacking them, Yemen said they’ll stop if US stops bombing. Which the US graciously accepted but tries to spin the narrative to save face in the media.
⭕ Note: We should always await AnsarAllah’s POV.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇮🇷| Trump’s maximum pressure campaign has had very little impact on Iranian oil sales — WSJ
⭕ 🇺🇸🇮🇷| JUST NOW: The 4th round of indirect talks between Tehran and Washington will be held in Muscat on Sunday, May 11.
[LOL]
⭕ Yemen: Support for Gaza will continue and we’ll respond to the US-Israeli aggression.

Israeli Channel 13: All Air defense forces, incl the Arrow-3, and the US THAAD batteries are on high alert in preparation for confronting Yemeni missiles.
⭕ 🇴🇲🇾🇪🇺🇸| The Omani FM says a US-Yemen ceasefire deal has been reached with Oman’s mediation.

Both sides will avoid targeting each other, including US ships in the Red Sea & Bab al-Mandab.
[LOL. Just wait. The real screeching and begging comes. The humiliations to come… Unbelievable. We’ve been talkin about useless “ceasefires” between Palestinians / zionazis and Russkies / UkroNazis – and here the good ol USA slithers in unobtrusively to obtain one from little Yemen!! Good Lord]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ 🇫🇮/🇺🇸 NEW: Finland’s Air Force has announced the crash of a U.S.-made F/A-18 ‘Hornet’ fighter jet at ‘Rovaniemi’ Airport. The pilot ejected safely.
[i visited this airport with family 40 years ago – en route to arctic circle at midsummer eve, when the sun never set. What is with the rash of FA-18s dropping like flies? Are they “bodywashing” a flying coffin that really was downed again in Red Sea??]

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ ⚠️‼️🇷🇺‼️🇺🇦Moscow assumes that Kiev will not accept the three-day ceasefire announced earlier by Vladimir Putin. And daily drone attacks on a number of Russian regions and Moscow will most likely continue after the ceasefire date.

According to Baza’s sources, Moscow is expecting other possible serious provocations from Ukraine and is preparing for a response. In particular, Russia is planning a strike with the Oreshnik missile.

Sources of “Baza” claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the Russian Defense Ministry to identify targets for a strike with medium-range ballistic missiles. According to preliminary information, Kiev has been chosen as such a target.
⭕ 🇸🇩❌🇦🇪Sudan has severed diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) amid growing tensions over the ongoing civil war. Sudan’s Defence Minister, Yassin Ibrahim, accused the UAE of backing the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) through what he called a proxy role, following a series of attacks by the RSF on Port Sudan. The UAE has denied these allegations, which include claims of military, financial, and political support for the RSF.
⭕ 🇷🇺🇩🇪 Maria Zakharova: German Government Changes Won’t Improve Relations with Russia

Commenting on the recent political reshuffle in Berlin, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that the changes within the German government are irrelevant to Moscow. According to her, there’s little hope for better relations amid a steady stream of hostile, Russophobic rhetoric from German officials.

“There’s nothing left to escalate — the government of Olaf Scholz has already destroyed Russian-German relations nearly entirely,” she said.

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸🤡 Of special note, Captain Chris “Chowdah” Hill is the current interim commander of the USS Harry S Truman. Hill became an online celebrity in 2024 for Pro NATO commentators during the deployment of the USS Dwight D Eisenhower against the Houthis in Yemen. Given that fame, his performance to date is worth mentioning:

• An F/A-18 shot down by the USS Gettysburg.
• Another F/A-18 lost after falling overboard due to evasive maneuvers due to Houthi fire.
• And, today, another F/A-18 lost after an “arresting failure”.

Even more notably, Hill was in command of the Truman during the recent incident of a Houthi ASBM nearly striking the ship (causing one of the aforementioned F/A-18 losses) as well as the 2024 incident where the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower was nearly struck by another ASBM.

Congrats to “Chowdah” on a successful deployment! 🥳🎉
[this is WS’s “Soggy Cookie” dude. What an unenviable fate, to be remembered as were Pharaoh’s war charioteer commanders in an earlier mirror era]
⭕ 🇮🇳🇵🇰🇫🇷 Dassault Aviation shares tumble by 1.84%.

They are the manufactures of India’s newly bought Rafale fighter jets. They were shot down by Pakistan when India attempted to strike targets inside Pakistan.

📎 Zhao DaShuai
[Oh Frenchie! It took MINUTES of engagement on Night One for several of your flying coffins to quit the battle. Mete]
⭕ 🇮🇳🇵🇰India and Pakistan.
What’s new as of this minute?

• In fact, nothing happened, except that both countries exchanged threats and warnings towards each other.
• Also, such a useless organization as the UN intervened and called on both sides to exercise restraint.
• India lost five aircraft and Pakistan two mosques.
• Pakistan also has several dead and a dozen wounded.
• 🇵🇰🇮🇳Ten people were killed and 48 wounded after Pakistani shelling along the Line of Control, Reuters reported, citing Indian police.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇮🇳🇵🇰INDIA–PAKISTAN ESCALATION: WHAT IS KNOWN SO FAR?

• India launched Operation Sindoor and carried out strikes on what it called “terrorist infrastructure” in Pakistan.
• New Delhi stated that no Pakistani military sites were targeted and that the actions were not intended to escalate tensions.
• Despite this, Pakistan responded by launching missile strikes on targets inside India.
• Pakistan claimed 8 people were killed and another 35 wounded as a result of the Indian attacks. New Delhi, in turn, reported 3 deaths from cross-border gunfire.
• The Pakistani prime minister stated that the country has “every right to give a strong response” to India’s strikes, while the Foreign Ministry condemned the attacks as a “blatant act of war.”
• Pakistan’s defense minister later said that Islamabad is ready to de-escalate military action if New Delhi pulls back.

[very sad days. The dolts in India have now added two more to the growing list of nuclear states being routinely attacked – for a total of four. It cannot end well]
⭕ India’s ‘Operation Sindoor’: Key Facts

• India reported precision strikes on nine terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled parts of Kashmir, targeting infrastructure allegedly linked to the Pahalgam attack that killed 26 civilians.
• India emphasized that only terrorist infrastructure was targeted, with special precision munitions used in the strikes, which were personally monitored by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
• After the Indian strikes, artillery duels continued overnight along the border.
• Pakistan stated it would respond in accordance with the UN Charter’s Article 51, choosing its own time and location for retaliation.
• According to India, the strikes targeted camps housing leaders of Jaish-e-Mohammed* and Lashkar-e-Taiba**, including the Mehmoona Joya camp in Sialkot, a command hub for terror operations in Kathua & Jammu.
• India briefed five countries after Operation Sindoor:
• 🇷🇺Russia
  🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
  🇦🇪UAE
  🇺🇸US
  🇬🇧UK
• New Delhi cited “credible leads” and eyewitness accounts linking the targets to Pakistan-based terrorist groups.
• China urged both sides to exercise restraint and avoid actions that could further complicate the situation “in the larger interest of peace and stability.”
• Russia called on the parties to exercise restraint in order to prevent further deterioration of the situation.

was this third warjet in six months, and second in a week, that we know of, the tipping point? Note Orange immediately took a knee and called for timeout via offices of Oman. This serves Yemen quite well as they can focus solely on the zionazi lunatics, without being distracted and having to play ping-pong against the US Navy

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: The FT is right. Gaza will be seen by history as the collapse of any remaining Western claims to moral authority.

There is no recovering from that.
[even if Defeat against Russkie and the Islamic Resistance on the two hot fronts weren’t baked in, the Moshiach has ensured the former used Host is irretrievable. A new normal was established. The former Order is unbearably odious, even to 99% of the youth within the Garden]
⭕ One missile fired from Yemen against Ben Gurion airport sent 3 million Israeli to shelters. 30 Israeli attacks on Yemen sent tens of thousands of Yemeni to the streets to watch and defy the aggressors.
⭕ The US intelligently stopped the bombing on Yemen due to the lack of objectives, the empty outcome and the high cost versus no gain.
⭕ Well done, Ansar Allah.

Following former US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a breakthrough deal with the Yemeni group to end all attacks on American assets, the Pentagon has reportedly ordered all military operations and personnel targeting Yemen to stand down. This decision represents a major setback for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—already facing an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes—who has long sought to entangle the United States in a broader war against Yemen, and potentially Iran.

What makes the move even more striking is that Israel was deliberately excluded from the negotiations and left in the dark about the agreement. The terms, as reported, include an end to Yemeni attacks on US military and commercial vessels—but crucially, do not extend any such protection to Israeli ships or cargo moving through the Red Sea. Yemen’s position is clear: its truce is with Washington, not Tel Aviv unless the humanitarian siege – considered a war crime and crime against humanity – on Gaza is lifted.

For Israel, this diplomatic bypass is more than just a snub—it underscores its growing isolation and its failure to co-opt the US into expanding regional conflicts under the pretext of collective security.
⭕ Israel is reportedly preparing for a full-scale invasion and potential reoccupation of Gaza, a move driven in part by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and imposed on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is already facing an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for alleged war crimes.

Ironically, this development may not be entirely bad news. An Israeli ground presence in Gaza would eliminate the distance currently provided by airstrikes, bringing occupation forces into direct contact with a local resistance that, under international law and the UN Charter, retains the legitimate right to armed struggle against occupying forces.

Once on the ground, Israeli troops will no longer have the benefit of operating from the air with impunity; they will become exposed, vulnerable, and entangled in a territory where resistance is not only expected, but historically rooted.
⭕ Excluding Israel from the US-Yemen cessation of hostilities is a hit to Benjamin Netanyahu, a prime minister with an ICC arrest warrant for his war crimes. No Israeli ship or merchandise will cross the Red Sea as long as Israel maintains an unlawful humanitarian siege on the civilian population in Gaza.
[but a greater, and fatal, concession shall be made for the temporary exposure..]

apparently Yemenis grabbed Orange by the balls! Amazing. They threatened him, after he had declared he would prance over to the Gulfies and milk them as usual, that they would target the fat fool! This is among the reasons for the climb down over Yemen .. and they can, since any of the Gulfies is far far closer than Zion or the trembling puppy.. what days

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 DD Geopolitics: 🇷🇺🇮🇱 Putin and Netanyahu held a phone call ahead of Victory Day.

According to the Kremlin:

“The leaders exchanged warm congratulations on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory and emphasized the determination of the two countries to defend the truth about the events of World War II, to counter attempts to revise its results and falsify history.”

Russian media noted that the decisive role of the Red Army in defeating Nazism was highlighted.:
— Putin conveyed well wishes to WWII veterans living in Israel.
— Both sides emphasized their shared commitment to preserving historical truth and resisting falsification of WWII’s legacy.
— May 9 is a national holiday in both countries.

They also discussed Middle East developments and current issues in bilateral relations.
🔻 WS: There is only one important statement in the Kremlin readout:

“They also discussed Middle East developments and current issues in bilateral relations.”

I remain convinced Russia will aid Iran in the face of a US/Israel attack. Putin is probably reminding Bibi of that fact.
⭕🤔 Major Happenings

• India/Pakistan at war.
• Israel continues to expunge Gaza.
• US/Iran talks have broken down.
• Ukraine launches another massive but futile drone strike into Russia.
• But I submit the US effectively capitulating to Yemen is the biggest development of the year.

‼️ In other words, the US Navy has had enough of this game, and their magazines are empty. So the Americans promised to stop launching strikes against Yemen so long as Yemen promises to not launch strikes at the USS Trembling Puppy as it once again beats a hasty retreat.
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: The U.S. and Israeli militaries have never been honest about ceasefires. My assessment is that the IAF/IDF will continue targeting Yemen until the U.S. Navy resupplies and returns.

I understand that each side could use time to resupply/rearm and recuperate, but these temporary ceasefires are far more useful to the side that is currently losing.

I also realize that it is easier said than done, and I’m not involved and very far away to be physically affected in any way.

However, I remember when Hezbollah accepted the ceasefire when they were inflicting heavy costs on the IDF, when the enemy was struggling to make any meaningful progress while sustaining heavy casualties and losing morale.

Ever since that one-sided ceasefire, Hezbollah and the Lebanese have lost far more than they may have lost if they continued pushing the IDF out.

The IDF still holds 5 positions on Lebanese territory, Lebanese sovereignty and airspace continue to be violated by the IAF, and Lebanese civilians continue to be killed.

If it were me, I would have rejected the ceasefire and continued until the IDF was either completely out of Lebanese territory or I was out of ammunition. I would have fired every missile and targeted every major IDF military asset.

I would have also mirrored and doubled on the enemy every attack on Lebanese civilian and economic targets.

In my opinion, the Lebanese were too kind.
[most Yanquis do not comprehend the Asian way of war…]
🔻 blindpig/1966: They should sink it as it runs away.
🔻 Carborundum Crew: They didn’t want to win the “Who will lose more jets, America or India” game.
⭕🔻 Lord Bebo: 🇺🇸🇾🇪 US made a deal with the Houthis.

The cease-fire agreement with the Iran-backed Houthis announced today by President Trump was reached over the past several days with the mediation of Oman and negotiations led by U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, officials said.

A Pentagon official confirms that both the Navy and Air Force have already been ordered to cease any further hostile action against the Houthis.
🔻 Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵: LMAO.

The U.S. just bent the knee to the Houthis.

Now they will forever remain bewildered as to why the U.S. has no universal healthcare. 🤭😂
🔻 WS: I am patiently waiting for a bit more clarity before I comment at length, but you have, I believe, hit the nail on the head.

There has been a “capitulation” — just not the one Trump wants people to believe.

#TheBigAttrition has taken its toll, and the US Navy needs to regroup.
🔻 Marked safe from Western Propaganda: If this is true it is definitely a capitulation! I suspect a rift between Bibi and Trump. I saw ur post earlier about it being a warning from Putin to Israel but a part of me suspected Bibi did it to piss off Trump since Trump isn’t biting on Israel. Just speculating but I would bet good money those 2 will fall out and it will be consequential.
[links:
🔻 SilencedSirs: “🇾🇪🇺🇸 Through Omani mediation…
Trump urges Yemen to allow the safe withdrawal of disabled U.S. aircraft carriers from the northern Red Sea and not to target them during the exit.”|link| ]
⭕🔻 Johan de Meulemeester🐬: People who claim that Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria etc are somehow “winning” against Israel/US have a strange concept of “winning” ……. all these countries are in ruins ; Iran next in line ?
links:
🔻 MintPress News: US-Israeli airstrikes hit Al-Hudaydah port

The United States and Israel have launched consecutive, relentless airstrikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah Port — the country’s second-largest — destroying more than 70% of its docks, warehouses, and customs facilities.

This port serves as the main entry point for nearly 80% of Yemen’s food imports.
[it is not as critical as portrayed. North Yemen, which the AnsarAllah control, is the fertile highland breadbasket. It exports fruits and veggies throughout the arabian peninsula, including into parched Saudi. I shared a video several months ago of Muhammad Al Houthi (whom Pepe met) showing how they overcame much of the siege by fostering self-sufficiency and are now largely self-reliant in food security. They’ve prepared for the standard savage western totalen krieg certain to come given their plans to buttress Palestine]
🔻 WS: The concept of “strategic defeat” is extremely difficult for most people to grasp.

Many people continue to argue vehemently that the US “won” against Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

Syria has been plunged into chaos, but Israel’s strategic position is worsened as a result.
🔻 Johan de Meulemeester🐬: As far as I understand all current Iraq oil sales are to this day still handled via the US Federal Reserve and in dollars which was one of the US war objectives |link|
🔻 WS: There are two sides to every ledger.

The US expended ~$8T on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Quite possibly much more.

Iraq oil revenue in 2024 was ~$80B.

Yes, it is sold for dollars, as is ~80% of global oil production.

But not all.

And the trend is accelerating downward.
🔻 WS: Most importantly, use of the US dollar worldwide MUST CONTINUALLY EXPAND, otherwise it will collapse.

The opposite is occurring. Therefore the global dollar system is already in a state of incipient collapse. It proceeded gradually for many years. But now it is accelerating.
🔻 Grant: 1/3 If anything Israel’s strategic defeat is in the information space & reputational damage from the ongoing post Oct 7 mask off moment plus the added stress to an already simmering domestic political/economic situation.

2/3 materially/geopolitically they’ve done considerable damage to Hezbollah’s leadership & operational structure, caused it to retreat in the Lebanese political arena, & collapsed the Syrian land bridge.

3/3 It’s biggest loss in Syria is Turkish hegemonic influence. Israel has destroyed what was left of Syria’s mechanized army & navy, expanded it’s buffer zone w/ Syria,& her allies (US, Gulf) have considerably more influence over the new regime than they had over the previous one
🔻 WS: Israel does not have the human and material wherewithal to expand its dominance into Syria or Lebanon.

All Israel has achieved is to dilute its very limited strength over a much larger area.

And if Israel starts a war with Iran, it will lose everything — and rapidly so.
[and that I think explains much of Hezbollah’s current strategy. To let the raving suicidals come in, overreach in trying to achieve their messianic dream – it kills two birds with one stone – the compradore arabs and zionazis]
🔻 Grant: I’m not denying that. I wouldn’t even say it is better off now than before just that despite it all it has benefited in certain ways
🔻 WS: I don’t see how Israel has benefited at all.

They have massively attrited their own munitions stockpiles, and lost ~500 tanks and other armored vehicles since late 2023.

Perhaps most telling of all (and little noted in the west) is that Israeli internal divisions have exploded.
🔻 WS: As for the topic of Iran, there is no comparison between any war the US and Israel have fought in the past 75 years and what a war against Iran would entail.
🔻 WS: As for Hezbollah, the elements of “strategic defeat” are clear to anyone with eyes to see:

The IDF advanced no further than 1 km into Lebanon, and suffered severe losses in the process.

And the area Israeli civilians evacuated in northern Israel remains unoccupied.
🔻 Nicebit ∞/21M 🏴‍☠️⚡️🇷🇺 🟢🟢🟢🔴: I have an uncle in the north and he returned back home with his family, just south of the Lebanese border.
🔻 WS: Such cases are rare so far.

Most people understand that Hezbollah has not been significantly depleted, let alone defeated. They are simply doing what they always do: laying low for the time being and preparing for the next round.
🔻 Nasim Watani: America will break itself going to war with Iran.
🔻 The Polemicist (Jim Kavanagh): Israel (and the US) may be entering a phase of “strategic defeat” in the historical medium- or long-term, but that is not preventing the Palestinians from suffering a real “strategic defeat” that will see–is seeing–them killed and expelled, as in 1948, The fall of Syria (again, whatever its long-term consequences) is helping Israel in that regard. A war with Iran may change things radically. But, right now, I don’t see who or what is going to stop the Gaza (at least) Nakba. It would require a military intervention from a sufficiently powerful country/ies that would risk getting nuked to save the Palestinians. Zionist Israel is not going to be stopped and eliminated in the way apartheid South Africa was. (White supremacism over African blacks was ultimately rejected by the US & the West; Jewish supremacism over Palestinian Arabs is still accepted and cherished and militarily defended by the US/West.) Maybe 10 or 20 years from now that will change enough, Zionism will be defeated, and there will be no Israel, but 2 years from now 80% of Palestinians will be gone from Gaza and there will be Jewish settlers taking their place.
Believe me, I hope I’m wrong. Tell me who or what, who has done nothing to stop it for 17 months, is suddenly going to do what’s necessary.
🔻 WS: repost from 6 Dec 2023
‼️ Israel’s aims vis-a-vis Gaza are, from what I have seen, rather explicitly manifest: the previously existing Gaza Strip is going to be razed to the ground and its prior inhabitants either exterminated or expelled elsewhere preparatory to something new being built in its place.
🔻 El Gran Cabron: Hannibal provides a perfect example of having won battles but lost the war. If I remember right.
⭕ 🌍 🔥 Welcome to the Last World War

I realize it does not conform to the assumptions and expectations of most people. But this is how the Last World War was always destined to happen — like isolated lightning fires in a dry forest that start small, grow fast, and then explode.
🔻 Puts_screws_in_tuna: Yeah. It’s been fun. This page has been a great follow. Peace out, in advance of whenever the curtain comes down.
🔻 WS: Well … one thing I’ve learned as I’ve grown older: nothing ever happens as fast in the real world as it does in the movies.

I figure it could take a decade or more for everything to play out. But it’s still likely to be an extremely bumpy ride on the road to Har Megiddo.
🔻 Puts_screws_in_tuna: You’re right. It may be recency bias, but things seem to accelerate in this era, even with all that I’m thinking like 5 years ish, who knows. I’m all strapped in and have my popcorn.
🔻 Sir James Miller ♠️: Starting a World War is much less orderly and timely in the absence of the German General Staff.
[LOL. cheeky bugger. Or mayhap envious limey]
🔻 WS: The Second World War began when Japan invaded China in 1931.

Then Europe did a dress rehearsal for continental conflict during the Spanish Civil War from 1936-39.

In late summer 1939, Germany invaded Poland.

Then, 10 years from the start of WW2, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
[then Hollywood Patton got all the glory….]
🔻 Sir James Miller ♠️: WW1 ran on rails. WW2 was pretty nifty considering the little corporal didn’t get to tell the German General Staff what to do until 1933. The Japanese were hedging their bets right to the last. Stalin was busy purging. My point stands. It’s a pretty asinine one but hey.
[in ww2 some Polish knights still charged on horses (against tanks!). EuroCrazies…]
🔻 WS: I wasn’t disagreeing with you. I was simply providing more context.
🔻 Aleco 21: Might as well rack up the credit cards and take some of my favourite people out for dinner and drinks
🔻 The Poets Of Zwan 🪶🏴‍☠️: The Baba Vanga looks to have nailed it. The Prophecy.
1. In the Year of the Dragon (2024) Damascus will fall. It did.
2. Setting off a war in Syria. It’s brewing.
3. This precipitates war in Europe. Zalensky via NATO refusing peace.
4. Igniting a global war.
5. The West falls.
🔻 Truth-B-Told: The Zionists are unrelenting in their pursuit of Iran – they have shelled out hundreds of millions to Trump to make that happen. If the US caves in, we’re doomed.
🔻 Phandaal: I’ll be amazed if we make it 5 years. Western leadership is at abyssal levels…we’re truly in uncharted waters.
🔻 Truth Matters: And Trump is doing a great job fast-tracking us into World War 3. The puppet master, Israel, won’t stop until it gets us into a war with Iran. And so, it begins.
⭕️🔻 Shaun Rein:
When terrorists killed Chinese in Pakistan, China didn’t start bombing Pakistan. China did an investigation to figure out what was going on

Indian friends, please educate me. Unless there’s proof Pakistan’s government was behind the terrorist attacks, why is India escalating and bombing Pakistan and making threats over Indus water?

Doesn’t there need to be proof? Or is this viewed as a face saving measure that won’t allow for escalation, kind of like Iran’s failed missile retaliation against Israel, because everyone knows it’s weak in reality?

India never seems logical in it’s foreign policy. There must be domestic forces I don’t understand because India is the one state who always seems to go against its interests internationally

I need to visit India, hopefully soon, because I don’t understand the hate towards China and India’s foreign policy
🔻 WS: This is simply what happens in the climax stage of an end of empire era: all the aspiring regional hegemons move to consolidate their respective spheres of influence — their strategic depth as they perceive its imperatives.

Carving out their piece of the pie.
🔻 Saiyem Iftekhar: I would really be grateful if you write a detailed blog on the India Pakistan issue. Thank You!
🔻 WS: I have only a superficial knowledge of the subject matter — just enough to know that it is another of the downstream consequences of Perfidious Albion’s imperial reign.
⭕️🔻 MenchOsint:
🚨 🇺🇸 A Second pair of B-52H Strategic Bombers are en route to Diego Garcia Air Base.

The base will be hosting Six B-2 & Four B-52

As Trump negotiated a ceasefire with Yemen, 🤔 |link|
[it is still worth it to Yemen, even knowing in advance the oath will shortly be breached. (1) it buys a little time to focus solely on Zion. (2) It humiliates USUK worldwide and rattles the regional compradores, who know now if their suzerain cannot protect itself, so where are they?]
🔻 WS: B-52s can carry 20 JASSM cruise missiles, which have a range of less than 600 miles (1000 km). B-2s can carry 16.

From landfall in the Gulf of Oman to Tehran is about 1000 miles of non-permissive air environment.

Maybe it’s a milk run, but I doubt it.
📜 A US Air War Against Iran Would Be Disastrous
⭕️ ‼️ Logistics

The closest bases able to replenish the Vertical Launch Systems of US cruisers and destroyers are in Souda Bay, Crete and Bahrain.

CSG-8 (USS Trembling Puppy et al.) are already on extended deployment, with empty magazines all around.

I think they’ll just go home.
🔻 James Anderson: ESD will have crane mounting capabilities shortly
🔻 WS: They will prove almost useless in even mildly choppy seas.
🔻 Oklahoma Gamgee ✝️: They just lost another plane.
🔻 Chris: They seem to be losing fighters pretty quickly and without adequate missiles in the battle group, they’d be vulnerable to any Ansar Allah counter attacks launched at the battle group.

It’s a pretty humiliating loss for the US, all things considered. They failed their objectives.
⭕️ 💥 BOOM!

Now the other shoe drops.

The Trembling Puppy lost another F/A-18 to the bottom of the Red Sea.

I’ll bet they’re already transiting the Suez Canal, and Captain Soggy Cookie is packing his bags.

What a debacle Operation Whack-A-Mole turned out to be.
links:
🔻 Wyatt Reed: As we learn US Navy lost a 2nd FA-18 in the Red Sea, here’s what a ceasefire seems to represent:

– face-saving solution by Trump admin amid criticism from right populist flank (MTG) that likely extends to Vance

– de facto agreement that Israel is on its own against the Yemenis
🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ: What a disaster 🤦🏽
🔻 WS: As I’ve been saying for many days now, I consider it the single greatest strategic defeat in the history of the US Navy.
🔻 Cannoneer Marine: This one missed the arresting cable with its tail hook, so they ejected. That’s the short version.
🔻 WS: Well … there are FOUR arresting cables, and if an F/A-18 misses all four, it should still have sufficient immediate thrust available to become airborne again.

So I find the story a little less than credible. But it’s just as bad either way — another aircraft lost.
🔻 F_Lestari: Ansharullah shot his cable with pliers😂
🔻 Balando con Lobos: Combat laundering…wait til they find out the military does the same thing with personnel deaths due to a “training accident”. Such a proud military we have with too much at stake to acknowledge what a mess were in. Must spend more!!!
🔻 Simulacra66 – 🌞🌛: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
the emperor has no clothes..
or if he does..
they’re made in China..
⭕🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ:
⚡️The tight race is heating up with US in the lead: Who will lose more fighter jets by the end of this week?
36% US Navy
64% India
🔻 WS: Well … it’s not entirely impossible that the dark-horse Ukrainians could make an impressive come-from-behind dash down the stretch. That’s the big money long odds bet.
⭕🔻 ayden:
So the U.S. lost 2 F-18s to the Great Yemeni suppression campaign that abruptly ended with no result?

Neat
🔻 IQWACP: @squatsons @imetatronink Are we sure the Houties didn’t shoot down those jets?
🔻 WS: I can’t envision a credible way they could have done so. But some people have whispered rumors that the Yemeni were attempting to use loitering drones to attack planes on landing approach.

More likely, the operational pace and unceasing trauma of being attacked took its toll.
🔻 IQWACP: How do they take down the reapers drones?
Are the setting so different? Maybe an AD ambush?
🔻 C1: The Trembling Puppy has remained ~1000 km away the entire time. The AD missiles the Yemeni have used to down MQ-9s are short-range.
⭕🔻 OSINTdefender: According to the Associated Press, U.S. President Trump intends to announce during his trip next week to Saudi Arabia, that the United States will now officially refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia, moving away from the historical naming of the body of water by Iran/Persia to the one used now by all of the other Gulf Nations.
🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ: This is the “biggest announcement evar” that Trump promised? More cheap gimmick? 🤦🏽
[a real freak show. But I agree with AB Atwan in above video. It may be another enforced “ceasefire” in Gaza.. Orange cannot just waltz in to milk his favorite concubines whilst industrial level slaughter and offerings to Moloch take place so shamelessly. Even in these sad times]
🔻 WS: I seriously believe most of what Trump has been doing the past 48 hours is generating enough misdirection to keep people from thinking too hard about what has really gone down in the Red Sea.
⭕ Great exchange of replies in this thread. 👍 |THREAD|
🔻 ayden: Russian forces have destroyed a Ukrainian HIMARS with a fiber optic FPV drone 30km behind the line of contact.

This might be one the single best exchange ratio of the war.

$1000 drone vs 3.5 million dollar missile system |link|
🔻 — GEROMAN — time will tell – 👀 –: This is the 3rd HIMARS system taken out in less than 48h…
Russian forces are now concentrating their fire on all possible targets in the Hinterland – all along the lines – from Sumy to Kherson.
In the meantime Russian forces breached some lines in several sectors.
We can assume some interesting things after the Victory Day morale boost.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: The fact the Russians are now reliably killing HIMARS launchers after they unmask to fire should absolutely terrify the US Army and USMC Field Artillery, and yet I haven’t heard an official peep on the matter.

We’re watching our most powerful weapon get neutered in real time.
🔻 WS: Now just stop and consider the sobering reality that — notwithstanding the fact it is a weak-ass MLRS in comparison to its Russian and Chinese counterparts — the HIMARS is quite arguably the most effective US/NATO system sent to Ukraine over the past three years.
⭕🔻 War Intel:
⚡️ A Finnish Air force F/A-18 Hornet jet crashed in Rovaniemi on May 7th.

The pilot has escaped in an ejection seat and has been located.
🔻 WS: Hornets falling like flies.
⭕ China is in no mood to genuflect to the United States anymore. These “trade talks” are not likely to produce the results the Americans seek.
links:
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Below is an exact translation of the statement by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce regarding the upcoming trade talks between Scott Bessent and Vice Premier He Lifeng in Switzerland.

My quick take is that, as per the statement, this is China interested to see what concessions the U.S. is ready to offer at this stage of the trade war.

The statement highlight that these talks are held after the US has been “proactively” and “repeatedly” seeking them while China has been deliberating whether to grant them. This is China signaling that it enters these negotiations from a position of strength, with little incentive to compromise when the US appears eager for resolution on what China characterizes as fundamentally “illegal and unreasonable” actions that need correction rather than negotiation.

What’s also interesting in the statement is China’s warning to “some economies” also negotiating with the US that “appeasement cannot bring peace, and compromise cannot earn respect.” Which again goes to show that China seeks to maintain a united front with the rest of the world in pushing back against the tariffs.

TRANSLATION OF THE MINISTRY’S STATEMENT:
“Recently, high-level US officials have repeatedly floated the idea of adjusting tariff measures and have proactively conveyed messages to China through various channels, hoping to engage in discussions with China on tariffs and other issues. China has carefully evaluated these messages from the US. After fully considering global expectations, China’s interests, and appeals from US businesses and consumers, China has decided to agree to engage with the US. Vice Premier He Lifeng, as China’s lead representative for China-US economic and trade matters, will hold talks with US Treasury Secretary Bessent, the US lead representative, during his visit to Switzerland.

China’s position has been consistent. Whether it’s confrontation or negotiation, China’s determination to safeguard its development interests will not change, nor will its stance and goal of upholding international fairness and justice and maintaining the international economic and trade order. If it’s confrontation, we will fight to the end; if it’s negotiation, our door is open. Any dialogue and negotiation must be conducted on the premise of mutual respect, equal consultation, and mutual benefit. There is an ancient Chinese saying, ‘Listen to what they say and observe what they do.’ If the US wants to resolve issues through negotiation, it must face up to the serious negative impacts that unilateral tariff measures have had on itself and the world, recognize international trade rules, fairness and justice, and rational voices from all sectors, show sincerity in negotiations, correct its wrong practices, meet China halfway, and resolve mutual concerns through equal consultation. If the US says one thing but does another, or even attempts to use negotiations as a ploy to continue coercion and extortion, China will absolutely not agree, nor will it sacrifice its principled position or international fairness and justice to seek any agreement.

China has noted that some economies are also negotiating with the US. It needs to be emphasized that appeasement cannot bring peace, and compromise cannot earn respect. Adhering to principled positions and upholding fairness and justice is the correct way to protect one’s own interests. Regardless of how international situations may change, China will always unswervingly expand opening up, unswervingly maintain the multilateral trading system with the WTO at its core, and unswervingly share development opportunities with countries around the world. China is willing to work with all parties to continuously deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, strengthen communication and coordination, jointly resist unilateral protectionism and hegemonic bullying behaviors, jointly safeguard free trade and multilateralism, and promote the building of an inclusive economic globalization.”

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇨🇦 Alberta Could Hold Independence Referendum in 2026

The Premier of Alberta has announced that the province may hold a referendum on seceding from Canada in 2026.

Alberta’s leadership is increasingly frustrated with federal policies, arguing that the recently re-elected Liberal Party does not represent the interests of the province’s residents.

The new game, whilst the US takes “a break” to reload and simplify the deck for the coming visit of Orange to the region, is (1) “Zion” bombs Yemen for the US Air Force, and (2) “Saudi” air defense replaces the US Navy in defending the approach to Zion. In reality, as in 404, these are really western troops fighting incognito or under false flags, like in the good ol days of the privateers..

🇵🇰Analysts tracking South Asia’s cyber domain note that Pakistan already fields localized SIGINT sweeps, silent SIM swaps, comms jamming and OTP relay manipulation, capabilities recently given formal legal cover, while the GPS disruption Indian pilots reported during Balakot… pic.twitter.com/1Dr4MXAESY
— brane mijatovic (@brane_mija64426) May 7, 2025

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Yemen has launched a ballistic missile towards Israel, likely intercepted by the U.S. Navy in the Red Sea
⭕ It was intercepted by Saudi Arabia.
⭕ The Papal Conclave has begun in Vatican City, Rome – in approximately three hours, the first smoke will be emitted after the voting ends
[so this would be the first pope of the new dispensation, no?]
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 NEW: Since the early morning hours of today, more than 20 suicide drones have been launched from India at several areas in Pakistan

The targets have been mainly in Lahore and the general Punjab region, but sirens were also heard in Islamabad.

India claims the drones are a retaliation to a failed Pakistani attack against multiple places, including Amritsar and Jalandhar yesterday, where Indian Air Defenses intercepted unknown Pakistani projectiles.

Most of the drone strikes inside Pakistan today seem to be launched for the purpose of baiting and drawing out Pakistani air defenses to locate their positions.

Pakistan is currently holding an emergency meeting regarding this.
⭕❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 NEW: Explosions and power outages have been reported in Indian-occupied Kashmir.
⭕❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 BREAKING: In the past hour, Pakistani drones and projectiles have been reported all over Indian-occupied Kashmir, with Indian AD activated

It is unclear what is going on, especially considering the media blackouts on both sides in the Kashmir region.

Initial reports seem to indicate that Pakistan launched drones and missiles at Indian positions in Jammu and Kashmir.

This comes in retaliation to India’s drone attacks on Pakistan this morning, which damaged air defense sites.
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 NEW: Blackouts in many areas on the Indian-Pakistan border, especially in India’s province of Rajasthan
⭕❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 NEW: Electricity and Internet blackouts in almost all Indian cities near the border with Pakistan, as well as in most of Indian-occupied Kashmir

This makes it impossible to independently verify whether Pakistani drones have hit any targets.
[a new type of war is being live-tested and live-streamed in South Asia]
⭕❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 NEW: Pakistani media now officially claims Pakistan has not carried out any drone attack against India, and says India should display ‘proof’ of the downed drones if they’re truthful

Furthermore, Pakistan states that when their retaliation comes, nobody will hear about it through Indian media, but the whole world will hear of it.
⭕Indian NDTV says that the alleged attacks on India are being done in “Hamas style.”
⭕Pakistan is Hamas
⭕🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘I really don’t want to hit Iran, I don’t wanna do it. I want them to succeed’

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ White Smoke Signals That a Pope Is Chosen.
⭕ UAE and Israel discrediting Qatar unless Doha cuts relationship with Iran and Hamas:

A renewed and coordinated campaign by Israel and the UAE aimed at discrediting Qatar and blocking its improving ties with the Trump administration. The collaboration focuses on portraying Qatar as a supporter of “political Islam,” with accusations of continued financial and political backing for Hamas and other resistance groups. Israeli officials have expressed frustration that Doha hasn’t pushed Hamas to concede in Gaza negotiations, despite its mediation role.

The campaign includes diplomatic pressure, media attacks, and cyber monitoring. UAE-linked organisations are reportedly working with Israeli cybersecurity firms to track and counter Qatari influence, especially in Europe and the U.S. Emirati and Saudi media have amplified this effort by featuring Israeli analysts who accuse Doha of secretly cooperating with Tel Aviv, contradicting Qatar’s public stance. Netanyahu recently escalated this offensive, accusing Qatar of “playing both sides” and obstructing a ceasefire in Gaza.

Behind the scenes, Qatar has urged the U.S. and Gulf states to avoid direct confrontation with Iran and support renewed nuclear talks. It has also backed transitional Syrian president Ahmad al-Sharaa, drawing further ire from Abu Dhabi. The core issue: Qatar refuses to cut ties with Hamas or Iran—something Israel and the UAE see as incompatible with their regional vision. The message is clear: Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi want Doha sidelined unless it plays by their rules.

Media report.

Choosing an adopted Peruvian as the Last Pope appears satanic mockery. Mete.

One of my very first papers as a child was on the Incas.. A unique civilization. Advanced, with a roads system, terraced agriculture like the Yemenis, written language, etc. Yet, like the Aztecs, as soon as the Conquistadores came, they genuflected, were annihilated even though submissive, and rapidly left the stage of History.

In hindsight, it appears all those mini-empires of Latin America, overtly worshipping spirits (djinn), were instructed to suicide themselves for the coming one-world empire under the West. The djinn are tribal and spread worldwide like us humans, having as diverse languages and customs – and elite.

As today we witness the hitherto unfathomable process of the Europeans and USUK suiciding themselves for the final stage of the Plan, to raise the Moshiach in the Holy Land. History repeats, cycle and track, one era after the other, as they come undone for their lord. And all are fated to be recycled under the Tree of Life, no??

💠@imetatronink:
⭕⚡️ The Yemeni Destroyed the Entire US Drone Fleet

Since late 2023, the Yemeni have shot down 22 MQ-9 Reaper drones. And, in the process, they exposed the obsolescence of this entire class of drones, including the MQ-1C Gray Eagle — 500 units in total.

All will now be retired.
🔻 Grant David Gillham: Why would you expect them to have an unlimited service life?
🔻 WS: Non sequitur.

This has nothing to do with “service life”. In the summer of 2023 the MQ-9 and MQ-1C were considered “state of the art” reconnaissance / attack drones. The Yemeni demonstrated, beyond dispute, that they simply cannot operate in a non-permissive environment.
🔻 Grant David Gillham: They are not “state of the art” any longer. Nothing on the battlefield dominates forever. Technology evolves.

Air war doctrine always begins and ends with air superiority. See 8th Air Force losses, WW2.

My analysis is correct.
🔻 WS: You proffered no analysis. You made an implied assertion.

This class of US drones was EXPOSED as obsolete on the battlefield, against a third-world military. And that is the proximate causal factor in their premature retirement.

The Yemeni effectively destroyed them all.
🔻 Grant David Gillham: They are old and obsolete. No weapons system lives forever on an evolving battlefield.

You act surprised. You shouldn’t be.
🔻 WS: The MQ-9 was introduced in 2007; the MQ-1C in 2009 — damn near brand new by US military standards.

When did you discover they are “old and obsolete”? 🤣

And do you also know the aircraft carrier is obsolete in a non-permissive environment?
📜 Dinosaurs of the Deep Blue Sea
🔻 Grant David Gillham: They are not new. Look at the rapid advancement in warfare technology over the last two decades.

Carriers are indeed at the end of their service effectiveness. So are manned aircraft.

Hypersonic technology, remotely piloted and assisted by AI will dominate the air. Space based weapons delivery systems as well.

Flying 20 year old drones in airspace that the US doesn’t control gives you the results you see. If you want weapons to operate unfettered in hostile airspace then you need better technology.

Planners know this. They’re dumping this equipment to make room for new acquisitions. They don’t care about the losses. They have an unlimited amount of money.
🔻 WS: There was no thought given to retiring these platforms until the Yemeni exposed them so undeniably over the past year and a half.

You are falsely suggesting that their abrupt retirement is unrelated to their embarrassing showing in the skies of Yemen. But that cope won’t fly. 😏
🔻 Grant David Gillham: No. I’m suggesting that their “retirement” is a result of their inability to function effectively in airspace not controlled by US forces. The Pentagon dumped them into the fight to use them up. Now on to the next platform.
🔻 WS: There is no replacement platform. The MQ-9’s most important role was persistent surveillance of enemy targets. That capability is now lost to the US until a replacement can be found, which will likely take many years.
🔻 Grant David Gillham: How do you know?

Satellite technology is very capable. It’s the way of the future.
🔻 James O’Malley: You are literally a babbling ignoramus.
🔻 Grant David Gillham: No, my analysis is correct.
[this could be sentient A.I.. disturbing days]
🔻 John Bulkeley: LOL, “The aircraft carrier was effectively proven obsolete in 1945.” Wow, you really don’t know what you’re talking about. And the only reason I’m answering you is that your ignorance amuses me. Carriers have been used in every war since 1945 and some of them could not have been fought without them. Put down the Kool Aid and crack open a history book every now and then. And I would wager the Houthis would also disagree with you after being on the receiving end of 2 carrier battle groups and God knows how many drones and bombers. Give it up, son, before your tongue snaps out of your mouth and slaps you.
🔻 WS: The US Navy has not faced any adversary capable of shooting back at them since 1945. Well … at least not until late 2023, when CSG-2 (USS Brave Sir Robin / CVN-69) was “traumatized” by the relatively modest firepower the Yemeni threw at them. (I am quoting one of the pilots from the air wing.)

In any case, you are making a fool of yourself now. You have stepped far out of your league, and have revealed the unwarranted vanity of your pretensions to a knowledge of naval history and the state of naval affairs globally here in 2025.
🔻 AT: Exactly. And in the end, it doesn’t even matter why these drones became obsolete, what’s important is that they are, and that the US has no replacements for them
🔻 Rowandc50000: Dont the americans have 300 reaper drones in stock?
🔻 WS: Enough to blast wedding parties and tribal councils 25 days a month for a full year, and never use the same drone twice.
🔻 Rowandc50000: Guess this war will drag on for a while then. 22 down 278 to go
🔻 WS: They aren’t sending them anymore. The Yemeni were going to have to build a new wing onto the Reaper Debris Museum.
🔻 Johanna deMartin: Brilliant, and very fair to count the entire retired fleet a victim/victory of the Houthis.
🔻 SHADOWSOUNDMUSIC: No need… Directed energy baby .. we why fly, we own the sky.
🔻 Big if True: Coupled that with the downed Rafael jets by Chinese J10C it’s obvious western military hardware is inferior. In real time it’s demonstrating the superiority of Chinese military tech. Will have profound impact on global military procurement and maybe even alliances
🔻 TheSmartMonnaie: and amazingly India bought 31 of these for 3.3 billion last year … after they started getting shot down.
🔻 WS: So India paid $106M each for 31 obsolete drones that the US builds for about $30M each.

Brilliant.
⭕🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping):
Trump says Houthis will stop attacking ships in the Red Sea

▶️US president makes landmark announcement but details still murky
▶️‘Neither side will target the other, including American vessels, in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait, ensuring freedom of navigation and the smooth flow of international commercial shipping,’ Omani foreign minister Badr Albusaidi said on social media platform X.
▶️Responses from Houthi media and officials do not explicitly say they will stop attacking all commercial vessels in the Red Sea, although there have been no reported attacks in recent months |link|
🔻 WS: According to the Yemeni, Trump has entirely misrepresented both the nature of the “negotiations” and who capitulated to whom.
reposts his older:
‼️ In other words, the US Navy has had enough of this game, and their magazines are empty. So the Americans promised to stop launching strikes against Yemen so long as Yemen promises to not launch strikes at the USS Trembling Puppy as it once again beats a hasty retreat.
🔻 WS: reposts older:
💥 BOOM!

Now the other shoe drops.

The Trembling Puppy lost another F/A-18 to the bottom of the Red Sea.

I’ll bet they’re already transiting the Suez Canal, and Captain Soggy Cookie is packing his bags.

What a debacle Operation Whack-A-Mole turned out to be.
🔻 John Bulkeley: Nice to know you take the word of some Yemeni hack. It really doesn’t matter who agreed to what, as long as the Houthis stop firing missiles at US warships and merchant ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, then the military operation was a success. After the last massive Israeli and US attacks, I think it was the Houthis that were trembling, bud, and the photos prove it.
[on second thought, they probably downed or engineered through timing the downing of the flying coffin in the Red Sea. They anticipated, like zionazi ramping up extermination in the day before “ceasefires” – that the Yanquis would do the same before fleeing. So they got in their retaliation first. what days]
🔻 WS: Cope all you want. Meanwhile, the USS Trembling Puppy is running away yet again, and the Yemeni remain the gatekeepers of the Bab-el-Mandeb.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping): Your gate is on fire. |link|
[the last argument of defeated nazis before they flee. “See – we can exterminate you. It shows we remains exceptional and gods. Arbiters of Life and Death.”]
🔻 WS: Meh. Burning a bunch of oil tanks in Hodeidah is unrelated to control over the Bab-el-Mandeb.

The US et al. have been bombing Yemeni civilian infrastructure for over a decade, and yet they cannot disarm them.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping): |meh|
[he’s down to impotent mockery and self-delusion]
🔻 Yasha: You’re just a clown, Sal. Nothing more.
[not fair. A broken soldier raging against the entire Cosmos. It was seen during the end days of the regime of the Great Pharaoh too. His people weren’t merely the superpower of their day – they also had the top centers of education and worldly knowledge. This made Moses a most unusual man in all human history; he had the best of both worlds – the ephemeral and the eternal.

And the ancient Egyptians went mad at being exposed so thoroughly as criminal little men – in spite of their power and reach. They were morally atomized and delegitimized in front of all, especially themselves. An unbearable humiliation that led to them engaging in ever more vicious barbarism and to live to kill and annihilate and oppress. Sound familiar?? I am not talking about zionazis, who never had pretensions and know their role in our world]
🔻 mo elias: @mercoglianos is an american chauvinist.
The Yemenis don’t attack “all commercial vessels”.
They’re enforcing a legal blocade and successfully fought off the US illegally bombing them (again).

Also, the article he linked is clear the blocade on israeli-linked ships continues.
🔻 Tron Swanson: So, for the record, when Ukraine embarrasses Russia it’s “lol a country with no navy kicked your ass”

When Yemen is responsible for the loss of 3 fighter aircraft and 20 drones it’s “well, actually”
🔻 AT: I didn’t expect to see you [Sal] reduced to gloating about destruction, but here we are.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping): I am not gloating. But the statement about the US military retreating is inaccurate.

And to be clear, the Houthis repeatedly attacked ships that had no connection to Israel and killed four innocent mariners. I understand their view of Gaza, but killing other innocents does not justify their actions.
🔻 Bradley Mark Parsons: Whose actions are justified in this world? It’s a power contest. If we had the power to forcibly knock out the Houthis, we would. if they had the power to take out a carrier, they would. Neither does, so we all agree to stalemate for now, which hopefully opens the Red Sea.
🔻 WS: The Yemeni agreed to no such thing, and they remain the gatekeepers of the Bab-el-Mandeb. The Yemeni did nothing but agree to let the USS Trembling Puppy withdraw without attacking it again.

(I don’t understand why people do not read what has actually been said by the representative of Ansarullah. 🤦‍♂️)
🔻 Bradley Mark Parsons: Didn’t they agree to not attack US ships if we stop the bombing?
🔻 WS: reposts older:
‼️ In other words, the US Navy has had enough of this game, and their magazines are empty. So the Americans promised to stop launching strikes against Yemen so long as Yemen promises to not launch strikes at the USS Trembling Puppy as it once again beats a hasty retreat.
🔻 WS: The greater embarrassment is that he fails to understand that there is a direct correlation between the US/Israel targeting civilian infrastructure in recent weeks and the loss of US persistent surveillance over military targets due to the destruction of the MQ-9 fleet.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping): The US has over 300 MQ9s. They are designed to take fire and not put pilots at risk…hence unmanned.
🔻 AT: Yes, and they are shot down with ease by modern AA systems. What is the use of sending a 30 million dollar drone to a conflict where it will not survive for long, most likely not long enough to relay back any useful information?

These drones have been relegated to conflicts against countries that do not possess AA systems, and the number of such countries is getting smaller and smaller.

Hezbollah was downing the Israeli equivalent drones just as easily
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping): How many flights have been accomplished versus the number shot down?
🔻 WS: Seriously? That’s your retort? 22 have been shot down — the last several in close succession.

And, most revealingly, after the last one was shot down, THE US STOPPED SENDING THEM!

That simple fact tells you all you need to know. It became an exercise in futility.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping): Yes. How many flights have there been?

I don’t know, but that would be an interesting stat.
[a focused and partial historian of a dead Order. Looking Forwards to the Past. Willing it to manifest again. Triumph of the Will. Leni was brilliant. She had the best of Muses from the Pit at her disposal. One of my favorites. Her instruction: Monsters can be shaped by will, and en masse too]
🔻 🇪🇨 wayemeru: The interesting stat is that there are no more flights. The reality is US kit is only designed to work against countries without air defense. The Houthis are making anti-air missiles in caves and even that was too much. Now they only bomb the port because they can stay offshore.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping): The Houthis are assembling weapons sent by Iran. They are not ‘making’ anything.
🔻 WS: I think this is very likely mostly true, although I also think it grossly underestimates the competence and military savvy of the Yemeni warriors who have been prevailing against powerful enemies for over a decade now.
🔻 CattleMutt™: Enough for us to learn that they’ve been superceded by Houthi technology. That’s pretty troublesome going forward, cheerleader or not.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping): Not a cheerleader. I look terrible in a skirt and with pom-poms.
[this is how the intellectual milieu of Pharaoh died too, their first death, before being drowned physically in the second one in the Red Sea. Self-ridicule. The lot of the damned and the beautiful. Read Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald and weep to see the first disintegration of the idle classes. A death far worse than alzheimers or any dementia]
🔻 WS: I was tempted to ask Grok to create an image of you in a cheerleader outfit, with big pompoms. But then I thought about what it would like, and resisted the urge. 😏
🔻 WS: I do not know how many MQ-9 sorties were flown up to the point they were withdrawn from the battlefield.

But we do know that, in the last month, the MQ-9s were getting shot down within a very short period of time after they entered Yemeni airspace / missile range.
[i suspect EVERYTHING is being dictated, esp tempo, by the civilizational-states. I said it in early 2024. They were willing to endure barbarity and terrible pain, in the process of boiling the frogs, according to preparing the recipe to their own taste. At the end of the tasting, there would be no westerner remaining in W Asia, at least without explicit permission. This is why there cannot be a ceasefire – just as Putin mocks the West in similar vein. When the nazi internationale rolled the totalen krieg dice, they already lost it all. On all fronts]
🔻 AT:
Let’s just recap what happened here:
1. Israel breaks the ceasefire in Gaza
2. Yemen attacks Israel and re-imposes the blockade in response
3. US attacks Yemen to get them to stop
4. Yemen attacks the US ships and destroys a bunch of their hardware
5. US and Yemen agree to stop attacking each other. In the meantime, the blockade and attacks against Israel go on

Was the original purpose of the US attack on Yemen met?
🔻 WS: It is arguably the most humiliating strategic defeat the US Navy has ever suffered.

And the Yemeni remain fully in control of shipping in the Red Sea. Ships will continue to pass only at their good will and pleasure.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : If you think this is the most humiliating, I have a recommended reading list for you.
🔻 WS: That’s because you have willfully blinded yourself to the strategic and military realities at play. You cannot accurately assess the matter. You refuse to understand the significance of the fact that Yemen (+Iran) have been able to effect a selective blockade of the strategic Bab-el-Mandeb. Likewise, Iran is the gatekeeper of the Strait of Hormuz.

The US Navy is not able to secure the seaborne logistics routes via the Red Sea and into the Persian Gulf. The US Navy could not operate in the Persian Gulf in a state of war against Iran. Therefore the US cannot prosecute a successful war against Iran.

Iran and its Yemeni allies have defeated US strategic designs and effectively nullified US naval power in the entire region. CVN-75 now has no choice but to go back home, its mission in the Red Sea frustrated by a weaker power that has nonetheless achieved its strategic objectives via asymmetric means.

Until more Americans come to grips with the cold hard realities of how the global military calculus has been radically altered, then the risk of a catastrophic war escalates.

You need to wake up, Sal. And help others around you wake up, too.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : The Houthis have not blockaded anything, as demonstrated by the 60% of ships that still sailing through the BAM.

What they have done is raise the insurance to do business, akin to a teenager getting a speeding ticket and jacking up a family’s car insurance, making it more economical to take a detour.

No trade has been stopped, and instead, the Houthis have just brought down destruction on their citizens and caused shortages for people in Eritrea, Sudan, and other nations along the Red Sea.
🔻 WS: You should be embarrassed to assert such nonsense. The Yemeni have imposed a “selective blockade” for eighteen months and running, and anyone who denies that reality is either woefully misinformed or deliberately mendacious. I hope in your case it’s the former and not the latter.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : I suggest you go talk to the ship operating companies and ask them why they have not returned to the Red Sea when there has not been an attack since January.

A 0.5% war risk is what is keeping them away. Plus, they are making more money putting their ships on the longer routes, allowing them to push rates up and employ more vessels.

The Houthis are not as effective as they think they are. Just look at the profits for the shipping companies for 2024 & insurance companies. |link|
🔻 WS: You can rationalize the “selective blockade” any way you’d like. Its reality remains.

But here is the most telling fact: since the USS Brave Sir Robin (CVN-69) had a close call with a ballistic missile during its most recent Red Sea cruise, no CSG deployed to the Red Sea has dared go much further south than a line extending east from the Egyptian southern border.

Why? Simple. They have feared to come within striking distance of the more capable, but shorter range, ASBMs that the Yemeni have.

This is the same reason CVN-71, CVN-72, and now CVN-70 never strayed out of the blue waters of the northern Arabian Sea. (Although the Iranians did permit the USS Teddy Bear to make a very brief port call in Bahrain last year.)

When the USS Fraidy Abe ventured closer last year to launch its first-ever F-35C mission, it was shocked to have a Yemeni ASBM splash down about 200 yards away. It then IMMEDIATELY turned about and made a beeline back to San Diego.

There can be no doubt the US Navy WANTS to be able to put an east-coast-based CVN into the Arabian Sea via the Suez Canal. But they have not dared risk it since the Brave Sir Robin’s close call.

You obviously do not follow these issues as closely as many other people do.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : You know they have aircraft, and the ship does not need to be right off Yemen.

They are called aircraft ‘carriers’.
🔻 WS: I understand perfectly well the combat radius of a CVN’s air wing.

And, in order to get close enough to not be compelled to in-air refuel, the Fraidy Abe ventured close enough to the Yemen coastline to launch its PR sortie of F-35Cs — and almost ate an ASBM as a result.
🔻 John Bulkeley: Do you know how full of crap you are? Seriously, there was a bunch of pirates called the Houthis that terrorized a major trade route, we showed some force by bombing them, and they stopped. Just like the Somali pirates that were defeated, so were the Houthis. Deal with it.
🔻 WS: You are misinformed, and hopelessly propagandized. That’s too bad. But your ignorance of things as they really are , and as they really have been, will have no bearing on things as they really will be.

The US is staggering blindly into the abyss of a disastrous war.
[not blindly. With Eyes Wide Open. The Murder-Suicide is the irresistible Allure of the End Times. The very nectar of their abominable gods]
🔻 John Bulkeley: What also seems to escape a lot of people is the fact that it’s much more preferable losing a drone, regardless of its cost, than a fighter jet with a pilot in it. That’s why we have drones, to reduce the number of OUR casualties while flying dangerous missions. And even at that some 800 missions were flown for the loss of a few drones. And as time passes, even the cost of drones will decrease, making them even more attractive.
🔻 WS: Your understanding of the distinct purposes of fighter/bombers and MQ-9 drones is deficient, and attests that you don’t pay attention to the details of the points I have made.

Fighters cannot provide persistent surveillance. Long-duration drones can. The necessary withdrawal of the MQ-9 from the battlefield is precisely the reason the US/Israel resorted to bombing static civilian infrastructure targets — and therefore were not able to disarm the Yemeni, who continued to launch drone/missile salvos against CSG-8 right up until the strike group’s magazines were exhausted and they were forced to flee.
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: Sal somehow fail to accept that fact that Trump has conceded to the Houthis.

Houthis never said that they are going to block all shipping – only that’s connected to Israel and they have implemented that. Undeniable fact.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : Except, out of 113 ships attacked by the Houthis, only 28% were connected to Israel.

Due to the indiscriminate nature of the attacks, it raised the war risk insurance on all vessels traversing the area and led to 72% of the ships being attacked not connected to Israel. |link|
[this is how professionals do it – massage a sea of data to smother the Truth.. whilst never addressing the essential element: there is a team out there, carefully vetting the provenance, true owners and recipients of cargo, even within a hundred layers of shell companies.. EVERY single one of the Yemeni targets was so accurate, that the nazi internationale was forced to (1) deploy Emirati agents to attack random non-zionazi ships to besmirch Yemenis and muddy the waters, (2) suicide the US Navy to militarize the entire Red Sea which was the real mission, not to subdue Yemenis which they knew was impossible, so as to drop all/most sea trade, thereby obscuring how their own was unable to transit..]
🔻 Beto Ochoa: Kinda like how farmers in Toyota pickups effected a strategic defeat of Oceania in Afghanistan.
🔻 notapianokey: The Second Gulf War was the beginning of the end.
The win was easy, the insurgency was the real war.
The West is run by children who take orders from Hedge Fund Managers ~ men who do not understand limits.
They are Gods
🔻 WS: In your X bio, you lay claim to being knowledgeable about naval history. If that is so, then you should also understand what I have written below — but it appears you do not grasp this essential element of understanding.
📜 Dinosaurs of the Deep Blue Sea
🔻 WS: Nor do you appear to understand this essential concept:
🧵 How to Lose A Carrier Strike Group in An Afternoon
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : If the aircraft carrier is obsolete, why is China building them.

It is the most versatile naval platform in existence. 50 years of service. Able to change air wings and technology. Can be continually replenished at sea.

And about a half dozen have been parked off Yemen over the past year and they have not touched them yet.
[LOL. Sal shoulda auditioned for The Devil’s Advocate. A pleasant faced smooth operator]
🔻 WS: Because the Chinese are vain and believe they must possess aircraft carriers in order to qualify as a superpower.

I note the Russians are NOT building them. They are wiser than the Chinese when it comes to these questions.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : In what major conflict does a Navy not lose ships? No one is saying that carriers are unsinkable.
🔻 WS: I believe ALL surface warships are exceedingly vulnerable in the context of 21st century firepower, and that aircraft carriers are the most vulnerable of them all.

In a putative naval war between the US and China in the western Pacific, I believe ALL the aircraft carriers, on both sides, will be destroyed in the early days of the conflict.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : I note that the Russians can’t build one and the one they have is not a real model of efficiency. |link|
[LOL. Salty day to definitely forget for our Sailorman Sal. This is photo of the last Soviet aircraft carrier the Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov. It tended to belch a lotta dark smoke for whatever reason. But who’s laughing today, after the 2018 unveiling of true wunderwaffen and the SMO??]
🔻 WS: I think it reflects poorly on your understanding of Russia, Russians, and Russian ship-building competence that you believe they CAN’T build one. Nor is the Admiral Kuznetsov, built during the nadir of Soviet power, representative of Russian power and competence here in 2025.
[Good Lord. Walk away. This is like a muscled 25-year-old pummeling a 5-year-old in the sandlot. He ain’t gonna EVER admit to Reality. It is what it is. End stage madness of the little loyal minions of all defeated empires]
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : The Russians can build some good submarines and small combatants. There is a logistical issue in building large ships like a carrier. This is why they have their LNG carriers built in Korea.

They are focusing their resources on subs, frigates and nuclear icebreakers.

I am well aware of Russian shipbuilding capacity.
🔻 BigJalter: “Have not touch” need some big asterisks there lol. There has been a few acknowledged close calls before they unceremoniously ran away is it not?
🔻 FPO: The future will see more DRONE CARRIERS with an array of drone types, fewer personnel, and integrated with leadership at Norfolk, PH, and the Pentagon.

New $14b carrier strike groups will be obsolete the first time one is disabled by anti ship missile.

We only have 13.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : We only have 11, and one is always being refueled.
🔻 WS: And for many years now, the US Navy has only been able to simultaneously deploy a maximum of THREE combat-capable carriers, for lack of qualified crew and air wings.

For that matter, the US Navy cannot simultaneously put to sea more than about SIXTY surface warships. It’s a sad state of affairs.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : Why have more than 3 carriers deployed at any one time? That leaves 6 back for conducting training, overhaul, and maintenance.

Also, what other Navy can keep 1/3 of its fleet deployed at any one time around the globe?
🔻 WS: I said 3 “combat-capable” aircraft carriers. And my statement is true. They can float about 5 simultaneously, of which 3 can be combat-capable, 1 used for training cruises (like both the Ford and Washington have done in the past few years), and the 5th is incapable of doing anything meaningful.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : |more glitzy stats|
🔻 WS: I rest my case.

USS George Washington CVN-72 is NOT combat-capable. It has been shuttling back and forth between San Diego and Japan for several years running. It just sits at its berth.

Is the USN now trying to outfit a 4th or 5th combat-capable CSG? Probably. But they’re not able to do so NOW.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : |tongue out, eyes shut|
🔻 WS: You cannot find a time in the past several years when the US Navy has been able to simultaneously deploy more than THREE combat-capable CSGs. It simply has not happened.

You are mistaken if you believe otherwise
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : George Washington underwent it’s Refueling and Complex Overhaul from 2017 to 2023 – it’s nuclear refueling.

She departed Norfolk in April 2024 and deployed to Japan to replace Reagan in Nov 2024.

So, several years between San Diego and Japan is wrong. She left Japan in 2015.
🔻 WS: I stand corrected on its homeport. I knew it had come from the east, but had forgotten that it did a tour around South America before going to Japan.

My point still stands: The US Navy has not been able, for several years now, to simultaneously deploy more than THREE CVNs.
[thank you! Now the sad little fella has a little O2. He won’t jump the next Bridge]
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : There are three deployed right now, plus Washington in Japan and Ford completing her pre-deployment workups. That is half of the operational aircraft carriers
🔻 WS: The Washington is NOT combat-capable at present. Nor is the Ford.

My point remains incontrovertible. I have been talking about this for many years in a row — ever since 2017 when I opened my Twitter account. I watch it closely. It has NEVER, during that period, not been true.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : If that is the case, how is it you did not know George Washington was in Norfolk for refueling for 6 years?
🔻 WS: I watch the combat-capable CSGs.

I confess I did not realize the Washington was laid up for SIX YEARS for refueling. How utterly embarrassing.

In any case, CVN-73 is clearly NOT combat-capable at present. The Nimitz is now the only combat-capable CVN in the western Pacific
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : 4 deployed and Ford working up.
🔻 WS: Again, the Washington is NOT combat-capable at present. Nor does it even attempt to ACT as though it is. It sits at its berth in Yokosuka.

Neither is the Ford. It tried to ACT like it in the eastern Mediterranean a couple years back, and it turned into a total debacle
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : And Vinson in the Indian Ocean, Truman in the Red Sea, and Ford in the Atlantic, getting ready to relieve Truman, with Washington and Lincoln available; with Nimitz, that is 6.
[wow. my toddler can count to six too, in several languages. But I read it as SIX BIG FAT TARGETS at zero hour]
🔻 WS: CSG-1 (CVN-70), CSG-8 (CVN-75), and CSG-11 (CVN-69) are the only combat-capable carrier strike groups at present. This is an incontrovertible FACT.

Well … except actually CVN-75 (USS Trembling Puppy) has skedaddled from the Red Sea, and is no longer combat-capable
🔻 Craig Van De Vooren: “If the aircraft carrier is obsolete, why is China building them.”

Hahahahahah – “Well, Billy is jumping off the bridge too, so . . .”
🔻 Modsognir: Chinese carriers operate under a land based missile umbrella. US carriers do not.
🔻 WS: This is a valid point. But I still believe ALL aircraft carriers are acutely vulnerable to the firepower that can be arrayed against them here in 2025.
🔻 IQWACP: The ACC as power projection is dead, Ansar Allah is evidence of that
China is likely going to use them a platform for testing, flexibility in its capacities and have mobiles assets in and around its waters
China will not its AAC for bullying and intimidation half the world away
🔻 Malooga: Legendary exchange. I like Sal on American shipping, but the ideological haze obscures acceptance of reality on issues of warfare.
🔻 ChainObserver: Sal is partially right in that it suits the ocean carriers to avoid the Red Sea right now, but his wider explanation feels a bit like those Americans who insist the US won the Vietnam War. The US carrier groups accomplished a whole load of nothing.

The flaw I see in Sal’s reasoning is that we can’t be sure that if it didn’t suit the ocean carriers to go around Africa that they would be confident in the protection of the US Navy

it’s not like the Houthis need to attack a container ship every week to have a deterrent effect on traffic in the Red Sea. They only need to get lucky every now and then – or alternatively face down a US Carrier group.
🔻 WS: 🎯

Most of those who make pretensions of understanding military matters have no conception of what “strategic victory” even means.

That is precisely what this thread has revealed today.
🔻 WS: The US Navy does not DARE to run an aircraft carrier through the narrow gauntlet of the Bab-el-Mandeb at this point in time.

They WANT to do it, but they fear the potential consequences.
📜 Geography
🔻 Francesco Dall’Aglio: With all due respect, it seems to me that “there is a logistical issue” in building nuclear icebreakers as well. It’s not the simplest ship to build. Do you think the US could build them? (Honest question, not trying to be a wiseass).
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : We build nuclear aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines…so yes.
🔻 Francesco Dall’Aglio: And why doesn’t the US build nuclear icebreakers then? Probably their strategy does not involve them, otherwise they would. Isn’t it possible that the Russian strategy does not involve carriers? After all what should they do with a carrier, bomb Hawaii with its planes?
[lovely. The last two Qs are Third Rail Qs. They shall not be answered. And the first too painful to seriously answer, as with the Sentinel Program, hypersonics, serious air defense, and such issues]
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : Because they have needed icebreakers. The only heavy icebreaker requirement has been the yearly resupply to McMurdo in Anarctica.

If the US develops the north slope of Alaska LNG, they will need some.

Russia needs them to keep the Northern Sea Route open.
🔻 Francesco Dall’Aglio: This was precisely my point: the US does not need them, therefore they don’t build them. Why should that be different for the Russians regarding carriers? 1/2

Or better, why do we assume that who builds carriers and submarines could build icebreakers as well, but don’t assume that who builds icebreakers and submarines could build carriers as well? 2/2
[well done Francesco. That’s how to get under the guard of Exceptionals. Echo their own faux-charm and naivete: start slow and innocent, then slip in the Yemeni dagger]
🔻 Craig Van De Vooren: “I am well aware of Russian shipbuilding capacity” + “the Russians can’t build one” = 0

The Russians CAN build what ever they want to.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : Mongolia can build whatever it wants to, also. They just don’t.
[don’t get me started with number of abused logical fallacies. I can even feel the wince of old WS]
🔻 Craig Van De Vooren: Mongolia can’t build whatever they want.

Just deal with reality, Sal.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) : The reality is that Russia could build a carrier; albeit a broken one
[takes one to know one! Ok, enough. You get the idea. He’s getting pummeled on his own threads.. The loons are trying to cycle through Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s process… but they ain’t got much time at the current pace of events]
🔻 AT: And to pour salt on that wound, French jets were just downed by Pakistan using Chinese jets and missiles. Exposing the inadequacy of Western military hardware has turned from a trickle into a flood.

It’s so funny that what was supposed to be a warning from US to Iran (the destruction of Yemen’s military capabilities), has turned into a warning from Iran to US (imagine what we can do to you).

I guess the negotiations will continue for the foreseeable future.
⭕Cringe-inducing.

CVN-78’s most recent deployment turned into a debacle. Now it is being suggested that it may replace the USS Trembling Puppy CVN-75.

IMO, the USS Gerald R. Ford is likely the single most vulnerable aircraft carrier in the US Navy’s inventory.
links:
🔻 U.S. Fleet Forces: USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is the most capable, adaptable, and lethal platform in the world, maintaining the Navy’s capacity to project power on a global scale through sustained operations at sea. |link|
🔻 Brandon: |link|
🔻 WS: Excellent analysis, Brandon.

If the Yemeni have a few Oniks missiles in their quiver, that would surely explain the extreme fear the US Navy has attested in terms of attempting to venture into the southern Red Sea, let alone run the gauntlet of the Bab-el-Mandeb.
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: Two months ago, the U.S. Navy had a GOLDEN opportunity to preserve its dignity and perceived — excessively inflated — capabilities (which have now been exposed as a mere paper tiger) BY SIMPLY DOING NOTHING.

Now — understandably — after the humiliation inflicted upon the USN by Ansar Allah (Houthis) in the Red Sea, they feel compelled to make such ridiculously exaggerated statements.
🔻 Rune: P-800s are not hypersonic. They are a very capable missile, but Mach 2,9. It’s their netcentricity, sensor fusion, +semi-autonomous manoeuvre + tactical algorithms-all Soviet 1970s inventions-that make them dangerous, along with a typically large warhead.
[i’m getting smoothie PTSD vibes, even without the calculus.. too many techno, A.I-ish military lingo that’s supposed to sound smart and new and intimidating, but heralds our collective extermination by Legion. And the criminals will use it on innocents worldwide, after the live-testing is worked out in Gaza]
⭕ ‼️ BREAKING: US TESTING NEW SUPER-TECH REPLACEMENT FOR DRONE FLEET DESTROYED BY YEMEN. |link|
⭕ ‼️⚓️ So, as suspected, it was another salvo of drones and a missile that unnerved the USS Trembling Puppy such that they lost another F/A-18 to Davy Jones’ Locker, then fled in haste to the Gulf of Suez.

I think we’ve seen the last of the Trembling Puppy for a good long while.
[links the above bulletin by Yemeni Armed Forces, which Amarynth reposted as a post on main site]
🔻 David Procino: The Houthis are the only ones left with their reputations intact these days
🔻 The Greatest Primarch 🏴‍☠️: Fascinating. Makes me think that this loss of a second F/A-18 likely contributed to USA’s decision to call off the attacks on Yemen.
🔻 Truth Matters: China and Russia are watching. The US will not survive in a kinetic war with either of them. The only option the US has left is nukes. Thankfully, Russia and China both have enough to turn the planet into ashes. It’s time to stand to the bullying empire.
🔻 Michael Phillip: Insh’Allah
🔻 ghost of 155: Is this the one with the cookie Redditor captain?
⭕ ⚓️ China Sub Reveal

Apparently China did some sort of public “un-boxing” presentation of their new Type 094 submarine. They made bold claims: 30 kn; 400 m depth; 14k km SLBMs; MIRV.

Exceedingly impressive, if true.

Here is some rando’s summary on it: |link|
🔻 Dennis B: For balance of power in a multi-polar world it is best that China equalizes their submarine force to that of the US.

My understanding is that they started very far behind.

If they catch up quick that should give neocons many sleepless nights.
🔻 WS: I would bet the Russians have given them some valuable assistance. The Russians build first-rate submarines. And Chinese innovation & craftsmanship is ridiculously underestimated by Americans.

Meanwhile, the state of affairs in the US sub fleet is shocking.
retweet:
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Tarik Cyril Amar:  Defiance

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇨🇳🇷🇺The Chinese Foreign Ministry reported details of Xi and Putin’s talks on Ukraine.

The Russian president said that Russia is ready to begin peace talks without preconditions “and hopes to achieve a fair and lasting peace agreement.”

Judging by the context, we are talking about negotiations with Ukraine.

Xi Jinping noted that China advocates a “common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable concept of global security” and believes that “the legitimate security interests of all countries must be taken seriously and the root causes of the crisis must be addressed.”

China “hopes to reach a fair, lasting and binding peace agreement acceptable to all parties through dialogue.”

Let us recall that yesterday Trump allowed China to be involved in negotiations on Ukraine.
⭕ 🇷🇺Parade units of the CIS countries on Red Square – the Republic of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan.

There is no Armenia. |media|
[a sadder absence than even Oreshnik..]
⭕ 🇷🇺Parade formations of friendly states on Red Square – Vietnam, Egypt, China, Laos (where would we be without it), Mongolia and Myanmar.

The North Koreans were not brought in – only in the stands.
[but their generalos received first row seats on the dais and a hug from VVP himself. These are now beyond allies – they’re seated alongside Family]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 BREAKING: Pakistan’s Armed Forces spokesman officially states that Pakistan is now ‘at war’ with India
⭕❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 BREAKING: Reports of a large scale Pakistani drone attack against several regions across the Indian border, as well as against Indian-occupied Kashmir – Indian anti-aircraft fire can be heard

*Note: Pakistan has not taken responsibility for this attack, nor for the drone attacks that happened throughout yesterday.
⭕ This war is lowkey so gay and annoying, both sides care more about information warfare than actual warfare.

There are constant blackouts on both sides of the border and it’s impossible to follow what’s actually happening.
[that is what happens when one is mentally colonized by Anglos for the fourth century running.. both sides are stuck in similar Rabbit Holes. But may they continue to jab at each other in virtual stand-off mode without too many consequence, besides more western exposure of outdated hardware and software crap]
⭕ 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇴🇲 NEW: Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, confirms that the fourth round of indirect US-Iran talks will be held this Sunday in Oman

💠 “India-Pakistan conflict ‘none of our business’ – Vance”
Right. This is beyond rich or flagrant. Like a pyromaniac greasing the joint for over a half century now claiming innocence and fidelity… but I still wonder. Is it out of guilt and astonishment at the technological revelation of more western impotence, or skedaddling outta the scene of the successful crime?

💠 “North Korea holds ‘nuclear counterattack’ drills (PHOTOS) — Kim Jong-un personally inspected the operational reliability of the “nuclear trigger” system”
☝️ a good reminder to the nazi internazionale on the day before #Victory80 and the massive congregation at Moskau. The Cokehead barked for one side; Rocketman polished and brandished nukes for the other. A most healthy effect on the raving. God Bless the real Korea!

💠 “‘Father of neoliberalism’ dies aged 88”
Another returns to the Pit. And joins Klub 88 along with Rummy and the last Pope

I agree with him. All this blather about separation between Orange and Nutty are smoke and mirrors. The desert bedouins are being milked with merciless precision. And the Murder-Suicide is being set up. No more, no less

just watch the first 2.5 min – numerology of new pope and inevitable connections to the Trumpet of the Moshiach

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 🔥 “Stay in Your Place”

Major General Hossein Salami, Commander-in-Chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, delivers a bold warning to the United States and Israel.

Most Americans laugh at the Iranians. I suspect that is a miscalculation. |link|
⭕ 🧵 Interesting Debate Thread

If patience is a virtue, then I achieved a saintly degree of holiness today. 😏 |Poor Sal|
🔻 Rummana Daoud: I don’t know how you tolerated that guy to be honest. I wanted to scream into a cushion at his ignorant refusal to see the strength, resilience and intelligence of the Yemeni military. A more than worthy adversary of the USA!
🔻 WS: Like the majority of regular folks in America, @mercoglianos is a good guy whose entire life experience has been filtered through the lens of American exceptionalist delusions. I try to be patient with such people. One day they’ll see their error; truth will triumph in the end.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping): Haha…filtered! I have been around the world a few times so my view is pretty well rounded. Everyone from every country believes in their exceptionalism.

The idea that it is unique to America is a false narrative.

However, my distain for the Houthis have nothing to do with American exceptionalism but their wanton attacks and terrorizing of innocent mariners.
🔻 SenshelMenshel Coastguard: There’s no point with him 🫠
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: The Houthis control what happens in the Red Sea, not the US Navy. The sooner the penny drops with that fact the better, but it won’t with these imbeciles. This attitude is not going to break without significant pain.
⭕ ‼️⚓️ Tail Between Its Legs

The always-thorough @KitKlarenberg with an update on the current state of affairs in The Battle of the Red Sea, in which the US claims a great victory as the USS Trembling Puppy runs away yet again.

* HIGHLY RECOMMENDED * |link|
🔻 AT: The US ships also served as an intercepting / early warning system against Yemeni missiles launched towards Israel. If they leave the Red Sea, that capability is gone.
🔻 WS: I figure they’ll leave 1 or 2 destroyers to lurk around in the northern Red Sea, but the cruiser, two destroyers, and the carrier will, I suspect, go back to the US. Supposedly the USS Ford will replace the Trembling Puppy, but I’ll be surprised if the Ford goes to the Red Sea.
🔻 Kit Klarenberg : God bless you Will 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: The delusions there still are over Western military superiority are quite incredible. It’s a psychological problem at this point.

⭕🔻 Olga Bazova: Trump has suggested re-opening Alcatraz.
🔻 WS: You can check out anytime you’d like, but you can never leave.
⭕‼️ Mismatch

India and Pakistan are discovering that, in a battle between 20th century fixed-wing fighter aircraft and Russian-designed air defense missiles, the fighters lose far more often than they win.
🔻 Timbot2002: As far as I have heard the PL-15 AAM used to shoot down the Rafales has no Russian analogue or antecedent. It seems to be a Chinese missile.
🔻 WS: With their resources and growing expertise, the Chinese will likely surpass everyone before too much longer.
🔻 Timbot2002: Well, every good student eventually graduates after all.
🔻 Wajid ali khan: Still Pakistan shot 3 of them including French Rafael. Pakistan is using chinese weapons and j-10C, JF17-Thunder. It means Chinese jets and weapons are far superior than europeans.
🔻 WS: The Chinese missiles being used are almost all based on Russian models and designs.

Since the beginning of the missile era (1950s), Russian missilry has always been superior to its rivals.
🔻 Wajid ali khan: Chinese air to air missiles did the job for Pakistan. Rafael are advanced fighter jets and chinese technology did help Pakistan to shot it down. Chinese weapons based on Russian technology but Chinese doing better than russians now they took Russian technology to another level.
🔻 WS: Yes, the AAMs used by Pakistan are Chinese versions of Russian missiles — particularly the R-37.

Perhaps the Chinese have improved upon the original R-37 design, but it was introduced in 1985. I have seen no evidence to suggest Russian missile tech is no longer “best in class”.
🔻 SpremiteSedla: R-37M wreaked havoc among UAAF.
With new tactics they proved R-37M as the best in its the class.
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: There is a huge amount of soul searching amongst Western commentators and analysts that their much vaunted expensive aircraft are useless. The cope over Israel’s failed attack on Iran was the first indication.
🔻 bordernick: Very little is spoken of that, presumably Iranian air defences locked on to the planes and israel had to abort their attack?
🔻 WS : All I can say is that, if indeed the attack was the devastating success Israel claimed it was, they would have followed it up with strike after strike after strike …

But they haven’t gone anywhere near Iran since then.
🔻 bordernick: Maybe F35 aren’t as stealthy as they thought, that Yemeni missile launched at the airport was a message too.
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: There were supposed to be three or four waves to that attack culminating in the decapitation of the Iranian leadership. It comprehensively failed at the air defences. This is why they want to neuter Iran and its military now through ‘diplomacy’.
⭕🔸 If indeed the October 26, 2024 attack on Iran was the devastating success Israel claimed it was, they would absolutely have followed it up with strike after strike after strike after strike.

But they haven’t gone anywhere near Iran since then. |link|
🔻 Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn: Stop being reasonable, logic has no place here.
[he’s not only back, but positively loquacious! But he does have a point – we’re dealing with psychopathic messianic fruitcakes with neither filter nor reverse gear]
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: Hence why they’re now trying to disarm Iran via smoke and mirrors diplomatic means cloaked under the guise of ‘weapons of mass destruction’. That will fail also. These people have absolutely no reverse gear no matter how much they fail.
⭕ ‼️ Little Prince of Peace

Everyone in the world needs to watch this. |link|
[lovely. Can we hang both sets of elites and end this nonsense?? Note the role of the presstitute!]
🔻 Per W. Myhre – TheEvaluator: What a great person. There is hope in this world.
🔻 There is No Spoon: bro, I have a brain 👏👏👏
🔻 Dee Landers: The kids are alright. What a great soul he is. He got it.
🔻 Patrick: Truth trumps all. He is joyful.
⭕ 🤔 Anyone else get the feeling the events in India / Pakistan are about 95% kabuki theater and 5% real war?
🔻 Soapy: They’ll play the same Iran/Israel dance because war is terrible for both sides. This is a good thing because escalation would be bad for all powers regionally and globally. There is no globally acceptable resolution to the problem if Kashmir.
🔻 Dark_Chicago: They are both terrified at the prospect of a full war.
Pity.
[is this an incognito tweet by the new Papa?]
🔻 Gaius Julius Trump: Bollywood Blitz
🔻 Life is an Adventure: We learned that Chinese fighters and their missiles are the real deal. That’s the biggest takeaway.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Sony Thang: The U.S. didn’t invent Hitler.

It bet on him.

Just like it bet on Ngô Đình Diệm in Vietnam.

Just like it bet on Mobutu in Congo.

Just like it bet on Pinochet in Chile.

Just like it bet on Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.

Just like it’s betting on Banderites in Ukraine.

It’s not about ideology.

It never was.

It’s about control.

The West doesn’t care who pulls the trigger—so long as it’s aimed at its enemies.

And when the fire gets out of control?

They rewrite the script.

Drape the corpse in democracy.

And call it liberation.
🧵 The Eurasian Entente and the End of American Hegemony

In the years preceding the Ukraine War, the dominant view was that the China/Russia partnership was a tenuous marriage of convenience. In the face of much ridicule, I consistently argued against this perspective.

1/
[links:
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: “Xi Jinping wrote an article in Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta ahead of his 4-day trip to Russia (he does this whenever he visits a country).

There are quite a few significant statements in there.

Probably the main one is when he writes that “80 years ago, just forces all over the world, including China and the Soviet Union, united to fight a common enemy and triumphed over fascism. Today, 80 years later, unilateralism, hegemony and acts of bullying are inflicting severe harm, and humanity once again stands at a crossroads. Where to go next, what to choose: solidarity or division, dialogue or confrontation, universal gain or a zero-sum game?”

No brownie point for guessing who he’s referring to… And frankly, he isn’t wrong.

He adds that “it is important to firmly defend the post-war international order”, and in particular “the creation of the United Nations” which he says “was perhaps the most important decision made by the world community at the end of World War II.”

On the UN he writes: “The more complex the international situation becomes, the more important it is to protect and ensure the authority of the UN, to firmly uphold the UN-centric world order based on international law, the basic norms of international relations based on the goals and principles of the UN Charter, to consistently promote the formation of an equal and orderly multipolar world, universally accessible and inclusive economic globalization.”

All in all, this is a continuation of what we’ve now been seeing for quite a few years: China has become the great power that most staunchly supports multilateral institutions and international law, just as the U.S. is growing increasingly revisionist and dismissive of rules.

Which is par for the course in a great power transition: China’s rise was enabled thanks to the current world order so they’ll naturally seek to preserve it more than the US who are bound to see the current order as having simultaneously enabled their relative decline.

In the article Xi also naturally has some words on the China-Russia relationship which he characterizes a force preserving the world from hegemony: “China and Russia are significant powers that make a constructive contribution to maintaining global strategic stability and improving global governance. The world needs justice, not hegemony.”

He precises that “China-Russia relations […] are not directed against third parties” but that they are a “strategic link in promoting the multipolarity of the world and forming a community with a common future for mankind.”

He also warns that China-Russia relations aren’t “subject to [the] influence [of third parties]”, probably a reference to talks of American attempts to effect a so-called “reverse Kissinger.”

He writes that “both sides should jointly resist any attempts to sow discord in the friendship and mutual trust between China and Russia, without being distracted by short-term plots and opportunistic situations.” Which probably serves as a way to reassure Russia that China isn’t considering giving up on the friendship but also a warning that they shouldn’t either.

All in all, Xi’s article is a clear window into current Chinese strategic thinking. China is positioning itself as the defender of the post-WWII international order against “hegemonic” forces, casting the United States as the revisionist power. And the U.S. is increasingly obliging, validating China’s arguments.

It’s a very Daoist “wu-wei” (effortless action) approach: rather than directly confronting American power, China is harnessing the present momentum and redirecting it, achieving goals through alignment with existing forces rather than through direct opposition. What emerges is an incremental transformation: China doesn’t need to overthrow the international order when it can simply outlast American commitment to it.” |link| ]
🔻 WS: I have long been convinced a Russia / China partnership is a perfectly logical and mutually beneficial course of action for the neighboring Asian superpowers — and that it contained all the elements for an enduring and harmonious relationship.

2/
🔻 WS: Here in 2025, my perspective on the issue continues to be vindicated by events.

In fact, the cooperative anti-hegemonic movement in Asia has gained even greater momentum — particularly in light of Iran’s increasing prominence as a third-pole in an expanding entente.

3/
🔻 WS: Iran is already well-positioned, and arguably destined to become the dominant power in southwest Asia. Iran shares a maritime border with Russia, and China is forging both maritime and land-links with Iran.

4/
🔻 WS: The accelerating dissolution of American global hegemony cannot be arrested.

Russia, China, and Iran have correctly concluded that, if they act in concert, they constitute a military / economic power bloc that the rapidly evaporating empire cannot hope to defeat.

5/
📜 All for One and One for All
🔻 WS: I submit it is therefore naive in the extreme for anyone to entertain the notion that this Eurasian Entente is susceptible to the impotent intrigues the gasping empire may concoct in a futile attempt to disrupt its continuing coalescence.

6/
⭕‼️ This is a literary work; a rhetorical flourish.

I’m a fan of the ancient art of hagiography. This is almost excessively hagiographic.

At the end it self-indulges in presentist advocacy.

That said, it tells a compelling story of a unique unit in WW2.

* HIGHLY RECOMMENDED *
links:
🔻 Zlatti71: The Night Witches of WWII |link|
🔻 Halide Edip: The Night Witches are discussed rather thoroughly
in Vasily Grossman’s account of the war in the post Stalingrad account of his excellent novel Stalingrad,
where his pre Stalingrad account is contained in the also excellent novel Life and Fate |link|

(1) WW2: the Siege of Leningrad – almost 900 days of debilitating hunger and fierce resistance.
Gaza now approaches 600 days under similar assault by the same Legion

(2) Pakistan took it to next level last night. They appear to have enough of being slow-boiled like a frog by the demented Indian authorities. Certain peoples should not be fucked with – they are that close to being certifiable. Yemenis, real Koreans, come to mind. Outsized punches, and they do not give a fuck. Recall last year, within a day of Iran missiling the Balochi terrorists hiding in Pakistan that killed many of their border guards, Pakistani Air Force bombed back some base of other Balochis on IRANIAN land. The same happened against Afghans a few months later. They appear to have a doctrine of immediate unrestrained response to aggression, no matter from who, and regardless of price. THIS is the hornet’s nest the Indian’s under Anglo-Zionazi tutelage stir up. Absolute insanity from the Indians. And they have FAR more to lose in mutually assured destruction. Pakistan is already a failed narco- and terror-Junta with nukes, living on the alms of IMF and Gulfies. India was offered a seat in new dispensation as world’s third economy and future leader of mankind. They are choosing to indulge in centuries-long hatreds and revanchism and supremacism which will give them the same future as the Anglos..

I fundamentally disagree, but it is a valid and increasingly popular POV. I hold rather that it is a transient feint and dissembling. BOTH the Empire and the fetid bastard offspring have wagered too much to retreat. The civilizational-states must be incinerated, and the mutual lord of the Moshiach raised, come what may. If it takes the betrayal of the Ashkenazim, so be it. But mankind will have neither relief nor peace as long as the fragmented Legion exists, regardless of who is in charge or which part of the bitch wags the other

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ When Araqchi was in Damascus, Assad fell after 25 years.

When Araqchi was in Islamabad, Pakistan got attacked by India.

Araqchi had dinner in New Delhi last night, and Pakistan immediately started pounding India.

Bro is more dangerous than JD Vance.
⭕ 🇮🇷/🇮🇳 NEW: India’s most senior national defense advisor, Major Gaurav Arya, calls Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi a ‘pig’ on live TV – while Araqchi is in New Delhi.

He accuses Iran of being pro-Pakistan, as Araqchi was meeting with Pakistani officials some days ago – and he called Iran a ‘terror-supporting state’ for funding Hamas.
⭕ 🇮🇷/🇮🇳 Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, while in New Delhi: ‘The Islamic Republic of Iran condemns India’s continued provocations — and urges both sides to de-escalate the conflict and resort to diplomacy
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 BREAKING: Pakistan has issued a NOTAM, closing its entire national airspace to all traffic
[this was overnight, about 11 hours ago local time. Working backwards to list the dangerous events]
⭕ Yeah it’s going down.
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰 NEW: Pakistan’s entire airspace is now completely empty of civilian air traffic – all flights have been suspended or rerouted
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 BREAKING: Massive Pakistani jet activity, refuelers and AWACS in the air – Pakistani media report that the ‘response has begun’
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 BREAKING: More than 50 PAF jets airborne, flying in tight formation
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 NOW: Sirens across western India: Pathankot, Jalandhar, Amritsar, Firozpur, Jammu, Srinagar, Bathinda
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 BREAKING: Pakistani missiles incoming, New Delhi – Al Arabiya
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 NEW: Karachi Intl. Airport fully evacuated amid emergency order
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 The codename of the [Pakistani] operation: ‘Bunyan Al-Marsoos’ (‘The Solid Structure’)

From the Quranic verse:

إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُحِبُّ ٱلَّذِينَ يُقَـٰتِلُونَ فِى سَبِيلِهِۦ صَفًّا كَأَنَّهُم بُنْيَـٰنٌۭ مَّرْصُوصٌۭ

‘Indeed, Allah loves those who fight in His cause, in solid ranks, as if they were one concrete structure’
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 NEW: The Pakistani response consisted of 26 strikes on military sites in Jammu & Kashmir, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab and New Delhi – Sources
[they mirrored aggression on their dispersed cities, capital, and the Army HQ in Rawalpindi on the commensurate targets in India – which are all conveniently within easy reach in NW India adjacent to Pakistan. India has same problems with its self-designated enemy as Russia with Rummy’s Old Europe – her most populated heartland is within short distance of the principal enemy]
⭕ 🇵🇰/🇺🇳 NEW: The IMF announced it has officially agreed to bailout Pakistan
[what messianic psychopathic scum! They’re ENCOURAGING the conflagration. Like sending new tranches to 404 whenever it sent more meat-waves to die against Russia. Unbelievable]
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 NEW: Ongoing Pakistani drone and missile attack against Jammu and Srinagar
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 NEW: Confirmed hit on the BrahMos (PJ-10) missile storage facility in Beas, India
[this is the vaunted hypersonic missile, the best in India’s arsenal, developed with/through collaboration with Russia]
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 Pakistani artillery working on the Line of Contact in Kashmir
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 NEW: PAF jets are now INSIDE Indian airspace – dogfights taking place
⭕ What the hell is India doing?
⭕ Indians themselves admitting this btw. Something is terribly wrong.
⭕ How are there even dogfights in modern air warfare? Do Indians know what a dogfight means?

These planes have radars with hundreds of KM range and missiles that can shoot eachother without even crossing the border.
[the loons were convinced by their suzerain the Anglos that it would be painless optical little war! So they came partially prepared and thought it would be a cakewalk. Unbelievable. Insouciant babes with nukes on both sides]
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 BREAKING: An Indian jet has reportedly been downed over Sialkot [India]
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 Current list of confirmed targets, according to OSINT sources close to Pakistan’s Armed Forces:

1.  Beas: BrahMos missile storage facility hit and completely destroyed.
2. Udhampur Airbase: Air Defence systems hit and destroyed, airbase hit and heavily damaged.
3. Pathankot Airbase: Airstrip hit, moderate damage.
4. Jalandhar Airbase: Hit, exact damage not assessed yet.
5. Gujarat: Multiple airbases hit.
6. Delhi region: Missile intercepted near Hisar, no targets successfully hit.
7. Rajasthan: Army installations hit. Unknown damage.
8. Srinagar Airbase: Hit, casualties confirmed.
9. Chandigarh: Weapon depot hit and destroyed.
   Total Impact:
   • 20+ Indian military sites hit.

⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 Indian weapons depot destroyed in Rajouri, Indian-occupied Kashmir near the LoC
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 NEW: Indian military press conference postponed, citing ‘unspecified reasons’
⭕ Pakistan has clearly realized it’s at war now. They’re hitting many targets, hard and fast.

India, on the other hand, seems not exactly sure what to do, almost as if they didn’t expect things to escalate this much.

Currently, India doesn’t seem to have a game plan. If they think de-escalation is still an option, they’re wrong. They need to get their act together quickly, or Pakistan will stay one step ahead. These moments are crucial.
⭕ This is called ‘overwhelming force’. Pakistan, a technically weaker nation, has to act hard and fast in order to take the initiative and get the escalation ladder into their own hands.

Once you’ve got the initiative – you’re dictating the moves. You can plan ahead, but your enemy cant – they’ll be forced to continuously adapt. This is basic warfare.
⭕ Indian Deputy Commissioner Raj Kumar Thapa was killed during strikes on the Rajouri military base in India.
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 Pakistani Army: ‘We are currently not interested in de-escalating’
[nor would I if facing such inept corrupt clusterfuck on opposing side. I would march further into the breech to set deterrence for the next 100 years, if they both survive the next days that is]
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 BREAKING: Pakistan’s Prime Minister has called for an urgent meeting of the National Command Authority, the military organization responsible for the use and storage of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons
[If I was lord of this world – I would have gathered in front of a wall ALL the current Indian elites, ruling and shadow-ruling, and put the provincial simpletons outta our collective misery. Absolute dolts. It is more sane to aggress Russians and Yemenis! HOW did they expect the crazed Junta to respond?? With candy, bouquets and garlands? You’re dealing with a rottweiler, not a Baltic chihuahua]
⭕ For now, calm seems to have returned. Pakistan’s retaliation is over – they’ve called on India to back down and try diplomacy.

💠 @BhadraPunchline:
⭕ @vali_nasr Fervently hope so.
Links:
🔻 Vali Nasr:
1. Saturday Araghchi goes to Saudi
2. Sunday Araghchi-Witkoff meeting
3. Monday Trump goes to Saudi
4. Tuesday??
⭕ One of the saddest things about India’s lurch toward a national security state since our late ‘peacenik prime minister’ Manmohan Singh handed over power has been the gradual atrophying and the virtual eclipse today of the peace movement in our country.  |link|

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ The arrogance and impunity of Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with an ICC arrest warrant for his war crimes, made him believe it can manipulate and play with Donald Trump. It seems it didn’t work well for Netanyahu. Hopefully Trump doesn’t show any flexibility towards this war criminal any soon.
⭕ The US is responsible for Israeli arrogance. This is what happens when you support and unleash a monster, it challenges you.

⚡️🇷🇺For the first time in 11 years, a passenger train arrived at Donetsk station

▪️The train was moving along the Debaltseve-Donetsk route.
➖"In 2014, despite shelling and artillery, our employees continued to send trains, evacuate passengers, and escort them to a bomb shelter.… pic.twitter.com/JWfnH7LMce

— SIMPLICIUS Ѱ (@simpatico771) May 9, 2025

💠@LauraRuHK:
⭕ RIA Novosti published a map showing which countries are represented at the Victory parade in Moscow, either by their head of state or by other officials. It’s very illustrative. 51,9% of the world population is represented at the parade… and is predominantly Asian. Russia’s pivot to the East is working.
[Russia is SO isolated]

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

Muslims should not forget about Palestine

The malicious policies being implemented in the world today against nations are aimed at making the issue of Palestine fade into oblivion.

Muslim nations must not allow this.
With various rumors, meaningless talk, and the introduction of irrelevant new issues, they try to distract minds from the Palestinian cause.

The minds should not be distracted from Palestine either. The crimes committed by the Zionist regime in Gaza and Palestine are not something to be ignored.

The entire world must stand against them.

(Death to Israel chants)

We must stand not only against the Zionist regime itself… but also against its supporters!

(Death to America chants)

Yes — your assessment is correct.
The Americans are, in the truest sense of the word, fully supporting them.

In the realm of politics, statements are made that may mislead people into thinking otherwise. But that is not the reality. [The leader is here saying very clearly that the Americans are not to be trusted…]

The truth is, the oppressed people of Palestine and Gaza today are not just facing the Zionist regime —
they are also facing America, and Britain.
[this appears a lecture-speech he held yesterday commemorating martyrdom anniversary of Raisi]
⭕ 🇮🇷| Imam Khamenei:

My firm belief is that, by God’s grace, Palestine will be victorious over the Zionist occupiers. This will certainly happen.

The Zionist regime has a fleeting, superficial appearance of strength —
it may show itself [as strong] for a while, but it is bound to fall. There is no doubt about that.

The appearances we see—these actions and advances in Syria or elsewhere—are not signs of power, but rather signs of weakness, and they will lead to even greater weakness, God willing.

We hope that the Iranian nation and all faithful nations will, with their own eyes, witness the day of Palestine’s victory over the aggressors and usurpers.
⭕ 🇮🇷🇸🇦| Something is being cooked

Iran FM arrives in Jeddah to hold discussions on a “range of issues”. His visit comes a day before the new round of talks with US & ahead of Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia.

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇮🇳🇵🇰Ah, now we are just finding out that Rubio also got in touch with Indian FM Jaishankar.

This, after his calls with Pakistani military chief and FM.

This pretty much confirms that the US is now actively involved in efforts towards de-escalation. And that is reflected by what appears to be coordinated messaging from India and Pakistan in the last hour.
[de-escalation, or pouring flammable materials in copious forked-tongue quantities??]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🚨 Pakistan launches operation Bunyaan-un-Marsoos against India – reports 🇵🇰⚔️🇮🇳

Multiple sites across India are reportedly being targeted as part of the operation, according to Geo News.

A BrahMos missile storage facility in Beas, Punjab, is said to have been destroyed.
⭕ 🇵🇰 Pakistan convenes top Security Council following military operation against India – reports

Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has called a meeting of the National Command Authority (NCA) following the launch of Pakistan’s military operation Bunyan-ul-Marsoos against India, The Times of India reported.

The NCA is Pakistan’s highest-level security decision-making body, comprising senior civilian and military leaders. It oversees key national defense matters, including nuclear weapons policy.

This escalation follows Indian strikes on key Pakistani posts and military bases near Jammu, which were allegedly being used to launch tube-launched drones, according to ANI, citing security sources.
⭕ ❗️Pakistan is moving troops to the border, which indicates “an offensive intent to further escalation,” the Indian army reports

Pakistan attacked civilian targets in India using drones, long-range weapons, loitering munitions and fighter jets, the Indian side also stated.
⭕ ❗️The whole world is shaking because of the Russian Oreshnik missile system, Traore says

The president of Burkina Faso made the statement in Moscow at a meeting with students of the Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology.
[we ain’t seen nuthin yet. The damned and the beautiful require much more shaking. Indeed, at the end of which they should have the equivalent of “shaken-baby-syndrome”]
⭕ UN Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan Extended for One Year Amidst Security Council Disagreements

• The UNMISS is now set to continue until April 30, 2026 with 12 members of the UN Security Council voting in favor, while Russia, China, and Pakistan chose to abstain.
• The US-drafted resolution faced delays before its final passage due to disputes over wording related to gender, climate change, and human rights, necessitating a temporary extension.

🇷🇺 Following the vote, representatives from Russia, China, and Pakistan voiced criticisms. Russia, while supporting UNMISS’s work, accused the US of exerting “pressure on the government of South Sudan.”

👉 Similarly, China argued the resolution imposed “excessive pressure” not reflective of the “realities on the ground”.
[the most important part of this news, and why I posted, is to note who joins Russia and China in voting. Note the Junta also gave a Nyet to the Saudi moneybags who were in the air leaving their territory en route to India, when they started the retaliation against India. It is completely predictable the Saudis were in Pakistan last night to threaten withholding of future moneys, in order to let India have the optical victory; that is always how Legion works – Economic Hitmen take many forms and suits. What days, of complete realignments and all being forced to get off the fence. Now, will India see reason, and stop permitting herself to be suicided by the Anglo-Zionists??]

This was a terrible movie. Absolute crapper. But this scene is one of my favorites in decades of movies.. the satans are compelled to reveal – and they often do so in the arts.

Time may be linear, but certain creatures DO move at extraordinary speed, using this to extreme advantage. Perhaps the Knowledge of hypersonics works in similar ways ; -D. Eventhough the X-Men depicted here are principalities (satanic djinn — the Ubermenschen of the Babylonian System) – there have been certain human endowed with even greater speeds – for example an ancient Israelite man in the court of Prophet-King Solomon who brought the Throne of the Queen of Sheba from Yemen to the Holy Land in the blink of an eye, whereas the djinn could only do so in a few hours. How? Through special knowledge in special books. Opening portals and so on. Angels move in similar speeds beyond the ken of djinn.

Here’s another movie scene which depicts the true battles of the End Times as unseen by us humans. That the satans who used to rule via the West will have more than a match from those released from the Pit (Tartarus). Their time is short indeed. There is a civil war between satans – the Titans were the old “gods” jailed in the Pit, released in the End Times, being fought by the “Olympians”. Orange’s wrecking crew appears to front the Titans resuming their place in lieu of the now soft and soon to be overcome familiar golden “gods”, simply overcome by numbers; the same enfeebling decadence which takes root among the third generation of humans takes root among them too. And this process heralds a return to a truly bestial age, as we see in Gaza.. so yes indeed, “it becomes starkly clear why empire has so ruthlessly destroyed all vestiges of God within its population” because only this permits erecting abominable ages

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🇷🇺🇰🇵 Non-Trivial North Korea

The DPRK only sent a relatively small force to Kursk. A few battalions at most.

But the DPRK could easily send a fully equipped field army (100k troops) without compromising their readiness at home.

A field army able alone to defeat European NATO.
🔻 Brandon: I’m much more concerned about what Pyongyang intends to do to South Korea. The military balance on the Peninsula has tipped in Kim’s favor. The force to Russia was a deft move; a relatively small force to gain access to high-end Russian weapons (notably hypersonic weapons).
🔻 WS: Such are the consequences of betting the farm on the wrong horse.

It’s a tough world out there, and it’s changing fast.
[this can be said for India even more than for South Korea and Japan. What a time to come off the fence!]
🔻 Brandon: I’ve been saying that for a while. It isn’t even so much as betting on the wrong horse per se. In many cases, it’s OVERCOMMITTING to the horse. Or even the race itself. Alas, here we are having to eat the rotten fruits the Bipartisan Fusion Party in DC have left us.
🔻 H. H.: Will, you have some recommendations to read about DPRK military capabilities?
I really will appreciate it.
Thanks!
🔻 WS: |link|
🔻 Isabel Curipaco: Buen día, la pregunta que ha estado rondando en mi cabeza todo el día es ¿Por qué no he visto a los líderes de Corea del norte ni Irán en este desfile? Tiene alguna idea?
🔻 WS: The North Korean generals were seated in prominent positions near Putin. The photos above are from the parade — Putin embracing a DPRK general.

Iran always does its own thing.
[Stalin made several mistakes. One was occupying parts of Iran. That is a recent mistake not yet forgotten]
🔻 Isabel Curipaco: Ver a Kim Jong-Un y Ali Jamenei en Moscú a lado de Vladimir Putin y Xi Jinping, hubiera sido una gran postal.
[not necessary for any of the civilizational-states. Their world doesn’t revolve around optics, illusion and lies]
🔻 WS: That’s not how these things work. These things are done delicately, and strictly according to appropriate diplomatic protocols. Iran and DPRK are “junior partners”. It is enough that Putin and Xi are broadcasting their solid alliance.
[the Russkies woulda sacrificed a VVP lung to have both attending in person though]
🔻 Zionism🟰Oppression 🍉🇵🇸🏴🇺🇸: DPRK would face incredibly tough odds, trying to destroy NATO before it self-destructs on its own
🔻 WS: 🤣 That’s funny. It’s funny because it’s true.
🔻 RealJohnGaltFLA: More importantly, they received 1st world combat experience. Not Iraq. Not Afghanistan. Not Yemen.

That training and then the cross-training is invaluable. That’s what real military men recognize and that’s why the Pentagon is praying no major ground conflicts break out for a decade.
⭕ cont thread:
🔸 If indeed the October 26, 2024 attack on Iran was the devastating success Israel claimed it was, they would absolutely have followed it up with strike after strike after strike after strike.

But they haven’t gone anywhere near Iran since then.
🔻 Gun Barons: But to believe that it wasn’t a great success requires believing that American weapons are not inherently superior to all others.
A bridge too far.
🔻 WS: The Ukraine War and the Iranian strikes against Israel have proven, beyond dispute, that US/NATO weaponry is inherently INFERIOR to its Russian counterparts, and that US air defenses are utterly helpless against Russian and even second-tier Iranian ballistic missiles.
📜 Scorch Marks in the Sand
🔻 WS: 📜 Top Shelf
🔻 WS: 📜 Empty Quiver
⭕ cont thread:
🧵 The Eurasian Entente and the End of American Hegemony

In the years preceding the Ukraine War, the dominant view was that the China/Russia partnership was a tenuous marriage of convenience. In the face of much ridicule, I consistently argued against this perspective
🔻 Satti… ساطي: The whole world’s status would remain pending on the geopolitical structure of the Arabs. They are the critical determining factor. For how long would they remain in oblivion?
That is the most strategic question.
🔻 WS: You need to elaborate further on this argument, but I’m not sure I see your logic.
🔻 Satti… ساطي: Good question. The most important result of WW1 is the Sykes-Picot map. Ww2 enforced this map. The 500 million arabs are against this map and want it removed. It is a matter of time.
Then the whole geo-econopolitical map of the globe would be totally different.
🔻 WS: Yes, the illogical (and likely intentionally pernicious) enforced division of the Ottoman Empire was the root of all evil in the Middle East.

The British Empire and its American offspring have been pernicious beyond precedent for several centuries now.
🔻 Satti… ساطي: Yep, that is it.
⭕ cont thread:
🤦‍♂️ Trump’s historical illiteracy and American exceptionalist delusions have jumped the shark.
🔻 RobRaider: @RealScottRitter Scott Ritter did a great rant on JudgeNap re: Ukraine, the Russian celebration, & Trump’s narcissism. He cant stand to share the limelight w/ anyone else (in Ritter’s assessment)
🔻 WS: Trump literally has no cards to play. It’s like I’ve been saying since late last year:
📜 Dictating Terms
🔻 RobRaider: The same zio-cons are pushing Ukraine (Zelensky said its the ‘new Israel’) that push war in the M.E.
Trump appears to be owned by them.
Thus, he ‘flips’ 180 degrees from positions he promised to MAGAs pre election. It ain’t 4D chess.
⭕ cont thread:
🤔 Anyone else get the feeling the events in India / Pakistan are about 95% kabuki theater and 5% real war?
🔻 EM Fin: Was a fair assessment of events so far, but it looks like the % split has moved tonight.
🔻 WS: Looks like it. Apparently both parties want to play with matches in the powder house.
🔻 Stockley Karlmichael: No,these percentages remain the same
When India accuses Chinese of helping Pakistan, when we see Iranian missiles or Doritos on the Pakistani side (as happened at turning point of Sudanese civil war),perhaps that’s when game will start to get interesting
[no, that ain’t gonna happen for Pakistan, except the valid complaint of Chinese help. Iran needs its own stocks from now on. And this front appears to use different approach than Europe or the Holy Land theatres. Heavy on EW, cyber, disinfo, and other horrors]
⭕‼️ The Pentagon expended untold hundreds of millions to deploy a half-dozen B-2s to Diego Garcia, and then fly an unknown number of sorties to Yemen. Now they’re skedaddling back home, and will undoubtedly require many weeks of maintenance to be made combat-capable again.
links:
🔻 MenchOsint: All six B-2 have left Diego Garcia air base.

4 x B-52H are deployed there.
[those appear to have failed the Yemeni test.. recall one report said they were chased away from Yemen. If YEMEN chases them away, what of far mightier Persia??? As I’ve said since early last year, it will take ICBMs against either Persia or Yemen, given their mountains, numbers, tradition, and current mindset and will. So in the context of satanic escalation, and inability to concede, the pullback of these flying coffins is as ominous as flushing floating coffin carriers far from the littorals of the region]
🔻 Noe: They will let Israel strike Iran, avoiding retaliation at their bases.
They also made ceasfire with Yemen.

So US will max focus now only to defend Israel during True Promise 3, without Risking their soldier.

Pretty smart.
[noo. Iran promised if ANY aggression occurs, regardless of source, the US bases in ARAB lands would be incinerated. And Zion cannot do anything meaningful WITHOUT the USUK. So there is zugzwang conventionally, or using traditional manned platforms]
🔻 IAmSagzee: Is an non-effective navy and/or airforce not an indicator of empire endgame? Add to it incompetent leadership?
🔻 Para II: people thought they were meant for a strike on iran lol how embarrassing

now imagine what iran will do with all the data yemen gathered from their (futile) usage
🔻 Truth-B-Told: It sure did help make the Houthis more battle capable. They got to test new weapons and strategies and to assess their defenses.
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: They will have undoubtedly been quietly used and they have achieved absolutely nothing.
🔻 Malonco: So Scott Ritter was wrong… again.

I’ve lost count of how many times his analysis ended up being completely wrong. Not much of a geopolitical analyst!
[to be fair to Scotty, the memo keeps changing so fast. And plucky little Yemen is upsetting all calculations]
🔻 Geoff Jenkins: And…….?
🔻 Cris: If I was a US citizen Geoff, I wouldn’t be happy how my tax money is burned like that and what for.
🔻 Geoff Jenkins: Let’s audit the Pentagon. No more routine maintance on these bombers. No more air force!
🔻 WS: Certainly no more B-2s in the region to menace Iran. So I reckon that war is off the table for the time being.

In any case, no more than about 30% of the B-2 fleet (19 aircraft) is combat-capable at any given time. So I also reckon the US now has no meaningful B-2 fleet at all.
⭕ repost:
‼️ Mismatch

India and Pakistan are discovering that, in a battle between 20th century fixed-wing fighter aircraft and Russian-designed air defense missiles, the fighters lose far more often than they win.
⭕🔻 Koba: #PLA #China #Japan #Korea #India #Taiwan #PakistanArmy

Srinagar

Reportedly Paki Jet crashed

Two Paki fighters have been shot down by Akash Bty at Srinagar right now.

Pilots have bailed out. We have to capture them.
🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ: Like I said, you will soon find out just how good Russian VVS really was all along. Peer to peer ain’t easy. Just consult Vietnam statistics
🔻 WS: There is a very good reason Ukraine has lost so many aircraft in the past 3+ years.

There is a very good reason Israeli jets never crossed the Tigris on October 26, 2024.

A US air campaign against Russia or China would be a bloodbath.
🔻 John LeGalt: So aircraft carriers are a useless boondoggle you’re saying
🔻 WS: They work quite well against countries that can’t shoot back.
🔻 John LeGalt: Fewer of those these days;)
🔻 Timothy Leary’s Dead 🏴‍☠️🌱🐑🐕 🎣🎇👀🐈‍⬛⚠️🎲: I wasn’t aware that air defense had been particularly effective in the India-Paki clash. The three planes downed were shot down with air-to-air missiles. Missile strikes on both sides don’t appear to be hindered by AD. |link| 
🔻 WS: Air-to-air AND surface-to-air missiles are BOTH “air defenses”. I do not regard them differently in that context.

I also saw reports tonight (admittedly unconfirmed) that India had shot down a Pakistani fighter with SAMs.
⭕🤦‍♂️ A big hole in an empty field is not what I would characterize as “extensive damage”.

So far, this India / Pakistan thing looks more like professional wrestling than war. |link|
🔻 Jeffrey Jensen: Upturned asphalt in an empty field? First crater analysis?
🔻 Sıçan Dünya: It’s not easy for nuclear powers fighting each other. I hope it will stay by the “professional wrestling” status.
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: 98% of the posts and propaganda on this India-Pak thing is way off than NAFO one…
🔻 Ragy Eleish: Lots of noise no beef. |link|
⭕🔻 Amerikanets 📉: He’s something even worse: cringe.
🔻 WS: They’ll probably wait until the Trembling Puppy gets back home, and then quietly and discreetly consign Captain Soggy Cookie to a golden parachute board position at Northrop Grumman.
⭕🔻 zerohedge: US-Sanctioned Zombie Tanker Exposes Dark Trade Between Tehran And Beijing |link|
[what r u gonna do abutit ??]
🔻 WS: Zerohedge is waxing silly again about “evil” China.

As though it matters anyway.

The US cannot stop the Iran / China oil trade.

Sanctions are futile.

The US Navy doesn’t have the ships to enforce a blockade.

China will escort tanker convoys with warships if necessary.
🔻 valkrin: Why does China even buy oil from Iran when it can buy it from Russia which is much closer neighbor?
🔻 WS: Iran has exceptional oil. It blends well with other grades. That’s also why the US has continued to buy both Russian and Venezuelan crude.
[it’s also necessary to diversify trade in case Russkie goes retarded as in early 1990s, as well as have excuse to interfere and support Iran from the usual pack of busy hyenas. It is swim together or sink time]
🔻 Michael Rauls: That’s what I was thinking when we said we we gonna sanction all Iranian oil exports.
I.e. if the Chinese escort the tankers we are going to do what exactly,?
[die]
🔻 Silvie Amst: “The US Navy doesn’t have the ships to enforce a blockade.”
The US Navy has those ships now. It will not have them soon after starting to enforce a blockade.
[no even now, it lacks numbers.. used to have 300+ in bad old days after ww2, but now < 65 floating tombs. They cannot be in every sea, which their ego and global pretensions demand, AND suiciding themselves en masse just in the SCS]
🔻 girliepsychosis: shut up zerohedge
🔻 Aquaman: When will the US establishment grow up and realize that the world has changed in ways they can’t control?
[we’re gonna see the tipping shortly]
🔻 Esteban Vega: Don’t adopt Sony Thang’s “style”!
[LOL]
🔻 Scaleindependent: Zerohedge has been taken captive ($$) by The Epoch Times and the Falung Gong cult.
🔻 Salamanca: ZH has become a somewhat silly sinofobic Trump fanclub. Or is it the money? |link|

⭕🤦‍♂️ The competency crisis in America has reached the acute stage.
links:
🔻 Howard Lutnick: I couldn’t agree more. We have so many tools: reciprocal tariffs, existing Trump-1 tariffs and most importantly fentanyl tariffs. Our trade team in Geneva will get the best outcome for America.
[Good Lord. These are the lunatics “negotiating” today in Geneva]
🔻 Nick Denton: So, 145% start, then the boss says that could come down to 60%, but that looks weak, so 80%. Oops, that might tank the talks, so you float 34% on TV. And now you’re walking that back. Clown car.
[so now we know what it felt like when Nero fiddled in front of his masterpiece. The Orange Camacho Gang have their own twist on the fiery matter]
🔻 Ponzinomics: We have so many tools: a red hammer, a yellow hammer and most importantly an orange hammer.

We can build anything with all these different tools!
🔻 tommyt: 80% of Walmart shelves being empty seems right.
⭕🔥 Incisive take by the Warlord. |link|
⭕🔻 Lord Bebo: 🇷🇺 Some of these people think just because they’re good a thing in life, like chess, they’re not stupid and can produce smart commentary.

But in fact being good at chess does not translate to geo-political analysis in any way. He has no clue and just repeats the same thing for years and it never comes true.

He never pauses to self adjust. Just repeats the same crap over and over again.
🔻 WS: #TheImaginaryWar is a powerful drug.