Perhaps the words of total societal removal by Orange were directed at the zionazi polity?? To save them for another day, as their continued regional survival is untenable?

This is my response as a Gazian to Dr Ahmet Davutoğlu’s

💠 “Macron pleads with Saudi prince over Ukraine talks” — The French president has talked to Mohammed bin Salman before the upcoming US-Russian meeting in Riyadh.
☝️☝️ The abject tableau of a melting Europe! And this after the host of the Munich coven openly wept at being dropped by USA like yesterday’s belle or cheap suit..

💠 “US imposing ‘colonial’ resource deal on Ukraine” — The Trump administration is treating Kiev like an African colony.
☝️☝️Tsk tsk. The Garden was NOT supposed to receive this treatment! More interesting days ahead

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Israel plans to build nearly 1,000 additional homes for settlers in the Efrat settlement, located about 12 kilometers southwest of Jerusalem, according to the NGO Peace Now.

This would expand the settlement by 40 percent and further block development in the neighboring Palestinian city of Bethlehem, the NGO said.
⭕ The Israeli Defense Minister announced today the creation of a new directorate within the Defense Ministry, tasked with enabling Palestinians to “voluntarily” leave the Gaza Strip.

“The plan includes significant assistance that will allow any Gaza resident who wishes to emigrate to a third state to receive support…”, his office said.
[so many glorious plans by those about to depart West Asia, in one way or the other!]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Zelensky’s drone strike: A tactical move to undermine Trump’s oil price goals?

Ukraine’s drone attack on the Kropotkinskaya oil pumping station in Russia last night could be considered a CALCULATED BLOW to US business interests and a PERSONAL INSULT to US President Donald Trump.

The station’s owner, Caspian Pipeline Consortium, is not subject to any US sanctions and a significant portion of the company’s stock is owned by American shareholders.

The attack also runs in the face of Trump’s efforts to lower oil prices to the benefit both of the United States and the American people. This drone attack, along with other strikes on Russia’s oil infrastructure, may help maintain oil prices at their current level or even push them higher by decreasing supply.

Could Volodymyr Zelensky be trying to lash out against Trump (https://t.me/SputnikInt/77630) to make it look like Ukraine has leverage on the United States by threatening American business interests?

It seems Kiev’s gratitude for the billions of dollars’ worth of US aid evaporated the moment Trump did something that Zelensky did not like.
[i am note sure but this pumping station may service the Baku oil (BTC) pipeline set up by Brzezinski back in 1990s – ultimately going on to Turkey and cousin Satanyahoo & Gang. So this may also be an indirect way to unwind the zionazi cancer, by mutual agreement. Or Perfide threat to the Yanquis, via cousin Cokehead’s hands.. What days..]
⭕❗️In the future, Ukraine must become a demilitarized and neutral state that does not belong to any bloc or alliance, Russia’s permanent representative at the UN says

According to Vasily Nebenzya, the new conditions for ending the Ukrainian conflict will be much worse for Kiev than the conditions of the Minsk agreements of 2014-2015.

Ukraine has irrevocably lost the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions, he noted.

Nebenzya added that with the Republicans coming to power in the US, there are chances that the “hot phase” of the Ukrainian crisis may soon end.
⭕ ⚡️WATCH: First footage from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia shows the arrival of the Russian delegation’s plane

“The main goal is to start real normalization of relations between us and Washington,” Yuri Ushakov, Aide to the Russian President, said. “There are serious people there, and we have arrived with a serious approach as well.” |media|
[I woulda arrived in the jeans, like during Latin American tour. But the hand in the pocket and swagger down the carpeted stairs is a start to the meaningful thrashings to come]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇸 Talks between Russia and the US in Riyadh are extremely important for solving world problems, a Russian official says

🗣 “Everyone is waiting to see whether the United States and Russia will manage to improve their relations. Because our best relations will allow us to accomplish a lot of global tasks,” Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russian Direct Investment Fund, told Sputnik.

The US and many other countries are beginning to recognize the attractiveness of the Russian market and the need to be present there, said Dmitriev, who is responsible for the economic component of the ongoing negotiations between Moscow and Washington.

Indeed, US companies have lost more than $300 billion by exiting the Russian market, he pointed out.

The talks between the US and Russia are scheduled to take place on February 18.
⭕ ❗️ Negotiations between Russian and US delegations begin in Riyadh |media|

☝️ Remember this??
Undoubtedly to test suitability and security of the hosts for these days!
They (and Iran) permitted VVP’s war jet escorts to traverse the huge expanses of Persia and the Arabian Peninsula and land with him in Riyadh.

And this ensures subsequent signings of surrender by chastened Yanks will NOT take place in Europe, never again to see such summits, or much of consequence for that matter, to hammer home the point of their irrelevance going forward

☝️ Well said. The Resistance, and civilizational-states, are giving it time to light fire under the  abject Lebanese compradores, to break the invisible chains. And Nasrallah’s funeral is on the 23rd, with hundreds upon hundreds of dignitaries and well wishers traveling from around the world to participate. So no formal response expected to continued aggression in the next week

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️The first session of Russian-American talks in Riyadh ended, the parties moved on to a working lunch, the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman reports

The negotiators will continue their talks after the lunch.

New photos from the Russian-American talks published by Maria Zakharova
[Is Witkoff’s role to ensure the swamp creatures, effluvia such as Lil Narco here, do not prematurely FUBAR the proceedings? Look at his expression and way he looks at the lil fella!]
⭕️ 🇷🇺🇺🇸 The Russian-US talks on restoring relations between the two countries and resolving the Ukrainian issue have been underway for over an hour

Here’s what we know so far:

• The meeting began without preliminary statements in the presence of the press;
• On the Russian side, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Presidential Advisor Yuri Ushakov are present at the negotiating table;
• On the US side, US President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff are in attendance.
• Progress in economic negotiations with the US could be achieved within 2-3 months, Russian Direct Investment Fund Head Kirill Dmitriev, who is responsible for the economic component of the ongoing negotiations, said;
• During the negotiations, the Russian participants are expected to listen to their US colleagues, and decisions on further steps will be made by Putin and Trump.

The talks are taking place at the royal palace of Ad-Diriyah, a favourite place for Saudi authorities to invite official delegations and foreign guests. [Ad-Diriyah is named after the town that birthed the first Saudi kingdom some three centuries ago. This was shortly after the British inspired Muhammad Ibn Wahhab to create Wahhabism. The latter’s tribe managed religious affairs, and the Saud clan political affairs, to this day, albeit there is confusing intermarriage. This first project ended abruptly at Ottoman hands, not pleased with the challenge. They captured the Saudi “king” of that era, beheaded him, and shot the head from a cannon..]
⭕ 🇿🇦 South Africa finds support from China as US ignores aid cut concerns, South Africa’s foreign minister says

To bolster support, South Africa is holding bilateral discussions, including with China, which has expressed solidarity and offered assistance with trade relations, South Africa’s Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola said.

Despite US objections due to disagreement with the G20 theme of “Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability,” Lamola confirmed that the agenda for the upcoming G20 foreign ministers meeting in Johannesburg will remain unchanged, as it was previously agreed upon by all G20 nations.

Lamola stated that South Africa will continue seeking talks with the US, while preparing for all possibilities. He reiterated that South Africa’s land reform policy and its ICJ genocide case against Israel are “non-negotiable.”
[Wow. This spat with South Africa, is having immediate dividends  — in the opposite and fruitful direction of fully freeing S.A.]
⭕ ❗️Russian troops liberated the settlement of Yampolovka in the DPR, the country’s MoD reports
⭕ ❗️The Caspian Pipeline Consortium oil pumping station was seriously damaged as a result of the Monday attack by a Ukrainian drone, Russian company Transneft reports

The consequences of the attack will take 1.5-2 months to tackle, which could lead to a 30% decrease in oil pumping from Kazakhstan.

A significant portion of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium’s stock is owned by US shareholders.  [oil is goin UP]
⭕ 🇷🇺🌍 The Saint Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange may become a pilot platform for the creation of the BRICS Grain Exchange

The creation of a grain exchange could open up new opportunities for BRICS countries in terms of forming a fair price for grain and agricultural products, Alexey Gerasyuk, Vice President of the Saint Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange (SPIMEX), said at a BRICS working group meeting in Cairo.

The meeting was organized by the BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre and the Competition Authority of Egypt, aiming to explore competition in food markets.

🗣 “The BRICS countries currently play a key role in the structure of Russian grain consumption: China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Turkey account for 65% of Russian grain exports. The BRICS grain exchange project can initially be tested within the framework of existing trading markets and infrastructure. We can establish links between exchanges and countries to ensure fair prices for the agricultural market,” Gerasyuk stated.

SPIMEX, Russia’s largest commodity exchange, facilitates trading in various markets, including petroleum, oil, gas, metals, timber, fertilizers, agricultural products, and futures.

Russia’s initiative to create the BRICS Grain Exchange was welcomed in the group’s Kazan summit declaration in October 2024. The goal is to establish a BRICS grain trading platform and expand it to encompass other agricultural sectors.
⭕ ❗️The EU’s role in the upcoming negotiations on Ukraine is excluded, Russian deputy foreign minister says

More statements by Aleksandr Grushko:

• Russia is categorically opposed to the prospect of European troops appearing in Ukraine, no matter what role they play there;
• The talks between Russia and the United States in Riyadh are preliminary consultations, the purpose of which is to outline the basic positions of the parties.

⭕️ 🗣️The main culprits of the destruction in Ukraine are the EU countries, which recklessly fund the Ukrainian armed forces and supply them with weapons.

From an exclusive interview with Nikolai Patrushev, presidential adviser and chairman of the Russian Maritime Collegium:

• The West has long been looking for reasons to oust Russia from the Baltic, but having failed to find them, it has decided to invent motives for what are essentially pirate seizures of our ships.
• Today, under the guise of supporting Ukraine, the British, together with other NATO countries, are trying to occupy Ukrainian land for a long-term confrontation with Russia and to turn the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea into NATO’s internal waters;
• Cutting off Russia from sea access to the West, from the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea, has been London’s cherished dream since the 18th century. The British tried to thwart Peter the Great, intrigued against Catherine II.
• Sometimes they tried to act by force of arms. Remember the Crimean War, which history often interprets as a defeat for Russia, but in fact the British and French were defeated at the bastions of Sevastopol, in the Baltic, but also in the Far East and on the Solovetsky Islands.
• Many countries that the British Crown considered to be within its sphere of influence are turning away from London. The states of the British Commonwealth are already sceptical about the nominal power of the Crown and are not dependent on it;
• Russia has not deprived anyone of statehood, but has only helped to strengthen it, has protected sovereign countries and, when independent nations were interested, has taken them into its fold, ensuring their security and prosperity. This distinguishes our country from England or France;
• No one has done as much to destroy Ukrainian statehood as Zelensky and his henchmen. And, of course, their patrons;
• Strengthening the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev and its armed formations, British and American transnational corporations make no secret of their interest in unfettered access to natural resources – rare earth metals, oil, gas, coal, fertile land. The Anglo-Saxons are not interested in the population of Ukraine, its industry, its cities and the future of this country in general;
• At the same time, the main culprits of the destruction in Ukraine are the EU countries, which recklessly finance and supply weapons to the Ukrainian armed forces;
• The anti-Russian and pro-Ukrainian agenda promoted in Munich demonstrated the growing split in the Western camp. It is obvious that in the foreseeable future, one group of countries will show solidarity with Kiev’s neo-Nazism and help it to the point of exhaustion, another group will take neutrality and a third group will create a coalition to combat neo-Nazi and militaristic ideology, exactly in the spirit of the Yalta Conference.

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ At Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, Iraq. 
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⭕ “An Israeli surrender agreement”.

The head of the Metula Israeli Settlement Council, David Azulai, described the ceasefire agreement with Lebanon as “catastrophic.”

“We had an enormous military achievement that should have been translated into a political victory ensuring Hezbollah’s absence from Lebanon. Instead, we have reached a surrender agreement.” Azulai accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of handing Hezbollah a victory.

“Tomorrow, they will return to their homes and continue to threaten us. Metula is surrounded on three sides by the border. It is true that a military force will remain, but what about the northern side? What about the western side? What will happen when residents return to the village of Kfar Kila, which is just meters away from the homes of Israeli citizens? There are tens of thousands of Shiites, most of them members of Hezbollah and the Radwan Unit, who are rebuilding their homes and preparing to return in full force.”

Azulai asserted that the residents of Metula will not return, revealing the results of a survey conducted over the past two weeks: “According to the survey results, only six students out of 95 intend to return with their families. Beyond the security aspect, where is the logistical support and infrastructure? Around 70% of Metula’s homes have been damaged, and 30 local government buildings have been completely destroyed. These buildings are uninhabitable, yet the government, detached from reality, is demanding that we return. How are the residents supposed to return to normal life? Are children expected to grow up in a town filled with military barriers and barbed wire? This takes us back to the scenes of the 1990s, to the constant sense of danger.”
[Hear it from a distressed local zionazi! Appearances diverge ever further from Reality in our demented End Times]
⭕ This morning, Israeli tanks entered the village of Kfarshouba in southern Lebanon in violation of the agreement and the government’s own announcement of withdrawal. Any attack against these forces is the full right of the Lebanese resistance, as stipulated in the UN Security Council resolutions 1514 (1960), 2625 (1970), 2649 (1970), 3246 (1974), 3314 (1974), 35/35 (1980) and 37/43 (1982).

what times. The militias THEMSELVES may now be going asymmetrical. EVERY action is being responded to now, there is no “status quo ante bellum Oct 07.” “The British Rules-based International Order” tried to tie down their hands through lawfare and “ceasefires” to give zionazidom a desperately-needed respite. But even a dying Scorpion canna control itself – it continues to strike out. Now new forces, and masses of civilians in both Gaza and Lebanon, move to reclaim land and avenge new atrocities..

💠 @MyLordBebo:
⭕ 🇺🇸 Another photo of the damage to the nuclear aircraft carrier CVN 75 Harry S. Truman, which was moored for maintenance and repairs in Souda Bay, Crete.

Isn’t that jet too close to the edge?

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇮🇳India is considering a Russian proposal to produce Su-57s on its territory, said the director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, Shugaev

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇪🇺 European defence stocks are rising as governments pledge to increase defence spending.

Rheinmetall jumped 9% in Frankfurt, BAE Systems gained 5% in London and Thales gained 4% in Paris.

The Stoxx Europe aerospace and defence index hit a 30-year high.

Source: FT
⭕ NATO Chief of Staff Giuseppe Cavo Dragone:

The withdrawal of some of the 100,000 American troops stationed in Europe could be on the agenda because of certain commitments made by the United States far away, in the Pacific.

However, the United States will not withdraw from NATO.
[It’s not a “consideration.” It was part of 2021 Ultimata terms, reason for the SMO, and the entrance fee to today’s tête-à-tête with HE Lavrov. And we’re gonna have a “free” Germania and Italia for first time in ages.. God help us all!]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇪🇺 A senior diplomat to the Financial Times:

“It is now very clear that Europe is alone.”

When asked if he now sees the US as an adversary, he replied:

“Yes.”

Source: FT
[Hear the toothless and lame limey lion ROAR!]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇵🇱 Microsoft plans to invest an additional $700 million in Poland to improve Polish cybersecurity in cooperation with the country’s armed forces, the company’s president said on Monday, without giving further details.

At a joint press conference with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Microsoft President Smith said the investment would be for a second phase of the already completed $1 billion Polish data center project announced in 2020.
[these crazed balts are the default now that Rummy’s Olde Europe is escaping, or entering full-borne lunacy – the last vestige of Anglo-Zio control for cyberwar, and mindwashing the entire EU, and the permanent Drang against the tormented East. Ultimately, Carthage will need to be salted again. It has always been thus]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇯🇵 US Marines begin leaving Japan.

The US base on Okinawa has transferred 105 Marines. But the deal to transfer a total of 9,000 troops is facing a perceived threat from China’s rise.

Before Christmas, 105 US Marines who were to be sent to Okinawa were transferred to a new base in Guam. The move was a key step in a deal between Washington and Tokyo to reduce the number of Marines on Okinawa.
[wow. what times. decades in days]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ ❗️🇮🇷 🇮🇷 Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the IRGC, Admiral Ali Fadavi: ‘Operation True Promise-3 will definitely be carried out, at the appropriate time’
⭕ Al-Manar’s updated 5 points at which the Israeli military will remain in southern Lebanon, citing Israeli sources.

Al-Manar initially predicted a much larger Israeli presence near the Metula region.
[so one of them, on the Litani, was withdrawn and exchanged for more survival one. All can now scoot to safety in hours. This is an empty posture, the equivalent of Orange’s bellowing as he runs backwards]
⭕ Today, Egypt declined a request by two USAF B-52H ‘Stratofortress’ bombers to pass through Egyptian airspace, military air traffic comms indicate
[What times!!!!!!!!!]
⭕ The Secretary General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, Ziad Al-Nakhaleh, came to Tehran to visit the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei

The visit comes two weeks after the leadership council of Hamas, including its head, Khalil Al-Hayya, also came to Tehran to meet with Ayatollah Khamenei. The PIJ is the second largest armed force in Gaza.

The PIJ’s leader personally thanked Ayatollah Khamenei for his steadfast position on the issue of Palestine, and he reaffirmed that the Islamic Republic of Iran remains the closest and most reliable ally of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza.
[another victory lap with the primus inter pares]
⭕ After the ceasefire, Iran was the first foreign visit of the leaders of both Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad

This makes it more than clear, the Palestinian resistance still sees Iran as its key ally, probably even more than before.

Contrary to armchair generals and excessive hype in the media, neither Hamas nor the PIJ ever even expected Iran to directly intervene after October 7th.

The fact that Iran directly struck Israel twice was a positive surprise to them, and it solidified their alliance more than before.
⭕ — 🇮🇷 Some thoughts about True Promise-1 and True Promise-2, which I have been waiting to share for a long time

I want you all to understand, before True Promise-1 happened, nobody was even expecting Iran to strike Israel directly, including myself.

Forget about the ‘results’ for a moment, that’s a different story. Take yourself back to the weeks before April 14th 2024 – nobody, literally NOBODY thought Iran would attack Israel.

Within Iran, and the wider political sphere, the discussion was initially about the possibility of taking ‘reciprocal action’ to the destruction of the Iranian embassy in Syria. Meaning, they were considering the option of striking Israel’s embassies or facilities abroad, such as in Jordan or Azerbaijan.

Mind you, many analysts believed that even THIS was too much to expect from us, and that we should simply strike ‘Israeli-linked assets’ like Mossad safehouses in Erbil, Iraq, like we did in the past.

In the days leading up to April 14th, when the conversation and news reporting started shifting to the possibility of a direct Iranian strike on Israeli territory, many people did not believe it, and personally I considered it unlikely. At that point, due to past weaknesses shown, I (and many others) would have been more than satisfied with merely a strike on an Israeli embassy.

Even when, in my mind, I entertained the possibility of a direct strike, I expected Iran to strike in ‘Israeli-held’ territory, such as the Golan Heights, while technically and legally avoiding actual ‘Israeli’ territory (Golan Heights are Syrian in Intl. Law).

But no. Not only did Iran strike Israel directly, it struck them in the heartland – deep in the Negev, directly targeting airbases. And of course, in True Promise-2, we saw the targeting of Tel Nof airbase in Tel Aviv itself.

People must understand, while these attacks were certainly impressive from a military POV (especially TP-2), the effect of these operations is not actually measured by the amount of damage or the amount of Israeli fatalities.

These operations set a new equation, they started a new era, and they changed the entire political landscape. They set a precedent for the future. That is the real significance of True Promise-1 and True Promise-2. Iran got the first taste of direct conflict with Israel, and it learned many important things.

As for the military aspect, TP-1 was widely telegraphed and was clearly intended as a message to Israel and the world, this is obvious considering the fact that Iran mostly used small amounts of old missiles and hundreds of drones they knew would be intercepted.

In regards to TP-2, it was a probing attack. It was not telegraphed, it was sudden. They intended to do limited damage, this time showing Israel that Iran has a true ‘will’ to use force, without it being excessive enough for an overwhelming Israeli response.

At the same time, this attack utilized some of Iran’s advanced weapons for the first time, such as Fattah-1, and the operation taught Iran how many missiles it would need to reasonable assure itself of a significant level of destruction of Israeli airbases. The conclusion? More missiles needed, liquid fueled missiles need their accuracy improved, and we need larger warheads.

So next time someone brings up these operations, you must understand the complex reality we live in. Neither Iran nor Israel went ‘full-out’ during last year’s exchange. Both are probing and testing. But a large scale conflict will, eventually, happen.

As for True Promise-3, sometimes it is better to wait. It was a time of action, but for now it is a time of making sure that we know what we’re getting ourselves into, before we start the next cycle of conflict. As the Leader said: ‘We neither rush nor delay’.

Every step can be your last, so make sure your next step is the right one.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️The American delegation in Riyadh was surprised to see that the losses of American companies from leaving Russia amounted to $ 300 billion, says the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund

💠 @geopolitics_live:
⭕ 💸Biggest losses suffered by US companies that left Russia

Russian negotiators have provided their US counterparts a chart detailing some $324 bln in losses suffered by US corporations that quit the Russian market (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/43998).

🔍Biggest losers:

• $123 bln in IT and media
• $94 bln in the consumer goods sector
• $71 bln in finance
• $26 bln in industry
• $10 bln in energy

🔍Who lost what?

• Exxon suffered a $4 bln write down on its Russia-related businesses
• McDonald’s recorded a $1.4 bln non-cash write off in 2022 attributed to its Russia exit
• General Motors lost $657 mln
• Google’s Russian subsidiary declared bankruptcy in 2023 with debts totaling $587 mln. A Russian court has fined the company $2.5 decillion for restricting Russian media channels on YouTube [LOL]
• Whirlpool recorded $400 mln in Russia losses
• Coca-Cola lost $195.4 mln
• Disney reported $195 mln in losses from “depreciation of intangible assets” in Russia in 2022
• IBM recorded $300 mln in losses in 2022, blaming Russia and inflation for 3,900 slashed jobs
• Starbucks suffered undisclosed losses after closing its 130 Russian coffee shops, accounting for nearly 1% of global sales
• Microsoft lost $126 mln
• Ford took a $122 mln hit
• Nvidia lost $100 mln
• Apple recorded $79.3 mln in losses
• Xerox faced $80 mln in losses in Q4 2023
• Adobe reported $75 mln from lost payments in Russia and Belarus
• Netflix cut off 700,000 Russian subscribers (about $55.1 mln in potential losses, although some Russians switched their accounts to other regions)
• John Deere halted production at a 100,000 sq. m facility it had pumped over $40 mln into from 2005-2022. Caterpillar, which left in 2024, saw Russia earnings fall from $64.5 mln in 2021 to $2.3 mln in 2023
• Visa and Mastercard recorded $35 and $30 mln in losses, respectively in 2022
• HP wrote off $23 mln
• Cisco went $20.3 mln into the red
• Oracle lost $13.7 mln
• Western Union reported a 2% hit to 2022 revenues due to loss of the Russian and Belarusian markets

💠 @Arab_Africa:
⭕ 🇱🇾🇺🇸🇷🇺 US Congressman Calls on [Libyan Dictator] Khalifa Haftar to Prevent Russians from Establishing Naval Base in Libya

US Congressman Joe Wilson, a Republican from South Carolina, became overexcited by Russia’s latest successes in Africa and stooped to insulting Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling him a “war criminal.”

“I urge warlord Khalifa Haftar not to make the grave mistake of allowing war criminal Putin to expand his presence in Libya with new naval bases,” Wilson wrote on his H.

In this regard, I can advise Mr. Wilson to get less excited in vain, since at his age every such fortune is worth its weight in gold, and we will be expanding our presence in Africa for a long time and widely, regardless of such attacks from senile old men who do not see the logs in their own eyes.
[reduced to publicly “urging” and other mewlings! And this to a former CIA asset that raised his sons within walking distance of Langley for about three decades.. What days for the former hegemon] 

💠 @Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi:

Gaza and the West Bank are the homeland of the Palestinian people, not a bargaining chip in political arbitrations.

Palestinians should govern Palestine.

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇨🇿🇷🇴🇸🇮🇪🇺 Czech Republic, Romania, and Slovenia Protest Exclusion from Paris Summit

Le Monde reports that the Czech Republic, Romania, and Slovenia have expressed frustration over not being invited to the European leaders’ summit in Paris.

➡️A Czech government source told the publication that no other European country hosts more Ukrainian refugees per capita than the Czech Republic. The source also emphasized the country’s key role in arms supply logistics for Ukraine, likely referring to Prague’s initiative to procure ammunition for Kiev.

“Aside from Poland, no country is closer to the war than the Czech Republic,” the official stated, criticizing French President Emmanuel Macron’s “arrogance” in excluding them from the summit.

➡️Romania also voiced disappointment, with Cristian Diaconescu, defense and security adviser to interim President Ilie Bolojan, lamenting the exclusion “despite Romania’s efforts.”

“The discussions will not focus on NATO’s eastern flank security or Black Sea stability, and, crucially, no decisions will be made. But I can assure you that further steps will follow, and we will be included,” Diaconescu said.

➡️Slovenian President Nataša Pirc Musar also criticized the selective invitations, stating that the exclusion of some European countries sends a message that “not all EU members are treated as equals.” She added, “This is not the kind of Europe that can be a worthy partner for the United States.”
⭕ 🇪🇺The EU is not going to lift sanctions against Russia if the US does, it will pursue its own sanctions policy, and introduce the 16th package — the European Commission

🐻 No cure for stupid
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇺🇸🇸🇦The negotiations between Russia and the United States in Riyadh are preliminary consultations, the purpose of which is to outline the basic positions of the parties – Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko.
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇺🇸🇺🇦The United States has chosen Kellogg as its representative in the negotiating team with Russia on Ukraine – Ushakov

“Kellogg will maintain contacts with Kiev and Europe; the US will assign a special person or group of representatives for the Russian-American track.”
[The leathery old boy better bring buckets of antacids, in addition to uppers for his mornings and downers for his evenings]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺THE WEST WILL HAVE TO CANCEL SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA IN THE EVENT OF THE UKRAINIAN CONFLICT SETTLEMENT — MARCO RUBIO
[LOL. This is what they admit in public. Whatabouttherealtalks behind the scenes, concerning reparations and criminals to be handed over to Nuremberg II??]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇮🇷 🇮🇷 IRGC Aerospace Commander, Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh:

‘Before True Promise-2, Americans brought 4 ships to the Mediterranean and Red Sea coasts and brought some to defend them, whose mission was anti-ballistic.

The entire radar network of the Persian Gulf region was integrated into the CENTCOM framework and was made available to the United States.

However, in Operation True Promise-2, more than 75% of our missiles successfully hit.

The biggest failure was the collapse of their defense system.’

🔻‘In Operation True Promise-1, we launched 160 drones, which was the largest drone attack in the world.

The air capabilities of the United States, UK, France, Jordan and the Zionists, as well as the radar facilities of the entire region and 203 aircraft were ready defending against us in TP-1.

Despite this, we succeeded.’

🔻‘In Operation True Promise-1, we tested the enemy with a warm hand. We attacked, and they did not respond. We called their bluff.

In this operation, the main goal was seeing if we could penentrate the Israeli air defenses even at the moment when its defense was at its strongest point.’

🔻‘After Operation True Promise-2, we predicted that the Israelis would strike back, and we assessed that they would try to attack our missile production.

However, the attack did not have a large effect, and as we estimated, missile production did not stop even for one day. In fact, we now increased the production rate of missiles’

🔻’If we unveil an underground missile base every week, it would take us two years to display all of them.’

🔻‘True Promise-3 will be carried out, and it is a golden opportunity that lies in our hand, and it will be completed at the appropriate time.’

🔻’The Supreme Leader has repeatedly sought to address the lack of an anti-ballistic missile defense system in our country.

An anti-ballistic defense system has been in the works for three years now, and it will be operational by next year (Persian year, so March 2025).
[and this may ultimately be the chief calculation behind delay..]

🔻’The Americans and Israelis always threaten a lot. I assure our dear people and tell them not to worry at all. There won’t be any war.

They are not going to do anything against us. Nothing is going to happen. They cannot and will not harm our nuclear program.’

🔻’Currently, we are working with ballistic missiles with ranges up to 2,000km.

However, from a technical perspective, we have no problems with increasing the range of our missiles. We can do it if we choose.

But the US has targets nearby all around us, we can strike with cheap short-range missiles, and there is no need for us to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles at the US.’

🔻’In Operation True Promise-2, one of the targets we struck was Netzarim Corridor, in the middle of Gaza, where the Zionist occupation forces were stationed.

When we were about to launch the missiles, the Supreme Leader told me ‘make sure you don’t hit any Hamas fighters’, and we told him confidently ‘don’t worry’.
[and they struck the Gaza “envelope” tank holdings areas, and occupied Palestine from north most to the south most, from west to east. They can literally “touch” any spot they choose.. As Europe is permitted to breathe at the very pleasure of Russkie, so does messianic Zion at Iran’s]

1. He also sees Hezbollah biting their fingers, waiting to conclude Nasrallah’s funeral on Feb 23ʳᵈ, before dealing with zionazis..
2. The stars really align for Iran in March, when its air defense system is set to their satisfaction, if as he assumes the Arab League Summit on Feb 27ᵗʰ will strongly move for once.. This would mean not only lack of overflight for zionazi planes enroute to bomb Iran, but also lack of defense for Zion as Op TP III streaks in opposite direction.
3. The continued insistence of the cancerous entity on “Greater Israel” and expansion – seen in occupying Lebanon, and expanding in WB and Syria, and threatening Egypt & Saudis, may be finally be awakening the near-comatose

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔸 Without A Fight

I want to put in one post what I have long argued:

– The Russians will, in course of time, reassimilate eastern Ukraine from Odessa to Belarus — more or less without a fight, and via formal referenda.

– The same thing applies to China and Taiwan.
[no fight with the LOCALS. But the external Anglo-Zionist Pirates remain the flies in the well-made pudding… even he acknowledges this, see below] 
🔻 irtica: Not even Donetsk region is not yet taken…
🔻 WS: You apparently do not understand the object of war.
📜 The Object of War
🔻 The Black Vodka Cat: We don’t understand it alright.
But Odessa won’t be taken.
🔻 WS: To the Danube, and Transnistria, too. And very probably Moldova.
🔻 Kindova Bigdeal: There are signs of the onset of Ukrainian collapse
🔻 The Black Vodka Cat: My friend, I would be very happy if Odessa would be Russian again.
But it requires a manpower. Alot of it.
🔻 WS: You’re looking at the equation from a fallacious perspective. The Russians have spent the past three years methodically eradicating the manpower opposing their objectives.

Odessa will be reassimilated without meaningful opposition. They will actively petition to join Russia.
🔻 Shivaratam: Ukraine wont allow a referenda on your area marked likely. What is your thinking on how such a referenda could happen?
🔻 WS: “Allow” will have nothing to do with it.

Ukraine will be demilitarized and have no agency in the matter.
[Indeed! Witness how the Eurocrazies are being treated in public. What then of the deranged UkroNazi??]
🔻 hicham: Will the US sit idly too when it comes to Taiwan? It looks like the gameplan of the USA is to refocus on Asia and pull Russia away from the Chinese (not that it will work though)
🔻 WS: There will eventually be a major engagement in and around the South China Sea between the US and China. And the US will suffer a stunningly decisive defeat.

In the aftermath of that event, Taiwan will kiss the ring, and the entire neighborhood will make nice with Beijing.
🔻 El Dasein: Will, Don’t you think that a confrontation between the US and China inevitably leads to the use of nukes by the US? It is unlikely that the US can win a conventional war in the Chinese zone of influence.
🔻 WS: I do not believe the US is suicidal. And I certainly hope they’re not.
[LOL. The qualifiers keep growing, by the month. A full add-on sentence now!]
🔻 Seamus “The Orc” Baranov 🆉🆅🅾 🫡🇷🇺🇧🇾🇷🇸: I think Trump truly wants to do deals:
🇷🇺 gets 🇺🇦
🇨🇳 gets 🇹🇼
🇺🇸 is free to take 🇨🇦 🇬🇱. As an added bonus, 🇷🇺 and 🇺🇸 more or less rule the Arctic. Peace is prosperous. The deep state dying.

🇪🇺 will fall into line. It’ll have no choice but to. It’s ailing and failing as it is.
🔻 WS: All neat and tidy. A deus ex machina facile resolution that brings the planet back into balance and relative harmony.

Makes for a lovely “everyone lived happily ever after” bedtime story, doesn’t it?

But ends of empire never work out that way, and this one will be no exception.
🔻 Dr. Anton: Do you still think this is what will happen and Trump will go along with it?
[links Will’s older,
“And yet I increasingly believe it is almost certain the US will blunder into a highly attritive conflict with Iran as the primary target.

A conflict in which, in many significant and ultimately decisive respects, Iran will not be alone.”]
🔻 WS: I think it’s very likely. Iran sells over 90% of its oil production to China. There are many who believe destroying Iranian oil production capacity represents a necessary preparatory step to taking on China in the western Pacific. That’s how they will frame the argument to POTUS.
🔻 Dr. Anton: Interesting.
Trump says lower energy prices ➡️ lower inflation.
Guess he can’t have it all
[don’t believe his words! A true hater of Iran.. and he did promise to bring Dark Winter during covid]
⭕ cont. thread on US war junk:
🔻 Brandon: Yeah, but the US military has used them effectively in the past. It’s about the mission set and the user.
[this Brandon foil of Will’s (full name Brandon Weichert), which we read get destroyed over and over and over, was praised by Mercouris last night (!!) for his article in [National Interest?] which demonstrated “brave realism” to paraphrase. Goodness. Such are now considered plucky mavericks in the fallen West, and for admitting the blindingly obvious even he can grasp..]
🔻 Caligula’s Horse: I was “trained” on the Javelin; which is to say I was trained on the virtual trainer. Only one soldier from my CO ever went to a class which actually fired the system, and even then, only 2-3 soldiers out of 40 got to fire it. A system that expensive and complex is not worthwhile

Moreover, you have to wait 1-2 minutes for the seeker to cool sufficiently to fire the weapon. Even ignoring the finicky targeting system – locking the ‘gates’ properly – if you think a soldier has that kind of time under the stresses of combat, you’re kidding yourself.

The Javelin is yet another example of what @wbuppert likes to call exquisite platforms. A system designed in consultation between generals, lobbyists and engineers, with the grunt having no voice in the matter.
🔻 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩: I have to say (I am staring at a half scale model of the projectile in my office) that the Javelin is a rather good system for its time. The “G” model in the “Spiral 3” development may bring it up to speed.
[LOL. What are they planning to “hunt?” Armored African rhinos? Indian or Carthaginian war-elephants?]
🔻 Caligula’s Horse: A soldier cannot wait a minute between identifying a target and waiting for the seeker to cool. Yes, I understand, the cooler the seeker, the greater the contrast. But you can’t wait. I raise the system, I see my target, I lock it in, I fire, and I move to another position.
[and that’s why all UkroNazis who survived them did so by ditching them, realizing the death traps for what they were]
🔻 Caligula’s Horse: Or, I use a drone with retrans and maneuver at my leisure – because I’m well to the rear – to put the warhead up the tank’s arse.
🔻 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩: I was on the C&R team to develop a loitering missile successor to the AT4 in 2016 with triple the distance and third party targeting (esp for urban canyon problems). Nope, total fail from start to finish. And if everything had gone according to plan, fielding in 2030.

I told them let’s wait until we can field it in 2040 so we can celebrate the centenary of the infantry shoulder fired engagement gap by fielding this.
[“urban canyon” — lovely bastardization of language. All you need to know of the demented mindset, value-system and why the nazis and their proxies are being attrited outta existence]
🔻 Caligula’s Horse: Why don’t we just ‘steal’ Spike?
🔻 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩: We could but munition weights and effects are very close. I have to say I think the era of shoulder-fired missiles versus UAS/FPV option favors the latter.
🔻 WS: Watching the fiber-optic “Dragonflies” carefully select a vulnerable target spot, and then strike … well, it’s a revolutionary development in war. |link|
⭕ cont. thread:
📜 First Generation “Precision-guided Missiles”

1944 — The Kamikaze …
🔻 WS: Key excerpts: |link|
🔻 WS: This is a simulation of an unintended but rapidly escalated US/China engagement in the South China Sea. I believe the Chinese will perform better and the US worse in such a scenario, but the simulation still strongly supports my arguments made above. |media|
🔻 C1: I’m not a military expert — but you look at the missile (Russia/China) tech, and it’s hard to see how a lumbering aircraft carrier, with a greater turning circle than the Titanic, survives multiple hypersonic hits guided by multiple satellites and AI
🔻 WS: Hypersonic strikes against an aircraft carrier are certainly a possibility.

But if all the enemy did was launch 500 loitering drones, a mix of 500 supersonic and subsonic cruise missiles, and ~100 torpedoes, it would be sufficient to sink an entire CSG in a matter of minutes.
[and that’s precisely what Iran prepped per their aeroforces boss Hajizadeh above. Why waste fancier fare when this fits the bill? And that’s why there are currently no aircraft carriers near either Iran or Yemen..]
⭕🔻 Ursula von der Leyen: Today in Paris we reaffirmed that Ukraine deserves peace through strength.

Peace respectful of its independance, sovereignty, territorial integrity, with strong security guarantees.

Europe carries its full share of the military assistance to Ukraine.

At the same time we need a surge in defence in Europe.
Ursula struggles with both the concept and spelling of “independence”.

Meanwhile, this photo screams “impotence”.
[assuming this is the wake called by Macron in Paris today for the dearest Inner Garden]
🔻 alfred venison: NOT IMPRESSED with that weenie Table, guys. Hawk-tuah ! Putin’s got the Way Better Table’s all I want to say for now, Bespeaks POTENCY Authoritatively, yeah.
🔻 WS: The worst part is that the IKEA directions were in Russian.
🔻 C3: Why is Rutte the only one smiling.
🔻 averros: This photo screams “insanity”.
🔻 C5: … appropriate that they’re meeting in a gilded cage from a bygone era.
🔻 Thornedale: It’s a stupid kids’ club, and you’re not invited.
⭕ ‼️ Cycle of Aggression, Reset, Rearm, Aggression

Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic provides us a precise
timeline of events in Ukraine over the past quarter century:

As the US sends reps to meet Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia – keep in mind the cycle of US aggression against Russia, running into a brickwall, then seeking a “reset” to buy time for pursuing aggression that has played out before.

Below is a timeline of this cycle unfolding 2 full times since the end of the Cold War. …
[see rest in main website, the one with my rejoinder of Cato!]
🔻 carlos figueroa: @imetatronink I hope I’m not asking a self-defeating question. But what is happening in the north with plane crashes? Is it a symptom of something or simple bad luck of aeronautics?
🔻 C1: I don’t know.

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ The Israeli army has carried out new bombings against former suspected Syrian Arab Army sites.
[honeymoon’s over for our plucky headchoppers…]

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇧🇪 Belgian Minister of Defence:

We need someone to say: “Okay, guys, we’re in deep shit”.

We are facing big problems and we need to take very big measures.
⭕ 🇩🇪 Olaf Scholz: “We are ready to spend at least 2% of our GDP (…) for the future of Europe’s defense”
⭕ 🇧🇷 Brazil’s national prosecutor accuses former President Jair Bolsonaro of an alleged coup plot.
⭕ 🇨🇴 Colombian President Petro claims drug traffickers acquired two missiles to shoot down his plane and kill him.
⭕ 🇮🇷 Flying drone systems in Iranian army exercises

🔸 Unveiling of laser bombs

Drone Commander of the Army Ground Forces:

During the army’s offensive exercise, for the first time, collective participatory flight operations with the ability to cover distances of more than 1,500 kilometers were unveiled, and it was envisaged to destroy several enemy fortifications simultaneously.

Drone collection flight operations using the power of the “Arash” destructive drone with anti-fortification, anti-personnel and incendiary warheads, Mohajer 6 and Ababil 5 drones, with the possibility of using smart optical bombs and targeting with various integrated navigation systems (navigator), and finally the “Ghaem”, “Dastavareh”, “Arman” missiles and various types of “Almas” missiles were carried out.

In this exercise, the Army’s ground forces unveiled for the first time a laser bomb system with high precision, accuracy and destructive power, capable of being used in various weather and geographical conditions. |media|
[keep scrolling down. Iran locked and loaded. See the sea of drones they’ve prepped for the nazi Hordes. They’re gonna be needed soon]
⭕ 🇮🇷 Iran unveils its FPV drones.
⭕ 🇮🇷 IRGC’s new suicide and reconnaissance drones unveiled

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ 🇧🇷 NEW: The Prosecutor General of Brazil has charged former President Jair Bolsonaro in an alleged plot to assassinate current President Lula Da Silva and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre De Morae after the formers 2022 election loss.

34 people overall have been charged so far, including military officials, though it is unclear if Mr. Bolsonaro will be arrested prior to trial.

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇫🇷🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️France does not intend to send its troops to Ukraine, Macron said in an interview with La Depeche.
[that was faster and slicker than Depeche Mode! On the SAME day of his failed “Inner Garden Summit” held to PRESENT the Europe Stormtroopers to Invade Novorossiya – when Meloni snickered and even Olaf left early due to disgust, he surrendered in classic French style. Unbelievable]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦Russia demands that Ukraine cede another 30% of the territories it does not control. This concerns parts of Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions — ISW
[a poison pill impossible for either nazis or exceptionals to accept. And they shall, for they were accepted into Russia in that referendum in 2022]
⭕ 🇺🇦Zelensky, amid negotiations between Russia and the US, cancelled his visit to Saudi Arabia (was supposed to take place tomorrow), rescheduling it for March 10
[LOL. what a borderline personality disorder! And the contemptuous retraction will be noted, and eventually repaid in kind, by the insulted hosts..]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦The Russian Armed Forces, having liberated Sverdlikovo in the Kursk region, took control of the Sudzha-Rylsk road, the Defense Ministry reported
[alotta of kettled nazis, many NATO serving, about to be sent to Bandera in a handbasket, in express mode]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦Trump said Russia is capable of destroying 100% of Ukrainian cities “very quickly,” including Kiev, but does not want to do so.

Other statements:

• Zelensky does not know where half of the money that the US allocated to Ukraine is. Ukraine will have to pay or find out where the money went;
• Zelensky’s rating among Ukrainians is 4%;
• Trump is not against sending European troops to Ukraine, but there will be no American troops. According to him, the conflict could have been resolved without war several years ago;
• Trump is disappointed with Ukraine’s position on a peaceful settlement. |media|
  [Good Lord. What days. May the Light hold out. Galaxies imploded due to less wiggling by the Center]

⭕ 🇺🇦🇷🇺❗️ Kiev plans to carry out a series of terrorist attacks against Russian diplomatic missions in European countries to disrupt negotiations — RF SVR

Kiev may carry out terrorist attacks in Germany, the Baltics and Scandinavia, and may prefer Slovakia and Hungary, the Foreign Intelligence Service said

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇸🇪🇺 “Humiliation”, “nightmare”: experts on the separation of the EU from the Russia-US negotiating table

🗣 “Despite the European attempts to support Ukraine, it seems that they are in a weak position because they lack the military, economic and political potential to meet such challenges,” geopolitical expert Ali Zreiq told Sputnik.

He compared Brussels to a “colossus with feet of clay”. The conflict on its doorstep was a shock, and after the unexpected contact between Trump and Putin, Europe feels marginalized.

☝️ The EU has been too lax in strengthening its military and economic capabilities, the expert continued. Affected by the Ukrainian crisis more than Russia, Europe will face great challenges in the future, he argued.

🗣 In recent days, some European leaders have tried to show unity, but the divisions are blatant, points out Ismail Khalafallah, a political observer and expert on European issues.

For him, attempts to bring Europe to the negotiating table could cause difficulties, given the role it has played in escalating the Ukrainian crisis.
⭕ #sputnikviral | 🇨🇳 Straight out of science fiction: A hub in Shenzhen, China, is using drones to create the logistics of the future |media|
⭕ ❗️Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

• Putin and Trump’s talks may take place before the end of February, but they may also take place later;
• Putin will choose a negotiator with the US on the Ukrainian issue after Washington names its own;
• Negotiations with the US are a very important step for the future settlement of the Ukrainian issue;
• While the first step has been taken to restore relations with the US, it is too early to voice conclusions, but the mood is businesslike;
• Russia and the US primarily discussed their own relations in Riyadh.

⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇸 The Russian-American talks in Riyadh in the world media:

• El Mundo: The rapid pace of US efforts to end the Ukraine conflict is causing concern across Europe.
• El Watan: The Russian-American meeting in Saudi Arabia is said to be proof that “the page of the Biden era” has been turned.
• The Telegraph: For Volodymyr Zelensky, who was in Turkey, the sky was gray. It was impossible not to suspect that his mood was equally gloomy and that his thoughts were elsewhere.
• Die Weltwoche: The Russians and Americans have been talking, and the Earth keeps spinning.
  [LOL. Deutschland knows best what comes next, and who is on certain best-avoided menus]
• The New York Times: These talks mark a radical departure from the previous American policy of exerting diplomatic pressure on Moscow. Washington is now showing a willingness to work with Moscow.
• The Wall Street Journal: Ties between Washington and Brussels, already strained by US Vice President J.D. Vance’s scathing speech, are under even more pressure.
• Al Riyadh: The talks could be part of a broader shift in Donald Trump’s foreign policy, aimed at repairing relations between Russia and the US.

⭕ Russian FM Lavrov addresses the lower house of the country’s parliament

• Russia ready to engage in dialogue with any country with mutual respect and on equal terms, Lavrov says
• Russia concerned about unbridled growth of neo-Nazi ideas in Ukraine, Baltic states, several European countries and Canada, Lavrov says
  [WOW. He is laying out the sumptuous menu, and items on terms of capitulation. There WILL be a change of elites. And what a busy statesman]
• “We are working to unleash the potential of cooperation with Africa”

Sergey Lavrov noted the joint work with African countries on the implementation of the two summits and the ministerial conference.

• “The next step is to declare December 14, 1960, as the International Day of Struggle against Colonialism”

Speaking before Russia’s State Duma on the fight against contemporary neocolonial practices, Sergey Lavrov recalled that last December, the UN General Assembly had already adopted a resolution on the elimination of colonialism in all its forms and manifestations.

The draft of the document was prepared by the Group of Friends in Defense of the UN Charter, where Russia plays a key role. |Full video|

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Vladimir Putin gives a positive assessment of the results of the Russian-US talks in Riyadh

According to the Russian President, Moscow has taken the first step to resume work with the US in a variety of areas where there is mutual interest, including the Middle East. [image A.I.-generated, courtesy of Sputnik]
⭕ ❗️Russia will inform its BRICS friends about results of the Russian-US talks, Putin says
[LOL. So much for the aching prayer of splitting the double helix]
⭕ ❗️Putin says he would be happy to meet with Trump, but before that, preparation is needed

According to the Russian president, relations between Russia and the United States today are such that “a meeting over a cup of coffee” is not enough.
⭕ ❗️Putin says he was informed an hour ago that Russian Armed Forces had crossed the border with Ukraine in Russia’s Kursk region

The Russian Armed Forces are advancing along the entire line of combat contact, the president said.
[This is how negotiating room is created, and the taking of the rest of Novorossiya]
⭕ ❗️The attack on CPC could provoke high energy prices on world markets, Putin says

“It is impossible to quickly restore this facility, because there was mainly Western equipment there, and it was damaged,” Putin told reporters.

On Monday, the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) said that its crude oil pumping station in Kropotkinskaya, Russia’s southern Krasnodar Territory, had been attacked by drones in the morning. Kropotkinskaya is the company’s largest pumping station in Russia. The CPC said the attack was carried out by seven drones packed with metal striking elements in addition to explosives.
[This may set Europe back to the Bronze Age!]

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇨🇳🇺🇸🇹🇼 China urges US to ‘correct its mistakes’ after State Department website removes reference to Taiwan independence

China has urged the United States to “correct its mistakes” after the US State Department removed, as part of a routine update, old language from its website about not supporting Taiwanese independence.

In addition to removing the phrase “we do not support Taiwanese independence,” the page added a reference to Taiwan’s cooperation with a Pentagon semiconductor and technology development project and said the United States would support Taiwan’s membership in international organizations “as appropriate.”

In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said the revisions to the U.S. State Department’s website on Taiwan were a major step backward and “sent a seriously wrong message to Taiwan’s pro-independence separatist forces.”
[We look forward to the FA part of FAFO. China shall be forced to act, as were all the other civilizational-states tormented by Legion]

💠 @Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Hamas ready to release all remaining hostages

The Palestinian Hamas movement is ready to release all Israeli hostages during the second phase of the deal, provided that a permanent ceasefire is reached and Israel completely withdraws from the Gaza Strip, the movement’s spokesman Hazem Qassem said.

The movement’s representatives voiced the new initiative after US President Donald Trump spoke out against the staged weekly release of hostages . At the same time, Hamas rejected Israel’s demand to disarm and withdraw its troops from the Gaza Strip.
[This is nothing new. From Day One, they offered all-for-all on single swap..]
⭕ The Trump administration has cut off all funding to the Palestinian Authority’s security forces.

— The Washington Post
[Hallelujah]

💠  @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸🚗Donald Trump Considers 25% Tariff on Imported Cars.
⭕ 🇧🇷🛢️Brazil’s government on Tuesday approved joining OPEC+, an informal group of major oil exporting countries.

Brazil is the world’s seventh-largest oil producer, with daily production of about 4.3 million barrels, or 4% of global output.

The group includes the 12 members of OPEC, a long-standing organization created to coordinate oil production to stabilize markets, and 10 other major oil-producing countries, of which Russia is the largest.
⭕ 🇪🇺💰🇺🇦EU plans to provide Ukraine with a €6 billion military aid package “

“The aid package should include everything from 1.5 million artillery shells to air defense systems. It would be one of the EU’s largest military aid packages since 2022 and could be unveiled ahead of the EU commissioners’ visit to Kyiv on February 24.

European diplomats have said the figure could rise to 10 billion euros or more as countries examine their stockpiles to see what they can send to Ukraine.”
[Soon enough, Russkie may mutter, “to the last Eurocrazy” — and to the very same outcome]
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇺🇸🇺🇦 Putin will appoint a chief negotiator after the American side appoints theirs, and depending on who it will be — Peskov
[Nazis get first move.. which will prompt the adequate commitment based on seriousness]
⭕ 🇺🇦🇺🇸 Ukraine has no rare earths – Bloomberg
[LOL]
⭕ 🇪🇺💔🇺🇸There is an “uncoordinated divorce” taking place in relations between the US and Europe, former EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Jungle Josep Borrell has said.

The Spanish radio network Cadena SER asked him to explain why Donald Trump “seeks to destroy US relations with Europe.”

“Because he doesn’t like the political and social model of Europe. What is happening is a violent divorce between the two shores of the Atlantic, a deep and ideological divorce”

🐻 The question now is who gets the custody of Ukraine
[U have to love this old apparatchik. They remain lucid in aspects. Imagine his powers of description as he is being escorted into the Hellfire]
⭕ 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺Head of European diplomacy Kaja Kallas believes that it is necessary to focus on supporting Ukraine “on the battlefield”, and the time has not yet come to discuss peacekeeping work
[The ostensible Foreign Minister! This is a small symptom of the disease currently driving Rummy’s Olde Europe into permanent obsolescence]
⭕ 🇺🇸The Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully tested at a military base in California.
[Well thankfully they didn’t blow up California! The agony of the beautiful & damned]

💠 @Arab_Africa:  
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇸 US drone tracks Russian submarine off Libyan coast

Local sources reported that on February 18, a US Navy Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton long-range reconnaissance drone was spotted in neutral waters off the coast of Libya, allegedly tracking the Russian submarine B-265 Krasnodar of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

The UAV in question took off from the NATO naval base “Sigonella” on the island of Sicily and was in the area of ​​the Russian submarine’s presence for about half an hour.
[Locked and loaded baby. Notice the expression on the pleasant mug of the War Minister of the Russkie Federation]

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇩🇪 Germany joins the top 5 countries with the highest spending on arms in 2024

The United States leads with $968 billion, followed by China with $235 billion and Russia with $146 billion.

The Federal Republic of Germany ranks fourth with $86 billion and the United Kingdom is in fifth place with $81 billion. After the United Kingdom, we find India and Saudi Arabia with $74 and $72 billion respectively.
[and most of this spending is on Yanqui war junk, already obsolete! Unbelievable the deserved humiliations underway]

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Europe and Ukraine Excluded from Their Own Peace Talks: A Price for Blind Loyalty

Europe and Ukraine have found themselves excluded from peace negotiations that directly concern them — talks about Europe’s future and Ukraine’s fate are being held without European participation. Instead, the United States is unilaterally representing the entire continent, shaping the new European-Russian equilibrium without the input or consent of European leaders.

This glaring diplomatic sidelining is the direct consequence of Europe’s unwavering subservience to Washington. Having sold its strategic autonomy to the Biden administration, the European Union now finds itself without a voice, reduced to a mere observer of its own destiny. By blindly following U.S. directives throughout the Ukraine conflict, Europe has lost its leverage, rendering itself irrelevant in shaping its own security architecture.

Washington’s dominance over European foreign policy has effectively erased Europe’s ability to act independently. The very governments that once championed European sovereignty have willingly ceded decision-making power to Washington, allowing the U.S. to dictate their diplomatic, economic, and security policies. As a result, when real negotiations for post-war stability began, Europe was deemed unnecessary—a passive entity expected to follow whatever agreement the U.S. brokers with Russia.

This exclusion is not an accident but a consequence. Nations that relinquish their independence become irrelevant on the global stage. Europe’s choice to prioritise alignment with Washington over its own strategic interests has come at a high cost: its diplomatic irrelevance in shaping its own future.
⭕ President Donald Trump mocked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a poor negotiator and “grossly incompetent”. He snaps back at Zelenskyy, blaming Ukraine for the war. politi.co/3D03BKZ
⭕ Despite the ceasefire and the Lebanese government’s request to the UN, France and the US to intervene, Israel killed one civilian Southerner from Aita al-Shaab in a drone attack on its car, confirming that only the resistance can, in due course, impose a new ROE on Israel.
⭕ Justice is collective; silence is complicity. If you choose to remain silent and turn a blind eye to the suffering of others simply because it does not directly affect you, remember that injustice does not discriminate. A day will come when it reaches your doorstep, and by then, there may be no one left to stand up for you.
⭕ Qatar’s Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, ended a high-level discussion in Tehran with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. The discussion focused on economic cooperation and mediation between Iran, Syria, and the United States and discussed the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The region has witnessed significant upheaval, notably the recent overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the subsequent power vacuum in Damascus.

In the current context, Qatar’s unique position—maintaining robust relations with both Western nations and regional actors—positions it as a potential conduit for dialogue. The emir’s visit to Tehran serves as a platform to explore avenues for de-escalation.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 🧵 Contrarian Views

On the topic of Elbridge Colby, I find myself at odds with many people whose views on most matters I otherwise tend to share.

So be it.

This is a partial selection of my previous utterances on the matter. |THREAD|
🔻 EvaG: Thank you for voicing the obvious when Elbridge Colby tries to present himself as a peacenik through his cries of “peace through strength” and “limited war” with China is fine for the US
🔻 oz4caster: USA needs to totally get out of forever wars mode. Our worst enemies are within our own country. We need to focus on rooting out all the corruption and crime. We can’t afford keeping so many troops overseas. Bring most or all of them home. Multi-polar world is here
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: What’s happening is a pivot to China strategy. There is absolutely nothing being done with Russia that is in good faith at all or have there lessons been learned, it’s simply that the US can’t afford what it has been doing any longer.
🔻 C4: So Colby is a dangerous maniac, got it..
⭕Those who follow “OSINTdefender” for reliable information subject themselves to some manner of disinformation in virtually every post.

The Geran-2 drones used by Russia are NOT “Iranian-produced”. The Geran-2 is a Russian-made improved version of the Iranian Shahed-136.
[Links:
🔻 OSINTdefender: Less than 24 hours after this morning’s negotiations between U.S. and Russian Officials in Saudi Arabia, Russia tonight has launched one of its largest drone attacks in recent months against Odesa and other Cities across Ukraine; with over 150 Iranian-produced drones targeting energy infrastructure and other Ukrainian sensitive sites. They are mocking us. |media|
🔻 Olga Bazova: The worst and most annoying part of Simon’s posts is not even the disinformation part, but his uncontrolled random capitalization of words in the middle of the sentence.
🔻 Taylor: That account may as well be run directly out of the pentagon. Shit, it might be.
🔻 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐙: WILL… Anyone who is a mouthpiece for KIEV comes automatically compromised to be a one-sided propagandist!!

We’ve seen this since Day 1 !!

They come with A built-in protocol to dismember the truth and replace it with what cab only be delicately described as BULLSHIT !!
⭕ repost of his older:
Utter nonsense.

The United States has not, for well nigh three-quarters of a century, fought a high-intensity war against a peer adversary. It has not, since 1945, even once achieved strategic victory in a war.

If the US attempts to make war against China, it will be defeated. |media|
⭕ 🐶 USS Trembling Puppy Update

CVN-75 limped back to Souda Bay to have its wounds examined. A new photo of the damage has emerged (seen below).

I seriously doubt the US Navy is equipped to repair this major hull gash with the carrier in port in Greece.

They’ll head home soon.
🔻 Red.Sniper: So is this from a collision damage or slap on the wrist warning?
🔻 C2: This might have been caused by houthi missile.
🔻 The Poets Of Zwan ⭕️🪶🏴‍☠️: This very well could have been caused by the Yemen attack. Yemen has claimed they were attacking the ship at the time. This could plausibly explain the collision with the cargo ship. In the Puppy’s haste and panic to flee the attack they sailed into the path of the cargo vessel.
🔻 C4: If slow-moving bulk carriers can get this close to any US aircraft carrier, then Yemeni missiles and drones sure also can
🔻 C5: Any news on the bulk carrier Besiktas? I cannot find any.
[Shh! Too many indelicate Qs being asked here]
⭕ In the immortal words of Neil Young:

It’s better to burn out
Than it is to rust |media|
🔻 WS: There’s more to the picture
Than meets the eye
🔻 Aitherias: But neil rusted
⭕🔻 Martyr Made:
FDR took UK’s bases in the W. Hemisphere in exchange for decrepit WW1 destroyers, demanded full payment in gold & cash for supplies until UK was dead broke, then mockingly designated Lend-Lease as H.R. 1776 just to twist the knife. UK didn’t finish paying us back until *2006*. |media|
🔻 WS: Run into the arms of America.
🔻 Me So Ornery: You plant a demon seed
you raise a flower of fire
⭕ Lame theatrics.
[links:
🔻 zerohedge: US Flies Bomber Group Over Middle East In Warning To Enemies |link|]

⭕ retweet:
🔻 Anna: My pro-Russian and Russian friends, I understand your skepticism towards America, given that this conflict stems from failed U.S. foreign policies. However, our soldiers are dying, our troops are suffering, and we desperately need this conflict to end. Peace talks are essential for that to happen. I remain hopeful for the best outcome… trust but verify!
🔻 Olga Bazova: There is a good reason for this scepticism. The US and European establishments have proven themselves to be completely agreement-incapable over decades of Rusophrenic policies.

The cold war, and NATO along with it, should have been put into the dustbins of history in 1991. Instead the US and their European puppets have gradually escalated it into a hot and bloody conflict that has affected the whole world today, and brought us ever closer to the precipice into abyss.

The deep rooted mistrust and even contempt exists not because we don’t want to trust, but because we have witnessed with our own eyes the nefarious intent to destroy our nation for centuries and experienced first hand what some of these monsters are capable of.

Although Trump has exhibited some good intentions in regards to finishing the Ukrainian conflict, his cabinet, with very few exceptions, is not to be trusted and some of his picks will quite possibly try to sabotage his future actions.

The fact that the dialogue is being re-established is a huge step forward, and after three years of conflict, the Russian people obviously want this conflict to end, but not in the way of another Minsk or some frozen conflict, but in total victory and complete defeat of those who Russia is really at war with, which is obviously not Ukraine.

Things could have been different, had the West not been so self-consumed in their delusional sense of superiority, but rather listened and understood Russia’s security concerns and national interests. They have been consistently the same for decades, but ignored and discarded by West due to hubris and petty self-entitlement.

Had they been taken into consideration, the European continent, and perhaps even beyond, would be flourishing today in prosperous, peaceful and mutually beneficial co-existence.

Therefore, I sure do hope for positive changes, new peace and an era of multipolar co-existence, but I remain totally pessimistic and completely distrustful of anything that comes from Western politicians, and here is one of thousands of reasons why [the older tweet from Lil Narco above]

We shall be entertained.. btw, Batman is an alterego of the Moshiach – another “Supermensch” like Superman. Many decodes over the years, I’ve shared some by Brother Casey on old Cafe.. satanic mockery of the bemused plebes

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇪🇺 The United States could withdraw all its troops from European countries that joined NATO after 1990, as part of talks between Washington and Moscow, according to the German newspaper Bild.
⭕️ 🇺🇸 US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is considering firing a number of generals and military officers this week.

Most of those expected to be fired are closely tied to Biden’s Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

The generals and officers are expected to be replaced by people close to Hegseth and Trump.
⭕️ 🇺🇸 The Trump administration is reportedly looking to cut the Pentagon’s budget by 8% per year.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered top officials at the Pentagon and across the U.S. military to develop plans to do so, according to the Washington Post.
⭕️ 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss:

Britain is a failed state, it needs a Trump revolution.
[Empty windsocks sure know the direction of the Wind! And you should see the response of her people to being called a failed state — and who helped make it that way]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇱🇧 🇵🇸 ☦️ A message by Archbishop Atallah Hannah, Archbishop of Sebastia, from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, on the funeral of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah:

‘Dear friends, in just a few days, Lebanon will witness a great and exceptional event: the funeral of His Eminence, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and the martyrs who stood with him.

We, from Jerusalem, stand in reverence and honor for the sacrifices made by Sayyed Hassan and his companions, those who stood with Palestine, defended it, and paid a heavy price for it. We are loyal to these sacrifices. All Palestinians are loyal to the sacrifices of Sayyed Hassan and his comrades.

While we send our condolences from the heart of our holy city, we want to express that we will never forget those who stood with Palestine and defended it during the most difficult times and under the harshest conditions. Today, the Palestinian cause is being conspired against. Our enemies seek to displace our people and erase our cause. But the Palestinians will never raise the flag of surrender. We hold firmly to our rights, our principles, and our constants. The word ‘surrender’ has no place in our Palestinian dictionary.

Dear friends, we are all one family, one nation, facing the colonial projects that do not only target Palestine but the entire nation. Our message has always been, and will continue to be, that Palestine is the compass. Whoever’s compass is Palestine is in the right place, and whoever’s compass points elsewhere is in the wrong place. We urge them to correct their course and set their compass in the right direction.

Our dear friends, our message today is that we, as a community, must remain united, Christians and Muslims, across all sects and denominations. They want us to be fragmented, divided. They want us to speak the language of sectarianism. They want us divided so they can implement their projects, following the well-known adage ‘divide and conquer.’ They want to divide us so they can push forward their colonial projects that target Palestine and the entire nation.

We will remain Christians and Muslims in this region, one nation, with our compass pointing to Jerusalem, and our cause being Palestine. We must not allow anyone, or any entity, to push projects aimed at further division and fragmentation. We are one family, and that is how we have been, and how we will always remain.’

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ ‼️🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦☠️In 2024 alone, the number of killed and wounded in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to 590 000 soldiers; since the beginning of the Special Military Operation this figure has exceeded 1 million.

The head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff, Sergei Rudskoy, told Krasnaya Zvezda about this.

Russian troops liberated almost 4.5 thousand square kilometers of territory from the enemy in 2024, and over 600 square kilometers in the first two months of this year, said Rudskoy, Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff.

According to him, about 75% of the territories of the DPR, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions have been cleared of Ukrainian nationalists, while in the LPR less than 1% remains to be liberated.
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇺🇦🇫🇷 Maria Zakharova:

“Macaron said: “France will take full responsibility for peace and security in Europe. I am the guarantor. We support Ukraine.”

I checked – it is not fake.

And what about the fact that a week ago Zelensky said: “I am the leader of any negotiations”? All these years he claimed that he was defending Europe. And no one in the EU corrected him, on the contrary, they gave money to ensure their own security.

Now think about who is more important: “guarantor Macron” or “leader of any negotiations Zelensky”.

The ghost of Napoleonism haunts Europe.”
[Stick a fork in Europe. They’re an annal of the other Orange clownshow]

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺Macron and Starmer, according to the British press, will travel to Washington to secure US support for sending a peacekeeping contingent to Ukraine.

It is planned that LESS than 30 thousand troops will be sent.

The military will be stationed in Ukrainian cities, ports and other infrastructure facilities far from the front line, the newspaper added.
⭕ 🇪🇺🇷🇺🇺🇦Tax collection began among the sick and the poor

European Council President Antonio Costa is polling EU countries to draw up a list of military aid the EU could provide to Ukraine as a security guarantee, the Financial Times reports.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇨🇳 🇷🇺 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi discussed relations with the US and the Ukrainian crisis on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Johannesburg, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported

Russia and China will work in a strategic alliance in the UN Security Council, BRICS, ASEAN and the G20, Lavrov said. |media|
⭕ 🇷🇺 📹 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is sitting between the Foreign Ministers of Turkey and South Korea at the G20 meeting, a Sputnik correspondent reported

The Russian minister shook hands with several colleagues, including the Foreign Minister of Norway. |media|
[LOL. And THIS is why Lil Narco skipped the G20, in addition to trying to belittle host South Africa: only so much crow can be eaten in a week. Note the immediate reorientation and submission of the Scandinavian nazi to the prevailing Wind..]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Al-Qassam Brigades have delivered the coffins of Israeli prisoners Shiri Bibas, Ariel Bibas, Kfir Bibas, and Oded Lifshitz, all killed by Israeli airstrikes, to the Red Cross

A Qassam fighter with an amputated leg attended the ceremony, holding a sign that reads ‘The Day After is a Flood.’

A separate banner reads ‘The Return of War = The Return of Your Prisoners in Coffins.’ |media|
[the Palestinian Resistance is no less inventive than Russkie one in digging in the Dagger. Every handover, even of zionazi bodies, is a seismic thrust. This is why Orange bellows and regrets he agreed to piecemeal exchanges, which prolong and attenuate the agony of their side. The process may soon expedite to all-for-all, just to end the ordeal..
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⭕ Al-Qassam Brigades’ military media has released official photos of the delivery of four Israeli prisoners’ bodies, marking the 7th batch in the first phase of the prisoner exchange deal.
⭕ Saraya Al-Quds has published photographs from today’s prisoner exchange, featuring one of their fighters making the famous hand gesture that symbolizes the martyred Hezbollah Secretary General, Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah’s words: ‘They will enter vertically and leave horizontally.’

💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ Today, the bodies of Israeli prisoners and two children who were killed in deliberate Israeli airstrikes targeting their places of security were handed over.

This scene sends a clear message to the occupation: if you wish to resume the war, know that we are ready for it, and we will bury you just as we did the first time. If you consider continuing your aggression, expect the return of your prisoners in coffins, just as you saw today.

The resistance remains strong in its power, steadfast in its field, unbreakable, and anyone who thinks they can end it is deeply deluded.

The resistance will endure as long as the occupation exists, and it will remain strong as long as injustice persists. It will neither yield nor relent.

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ ❗️How times have changed…
[Bunch of shameless degenerate grifting psychopaths. The new ruling Technocrats of Technofeudalism!!]
⭕ ❗️Zelensky just banned Donald Trump’s Truth social media network in Ukraine!
😂Shit is getting serious.
⭕ ‼️🇺🇳🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺For the first time since the start of the Special Military Operation, the United States did not co-author the anti-Russian draft resolution of the UN General Assembly on Ukraine (RIA Novosti has the document).

The current draft resolution, which was prepared for February 24, demands that Russia “immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all its armed forces from the territory of Ukraine.”

The authors include Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Poland and the Baltic countries. The USA is not included.
[LOL. “Bark, bark!” Oh, were Ivan “the Terrible” around … what days]

⭕ 🇮🇹🚢Oil Tanker attacked off the coast of Savona, Italy.

On Friday night, February 14, while debunking operations were underway, two explosions were heard. The inspection led to the discovery that a hole of just under a meter had opened up in the ship’s hull, or rather the immersed part. The twisted sheets of metal were facing inward: important detail, because the direction of the bend in the sheets of metal suggests that the cause of the tearing of the steel was external. The ship has a hole of over a meter. But the power of the tearing agent was mild, given that the sheets of metal in the safety chamber held, preventing the oil from spilling into the sea.

A preliminary investigation has ruled out an accident, and the case is now being treated as related to terrorism.

“We have a series of overall elements that rule out the accidental hypothesis,” says the chief prosecutor of Savona, Ubaldo Pelosi . Thus, since yesterday, the explosions on the Seajewel oil tanker flying the Maltese flag have been the responsibility of the District Anti-Terrorism Directorate: the investigation is for “shipwreck aggravated by terrorism”.

The ship, according to what was reconstructed in some journalistic investigations, is suspected of having transported Russian crude oil to Europe, despite the embargo. ” Everyone needs Russian oil, otherwise the refineries will stop – an “insider” told Avvenire – I wouldn’t be surprised if the final destination of the Seajewel was France, or perhaps even Genoa…”

In the latter case, the final recipient of the cargo could be a plant in Northern Italy. But these are elements that the prosecutors, who interviewed the crew, are ascertaining. The navigation data are also under scrutiny, to reconstruct the exact route of the tanker. But, above all, it will be a question of identifying the hand that placed the hypothetical device. It will not be easy, but the source of Avvenire ventures: “It could have been Ukrainian sabotage. But first we need to see where the crude oil comes from.”
⭕ ❗️🇷🇺🇺🇸US TREASURY SECRETARY STATES HE IS READY TO STRENGTHEN, WEAKEN OR CANCEL SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA
[Damn, the nazis are real eager to get on with the Murder-Suicide against Iran/China. Hope Russia drags this out like in Vietnam — make it a 2-3 year process. Tie their drawers in a Gordian Knot]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺US opposes use of ‘aggressor’ wording in relation to Russia in new G7 communique – FT, citing Western officials
[Can you hear Mel’s tune — “Springtime for Hitler”??]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺Europe’s weapons depots are depleted, Russia has numerical superiority over the Ukrainian Armed Forces, new supplies will not help Kiev, peace is needed – US Vice President Vance.
[Right on brother, err – Comrade Manchurian Candidate]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺Neither the West nor Ukraine had the slightest chance of winning the Ukrainian conflict – US Vice President J.D. Vance
[Slow down mate]

The hell that Orange opened for the combined West. When will deportation flights head in the opposite direction?? And this comes

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺The return of foreign companies and investors is possible only on terms favorable to Russia, deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told TASS.

He noted that many of the niches vacated by the departure of foreign companies have already been occupied by Russian manufacturers or partners from friendly countries.
⭕ 🇺🇦❌🇺🇸Ukrainian media write that the joint press conference of Zelensky and Kellogg has been cancelled.

It is reported that this was done at the request of the American side.

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ The Australian Navy is closely monitoring a Chinese naval group sailing 150 nautical miles east of Sydney, marking China’s southernmost advance along Australia’s east coast.

Two Australian warships are following the Chinese flotilla, which includes the frigate Hengyang, the cruiser Zunyi and a supply ship.

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ The countdown to the end of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s rule has begun.
⭕ The Israeli occupation air force targeted a group of military vehicles and tanks, in addition to ammunition depots located on the southern edge of the town of Sa’sa’ (20 km southwest of Damascus), which were remnants of weapons storage facilities.

The Israeli army spokesperson claimed responsibility for the attack, justifying it as part of Tel Aviv’s efforts to “eliminate any threat to the State of Israel.” Meanwhile, the new government in Damascus has maintained its longstanding policy of not commenting on Israeli aggression, a stance it has adhered to since taking power following the fall of the previous regime on December 8.
⭕ cont. thread:
Despite the ceasefire and the Lebanese government’s request to the UN, France and the US to intervene, Israel killed one civilian Southerner from Aita al-Shaab in a drone attack on its car, confirming that only the resistance can, in due course, impose a new ROE on Israel.
🔻 C1: How long until “in due course”?!?
🔻 EM: 18 months more or less.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ retweet:
🔻 — GEROMAN — time will tell – 👀 –:
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
Ukrainian Defense Forces called it years ago
⭕ ‼️ There is a major uproar throughout the empire and its vassal states because Trump said it was Ukraine that started the war against Russia.

Of course, Trump is only partly right. It was the US/UK et al. that planned and started the war, using Ukraine as their willing proxy.
🔻 ゆすふ: You think there really gonna be an agreement on the table with US-Russia?
🔻 WS: reposts his older:
“I am not at all persuaded these bilateral US/Russia negotiations will proceed as smoothly as many seem inclined to believe.

In fact, I think it likely these talks will result in the most dramatic and tension-packed escalation of the US/Russia standoff we have yet seen.”
🔻 SonoUTB: Yep, and until 2020 Trump himself gave a lot of weapons and first training to the ukrops.
🔻 WS: The preparation to use Ukraine as a proxy against Russia began no later than the Bush 43 admin. It accelerated during the Obama years, and then really got serious during Trump 45.

Trump is playing revisionist history now.
🔻 Spaceman 🇺🇲: Trump doesn’t want to link his legacy to the emergence of Russia as a Great Power.
🔻 WS: Too late for that.
[Indeed. The matter left to The Last American Prez of Babylon is the matter of choking on which jagged bone, in which sequence, and on who gets the first honor of shoving down the bone]
🔻 Brandon: They planned it for years. One of the reasons they went so hard after Trump was because in 2016 he interfered so badly in their carefully laid plans by beating Shitlery. That’s why they had to stymie his first term & rig the election in 2020 against him. They wanted their war.
🔻 WS: During the Trump 45 period, more heavy weapons were delivered, more AFU troops were NATO-trained, and more Donbass fortifications constructed than in any previous administration.

Revisionist history won’t work with me. I watched it all happen, and warned about as it did.
[LOL. Our Brandon is back for more]
🔻 Brandon: Trump lost control of his presidency on Feb 14, 2017, as I wrote about at the time in American Greatness. Trump was a hostage after Flynn’s firing. And you know that. That’s why this term is so different from the first.
[Good Lord, have Mercy. The condition appears terminal]
🔻 WS: 🔸 The Scent of Dangers

You touch upon a valid consideration.

Trump had less friend and foe discernment then and was more geopolitically misinformed than he is now.

He WAS crippled during much of his first term. But much of that was his own damn fault. He was in way over his head; “far beyond his ken”, as the old-timers used to say.

In 2017, Trump was utterly innocent of any meaningful current understanding of “the perplexities of the nations”.

Nor had it ever yet occurred to him that the US military was anything less than the overwhelmingly dominant power on the planet.

Eight years later, there are indications he has become more enlightened and wiser in some respects.

This time he garnered a big mandate, and is pushing executive diktat to unprecedented heights — as conflicting and incoherent as many of his prescriptions seem to be.

Even so, I think it would be extremely salutary for America if many of Trump’s policy aspirations really do come true.

But, beyond the euphoria of an executive order signing is the harsh reality of substantive policy change.

And beyond the apparent intention to capitulate to the Russians in eastern Europe will be the even harsher reality of the #EmpireAtAllCosts cult attempting to shape events such that war against Iran and China becomes unavoidable.

So … as much as I hope many aspects of the “Make America Great Again” agenda come to full fruition, I perceive many obstacles on the road between here and there.

One of the more intriguing propositions currently being floated is the push to audit US sovereign gold holdings.

The Treasury can monetize ~$750B right now if they do like the EU and mark to market their gold holdings — a move that would likely spike spot gold to well over $5k/toz.

At $10k/toz, the Treasury’s alleged hoard of 8000+ tonnes would represent a $2.5 trillion dollar asset that could be levered up, say, 4x or so — a quick $10T in the national checking account.

But it will require the first proper audit of US gold reserves in living memory.

Then they’d probably nationalize the mines in all 51 states. 😏

Anyway, I’m very interested to see whether or not Trump can bring to pass his domestic agenda, even as the push for a big war presses upon him.

Meanwhile, there can be no doubt many powerful interests, both within and without the United States, feel increasingly motivated to “nip this in the bud before it gets out of hand … whatever it takes.”

For me, the scent of multiple great dangers is heavy in the air.
🔻 C5: Great post. The discussion of gold especially raised the hair on my neck.

The great arms race, at least for the past 15 to 20 years, may have been gold centric. Our competitors have been in the race, while we sat idly by on the side lines.

Gold – the Tzar Bomba which could peacefully flatten fiat currencies around the world.
🔻 C6: It is rather amazing that he has been able to act with impunity. Presumably there are elements in the CIA etc that agree with him?
🔻 kamfongchun: 51 states indeed. lol . . . is the 51st state that landmass that resides up North ?
🔻 C8: So Presidential visits to Dallas are on hold for the moment?
🔻 C9: Well, I guess it is rather a philosophical matter but if Ukraine is a proxy, willing or not, this war belongs to d US alone. Given that it is not worth the trouble for d US anymore, even a Democrat would strive to end American involvement. All considered, Trump is outright lying
🔻 WS: “This war started long before Zelensky came on the scene. Zelensky was hired to play a part. That’s all.” |link|
⭕ Yeah, the Russians are getting a bit big for their britches here in 2025 — but this short clip does, in fact, make some valid points.

Even so, one should never underestimate the ruthless treachery of my Anglo-Saxon brethren. Keep your eyes open, Ivan, and subdue your pride.
[links:
🔻 DD Geopolitics:
🇷🇺 “I am the Russian invader. It is my occupation. It was shaped by the course of history…..

Understand this: I don’t need your HYPOCRITICAL ‘FREEDOM.’ I don’t need your ROTTEN DEMOCRACY. Everything that you call ‘WESTERN VALUES’ is ALIEN to me….

I politely warn you for the last time: DO NOT pick a fight.” |media| ]
🔻 C2: you can smell the empire cooking up some scheme with the peace overtures… I have to think that they are not fooling the Russians given what happened with the Minsk Accords…
🔻 C3: Brecht foretold…
🔻 OsageCatZ: Native American here. CelticFrench the other side.
Every single one of my family has gone v Anglos & won.
Cause I’m here. 550y of Euro hegemony genocide now coming to an end. LoC collapsing.
⭕ cont. thread:
🐶 USS Trembling Puppy Update

CVN-75 limped back to Souda Bay to have its wounds examined. A new photo of the damage has emerged (seen below).

I seriously doubt the US Navy is equipped to repair this major hull gash with the carrier in port in Greece.

They’ll head home soon
🔻 Lavr Dyogtev 🇳🇿 🇷🇺 ✝️: Luckily the vessel they collided with was truly an innocent cargo ship. Because it coupd have been a Trojan horse, loaded with explosives and martyrs. How did the US navy let tens of thousands of tons of potential bomb get that close to a carrier?
🔻 WS: My bet is on the theory the carrier ran into the bulker, not the other way around.

⭕🔻 Zlatti71: ❗Elon Musk recalled that Zelensky killed an American journalist in 2023.

55-year-old American journalist Gonzalo Lira, who is married to a Ukrainian, criticized the Kiev regime and talked about Nazis in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. For this, he was detained by the SBU and thrown into a basement in the Kharkiv region. He died there in 2023.

The Biden administration hushed up the incident.
– FRWL
🔻 Armchair Warlord: May Gonzalo Lira’s murderers face justice.
🔻 WS: I’ve never quite understood why the Ukrainians would have done this — unless of course they were commanded by their superiors to “make it so”.

Maybe the inimitable Institute for the Study of War could address the question in a future “expert analysis”. 🤔
[Indeed. That is precisely who i fingered too: Vicious Vicky, given his magnus opus (on her) and her kindred’s roots in Bessarabia and the northern coast of the Black Sea which happen to exactly overlap with ancient Khazarian lands as well. The primordial swamp bringing out its fruits today in the End Times]
🔻 kamfongchun: One of Gonzalos youtube podcasts featured a long scathing expose on Victoria Nudelman.
An amazing reportage on this vile & evil individual.
I’ll bet quite a few noses were put out of joint by this & those same ‘noses’ may have demanded the he be silenced.
[Thank you! Here it is |magnus opus| also posted on Saker when it came out.]
🔻 Mobile Infantry 🚜: Ukraine is a low budget gangster state that can make a sex tourist look good in comparison.
🔻 C5: Well, Mr Lira did mention Victoria nuland and the kagan crime family (ISW), so she (or her assistant(s)) may have made the call to “send him to the farm”.
⭕🔻 Chay Bowes: Dear US Taxpayers.

Ukrainians react to Trump’s demands to pay back the $350 Billion given to Crooked Dictator Zelensky.

“We don’t owe you a single cent, you Bastards” |media|
🔻 Armchair Warlord: It’s a simple choice. Pay us, or the Russians will make you pay for the last three years in ways that you clearly can’t comprehend at the moment.
[why should the latter? Are they bouncers of the Yanks?! Au contraire, the actions’ winding down in spent 404.. and you better be prayin’ in Yanquiland]
🔻 WS: It’s the replies to that post that are most revealing:

“We’ll just take it then.”

Not realizing there is nothing to take and no way to take it even if there were.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Olga Bazova:
If you’re not a completely brainwashed Rusophreniac, and if you really studied and listened to Putin in the past 20 years, all he ever wanted is a peaceful, mutually beneficial and prosperous relationship with the rest of the European continent.

But, driven by one US admin after another, the European puppets fell into a trap of illusory self-entitlement and hubris, ignoring and ridiculing the legitimate security and national concerns that Putin has outlined in his historic Munich speech in 2007. Nothing has changed since then – neither Putin’s rhetoric, nor Eurocrat’s approach to Russia.

In fact, pushed by the US, and led by the UK, the rotting Eurocrats have managed to escalate what once was called the Cold War into a full blown bloodbath in Ukraine. Driven by ideological insanity, they did it despite damaging their own economic and social status quo.

And now it has come the time to pay the price. There is a reason just two days ago Lavrov gave the most un-Lavrov speech that I have ever seen. The reckoning is coming, in fact it has already begun, and we are in the front row seat to witness the fall of the decomposing neo-liberal regime that has consumed the citizens of Europe and has caused needless suffering to millions of people with the so-called “European values”, when in reality it’s just a violent blood-sucking parasite-infested jungle masquerading as the “garden”.

These vampires at the wheels of European power deserve everything that’s coming for them.
⭕🔻 OSINTtechnical: The SS United States, the largest ocean liner to be entirely constructed in the US, fastest to cross the Atlantic Ocean, and formerly known as “America’s Flagship,” was hauled away from Philadelphia today to be sunk off the coast of Florida.
[ouch. More than symbolic. The satanic Zionazi freaks really enjoy these days]
🔻 WS: ⚓️ America’s Flagship

Reposted without further comment.
🔻 C2: My mother sailed on the July 1952 record breaking sailing across the Atlantic. Said it was a beautiful ship.
⭕‼️ It’s one thing to purge the trannies from the Pentagon, and take the CIA’s color revolution toys away … but now Trump is venturing onto truly sacred ground.
[links:
🔻 Lord Bebo: 🇺🇸 “We’re going to go to Fort Knox, the fabled Fort Knox, to make sure the gold is there.
…

If there gold isn’t there, we’re going to be very upset.” |media|

— Trump
🔻 Dr. Anton: The Fort Knox starter kit.
[just above brick and paint can]

💠 “Russian innovation to revolutionize oil industry“ — Crude processed underground can drastically boost production, according to researchers
Aha! This will really play havoc with Hubbert’s peak oil theory, and other scams of scarcity used to deindustrialize to depopulate via Dark Winters. And what may this do to Canada and tar sands???! Freedom anyone? Leave the Five Eyes and “Peace to Play?” Others can divide and rule too. What days

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ BREAKING: 3 explosions took place targeting 3 buses in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv.
⭕ All Israeli trains are halted, all bus drivers asked to stop driving throughout occupied Palestine, and comprehensive checks to be conducted.
⭕ Following the bus explosions, the IOF has instructed the army to ramp up its operations in the West Bank.

Looks like they wanted a reason, and they got one.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Russian forces have entered the Sumy region of Ukraine from Kursk, with the apparent goal of cutting the road that supplies Ukrainian forces occupying Sudzha

Initial reporting has the Russian army less than 5 km from cutting the road.
⭕ Three buses have exploded in Tel Aviv, with bombs being found inside them

On the improvised bombs, which had a 24 hour timer, a text was written: ‘Nasrallah, Hezbollah, Sinwar’.
[sounds like a FF.. and where’s the passport??]
⭕ All buses and trains have stopped operating throughout Israel

At least three more bombs have been found, raising the total to 6, including at a train station in Petah Tikvah, Tel Aviv.
⭕ Netanyahu is holding an emergency session with the War Cabinet
⭕ The initial assessment is that the bombs were set to 09:00 AM, but prematurely exploded at 21:00 (9 PM), 12 hours too soon.

My initial thoughts: a false flag event to justify the collapse of the ceasefire or an Israeli annexation of the West Bank.
⭕ ❗️ Walla News: ‘All the explosive devices were supposed to explode during tomorrow’s morning rush’
⭕ FALSE FLAG. Until someone claims it.

Neither Hamas nor Hezbollah has any interest in collapsing the ceasefire.

But you know who does? Netanyahu.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🤡Rabidly biting the hand that feeds you?

The leader of Ukraine’s extremist Azov* battalion tells Musk to “f*ck off”, apparently forgetting who’s been providing the Ukrainian army with Starlink.

As expected, the tweet soon vanished into thin air.
⭕ ⚔️US-Ukraine WAR OF WORDS: Who on Team Trump is lining up to eviscerate Zelensky?

US President Donald Trump giving a cold shoulder to Volodymyr Zelensky while kickstarting reengagement with Russia has been lavishly peppered with choice epithets. The POTUS’ allies also lost no time jumping onto the tirade bandwagon.

Trump

• labeled Zelensky a “dictator without elections (https://t.me/SputnikInt/77899)” and a “modestly successful comedian (https://t.me/SputnikInt/77898).”
• noted that he was “very low in Ukrainian polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden ‘like a fiddle’”
• warned him to “move fast or he is not going to have a country left”
• called him “the greatest salesman of any politician that’s ever lived” on the 2024 campaign trail

Vice President JD Vance
🟠voiced disapproval of Zelensky’s public “badmouthing (https://t.me/SputnikInt/77883)” of Trump, stating that this is “an atrocious way to deal with this administration”

Elon Musk
🟠Asserted that Zelensky “cannot claim to represent the will of the people of Ukraine unless he restores freedom of the press and stops canceling elections (https://t.me/SputnikInt/77866).”

US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
🟠called Zelensky “an actor in a green jumpsuit that extorts money (https://t.me/SputnikInt/77927) from everyone while he canceled elections and destroyed free speech in Ukraine and leads a war that has nearly wiped out an entire generation of Ukrainian men.”
[Yeah the shitshow with the actor in the smelly green tshirt is gonna be wound down, and by Easter as promised by another actor in orange hue]
⭕ Victory Day is 78 days away

Sputnik keeps tracking (https://t.me/sputnik_africa/35676) the history of the pivotal events of the World War II Eastern Front, known as the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

By this date, the invaluable valuables at the Kremlin Armory Chamber in Moscow had finally been recovered from evacuation, and over 200 towns had been freed by the Red Army.

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Three empty buses exploded south of Tel Aviv without casualties, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes, accuses the Palestinians in the West Bank. That is the free pass he wants to keep his government together and expel the Palestinians.

Will the Cokehead UkroNazi Regime exist in two weeks?!

Amazing developments.

Mercouris reported last night that, using as excuse the droning of the western-Kazakh pumping station near Rostov-on-Don, the US stopped all intel sharing which is absolutely essential for battlefield ISR targeting, and strikes into Russia.
Several UkroNazis and parliamentarians then admitted all supplies of arms and funding suddenly halted. In last day, Orange was bellowing like a mighty she-elephant overlate in delivering twins.

Borrel and Putin and many others said over the years that 404 COULD NOT SURVIVE TWO WEEKS WITHOUT CONTINUOUS USUK ARMING AND SUPPORT. This may become clear now..

The speed with which the abject nazis, and the loser Europeans, are being thrown under the bus is truly amazing to witness. So yeah, the whining of Finnish MEP for Foreign Affairs Mika Aaltola that “the US has given us three weeks to agree on the terms of Ukraine’s surrender,” does appear the truth.

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️The United States has stopped selling weapons to Ukraine, said the head of the Defense Committee of the Verkhovna Rada, Roman Kostenko.

“According to my information, the weapons that were going up for sale – deliveries have stopped. Those companies that were supposed to transfer these weapons are now waiting, because there is no decision,” the deputy said.

“And everyone is waiting to see if there will be a decision to at least supply weapons here for money,” Kostenko added.
⭕ 🇧🇪🇺🇦⚡️The transfer of the first of 30 Belgian F-16s to Kiev is postponed for at least a year – until the end of 2025 due to delays in the delivery of F-35 aircraft to Belgium from the United States.

This was announced by the Chief of the Belgian General Staff, Air Force General Frederic Vansina, in an interview with the Soir newspaper.
[Owned Chihuahua smells the Wind. There shall not be a 404 by end of 2025. That is for sure now]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️Trump’s inner circle believes that Zelensky should immediately leave Ukraine, writes the New York Post.

“The best option for Zelensky and the world would be his immediate departure to France ,” the publication quotes an unnamed source close to Trump as saying.
[Decades in days]

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕🇨🇳🇦🇺Destroyer flotilla consisting of three vessels (Zunyi 055, 054A, and 903A) sailed along the Australian coast to 100 nautical miles off Sydney. The Australians would like you to believe it’s unprovoked but that would be silly.

One week ago, a Royal Australian Airforce P8-A Poseidon aircraft flew into Chinese Airspace over the Xinsha (Parcel) Islands. A J-16 was quickly scrambled to intercept the intruder. It managed to close to 30 meters of the Spy plane and released flares. The Australian plane withdrew from the Airspace.
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦 Terrorists around the world are “fed” by supplies of Western weapons leaking from Ukraine, Lavrov said.
[Hammer the Points, our Uncle. Widen the scope for discussion, and reparations due. We’ll really see if nazis are serious soon enough. And they shall be milked more mercilessly than a desert bedouin]
⭕ 🇺🇸📄Republican congressmen have introduced a bill to withdraw the United States from the UN.

It proposes to stop funding the organization and its agencies, and ban participation in peacekeeping missions
⭕ 🇷🇺🚆Russia has launched a railway connection between Rostov-on-Don and Mariupol, the Mariupol City Council reports.

The train passes through Volnovakha and Donetsk. A line to Crimea is currently in the works.
[Pepe! Ye shall ride on a glorious train the next time on your pilgrimage to the rich black soil of Novorossiya!]

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺 Secretary of State Rubio allows for possibility of lifting EU, US sanctions against Russia

“The Europeans and the EU have their own set of sanctions on Russia. Even if we lifted all of our sanctions, which none of that was discussed [in Saudi Arabia], the Europeans would have to lift sanctions too in order for something to be possible. So, they’ll all have to be consulted at some point, just not at that stage yet,” Marco Rubio said in an interview with Catherine Herridge.

The US and Russian delegations in Saudi Arabia “didn’t engage in any specifics about territories” as “that wasn’t the purpose of that meeting,” the US secretary of state noted.

According to Rubio, the US and Russia can work on issues where they can potentially reach agreement or reduce the risks of possible escalation.

“We’re going to disagree on a lot, but we can work on the things we might potentially agree on, or de-conflict on things that could lead to dangerous confrontations, as long as this Ukraine impediment stands in the way,” he explained.

Russia remains a global power with influence in key regions of the world, the US official emphasized.
[The seduction is coming on Fast & Furious. They appear to have lost ALL sphincter control at this point. Without any shame whatsoever, like a 15yo wanting to get laid at any cost with anyone any which way but tonight]
⭕ 🇨🇳 China hopes for sustainable, long-term solution to Ukraine crisis, FM says

“China supports all efforts aimed at achieving peace, including the recent consensus reached by Russia and the United States, and hopes that all parties concerned can find a sustainable and long-term solution that takes into account mutual concerns,” Wang Yi said as quoted by the Chinese Foreign Ministry on its website.

He stated that China is prepared to continue playing a constructive role in resolving the crisis politically. This commitment will consider the needs of the involved parties and address the concerns of the international community, particularly those of the Global South.

🌍 Aside of that, the Chinese authorities support the independent development of African countries and consider external interference in their internal affairs unacceptable.

Wang also expressed confidence that African states “have the wisdom, ability, and right to independently resolve their own issues,” adding that the African Union’s goal of “silencing the guns” will undoubtedly be achieved.

🗣 Wang Yi noted that the international community “should listen to Africa’s voice, pay attention to its problems,” support African countries, and make efforts for the peaceful development of the region.
[The Celestial Court hath spoken Amarynth. Between the lines, we can take it as an oblique support of South Africa et al. ¡No pasaran!]
⭕️ 🇷🇺 Russia urges G20 countries to form united front against neo-Nazism

“In the year of the 80th anniversary of Victory in World War II, we call on our G20 partners to stand on the side of truth and justice, presenting a ‘united front’ in the fight against the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and racism,” Lavrov said at the G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting.

The text of the minister’s speech, posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry website, states that “radical nationalist, and sometimes openly neo-Nazi, movements are supported as another tool of confrontation with Russia.”
[This is code to join the anti-imperialist league against the satanic Legion, lest they become the next item on evil menus]
⭕️❗️Russian troops liberated the settlements of Nadezhdinka and Novosyolka in the DPR, the Defense Ministry reported

the demented zionazi head of the IAEA continues to make a fool of himself in both the Ukraine and Iran.. one-trick ponies. The Murder-Suicide for raising the Moshiach remains on schedule

“Horrific” and we’ll genocide you more unless provide the correct body! Retards. Who buys their faux outrage?? Perhaps it was an honest mistake as they lack any forensic capabilities in the abattoir known as Gaza?? Or the zionazis just lied to break the ceasefire.

We shall be entertained…….

The crazed Polish knights that used to charge tanks on horses in the last world wars may have good company these days!

Sad steps by India! They’re joining Europe in irrelevance if they maintain course. And they’ll not harm multipolarity in the long run, coming back chastened soon enough after further betrayals and unendurable humiliations. The eternal effectiveness of siren seduction on the Anglophile compradore elite!

💠 @BhadraPunchline:
⭕ Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s working visit to the White House in Washington on Feb. 13 sends a message that India is in a hurry to align with the United States, something it shrewdly avoided over the 75 years since liberation from British colonial rule. |link|
⭕ Shouldn’t India’s EAM stop pontificating on Ukraine war and simply shut up when it is abundantly clear by now that Modi government’s understanding of crisis & root causes is abysmally poor bordering on the absurd? Even Trump has begun to grasp the reality. |link|

💠 @imetatronink:
⭕ I note that the newly minted US Secretary of the Treasury has already poured cold water on the idea of a gold audit.

I’m not surprised. Like I said below, there are definite limits to the things they’ll permit Trump to do.
⭕ 📜 Some Sins Will Not Wash Away

“I disagree strongly with those who seek to exonerate the Trump 45 administration of culpability for the war in Ukraine.”
🔻 C1: Trump has expertly cast himself now as a peacemaker, after being indifferent to the Ukraine crisis during his 1st term, and sending arms to Ukraine. This is possible because the Biden Administration has been monstrously evil in war-mongering, pushing a million Ukrainians to death
🔻 WS: This is a valid argument.

That said, my point is a relatively narrow one: the trajectory of US/NATO preparation of Ukraine for war against Russia was upward and in crescendo all during the Trump 45 administration.
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: As I have pointed out, any negotiated resolution of the Ukrainian War requires accepting Russia’s minimum demands – because Ukraine, despite the near-total backing of NATO, has failed on the battlefield.

The difference between negotiation and surrender right now is about a year. |link|
🔻 WS: One might even say:

The difference between bad terms, worse terms, and effectively unconditional terms is about a year.
⭕🔻 Task & Purpose: The commander of the USS Harry S Truman was relieved of command a week after the Navy aircraft carrier collided with a merchant ship |link|
[If intentional, he should be medaled up the wazoo for helping avert Armageddon!] 
🔻 WS: I’ll bet he’s even more relieved he doesn’t have to face anymore Yemeni missile salvos. 😏  [LOL]
⭕🔻 The Spectator Index:
JUST IN: Elon Musk says he is considering a DOGE audit of the US Federal Reserve
🔻 S.L. Kanthan: The Federal Reserve Bank is the most corrupt organization in the US.

The Fed has been the root of all evil since 1913.

If Elon Musk (DOGE) can audit the Fed and reveal the inner workings, it will bring about the biggest positive changes for the US and the world.
🔻 WS: The prospects of putting a colony on Mars are better than successfully conducting an audit of the Federal Reserve.
⭕🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: They both know they’ve lost, and now they’re arguing about whether they get to dictate terms and what they should be. The other side – the victor – just sits back and lets it unfold. There’s a long way to go before the terms are finalised. The victor will determine them  |link|
🔻 WS: 📜 Dictating Terms

This came out two days ago

1. he’s thinking the bus bombings last night weren’t a FF! If true, zionazis are really in the wringer now
2. Trump’s fav zionazi fixer Witkoff took back the delusional “Gaza Riviera” gambit. It’s walked back by the orange nazis. Look for it somewhere on page 12 of some western rag..

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇨🇦 Trump will allow Canadians to keep their national anthem if they join the United States as the 51st state. |media|
[This is becoming frank sadism]

💠 “NATO poses threat to port infrastructure – Moscow“
Russkie shall be forced, one way or the other, to put neo-Carthage outta its satanic misery. Such degenerates never relent..

💠 “Pope Francis could resign – ex-Vatican official“
What times. “Francis” was prophesied to be the last of the Roman Catholic pontiffs, as Trump is of Babylonia, and Satanyahoo of Zion (prior to physical emergence Moshiach), and the dying Saudi monarch the last of his house. A perfect storm on all fronts

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ Iran mission to the UN’s brilliant response to the display of the shahed drone at CPAC.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇺🇸 🇺🇳 US Republicans introduce a bill to fully withdraw country from the UN

“Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) has introduced the Disengaging Entirely from the United Nations Debacle (DEFUND) Act, which calls for the United States’ complete withdrawal from the United Nations (UN). This legislation addresses grave issues of national sovereignty and fiscal accountability which have plagued US involvement in the UN,” the document read.

The bill calls for ceasing “all forms of US financial support to the UN, including assessed and voluntary contributions,” bans any US involvement in UN peacekeeping missions, as well as “prohibits the President from reentering the UN system without the advice and consent of the Senate.”
[I hope not trolling us! Almost too good to be true..]
⭕ ❗️ There is no need for Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky to attend peace talks to end the conflict with Russia, US President Donald Trump said

“So when Zelensky said, ‘Oh,’ he wasn’t invited to a meeting, I mean, it wasn’t a priority because he did such a bad job in negotiating so far. Number one, you shouldn’t have had a war, and if you did, it should have been solved and settled immediately. It could’ve been,” Trump said in an interview with Fox radio host Brian Kilmeade.

Trump also said that Zelensky has no advantage in negotiations with Moscow.

“I’ve been watching him negotiate with no cards, he has no cards,” Trump said.
[Donny Darko — it is YOU, owner of the debacle as well as of the actor with the smelly green tshirt, lack the cards..]

Lil Narco, after inadequacies in Riyadh (staring at stars), and wooden performances elsewhere, on way out? It’s of a piece anyway with Bling-Bling Agent Orange – to change accouterments annually, to keep all sides off balance

☝️ Rafah! Imagine the length of check-in counter lines at Zionazi Airports today

💠 @Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕️ While the Arab regimes remained silent, with their kings contenting themselves with unproductive condemnations, Yemen was tearing apart the heart of the Zionist regime with its missiles.
⚡️ @BABalMANDAB

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸 Trump appoints a new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
[The guy looks like Ripper! Could be his grandboy. And the biblical name.. goin’ out to slay the Abel Russkie?! What days]
⭕️ 🇷🇺💬🇺🇸At the current stage of the dialogue with the United States, the return of six objects of Russian diplomatic property is one of the priority issues for Moscow, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told RIA Novosti [includes the beautiful consulate in San Francisco, where lovely gals used to put flowers in their hair in the good old days]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇰🇬/🇹🇯 NEW: Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have settled their border dispute which dates back to the end of the Soviet Union

Clashes had previously broken out in 2021 and 2022 over the disputed areas.
[This was a serious festering wound. During the 2022 SCO Summit with both VVP and XJP flying into the Spirit of Samarkhand, the perfidious British arranged one of the skirmish, right nearby, and also close to Salafi-Center of Ferghana Valley, to try to disrupt the proceedings. But Victory in 404, and Defeat for the demented West, have had many healthy knock-ons and consequences in central asia and our suffering world]
⭕ UPDATE: The body of Shiri Bibas has been reportedly delivered to the Red Cross following further investigation.
⭕❗️UPDATE: Hebrew media reports that two Israelis have been arrested by the Shin Bet on suspicion of involvement in the bus bombings.
[So maybe it really WAS a Palestinian op, as per AB Atwan video, and zionazis scramble to hide through these patsy stiffs]
⭕❗️ The Tulkarem Battalion of the Al-Qassam Brigades has officially released a statement denying any involvement in the bus bombings that occurred yesterday in Israel, contrary to claims from various Telegram channels.
⭕ Israel is preparing to tax, confiscate, and auction properties owned by the Armenian Christian Patriarchate in East Jerusalem.
⭕ Fighters of the Al-Qassam Brigades have gathered in Rafah to prepare for the delivery of six Israeli prisoners, the eighth and possibly final batch in the first phase of the prisoner exchange and ceasefire deal

Approximately 600 Palestinian prisoners will be released in return.  |media|
[Viva La Resistance!]

💠 @Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Hamas is preparing to hand over six Israeli hostages, including Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, who have been held by Hamas since they entered the Gaza Strip alone in 2014 and 2015, respectively.

Israel, for its part, will release 600 Palestinian prisoners today in exchange for the exchange.   |media|

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ The US secretary of state is already worried for losing his job and getting replaced by someone else, just a month into the Trump administration.
[We shall be entertained by Agent Orange Chaos & minions]
⭕ The grandson of Nelson Mandela is among those who arrived in Beirut for the funeral of martyr Sayyed Nasrallah.

watching Europe is gonna be interesting again .. abuncha cats on a hot tin roof!

A disintegrating Empire ruled via “Truth”, Twitter and other social media. Unbelievable. This is beyond a Banana Republic.
Note! And he fired the top Navy brass.. the ones who refused to suicide themselves for Zion against Iran and Yemen??

This gesture of respect is another nail through the coffin and contrived image of the degenerate and satanic West. The Palestinians have chivalry and honor. How do the lucky survivors exit THEIR gulags??? Whether in CONUS, Zion, Iraq, Bagram AFB, Guantanamo, Polish black sites, etc etc etc?? When even a formerly-mindwashed zionazi POW cannot help express the gratitude!! Says it all

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 🤔 So the Russians demanded that NATO withdraw its military presence from eastern Europe — all the way back to its 1997 borders!

Who could have possibly imagined such a bold set of terms?

This is what happens in the real world when you win a big war. |link|
[nuthin’ new! Stated OPENLY in the Dec 2021 Ultimata. And those will be enforced, come Armageddon or Highwater.
NB. Was this the tableau that DOOMED Lil Narco?? The meek folded hands and panicked gazing up to the Stars in Prayer, to avoid looking at uber-cold Rooskies who observe with delight and with hands in pockets?? ‘Tis the Season to carve out nazi pounds of flesh..]
🔻 WS: I see many people still believe these terms are subject to compromise. I continue to believe — as I have for three years now — that these terms are effectively non-negotiable.
📜In for A Pound
🔻 The Nutter Projects: They are probably nice and didnt ask for 1989 borders
🔻 WS: Their demands conform 100% to the stipulations of the 1997 NATO/Russia Founding Act.
[it’s a start, like giving a pebble on top of the Hindu Kush mountains a kick downhill. Soon it will take everything in its path with it, including Anglo pretensions and claims and rights to any point on the continent…]
🔻 C2: Putin gave an ultimatum in December 2021, just before the SMO began. Review this speech to understand the terms and conditions of the Russians for ending this conflict.
🔻 WS: All the essential documentation can be found here:
🧵 Russia’s Peace Terms
🔻 C3: Even if additional forces are removed, article 5 implications based on increased risk-taking behavior by new members are problematic
🔻 WS: Article 5 is a myth.
🔻 C4: Yes. It’s means nothing.
As a Polish general said: you don’t really believe the USA would go to war with us against Russia bc. of an article? And if they wanted, they needed 300K troops in our country. Where are they?
🔻 C5: No one has agreed lol
🔻 WS: Either the US will remove the Aegis Ashore installations in Poland and Romania, or the Russians will do it. |link|
🔻 C6: When did 3 Chihuahuas join NATO? 😉

( I know, when)
🔻 WS: The US/NATO would not fight Russia to save the Baltic chihuahuas.
🔻 C7: Don’t tell it to them.
Those villages believe that they are the most important in the world.
Let them live in their dream world.
🔻 C8: It’s highly unlikely that NATO will be going backwards given that NATO are controlled by the PENTAGON. The PENTAGON is a threat to Russia and China. Nothing as changed except the tactics.
🔻 WS: Nonsense. The US could not win a war against any ONE of Russia, China, or even Iran. And anyone who believes otherwise is misinformed and/or hopelessly propagandized.
🔻 TexasPuma: Seems that Iran could just hypersonic Israel’s nuclear power plants and anything else it wants. Right?
🔻 WS: I do not believe Iran would strike Israel’s nuclear facilities … but they could, and they could also severely degrade Israel’s air bases and important economic sites. Israel is a small highly vulnerable target.
🔻 TexasPuma: If I were Iran, I’d say my targets are your power producing facilities. I have hypersonic missiles that you can’t defend against. If you attack, your country will be destroyed as well. Seems like that should be a good deterrent.
[Nope. Unfortunately Persians are too civilized. But the Yemenis know how to handle rank savages in the most instructive of ways]
🔻 C10: The US would, in my view, overwhelm Iran but at heavy cost in material and manpower
🔻 WS: First of all, Iran is not alone.
📜 All for One and One for All

Most importantly, the US absolutely could NOT mount and sustain an “overwhelming” military force in the Persian Gulf region. It is a logistical impossibility.
📜 Staggering Towards the Abyss
🔻 C11: Conventional war.
We have more and better nukes.
And our guy’s a sociopath.
🔻 WS: You are misinformed.
🔻 C12: Both “misinformed and propagandized.”
🔻 C13: This whole story is based on the “information” of Cristian Diaconescu, aide to the interim Romanian president.

2 hours after he made those claims, he backtracked saying he wasn’t referring to recent discussions but an old discussion from 2022. He’s a liar and a libtard
🔻 WS: No, the “whole story” is that the Russians made this demand in December 2021, and have repeated it incessantly ever since.
🔻 C13: They made that demand back then but didn’t make it during the Riyadh talks but the article you’ve shared says otherwise citing Diaconescu who’s an unreliable source and he also retracted his claim hours later

Peskov also denied Diaconescu’s claims |TASS|
[take Peskov with a bucket of salt on a good day. And why would Russkie try to humiliate the Yanqui whilst in full Retreat?? They’ll be left fig leaves… for now. But in 5 years or so..]
🔻 C14: What will Russia offer in return?
🔻 WS: Nothing.
📜 Dictating Terms
🔻 C14: Oh. I agree on the dictating terms bit.

But will it break from China and join the Western hemisphere again?
[LOL.]
🔻 WS: Russia and China (and Iran and North Korea) will remain devoted allies for many decades to come.
📜 All for One and One for All
🔻 Cith Lord: So you believe that NATO will just revoke the Paland , Romanian and Balltics membership?
🔻 WS: Reading comprehension is hard.

Read what Putin has clearly and repeatedly stated on the matter.
⭕ retweets:
🔻 The Greatest Primarch 🏴‍☠️:
Good article. Glad to see someone not giving Trump a pass for the role of the U.S. in Ukraine from 2017-2020.

I’d add that there’s no possibility of Trump being unaware of what was happening – he not only knew, he bragged about providing weapons that Obama didn’t. |media|
🔻 anxon: Bingo! Under Trump’s 2016 admin, US funded more weapons to Ukraine and pushed for greater NATO-Ukraine interoperability. Had the situation on battlefield been any different today, Trump would sing opposite tune and claim credit for backing NATO. Trump is an opportunistic neocon.
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ Misinformed American commentators continue to perpetuate the myth that non-Russian Ukraine has massive economically extractable deposits of this, that, and the other mineral resources.

It’s all fictitious nonsense.
[links:
🔻 Tyler Rogoway: U.S.-Ukrainian Mineral Deal Getting Close To Fruition

Ukraine Situation Report: If signed, the mineral deal could sooth growing tensions between Trump and Zelensky. |link| ]
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: Upon closer examination of what has been evolving into a “U.S.-Ukraine mineral deal” narrative, I can’t help but notice some theatrical elements.

If the U.S. were to “secure” a formal agreement for mineral mining in Ukraine (regardless of the value of the mineral deposits within Ukraine), it would grant the U.S. the right to deploy U.S. forces within the country, ostensibly to safeguard the mines that become the property of the U.S.

This move would ultimately serve as the catalyst for U.S. military entry into an unstable Ukraine. In a few years, Ukraine would potentially resemble the situation of West and East Germany, leading to significant destabilization for Russia, regardless of how much of eastern Ukraine becomes part of the Russian Federation.

Now, whether this is Trump’s strategic plan or not, the projected/estimated trajectory of events suggests that such an outcome is highly probable. Finally, considering the years and substantial resources invested in Project Ukraine and the deep-seated centuries-long (Western) aspirations to dismantle Russia, it seems highly likely that this scenario would unfold.

What are your thoughts, Will (@imetatronink)?
🔻 WS: I believe there is virtually zero possibility the US will put itself in a position where war against Russia could happen. As I have long argued, the US could not win and will not fight a war against Russia in eastern Europe.
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: I agree with your overall assignment, Will.

However, the U.S., U.K., and France were in West Germany after WWII and did not “fight a war” against the Soviet Union (USSR) that was in East Germany, while NATO managed to destabilize and eventually affect the dissolution of the USSR from such a position.

What prevents a similar scenario from developing over several years in Ukraine?
[Lack of means. And Russian public promises to blast to Bandera any NATO forces stupid enough to waltz in]
🔻 C3: It’s a ploy by the deep state to trick Trump into keep funding the war.
🔻 WS: Futile.
🔻 Fecund Stench: It was always about Monsanto and GMO wheat infecting Russia.
[kudos to this old guy for the creative handle]
🔻 C5: on the other hand, they’ve been so annoying this entire time that the thought of turning their country into a giant strip mine is oddly satisfying
🔻 Ikkyu Sojun: Absolutely, the hype around Ukraine’s supposed mineral bonanza is pure fiction—fueled by clueless American pundits who’ve swallowed their own propaganda whole. It’s laughable how they keep peddling this myth that non-Russian Ukraine is sitting on some world-changing stash of economically viable resources. The reality? Ukraine’s got coal and iron ore—big whoop, so does half the planet. The U.S. Geological Survey doesn’t even rank Ukraine on its lists for lithium or rare earth production or reserves. Titanium? Mostly oxide for pigments, not the high-value sponge for aerospace—that’s a factory game, not a mining one. And graphite? Sure, they’ve got some, but 20% of global reserves is a stretch when most of it’s unproven or stuck near war zones. Forbes Ukraine tossed out a wild $14.8 trillion valuation in 2023, but that’s speculative nonsense—experts like Tim Worstall have shredded it, pointing out extraction costs often outweigh the value. Meanwhile, 40% of Ukraine’s metallic resources are in Russian-held territory anyway, per We Build Ukraine’s 2024 estimates. This isn’t a treasure chest; it’s a fantasy cooked up to justify endless aid. Total BS, and the numbers prove it.
⭕🔥 This is but one majestic post in The Thang’s multipart rhetorical evisceration of a random faux-intellectual troll. I recommend the entire series, but this one is a fine specimen on its own.

Sony Thang is one of the finest writers and thinkers I have read over the past year.
links:
🔻 Chris Watson: In a discussion you can be against something specific. But “empire” here doesn’t seem to be specific, it seems to be a broad if not vague concept. It certainly isn’t a concept that would be broadly accepted. So it seems to be a dislike of a vague concept. Is it actionable?
🔻 Sony Thang:
Empire is only vague to those who refuse to see it.

It’s not some abstract theory, not some intangible force floating in history books.

It is the world order that shaped the past, dictates the present, and seeks to control the future.

You say you don’t acknowledge empire in the way I describe it.

That’s not a counterargument—that’s an admission.

An admission that you either don’t see it, or worse, you choose not to.

Because empire isn’t just flags on foreign soil.

It’s not just colonial governors handing out orders.

It’s more sophisticated now—financial, political, cultural, systemic.

The IMF, the World Bank—institutions designed not to lift nations up, but to keep them shackled in debt.

The endless wars, the regime changes—not for “freedom,” but for control.

The media monopolies, the narratives spun—not to inform, but to manufacture consent.

The world isn’t ruled by direct conquest anymore.

It’s ruled by economic dependency, by financial warfare, by institutions that claim neutrality but function as enforcers of a global hierarchy.

That’s empire.

You ask if it’s actionable?

Absolutely.

Empire survives because people pretend it’s not there.

It survives because those in power can always count on enough “intellectuals” to debate its existence rather than confront it.

Being against empire means exposing it.

It means recognizing that the system is not broken—it is functioning exactly as designed.

It means rejecting the illusion that “rational arguments” alone can dismantle power that was built by force and deception.

And most of all?

It means understanding that empire will not reform itself.

It will not step aside willingly.

It will only be broken when enough people stop “trying to understand it” and start tearing it down.

And that is the difference between us.

You intellectualize power.

I name it.

You analyze oppression.

I call it what it is—and say it has no right to exist.

And that is why your world is fading.

And mine is rising.
[“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” — Charles Baudelaire]
⭕Another in the series:
🔻 Chris Watson: Your description of empire is entirely idiosyncratic. For clarity’s sake could you please provide an comprehensive definition. I’m getting bits and pieces and trying to put it together and I may be mistaken as to how you are using the word.
🔻 Sony Thang:
You still think this is a debate.

That if I just give you the “right” definition, you’ll finally see the light.

That’s not how this works.

Empire isn’t something you need defined—it’s something you need to acknowledge.

But fine.

Let’s strip it down.

Empire is a system of global dominance that maintains Western economic, political, and military supremacy at the expense of the Global Majority.

It operates not just through direct rule, but through financial coercion, military intervention, media control, and institutional strangleholds.

It does not need to plant flags—it plants debt, dependency, and division.

It speaks the language of “development” while enforcing underdevelopment.

It preaches “democracy” while installing puppets.

It wages war in the name of “freedom” while looting nations in the name of “stability.”

It is the reason why Africa remains trapped in a cycle of debt imposed by institutions it never consented to.

It is the reason why Latin America’s wealth has flowed outwards for centuries while its people suffer.

It is the reason why the Middle East burns, why Asia had to claw its way out of imposed stagnation, why every time a nation seeks true sovereignty, it faces sanctions, coups, invasions.

It is the “rules-based order”—where the rules only apply to those outside the empire.

It is the invisible hand that writes history, shapes narratives, and convinces people like you that it doesn’t exist.

But here’s the thing.

Empire is no longer unquestioned.

No longer unchallenged.

And no longer unbreakable.

The Global South is rising.

Multipolarity is here.

And for the first time in centuries, the empire is afraid.

Because it knows what happens when those it oppressed finally stop playing by its rules.

It knows what happens when the world stops debating its existence—

And starts dismantling it.
[From “The Book of Tribulations and Portents of the Last Hour”
(20) Chapter: Ad-Dajjal
It was narrated that Hudhaifah said:
The Messenger of Allah said: ‘I know what the Dajjal (Anti-Christ/Moshiach) will have with him. He will have two flowing rivers, one that appears to the eye to be clear water, and one that appears to the eye to be flaming fire. If anyone sees that, let him go to the river which he thinks is fire and close his eyes, then lower his head and drink from it, for it is cool water. The Dajjal has one blind eye, with a layer of thick skin over it, and between his eyes is written “disbeliever,” which every believer will read, whether he is literate or illiterate.’]
⭕🔻 Thomas: Without U.S. military equipment shipments to Europe, due to a lack of further aid packages and “logistical issues” with fulfilling EU orders, Ukraine believes it can avoid collapse by using reconnaissance and FPV drones. I speculate that it will be far easier for the Russian military if the Ukrainians lack sufficient quantities of heavy weaponry. Perhaps they could employ a simple encirclement strategy. However, this area of expertise lies with @ArmchairW, who will probably write about it soon.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Tatarigami once wrote a tendentious thread about Russian “meat assaults” and then couldn’t provide a single example of Russian forces ever actually conducting one when challenged on the matter.

That’s about the value of this cope masquerading as analysis.
🔻 WS: He has long-since blocked me. But my favorite part of his post was “my readers know how accurate I have been” — coming from someone whose entire existence over the past three years has been a relentless litany of the perpetual delusions of #TheImaginaryWar.
⭕🔻 Shashank Joshi:
With proper allied backing, the US & Europe could ensure Ukraine has a long-term advantage in lethality. That would in turn ensure that the impact of Russia’s population advantage is not as severe as it need be. Ukr of course has to get mobilisation right- no question.
🔻 Американец 📉: Who started this “lethality” thing? The first person I remember measuring military capability by talking about “lethality” was Kamala saying she’d make our military “the most lethal” it had ever been. Now both Trump admin people and their opponents use it.
🔻 WS: This is yet another incoherent disciple of #TheImaginaryWar who blocked me long ago – undoubtedly because I mocked his presumptuous imbecility.

Life these days must be a sore trial for him and all his clan of clueless charlatans.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 C1: An important and unappreciated point. Out of all Russian leaders, Europe (and the USA) could not do business with Putin

It’s spells out what Europe and the USA were all about
🔻 Armchair Warlord: People don’t really appreciate the fact that at this point literally everyone in Russian politics who isn’t an employee of the CIA is more hawkish than Vladimir Putin.

We’re three years into World War Three with the serial numbers filed off and he still wants to negotiate.
🔻 Constantine: Yeah, people should check the Russian space for once. I’ve been looking following people on the front (Russians and foreigners). Pretty interesting information but what I deduced is Putins demands are the minimum. Many want more.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Putin is so well-liked and respected in Russia that he’s actually moderating a political consensus that wants to see Kiev burn.
🔻 C4: Navalny was more hawkish on Ukraine than Putin. At least at first.
🔻 C5: The sheer will he has to exert to reign in everyone in Stavka who just want to make a desert and call it peace…
🔻 Caoimhin O hArgain: Stop with rhe warmongering

Russia has no intention of invading Europe

It’s going to put manners in nato though
🔻 Cavalier Thoughts: The first thing to understand about Putin is that he was always a man of German (for Russians, the “typical” European) character and sensibility, enamoured with a whole complex of fetishized Western free-market “civilizational” markers, from pop music (ABBA) to business organizational management. (Aside from a certain calculated machismo and an impish sense of humour, Putin’s political speechifying is to this day characterized by wearying compendia of statistics and clichés hardly distinguishable from the mutterings of a Brussels Eurocrat!)

Indeed, Putin’s own experience taught him that Russia was never more internationally consequential, more relevant to the diplomatic and military calculations of a multipolar world, than when working in concert with the remaining powers of Europe; one simply has to recall his bonhomie with Chirac and Schroeder, a trio which threatened to derail the Anglo-American attack on Iraq – before a “New Europe” was hastily conjured to neutralize the diplomacy of the Old – to realize who stood to benefit, and to lose, from a “concert of Europe” inclusive of Russia.

Why Putin would rationally choose, without any external pressure or provocation, to alienate these potent allies, only to prey upon the far less consequential actor that is Ukraine, has always cried out for an explanation; the lack of explanation has always been damning to the popular bien pensant narrative of Russian perfidy.
⭕🔻 Brian Berletic: Those accusing me of suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” need to rationalize why what I’m saying has to be somehow wrong and rooted in some sort of irrational hatred of Trump rather than fact.

Fact is I have covered continuity of US foreign policy from Bush to Obama to Trump to Biden.

This was my warning 4 years ago to enthusiastic Biden supporters that war and confrontation around the globe would continue…

It was NOT a lucky assumption, but based on large amounts of evidence regarding US policy and the unelected interests driving it.
🔻 WS: Looks like you and I are the “voices in the wilderness” on this topic. I knew my view would be exceedingly unpopular — and quite possibly slow to materialize to an indisputable degree. But in time our contrarianism will be vindicated. |link|

sorry couldn’t resist. Steve! I think Aussies are so dandy and jolly because they got all the sun in the world and are free of that Sunless Isle with endless fog!

what a people. They will live to see the Last Satanic Empire buried in shame in the Holy Land. And note the youngest at the very end – she utters verses in the Qur’an promised to the Jews: they will be smashed and thrown out of the Holy Land as happened at hands of the Babylonians and then the Romans, if they return to the oppression and insolence of such eras, when they rewrote the holy scriptures and killed the prophets and innocents..

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️The Russian Defense Ministry reported the liberation of the settlement of Novolyubovka in the LPR
⭕ 🇷🇺 Russia’s Iskander-M missiles hit over 1,400 targets during Ukraine conflict

The Iskander-M systems are compatible with a variety of munitions including high-explosive incendiary, concrete-piercing, cluster, incendiary and nuclear explosive charges, the Russian defense ministry said.

Depending on the task, Iskander-M crews use either ballistic or cruise missiles, targeting locations where Ukrainian troops are concentrating their assets, the ministry said.

“They [Iskander-M missiles] cannot be destroyed by air defense systems because of their hypersonic speed,” the statement read.

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺Trump said that a new round of US-Russia talks will take place on February 25 in Riyadh
⭕ 🇲🇩 Supporters of the Socialist Party of Moldova gathered outside the presidential building, demanding the resignation of the current government

💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ An American publication warns Trump against suicidal intervention in Yemen.

The American magazine “National Interest” has cautioned Donald Trump against any military intervention in Yemen, asserting that it would be an expensive venture.

This warning comes amid proposals from American military and political advisors to invade the coastal province of Hodeidah alongside factions loyal to the Saudi-UAE coalition to impose a siege on its vital port.

In a report prepared as a message to Trump, the magazine stated that the Middle East is akin to a geopolitical quagmire, highlighting that previous American military interventions have squandered trillions of dollars and cost thousands of lives without achieving their objectives.

It emphasized that the notion of occupying the Hodeidah port to counter the Houthis is nothing more than a strategic illusion that could put American troops at risk of death or capture. The magazine stressed that any direct American intervention in Yemen, particularly for retaliatory reasons linked to Sana’a’s support for Gaza and military operations in support of the Palestinian cause, would be a costly trap that historical lessons strongly advise against.

The magazine pointed out that Sana’a has become a model of “rigid resistance” that foils external plans, noting that all previous military campaigns have failed to achieve their goals, from the war in 2015 to the present day.

In Odeisseh, along the Palestine border. Zionists failed to capture the town after 2 months of heavy fighting with Hezbollah. But, during the ceasefire, amid Western media silence and UN indifference, regime forces entered town after town, destroying everything in their path. pic.twitter.com/tg1FWg8PpA

— Seyed Mohammad Marandi (@s_m_marandi) February 22, 2025

💠@Amore:
⭕ Beirut.

Preparations for the funeral of Sayyed Nasrallah.

With my drop dead cool Yemeni bro Ahmed Hassan.
[I’ve featured Ahmed now and then 👇🏽]

💠Ahmed Hassan 🇾🇪 أحمد حسن زيد:
⭕ From the borders of Palestine and Lebanon
🔻 Mohamad Al Shami محمد الشامي 🇾🇪🇵🇸: Yemenis at the Lebanese-Palestinian border—Zionists looking at this photo: sweating, shaking, dialing Washington. Sleep tight, occupiers. 😂🇾🇪✊🇱🇧🇵🇸
⭕ I never thought that my first meeting with The bravest American man @jacksonhinklle would be in Beirut , Lebanon |media|

💠@Leila Hatoum:
⭕ When you stand by what is right, it does not matter what the world thinks

THANK YOU @RealPepeEscobar & @Ahmed_hassan_za for supporting our people at such dark times, and not backing off

as for @ME_Observer_ you are AMAZING. Thanks for all that you do despite all the challenges
[and we featured the lovely lady Leila several times – including post for main site on the polio bioweapon gambit. Gaza survives it all!!!]

Today we see why Hezbollah kept its powder dry through over a thousand ceasefire violations, etc. A massive show of public support is shattering Anglo-Zionist-Salafi pretensions in Lebanon. So they may bring the abject compradore elite to heel without much fuss after this. The Lebanese “authorities” were even forced to let in an Iranian plane carrying the Iranian parliament speaker, Foreign Minister, MPs, and accompanying leaders of the Iraqi Resistance. The murder of Nasrallah was as big a mistake as that of Soleimani.. but the dregs of the Anglo-Zionists lack any wisdom

💠 @PressTV:
⭕ Aerial image shows mourners in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley heading to Beirut en masse to participate in the funeral ceremony of martyred Hezbollah leaders Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine.

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼Trump has released previously suspended foreign military aid to Taiwan, including $870 million for arms deliveries. |media|

💠 @War Monitor:
⭕ ⚡️Heavy engineering equipment arriving from Egypt entered the northern Gaza Strip this morning. |media|

💠 @Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Images from the funeral of Hezbollah’s historic leader Nasrallah in Beirut |media|
[pl keep scrolling down]
⭕ The funerals of Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine are expected to take place in the presence of the Iranian parliament speaker and a delegation from the Iraqi PMF, as a sign of the Axis of Resistance’s support for Hezbollah.

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Today, Beirut hosts dignitaries from 70 countries at the national stadium to honour the revered resistance leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. Hundreds of thousands are expected to gather to bid their final farewell to what is widely considered the most charismatic Lebanese leader of the past 35 years. In a deeply symbolic gesture, a small bottle containing sacred earth from Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa has been sent to accompany Nasrallah into eternal rest—a testament to his ultimate sacrifice for Palestine
⭕ History will forever chronicle the choices made in the ME — distinguishing between those who abandoned Palestine, contributed nothing, or even conspired against its future, and those who stood by its side, sacrificing their lives and all they had to advance its cause. The memory of those who opposed the brutal murder of children, women, and the elderly—and who shared in the collective suffering—will be etched in history for all time.
⭕ The society that supports Hezbollah is making a powerful statement: we stand firmly behind your decisions, no matter how difficult they may be.

Iran’s commitment to this society is unwavering—it will never abandon them, no matter the obstacles and challenges. |media|
⭕ Such a gathering—a resolute display of strength and defiance against Israel in the aftermath of war’s devastation—is a rare sight.

Sayyed Nasrallah not only united the people in his lifetime but continues to inspire the same unwavering unity even after his passing. |media|
⭕ It is almost fitting to see Israeli drones hovering over Beirut, blatantly violating its sovereignty—because they serve as silent witnesses to a powerful truth. Benjamin Netanyahu and his army must now realize that the hundreds of thousands gathered today for the funeral of the leader he assassinated are not defeated. Instead, they stand stronger.
⭕ Today is far from being described as a local funeral of one leader but nations wide powerful display of solidarity and strength.
⭕ The final moment of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah among the masses who gathered to honour his 35 years of unwavering resistance and sacrifice—dedicated to the cause of Palestine. |media|

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ 🇱🇧 First footage from the air of the Grand funeral of Sayyed Hassan.

It’ll officially start in about one hour.

Footage from the large gathering of crowds at Beirut’s Sports City Stadium attending the funeral.|media|
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⭕ In an attempt to cause panic, Israeli fighter jets flew at very low altitude above the stadium in Beirut – in response, massive chants of ‘Death to Israel’ by the public
⭕ The streets in the Lebanese capital, Beirut – an absolutely massive presence for the funeral
⭕ 🇱🇧 Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem: ‘Die and seethe! The resistance remains and continues.’

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇱🇧🇮🇷| A large delegation from Iran arrived at Beirut airport, defying the blockade set for Iranian planes to land in Beirut, to attend martyr Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral.

Families of martyrs Raisi, Amir Abdollahian, and Qassem Soleimani, along with the Iranian President’s advisor Mohsen Rezaee, Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf, FM Araghchi and judicial figures, are among the delegation, including approximately 40 deputies.
⭕ 🇱🇧🇮🇷| Imam Khamenei also sent a delegation of 4 of its high-profile representatives to read a letter on his behalf at the funeral.

He did not attend in person due to security complexes.
⭕ 🇮🇷🇱🇧| Part of Iran’s strong delegation at the funeral in Beirut:

• Gen. Ali Fadavi, IRGC Deputy Commander-in-Chief
• Gen. Iraj Masjedi, IRGCQF Deputy Coordinator
• Kazem Gharibabadi, Deputy Legal & International Affairs Minister

And some other judicial & authoritive figures |media|
[scroll up and down for much more media. IRGCQF = Quds Force of the IRGC, which used to be Soleimani’s department]

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕🇷🇺💬Western companies are exploring the prospects of returning to the Russian Federation in the information field but the priority is Russian business, which has made large investments – Minister of Economic Development Reshetnikov
⭕ 🇷🇺💬The condition for the return of foreign brands to the Russian market could be the placement of their stores, including in the territory of Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya, First Deputy Prime Minister Manturov told VGTRK journalist Pavel Zarubin.
⭕ 🇷🇺Russian airlines will primarily purchase domestic aircraft even if foreign ones return, First Deputy Prime Minister Manturov told VGTRK journalist Pavel Zarubin.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the liberation of the settlements of Ulakly and Novoandreyevka in the DPR

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-nuclear-weapons-nato-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-friedrich-merz/

☝️ Rummy’s Olde Europe has not deviated a millimeter from the trajectory of collective suicide. Agent Merz is now “in charge.”

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ (Feb 10:) 🇩🇪 German Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz has spoken out in favor of supplying Ukraine with long-range Taurus cruise missiles, believing that they should be agreed upon in the EU.
⭕ (29.12.2024:) 🇩🇪🇺🇦 German Chancellor candidate Merz called for peace to be established in Ukraine more quickly and stated that the deployment of European peacekeepers must be coordinated with Russia.

• Sending in foreign troops after the war is over requires an “uncontroversial mandate under international law” “in consensus with Russia, not in conflict,” he said.
• Merz also called for peace in Ukraine to be achieved as soon as possible, but added that “it should not be an imposed peace. It should be peace with Ukraine, not against Ukraine.”
• At the same time, he criticized Chancellor Scholz for refusing to provide Kiev with long-range missiles. Merz called the Taurus one of the “bricks to rebuild peace in Ukraine.”
• Earlier, Merz spoke out against Ukraine’s accession to NATO while the war is ongoing.

⭕ Russia will stop hostilities only after settlement talks produce a “clear, firm result” that satisfies Moscow, Lavrov said.

The option of “immediate pacification”, stopping military actions along the line of contact and thinking through further steps will not suit Russia, he emphasized.
[He said this in Ankara, next to the Turk FM pleading on behalf of NATO to stop fighting NOW. If the Europeans had sense, they’d ditch the USUK overlord right now and cut a separate deal. Clearly USUK intends no settlement or serious negotiation, opting to let total battlefield defeat become a fait accompli, working feverishly to deflect their epic failure and to pin the blame on the UkroNazis and EuroCrazies]
⭕ We do not see any prerequisites for resuming dialogue with Europe – Peskov

“Europe continues to follow the path of sanctions dive and conviction of continuing the war. This conviction of the Europeans is in complete contrast to the mood to find ways to resolve the Ukrainian conflict”
⭕ Sergey Lavrov on the position of NarcoFuhrer Zitler:

“Zelensky changes his position much more often than green T-shirts.”

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ ❗️EU supports Zelensky’s refusal to hold elections — head of European diplomacy Kallas

The spirit of European democracy has taken hold.
⭕ ❗️ EU approves 16th package of sanctions against Russia :

• Ban on 13 banks access to SWIFT
• Sanctions against 48 individuals and 35 legal entities
• Sanctions against 74 sea vessels allegedly part of Russia’s shadow fleet
• Broadcast ban in Europe for 8 Russian media outlets
• The EU also blacklisted 53 companies, including those from India, Kazakhstan, China, the UAE, Singapore, Turkey and Uzbekistan.

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ The imperial narrative that Hezbollah is responsible for the killing of innocent civilians in Syria is doing its rounds again, with yesterday’s funeral of Sayyed Hassan.

This narrative is baseless and spread by the same bloodthirsty killers of Yahya Sinwar and innocent Palestinians. It’s a narrative that plays as part of the western hybrid warfare campaign against anyone who stands firm against Israel & western interests.

I highly recommend my academic paper of 22-pages on Hybrid Warfare where I also did a case study on Syria, I’ve gotten many positive feedback from people telling me it was an eye-opener for them.

☑️ Read it here: |link|

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇬🇷 Trump closes the US military base in Alexandroupoli in Greece, Turkey has made several requests to the United States for its closure.

Alexandroupoli also served as a port for the delivery of military equipment to Ukraine and the Balkan countries.
[an important metric of Retreat]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 📌 Major world events by the morning of February 24

• The conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) bloc won the early parliamentary election in Germany; It is followed by Alternative for Germany in second place, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party in third;
• There was no understanding of what US President Donald Trump’s “peace plan” for Ukraine is after the Russian-American meeting in Riyadh, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov tells Sputnik;
• The UN Security Council will vote on the neutral draft resolution on Ukraine proposed by the US;
• The US government initiated layoffs of over 1,600 USAID employees, though the agency’s website states that personnel handling “critical functions” and key management roles will remain;
• The US is reviewing its position on Russia and Ukraine, said Trump’s National Security Advisor Michael Waltz;

⭕ ❗️Russian forces liberated the settlement of Topoli in the Kharkov region, the Russian Defense Ministry reports

Ukrainian troops suffered losses of up to 925 servicemen over the past day, two JDAM guided air bombs were shot down, the ministry added.

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Disregarding official recognition and focusing purely on the percentage of the national population in attendance, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral (25.9%) appears to have the highest recorded percentage in history.

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (2025) – 25.9% of Lebanon’s population (1.4 million out of 5.4 million).
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1989) – 16.67% of Iran’s population (10 million out of ~60 million).
C.N. Annadurai (1969) – Estimated 10-12% of Tamil Nadu’s population (~15 million attendees, but Tamil Nadu’s population was around 100-120 million at the time).

Since funerals with more significant numbers were held in far more populous countries, the national population’s attendance percentage was lower than that of Nasrallah’s funeral in Lebanon.

Thus, based on available data, Nasrallah’s funeral had the highest percentage of national population attendance in recorded history.
[an outpouring of love and celebration of Resistance.. amazing. Little Gaza and Little Lebanon, constituent parts of Greater Syria and the Holy Land — the traditional burial grounds of countless former empires and hegemons, once more on duty]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 📷 Toadstool Hoodoos

The wife and I took our two grandsons (13 and 8, whom we are raising) on another weekend road trip to Kanab, Utah (one of our favorite destinations). We did a short hike to the “Toadstool Hoodoos”. Such a beautiful day. |media| |more|
🔻 C1: Are they naturally weathered like that, a tighter crystalline structure layered on a softer, or are they man made ?
🔻 WS: Completely natural. There are cool hoodoos throughout southern Utah. I’ll try to remember to take more photos in Zion National Park tomorrow on our way home.
🔻 C2: I was only able to hike the Kolob Canyons part of Zion when I visited. Will be interested to hear your impressions and see your photos of wherever you explore.
🔻 WS: From my house, I can drive to the incomparable Kolob Canyons in less than a half-hour. Put this in the Twitter search bar:

Kolob from:imetatronink
🔻 C2: Outstanding collection of photos of the canyon and peaks, many of which I recall in my mind’s eye. Especially the snow dusted one from 2010.
🔻 WS: The photos never adequately convey the height and expanse of those canyons. You have to be there. But if you go on Google Earth and watch the altimeter value when you move the pointer, you can see it is about a kilometer from the top of the cliffs to the creek bed below.
🔻 C1: Thanks for the reply. Nature is marvellous.
🔻 WS: |media|
🔻 C3: US west has so much amazing geography….
🔻 WS: Today we walked on several patches of fossilized seabed — at ~6000 ft. altitude. Much of the Colorado Plateau was once the floor of an inland ocean.
🔻 C4: Lovely, clear blue sky
🔻 WS: As stunningly blue today as it ever gets.

I also took a few dozen shots with my Canon 5D and my best lens. I will post some of those early next week after we get back home.
🔻 WS: I think some people don’t appreciate the actual size of these “hoodoos”, and the white sandstone cliffs behind them. To gain perspective, note the two people walking in the background on the right side of the first two photos posted below.
⭕🔻 Sana Saeed:
This past week has felt like the first three months of the genocide – the same intensity and ferocity of genocide propaganda & manufacturing, of anti-Palestinian hatred.
🔻 Sunil Joshi: They are trying to exploit the deaths of that family to rebuild consent for the genocide domestically and internationally. It had started to wane a bit due to natural fatigue and also horror at what was being done. It is very, very scary.
🔻 Sana Saeed: And so transparent. So, so transparent. It’s horrifying.
🔻 Caitlin Johnstone: This is true. I don’t know if it’s as obvious to smaller accounts who don’t get as many hasbarists flooding their mentions, but right now the shrillness and intensity of the consent-manufacturing machine is at levels I haven’t felt since the beginning of the Gaza holocaust.
🔻 WS: I’m sure you get targeted more than most because, quite simply Caity, your writing on the topic is nonpareil. It almost seems as though you were born to document this period of time.
🔻 Arabianbucketnews: That is true, her writing on the Palestinian young man with Down syndrome who was attacked by an I-sraeli dog was unparalleled. Responded to the dog attacking him by speaking to the dog in the manner he was spoken to his entire life, love and compassion. “Enough habibi”
[habibi = arabic word for “my love”]

⭕Gonzalo and I exchanged lots of DMs back in 2022. He invited me multiple times to be interviewed on his podcast, but I politely declined because I didn’t want to paint a target on my back. But Gonzalo was fearless in that respect. He deserves justice.
[I recall Gonzalo commenting on the Saker, and then his father, which Amarynth had to defend from a troll..]
⭕ cont. thread:
🤔 So the Russians demanded that NATO withdraw its military presence from eastern Europe — all the way back to its 1997 borders!

Who could have possibly imagined such a bold set of terms?

This is what happens in the real world when you win a big war.
🔻 Manny Menéndez: This is nothing new. This demand was floated years before 2022. Everyone (even Putin) understands this is not going to happen but it costs nothing to ask. Once in NATO, you’re in. Ukraine, Georgia, etc. on the other hand, not in. What is surprising is that Russia allowed NATO to get as far east as it did. They got lucky. If you like “Bazaar Style” negotiation tactics fine, but high stake professional negotiators don’t waste their time doing this. At the top, all sides know the CenterPoint and Bazzar posturing for “public brownie points” is considered an amateur move. In my estimation, everyone serious knows what the Ukrainian peace deal will look like. Only kinetic power on the battlefield can change this. 300k European boots at the line of contact plus the EUs combined airforce gaining air dominance over Ukraine will change the centerpoint now. And since that is just pie in the sky, good luck.
🔻 WS: As I have written repeatedly for the past several years, American hegemony will crumble as a result of this war, and neither NATO nor the EU will survive this war as credible political/military/economic/monetary alliances.
🔻 Manny Menéndez: Sadly, the odds are currently in your favor. There will come a time not too long from now when we will look back a wish this wasn’t so. Maybe I’ve read too much Russian history, but I’ve long believed Putin is a pussy compared to those who are waiting in the shadows.
🔻 WS: Either the US will remove the Aegis Ashore installations in Poland and Romania, or the Russians will do it.
🔻 Hye-jin Song: Now you’ve moved into fantasy land. Just as I believe it’s insane for NATO to attack Russia directly, it’s even more insane for Russia to attack the US directly.
🔻 WS: The US, UK, and France have already attacked Russia multiple times. Russia is entirely justified to return the favor and eliminate the missile threat against them. If the US does not remove these missile systems, the Russians WILL do so.
🔻 Hye-jin Song: I mean, Aegis is literally a missile defense system. So go for it if you want, but it would still be absolutely insane to directly attack the US when Trump is trying to negotiate peace. Seems counterproductive. Trump would send the army to die in trenches. The US Airforce would have complete air supremacy. Look at the Israeli strikes against Iran for a taste.
🔻 WS: You are woefully misinformed, and thoroughly propagandized.

Simply put, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

The Aegis Ashore system can launch all the missiles that can be launched from a US Navy ship.

The US could not prosecute an air campaign against Russia. They would be utterly savaged by Russian air defenses – and the Pentagon KNOWS this to be true.
📜 Staggering Towards the Abyss
🔻 Hye-jin Song: Care to address my points rather than simply toss insults out? All the analysis I’ve seen indicates that Russia has greatly improved its artillery speed and accuracy, as well as production, but the S400 was useless against Israeli F-35s and Russia has what, 3 SU-57s tops?
[A youngish gal on her thumb photo.. at times, ignorance is truly bliss. Imagine how many less gray hairs, and worries, we’d have with this young gal’s trust in Big Media, knowledge-base and gusto for life!]
🔻 WS: You, along with many others, have been deceived by the mythology of #TheImaginaryWar.

You are ignorant of the facts.
📜 Betting the Farm on the Imaginary War

“In the end – and it will come sooner than later – the only thing that will not be soon forgotten is how briefly the American unipolar moment endured, and how shockingly and suddenly it all came crashing down.”
🔻 Sense Checker: Will,

Don’t let this interrupt Kanab! But if you’ve pondered on it: does Lavrov’s Tehran visit next week strike you as newly formed partners politely keeping each other in the loop, or do you see scope Russia was asked to pull Iran into a wider stability construct posed by US?
[on the thumb on this fella, he looks as old as Time]
🔻 WS: I remain thoroughly convinced the Russia / China / Iran / North Korea alliance is set in stone for many years to come.

I’m also convinced the Russians will do whatever it takes for as long as it takes to achieve ALL the objectives of the SMO. Their long-stated terms will be met.
🔻 Sense Checker: Thought you’d say that. Suppose the cost of being naive is too heavy for anyone to assume that this is anything other than an attempt at a temporary – albeit potentially broad – rapprochement, in order to draw a breath.

🔻 WS: I think the Russians are willing to talk with the US in order to clearly reiterate and emphasize their terms, and give Trump an opportunity to concede to them.

My analysis of the Tucker Carlson / Vladimir Putin interview expands fully on this argument. |link|
🔻 C4: Poland joined NATO in 1999. Today Trump “reassured” Poland he wouldn’t remove US 🇺🇸 soldiers.

Putin says roll back NATO to 1997 borders (when Poland wasn’t a member).

I want to see them thread this needle.
🔻 WS: The US was a signatory to the 1997 NATO/Russia Founding Act. Russia’s demand that NATO military forces be withdrawn to their 1997 borders strictly conforms to the 1997 agreement.
🔻 C5: And Trump will do his part by abandoning NATO and Europe without formally stating he has agreed to Putin’s terms.

He will just say he is reducing US presence because NATO doesn’t pay its fair share and military spending it too high.
🔻 Hye-jin Song: What air defenses? What systems? Be specific. Because your assertion is contrary to recent evidence. Are they holding back systems more advanced than what was provided to Iran?
🔻 WS: You are ignorant of the facts, and of military capabilities in general.

You have been deceived by propaganda.

Not a single Israeli aircraft of any type crossed from Iraq into Iran. And there has been zero credible evidence that Iranian air defenses incurred any meaningful damage, aside from the antique Hawk system that served as a decoy.

‼️ Iranian Air Defenses
🔻Victor: I don’t see anything surprising here. Yes, the US is leaving the war with Russia in Ukraine. They came and left on their own. How could they defeat a nuclear Russia? I told you three years ago that the US would leave this war, that is the objective reality. What are you surprised about?

Yes, Russia has won and is demanding what it demanded before the war – equal security guarantees for everyone in Europe. You yourself suggested that Russia first defeat you in the war, and then demand this. Well, Russia has won and is demanding.
🔻 WS: Victor, I was being facetious. I have been writing about this topic for over three years now, ever since the December 2021 draft treaty was submitted, and then Putin’s February 21, 2022 speech.
🔻Victor: Yes I know, thank you for answer
🔻 WS: Sometimes my sarcasm doesn’t translate very well in an 𝕏 post.

Anyway, just to emphasize my point: I remain convinced the Russians will, sooner or later, achieve their objective of rolling back NATO to at least the 1997 borders.

Most likely, NATO will simply evaporate.
⭕ 🔥 Medvedev’s Latest Incendiary Missive

On strategic ambiguity
[same posted on main site yesterday]
🔻 🇨🇦🇷🇸TurboSerbo 🇷🇸🇨🇦: I need this in Russian to show my wife
🔻 WS: |Russian|
He has both a Russian and an English channel. And his English channel always has better renderings than the Telegram “translate” function of his Russian channel. FYI
🔻 Mwangi Kimani: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Micron 🤣🤣🤣🤣
🔻 Eastgermannative: Oh wie gut und treffend.
🔻 C4: The Russians have to assume that “Western strategic ambiguity” means hostility to Russia, based on how they have reacted in the past.

The Western politicians who think they are being clever are not fooling anyone. They can’t come to terms with the magnitude of the Western defeat
🔻 C5: And uninformed Americans, et al., want Putin overthrown? They ain’t seen n-n-nuthin’ yet.
⭕So small it vanished as quickly as it appeared.

The Kursk Kamikaze Inkursion will be seen, in retrospect, as arguably the single most catastrophic NATO/AFU debacle of this entire catastrophic war.
links:
🔻 OSINTdefender: The Ukrainian Armed Forces have reportedly launched a Small Offensive over the last 48 hours in the Kursk Oblast of Western Russia, with Swedish CV-90 IFVs and American M1A1 “Abrams” Tanks spotted on the move near the Frontline. |media|
[the demented are STILL attempting Suicide Charges!! YEARS after they lost this damned war. Dig THAT!]
🔻 C2: Worse than Robatinasomething?
🔻 C3: They can’t do anything else but go on the offensive and get battered because the only alternative is to retreat but to retreat is to admit defeat at this point.
🔻 Gunny is my Dog: Although I do empathize with the people of the Kursk region, it has shown to be a brilliant tactic by the Russians to allow the salient to exist in its current scope.
The Russians have effectively created a scenario where they can effectively and continually destroy material.
[and the combined nazi Horde must continually and persistingly supply men and materiel in order to uphold Optics undergirding the last shred of evaporating prestige, mojo, and hegemony. Damned if they don’t, damned even faster when they do. Mete]
⭕🔻 Sal Mercogliano: MSC books up to eight megamaxes at Changhong International |link|
🔻 WS: China has become the most prolific ship-building juggernaut in naval history.
🔻 Matthew McCracken 🇨🇮🇮🇪🇺🇸🇱🇷🇷🇺🇳🇱🇷🇴🇹🇩: It’s not even close. If the US increases its ship building capacity to 100 times its current levels, China will still have double the capacity of the US. This is how lopsided it is. |link|
⭕‼️ Malcom Kyeyune expounds on the hopeless insanity and essentially irremediable state of affairs in the US military here in 2025.

Lengthy, but highly recommended. |link|
🔻 C1: Ouch!!!! That will leave a mark! 🙂 Are you getting ready for your spring garden!?… I think we’ve had our last freeze… Ready to roll waiting on the mesquites to let us know the old timer say when they bought out the last freezes over… Cheers! You’re smart motherfucker 🙂
🔻 WS: My house sits at about 5600′ altitude, so we can get a hard freeze even in mid-May. I never plant until the last week of May or first week of June. This also means that, without a greenhouse, I basically can’t grow cabbage, broccoli, or even peas. Nor apricots, cherries, etc
🔻 C2: Great article! We have allowed our ideological passions to rule over our rational integrity for so long that we have become blind to any distinction. I fear that we are long overdue for a reality-infused correction, making the impact of that all the more devastating.
🔻 Neil Youngson: “The Navy is not just building ships; it is trying to shield an increasingly fragile American leadership class from reality…”

The message from the political class to its own people that the USA is the greatest country will soon be seen as no longer true, if it ever was.
[And Orange Gang fired those very Navy folks sheltering the very sky from falling..]
🔻 Neil Youngson: Any reason not to have a greenhouse, just curious?
🔻 WS: Just never got around to it yet. Several of my neighbors have them. I should, too.
⭕🧵 Scott Boland

A thread of a few excellent songs from my friend Scott Boland (@IshmaelWon), a great singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer.
⭕ cont. thread:
📜 Some Sins Will Not Wash Away

I disagree strongly with those who seek to exonerate the Trump 45 administration of culpability for the war in Ukraine. …
🔻 Daniele Gatti: Reminds me of the chorus from this song:
“Even if you believe you’ve been acquitted/you’re forever implicated” |media|
🔻 WS: Eccellente!

E se credete ora
che tutto sia come prima
perché avete votato ancora
la sicurezza, la disciplina
convinti di allontanare
la paura di cambiare
verremo ancora alle vostre porte
e grideremo ancora più forte
per quanto voi vi crediate assolti
siete per sempre coinvolti
🔻 Daniele Gatti: Indeed. Incidentally, he was one the greatest Italian singer-songwriter of all times, he even recorded an album based on Spoon River: |media|
⭕ This is indeed a must-read thread by the always-excellent Arnaud Bertrand.
links:
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: I get asked this all the time, so I am reposting my famous thread of all the top strategic thinkers – from Kissinger to Chomsky – who warned for years that war was coming if we pursued NATO expansion, yet had their advice ignored (which begs the question: why?). |THREAD|

⭕🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: Beautiful Poland, you poor sweet summer child…
[links:
“🔻Stuart Dowell: Poland has spent 30 years building its foreign policy around a strong US alliance. Yesterday, that foundation cracked. Andrzej Duda flew across the Atlantic for a planned hour-long meeting with Trump. He got ten minutes.

This wasn’t just bad optics. It was a humiliation. Poland has positioned itself as America’s most loyal ally in Europe. But when Trump is reshaping US policy on Ukraine and NATO, Poland was given barely a moment of his time.

Duda had no offer, no clear role after refusing to be part of a stabilisation mission. Meanwhile, France and the UK are shaping proposals on Ukraine. They have leverage.

After the meeting, Duda and his camp scrambled to spin it as a success. They searched for breadcrumbs: Trump’s warm words, a vague mention of military cooperation, a possible visit to Poland. But none of it changes the reality.

Trump’s words were warm, but the actions matter. His team is cutting Ukraine out of talks with Russia. US support for NATO looks uncertain. And yet Duda left Washington with nothing but scraps.

For years, Poland’s security strategy rested on unquestioning faith in the US alliance. That strategy is being dismantled day by day.”]
🔻 WS: reposts his old:
“History teaches us to never underestimate the Poles’ prodigious talent for geopolitical blunder; grossly mismanaging their international relations in advance of a great-power conflict, and then getting trampled to rubble in the ensuing maelstrom.”
🔻 Arwyn: What is that old saying again ?

“There does not exist an chasm deep enough that a Pole does not jump in it.”

Yemen and Iran on hair-trigger. They know they’re next…

Yeah. US has better stealth. And this was not a geopolitical statement, but strictly apolitical forced logistics need…

Iran “provokes” like Russia provoked NATO by invading 404 without any justification whatsoever.

Lebanon 🇱🇧 Day 4: The Funeral pic.twitter.com/lYUKRi1Ak7
— Tadhg (@TadhgHickey) February 23, 2025

💠@Unity of Fields:
⭕ Words from the NYC vigil for Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (2/2):

“The counterinsurgent wing of our movement functions to delegitimize and contain resistance, funneling militant energy back into the NGO sector and electoral politics. They throw out those who push the limits, abandoning solidarity to protect their own skins and class privilege in the belly of the beast. Beware of those who claim easy victories, who condemn certain forms of protest for not being “peaceful” enough, who try to contain Palestine as a single issue struggle whenever we threaten to grow into a full-fledged movement against imperialism. Remain vigilant and refuse compromise. Remember that peace in the U.S. is a lie. As long as this entity exists the people of the world will face annihilation. There is nothing more violent than amerikan peace.

The so-called “United States of America” is on its last legs. Our role as revolutionaries here is to do everything in our power to hasten its collapse and serve the colonized people within its borders. The mass mobilizations of working class youth against ICE deportations, the militant uprisings spreading across prisons, the growing anti imperialist consciousness on college campuses and the use of political violence against individual members of the ruling class—these are all actions that attack US empire at its internal pressure points. As revolutionaries, we must build the popular cradle of resistance that can support and sustain these actions in the long term, as well as strategically direct them as the fourth reich evolves.

To quote Nasrallah again:

“We should thank Trump for revealing yet again the true face of the U.S. administration—a racist, criminal, murderous, bloodthirsty entity that confiscates freedoms, plunders wealth, conspires against oppressed peoples.”

We are not intimated by the new administration or the worms at Betar or the New York Pig Department. Why should we be? Today we gathered 1.4 million strong. The resistance grows against all odds.

A message to the scum of nations and the pigs of the earth:

Glory to he who makes the occupier taste bitterness.

Long Live the Axis of Resistance and the International Popular Cradle of Resistance.”

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ The US left alone its allies (European vassals) and voted with their enemy, Russia. This is a nice example of US’ machiavellistic nature.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ The EU has lifted several sanctions on the banking and infrastructure sectors within the Syrian state.
⭕ In contrast to the European Union, the Trump administration has halted U.S. efforts to ease restrictions and sanctions on Syria

Officials from the Trump administration reportedly seek a Syrian government that is more ‘inclusive’ than the current one, which they claim is dominated by ‘Islamists.’
⭕ Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, ‘Grok,’ reportedly censored sources that mentioned ‘Elon Musk or Donald Trump as spreading misinformation’ until users called it out on Twitter.
[“Do as I say, not as I do”]
⭕ 🇷🇺/🇱🇧 From Russia [with Love]
⭕ Last week the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF) organized a trip for American Jews to visit Damascus

SETF was one of the main lobbying groups on behalf of the Syrian opposition in the U.S. during the Syrian War and was responsible for getting Congress to pass the Caesar Sanctions Act in 2020, which collapsed the Syrian economy.
⭕ A group called ‘Suweida Military Council’ has announced their creation, demanding an autonomy for the Druze-majority Suweida governance and rejecting the integration with the new Syrian government and HTS. |media|
[fools! They invite open enslavery, and subsequent cleansing, by zionazis]
⭕ Images of IDF tanks in the city of Jenin, marking its first deployment in West Bank since 2002. |media|

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ “A starting point on the path to peace”: Russia comments on the adoption of the US resolution on Ukraine without anti-Russian rhetoric by the UN Security Council.

• These are constructive changes in the US position on this conflict, said Russia’s permanent representative Vasily Nebenzya.
• However, the Russian amendments were not accepted, he said.
• Europe is the only actor on the international stage today that wants the war to continue.
• Moscow calls on those who truly want to achieve lasting peace in Ukraine not to allow Kiev and its puppeteers to disrupt the efforts undertaken by Russia and the United States.
• Thanks to the Trump administration, the world is beginning to learn what has really been happening in Ukraine for years.
• “Everyone in the world has learned that the entire anti-Russian project ‘Ukraine’, as we have repeatedly stated, was financed by the West from the very beginning.”
• Indeed, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) spent $30.6 billion on Ukraine from 2021 to 2024, or 21% of its total overseas spending.
• As a result, an independent Ukraine simply did not exist, Nebenzya insisted.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ For the scant remnant of the British aristocracy, it is always the early spring of 1912, and the Titanic is still at the docks.
📜 Lords A’Leaping
🔻 GigaGerard: A question for the Dutch could be, is it worse that they take you in a war with Russia, or that Britain wants to fight a war with you?
⭕ 🔹 Things many have now been persuaded to believe:

• The US/Russia are going to form a mutually satisfying partnership
• In favor of hopping in bed with the US, Russia will betray China and Iran
• Russia will cease to demand that NATO withdraw its military to the 1997 borders

🔻Feb182022: 1997 border?
🔻 WS: Yes. Compliant with the 1997 NATO/Russia Founding Act.
🔻 OsageCatZ: USFinancials have factored in Zero. Putin speech today was historic.
🔻 WS: I spent most of the day ex-𝕏, so I have yet to see reports of and the text of his speech. Do you have links?
🔻 OsageCatZ: If you know Russian: t.me/smotri_media
🔻 Perdido na Bagaçeira: Agree on most, but nothing benefits more the US right now than normalizing diplomatic relations with Russia.
I don’t get how that’s a bad thing.
The ones wanting to spoil this are not in the White House nor the Kremlin.
🔻 WS: I do not understand how it is so many people have forgotten that #TheMotherOfAllProxyArmies and the war in Ukraine was conceived and brought to pass by the US, with the express purpose of inflicting upon Russia a decisive strategic defeat, regime change, and dissolution.
🔻Alyosha: We effed ourselves good and proper. Blinken and Nuland should have left well-enough alone. |media|
🔻 C5: And, as the Russians have pointed out repeatedly, they do not consider the USA government ‘agreement capable’, i.e., trustworthy. Trumps second administration would not be an exception despite doing everything possible to appear that a new leaf has been turned over.
🔻 C6: The Information Operations have been extremely successful on the non-thinking sheep. Obviously, not just wrt Ukraine.
🔻 C7: The art of the deal. America’s Trump turning his countries share of disaster (Project Ukraine) into success. Will Russia fall for this? No, not completely, but they might milk the situation.
🔻 Beto Ochoa: All speculation aside… the thing that would settle European nations into a cohesive society that respects each other’s differences and histories is the USA military vacating the continent.
🔻 Milordon-I will listen. I will not obey.: Only thing I have been persuaded to believe is there is no reason any more young people should be slaughtered in senseless wars benefiting the global elite.
🔻 WS: So I conclude you are in favor of withdrawing US military forces from their hundreds of overseas bases, and for the American empire, after an 80-year reign of terror, to cease fomenting “senseless wars benefiting the global elite”.

I heartily agree.
🔻 Milordon-I will listen.: Why would you conclude that is not even close to what I said. Sounds like someone making up my positions in order to argue them.
🔻 WS: So then I conclude you are opposed to withdrawing US military forces from their hundreds of overseas bases, and for the American empire, after an 80-year reign of terror, to cease fomenting “senseless wars benefiting the global elite”.

I heartily disagree.
🔻 Milordon-I will listen.: My apologies, apparently not real quick tonight.
⭕🔻 Michael Turner: If you think Chinese Maritime Militia is a threat only in South China Sea, you need to see this!

An Argentinian Coast Guard aircraft is keeping an eye on hundreds of Chinese fishing boats sailing illegally inside Argentina’s EEZ! |link|
🔻 HUNTSMAN 🇺🇲: Find the ship(s) emitting unusual RF compared to the rest of the fleet.

Board, inspect, arrest, seize.

Treat the detained crew (humanely) as criminals under whatever laws apply to those committing an equivalent cost of theft on land.

Then do it again and again until the violating flag state gets the point.
🔻 WS: [links to leading screenshot of Chinese fishers seeking refuge from a massive storm. Do you comprehend the way spin is done by professional Liars??? The criminal presstitutes shall keep spinning — right into their graves, and even attempt it beyond that on Judgment Day]
⭕🔻 zerohedge: Sex, Castration & Butthole Zapping: NSA, CIA Confirm Secret ‘Kink’ Chat Room After Chris Rufo Bombshell |link|
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Well, I guess that explains why I’ve been consistently ahead of the US intelligence community for the last three years lmao
🔻 WS: Fire and brimstone is the only answer.
🔻 Kachallah: Fire and brimstones it is then

well Lavrov did not arrive in Tehran to buy an heirloom carpet.. impasses and unbearable humiliation on one front force movement elsewhere.. and events move

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Jordan and Lebanon should be deeply concerned about Israel’s indefinite expansion in Southern Syria, as PM Benjamin Netanyahu, now facing an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes, consolidates control on their borders. If decisive action is not taken soon, both nations risk facing escalating Israeli encroachment. The time to react is now, through domestic resistance, before it is too late.
[if only compradore elites had sense! Rather, zionazis shall do the region a favor, and themselves dissolve these constructs as fake as themselves. And Greater Syria shall return over the ashes of all fake entities]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 📹 He’s at it again: Trump seats Macron at edge of his table at G7 leaders meeting

Traditionally, at such meetings, heads of state sit at a round table, but Donald Trump had it different: he seated Emmanuel Macron to his right at his own desk. |media|
[These constant humiliation rituals are getting stale. First the Jordanian vassal. Now the French poodle.
Do u remember the Saker chortling about the same tableau when the tall Serbian was seated the similar way few years ago?? At the least the Serbian was given his own table, even if many Ikea children’s plastic tables are bigger]

Doesn’t she remind you of that innocent hip roller-skating gal who didn’t get the memo the wokeness and bubblegum was discarded by the demented West?!
What it amazing about this video is the undisguised pleasure of the Yanqui narrator at itemizing the permanent poisoning of Sino-German ties, and Frau 360⁰’s similar grandstanding on behalf of her paymasters to dissolve Sino-German ties. I am not sure about the conscious will of the latter though; she may just be a plain dumb script-reader..

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Russian troops liberated Orlovka and Pogrebki settlements in the country’s Kursk region, the Ministry of Defense reports

Will Netanyahu’s plans to separate southern Syria from Damascus and label Druze as “traitors” succeed?

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Consecutive Israeli airstrikes on Damascus, Quneitra, Suweida, and Daraa since about two hours ago, coinciding with statements from the Israeli Defense Minister that they will attack any military buildup in southern Syria, regardless of affiliation. |media|
[late last night. As painful as these moments are, these ongoing humiliations are necessary to shred the salafis among the seduced majority, and will awaken the comatose and currently honorless sunnis. It will expose the demons they’ve followed for a century, since erection of Sykes-Picot, and that they’re abject slaves of the Anglo-Zionists.

As the UkroNazi was brainwashed into societal auto-extermination through hate of their own Russian cousins, the Sunni was of hatred of Shiia… but these are amazing days, seeing the renewal of all parasited civilizations dormant for 500 years… one simply cannot wash away the stench of the zionazi, and excuse it, as the demented salafi tries. And nothing builds Resistance in the arab than being enslaved or having racist western overlords. The demented West is actually incinerating its possible posterity in West Asia, and total rupture with even abject compradore arabs]
⭕ President Donald Trump has confirmed that the U.S. is no longer providing any new military aid to Ukraine, stating that Europe will be responsible for providing aid to Ukraine in the future.
⭕ Russian forces, having crossed into the Sumy region of Ukraine, have taken the road supplying the Ukrainian grouping in Kursk region under fire control

Should this road be physically cut, the entire Ukrainian grouping in Kursk region will be cut off from resupply.

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ Israel is violently bombing the surroundings of Southern Damascus, destroying its last remaining army depots.
[late last night]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇮🇷| A Russian Su-57 fighter jet landed in Iran’s tactical airbase in Bandar Abbas this week.

The Su-57 attended India’s Airshow, and refueled in Iran but it’s still there. According to reports, it’s still there to aid Iran in testing its air defenses against stealth aircraft.
(Via Fereshteh Sadeghi on X)

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ It is a grotesque violation of human decency, a vile display of inhumanity, moral depravity, and sheer repulsiveness. |media|
[yes Orange actually posted this]
⭕ The US position is not limited to aligning itself with Israeli interests; instead, Washington, in coordination with Tel Aviv, seeks to impose these interests – primarily by pressing for a political and security arrangement that meets Israel’s objectives, under the threat of resuming the war and forcibly expelling the Palestinians from Gaza. This reflects an effort to achieve the goals of the military confrontation by non-military means where possible.

However, Steve Witkoff’s statements and positions indicate an attempt to prolong the first phase of the ceasefire and a preparatory step towards a fundamentally altered second phase – one that has changed both Israeli and American strategy. The second phase has broader objectives, no longer simply a ceasefire or a prisoner exchange. Washington and Tel Aviv, acting in complete coordination, are working to ensure that this phase is fully aligned with the military objectives initially set – notably the elimination of Hamas’s rule and influence, the degradation of its capabilities, and the prevention of its resurgence in the future.