💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇾🇪⚔️🇺🇸 Yemeni forces reportedly shot down the 22nd MQ-9 Reaper today.
[I am behind – this was yesterday]
⭕ 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺The head of European diplomacy, Kallas, stated that the European Union will never recognize Crimea as Russian.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Russian forces liberated the settlement of Tarasovka in the DPR, the country’s defense ministry reports
⭕ ❗️A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Istanbul, local media reports
[Constantinople]
⭕ 📹CNN Turk studio during today’s earthquake in Istanbul |media|
[Look at this creature! Throws up the triple six. What a degenerate Big Club. One starts to appreciate why the Flood was decreed, and a similar cleansing by Fire soon]

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ The world has grown accustomed to Israel’s unaccountable killing of dozens of Palestinians each day and the ongoing humanitarian siege on Gaza—both of which constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity—so much so that they are no longer considered newsworthy by much of the international media.
⭕ In its bid to restore relations, the United States has presented a set of conditions to Syria’s de facto self-proclaimed president, Ahmad al-Shara’, long known as Abu Mohammad al-Joulani. Among them is a demand for an explicit mandate allowing US forces to carry out “counterterrorism operations on Syrian soil against any individual deemed a threat to US national security”—a move reminiscent of Israel’s target-killing in Lebanon and Gaza, widely regarded as violations of national sovereignty.

The US also requested a public declaration banning all Palestinian resistance groups and their political activities in Syria, along with the deportation of their members in a way that reassures Israel.

Additional demands include the complete removal of Iranian military presence from Syrian territory and the official designation of both the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Hezbollah as terrorist organisations.
⭕ Yemen’s Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement has reportedly downed more than 22 of the United States’ most advanced MQ-9 Reaper drones. It has repeatedly targeted the US aircraft carriers USS Harry S. Truman and USS Carl Vinson, along with their escort warships. These attacks come after over 50 consecutive days of clashes in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea, where the US has chosen to bomb Yemen and engage in direct confrontation rather than pressure Israel to comply with international law or lift the ongoing humanitarian siege on the civilian population of Gaza.

The US failed to deter Yemen, to destroy its capabilities and to prevent missile launches on Israel. The giant and most powerful country in the world’s prestige is in tatters when confronting and failing against the poorest country in the Middle East. 

the Murder-Suicide on Persia and the arabs comes with a package: Pakistan. No islamic country can be seen to have retaliatory nukes given the bestiality in motion. So another Murder-Suicide is being arranged vis-a-vis India.. Will India survive Modi, in every which way??

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Major World Events by Evening of April 23

• Japan’s use of Russian assets for a loan to Ukraine will be complicity in Kiev’s crimes and will entail tough retaliatory measures, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated;
•  In February, Russia ranked second after the US in the total value of gas imports to the EU with a share of 18.4%. This happened despite the complete stop of gas transit through Ukraine since the beginning of the year, according to Eurostat data;
•  China is conducting the largest military buildup in history, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said; 
  [in ITS history, or OUR world history? And whachta gonna do about it, besides moan and mewl?]
•  The US can no longer be the guarantor of Europe’s security, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said;

⭕ ‘Russia Seeks Negotiations, While Europe Desires War’

Other key statements from the Kremlin’s spokesman to the French magazine Le Point:

• Ukraine must withdraw troops from the Novorossiya and Donbass regions that have joined Russia to end the conflict;
• The presidents of Russia and the US share the understanding that refusing dialogue is absurd;
• Putin respects Trump because he is a strong political figure and a strong personality;
• A meeting between Trump and Putin should be productive, and preparatory work is underway;
• Russia has no territorial claims against the Baltic states;
• Europeans attempt to teach Russia about democracy, yet they often violate these principles themselves;
• Russia has no intention of attacking anyone;
• Russia will achieve its goals by peaceful or military means;
• Russia has learned to live under sanctions, while they create significant problems for the EU;
• Trump did not set a deadline for establishing a ceasefire in Ukraine, and Russia also finds it inappropriate to set dates;
• Russia’s relations with the West are at an impasse, and Moscow is trying to improve relations with Washington;
• Neither Macron nor other European leaders wanted to listen to Putin when he told them that Russia was being cornered regarding its security.

⭕ Togo and Burkina Faso Abolish Roaming Fees—Is Lomé [Togo] Edging Closer to the Sahel States Alliance?

Here are some indicators of a growing rapprochement between the country and the bloc:

• “A bold sign of solidarity”: Former lawmaker Iba Karim notes that this move strengthens “human and economic bonds” and advocates for “a united West Africa;”
• Togo’s FM Robert Dussey has reiterated twice (Jan & Mar 2025) that joining the AES is a consideration, describing it as a “strategic decision;”
• Despite AES countries leaving ECOWAS, of which Togo is a member, Mali’s FM has expressed a warm welcome for bilateral cooperation with Togo;
• Malian analyst Abdoul Diallo opines, “ECOWAS is heading for disaster,” and sees security advantages in Togo’s cooperation with the AES;
• Togo was invited to Niger’s International Women’s Crafts Fair, a gesture of inclusion from AES countries;
• “Togo is a key player, closely aligned with the AES vision,” said Burkinabe analyst Lianhoué Imhotep Bayala. Additionally, Togo’s ports have the potential to become a “maritime hub” for the alliance.
  [The last is crucial for the landlocked Sahelian Junta. The pack of combined hyenas worked hard to besiege them in every direction. But the ice melts..]

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇪🇺 U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated that the United States can no longer serve as Europe’s security guarantor. |media|
[A major marker. What worth is Article V then?]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇨🇳 US Wants to Restructure China’s Economy (LOLOLOLOL)

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just admitted it:

“We want to help China pivot away from exports… Their model is unsustainable and hurting the world.”

Translation? The U.S. couldn’t crash China with tariffs — so now it wants to force structural change through policy, pressure, and “partnership.”

Bessent also says the trade war is unsustainable, and talks will happen “below the level of Trump and Xi.”

This isn’t about compromise, it’s about control.

The U.S. is still trying to dictate how China runs its economy, just without calling it regime change.
[A tad early to say the demented cannot crash the world economy and impede China’s rise. Very premature. It is easy to destroy for those practiced in the dark arts. The Murder-Suicide with Persia fulfills many tasks]
⭕ 🇮🇳🇵🇰 India has ordered three changes in its relations with Pakistan, following the recent killings of 26 Indian tourists by Islamist militants in the Kashmir region:

1. The regional border between India and Pakistan along the disputed Kashmir region has been closed.
2. Pakistani citizens are banned from entering India indefinitely, despite a visa-exemption scheme.
3. A water-sharing treaty between the two countries has been suspended.

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has stated that those who had planned and carried out the massacre – including those “behind the scenes” – would see a “swift response”.

Pakistan has denied involvement in the massacre.
[this last measure is shocking and tantamount to declaration of war, if not rapidly reversed. They can literally starve Pakistan, dependent on the Himalayan waters for food and water. Even Iran protested yesterday, disturbed by the disproportionate aggression, which threatens to detonate a nuclear war on its eastern border. Now I was joking that the JD the Manchurian Candidate may leave India dead the next day, but this is unbelievable, the reckless moves underway. Perhaps it was wise of Brazil to schedule the BRICS Summit this early in July. There is gonna be needed a hell lotta deconfliction in South Asia. And China has the SCO chair later too – of which both Pakistan and India are members. Madness]
⭕🇮🇳🇵🇰 India Suspends Indus Water Treaty (1960)

Signed by Nehru & Ayub Khan, the treaty gave Pakistan 80% of the Indus system’s waters. It was brokered by the World Bank & hailed as a rare success in Indo-Pak cooperation.

But on April 23, India suspended the treaty, citing national security after a deadly attack in Kashmir.

The Indus Waters Treaty:

• Gave India rights to the eastern rivers (Beas, Ravi, Sutlej)
• Gave Pakistan rights to the western rivers (Indus, Jhelum, Chenab)
• Allowed India limited use of western rivers for power & irrigation
• Included a dispute resolution mechanism (commission, arbitration, neutral expert)

⭕ 🇷🇺 European countries are openly preparing for a potential war with Russia, according to Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu in an interview with TASS.

“Timelines for such a conflict are being discussed at various levels — ranging from three to five years,” he stated.

💠 @Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ The Differences Between Qatar and the UAE”
[on top: Qatar. On bottom: the Emirates]
⭕ We know where America’s pain is, and how to drain it.

Yemen is fine; there’s no need to worry.

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ The Syrian government’s recent claim of holding approximately $25 billion in foreign debt notably omits a substantial obligation to Iran, estimated between $35 billion and $50 billion.​

This omission is significant given Iran’s extensive financial and military support to Syria during the Assad era. Iran’s investments included oil shipments, military aid, and infrastructure projects, with the total support estimated at over $50 billion.
[Even if never recouped, a worthwhile investment. It delayed “7 countries in 5 years” by a catastrophic two decades, now ensuring a Murder-Suicide]
⭕ A Blatant War Crime and Crime Against Humanity:

In the past 24 hours, Israel has killed at least 50 Palestinians in Gaza and deliberately targeted and destroyed a school in the besieged Strip. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—already facing an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his war crimes—announced that humanitarian aid would be allowed into Gaza after nearly two months of complete siege. However, his own Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, publicly threatened to topple the government if any food or fuel is allowed to reach the Palestinian population.
⭕ US Secretary of State @marcorubio stated that Iran can pursue a nuclear program like any other country, as long as it does not include military-grade capabilities. Suppose this is indeed the full extent of US demands. A deal may be achievable in that case, provided it includes sufficient guarantees and enforcement mechanisms to sanction any party that violates the agreement.
[This is not a concession. It is admittance of the obvious – like its blistering hot in the Saharan summer at noon. Iran already has this right in international law. What it says is the Pirates dissemble – pretending to be sincere and peaceful in front of cameras, whereas not one step has been taken back from the brink. Indeed, it is a veiled threat, as in 404, where similar nonsensical “negotiation” is willfully slow-walked to ensure it is settled only on the battlefield]

It is going down between the indian cousins. Very sad days

“…still harboring enclaves of free speech.” {{stay tuned}}

🇵🇰🇮🇳 Pakistan’s Defence Minister told Sky News that the situation in Kashmir could escalate into an “all-out war” between Pakistan and India.

India has blamed Pakistan for the recent attack, a claim Islamabad denies, suggesting instead that New Delhi may have “staged” the… https://t.co/zfaw9pQhg6 pic.twitter.com/KX7ZAikwIC
— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) April 25, 2025

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇵🇰💬🇮🇳 Pakistan is reportedly transferring additional military equipment to the Line of Control in Kashmir.

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Pakistan’s Defence Minister stated that the government “very strongly suspects” the Pahalgam attack was a false flag operation.
[sometimes even a broken clock strikes right. It could have been the Anglo intel agencies, via their salafi understudies, which infest all british-created border agonies, ready to be detonated on command]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ —❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 BREAKING: Pakistan announces retaliatory diplomatic measures against India

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has announced the following:

• Pakistani airspace is closed to all Indian and Indian-operated airlines, effective immediately.
• The Wagah border crossing will be shut down, and ceremonial duties suspended.
• Pakistan suspends all SAARC visas issued to Indian nationals, and all Indians currently in Pakistan with an SAARC visa are instructed to leave within 48 hours.
• The number of diplomats at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad will be reduced to 30, and military attachés have been declared persona non grata.
• Pakistan exercises the right to temporarily suspend all bilateral agreements with India, including the 1972 Simla agreement.
•  Pakistan states that any attempt at diverting the waters from rivers in the Indus will be seen as an act of war, and will be responded to by force.
• Pakistan suspends all trade with India.

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇵🇰Pakistan has declared its readiness for war with India.

“You want war? Start it. Pakistan is ready. Thank you, Modi (Indian Prime Minister – Ed.) – you have united our nation,” the Defense Ministry says in X and publishes a video of the missile launch.

In another video, a military leader stands in front of a lined-up army and calls for them to be prepared for war with India.

It should be noted that both Pakistan and India are nuclear powers. Both countries have approximately 160 warheads.
[the Tragedy underway in South Asia is acquiring the same fatalism as in Europe, or with Anglo-French. They’ve convinced themselves “the Russians are coming” for going on three centuries now. And so they make it happen, to finally be rid of their torment and overdue expectation. Even unto the nuclear rapture. The same dynamics apply within the larger indian family of the subcontinent. Led by a fascist Junta, bred on whiskey and white british women on the one side, and apparently provincial and simpleton messianic supremacists on the other.]
⭕️ 🇵🇰🇮🇳⚡️India will soon cancel the ceasefire agreement with Pakistan, writes the Pakistani publication Gulistan News.
[the two, as in Korea or between the european jews and arabs, have been in constant war since WW2 – with only ceasefires or truces or armistices staying the eternal bloodletting]
⭕ 🇮🇳🇵🇰India has blocked the flow of the Indus River towards Pakistan by closing all four sluice gates that control the flow of water through dams and canals.

This is the first time this has happened since the Indus Waters Agreement of 1960, ANI reported.

Pakistan has previously warned that such a blockade would be considered an act of war. |media|
[Now it is on. “The Desert of the Real” appears in a hurry to manifest in our world. Where will it appear first – South Asia, SW Asia or in Novorossiya?]

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇵🇸| The only dutch surgeon in Gaza, Geertje Govaert, who performs daily surgeries at the field hospital of the Red Cross in Rafah says:

“You hear the explosions, the ambulances, and then you know: soon there will be more wounded men, women, and children on the operating table. Often, you hear the sound first — and then you see the damage.”

“Civilian casualties keep coming. People of all ages end up on my operating table.” Geertje recounts having to operate on a 7-month old baby with horrific wounds, something that deeply affected her.

Roughly 90% of patients arriving are wounded by explosives. Many others come in with gunshot wounds.
Geertje is also noticing a new pattern of injuries: small metal fragments that pierce straight through bodies.

“We work double shifts and improvise where necessary. But it’s getting harder and harder to improvise, because there’s a shortage of everything — sutures, antibiotics, painkillers, even disinfectant gel.”

Geertje stresses that the situation in Gaza is really bad: “There needs to be more attention on what’s happening here. People have no medicine. No food. No safe place to live. And yet, we try to provide care every single day.”

She urges the international community to recognize the urgent needs — not just today, but also tomorrow.
“Without help, we can’t continue doing our work. Supplies are running out. We’re doing all we can, but the people here need help. The people need hope.”

💠 @geopolitics_live:
⭕ 💥 Houthis’ air defenses making the US sweat — 22 drones downed and counting

The Houthis’ takedown of scores of MQ-9s and the US’s growing use of standoff munitions and B-2 bombers signal a growing threat from the Yemeni militia’s air defenses.

According to The War Zone, the Houthis’ ability, “at least to a degree,” to domestically develop and field missiles is making them a significant challenge.

While not “super technologically advanced,” the Houthis are considered “pretty innovative,” a senior US defense official said.

• Among their most modern weapons are the Barq-1 and Barq-2 SAMs, with a 50-70 km range and a 15-20 km altitude. They’re believed to be upgrades of Soviet-era Kub and Buk systems.
• Additionally, the Houthis have developed the Meraj “guerrilla air defense” missile, an upgraded Badr 1-P SAM.
• They also use the Saqr (358) loitering missile, which tracks targets in a figure-eight pattern with infrared sensors resistant to countermeasures.
• Some Houthi SAMs, like the Thaqib series, were created by repurposing old Soviet air-to-air missiles intended for Yemen’s MiG-29 fleet, with one even capable of locking onto targets outside the line of sight and behind its launcher.

This week, pro-Houthi media reported a militia attempt to intercept a B-2 stealth bomber using air defenses, forcing it to retreat. The US, reluctant to even admit the use of B-2s in Yemen, has yet to comment.

💠 @TASS:
⭕ 🇻🇪🇷🇺 A station for the Russian GLONASS satellite navigation system will go into operation in Venezuela this week, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced on the Venezuelan Television channel.

“I announce the installation, starting this week, of the Russian GLONASS system to optimize navigation services in Venezuelan territory,” Maduro said.

He emphasized that “the GLONASS navigation service was signed with Russian President Vladimir Putin, is already installed, and will be launched this week.”

Wouldn’t you want your Obituary recited and displayed by these imperial presstitutes? They can make even a dying end-stage satanic paradigm appear manly, focused, and hopeful. We shall be entertained

🇮🇱 An Israeli band broadcasts images of the Gaza genocide during a concert in front of a euphoric crowd.

lsraeIis are literal demons. pic.twitter.com/9Ie4b6MtcV

— ADAM (@AdameMedia) April 23, 2025

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ China has officially switched on the world’s first commercial 10G broadband network in its futuristic high-tech city of Xiong’an, overpowering the USA.

The launch marks a major step in the evolution of ultra-fast internet and smart city infrastructure, and a clear statement of intent from the nation aiming to dominate next-gen connectivity.

The rollout, jointly developed by Huawei and state-owned China Unicom, uses cutting-edge 50G Passive Optical Network (PON) technology.
Real-world speeds clocked in at blistering rates – up to 9,834 Mbps downloads, 1,008 Mbps uploads, and latency as low as 3 milliseconds. That’s enough bandwidth to download a 20GB file in under 20 seconds or stream lag-free 8K content with ease.
⭕ A win/win farce:
The only way for the US to save face in Yemen is to have Benjamin Netanyahu, who now carries an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes, lift the humanitarian siege on Gaza, so that Ansar Allah can, in turn, lift its blockade on Israeli-linked shipping. Then Donald Trump can step in and declare “victory” over the Houthis, and the entire spectacle can be spun into a geopolitical success. Everyone wins—except the truth.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ American Roots of German Nazism, Part 8: Who Coined the Term ‘Untermensch’ in the US, Why and How the Nazis Adopted It

One of the cornerstones of Nazi ideology was the belief that the so-called Aryans were superhumans. They also coined the term “untermensch” (subhuman), used to describe ethnic groups they didn’t consider fully human, such as Jews, Romani people, and Slavs.

However, the origin of this term and the concept of racial hierarchy actually emerged in the United States.

In the eighth video of this exclusive Sputnik series, Yegor Yakovlev, a historian of Nazism and the author of “The War of Annihilation”, explains who created and popularized the term in the early 20th century.

#Victory80 |media|
[this Last War is really the denouement between the Anglo-Saxons and the Russkies. Act Three. German Nazis were the patsies in Act II, as the UkroNazis serve these days. But the Supermensch shall have to wade in, all worthwhile proxies attrited and exposed. What days]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕❗️Trump has clarified that he didn’t ‘stop’ Israel from attacking Iran’s nuclear sites but did not ‘make it comfortable’ for them, preferring a deal over military action

He expressed no concern about Netanyahu dragging the U.S. into war, stating that the U.S. will not be ‘unwillingly involved,’ and he would willingly engage if a deal isn’t reached.

He adds that ‘By the way, he [Netanyahu] may go into a war’ and says that U.S. will not stay out of it.
⭕ President Donald Trump: ‘I think Saudi Arabia will go into the Abraham Accords, and by the way, I think it will be full very quickly.’

catching up with Will after busy couple days .. on the menu: Gold & juicing the dual Drangs against Persia and the Yellow Peril. And a buncha satans admit they’re nigh outta Time, hence the zigzagging and frenzied tempo

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 MenchOsint: After 40 days of daily US bombing of Yemen, using their best military assets for this type of operation.

How do you think they would perform against Iran ? Or even China ? 👀
🔻 WS: Making war against China would be catastrophic for the US. It would be a merciless slaughter of the US 7th fleet and US air assets in the region.

As for Iran, I address that question specifically and succinctly here:
📜 A US Air War Against Iran Would Be Disastrous
[sometime, for some reason, the web title of this piece changed from “Hold my Beer”!]
🔻 MenchOsint: 😄 yes, indeed that would be totally another context, bombing over defenseless airspace is nothing, and still they manage to have losses
🔻 Randy Clark: Losses AND failure to defeat the enemy!
🔻 WS: 🧵 How to Lose A Carrier Strike Group in An Afternoon
⭕ cont. thread:
‼️ Gresham’s Law

Some believe the US dollar still being used for ~50% of global transactions is somehow contradictory to reports of its increasing deprecation.

The USD is still being used for ~50% of global transactions precisely because it is increasingly deprecated
🔻 Aunque ande en: I agree that the demise of the USD as reserve and trade currency is now inevitable, but I don’t understand the logic of this argument, Will. On its face it seems contradictory. Could you point me to some explanations squaring this (for me) circle?
🔻 WS: Gresham’s law
🔻 Chuky: Doesn’t really apply… tho i see ur point. The law applies within a single economy where two or more forms of legal tender (with the same face value but different intrinsic values) are used interchangeably.

USD isn’t competing against another form of USD.
🔻 WS: Gresham’s Law absolutely applies — just not in the same context to which Gresham referred.

The hegemonic debt-based dollar system was unique in human history. Now it is being replaced by a balance-of-powers / balance-of-trade multipolar system, such as previously prevailed.

Russia settled over 52% of its 2024 trade in RUB, and yet the ruble will not be a global reserve currency. Nor will the RMB, or any other major currency.

Gold will certainly be used to periodically settle net imbalances between many nations.

The dollar system is being deprecated without an analogous “replacement”.
🔻 Chuky: The last statement clears it up for me…. Something has to be “held” in place of USD for it to loosely apply, and in this case its gold.
Not sure majority of the world is currently in a gold rush. Especially the south.
🔻 WS: All fungible commodities can function as reserve assets.

Supported by harmonious mutual trade, multilateral currency blocs can form and function; credit is restrained but sufficient.

A hegemonic debt-based currency system is pernicious to all, eventually worst so to the issuer.
🔻 Gary L: There is some discussion of the USG introducing T-bills REDEEMABLE in equal gold weight as invested. Rumor only at this point, and the world bulges with rumors, especially with gold going to the moon.
🔻 Jeffrey Jensen: In 2024, global gold purchases reached a record high, driven by strong demand from central banks and investors. Central banks, in particular, continued to increase their gold reserves, buying over 1,000 metric tonnes for the third consecutive year. Total gold transactions in 2024 amounted to 4,974 tons, a notable increase from 4,899 tons in 2023.
🔻 WS: I have long been convinced much or most physical gold movement on this planet occurs sub rosa — especially over the past decade, and in crescendo.

For many logical reasons, gold always has been and remains the only Tier 1 asset in the world. Gold is money sure.
⭕ 🚁 Blackhawk Sighting

Just watched 4 Blackhawks fly right over the house on their way to refuel (presumably) at the airport. All 4 appeared to be carrying two .50 caliber gatling guns on the inside hardpoints and Hydra rocket pods or Hellfire mounts on the outside hardpoints.
🔻 Steven D. Cook: Making preparations for the coming police state?
⭕🔸 Some coordinated “interests” expended A LOT of effort from 0400 EDT until US market close this afternoon in order to knock gold back from the $3500/oz plateau.

They sliced ~$180/oz off the price.

I won’t be surprised to see new all-time highs by the end of this week.
🔻 C1: Options expiration this week… the boys in the banks need to hold the line.
🔻 WS: I don’t know what the “sweet spot” was for the bullion banks on the front month contract — but I suspect even a $180/oz slam wasn’t enough to avoid some pretty big losses. And it will all prove futile in the end. Gold has escaped their control, and will soon “get out of hand”.
🔻 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐙 🇷🇺 🇷🇺: Will be $5,000 an Oz by 2028 at latest!
[we hope! That would mean Armageddon averted. But it may be $5k before end of summer at current pace]
🔻 Donald Foster: The end is getting close
⭕🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ:
⚡️🇷🇺The process of production and testing of domestic controllers for FPV drones at a plant in Vladivostok.

For comparison, a photo of a Chinese controller (green on the left) and its domestic analogue (black on the right), produced in Russia, as well as its specifications.

The manufacturer states that at the current stage it is possible to produce up to 2000 units of such controllers per month. |media|
🔻 WS: If there are lots of drone parts and circuit board manufacturing units available, I’ll bet these things could be cranked out by a competent back yard workshop in at least the hundreds per month.

Multiply that by a few thousand workshops.

Quantity has a quality all its own.
🔻 S. Oliver🇾: One Chinese automated factory – 31 million digital devices a year. (1 per sec = 3600x24x365 per year). |media|
[the Moshiach always knew his side could not compete conventionally. Not against the martial culture, will, and MIC they face. It was always gonna go WMDs & Terror. This underlies willingness to deindustrialize and offshore in last generation.]
⭕🔻 Министр обороны дож: I have a theory that 🇺🇦Stans, especially Fellas on top of being mentally stuck in 2022, are so absorbed in relating everything back to World War II that they will talk about current events as if they happened over half a century ago.

It’s not an opinion on current events. To them, it’s an established historical fact Russia lost. Not that Russia is losing or even maybe will lose. Russia lost and you’re weird for questioning documented history.
🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ: Let’s be honest, the Ukrainian war made everyone look like fools. Russia was made to look inept, and NATO was made to look even MORE inept. That’s because no one was ready for this kind of war. All that matters is which ‘inept’ party wins in the end
🔻 WS: I will grant that, compared to NOW, the Russians were unprepared and disorganized in 2022.

At the same time, the AFU was at its most potent — and still the Russians wrecked that first army by early summer 2022, and then wrecked the first NATO/AFU hybrid army by late 2022 and into 2023. They then wrecked the second NATO/AFU hybrid army in the summer of 2023. And then a third in summer 2024.

I estimate the casualty ratio in 2022 was about 8 to 1; in 2023 at least 10 to 1; in 2024 at least 12 to 1, and here in 2025 about 15 to 1.

And the Russian military is now arguably the single most potent combined arms force on the planet — at least in the context of a war fought in their neighborhood.

Others may disagree. But I believe history will ultimately concur in at least general terms with how I (and others) have perceived events as they have transpired.
🔻 IndoPacificInstitute: War has not ended and will not end soon, NATO core objective is intact. However, NATO vs Russia battle ground will shift to Kyrgyzstan & Tajikistan where Turkey will play key role (both against Russian interest and China). That’s why Bagram airbase plays important role.
[LOL. Both the Prezes of those two Stans will be in Moscau in 2 weeks for #Victory80]
🔻 WS: Utter nonsense.
🔻 Anna: The Russians anticipated a repeat of the 2014 scenario, but they were unprepared for NATO’s extensive support for Ukraine without direct military involvement. Initially, they made strategic errors, but once they understood the situation and their adversaries, they adapted their approach significantly. Since then, they have been advancing steadily with minimal casualties.
🔻 dezimieren: I fear what the west has done is given Russia a masterclass in how to beat their tactics and equipment. The west has created the very monster they so feared.
🔻 Колин Шипов: That is correct. 🇷🇺 fighting with one arm destroyed 4 AFU/Nato armies.
⭕ 🤔 “Winning”

Instead of China’s economy collapsing and Xi bending the knee to Trump, the US has retreated from the tariff gambit.

Instead of the Yemeni crumbling under relentless US airstrikes, the blockade of the Red Sea continues, CSG-8 (USS Trembling Puppy) remains bottled up in the northern Red Sea, and now the number of destroyed MQ-9s has increased to 22.

Instead of Russia yielding to US ceasefire demands, Russian forces continue to eradicate NATO/AFU forces all along the line of contact, and Putin continues to dictate the same terms of surrender he defined from the beginning.

Instead of Iran submitting to US demands to give up its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, or otherwise face destruction, its Persian Gulf neighbors are seeking rapprochement, US missile stockpiles are rapidly diminishing, and US bases in the region remain as vulnerable as ever.

This is what “winning” looks like when there are #NoEasyWarsLeftToFight.
⭕🔻 ₦₳V𝚜𝚝é𝚟𝚊 🇷🇺 ᴢ: We will see if locking my account stops the stock bots.
🔻 WS: It’s an automated plague.
⭕🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺:
My posts are being heavily targeted by crypto spam bots as part of a deep state plot to obstruct the discourse and prevent people from learning about military history. My enemies will never prevail.
🔻 WS: Mine are being assaulted by stock-trading bots. Dozens a day, for weeks now. Most within minutes of a new post.
🔻 C2: it was difficult to have any real exchange of ideas on X to begin with… now, basically impossible… I’m sure it’s just a coincidence though. /s
[did u think they created the internet and social media for our convenience, or our atomization and willing indoctrination?]
🔻 C3: Hey, you pimped gold and silver, and attracted attention from their algos!
🔻 C4: My dudes, consider yourselves lucky your posts appear at all!
⭕🔻 zerohedge: *TRUMP: EU, CHINA RIPPING THE US OFF
🔻 Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵: Crybaby
🔻 WS: reposts older:
“😭 How pitiful that, of all the nations upon this increasingly vexed planet, the United States of America — arguably the greatest master of big-time hard ball business in human history — is now reduced to whining about how the rest of the world (China foremost) has cheated them.”
and
“I hear this echoed from a million voices.

It’s such a pathetic whine.

So the Chinese learned how to play big-time hard ball global business and bested the supposed western masters of big-time hard ball business.

And now they have a massive potent military that can prevent the masters of the declining empire from resorting to arms to eliminate a big-time hard ball business competitor.

Welcome to the real world, as it is, and as it has always been.”
⭕ I watched parts of this interview of Dan Caldwell, erstwhile influential voice in the imperial halls of power, apparently ousted by a rival cabal.

I was instinctually dubious of Caldwell, but he claims many in the Pentagon are itching for war against Iran.

If true, that is bad. |media|
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: I watched the whole “interview.”

Trust your well-learned instincts.
[links Will’s pinned tweet: ““Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”

― Euripides”]
🔻 Robbie Martin: It’s as true as any other textbook limited hangout force fed down your gullet, which means somewhat true but designed to promote a carefully crafted narrative at the same time, you might be the prime target for this type of op, watch out
🔻 NerdTech: Many in the Pentagon were there when America invaded Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria..

Why would you doubt there are many who are itching for war vs Iran?
🔻 Bill Stearns 🍉: This move seems to be related. Iran hawks tightening their grip on the administration.
[links:
🔻 Max Blumenthal: Merav Ceren also worked at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, described by former Israeli Brig. Gen. Sima Vakhnin Gil as an Israeli intelligence cutout

Her brother, Omri, is a veteran Israel lobbyist who runs Ted Cruz on the Middle East

Waltz is Tel Aviv’s WH line
MB links: “BREAKING: Mike Waltz appoints former Israeli Ministry of Defense employee Merav Ceren as member of US National Security Council.””]
🔻 Nasim Watani: Will say this again. No matter how illogical. No matter how hair brained and stupid. The US sees Iran as weak, and it wants to reestablish deterrence.

Every time China humbles the US in this trade war, a Neocon screams to invade and slaughter Iran.

Getting Iran to halt building a bomb only painted a target on Iran’s back.

Iran had its chance to establish deterrence, and instead, it blinked and threw its allies under the bus
🔻 WS: I will say this again: neither Russia nor Iran had the wherewithal to assist Hezbollah and Syria more than they already had — which was considerable, and over a long period of time.

Both were wise to withdraw to more defensible and sustainable lines; let the empire come to them.
🔻 Nasim Watani: I don’t disagree with Syria. America controlled the economic heart of Syria.

True Promise 2 was underwhelming, while True Promise 3 never happened. The Iranians needed to hit Israel hard and show they had escalation dominance.

They also needed Hezbollah to hit Israel hard, which Hezbollah did not. We now know that Bibi was scared about hezbollah getting involved, but it was America egging Israel on.

The only disagreement here is the rationality, or in my argument, the lack of rationality and realism of the US regimes.

⭕ ⁉️ Russia A Party to US/Iran Talks?

There are rumors swirling that Russia is now intimately involved in the US/Iran talks.

A proposal is allegedly on the table for Russia to receive Iran’s enriched uranium as guarantor of a nuclear weapons non-proliferation agreement.

The enriched uranium can be returned to Iran in the event the US violates the terms of the agreement.

If Russia IS involved in such discussions, it signifies a MUCH stronger “partnership” with Iran than is commonly believed.

I also believe it will be impossible for the US to reach an agreement with Iran where Russia serves as its guarantor. The Russia and Iran hawks in the US and Europe would go absolutely batshit berserk over such a proposition.
🔻 ELittle Lula🚩🦑🦑🦑🚩: What would happen if Israel nuke Iran? It is a trap to Iran all the way
🔻 WS: If the US and/or Israel nuke Iran, it will massively escalate the already begun Last World War. Once that genie is released from its bottle, Russia and China will realize the gloves have come off.

I’m sure Russia and China have made this perfectly clear to all parties concerned.
🔻 ELittle Lula🚩🦑🦑🦑🚩: I hope so, otherwise they will not stop with Iran. India seems to have entered their chat room
🔻 Lysander, Y Sinwar I am Legend: I suspect Trump understands (maybe?🤔?) that sanctions are a major factor in the destruction of the $ as reserve currency.

Ending sanctions is more essential to the US than it is to 🇷🇺 or 🇮🇷

And maybe Trump doesn’t get that. But even if he does, could he do anything about it?
[it’s a proper Gordian Knot. Doomed every which way, being strangled and bled white by sea of enemies]

⭕🔻 Zagonel: 🧵 China is not winning

You wouldn’t know this bc they tightly sensor & manipulate economic data that makes them look bad

China will need huge state spending for GDP growth this year

U.S. GDP (PPP as well) simply grows bc of FDI, buying of treasuries & parking cash in markets
🔻 Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵: Zago, my man — you know I love you, but you’re out here sounding like a NAFO intern on a Red Bull bender.

‘The numbers are fake’?

Bro, that’s their coping anthem.

Don’t go full Reddit on me
[the chart is fake, or more precisely skewed. If you’ve created a few, you’ll know what I mean. It’s easy to massage the data to say anything you really want, as a PhD in statistics once gently told me, with a proud twinkle in his eye, as we prepped to shape new data for biotech bosses]
🔻 WS: When it comes to China, lots of ostensibly “smart people” are blinded by facile delusions rooted in jingoistic bigotry.
[hey, we all gotta hate, no? For softie liberals, the easy one is the Red Menace of the Yellow Peril]
🔻 WS: Russia is the second-largest natural gas producer in the world. Iran and the other Persian Gulf countries have large reserves. Ethane is not a rare commodity. And if the China market needs it, production will soar.
🔻 Herodotus: Jingoists: |link|
🔻 WS: Between the resident anonymous writers and the flood of Epoch Times stuff they post, ZeroHedge has gone full-tilt Yellow Peril Jingoist Non Compos Mentis.
⭕🔻 Ian Ellis: China deploys Shandong carrier task group to the Western Pacific, the 2nd deployment of 2025

Beijing sent the warships through the Luzon Strait, where the U.S. is deploying NMESIS anti-ship missile systems, & positioned them east of the Philippines – sending a message to Manila.
🔻 John Ʌ Konrad V: 99.99% of Americans have no clue how critically important the Luzon Strait is for our national security.

If I could guarantee the safety of just one waterway outside the Americas it would be this one.
[wow. Johnny’s singing from the proper Hymn-book, like Scotty. Not Panama, Bab El Mandeb, Hormuz, or Bosphorus. Some space between islands on the SCS]
🔻 WS: Since when has transit through the Luzon Strait been imperiled? And why would it be? What would be the motivation?
🔻 MisbehavingEconomist: Luzon Strait alternative transit is via Celebes & Sulu seas (which US aircraft carriers have been using) for anything except to & from China… For Asia, I’d say Malacca Strait b/c if it is closes down it means the whole Indonesia archipelago goes too incl. the Celebes Sea.
🔻 Donald Foster: These guys are so predictable
[indeed. And Russia and Yemen were too merciful. If they’d pulled the triggers in the Black Sea and the Red Sea, we wouldn’t be having all this demented empty posturing. A nazi’s gotta be shown his own blood bleeding all over the place to get the memo]
🔻 Goran Karaman: “We are offering you protection of your store, it’s for your own safety… this is bad neighborhood, we don’t want anything bad to happened to you..”
🔻 Rune: When the US either uses Philippines to start a proxy war there, or they + UK decide to be open pirates against Chinese shipping as written about in strategy papers, it will be imperiled. The West only ‘worries’ about the trouble it’s going to cause.
🔻 IAmSagzee: Why do Americans always yap about national security? Is this not an indicator of inferiority and insecurity, despite being protected by two oceans? No, it’s the government way of the brainwashing citizens to live in fear and fund the MIC and elites.
[most influencers online gotta bitch to earn their bread. Build up the Bogieman, the Yellow Peril]
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: Have they tried stopping being assholes and getting along with others?
[where’s the loot in that?]
⭕🔹 The US Marines are deploying remotely driven missile launchers to the tiny Batan Islands at the far tip of the Philippines. They each carry two unremarkable subsonic ASCMs. There are few launchers and few missiles, and few places to hide.

I’m sure the Chinese are trembling.
[yes, but with outrage and disgust. The sheer impudence, by a force already defeated! Playing whack a mole using operational approach of ww2. unbelievable]
🔻 roo_ster: The concept is nifty and execution seems fine. Problem is, they need 10,000+ of them YESTERDAY to match the 10,000+ unremarkable AS/SR/MRBMs & various cruise missiles the Red Chinese have on their east coast TODAY.
🔻 WS: It would not surprise me in the least to learn China has over 100,000 such unremarkable missiles in their inventory, and another 100,000 much more capable newer models. And the surge capacity to produce upwards of 1000 every single day.
🔻 Milan Ilić ❤️Z❤️: It’s Snake Island all over again
🔻 MisteerSawito: Must be sucks being whoever stationed there.
[less survivability than wandering into Kursk…]
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: Who’s supply those guys lunch…? Forget the ammo….
[The Tooth Fairy? And when did the Yanquis adopt the kamikaze tactics of the Japanese Empire? They’re going full Rising Sun]
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: If even Japan categorically refuses to do any trade deal with the US that’s detrimental to their relationship with China, Bessent’s “grand encirclement” plan to isolate China is completely dead in the water.
links:
🔻 Joe Weisenthal: Japan will not take part in any trade bloc that seeks to isolate China, given the importance of China as a trading partner. |link|
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Remember, less than 2 weeks ago, “Bessent Has a ‘Grand Encirclement’ Plan for China… Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and India [are] countries with which the US could work to isolate China”: |link|

That’s over. Not going to happen.
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: A rare case of me and The Economist being in agreement 😅
[links:
🔻 Mike Bird: “There is no other country in Asia that has been more amenable to US efforts to de-risk exposure to China than Japan. Economic security has been a big area of focus for METI etc. If you can’t win Japan over, the chance of getting anyone else on board is rapidly heading to zero.”]
🔻 開國領袖華國鋒: Especially when everyone sees that time is not on the US side so that the longer you wait the better the deal will be, now everyone is just waiting for others to make a deal first with the US.
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Yes, I predicted that Trump might end up making no deal at all 👇 and it’s becoming increasingly likely |link|
🔻 Petri Kuittinen: China is Japan’s most important trading partner. Combined exports to mainland China + Hong Kong are about 25% of Japan’s total exports. South Korea has similar numbers, but it is even more export-driven economy. Japan has trade surplus with China, so it would make absolutely no sense to wreck relations with China.
🔻 Stupid Comments and Observations: Maybe there’s wisdom in not pissing off your 10 times bigger neighbor?
🔻 Cebes: It may be of interest to know that for Japan this is an awkward repeat of the Vietnam War. As, according to Chomsky, the *real* reason for the Vietnam was its economic surge enabled Japan to gain regional economic independence from the USA. Awkward, because it’s China lead now. |link|
🔻 Ed: If they’d played their cards better they might have pulled it off instead of uniting the world against them!
Trump’s greed, impatience and hubris got the better of him.
[but the little devil, and The Devil, are all outta time! They got no choice. C-19 and Gaza were detonators from which there can be no retreat. Full flight forward into the Last Drang]
🔻 Daniel Chovnick, CFA: This ain’t your granddaddy’s China.
⭕ ‼️ Trump: “I have my own deadline.”

“And after that, we’re gonna have a very much different attitude.”

Putin could not care less about Trump’s imagined “deadlines”. The Russians are dictating terms.

That is what happens in the real world when you win a big war. |link|
[see? Orange does tell the truth, if you pay attention. Their time is short]
🔻 WS: 📜 Dictating Terms
🔻 David A Tetzlaff ☦️: The deadline is more about stopping the war before Russia seizes Odessa than saving lives. NATO is desperate to control Odessa for its eventual direct war against Russia.
[mazel tov brother!]
🔻 WS: The Russians will soak their feet in the Danube before all is said and done — and probably every inch of the Dnieper all the way to Belarus, including Nikolaev, Dnipropetrovsk, and everything else they decide is strategically necessary on the right bank of the river.
⭕🔻William Huo:
BREAKING: China made 5nm chips without EUV.
Let that sink in.
No ASML.
No Nikon.
Just brute-force DUV, clever engineering, and sheer industrial will.
Moore’s Law didn’t die.
It moved to Shanghai. |THREAD|
🔻 Chamath Palihapitiya: Sitting here, in 2025, its important to recognize that there is one, and only one, battle that must be won when thinking in terms of the sovereignty and supremacy of one nation-state over another:

Technical Superiority

Countries who have technical superiority will have military and economic superiority over those that don’t. No amount of social engineering can fix this simple truth.

With that in mind, its important to acknowledge that China is formidable and neck and neck with America but America can win if we focus and prioritize.

America will lose, however, if we remain a place where more value is placed on bureaucracy and administrivia vs core innovations and the capital to scale them.
🔻 Bill Bottrell: Tell the Vietnamese about it.
Tell Afghans about technical superiority
Tell the Houthis, who take down a $4M technically-superior US drone with hand-constructed munitions.
Tell the Americans who beat the Crown

Too often, “technical superiority” results in tragic hubris
🔻 WS: Just FYI: The American MQ-9 Reaper drones cost ~$30M for the basic platform, not counting any special reconnaissance or ECM gizmos, nor any of the munitions it carries.

And the Yemeni have now shot down 22 of them.
📜 Scorch Marks in the Sand
🔻 WS: Oh, and few people are aware that the US lost ~10,000 aircraft to enemy fire in the Vietnam War.

Can you imagine the reaction here in 2025 if the US were to lose a thousand aircraft to enemy fire … or even only a hundred?
🔻 Bill Bottrell: Hitler’s siege of Leningrad comes to mind also.
⭕ @DanielLMcAdams provides a succinct summary of the realities of the Ukraine War, and why the United States, as the losing principal in this war, cannot presume to dictate the terms of its cessation.
links:
🔻 Ron Paul: Here’s Why Trump Will Never Solve The War In Ukraine – today on the Liberty Report: |link|
🔻 WS: As I wrote in February of 2023:

📜 The Ontological Incoherence of American Imperial Exceptionalism
[relevant excerpt leads just above]
🔻 WS: And expanded further on the thought in December 2024:
📜 Dictating Terms
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: It is rather interesting that people continue to claim that Russia is limited by ammunition availability in Ukraine, and yet they clearly have mountains of the stuff packed into every depot and arsenal we know of and many that we don’t.
[in response to:
🔻 Uke Meat Mincer: “I don’t even wanna know what kind of absurd ammo production numbers Russia is currently running. If this whole thing went up in smoke, would it have been more than a week’s worth of Russian total ammo output? “]
🔻 WS: Doesn’t excuse the complacency in respect to this fireworks show, but it was likely not even a single day’s consumption on the line of contact.

I would also remind people that Iran’s considerable stockpiles appear to be mostly warehoused deep within fortified mountain tunnels.
⭕🔹 Apti Alaudinov Interview

In my long-expressed opinion, the Russians knew well in advance that the Kursk operation was afoot, and planned to take advantage of it to destroy the final kamikaze run of the NATO/AFU forces.

Even so, my impression at the time was that Alaudinov’s forces were ill-positioned despite the forewarning, and it then took a well-executed repositioning to regain their advantage on the battlefield, which they achieved.

And then they and others methodically destroyed ~70k NATO/AFU soldiers and their equipment over the course of seven months.

I think Apti Alaudinov is a self-promoter with political aspirations, but this is still a worthwhile interview.

I also think the Chechen soldiers are mostly excellent, and have acquitted themselves well throughout this war. |link|
🔻 NerdTech: Why do you think the Russians were ill prepared or positioned?

The goal of the NATO & AFU was the nuclear facilities in Kursk, as a checkmate for negotiations. They didn’t get anywhere close to it.

The Russians in fact, allowed them in deep enough, making retreat costly.
🔻 E.b31: Api is a strange one, he conducts his business but you always get the impression he is horrified by the war, you also get the impression he probably a decent chap, highly intelligent, too.
⭕ Intellectual mediocrity appeals to its imagined authority.
links: Our Elites Don’t Deserve This Much Hatred |link|
🔻 Michael Malice: correct, they deserve far more
and far more than mere hatred
🔻 Ikkyu Sojun: The claim that our elites “don’t deserve this much hatred” is a laughable defense of the indefensible.

These so-called leaders—corporate vultures, war hawks, and unelected bureaucrats—aren’t misunderstood saints.

They’re architects of a system that thrives on lies, theft, and blood.

They’ve gutted economies with austerity, funneled trillions to endless wars, and propped up apartheid regimes while preaching “democracy.”

The hatred isn’t irrational.

It’s earned.

From Washington’s dollar hegemony to Brussels’ technocratic chokehold, they’ve built a cage where the masses drown in debt and despair while they sip champagne.

The empire trains us to blame “commies” or immigrants, but the real enemy is the elite class rigging the game.

They deserve every ounce of scorn for the misery they’ve sown.
🔻 vide: I miss the classics. |link|
🔻 Koi: Trust the plan ur in good hands…
Don’t make any noise and let them handle it
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Marko Jukic: Car manufacturing in Western countries has completely collapsed in the last 25 years. Down -19% in the U.S., -28% in Germany, -65% in Italy, -71% in France.

But in China, it’s grown 16x over.

The legacy auto industry isn’t going to be destroyed—it’s already been destroyed. |THREAD|
[the ONLY chance the Sea Pirates have is to go on the suicide run and try to blow up China. Otherwise they’ll be on their knees taking scraps from the High Table for the next millennia, at the least]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Bro is scared
[he should be]

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ Secret deal sees UAE deploy Israeli-made radar to Somaliland: Report

The Gulf nation has said it ‘fears attacks’ from the YAF
[Somaliland is the breakaway region of Somalia, just across the Bab El Mandeb. YAF = Yemeni Armed Forces. They DO have much to fear. However this is a stupid location, an easy reach for YAF..]

💠@Голос арабов | صوت العرب:
⭕ 🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪 One of the factors why Houthi Yemen can afford to resist the zionist entity and the west is the presence of a professional regular army in Yemen, which is led by officers who graduated from military academies, including Soviet/Russian ones.

🇾🇪 Over the years, people have developed a false impression of the Houthis as guys in flip-flops and kalashnikovs in national dress with jambiya daggers on their belts, but in fact, they are fighters of tribal militias, whose commanders are directly the tribal leaders, and not the army itself.

🇾🇪 The fact is that when the Ansarullah movement carried out a revolution in 2014 and occupied the capital of this Arab republic, the city of Sana’a, the regular Yemeni army and its senior officers were directly involved in this, since the Houthis took power in alliance with the former long-term president of Yemen (1978-2012) General Ali Abdullah Saleh , who in 1990 united northern and southern Yemen into one single Yemen, and when Saleh resigned in 2012 against the backdrop of the events of the ‘Arab Spring’, he retained relatives, friends and colleagues who remained loyal not to his weak successor Abd-Rabbu Mansur Hadi, a protege of the Gulf kings and the United States, but directly to Saleh. Therefore, when the Houthis and Saleh formed an alliance, they easily took power into their own hands.

🇾🇪 During the revolution, the Houthi government took over 80% of the Yemeni army’s equipment and most of its personnel, along with the command, including air defence, armoured vehicles, a ballistic missile arsenal, a navy, and even aviation. It also included technical specialists, engineers, and military-industrial complex facilities.

✅ And Yemeni army officers remained on the Houthis’ side even when Ansarullah came into conflict with Saleh personally in 2017, accompanied by the latter’s attempt to seize power, after which he died.

✅ Therefore, the idea that the Houthis are some kind of group in which only fighters in slippers and national dress serve is not true and is amateurish, because the Houthis are the people’s government of Yemen, which relies primarily on a professional regular army, which has all the attributes of such, including a unified command, insignia of the Yemeni army, ranks, shoulder straps and all branches of the armed forces, whose servicemen wear the military uniform of Yemen.

🇷🇺 If you try to start speaking Russian in the General Staff of the Yemeni Armed Forces, it will also turn out that a considerable part of the senior officer corps studied in Soviet/Russian military academies, including the command.

📸🇾🇪 Senior officers of the Yemeni Armed Forces at a military parade in September 2023, marking the anniversary of the revolution and the founding of the Republic of Yemen.

👉 Yemeni formula of power.

Auto-translated from a Russian language channel on Arab socialism.

💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ Leader of Ansar Allah, Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi – 26 Shawwal 1446 AH

• This week, nearly a thousand members of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip were martyred and injured. For over a month, the Zionist Jewish criminals have been committing brutal atrocities and burning the tents of displaced people with heavy American-made bombs. |media|
• The Israeli enemy relies on starvation as a method of extermination against the Palestinian people and to exert pressure for their forced displacement from the Gaza Strip. The complete and comprehensive blockade on Gaza has been ongoing for more than 50 days.
• A video has been released by the Israelis titled “Next Year in Jerusalem,” depicting the demolition of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the construction of what they refer to as the alleged temple. The Israeli approach towards Arabs relies on a strategy of conditioning and psychological preparation to accept what should never be tolerated at all.
• War is a battle of will, centered around morale and faith. Our people believe in the divine promise, and this immense resilience and unified stance over more than a year and a half is a victory in every sense of the word. The words of the families of martyrs reflect awareness, faith, and strength in their position. The steadfastness of our beloved people expresses their will: no matter how much the American escalation intensifies, it will not break the will of this confident nation that relies on God Almighty. This is an important lesson that the entire nation needs; the more the Americans escalate, the stronger our position becomes.
  [this was yesterday, his weekly Thursday speech to the nation]

⭕A difficult security incident is currently unfolding in Gaza, resulting in a number of Zionist soldiers being killed and injured. Helicopter evacuations are underway to Soroka Hospital within the occupied territories of Palestine.

💠@Yemeni Armed Forces:
⭕ A popular uprising aware of all Zionist ambitions in our Arab and Islamic countries…and a firm, comprehensive, and decisive Yemeni decision to continue strangling the Israeli enemy entity and confronting the American enemy’s support for it.
Million-man march: ” We stand with Gaza… despite the Americans and their crimes ”
#صنعاء
#ميدان_السبعين |media|
⭕ A renewed “human deluge” in a march titled by “Standing with Gaza، against the will of US and its crimes”
The Yemeni decision to ban Israeli shipping is a moral and humanitarian stance supporting oppressed Gaza, all the brutality of US and Israeli intervention cannot stop this decision

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️The defeat of the Ukrainian military that invaded the Russian Kursk Region has been completed, Chief of Staff Gerasimov said

The last settlement in the region, the village of Gornal, was liberated on Saturday, Gerasimov added.

The complete defeat of the enemy in the Kursk border region creates conditions for further successful actions by the Russian Armed Forces in other key areas of the front, Putin said.
⭕ ❗️Liberation of the Kursk region brings closer the defeat of Kiev’s neo-Nazi regime, Putin says

More statements by the Russian president:

▫️The Kiev regime’s “gamble” has completely failed;

▫️Putin thanked the Russian military, who liberated the Kursk region, for their courage and heroism.
⭕❗️Russia Thanks North Korea for Helping to Defeat Ukraine In Kursk Region

The North Korean military, acting shoulder to shoulder with Russian forces in the Kursk region, demonstrated resilience and heroism, Gerasimov stated.
[LOL. God Bless the Russkie. Trolling the trollers]
⭕ The number of victims in the explosion in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas has risen to 516, Iranian media report

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇾🇪| The Yemeni Armed Forces announce the targeting of:

• Vital sites in Jaffa [Tel Aviv] and Askalan

• US army ships in the northern Red Sea with drones.
[The second ops reported today. They are increasing their tempo. Mahmoud Od reported last night the Trembling Puppy was removed from Red Sea, per Yemenis. So this may be increasing confirmation, as more projectiles are able to get through uncontested air — also we now hear Zion is clamoring for another tactical “ceasefire” via Qatar, in order to find a solution for Yemen, and the Last Ever British Carrier group is enroute to sink and die in the Red Sea]
⭕️ South of Iran, Shahid Rajae port, explosion report:

• Massive explosion caused damage to a few buildings, cars in the vicinity with high number casualties.
• Explosion has no connection to refineries or fuel tanks
• Explosion was caused by a number of containers
• Preliminary: 50 injuries so far

⭕ 🇮🇷| Hormozgan Crisis Management Director:

“We had previously issued warnings and conducted inspections as well— both by the provincial crisis management team and by other responsible agencies. Now that this incident has occurred, after providing the necessary services, we will review the causes of the incident and, if there was any negligence or shortcoming, proper follow-up will be carried out.“
⭕ 🇮🇷| Reporter from Fars News:

The explosion reportedly occured in the sulfur storage area of the port.
⭕ 🇮🇷| IRINN Reporter:

While preparing for this report, I heard several explosions. Right now, I can point to flames rising exactly where I heard the blasts.

Initial observations suggest negligence was the cause of the incident.

• Injuries increased to 281 (Tasnim News)
⭕ Director General of Hormozgan Crisis Management:

Due to our rapid relief & rescue measures, the scene is completely under control.

Firefighting operations are on-going, which may take time depending on the conditions and hot weather.

After the completion of the rescue and firefighting operations, if negligence is proven, legal action will be taken.

So far, no deaths have been reported, and the initial injured have been treated on an outpatient basis.
⭕ UPDATE: Injuries in the Shahid Rajaei port blast reached 516 (many are very minor injuries)
⭕ UPDATE: Sadly, so far 4 people have been confirmed dead in the Shahid Rajaei Port blast in Iran — Head of Iran’s National Rescue Organization
⭕ 🇮🇷| Iran’s GOV spokeswoman:

It is difficult to announce the cause of Bandar Abbas’s Shahid Rajaei Port’s blast, as the incident needs to be investigated & this is time-consuming.

What has been determined so far is that stored containers in a corner of the port, which probably contained chemicals, exploded.
[iow, we will give our conclusive report to you on Judgment Day. Keep waiting]
⭕ UPDATE: Death toll reportedly reached 20 unfortunately.
⭕ 🇮🇷| VIDEO: A very close-up footage showing the initial moments of the Shahid Rajaei Port blast. |media|

Summary:

• 516 injuries, mostly minor
• 20 confirmed dead
• Explosion came from chemical in stored containers (not inside the main port)
• No sabotage
• Reason likely negligence

[this channel’s owner is a young man based in Iran. He’s covered it extensively]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇮🇷 Iran’s Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance is at the Pope’s funeral, right inbetween Biden and Trump
⭕️❗️🇮🇷 BREAKING: A large explosion has rocked Shahid Rajaei Port near the city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran, with 516 injuries reported, some of them severe

No deaths have yet been recorded, and investigators on the scene state that the explosion is likely the result of improper storage of highly flammable chemicals, such as ammonium nitrate, used as fertilizer. |media|
[All this is likely never gonna be made clear either way, just as with the likely murder of Iran’s Prez Raisi in the chopper incident. That is how the civilizational-states decided to respond with the anticipated rollout of Terror by Murder Inc.
NB. The murder of the Russian General day of “negotiations” with VVP. And today was the day of “negotiations” with Persia, via offices of Oman]
⭕ —❗️🇮🇷 WATCH: The clearest footage of the explosion in Shahid Rajaee Port until now

It starts with orange mist from Ammonium Nitrate (often used as fertilizer), then a fire, and then the main explosion. |media|
⭕ — 🇮🇷/🇺🇸/🇴🇲 BREAKING: The United States has officially accepted Iran’s red lines regarding its ballistic missile program

Witkoff formally acknowledged Iran’s right to continue its development of all conventional defense capabilities as it sees fit.
⭕ — 🇮🇷/🇺🇸/🇴🇲 BREAKING: In the indirect talks with Steve Witkoff, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi formally rejected the possibility of fully ceasing its uranium enrichment activities, stating that Iran’s right to nuclear enrichment is ‘non-negotiable’
⭕ — 🇮🇷 NOTE: Shahid Rajaee Port is Iran’s largest port, handling 85% of all loading and unloading of containers in the country

It is also the 2nd largest container port in the entire Middle East region.
[this was no ordinary target. It is like attacking Shanghai’s port in China, or LA/Oakland in USA… actually more essential than either of those. The California pair handle only 40% of the entire US sea cargo…. and a satanic mockery too – Lebanon’s deep immiserization and ongoing calamitous poverty really took off when Beirut port blew up one fine summer day, right on Obama’s birthday too]

A “Timid Vinny” is born. And not the one whose woman’s biological clock was ticking like the remaining usual suspect’s Time!

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Tehran Times: This is the front page of tomorrow’s edition of Tehran Times.

Visit tehrantimes.com to read more
[do you know whose mug is on bottom right?]
⭕ In the coming weeks, Benjamin Netanyahu—wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes—will be forced to accept a ceasefire deal with Hamas and end the war on Gaza.

This won’t necessarily mean the end of Israel’s policy of targeted assassinations, especially in Gaza and Lebanon, but it will mark a strategic admission: the Israeli military has failed to defeat the Palestinian resistance.

Despite months of destruction, mass displacement, and a campaign resembling ethnic cleansing, Israel has not achieved its declared objectives. The forced expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza has failed. So has the effort to dismantle Hamas by force.

The war has reached its limits. The longer it continues, the deeper Israel sinks politically and militarily. What’s left is a narrow path forward—negotiation and recognition of the resistance as a reality, not a force that can be erased.

Netanyahu may claim victory. But facts on the ground will say otherwise.
⭕ Israel is exempt from accountability for the Gaza war crimes, my take to @TehranTimes79 |link|
[exempt by their fella criminals in the nazi Internationale. NOT among the regional natives. They wait for Legion to fall, as it must imminently. And for Voentorg to dry up very soon. Then the same Afghan knives wielded by women on dumb british lads abandoned on their plains without any more ammo or backup will come out. This ends only one way now. And the demons know it – why they speed up the extermination, to get in their retaliation first]
⭕🔻 Elon Musk: Time to end the slaughter
🔻 EM: Indeed, Time to End the Slaughter in Gaza too.
[is it me, or is Orange spending most of his time jetting around, like it’s the Love Boat? The crashtestdummy used to vegetate on Rehoboth Beach, DE, New Zion, and the Last American Prez bloviates with the presstitutes way up in the air, among other Princes of the Air]
⭕Despite the daily killing of dozens of Palestinians and the imposition of a humanitarian siege on Gaza for nearly two months, Israel’s military shows a striking sensitivity to its own losses. In just the past two days, the deaths of two Israeli officers and the wounding of seven others in Gaza have already prompted the Chief of Staff to consider recalling reservists, a reaction that exposes the army’s low tolerance for casualties, even as it wages a devastating campaign against a besieged civilian population.
⭕ Syrian foreign minister Asad Al-Shaibani revealed the launch of a “Transitional Justice Authority” following the surge in killings carried out by factions affiliated with or linked to the new administration, under the pretext of “the failure of responsible authorities to punish perpetrators of crimes.” In Aleppo, Homs, and other areas, killings were justified as acts of “retribution”.
⭕ Syria Foreign Minister Asad al-Shaibani: “We have repeatedly declared our commitment that Syria will not pose a threat to any country in the region or the world, including Israel.”
[the Abomination that set up shop in Damascus rivals that in Tel Aviv, or London. It has a special mention in the prophesies of the End Times. An Army from Damascus will march on the liberated arabian peninsula, soon after Armageddon, and be swallowed up by the very earth, somewhere between Makkah and Madina]
⭕retweet:
🔻 Roberta Sutton: Soon after Al-Jolani took over SY he appeared with UK& MI6. Now in full recognition UK has lifted all sanctions. UK approves Jolani’s plan to work with IL & ban Hamas & Pal.Islamic Jihad. Gone are the days when SY worked with the Resistance. EU has suspended not lifted, sanctions |link|
[synopsis of his latest article. one thing is for sure: after the serial barbarity of zionazis, the headchoppers, and the entire West, after the imminent denouement, wearing the western suit will become impossible. ALL the civilized will rush to return to their own traditional attire – including Eurocrazies to animal furs inside their darkened caves and the Black Forest]
⭕ UN said Israel is guilty of imposing man-made starvation, an accountable crime against humanity. |link|
⭕ US complicit:
President Donald Trump said “Netanyahu is keen to accept the idea of allowing humanitarian aids to Gaza”, disregarding the fact that withholding aids and collective punishment are war crimes and crimes against humanity.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Bill Bottrell: Oh, shut up you lying corrupted fools..
By now everyone knows Covid-19 was made in the USA and offshored to Wuhan for deniability.
[responds to:
🔻 Senate Republicans: (which posted the leading Yellow Peril hate job)“]
🔻 WS: reposts his older from 31 Mar 2020:
“Mmmm…

Do we know where COVID-19 originated?

In June 2019, near the US bioweapons lab at Fort Detrick, MD (closed down in August 2019 due to reported “security” lapses), there was a serious breakout at a Fairfax County, VA assisted care facility.” |link|
[Good Lord. A decade earlier than that, I routinely drove by this area. Even took care of the elderly at another nursing home in NW Virginia]
🔻 WS: reposts his older from 11 Apr 2020
“I’m sure it’s just an odd coincidence that DARPA — the Pentagon’s “A-Team” for developing advanced weapons technologies — has expended untold millions researching corona viruses from Chinese bats over the past several years. |link|

Cambridge University researchers phylogenetic analysis suggests Wuhan strain of COVID-19 virus (Type “B”) descends from the strain (Type “A”) most prevalent in the US.” |link|
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ Ranger Cringe

“What will you do when you feel its breath upon your neck?”

You’ll say, “What in the hell am I doing here?”

And then you will meet your maker.

#NoEasyWarsLeftToFight |link|
🔻 Rokossovsky Respecter: I think theyll find Slavs to be tougher and smarter opponents than most Arabs
[nope. They already killed many more Russkies – some 40-45+M if you include the 1990s to both WWs. Russkies have been luckier and more ruthless. And they industrialized quicker, leading to autarchy and independence of the west. Otherwise their trajectory was worse than arabs. But what doesn’t kill you entirely makes you stronger..]
🔻 WS: I assess the probability at ZERO that the US will attempt to fight the Russians. Not even the dumbest generals in the Pentagon are that foolish.
🔻 Earl: We have two massive oceans to protect us.
🔻 WS: That won’t help if you’re fighting in the mountains of Iran.
[that’s the rub of the Way of the Pirate, eh? YOU gotta be the aggressor and cross oceans and mountains to reach the enemy, complete with your stormtroopers, hardware and logistics. A big ask indeed, century after century, especially as you circle the drain after exhaustion and bleeding out in dribs and drabs]
🔻 growler: If only ads and movies represented military exceptionalism…
⭕ 🔹 USS Timid Vinny Goes to War

USS Timid Vinny (CVN-70) is cowering in the deep blue waters of the Arabian Sea, launching long-distance F-35C strikes against Yemen — except the supposedly “stealthy” F-35s are firing mostly from stand-off positions for fear of Yemeni air defenses, and otherwise hunting lawnmower engine drones with their gun that doesn’t shoot straight.

I guess this is supposed to be training for going up against the Iranians or the Chinese, right? 🤦‍♂️ |link|
🔻 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩: Long distance F35C?

That’s funny.
🔻 WS: There is no way they’re launching sorties from the Arabian Sea without tankers refueling them at some point.
[I was reading somewhere those tanker loads were provided gratis by the UAE…]
🔻 C2: The irony of this is that the air defense of Yemen is effectively a deterrence for the US Navy.

It highlights the limitations of US air power and how they would not be able to just fly in and bomb Yemen at will.

Certainly not a war with Iran, much less Russia or China.
🔻 Elydia35: “Timid Vinny” 😂😂
🔻 Carborundum Crew: Expensive, complicated (and thus with many modes of failure) weapons that require several degrees and years of training to operate do not seem likely to win wars.

After all, as someone said, “during war the easy stuff is very difficult and the difficult is fucking impossible!”
🔻 Nasim Watani: The US premier fighter is firing missiles into Yemen from standoff range!

The US is so dysfunctional. It’s any empire dying from a thousand cuts.
🔻 WS: 📜 Bleeding the Beast
⭕ Not only are they now the greatest manufacturing nation in history, but the Chinese have also become formidable meme generators. 🤣
🔻 Maya Majueran: And educated Americans to recognize the evolving global landscape and the gradual shift away from U.S. hegemony.
🔻 Matthew McCracken: I fear that this horse has already left the barn. China is not going to help Trump reverse course. We are headed to a deep economic depression. The Chinese are ready for the long term struggle. During the 2020 Covid year the Chinese GDP still grew 2.5%.
⭕🔸 For the record, and irrespective of who is making it, I continue to stand by what I wrote in this three-post thread: |THREAD|
⭕‼️ The supposedly lowly Yemeni are inflicting upon the US Navy and Air Force one of the most astounding strategic military defeats seen in many generations.
links:
🔻 Natasha Bertrand: NEW: The Houthis have successfully shot down at least seven multi-million-dollar American drones over last 6 weeks, hindering the US’ ability to move into “phase two” of the operation against the group, per multiple officials. |link|
[yeah, the qualifiers start to enter the chat. “Supposedly”. Wait til the Yemenis get going. They’re as slow as the Russkie]
🔻 Natasha Bertrand: The US was hoping to achieve air superiority over Yemen within 30 days, officials said, and degrade Houthi air defense systems enough to begin a new phase focusing on ramping up intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance of senior Houthi leaders in order to target and kill them, the officials said.

But the platforms among the best suited to conduct that persistent effort, the MQ9 Reaper drones, keep getting shot down, the officials explained. In fact, the Houthis are only getting better at targeting them. with @halbritz @ZcohenCNN
🔻 John: it was foretold that, in end times, ‘a fire would come out of Yemen’
[my brother!]
🔻 Ant-i: The US will run out of aircraft carriers soon
[but we shall be entertained with ever new nicknames, courtesy of WS]
🔻 John Casey: Hmm.
Yemen Military 🇾🇪
We call on international media to demand that the criminal Trump release the data from the aircraft carrier Truman for the period of March 20 to 23, 2025 — including footage from cameras mounted on its sides and inside its command room.”

A fateful step was taken in Iran today…….

💠 “Dutch town hall throws away Warhol artwork – Nearly 50 works of art have reportedly disappeared in the municipality of Maashorst due to poor storage and oversight”
I’d put the last four words in quotation marks. And not a good sign. Nazis tend to clean shop when they hit the ratlines. Given what they intend to do, do they expect the Russians, or more likely their Fire, to be coming to the low countries??

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ The Yemeni Armed Forces have announced attacks on Tel Aviv and Ashkelon using drones, hours after last night’s ballistic missile attack on an Israeli military target in Negev

Additionally, they have continued to target the American USS ‘Harry S. Truman’ aircraft carrier.

Israeli media reports that the accuracy and precision of recent attacks from Yemen have improved, despite constant bombardments from the U.S. Air Force.
⭕ Al-Qassam Brigades have released footage of sniping Israeli soldiers in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza. |media|
⭕ ❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇴🇲 Informed sources for Iran’s IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News:

‘In today’s and previous negotiation rounds, the topic of transferring uranium to a location abroad has not been raised or discussed.

Additionally, the U.S. has not made any demands for ‘zero enrichment’, and the principle of Iran’s right to uranium enrichment is not among the points of disagreement.’
[LOL. The Age of Unkind Cuts. NYET! On every side awaits humiliation. Even Rules-based Terrorism cannot cover for this]
⭕ Firefighting efforts at Shahid Rajaee Port continue into the night
⭕ A state of emergency will be declared in Bandar Abbas due to the possible spread of hazardous substances due to the fire in Shahid Rajaee Port
⭕❗️🇮🇷 NEW: The fire is getting worse |media|
⭕ The Minister of Roads, Farzaneh Sadeq, visited the site of the fires

The chief of the local firefighting department complains they don’t have enough equipment to extinguish the fire.
⭕ The situation is very bad.

The fire is spreading to other areas of the port, including areas with flammable containers, and more explosions are likely to happen.
⭕ The order has been issued to completely evacuate the entire port and all its surrounding facilities
[btw, this was the chief port iirc for not only 85% of Iran’s cargo, but for the INSTC too. Chabahar had not been completed for decades, as planned, due to foot-dragging by India.. it is easy to destroy, and eviscerate all the golden plans for the harmonious multi-nodal world future. There is a reason Medvedev is visiting Kapustin Yar today…]
⭕ While speculation at this stage is pointless, it is at least suspicious that the fires in Shahid Rajaee Port were present at two different sides of the main port road

How did the fire manage to spread from one part of the port to another, or were there several simultaneous explosions? The second option would indicate sabotage. We have to wait and see.
⭕ I also refer the public to this statement made by Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi 3 days ago, where he warned of any sabotage attempts by Israel to derail the US-Iran talks.
⭕ 🇮🇷 Headline of ‘Kayhan’, conservative-aligned Iranian newspaper:

‘Severe explosion in Shahid Rajaee port: Accident or sabotage?’

However, the subtext of the newspaper then continues to talk about the possibility of an accident as the most likely scenario.

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇮🇷| UPDATE: Iran’s Interior Minister present at Shahid Rajaei port, confirmed 750 injuries so far, mostly minor ones.

Additionally, fire continues to spread to nearby containers as fire fighters attempt to control the fire. Fortunately, everyone has been already evacuated. Unfortunately, this incident will leave an economical impact. |link|

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇻🇦🇺🇦 The Telegraph reports: Vatican Bent Protocol to Secure Zelensky a Front-Row Seat at Pope Francis’ Funeral

The Vatican broke with traditional protocol to ensure Zelensky was given a front-row seat at the funeral of Pope Francis, alongside Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron, The Telegraph reports.

Normally, arcane diplomatic rules dictate that world leaders are seated alphabetically according to their country’s name in French, the traditional language of diplomacy. Under these rules, Mr. Zelensky would likely have been placed in the third row or farther back.

Instead, he was seated in the front row, 11 seats away from Trump, who was positioned to his right.

The Vatican did not deny that protocol was altered. “I believe they filled a vacant place,” Matteo Bruni, the Vatican’s spokesman, told The Telegraph.

Between Zelensky and Trump were the presidents of India, Hungary, Gabon, as well as Macron and his “wife,” Brigitte, and Finnish President Alexander Stubb.

In French, the United States is listed as États-Unis, starting with an E. To the right of Trump and his wife, Melania, sat Estonian President Alar Karis and Spain’s King Felipe (Espagne in French).

To Zelensky’s right was Irish President Michael D. Higgins, further suggesting that normal seating protocols were deliberately adjusted to give Zelensky a more prominent position.

Elsewhere, the established rules appeared to be strictly followed, with Argentine President Javier Milei placed at the far right of the front row, seated next to a standing Swiss Guard.

🐻 All that for the Narcoführer, who didn’t even bother to wear a suit and tie, despite Vatican protocol requiring formal attire at such events.
[did u catch the numerology? 7 on each side = 77. In Hebrew or Arabic (and likely Aramaic), a 6 appears as 7. So saluted off with a 66]
⭕ 🇷🇺 Dmitry Medvedev visited the Kapustin Yar training ground in the Astrakhan region. |media|
[this is where the first Oreshnik was launched. Not in Kazakhstan]

You must hand it to the handlers of Orange. To every constituency – he’s gotten burnished cache. To the crude men, he’s grabbed them by the Tom Jones. To the pedos of the Big Club – he’s Teflon Don, a lifelong Epstein pal who pretends to expose Epstein. To the inbred old elites, vexed to smithereens watching their entire scam go up in flames – he’s the Clown you send in to bedevil the civilizational-states. To the Rapturists – his blooded ear the proof of divine favor. And how much of the black vote did this ostensible flirtation with jail time swing? Surely one so abused on trumped up charges cannot be another swamp creature??

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ At least 14 people have died and around 750 others were wounded following a massive explosion in Bandar Abbas. The origin of the explosion remains unclear, with officials promising to disclose the cause after an ongoing investigation. Despite the deployment of 700 firefighters, the fire has not yet been brought under control, as secondary explosions continue to erupt due to the highly explosive materials contained in several containers.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Joshua Landis: 13 Alawite civilians were executed in Homs, #Syria in the past 24 hours.

Another 4 in Damascus. All were summary executions.

President Sharaa is not speaking out about this. Over 50 Alawite girls have been abducted over the last two months.

This is not to mention the 1800 Alawite civilians killed on the coast in March, or the 8 Alawite villages north of Hama that have been completely cleansed.

The government has done little if anything to stop these killings, many of which have been carried out by government forces.

Meanwhile, crowds in Homs have been parading in the Alawite sections of town chanting “Homs is for the Sunnis, Alawites get out.” At Homs Univ. Imams have been preaching against Christians and Alawites.

These sectarian killings complicate the effort by Western gov’s to lift sanctions or to affirm that the Sharaa gov is doing the right thing.

Video shows Sunnis in #Homs walking between two #Alawite Neighborhoods, chanting that Syria is for Sunnis and that Alawites get out.

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇵🇰 Posts Russian YARS ICBM from the Victory Day Parade 🤣

🐻 If you thought there was a lot of fake news and videos from the Middle East in the past year or so, just wait until India and Pakistan go at it.
[Yeah. I used to enjoy Bollywood as a lad. The Bollywood Boys shall gaslight us all and without any hesitation. May our guts hold out]
⭕ 🇵🇰🇮🇳 One of the fakes already circulating on the internet claims this is a destroyed Indian checkpoint.

In reality, it’s a fire in the Mourne Mountains, County Down, Ireland, from March 17.
⭕ 🇵🇰🇮🇳 Pakistan has ordered all doctors, nurses, paramedics and ambulance drivers to be placed on stand-by status in the districts of Jhelum Valley and Leepa Valley, near the Line of Control in the Kashmir region, following the eruption of heavy clashes along the Pakistan-India border region.
[Both melodramatic Bollywood Boys shall be like putty in the hands of the Anglos. Easy pickings. All they need to determine is the timing]

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Death Toll in Blast in Iran’s Bandar Abbas Port Rises to at Least 25, Authorities Say

The injured toll has reached 1,139 people, government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said.

The explosion may have reportedly been caused by a solid missile fuel.

A video by Iranian news agency Mehr shows the aftermath of the explosion |media|
⭕ ❗️Putin Sends Condolences to Iranian Leadership Over Deadly Port Explosion

The Russian president also expressed readiness to provide help to the Iranian authorities in relief effort, the Kremlin said.
⭕ ❗️❗️❗️Pakistan Has No Intention to Start Conflict With India Unprovoked, Defense Minister Says

“But if India attempts to invade Pakistan or attack Pakistan, they’ll be met with more than a matching response,” Khawaja Muhammad Asif told Sputnik.

More statements by the Pakistani defense minister:

• Pakistani-Indian tensions are unlikely to escalate into a nuclear exchange;
• Pakistan seeks an international investigation into the April 22 terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir;
• Accusations of Pakistan’s involvement in the attack are “hollow claims” without evidence;
• Russia and China could “play a positive role” in resolving the crisis, joining the investigation.

India-Pakistan tensions have escalated after the recent terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir, which killed 26 people, prompting India to reduce embassy staff, suspend the Indus Waters Treaty, and close the last open land border crossing.
[these are very positive developments. Perhaps sanity is returning to the Pakistanis. Along with admiting (and hopefully repenting of) their criminal role as imperial gauleiters foisting salafi hordes on the region, they now openly call for Russian-Chinese mediation, which for sure will be more impartial and honest than any Anglo fingering of a situation they themselves created in 1947]

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ The fire extinguishing operations continued the entire night, at the Shahid Rajaei port blast site, and is reaching its final stages.
⭕ 🇮🇷| IRGC Captain Soodsaz:

IRGC helps with fire extinguishing operations of Shahid Rajaei port.

Humanitarian relief operations are one of the core missions of the IRGC, thus we converted an aircraft (Ilyushin) for deployment within 3 hours.

We carried out nighttime water drops and moved from Tehran toward Bandar Abbas, despite the spread of the fire and the high-risk conditions. We accepted the risk and conducted nighttime operations. |media|
⭕ 🇮🇷| Iran’s Defense Ministry Spox to IRIB:

“There were no imported/exported military-related cargoes in Shahid Rajaei Port, as suggested by our investigation & documentation.

Any reports about missile components [such as the rumour of Chinese cargo] being the cause of fire is solely foreign media creating a chain of hype about it, it’s bogus.”
⭕ 🇮🇷| The Shahid Rajaei port is back (partially) operational as only one section in the dock was impacted. Transit is back in motion.

💠 @BhadraPunchline:
⭕ 1/2 “All signs indicate the stage is being set for further escalation in tensions and a possible military standoff. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s message from a rally in Bihar is the threat of punishment “beyond imagination” |media|
⭕ 2/2 “Given geopolitical currents, revulsion at such targeting of innocent tourists, and a broad understanding of India’s stand on the issue of cross-border terrorism, it is unlikely that other countries such as the U.S. will press New Delhi to restrain its next steps…”
⭕ While preparing an appropriate response to the Pahalgam attack, Islamabad’s realignment with Dhaka should be kept in view. Pakistan Army seems concerned of US’s support for India |media|

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ 🤡🌍 The biggest irony of the Trump silly talk below is that, here in late April 2025, the Yemeni have been the gatekeepers of the Suez Canal for 18 months and running.
[and shall remain so, long after the Last Satanic Empire has dissipated like a colorless noxious gas in our collective nightmare]
🔻 Alex Ocana: Trump has the illusion (delusion) that he owns everything in the world and that the USA invented and constructed everything in the world. Trmp’s grasp of history, and of the world outside his glitzy billionaire club, is zero. Megalomaniac.
🔻 Imperius Fistus: From a guy that is already planed to charge a tariff on all the ships made in China and has a complete ignorance of who built the Suez Canal. “50 Shades of Orange Reality Show” style
⭕ 💥🔥 Bandar Abbas Fireworks

All I have to say about the massive explosion and fire at Bandar Abbas in Iran is that we are long-since past the “enemy action” threshold for these sorts of things. |media|
⭕ The stock-trading “denial of service” bots on X have absolutely run amok. Every post I make is now immediately assaulted with a dozen or more of these bot replies within a minute or two after I click “Post”.
🔻 Timothy Leary’s Dead 🏴‍☠️🌱🐑🐕 🎣🎇👀🐈‍⬛⚠️🎲: I always report them as spam, but it doesn’t do much good.
🔻 WS: They are clearly a deliberate “denial of service” gambit. They are designed to muddy the waters of any post and subsequent thread that is deemed “undesirable” at this point in time. I hide and block them as much as I can, but they are far too numerous to defeat entirely.
🔻 Majid Hosseini: The reason is you mentioned gold and silver
🔻 Jeff English: Elon is supposed to clean up fraud, waste and abuse in the US government but he can’t even clean up his crappy app!
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: I noticed the issue and, a few days ago, took it upon myself to block around 50 of them.

While it’s recommended to report and block such accounts, I didn’t have the time to report each one individually.
🔻 Eomar – Diligent News: Yea, I got the same thing. I don’t think it is a coincidence, they are so obviously bots I could run a script to boot them. Notably, Cheq, an Israeli company, is supposed to clean up the bots. Also, after waves of that, I’m often found in “probable spam”. |link|
[Right! Like going to Dr. Fauci for advice and solutions to corona….]
⭕🔻 ₦₳V𝚜𝚝é𝚟𝚊 🇷🇺 ᴢ:
I, too, didn’t believe North Koreans were fighting in Kursk. I was wrong.
🔻 WS: I never thought there was persuasive evidence of DPRK troops in Kursk, but I always thought:

1) It would have been a good idea for both DPRK and China to send troops to experience big war combat;

2) It was perfectly legitimate for them to do so.
🔻 ゆすふ: Why do you think they revealed it now?
🔻 ₦₳V𝚜𝚝é𝚟𝚊 🇷🇺 ᴢ: Got me, but all of us have egg on our faces over it.
🔻 Nicholai_Korea: Opsec is over so N Korea played this well and gained a lot of experience.
🔻 Reader: I think Chinese and Iranian military is present there but not in combat
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: “Tell me why I am wrong”

You’re wrong because you assume – probably like Trump – that the Chinese will prioritize profits over national dignity and sovereignty, which is simply not going to happen.

Again, Mao, when he declared the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, didn’t promise wealth, he said: “Ours will no longer be a nation subject to insult and humiliation. We have stood up.”

This is the fundamental legitimacy of the Communist Party, much more than money.

So the notion that China would submit to bullying that is eerily similar in nature to what they suffered at the hands of the West during the century of humiliation is a fundamental misunderstanding of the country.

Heck, even from a profit standpoint it wouldn’t be beneficial to them because what would happen if China yields? The principal reason why Trump has zero deal on the table right now is because China’s position emboldens other nations to also resist American pressure.

If China were to yield, it would send a message to the world that multipolarity is over, and we’d witness American hubris on steroids, with Trump and future administrations validated in their belief that unilateral bullying is effective foreign policy. It would become their blueprint in an even worse way than it already is.

How is that beneficial for China’s or anyone’s prosperity, beyond the US’s?

So all in all, you’re wrong because you’ve fundamentally misread the nature of this confrontation. This isn’t merely an economic calculation for China, but an existential question about what kind of world we’ll live in tomorrow. China understands that yielding now means surrendering not just on tariffs, but on their right to determine their own economic future.

Their resistance isn’t just about this particular trade dispute; it’s about establishing boundaries for how great powers interact in the 21st century. By holding firm now, China is investing in a future international order where American unilateral coercion doesn’t work anymore. The “damage” you describe pales in comparison to the stakes at play here. |link|
🔻 開國領袖華國鋒: He is wrong on another level, too.

Yes, Apple could move the assembly lines to India, but smartphones are almost 20 yrs old.

Other new industries, ‘the New Quality Productive forces’ like EVs and Robots, Chinese companies have both brands and whole supply chain, they don’t move
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Great point
🔻 Doggy Dog: You are wrong because:

1) China is the larger market. Far larger. By multiples. And growing at least 2x as fast. If you think otherwise… well… that’s exactly why Bessent and team ran right into the China wall.

2) Efficient high quality capacity will stay in China to source domestic and ex-US markets. Less efficient and lower quality capacity will by offshored, Galapagos-ising the US economy to permanent sloppy seconds.

3) There are now 192 economies to run transshipment trade. The US does not have the state capacity to enforce export sanctions on NVidia, an American company with a few banned products. How does it plan to stop transshipping by Chinese and global entrepreneurs?

4) in the medium term, the longer China waits, the greater the collapse of US domestic industrial output from lack or parts and REEs drying up and the more permanent damage is done. China is actually incentivised to draw this out until US REE inventories run out and America’s high tech manufacturing sector is destroyed.

Tell me why I’m wrong.
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Yes, excellent points too
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Breaking the “Drone Wall” |THREAD|

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇵🇸| Al-Qassam Brigades:

Targeted an Israeli Merkava-4 tank with a Yassin 105 tandem rocket, east of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, in Gaza City.
⭕ 🇮🇷| Three days of public mourning were declared by the Governor of Hormozgan province for the 28 deaths in the Bandar Abbas port accident.
⭕ 🇮🇷| Iran’s judiciary issued criminal charges against several media outlets and media activists due to publishing fake news about Shahid Rajaei incident.

Some of these outlets have used this catastrophic tragedy as a tool to further their agenda through the publishing of fake news. Thankfully, they’ll be dealt with.
[hyperbolic Hal’s lying is off the charts. He spewed bilge water about five separate points of the Iranian port being attacked, and now is mouthing off about the Pakistani DM threatening a nuke attack. What a clown show, the desperate Anglo-Zionazi dregs]
⭕ 28 dead and 1,242 injured in Shahid Rajaei Port blast incident in Iran’s Bandar Abbas — Red Crescent
⭕ 🇮🇷| UPDATE: Latest death toll in Bandar Abbas blast incident sits at 40 — Eskandar Momeni, Minister of Interior.

The pier where the explosion took place holds a maximum of 3,500 containers. It’s a small area on scale compared to the entire Shahid Rajaee Port’s 30,000 containers, but it was also a major incident, says the minister.
⭕ Former Shin Bet chief: Civil disobedience against Netanyahu has begun. Netanyahu is a clear threat to Israel’s existence and is fighting against its people.
⭕ The Talmudic terrorist regime just issued a threat to bomb Hadat, in Dahyeh (Beirut’s Southern Suburb).
⭕ A drone from Yemen was launched at Israel, from the eastern borders.

The IAF claims it shot down the drone.
[the missiling and droning by Yemen is relentless now. Several times every day. The rats live in Bunkers]

💠@red:
⭕Do you see the Western hypocrisy?
[it will be relief to have this criminal whining hypocritical era of Harlot Babylon behind us. Never has such a wretched hegemon strutted the earth. Like Zion, they weep and whine, even as they holocaust continents. The very dregs of the Babylonian System, the little fat toes of mixed iron and clay]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Hundreds of officers belonging to the UAE-backed ‘Yemeni National Resistance’ have defected to Ansarallah (the Houthis), and gathered in the capital Sanaa for briefing
⭕These officers defected from the UAE-backed ‘Yemeni National Resistance’, their territory is illustrated by the Blue area on Yemen’s Western Coast

They are led by General Tareq Saleh, nephew of the late President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former Houthi ally that defected to the side of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in 2017.

It seems almost all of their high command have defected.
[excellent. Saleh’s cadre were trained by russkies of the USSR iirc. And note how Ansarallah’s iron grip on the Bab El Mandeb tightens. And this reduces possibilities for distracting them with internal civil war – as really the only ground forces on earth which could trouble them are other yemenis already inside yemen.. One of the best prophesies of the bitter End Times would be the reunification of Yemen after countless millennia… undoubtedly the source of the rising Fire which shall sweep all mankind to the Holy Land]

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ The Palestinian resistance released a video showing the rescue of Israeli hostages trapped under debris caused by an Israeli airstrike on the very location where they were being held. The footage documents how some hostages were buried alive, and how at least one was rescued and provided with oxygen as he responded to first aid.
This powerful film should deeply shake Israeli society, offering undeniable evidence that their own army’s bombardments are endangering and killing Israeli hostages, an event that has occurred more than once. It also reinforces a growing perception: that the Israeli government, already widely seen as indifferent to the welfare of its citizens over the past year and a half, prefers risking the death of all hostages rather than negotiating their release.
🔻 Syrian Girl: Where can one see the footage ?
🔻 EM: |media|
⭕ Israel is prepared to bomb a building in the suburb of Beirut, al-Hadath, and warned the civilians to evacuate it. This could have serious repercussion, totally undermining the Lebanese government’s authority.
⭕ Don’t expect Hezbollah to retaliate. It is the responsibility of the Lebanese government to take up its responsibility.
⭕ Israel hit and destroyed the designated building in the suburb of Beirut while a civilian aircraft was taking off from Beirut airport.

supposedly shipping cargo is at or near zero in main US pacific ports. With what is about to go down in CONUS, it is no wonder the criminal elite seek to blow up the world, involving Pakistan-India as the latest desperate detonator.

💠 “Americans increasingly reliant on loans for groceries – survey”
☝️ Gen Z defined as those born 1997-2012 (so today 13-28 yo)

💠 “Massive blackout hits EU countries — Spain and Portugal have been paralyzed by a widespread power outage on Monday”
if only EU folks knew how much of their energy gets rerouted to 404…

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Only in Lebanon people stand together fearlessly, waiting for Israel to launch a missile with hundreds of kg of explosives against a location tens of metres away, feel no fear and repeat pro Hezbollah slogans. |media|
[All the demon West has left now is to kill and be killed. There is no positivity whatsoever, esp no soft power, no fear factor shown by Others, no good will, no comity. And billions with sharpened knives live for and await their sputtering MIC to seize up, and the inevitable change of local elites, before finishing them off on the World-Island]
⭕ US bombs Yemen detention centre, killing 30 migrants, Ansar Allah Houthi media says.
⭕ The problem of think-tank researchers is the fact they sit in a tank and talk to one another and communicate with other researchers also sitting in a tank. The common points among these are: they don’t see what is happening outside their tanks and they all say the same thing so they agree with one another. So when they are expressing wishful thinking and have no real clue about the reality, it is ok because they all make the same mistake and, in consequences, nobody cares. I am referring to the current common analysis about Iran and its allies.

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇮🇳/🇵🇰 NEW: India’s aircraft carrier, the INS Vikrant, returned to its home port shortly after being deployed to the Arabian Sea

India likely decided not to take the risk after Pakistan deployed large amounts of air assets to forward airbases in the South.

For the past 48 hours, India has largely been backtracking from its original ‘tough stance’, asking Iran to deliver messages to Pakistan aimed at de-escalating tensions.
⭕️ 🇾🇪/🇺🇸 WATCH: A new massacre by the U.S. Air Force in Yemen has resulted in dozens of inmates being killed and wounded

This prison was previously struck by the Saudi-led coalition in 2022.
⭕❗️Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, on X:

‘Israel’s fantasy that it can dictate what Iran may or may not do is so detached from reality that it hardly merits a response.

What is striking, however, is how brazenly Netanyahu is now dictating what President Trump can and cannot do in his diplomacy with Iran.

Conveniently, Netanyahu’s Allies in the failed Biden Team—who failed to reach a deal with Iran—are FALSELY casting our indirect negotiations with the Trump administration as another JCPOA.

Let me be clear: Iran is strong and confident enough in its capabilities to thwart any attempt by malicious external actors to sabotage its foreign policy or dictate its course. We can only hope our U.S. counterparts are equally steadfast.

Many Iranians no longer believe the JCPOA is sufficient. They seek tangible dividends. Nothing Netanyahu’s Allies in the Failed Biden Team say or do will change this reality.

There is no military option, and certainly no military solution. Any strike will be immediately reciprocated.’
⭕ Pakistan’s Minister of Defense, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, says that Indian military action is ‘imminent’ – Reuters
⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 Pakistani Minister of Defense, Khawaja Muhammad Asif:

‘We have reinforced our forces because it is something which is imminent now.

So in that situation some strategic decisions have to be taken, and those decisions have been taken.’

💠@kuluary_zaliva (В кулуарах Залива):
⭕ Iran has determined the cause of the explosion at the port

The explosion at the Shahid Rajaee commercial port in Bandar Abbas was caused by negligence, and those responsible have already been found, Iranian Interior Minister Eskander Moameni said . On April 26, a powerful explosion occurred at the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, injuring more than a thousand people.

Despite the speculation, Iranian authorities have rejected the theory of outside interference . Earlier, there were suggestions of Israeli sabotage. The explosion in Bandar Abbas occurred on the day when another round of talks between Iran and the United States on the fate of the Iranian nuclear program began in Oman . The Israeli government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, has repeatedly stated that it considers negotiations with Iran a mistake.
[right. we believe you. We’ll know soon enough, after the zionazi rapture]

💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ The official spokesperson for Ansar Allah, Mohammed Abdulsalam, stated:

• A brutal crime has been committed by the U.S. administration this morning against African migrants by bombing their shelter in Saada.
• The brutality exhibited by the U.S. administration will not cover for the military failures they are experiencing in their aggression against Yemen.
• The U.S. administration’s escalation in its aggression against Yemen will not yield any achievements for them.
• The international silence regarding America’s crimes encourages it to continue its bloodshed by targeting civilian gatherings, misleading the world into believing they are military targets.
• Washington’s resort to such claims does not make them a reality; the true reality is that Washington harbors a premeditated intent for crime and terrorism.

⭕ Initial images from the crime of the American aggression targeting the Saada Reserve Prison |media|
⭕ The Political Bureau of Ansar Allah stated:

• The American aggression against our country continues to commit deliberate crimes against civilians, the latest being the massacre of African migrants in Saada.
• The war crimes of the American aggression represent the peak of moral failure and downfall reached by the U.S. administration.
• The barbarism and excessive use of force once again confirm that America is a transnational terrorist entity.
• The shiny humanitarian narratives that preceded Washington’s wars aimed at enslaving nations in the name of freedom and human rights.
• We call on the free people of the world to increase their pressure and to show greater solidarity with the Yemeni and Palestinian peoples.
• We renew our commitment to Palestine and Gaza, affirming that American barbarism will not stop our people and armed forces from continuing their struggle.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕❗️Russian military liberated Kamenka in Kharkov region, Defense Ministry reported
⭕ Some 6 to 10 Hours Needed to Fully Restore Power Supply in Spain, Reports Say

The country’s power grid operator described today’s blackout as an unprecedented event in history |media|
[this appears another live experiment]

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ ❌💬🇪🇺 Widespread power outages reported across Europe—residents of Spain, Portugal, France, and Belgium are complaining about network failures.

According to local media, disruptions in electricity and internet services have been reported by residents of Lisbon, Algarve, and Coimbra in Portugal, Madrid and Barcelona in Spain, and the Burgundy region in France.

Publico reports that Lisbon’s metro is out of service, and there are also reports of power outages in the Netherlands and Belgium. According to El Mundo, Madrid’s Barajas airport is not operational. The cause of the massive power grid failure has not yet been revealed.
⭕ 🇪🇸 BREAKING! The authorities of Madrid will ask the government to activate “Emergency Plan 3” in order for the military to intervene during the power outages, if necessary.
[“…in order for the military to intervene….”]
⭕ 💬🇪🇸🇵🇹 Power Outage in Spain and Portugal: Authorities Predict Restoration Could Take 6 to 10 Hours

A massive power outage has left Spain and Portugal without electricity, with full restoration expected to take between 6 to 10 hours, according to El Pais. The exact cause of the blackout remains unknown.

The disruption has affected all sectors, including train services, air travel, public transportation, and traffic lights.
⭕ 🇺🇦💬🇪🇺 Ukraine is ready to help Europe with their energy troubles in the most valuable way – by sharing what it’s like not to have electricity
⭕ 🇵🇹A “rare atmospheric phenomenon” that could last for another week could be the cause of a major blackout in Spain and Portugal, Portuguese operator claims

🐻 Then they will definitely need Ukraine’s expertise
⭕ 🇵🇹💬Portugal is considering different versions of the causes of the blackout, but there is no indication that it was a cyber attack, the prime minister said.
⭕ 🇵🇰🇮🇳 Pakistan has stated that its military has been placed on the “highest level of alert” in anticipation of a reportedly “imminent” attack from India.

Pakistan has also added that they will only use their arsenal of nuclear weapons if “there is a direct threat to our existence”.
⭕ ⚠️🇮🇳🇵🇰 Pakistan Defence Minister: Indian military invasion is inevitable and will happen soon.

Pakistan Defence Minister: Countries should refrain from using nuclear weapons.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 🤔 This is a valid observation and question.

And the history of the past half-decade suggests the powers that be in China seek fewer peasants among their populace, whereas the powers that be in America seek to make more peasants among their own.
links:
🔻 Shaun Rein: America buys refined rare earth, antibiotics, iPhones, lithium batteries from China

China buys soybeans, corn & beef from America

Who are the peasants?
🔻 CounterPoint China: Yep…. I’ve been living here in China for 25 years, and all they the govt and people have done is work their butts off to improve their country and the entire time do it in peace, never warring or attacking any other nation. The best America’s govt can do in turn is sow a whole bunch of lies about China, because they themselves have failed. It’s incredibly sad frustrating and disheartening.
⭕🔻 zerohedge:
Schweizer: Chinese Chemists Working With Mexican Cartels Creating Fentanyl To Kill Americans |link|
🔻 WS: “Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”

― Euripides
🔻 Zap Radon: ZH gets more hysterical all the time.
⭕ The US has bold plans to increase GMLRS rocket production to 19,000 annually.

That’s enough for 50 HIMARS launchers to fire five salvos per day for a little less than two weeks. |link|
⭕🔻 China Xinhua News:
At an event in Hangzhou, China, Chinese and French guests simply donned 49-gram Rokid AR glasses and spoke in their own languages while instant subtitles appeared on the lenses, enabling seamless dialogue. |link|
🔻 WS: We’re not many years away from Star Trek’s “Universal Translator”.
⭕ ‼️ There are now well over 5000 Starlink satellites in earth orbit.
reposts his older: “👀 Starlink Satellite Network

In my view, it is essential to ascertain if Elon Musk is a bona fide champion of the people’s “free speech” or a sworn disciple of the empire.

He cannot simultaneously be both.”
⭕ ‼️ Thread from June 2023 … PRIOR to the ongoing attempt to erase Gaza, Syria, and Yemen (and Iran?) from the face of the earth. |THREAD|
⭕ ‼️ USCENTCOM is very anxious for everyone to believe they have everything “under control” in the ongoing Battle of the Red Sea.

They also insist that everyone believe it’s Iran that is to blame for it all.

Meanwhile, the Yemeni remain the gatekeepers of the Bab-el-Mandeb. |link|
⭕ The Iranians may have their reasons for refusing to acknowledge that the explosions at Bandar Abbas were the result of “enemy action”, but I don’t believe there is any room for doubt.

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 💬🇵🇹 Scenes from a Portuguese supermarket after blackouts that have lasted for over 8 hours in some places. |media|
[this is terrifying. These insouciant exceptionals haven’t experienced hunger in some 80 years. And even then, quite briefly, with 400 years of plenty before then. I recall the consequences of Mr P’s “missing nine square meals”. All pretensions are dropped as former gardens become proud Jungles]
⭕ 🇺🇸 Earlier today, the U.S. Navy reported an F/A-18E Super Hornet and a tow tractor were lost overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman while operating in the Red Sea.

According to official reports, the aircraft was being moved in the hangar bay when control was lost, sending both into the sea. One minor injury was reported. An investigation is underway.

However new satellite imagery (photo) may suggest a much bigger story.

The USS Harry S. Truman appears to have performed an emergency turn on April 27th to evade a large-scale Yemeni missile and drone attack. The maneuver was so severe it could have caused the loss of the Super Hornet.

If true, this indicates that:

• U.S. carrier group air defenses (including escort ships) failed to intercept the incoming attack.
• USN assets were vulnerable enough to force a last-resort emergency maneuver.
• Ansarullah have reached a new level of operational pressure against forces in the Red Sea.

As shown in the video, emergency maneuvering of a nuclear aircraft carrier is extremely stressful on crew and equipment and only undertaken as a last resort.

It’s a major signal that the Red Sea is no longer safe waters for U.S. ships.
⭕ 📝Energy Collapse in Europe📝

During the day, a massive power outage occurred in major cities across Spain, where the metro, factories, communication networks, airports, and road infrastructure were left without electricity. As a result, the country experienced a transportation collapse.

Similar problems were observed in the neighboring countries of France, Portugal and Andorra. The exact cause was not specified, but local energy operators officially attributed the failure to some “rare atmospheric phenomenon.”

📌The reality, however, seems different: such a total blackout could have occurred due to improper operation of the emergency automation and initial design flaws in the system.

Possibly, there was a failure at a nuclear power plant, and then everything went in waves due to frequency fluctuations that the existing capacities were unable to stabilize. Including those built in Europe as part of the “green transition.”

❗️This example clearly shows the difference in the approaches to power system design: the Ukrainian power grid, created during the Soviet era, despite all the losses, withstood dozens of massive strikes. In Spain, everything collapsed from a single failure without a single impact.

It is possible that if the energy facilities were subjected to a real attack, the region could have plunged into a pre-industrial era. Interestingly, do the affairs in other parts of Western Europe coincidentally not be in the same way?
#Spain #Portugal #France #electricity
⭐️@rybar |media|
⭕ 🇷🇺 NATO is simulating scenarios involving the seizure of Kaliningrad and preemptive strikes on nuclear facilities during exercises near Russia’s borders, as stated by Nikolai Patrushev in an interview with TASS.
⭕ 🇷🇺 In an interview with TASS, Nikolai Patrushev stated that the West, in its quest to maintain dominance, is not hesitant to flirt with scenarios of nuclear apocalypse and engage with neo-Nazis.
⭕️ 🇾🇪🇺🇸 The Truman Show |media|
[this “process” of deflating Hubris couldn’t have happened to a better named floating tomb]
⭕ 🇫🇷🇷🇺France to Increase Pressure on Russia in Next 8-10 Days – Macron

Macron: The next 2 weeks will be key in trying to achieve a ceasefire and increase pressure on Russia. I think I have convinced the Americans that it is possible to escalate threats and possibly sanctions to force Russia to accept this ceasefire.
[along with a posted threat to Russia’s Red SQ on Victory Day by the UkroNazis, it is safe to say next few weeks will be dangerous. The criminal nazis openly plan]
⭕ 🇷🇺 Medvedev stated that Russia’s special military operation must end in victory and that the Kiev regime must be destroyed.
⭕ 🇷🇺 As long as the special military operation continues, not only the Ukrainian Armed Forces but also foreign mercenaries are legitimate targets for Russia, Medvedev stated.
⭕ 🇷🇺 “The Anglo-Saxon clique is to blame for the current global crisis, and Russia was shortsighted for trusting it for so long,” said Medvedev.
⭕ 🇷🇺💬Any negotiations, if conducted correctly, end in peace, I hope that this will be the case too – Dmitry Medvedev

“However, negotiations in the current conflict are a complicated matter. That is why we do not comment on them,” he said.
⭕ 🇷🇺 Medvedev predicted that Zelensky, who boasts about the killing of Russian General Moskalik, will meet a “very grim end” himself.
⭕ 🇷🇺🇾🇪 One of the three Russian sailors injured in recent U.S. strikes on Yemen has been hospitalized in Sana’a and will require surgery, according to the Russian Embassy.

The other two sustained minor injuries during the American attack on the port of Ras Isa, Russia’s acting envoy in Yemen confirmed.

The tanker “Seven Pearls” remains docked at the port, with 19 Russian crew members still on board.
[Why is Russkie tanker still in port? If not damaged, was this intentional, to serve as shield for defense of most VIP port to north Yemen?]

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ The top 10 countries devoting the largest share of their GDP to defense spending in 2024:

1 – Ukraine 🇺🇦: 34% of GDP
2 – Israel 🇮🇱: 8.8% of GDP
3 – Algeria 🇩🇿: 8% of GDP
4 – Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦: 7.3% of GDP
5 – Russia 🇷🇺: 7.1% of GDP
6 – Kuwait 🇰🇼: 4.8% of GDP
7 – Poland 🇵🇱: 4.2% of GDP
8 – United States 🇺🇲: 3.4% of GDP
9 – Colombia 🇨🇴: 3.4% of GDP
10 – Greece 🇬🇷: 3.1% of GDP
Source: SIPRI
[if you remove NATO & the complicit / narcostates, that leaves just TWO with sincere “defense” spending]

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ The pleasure to kill:

Israel continue killing civilians in Gaza. In the last 48 hours, It has bombed a densely populated street, killing 48 people, a daily crime that is not defeating the resistance nor freeing g the Israeli prisoners.
⭕ US said an F/A-18 ended in the Red Sea while manoeuvring to avoid Ansar Allah fire.

The US is ready to lose 21 of its most expensive MQ-9 Reaper, over one billion dollars since the beginning of the attack against Yemen but not ask Israel to lift the unlawful humanitarian siege on Gaza.

No Israeli supply has crossed the Red Sea during the US intervention and attack on Yemen and Ansar Allah still fire missiles on Israel.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ ⚓️ USS Trembling Puppy Update

Yesterday, in a frantic maneuver to evade incoming Yemeni missiles, noted internet influencer Captain Soggy Cookie of the USS Trembling Puppy lost an F/A-18 to Davy Jones’ Locker.

The Trembling Puppy may soon get its third skipper in the past year.
🔻 chickadee: what kind of “evasive maneuver” can an aircraft carrier do?
🔻 WS: Not much. They are counting on the fact that they’re trying to evade a subsonic cruise missile that, hopefully, isn’t sophisticated enough to perform effective corrective maneuvers in its terminal phase. |media|
🔻 chickadee: Then you have to wonder how such a missile got through all the destroyers in the group. Then the carrier had to know the group was unable to shoot it down and had to perform some slow evasive maneuver. It must’ve been chaos out there.
🔻 chickadee: Yemen must have overwhelmed them with drones and missiles. I wonder if Truman is out of ammo.
🔻 Dax: They only need to park up at longer range.
🔻 WS: They can’t “park” anywhere. They have to keep moving. Problem is, there ain’t much room for maneuver compared to the open sea. They’re like ducks swimming in a pond hoping the kids on the shore with .22 rifles don’t make a lucky shot.
🔻 Neanderthal Intellectual: Imagine what will happen when the US finally fights a peer war?
🔻 WS: They will lose a carrier strike group in an afternoon.
🧵 How to Lose A Carrier Strike Group in An Afternoon
🔻 155 AUF1: That’s ridiculous. If a missile is “smart” enough evade anti-missile systems of the protective fleet, do you expect it to be “dumb” enough to be fooled by some last minute “hard turn” of such massive ship?
🔻 WS: It was obviously a desperate maneuver. That’s my whole point. Sooner or later one of these massive ships is going to get hit.

The aircraft carrier is an obsolete relic of a bygone era.
📜 Dinosaurs of the Deep Blue Sea
🔻 155 AUF1: I rest my case (which doesn’t contradict yours). Either your “iron dome” is able to detect and fend off the missile, or it isn’t, but in any case no maneuver at 20 m/s will save you from a +300 m/s missile bend on hitting your ship.
🔻 Dadams: Wait, are you trying to shit on a U.S. Navy Asset? Why? Because you don’t like Donald Trump?
Pretty disrespectful of the service men and women aboard. Curious if you’d use that nickname to their faces.
🔻 WS: Captain Soggy Cookie is a ridiculous fraud. |Soggy Cookie|
🔻 Jeff English: You’re enjoying this, aren’t you!?
🔻 WS: It’s simply a confirmation of what I’ve been saying for a few years now: #NoEasyWarsLeftToFight
🔻 The Jew-Bot Detector: I had the very same thought.

After the baseless war in iraq, the middle-east has been promptly prepping.

Discreetly sharing intel, weapons, and resources across the board, with the US getting fed limited knowledge of any advancements.

Gonna be an interesting next few months..
🔻 hans Koenig: You are half wrong on this one. Point defence is so close that you don’t have time to even start turning in a capital ship.
🔻 WS: No. You simply misunderstood. They would have calculated several minutes in advance that point-defense was inadequate, and acted accordingly.
🔻 hans Koenig: Fair. Makes one question what kind of missile was incoming. US point defense (the guns) is a bit trash for the current year but should have no issues with drones.
🔻 WS: It was probably just an older-design subsonic cruise missile. But it’s not unlikely that its efficacy has been enhanced by a guidance system upgrade — like maybe optical-electric / infrared sensors and control-mechanism enhancements.

#NoEasyWarsLeftToFight
🔻 Jeffrey Jensen: They seem to be overheating. That’s the vulnerability I’ve heard anecdotally.
🔻 WS: A CIWS only has about 20 seconds of ammo. If it “overheated”, it means they fired them all in a burst — and then it doesn’t matter anyway.
🔻 Pete Shearer: Former CG TAO, these could be precausionary evasion.
🔻 WS: Of course they’re precautionary! You got cruise missiles that just penetrated your main line of air defense, and you apparently have no CAP up to deal with the threat. So Captain Soggy Cookie shouted “Hard to port!” and everyone started praying as an F/A-18 splashed into the sea.
🔻 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩: That betrays a lot as far as flotilla perimeter, CAP and BCAP penetration. I question the wisdom of diffident sea room for maneuver operating in the the Red Sea if that occurred there. The odds are tilting.
🔻 McTablecloth: Remember the Maine: Red Sea Edition
🔻 Para II: also are we to conclude if evasive action WASN’T taken then there would’ve been a direct hit on the carrier lol
🔻 Finkus Dinkus: “Too close for guns, switching to full left rudder”
🔻 Lavr Dyogtev 🇳🇿 🇷🇺 ✝️ Bot. blocked instantly: Assume Truman was prudently operated beyond the range of Noor & short range (<200km) missiles. Say 250-300km. Missile flight time would have been >> 10 min. The layered AD still struggled, & Yemen targeting data was so good that Truman had to change course extremely rapidly.
🔻 WS: They have consistently remained 1000+ km away. Often further. They are getting AT LEAST a full-hour lead time on these subsonic cruise missiles. 2x – 3x longer for the drones.

We are witnessing the result of magazine depletion and operational exhaustion.
[the deep irony of what is going down. just beyond the northern part of this map is the point the red sea was parted during Exodus and the legend of the first sea chariots was created. History indeed repeats as farce for the ahistorical exceptionalist fools determined to suicide their own sea chariots]
🔻 Johanna deMartin: Did they also run out of resupply ships?
🔻 WS: The VLS (Vertical Launch Systems) of the cruiser and destroyers cannot be replenished at sea.
[another boon with the folding of the USSR – when the at-sea replenishers were retired with end of the Cold War. And they stopped making sufficient stocks..]
🔻 Johanna deMartin: Ah, that helps explain a bit why the TL is bustling with “we need humongous battleships with fat armour and massive arsenals” today.

Not that a fat battleship with 18 inch guns would do much better in the Red Sea, I guess they want them for China and the Indo Pacific. Preparing for a repeat of WWII forgetting about modern anti-ship missiles.
🔻 WS: Someone is pumping the idea of bringing back the battleship in 2025?!

Please post a link so I can go indulge myself with some well-deserved mockery.
🔻 Johanna deMartin: Here you go. You’ve had dealings before, in the recent past, I believe.

Aesthetically, I love the idea of battleships returning, buuuuuuuuuut some concerns which you’re far more adept at pointing out.
[links the poor John Konrad:
🔻 John Ʌ Konrad V: “BaTTLeSHiPs aRe ObSoLeTe We HaVe CaRRieRS aNd JDaMs aND TLaMs”

Let me spell it out in crayons:

Satellite spots a Houthi leader in port. You have three options:

1) Fire the last 2 of ~30 Tomahawks. Hope they hit. Then sit around for 2 weeks while your ship runs home to reload.
2) Launch an F/A-18. Drop 8 bombs. Fly 2 hours back. Reload. Fly 2 hours out again.
3) Launch a $2B B-2 bomber. Drop 80 bombs. Pray it doesn’t get smoked. Fly 5 hours back to Diego Garcia. Spend 5 hours rearming. Fly 5 hours back.

Or…
You sit a battleship offshore. Fire 1,200 Volkswagen-sized shells at every target that blinks.

Reload at sea in 8 hours. And stay in the fight.

Stay mad.

P.S. Don’t tell me to “reactivate museum ships.” I don’t want antiques — I want new monsters built for this century.

P.S.2 And don’t insult everyone’s intelligence with “it would take 2 years and $20B.” Samsung could weld one together on budget in 18 months — faster than the US Navy can rebuild a seawall.

Do better.” |media| ]
🔻 WS: With this single post, John has permanently discredited his understanding of naval warfare.
🔻 Lysander, Y Sinwar I am Legend: And also, how effective is a carrier that has to stay 1000 KMs away from the contested space? Even if that distance was actually safe?

Which, I guess it isn’t.
🔻 Lysander, Y Sinwar I am Legend: Would the US force an entire battle group that is no longer combat capable to stay in place, just to avoid the embarrassment of admitting they lost to Yemen?

Rhetorical question.
[best comment of the day. The same conundrum unfolds on the Red Sea as in 404.. the Losers CANNOT countenance admitting they’ve lost. For that means they’re no longer Exceptional, no?? So… as UkroNazis are sacrificed to the last, the eternal Parasite shall suicide the worn Host of USUK, specifically US Navy and aviator lads, to the last]
🔻 William C: This arms-race between supersonic variable trajectory missiles, drones & ballistic missiles VS naval warships is fascinating,with huge implications for the projection of sea power.
Size determines range, weapons-loads & radar power. Yet size is antithetical (maneuverability,
🔻 NTG: Wait, depletion of the whole CSG? wtf, really?
[yeah. Before they even got to Iran or China!! Yemen should be put on a pedestal and feted with the extracted pirate loot for the next three generations by the civilizational-states – provided the world doesn’t go “Poof”]
🔻 James W Fiala: Magazine depletion and operational exhaustion? Glory hallelujah!
🔻 Alexander G. Rubio: We’re witnessing the truth slowly dawn on people that there is no “Wunderwaffe” if it can not be produced at scale, if it can not be stamped out like funkopops from a hot plastic extruder.
🔻 Optimistic Burger: The “evasive maneuver” is more to turn the anti missile “CWIS” weapons towards the threat, not to dodge to missile.
The CWIS systems are mostly located on the sides.
🔻 WS: This is nonsense talk. A CIWS has a 360-degree traverse.
🔻 Optimistic Burger: Yes of course…. But when mounted amidships do you expect these to shoot through the hull of ship? |media|
🔻 WS: There are typically four CIWS mounted on a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, which are positioned to provide 360-degree coverage of the ship.
I’ll let Grok explain more of the details: [missing]
🔻 Optimistic Burger: Buddy, I don’t need grok to explain.
They will position the ship perpendicular to the threat, so that 2 of those can fire simultaneously.
In a head on/rear position there is a dead zone right in front of the ship. Just look at the ship… 🤦‍♂️
🔻 WS: They resorted to evasive maneuvers because they panicked. Period.

There were undoubtedly multiple ASCMs bearing down on them from multiple vectors, and Captain Soggy Cookie had no other options, so he frantically screamed “Hard to port!” because he didn’t know what else to do.
🔻 Optimistic Burger: We’ll agree to disagree.
🔻 WS: Either way, I guarantee CSG-8 will take up a position near the mouth of the Gulf of Suez — and they may very well run away again to the Mediterranean under the pretext they need to recuperate and rearm. They’ll spin the narrative they “inflicted great damage” and call it good.
🔻 Optimistic Burger: I don’t disagree with that.
Carriers are giant sitting ducks in the missile age.
🔻 WS: 📜 Dinosaurs of the Deep Blue Sea
🔻 Optimistic Burger: Yes, we’ve put all our eggs into the super carrier basket, when the navy should be focusing on many more smaller ships that diversify the number of targets to shoot at.

All it takes is one missile to get through to sink/disable a large percentage of our naval capacity.
⭕🤦‍♂️🤡🌍 @johnkonrad has officially “jumped the shark”.

A battleship’s main guns have a 24-mile range. So you’re going to have to airlift them into the Yemeni mountains to get them close enough to shell Sanaa
[wow. do you understand the agony of the Pirates, and the untold blessings of Yemen?? Battleships, even if could withstand modern long-range precision missilry and drones, lack the range to get onto the Yemeni mountains, a good 50-70+ km from the coast. In every way, Yemenis own the real estate at the Gate of Tears. Why the smarter Romans quickly conceded, honored them with the title “Felix Arabia” and rapidly retreated in good order to savage and plunder softer areas of the tormented world]
🔻 C1: We’re presuming that we’re talking about WW2 BBs. A modern class of BBs would use modern artillery tech that can range closer to 100 miles.
🔻 WS: This is ridiculous silly talk. There are no “modern” battleship designs being seriously discussed, and no serious person would even consider discussing them. The whole idea is utterly ludicrous.
🔻 C1: He mentioned it as a hypothetical. As opposed to our unarmored ships that are tin cans if they get hit. I don’t see the the concern or the humor.
🔻 WS: This is ridiculous silly talk. There are no “modern” battleship designs being seriously discussed, and no serious person would even consider discussing them. The whole idea is utterly ludicrous.
🔻 C1: People laugh at ideas until they see them in action and say, “Thank you, I had no idea what I was talking about.” LOL.
🔻 WS: This is ridiculous silly talk. There are no “modern” battleship designs being seriously discussed, and no serious person would even consider discussing them. The whole idea is utterly ludicrous.
🔻 b g.: Konrad was referring to targets in ports.. no?
It’s a different matter that houthis probably are not doing anything military from their ports, expecting the obvious
🔻 The Surgeon: Not to mention that they were already vulnerable to air attacks. What does he thinks it would happen to it if it goes against missiles?
🔻 يونس الغاضب: How they gonna fare against China in South China sea?
🔻 WS: They will fare very poorly.
🧵 How to Lose A Carrier Strike Group in An Afternoon
🔻 Red lantern: This happened a few weeks ago for me when I thought has he always been like this or has someone got to him. I thought I was going to learn something about shipping with his mate Sal the Italian
🔻 Joe: Unless the target of the guns is the American public. I don’t know, just posing the possibility.
🔻 Bart Simpson: Living in the past. Even the whole Pacific fleet cannot dislodge the entrenched Japanese on a tiny island. The Americans (USA) should really experience war on their soil again to stop this warmongers.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Armchair Warlord: The elephant in the room is the fact that the modern US Navy doesn’t actually own enough missiles to fill the battle line’s VLS magazines more than once – ergo there was no point maintaining capability to reload them.

I wrote a post on this last year. See the first reply.
[links:
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️: “The reloading of VLS at sea by the @USNavy is a moot point.

1. The Navy abandoned the ability after the Cold War, when it became apparent they would not be fighting waves of Backfire bombers a la Red Storm Rising
2. Post-Cold War, they never delved too deeply into their magazines except for select strikes and targets
3. The US Navy did not need to worry about Contested Logistics so reloading in port was not seen as an issue
4. The introduction of drones and low-cost swarm attacks changes the picture
5. FINALLY: NO ONE is talking about the fact that even if you develop the ability to load VLS at sea, the current fleet of @MSCSealift T-AKEs cannot load enough of them to make any appreciable difference as the internal cargo elevators are not designed for them.”]

🔻 Royrogers55: Critical intel apparently lost on the Pentagon’s brass.
[they likely know it. They’re promoted and paid to salute the prevailing criminal wind]
🔻 The Warden: I don’t get it. USA spends more on military than rest of world combined or some such. It all the money being wasted like USAID?
[is grease slippery? Did USAID learn their bag of tricks from the Pentagram?]
🔻 Pietka T: You can’t reload those dam things at sea you need a crane and sheltered waters and then which make you a sitting duck during reload !
🔻 TurnsoutIwaswrong: Imagine the US Navy shows up near Taiwan, fires every missile in their inventory at the PLAN over a 6 hour window, turns around and sails back to San Diego and waits 3 years to reload…

History refers to this as the Six Hour War…
🔻 mntahoe: So are we just cooked in the event of a near peer or peer level naval fight? I grew up loving the US Navy and it’s a bit heartbreaking seeing how it is now
🔻 Sua Caesarea Maiestas: The implications of this in a war against China are not good, to say the least.
🔻 Woodcutter P: It’s all missiles, not only cruise.
The USN SAM arsenal has:
>less than 1,000 ESSMs
>1,500-ish SM-6
>maybe 3-4 thousand various SM-2 mods
>600-ish SM-3
Basically one single loadout for the fleet.
🔻 Uke Meat Mincer: Cope is “we only need one salvo anyway to take out the enemy’s defenses, then our B52 fleet can just cruise in undisturbed and drop cheap bombs at will”, yes?
🔻 Pete Shearer: Life before we chased camels with ASW helos…
[posts the leading badge of the good ol days turkey-hunting Iraqis.. we shall soon see the complete reversal – of the deranged being outta ammo and means being turkey-hunted. 100% enroute. Pity the corn-fed lads holding the smelly bag when the music stops…]
⭕ ‼️ This is an essential piece of analysis by the Warlord.

I follow it below with a related analysis of my own.
links:
🔻 Armchair Warlord: The United States has approximately 3500 Tomahawk missiles on hand – so few that at-sea reloading capability is pointless because in the event of war the USN will actually run out of missiles before it runs out of launchers.

Let’s run the numbers.

First of all, the Tomahawk is an old system and has been manufactured in several blocks since its introduction in the 1980s. Block II missiles have long since been taken out of service and Block III missiles appear to have left service recently – the only models currently in use are Block IV (produced since 2004) and Block V (remanufactured Block IV missiles “produced” since 2021).

An examination of public DoD budget materials indicates that the Pentagon purchased 3882 missiles between FY 2004 and FY 2020.* Wikipedia lists 385 missiles fired in anger since 2004, the vast majority from 2011 onwards when Block IV missiles would have been preferred. As such it’s likely that the current US stockpile of Tomahawks is approximately 3500 Block IV and Block V weapons.

* Raytheon claimed to have manufactured 4000 Block IV missiles as of 2017 – I believe this discrepancy can be explained by low-volume British orders.

Now let’s apply this data to operations. This is almost entirely a naval missile, although there is some work to bring back a surface-fired capability that once existed in the 1980s. The USN has 73 Arleigh Burke-class missile destroyers and 13 Ticonderoga-class missile cruisers in service, as well as 4 converted Ohio-class cruise missile submarines and 48 nuclear attack submarines with VLS silos. Obviously the surface units will fill only a portion of their silos with land attack missiles – I understand the load is generally 32 missiles (graphic courtesy Sal Mercogliano). The attack subs have 12 tubes each and the SSGNs have 154 tubes each, all loaded with Tomahawks.

As such to completely load the USN battle force with Tomahawks requires 3,944 missiles. There is thus a shortfall of some 500 missiles, which makes sense given that a portion of the USN battle fleet is in the yard at any given point in time and cannot be made ready to sail even in an emergency.

Now to the question of reloading VLS tubes at sea, a capability which the USN got rid of in the mid-1990s when it was rapidly drawing down after the Cold War and the writing was very much on the wall about how much ammunition Congress was willing to fund going forward. The takeaway here is that the United States Navy doesn’t “need” an at-sea VLS reload capability because our current policy appears to be to only buy enough missiles to fill the Navy’s magazines once. There will be nothing to reload the silos with, at least in the immediate term, so including extra equipment to do it at sea would be pointless.

As a final aside, given that Tomahawk production since 2021 seems to have been remanufactured rather than new missiles, I have questions about whether the US actually retains the capability to make new missiles of this type. |media|
🔻 WS: 📜 Magazine Depth and Shields
🔻 Beto Ochoa: We paid for better than this.
🔻 TurnsoutIwaswrong: The implication of this is that in a potential war with China, each US destroyer runs out of missiles on the first day of action, and must then turn around and sail for San Diego.

36 Tomahawks = 6 hours of combat.

Similar story for air defence missiles.
🔻 WS: First day?!

No, against China they’ll run out of AD capability in the course of the first salvo.

They would lose an entire carrier strike group in an afternoon.
[exactly. Why should Russkie, China, or Persian give them a chance to reload & return? They’ll sink the demented pirates and be rid of the problem]
🔻 John Reddick: You can look at the bright side – no need to worry about the logistics of reloading.
🔻 bc: Obviously we just need to raise tariffs on the Houthis.
🔻 155 AUF1: “Also bear in mind that very similar scenarios could just as easily play out in the Baltic Sea or the Persian Gulf.” 👍Or the red sea. Or pretty much anywhere, limited only by the range of attacking smart ammunitions.
Ammunitions (in numbers) are underrated, carriers, overrated.
🔻 Elly Maloba: China and Russia have mastered the art of overwhelming numbers
⭕ Naval warfare has irreversibly changed and the Pentagon hasn’t a clue. Landing ships; amphibious assault ships. 🤦‍♂️ These are not serious people.
[links:
🔻 USNI News: “Reconciliation Bill Calls for 16 New Battle Force Ships, $4.9B in Unmanned Vessels – USNI News” |link|]
🔻 NerdTech: This is actually good for the world. America weakens itself internally while the rest develop onwards.
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: What happens when Contractors decide what the Navy should have and not the other way round…
🔻 pigmilkgelato: Yup. It’s like investing in horse cavalry during ww2
🔻 John: the MIC must be fed… regardless of whether the product has any use or merit.
⭕ ⚡️ Striking the Colors

The old adage holds: A ship cannot defeat a fort.

The cream of the US war machine cannot break the blockade of the Red Sea.

A US carrier strike group is effectively “bottled up” in the northern Red Sea, and will now move further away than it was before.
🔻 deepbluediver: The sailors can soon go snorkeling in Sharm el Sheikh.
⭕🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️: When everyone says that the there are no ships heading to the United States, show them this.

Green are cargo ships, red tankers and blue are passenger ships

Check out the latest What the Ship

1️⃣Flag Hopping
2️⃣EU Demands Ship Insurance
3️⃣Transpacific Trade: Are US Ports Empty and Are Ships Turning Around?
4️⃣COSCO & Port Fees
5️⃣IMO & Decarbonization Tariffs |link|
[so what gives? More premature BS from Hal? Or Sal is spinning like a whirling dervish. We shall know soon enough by facts on the shelves…]
🔻 WS: I believe the Trump admin will do whatever is necessary to make sure the shelves at Walmart and Home Depot remain mostly full, even if higher priced because they were routed via third countries.

They seriously believe they can juggle all the contradictions of the narrative.
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: There are two things that Mr Trump pay attention to and treat with respect:

1. Mr. Bond (Bond Market) – Trump got a teaser of Mr Bond’s power!
2. Supermarket shelves… I hope he has considered that seriously!
🔻 kate Spelman: Dark days ahead for the people who live in the US. The regular people.
🔻 Dw😉: Even partially empty shelves could start panic. Fully empty, civil unrest.
🔻 hans Koenig: I highly doubt that they are as adept as the Slavs in regards to import re-routing. Or the ordinary citizen as composed when there is the slightest shortage of article x. Never4get the great toilet paper shortage of 2020.
🔻 IQWACP: It is easy to keep walmart shelves full, just keep all shelves locked away.
⭕🔻 Kit Klarenberg: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
🔻 Armchair Warlord: “Because the Russians will figure out where they’re based and kill them all within 24 hours.”
🔻 WS: The whole notion of the French and British sending troops to Ukraine was ALWAYS an absurdity, and I don’t believe anyone in the high command of those countries ever seriously considered it — just as I believe the Pentagon has never seriously considered it. It would be a massacre.
⭕🔻 Margarita Simonyan:
“The war will end, but the work of our special forces will only begin. We must make sure these people are afraid not only to leave Russia, but to leave their homes for 10, 20, 30 years.”

Look at the smirk on the face of Roman Kostenko, the top Rada national security deputy, as he takes credit for the assassination of General Moskalik in Moscow.

Denazification is not an abstraction – it’s the reality. Many Kiev leaders have no place in post-conflict society. |link|
[note on the UkroNazi front, as in the even more desperate ZioNazi front, they’re reduced to celebrating the murder of replaceable folks to boost morale and to serve as “war successes” to despairing polity]
🔻 Armchair Warlord: This is a prime example of why the Russians continue to insist on the denazification – read: not just a change of faces at the top, but the comprehensive excision of the entire post-Maidan leadership class – of Ukraine.

Many of these people are genuine fanatics.
🔻 WS: The only way to eradicate them will be to relentlessly hunt them down. That could take a decade or more.
[thankfully Russkie has mucho experience in this department. Soviet Iron Ledgers still exist detailing the plans]
🔻 Olga Bazova: It took a decade after WWII. Quite possibly it will take the same now.
🔻 Anna: Unfortunately, most of these deplorables will be living in the West, committing acts of terror in Western nations and blaming the West for losing this war.
🔻 Avatar: I’m sure the russians are looking forward to this hunt.
🔻 Ken Lovegrove: And sadly UK intelligence will aid these Nazis
🔻 Coco the Canadian Socialist Rat🇨🇦 🇨🇦: Canada will protect many by allowing them to immigrate!

⭕🔻 Alexander G. Rubio: 1/6

– The Diplomatic Problems of Modern Democracy –

People in general, and politicians in particular, tend to move in herds, especially if they suspect they’re in the wrong; ’cause if it’s everybody’s fault, no one’s at fault. That’s why modern democracy is untrustworthy. |THREAD|
🔻 Alexander G. Rubio: This has become an acute problem in bringing the conflict in Ukraine to a close. Because, while Western media will claim Russia is not to be trusted, it’s rather those Western states that has a history of treating treaty papers like Cersei Lannister.
🔻 Alexander G. Rubio: Swearing a false oath, “meineiðr” in the Old Norse, was a griveous sin across all European nations. This was true for individuals, but no less for chieftains in the name of their tribe, or kings representing their people.
🔻 Alexander G. Rubio: It used to be that any treaty or accord agreed by two nations was vouched for by the sovereign of that nation on behalf of that nation as a collective people, and wasn’t simply discarded by the next set of politicians, at least not lightly or on a whim, nor “Orange Man bad”.
🔻 Alexander G. Rubio: But modern Western democracies, despite their protestations of a “rules based world order”, no longer identify as nations, a people united by common blood, cause, AND responsibility, nor hardly even states in the sense of the Westphalian Treaty. Democracy is a licence to lie
[the last sentence is key. How can a system conceived from the get-go by Harlot Babylon (iterations 3, then the current Last) as a fulcrum to deceive function in a truthful manner??]
🔻 Alexander G. Rubio: There are rumours that a report by Russian intelligence services is circulating in the Kremlin and Parliament pointing out that any agreement Trump might sign off on would possibly, if not even likely, be simply set aside by any future US administration. Are they wrong?
🔻 WS: They are NOT wrong. But, in my view, it’s a moot issue, for the simple fact that the US will be no more capable of defeating Russia + China + DPRK + Iran in a war in four years, or eight years, or twenty years from now.
🔻 Alexander G. Rubio: True. But if, and if so, how, they might try is of some importance, not least to those of us tied to the mast of this Western ship.
[untie thyself and swim far away!]

the narrative keeps flipping.. from Nat South on her channel: “Um version 1, it fell off during an abrupt turn.
Version 2, it fell off with a toe truck – ooops
Version 3, it failed to land…

Which version or is there another one?”

💠 “‘Real de-Nazification’ would include all Europe – Medvedev”
☝️☝️☝️ and from there is a mere stepping stone to the den of Nazidom in Five Eyestans, no?? Slowly, slowly, what we anticipated of a global SMO unfolds.

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇮🇳💬🇵🇰 Indian PM Modi: Military Has Full Freedom to Respond to Terror Attack

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that the country’s armed forces have “full operational freedom to decide the methods, targets, and timing of our response” to the recent terrorist attack that New Delhi has blamed on Pakistan, according to The Times of India.

Modi affirmed his “complete trust and confidence in the professional capabilities of the Indian Armed Forces” and reiterated the government’s full support for the military. He also declared his intent to “crush terrorism.”

ℹ️This comes after Pakistan’s Defense Minister warned that “war between the two countries could potentially break out within the next two to four days,” though he later clarified he did not mean war was inevitable.
⭕ 🇨🇳🇮🇳🇵🇰 China Calls for Restraint Between India and Pakistan Amid Rising Tensions

China has reiterated its call for both India and Pakistan to exercise restraint following the recent border clashes. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun stressed the importance of peaceful coexistence between the two countries, emphasizing that it is vital for the peace, stability, and development of the South Asian region.

Guo’s comments came in response to the exchange of gunfire between Indian and Pakistani troops after the Pahalgam terror attack. As a neighboring country, China urged India and Pakistan to resolve their differences through dialogue and consultation to maintain regional peace and stability.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇺🇸🤑🇨🇳Trump’s trade tariffs ‘REAL GIFT’ to China – report

“It’s a mistake to think the tariff damage is only domestic. The willy-nilly assault on friends and foes has shaken global confidence in US reliability,” the WSJ writes.

The news outlet notes that China is already capitalizing on the situation as it is “courting US allies as a more dependable giant market.”

The newspaper points out that Trump’s tariffs – the US’ largest economic policy shock since 1971 – could finally “sink” his presidency.
[1971 was when Tricky Dicky regime removed the dollar peg to gold, ending what is termed by some as “Bretton Woods I”]
⭕ Russian Aircraft Extinguish Fire in Iranian Port of Shahid Rajaee

Be-200ChS and Il-76 aircraft from the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry dropped approximately 130 tonnes of water on the fire, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry reported.

The fire has been brought under control, the Russian Embassy in Iran stated, expressing hope that it will soon be extinguished.

👉 On April 26, a massive explosion rocked Bandar Abbas. The Iranian Interior Ministry said the incident was caused by negligence. As a result, at least 70 people were killed and at least 1,200 others injured. |media|
⭕ ❗️Russian troops liberated the settlement of Doroshovka in the Kharkov region, the Russian MoD reports

Moreover, the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Su-27 jet, the ministry added in its report.

The day before, the Ukrainian Air Force reported the loss of the plane, without specifying the circumstances, but referring to the “human factor.”
[whilst most focus on the recapture of Donbass – pieces of two other Ukie oblasts of Kharkov and Sumy, right on southern borders of Russia, continue to fall day after day]
⭕ American roots of German nazism, Part 9: How Nazi Germany championed and copied US racial segregation laws

“America’s former Jim Crow laws, namely, legislation enforcing the racial segregation of African Americans, had a huge influence on the creation of the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935,” Yegor Yakovlev, a lecturer specializing in Nazi crimes against humanity at St. Petersburg State University, told Sputnik.

In this exclusive Sputnik video series, this historian who specializes in the origins and evolution of Nazism discusses how Nazi lawyers not only drew inspiration from the said American laws—such as prohibitions on interracial marriage and immigration restrictions—but also adapted and enacted these laws in even more radical ways.

#Victory80 |media|
[Good God, was EVERYTHING done by the german nazi regime of the 1930s-40s imported lock, stock and barrel from the US sugar-daddy???]
⭕ Putin and Lukashenko Lay Wreaths at the Eternal Flame in Volgograd

They also laid wreaths at the grave of Marshal Chuikov.

Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad, was the site of a key battle in World War II that turned the tide of the conflict.

Marshal Chuikov and his 62nd Army defended Stalingrad, which had been reduced to rubble, in brutal street battles in the fall of 1942. From there, on the Volga, the army, which became the 8th Guards Army, reached Berlin and victoriously ended the war. |media|
[this was both a poignant day and massive message to the demented, right from the former Stalingrad too: it will be down to the last Berlin Bunker route if needed. All three major spoxmen spoke today – Zakharova to the Germans, Medvedev to Anglo Saxons, and Patrushev to the Europeans on their nuclear ravings]
⭕ ❗️Putin’s proposal for a Victory Day ceasefire is the start of direct negotiations with Kiev without preconditions, Lavrov says
[this is an indirect rebuke to the Orange Camacho Gang, especially that traveling NYC huckster Witkoff]
⭕ ‘A Return to Normalcy’ – Lavrov Downplays Hype Around US-Russia Dialogue

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov cautioned against portraying recent Russia-US contacts as sensational, speaking during a BRICS foreign ministers’ press conference:

Key points from Lavrov’s remarks:

• Moscow keeps BRICS partners regularly updated on talks with Washington;
• Russia is committed to developing US ties without compromising its partnerships;
• Dialogue with the US continues on various issues — “always preferable,” according to Lavrov;
• BRICS members remain concerned about unilateral sanctions, protectionism, and economic fragmentation;
• Lavrov reiterated that the Bucha provocation “still remains on the conscience of the West;”
• Trade between BRICS nations is increasingly de-dollarized — over 65% of settlements now occur in national currencies;
• On Ukraine, Lavrov stated the conflict can only be resolved by addressing its root causes, notably abandoning Ukraine’s NATO aspirations.

☝️ they’re wheeling out ALL the surviving gargoyles from the Cheney regime era! This is the equivalent of sending a steady stream of EuroCrazy elite and functionaries to “Kyiv” to raise the despairing psyches of nazi psychos, but using Yanqui Christian Zionazis on this front. What days 

we shall miss the demented West! Especially their endearing little humiliation rituals… they keep burnished the lamp of Demokracy and Freeum, as Dubya would say

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ More videos of the fires around Jerusalem.

➡️As we’ve stated earlier, this road leading to Jerusalem has no exists meaning the cars will either have to drive in the opposite direction to return or simply flee on foot. |media|
[huge forest fires and firestorms raging all across Zion. It’s both the season and the lunatics imported and mass-planted improper fir trees from northern Europe which exacerbate the problem. I posted a video on this several months ago.. keep scrolling down for many videos. But let us watch and see.. perhaps they’re not all natural fires, eh? And so soon after an Iranian port burned.. Welcome to the Apocalypse. What times]
⭕ 🔥 — A local Jerusalemite recorded a video of the fires having reached some cars on 1st road leading to Jerusalem.
⭕ Huge forest fires in Israel.
⭕ So-called ‘firestorms’ are raging all across Israel, with much of the country experiencing strong winds with velocities up to 110 km/h, reportedly a ‘highly unusual’ event per Israeli media
⭕ All ‘Independence Day’ events and gatherings are canceled across Israel due to the firestorms
⭕ The firestorm has reached an Israeli military base in Central Israel, with soldiers reportedly trapped inside their barracks and possibly being burnt alive
⭕ Israeli Channel 14: ‘There are dozens of fires burning across the country, and not a single one of them is located in an Arab area’
⭕ Map of firestorms in Israel

Not a single one in the West Bank or any Arab community inside Israel.
⭕ A massive sandstorm has started to appear in the Israeli Negev desert
[well, the messianic madmen wanted to go biblical. They wanted it Darker]
⭕ Israel has requested international assistance to combat the ongoing fires, reaching out to Cyprus, Croatia, Greece, and Italy for support.

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸 House Republicans are proposing $80 billion for mass deportations, including $45 billion for detention and $8 billion to hire 10,000 new ICE agents.
[wow. they’re openly building this generation’s Auschwitz and other hellhole holding pens]
⭕ The Philippines and New Zealand have signed a military visit agreement that strengthens security ties between the two nations.

The Philippines, a longtime U.S. ally, is strengthening its defense ties with other countries as it confronts China’s growing assertiveness in the region.

Bloomberg!

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ BRICS Countries Express Concern Over Crises in Sudan, Great Lakes Region & Horn of Africa

In a declaration released by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry after the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ meeting, the ministers urged an immediate cessation of hostilities, pledging their support for political solutions to the ongoing crises.
[this is a contrived belt or crescent of instability wrapped around the southern Red Sea into the northern Arabian Sea/Indian Ocean. It preceded Rummy’s and Cebrowski’s “doctrine” – really the same criminal policy of chaos unleashed as the last gasp of the demented West to raise their lord the Moshiach. All these crises began decades before Iraq and the barren Condi’s attempt to bring on the Birthpangs]
⭕ 9 Days to Victory

Sputnik Africa continues its historical odyssey, exploring the pivotal events of the Great Patriotic War. On this day 80 years ago, the Soviet troops raised the flag over Reichstag – the political heart of Nazi Germany.

Adolph Hitler and his wife committed suicide; their bodies were burned in the garden of the Reich Chancellery.

Meanwhile, the Soviet troops also liberated Ravensbruck – the largest female concentration camp – to exhausted women greeting the Red Army soldiers.
⭕ BRICS Must Decisively Oppose Glorification of Nazi Criminals: Russian Security Council Secretary

BRICS countries should jointly defend the historical truth, Sergey Shoigu said in a video address at the first session of the meeting of high representatives of the BRICS states overseeing security issues, which is taking place in the capital of Brazil.

“Europe has forgotten to whom they owe their liberation from the fascist invaders, and the sabre-rattling on the part of NATO and the EU is taking place against the backdrop of attempts to rewrite history and glorify Nazi criminals, questioning the feat of soldiers of the anti-Hitler coalition and the contribution of the Soviet Union to the victory over Nazism,” he said.

Shoigu expressed gratitude for the UN General Assembly’s support of the Russian resolution “Combatting glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.”
[and all your wishes on the Menu shall be granted on silver platters. The Victorious decide]

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel is calling up additional reservists for a renewed large-scale assault on Gaza, after negotiations reportedly collapsed due to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s refusal to accept a deal. Already facing an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes, Netanyahu appears willing to abandon all Israeli hostages in order to cling to power. Families fear there will soon be 54 cases like that of Ron Arad—disappeared, buried under rubble, never recovered—due to Israel’s own bombings potentially hitting the very locations where hostages are held.

Meanwhile, the US says it will merely “ask” Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, which remains under a devastating two-month siege.
⭕ The problem lies not only with those who commit crimes against humanity and war crimes, but also with those who remain silent or inactive in the face of such atrocities.
⭕ Israel said it has targeted a group of Syrian security forces in a convoy to “protect the Druse in Sahnaiya”, Damascus, a clear Israeli intervention to divide Syria in many provinces on the long run.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ cont. thread:
⚓️ The Saga of the Trembling Puppy

Bear in mind that, if CVN-75 felt compelled to perform abrupt evasive maneuvers, that means not only had its perimeter defenses been penetrated, but it also must have exhausted its point-defense systems, or deemed them inadequate to the threat.
🔻 tranquiltempest: Forgive my ignorance but what was the rest of the csGROUP doing? It is called a cs group for a reason. Aren’t they charged with perimeter defence ?
🔻 WS: CSG-8 consists of 1 CVN, 1 CG (122 VLS cells), and 3 DDGs (96 VLS cells each). Total VLS cells: 410, of which a large proportion will be land attack missiles. For the sake of argument, we’ll assume 300 cells dedicated to AD (SM-2, SM-3, SM-6). 150 attacking drones/missiles will exhaust the magazines.

The VLS (Vertical Launch System) cannot be reloaded at sea.
🔻 European Muslim future: If they cannot be reloaded at sea this will create limiting staying power especially in high intensity engagements.
🔻 WS: 🧵 How to Lose A Carrier Strike Group in An Afternoon
🔻 European Muslim future: Interesting. Even if we focus solely on target saturation, it would overwhelm the capacity of the defense systems. This doesn’t even take into account ECCM jammers and decoys, which would cripple the ability to track and target . I see no outcome where the carrier group survives.
[that may have been the unsaid mission. But those dastardly civilizational-states! They kept eking it out, in dribs and drabs. Sometimes Yemen cheekily announced it sent a volley of two drones and three missiles, lol. Remember, the mission on the responsible side is not to sink and risk the 5k+ corn-fed lads – but to enforce the Red Sea Gauntlet and keep Hammering the zionazis by air. They state it baldly in their daily operations bulletins. And no force can stop that for now.. All the continued presence of the US Navy does is reinforce the humiliating lack of capability and the change in modern warfare – and also raises the questions – WHY do the deranged risk their lads? Do they WANT them to be sunk? WHY do they risk total reputational loss in defending the Annihilation of an entire people by a third people? Etc.. ]
🔻 Para II: also are we to conclude if evasive action WASN’T taken then there would’ve been a direct hit on the carrier lol
🔻 Christopher Miller: No. Carriers don’t dodge missiles. The turn would be to allow the point defence systems to engage any incoming missiles.
🔻 WS: And so what happens if there are 4 cruise missiles coming in from four different points on the compass?
[this is easily within means of Yemen and others with access to Iranian missilry. AGAIN, reinforcing the mission is NOT to sink, but to deter, defang, and remove far from one’s own coast.. Consider the care that goes into their “strike packages” to keep it up for over 1.5 years, when a single salvo can sink the sorry tin cans]
🔻Bradley Mark Parsons: Enjoy your feed and the important context it provides. I don’t think it’s necessary to denigrate the ship and/or command/crew. They are out there in serious harm’s way, performing the mission they were given.
🔻 WS: They are launching stand-off munitions against civilians and civilian infrastructure, and have utterly failed, for 18 months, in the mission they were given to break the Red Sea blockade.

And, imo, Captain Soggy Cookie is an inept clown who should be summarily cashiered.
🔻 Bradley Mark Parsons: Fair enough. They were given the mission however. Doesn’t look like they have the tools for the job.
🔻 WS: I am certain the overwhelming majority of the crew and air wings are good people obeying bad orders.

I confess that I am convinced the overwhelming majority of US flag officers, in every branch, are inept clowns.

The best move for CSG-8 would be to go back home.
🔻 Marta: La meriterebbero una bella lezione questi guerrafondai
⭕ cont. thread:
⚓️ USS Trembling Puppy Update

Yesterday, in a frantic maneuver to evade incoming Yemeni missiles, noted internet influencer Captain Soggy Cookie of the USS Trembling Puppy lost an F/A-18 to Davy Jones’ Locker.

The Trembling Puppy may soon get its third skipper in the past year.
🔻 James Anderson: Why aren’t we pounding enemy locations in Yemen right now??
🔻 WS: Because they don’t know where these “enemy locations” are. Missile launchers emerge from tunnels burrowed into mountains, and then disappear again.

There’s a very good reason I dubbed this entire undertaking “Operation Whack-A-Mole” from the very beginning.
🔻 James Anderson: I hear you, but you’d think we have many eyes on that territory. I think they know where all of the missiles launches are… enough said.
[the arrogance of some people. They cannot locate and destroy most Gaza tunnels, a veritable turkey shoot in the tiniest slip and over folks without an air defense, for almost 2 years, and expect themselves to handle mountain people that outlasted EVERY iteration of Harlot Babylon in the last 5,000 years???]
🔻 WS: Obviously they DON’T know! They are all mobile launchers. They launch from somewhere, and then disappear, only to then reappear at a different place the next time.

The MQ-9 Reaper drones were supposed to keep track of them, but the Yemeni keep shooting them down.
🔻 cath liff: pretty sure the ship has AD to deal with missiles.
🔻 WS: You are misinformed.
🔻 cath liff: ok so why don’t they have adequate AD? is it so they can sit like a duck then whinge when they get hit?
🔻 WS: All they have are antiquated CIWS systems (3 or 4) that have enough ammo to fire for 20 seconds — only suitable for point-defense against slow-moving targets at short range.

Carriers are almost entirely dependent on their screening ships.
🔻 cath liff: cheers for info – so it didn’t trust its screening ship defence?
[Good Lord. We appear to have crept THROUGH the rabbit hole and into Dumb & Dumber World]
🔻 Sir Richard 1960 🇻🇦🇧🇷: It’s like the battleship in WWII. It’s an old concept that cheap missiles buried it now.
🔻 155 AUF1: I might be wrong, but I feel more confident in the survivibility of an old Iowa_class BB build with 10-15” thick armor to withstand a direct hit by a 1 ton, 600m/s moving shell.
Planes are the obsolete thing here. Not needed anymore, when ammo have 100s km range by themselves
🔻 WS: Iowa-class BBs also had 1.5″ deck armor — even thinner in some spots. Tandem charges would punch right through it. There are also numerous other soft targets all over the deck: radar and comms stuff; bridge; gaps between turrets and deck (disable its traverse), etc.
🔻 155 AUF1: True.
Now, at some point you have to accept that your man-o-war are all fated to die, and will survive only by sheer luck IF, even if, victory is the outcome (that is, the enemy died first).
[I assure you Yemenis will be last to die….]
🔻 Charles Keane: Think it’s time to bring back the battleships and unleash hell
[this is overall vibes. So sad. As their world goes to hell in a handbasket, like zionazis, and UkroNazis, and soon EUroNazis, they will compensate with the fixation on the Holocaust of Others for meaning. And the tool who wrote this looks like a boomer if that is his mug on the comment handle]
🔻 WS: You mean like at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?
🔻 Charles Keane: Not funny, but bring back the Battleships
🔻 WS: It wasn’t meant to be funny. It was meant to underscore why the battleship was rendered obsolete in 1941. The aircraft carrier was rendered obsolete in 1945 — but it is only now becoming understood. Battleships and carriers are relics of a bygone era.
🔻 Izzy_Taka | rahxephon | 🇷🇺: But the problem stays. Not hitting the ship. You don’t win games by almost scoring a goal.
🔻 WS: The only logical reason Yemeni missiles were able to penetrate the perimeter defenses is because they have exhausted their AD missile inventory. That means the CSG is now defenseless, and its only option is to retreat back to the Mediterranean to replenish. THAT is how you win.
⭕ cont. thread:
🤦‍♂️🤡🌍 @johnkonrad has officially “jumped the shark”.

A battleship’s main guns have a 24-mile range. So you’re going to have to airlift them into the Yemeni mountains to get them close enough to shell Sanaa
🔻 John Ʌ Konrad V: Did you bother to click the OP??

We are bombing Ras Isa Port
🔻 WS: So you are proposing a resurrected BB class whose primary purpose will be to launch 16″ naval shells at port cities in third-world countries?

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

I’m sure the Yemeni, for example, won’t have anything to punch through the 1.5 inch deck armor. 🤦‍♂️
🔻 John Ʌ Konrad V: I don’t want to resurrect anything. I would like to build a new class of ships.
🔻 WS: I understood that, John. And, just to be clear, I like and respect you. But I think your idea of building littoral bombardment ships is just plain silly in the context of an adversary that can fire back even at the limited level of the Yemeni. It would be borderline suicidal against a peer adversary like Russia, China, Iran, or North Korea.
🔻 Timothy Leary’s Dead 🏴‍☠️🌱🐑🐕 🎣🎇👀🐈‍⬛⚠️🎲: Not to mention that they are decommissioning ships because they lack the personnel to crew them. I doubt that is going to get better anytime soon.
🔻 WS: The US can barely keep 60 surface warships deployed at any given time.

SIXTY.

That is ridiculously insufficient for the waters they presume to cover.
🔻 chickadee: Come on John, you can’t even get close to Ras Isa port with a ship. Why do you think the Truman group is hiding north of Jeddah?
🔻 John Ʌ Konrad V: We can’t? Or the risk adverse Admirals won’t let them?
🔻 WS: It’s “risk averse”, and it’s the only smart thing the Admirals have done in a long time.

They have correctly concluded they cannot risk a transit of the Bab-el-Mandeb. Closing in to shell a port city with naval guns? It’s an absurd notion, and would prove laughably futile. 🤦‍♂️
[and thereafter, John left the chat. Gotta give him that – unlike some Marines, he knows when to beat a circumspect retreat]
⭕ cont. thread:
⚡️ Striking the Colors

The old adage holds: A ship cannot defeat a fort.

The cream of the US war machine cannot break the blockade of the Red Sea.

A US carrier strike group is effectively “bottled up” in the northern Red Sea, and will now move further away than it was before.
🔻 Brandon: Hence why the DC Crew is now talking about “invading” Yemen. And, I took Michael Rubin and others to task for that one…
🔻 WS: An attempted ground invasion of Yemen would be one of the most foolish things the US military has attempted in my lifetime (which includes the Vietnam War).

I challenge anyone to list an order of battle and how the troops and equipment would be landed and sustained.
🔻 ChainObserver: Does logic even come into it anymore? It feels like the US, like the UK, just can’t live without the military intervention high, no matter what the comedown.
⭕🔻 USNI News:
Operation Rough Rider: 45 Days, 1,000 Targets, No End in Sight – USNI News |media|
🔻 WS: “But the Yemeni haven’t hit a single US warship. So, of course, that means WE’RE WINNING!”

Meanwhile, CSG-8 retreats towards the marginally safer waters of the Gulf of Suez.

These people have no conception of the meaning of STRATEGIC DEFEAT.
🔻 Gun Barons: Too many people, including some at the top, still don’t understand that victory for the Houthis is simply disrupting traffic and surviving. Like in any guerrilla war.
Like in Vietnam. Or Afghanistan. Or the Spanish against Napoleon (which is where the term guerrilla comes from)
⭕ cont. thread:
🔻 USNI News: Reconciliation Bill Calls for 16 New Battle Force Ships, $4.9B in Unmanned Vessels – USNI News
🔻 WS: Naval warfare has irreversibly changed and the Pentagon hasn’t a clue. Landing ships; amphibious assault ships. 🤦‍♂️ These are not serious people.
🔻 MulletVBabylon: Will if you could wave a magic wand what would your ideal navy size and composition be?
🔻 WS: One must first answer these questions:

1) What is the navy’s mission?

2) What are the capabilities of its putative adversaries?
🔻 MulletVBabylon: Lets just keep it simple, what comp would you pick to counter China?
🔻 WS: Making war against China in the western Pacific is simply out of the question. It cannot be done now, nor could it be done a quarter century from now even if it were made the primary US military objective starting tomorrow.
🔻 MulletVBabylon: theoretically, how long before china has a navy capable of a reverse island hopping if they wanted to do a mainland invasion of the USA?
[Good Lord. It is a terminal condition. Cachexia of the Mind]
🔻 WS: China has no interest in an invasion of the USA. Their interest extends no further than establishing strategic depth out to the second island chain and securing its seaborne trade routes. China has never been expansionist beyond its near-abroad.
🔻 MulletVBabylon: sure but just in theory lets say they break bad, and wanted to, in terms of raw capability how close are they to that ability?
🔻 WS: China’s entire military posture is defensive in its orientation, just as Russia’s and Iran’s is. They are not configured for global-scale expeditionary warfare.
🔻 john: I love how USians are so cooked by decades of Tom Clancy and Red Alert plotlines that their default response to any kind of realistic assessment is always “but what if (insert target here) acted like the US anyway”
🔻 john: It’s always projection based on decades of anticommunist propaganda, the mere concept of a so-called rival having no actual ambitions for conquest is just so inconceivable that they have to craft a counterfactual just to make themselves feel better
🔻 MulletVBabylon: sir i was just entertaining a funny hypothetical about the number of ships that would be required to do a reverse island hop to the USA. its not a big deal.
🔻 WS: Pull up a map of the Pacific Ocean. You’ll see that there are lots of islands between the Solomons and Okinawa. Chains of them. But if you look east from the Solomons, there aren’t hardly any. It’s just a big, open ocean. There is no “reverse island hop to the USA” to do.
⭕ ‼️ Apparently the loss of so many of its MQ-9 persistent surveillance drones has forced USCENTCOM to start developing target lists based on speculative OSINT analysis on TwitterX. Consequently, 8 innocent people were needlessly blasted to bits a couple nights ago in Yemen.
[links:
🔻 Vleckie: Allright, time for me to go through the mud.
Based on satellite imagery I’d marked this quarry as an underground base, and tweeted is out as such.
I’m fairly certain Centcom doesn’t take their targeting data from Twitter, but this still is a very severe mistake.” |THREAD| ]
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: They quite literally do not know what to do. The Houthis have got them chasing shadows and their own tail.
[and the criminals are told to drop ordinance and make things explode… it is Gaza all over. And in more ways that we shall appreciate. As some note, this is the Palantir World Order in charge of the Last Satanic Empire now…]
⭕ 📜 Evasive Maneuvers

Against all odds, the underestimated Yemeni remain the gatekeepers of the Bab-el-Mandeb, and are inflicting upon the US Navy one of the most decisive strategic defeats in its heavily mythologized history.
🔻 AKLaserWerx: 2-3% of US Trade flows through the Red Sea. Not as strategic as other straits. Why do we keep doubling down?
🔻 WS: One explanation I have frequently posited is that, if the US wants to go to war against Iran, it is IMPERATIVE to have seaborne logistics via the Red Sea, otherwise it would have to go via the Cape of Good Hope.

You can’t sustain a major army via airlift alone

☝️👇🏽☝️👇🏽☝️👇🏽

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇹🇷 Turkey becomes a strategic partner of the Three Seas Initiative

Turkey has officially joined the Three Seas Initiative (3SI) as a strategic partner.

The platform, launched in 2015 by Poland and Croatia, aims to improve energy, transport and digital infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the Baltic, Adriatic and Black Sea regions.

The initiative includes EU member states as participating members, while strategic partners such as the United States, Germany, Japan, and now Turkey, provide political and financial support.

Turkey’s candidacy was approved at the 10th 3SI Summit held in Warsaw on April 28-29, 2025. As a strategic partner, Turkey aims to strengthen regional connectivity through joint infrastructure projects and promote energy security and economic growth.

The initiative also supports Ukraine’s reconstruction and increasingly engages with the private sector through parallel business forums.
[An Anglo cordon sanitaire initiative, or new iron wall. But a decade ago was a galaxy and era long long ago. The barking lot rearrange deck chairs on the USS Titanic]

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 WATCH: Full televised English statement by Pakistan’s Minister of Information

• India intends to carry out a military attack against Pakistan within the next 24 to 36 hours, using the false pretext of the Pahalgam attack in Kashmir.
• India refuses to participate in a transparent investigation, and has instead chosen the path of confrontation.
• India will bear full responsibility for the catastrophic consequences this will carry for the region.
• Pakistan will respond forcefully and decisively.  |media|  [This is from over a day ago, I forgot to post]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕— 🇵🇰/🇮🇳 Let me make one thing clear.

You don’t go to war over an incident where 26 people were killed, especially when there’s no evidence that the country you’re going to war with, was actually involved.

If India does go to war with Pakistan, then they’ve been planning it for months, and Pahalgam was a clearly planned justification.

Additionally, if India does go to war with Pakistan, this means they have received explicit permission from global powers to do so, including the U.S. – which shows me that something larger is being planned.
⭕ I don’t want to be ‘Iran-centric’, and it’s very possible that I’m overanalyzing things, but destabilizing Iran’s Eastern border could not come at a better time for the U.S. and Israel.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Zelensky Will Try to Sabotage Victory Day Truce ‘by All Means,’ Analyst Says

🗣 “Ukraine has no word, no backbone, no honor,” Cyrille de Lattre, a French geopolitical analyst, said in an interview with Sputnik Africa.

The analyst urged a vigilant approach to any threat that could compromise Russian security, particularly the Kerch Bridge. He emphasized that Kiev had repeatedly tried to sabotage the infrastructure, often with the support of foreign services.

He explained this relentlessness by stating that the bridge is an “extremely symbolic” target for Zelensky, who, in his “wildest dreams,” wants to destroy it to prove his capabilities.

🗣 “Unfortunately, it’s not in Zelensky’s interest to have peace. First of all, he knows his days are numbered, politically and physically,” De Lattre said.

He clarified that the threat did not come from Russia, as Russia had stated it would not harm him, but rather from internal forces, specifically radical nationalists.
[our little Cokehead is a golem, a mere flapping puppet. Exchange the “Ukraine” with “Britain” for the second sentence]

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸A helmet with a chevron of a US chaplain who supported the Right Sector was found near Gornal in the Kursk region, an officer of the North group of forces with the call sign “Vityaz” told RIA Novosti.

The chevron depicts a cross, American and Ukrainian flags, a slogan in Ukrainian and a link to a website. It turns out that the website belongs to an American chaplain, Ronald Jackson, a minister at the Cleveland Baptist Church.
[unbelievable. Right Sector are open nazis like Azov Brigade. The criminal nazis of this Last Drang proclaiming “Gott mit Uns” are Protestants, unlike every one before. But what cowards. Why not proclaim yourselves openly and march into Novorossiya in your own uniforms, as did the frogs under Bony and then Hitler, both anointed by the Vatican?]
⭕ 🇨🇳🇺🇸😁China and the United States have not held consultations or negotiations on the tariff issue, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said one more time in response to a reporter’s question.
⭕ #WarData
⚡️❗️The settlement of Novoye has been liberated in the DPR, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
[recall the words of Vucic of Serbia: when Russian Army reaches Kramatorsk, all Hell will be unleashed. Kramatorsk is last significant position in DPR and getting awfully close now. The Russkies dragged it out FOR A YEAR]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺 “We want to focus on China. We’ve been in this 15-year pivot to Asia where we never make it to Asia because Russia won’t let us. And the way to do it is to defeat Russia,” said Paul Massaro, Senior Policy Advisor to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, during a prank call with Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus.
[What an age. All the King’s dunces spell it out for even the brain dead! Russia, Yemen (and other “H’s” of the Resistance) should be put on pedestals and feted by the multi-nodal world for the next millennia at the least. Breaking the chains of Legion don’t come cheap]
⭕ ⚠️🇺🇸🇮🇷US EXPANDS SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN

US imposes sanctions on seven companies involved in Iranian oil trade
[an excellent sign. As the demented EUroCrazies throwing temper tantrums and rolling out “Sanctions Package #2,666” whenever the UkroNazis squeal and lose badly, so here]

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ When high ranking US officials resort to Twitter to make threats against Iran, you know Iran (resistance) is doing real damage.

The US is hurting and Yemen is kicking their ass real nice.
[he was referring to the tweet by Temple Mount Hegseth, but I saw somewhere a similar panicked rage by Orange himself. Unbelievable. What a serious shit show. The spontaneously-self-rapturing lunatics are experiencing “the bends of landlubbers”]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇾🇪| OSINT-accounts help Pentagon bomb Yemen rumour CONFIRMED:

Ryan Grim from Breaking Points says his Pentagon sources confirmed that they pull airstrike damage assessments from Twitter (such as aftermath footage, statuses, updates…), making the airstrikes on OSINT-marked coordinates seem far from coincidental.

Earlier, 2 OSINT accounts, one based in the US, and another based in the Netherlands, helped the US bomb 3 Yemeni families by posting the exact locations via coords, to their houses on Twitter, claiming they were “Houthi bases”.

Message to all pro-resistance/Iran OSINT-active people:

DON’T post coordinates
DON’T post pictures even if surrounding is blurred
Your posts will help the enemy. |media|

note exactly which of their cousins came to save them back during the Carmel forest fires.. we are above all tribal, pretensions to civilizational and modernity notwithstanding. Blood will always remain thicker than water

i suspect this was a false flag. Major clue is the #23 he cites. The number 23 is one of the occult Big Club’s #s…

A nice recap of the catchier elements of Prof Cline’s magnus opus – on 1177 BC. well zionazi invader Horde were sent by the combined West on ships from 1890s onwards, accelerating in ww2… FDR ensured ships fleeing the European nazis couldn’t dock in CONUS. Gaza and Palestine are on the gates of Egypt too.. we currently witness the ongoing destruction of all West Asian cities in real time. How History repeats

note the traditional sequence – the new barbarians come to the Holy Land, cleanse its people, erase its cities, and the old order abruptly ends… there are certain taboos mortals shouldn’t touch. But we are an ahistorical species

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕Well done Donald Trump!

While the U.S. eyes exclusive access to Ukraine’s estimated $11 trillion in mineral wealth—framed as a return on its wartime investment—Europe got little more than a pat on the head and a front-row seat to the disaster. Ukraine, meanwhile, has lost over half a million men and Crimea, parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson oblasts, sacrificed on the altar of geopolitical illusions and “America first”.
⭕An Israeli drone strike targeted and destroyed a vehicle in Meis al-Jabal, southern Lebanon, killing three people. This strike is part of Israel’s ongoing policy of violating the ceasefire with impunity—undermining the credibility of the Lebanese presidency, government and army, and reinforcing Hezbollah’s raison d’être that its armed presence remains essential for national defence.
[and they bombed Syria, Gaza, and helped kill more civilians in WB, Yemen and other open fronts in Africa, and are planning the greatest disaster in South Asia. The decomposing West shall not survive its fetid bastard child]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🤦‍♂️ Little Pistol Pete Talking Tough

Once again, I challenge anyone to describe the forces that can be arrayed and sustained to make war against Iran, and the strategy and tactics that can be employed to defeat them.
[links:
🔻 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: “Message to IRAN:

We see your LETHAL support to The Houthis. We know exactly what you are doing.

You know very well what the U.S. Military is capable of — and you were warned. You will pay the CONSEQUENCE at the time and place of our choosing.”]
🔻 Alex Cole: Don’t worry Iran, drunk Pete will likely add you to his group chat and let you know what his plans are.
🔻 Andy Boreham 安柏然: Sit down, sir. Your time as the world police is well and truly up
🔻 Last Day With You: A real superpower doesn’t threaten accountability like it’s a mob hit.
If Iran is arming the Houthis, then show the evidence, build the coalition, and act within international law.
🔻 WS: 📜 An Air War Against Russia, China, or Iran Would Be Disastrous
🔻 whitemonkey1: the infantry part will be outsourced to mercenaries as usual , the syrian ISIS , the AZOV vets and all the same mercs that will be out of job when UKR fell

this seem the reason Trump Admin want to close UKR chapter so they can shift the resources to IRAN
🔻 kamfongchun: As Pete says, they “see” it, they “know” it & yet can do nothing about it.
Houthi’s still controlling the ‘Gate of Grief’
🔻 T: This is wwf . Never seen a more incompetent administration.
⭕ repost:
‼️ Apparently the loss of so many of its MQ-9 persistent surveillance drones has forced USCENTCOM to start developing target lists based on speculative OSINT analysis on TwitterX. Consequently, 8 innocent people were needlessly blasted to bits a couple nights ago in Yemen.
⭕ cont. thread:
🧵 Evasive Maneuvers
🔻 Kev: on one side, it’s great to see american navy getting their ass handed to them but it’s sad that the islamists terrorists are the ones doing it. not sure whether to book this as a win -win or a lose -lose
🔻 WS: One man’s “terrorist” is another man’s “heroic freedom fighter”.
⭕🔻 Baron of the Taiga:
I had a look at this ‘mineral agreement’.

Honestly, it’s laughable. Not exactly sure what Ukraine is ultimately getting but they have given away nothing of value. If it was ever the intention of the US to get something tangible from it, they’ve been played hard.

> The US has no say under the agreement on when or what gets extracted in Ukraine
> Both countries invest equally into an ‘investment fund’
> No debts for past aid are acknowledged
> The US will not see a single dollar from the investment, in the best circumstances, for 10 YEARS

It’s not even really clear what obligations there are regarding contribution to the investment fund, only that both sides match in contributions. In short, Ukraine seemingly retains the right to simply ignore the US and give preferential treatment to EU countries

They can decide how the investment fund gets used (what projects, timescales, when it happens etc.) So if France actually wants that sweet Lithium reserve in Shevchenko and they offer a better deal, it’s theirs.

Except it’s not, because Russia now owns Shevchenko 😁

(Though worth saying, the agreement certainly places no obligations on the US for security guarantees or anything of the sort either)
🔻 Armchair Warlord: This appears to be, at best, a nothingburger that allows Trump to claim he got a deal – never mind it doesn’t obligate Ukraine to pay us a red cent let alone the endless billions they’ve squandered or embezzled.

This is the Eastern European version of Mexico Paying For the Wall.

On the plus side the US isn’t obligated to actually do anything, so perhaps this is just something Trump intends to take to Putin and ask to be bought out of.

It occurs to me that this deal is basically the most that Ukraine has ever been willing to sign, and Trump likely had little leverage to get more at the end of the day – with American aid tapering off and little prospect for more, he had nothing to offer.
⭕🔻 Ian Ellis: Zumwalt-class destroyer USS Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001), on its maiden deployment, has been assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15 – the Navy’s “largest DESRON and U.S. 7th Fleet’s principal surface force” – and will be forward-deployed in the Indo-Pacific.

Currently in Guam.
🔻 Matt Bracken: “A bargain at only 1.5 BILLION dollars for a destroyer.”
/sarcasm
(what is the cost of a torpedo or a hypersonic missile? More obsolete on launching than battleships in 1941.)

“The inward-slanted hull sides make it invisible to radar.”
(Great idea circa 1970s)
LOL 2025
🔻 WS: These Zumwalt destroyers always remind me of the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz. |media|
⭕ retweet:
🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ: ⚡️‼️🚨New report:
Another Shocker: WSJ Reveals Russia Arming Massive New Rear Reserve Force |link|
🔻 John: what?… it’s almost as if the Russians don’t believe that zion don the con and his talking dummy zelensky are serious about peace talks..
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: Letting the Romulans in was either the best or the worst idea we’ve ever had, and the jury’s still out on which…

Good night, folks. 😀
🔻 WS: I put the question to my wife, who is a reliable source on such matters: “What Star Trek race is least trustworthy?”

Her answer was automatic and correct: The Romulans.

Of course, the British were extinct by the 24th century, otherwise …
⭕ #TheBigAttrition continues in Ukraine, even as “Signal Pete” Hegseth threatens Iran, a US carrier strike group remains bottled up in the northern Red Sea, B-2 bombers blow up civilians in Yemen, and the Yemeni remain the gatekeepers of the Bab-el-Mandeb.
[links:
🔻 Lord Bebo: 🇺🇸🇺🇦Trump approves weapons sale to Ukraine.

“All DCS are quiet; they don’t get announced publicly like Foreign Military Sales. The news here is basically that it (US arms sales) is continuing, despite everyone predicting that Trump would cut Ukraine off completely”

— Colby Badhwar, security assistance analyst at Tochnyi, a research group, told Kyiv Post’s Washington correspondent.”]
🔻 Loose Cannon News: So now the US has got its hands on Ukraine’s strategic minerals they’ll be needing Ukraine to provide security.

Genius.
🔻 Statler77: Foreign Affairs predicted back in January:
Trump’s peace plan is a defeat for Russia, Putin won’t accept it.
Any other plan is a defeat for the United States,
so Trump will withdraw from the negotiations, blame Putin for the failure of the talks,
and continue the “Biden policy”.
[yeah. “Trust the Plan” bobble-heads]
⭕ 🔥 Medvedev – русский поэт экстраординарный

“… the degenerates in Foggy Albion are weeping, and the mad old hag of Europe is fuming. Things are far from pleasant. They must now come, hat in hand, to perform the ritual deal under the code name ‘kiss my ass.'” 😏
[links:
🔻 Medvedev:

“On the International Day of Labor“]
🔻 Marta: Senza freni🤣🤣e ha ragione

I do not understand the direct impetus of the raging against Iran (Temple Mount Hegseth’s tweet and Orange’s imposition above of essentially war through secondary sanctions) – is it due to puerile hope they could get Persia to stop Yemen in the Red Sea, as if Ansarallah were remote controlled proxies, or a simple escalation mechanism prefigured regardless of what Iran did?

But the consequences are now gonna be most interesting.

• it heralds complete violent decoupling with China, since the latter will ignore these arrogant and unenforceable “secondary sanctions”
• Iran canceled the “negotiations” – obviously useless under current atmosphere
• it heralds a more kinetic and brutal phase being the sole mechanism left to the disintegrating Pirates

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
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🔗 Sputnik presents 3D models of the legendary equipment.

Discover the ZiS-3 field gun – one of WWII’s most mass-produced guns of the kind.

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#Victory80  |media|
[still the “god of war”. Note the USA’s British-made M777 towed howitzer was the main piece sacrificed in 404. And note the numerology of the satanists. I know, sounding like a broken record, but 7 = 6 in Hebrew. So… they proudly proclaim themselves up front on which side they “serve”]

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇮🇹🇷🇺The Immortal Regiment march and the opening of the Victory Day mural took place at Villa Abamelek, the residence of the Russian ambassador to Italy.

The Immortal Regiment is a movement that conducts processions in Russia and abroad in memory of the participants and victims of the Great Patriotic War. This tradition started when the number of living veterans started to diminish, and many of them weren’t around anymore to take part in the parades – participants march with portraits of their family members to symbolically include them in the celebration, and show they are never forgotten.  |media|
[wow. The residence of the Russkie ambassador means Ab-amelek or in Arabic “the father of Amalek”. LOL]
⭕️ ❗️🇺🇸🛢🇮🇷Trump: Anyone who buys oil from Iran cannot do business with the United States.
⭕️ ⚠️🇺🇸🇷🇺TRUMP DOES NOT DENY THE POSSIBILITY OF INTRODUCING SECONDARY SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA — STATE DEPARTMENT.

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇮🇷🇺🇸| The Omani FM announced that upcoming meeting between Iran & US has been cancelled & postponed for later.

According to Al-Mayadeen, who quoted its Iranian sources, the postponement occurred following the US’ contradictory positions on the negotiations—indicating Witkoff’s RT of the Hegseth’s threat to Iran.
⭕ 🇮🇷| According to Iran’s MFA recent announcement, the postponement was proposed by the Omani FM.

This indicates that Iran likely shared its warnings and distrust towards the Americans via Oman, and the Omani FM proposed a postponement until the issues get resolved (or not).
⭕️ 🇵🇸| Al-Qassam Brigades announced a complex operation on April 25 [in Gaza].

They lured an IOF armored force — consisting of 4 “Hummer” military jeeps and a military truck of the “Amulysia” type — into a well-prepared ambush.

They then targeted the convoy with several “Shawaz” explosive devices and heroic operations.

After the blasts, several Qassam fighters advanced toward the remaining enemy soldiers and engaged them at point-blank range, leaving them dead & wounded.

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇮🇹/🇴🇲 BREAKING: The fourth round of indirect Iran-US nuclear talks, which were supposed to take place this Saturday in Rome, have officially been postponed

They were postponed due to ongoing disagreements within the Trump administration on how the negotiations with Iran should be handled.
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Al-Mayadeen correspondent on Iran’s nuclear talks with America:

• In the last round of talks, the atmosphere was not as positive as in the previous rounds. Iran has serious doubts about the seriousness of the American side.
• U.S. imposing sanctions on Iran during the ongoing talks is a sign of hypocrisy.
• Iran is strictly adhering to its red lines about its missile program, drone capabilities, and other conventional defense sectors.
• Iran cannot just give up 60% enrichment of uranium within a short period of time, especially with no guarantees.
• Postponement of the negotiations is a sign that Iran does not want to engage in ‘futile’ negotiations.

[and the second point is telling as Orange himself said Russia wasn’t tariffed last month due to ongoing peace talks! Unbelievable]
⭕ 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Al-Mayadeen correspondent on Iran-US nuclear talks:

• Iran has reportedly stated that it is sick of Israeli involvement, and that it will not allow the negotiations to turn into an arena for conveying Israel’s messages.
• There are now serious obstacles facing the nuclear talks, as the U.S. is bringing up additional demands that are being pushed by the Israelis.

⭕ ❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇸/🇴🇲 NEW: Iran’s Deputy Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Ismael Baqaei, says the postponement was proposed by Oman

Reportedly, Oman proposed the negotiations to be postponed after Iran shared its concerns with Omani mediators, stating that America needs to ‘get its act together’ before negotiations can continue.

This seems to be the prevailing message: America’s demands are constantly shifting, Iran says it can’t negotiate this way.
⭕ 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: ‘Mike Waltz’s dismissal is not unrelated to the administration’s current talks with Iran’ – Politico

Waltz was known as one of the most hawkish officials in the Trump administration, who was actively advocating for war with Iran.
⭕ 🇮🇷/🇪🇺 NEW: Iran has canceled the nuclear talks with the E3 (Germany, France and UK) that were scheduled for tomorrow

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕🔻 ساسان 🇮🇷: Alright so we got some Drama…

Apparently Grossi was the one that escalated the disruption of the Iran-US talks under pressure from the E3…

By providing “misleading information” and reports to the Americans, he aimed to create the impression that what Iran says about the status of its peaceful nuclear activities is not entirely accurate!

Seems as though Grossi is resorting to any means necessary to get himself and the IAEA involved into the negotiations process. 🇮🇷🇴🇲🇺🇸🇺🇳
🔻 EM: It is more complicated. There is a team behind Grossi who is not acting alone. The problem is related to trace of uranium left behind by foreign intelligence services that Obama rejected but not other successor presidents who wanted to believe the fake reports. Plus Israel demands (missiles and allies).
[scratch a festering wound in our world, ye shall find an Anglo or a Zionazi, and usually both, and often under the same skin. The Argentine is a priviledged zionazi jew.. consider his mug and the Persian’s posture]
⭕ Achieving stability in Syria remains a distant prospect.
⭕ The spiritual leader of the Druze community in Syria, Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, launched a scathing attack on the Syrian government, accusing it of killing its own people and calling for “swift and direct international intervention.”

In a statement issued today following the bloody events of the past two days in Sahnaya, Ashrafieh, and Jaramana in the Damascus countryside, al-Hijri described what happened as “ISIS-style sectarian massacres,” rejecting the label of “gangs” being applied to the residents of these areas.

He accused the government of carrying out “systematic and documented mass killings that do not need investigative committees like those formed for the crimes committed on the coast.”

Al-Hijri added, “We no longer trust an entity that claims to be a government… We no longer trust the presence of its members among us, as they are nothing but instruments of killing, bloodshed, abduction, and distortion of truth—driven by sectarian, extremist thinking that brands everyone as infidels.”

He concluded by noting, “We had never spoken of minorities, but they act with a mindset that considers all minorities from other sects and religions as infidels.”
⭕ Sirens on 250 villages and areas in northern Israel following a missile launched from Yemen.
[a specially brewed coffee early this past morning, courtesy of the industrious lads in Yemen]
⭕ It’s nearly impossible to hear a speech, statement, or interview from the current US administration without a swipe at the previous one, while paradoxically echoing and even praising every decision of Donald Trump’s policies.
[who cares? A filthy pot rightfully calls the former kettle corrupt. We condemn both]
⭕ This morning, Israel bombed an area close to the Syrian presidential palace in Damascus.
[this is nudge to their spiritual brethren the salafi Horde – to get on with dispensation of the targeted minorities, which in fact form the majority within Syria. The Horde is justifiably terrified with taking on All, but they made their beds with another strand of Legion. Damned if they do, damned if they don’t]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Lord Bebo: 🇨🇳🇺🇸🚨‼️ CHINA SAYS USA IS TO BLAME FOR COVID!

The Covid-19 pandemic originated from the United States and not Wuhan, China said on Wednesday, accusing Washington of “shifting the blame”.

China hit back, accusing the US of “shamelessly politicising” the virus’ origins:

“The US should cease from shifting blame and evading responsibility, stop finding external excuses for its internal malaise, and genuinely reflect on and overhaul its public health policies.

The US cannot continue to turn a deaf ear to the numerous questions over its conduct”
🔻 WS: This is incontrovertibly true.
🔻 Zardex🇫🇮🖤💙❤️🇷🇺🇰🇵🇵🇸🇱🇧🇾🇪🇸🇾🇮🇷🇨🇳: No abnormal variance with coronavirus related diseases was ever detected. All “novel” symptoms were media dramatizations of the old well known symptom variance with corona viruses and severity was very typical also. The only atypical thing was the over reaction around the world.
[but the timely provided “solution” of the Vaxx has had significant sequela]
🔻 WS: It was a psyop all the way
⭕ cont thread:
🤦‍♂️ Little Pistol Pete Talking Tough

Once again, I challenge anyone to describe the forces that can be arrayed and sustained to make war against Iran, and the strategy and tactics that can be employed to defeat them.
🔻 Michael D Thatcher: Only tactical nukes can beat them and that will set the whole world off.
🔻 WS: I assess the probability at near zero that the US will use nuclear weapons against Iran. To do so would mean war against Russia, China, and North Korea.

Not only that, but even if they DID attempt to use nukes against Iran, it would not disarm them. People overestimate the military utility of nuclear weapons.
🔻 Michael D Thatcher: 100% agree, I just meant that that was the only way to “win”.
🔻 WS: If by “winning” you mean that US and Israeli military bases in the region would be destroyed, along with at least dozens of US aircraft and warships.

Also, Iran could effectively shut down the Israeli economy with just a dozen or so strikes against key installations.
🔻 Michael D Thatcher: No, Will, you have got me wrong, I agree with all of that – “winning” was in parenthesis.
🔻 eLouai: What will the US do?

Maybe harness Balochistan extremists, and fund terrorist activities

That’s currently what US has structured itself to be. With media propaganda to provide cover
🔻 WS: #NoPotentProxyArmiesLeftToBuy
🔻 Bradley Mark Parsons: My guess is you will get a lot of responses like: bomb them into the Stone Age and/or turn the Middle East into glass. These have been the default for about 30 years.
🔻 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩: Trump was the first President in my adult life not to get us into a new conflict.

This saber rattling is childish and the audience is the Israel lobby and the MIC.
[but he made EVERY existing war incalculably WORSE. From West Asia, to arming up the UkroNazis before the SMO, and now the South Asian conflagration]
🔻 WS: 📜 Some Sins Will Not Wash Away
🔻 Caligula’s Horse: This was good and deserves praise; however, it may not have been planned. These things were popular at the time and did not cost anything. But defeat in Ukraine and Yemen would allow domestic enemies to call him weak – on Fox.

Now you and I, I venture to say, are thinking men initiated in the ways of our Armed forces. We know that we are weaker than we have ever been, and a conflict could be catastrophic for us; but Washington, as well as the Molon Labe, USA! crowd cannot accept this truth…
🔻 WS: Expeditionary warfare against anyone on the list of candidates (Russia, China, Iran, North Korea … and even Yemen) is simply out of the question. It could not be done. They could not put ashore anything approaching a sufficiently potent force.

And American air and naval power is a massacre waiting to happen against extremely formidable adversaries whose primary study, for decades running, has been to develop the capacity to asymmetrically defeat American air and naval power.
🔻 #Liderazgoinnovador: “Escalatory supremacy” interesting concept |O’Bomber|
🔻 John: the Emperor is now visibly naked for the world to see… Israel’s golem is impotent.
🔻 chickadee: Don’t forget they’re allegedly in “negotiations” with Iran, lol.
⭕ 📜 Welcome to the Last World War
[links:
🔻 RKM: “BREAKING 🚨🔥#Israel says, Iran were behind the Massive fire break out in Israel.

🚨 Several military bases at risk and Soldiers trapped inside.”]
🔻 MaryMacElveen 🇷🇺🇺🇸: I don’t believe anything that Israel says.
🔻 Mohammad Ibrahim Faraji: The fire on Israel and Burning everything 👍🤲🙏 wee need more wind and fire
🔻 Marta: Nessuno vuole dare una bella lezione a questi sionisti?
⭕‼️ If the HMS Prince of Wales carrier strike group attempts to transit the Red Sea and the Bab-el-Mandeb, it will run into big trouble along the way.
[links:
🔻 MenchOsint: “HMS Prince of Wales 🇬🇧 carrier strike group in the Mediterranean Sea, supported by US Navy P8 Poseidon sailing eastbound
and

UK Royal Navy’s HMS Prince of Wales carrier strike group (with F-35C squadron) entered the Mediterranean Sea, sailing toward the Indo-Pacific region.

It will cross the Red Sea in a few days.”]
🔻 chickadee: They finally got a carrier deployed, wow quite a feat for the UK
🔻 حلاوة العنتبلي: The old bitch is clinging to being a pimp …
🔻 direccion cinco: That seems like shake down speed. I doubt they even know if itll make it all the way there yet or not.
🔻 سيف اليمن🇵🇸🇾🇪 🇾🇪: We hope that the British aircraft carrier passes through the Red Sea. This is a fatty goal, we cannot miss the opportunity
🔻 ME: Coral reef in the making 🐠🐟🦞🦀🪸🐙🐚
🔻 catmando: Child killers
🔻 timcurtisart.bsky.social: It will be coming back with faults very soon then.

Or else it will be sunk by AnsarAllah
🔻 WS: 📜 Geography
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: If Russia has given anti-shipping missile tech to Ansarallah, we may be about to find out…
🔻 WS: I don’t think the Russians are involved.

But, as I mentioned recently, I suspect what has happened recently is that the Iranians have provided the Yemeni with the components necessary to upgrade the guidance and control systems of their pre-existing Soumar GLCMs.
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: I agree, I’ve run across no evidence that the Russians are involved, but the presence of a UK carrier within (plausibly deniable) missile range of Yemen must be sorely tempting.
🔻 Basedboy: Any serious war with iran would see bombing done from Arabia and Syria, no carrier is getting near, they know what happens then. But iranian air defense is still top notch, remember when trump sent 100 tomahawks at Syria?
🔻 WS: All of the Gulf States have stated explicitly that they will not permit US airstrikes against Iran from their countries.
🔻 SamT: Do you think when (if) the time comes, the Gulf states can hold firm?
🔻 WS: Well … if they don’t, the Iranians will lay waste to their oil exporting and refining infrastructure.
🔻 Lem Lemanski: Iran really terrified all the U.S. friendly Gulf States last year when they broke the Iron Dome, didn’t they?
🔻 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩: Not to mention maintenance trouble, I will be shocked if it does the round trip with zero engineering casualties.
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: HMS Prince of Wales carrier strike group should be treated as a hostile force if they get any closer to Yemen.

Let’s see how increasingly slippery the aircraft carriers’ decks have become.
🔻 Salamanca: Let’s see if they can even even reach the Red Sea… |media|
[I think they will. A Date with Destiny. It is fitting the last serious iteration of Harlot Babylon, whose navy had such global reach and pretensions, should join the war chariots of another Pharaoh to amuse the fish and divers in the blessed Red Sea]
⭕ cont thread:
🤦‍♂️🤡🌍 @johnkonrad has officially “jumped the shark”.

A battleship’s main guns have a 24-mile range. So you’re going to have to airlift them into the Yemeni mountains to get them close enough to shell Sanaa
🔻 🇪🇨 wayemeru 🔻: I used to follow Konrad but after Trump was elected he turned into a giddy little schoolboy spouting ever more ridiculous opinions.
[its happening every where – Scotty et al. After the shit show of Biden & Gang, all the remaining sane wanted desperately to believe the new wrecking crew HAD TO BE better and a viable alternative. They conned themselves. And how many are courageous enough to admit they were deceived so badly?]
🔻 WS: I think John is a great guy as a person, and he knows his stuff when it comes to merchant shipping. But I don’t think he appreciates how potent firepower and capable delivery systems have become so ubiquitous here in 2025.

#DemocratizationOfFirepower
#NoEasyWarsLeftToFight
🔻 🇪🇨 wayemeru 🔻: The captain for sure knows his stuff about the Merchant Marine. That’s why I followed him. However, he has gotten close to some administration planning committees and it’s gone to his head. It’s gotten more silly than I care to see on a daily basis.
⭕‼️ China buys over 90% of Iranian oil exports.

In other words, Trump is pouring gasoline on the fire.
links:
🔻 *Walter Bloomberg: “*TRUMP: ANY COUNTRY BUYING OIL FROM IRAN WILL FACE SANCTIONS”
🔻 Vicflair: Iran only sells their oil to China lol
[was this the handle of a WWF dude I used to watch in the early 80s??? A prim if meaty blond dude that used to wear velvety house coats iirc. No wonder Orange liked to hang around their dressing room]
🔻 Sam: Yea, good luck sanctioning China when they already paused majority of energy purchases from the United States.
🔻 Melancholyn: So he wants to impose sanctions against Turkey, India, and China? Just a reminder, Turkey is a NATO member
🔻 o_garoto_vin: He’s going to call China again and beg they also don’t buy oil?
We’re a Mickey Mouse country… |Mickey Mouse|
🔻 AndyB: Lmao. Let me guess;
China didnt pick up the phone when you called Yesterday 😂😂
🔻 Mongopotamus: 245% TARIFFS ON CHINA.

We’re making progress guys!!!
🔻 Tamara Anthony Ⓜ️🕸️🔗: cuz Trump’s over here,
watching you kiss her;
oh ho ho, ho ho
🔻 targa.s: The top three destinations for Iranian oil exports are China (primarily as the main buyer), Malaysia (mainly as a transit and relabeling hub), and the United Arab Emirates (also primarily serving as a transit country)
🔻 🅶🆁🆄🅼🅿🅻🅴🆂: At this rate, the only country permitted to trade with the US will be the penguins.
[Alas, they’re sanctioned up the wazoo too]
🔻 ₦₳V𝚜𝚝é𝚟𝚊 🇷🇺 ᴢ: DeepSeek says it is between 60-70%, but point noted.
🔻 WS: DeepSeek’s data is out-dated.

Iranian oil exports to China have increased significantly in the past few years. Multiple recent reports place the percentage at 90%+. |media|
🔻 JJ悟: Always remember, Trump posses wonderful flexibility.
🔻 Lysander, Y Sinwar I am Legend: Is that 500% on top of the 144%?
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: Why won’t the phone ring?
🔻 Truth Matters: Nothing surprises me about President Trump anymore. Late last month, he said he controls the world. He probably thinks he’s the ruler of the universe. If history is any guide, we know how this is going to end. Pride goes before the fall.
🔻 Lord Revon: So China will ignore the threat and effectively gain a monopoly on Iranian oil
⭕ Trump announces China will no longer be permitted to do business with the United States in any way, shape, or form.
links:
🔻 MenchOsint: 🇺🇸⚡️🇮🇷 Trump says he will sanction anyone who buys Oil from Iran.

It comes as a few hours ago, the 4th round of US-Iran nuclear talks was postponed, without any reason given.
🔻 Chitown Biker: Wait another 1/2 hour. He’ll change his tune.
🔻 Nasim Watani: Empty shelves and high prices are the future.
🔻 Tom Bergerson: Wtaf
🔻 Kuppy: Sounds like the China trade deal is making progress…🤣
🔻 Ikkyu Sojun: This loudmouth’s delusion is beyond belief.

Oure, jaw-dropping lunacy.

Trump’s tantrum just isolates the U.S., jacks up oil prices, and begs for war.

It’s a desperate, flailing clown act from an empire crumbling under its own ego.

Shut up, Don.

Your noise is just hot air, and the world’s sick of your circus.
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: Has the entire “negotiations with Iran” scheme been confirmed (or proven to be) as nothing more than an elaborate fig leaf?

Does that also apply to the “negotiations with Russia”?

How about “negotiations with China”?
🔻 oshiianic awareness 🇯🇵: Trump has more hot air than a Chinese “spy balloon”.
🔻 Question More: I always thought people underestimate the impact on the U.S. consumer when china finally sanction the U.S. and forbids export to them, but looks like the U.S. is doing it to themselves. If true Buckle up.
⭕ ‼️ China Will Not Submit

Apparently the Trump administration believes Xi will now call up Khamenei and say, “Hey, sorry, but the US says we can’t buy your oil anymore, and we must obey. So, good luck.”

Anyone who believes this has simply not been paying attention.
🔻 Daniele Gatti: Either that or they DON’T believe it and it’s all theater to stir up anti-Chinese sentiment in the US.
🔻 WS: What do you posit is the motivation for “stirring up anti-Chinese sentiment in the US”?

What is the end game? What advantage will derive from this course of action?
🔻 Daniele Gatti: Firstly, it creates a scapegoat. Trump is scrambling to reduce the trade deficit (which is only going to get more unsustainable as third part countries ditch the USD for international trade), he can’t do that without reducing imports from China. 1/n

Hence, I posit that he doesn’t really want a deal, or not a meaningful one anyway. Of course, he knows full well there will be severe repercussions on the US economy, and wants to pin them on the Chinese, as far as his domestic public opinion is concerned 2/n

That’s easier to do if a large portion of the US public hates the Chinese already. Also, if Trump wanted to have some sort of military confrontation with China (foolish idea, but so is packing your cabinet with neocons), monstering the enemy would be a requirement. 3/end
🔻 WS: They believe they can advance their interests by introducing multiple chaotic elements into the matrix.

I am convinced their plans will go awry, and they will lose control of events.

Chaos is not a ladder. It’s a bottomless pit. |media|
[well said. The lunatic criminals think it is a ladder they can climb at their leisure, and navigate at will. All the meanwhile they’re being cooked at the civilizational-states’ BBQ]
🔻 Daniele Gatti: Oh absolutely. They will either take it too far and suffer a crushing military defeat or backtrack and lose most of their domestic support.
🔻 SamT: I believe these are all Trump’s (so called) negotiation tactics. There are RUMORS in Iran that US agreed to allow sale of Iran’s oil, if enrichment is stopped at 3.5%.
🔻 WS: I strongly suspect the US/Iran talks are over.
🔻 ThirteenSecondsTruther: Yes but have you considered that he knows they won’t ‘obey’ but making a rule about this other party gives him the pretext to issue more tariff esque sanctions on China
🔻 WS: The Chinese couldn’t care less. They will not submit to US bullying. Those days are long gone.
🔻 ThirteenSecondsTruther: Yes and if it’s so obvious to you don’t you think the leaders in the US understand it as well. Therefore they know the response and intend the response. But it gives them pretense go further with the trade decoupling from China than they otherwise have political cover to do?
🔻 WS: I think they are geopolitically, economically, and militarily clueless, and are “making it up as they go along”. Sooner than later, this clown show is going to end in disaster.
🔻 Randy Clark: China will not kowtow this time. Advantage China.
🔻 Gun Barons: Besides the economics here favoring the Chinese, they simply have a vastly higher pain threshold so even if we were each receiving similar pain (which we will not) , they will withstand it far better.
🔻 Noah Christopher: It’s not about Xi submitting, it’s about raising the cost of defiance. Under Trump, sanctions actually bite. Remember when China backed off Iranian oil in 2019 after Trump threatened access to U.S. markets? Strength deters, weakness invites. Biden begged; Trump pressures. Xi respects leverage, not lectures. This isn’t fantasy, it’s how power works in the real world.
[this tool describes the desperate calculation. That China can be beaten back again, as in 2019. That they can wedge her apart from Iran again. But that was in galaxy long long ago, prior to the SMO Defeat, Barbarism in Gaza and the Insult of Tariffs]
🔻 African Elixir: I will be very surprised if Trump finishes his term of office. His admin seems to be sabotaging him with these erratic decisions.
🔻 Matthew McCracken 🇨🇮🇮🇪🇺🇸🇱🇷🇷🇺🇳🇱🇷🇴🇹🇩: My how times have changed quickly. In 2019, I remember we were able to force Chinese companies to back down from doing business with Venezuela. I can also remember the US forcing Russian oil companies to cut ties with Venezuela. This is no longer the case.
🔻 Ephemeral: Trump did express the belief that he controls the US and the world which means he expects Xi to obey.

Strange times, indeed.
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: This administration is a bunch of utter brainless morons. I didn’t think it could get worse after Biden.
🔻 黄威特: 因为美国反应较为迟钝，所以他们相信世界还是原来的样子，仅此而已。以前美国对于世界经济的影响比重非常大，现在则小了很多，变得不再那么那么重要（当然依然还是No1）关税是一把双刃剑，这次中美双方的角力的结果，全世界都在拭目以待。
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: Is this on top of 145% tariffs? 😜 Washington puts its foot down on the multipolarity pedal.
🔻 Modern day King of degeneracy: A nuclear war can’t come soon enough. The world’s fucked.
🔻 RationalInvestor: Empty threats won’t do it. Trump has to physically stop China from buying Iranian oil.
🔻 WS: And exactly how does that work? Describe the process.
🔻 RationalInvestor: This is one way 😆
[posts leading toon of Dragonfire on orange ass (pun intended)]
⭕ 🤔 We are led to believe the course of empire is shaped by whom we elect. It is plainly not so.

There is a continuity of oligarchic power and policy stretching back many generations.

It imposes its will.

The trajectory of events is not amenable to the voice of the people.
🔻 Oksana3112: UK
🔻 V.McKenna: |Shareholders Inc.|
🔻 daffy689: All we get is the illusion of choice, no more
🔻 Yusuf mk: It’s the antichrist nexus aka Jewish + Christian z10 Lobby.
⭕🤦‍♂️ The United States operates under the fallacious assumption that the other nations of the world have very limited choices — that everyone is intimidated by American power. They MUST use the US dollar and western banks; they MUST submit to US dominance and edicts … or else.
links:
🔻 Philip Pilkington: EU airlines saying they’re going to start buying Chinese planes instead of American planes… 🇪🇺🇨🇳
[Ryanair will cease to exist quite shortly. The lunatic eugenicists are sanctioning Russian aluminum! And China’s blocking essential parts and REE and minerals needed for planes and tech.. but the lunatics, planning to depopulate and reduce survivors to a walking sessile herd limited to 15-min radius, could care less about long distance travel or the old paradigm. Back to TechnoFeudalism!]
🔻 IAmSagzee: Slowly by slowly..

The Valar of the East is rising

As the Balrog of the West is fading

And Gold—God’s monwy—shines as the signal
🔻 Ikkyu Sojun: The U.S. empire’s arrogance is a rotting delusion. It assumes the world’s nations are chained, trembling before its might.

Use the dollar.

Bow to Western banks.

Obey Washington’s decrees.

Or face the whip.

What a pathetic fantasy.

America’s hegemony is crumbling, yet it still struts, blind to the defiance rising.

Nations aren’t cowed.

They’re ditching the dollar, trading in yuan, and laughing at U.S. threats.

From Iran to China, the Global South sees through the empire’s bluster.

Sanctions?

Sabre-rattling?

It’s the death throes of a bully losing grip.

The world’s choices aren’t limited anymore.

America’s power is.

Keep dreaming of dominance while your throne cracks.

Truth doesn’t kneel to fading lies.

The empire’s reign is over.

It’s just too vain to admit it.
[this must be a dear cousin of our Sony Thang, lol]
🔻 Dennis B: That was the case between 1945 to 2000.

Boomers such as Trump and Biden lived that era and continue to believe we are still living those times.

But nothing stands still.

The multi-polar wirld began when China unofficially became the biggest economy in the world in 2016.
🔻 jonesthecat21: But even in the 1945-2000 time frame, you had Korea (stalemate at best) and Vietnam (lost after more than a decade). I guess you could consider the Iraq turkey-shoot and Grenada “victories”. BFD.
🔻 Dennis B: 1971 Nixon exiting the gold standard, and unofficially defaulted.

1974 US forced the world to USD to buy petrol.

1987 US forced Plaza Accord on Japan.

US dictated many times during that era.

But now it is different.
🔻 jonesthecat21: Agree that the US had much more economic power and soft power then. But US military power has been overrated for a long time.
🔻 WS: 🧵The Myth of Western Military Prowess
⭕🔻 Arnaud Bertrand:
Did Trump just announce that China will “not be allowed to do business with the US in any way, shape or form”? Or isn’t he even aware of the implications of what he’s posting?

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

I am convinced there is no practicable way to enforce a ban on Iranian oil. Any US attempt to do so via “hard power” will produce a cascade of very undesirable consequences.
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Yes, this “ban” will be another demonstration of US impotence.
🔻 StarBoySAR 🇭🇰 🇨🇳 🥭: I’m fairly sure that Trump and his team of chicken hawks are aware that China is Iran’s biggest customer, as they are likely tracking all the ships

The whole fake outrage over Iran having an imaginary nuclear weapons program has more to do with Trump trying to re-establishing US control over the middle East and its energy resources, with the help of Israel, which is pretty shaky and probably will translate into further destabilizing the entire region

Nonetheless, this aligns with America’s broader strategy of containing China, given that China remains the largest energy importer from the Middle East

China is the world’s largest crude oil importer, even as it tries to diversify its imports, towards Russia, expand Gwadar Port and Sino-Myanmar Pipelines, the majority of its oil imports still comes from the middle east

I wouldn’t be shocked if the US would risk a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, with all it’s unforeseen cascading consequences and a spike in oil prices, just to create problems for China |link|
🔻 WS: You make several valid points. One observation I would make is that I don’t believe the US has the ability to blockade the Strait of Hormuz. And if they attempt it, they will end up with a bunch of wrecked ships and shot-down aircraft.
🔻 StarBoySAR 🇭🇰 🇨🇳 🥭: I completely agree with you, but judging by their desperate attempts to fight Ansar Allah, even putting US capital ships into confined seas like the Red Sea or Persian Gulf, suggest that they might try anyhow
[Yup. The Passion of the Worst. A Charge is comin’]
🔻 Yes ALL cops 🇵🇸🪂: Keep ‘em coming, I say. We need to be taken down a few million pegs.
🔻 Gunny is my Dog: I doubt it. The Chinese are all the sudden willin to negotiate on tariffs. If I know, he knows. Non partisan assessment.
🔻 WS: I have no idea what you’re talking about.
🔻 Gunny is my Dog: China “door is open” to talks. |link|
🔻 WS: I don’t think you are well-informed and correctly interpreting what the Chinese are saying. Nothing has changed. China says its “door is open” to talks only in the context of tariffs being rescinded.
[EXACTLY. The Chinese are turning the Yemeni dagger in the Wound. “in the context of” or “as long as” the demented humble themselves and reverse course. Which of course cannot happen, as it involves Pride. So the two sides shall march in lockstep into the End. As Putin said, there will be a change of elites — and this above all includes the Anglo-Zionists]
🔻 mohammad solymani: I think relations have soured so much that even lifting tariffs will not do much to resolve the dispute with China. And Trump is deepening the differences day by day.
🔻 Robert 🇵🇸 🇸🇪 🇩🇪: Trump is all theater in front of a high school audience.
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山:   放马过来吧…… just saying.
🔻 unifyforfreedom: If China buys 90% of Iranian oil… what happens if they Sabotage Iranian oil fields? Will it bring China and Iran to the negotiating table? |link|
🔻 WS: Sabotage Iranian oil fields? Are you serious?

Do you understand what the consequences of such an act would be?

Every US military base in the region would be savaged by Iranian missile strikes, and US-friendly Gulf States would have their oil facilities destroyed.
🔻 readysetgo888@yahoo.: Will, sometimes I think they don’t understand the consequences, based on what I see. Their behavior is so arrogant, plus in his case so ignorant that it makes me very concern that we have people like this in charge. I actually think they are all like this, no logic or strategy.
🔻 unifyforfreedom: I agree, Unimaginable destruction if done in haste, but done strategically, it could cripple China and Iran. |link|
🔻 WS: Incoherent nonsense.

And Eli David is a psychotic propagandist with whom I have long been familiar.
🔻 unifyforfreedom: Nonsense or not, this was a clear warning to Iran and it doesn’t appears Iran is backing down, Unless BRICS gets involved to ease the confrontation. No one wants war.
[reposts Temple Mount Hegseth’s puerile unhinged tweet]
🔻 WS: See this thread: |link|
🔻 unifyforfreedom: America has done it before but will they do it again?

“How America took out the Nord Stream Pipeline” |link|
[a busy little hasbara doll, with the mug of a middle-aged blond on the handle. Almost makes you wish they’d try, to discover the full meaning of FAFO]
⭕🔥 War, War, War …

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

Great dangers lie ahead. |link|

⭕ 🤦‍♂️ Trump’s historical illiteracy and American exceptionalist delusions have jumped the shark.
🔻 John Metzner: In all my 8+ decades, I have not seen anything as unstable and erratic as Trump since he embarked on the disastrous Tariffs policy.
But this latest one on historical events takes the cake.
🔻 Peter: What a dickhead.

He must be trying to deliberately de-rail any “negotiations” on Ukraine with this kind of nonsense.
[good point. It’s like a temper tantrum aimed at Russkies, replete with a double Dubyian one-finger salute towards all points]
🔻 DaveP: Makes me ask what the outcome would have been if so much of the German army had not been tied up on the eastern front.
🔻 Pax Curl: The end result of people being taught history by Hollywood.
🔻 Angel: The Red Army had already entered Germany and was closing on to Berlin when the Americans started running like headless chicken on the beach of Normandy.
Good only for a Hollywood turkey.
🔻 Crypto1975: Americans think they live in an American Hero movie.
🔻 Anthony Sarich 🇦🇺🇭🇷: The Americans intervened in WW1. Out of 1M soldiers in action, about 100,000 were killed or 10% in about 12 months. It takes Britain and France 3 and 4 years respectively to reach 10% KIA. In short, the Germans slaughtered the inexperienced Americans.
[well, that’s not fair either – Frenchie and Limey ran and swam the Channel or surrendered, tout suite!]
🔻 Katusha Akula: Trump is turning into an annoying arrogant c-unt !
🔻 🇺🇸 Yoo Peterson 🇺🇸: This is a bitch slap to the Russians. Unreal to be honest with you. Trump is right when America was instrumental in those two wars but to say America did more than any other country is quite the stretch.
🔻 Pistis Sophia: They are trying to change history

Today is the anniversary of the Odessa Trade Union House ritual fire started by Nazi Horde in 2014

☝️☝️☝️ Both interpretations appear to apply. Remember, Obama’s birthday ritual is just over three months (94 days to be precise) away. And per tradition, such as 1177BC, the end of great cycles do muss up hairs

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦A memorial event for those killed in 2014 in the Odessa Trade Union House was held in Moscow |media|
⭕ 🇺🇦Odessa citizens bring flowers to the House of Trade Unions in memory of those killed 11 years ago

🐻 Does anyone in Kiev have the decency to remember them..?
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦Residents of Mariupol honored the memory of those killed in Odessa as a result of the arson of the Trade Union House 11 years ago.

“For the residents of Donbass, this date is truly not accidental, because 11 years ago, for the entire Russian world, for every Russian person, a signal of the point of no return was received,” said the Minister of Youth Policy of the DPR, Kirill Makarov. |media|
⭕ #NoStatuteOfLimitations

🕯 May 2 marks 11 years since the tragedy in Odessa.

On that day, the Euromaidan supporters, ultra radicals and outright Neo-Nazis committed atrocities against those who openly opposed the anti-constitutional government coup in Kiev perpetrated by nationalists, at the behest and with the support from their the western sponsors.

This atrocity must not be forgotten or swept under the rug: we shan’t let the world forget what happened on 2 May 2014 in Odessa.

👉 A detailed reconstruction & retrospective of the events of that day and the ensuing tragedy.

According to official statistics alone, at least 48 people died during these tragic events, including 42 who were killed or burned alive at the Trade Unions House, as well as another six who perished during the clashes on the streets of Odessa.

In fact, the Kiev regime and its pet cronies has repeated — to the letter — what the Bandera torturers did 80 years ago in Khatyn.

❗️ Although many perpetrators have been identified, they have not received the punishment they deserve.

The West remains silent regarding these bloody crimes of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis, the Kiev regime, which to this day continues to use terrorist methods.

Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the 10th anniversary of the tragedy in Odessa of May 2, 2024.
Maria Zakharova: Today, as we pay tribute to the victims of the bloody reprisals in Odessa, we have no doubt that sooner or later those who perpetrated and inspired this barbaric crime, which has no statute of limitations, will have to face the punishment they deserve.
[there will be hell to pay for the bastards behind this satanic ritual. And not just the patsy UkroNazi]

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕🚨| 30 Mins Ago: Sirens in Haifa

Yemen carried out a ballistic missile attack against Israel around the Haifa area and other areas of northern occupied Palestine, in a 2nd Yemeni attack today.

Interception attempts were made, results unknown so far.
[about 1p Jerusalem local time today..]

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺❗️ US Senate Supports Bill on 500% Tariffs for Countries Buying Oil from Russia – Lindsey Graham

A bill on crushing sanctions against Russia and 500% duties on countries that buy our oil and gas has been approved. They will be introduced if Putin refuses peace talks
[Good! Let’s see who has a pair worldwide. ALL shall be forced to come off the Fence]
⭕ ❗️Trump does not deny the possibility of introducing secondary sanctions against Russia, said State Department press secretary Bruce.
⭕ A state of emergency has been declared in Israel.

The country is suffocating in flames: forest fires are completely out of control.

According to media reports, 13% of the entire territory of the country has been destroyed.

The flames are already approaching residential buildings. Drivers on the highways are abandoning their cars and fleeing

The authorities believe that the arson was carried out by Islamic provocateurs.
⭕❗️ The US will no longer mediate in negotiations between Ukraine and Russia – White House

“We will continue to help, but we will no longer fly around the world as mediators at meetings. Now it is a matter for the two sides, the time has come for them to present and develop concrete ideas on how to end this conflict. It will be up to them.”

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ The American Roots of German Nazism, Part 10: How Nazi leaders defended their xenophobic ideas by referencing US racial practices

During the Nuremberg Trials, the highest Nazi criminals admitted that their racist practices were inspired by the racism in the United States.

💬 “The United States conquered its living space through revolutions, wars, and genocide,” stated Hermann Goering, the second-highest figure in the Nazi hierarchy, in his final conversation before his execution.

At the time, racial laws in the US discriminated against even African American soldiers — victorious in World War II — but not the defeated white Nazis.

In this video of Sputnik’s exclusive series, historian and author of The War of Destruction, Yegor Yakovlev, reveals intriguing details from the diary of psychologist Gustave Gilbert about the American origins of German Nazism. |media|
⭕ Chinese bots in action |01| |02|

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ The is a reason why Yemen is launching missiles on the north of Israel: no Israeli on the Lebanese borders and nearby are safe as long as Israel target-Kill Lebanese Hezbollah operatives. The retaliation against Israel’s humanitarian siege on Gaza allows Yemen to support not only Gaza but also Lebanon.
As long as Netanyahu’s government is lasting, Israel is not safe.
[this refers to the strike on northern Haifa this afternoon]
⭕ Benjamin Netanyahu, with an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes, shows no regard for Syrian sovereignty, going so far as to adopt Syria’s Druze community as a strategic pretext while threatening even the self-appointed President Ahmad al-Sharaa with strikes near his own palace.
🔻 C1: Monsieur Magnier, do you think the Druze will disavow Netanyahu’s “assistance”? I imagine it is hard for them, as the alternative is Jolani, who has little love for them, apparently
🔻 EM: Kurds enjoy excellent relationship with Israel and prefer to have their own state.
[wait this doesn’t make sense. He was asked about Druze and answered with Kurds..]
⭕ Benjamin Netanyahu offered a new Middle Eastern plan to Donald Trump, dividing Lebanon and Syria into various zones.
⭕ There are four kinds of men:

The one who knows, and knows that he knows — he is truly wise. In his presence, listen and learn.

The one who knows, yet knows not that he knows — he is asleep to his own light. Help him remember.

The one who does not know, and knows that he does not know — he stands at the gate of wisdom. Guide him gently.

The one who does not know, and does not know that he does not know — he is lost in illusion. Let him be, he is dangerously ignorant. Avoid him.
[maybe, per Rummy, we need a fifth category for Orange.. the unknown unknown that unknows the known??]
⭕ The US faces two choices in Yemen: either push to end the war—acknowledging that Ansar Allah remains undeterred—or escalate the conflict at the risk of disastrous fallout. Meanwhile, Iran watches with satisfaction as Washington stumbles, its deterrence eroded and its credibility challenged. Not a single Israeli ship or shipment has successfully crossed the Red Sea—marking both a symbolic and strategic failure.
[the multiple catastrophes leading to the “negotiations”! At this point, the Kursk Gambit was supposed to grease the Russian “negotiation” track; the leveling of Yemen was supposed to facilitate the Iranian “negotiation” track. The best laid plans of mice..]
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Megatron: JUST IN:

🇺🇸🇾🇪 US AGM-88B missile, designed to detect radars and destroy them at supersonic speed CRASHES over Yemen’s Hodeida unexploded and fully intact

Iran will get a new toy… |media|

Good news. May it hold out…

India should tread warily on battlefield

[three days ago] “The international reaction so far, as Trump’s latest remark testifies, shies away from endorsing the war option. Simply put, no country, including our “time-tested” friend Russia or the so-called Global South, has any understanding for the sentiments expressed in India favouring military action against Pakistan. On the other hand, China has taken an exceptionally supportive position underwriting Pakistan’s sovereignty and security.”

India-Pakistan tensions show signs of easing

[today] “There are signs that life in India is moving on. The melancholy, long, withdrawing roar of a heavy heart is discernible. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is travelling out of Delhi.”