BREAKING: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed a memorandum reversing the naming of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg.pic.twitter.com/1XOtVHTeP2
— Hexdline (@HexdlineNews) February 11, 2025

☝️The decomposing empire is reduced to threats by retarded little men.. renaming Fort Liberty to Fort Bragg. Why not just call it “School of the Americas” and issue open, impotent, threats to savage the Latin Americans? They woulda, if their brittle yellow teeth and claws could stand it..

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ♥️Major global events as of the morning of February 11th

• US President Donald Trump promises “real hell” for Hamas if the Israeli hostages are not all released by Saturday.
• Trump signed a decree introducing tariffs of 25% on all deliveries of steel and aluminum to the United States.
• Ukraine is conducting medical experiments on its wounded and civilians, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s special envoy for the crimes of the Kiev regime told Sputnik. According to him, the country is being used as a testing ground for experiments that would be impossible in civilized countries.
• The 12th edition of the World Government Summit kicked off today in Dubai under the theme “Shaping the Governments of the Future”.
•  As part of the energy security guarantees Budapest received from the European Commission, Kiev promised not to attack the TurkStream pipeline infrastructure, Hungarian Foreign Ministry chief Szijjarto told RIA Novosti.
  [wow. They “promise not to” – cross our blackened hearts. Hungary, and every insouciant that still clings to this satanic paradigm, have it coming]

⭕ 💰 Ukraine SELLS American weapons to DRUG CARTELS – Carlson

💬 “Ukrainian military is selling a huge percentage (https://t.me/SputnikInt/58860), up to HALF of the arms that we send them, half. And I’m not guessing about this. I know that for a fact,” Carlson stressed. |media|
⭕ 🇨🇩🇿🇦 Renewed violence in the eastern DRC: South Africa is against “abrupt withdrawal” of its military from the DRC

🗣 “Abrupt withdrawal as called upon by some in the house is not even a tactical retreat, it is even worse than a surrender as with the number armed group in the area, there lies ambush,” South African Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola said.

According to Lamola, following the joint SADC-EAC summit, there is now a clear path forward to resolve the conflict. He emphasized that Pretoria “cannot be a bystander” in this process.

On February 3, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said that he would not “let up” support for the DRC despite the losses.

At the end of January, 14 South African soldiers serving in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as part of the SADC mission were killed in Goma during the M23 offensive. These soldiers had been deployed to the region since 2023.

On February 7, Malawi announced that it had begun withdrawing its troops from the eastern part of the DRC.
[note, as with Syrian army and political elite under successful pressure, the criminal West is currently wielding TREMENDOUS pressure on S.A. to prevent their bolstering DR Congo at any cost. This may actually be Trump’s top raison for savaging S.A. The Congo, and fabulous mineral wealth for which Belgium holocausted millions, is being held onto at all costs. They CANNOT afford to lose this hog trough, whilst they still claim to be Supermensch who can plunder at will. In earlier eras they would have entered themselves; now in these leaner times, they’re forced to use sanctions and threats and intrigue to have the resistance to their proxy Hordes melt in front of them. Good for Ramaphosa for sticking to the BRICS guns. African liberation will require balls]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Trump says U.S may stop aid to Jordan and Egypt if they do not accept refugees from Gaza.
[translation: it WILL stop, and within days. This is foreseen. Saudis alone can cover the slim amount, and publicly promised it. So this is really part of cost-costing, along with USAID. Good! If all the Orange Camacho Gang does is bloviate in similar vein, shooting from the mouth as they run backwards ever faster, then this is boon to humanity. The issue is they will likely be framed and forced to carry out physical threats by zionazis. All too easy and predictable]
⭕ Full statement of Trump, he says all hostages must be released by Saturday and not just the 3 that were delayed. |media|
[LOL. Nuke or Kneel time, Pirates. What days. Russkie has little to fear in 404. Apres Gaza, Orange will have made USUK into the biggest chump in world history, or the worst monster imaginable, exceeding Hitler and Satanyahoo combined. No third path now available]
⭕ Al Araby al-Jadeen citing Egyptin source: the planned meeting in Washington between Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Trump has been suspended indefinitely
[what about the Jordanian king, due today in Washington? He is doomed either way, every which way, by both sides]

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Gaza deal brokers fear ceasefire breakdown, two Egyptian security sources say

Hamas negotiators reportedly said US guarantees of a ceasefire no longer exist, given Trump’s plan to permanently expel Palestinians from Gaza.
[so Hamas really called it off due to Orange… putting the retard on the hook.

It must be said, the Palestinians played it beautifully. Recognizing it for what it was – an ephemeral desert mirage – which would very shortly evaporate, they milked it with scintillating and shockingly powerful postures during POW handoffs, calculated to help along implosion of not just zionazi entity, but entire rotting West. A humiliating PsyOp, exquisitely rolled out, shaping the next phase of the eternal war.

Clean sharp clothes, holding captured zionazi arms, orderly massive ranks, brand new Toyotas (LOL – what the western Horde used to receive, repaid!), handoffs in front of Sinwar’s home and other painful sites of Defeat, showing the plump girls in their army fatigues, the men starved as the rest of Gaza, “certificates of graduating Gaza” (!!), gift bags for the such interesting memories, selfies all around to universal clapping, stamps of release on official paper laid on orderly tables, etc etc. This surely blew many a gasket, from Stockholm to Canberra.

And to time it to land the first breaking of ceasefire by THEMSELVES, rather than waiting for zionazis, as during Oct 2023 – timed as well to moment of maximum humiliation of compradore arabs, to force them to fight seriously for first time for the Palestinian Cause; as well as before the juicest POWs (including several generals) are returned, helping further along the hatreds and division between Army and pols/other elite. What other people are as intelligent, determined, politically savvy, and ruthless, even in the face of a holocaust held over their peoples?]
⭕ Israeli protesters are currently blocking the Ayalon Highway heading south to Tel Aviv to demand that Netanyahu speed up the return of all hostages from Gaza.
⭕ Israeli Army Radio: Egypt informs White House it has no intention of partnering with Trump’s proposal
⭕ United States President Donald Trump:

If all the hostages are not returned from Gaza by noon Saturday, I will call for the ceasefire to be cancelled and all hell will break out in the Middle East.

“I looked at the hostages… they are emaciated. It’s like we’re in the 1930s.

This is an absolute disgrace.
It looked like a concentration camp…
They look like they’ve just come out of the Holocaust.”
⭕ The United States told Israel on Monday that the military must withdraw from southern Lebanon by February 18, with no extension of the ceasefire granted.

US National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes told The Jerusalem Post that “Israel’s withdrawal is proceeding according to schedule and the country has not requested an extension.”
[I told u, there is no going back into either Lebanon or Gaza, not now. This game is about expansion of war to the useless fat vassals – Jordan, Egypt and specifically to take the land of northern KSA]

💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ They aim to displace the people of Gaza and have begun implementing plans for this. It is clear that the reduction of aid and the disruption of its delivery were preliminary steps towards their displacement. They continue to apply pressure by attacking their livelihoods. At the very least, there is a halt in Hamas’s release of prisoners. What has occurred is a result of American-Israeli actions.
⭕ “Yemen will not and has not left Gaza alone.”

He also smells the scam underway to expand war and carve up the PetroSheikhs and other compradores. The same act as against Canada, Greenland, Panama, Europe and other poodles being recolonized “for their own good” — it helps to maintain pretense a little longer, and opens new lebensraum and avenues of plunder to insatiable monsters

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺 Yesterday Russia celebrated Alexander Pushkin who had died on February, 10th, 1837, and actor Yura Borisov, dressed as the poet, gave flowers and took pictures with girls in the Moscow metro  |media|
[My handle and fella Afro-Russkie!]
⭕️ 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump Administration Delays Ukraine Peace Plan to Consult NATO Allies

The Trump administration has paused work on its Ukraine conflict resolution plan to incorporate feedback from European allies, according to The Telegraph.

Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine, pledged to hold individual talks with NATO allies before finalizing the plan. He stated that he will gather opinions on the plan’s structure and the contributions other governments could make to the peace process.

According to Bloomberg, Kellogg is expected to present his proposals for ending the conflict in the coming weeks.
[What an open sewer. They’d planned to pompously roll out “their Solution” in Munich Security Conference, starting in three days, as if they were an honest, uninvolved party! And Russkie had politely said, Fuck Off, in advance. So now, the demented buy time figuring out what to do next, as if Eurocrazies have ANY say whatsoever. Priceless face plant]
⭕ European natural gas prices have jumped above €58 per MWh, or $100 per barrel in oil equivalent, which is absolutely devastating for any energy-intensive production.
[Russkies and other producers sing  – “we’re in money..” stiffing a bunch of salty stiffs with neither the proverbial paddle, nor even a canoe]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦Trump said Ukraine agreed with his estimate of the $0.5 trillion debt it owes the United States.

“I told them I wanted the equivalent of $500 billion in rare earths, and they basically agreed to do it. So at least we won’t feel stupid. Otherwise, we’re stupid. I told them we have to, we have to get something,” Trump told Fox News.

The US President said that Ukraine must guarantee the safety of American funds invested. The US, according to him, spent 300-350 billion on aid to Kiev.
[This is the way to take her down. Say you’re stupid if not repaid, knowing full well they will never be repaid, come Armageddon or Highwater. And what’s with ever bigger numbers? He said $200B a few days ago..]
⭕ ⚡️❗️The settlement of Yasenevoye has been liberated in the DPR, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇺🇸The Kremlin has nothing to say about the publications about the visit to Russia of Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East, no contacts are planned – Dmitry Peskov

Some sources have been speculating Steve Witkoff’s plane traveled to Moscow.
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇺🇸 I don’t think this can be interpreted as a rapprochement between Russia and the US and the approach of a summit meeting – Peskov on Trump’s repost of Putin’s statement that the new US president will restore order in Europe

“Vladimir Vladimirovich’s statements are being observed and analyzed all over the world. From the point of view of understanding our approach to global events, it is very important that this is being done in Washington as well”
[Well this is a start. The unending BS needs to be called. iirc, it was a joke by VVP being used now by Anglo-Zionists to threaten Eurocrazies. Demented panicking headless chickens]
⭕  🇺🇸🇷🇺US Ambassador to Moscow Lynne Tracy visited the Russian Foreign Ministry, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports.

The reasons for the visit are not yet known.

🇷🇺💬🇺🇸Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov held a planned meeting with the US Ambassador, they discussed the activities of foreign institutions, Zakharova told RIA Novosti
[LOL. More dressing down. The medium is the message — implacable Uncle Ryabkov. We’re gonna have fun from now on. As Dumpster would say, “beautiful days ahead”]
⭕ 🇷🇺 Kiev has increased the intensity of sabotage and terrorist attacks, betting on terror – FSB Director Bortnikov

For these purposes, Ukrainian special services are using Western weapons and drones.
At the same time, the SBU is actively recruiting individual Russians and migrants from among those who are easily susceptible to psychological manipulation or are members of international terrorist organizations.

The FSB Director also reported on the work of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee since the beginning of the year:

• Since the beginning of 2025, 23 terrorist attacks have been prevented in Russia;
• The terrorist activities of 224 individuals were stopped – two leaders, 87 militants and more than a hundred accomplices;
• 11 caches of weapons, ammunition and IEDs were eliminated.

💠 @Arab_Africa:  
⭕ 🇸🇴 Somali Puntland forces repel ISIS attack

Local sources report that on the morning of February 11, the armed forces of Puntland province repelled an attack by ISIS* militants on a base in the Harae area.

The militants, including foreigners, attacked the base using small arms and grenades. At least 15 militants were killed in return fire.
[The very day AFTER they rejected Orange’s “offer” to have Gazans resettled on their land! Unbelievable.]

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ It is the improvised foreign policy, dictatorship and ignorance of the US that encourages Benjamin Netanyahu to return to war on Gaza: From saying he “owes Gaza” and “no right of return”, President Trump’s ultimatum to Hamas: “If ALL prisoners are not released by noon on Saturday, the ceasefire will be cancelled and the gates of hell will be unleashed on Hams.”

💠@Amore:
⭕ ✅Macron SNUBS Modi

French President Emmanuel Macron made a bold statement by refusing to shake hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the AI summit in Paris. |media|
[WOW! One of the last major buyers of expensive Frenchie war junk were the Indians. This will play well, and set affairs right. Multipolarity, here we come, Baby. One wussy fencesitter had a wake-up call, stronger than either Yemeni coffee or Yanqui napalm. And this tellerboy was HOST of this conference in Paris. Goodness]

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇸 Chairman of the Russian State Duma Volodin called on the US Congress to send lists of people in the Russian Federation whose work was financed by USAID.
[more backhands and pistol whips; they already know, like Uncle Leonard, but are making a point..]
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇺🇸 Vyacheslav Volodin wants to give the lists of Russians who were financed by USAID to the FSB

“There were enemies there. The Congress will consider [who received USAID funding], and we need to request lists from the Congress of who was financed in Russia. If they recognized this organization as an enemy, let them give us the lists”

“The relocates left in the hope that USAID would finance them there, abroad, and now they will be hungry and cold there, and hope that they will be given something again. No one will”

He also added that journalists who used USAID grants should not have allowed themselves to be “bribed with treats” but should have thought about their country.
[LOL. To crosscheck veracity and level of contrition of the submitted Anglos?? What times]
⭕ 🇸🇰💬🇺🇦Slovakian Prime Minister Fico on gas to Ukraine:

Russian gas has started to flow to Slovakia via the Turkish Stream. And this is thanks to the efforts of the Russian and Turkish sides, and we must thank them for this. However, I do not remember Progressive Slovakia being in Moscow or Ankara, they have not even gone there.

On the contrary, I expect gratitude from the opposition for the fact that gas has been flowing to Ukraine through a reverse pipeline for several days now. Gas without which Ukraine will freeze. Slovakia plays no role in this. The suppliers are foreign companies. However, we have the moral right to consider methods for stopping foreign supplies to Ukraine in the amount of about 7.5 million cubic meters per day.

These foreign supplies from Europe to Ukraine put even more pressure on the price of gas. We are actively discussing this issue both domestically and at the European level, because Europe is making a fool of itself. Ukraine can do as much harm to it as it wants. However, Europe can do nothing about Ukraine.
[do you understand the insanity of which he describes?!!! A Europe whose prosperity and posterity was sacrificed in the Ukraine, and whose ingrate UkroNazi elite refused to allow Russkie gas through, is now feeding UkroNazis with its own gas, WHILST themselves experiencing HIGH gas prices nearly unseen in ages. Priceless]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ cont. thread:
🔻 Levi Zendt: Amazingly beautiful in its simplicity – the choir alone is incredible – touched by God is an understatement. Thank you for sharing.
🔻 WS: My people learn to sing harmony at a very early age. I consider it a very socially salutary thing.

Marriage and procreation are also taught and encouraged. Not all follow this course, be we are still the most fecund social group in America, well above replacement level. 🤱
[well, decorum forbids me from retort on latter point of fecundity vis-a-vis Africans, Yemenis or Palestinians. Viva La Resistance]
⭕🔻 Afshin Rattansi:
BREAKING: Donald Trump says under his plan for Gaza, Palestinians would NOT have the right to return back to Gaza after they are displaced because ‘they are going to have much better housing.’

Ethnically cleansing almost 2 million Palestinians in another Nakba and denying them the right of return will pour gasoline on the already raging fire after Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Not only will no Arab country accept this proposal, it will result in the fiercest Palestinian armed resistance we have ever seen.

First genocide under Joe Biden, and now open ethnic cleaning under the guise of ‘real estate’ development under Trump. Washington’s barbarism is on display for the world to see. |media|
🔻 WS: reposts his:
We are witnessing the comprehensive moral dissolution of the entire American social fabric. It assumes different forms in different types and classes of people, but the ruthless depravity is consistent across the spectrum.
⭕🔥 Epic Thang.
[links:
🔻 Sony Thang:
You’re making the same mistake every dying empire makes—believing its own propaganda.

You say China’s growth slowed? Of course, it did.

That’s what happens when an economy matures.

5% growth on an $18 trillion economy is larger than 10% growth on a $5 trillion economy.

But math was never the empire’s strong suit—illusion was.

They call 5% a crisis—because they need it to be one.

It’s the only way to ignore the alternative.

Because if 5% is “failure,” what does that make 2% U.S. growth? A funeral?

Every empire convinces itself that decline is impossible—right until it collapses.

The British thought their empire was eternal—until it wasn’t.

The Roman elite scoffed at their own stagnation—until the barbarians were at their gates.

The U.S. now clings to a printing press, pretending debt isn’t a time bomb.

Empires don’t fall when they’re weak.

They fall when they’re too arrogant to recognize they’ve peaked.

What will replace the dollar? You ask this like a child clinging to a sinking raft, afraid of the ocean around him.

The world doesn’t need to “replace” the dollar overnight. It only needs to reduce its dependence.

And that’s exactly what’s happening.

The world isn’t waiting for permission—it’s moving on.

Dollar dependence is eroding. Bilateral trade in local currencies is accelerating.

Nations are cutting out the middleman, taking back control.

China and Russia now settle in yuan. India and the UAE trading in rupees.

The old financial leash is snapping.

Meanwhile, BRICS nations are hoarding record amounts of gold. They see what’s coming.

They aren’t betting on the dollar’s future—they’re hedging against its collapse.

And as the U.S. wields SWIFT like a weapon, China’s CIPS expands, offering nations an escape route from Washington’s financial stranglehold.

This isn’t a theory.

This isn’t a forecast.

It’s an exodus.

You post a random, unsourced chart and tell me to “look into the data.”

Let’s be honest, Noah—you don’t care about data.

You care about narrative.

You need to believe China is failing because the alternative—that the West is losing control—is too terrifying for you to face.

But reality doesn’t wait for your approval.

De-dollarization doesn’t wait for your permission.

China’s rise doesn’t wait for Western validation.

You can dismiss it.

You can mock it.

You can deny it.

But history doesn’t care about your feelings.

You think the empire can survive on a printer alone?

The U.S. isn’t running an economy. It’s running a Ponzi scheme.

$36 trillion in debt.

$100+ trillion in unfunded liabilities.

De-industrialization wiping out its working class.

A military budget larger than the next 10 nations combined—because “force” is all it has left.

This isn’t a sustainable system.

It’s a delayed reckoning.

So Noah, the world isn’t replacing the dollar.

It’s abandoning it.

And when the dust settles, you’ll be left clinging to your little chart, wondering where it all went wrong. |random chart| ]
🔻Eastgermannative: Wie gut, dass ich dir folge. Danke für deine Literaturtips. Hier meine. |link|
[I got a soft spot for east german commies. My father obtained a law degree there in the good old days, and had a huge glass framed portrait of Marx which nearly killed me much later in west germany when it fell on my noggin]
⭕🤦‍♂️ Big Talk, No Stick

The “trust the plan” Trump acolytes are convinced their champion will bully Putin into a “peace deal” that can be spun as a triumph.

Instead, the Russians will take everything east of the Dnipr + Odessa and demand NATO withdraw to its 1997 borders.
🔻 🇷🇺🇵🇸🇮🇷🇲🇽Mary Louise Blackpilled Manchester: Trump need psychiatric help.
🔻 kamfongchun: The Odessa Region is definitely needed otherwise this Ukraine situation will continue to fester & pus until it blows up again 5-10 years down the track.
Ukraine needs to be neutered & made into a non-viable ‘rump’ state.
Taking Odessa & thus cutting off sea access would do that.

⭕🔻 Glenn Diesen: Russia and the US will have stripped Ukraine of most of its resources by the time the proxy war comes to an end.
🔻 WS: If Trump attempts to seize a compensatory plunder from Ukraine, then the war will become an albatross around his neck – including all the escalations and humiliations that will then follow on the heels of his blunder.
🔻 C2: Neocons talked about rare earths in Afgahnistan beginning circa 2003.

Rare earths…….big money……..usually pipe dreams.
🔻 Vrai Nom: As if “rare earths” can be simply scooped off the ground. The idiot just loves showing off his stupidity.
🔻 PlutoAdvocate: Trump made a bad investment when he armed Ukraine in 2017. Trump lost. Now he wants his money back.

Do Ukrainians get their lives back? Clown show.
🔻 Eastgermannative: Lol.
[LOL! A universal word in any tongue.. and perfect response to the whole futile dementia]
🔻 Oskar: A potential deal between Trump and Putin can be beneficial for both parties, the ukraine lost anyway. Washington and Moscow can work together on those matters.

Trump accepting important demands from Russia on the peace deal if Russia also accepts some of theirs, which could include the extraction of minerals from some areas (may include or not an agreement where they will work together and help develop the regions)
🔻 WS: The Russians will accede to no “demands” from Washington.
📜 Dictating Terms

⭕🔻 Polymarket Intel: A Gulfstream G650ER linked to Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Middle East envoy, departed Washington, D.C., yesterday and is now entering Russian airspace, approaching Moscow.
🔻 WS: ‼️ Sending Witkoff to Moscow is an odd move.

I can’t imagine Putin would consent to meet with him, nor even Lavrov.

More likely Ryabkov. And I would love to be a fly on the wall during that conversation.

I think the Trump White House is grossly misjudging the situation.
🔻 cantat monique: Unless the aim is to show that Russian doesn’t want to negociate
🔻 WS: And then what?

The US has no play; no bargaining power; no leverage whatsoever.
🔻 shaavy: Personal emissary may be more trusted than state department at this point. Witkoff must have proven loyalty in ceasefire.
🔻 Xorxox: He is Middle East envoy, so I would not be surprised, he is there to discuss middle east. As US will not be able to do much without RF, peacefully.
[or prise apart Russkie and Iran for what they intend to do]
🔻 Dagny Taggart: Trump’s special envoy’s plane landed in Moscow, social media claims without any confirmation

Dmitry Peskov has already commented on the news of Whitkoff’s arrival – the Kremlin has no information about his arrival, and no contacts were planned at all.
🔻 WS: I can’t imagine what they hope to achieve with this stunt.
🔻 Dagny Taggart: No idea Will , do we know where originally this claim came from , the actual Peskov’s reply :

The Kremlin has no information regarding the possible arrival in Moscow of US President Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff, and no contacts with him are planned, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov.

At the same time, he noted that contacts between the Russian Federation and the US were carried out through certain channels, and they intensified.
🔻 WS: The only thing that even comes to mind right now is that perhaps this has something to do with an impending attack on Iran, and Washington is delivering a message for the Russians to stand clear, and not interfere.

But that’s just an off-the-cuff conjecture.
🔻 Kenan Beg: It makes sense and this piece fits well into the emerging puzzle:
– Net has been wanting to persuade Us to go for Iran for years
– with MOAB trump gave Net the tools however us cannot be seen to be involved directly
– sending envoy before leaders have met indicates urgency
🔻 WS: The MOAB is strategically useless, and short of dragging one out of the back of a C-130 with a parachute, Israel has no aircraft that can carry one. There’s no way an old, slow prop-driven cargo plane is gonna penetrate Iranian airspace without getting shot down.
🔻 Kenan Beg: Thanks Will, so what’s the point? Just showing that he has a big stick ?
🔻 WS: Like I said, I can’t imagine what purpose this apparently impromptu mission was launched, purportedly (though not confirmed) to be spearheaded by Witkoff, who, rumor has it, read the riot act to Netanyahu a couple weeks ago.

I’ll be very curious to see how this plays out.
🔻 Kenan Beg: I don’t think we will have long to wait : King Abdullah in Washington this week, Sisi has postponed his visit and Arab League meeting on 27. Plus Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon due by 13. Also expecting action at UNSC with China presidency this month
[good point about the latter – let’s see what our civilizational wolf warriors cook up. Should be sumptuous. NB. the zionazi withdrawal from Lebanon (what little is left to them now after massive flood of civilians pushed them out) is due on the 18th]
🔻 Sandgropper: I suspect the MOABs aren’t destined for Iran, but for Gaza, after the ceasefire is broken. They intend to use them to collapse the Hamas tunnel systems. It’s probably what Trump was referring to when he said “all hell will break loose” if the hostages aren’t released by 12pm Sat.
[sadly suspect the same.. or Lebanon, or Yemen. But most likely Gaza as has no air defense]
🔻 Dagny Taggart: Very possible as we are watching the “ceasefire” is falling apart , I am sure it was Netanyahu plan all along .
🔻 WS: I can’t see why the Gaza/Lebanon situation would warrant this personal visit. The Russians are washing their hands of that mess, and breaking bread with the Ottomans, Iranians, and Sheiks.

Witkoff was sent, in person, to deliver a hard line on something that won’t go over well.
🔻 Dagny Taggart: Will with the past experience if Kremlin is outright denying something means they are telling the truth, when Trump announced he had a call with Putin there was no denying just mumbling we can’t confirm or deny .
🔻 Johanna deMartin: Really leaning into the whole ‘scam republic’ aesthetic, that USA.
“Iran is a great place to invest.” – Elon Musk
“Beautiful country.” – Donald Trump

But of course there’s a shady af death cult a few hundred kilometres from Iran that thinks differently, and has the power.

Woe to Anglo-Saxon elite! The Russians really are coming now.

Ready for Phase Six

💠 @Resistance News Network:
⭕ These victims include both new fatalities, killed directly by the Israeli army in Gaza, and individuals who succumbed to their prior injuries after Israel denied the right to travel abroad for treatment.

Over 900 others have been injured since the ceasefire, averaging 47 injuries per day.

MORE: https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6613

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕❗️The Leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah, Abdul Malik Al-Houthi:

‘In case of any Israeli escalation against Gaza, we in Yemen are ready to enter the war as we did before. The same goes for any escalation against Lebanon.’
⭕❗️BREAKING: Netanyahu says if Hamas does not release the hostages by Saturday 12:00, the ceasefire will end

NOTE: It is unclear whether Netanyahu is referring to the full release of ALL hostages, or just the 3 previously agreed upon.

In any case, Hamas has already notified the mediators it will not release even those 3, so the outcome is the same.
⭕️ 🇺🇸/🇯🇴 NEW: The King of Jordan arrives in Washington D.C. to meet with President Trump regarding the possibility of annexing Gaza and displacing the Palestinians
⭕️❗️BREAKING: Trump says the United States would support an Israeli annexation of the West Bank – ‘that would be a very nice thing, it’s going to work’
[Said with the man most affected sitting obediently next to him! Even the Egyptians had enough sense to stay away.]

💠 @Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ In a telephone conversation with the Danish prime minister, the Egyptian president “stressed the need to begin the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip… without displacing the Palestinians and in a way that ensures the preservation of their rights… to live on their land.”
[What concern is it of Denmark? Why is the Egyptian Junta leader speaking to them of Palestinians?? Does the fact that MAERSK, the world’s second largest container shipping company, is Danish, and provides significant funds to Egyptian treasury if it returns to transit the Suez Canal, be a hook being used by Anglo-Zionists?? It’s a Big Club]

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ The conflict in Ukraine will end in a month or two with a “painful compromise,” said Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko.

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Journalist addressing the King of Jordan: “What do you think about the United States taking Gaza?”

King Abdullah of Jordan: “As Arabs, this is a matter that we will come and discuss with the United States. We will talk about the options.”

Journalist: “Taking it under whose authority? It is sovereign territory.”

Donald Trump, responding on behalf of Jordan’s King Abdullah: “Under the authority of the United States.” |media|
[there’s something extremely wrong with the Jordanian. I’ve observed the ticks of his eyes increasing since Oct 2023. He’s now near constantly spastic. Is it to distract from his performance? Is there an actor under another rubber mask?!]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ The King of Jordan has tacitly approved Trump’s plan to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip – ‘we will examine how to implement this’

However, he also stated that Egypt is not cooperative so far, and that the final discussion depends on the stance of Egypt
[from “it’s war if they try it” yesterday to fawning resignation within hours. He actually didn’t accept more than 2,000 – which were already being received for years due to health charity. Still – Unbelievable. These are not real nations in any of the arab “nations”]
⭕ The King of Jordan says he admires Trump, and that ‘he is the one who can bring lasting peace’
⭕ President Trump: ‘Moving 2 Million Palestinians out of Gaza is not that difficult. They will have a piece of land in Jordan, and a piece of land in Egypt.’
⭕ Saudi Arabia has rejected and publicly condemned Trump’s plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza, and Israel’s ‘extreme rhetoric’
[they’re on board too. It’s all an act. Woe to the desert bedouins. Who will lift a finger to save them, when they’re disposed of, one by one?]
⭕ President Trump: ‘There is a 99% chance we’ll reach some kind of agreement with Egypt’
⭕ Iranian Foreign Ministry: ‘Trump is a dangerous lunatic, and does not know the implications of his own words’
⭕❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Permanent Representative to the UN:

‘The Islamic Republic of Iran warns the United States that any act of aggression against it will have severe consequences, for which the United States will bear full responsibility.’
[what must be shall be, said Juliet]

@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ Leader of Ansar Allah, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, addressing Trump:
“Do you really think, you foolish idiot, that the honorable people of Gaza will sell their homeland?”
[exactly. The Fly in the Ointment. Not the soft fat vassal arabs. The real arabs – lean, mean survivors who’ll be around long after the current iteration of Atlantis has sunk, courtesy of Poseidon and other unthinkable horrors. So please do not get nonplussed, even as the arab members of the satanic Big Club rush to sell out the Palestinians – they are irrelevant, the whole lot]
⭕ Leader of Ansar Allah in Yemen, Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, on the occasion of the humiliating retreat of the American Marines from the capital, Sana’a, and the latest regional and international developments – 1446 AH | 2025 AD:

• We turn with praise and gratitude to God, who granted our noble Yemeni Muslim people the great victory of the humiliating retreat of the American Marines from Sana’a.
• The retreat of the American Marines from Sana’a is a great blessing from God and a significant victory and achievement for the Yemeni people.
• The Marines’ withdrawal from Sana’a marks a failure of the American project to completely control our country, along with all the consequences that entails.
• The retreat of the American Marines from Sana’a was a significant and important result of the September 21 Revolution.
• Liberation from American hegemony and control preserves our people’s dignity and humanity.
• No people in the world can be free while under American control in all their affairs.
• Liberation from American hegemony preserves our people’s dignity, freedom, and independence, and also safeguards their spiritual pride.
• It is impossible for the spiritual pride of a Muslim people to coexist with American dominance over them and their interference in all their affairs and their attempts to erase their identity.
• It is not befitting for our noble people to have a handful of American criminals in Sana’a, with all their disbelief, crime, malice, immorality, and depravity.
• Our noble people are among the most committed to religious, moral, and humanitarian values, even in their customs, traditions, and practices.
• The Americans promote homosexuality and moral corruption, making it a priority in any country they control.
• The liberation from American hegemony and control is a great blessing for our beloved people.
• The escape of the American Marines from Sana’a signifies the failure of the American project to dominate our country.
• The presence of the Americans in Sana’a was in a commanding position, where they were the authoritative figures that all top officials listened to.
• The Americans’ program was to push our country to the brink of collapse in all fields.
• The Americans invested in the political crises within our country and exacerbated them further.
• The Americans worked to undermine our military strength and aimed to reinforce their military control through bases.
• If the American presence in Sana’a had continued, their bases would have spread to all strategic locations in Yemen.
• The Americans were driving Yemen towards total economic collapse, despite the availability of economic resources, and there was no declared siege or war.
• The Americans infiltrated the sectors of education, health, and judiciary, corroding all state institutions.
• The Americans worked to penetrate the popular sentiment within our country and even tried to control religious discourse.
• The Americans sought to tighten their complete control over our country to serve their own interests, leading to the total harm and loss of our beloved people.
• The work to rid our country of American control was a necessity in all respects.
• Those who had other orientations based on appeasing the Americans held foolish views in every sense of the word.
• The Americans greatly benefited from the stance of the then-authority and some parties that sought to appease them.

⭕ Leader of Ansar Allah, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, said to those who believe that if America wishes for something to happen, it simply says “Be” and it is: “Try to refrain from getting entangled with America and see how things will turn out.”

— “We are ready for military intervention in any escalation against Gaza at any time.”
— “Our hands are on the trigger, and we are prepared to immediately escalate against the Israeli enemy if it resumes its aggression on the Gaza Strip.”
⭕ Leader of Ansarullah in Yemen, Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi, on the occasion of the humiliating escape of U.S. Marines from the capital, Sanaa, and the latest regional and international developments – 1446 AH | 2025 AD:

• Those who view the American as a benefactor and a reliable party for achieving interests and gains have a foolish and incorrect perspective.
• The true approach of the Americans relies on control driven by greed and malice, using any plans and means to achieve this goal.
• The Americans harbor greed towards other countries and primarily seek to monopolize and gain the lion’s share of all the wealth and interests of these nations.
• There are clear signs of American greed when we hear what Trump says, expressing American ambitions even in non-Islamic countries.
• Americans consider this nation a meal and view those who own vast resources as cash cows.
• Trump openly articulates American orientations, as the usual American style relies on deception and covers for true objectives with false titles.
• Americans excel at plundering nations and monopolizing their resources, providing deceptive titles for their actions.
• Trump speaks frankly and cannot bear to present those titles that mask the true goals of the Americans.
• The difference is that Trump speaks openly, yet reality bears witness to American greed and avarice at every stage.
• Americans exploit to the fullest extent, seeing submission and acceptance as a golden opportunity to tighten their control.
• Americans do not deal with others respectfully and do not reciprocate positivity in kind.
• The American is savage, arrogant, morally bankrupt, and extremely greedy, working to exploit countries without regard for their rights and freedoms.
• Interests are the primary consideration for Americans, driving their actions and dealings with nations and our Islamic Ummah.
• Along with greed, the American carries hatred and a scornful outlook, viewing no Muslim, whether Arab or non-Arab, as having any value.
• Appeasing and courting the American does not draw him closer for a positive and respectful view; rather, he looks at those who flatter him with greater contempt.

💠@kuluary_zaliva:
⭕ New escalation?

Yemen’s Houthis are ready to launch new attacks if Israel resumes military operations in the Gaza Strip and stops fulfilling its obligations under the ceasefire agreement, the group’s leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi said.

“We are ready to immediately intensify the fight against the Israeli enemy if it returns to escalation in the Gaza Strip,” he promised.

The Houthi threats come amid uncertainty in Gaza, where a ceasefire could collapse after Hamas delayed the release of hostages. Israeli media also said talks on the second phase of the deal had officially ended .

What days. The Reich is now reduced to a NarcoFührer and an Orange Buffoon.

here’s an optimistic perspective. I do not share it…

💠@Alon Mizrahi:
⭕ These are the most fateful, critical days in the entire history of the relationship between the Arab and Islamic world and white/Zionist colonialism. Everything hangs in the balance: past and future, dignity, identity and independence. And I am optimistic. The crusaders will fail
🔻 C1: Jordan will bend the knee.
🔻 AM: I don’t believe it
🔻 C2: The ‘crusaders’ are armed to the teeth and the Arab/Islamic world is fractured and corrupt. It’s a fallacy to say there even is an Arab/Islamic world. What there is has been pushed around and manipulated by the West for over a hundred years. Will that ever change? I don’t know.
🔻 AM: Yes, and still
🔻 automne: I find this hopeless. Palestinians are raped, tortured, and starved in prison.
We only rise up for Israelis who haven’t received enough food. |media|
🔻 AM: The West is hopeless, but the West is not the world
🔻 automne: Jordan is one of the countries with the least water in the world. It is highly dependent on Israel, which appropriates the water of the Jordan River.
Egypt is drowning in debt due to the construction of Cairo 2.0.
Anyone who opposes the delusional desires of Israel and the USA is bound to suffer.
🔻 AM: China can solve their water problems in 6 months through desalination
🔻 Jenin Younes: What makes you optimistic? Please, I need some hope- I’ve never felt such despair
🔻 AM: I don’t see an open agreement to be enslaved and dominated as possible for the leaders of the Arab world, which is where we are
🔻 Aleco 21: I hope you are right. Listening to the King of Jordan speak and it’s clear he doesn’t want to contradict the us leader.
He had the opportunity to say clearly, that Palestinians will stay in Gaza but he didn’t
🔻 AM: He didn’t have the courage to say that and it’s a shame because saying it out loud would have derailed the whole thing preemptively
[so now Egypt’s noodle is being cooked. We saw the Danes calling earlier.. Legion: an efficient cabal of hyenas]
⭕ Trump is a disgusting monster owned by Zionists but Jordan’s Abdallah did not cave.

The entire Arab world – every Arab with an internet connection – needs to speak out against the planned Palestinian holocaust with all their might right now.

We are entering the endgame.
🔻 Kenan Beg: How do you think he didn’t cave? If he was my king I’d feel that his words and demeanour were humiliating
[huh! small world. Was banding around with Will earlier]
🔻 AM: It was mostly empty talk to flatter Trump. No announcement of acceptable ethnic cleansing
🔻 Kenan Beg: True, but is this British approach effective with Trump? I think the Putin way earns more respect. Secondly is how it will look in Jordan. Given the level of tension already in Amman, I don’t think the performance will go down well.
🔻 AM: I kinda agree, but Abdallah cannot initiate an open confrontation with the US. It’s impossible. There has to be a unified Arab front, and so far it is holding up perfectly on this
🔻 Dr.Sophia Ulgen 🇷🇺☮🇺🇸: Alon, you really think Abdullah did not cave? I think he did |media|
🔻 AM: This is very soft and annoying, but it is not the public embrace of the plan Trump and Israel were hoping for. And he mentions the Arabs as a collective, which can’t be interpreted as a sign of agreement
🔻 AM: Also, and very importantly: el-Sisi was supposed to be in Washington today as well. His visit was canceled
🔻 الزيبق 🔻 🇵🇸zaibaq: He canceled visit without rescheduling.
🔻 AM: Egypt is hinting the peace agreement with Israel is at stake. I like this Egypt. Reminds me of the old Egypt
🔻 الزيبق 🔻 🇵🇸zaibaq: Inshallah… I am not optimistic my brother. It stinks.

The real card in the hands of 🇵🇸 resistance and negotiators is Yemen 🇾🇪. No other guarantor. Yemen is the strategic weapon. Only them combined with Gaza resistance in the battlefield.

Egypt & Jordan need honorable intifadas.
⭕ Also, and very importantly: el-Sisi was supposed to be in Washington today as well. His visit was canceled
⭕ No Surrender
[video above]
🔻 C1: more war?
🔻 AM: This much is certain
🔻 Dragonfly: No Pasaran
🔻 AM: Wallahi
[means “By God” in arabic. in this I agree with AM: the serious portion of the arabs shall persist in Resistance, in spite of the betrayals to come. And the worst affected will be the betrayers..]

Novorossiya is not merely burial ground for western hegemony, it is the most efficient compactor for professional NATO nazis — how many tens of thousands of legionnaires and former SOFs who terrorized and plagued mankind are now fertilizer, and no longer accessible for dirty work elsewhere?? God Bless Russia!

The Chinese tech will very soon come in handy. The main task of the civilizational states is the eradication of Project Pax Judaica, without which the liberation of the World Island, and multipolarity itself, will remain unsecured

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Trump insists on “taking” Gaza, like taking a toy, ignoring the fact that no one in Gaza will “give” it to him. I wonder how Trump is going to “buy” Gaza and who is the owner who is willing to sell Gaza to Trump.

What a disastrous knowledge of diplomacy and political science.
🔻 Texas Rose 🤠☦️: Who technically owns Gaza now?
🔻 EM: Gazans.
🔻 Texas Rose 🤠☦️: Nope.
Legal Status: Legally, under international law, Gaza is considered occupied territory by many international bodies due to Israel’s control over its borders, though this is a point of contention and debate.

Therefore, while no country “owns” Gaza, it is under Palestinian administration with significant Israeli control over its external boundaries. The situation is complex and politically sensitive with no simple answer to the question of ownership.
[this is likely a talking point and clause in the Demented New Rules-based Terrorist World Order clique]
🔻 EM: Wrong.

Under international law, Gaza legally belongs to the Palestinian people. The status of Gaza is recognised as occupied Palestinian territory, and the people of Gaza have legal ownership over their land despite Israel’s military actions and restrictions.
The United Nations (UN) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) recognise Gaza as part of the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT), along with the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
UN Security Council Resolutions, such as Resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973), and 2334 (2016), reaffirm that Gaza, like the West Bank and East Jerusalem, is Palestinian land and that Israel has no sovereignty over it.
The Oslo Accords (1993–1995), signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), granted the Palestinian Authority (PA) administrative control over Gaza, recognising Palestinian self-governance.
🔻 Texas Rose 🤠☦️: Ok, but the leaders of the land went to war and lost, right?

A new treaty needs to be drafted as the old ones are now null and void.
[next talking point. Unbelievable. The scum waste our time. Fortunately Orange is simplifying matters for all. He’s trying to “grab the entire world by the P****y”]
⭕ For Donald Trump, the “US authority” replaces the international law, or what is left of it, humanitarian law and justice.
[when he said “US” – understand what was implied was Judaic and messianic Zionazidom. The US is long gone, not even the husk is left]
⭕ If the United States proceeds with an ethnic cleansing policy in Gaza, the entire ME will be plunged into unprecedented chaos and instability. Such an act would shatter regional alliances, escalate conflicts, and provoke widespread resistance, not only from the Palestinian people but from states and non-state actors across the region.
⭕ Jordan can’t accept expelled Gazans on Jordanian soil because the next step would be to expel Palestinians from the West Bank to Jordan.
🔻 oLev: Then expel all of Jordan into Saudi
[they’ll try. But ~70% of Jordan is Palestinian. Palestinians shall hold. Saudis are another matter altogether. See Prince Al Waleed for a preview]
⭕ Donald Trump will lose face with his first challenge to Hamas. The Palestinian resistance will NEVER release all the Israeli prisoners at noon on Saturday.

NEVER.
🔻 Dirty Lowdown Rabble: Gaza will humiliate Trump, in general.
[Yep. Not just Trump. The entire demented West – just as occured to them at Russian hands. More hearty servings here]
🔻 El Tinyan: Hanibal 2 with MOABS ?
[if he does it, DJP is the Last American Prez for sure, as prophesied 100 years ago]
🔻 Zimi: The problem is Trump thinks Gaza is like New York in the movies where the hero comes in and save the world in 24 hours. Israel tried that for 15 months and failed instead they fought buildings women, children and the civilians.
🔻 MaLiк̲̣̣a Nυ̲̣я̩a: Discipline and human dignity and values are core to human existence America and Israel have no idea of ethics and morals why would Hamas bend to their standards
🔻 Mai Ni Faitaig: Power to the resistance.
⭕ When a reckless, ignorant thug-dictator operates in perfect harmony with the agendas of a war criminal, the inevitable outcome is war, destruction, and suffering. Such an alliance does not seek peace or diplomacy—it thrives on conflict, authoritarianism, and violations of international law.

A leader who lacks knowledge, morality, and strategic foresight becomes an instrument of chaos when paired with a war criminal who thrives on violence, occupation, and expansionism. Together, they shatter global stability, defy human rights, and provoke regional and international crises.

History has repeatedly shown that when unchecked power meets unaccountable war crimes, the result is not just war—it is genocide, ethnic cleansing, and the erosion of all legal and moral standards. The world cannot afford to stand by as such figures collaborate to rewrite the rules of war, justify oppression, and destroy innocent lives for their own political gain.
🔻dignitywontbedefeated: In the face of utter humiliation in the battlefield on the part of Israel, Trump has now commited the US to the destruction of the notion of Palestinian statehood. The world must unite and act now to save the palestinian people
[Palestinians aren’t alone. And their situation is relatively unchanged since Jan 19… let’s not fall victim to bombast, which seeks to force despair and helplessness.]
🔻Ali Ali: Dark times wrapped in frenzy
🔻LivingInSpirit: A very dark age.
⭕ Israel to construct 9 military bases in the occupied Syrian territories and has no plans to withdraw in the near future.
🔻Hassan X: Damascus sends peace and happiness and blessings upon the people of Israel especially Satanyahu 🙏 from our dear President ❤️

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺 Marc Fogel is happy to be back

Trump said that he was very grateful to Putin for his release.

🐻 Of course you are not a hero, you were just caught with drugs
⭕️ 🇺🇸❗️The United States may close consulates in a number of countries to save State Department funds, NBC reported.
[This is better news than shuttering USAID. Absolute dens of iniquity. The Retreat continues. Let’s watch this, rather than have our ears subject to rank bombastic BS]

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺 Trump is milking it for all it’s worth, which shows Russia probably did the right thing
⭕ ❗️Tis the season of prisoner exchanges?

🇦🇺🇷🇺Russia’s Viktor Bout has nominated Simeon Boikov @AussieCossack and the Korolevs to be traded in a 3 for 1 deal with Oscar Jenkins.
[Theatrics aside, this is good news. USSR and US diplomacy used to function in similar vein, to build momentum and goodwill using simple measures to solve or settle thornier issues.. so a path is being laid towards the general peace. Rollback of USAID and embassies’ interference are other concurrent paths]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇸Trump said another American would be released Wednesday following the return of Mark Fogel from Russia, but he did not provide details.

The US administration calls the release of Americans a manifestation of “goodwill” on the part of Moscow and a “good sign”.
[And the change of tack from endless Russkie demonization into actually positive presentation, unless it is insincere self-serving talk to burnish the “peacemaker” mask]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇿🇦 🇺🇸 US embassy accuses Pretoria of adopting “hostile stance towards” Washington

In a statement, the diplomatic mission made up a list of criticisms regarding South Africa’s actions:

1. Pretoria’s ICJ case against Israel over purported genocide in Gaza Strip did not take into account the actions of Hamas;
2. The embassy blasted South Africa’s relations with Iran, which the United States accuses of supporting terrorism around the world;
3. its alleged violations of human rights, in reference to the recent law on expropriation of land.

“President Donald J. Trump is committed to holding South Africa accountable for its actions,” the statement said.

❗️ Earlier, in his address to the nation last Thursday, President Cyril Ramaphosa said that no one would succeed in “bullying” his country. He also expressed his willingness to discuss the matter directly with Trump.
[this is stupid. How do each of the three listed items, which concern either S.A. or a third nation, lead to infringement on US or a “hostile stance”?!! Unless either the implied infringement is the prerogative to rule other nations and their foreign policies, or the US is now the official orifice of messianic judaism! Insanity]
⭕ ❗️For the first time, Russia’s Putin spoke by phone with Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa
⭕ ❗️ Hegseth emphasizes that the United States will not send troops to Ukraine

According to him, no troop deployment to Ukraine should fall within Article 5 or the NATO purview.

According to that article, if any NATO member nation is attacked, the other members will view it as an attack on themselves and provide assistance.

“To be clear, as part of any security guarantee, there will not be US troops deployed to Ukraine,” the Pentagon chief said.
⭕ 🇷🇺 🌍 Russia is looking for and finding opportunities to continue cooperation with African countries regardless of Western sanctions, FM Lavrov said

💬 “Of course, we are looking for and finding in most cases opportunities to continue our mutually beneficial cooperation with countries in Africa and other continents, regardless of the criminal, unilateral, illegitimate actions of the collective West,” Lavrov said, commenting on the impact of sanctions on partnership with African states.
[this is more plain speaking than I recollect from Lavrov! “criminal” – no further mincing of words. Judgment appears to have been rendered on the Orange regime..]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Iran has revealed a drone that can be launched from underneath the water |media|
⭕ North Korean state media denounced Trump’s proposal to take over Gaza and relocate Palestinians as ‘ludicrous’ and accused Washington of extortion
⭕ Russia and Sudan have concluded an agreement on the establishment of a Russian naval base near Port Sudan.
[Good news from Sudan. The terrorist RSF faction is about to lose Khartoum, the capital on the Nile, in a major defeat. And they’re being steadily rolled back, due to loss of legitimacy, demoralized mercenaries and troops, and dronification brought to Sudan courtesy of civilizational-states. UAE, on behalf of USUK tried to stall and get a “Ramadan ceasefire” starting in two weeks, which was rebuffed. Sudanese FM came to Moscow on victory lap and to thank the Russian Federation. More signs of Rollback]

💠@Africa Intel:
⭕ ❗️🇷🇺🇸🇩 It seems that the Russian base in Sudan will indeed be built

It appears that the saga of building a Russian base in Port Sudan is finally coming to an end: Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Youssef Sharia reported that the countries have “reached full agreement” on the construction of the facility.

🔻The agreement to create a logistics support point (LSP) for the Russian Navy was reached back in 2017. However, due to bureaucratic inertia and changes in the political landscape, the process dragged on.

First, Omar al-Bashir, with whom the contract was signed, was overthrown in Sudan. Then the country’s political course changed, and later it fell into the abyss of civil war. All this put the construction of the LSP into serious question.
➖➖➖➖➖➖
❗️However, in the past year, important steps have been taken, including the unambiguous siding of the government in the civil conflict. The US sanctions against the Sudanese authorities also prompted them to cooperate with Russia.

Various foreign agent media and Turkish propaganda resources tried to derail the deal by spreading fakes about the alleged refusal of the government in Khartoum to host the Russian base. But, as can be judged, they failed to do so.
➖➖➖➖➖➖
Now it is important to avoid the mistakes of the past and not to delay the construction of the facility. Especially in light of the suspended status of the bases in Syria.
[the West, and UAE, moved heaven and earth to level Sudan, for the sake of Zion. Sudanese are fiercely pro-Palestinian, and like Yemenis, would be expected to fight the coming expansion of Pax Judaica, at expense of arabs. And sleepy Sudanese can be as fierce fighters as Yemen, having burnt the British Empire back in the day. And they are located too close too Palestine, with just Egypt intervening, on a direct land route much much closer than Yemen. Alas, they’ve been set back 1,000 years, and will mostly be NPCs going forward] 

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian Security Council: Kiev’s and the West’s Peace Proposals Are Unrealistic

The Ukraine conflict could still be resolved peacefully, but only if the West radically changes its approach, says Russian Security Council Deputy Secretary Alexei Shevtsov.

He emphasized that Russia would not have launched its military operation if Ukraine and the West had honored the Minsk agreements. He added that Ukrainians have the right to demand accountability for this deception.

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ The Arab League secretary general has rejected any displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, calling it “unacceptable” for the region.

“This is unacceptable for the Arab world, which has been fighting this idea for 100 years.
“We Arabs are not prepared to capitulate in any way,” he said.
[are they negotiating the terms?? The shame of this institution matches ECOWAS and OSCE, etc.]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Lord Bebo: 🇺🇸🇷🇺‼️🚨 BREAKING: Trump and Putin made a deal!

National Security Advisor Mike Walz announced that Steve Witkoff was leaving Russian airspace on his plane along with American citizen Mark Fogel, who was imprisoned in Russia

What the details are, is not known but a deal was made
🔻 WS: The Witkoff to Moscow mystery is solved.
[this was the window dressing. It is said he also spoke with VVP for a few hours.]
⭕ Israel is acutely overextended and substantially depleted.

I am convinced the IDF cannot sustain its presence in Syria while simultaneously being compelled to resume combat operations in Gaza and southern Lebanon.

And they can only bomb so long as limited US stockpiles last.
[just as Palestinians are not alone, neither are the zionazis. They’ve got at their disposal the resources and manpower of much of the Golden Billion slaves]
🔻 Anna: Israel thinks it has backing of US and they are invincible… that will be their demise. They are making a huge mistake in Syria and it will end badly for them
🔻 Halide Edip: how long can those constantly replenished stockpiles last?
🔻 Yasha: They’ll have serious trouble getting their soldiers back in Gaza.
⭕ Insightful observation by the Big Serge.
[links:
🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺:
I think the reason that FPV drones seem to horrify people in a way that systems like tube artillery do not is the understanding that the drone operator has to make a conscious and willful decision to kill, whereas an artillery shell grants a thin but plausible denial of agency.

War has always been predicated at its base on the willingness of men to kill each other in intimate settings, but the modern technical battlefield has sanitized this to a certain extent through distance and intermediary technology. Drones resurrect the ancient violent intimacy.

One thinks of Junger, talking about the English officer that he had to kill in close quarters – he has a vivid memory of the man. Now people on social media have a look into killing of this sort, but without the terror and adrenaline that accompanied it throughout history.]
🔻 C2: That and it’s documented on camera
🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: It’s that, but there is footage of shells hitting and tanks blowing up but it never seems to haunt people the same way.
🔻 C3: Yep. Far worse than snipers. Just horrible.
🔻 Digital Plant Lifeform: That and the quite sharp 1080p slo-mo of a single foot getting blown off by a grenade and the guy begging for mercy as the second grenade falls resulting in more but not immediately fatal injuries, as all parties involved know another 30min round trip is needed.
🔻 New California Neighbor!: Artillery doesn’t film sadistic snuff videos.
⭕ retweet:
🔻Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺:
If the United States proceeds with an ethnic cleansing policy in Gaza, the entire ME will be plunged into unprecedented chaos and instability. Such an act would shatter regional alliances, escalate conflicts, and provoke widespread resistance, not only from the Palestinian people but from states and non-state actors across the region.
[and like a demented witch doktor sticking that pin into the black voodoo doll, they shall go back into Gaza for precisely the purpose of blowing up our world and birthing the Moshiach. Today, I was speaking casually with a nonpolitical female Egyptian Obstetrician – she shocked me, listing points, and expects the end of the world and the coming of the Messiah any moment]

this is clickbait. He and Russia made no such declarations or insinuation. In fact it was the same predigested boilerplate. And the safest course is for them to be attrited outta existence, as with UkroNazis; some just need to be escorted to Hell without upsetting the entire ship.
NB. it appears a new Anglo narrative is to use the scary Russkie to tar Palestinians and make little zion appear the underdog

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ US President Donald Trump’s threats against Gaza will be met with defiance, not submission. His ultimatums, designed to pressure Hamas and pave the way for Netanyahu’s military ambitions, will ultimately fall on deaf ears. No amount of coercion can erase the resilience of the Palestinian people, nor force them into surrendering their land, rights, and resistance.
⭕ Ukraine president Zelenski said he is ready to exchange 750 sqkm of Russian territory with 200,000 sqkm Russia occupy in Ukraine.
[the universal wonders of pure Columbian snow]
⭕Israel broke the sound barrier twice over the Lebanese capital, Beirut, with fighter jets flying at a relatively low altitude, sending a clear message of defiance and intimidation. The thunderous sonic booms reverberated across the city, serving as a deliberate show of force and a violation of Lebanese airspace.
⭕ I highly doubt that Israel will adhere to the unilaterally extended second ceasefire agreement with Lebanon, which is set to expire on the 18th of February. Given Israel’s track record of ceasefire violations, there is little reason to believe it will honour the terms of an extension that it unilaterally imposed.

💠@Alon Mizrahi:
⭕🔻 Arnaud Bertrand:
This is a monumental shift: the U.S. finally renounces NATO membership for Ukraine after 17 years of trying

This is no cause for celebration, it’s tragic really: had this position been taken in late 2021 instead of doubling down on NATO expansion, the war and its hundreds of thousands of casualties would have undoubtedly been avoided. And we know the U.S. could have taken this position then, because they do it now.

The intolerable cost of hubris, which of course no-one will pay a price for except all those who died in this senseless and easily avoidable war… |media|
[this Hegseth reminds me of a young Rummy, who iirc held distinction of both youngest and oldest War Secretary?? Another psychopath famed for his pushups and hyperaggression]
🔻 AM: The US must never be trusted to ‘peacekeep’ anything
⭕🔻 Hanan Ashrawi:
Moving from one refugee camp to the other in the West Bank, the Israeli occupation army has already violently expelled over 45 thousand Palestinians, killed scores, abducted hundreds, bombed & demolished hundreds of homes, destroyed infrastructure (roads, electricity, water, waste disposal, communications) & is threatening to repeat the Gaza genocide. The world continues to be either complicit or helpless.
🔻 AM: Israel must be stopped
[and they shall – the way UkroNazis were]
⭕🔻 The Associated Press: Israel’s fatal shooting of a pregnant Palestinian woman puts the focus on West Bank violence |media|
🔻 AM: West Bank apartheid, genocide and ethnic cleansing, not ‘violence’

💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ Spokesperson for the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese Army:

• The US destroyer USS Johnson and the survey ship USS Baldich have passed through the Taiwan Strait.
• Naval and air forces monitored the movements of the US vessels while passing through the Taiwan Strait.
• The movements of the United States send false signals and increase security risks.
• Our forces are in a state of maximum readiness and are determined to defend national sovereignty, security, and regional peace and stability.

⭕ North Korea:

• We condemn the US proposal to control the Gaza Strip.
• The nature of the United States and its hegemony based on slaughter and invasion for world domination is clearly evident in the Gaza plan.
• The United States ignores international law and humanitarian principles.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️ Trump said he had a long conversation with Putin

• Furthermore, the US president said his conversation with the Russian leader was very productive.
• He said they discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, energy and other topics.
• Trump said he and Putin agreed on the need to stop the conflict in Ukraine.
• Trump said he and Putin agreed on close cooperation, including future visits to Russia and the United States.

⭕❗️ More highlights from Putin-Trump talks over the phone

• Putin told Trump about the need to eliminate the root causes of the Ukrainian conflict;
• The Russian president agreed with Trump that a long-term settlement in Ukraine can be achieved through negotiations;
• The topics of the Middle East and the Iranian nuclear program were discussed in the conversation between Putin and Trump;
• The US president said that he and Putin agreed in a telephone conversation, among other things, on exchanging visits;
• Putin and Trump discussed the exchange of Russian and US citizens, Washington guaranteed the implementation of the agreements reached;
• The Russian president told Trump that he was ready to receive American officials in Russia, including on the issue of Ukraine.

⭕ 🐆 Leopard lift: When a village hero turns a big cat into a cuddly feline

In Afghanistan, when a leopard wandered into the village, a burly bearded man stepped up, scooped it into his arms, and carried it back to the reserve like it was just a house cat.

Well, let’s face it—a cat is a cat, right? |media|
[i’d be real docile too being carried by “a burly bearded Afghan.” Leopards be smarter than some Anglos!]

Trump's immoral rhetoric on ethnic cleansing in Gaza further exposes and isolates the US, stressing Washington's full partnership in the #GazaHolocaust.

There is no difference between Trump, Biden, or Netanyahu. They are all satanic. pic.twitter.com/QssIo1I6Nf

— Seyed Mohammad Marandi (@s_m_marandi) February 12, 2025

This time.. firing solutions developed from several time zones away

☝️THIS is how the crusty soviet sailor really landed in Seattle. He’s been a sleeper agent all this time..

this is not a swamp. It’s an orange sewer overflowing on the streets, like in Kiev. BTW, the spoxwoman should move the horizontal arm on her cross a little further down, to better align with their non-neutral weltanschauung. Anyway, we may consider this the first, of many humilitations, to come. Orange bloviates wildly, a functionary soon thereafter retracts; rinse and repeat. An Empire of Irrelevance

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ If Israel respects the humanitarian protocols of the first phase, which have not been respected so far, the Palestinian resistance can release 3 Israeli prisoners this Saturday
[the worm is turning. Woulda loved to be a fly on the wall during that VVP-Orange talk, esp the West Asia part. Yeah, the deranged are being submitted for now. So it wasn’t as bad a performance after all by the Jordanian monarch. He bought Agent Orange the leeway to strut and posture and bloviate — and within hours the diametric opposite took place. This appears the pattern going forward – the defeated Pirates beached gunslingers shall shoot fast & furious even as they run backwards. They really have no choice, short of using WMDs – they’re essentially attrited outta conventional means and proxies..]  

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇫🇷🇷🇺 Russian Foreign Ministry calls French idea of sending peacekeepers to Ukraine “gamble”

Deployment of European forces in Ukraine without Moscow’s consent would be a direct participation in the conflict on Kiev’s side, he said.

💬 “It is clear that the consequences for such a senseless gamble, fraught with direct battlefield confrontation, including that of nuclear powers, may be most tragic,” Artyom Studennikov, the director of the First European Department at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Sputnik.

The deployment of a peacekeeping mission would require consent from parties to the conflict and approval from the UN Security Council, the diplomat said.

💬 “Discussions of such developments are pointless because root causes of the conflict have not yet been eliminated. Moreover, France, continuing to pump weapons into the Kiev regime, is the least suitable candidate for a peacekeeper,” Studennikov added.
[with Uncle Schmuel having chickened out of the Showdown on the Rich, Fat, Black Soil of Novorossiya, it falls on Lilliputians to salvage what remains of western honor. And a stern warning may suffice for the latter. What days]
⭕ vPutin-Trump phone call on Ukraine signals US realization that “Russia has already won”: ex-Pentagon analyst

• “Trump appears to have a better understanding of the causes and conditions of the Ukraine-Russia and US/NATO versus Russia conflict,” retired US Air Force Lt. Col and ex-DoD analyst-turned whistleblower Karen Kwiatkowski told Sputnik, commenting on Wednesday’s lengthy telephone conversation between the Russian and US leaders and its heavy focus on Ukraine.
• “His tendency to be practical (something we are not seeing in his Israel-Gaza policy) is apparent here. The signal is one of deal making and practicality,” Kwiatkowski said.
• The call comes at a decisive moment, the observer stressed, pointing out that Congress will be teeing up a new package of aid to Ukraine shortly as Trump, Elon Musk and the DOGE sniff out “the fraud and corruption of the Biden Ukraine project.”
• “I suspect this cannot be kept under the lid much longer, so this may explain the urgency of a settlement,” Kwiatkowski said.
• “Whether Trump gets a settlement he likes from Russia” or not “is not clear, but I think Trump realizes Russia has already won, and Europe/NATO, in agitating for a long costly wasteful war, needs to start dealing with what it has wrought,” the analyst concluded.

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ ‼️🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦🇸🇦Trump holds press conference:

Trump:

• I think we are on the path to peace.
• Putin also wants the conflict to end
• I will meet with Putin in S. Arabia
• US Treasury Secretary Bessent is heading to Ukraine to make sure we get our money back
• Trump said that he offered Putin a ceasefire in Ukraine, he heard from the Russian president that Putin does not want the resolution of the situation to be temporary.
• ❗️Trump said that he agrees with the idea of ​​denying Ukraine NATO membership.

I’m fine with it
The American president considers the prospect of this country joining the alliance impractical and unlikely .
⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇧🇪🇩🇪 Trump’s special envoy Keith Kellogg will visit Germany, Belgium and Ukraine from February 13-22 to discuss the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict.

This was stated in a statement by the State Department press service.
[ok Smoothie and Fellas. We can now relax. It appears we were all wrong. This crusty Yanqui apparatchik was brought on board not for Russia, but to royally shaft the Eurocrazies. His job appears to make them swallow the poison pill of Defeat. The Lilliputians are predictably impressed by US brass with hairy arms whose knuckles drag on the ground when they waddle and grunt. And those obsolete contraptions do not take “no” for an answer]
⭕ 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇷🇺The US’s main allies in Europe were not informed in advance about the phone call between Putin and Trump, Bloomberg writes.

European officials were stunned by Trump’s call with Putin, a significant diplomatic move that key allies were not informed about

🐻 Know your true place
⭕ 🇺🇦☦️The Verkhovna Rada had a sudden spiritual awakening: the deputies decided to pray on the day of the beginning of the SMO.

On February 24, the parliament session will begin with the performance of the spiritual hymn “Prayer for Ukraine” (“God the Great, the One”). But if you think about it, the decision is not that sudden: after all, the United States has a National Day of Prayer.

“This is our common initiative, unfortunately it’s a little bit late, but it is for many Orthodox people, which will unite all layers of the population,” said the initiator of this resolution, MP Arakhamia, who unexpectedly came to believe in God, possibly after having watched the thugs the regime he is a part of destroy Ukrainian churches.
[LOL. Misdirected prayers are too late for the Wretched Evil of the long-suffering Earth!]
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇺🇸 American elites must understand that contacts and consultations are much more valuable than the desire to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia – Medvedev

“In our small, contradictory, but very interdependent world there is not and cannot be a leading country and a senior ruler of the planet.”

“The nuclear Doomsday Clock will continue its inexorable march towards midnight. And then, for sure, there will appear “a pale horse, and on it the rider is called “Death””
[God Bless Russia. The Russkie really knows how and when to slip in the Silver Dagger between the waiting ribs. And they do from in front, and in daylight, unlike the Anglos or Zionazis or Lilliputia]

💠@Eyes on South:
⭕ Palestinians living in #Gaza, amidst the rubble and the Israeli destruction of their homes and investments using #US weapons, are rejecting Trump’s #ethnic_cleansing plan. They stand resolutely against being expelled and forcibly displaced from their land once again, declaring that they will never allow this to happen, particularly in light of the catastrophe of #Nakba in #1948. They assert that they will not permit Donald #Trump’s plan to come to fruition.
#vpol #Israel #Palestine #Genocide #GazaGenocide #GazaUnderAttack |media|

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦Trump has clearly told Zelensky to abandon hopes of returning territories that now belong to Russia — Politico

Trump and Putin stunned Europe: the moment has arrived that Europeans and Ukrainians have been waiting for months, if not years, the publication writes.
⭕ 🇺🇦⚡️ Zelensky made a fundamental decision to arrest Petro Poroshenko for “high treason” – Ukrainian media

Security forces are on duty outside Petro Poroshenko’s house; in the morning, the former president of Ukraine may be charged with treason and detained.
[Good sign we’re in final moments of the decomposing nazi regime]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦Magical exchange between reporter and Trump during his Oval Office press conference

Do you consider Ukraine as an equal participant in this peace process? the reporter asked.

“Mmm… that’s an interesting question. I think they’re going to have to make peace,” Trump replied.
[This was a loaded Q, more about the people being interviewed.. USUK Empire openly moves into the latter category of this ancient Dictum, one of my favorite ones learned in high school: “the strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must”]

💠@kuluary_zaliva (В кулуарах Залива):
⭕ ⚡️ Putin and Trump to meet in Saudi Arabia

US President Donald Trump said he would meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia after the leaders confirmed earlier on Wednesday that they would hold talks on the Ukraine crisis.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE were considered as the main venues for the summit, but this time Riyadh’s diplomatic authority was higher . It is known that the meeting of the leaders will also be attended by the Crown Prince of the KSA Mohammed bin Salman . The date of the summit has not yet been set.
[it’s a mixed bag. An old concubine, yet also a new partial BRICS member. Interesting times]

💠@Amore:
⭕ Lavrov killer re: batshit crazy Estonian chick saying nothing can be discussed without Europe:

“They have apparently felt what place in the world hierarchy they have relegated themselves to. It will not be easy to get out of there.”

There will be TWO losers in Ukraine:

1. Ukraine itself, decimated by the sweaty sweatshirt actor.

2. Europe mired in a devastating political and economic crisis after committing seppuku.

💠@Syrian Girl:
⭕ 🔴 The Popular March to Southern Lebanon is a Defining Moment a Milestone, Why it Matters? |media|

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ According to the Lebanese news channel LBCI, the Israeli army wants to stay in some areas of Lebanon until February 28.

Beirut reportedly rejected the request.
[excellent. Compradores start to break chains…]
⭕ Trump Praises Jordan’s King Abdullah:

Jordan, you have a great leader.

He is a true leader with a wonderful heart. He loves you and his country.

King Abdullah is one of the greatest leaders in the world. You are lucky to have him!
[an absolute freakin’ freak show! We shall be entertained throughout the Collapse..]
⭕ The Egyptian MoD has urged the Egyptian Armed Forces to maintain optimum levels of combat readiness.
⭕ The Israeli military has accused the Iranian IRGC’s Quds Force of smuggling money to Hezbollah through Beirut International Airport on civilian flights.

They say the Lebanese group is using the funds to rebuild itself.

A military spokesman said they were in contact with a US-led committee to thwart such transfers, although some have been successful.

He also warned that Israel would use all means necessary to prevent Hezbollah from growing stronger.
[LOL. Continue the bitchin’, Losers. Lebanon shall be rebuilt for the next Round in the eternal war]
⭕ US intelligence officials are warning that Israel is likely to launch a “preemptive” strike against Iran’s nuclear program by mid-year, the Washington Post reports.
[Excellent. More signs of Retreat. And in 4-6 months, another delay should be announced.. Sanity appears to be returning to the beleaguered and sorely overextended Yanquis. May it stay so. But they need to hang a zionazi or two to reassure mankind!]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Hamas has announced in a statement that the ceasefire will continue after addressing Israeli violations with Qatari mediators. They discussed the entry of tents, heavy equipment, medical supplies, and fuel, suggesting that Israel may have conceded to their pressure.
⭕ The United Arab Emirates says it fully supports Trump’s vision to displace Palestinians from Gaza into countries like Egypt and Jordan – ‘unfortunately, it’s probably the only way’
[Good. They fully out themselves. Another cancerous entity in the region, and not for long either]

💠@kuluary_zaliva (В кулуарах Залива):
⭕ Shipping companies return to the Red Sea

Some shipping companies are again choosing to transit the Red Sea as attacks by the Houthi group have largely ceased following a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas last month. According to insurer Markel, “there are no attacks on ships as there were before the new year,” which is also helping to lower freight prices .

However, the situation remains volatile . Major container operators are waiting for a full ceasefire to return to the Red Sea, so as not to risk expensive cargo. It is believed that the Houthis are using the pause in military operations to restore combat effectiveness in areas of Yemen they control, including along the Red Sea coast, and resume attacks.

Since November 2023, the Houthis have carried out more than 100 attacks on ships on the Suez Canal shipping route, which is responsible for 12% of global trade and 20% of global container shipping.
[beautiful. I am getting optimistic too Amarynth. What a few days]

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇮🇷| An Iranian military analyst (fatherland9_) found an interesting detail in a picture taken from yesterday’s Ministry of Defense achievement exhibition, attended by Imam Khamenei.

It shows a picture of what looks like Iran’s first Anti-Ship supersonic missile. It’s designed with the Iranian RamJet engine with Russian design.
[in the murder-suicide round, there won’t be “love taps” as during engagements with the Ansarullah. Plenty of “Taps” to be played, for the countless unsalvageable remains joining Pharaoh’s Chariots down below]
⭕ This is gonna be a nice toy for Iran’s allies in the next battle against the terrorists 👀 |media|

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕🇺🇦 Stage 2 – anger
⭕ German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has accused the new U.S. administration of making concessions to Russia on Ukraine even before negotiations on ending the conflict have begun.

He argued that discussions on Ukraine’s potential NATO membership or territorial losses should take place at the negotiating table rather than being ruled out in advance.
[degenerate retards! They shall learn]
⭕ 🇷🇺 Lavrov stated that he is surprised by the world’s reaction to the conversation between Putin and Trump: “They consider it something out of the ordinary.”

🐻 Sergey… you can say it. We’re all loving the media meltdown.
[LOL. We sure are lovin that loving feeling. Even Uncle Lavrov cannot resist a little dig. But old-school diplomats are useless for the full expression of the moment — listen to Medvedev!]
⭕ 🇪🇺 The EU was not informed in advance about the conversation between Trump and Putin, stated a European Commission spokesperson.

🐻 If you ever feel useless, just remember that there is a thing called the EU.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Russian troops have liberated the settlement of Vodyanoye Vtoroye in the DPR, the Defense Ministry reported
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russia to respond to growing US military presence on its northern borders, diplomat says

Artyom Studennikov, the Director of the First European Department at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Sputnik that the increasing military presence near Russia’s borders necessitates a response. This might involve military-technological measures. However, Russia has repeatedly assured that it poses no threat to the region..

Studennikov said the Russian Defense Ministry would determine actions to address these issues. He criticized Northern European countries for aligning with NATO, arguing it undermines their sovereignty and turns their territories into potential bases for US-led NATO operations.

🇩🇰 He also expressed worry over a US-Denmark defense agreement allowing permanent American troop stationing in Denmark, marking a departure from Denmark’s long-standing policy against foreign bases in peacetime. The diplomat warned this could lead to nuclear weapons in Denmark, breaching Copenhagen’s previous commitments to prevent such arms.

Big Will Schryver thread tonight. Lotta angst from little flies on the Wall. And he’s having none of that crap. They’re gonna have to cycle faster through Kübler-Ross, and on their own.

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Egyptian media published photos of heavy equipment and mobile homes on their way to enter Gaza through the Rafah crossing, which completely opposes what the Spokesman for Netanyahu’s Office said earlier.

🇵🇸 Hamas has also agreed to release the 3 hostages this Saturday as previously scheduled. I think an agreement has been reached and the “israelis” have caved in to the demands of Hamas, but publicly they are just making it look like they forced Hamas into releasing the hostages without making any concessions.
⭕ ❗️As mentioned before: Israel has submitted to the demands of Hamas, and will allow the appropriate amounts of aid to enter Gaza – returning to the ceasefire terms.

In exchange, Hamas will also release the batch of 3 hostages that were previously agreed upon, which it threatened not to do if Israel did not abide by the ceasefire terms.

The ceasefire, at least as far as Phase 1 is concerned, will PROCEED.

💠 @Arab_Africa:
⭕ 🇩🇿🇫🇷 “France’s Nuclear Tests in Algeria Are a Crime Against Humanity”

This was stated by the representative of the international conference on the consequences of nuclear tests in Algeria, Abdel Salam Bashagha.

“The nuclear explosions carried out by France in the Algerian desert are not just a fleeting incident, but a crime that transcends generations, the environmental, health and social consequences of which are still felt today. This issue is still part of the crisis between Algeria and France, whose roots go back to the remnants of colonialism and the failure of Paris to assume its historical responsibilities,” Bashagha said.

The statement was made on the eve of an international conference entitled “Crimes against Humanity and the Environment”, which will be held in Algiers on the occasion of the anniversary of the first nuclear test conducted by France in Algeria on February 13, 1960 at the Tanezrouft test site, codenamed “Blue Jerboa”.

I am attaching to this post a short video released by the Algerian Ministry of Defense for the anniversary of the start of French nuclear tests. The video does not need translation. |media|
[Defeat in 404 has many many consequences, none pleasant for every lilliputian of the combined West. I recall calls for compensation to Africa from Valentina Matviyenko and others too]

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇦🇺🇸Zelensky refused to sign the financial agreement on rare earth minerals proposed by US Treasury Secretary Bessent, – CNN.
[LOL. iirc, all these plots already belong to local and regional oligarchs, and US TNCs, who will have his coked-up hide if THEY are plundered in turn. Is this like demanding NATO vassals raise their defense spending to 5% — designed to be impossible, serving as justification to wipe hands off matter and flee the World-Island?? Whatever it takes, the terms of capitulation to terms of 2021 Ultimata]

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕❗️Putin would be happy to welcome leaders of major countries, including Trump, to Moscow if they decide to visit on Victory Day, May 9, Kremlin spokesperson Peskov stated
[It would be pleasant to see “Yalta 2.0” in Moscow, with Trump playing the role of the useless third wheel played by Churchill last time…]

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ BREAKING: The American USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) aircraft carrier collided with a merchant vessel Besiktas-M last night near the north end of the Suez Canal in Egypt.

The incident is being investigated.
[Well well, is this the latest stratagem to whitewash attacks from Houthis? Or more shitty navigation from US Navy, a la South China Sea? Existential stress can do wonders too]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ Now over six months into the continuing massacre of the Kursk Kauldron — arguably the single most senseless AFU/NATO operation of the entire Ukraine War. The battlefield has been strewn with hundreds of burned-out hulks of NATO equipment and tens of thousands AFU corpses.
[links older (9 Aug 2024):
“🤔🧵 The Kursk Kauldron

So … what’s the consensus estimate at this point for the total number of AFU combat effectives that got fed into this Kursk Kauldron?

Appears they started with ~1000. I’ve seen wild guesses claiming as many ~8000 eventually crossed the border. I suspect it’s much closer to 2k than 8k.

The Russian MoD claims to have inflicted ~1000 casualties as of several hours ago. No doubt that number has grown in the meantime.

I wonder how the remaining survivors are going to pass the time between now and when the big boom with their name on it pays a visit?

You know they know.

They had to know perfectly well when they set out that it was a kamikaze run.

But they were beyond fear; beyond hope; beyond feeling anything more poignant than the sorrowing of the damned.

And so they will curse the gods of war, and wish to die, bereft of everything but to struggle with the sword for their lives.”]
🔻 MAKE LOVE AND NOT WAR: The most incredible thing is that Zelensky has the audacity to suggest exchanging occupied territories for the complete liberation of Kursk. It’s a complete no-brainer.
🔻 starve a kid to save a quid £..: Wasn’t UK MOD planned offensive against Surovikin line a larger failure?
Charge of Light Brigade didn’t work out well in the 1800’s so Whitehall thought little to lose by sending in brainwashed Ukranians as cannon-fodder instead.
UK Govt Russophobic policy like a looped tape..
🔻 C3: Krinky takes the cake as the most senseless, Kursk a close second

⭕ cont. thread:
Israel is acutely overextended and substantially depleted.

I am convinced the IDF cannot sustain its presence in Syria while simultaneously being compelled to resume combat operations in Gaza and southern Lebanon.

And they can only bomb so long as limited US stockpiles last.
🔻 Halide Edip: how long can those constantly replenished stockpiles last?
🔻 WS: They are NOT being “constantly replenished”. US armaments production is a minute fraction of the consumption we have seen over the past three years.
🔻 C2: Why do you think Trump wants to put a Naval Base in Gaza?
🔻 WS: They tried that last year, after a manner of speaking.

It didn’t work out so well.
[posts leading photo of the Genocide Pier that couldn’t stay moored]
⭕‼️ I don’t believe Trump and his entourage understand that when Putin talks about addressing the “root causes” of the Ukraine War, he means that NATO must withdraw its military presence to its 1997 borders.
[repost his older:
“Two years ago today I published the following commentary that I believe is as true now as it was then:

📜In for A Pound“]
🔻 Pasta Fazool John: They understand very clearly
🔻 WS: I’ve seen no indication of it.

Do you understand what it means?
🔻 C2: Putin wants to settle the Ukraine conflict but only in the context of a broader agreement governing the security architecture in Europe. Otherwise we’ll eventually have WWIII.
🔻 Angelo Biondi: I am a bit more optimistic.

I think Trump understands very well that NATO is only a burden for the USA.

Poland and Romania will remain within NATO (or whatever will come after it), but I think baltics, Finland, Ukraine, and Moldova will end up being neutral buffer states.
[LOL. Europe shall learn that learned by Melos]
🔻 WS: 1997 NATO borders did NOT include Poland and Romania. And Putin has been repeatedly explicit on the point that US Aegis Ashore missile systems must be withdrawn from Poland and Romania first, followed by ALL NATO military presence being withdrawn to the 1997 borders.
🔻 Angelo Biondi: They will compromise.

Aegis is ineffective against Russian missiles anyway.

NATO withdrawal from baltics & Finland, neutral status for Ukraine & Moldavia, end of Western interference in Armenia & Georgia, and annexation of the 4 Ukrainian oblasts could be accepted by Russia.
🔻 WS: Russia will not compromise about the Aegis systems in Poland and Romania. Aegis is easily configured to launch long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles.

And I don’t believe the US/NATO will compromise anytime soon in terms of relinquishing its presence in and around the Baltic Sea.
🔻 karl_OS 🔻: Trump will not agree with Russian demands and nothing will be signed. war will continue until one side surrenders
[this is probably most likely scenario]
⭕🔻 Josh Rogin: In his first meeting with European leaders, Hegseth unilaterally took NATO membership for Ukraine off the table and said Ukraine can’t get all its territory back – two major concessions to Russia for nothing in exchange. Not exactly Art of the Deal. |media|
[it is the diplomatic equivalent of sending flowers after knocked down on the canvas in a TKO]
🔻 WS: Yes, this is what happens in the real world when you lose a big war: the winners hand you a sheet of terms, and you sign on the dotted line.
📜 Dictating Terms 
🔻 C2: Most of the stupidity in the world is not caused by lack of intelligence, but a lack of realism. All too many, brains and education notwithstanding, are simply unable, or rather unwilling, to see the world as it is, not how they’d wish it to be.
🔻 Lost in the fog: Garbage. Russia is on its knees. All it would take is US to keep giving Ukraine what it needs and Putin regime would collapse within 18 months
[this guy has the most apt handle!]
🔻 C4: Schrodinger’s Russia, russia is both a massive threat to Europe and on the verge of collapse. Just a few more months, boys!
🔻 WS: And both propositions are false.
⭕ 🔻Tyler Rogoway:
New Shots Of Ukrainian F-16s Shine Light On Combat Missions

A photo and video reveal some of the stores used by Ukrainian Air Force Vipers after a little over six months in service. |media|
[OK. This fool who didn’t hear the music stopped wasn’t solely on USAID dole!]
🔻 WS: There is literally ZERO evidence that ANY combat sorties have been flown by F-16s in Ukraine.
🔻 Matthew Hughes: As we learned today, Ukraine has “beaten” Russia so badly, Trump is excluding them from NATO, conceding the four regions have been lost, and demanding $500 billion in collateral.

A Pyrrhic Victory—at best!
[Matthew, you were doing splendid until the conclusion! It is not a victory. It is one of the unmitigated catastrophes of our lifetime]
⭕ reposts his old (21 May 2024):
“🤔 Playing High Cards at the Right Time

So far in the Ukraine War, both Russia and NATO have resisted the temptation to employ any precision weaponry that was not previously known to be operational, and whose capabilities were not more or less known.

The big difference is that the NATO stuff has underperformed to what has been, for most military observers, a shocking degree.

Worse yet, the NATO precision weaponry is typically overengineered, expensive, scarce, and utterly unable to be produced in quantities sufficient to sustain a protracted, high-intensity conflict.

On the other side of the ledger, the Russian stuff has consistently overperformed to what has been, for most military observers, an impressive degree.

Even more shocking is that the much less-expensive and more effective Russian precision weaponry is being produced in astounding quantities that far exceed NATO’s capacity to sustain a protracted, high-intensity conflict.

These factors being present, I increasingly believe the Pentagon may yield to the temptation to employ one or more “high cards” they’ve held close to the vest so far.

In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve already done it a few times — it simply hasn’t been recognized yet.

What kind of “high cards”?

Hard to say for sure. But I figure they must have several small collections of “things they’ve been working on”.

And given the fact the Russians have begun to roll up the Ukrainian army in a fashion that is plainly inexorable, the Masters of Empire have to be aching to get some sort of PR victory to at least momentarily alleviate the growing sense of hopelessness.

And herein lies the risk of playing high cards too soon.

Let’s conjecture, for example, that the US has some advanced long-range HARMS-type missile. And let’s suppose, just for the sake of argument, that they’re willing to strap a few of them to a couple NATO “volunteer-piloted” late-generation F-16s flying out of, say, Romania.

In such a scenario, I don’t think it’s at all unlikely they would achieve an impressive initial success against, for example, a top-shelf Russian air-defense radar.

So then they would be tempted to do it again. And it would probably be more or less successful a second time.

But by the third time around, the Russians would be “on to the game”, and would probably not only defeat most of the missiles, but would also likely pick off one or both of the F-16s.

Not only would the new wunderwaffe be exposed, but the reality of one or more of the NATO-piloted launch aircraft would be revealed.

That, of course, would constitute the highest plateau of escalation yet seen in this war.

Anyway … these are just some passing thoughts.”
[is Will ruminating on coming escalations by Orange, when his “final offers” are inevitably rebuffed??]
⭕ 🤔 In reaction to reports of a Trump/Putin chat, a large segment of observers is giddy about the prospects for an expeditious end of the war in Ukraine.

This euphoria is based on the assumption that Putin will compromise the stated objectives of the “Special Military Operation”.
🔻 uncle fatt: I think the point is at least the conversation is happening. there are alot of assumptions to get it over the line but you will never get there if you don’t start.
🔻 WS: In my view, the point is that we are about to see what happens when this new regime in Washington is compelled to swallow the bitter pill of decisive strategic defeat.
📜 The Bitter Pill of Decisive Strategic Defeat
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: Trump, like the administration before him, still haven’t had the penny drop that the world does not revolve around them.
🔻 Gran Maestro: I can’t see “swallowing the bitter pill of defeat” as a big deal.
The US should be well accustomed by now to loosing wars.
They haven’t won any war in the past 80 years
[but they’ve never lost this kind of war, in either US or western history..]
🔻 bingk: He could easily sell it as being Biden Admins fault and concessions due to situation being worse than reported. Hell, he could blame NED, NGOs, etc for misreported numbers, etc. The longer he waits, the harder it will be to sell that. His window is now.
🔻 Mist – Free speech 🥩 🥚: Trump is doing a deal, be it good, bad, or indifferent. Russia wins. Europe and UK loose. This is good for regular people across the globe.
🔻 WS: I don’t believe Trump as yet understands that he and the US have no meaningful leverage to “make a deal” that is not tantamount to a full concession to Russia’s terms, as defined from the beginning and consistently reiterated ever since.
🔻 SheWolf: They’re getting there slowly, seems so to me anyway. Just need the ability to frame it as if it’s not, I’m pretty sure Putin will allow just a bit of that but only so far.
🔻 MiG-31: Methinks Trump already knows that.All he is concerned about now is how to somehow frame this strategic defeat of NATO and the Collective West as a ‘win’ for the ‘Mighty USA’.
🔻 Elydia35: Yves Smith has written a good article on exactly this point |link|
🔻 WS: She is always excellent. Thanks for pointing me to this one.
🔻 Daydreamer: So Trump gives Putin what he wants and then takes the 500 billion $ of rare earth treasures and both come out winners.
Zelensky, Ukraine and NATO not so much.
🔻 WS: The “$500B of rare earth treasures” is a big fat lie.

Unless it buys them from the Russians at the market price, the US will never get any “rare earth” elements from Novorossiya, where most of the economically viable deposits are located.
🔻 Dr. Anton: Nearer the end than the beginning?
🔻 WS: So long as a Ukrainian army continues to fight and the US continues to supply them, the Russians will continue to destroy them. I perceive no sense of urgency in Russia. They are prepared to fight on through 2025 and beyond so long as the US is willing to expend its stockpiles.
🔻 Sobek: In the words of General Sherman

“We will continue to destroy the enemy at our own pace, on our own schedule, until they are so thoroughly destroyed that they are begging for terms”
🔻 Robert Carter: Compromise? It’s already been stated by Pete the overarching details & they seem favorable to Russia.
🔻 WS: Russia is on the verge of the single most meaningful strategic military victory since WW2. The empire aimed to inflict a crippling defeat on Russia, and instead the Russians have inflicted a crippling defeat on the empire.

Why would they stop short of finishing the job NOW?
[Exactly. The demilitarization and denazification do not stop for a minute. Perhaps it is the RUSSKIES stringing the agreement-incapable along.. buying time, to ensure there is not even the possibility of resurrection of an Anglo Empire]
🔻 CLS-JPS: NAFO starts impounding oil tankers?

🔻 WS: With the USS Brave Sir Robin at their side.
🔻 Gary L: I think we are about to see a transformation of the image of Trump as a President who abhors war.
🔻 WS: I think we are about to see what happens when this new regime in Washington is compelled to swallow the bitter pill of decisive strategic defeat.
[note the proper usage of “regime” rather than the deferential one]
🔻 Holler Dawg: Trump and Putin know this war was the result of the Nuland / Blinken / prior regime globalist agenda.

He understands Ukraine was used by the prior regime to undermine Russia. We broke our promises and Russia defended themselves.
[do Yanks have the attention span of mosquitoes?! This war was ALREADY as much Trump’s!]
🔻 WS: The #MotherOfAllProxyArmies project began long before Biden. It actually has its genesis in the immediate post-WW2 era. It became a bigger focus in the 1990s, and accelerated in the Obama / Trump45 period. The Trump45 years saw massive up-arming and training of the AFU.
🔻 Gary L: Ya, Trump hates “loozers,” so let’s see how his ego, and that of the entire empire machine, attempts to put lipstick on this pig and/or lashes out.
[At this point, no one gives a hoot. The Beast shall be felled, come Armageddon or Highwater. And contingencies are in place on all continents and the seven seas if they choose to go out in style]
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: Trump’s main focus is on how not to be blamed for the west’s strategic defeat. Any failure of expeditious negotiations will be ascribed to the cards dealt by Biden et al.

As for Putin, he emphasised addressing “root causes”. |Kremlin|
🔻 WS: Putin’s definition of terms in relation to these “root causes” (and the requisites of their resolution) are contained in the 12/2021 “Draft Treaty” (delivered to the NATO bloc), and Putin’s landmark speeches of February 21/24, 2022.

The Trump regime will choke on those terms.
[somebody’s gotta be a choker, or a deepthroat if you prefer]
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: Correct. The crab walk to reality will be over nails and glass.
⭕🔻 zerohedge: Another day, another 346K oz of gold delivered to comex vaults, pushing total to 36.5 million oz, of which the big 3 are now at a record 30 million oz.
[right-click and open image in new tab to see it bigger]
🔻 WS: I wanna see some representative photos of the alleged 1135 tonnes of gold in the Comex vaults.
🔻 Matt Bracken: I would not trust photos. I’d demand physical inspection of bars chosen at random.
🔻 WS: Agreed. But you get my point all the same.

Everyone who thinks they have gold stored in the Comex vaults is unjustifiably trusting.

As the old saw says: “If you don’t hold it, you don’t own it.”
🔻 kamfongchun: Dont know about Comex vaults but the the last ‘credible audit’ of USA’s gold stash at Ft. Knox was conducted on Sept. 23, 1974 & it was a grand PR stunt where officials were shown a quick glance of the Au holdings & then off for lunch & drinks. |link|
[iirc, Col said the last FULL audit was over two decades before that .. funny how they refused to conduct one AFTER Vietnam and Nixon’s delinking from gold-standard in 1971…. and the printing presses have been merrily printing ever since. And here we are]
🔻 WS: There is almost certainly nothing even close to 8134 tonnes of US sovereign physical gold. Maybe none at all. Any “sovereign” US gold is likely in situ, and they’ll have to nationalize the mines to get to it.

That’s also probably a big reason why they want to annex Canada.
🔻 kamfongchun: “in-situ”? – lol 😆

At least theres some doubt in the US . . i.e. it might be there, possibly?, maybe? We dont really know.

However, in the UK there’s no doubt at all . . .it all gone |link|
⭕ cont. thread:
🤦‍♂️ Big Talk, No Stick

The “trust the plan” Trump acolytes are convinced their champion will bully Putin into a “peace deal” that can be spun as a triumph.

Instead, the Russians will take everything east of the Dnipr + Odessa and demand NATO withdraw to its 1997 borders.
🔻 Imbroglioh: My prediction is that Russia gets substantially less than what is predicted herein. They are not going to get Odessa and may not even get all that much more than the draft Istanbul agreement (albeit with the 4 regions annexed and not just 2). It may not be terrible for Russia…
🔻 WS: If so, then I predict regime-change in Russia.
⭕ 🐶 Trembling Puppy Update

I’ve meant to update the saga of CSG-8 (CVN75 – USS Trembling Puppy), but it was all so anticlimactic that it kept slipping my mind.

The intrepid puppy and crew skedaddled back to Greece, gratefully leaving the trauma of the Red Sea behind them.

Finis
[no. the story will keep developing, see above, and below!]

⭕🔻 John Ʌ Konrad V:
“Post your Letters of Marque outfit”

There’s 335 million Americans but fewer than 2,000 🇺🇸 ship captains. 9/10 will decline so chances are good you’ll end up on my ship

Let me be clear—show up to work dressed as a furry or in leather viking gear & you WILL be thrown overboard
[Aye, Aye, Sir!]
🔻 Armchair Warlord: I hope Captain No Fun is alright with hockey masks.
🔻 John Ʌ Konrad V: Fine but you better bring steel toe boots
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Oh so we have OSHA on this pirate ship too.
[hey don’t disrespect OSHA. One of FEW professional institutions that did OK during covid, sticking to their guns and regulations]
🔻 WS: Yes, but Mary Read is plotting a mutiny.
⭕🔻 Megatron:
BREAKING:

🇪🇺🇷🇺 Europe is prepearing to seize Russian oil-exporting tankers in the Baltic Sea – POLITICO

European countries are holding behind-the-scenes talks on large-scale seizures of Moscow’s oil-exporting tankers in the Baltic Sea.
[perfect timing for USUK to skedaddle outta Europe! If this goes through, gonna be alotta little Lilliputian piglets squealing, and not in a good way]
🔻 CLS-JPS: @imetatronink
What was I just sayin?
🔻 WS: This whole narrative is #BatshitCrazy silly talk. It’s a ridiculous bluff.
⭕“Now your role is to stand in the corner and watch.”

🔥
links from Russian dep UN Amb.:
🔻 Dmitry Polyanskiy 🇺🇳: Europe has squandered its “central role” by damaging its economy through rejecting cheap Russian energy supplies and limiting its political clout to mirroring what US is doing. Now your role is to stand in the corner and watch
[Amb. Dmitry himself links:
🔻 Kaja Kallas:
“Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity are unconditional.

Our priority must now be strengthening Ukraine and providing robust security guarantees.

In any negotiation, Europe must have a central role.

Our Weimar+ statement”]
🔻 C3: “Thank you USA”
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: All they have done is make themselves completely irrelevant, even in their own continent.
🔻 MAKE LOVE AND NOT WAR: EU tries to open a new front in the Baltics. Europeans (superior beings) will never lower their heads.
🔻 John Gerard: The EU needs to sit down and shut up.

The adults are talking.
⭕ The “airplanes falling from the sky” epidemic continues. |media|
🔻 C1: They didn’t want to trust fate and didn’t perform a demo flight of F-35 at Aero India 2025
🔻 b g.: Boeing. Booing.
⭕ Hegseth boldly proclaims that “Putin will not get all he wants”.

I’ll bet he does get all he wants. Because that is what happens in the real world when you win a big war.
📜 Dictating Terms
⭕ 🚨🐶 BREAKING: USS TREMBLING PUPPY UPDATE

In its haste to put as much distance as possible between itself and the terrors of the Red Sea, the USS Trembling Puppy collided with a merchant ship off the coast of Egypt.

No word yet on damage or casualties. |media|
🔻 WS: Apparently the collision occurred near the mouth of the Suez Canal. That being the case, it would seem the Trembling Puppy, after its port-of-call in Greece, had been ordered to return to the Red Sea.

Did its skipper intentionally crash his boat in order to abort the mission? 🤔
🔻 Crypto Joe: Is this the idiot nafo LARPer with the cookies?
🔻 WS: No. That was CVN69 – The USS Brave Sir Robin, and its intrepid NAFOphile captain, Chowdah Hill.
🔻 McTablecloth: You gotta write up a little summary of all of the navy’s misadventures in the region over the last year or so! I can’t even keep up anymore.
🔻 Captain_Atomik: This stinks of a cover up…
🔻 C4: Very suspicious IMO, no radar?

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕Good to be back to Baghdad, Iraq. |media|
⭕🔻 Rania Khalek: Is Lebanon officially under Israeli occupation? I’m trying to understand why the Lebanese government agreed to Israel’s demand that an Iranian plane with Lebanese citizens be turned away from the airport, leaving them stranded in Tehran.

Lebanon is a sovereign country and has the right to permit whatever planes it wants to land at its airport.

Israel claims there is Iranian money being smuggled into Lebanon on this plane. Whether or not that’s true, it is none of Israel’s business what money is or isn’t coming in and out of Lebanon.

It’s very sad and infuriating that we lack a government capable of standing up to such clownish demands, even in rhetoric.
🔻 C2: The CIA— subsidiary of Mossad— occupies Lebanon. So yes it’s officially under Israeli occupation.
🔻 C3: yeah, Why not continue the same approach as the last 15 years? It has delivered amazing results for the country 🤣
🔻 EM: Lebanon is sovereign in principle. However, it is not fully sovereign in practice, as foreign influence, internal divisions, and external military violations—particularly by Israel—undermine its autonomy and decision-making power.
🔻 C4: I think this thing with Iranian planes not landing in Lebanon is part of the ceasefire agreement that’s set to expire on Feb 18th.
🔻 EM: It is not.
🔻 C4: You sure? Apparently that’s what the Lebanese government said, unless I’m mistaken. Can you provide some sources/details?
🔻 EM: Read the UNSCR 1701.
⭕ Washington has informed the Lebanese government, through the Ceasefire Monitoring Committee, that Israeli intelligence claims an Iranian plane is carrying funds for Hezbollah. In response, Israel has demanded that Iranian aircraft be denied landing rights in Beirut, warning that failure to comply would result in direct intervention.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has yielded to US-Israeli orders and instructions, agreeing with Transport Minister Ahmad Rasamneto block Iranian planes from landing at Beirut Airport until the issue is addressed in the upcoming cabinet session scheduled for Monday, where an official stance will be determined.

However, the broader intent behind these measures appears to be the permanent suspension of direct flights between Lebanon and Iran, effectively limiting travel to the Islamic Republic through non-Iranian carriers or via transit through third countries. This move signals a significant shift in Lebanese aviation policy, raising questions about external influence over national sovereignty and Lebanon’s ability to independently navigate its foreign relationsamidst mounting regional tensions.
⭕ The Lebanese government is weak, which is normal in the face of a superpower supporting a criminal entity. Therefore, the US and Israel are doing everything possible to confirm Lebanon’s need for a non-state actor to act and resist without accountability and to undermine the authority of the local government.
[he’s emphasizing the imperative need for a Hezbollah or Hamas or Hashd Ash-Shaabi in Iraq, in the face of spineless compradore regimes nominally in charge in each of those states. So these militias will remain outlets and avenues for liberation for the foreseeable future]
⭕ Without US consensus, France and other European nations will not support Syria as they have promised. The JCPOA (Iran nuclear deal) is the best example. The Americans won’t support the current leadership in Syria and will do everything to destabilise the country in line with Israel’s interests.
[hence the desperate recourse to Russians and their bases, and even outreach to Iran, as some within the demented HTS Horde understand they walked into a fatal trap]
⭕ Only in the USA:

The US was/is funding those who kill US citizens and soldiers. |media|
⭕ retweet:
🔻Sprinter Observer:
🇮🇷 Iran’s Supreme Commander-in-Chief has ordered the development of long-range missiles.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: “We used to set a limit on the range of our missiles, but now this limit no longer makes sense.” |media|
[Should be as easy as finishing putting together a nuke for such an advanced society.
NB. a direct slap on Orange’s face. This was among the public reasons they tore up the JCPOA agreement signed by Obama – in order to force range reduction and even elimination of ballistic missiles (of course unsaid to protect Zion). Now the Iranians head in the OPPOSITE direction, as do the Russkies with increasing Iskander range and other formerly prohibited IRBMs…]

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺Top Russian, US officials to meet in Munich on Friday [TODAY], Trump says
⭕ 🇩🇪🇺🇸J.D. Vance will deliver a “tough message” for Europe in Munich, CDU/CSU chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz said.

As reported by n-tv, Merz said that US Vice President J.D. Vance will make a “tough and stern statement” on behalf of the US to Europe at the Munich Security Conference on Friday.

“The turning point that the German Chancellor spoke about in his government speech on February 27, 2022, will come this weekend,” Merz said on ZDF television.

He noted that he already has preliminary information about the content of Vance’s speech.

“His speech will be confrontational,” Merz said.

Let us recall that Vance is also scheduled to meet with Zelensky in Munich.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️US Vice President J.D. Vance expects that negotiations to resolve the conflict in Ukraine will lead to a shocking deal.

“I think there will be a deal that will shock a lot of people,” he told The Wall Street Journal. He added that US President Donald Trump “has no blinders on.” “He (Trump) will say, ‘Everything is on the table, let’s negotiate,'” Vance said.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇩🇪US Vice President Vance refuses to meet with Scholz in Munich

According to the US official, Vance emphasizes that Scholz “will not be chancellor for long” and there is no need to hold meetings with him.

Earlier, Scholz said that they do not recognize the negotiations, that Ukraine is under duress.
[WOW. what days. To refuse to see the ostensible ruler of a nation in his own nation, and as Host of arguably the most important security conference of the year for the combined West! The deserved humiliation of Europe and Germany is being underlined. And as at end of WW2, Russkie and Yank meet on German soil over the bones of Germans to start to hammer mutual understanding of the next peaceful era]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇺🇸 NEW: The Boeing C-32 plane carrying U.S. Secretary of State Marcio Rubio, bound for Germany, was forced to return to Maryland’s Joint Base Andrews due to a ‘mechanical issue.’ The cockpit windshield reportedly cracked.
[I wouldn’t trust Little Narco either. Send the Manchurian Candidate to settle with the liberal German nazis. Or it could just be ANOTHER incident with Boeing]
⭕ — 🇱🇧/🇮🇷 NEW: A group of Lebanese have blocked the Beirut Airport road by burning tires, in protest to the Lebanese Government forcing an Iranian plane with Lebanese passengers to return to Tehran
⭕ —❗️🇱🇧/🇱🇧/🇮🇷 NEW: The number of protestors in front of Beirut International Airport has reached multiple thousands

Lebanon’s Prime Minister, after intense domestic pressure, has agreed to send a plane to Tehran to bring the Lebanese citizens back home. Discussions are being held to allow the entry of Iranian planes into Lebanon.

Protestors were seen holding Hezbollah flags, images of Shaheed Hassan Nasrallah, and signs that read: ‘Lebanon will never be Israeli’.
[More people power in front of abject compradore elite]
⭕ —❗️🇱🇧/ 🇱🇧 BREAKING: The Lebanese Army is opening Beirut Airport road by force, and shooting into the crowd with rubber bullets
⭕ 📹 Lebanese security forces are firing gas at the protestors near the airport road, who are gathering to voice their anger at the unannounced Lebanese government decision to deny the entry of an Iranian civilian airliner carrying Lebanese from Iran
⭕— 🇱🇧/🇱🇧/🇮🇷 WATCH: Large scale protests and road-blockings continue in Beirut, as the Lebanese people protest against their government’s decision to refuse entry of an Iranian plane carrying Lebanese citizens |media|
[Abject elite are the last to get a memo..]

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ Washington and New Delhi have reached an agreement under which the United States will become the leading supplier of oil and gas to India, Trump said following talks with Modi.

The US and India have agreed to work on creating “one of the largest trade routes” in history , which will run through Israel and Italy, Trump said.
[LOL. Pure BS. US is itself reselling Russian gas to Europe, via India, right now! And lacks own capacity to expand production.
Another Big Ask by Orange.
Note this is the same risible IMEC corridor spewed by Biden regime at a recent G20. The Palestinians, and entire Resistance Axis, have a say. In order for any possibility of this to take place, there needs to be dismantling of zionazidom, full liberation and lifting of siege of Palestinians and the region, withdrawal of Anglos. Otherwise, it remains a pipedream. And the weak do not get to dictate]
⭕ 🇪🇺🇷🇺EU to continue imposing sanctions against Russia in energy sector despite US plans and intentions – European Commission
[so complete your seppuku without howling so much. Our ears are already oversore with your drivel!]
⭕ Kiev will try to disrupt the dialogue that has started between Russia and the United States through sabotage and terrorism – Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador-at-Large for Russia’s Foreign Ministry
[goes without saying. And Orange’s bodyguard detail should be tripled]
⭕ 🇩🇪 In Munich last night, during a vigil and protest for the injured victims of yesterday’s car-ramming attack by an Afghan asylum seeker, which left 28 people injured, a group representing the local Antifa movement held a loud counter-protest against the attendees, accusing them of being “fascists” for calling for an end to open borders.
[I had ignored this as another western FF or simple breakout by another deranged refugee, but is this a British message to the Germans not to follow Orange into submission to the Russkie? This is the same host city of the annual Security Conference, made most famous by VVP in 2007 where he laid the Law right to the shrinking face of McCain & Gang]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇲🇩 Deliveries of gas purchased with Russian support have begun in Transnistria — Vadim Krasnoselsky

The President of Transnistria thanked Russia for its assistance in overcoming the energy crisis.
[Excellent. Less likelihood of Romania now being activated. The southern EU and Black-Sea tier of NATO is being slowly stripped away. The northern tier may join Atlantis if they keep it up]
⭕ 🇬🇧⚔️🇷🇺UK imposes sanctions against Russian Deputy Defense Minister Pavel Fradkov and FSTEC Director Vladimir Selin
[Excellent. A mighty sign that Orange’s Retreat and Submission is in full flow as the Limeys pitifully screech]
⭕ 🇷🇺💬The Kremlin believes that the G8 has lost its relevance because it unites countries that are not leaders in economic growth – Dmitry Peskov
[Jawohl ! Good news keeps pilin’ on. We may expire from sheer happiness. And who needs to join a Titanic AFTER the Iceberg??]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇪🇺 Reports: U.S. May Announce Troop Withdrawal from Europe at Munich Conference

According to Bild, Munich Security Conference Chairman Christoph Heusgen stated that J.D. Vance may announce a large-scale withdrawal of U.S. troops from Europe during the event.

Ahead of the conference, German CDU chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz also expressed expectations that Vance would make a “tough statement” directed at Germany and other European nations.

“This conference will be remembered for a long time,” Merz told reporters.

Earlier, Italian outlet ANSA reported that Trump is prepared to withdraw 20,000 U.S. troops from Europe.
[Indeed. Terms of 2021 capitulation appear to be accepted unconditionally and in full.. Perhaps we should feature this Conference this year! A sumptuous buffet appears in the offing]
⭕ 🇷🇺 There will be no Russian representatives at the Munich Security Conference – Zakharova
[So Orange caught in another lie]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇸 The Kremlin has stated that it expects clarification from the U.S. regarding Vice President Vance’s remarks about using “military leverage” against Moscow. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov made the statement in response to Vance’s comments.

Vance recently said (https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/138759) that if Russia refuses to support a peace plan for Ukraine, Washington could impose new sanctions on Moscow and even consider deploying U.S. troops to Ukraine.
[they should better prep and give stricter talking points to the Manchurian Candidate. Every syllable shall be scrutinized and critiqued. The days of loose posturing among the Lilliputians are OVER]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️The Russian Armed Forces have liberated the settlements of Dachnoye and Zelyonoye Polye in the DPR, the Defense Ministry says
⭕ 🇪🇺 Europeans are the “cucks” of the historical process: a French journalist on Trump and Putin talk

🇷🇺🇺🇸 The recent discussion between Russian President Putin and his US counterpart Trump is the right way out, even if it marks a defeat for Europeans who made fools of themselves over the Ukraine issue, investigative journalist Jacques-Marie Bourget told Sputnik Africa.

💬 “Europe’s defeat is that the prospect of an alliance with Russia, which would have been historically logical and fantastic, is now dead. It is an appalling economic, human and cultural mess,” he said.

Ukraine will now become a secondary problem and subsequent actions will bring “Europe to its knees,” he concluded.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ ‼️ General Apti Alaudinov, commander of the Akhmat special forces (and an influential political voice in Russia), spells things out in precise terms.
[links:
🔻 Victor vickop55:
“He is not only an enemy of Russia, he is an enemy of humanity”

Akhmat special forces commander Apti Alaudinov condemned Donald Trump and said that he “does not want anything good for Russia” during a meeting with Moscow State University students

At a meeting with students of the Moscow State University law faculty, Alaudinov assessed the actions of the new American president and commented on the news about the beginning of a dialogue between the United States and Russia, a correspondent for “Beware, News” reports. According to Alaudinov, Trump “does not want anything good for Russia, but as a businessman and economist, he wants America to be rich.”

“He [Trump] cannot simultaneously pull off a war with Russia, and events in the Middle East, and the new concept in which America’s main enemy is China. He is spreading himself out over areas that no state can handle. Today, it is not in his interests to pour money into Ukraine. And we understand that he cannot make Ukraine win the war against Russia”

Alaudinov also quoted Vladimir Putin’s words in a conversation with Trump that “the root cause” of the military conflict must be removed: “If the conditions that were discussed initially are not met, then, of course, we will go to the victorious end.” |media|]
🔻 WINE TRAVEL: Will , Putin has to listen to the army ,he doesn’t have complete control…and I sometimes think this matter is overlooked
🔻 WS: Well … I certainly haven’t overlooked it. I’ve talked about this reality for years. Putin is not the dictator / autocrat he is made out to be. That’s not how things work in Russia.
🔻 WINE TRAVEL: I apologise, Will…I meant MSM….I certainly think you are 10 x more qualified than me to know that
🔻 WS: No offense taken. Not at all. Your point is very important for people to understand. Putin rules by the consent and approbation of the governing elite in Russia, the Russian military, and the Russian people.
🔻 Carlos Bermudez: I understand that Putin is diplomatic and has the courteous manners of a head of state. I would say he sometimes exaggerates. The blood of the Russian people (Soldiers) knows well the deceitful tricks of the West, and over the last 100 years, they have learned the hard way
🔻 Red Moose🀄️: The Empire would have to chin up and accept defeat.

⭕ Almost four years later …
[reposts his from 23 Apr 2021:
“Ukraine has two options: accept its role as a buffer state, or be dismembered. If the US goads them into an attempt to subjugate the Donbass, Russia will slice away eastern Ukraine and assimilate it — and there is *nothing* the US can do to prevent it.”]
🔻 EvaG: Do you think finally Elbridge Colby will achieve his dreams of laser focussing US Military onto the Pacific to “deter” China ? One war shuts another war starts.
🔻 WS: 🤦‍♂️ Elbridge Colby landed his dream job. Good for him.

But if the US attempts to make war against China, most of the Seventh Fleet will be destroyed in less than a week, and every US base in the region smashed up good and hard. War against China is utter madness.
🔻 C2: To be fair , Meirsheimer called it 4 years before.
🔻 WS: Did he? I don’t recall him talking about the US preparing #TheMotherOfAllProxyArmies in Ukraine, and predicting that the Russians would dismember Ukraine if they attempted to conquer the Donbass by force of arms.

That said, I haven’t read everything Mearsheimer said back then.
🔻 C2: It’s well posted , the old west leading the Ukrainians down the garden path, is the key phrase, easy to find Will. The last part of your post is hindsight.
🔻 Thingsneedtochange: As I recall, Mearsheimer said in a lecture during 2015 that Ukraine was being led down the “primrose path” and would be wrecked if it stopped being neutral.

Here’s a news article linking to that lecture. |link|
🔻 WS: Professor Stephen F. Cohen was also talking about these things back during that period. His last book (2019) was an urgent warning.
[Thank you. See above leading photo for book. The two are incomparable, galaxies apart]
🔻 Thingsneedtochange: Yeah. It’s sad that the U.S. is led by idiots who really believe if they clap loud enough, their wishes will become true. All while ignoring realists with actual knowledge of international affairs, such as professors Cohen, Mearsheimer, and Jeffery Sachs.
[Ignore the latter two!]
🔻 DotAnti: I have been following and reading you for a long time. We Serbs don’t really like you Americans, but I will say that you are a genius, a prophet. I am amazed.
🔻 WS: I don’t believe I’m a genius or a prophet. But, for some reason, I’ve been a fascinated student of Russia since I was very young. I began following events in eastern Europe much closer after the dissolution of the USSR. Consequently, it wasn’t that hard to see what was coming.
🔻 Pleas Lucian: Discernment is often mistaken for prophecy. I do agree that your analysis of this conflict and of empire collapse generally has been invaluable.
⭕cont. thread:
Four US Nimitz-class aircraft carriers were “re-christened” over the course of 2024: |link|
🔻 WS: reposts his old:
🏆 Military Achievement of the Year – 2024

Over the course of 2024, the Yemeni have chased away FOUR US Navy carrier strike groups:

CSG-2 (CVN69 – USS Brave Sir Robin)
CSG-9 (CVN71 – USS Teddy Bear)
CSG-3 (CVN72 – USS Fraidy Abe)
CSG-8 (CVN75 – USS Trembling Puppy)

Remarkable.
🔻 WS: Now we know why the US Navy dedicates a lot of practice time to high-speed aircraft carrier U-turns.
⭕There weren’t many people talking about Ukraine before 2022 … but there were a few. This is a post from a discussion I had with Dr. Alina Polyakova and General Mark Hertling. Hertling promptly blocked me after I posted this.
[LOL. The Brass Knuckle-Draggers CANNOT be even seen riskin their pork and “perks.” Always highly attuned to where the sun shines, and where lie the black holes]
reposts his old from 26 Nov 2018:
🔻 WS: Replying to @JoeDreitler @MarkHertling @apolyakova @MaxBoot
Any plan whose primary tenet is NOT a withdrawal of US presence in Ukraine, and a general cessation of US meddling in the former USSR “buffer zone” nations, will ultimately be doomed to failure and hasten the decline of the empire. A multipolar world beckons; the US must adapt.
⭕🧵A thread of pre-war tweets about the existential necessity of Ukraine remaining a neutral buffer state: |THREAD|
⭕🔻 P a u l ◉: Pete Hegseth, Defense Secretary, just announced in Brussels at a press conference that the U.S. isn’t prepared to face Russia, particularly at sea. He claims it would take over seven years to build the necessary ships. What the actual fuck is he doing, broadcasting our vulnerabilities to the entire world? These incompetent idiots clearly have no fucking clue what they’re doing.
🔻 HUNTSMAN 🇺🇲: Did your parents feed you paint chips as a bedtime snack?

This issue has been discussed ad nauseum in explicit detail in MANY open hearings and testimonies before Congress.

Commentators, analysts, think tanks, and the Pentagon have produced thousands of pages of extensive public reporting on this topic for more than a decade.

The US’ present lack of shipbuilding capacity is the furthest thing possible from a state secret.

On the bright side, if we keep getting enough of these blindingly deranged takes, maybe even RFK Jr will actually approve those experimental vaccines for TDS and Dunning-Kruger.
🔻 WS: Ross [HUNTSMAN] and I have colliding views on several topics, but his is an important voice in the subject areas that command his focus.

And sometimes he’s pretty funny, too. 😉
🔻 C3: Ships are so “battleship WWI” or “Aircraft Carrier WWII” vibe.

Not sure exactly what the future looks like but unmanned drones will take center stage.
🔻 WS: Yes. And I increasingly believe crewed fixed-wing warplanes have become acutely vulnerable in the context of a war between major powers.
🔻 HUNTSMAN 🇺🇲: But, like, polite collisions.
⭕🔻 John Ʌ Konrad V: I was told for years by Admirals of every rank there is no possible way any merchant ship would ever be used as a warship ever.

I was told that even putting defensive weapons on Navy logistic ships is a terrible idea. |link|
🔻 WS: Which is why, in Big War, there is no option but to “sink ’em all” and let Neptune sort them out.
[note he’s constantly perusing and communicating with the navy/merchant marine/sea dogs — waiting for the shoe to drop on ramifications of Red Sea defeat and other manifestations of lost power projection/rev of military affairs. These can only be hidden so long. What days]
🔻 Lol Nope: I feel like the world’s navies, having never fought any major battles for nearly 80 years, don’t quite appreciate just how quickly the fleets would be taken out of rotation if real festivities kick off in the year of our lord 2025.
⭕‼️😆 Look, I’m almost certain Trump is going to eventually commit a major blunder that will result in a sobering dose of reality administered to the US military.

But the “Trump Unleashed” we are now seeing is not only exceedingly entertaining, but could be salutary in many ways. |media|
[“they need our protection”… a raider at work]
🔻 Renier P. du Plessis: he is giving every economics professor and author of economic text books nightmares
🤣
🔻 davidcarlosalaverry: A major Trump blunder is likely. But all presidents have them. Along w major setbacks. One huge looming catastrophe is economic meltdown. Another the ME. The real question is his survivability. We shall see .
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: The US has no cards whatsoever to play against Russia and China and he will learn that painfully, but he learns quick. He jettisoned Kellogg very quickly once he realised he was a failure and brought in his troubleshooter Witkoff.
⭕🔻 Mike Mihajlovic: Delusion in practice
[Good Lord. A proper Freak Show to rival Orange. No wonder Europe is toast]
🔻 WS: Members of the high school “Model UN” club pose for a reunion photo.

⭕🔻USNI News: U.S. Could Bolster Missile Defense with New Sensors Within a Year, NORTHCOM Says – USNI News
🔻 WS: This is a prime example of “headline propaganda”.

There is nothing within the article itself that serves to support the assertion of the headline.
[An Empire of LIES – to the last bitter dregs]
🔻 C2: It’s a sales pitch.
🔻 farragut: “Could” 😏
⭕🔻 Alexander G. Rubio:
The Europeans are frothing at the mouth at being excluded from the negotiations between the US and Russia. But for the US and Russia Ukraine is probably just an obstacle to be overcome in a far wider reaching set of potential deals and spheres of interest.
🔻 WS: 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.
[agree]
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: Many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip. …

“But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy!”
🔻 WS: The spring ploughing always turns up rodents and bugs for the hawks and ravens who hover above and strut around the fields.
🔻 Yuin Chung Lok: Trump is fond of brash brinkmanship.
🔻 WS: That sort of thing works against micro-powers like Panama and Colombia.

It will not work against Russia and China, nor even Iran.
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: The Russians have ample reasons to distrust the West, particularly the U.S. and U.K.

The Russians are as straightforward as a competitor can ever be.

In contrast, the West is as dishonest and manipulative as a competitor can ever be.

When, not if, when the West finally concedes to every legitimate and rightful Russian objective, the Russians should be ready to identify the West’s potential violations of the agreement. They should then ensure that all possible alternatives to the agreement lead to dead ends or unilateral losses.

Given the sacrifices the Russians have made throughout their dealings with the West, especially in recent years, the Russians should not sign an agreement or treaty that is easily violated or one that lacks substantial penalties for violations, even insignificant infractions.
[no worries. Sarmat shall make the deal airtight indeed]
🔻 El Dasein: Will, What is your argument for thinking that an agreement will not be reached? Everything is favorable for Russia, it has an advantage on the battlefield, its economy is healthy and its army is stronger than ever.
🔻 WS: “Everything is favorable for Russia, it has an advantage on the battlefield, its economy is healthy and its army is stronger than ever.”

Exactly. And the Russians will operate on that basis, which will inevitably become too bitter a pill for the Masters of Empire to swallow.
🔻 C6: Right! And it’s in yuge American interest to pull Russia back out of China’s orbit. And: DOGE probably ran some numbers and told Trump that any long-term U.S. standoff against Russia in any of the many theaters is a total no-win situation. Musk tweeted last night: K. Maru.
🔻 WS: There will be no prying apart of Russia and China. This is a western pipe dream based upon false assumptions and imperial vanity.
🔻 Daily Planet: The US has lost all credibility into the future. The Oligarchic west wants to win at their version of monopoly.
🔻 C8: I am diametrically opposed in my view point, and thus I will take the under with odds against Will. @imetatronink

Given my deep and abiding respect for your work and opinion I am very curious to see how it works out.

Curious to hear where Lee @LeeSlusherLLC comes down.

Not in the hope he sides one way or the other. Just deeply respect his opinion as well.

Will be entertaining to see it play out regardless?
🔻 WS: To clarify my position, I’m not saying some sort of agreement cannot be reached. I simply don’t believe it will be easily or swiftly achieved. And before it is, I expect the US to first do something ill-advised in a futile attempt to improve their negotiating position.
⭕🔻 Brian Berletic:
🇺🇸 Details of US Regime Change Exposed…

During the USAID hearing, many revelations were made including the fact that “aid” programs were used as cover to both recruit members of future client regimes and to control geostrategically located nations in regards to maritime choke-points.

US-educated “staff” placed into positions of political power would then serve US corporate interests – the example of choosing US big-pharma over Chinese or Russian alternatives was used specifically.

While many will say “isn’t it good that the US closed USAID then?”…the reality is the US State Department has long-since established specific programs for both objectives.

The US State Department “Youth Leadership” initiatives are a much more focused and efficient version of what was described in the above video – for example.

US interfernce hasn’t been dismantled, it has been reorganized, better hidden, and because of this limited hangout, public perception convinced it has been dismantled.

For the full hearing: |FULL| |Clip 01|
🔻 Brian Berletic: And if you listen to the whole hearing, it again focuses only on divisive issues like DEI and transgender activities, not the decades of subversion USAID engages.

It was even pointed out that many USAID programs have been given waivers and CONTINUE interfering abroad under the cover of “aid” and that among the many objectives USAID should contribute to is undermining China. |Clip 02|
🔻 WS: reposts his older from Feb 03:
They want to believe so badly. But in the end, nothing will change. Nothing at all. In fact, it will be seen clearly in retrospect that everything that matters most got worse.

From September 2023:  |link|
⭕ I cannot fathom how it is so many otherwise seemingly attentive and discerning Kremlin observers have been so easily persuaded that Putin is so anxious to knock out a peace deal that he is prepared to compromise on many of his supposedly inviolable demands.
[exactly. The crow shall be served. Terms per Dec 2021]
reposts his older:
“Putin’s definition of terms in relation to these “root causes” (and the requisites of their resolution) are contained in the 12/2021 “Draft Treaty” (delivered to the NATO bloc), and Putin’s landmark speeches of February 21/24, 2022.

The Trump regime will choke on those terms.”

The noises and visuals emanating from the Munich globalist coven are something to behold!

"The US administration are doing this above Zelensky's head… The b******s are gonna do this"@nicholaswatt reports shock from senior UK defence figures, after Donald Trump said he and Vladimir Putin would begin talks to end the war in Ukraine "immediately".#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/xEopIcgLFp

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) February 12, 2025

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇨🇳💬🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺The Ukrainian crisis is happening on European soil, and Europe must play an important role in addressing the root causes – Wang Yi  |media|
[Oh, Oh, Uncle Wang, this is now verging on child abuse! LOL. Note the emphasis on VVP’s catch phrase — “ROOT CAUSES“. Persistent gentle remonstration shall ram this bone down the bottomless gullet]
⭕ 🇨🇳 Chinese Foreign Minister has to answer stupid questions…

“If China doesn’t buy gas from Russia, which country can provide so much gas, as to meet the needs of the Chinese people? It’s not possible.”
[Uncle, use PowerPoint with lots of big cartoons, and no more than six words per slide. Use many $$$ to retain attention. On last slide, say “so sorry”, those $$$ were strictly for illustrative purposes and those days are OVER]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇪🇺 The biggest threat to Europe is not Russia, China, or any other external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within. – JD Vance  |media|
[The sanctimonious bullshitting is deliciously epic. God Bless the Manchurian Candidate. He’s making USUK toxic on the entire World-Island for 1,000 generations. A permanent cure of Anglo-Saxons]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦 The Kiev Regime team just wrapped up talks with The Orange Team.

From the looks of it, everyone’s absolutely thrilled. Zelensky’s pimp Yermak looks genuinely pissed, while Rubio and Vance couldn’t look less amused.

According to media reports, Zelensky and his pimp have already bounced from the conference.   |media|
[The tasks of Lil Narco and the Manchurian Man remind me of a forgettable movie about two men at work..]
⭕ 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦 Germany’s Defense Minister Boris Pistorius stated at the Munich Security Conference that Europe will not be able to provide security guarantees for Ukraine in the coming years without the support of the United States.

He said that “We must be clear that there is a significant gap in our deterrence capabilities. Without U.S. resources, we will not be able to provide security guarantees for Ukraine, at least in the near future.”

🐻 Well, it seems like you have a problem then. 🤷‍♂️
[“There shall be a change of elites,” said a perspicacious Russian strongman]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦 U.S. Vice President Vance has confirmed that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Representative for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, will be part of the U.S. delegation during peace talks.

Previously, Trump had stated that his Special Representative, Witkoff, would be included in the delegation, without mentioning Kellogg.

Vance also clarified that U.S. military forces will not be involved in the Ukraine-Russia conflict, following a misinterpretation by The Wall Street Journal.
[Can u imagine General Lucky Charms serving the Darjeeling Tea? Or served as part of the banquet on a long ornate silver platter with a Red Delicious Apple in his mouth? Interesting use shall be found for him]
⭕ 🇺🇦🇷🇺 A reminder that Russian forces are only about 12 miles from the town of Mezhevaya…in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

If a ceasefire does not happen that would end hostilities in this war, Russian forces could very well enter Dnepropetrovsk and take the fight against Ukraine to a new region.
⭕🇺🇦 Polish, Hungarian, Slovak, Romanian, and Bulgarian authorities are reportedly considering the possibility of annexing certain Ukrainian territories, according to Viktor Medvedchuk.
⭕ 🇺🇸🤣 Trump only speaks American |media|
[I submit only for Modi’s face!!! Good God. He’s not even pretending. What a Journey he’s had – Mad Macron, and now this Orange Deluge. Only the Good Die Young. He may retire early to avoid any more western Freaks. This is another form of elder abuse, following on heels of the crashtestdummy]
⭕️ 🇷🇺💬The “funeral” of the collective West took place at the Munich Conference – Vice Speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev

However, the threats have not disappeared; they are simply becoming more varied, he emphasized

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇺🇸 US Vice President’s debut speech at the Munich Security Conference: A “cold shower” for attendees used to previous US rhetoric

📌 Sputnik has compiled the key statements from Vice President James David Vance:

• Russia and China are not the main threats to Europe. The primary threat is internal;
• Europe’s crisis stems from its own decisions;
• The US was taken aback by Europe’s enthusiasm over the cancellation of elections in Romania. Vance encouraged Europe to demonstrate its commitment to democratic values through action rather than merely discussing them;
• Regarding the Romanian authorities’ decision to annul elections due to suspicions of foreign interference, the Vice President remarked: “If your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, it wasn’t very strong to begin with.”
• The migration crisis in Europe did not emerge “in a vacuum”—it is “the result of a series of conscious decisions made by politicians all over the continent.”   |media|

[Priceless. And from the degenerate former colony that engineered it all! If there’s ever a Garden that earned its place under Uncle Schmuel’s “tender mercies”..]

💠 @Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Hamas and PIJ prepare for release of three hostages.
⭕️ A Hamas official said he expects indirect negotiations with Israel for the second phase of the ongoing Gaza truce to begin “early next week.”

💠 @Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ Trump the Fool
⚡️ @BABalMANDAB
[This is not an insult, but folks’ firming impression! And btw, his strange way of blabbing constantly, spouting nonsense, may be more than an affectation. It is of a piece with that “faith leader” of his, the horny witch speaking in tongues in the WH. There are some principalities known to speak like a motormouth who seek to beguile and bemuse by casting verbal magick. A form of refined rap. I used to watch decodes on such satanism on a now defunct YT channel. What a cesspool]
⭕ 🔴 📷 A million-people storm in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, in support of Palestine under the slogan “On the promise with Gaza against displacement, against all conspiracies” – February 14, 2025.   |media|
[Keep scrolling down]
⭕ 🇾🇪 By the might and power of God, we storm the battlefields, rising with His strength against His enemies like a hurricane. We shake their foundations and eradicate their tyranny, uprooting their existence. We confront them with strong and steadfast wills like rock, with souls filled with patience, and hearts believing and confident in victory.

When we descend upon their grounds, the morning will be grim for the wrongdoers, as we make them taste the bitterness of defeat with God’s fierce might, serving them the cups of oppression and death from His supremacy. We strip them of their garments of arrogance and oppression, and clothe them in outfits of humiliation and disgrace. We demonstrate to them through our flames the immense power of God that cannot be overcome, and we witness His promises and signs coming to fruition and manifesting before us.

“…. now he [Satanyahoo] has disappeared…” after belching fire earlier in the week.
The same deranged crap as with Orange.
Before: “Big Ask”
After: NYET!
NB – there is more confusion about what happened to the US aircraft carrier. He is saying here it was struck IN THE RED SEA. Let’s put aside whether it was struck or not, but this is second person I am hearing say it was NOT at outlet of the Suez in southern Med, but in Red Sea.
So maybe it really was a harsh message from Yemen to the messianic madmen
PPS – he makes a point I made on main site, why this mini-summit of GCC-Egypt is absolutely useless. They do not invite the more serious arabs/berbers and anti-imperialists such as Algeria. It is a coven of effeminate compradores who posture in an absolutely useless way. Another time-waster like the kept U.N. fora.
But he concludes with excellent point. The Victory of the Resistance in Gaza is imposing itself on the entire calculations of the region and its traitors, as 404 Victory is doing to Europe. They are now really terrified for their very lives, nevermind grasp on escaping power. The era of even pretenses draw to a close, as concubines change hands……

As during the first Crusades, the fighting monks (Templar Knights) couldn’t hide under the cloaks of their vestments and were targeted and disposed of as combatants, so it comes to the deranged zionazi women in this round..

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️The Russian troops liberated the settlement of Berezovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad handed over the three Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Khan Younis.

They are now on their way to Israel, where they will be medically examined before being returned to their families.
[wearing captured zionazi kit to rub it in! And held in town of several of the most bitter defeats – a traditional stronghold of Hamas too. iirc hometown of Yahya Sinwar]

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕❗️ Vice Speaker of the Russian State Duma Boris Chernyshov published one of Zhirinovsky’s notes:

“In light of recent events, I decided to publish one of Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky’s notes.

“Europe nurtured Hitler against the USSR but Hitler drenched Europe itself in blood. Now the West supports the Nazis in Ukraine to fight Russia but the revived Nazism in Ukraine will shake Europe itself”

Written in 2017 but how it sounds today. And this is not a prophecy but a harsh and truthful forecast of one of the greatest minds of our time. If the EU remains Zelensky’s advocate, then Zelensky will become the EU’s undertaker.

There will be no better commentary on the results of the Munich Conference.”
⭕ Hamas releases 3 Israeli hostages

Russian-Israeli Alexander Trufanov, American-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen and Iair Horn stand with certificates and goodie bags.

Israel will be releasing the Palestine prisoners that have been held in the notorious prisons of the zionists where they are often tortured and abused. |media|

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ In Baghdad, Iraq, the unforgettable leaders.
[from L to R: Palestine’s Haniyeh & Sinwar, Iraq’s Abu Muhandis, Iran’s Soleimani, Lebanon’s Nasrallah & his cousin Safieddine. Centered underneath them is a replica of Al Qud’s (Jerusalem’s) Dome of the Rock masjid]
⭕ Israel did not mention how it had given in to the demands of the Palestinian resistance, where Benjamin Netanyahu was careful to hide the details of the deal.

The prisoner exchange is back on track, with the release of 3 Israelis and the freedom of the Palestinians due today.
[as Abdel Bari Atwan above said, the head zionazi madman kept quiet!]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Netanyahu is set to hold a security meeting today evening about the negotiations with Hamas for the second phase of the hostage deal
[LOL. The real Flood (of zionazi emotions) about to burst…]
⭕ Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov: Moscow welcomes the release of Alexander Trufanov and expresses its gratitude to Hamas leadership for making this decision.

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ Zelensky says Ukraine has not been invited to the US-Russia meeting in Saudi Arabia next week.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ cont. thread:
Putin’s definition of terms in relation to these “root causes” (and the requisites of their resolution) are contained in the 12/2021 “Draft Treaty” (delivered to the NATO bloc), and Putin’s landmark speeches of February 21/24, 2022.

The Trump regime will choke on those terms.
🔻 C1: Something is not real with this war, Ukraine’s bridges over Dnepr river are intact( rail+road). Logistics goes full speed. When Nato bombed Yugoslavia one of main targets were bridges for rail transport. We know that Russians have capacity to hit them but they are not…
🔻 WS: It is obviously because the Russians WANT the bridges intact for their own purposes.
[posts leading map by Sergei Witte]
🔻 C1: So exchanging tens of thousands of Russian lives (having to fight against western armor) and engaging in a 3 year struggle for minimal territorial gains is because they want the road/bridge infrastructure in place? We are pro Russian here, but we have to think critically.
[i certainly agree with latter point. Is the point of war to take land?]
⭕ cont. thread:
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.
🔻 Keith Jones: I don’t think Trump expects this Kellogg deal to be accepted. His political opposition in the U.S. would like him to get bogged down in Ukraine to the point where he owns the mess. At present it’s still Biden’s mess. Now if the deal is not accepted, Trump can walk away and leave it to Starmer, Vonderleyen & Kaya Callous etc, who seem very keen to take it on.
🔻 Elydia35: Trump has already excluded Kellogg from any talks with Russia. Kellogg is no longer a part of this bec the Russians made it known that he’s a cold war dinosaur & none of his proposals (they included bribery & threats) will work
🔻 Keith Jones: It could have been a Trump master stroke to throw Kellogg in as a decoy. UK and EU thought that Kellogg was the man to scupper any deal, Boris Johnson style. They were played by Trump.
🔻 Elydia35: I think this is the right analysis, Alexander Mercouris said the same. It’s telling how the UK press & govt were shocked at Hegseth’s statements, they thought Kellogg was the guy crafting policy toward Russia when it was Witkoff who Trump sent to Moscow
🔻 WS: I think Mercouris has a pronounced and inexplicably naive blind spot when it comes to his views of Trump and the governing / foreign policy entourage he has thrown together. Mercouris will eventually come to grips with the reality of the situation, but it may take a while yet.
🔻Dr. Anton: Paraphrasing, Mercouris said that Kellogg is not and has not been the negotiator/deal maker, in fact it all started to happen only once Witkoff arrived in Russia and so on.
He said that Witkoff is the real ‘envoy’.
What is your view, if I may?
🔻 WS: My view is that Trump’s entire approach to dealing with Putin and Russia consists of ad hoc improvisation, and will continue to do so until he is persuaded to do something egregiously ill-advised.
🔻 C4: What a pessimist you are, Mr Schryver
🔻 WS: Optimism and pessimism are irrelevant.

Realism is the only thing that matters at the present time.
⭕🔻 Daniel Davis Deep Dive: JD Vance Playing ‘Bad Cop’ with PUTIN
🔻 WS: Meanwhile Putin et al. are shaking their heads and rolling their eyes.

I look forward to Medvedev’s next poetic missive which mocks western delusions and reiterates Russia’s inviolable objectives.
📜 Dictating Terms
⭕🔻 zerohedge:
GERMAN DEFENSE MINISTER SAYS IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR VP VANCE TO COMPARE GERMANY’S DEMOCRACY TO AN AUTHORITARIAN REGIME

SAYS FRAGILE PEACE IN UKRAINE THAT ONLY POSTPONES WAR IS NOT AN OPTION
🔻 John Ʌ Konrad V:
The German Defense Minister could end the Ukraine war tomorrow by sinking Russian oil tankers bound for China.

Not saying they should—but they refused to join the US mission in the Red Sea to prevent tankers from being sunk.

Either support our efforts or go stop Russia yourself
🔻 WS: This is delusional #BatshitCrazy silly talk, John.

“Sinking Russian oil tankers bound for China” is utter madness that would produce highly undesirable consequences, starting with the sinking of NATO warships and western tankers.
🔻 No Filter Thoughts: Yup. And if that doesn’t get the message across, all oil & gas terminals, pipeline hubs, and storage will also get a friendly visit from various Russian missiles. And then the EU gets to starve in the dark.
🔻 Goran Karaman: I recently started following this guy ( john konrad), amongst others, to get a sense of new prevailing winds in USA…i am starting to think American is beyond repair…
⭕🐶 USS Trembling Puppy Update

Looks like a sufficient excuse to head home.

Maybe the USS Brave Sir Robin can hurry back to take its place.
🔻 thequestioner: They literally ran an Aircraft Carrier into something? 🤣

Can’t make this shit up.
🔻 WS: Just a 600′-long ship. At noon, in broad daylight.

Maybe the sun was in their eyes.
[my bad. I thought I read midnight. This is worse]
⭕ CSG-8 Scorecard: 1 F/A-18 shot down; 1 F/A-18 almost shot down; 1 CVN collision with a merchant ship.

👏👏👏

(L) Rear Admiral Sean R. Bailey, Commander of Carrier Strike Group 8

(R) Captain Dave Snowden, USS Trembling Puppy

These two intrepid naval officers deserve medals. |media|
🔻 Dawa🦝🐼🐨: So, basically they hit everything but things they targeted? 🤭
🔻 C1: They also executed multiple impressive high-speed U-turns in the Red Sea, and found a very cozy anchorage near the mouth of the Gulf of Suez, where the crew could calm its shaken nerves.
🔻 Bernhard Riemann: I understand your point, but I think they deserve medals for maintaining the appearance of the US Navy and the survival of their carriers and personnel in the Red Sea.

I should also mention that the Houthis have shown remarkable kindness towards the US Navy.
[both good points]
🔻 Holger Lehmann: Just like the guy that ordered to shot down an Iranian airliner in Iranian airspace.
[For which Bush the Elder the Mad said, “I will never apologize for being an American…” (!!)]
⭕ Arnaud, as always, provides insightful observations.
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand:
Really hard not to make the parallel between JD Vance’s speech right now at the Munich Security Conference and Putin’s 2007 speech at the very same podium.

Both were watershed moments that fundamentally transformed the existing consensus. Putin at the time delivered the speech that marked the beginning of the end of the unipolar moment. JD Vance’s speech will probably be remembered as the speech that marked the beginning of the end of the post-WW2 Western alliance.

As a European, I’m in two minds about what Vance said about Europe.

He is of course right about many things. For instance Europe’s attitude with respect to Romania’s elections was beyond appalling and unequivocally antidemocratic. I myself called it out repeatedly on this platform.

But – and this is a very big BUT – on Romania and much of Vance’s criticism directed at Europe, the U.S. was right there alongside Europe acting jointly, and often even guiding Europe’s actions. Specifically on Romania for instance, I believe that the US State Department was first in issuing a statement on December 4th (2021-2025.state.gov/statemen…) expressing its concern about “Russian involvement in malign cyber activity designed to influence the integrity of the Romanian electoral process” which led to the elections being cancelled two days later (and which, it was later proven, was completely false: it turned out that this “malign cyber activity” were paid for by the very Romanian party in power that cancelled the elections!). It’s only after that State Department statement that the Europeans followed the U.S.’s lead.

So it’s a bit rich, even very rich, for Vance, less than 2 months afterwards, to lecture Europeans on this without as much as acknowledging the U.S.’s own role in a lot of it.

Same could be said about European content moderation and “censorship.” He conveniently forgets that much of Europe’s current approach was developed in close coordination with American agencies and tech companies. The EU’s content moderation framework didn’t emerge in a vacuum – it was heavily influenced by American practices and pressures.

Or take Vance’s criticism of European mass migration policies. He spent a big part of his speech lamenting over the attack in Munich yesterday by (apparently) a young Afghan asylum seeker, describing it as a direct “result of a series of conscious decisions made by politicians all over the [European] continent”. But he conveniently fails to mention why Afghans migrated en-masse out of their country, which might have a little something to do with a certain great power that decided to wage a 20-year long war over there and completely wrecked the country… Same story for many migrants in Europe, a huge share of them being a direct result of disastrous US foreign policy decisions.

I’m also extremely uncomfortable with Vance’s stated intentions to meddle in European politics. He calls out – rightly – Europe for not living up to its democratic values, yet in the same breath he’s explicitly announcing America’s intention to intervene in European politics by supporting certain movements against established institutions. He criticizes European elites for not respecting democratic choices while simultaneously suggesting that a Trump administration would actively work to influence those choices. How is this any different from the kind of interference he hypocritically condemns?

Perhaps most worrying of all, Vance’s vision seems to completely disregard why the post-WW2 European architecture was built in the first place. Europe is the place where both world wars started, 100% of them. The past 80 years were a uniquely peaceful time in European history: due to the high density of states in a relatively small geography and the somewhat disagreeable character of many European nations (the French very much included), the continent had been in almost constant conflict for the previous millennium. I really dislike European institutions as much as the next guy but I don’t forget the original spirit with which they were built: to put an end to endless war in Europe.

By positioning America as an ally of nationalist forces against these institutions, Vance isn’t just ending an alliance – he’s actively working to unwind the entire post-war European peace architecture, which could have immense ramifications. In fact I think we can even legitimately ask ourselves if the U.S. doesn’t now have war in Europe as one of its strategic objectives. Given the U.S.’s history in triggering wars left, right and center when it believes they’re in their interests, and given Vance’s speech, I think the question has merits.

All in all, I’m not ashamed to say that I much prefer Putin’s 2007 speech to Vance’s. Whatever you may think, Putin remained within the confines of what he thought were challenges to Russia’s national interests, issues like NATO expansion or American attempt at global hegemony. He didn’t try to meddle in intra-Western politics or position Russia as an active force for undermining Western institutions from within. His vision was about creating a multipolar world where Russia would be one independent pole – not about dismantling the internal architecture of other poles.

Where Putin wanted to limit Western power globally, Vance seems to want to fracture the European order locally. That’s a far more dangerous proposition.

I’m all for reforming Europe and I constantly call for it. But to me by far the biggest issue for Europe is its lack of sovereignty and strategic autonomy, especially vis à vis the United States, in almost all domains. If Vance’s speech could have any silver lining, it would be to finally wake Europeans up to this reality: let’s hope that for once Europe draws the right lesson. |media|
🔻 inotherwords:
US policy in a nutshell

4 years wrecking the world (“defending”, “being dragged”, “being a victim”, lecturing/blaming others, the Dems), 4 years insulating from the consequence (lecturing/blaming others, the Reps), repeat over and over.

The 8-year cycle of US international policy.
⭕🔸 Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Among the many extraordinary popular delusions wafting across the planet at this time, one of the most absurd is the belief the EU can become a great power.

NATO and the EU may “keep up appearances” for a while, but they are dead men walking.
🔻 davidcarlosalaverry: The EU population is 449 million, total Europe 745 million. They are wealthy, educated, with a high level of tech. So they have the prerequisites of a great power.. except a reality-based political elite.

If Trump-style center right populists gain power, Europe could recover from the present madness. Not impossible.. but improbable unless the voters revolt. On the other hand, they may continue on the present course towards dozens of failed, perhaps soon warring states.
🔻 C2: Eunuchs may be a more accurate description but that may change. Europe is somewhat shell shocked realizing finally how unreliable and capricious the US is as an ally.

⭕🧵 Russia’s Peace Terms

I recommend the commentary linked below in relation to US/Russia “negotiations” to end the war in Ukraine.

In subsequent posts, I will link to the ESSENTIAL DOCUMENTATION of RUSSIA’S PEACE TERMS as clearly enunciated over the past several years.

1/ |link|
🔻 WS: Essential Documentation

First is Vladimir Putin’s landmark speech at the 2007 Munich Security Conference. I have linked below to a transcript which includes the essential Q&A session which followed the speech.

2/ |link|
🔻 WS: Next is the Security Guarantee Treaty Russia sent to the United States on December 17, 2021.

3/ |link|
🔻 WS: Next is the Agreement on Security Measures Russia sent to all NATO member states on December 17, 2021.

4/ |link|
🔻 WS: Next is the Address by the President of the Russian Federation on February 21, 2022.

5/ |link|
🔻 WS: Next is the Address by the President of the Russian Federation on February 24, 2022.

6/ |link|
🔻 WS: Finally, I link to my report and analysis of the celebrated Tucker Carlson interview of Vladimir Putin in early February 2024.

The Vladimir Putin Interview
Part Two — Is Russia Angling for an Exit?

7/ |link|
🔻 WS: I remain convinced the Russians will adamantly insist upon the terms previously and repeatedly enunciated — not only by President Vladimir Putin, but by many of the most authoritative and influential voices in Russia.

8/end
📜 Dictating Terms

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ [watch the face of Polish FM “Thank You USA” Sikorski! The expression from the Oxford alumnus could curdle camel milk through the digital aether]   |media|

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ Russia has started delivering Syrian pounds printed under Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the Syrian central bank says.

“We confirm the arrival of Syrian pounds from Russia via Damascus International Airport. However, the figures circulating are inaccurate. We strongly recommend relying on official sources,” the bank said.

Reuters sources say the shipment includes hundreds of billions of Syrian pounds, worth tens of millions of dollars.

The move comes two days after Vladimir Putin held a call with Syria’s new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, amid uncertainty over Russian military bases and Syrian demands for compensation. [life’s like a box of chocolates.. the dying Syrian economy, still under medieval western sanctions, started seizing up due to lack of liquidity. And they called Putin..]
⭕️ 🇺🇸🇲🇽 US Special Forces will land in Mexico to train local marines, at the request of President Sheinbaum.

Fully armed U.S. special forces will land in Mexico next week to begin a training course for Mexican marines. The training will run from February 17 to March 30 in the state of Campeche.

The mission was unanimously approved by a Senate committee at the request of Chairwoman Claudia Sheinbaum. It will cover both conventional and unconventional types of combat.
⭕ 🇺🇸 At the Munich Security Conference, US Vice President JD Vance snubbed German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

“We don’t need to see him, he won’t be chancellor for long,” a former US official said.

With the German election just days away, Vance will instead meet with Scholz’s rival, Friedrich Merz.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇪🇺 US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth:

We cannot assume that the American presence in Europe will last forever.

💠 @BhadraPunchline:
⭕ ‘Yalta 2.0’ sailing into view? Beijing proposes to White House to hold meeting between Trump & Putin in China!   |link|

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇮🇷 G7 statement against Iran

G7 foreign ministers issued a statement on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, sharply criticizing Iran’s nuclear program, interference in regional issues, the war in Ukraine and human rights.

The statement said Iran was fueling regional instability through “rapid progress in uranium enrichment without credible civilian justification,” “supporting armed groups in the Middle East” and “developing missiles and drones.”

💠 @Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Israel yesterday for his first visit to the Middle East as secretary of state.
[So same old, same old by the deranged messianic West? If yes, as in 404, they’re gonna have to be attrited outta existence]

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
[Sikorski said it in front of General Lucky Charms at Munich coven]
⭕ Marco Rubio arrived in Israel  |media|
[He arrived on official plane, not slinking in on anonymous military cargo plane like Lil Blinkie. This is another positive sign from Orange Camacho Gang]
⭕ A batch of MK-84 heavy bombs, the ban on the supply of which to Israel was lifted by Trump, was delivered to Israel by sea and unloaded at the port of Ashdod, the press service of the Israeli Defense Ministry reported.
[Spoken too soon?! But it may be one of the last batches. A way to further pressurize the zionazis]

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand:
This is so important for the West to understand. India’s foreign minister explains that liberalism doesn’t equate democracy and that, on the contrary, when applied internationally it’s fundamentally antidemocratic

As he explains, “different societies have their own culture, their own values, their own ways of doing things” and liberalism on the contrary takes the view that there’s “one truth, one judgement and one norm” that should be “preached, propagated, evaluated.”

He says that this preaching and propagation is made by “think tanks, people who do ratings, by newspapers” who he describes as “self-appointed custodians” who have zero democratic legitimacy yet are “telling the rest of the world what is right and what is wrong” in their countries.

He also says that Western governments routinely attempt to subvert democracy in other countries by “reaching out to outliers” (i.e. opposition groups), adding that if Indian ambassadors “did a fraction of that, you would all be up in arms”.

This I think is undoubtedly the most important mindset shift that the West needs to undertake as we move to multipolarity. Moving from a mindset of “we need to shape others in our image” to “we need to understand others and respect them for who they are.” We could do it when the power differential was large and the West was the only game in town but in a world where different centers of power exist with increasingly comparable strength, if one center adopts a neocolonial paternalistic approach to its foreign relations they’ll get increasingly isolated and shunned. No-one likes a preacher who insists their way is the only way, especially when they no longer have the power to enforce their sermon.

I actually think the issue runs deeper than liberalism, in fact if we ask the chicken and egg question I think that liberalism is such a good match for the West BECAUSE it has this universalist and preaching aspect. We didn’t get preachy because of liberalism. You can trace this pattern through centuries of Western history: from religious missionaries convinced they were saving souls, to colonial administrators bringing “civilization”, to our government-funded NGOs (😏) promoting “good governance”.
You can see this with Vance’s speech at the same Munich Security Forum yesterday. No-one can claim that he’s even remotely a liberal, yet there’s no arguing that he delivered a sermon to Europeans, enticing them to reform their societies within. Granted, for once the preaching wasn’t directed at the Global South, which is somewhat refreshing, but the principle is the same: we see a Western leader positioning himself as a moral arbiter of other societies’ internal affairs. The content of the sermon changes, but the underlying impulse to lecture others about how to run their societies remains constant.

It goes to show that the challenge of adapting to a multipolar world runs much deeper than just rethinking liberal internationalism, or setting it aside. It requires confronting a civilizational habit of mind that goes beyond our current ideological divisions – a tendency to view our own preferences, whatever they may be, as universal truths that others must be made to accept. Changing a prevailing ideology is already hard, but this is much harder: we need to change our very civilizational DNA to be at peace with coexisting with others. That is the fundamental lesson we need to learn: the West’s future influence in a multipolar world no longer depends on our ability to shape others, but on our ability to shed our compulsion to do so.  |media|
⭕ Lebanon is heading for a disastrous future (read carefully the sentiments expressed [above]) unless Prime Minister @nawafasalam realises how serious and dangerous it can be.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand:
This is beyond insane: Keith Kellog, Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, confirms that Europe will NOT have a seat at the table in the negotiations to end the war.

When asked at the Munich Security Conference “Can you assure this audience that Ukrainians will be at the table and Europeans will be at the table?”, his response was: “the answer to that last question is no.” By “last question”, he meant whether Europeans will be at the table.

Later on in the conversation, he was asked to confirm this: “So the Europeans […] you don’t think should be at the table directly?”. His answer again was “I’m from the school of realism, I think that’s not going to happen”, and that he understood hearing this might be “like fingers on a chalkboard, may grate a little bit but I’m telling you something that’s really quite honest.”

He was very clear though that he still expected Europeans to provide security guarantees and abide by the deal: “you have to understand, when you sign up for these security guarantees, that is an obligation and the reason I say that and I challenge many people that are out there, right now, 2014 Wales declaration, all the NATO allies, 2% of GDP, 20% of that was modernization, there are still 8 nations who’ve not even gotten to that number, okay? So when we get to it make sure you check your 6 as they say that the obligation is upon YOU when WE make these commitments.”

So to sum up, the US position is that Europe should stay out of negotiations that will fundamentally affect their security architecture – yet bear the primary responsibility and cost for the negotiations’ outcome.

And on top of that, it’s quite clear from previous Trump declarations (like here: https://nypost.com/2025/02/10/us-news/trump-says-ukraine-has-essentially-agreed-to-allow-the-us-access-to-500b-in-rare-earth-minerals/) that the U.S. will be looking in the deal to take control of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals as payment for the military aid it has provided, leaving presumably nothing to Europe.

I’ve repeatedly warned that Europe was fast walking towards its own century of humiliation if it continued on its current path. I think it’s now pretty damn clear that we’re very much there already.

If this goes through, this would possibly be unprecedented in European history – never before, to my knowledge, has Europe’s security architecture been redrawn without any European power at the table. Even during Europe’s darkest moments – including the Mongol invasions, the Ottoman expansions, or the Yalta Conference – European powers always had some voice in negotiations affecting their future.

To be clear, the primary culprit here isn’t the U.S. or Trump: any student of history knows that we live in a deeply unfair world where, as ancient Greek historian Thucydides wrote 2,500 years ago, “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” As such the blame lies almost entirely on us Europeans, or more precisely on our immensely incompetent leaders. And I want to stress this last point: they are literally incompetent on a millennia scale, given that they’ve managed to reduce Europe to a position that lacks any historical parallel, where it’s expected to simply accept and implement whatever security arrangements others decide for it.

Trump himself does what’s best for the U.S. – “America first”, remember? – and to be fair to him the Biden administration left him with a pretty bad hand. It’s crystal clear that Russia won in Ukraine, despite all of NATO’s efforts, and as such the U.S. very much risked coming out of it looking like the loser that it objectively is.

Faced with this, Trump’s strategy clearly is to reframe this defeat into an “art of the deal” victory by securing U.S. access to Ukraine’s natural resources while offloading the costs and responsibilities of the post-war security arrangement onto Europe. Meanwhile Europe, which has failed to develop any meaningful strategic autonomy over the past decades (in fact it’s moved in the opposite direction), finds itself with little leverage to prevent this.

In fact, European “leaders”, in their treasonous meekness, are already signaling that they’ll resign themselves to their fate. Mark Rutte, NATO’s Secretary General, for instance enticed Europeans not to complain about the situation (“to my European friends, I would say, get into the debate, not by complaining that you might, yes or no, be at the table, but by coming up with concrete proposals, ideas, ramp up (defense) spending”, https://www.voanews.com/a/europe-will-not-be-part-of-ukraine-peace-talks-us-envoy-says-/7976497.html).

And Keir Starmer, invited by Macron at a “crisis summit” in Paris to discuss the situation, said that his primary goal in the meeting would be “to ensure we keep the US and Europe together. We cannot allow any divisions in the alliance to distract from the external enemies we face.” (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/15/europe-will-not-take-part-in-us-russia-talks-ukraine-kellogg).

I let you appreciate the perfect illustration this provides of the very mindset that has led Europe to this unprecedented position of weakness – responding to diplomatic humiliation with calls for even more subservience.

So what could Europe do? After all, it is true that they have very little leverage, mainly due to the fact that they are “protected” by the very power that decided to put them on the menu instead of at the table.

One idea could be to out-Trump Trump, and to angle for a deal where the U.S., not Europe, ends up the loser. They could for instance finally tell the truth about what led to the war in the first place, namely NATO expansion pushed by the U.S., as well as the U.S.-led coup in Ukraine in 2014, and dissociate themselves from this, just the way Trump is very conveniently trying to dissociate himself from his own country’s previous policies.

They could make it clear that they reject any deal that gives the U.S. access to any of Ukraine’s resources, and signal to Russia that they’re open to a different kind of security architecture in Europe – one that doesn’t rely on U.S. leadership or NATO. After all, if Trump can say he’ll make deals with Putin, why couldn’t Europe do the same?

They could also reach out to China, which has already made it very clear that it opposed a deal in Ukraine without Europe at the table (https://www.reuters.com/world/china-calls-all-stakeholders-ukraine-war-be-peace-process-2025-02-15/) and which is anyhow much better positioned to negotiate with Russia than Trump is.

We could end up with a Europe freed from American tutelage for the first time since 1945, establishing a new multipolar equilibrium with China and Russia – turning Trump’s attempt to exclude Europe into the very catalyst that finally enables European strategic autonomy.

But this would require a level of strategic thinking that current European leaders have consistently shown themselves incapable of. Instead I’m afraid they’ll continue their current path of attempting to maintain the façade of transatlantic unity even as they’re being openly humiliated.  |media|
[Well put. The Garden became the Full Menu]

When toddlers and children and even many adults sleep – such angels! Like the most picturesque landscape from the masters of old. Delightful. Each wound or injury to them is a wound to one’s own heart.

Then they awaken…….

“western values” were expressed and spread to this man from Jabalia city of Gaza

The criminals CANNOT to long delay the resumption of the Mutually Assured Annihilation. They’ve made themselves marked Palestine-wide. For life. When the full extent of the extermination and bestiality sinks in, they will be hunted. So they need to continue and stay ahead of the arrived storm..

the very streets are dug up by Caterpillar bulldozers custom-made in Illinois for the scum!

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺Russia must make territorial concessions, reduce its army and renounce the use of force in the future – Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg.

Kellogg also stated that it is important for the United States to prevent the formation of alliances between Russia and China, North Korea and Iran. |media|
[OK. I am the local representative of the Tooth Fairy. What other wishes does General Lucky Charms need fulfilled??]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕❗️Ukrainian military losses in Russia’s Kursk region exceeded 61,000 servicemen, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ an exchange machine translated from Italian:
🔻 Francesco Sylos Labini:
<<It is a mistaken belief that the current vitality of the Russian economy is only due to the massive increase in armaments production. The production for internal consumption is grown in recent years and the pace is not decreased in the course of the war 1/
🔻 Francesco Sylos Labini: Agricultural production has exploded. Technological innovation and high-tech production have made giant steps. Especially the military-industrial complex Russian is not only very advanced, but it remained in the hands of the State at the service of defense 2/
🔻 Francesco Sylos Labini: and not focused on profit as the western. Russia has the largest deposit of natural resources of the planet – a giant production-not only in terms of energy, but of all the types of strategic assets. Russia is also the less debt 3/
🔻 Francesco Sylos Labini: between all the great powers, by a huge margin: this is a key advantage that has enabled it to overcome the expulsion from the western banking system. The western powers hyper-finanziarizzate could suffer a severe economic recession powered 4/
🔻 Francesco Sylos Labini: from the debt in the next few years, while Russia is well placed to avoid the mess. And although, as all the major powers on the planet, is facing demographic challenges are significant, it also focuses on these issues and now offers incentives 5/
🔻 Francesco Sylos Labini: extremely generous to address the problem.>> Continue on amazon. … 6/6 |link|
🔻 WS: Analysis of the first order. Reminds me of an old favorite song. throw away the bushes, burn my sleeves |media|
🔻 Francesco Sylos Labini: Thanks Will and I take the opportunity to tell you that your posts are always interesting
⭕🔻 Levan Gudadze:
Trump envoy will try to ‘FORCE’ Putin to break alliances with North Korea, China, Iran as part of Ukraine ceasefire deal

‘What concessions will Putin have to make?’

‘Force him into actions he won’t want to do…break his alliance with North Korea, Iran, China’ — Trump Envoy Kellogg

P.s. Either this guy is engaged in high-level trolling, or he has no idea what he is talking about, being very mistaken that anyone or anything will force Russia to turn its back on those who stood side by side with her in difficult times.

One way or another, the sooner Russia’s enemies realize that they have lost and it is time for them to kneel, ask for forgiveness and pray, the better, for themselves and for the whole world, which is very tired of the disgusting so-called elite of the West and their puppets and is ready to tear them all to shreds.. |media|
[a good PoV on Gen Lucky Charms. The collective derangement is advanced]
🔻 WS: 📜 All for One and One for All
⭕ retweet:
🔻 scientism: Elon should build a Forbidden City style compound and then stream a reality show to choose new concubines on X every year.
🔻 HilltopFool: He doesn’t want sex with concubines, only kids.
⭕ ‼️ I have watched and/or read the transcript to this speech at least ten times over the past several years.

I have cringed every time the cameraman pans over the faces of John McCain and Joe Lieberman, as they smirk and snarl and roll their eyes.

Those who sincerely desire to understand how we got to where we are today in terms of international relations must avail themselves of the opportunity to listen carefully to what Putin said in this speech.

I will also post a link to a thread in a follow-up reply to this post — a thread that contains links to an essential collection of other important speeches and documents related to the course of events that has conducted us to the tension-filled present.
[we reposted it here last year around the 17th anniversary: https://sovereignista.com/2024/02/11/putin-2007-munich-security-conference/ ]
🔻 RC: Joe Lieberman will go down in world history as one of the greatest fifth columns ever unleashed upon a people.
[it’s a Big Club..]
🔻 Renier P. du Plessis: the day the world changed – few understood the magnitude of the speech
⭕🔻 Michael Guimarin:
ATN: Corrupt insiders attacking our team (outsiders)

Something significant is going on with @johnkonrad

Recently John was retweeted by @elonmusk and then his troubles intensified.

John is a maritime outsider who writes things critical of, and often time embarrassing about our maritime establishment.

As an outsider John has suffered years of abuse from the establishment.

The reason why is because he’s embarrassed them by bringing true stories (some of which I’ve personally verified) to the forefront.

Now that “our side” has won the election and the Buddy in Chief has elevated John to a very public position, the institutional creatures are leveling personal attacks against John. The goal is to bury his legitimate criticism and “whistleblowing” with spurious ad hominems.

I’ll be blunt, personal cancellations don’t do anything for me.

The situation in US Maritime is dire. In need of urgent once in a century reform.

John is an outsider and has a colorful personality. I’m sure like all of us he’s made mistakes, acted an asshole, and done things he’s not proud of.

So long as he hasn’t committed a crime or treason against the United States, which by all accounts he has not, I don’t care what he’s done.

We need the outsiders who spoke truth to power before to be central in advisory roles as we retake and reform institutions.

I will continue to support John in this capacity. I suggest you do too. Especially Lurkers.

The people who stood tall with the truth while it was unpopular must be supported as this transition continues.

This is how we know we are on the right track.

John, keep being a disagreeable mf’er as we continue to push the Naval/Maritime establishment for reform.

Abolish the Jones Act!
🔻 WS: John and I have divergent views on some topics, but his is an important and well-informed voice to follow on maritime issues.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Olga Bazova:
If this is on the table, it’s indicative of two things:

1. They are scared shitless of this alliance, because this is an actual mutually beneficial alliance, rather than a vassal-master relationship.

2. It’s a non-starter, Putin has turned Russia firmly to the East, and the Biden admin and their obedient Eurocrat puppies are to blame for it.
[this is regarding Gen Lucky Charms above at Munich — “Kellogg reveals that they will attempt to pressure Putin into breaking alliances with North Korea, China, and Iran as part of a Ukraine deal.”]
🔻 WS: For several years, the narrative was to simply dismiss the viability of a Russia, China, Iran, DPRK axis. Now that it has coalesced into a solid reality, the Masters of Empire think they can just command them to cease and desist. Clueless fools.
📜 All for One and One for All 
🔻 Olga Bazova: As always, an excellent analysis Will.
🔻 Perdido na Bagaçeira: How many millenniums of civilization these 3 countries have «combined»?

Against an hegemon of ~250 years.

The math ain’t mathing.
🔻 GulagInmate #475: As well, Russia, Iran, & India have formed The International North–South Transport Corridor. INSTC is a shipping route that connects Russia, Iran, and India through a 7,200 km network of roads, rails, & ships.
🔻Disasterpus: one manifestations of this alliance is how DPRK has toned down the hostilities while ROK has ramped it up.
[Yup. And that’s another major reason Satanyahoo is always screeching “Iran”.. the strong and secure do not need to screech. The cornered weak who were suddenly demoted do]
🔻 NeoOldster 🇺🇸: That’s fine. Let them be the global police for a while and let the Russians buy all the cheap plastic poison crap from China and that we’ve been duped into buying. How about America gets back to worrying about our own.
🔻 Capt #NotSure~ Abolish NATO ~ End Sanctions: China actually makes a lot of really great stuff…the Huawei phone being just 1. But the US won’t let the amazing stuff in because it’ll ruin their narrative China makes crappy stuff. Hense the tariffs, to discourage you guys ordering those things. But yes, just worry bout 🇺🇸.
🔻 WS: ‼️ Few people understand that much of the perception Americans have of Chinese manufacturing is shaped by the fact that American middlemen design cheap stuff, contract with Chinese manufacturers to build it, and then sell it for a big profit to American consumers.

If a first-rate Chinese manufacturer is contracted to produce a well-designed widget, constructed of quality materials, and built to high engineering standards — that is exactly what you get.

But the middleman profit margins are much thinner on high-grade Chinese manufactures. Therefore we in America do not often see such products available for purchase in our markets.
🔻 Johanna deMartin: I imagine there has to be a meme or phrasing in China that goes something like “Contracted by Americans” which means a shit idea is asked of the contractors, who do their best to fulfill the contract as they would any other.

One of the later eye openers for me was the fidget spinner. At that time I was already convinced of the charlatan’s trap you describe, Will.
Production quality that could have been used in actually useful projects, rather than some random high school physics project. Like a charlatan selling snake oil that could have driven an empire to the stars, instead of being sold off as a nightcap panacea.
🔻 Yaroslav: Of course. They build anything you want to the budget that you want.
⭕ retweet of his old:
📜 Magazine Depth and Shields
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Brian Berletic: No America cannot do it.

America’s problems are many. Here are a few:

• Insufficient education to support the human resources required to make this happen;
• Insufficient infrastructure including efficient transportation for raw materials or cheap, plentiful electricity;
• An overall cost of living crisis and inflation that makes it impossible to do any of this for the same cost or cheaper than China;
• No one willing to do it for the same cost or cheaper in the US – a system that prioritizes profit over purpose;

If America could do this already, they’d have done it.

Obviously they cannot, and no one is even seriously talking about making the changes to the factors listed above.

But even if they did, it would take a decade or more to achieve.

I think America should do these things, but they’d have to give up their pursuit of global profit/power/primacy over achieving this actual purpose.

And they won’t.
⭕ 📜 First Generation “Precision-guided Missiles”
1944 — The Kamikaze

This vulnerability is more acute now because antiship missile technologies have advanced further in the post-WW2 era than has the capability of the targeted ships to defeat them.
⭕🔻 Ian Ellis: Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group (CSG) sails in formation with French CSG & Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

Exercise Pacific Steller 2025 is a multi-large deck event (MLDE) hosted by the French Navy in the Philippine Sea

Participating big-deck ships include USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), French carrier FS Charles De Gaulle (R91), & Japan’s multi-functional destroyer JS Kaga (DDH 184)

Source: U.S. Navy
🔻 Good Shepherd: 🇺🇸 is powerful.

Alongside Allies, it is EXTREMELY powerful.

Remember this fact.

And remember the role our Atlantic & pacific Allies have played in building, protecting & maintaining the world order of the past 80 years.
🔻 WS: The myth of American military supremacy still persists in the minds of a great many in the hyper-propagandized populace of the so-called “western democracies”.
📜 Staggering Towards the Abyss
⭕🔻 Zichen Wang: Nobody seems to have come up with a full transcript of Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, at the Munich Security Conference so I have made one |link| |nice excerpt|
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Extremely interesting proposal by Wang Yi in his speech that I haven’t seen anyone talk about yet: he proposed to merge the Belt and Road Initiative with Europe’s own version of it.

That’s the quote: “China is willing to synergize high-quality Belt and Road cooperation with the European Union’s Global Gateway strategy, so as to empower each other and empower the entire world.”

Europe should really consider it. Unbeknownst to most, China made the same proposal to the US at the start of the BRI (which goes to show it wasn’t done in the spirit of undermining the US as many claim) and the US flatly rejected the offer. Later, John Kerry (Secretary of State at the time) said this was one of the biggest mistakes of his career. Maybe Europe should not make the same mistake…
🔻 hem day: Something tells me the EU will say no. 🤔
🔻 MacroTourist: beware of blondes carrying bayonets
🔻 WS: It’s easy to imagine these two conducting a torture / interrogation session while wielding a riding crop.
⭕ 🐶 USS Trembling Puppy Update

Well … it turns out there was more damage than we were initially led to believe. There is a significant gash in the hull. CVN-75 is likely to be out of the big game and on the injured list for quite a while. |gash|
🔻 C1: So, of 11 Carrier Groups in theory, how many could be fully armed and equipped, and deployed to the Taiwan Straits if called on tomorrow?
🔻 WS: 2

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Restricting Lebanese Shiites from Traveling to Iran: A Direct Attack on Belief and a Dangerous Precedent

The move to prevent Lebanese Shiites from traveling to Iran is not merely a political restriction—it is a direct assault on their religious identity, ideological beliefs, and geopolitical affiliations. This decision carries serious implications, as it specifically targets a sectarian community, effectively severing their spiritual, educational, and political ties with Iran, a key religious and geopolitical pillar for them.

For many Lebanese Shiites, Iran is more than just a country; it is the spiritual and ideological epicenter of their faith. The city of Mashhad, home to the holy shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth Shiite Imam, is a major pilgrimage destination for Lebanese Shiites, much like Mecca, Medina (Al Baqi Cemetery), Karbalaa, Najaf, Baghdad and Samarra. Preventing access to these sacred site is perceived as a direct infringement on religious freedom and an attempt to isolate Shiites from their spiritual and cultural roots.

Beyond its religious significance, Iranian seminaries in Qom have long been an educational hub for Lebanese Shiite clerics, shaping generations of scholars and religious leaders. Additionally, Iran’s political and military support for Hezbollah has cemented its role as a crucial ally for many within the Lebanese Shiite community.

By restricting travel to Iran, Lebanese authorities—or external forces influencing them—are making a bold and inflammatory move. This raises several key questions:

Is this restriction imposed under pressure from Western governments, particularly the US and Israel, as part of a broader effort to curb Iranian influence in Lebanon?

Is Lebanon setting a dangerous precedent by selectively restricting travel based on sectarian identity?

How will Hezbollah and its supporters respond to what they see as an attack on their fundamental rights and religious freedoms?

Lebanon has always balanced sectarian tensions delicately, and any move that targets one group’s religious and geopolitical affiliations risks igniting wider political and security consequences. Marginalising Lebanese Shiites by cutting them off from Iran and its religious sites could fuel resentment against the Lebanese government, further alienating Shiites from the state. It can deepen sectarian divides, pushing Hezbollah and its supporters toward a more defiant stance. It also creates a backlash that leads to civil unrest, as Shiite religious and political figures call for defiance against what they perceive as a blatantly discriminatory move.

This restriction also raises concerns about Lebanon’s sovereignty when it is a policy dictated by external pressures. The ability of Lebanese citizens to freely practice their religion and maintain cultural ties with their spiritual homeland should not be subject to foreign political agendas.

Ultimately, restricting Lebanese Shiites from traveling to Iran and the shrine of Imam Reza and to Qom is not just an administrative decision—it is a direct attack on their faith, identity, and freedoms. If Lebanon hopes to maintain internal stability, it cannot afford to alienate or suppress one of its largest communities in such a provocative and politically motivated manner.
[the bastards aim to detonate civil war again in Lebanon. And they may get it if the stupid compradores do not wise up quickly]
⭕ retweet:
Ryan Rozbiani: This is a dark day to be an American

The Trump Administration has released a shipment of 1800 MK-84 2,000-pound bombs, which have arrived in Israel.

We should not arm countries that kill civilians |media|

Pakistan has four neighbors. That makes it skirmishes on borders with three of them in less than a year! And even with the fourth China – relations are going south as Chinese engineers and technicians and businessmen working on the CPEC node keep getting killed.

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕️ Retweet:
🔻 TheAltW:
🎥🇱🇧 @ejmalrai discusses #Lebanon’s resistance at a new stage, its critical role in shaping the country’s defense strategy, as well as its influence on regional dynamics — particularly in #Syria and #Palestine. 🎤 @tmjnewsnetwork  |media|  [as much as the combined nazis try to downplay and minimize her role and belittle and slander and howl at the very moon — Hezbollah shall set the table in compradore Lebanon. Blessings to the martyr Nasrallah and the prior cadre]

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇸🇬🇺🇸 Singapore Defense Minister:

America’s image has changed from a liberator to a great disruptor to a rent-seeking landlord.
[like Prof Hudson, this is the PG-rated, polite, diplomatic way of saying what is really meant. And from the Anglo “aircraft carrier” of the East!]

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸 Witkoff on the upcoming negotiations  |media|
[I like this guy. “Its about including everybody (we’ll dismember our failed proxies, including Eurocrazies, with pleasure)… It’s about trust-building (screw the UkroNazis who will lose alotta land)..”
He could sell you a load of still steaming crap and get nazis to accept it as superior Swiss confectionary. Good. The liquidation team is in action and committed to the job]

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸⚡️Negotiations on Ukraine with the participation of the Russian official delegation are to take place in Riyadh on Tuesday, Kommersant writes.

The American side is expected to include Secretary of State Mark Rubio, US National Security Advisor Mike Walz and US Presidential Special Envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff. Earlier, information appeared online about preparations for a visit to the kingdom by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

💠 @Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem:

• The American project is a threat to all Arab and Islamic countries.
• Trump’s positions on the Palestinian issue are very dangerous and aim to end Palestine and its people.
• This political genocide, after Netanyahu’s failure to commit human genocide, is just a dream and cannot be implemented.
• The Palestinian people will not leave their land and we will help the Palestinians resist Trump’s plan.
• As you formulate plans to deal with it, keep in mind that Hezbollah stands ready to help prevent Trump’s new mass displacement plan.
• The reconstruction of what was destroyed as a result of the last war is the responsibility of the Lebanese state alone.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕❗️Russian troops liberated the settlement of Figolevka in the Kharkov region, the country’s MoD reports
⭕❗️Sergey Lavrov is leaving for Riyadh on Putin’s instructions for a meeting with US officials on Tuesday, the Kremlin says
⭕ ❗️Russian troops liberated the settlement of Sverdlikovo in the Kursk region, the country’s MoD reports
[so this closes the trap on the NATO safari mice that wandered in from Sumi into Kursk. What a historic disaster]
⭕ 🇵🇸🇪🇬 The Gaza reconstruction plan is being drafted in coordination with Palestinian, Arab and the international community, Egypt’s foreign minister says

Egypt is developing a comprehensive, multi-phase plan for early recovery and reconstruction in Gaza, ensuring Palestinians remain on their land, said Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, speaking during a Cairo meeting with a US Congressional delegation led by Darrell Issa.

Abdelatty highlighted the need for a political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, advocating for a unified Palestinian state based on the two-state solution.

The minister called for the sustained and accelerated delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, highlighting the dire humanitarian situation.
[OK. If the zionazi freaks can be leashed, this plan may provide for Gaza until they’re evacuated to resettle in historic Palestine. They remain in a holding pattern until the messianic invaders are dealt with]

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ Christoph Heusgen, chairman of the Munich Security Conference, bursts into tears after JD Vance’s speech criticizing European leaders.

“We must fear that our common value base is not so common anymore. |media|
[Patience, Cristophe. What can one say to the Wretched of the Earth that hitched their wagons to the Anglo-Saxons?? The Trail of Tears is only starting for the dancers of Vampire Balls]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕❗️Israeli officials announce that the IDF will fully withdraw from Lebanon tomorrow, except for ‘five key points’, where it will remain ‘indefinitely’

This was unilaterally decided by Israel with US-backing, and the Lebanese state rejects it. Lebanon’s Prime Minister, Nawaf Salam, stresses that Israel must withdraw from every inch of Lebanese territory, and is taking diplomatic action to ensure this.

Hezbollah’s Secretary General also stated that any IDF forces remaining in Lebanon past the February 18th deadline would be another flagrant violation of the ceasefire.
[The 18th deadline is tomorrow. Hezbollah’s new SG made clear an insurgency, and bloodletting, of zionazis is in the offing after that date. Zionazis were bombing deep into Lebanon alot recently – signs of impotency before another withdrawal??]
⭕ MAP: The five ‘strategic points’ where the IDF will remain in Lebanon – notably in the Metula-Litani bottleneck

Map Credit: https://t.me/rnintel
⭕ — We could see an ‘undeclared insurgency’, where we see sporadic attacks against IDF positions, only inside Lebanon, until they are forced to leave.

The nature of these attacks could be such that Hezbollah could maintain a level of ambiguity, and they may not officially take response for the attacks.

But at this point, who knows what’s going to happen. They could also just declare it openly & continue the campaign. But if they do, like I said, it’s likely Hezbollah will focus on expelling the IDF from Lebanon, and it won’t target Israel internally.
⭕ Al Mayadeen: The Lebanese government decides to extend suspension of flights to and from Iran
[this crazed sectarian regime in Lebanon is not for long on earth..]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 DataRepublican (small r): McFaul sits on the board of the National Democratic Institute, one of eight core Uniparty NGOs founded to fight communism but now rebranded as “democracy.”

Nearly all of its $171 million annual budget comes from taxpayers, and I flagged them yesterday as a top spender of public funds on travel. The National Democratic Institute also admits to providing housing allowances for its members.

Always follow the money. |link|
🔻 WS: McFoul has always been on the take.
⭕THIS is funny. 🤣 |media|
🔻 C1: This has got to be the funniest thing I’ve ever heard of it’s real……..and not bad even if it’s not 😂
🔻 WS: As I recall, it was a joke some Spaniards did back in 2003. But yeah, it’s funny for the simple reason that it rings true to form.
🔻 Source Code: Here’s an English version from 16 years ago: |media|
⭕🔻 Maimunka News: ‼️🇺🇲🇪🇺🇺🇦 NATO criticises #Ukraine for misusing Western weapons – Telegraph.

Ukrainian troops are misusing expensive NLAW missiles (£20,000 each) by treating them like cheap RPGs – firing salvos worth more than £100,000 instead of using #NATO’s precision tactics. The Ukrainian army is also reported to have abandoned Javelin launchers, with some falling into #Russian hands.

“The Russian army now has more Javelins than the British,” a British source told the Telegraph.
🔻 WS: The Ukrainians fired NLAWs in salvos and abandoned Javelins for the simple reason that they are so ineffective against Russian armor.

Most NATO weaponry is all blow and no show.
🔻 WS: From early on in the war, significant numbers of the NATO ATGMs sent to Ukraine malfunctioned in one way or another — the Ukrainians just stopped using them because they were so undependable.
🔻 MAKE LOVE AND NOT WAR: It is important to say that the AFU fights according to the doctrine of the former USSR. The Soviet approach considers weapons to be a disposable, mass-produced instrument that can be used in any quantities against targets of any importance or simply abandoned during withdrawal.
🔻 WS: The AFU only reverted to Soviet doctrine when on the defensive. The “counter-offensives” in Kherson, Kharkov, Zaporozhye, and Kursk were, for the most part, executed according to NATO doctrine. And, consequently, the AFU suffered catastrophic losses in every instance.
🔻 Rural Left Americans First: Why are NLAWS more effective than Javelins?
🔻 WS: Is there evidence indicating that they ARE more effective than Javelins?

(On another note, I’ve been in Melissa, WV. I’ve traveled through a lot of WV over the years.)
🔻 MAKE LOVE AND NOT WAR: Sorry, I’m asking WHY they are judged as more effective. Like, they don’t jam as much, or they are more precise, etc.
🔻 WS: I don’t know.
🔻 Konstantin Trubilin: I personally beat the tank with RPG-7) correctly, reliably and reusable) greetings from Russia
🔻 Renier P. du Plessis: Drones proved to be the most lethal and easy to produce. What is the next revolution in warfare Will?
🔻 WS: I suspect the next “revolution in warfare” will be more effective counter-drone measures.
🔻 Brandon: TBF to the Javelins, etc., you have to know how to use them. And the Ukrainians DO NOT know how to use these systems. There’s a reason that ancient Soviet tanks, like the T-64 and T-84 Oplot built in Ukraine and upon which UKR’s military has extensive training and maintenance history with have fared better than the blessed tanks the West plied the Ukrainians with: Ukraine knows these systems well. Anyway, yes, the NATO systems have not put on a good display overall in the UKR war.
🔻 WS: Internal US Army testing of the Javelin showed it to be effective only ~18% of the time. That study was distributed widely on Twitter in 2022 when the first reports began to circulate that they were being cast off by the AFU because they sucked.
🔻 Brandon: Yeah, but the US military has used them effectively in the past. It’s about the mission set and the user.
🔻 WS: Refresh my memory as to the “mission set” that obtained when the Javelin was used effectively in the past.
🔻 Brandon: In instances such as this: |link|
🔻 WS: Brandon, seriously?

First of all, this account makes one mention only of the successful use of Javelin ATGMs — against “trucks and nontactical vehicles”.

Their only use against antique Iraqi T-55 tanks was indecisive.

Five T-55 tanks were reported disabled during the entire battle, but it is not indicated how and by what munition.

The lopsided battle was won by virtue of MASSIVE air support, from CAS to B-52s carpet-bombing positions.

One F-14 dropped a 2000 lb. bomb on friendly forces, killing at least a dozen and destroying several vehicles.

The account goes on to note:

“Before departing the crossroads, ODAs 391 and 392 each attempted to engage an armored personnel carrier with Javelin antitank missiles, but the weapon’s tracker took too long to warm up and they left without firing.”

Oops.

Bottom line:

This account does NOT support your argument. Not even remotely.
[crickets]
🔻 C7: Alastair Crooke has mentioned several times on the Judge Napolitano show how ineffective the javelins were in Afghanistan. He was there, he should know.
🔻 Battery Boy: Ok but have you considered that they were reaaally good in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare?
🔻 ZzzBotzzZ: Why do people insist on making infantry anti-tank weapons seem omnipotent?
In every war they account for less than 10% of all armored vehicles kills.
Infantry a-t weapons are for small group ambushes & mainly so infantry don’t run at the sight of a single vehicle rolling up.
🔻 Naji El: Care to elaborate how they only account for 10% in all wars? Atgms are extremely potent and for example in Ukraine the Ukrainians account 30% to 40% of Russian armour losses to them
🔻 WS: ATGMs used by the AFU have virtually disappeared from the battlefield. Who is claiming 30% – 40% Russian armor losses against AFU ATGMs?
⭕ 🤔 I’ll bet the Chinese can produce at least three destroyers in less time and for less money than it will take to repair the USS Harry S. Truman.
🔻 C1: Or 300,000 drones
🔻 WS: I’ll bet, in a war-time scenario, the Chinese could churn out a MILLION autonomous AI-enabled drones per month. 12 million per annum.
🔻 C1: That or more yes…

Did you see Musk’s recent West Point War College speech?

Eye opening.

Also all of ex military pilots POD’s are acknowledging human occupied aircraft (at or near the front) will soon be a thing of the past.

Navy always reacts the slowest, but it is coming there as well.
🔻 WS: As I wrote in my recent blog article Dictating Terms:
🔻 Big Picture Entropist: Just matching the paint with ferrous oxide highlights is going to take a few months.
🔻 C3: If there was a war on this damage wouldn’t stop the carrier from operating. Right? Looks non essential.
🔻 WS: Maybe. Probably. But I’ve heard speculation that damage may have been done to the aft elevator. A significant collision like this could very well knock things “off square” enough to compromise their functionality.
🔻 C3: Thanks. During WW2, they got the Lexington up and running in record time.
🔻 WS: If only it were still 1942 …

(And I think you mean the Yorktown. The Lexington was sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea.)
⭕🔻 Hanjo Girke:
Pragmatists want to maximize the good they can do while keeping emotions out of it.
How is it morally condemnable if the actual objective was to mininize suffering for Palestinians without sparking a rebellion on Capitol Hill?
That is the best they can do. A government gridlock helps noone. Then the deep state would definitely win like in 2016, and they couldn’t even shut down the other center of human suffering that is happening Ukraine, there would be no DOGE and 4 years later, the structure of US governance would remain the same
🔻 Caitlin Johnstone: “the actual objective was to mininize suffering for Palestinians”

This is an article of blind faith. You believe it for no other reason than because you want to. There is no evidence for it whatsoever. And yet your whole entire position is premised upon it.
🔻 Hanjo Girke: I just see no evidence so far that contradicts this theory because in that premise, some suffering is unavoidable because the Israeli insist on it.
If the US actually went into Gaza and cleansed the Palestinians, obviously this theory would be falsified. But that did not happen yet. Polymarket considers the odds at around 15% that this will happen.
🔻 Caitlin Johnstone: I see no evidence that contradicts the theory that the White House has been in contact with extraterrestrials, but that doesn’t mean we assume it’s true. That’s not how the burden of proof works. You’ve espoused what amounts to a blind faith religious belief, about a politician.
🔻 Hanjo Girke: All i’m saying you should give room for the possibility before passing judgement.
You wouldn’t claim with certainty that the White Hous e has not been in contact with extraterrestials either. At best you could say that the odds are very low.
🔻 Caitlin Johnstone: “Give the president of the United States the benefit of the doubt when he appears be be doing evil things” is a position that is too stupid for me to respond to.
🔻 Hanjo Girke: It’s not stupid because you said it yourself it only “appears” so far. Huge difference than to what Biden “did” when he provoked Russia to invade. You assume the worst. I chose to preserve some hope.
🔻 Caitlin Johnstone: Already laid out evidence that he is presently doing evil things. You said he has to because blah blah blah. You’re not actually defending principles and values, you’re just making up excuses for your bootlicking.
🔻 Hanjo Girke: My guts and the things i observed just tell me that Trump and his inner circle, Musk, Tucker, Kennedy, Gabbard are not bad human beings. They do care more than they let on.
🔻 Caitlin Johnstone: Do you know what the difference is between the experience of talking to Biden supporters about Biden’s Israel sycophancy and the experience of talking to Trump supporters about Trump’s Israel sycophancy?

Zero. Experientially there is zero difference. It’s exactly the same.
🔻 WS: Yes, and when I extrapolate from the reality you describe, I conclude it will not be hard at all to sell the vast majority of the American people on the idea of making war against Iran.
📜‼️ At Least the Persians Don’t Have Nukes

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel continues to violate the ceasefire on the eve of the agreed date to stop all military activity and withdraw from Lebanon by drone-targeting and burning a car in the heart of Sidone, north of the Litani, south of Lebanon.

Israel is doing its best to provoke a response from Hezbollah.
⭕ Since the ceasefire, this is the first time Israel target-assassinate a Hamas official in Lebanon: Netanyahu’s style to sabotage any deal or ceasefire.
🔻 C1: I am not an expert but I think hizb and Iran should have an answer to these nonstop atrocities. What do you think is their strategy?
🔻 EM: No retaliation is expected to avoid falling in Israel’s plans.
🔻 C2: What’s Israel’s plan? If they want war why can’t hezbollah deter them by hitting them much harder? They have the ability.
🔻 EM: and the refugees? the reconstruction?