💠@Alon Mizrahi:
⭕🔻 Syrian Girl: Remember when we told you Qatar is working with Israel to destroy the resistance?

That’s why they spent all that money to destroy Syria.

Iran made a fatal error when they saved them from gulf sanctions.
🔻 AM: I don’t even think there is a country called ‘Qatar’. It is just an Arab-styled Zionist-American offshore money laundering and political destabilization enterprise.

Western colonialism never ended in the ME. It just changed its clothing
[well said. Some are enslaved through starvation, as in Africa, Gaza and Yemen. Others through excessive abundance, as in the Garden, which includes the GCC]
⭕ Let me be brutally honest: America’s future is frighteningly bleak
[links above video “Let me be brutally honest”]
🔻 C1: Yes. There is no self reflection in the West. Our reality becomes increasingly artificial each day. The arrogance is a defense mechanism so as not to look at the humanity which we are a part of. How much longer can this continue?
🔻 AM: The Iran war is going to end much of this
⭕🔻 Hind Khoudary: For four weeks, Israel has shut off all sources of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies for the Gaza Strip’s population of more than 2 million Palestinians.
🔻 AM: And not even the faintest protest from the international community.

This attempt to make Jews super-human, or super-people who may do whatever they want to others is going to end disastrously for everyone involved
⭕ This tweet is one year old
[links his older:
🔻 AM: “Israel is carrying out an open and declared final solution for Gaza (and broader Palestine), and the West gives Israel its blessing, diplomatic protection, and arms, and persecutes people who oppose the Palestinian holocaust. All in broad daylight. Everything must break”]
⭕ 🔻 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦: American democracy in Iraq.

On March 31, 2003, a picture of a blindfolded Iraqi prisoner of war embracing his terrified four-year-old son while detained by US forces in Iraq gained worldwide attention. |media|
[these were the proudest days of Macgregor, Davis, Ritter et al, when “they made their bones” just like NYC real estate developers…….]
🔻 AM: A sickness that knows no end

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Warfare Analysis: Every accusation is a confession

– A thread 1,2,3,4,5,6 |media|
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Suppressed News: ⚡️BREAKING: Israel bombs UNRWA clinic.

Nine people were killed and several others injured, including children, in an Israeli strike on a UNRWA clinic sheltering displaced persons in Jabalia Camp, northern Gaza Strip. |media|
⭕ In the Six-Day War, fought from June 5 to June 10, 1967, three central Arab states—Egypt, Jordan, and Syria—were swiftly defeated by Israel, marking one of the most decisive and humiliating setbacks in modern Arab history.

Over half a century later, a small, heavily besieged Palestinian resistance in Gaza has withstood more than 500 days of relentless Israeli military assaults. Despite facing one of the world’s most advanced armies—backed entirely by the United States—they have refused to surrender. With limited resources and under total blockade, their continued defiance stands as a stark reversal of the 1967 precedent, reshaping the image of resistance in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
⭕ Israel killed 71 Palestinians today in Gaza, adding to the staggering toll of civilians amid ongoing bombardment. Homes are flattened and families are buried under rubble. The international community looks the other way, offering silence, complicity: some lives remain invisible, even in death
[and so it shall end for the fallen combined West, Barbaria Risen. Buried in eternal shame, within their own rubble, unmourned by any in the astonished cosmos of this unremitting anti-civilization built on blood of innocents and sheer barbarism]

🔴🇸🇾 " Les djihadistes de #Syrie 🇸🇾 ne sont pas de confession musulmane ☪️ ".

La Mère Agnès-Mariam de la Croix, supérieure du monastère Saint-Jacques le Mutilé en Syrie 🇸🇾 balance une bombe…

16 000 musulmans ☪️ et chrétiens ✝️ massacrés par les terroristes que Paris 🇫🇷… pic.twitter.com/SiPycm15Cg

— Boban Driçlek (@bobanDriclek) March 17, 2025

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇮🇷🇳🇱| And the FM calls start again. This gives me Martyr Abdollahian vibes before [Operation] TP1…

Iranian FM told Dutch FM that Iran will swiftly & decisively respond to any aggression. He warned against US threats & criticized EU silence.
⭕ The US under any other administration would never dare to attack Iran in its current power state, but to be honest Trump looks like a crazy maniac that’s ready to gamble the entire world, so I really don’t know lol.

Like Haj Qassem Soleimani said, Trump is a “gambler”.
⭕ 🇮🇷|🇮🇷 IRGC General Javani

He said if threats against Iran are carried out, this act of aggression will push Iran’s nuclear industry into a new phase, and from that point on, a new definition must be considered for Iran and the Resistance Nexus in both regional and international dynamics.
[Good Lord. we complain of the slowness of the Russkie to saddle. What of the SW Asian Resistance? They wait until millions of their own are holocausted before taking the necessary forceful steps!]
⭕ Blatant violation of international laws. The use of starvation as a tool of warfare is a warcrime … but hey, we’re way past caring for intl’ laws.

There’s a warcrime being committed by Israel on a daily basis, this world functions on a “survival of the fittest” at this point.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇺🇸 NEW: Florida State Senator Randy Fine has won the House race against Democrat Josh Weil, after receiving full endorsement from Donald Trump

Fine is known for his strong defense of Israel and has previously referred to himself as the ‘Hebrew Hammer.’

He has repeatedly called for genocide, and infamously expressed joy at the sight of a dead Palestinian baby under the rubble on Twitter.
⭕ Israel continues to target temporary makeshift homes in southern Lebanon with drones, denying people the right to return after their houses were destroyed during the war

Meanwhile, the Lebanese Army, which continues to deploy in the south, was fired upon by the IDF just yesterday, forcing them to retreat at least once.
⭕ The IDF has expanded its ground operation into Rafah and advised remaining Gazans in the area to evacuate, Defense Minister Israel Katz said.
⭕ 🇨🇳❌🇹🇼 China’s Eastern Theatre Command conducted long-range live-fire drills near Taiwan in the East China Sea today, targeting simulated key ports and energy facilities.

➡️ The drills, which involved precision strikes, have reportedly achieved their desired effects.
⭕ The U.S. Treasury Department has announced new sanctions on four Russian individuals and three companies.
[I usually neglect mentioning these, but they’re a near-daily occurence now. Iran has also being sanctioned at least ten different times since Jan 20]
⭕ ❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi: ‘We continue to warn against any attack on Iran and its sovereignity, and we affirm that our response will be swift and decisive’
⭕ Trump’s Special Envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, offered to visit Tehran or meet with Iranian government officials in a neutral country; Iran rejected the proposal, stating that Witkoff is an ‘irrelevant person’ and that Iran ‘is not interested’ in directly meeting with the Americans
⭕ ❗️🇮🇷/🇫🇷/🇺🇸 BREAKING: ‘War with Iran is almost inevitable, if there is no Nuclear Deal soon’ – France’s Foreign Minister, after a rare Defense Cabinet meeting on Iran in Paris
⭕ Israeli airstrikes reported in Damascus and the ‘T-4’ airbase in Homs.
[now the latter is interesting. Reportedly Turks descended like another plague of locusts onto the same T-4 AFB. Now being bombed by Zion?!! What days. Have away at it fellas of Legion]

💠@Eurasia & Multipolarity:
⭕ An investigation has been published in the Netherlands, where senior officers of the Security Service of Ukraine are involved in an international drug trafficking network, smuggling schemes and fraudulent call centers.

The article proves that the deputy head of the main Directorate for Combating Corruption of the SBU and the head of the department for combating drug trafficking have a stable connection with the head of Khimprom drug cartel, who is currently hiding in Mexico and is wanted.

Khimprom helps the AFU financially and also provides Ukrainian soldiers with narcotic drugs. In 2022, the former commander of the Ukrainian battalion “Archangels of Mikhail” accused representatives of Khimprom of supplying amphetamine to the front.

The production of narcotic drugs takes place on the territory of Donbass, which is still under the control of Ukraine. The heads of Khimprom have created a whole network of laboratories, whose products are sent to Russia and Europe, and the SBU provides cover.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇲🇺 Trump approves the transfer of the Chagos Islands, home to a US-UK military base, to Mauritius, reports say

“We are now working with the Mauritian government to finalize the deal and sign the treaty. My understanding is it’s now between us and the Mauritian government to finalize the deal, following the discussions with the US,” a government spokesperson was quoted as saying by The Telegraph.

Last October, the UK agreed in principle to transfer Chagos Islands sovereignty to Mauritius. The treaty includes financial aid and infrastructure investment, while the UK retains control of the Diego Garcia airbase for an initial 99 years.

ℹ️ Mauritius for decades has challenged UK sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, but it was not until 2019 that the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution urging the UK to give up the islands.
[this is sleight of hand. Diego Garcia is at heart of this foreward air base. Already a colony of Anglos. Yet the Yanquis muscle into Limey territory, like against EU in Greenland, or Limeys in Canada too. In the bitter last mile, no secondary layers of proxies can be trusted. Especially after the demonstrable incompetence of the Anglo-French in 404 and other theatres. The Passion of the Worst demands a direct hand on the Tiller]
⭕ 📌 Major world events by the morning of April 2

• US senators threaten to impose 500% duties against countries that buy Russian oil, gas and uranium if Moscow refuses peace talks;
• The US is increasing its military presence in the Middle East, the Pentagon said;
• The Russian air defense forces overnight shot down 93 Ukrainian UAVs over the Kursk, Belgorod and Rostov regions, the Defense Ministry reported;
• The death toll in Myanmar [in recent massive earthquake] has reached at least 2,886, with another 4,639 people injured, a Chinese media outlet reported, citing local authorities;
• Canada will not impose duties against the US on imports of most food products, Canada’s Globe and Mail reported;
• The US is negotiating with countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Kosovo to accept migrants deported from the US, the WSJ reported;
  [these are drops in the buckets, given millions of illegal and legal migrants in CONUS. It would take decades to remove them, if at all possible. And impractical by air. I suspect these are fishing expeditions, to ascertain who still bends the knee to disintegrating Empire, like the useless UN votes. A way for empire to get feedback on how much lifeblood remains]
• Colombia has offered Russia’s participation in the exploration of a treasure galleon that sank off the republic’s coast in 1708. So far, issues related to the ownership of the ship and cargo are being discussed, the country’s ambassador to Moscow Hector Arenas Neira said.
  [more interesting for who this traditional Yanqui poodle is soliciting for deep sea exploration…]

⭕ Ukraine’s losses reach over 138,545 people, 2,500 armored vehicles in 2025

In addition, Kiev lost 10 aircraft, 10,200 drones, 11 anti-aircraft missile systems, 29 multiple launch rocket systems, 3,032 field artillery guns and mortars, and 3,887 special military vehicles, according to calculations by Sputnik based on Russian Defense Ministry data.

In 2024, the number of killed and wounded in the ranks of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to 590,000 soldiers, and since the beginning of the special military operation, this figure has exceeded 1 million soldiers, the head of the Russian General Staff’s Main Operational Directorate, Sergey Rudskoy, said in February.
⭕ 🇺🇸 Trump administration to fire all local workers, diplomats in the final push to disband USAID, a report says

USAID’s human resources office informed regional bureaus during a conference call that layoff notices would be issued to over 10,000 locally hired foreign nationals and about 600 US diplomats with the layoffs set to take effect in August, a British media outlet said, citing people familiar with the matter.

“This is definitely the final closing out,” the report quoted one of the former senior USAID officials as saying.

The US Department of State informed Congress of its plan to take over certain functions of USAID and phase out the remaining ones by July 1, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last Friday.

Following Rubio’s announcement, thousands of USAID employees received layoff notices. So far, over 5,000 programs have been terminated as part of efforts to reduce federal spending in response to the increasing budget deficit.
⭕❗️The Ukrainian military carried out a strike using drones on the Svatovo gas distribution station in the LPR, Luganskgaz reported
⭕ 🌍🇺🇸 Reduction of US military presence in Africa is “a breath of fresh air,” says Malian official

As Trump appears to want to limit spending for the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), the continent should seize this opportunity, explained Adama Diabate, a Malian presidential advisor, in an interview with Sputnik Africa.

“This initiative to reduce the presence of AFRICOM in Africa itself benefits us. […] They’re not there to look us in the eye, not to help us; they’re there to guarantee the influence of these countries in our countries, to maintain control over our resources, our policies, and even our daily lives,” he stated.

The official drew a parallel with the elimination of USAID, which surprised many but proves to be beneficial.

“It was the vanguard of the US’s revolutionary policy. This structure was responsible for electoral frauds, coups, assassinations, and political manipulations,” he recalled. |media|
⭕ 🌍 Western interventions in Africa “perpetuate problems,” says Malian presidential advisor

A reduction in the United States Africa Command, reportedly under consideration by Trump, would give the continent time to “reorganize” so that foreign troops are no longer “imposed from the outside,” Adama Diabate told Sputnik Africa.

“Africans have understood many things that were hidden, that were once taboo, where they were made to believe that their so-called saviors were actually not their saviors but their executioners,” he emphasized.

A new awareness has emerged in the countries of the Alliance of Sahel States, an organization now synonymous with a “cultural and human renaissance” in Africa, according to the official.

“The peoples of these three countries have had enough of this terrorism orchestrated, funded, and armed by the West. They have awakened and are now dictating to their leaders what needs to be done, what the people want,” he noted.

Other countries, such as Russia and China, prioritize win-win exchanges, but Western policy aims to prevent them from thriving on the continent, concluded Diabate. |media|

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ The United States is threatening sanctions against the UN Human Rights Council over its proposed investigation into Israel.

Senators Brian Mast and Jim Risch have warned UN officials that Council members could face the same sanctions imposed on the ICC following a recent report accusing Israel of abuses against Palestinians.
⭕ Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar is traveling to Paris today to meet with his French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot. Discussions will focus on regional developments regarding Iran, Lebanon, and Syria, as well as the situation in Gaza and bilateral relations between Israel and France.
⭕ Netanyahu begins a four-day visit to Hungary on Thursday, defying an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court over allegations of war crimes in Gaza.

As a founding member of the ICC, Hungary is theoretically obligated to arrest and surrender anyone subject to a court order, but Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban made it clear during the invitation that Hungary would not comply with the order.

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕🇺🇸🇩🇰🇬🇱Danish Defense Minister Poulsen:

It is completely unrealistic to think that we could stop cooperating with the United States and purchasing its military equipment.
⭕ 🇨🇳🇹🇼 China continued its military exercises around Taiwan for a second day, escalating tensions with live-fire exercises in the East China Sea.

Codenamed “Strait Thunder-2025A,” the exercises simulate precision strikes and blockades targeting ports and infrastructure.
⭕ 🇦🇺🇨🇳🇺🇸 Australia is increasing its defense budget and rethinking its defense plans as strategic competition between the United States and China intensifies in the Indo-Pacific region.

The government announced plans to invest AU$50 billion (US$32 billion) in defense over ten years. Defense spending is expected to reach 2.4% of GDP by 2033-34.

Defense spending is expected to increase from AU$55 billion in 2024-25 to AU$100 billion in 2033-34.
WSJ!
⭕ The Trump administration has imposed new sanctions on six Chinese officials for human rights violations in Hong Kong and Tibet.

The targets include Hong Kong Police Commissioner Raymond Siu and Justice Minister Paul Lam.

This decision marks a shift in the priority given to human rights in US-China policy.

China condemned the sanctions, calling them interference.
WSJ!

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ ‼️ No Cards to Play

Trump is now finding out the US has zero leverage to employ against Putin.

Russia is dictating the terms of US/NATO/Ukraine capitulation, and will continue to do so.
[links his older:
“I am not at all persuaded these bilateral US/Russia negotiations will proceed as smoothly as many seem inclined to believe.

In fact, I think it likely these talks will result in the most dramatic and tension-packed escalation of the US/Russia standoff we have yet seen.”]
🔻 dashfixer: At least someone is trying to do something other than go to war, it’s a refreshing change as far as I’m concerned.
🔻 WS: Even as we speak, the US continues to mass a very large air and naval force to the Middle East, while issuing edicts and threats of massive destruction against Iran — terms the Iranians have summarily dismissed.

Meanwhile, the US/NATO continue to directly facilitate and effectively “pull the trigger” on strikes against Russia.

Sounds an awful lot like war to me.
🔻 Tabby: Will check this :
[links:
🔻 Tymofiy Mylovanov: “NYT reports Ukrainian HIMARS strikes on Russia were directly coordinated from a U.S. military base in Germany.

This reveals Ukraine’s dependence on U.S. support was far deeper than I realized.” |link|]
🔻 WS: This has long been known. I wrote about it repeatedly at least as early as the summer of 2022.

There was already abundant evidence of these facts at that time. Many analysts knew this to be true, and talked / wrote about it.

The NYT article is a post hoc CYA gambit.
🔻 The Surgeon: Will, will Russia aid directly Iran in case of a US attack?
🔻 WS: Not sure what you mean by “aid directly”.

But my oft-quoted essay below addresses that question in general terms.
📜 All for One and One for All
🔻 The Surgeon: It does need an update reflecting the current state of the empire. Self inflicted economic damage is bigger than imagined
🔻 joe blank: In this one particular area, I’d be willing to entertain the thought that Russia and the US are cooperating behind the scenes. Do I have a problem with it? Heck no! Ukraine is my enemy. It doesn’t represent American values at all nor do we have any reason to waste resources on it
🔻 WS: Despite everything that is now publicly acknowledged, few yet understand that this entire war has been the US/NATO versus Russia.

For the Russians, the US/NATO are the enemy. There is no deal to be made, except capitulation to Russian terms, including withdrawal to 1997 borders.
🔻 Martin L. Zinn: That is what Lavrov has said repeatedly, if anyone cares to listen, the Russians have been yielding and accommodating for far too long, they are well aware of the number of times they have been lied to. After all the lives lost there is no way Russia is going let it happen again.
🔻 blindpig/1966: So much for being the president that will end the war and restore peace.
[what can one say to those who still believe in western elections and the promises of politicians?? Just go and vote for Orange 3.0 too while at it dear lemming, provided CONUS exists by then]
🔻 BenLayZenji: We are governed by the criminally insane.
🔻 Brian: How about no reimbursement to the ECB, through the IMF if Europe (especially Germany) doesn’t stop funding Russia’s war machine by purchasing their oil (energy) for the EU….. no cards, you say 🤔
🔻 WS: My first reaction is that I don’t believe you are accurately discerning the meaning of what I think you’re trying to say. But it’s quite possible I just don’t “get it”.

Explain it to me as though I were a child, then perhaps we can unravel the tangled threads.
[yeah, like that criminal captain of industry said to his young analyst – explain it as if i were a young child or a golden retriever..]
🔻 Brian: The EU is essentially broke. The European Central Bank (ECB) which is run through Germany, constantly bails out other members of the EU, which are not financially solvent. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in turn, reimburses the ECB. The United States currently contributes the largest amount to the IMF which is roughly 17% of IMF’s budget & gives the USA the largest voting power among all countries (approx. $155 Billion) – Germany & EU are heavily dependent on imported fossil fuels from Russia (by trade value: 24.8% of petroleum oil, 48% of pipeline gas, 47.9% of coal) – therefore, basically funding the Russian war machine, while posturing against Russia at the same time through NATO – The EU & NATO can’t have it both ways, while expecting the U.S. to keep contributing to the IMF, bailing them out financially… those are strong cards to hold, and there are options to get everyone to capitulate. (Not trying to argue with anyone, just trying to point out that there’s still plenty of room for diplomacy) based on the purse 👍 🇺🇸
🔻 WS: You appear underinformed.

Europe is NOT buying energy from Russia. They’re buying it via third parties: India, Turkey, and other smaller players.

These energy flows cannot be impeded.

Europe isn’t funding “Russia’s war machine”. They’re filling the pockets of middlemen.
[and the combined West is a single team that remains hellbent on subjugating and dismembering Russia and all other independent poles to this minute. All legerdemain and dissembling and seeming offers of negotiation further this single objective and civilizational mission]
🔻 Brian: I’m just the messenger here, I guess London is lying now?… 🤔 |link|
🔻 WS: Of course, London always lies. It’s their special talent.

But that is beside the point. Even if the specific claim made by London IS true, it is a non sequitur. It does not support the broad argument that “Europe is funding the Russian war machine”.
🔻 Nemac: But this would be completely contradictory to what US is aiming for, which is delegation of responsibility for Ukraine war to the EU, by forcing them to spend more on their military. This move would either deindustrialize EU completely, or have them abandon Ukraine project.
🔻 Nemac: This doesn’t seem like a “card against Putin”. it’s more a “card against EU”, which would be nonsense. Even if(big if) Russia scales down military production due to this, they would still vastly overpower NATO in Ukraine, so not much use in doing so.
🔻 WS: I must simply repeat again what I have been saying for years: the consequences of this failed US/NATO war against Russia in Ukraine will include the dissolution of NATO as a credible military / political alliance, and the EU as a credible political / monetary union.
🔻 ScipioIndicanus: The EU is spending more buying a smaller amount of Russian LNG than it spent buying Russian gas through the pipelines from Russia. It is hurtling the EU towards total bankruptcy. Industries are bolting to Asia en masse.
[I haven’t followed the ongoing collapse in EU too closely.. but if this is true, that the majority of their dying industries, the larger ones anyhow, rushed to ASIA rather than to CONUS (original intent by Zio-USUK), then it is poetic justice. They didn’t count on the malice of vindictive EUroCrazies to avenge themselves of those they now recognize too late of having murdered their prosperity in perpetuity, by fleeing in opposite direction, rather than circling bandwagons within the Beautifully Poisonous Garden..]
🔻 JC: This logic appears to b a word game. Europe is still buying Russian oil, just from India, etc, as the middlemen. India buys the Russian oil, refines it & sells to Europe. Still seems to me that Europe is funding Russia’s war.
🔻 WS: The total amount of Russian energy export profits represented by third-party sales to Europe is a minor fraction of Russia’s income.

But it doesn’t matter anyway. Because there is nothing the US et al. can do to stop it.
🔻 Wasteinc: Most probably diesel. In 22 EU had a deficit of 1mln barrels of diesel every day that they bought from Russia. As the demand didn’t disappear and new distilled capacity doesn’t appear by magic, they started buying it from india
[and US in CONUS is similarly dependent on Russia for that missing capacity of diesel… which fuels all the trucks essential to moving cargo and food nationwide on just-in-time mad policy without any margins]
🔻 The Poets Of Zwan ⭕️🪶🏴‍☠️: Trump’s negotiations with Russia are Minsk 3. Designed to stall for time and allow European leaders time to get a battle plan together. While Trump and USA handle war with Iran. Europe will take lead in Euro theatre while USA saves Israel. It’s looking ominous folks. WW3 incoming
🔻 WS: As much as I think @BrianJBerletic is a great analyst, I consider his “division of labor” thesis fatally flawed for the simple reason that Europe has no meaningful capability to “take the lead” in anything.

Militarily, European NATO is a pathetic empty shell compared to Russia.
🔻 The Poets Of Zwan ⭕️🪶🏴‍☠️: As I see it. Taking the lead = They’ll take the lead on being cannon fodder. The USA will still run the campaign but will use European troops to do the dirty work while the USA provides weapons, spec ops, training and intelligence while Europe converts to a full time war economy.
🔻 WS: Silly talk, imo.

There are no European troops, or US/NATO weaponry and equipment, and most of all, no credible WILL to do any of the things you list above.

Most certainly, there is no “Europe converts to a full-time war economy” card to play. It cannot and will not happen.
[yep, but they will still do it, as with the Murder-Suicide against Persia. Dumb and Dumber. And in both fronts the pirates will seek to compensate with gadgets and other “force-multipliers”. Proudly wearing the Black Hats, as did Caligula and other demons of lore]
🔻 The Poets Of Zwan ⭕️🪶🏴‍☠️: Why so confident?
🔻 Bob Hope: Because Europe doesn’t have the capability, they don’t have the equipment nor can they produce equipment fast enough.

Most of the stuff they have that works is already in Ukraine.
🔻 The Poets Of Zwan ⭕️🪶🏴‍☠️: That’s what a war time economy means. You drop everything and prepare for war. No more healthcare, education, the vaunted European social safety net. All goes away and every last euro goes towards war and converting diaper factories into munition factories.
🔻 WS: “One can’t believe impossible things.”

“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

It’s all delusional fantasy.
🔻 The Poets Of Zwan ⭕️🪶🏴‍☠️: Was the Queen speaking from a Judeo-Christian perspective or something else entirely? Does the Queen think the Judeo-Christian Empire is going to lay down its empire without a fight? Where does her confidence come from? Is she the Queen of light or darkness? These may matter.
[excellent Questions! And to ask is to understand the subject]
🔻 James Jos. Kroeger: The hilarious/stupid aspect of this posturing is Trump’s Empire managers actually imagine there are some “punishments” of Russia that Joe Biden’s team of Russia Haters overlooked or were reluctant to impose on Russia because they lacked the guts to impose them… 😂
🔻 Tabby: Nato trying very hard to make Russia hit them outside of Ukraine, Putin not falling for it but taking some heavy hits
🔻 WS: Oh, I don’t think the Russians are “taking some heavy hits” at all. A few pin pricks here and there; a few minor flesh wounds.

They will avenge themselves in due time.
📜 Patiently Waiting to Strike

⭕ ‼️ The US Military Could Not Project Decisive Power Against China In Its Adjacent Seas

Professor James Holmes from the US Naval War College delivered this presentation last week. I believe he measured his words carefully to avoid the charge of defeatism.

But a discerning interpretation of his arguments essentially boils down to: the US military lacks the firepower and the logistical wherewithal to project decisive power against China in its adjacent seas.

Of course, those who have followed me for any length of time know that I have been making this argument for several years now.

I want to particularly commend Dr. Holmes for adding his highly credentialed voice to my longstanding ridicule of John Mearsheimer’s misinformed argument that Chinese military power is markedly inferior to that of the United States.
🧵 How to Lose A Carrier Strike Group in An Afternoon
[see leading YT video above, entitled, “NWC Issues in National Security, Lecture 5 “China and Zombies””]
🔻 Unwelcome Thought: I viewed the video and Holmes comments

Then the Mearsheimer book Holmes cites.
I researched publication date as best I could
( there were update(s) from the original )

It appears the Publication Date April 7, 2014

I do not know why Holmes would cite a 2014 edition.
🔻 WS: Possibly so. But I myself, within the previous two years, have heard Mearsheimer express virtually the same sentiments regarding Chinese military capabilities.

Mearsheimer has been a China-hater for as long as I’ve been following him (at least 10 years).
🔻 Adam Waite: Chinese military power is markedly inferior to that of the United States.

However, the US probably does not have such a large advantage that it can project that power across the Pacific AND win decisively.
🔻 WS: There is zero objective evidence that Chinese military power is “markedly inferior” to that of the US. It is nothing more than an assumption held by many — rather similar to the now powerfully disproven assumption that Iran couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn with its missiles.
🔻 Adam Waite: The PLA has not been decisive in its confrontations with India, let alone the US.

PLAN has been non-existent during the Red Sea crisis, despite its own ships and goods being threatened.

They have impressive numbers on paper, but operationally, they’re untested.
🔻 WS: Untested <> “markedly inferior”

And every item on your list above could be easily restated to apply to the US military, which has not been tested in a major power war for over 70 years. In fact, it has failed to decisively win ANY war since WW2.
🔻 Adam Waite: PLAN is untested. PLA is unimpressive, unless you consider the Indian army to be a peer of the US.
🔻 WS: The US Navy is untested. The US Army is unimpressive, unless you consider the Taliban to be a peer of the US.

See how that works?

And besides, the only China/India conflict I can recall in recent memory was fought with sticks and stones. Hardly representative of modern battle.
[no not just with sticks and stones on the frozen roof of the world. They also used bamboo swats, corded rope and spit. And good tea together afterwards in a civilized spirit!]
🔻 PS: This man does not know a thing. China not fighting Indian army (border disputes) is because they don’t want a full scale war – but in afew little skirmishes, they had the upper hand.
🔻 DLayd: I get your critiques, criticisms of many aspects of US foreign policy, defense policy, etc

So much is off base, short sighted, corrupt and delusional.

Is the CCP is open to criticism too?

I ask since you haven’t aired them
🔻 WS: There is no shortage of commentators with lots to criticize about China.

You are welcome to do so yourself.
⭕🔻 Thomas Fazi: Moscow says the US ceasefire proposal is unacceptable “in its current form”. I wrote the following two months ago — and I was really hoping to be wrong this time.
🔻 WS: reposts:
“I am not at all persuaded these bilateral US/Russia negotiations will proceed as smoothly as many seem inclined to believe.

In fact, I think it likely these talks will result in the most dramatic and tension-packed escalation of the US/Russia standoff we have yet seen.”
🔻 Lavr Dyogtev 🇳🇿 🇷🇺 ✝️ Bot. blocked instantly: When the conflict started, Russia was crystal clear about its goals. Not once anywhere have I seen a back down or reduction in those goals. The Russians are going to accept a deal that meets those requirements, nothing less. The west simply refuses to hear the clear message.
🔻 WS: 📜 In for a Pound
⭕ retweets his older:
🔸️The US has spent 16 months, 5 carrier strike groups, mountains of hard-to-replenish and extraordinarily expensive precision weaponry — and yet the Yemeni remain the gatekeepers of the Bab el-Mandeb.

It’s one of the most humiliating battles in American military history.

‼️ The US declares its intent to play whack-a-mole with the Yemenis “for as long as it takes”.

Stupid is as stupid does.

#TheBigAttrition accelerates.
🔻 Lord Harvey Birdman Esq. 𓅃: Sorry to burst everyone’s bubble but the US does not want to win against the Houthis, or lose. They could just stop the ships of weapons going to Oman where they buy from, but would rather have the Houthis armed for another forever war, more profits to the war lobby
🔻 WS: The world in which that argument may have once had merit no longer exists. There are no easy wars left to fight. The wars in which the US is now involved are consuming American strength MUCH faster than it can be replenished. This is leading to a rapid collapse of US hegemony.
⭕ cont. thread:
For the first time in his long and often tawdry existence, Trump is gleefully living the ultimate Thug’s Life.
🔻 Bahar: What could be Trump’s real plan for Iran?
🔻 WS: Trump has no “real plan”. He makes it up as he goes along. That has always been his modus operandi.
[nooooo. As Putin said, there is continuity of government and mission in the imperial core. If most do not yet recognize it, it is they are deceived by the smoke and din, which smothers the layout of the forest. An orange actor at the end of the day is just that – a sad specimen of an orange actor. Will refuses to see those willfully suiciding his entire civilization]
🔻 carlos fitzcarraldo: Do you think he is really going to prosecute a war against Iran? I am struggling with this… He says no more wars, and that he is a man of peace, but then he rallies against Iran which would be a war to end all wars…
⭕ 🤔 I consistently imagine things I foresee will happen faster than they actually do.

But eventually they actually do.

This is one of my favorite essays that relatively few people ever read.

<sigh>
📜 Bleeding the Beast
⭕ 🔸 I’ve watched gold very closely for over a decade now. I cannot recall a period when the dips were more relentlessly bought than they have been for many months now.

Even the not-so-smart money is now aggressively accumulating the ancient store of value.

#GoldKnowsThings
🔻 Rolf Shmidt: It doesn’t take a genius to see that gold will keep appreciating considering we borrow 30% of our yearly budget. Each year we add 2000 billions to our debt…..These days 8 gold coins is enough to buy a four year college education at a state university….
⭕🔻 Victor The Cleaner: Geopolitics in one tweet: Almost all the cheap to produce oil (and natural gas) is located on the Eurasian continent.
🔻 Victor The Cleaner: Monetary policy in one tweet: Gold and oil never flow in the same direction (Another).
🔻 WS: Please elaborate on this point.
🔻 Victor The Cleaner: Why would the major resource exporters (classic example Saudis, but today also Russia, to lesser extent Iran, Iraq, Qatar) run a trade surplus at all? Even if they import whatever they like for their living standard, that’s still possible with a balanced trade account.
🔻 Victor The Cleaner: Trade surplus ultimately means (after some direct investments, buying influence, buying overseas real estate) that they accumulate financial claims against foreigners. Oil in the ground will still be useful in 100 years. Dollars in the bank? Not so certain.
🔻 Victor The Cleaner: Traditionally these resource exporters accepted “eternal” gold for oil that could as well remain in the ground. The US actually used to mint some fot that very purpose. |link|
[I’m reminded of what bankrupted, in addition to Forever Wars, the Roman and the British Empires – lust for Chinese silk, tea, china, and other “essentials” of “civilized high life” that required seas of ever dwindling hard silver. And with USD nearing shelf life, what will the broke and resource-poor use??]
🔻 Victor The Cleaner: Of course, “Oil and gold never flow in the same direction” was the famous “opening post” of Another back in 1997, for that very reason. At the bottom of this link – watch out inverse chronological order. |link|
🔻 WS: I confess I have only ever read a small sample of the “Another” and “Friend of a friend” stuff. I don’t understand its origins or full context.
⭕ retweet:
‼️ “DOGE”

For the record:

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

It’s nothing but an illusory bone thrown to the gullible masses.
⭕‼️ This thread was brought to my attention again tonight. I think there are a few very important-to-understand concepts discussed in it vis-a-vis Iran and its strategic objectives.
[links his older:
🔻 WS: “‼️ So, the Iranians punched a hole in the roof of one F-35 shelter, and carefully placed two more strikes right next to two shelters in a different group.

Some will say they “missed” on 2 out of 3. Highly unlikely. They hit exactly where they were aiming, and Israel knows it.”]
🔻 C1: What shall be the sense of such demonstrations? Obviously the colony is not impressed.
They better take out the instruments of the Gaza and Beirut slaughter instead of demonstrating „we could if we wanted“.
🔻 WS: Iran is not a superpower. It is a rising power. It has limitations. It must act within the constraints of those limitations. It must also act to preserve its defensive capabilities. It does not want to start a big war. It wants to deter the US/Israel from starting a big war.
🔻 C2: What if Israel USA want to start a big war?
🔻 WS: If they start a big war against Iran, they will kill many people, expend most of their precision strike weapons, lose dozens of aircraft, lose their military bases in the region, and ultimately lose the war in a more humiliating fashion than either country has ever experienced.

💠@Seyed Mohammad Marandi:
⭕ That is not enough. US bases serve many functions. In case of aggression, they would all be considered fully complicit.
[for example, they host radars which track & target Iran, other spying features, and electronic warfare.. etc etc. Consider them already goners, Gone like Rhett]
⭕ Then, French leaders should start purchasing mules and donkeys. In case of war, there won’t be any more oil or gas from the Arabian Peninsula or the Caucasus.
[in response of French FM bleating today about “military confrontation almost inevitable, if nuclear talks fail”]
⭕All those Western “journalists” who spread lies about “beheaded babies” and “mass rapes” did so to justify the #GazaHolocaust.

They are complicit in the slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinian children.

Hell awaits them. |media|
⭕ retweet:
“Trump claims “the Houthis” (Ansar Allah) are “hated by the Yemeni people.” This couldn’t be further from the truth, says @s_m_marandi:

They’ve gained “enormous soft power, not just in the region but even beyond” for intervening to stop Israel’s genocide by blockading the Red Sea” |media|
⭕ In other words, Trump is searching for an off-ramp.
[links:
🔻 The Spectator Index: “JUST IN: Axios reports that the White House is ‘seriously considering’ an Iranian proposal for indirect nuclear talks”]
⭕ One by one, pro-American Arab dictators are reaching out to Iranian leaders.

They know what will happen to these client regimes if Trump attacks Iran.

Simply hosting U.S. troops and bases makes them complicit—whether their airspace is used or not.

Iran will be unforgiving.
⭕ Iran’s former Parliament Speaker, who serves as the Leader’s advisor and special envoy, has warned that any US or Zionist attack on Iran’s nuclear sites would force Iran to develop nuclear weapons.

He said Iran does not want to do this but will be forced into such a position.

Dr. Larijani added that Iran’s nuclear capability cannot be “set back” by any aggression, as Iran has already taken measures to prevent this. |media|
[iow, the Murder-Suicide remains in effect. Keep that in mind. What Orange & Effluvia really decide is the timing of their own suicide, no more, no less]
🔻 Furkan Gözükara: Why Iran is not purchasing nukes already? That is the ultimate deterrent for war
🔻 MM: Rest assured—Iran has everything it needs. Trump knows exactly what will happen in case of aggression. There is no defense against Iran’s retaliation.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 World Food Programme: UPDATE:

• All 25 WFP-supported bakeries in #Gaza have shut down due to lack of fuel and flour.
• Hot meals are continuing, but supplies will last two weeks maximum.
• WFP will distribute its last food parcels in the next two days.

🔻 Aaron Maté: Israel is starving Gaza
⭕ retweet:
🔻Kevork Almassian: Julani’s terror army killed this man’s four nephews, slit open his son’s chest, and took out his heart.

The genocide continues in Syria |media|
[this is ostentatious barbarism, seeking to panic all arabs in Syria out of Syria. To create “a land without a people, for a people without a land.”]
⭕ retweet:
🔻Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil: 🏆 Jeffrey Sachs Should Be A Nobel Prize Winner

AWESOME

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: I’m speaking of Netanyahu.
He is a mass murderer.
He is a killer.
He commits war crimes.
And he has control over American foreign policy and over American domestic policy now. That’s the fact. The U.S. government is run by Israel, by the Israeli government. Why and how, it’s a little hard to say, but it is the unbelievable fact that this brazenness, this recklessness, this cruelty, this arrogance from this extremist Israeli government controls American policy vis-a-vis speech in the United States now. It’s shocking but true. |media|
⭕ retweet:
🔻Rebecca Chan: The collective West is a continuation of the European colonialists who were white supremacists and practiced white supremacy in their colonies. They never looked at non-Europeans as humans like themselves. This is why genocides come so easily to them |media|
⭕🔻asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل: This candidate won.
[same fat Floridian Randy Fine above, who made it into Congress, courtesy of Orange’s endorsement. Birds of a flock..]
🔻MM: The US is a very sick and sinister country.
[but the Republicans bring refreshing clarity, as during the Cheney regime. The world shall draw lessons, with ever accelerating alacrity]
⭕ retweet:
🔻AIPAC Tracker: AIPAC’s Randy Fine calls for 5 year prison sentences for distributing anti-Israel flyers, calling it a hate crime: |media|
🔻David J. Reilly 🇺🇸: Free speech in this country is dead, and the Zionists killed it.

God help us.

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel is bombing Damascus now, in particular the research centre at Barzah.
[about 9 hours ago. This appears the same MIC targetted repeatedly. To ensure Syria remains disarmed and primitive, reliant on external voentorgs..]
⭕ Israel has separated Gaza into 4 passages (corridors), cutting the Strip from the east to the west on the coast, so it can divide Gaza into sectors and attack each one independently. It has separated Rafah from Khan Younis where the occupation forces are conducting daily attacks.
[this appears tactics to speed up extermination of civilians above ground. The actual fighting units of Palestinians cannot be dislodged from underneath. And each control their territory in independent cells. So perhaps a mechanism to increase terror and desperation of civilians, who can no longer flee out of an area being bombed?? This decreases immunity strength, and resultant disease uptake and death. It is also like herding prey into ever tighter corners, increasing the killing efficiency]
⭕ After bombing Damascus, Israel also bombed Hama and the T4 airport, challenging Turkey, which was/is planning to establish a military air base at the same bombed airport.
⭕ The US is bombing Saada and Hodeida in Yemen. So far, the US, on behalf of Israel, has carried out over 200 air strikes on Yemen to facilitate the passage of Israeli goods, which Ansar Allah is preventing unless Israel respects international law and stops the war crimes and crimes against humanity it is committing by imposing a starvation and humanitarian siege on the Strip. The US has failed to deter Ansar Allah, although Washington claims to have “destroyed the Houthis”… far from it.
[the genocidal rampage by Zio-USUK is off the scale! The demented bloodlust. Just kill, kill, kill]

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸⚔️🇾🇪US warplanes bomb the Ras Isa Terminal in Hodeidah Governorate, west of Yemen. Casualties reported.
[Ras Isa is the sea terminus of Yemen’s main oil pipeline, going from Marib to the coast just north of Hodaidah. Also where the commandeered zionazi “Galaxy Leader” cargo ship was taken, hosting tourists, weddings and whatnot, before Temple Mount Hegseth had it bombed.

btw, Ras Isa means “the Head of Jesus” in Arabic! One of first nations to readily accept both Christianity and Islam were Yemenis. The People of the Trench were Christians, Gaza’ed by a crazed Jewish king, subsequently avenged by Abyssinian Orthodox at behest of Constantinople. How History repeats. Some of most ancient christian and Jewish communities continue to this day in Yemen.. now the barbarians massacre the semitic kin of jesus in the holy land and his head in Yemen. what days]
⭕ Some people might wonder why isn’t Russia on the [new Tariffs] list. This could be because:

1. There’s a lack of significant trade turnover: The Trump administration has focused on countries with large trade surpluses with the United States. Russia is not one of them, since the volume of bilateral trade is insignificant.

2. Sanctions and existing restrictions: The United States has long imposed a large number of sanctions against Russia. Additional duties could duplicate or complicate existing measures.

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Bro imposed tariffs on an iceberg
⭕️ — 🇺🇸 NEW: The S&P 500 index, a representation of the U.S. stock market and the top 500 companies, declined by almost 4% immediately after the implementation of Trump’s tariffs, marking a new 6-month low
⭕ — 🇺🇸 NEW: Trump has imposed 10% reciprocal tariffs on the ‘Heard and McDonald Islands’, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean with a population of 0, but a large penguin and endangered bird population

💠@BhadraPunchline:
⭕ What a bombshell from Shang Yang who is known to be a reliable interpreter of Chinese policies and perspectives, grounded on facts!
[links:
🔻 Zichen Wang: “This unusual (manufacturing partnership) initiative was proposed by Xi, and showed significant political will and policy commitment…In September 2019, I helped to coordinate the sixth India-China Strategic Economic Dialogue.” |link|
🔻 Shang Yang: Has anyone studied the cause and timeline of the 2020 border conflict? My feeling is that the Indian military under the instigation of the Americans provoked the conflict to disrupt Modi’s neutralist China policy”]
[note the timeline. Around detonation of C-19 Op. This war bet/ China-India was supposed to be on by now. Then USA would enter around 2027 to mop up China. May explain viciousness of Indian tariffs at almost 30%.. the best laid plans of the Moshiach!]
🔻 Manish r Paudel: Yes and provoked Nepali ‘leaders’ to start a border conflict and a new Map issue to provoke India and blamed it on China.
🔻 MAC-1: doklam issue near tri junction of India,china and bhutan
⭕🔻 Zlatti71:
“I am particularly concerned about the behavior of the UN Secretary-General” — Lavrov

“Whoever he may be, and he is a Portuguese citizen, he has spent half his life working in international organizations and should understand what the UN Secretary-General is under Article 100 of the Charter. It states: not to take any instructions from any government, to maintain neutrality, and to pursue only one thing – the fulfillment of the UN Charter’s goals. Yet A. Guterres, speaking at a ceremony dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, did not once mention the Red Army, even though the day of remembrance for those victims was established based on the feat of the Red Army soldiers. This is a sad trend,” he emphasized. |link|
🔻 MKB: This is what happens when the UN Security Council endorses the choice by the US to put small men with no spine or imagination in big jobs that are way beyond their capabilities and mediocre minds to handle.
⭕ Putin is keen on establishing a good personal rapport with Trump and anchor a meaningful US-Russia partnership, realistic enough to accept that Trump is as good an American president as Russia would ever get, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. |link|

2/4 I had anchored my article on certain unpublished remarks by Russian President Vladimir Putin, based on Moscow grapevine, which, interestingly, the authoritative Russian journal has now printed confirming its veracity. The past 3 days have since witnessed tumultuous events.

3/4 Russia may be increasingly left with no option but to press ahead for a military victory and impose a settlement on own terms. The politico-military axis between Kiev and the Europeans (especially Britain’s MI6) and President Trump’s policy inertia to call out that axis

4/4 whose primary objective is, ironically, to undermine and derail his nascent normalisation process with Russia, is poised to take Ukraine endgame in an epochal direction in the coming weeks/months that would draw comparison with the Red Army’s historic drive to Berlin in WW2.
⭕ Yes, messaging a special relationship.
links:
🔻 Brian McDonald: So much for the “Trump will attend the Victory Day parade” rumors—Putin just confirmed that Xi Jinping will be the main guest in Moscow on May 9. Marking 80th anniversary of defeat of Nazi Germany in WW2.

Full state visit. Big signal. |link|
⭕ 1/6 IMPORTANT… Excerpts of Russian Foreign Ministry press release after meeting in Moscow on Wednesday between DFM Sergey Lavrov and Iranian counterpart Takht-Ravanchi:

2/6 “Detailed discussion took place on situation around Iranian nuclear program “with an emphasis on possible joint steps to stabilise & reduce tensions artificially and unreasonably fomented by Western countries… to manipulate the authority & verification capabilities of IAEA

3/6 “The sides stressed the illegality & inadmissibility of use of military force by Iran’s opponents … and unacceptability of outside threats to bomb Iran’s nuclear energy infrastructure,

4/6 “which will inevitably lead to large-scale & irreversible radiological and humanitarian consequences for the entire Middle East region and the world as a whole.

5/6 “The course set at the Russian-Chinese-Iranian high-level consultations in Beijing on March 14 was confirmed to seek viable, sustainable negotiated solutions that would eliminate Western prejudices and misunderstandings

6/6 “regarding the Iranian nuclear program, while taking due account of Tehran’s legitimate right to peaceful uses of atomic energy arising from Iran’s participation in the NPT.”
⭕1/3 Russian MFA press release following consultations in Moscow on Wednesday at DFM level conveys that Russia will not remain passive – notwithstanding ongoing US-Russia negotiations over Ukraine, et al — in the event of any (US-Israeli) attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

2/3 It recalls joint Russian-Chinese-Iranian stance on Iran Question, which underscores Tehran’s legitimate rights under NPT to have a nuclear programme and rejects any coercive moves by the West;

3/3 It stresses “close coordination” between Moscow & Tehran. Although there is no direct reference yet to recent Russian-Iranian security treaty, Tass had reported last week that Putin has sought Duma’s ratification for the document, which is mandatory for its legal validity.
[as noted by WS iirc, there are also Russian specialists and workers at Iran’s russian-built nuclear reactors.. Russkie would not be pleased to have Russkie civvies nuked or killed with deliberation by the mutual enemy.. and as even brushed off by Lavrov last week, it is silly to even expect compliance by Iran with Orange’s “letter” that they (1) stop ALL nuclear research, (2) disarm themselves of their ballistic missile program and (3) end support for Resistance fronts, which are all outside the remit of the nuclear file altogether. iow, Orange’s letter was an ultimatum and terms of surrender in the mold of Austria-Hungary to Serbia just prior to WW1]

☝️ Nima: “Iranians live better than Brazilians”
Scotty is feeding imperial psyops, witting or not, that a decapitation of Persia will facilitate regime change. Thereby greasing war. But the reality is that, as with Ansarullah, Hezbollah, and Hamas in Gaza, the Iranian elite have done decent job spreading the wealth and safeguarding the basics of the people. So the people are with them. There isn’t the criminal disparity of wealth in elite-common man seen in West, or Gulf dictatorships, or even in former Baathist Syrian regime which doomed them. Iran has resiliency. All that an external aggression will accomplish is consolidate the nation

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇾🇪| The Yemeni Armed Forces today announced:

• Downing their 17th MQ-9 drone.

• Engaged in battles with US aircraft carrier Truman & support ships using missiles & drones.

💠 “US won’t leave NATO – Rubio“
☝️ The US is about to cut and run from the remains of NATO, long eviscerated and incinerated on the rich, fat, black soil of Holy NovoRossiya

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel killed 106 Palestinians today, including the bombing of a school where 30 children were killed & 100 wounded.

On the other hand, always on the same day today, the US carried out 36 air attacks on Yemen in support of Israel’s crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ cont thread:
🔸 I’ve watched gold very closely for over a decade now. I cannot recall a period when the dips were more relentlessly bought than they have been for many months now.

Even the not-so-smart money is now aggressively accumulating the ancient store of value.

#GoldKnowsThings
🔻 Tsurki: Maybe you don’t believe in this type of stuff but there is a very important Islamic prophecy about a mountain of gold appearing in modern day Iraq once water levels diminish in the Euphrates river. This will kick off one of the greatest wars of our time.

Scholars believe this gold may appear very soon as the Euphrates has dried to a very alarming level. I just find the timing interesting with how popular gold has become today.
[this is the literal interpretation also held by the salafis. Imran Hosein debunked this nonsense decades ago. An ocean of oil has functionally served as the mountain of gold (the PetroDollar) since 1973… this is the heart of the ongoing world war – the exorbitant privilege of the pirates to keep this free lunch in perpetuity. The Double Helix are stripping it from them, come what may]
🔻 WS: El Dorado Babylon.

Nebuchadnezzar will eat the grass of the field until he worships the Lord of Sabaoth.
⭕ 🎸 Long Time Gone

It is said the darkest hour is always just before the dawn.

It’s an old myth descended from antiquity.

Truth is the darkest hour comes at the dusk of empires. |media|
🔻 Over the Limit: Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is another Train
⭕ Maybe you think it’s a waste
This preoccupation with facts
You’re on your way to finer things
And you won’t be coming back
Me, I guess I’ll just watch it rain
Until the ark breaks loose
I’ll close the door behind me
And sing end of the world blues |media|
[not a good sign when he starts seeking solace in Song]
⭕ cont thread:
‼️ This thread was brought to my attention again tonight. I think there are a few very important-to-understand concepts discussed in it vis-a-vis Iran and its strategic objectives.
🔻 Heidi O’Brien 𓅅: Given the Israelis skill at assassination, if I were the Ayatollah or other top IRGC, I would think about taking refuge in the Russian embassy for awhile.
🔻 WS: Not likely.

And besides, downstream consequences are hard to envision.

There’s a reason that “the blood of martyrs” has for millennia been likened unto a seed. |media|

⭕🔻 Lord Bebo: 🇺🇸🇱🇹 The US armored engineer vehicle that sunk in Lithuania, with 4 US soldiers drowning … went past a “no tanks” sign.
🔻 Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵: Put up a picture of a tank with a line through it, and they still needed subtitles.

Guess someone dangled a Big Mac over the bog and Bubba went full commando into the swamp, like it was a drive-thru.

Proper numpties. 🤭😂
🔻 WS: Grok saw it happen. 😏 |media|
🔻 Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵: Proper trap. 👌😂
⭕ Apropos of nothing, I grew up with descendants of the Utah Smoots. They were always well-monied. Good folks, as far as I ever knew. But always well-monied.
[links:
🔻 Geiger Capital: “The overall weighted-average tariff is 29%.

The highest in over 100 years.
Bigger than Smoot-Hawley.”]
🔻 EddieLarry: Did they ever explain how they were able to hang onto their money during the depression?
[Balzac: “behind every great fortune there is a crime”. There ARE exceptions. Perhaps not in the Garden of the West though…..]

⭕ 🤔 I’m not a credentialed economist, by any means. But, for whatever it’s worth, I am also debt-free, with a high savings rate.

Explain to me, as though I were a child, what America makes — or could make anytime soon — that Asia wants to buy.
[links:
🔻 Geiger Capital: “This guy cracked the tariff formula:
@orthonormalist

It’s simply the nation’s trade deficit with us divided by the nation’s exports to us.

Yes. Really.

Vietnam: Exports 136.6, Imports 13.1
Deficit = 123.5

123.5/136.6 = 90%”]
🔻 silverbladeTE: To put it very simply, America used to export a lot of good stuff like tools & vehicles
And crucially, it exported *THE US DOLLAR!*
As World Reserve Currency everyone needed Dollars
Now everyone will drop the $ like a used condom at an orgy which will cause hyperinflation! |media|
🔻 WS: Fortunately, I still own a lot of American-made power tools by brands that have long-since been off-shored.
🔻 silverbladeTE: My Dad was head machinist in local factory, he used to have these awesome old hardbound leather books for tools from 1930s to 60s, like something you’d see in a museum 🙂
American tools were premium back in the day
It’s impossible to reindustrialize: too few skilled folk left 🙁
🔻 Spaceman 🇺🇲: Garage sale hunting should be a national pastime.
🔻 四维: This👇 |beauty|
🔻 WS: I’ve been there many times. It won’t fit in a shipping container. 😏
🔻 Skylarker: That’s basically the same reason the pyramids of Giza aren’t in the British museum. 😉
[comment of the day! Those dreamer and aesthetics-besotted Greeks shoulda built their marble statues and temple blocks to the proper Pharaonic standard]
🔻 C5: Nothing, that’s the point. Why are we trading with countries that have contribute no reciprocal value to our economy we are better off making our own stuff and perhaps they are to..
🔻 WS: Make our own stuff?!

If the US starts tomorrow to earnestly seek to “make its own stuff”, my grandchildren might see it happen when they have grandchildren of their own. But not any sooner.
🔻 Gee-Dunk: Weak, little dick mindset right there. Just sit back fella and let the real Americans handle this.
🔻 WS: “The real Americans”

Right.
[links:
🔻 Holden Culotta: “Mike Rowe: “For every five tradespeople that retire this year, two replace them.”

“It’s been that way for 12 years.”

“I don’t need to be a mathematician, this is bad arithmetic.”

“7.2 million able-bodied men today, in their prime working years, are not only unemployed … they’re not even looking.”

“What are they doing?”

“2,000 hours a year, on average, on screens.”

“I got a call from a company called BlueForge Alliance … in charge of something called the maritime industrial base.”

“The maritime industrial base consists of 15,000 individual companies, all of whom are tasked with delivering thermonuclear-powered submarines to the US Navy—three a year, two Virginia-class, one Columbia.”

“BlueForge Alliance calls me and they say, we need to hire some tradespeople, and we were wondering if you and your foundation could help.”

“I said, I’ll try, as you probably learned, it’s pretty skinny out there … how many do you need?”

“They said 100,000.”

“100,000 tradespeople for one industry that most people don’t even think about.”

“They said, we’ve looked everywhere … do you know where they are?”

“I said, yeah I do, they’re in the eighth grade.”

“That’s 100,000 building submarines. There’s 80,000 in the automotive industry alone for technicians. Right now … 80,000 openings.”

“You start to go down the list and you begin to realize our workforce is wildly out of balance.”” |words to wise|]
🔻 Bill Bottrell: True. It took us 45 years to dismantle the economic and spiritual boundaries of our nation. It will take decades to undo that.
🔻 EvaG: Won’t work. US manufacturers will jack up their prices to match the price of imports. American consumers won’t get any discounts buying American made stuff
🔻 Legiones Hadrianis: Not gonna happen. It would take a multi-generational cultural shift. Manufacturing base is more than just material and warm bodies. It’s skilled labor and work ethic, which we have little of.
🔻 The Nutter Projects: “If you want to trade your hard earned goods for some of our IOUs, you are going to have to pay for the privilege first.“

Tide-change incoming
🔻 Pleas Lucian: You’re trying to have rational, reality-based discourse with minds shaped by the myth of American exceptionalism. Failing infrastructure, a widening technical deficit, Chinese automation, potentially catastrophic economics… irrelevant next to good old fashioned gumption. |media|
🔻 Gee-Dunk: If you’re scared, say you’re scared
🔻 WS: Learn to weld.
🔻 Pleas Lucian: I realize this is the Internet and you don’t know me, but scared isn’t really my thing. I prefer prepared, which means dealing with reality. And the reality is that the present 🇺🇸 situation is fucked despite the predictable deluge of swashbuckling bravado.
[links his older:
“🇺🇸 is being effectively disemboweled as we speak. It’s an ossified husk with impotent institutions headed by banal, hedonistic, superficial, grifters. The bewildered masses will be the last to know.

Collapse is a process, not an event. Buckle up.

The political class is cannibalizing everything, including itself, in a textbook example of a system collapsing under the weight of its own internal contradictions.

The various stages appear to be occurring more or less simultaneously.”]
🔻 Pleas Lucian: Electricians are always relevant. My buddy Barry makes a fortune plumbing.
🔻 WS: People simply do not understand what has happened, let alone what can be done anytime soon to fix it. |media|
⭕‼️ Here is a dose of cold, hard reality for anyone out there who genuinely believes American reindustrialization is achievable in anything less than at least one generation, and more likely two or three.
[he reposts the same Mike Rowe clip just above]
🔻 C1: Lots of people would say your terms are acceptable.
🔻 WS: At the very least, they’re realistic.
🔻 C2: So let’s not do it. Never mind
🔻 WS: Just trying to temper expectations, friend. Pipe dreams are one thing. Reality is entirely another. A problem 2+ generations in the making cannot be fixed any faster than it took to cause it.
🔻 Decelerationist1: The bigger problem is CoL is through the roof and the insatiable greed of the owner class prevents them from taking less. If housing, food, energy, healthcare, and childcare all stay elevated but wages stagnate the working class is priced out of living. Too many rich parasites
[and perhaps that’s the point?? Depopulation is a cat being skinned many ways. Killary called us “deplorable.” Nuf said]
🔻 Karol_está_Castigada: It might take even a bit longer, since Trump and Elon Musk have just closed down the Education Department…
🔻 WS: To the contrary, that’s a major step in the right direction. |media|
[yes agreed. Dismantle all of it. Permit people to breath, innovate, and put the demented class down]
🔻 Carborundum Crew: Completely agree. We also need to stop the nonsense in education today that says every boy must do all academic subjects.

A large percentage would be happy doing a trade and should be encouraged to do so.
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: A short post about continuing dysfunction in the American military-industrial complex.

Recently the confusingly-designated OA-1K “Skyraider II” came to my attention, a military adaptation of a crop dusting workhorse that Air Tractor has been trying to sell for a decade now.⬇️

Some context – the Air Force has been kicking around the idea of buying some turboprop light attack aircraft for about twenty years now, has run multiple competitions (there’s only one serious contender in this market segment, the South American workhorse Super Tucano, but they legally can’t jut admit this and write Embraer a check), actually bought some aircraft for the Afghans… and has never quite managed to pull the trigger on adopting one themselves. The idea behind this is that such aircraft are cheap to operate and presumably adequate for undemanding counterinsurgency missions, and you can immediately see how this would run afoul of how the USAF runs its business.

Enter SOCOM, which has its own credit card and the authorization to operate its own fleet of fixed-wing aircraft quite separately from the “Big” Air Force. They went ahead and signed a contract with Air Tractor for 75 armed versions of their workhorse AT-802 crop duster aircraft, a fixed-wing aircraft with kinematics similar to those of a helicopter. Apparently these aircraft are intended to buzz around supporting the Green Berets with surveillance and light attack.

And this would be all well and good if we were having this discussion in 1975, because SOCOM is buying something similar to an OV-10 with a basically identical concept of operations. Problem is that things have moved along since then. There are other military operators of this aircraft – Egypt and Jordan, who likely purchased these things in a show of (relatively inexpensive) fealty to the United States rather than with a serious intention to use them in combat. The UAE appears to have purchased some a decade ago, used them lightly fighting the Houthis in Yemen, and then divested its fleet.

Militaries worldwide are not demanding this capability for a reason – it’s obsolete. If you run a third-world country dealing with insurgents and you want to kill them from the air, you buy drones from China or Turkey, not militarized crop dusters from the US. Also, AT drones are a thing now even in brushfire wars in Africa, and this aircraft is going to be tooling around low and slow through their engagement envelope. And of course it’s perfectly useless in any kind of high-intensity war.

However, there is a very clueless school of thought in otherwise well-informed Western military circles, based in rose-tinted institutional memory of Air America and Soldier of Fortune-era brushfire wars in Africa, holding that civilian light utility aircraft can be used to great effect in combat. Despite all evidence to the contrary and proven poor to mediocre performance even against the most unimpressive enemy forces, this idea has taken astonishingly deep root in some circles.

This thing is a waste of money. SOCOM needs to buy more Reapers if that’s the capability they want instead of investing in a flying meme.
🔻 WS: I did love to watch the crop duster pilots flying these over the cotton fields in Arizona – the way they would pull straight up right before getting to the power lines, and then gracefully slip back down in the opposite direction. It was beautiful.
[it is apparently true. A civilization built on totalen krieg and permanent Drangs against mankind has acquired much of its civilian tech through massacring tribals with flip flops on every continent. Most were unforeseen byproducts, cast down for their useless eaters]
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: This is a great example of main character syndrome.

It will actually have, at best, a marginal impact on China: exports to the U.S. represent less than 3% of its GDP.

It will however encourage the rest of the world to buy more from China in retaliation.
[links:
🔻 Tony Nash: 🇨🇳China can subsidize 10-20% tariffs for a few months. They CANNOT subsidize a 54% tariffs.

This will have COLOSSAL impacts on China.

They can’t fix domestic real estate, subsidize industries, build their military, fund the Belt & Road, etc, etc with this level of tariffs from their largest customer.]
🔻 Pacifique Tumu: @RnaudBertrand . China should experiment led consumption economy in top tier cities 1&2 by improving wages/salaries. No one should be working for less than $1500 in those cities . Other countries would want China to consume more than 🇺🇸 not just buying from China
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: That’s literally objective #1 in China’s economic planning right now
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: And for China to buy more from the rest of the world.
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Yup!
🔻 Kevin Hutchinson: Most Americans don’t know about the huge transformation in the Chinese economy to be largely self sufficient, probably in anticipation of exactly this scenario. And China can dump US bonds at any time. Dangerous game to play.
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Exactly
🔻 Peace-Monger: This is an opportunity for Europe and China to improve trade relations. Both export to US. They can instead sell to each other. China should expand import of European pharmaceuticals and specialized machinery in exchange for dropping EV sanctions and telecom restrictions
[Alas, Babylon! The EuroCrazies are one with the Dark Force. As ideological. The dream icon of Nebuchadnezzar had the last iteration of the Babylonian System as ten little toes of mixed iron and clay, precisely to emphasize the diversity (but united in Foreign Policy) of Legion. They remain fundamentally in agreement with Anglo-Zionists in the Last Drang against All. And this appears the division of labor: USA to seduce Russia (against Iran/China) and the EuroCrazies to seduce China (against the other two)]
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Looks like they share your thinking
[links:
🔻 Stock Talk: *China President Xi will meet with European leaders including France president, Spain pm, and EU president in Vietnam in the coming weeks amid rising global trade tensions over U.S. tariffs — Europe seeking greater intimacy with China & southeast Asia to offset U.S. reliance”]
⭕🔻 Russians With Attitude: These people are paid gazillions of dollars and have more medals than a Soviet Politburo member in 1982 and yet their entire strategy in estimating Russia’s military abilities was to count what is in the army right now, calculate an (exaggerated) rate of attrition and make up a date for when it will all be gone.

They genuinely did not entertain the thought that Russia is able to… make new things, or repair and refurbish old ones
🔻 WS: It was all misplaced projection. #TheBigAttrition is not what the US/NATO inflicted upon Russia, but rather upon themselves.
⭕🔥 Medvedev dropping FAB-3000s squarely on target.
links:
🔻 Medvedev: “Trump has roughly bent the global trading system over the table by imposing duties on nearly the entire world. The consequences will be global. Counter-tariffs will be imposed on goods from the United States. Old supply chains will be broken, but new ones will form.
And what about us?

Russia barely does any business with America anyway, or with the EU, for that matter: nearly all trade has been sanctioned. But we are still developing, and at a decent pace: for the first quarter of 2025, growth stands at about 3%. So, no need for knee-jerk reactions. According to Lao Tzu’s immortal advice, we should take a seat on the shore and wait for the enemy’s corpse to float by. In this case, the decaying corpse of the EU economy.”

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel is bombing al-Kiswa in rural Damascus, Syria. Israel falsely claims to “protect itself” when the Syrians are not fighting the occupation forces and are the ones subject to repetitive bombardment since Bashar al-Assad was removed from power.

💠@Angelo Giuliano 🇮🇹🇨🇭:
⭕ Top 30 Countries Exporting to the USA and Trade Dependency Analysis

Below is a list of the 30 largest exporters to the U.S., along with their export dependency on the U.S. market and the U.S.’s reciprocal export reliance on them. Data reflects approximate percentages based on recent trade patterns (pre-2023).

Rationale for U.S. Strength in Applying Tariffs and Coercion
1 Asymmetric Trade Dependence:
◦ Most countries rely far more on the U.S. market than the U.S. relies on theirs. For example:
▪ Mexico: 80% of its exports go to the U.S., but the U.S. sends only 16% of its exports there.
▪ Canada: 75% dependency vs. 18% U.S. export share.
◦ This imbalance gives the U.S. leverage to impose tariffs without facing proportional retaliation.
2 Market Size and Diversification:
◦ The U.S. is the world’s largest consumer market. Losing access is catastrophic for export-dependent economies (e.g., Vietnam, Taiwan).
◦ The U.S. can diversify imports (e.g., shifting from China to Southeast Asia), while smaller economies struggle to replace the U.S. as a buyer.
3 Economic Coercion Power:
◦ Tariffs inflict more pain on target countries. For instance, a 10% U.S. tariff on China impacts 1.7% of China’s GDP but only 0.1% of U.S. GDP.
◦ The U.S. uses this to force concessions (e.g., USMCA renegotiation with Mexico/Canada, Phase One deal with China).
4 Domestic Political Resilience:
◦ U.S. exporters are less vulnerable to foreign retaliation (e.g., only 8% of U.S. exports go to China). This reduces domestic opposition to tariffs compared to countries where exporters dominate politics.
5 Strategic Exceptions:
◦ Even in cases of mutual dependency (e.g., Taiwan’s semiconductors), the U.S. leverages security alliances to mitigate risks, while competitors lack alternatives.
6 Limited Collective Retaliation:
◦ Coordinated retaliation (e.g., EU or ASEAN) is rare due to divergent interests. The U.S. can negotiate bilaterally, exploiting divisions.

Conclusion
The U.S. holds a structurally dominant position in trade conflicts due to asymmetric dependencies, market size, and diversification capacity. Tariffs act as a coercive tool because the economic harm to target countries outweighs the costs to the U.S., enabling the U.S. to reshape trade terms in its favor.

💠@kuluary_zaliva (В кулуарах Залива):
⭕ Gulf States Avoid High Tariffs from Washington

The GCC countries have largely escaped the tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump. The tariffs for the UAE and Saudi Arabia were minimal, at just 10% . Other Arab countries were hit harder: Syria and Iraq faced tariffs of 41% and 39%, Libya will face a tariff of 31%, and Jordan will face a tariff of 20%.

As US foreign policy priorities, the UAE and Saudi Arabia would be unlikely to come under greater pressure from Trump . Regional experts say the tariffs will have some impact on the Gulf economies, but it will be minimal given the relatively low volume of bilateral trade between the US and the GCC members.

💠@ВИДЕО NEWS:
⭕ “Boykiy” and “Stoykiy” at exercises in the Baltic Sea.

The crews of the Baltic Fleet corvettes worked out elements of naval combat.

They also conducted training in combating unmanned boats |media|

💠@Arab_Africa:
⭕ Turkish Wagner Heads to Somalia

Turkey is set to send hundreds of Sadat personnel to Somalia in the coming weeks. Sadat is a private contractor for the Turkish Defense Ministry with a growing presence in Africa. It has been called the “Turkish Wagner” — a shadow army designed to protect Turkish interests abroad.
Last week, Somalia’s president requested 3,000 Sadat troops to help protect Mogadishu and the Shabelle Valley from the jihadist group al-Shabaab. Sadat is also expected to provide security for a ballistic missile testing site north of Mogadishu.
#турция #сомали
[This is the Synthesis phase of the eternal satanic “Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis” set up (or Problem-Reaction-Solution). Connected to fight over the Bab El Mandeb as well as the key connectivities of the maritime Silk Road. Somalia on the Indian Ocean has longest coast in all of Africa. Turks are an advance NATO formation, like UAE in Sudan and former British Somaliland, which is also on Bab El Mandeb. But these are all hollowed out nations like Sudan, after 40 years of USUK-driven civil and terror wars. They cannot meaningfully influence rock-solid and rising Yemen. All they provide are big fat targets. And the Gatekeeper remains in charge of the Red Sea inlet]

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Hungary announced today, concurrently with Mr. Netanyahu’s visit, that it was withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC).

After meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister in Budapest, Viktor Orbán said that the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, “have undermined the security of the entire world.”

He hopes that “you (Netanyahu) and your government will be able to guarantee Israel’s security and its right to self-defense.”

It is important for Hungary that Israel remains strong and stable, he said, calling it “an anchor in the Middle East.”

At the same time, Mr. Netanyahu praised Hungary’s “bold and principled stance” in withdrawing from the ICC.

“It is important to oppose this corrupt organization,” Mr. Netanyahu said.

“This is important for all of civilization as we wage this battle against barbarism,” he continued.

Mr. Netanyahu also praised Mr. Orbán for his “very bold stance against anti-Semitism.”
[this open embrace of satanism by catholic hungary ain’t gonna go down well in orthodox Russia, that’s for sure. The zionazi messianic demons are currently annihilating all christians in the holy land and syria – the oldest such communities on earth. The sitting Special Representative of the President of Russia for the Middle East (and senior Dep Foreign Minister) is Ambassador Mikhail Bogdanov. He is also the Deputy Chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society] 
⭕ The Israeli army, along with the Israel Security Agency (ISA) and the Israeli police, continued their counterterrorism operations in the northern West Bank.

During a clash in Silat al-Harithiya, near Jenin, Israeli soldiers responded to an explosive attack, killing one militant and wounding two others.

During additional overnight operations, eight suspects were arrested and two “Carlo” weapons were confiscated.
⭕ The Israeli military claims to have carried out a drone strike against a Hezbollah member in Alma al-Shaab, southern Lebanon.

They also reported that “several key Hamas terrorists” were recently targeted by an airstrike in Gaza City.

The operatives were in a command center used by Hamas to plan and execute attacks against Israel and its troops, according to the military.

At least 75 Palestinians died today in Gaza, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
⭕ Two senior members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a Republican and a Democrat, accused the Lebanese army of being too slow to honor its ceasefire commitments.

“Any hesitation [by the Lebanese army]… would force the United States to reevaluate its approach” to funding, the senators said.
[!!]
⭕ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

“We will crush the Iranian axis of evil, and thus we [the State of Israel] will also protect Europe.

Orban understands this.

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇮🇱| Israeli Minister of Economy:

“There will never be a Palestinian state. It simply will not happen, under any circumstances.

But on the other hand, there will also be no single binational state. Therefore, we are presenting a model called the “Emirates Model” — autonomous regions that function together, live alongside the settlements, and most importantly, recognize the “State of Israel”.

If you recognize us, we’ll help you. If you don’t, we’ll turn you into Gaza.

And the residents of Judea and Samaria also have to decide what they want to be — a greater Gaza or a Dubai.”
[so even the language of the demented is starting to backtrack from Exodus and enforced expulsion to Egyptian Sinai or elsewhere. Now they offer Bantustans in despair. As prophesied, they will never be able to rid themselves of Palestinians. The latter shall outlast them, whilst remaining right around Jerusalem]
⭕ 🇾🇪🇺🇸| 257 civilians killed and injured in US attacks on Yemen

Yemeni Ministry of Health’s Spox told Al-Mayadeen that Since mid-March, US airstrikes on Yemen have killed 92 civilians and injured 165 others.

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇨🇳 The United States prohibits American diplomats, authorized American contractors, and their families in China from having “romantic or sexual relationships” with Chinese nationals.
AP, Times!
[well that’s gonna put a damper on the usual works. Indeed, half their prior roles may have been honey pots using dual citizen quite beautiful eurasians! O vey!]
⭕ 🇧🇬🇺🇸 Bulgaria has received its first F-16 Block 70 aircraft from the United States.

Bulgaria will acquire a total of 16 F-16 fighter jets.
[timely for the Drang on the Black Sea, as the Ukies expire and fresh canon fodder is needed. But these flying coffins are no good whatsoever. Certifiable death certificates. But most of the insouciant Bulgar nation being suicided may not know – and it may serve to keep them asleep a little while longer. All war moves atm appear legerdemain to maintain collapsing internal cohesion of the agonizing international nazis]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇨🇳 Michael Langley, Commander of USAFRICOM:

China is trying to exploit the dismantling of USAID on the African continent.
[!!!]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ The American stock market declines sharply after Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs

Trump says today is a historic day, and the U.S. is winning ‘very bigly’ and ‘very strongly’.
⭕ Today marked the largest single-day loss in the U.S. stock market since the June 2020 COVID-19 financial crisis
⭕ > Winning very bigly, #MAGA 🇺🇸🔥
⭕ The U.S. mission to the United Nations has sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stating its opposition to the renewal of Francesca Albanese’s role as UN Special Rapporteur due to allegations of ‘antisemitism.’
⭕ Chinese fighter jets intercepted a U.S. fighter jet operating in Chinese airspace off the Western coast of Taiwan

The United States considers the airspace as part of international airspace, while China asserts it as sovereign Chinese airspace as part of Taiwan Province.
⭕ After the U.S. agreed to indirect negotiations, Iran agreed to send a low-ranking delegation to Oman within the next few weeks, to begin talks with the U.S.

The United States has reportedly walked back some of the demands stated in Trump’s letter, and says there is ‘wiggle room’ and that Trump is ‘flexible’.

As of now, Iran still rejects any attempt at direct negotiations, stating that Iranian officials will not sit at the same table with an American, unless ‘good progress’ is made through mediators.
[there’s alotta good coffee to be had in Oman too. They’re just off Yemen and have a caravan and sea trade with Yemen so old, germanic tribes with bones in their noses were painting in dark caves about the Black Forest with soot & spit and other fluids best not known. And eating Romans stupid enough to trespass. These good old days may be back shortly for germans too]
⭕ — So, the Americans walked back some of their earlier demands.

It seems we will engage in indirect negotiations and just try to drag them out as long as possible, with no result. If we’re smart, we’d work on nukes in the meantime.

In any case, the outcome will be the same: No Nuclear Deal. Because the United States refuses to offer guarantees and assurances.

Additionally, no deal can be made before sanctions are relieved first, this is the official Iranian position, and the U.S. repeatedly stated this won’t happen.

Long story short: There will be no deal, unless the Americans make massive concessions, which will not happen – and if it does, we’d be dumb not to take it.
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 For those who don’t know, the Iranian demands for a new Nuclear Deal with the U.S. are basically the following:

1. The deal must be an official treaty, ratified by U.S. Congress, so that a future American President cannot unilaterally withdraw (like Trump did).
2. Before any negotiations begin, the U.S. must remove sanctions on Iran’s medical sector and others. After the deal is signed, there must be FULL sanctions relief, meaning all sanctions have to be removed, not just a few.
3. In case of a U.S. withdrawal from the deal, Iran has the right to engage an immediate ‘snap-back’ clause: Installing advanced centrifuges and beginning rapid enrichment of uranium and increasing the stockpile.
4. Iran must be allowed to reconnect to the SWIFT payment system, in order to perform international transactions.
5. Iran will be allowed to keep its nuclear program, including advanced enrichment for ‘research purposes’.
6. There will be no negotiations or limitations on Iran’s ballistic missile program or support for regional groups.
7. Iran’s financial assets that have been frozen abroad must be released.

If any of these points are not agreed to, the likelihood of a new Nuclear Deal is extremely unlikely. Many of these clauses are the result of distrust due to previous U.S. betrayal.
⭕ My point being: The United States will never agree to this. And Iran will never agree to anything less than this.

So, negotiations are futile.
[but the PROCESS of negotiations is most useful. It whiles away the time, permitting more lifeblood to gush out, allowing rigor mortis to set in, and thus lessening risk for the Murder-Suicide… so each civilizational-state will always talk, whether directly or indirectly. That’s the key purpose of Kirill Dmitriev too. A buncha sweets for demented monkeys with too big grenades needing calming words and sweet nothings]
⭕ The Telegraph report about Iran agreeing to ‘stop supporting the Houthis’ is fake and unfounded.

In fact, Iran has increased its logistical support & presence of advisors in Yemen.

this was filmed on Wednesday I think. There was a third Reaper drone downed subsequently. Unbelievable. This insane dedication to Zion, and therefor savaging Yemen, makes clear the priority of the Last Satanic Empire, all bloviations of Orange about “America First” notwithstanding. The Moshiach shall be birthed, no matter the cost. And the US Air Force drones expended to the last, as were US Army hardware junk in 404.

did you catch the many not-so subliminal messages? Much of the underground bases, missiles, military staff, etc – were IRANIAN. In a video ostensibly devoted to YEMEN. This is how professional AZE PsyWar, and the manufacture of consent, is done

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸The United States should not stand on ceremony with its allies; it is even useful to bomb them with nuclear bombs, Fox News journalist Jesse Waters said on the channel.

“Friendliness toward other countries is what got us into so much trouble. We’re not schoolchildren, we don’t need friends. Every country has to put its interests first. And when our interests coincide, we can do business. And when they don’t, well, that’s life. If we have to burn a few bridges with Denmark to take over Greenland, so what? We’re the big guys. We dropped atomic bombs on Japan, and now we have no more loyal ally in the Pacific. We may have to burn our bridges to build a new bridge, a big, beautiful one, for the next generation of the United States. America is free from the shackles of history. Trump knows what we need to do,” Waters also said. |media|
[Now we’re talkin big nazi guys. Spread the Love. Beam the message to the Cosmos. Let’s hear the screaming of the tranny moth just before it enters the Flame]

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Ukraine’s strikes on Russian energy infrastructure facilities are being carried out using Western weapons, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spox says

Maria Zakharova added that the Kiev regime, sensing the onset of its collapse, is trying to disrupt the dialogue between Moscow and Washington.
⭕ ❗️Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian militants attacked Russian energy infrastructure four times, Russian Defense Ministry reported

• Kursk Region: Rosseti, energy provider, branch hit: 1,200+ consumers without power;
• Belgorod Region: Rosseti branch attacked: 1,700+ consumers affected;
• Zaporozhye Region: Vasilyevka substation struck;
• Lugansk People’s Republic: Svatovo gas station hit: 11,000+ consumers lost gas supply.

👉 Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy facilities are an attempt to disrupt the dialogue between Moscow and Washington, Russian Foreign Ministry stated earlier.
⭕️ 🇮🇷⚛️ Iran to revise defense doctrine if threats against its nuclear program realized, IRGC says

“None of the stated goals of military aggression, including the destruction of the nuclear industry, will be realized,” Fars news agency quoted Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Deputy Head for Political Affairs Gen. Yadollah Javani as saying.

The general warned that military aggression against Tehran would ‘take Iran’s nuclear industry to a new level,’ and while acknowledging potential damage from US or Israeli actions, stressed that Iran’s retaliation would be harsher than the blows received.

🇺🇸 The warning comes amid escalating tensions between Tehran and Washington after Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian rejected Donald Trump’s proposal for direct talks on a nuclear deal, preferring mediation. The US president then threatened severe military action against Iran if no deal is made.
⭕❗️Russian military liberated the village of Lobkovoe in Zaporozhye region, and Veseloe in the DPR, the Defense Ministry reported
⭕ ❗️ Lavrov called the formation of the Sahel alliance evidence of “Africa’s second awakening” |media|
[Keep scrolling down for excellent clips]
⭕ ❗️ Mali considers Ukraine a terrorist state because Sahel militants are supported by Kiev, Foreign Minister Diop says
⭕ ❗️ AES plans to open a joint bank, a unified radio network and a television network to counter information warfare, Diop said
[one of my favorite phrases from Patrushev: the imperative for all mankind to achieve “informational hygiene” from the toxic and unredeemable]
⭕ ❗️Russia views the creation of the AES as an endeavor to create a new security architecture in the region, Foreign Minister Lavrov says
[And the same is gonna be imposed on demented EUroCrazies in the damp over-perfumed northern armpit of Asia]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 The US reportedly expects to be done with Iran by September if nuclear deal fails

Iran will be “gone by September” if it doesn’t begin dismantling its nuclear program, sources close to the US administration told a British media outlet.

“Should Iran or its proxies threaten US personnel and interests in the region, the United States will take decisive action to defend our people,” the Pentagon said on Tuesday, announcing the deployment of additional air assets in the US Central Command area, which includes the Middle East.
[these aren’t cheap words. As Europe used to sing, “We’re in the Final Countdown”. September follows the August birthday of Obama…. some provocation is gonna be arranged shortly, perhaps the assassination of a senior Iranian, which in return leads to the desired hit or FF on Orange]
⭕ 🇷🇺 Key statements from Russian FM Lavrov following a meeting with his AES counterparts:

• Russia views the creation of the AES as an endeavor to create a new security architecture in the region;
• Moscow will be ready to assist in the formation of the AES joint armed forces;
• Russia is ready to provide comprehensive assistance to the AES in defense, security and economy;
• A significant number of Russian instructors work in the countries of the AES;
• Kiev, with the connivance of the West, is trying to destabilize Africa by openly supporting terrorists in the Sahel;
• The Russia-AES foreign ministers’ meeting will be annual.

⭕ The Empire Strikes Itself:
Liberation Day or Desperation Day?

Trump just lit the fuse. “Liberation Day”, a universal tariff regime on all U.S. imports, isn’t much of a trade strategy. It’s a euphemism for controlled economic demolition. A last ditch rear guard action, made in panic by the Empire.

But it does have the unintended consequence of being a funeral pyre for neoliberalism, the final act of a rentier empire that offshored its manufacturing, hollowed out its working class, and sold its soul to Wall Street derivatives and Silicon Valley surveillance.

The U.S. can no longer outcompete. So it’s trying to out-tariff.

Let’s be clear: this isn’t about protecting domestic industry. America’s industrial base was dismantled decades ago. There are no foundries, no machine-tool factories, no national industrial plan. This is like slapping a steel dome on a house that already burned down.

So why do it?

Because the elites are panicking.

Because the dollar is losing its supremacy, brick by BRICS.
Because real assets: energy, minerals, manufacturing—are migrating east. And because the Global South is no longer playing by the script.

Trump didn’t declare a trade war. He just declared war on globalization’s corpse. What Trump has done is expose the rot. Wall Street hates it. Silicon Valley hates it. Davos hates it.
And that’s the point or at least the unintended beauty of it. The chaotic circus ringmaster is bringing down the house, quite litterally.

The empire is no longer hiding its decline. So it may as well weaponizing it. From its point of view of course.

Universal tariffs won’t rebuild America, they’ll raise prices, slash margins, and speed up de-dollarization as the rest of the world builds supply chains that bypass U.S. control altogether.

And for all the panic on CNBC and in the Moody’s press releases, you know what? Good. Let them panic.

Let the algorithmic traders, overleveraged hedge funds, and globalist NGOs feel a fraction of the instability they exported to the Global South for 40 years.

Liberation Day isn’t really about America. It’s about the system revealing its terminal fragility.

Trump, whether by instinct or ignorance, just set fire to the neoliberal scaffolding. Now comes the smoke, the price shocks, the screams from Wall Street, and underneath it all, the slow, painful rebirth of sovereignty for the Global Majority, so long as the world has the courage to grab it.

Not neat. Not elegant. But necessary.

it’s an easy equation for me. You either build industrial capitalism or you decay into financial parasitism. And when the parasites start eating themselves, you know the system’s done.

So buckle up!

Liberation Day isn’t the beginning of greatness. It’s the beginning of the end of the empire’s economic illusion.

🔥 And we say, light the match.

– Gerry Nolan

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⭕ 📹 🇳🇴 Norwegians trained the Ukrainian militants at a base where US Marines were stationed, a prisoner of war told Sputnik
⭕ ❗️ Burkina Faso received a Russian invitation to take part in the events of Victory Day on May 9, a delegation can be expected, the foreign minister tells Sputnik
[Ibrahim Traore will look sharp for the occasion]
⭕ ❗️ Burkina Faso president accepted Putin’s invitation to come to Moscow for Victory Day celebrations, Lavrov says
⭕❗️❗️❗️ Burkina Faso will soon complete work on the documents for the building of a nuclear power plant; after their signing, the construction will move forward, the foreign minister tells Sputnik

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸 It’s gonna be low-key amusing to see the MAGA crowd slowly realize that you have to start production first before going all out, guns blazing, with these tariffs.

They import a lot of medicine from China and India—maybe they’ll realize then.
[deprivation of essential medicines now linked to just-in-time imports from the two heavily tariffed factories of the West and much of our world will now jack up the prices of already the most expensive meds on earth. Infections, cancers, chronic conditions and other sequela of contrived immune suppression (covid/vaxx-induced covid) will bloom, greasing the desired depopulation. What did M Hudson say the ongoing holocaust in the Holy Land? It was designed by anodyne systems analysts in NY and other locales in 1970s. So it is for the thinning of CONUS, albeit using patriotic slogans at Treasury sure to please bobble-headed MAGA-nuts..]
⭕ 🇫🇮🇫🇷🇬🇧 French President Macron or UK leader Keir Starmer will hold talks with Putin, stated Finnish President Stubb.

According to Stubb, a “coalition of willing nations” has agreed that at least one European leader should engage in discussions with Russia, and it should be either France or the UK.
[LOL. There will be no talks with Anglo-French. Neither is acceptable to Russia. Macron was written off by Lavrov and Russian diplomacy. The Limeys were openly called enemies. The nazi Finn is pretending to proffer peace, just like his sugar daddy Orange pretended to make peace before him. All shall be accommodated with ever deeper graves]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇮🇷 Threats of airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear and energy infrastructure are unacceptable—Moscow insists on a diplomatic resolution to Iran’s disputes with the West. – Russian Foreign Ministry
⭕ 🐻 Since tariffs are the trending topic this week, let’s take a look at what they actually are, and how they work.

ℹ️Tariffs are taxes or duties that are paid by importers to their local revenue services through customs declarations.

They are frequently designed to protect local industries, making imported products more expensive than locally produced ones. Though in today’s supply chains, they often end up being a burden on everyone, since local producers also use imported materials in their production processes.

❔How do they work?

➡️Tariffs are calculated as a percentage applied to the customs value of imported goods. The customs value if often the CIF price of a product, this is: Product origin price, plus freight and insurance.

This means that the tariff paid by the importer is not necessarily the percentage listed in the country’s laws, since the amount is calculated over a final price that includes different supply chain charges.

For example: If a US importer buys something in China for 1000, pays 100 in freight and 10 in insurance, the customs value of this product will be 1110. If we apply the new 54% announced by Trump, the tariff that the importer will have to pay will be $599,40. So the final landed cost of said product (not considering other local expenses) is 70,94% higher than the original price.

And who ends up paying for this? The end users. Of course import companies will transfer this cost increase into the product’s final price, no one will maintain “old” prices absorbing the new tariff, it’s always the consumer that pays the price of these trade wars. A general manager of a company DDG has access to already stated, when confronted with Trump’s tariff announcement, that the company will have to increase its products prices.

When you consider that nowadays basically nothing is completely locally sourced, we have to expect price increases in everything we use and consume.

In the US, if the new tariffs work out to an average of 29%, importers would have to pay about $1 trillion in tariffs per year, or $7,300 per household. Realistically, that would never happen. Many goods will just not get imported any more, creating shortages and large price hikes.

Some experts say this move could cause a global recession:

💬 “These policies, if sustained, would likely push the U.S. and global economy into recession this year,” JPMorgan analysts wrote in a note Wednesday.
[unbelievable. It is WAY more than the already insane 54% for China, on whom the US is symbiotically connected. This is worse than a shotgun divorce. It is like war on Persia; a Murder-Suicide for the hostage-dwellers of CONUS]
⭕ 🇰🇷The court has upheld the impeachment of South Korean President Yun Seok-yul in the case of an attempted coup by imposing martial law, Yonhap reports.

The court ruled that the president had violated his duties as commander-in-chief by mobilizing troops. He had exceeded his authority and his actions had seriously damaged stability in the country.
[WOW. right after the Orange TTT struck, and Japan-SK-China met on how to overcome them. Can you hear Chairman Rocketman’s chortling?? Asia joined Europe as lost causes…. all that remains is the Murder-Suicide for the cherry on top]
⭕ 🇰🇷Anti-Yun protesters dance in the street after his impeachment and removal from office were confirmed by Korea’s Constitutional Court.
⭕ 🇰🇷South Korea’s interim President Han urges unity and says he will “do everything possible to oversee the upcoming presidential elections so that the new government can take office.”
[no wonder the floating carrier tomb the Carl Vinson’s steaming away to die around the Holy Land. And Temple Mount Pete is belly-dancing stark naked in Japan to make up for cutting and running! The messianic lunatics might as well rename the Pacific force “Asia-Pacific”. You can stick a fork in it too]
⭕ 🇰🇷After South Korea’s Constitutional Court upheld the legislature’s impeachment of former President Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea must now hold snap presidential elections within 60 days of the ruling.

💠 @Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ The official Syrian news agency SANA reported that Israeli airstrikes carried out Wednesday in Daraa, southern Syria, killed nine people.

Residents of the Tasil region said several gunmen were killed after clashes with an Israeli army contingent that arrived in the area to destroy a former Syrian army camp.

💠 @kuluary_zaliva (В кулуарах Залива):
⭕ The market is experiencing a critical drop in oil prices

Global oil prices have fallen sharply, with Brent falling below $68 a barrel on Friday, hitting its lowest since December 2021. The market had expected supply cuts and tariff increases due to potential sanctions against Iran, but rising oil production and trade risks have changed the situation dramatically .

The OPEC+ alliance, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, agreed to accelerate the lifting of previously adopted restrictions on oil production in the amount of 2.2 million barrels per day and increase production by 411 thousand barrels per day from May, which increased pressure on the market and caused a sharp decline in prices. An additional factor in the decline was fears about a slowdown in the global economy due to Washington’s tariff policy.
[this is what can be termed “a last honeymoon” or “indian summer” – before it shoots up to $680 given what comes]

💠 @red.:
⭕ After using trade and economic policy as a geopolitical weapon against the global south, European leaders are now shocked and appalled that someone could do the same to them.
⭕ Two-faced hypocrites on full show of late

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸 The director of the US National Security Agency has been fired.

The Washington Post reported that General Timothy Hogg, director of the US National Security Agency, who was also in charge of US Cyber ​​​​Command, has been removed from his position.

Wendy Noble, Hague’s deputy at the National Security Agency, has also been removed.

The reason for the firings has not yet been determined, but former officials have called it “unprecedented.”
[U lose a war; heads gotta roll, like rock n roll]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ —❗️🇺🇸/🇨🇳 BREAKING: China announces 34% tariffs on U.S. goods, starting next week, in response to Trump’s tariffs

President Trump has responded shocked: ‘China wasn’t supposed to do that. Frankly, they made a very bad choice, a choice I think they shouldn’t have made. They panicked, and one thing you can’t do is panic’.
⭕ — 🇺🇸 NEW: The U.S. stock market is already almost 3% down, and the markets have not even opened yet

Economists state the market is in ‘free fall’, and warn of an imminent recession
⭕ The Trump administration is set to freeze $510 million in grants to Brown University due to ‘antisemitism.
[More downsizing & retrenchment for a broke ass empire. This is like the third Ivy League being starved of funds in last week! Hallelujah. Weren’t these academia among Uncle Ray’s MICIMATT? And the worst of the lot are the hypocritical New England Puritans, the modern equivalent of court clerics justifying and rubberstamping the cleansing of entire continents. Good riddance]
⭕ The U.S. Senate has rejected a motion by Senator Bernie Sanders to block arms sales to Israel by a vote of 83-15, with 15 Democrats supporting the measure

Back in November, 19 Democrats voted for a similar motion that was also rejected.
[an excellent gauge. Humanity is crystal clear they buttress the holocaust of arabs for Zion, just as polling within Zion show some 90%+ support or consider inadequate what is being done to Gaza. Both the imperial senate and the bastard child display the purest degree of satanism, the Passion of the Worst, per Yeats]

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ ⚠️🇺🇸🇨🇳Marco Rubio: China is working on the largest military expansion in its history, and we must resist it.
[How? Sitting by a quiet creek and cryin?? These people are simply unfit to even pronounce mundance observances]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇾🇪Pentagon Estimates Operation Against Houthis Will Cost US $1 Billion Per Month — NYT
[Mostly likely a lie. Just deploying one CBG and all those expensive B2s is way more. So they’re CYA and getting ahead of the coming sticker shock — in a round of sheer futility too]

💠 @Slavyangrad:
⭕ 🇫🇷😱Former French Economy Minister Alain Madeleine called the tariffs introduced by Trump bandit methods:

Nobody cares about the law in this matter. I am glad to be here, but there should be a representative of the WTO in my place. We are leaving. There is no more law. It is all over. Frankly, these are bandit methods. |media|
[must say – the raging cannibalism on display within the former Glorious Garden is most titillating]

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel today killed 100 Palestinians in al-Shujaiya, Gaza, and forced the displacement of civilians with the full consent and support of the USA. Israel also killed at least 31, mainly children, when a bomb hit a school (used as a refugee shelter) at al-Tuffah in Gaza.
⭕ The US spent one billion dollars in one month only to bomb Yemen and failed to deter Ansar Allah. The US did not pay a penny to force Israel to lift the humanitarian siege on Gaza and stop the conflict in the Red Sea.
[one unappreciated aspect of the Endless Holocaust of the arabs: all fig leaves were stripped from the satanic West, exposed as fully complicit. It doesn’t matter anymore whether Zion is the proxy or they are the proxy. The tail is firmly attached to and inseparable from the entirely rabid dog. And they shall be judged so, both in this dimension and the next]
⭕ At this stage, the only scenario that might halt the genocide in Gaza and bring down Benjamin Netanyahu—who faces an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes—is one in which no Israeli prisoners remain alive in Gaza as a result of Israel’s own relentless bombardment, and Hamas leaders agree to cede control of the Strip to Mahmoud Abbas and leave Gazza. Without such an outcome, the daily killing of civilians has become mere numbers—devoid of urgency, stripped of moral weight. The world watches, supports Israel and does nothing.
[even when they kill their own last zionazi POW – new pretexts will be found. It won’t be hard]
⭕ The US market lost in one day 3 trillion dollars, Donald Trump’s economic liberation day.
⭕ At approximately 3:00 AM local time, Israeli warplanes launched two missiles at a residential building in the al-Zouhour neighborhood of Saida (Sidon), southern Lebanon, killing senior Hamas official Hassan Farhat—known as Abu Yasser—along with his daughter and son.

The targeted strike destroyed part of the building and sparked a fire that emergency crews battled for hours. Farhat was a prominent figure in Hamas’s external operations, and his assassination marks a significant escalation in Israel’s ongoing cross-border operations in Lebanon.

This act of war is the latest in a series of targeted assassinations carried out by Israeli drones and warplanes in southern Lebanon, actions that Lebanese officials say blatantly violate the 2024 ceasefire agreement and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701. Despite the resolution’s call for cessation of hostilities and respect for Lebanese sovereignty, Israeli air operations have continued with increasing frequency—reportedly with the backing and total support of the United States. This act of aggression endanger civilians and threatened instability.
⭕ Through its indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, ongoing military operations in the West Bank, and repeated airstrikes on Syria and Lebanon, Israel has positioned itself as a growing threat to the stability of the entire Middle East.
Its actions—carried out with impunity and international backing and the US in particular—are widening regional fault lines, eroding diplomatic norms, and pushing the region closer to broader conflict.

I was curious why the clowns chose the phrase “Liberation Day” for the April 02 sepukku, so I plugged it into one of the online gematria calculators used by occult satanists (ALL imperial actions being linked to numerology, not just with dates, but even meme-phrases, word combinations and usage translated into numbers)

Using most common cyphers – we obtain for “Liberation Day”:

• Reduction: 63 (so can be seen as 3×6 = 666)
• Reverse: 216 (6x6x6 or thus another 666; also the satanists drop the zeroes, so 2016 was the first selection of Orange 1.0)

I am not versed in numerology. There are a dizzying array of approaches and interpretations and cyphers. So “Liberation Day” appears to be the signal PsyOp (with stacked function satanic mockery) heralding the take-down of the global economy.

This appears the third act of Hybrid World War III – their attempt to avert or control Armageddon’s use of dastardly gadgets. The first two acts being global pandemic op, then the 404 gambit to take down Russia the easy way or at least tie her up in Novorossiya and the European theatre..

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ The International Criminal Court Should Be Dissolved & Re-Established on Completely Different Principles, Spanish Prof. Says

The selectivity of persecution and politicization in several recent cases was denounced as “a completely racist, discriminatory, obscene attitude that only undermines the authority of the Court itself” by Augusto Zamora, professor of international public law and international relations at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

“The International Criminal Court initiates a case against President Vladimir Putin, despite the fact that Russia is not a member of this body, and immediately issues an arrest warrant. At the same time, similar actions are taken with great difficulty against Benjamin Netanyahu, but no one carries out this warrant,” he told Sputnik.

☝️ However, in the case of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, “the case is quickly decided, and two days later he is arrested,” Zamora noted.

For him, the West exerts “excessive influence” over UN bodies, and this is “strongly reflected” in the ICC.

“The world has changed, and the ICC must reflect the new reality of a multipolar world,” the proferssor stated.
⭕ Trump’s Tariffs Will Be “Ineffective” for the AES, Burkinabe FM Argues

“These measures that have been taken by the US impact the West more than our countries,” Karamoko Jean-Marie Traore said in an interview with Sputnik Africa.

The Burkinabe minister, who recently met with Russian FM Sergey Lavrov alongside his Nigerien and Malian counterparts in Moscow, attributed this lack of impact to the fact that the AES members have long been “excluded from international trade because they wanted to confine us to a role of supplier.”

☝️ According to him, the most important thing is to give a “new momentum” to the Alliance of Sahel States.
[good point. Orange Wrecking Crew really rolled out the massive list against all to hide the real target: China. Against most of Africa, there is negligible consequence. And their essential commodities will be gobbled up by other customers with nary a pause]
⭕ The Dictatorship of the Dollar is Over: The Alliance of Sahel States on the Path to Its Own Investment Bank

In an effort to counter the hegemony of the US dollar and other “unjust methods,” the Alliance of Sahel States is considering establishing an investment bank, Burkina Faso’s Foreign Minister told Sputnik Africa.

“This bank must necessarily align with other financial institutions by using new instruments,” Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré stated following the meeting of foreign ministers from Russia, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso in Moscow.

The institution will be tasked with financing the development of the Alliance of Sahel States, he explained.

Traoré also commented on a potential rapprochement between the Alliance of Sahel States and the BRICS, as well as the possible benefits for Ouagadougou from the New Development Bank.

“We cannot continue to work in an environment where we do not have the opportunity to offer a better future to our populations,” he said.
[those with least to lose often take the first courageous plunge. This sounds like they’re establishing Col’s vaunted public utility banking (PBS)]
⭕ African Countries Started Diversifying Economies Even Before Trump’s Tariffs Challenge, Political Science Expert Says

“Before Trump, and given the experience from his first four-year term, I think a lot of lessons have been taken, and many countries are already promoting initiatives to make them less dependent on the US when it comes to trade,” political science expert Emmanuel Remi Aiyede told Sputnik Africa.

African countries realized that such measures as US new tariffs that affected the most of the continent could happen, but they did not understand that “it would be this extreme,” the professor from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria noted.

“What the African countries need to do is to find ways and means of accelerating the pattern that they have already taken in terms of diversification of partnership and also in terms of intensifying trade within the African country,” he emphasized.

On Wednesday, President Trump announced new reciprocal tariffs on imports. A total of 51 African countries were included in the list, with tariffs ranging from a low of 10% to a high of 50%.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ The S&P 500 hits a new daily low, now down more than 5% today, and more than 10% down since Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs

Today marks the single largest daily loss in the U.S. stock market within the past 5 years.
⭕— Not a single sector in the U.S. stock market is net positive today.

#MAGA 🇺🇸🔥💪
⭕ — They want Trump re-elected because he’ll ‘make America great again’

— We want Trump re-elected to speed up the process of America’s inevitable downfall

We are not the same.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 📜 A Nation within A Nation

One of the most strategically significant defeats of the United States Army took place in the Rocky Mountains in 1857-58. It served to solidify the creation of “a nation within a nation” that persists to the present day.
⭕🔻 Dave Collum:
Social Awareness Poll: What is your worst-case scenario for the S&P 500?
19% – 5000
27% – 4000
26% – 3000
29% – 2000
🔻 WS: 50k.

And $30/gallon milk.

Hopefully silver will be ~$350/oz by then. 😏
🔻 ElCidLives: We will be able to bottle and sell boomer tears for generations to come as a warning on greed
⭕🔻 Rina Lu🇷🇺: Russian Emperor Nicholas II was the only monarch and head of state who officially initiated an international conference for the sake of peace.

In other words, he was the only world leader of his time to make a formal, institutional appeal to prevent war, years before the outbreak of World War I.

🔸 He publicly and officially proposed global disarmament, calling on the world’s powers to halt the escalating arms race that threatened to plunge nations into conflict.

🔸 He convened the Hague Peace Conference of 1899, the largest and most ambitious international gathering focused on peace ever held up to that point.

At the conference, under Russia’s initiative, the participating nations discussed:

🔸 Limiting the buildup of military arsenals,
🔸 Banning certain brutal and inhumane weapons,
🔸 Establishing legal mechanisms to settle disputes between states without resorting to war.

One of the major outcomes was the signing of the Hague Convention of 1899, which laid the foundation for modern international humanitarian law. Among its most notable achievements was:

🔸 The prohibition of the use of poison or poisoned weapons in warfare,
🔸 The ban on launching projectiles and explosives from balloons,
🔸 Rules for the humane treatment of prisoners of war and the protection of civilians.

The conference also led to the creation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, the first permanent international institution dedicated to resolving conflicts between nations through diplomacy and law.

Although Nicholas II’s efforts could not stop the First World War, they laid crucial groundwork for modern international law and the very idea of collective security, principles that would eventually shape the League of Nations and later the United Nations.

History often overlooks the fact that it was the Russian Emperor who first took such a bold and visionary step toward global peace, long before 1914.
[for his troubles, the cowardly British and Anglo-Zionists had him executed in a mine with his entire family. And holocausted his people to the tune of ~40-50,000,000 over the next thirty years at german hands]
🔻 WS: Was Nicholas II fluent in a foreign language?

For that matter, do you have any information on the polyglot abilities of Russian leaders in general? I’ve always been curious about that.
🔻 Walter Kurtz: The Russian gentry started to progressively use French under Peter the Great to the point that even during Napoleonic wars the gentry considered Russian as the “non gentry” language and used French. |link|
🔻 WS: I dislike the sound of French even more than I dislike the sound of German.
[me too for French only. It drips in disdain and arrogance, at least the way many use it. German is utilitarian and an acquired taste. Pithy and direct, which I like, unlike some of the extravagant romance languages, such as pretentious French]
🔻 Walter Kurtz: I can’t dislike French…
Regarding German Bayerisch is disgusting and the cleanest German is in the northern part. In Austria I like the accent in Wien area.
Swiss German is disgusting.
[yes, I love the Österreicher accent most too, almost melodic. Fitting for yodeling alpiners, among whom lived my favorite Johann Strauss the Younger. I once stood in front of his birth home in historic Wien]
🔻 WS: I am rather fluent in Italian, and therefore I am a linguistic bigot. 😏

That said, I also very much like the sound of spoken Russian.
🔻 Walter Kurtz: Italian is really nice and although there are many similarities with French words, I never learned it.
[French feels like a project gone wrong – they chased after Italian, the most expressive and delightful of the romance languages and ended up in a cul-de-sac. Spanish is like German more utilitarian and sparse, more in control of itself than Italian. Much less self-aggrandizing, self-conscious and half-baked than French]
🔻 Stoshik Сосновик ☦🇷🇺: Will, if you’re serious, yes Tsar Nicholas ii was fluent in English and he and his daughters wrote entries in their diaries in both English and French.
In his youth Nicholas ii traveled to Japan had a dragon 🐉 tattoo on his right forearm.
🔻 WS: Why would I not be serious?

Anyway, thanks for the reply.
🔻 Stoshik Сосновик ☦🇷🇺: PTSD from battling anti-Russian trolls my whole life. I see you’re serious 🙏

☦️Tsar Nicholas ii was a sincere Christian man, but was weak minded. His father Tsar Alexander iii was a stronger leader, but internal corruption in the Russian Empire during WW 1 collapsed it all.
🔻 Arthur Burton: Nicholas, like all his predecessors for the prior 300+ years, was essentially German, and spoke German and French, and likely some English.
🔻 F A: He was UK’s Queen Victoria’s Grandson so maybe he knew English
🔻 Tree Of Heaven: There’s a recording of him speaking French, he’s better at it than most modern Frenchmen.
⭕ cont thread:
🤔 I’m not a credentialed economist, by any means. But, for whatever it’s worth, I am also debt-free, with a high savings rate.

Explain to me, as though I were a child, what America makes — or could make anytime soon — that Asia wants to buy.
🔻 Vance Money: Cars, motorcycles, appliances, computers, bicycles etc. appliances and motorcycles are big ones. There’s a ton more.
🔻 WS: Who are the American makers of all these things? Just curious.
🔻 Vance Money: You can Google that question. The goal of all of this is to onshore and near-shore more production. The us has plenty of companies to drive up a manufacturing base instead of just being a dying over taxed service economy.
🔻 WS: 🤣

As I suspected, there is currently no substantial US production of “cars, motorcycles, appliances, computers, bicycles, appliances, etc.”

People simply assume the US can throw a switch, and high quality heavy industry and manufacturing will somehow magically appear.

🤦‍♂️
🔻 JacobusDavidSA: Asian companies can locate here
🔻 WS: For the cheap labor? 🤦‍♂️
🔻 JacobusDavidSA: No, for the market, for the low taxes, and to evade tariffs
[and what’s in it for them?? Are they as godless and predatory as western elites, who offshored enmasse to ruin unions and brought mass poverty? Are they driven by fear, win-lose, and permanent class war as in the West? Why work to evade tariffs when there are plenty of alternative customers? Will the US market remain attractive once the inflation rockets and printing presses can no longer paper over and keep going the ponzi? Do Others abroad have a sense of responsibility to their own poor? Are sanctions and tariffs still effective and all-determinative?]
⭕ ‼️ Black Budget American Super-tech Revealed

US Special Ops Command has received its first OA-1K Skyraider II. It is a souped-up crop duster, for which the Pentagon is paying $40 MILLION per unit — or roughly the same cost as a Russian Su-35 or Su-57. |link|
🔻 Nabil Elsherif Roca: Looks like a Super Tucano on steroids and much more expensive
🔻 WS: That’s exactly what it is.

Flying with hard points bare and half-a-tank of fuel, it can, on paper, achieve about 245 mph (~60% the speed of a WW2 P-51). With a full load, a B-17 could easily outrun it.

It would be a MANPAD magnet, and even vulnerable to small arms.
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: Looks like something for drive-by shooting?
[exactly. It fits for Thug Life, Inc.]
🔻 Mist – Free speech 🥩 🥚: Excellent money laundering example.
[and means to cut loose ties with the glut of black ops men accumulated since Cebrowski-Rummy. They’re gonna be suicided for their own good, “trust us.” Can’t have them back in CONUS for enforced retreats and lead the Defense]
🔻 Flash’s Buddy: We’re going to rock the Prussians in this. Maybe even beat the Imperial Japanese Army too. Also the imperial Russian Army.
🔻 The Surgeon: 40M?
🔻 WS: $3B for 75 of them.
🔻 no to blue 🇮🇪 Z: For comparison how much is an ordinary crop duster?
🔻 WS: According to Grok, ~$2M each for the Air Tractor AT-802
🔻 no to blue 🇮🇪 Z: @DOGE I have some questions?
[DOGE: sorry, as with Fort Knox, this is beyond our Mandate; “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar…”]
🔻 Barclay Matheson: They reduced their order to around 60, and that price includes all the isr sensors and hardware.
🔻 Brian Bauer: Probably too expensive and I concur our tech edge is waning.

However, this platform has a purpose. Loiter time is key to the mission set and they won’t be flying in non permissive environments. MANPADS risk is low, especially at night and in the environments this was intended for.
[LOL. Nowadays, even Africans in forever wars without electricity got drones and manpads. In Yemeni villages, they got anti-aircraft guns and artillery somewhere in the back of the house next to the BBQ grills and kids toys]
🔻 WS: Sorry, but this is silly talk.

This aircraft simply will not be able to operate in the context of a non-permissive 21st century expeditionary battlefield. If attempted, it will be summarily withdrawn within just a few days of the attempt.

This aircraft has no credible mission.
🔻 Brian Bauer: The aircraft is not meant for non permissive environments. It’s meant to have extended loiter time over counter terrorism or counter insurgency operations conducted by special operators…something I have extensive real world experience doing. I’ve got probably 100 direct action missions in my resume as a helicopter gunner so I’m quite familiar with the needs, threats, and requirements of the mission. I

The price might be silly…but the mission is real. This aircraft wasn’t meant for a near peer conflict.
[the world’s on to the Con. What is being stripped is ability to loiter and aerially bomb the poor civilians and “non-peer”. Bet you will now take the savaging to CONUS and EU civilians… retarded criminals. The “crops” to be sprayed ain’t on the World-Island!]
🔻 WS: There are #NoEasyWarsLeftToFight, my friend.

There will no longer be permissive environments in which this particular aircraft could conceivably operate.

It has negligible range and speed, and limited firepower.

I defy you to describe a credible battlefield scenario for it.
🔻 Brian Bauer: The last 20 years of fighting counterinsurgency is the battlefield scenario. These operations will continue in the Middle East, Africa, and the Philippians where SOCOM is extensively involved and will continue to be.

If anything, the rise of the peer war threat will reduce availability of more advanced platforms for these low intensity operations.

The real screw up here, which is worth highlighting as it has broader implications, was procurement time and cost. If we are going to win the next peer war, we need to be able to adapt much more quickly and cost effectively than we do today.
[what ignorant gobbledy-gook! A walkin talkin canon-fodder. Have away. The Stage always needs suicidal evil. But you sound like Macgregor or Scotty, justifying the unjustiable in comfortable “battlefied” retirement]
🔻 WS: We’ll just have to disagree on this point, because I see almost zero possibility the US will have the leisure to engage in counterinsurgency warfare in the foreseeable future.

It’s gonna be all big war going forward. That’s what happens during ends of empire. Enemies amass.
[and carrion birds feast. Then bones bleach on sands]
⭕ cont thread:
‼️ Here is a dose of cold, hard reality for anyone out there who genuinely believes American reindustrialization is achievable in anything less than at least one generation, and more likely two or three.
[repost Mike Rowe video above]
🔻 Lacking Courage: The factories will be mostly automated. Some specialised engineering jobs. USA could have done this so many other ways rebuilding its economy through infrastructure jobs (FDResque) & building all the renewables. Granted the battle for rare metals is on (Greenland, Canada etc)
🔻 WS: Right. And robot mining colonies on the Moon, Mars, and asteroids, too.

Meanwhile, Chinese shipbuilding is over 200x the US, and they can already crank out hundreds of missiles per DAY in mostly automated factories.

The US produces ~12 SM-3s and ~40 SM-6s per YEAR.
[A hard day’s coming… when the negotiations change tone and entirely reverse roles, as beginning to be experienced by EUroCrazies at Russkie hands…]
🔻 Heidi O’Brien 𓅅: @RnaudBertrand Given how automated manufacturing is becoming, what kind of jobs/training is the Chinese government steering its people towards? I think about this for my own kids. What kinds of work will still be available with all of the robots and AI?
🔻 WS: Electrician, plumber, heating/air conditioning … just off the top of my head.

Where I live, those are all very well-paying jobs, and in very high demand.
🔻 Brian: This situation is the inevitable result of our neoliberal economic system, in which corporations that only think about the next quarter’s stock price bribe politicians who only care about the next election.
[and perhaps those hellbent on ending no-longer useful western order for Pax Judaica shaped the neoliberal system, corporate culture, and political game? Careful sea mines left adrift soon after Operation Unthinkable was drawn up. And here we are. “… by consent or conquest” said the Bankster]
🔻 WS: Well-stated.
🔻 SilentObserver: Is your point that we shouldn’t start?
🔻 WS: No. My point is that people shouldn’t say stupid things.
[they shoulda listened to Poppy Bush and used the lampposts! The wrong fork taken in 1991..]
⭕🔻 Mike Fredenburg: Don’t Count our Next Gen Air Defense Fighters Eggs Until They Are Hatched

It has been widely reported that that F-47 prototypes have been flying since 2019, that is untrue. What has been flying are X-planes, technology demonstration aircraft. It will be many billions of dollars and a number of years before the F-47 prototype is actually flying.

For more on this see my SubStack at |link|
🔻 WS: #ArtistRenderingsGoToWar
[what’s with the silly rendering, or is it the smoke? Its wings look deformed, like thalidomide babies]
⭕🔻 Doug Ford Respecter 40K 🇨🇦🚀🇰🇵:
>he really is going senile lmfao |link|
[links:
🔻 C1: “As Americans watch their 401(k)s collapse, layoffs ripple across industries, and immigrants are reportedly being sent to foreign prisons where human rights abuses occur—Donald Trump unveils a GOLD CARD, proudly declaring:

“Yours for just $5 million!”

Tone-deaf doesn’t even begin to cover it.”]
🔻 Doug Ford Respecter 40K 🇨🇦🚀🇰🇵: meanwhile, as he’s crashing the US economy, his fucking bag holders are cheering that shit on by posting “MY COUNTRY IS NOT AN ECONOMIC ZONE!!!!!!!” on here.

you cant even make it up. sic semper burgerstanis
🔻 WS: All I know is that there a LOT of people whom I have long followed, and for whose intellect I have much respect … and yet they are, by all indications, thoroughly persuaded that this tariff gambit is going to magically — and rapidly — produce American reindustrialization.
🔻 SenshelMenshel Coastguard🔻: seems that a lot of avg folks & people in the admin think reindustrialising is a matter of calling the electric company to get the lights turned back on in some old factory, sweeping the floors, & getting a small business loan to get the mom & pop Nike factory back up and running
[they know it’s a scam. No matter. The optics keeps the deluded on board for the last bitter mile of the collective suicide, like sending F-16s to Bulgaria NOW. It was prophesied legion would ascend from the Pit and torment a quarter of mankind at the End.. guess they plague fellow travelers, proclaiming they bring “peace” even as they work to end us all]
🔻 Elydia35: been trying to explain this to friends and family all day long on facebook. A few are getting it, but a LOT are talking as if tariffs are a magic bullet, a panacea that will solve all our economic woes
🔻 Dark Roast: Same here. A lot of Americans can’t get over their America Fuck Yeah brainwashing no matter how supposedly intelligent they are. There’s also an unwillingness to admit their political opponents might be right.
[it must be conceded, Legion is pitch perfect in selling the Suicide. It was so sold, it hammered into the marrow, like covid or blue-red duality political games. They’ll be pining for the Return to Prosperity and On-Shoring, even as they hunt each other for protein meat in the dark abandoned mega-city hellholes of tomorrow]
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: ATACMS has been so effective that something like a third of the total number of missiles ever produced was fired into Russia to destroy, if I recall correctly, something like six helicopters, three SAM batteries, and a very threatening beach full of civilians.
[links:
🔻 Lord Bebo: “🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸 General Cavoli says ATACMS are very effective against Russia.

Important factor here is that NYT published proof of Cavoli and co actually running the kill chain:

– US reconnaissance find a targets
– Cavoli and Miley pick targets in Wiesbaden
– US personnel prepares the targeting data
– US person uploads it to the missiles
– Ukranian HIMARS driver lets the system shoot.

-> The US runs this show, to the point it’s full involvement

PS: The Russian interceptions capability degraded the effectiveness drastically over time.” |link|]
🔻 WS: And, per the recent NYT exposé, Cavoli himself was directly involved in the procurement and kill chain of the 500+ ATACMS delivered to Ukraine — of which it is abundantly evident fewer than 10% struck a meaningful target.

Incidentally, “cavoli” is Italian for “cabbage head”. 😏
⭕‼️ “Liberation”

Contrary to what some may think, I do understand the argument that this tariff gambit aims to radically alter the global reserve status of the US dollar, and supercharge the US economy.

I simply don’t believe it will go as planned.

I highly recommend this:
[links:
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: Check out my new post!

There’s been a lot written about Trump’s so-called ‘reciprocal tariffs’. I’m afraid I couldn’t help but contribute to this avalanche (apologies).

My latest: |link| ]
🔻 Negan: With the US federal debt, it’s worth a shot. This is a reasonable risk and doing nothing is guaranteed failure.

Only so much the executive branch can do by itself.

And please look at GDP to debt ratio, it’s more shocking than the 40 trillion number itself.
🔻 WS: Nominal GDP is a meaningless statistic. And US “GDP” is its most meaningless expression.

Most significantly, US liabilities FAR EXCEED the nominal “national debt”. Total obligations almost certainly exceed $150T.
🔻 Negan: What’s your solution to the debt crisis?

Does your solution involve Congress, because if it does you’ve already failed.
🔻 WS: There is only one “solution” to the debt crisis, just two different flavors. |link|
🔻 Truth Serum: The problem is it takes time to build up the infrastructure in the US to begin producing everything here, lack certain resources in large quantities, some countries will simply form other trade agreements and this will hit average citizens hardest and so on
🔻 Main Bad Guy: Maybe it won’t. At this stage it’s between the New Age experimental treatment in Mexico or a hospice. It’s in the bones.
🔻 Decelerationist1: That’s what I’m seeing, too. It makes far more sense for nations to bear the pain as much as possible and otherwise work to create new trade partners and even to ditch the dollar entirely
🔻 Favunc420: Agreed. This is likely to backfire spectacularly. But I will grant them one thing. This isn’t “stupid” in the way it’s being portrayed. The US painted themselves into a corner and there are no good moves left. This is just them stepping out into the wet paint with gusto.
[agreed. It is a willful move, like Samson pulling the pillars, and the roof, on himself to spite the sea of enemies. It is all Murder-Suicides going forward, whether nukes in Persia, Biowar against targeted genotypes, or this Economic war to shape Collapse to worst possible outcome against the main target]
⭕ cont. thread:
🔹 For anyone out there who believes the US can mount a ground invasion of Iran, I challenge you to describe an order of battle and a credible operational scenario.

🔹 For those who believe an air campaign alone will defeat Iran, describe for me a credible chain of events
🔻 Bob Reisner: Will, I’d like to take a crack at: ” For those who believe an air campaign alone will defeat Iran, describe for me a credible chain of events.”

1. Use standoff weapons: missiles and drones. Maybe guided dub munitions from bombers when anti air disappears.
2. Eliminate air defense (the remnants that Isreal hasn’t already done). Less than a week probably 3 days or so.
3. Take out coastal navy (we’ve done that before).
4. Take out Kharg and other oil export points, ditto refining, ditto oil storage. Boring, unsexy but important.
5. Take out rail and bridges over water.
6. Take out electric power generation.
7. Take out communications infrastructure fixed and cell concentration points, also links to international internet.
8. time for a pause and a request for surrender. Surrender allows exile for principals.
9. if no surrender then time to get serious. First good old paper drops to the general population telling them life gets better when the government ends.
10. Water and food in urban areas…wharehouses and central facilities.
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The big problem for Iran is that they cannot project power. And their military probably couldn’t move forward more than 200 miles because they don’t have a logistics tail even before bombing. Nothing close to Iran but Kuwait which will need some minor help. All Iran can do is sit and take it until they fall.

So bombing at USA liesure. Less than a year of heavy bombing crushed Japan. About 2 years for Germany. But the best old school example is Linebacker I and Linebacker II. Civil society in Iran will collapse. In urban areas, likely within 90 days. Maybe a half year for rural areas. The end game is local warlords will start to arise and will be helpful to the USA if the USA provides material assistance. Enough warlords and game over. We leave the place a mess that takes 20 years to recover, but they no longer have money or organization to project terror (think Afghanistan).

so why won’t this work?
[No comment. on his thumb, he looks like a boomer nazi. Likely retired stormtrooper or intel. Woefully behind the times. standard hopeless]
🔻 WS: I commend you for your thoughtful reply.

I have, over the past couple weeks, made four consecutive blog posts that address your arguments.

This is the most recent: 📜 Hold My Beer
⭕🔻 Alessandro Leonardi: If we want to find a minimum of logical sense in the duties of the administration Trump, more than to the markets, economic doctrines, we must look at the structures of international power, and the decline in american. You can think of that mega-duties are the birth of an elite |THREAD|
🔻 WS: Well said, brother.
⭕ Insightful thread.
links:
🔻 Labrador Skeptic: As the US pivots carriers, B-2s, & air defense systems to the Middle East, keep in mind that Trump & Hegeseth are trying to make the best of a bad situation.

1. The US has big problems on 3 fronts – Asia, Middle East & Europe – but it only has the military capability |THREAD|
⭕ Another insightful thread by the Labrador Skeptic:
links:
🔻 Labrador Skeptic: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. That is Arthur C. Clarke’s “Third Law” and based on the replies to the thread below, it definitely applies to 21st Century defense manufacturing.

Manufacturing technology is indeed magic for a large |THREAD|
🔻 Thingsneedtochange: When I was in aviation electronics “A” school in the Navy, someone asked how a transistor worked. We were told it was “F M – Fucking magic.”
⭕ 🔻 Andrius Kubilius:
No single Member State alone can stand up against Russia. But together we can.

The EU economy is many times larger than the Russian economy. Together we can outspend, outproduce and outmatch Russia.

But then we need to unite and show solidarity. |link|
🔻 WS: The Baltic chihuahuas are the toughest-talking blowhards on the planet.

They’ll get a Russian-made bark collar in due time.
⭕ ‼️ Pentagon Confessions:

Operation Whack-A-Mole in Yemen is a big fail.

Stockpiles of US missiles running out fast.

CSG-8 (USS Trembling Puppy) remains bottled-up in the northern Red Sea.

Ansarullah remains the gatekeeper of the Bab-el-Mandeb.

#TheBigAttrition continues.
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🔻 Ali Abunimah: Yemen is demilitarizing the United States |link|
🔻 DomoljubniNasveti: I wonder if this is for offensive munitions only, or do they include defensive missiles as well.
Because even if the CSG only launches one per incoming threat, that’s still about 2 million a pop, and it adds up quickly.
🔻 WS: It absolutely includes air defense missiles. It is precisely the threat from Yemeni missiles and drones that keeps the USS Trembling Puppy and its entourage cowering 1200+ km away, and precludes them running the gauntlet through the Bab-el-Mandeb in order to escape the Red Sea.
🔻 mayankites2: If you wanna believe their propaganda go ahead.
🔻 WS: Whose propaganda are you talking about?
[LOL. why i post these labor intensive threads]
🔻 Ernesto Iván Vázquez: So they’re going to run out of missiles, hope their customers want to sell the old ones
[nope. would be too embarassing to even ask as word would get out.. this is more visceral than asking for shells… the Pentagram has done its math, based on tempo and expected adequate bloodletting. They got until September to solve the dual riddles of Yemen and Iran. Apres August…]
🔻 mayankites2: That the U.S. stockpile is depleting according to the NYT
🔻 WS: The NYT is simply reporting something many have known was happening in crescendo over the past three years.

The US has no meaningful stockpiles of ANYTHING, and could not, for more than a couple weeks, prosecute a high-intensity war against any of their peer adversaries.
📜 The Arsenal of Democracy Isn’t
🔻 DennisVinyard 🇦🇱🇺🇸: I wouldn’t be surprised if China was helping the Houthis out in some way. To keep up the pace of depleting U.S. stocks.

So that when they move on Taiwan Washington won’t be able to keep up.
🔻 WS: I’ve seen zero evidence that China is “helping” them in any way. Nor do I believe it is necessary. The simple fact is that it’s nearly impossible to penetrate down into deep, well-constructed tunnels in the earth.
🔻 DennisVinyard 🇦🇱🇺🇸: Oh I’m just speculating. Perhaps aid in terms of intel not necessarily anything else.

And yes the Houthis have adopted the Iranian model of burying everything important deep underground.

China I believe is giddy about another quagmire America has found itself in.

Just like in the 2000’s where the U.S. was engaged foolishly for so long in Iraq and Afghanistan while China quietly built up to one day challenge Washington’s global hegemony.
⭕ 🤡🌎 Notwithstanding 18+ months of abject failure against Yemen, fools in Washington and chronically propagandized Americans continue to believe US air and naval power could easily roll Iran back to the stone age in a matter of days. 🤦‍♂️ |link|
🔻 Muustasch: It could, but we don’t have the political will to be that brutal.

It would take WWII style brutality. Surgical strikes wouldn’t cut it.

It would have to be a real war.
🔻 WS: In my view, this is total nonsense. The US quite simply lacks the material and logistical capability to fight a major war against Iran. And, of course, Russia and China are completely out of the question.

I describe the reality of the situation here:
[links Hold My Beer]
🔻 Muustasch: I believe your view is absurd, but that doesn’t really matter.

Let’s just hope we’re both wrong.
🔻 WS: Well … given that I know you didn’t even read the article I linked above, there is no debate to be had here.

If you decide to take the few minutes necessary to read it, I challenge you to find even ONE “absurd” statement in it.
🔻 Muustasch: Oh, I have no interest in debating you.

I do enough of that in the real world on a daily basis, and I get paid for that. It’s silly to do it for free on the internet.

At any rate, if we were willing to kill millions of Iranians in a short period of time, we would win the war quickly. We don’t have the political will to do that.

If we fought the war like we’ve done every other war since the end of WWII, we would end up in a quagmire and be bled dry.

You are correct, I didn’t read your article. I refuse to click on NYT links, since its a propaganda rag read by the most ignorant and uninformed people in the nation. I won’t participate in making that ridiculous organization money.

I assumed your original post, which I found absurd on its face, was a sufficient summary. If your article conflicts with your summary, you’re welcome to tell me about it.
🔻 WS: You are wise not to debate me. You are way out of your league.

And you have no understanding of war, nor of the current balance of powers in the world.
🔻 OLUMIDE: With the Tariff fiasco – I think war with Iran is off.
[on the contrary! It may have ensured it now. With scant time and lifeblood left, the desperate elites will throw the dice, all of them. Every day now, USUK weakens. And never has a nazi gone out gently into the good night]

Unbelievable. Thug Life Inc.’s chief orange belly dancer openly revels in the massacre of about 70 Yemeni tribal men engaged in traditional holiday celebrations. The hallmark of Pax America since 2001: the bombing of weddings, funerals, holiday gatherings, women and children, and sodomizing men in gulags. Beasts of the Apocalypse

What is the recompense of the accursed west, last legion of the last satanic empire?? They are already dead, zombies of the apocalypse, but they know it not. Sad for them. Let the bobble-heads celebrate the glorious reindustrialization and shiny futures to come. The meteors of fire and brimstone are already enroute for the deaf, dumb and blind

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Middle East Observer: Trump bombs a Yemeni tribe celebrating the end of Ramadan and promises that this will stop Ansarallah’s missiles from blockading the Red Sea for Israeli ships:

When you see people gathered in an organized, circular manner like this, you know it’s a tribal gathering.

When visitors come to visit a tribe, they are welcomed in this manner, and this gathering is for Eid al-Fitr. |media|
[The criminals bombed a civilian gathering during festivities following the holy month. This will demand blood vengeance and help consolidate Yemenis, better than sowing dragon’s teeth]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — Leave it up to the United Sates to bomb dozens of innocent Yemenis during a tribal gathering
⭕ Top: What the U.S. claims to be a gathering of ‘Houthi terrorists’

Bottom: A celebratory Yemeni tribal gathering on the day of Eid Al-Fitr.

Judge for yourself.

The U.S. military brags about wiping out gatherings of unarmed civilians. |media|
[Orange and/or his handlers know. This is intimidation of all Yemenis. That an unholy bloodletting similar to what is being done to Palestinians will start, if they do not stop Resistance. As in Gaza, they cannot get to dispersed fighters, often underground, so they will take it out on civilians above ground. And making the war-criminal in chief boast about it emphasizes it has the total opposing societal sanction, the same way the zionazis politicians boasted of the genocide they intended to do, before they began it]

💠 @Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Israel has now restricted Palestinian access to about two-thirds of Gaza, either by declaring large areas off-limits or issuing forced displacement orders, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
⭕ Sixty-five percent of the Gaza Strip is under a no-entry order, subject to Israeli movement orders, or restrictions requiring Israeli authorization for humanitarian operations: this is what the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) denounces on X, where a map appears showing the no-entry areas. “All crossings are completely closed to incoming supplies, now for two months,” and “humanitarian operations are hampered,” writes OCHA.

The map shows that the free access and free movement zones include only Gaza City and parts of the north, Khan Yunis and Deir al-Balah, as well as parts of the southern coast. A strip that follows all the borders with Israel and Egypt, the area south of Rafah, part of the coast, and the strip that cuts the Strip from east to west north of Deir al-Balah and south of Gaza City are off-limits.
⭕ Abu Obeida, military spokesman for the [Hamas’s] Al Qassam Brigades:

Half of the living enemy prisoners are in areas that the occupation army has requested be evacuated in recent days. We have decided not to transfer these prisoners from these areas and to keep them under strict security measures.

The Netanyahu government is responsible for the lives of the prisoners.

If the enemy is concerned about the lives of these prisoners, it must immediately negotiate their release. Anyone who gives warning is excused.
⭕ Trump released drone footage showing an airstrike on a Houthi gathering in Yemen.

The video, posted on his social media, shows more than 70 people gathered in what Mr. Trump described as an operational session in preparation for a future attack.

Mr. Trump accompanied the video with the following message:

“These Houthis have gathered to receive instructions for an attack. Oops, there will be no attack from these Houthis! They will never sink our ships again!”
⭕ The Trump administration sold more than 20,000 U.S.-made assault rifles to Israel last month, a sale that former President Joe Biden’s administration delayed over concerns they could be used by Israeli settlers.
[These are drip-feeding of psyops by criminal Anglo-Zionists. Designed to intimidate, demoralize, emphasize impunity. The reality is all USUK armories were already wide open, and free, to their zionazis spiritual brethren]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 📹 Footage of Israeli artillery shelling east of Gaza City |media|
[NB. Gaza City was one of the scant 1/3 of Gaza’s area declared a “safe zone” to which the civilians were herded, before being shelled, undoubtedly in order to save dwindling aerial bombs and increase killing efficiency and terror]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ ‼️ Murder

If this is legit — and it appears to be, given Trump’s apparent endorsement of it — I would categorize it as a heinous war crime.

“Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack” is patently ridiculous. This was almost certainly the brazen wanton murder of civilians.
[links:
🔻 NEUTRINO: You can see one of the scenes of the American attack on Yemenis, claiming that they are Houthis who intended to attack American ships, but in fact this is a tribal gathering in Yemen and has no connection with the Houthi military forces!”]
🔻 NEUTRINO: The New York Times report stated that the American success in Yemen has been very limited and the Americans are very unhappy with the current situation. The US president is broadcasting images of the killing of ordinary people to justify the attack. Pure evil and criminal!
🔻 (Ameen Aljermozi) 🇾🇪 أمين الجرموزي: Certainly, these gatherings are considered Yemeni customs on social occasions and are widely held throughout Yemen.
🔻 WS: Several people have now posted images of Yemeni tribal gatherings, such as this
🔻 Lee Slusher: Collateral damage assessments are used to determine the number of “acceptable” civilian casualties relative to the importance of a particular target. A more important target means greater civilian deaths are tolerated. For example, the leaked Signal chat showed their willingness to strike a residential building to get one individual, the “top missile guy.” It’s possible they had information that one or more militants were in attendance here, and so determined it was “acceptable” to bomb the gathering. It happened repeatedly at weddings in Afghanistan, because those were among the few times militants would come out of hiding to travel to known destinations. The fact that the war against Ansarallah is air-only means on-the-ground intel collection is very limited at best, as are more discrete options for killing or capturing targets. In other words, I expect such attacks will continue. So-and-so is spotted…bombs away. (An explanation, not a justification. I’m opposed to all of this.)
🔻 WS: I would not be surprised to learn that intelligence assets had concluded that someone of some degree of importance was present at this gathering.

If so, this was still an utterly reprehensible act. It is despicable.

This was an act that is likely to ignite unpredictable wrath.
🔻 Michelle Ogno 🇺🇸: It’s a war crime.
🔻 Elly Maloba: @nxt888 [Sony Thang] debating Scott Ritter, was very right in describing this phase of the “Empire At All Cost” war-legalese methodology
🔻 IndoPacificInstitute: Such gatherings are mainly during ceremony (marriage)? US was doing same in Afghanistan, that did not end well.
🔻 Gran Maestro: Unsurprisingly,Ted Cruz didn’t waste any time in praising the bombing.
🔻 OsageCatZ: Hospitals, funerals, weddings
When Imperial City needs a body count.
🔻 يحي ابن قايد الشدادي: |more such gatherings|
⭕ Criminal

Over the course of the past three years, I have viewed graphic scenes of warfare from around the world.

But I have never been more outraged than I am about this American strike against a typical civilian gathering of men in a village in Yemen.

It is CRIMINAL.
[satanism is being mainstreamed. Like Zionazis gathering nightly in front of TVs to delight in witnessing dismembered and incinerated Palestinian children, so will the banquet be prepared for the Last Shining City on the Hill. This will be the prescribed palliative for societal implosion and the hellish chickens coming home to roost. Optical switcheroo. “at least we can murder them with impunity” like a remote video game]
🔻 WS: I would not be surprised to learn that intelligence assets had concluded that someone of some degree of importance was present at this gathering.

If so, this was still an utterly reprehensible act. It is despicable.

This was an act that is likely to ignite unpredictable wrath.
🔻 WS: To clarify: I am not making a comparison between atrocities. Sniping children in Gaza is beyond the pale.

But this one is uniquely reprehensible because the President of the United States himself posted the video and gloated over it on social media like a snuff film aficionado.
🔻 Pavel +: Intelligence is a pr machine at this point in time.
🔻 Nabil Elsherif Roca: One of the lessons of Afghanistan and Iraq should have been that scenes like this, harden the resolve of the populations that they are waging war against.
🔻 Arbitrary Nihilism: The US has been hijacked by a bunch of disgusting murderers and my country now is a force of evil in the world. I hate our traitor government.
🔻 Dirty Lowdown Rabble.: Trump looks at a genocide and sees a real estate money-making opportunity. Are you surprised?
🔻 Philomedia: That is what is so confusing. The picture American is painting of itself is not just tough or “America first.”
It shows a people unmeasured, lacking in self control, ruthless. The picture of low-IQ, self-satisfied moral turpitude.
A bully’s display, ultimately, of weakness.
🔻 Beefabear: I have seen plenty of these strikes in Gaza now with civilians getting blown to hell. Nobody of any note, including the other Arab states, care.
⭕ Keep mental note of who rushes to endorse this war crime.
[links:
🔻 Ted Cruz: What did they think “We will find you—and we will kill you” meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?]
[Lyin’ Ted and Graham are actually among the most honest. Bernie and AOC and the Dems are the real dangerous ones, capable of hiding their dripping fangs and masking appetites]
🔻 Pleas Lucian: The complete absence of any sense of accountability is actually impressive. These people are so blind with bloodlust that the possibility of tribunals never even occurs to them as they confess their crimes against humanity all over the Internet.
🔻 D.M. Voan: These dickheads are exactly like the NeoCons after 9/11. Nothing changed. It just got worse.
🔻 AT: “We can’t do anything to you militarily, so we’ll just jerk off hard to seeing a few of you blown to bits”
🔻 Modern Day Philosophy: Quick question sir

Why /How would the Houthis just gather without weapons and other arsenals in an open place just like that
🔻 der Bär: I can’t get over how pathetic this is. So starved for a win (or to avoid looking too impotent), they are bragging about lobbing a missile at a gathering with no evident military equipment.

I disagree with the ending PoV. Given the lack of serious Syrian support, incomplete western defeat in 404, larger global unawareness of Anglo-Zionist depravity and genocidal mentality, and the correlation of forces with most regional states alligned with Empire – Nasrallah, Persians, and Yemeni political bureaus demonstrated wisdom in slow-walking it. It was not time for full war. And they were honest and said it was a long-term attrition. The military guys may have been correct in their short-term rationalization, but the political cadre had the long-view wiser approach… and have been bourne out since, even with extreme losses to date – all the antagonists of zionism, salifism, and the West are now dead meat in the region. What remains is the manner of removing the dead weight.

Syria is boiling. He thinks it will soon be the epicenter of overall Resistance. And it is true – at the Second Coming, Damascus will have returned to the Resistance, and be besieged by the Moshiach. Interesting changes of fortune ahead.
He makes three other excellent points –

1. as in Russia, Yemen and other martial lands, the Syrian people are highly versed in small and heavy weapons, and have easy access. 90% or so were either in the army or reservists, having a direct border with satanic Legion. As in USA, there are 3x more weaponry than Syrians. So all the bombing of zionazis in last months barely touched the stocks – only the larger and known depots. Each town, village, city and neighborhood has armed men. They will have to clear them one by one, time which they lack given developments overall. Even sending the headchopper Horde to help them will not suffice, as they’re too few and exposed. Syria is a delightful tar pit
2. Virtually all native Syrians hate zionazis. Even those at odds with former regime. Knives are drawn for the zionazis in every town. Daraa, the closest town, of the Druze, killed a bunch of zionazis a few days ago.
3. the syrian headchoppers have exposed Salafism, the GCC and Erdogan. They continue to collaborate, whilst being invaded by zionazis! Without even decency to protest the rape. This will awaken the entire comatose sunnis, who now see the compradores for who they are. And that may have the brilliant plan in opening the gates of Damascus to the Horde – it will bring the sunni majority physically into the fight and sideline the demented Salafi branch of Legion. It may be a Big Club, but they’re being taken down one by one

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕🇦🇲🇪🇺🇷🇺 Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan signed the law initiating Armenia’s accession process to the European Union.

The Russian Deputy Prime Minister stated that Moscow views Armenia’s discussions on the EU accession bill as the beginning of the country’s withdrawal from the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).

The Armenian Minister of Economy, meanwhile, stated that Yerevan has no intention of withdrawing from the EAEU.
[note the insistence of the compradore Armenian regime to stay as a trojan within the EAEU. This mirrors the other compradores of the GCC and their role in BRICS. Empire has many ways to spoil the soup. Russia is taking a refreshing approach – “choose us or our existential enemies”]

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Houthi leader Abdel Malik al-Houthi:

We are not like those who watch the crimes of the Israeli enemy in Gaza. On the contrary, we assume our responsibility before God and will continue to support the oppressed Palestinian people.

We will not be intimidated by the United States. We will continue our operations, and what matters to us is that God be pleased with us (…).

We can still launch missiles and drones at sea and deep into enemy territory.

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸After the introduction of new tariffs on goods from most countries of the world, more than 7 trillion dollars burned up in the US stock market in just over 2 days.
The stock market decline was the 4th in recorded history.

Banks predict the start of a recession in the US as early as this year.

The Trump administration, meanwhile, claims that these are all temporary fluctuations and that when they all cave in, it will bring hundreds of billions of dollars a year to the budget.

But judging by China’s response, the consequences will be much more serious than Washington expects.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Zlatti71: 🇵🇱🇺🇦 Poland has its eyes on Odessa

In the West, Ukraine is not seen as a subject, but as a territory with price tags on its assets. Poland’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Michał Kołodziejczak, is proposing to lease or purchase the port of Odessa for 50 years, along with 500,000 hectares of land for livestock farming, according to TV channel Polsat.

The motive is simple: the Poles want their own grain port to profit from wheat exports to African countries, which means Warsaw needs direct access to the Black Sea.

Kołodziejczak also proposed banning Ukrainian agricultural companies from investing in Poland for ten years if Ukraine joins the European Union.

He added that the idea was his own, but it strongly resembles Trump’s “resources in exchange for aid” approach.
🔻 WS: Absurdity to the nth degree.
reposts his older:
“History teaches us to never underestimate the Poles’ prodigious talent for geopolitical blunder; grossly mismanaging their international relations in advance of a great-power conflict, and then getting trampled to rubble in the ensuing maelstrom.”
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Glenn Diesen: US is burning through its munition in Yemen, leaving it without precision weapons to confront China
– US already emptied much of its weapon stockpiles after 3 years of proxy war against Russia
– Now US needs antimony and other rare earth metals from China to rearm to fight China
🔻 Michael P. Gerace: It’s odd how the US allowed itself to become dependent on China for the provision of militarily significant goods (raw materials, components), while loudly proclaiming China the greatest threat to the US.
🔻 Derek Weldon: That sounds fucked up.
🔻 Marrado: If a couple of weeks of light bombing of one of the poorest Arab countries is enough to exhaust their supplies they shouldn’t even think about taking on China
🔻 G.J.Quartermaine 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿: The USA could bomb Yemen for the next 100 years without making much of a dent. Saudi, with US/UK assist, bombed the Houthi for a decade; look who is in power. Yemenis are ten times tougher than Afghans, and the topography is much more difficult. Wise up.
⭕ ‼️ BREAKING: Trump on his knees in Jerome Powell’s office.

I would not be here on my knees
But hey, mister banker
It means so much to me
Oh, won’t you reconsider, mister
Won’t you do this thing for me? |link|
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: Speaking of BANKERS, I hope that Will does not mind if I leave this related information here:

The American public has changed political parties too often and yet ended up with the same continuity of agenda, because the root cause is that WHOEVER CONTROLS THE MONEY SUPPLY OF A STATE, CONTROL THE ENTIRE NATION AND WRITES THE LAWS OF ITS SOCIETY.

This is not a novel revelation. James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, famously remarked, “He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation” (when he was a congressman in 1866). Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who founded the Rothschild banking dynasty in Frankfurt, Germany, in the 1760s, and whose sons expanded it across European cities, including London (Britain, 1811), Paris (France, 1817), Vienna (Austria, 1820), and Naples (Italy, 1821), famously said: “Give me control of a nation’s money, and I care not who makes its laws.”

Evidently, the Rothschilds have cunningly achieved the control they long sought.
⭕ 🔥 Yemen MQ-9 Score Update — XVII

Meanwhile, the Yemeni have now shot down another MQ-9, bringing the total to SEVENTEEN over the past year+.
📜 Scorch Marks in the Sand
🔻 Beto Ochoa: What would happen if they had an S300 instead of Manpads and Soviet era SA-3s,
🔻 WS: To my knowledge, the Yemeni are using neither MANPADs nor old Soviet missiles. They are using domestically produced SAMs to do the job.
🔻 Beto Ochoa: Thanks for the information. It takes sophisticated precision machining to fabricate a weapon like that. I used to make parts for Navy SAMs at a place near you down in Spanish Fork where they also produce North American Arms pistols.
So I’m impressed the Yemeni are so advanced.
🔻 WS: No doubt they use some components obtained from others. That’s how these things work. But the Yemeni are very intelligent and resourceful.
⭕🔻 Kirill A. Dmitriev:
We’ve been tracking which media outlets keep pushing fake, negative narratives about Russia to undermine peace. They’re a loud minority—but strangely in sync. So, are they part of a coordinated smear campaign, or just coincidentally idiotic?
🔻 Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵: Lmao, you’ve been tracking critics?

Maybe try tracking a spine instead!

You’re not being attacked, Kirill.

You’re being remembered—for what you are:

A bootlicking oligarch mouthpiece who traded the lives of our men for dinner invitations and photo ops.
[this is too harsh. He does have a function, like the reformists in Iran. His kind gives the desperate false hope and less likelihood of pressing big red buttons. So let him have away and while away and waste their time]
🔻 WS: 🔥 Ouch!
⭕🔻 Iran Observer: ⚡️BREAKING

China buys record amounts of Iranian oil despite Trump’s warnings

Iran exported 1.91 million barrels of oil per day to China in March
🔻 WS: And there is not a damn thing the US can do about it.
🔻 Here_4_D_News: Maybe, but this is, in very real and very, very substantive geopolitical terms, China’s Achilles heel.
🔻 WS: What is China’s Achilles heel?
🔻 Right-wing Grifter: Oil and trade from the sea to china can be cut off easily
[one-trick ponies still fighting the imperial Japanese military of 80 years ago!]
🔻 Rob vC 🆓: Mwah, jews & yanks will start bombing Iran any day now..
🔻 WS: That would be a foolish mistake.
📜 Scorch Marks in the Sand
🔻 Decelerationist1: Which, along with Trump losing control of the trade war, increases the likelihood. He’ll be desperate for a distraction and something to make him look strong
🔻 WS: I understand this is prevalent assumption: that a “Wag the Dog” war will provide a salutary distraction from all the other stuff.

Problem I see is there are #NoEasyWarsLeftToFight. And the next one, instead of serving as a distraction, could easily become a disastrous blunder.
🔻 Decelerationist1: 100% agree. It also fits the textbook “declining empire flailing militarily to regain dominance” pattern and he needs a distraction AND to shut up the yapping zionist donors
🔻 Ernesto Iván Vázquez: Well you can do a trade war to colapse the oil price so China can Buy it Even cheaper wherever they want
🔻 OsageCatZ: 1/2 USEmpire Navy blocked on wrong side of Bab Al Mandab.
Largest Naval Battle in USEmpire history now underway.
🔻 Varun chauhan: US can seize the oil tankers then start world war
🔻 WS: They could seize some right off the bat. But I bet they wouldn’t seize anymore after that. And they would likely get a couple warships sunk or severely damaged in exchange for their presumptuousness.

Last I saw, the US could only put 60 surface warships to sea at any given time.
🔻 Blue-Orange Gator: 1 US aircraft carrier sunk 80% of Iran’s navy in a span of 6 hours, for no damage in return, just because they wouldn’t leave an oil platform in the middle of the ocean. Just because you are geopolitically illiterate doesn’t mean the rest of us need to be too
🔻 WS: 🤣

1988 was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 The Kobeissi Letter: White House official on President Trump’s “thinking” right now, per the Washington Post [Left]
🔻 Kathleen Tyson: Whole world is watching this end of empire drama. [Right]
⭕🔻 Von Clownsewitz’s War College: <tiny violin sounds>
🔻 Ian Miles Cheong: USAID money ran out.
🔻 Lasurak: Weird, only after USAID disappeared. 🤔
🔻 Russians With Attitude: The most terrible tragedy for “independent” media is to actually become independent

Sweet libtard tears
🔻 WS: You do have to hand it to the Mediazona guys: for three years running they successfully convinced a lot of seemingly intelligent and discerning people that they were a reliable source of Russian casualty numbers.
⭕🔻 Brian McDonald:
Wondering why Putin picked Kirill Dmitriev—not a general or diplomat—to lead talks with Trump’s team?

Simple: he speaks fluent Republican.
Fox, Newsmax, prime time. First high-level Russian on U.S. TV in years—delivering Moscow’s case in their language. |media|
🔻 WS: I suspect one of his primary objectives will be keeping the Trump admin principals sufficiently distracted long enough for the Russians to eradicate the remaining AFU, and then annex Sumy, Kharkov, Dnipropetrovsk, Nikolaev, and Odessa.
🔻 Dazzed Peter: how would that work, in practical terms, annexing those Oblasts and cities?

how long would it take?
🔻 WS: In my opinion, they all will jump at the chance to federate, by referendum, as did the Donbass.

And, if not, they will be encouraged strongly to do so.

They would be nuts not to do it. They can see clearly the geopolitical winds have changed, along with the balance of power.
🔻 Dazzed Peter: ok, but as with the Donbass, Russia would have to ‘conquer’ those territories, right?

how does Russia conquer Odessa, the city, and all other cities? Destroying them in a long and deadly fight?

and then calling for referendums?

i don’t understand
🔻 WS: You seem to believe there are mighty armies waiting in the rear to oppose the Russians. That is not the case. The enemy army is right in front of them, and it is on the verge of collapse. Once it crumbles, there will be no more meaningful organized military opposition.
🔻 Reticulous Man: Yeah, Dmitriev has no official functions, meaning what he says will be treated as his opinion only, besides providing information from alternative unofficial sources.
[good point. Russians send plausible deniable oligarch for meaningless photo-ops. Imagine if the tables of 1991 are turned, when Baker and Bush said, “not one inch to the East. Trust us”. Revenge a dish best served chilled in Russkie land. If the pirates refuse to be civilized, and sign the surrender documents, all they will get is Dmitriev and “Trust us” in their turn. Meanwhile Gerasimov continues rolling westward like the Tide]
⭕ cont. thread:
🔻 WS: And, per the recent NYT exposé, Cavoli himself was directly involved in the procurement and kill chain of the 500+ ATACMS delivered to Ukraine — of which it is abundantly evident fewer than 10% struck a meaningful target.

Incidentally, “cavoli” is Italian for “cabbage head”. 😏
🔻 Karim Karabu : 🤣
I see where you got this
But no
Cavolo = type of cauliflower (pic)

You’re thinking “testa di cavolo” [cauliflower head], a polite placeholder for “testa di cazzo” [dickhead].
We use “cavolo/cavoli” in front of children or ladies.

OTOH his head… recalls the UNpolite term🤭
🔻 WS: No no no.

“Cavolo” = cabbage. Or “cavulu” in siciliano. I never heard anyone refer to a cabbage by any other word except “cavolo”. Cauliflower = cavolfiore.
🔻 Karim Karabu : The point was “testa di cavolo”
Cavolo (alone) is not cabbage HEAD😉

Cavolo is confusing as it’s an umbrella term
Cabbage=verza/cavolo cappuccio
Cauliflower=cavolfiore/cavolo bianco/cavolo
Cavolo nero/toscano [pic1]
Cavolo siciliano/cavolo broccolo [pic2]
Cavolo romanesco [pic3] |media|
🔻 WS: I don’t dispute any of that.

But I consorted with common folk who used “cavolo” broadly. We used “cavolo” (stand-alone, no “testa di”) as multipurpose short-hand for “cabbage head”, or “dope”, etc.

We never used “cazzo”, but used “cavolo” as a milder idiomatic substitute.
[there are likely differences within the long boot called Italia. From northern Germanic region, through mixed Rome, down into semitic Sicilia… but dickhead clears all confusion and is simple enough and most apt for the sorry specimen under discussion]
⭕ cont. thread:
📜 A Nation within A Nation
🔻 Dodo: How did Mexico lose Utah?
🔻 WS: Was annexed by the United States as a result of the 1846-1848 Mexican/American War.
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: My main takeaway from this is that rural life in flat, boring areas leads couples to seek the oldest form of entertainment.
[do I see Anoxia inching into the Blue?]
🔻 WS: Interesting.

Out of curiosity, I asked Grok for a list of the Top 20 US counties by birth rate. There are 11 Utah counties on the list. 🤣🤰 Fecundity is our watchword. 😏

#DemographyIsDestiny
🔻 C2: It is probably because that state is the birthplace of the Latter-day Saint religion, better known as Mormons, who focus on family and procreation, one of the foundations of their doctrine.
🔻 WS: Upstate New York was the birthplace of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They moved to Kirtland, Ohio and western Missouri; were driven out of Missouri to Illinois, then were driven out of Illinois to Nebraska, from where they relocated to the Great Basin in 1847.
⭕ ‼️ Truth Will Out

My friend Michael Vlahos has produced the definitive critique of the recent Ukraine War revisionist history PSYOP brought to us by the consistently mediocre rhetoricians at the New York Times.

I give this magisterial essay my highest recommendation.
[links:
🔻 Michael Vlahos: I have new piece out. Anatole Lieven calls it a “ferocious philippic” — and it needs to be, given that its target is the notorious NYT “The Partnership:The Secret History of the War in Ukraine” — You can check it out here: |link|

⭕🔻 The Spectator Index: JUST IN: Donald Trump says ‘only the weak will fail’
🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: “We have to look beyond good and evil, folks. We have to will to power, and we’re willing it very strongly. There’s nobody that wills more than me, believe me. They say, life is will to power, and it’s so true. It’s a beautiful thing. The will is incredible.”
[this lunacy appears directed at the internal cleansing to commence…]
🔻 rekt 🐻: let the hunger games begin.
🔻 Zama 🔮🧙‍♂️ 🔎𝕏: Guess the stock market is weak af
🔻 C4:  [☝️]
🔻 Zimm: Tell that to all the American businesses and owners who are going to lose their livelihoods
🔻 WS: My wife says she fully concurs: “Will is incredible.” 😏

But she always says silly stuff like that, so I wouldn’t take her as an authority.
⭕ cont thread:
‼️ Murder

If this is legit — and it appears to be, given Trump’s apparent endorsement of it — I would categorize it as a heinous war crime.

“Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack” is patently ridiculous. This was almost certainly the brazen wanton murder of civilians.
🔻 Dr Ragin: I wonder what he mean by “again” related to sinking US ships. As far as I could find, only two ships have been sunk. One Greek and one British.
🔻 WS: I noted that.

There have been no US ships sunk, neither commercial nor warships.
[the clue may be in the need to lie.. imagine the justification provided to the genocidal maniacs if Yemen had actually shot to sink. Although the barrier may now be breached due to ongoing circumstance and need for deterrence. The satanists mistake reticence and strategy for fear and inability]
🔻 Robin van den Heever: A Yemeni official has stated that this was a Houthi base.
🔻 WS: You apparently don’t understand Yemen is still in a state of civil war, and that there is a US-supported “Yemen” government in opposition to Ansarullah.
[even if there weren’t traitors and lying western media, folks need to reflect and engage the higher cortex. Would a state at war give any brownie points to the satanic enemy? You hear of the same risible psyop in British rags, from “senior Iranian officials” etc.]
🔻 Russians With Attitude: “ships” (plural)
“again”

Both the people saying that it’s clearly a Houthi military meeting and the people saying that it’s clearly a civilian prayer circle sound silly. No way to know for us. Certainly looks like random tribal activities but the presence of one or several HVTs would justify a strike
🔻 WS: I would not be surprised to learn that intelligence assets had concluded that someone of some degree of importance was present at this gathering.

If so, this was still an utterly reprehensible act. It is despicable.

This was an act that is likely to ignite unpredictable wrath.
🔻 Russians With Attitude: I think all the other strikes on purely civilian infrastructure in the last decade have already ignited some wrath
🔻 WS: Yes … but the President of the United States didn’t post video and gloat about it on social media. THAT is the part I find so incredible and offensive.
🔻 Sven: That’s his Ego, same day Russians hit the hotel in Ukarine and human casulties were reported. Seems like he wants to send a message, “We still have more bombs than you”
🔻 WS: I don’t believe, by any measure, the US possesses more bombs of any type than do the Russians. In any putative war between the US and Russia, Russia would consistently have a significant firepower and long-range strike advantage.
⭕🔻 Basil🧡: Not a single person on wall street believes these tariffs will last more than 2 months and its about to get very bad when they realize this
🔻 Matt: From a Goldman Sachs investor survey I did today. This is 240 respondents, all clients. This IS a pretty good read on where Street is.
[who was it said the con artist is last to miss the mark in himself? Imagine how these pirates will feel when they realize they were given the same treatment as the german industrialists! The Horror! To WE the Exceptionals! Yep. They shall be pawns in “the greater good” to harm Big China]
🔻 Doug Ford Respecter 40K 🇨🇦🚀🇰🇵: Either Trump capitulates or the real, actual, depression level economic panic kicks in.

Yuri, we give praise for your works
🔻 WS: I note that there are quite a few smart people who are convinced this is “part of a grand plan”.

For my own part, I don’t see that it matters whether or not they have “a plan”. Given the dynamics of the moment, and the principal actors in play, NOTHING will go as planned.
🔻 🇿ulway, Cornucopian📯🚳☢️🔻: I am somewhere between these two right now.
🔻 Petit Dessalines 🔻🇭🇹 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 🇱🇧 🇮🇶 🇮🇷: The tariffs policy is based on a white paper Stephen Miran (Trump’s chief economic adviser). The plan is using tariffs to reindustrialize America, have nations around the world devalue their currency.. The scary thing it assumes everything will go to plan. No backup plan.
⭕🔻 Natasha Bertrand: The total cost of the US military’s operation against the Houthis is nearing $1 billion in ~3 weeks. But Houthis still Houthi-ing…earlier this week, they shot down another US MQ-9 Reaper drone—the second one shot down since the offensive began.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: We’re using JASSMs against the Houthis.

The hell kind of air defenses do these people have?
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Unless the Iran sent them a ton of advanced air defense systems recently, in which case it makes perfect sense… and Iran just pantsed us because we’re now having to use Major League equipment on a AA-ball team.

(I apologize to my international readers for the baseball analogy)
🔻 WS: Is it possible JASSMs have simply become the biggest pile left in the warehouse?
[and likelihood of use in Asia-Pacific recedes by the hour? So why not use it]
🔻 Cephas: I think both points are possible, very much so and I wouldn’t be suprised if both are true to an extent. However, a third option could be that things that are said on CNN could also be taken with a grain of salt.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 zerohedge: China has three options:

1. Concede defeat to whatever terms Trump demands
2. Devalue the yuan by 20-40%
3. Unleash biggest fiscal stimulus in its history (talking $2-3 trillion) which will push its debt off the chart
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: This is American exceptionalism on steroids, completely disconnected from reality.

China will do what it always does when faced with U.S. hostile actions: they won’t talk much but trigger policies that will demonstrate in due time that these actions were utterly counter-productive to the U.S.

In particular, the key objective of Trump here is to “bring manufacturing back home”. And it just so happens that China, as the world’s sole manufacturing superpower today and the world’s largest consumer market, controls a lot of cards when it comes to manufacturing.

If you just take the pharmaceutical industry for instance: how would you bring the manufacturing of this back home when China dominates the global supply of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and many key chemical precursors essential for drug manufacturing? You’re stuck, you need those to do drug manufacturing.

Of course you could also try to bring the manufacturing of those back home too but, to do so, you’d need specialized equipment which – guess what – is also largely manufactured in China.

But sure, you could therefore decide to bring the manufacturing of those specialized equipment back home as well but, to do so, you’d need other critical materials that China currently dominates the processing of globally.

And so on and so forth. This “turtles all the way down” problem exists across virtually ALL industries worldwide, which means that China – if they decide so – is in effective control of whether Trump achieves his principal objective, or not.

And if he doesn’t, then he’ll just have made prices for everything the U.S. buys much more expensive for U.S. consumers, as well as shot U.S. companies in the foot with more expensive production costs and losses of critical markets, with very little to show for it in exchange.

Meanwhile China’s economy doesn’t rely on exports to the U.S., they represent less than 3% of its GDP.

Sure, as many people rightly point out, a lot of what China sells to other countries – like Vietnam – is in fact U.S.-bound and that will get affected too. But even if one was to take a maximalist number, the hit actually wouldn’t be too important.

Exports overall are 18% of China’s GDP and the U.S. accounts for roughly 30% of global consumer spending so at most we’re talking about 30% * 18% = 5.4% of China’s GDP getting affected.

And how much of that 5.4% is genuinely vulnerable? Only the portion where the U.S. can realistically reshore manufacturing – something which again China has numerous tools to impede. So we may be talking a 1 or 2% hit on GDP in the worst case scenario, for a country growing at 5% a year. The effect is marginal.

Heck, the effect will probably even be overall positive for China. With his trade war, Trump is antagonizing virtually the entire world, pushing countries closer to China as an alternative economic partner. Even Japan – Japan! – is now edging closer to China (link).

When Trump imposed tariffs in his first term, what happened? The EU, Japan, Canada, and others didn’t join America’s crusade – they accelerated their own trade deals with China. RCEP became the world’s largest trade agreement. Belt and Road Initiative investments expanded. Yuan-denominated trade increased. China’s position as the central hub of Asian manufacturing networks strengthened, not weakened.

And during Trump’s first term China was largely caught by surprise. This time they knew what to expect and they’re much better positioned for it.

All in all, think about it, who’s most likely to end up the loser in this struggle:

1. The U.S., which has to somehow rebuild entire manufacturing ecosystems that took decades to develop in China (and which, as we saw, China has tools to impede), will face higher inflation as import costs rise, and whose companies will lose access to the world’s fastest growing consumer market?

2. Or China, which has been systematically reducing its U.S. dependence for years, has already established itself as the manufacturing hub for most of the world, and can redirect exports to its own massive domestic market and other international partners?

The fundamental miscalculation here is viewing global trade as a zero-sum game where America can simply dictate terms through force, rather than acknowledging the complex interdependences at play.

This isn’t just American exceptionalism – it’s American delusion.
🔻 Stay Curious: When you account for US multi national corporations trading inside China v Chinese MNCs in the US there is a $65B US surplus not a $282B deficit!
For example Apple earns around $30 billion annually in gross profit from China, based on its $100+ billion in annual sales there (about 20-25% of its global revenue).
With over 600,000 vehicles sold in 2024 (about half its global total) Tesla’s China profits are estimated to be $5-7 billion annually.
Consumer Goods firms (e.g., Nike, Starbucks): report China as a high-growth, high-margin market, with profit margins often exceeding 15-20%.
Vast profits are flowing from China to the US that America is choosing to ignore in their trade calculations.
(source = Deepseek)
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Excellent point!
🔻 Nights in film: What would have been smarter is a long term industrial policy that made headways 5-10 years ago, with the introduction of tariffs after the base was put in place. American hasn’t done that. I suspect this policy won’t last long, and negotiations will be sold as “wins”
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: I agree this is probably the most likely outcome. Backtracking spinned as a win.

“Canaduh will lead the world – PM”

Who unleashed the canucks on mankind?!

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇮🇷🇺🇸| Video visually explaining how Iran can turn Diego Garcia island hosting US’ Airbase into a scorched earth, if US acts foolish.

The video names Iran’s allies as “proxies” which of course is wrong. But the technical explanation is interesting. |media|
⭕ The US admitting that they use the “neutral” IAEA (Int’l Atomic agency) agents in Iran as spies

– US Congress asks: “What’s the obstacle to using non-diplomatic [military] options?

• Response from the former head of the Iran desk at the CIA: “Our information on Iran’s nuclear sites is incomplete because Iran has restricted full access for IAEA inspectors.” |media|
[well after the IAEA exposed itself through conduct of its zionazi head in Iran and Russia’s Z-NPP and Kursk NPP.. it’s admitting the blindingly obvious. They have as much integrity as OSCE, or the UNSG, etc..]

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇩🇰🇬🇱🇺🇸 MAGA hats in Greenland

“Make America disappear”

“Make America Go Away”

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷 Top Ukrainian military officials are meeting in Kiev with the heads of the British and French armed forces — Admiral Sir Tony Radakin and General Thierry Burkhard.

The main topic of discussion is the potential deployment of a Western military presence in Ukraine after the war ends.

“There’s been real progress, and we’re beginning to see the first details of how a security contingent from partner nations might be deployed,” said Zelensky.

Both London and Paris had previously announced plans to send top military leadership to Kiev to explore this issue.

However, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, who recently met with Donald Trump, stated that now is not the right time to be discussing the deployment of peacekeepers in Ukraine.
[that’s the bastard Radakin, second from right. Unbelievable. The lunatics are gonna actually dare the Bear and waltz into the Grinder!]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ US Army Considers Cutting 90,000 Troops Amid Strategic Shift, Military Portal Reports

🗣 “A move that underscores mounting fiscal pressures at the Pentagon and a broader shift in military strategy away from Europe and counterterrorism,” an American portal reported, citing unnamed military officials.

It’s unclear whether the reforms will affect Reserve or National Guard personnel; however, discussions of reducing the US Army from its current 450,000 troops are still underway.

As the portal explains, military strategists intend to turn the US ground forces into a “more agile, specialized instrument better suited for future conflicts.”

Earlier, US media reported that the Pentagon was exploring significant cuts at the top level of the US military command, as well as merging US European Command with Africa Command and combining US Northern Command and US Southern Command into one entity.
[are they gonna go full Terror on humanity, a la Gaza and Yemen now? There is no goodwill left. Every move is to deepen malice and satanism]
⭕ 📹 China Completing Construction of World’s Tallest Bridge

Opening in June 2025, the 2,890-meter steel bridge over Huajiang Grand Canyon will soar 625 meters above sea level, transforming a 70-minute journey into a 1-minute crossing, according to Chinese media. |media|
[I’ve gone rock climbing and don’t fear heights, unlike the rolling deep blue sea. But this is too much]

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel has the most immoral and unethical army in the world. Video footage of a medic team exposing Israel’s lies, crimes against humanity and war crimes, contradicting the Israeli account of Gaza medic killings. Not the first time and won’t be the last.
⭕ retweet:
‘Forgive me, mother. This is the path I chose—to help people.’

These were the last words of Rifaat Radwan, who filmed his own murder in Rafah. He was part of a Red Crescent convoy aiding wounded civilians. The convoy—clearly marked, unarmed, with flashing lights—was attacked on March 23, 2025.

For five days, the UN and Red Crescent were denied access to search for the missing rescue workers. When granted entry, they found 15 rescuers buried in a mass grave. The UN and Red Cross have called it the deadliest assault on their workers since 2017.

On April 2, the IDF stated that on March 23, ‘several vehicles were identified advancing suspiciously toward IDF troops without headlights or emergency signals,’ and their movement wasn’t coordinated in advance, prompting troops to open fire on these ‘suspected vehicles.’

However, the paramedic’s video, recovered from his body and verified by The New York Times, shows the convoy’s emergency lights were on, contradicting the IDF’s claim and proving their account of the attack was a lie.

💠@BhadraPunchline:
⭕ After the diplomatic pirouette of a month or two, Russia reverts to its condemnation of US policies in yet another signal that Moscow has given up hopes of a negotiated Ukraine settlement with Trump administration. Truly, Iran issue is a bellwether! |link|
⭕ Trump’s hopes of bullying China to invest are dashed. Saudi-Emirati sheikhs have done just the opposite to placate Trump – $1 trillion & 1.4 respectively. A good opportunity for our sheikhs too to invest in US – provided of course there’s money to spare? |link|
⭕ New York Times reported that Beijing stalls on giving a date for Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping until greater clarity about relations. BTW, Xi will be chief guest at May 9 Red Square parade marking 80th anniversary of Russia’s victory over Nazi Germany. |link|
[Victory Day is in just over a month…]
⭕ What could be “new level” of inter-state relations beyond comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination? “Wang & Lavrov talked about Ukraine crisis, & the two sides also coordinated their positions.. particularly developments in Asia-Pacific region.” |link|
⭕ Kirill Dmitriev’s trip to DC signifies Putin pinning hopes on detente with US anchored on solid foundation of common business interests & global stability. Trump should decouple US from epochal defeat in Ukraine war which is Biden legacy. Time running out. |link|
⭕ Stupid move! Trump back to old trail to another maverick presidential term. US has no hopes on earth to take on Russia & China simultaneously plus Iran time-bomb. How can Trump succeed where Biden-Blinken’s ‘sanctions from hell’ failed spectacularly? |link|
[Forrest Trump: “Life’s like a box of Chocolates…”]
⭕ Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, & Kuwait have told US they will not permit their airspaces or territories to be used as launchpad against Iran, including for refuelling & rescue operations, said a senior US official. “They do not want to be drawn in.”
[irrelevant. As said by IRGC commander Hajizadeh and Prof Marandi, they WILL be leveled, per force, as host 50k+ stormtroopers, hardware, and are a liability which cannot be ignored, even if passive. The ONLY way the criminal compradores can save themselves is leaving GCC, evicting the bases, and turning their policies toward the Resistance. The Empire permits no neutrality. Ergo, their current postures render them complicit and accountable for Zio-USUK crimes]
⭕ Larijani, advisor to Iran’s supreme leader: External threats—particularly from US & Israel—could place Iran in a situation where it is forced to reconsider its nuclear policies if its very existence comes under direct attack.

‘In times of crisis and threats to national security, Iran could invoke secondary religious rulings. These rulings can temporarily override primary religious obligations in extraordinary circumstances, prioritizing the survival of the nation. Imam Khomeini’s statement

‘preserving the Islamic system is the most essential obligation” reinforces this doctrinal and strategic perspective. Consequently, in the face of serious threats, Iran may temporarily set aside certain primary principles to ensure the system’s survival.’ |link|
⭕ Hmm. Incipient sign that Europeans want to come out of the foxhole they dug for themselves. Why would Putin oblige when communication line to Trump is already working? |link|

💠@Alon Mizrahi:
⭕ Have you noticed how Muslim and Arab women are the magnificent trailblazers of our era, with endless courage, conviction, leadership skills and inspiration coming out of this group? Intihal Aboussad makes a shining example of this phenomenon (and there are so many).

I’d be so proud if I were a member of her community. A beam of light in terrible darkness |link|
🔻 Cri(si) nella Cripta: and they are of unparalleled haughty elegance, even in the worst conditions
🔻 AM: This picture fills me with endless sadness
[the leading one of the Gaza Eid commemorations]
🔻 Cri(si) nella Cripta: Me too, but these young ladies are also an example of dignity & moral strength: they do not renounce coquetry, nor the celebration of their faith, nor honoring the traditions of their community. They do not renounce anything that is important to them.
⭕🔻 Seyed Mohammad Marandi: The Friday Prayer Imam of Najaf [Iraq]:

“In Iraq, 5 US bases are exposed and completely within range. Targeting them is easy because they are within direct firing range of Iran’s artillery. In the first moment, these five US bases will be finished.”

“Do you think Iraqi youth will just stand by and watch?! Certainly, our youth will not remain idle, and no one can stop them. Therefore, we advise Trump not to act recklessly—neither to start a war nor to threaten one.” |link|
🔻 AM: Iraq is the one country we’re all under-analysing ahead of the coming Middle East armageddon. It is a Shia-majority country, and it borders Syria (which shares a border with both Lebanon and Israel).

Iraqi forces could not only give significant trouble to American forces in Iraq; they could put the Western puppet government in Damascus under severe duress (and Hezbollah is on the other side).

We tend to think the American invasion finished Iraq. I don’t think that’s the case, and we know that Iran has invested heavily in building up Iraq’s Shia resistance. A Western war against Iran may turn out to be Iraq’s ticket to renewed regional influence
⭕🔻 Isaac_kh:
The head of Palantir UK literally being the grandson of Oswald Mosley is just too on the nose man. Fully jumped the shark. We are in the dumbest timeline |link|
🔻 AM: What’s not rotten to the core in Britain?
⭕🔻 Donald J. Trump:
These Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack. Oops, there will be no attack by these Houthis!

They will never sink our ships again!
🔻 AM: Existing high above and equipped with technological superiority and the power to take life at will. This is as clear and most visual a demonstration of white supremacy as we’re ever going to get.

This is also how white colonizers see the rest of humanity, and an assumption of the POV of God of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Bible – all vengeance and psychopathic violence dressed as supreme justice. A more insanely violent collection of stories was never written
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We can hear the echoes of Openheimer’s “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” after witnessing the atomic bomb detonating, quoting from Bhagavad Gita (which may help to explain why India finds it almost impossible to embrace normalcy).
🔻 RZCO: I’m old enough to remember when accidental killings of civilians was called a “tragic mistake” and brought shame and condemnation. But I’m old and that was many, many years ago, way back in 2021
🔻 AM: Zionism works like acid on whatever remained of America’s sense of morality
⭕🔻 Abier: 🤔 making lists of Jews!!

Wait a minute!!!
🔻 AM: I have seen many people share this screenshot, and no one understands what it means (because they’re normal).

Let me use my experience with Zionist psychopathy to tell you what this is really about.

First of all, have no doubt that this comes directly from Netanyahu’s office. Don’t ask how, why, or where. Take my word for it.

What this is really meant to say is that Netanyahu and his international Zionist zealots everywhere are establishing a police force that will have greater authority than the respective police forces of every country.

This is the beginning of the overt Jewish-Zionist policing of Western societies. And I have said some pretty shocking things before; they turned out to be true. So you better believe this as well. I have been speaking about Israel’s ‘final solution’ approach for over a year.

With every instance of zero resistance on the part of Western governments, the Zionist brazenness goes up a notch. So, there you have it. The international Jewish-Zioniat police force, designed to destabilize and demoralize opposition in the West. They start with Jews as a deception: all of you are next.

It is being done more and more openly. The West has sold its soul to the devil, and is now 100% owned.
🔻 Sanja: I watched The believer last night. I would love to know your comment on this… |link|
🔻 AM: I have little doubt this will be the image of Jews after the US is no longer the hegemon. This will be the direct result of Zionism and particularly the genocide

these will not only outlast the messianic West, they will bury the Last Satanic Empire in the Holy Land.
NB. Taufan Al Ahrar = Flood of the Free, a variation of the Al Aqsa Flood, the Hamas op launched October 07, 2023. Al Aqsa Flood = the Holy Flood or Deluge. The arabic word Taufan, alternatively spelled Toofaan, is in the Qur’an, referring to the destruction of the poeple of Noah. It appears to have given rise to the english word Typhoon, of similar pronunciation..

a veritable Typhoon comes from Al Yaman! Let the demented of Thug Life Inc. revel in murdering civilians. It will only add to the humiliation that comes. They will soon beg for quarter.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Kiev carried out 14 attacks against Russian energy infrastructure over the past 24 hours, the Russian MoD reports

Facilities were damaged in six regions, including Bryansk, Belgorod, Smolensk, Lipetsk, Kherson, and Voronezh, the ministry said.
[There is something deranged about the insistence of Legion to violate EVERY single “ceasefire” – whether against Gaza, Lebanon, or here Russia. Even as it benefits them most, more than the other side. An optical legerdemain to impute long lost impunity. Satanism is a dead end, that’s for sure]

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ Don’t you just love it when POTUS directly publishes a video of bombing an unarmed civilian gathering celebrating their festive?

Trump thinks people watched too many Hollywood movies, since when do people gather in a circle for “instructions on attack”?
⭕ Said “gathering” on attacking… a group of Yemenis celebrating their festive…

Sick bastards they are those filthy American officials

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇾🇪🇺🇸Ansar Allah (Houthis) says US air force strikes tribal assembly in Yemen

The footage of the strike Trump released does indeed show the oval-shaped local council meeting that is typical of Yemeni tribes. The munition lands right in the middle, killing everyone around it.

The Houthis say the strike killed only civilians and not armed members of the movement.

An interesting reflection on Orange’s ostensible “reforms” from lens of late 19th Century China, similarly overcome and outpaced by external enemies but too sclerotic internally in the imperial bureaucracy to meaningfully change. I disagree even the putative MAGA reforms are sincere, being under “correction guns”, but even so the historic trend in such circumstances in oriental history were change of dynasties (in the last transition to the commies) and in occidental history the Ashes.

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦 Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out 7 attacks on Russian energy infrastructure facilities, the Ministry of Defense reported.

The attacks were carried out on targets in Crimea, Bryansk, Rostov and Voronezh regions.

Since Zelensky announced that the Kiev regime had allegedly complied with the agreement to cease attacks on Russian energy infrastructure from March 18, in fact, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have not stopped such attacks even for a day.

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇧🇾🇷🇺The ambassadors of Belarus and Russia jointly laid wreaths and flowers at the memorial to those killed as a result of the bombing of Belgrade by Nazi Germany.

Today, Serbia remembers its civilians which died in Nazi Germany’s barbaric bombing carried out on 6th of April 1941. |media|
[They are pussyfooting around. More relevant are the other buncha of nazis from 1990s that are STILL rampaging]

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Now imagine the U.S. starts bombing Iran. The Strait of Hormuz—the artery for one-fifth of the world’s oil—would shut down. The Red Sea, already unstable, would become impassable. Add to that Trump’s aggressive tax ultimatum on foreign companies, and you get a perfect economic storm: Panic in the stock market, choked energy flows, surging prices, broken trade routes, and protectionist walls rising everywhere. This isn’t just disruption—it’s systemic collapse in motion.
⭕ With Hezbollah and Iranian forces having withdrawn from Syria, Israel has rapidly expanded its occupation of the entire Mount Hermon, along with the provinces of Quneitra, Suwaida, and Daraa, destroying what remained of Syria’s strategic military capabilities. Damascus shows no intention of confronting Israel, which now operates with a free hand across Syrian territory.
⭕ Over 50,000 buildings—hosting nearly 200,000 homes—have been destroyed by the Israeli occupation army in Rafah alone. This southern Gaza city, bordering Egypt, was supposedly protected by the 1978 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty, which restricts Israel’s military presence near the Egyptian border. In theory, Israel should not even have a quarter of the current deployment in the area. Yet today, jets, tanks, and ground forces are operating in full force, violating both the spirit and the letter of that agreement.
[what can one say to those who shear off their own manhood? What do they suffer at hands of savage enemies?]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 🧵 Watershed Moment

This is hardly the only example of a watershed moment that can be found in the past few years. But it is highly representative.

We live in a radically altered world compared to just three years ago.

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[links:
🔻 DD Geopolitics: “🇨🇳 Thinking about the time China’s UN Representative Geng Shuang WRECKED the US:

“I would advise my American colleague to reflect on an old habit—that is, never looking for the root of problems in themselves and always habitually blaming others.””] |link|
[“…. may need to….” ah! Is THIS why the civilizational-states decided to prolong the agony of the defunct and now openly criminal UN System?? To use its august offices in the very belly of the Beast to bitch slap or pistol whip and deflate the hubris of the rabid losers?? To turn the tables and expose who wields the whip hand now in global affairs? Well then, I heartily approve. Carry on lads]
🔻 WS: Momentous decisions lie immediately ahead for the rapidly declining would-be empire.

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🧵 Open Defiance
⭕🔻 Doug Ford Respecter 40K 🇨🇦🚀🇰🇵:
The irony of people who openly call for the slaughter of 99% of extant US manufacturing in some idiotic messianic frenzy then complaining about a bit of rioting and looting. You could have the summer of Floyd every summer and it wouldn’t do a tenth of the damage at stake here.
[links:
🔻 Mark Mitchell, Rasmussen Reports: “They’re going to burn cities again this summer aren’t they?”]
🔻 Doug Ford Respecter 40K 🇨🇦🚀🇰🇵: Here we have one example of the American Xhosa. Industry unable to hire American and build in America, using inputs from American mines (that do not exist) on 48h notice? They made their own bed.

Slaughter the cattle; the spirits will bring more.
[links:
🔻 The Spectator Index: “JUST IN: The Financial Times reports that American companies are ‘struggling to figure out how to respond to Donald Trump’s trade war'”
🔻 Hunter Wallace: “Hire Americans?

Make products in America?”]
🔻 Afterthought: It’s not going to be that way.

If Vietnam, for example, does not lower tarrifs, and the Phillipines does, then t-shirt manufacturing is going to the Phillipines, not Boise
🔻 Gary L: Not that simple. You need plants, skilled workers or robots, and raw materials, capital, among other things. Got 20-30 years to wait?
🔻 Alex Kekkonnen: What are wintertime fruit importers going to do?
[in addition to trying to crash China and seize up global commerce in one savage hit, all this does sound like bringing home sudden Dark Winters too. Why not? Satanists always stack functions, to harm as many concerned on all sides, including their own. Maybe per the cartoon, Orange IS the world’s most evil. Just look deeper beyond the artificial suntan and clownish surface. There dwell and roam mighty principalities in the otherwise empty meat-suit]
🔻 WS: The seed corn was long ago distilled into nasty American bourbon, wrapped in a fancy label, and sold at boutique prices to upscale whisky bars in Macau and Dubai.
⭕ retweet of his older:
‼️ Pentagon Confessions:

Operation Whack-A-Mole in Yemen is a big fail.

Stockpiles of US missiles running out fast.

CSG-8 (USS Trembling Puppy) remains bottled-up in the northern Red Sea.

Ansarullah remains the gatekeeper of the Bab-el-Mandeb.

#TheBigAttrition continues.
⭕🔻 Kyle Chan:  |link| 
All Americans should think about this chart
[yeah – Mexico, Canada and China are patsies. The criminals began the cannibalism long long before, at least by the time they were forced to get off the gold standard in 1971. Decision was made at the least in decade prior, when Club of Rome cabal decided to mainstream eugenicism and justify depopulation through environmental and other quackery]
🔻 WS: ‼️ Post hoc ergo propter hoc is a logical fallacy.

This is VERY informative chart.

It puts to the lie so many things that are falsely believed to be true these days.
🔻 Lunar Bassooner: What was the cause? Just curious.
🔻 HilltopFool: More automation, More industrial robots. In the 60s we were promised 3 day work weeks with a single breadwinner but alas the extra cash was siphoned off
[The Jetsons! What mesmerizing dreams they wove during the decade of Sex, Drugs & Rock N Roll. Including tourism tours to Mars when they were furiously building mineshafts and bunkers for what was being planned]
🔻 WS: That’s not it at all. It was the systematic evisceration of the American productive economy, replaced by a hyper-financialized casino.
🔻 C4: re; shelter; medical treatment-endless list and yet how does one reasonably continue to access such goods if one doesn’t control the means of production. Can the West expect to enjoy these conveniences going forwards?
🔻 The Burning Archive: Frankly, this is a more informative chart. Hoping @adam_tooze weighs in soon on Chartbook even if he has abandoned X |link|
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: Technology substitution driven by financialised demands for increased profits … then, when that got harder, relocate factories. Changed trade dynamics is the *result* not the cause of hollowing out.
🔻 EvaG: So the decline in US manuf started soon after WW2. Interesting.
[Bankster: “we’re gonna have NWO, by consent or by conquest”. That meant getting TNCs and producers to break the social contract and impoverish the middle/working classes, in order to take down the wealthy West]

⭕🔻 Caitlin Johnstone:
Wait so Trump’s Yemen snuff film not only *resembles* the WikiLeaks Collateral Murder video, it was also released on its 15-year anniversary??
[links:
🔻 WikiLeaks: On this day in 2010: Collateral Murder. WikiLeaks released a secret US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff.”] |link|
🔻 WS: It is one of the most cynically heinous acts of a US president I can recall in my life, spanning from Vietnam to the present day.

Yes, the wanton killing has long been an American calling card. But the brazen celebration of it is unprecedented.

https://t.co/4Xbe2lpCGE
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) April 6, 2025

☝️ in describing the will of Gazans, he describes the return of the People of the Trench..
NB. We already know the path the doomed Zionazis will choose tomorrow in Washington DC. It is carved into the circumambulation of the Stars.. and signs were sent in advance with the lack of settlement with Russia and the Economic Drang just detonated with China.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ 🇮🇷/🇺🇸 Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi: ‘We will not allow Iran to reach the same fate as Libya in 2003 – they can only dream of it’

*In 2003, Libya gave up its nuclear program and fully disarmed in a deal with the U.S.
[Araqchi is the mildest Iranian the criminals can expect across the table. Both the former nuke deal negotiator and a reformist. They cannot bluff and threaten the civilizational-states. It remains a Murder-Suicide, with the last decision left to them the timing]
⭕ ❗️NEW: Hebrew media reports that the United States has sent a third ‘THAAD’ battery and two ‘Patriot’ air defense systems to Israel.
[iirc there are only seven such THAAD batteries worldwide. So they stripped it from Guam or South Korea or Europe or CONUS…….. accumulating almost HALF in the Holy Land.
Yet they’re more psychological prop as cannot stop hypersonics and even most regular ballistic missilry under saturation conditions. iow, this is like sending F-16s to 404 at this point, already defeated and at mercy of the regional power.. But it sends a global message where lie the last mile of the dying Anglo-American Imperium … to die in the Murder-Suicide]

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ According to the Israeli military, the air force attacked 130 targets in Gaza this weekend.
⭕ About ten rockets were launched by Hamas towards the Ashkelon and Ashdod regions.

Not all of them were shot down by Israeli air defenses.

This attack is the largest of its kind in several months.

💠@Alon Mizrahi:
⭕ There is a particularly vicious intent behind the defeating silence and complicity of Western culture and media: it is meant to inflict upon Palestinians the most extreme and brutal form of othering:

People who don’t matter when they’re alive.
People who don’t matter when they die.
People who don’t matter when they get thrashed and tortured in the most satanic and barbaric way.
People who don’t matter when they are babies and little children left to die alone in a tent of a hospital floor with no relatives and no one to recognize them.
People who don’t matter when they are beheaded babied and toddlers
People who don’t matter when they are the bodies of a mother and child, or two siblings, holding each other in one last hug of horror
People who do not matter and will not matter, no matter what is done to them dead at the center of humanity’s field of vision for 18 months – – for 140 years of Zionism, which has always, always, been vile, scheming and anti-human – always, from the first minute it was conceived in the mind of the first soulless, psychopathic European.

There is a particularly vicious intent behind this deliberate, mass-produced, and mass-orchestrated silence, and we must not mistake it for simple indifference. We must recognize the burning, murderous, genocidal desire behind it.

The culture and media of the West are not simply silent about the genocide: they are fierce contributors to it; it is their greatest joy and delight in life, to have white cultures eradicate brown and black cultures. it is their fantasy, their wish, their kink, their fetish, their god and mission in life.

It is not indifference; it is calculated, fully committed, enthusiastically given assistance to mass murder.
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We must not and will not allow this truth to be muddled, nor let anyone get away with it.

We may not have the armies and firepower to stop it, but we own humanity’s collective conscience and consciousness.

We will not let them other the Palestinians as their sick cultural heritage instructs them to compulsively do every day.

We can insist, must insist, will insist, on saying it loud and clear every minute of every day:

The Palestinians are our people. They are us.
The babies are our babies. The parents are our parents. The families are our families. The mosques and schools are our mosques and schools.

And you – all the heads of the murder machine – are the sickest members of the human family, with brains infected by rabies and hearts canceled by psychopathy.

We will tell the story straight, from now till forever.

No one will escape judgment. No individual and no institution.
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The absolute othering of Palestinians will fail. Humanity will only remember you – the murderers and their abettors – as an alien breed of monsters. Because this is all white Western colonizers have ever been and will ever be.

The human body will reject you like a virus, you fucking sickness
[note the “deliberate, mass-produced, and mass-orchestrated silence” since Biden left has also been drowned in lockstep by the deliberate daily din and bombast of the orange effluvium… his act and gyrations serve as universal distraction, permitting the inhuman barbarism to proceed in front of the dazed and de-sensitized, many forced “to check out” just to maintain their sanity. As Pompeo/Trump once said at onset of covid-19 that they were rolling out a live-experiment, so with this holocausting of the semites – mainstreaming unbearable satanism]
🔻 farahadams: It is indeed a vicious, wicked silence. Very deliberate.

We have never experienced any horrific eventuality as far as I can recall, where there has been such a deliberate, orchestrated and choking silence – all while the whole world witnesses human beings viciously murdered!
🔻 AM: I can’t recall anything quite as demonic as this. British media had more sympathy for Argentinian casualties during the Falklands war

💠 “White House provides reason for not putting tariffs on Russia“
So April 02, 2025 was a most momentous day in the end-stage of dying Empire. The Last Economic Drang was launched. But the sequence (and lies) justifying excluding Russia is most interesting. On April 02, 2025, first Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund chief Dmitriev, and Putin’s personal envoy, arrived in DC, then Tariffs were announced, sans Russia. Odds of coincidence?? The Last Satanic Empire is extremely exacting wrt to symbolism, numerology, sequencing and protocol.

when lesser empires are submitted, usually through comprehensive annihilation, the wreckage is awesome to behold. What of the Fall of the greatest Empires! The wise give thanks not to be around at rare 1177 BC-like periods

💠 @kuluary_zaliva (В кулуарах Залива):
⭕ IDF almost completely destroyed Rafah’s infrastructure

The Israeli army has destroyed 90% of 12,000 square meters of residential areas in the southern Gaza city of Rafah since October 2023 , in “one of the worst examples of genocide in history,” local authorities said on Sunday.

Israel’s intensified strikes in recent weeks have destroyed eight schools, more than 100 mosques and 85 percent of the city’s sewage system in Rafah , creating conditions ripe for disease outbreaks. Rafah accounts for about 16 percent of Gaza’s total area and is home to 300,000 people.

Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to step up attacks on Gaza in an effort to implement US President Donald Trump’s plan to evict Palestinians from the enclave.

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ The following markets have hit circuit breakers today so far:

China
Taiwan
Japan
Russell Futures
Australia
Singapore
⭕ 🌏Asian markets so far today:

🇭🇰 Hong Kong: -8.7%
🇸🇬 Singapore: -7%
🇯🇵 Japan: -6%
🇨🇳 China: -5.5%
🇲🇾 Malaysia: -4.2%
🇦🇺 Australia: -4.1%
🇵🇭 Philippines: -4%
🇳🇿 New Zealand: -3.6%
[the timing is exquisite. One has to hand it to the Moshiach. It will drive from the mind of most the accelerating holocaust in the Holy Land……]
⭕ 🇷🇺 Southern Donetsk: Russian forces are advancing 1.5–2 km per day, according to a frontline commander from the Vostok group (call sign: Altai).

Al Jazeera broadcaster: Would you accept direct negotiations with the United States to ease tensions?

Al-Bukhaiti: The decision to halt our military operations is not in our hands in Sana'a, but in Gaza. They are the ones who can stop us.

pic.twitter.com/W9sg7aXUWY

— إبراهيم ناجي (@Lqa3viDYYW0l8VX) April 6, 2025

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ ‼️🧵 Important Thread

This thread is long, layered, and a little clunky to navigate. But it is essential information re: the “China is going to collapse” question.

TL;DR: “The abuse of tariffs by the United States will have an impact on China, but the sky will not fall.”

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[links:
🔻 Glenn: “This rapid response editorial from People’s Daily published a few hours ago provides major signal on China’s response strategy to the Trump “reciprocal tariffs”.

This is very much in line with what I have been tweeting over the past few days on the topic. It’s signal-dense, and worth parsing through key translated excerpts in a 🧵.” |THREAD| ]
🔻 WS: This chart [above] is 2 years old. What it reveals is even more true now.

The US is not going to rematerialize its own domestic manufacturing at the expense of China.

Instead, it’s going to render China more independent than ever before.

Stupid is as stupid does.

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🔻 Hazkaz2001: I don’t think it is about re-industrializing the USA, rather it is more bringing the whole house down for the whole world, hoping the USA stays on top of the rubbles. Empires don’t go down alone, they bring down everybody with them.
[Yep]
🔻 Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn: China won’t collaspe. TLDR
🔻 Royston Vasey Local: China’s trade with USA is about 2.00 %, no more than 3.00 % of their GDP .

Significant number but I don’t think how tariffs alone can brake them.
⭕ ⚡️ China warning Japan (and other regional US vassals) to not become American cannon fodder in a conflict with China.

Fact is, neither Japan nor South Korea are going to become the Ukraine of east Asia.

The US can no longer hope to “contain” China, nor Russia, nor even Iran. |link|
[the AZE racists emasculated the japanese and ROK too well! You cannot breed out the martial streak and instill wokeness to ease your own control, and then reverse it overnight. And both stopped breeding…]
🔻 Kevin Johnson: What should we do?
[a very fine AZ baller and then mayor of Sacramento]
🔻 WS: Relinquish empire; rebuild a peaceful, productive, and morally upright society.

Unfortunately, that’s not the path I believe will be chosen.

iacta alea est
🔻 Kevin Johnson: What would you base our morality on?
🔻 WS: Well … I guess I’d say I’m with Jonah on that question.

Let Ninevah burn to the ground, it’s nothing to me. 😏

I think you should ask Grok instead.
🔻 Kevin Johnson: Watch out for large fish my friend. 🐋
🔻 WS: 📜 The Sermon

“If we would obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is this disobeying ourselves wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.”
🔻 Aki K: The US is too deep into the rabbit hole that a return to ordinary productivity instead of leeching on the allies and partners was still possible without a major conflict.
🔻 Diogo Marques 🇷🇺: He has a point.
They are already antecipating it.
🔻 Truth Serum: The US is just the next empire collapsing due to ignorance, arrogance, overreaching and overestimating itself. You either adapt to the modern world and reality or land up in the history books with the other failed empires.
⭕🔻 SilencedSirs◼️: After the arrival of new reinforcements,
the total number of U.S. forces in the Middle East has now reached 300,000 personnel, including both combat and administrative units.
🇺🇸⚔️ |link|
🔻 Rick Lishes: Wrong. America has been weakened by globalists. They have reduced the middle class and shipped all the jobs to Asia. Thus America created its own rival. Just need to cut China off. They will be in financial ruin. Bring the jobs back and stop looking at the stock market
[an interesting way to spin the ongoing death march, straight off the Cliff. Orange said as much in last hours – the Pain was necessary for the Greater Good]
🔻 WS: #TheExoneratingMythology
🔻 Financial Physics: Do they use the American coffins to smuggle Heroin back from the Middle East?

Is that the plan?
🔻 FREE GAZA FREE SPEECH: We are antisemites if we are fully supporting this
🔻 Daniel McAdams: “…300,000 personnel…”?
Did Congress declare when I was sleeping or something?
🔻 WS: This is #FakeNews.
🔻 Daniel McAdams: I am not following as closely but the number seemed a bit high for me.
🔻 WS: I doubt it’s even 30k. Maybe 40k, at most, if you count every last janitor and cook.

And besides, there is no “war stuff” staged there to equip such an army, and no way to get it there even if there were such a mountain of equipment and ammo available. The US has neither sealift capacity nor an open path to the theater of presumed operations.
[i do wonder though. Given how the two criminals Cebrowski and Rummy took the Pentagram dark.. how many are there as trainers/tourists/archeologists/businessmen, etc – as was the Horde already unleashed on Russia via 404. The devils are creative and excel in logistics and subterfuge. And there are vast deserts in all the compradore arab lands in which to squirrel a legion or three for rainy days]
🔻 Koen: Even if they did go to war with Iran, what would they need 300,000 personnel for?

I mean, they’d obviously not try a ground invasion. It’d be just air and naval.

And ignoring the q whether it could be successful, how many personnel would they need for that? 30,000? Not 300,000
[they need them to save zion from the hell that comes on ground, and the glass palaces of the desert bedouins… so many soft spots and juicy fat targets. Soon enough, all those who look like they’re from european background will have the Kursk Spa & Welcome]
🔻 Lean Green AZ 🌻🌵🌞: 1) This video is years old. The unit depicted reflagged to a different unit.
2) This video shows paratroopers getting ready to conduct an Airborne operation. No one is jumping into the Middle East at the moment.
⭕ 🤡🌎🤦‍♂️ Rube Rubio

The Russians ARE launching a massive offensive. And there is quite literally nothing the US can do about it, except stand back and watch as it progressively unfolds.
[links:
🔻 Zlatti71: “‘If we woke up tomorrow and the Russians were launching a massive offensive, I think that would be a clear sign that they are not interested in peace. That hasn’t happened yet. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen. We want to know whether they want peace or not. And if they do, there is a way to get there, and we are ready to help.’ – Rubio”]
🔻 Truth Serum: The problem is the US has lost its proxy war, dominated by Russian diplomats and they don’t understand Russia at all, its people, culture, history, resilience and so on. They have run out of optics and resorted to nonsense statements in desparation.
🔻 toasted avocado: |frozen & glitched|
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ So many people thought lighting a stick of dynamite on the board was “5D chess”.
reposts his older from 12 Nov 2024:
“I predict that, in coming days, weeks, and months the most commonly used phrase among those who believed Trump was the “anti-war candidate” and the “savior of America” will be:

“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?””
🔻 WS: reposts from Shay Boloor: “MY OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT TRUMP” |Bargaining Stage|
[this simpering is pitiful. Take it like a man. You were conned and taken down by better hucksters]
🔻 Malonco: And Scott Ritter said the Trump presidency is a revolution of peace 😆🤣
[yeah, the kinda “peace” brought to Britannia by the Roman legions, narrated by Tacitus]
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: If it feels like “the inmates are running the asylum,” that is because THE BANKERS HAVE NO ECONOMIC PLAN:

“Like all such schemes, its sustainability depends entirely on the faith of participants – a faith now shattered by the rise of alternative financial architectures: Russia’s commodity-backed ruble, and China’s yuan-based development projects, combined with a BRICS alternative payment system, demonstrate the reserve currency’s accelerating unraveling. The empire can no longer mask its insolvency through monetary trickery alone.” |link|

⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: Has The Telegraph considered asking for its money back?
[ohh! Axe was axed. Smoothie is gonna have a blast. And whom is he gonna roast with all the presstitutes biting the dust?? Did USAID and CIA fund the entire lot?? What times. btw, I lived in Germany when Udo Ulfkotte started working at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, in an era long long ago]
🔻 WS: Only rarely does schadenfreude come so sweet.
⭕ This is heart-rending.
[links:
🔻 C1: “Dear Assholes! Go fight yourselves on the Front, and leave our children in peace” |link|]
[the karma comin to the criminal Anglo-Zionists of the Last Satanic Empire! The plague of not only mankind, but the very Cosmos. But their time’s up]
⭕ 🎸 Requiem for the American Dream

The rich and powerful don’t sing the blues
Only the poets and troubadours do
They used to fill up the rickety roadhouse
Now there’s no one to fill their shoes |link|

💠@Alon Mizrahi:
⭕ What the hell was that?

What the hell was that about? The bizarre Trump-Netanyahu meeting and why a war with Iran is practically a certainty
🔻 Zoey: Alon how on earth are they going to sell a bloody and painful war to the domestic audience? Will they do a false flag to manufacture consent? Or do they think it just doesn’t matter?
🔻 AM: How they’ll initiate it precisely is anyone’s guess, but the packaging will be terror, Yemen, Islam, and Israel. Tried and tested. ‘We were patient and tried diplomacy for a long time, but they wouldn’t come to the table’.

And, of course, ‘they’re about to use and assemble a nuclear device’

It is very easy to sell a war to Americans. It’s been done 100 times before – they just need a Republican at the helm
🔻 Zoey: Yeah the mechanism is somewhat predictable atp, I just really don’t see how they hold it up once the bodies start coming back… Or maybe I’m severely overestimating the American/Western population |link|
🔻 AM: Yes, dramatically so. They do not communicate with the outer world
[this is why the economy is being pulled now. Yanquis, and most mankind, will have other calamities on their plate around September when the Murder-Suicide initiates]
⭕ Netanyahu is only in Washington to bring home the final details of the Iran war. If Americans knew day from night, they would treat him like what he really was for them: the angel of death
🔻 C1: He is the Pied Piper of Hamelin
🔻 AM: Perfect analogy
🔻 Leila: 🎯 🎯 🎯 A repeat of the invasion of Iraq with more American soldiers coming back in body bags never knowing who they were truly fighting for until it is too late. |media|
🔻 Dr Nilufar Ashtari: Demon is more apt.
🔻 Saman ❤️🖤🤍💚: It’s clear as day to anyone with half an eye… @BNetanyahoo is not there for diplomacy — he’s there to seal a war.
The angel of death doesn’t knock — he walks in through the front door of Congress.
#GazaGenocide #FreePalestine #EndOccupation #StopArmingIsrael
⭕ A scripted humiliation ritual designed to demonstrate who runs things in Washington. Showing off their ability to dominate and humiliate is a cornerstone of the zionist doctrine, from Palestine to DC |media|
⭕ There is no serious negotiation between the US and Iran. It is nonsense. The US is pretending to negotiate in order to be able to amass forces for the attack without interruption.

They are going to make a false proposal and attack when the Iranians discuss it – just like they did with Hezbollah.

It will do them no good, though, as Iran is much better prepared for trickery, can counter at a minute’s notice and has appx 50 times the firepower of the US in the Middle East. It’s a gap that can’t be closed. The US is following Netanyahu into the abyss
🔻 M Ramy: I saw the pictures of both of them on various newspapers, it just seems Trump is so grumpy next to him. Trump looks so serious and uncomfortable. The difference in body language is so obvious.
🔻 AM: Yes he hates and fears him
🔻 In Other Words: Trump is the ultimate Manchurian President, dutifully representing Zionist interests.
🔻 Simon Jester: Yep. Iran knows it’s the last free country on Wesley Clark’s “Countries the Evil Empire will destroy” list. And they have friends.
⭕🔻 Scott Ritter:
For weeks I have been advocating for a negotiated settlement to the crisis that has brought the US and Iran on the brink of war.
I have assiduously detailed the nature of the threat perceived by the US that, if unresolved, would necessitate military action, as exclusively revolving around Iran’s nuclear program and, more specifically, that capacity that is excess to its declared peaceful program and, as such, conducive to a nuclear weapons program Iran has admitted is on the threshold of being actualized.
In short, I have argued, the most realistic path forward regarding conflict avoidance would be for Iran to negotiate in good faith regarding the verifiable disposition of its excess nuclear enrichment capability.
Even when Trump alienated Iran with his “maximum pressure” tactics, including an insulting letter to the Supreme Leader that all but eliminated the possibility of direct negotiations between the US and Iran, my stance remained unchanged: this crisis could only be resolved through negotiation, and that if Trump took direct negotiations off the table, then Russia and/or China would have to step up and nail down a settlement through third party talks.
For opting to promote a reality-based process that provided the only viable path toward peace, I was viciously attacked and ridiculed by both the digital mob, comprised of new age philosophers, self-styled “peace activists”, and a troll class that opposes anything and everything it doesn’t understand (which is most factually-grounded argument), as well as people I had viewed as fellow travelers on a larger journey of conflict avoidance—podcasters, experts and pundits who did more than simply disagree with me (which is, of course, their right and duty as independent thinkers), traversing into the realm of insults and attacks against my intelligence, integrity and character.
Today we see the following:
Trump has softened his stance on Iran, narrowing his focus to exclusively nuclear issues—as I had predicted.
Iran has agreed to third party negotiations—as I predicted, and both Russia and China will be meeting with Iran in the coming days to discuss its nuclear program—as I predicted.
The Director-General of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, has announced he may be heading to Iran shortly to discuss Iran’s nuclear program—as I predicted.
The US-Iran crisis is grounded in the complexities, niceties and formalities of international law as set forth in the nuclear nonproliferation treaty (NPT), which Iran signed in 1970 as a non-nuclear weapons state.
The NPT will be at the center of any negotiated settlement.
Those who dismissed the NPT and belittled the role of international law simply underscored their ignorance of the reality that surrounds Iran’s nuclear program.
While Israel may have exaggerated Iran’s nuclear capabilities over the years, and goaded the US to attack Iran because of the alleged threat posed by its nuclear program, the fact remains that this crisis has been triggered by the very capabilities Iran admits to having—stocks of 60% enriched uranium with no link to Iran’s declared peaceful program, and excessive advanced centrifuge-based enrichment capability which leaves Iran days away from possessing sufficient weapons grade high enriched uranium to produce 3-5 nuclear weapons.
This crisis isn’t about Israel or Israel’s own undeclared nuclear weapons capability.
It is about Iran’s self-declared status as a threshold nuclear weapons state, something prohibited by the NPT.
This is what the negotiations will focus on.
And hopefully these negotiations will permit the verifiable dismantling of those aspects of its nuclear program the US (and Israel) find to present an existential threat.
Peace is not guaranteed.
But war is unless common sense and fact-based logic wins out over the self-important ignorance of the digital mob and their facilitators.
[wow. Scotty’s gotta earn his keep now]
🔻 AM: If the US doesn’t want war it shouldn’t start one and get the hell ouf of Middle East where it has no business being. Yankee go home.
🔻 ic xc nika: These people are splitting legalistic hairs. They are delusional and dangerous because they perpetuate the idea that the rules based international order is still a thing. Hasn’t been for a while and openly, officially so for the past 2 years.
🔻 Hooligan Street Poetry: As I’ve said before, Scott is reliving his days as an Iraqi weapons inspector when the machine convinced him he was relevant. He wasn’t then, and isn’t now.
🔻 Hams: Dying Empire .. instead of cooperative interactions and joining the global community it would rather drag everyone on the planet down with them
🔻 Ian Welsh: Ritter’s an ex weapons inspector. He thinks the US has the right to tell other countries what to do, even when it isn’t meeting its own treaty obligations.

Nature of the beast, he can’t help himself.
🔻 YemeniAbroad: That is a very very very long way of saying: if you don’t want to get kneecapped, just do what the United States tells you to do.
[yeah, trust a Yemeni to smell out the sulphuric fumes of Thug Life, Inc.]

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️ Russia, China, and Iran will hold consultations on Tehran’s nuclear issue in Moscow on Tuesday [TODAY], Russian FM spokeswoman Maria Zakharova tells Sputnik
[note the location. A few weeks ago, it was in Beijing, seat of West Asia diplomacy since the SMO began.. This then is a martial summit, as the demented refused to get the memo last time]
⭕ Sudan Objects to UK Hosting Conference on Sudanese Crisis Without Its Participation

Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Yusuf sent a letter to his British counterpart, David Lammy, last week outlining Khartoum’s position, according to a statement from the Sudanese Foreign Ministry.

Sudan condemned the UK for equating its government with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia and accused London of “indulgence” toward the RSF’s alleged atrocities.

The Sudanese government called on the UK to reconsider its policy and engage in constructive dialogue.

LOL. Did anyone inform the Saudis they were being suicided, whether in narrative and/or in fact?

what will the Marine orifice of Thug Life Inc. do when he realizes it is his side with the buttered buns and that the entire region waits to pounce?? And that after “Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin” it was Persia that crashed the degenerate party?

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ This information is incorrect. Iraqi militias won’t disarm unless the US ends its presence in Iraq and the ISIS menace ends. Furthermore, the instability in Syria can’t be disregarded,

“Iran-backed militias in Iraq ready to disarm to avert Trump wrath” |link|
[there is just so much crap out there. A Tsunami of Effluvia. I saw this yesterday, recognized the sheer delusion, and didn’t share it. It is like sounding off on plans to “reinvade Yemen with already defeated Saudis.” Or claiming Hezbollah and Hamas have been defeated. Or claiming Iranian radars and air defenses were overcome last year by the pitiful zionazi aggression that aborted early. What do all this nonsense have in common?? It imputes weakness on Iran and its “proxies”, bolsters the desperate international zionazi, and thereby ensures the USUK-Persian Murder-Suicide takes place. It is all about getting the corn-fed lads over the line to commit to their group suicide, by lying to the nazis about the real score. (what were the other buncha nazis fed, prior to being inserted into Kursk to die??) The reality is the region is poised on hair trigger, waiting for the lunatics to wade in, to finish the bastards off, just as happened to them in Kursk. And it shall happen. i recall somewhere on one of the occult channels during corona about Orange Gang being the second coming of the Assyrians?? Some of that bloodline was preserved, maybe via Magyars/Scythians. Anyway, at the End, much of old players at the Beginning return, like the demons released from the Pit too. The same truther channel noted that abaddon is nowadays A Bad Don]
⭕🔻 Scott Ritter:
For weeks I have been advocating for a negotiated settlement to the crisis that has brought the US and Iran on the brink of war. …
[repost of the same verbal diarrhea above]
🔻 Seyed Mohammad Marandi: “Nuclear threshold state” has no definition in the NPT or IAEA agreements. It’s a political concept. The NPT and IAEA only consider a country in violation if it diverts nuclear materials to weapons or breaches safeguards. Latent capability alone does not constitute a violation.
🔻 Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺: Agree. While widely used in political and strategic discussions, the term has no formal standing in the international nuclear non-proliferation legal framework. It is not officially defined in the NPT or by the IAEA.
🔻 Brian Crowell: @RealScottRitter Your batting average is down to .100. Back to Triple AAA baseball. SMH .
🔻 Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺: The NPT divides states into nuclear-weapon states and non-nuclear-weapon states. It does not recognize a legal category for threshold states. The IAEA monitors enrichment but does not define or use the term “nuclear threshold state” in any legal or binding context.
[this is a favored game of the Pirates – they create de-novo label, used to justify the latest savagery, or protection of headchoppers like “moderate islamist”. Absolute nonsense, like being somewhat pregnant, or having to defend against a negative outside the formal law]
⭕ Iran said the indirect negotiation with the US is scheduled for this Saturday in Oman, and Donald Trump confirmed the date but said it would be a “direct negotiation.”
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Quds News Network: Belgium’s Prime Minister, Bart De Wever, made a controversial statement on Thursday, declaring that if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were to visit Belgium, he would not be arrested, defying ICC’s decision to arrest him along with other Israeli officials.

Speaking to VRT television, De Wever dismissed the arrest decision, emphasizing that practical considerations outweigh ethical concerns in international diplomacy. He explained, “There is such a thing as realpolitik. Within that framework, practical considerations prevail over ethical ones.” He further added, “I don’t think there is a single European country that would arrest Mr Netanyahu if he went there.
[refreshing clarity these days. Orange bends over in DC; EUroCrazies sashay and flip their eyelashes in Chihuahuastan. They may despise each other. But there is absolute dedication to the Last Drang and the Moshiach]
⭕ Keep in mind that no Iranian government can agree on any sort of nuclear deal with the US without the Iranian parliament’s final approval
[not to worry. There will soon not be a parliament building to continue with these games. Closure slouches into town for all sides concerned]

💠 @Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ ‼️
Leave the Zionists for now, set the devil aside…
For worse than the devil are the Arab rulers!
They are the sin that has lasted too long, the shame that cannot be washed away,
They are the recurring pain of the nation, and the cancer that spreads through its veins.

Oh, woe…
Jerusalem has been humiliated while they are immersed in their palaces, indulging in their pleasures,
The blood of Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Palestine has been shed,
And they shake hands with the murderer, smiling at the executioner,
Feasting on the corpses of children, adorning their thrones with the ashes of burned cities.

Worse than the Zionists? Yes…
Because the Zionist is an open enemy, while these are a dagger in the flank,
Because the enemy fights us with his face, and they stab us in the back while wearing the cloak of Arabism and Islam.

They boast in conferences, and excel in the art of condemnation,
But they are the first to open the gates of their homelands to invaders,
And the first to extinguish the flame of resistance when it ignites,
And the first to betray when the banner of truth rises.

Oh, woe…
Shame has become faces broadcast on screens,
And applauded by the horns of humiliation in the capitals of impotence,
And flags are raised for them, although they are worth less than a rag to cover their extended disgrace.

If betrayal had a throne, they would be its kings.
If treachery had a religion, they would be its imams.
If shame had a lineage, every coward who sold Jerusalem for a pittance would be related to them.

So, may God’s curse be upon the Zionists? Yes.
But a thousand curses upon those who betrayed God and the Messenger, and let down an entire nation,
And who rest on pillows of shame while their people scream:
Oh, woe…!!
⭕ The world is experiencing a state of tension similar to that which preceded the First and Second World Wars. Our region lies at the heart of this tension
⭕ 🔴 Turkey is setting up air defenses in Syria, while Qatar is participating in a military exercise with Israel. And the Arabs of Turkey and Qatar are asking: Where is Iran regarding Gaza? By God, Iran is diligently trying to find a safe path for its missiles to Israel, from countries filled with traitors and cowards.
⭕ Breaking News – The total losses for the American devil due to the downing of MQ-9 drones so far, after the Yemeni defenses shot down the luxurious American drone number 21, amount to 630 million US dollars, according to Fox News.
[Catching up, this is from 5-6 days ago]
⭕ Breaking News – To the hordes of settlers, open the toilet lids to hide.
⭕ Breaking News – The Bab al-Mandab channel in Yemen has received information from private sources indicating that a Yemeni missile targeted a warship in the Red Sea and hit its mark with high precision. The sources confirm that the ship is ablaze.
⭕ The description of God’s trial of Pharaoh for Prophet Moses and his people is characterized by “the great anguish.” Yet, He provided relief for them with just a “staff”…

Trust in God and do not worry about how relief will come…
⭕ “The first promise has passed,
And today is the promise of the Hereafter.
Take lessons from what has gone by,
O people with mocking faces.”

“The record has closed,
O slaves of passion,
The people of stances have come, carrying the banner.”

“The rope of God, the strong rope
With it, we seek refuge and assistance
No matter what happens, no matter what occurs
We are confident in His support.”

“We break its oars, revealing its falsehood,
And we do not care about Washington and its classification.
We break its oars, revealing its falsehood,
And we do not care about Washington and its classification.”

America or Terrorism
Oh, the legitimacy of the jungle
With us is the strength of God, the Quran, and the door

We will not leave Palestine
The place of the eye’s delight
The stance of a people, a belief in faith and religion

We are the support, we are the aid
And we are for her, a father and a grandfather
We do not bend without her
Even if none of us remains

In the heart of her house
We bear her burdens
A nation that brings her enemies upon her free people

Oh, my master Abdul Malik
The free people of our nation are with you
Strike us wherever you wish
Your soldiers obey you and follow you

Naval power, oh axiomatic verses
In the depths of the sea, the tyrant will drown

I wait for the omen
And reality changes
Glory be to the One who ascended with the flocks of movement

And ascended with the missiles
Record this, oh history
For the tyrant is a sign, and the apostate is a reprimand

“And He gave a secret to the secrets
Of young men who protect the home
Whoever betrays the country falls by the hands of the fierce eagles.”
⭕ Leader of Ansar Allah, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, addressing Arab governments and neighboring countries:

“If you engage in any collaboration with the Americans, whether by allowing them to attack us from your bases, or through financial support, logistical assistance, or intelligence sharing, it amounts to support and endorsement of the Israeli enemy.”

6 Shawwal 1446 AH
⭕ Leader of Ansar Allah, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi – 6 Shawwal 1446 AH:

– “Thanks to God, there is a great state of steadfastness at the popular level, with high morale, and no attention is being paid to the voices of the pessimists, discouragers, and those who seek to weaken our resolve.”

– “We are in an advanced position on the maritime front, and the aircraft carrier Truman is constantly fleeing, while the pursuit continues.”
⭕ Yemen is standing up against Washington and “Tel Aviv,” warning their allies in the region against becoming involved in targeting the country and providing logistical support to them. This message carries an implicit threat of action.
Yemen is fighting back with the strength given to it by God.
It is not true that it has nothing to lose; in fact, it has a great deal to lose.
Despite this, it continues to take action, categorizing its losses as part of its sacrifices, which they indeed are.
This Yemeni stance is rooted in pure faith.
⭕ 📹⭐️ The wicked terrorist Trump posted footage of the airstrike that targeted dozens of Houthis in Yemen, claiming that “these Houthis were gathering to receive instructions for launching an attack.”

The Bab al-Mandab Yemen channel on Telegram clarifies to its followers that they were a group of civilians, including children, gathered to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, with all of them being martyred.
⭕ Breaking News – Yemen sends a message of good tidings and reveals major surprises that will change the face of the region..🔥💯 Stay tuned!
⭕ 🔴 From this platform, Bab al-Mandab Yemen on Telegram, we address the peoples of the world in their language: O nations, I am a son of Yemen. We are free individuals, and we are children of the free; we were born free, we will live free, and we will die free. Therefore, we hope you understand our feelings of love for our homeland and pride in our identity. We would like to inform you, without apology, that Palestine is our destination and its liberation is our goal…!! Peace.
⭕ 🔴 All predictions and analyses regarding the American rhetoric that issues threats in every direction—East, West, North, and South—suggesting a U.S. war against China, Iran, or Russia are misplaced. The U.S. is focused on a war against the Arabs in favor of “Israel,” striking in Lebanon, occupying Syria, maintaining military bases in Iraq, conducting attacks in Yemen, exterminating Palestinians, and punishing and besieging various Arab states. It sows discord, war, chaos, and conflict throughout the Arab world to fragment and weaken it, targeting its armies and national states to impose a new Middle East plan under Israeli control on behalf of the U.S. The goal is to establish a “Greater Israel” stretching from the Euphrates in Syria to the Nile in Egypt and everywhere in between.

Moreover, all the talk about wars against China, Russia, Iran, Korea, or even a World War is premature and may never materialize. The media noise surrounding these topics serves to distract from the true U.S. objectives in the Middle East, which occupies the heart of the world. By consolidating control through its agent, Israel, the U.S. is setting the stage for future wars against China, Russia, Iran, or even a global conflict.

The harsh reality is that we are facing a new and aggressive colonial and settlement phase led by America to eliminate the Arab national identity, particularly centered on Palestine, and replace it with a new political geography titled the Zionist Greater Middle East, orbiting around American interests and its allies. The question remains: Do Arab leaders recognize this reality and prepare to face it before they and their countries are consumed?
⭕ The Yemeni people and tribes alone possess an estimated sixty million pieces of arms, ranging from light to medium to heavy.

As for the Yemeni armed forces, they have a stockpile and arsenal of weapons that is beyond imagination.

They manufacture weapons themselves, relying on the expertise of Yemeni specialists. The Yemeni armed forces stated in 2019 that they are self-sufficient in their arms stockpile, enough for a continuous war lasting fifty years.

They have expressed their readiness to support Arab and Islamic countries that liberate themselves from American domination and oppose the Zionist agenda.
⭕ 🔴 A member of the Supreme Political Council, Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi, stated:

“The video clip published by Trump and the condition of the visitors demonstrates the falsehood of his claims. The video he shared is, in fact, an attack on a social and festive gathering.”

He emphasized that the American targeting of festive gatherings indicates America’s terrorism and constitutes a heinous terrorist crime that only brings disgrace and shame to the criminal Trump. Trump’s publication of the scene of the attack is an attempt to evade responsibility for the crime by preemptively releasing information that distorts the description of the incident, as well as promoting a narrative to confront Pentagon officials and others who question or downplay the success of the American aggression against Yemen.

What America is doing through bombing and targeting civilian sites and others in Yemen is a condemned crime against humanity and an unjustifiable act of terrorism.

The American aggression against Yemen is criminal support for Israeli crimes aimed at the annihilation of Gaza, which underscores the similarity in their hearts; their unlawful actions have become alike.
⭕ Breaking News – We have confirmed information indicating that preparations are underway for a ground operation against Yemen along the coast, which may also include coordinated naval support from Saudi and American forces, aimed at recapturing the strategic Port of Hodeidah.

Therefore, we say from the platform of Bab al-Mandab Yemen on Telegram to those who threaten us in the ground battle: if you are true sons of your fathers, you should fulfill your threats and come, as we are eager to meet you.
⭕ Breaking News – Specialized aviation tracking sites have reported the return of the American refueling aircraft “KC-135R” to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, after participating in carrying out aggressive strikes on Yemen.
⭕ The Unyielding Spirit of Yemen

In the heart of the Arabian Peninsula lies Yemen, a land steeped in history, resilience, and an indomitable spirit that echoes through the ages. We are Yemenis by birth, by ancestry, and we stand proud, not as a diaspora or a mere footnote in someone else’s narrative, but as a nation with a rich heritage and unwavering resolve.

While we cherish our friendships with our Iranian allies, let it be clear: we are not a pawn in anyone’s game. We know how to respond when the tides turn against us, and we are prepared to defend our sovereignty against any adversary. The alliances of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar shall not overshadow the truth: that they are playing a dangerous game, one crafted by the hands of those who wish us harm.

The puppeteers of America and Israel, driven by their own agendas, shall find that Yemen is not to be underestimated. Our history has taught us to be patient, but make no mistake — our accounts are long, and we shall settle them in due time. The world will soon witness the strength of our resolve and the unity of our people.

In the face of adversity, we stand tall, and we will show the world how to confront terrorism with courage and determination. Our voices will not be silenced, and our story will be told through every act of defiance and resilience.

Join us in celebrating the spirit of Yemen on our Telegram channel, Bab Al-Mandab, where we share our triumphs, our struggles, and the unwavering pride that defines us. Together, we will inspire the world with our courage and solidarity.

Yemen, a beacon of strength, will rise again. Let the world hear our roar!

💠 @Dmitry_Medvedev: 
⭕ Fifteen years ago in Prague, I signed the New START Treaty with President Obama.

Unfortunately, it did not reduce the risk of nuclear war. This failure can be attributed to the US and its allies’ approach. At some point, they decided they could maintain technical nuclear parity with Russia while simultaneously waging an undeclared war, first through unlimited sanctions and then by providing their weapons and personnel. This brought the world to the brink of World War III. All the while, senile Biden’s administration insisted there was no threat of nuclear conflict. This was a cynical lie: the threat had reached its peak.

The Trump administration acknowledges this, at least in word (though they’ve proposed spending a record $1 trillion on defense). The European dimwits do not. On the contrary, they’ve begun rattling their puny strategic arsenals again.

As things are, even if the conflict around so-called “Ukraine” ends completely, nuclear disarmament will be impossible for decades to come. The world will create new, more destructive weapons, and more countries will acquire nuclear arsenals.

We all know how this ends.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Kata’eb Hezbollah, one of the main factions of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, has confirmed that an ‘exclusive’ Reuters report claiming Iraqi Shia militias have agreed to disarm is a fabrication.
[how did we miss the “Reuters” part? Some shall remain perfidious to the point of expungement!]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ Trump doubles down on dumb. 🤦‍♂️
‼️🧵 Important Thread |THREAD|
🔻 In Other Words: Actually, he’s tripling down. Netanyahu is in town for a visit!
🔻 Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵: Starting to feel like the dancing Israelis on 9/11. 🤭😂
🔻 Amir Harati: Trump main problem is not understanding the scales. Just tactics might be ok for real estate deals but are laughable at state level deals.
[YEP. They were ALL weighed and found wanting]
⭕ ‼️ Although it obviously is not, it should be clear to everyone by now that the Chinese are not going to bend the knee to the United States.

Here in 2025, China is no longer meaningfully vulnerable to American-style economic siege warfare.
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🔻 Sony Thang: “🇨🇳LIN JIAN:

“The U.S. hegemonic move in the name of ‘reciprocity’ serves its selfish interests at the expense of other countries’ legitimate interests and puts ‘America first’ over international rules.

This is a typical move of unilateralism, protectionism and economic bullying.

China has issued the Chinese Government’s Position on Opposing U.S. Abuse of Tariffs to express our serious and just attitude.

The U.S. abuse of tariffs deprives countries, especially Global South countries, of their right to development.

Analysis of WTO data shows that in light of the uneven economic development and strengths, the U.S. tariff hikes will further widen the wealth gap among countries and less developed countries will feel a heavier blow.

This gravely hurts the effort for realizing the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The U.S. tariffs with differentiated rates violate the WTO principle of non-discrimination, severely disrupt the international trade order and the security and stability of the global industrial and supply chains, severely undermine the multilateral trading system, severely hinder global economic recovery, and will certainly be rejected by the international community.

Open cooperation represents the trend of history and mutual benefit is what the people want.

Development is a universal right of all countries, not an exclusive privilege of a few.

Countries need to uphold the principles of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefit, remain committed to true multilateralism, jointly oppose unilateralism and protectionism of all forms, safeguard the international order with the UN at its core, and uphold the multilateral trading system with the WTO at its center.”

Answer by Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian to a question from CCTV at the Regular Press Conference, April 7, 2025.

Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, P.R.C.”]
🔻 Stfudonny: Could you imagine in WW2 having your “arsenal of Democracy” having to buy your components from Nazi Germany? That’s what we have now. Just about every little widget is made in China now. It will be hard to wean off from too.
🔻 Hazkaz2001: They decoupled from the US economy over the years. It will be a blow but not fatal. The impact on the US consumer will be fatal. Empty shelves and hyperinflation
[and that may be the real target of the eugenicist scum]
⭕🔻 DD Geopolitics:
🇷🇺 Another Abrams down somewhere in Sumy. |link|
🔻 WS: It is a loaves and fishes miracle that the US claims to have sent ~31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, and yet the Russians have destroyed, damaged, or captured about twice that many — and almost every day a few more appear on the battlefield, always with more elaborate cope cages.
⭕🔻 Zlatti71: 🇪🇺🇺🇦 Europe to Arm Ukraine “to the Teeth” as U.S. Aid Wanes — The Economist
With American support for Kyiv drying up, Europe is stepping in. According to The Economist, EU nations are doubling down—regardless of how peace talks unfold.

“Step one: more ammo and air defense systems. Step two: build up Ukraine’s own defense industry,” the report states. Europe’s message is clear: they’re in this for the long haul.
🔻 WS: Ridiculous silly talk.
🔻 bc: The economist.
[indeed. A most useful limey rag. De rigueur messaging platform amongst the Big Club satanists. For the PR to come, the direction of the spin, and who precisely is to be suicided next for the Moshiach]
⭕ cont thread:
⚡️ China warning Japan (and other regional US vassals) to not become American cannon fodder in a conflict with China.

Fact is, neither Japan nor South Korea are going to become the Ukraine of east Asia.

The US can no longer hope to “contain” China, nor Russia, nor even Iran.
🔻 C1: By “contain” China do you mean prevent it from invading Taiwan?
🔻 WS: As I have written countless times over the years: I cannot envision ANY scenario where China would invade Taiwan. A blockade of the island accompanied by a decisive PLAN defeat of the US Navy would be followed by a bloodless reunification with the mainland.
⭕ ‼️ “Error upon Error”

“The U.S. threat to escalate tariffs on China is adding error upon error, once again exposing the extortionate nature of the U.S., which China absolutely does not accept. If the U.S. insists on going its own way, China will certainly fight to the end.”
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🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: As predicted, new Chinese Ministry of Commerce statement (link) that vows China will “fight to the end” against tariffs, that Trump is “adding error upon error” and that China “absolutely doesn’t accept” the “extortionate nature” of his “typical unilateral bullying practices”.l

This is the full translation:

“Ministry of Commerce Spokesperson Comments on U.S. Threat to Escalate Tariffs on China

China has noted that on April 7 Eastern Time, the U.S. threatened to further impose 50% tariffs on China, which China firmly opposes. If the U.S. implements these escalated tariff measures, China will resolutely take countermeasures to protect its own interests.

The so-called “reciprocal tariffs” imposed by the U.S. on China are completely groundless and are a typical unilateral bullying practice. The countermeasures China has already taken are legitimate actions to safeguard its sovereignty, security and development interests, and to maintain normal international trade order. The U.S. threat to escalate tariffs on China is adding error upon error, once again exposing the extortionate nature of the U.S., which China absolutely does not accept. If the U.S. insists on going its own way, China will certainly fight to the end.

China reiterates that there are no winners in a trade war, and protectionism leads nowhere. Pressure and threats are not the correct way to deal with China. China urges the U.S. to immediately correct its erroneous practices, cancel all unilateral tariff measures against China, stop economic and trade suppression against China, and properly resolve differences through equal dialogue on the basis of mutual respect.””]
[this was their response to Orange’s 24-hr ultimatum. Pity all the civilizational-states, Medvedev excepting, are so legalistic, diplomatic, and staid – ever working to keep the room temperature low. We could use more Yemeni, or DPRK, forthrightness]
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: What the countermeasures may be this time around 👇
[links:
🔻 CN Wire: 🇨🇳🇺🇸Source: China Poised to Unveil Six Major Countermeasures in Response to U.S. Tariff Threats
Niutanqin, a WeChat account affiliated with state news agency Xinhua: According to sources, China has prepared at least six major countermeasures against U.S. Tariffs:
1. Significant tariff increases on U.S. agricultural products such as soybeans and sorghum.
2. Banning import of U.S. poultry into China.
3. Suspending Sino-U.S. cooperation on fentanyl-related issues.
4. Countermeasures in the service trade sector.
5. Banning the import of U.S. films into China.
6. Investigating the intellectual property benefits of U.S. companies operating in China.” |link|]
[oh oh! The ticker skipped a few beats. IP is the nuke, as also unrolled by Russkie. LOL. Among the very lifeblood, and exorbitant privilege of the Vampire Balls]
🔻 Zhai Xiang: I completely agree with your point. The likelihood of China making concessions on this issue is extremely low. Beyond the diminishing marginal returns of compromise, it also touches on matters of national dignity.

So far:
– Higher prices for Americans ✅
– Stronger Chinese rhetoric ✅
– No factories returning ✅
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
🔻 cosmo: This is a near carbon-copy of China’s language during previous trade escalation cycles (2018, 2019, 2020). The use of “奉陪到底” (we’ll accompany you to the end) is a signal that China will not blink first.

Beijing isn’t saying it wants to win. It’s saying it won’t fold, and any talks must preserve face and parity. This is the same principle on China’s strategic psychology: no submission, only symmetrical de-escalation.

No surprise here. China’s messaging is exactly what sane people expected: no capitulation, no rush to negotiate, and full strategic posture mode. If the U.S. thought it could provoke a reaction, or trigger concessions with a tariff ultimatum, it misunderstood the entire playbook Beijing’s been refining since 2018.
🔻 Alves: These mutual tariffs looks to me like a way to force a decoupling.

After that, there will be no western leverage on China, just like it happened with Russia a few years ago.

China (and its citizens) better be smarter than Russia with its assets in western run countries, though.
🔻 NotABot: The tariff war is just the start of a large scale hybrid war against China. The US wants to use it to negotiate from weaker countries a hostile position against China.

Blueprint from Trumps chief economic advisor, a hard core Zionist: |link|
🔻 Brenda Factor: The way the U.S. treated Russia since 2014 and especially the past three years, was a cautionary tale for China. Putin and Xi have had an unbreakable bond since Biden expelled Putin from the SWIFT banking system and both nations are now thriving. China builds, USA destroys.
⭕ ‼️ Iran will never accede to the terms the US must necessarily demand. This standoff will eventually lead to Iran calling the US bluff to make war against them.

And the US/Israel may very well attempt an air campaign — one which will prove inefficacious and extremely costly.
[links:
🔻 Scott Ritter: And yet…

Iran just agreed to engage in negotiations with the US in Oman on the nuclear issue.

This Saturday.

Negotiations which will be conducted within the framework of the NPT.

Negotiations which if successful will prevent a war.

When will you admit you simply don’t know what you’re talking about?”]
[we need whatever Scotty lad is chugging to get an IP and start earning untold free lunches. Can easily replace opium or LSD and lay prostrate putative continents beyond the Ice Rim of Antarctica..]
🔻 Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵: Stop the misdirection.

No one’s shaping policy around your Twitter posts. That era’s over.

You could inform people about the real motives—decades of U.S. foreign policy cloaked in justice, leaving millions dead.

You could expose the lies, the treaty-breaking, the moral theater.

Instead, you pretend to believe the narrative, polish and justify it, and hand it off like gospel.

That’s not analysis. That’s PR for empire.

And that’s why you’re being called out.

Your readers aren’t angry.

They’re disappointed.
[God help the fool hounded by a Russkie lady.. I recall a cussin and most formidable one on the Saker that had Larch stuttering in admiration every time she strode into the Chat. iirc she was named after the empress that took Crimea from the Sublime Porte.]
🔻 what’s in a name?: It looks like you missed her point.
🔻 Scott Ritter: No.

She thinks I’m running PR for imperialism.

When I’ll I’m doing is spoutingvfact-based realism.

If it was a PR campaign Iran wouldn’t be negotiating.

These negotiations are a byproduct of reality.

Maybe she should stop trying to be more Iranian than the Iranians
🔻 In Other Words: Regardless of the diplomatic tango (however frivolous and performative), you are not saying anything of substance to repudiate her commentary (and that of many others).
[this is the third lady in a row. But I dunno if latter two are russkie]
🔻 D.L. Mагsнаll: What happened to Scott Ritter?
🔻 The Butterfly Collection 🌍 🌏 ☮️ 🙏: Does every country in the world have the right to defend itself?

But Iran doesnt?
🔻 RC Pilot: Don’t get too excited Scott, sending 40,000 troops implies your readying up for something huge. I can hear them tapping their head gear with 60 round magpuls already…

I guess that’s just in case the negotiations go ok ?
🔻 Timothy Leary’s Dead 🏴‍☠️🌱🐑🐕 🎣🎇👀🐈‍⬛⚠️🎲: They already can’t agree on whether the negotiations will be direct or indirect.
🔻 WS: Iran will seek to delay US military action, because every week of delay further attrits US capability.

It is really hard and costly to project military power across ocean. And the US simply lacks the material and logistical capacity to do it against a peer adversary.
🔻 Ikkyu Sojun: Tariffs are a shaky move.

A scared empire flailing to look tough, as we’ve seen with the U.S. mucking about in trade wars.

But a military strike on Iran now?

That’s not just daft.

It’s a bloody disaster waiting to happen.

We’re not talking pocket change here.

The U.S. can’t afford it, not with its debt choking on future resources and its factories long gone.

Thousands would die because you don’t print victories with dollars.

It’d rip the guts out of an already wobbly nation.

Neocons keep pushing, like they’ve got a death wish for the West,

Anyone cheering for this isn’t a mate to the U.S..

They’re a proper enemy, torching what’s left of a system that’s lost the plot.

It’s the last gasp of a power that’s forgotten how to survive.

Madness.
🔻 bitquoter: Agree, also think that Iran will call the bluff.
I think the USA is a falling empire, and Iran , China , and Russia know it. When empires fall, war looms.
🔻 OneQuantumLeap: Iran is of the hyper realist school

Iran understands the US/ Israel are bad faith actors in the extreme and that negotiations would be futile. Iran would choose another path to conflict if it felt there was one that could secure its longterm security interests but there is none.
[agreed. All these “negotiations” serve is to delay and to while away, hoping against hope that the demons croak before launching the Murder-Suicide. A similar calculus was made by the Leningrader cadre in Russkieland]
🔻 Ibrahim: To my knowledge, Iran still refuses direct negotiations.

In his first term, Trump was eager to even get a phone call with the Iranian president. The fact that he wants direct negotiations this bad shows how weak USA is in front of Iran.
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ Absurd

In the context of a war against Iran, there is ZERO strategic logic for the US to control Bagram Airbase.
[links:
🔻 Dan Hollaway: The United States is taking Bagram Air Base back from the Taliban at the Taliban’s request. I have confirmed this article’s content and that the deployment will be announced publicly later this week. ” |link|]
[the lies are fast, thick, and furious. Unbelievable. The stiff who posted this crap (and leading map) has 26,000 Twitter followers and the post was “hearted” by 3,300. The dying monkeys are going bananas, blasting effluvia left and right and center.
PS – this may have been the wetdream, and reason for persistence of holding onto Afghan soooo long. And his map left out Russia just to the north. Afghan, like Yemen, really squats on ideal terrain against the civilizational-states and control nodes of global connectivities. Too bad they’ve got mountains with indefatigable and undefeated mountain tribes!
PPS – the Bagram psyop leaves out the little fact the Yanquis cut the electricity and fled in the dark of night without ANY advance notice to even their doomed local compradores or fellow EUroPirates!]
🔻 Tabby: Why would Taliban give the US an airbase in Afghanistan ?
🔻 Rune: Taliban denies it: |link|
🔻🇰🇵: The Taliban would have to undermine their core legitimacy -their sovereignty- and the US would have to negotiate a basing agreement with a government that it doesn’t recognize nor have relations with.
[don’t expect common sense by enamored bobble-heads]
🔻 EvaG: Can’t imagine why Taliban would surrender their sovereignty to invite US military back in.
That would be as strange as Washington wanting to ask Vietnam to let US military back in.
[the lunatics recently did! US Navy wanted to return to Cam Ranh Bay for the China Drang. Unbelievable. Only a jewish word does justice to their brazen impudence: chutzpah. And I bet the little spinner above was messaging what the imperialists are trying right now: seducing the Taliban in order to return. I read of it last week (here) with more projection BS being pumped by CNN]
🔻 Alain Diver: Why would the Taliban hand a base over to the US after throwing them out ? Doesn’t make any sense.
⭕ Myth America

“… you’re drowning in a story you no longer believe—and yet still can’t stop telling.

“And that’s the saddest ending of all.”

👏
[when the Myth dies…. really the Mission, the raison d’être for arising from bunks in the morning and holocausting continents — what is there?? It is like the Music stopping. And being forced to look into the Mirror. And realizing you were in freefall for generations…]
links:
🔻 Sony Thang: And Scott, if you thought calling me “The Sphinx” would sting—thank you.

I’ll take it.

Because in mythology, the Sphinx was not nonsense.

The Sphinx asked the riddle.

And those who couldn’t answer?

Perished.

So riddle me this, @RealScottRitter:

If Vietnam was so broken, why did it still rise?

If Iran is so weak, why is it feared?

And if America is so strong, why must it threaten the world just to feel safe?

You say I’m nothing?

No, Scott.

Nothing is what you become when you serve empire your whole life, only to wake up and realize it never served you back.

You need help.

Not because you’re stupid.

But because you’re drowning in a story you no longer believe—and yet still can’t stop telling.

And that’s the saddest ending of all.
🔻 Cardano Wail: Mic drop 🎤 I’m here for the daily beatings
🔻 Hanjo Girke: No matter how evil the US empire behaved, militarism and patriotism runs deep through american society.
They will hang on to the myth of American exceptionalism to the bitter end.
🔻 go: The empire recently raided his house and took all of his stuff, terrorizing his entire family but he’s still simps for them the most pathetic way imaginable. What does that tell us? He’s either compromised or a fool.
[or the raid, and passport heist, were an act]
🔻 The Matrix: At this stage, i think it would have been better if Mr Scott has gone quiet with honor after the FBI raid than his new defenceless writings. There was once a Scott Ritter.

That JFK murder is the gift which keeps on giving.. and the principals and bagmen and minions behind it continue to set the table of the Last Satanic Empire, even after their death

☝️ Lawfare & the legerdemain of the fentanyl crisis: justification for Tariffs and collapsing global trade based on the prevailing template of western globalism. And in tandem with shutting down Petroleum Man through war with Persia, overall an efficient mechanism for smothering all with Dark Winters, whether or not nuclear war arrives directly on their land

‼️🇨🇳🇺🇸 Meanwhile, on Chinese social media… #China

They're already mocking the #USA attempt at re-industrialization. pic.twitter.com/YFxONpKM7I

— Maimunka News (@MaimunkaNews) April 8, 2025

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️US tariffs on Chinese products in the amount of 104% will begin to apply from April 9 – Fox Business journalist citing the White House
⭕ 🇺🇸🇨🇳❗️The White House confirmed the increase in import duties on Chinese goods, specifying that they will take effect from early Wednesday local time, White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt said.

📍Trump is convinced that China wants an agreement with the US on tariffs, but Beijing does not know how to do this.

📍If Beijing reaches out to Washington for a deal, Trump will be ‘incredibly generous’.

💠@The Islander:
⭕ 🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 The Morag Axis: Tel Aviv’s Ethnic Cleansing Corridor

Welcome to Gaza’s Morag Axis. A sanitized military term crafted in 🇮🇱 war rooms, where the real battle is for erasure, not security. What the Israeli regime calls an “operation” is nothing more than a methodical land grab drenched in blood and smoke. The “axis”, a stretch of agricultural land between Rafah and Khan Younis, is being carved out not for defense, but for division, surgically slicing the Gaza Strip in two. Behind the euphemisms and IDF press briefings lies the brutal clarity of settler-colonial logic: fragment, isolate, expel.

Netanyahu’s obsession with this corridor isn’t strategic in the classic sense, it’s genocidal by design. Rebranded from the ruins of the illegal Morag settlement, dismantled in 2005, the name itself reeks of imperial nostalgia. Morag 2.0 is not about defeating Hamas; it’s about decapitating Palestinian presence altogether. Bisection of Gaza via the Morag Axis is the next stage in what the West politely refuses to name: forced population transfer. It’s a scorched-earth enactment of Trump-real estate fantasies, operationalized through US funded and welfare basketcase IDF, then sanitized by media stenographers.

More than military containment, It’s about creating a corridor of death that makes Rafah uninhabitable and turns Gaza into two disconnected Bantustans, penned-in zones of slow-motion suffocation. Control of this axis provides Israel with a permanent noose to throttle aid, block freedom of movement, and destroy Gaza’s social fabric. While the world sleepwalks through headlines, Tel Aviv engineers a cartographic reality where Palestine vanishes, one corridor, one bulldozed olive grove, one bombed apartment block at a time.

We’re witnessing colonial engineering in real time, and yet the usual suspects in Washington, London, Berlin, and Ottawa pretend it’s just “defensive operations.” The Morag Axis is Gaza’s Warsaw Ghetto wall, reimagined for the digital age, livestreamed for satanic engagement, and rationalized in real-time by complicit liberal democracies who wring their hands but fund the tanks. There’s no moral ambiguity here. This is structural apartheid hardwiring itself into the geography of the Strip, under the convenient alibi of “cutting off Hamas.”

In truth, the Morag Axis is a euphemism for demographic engineering, Netanyahu’s cynical move to create “facts on the ground” ahead of any ceasefire talks. By bisecting Gaza, he can collapse any future vision of Palestinian self-determination. A people can’t govern what they can’t access. And once Rafah is cut off, what remains of Gaza can be managed like micro prison yard, with water, food, and medicine metered out as bargaining chips.

What’s chilling is how this is all unfolding beneath plausible deniability. Western diplomats murmur about “de-escalation” while Netanyahu redraws borders with bombs. The media parrots lines about “security corridors” without asking why food convoys are blocked and hospitals are bombed. The same liberal establishment that screamed “Never Again” now shrugs at modern pogroms launched by a nuclear-armed ethnostate.

For the Palestinians, the message is clear: if you’re not expelled through Rafah, you’ll be choked off in Khan Younis. For the Global Majority watching from afar, the lesson is sobering. This is what hegemony looks like when it’s desperate, censoring dissent, criminalizing resistance, and weaponizing geography to redraw borders. Tel Aviv’s gamble is that the world will accept apartheid by increments, as long as it’s wrapped in military acronyms and sold as “anti-terrorism.”

But history has a way of unraveling imperial lies. The Morag, like the Green Line and the apartheid wall before it, will become another scar in the long
memory of Palestinian resistance. And when the tide turns, as it always does, it will be corridors like Morag that are remembered not for securing peace, but for revealing the true face of a state built on dispossession.

💠@kuluary_zaliva (В кулуарах Залива):
⭕ ❗️Israel has occupied more than 50% of the Gaza Strip

Since renewing its military operation against Hamas last month, Israel has significantly expanded its presence in the Gaza Strip – the Israeli army now controls more than 50% of the territory, pushing Palestinians into small pockets of land .

In recent weeks , Israel has doubled the size of the buffer zone, pushing its forces up to 3km into Gaza in some places , including retaking the Netzarim corridor. Last week, Benjamin Netanyahu said the IDF would create another corridor that would run through southern Gaza , cutting off the city of Rafah from the rest of the territory.

Netanyahu said Israel intends to pressure Hamas until the group releases the remaining Israeli hostages and its leaders leave Gaza, but occupying the territory also serves the goals of Donald Trump’s push to resettle Palestinians from the enclave .

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Israeli troops have been seen clearing land and building watchtowers in recent days in parts of Gaza they seized.

Residents said there were growing signs that the military was settling in for an extended stay, building watchtowers in Shejaiya, in the north, and between the towns of Khan Younis and Rafah, in the south.
⭕ After months of activity on the northern front, troops of the Golani Brigade, under the command of the 36th Division, have returned to the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army reported.

For the past week, the brigade’s troops have been operating in the Rafah region.
[there are scant battles. They’re avoiding most settled areas and pockets of resistance. Objectives appear to complete the extermination by air and through starvation siege. And to keep herding surviving civilians into ever tighter and smaller pockets]
⭕ Trump’s statements on Gaza:

Having a US peacekeeping force controlling and owning Gaza would be a good thing.

For years, all I heard about the Gaza Strip was the problems with Hamas, but if you take the Palestinians and move them to other countries, and there are many countries that would be willing to do that, and you establish [in the Gaza Strip] a zone of freedom, a zone where no one will be killed, it’s an incredible place. I don’t understand why Israel abandoned the Gaza Strip [in 2005].
⭕ Trump during his meeting with Netanyahu:

“We are working very hard to free the hostages. We are considering a new ceasefire; we will see what happens. We want to free the hostages. The Israeli people want to free the hostages. This man (Netanyahu) is working hard with us to achieve that. I don’t know, I hope he will be recognized because he has been a great leader. He works hard with the hostages and many other things…. It is a difficult place in the world.”

Netanyahu: “I have a good partner.”

Trump: “You have a good partner, and we have a good partner.”
⭕ A report by the Israeli human rights group Breaking the Silence reveals that Israeli troops have destroyed large residential, agricultural, and industrial areas in Gaza to create a “death zone” of 800 to 1,500 meters along the border.

Citing testimonies from soldiers who participated in the operation, the report noted the demolition of some 3,500 buildings and the loss of 35 percent of the enclave’s arable land. The soldiers described scenes of utter devastation, comparing them to Hiroshima, and expressed doubts about the proportionality of the military actions.

Another human rights group, Gisha, confirmed the severe impact on Gaza’s agricultural livelihoods.

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸 U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, the U.S. military’s representative to the NATO Military Committee, has been fired in what appears to be a purge of senior Trump administration national security officials.

This dismissal follows the dismissal of the head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber ​​Command, as well as a senior female naval officer.
[what is being sold as dismantling of DEI and woke hires helps the retreat off Euroasian continent…]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇹🇷🇸🇾The US president said he could mediate between Israel and Turkey.

“Whatever problem you have with Turkey, I think we can solve it, as long as you’re reasonable, you have to be reasonable,” he told Netanyahu.

According to Trump, his Turkish counterpart is “very smart.” Trump praised Erdogan for doing “what no one has done in 2,000 years: taking control of Syria.”

Netanyahu pressured US Secretary of State Marco Rubio not to sell F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, Middle East Eye reports.
⭕ 🇪🇸 The Spanish government has approved €2.08 billion in new defense spending.
⭕ 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺 Brazil reintroduces visa requirements for US, Canadian, and Australian citizens

Brazil has announced that it will reinstate visa requirements for citizens of the United States, Canada, and Australia, marking a shift toward reciprocity in international travel policies.

Since 2019, these nationals have benefited from a visa exemption, while Brazilians are subject to strict visa procedures when traveling to these countries.

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ Ayatollah Javadi Amoli in 2015 prior to signing the JCPOA:

“Count your fingers after shaking hands with the Americans. The infidels who do not stop being enemies, you too should be enemies with them, be careful.”

[NB: Javadi Amoli was the representative of Imam Khomeini to Mikhail Gorbachev during the USSR era, in 1988.]
[on the left is the current Iranian Foreign Minister, Araghchi, back then the chief Iranian negotiator]

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸💊Trump said the US would impose tariffs on pharmaceutical products.
[catastrophic news for health in USA]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ The IDF’s Arabic Spokesman proudly visited occupied southern Syria today – while Al-Jolani sits and watches in silence
[what a wretched existence, before being expunged. Kill & be killed, living in fear, flitting from bunker to basement. Like other nazi tourists to Kursk. That is the entire reality of zionazidom and the second set of western crusades in the region. Keep in mind whenever they engage in risible optics and lies]

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Thousands of trucks carrying humanitarian aid for 2.5 million Palestinians have been stuck on the Egyptian border with Gaza for five weeks. This is a crime against humanity. Israel is not being held accountable for its crimes.
🔻 C1: Is this true?? Is hezb really willing to disarm if israel leaves the south? |media|
[unreal! What lying scum. The target audience is Zio-USUK, to fool their stormtroopers being suicided that the Resistance is on last legs, and to push through]
🔻 EM: No.
⭕ Absolutely genius.

Donald Trump now wants to sign a deal with Iran—the same deal he tore up in 2018—where Iran agrees not to build a nuclear weapon it says it never wanted in the first place. In other words, he’s back to the 2015 Obama deal after 7 Years.
⭕ Every day @X removes hundreds of followers. It started this purge several months ago but has become more aggressive in the last few days.
⭕ Not China, but those who have always done it. Nothing new.
links:
🔻 Megatron: Donald Trump:

“The countries are kissing my ass, begging to make a deal on tariffs” |link|
⭕ Israel just committed a massacre at al-Shukaiya [refugee] camp north-east of Gaza, in the Baghdad neighbourhood, killing 21 people and wounding 50.
⭕ China announces an 84% tariff on US imports after Donald Trump imposed a 104% tariff on Chinese goods entering the US.

The Chinese tariff is an increase from the 34% it already imposed on US imports—China is not backing down and is slapping the US arrogance.
⭕Investors are selling their long-term US government bonds, which are traditionally considered a “safe haven” asset.

No one better than the Americans to destroy the US economy.
⭕Israel has warned the Lebanese government to confiscate Hezbollah’s weapons allegedly stored in several dozen locations across Beirut and its outskirts, threatening to bomb these sites if no action is taken.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ cont. thread:
🤦‍♂️ Absurd

In the context of a war against Iran, there is ZERO strategic logic for the US to control Bagram Airbase.
links: “The United States is taking Bagram Air Base back from the Taliban at the Taliban’s request. I have confirmed this article’s content and that the deployment will be announced publicly later this week. ”
🔻 WS: What I find most incredible about the replies to this post is how many people said, “Look at a map, retard!”

They appear to believe it’s a one-way route from Bagram to Iran.

Bagram would be a static target for Iranian IRBMs. It would get reduced to rubble and ashes.
🔻 Brian M: Like when we point out that we have missile defense and retaliatory strikes for just such an event? But try another reason. Got to be at least one more.
🔻 WS: You are a woefully misinformed sheep.

The US has no credible air defenses. Second-tier Iranian ballistic missiles blew right through top-shelf US/Israeli AD TWICE already. Patriot, SM-3, THAAD, “Iron” Dome … all of them ineffective.

Russian ballistic missiles mocked Patriots.
🔻 Todd Manker: Tell me you don’t have any idea what you’re talking about without telling me you don’t know what you’re talking about!!! You sir need a geography lesson!
🔻 WS: Someone sure does. Let me help you out:
📜 Geography
🔻 Todd Manker: Bagram is the most strategic airbase in that entire region. Nice try though.
🔻 WS: Utterly indefensible.

And incapable of being logistically supplied in the midst of a major-power war.

You people are embarrassingly clueless about military considerations.
🔻 Brian Bauer: I disagree. When you posed a question weeks ago about a plausible operational plan with respect to Iran my first thought was Afghanistan.

We know Iran has strong anti ship missile capabilities, meaning our Naval assets would be at risk. Thus another axis of approach is needed.

Entry through Afghanistan would create this additional axis. Just threatening from this side will cause Iran to redeploy their IADS to cover the east.

One doesn’t actually need to strike from this axis for it to be an effective faint that accomplishes a military objective
[they actually DID recently deploy new AD in this direction, but likely against Pakistan, run by abject compradore Yanqui generalos]
🔻 WS: You’re free to believe this story of the US reestablishing a base at Bagram. And you’re free to believe such a base could actually be equipped and supplied. And you’re free to believe it would be defensible against attack.

But I am convinced NONE of those things are true.
⭕ repost:
‼️ Iran will never accede to the terms the US must necessarily demand. This standoff will eventually lead to Iran calling the US bluff to make war against them.

And the US/Israel may very well attempt an air campaign — one which will prove inefficacious and extremely costly.
🔻 James Jos. Kroeger: It will result in the destruction of Israel…

I just listened to @RealScottRitter lay out his whole argument (zz). Near the end he says,
“…if the decision’s made to take out Iran’s nuclear infrastructure…this will [also] be a regime-change operation”

That’s something I’ve been saying for quite a while now. In fact, I think the attack on nuclear sites is just an excuse to execute a nuclear decapitation strike on Khamenei…

He concludes by arguing that IF Iran responds to a US nuclear decapitation strike by destroying Israel’s Air Force, its Dimona nuclear plant, and (with Russia’s help) its nuke-delivery assets, the US will respond by destroying Iranian civilization with nuclear hellfire

I find that extremely doubtful…🤔

Scott may believe it because he’s convinced Trump’s ultra-Zionist cabal absolutely would push for the nuclear annihilation of Iran, but is that actually likely to happen? 🤔

If the US uses its B-2’s to deliver decapitation nukes on Tehran, most of Iran’s ballistic missiles will already have been launched on warning at US & Israeli bases, (cuz Russian/Chinese satellites will have informed them when the B-2’s take off from Diego Garcia)

No matter what the US is able to accomplish, if say its Bombers get through Iran’s Russia-strengthened air defense, Israel’s destruction is guaranteed. Isn’t that what Israel-loving Trump is trying to prevent by attacking Iran’s ballistic missile capability?

Now Trump’s team of Zionist fanatics will certainly feel the urge to destroy Iran for destroying Israel, but will they?

The Pentagon will be telling them urgently that the US cannot defeat Iran without raining nukes on them, and if they do that, the US loses anyway

If you’re Trump at that moment, you’re hearing what the Pentagon is saying and you’re seeing your ‘beloved Israel’ being destroyed, and American bases & aircraft carriers being made unusable by Iran’s retaliation…

Does anyone really expect Trump would blithely destroy “The American Story” simply to ‘defend’ a country that has already been destroyed?

Taking that next insane step [escalating to all out nuclear annihilation vs Iran in spite of warnings from Russia & China] after already using tactical nukes to try to regime change Iran, would be a decision that a trembling Donald Trump never wanted to face

The US nuclear retaliation that Scott thinks Iran should fear would not in any way DEFEND Israel, which would already be destroyed, but would serve only to “punish” Iran for having destroyed Israel

How important would that be to Trump when he realizes:

-his whole gambit failed to defend Israel, but brought about its destruction instead

-‘defending’ Israel after the fact (nothing to defend) would yield precisely ZERO benefits to the US, but it would make the US extremely vulnerable to worst possible international situation, including the possibility of all-out nuclear war

-Per the Pentagon, there are no aggressive options left that are worth the risk

-Juxtapose that with the option of simply backing off, accepting Israel’s defeat, and trying to make the best of a bad situation

Making threats is one thing, but putting the US in a position where it is suffering massive losses against the background of having lost the country he foolishly tried to ‘defend’ with his attack on Iran, is quite another…

Scott seems not to have factored into his analysis the consequences that the Pentagon fears and how those fears are rather likely to persuade Trump to step away from the brink of possibly destroying everything that’s important to him
———————–

I’m mostly convinced at this point that Trump is doing little more right now than saber-rattling with all his might, making threats & positioning USAF weapons to reinforce them, hoping they will frighten the Iranians into negotiating away their sovereignty

I think if the Iranians just hold fast, and refuse to ‘negotiate’ with an enemy who is pointing a gun at their heads, Trump will realize it didn’t work & will look for a Plan B

If he’s actually willing to sentence America to death for Israel’s sake, then there’s nothing more to way…
🔻 Ayodele Ajayi: The US doesn’t negotiate in good faith…so this is already DOA. A waste of time for all involved….
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ Apparently the US will demand Iran gets rid of all its ballistic missiles, and cease henceforth to produce them.

In other words, a “deal” with the Iranians will be stillborn.

The Trump White House has become the most ridiculously bellicose American administration ever.
🔻 bitquoter: Obviously Iran will never agree to such a proposal. The question is, has the US already decided to bomb Iran yes or no. Because when they do, well…. Go short.
🔻 WS: Well … this much is true: if the US/Israel attack Iran, the Iranians will unquestionably decrease their on-hand ballistic missile inventory.
[LOL. And no mere headaches this time!]
🔻 bitquoter: To be honest, it is an horror scenario. Iran will attack oil production in the region, US bases and probably Israel. The world economy and stability will be in great danger. Iran ain’t Iraq.
🔻 WS: Although Iran is not a superpower on the level of Russia and China, they would represent the most powerful country the US has faced in war since 1945. And most significantly, the Iranians have developed asymmetric strengths tailored specifically to exploit American weaknesses.
🔻 Time2Task: Iran does not represent its majority.True Iranians are western.The Iranian leaders are Islamic despots.The main population will rise up if just given a chance.
🔻 Jessica Drake: Where did he say that recently about the ballistic missiles?
🔻 WS: They have been talking about it for weeks: the terms are dismantling both the nuclear and missile programs. |link|
🔻 BenLayZenji: Realist logic obviously suggests Iran should get nuclear weapons, but the Iranians (so far) consistently refuse to do so. Why? BECAUSE THEY THINK THE WEAPONS ARE IMMORAL! Yet we claim that WE represent “civilization!” We are governed by the criminally insane.
🔻 WS: I doubt the US will nuke Iran.

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

Engagements will escalate; aircraft and ships will be attacked.
🧵 How to Lose A Carrier Strike Group in An Afternoon
🔻 AK: We used to have DOA (dead on arrival), this is DBA (dead before arrival)
🔻 Chris: Effectively the Trump team is demanding that Iran surrender.

Needless to say, these terms are totally unreasonable and the Iranians will never agree to such a proposal.

These are demands that are really intended to be a prelude to the US trying to justify going to war with Iran
🔻 Pleas Lucian: The deal is to facilitate the conditions for Iran to be steamrolled in short order. The same parties advocating for disarmament under the guise of civility are armed to the teeth and have openly mused about destroying Iran for a generation

Violence (or the threat of violence) is the only language these people understand. Iran would be insane not to do everything in its power to ensure its own survival including the development of nuclear weapons.

Peace is only a virtue when your neighbor shares your values.
🔻 Allan: This whole thing wasn’t about nukes. It was about Iran’s missile program…
🔻 Soltard: We should have a minute of silence for all the “Trump will bring peace” retards.
🔻 NotABot: Trump puts all cards into full global escalation. The tariff war must be seen as a part of a large scale war effort.
🔻 Redbedhead: Trump and co have reached the conclusion that the failings of the past are entirely due to not making sufficiently outrageous demands of everybody – who would obviously bend the knee if only asked. There’s about to be a big pile of defeats or war or both laid at his feet.
🔻 Martin L. Zinn: Remember what what happened to Gaddafi?

Once you throw in the towel and remove all deterrence then they will come after you.

Iran knows that.
🔻 Xi be praised, the boomer buck breaker: My theory is of course during the US depression, there will be a 9/11 like event (if you know what I mean) and the anger of the people will be transferred to war with Iran. China is too big to fight. The US only bomb kids and women in countries that can’t bomb back.
🔻 WS: The Iranians can definitely hit back, and hard, with a larger missile inventory than the US has.
[saved for so long, since before Saddam was lynched, that their greatest worry atm is shortage of storage space]
🔻 Alex Sachs: If they sink a carrier how will Trump react? Nuclear I am afraid
🔻 Xi be praised, the boomer buck breaker: If the US nukes Iran it opens themselves to be nuked, also by dirty bombs, etc. If muricans riot after 3 weeks without toilet paper, I don’t think they can handle the heat.
🔻 Alex Sachs: Nuked by whom?
🔻 Xi be praised, the boomer buck breaker: Terrorists, other countries, etc. For example, if Russia thinks the U.S. is going insane, it might decide to first strike to prevent the US from first striking. It’s funny how murcians always expect they can bomb women and kids in other countries and not face any blowback.
[this is a valid point. Once Ray’s locked box on the top shelf is fully opened… it may not require the inevitably lowered threshold by Russkies to start the fatal cascade. There will be plenty of enraged and the frighted who will look to get in the first blow. Remember what was done to the Assyrians by a coalition of their tormented neighbors. They were carved up nicely from all sides during the last sudden melee]
🔻 Shivan Mahendrarajah: Iran has been preparing for the “inevitable war” since “Axis of Evil” speech (29 Jan 2002). Iraq War proved Isr can get what it wants. Iran’s defensive posture is to fight US (more than Isr). Hence focus on AD, and asymmetric warfare with BM, drones, EW. They’ll be just fine 🤞
🔻 chickadee: Does this sound like a person who can negotiate with the Iranians?
[links:
🔻 Middle East Observer: ⚡️Trump :

The Houthis are making missiles. No one expected this, but they are making missiles. It’s highly sophisticated.. and they’re very tough.”]
🔻 Hipersonik: Actually, @Ahmed_hassan_za was saying repeatedly that Yemen is building their on missiles indigenously. It seems this intel has not reached the cia loosers behind their computer desks.
🔻 Zeit&Zaatar: Love that he’s mystified by what the rest of us already knew.
🔻 Dja Wad 🔻: Its over for the US
🔻 Wekesirr: @grok is this true
🔻 SHER-E-HIND🇮🇳🇵🇸: Wow. Getting an acknowledgment from thanos himself is a big deal.
⭕🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: A trillion dollar defense budget, but when you look inside it will procure maybe 750 PAC-3 interceptors and 200 LRASMs. Maybe 100 Tomahawks.
🔻 WS: It’s very expensive to replicate the alien-derived super-tech stuff the US is getting ready to spring upon its enemies. 😏
🔻 C2: No to mention all the MAGA container ships they have to build
🔻 Sobek: Lol, yeah, we have to mine asteroids and shit for unobtainium
🔻 Kestrel: I heard from tucker carlson that the cronosphere is already operational🤣
⭕🔻 *Walter Bloomberg:
🚨 WHITE HOUSE: TRUMP BELIEVES CHINA HAS TO MAKE DEAL WITH U.S.
🔻 Stats: what does that mean? That China will feel forced to? Or that it’s important to us that they will?
🔻 WS: Bluffing with a pair of deuces against three kings.

Trump has fallen into the deep end of the delusional pool.
🔻 Dr. Anton: He literally believes Xi will come crawling
[noooo. He put it in such a way, as with Russia and Iran, guaranteed to be rejected in order to escalate]
🔻 Oklahoma Gamgee ✝️: The Yuan is collapsing. Bessent broke the Pound. He’s doing same to China. Trump is winning this, make no doubt about it.
[I shoulda moved to Oklahoma. None of these worries. Few gray hairs. Bliss!]
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: Russia has called out Trump’s bluff, albeit politely.

Now Trump did it himself on China.

Next Iran’s turn.

⭕ retweet:
🔻 Godfree Roberts: China’s FM: “China is an ancient civilization and a country of etiquette. The Chinese people believe in treating others with sincerity and trust. We do not provoke trouble, nor are we afraid of it. Pressure and threats are not the right way to deal with China. China has and will continue to take resolute measures to safeguard its sovereignty, security and development interests.

“The essence of Sino-US economic and trade relations should be mutual benefit and win-win.
“The United States should comply with the common expectations of the two countries and the people of the world, and stop using tariffs as a weapon to suppress China’s economy and trade, and stop undermining the legitimate development rights of the Chinese people, based on the fundamental interests of the two countries”.

Or this goes global…
⭕🔻 Marko Kolanovic:
Worked in markets under Greenspan, Bernanke, Yellen, and Powell FEDs. Many, many, market crises. #1 Volatility analyst for 14 stright years. I have never seen a market crisis of this magnitude, yet FED almost disinterested, or even gleeful.
🔻 Marko Kolanovic: Should read ‘with’ instead of ‘yet’. Meaning 2008 and 2020 were bigger crises. This is 3rd largest.
🔻 WS: As the late Richard Russell was wont to say, the only antidote for deflation is a devaluation of the currency.

The Fed probably figures they can manage the descent until the last possible moment, and then inflate just enough to save the day.

But I doubt their piloting skills.
🔻 John Ruplinger: nah. I think Trump was brought back to blow it all up for good — accelerationism. He’s spitting on all his MAGA supporters, not the first time.
⭕ cont thread:
⚡️ China warning Japan (and other regional US vassals) to not become American cannon fodder in a conflict with China.

Fact is, neither Japan nor South Korea are going to become the Ukraine of east Asia.

The US can no longer hope to “contain” China, nor Russia, nor even Iran. |link|
🔻 C1: If China gets Japan under its wing its s Huge win for them
🔻 Lucky Grandpa: There’s no way Japan willingly allows that to happen.
🔻 WS: Japan is melting away before our eyes.

China will be master of east Asia and the western Pacific for decades to come.

If Japan wants to survive, it will make friends with China.
[can a fascist reform? Esp. one deathly afraid of accountability for unrepented bestial crimes?]
🔻 n.boer.maak.n.plan: That is the countenance of a man who knows he’s on the winning side.
🔻 WS: This is an insightful observation. Very few people are discerning of such important indicators.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Cimmerian Pervert: Posting this for no reason
🔻 jessie money sniper, PhD.: looks cool
🔻 Cimmerian Pervert: We’re going to nuke it, sadly
🔻 xnihilo: Hell yeah
🔻 Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞): they should just shut down your power grid for a week, maybe digital detox will put things in perspective
🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: All the scenarios where the US military strikes the three gorges damn are also scenarios with nuclear exchange.
🔻 Irrationalbasis: Conventional strike on the three gorges damn is tantamount to a nuclear strike in terms of death and destruction.
🔻 Piedmont Patrician: Yup. How come it only takes three decades without THE Cold War being ongoing for people to forget MAD is a political reality and brinksmanship is a juice not often worth the squeeze.
⭕ ⚪️ Jackpot

I was gifted two dozen silver dollars!

I really like the heft and feel of old US silver dollars.

In fact, I really like all pre-1965 US 90% silver coinage — especially the “Mercury dimes”. And Indian head pennies.

“Hard Money”
🔻 Albert Finklefish: I love old silver coins.
I get to own a piece of history.
🔻 WS: More than history. Silver is money.

In the early 1960s, two dimes were worth a gallon of gasoline. Here in 2025, two dimes are still worth a gallon of gasoline. In fact, two dimes are now worth about a gallon and a half.
🔻 Albert Finklefish: Indeed. It’s when we connect it to real things the money we currently use gets exposed.
⭕ cont thread:
🎸 Requiem for the American Dream

The rich and powerful don’t sing the blues
Only the poets and troubadours do
They used to fill up the rickety roadhouse
Now there’s no one to fill their shoes |THREAD|
⭕ 🐺 Dire Wolf Fake News

The story making the rounds about 10,000 year-old “Dire Wolf” DNA being used to do a Jurassic Park-like reincarnation of an extinct species is 100% unadulterated disinformation. Apparently no one read the article under the misleading headline.
#FakeNews
🔻 WS: No “Dire Wolf” DNA was involved. |link|
🔻 billrobs: “Apparently no one read the article under the misleading headline.”

How propaganda works
⭕ retweet of this image
[fyi for those not from USA: he’s about to file extortionate taxes now, lol. Typically due on April 15th every year, unless saved by death]
🔻 henryhiccups ☮️: 2nd biggest… usury is first
[all may be considered forms of usury?? it has many criteria..]
🔻 S W 🦉: And all of it to serve Israel
[after what Zion has done to western reputation for the next 1,000 generations.. no wonder Orange is pulling the global economy. Even if there weren’t no hybrid world war, they’re well and good in the shitter. At this point the satanists maneuver to be the last left standing, or the one-eyed among a blinded world]
⭕ retweet
🔻 S.L. Kanthan: Trump’s Liberation Day will be followed by Retaliation Day from China and the EU, the two largest blocs that have enough leverage.

The rest will tell Trump what he wants to hear and make promises they cannot keep.
🔻 Wingchunlion: They will get played like Ukraine. Every single one of them. Japan, Korea and Taiwan!
[and esp. the EU. For the glory of raising their Moshiach]
🔻 giftqueen: Forget the EU, those people are too cowardly to be mentioned in the same breath as China.
[that too]
🔻 Zelda: China is not the pvssy he can grab.
⭕🔻 People’s Art of War 人民兵法: You do not threaten a nation that transformed itself from poverty to rival great power in a single generation. They have already proven they can endure far more than their rivals.
🔻 People’s Art of War 人民兵法: If you can’t tolerate a delayed fast-food order or if the barista at the Starbucks makes your drink wrong?

How are you going to handle a trade war? You’re already declaring victory. The first shots haven’t been fired.
🔻 Lee Smith: CCP policies caused famine and death on massive scale. Only corrupt US officials, from Kissinger to Biden, saved garbage communist regime from dustbin of history at great cost to American middle class
🔻 Jim Sharp: China didn’t transform itself worth a shit. They had their entire economy gifted to them by western elites who sold out their own nation

A trust fund kid, who is about to get cut off

Back to the great humiliations for you China
[Perhaps the only thing I dislike more than debunking zionazi hasbara is listening to the delusional engage in meaningless chest thumping…]
🔻 WS: American exceptionalist delusional cope.
🔻 Paulo: They work so hard…innovate so quickly…and safest place to live…reminds me of America a generation or more ago
[more than a generation now..]
🔻 cosmo: The level of willful ignorance from these people is wild. China wasn’t “gifted” its rise, it extracted leverage from access, deployed it strategically, and built scale the West didn’t expect.

The CCP didn’t survive because of Kissinger or Biden. It survived because it adapted, internally and ruthlessly.

You can dislike the system. But denying its competence or durability just makes it easier for them to keep outmaneuvering you.
🔻 Xi be praised, the boomer buck breaker: It blows my mind how ignorant these people are. Like beyond Qing dynasty eunuchs seeing British gunboats level ignorant.
[LOL. beautiful analogy. Hubris. Nuf said]

⭕ retweet:
🔻 MenchOsint: American netizens think their country can strike China without beeing struck in turn
[this was posted in response to above on nuking the three gorges dam]
🔻 Dudeeeeee: Why is Raqqa on the list????
[LOL. yeah! This Syrian city was already Gaza’ed by the criminal successors of the war criminal Curtis LeMay. Maybe it is polite stand-in for the psychopathic entity next door.. And it may be old map or one showing cities for reference]
🔻 Journo Uncle: 🤐they think it’s 80s
🔻 HanginOut: Brazil will rule the world 🤣
[this came outta nowhere! well, i suppose if both big boy sides go at it, someone shall inherit the Ashes]

Do u get that feelin’ … this won’t take as long as the SMO, or the holocausting of the true semites?? They’re gonna be popped like a turgid pimple by the Celestial Empire. Pity the fools

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇺🇸 Duties and tariffs are a traditional instrument of US policy – Maria Zakharova

“Over the past day, American and retaliatory tariffs have grown even more. The bargaining is serious. For the States, this is one of the traditional ways of doing business. For many countries, it is a shock”
⭕ 🇺🇸 U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is working hard, making America great again, standing next to Marco and Brian, holding a loaded M4 rifle pointed at the head of Brian—just before she goes out and “rolls with them” to pick up someone suspected of human trafficking. |media|
[Good Lord. It is Over. Stick a fork in this Circus Minimus FreakUS. The randy lunatics run the insane asylum]
⭕ 🇺🇸🛢 Oil production in the U.S. could come to a halt due to falling prices, according to Panmure Liberum analyst Ashley Kelty, as reported by Reuters.

“Some American analysts have suggested that the White House aims to push oil prices down to $50 a barrel, believing that the U.S. oil and gas sector can weather a period of disruptions. We consider this goal to be somewhat misguided… and it will simply lead to the shutdown of U.S. production, giving OPEC the opportunity to reclaim its position as the stabilizing producer,” Kelty said.
⭕ 🇺🇸 JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon says that a US recession is now the “likely outcome”
⭕ 🇨🇳⚔️🇺🇸 Chinese Foreign Ministry today issued a warning to Washington:

“If the U.S. decides not to care about the interests of the U.S. itself, China and the rest of the world, and is determined to fight a tariff and trade war, China’s response will continue to the end.”

• China issues risk warning for Chinese tourists heading to US.
• China issues risk warning for Chinese students studying in US.
• Amazon Cancels Some Orders to China After Tariffs.

⭕ Reuters quoting the US Treasury Secretary: China is the only country escalating with us on trade.

• From “isolating Russia” to “isolating China”
  [will not bore you with link to the same degenerate US Treasury Sec. The Reviled, proudly wearing the burnished Scarlet Letter, project from foaming lips]

⭕🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russia–U.S. diplomatic normalization talks resume tomorrow [today Thursday] in Istanbul

Maria Zakharova confirmed the second round of consultations will focus on removing obstacles—including technical ones—hindering embassy operations.

Russia will be led by new U.S. Ambassador Alexander Darchiev; the U.S. by Deputy Secretary Sonata Coulter.
[So the talks will be led by Russian Ambassador to US and revolve around the enforced return of Russian sovereign property illegally seized and looted by the Yanqui Pirates. (!!!) LOL. This is priceless. A public frogmarch under international glare in a vassal third country, forced to eat crow and unsteal what was shamelessly stole. All as appetizer to demonstrate fitness to hold further “negotiations” whilst flopping, rather quivering jellylike, like an obese beached blue whale.

Remember Hamas’s Gaza handoff ceremonies of zionazi POWs, replete with shiny banners, brand new pickup trucks that somehow survived Hiroshima II, and with spiffy ranks of guerrillas in clean new uniforms kitted with the guns and spoils of dead zionazis? A big FU to the opposing side. This is turning into a similar humiliation ritual of the losing side forced to eternally grin like a meatless skeleton]
⭕ 🇺🇸🚢🇨🇳 U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to revitalize American shipbuilding and curb China’s dominance in the global shipping industry.

Fun fact: China’s shipbuilding capacity is reported to be 232 times larger than that of the United States, according to a widely cited figure from a leaked U.S. Navy briefing slide prepared by the Office of Naval Intelligence. This estimate is based on a comparison of manufacturing capacity, with Chinese shipyards capable of producing approximately 23.25 million tons, while U.S. shipyards have a capacity of less than 100,000 tons.
[He outta exhume or clone Stanley Kubrick too, to film that coming glorious and unparalleled manned landing on Mars. “… a mighty step for the Galaxy.” A most manly boost to limp and flagging efforts in all other quadrants, amid a hail of endeavors of cupidity… unbelievable. What days. May our guts and the ale hold out]
⭕ 🇷🇺 Zakharova: “Either this is another drug-fueled outburst from Zelensky, or a planned stunt to once again draw attention to himself.”

After Russia’s high-precision strike on a military command meeting in the restaurant Mohyla in Krivoy Rog — attended by Ukrainian and Western officers — Zelensky erupted in outrage, blaming the U.S. for not responding harshly enough.
[what beautiful 2-for-1 day yesterday, whilst polite Russkies continue the “negotiations” using the oldest language appreciated by the demented.. btw,

1. this city is our little Cokehead’s hometown.
2. abuncha the nazi internationale were sent straight to Bandera. How does it feel to be Palestinian or Yemeni civilians?? Or the next suicide squad sent to 404 from the nazi interior?]

⭕️ 🇺🇸 No way! Also… technically a “dump and pump”
⭕ 🇺🇸 Senator Adam Schiff is suspicious of insider trading tied to Trump’s schizo tariff decisions.
[The grape-eyed little weasel didnt get his cut! LOL. Tough. There’s a new wrecking crew dude]
⭕ 🇧🇷Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stated this Wednesday that the US government’s latest announcements about imposing tariffs on other countries made it clear that the trade war is limited to a “personal feud” between President Donald Trump and China.

➡️He stated that he does not want a war between China and the US and that he believes the best thing the United States can do is sit down at a negotiating table with China.

💬 “We don’t need a war. We already know what happened with the First and Second World War. What could happen with a third is crazy, because today it’s not about cannons and rifles. Today it’s about an atomic bomb. So I want peace and I want understanding between Xi Jinping and Trump because that’s in the world’s interest.”

➡️The Brazilian president also criticized Trump’s decision to unilaterally negotiate trade rules with each country, as the important thing is to have multilateral rules.

💬 “Wanting to negotiate individually is wanting to put an end to multipolarity. And multipolarity is very important for the economic tranquility the world needs. It’s important that we understand that the hegemony of one country over others, whether military, cultural, industrial, technological, or economic, is unacceptable.”

➡️He added that the sovereignty of all countries must be respected and that an agreement must be sought in negotiations without hegemony, without arrogance, and without arrogance.
[Here’s a head of state confirming what I and many said: this is not as sold for protectionism but an Economic Drang, primarily against China. And one already as doomed as when the first nazi Horde tried to breach the Surovikin Line on their famed “counter-offensive”]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇾🇪 NEW: The U.S. informed Ansarallah (i.e. the Houthis) that it is willing to stop the bombing campaign on Yemen, if the group promises not to attack American navy ships
[LOL. Already crying “uncle”?! Running outta sea chariots to suicide? Unbelievable, the abjectness of the situation for the drowning. Pity the Fool that travels oceans to die against Yemenis, or Russkies]
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇾🇪/🇮🇷 NEW: After using Yemen as a testing ground for bunker busting bombs intended to be used on Iran, the U.S. military is reportedly ‘doubtful’ and ‘unconvinced’ that it could pull off a successful military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities

The U.S. military says it is unsure whether a strike on Iran would achieve the intended strategic objective, stating that the Iranian sites are ‘much deeper’ and more protected than Yemen’s underground bases, and that recent airstrikes on Yemeni missile infrastructure turned out ‘ineffective at best, useless at worst’. – CENTCOM Sources

💠 @medmannews:
⭕ ⚡️🇬🇧The British MoD officially confirmed that the long-planned deployment of the carrier strike group to the Indo-Pacific, operation HIGH MAST, will begin on April 22 with the departure of the flagship. Ships confirmed to participate in deployment:

• 🇬🇧Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless;
• 🇬🇧Type 23 frigate HMS Richmond;
• 🇬🇧Tanker RFA Tidespring, armed with CIWS Phalanx;
• 🇬🇧Astute-class submarine;
• 🇳🇴Frigate HNoMS Roald Amundsen;
• 🇳🇴Tanker HNoMS Maud;
• 🇨🇦Frigate HMCS Ville de Quebec;
• 🇪🇸Frigate ESPS Mendez Nunez.

[wow. They would need to transit the Bab El Mandeb to reach the Pacific from the Med Sea. And note the pitiful quantity – in the good ol days of the Royal Navy, these would be the advance reconnoiter detachment, or flottilla, of the first wave – not even the main war fleet. IOW, the disposable advance of the advance. Today, this is all the forlorn are able to scrounge up, for the TOTAL. And how mete the last significant Ship of the Line of the accursed British Empire goes to join Pharaoh’s War Chariots to rust at the bottom of the Red Sea]

We are Chinese. We are not afraid of provocations. We don’t back down. 🇨🇳 pic.twitter.com/vPgifasYmI
— Mao Ning 毛宁 (@SpoxCHN_MaoNing) April 10, 2025

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇮🇷| Iran’s Army Naval Commander: We Will Drown the Aggressor Enemy at Sea

“By the grace of God, we’ll defeat and drown the devil and the aggressor enemy in the sea, just as the people of Pharaoh were drowned.

Today, the international community regards the Army’s strategic naval force on par with global powers, and my comrades are ready to sacrifice their lives for the honor and pride of our beloved Iran and its people.“
[Godspeed!]
⭕ 🇮🇷|🇮🇷 IRGCQF Commander Qaani:

The US & Israel have not yet been able to understand how our missiles hit their targets with such precision.

The Yemenis alone have increased their missile range by 700 kilometers in just one year.
[This is the man who took over and runs Soleimani’s Quds [Jerusalem] Force subdivision of the IRGC]

💠 @Sputnik Africa: 
⭕❗️ Russian troops liberated the settlement of Zhuravka in the Sumy region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported
⭕️❗️ The Ukrainian military launched 11 attacks against Russian energy infrastructure assets, the Russian Defense Ministry said

Facilities in the Zaporozhye, Kursk, Kherson, Bryansk, Belgorod, and Krasnodar Krai areas, as well as the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, were the targets of the attacks.

💠 @Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb: 
⭕ By God, we will make the American cry tears of blood!
⭕ Yemeni Ministry of Health: 

• Three children and two women are among the victims of the American aggression in the residential city of Amin Maqbel.
• The death toll from the American aggression in the residential city of Maqbel in Al-Hudaydah has risen to 6 martyrs and 16 wounded.

⭕ 🔴 🔘 The American who showcases footage of the aircraft carrier conveniently overlooks the distance it has moved away from its operational range. This is the battlefield and the stakes we are challenging. We call for live footage that clearly shows the location of the carrier and the islands or shores it is adjacent to, from the moment it began deployment to the live broadcast, to prove that the carrier (Truman) has not retreated, as claimed by the armed forces.
⭕ 🔴 Breaking News – Hebrew newspaper “Globes”: The port of “Eilat” has remained deserted for 16 months due to the success of attacks from Yemen in paralyzing Israeli maritime traffic in the Red Sea – Gulf of Suez.
⭕ 🔴 America kills our children to stop us from supporting #Gaza 

🎥 Heart-wrenching footage of a child’s lifeless body being recovered after the American enemy’s airstrikes on the residential city of Maqbel in Al-Hudaydah
#US_Aggression_Crimes
#We_Will_Not_Abandon_Gaza
⭕ Yemen, Al Hudaydah Governorate: The number of martyrs has risen to 12, including 6 women and 4 children, as a result of the massacre committed by the American enemy against the residential neighborhood in Al-Hawk District.
⭕ 🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪 We are the ones who decide when to strike deep into the territory of the occupying Zionist entity that has seized our land, Palestine, and when to cease the bombardment. Palestine 2 is coming to greet a Zionist figure in the occupied city of Jaffa, referred to as Zion in Tel Aviv.
⭕ 🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪 The United States is deliberately killing civilians in Yemen, and we must clarify that there are still unarmed civilians trapped under the rubble from the American airstrikes in the city of Amin Makbel in Al Hudaydah Governorate, nearly twenty hours after the Americans targeted them. The Civil Defense in Yemen has been unable to extract them, and the Bab al-Mandab Channel will explain the reasons.

Firstly, Yemen has been a media victim since 2015.

In 2015, a decision was announced to wage war on Yemen, and this decision was declared from within the White House, the official sponsor of this American-led war. Saudi Arabia and fifteen allied countries joined this war, including the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, and from the Western nations, both France and Germany and the UK participated, overseeing the war with logistical and military support and arms from the Israeli entity and the United States.

Since 2015, they have imposed a blockade on Yemen, preventing the entry of medicines, food, and other essentials, as well as blocking the entry of four-wheel drive vehicles and heavy equipment into Yemen.

They have also banned any commercial flights from leaving Yemen.

As a result, dear brothers, they have destroyed all vital civilian infrastructure in Yemen, including schools and healthcare facilities.

They have targeted heavy equipment used for clearing rubble.

They have also attacked fire trucks in Yemen.

Additionally, they have targeted ambulances in Yemen.

In any case, dear viewers of the Bab al-Mandab Channel on Telegram, they have been conducting destruction operations since 2015 up until the present moment.

They have reportedly dropped about half a million tons of bombs on Yemen.

Thus, we ask for your understanding as we inform you that there are still people trapped under the rubble, making it difficult for us to rescue them. This is our challenge.

Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, the Yemeni people are a noble and dignified nation. Despite the significant number of Yemenis suffering from poverty due to the blockade imposed on our country.
⭕ The Yemeni Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates:

• We condemn in the strongest terms the ongoing American aggression against Yemen and the war crimes being committed against civilians and civilian objects.
• The American aggression has resulted in the martyrdom of 107 civilians and the injury of 223 others, most of whom are women and children since mid-March.
• the American aggression is a gross violation of Yemen’s sovereignty and all international norms, charters, and laws.
• The American aggression against Yemen is an extension of the ongoing assault by the aggression coalition led by Saudi Arabia for over 10 years.
• The continuation of aggression and escalation against Yemen will be met with a greater and more painful response.
• Those who threaten navigation in the Red Sea are the ones who came from the farthest land to militarize it.
• The world knows very well that Yemen has used the Red Sea as a leverage to pressure the Zionist entity to stop its siege and crimes in Gaza.
• Yemen has utilized the Red Sea as a pressure tool after the failure of the Security Council to fulfill its role and the betrayal of the Arab and Islamic world towards the Palestinian people.
• We reaffirm the right of the Republic of Yemen to respond and defend itself, a right enshrined in all international norms and charters.
• We hold the United States responsible for destabilizing security and stability in the region and escalating tensions in the Red Sea, threatening international navigation.
• We confirm that security and stability in the region can only be achieved through ending the aggression and siege on Gaza.

⭕ Statements by Former Bolivian Foreign Minister Fernando Huanacuni

In a series of urgent statements to Al Masirah, former Bolivian Foreign Minister Fernando Huanacuni emphasized the significance of participating in the Palestine Conference in Yemen, describing it as a defense of life rather than merely a political stance. He praised the bravery of the Yemeni people, noting their resilience in the face of adversity and their confrontation with what he termed “the greatest monster,” referring to the United States.

Huanacuni articulated his commitment to bringing the Yemeni cause alongside the Palestinian issue back to Bolivia, underlining the interconnectedness of these struggles. He characterized Yemen’s revolutionary government as a stand against imperialism and colonialism, expressing optimism about the potential for change in the global, unipolar system, especially for countries in the Global South, including Yemen, Palestine, Africa, and Latin America.

He criticized Israel’s justification for its actions in Gaza, labeling them as acts of genocide rooted in a racist ideology of superiority. Huanacuni called for unity among nations of the Global South and proposed the establishment of new mechanisms for integration to enhance self-defense capabilities.

Furthermore, he voiced skepticism regarding the United Nations, suggesting that it operates in favor of Israel, the U.S., and Europe, and advocated for Bolivia’s valuable resources, including lithium, to remain untapped by American and European interests. He called for the creation of a technological and productive alliance among like-minded nations to escape American hegemony.

In light of the ongoing Israeli operations in Palestinian territories, Huanacuni expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people, asserting that their struggle is emblematic of broader challenges facing Arab nations. He reiterated the importance of education and the promotion of authentic cultures as vital for future generations.

Ultimately, Huanacuni emphasized the necessity of strategic alliances to foster a multipolar world, highlighting the critical moment for Yemen and Palestine, and commending Yemen’s significant role in defending the Palestinian cause.
[This is same conference attended by Pepe a couple weeks ago]
⭕ 🇾🇪 Do not be intimidated by Trump; he is nothing more than a clown. He excels in theatrical performance and holds diplomas, so all these threats are a clear indication of the fear and panic he is experiencing.

Message from the Bab al-Mandab Yemen channel on Telegram.
⭕ 🔴 U.S. Secretary of Defense: We will stop shelling the Houthis if they cease fire on our naval sectors.

However, dear failed Zionist, Yemen will not stop this unless you halt your aggression and lift the siege on our brothers in Gaza. If you do not do so, we will continue to chase you generation after generation and nation after nation.
⭕ Ministry of Health in Yemen: An initial report indicates 3 civilian casualties as a result of the U.S. airstrike on the Al-Nahdain area in the Sabin Directorate, south of Sana’a.

⭕ The Yemeni Ministry of Culture and Tourism: 

• The American targeting of the historical “Qashlah” fortress at the summit of Mount Nuqm is a violation of international agreements that criminalize attacks on historical monuments.
• The targeting of the Nuqm fortress is an extension of the ongoing and repeated assaults on Yemen’s history and its cultural and civilizational heritage that is deeply rooted in history.
• We condemn the silence of international organizations; the aggression against Qashlah Nuqm targets the cultural heritage of humanity as a whole and is a violation of international agreements.

[as the cowards uproot Palestinian/Lebanese date palms and olive tree groves and demolish historical sites to systemically wound their enemies, tied to their heritage and land, they do so in Yemen]
⭕ The General Authority for Antiquities and Museums in Yemen:

• The Qashlah Nuqm embodies the deep cultural heritage of Yemen, and its targeting is a major cultural crime that affects Yemeni identity and civilization
• We call on the relevant international organizations to condemn the blatant American aggression that targets the shared cultural heritage of humanity.

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ There’s growing confusion in Lebanon between two often conflated demands: enforcing the principle that only the Lebanese government and armed forces should bear weapons, and the broader, far more complex call to disarm all armed groups across the country.

No one in Lebanon wants militias or civilians walking the streets armed or setting up checkpoints—that authority belongs to the state.

But disarming Lebanon is not as simple as issuing a decree. From Hezbollah and Amal to the Druse and far-right Lebanese Forces, various political and sectarian groups retain weapons, and many individuals also own arms privately. True national disarmament would mean collecting weapons from every faction and citizen alike—an impossible task without consensus, trust, and a functioning central authority. The result is a deadlock: disarmament is completely unexecutable under current conditions and Israeli occupation. Syria is the best example
⭕ There’s little doubt where the 1st wave of missiles would land. Israel has been preparing for this scenario, destroying Syria’s military capabilities to operate freely in Syrian airspace.  In this context, stable Israeli-Turkish relations are strategic.  |media|
[links:
🔻 Suppressed News: ⚡️JUST IN: U.S President Trump:

With Iran, yeah, if it requires military, we’re gonna have military – Israel will obviously be very much involved in that, and be the leader of that”]
⭕ Nonsense. The “Axis of Resistance” is no longer operational—nowhere, in any meaningful form.
[links:
🔻 Critical Threats: NEW | Iranian Information Operation: Iran and the Axis of Resistance are continuing to conduct an information operation targeting the West ahead of “high-level” talks between Iran and the United States on April 12. This campaign likely seeks to set conditions for Iran to argue during the negotiations that it is distancing itself from the Axis of Resistance, which is reportedly a US demand. Iran is continuing to support the Axis of Resistance despite its claims to English-language media that it is reducing support for its proxies and partners. (1/5)”]
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Mao Ning 毛宁 (@SpoxCHN_MaoNing): We are Chinese …
[see embedded above w clip of Papa Mao]
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: When Chinese spokespersons get the old Mao clips out (which they actually never do, first time I see it), you know you awoke China’s fighting spirit.

From what I’m seeing, Trump has zero understanding of China. He and his minions keep saying China will call for a deal but if they indeed wanted a deal, unilaterally and publicly attacking China in that way was the single worse thing he could do.

Accepting a deal now would mean that China would have to publicly bend to U.S. demands, which will not happen, it’s a matter of national pride which is worth almost any cost.
⭕ A weaker yuan may spark alarm in global markets, but for China, it can serve as a powerful economic tool. By making Chinese exports cheaper and more competitive abroad, devaluation helps sustain industrial output and cushion the economy during periods of global slowdown or trade tension/war. It also acts as a counterweight to foreign tariffs, especially in the context of Trump-China rivalry.

While a devalued currency can raise import costs and trigger capital outflow concerns, Beijing often uses this strategy selectively and with tight control. For a manufacturing powerhouse like China, modest yuan devaluation isn’t a crisis—it can also be a leverage.
⭕🔻 Douglas Macgregor:
Russia signed what amounts to a mutual defense pact with Tehran.

Given Russia’s demonstrated technological superiority in the production of precision-guided missiles like the Oreshnik, it would be a serious mistake to discount the quality and impact of Russian military assistance to Iran in a future conflict with the U.S. and Israel.
[ah! “… in a future conflict”. We’ve moved beyond the thunderous drums of March.. rinse and repeat old loyal soldier]
🔻 EM: No war on Iran is expected. However, Russia won’t be a supportive side next to Iran in case of war.
⭕ Saudi Arabia crown prince will never declare this 👇
[links:
🔻 West Echelon: 🇸🇦🚨BREAKING NEWS

Saudi Arabia has banned all public displays of support for Palestine.

Prince Mohammed bin Salman:

“The Palestinian cause is not my cause. I only care about my country and the people of my country. We will not waste time with radicalism. We will modernize rapidly.””]
[see how abject is the western-zionazi position in Arabia! They need to lie about their own compradore, to divide and rule the sea of rising enemies. Hangin on by fingernails. And those nails are yellowed and most brittle indeed]

Like a stethoscope, the thread below amplifies “the breathy silence” of the world since Orange blew both of his feet off with the classic sawed-off Tariff shotgun

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ ❗️Apple transported 600 tons of iPhones from India to the United States, which is about 1.5 million units, Reuters reported.
[“One rule for thee…” It’s gonna be the Good Times for connected corporations, like running booze during Prohibition, or dope on the government dime since ww2]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ Much of the world is tingling with schadenfreude as they watch these developments. US soft power no longer packs a punch.
[links:
🔻 DD Geopolitics: “🇺🇸🇨🇳 U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent Warns China Against Currency Devaluation

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has warned China against devaluing its currency in response to new tariffs, stating that such a move would be a “tax on the rest of the world.” Bessent urged China not to take this step and instead come to the table for negotiations.”]
🔻 Chilinator: “Don’t tax the world while we are taxing the world.”
The very definition of hypocrisy. 🙄😏
🔻 Iryna Vasylivna 🇺🇸🦅: He meant please call us as soon as possible, but the call never came
🔻 Space Cadet: In that photo, Bessent bears a striking resemblance to Jason from Friday the 13th.
🔻 rickyliow / リッキー・リオ: Did he just pleaded to China to negotiate ?
[I suppose each culture weeps in its own way…]
🔻 tvng: If there’s one thing we learned from this US induced “trade-war” (and the israel-Palestine “war” for that matter) it’s that gaslighting has dimensions we didn’t know existed.
🔻 People First🇿🇦🌍: The big Chinese bite is happening now.
[no. not yet. Just a tickle to date.. We’ll know they ripped the balls off when Orange starts screaming in falsetto on social media]
🔻 Ikkyu Sojun: The world’s practically rubbing their hands as the U.S. trips over itself in this unfolding farce.

That soft power glow, the one that used to nudge nations into line with a wink and a dollar, has gone dim.

It’s not the old days of effortless sway.

Now it’s a global giggle-fest watching the States flail like a has-been boxer.

The punch is gone
[yes indeed. The USA itself has replaced Scotty, and Uncle Xi et al replaced Sony Thang. Unbelievable. What times.]
🔻 Dennis Amandla: China knows history very well…
It knows what the US has done to Japan and will never fall into the same trap
🔻 Pablo Hernández Ramos: Not schaden at all 😁
🔻 Nabil Elsherif Roca: Bessent crying because China pulled a Uno Reverse card on them
🔻 Nader N. CHOKR: Apart from the tit4tat in trade tariffs war. If China devalues its currency –sovereign right– and sells off its US treasury bonds, the US economy would collapse in a week, or shortly thereafter. It is the nuclear option –economically speaking. They know it.
🔻 Herodotus: Wut? The US treasury bonds is what China uses to bolster its currency. It’s part of Chinese policy to maintain a stable currency to encourage foreign and domestic investment. Do you think China buys them out of kindness?
🔻 WS: China has been a net seller of US Treasury debt since 2014. And their divestment has accelerated. Their US debt portfolio used to be, iirc, around $3.5T. It is now down below $800B and they are selling as rapidly as possible without spooking the market.
🔻 Herodotus: The high foreign demand for US treasuries remains unabated because they’re the safest investment on earth. If the PBOC stops buying treasuries, the yuan would appreciate and Chinese exports would suffer price inflation, giving rise to unemployment at home.
🔻 WS: I repeat:

China has been a net seller of US Treasury debt since 2014. And their divestment has accelerated. Their US debt portfolio used to be, iirc, around $3.5T. It is now down below $800B and they are selling as rapidly as possible without spooking the market.
🔻 Herodotus: What stability? Who’s buying Chinese companies?
links from ZH: “China’s PPT, the “National Team” has bought record amounts of Chinese stocks for the 3rd day in a row to give the impression that China is stable. The PBOC is selling billions in USD every day (through banks) to slow the collapse in the Yuan”
[this dude needs to change his handle. An absolute disgrace to one of fathers of our discipline]
🔻 WS: 🤣 You mean, just like the US PPT did last night when the UST10Y yield blew through 4.5%?
[PPT = Plunge Protection Team, the life support medics for the Ponzi]
🔻 Bob Reisner: Are you serious? Do a search on countries wanting negotiate tariff deals. Keep a small tariff on, set a deadline and make an example of China.

We will see who is right in just 90 days. Don’t worry, I’ll recap for you then.
[A boomer who thought The End of History was nonfiction]
🔻 WS: Get back with me at the autumnal equinox — September 22, 2025.

⭕ This is what capitulation looks like.
[links:
🔻 Polymarket Intel: “BREAKING 🔶🔶🔶

Trump declares a 90-day tariff freeze for 75 nations—except China, where tariffs will spike to 125%.”]
🔻 Herodotus: The tariffs are not going away. And how is that 125% capitulation?
🔻 WS: As of 2024, only ~12% of Chinese exports are to the US. The US is not going to force China to its knees. It will be exactly the opposite. The US cannot go without a lot of the stuff for which China is its primary or sole source.
🔻 Herodotus: If you’re right, the Chinese should rejoice. As should the Russians, because the US will become their #1 buyer of processed rare minerals and newest trading partner, to offset the loss of its Chinese suppliers.
🔻 WS: Huh? This is incoherent.
🔻 Herodotus: Nixon opened China to destabilize the Soviet Union. Trump will trade with Russia to offset China.
[this sounds like a desperate Yanqui. Russia ITSELF imports an awful lot from China. It has little excessive capacity to replace China with other nations. And that little excess goes to reliable & trustworthy partners.. NONE can replace China in short term. And the vast even in the long term]
🔻 WS: It is a ridiculous delusion to believe the US will able to crack the Russia/China alliance. The “Dragonbear” will remain a tight partnership for decades to come.
🔻 Wasteinc: don’t worry you will buy a lot of “brazilian” stuff AKA rebranded chinese stuff 🙂 Mild inflation expected and a win similar to the EU cutting russian diesel in order to buy “indian” Diesel 🙂
[my thought, if Orange doesn’t want to fully suicide the Yanquis. Why not? Another BRICS-brother should get rich as middleman to the raving]
🔻 Turdla: This is trump capitulation. He cant admit hes wrong. Bond mkt crashed last night and he panicked. Pure and simple. It doesn’t mean bond mkt won’t continue to sell
🔻 Charles Haywood: I’m a businessman by trade. Before that I was an M&A lawyer, which is also largely negotiating. All the wordcels on X and elsewhere shrieking “Trump had to back down” and “Trump lost!” clearly have no idea about negotiation, and have never negotiated anything. True, Trump’s style is pretty bombastic/cataclysmic, but that’s real estate for you. The low intellectual level of commentary on this matter, especially from the Right, is disconcerting.
🔻 WS: Cope.

The bond market melted down last night, and FORCED Trump et al. to capitulate.
🔻 Arthur Schopenhauer: Funny thing is that Trump just admitted as much, it’s just his fans who can’t admit it: |media|
🔻 Decelerationist1: He even admitted it was bonds that forced him. These people are as desperate as Trump to not seem like fools
🔻 Gérard Chin⭐⭐: Absolutely Capitulation, yesterday All of the Kissing my Ass 🤣🤣🤣🤣
China goods will still flow to America via 3rd Country 🤭🤭🤭
🔻 WS: Exactly!

Bottom line: The Great Tariff Gambit has been an embarrassing debacle.
[the devil’s in the detail my friend. And it takes a bit of rocking the boat to build a proper harmonic. Fat lady hasn’t sung]
🔻 John W. Dorris: You have been missing the strategy all along. He’s managed to isolate China, maintain a 10% tariff on everyone else and open trade discussions with numerous trade partners.
🔻 WS: Silly cope.

China is not isolated AT ALL. Their prestige has now soared in the eyes of most of the rest of the world. Chinese goods will now flow into the US via 3rd parties, at a 10% (or less) tariff.

This whole tariff gambit has been a ridiculous debacle.
🔻 Comrade W🔻: you can’t isolate China. You live in la la land.
🔻 John W. Dorris: If I were to be more precise, I am talking about “coalition breaking”, rather than isolation. Keep watching.
[no fella. Don’t double down like a demented neocon. Bail!]
🔻 WS: Coalition?

What coalition is breaking?
[Good Lord. This is his quintessential sweetly baited trap. DON’T ANSWER FOR THE LOVE OF GOD]
🔻 John W. Dorris: I think Trump will put China and the EU (the two principal retaliators) at the back of the line for trade deals, unless they come around. He has announced that South Korea and Japan would be tackled first. I think the first “coalition” he would seek to break would be the possible coalition between those three (China, Japan and South Korea). You should think longer term.
[I did give good advice.]
🔻 WS: You’re telling ME to think longer term? 🤦‍♂️

I’ve been writing about these issues for many years now. People mocked me back in 2017-2022. Since then they’ve grown steadily quieter, as almost everything I foresaw has progressively come to pass.
🔻 WS: Anyway, as to a “coalition” between China, Japan, and South Korea … I wouldn’t use that term. But China will be the dominant power in the east Asia /western Pacific region for decades to come. US power in the region will diminish rapidly in coming years. Japan and Korea will be compelled to be friends and partners with China.
[If they are, it is as trojan horses. keep in mind they’re occupied and owned..]
🔻 John W. Dorris: You have assigned a grade to the US strategy in the global trade negotiations too soon. The data is not yet in.
🔻 WS: It is elementary to foresee.
🔻 John W. Dorris: I take note that you are wedded to your prediction.
[ok I take it back about John. A young guy who appreciates the devilish inversions and unpredictability of the End Times. We need to maintain sea legs]
🔻 Kingmaker: Do you think China will retaliate?
🔻 WS: Almost certainly. How? Hard to say. But they’ve war-gamed this scenario for a long time. I would bet they have several options mapped out.
🔻 四维: Perfect time for Xi to offer Trump an off-ramp. China still wants the huge US consumer spending
[even if offered, it won’t be taken. The Moshiach shall be raised, and over the ashes of all the sovereign refusing to kneel]
⭕ 🔥 Yemen MQ-9 Score Update — XVIII

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

The US MQ-9 Reaper is obsolete on 21st century battlefields.
📜 Scorch Marks in the Sand
⭕🔻 blockchaindaily.news: 🚨JUST IN: MICROSTRATEGY FILING SAYS THEY MAY BE FORCED TO SELL BITCOIN BELOW THEIR COST BASIS TO SERVICE THEIR DEBT IN THE EVENT OF A CONTINUED MARKET DOWN TURN |source|
🔻 WS: Microstrategy sitting on a $5.91 BILLION unrealized loss? Ouch.
🔻 Chris Close: Where did we get the 5.91 L number?
🔻 WS: From this post further down the thread: |source|
🔻 Chris Close: Right… but let’s put that into perspective.

MSTR has 528,185 BTC

Worth 42.B at current BTC prices.. (80K)

So that “unrealized loss” is marked to market from what?

There all time high? If so… and that is what I believe to be the case… so what.

Happy to be disabused.
🔻 WS: First of all, I was asking a question, not making a statement. I didn’t understand what was being said — hence my query.
⭕ 🔹 I am not, and never would be, but if I were a short-seller, I would short today’s historic stock market rip hand over fist.
🔻 Alex Kerala (Paris): I agree, but I think it’s a bit early. The rise can last a few more days…
🔻 WS: Equities are still a sideshow. It’s the bond market that matters. I watch the UST10Y yield as the idiot light on the dashboard. If it goes above 4.5% again, I’ll bet we see more fireworks.
⭕ ‼️ A pale gleam of insight and reason breaks through the clouds of American exceptionalist delusion.
[links:
🔻 S.L. Kanthan: China has “escalation dominance” over the US in a trade war.

Both countries will suffer, for sure, but the US depends on China for vital imports such as:

🔹Rare earth minerals
🔹Semiconductor chips
🔹APIs used to make pharmaceuticals
🔹Smartphones, computers
🔹Batteries |THREAD|]
🔻 S.L. Kanthan: While the US imports about $500 billion of goods a year from China, that translates to perhaps $3 trillion of retail spending.

That’s 10% of US GDP and millions of jobs.
🔻 S.L. Kanthan: Good article:

“Trump administration is embarking on an economic equivalent of the Vietnam War—a war of choice that will soon result in a quagmire, undermining faith at home & abroad in both the trustworthiness & the competence of the United States.”
⭕ 🔥 Yuliana nails it.

As I often note, the inhabitants of the so-called “western democracies” are, with precious few exceptions, the most misinformed and most easily and thoroughly propagandized people in human history.
[links:
🔻 Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵: “Here, take it from the horse’s mouth:

This whole tariff clown show?

Just another chapter in the U.S. playbook—slowly containing, eroding, and dismantling any state seen as a threat to their global dominance, all fueled by a steady diet of national psychosis.

It’s not about bringing jobs back.

It’s about starving China and softening them up for the war everyone pretends isn’t on the menu.

Tariff the planet, then dangle a deal where others have to pick: “us or them.”

It’s a 21st-century castle siege—just with spreadsheets instead of battering rams.

The only jobs they plan to reshore are MIC-linked, autarky-friendly ones—because you can’t bully the world if your missile parts come stamped “Made in Shenzhen.”

The rest? Produced offshore, sold for more, loopholes milked, profits hoarded.

So no—you’re not tightening your belt for Main Street revival or some de-globalized dream.

You’re tightening it so you can be cannon fodder for the exact machine you claim to oppose.

Once again, imperialism is gift-wrapped in patriotism—and they’re betting you won’t know the difference.

They’re not even hiding it anymore.

If you still don’t get it?

That’s on you.”]
[all i gotta add is: leave this style of prose to Sony Thang! For him, and him alone, we’ll endure the waste of time of not having the full paragraphs and scrolling so darn much]
🔻 fanmato: Not surprised at all. Project 2025 is out there for anyone to read. Anyone who still believes US will come down from its high horse and treat Russia, China or anyone else (beside Israel) as equal, is either dilusional or part of psyop. US’s diplomacy is always might makes right.
🔻 Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵: 🎯💯
🔻 Bradley Carter: Trump:
‘it’s the only chance we have to reset the table’ ..

If he turns that table over he is sure to find the
⭐MADE IN CHINA 🇨🇳 stamp.
🔻 Dennis Amandla: This seems like the Zelensky Show has spread to the US
🔻 Matt: Have you seen all the ships China is building? There is no reason to build up such force unless you are planning a naval war. Trump isn’t blind.
🔻 WS: Trump has no conception of these realities. He is simply “making it up as he goes”.

But, speaking of ships:
🧵 How to Lose A Carrier Strike Group in An Afternoon 
⭕ American exceptionalist fantasy run amok.

This thread is overflowing with delusional nonsense.
[links:
🔻 Rod D. Martin: 🧵BREAKING: Why America holds ALL the cards in the US-China tariff showdown. A thread on how Trump’s playing hardball while Xi’s running out of moves…” |THREAD|]
🔻 Jeff English: Not one mention of the damage and disruption China could cause by dumping treasuries and flooding the market.
🔻 WS: Lots of people talk about it, and have for years. China has been selling for over ten years now. But they do it patiently so as not to move the market unduly. That’s smart thinking.
🔻 Zorro Muerto: Literally never explained how Trump holds all the cards.

There are economic reasons this is dangerous for China too but nobody ever touches upon them.
🔻 some guy: You’d think Hollywood would be in a much better place with the number of skilled writers living in the US.
[alas they’re either no longer with us, or retired acerbic coots]
🔻 Динарски двори: To follow Rod is to be misinformed.
His posts about the Ukrainian war are nauseating.
⭕ The unprecedented equity market rebound we saw today is not a HEALTHY sign. Quite to the contrary, it is, in my considered opinion, an indicator of an extremely SICK market.
🔻 Low Voltage 🇺🇲: You said it yourself last year. The markets won’t break until we experience a military fiasco.
🔻 WS: I’ve been talking about that for several years. This is just one example I quickly turned up:
“I also continue to believe the strength and dominance of the global dollar system is much more tenuous than commonly believed, and that it is acutely susceptible to an exogenous shock — be it in the form of a global supply chain breakdown, or an unforeseen military disaster.”
🔻 Carlos_Banger: The stock market is not what most people think it is. It really is the casino now. The valuations are untethered from the economic reality. Yes, this is not a good sign.
🔻 Timothy Leary’s Dead 🏴‍☠️🌱🐑🐕 🎣🎇👀🐈‍⬛⚠️🎲: The bond market didn’t even notice.
🔻 Ali-THE VICTORY WILL BE WITH PALESTINE🇵🇸: Patches of neosporin for a growing flesh eating bacteria.
[as a young trainee, i once had the misfortune to help a trauma surgeon with these cases. No antibiotic will help.. have to get ahead and cut out the healthy still living tissue. One woman had her external genitalia and parts of upper thighs and buttocks removed down to the bone & gristle… Orange is currently working on the US body politic in similar industrious fashion]
🔻 The Poets Of Zwan 🪶🏴‍☠️: It’s nothing more than the sign of a completely fake system. Manipulated at will by very powerful people from the inside. While regular Americans cheer on their political teams and pretend they’re in the financial ballgame.
🔻 Rural Left Americans First: Where did they land on tariffs? Are they just making shit up now? Is there still a tariff on China? Because it certainly isn’t reflected in Apple’s stock price rebound.
[“Sell Lad. And move East”]
⭕ Bumbling Bessent is no improvement over Old Mother Yellen. And that’s really saying something.
links:
“”What do we lose by the Chinese raising tariffs on us? We export one-fifth to them of what they export to us, so that is a losing hand for them”

Hard to be optimistic when our lead negotiator doesn’t understand diff. b/n Balance of Trade vs. Payments”
⭕‼️ A billion dollars in precision-guided weapons in three weeks, and still Ansarullah remains the gatekeeper of the Bab-el-Mandeb while the USS Trembling Puppy cowers in the northern reaches of the Red Sea.
[links:
🔻 Ryan Petersen: The container ships are still all going around.]
🔻 C2: How many of those are yours?
🔻 Ryan Petersen: Every dot is a ship with a Flexport container on it.
🔻 David FO Castaneda: The Yemenis have been bombed by regional and western military powers since 2015. It’s 2025. Still doing the same thing yet expecting a different result.
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: Operation “Whac-A-Mole” (term coined by @imetatronink) aka ‘Operation Prosperity Guardian’ is a dud.

The Yeminis, aka the Houthis, control the Red Sea traffic.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: It is indeed “one of the most extraordinary Truth posts of Trump’s presidency” in the sheer level of gaslighting at play: he’s trying to make one of the biggest and clearest humiliations in US history look like a win.

But there’s no amount of lipstick that can disguise this pig. What happened is remarkably similar to the 2022 Liz Truss fiasco in the UK: Trump came out with a remarkably foolish and terribly executed policy that created a market panic—including in the bonds market—and he had to walk it back.

But unlike the British system that—for better or worse—can get rid of woefully incompetent Prime Ministers (that is, more incompetent than the average), the U.S. is stuck with Trump.

And unlike Liz Truss, Trump remains insulated by a circle of sycophants like Lutnick who reframe humiliating capitulations as ‘extraordinary’ triumphs, and a voter base that interprets even his most flagrant policy failures as masterful 4D chess moves.

Fact is, even after this retreat, the U.S. is in a far worse position than it used to be.

Contrary to what Lutnick and Trump are saying, what this episode proved beyond doubt is that the world is NOT ready “to work with President Trump to fix global trade”. In fact, besides Israel’s Netanyahu, I haven’t seen a single country on earth come out publicly to support Trump’s plan.

Sure, a couple of weaker countries who are heavily dependent on trade have reluctantly come forward to find a way to mitigate the damage Trump would do to their economies but to conflate this with enthusiastic cooperation is pure fantasy.

What we’re witnessing instead is damage control by nations caught in the crossfire of his insane economic policies. And you can be sure that the long-term strategy of these countries will now be to reduce dependencies and trading links to the U.S. in order to avoid being caught in a similar situation in the future.

More importantly, the countries that together make up about 50% of trade with the U.S.—namely Canada, the EU and China—have all announced retaliatory tariffs and measures, which a) means that Trump’s claim that countries other than China “aren’t retaliating in any way, shape, or form against the United States” is a complete lie and b) shows that his approach has accomplished the remarkable feat of uniting geopolitical rivals in opposition to him.

Which is undoubtedly why his new approach seems to be to single-handedly focus on China, with a retreat to the good old U.S. strategy of trying to get others to help them contain China.

This has zero chance of working either, for 2 main reasons.

The first one is that if Trump has demonstrated one thing in the past 3 months, it’s that he’s fundamentally unstable and unreliable, and so is the United States. His chaotic governance sends a clear message to the world: America’s word means nothing beyond the next Truth Social post.

If the notion that a country would take the risk of putting all its eggs in the American basket was already delusional before his presidency; it is now beyond absurd. What he’s done is transform America from a cornerstone of global trade into a risk factor that must be hedged against.

The second one is that the “deal” on the table for these countries is absolutely repugnant, from their standpoint.

I mean, think about it: the “deal” would presumably be for these nations to abandon or significantly reduce their economic relationship with China—their largest trading partner in many cases—in exchange for a trading relationship with the U.S. that is worse than it used to be, with 10% additional tariffs. In effect it’s asking countries to sacrifice their economic sovereignty and strategic flexibility for a lesser punishment.

It’s a lose-lose proposition that might play well on Truth Social, but will get you laughed out of the room in the world of international relations. Unless you’re say a tiny country that has the misfortune of being too weak and dependent on the American market.

But even in this latter case, these countries might amuse Trump in the short-term but they’ll undoubtedly put in place long-term strategies to de-hitch themselves from the US crazy train as fast as possible in the medium term.

So all in all, what we’re looking at here is not a strategic masterstroke but the desperate flailing of an administration that didn’t anticipate how markets and trading partners would respond to economic coercion.

Trump is “teaching the world a lesson” all right: he taught them that America is now the biggest threat they face for their prosperity and the result of this won’t be to “work with him”, but to hedge themselves as much as they can from the American madness he’s unleashed.

History will remember this not as an “extraordinary” moment of American strength, but as the point when the world concluded that diversifying away from the American market was no longer just economically prudent but existentially necessary for their own economic security.
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Also, after all is said and done, Trump made America’s interest payments on its debt 10% higher, which in and of itself is an extraordinary failure.
🔻 Zhai Xiang: Liz Truss lasted 44 days.
His policies might last longer, but the damage will, too.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Shaun Rein: It just hit me. I advised Scott Bessent, now Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury who is leading the tariff war, in 2013 when he was still with Soros. An investment bank engaged me to advise Bessent on China’s economy and consumer trends and go over my book The End of Cheap China

I took an instant disliking – Bessent was one of the most arrogant and ignorant on China people I had ever met. He was uber bearish on China and was largely ideologically driven in his analysis. Communist countries couldn’t succeed was basically the jist of his views

Data and rational analysis did not reign supreme

I just looked up my correspondence with Scott after the meeting where I underscored that China’s economy wasn’t as weak as he thought

He thinks America has the upper hand with China right now. I worry for America. We have one of the most ignorant on China yet arrogant people I’ve ever met running a trade war against China

Scott underestimated China in 2013 and is underestimating it now
🔻 Chris Alan: Trump got us into a math war with Asians. We’re fucked.
🔻 Senecat: Praise be to god 🙏
[LOL. He links this leading photo. I posted this interview of Al Bukhaiti last year!]
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: Short Ukraine thought for the evening.

Fishermen routinely take on far larger animals than themselves and haul them in. How? Well, a mammal with a fishing rod standing on a solid platform has a massive mechanical and metabolic advantage over a fish in the water.⬇️

The mechanical advantage part is obvious – a fisherman needs only brace himself against solid ground and stand there while a fish needs to continually propel itself through the water, often at an awkward and painful angle, while attempting to escape the hook and line. The metabolic advantage is only a little subtler – a warm-blooded, air-breathing mammal has a far greater ability to sustain exertion and will tire far slower than a cold-blooded, water-breathing fish. These combined advantages create situations where individual fishermen can tire out and land fearsome, predatory fish that considerably outweigh them. This analogy also goes a little deeper, in that fish generally get themselves into this unfortunate position of being exhausted and helplessly hauled out of their natural element by biting down on a baited lure.

So what have the Russians done in Ukraine? Well, let’s examine things.

1. They created mechanical advantage against NATO-Ukrainian forces, in very deliberately shaping the front line to create a “dense battle” in Eastern Ukraine in which their advantage in firepower can be deployed to maximum effect while minimizing the effectiveness of Western ISR – and maximizing the distance at which NATO needs to provide logistics from its hubs in Poland.

2. They realized they had a metabolic advantage that would allow them to win a long war, and played to it. Specifically, Russia is an industrialized energy provider that has been able to decisively outproduce NATO so as to win a war of attrition.

3. They baited the lure. For the last three years the Russians have relied upon on the Fabian strategy of forcing their enemies to come to them. It’s very Clausewitzian, actually – NATO-Ukraine needs to endlessly attack for political reasons because of the overriding importance they’ve placed upon the full territorial integrity of Ukraine, while the Russians can bide their time and take ground opportunistically. Not being stupid, the Russians realized this politically-driven dynamic would give them the opportunity to annihilate the AFU and break the military power of NATO at relatively little cost to themselves.

Which brings me back to the analogy of the fisherman. An angler going after a fierce catch is going to stand on the bank and make little to no “progress” for a long time, sometimes hours, fighting with his quarry as it gradually tires. And then, after laboriously tiring it out and reeling it in, he’ll finally wade into the water and haul out some aquatic monster that’s larger than he is, with little additional effort and danger to himself.

Which is what I suspect any final Russian offensive in this war is going to look like.
🔻 Woolly Rhinoceros: That fish breathes air tho.
🔻 WS: Sturgeon breathe air? 🤔
🔻 Woolly Rhinoceros: |link|
[its native habitat is the same Essequibo British-border region in Guyana which Venezuela wishes to reclaim]
🔻 WS: Cool. I thought, at first glance, it was a sturgeon.
🔻 Royrogers55: There really hasn’t been enough attention paid to this throughout the conflict. Choosing the conditions of your engagement historically has been incredibly important throughout history. Dien Bien Phu vs. Thermopylae, for instance.
🔻 WS: 📜 The Object of War
⭕ It was so obviously nonsense … and yet uncounted thousands of fools around the world swallowed the story hook, line, and sinker.
[links: “❗️It looks like the Bagram airbase story was BS…

“US will never have Bagram Air Base, never in a hundred years,” – Zabihullah Mujahid, Taliban Spokesman, reiterated again

Sat. pics from Apr 5 – 7 show no aircraft at Bagram airbase”]
🔻 Ragy Eleish: Even Scott Ritter swallowed it right away; he latter added an “if”.

I have been impressed with his analysis over the years. Lately it is like he responded to a secret signal that activated “US invincible mode” similar to sci-fi movies.
🔻 WS: I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Ritter is consistently clueless when it comes to logistics and strategic considerations.

In the context of war against Iran or China, a US presence at Bagram would be effectively defenseless and easily destroyed.
🔻 Ragy Eleish: True, Bagram would become a liability not an asset. It would be a bigger liability than the west bank of Kherson.

As for Scott is more than just cluelessness about logistics & strategic considerations. He recently denied the US was defeated in Vietnam.
🔻 WS: The pilots of 10,000 downed American aircraft would probably disagree.
🔻 Ikkyu Sojun: Shows how easy it is to flog a fairy tale when folks are desperate for a hero
🔻 WS: The most amazing thing to me was how many former military types insisted Bagram was some sort of strategic jewel to menace Iran and China.

Proves how clueless they are about logistics, and how little they appreciate what it means to be the target of big-time firepower.
🔻 Ikkyu Sojun: Scott Ritter had a field day flirting with this nonsense too.

It’s gobsmacking how they’ve swallowed their own hype, thinking it’s some masterstroke to menace regional powers.

Shows they haven’t a clue about logistics. Keeping that base running was a nightmare, sucking resources dry just to sit there looking tough.

And menace Iran and China?

Please.

They’re dreaming if they think Bagram’s a threat.

It’s a sitting duck for anyone with real firepower, not a dagger at anyone’s throat.

Big talk from folks who don’t grasp what happens when the shooting starts.
[they were there to ensure harvest of the dope and pump terra throughout central asia. The same play as the British East India Co and then the Raj, albeit in India]

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ The Trump Doctrine of Global Democracy: Obey, or Be Punished

Under Donald Trump’s revived “America First” worldview, democracy comes with a unique twist: the US reserves the right to impose crushing tariffs, sweeping sanctions, and economic sabotage on any country it chooses. But should the targeted nation dare to retaliate or assert its sovereignty, it is swiftly labeled a threat and warned of military consequences. The message is blunt: accept being bullied and economically suffocated, and you may earn the privilege of being submitted and not being bombed. Resist, and you’ll face “maximum pressure,” American-style.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 The Grayzone: AIPAC leader boasts of influence over top Trump natsec officials in leaked audio obtained by @MaxBlumenthal

At a closed AIPAC session, the group’s CEO explained how they cultivated special “access” to Rubio, Waltz, and Ratcliffe

Full audio & report: |link|
⭕ More than 1,000 Israeli Air Force reservists and 150 Naval reservists have publicly protested the ongoing war in Gaza, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with an ICC arrest warrant for his war crimes, of waging a personal war for political survival rather than national security. The reservists, many of whom have served in combat roles, issued statements condemning the lack of strategic clarity, the mounting civilian casualties, and the government’s disregard for the safe return of Israeli prisoners.

In an unprecedented move, Israel’s Defense Minister responded by ordering the immediate dismissal of all protestors from their roles in the armed forces, accusing them of undermining military unity and national morale during wartime. The decision has triggered a wave of criticism across Israeli civil society, including from retired generals, legal scholars, and hostage families, who argue that silencing dissent among elite military units only deepens the crisis of legitimacy facing the Netanyahu government.

The dismissed reservists warned that the war is no longer about national defense but about protecting Netanyahu from early elections, potential legal prosecution, and public scrutiny over the intelligence and operational failures of October 7, 2023.

This internal rebellion within Israel’s security establishment reflects the growing fracture lines within Israel as the war in Gaza continues with no clear endgame, rising international condemnation, and increasingly vocal domestic opposition.
[this is irrelevant. The zionazi war minister even imperiously fired 100 such aviators.
Reality: as all is sacrificed to Zion as we witness in the media, international courts, UN system, USUK, EU, etc…. – they have at their beck and call tens of thousands of NATO aviators, whether as mercs, “retirees” or active on duty, who have already been rotated through, as they were in every prior bloodletting of arabs in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, etc etc etc. Birds of a flock]
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Hala Jaber: The Daily Express has published a wildly irresponsible claim suggesting Hezbollah may launch attacks on the U.S. from Latin America. This kind of fear-mongering, pushed by its so-called defence & diplomatic editor, is reckless propaganda designed to inflate threats & mislead the public. Past history shows a clear pattern: these stories tend to spike in sync with U.S. foreign policy goals.
When there’s a need to justify pressure on Iran or military aid to allies, suddenly Hezbollah becomes omnipresent—operating in Venezuela, Mexico, & now apparently hiding under your bed.
The parody video below was made by @Totti_H20 as a
dedication to @marcogiann’s brilliant Oscar-worthy analysis. |link|
⭕ A potential breakthrough in negotiations between Israel and Hamas, mediated under US supervision, appears imminent. The emerging deal reportedly includes the release of 24 surviving Israeli hostages, out of the 59 believed to remain in Gaza. The bodies of the deceased are expected to follow in subsequent stages.

Real estate developer, Trump associate and special envoy Steve Witkoff has reportedly been tasked with overseeing the fine print of the deal and acting as a guarantor for commitments toward the Palestinian side—an unusual but politically significant move that may help bridge lingering trust gaps between parties. While final terms are still being refined, all parties are under increasing pressure to finalise the agreement and end the stalemate.
[another betrayal will soon follow. And it is all a process to normalize the holocaust, through stop-go-stop-go intervals of offering human kindling to the blazing furnaces of their lord Moloch. As Curtis LeMay noted with the firebombing of Korea – this is the template to assuage residual conscious in his people, who must be kept perfumed throughout]
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Current Report: Houthis are draining billion-dollar US missile stockpiles using low-cost, one-way drones.

Commander of US special operations Command raises a serious concern, saying: ‘Our adversaries use $10k drone and we shoot them down with $2 million missiles.’ |link|
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Suppressed News: ⚡️🇺🇸🇾🇪JUST IN:

American warplanes carried out 11 airstrikes on Sana’a, including east and northwest of the city. 4 of these strikes targeted Mount Nuqum, where an American attack destroyed the historic Al-Qashla fortress two days ago. |background|
[YESTERDAY, wiki curiously updated this page on historic castles in Yemen. Ever do criminals work to cover their tracks. It’s a Big Club] 

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸💸 BREAKING: Global Flight from the Dollar?

Gold just smashed through all-time highs — COMEX futures hit $3,235.5/oz and spot prices followed, surging past $3,217.8/oz. The charts show massive volume spikes and sustained bullish momentum.

Why?

Because confidence in U.S. financial stability is evaporating. Trump’s “reciprocal tariff” debacle triggered a brutal market correction. And now, foreign investors are dumping U.S. Treasuries and parking their wealth in gold — a historic safe haven when trust in fiat collapses.

This isn’t just volatility; it’s a signal. Multipolarity is coming…..

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇯🇵🇺🇸Trump’s decision to suspend tariffs came after Japan began selling off US government bonds en masse, causing the market to collapse, The New York Post reported, citing the CEO of a major financial institution.

“At first they thought it was China selling out. But it was our friendly country, Japan, that was selling bonds in huge quantities and thereby raising interest rates to dangerous levels. I was told that such instability clearly impressed Bessent (the US Treasury Secretary – Ed.),” the source is quoted in the article.

A sell-off in Japanese government bonds sent the U.S. debt market into a tailspin Tuesday night, with panic setting in as bond yields soared.

“The higher the interest rates, the higher the cost of servicing the national debt, the more difficult it is to finance social security, etc. After the suspension of duties, the bond market began to calm down,” the publication writes.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇵🇦Trump said the US has deployed a large number of troops to Panama, where the US wants to control the Panama Canal.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇵🇦US Secretary of Defense Hegseth:

We are taking back the Panama Canal. China had too much influence. We are pushing them out together with Panama.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️ Zelensky hates Russians, and Russia will never allow such an individual to obtain territories belonging to the Russian people, according to Lavrov
[Keyword (pl.): “territories”]

💠 @Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ 🔴 Cartoon: “China’s Response to Trump’s Tariffs”

With a Yemeni touch
⭕️ Hebrew newspaper Maariv:

Sources from the newspaper revealed that the U.S. administration offered the “Houthis,” through diplomatic channels in the region, to halt attacks on U.S. warships in the Red Sea in exchange for the U.S. to stop airstrikes. However, the Houthis ignored the offer.
⭕ 🔴 Breaking News – U.S. Special Operations Commander General Brian Vinton: Our adversaries are using drones worth $10,000, while we are shooting them down with missiles that cost $2 million. This cost-to-benefit ratio is upside down.
⭕ 🔴 Breaking News – – CEO of the Israeli shipping company “Aloof,” Gil Miller: The Israeli economy, including the automotive industry, relies almost entirely on maritime imports.

– Since the outbreak of the war, the country has faced unprecedented challenges, starting with the closure of shipping routes in the Red Sea.
⭕ 🇵🇸 Important News: Exclusive Report 🇾🇪

Bab al-Mandab, Yemen, via Telegram. We have obtained exclusive information confirming that the Yemeni Armed Forces and Yemeni military industries are in constant and direct contact with the military leadership of the Palestinian resistance and with the military industries of the Qassam Brigades [Hamas inside Gaza]. They work tirelessly together to provide the Qassam Brigades with military industries to develop their missile capabilities and provide them with data for manufacturing short-range, supersonic missiles. We assure you that things are progressing at a rapid pace, as a large number of previous Palestinian missiles have been dismantled and modified into supersonic missiles. The direct communication method is via Yemeni-made devices, which were previously provided to the resistance, in order to maintain complete confidentiality.

[When it comes to all matters War, certain groups on earth take to it like fish in water. Even if besieged and dirt poor, they innovate and will find solutions. And with both the Murder-Suicide and Armageddon now assured, powerful and wealthy fellow civilizational travellers undoubtedly lend a helping hand. And the weak sweetspot of the demented West is right in the Holy Land, at ground zero of messianism]

cats can see what we cannot see… and it doesn’t like what it sees peering outta the eyeslits of the Don. A Bad energy

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 💬🇨🇳⚔️🇺🇸 China raises the tariffs on the US goods to 125%

“Given that US exports to China already have no market acceptability under the current tariff rates, if the US further imposes additional tariffs on Chinese goods, China will simply ignore them,” said the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council, the country’s cabinet.
[👏👏👏. So US raising it to 145% or 1,000% will not be reciprocated henceforth, as their crap is already priced out at over 100% with import substitution internally and externally kicking in..]

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🤍 Non-BRICS Countries Will Have Access to BRICS Payment Platforms, Lavrov Says

“In addition to national currencies, there is an opportunity to form payment platforms independent of external influence. One option is the Central Bank of Russia’s financial messaging system, it is convenient and does not depend on any SWIFT. There are a number of other initiatives that are being considered, in particular, within the BRICS framework,” the Russian foreign minister told reporters.
[👏👏👏 This open exhortation by the Russian FM for all the sane to continue fleeing the breached Titanic says it all, in spite of “warming relations” and “negotiations” and Witkoff’s latest arrival in Russia. The nature of scorpions is unchanging and “agreement incapable”.]
⭕❗️ Price of Gold on Exchange Reached New Historical Record of $3250 Per Troy Ounce

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ The E3 told Iran they would trigger the JCPOA snapback mechanism by the end of June.

Iran responded that doing so would mean harsh consequences & a review of its nuclear doctrine [such as leaving the NPT] — Reuters quoting European officials
[even though it is British Reuters, this was thought to be likely. “Snapback mechanism” obligates ALL UN members to levy full sanctions on Iran… an interesting test for multipolar bloc. Certainly the new dominant trading partners of Iran will ignore this political nonsense, entirely contrived to strangle Iran as was done to Syria, Cuba, DPRK, etc etc etc. Somehow, a point will be made to circumvent these satanic economic siege warfare]

💠 @imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Bill Ackman: This was brilliantly executed by @realDonaldTrump. Textbook, Art of the Deal
🔻 Kirill A. Dmitriev: Fully agree with Bill — one of the world’s greatest (and yes, most controversial) investors.
🔻 WS: In terms of anything and everything Trump and his entourage of imbeciles are doing these days, what the Russians say in public and what they think, say, and do in private are distinctly different things.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand:
I’m normally not a big fan, but this is an absolutely brilliant answer by Larry Summers to the oft-repeated argument that China is somehow “cheating” in trade.

In fact it’s probably the best answer I’ve ever heard on this.

It goes back to the point I was making (link) in reply to Steve Miran’s completely insane argument that having the dollar as a reserve currency is such a burden to the US that other countries need to compensate them for it.

Thanks to the dollar reserve status, to quote Summers’s rhetorical question: “If China wants to sell us things at really low prices and the transaction is we get solar collectors or we get batteries that we can put in electric cars and we send them pieces of paper that we print. Do you think that’s a good deal for us or a bad deal for us?”

Characterizing this as “cheating”, like Summers rightly says, should be rejected entirely. At the end of the day, who’s more “cheated”: the party doing the hard work of producing goods at very low prices on razor thin margins, or the party that simply prints a virtually infinite amount of fiat money to pay for all this stuff? |media|
[this Larry Summers was perhaps more than “just” an Epstein client – a patron? He was in his NYC mansion along with Bill Gates and the Don. A former boss of Harvard, and Sec Treasury, etc. A load that floated up to the top of the bilge water of the Big Club]
🔻 Alexander: It’s the same with the conversation of “over capacity”
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Absolutely
🔻 C3: Yes, Canada especially @melaniejoly use this false term on an ongoing basis I think most of the Western countries and Europe does. I’ve never understand how they came to that conclusion.
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: It really annoys me, so ignorant and condescending
[A pirate needs to justify The Racket, and ever newer developing permutations..]
🔻 my FIN twit: Misses the point.

The U.S. shouldn’t t rely on ANY country for critical resources, components, products, etc., let alone a hostile adversary.

The U.S. should manufacture as many critical components & products as possible, & 100% of anything required for national security.
🔻 WS: Woulda, coulda, shoulda.

But right now, they don’t. And they can’t materialize such capability in any time frame less than “many years”. Energy production and infrastructure, mines, refined materials, manufacturing, complex finish production and assembly, workforce training …
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ Lessons learned apparently now forgotten, the Japanese are once again playing with matches in the powder magazine.

Stupid is as stupid does.
[links:
🔻 Sony Thang: 🇷🇺MARIA ZAKHAROVA:

[On April 9, the Government of Japan announced its decision to join NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU), a centre that coordinates military assistance, including arms supplies, equipment maintenance and personnel training. This happened in the wake of the recent visit to Tokyo by NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. What is your comment?]

“Japan is pursuing a policy of accelerated remilitarisation.

Against this background, it is increasingly involved in the Ukraine conflict and expands its material and logistical support for the terrorist regime in Kiev.

These destructive actions, which take Japan even farther from the concept of peaceful national development preached by the former generations of Japanese politicians, are not only leading to the actual loss of its status as a pacifist state, a status that was at the base of trust on the part of its regional neighbours, but are also fraught with Tokyo’s open participation in military ventures and crimes committed by the Ukrainian nationalist upper crust, with all ensuing long-term consequences.

In this connection, we would like to warn Japan that any of its steps related to direct or indirect participation in supplying arms and military equipment to Ukraine, which arms and equipment will be used to kill Russian citizens or assist in training Ukrainian militants, will be regarded by us as unequivocally hostile.

If implemented, these will inevitably entail our tough retaliation that will cause substantial damage to the Japanese interests in the most sensitive areas”]
🔻 Alejandro Rodriguez: Vassal states will do what vassal states do
🔻 Haschbruder M.: At least the Kamikaze style could be of value when you only have outdated F-16s.
🔻 Beto Ochoa: The Japanese are desperate
🔻 readysetgo888: I think they all are. They maybe thinking that this time it will work
🔻 The Poets Of Zwan 🪶🏴‍☠️: Japan only has 10 years left. It’s an island of Gen-X retirees with a negative population recruitment
🔻 Christo: Japan is an occupied nation, even worse than Germany
⭕️🤦‍♂️ I can only shake my head at the common folk in America who genuinely believe Trump has THEIR best interests in mind with the things he does.

The same people who were leveraged long yesterday before the market opened were leveraged short today.
[Links: “🇺🇲 Donald Trump was caught on video explaining that his billionaire friends made billions yesterday with tariffs and stock market manipulation. |media| “]
[The satanic mockery of the bobble-heads is priceless. The wrecking crew is a full spectrum disorder, leveled at all. He has same approach the Cokehead has for his “troops” – being merrily sent to the front, year after year in insane futility. The same regard.]
🔻 ÉRH/UASC: The thing to remember is that it’s not really the ‘common folk’. The median income amongst his supporters is significantly higher than that of the population as a whole. His base is people who are actually quite well off.
🔻 Christo: The Trump Show term 1 concluded with the warp speed mRNA.

Term 2 has to top it.
[Well said. He IS prophesied as the Last American Prez for a good reason]
🔻 Mick Wynand: Common people weren’t aware when Rome collapsed after it was conquered by the barbarians because the barbarians kept the system going without greatly changing its appearances.

The US is run by a criminal enterprise in the same fashion as Rome was run by the barbarians.
[Sounded good. Then we remember the Barbarians have Sarmat and Poseidon this time. We may argue there shall be “disruptions” on Plato’s Cave Wall]
🔻 Farmazone: What I like the most is how the corporate media keeps pretending the stock market is a reflection of how Americans are doing.. he just pat on the shoulders few dudes in oval office that made billions of $ of this scam scheme and that’s it, all problems solved and America is saved
[The mesmerizing allure of the Moshiach System: it manufactures the consent of those being forthrightly depopulated by their owners! Even the survivors are prophesied to lament, “Alas, Babylon” for the very demons that holocausted them! The insouciance is unbelievable.]
🔻 Hazkaz2001: This whole re-industrialization thing is about making people support whatever Trump is doing and accept higher prices and lower living standards, while the usual suspects get richer.
🔻 Roy Rentals: I think you are wrong.
🔻 Hazkaz2001: You impose tariffs to protect your industry. You don’t impose tariffs when you don’t have an industry to begin with
🔻 Roy Rentals: We’ll see how it goes. I wouldn’t bet against Trump.
🔻 WS: I would bet the farm against Trump, just I would have anyone else elected POTUS over the course of my lifetime. But Trump will prove to be exceptionally dangerous, and will lead the United States into the most cataclysmic war of its entire history.
🔻 Hazkaz2001: That is the plan. Scorch earth war to burn the house down, but first bring critical supply chain and production of essentials to survival home. You can’t destroy China with missiles rods and antibiotics “made in China”.
🔻 Elydia35: it’s weird; I never thought he was dangerous during his 1st term – thought his desire to pull out of Syria & negotiate with N. Korea were good choices (others not so much). But this 2nd term….he’s unhinged, chaotic, very dangerous
⭕️ retweet:
🔻 Kit Klarenberg: 💥💥My latest – Collapsing Empire: The Delusion of US Air Power💥💥 |media|
⭕️🔻 Jostein Hauge: China’s share of global manufacturing is now larger than the *combined* share of the US, Japan, Germany, and South Korea
🔻 WS: Tariffs will not alter this trend
🔻 Nick Hudson: Absolutely true. But China’s internal contradictions will destroy that trend
🔻 WS: Elaborate.
🔻 Nick Hudson: They have inflated through mercantilist policies, importing creativity generated elsewhere, suppressing the nominal costs of all factors of production, and building a system capable only of implosion, as they have been inclined to do for a few thousand years. Don’t ask me about root causes. I only spent enough time there to smell it.
🔻 WS: Well … although I am in the midst of an attempt to learn much more, I will not pretend to understand China as well as I do, say, Russia.

That said, it occurs to me your description above closely parallels British criticisms of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
🔻 Nick Hudson: Interesting. A key difference is that they didn’t have a few thousand years of observations of America with which to work.
🔻 WS: I don’t dispute the Chinese favor mercantilism. But I don’t believe history supports the argument China notoriously “imports creativity”.

History does support the argument that Americans exceled in that respect. And I’m not convinced it is a grievous sin, albeit a common one.
🔻 The Pastoral Economist: If you trade with Borg you prob are not going to win.
🔻 WS: So you equate the Chinese with the Borg?
🔻 The Pastoral Economist: Yes. They will assimilate your value added production & consume your resources as a vassal state.
🔻 WS: I find this common argument much less than persuasive. At most, I consider it a transitory state of affairs. Assimilating “value added production” was the hallmark of America in its so-called “Golden Age”, and well beyond, in many respects (e.g. its nuclear and space programs).
[But Will! “One rule for thee, one for me”]
🔻 The Pastoral Economist: Persuasive for what? Free trade with the Chinese is not a smart play. Chinese play by their own rules which are incompatible with western rule of law. It’s not even illegal to defraud foreigners in China.
🔻 WS: Non sequitur to my preceding post about “assimilating creativity”.

In any case, I’m confident you are unaware of how hypocritical your post above really is.

Yes, China (and many others) refuse to submit to the dominion of the current “rules-based international order”.
🔻 The Pastoral Economist: I don’t blame them. It is in China’s interest to take advantage of Western short term greed & stupidity. If you study how China industrialized you will find large tariffs & tax cuts to draw in foreign investment then tech & process theft. After that they use CCP run banks to fund domestic champions & sell at loss to bankrupt foreign competitors. You cant free trade with ” State directed & funded “capitalists”. Finally, if a western corporation makes money in China–good luck getting it out.
[at least they shall have Hate. This will sustain millions and millions. Lord Byron: ‘Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.’]
🔻 WS: I hear this echoed from a million voices.

It’s such a pathetic whine.

So the Chinese learned how to play big-time hard ball global business and bested the supposed western masters of big-time hard ball business.

And now they have a massive potent military that can prevent the masters of the declining empire from resorting to arms to eliminate a big-time hard ball business competitor.

Welcome to the real world, as it is, and as it has always been.
🔻 Wℹ️ll🆗: So when Texas gives Amazon tax free status you do t see this as the government picking winners and losers or a country subsidizing a private company?
🔻 WS: [bull’s eye gif]
🔻 bond, James bond: I like what you write. Until the mid-20th century, China was a nation decimated by colonialism and opium. No one gave them anything, and best of all, they didn’t wage war on anyone to make them what they are. “Welcome to the real world, as it is, and as it has always been”.
🔻 Shivan Mahendrarajah: tariffs will not change trends in 🇺🇸 or major Global South players. Manufacture of ships, trains, farm equipment, cars, aircraft, etc., once dominated by 🇺🇸, are built in 🇨🇳🇮🇷 🇷🇺. Sanctions forced 🇮🇷 into self-sufficiency, just as it’s doing for 🇷🇺 |link|
🔻 Wasteinc: Pasta, paper, silk, gunpowder, porcelain some notorious chinese creativity moments that were imported by the west (by industrial espionage). Just to pick up a few material stuff
🔻 WS: It is my observation that all products of human creativity spread far and wide as a natural and inexorable process.

The ancient American civilizations were exceptional agronomists and horticulturists, to whom we owe much for corn (maize), tomatoes, and cocoa.
🔻 Wasteinc: I would say all the nightshades (aubergines etc). I come from the med I can’t imagine my food culture without them. We have probably not even touched the tip of the iceberg when we talk about the ancient american civilizations. Arrogant modernists that we are 🙂
⭕️🔻 FXHedge: TRUMP’S TARIFFS ON CHINA ARE NOW AT LEAST 145%, WHITE HOUSE CONFIRMS—HIGHER THAN HE PREVIOUSLY CLAIMED (Forbes) President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports are even higher than the 125% rate initially announced, as the White House confirmed Thursday there’s now a 145% tariff on many goods from China—and higher in some cases.
🔻 Wall Street Mav: “Made in China” will soon be a thing of a past. 😎
🔻 WS: 🤦‍♂️ The #MessiahTrump disciples have gone hallucinatory.
🔻 Ikkyu Sojun: The U.S. is the one crumbling, not China. Tariffs are a scared empire’s flail, not a kill shot.

Pure madness to think otherwise!
🔻 Kaiser Galactic: It reminds me of the red trousers of 14 charging with bayonets fixed against the German machine guns, it’s going to be a massacre
🔻 Ray: Absolutely. Plus, they disappeared when the Stock Market crashed today
⭕️ cont. thread:
🔥 Yuliana nails it.

As I often note, the inhabitants of the so-called “western democracies” are, with precious few exceptions, the most misinformed and most easily and thoroughly propagandized people in human history.
🔻 Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵: Here, take it from the horse’s mouth:

This whole tariff clown show?

Just another chapter in the U.S. playbook—slowly containing, eroding, and dismantling any state seen as a threat to their global dominance, all fueled by a steady diet of national psychosis.

It’s not about bringing jobs back.

It’s about starving China and softening them up for the war everyone pretends isn’t on the menu.

Tariff the planet, then dangle a deal where others have to pick: “us or them.” …. [see above for rest]
🔻 Matt: Have you seen all the ships China is building? There is no reason to build up such force unless you are planning a naval war. Trump isn’t blind.
🔻 Elydia35: gee, I wonder why China would build so many ships. I mean, it’s not like multiple US govts haven’t repeatedly threatened, insulted China, said China is a threat to the US, surrounded China w/US bases, patrolled China’s region with the US navy🤔
🔻 WS: China’s military posture is inherently defensive in nature. It is designed to secure its local seas, and protect its interests in both the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific.

At present, China cannot be defeated in its local seas, and is increasingly potent throughout Asia.
🔻 James Maillette: I guess I have generally thought of it as being more regionally focused as opposed to inherently defensive, but perhaps it is largely a distinction without difference. In any case, I absolutely agree that the areas mentioned are effectively locked down if they choose to do so.
🔻 WS: The Russian, Chinese, and Iranian force structures are inherently defensive in nature. They have been intentionally designed to defeat American imperial reach into their respective spheres of influence.

None of them is expansionist in intent or capability.
⭕ 😭 How pitiful that, of all the nations upon this increasingly vexed planet, the United States of America — arguably the greatest master of big-time hard ball business in human history — is now reduced to whining about how the rest of the world (China foremost) has cheated them.
links older, “I hear this echoed from a million voices.

It’s such a pathetic whine.

So the Chinese learned how to play big-time hard ball global business and bested the supposed western masters of big-time hard ball business.

And now they have a massive potent military that can prevent the masters of the declining empire from resorting to arms to eliminate a big-time hard ball business competitor.

Welcome to the real world, as it is, and as it has always been.”
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: The Trump administration’s governing by PR has been juvenile and humiliating thus far.

However, the people of the United States, not the government, have been cheated by the international bankers in collusion with the U.S. government for over a century: 👇 |link|
🔻 Nova Scotia Tony 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇱🇧: There is no graciousness or humility, just bluster and wingeing
🔻 Stirling: They were all fine with it and went there voluntarily. Only the last few years when China became a peer did it become a problem. Very insecure bunch.
[oh very secure in their Piracy. Just sore losers]
🔻 It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it: China beat these pigs at their own game.
⭕ ▪️ Shiny Superstition

It may be no more than a superstition, but when the silver to gold ratio rises above 100 (100+ ounces of silver to buy 1 ounce of gold), I buy silver.
🔻 Latin_Casanova: Currencies were made of gold,copper and silver to keep their intrinsic value. Fiat money destroyed that until this day.
⭕ The so-called “Milkshake Thesis” is melting.
[links:
🔻 The Kobeissi Letter: The U.S. Dollar has exited the room.

Once again, something is broken.” |link|]
🔻 MGT | Playbook Coach 📈: Now with the dollar crashing too, it confirms the fear…when investors ditch stocks, bonds, and even the dollar, it’s a full-blown flight to safety. The fact that money is pouring into gold shows people aren’t just rotating. they’re escaping.

This isn’t normal market behavior. It’s a sign of serious uncertainty, and when everything gets rejected except gold, you know confidence in the system itself is breaking.
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: That was not supposed to happen. Whenever the US engineered or was the prime culprit of a global economic chaos, the capital used to ‘fly’ to the US. So, this is a significant reversal.
[Col, we need you!]
🔻 CS: And currently looking at currency movements it’s all allies repatriating their assets. SMH, elect a clown become a circus
[“Trust the Plan” bobble-heads! Amerika will be made Great]
⭕ Foreign Policy has forfeited any semblance of credibility it ever had. It is now just a ridiculous propaganda rag.
[links:
🔻 Baron of the Taiga: What a load of shit. lol

Of all the various silly explanations for why Russian soldiers don’t revolt, the author never even considers the possibility that Ukraine’s claims about ‘meat waves’ and ‘barrier troops’ are simply fictitious.” |link|]
🔻 Динарски двори: Russophobia, a disease without a code that put “só-called cientistas” in intelectual mediocrity.
[and a Liar gotta lie. To admit the bitter Reality, and that they lost it all, is unbearable]

The optics are not encouraging for defusing the Murder-Suicide..

1. Zionazi Witkoff arrived in the former Russian Imperial capital, and was anointed in the Great Choral Synagogue of St. Petersburg, (what’s Dmitriev, Putin’s envoy, doing there?)
2. He met Putin
3. Tomorrow he travels to Oman to deliver further ultimatums to the Iranian Foreign Minister

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ American Roots of German Nazism, Part 4: How Hitler Copied the US ‘War of Extermination’ Against the Native Americans

The term “war of extermination” (vernichtungskrieg) was used by Hitler and his inner circle to describe the war on the Eastern Front, which involved the killing of millions of people in Eastern Europe.

However, the Nazis borrowed this concept from U.S. practices, particularly from the authorities in California.

Historian Yegor Yakovlev, a lecturer at Saint Petersburg State University (SPbGU) specializing in Nazi crimes, explained to Sputnik how the extermination of Native Americans by US authorities served as a model that the Nazis sought to replicate in Europe.

#Victory80 |media|

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 War Monitor: ⚡️Chance of US-Iran nuclear deal in 2025 has risen to 45% as per traders on Polymarket.

How do you see this playing out?
🔻 — GEROMAN — time will tell – 👀 –: I see a face saving compromise incoming.
🔻 WS: I hope the US backs away from war with Iran. But I would bet whatever happens in Oman over the next few days is more likely than not to INCREASE tensions rather than reduce them. Hopefully I’m wrong.
🔻 Kenan Beg: We all hope, but I fear the US will treat Iran based on an outdated historical viewpoint of Iran . And then there’s Israeli pressure
🔻 pixel: Do you think the Witkoff visit to Putin has anything to do with Iran? It was announced and executed with short notice, looks pretty urgent
🔻 Red Team Planner 🔻🏳️: You’re 100% correct. We know these negotiations will fail because the Russian negotiations have failed. The US simply will not honor any reasonable national interests other than Israel’s.
🔻 my Anon twit: The Trump administration seems to be acting like they know they get one bite at the apple.

No half measures.

And they are front loading the pain to allow for their plans supposed benefits to happen in time, before the mid terms.
🔻 Xi be praised, the boomer buck breaker: Nah it is inevitable. Based on who controls the US, the need for Trump to divert attention, China too big to fight, etc. Like a man who gets yelled at by his boss so he goes home and beats his wife.
🔻 Winsome Pines: If you listen to Trump and Netanyahu, it sounds like the US has already decided to attack Iran via Israel. I keep thinking about the story Pepe Escobar had last year that Russia shot down an Israeli plane trying to drop a nuke on Iran after True Promise 1.
🔻 Sven: You can sense it Will. Both sides on all 3 fronts are waiting, who will blink first or start. Get each other to provoke, just like they did to Russians in 2021 (NATO excercises with Ukrainian troops commading them in the black sea.
⭕ repost of his older:
“🤦‍♂️ Apparently the US will demand Iran gets rid of all its ballistic missiles, and cease henceforth to produce them.

In other words, a “deal” with the Iranians will be stillborn.

The Trump White House has become the most ridiculously bellicose American administration ever.”
and
“‼️ Iran will never accede to the terms the US must necessarily demand. This standoff will eventually lead to Iran calling the US bluff to make war against them.

And the US/Israel may very well attempt an air campaign — one which will prove inefficacious and extremely costly.”
⭕ ‼️ CSG-1 (USS Carl Vinson) Update

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

I do not believe the talks will go well.

Will the US then immediately launch attacks on Iran?

It’s madness, but I would not dismiss the possibility.
[Right-click on above maps to view larger on new tab.
Yes, sooner would suit the nazi internationale, whilst China reels from economic totalen krieg, and Russia is still seduced by insincere offers. However they still lack decisive means, and so it means the Murder-Suicide remains in effect. And the total obliteration of the cancerous entity]
links:
🔻 MT Anderson: 🇺🇸Carrier Strike Group 1🇺🇸
Based on flight paths from @flightradar24, it would appear that USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) is operating off the coast of Oman (11 April 2025)

3x CMV-22B Osprey (RUDY11 | 12 |13) made a quick stop in Duqm and then proceeded on to Bahrain
@Schizointel
🔻 RuhRoh: I suppose an alternative would be preventing Iranian oil exports via sea as the US made several statements on that this week
🔻 WS: People throw around this idea as though it’s an easy thing to do. It’s not.

And suppose China begins escorting those tankers with warships. (A distinct possibility.)
🔻 Shivan Mahendrarajah: Iran will retaliate against tankers of “enemy” states. They have made it clear, “if we can’t sell oil, nobody can.” They proved it this years ago: several tankers got hit by mines
🔻 RuhRoh: oh it’s absolutely a dumb idea which definitely means CentCom is considering it
🔻 SenshelMenshel Coastguard: The USS *what*? We need a trademark Schryver nickname for this carrier please
🔻 WS: The Vinson has yet to run away from the Yemeni, so it retains its original name, unlike:

CVN-69 (USS Brave Sir Robin)
CVN-71 (USS Teddy Bear)
CVN-72 (USS Fraidy Abe)
CVN-75 (USS Trembling Puppy)
[patience dear Will. All Good Things come to those who wait]
🔻 Alyosha: Will — does it make sense the Iran/Rus/Xi have had a belly full and are coordinating (even in just a game-theory sense) China’s feint at Taiwan this past week, vis a vis the Diego Garcia engorgment.
🔻 WS: reposts: As I have written countless times over the years: I cannot envision ANY scenario where China would invade Taiwan. A blockade of the island accompanied by a decisive PLAN defeat of the US Navy would be followed by a bloodless reunification with the mainland.
🔻 E.b31: If it’s was going to lunch strikes, it wouldn’t have aircraft carriers anywhere near Iran.
🔻 WS: If the strike group is not within range of its targets, then it is of no use at all.

And Iran is a very big country.
🔻 MAKE LOVE AND NOT WAR: Iran does not want this war because it knows it will be destroyed and its government will fall. However, the US will lose a leg and an arm (or worse).
🔻 WS: There are many possibilities.
📜 Scorch Marks in the Sand
📜 Hold My Beer
🔻 bitquoter: Hope the US didn’t made the decision to launch a strike, I’ll think they didn’t, they must have some brains left?

Because when they strike Iran the region and the world would have a huge problem. Much much bigger than most people can even begin to imagine.
🔻 WS:🔸 Most people are convinced Russia and China will do nothing to assist Iran in a war against the United States.

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

I believe Iran is that important to them.
📜 All for One and One for All
🔻 Timothy Leary’s Dead 🏴‍☠️🌱🐑🐕 🎣🎇👀🐈‍⬛⚠️🎲: Back in 2018, when Trump was threatening Iran with his maximum sanctions, both China and Russia spoke up and said that they would not permit regime change in Iran. I doubt that they have changed their positions.
🔻 Framed Mollusk: Yes, but neither are Russia and China equivalent nato nor is Iran equivalent Ukraine. Support would exist but a lot of more timid than natos support to Ukraine.
🔻 WS: Russia and China combined are more militarily and economically potent than all of NATO combined — and by a significant and decisive margin.

Of course, neither NATO nor the EU are unified. They are, in fact, dissolving before our eyes.
🔻 2CNLKH_68: I have the same opinion
‘After finishing #Iran, choosing between finishing #China or #Russia’?
[and this is the main reason why Russia-China will enter. The same reason China entered Korea.. defense of Iran is their own defense. More important than INSTC or BRI connectivities or the future harmonious multi-nodal world. The foaming Barbarians are overturning tables and need to be disciplined, and snipped]
⭕🔻 DD Geopolitics: 🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸🇪🇺 Kellogg Proposes Dividing Ukraine into Spheres of Influence – The Times

Trump’s special envoy on Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, has proposed a ceasefire plan that would effectively divide Ukraine into zones of influence, similar to post-WWII Germany, The Times reports.

Key points of the proposal:

• Russia would control eastern Ukraine; Western Ukraine could host British and French troops as part of a “security mission.”
• The U.S. would not deploy ground forces but may assist with coordination.
• An 18-mile buffer zone would separate Ukrainian and Russian forces.
• New elections in Ukraine could follow a ceasefire.
• Europe should not expect U.S. military support unless it’s willing to act independently.

Russia opposes any NATO troop deployment after a ceasefire, while European countries are hesitant to send forces without firm U.S. backing—making the plan basically impossible.

Why are these people wasting our time?
[this is beyond degenerate wistfulness. It is frank lunacy to expect the losers to dictate such terms. So it means the target is the internal audience, to convince them they are still relevant and have even a shred of influence on subsequent events. But even the internal collapses – only 6 volunteered to be suicided in the pitiful Anglo-French “coalition of the willing” summit. Three were irrelevant Balts, and the fourth reportedly the already demilitarized Danes currently watching Greenland being ripped away. The Limeys and Frogs are as we see being mopped up in whichever hostel, kindergarten or restaurant they hide in throughout 404… NATO is done for. It is all sad posturing]
🔻 WS: 📜 In for a Pound
🔻 Sean O’Casey: Who’s talking NATO controlled rump of Ukraine?
🔻 WS: It has circulated in the commentariat and rent-a-general ranks since back when I wrote the article above in late 2022.
🔻 WS: ‼️ Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

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

I believe Putin would be deposed.
🔻 Chris Close: Spring summer coming. Ground if firming up.

Think they takes Odessa and Kyiv, some middle territory.

Then negotiate a deal.
🔻 WS: I continue to believe their strategy is to hunt down, cut off, and annihilate every last pocket of AFU resistance, wherever they may go, and then to assimilate Odessa and everything east of the Dnipr, effectively without a fight. Whether they want Kiev or not remains to be seen.
🔻 Will Hoban: Not gonna happen. Helmer seems to think the Russians are in full Art of the Deal mode.
[links:
🔻 Dances_with_Bears: Witkoff delivers Trump ultimatum today in St P as US officials refuse all Russian end-of-war terms. Dmitriev’s moneybags talks are failing.” |link|]
🔻 WS: I believe Dmitriev is a “feint and fix” operation.
🔻 Thingsneedtochange: Exactly. I need whatever the U.S. side is smoking.
🔻 Malonco: I would have thought that turning Ukraine into a landlocked country would be a minimum for Russia.

This war has been costly for Russians. They deserve a proper reward.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Caitlin Johnstone: [she links her older tweet and photo of the Three Gorges Dam by this idiot below]
[links:
🔻 WBS: Did you know that one precision strike could cause 350 million Chinese to ching their last chong?]
🔻 Throwback C Magnon: His career as a strategist or analyst will be shorter than his list of degrees.
🔻 Tailuigi Jumprower #SaveTF2: Their masks are never permanent. They can try all they like but they’ll slip.
🔻 oceanoxytox🌅: talmudic (aka ‘judeo christian’) value
🔻 Dylan Miles: Wild that this is what supposedly passes for a centrist.
🔻 Woman in tech: You know it’s coming right, the dull, obvious, long, and anti-China propaganda. It was launched with Trump’s “China is ripping us off”, followed by the recent Alex Jones conversation with Tucker Carlson.
🔻 HIDDEN GROPAPANDA: @grok if 350 million Chinese people disappeared, how many more people would they still have than the U.S.?
⭕ Mmmm … this sounds vaguely familiar. 🤔
[links:
🔻 zerohedge: “Escobar: Russia–Iran–China – All For One, And One For All?”]
🔻 WS: 📜 All for One and One for All 
🔻 Long John Silver: Pepe is a great guy he has been writing about belt and road and great game for over 20 years he does a weekly show with Judge and Nima
🔻 WS: I’m very familiar with Pepe. He is also apparently familiar with me. 😐
🔻 〰️: No one is a prophet in their own land
🔻 Sven: The whole Russian MO is to stop bloc countries ganging up on single nations.
⭕ Bold talk.

Meanwhile the USS Trembling Puppy and its quivering entourage remain bottled up in the northern Red Sea, fending off daily salvos of ad hoc missiles built by Yemeni hands deep within desert mountains.
[links:
🔻 Royal Intel 👑: #BREAKING🚨

The White House:

“Iran has a choice to make. You can agree to President Trump’s demand, or there will be all hell to pay”

Get ready American parents, your children will be sent to die for Israel once again.” |link|]

💠@Alon Mizrahi:
⭕ Western moneyed elites are genuinely mental
🔻 ForFactsSake: Kevin O’Leary is Canadian. He lost his campaign to be Canada’s Prime Minister bcz Cdns Know he’s a criminal ZUNT who murdered 2 people with his boat then blamed his alcoholic wife & said she was driving it. He also lies about being a Catholic. His mother is Jewish.
[the specific tool is irrelevant. The Presstitute media providing the mass platform is the issue. The Drang is on…]
🔻 AK: Give it time, we’ll see who trains whom.
⭕🔻 Pedro Sánchez:
España y China celebran este año el 20 aniversario de su asociación estratégica integral.

Con el presidente Xi Jinping, he abordado el nuevo impulso que hoy damos a esa asociación, con la mirada puesta en el desarrollo de unas relaciones equilibradas y mutuamente beneficiosas y en el acercamiento entre nuestras sociedades.
🔻 AM: Last week Scott Bessent, Trump’s Treasury Secretary, told Spain that having close and independent ties with China is ‘cutting your own throat’, in one of the most bizarre and violent mafia-style uses of language I ever heard from any politician.

So the Spanish PM went straight to Beijing to celebrate 20 years of cooperation and promote better ties with China. This picture is from today.

There is a life after white Western colonialism, but only for normal people and political structures
[I wouldn’t say Sanchez or Spain are sincere.. like Micron or Meloni trooping to China, it is more division of labor within Legion. Working to split the civilizational-states for the joint team. But they fool none at this point. “Verify intent, THEN trust”]
🔻 C2: Pedro Sanchez was almost awesome until he started thanking Satan 🇺🇸. That’s when I hit unfollow. Not sure I’d go as far as calling him bipolar but that shift was….something.
🔻 AM: It is wise for them to not be openly confrontational
🔻 C2: Silence would’ve been a thousand times better than thanking Satan. That kind of doormat move alienates the base (e.g. BRICS+), flat-out confuses and pushes people away and ends up promoting the wrong message. It’s exactly what put the Middle East in the position it’s in. If the entire Middle East had leaders who spoke like Saddam Hussein or Ali Khamenei, it wouldn’t be Satan’s playground.
⭕ They used to do that during his first term also. Such a cringy display of the worst of reality TV meets the worst of politics. It’s like watching a burlesque show.

Will they start placing small Trump icons in their chambers to worship his image as a god soon? I won’t rule it out
[links:
🔻 Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹: “Never seen anything like that. A bunch of bootlickers bowing to the “King”.
No dissent voices, they are “all in”, and it is leading towards war with China” |media|]
🔻 John Metzner: It’s astonishing to witness this.
I am 8.2 decades young and have never seen anything even remotely like it.
🔻 Barrett: The ignorance is just off the scale.
[The Passion of the Worst, presented with their golden “god-Emperor” – the trumpet and herald of the Moshiach. A true cult]
🔻 Toni:
Rubio: “China was de-industrializing the US for the last 30 years”
I mean the audacity these people have🤦🏻‍♂️
The US intentionally moves production to China to make money through the cheap production costs, now they complain about it and blame China🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️
🔻 Wilson: I think it is very difficult to grasp the opportunity to see, once in the lifetime, the level collective ignorance to reach such unprecedented scale.

Beautiful moment, to see it, to witness it and to experience it.
🔻 In Other Words: Yea, totally normal. |media|
🔻 AM: |media|
🔻 Jim the Truth: This is the fruit of idol worship.
🔻 HIDDEN GROPAPANDA: Yep—reality TV, pro wrestling, however you conceptualize it, it’s not just effective brainwashing for the stupid or hopelessly brainwashed, it’s a big FU to those of us who see through it.
⭕🔻 Don Winslow:
China is going to break Trump in front of the world.
🔻 AM: And they’re not even going to break a sweat
[well, a few pricey eggs shall be broken. But an American omelet is gonna be served, that’s for sure]
🔻 Hamid Jahanian: Good superpowers don’t exist—but if I must choose, give me tight eyes to see within, not a wide open mouth to shout without.
🔻 AM: China is a real country with a real heritage, culture, tradition, and philosophy. It is not expansionist, and it is helping other countries get better. It’s not even close. Not the same league
⭕ The West continues on its path of beligerance and suicidalism. Maybe they really plan to replace all of us with Zionist robots
[links:
🔻 Margarita Simonyan: Estonia seizes oil tanker outside of its own territorial waters.

“Kiwala” was headed to the Russian port of Ust-Luga and registered under the Djibouti flag – Estonia says vessel is part of so-called “shadow fleet.”

An EU country is engaging in state-sanctioned piracy, with blessing from Brussels.” |media|]
🔻 Rachid Lahmaidi: They keep poking the bear’s eyes and than cry victimhod when russia retaliate
🔻 Rune: Basically, yes. Brave New World was Aldous Huxley’s critique of the plan his brother Julian presented at the founding of WHO for the future for the world. It’s the same plan WEF and Klaus Schwab talk about. They want 1 billion gene-modded, drugged, chipped slaves to serve them.
⭕ Fuck Israel and fuck all its Western and Arab enblers. The utter shame, disgust and fury. Making people starve, and torturing, and displacing and killing them endlessly like a lunatic bloodsucking cult.

Fuck all of you. We will build a better world on the ruins of yours
[links:
🔻 Dr.Hamza Alsharif 🇵🇸: “Hello from hell.
Yes, living in hell is better than living here.
Hunger is knocking on the stomachs here.
The markets and shops are empty.
The death of hunger is killing us slowly.

A whole city , looking for a loaf of bread and entire city starving

10 April, Gaza strip” |media|]
🔻 Lina: I read some of what people in Gaza are writing. Between displacement and bombing, people are collapsing from hunger and exhaustion. What they’re going through is beyond words.
🔻 Maya: There is no way this evil will go unpunished.
🔻 Shams Salah Mahdi: when will this end… when…

💠@Seyed Mohammad Marandi:
⭕ Sham Mohareb has died from her injuries after an Israeli airstrike hit her grandfather’s home in Al-Shujaiya, eastern Gaza City. The attack severed her arm.

Zionists are pure evil.

#GazaHolocaust
[The girl’s name “Sham” means “Greater Syria”, a shortening of “Bilaad Al Shaam”]
⭕ Trump has shown himself to be dishonest, unreliable, and unpredictable in the eyes of the world. His unreasonable demands on Iran are widely seen as unacceptable.

If negotiations fail, the blame will fall on him. It’s up to him to prove he’s serious
[he links above video interview with The Gaggle duo]
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Rania Khalek: In a hearing Friday at the remote Louisiana detention center where Mahmoud Khalil is being held, Judge Jamee Comans said she had no authority to question Rubio’s determination (that he be deported for his beliefs).

Very dark stuff. |link|
[this abject patsy was a moderate headchopper sympathizer who worked for Limey intelligence to destroy Syria. Now he is serving out his last utility to erect an openly unconstitutional totalitarianism within CONUS. Father Martin Niemöller: “First they came for ….”]
⭕ The Zionists’ preferred targets are the children of Amalek.

This airstrike targeted a displaced Palestinian family’s tent in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. |link|
⭕🔻 Mats Nilsson:
“Don’t trust Reuters, especially when they cite “officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.” That just means they’re inventing things.”

— Professor Marandi |link|
🔻 Seyed Mohammad Marandi: The same is true of The New York Times and other mainstream media.

When they write things like “according to two senior Iranian officials familiar with the meeting,” it just means they’re making it up.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Yemen Military 🇾🇪: Millions took to the streets across all Yemeni cities, condemning the actions of the United States in killing children.

They demanded strikes on American interests in the region and a halt to American navigation. |media|
⭕ Qatar is a US client regime.

Remember that…
[links:
🔻 Middle East Observer: ⚡️The US approved a possible $1.96B sale of 8 MQ-9B SeaGuardian drones to Qatar. The deal, though not final, is expected to be signed during Trump’s Gulf tour in May.

Do you think these Qatari drones will help Gaza and Syria against Israel ?
Or will they be used against the enemies of the USA in the region ?”]
[this is why ultimately, for peace and resolution of endless barbarity in the region, the desert bedouins will have to exit faux bling-bling modernity and be returned to their desert oases..]
🔻 Andromeda11711: They will be used for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
🔻 My 2 Cents: Obviously, to help Isreal. There’s no question about it.
🔻 The Seeds: Don’t fly over Yemen
⭕ Heartbroken, a Palestinian man mourns ten family members slaughtered when Zionist monsters bombed their home in Khan Younis [Gaza].
#GazaHolocaust |link|
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Peter Schiff: Talk about spin. This is not how Trump planned it. Scott Bessent is trying to salvage a plan gone horribly bad. Trump has not created any leverage either. If anything, he has exposed to the world how vulnerable the U.S. is to a trade war. So he’s undercut his perceived leverage.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Dan Kovalik: There will be a reckoning for this. |link|
⭕ Western values

#GazaHolocaust |link|
⭕🔻 Yemen Military 🇾🇪: The closure of Yemeni accounts by Platform X is truly strange. The account of the spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Yahya Saree, along with other officials’ accounts, has been suspended. It seems that Platform X is now owned by Zionists. All Yemeni accounts must be restored and reactivated.
🔻 Seyed Mohammad Marandi: Trump has been defeated by the Yemeni armed forces and Ansar Allah, so “free speech absolutist” @elonmusk and his peasants at @X are trying to silence Yemeni voices in revenge.

This is true. Sheikh Zayed, from a Yemeni tribe, was loved in Yemen and regionwide where he gave back and supported his people. Today the GCC is run by elites like those in Rummy’s Old Europe who actively ensure their collective suicide.

Ursula, the Talmud and Europe

Back to the Future indeed, at 88mph!

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ The Israeli army has announced that it has taken full control of the 12-kilometer Morag Corridor, cutting off Rafah from the city of Khan Yunis and the rest of the Gaza Strip.

The “Morag Corridor” is located where the Israeli settlement of the same name once stood before being evacuated during Israel’s 2005 withdrawal from Gaza. By controlling Morag, along with the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, Israel will effectively divide Gaza into several parts.

The military is also attempting to expand its buffer zone in southern Gaza, which will stretch from the Egyptian border to the outskirts of Khan Yunis, encompassing the entire city of Rafah—covering roughly 20% of the Strip.
⭕️ 🇮🇷🇺🇸| Iranian Foreign Minister and the Iranian delegation in Oman for the indirect negotiations with the US.

(Witkof is behind the wall carpet)   |media|

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Kiev ‘Maliciously’ Violated Moratorium on Strikes Against Energy Facilities Over 60 Times, Russian Foreign Ministry Says

Kiev has made attempts to strike Russian energy facilities several times each day since the 30-day moratorium on attacks against them was reached on March 18, Alexey Polishchuk, Director of a department at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Sputnik.

“This can be happening for two reasons. Either Kiev did not give the order to cease shelling, or the order is not being followed. Both of these reasons are extremely worrying,” the official explained.

If there was no order given, then we are dealing with deliberate sabotage of agreements, he noted.

Russia, in its turn, respects the moratorium, Polishchuk emphasized.

This is must listen. Helmer is redeeming himself. One of the best descriptors of the Orange Emperor and why the schizophrenia and agonizing rule by Tweet. There are parallels in end stage Rome too. Pay attention to observation of the lean & hungry Vance in the wings and the need for the collapsing Emperor to finally break with the pattern of bluffing, if but to maintain contact with the living. On so many levels, the Murder-Suicide is baked in

💠 In anticipation of Persian Gulf oil soon being offline, today:  “Russia is ready to send as much oil to China as it needs” — Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Rudenko to TASS

💠 “Russia designates ‘Mr Yes’ former FM as foreign agent – The Russian Military Historical Society had also blamed the former diplomat for “betraying” his country over making one-sided concessions to the Baltic States during the withdrawal of the Russian military from Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania in 1994.”
☝️ note the concluding para. The chihuahuas will soon cease to exist; territory given away through treachery (like Alaska?) should soon to return to Mother. That appears the message after recent intolerable insolence on the Baltic Sea, as well as joining the “coalition of the willing” with their three dinghies and score horse buggies…

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Tehran Has One Goal in Oman Talks: Lifting Sanctions Through Dialogue With the US, Iranian Foreign Ministry Says

Iranian Foreign Minister and US Special Envoy Witkoff agreed to continue talks in a week, it added.

US and Iran reportedly discussed de-escalation, prisoner exchange and sanctions relief in exchange for restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program.
[the main goal is delaying, delaying, delaying .. as do the other two big brothers.. every day delayed in the inevitable confrontation is a blessing, which strengthens, whilst the Antagonists of All flag a little further]

[note the “embassy” title is exclusively in latin script, and the message exclusively in hebrew. Says it all. Ever is the house slave “more catholic than the pope”. As Malcolm mocked them, “WE be sick, Massa!”]
💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇴🇲 NEW: Indirect US-Iran negotiations have started in Oman
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NOTE: Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, will ONLY discuss the issue of nuclear proliferation – not the ballistic missile program or Iran’s support for regional groups.

These two additional demands are a no-go for Iran, and the Supreme Leader has not authorized the Foreign Ministry to even discuss them. If the Americans push on either of these two topics, the negotiations are over.
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The indirect talks between Iran and the United States in Oman will ‘conclude today’ and not extend into tomorrow, and there is currently no truth to a direct meeting between Witkoff and Araqchi
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Immediately following the first round of negotiations in Oman, the Iranian Rial rose sharply against the US Dollar, going from 97,000 USD per Toman to 92,900 USD per Toman
[Speculators and moneylenders!]
⭕ — ❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇴🇲 NEW: The U.S. delegation did not repeat its earlier demands about Iran’s missile program and ending its support for regional groups, and the discussions were limited only to the ‘nuclear file’ – direct talks in the near future are not outside the realm of possibility – Iranian Media
⭕ —❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇴🇲 NEW:

‘U.S. President Donald Trump will probably make statements about the content of the talks in the coming hours, the purpose of which will be solely to influence the atmosphere of public opinion and the process of the talks, with no other value or truth.

Trump’s future statements will likely not even be in line with the official positions presented by the American delegation in the discussions in Muscat.’

– Tasnim News
[LOL. Getting ahead of the liars]
⭕ — ❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇸 Iranian Foreign Ministry in a preliminary statement:

‘The indirect talks in Oman were constructive and held in a generally positive atmosphere, and they lasted approximately 2.5 hours.

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araqchi talked briefly face-to-face in the presence of the Omani Foreign Minister after the end of the first round of negotiations.

The talks will continue, and the exact timing and date will be announced in the near future.

We will not allow any country, including the United States, to go too far and impose unrealistic demands upon us. The Qajar and Pahlavi eras are over, and this is the era of the great Islamic Iran, which holds its head high.’
⭕ — 🇮🇷/🇺🇸/🇴🇲 Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi: ‘While leaving the negotiations room, we encountered the U.S. Envoy, Steve Witkoff, and exchanged greetings out of courtesy, as is customary in diplomacy. Nothing content-related was said.’
⭕ —❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇴🇲 Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi:

• ‘Today we have come close to a ‘basis’ on which negotiations can be held – Saturday we will continue, and start the negotiation process, including the timetable’
• ‘The discussions took place in a calm and polite atmosphere, and the American side did not issue any threats’
• ‘Both sides want a deal in the short-term, and not fruitless negotiations that drag on for months or years, but this won’t be easy’

⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺 Trump signed an executive order extending Biden’s sanctions package against Russia for one year.
[zionazi Witkoff didn’t get squat in St. Pete. Or perhaps he caved and Orange is putting out smoke to eke out a few more days. Sanctions are actually welcomed at this point by Russians authorities, delighted at the enforced decoupling and “re-sovereignization”. They insist on their removal as a point of pride and humiliation on the defeated side]
⭕ The Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, traveled to the holy city of Qom today to visit the shrine of Fatima Masoomah (ع), and to Jamkaran Mosque, which is known for its significance in performing the ‘Istikhara’ prayer; the ‘Prayer of Seeking Divine Counsel’

It is very rare for the Supreme Leader to leave Tehran. It is unknown what the reason for his travel is, but the fact that he is traveling on the same day as the negotiations is definitely not a coincidence.

In the past, Islamic scholars in Iran used to travel to the holy city of Qom as a sign of symbolic ‘protest’ to something they disagreed with, as traveling back then took very long and was an intensive process. Whether this was the intended purpose is nothing but speculation.
[Not good. He’s saying his mortal goodbyes, given what comes… Like Nasrallah, he’s chosen the hardest path, the straight & skinny. And there’s little defense against Murder Inc if they will to murder any individual]

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Iran and Hezbollah had some influence in Syria, but not enough to force Bachar al-Assad’s hand on tactical and strategic steps.

Today, Syria is occupied by Israel, Turkey & the US. Damascus has no leverage over any of the foreign powers, each of which controls parts of Syria.
⭕ The US president Donald Trump is expected to achieve today what no other president has ever achieved since July 1776: Prevent Iran from having nuclear weapon, a decision that has never been taken by Iran before.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Arachgi headed to Oman today.
⭕ So the US and Iranian delegations are in two separate rooms with the Omani mediator going from one room to another exchanging papers and written correspondence. There are no negotiations expected but only an intention test and a first contact with the new administration because Trump waited next to the phone sine his last mandate for a call from Tehran that never took place.
⭕ US officials are funny. They say “Iran is not in a position to negotiate”. Then why have you accepted Iran’s terms of negotiation in Oman not the UAE, indirect negotiations when Trump begged for a direct negotiations and to limit the future talks related to the nuclear weapons grade only?
⭕ So the exchange of notes between Iran and the US in Oman has ended. Good start, because diplomacy is always positive, but without any clear perspective.
⭕ US Special Presidential Envoy to Oman, Steve Witkoff, held a positive brief but direct exchange with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi just before both delegations departed following two and a half hours of negotiations. The two sides agreed to reconvene next week for a second round.
[next round will be in exactly seven days, on the next Saturday, April 19th]