💠@geopolitics_live:
⭕ How Sudzha’s liberation became the ENDGAME for Ukrainian forces in Kursk

⚡️🇷🇺 Sudzha liberated! Russian troops have driven Ukrainian forces out of the city in the Kursk region, says Russia’s Ministry of Defense.

So, what led to this rapid collapse of enemy defenses?

• No supplies = no army. Cutting off Ukraine’s supply lines in Kursk was the key to breaking their defense in Sudzha. First, Russia hit Ukrainian positions with Iskander-M missiles, crippling their support and air defense from the Sumy region. Then, they sealed the deal by cutting off their supply route through Yunakovka.
• Gas pipeline surprise. Ukraine got a nasty shock when Russian forces broke through into their rear via the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhhorod gas pipeline, once used to send gas to Europe. The bold move sent the West into a panic, with talks of blowing up all Russian pipelines.
• The end of the “adventure.” Demoralized and battered by constant airstrikes, artillery, and drones, Ukrainian forces are retreating to the Sumy border. Full expulsion from the region is just around the corner. This is the result of Ukraine “sacrificing” large parts of Donbass in 2024-2025.

With Sudzha’s liberation, Ukraine loses a major negotiating advantage. But the bigger story? A strong, battle-ready Russian force is now freed up to create a crucial “buffer zone.” 💥

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Russia’s troops are entering the FINAL STAGE of the operation to liberate the Kursk region, the Kremlin spokesman announced, citing the Russian Sever Battlegroup’s report to Putin.
⭕ 📌 Major world events by the morning of March 13

• The Kursk region must be completely liberated and consideration must be given to creating a security zone along the state border, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a visit to one of the command posts of the Kursk group of troops;
• Polish President Andrzej Duda called on Washington to deploy US nuclear weapons on Polish territory, according to the media;
• Russian air defenses destroyed 77 Ukrainian drones overnight over the Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Voronezh, Rostov and Belgorod regions, the Russian Defense Ministry reported;
• The UK is interested in disrupting the normalization of relations between Russia and the US, as well as negotiations on Ukraine, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev said;

⭕ 🇷🇺🇧🇾 The Russian and Belarusian Presidents will hold talks in Moscow today

Aleksandr Lukashenko arrived in the Russian capital on March 13 for a state visit.

According to the Kremlin, the discussions include:

• Key issues of the further development of bilateral relations of strategic partnership and alliance between Russia and Belarus;
• Prospects for integration cooperation within the framework of the Russia-Belarus Union State;
• Current issues on the international agenda.
  ✍️ In addition, the meeting is expected to conclude with the signing of several joint documents and a joint press conference by the leaders.

[timing NOT an accident, as the SMO winds down and the NEXT! phase is upon us. And wearing military fatigues last night. Let zionazi orifice Witkoff who arrived in Moscow dwell on developments]
⭕ ❗️The town of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk region has been liberated, the country’s Defense Ministry reports

Sudzha is the largest settlement in the territory that was occupied by Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region.
⭕ ❗️Russia has reviewed the US and Ukraine’s statement following the meeting in Jeddah, the Russian Foreign Ministry says

Moscow is ready to discuss the initiatives contained therein during future contacts with Washington, the ministry added.
[diplomats are so gracious in telling you to get lost, and even provide useful roadmaps to Hell in the process!]
⭕ ❗️Russia does not accept the deployment of units of the armed forces of other countries in Ukraine, this would mean involvement in a conflict with Russia, Moscow will react, the country’s Foreign Ministry says
[LOL. rinse and repeat. Mayhap broadcast with music in Ebonics, to help the demented better hear and comprehend, if that is at all humanly possible.
NB. the position on ANY “peacekeeper” has hardened. Before it was circumscribing NATO goons; now it appears ALL non-Russians on 404??]
⭕ ❗️The proposed temporary cease in Ukraine is nothing but a temporary respite for the Ukrainian military, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov says

According to him, Russia seeks for a long-term peaceful settlement that takes into account Moscow’s interests and concerns.

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ South Korea wants to sell submarines to Canada as relations with the United States deteriorate.

A delegation was sent to Canada to present South Korea as a reliable source of military equipment.

Maintenance facilities would be established in Canada, and unlike with American weapons systems, the South Koreans would give Canada full access to the onboard technology.
Source: Ottawa Citizen
[Lord have Mercy. Loony Tunes World. Does the sub comes with K-Pop, and twerking teens as well – in the fine tradition of the bummy British Royal Navy, of which Canaduh is a willing recipient? They DO observe their traditions ya know]

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️Russia has presented the United States with a list of demands for a ceasefire in Ukraine, Reuters reports, citing sources.

The agency’s interlocutors did not name the exact demands. But they said that they were talking about resetting relations with Washington.

They described the Kremlin’s conditions as “broad and similar to the demands it had previously made to Ukraine, the United States and NATO.”
[LOL. Cute. Did they brush off the Dec 2021 Ultimata, add cartoons and much imagery, reduce all words to max two syllables, and hand it over again?! What ever it takes to eat such sandwiches, which shall keep being served however way they want – as a package, a buffet, or a la mode]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️Ukraine has used up all of its ATACMS missiles, AP reports.

The US has transferred less than 40 of these missiles to Kiev, and their stocks ran out at the end of January, the agency’s source said.

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇫🇮Patrushev reminded Finland that the Gulf of Finland is not its property but all states are obliged to comply with the norms of international maritime law.

This is how the Russian presidential aide commented to the magazine “National Defense” on the plans of Helsinki and Tallinn to block Russia’s exit from the Gulf of Finland.
[Yoda and son’s warned two particular madmen in 24-hours – Perfide and Finns…]
⭕ 🇷🇺💬Aide to the President of Russia, Chairman of the Naval Collegium Nikolai Patrushev gave an interview to the magazine “National Defense”.

Main points:

• There is information that NATO countries intend to intensify terrorist actions against Russian underwater pipelines, tankers, and dry cargo ships.
• NATO is practicing cyberattacks on navigation equipment of Russian ships to create emergency situations, including those leading to accidents.
• There is a high probability of further increasing threats to Russian ports and freedom of navigation in the Baltic from the navies of European NATO countries.
• Russia will not allow any encroachment on its national interests in the Baltic region.
• The European wing of NATO continues its policy of blocking Russia in the Baltics, neglecting the restoration of dialogue between Russia and the United States.
• Judging by the results of the EU summit, which decided on large-scale militarization of Europe, military threats will only increase.
• Great Britain is interested in disrupting negotiations on Ukraine, as well as disrupting the normalization of Russian-American relations.
• Finland, once again, as in 1939, is turning into a springboard for potential aggression against Russia, now under the auspices of NATO.

⭕ 🇷🇺💬Russian Ambassador to Britain Kelin on Moscow considering Washington’s ceasefire proposal:

We will consider the American proposal for a ceasefire. We will stop military actions only when we have a full, comprehensive agreement. Russia has repeatedly stated that a temporary ceasefire is not an option for resolving the situation.

In addition, the Russian side has expressed skepticism about any peace talks, insisting that it will take time to reach a lasting agreement. Russia is approaching the US initiative with great caution.
⭕ 🇷🇺Russian military liberated the settlements of Melovoy and Podol in the Kursk region — Russian Defense Ministry
⭕ The US has identified a mediator in negotiations with Russia – it is not Steve Witkoff, Yuri Ushakov told Zvezda.

A temporary truce is far from a long-term settlement that takes into account Russia’s interests, the presidential aide noted. No one needs an imitation of peace.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Israeli aircraft strikes a residential building in a Damascus suburb

The attack took place in the Dummar neighborhood, a Sputnik correspondent reported.

Ambulances and civil defense vehicles were dispatched to the scene of the bombing. Several people were reported dead and injured.

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇮🇷/🇧🇾 NEW: Iran and Belarus have signed a strategic defense cooperation agreement in Minsk
[On same day Lukashenko is on a state visit with Putin.. symbolism. An interesting triangle of our End Times to watch. Our Olde Tractor Farmer Luka offered nukes to Iran a while back (!) Not One Step Back…]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 🔥🧵 Excellent History Thread

I was an odd child in many respects. I first became obsessed with WW2 history at 8-years-old. I came to realize very early on that you NEVER want to make the Russians your enemy. The Russians are poet warriors. You cannot defeat them.
links:
🔻 Rina Lu🇷🇺: Even Hitler’s Army Was Shocked: The Unstoppable Courage of Russian Soldiers

🧵👇

Here are quotes from German soldiers and officers about Russian soldiers.

Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, one of Hitler’s top generals:

The Russians were not afraid of death. They fought with a determination I had never seen in any other army. |THREAD|
🔻 James Fitzjames Stephen: The Kaiser’s Imperial German Army did. So did the French and British in the Crimean War. I certainly don’t want a war with Russia, but no-one is invincible.
[LOL. A salty limey]
🔻 WS: The western-facilitated Russian Civil War fractured Russia in WW1. The Crimean War was a strategic defeat for the French and British.
[and the latest Russian civil war in Novorossiya is wrapping up. Woe to the fools who are NEXT!]
🔻 James Fitzjames Stephen: Still an undeniable German victory. How the Crimean War was a defeat for France and Britain is beyond me when even the Russians regarded it as a loss.
🔻 WS: The Crimean War was a “victory” for France and Britain in the same sense Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were “victories” for the US.
[and a decade later, the Russkie Navy made the Anglo-French eat bile on the two Yanqui coasts…]
🔻 James Fitzjames Stephen: The Vietnamese believe they lost the Vietnam War? The Taliban believe they lost, too? OK.
🔻 WS: The concept of strategic victory and defeat is lost on most people. 🤦‍♂️
[but all recognize the meanness of soul and spirit and lack of any goodness, this grasping endless totalen krieg which does not permit the insane loser to accept Defeat, until the next “salting” of Carthage is arranged]
🔻 Benjamin Schoendorff🪁: Maybe not an absolute surprise your grandson is autistic. 🙂
[LOL. A salty zionazi]
🔻 WS: This is more true than I ever imagined before observing him over the past several years.

In retrospect, I now feel sorry for my poor wife, having to deal with me for the past 43 years.
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: They might be a little naive early on, they might get a few things wrong, but they learn and they just keep on coming.
🔻 Global Southerner: The Slavs have unparalleled levels of tenacity and grit. That goes for the Ukrainians as well as the Russians, which is why Ukraine has held on far longer than many expected.

The Anglos are great at sowing division between similar people and getting them to fight to the death.
⭕ 📜 Never Underestimate the Russians

Seems like an apropos time to revisit this essay from January 2024.
⭕ Think what you may about Iran and Khamenei, but he’s right: Iran has the capability to strike back.

#NoEasyWarsLeftToFight
[it is eery, how many of the most pivotal battles in history took shape when neither side wanted it, catastrophically ending the reign of one or both sides..]
links:
🔻 Iran Observer: 🚨 Ayatollah Khamenei responded to America’s repeated threats

Iran’s Supreme Leader says initiating a war isn’t a one-way street

‘Iran is not seeking war, but if Americans and their clients make a mistake, the response from Iran will be decisive and definite, and the one who will suffer the most is the US. Iran has the capability to strike back’
🔻 C2: What do you make of Turkey’s threats about upholding Ukraine’s ‘sovereignty’?
🔻 WS: Don’t listen to what the Turks say. Watch what they do over time.
🔻 C3: But he doesn’t have a missile that can get to Western Europe let alone the US.

Honestly If he was smart he’d use that acct to capitalize on increasing American popular disenchantment re: Israeli influence on our foreign policy, esp as it relates to his country
🔻 WS: Iran has absolutely no need nor reason to strike at western Europe or the continental US.

But they CAN hit any US/Israeli base and other strategic targets in the Middle East, any US ship in the Persian Gulf, and they have formidable integrated multi-layered air defenses.
🔻 Eomar – Diligent News: Yep, Americans are so heavily propagandized they think it is still 1990. A war with Iran would be an unmitigated disaster |link| https://www.diligent.news/p/a-wider-war-iran
🔻 Paracelsus: So? You think that’d deter us? Lucifer and his demons fought the most difficult and impossible to win fight in existence with full knowledge of the outcome yet zero hesitation. This isn’t about material practicalities it’s about ontological evil and the desire to subjugate. |link|
⭕ ‼️ Russia — China — Iran Alliance

For what I believe is the first time ever, high-level representatives from Russia, China, and Iran will meet later this week in Beijing to coordinate their actions in the face of US threats against Iran.
📜 All for One and One for All
[the meeting’s tomorrow, the 14th]
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: First time AFAIK that this has manifest–esp. in context of concurrent military exercises–military undertones.
⭕ repost:
🤦‍♂️ Trump is making it up as he goes along.

He has no grand unifying principle or plan, other than naively believing the US still has leverage over everyone, and all he has to do is growl menacingly enough for his adversaries to submit.

⭕🔻 Thomas Fazi: “Putin will invade Europe” is the new “Iraq has weapons of mass destruction”.
🔻 Peter St Onge, Ph.D.: The “domino” argument for war never gets old.

Russia is Mexico with nukes — literally same population, same GDP. The only reason it’s winning is that Ukraine is Sri Lanka without nukes.
🔻 WS: 🤦‍♂️ I never cease to be amazed by the utter nonsense that ostensibly intelligent Americans believe about Russia. (And the misinformed nonsense they believe about the meaningless metric of nominal GDP.)

Also, Ukraine was the most powerful military in Europe (by far!) in 2022.
🔻 Cannoneer Marine: Ukraine in 2022 had armored brigades that were the best in the world and would have been extremely difficult for a US Army equivalent to defeat. They were superb formations but they’re all dead or maimed now. Every single one. And not sure anyone could prove me wrong in that assertion, as like I’m the 3rd Reich, the best units were used until they were destroyed.
🔻 WS: This is a common but entirely false characterization of the Ukraine War.

Few people understand that the Russian army’s most impressive work in this war arguably occurred in 2022, which is when they eviscerated the original cohorts of the AFU.
🔻 Jydskatomkraft: Russia destroyed the original army, then the 2nd army which was rebuilt and then the 3rd attempt at making an army.

It’s quite an impressive feat.
🔻 Matthew McCracken: Nominal GDP has us believing Italy has a much larger economy than Russia’s. These intelligent people can’t see how absurd that is. |voodoo|
🔻 WS: Listed by “Real GDP”, Russia comes in 4th, behind only
China, the US, and India.
🔻 Matthew McCracken: And when we count the informal economy and use updated GDP base years add another 26% for Russia.

By the way, look at Mexico getting ready to leave the UK in the dust. |beauty|
🔻 WS: For many years, from many different people, I have heard it persuasively argued that Russia’s “informal economy” is ~40% of the “on the books” Russian economy.

And Russia is the single most autarkist nation on the planet.
🔻 Matthew McCracken: Prof. Michael Hudson believes 40% of the US economy is fake. Late fees for credit cards get counted as GDP growth, categorized as “Financial Services.”

The “economic powerhouses” of the collective west are service economies. Russia and China make tangible goods. |nirvana|
🔻 Aunque ande en: St Onge is, in fact, a smart guy indeed.
Trouble is expertise is non-transferable
🔻 Pavel +: Russia has twice the population of Mexico, none of the cartels in charge and more resources than any other nation on earth . Guy can’t do any research? Typical phd. A clear case for getting rid of the dept of Education
🔻 Pink Shirt Migo: Did you know; Mexico makes hypersonic missiles?
🔻 Doimo Manu: When NATO opted to support Ukraine, it was obvious that the weaponry would be stored there. Probably today all that listed capacity is much lower.
If this count is near the truth, the West has nothing to counter Russia. The question is: what is the real count?
🔻 WS: Everything on that list in the Ukraine column was former Soviet equipment.

The “real counts” in the remaining columns were considerably LESS than listed, and they are even less now after so much NATO equipment has been sent to and destroyed in Ukraine.
🔻 Holger Lehmann: The graph is missing one very important item: Air defence systems.
🔻 WS: This is true. But we can see very clearly in retrospect that Ukraine had, BY FAR, the best integrated air defense systems not only in Europe, but including US and Israeli IADS. The older model Ukrainian S-300 and Buk systems were more formidable than anything in the US inventory.
🔻 Holger Lehmann: My point. More stuff than most of NATO combined. Very mobile and developed for real warfare and not some air-conditioned showroom.
⭕🔻 Rob Lee: Photos of Anduril Altius loitering munitions.
🔻 Chris Combs: Any senior design team at a US university would be embarrassed to show up with this at their final presentation
🔻 Palmer Luckey: Name a single system anywhere in the world that does a better job of doing what Altius does.

Really easy to sling shit when you have no idea what you are talking about.
🔻 WS: America circa 2025 is the most accomplished producer of con men hawking mediocre products in all of human history. Coupled with clueless Pentagon procurement, the US military consistently ends up with crappy stuff like Altius, the F-35, and Ford-class aircraft carriers.
🔻 EL DUCK: Have you traveled to France recently ? It would change your mind
🔻 WS: Hyperbole is a rhetorical device, not a statement of objective reality — more a flourish than a fact, but still a valid vignette.
🔻 Spaceman 🇺🇲: He can’t come up with a unit cost because he knows it’s several times the cost of an Iranian/Chinese/Russian analogue.
🔻 WS: Russia/China/Iran all field (and manufacture at scale) superior highly mobile and man-portable long-range loitering drones with higher speed, greater range, multiple sensors, optional AI autonomy, and more powerful warheads than the already antiquated Altius.
[yeah, a microcosm of a degenerate Empire scrapping the bottom and scooping the unfiltered bilge for drinking water]
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: Palmer Luckey…….. Has no knowledge of production or manufacturing, no clue about weapons or warfare, named his shell of a company after a sword out of Lord of the Rings and is now onto the latest fascist grift where he sucks off more printed Dollars.
🔻 shaavy: Peter Thielism. Destroying America one sector at a time.
🔻 skeetzsche: One Nation Under Grift. My favorite examples are OpenAI and Anthropic. Raise billions selling the story that you need endless compute, get smoked by a creative team that realizes you don’t. Cant pivot away from story because valuations would collapse.
⭕ ‼️ Katastrophic

The Kursk Kamikaze Inkursion has been the coup de grace for the series of NATO/Ukraine armies fielded and methodically destroyed over the course of this war.

67,000 casualties (the majority of which were KIA)
7000 vehicles (the majority of which were NATO-made)
🔻 questo non è un uovo 🐕: According to an interview released by general Masiello, the Chief of Staff of the Italian Army, the RF “suffered 460K casualties” during the last year alone, that is “100 losses per square kilometer conquered” during this period of time.
🔻 WS: So, Generale Masiello is parroting Ukrainian Ministry of Defense casualty statistics. Che coraggio!
📜 In War, Losers Lie the Most

“… as a general rule, the side that is really winning is much more likely to tell the truth, and the side that is losing is, far more often than not, lying through its teeth.”
🔻 questo non è un uovo 🐕: The interview has been published on the January issue of ‘Limes’, titled as “How we prepare for war”.
It acknowledged “Russian unpaired narrative superiority”.
You’d consider the Officer basic motive: encourage a doubling of Defense funds. Which is being granted via ReArmEU.
[Perfect title for the rag! “Limes” — I’m having flashbacks of skinny starving limeys sans teeth floating somewhere on the sun-drenched South Seas]
🔻 Assange Is Free!!: che imbecile
🔻 AncientSion: source for the 7000 vehicles ?
🔻 WS: Russian Ministry of Defense, straight from the mouth of General Valery Gerasimov.
🔻 Kushagra: It’s about time the US Special Forces units entered the fray.
[LOL. And who does he think has helped fertilize the rich, fat, black soil of Novorossiya all these years, since at least 2014??]
🔻 WS: Why would US Special Forces units want to commit suicide?
[“There’s a sucker born every minute” — P. T. Barnum]
🔻 ReadingforLiberation: Some individuals have already have lol hence why they stopped going. They also wouldn’t change anything. Turns out that SOF glorification doesn’t work when all you fought were villagers with 70’s Ak’s.
[even then, laddie, even then! Who ran; who is still unmoved on their Mountains, as if the Himalayas had birthed a mouse after laboring twenty years?]
🔻 Info Junkie: Where do those numbers come from?
🔻 WS: Global Firepower |link|
⭕🔻 Ian Ellis:
In the past 3 months, the U.S. moved F-35A, F-35B, and F-35C Lightning II Squadrons into the Indo-Pacific, replacing F-15s, F/A-18s, and AV-8Bs in Japan.

A pivotal shift from 4th to 5th generation aircraft in America’s priority theater.
🔻 WS: 🧵 Hangar Queens

Yes … but did they also triple the number of maintenance hangars and technicians? Because the maintenance hangar is where 75%+ of these F-35s would be at any given time (at least until Chinese missiles targeted US bases in the region).

📜 The Weakling Wunderwaffe
🔻 Naji El: Why did the Us stop producing the f22 which on paper is a superior platform to the f35 and they kept funneling lots of resources on the f35 despite it’s many blunders
🔻 WS: 🤣 The Balloon Killer?

IIRC, only the B-2 and F-35B have worse combat-capable rates than the aging F-22 — a platform with inherently limited utility.

Russian and Chinese jets can compete with the F-22 and F-35. They would outrange the F-22 in any realistic battle scenario.
🔻 Matthew McCracken: The solution is to paint the maintenance hangers with stealth paint. Problem solved.
⭕ cont thread:
[“the ball is in Russia’s court” C&P crap]
What this demonstrates more than anything is that the supposed divide between the US and Europe is an act. They are obviously working in close coordination with each other.

The US and its NATO vassals are clearly not willing yet to admit defeat in their war against Russia.
🔻 KC Sceptic 🇷🇺 🇳🇿 🇮🇪: “6uild 6ack 6etter.”
[yep. A lowercase b is similar to a six (6). Hence Biden’s bbb meme in 2021 = 666. These degenerates ALL have their numerology and signs, on both sides of the aisle. Wouldn’t be surprised if “the ball’s in Russia’s court” has some link to the zionazi kabbalah]
🔻 Craig Stewart: The head long march towards WWIII continues unabated.
The actors playing their parts.
How else will they get to declare one day, “The only way to stop conflict is to have a one-world government. So give up your rights and freedoms, and do as you are told.”
🔻 WS: 🔸 I continue to strongly believe that totalitarian order will not follow whatever is to come on this planet.

The would-be world conquerors simply do not possess sufficient organizational acumen and hard power wherewithal to impose their will.

Rather, more disorder will result.
🔻 mayankites2: Warlord era
🔻 Matthew McCracken: Which makes the US a danger to the world. We are at the stage where the battered wife is leaving and the loser abusive husband cries out, “If I can’t have you no one can!” This is the most perilous stage for the battered wife (world). When she decides to leave.
🔻 Oleg Federov: 100% correct. And thank God for that.
People Such as Ursula Von Der leyen and Jean Claude Juncker would be BRUTAL DESPOTS if they ever had the chance to be.

It is a blessing to see their army’s battered and left in ruins before people like them assume world domination.
⭕ ‼️ Wunderwaffe Kaput

Zelensky confesses the obvious: Ukraine has no remaining ATACMS missiles.

At least 500 were delivered between late 2023 and late 2024. Only a minute fraction of them struck their intended targets. The ATACMS was an ineffectual embarrassment. A total bust.
[but they sure look good to the uninitiated. Too bad the Big Bad Russkie always tests the devils]
🔻J⚡H the Denier: I know this is true but where is the source of admission please ?
🔻 WS: I saw the headline pass by in numerous posts today. Seemed pretty uncontroversial, so I commented on it. Not sure of its original source.

And yes, whether the little gremlin said it or not, I’m sure it’s true. ATACMS and Storm Shadows have disappeared from the battlefield.
🔻 Marcus Tullius Cicero: It is a slightly older system…still isn’t much of an excuse though.
[you gotta give the former degenerate bastards – they had worthy names, unlike the current motley crew]
🔻 WS: It is still the best produced-at-scale specimen of the SRBM class the US has to offer. And there is no reason to believe the still-in-development Precision Strike Missile will prove more effective at penetrating Russian or Chinese (or even Iranian) air defenses.
🔻 WS: Ask Grok:

What is the best American short range ballistic missile?

And it will tell you the ATACMS is the best short-range ballistic missile in the US inventory.

The Russian Iskander is FAR SUPERIOR to the ATACMS.
🔻Baba ka Kezia: Another Myth Busted…😎
⭕ Excellent summary analysis of the Kursk Kamikaze Inkursion by Just Me @failure1991.
links:
🔻 Just Me: A few observations on what Armchair Warlord has called the Battle of Sudzha-Korenovo – now that it is very near its end |THREAD|
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Armchair Warlord: I’m endlessly amused by how people think the Russians are just going to take an objectively absurd ceasefire offer that the West agonizingly negotiated with itself and which Zelensky’s goons are walking back as we speak.

The real message sent here is that Trump has no leverage.
🔻 Silence: This is step 1 in a broader negotiation. Trump has a fuck ton of leverage. Why start with what Russia wants?
[on the preponderance of this perception in the benighted Halls of Shiny Cities on High Hills hang the agonizing possibilities of Armageddon………]
🔻 WS: Silly talk.

The US has exactly ZERO leverage.
📜 Dictating Terms
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: Zelensky’s subordinates start making noises they want a ceasefire that would be very beneficial for Ukraine:
> Putin shows up in Kursk in military uniform
> Tells Gerasimov to create a buffer zone in Ukraine
> Orders AFU POWs tried as war criminals

What could he mean by this?
[links earlier:
“Some people think Putin is just this ultimate comprador who will agree to anything in the spirit of noble compromise despite the fact that he’s been fighting a massive war for the last three years?”]
🔻 WS: History sometimes rhymes. |Glantz History|
🔻 WS: 📜 Fall Like A Thunderbolt
🔻 Zan: Amongst all the chatter of a cease fire. Wearing a military uniform was as much of a message to his generals as it was externally ie not only war continues albeit an incoming offensive.

☝️ Did you know that Perfide ONCE told the Truth?? In the 17th century, they admitted their lineage and mission on earth…

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Anas Hassan Khattab, aka Abu Ahmed Hudud (born 1987), is the current Head of the General Intelligence Administration in the Syrian Interim Transitional Government. He assumed this position on December 26, 2024, as part of wide-ranging changes following the fall of the Assad regime. He also serves as the Deputy Commander of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Idlib under Ahmad al-Sharaa and was the Head of the General Security Apparatus within the group.
Khattab left Syria for Iraq in 2008 when he was 21, with reports indicating that his departure was intended “to fight against the American occupation”, and fought under the “Islamic State” banner.
In 2012, he joined Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of “the Islamic State” and later al-Qaeda in the Levant, which later split from al-Qaeda and rebranded as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS.
As of early 2014, he served as the administrative emir of Jabhat al-Nusra and was a member of its Shura Council. The United States designated him a terrorist in 2012, followed by the United Nations in 2014.
Similar to the CIA and MI6 directors, the ex-Emir has a social media account: @Anas_Khatab_sy
[what days. A veritable freak show in every corner of the decomposing Empire!]
⭕ For the first time since the fall of Bachar al-Assad, a Russian tanker with 30,000 tons of fuel arrived in Banias following an agreement between Damascus and Moscow.
Iran used to supply Syria with 3 million barrels a month, a supply that stopped after Damascus considered Iran an enemy.
⭕ Syria’s new constitution gives the president full executive powers (no prime minister), the selection of a third of parliament whose members have no power to dismiss the president, the power to select judges for the Supreme Court, freedom of the press as defined by national security, and more powers for the self-appointed de facto president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, alias Aby Mohamad al-Joulani.
⭕ Europe believes that allowing Russia to annex Ukrainian territory is a perilous step. It would encourage other countries to follow suit, ignoring what Israel has done in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon.
[how is the Lunch, itself on beautiful Menus, and about to be carved up, in a position to even mewl??]
⭕ Iran has received Donald Trump’s letter through the United Arab Emirates envoy and is reviewing its content.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇸🇳 A Senegalese artist creates a graffiti depicting the guillotined head of Macron

The graffiti measuring 3 by 7 meters on a wall in Dakar bears a message: “Cut off the head of neocolonialism”.

France does not have the right to keep an army in Senegal, the graffiti artist told Sputnik.

He believes that there should be “total freedom” in the relationship between Senegal and France. The artist says he is spreading this message to make the Senegalese free.

The French army is in Senegal to protect the interests of France, while claiming that they are there to protect the Senegalese people.

🗣 “They brought all the evil that plagues Africa here. They are the cause,” the artist asserted.

Regarding the central image of the severed head of the French president, the artist explained that this was the fate of the soldiers who fought for France in 1944.

When Senegalese snipers demanded their wages, the French killed them, the graffiti artist explained, stressing that the Senegalese people “haven’t forgotten that.”
[what days!! After the loss of Algeria, Senegal was to France what the Indian Raj was to Perfide, or Zion to the Yanquis..]
⭕️ US and Israel reportedly approach Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland about resettling Palestinians displaced from Gaza under Trump’s proposed postwar plan

Sudan has reportedly rejected the proposal, while officials in Somalia and Somaliland deny any awareness.

According to the media, anonymous US and Israeli officials confirmed the outreach, led by Israel, after US President Donald Trump presented his plan to displace Palestinians.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, advocating for “voluntary” Palestinian emigration, stated Israel is identifying potential host countries and preparing a dedicated emigration department within its Defense Ministry.

Trump’s plan suggests permanently displacing over two million Gazan residents, with the US taking control and developing the territory. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hails this once unthinkable idea as a “bold vision.”

Palestinians and Arab nations strongly oppose the plan, advocating for reconstruction within Gaza. However, the White House maintains Trump “stands by his vision.”
⭕ ❗️Russian troops liberated the settlement of Goncharovka in the Kursk region, the country’s MoD reports

Ukrainian forces lost more than 260 servicemen over the past day, the ministry added.
⭕ ❗️Ukraine’s accession to NATO is no longer under consideration, the alliance’s Secretary General Rutte confirms in an interview with US media
[Before being garroted, cut up and thrown to the dogs, NATO shall be dragged through the mud… ancient rites due the abject Loser]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ The land area Israel now occupies in Syria is larger than the land it occupied in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon combined

NOTE: This area is not fully under control of the IDF, but this area Israel has announced it will not allow any Syrian forces to deploy inside.
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced sanctions on Iran’s Minister of Petroleum, Mohsen Paknejad, as well as several ‘Iran-linked’ shipping companies in China, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, India, Seychelles, Indonesia, Marshall Islands, Singapore, and 13 vessels.
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇷🇺 U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: ‘On a scale of zero to ten, the Biden administration’s sanctions on Russia were probably a three; on the way out the door, they took them to a six. And I can tell you, we wouldn’t hesitate to take them up to a ten.’
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇺🇦 NEW: The United States is set to resume shipments of long-range Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs (GLSDB) to Ukraine, purchased under President Biden’s administration through the ‘Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative.’

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️Trump Tightens Sanctions on Russia, Imposes Additional Restrictions on Oil, Gas, and Banking Sectors — CBS News

It is reported that the US President did not renew the Treasury Department’s license, which allowed foreign companies to make payments for Russian energy resources through sanctioned Russian banks.

Restricting access to American banking systems makes it difficult for other countries to buy Russian oil, thereby limiting global supplies.

The media claims that this will serve as one of the levers of pressure to convince Russia to agree to a ceasefire.

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ Portugal rejects the F-35 and considers European alternatives

Portuguese Defense Minister Nuno Melo announced that Portugal would not purchase F-35 fighter jets from the United States, citing geopolitical uncertainty and the unpredictability of American policy.

Poder Aéreo

Portugal hinted that it might be interested in Dassault Rafale jets and stressed the importance of having “reliable allies in defense planning.”
⭕ 🇺🇸🇵🇦 The White House has asked the U.S. military to develop options for strengthening the U.S. military presence in Panama.
U.S. Southern Command is developing plans ranging from a closer partnership with Panamanian forces to the less likely option of U.S. troops taking the Panama Canal by force.
Source: NBC
⭕ 🇺🇸 Trump: I think the annexation of Greenland will happen.
⭕ 🇺🇸 Elon Musk visited the US National Security Agency (NSA). The discussion focused on staff reductions and operations.
Source: WSJ
[the ENTIRE old order is being incinerated by the minions of the Moshiach – under guise of efficiency and making lean within CONUS. What days. Full speed ahead in the digital panopticon. Night descends on the former Shining City, lording it over slums and rubble]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇺🇦 NEW: One of the participants in the Odessa Trade Union House Massacre, Demyan Gaul, was murdered in Odessa

On May 2, 2014, Russian-speaking Ukrainians who were protesting against the ousting of former President Viktor Yanakovich were barricaded into the Trade Union House where supporters of Ukraines ‘Right Sector’ lit the building on fire and shot those who tried escaping.

Just yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found Ukraine guilty of the massacre.
[an overture, or marker of submission, by the Last Satanic Empire to the Russian Victor?? The public execution of this nazi was extraordinary. What days. Probably cleaner this way, rather than tolerating these satanic madmen at Nuremberg II. Hunting season’s gonna open on ALL such nazis worldwide]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕⁉️ Anduril Altius

Here is a bold claim that the Anduril Altius loitering attack drones have been ravaging Russian equipment in Ukraine. Surely there must be an abundance of battlefield video exhibiting the prowess of this new wunderwaffe. Anyone out there have any links?

Here is a photo of an Anduril Altius wunderwaffe, for reference.

(Quite fearsome-looking, you have to admit. 😏)
[links:
🔻 Palmer Luckey: Altius attack drones have already taken out hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Russian targets, including critical hardware hardware protected by EW systems that would have been hard to defeat any other way.

Credible threat of violence is the backstop for good diplomacy.
this grifter links:
🔻 Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧: The UK has struck a £30M deal with Anglo-American company Anduril to supply advanced attack drones for Ukraine, boosting @DefenceU capabilities to tackle Russian aggression in the Black Sea. This follows over 10,000 drones delivered to the front line so far. 🇬🇧🤝🇺🇦]
🔻 SJP research: probably billed us military for $20,000.

meanwhile… |media|
🔻 WS: Reportedly over $1,000,000 each.
🔻 Palmer Luckey: That is sensitive information given ongoing conflicts, as I am sure you know, but total production of Altius is only in the thousands so far.

Autonomous weapons of this sort are pretty new and still being tested by the US, major acquisition programs are a couple years out.
🔻 WS: I’ll bet it’s “sensitive”. 🤣

Just like there is no credible evidence these “not so new, but still in development” (and manifestly inferior) toys have achieved ANYTHING of note in Ukraine.

Russia, China, and Iran are laughing at you. You’re a flim-flam man. Nothing more.
🔻 P Shekter: Sorry will, can you remind us all of your experience and credentials? I’m trying to decide which one of you is a more reputable source here.
🔻 WS: I’m a seer. 😏 |media|
🔻 Yasha: JB weld?
[another photo showing one of those downed crappy drones. It does look glued together with spit and spot-welding. Unbelievable. The Denarius is down to 0.000000000001% silver…]
🔻 alfred venison: “All fun and games”, Granny said, “till someone has an eye out !”
🔻 Noirspectre: I believe the claims, but not the target. The buyers of these so called drones have been decimated instead.
Their wallets ravaged, expectations scorched and common sense vandalized.
⭕🔻 Brian Hart: According to our analysis, a single Chinese state-owned shipbuilder produced more commercial vessels by tonnage in 2024 than the entire U.S. industry has since World War II.

Read our full @CSIS report: |link|
[Good Lord. The defeated Pirates should hoist the billowing white knickers right now, while they’ve time]
🔻 Sal Mercogliano: |Hoist It!|
🔻 WS: And yet there are people out there, like Elbridge Colby, who believe China can be “contained”, and who even advocate for military threats and compulsion to be applied, if necessary to arrest China’s accelerating rise.

The US cannot compete with China, so it seeks to destroy it.
🔻 Mobile Infantry 🚜: Can we root out the agents of influence for China and treat them at traitors? IMO they are implementing the sitting on a hill watching two tigers fight gambit.
🔻 WS: Who are the “agents of influence for China”?
🔻 Mobile Infantry 🚜: Squeeze China and have them cough up the names. I for one think anyone that pushed for war in Ukraine. Any of the MFN trading status advocates another.
[typical Yanqui! root out influence peddlers clamoring for war by warring on China directly. Unbelievable. The madness descends from on top down to all disintegrating layers. And not an ounce of sense between the sorry lot]
🔻 Daniel McAdams: Every single “realist” I have encountered holds this position. That is why I consider them “neocon-lite.”
🔻 C5: That the likes of Colby are held up some kind of highly intelligent experts says everything about how shallow the pool of genuine US experts actually is.
🔻 NerdTech: The US is incapable of halting China’s rise nor destroy it (without MAD), but it can definitely try, and in doing so, will destroy itself faster like the last global superpower, the British Empire vs America’s rise.
⭕🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: The Kremlin points out the obvious, that the proposed 30-day ceasefire would do nothing for Russia while giving Ukrainian forces to regroup and recover from their temporary disconnect from American intelligence and munitions.
🔻 WS: These facts remain:

– Ukraine’s capacity to replenish its human losses cannot be restored

– US/NATO supply of munitions and equipment is effectively exhausted

There is no longer any way to “regroup and recover”.
🔻 Henrik Németh: What about the 18-24 year olds?
🔻 WS: Look at a Ukraine demographic chart. It gets really skinny in the 18-24 age bracket. And, they’re a lot harder to catch than the older guys.
🔻 Spaceman 🇺🇲: Which is why the idiotic plan by Starmer & Macron was to have their soldiers on the ground as a tripwire backed w/ US guarantees.

It wouldn’t have worked, but the only hope they see is a US air campaign to shift momentum, & were prepared to sacrifice their troops to get it.
⭕ repost of older:
‼️ Russia — China — Iran Alliance

For what I believe is the first time ever, high-level representatives from Russia, China, and Iran will meet later this week in Beijing to coordinate their actions in the face of US threats against Iran.
📜 All for One and One for All
🔻 Spaceman 🇺🇲: So much for peeling Russia away from China. Lol
⭕🤦‍♂️ I never cease to be amazed by the utter nonsense that ostensibly intelligent Americans believe about Russia. (And the misinformed nonsense they believe about the meaningless metric of nominal GDP.)

Also, Ukraine was the most powerful military in Europe (by far!) in 2022.
[reposts the nonsense by our PhD from yesterday:
🔻 Peter St Onge, Ph.D.: “The “domino” argument for war never gets old.

Russia is Mexico with nukes — literally same population, same GDP. The only reason it’s winning is that Ukraine is Sri Lanka without nukes.”]
⭕🔻 Olga Bazova:
Putin says that Russia is in favor of a ceasefire, but with certain conditions, while questioning how this time will be used by the AFU, who’s on the back foot.

Russian doomers: PUTIN CAVED.

He didn’t agree to any cease fire.

Listening comprehension is a good skill to have.
🔻 WS: I don’t understand, after so many years of Putin expressing himself in this identical fashion, that Russians (and others) still struggle to pay close attention, and when necessary, to read between the lines.

What I heard: “Our terms remain unchanged.”
🔻 Olga Bazova: Precisely.
🔻 ChinesePatriot999: some news headlines didn’t put in the details. I fell into the same threat. Western media and propaganda at work
🔻 Deacon Brucke 🇷🇺: You’re just a groupie who hears what he wants to hear. If he’s such a strong leader then why didn’t he just say that? 3 years of this crap and it will end with some sort of a half assed victory, Russia will be fooled again and there’s going to be another war in 10 years
🔻 WS: 📜 Ok, Doomer

I have struggled in vain for two and a half years to understand why it is a great many Russian observers of this war are constantly haunted by a sense that inevitable humiliation is lurking in the shadows just ahead.
🔻 Deacon Brucke 🇷🇺: You’re a grifter, and it’s Minsk 3. All for the sake of lifting sanctions. You’re not Russian, you don’t understand that boomers like Putin will always look for the west’s approval. He’s been pro west most of his life.
[now that’s delicious salty hasbara to behold]
⭕ cont thread:
🔻 Armchair Warlord: I’m endlessly amused by how people think the Russians are just going to take an objectively absurd ceasefire offer that the West agonizingly negotiated with itself and which Zelensky’s goons are walking back as we speak.

The real message sent here is that Trump has no leverage.
🔻 Silence: This is step 1 in a broader negotiation. Trump has a fuck ton of leverage. Why start with what Russia wants?
🔻 C3: The winner writes the rules….deal with it
🔻 Silence: They were always going to win that type of war. Trump will give up the land they won and we’ll take our money back with all their minerals. Done.
🔻 WS: There are no proven economical mineral reserves. The whole story is a big fat lie.
🔻 Chad von Rizzington: Describe this “fuck ton of leverage” Trump has.
🔻 Silence: They agreed to it
🔻 C5: Maybe actually watch the video
🔻 Silence: I did – and got the official translation. All is going according to plan – they get land, we get the money
[I wanna some of that potent stuff this fruitcake has ingested, imbibed or inhaled]
🔻 WS: There is no money to get. You are very misinformed about these matters.
⭕ 📜 Tirania Elitei

In my view, the tirania elitei in vassal Romania is likely to see its grip on power become ever more slippery over the course of 2025 and beyond.
[his latest article on substack drops… it seems mete, in a sad way, to witness the ongoing Suicide of Romania. Recall, Romania was a Roman outpost and largely thought to be populated to this day by their descendants.. ALL parts of ancient Rome are on the chopping block.. “Alas, Babylon…”]
🔻 Cannoneer Marine: A couple of nuggets: Romanian seems a lot like Latin in some word structures, it seems like a much easier language to learn than Hungarian, Polish, Russian due to this Latin influence. Secondly, I have read that the Satanic Bible is written in backwards Romanian. I know, I know, just find it interesting. Romania is an odd place, but importantly home of Aegis ashore and I think that is what is part of why the Trump State Department is not having more of a hissy fit about recent shenanigans. Regardless, Romania is home to truly old world mountains, peoples, legends from Transylvania to the Dracul family legends. And then what they did in WWII, their own anti Jewish/gypsy activities, executions, etc. They are a strange people in a strange, weird land.
[reportedly an ancient outpost of the Rome, left abandoned during the Retreats of the Collapse at the End, like Brittania, and subsequently confirmed in modern genetic studies…]
🔻 WS: Romanian is very similar to Italian. Perhaps not as close as are Spanish and Portuguese, but close enough that I can usually comprehend the gist of anything I read in Romanian.
🔻 Assange Is Free!!: I am Portuguese, and for me Romanian goes from absolutely, totally comprehensible sentences, virtually no difference from Portuguese, to really hard to comprehend sentences.
🔻 Avatar: I would say romanian and italian are the most similar romance languges.
As a romanian child, I realized could fully understand TV shows in Italian. Not so with spanish or portuguese.
🔻 Herodotus: Your are correct, sir. Romanian history is witness to a recurring pattern of treasonous elites siding with foreign powers against the commonality, due in no small part to its geography. The fate of ‘Michael the Brave’ is the best known illustration of this historical trope.
[another commonality with duplicitous roman elites! sons of their fathers..]
🔻 Marta: Come dici tu le leggi le dettano chi ha vinto la guerra….una lezioncina al biondo dovrebbero impartirla
⭕ ‼️ The Kursk Kamikaze Inkursion

This August to March time-lapse map illustrates conclusively how the Russians repeatedly “created space” for the AFU to push more men and equipment into the sack.

I remain thoroughly convinced this entire operation was a preconceived massacre. |media|
🔻 John LeGalt: Disregarding their own civilians?
🔻 WS: That is an inaccurate description of what happened.
links his older:
“No civilians were “forced” to leave in Kursk. But most had ample opportunity.

In any case, war is a messy business. And if you are not prepared to face the arithmetic of war, you cannot win.

Russians have long attested a nature prepared to face the arithmetic of war.”
🔻 WS: And, in any case, war is a messy business.
links his older:
“It is increasingly apparent that there are relatively few civilian casualties.

But you have to understand: war is a messy business.

Sometimes both good soldiers and innocent civilians are sacrificed in service to strategic imperatives.

It is an unavoidable aspect of war.”
🔻 vakibs: Ukrainians are learning what Napoleon learned, but on a mini scale.
🔻 C3: Sherman in Georgia was so delighted with Hood’s diversionary incursion into Tennessee that he said if Hood would march to Ohio, he would give him rations. Same energy here.
🔻 Farmazone: I don’t think they “planned” to have Ukrainians invade it there, but when they did, I’m sure the plan was to keep them in for as long as possible. Having yet another doomed pocket front but with no defenses whatsoever is a blessing in disguise for Russia.
⭕ War is an inherently messy business.

But if you have an opportunity to potentially trade 5000 casualties (including civilians) for 75,000 casualties inflicted on the enemy army, that is what you must do — and without a second thought.
🔻 OsageCatZ: 1:20 ratio w March Kursk
I’ve got 72,500 Kia since Aug6=
3625Kia RuF + 100’s Kia civilians.
🔻 Matthew McCracken: The collective west decided to trade 75,000 casualties in exchange for propaganda points with no regrets.
🔻 Louis Kasatkin: In any given set of circumstances the most determined wins. And Russia above & beyond all Nations is nonpareil in this respect.
⭕🔻 santos-inistas: 200% tariff on wine? Yeah we’re winning every single suburban house seat in 2026
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Like wine moms drink imported stuff lol
🔻 WS: Sweet white something from a box, over ice, with a jigger of sugar-free Sprite. Nectar of the nymphs. Make a hummingbird forget how to fly. 😏
⭕ Trump: I strongly requested Putin to spare the soldiers trapped in the Kursk region.

Putin: If they surrender, we will spare their lives.

This is what “dictating terms” looks like, folks.
📜 Dictating Terms
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: Some Thoughts on the Development

First of all, I would like to emphasize that, unlike the Western cards and ballgame players, President Putin’s statement in response to their unserious 30-day ceasefire offer is not only diplomatically and strategically masterful, but also genuine and highly empathetic.

Those who lack such intellectual and strategic acumen often fail to appreciate and tend to misinterpret such statements, as has been evident in public discourse during the last circa 24 hours.

President Putin has also made an extensive effort to help Western administrators evaluate their assumptions by posing questions on the details of their proposal to elucidate these assumptions.

Secondly, as for my thoughts on the surrounded troops and equipment—that is, if I had a say in the decision, I would recommend that, in principle, no one who trespasses on Russian territory or attacks Russian civilians should be permitted to escape either judgment or punishment, and no military equipment used in the invasion should be permitted to withdraw.

Now, it’s worth mentioning that President Putin mentioned these matters and stressed the latter point, albeit in a rather highly diplomatic manner, which may have unintentionally obscured the message, making the statement difficult to decipher for Western administrators and the public.

That said, the encircled “AFU” forces, including any embedded Western mercenaries or contractors, should only be afforded a single opportunity to surrender. Their weapons and military equipment should be either surrendered to the Russians or destroyed.
[and the last bolded section dear comrades explains the sudden howling of Orange & Gang, begging for mercy, as at the cauldron at Debaltsevo for which Merkel personally flew to Moscau…. a gang of shameless honorless hyenas]
[links:
🔻 Glenn Diesen: “Putin responds to the ceasefire proposal:
– It is worth watching instead of relying solely on the media’s “interpretation” of his comments” |media|]
🔻 git_gud_&_win(⬡, ⬡): it seems that what we see and what is going behind the scenes have 0 correlation.

most Trump statements will be noise.

I’ve always marveled at the psychological profile of the Pirates! From day one, reminding us of their Mission handed off by Perfide on the 5,000-year lineage, they prioritized saving their prerogative to decapitate and burn Russia over the protection of their major population centers.. Force projection and Hegemony even at cost of “mussing heads of hair” per Buck Turgidson. Russia prioritized its people, mostly gathered around Moscow..

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 📹 Iran, Russia, and China conclude ‘Maritime Security Belt 2025’ exercises with a naval parade |media|

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ The European Union is set to extend sanctions on over 2,400 individuals and entities associated with Russia for an additional six months.
⭕ Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited Nicholas Maduro, President of Venezuela, to attend the Victory Day Parade in Moscow on May 9th.
⭕ Afghanistan will soon begin construction to complete a highway through the Wakhan Corridor that will connect the country with the Xinjiang Province of China

Should the road be completed, and integrated into the Afghan highway system, China will have direct trading routes to Iran and the rest of the Middle East that bypasses Pakistan and Central Asia, areas where there have been a high risk of sabotage to the One Belt One Road Initiative.
⭕ The Foreign Minister of China, Wang Yi, and the Deputy Foreign Ministers of Russia and Iran, Sergey Ryabkov and Kazeem Gharibabadi, met in Beijing today to discuss Iran’s nuclear program

The three sides released a joint statement that called for the ending of unilateral sanctions and the need for negotiations based on the principles of ‘mutual respect’.
[note Wang Yi is also XJP’s security secretary, and Ryabkov handles major security files for Russian MFA, esp vis-a-vis the demented West. We’re in calms afore major storms in the Persian Gulf]
⭕ Sudan, Somalia, and Somaliland have all rejected US propositions to settle displaced Palestinians in their respective countries.

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ IMPORTANT:

Druse of Suweida to Israel and NO deal with Damascus as falsely claimed:

In a surprising and fiery statement, Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, the spiritual leader of the Druze community, declared during a local gathering in As-Suwayda Governorate that there is “no reconciliation or agreement with the political administration in Damascus.” He further accused the transitional government of extremism.

He emphasized that he “will move in the direction that best serves the interests of the Druze community.” Warning of the dangers of the current phase, he stated, “We are at a stage of ‘to be or not to be.’”

Meanwhile, a delegation of dozens of Syrian Druze clerics is preparing to travel to Israel today on a religious visit—the first of its kind.

The visit comes in response to an invitation from the Druze community in Israel who confirmed that the delegation is awaiting a “final security clearance” from the Israeli authorities.

The Druze clerics intend to cross overland from Syrian territory into Israel via the border town of Hadar in occupied Quneitra province (southwestern Syria). They plan to visit the shrine of the Prophet Shu’ayb, a revered religious site for the Druze community, and to meet with Sheikh Muwaffaq Tarif, the spiritual leader of the Druze in Israel.
[very sad for the Druze. Outta the fire of salafi nazis, into the pot of zionazis. Unbelievable. The world’s gone insane. They should review history to understand what occurs to collaborationists at hands of either side – the Quislings, or Vichy, etc etc]
🔻 Erna: I don’t understand this , maybe learn it later what is the Druze ?
🔻 EM: A branch of Islam called “Muwahhedeen”, and live mainly in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Jordan.
🔻 Erna: I see and what are they teaching? What are their basic principles ?
🔻 EM: |media|
⭕ The moment the Syrian Druse travelled to Israel, disregarding the Syrian sovereignty |media|
⭕ Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under an ICC arrest warrant for his war crimes, didn’t respect the 1st phase, ignored the 2nd phase of the ceasefire agreement and agreed to the new proposal by US ME envoy @SteveWitkoff for the release of 5 Israeli prisoners and a ceasefire until April 20th, when all other prisoners will be released.

This proposal can’t be accepted by the Palestinians because nowhere does it mention a permanent ceasefire, the end of the war, the withdrawal of all Israeli occupation forces from the Philadelphi and other inhabited areas in Gaza and the respect of the original agreement to fully respect the humanitarian protocol and allow the reconstruction of Gaza.

Benjamin Netanyahu is continuing the policy of starving Gazans and Israeli prisoners by denying food and medical supplies to Gaza, closing access to Gaza and cutting off electricity to the population. These are war crimes that Israel is ignoring and the international community is not trying to impose international law on Israel.
⭕ Abdullah Makki Musleh al-Rifai, known as “Abu Khadija”, has been eliminated in a decisive counter-terrorism operation in Iraq. As deputy caliph of ISIS, he also held key leadership positions, including governor of Iraq and Syria, head of the Delegated Committee, and head of the External Operations Offices.

On 8 June 2023, the US State Department designated him as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) for his leadership role in ISIS. Recognised as one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world, his removal represents a significant setback for ISIS, disrupting its leadership structure and operational capabilities

 

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇸🇴🇵🇸 Somalia and Somaliland deny receiving any US or Israeli proposal to resettle Palestinians from Gaza

Somalia would categorically reject any plan that undermines the Palestinian people’s right to live on their land, Somalia’s Foreign Minister, Ahmed Moalim Fiqi, told Western media.

🗣 “There are no talks with anyone regarding Palestinians,” Somaliland’s Foreign Minister, Abdirahman Dahir Adan, said.

Earlier, US and Israeli reportedly approached Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland about resettling Palestinians displaced from Gaza under US President Donald Trump’s proposed postwar plan.
[Unbelievable. Lyin’ for the sake of lying, and creating divisions, and keeping risible narrative and psywar going. Absolute degeneracy]

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇬🇧🇷🇺British Prime Minister and rare bastard Keir Starmer said during a virtual summit with world leaders that Russia will inevitably have to sit down at the negotiating table

Key statements by the British Prime Minister:

• If Putin is serious about peace, he must stop attacking Ukraine and agree to a ceasefire;
• Ukraine needs to be strengthened, both militarily and financially, to ensure long-term security;
• Leaders of participating countries are discussing the creation of a “coalition of the willing” that could play a key role in a future peacekeeping mission.

“We cannot just sit and wait. We must move forward and put pressure on the Kremlin,” Starmer said.
[How sad for them. An abominable government whose worldly role for centuries has been a thrombosed hemorrhoid in our collective arse. But ‘Tis the Season for incision and removal of useless superfluity]

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️Many Ukrainian soldiers are surrounded (in the Kursk region), we do not want them to die – Trump |media|
[Watch the very next video for Russian response! The Hunt continues for nazis of ALL persuasions and backgrounds]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️ The Russian Armed Forces have returned control over the settlements of Zaoleshenka and Rubanshchina in the Kursk region — the Russian Ministry of Defense

With the liberation of Ruban region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are blocked in the Kursk region

The Russian Armed Forces also continue to advance in the Sumy region.

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Adam Boehler (@aboehler) on CNN: “The US is not an agent of Israel and has its own interests” and “Hamas are pretty nice guys”.

Result: Removed from his position as the President’s hostage envoy for putting America’s interests first.

@marcorubio wants to stay on as Secretary of State: “Hamas are monsters.”
⭕ When u live in your own country, which is writing a new constitution & claiming that its new rule is fair for everyone, and yet you seek refuge in a foreign (Russian) base to be safe, afraid of being massacred just because you & your children are Alawites. |media|
⭕ The Anglo-Saxons cannot bear the prospect of peace with Russia in Europe, as Donald Trump envisions, because it undermines their historic strategy of dividing and ruling the continent. A stable Russo-European accord would weaken the Anglo-Saxon grip over European affairs, diminishing their ability to manipulate security alliances, control economic dependencies, and dictate geopolitical narratives. Without a manufactured Russian threat, the pillars of NATO expansion, military-industrial profits, and transatlantic subjugation would crumble—an outcome the Anglo-Saxon elite finds intolerable.
⭕ Despite the continuous killing up to this moment, the Alawites and their western mountains in Latakia and Jableh, which produced Izzeddine al-Qassam and Sheikh Saleh al-Ali, who fought against the occupiers, will not be defeated by the Takfiris under a new revolutionary name. Time will tell.
[al-Qassam’s revolutionary work in 1920s inspired the name of the military wing of Hamas, triumphant in Gaza in 2020s…] 
⭕ Trump is challenging the UK and vice versa: In light of President Trump’s annexation remarks, King Charles III has demonstrated subtle support for Canada.

During Commonwealth Day celebrations, the royal family made discreet yet significant gestures:​

• The Princess of Wales wore a red coat-dress matching the Canadian flag.​
• The King and Queen were seated in Canadian birch chairs, symbolizing solidarity.​
• King Charles displayed Canadian honors during a visit to HMS Prince of Wales.​

President Trump’s annexation rhetoric challenges Canada’s sovereignty and, by extension, its constitutional ties to the British Crown. The United Kingdom, through King Charles III, has shown subtle support for Canada, reinforcing the nation’s autonomy.
[the Defeated may flop & flail and pine to their hearts’ content. The music truly stopped for Perfide. ALL shall be stripped, including Malvinas, Chagos, Gibraltar, etc – reduced to the Sunless Isles of Unending Fog. And this is the best deal possible, if they avoid becoming Atlantis II]

These heroes shall soon have peace and tranquility .. even before the accursed bones of the legion of the Last Satanic Empire bleach

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇮🇷🇷🇺🇨🇳 Iran, China, and Russia’s joint military exercises aim to end Western dominance, says an expert

The recent joint military exercises, dubbed Security Belt 2025, conducted by Iran, China, and Russia off the Iranian coast, have drawn significant attention from geopolitical analysts, highlighting the strategic implications of this collaboration.

“From a geopolitical perspective, the joint military exercises involving Iran, China, and Russia point to a growing strategic partnership among the three countries,” Dr. Darlington Ngoni Mahuku, a lecturer in the Department of Peace and Governance at Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe, told Sputnik Africa.

He emphasized that Security Belt 2025 reflects “demonstrates a desire to create alternative power and security frameworks, decoupling from western dominated institutions and forging new paths for regional solidarity and stability.”

🗣 “The joint exercises demonstrate that Iran, China, and Russia are geared at strengthening their partnership and, in the process, ending NATO dominance, which is a Western military alliance that has been constantly misused in an endeavor to maintain Western hegemony and dominance,” Dr. Mahuku stated.

He added that the exercises serve as a reminder that Western powers can no longer dictate global politics unilaterally, and that “emerging powers in partnership with Russia and China are now asserting their influence,” he said.

America Defeats Germany for the Third Time in a Century

“… My only hope is that Putin and Biden can agree that if Russia hydrogen bombs Britain and Brussels, that there will be a devil’s (not gentleman’s) agreement not to bomb each other.”

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Visegrád 24: BREAKING:

Spiegel reports that the incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is about to announce the transfer of German Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine.

Taurus has a larger warhead & longer range (500 kg & 500+ km) than the UK/French Storm Shadow cruise missiles used by 🇺🇦
🔻 WS: And exactly how are the “Ukrainians” going to launch these cruise missiles? 🤦‍♂️
🔻 Visegrád 24: Just like they launch their Storm Shadows.

Su-24 after modifications
🔻 WS: There have been no Su-24s seen in months. Nor have there been any Storm Shadows launched in months.

You’re a mediocre propagandist.
🔻 Херсонец🍉🇺🇦: They never seen them when they launched SS too, thats doesnt say to me there are no SU 24 left, we still got F16 and Mirage, its not a big deal to launch Taurus, we’ll figure it out and you’ll be surprisingly sad, as always
🔻 WS: Many Su-24s were shot down during Storm Shadow launch missions. The rest were destroyed on the ground. I have seen no credible reports of Su-24 combat sorties in months. There may be 2 or 3 still airworthy, but I doubt it. Nor have F-16s or Mirage flown any combat sorties.
🔻 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩: East German Trabants?
🔻 Brad Crawford: 😉 |link|
🔻 Spaceman 🇺🇲: With Ukrainian hopes and dreams.
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: In practice, since they’re air launched, this seems to be more of a warehousing and inventory liquidation issue–transfer from warehouses in Germany, for disposal in warehouses in Ukraine by Kinzhal.
🔻 Full Frontal Patriot: You do realize that they have been launching them for almost 2 years on the Su-24 right?
🔻 WS: No Taurus missiles have ever been used in Ukraine.

No Su-24s have been seen in months.

You should get yourself more informed on these matters.
🔻 Sam Spade: F-16s?
🔻 WS: F-16s cannot launch Taurus missiles. And besides, there is no evidence that a single F-16 sortie has been flown over the battlefield in Ukraine.
🔻 Naji El: If the su24 can be wired to launch Scalps surely the f16 can be tweaked to launch the Taurus no ?
🔻 WS: I don’t believe so. And besides, there is no evidence a single F-16 has flown a combat sortie in Ukraine. Either they’re all gone, or they can’t find any NATO “volunteers” to fly them against the Russians.
🔻 Sam Spade: Forbes says su24.
🔻 WS: There have been no Ukrainian Su-24s seen in months. And no Su-24 has ever launched a Taurus missile.

The only way Taurus missiles can be launched is by NATO aircraft, piloted by NATO pilots, with German technicians on the ground to program them.
🔻 Walter Kurtz: I can’t wait to see Oreshnik falling on MDBA, Saab, Rheinmetal, Krupp, Blohl&Voss etc factories in Germany…
[I pray it doesn’t … but sadly appears in our cards. There MUST be denouement, as in all prior Tragedies]
⭕ cont. thread:
‼️ The Kursk Kamikaze Inkursion

This August to March time-lapse map illustrates conclusively how the Russians repeatedly “created space” for the AFU to push more men and equipment into the sack.

I remain thoroughly convinced this entire operation was a preconceived massacre.
🔻 Roberto Lodigiani: Your last sentence is irrelevant (you have no proof of anything) –we can have our own conclusions.
Good work on the map, though.
🔻 WS: The Russians have lured the AFU into a series of fire sacks over the course of this war, and then methodically destroyed them:

Kherson – summer 2022
Kharkov – autumn 2022
Bakhmut – winter 2022-spring 2023
Zaporozhye – summer 2023
Kursk – summer 2024

It’s what the Russians do.
🔻 ⚕Володя𐊛: How can Kherson and Kharkiv be considered as a victory for Russia?
🔻 WS: Those were the places where the second iteration of the Ukrainian army was methodically destroyed. Version 2 was the first to receive massive infusions of NATO implements of war, and many NATO “volunteers”.

The object of war is to destroy the enemy army.
The Object of War
🔻 Nick Durie, Alba Glasgow North: Why would they do that?
🔻 WS: It is a staple of Russian military doctrine, and has been for centuries. It’s what they do.

History sometimes rhymes. |Glantz|

📜 Fall Like A Thunderbolt
🔻 Halloween ON TOP: Feign retreats have been a thing for eons
🔻 twittaccount357: is this worse than the 2023 counter offensive?
🔻 WS: I’m pretty sure this Kursk fiasco has been the most costly battle of the war for the NATO/Ukraine forces.
🔻 twittaccount357: i disagree. the 2023 UKR counter offensive cost way more lives, resulted in the destruction of countless Nato donated equipment. More important it showcased the stupidity of Zelensky and his UKR generals, and began the slow decline of confidence in Zelensky amongst Americans
[how? Mrs. Milley, Radakin & Gang designed the Galactic Fiasco. The retards nuked themselves, and their anti-civilization, and in perpetuity, all praise be to God. But let’s not look too closely into the mouth of gift horse]
🔻 twittaccount357: but if you disagree, im welcome to hear some data. greetings from Elko Nevada, neighbor
🔻 WS: Been through Elko many times over the years.

On occasion, we still drive out to Ely for a weekend getaway. This photo is from just outside Great Basin National Park, very near the Utah/Nevada border: |media|
🔻 Brenda Factor: A common war strategy. No?
🔻 WS: For the Russians it is. Against Napoleon, the Russians abandoned Moscow, then burned down a lot of it after the French army occupied it, then systematically destroyed them all the way back to Paris.

The Russians understand the object of war.
🔻 yoshi999: After having recognized the defacto unlimited arms supply by US and EU to Ukraine, the obvious and rational decision of RUS has been to concentrate on the detoriation of the only limited resource of the opponent – Ukrainian soldiers!

Sad but true!
🔻 WS: You are laboring under a misconception.

Euro-NATO has been de facto demilitarized to the point of being combat-incapable for a generation.

US stockpiles are severely depleted, its production capacity exposed as woefully deficient, and its weapons exposed as largely ineffective.
🔻 Vicente López T. ✝ 🇲🇽: Yes. It definetly seems that way.
Moreover, the timing of the Rus counteroffensive seems suspicious and very coincidental, to say the least.
Right when Ukraine thought they had a strong bargaining chip in Kusrk in a possible negotiation, Russia suddenly goes: “No, you don’t”.
🔻 WS: Exactly. When they decided the fire bag had yielded all it could in terms of men and equipment, they closed the whole thing down in a couple weeks, and entrapped the remnant forces.

The casualty ratio in this 7+ month battle is at least 10:1 in favor of the Russians.
🔻 Brian Stark: What I kept telling idiots on Quora. Kursk in not a stalemate. It’s a slow mo killing ground .. Especially as trees shed their leaves in November. There was no concealment and little cover
🔻 Anton Moric: I hope that you’re wrong. Because Russian civilians suffered horribly at the hands of NATO/UKR. 2,000 are still missing, w/ many probably in mass graves, as have already been found. If preconceived, why didn’t the Russians evacuate their civilians?
🔻 Nineglyph: They did evacuate but there are always elderly villagers and pensioners that don’t want to leave all they have. I saw one vid where 4-5 people had been found executed in their house along with the family dog.
🔻 WS: From what I have been able to ascertain, the Russians began quietly advising residents to evacuate several weeks in advance. And they conducted well-organized evacuations in the initial days of the operation. But they did not compel an evacuation, and many chose to stay.

I have seen scant evidence to support the claims that “many thousands” of civilians have died. But I do not dispute that “many hundreds” may have.
🔻 Randall Adams: When Zelensky refused to retreat in Bakmut the Russians had his number
🔻 WS: I do not believe Zelensky has ever had any control, or even meaningful influence, over military matters.

I do not believe the AFU has ever done anything at the operational or strategic levels in which NATO officers were not intimately involved, and most likely in direct command.
[Where’s Love-handles Milley and the Beached-Admiral Radakin! Their mugs are permanently etched in the History books]
🔻 WS: 🔸In relation to the issue of civilian casualties, and in the context of my argument that the Russians anticipated, prepared for, and deliberately baited a potential NATO/AFU incursion into the Kursk region last summer, pursuant to creating a large cauldron on favorable ground.
[reposts his comment just above, “From what I have been able to ascertain …”]
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: You may recall, as I think I do, what appeared to be a geniune expression of anger directed by Putin at the Kursk Governor, or so it seemed. In retrospect it may have been that the response to protect/withdraw civilians from the expected incursion was in fact deficient.
[good point. The action plan was well underway, and the governor didn’t adequately discharge his part…]
🔻 Drago: Kursk was industrial scale liquidation, brilliant UK planning. Imbeciles
⭕🔻 American Vatnik🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺:
Russian FPVs take out Uke vehicles on the great Sudzha skedaddle |media|
🔻 WS: I’m very pleased to have introduced the obscure term “skedaddle” into our group lexicon. 😏
[helter skelter will do too]
⭕🔻 Dmitry Medvedev:
UK updates Trump: Russia should accept the proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine without any conditions, says the British Foreign Secretary. Britain and its minister can shove their idea back up the sh*thole it came from, diplomatically speaking.
🔻 WS: 🔥 Дышащий Огнём

Medvedev has a rare gift for diplomatic eloquence. 😏
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: They’re getting better at the media game.

The likely reason why the British and now Trump are so animated about a ceasefire is because they have operatives in the middle of this Kursk fiasco.
🔻 Tod🏁🚩🏴🏳️: I guess if he didn’t speak diplomatically they will take away his IP. 😆
⭕ ☹️ No Farewells

Over the past year I sent, to two old and dear friends, and two long-time friendly neighbors, links to a selection of my blog articles.

All four abruptly ceased further communication with me.

No explanations; no replies; no farewells. |media|
🔻 Господин Виљушка: They were never your friends.
🔻 WS: Yes, they were. And they will be yet again. For now, they are simply blinded by lies, and filled with a futile hope that somehow America can change course and be made “great again”.

They cannot accept the terrible idea that “the ashes will come first”.
📜 The Ashes Will Come First
🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ: 🍻
🔻 Koen: What prompted you to send them the links?
[LOL. A wise question. But we all did it.. testing the wind, and hearts, of former fella travelers]
🔻 Fabius Maximus (Ed.): Leftists play to win, and consider tolerance to be a trait of losers
[I think he means the post-1991 “leftists”, or the dregs that pass for it in the decomposingWest]
🔻 President_Beurre: He didn’t say they were leftists
🔻 WS: All four are actually mega-MAGA Republicans; strong believers that Trump is the savior of America, and that America is the savior of the world.
🔻 Dazzed Peter: do you regret sending those links?
🔻 WS: No. I do not. Much of my prior analysis has already been vindicated, and I remain persuaded time will yet vindicate most of that which remains unconfirmed by actual events.

That said, I do not like to feel “that kind of lonely”. |media|
🔻 Ephemeral: It is unconfortable but it is best to know what friends one truly has.

That said, I have… maybe one.
🔻 WS: My wife is my only “best friend”, and always has been.

But she is far and away the best person I have ever known in my entire life, and the person I would rather “hang out with” more than anyone. So I always have that overriding compensation for any other lack.
🔻 Ephemeral: I’m glad you have such a priceless companion. It’s a blessing.
🔻 Dazzed Peter: on a wall in Salamanca you’ll find a phrase dedicated to Unamuno, someone’s motto, “Primero la verdad que la paz”

for some, this can be a lifelong uncomfortable dilemma

thank you for the song
🔻 WS: I have been a life-long aficionado of female singer-songwriters, and Patty Griffin is without question my all-time favorite. I have seen her several times live over the years, and each time was a supernal experience. |media|
🔻 Dazzed Peter: i’m now drifting through a reel of this lady’s songs and i’m delighted

this one is inebriating |media|
🔻 WS: Great song.

Best albums, in my opinion:

Living With Ghosts (solo demo recordings made into her debut album)
1000 Kisses
Impossible Dream
Children Running Through
American Kid (when she and Robert Plant were a couple, and collaborators)
Patty Griffin (2019 eponymous album)
⭕🔻 Lord Bebo: 🇺🇦🇷🇺 “Kursk operation of the AFU fulfilled its task” – Zelensky

🗣️Maria Zakharova commented on Zelensky’s statement:

“Zelensky stated that the operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region ‘fulfilled its task.’

So, the task of Bankova [the Ukrainian presidential administration] was to kill civilians, bury as many Ukrainian soldiers as possible, and surrender the remaining Ukrainians as prisoners?”
🔻 Rak Vulture: I believe @imetatronink that #Kursk was a way to lure lots of Ukranian men and materiel into a fire pocket.
And it worked, #Russia löst about 5000, #Ukraine️ 75000.
🔻 WS: Maybe the ratio was more like 10:1, or even 8:1 … but I seriously doubt it. I think it was more like 12:1 or even 15:1.

Russian forces operated under an umbrella of OVERWHELMING FIREPOWER, and seldom exposed their troops to concentrations of enemy fire.

It was a slaughter.
⭕ 🎸 Il Sale della Terra

My wife and I were there for Ligabue’s full-moon equinox show at the 30 AD Roman Arena di Verona. 8th row, stage left. The most stunning and memorable arena show I ever saw (and I saw many).

(English rendering of lyrics in reply.) |media|
🔻 Red.Sniper: It’s quite the experience. I come from Istria, the province just east over the Adriatic, known for another Roman Amphitheater, the Arena of Pula.
Great song. Do you speak Italian?
🔻 WS: Yes, I speak, read, and write Italian. I lived there for two years from 1979-1981, and have never ceased since then to speak, read, and write in Italian. I love Italy, Italian, and Italians.
🔻 Marta: J’adore questo uomo😍
⭕ ‼️ Trump talking real tough to the Yemeni and Iranians. Now we get to see how much more effective the US military proves to be against Ansarullah than it has been previously. Could be the Houthi have some new tricks up their sleeve.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 💸 The use of foreign currencies such as the USD in intra-African trade costs the continent about $5 billion annually, an expert says

Dr. Melaku Geboye Desta, Coordinator of the African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC), made the statement citing Afreximbank data while speaking to Sputnik Africa on the sidelines of the 57th session of the ECA Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development in Addis Ababa.

🗣”The moment we remove the non-African currencies, the hard currency serving as an intermediary, the moment we start saving the transaction cost involved in the conversion and reconversion process, we believe trade will be facilitated, it will be cheaper, it will be more competitive,” he noted.

According to the expert, it is out of this thinking that the continent came up with the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS), which involves the work of clearing houses that operate without the use of an intermediary currency.

🗣”And through that, we believe that there are huge opportunities to save on the transaction cost and to facilitate, to speed up, to expedite and to make it more competitive to conduct trade between our own countries,” Dr. Melaku Geboye Desta pointed out. |media|
[the greatest harm done to nations is indirect blood sucking of the Vampire Balls using the remote financialization and petrodollar. Armageddon was prophesied to be fought over the exorbitant privilege of the Pirates striving to continue this remote enslavement and plunder of all mankind. It is this mindless usurious criminality of the entire combined West that shall doom it, once and for all]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ President Donald Trump has signed an executive order cutting funding to the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which fully funds and oversees the global media outlets, Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and Radio Free Asia (RFA).
[all vehicles of soft power are being jettisoned in rapid order. Back to unvarnished hard power]
⭕The U.S. has carried out attacks targeting Ansarallah in Yemen in response to the group announcing it will once again close the shipping lanes to the Red Sea, due to Israel cutting off humanitarian aid into Gaza.
⭕ Images from the U.S. airstrikes in Yemen against Ansarallah |media|
[so they pounded more empty bases, mountains, rocks and the forlorn desert?? Ain’t gonna impress even the lizards in the forlorn Yemeni desert. More posturing by Orange Buffoons]
⭕ How many Presidents does it take before the US realizes that bombing Yemen literally won’t make a difference?
⭕ Representative of Yemen’s Ansarullah: ‘The American strikes will not do a damn thing. In fact, we will increase our pressure against the Zionist entity even more’

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ ❗️ Britain is ready to send peacekeepers to Ukraine

Putin’s response to ceasefire ‘not good enough’: UK military chiefs to meet on Thursday: plans to send peacekeepers to Ukraine move into operational phase – PM Starmer

He also stated that Britain does not support the idea of ​​nuclear weapons proliferation in Europe.
[this is gonna get interesting. Popcorn time]

💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ Yemen, Sana’a: American-British aggression targets the capital, Sana’a.

Sana’a: Martyrs and wounded following the American-British aggression on a residential neighborhood in the Shu’oub district in northern the capital.

Sana’a: Several residential buildings were damaged as a result of the American-British aggression on a residential area in the Shu’oub district in northern the capital.

Sana’a: Civil defense teams continue their efforts in the affected area of American-British aggression in northern the capital.
[my mistake. Orange’s crusaders went straight for the civilians……. the Passion of the Worst. They know they’ve got little time left. This set of new criminals won’t dither like Biden’s lot]
⭕ 🔴 Rest assured that what is called or known as the right to “respond” to American-British aggression is not part of the vocabulary of the Yemeni Armed Forces.
⭕ The Political Bureau of Ansar Allah:

• The targeting of residential neighborhoods in the capital, Sana’a, by American-British aggression is a treacherous and immoral act..
• The targeting of civilians and civilian objects is a complete war crime.
• The targeting of civilians is additional evidence of American terrorism against opposing peoples and nations.
• The American-British aggression confirms that America has always fought on behalf of the Zionist entity.
• The American-British aggression against Yemen came in response to Yemen’s support for the Palestinian people.
• The aggression will not go unanswered, and our armed forces are fully prepared to respond to escalation with escalation.

⭕ The official spokesperson for Ansar Allah in Yemen, Mohammed Abdulsalam, stated that the American airstrikes on Yemen are a blatant aggression against an independent state and serve to encourage the Israeli entity to continue its unjust blockade on Gaza.

He argued that the claims made by the U.S. president regarding a threat to international navigation in the Bab al-Mandab Strait are untrue and misleading to international public opinion. He clarified that the maritime blockade declared by Yemen in support of Gaza only targets Israeli vessels until humanitarian aid can be delivered to the people of Gaza, in accordance with the ceasefire agreement between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli entity. This Yemeni blockade was announced after a four-day grace period for mediators.

He emphasized that international navigation in the Red Sea will remain safe from the Yemeni side, and that American airstrikes represent a return to militarization in the Red Sea, which is the real threat to international navigation in the region.

💠@Alon Mizrahi:
⭕ My initial response to the attack on Yemen: every day brings us closer to liberation from Western colonialism, white supremacy, and Zionism.

The whole world (and American citizens) can see how the US has gone full crazy for Zionism and exposed itself as an inherently insane and unstable country bound for more and more war and conflict. Good.

The October 7 effect keeps going strong. There’s no more legitimacy for the US and Israel (and the smalltime whores the UK, Canada, Germany and the likes). There is only extreme racism, violence, and terror. A deeply immoral, deranged pseudo-civilization living on borrowed time.

China builds, connects, and becomes. The US destroys, isolates, and ceases to be. Everything is as expected.
–
I don’t think Yemen will be abandoned by Iran and its powerful allies. This may mark the next phase in the Usraeli lost cause of global and regional domination through bombings.

💠@Seyed Mohammad Marandi:
⭕ retweet:
🔻MenchOsint: 🇾🇪US Navy P8 Poseidon from Bahrain is active around Yemen with transponders switched off
⭕ Trump, the “peacemaker,” murders Yemenis to aid Netanyahu in starving Palestinian children.
⭕ Trump is bombing Yemen so that its genocidal allies in Tel Aviv can continue their starvation siege against Palestinian children in Gaza unimpeded.

The Collective West is pure evil—and humanity’s enemy.

💠Ahmed Hassan 🇾🇪 أحمد حسن زيد:
⭕ Trump is bombing Yemen for Israel.

—Artwork @kamalsharf
⭕ War doesn’t scare us. Trump doesn’t scare us. Death doesn’t scare us.

Surrender, humiliation, and surrender are what scare us. We fear only God. That’s why we will enter the war and continue fighting. We know you are criminals and will kill many Yemenis and destroy many homes.

But we will not lay down our weapons, we will not leave Gaza alone, and we will not accept your hegemony over us. This is a decision we have made, and we will continue with it, even if we have to fight the entire world.
⭕ I know Trump isn’t Biden.
But American planes, missiles, and all American weapons have not changed. They are the same.

I will tell you what is and is not. Sana’a is not Damascus being bombed without a response. Sana’a will respond forcefully to Trump, Biden, and Netanyahu.
Whoever attacks Yemen will be punished.
⭕ Don’t say all eyes on Yemen

All eyes on these people who are starving , All eyes on these poor children who are thirst , All eyes on the slaughtered city
Yesterday , today, and tomorrow, ALL EYES ON GAZA |media|

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Donald Trump is bombing north of Yemen’s capital Sanaa and Qahza in Saada where at least 29 people lost their lives. Ansar Allah will humiliate Trump because his declared objectives will not be achieved and Israeli ships won’t cross the Red Sea regardless of the repetitive bombing.
⭕ The US attacks continue the aggression where Ansara Allah said the US and British raids on the Jarban area in Sana’a governorate. This area was attacked last January, and in the past. The western coalition forces have revealed a poor bank of Yeeni objectives to target.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Max Blumenthal: Here’s an HTS helicopter dropping exploding ordinances on Alawite areas of Syria during its sectarian murder spree this month

Gulf-sponsored propagandist Charles Lister is the de facto lobbyist for HTS in DC |media|

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇷🇺🪖 The Russian Armed Forces surround over 100 Ukrainian soldiers west of Sudzha in the Kursk region, the army says

“Artillery is firing at them. [This is] a real cauldron. No one will get out,” an officer of Russia’s Sever (North) battlegroup told Sputnik on Saturday.

Over the past few weeks, the Russian military intensified the counter-offensive in the Kursk region and regained numerous settlements previously occupied by Ukrainian forces, the border town of Sudzha among them.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Today marks the 22nd anniversary of the death of American activist Rachel Corrie, who was deliberately crushed by an Israeli bulldozer in Rafah

Despite her family’s efforts to hold Israel accountable, all lawsuits filed in the United States and Israel, along with subsequent appeals, have been rejected, leaving them without justice or compensation.

Rachel is part of a long history of foreign journalists and activists who have been killed by Israeli forces. A year after her death, the IDF shot and killed Thomas Hurndall, a British activist who had traveled to Gaza.

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺Sumy – a Russian city. Loading…
⭕ 🇾🇪💬🇺🇸Yemen is not going to negotiate with the US until it receives a painful response to its strikes, a member of the Ansar Allah (Houthis) Politburo told RIA Novosti

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Yemen is not going to negotiate with the US until Washington receives a painful response to its strikes, a member of the Houthis Politburo told Sputnik

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Last night, the US bombed Yemen, in this order, Al Bayda’, Sanaa and Saada multiple times causing 31 people killed and 110 wounded.

Ansar Allah leaders have decided to retaliate against the US very soon and maintain the blockade on Israeli merchandise.
⭕ The US administration informed Lebanon that it has the perfect candidate to be nominated as the Central Bank Governor.

The US has already selected the President and the Prime Minister and approved the newly appointed Chief of the army.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ I love Russians, but I absolutely do not like racoons. They are cunning and destructive rodents who ravage henhouses and gardens. Fortunately they are rather easy to trap. |media|
[racoon is an anagram for corona.. used in Racoon City predictive programming of the post-apocalyptic movie franchise “Resident Evil”. One scene has one of my all-time fav speeches by an Anglo… oh, how they wish they could speak like this openly, without squeamishness, as in the good ol days of a young Churchill or in the Victorian era..] 
🔻 bossbabymom1: Cheapest fur. Try to survive in that climate.
🔻 WS: Temperatures where I live (albeit dryer) are, on average, fairly comparable to Moscow, even though Moscow is at the 56th latitude and we are at the 38th.
🔻 νοῦς: just trying to survive like every other animal
🔻 WS: They are exceptionally skilled in that respect. Very intelligent creatures in many ways.

They are voracious omnivores, and can grow quite large.

They are also very prolific, and can become intolerably invasive.

They also cannot resist a little bowl of cat food inside a trap.
⭕ cont. thread:
‼️ Trump talking real tough to the Yemeni and Iranians. Now we get to see how much more effective the US military proves to be against Ansarullah than it has been previously. Could be the Houthi have some new tricks up their sleeve.
🔻 C1: seems like it would be rather easy for u.s. airpower to take out yemen’s water infrastructure & use subs to sink ships bringing in food (yemen imports 90% of their food) & starve them into submission. if the usa wanted to do that, yemen couldn’t stop it.
🔻 WS: There are many possibilities.

But I acknowledge your apt reference to the brutalist art of siege warfare. Its practitioners excel when it comes to reducing cities to rubble and ashes and then starving the residents to death.

It’s high-profit-margin killing.
[I was just reflecting on a prophetic prophesy that a hallmark of the AntiChrist would be the mass starvation of his enemies. So who are the starving today? Who are those maintaining the Siege on the starving, and buttressing the occupiers in every which way?]
🔻 C2: I imagine Pentagon planners are staying up late, to figure out ways of guiding the C-in-C away from the military disaster that US total war in the region would invite.

Just keeping him to symbolic strikes which he can rhetorically inflate.
🔻 C3: You are Anglos and that’s the way of war the anglos were and maybe still is most proficient 🙂
🔻 C4: It wasn’t 12 months ago, that Putin whimsically hinted Russia might give Houthis hyper sonic weapons, that will be the point, America will be confronted.
🔻 WS: Putin never said that. You have misrepresented what he did say.

You can’t just “give” someone hypersonic missiles.

But something like a very capable Soviet-era antiship cruise missile, or a short-range antiship ballistic missile with upgraded guidance … that’s a possibility.
🔻 C4: A misquote I made, but I do think he was sending a veiled threat.
🔻 C5: Airstrikes are not enough, if the US wants to win in Yemen, it needs to make a brief invasion, terminate the pro Iranian regime, and leave immediately.
🔻 WS: The US cannot and will not launch a ground invasion of Yemen. That’s just silly talk.
🔻 C6: I hope they do because this infuriates me, I hate that asshole Trump. What a fucking moron running the country.
America is in for some strange times
🔻 C7: That reads like he believes we’ve been holding back. I’m not sure that’s accurate
⭕🔻 WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧:
Kerch Bridge… you are now on the cards.
🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: Every time Ukraine suffers a major defeat on the battlefield they try to take it out on the Kerch Strait Bridge (which, we repeat, has virtually no military utility at this point).
🔻 WS: If the Ukrainians try again to hit the Kerch Strait Bridge, I believe the Russians will make it the final justification to reassimilate both Nikolaev and Odessa.
[yeah, ANY darn bridge is a good trade for Odessa! And will likely be leveraged as such]
🔻 C3: Many are saying a military advance on Odessa represents a major leap in scale/ambition and is not likely in the cards? Would require amphibious assault? Not likely in your opinion for practical/strategic as well as political reasons? What do you think?
🔻 WS: I have long said I believe Odessa will become Russia again, more or less without a fight. No amphibious invasion will be necessary. Easier to cross the Dnieper and come down from the N / NE.
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: It’s a British establishment thing. Whenever they need to lash out because of their incompetent failures the Black Sea, Kerch or Crimea is always in their crosshairs.
🔻 C5: It will be another Brit-inspired failure. Starmer will lose his 8 bases in Odessa.
[Indeed! Even for the 0.00000000000001% chance the General Staff didn’t have the blueprints to bring back Odessa, the Limeys’ wild grasping now made it AN IMPERATIVE]
⭕🔻 Brandon:
I mean, I was already onboard with Trump’s desire to make Canada the 51st state. @ABDanielleSmith just solidifies my commitment to this mission. @realDonaldTrump must take Canada. Now. |media|
🔻 WS: 🇨🇦 The New Manifest Destiny

I hear such sentiments voiced from many quarters these days.

And I continue to wonder: What exactly does “Donald Trump ‘TAKING’ Canada” look like? I mean, how does it work? What’s the first step on this path to The New Manifest Destiny?
🔻 The Spirit in The PsyOp: The first step will probably be Canada’s bankruptcy and general economic implosion, which will likely be simultaneous with that of the UK’s, and nearly all the nations of Western Europe.

🤔🤷‍♂️
[don’t ask this guy to make wishes on new years…]
🔻 C3: Perhaps some of them in his administration just want to take the oil fields of Alberta and leave the rest as Rump Canada. That might have the biggest bang for the buck. Their assumption is probably that Canadians or Albertans will not or can not resist these “overtures”.
[LOL. Oh Sean! From RumpKraine to Rumpaduh?!]
⭕🔻 Rebeccah Heinrichs: Also a refutation of the silly notion that the U.S. cannot take out Islamist pirates while also working with allies to deter Russia and China. We can do that.
🔻 Martin Skold: Taking out Islamist pirates requires a carrier group in the Red Sea (prob more, since one wasn’t enough). Deterring China requires multiple carrier groups in the East China Sea.

There are 9 carriers that have air wings, of which 3 can be deployed at a time. Where do they go?
[these blathering fools do not comprehend Yemen is no “Islamist pirates” – but Ansarullah is fully formed government with institutions and has some 30,000,000 Yemenis behind them, and all that entails of top-world-grade fighting spirit, will, and ingenuity. Ask the US Navy lads currently undergoing psychiatric care]
🔻 WS: 📜 Dinosaurs of the Deep Blue Sea
🔻 WS: 🧵 How to Lose A Carrier Strike Group in An Afternoon

☝️Right off the bat, he makes an important observation, which I’ve suspected. Orange & Gang were dragged into this war on Yemen (the other fronts deliberately going quiet) on Yemeni terms and timetables. Certain denouements are inevitable, and written into the Stars – like the ongoing evisceration of nazis in Novorossiya and Kursk.. the same must occur in SW Asia for closure.. and the fools rushed in to take the Bait.
NB – the Yanqui escalation opens possibilities, just on the cusp of Persia being attacked by the rabid, for YEMEN to soften up and disable the Yanqui bases on the occupied fat desert bedouins. Note above the four that facilitated the aggression last night: Qatar, UAE, Bahrain and KSA. ALL four are much much closer than Zion, which got/will get pummeled by projectiles up the wazoo. This may open the window of opportunity to evict those bases, and solely focusing on those Yanqui bases. Interesting days ahead for the GCC and their suzerain……

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Yemen Ansar Allah said it has “targeted the USS Harry Truman with 18 missiles and drones in retaliation to the US aggression and targeting 47 positions in several provinces in Yemen.”
⭕ The US has launched attacks on targets in Yemen and is expected to continue its operations for several more days. However, the strikes are less about directly confronting Yemen and more about sending a strategic warning to Iran.

Despite this escalation, the US is not engaging Iran militarily or effectively deterring Yemen. Even as Washington takes a more active and confrontational stance in the Middle East, its efforts may ultimately fall short of achieving long-term strategic success.
⭕ retweet:
Jolani’s gangs have carried out new massacres against Shiites and Alawites on the Syrian coast. |media| 💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇵🇭⚖️ Arrest of Filipino ex-president: A warning to Trump and a sign of the West’s last struggle?

Rodrigo Duterte faces accusations from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for “crimes against humanity” related to his war on drugs. However, Chinese expert Qin An interpreted the arrest as a political strategy by Western powers, suggesting a collaboration with current Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

“This also signals an attempt by the deep state, which had been suppressed by Trump, to demonstrate its power and influence as the global order shifts,” he said.

In an interview with Sputnik, Qin highlighted the paradox of the Philippines executing an ICC warrant in 2025, despite its 2019 withdrawal from the organization, and sees the 7,000 police deployed for Duterte’s arrest as part of an “internal and external conspiracy.”

Qin further linked Duterte’s detention to past Western interventions, drawing a parallel between The Hague’s role in prosecuting former Yugoslav leaders and the conflict in Ukraine.

“This event is reminiscent of NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia and the NATO expansion that fueled the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Similar to how Yugoslav leaders were captured and sent to The Hague, the ICC has now issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin. However, Russia has stood firm against NATO, defending humanity’s last line against Western dominance,” he explained.
⭕ ❗️The Houthis have threatened to attack all US warships in the Red and Arabian Seas in response to the strikes on Yemen

They also said they would continue to block the passage of Israeli ships in the Red and Arabian Seas until humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip resumes.
[it is easier to fight ten wolverines alone, or honey badgers, than a Yemeni… what the demented raised unto themselves!]

Listen carefully to his concluding statement. The utility of the Orange trumpet is strategic for the Moshiach in the suicide of the desert Bedouins. They’d refused to partake in over a year with the Biden clique. For Orange, they rushed into the Yemeni Fire on the first ask!

https://safety4sea.com/oil-tanker-loses-control-and-collides-with-navy-boats-in-brazil/

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦Delivery of a pair of TM-62 directly to the enemy’s basement by a ground robot courier from the “Storm” detachment of the 33rd motorized rifle regiment, Tarasovka village (between Pokrovsk and Konstantinovka).  |media|
[Don’t go to make war in Russia, or Yemen, lads. It doesn’t pay]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️US Presidential Special Representative Steve Witkoff reported that Washington and Moscow are discussing access to ports in the Black Sea as part of the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine.

He named the ownership of the Zaporizhzhya NPP as another topic of discussion between the US and Russia.
[If this is evenly remotely true, USUK is being strung along. They are too rabid to be rational. Would any sane sovereign power discuss “access” to a land to be easily taken, and which belonged for centuries to ancestors — to a defeated enemy, and for longer than the existence of that enemy? USUK will be served the entire shit sandwich]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ U.S. President Donald Trump, who claimed ‘My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker’ on his inauguration day, has since bombed three countries: Somalia, Syria, and Yemen. This is in addition to $12 billion worth of military aid sent to Israel and the 100 U.S. troops stationed there to operate two ‘THAAD’ air defense systems, which were moved to Israel in October (on Biden’s orders), with no news of their removal from the Pentagon since.

These three countries, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen, have remained U.S. targets since Obama’s presidency, during which he was bombing seven countries simultaneously at one point.

Trump has repeatedly spoken out against ‘endless wars’ since his first term and opposed military intervention in the Middle East just two months ago, stating that ‘We got nothing out of it except a lot of death.’ However, his actual policies remain unchanged.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 📌 Major world events by the morning of March 17

• US President Donald Trump said he plans to hold a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, a Western media outlet said. The US top official reportedly intends to raise the issue of territories and control over nuclear power plants during the conversation;
• The US has notified Europe that it is leaving an international group investigating Russia in the context of the Ukrainian conflict, the New York Times reported;
• The UK is ready to deploy thousands of its soldiers as part of a peacekeeping force in Ukraine “for years,” the Times said;
• The death toll from US strikes in Yemen is at least 53, with nearly 100 wounded, the Houthi Ministry of Health said.

⭕ 🇺🇸🇾🇪 All US ships are banned from passing through the Red and Arabian seas, Houthi leader says

“The US aircraft carrier and warships will be a target for us, and the decision to ban shipping will also affect the Americans as long as they continue their aggression,” leader of the Yemeni movement Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, Abdul Malik al-Houthi said.

The movement will respond “with escalation to escalation and respond to the adversary by striking its aircraft carriers and battleships and blockading passage to its vessels,” al-Houthi added, threatening Washington with “even further escalation” should the attacks on Yemen go on.

💥 On Sunday, the Houthis claimed to have attacked US aircraft carrier Harry Truman and other warships in the Red Sea with missiles and drones in retaliation for the recent strikes.
⭕ ❗️Russian military liberated the village of Stepovoe in the Zaporozhye region, the Defense Ministry reported

Do y’all recall that famous smirk after one of the True Promises?? LOL. 🤣😂 It is achin’, strugglin’, rollin’ to be born, like the daybreak….
You know, like him, I anticipate some serious and stupendous surprises from the Yemenis. They’ve been playing possum to date. The Stage’s set for them now. World-changing surprises, prophesied millennia ago for the demented Last Satanic Empire

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 🔸 72 hours into the Kursk fiasco, it was not yet apparent that the last gasp NATO/AFU army would push 100k+ troops and many 1000s of vehicles into the trap.

But, as I did then, I still believe it was a kamikaze run.
🤔🧵 The Kursk Kauldron
🔻 C1: Russia will never tell, so it will always be a topic of debate… but I personally think you are correct.
🔻 WS: If Kursk was indeed conceived as yet another trap into which the NATO/AFU forces were lured, it will likely be many years before an authoritative admission of the fact emerges. Even then it will provoke controversy.

But it will be studied in war colleges for generations to come.
🔻 C2: If that was the case, they should have removed the civilian population before those arseholes got their hands on them. The rapes, torture, & murder could have been avoided.
🔻 WS: reposts old:
“From what I have been able to ascertain, the Russians began quietly advising residents to evacuate several weeks in advance. And they conducted well-organized evacuations in the initial days of the operation. But they did not compel an evacuation, and many chose to stay.

I have seen scant evidence to support the claims that “many thousands” of civilians have died. But I do not dispute that “many hundreds” may have.”
🔻 Matthew McCracken: Remember Lt. General Roger Cloutier? It was alleged that he was cornered in the Azovstal Plant in Mariupol in May 2022. The “fact checkers” stated this was false. This Lt. General “retired” in Oct 2022 and has not been heard from since February 2022. |media|
[An excellent reminder of the last time the supranational nazis howled so in their psychotic social media effluvia. It appears more “quiet retirements” will flow, like smooth Chinese streams over unperturbed polished pebbles]
🔻 Pink Shirt Migo: What do you think about British and French troops getting involved in the war? Is this mainly for show, or is there a real chance of this happening?
🔻 WS: In my estimation, there is almost ZERO chance of the British and French sending troops to Ukraine, and exactly ZERO chance of them surviving long if they are sent. It’s all ridiculous silly talk.
🔻 C5: Jim Jones had nothing on this death cult.
🔻 C6: They never should have carried out this operation.

It’s when the West’s propaganda war is more important than the real military situation. They failed to capture the Kursk nuclear plant, failed to improve their negotiating position, and took heavy losses that hasten their defeat

⭕🔻 Inevitable West: 🚨BREAKING: It’s confirmed:

Hungary just passed the largest tax cut in Europe & the entire Western world.

– One-child mothers are exempt from income tax until they turn 30.
– Women with two or more children will have no income tax for life.

Every European nation must do this.
🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: People love to celebrate Hungary’s pro-natal policies but they haven’t come close so far to returning to replacement rates. So far what they’ve done is go from very bad (Italy) to only regular bad (UK). Barely denting the problem.
🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: This isn’t to imply that they’re wrong to try, but if you want a serous solution to the natality problem, you need to look beyond Hungary.

Industrialization is basically antibiotics for the human population.
🔻 WS: There are only a few distinct cultural groups in the western world that remain above replacement level.
🔻 GrandContrarian: Like who?
🔻 WS: My people still remain above replacement level — about 2.5 last I checked.
⭕🔻 Ian Ellis:
Air & naval strikes, including Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAM) fired from cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64), targeted senior Houthi commanders & hit radars, air defenses, missile & drone systems in Sana’a, Sa’dah, Al Bayda, Hajjah, Dhamar, Ma’rib, & Al Jawf.
🔻 WS: Given the VLS loadout for CSG-8 (USS Trembling Puppy, 1 CG, 3 DDGs) had to be biased towards missile/drone defense, and even allowing for the presence of an Ohio-class missile sub, I reckon 30% – 50% of the available Tomahawks were expended in these strikes.
🔻 C2: And what about USA defensive missile expenditure?
I read ballistic and cruise missiles were sent in response.
🔻 C3: Surface ships will become extinct unless air defense catches up fast.
🔻 C4: And they all need to be at port to be reloaded… |media|
⭕🔻 Ian Ellis:
The U.S. SECDEF said, “The Houthi capital felt like an earthquake,” & warned Iran, “Your support of the Houthis needs to end immediately. We will hold you accountable as the sponsor of this proxy… We will not be nice about it. We will come after the Houthis until they stop shooting at our ships, & the Iranians better stay out of it.” |media|
🔻 WS: Hegseth boldly threatening the Iranians.

I don’t think the Pentagon has really thought this thing through.

Whatcha gonna do Pete? What’s the play here?
🔻 C2: What do you think will happen next?
🔻 WS: It’s hard to predict how stupid these people will be.

All I know is that everyone should be paying closer attention to how seriously Russia, China, and Iran are now coordinating their actions — including both a high-level summit in Beijing and naval exercises in the Arabian Sea.
🔻 Johanna deMartin: He bought the Israeli position hook, line, and sinker.
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: I would think this nonsense would be a bad idea while they still haven’t resolved this Ukraine fiasco.
🔻 Punished ZZZapling ♋️: “The play is that — forgive my crudeness — we want to compensate for the unimpressive size of our phallus.”
🔻 C6: I’d say the play is huffing puffing and chest thumping. And Pete’s just the guy to do it.
🔻 Brandon: I think it’s pretty obvious what they’re doing. As I told you they would do. War with Iran.
[Enter Iran..]
🔻 WS: “War with Iran”

People keep using that phrase. I don’t think it means what they think it means.
📜 All for One and One for All
🔻 Brandon: I do. It means WWIII. As I’ve been warning (which is why I have long favored a containment + deterrent strategy).
⭕🔻 War Intel: #BREAKING U.S. intelligence sources claim that Iranian warships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden are providing real-time intelligence to Yemeni forces, aiding strikes on Israeli-linked vessels.

This alleged coordination highlights Iran’s strategic role in the escalating maritime conflict.
🔻 WS: #BREAKING Russian intelligence sources claim US/NATO ISR aircraft over the Baltic Sea and Black Sea provide real-time intelligence to facilitate strikes on Russian targets in the region.

This alleged coordination highlights the US/NATO strategic role in the Ukraine War.
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: The more things change the more they stay the same.
🔻 C3: Do as I say.
Not as I do.
🔻 C4: We have gone beyond the point of return. We are now into geopolitical war.
⭕🔻 MenchOsint: 🚨 The Yemeni Armed Forces announce to have targeted the American aircraft carrier USS Truman & its accompanying destroyers for the second time in 24 hours.

The attack was carried out in retaliation of US agression on Yemen
🔻 WS: 🤔 Passing Thought

If I’m a guerrilla force like Ansarullah, and have, say, 1000 antiquated drones/ASCMs, and a dozen previously withheld but much more capable ASBMs … I’d bleed off US air defenses with my old stuff, and then launch the good stuff in a single salvo.
[LOL. Teaching Yemenis the art of war is like teachin a granny to suck eggs]
🔻 C2: When does it bleed off tho?
🔻 WS: Surprisingly quickly. The “magazine depth” is quite shallow, and they cannot rearm at sea. The Yemeni have already chased off 2 carrier strike groups from the Red Sea for the simple reason that the US ships ran out of air defense missiles.
📜 Magazine Depth and Shields
🔻 Stjärnhimmel: The Truman carrier group will be going back & forth to nato bases in Mediterranean to refuel & refill UNLESS…

Ever Given happens or an earthquake hits a bridge in Suez Canal.

Yemen Ansarallah would be having a bowl of truman red sea soup for dinner.
🔻 C4: Essentially the US doesn’t have the missiles available to carry out a sustained conflict against the Houthis.

The only way this ends is with a embarrassing loss for the US. Prosperity Guardian was already a failure and now Trump is going to inadvisably double down on failure.
[No… the nazis are getting demilitarized on all fronts. And they’ve no intention of retreating or conceding.. so the tools will use different tools]
⭕🔻 Gniewomir Flis: In a hypothetical engagement between NATO and Russia in Ukraine, wouldn’t NATO be able to establish air superiority quite quickly and then control the battlefield from there?
🔻 Ivan: Ask @imetatronink
🔻 WS: 📜 Staggering Towards the Abyss

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Recent reports indicate that the United States and Israel have approached certain African nations, including Sudan, Somalia, and Somaliland, to explore the possibility of resettling Palestinians displaced from Gaza, the owners of the land, in favour of the immigrants Zionists who occupy Palestine.

The Sudanese officials have outright rejected the proposal, emphasizing their unwillingness to accept Palestinians displaced from Gaza.
Somalia and Somaliland have stated that they have not been approached regarding this matter and have expressed no interest in participating in such a plan. ​

This could only happen if Donald Trump is re-elected for the third time without any amendment to the US Constitution.
⭕ BreakingNews:
Syrian forces crossed into Lebanon and are engaged in the Lebanese Hosh al-Sayyed Ali village.
[these headchoppers, the western SalafiNazi Horde, are as mindless as UkroNazis and ZioNazis and the AngloNazi Hordes. Their sole focus is to invade Shia lands and kill. They have the same bitter end as their named spiritual brethren]

Could tonight be True Promise III?? Or the zionazi Rapture? After the unprecedented presumptuous and deranged threats against Persia, Satanyahoo entered his Bunker. Fifth Fleet is under Suicide Watch. Lotta flying coffins from CONUS headed to the theatre. And a couple million Yemenis marched on their streets…

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ #sputnikviral | 😒 This reaction speaks for itself

🇵🇱 A sign language interpreter for a Polish presidential candidate has gone viral on social media.

At one point, he stopped interpreting Szymon Holownia’s remarks and simply… waved his hand as if dismissing his statements as unworthy of attention.

“Deaf people are lucky they don’t have to listen to this,” one netizen commented. |media|
[bless this interpreter. His reaction is for us — and regarding the entire dementia we witness westwide.
BTW, see the very NEXT video – a special VIP delivery vehicle to the next dimension]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇹🇷/🇸🇾 NEW: A Turkish airstrike kills several Kurdish children in SDF-controlled Ayn al-Arab (Kobani), just a week after the Syrian Democratic Forces signed an agreement with the new Syrian government to unify all elements into one state.
⭕ Israeli airstrikes west of Daraa, southern Syria.
[so much killing of arabs and semites. Kurds may largely be bought compradores in this era, but they are semites. Killing in the north, south, and west of Syria. Lebanese daily. Palestinians in Gaza and WB still being killed. Yemenis by the Anglo Horde.]
⭕ The U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet has entered a period of ‘sustained combat operations’ within the CENTCOM area of responsibility – U.S. Officials
⭕ President Trump has ordered decisive combat operations against Yemen – White House
⭕ American surveillance planes have been circling in the Persian Gulf near Iran‘s nuclear power plant in Bushehr for several days in a row
⭕ Representative of Yemen’s Ansarallah movement: ‘We do not seek war, but we are accustomed to it. We will continue to respond to the U.S. aggression against our nation. As for the Americans, they can do whatever they want, it won’t impact our operational goals of supporting Gaza.’
⭕ Eyes on the MV Behshad, Iran’s offshore intel-gathering vessel in the Red Sea.
⭕ President Trump: ‘From now on, every shot fired by the Houthis will be considered as a shot fired by the weapons and leadership of Iran, and Iran will be held accountable, and suffer the consequences’

💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ Yemeni Minister of Defense Major General Mohammed Al-Atafi stated:

• The Yemeni Armed Forces are prepared to escalate their response according to the magnitude of the challenge and any emergency situation.
• The readiness and preparedness of the Yemeni Armed Forces is in support of our brothers in Gaza and to implement the naval blockade on the ships of the temporary entity.
• Our forces at all levels have taken all necessary military measures to accomplish their mission after the expiration of the leader of the revolution’s deadline for the Zionist entity.
• Intelligence agencies have analyzed the maritime movements of the Zionist ships and have pinpointed precise data on Zionist targets.
• We will engage the Zionist ships in upcoming operations based on the requirements of a comprehensive maritime battle.
• We will compel the Zionist entity and its supporters to comply with international laws and agreements, including ceasefire agreements.
• Yemen will respond to the blockade with a blockade and escalation with escalation; the aggressor will face consequences, and if you return, we will respond.
• Yemen will not remain silent in the face of the Zionist aggression that seeks to oppress, starve, and unjustly blockade the Palestinian people.
• Our capabilities are sufficient to manage long-term maritime battles, employing tactics that will astonish our enemies.
• Yemen’s decision has been clear: to prevent Zionist ships without threatening international maritime navigation in the operational area.
• The American aggression against Yemen has demonstrated to the world the extent of U.S. support and bias toward the Zionist entity.
• Yemen will not tire or waver in its support for Gaza and the blockade of Zionist ships.
• The maritime battle against the Israeli enemy, subsequent to its violation of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza and the expiration of the leader of the revolution’s deadline, will not resemble prior confrontations.
• Our weaponry today is more precise and destructive, our aircraft have greater range and can fly for long durations, and our boats and submarines possess advanced capabilities..
• We have the capacity and unpleasant surprises for our enemies, and time will reveal them

Trump hypes up tensions with Iran

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/us-military-surveillance-aircraft-circling-iran-nuclear-power-plant

Who said USUK was in the right mind? And note the call sign of the drone — reminds of Operation Overlord…
Yeah, why not? Invade Persia .. the bête noire of this demented Last Satanic Empire. Babylonia will disintegrate herself for the glory of the birth of the Moshiach, waiting to walk outta Isfahan. What days

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕📌 Major world events by the evening of March 17

• Canada will strengthen ties with France amid an escalating trade standoff with the US, newly elected Prime Minister Carney said;
• The US and Israel are looking at Syria as a possible place to relocate Gazans, US broadcaster CBS reported;

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Iran statement to the United Nations:

‘While adhering to our obligations towards international peace and security, the Islamic Republic of Iran will resolutely defend its sovereignty, territorial integrity and national interests against any hostile action

The Islamic Republic of Iran warns that any act of aggression will have dire consequences, for which the United States of America bears full responsibility.
⭕ 🇮🇷/🇺🇸 NEW: ‘Iran will shoot down any enemy aircraft that enters Iranian airspace, manned or unmanned. We warn the enemy of any provocation.’ – IRGC Aerospace Source
⭕❗️ BREAKING: Israel says it has obtained intelligence suggesting that Hamas is preparing another attack against Israel
⭕ In other words, Netanyahu wants a pretext to break the ceasefire and resume the war.
⭕❗️🇺🇸/🇾🇪 Yemen’s Leader, Sayyed Abdul Malik Al-Houthi: ‘If the situation and responsibility requires us to take a bigger step or bigger action, we will not hesitate, and we are ready for this option’
⭕ There is no truth to reports of a heightened state of alert throughout Iran.

Jets are patrolling the skies in routine manouvers, and air defense systems are on standby as usual.

There is also no truth to the meeting of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.
⭕⚡️- Iraqi Foreign Ministry: We have received messages indicating that the Zionist entity intends to launch a series of strikes against our country.
⭕ Two Iranian F-14 Tomcats were scrambled to intercept an American MQ-4C ‘Triton’ drone near Iranian airspace, forcing the drone to alter course

The drone was flying dangerously close to Iran’s sovereign airspace near the coastal city of Bushehr, and was forced to return to base after being intercepted by the IRIAF jets.
⭕ Four Iranian missile ships have crossed the Strait of Hormuz, and are headed towards the Red Sea – Al Jazeera
[take with grain, as reported by the Anglo-Salafi presstitute AL Jazeera]
⭕ Iran is calling America’s bluff.

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇮🇷🇺🇸| BREAKING: Iran has forced a US MQ-4C spy drone to leave Iranian airspace

The Iranian Air Force announced that the US MQ-4C drone was forced to retreat from its position near Iranian airspace as soon as it encountered Iranian F14-fighter jets and Iranian drones.

🇮🇷| The IRGC Aerospace Force also announced:

Iran will shoot down any enemy aircraft that enters Iranian airspace, whether manned or unmanned. We warn the enemy against any provocation.

☝️ These are clickbait videos without any proof of successfully hitting anything. But the PoV of the Yemeni masses are important to register

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ Fake news.

The only source claiming this is a Saudi source, amplified by zionists such as Emily. As Israel is bombing Gaza, and US bombing Yemen, we’ll be subject to massive media Psyops. BE CAREFUL what you share.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🚨 Gaza ceasefire is OVER

Air strikes continue throughout the Gaza Strip, killing at least 100 people, Reuters reports.

“Netanyahu and his government have decided to overturn the ceasefire agreement, exposing the captives in Gaza to an uncertain fate,” Hamas said in official statement.

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt confirmed that Israel warned Trump about tonight’s Gaza strikes.
⭕ Israeli tanks reportedly open fire on Abasan in eastern Khan Yunis, Gaza

According to a statement by the Israel Defense Forces, Israel launched massive air strikes on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas political bureau member Izzat al-Risheq said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to return to war means a death sentence for the Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip.

The truce between Israel and Hamas officially ended on March 1, but hostilities have not resumed due to attempts by mediators to involve the parties in continuing negotiations on a settlement in Gaza.

The death toll from Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday night had exceeded 326, according to the ministry of health, with hundreds injured.

Syrian-Lebanese border clashes restarting?

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ 🇸🇦/🇱🇧 Saudi Arabia’s ‘Al-Hadath’ before they got the memo:

‘Three Syrian Army (HTS) soldiers were killed by armed men after they crossed into Lebanon by mistake.’

🇸🇦/🇸🇾 Saudi Arabia’s ‘Al-Hadath’ after they got the memo:

‘Three soldiers of the Ministry of Defense were kidnapped and tortured to death. Hezbollah violates the Syrian border, and Damascus responds by shelling their positions with artillery and rockets.’

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ retweet:
In Trump’s new order, anyone can become Palestinian
⭕ A Syrian tank operated by the new authority was destroyed during clashes on the Lebanese-Syrian border while engaging with Lebanese residents of Hosh al-Sayyed Ali. This village straddles both sides of the border. Tensions escalated between the Syrian forces and Lebanese inhabitants defending their side of the divided town.
[this was yesterday. AB Atwan intimates provocateurs (zionazi/western) are trying to detonate war between Shia of northern Lebanon and Syrian headchoppers. And it should not be hard, given the IQ and natural inclinations of salafis]
⭕ With the US approval, Israel violated the ceasefire. It resumed the war on Gaza, killing 236 people, only for the Israel prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, with an ICC arrest warrant for his war crimes, to remain in Power.
🔻 Abū Luʾluʾ: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! It’s time for the Axis of Resistance to respond with impunity by removing sectarian takfiris from Syria, down US air carriers and burn Tel Aviv down to the ground.
🔻 EM: with what?
🔻 Abū Luʾluʾ: Elijah, the past 70+ years let alone 18 months of genocide is all the proof we need. Ballistic and hypersonic missiles should be raining down.
🔻 EM: By whom? While Lebanon is licking its wounds, Syria is bombed and yet flirting with Israel and attacking Lebanon, Iraq has been out of the equation for a while, and Iran is a country (not a militia) avoiding a war with the US?
🔻 Abū Luʾluʾ: You don’t have skin in the game. I have family in the region who are terrified because they know the enemy is relentless and won’t stop until they get a bloody nose.
🔻 EM: Go and fight then instead of showing courage with words on X.
🔻 Abū Luʾluʾ: Stfu you French piece of shit. You native country has blood on its hands
[no this is not the way to do it. Too soon to pull the hasbara. Standards have fallen]
🔻 EM: So, the best you could do is produce shit out of your mouth when you have no argument left? It reveals your education at best. Have a nice day.
⭕ The resumption of the war on Gaza, the end of the ceasefire unleashing hell on the Strip & the bombing of Daraa and Al-Kiswah in the Damascus countryside with multiple air strikes will open the door for Itamar ben Gvir’s return to the govrnmnt & strengthen Netanyahu’s coalition.
⭕ So the President of the United States is content to kill hundreds of civilians, mainly children, in Gaza? Nothing new really. All previous presidents have done this before him, supporting genocide and mass murder of civilians. |media|
⭕ Prepare for a long war: Israel has committed a massacre in only a few hours and has violated the ceasefire by refusing to respect phase one and move to phase two. It is targeting civilians and political and administrative members of Hamas who are not involved in any military activity and who have been visible for 15 months.
Israel will go to the end because Netanyahu cannot withdraw now. Netanyahu is neglecting the Israeli prisoners and is counting on the USA (@SteveWitcoff surrender plan) to achieve the impossible goal of Hamas surrendering without negotiations, a plan he hasn’t achieved in 15 months and won’t achieve in the coming months. |link|
🔻 🇵🇸🔻: Is there any chance Hezbollah will begin resistance activities against the Zionists still in Lebanon?
🔻 EM: Unlikely.
⭕ Was Donald Trump re-elected for him to be complicit in the killing of 113 Palestinian children in Gaza in a few hours only?

Shame!
⭕ The only people to blame are Benjamin Netanyahu – who didn’t want to stop the war even when he agreed to the ceasefire, violated phase one and never participated in phase two – and the US envoy Steve Witkoff, who blew up the ceasefire agreement and imposed an extension of phase one, adding his own conditions.
[keep the duplicity of this zionazi in mind, as do Russians as they “negotiate” through his “good offices”]
⭕ Benjamin Netanyahu, with an ICC warrant for his war crimes, today, with the approval of the USA, killed more than 412 people and wounded more than 500 in just a few hours by bombing the entire Strip. With this move, he will welcome Itamar Ben Gvir with open arms in order to strengthen his coalition in the government.
⭕ The Palestinian resistance is preparing for a possible ground invasion, a return to the Netzarim corridor and the north of Gaza to confront the occupation forces. All options are on the table.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ The Antiwar President

So many people deluded themselves into believing Donald Trump would be an antiwar president, even as he packed his cabinet with Iran hawks.

Welcome to the Last World War.
🔻 WS: And remember, Iran is not alone.
📜 All for One and One for All
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: Time will tell.
🔻 WS: Hardly anyone believes Russia and China will support Iran against the US and Israel.

Of course, hardly anyone realizes Russia and Iran share an interior maritime border (Caspian Sea), and China and Iran are only separated by friendly Afghanistan.
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: I find plausible arguments for both perspectives. But as intuitions go:
1. RF would directly defend China & *might* directly defend Iran.
2. Iran *might* directly defend Russia but how much help could it be to China?
3. China seems unlikely to directly defend RF much less Iran.
🔻 CatoTheYounger: I’m already against war with Iran, no matter the false flag excuse the US warlords try to use as their excuse for yet another war. Wesley Clark discusses 1991 conversation with Paul Wolfowitz, where Wolfowitz outlines Neocon Warmonger plans to invade Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, IRAN….. |link|
[welcome to the chat. Your grand-daddy’s refrain is most apt to the global gestalt!]
🔻 WS: The thing very few understand is that a US ground war against Iran is simply out of the question — a material and logistical impossibility. 1991 and 2003 were a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

As for an air campaign …

First of all, it must be understood that the tall tale that Israel penetrated and savaged Iranian air defenses last October is just another chapter in the mythology of #TheImaginaryWar.

No Israeli aircraft crossed the Tigris, and contrary to common belief, there was never ANY credible evidence that any front-line Iranian AD systems were destroyed. All we ever saw in terms of credible post-strike BDA was a Vietnam-era Hawk system that was almost certainly placed as a decoy.

If the US/Israel launch a major air campaign against Iran, they would no doubt inflict some damaging strikes, but they would also suffer significant losses — fighters, tankers, ISR platforms, punishing strikes against their bases in the gulf region, and very possibly ships sunk or severely damaged in the Arabian Sea. (There is zero possibility the US Navy could enter and operate in the Persian Gulf in the context of a war with Iran.)

The whole idea of making war against Iran is madness.

And the idea of making war against Russia and China is orders of magnitude crazier.
📜 Staggering Towards the Abyss
🔻 C2: Why are you surprised?
REPOSTS his older tweet from Jan 11:
“Forget Trump´s wind of change. Some minor domestic improvements, conservatism will prevail over woke madness but nothing changes for the rest of the world.

Dems&Reps are 2 sides of the same coin. An over-indebted, deindustrialized, financialized economic system dependent on foreign resources and riddled with oligarchy and corruption that needs never ending wars to survive. A parasite eating out its hosts.

Americans have imperialism deep in their genes. After all, they are all the descendants of pioneers, adventurers, slavers and conquerors, who left Europe to settle the New World.

The native Americans know best.”
🔻 WS: You obviously are not familiar with what I have been writing for the past several years.
📜 “Man of Destiny” or “What Can Be, Unburdened by What Has Been”?
🔻 C3: We don’t want a war but you can’t allow unanswered attacks by the houthis so what are you going to do?
🔻 WS: The Yemeni had ceased attacks on regional shipping since the Gaza ceasefire started!

The US is the one who attacked Yemen.
🔻 C4: Will, you are smart enough to know there is a MAJOR difference between air strikes and boots on the ground!

Air strikes remind the Houthis they need to stop with the troublemaking.
🔻 WS: Non sequitur.

In any case, the Yemeni had ceased attacking regional shipping since the ceasefire in Gaza began.

THE US ATTACKED YEMEN WITHOUT CAUSE, AND THE YEMENI FIRED BACK.
🔻 C5: Yeah I was somewhat surprised that we attacked “out of the blue” without a Houthi attack to retaliate for. Preemption or distraction? Of/from what?
🔻 WS: They attacked in a futile attempt to assuage their humiliation over the past year+. Yemen has become Moby Dick to the US Navy, and Captain Soggy Cookie in particular (formerly skipper of the USS Brave Sir Robin).
reposts older from Dec 2024:
🏆 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.
🔻 Lt. Dick Dowling: Get real, this has been inevitable and it’s been allowed to fester for years.
🔻 WS: What are you even talking about?
🔻 C7: I think he is saying that war with Iran was ineveitbale, regardless of el presidente? WE may find trump will actually punch back, and then that perhaps mighty Iran is not invincible or even competent? Who knows?
🔻 WS: What is this “punch back” nonsense? Iran hasn’t attacked the US. The Yemeni had ceased attacks on regional shipping since the Gaza ceasefire. The US attacked Yemen without cause! And now they’re threatening both Yemen and Iran because the Yemeni tried to defend themselves? 🤦‍♂️
🔻 Autodidact: Maybe it does take place. Maybe it’s inevitable, not to sound like a cynic. But can you deny that Americans will be majority of the last remaining golden billion?
🔻 WS: I have no idea what you’re trying to say.
🔻 Autodidact: |link|
🔻 WS: I know what the “Golden Billion” is. What I don’t understand is why you apparently believe the US will survive essentially unscathed in the event of a great power war.
🔻 Autodidact: I am in that camp. The strategic advantages the US has are unparalleled. It is going to be supremely bloody is what you’ve been saying, if it ever gets to that. Agreed. But still, US will be the last one standing. Time will tell.
[mayhap the last among the West.. but all will eventually wail for USUK’s last bastion pirate base, “Alas, Babylon!”]
🔻 looooool 🇦🇺🇮🇹: You think the Americans have a magical nuclear shield?
🔻 Autodidact: Yes.

You think they went home after cracking the code on thermonuclear devices? The technologies they possess might boggle even the most sophisticated mind when they are brought out.
🔻 WS: You’re drooling silly talk. |link|
🔻 looooool 🇦🇺🇮🇹: American exceptionalism is matched only by American stupidity.
🔻 Roberta Sutton: Trump should have been told by Tulsi that USA cannot win against Iran. She must know. The Pentagon has gamed it many times. and since then Iran has RU defences & electronics.
🔻 WS: Gabbard is a hard-core Iran hawk. This is what I was trying to tell people back when they were cheering for her to become DNI.
🔻 Roberta Sutton: Well then. Trump will have to learn the hard way. Iran can beat him EASILY AND Israel. No need for China or Russia to come in.
🔻 WS: I don’t believe Iran can “beat” the US and Israel “easily”. All I believe is that Iran can “HURT” the US and Israel severely, if it comes to war — not to mention it is entirely possible Russia and China would get involved in such a war.
🔻 The Poets Of Zwan ⭕️🪶🏴‍☠️: Gabbard has been 5 different ideologies since 2015. A chameleon who can change on a dime. She was probably the mole in the Bernie 2016 campaign. A deep state operative no doubt.
🔻 Roberta Sutton: Ritter and Larry Johnson thinks she’ll tell the truth – but she won’t stop being a Zionist and anti-Islam.
🔻 The Poets Of Zwan ⭕️🪶🏴‍☠️: Ritter still has trust in the deep state apparently.
🔻 Roberta Sutton: Opinions differ about which operatives are with the DS
🔻 The Poets Of Zwan ⭕️🪶🏴‍☠️: That’s precisely what the deep state is. No one knows what it is, and who’s working for it.
🔻 Deon Opperman⚡Dixi et animam levavi.: More to the point, she’s a hardcore Zionist.
🔻 Decelerationist1: That’s why Trump just offered to recognize Crimea as Russia. He’s trying to bribe Putin to abandon Iran. While I think that’s pretty unlikely today, unfortunately Putin’s history says it isn’t impossible
🔻 WS: Recognize Crimea as Russia?!!! Crimea IS Russia, whether the US recognizes it or not. Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye, and Kherson are also Russia, whether the US recognizes it or not.

Offering the Russians things they already have is meaningless.
🔻 Decelerationist1: I agree bc if nothing else who’s going to take it? Still, what’s happening is Trump trying to drive a wedge between Iran and Russia
🔻 Dr Ragin: Russians can recognize Alaska in exchange. It can even be a multilateral agreement with France recognizing Lousiana and Mexico recognizing Texas.
🔻 Charles K Loyd: I see in some of your posts you are familiar with the Bible. One might ask “who/what is ‘Mystery Babylon”? And ponder her fate.
🔻 WS: |link|
🔻 David Eire: I don’t think it will come to war with Iran
Hating on Iran is one of the things US politicians have to do
Just like they have to swear allegiance to the zionist regime
They all do it every so often to earn their shekels… sorry I mean donations
Trump did stop the Gaza genocide
[so this is their new narrative. To sell the new genocide in terms of the one that was so briefly stayed (and even then in part, with about three Palestinians murdered each day of that “cease fire”). Unbelievable. Lies nested within lies, themselves within more lies. With a gaslighting cherry on top]
🔻 WS: What? 🤦‍♂️

The Israelis permitted hundreds of thousands of displaced Gazans to reenter the strip during the ceasefire, and now they have shut the prison doors again and are proceeding to starve them all to death.
🔻 Heidi Wurst: Will is correct. That’s also why the Yemeni Houthis decided to blockade the Red Sea … to protest Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza and West Bank until is ceased. Once WW3 ignites with US attacking Iran, it will not be easily stopped.
[yes. why I said in early 2024 or late 2023 that every one of the Gazans is doomed. I have not changed my mind one bit. Yet they have salvation and the next life. Every zionazi that survives Armageddon will be hunted down on this mortal coil. They long ago chose the path of Masada]
🔻 David Eire: Good point 👍
Pure evil
🔻 Free Cow Flow: Will, I have learned much from you. Thank you. Has there been a recent upgrade of missile tech that is making these CSGs vulnerable or are we just waking up to the truth?
🔻 WS: For the most part, the Yemeni have been using antiquated “hand-me-downs”. They are obviously not high-precision weapons, but they get close enough to force an air defense response. And that exhausts the limited AD missile inventory of a CSG. So then they run away to restock.
⭕🔻 Sean Berube: A vicious battle ensues

The crew battles the whale for 3 days

They fight fiercely and nobly, but in the end, they stood no chance |THREAD|
[beautiful thread. On the “civilizational” level, it also encapsulates each iteration of the beasts of the Babylonian System, including the Last Satanic Empire. For which they were each given the Carthaginian treatment, whether at mortal or supernatural hand. And the vengeance about to be fall like a black cloud was long prophesied to involve both hands. One appears to be Russian]

🔻 Sean Berube: On the 3rd day, Moby Dick bests the crew:

He sinks their ship, and only one man lives to tell the tale

As for Ahab — he harpoons Moby Dick himself, but gets his leg caught in the rope:

The whale drags him into the depths of sea, to his doom
🔻 Sean Berube: So what is the moral of this story?

Ahab’s fate is not just a cautionary tale:

It warns you about the greatest spiritual danger of all — the unforgivable sin

But what is this sin, and why is it so deadly?
🔻 Sean Berube: The Bible calls the unforgivable sin “blasphemy against the Holy Spirit”

But how do you blaspheme against the Spirit?

Aquinas explains it succinctly:

“Sin against the Holy Ghost [is] final impenitence…”
🔻 Sean Berube: “It is unpardonable:

the mortal sin wherein a man perseveres until death will not be forgiven in the life to come”

The unforgivable sin is not a single act of evil:

It’s a continued, unrepentant state of being that leads to damnation
🔻 Sean Berube: Ahab is not damned because of one act of evil, but because he refuses to repent

He has chances to turn back:

Warnings, omens, even the pleas of his crew—but he hardens his heart, sealing his fate

He follows his bloodlust to the grave…

What could have saved him?
🔻 Sean Berube: Ahab’s fatal flaw was pride — he valued ambition above God

He needed repentance

Denouncing this ambition wouldn’t have just spared him:

He would’ve lived a great life of virtue

Why? Because repentance sanctifies you
🔻 Sean Berube: Repentance is not mere apology — it’s self-discovery:

You discover your vices, conquer them, and grow in virtue

Repentance forges you into the virtuous man destiny calls you to become

True greatness, then, begins with the strength to humble yourself
🔻 Sean Berube: So Moby Dick isn’t just a warning against the unforgivable sin

It’s also a guide to glory:

As Augustine reminds us, seek first the foundations of humility, and you shall be exalted

A repentant heart leads you to a life of glory and everlasting virtue
🔻 WS: 📜 The Sermon

“If we would obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is this disobeying ourselves wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.”
[it appears Will sadly keeps reposting this, as an allegory for his nation.. At the end of what comes, as with Atlantis, there may not be any to resuscitate from these particular Ashes]
🔻 Sean Berube: The sermon scene is so haunting. Wonderfully sets up the darkness of the voyage 💯
🔻 Laocoon of Troy: I love maritime aesthetics.
🔻 WS: My wife and I watch Master and Commander at least once a year, in large part for the reason you cite.
⭕ 📜 Tirania Elitei
🔻 C1: that does clarify why Georgescu was canceled
⭕🔻 Barak Ravid:
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷Trump: “Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire”
🔻 Ibrahim Zabad: The President who promised to bring peace and to end wars. Thanks!
🔻 Soran Ibrahim: Israel First…I’m shocked…
🔻 Sigma Mindset (ΣM): We elected trump so he wouldn’t go to war with Iran. Why doesn’t trump get Bibi to honor the ceasefire he negotiated and brokered so we can properly deescalate the situation
🔻 C5: Straight from Netanyahu’s mouth. The Americans and Israelis always use Iran as pretext to murder and destroy the region without ever making a dent to Iran itself.

Go ahead Tump, get this over with already and start a war with Iran and leave poor Yemen alone.
🔻 Patarames: Sounds like the latest missile/drone salvo composition Yemenis launched against U.S. Navy ships brought them closer to their limits?

Who knows anyway.., Trump is an unstable fella
🔻 WS: I wondered the same thing as I read Trump’s post. If CSG-8 was parrying the blows without much trouble, why would Trump be so worked up about it?
🔻 Patarames: Sequenced escalation to avoid inflicting real pain.

Iran thought that strategy to Yemenis during the conflict against Saudi Arabia.

You don’t want to hurt the ego of a big boy if you can avoid it
🔻 Shivan Mahendrarajah: I can respect need for “sequenced escalation” at right times, but with slew of threats daily against Iran & bombings of Yemen, perhaps a practical demonstration of what can be inflicted on 🇺🇸 military is necessary? 🤷
[it’s turning into a global south gang up on the western chihuahuas!]
🔻 Patarames: OTP-2 did that I’d say
[OTP = Operation True Promise]
🔻 WS: If the US attacks Iran’s ships in the region, the calculus of the situation will be altered.
🔻 Shivan Mahendrarajah: ofc. 🇮🇷 will have no choice but to reply. DOD & WH might just do s.t. dumb. They were babbling on tv about Iranian spy ships in Red Sea/Arabian Sea
🔻 nicev2: And then the Aramco strikes happened which pretty much ended the war so 🤷‍♂️
🔻 Para II: he thinks iran can tell yemen to stop and allow america save face
⭕🔻 Sina Toossi:
🧵Yes, Iran has armed & supporters the Houthis, but their strategy toward Israel isn’t dictated by Tehran.

Like other Arab leaders, they use Palestine to boost their image.

Seeing them as mere Iranian puppets is a fundamental misread that leads to self-defeating policy.

>>>
🔻 berggeit: We are talking about a Govt that tried to defeat Inflation by printing $1.5 Trillion dollars and called it “Inflation Reduction Act”….don’t take them too seriously go spend your time with your fam, fam
🔻 #TermLimits: They still have USS Truman sitting right next to Yemen and nobody can go a damn thing about it. They can get more violent than we all think. Just look at Palestine or Syria or Lebanon. Even Libya before all this 🤬
🔻 WS: The USS Trembling Puppy is not “sitting next to Yemen”. It’s hiding out in the northern Red Sea. Its aircraft require in-air refueling to reach into Yemen. They are justifiably afraid to venture much closer.
🔻 Dr. Anton: So much bluster emanating from D.C
🔻 shut up: Why doesn’t Yemen’s brave military go face the ship? You probably think there are rules in a street fight too don’t you?
[Yemen lacks a navy. The floating carrier tomb is 1,000 – 1.500 km distant from Yemeni shores]
🔻 berggeit: They literally attacked it: |link|

What do you want them to do? escalate to sinking them at the first go like it’s a video Game?
🔻 WS: Please try to inform yourself before entering into a discussion about which you know so little.

The US attacked FIRST. The Yemeni responded to that attack.
⭕ The Yemeni have become Moby Dick to the Ahabs in the Pentagon — particularly the US Navy.

Therefore they came back to “settle the score”, and apparently that entails bloodying the Iranians as well. |link|
[this is an excellent metaphor! Recall the end of Moby Dick, and what the whale does to the madmen]
🔻 Ambrose: Idk if it is about settling a score with the Houthi, inasmuch as they are a gateway to further aggression against Iran.
🔻 WS: Yes, if the ultimate objective is to make war against Iran, then it is a prerequisite to secure the Red Sea, Bab el-Mandeb, Gulf of Aden, and Arabian Sea to seaborne US logistics.

Of course, then you have to secure the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf, which they cannot do.
🔻 Ebr Pho: Even a 155mm with basebleed shells or 333mm unguided artillery battalion in Iranian soil could target USN around the strait. There are also mines, rockets, drones, missiles, subs, uuv,… and … Taking control of the Hormuz strait is almost impossible
🔻 WS: It has long been fashionable to refer to artillery as “the god of war”.

My sense of the matter is that, more often than not, geography is the god of war.
🔻 Ambrose: I didn’t mean the physical gateway leading to Iran itself, but the propagandic path. As in blaming Iran for Houthi defense of Palestine thus turning the causality of the conflict on its head. It isn’t Israeli aggression causing this but Iranian! Therefore more pain on Iran is ok.
[this is an underrated and excellent comment. It of course won’t wash with most mankind. But it will with a sufficient percentage of sunni arabs and all salafis marinated in Hatreds and sectarianism, and thus sadly prolong the agony of the region. Idiots]

🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: We know how it ended for Ahab.
[is that you John Wayne, err Gregory Peck??]
🔻 Walter Mocking: I read Moby Dick and I remember how the story ends
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: The Yemenis have won. That doesn’t seem to have sunk in in Washington. They get to decide when the ceasefire is broken in Gaza – not Israel and not the US. Trump could put the whole US Navy in there and all they would give the Yemenis would be a whole bunch of targets.
🔻 Ephemeral: Not so much revenge, imo. US started bombing Yemen preemptively bc Israel was getting ready to start its bombing campaign in Gaza today. Iran has been US-Israel’s golden dream to have full hegemony on the ME … and throttle China’s access to oil
[another excellent insight]
🔻 Waiting for Goldot… and a free Palestine: I’m so torn, I certainly dont want to see loss of life but deep down I cant help but think it would be natural justice for US naval assets to become Red Sea diving attractions
🔻 WS: I’ve seen nothing so far to indicate the Yemeni have missiles which, on their own, would be likely to sink a US ship … unless, for example, a guided-missile destroyer (DDG) got hit in the middle of its vertical launch system (VLS) and set off a huge explosion. That would do it.

⭕ 🔸 Make the Trains Run on Time

Whether sooner or later, the #EmpireAtAllCosts cult appears destined to get itself a new war.

Iran was always the only option.

Meanwhile Trump disciples keep faith their savior will “make the trains run on time”.
‼️ At Least the Persians Don’t Have Nukes
🔻 C1: John McCain’s frozen body emerges from the crypt.
🔻 WS: Yeah … but hardly anyone takes my Cassandra talk seriously. Normalcy bias and imperial exceptionalism are so deeply ingrained in the American psyche that no portents of disaster can be believed. When it finally happens, it will come as a thunderbolt of incredulous shock.
🔻 Mobile Infantry 🚜: I’ll settle for the GAE taking a crap for good. Been waiting since 1989 when I thought I could live in a normal country, not a global day care center ran by lunatic androgenous drones.
🔻 Framed Mollusk: Yeah. I have been saying this for years now, but USA is determined to nuke Iran, they are just waiting to build up a favourable narrative.
🔻 TWHM: Iran’s scheduled to receive 60 SU-35’s from Russia, in calendar 2025. Handy, all those mountains; |link|
⭕ ‼️ Many people continue to believe that the Ukraine War has been a repeat of WW1. 🤦‍♂️

Quite to the contrary, we have witnessed multiple revolutions in warfare — and the Russians are the pioneers.

These are very sobering accounts of the disordered withdrawal from Kursk:
links:
🔻 — GEROMAN — time will tell – 👀 –: Rezident 🇺🇦 on TG writes about the Kursk adventure:

“The result of Zelensky’s Kursk adventure became obvious to everyone, but in August 2024, everyone rejoiced at the senseless waste of reserves and people. The statement by Defense Minister Umerov will go down in Ukrainian history: the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out a “planned redeployment to more advantageous defense lines.”

“Horror film”, “catastrophe”, “collapse”, “failure of the front”.

This is how the Ukrainian military describes to the Air Force their retreat from the Kursk region – under constant attacks from Russian drones, which cut off the main supply route from Sudzha to Sumy.

On March 9, fighter “Vladimir” wrote to the publication that he was in Sudzha, where “there is panic and the front is collapsing.” Ukrainian troops “are trying to retreat – in columns of troops and equipment. Some of them are being burned by Russian drones on the road. It is impossible to leave during the day.”

“We have all our logistics here on one highway Sudzha-Sumy. And everyone knew that [the Russians] would try to cut it off. But this again came as a surprise to our command,” the fighter says.

Before Sudzhi returned to Russian control, he wrote that Russian forces were pressing them from three sides.

Another fighter, “Maxim,” says that “the enemy managed to destroy dozens of pieces of equipment,” and the debris “created traffic jams on supply routes.”

“Anton,” who served in the Kursk Front command headquarters, called the situation “catastrophic.” He said he managed to get out of Sudzha on foot, but at night “we almost died several times. Drones are constantly in the sky.”

He believes that Ukraine’s entire foothold in Kursk will be lost, but “from a military point of view, the Kursk direction has exhausted itself. There is no longer any point in holding it.”

A fourth soldier, “Dmitry,” compared the retreat to “a scene from a horror movie: the roads are littered with hundreds of destroyed cars, armored vehicles, and quad bikes. There are many wounded and dead.”

Their car was stuck in the mud, they were being hunted by a drone, and they hid in the forest for two hours before being rescued. “Dmitry” said many Ukrainian fighters retreated on foot, and “the guys were walking 15-20 km.” The situation, he said, went from “difficult and critical to catastrophic.”

On March 14, he stated that “in the Kursk region everything is over… the operation was not successful.”

He estimates that thousands of Ukrainian troops have died since they first crossed into Russian territory in August.”

t.me/rezident_ua/23902
🔻 StratAnalytica: The movement of Russian troops for 15 miles through a gas pipeline, if true, is something else!
🔻 WS: Well … it was only about 9 miles, but yeah, that was a bold tactical move.

Still, hunting down pairs and squads of troops, and all manner of vehicles (armored or not), at night, using huge swarms of drones, blanketing the battlefield … now THAT is a revolution in warfare.
⭕ 🔻 Douglas Macgregor:
BREAKING: Reports indicate 3 US carriers are now streaming towards Iran.
[increasing evidence indicates the presence of your true nature, and called chips, are poppin’ outta the woodwork! What a load]
🔻 Dave Collum: Oh FFS: let’s just make a galaxy-scale Jim Jones’ brew and drink the shit. I do not have mushroom clouds on my Bingo card.
[our fav organic Chem Prof! Don’t get your chain yanked Prof. It may not be the time for the Rapture just yet. Macgregor’s reading his “March Armageddon Script” again. We shall see. I doubt it is Zero Hour just yet. For one, Orange hasn’t received his August head wound yet]
🔻 WS: It is not true that 3 US carriers are headed towards Iran.

The US Navy has not been able to put to sea more than 3 combat-capable CSGs in many years. There are currently only 2 deployed (CSG-1 and CSG-8). CSG-5 is idle in Japan. No others are currently combat-capable.
[he replied solely to the Prof, not bothering with the loyal soldier]

⭕ 📜 Lessons Never Learned

As the collapse of the #MotherOfAllProxyArmies in Ukraine continues to accelerate, the #EmpireAtAllCosts ventriloquists are once again flapping a US president’s mouth to raise the spectre of war against Iran.
🔻 gobely gook: Image moving armored maneuver assets through the zagros mountains
🔻 Balando con Lobos: I’m still trying to figure out where the mass “Terror” attacks by Iran occurred in the last 30years. What countries have they invaded to spread their oppressive Islamic culture?

It’s getting tiresome, all the old-school analysts, including Magnier, focus on the narrower political-reality TV angle of Satanyahoo’s travails. What about eschatology?? Or that the Novorossiyan Rebbe anointed him in NYC to raise the Moshiach, whilst he was Zion’s UN Ambassador??? Even prophesied he was Zion’s Last PM… 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Why ‘Messiah prophecy’ haunts Netanyahu

💠”Russian women should wear miniskirts to boost demographics – local politician”
Ostanina, along with the State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin have previously warned against initiatives that may be deemed “offensive,” after lawmakers floated ideas such as introducing a tax on childlessness, obliging employers to monitor birth rates among staff, or releasing female prisoners in exchange for childbirth.

Last year, birth rate in Russia declined to its lowest level since 1999, with a further decrease projected for the current year. The country’s population has also been shrinking in recent years, falling from 149 million in 1993 to 144 million in 2023.

To address the demographic challenge, the government has increased financial incentives for families with children, has promoted traditional family values and banned propaganda of “child-free lifestyle.”
[maybe industrial development IS an antibiotic for humanity. What times. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Only a couple dozen nations worldwide are at replacement rate. Russia will lose the larger war if it does not reverse course, and sharply]

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ BreakingNews:

Yemen fired a missile against southern Israel. The US bombing of several provinces in Yemen failed – as expected – to deter Yemen and worsen the situation. From only a siege of the Israeli merchandise to bombing Israeli locations.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ BREAKING: Yemeni ballistic missiles over Israel
[oooh, you’ve been missed. My favorite maps of all, and I really like maps in general]
⭕ Yemen’s missiles have been intercepted. However, it is significant that missile operations have restarted.
⭕ In 1 hour and 10 minutes, a speech by the leader of Yemen’s Ansarallah, Sayyed Abdul Malik Al-Houthi, regarding regional developments.
⭕ Putin-Trump call was a nothingburger, both sides agree the war needs to end, that’s basically it

They also agreed to organize hockey matches in each other’s nations.b
[we cannot technically say it was so. Most serious detail may not be revealed. Let’s see if the Russkies prevailed on the psychotic psychopaths to walk slowly backwards off the Ledge]
⭕ Yemen’s Ansarallah:

‘We will expand the scope of targets for our missiles in Israel in the coming hours and days, until the aggression on Gaza stops.

We will continue to impose our naval blockade on all Israeli-linked shipping in the operational zone, and will continue our attacks on American warships, until the aggression on Gaza stops, the blockade is lifted, and humanitarian aid is allowed to enter.

Yemen’s leadership, people, and armed forces will not sit idly, while it watches these countless massacres by the Israeli enemy.’

Zion is tonight bombing Palestine and Homs, Syria. USUK is bombing the Houthi heartland in Saada, Yemen, and earlier Somalia. I am sure tomorrow we will hear of some murder missed in headlines today in Lebanon too. There’s a furious race to create lebensraum in Rummy and Condi’s “Greater Middle East.” Prof Postol is said to be stuck in 1990s, lol! “Foodfight!”

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇸🇴 US airstrike eliminates al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia, AFRICOM says

“The airstrike occurred about 150 kilometers northeast of Mogadishu, Somalia. AFRICOM’s initial assessment is that enemy combatants were killed and that no civilians were injured or killed,” the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) said in a statement.

💥 The US military conducted the strike against al-Shabaab* at the request of the government of Somalia on Saturday, according to AFRICOM.

*a terrorist organization banned in Russia and many other states
[Al-Shabaab are another salafi Horde outfit funded from GCC and instrumentalized by USUK.  This is the fifth country Orange is bombing in first weeks of Orange 2.0 – in addition to Yemen directly, and Lebanon-Palestine-Syria at ostensible zionazis hands (much are in reality done by US Air Force & NATO lads). Also the fifth member of the useless Arab League too. As with Obama who was busy bombing some seven countries, in addition to Drone Tuesdays, why not give Peacemaker Orange a Peace Nobel too?] 
⭕ 💬 Key points from Putin’s statement at the Congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs:

• Only countries capable of ensuring their full sovereignty can resist external pressure. Most European countries have lost their sovereignty and, as a result, are facing serious economic and security problems;
• A new spiral of economic rivalry is gaining momentum in the world;
• 28,595 sanctions have been imposed on Russia;
• Sanctions are not temporary or one-off measures; they constitute a mechanism for systemic pressure on Russia. Even if the sanctions are lifted, the West will find another way to “put a spanner in the works” of Moscow;
• Anti-Russian sanctions undermine freedom of investment and trade worldwide;
• Sanctions have become a catalyst for the Russian economy. Domestic companies have taken advantage of the departure of Western companies and have occupied niches;
• The Russian president mentioned the possible return of Western companies to Russia. Companies that have continued to operate in the country will be treated with respect. But it’s too late for those whose niches in the Russian market have already been occupied.

⭕ ❗️Trump has ordered a reassessment of the US sanctions policy, as it undermines the role of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News
⭕ ❗️ The Kremlin has named a complete cessation of foreign military aid and the provision of intelligence to Kiev as a key condition for resolving the conflict in Ukraine peacefully
⭕ ❗️ The Ukrainian military attempted to invade the Russian territory in the Belgorod region on Tuesday morning, the Defense Ministry says

The attempt was made to create a negative background ahead of the Russian and American leaders’ talk, it added.
[the lives of UkroNazis, and soon EuroNazis, are measured as a function of screen time potential – increasingly devalued to minutes and hours, as less and less are drawn to the clear clickbait …]
⭕ ❗️The Ukrainian military, which attacked the Belgorod region, lost up to 60 people, one tank, 7 combat armored vehicles, 3 engineering vehicles, the Russian Defense Ministry reported
⭕ ❗️All attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Belgorod region have been repelled, preventing any breaches of the Russian state border, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

The ministry further noted that Kiev abandoned additional assaults on the Belgorod region after their initial attempts were thwarted by Russian forces.

💠@/CIG/ Telegram:
⭕ 🇨🇳/🇺🇸 China halts US LNG imports as trade war reroutes deliveries

China hasn’t imported liquefied natural gas from the US for 40 days, the longest gap in almost two years, as traders are forced to divert shipments elsewhere to avoid Beijing’s tariffs on the super-chilled fuel.

The barren streak is the most extended since June 2023, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg. There currently aren’t any US shipments en route to China either, according to ship-tracking data from Kpler, an analytics firm.

The trade war provoked by the Trump administration is threatening to decouple the world’s biggest LNG seller and buyer. Beijing slapped a 15% tariff on US LNG shipments from Feb. 10 in retaliation for blanket American levies on Chinese exports. In response, Chinese gas buyers with long-term commitments to US projects are reselling those shipments to Europe, according to traders. |media|

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Donald Trump vowed to put an end to the war on Gaza, yet he failed to clarify that his promise only entailed a temporary pause rather than a lasting resolution. By allowing the conflict to resume under his watch, he misled those who placed their trust in him, presenting himself as a peacemaker while ultimately endorsing renewed aggression. His decision to back Netanyahu’s military campaign, despite the Israeli leader facing accusations of war crimes, reveals a stark contradiction between his rhetoric and actions. In doing so, Trump has not only betrayed the expectations of his electorate but has also effectively sanctioned the continuation of violence in Gaza under the banner of US support.
[a most legalistic way of saying the lyin’ scum outted himself!]