☝️ i was rechecking on this older video. A year ago it was freely viewable. Now it requires you to sign in to view.. is it the same for you?

The only chance imperialists, always an abject minority, have against their sea of enemies is division. They cannot exterminate them all. So it is a stacked function, relying chiefly on deception and skullduggery. Consider after all the pressures ALREADY brought upon poor little Gaza, of holocaust, starvation, siege, AI targetting, dissemination of disease, destroying every livable structure, denying ability to fish and plant food, preventing their cowardly arab neighbors from coming to their aid, etc etc – they still require these gimmicks! That is why in all Scriptures, and in the worldly contempt of all the honorable, the worst and lowest station in hellfire is reserved for the Hypocrite. The traitor within who serves the external existential enemy. And the amazing prophesy coming to fruition in front of our eyes: the Islamic Prophet said with all mankind gathered against them, a small group of his nation would hold out regardless of odds, and that these would live around Al Quds (Jerusalem). The Rock in Greater Syria that shatter the Last Satanic Empire and end the Babylonian System

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Netanyahu’s triumph:

Benjamin Netanyahu, with an ICC arrest warrant for his war crimes, has solidified his grip on power until at least 2026 with the passage of Israel’s largest-ever budget, totaling $169 billion.

Under Israel’s Basic Law on the Budget, missing the deadline would have automatically triggered the dissolution of the Knesset and forced early elections. With the budget now passed, that legal threat has been removed. The only remaining mechanism that could topple Netanyahu’s government before October 2026 is a no-confidence vote from within his coalition. This scenario appears unlikely, as his bloc currently commands the support of 68 Knesset members.
⭕ At this point, nearly every speech or meeting by the current US admin includes a criticism of “Biden’s administration”—so routinely and predictably that it’s becoming repetitive and tiresome. The constant invocation feels less like political positioning and more like a worn-out reflex.
⭕ This morning, Israel bombed Jabaliya, Khan Younis and Rafah in Gaza, killing at least 14 people of which 7 children.
⭕ To all European leaders:
Europe should be the first to take a firm stand against Israel’s ongoing violations of international law and the collapse of the ceasefire in Gaza—not just on moral and legal grounds, but out of self-interest. While the United States pushes to “secure” the Red Sea to ensure the passage of Israeli merchandise, it is European taxpayers and economies that are ultimately expected to shoulder the cost of that military campaign and its fallout.

Instead of backing costly operations to force open shipping lanes, Europe should be asking a far more rational question: why not pressure Israel to end its siege, halt its military campaign, and stop ethnic cleansing and acts of genocide in Gaza? That would not only de-escalate the broader regional conflict but would come at a far lower cost—economically, politically, and morally.

Europe cannot continue funding the consequences of Israeli policy and US blind support to it while remaining silent on its root causes. If it truly values stability, law, and human rights, the most effective step is not military enforcement in the Red Sea—it’s confronting the source of the crisis and demanding accountability from Israel.
⭕ Yemen with Lion Heart population. Watch what a shopkeeper does when the US is bombing Yemen on behalf of Israel so it can maintain the humanitarian siege on the Palestinians |media|
⭕ BreakingNews:
The Atlantic Editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg has decided to release the Signal war plans text due to the Attempts to disparage and discredit The Atlantic. |media|
⭕ The US targeted an Ansar Allah “top missile guy” in a residential civilian building and destroyed it. Israel does it in Gaza and did in Lebanon.

At 2 p.m., Waltz responded: “Typing too fast. The first target – their top missile guy – we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed.”
⭕ It looks like the US was planning to kill Yemeni Sayyed Abdel Malak al-Houthi but failed to do so.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ retweet of his old:
This is complete fantasy. The US and its mere handful of willing NATO vassals could not field and equip even 250k combat effectives in eastern Europe if you gave them a full year to do it, evacuated every single US military base on the planet, and the Russians chose not to interfere.

NATO is an empty shell.
[links:
🔻 Antiwar.com: NATO: 500,000 Troops on High Readiness for War With Russia
Officials say the alliance now has hundreds of thousands of soldiers ready to deploy to fight Russia within a month |link|]
🔻 WS: Let’s ask Grok:

How many combat divisions are there, combined, in the US Army and US Marines? And what is the approximate head count in each division?

Answer:

Here’s the breakdown for the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps combat divisions as of March 25, 2025, based on their current organizational structures.

U.S. Army Combat Divisions
The U.S. Army has 10 active combat divisions. These are:

1st Armored Division
1st Cavalry Division (functions as an armored division)
1st Infantry Division
2nd Infantry Division
3rd Infantry Division
4th Infantry Division
7th Infantry Division
10th Mountain Division (light infantry)
82nd Airborne Division
101st Airborne Division (air assault)

The Army National Guard has additional divisions, but they’re not active-duty unless mobilized, so we’ll stick to the 10 active ones.

Approximate Head Count:

Army divisions vary by type:
Infantry (e.g., 10th Mountain): ~10,000–12,000
Armored (e.g., 1st Armored): ~14,000–15,000
Airborne/Air Assault (e.g., 82nd, 101st): ~12,000–14,000

Average is roughly 12,500 per division.

U.S. Marine Corps Combat Divisions

The Marine Corps has 3 active combat divisions:
1st Marine Division
2nd Marine Division
3rd Marine Division
The 4th Marine Division is a reserve unit, so it’s excluded from the active count here.

Approximate Head Count:

Marine divisions are typically larger and more flexible, averaging 15,000–18,000 personnel, depending on attachments and mission. Modern adjustments (e.g., Force Design 2030) lean toward a rough average of 16,500 per division.

Combined Total
Army: 10 divisions
Marines: 3 divisions
Total: 13 active combat divisions

Head Count Summary
Army Division: ~12,500 (10,000–15,000)
Marine Division: ~16,500 (15,000–18,000)

Rough Total Personnel
Army: 10 × 12,500 = ~125,000
Marines: 3 × 16,500 = ~49,500
Total: ~174,500 personnel across all 13 divisions.

These are ballpark figures—exact numbers shift with deployments and policy changes—but this reflects their current state.
🔻 Probiotic Farmer: I have been telling my friends for months, we couldn’t maintain a front line in Germany and they think NATO is going to dominate Eurasia
🔻 WS: And the limitations apply as much to air and sea power as they do to land forces.
🔻 WS: 🤔 Food for Thought

IF THE US ASSEMBLED EVERY ARMY AND MARINE COMBAT DIVISION ON THE PLANET, IT WOULD AMOUNT TO A MERE 175,000 SOLDIERS.

Logistical constraints aside, this would be woefully insufficient to make war against Russia, China, or Iran.
🔻 Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn: Do Russia/China now.
🔻 WS: Russia has about a million combat troops in the Ukraine theater alone.

China? China has MILLIONS of combat troops ready to rumble.
🔻 Elly Maloba: That’s why it depends on tricking, arm-twisting or cajoling ‘allies’ into a coalition in the many war theatres abroad to boost the contingent numbers
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: Obviously this is not anywhere near enough to go for a large war against Iran, right?

That the US will not be able to pull all the men from all the bases is crystal clear.

So, the question is, if the US Nukes Iran’s nuclear facilities, what after that?!
🔻 Steven D. Cook: That’s why Uncle Sam relies on proxies and air power. America has been more successful than I expected through corruption intimidation and covert ops. Can this go on indefinitely?
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: People may laugh at the Europeans, but the US military that the whole of NATO depends on is a shadow of its former self. It’s a one-way ticket.
🔻 Mark Williams 🌏🕊️: |media|
🔻 SupremeCannon: Unlikely the US President would ever authorize the use of nuclear weapons, particularly with no declaration of war or an enemy first strike inbound.
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: There are many serious people who differs with your take now…
⭕ 💥 Bomb Bomb Iran

John McCain’s disciples in the White House are apparently very determined to “Bomb, bomb, bomb … bomb bomb Iran.”

They have somehow managed to get SEVEN B-2s airworthy at the same time — an unprecedented achievement in recent years.

I doubt this ends well.
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🔻 MenchOsint: 🚨 Update: 4 x additional USAF B-2 Spirit stealth bombers are now en route to Diego Garcia.

This would bring the total number of deployed B-2s to 7, marking an unprecedented concentration of stealth bombers at this location.

(My opinion: something will happen tonight …]
🔻 C2: Seven is a lucky number.
🔻 Vrai Nom: “Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.” ― Euripides

I want to see a picture of all 7 lined up on the Chagos island base.
🔻 Kenan Beg: According to @imetatronink this is pretty much everything the US has operating. My thoughts- overkill for Yemen. That leaves Iran. Nuclear? Madness
🔻 WS: Not B-52s. B-2s.

“On paper”, there are 20 B-2s. But in recent years, very few have been “combat capable” at any given time. The fact they have managed to get 7 of them across the globe to Diego Garcia suggests they have something “big” planned — and it’s almost certainly Iran.
🔻 Dr. Anton: What’s the point of these aircraft?
🔻 WS: Ostensibly, their purpose is to penetrate enemy air defenses. But none of them have ever demonstrated that capability.

They’re NOT invisible. They can be tracked at long distances. And, if they get within AD missile range, they can almost certainly be targeted and killed.
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: Well, six.
🔻 WS: Is it only six? I had read seven earlier, but maybe that was an error. Even so, six is more than have been used in a single operation in a long time.
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: No–it was 7, but one had to make an emergency landing.
🔻 WS: I was shocked they got seven in the air. It surprises me not in the least that one of them couldn’t go the distance.
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: I was thinking of your earlier observation when it was reported that, of the 3 that had stopped for refueling in Australia, one had had to make an emergency landing somewhere along the way.

Still, 66% availability > F-35s…
🔻 WS: How do you calculate 66%? There are currently only 19 “in service”. 6/19 = 32% … which nevertheless is much higher than I saw reported at some point last year.
⭕‼️ This video made the rounds here on 𝕏 many weeks ago. So it’s not a current “unveiling”, and there is little evidence to support the claim that there are THOUSANDS of missiles at this site.

Not saying Iran doesn’t have 1000s of such missiles, but this video doesn’t prove it. |media|
🔻 WS: The video I remembered isn’t EXACTLY the same as the one above, but this new video appears to simply be an edit from the same body of footage shot back in January: |media|
🔻 Shivan Mahendrarajah: Waiting for IRGC to unveil BM capable of reaching Diego Garcia (~ 3,500 km).
🔻 WS: THAT would be impressive. And funny, too.
🔻 Immortal 🇮🇷: Don’t worry Iran has civilian container ships which can launch ballistic missiles with a range of over 1000km

So few of them in the indian oceaan can damage Diego Garcia
Iranian missile base🔻 Paeez-e-88: This is not the same..
🔻 WS: Agreed. Different video, but it looks like the exact same “missile city” seen previously.

Don’t get me wrong. It is EXTREMELY impressive. But whether or not it contains “THOUSANDS” of missiles is not at all clear in either video.

And they shouldn’t put them all in one place.
🔻 clanon: different roof and floors and dimensions and ALMOST ALL of it is different….they have “several” spread…🤔
🔻 Kevin Fathi: I think it was Alistair Crooke who said these types of facilities are distributed throughout Iran and are designed to be operated independently of a Central Command. Cumulatively, the arsenal may be in the 1000’s.
🔻 bob bobber: Why would they keep all their eggs in one basket? Just saying
🔻 IranMilitaryNews: Did you even try to compare 2 video clips, and type of missiles? Not same video, you have both here
🔻 Sorena🔻: Can you prove it this is not a new site? Pretty sure this is a new one, also do you want to go there to count them? Try it maybe they let you in 🤣
⭕🔻 MenchOsint:
🇮🇷 In the presence of Iran’s Armed Forces Chief of Staff, General Bagheri, an underground missile-city of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force was unveiled. |media|
🔻 WS: reposts above:
“You’re right that it’s not the EXACT same video, but it is almost certainly a video edited from the same body of footage shot back in January.”
🔻 IranMilitaryNews: It is not same video, in fact it is not even close, I published both here as many other
🔻 WS: You’re right that it’s not the EXACT same video, but it is almost certainly a video edited from the same body of footage shot back in January.
🔻 MenchOsint: I agree unveiling things seen 100 times is not very impressive :/
🔻 Darian: Not the same base, different missiles, & this one is much bigger. There are dozens of these bases across the Iran because they’re the backbone of Iran’s military: where the counterstrikes come from > as you know. there are plenty more though the ones who need to know already do
⭕🔻 Gabe:
How the EU looks when they talk about taking on Russia and China. |media|
🔻 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐚𝐧:
Nuclear Warheads
NATO – 5800
Russia – 6000
China – 500

Military Personnel
NATO – 3M
Russia – 1M
China – 2M
🔻 Big if True: Are you literally dumb
🔻 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐚𝐧: Where is a mistake?
🔻 Big if True: No time to explain. Read the articles by someone who knows his shiet @imetatronink
🔻 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐚𝐧: No need to explain just tell me witch part is not factual and give me factual number
[“witch”]
🔻 WS: Your first mistake is that you fallaciously equate “on paper” military personnel with combat effectives.

Your second mistake is believing all NATO countries would fight. Only a handful would, and they are weak. A “coalition of the willing” could not field 300k combat effectives.
🔻 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐚𝐧: If treat was big enough more and more untill all would fight. Also more then enough nukes + Russian military is not good enough for Ukraine with western support alone
🔻 WS: Thanks for proving you actually have no idea what you’re talking about.
⭕🔻 Olga Bazova: The Kremlin is in shambles after the Lithuanian president has declared that his village masquerading as a country will continue to Isolate Russia, with or without Washington’s participation.
🔻 WS: In old-timer vernacular, this is what is called “sowing the wind”.
🔻 Olga Bazova: Stalin was a controversial figure, a hero for many, but also a man of many faults.

One of his biggest faults was that he was too soft on the Baltic states.
🔻 E. Wagner: Genau. Wer Wind sät wird Sturm ernten!
⭕🔻 Patarames: Many lack the understanding of scale when it comes to Iranian ballistic missiles:

That small scene has 72 Kheybar-Shekan or Haj Qassem 🇮🇱-range missiles in containers

Wrong understanding leads to false conclusions
🔻 WS: Those are very impressive reinforced underground tunnels, to be sure. If the Iranians have multiple of these sorts of fortified magazines spread around the country, they have a very formidable strike capability.
🔻 Patarames: According to Iran itself, a 3 digit number

⭕ 📜 “Wall of Steel”
[his latest article drops. He’s in a frenzy too — his third in a week on substack. The Muses often visit around times of particularly dark catastrophes]
🔻 WS:  repost of older:
‼️ Lucky Shot

As Armchair Warlord @ArmchairW noted a few days ago, a US destroyer’s “last line of defense” — its 20mm Gatling cannon — was called upon to defeat an incoming Yemeni anti-ship ballistic missile that the destroyer’s air defense missiles had failed to intercept.

They’re damn lucky they hit it.

Most of all, they’re damn lucky there weren’t three or four incoming instead of just one.

And bear in mind, we’re talking about whatever antiquated ASBMs the Yemeni have managed to beg, borrow, or steal over the years.

These are a far cry from front-line Iranian anti-ship missiles, and Chinese and Russian ASBMs are on another level altogether.

The Phalanx “CIWS” (Close-In Weapon System) can reportedly fire 4500 rounds per minute. But its magazine only contains 1550 rounds!

So a little over 20 seconds worth of firing time before its ammo is exhausted.

The longer “Operation Whack-A-Mole” against Yemen continues, the more likely a US warship is to get hit — which, if/when it happens, will finally open many eyes around the world that have hitherto been blind.

Tick tock …
🔻 Quandalf: If his son is on that destroyer heading for the Red Sea OFC he thinks they are invinsible.

He’s probably afraid something might happen to his son.
🔻 WS: I don’t believe the thought ever even occurred to him prior to this afternoon.
🔻 Loose Cannon News: It’s normal for those who serve on such ships to harbor such beliefs when they have never had cause to doubt them.

But as you say saturation attacks can potentially overwhelm and exhaust air defenses if sustained for long enough.

Then, of course, there are hypersonics.
🔻 Cesare Borgia: The best case scenario is we get to exchange multiple 3 million dollar missiles to shoot down 30,000 drones.

That’s a difficult equation to maintain even if you can print money like we can.
⭕ ‼️ Sony Thang administering strong medicine to Scott Ritter, who continues to believe the mighty American military can disarm Iran via massive air strikes (including nuclear weapons).

As I have argued for a long time now, a US air campaign against Iran will expose American weakness, not reinforce the widespread mythology of untouchable American strength.
🔻 Scott Ritter:
Replying to @s_m_marandi
Witkoff admitted if a Russian tactical nuclear weapon was used in Ukraine the markets would crash.

Because of the fear of a larger US-Russian nuclear conflict.

It’s a different scenario with Iran.

No general life-ending nuclear war.

Just the end of Iran and our traditional understanding of speculation-based oil markets.

But the markets would adapt.
[so Scotty boy was threatening Prof Marandi now! Unbelievable. Cheap hustlers. Some academics aren’t as soft as they appear though. And our Thang intruded and helped clear the noxious air roiled up by the desperados, and Antagonists of All👇🏽]
🔻 Sony Thang: Scott, I see you’re still mistaking escalation for strategy and delusion for analysis.

You think the markets will “adapt” to a nuclear strike on Iran?

You think empire can simply “belt tighten” its way through Armageddon?

That’s not realism.

That’s imperial hubris dressed as game theory.

You speak like someone who’s never felt history close its jaws.

Let me tell you plainly:

If the U.S. uses nuclear weapons against Iran—even “tactical” ones—the spell breaks.

Forever.

The myth of Western restraint dies in the open.

The lie of rules-based order evaporates in radioactive dust.

What follows won’t be “market adaptation.”

It’ll be irreversible fragmentation.

China won’t wait to be next.

Russia will tighten its alliance with Tehran.

The Global South will turn its back for good.

And every nation not under Washington’s boot will know the truth: if you don’t arm yourself, you will be annihilated.

That’s not proliferation.

That’s inevitability.

You say, “Only one nation walks away.”

No, Scott.

No one walks away from nuclear war.

Not cleanly.

Not economically.

Not morally.

But let’s entertain your scenario.

Iran is wiped out. Oil hits $500 a barrel. The Strait of Hormuz is a graveyard.

The global economy implodes—not just Europe and Asia, but the dollar itself, because trust dies when empire burns its last moral pretense.

And here’s the part your Pentagon fantasies never compute:

It’s not just bombs that bring nations to their knees.

It’s legitimacy.

Once lost, never regained.

And the U.S.? Already staggering from endless wars—it won’t rise from the ashes of another charred country.

It’ll sink into them.

You claim you “assess the world as it is”?

Then look again.

The American empire is not ascending.

It’s cornered.

It’s flailing.

It’s threatening annihilation not out of strength, but fear.

Fear that the world it dominated is slipping away.

Fear that Iran refuses to kneel.

And fear that history, which you once claimed would hold America accountable, is no longer on your side.

So keep listing your bombers, your submarines, your low-yield fantasies.

Because beneath all that steel and strategy lies a single truth:

You’ve already lost the moral war.

And when that goes?

Everything else follows.
[someone send a memo to Sony. Stop sticking forks into morsels of meat that shriveled up and died days ago! Goodness]
🔻 Liu Wei Ming: Scott the markets will take a decade to adapt and by then we will be in a deep recession. Inflation until the point of stagflation. Gas could reach $8/gallon. And if you believe Israel will go nuclear you should know the US will become a pariah cut off from the rest of the world
🔻 Scott Ritter: Lots of speculation here.

But assuming what you say is true, Iran still ceases to exist.

I’m trying to prevent that outcome.

By finding a way out of this current predicament.
🔻 Seyed Mohammad Marandi: Businesses will permanently shut down across the US. Hungry Americans will have to “adapt” to riding mules and donkeys, if they have the money.

Everyone will lose. America will lose too.
🔻 Levi Zendt: Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” came to mind after talking with a friend about what we used to carry for such a purpose when in the backcountry during the winter. Read it last night for the first time in 30 years or so.

The symbology provides many lessons for those on the global stage. |link|
🔻 WS: Great story. I need to read it again. Thanks.
🔻 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩: How has this legendary air-power worked against mountainous Yemen (whcih just so happens to be the geographical center of gravity for the Houthis)?

Yemen: approx 40,000 sq miles of mountainous terrain (approx 20%).

Iran: approx 400,000 sq miles of mountains (almost 50%).

These are terrain swags favoring a low number, I suspect a proper cartographer of Iran would call it north of 65%.

Ukraine: Mountainous areas, primarily the Carpathian and Crimean Mountains, account for roughly 5% of Ukraine’s land area.

Invasions, even in the 21st century, find mountainous terrain a tremendous operational challenge.

If America uses nukes again, all bets are off for tactical employment by other countries that are armed in the same way.
🔻 Shukuru+: I attempted to talk wisdom into Scott… unfortunately he is a Marine and a Westpoint graduate and it is not easy to admit the weakness. Sony did a fabulous job, I couldn’t stop reading their debate.

Scott claims his position was from the analysis and assessment however it became more difficult for him to be impartial.
🔻 Eomar – Diligent News: It’s hard to escape decades of propaganda, I think he means well, but is wrong on this one. Hopefully more people realize the truth, this will be where our empire smashes upon the rocks if we don’t change course.

*taps sign* |link|
🔻 MisbehavingEconomist: Axis of Resistance has been remarkably passive when it comes to surface-to-air defense even though capability is there. Suggests a surprise is waiting for the right moment – which may be soon. If China has tech to track stealth, then likely Iran has this too.
🔻 Marked safe from Western Propaganda: Scott doesn’t seem to understand that being American, its not his place to tell Iran to capitulate. No matter how well intended. It’s why I keep saying he is culturally illiterate.
🔻 Jason M: Oh how the mighty have fallen. I’m so disappointed in your recent turn, Scott.
🔻 PauloFerreira 🇧🇷: And do you think Russia and China would sit idly watching the US destroying Iran?
🔻 JDewOnEarth08: Why are you talking about Iranian lives like “meh” the economy will adapt? Do you have any humanity?
🔻 ottathengil☭🔻: Scott is in Sony’s OODA Loop 😁
🔻 WS: Replying to @nxt888 [Sony Thang]
As USMC Lt. Gen (Ret) Paul K. Van Riper is fond of saying:

“In addition to being a physical struggle, war is both a mental contest and a moral argument.”

📜 A Former US Marine Corps Officer’s Analysis of the Ukraine War

Oh Scotty! one loses virginity only once

💠@Arab_Africa:
⭕ 🇱🇾🇲🇱🇳🇪🇹🇩🇸🇩🇧🇫🇨🇫 A clear example of why Russian military specialists are prohibited from using smartphones during missions in Arab African countries |media|
[that guy may be gone.. never be heard from again.. like nazis who wandered onto the rich, fat, black soil of Novorossiya, and other Russian lands!]

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ Iran’s IRGCQF commander, Qaani:

Iran stands by Palestine through supporting the fighters on the resistance fronts and through military operations such as “True Promise” operations.

Iran’s steadfastness and resilience will continue until the final goal is achieved, which is the liberation of Al-Quds (Jerusalem).
[the real, and proper, response to Orange’s demented “peace letter” to Iran. NB. This is the Quds Force leader, who replaced Soleimani in Jan 2020]

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇨🇳🇺🇸🇵🇭 The United States has deployed the Typhoon missile system to the Philippines, putting major Chinese military and industrial targets within striking range.

China reacted angrily, calling the deployment a provocation and threatening retaliation.

This action is a key test of Trump’s deterrence strategy in the Indo-Pacific and has raised fears of escalation.

The extent of the system’s influence in the Philippines:

• Tomahawk missiles (1,200-mile range): Can strike radar systems and command centers in Guangzhou and Nanjing.
• SM-6 missiles (150-290-mile range): Capable of targeting ships, aircraft, cruise missiles, and potentially hypersonic threats.
  WSJ!

⭕ 🇨🇳🇺🇸 The Chinese Foreign Ministry urged the United States to abandon its “hegemonic mentality” after being labeled the main military and cyber threat.

Spokesperson Guo Jiakun accused the United States of propagating the “China threat” theory to contain Beijing and called for an end to support for Taiwanese independence.
⭕ 🇨🇳🇺🇸 The United States has blacklisted more than 70 Chinese entities, targeting efforts to advance China’s artificial intelligence chips, hypersonic weapons, and military technology.

This is the Trump administration’s first major export control measure, aimed at closing previous loopholes and tightening technological restrictions. China has condemned the move, calling it politically motivated and abusive. Named entities added to the blacklist:

• Inspur subsidiaries (Taiwan)
• Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI)
• Zhipu AI (already listed in January 2025)
• Henan Dingxin Information Industry
• Nettrix Information Industry
• Suma Technology
• Suma-USI Electronics
• 10 additional entities in China, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates

FT, Reuters!
⭕ 🇨🇳🛰🇺🇸 China now has a “kill mesh” in orbit, according to the vice chief of the Space Force.

The United States is approaching a turning point in space security and must step up its efforts before Russia and China close the capability gap, a senior U.S. Space Force general said.

Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. Michael Guetlein spoke at the 16th annual McAleese Defense Programs Conference, held Tuesday, March 18, in Arlington, Virginia, and warned that the Space Force needs to rethink how it defends the nation’s satellites.

This shift comes as China and Russia have stepped up demonstrations of their orbital warfare capabilities in recent years. Some of these incidents have been more high-profile than others, such as Russia’s 2022 anti-satellite test, which created a cloud of supersonic debris in low-Earth orbit. That same year, a Chinese satellite “seized” one of the country’s defunct satellites and towed it into a “graveyard orbit.”

China, in particular, is advancing its intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) technologies. “China’s ISR capabilities are becoming very capable. They have moved from what we used to call a ‘deadly chain’ to a ‘deadly mesh,’” he said, describing an integrated network that interweaves ISR satellites with weapons systems.
⭕ China remains the main global threat to the United States, but its closer cooperation with Russia, Iran, and North Korea is of growing concern, according to an annual U.S. intelligence report released Tuesday.
[the tsunami of “Red Menace of the Yellow Peril” is vomited onto our media space]

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Mahdi al-Mashat, head of the Houthi Supreme Political Council, asserts that the US bombing campaign and Trump’s threats will not stop the Yemeni group’s attacks on Israel and the Red Sea shipping lanes.

“Our position of support for Gaza will not change until the aggression ceases and the siege is lifted, regardless of the repercussions or results,” al-Mashat said.
⭕ A leak reveals that the Trump administration wants to charge Europeans for strikes against the Houthis, calling them “profiteers.” Trump echoes this accusation and criticizes the EU and NATO.
⭕ The Israeli Air Force has attacked more than 430 targets in Gaza since the start of the new offensive.

In Syria, 18 targets were attacked last week, while in Lebanon, the number reached 40.

Furthermore, the army reported that during this week, it shot down 14 projectiles aimed at Israel.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Satellite imagery shows 9 KC-135 refueling tankers and 3 B-2 ‘Spirit’ stealth bombers, with 4 more B-2s below shelters, at Diego Garcia airbase in the Indian Ocean
⭕ U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has a giant tatoo on his bicep, reading ‘كافر’ (‘Kafir’) in Arabic, translating to ‘disbeliever’
[in Islamic Eschatology, the AntiChrist/Moshiach was said to have the very same three letters on his forehead…. which was said to be evident to both the literate and the illiterate believers, i.e. due to self-evident bestial conduct]

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🪖 Century of conflict: Pan-Africanist exposes the West’s cycle of war and Russia’s defensive diplomacy

The West intentionally escalates global instability in regions like Africa, Ukraine, and beyond to benefit its own agenda, political philosopher and pan-Africanist Yamb Ntimba told Sputnik Africa.

“It’s like every 100 years, they [West] need a big war. They need a very, very important war to reset their countries and their people and their states. The problem is the world; the other people in the world don’t need this kind of mass killings,” he argued.

Despite the West’s aggressive tactics, Ntimba sees Russia’s response as one rooted in defense and ethical resistance. He praised Russia’s willingness to engage in negotiations while also strengthening its geopolitical position.

“Russia has been always open to negotiations, always been open to discussions, always been open to dialogue so that a serious solution should be found so that the world should remain in peace,” the political philosopher said.
⭕️ #sputnikviral | 🇨🇳🏃‍♂️ China’s marriage “Olympics”: A new level of gender equality

In this playful relay race in Qiandongnan, Guizhou Province, not only do husbands carry their wives, but wives also quite literally lend their shoulders to their better halves. |media|
[GOODNESS. I thought I had it tough being married to a Yemeni. That man better be well-mannered “till death do them part”]
⭕ 🎙 Kiev “cleans” information space by killing journalists in LPR, MFA spox says

“They are simply being hunted. That is obvious. That [attack on Russian journalists in the LPR] was not a simple attack, which [Kiev] perhaps needed like other attacks, carried out in these days in relation to contacts and the negotiation process in Riyadh,” Maria Zakharova told Radio Sputnik.

According to her, such attacks are “systematic and orderly ‘work,’ which Kiev regime conducts” to silence the honest narrative.
⭕ ❗️ Moscow will regard the silence on the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ brutality against Russian journalists as a deliberate support of the Kiev regime by the international organizations, the MFA spokeswoman stated
⭕ 🇷🇺 🌍 “The West is trying to counter Russian grain exports, especially to poor African countries,” political expert told Sputnik Africa

The sanctions have repercussions on “the food issue, which is very important in terms of international relations,” Riadh Sidaoui, director of the Arab Center for Political and Social Research and Analysis in Geneva, recalled.

“Russia is a major supplier of grain and wheat to African countries. It has even given them free of charge to some countries. When the West tries to counter Russian exports to Africa, it directly affects food security and threatens lives,” he emphasized.
[And the chief ports of grain exports for both 404 & Russia are in the Black Sea. See next items. This is a big card the demonic Orange crew is using to pressurize Russia. It was the main item under negotiation in Riyadh a few days ago (“Black Sea Initiative”). Note the parallel with Gaza: using humanitarian aid to the poor starving as a weapon of war. Such unending bestial generational satanism were among major reason iterations of Babylonian System were salted like Carthage. They just do not let up, do not stop tormenting ALL peoples around them, until put down..]
⭕ 👊 Challenging the West: Cameroonian philosopher advocates for African unity and open seas in global trade

The Black Sea’s role as a vital trade corridor is crucial, particularly for African countries dependent on grain imports, political philosopher and pan-Africanist Yamb Ntimba told Sputnik Africa.

He criticized the West’s strategy of using access to the Black Sea as a geopolitical tool against Russia, contending that such actions ultimately disadvantage developing nations.

“The Black Sea from an African viewpoint should be an open sea. The fact is [that] the Western world is taking advantage of everything to punish Russia. We understand that we don’t share that point of view; we don’t support that way of doing things,” the speaker said.

🌍 To counteract Western-imposed sanctions, Ntimba called for African unity and stronger alliances with other nations in the Global South. He envisions a world where power is no longer concentrated in the West but distributed among emerging economies that reject Western economic dominance.
⭕ 🇷🇺🌍 Russia takes its partnerships with Africa into account in Black Sea Initiative talks, a South African researcher says

💬 “The relationship between Russia and Africa is very strong, and as with any partnership that Russia has, it’s in its interest to look after those particular partnerships,” Senior Researcher in International Relations at the Institute for Global Dialogue at UNISA Mikatekiso Kubayi told Sputnik Africa.

At the same time, negotiations regarding the Black Sea Initiative are “entirely about Russia and Ukraine processes,” the expert said, commenting on the recent US-Russian talks, which Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said focused on safe navigation in the Black Sea.

💬 “The issue with any negotiations over the Black Sea with regards to Africa and grain imports is stability and regularity of such imports, that matters a great deal for the African continent,” he added.
⭕ ❗️Resolving the Ukrainian conflict requires a reassessment of the global sanctions architecture, Rubio noted

He said that the list of conditions put forward by Russia for a moratorium on strikes in the Black Sea includes the lifting of sanctions imposed by Europe.
[LOL. Decisions for Legion. And the EuroChihuahuas SHALL be disciplined and leashed]
⭕🇺🇸🇿🇦 What is known about Leo Brent Bozell III, nominated as US Ambassador to South Africa?

📄 Leo Brent Bozell III was nominated on Tuesday by the US Department of State to serve as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the US to South Africa.

He will replace Reuben Brigety who resigned on January 10, but his nomination must first be confirmed by the US Senate.

Key facts about the nominee for US ambassador to South Africa:

• US state of Virginia-born Bozell is a conservative activist and writer, who has consistently worked within conservative organizations and movements throughout his career;
• The 69-year-old has authored several books on media criticism and conservative politics;
• He is known to be an outspoken Israel supporter;
• His early work with the National Conservative Political Action Committee involved supporting the election of conservative politicians in the 1980s;
• Bozell is the founder of the Media Research Center. The organization focuses on “exposing and countering the leftist bias of the national news media”;
• Bozell was previously nominated to head the US Agency for Global Media, but his nomination was eventually withdrawn;
• His son, Leo Brent Bozell IV, was one of the people who stormed the US Capitol in 2021 and was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison last year.

[So they’re sending a zionazi to S.A. Screws tighten on S.A.]

💠 @Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ The Telegraph:

• American officials stated in a leaked conversation via the “Signal” app that the United States will request funds from its allies for operations in Yemen.
• U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz: European naval forces lack the capabilities to defend against advanced anti-ship missiles and drones used by the “Houthis.”
• U.S. National Security Advisor: At President Trump’s request, we are working with the Department of Defense and the State Department to determine how to compile the costs associated with confronting the “Houthis” and pass those costs on to the Europeans.
• British Defense Secretary Jon Healey insisted that Europe will not pay the United States for its operations in the Red Sea.
• British Defense Minister: There is no possibility that we will start paying the United States for operations in the Red Sea; we will be operational allies wherever they want.
• British Defense Minister: The additional funding we announced will not cover the costs of American operations in Yemen, as this money is designated for the British Army.

⭕ Breaking News – Telegraph reports from the British Defense Minister: The “Houthis” possess advanced weapons that pose a significant threat.
⭕ Matthew Saville, Director of Military Science at the Royal Institute of British, reports:

• The “Houthis” have a stockpile of weapons they have developed themselves, and they hit a ship with a ballistic missile, which is not to be underestimated.
• It is concerning when we see the “Houthis” possessing anti-ship ballistic missiles that have successfully hit ships.

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇦🇲 Armenia will have to make a choice between the EAEU and the EU; it will not be possible to sit on two chairs – Russian Deputy Prime Minister Overchuk.

Yesterday, the parliament of the republic adopted in the final reading a bill on the beginning of the process of the country’s accession to the EU.

Russia will have to reconsider the entire range of economic relations with Armenia if the republic joins the EU, said Overchuk.

This will affect the standard of living of people in the country, Moscow does not want this, he stressed.
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇸 The United States and Russia have not yet reached specific agreements regarding the Black Sea Initiative, discussing it only in broad terms, according to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov. “Work is ongoing,” he stated.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova reiterated that Moscow’s key demand for reviving the deal is lifting sanctions on Rosselkhozbank and reconnecting it to the SWIFT payment system.

She also noted that Russia expects the Trump administration to assist in unblocking Russian agricultural exports.

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel bombed the 110 Brigade in Lattakia, west of Syria, in six raids, targeting the remnants of the Syrian naval force.
⭕ Will the UK and Europe fully grasp what the current US admin really thinks of the continent? This is the US Representative for Georgia’s 14th District and chairwoman of the Subcommittee on DOGE—now shaping congressional priorities and steering hearings that target public broadcasters. Her rhetoric is increasingly representative of the tone in Washington. |link|
⭕ retweet:
Language no longer the barrier: Gaza’s victims listed in English

@iraqbodycount publishes today in readable and consistent English over 50,000 names of martyrs as first released in Arabic by the Gaza Ministry of Health.

This increasingly definitive, if still incomplete, list is offered in English in order to widen its global reach, and amplify the heroic documentation efforts being carried out on the ground under severe duress |link|
⭕ U.S. automakers and their global rivals were rocked on Wednesday by President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would impose 25% tariffs on all vehicles and foreign-made autoparts imported into the United States no later than the 3d of May. |link|
⭕ Despite mounting civilian casualties and growing international concern, Israel continues its daily bombardment of Gaza. Entire neighborhoods have been reduced to rubble, with families displaced, infrastructure collapsed, and the death toll climbing. Yet, just as these attacks persist, so too does the United States’ own air campaign in Yemen, launched under the justification of deterring Ansar Allah -Houthi strikes in the Red Sea against Israeli ships and merchandise due to Benjamin Netanyahu, with an ICC arrest warrant for his war crimes, humanitarian siege and bombing of Gaza.

The scale and intensity differ, but the pattern is familiar: sustained military force with no clear endgame, limited accountability, and little regard for those caught in the crossfire. Together, these parallel campaigns raise a pressing question: what does the West’s talk of rules-based order really mean when the bombs don’t stop falling and totally disregarding international laws?
⭕ 45 years ago, the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty was signed in the US, following the Camp David Accords of 1978. However, Israel has violated every provision of the treaty regarding the deployment of large Israeli forces (on land & in the air) in Rafah without Egypt’s reaction.
⭕ retweet:
“People of Khan Younis. You are now going to Egypt. Good luck. Goodbye & don’t come back”

New footage reveals Israeli officers, Cpt. Avraham Zarveev & Noam Avital from Sayeret Givati, were involved in humiliating civilians forcibly displaced at gunpoint last March |link|

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Bill Bottrell: Humans want, NEED to apply themselves to tasks which add up to a mission or special segment of a shared mission.
As more of these tasks become automated, more humans become despondent, and those automated results will not compete in the long run – in the marketplace of product – because style, uniqueness and soul are products of humans intuitively choosing what is “error” and what is heart, not what is “perfect”. |media|
🔻 WS: This is a great observation. In my view, it also very much applies to music. Although I can admire virtuoso musicians and singers, my favorite artists have always been “somewhat less than perfect”. James McMurtry, Patty Griffin, Cracker, The Tragically Hip — all “flawed” in some respects. But there was inspired magic in much of what they did.

No machine will ever play the blues in a way that stirs the soul.
🔻 WS: About 12 years ago, I set my mind to learning how to play Beethoven’s so-called “Moonlight Sonata” on the piano. Because I am self-taught and play mostly by ear, I spent a lot of time watching many dozens of performances on YouTube as I worked to learn the piece.

But even early on, I realized I didn’t really like how the “professionals” played it. I heard it differently in my ears. And over many years, I kept tinkering with it, making changes here and there until several passages became very much my own composition. And at some point, I realized what I really “felt” is that the piece needed to be played with a subtle “tempo rubato” feel.

A few years back, I felt like it had arrived at the point where it was “finished”. Then I spent the next couple years vainly seeking to record a “perfect take”.

Finally I permitted myself to use 95% of one take and 5% of another to make something that I found satisfactory enough that I ceased to be tormented by my inescapable imperfection.

I then shared the recording with several people, the majority of whom were generous to say it was “excellent”. However, several musical “purists” were quite offended that I had altered Beethoven’s “perfection” and made the piece “my own”.

Anyway, for all its imperfections, I still prefer my rendition of the famous piece to that of any other I have ever heard. And I guess that’s all that matters … to me, at least. |media|
⭕🤦‍♂️ Playing Make-Believe

That rumble you hear is the Russians, Chinese, and Iranians shaking in their boots.

The US has simulated a successful SM-6 intercept of a mock hypersonic missile!

Raytheon makes ~30 SM-6 missiles per year, at $5 million each. |link|
🔻 Godfree Roberts: We can now declare victory and go home. (It was always my dream to one day simulate a mock hypersonic missile.)
🔻 American Putin: It’s a joke. No one is intercepting any hypersonic missiles any time soon.
🔻 C3: Keep in mind that a single Russian missile strike in Ukraine can have around 200 missiles. The US is going to be saturated. The US does not have enough production.

That’s assuming the missile can even intercept a Russian Kinzhal or Zircon, which is a very doubtful assumption.
🔻 Eomar – Diligent News: I truly hope that we withdraw from the empire nonsense for the good of our country else we risk a much worse outcome as our empire is violently ripped apart.
🔻 Holger Lehmann: How many missiles did the simulation need to hit the hypersonic target?
🔻 Ibrahim: So, making the sword first and shield afterwards is better than making the shields before making the swords.

And Iran has made thousands of swords, and they are on stand by right now, while USA makes 30 shields per year.
🔻 James Newell Osterberg: It works in simulator.
Quantum mechanic is OK, now just to have a missile and test it for real.
🔻 pixel: They can test it in Ukraine if it’s real but it looks like another F47
⭕ cont. thread:
‼️ Sony Thang administering strong medicine to Scott Ritter, who continues to believe the mighty American military can disarm Iran via massive air strikes (including nuclear weapons).

As I have argued for a long time now, a US air campaign against Iran will expose American weakness, not reinforce the widespread mythology of untouchable American strength.
🔻 MisbehavingEconomist: Axis of Resistance has been remarkably passive when it comes to surface-to-air defense even though capability is there. Suggests a surprise is waiting for the right moment – which may be soon. If China has tech to track stealth, then likely Iran has this too.
🔻 Eu Unul: China wouldn’t share the tech, not with Iran which has no connection with China other than having a common enemy.
Countries share top tier military tech when is more advantageous to sell it now than wait on it and other countries developing similar tech in house.
🔻 WS: China buys over 90% of Iranian oil production, and is investing many billions in Iranian infrastructure projects.

China also buys energy from others of the Persian Gulf states, and therefore the entire region is one of their highest strategic priorities.
🔻 Eu Unul: That’s not a sufficient reason, that’s just business.
🔻 WS: The Chinese are the biggest businessmen on the planet now.

Besides, Iran already has radars to track “stealth” (low-observable) aircraft. That’s not the trick. Range and targeting are the tricks. And there is reason to believe Iran has made great progress along those lines.

⭕🔻 Mario Nawfal: 🚨🇺🇸WHITE HOUSE: U.S. MAY SELL GOLD TO BUY BITCOIN

Bo Hines, the executive director of the President’s Council of Advisers on Digital Assets says selling gold reserves to fund Bitcoin buys is on the table.

Backed by the Bitcoin Act of 2025, the plan would see the U.S. acquire 1 million Bitcoin—5% of total supply—making America the global leader in crypto.

Trump vows to accumulate assets for the people, not take them away.

Source: Benzinga |link|
[is this the excuse to “gold-wash” the empty vaults in Fort Knox?? Through heists of Bitcoin, explained as sales?]
🔻 Mike Lee: Do we have gold to sell?
🔻 WS: Sure. Utah’s most valuable export is and long has been gold. Most of it goes to Hong Kong and Shanghai.
🔻 WS: Although in some prior years, Utah gold was shipped to Hong Kong, apparently most is going to Europe lately. Either way, gold represents ~40% of Utah’s total export value.

⭕🔻 Yves Smith: Ukraine Rare Earths Deal Is Nonsense To Mining Experts |link|
🔻 WS: My shouting about this reality has fallen on deaf ears for several weeks. Thanks, Yves, for posting this excellent map.
⭕🔻 Alex Christoforou:
Collective West/NATO victory plan over Russia has now been reduced to…👇
[links:
🔻 Lord Bebo: “🇺🇦🇷🇺 “Putin will die soon, that’s a fact. And then it will all be over.” — Zelensky” |link|]
🔻 WS: Few appear to understand that the most magnanimous deal the Ukrainians can possibly hope for is one struck with Putin, and soon.

After Putin, the terms will harden considerably. The Ukrainians will be lucky to be left with indoor toilets and washing machines.
🔻 Pikachu of the Apocalypse: Who needs washing machines without electricity
🔻 Paulo: Be careful leaving them with washing machines. ..Russia turned washing machines into hypersonic hazelnuts

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇮🇷🇺🇸 The U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) reports that Iran can now produce weapons-grade uranium in less than seven days, a sharp decline from the previous estimate of 10 to 15 days.

Tehran is expanding its nuclear program, stockpiling enriched uranium, and deploying advanced centrifuges.
[more demented nuclear saber-rattling. These are the psychos in charge of US nukes]
⭕ 🇬🇷🇹🇷 During Greece’s Independence Day parade, soldiers chanted:

“Cyprus is Greek. Fuck Turkey.” |media|
⭕ 🇺🇸🇨🇳 China steps in to replace USAID Asian projects cut by Trump

The United States withdrew support for two major aid projects in Cambodia, focusing on childhood literacy and nutrition for children under five. Within a week, China’s international aid agency announced it would fund similar programs.

China’s response shows it is ready to expand its soft power by filling the development gaps left by Western countries.

Bloomberg!
⭕ 🇨🇳🇹🇼 Taiwan is strengthening its defense preparedness by holding massive civilian exercises and increasing military spending to counter China. President Lai pledges to spend 3% of GDP on defense, but the United States wants a greater commitment.

President Lai Ching-te is doubling defense efforts:

– Increasing defense spending from 2.5% to 3% of GDP by 2026
– Proposing new US arms purchases worth US$10 billion
– Reestablishing military trials in peacetime
– Strengthening cross-Strait controls and combating Chinese infiltration.

FT!
⭕In recent days, U.S. representatives have been canvassing door-to-door in Nuuk, looking for Greenlanders interested in meeting Usha Vance [the visiting US Vice-Prez’s wife].

Finding no participants, the visit was ultimately canceled.

Source: Danish television TV2

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇷🇺A very touching meeting between a mother and daughter from Sudzha [Kursk, Russia] after eight months of separation following the occupation |media|
[the tears that flow N to S, E to W! Woe to the neo-Carthage for what comes as their recompense!]

This was this afternoon’s statement by Pepe’s newest pal.
This channel left out the closing statement of the Yemeni AF spox:
“And Allah is sufficient for us, and He is the best Disposer of affairs. He is the best Master and the best Supporter.

Long live free, dignified, and independent Yemen.
Victory to Yemen and to all the free people of the nation.

Sana’a, 27 Ramadan 1446 AH
Corresponding to March 27, 2025 AD”

☝️ This appears a Moroccan casbah – their old city’s house entrances, common throughout north africa, and in Iberia in olden days. You can glimpse them now and then in forgotten delightful Goya paintings. You may remember the similar, without the vivid colors, in neighboring Algiers, in Gillo Pontecorvo’s “The Battle of Algiers (1966).”

A most useful maze indeed for urban guerrilla warfare. Absolute claustrophobic and terrifying for unfamiliar invaders. A warm minotaurian womb or maze for locals.. Palestinian refugee camps have a similar feel, except being stronger concrete and vertically built. That is why the current approach was chosen for Gaza – to not merely collapse them into rubble, but into very fine powder. But they forgot about Soleimani’s tunnels, learned from blessed Korean and Vietnamese comrades.. oh well, unforeseen developments doomed greater Empires in the Holy Land…

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇸 A “window of opportunity” opened in relations with the US, Russian ambassador says

While the US-Russia relations were “teetering on the brink of a rupture” under the previous administration, the work to restore them is already underway, new Russian Ambassador to the US Alexander Darchiev told media, including Sputnik, upon his arrival in the US.

Key issues on the way to the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries outlined by Darchiev:

• Normalization of the work of the Russian and US embassies;
• Elimination of the “toxic legacy” of the sanctions campaign against Russia;
• Returning confiscated Russian property;
• Resumption of direct air traffic between the two countries;
• Facilitation of visa procedures for ordinary Russians and Russian diplomats in the US;
• Simplification of the procedures for Russian citizens to travel within the US.

The video shows Darchiev arriving at his official residence in Washington on Wednesday |media|
⭕ ❗️ Contacts between Russia, US opened window of opportunity to move towards non-confrontational coexistence between two countries, Russian deputy FM says

Established contacts between Moscow and Washington are the beginning of a long and difficult process of restoring relations, Sergey Ryabkov added.
⭕ 🇸🇩 Sudanese army regains control of Khartoum airport

“Khartoum is free,” Sudanese Armed Forces chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said in a video, which was published by the Al Jazeera broadcaster.

Since the start of the conflict in 2023, the airport had been occupied by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by Commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as “Hemedti.”

RSF are currently withdrawing from this part of the capital by crossing a bridge, Al Jazeera reported.

Led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the Sudanese army has been making progress in recent weeks. Last Friday, it successfully regained control of the presidential palace.

In the video, two soldiers from the Sudanese army raise the flag on the tarmac of Khartoum International Airport. |media|
[this is a major set back for Zion. The Anglo-Emirati gambit to holocaust Sudan is winding down.. another bitter sword against Zion has been forged. There shall be blood in the Holy Land as recompense. This is as assured as the end of night each dawn]
⭕ 🇸🇩 Joy across Sudan as military defeats RSF, retakes Khartoum

Residents of Khartoum took to the streets in celebration, cheering, dancing, and waving Sudanese flags after the retreat of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

In Cairo, Sudanese expatriates also celebrated the liberation of the Sudanese capital.

💒 Last video captures the Virgin Mary Church in Port Sudan ringing its bells to celebrate the army’s successes. |media|
⭕ ❗️During the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continued to strike Russia’s energy infrastructure, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated
⭕ 📹 The Kiev regime is unable to negotiate, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated amid ongoing attacks on energy facilities
⭕ 🇷🇺 Talks on Ukraine should be genuine and sincere to achieve a lasting peace, a South African researcher says

“Experience is a good teacher and Russia would be well aware of what has been done in the past and would, of course, be more circumspect this time around,” Mikatekiso Kubayi of the Institute for Global Dialogue at UNISA told Sputnik Africa, commenting on the Russian foreign minister’s recent statement that Moscow cannot take the Kiev regime “at its word,” given its past actions undermining the peace process.

Honesty and forthrightness are paramount for achieving a lasting peace, the expert explained, stressing that without honesty, any peace achieved will be short-lived.

“The world is watching. The world is aware of the history; the world is a witness to what has been dishonest in the past, and the world does not have any further appetite for conflict and violence and so on; it has to come to an end,” Kubayi added.
⭕ 🇷🇴👔 “Ursula is not human. Ursula is a demon!”

“Look at the evil in her [Ursula von der Leyen’s] soul — just like with the COVID vaccine and other nonsense!” urged a Romanian Orthodox priest at a protest in support of politician Calin Georgescu. |media|

💠 “Kremlin responds to arrested Moldovan governor’s appeal to Putin — Known critic of Moldova’s government Yevgenia Gutsul has been in custody since Tuesday.”
☝️ Another front of aggression against Russia. Carthage never lets up. This is another sub-region of Moldava, like Transnistria, connected to Russia for centuries. The Orange crew activates another “card”. Note Yevgenia Gutsul personally met with Putin less than a year ago [01] [02] [03]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Israeli outlets claim that the anti-Hamas protests in Gaza are being staged by Hamas itself, to give the illusion of freedom of expression in Gaza
[LOL. So the pathetic PsyOp is foundering pitifully. So it is handed off to “Khamas!” Anglo-Zionism: a degenerate dead-end of a paradigm]
⭕ Everything is Hamas, even the anti-Hamas protestors are Hamas.

Hamas!

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ Ahead of Quds Day—organised by Iran—all resistance leaders held a virtual conference yesterday, where they delivered speeches.

The banner behind shows the unity between the groups as they all have martyrs Raisi, Haniyeh, and Seyyed Nasrallah behind them.

Interestingly, this year IRGQC commander Esmail Qaani did the speech, last year it was Iran’s president martyr Raisi.
[wow. Soleimani’s replacement spoke for the entire Iranian nation. Speaks volumes about the next form of “negotiations” expected with the deranged and terminal Yanquis]

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ Russia does not intend to make mistakes based on trust in so-called Western partners, Putin stated.
⭕ 🇷🇺 “Britain is behaving aggressively towards Russia, but their economy is ranked 9th or 10th in the world, and they have a small army,” stated Putin.
⭕ 🇬🇧🇪🇪 NATO’s Eastern Flank Weakens: UK Cuts Troops in Estonia by Hundreds — Times

Since 2022, the number of British troops in Estonia has dropped from 1,650 to 1,000. The British Army currently has fewer than ten tanks in the country.

The former commander of Estonia’s defense forces stated that “allies believe the financial issues facing the British army are so serious that they are struggling to meet their obligations on NATO’s eastern flank.”
⭕ 🇷🇺 Russia Launches First Hypersonic Missile-Armed Submarine “Perm”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has authorized the launch of the Perm, a nuclear-powered attack submarine designed to be the first operational carrier of Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles. The vessel, part of Russia’s Yasen-class (Project 885/885M) submarine fleet, was launched via videolink from the Atomflot shipyard and is expected to enter service with the Russian Navy next year.

During the event, Putin emphasized the growing strategic importance of the Arctic, stating that the new submarine will strengthen Russia’s military position in the region amid increasing global competition.

The Perm is the sixth submarine in the Yasen-class series and is equipped with advanced communications, navigation, and sonar systems, alongside high-precision weaponry. Notably, it is the first multipurpose submarine to be officially armed with Zircon hypersonic missiles, capable of striking at speeds up to Mach 9, making them extremely difficult to intercept.

Following the ceremony, Putin inspected another cutting-edge nuclear submarine, the Arkhangelsk, a Yasen-M fourth-generation attack submarine that joined the Russian Navy on December 27, 2024, and was deployed to its permanent base with the Northern Fleet in January 2025. |media|
⭕ Vladimir Putin Inspects The Nuclear Submarine “Arkhangelsk” |media|
[can you taste the claustrophobia?? Imagine being cooped up for months in such quarters, whilst hunting and being hunted by nazis]

💠 @Slavyangrad:
⭕ 🇷🇺Putin at the launching ceremony of the new nuclear-powered submarine cruiser Perm:

We have continued and will continue to further strengthen the navy, including its strategic component. In general, to increase the pace and volume of construction of surface and submarine ships of various projects. We will equip them with the latest weapons, equipment and communication facilities.

Such submarines and ships will strengthen the power of all our fleets. They will strengthen the security of Russia’s maritime borders and the Northern Sea Route. They will ensure the solution of tasks to protect national interests in various areas of the world ocean. Including in the Arctic zone, which in the context of intensifying global competition is acquiring crucial economic, logistical and transportation importance.

We will continue to do everything to reliably protect Russia’s territorial integrity and sovereignty.

Putin on the capabilities of the Perm submarine:

“I would like to emphasize that the missile carriers of the Yasen-M project are equipped with modern navigation, communication and hydroacoustic systems, and are carriers of high-precision weapons and robotic systems.” The Perm became the first multi-purpose submarine armed with hypersonic Zirkon cruise missiles. |media|

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Russian troops have liberated 99% of LPR territories, Putin said

The Russian president added that Russian troops have liberated over 70% of the territory of the DPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
⭕ ❗️Vladimir Putin proposed to consider the introduction of interim governance in Ukraine under the auspices of the UN and a number of countries, in order to hold elections there
⭕ ❗️Putin on Ukraine: I recently said that we will put the pressure on them, but there is reason to believe that we will finish them off
[he’s saying the NATO-standard UkroNazis are about mopped up…]

💠@PressTV:
⭕ US immigration agents snatch pro-Palestine PhD student off street in Boston after revoking her visa |media|
[US democracy starts to resemble the UkroNazi dragooning squads on equally desolate streets!]

☝️ Entering the Chat: Pepe and “the sandal-army”

This blockade against Zion and skirmishes against the US Navy’s floating tombs are nuthin’. Wait until u see what Yemen will bring soon. A mighty Flame’s been lit

Re: “about airplanes and Iran and Deigo Garcia… Take with lotsa salt. It does seem to be a nice array of “assets” being focused…” I wouldn’t be surprised given their proficiency with ballistic missiles and math, if Iran cannot reach that base right now. Perhaps that’s the purpose, the bait, of the ostentatious and slow build-up

💠 @MyLordBebo:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇸Russian Il-38N anti-submarine aircraft is escorted by US F-35C and F/A-18E/F carrier fighters near the aircraft carrier CVN 70 Carl Vinson |media|
[I assume the carrier group arrived in Indian Ocean]

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇻🇪🇬🇫 US warning escalates tensions between Venezuela and Guyana

During a visit to Guyana, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Venezuela against any aggression in the Essequibo region, raising the possibility of a US military response.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro responded by calling Rubio an “imbecile” and saying Venezuela would not allow itself to be threatened.

The century-old Essequibo conflict reignited after ExxonMobil’s oil discovery in 2015. Since then, the United States has strengthened its military and intelligence ties with Guyana.

Guyana welcomed the US support. Venezuela accused Washington of fueling tensions and urged foreigners to stay out of the situation.
[where ever there is the torment or the rumor of War – you can be certain a British Border was left behind as a well-planted land mine… Guyana was a former colony of the British Empire…]
⭕ 🇪🇺 German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock believes that the question of creating a European Defense Union is no longer a question of “if,” but of “how”:

The European defense industry is still national and therefore very inefficient.

If we continue to use 150 different weapons systems… we can spend all the money in the world on it, we won’t be efficient enough.

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸U.S. President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he will impose a 25% tariff increase on imports of cars and auto parts not manufactured in the United States .

These new tariffs on vehicles will take effect on April 2, and companies importing vehicles in their entirety must pay them the following day. Importers of parts will pay the tariffs starting around May.

🇩🇪German Economy Minister Robert Habeck maintained that he will not give in and insisted that Europe must respond firmly.

It must be clear that we will not give in to the United States . We need to demonstrate strength and self-confidence

• 🇯🇵Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Thursday he won’t rule out taking countermeasures against the Trump administration’s auto tariffs after Japan’s repeated in-person pleas for an exemption went unheeded.
• 🇫🇷French Finance Minister Eric Lombard condemned the hostility and stated that the only solution for the European Union would be to increase tariffs on US products in response.
• 🇨🇦Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced he had called a meeting on Thursday to discuss our trade options.

📉 Meanwhile, stock markets fell in Asia and Europe, led by automakers such as Toyota, Hyundai, and Mercedes.
[Hit ’em where it counts, Orange! Reparations gotta be paid by Losers]

💠 @Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ The United States has launched its largest attack on Yemen since the operation began nearly two weeks ago.

Nearly 100 attacks have been carried out from aircraft and warships in the Red Sea, targeting more than 80 military installations and infrastructure, as well as other Houthi targets.
[This was overnight last night]
⭕The Israeli military reported that two rockets were launched from Lebanese territory toward northern Israel; one was intercepted, and the other failed to cross the border.

A senior Hezbollah source told the Lebanese media outlet Al-Mayadeen that the group had no connection with the rocket attacks this morning from southern Lebanon.

The source claimed that the recent rocket attacks from Lebanon “are part of a suspicious attempt to create pretexts to continue Israeli aggression against Lebanon.”
⭕ For the first time since November 27, the Israeli army issued an evacuation order in southern Beirut.
⭕ In southern Lebanon, the Israeli army carried out several airstrikes this morning.
⭕ The Israeli army claims to have attacked a Hezbollah facility “used to store unmanned aerial vehicles of Hezbollah’s air unit (127) in the Dahieh region,” south of Beirut.

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕❗️Israel has threatened to attack Dahye in Beirut and has issued evacuation orders. The area targeted for attacks is in proximity to two schools

The IDF claim this is a response to two rockets launched from Lebanese territory towards Kiryat Shmona earlier today. Hezbollah has denied any connection to the rocket launches.
⭕❗️An Israeli airstrike was carried out about 20 minutes ago, destroying the marked building.

This marks the first time an airstrike happens in Beirut since the ceasefire was signed.
⭕ President Macron:

‘We strongly condemn the Israeli airstrike on Beirut today, and the strikes throughout Lebanon, and these attacks are unprovoked. Hezbollah has not launched any missiles since the ceasefire.

Israel must withdraw from all 5 points it occupies in southern Lebanon and respect the ceasefire.’
⭕ Lebanese President, Joseph Aoun: ‘Hezbollah is not responsible for the launches carried out from Lebanese territory this morning. There are third parties that seek to reignite the war.’
⭕ Israel is clearly trying to provoke Hezbollah to re-enter the war.

So, the best thing it can do now, is frustrate this Israeli attempt and not take the bait.
⭕ He who can be patient at the right moment is stronger than he who fights at the wrong moment

– Secretary-General of Hezbollah Sheikh Naim Qassem
⭕ ❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇴🇲 NEW: Iran has delivered its response to Trump’s letter through a message conveyed by the Sultanate of Oman

According to Al-Mayadeen and other informed sources, the Iranian response consists mainly of the following points:

1. Iran reaffirms that it will not negotiate directly with the United States, especially under the policy of maximum pressure, and it rejects the American approach categorically.
2. Iran states that it does not negotiate on behalf of any regional power, and that Iran does not dictate the foreign policy of other nations or groups, including Yemen’s Ansarallah, which is an independent ally.
3. Iran states that it will not accept Trump’s ‘unrealistic conditions’, and that the U.S. demands were so extensive that they cannot be entertained even hypothetically.
4. Iran warns unequivocally that any military or hostile action, whether by the United States or any of its ‘stooges’, will be met with an Iranian response that will encompass all U.S. military assets in the Middle East.

An indescribable honor.

My short address to all Yemen – and 1 million people, LIVE – earlier today, Al Quds Day, at the million march in Sana'a. https://t.co/B1MNzrCvwD

— Pepe Escobar (@RealPepeEscobar) March 28, 2025

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Gaza Notifications:
🚨 BREAKING: Execution of 16 Ambulance Crew Members by Israeli Forces in Rafah southern Gaza

Horrific Massacre : Following coordination with the International Red Cross, Civil Defense teams entered the Tel Al-Sultan area in Rafah, south of Gaza.
It was confirmed that Israeli forces had executed all 16 members of the missing Civil Defense and Red Crescent teams, who had disappeared four days ago.

They were found buried near the barracks. Additionally, all Red Crescent ambulances and Civil Defense firefighting vehicles at the site were deliberately destroyed. |thread|
🔻 Hala Jaber: They coordinated with the Red Cross. They went in to save lives. Israel executed all 16 of them—ambulance crews, first responders—then buried their bodies & destroyed their vehicles. This isn’t self-defense. This is a war crime. A massacre. And the world is still silent.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Suppressed News: ⚡️BREAKING: Israeli high court rejects petition to allow humanitarian aid into gaza

The Israeli High Court of Justice on Thursday unanimously rejected a petition by human rights organizations to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. The court ruled that “international laws of belligerent occupation do not apply to Israel regarding Gaza.”
⭕ The US has conducted 40 airstrikes across Yemen, targeting multiple locations including the capital, Sana’a, and its international airport. The scale and reach of the strikes mark a significant escalation in US military involvement, raising questions about the long-term objectives and humanitarian consequences.
⭕ Israel reported that 2 rockets were fired from Lebanon toward Kiryat Shmona. While no casualties were confirmed, the incident provided a pretext for Israel to carry out airstrikes—raising concerns about yet another round of disproportionate Israeli bombing to Lebanon.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz declared, “If Kiryat Shmona can’t enjoy peace, Beirut won’t either,” directly threatening to strike the Lebanese capital. His remarks imposed his own rules of engagement—signaling a shift toward more aggressive and potentially disproportionate military action against Lebanon..
⭕ It is neither logical nor in Hezbollah’s interest to launch blind insignificant rockets at Israel without a clear tactical or strategic gain—especially when the cost is disproportionate Israeli retaliation that risks dragging Lebanon deeper into conflict. Such actions would isolate Hezbollah domestically, particularly at a time when Lebanese political leaders are urging the international community to pressure Israel into a full withdrawal from Lebanese territory.

In contrast, it is very much in Benjamin Netanyahu’s political interest and personal survival to escalate or reignite a war on Lebanon. With his government under growing scrutiny and pressure at home, a northern front could serve as a diversion and rally nationalist sentiment. As the situation on the border grows more volatile, the possibility of a wider war—initiated by design or provoked by calculated ambiguity—looms increasingly on the Lebanese horizon.
⭕ Iran has delivered a formal response to the United States via Oman, rejecting the prospect of direct negotiations but signaling openness to indirect talks. The message reflects Tehran’s consistent stance against engaging under pressure, while acknowledging the need for dialogue through third-party mediation.
⭕ US intelligence says Iran could produce enough uranium for one nuclear bomb in under a week. |link|
⭕ Hezbollah’s deterrent posture have weakened, allowing Israel to act with increasing freedom along the northern front. Israel is preparing to strike specific targets in Beirut, particularly in the Hadath area. In the coming weeks, it is expected that Israel escalate further—possibly initiating a limited war on Lebanon. The move is tied to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s interest in maintaining a state of war to avoid domestic scrutiny and preserve his grip on power.
⭕ The Israeli bombing and destruction of a building in Hadath, a densely populated suburb of Beirut, marks a dangerous and unprecedented escalation—one not seen since the 1978 invasion. With this strike, Israel has effectively redrawn the rules of engagement, signaling that it now considers the Lebanese capital a legitimate battlefield.

This sets a grave precedent: if Israel can target and assassinate individuals deep inside Beirut without fear of consequence, it opens the door to future strikes in the heart of civilian areas under the pretext of national security. The implications go far beyond a single building or target—it means no place in Lebanon is off-limits. For the first time in decades, the doctrine of deterrence is being openly challenged, and Beirut itself is being treated as a theater of war even after the ceasefire.
[the compradore arabs, huddling under Anglo-Zionist skirts, have brought themselves to this point. And amalek will continue to be culled and humiliated whilst continuing to huddle under the very peoples culling and humiliating them. Only the overturning of stupid leaders and elites will work. Hezbollah can remain dormant and wait it out for a hundred years – they’ve done it before. Can the others? Highly unlikely]
⭕ Israel carried out an airstrike today in a suburb of Beirut, near the scheduled location for the annual “Day of Jerusalem” rally, traditionally observed on the last Friday of Ramadan. The event was postponed in response to the strike.

Hezbollah’s Secretary-General, Sheikh Naim Qassem is expected to revise his previously recorded speech to address the developments.

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇾🇪🇦🇪| Yemen’s AnsarAllah warned Abu Dhabi & Dubai:

UAE-affiliated forces in southern Yemen are sharing sensitive information with the US military during airstrikes in Yemen. If these actions continue, Yemen AnsarAllah will retaliate. (Via ISNA)
[this is explicit threat against the territory of UAE, serving the multiple genocides of arabs by the combined West in Sudan, Palestine, and Yemen, not against the abject reviled lackeys of the lackeys in south Yemen, who are already withering away, and just require a little more time. Recall Iraqi Resistance made a similar threat to UAE — that upon the start of the real regional war including Iran, UAE would be leveled. And Prof Marandi said the same if Iran is attacked. So it appears, the region will soon be rid of these desert bedouin plague, one way or the other…]

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Kiev forces hit Russia’s Sudzha gas metering station again, the facility is practically destroyed, the Russian MoD reports

The department emphasized that all publicly stated commitments by the Kiev regime to allegedly stop deliberate attacks on Russian civilian energy infrastructure are yet another trick by Zelensky. |media|
⭕ ❗️The Ukrainian attack on the Sudzha gas metering station was carried out with the participation of British specialists, the command was given from London, the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman says
⭕ ❗️ The foreign ministers of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger will fly to Moscow next week for a meeting of the Alliance of Sahel States with the Russian authorities, a diplomatic source tells Sputnik
⭕ 📌 Major world events by the evening of March 28

• Myanmar declared a state of emergency in the regions affected by the earthquake;
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed support for the dialogue between Russia and the US in a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin and noted Ankara’s readiness to help advance the Black Sea deal, the Kremlin reported;
• Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz promised strikes on Beirut as a response to any shelling of the north of the country from Lebanon;
• The head of Moldova’s autonomous region of Gagauzia, Eugenia Gutsul, said that the case brought against her by the country’s authorities is political;
• Putin extended until July 1 the permission for foreigners to pay for Russian gas not only in Gazprombank, but also in other banks;
• “Until the Ukrainian people ask for elections, no one else should propose them,” a European Commission representative commented on the idea of ​​​​introducing external governance.

⭕ 🌍 Anyone opposed to the establishment of a UN-backed interim government to settle the peace process in Ukraine is “a warmonger,” a political activist says

All UN member states should support establishing a new administration in Ukraine to achieve peace, James Mwangi, a Kenyan political and civil society activist, leader of the Party For Democratic Reforms, told Sputnik Africa, noting that a key challenge is overcoming potential sabotage from those profiting from the conflict through arms sales.

Given that 72% of Ukrainian citizens oppose the current government, it’s questionable why the international community engages with Zelensky, Mwangi said. For a truly representative decision-making process, Zelensky should resign, paving the way for a new interim government inclusive of all stakeholders, as the current system appears undemocratic and unresponsive to the people’s wishes, the activist stated.

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ The Israeli military carried out more than 25 strikes in the Gaza Strip today and attacked 15 suspected Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.
[the culling and extermination of Arabs is systematic, daily, and will not remit. Eschatology says that upon the Second Coming, very few arabs will be left. And that the price for the perps will be TOTAL]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ The situation in Turkey is getting out of hand
⭕ President Trump: ‘If Iran doesn’t agree to a deal, bad bad things are gonna happen to them’

💠@ansarullaru:
⭕❗️✈️ Washington warns of Yemeni drones’ qualitative development

Amid escalating tensions in the Red Sea region, a recent US report published by the New York Times reports on the impressive development of Yemeni drone capabilities that pose a serious challenge to American air superiority.

💬 This means that Sanaa is now capable of striking targets deep inside Saudi Arabia or even Israel, as happened in July 2024 when a Yemeni drone hit a target in Tel Aviv, shocking military analysts.

💬 Other foreign sources, such as a May 2022 report on Iran Primer , confirm that Ansarullah’s drone arsenal is one of the most diverse and advanced. However, many overlook that this development was not simply the result of off-the-shelf technology transfer. Rather, it was a complex process involving reverse engineering and local production.

Yemeni experts who have gained access to downed drones such as the MQ-9 have been able to develop and build improved models based on them to meet their combat needs.

It is this local innovation that allows Yemeni drones to adapt to combat conditions, unlike American drones, which rely on complex and expensive supply chains.

In a similar context, an NBC News report from February 2024 noted:
The Houthis have used their drones to cripple shipping in the Red Sea, prompting the United States and Britain to launch airstrikes that have failed to achieve the desired results.

🧡 Researcher Tom Karako of the Center for Strategic and International Studies confirmed:
The Houthis are using an innovative approach, combining drones and missiles, making them difficult for Western air defense systems to counter and intercept.

Translated from original text in Russian at @ansarullaru

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕🇺🇸✈️🇵🇱🇺🇦And another commercial transport Boeing from overseas to Poland with gifts from Grandpa Donald for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Further information about these transports in the channel is probably no longer advisable because everyone already understands what the talk about overseas peace initiatives actually is [to arm UkroReich while there is a ceasefire]…

8-th airplane sent since March 20.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇬🇱 JD Vance should be a comedian—commenting on the cold while visiting Greenland is a genius joke.

We never could’ve come up with that. |media|
[when you’ve got jack shit to say, and to a bunch of empty heads as it is, Usha’s breasts sure fill the space nicely. Indeed, the zionazi totalitarian future is shaped to be rapturously sensuous – as long as you ain’t amalek that is]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇩🇰 JD Vance… basically threatening Denmark. |media|
[could the same claims of misrule be made of US criminal-elite?? And this shot was most poorly framed. It is missing the two saving graces of the entire sad tableau]
⭕ US State Department:

• Aid will flow to Gaza if Hamas releases hostages and disarms
• the surge of airpower into the Pacific-Indian region,including B-2 bombers sent to Diego Garcia, is linked to Trump’s 2-month deadline for Iran.
• We expect the Lebanese Army to disarm armed groups.
• Israel has the right to defend itself against any attacks.
• The Iranian regime is one of the world’s worst violators of human rights and deprives the people of their basic rights.
• Israel has the right to respond if it is subjected to rocket fire from any terrorist organization.

[I told u: we shall soon miss the Biden crashtestdummy clique. They’re taking the insanity to level 11]

⭕ 🇺🇸 A man wearing combat gear and crusader (seemingly Templar) attire kneels with crucifix in hand in protest outside of the Satanic Temple’s Black Mass event in Topeka, Kansas, USA.
[what! Was Hegseth inside, or was the footsoldier sent by Hegseth? Both? What times]

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ The day Israel seeks to eliminate a high-profile target in Beirut, a limited rocket attack may be launched from Lebanon—possibly toward a nearby Israeli settlement. Such a move could serve as a calculated pretext, enabling Israel to justify its strike under the banner of self-defense while achieving its intended objective with minimal immediate fallout.
⭕ A limited Israeli military campaign against Lebanon cannot be ruled out in the near future. With rising tensions along the northern border and political pressures mounting in Tel Aviv, the prospect of a calculated escalation—short of full-scale war—remains a real and growing possibility.
⭕ On Friday, the US carried out 66 airstrikes across Yemen, including on the capital, (14 on) Sana’a, and multiple other regions. The scale and intensity of the strikes mark a major escalation in Washington’s military campaign against the country.

The US is now bombing Yemen with the same sustained intensity it has used—alongside Israel—in the war on Lebanon. The pattern reflects a broader trend of military assertiveness in the region, with little international accountability and growing humanitarian concerns.

on our mind: precious metals and the Spanish Armada 437 years later

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇷/🇺🇸 Commander of the IRGC Navy, Admiral Tangsiri:

‘We possess missiles whose range are unknown, and they are stored in fortified places where the enemy cannot reach them.

Anyone who attacks an Iranian ship, we will follow them to the Gulf of Mexico if we have to, and we will strike back at them. There is no escape.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Atlanta Fed: On March 26, the #GDPNow model nowcast of real GDP growth in Q1 2025 is -1.8%; the alternative model forecast, which adjusts for imports and exports of gold, is 0.2%: bit.ly/32EYojR.
#ATLFedResearch
🔻Luke Gromen: It is fascinating to me that no mainstream economists, banks, OR financial media companies seem to want to dig into a macro “dog that didn’t bark”:

WHO IS IMPORTING SO MUCH GOLD INTO THE US THAT IT IS CUTTING GDP IN A $27 TRILLION ECONOMY BY 2.0%, AND WHY ARE THEY DOING IT?!!

In the context of these massive US gold imports, could Bessent recently saying “Today, we are not revaluing the gold” be this cycle’s analog of Bernanke saying “Subprime is contained” in 2007 after home prices were already falling & subprime mortgage delinquencies already rising?
🔻 WS: It sure seems to me that revaluing US sovereign gold isn’t going to mean much UNLESS they do it REAL BIG. $5000/toz gives you a mere $1.3T. Relative pocket change. $10k = $2.6T. $25k = $6.5T. I suppose $6.5T gives you a few years of largesse, but it would go fast.
🔻 WS: And, of course, the consequent depreciation of the dollar would be monumental. Unprecedented. A gallon of milk would be selling for $25 at the grocery store.
🔻 WS: If I were certain they were planning to revalue gold to $25k/toz, say in 6 months or a year from now. Well, I’d start thinking hard about whether selling ounces NOW, with the dollar’s purchasing power where it is at present, would be a better option than waiting for $25k gold.
🔻 Mike Co: What would you buy with the soon-to-be-devalued dollars instead?
🔻 WS: Hard assets of some kind: home and land improvements, maybe a new truck, ammo, cases of liquor to trade at the swap meet. Things like that, I guess.

My point is that a major gold revaluation would eventually lead to unprecedented dollar depreciation, and increased goods prices.
🔻 WS: Of course, I may simply not be seeing the big picture here. And if so, I would really like you to point out the flaw in my thinking so I can adjust accordingly.
🔻 Noirspectre: You made good points, I see no flaw in this reasoning.

In my opinion gold is the shiny distraction.
Trying to hide from the cobalt in bunkers.
🔻 Jeffrey Jensen: We shut the gold window and never revalued or spoke of it again because nations with legit warships have legit claims on that gold. It’s going to be fun to watch while starving.
🔻 Favunc420: I don’t think the appreciation of gold : devaluation of dollar occurs in 1:1 fashion.

There is also speculative frenzy / flight to safety behavior that would likely drive gold much higher than corresponding dollar devaluation.

Unless gold is the only market immune to this.
🔻 WS: Acknowledged. It would take time for the public to even realize what was happening.

Incidentally, Utah is about to make transacting in precious metals even easier than they already made it a few years ago — bypassing the dollar altogether.
🔻 Sunny Po: How do you know how much quantity they have?
🔻 WS: I don’t. No one does. But they “officially” have 8133 tonnes (which I seriously doubt).
🔻 blindpig/1966: You don’t seem to understand how or what gets revalued Will. It’s the certificates that get revalued at the fed. They don’t sell the gold. There’s no limit to available liquidity, as long as demand continues and the price is allowed to rise organically the certificates get revalued as the gold price rises. Add to that if they devalue the dollar to .50 it doubles liquidity. That’s the plan as well as repricing commodities to accommodate the new currency values around the world. Those countries without gold, will die and be annexed by countries that can bail them out with excess gold. As in The Fed and JPM, which will be part of the Treasury. Canada gets bailed out and in return becomes the 51 state. There’s no way around that imo. He US won’t allow the fascists in the EU to bail Canada out. They would rather bomb the EU than to allow Canada to become a den of Eurofascists any longer.
🔻 WS: I understand that perfectly well. They would keep the gold stock and just collateralize it to sell more debt. But my point remains the same.
🔻 WS: I mean, even if they can sell $25T in bonds using the gold as collateral, that’s just a drop in the bucket against the off-balance-sheet liabilities — not to mention the trillions that would be thrown around to various new “essential expenditures”.
🔻 blindpig/1966: Not use the gold as collateral. That’s not what they’re proposing either.
🔻 WS: That is exactly what they would be doing, in essence. Why are you trying to nit pick every jot and tittle of what I’m saying? It is annoying.
🔻 blindpig/1966: Not stock. They aren’t stock certs.
🔻 WS: 🤦‍♂️ Stock as in the physical bars. The “stock” of physical gold in the possession of the Treasury.
🔻 blindpig/1966: I’m sorry. Didn’t intend on irritating. Just offering another opinion. My version of autism sometimes over emphasizes my points. Apologies Sir.
🔻 Will Schryver: No problem. I have a terrible headache this afternoon, and I’m very easily annoyed.

Anyway, it will be interesting to see how this all plays out. Meanwhile, gold continues to make new all-time highs and all the dips get bought …
🔻 blindpig/1966: Right. Exactly. They need to sell gold sovereign bonds with a yield to the General population. That’ll raise trillions more to purchase more gold and cause the price to skyrocket even further. Now you have 100k gold and all the liquidity you need to enact real change.
You don’t sell the gold. You revalue the certificates every time gold increases in value.
🔻 WS: I understand the concept. I’m just dubious that it would really constitute an “escape” from a problem that came about from decades of unbridled credit expansion.

I continue to be persuaded that Von Mises’ prophecy will be fulfilled: |link|
🔻 blindpig/1966: Maybe he was wrong and a controlled conversion can take place.
[imagine if this single-minded bloodhound was put in charge of the FBI and told to track down ALL the real nazis on CONUS…. no more possibilities for a fifth reich.. sometimes autism spectrum has its positive side]
🔻 blindpig/1966: Not if they reprice commodities when the reprice gold. It has to scale down as gold scales up. You can’t change the currency without considering prices and commerce afterwards. IT has to be an all encompassing process.
🔻 WS: Commodities will reprice themselves naturally. That’s basically the point I was trying to make when I said I would have to think hard about whether or not $3100 gold has as much purchasing power TODAY as $25k gold would have down the road AFTER those commodities have repriced.
[ok i am lost in both the order of this thread, and some of the content. Col! Up your lane]
🔻 boyd roff: Yes , but holding the gold now and at 26k you at least have the purchasing power to by the milk , what does anyone not holding do , feels they get hurt allot more
⭕🔻 Mike Mihajlovic: There has been much discussion about the relocation of B-2 bombers to Diego Garcia in anticipation of a potential conflict with Iran. Bombing missions against the Houthis are merely part of broader combat drills, as the Houthis lack sophisticated air defense (AD) systems. The real focus of these drills lies in targeting underground bunkers and facilities, providing valuable training for both bomber crews and mission planners.

It is worth noting that while the Houthis do not possess Iranian-level air defenses, there remains a clear and present danger: they may still be able to lock onto and engage a B-2. This is why an entire fleet of SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses) and EW (Electronic Warfare) aircraft has been deployed, operating either from carriers or numerous U.S. bases around Yemen. These operations appear to serve as intimidation tactics aimed at weaker adversaries. However, Iran is not Yemen, and no matter how much Washington hawks, warmongers, and an army of Twitter “experts” might wish otherwise, B-2s will not fly directly over Iranian nuclear sites to drop their most powerful bombs.

What exactly is the B-2? It is an exceptionally sophisticated aircraft, highly effective for stealth missions. However, one critical aspect is often overlooked: the B-2 excels primarily against small, unsophisticated, and impoverished nations equipped with outdated air defense systems. The B-2 is a remarkable product, bolstered by some of the best marketing imaginable. For those who understand Western marketing, it is clear that 80% of the product’s success lies in its marketing, while the remaining 20% encompasses everything else.

Extremely complex and demanding in terms of maintenance, the U.S. can likely maintain only 30-40% of its B-2 fleet as operable and flight-worthy at any given time, making it plausible that all available aircraft have been relocated to Diego Garcia.

As a reminder, Diego Garcia can be considered an “unsinkable aircraft carrier” (similar to Malta during WWII, for example) and is widely believed to be out of reach of Iranian ballistic missiles. However, this is not entirely accurate. Iran possesses the means to target it. One method involves container-launched missiles placed on cargo ships. Additionally, for the sake of hypothetical consideration, a submarine could approach the island, surface, and launch Shaheeds (suicide drones). From a close distance of 50-60 km, such drones could reach the island within minutes. Therefore, the U.S. must always maintain airborne anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft around the island, along with likely deploying one or two nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) for defense.

In any case, the crews can enjoy the tropical sandy beaches when they’re not busy planning and rehearsing attacks on Yemen and Iran.

In short, the B-2 is a sophisticated tool for intimidating weaker adversaries but is largely ineffective against modern Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS).
🔻 WS: 🔥 Great analysis, Mike.

I would elaborate on one point:

As I understand current US/Israeli stand-off weaponry capabilities, in order to launch high-precision strikes against high-value Iranian targets, US/Israeli aircraft MUST necessarily penetrate very deeply into Iran.
🔻 Mike Mihajlovic: And yes, to inflict damage on key Iranian installations, they would have to approach very closely with the heaviest ordnance possible. While this is theoretically possible, the cost of such an action would be too high to bear
🔻 WS: Yep.

And, like you wrote, they would absolutely send all the SEAD/DEAD aircraft in their inventory ahead of the primary strike package. It’s going to be a lot of the SEAD/DEAD crews that don’t return to their families.
🔻 El cuervo: No existe la sociedad de la segunda guerra que soportaba el lujo de perder tripulaciones a rolete .
1 intento y vuelven como volvieron del cuerno de África
🔻 WS: In this time of wars and rumors of wars, it is your calling to teach people the truth of these matters.

I, for one, have learned much from you over the past few years, and I am grateful for it.
🔻 Mike Mihajlovic: Thank you Will!
🔻 Omar: Then why @RealScottRitter has gone bonkers over this 🤔 he should know some of this
🔻 WS: I don’t understand why anyone assumes Ritter would be well-versed on the questions under debate. He has never manifest notable understanding of these subjects. His expertise, such as it is, lies in different areas.

His understanding of big picture military matters is limited.
🔻 Elydia35: Over time, I started to listen to him less and less. I used to watch his segments on Judging Freedom, I don’t anymore. I found the range of his knowledge to be very limited & superficial
🔻 Titoqueteimporta⭐⭐⭐: You’ve written several times about US military capabilities. This case is just another example of what you’ve said. Don’t you think the US really just wants to intimidate Iran? Sure, it’s costly, but no more than the military disaster.Could we be wrong?🤔
🔻 WS: Wait and see.
[I’ve a feelin’ … like the Spanish Armada of 1588.. this will be one to remember for the ages, and by the aggressor. And equivalent to losing a carrier.. what will the aching losers do THEN?]
🔻 Gh0str1dr🛩: As of 2023, USAF declared a MC of 56% for the B-2A fleet. So not all the operational aircraft to Diego Garcia. But a big part indeed.
🔻 WS: “Mission Capable” means little more than: the aircraft can taxi, take-off, circle the base, land, and taxi back to its climate-controlled hangar.

“Full-Mission Capable” is the only pertinent designation. It means “combat-capable”. And that percentage is FAR lower.
🔻 WS: Also, from what I was able to confidently ascertain, SEVEN B-2s originally took-off from Whiteman AFB, but two were compelled to abort their mission enroute.

Very indicative, if this is the case.
🔻 Mike Mihajlovic: Correct.
🔻 Thingsneedtochange: My Navy helo squadron had two “hanger queens” that were stripped & used for parts to keep others running. Once a year, parts were stripped off the other helos for the hanger queens. They would then fly once around the base and report as mission capable.

I feared for the pilots.
🔻 DomoljubniNasveti: On the one hand, it is a *long* flight, but on the other, they’re fucking *strategic* bombers.
This really sounds quite bad.
🔻 Koen: My mind goes back to 2020, to that civilian airliner taking off from Tehran airport, then inexplicably shot down by Iranian air defense.

Sure, within a context of great tension and anticipation, but still…

A very odd mistake for an non-hacked air defense system to make
🔻 Koen: And then to thousands of bewoners exploding all at the same time.

What I’m saying is, it is risky to assume that the US and Israel should they decide to strike Iran don’t have some unexpected deeply infiltrated tools to help disable significant parts of Iranian defenses
🔻 WS: For my own part, and notwithstanding I acknowledge the Jews are a cunning people, they have no sustainable power and no strategic depth.

Attacking Iran would become the “BIG WAR” they have never had the capability to win, not even with the great gentile empire behind them.
📜 Geography
🔻 John: their power flows from the control of the reserve currency. ending this issue requires ending their control of the USD, and preventing their control over any digital currency they are attempting to lure the world into adopting
⭕🔻 RT:
‘Vaporize’ drones in milliseconds — Epilus claim next-gen ‘Leonidas’ tech, powered by Palantir Warp Speed OS, will take out drones without ammunition |media|
🔻 God’s Not Dead: @imetatronink what about the #CGIwar?
🔻 WS: I’ll bet a system like that — assuming for the sake of argument that it even exists — would light up sensors for miles around the moment it fired its first bursts, at which point it would be visited by something quite a bit faster and more potent than small drones.
⭕‼️ Bingo!

That is precisely the message. In fact, I didn’t even think it was “coded”. My sense is that it was utterly explicit.

Putin is describing a path to the resolution of “root causes”.

Whether or not the #EmpireAtAllCosts cult submits to these terms is another question.
[links:
🔻 Brian McDonald: Putin didn’t just dust off a 19th-century footnote when he mentioned Greenland—he sent a coded message to Trump. By framing his ambitions as “serious” and “historical,” and stressing it’s a US/Denmark matter, he essentially said: we respect your sphere—respect ours.👇

It’s an old-school, backroom-world-order kind of offer: you take care of the Western Hemisphere and your NATO backyard, we’ll handle the post-Soviet space. No lectures, no revolutions, no “rules-based order.” Just boundaries, and mutual non-interference.

The subtext? If Trump wants to redraw the map, he won’t get pushback from Moscow—so long as that redrawing works both ways. |media|]
🔻 Michael Farris: Podcast in 2025?
🔻 WS: Your podcast has really blown up. But, as an obscure voice on these matters, my days are numbered and few.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference
🔻 Eomar – Diligent News: I had a similar theory in terms of ‘our hemisphere’ but I’m having doubts on this assessment given the ongoing disaster we are contributing to in the Middle East. Maybe it’s just ‘scorched earth’ over there for us…
🔻 Peter: This is exactly what multi-polarity is. Whether the US accepts that it will be best for all in the long term is the big question.
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: Wish I was more confident they’ll get the reciprocation part.
🔻 Alves: Why should Putin object to a move that will implode NATO?
[exactly. Indeed, its a load stacked function, if it was proferred as thought by WS. It will juice along NATO/western cabal implosion. let them cannibalize each other, all praise be to the Lord!]
⭕🎸 Down by the Riverside

Cast away my heavy load
Lay it down by the willow grove
Muddy water heals my soul
Down by the riverside

I find a peace of mind
Down by the riverside
I made it out alive
Down by the riverside

Trust me, this is a great song. |THREAD|
⭕ #TheBigAttrition continues apace.

And still CSG-8 (USS Trembling Puppy) remains in the northern reaches, well out of range of Yemen’s backyard workshop arsenal.
[links:
🔻 OSINTdefender: The U.S. Navy and Air Force has launched what appears to be the largest series of strikes tonight against Houthi targets in Yemen, since the strike operation began roughly two weeks ago. Close to 100 precision-strikes are reported to have been launched by both aircraft and naval vessels in the Red Sea, targeting well over 80 military and infrastructure sites, as well as other targets, in the Al-Jawf, Amran, Hodeidah, Saada, Sanaa and other Governorates.

According to U.S. defense officials, Houthi command-and-control centers, air-defense systems, ballistic and cruise missile launchers, drone launch sites, weapons manufacturing facilities, underground weapons storage sites and high-value officials, were targeted during tonight’s wave of strikes; with daily strikes against the Iranian-backed Houthis set to continue until attacks on Israel and international shipping stop, and deterrence in restored in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.]
[goodness. can u count the amount of pentagonese tongue-twister lies? Used to justify aggression and set up the next aggression? we lose gray matter reading their drivel. buncha unimaginative pirates]
🔻 Escape from CT: Hi will following u has helped me a lot to how to view war. Especially since u r sure that US can’t win against Iran. But when US is bombing yemen. Iran or russia or china isn’t coming to their help . Why? Us-israel have already fucked up syria lebanon palastine n now yemen.
🔻 WS: Because the strength of Russia, China, and Iran is in their own neighborhoods, on the defensive. They will wisely and patiently wait for the US to meet them on their own ground.
🔻 WINE TRAVEL: Don’t forget Will what happened to the British in Aden back in the sixties
[LOL]
🔻 Sophia_Atossa 🇩🇪🕊🇷🇺: And there it is again, the „precision strikes“.
[right on the cancer hospital, wedding, and nurseries]
⭕🔻 On this day in 1999 Colonel of the Serbian Air Defense Zoltán Dani, an ethnic Hungarian, shot down an F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft of the US 🇺🇸 Air Force. |media|
🔻 WS: @MihajlovicMike “wrote the book” on this fascinating story. |link|
⭕ 🔸️The US has spent 16 months, 5 carrier strike groups, mountains of hard-to-replenish and extraordinarily expensive precision weaponry — and yet the Yemeni remain the gatekeepers of the Bab el-Mandeb.

It’s one of the most humiliating battles in American military history.
repost of his older from 21 Jan 2024:
‼️ The US declares its intent to play whack-a-mole with the Yemenis “for as long as it takes”.

Stupid is as stupid does.

#TheBigAttrition accelerates.
🔻 DeepFake Dissident: New puppet, same as the old puppet
[posts mugshots of the last two pedo clowns to be POTUS]
🔻 🇪🇨 wayemeru 🔻: The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
🔻 RationalInvestor: Why not? Playing whack-a-mole with the Afghans “for as long as it takes” was so much fun.
🔻 Cheddar Mature: After playing whack-a-mole (via the Saudis) for many years already!! Empires really do come to an end
🔻 Fred: Yea, that will reopen the Red Sea… LOL
🔻 pieterdejong 🏴‍☠️: War is like a box of chocolates.. ‘You’ll be out of sweets very fast’
🔻 Godfree Roberts: And how many $32 million Reapers?
🔻 WS: A baker’s dozen at last count.
🔻 Tybernicus: They haven’t even taken the gloves off yet.
🔻 WS: What does “taking off the gloves” look like? I mean, they’ve been at this for over a decade now, and have rotated through five carrier strike groups over the past year+. And yet still the Yemeni are the gatekeepers of the Bab el-Mandeb strait.
🔻 Chris: Another 100 days and we will see.
We agree time to take the leaders out .
Good idea
🔻 WS: So the next 100 days will be different from the past 500+ days?

“take the leaders out” 🤦‍♂️

Bold talk with nothing to back it up. The whole undertaking is just a big game of whack-a-mole that achieves nothing in the end but blowing up random buildings and killing more civilians.
🔻 Eomar – Diligent News: Can you imagine how fortunate China and Russia feel as they watch this disaster slowly roll along?
🔻 questo non è un uovo 🐕: 200 anni dopo la politica delle cannoniere arranca.
🔻 WS: Grazie. Ho imparato un’altra buona parola italiana: arrancare.
⭕ 🔸️ All That Glitters

Many ask me my thoughts on gold rising — and if it portends troubles.

Gold is the “check engine” light on the dash of the international monetary system.

But you’ll know things are getting REALLY serious when silver starts making new all-time highs.
🔻 The Surgeon: I have Silver ATH at 49.831 in 2001
🔻 WS: Watch the silver/gold ratio. When it dips below 50, you’ll know the time is far spent to prepare for the worse things to come.
🔻 Dee Landers: I have a question. I’m wondering if you mean ratio of 50 silver to 1 gold ratio? I did a job about 4 years ago and was offered money or silver. I took the silver for the heck of it. Just curious what the ratio means?
🔻 WS: How many ounces of sliver required to buy an ounce of gold.
🔻 The Surgeon: It’s 88.9 right now, aprox. I’m watching exactly that
⭕🔻 — GEROMAN — time will tell – 👀 –: Sumy direction

Gogolevka is completely liberated. The assault forces of the 51st PDP have consolidated their positions in the area of ​​the state border and the Sudzha checkpoint .

The enemy in this area is holding Oleshnya and several ravines in semi-encirclement with the forces of the 95th Brigade.

The enemy suffers serious losses from strikes by our artillery, aviation and UAVs, and is trying to send reinforcements, but “not all” of them reach the site…

Fighting continues in the Sumy border area (in Vladimirovka , in the area of ​​the village of Vodolaghi , in Veselovka , Zhuravka , in the southeastern part of Basovka ).

Fighting continues in Guevo and the forested area to the east.

voenkorKotenok 🇷🇺 TG
🔻 WS: Note that making rapid territorial advances remains a minor consideration for the Russian forces. Their objective is well-attested: they aim to utterly annihilate every single pocket of AFU troops who choose to continue fighting, until they have massacred every last one of them.
[one of the times reading such anodyne bloodthirsty declaration of maniacal intent is oddly comforting! Woe to the nazis of this long-suffering world. They reap the storms of the Russkie and the Yemeni]

A buncha broke and butthurt NY hustlers decide to invade a seemingly juicy Persian real estate … a confirmed Murder-Suicide!

India continues to muddle along, like an -ex still waiting for the call years later! They continue to tie themselves in knots, and bleed potential all the while. Someone needs to put the Anglos outta their misery, otherwise India will remain handicapped and lovelorn, just as the Western iron-clay toes and feet of the dream icon of Nebuchadnezzar still pine for Rome and Greece millennia later. The absorption and ennui is that fatal

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸FOX News host discusses the forcible seizure of Greenland:

“We don’t need friends. If we have to burn some bridges with Denmark to take Greenland. We’re big boys. We dropped atomic bombs on Japan, and now they’re our allies. America is not bound by history,” Fox News host Jesse Watters said.

🐻Yep, perfect summary of US foreign policy.  |media|
⭕ 🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 The Russian Ministry of Defense has confirmed the liberation of the settlements of Panteleymonovka in Donetsk region and Shcherbaki in the Zaporozhye region.
⭕ 🇷🇺🔴Russian military liberated Veselovka in Sumy region — Ministry of Defense.
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇸🇨🇳 Beijing is not yet ready to join potential Moscow-Washington negotiations on strategic stability, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko told TASS.
[Stymied! No “ceasefire” and no roping Russia-China into disarming themselves. Baby Big Orange is gonna act out]
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇺🇦 Ukraine Intensifies Attacks on Russia’s Energy Infrastructure Despite Agreements – Russian MoD

The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that Ukraine continues its strikes on Russian energy facilities, contradicting previous agreements:

• March 28, 5:30 AM – A Ukrainian drone attack in Belgorod region caused a power outage on the 35 kV Aidar–Bely Kolodez transmission line due to wire damage.
• 10:34 AM – A Ukrainian UAV struck the Krasnaya Yaruga 110 kV substation, severely damaging a transformer.
• 1:45 PM – Another Ukrainian drone attack led to a power outage at a compact transformer substation in Belgorod region.
• 5:03 PM – A Ukrainian drone strike on an energy facility caused a 10 kV high-voltage line to fail, cutting power to over 1,100 households in the Grayvoron district.
• 6:07 PM – A drone attack severed the 110 kV Borisovka–Krasnaya Yaruga transmission line, leaving over 8,000 consumers without power in Borisovsky district.

Despite Zelensky’s statements, Ukrainian forces have intensified attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure.

coming to a Gauntlet near you at the Gate of Tears….

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
🇷🇺 Medvedev called the UN Secretary-General’s words about Zelensky’s legitimacy a “double lie.”
[The impudence of the Portuguese compradore figurehead of the UN was promptly corrected. When will the same two charges be levied against the UN, of being illegitimate and unworthy of our respect??? The point approaches]
⭕ 🏴‍☠️🇩🇪🇷🇺Germany has confirmed that it committed an act of piracy against a ship carrying Russian oil worth more than $40 million. It replaced the crew of a Russian tanker and its authorities took control of the cargo of the Panamanian-flagged oil tanker Eventin, which was confiscated by German customs in March, Bloomberg reported, citing a representative of the German Finance Ministry.

“The Federal Government received ownership of the vessel and cargo, and after the crew was changed, also actual control over the vessel and cargo,” a representative of the German Ministry of Finance said in a statement.

The ship was carrying oil from the Russian port of Ust-Luga when it suffered engine failure in January and was towed to the German coast. According to Der Spiegel, there were 100,000 tons of oil on board.

The seizure of Eventin is the first act of piracy by an EU state in many years. According to Der Spiegel, the measures against the tanker are connected with the fact that the German government has decided to demonstrate to Russia that Berlin does not intend to stand idly by as Russian oil is transported through the Baltic Sea in defiance of sanctions.

Thus, it turns out that if a German plane or ship accidentally ends up in Russia (a large country) in an unforeseen or emergency situation, it can be added to the sanctions list and captured.

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Hundreds of US strikes on Yemen have failed to open the Red Sea to Israeli goods.

What about asking Israel to respect international law and lift the humanitarian siege on 2.5 million people suffering genocide, ethnic cleansing and collective punishment?
⭕ What is Israel’s aim in attacking Lebanon? Could it be preparation for a wider war against Iran, having crippled its strongest ally? My take to @AJEnglish
⭕ Text of the message sent by U.S. President @realDonaldTrump to Iran’s Supreme Leader @ar_khamenei, without modification and translated into English:

Your Excellency Ayatollah Khamenei,
With respect for your leadership and the people of Iran, I write to you with the aim of opening new horizons for our relationship, moving beyond years of conflict, misunderstanding, and unnecessary confrontations that we have witnessed over the past decades. The time has come to leave behind hostility and open a new chapter of cooperation and mutual respect. Today, too, we have a historic opportunity before us.

The United States of America under my leadership is prepared to take a major step toward peace and de-escalation. Together, we can lift sanctions, empower the Iranian economy, and open the doors of cooperation between our two countries—not only for the benefit of our peoples, but for the sake of stability and peace in the Middle East and the world at large.

But I warn you: if you reject this outstretched hand, and if the Iranian regime chooses the path of escalation, continued support for terrorist organizations, and military adventurism, the response will be decisive and swift. We will not stand idly by in the face of threats from your regime to our people or our allies.

Peace is not weakness—it is the choice of the strong. The Iranian people are a great people who deserve a better future, free from isolation, poverty, and suffering.
If you are ready to negotiate, we are ready as well. But if you continue to ignore the demands of the world, history will record that you missed a great opportunity.
With respect,
Donald J. Trump
[this is a psyop. The real message was delivered elsewhere or verbally:

1. Iran must close all nuclear research activity
2. to disarm themselves of potent ballistic missiles,
3. and to stop supporting the Axis of Resistance.

That this was the real Thug Life Inc messaging as understood in Iran was reflected in the responses of the IRGC, both in unveiling new missile bases, categorically refusing to stop supporting the Resistance fronts, and having Soleimani’s successor Commander Qaani read the Quds Day speech yesterday, usually recited by political leaders such as Raisi or Khamanei. Khamenei’s military advisor topped it by announcing Operation True Promise III is nearing end of preparations.. the muscular response is sufficient to reveal the real gambit]

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇾🇪| Head of the AnsarAllah Supreme Political Council, Mahdi al-Mashat:

The US aggression has only resulted in the killing of children and women and the targeting of civilian belongings.

Our armed forces are still engaged in a qualitative and effective engagement with the sources of aggression against our country, including aircraft carriers, battleships, and others.

We warn all countries of the world, especially Arab & Islamic regimes, of the continuation of Zionist crimes against the Palestinian people and of the consequences of this.

Whoever thinks that silence and collusion will save them is mistaken, as everyone now knows the truth about the ambitions of the Zionist entity and Washington behind it.
⭕ Miscarriages in Gaza skyrocketed by 300% amid Israel’s aid blockade…

Where are the people that care so much about women huh? Or is it just about your political agenda when it comes to Iran?

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Hezbollah Secretary General, Sheikh Naeem Qassem: ‘If the Lebanese state fails to make Israel comply with the ceasefire, and provocations continue, we will not remain spectators, and will be forced to turn to other options’

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ ‼️ New Status Quo

Since the Putin/Trump phone chat several days ago, at least two things have become indelible:

1. the Russians are dictating the terms of capitulation in the failed NATO proxy war in Ukraine;
2. Russia and China are in close coordination and are indivisible.

🔻 WS: 📜 In for a Pound
🔻 WS: 📜 Dictating Terms
🔻 WS: 📜 Open Defiance
🔻 WS: 📜 The Bitter Pill of Decisive Strategic Defeat
🔻 WS: 📜 All for One and One for All
🔻 C1: China immediately encouraged both sides to agree to the 30 day ceasefire basically as soon as the Trump admin came out with it. They’re not gonna let it harm the Russia-China relationship but they want this to end more than Russia does rn it’s not a precedent they like
🔻 WS: I disagree with this assessment 100%. I don’t believe China has any other posture towards the war in Ukraine other than to say to the Russians: “You deal with this problem in your neighborhood as you see fit and necessary.”
🔻 C1: Then why come out with that headline in the party newspaper immediately upon the US announcing Ukraine agreed to the ceasefire and before Russia had had any chance to even comment?

Again not an issue China will let derail their relationship with Russia. Not even close. But they want this over sooner than Russia does atm.
[china does not do public “diplomacy” unlike some. Do not interpret based on the wrong civilizational template. And none of us outside the elites of the civilizational-states are privy to the terms of capitulation being discharged per force by the desperados of the Orange Effluvia Crew]
🔻 WS: I do not subscribe to this assessment. Public messaging is not an indication of actual realpolitik policy. I adamantly do not believe China is advising Russia in any meaningful fashion in relation to how they choose to resolve the situation in Ukraine.
[indeed. If the Celestial Emperor has any input, it may be to say, “Please dearest brother Vladimir, cook the devils like piroshki for another half eternity. We gotta build our harmonious multi-nodal world, and for that we need to keep Lilliputian Legion adequately distracted and busy, and helping fertilize the already rich, black, fat soil of mother Novorossiya]
🔻 Agamemnon López: Winners get to dictate terms. Simple as that
[what a first name if true. One of my fav names in history]
🔻 C3: Metternich of Austria: “In a world of three, be two.”
🔻 etbadaboum 埃特巴达布姆: My thoughts exactly. The first one because Putin has all the leverage and Trump none despite his bluster. And second because Putin knows USians are ‘agreement incapable’ and collaboration with China is fruitful on all levels.
🔻 Jes_J_Bel: There are now believed to be 9 B-2s at Diego Garcia, half the fleet of them, it seems Trump made up his mind to attack Iran. So will Russia & China aid Iran in tracking and destroying them? At some point, all the talk of alliances has to be put into practical effect.
🔻 WS: I have seen no credible reports to that effect. Source?
🔻 Jes_J_Bel: I think only this post so far, honestly, I don’t know how the image shows 5 on the tarmac, it’s low quality. So can’t be sure if it’s 7 or 9. |media|
⭕🔻 Nebojša Malić:
Curious to hear what @ArmchairW , @imetatronink, @GeromanAT and @HistoryLegends_ think about this: |media|
[i posted as YouTube above as well]
🔻 WS: I thought it was a fascinating interview.

Probably my favorite part was when he was describing how the American mercenaries stayed as far behind the front lines as possible, and refused to participate in any hard fighting.

As I’ve often asserted, the US military is not prepared to fight the kind of war we are now seeing here in 2025.
🔻 Nebojša Malić: I would like to think the brass at the Pentagon have watched this and learned from it too… but something tells me otherwise.
🔻 Steveo: I wish I could find it… But there’s an article where Mujahideen from Afghanistan who fought both compared US and Russian solders. They say American are pussies and Russians `real men.
⭕ cont. thread:
🔸️The US has spent 16 months, 5 carrier strike groups, mountains of hard-to-replenish and extraordinarily expensive precision weaponry — and yet the Yemeni remain the gatekeepers of the Bab el-Mandeb.

It’s one of the most humiliating battles in American military history.
🔻 Tybernicus: [the clown posts photo of B-52 as a threat for Iran]
🔻 WS: Do you know how many US aircraft were lost to enemy fire in Vietnam? How many B-52s and F-4s were shot down by 1950s-era Soviet AD?

Yeah, war is all fun and games until the other guy starts shooting back at you.

Iran is MUCH more powerful than were the Vietnamese.
🔻Tybernicus: LOL
yet we are generations ahead of the tech of the 60s/70s and way ahead of Iran and the Houthis.
[this feels like Hegseth playing with the phone, or on himself or with one of scions of General Ripper]
🔻 WS: 🤦‍♂️ You posted a photo of a B-52 built in the 1950s.

Second-tier Iranian ballistic missiles blew right through American Patriot, THAAD, SM-3s, and Israel’s “Paper Dome”.

You are woefully misinformed.

If the US attempts an air campaign against Iran, they will lose many aircraft.
🔻 Jason: Hitting them [Houthis] is a waste of time. They should be hitting Iran hard
🔻 WS: You have no idea what you’re talking about.

Trying to make big war against Iran will become a disaster for the US and Israel, and anyone who believes otherwise knows nothing about 21st century warfare and the current power differentials between nations.
📜 Geography
📜 Scorch Marks in the Sand
🔻 Jason: Where the starting condition is peace I’d agree with you but Iran is waging war through its proxies. There is no point in bombing huts in Yemen. Its whack a mole with no end.

Iranian regime lacks popular support to wage war against Israel / US. Deal with Iran or don’t bother!
[the blood lust is so high up. Don’t bother trying to reason. The Fools bay for their own civilizational suicide, but do not comprehend. Alas, Babylon! After the Ashes….]
🔻 Nada Botski: Are you suggesting that we stop playing around and get serious ?
🔻 WS: I have no idea what that would look like.
🔻 Allen Bland: Marines landing and an incursion into sovereign Yemeni territory.
🔻 WS: What is the objective?

How many Marines do you imagine it would take to accomplish this objective?
🔻 Allen Bland: The objective would be another pointless land war in the Middle East. We’re better off using surgical strikes to eliminate HVTs.
⭕🔹 For anyone out there who believes the US can mount a ground invasion of Iran, I challenge you to describe an order of battle and a credible operational scenario.

🔹 For those who believe an air campaign alone will defeat Iran, describe for me a credible chain of events.
🔻 El Kinch: What’s Gaza about the size of New Jersey? They’ve obliterated it and haven’t won. Can you imagine trying to do the same to Iran? When will we learn we can’t defeat a determined foe with bombs? And very few Americans would ever agree to a land invasion with it’s mass casualties.
🔻 WS: Gaza is less than 2% the size of New Jersey.
🔻 C2: Would seem to me that war, winning, and conquering is not the goal, rather than just the goal being disabling their nuclear program in some fashion, (Though war may be a result).
🔻 WS: You’re describing a strategic air campaign.

Iran, if they have not already done so, could assemble a potent IRBM with a nuclear warhead in a matter of days.

How could the US possibly alter that reality?
🔻 DB Cooper: They wouldn’t even need to. I don’t think people have fully (or at all) digested what it means for Iran to be mass producing precision guided intermediate range ballistic missiles. The drones into Israel were a stunt; the missiles that rained down on Nevatim were the main show. It’s the most highly secure airspace on earth…and Iran lit it the fuck up.
🔻 CtHorseFarmer: Let alone a proven indefensible hypersonic missile capability. Not mentioning a vast deep underground military complex that would require systems the west does not have unless they go nuclear. BTW, Iran can stop 40% of the oil that leaves the Persian gulf. Think $500 per barrel oil and how that would affect the world economy.
🔻 hollowman777: MOAB bombs 24/7 for 3 months. After that send in the salvation army.
🔻 WS: The Pentagon has about a dozen MOAB bombs left in stock, and that represents multiple years of production.

They must be dropped by old, slow, highly vulnerable C-130 prop-driven cargo planes. Choose the missions wisely.
🔻 SP Solutions: First Wild Weasel SEAD. Then bomb all power plant transformers and transformer factories. All revolutionary guard bases. Offer large $$$ to first and second echelon Iranian military assets to change sides to a new secular government headed by the Shah. Activate cells in Iran for popular revolution. Have the pro revolution generals support the people
🔻 WS: Can I also interest you in these magic beans? |fistful|
🔻 SP Solutions: Every man has his price.
[in your part of the world…]
🔻 Toby Grainger: Then why not simply “buy” Yemen, instead of spending billions bombing it? 🤡
🔻 WS: It’s not for sale.
🔻 Xosh: At min 500k boots is needed for ground invasion, I doubt the US has half that number combat ready after Iraq and Afghanistan.
🔻 Andrew Tuohy: 🔹For those who think Iran can move oil past the red line without American permission, describe for me a credible scenario. |Yanqui wetdream|
🔻 WS: China imports over 90% of Iranian oil exports. Chinese warships will escort those shipments as necessary.

The “rules-based international order” is over. And, as for the imagined omnipotence of the US Navy, it can’t even open the Bab el-Mandeb.
🔻 Wasteinc: It seems a Sisyphian task to try to talk sense to people who deny themselves having any
🔻 WS: One day soon this Sisyphus will just shrug and walk away from it all — never once looking back.
🔻 Peter FvD: Given the necessary willpower is there the US has the capacity for both. Neither is necessary, though. Just step up support to the Iranian Opposition.
🔻 WS: reposts his older:
“The NATO vassals are effectively demilitarized at this point.

The US could not sustain high-intensity warfare against Russia or China for more than 6-8 weeks, at most. They would run out of PGMs in less than a month.”
📜 The Arsenal of Democracy Isn’t
🔻 HomoCuriosus: The Bundeswehr’s top command has officially admitted that the German Army possesses sufficient ammunition to sustain combat operations for merely one to two days. |source|
🔻 ®i_X™🔸: Only one target – The Supreme Leader.
Front the comfort of your air offence towards that one ‘ACER’, and no others nor any.
Target key infrastructure like the Nat and Ford facilities with bunker-busting munitions-GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator.
Mission-RAMROD 1.
Fly south.
🔻 WS: If the US attempts missile strikes in the heart of Iran, they will lose dozens of their strike platforms to AD missile interceptors over the course of the first attack. It will come as a great shock to many … but certainly not to me.
[but we shall have a Show for the Ages – even grander than the original Armada, and on air too…]
🔻 ®i_X™🔸: -Entry Points-
Southern Axis: Amphibious landings along the Persian Gulf coast near Bandar Abbas and Bushehr, supported by Marines and naval gunfire, to secure ports and oil facilities.
Western Axis: Cross-border offensive from Iraq, targeting Khuzestan province.
MAJOR TRAP. NO!
🔻 WS: Amphibious landings on the Iranian coasts would be savaged. They would end up being catastrophic debacles. They wouldn’t even attempt it because it is such a doomed mission.
[recall earlier video I shared of the sparsely settled coasts. It would be essentially a freefire killzone to hunt every freakin deranged nazi that dared wade or fly ashore]
🔻 GeoPolticsUSA: Very successful misssle campaigns would be required.
🔻 WS: With what missiles?

US missile stockpiles have been severely attrited, and production is embarrassingly minimal.
[God Bless mother Russia, the mountains and deserts of Yemen, and the urban hellhole of Gaza!]
🔻 Steve Precourt: Ballistically hammer the ports, airports, pipelines and power generation.
🔻 WS: What missiles are you talking about?

And what happens when the Iranians strike back with greater force than the US can send in the first place?

I don’t believe you’ve given this matter much attention and serious thought.
🔻 Franklin Richards: Israel already hit them recently and no retaliation. Just do it again but now destroy the nuke plants and weapons storage
🔻 WS: The Israelis operate on the principle that “If you can’t win a real war, win an imaginary one.” And it was their #ImaginaryWar narrative that was sold to western audiences, and you bought it unawares. The IAF strikes on Iran were a nothingburger served as filet mignon.
🔻 A Fair Word: The goal would be to wound Iran in a significant way, so more of a strategic air campaign that will have devastating effect on civilians (which is the US signature). Nuclear facilities, oil refineries, energy plants, ports, a lot of damage could be done unfortunately.
🔻 WS: C’è un abisso tra dire e fare.
🔻 Framed Mollusk: Ground? No way. Nuclear strikes? 100% certain
🔻 WS: I find it amazing that so many people seriously believe the US will launch nuclear strikes against Iran.

It would be the single greatest strategic blunder in American history. The US would become a pariah state, and the downstream consequences would destroy western civilization.
[Hello! There’s DeNile even in Utah… Gaza, and project Zion, already achieved that mission]
🔻 bordernick: Isn’t the death of western civilisation exactly what God’s chosen people want?
🔻 Iceberg Lady🇵🇸🌏 🌈🖤💛❤️NO WAR💧: USA is already a pariah state & has been for over a century. It’s only now that the world has woken up to the evil.
🔻 OLUMIDE: Decapitation strikes a la Lebanese Hezbollah – take out a bunch of leaders including the Ayatollah – then use “CIA” assets in leadership to destabilise – the aim isnt a frontal war but a destabilisation war.
🔻 WS: Silly talk.
🔻 WowInu: Hypothetical only: mass bombardment of all power plants, bridges, water treatment and gas infrastructure.

Followed up by an air/sea blockade and additional airstrikes on first responders.
[It ain’t hypothetical. This is the SOP of the bastards. And note how mass terrorism is the reflexive approach of even lemmings aping their “betters”. A diseased paradigm, top to bottom]
🔻 WS: If only Iran were the size of Israel or Gaza, and was not able to shoot back.
🔻 Anthony Brasi: Why bother with a ground invasion? Just bomb them from the face of the earth. Iran will be decimated. 😘
🔻 WS: Because they won’t shoot back, right? 🤦‍♂️

#NoEasyWarsLeftToFight
🔻 Kevin Johnson: How would the pentagon not have a few different war plans for Iran?! Duh it’s Iran. Don’t we pay people to plan this stuff out? Why all the lack of faith in our military. It’s the only part of the government I’m actually a huge fan of.
🔻 WS: The US military has not achieved a single strategic victory since 1945. The Pentagon is a black hole of incomprehensible waste and corruption. The flag officer ranks are overwhelmingly dominated by incompetent fools.

This is what you’re a fan of? 🤦‍♂️
🔻 @LoyalBoyWife🇩🇪 🇪🇺: >Destroys the Iranian air defense
>Weaken and decimate their military airports
>Bomb their ground and missile infrastructure into shit
>Destroy their remaining defense industry
>Bomb their military bases and storages

Well that’s about it and soon enough not a threat anymore 😘
[the mass hard-on is striking, and threatens to shatter my PC monitor from the other side of the aethereus cyberspace. Who was said religion is the opiate of the masses? Perhaps in the Last Godless Empire, it is the universal massacring and holocausting of continents that preserves their kinship ties and sense of civilizational purpose. What makes them get off the bunk in the mornings, with a “real” purpose in life, like zionazi aviators manning up for their daily “missions” above Gaza. Some cannot sleep well unless alotta brown folks are bleeding and being minced and incinerated. End-stage Empires..]
🔻 WS: You forget that the Iranians can strike back HARD, and keep striking back long after the US has run out their meager means to defend against it.

Deceived people believe things about the US military that are not true, and have never been demonstrated against a peer adversary.
🔻 kenny mugambo: What exactly do you mean by “the Iranians can strike back hard”? How exactly would they strike back?
🔻 WS: Iran has a HUGE inventory of first-rate strike missiles of various kinds: drone swarms, supersonic cruise missiles, IRBM, and IR hypersonic missiles. They also have the best IADS array in the entire region: better than the US, Israel, and their friends combined.
🔻 @LoyalBoyWife🇩🇪 🇪🇺: Wdym Iran can strike back, Isreal just lightly touching them already completely fucked up their air defense network.

Now imagine just a fraction of the USAF launching a longer and more continues operation against Iran actually abusing the holes punched into their AD
🔻 WS: You have been deceived by the propaganda narrative constructed to persuade people of falsehoods that never occurred in real life. Open your eyes and see what is really happening.
🔻 Eomar – Diligent News: Don’t let them go down this road!! |media|
🔻 WS: By they way, I’m going to steal your maps from this blog post. 😏
🔻 Israel is a terrorist state: Ground invasion through that Turkmenistan place, where all the isis people came from. My best guess.
[wrong guess. most ISIS are arab, berber or other turkic salafis, esp from Turkey, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and “East Turkestan”]
🔻 Israel is a terrorist state: They could also go through Jordan, and Syria, plus they have Israel, I think they’d have support from Qatar, UAE, and possibly Saudi Arabia. Iran is surrounded somewhat. Unfortunately.
[they can’t get through Syria easily, and hardly through Iraq at all. And even then, mountains, seas and deserts await. Assaulting Iran from outside is a no-go, and has been for almost all recorded human History, with a handful of exceptions, then rapidly reversed too]
🔻 WS: Logistics, logistics, logistics. Pull up Google Earth, display the terrain, play with the measurement tool. Geography is the god of war.
🔻 José Eduvigis Díaz: Night: Stealth bombers take out strategic defensive positions, navy uses destroyers and submarines to overwhelm their air defenses, Airforce strikes on coastline defenses. ( Preparing for a fake landing)
🔻 José Eduvigis Díaz: Early morning: Amphibious vehicles prepare for fake landing, Iran deploys defenses to the coastlines (Near border with Pakistan). Air strikes continue.
Morning: Marines retreat instead of landing. Armored divisions roll in from Turkey. Airborne infils to support the attack.
[take a good hard look at War Minister Hegseth. Understand he is the very equivalent of James Brudenell “Lord Cardigan” for this last Anglo iteration of the Last Satanic Empire]
🔻 WS: Silly talk.
🔻 José Eduvigis Díaz: Your rules were credble operations. I didn’t say this could be done overnight. Getting the tanks and troops into Turkey without them selling the US out would be very expensive, but it’s achievable. Landing like in Normandy is what they would think the US would do.
🔻 WS: reposts:
“Logistics, logistics, logistics. Pull up Google Earth, display the terrain, play with the measurement tool. Geography is the god of war.”
🔻 José Eduvigis Díaz: It seems that you actually don’t have a rebuke, because this reply is certainly not one, the US military can deploy a striking force capable of taking out a regular army in matter of days, the only slow step in my plan are the tanks, and you didn’t set up a time frame.
🔻 WS: It is impossible to make you understand how fantastical your propositions are because you fail to account for:

1. inherent US logistical constraints and lack of war-making materièl
2. the fact that Iranians can and will shoot back, early and often — they will attack staging areas and supply lines; they will attack and sink ships; they will routinely shootdown top-line US aircraft.

🔻 Alex Sachs: To compare an invasion into Iran with D-Day shows they understand nothing.
– June 44 Germany was defeated by the SU.
– They had to cross 20 miles from UK, an industrialized armed ally.
– They prepared it for years.
It’s really ridiculous.
🔻 Alexander Babayan: Air bomb Tehran to the ground.
🔻 WS: And suppose they shoot back — early, often, and hard.

Because they can. And they can continue shooting long after US magazine depth is exhausted.

#NoEasyWarsLeftToFight
🔻 _Terry456: Israel bombed iran with impunity last year and our air force is a lot bigger than Israel’s
🔻 WS: #TheImaginaryWar
🔻 deltree: they did a simulation in 2002 (millennium war games) of US vs iran/iraq, and the US lost constantly until the rules were changed enough so that they won. |link|
[I recall Orang 1.0’s tin-pot generals similarly begging Persia to be permitted optical bombing in retaliation for the humiliation of Ayn Al Assad Base missiling in Jan 2020 (itself retaliation for Soleimani’s doubly heinous murder, as both peace envoy and in Baghdad on explicit request by USA). They were told to FO. Is this what the lunatics are hoping for again?? To be given a fig leaf? How has Putin answered them wrt to “ceasefires”?]
🔻 WS: reposts older:
📜 Lessons Never Learned

As the collapse of the #MotherOfAllProxyArmies in Ukraine continues to accelerate, the #EmpireAtAllCosts ventriloquists are once again flapping a US president’s mouth to raise the spectre of war against Iran.
🔻 Sufesoj: hahaha damn will, your legitimately interesting proposition has brought out a whole troupe of delusional types, its kinda hard to “watch”
🔻 WS: Almost half a million views overnight, and literally THOUSANDS of bot accounts posting nonsense. I finally had to limit replies to people I follow because my mentions were overwhelmed with page after page of stupidity.
⭕ ‼️ Important Iran Maps

Geography is very meaningful.

(h/t @write_diligent) |media|
🔻 Koen: You see this? |media|
I take Alastair Crooke very seriously.

But of course I have no info about what is going on
[as much as I hate to say it, Prof Marandi, the Larrys, Crookes, Uncle Ray, et al are relics of a dead Order. Rational men who outlived their era. We are in the Maelstrom and in the mouth of madness. They cannot provide guidance for the horrors being birthed. None unversed in Eschatology, or the political ponerology of Barbaria Risen, can comprehend…]
🔻 WS: Yes, I watched this.
🔻 Santosh: Pretty sure there won’t be boots on the ground. They don’t even dare put boots on the ground in Yemen, nevermind Iran. It’ll be aerial bombing/decapitation attack, followed by stoking an internal revolution.
🔻 WS: reposts older:
“Because they won’t shoot back, right? 🤦‍♂️

#NoEasyWarsLeftToFight”
🔻 Abe_Ramos: Why do you think US will have boots on the ground in Iran?
🔻 WS: I don’t. I know very well it is a ridiculous fantasy. I have been writing on this topic for several years.

But clearly there are many people who believe it is something that could happen, just as many believed the US could fight and defeat Russia.

It’s madness.
🔻 Koko MaXImo: With terrain like that how are the cowboys gonna charge in?
🔻 SkipJackson: The West likes to ignore the realities of Iran and needs to pull its head out its butt.

Iran is a nation of 80 million. Its geography ranges from brutal deserts to snow-laden mountains, spanning an area the size of Alaska. Its beautiful topography, like both Northern and Southern California, has lush valleys and arid plains, and shares the same problems of drought and water strain. Iran influences freshwater flows to Iraq, but grapples with crippling shortages, worsened by declining rainfall. Nuclear power could drive its desalination plants to ease the crisis, though most still burn fossil fuels. An oil exporter, Iran has refineries but leans on imported gasoline and diesel due to outdated capacity.

Iran isn’t some small country that can’t fend for itself or feed its own people—Iran’s population outstrips Great Britain, France, Germany, and all European nations except Russia. It’s the third most populous nation in the Middle East. Conquering or colonizing Iran? That’d be a worse mistake than Afghanistan or Vietnam.
🔻 O Gato Bonito: Now overlay Yemen that we’ve been bombing since 2015 to no effect.
🔻 John Reddick: It is basically a giant version of Switzerland – a mostly mountainous garrison, easily defended from invasion.

No invasion possible, by anyone.
🔻 Ms. Susan: Geography is the tapestry that weaves the world together.

Cool image, Iran transposed over the Western part of the United States. Nearly covers half of America. Iran? HUGE country.

Geography puts life and politics into prospective, a subject which holds the key to our future.

🔻 Yasha: I believe Iran’s borders are one of the oldest ones in the region.
[in the history of the world]
🔻 Beto Ochoa: Looks like they hold the high ground no matter how you come at them.
🔻 3 Eyes: All those mountains…and valley of death after valley of death. Pray for peace
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: Accurate. This site is a good tool… |media|
🔻 SpremiteSedla: With topography like this, all Iranians need are the stones.

⭕ 🔶 Gold

I understand a great many people either lack an understanding of the historical role of gold in the world, or who believe that role is now anachronistic.

But gold knows things.

And now every dip is being bought, and it closed today with a spike to all-time highs.
⭕ My 2024 Year in Review is already aging well here in the early spring of 2025.
📜 Welcome to the Last World War

The incident of the USS Liberty they recount, and the watershed moment it heralded so soon after JFK’s public execution, and what it since meant for Anglo vs Zionazi relations, and for the entire combined West, is most timely. And that the Samson guns are aimed as much against Europe as against Persia, if not more so. Could our desperados in Europe be more afraid of Zion than Uncle Schmuel??

Just watch the first 3-5 min or so to see the pained admission. He states the obvious which can no longer be hidden. A seeming impasse was reached, if one believed the breathless and bombastic Orange narrative of “ceasefires”.

But that decision by Russkie had been made several years ago.. I recall an excellent article by MKB where he stated baldly after one momentous Russian Security Council meeting that the Russians had resolved to humiliate the combined West and create irreversible facts on the ground. That was ever the only practical response to worthless documents and words and the betrayal and aggression of centuries. To bury the bastards.

So, on January 21st, the head was briefly turned to peer at the next set of worthless bombast, but quickly averted again. And the Grinder never paused the essential work all the while. 5,000 years of Babylonia continues to burn beautifully and go up in smoke in our blessed rich, fat, and black soil of Novorossiya

💠 “Zelensky is a ‘demon’ – Ukrainian MP” 
☝️ so what can we say about our CokeHead’s bosses in London and DC and Geneva and Zion? Who has the power to run a plucky little demon on such a tight leash?

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇹🇷 Hundreds of thousands of people in Istanbul [Constantinople] demonstrated in support of arrested Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.
[pressure remains on our teflon Sultan]
⭕ 🇩🇰🇺🇸🇬🇱 The Danish foreign minister criticized the United States for its lack of respect, hours after Vice President J.D. Vance’s visit to a US military base in Greenland.

“Many accusations and allegations have been made. And, of course, we are open to criticism,” said Mr. Rasmussen. “But, to be honest, we don’t like the tone in which they are expressed.”

“This is no way to talk to close allies,” said the Danish foreign minister. “And I always consider Denmark and the United States to be close allies.”

Mr. Rasmussen said he accepted the US argument that it “needs a larger military presence in Greenland, as Vice President Vance mentioned tonight,” and that he was willing to discuss it.

“We, Denmark and Greenland, are quite willing to discuss this with you in a spirit of openness.

“The fact is, we have all reaped the benefits of peace. We all assumed that the Arctic was and should be an area of ​​low tension. But that time is over.
[so the arctic is to be an area of “high tension” and US militarization will increase. That’s the key message, not the abject serf squealing for the favor of lubricants]
⭕ Taiwan 🇹🇼 is considering banning Chinese students 🇨🇳 from departments sensitive to national security and competitiveness.
⭕ 🇮🇷 Parade of 3,000 Iranian military ships a few days ago. |media|

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ retweet:
“In Gaza, Almost Every IDF Platoon Keeps a Human Shield, a Sub-army of Palestinian Slaves” |link|
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Arya – آریا: 🇺🇸🇮🇷| Trump has threatened to bomb Iran on unprecedented levels and impose tariffs unless a deal is reached on Iran’s nuclear program.

If the world reaches an energy crisis, you can all go thank Trump for it, because one small mistake and we can all go queue at the gas stations.
[links older:
“🇮🇷| Iran’s Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei:

If they threaten us, we will threaten them back.

“The Americans are sitting behind their desks, changing the world map—but only on paper, with no reality behind it.

They talk about us, comment about us, express their views, and threaten us. If they threaten us, we will threaten them back; if they act on those threats, we will respond in kind.

If they threaten the security of our nation, we will certainly threaten their security. Without doubt, this behavior is learned from the Quran and commanded by Islam, and this is our duty. We hope Almighty God will grant us success in performing our responsibilities.”

(Not a new speech; this is posted as a reminder)” |media|]
[Have been busy.. apparently the Braindead Bombast has been breathin more Fire against Iran lately. It didn’t take well the Fuck Off response to the Iran letter]
⭕ If Israel launches another war on Lebanon, the resistance is fully prepared to engage. Any Israeli advance will be met with force. While the resistance does not seek escalation, it is ready to confront one—clearly, decisively, and without hesitation.

As long as Israeli violations of the ceasefire remain within limits the resistance deems tolerable, it will refrain from responding, standing behind the Lebanese government and calling on it to assume its national responsibility.

Regardless, the resistance is preparing for a broader campaign aimed at imposing reconstruction—without conditions and without paying any political price. This includes a firm rejection of US attempts to tie humanitarian recovery to normalisation with Israel.
⭕ The “peace president” has given Benjamin Netanyahu the green light to ethnically cleanse Gaza, is bombing Yemen on a daily basis, edging toward war with Iran, and wants to buy Greenland, annex Canada, and wreck Europe’s economy. Hard to imagine what the world would look like if he wasn’t a peace president.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ cont. thread:
🔹 For anyone out there who believes the US can mount a ground invasion of Iran, I challenge you to describe an order of battle and a credible operational scenario.

🔹 For those who believe an air campaign alone will defeat Iran, describe for me a credible chain of events.
🔻 WS: I find it amazing that so many people seriously believe the US will launch nuclear strikes against Iran.

It would be the single greatest strategic blunder in American history. The US would become a pariah state, and the downstream consequences would destroy western civilization.
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: One of the primary reasons why many respectable nations and individuals hold the Russians in high regard is the fact that they have never resorted to using nuclear weapons or threatening underequipped nations with such weapons, despite possessing the largest and most formidable nuclear triad and arsenal in the world, coupled with one of the most potent, battle-hardened, and combat-ready militaries for modern warfare.

In late 2024, it was widely anticipated that the Russians would resort to tactical nuclear weapons in response to the West’s enabling the AFU to attack targets deep within Internationally recognized Russian territory using Western weapons (and AFU drones) enabled by Western ISR and operated by Western personnel.

Instead, the Russians demonstrated a remarkable display of restraint, confidence, and strategic acumen by “testing” their Oreshnik “missile tree,” an entirely new class of hypersonic weapons, against an AFU industrial facility, among other legitimate and formidable measures.

This response was widely regarded, and deservingly so, as one of the most commendable actions taken by such a powerful state as the Russian Federation in response to one of the most, if not arguably the most, dangerous provocations.

Now, the U.S. government primarily — and indisputably — serves corporations, financial institutions, and the wealthiest individuals in American society, but the American people along with the people of the world are always watching.

If the U.S. government resorts to nuclear weapons, especially against a non-nuclear-armed nation, it should not only lead to the demise of the U.S. government and economy but, more importantly, it should bring the demise of the corporations, financial institutions, and the oligarchs it serves. |media|
🔻 BenLayZenji: I fully agree with your second paragraph. My concern is that sometimes I suspect that there is NOTHING so stupid and evil that our imperial overlords won’t consider it. Even this. So, I keep my fingers crossed.
🔻 Centu_rion: Also, any country possessing nukes would lead with nukes into a future war with the United States, knowing that they can expect the same back. This would simultaneously trigger a race by the rest of the world for nukes. If this happens each minor skirmish would be a global killer
🔻 Rod Miller: The trouble with C’mon-the-US-would-never-do-anything-That-stupid reasoning is the way it has repeatedly failed to predict reality in the past quarter century.
🔻 Devon Eriksen: If you understand warfare, you don’t just use a term like “defeat” without digging in further.

That’s because you might go to war for many different reasons, and these imply many different operational goals.

What makes it a war in the first place is that someone is opposing that operational goal. The definition of victory is to achieve that goal despite that opposition.

If the goal is to cripple, say, a single production facility that produces something you don’t want produced, a single aerial strike can possibly achieve this.

If the goal is to overthrow a sitting government and replace it with an entirely new regime, air strikes, and even ground invasion are generally insufficient, and occupation is usually required, unless a covert approach is viable.

Since none of the arguments below the quoted post even agree on what the goal of such a campaign would be, much less on the means, the entire discussion simply disintegrates into a kindergarten level of discourse over who can beat up who.

The US military-industrial complex is actually a very effective ass-kicking machine… but it doesn’t want to be.

Because if you win wars, you have to stop fighting.

And if you stop fighting, you stop having a visible public excuse to do what the real modern purpose of the military-industrial complex is: to transfer public tax funds into private pockets, and to advance the careers of politicians and upper-echelon military officers.

So, if the purpose of a system is what it does, then the function of the US military is not to win wars, but to stalemate them for as long as they remain profitable to those in charge.

It accomplishes this by one of two means.

The first is to enter into armed conflict without a clear operational goal. You cannot achieve victory if you cannot define victory.

The second is to select operational goals that are not achievable by any means the armed forces possess. Winning the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese people is not a military objective.

This is why the modern US military doesn’t win wars.

However, it would be a mistake to assume that the modern US military cannot or could not win wars.

While the vast majority of US military tools and capabilities are designed for the purpose of being expensive and profitable to build, they are also designed for the purpose of appearing to work for their ostensible purpose.

And in many — not all, but many — cases, the simplest means of appearing to work is actually working.

United States air power absolutely can blow up an astonishing amount of shit.

US main battle tanks absolutely can defeat any other armored vehicle on the planet, when they are employed in the manner that tanks actually work — advancing in a group, at speed, shooting anything that looks vague suspicious, or alive at all, rather than sitting around on a street corner waiting to be ganked by irregulars.

What complicates all of this is the aircraft carriers. The way the US employs aircraft carriers is critical to its whole philosophy of global force projection and empire maintenance. They serve as a sort of mobile military base, allowing formidable US air power to blanket most of the globe without maintaining US air bases in hostile territory, where they are vulnerable on the ground and must be protected by occupation troops.

This all helps cover up their real purpose of being a career fast-track for top navy brass.

The problem is, we have exited the era of fortress battleships, and entered the era of cheap, plentiful drones and missiles.

Which means that modern navies have precisely two types of craft: Submarines, and targets.

It is not, in other words, the era of putting all your eggs in one basket.

Despite being targets, surface ships are still viable in certain ways, but when offense technology becomes cheap, powerful, and accurate, the appropriate response is to spread out vulnerable assets.

Oh, valiant efforts have been made to secure aircraft carriers, or at least to spend lots of money appearing to address the issue.

And I’m sure I will receive a great number of rather breathless responses about the astonishing (and expensive) capabilities of CIWS.

But I’m not a sailor. I’m an engineer, and therefore I tend to ask uncomfortable questions like “capabilities compared to what, exactly?”

An offensive drone or missile, or what have you, has the task of hitting a ship, which is a large, slow moving target. An defensive interceptor has the task of hitting the faster-moving drone or missile.

Well, precision costs. Which means that the first system is ipso facto cheaper than the second. Which means that it’s easier to throw more of them, making the defense problem harder still.

All other things being equal, active defense systems must outspend attackers by at least an order of magnitude, usually several.

But all other things are not equal, are they? The US can indeed outspend attackers by many orders of magnitude, and since the real purpose of the US military is to spend money, this is not considered a bug but a feature.

No one in the loop has any incentive to say, “Hey, guys, what if we replaced these expensive gilded dreadnoughts with a whole bunch of cheap, lightly manned ships carrying attack drones?” or any number of other alternate solutions to this problem.

And it’s all well and good to outspend the enemy and maintain the upper hand, but as technology trends towards missiles and drones getting cheaper and better, the problem is that you don’t necessarily know exactly when you have reached the tipping point and your antimissiles and phalanx guns are no longer adequate to what you are going to face.

After all, remember that there are always more rabbits than cats and foxes. That’s because the cat or fox only needs to be faster once, while the rabbit must be faster every time.

This is why rabbits breed like rabbits. Instead of putting all their DNA in one basket.

So…. can any regional power win an all-out war of destructive power with the United States?

Short answer, no.

Long answer, nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Can regional powers embarrass the United States by sinking an aircraft carrier?

Maybe.

And in the future, definitely yes.

Which brings us back to the question of, in any hypothetical future conflict, what operational goals would the US and Iran have?
🔻 WS: I concur with parts of your analysis, and perceive fallacies in other parts — most predicated on a lack of knowledge regarding the serious limitations of US force projection and sustainment capability.

I will reply from my archive:
📜 Staggering Towards the Abyss
📜 Magazine Depth and Shields
🧵 Empty Quiver
📜 The Arsenal of Democracy Isn’t
📜 The Fleeting Mirage of Imagined Supremacy
🔻 Matthew Dodd: “Peer adversary” is doing a bunch of work in this summary.
🔻 WS: Russia, China, Iran.
🔻 WS: 🔸 Denial of Service Bots and Viral Threads

I consistently hate it when I inadvertently spawn a viral thread. It almost always ends up being a royal pain in the ass.

Now, first of all, the post linked was obviously not understood how I meant it. That’s on me.

Very few people took it as an invitation to really think about how these things could actually be done.

Naturally most people don’t understand the true nature of the military / geostrategic / logistical / geopolitical equations at work.

Most people on the planet are hopelessly entranced by the myth of American military supremacy and the attendant assumption that all the other major powers are incompetent fools operating technically inferior equipment, and who could not possibly possess asymmetric advantages capable of exploiting American military weaknesses.

Those fallacies are objectively evident if one actually measures and weighs the factors at work. But, of course, only an infinitesimal fraction of people have the time and the inclination to undertake such an endeavor. And, of those, only a small fraction correctly interprets the information they are able to gather.

And that is perfectly understandable.

The bottom line is that the post went viral, attracted a bunch of boiler plate “The Imperial Legions are the greatest military in world history. We kick ass and take names!” comments, and then was utterly assaulted by hundreds of what I have come to recognize as “Denial of Service Bots”.

I can’t possibly weed them all out, but I try to for a while, and then just close the thing off to comments. At least for a few days. The autistic part of me abhors cluttered chaotic threads.

I am convinced the DoS Bots are some sort of crudely contrived suppression device, whether by 𝕏 itself, or by exogenous entities who simply do a variation on the porn bot gambit in order to muddy the waters of something they desire to obfuscate, for whatever reasons they may have.

So be it.

Anyway, that’s all I have to say about that.
🔻 DB Cooper: They wouldn’t even need to. I don’t think people have fully (or at all) digested what it means for Iran to be mass producing precision guided intermediate range ballistic missiles. The drones into Israel were a stunt; the missiles that rained down on Nevatim were the main show. It’s the most highly secure airspace on earth…and Iran lit it the fuck up.
🔻 WS: The post hoc #ImaginaryWar narrative has inverted the efficacy and impressiveness of the second Iran strike and the first Israeli strike. But every dispassionate observer of those events knows the real score. The IRGC missile force is a serious contender and peer adversary. The jury is still out in relation to the Israeli stand-off missiles — and first-rate satellite imagery was never released, and therefore we were left with prejudiced analysts advancing dubious opinions based on low-res images of blown up shacks and scorch marks in the sand.

This much is undeniably true: the Israeli command was exceedingly chagrined as first reports from the strike filtered in. Something clearly didn’t go as planned, and they were not at all happy about whatever it was. Maybe we’ll see another exchange some time soon. If so, I expect a bigger show than those seen hitherto.
🔻 Michael Cohen: The entire country need not be dealt with; just the Islamic leadership.
🔻 WS: The belief that the US can surgically remove “just the Islamic leadership” and effect some kind of regime change according to its own dictates is 100% unadulterated delusional silly talk.
⭕🔻 ₦₳V𝚜𝚝é𝚟𝚊 🇷🇺 ᴢ:
A week or so ago, all the doomers here were saying Putin had betrayed Russia, that he was weak etc., for agreeing to a Black Sea ceasefire (even though the deal was beneficial to Russia). Now that Putin has said Russia was going to “finish off Ukraine” they’ve shut up – for the moment.

They’ll be back. 😉
🔻 WS: I will note I have never yet expressed such doomer doubts. 😏
reposts older:
“‼️ New Status Quo

Since the Putin/Trump phone chat several days ago, at least two things have become indelible:

– the Russians are dictating the terms of capitulation in the failed NATO proxy war in Ukraine;

– Russia and China are in close coordination and are indivisible.”
🔻 WS: 📜 Dictating Terms
🔻 ₦₳V𝚜𝚝é𝚟𝚊 🇷🇺 ᴢ: I remember those Will. You were right.
🔻 Olga Bazova: Staying true to your convictions is a rare quality nowadays
⭕ 🔸 As I often note, the inhabitants of the so-called “western democracies” are, with precious few exceptions, the most misinformed and most easily and thoroughly propagandized people in human history.

#EmpireOfPsyops
#EmpireOfLies
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🔻 karma: “USAID paid Time magazine $4 million to name Zelensky “Person of the Year”

Bribing the media to brainwash Americans with their own taxes…

What an embarrassment” |media|]
[how much did Kissinger and O’Bomber’s agents pay the Nobel cabal? Or did the smarter Europeans of those eras award them to avoid being the next Lunch?]
🔻 Börjesson: Funny, the way you uncritically repeat a debunked lie and use it to claim others are misinformed … 😄
🔻 WS: Is it debunked? So be it. Happens all the time. That’s part of the process. It is certainly the type of thing that could be true in the context of the USAID nonsense.

Nonetheless, my statement remains true.

Oh, and good to see you, buddy. Haven’t seen hide nor hair of you in quite a long while. 😏
🔻 Alex Sachs: The point is not whether it’s true or not.
The point is that everyone believes it could be true.
Why oh why?
🔻 The Surgeon: Waking up is hard. We’ve all been there
🔻 Tony TT: Do you really think that air power alone can beat Iran?

Look at Ukraine, Russia has used 1000s of missiles/drones for 3 years, and still there parts of Ukraine that are almost untouched.

And Iran is even bigger than Ukraine with harder terrain to bomb.
🔻 WS: Yes, and note well the Russians learned early that their own crewed aircraft were acutely vulnerable to even the Soviet-era Ukrainian air defense systems. They therefore made it a priority to destroy all of it with stand-off weapons, and use glide bombs for shorter-range strikes.
⭕ Speaking of boilerplate propaganda narratives …
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🔻 Gerald Wu: “Why would we do either?

The Iranian people allegedly do not support their oppressive government.

If this is true, the U.S. and Israel just need to destabilize the Iranian military and government enough to allow the people to rise up.

Once uprising starts, the U.S. could offer assistance to the Iranian resistance.”]
🔻 Yasha: Some idiot said the same thing about Iraq.
🔻 Hala: يمكنك المحاولة ولكن النتائج غير مضمونة وقد تكون كارثيّة على كل شيء مرتبط بأميركا في المنطقة.
🔻 Cig: We need to send all the boomers to Israel.
🔻 #BlueMAGAisAcultJustLikeMAGA: Fuck you and you’re lying ilk.
🔻 #BlueMAGAisAcultJustLikeMAGA: Hey dipshit…ALLEGEDLY
how about you find out what the facts are before you promote USAID regime change?
🔻 Elydia35: good lord, you people are so fkg stupid — it’s like your only understanding of geopolitics comes from video games and Hollywood movies. You’re like 10 yrs old, what a moronic post. You’re embarrassing.
🔻 S W 🦉: They’re gonna dust off the Dick Cheney Classic
[posts the leading quote from Vice (his actual Dubyian nickname, and used as a pun, like “Turd Blossom” to name another leaking scumbag)]
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: This fantasy keeps doing the rounds everywhere. All we have to do is kill Putin or Iran’s leadership, or Hamas’s or Hezbollah’s, and the whole thing will come crashing down. They think they can make wishes and will them into happening.
⭕ Speaking of boilerplate propaganda narratives … |media|
⭕ 🧵 Kramatorsk / Slavyansk

I have mused multiple times in the past that the likely first objectives of any “big arrow” Russian offensive will be to liberate Kramatorsk and Slavyansk.

We may have finally arrived at that point in time. |THREAD|
[I doubt there will be a big arrow. Geopolitics, the timeline to cook pirozhki, need to save Russkies not having any babies, etc etc – all dictate the continued successful and efficacious Grind which suffices against all nazis in all seasons]
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: Always presumed they would flow around the big cities. Keep their logistics under close fire control and attrit in the field until collapse.
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: It all started in Kramatorsk and Slavyansk. There is no way this ends without them being liberated!
⭕ 🎸 Lives in the Balance

I like to post this song two or three times a year. Now seems apropos. |THREAD|
⭕‼️ And herein lies a prime example of geostrategic imbecility.

Russia and China could not care less if the US wants to annex Greenland. All they care about is for the US to get out and stay out of the Russian and Chinese spheres of influence.

The brief unipolar moment is over.
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🔻 Joey Mannarino: “Let’s be clear here about Greenland.

China wants Greenland.

Russia wants Greenland.

Trump wants Greenland so Russia or China do not get Greenland.

If Russia gets Greenland, they could nuke America within a few hours.

This is geopolitics. Simple minded liberals don’t understand.”]
🔻 Brian McDonald: Hate to break it to you, but Russia doesn’t need Greenland to nuke the U.S.—they can already do it from a submarine in 15 minutes. This isn’t 1962.
🔻 Amir Harati: I think they like the idea for several reasons including setting a precedent and also creating some issue with EU
🔻 Scotland Today Online: They could use a loitering Poseidon. It would be less than 30 minutes.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 tgnlnv:
They are making regular racetracks with impunity. The only major loss was Moskva. 2 small landing craft sunk in 22. BDK-46 and Saratov have since been raised for repairs. BDK-64 is the only Ropucha permanently lost. Other than a rescue tug, no other losses.

The Russian BSF still operates out of Sebastopol, Russian Merchant Marine freely operates in the Black Sea, while the Ukrainian Navy died in Port without even trying to contest the sea lanes, and the Ukrainians ability to launch intermittent attacks has been destroyed.

By any metric, Russia won the battle for the Black Sea. I don’t know in what reality you reside, but it’s bet to come back to the real world measured by actual results.
[in response to:
🔻 Analytica Camillus: “The Black Sea fleet (what’s left of it that is) is terrified of leaving Rostov, and most of their new vessels are piddly-shit corvettes. Lol, pretty sure they’re still sitting in a hull count deficit from the beginning of 2022.

It’s true that Russia has more icebreakers, but that’s because the majority of their coastline is Arctic.”]
🔻 Ikkyu Sojun: Russia controls the Black Sea, and those denying it are ignoring the facts.

Ukraine’s navy stayed docked and decayed, never challenging Russia, while the Black Sea Fleet operates freely.

Ukraine’s occasional attacks have been stopped.

Russia’s not struggling.

It’s winning by every measure.

The Western claim of a ‘scared fleet’ is fiction for the gullible.

Control defines reality, and Russia has it.
[make this guy the next governor of the Kuriles. He gets it]
🔻 Nexus Six: The Moskva was not a major loss. It was old and scheduled for decomissioning
[but it was Flag ship of the Black Sea Flota and damn beautiful. Scores remain to be kept with Limeys on Iron Ledgers, that’s for sure]
🔻 Tokoloshe: They live in BBC land. Where shots are safe and effective, carbon taxes and 15 minute cities increase your freedom and Ukraine has won the war 7 times over already.

⭕ 🤦‍♂️ This ongoing Thang / Ritter bout should have ended by TKO in the first round.

The thing that must be understood above all, however, is that Scott Ritter is not some anomalous voice. The Trump 47 admin (and much of the MAGA realm) is filled to the brim with this mentality.
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🔻 Sony Thang:
“[Scott Ritter: “I’ve had an interesting exchange about the Vietnam War. You know, we could have ended that instantly. And there were plans to do so. Nuke Hai Phong. Nuke Ha Noi. War’s over. Ends instantly. We didn’t—because we made a decision that that’s not in our best interest, that that’s not the right direction to go. But we didn’t not do that because we were afraid of anything. We made it because it was the right decision.”]

Scott, thank you for that unfiltered glimpse into the heart of Western imperial psychology.

It’s always chilling—and useful—when the mask slips.

So now we have it, in your own words:

The United States considered nuking Vietnam.

Not as a last resort.

But as an option.

A plan.

A thing placed calmly on the table like a napkin.

Hai Phong. Ha Noi.

Cities full of children, women, and elders.

You say, “We didn’t do it—not because we were afraid—but because we decided it wasn’t in our best interest.”

Not morally wrong.

Not a war crime.

Just not convenient.

That’s all your conscience can offer: cost-benefit analysis.

And you still think Iran is the threat?

Let me explain something as simply as possible, since clarity seems to elude you despite your obsession with charts and doctrine:

The fact that America had plans to commit nuclear genocide against a people fighting for their own land—and only backed off because it wasn’t strategically “optimal”—doesn’t make you disciplined.

It makes you monstrous.

And now, you drag that same mindset into this century, repeating the same delusion: that nuclear annihilation is always on the table, just waiting for the right justification.

Iran, this time.

Always someone else.

Always another “outlaw nation.”

But never you.

You even try to dress this madness in legal ritual: Chapter 7 resolution, congressional authority, existential threat.

You think if you baptize war crimes in procedure, they’ll come out clean.

But here’s the truth, Scott:

The U.S. never needed a nation to “self-identify” as an existential threat.

It creates them.

Manufactures them.

Then nukes them—if not physically, then economically, diplomatically, psychologically.

You did it to Vietnam.

You’re trying it with Iran.

And now, the world is watching—and I hope, finally, the world sees.

Not just the hypocrisy.

But the sickness.

Because what you’ve described isn’t defense.

It’s pathology.

It’s empire so obsessed with control that it views any refusal to kneel as grounds for annihilation.

You speak of restraint, but what you really mean is the luxury of pacing your violence.

You speak of justice, but what you really mean is the theater that precedes the bombing.

And you speak of America’s right to destroy nations if they cross a threshold—but what you’ll never admit is that the only real threshold is independence.

You know why you didn’t nuke Vietnam, Scott?

Because deep down, you knew it wouldn’t kill us.

Not really.

Not spiritually.

And that’s what still haunts you.

That’s what haunts all of empire.

You can bomb cities.

You can poison rivers.

But you cannot kill the will of a people who’ve looked death in the eye and kept walking.

Iran has that will now.

And you know it.

So keep talking about nukes.

Because every time you do, the world sees the truth more clearly:

The greatest threat to humanity isn’t Iran.

It’s the system you serve.

The logic you defend.

The dead-eyed doctrine you recite.

And the fact that you still don’t realize this?

That’s what makes you dangerous.

But also—inevitable in your own collapse.”]
🔻 Maryam Khm: That’s what Rittre have said? Unbelievable , seems like Some Americans really don’t recognise other nations as human as themselves
🔻 Sony Thang: Start watching from 47:07. |media|
🔻 Animal Sculptures: I think Scott was just saying it how it was and is an ugly reality maybe they didn’t nuke Vietnam because they would have been seen as the bad guys and the whole world would have united against them along with Russia and China who knew they are next
🔻 Sony Thang: Look at his eyes. They don’t lie.
🔻 Bishara Paul: I am glad you watched and reacted to the interview. Your reply is truly admirable. Did you see his interview with George Galloway?

He basically admitted to his war crimes murdering people and saying he was contritious. And because he was it is okay. |media|
🔻 Sony Thang: Yes, I watched it. And thanks again for pointing out the other one.

I wrote the reply last night, but didn’t post it right away—maybe a flicker of compassion after days of hammering him.

But I came back to the same truth: it was never just him. It was empire speaking through him.

That’s why I posted it.
🔻 Will Anders: Sony, stop wasting your time and outstanding talent on this immoral apologist for the monstrous USA. Whatever the reason for his turnaround, he’s ceased to be a respectable authority, like many others since Trump’s comeback.
🔻 Sony Thang: I hear you. But he’s not the end goal.

Empire is.

He just happens to be its mouthpiece today.
⭕ ‼️ “Terminating Nations”

Scott Ritter genuinely believes the United States has “the capacity to terminate nations”. The context is the “termination” of Iran as a nation.

Ritter and a great many others in this country fail to appreciate that Iran is a civilizational state. Its power and influence have ebbed and flowed over the millennia, but it is now ascendant, and it has developed substantial “hard power” capabilities over the course of the past three decades.

Meanwhile, US hard power capabilities have significantly eroded over the course of the past three decades.

Consequently, US military capabilities are vastly overestimated in the context of a putative war against Iran.

I am convinced the US does NOT have the capacity to “terminate” Iran as a nation. The US undoubtedly has the capacity to inflict substantial murder, mayhem, and destruction — but not without substantial and irreversible costs to itself.

No, Iran is not nearly as powerful as are Russia and China. A US war against Russia and/or China would end in utter catastrophe for the Americans.

But, as I have argued for a few years now, if the Americans opt to make war against Iran, the US military will suffer the most significant setbacks seen since WW2, and it will set in motion a series of domino events that will massively degrade all aspects of US power around the world.

I believe it will also set in motion a sequence of domestic events that will likely result in the balkanization of the United States over the course of the next decade.

Hopefully saner heads will prevail in Washington … but my doubts on this point continue to deepen.

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and National Unity leader Benny Gantz have attacked the government over its policy on Houthi missile launches, saying Tehran should pay the price.

“When the Houthis, Iran’s terrorist wing, attack Israel, Israel must respond to Tehran,” Bennett said. “Iran is the one funding, arming, training, and leading the Houthis. Iran has a lot to lose; the Houthis have much less.”
[keep in mind, these are the ostensible “saner” opposition to the current messianic madmen. Biden’s gang openly courted Gantz to replace Nutty, and Bennett served as mediator in 2022 between Russia and 404, convincing the Cokehead to exit his bunker after months]

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇹🇷According to the most conservative estimates, around 2 million people are taking part in the protests in Turkey.

The protesters are no longer demanding the release of the opposition politician (Erdogan’s main competitor), but the holding of early elections!!!

It is becoming increasingly difficult for Erdogan to maintain his power.

In his latest speeches he is noticeably nervous. He calls the protesters either deceived or traitors. |media|
⭕ 🇺🇦🇺🇸Ukraine expects the US and Europe to react to Russia’s strikes, Zelensky said.

He said that most of Ukraine’s regions had been under attack for a week. The Russians had launched 1,310 guided air bombs, more than 1,000 attack drones, most of them “Shaheds,” and nine more missiles of various types, including ballistics.
⭕ 🇨🇳🇺🇸Chinese authorities have stopped a deal under which the American investment fund Black Rock would have bought two Chinese ports on the Panama Canal.

This is reported by CNN. The signing was planned for next week. Black Rock was going to buy out the controlling stake of Hong Kong company CK Hutchison, which has a stake in 43 ports around the world.

But now the buyout has been blocked by China’s antitrust authorities.

The Black Rock deal was seen as a “way to ease tensions in the region” after Trump threatened to take the Panama Canal away from the US. He later praised the deal.

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇮🇷🇺🇸🇹🇷🇸🇦🇶🇦🇧🇭🇦🇪🇸🇾🇮🇶🇰🇼🇮🇱🇯🇴 An Iranian official openly threatens to strike all US bases in the Middle East and the countries hosting them: “When the time comes, it doesn’t matter if you are an American, British, or Turkish soldier—you will be targeted if your base is used by the Americans.”

A senior Iranian military official, quoted by The Telegraph, claims that Iran will target the Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean in response to any US attack on Iran: “There will be no distinction between British and American forces if Iran is attacked from a base in the region or within range of Iranian missiles.”
[ok it sounded good, until I read “The Telegraph” part. A vicious limey rag absolutely lacking any access to “senior Iranian military officials”. A new Pearl Harbor type incident may be shaped by the industrious…]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇨🇳 The United States now considers China its only threat and the defense of Taiwan its top priority.

Everything else is secondary, according to a leaked Pentagon strategy document obtained by the Washington Post.
[absolute lies. All mankind, those truly independent especially, and the very Cosmos is a living threat to the deranged demented degenerates]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇯🇵 U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. military has begun transitioning its operations in Japan into a new “warfighting” command, underscoring the Trump administration’s focus on China as the primary security challenge.

The United States and Japan will strengthen defense coordination, with Japan increasing its defense spending and the United States pledging to remain engaged in the region.
Bloomberg!
[Does the transitioning involve high doses of synthetic estrogen, artificial boobs, botox into strategic areas, adaptive colorful wardrobes, and professional courses on applying cosmetics?
NB. the emphasis on the word “War” – as the very capability to meaningfully wage it against those who count withers on the vine. The same crusader is renaming the “DoD” back to the “War” Dep or somesuch. The shitshow is on volume 11 henceforth, to compensate with color, tone, single masculine gender, and sheer volume]
⭕ 🇮🇷🇺🇸 US President Donald Trump threatened Iran with bombing and secondary tariffs on Sunday if Tehran failed to reach an agreement with Washington on its nuclear program.

“If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing,” Mr. Trump said in a telephone interview with NBC. “But it’s possible that if they don’t make a deal, I’ll impose secondary tariffs on them, just like I did four years ago.”

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇾🇪🇺🇸| Earlier today, a senior Yemeni governmental source told Al-Mayadeen:

The Yemeni Armed Forces targeted the E2 command & control early warning aircraft of the US aircraft carrier Harry S Truman.

The official says that the aircraft carrier has lost its command, and the Pentagon are investigating the issue.

Please note that this was not officially announced by Yahya Sarae.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s most likely strike-option for Diego Garcia:

The Khorramshahr-4 MRBM, with a warhead of up to 1,500 kg, can travel distances well over 4,000 km if stretched to its maximum potential.

Although Iran has publicly stated the missile’s range at 2,000 km maximum, it is well known that it can reach much further than that.

It can feasibly reach 4,000 km range even without reducing its warhead size, by using its maneuvering stage for extended range instead of evasive maneuvers, due to a lack of dense air defenses at Diego Garcia.
[they also got some fat shahed drones that can travel 4,000 kms. And containers on shippers like analogues of the Russkie Club-K Container Missile System, and subs that can release drones near the island. Plenty options to disable the runways/facilities. Even easier for the 50+ bases surrounding Iran at point blank range. The issue is not capability or reach, but a decision tree waiting to be walked by the first domino of aggression]
⭕ The Yemeni Armed Forces have announced that they attacked the USS ‘Harry S. Truman’ aircraft carrier and its accompanying warships three times in the past 24 hours.
⭕ The small rockets launched some days ago from Lebanon into Israel were fired by a group of Syrians inside Lebanon, and they have been arrested by the Lebanese security forces
[so they likely added to their criminality of not defending their people! Were these patsies rounded up by the compradore criminals of the Lebanese gov to try to remove the targeting sights on themselves?? It only takes one to start a war, so this will not fool Zion, who likely engineered the FF. Let’s watch for more FFs incidents used to justify more leveling of Beirut. What of the apartment blocks and lives already demolished?! Neither side needs these cowardly compradores..]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇷🇺📹 The Russian military shows Sputnik a captured US-made armored vehicle called Oshkosh, which is a replacement for the famous Hummer, used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The vehicle, worth half a million dollars, was destroyed by two FPV drones, which cost around $470, a Sputnik correspondent reported. |media|

i have tech issues, once Amarynth gets the audio working, I have a very interesting post by old comrade I’ve followed since 1990s, the Rev Mark Dankof, who used to live in Iran in 1970s as a kid. I shared an old anecdote on the Cafe by his beady-eyed dad, a US Air Force Col that iirc used to do logistics for the Shah – he read the tea leaves by the mafia-run American football racket and understood the Jets would beat the heavily favored Colts in Super Bowl III. Anyway, he’s inherited or learned unique PoV on geopolitics and Iran, and himself writes on Christian Eschatology. He’s up in arms over the crusader Hegseth, whom he calls Temple Mount Hegseth. He’s just been invited to Tehran a few days ago by the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman (along with Ritter, Macgregor and others), who’s personally interviewed him in the past. Dankof is a regular on PressTV and all things Persian for the three decades I’ve read his sincere work.. up soon

There’s the typical “Iran, Iran, Iran” meme, as if no other has ingenuity, knowledge, or mind of their own, but this video still highlights how Yemen bristles with missiles. One of most armed peoples on earth, and this has been in their DNA for eons. Tthey’re always tinkering with old weaponry and making do, and adapting and learning from each battle. Pity the corn-fed lads!

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ The WHO has proposed cutting its budget by a fifth following the US decision to withdraw, and must now reduce its scope and staff, its director-general has said.
[Wow. After USAID, CIA, FBI, it appears all the criminal fronts are being curtailed. what days]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Iranian military cargo flights to Venezuela, likely moving missiles and drones

This plane was previously involved in arms shipments to Sudan, and was recently denied entry into Lebanon.
⭕ The current buildup at Diego Garcia airbase in the Indian Ocean:

• 7 B-2 ‘Spirit’ stealth bombers
• 8 B-52H ‘Stratofortress’ bombers
• 7 Boeing C-17 ‘Globemaster’ lll
• 10 Boeing KC-135 ‘Stratotankers’
• 1 P-8A ‘Poseidon’

These are the numbers that are confirmed, and they are conservative estimates. This is an UNPRECEDENTED amount of air power concentrated in a single location.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ The U.S. Embassy in Yemen wished Yemenis a happy Eid Al-Fitr as American forces conducted large-scale bombing of the capital, Sana’a.
[and the trumpet of the Moshiach recently hosted a breaking of the daily Ramadan fast ceremony at the Orange House, just before launching the Last Drang to holocaust some 500M arabs and persians. Unbelievable. One almost regrets to be alive to witness such demonic days]
⭕ 🇮🇷 Ayatollah Khamenei also held a speech after the Eid Prayer

He talked about Ramadan, its importance, the ongoing massacres in Palestine, Lebanon and Yemen, the state of the Islamic World.

He stated that if the United States or any enemy attacks Iran, it will receive a severe response, and that the Zionist regime must be annihilated, as it is a cancerous and fake entity.

During his speech, Ayatollah Khamenei held an SVD ‘Dragunov’ rifle, which he was trained to use in the Iran-Iraq war during the 1980’s
⭕ 🇮🇷 Millions of worshippers came to the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad for offering the Eid Al-Fitr Prayer |media|
[This is just one Iranian city. Most major cities were as teeming. Persia is not gonna be subverted successfully, like any of the other serious civilizational-states. Nuke or Kneel time. And both avenues lead to Game Over for the lunatic Antagonists of All]
⭕ ❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi: ‘If Trump thinks he can intimidate Iran, he is wrong. Iran won’t allow anyone to address it using the language of force, and we do not bow to threats’
⭕ 🇮🇷 🇮🇷 Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh, Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Forces:

‘The United States has around 10 [major] military bases in our region, with approximately 50,000 troops.

This means they are sitting in a glass house, and those who sit in a glass house should not throw stones.’
[this is the commander of the missiles and drone fleets that induced the Ayn Al Assad headaches and forced the defeated deeper into delusion and escapism with Operations True Promise I and II. And he correctly stated Iran has little to fear from external aggressors (save a murder-suicide), and to focus on the internal polity and economy.]
⭕ Al-Qassam Brigades first operation since resumption of the Gaza war:

‘On 29/03, our Mujahideen blew up an Israeli tank with a pre-prepared explosive device, during an operation near the dividing line, and we bombed the area with a number of mortar shells east of the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.’
⭕ ❗️🇮🇷 🇮🇷 BREAKING: The IRGC Navy announces that it has seized two foreign oil tankers in the Persian Gulf

The vessels are reportedly ‘STAR 1’ and ‘VINTAGE’, and are being redirected to the port of Bushehr.
⭕ 🇮🇷 🇮🇷 UPDATE: The seizure of the vessels is reportedly due to oil smuggling, this is likely not a political or military action

‘STAR 1’ is Panama-flagged and does business mainly with Iranian companies and ports. ‘VINTAGE’ is still unknown.
[as we discussed recently, most “shadow-fleets” operate to the benefit of the Anglo-Zionists. Iran has periodically stopped these pirate ships, shamelessly taking oil from Iraq/UAE to Zion in broad daylight. Some of that oil was stolen & smuggled overland from Syria on convoys protected by US Army & Air Force and mercs, via Iraqi Kurdistan. This entire joyride is coming to a screeching stop]
⭕ ❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/☢️ BREAKING: Ali Larijani, former Parliament Speaker and current Special Envoy of the Supreme Leader, says that if the United States or Israel carries out a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Iran will be forced to produce nuclear weapons
[we are getting tired of this unending and distressing coitus interruptus. Just get it done or not, but fall off the mount either way and end our galactic agony]

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ The most immoral and unethical Israeli army killed 80 people, mostly children and women, in Gaza this morning. The Israeli government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, who has an ICC warrant for his war crimes, has declared these objectives: To ethnically cleanse the Strip and to control Gaza like the West Bank.
⭕ The “peace president” can’t impose secondary sanctions on Russian and Venezuelan oil, bomb Yemen while blocking Red Sea maritime traffic, and simultaneously threaten war with Iran—risking the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world’s energy and trade flows.

If he does, global shipping will collapse, energy markets will spiral, and the world economy will plunge into crisis. Hunger and chaos would follow—fast.

You can’t set fire to every route that keeps the world running and expect stability to survive.
[pay close attention to the last bolded sentences, which precisely previews the contrived Dark Winters being forced down onto mankind, from N to S, E to W]
⭕ The wars in the Middle East are not sectarian by nature—only politicized that way by those lacking the will for full independence. While sectarianism is used as a distraction, the truth is clear: non-Sunni populations across the region have paid—and continue to pay—a heavy price for standing in support of Sunni Palestinians.
⭕ The term “mosquito protocol” refers to a controversial and illegal practice reportedly employed by the Israel Occupation Forces during operations in Gaza. According to testimonies from soldiers and former Palestinian detainees, this protocol involves using Palestinian civilians as human shields to safeguard Israeli soldiers during high-risk missions. Civilians are compelled to enter buildings, tunnels, or other hazardous areas ahead of military personnel to mitigate risks to the soldiers.

Investigations have revealed that this practice has been widespread throughout Gaza, with reports of Palestinian detainees being forced into reconnaissance roles, often at great personal risk. The “mosquito protocol” is part of use of human shields in conflict zones, raising significant ethical and legal violations.

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ The Israeli army has issued the largest evacuation alert in Gaza since the start of the new offensive. According to Israel, the army is “returning to the fight with great force to eliminate the capabilities of terrorist organizations in these areas.” (Rafah)
[more Trail of Tears enforced movements, well learnt and honed through US Army experience on CONUS. But Gaza ain’t the huge Midwest. This measure alone is insufficient to exterminate Palestinians. And they’re running outta bombs and need the remainder largely for other directions. Starvation and plague appear the main weapons now]

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇮🇷🇮🇱| NEW: Satellite imagery shows more details of Iran’s TP1/2 operation against Israel

The Iranian surface-to-surface ballistic missile attack in April and October 2024 resulted in approximately 38 warhead impacts on Nevatim Air Base, with damage still visible today.

Two service hangars housing the essential G550 AWACS/ELINT aircraft are currently under repair.

As a result, the entire G550 fleet has been forced to park openly along the apron area, making them target ducks, in case …

One of the buildings at the Nevatim Airbase was completely destroyed since repairs were not possible.

Other images also show nearly destroyed builings that were never shown in any media, it was unintentionally published during Iran’s presidential visit to new defense equipment expo. |media|
⭕ We see this after 6 months btw =)

I wonder what else got struck but camouflaged for satellite imagery.
⭕ ✏️ The speech delivered by the leader of Iran, Ayt Khamenei & the commanders, show that Iran is fully prepared for any scenario.

It confirms that majority of Trump’s threats are bluffs, but even if they are not, the gates of hell can be opened for them.

Today was reassuring.
⭕ Hamas issued a statement:

• Forcing the people of Rafah to evacuate under bombardment and massacres is a full-fledged crime of forced displacement and ethnic cleansing.
• We call on the leaders of Arab and Islamic countries, the international community, and the UN to take immediate action and pressure the occupation to stop its ongoing crimes against our people (as if they’ll listen).

⭕ 🇮🇷| Ali Larijani, an advisor to Iran’s leadership:

• Trump’s letter contained similar points frequently expressed to by him, though presented in a more diplomatic manner.
• Specific contents of the letter cannot yet be disclosed due to diplomatic conventions, but it will be made public at an appropriate time.
• The message includes implied threats, consistent with past public statements; but more diplomatically written.
• Iranian leadership considers the likelihood of US military action low but remains fully prepared regardless.
• Iranian military commanders have extensive combat and regional experience, ensuring complete readiness despite minimal perceived risk.
• Military action by the US is viewed as illogical and unlikely to yield benefits, like the costly failures in Afghanistan and Iraq.
• Trump can only carry out a military act on Iran if it’s willing to gamble his military.
• If America makes a mistake regarding Iran, we will be forced to move towards nuclear weapons. The Imam Khamenei’s fatwa is so that we are not developing nuclear weapons, however we’ll be forced to decide otherwise in case the US decides to act foolish.
• Iran’s nuclear technology is planned in such a way that even if it is bombed, it will not be noticed even if there is a delay.

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺It seems that Trump has finally begun to suspect that he has been duped by ideas about conflict-freezing deals, which are not very popular with Vladimir Putin, and so the American leader gave a threatening speech today.

In his statement to the NBC News anchor, Trump said that he would impose additional restrictions on Russia: additional duties on Russian oil, as well as a ban on doing business with the United States for importers of oil from Russia.

“That means if you buy oil from Russia, you can’t do business in the United States. There will be a 25 percent tariff on all oil, a 25 to 50 point tariff on all oil,” Trump said.

Trump said the sanctions would be imposed if a ceasefire agreement in Ukraine was not reached within a month. [by the sacred April 20th anniversary…]

To resolve this contradiction, Donald Trump wants to call Putin next week.
⭕ 🇫🇮🇺🇸🇷🇺The Finnish president, after playing golf with Trump, also said that the American president is “running out of patience with Russia.”

According to Alexander Stubb, who returned from a visit to the United States on Saturday, he proposed April 20 to Donald Trump as the date for a comprehensive ceasefire in Ukraine without additional conditions.

The Finnish president also noted that Trump is losing patience and has “far-reaching plans” in case the Russian authorities refuse the proposed ceasefire.

This is the second report today that Trump has allegedly sharply changed his rhetoric regarding Moscow – NBC News previously made a similar statement.
⭕ 💵❗️The price of gold futures has updated its historical maximum, exceeding $3,150 per troy ounce, according to Comex data.
[well crashing the global economy before summer does put a shine onto gold and bullion]
⭕ 🇸🇪🇺🇦⚡️Swedish Defense Minister Announces Largest Military Supply Package to Ukraine Since 2022, Worth $1.6 Billion

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Are US and Iran REALLY on the brink of war?

🗣President Trump warned that if Iran doesn’t “make a deal,” on a new nuclear agreement, “there will be bombing…the likes of which they have never seen before.”

The threat comes against the background of rapidly rising regional tensions, all of them facilitated by US actions, including:

1. Deployment of B-2 bombers at Diego Garcia, in range of Iran and Yemen, Tehran’s Axis of Resistance ally.
2. Intense US bombardment of Yemen at Israel and Europe’s behest.
3. Deployment of a second US carrier strike group, led by the USS Carl Vinson, to the Middle East.
4. Economic coercion, including Trump’s threats of “secondary tariffs” and what a top Trump ally said would be the “absolute, abysmal obliteration” of Iran’s economy through the “maximum pressure” campaign.

❓How has Iran responded to US provocations?

1. Iran has rejected direct nuclear talks with Trump, saying the US has to rebuild trust first, but leaving the door open to indirect negotiations.
2. On Monday, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that any aggression would receive a “crushing and decisive blow” in response.
3. Iran has put missiles on standby, and that these weapons are situated in hardened facilities that can withstand enemy air attacks, The Tehran Times reported.
4. Iran’s military and elite IRGC have been revealing a series of new missile bases and new and upgraded weapons systems.
5. Last week, Iran deployed missiles on three strategic islands west of the Hormuz Strait. It could put Iran in complete control of the surrounding waters, and in range of many US bases in the region, including Al Udeid Air Base and the HQs of CENTCOM and the US Fifth Fleet.

⭕ 📌 Major world events by the evening of March 31

• A court in Paris sentenced politician Marine Le Pen to four years in custody, two suspended and two to be served with an electronic bracelet, and banned her from holding elected office for five years;
• Russia and the United States have not signed documents on joint projects on rare earth metals, the Kremlin said;
• The ongoing deliberate attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Russian energy facilities demonstrate the complete inability of the Kiev regime to negotiate, the Russian Defense Ministry said;
• The Iranian army promised a harsh response to any aggression against the territory of the Islamic Republic by the US and Israel, according to a statement by the Iranian army;
• Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned US President Donald Trump against raising tariffs on goods from the US’ “closest allies”;

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Trump after hearing that the Houthis have shot down an American drone, the USS Harry S. Truman is getting bombed, and ballistic missiles are on their way to Tel Aviv: |media|

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 🤔 Bluff of Maneuver

Although I am by no means convinced on this point, I am increasingly suspicious that all the overt American military menacing of Iran is a bluff of maneuver; a demonstration; a peacock fanning its tail for effect.

The US/Israel have no credible play here.
[links:
🔻 Ian Ellis: “Six USAF B-2 Spirit stealth bombers — 1/3 of America’s fleet — forward deployed to Diego Garcia over the last week 🇺🇸

The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (CSG) continues strike operations against the Houthi. Carl Vinson CSG, en route to the Middle East, is 1-2 weeks out.”]
🔻 Bill Bottrell: Isn’t bluff Trumps first move always?
It’s possible all the others have noticed.
Bluff upon bluff means the opponent calls.
🔻 MisbehavingEconomist: Real question is what happens when Iran calls Trump’s bluff? Shia aren’t afraid of martyrdom & I can’t see Trump backing down or just sitting still. We’ll all know around May 6th.
🔻 kurth bousman …..Truth is just a rumor: whenever did ‘credible’ ever enter the picture?…in the gulf of tonkin? ….or Baghdad?
🔻 C4: When an adversary has deterrence, the US usually encroaches. They seem to be trying their utmost to draw Iran into all consuming conflicts by threatening all their allies in existential ways. They’ve dialed up the savagery everywhere. Iran sidestepped the latest Syrian trap.
🔻 🇮🇱 commits #genocide, US+EU assist! I❤️🇦🇹: It has for quite a while been my working hypothesis that Trump will dial up pressure on Iran to the max in an effort to extract concessions from Russia in the Ukraine talks. I am not sure that this will work but it’s a low-risk shot for him.
The big risk is that he traps himself
[a valid couple points. However he’s a committed zionazi himself and this explains perhaps 5% of the larger calculation]
🔻 Caligula’s Horse: Bluff without a clear authority and complete control is a risk. What if the feudal lord of CENTCOM decides to pull the trigger? Or the Israelis?
🔻 C7: He backed down in 2018? when Iran attacked our military base IIRC. As stated, the US has no play here, and the consequences of Iran’s retaliation will be politically fatal to Trump (lots of dead Americans, sky-high energy prices, etc.)
🔻 WS: Ayn al-Asad airbase. January 8, 2020. Five days after Trump droned Qasem Soleimani at the Baghdad Airport.

It was a modest but powerfully sobering demonstration by the Iranians. The US was impotent to stop it, and they remain similarly impotent to the present day. |media|
⭕ cont. thread:
🔹 For anyone out there who believes the US can mount a ground invasion of Iran, I challenge you to describe an order of battle and a credible operational scenario.

🔹 For those who believe an air campaign alone will defeat Iran, describe for me a credible chain of events.
🔻 Michael Cohen: The entire country need not be dealt with; just the Islamic leadership.
🔻 WS: The belief that the US can surgically remove “just the Islamic leadership” and effect some kind of regime change according to its own dictates is 100% unadulterated delusional silly talk.
🔻 Michael Cohen: Hey, I’m no expert, but it seems like there’s lots of unrest and dissatisfaction among the Persian populace of Iran with their Islamic overlords. That’s the kind of thing that sows the seeds of a proper revolution, no?
🔻 WS: There’s always “unrest and dissatisfaction” about something in Iran. But my sense of the matter is that this whole angle is being amplified by exogenous forces with the express purpose of encouraging / justifying a foolish and futile attempt to “regime change” Iranian leadership.
🔻 Michael Cohen: You think the various (supposedly?) Iranian voices here on X are fake or something?
You think Israel doesn’t have a plan in the works to handle Iran?
Most curiously, why do you think a regime change to be “foolish and futile”?
🔻 WS: Your first two sentences are irrelevancies.

All exogenously effected “regime changes” are foolish and futile. The evidence is consistent and incontrovertible over the ages. In the case of the American Empire, it has distinguished itself above its predecessors in this respect.
[unfortunately, as seen if one travels to LA and other benighted corners of Cali or Londonistan, one can found a couple million mindwashed persians.. however the larger point holds that they’re at this point as effeminate, useless and outta luck as their nazi Anglo patrons. But they do bark loudly online, and the nazi suzerains will still attempt the murder-suicide, like moths to the Flame. This Ending was carved into the Stars many many eons ago]
⭕ cont. thread:
🤦‍♂️ This ongoing Thang / Ritter bout should have ended by TKO in the first round.

The thing that must be understood above all, however, is that Scott Ritter is not some anomalous voice. The Trump 47 admin (and much of the MAGA realm) is filled to the brim with this mentality.
🔻 C1: Do you ever listen to Scott Ritter? Every interview I see him in he is warning against US intervention and war. He is very anti war.
🔻 🇮🇱 commits #genocide, US+EU assist! I❤️🇦🇹: I don’t think @imetatronink is questioning Ritter’s intentions but the way of thinking and the delusional belief that nuking someone will win a war.
It rarely ever will. (Russians understand that btw)
Yes, Trump might share these delusions.
But that doesn’t mean Iran should fold!
🔻 C1: Maybe, I didn’t see the piece mentioned, but I see him interviewed almost weekly and he is always quite anti aggression and anti war.
🔻 WS: I’ve not said otherwise.

I have been consistently and deliberately narrow in my criticisms of Ritter over the years. I am very familiar with him. I agree with some of his views, and I adamantly disagree with others.

I do not regard him as a notably insightful strategic thinker.
🔻 C3: Crooke says US wants to copy IDF decap of Hez in Iran. Decap IRGC. Nuke stuff is distraction. IDF staff is in place in DC. Ready. Apparently, US thinks they will walk into Tehran like HTS walked into Damascus. Wide open. He says US seeks talks with RF to strip RF from Iran.
🔻 Mikasa Ackermann: the problem is, his viewpoint on this may well be symptomatic (or even tamer than) the views of this infantile and haphazard administration. the more I listen to Hegseth, Rubio, Witkoff, Trump himself – the more I suspect that they really have no clue at all. which is dangerous.
🔻 Anton Moric: Thang is pretty clearly controlled opposition. Scott is one of the few voices of rationality and peace in the US. That Thang is conflating Ritter’s intellectual exploration of USgov thought processes w/ advocation of use of nukes is a sure sign that Thang is a CIA stooge.
🔻 WS: Well … if Thang is a “CIA stooge”, he’s an exceptional specimen.

And I can’t imagine anyone more interesting to observe than an exceptional CIA stooge at work. Few things are more satisfying than to turn the tables on someone who thinks they’re convincing YOU of something.
🔻 kurth bousman …..Truth is just a rumor: he looks like a vietnam patriot to me.

&they actually have something to be patriotic about
🔻 Risk Taker: I don’t see it as just a MAGA mentality, I see it as an American mentality.
🔻 WS: This is a valid point.
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: The quality of US strategic thinking today seems such that the very plausible prospect of a great strategic blunder can in no way be presumed to make the fiasco less likely.
🔻 WS: Hence my gnawing doubts that logic and simple arithmetic will win out in the end.

But I still cling to a fraying thread of forlorn hope …
🔻 kyle Taylor: Iran cannot withstand a sustained aerial campaign from the US nor would they fare better than Iraq did from a US ground invasion. America has always had the capacity to destroy any govt it wanted except Russia and China. The only barrier is political will. This is Ritters point.
🔻 WS: This is misinformed silly talk. The fact of the matter is that the US is incapable of sustaining a protracted air campaign against ANY major power: Russia, China, or Iran. Don’t believe me? Wait and see.
📜 Staggering Towards the Abyss
⭕🔻 Russians With Attitude: Interesting article, but not much new information. We’ve known that the Ukrainian army is a mindless zombie entirely controlled by NATO (in particular, American and British officers) for three years now. The US had total control over the entire chain of command and the kill chain for practically every weapons system used. No missile strike, no HIMARS use was possible without the US providing everything from intelligence and target acquisition to command and approval. Only the very last step, physically pushing the button, was left to the AFU.

De facto, every single factor that made the Ukrainian army a formidable enemy was American, and the level of American involvement was a lot higher than e.g. Soviet involvement in Vietnam. Barely even a proxy war. As a Russian I disagree with some of the decisions made in Moscow but Americans should kneel and praise Putin daily because if anyone with a less cool head was in charge we’d have been in WW3 for a long time.

It’s not just that the Ukrainian army is effectively led, trained and supplied by the US, it’s not only that the US military and the CIA have boots on the ground at the front lines, it’s also that every single terror strike – the missile strikes against the Christmas market in Belgorod and the beach near Sevastopol, countless attacks against Donetsk – was prepared and approved by the US. Every woman and child who was killed in these targeted terror attacks was murdered by the US.

But none of that is new information. They’ve only started publicly admitting it now. And only in a way that lets them take credit for every AFU success and put the blame for every AFU failure on Kiev. It’s despicable. And it’s also despicable that we didn’t respond even asymmetrically…

But such is geopolitics.

In any case, when the AFU is finally broken and defeated, every Russian soldier can be extra proud – he bested America on the battlefield.
🔻 WS: For what it’s worth, my perspective on the matter:

It is precisely Anglo-American mismanagement of their military affairs and misjudgment of Russia that has led directly to a catastrophic defeat and a phenomenal attrition of western power over the course of the past three-plus years.

I consistently find it remarkable how patiently disciplined Putin and his high command have proven to be in the face of many sore temptations to do something that very likely may have interrupted the delicate balance of western hubris and stupidity that has kept the enfeebling process going all this time.

That said, we may be at the point in time where Russia’s investment in patient restraint is no longer paying the dividends it once did.

With the Americans now diluting their strength even further with their new “regime-change” project in Iran … well, the Russian high command may yet uncork a little vengeance if an appropriate opportunity presents itself.
📜 Patiently Waiting to Strike
🔻 C1: Curious as to why this is appearing in the NYT now, when it’s obvious to them too that this has been the case since the beginning of the conflict.
🔻 WS: In my view, it’s simply a variation on the limited hangout gambit, as @RWApodcast hints above.

When it comes right down to it, these people really don’t have many tricks up their sleeve. They are long on persistence, but persistently short on imagination.
🔻 Caligula’s Horse: Cutting off one’s nose to spite the face. By revealing and thereby threatening to reveal more of US involvement – one imagines Marshall Nuland yelling at EUCOM to bring before her Cannoli during the fabled counteroffensive – they hope to force Trump to stay lest he be embarrassed
[yes, I suspect this is another attempt to commit USA to its suicide on the fat, rich, black soil of Novorossiya. And narratives must be fed to mask ongoing civilizational suicide]
🔻 bloatmonger: I suspect most every fuckup has been British in origin.
⭕🔻 S.L. Kanthan: NY Times has a long article on how the US played a major role in Ukraine’s war against Russia.

In a command centre in Wiesbaden, Germany, the US military and intelligence met with Ukrainian Generals.

Americans provided the details of Russian targets & planned the war strategy.
[note the lies even within the “reveal”. 700k Russkie deaths! A diseased paradigm to the dregs]
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: The war was the brainchild of Washington. They’ve been defeated. Blame-shifting (as this piece tries to do) is understandable but not persuasive. The defeat is a humiliation but magnanimity will prevail to spare Trump’s blushes. |link|
🔻 S.L. Kanthan: 💯 According to the article, the Kursk offensive was all Zelensky’s idea and had nothing to do with the US.

Baloney!
🔻 WS: reposts:
“In my view, it’s simply a variation on the limited hangout gambit, as @RWApodcast hints above.

When it comes right down to it, these people really don’t have many tricks up their sleeve. They are long on persistence, but persistently short on imagination.”
⭕ ⚓️ USS Trembling Puppy Update

Still cruising safely out of the effective range of Yemeni drones and missiles, ~1200 km north of Sana’a.

In other words, the Trembling Puppy remains effectively “bottled up” in the northern reaches of the Red Sea. The Bab el-Mandeb remains scary.
[links:
🔻 MT Anderson: “🇺🇸Carrier Strike Group 8🇺🇸
Spotted on Sentinel 2 (29 Mar 2025) near 🇸🇦Yanbu

Along with CVN-75 are 2x Arleigh Burke class destroyers

USS Gettysburg (Tico Class) is in Yanbu (I assume she is resupplying?)

Interesting 📷 tiling by the 🛰️, as CVN-75 appeared twice (15 min apart)”]
🔻 deepbluediver: From a Bāb al-mandab perspective Yanbu is very much up north, almost ready to go on short snorkel trip over in Hurghada lol.
🔻 AK: They are waiting for new supply of diapers before proceeding.😂
⭕🔻 Geo_monitor: US does not intend to return Germany’s gold reserves. Germany has the second largest gold reserves in the world after the United States – 3,375 tons worth about 280 billion euros.

37% of gold is stored at the US Federal Reserve in New York, said German political scientist & former adviser to the German government Alexander Rahr.

This is not the first time that America refused to allow Germany to even conduct an audit of the volumes of gold stored there..
🔻 Daniel McAdams: This is actually pretty funny! Take that deutschlanders!
You f’d up – you trusted us…🤣
🔻 WS: 1236.

One thousand two hundred thirty-six metric tonnes.

Almost 40 million troy ounces.

37% of “on paper” German sovereign gold holdings.

“If you don’t hold it, you don’t own it.”

Stupid is as stupid does. 🤦‍♂️
🔻 Dr. Anton: Bitcoin fixes this
🔻 WS: I’ve heard this now for many years. There is a persuasive argument for its veracity. I know a lot of very smart people believe so. I wish them all the best.

But I am jaded by 40 years of coding.

I’m not a number
Damn it, I’m a man

I’m funny that way. |media|
[I’m heavy too. And he’s my brother…]
🔻 AK: There was once a farmer that asked a fox if he would be kind enough to look after his chickens and he graciously complied.😂
⭕🔻 Toby Rogers: Dear mask wearing people: it’s been FIVE YEARS! When is this going to be over for you?
[when the ritual ends with the croaking of the Last Satanic Empire, or they cannot afford masks… its a tight race atm, well into the home stretch]
🔻 Bill Bottrell: 8% of all people who ever got a mild Covid infection now have a life-changing auto-immune disease.
Like, as of now, their life is over.
It is a fact that more mild covid infections make that disease worse.
Many of these people work to find treatments or remedies to have a decent day, or even get better.
There is no medical help, they do it themselves.
Others work to NEVER get a mild Covid infection, and some of those think masks will help.
This is nothing to do with the GOV lies of 2020-2024, it is only people on their own trying to not be sicker than they are.
🔻 WS: Although I am 99.999% convinced no masks of any kind can efficaciously impede the transmission of airborne viral pathogens, I believe many people understandably believe that they do.

I believe we must coexist with the human virome, not attempt to isolate ourselves from it.

YMMV
🔻 Bill Bottrell: Would you deny a catholic their prayer beads?
A toddler their blanket?
A natural healer their Tea Tree oil?
A trapper their bear’s tooth pendant?
🔻 WS: Now I really want a bear tooth pendant.

And a hat like Uncle Sasha’s.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 ayden: Watching Iran, Russia and China all flat out say no to the U.S. is pretty surreal.

No one is negotiating and no one is backing down.
🔻 Макс Отто фон Штирлиц: When did Russia flat out say no?
🔻 ayden: Putin made statements just the other day explaining how they aren’t falling for the wests games around negotiations.

It’s “No” but in a polite diplomatic manner.
[Aye, and Peskov just added no further talks were scheduled.. transl: “Check back in when ready to sign the Surrender Papers, orange chumps!”]
⭕🔻 WikiLeaks: Hundreds of foreign students in the U.S. have been told they must self-deport or they will be forcibly deported for campus activism—including attending protests or posting on social media.

This comes after the launch of AI system “Catch and Revoke”, which trawls social media for politically incorrect speech. Speaking to reporters, Rubio said ‘Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visas… At some point, I hope we run out.’

There are over 1.1 million international students in the U.S. today.
🔻 Patrick Henningsen: It’s pretty clear that @realDonaldTrump @POTUS is betraying our Constitution and the most important provision: the First Amendment. Same with @marcorubio @StateDept. Remember your oath. You are allowing a foreign lobby to dictate how protected speech is interpreted. History will not look well on what you have done here….
🔻 Daniel McAdams: Trump and his people have exposed themselves as even more fascist than Biden’s thugs. I did not know this was possible. They actually HATE America!
🔻 WS: reposts old:
“I predict that, in coming days, weeks, and months the most commonly used phrase among those who believed Trump was the “anti-war candidate” and the “savior of America” will be:

“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?””
🔻 Daniel McAdams: I have posted that short clip so many times, yet perhaps this is the most appropriate time to remind the brain dead supporters that they are dupes…

⭕🔻 Sprinter Observer: Current buildup of forces at Diego Garcia Air Base in the Indian Ocean:

– 7 B-2 ‘Spirit’ strategic bombers
– 8 B-52H ‘Stratofortress’ strategic bombers
– 7 Boeing C-17 ‘Globemaster’ III transport aircraft
– 10 Boeing KC-135 ‘Stratotankers’
– 1 P-8A ‘Poseidon’ patrol aircraft

These numbers are confirmed and are conservative estimates. This is an UNPRECEDENTED amount of air power concentrated in one place
[the same data posted by middle east man above yesterday]
🔻 WS: Word to the Wise:

Extreme skepticism should be your default assumption in relation to anything posted by these “Sprinter” accounts.

From what I have been able to confidently ascertain, all the aircraft totals listed below are either exaggerated or outright fabricated.
🔻 C2: What do you make of this @imetatronink? Credible or exaggerated?
[he posts leading image of Megatron]
🔻 WS: If true, I regard it as a patently stupid logistical move. US bases in Qatar and Bahrain are extremely vulnerable to Iranian attack.

In any case, for the record, I consider Megatron_ron in the same class of click-bait nonsense spreader as the various Sprinter accounts.
🔻 Shivan Mahendrarajah: Sprinter copied from a Telegram account [links the Middle East Spectator channel above]
🔻 Crumbling Empire: English is only my third language, but how can one say “These numbers are *confirmed* and are conservative *estimates*” ? 🤔😅
🔻 Stockley Karlmichael: You know that all this is a lie when it talks about the militarization of Arab countries like Qatar to attack Iran. No Arab country has the guts to lend its bases to attack Iran. I’m not saying they don’t have the desire, but they lack the balls.
[what if they were sedated and gelded by Empire?]

💠 @Russians With Attitude:
⭕ The six-day ‘war’ between NATO vs unnamed Lithuanian swamp ends with 3 US troops KIA, 1 MIA and 1 armored vehicle destroyed

US Army Europe Command confirms the deaths of three soldiers. Lithuanian officials blame unreliable geographical maps that failed to locate the swamp

Press F

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇨🇳🇹🇼 The Chinese military is conducting drills around Taiwan, practicing comprehensive control, blocking key routes, and securing strategic areas, according to Shi Yi, the spokesperson for the PLA Eastern Theater Command.
⭕ New Facts About Transplantology: Canada is Involved

As mentioned repeatedly, the advance of the Russian army is always accompanied by numerous intriguing discoveries and unexpected finds. For instance, during the capture of a Ukrainian soldier in the Kursk region, unknown forms written in French were found on him.

According to the captive himself, his commander claimed that this was a medical policy for treatment in the best clinics in France. However, when the document was translated, it turned out to be an agreement to transfer one’s organs to a Canadian medical organization, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, skin, and pancreas.

The Ukrainian prisoner was very glad to be captured by Russian forces, sent greetings to family and loved ones, and assured them that everything was fine.

Notably, Canada is a bilingual country where both English and French are official languages. Nevertheless, the consent form for organ donation was provided to the Ukrainian soldier specifically in French. Considering that more people in Ukraine speak English than French, the choice of French as the language to deceive Ukrainians appears quite deliberate. A Canadian lawyer is satisfied with the document in the official language, while the Ukrainian soldier, unable to understand the language, has been deceived.

HELP STOP WAR CRIMES!!! SUBSCRIBE TO THE VERUM PROJECT!!!  |media|
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇺🇸🇺🇦US models for resolving the conflict in Ukraine currently do not resolve its root causes; this must be overcome – Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov

He added that Moscow takes Washington’s proposals seriously, but they have their own priorities.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian military has attacked Russian energy infrastructure facilities twice, the Russian Defense Ministry reported

In the Zaporozhye region, as a result of a Ukrainian UAV attack on an electrical substation, the power supply was disrupted in two settlements.

And in the Belgorod region, as a result of a Ukrainian drone strike on a substation in Smorodino, a high-voltage line was disconnected.

Thus, regardless of its public statements about supporting the Russian-American agreements on a phased settlement of the conflict in Ukraine, the Kiev regime continues to unilaterally strike Russian energy facilities on a daily basis.
⭕ ❗️Russian army liberated the settlement of Razliv in the DPR, the Russian Defense Ministry reported
⭕🇷🇺🇫🇮🇸🇪 Russia had no problems with Finland and Sweden until now, says Kremlin

These countries are currently incorporating NATO infrastructure on their soil, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov remarked. His comment followed Finnish President Alexander Stubb’s statement that Finland should “mentally prepare” for restoring relations with Russia.

Key points from the Kremlin:

• Russia remains open to normalizing relations with any country willing to engage;
• Russia has never intentionally damaged its relationships with neighboring countries or others;
• While Russia maintains relations with the US, the situation in Ukraine remains highly complex, requiring continued efforts;
• Any meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik will be publicly announced by the Kremlin;
• President Putin will conduct an operational meeting with the Security Council and meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday;
• Peskov praised Wang Yi’s efforts in bolstering ties between Moscow and Beijing.

⭕ 📊 Gold is set to end the first quarter with almost 20% price growth

The price of gold was growing by more than 1% on Monday, the trading data showed.

As of 09:25 GMT on Tuesday, the market price of gold was around $3,133 per troy ounce.

↗️ Meanwhile, the price of June gold futures on the New York Comex exchange reached $3,159 per troy ounce.

The price of gold has increased by approximately 19.5% since the beginning of January and by around 10.8% since the start of March.

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Quds News Network: An apocalyptic scene in Rafah, where thousands of Palestinians are being forcibly displaced and moving north following the recent Israeli evacuation threats, which ordered the emptying of the entire city.
⭕ The extremist far-right settler Israeli finance minister Smotrich resigns from post as minister in government. The resignation is not likely to collapse Netanyahu’s coalition and government that passed its 2025 budget in Israel’s parliament last week.
⭕ This Israeli breach of the ceasefire with Lebanon – 3 killed and 7 wounded – risks triggering retaliation from the resistance. By violating UNSCR 1701, Israel is undercutting Lebanon’s diplomatic efforts and paving the way for a justified response.
links:
🔻 Middle East Observer:⚡️🚨 Breaking: Lebanon: Israeli airstrike targets the southern suburb of Beirut

Ambulances headed to the targeted site in the southern suburb to transport the wounded and search for victims

The airstrike targeted several floors of a residential building in the southern suburb of Beirut

Israeli warplanes are still flying at low altitudes over the southern suburb

Israeli media outlet: “Israel” attacks a multi-story building in Beirut, destroyed without warning in the suburb, and it can be assessed as a targeted assassination

The targeted building is residential, and the entire neighborhood is residential
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Seyed Mohammad Marandi: Iran’s former Parliament Speaker, who serves as the Leader’s advisor and special envoy, has warned that any US or Zionist attack on Iran’s nuclear sites would force Iran to develop nuclear weapons.

He said Iran does not want to do this but will be forced into such a position
[This is same Ali Larijani above. A watershed moment.]
⭕🔻 Donald J. Trump:
The Iran-backed Houthi Terrorists have been decimated by the relentless strikes over the past two weeks. Many of their Fighters and Leaders are no longer with us. We hit them every day and night — Harder and harder. Their capabilities that threaten Shipping and the Region are rapidly being destroyed. Our attacks will continue until they are no longer a threat to Freedom of Navigation. The choice for the Houthis is clear: Stop shooting at U.S. ships, and we will stop shooting at you. Otherwise, we have only just begun, and the real pain is yet to come, for both the Houthis and their sponsors in Iran.
🔻 EM: But…but… but how can Ansar Allah Houthis fire at Israel and USS Harry Truman if they have been decimated and their capabilities destroyed Mr “Peace president”?
🔻 MenchOsint: “Decimated”

24 hours ago they launched a Ballistic Missile at Israel [posts map of central Zion lit up with red alarms]
⭕ Israel has decided to occupy 25% of Gaza and ethnic cleanse the inhabitants.
@IntlCrimCourt   |media|

By Elijah J. Magnier –

As the Middle East plunges further into turmoil, one reality is becoming increasingly unavoidable: the so-called “peace president” is laying the foundations for global disorder if he implements his menace. Under Donald Trump, U.S. foreign policy has morphed into an explosive mix of economic coercion, military escalation, and selective diplomacy—presented under the banner of maintaining global stability.

Trump has delivered contradictory signals. On one hand, he sends messages of mutual respect and cooperation to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. On the other hand, he intensifies bombing campaigns in Yemen, backs Israel’s military operations across multiple fronts, tightens oil sanctions on Russia and Venezuela, and ramps up pressure for a confrontation with Iran. This fragmented strategy threatens to collapse maritime trade routes, destabilize global energy markets, and unleash far-reaching geopolitical consequences.

His “peace through strength” doctrine has not de-escalated conflict but escalated it. U.S. daily airstrikes in Yemen have worsened an already dire humanitarian crisis and further disrupted Red Sea shipping lanes. Meanwhile, growing tensions with Iran risk closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which nearly one-fifth of the world’s oil supply flows.

With new sanctions targeting Iranian oil layered atop an already stressed global economy, the danger of economic blowback is accelerating. Without a safety net, Trump is tampering with the essential arteries of international commerce—energy, food, and logistics.

Yet amid the rising drumbeat of war and regional mobilization, reports have surfaced that Iran and the United States are quietly engaged in secret backchannel talks. Despite public saber-rattling and Iranian missile readiness across its vast geography—poised to absorb and respond to any U.S. strike—both sides appear intent on keeping open a narrow path for de-escalation. (paywall)

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ The fate of American military one way or another.
[this appears a Yemeni carrying the latest reaper drone shot down over Yemen..]
⭕ 🇮🇷| Iranian Foreign Minister, Araghchi, in a tweet:

The catastrophic failures in our region have cost the US administrations more than $7 trillion.

Diplomatic engagement worked in the past and can still work. But, it should be clear to all that there is—by definition—no such thing as a “military option” let alone a “military solution”.
⭕ 🇾🇪| Yemeni Armed Forces announce heavy battles against American warships

Heavy battles against several warships in the Red Sea, led by the US aircraft carrier Truman, in a 3rd engagement in the past 24h, were carried out with cruise missiles & drones.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Patarames: Usually when 🇮🇷’s Leader has his SVD Dragunov rifle in his hand.., some action is bound to happen
🔻 Ace: Nothing ever happens
🔻 WS: 📜 Nothing Ever Happens Until It Does

A powerful American air and naval fleet is converging on a prospective battlefield; an ancient battlefield, where many seemingly invincible armies—and the kingdoms that sent them—have encountered historic calamity.
⭕🔻 DD Geopolitics:
🇺🇸✈️ 300 U.S. airmen and A-10 Thunderbolt IIs from Idaho’s National Guard are being deployed to CENTCOM.

The A-10 “Warthog” is a tank-killing close air support jet, armed with a 30mm cannon that shreds armor. It’s built to fly low, loiter over battlefields, and support ground forces, especially in large-scale conflicts.

Known for surviving hits that would destroy other jets, the A-10’s presence in the Middle East signals the U.S. may be preparing for direct ground confrontation possibly in Yemen, Syria, or against Iran.

This is escalation.
🔻 Eomar – Diligent News: Of the aircraft we have I think this is one of the more vulnerable, is this just dump the kitchen sink over there to “intimidate”? Even if so, I don’t know if Trump et al will respond well to the embarrassment of failure… @imetatronink
🔻 WS: 📜 Flying Coffins

“F-16s and A-10s are not a strategy for victory in Ukraine.

“There is no ‘Hail Mary’ play to be called. The only reasonable option at this juncture is for the US to … pack up its ball once and for all, and go home.”
🔻 John: You used “reasonable” and “US” in the same sentence… I wish brother, but our government is basically possessed and in dire need of a mass exorcism.
⭕ Captain Soggy Cookie (formerly of the USS Brave Sir Robin, now at the helm of the USS Trembling Puppy) posting boldly while cowering in the northern reaches of the Red Sea — the prospect of running the gauntlet of the Bab el-Mandeb comfortably still out of sight and out of mind.😏 |link|
🔻 Ikkyu Sojun: The U.S. navy’s a relic, overstretched and outgunned.

This isn’t courage.

It’s hugging safety while the empire’s grip slips.
🔻 hans koenig: I always use Spain as good reference as it is about 1000km from side to side to be able to explain/visualize. Such as “you could have gotten 15 carriers instead of spending on XYZ”.

The carrier group is hiding a decent country-sized distance away.
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: ‘Lethal precision’ on targets that didn’t amount to a hill of beans and whose intelligence was completely wrong.
🔻 Marta: Touchè😂😂
⭕ 📜 Hold My Beer
🔻 Alyosha: Wondering to what degree Iran’s AD has the latest Russian tech.
🔻 WS: I would suggest it is even more meaningful to investigate what the Iranians have developed themselves.

I am convinced people are underestimating Iran.

⭕🔸 Gold Is Old and Wise

As I have noted on occasion: Gold knows things.

It knows things because it has already seen everything.

Gold is old and wise.
reposts older:
“I understand a great many people either lack an understanding of the historical role of gold in the world, or who believe that role is now anachronistic.

But gold knows things.

And now every dip is being bought, and it closed today with a spike to all-time highs.”
🔻 Imperius Fistus: I see some clipping in that gold coin.
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: Call it an accident or grand design, but gold and silver are God’s money and in the end they correct everything. They always have, despite the best efforts of those who want to pervert money for their own purposes.

⭕🔻 Cannoneer Marine: [posts woman with laundry]
🔻 WS: There were lots of southern Utah downwinders. |link|
⭕ retweet:
🔻 S.L. Kanthan: For all the Democrats who are getting worked up about Trump & Elon Musk, here’s the bitter truth:

US is run by an international financial cabal — banks, corporations & billionaires.

It doesn’t matter if Democrats or Republicans win. They are just two wings of the same bird.
🔻 In Other Words: In the US or elsewhere, oligarchs are often at odds with the working class and seek significant government influence.

I remember that Jack Ma, widely recognized as China’s most successful entrepreneur, faced backlash from the government when he became too involved in controversial politics. China silenced him. Similarly, between 2000 and 2004 in Russia, Putin advised his oligarchs to avoid political engagement or, otherwise, face repercussions from the government if they became too involved in contentious politics (ie, you can keep your wealth if you stay out of politics).

While I appreciate US entrepreneurship, the elites, and modern-day oligarchs exert excessive influence over politicians and the political system. For example, Citizens United has been a disaster for our democracy, as have the various methods by which ultra-wealthy individuals can manipulate our decision-makers.

I’d love to hear feedback for or against it, but I think the US needs to pass laws that keep oligarchs and private interests (PACS/Super PACS) out of US politics. China and Russia did so, and I think it was ultimately to the public’s benefit. Thoughts?
[the Chinese system is wisest. Was it Jeff Brown or Godfree who said that for millennia they held the merchants in contempt and near the bottom of the totem poll, even below the poor farmers?? And they never ran the state]
🔻 chickadee: It’s fitting that the bird in the graphic is a turkey vulture
🔻 Steven Teo: And the banks and billionaires are owned by Israel
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Liam McCollum: George Bush campaigned on a ‘humble foreign policy’ and lied us into Iraq.

Barack Obama promised to end the Iraq war, escalated it, and started wars in Yemen, Syria, and Libya.

Joe Biden ran on ending the Afghanistan war and got us bogged down in Ukraine.

And Donald Trump campaigned on stopping endless wars. But, his administration seems to be gearing up for war with Iran.

The best thing about Donald Trump is that he’s a repudiation of the last few decades, and that includes the foreign policy regime. Trump should break from the deep state’s foreign policy and keep his promise—no more endless wars.
[“There’s an old saying in Tennessee – I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee – that says, fool me once, shame on – shame on you. Fool me – you can’t get fooled again.”]
🔻 Joey Clark: Always east of Eden

⭕🔻 Doug Ford Respecter 40K 🇨🇦🚀🇰🇵 (@JucheRespecter):
I’m starting to feel like Trump might be in the early days of senility, tbh. The leaked signal stuff had a very strange feel to it; Trump was clearly absent and his staff was just making it up as they went. Felt like something out of the Biden admin.

The man’s pushing 81.
🔻 Doug Ford Respecter 40K 🇨🇦🚀🇰🇵: Not saying he’s anywhere close to where Biden was in 2024. He’s still lucid, he can still talk. But others have also commented that Trump is just way more checked out this time around. He has some pet projects and issues, but otherwise there’s not much of a hand on the tiller.
🔻 WS: reposts older:
“🤔 Unpopular opinion that will probably cost me a few hundred followers (and I couldn’t care less):

I first mentioned this to my wife last summer, and, to me, it is becoming more apparent with each passing month: Trump is suffering from steadily creeping dementia.” |link|]
⭕🔻 Doug Ford Respecter 40K 🇨🇦🚀🇰🇵:
Realistically, if Trump opts for “just a little bit of of war with Iran. Just a smidge.” that will be the ballgame not just for his own presidency but for the American Empire as such.
🔻 Disasterpus: it is interesting that we are finally seeing the actual impact photos from Nevatim just as this whole business heats up
🔻 WS: I missed this. Link?
🔻 F. B.: I found this: |link|
⭕ 💥 MQ-9 Reaper XVI

The Yemeni Armed Forces are apparently not disarmed yet. They shot down another $30M American MQ-9 Reaper drone.

Number 16. Triple Ace + 1.

As for the YAF spokesman, he dresses sharply and has a certain rhetorical savoir faire. 😏 |link|
🔻 Source Code: I’m not sure if it’s his voice or his habit of speaking loudly & robotically, but I always mute the sound whenever I watch his announcements. He should watch Karoline Leavitt.
🔻 WS: I am convinced it is deliberate performance art. It’s brilliantly staged and executed.
[Agreed. Very well done and targetted at both internal and external audiences. He is actually not like typical Yemenis, who prefer beards and are more muscular and imposing looking. He dresses in modern military garb, used and known worldwide among professional cadre. His soft, scholarly yet handsome look engages and forces you to watch. It makes Yemenis look more the underdog and builds international support, rather than the reality they are chewing the demented pirates to shreds, where they can reach them. But the words are always truthful and say what he knows and doesn’t embellish unlike some. And the clear and unequivocal islamic greetings and ending salutations always emphasize the moral imperative behind the regrettable thrashings being dispensed to the said demented pirates]
🔻 ann watson: I heard just now that they’ve shot down an airforce jet
🔻 WS: I doubt that. What is your source?
🔻 Brandon: That doesn’t worry me the way losing a carrier does. And it’s coming.
🔻 Christopher 🇺🇸: I’ll put a huge amount of money down that losing a carrier does NOT happen.
🔻 WS: I once heard a story about an unsinkable ship …
🔻 Brandon: Exactly. What’s more, they don’t even have to sink the carrier. They just have to damage its flight deck and it’ll be useless and laid up in our broken shipyards for years. A wasting asset. |Hoodwinked Hubris|
🔻 James Newell Osterberg: I’m nostalgic for the old days when the Pentagon flew drones for 20 hours over unarmed people looking for a place to place their missile.

How can we have a rules-based order if vile enemies are shooting at us.
🔻 OsageCatZ: Upping cost of E2 Hawkeye to $150 million.
🔻 Lavr Dyogtev 🇳🇿 🇷🇺 ✝️ Bot. blocked instantly.: The US has made much of its strikes on Yemen. But in reality, they are attacking civilian infrastructure. The Houti military have few fixed assets, they know US satellite windows, and move before they are of use in an attack. The fixed assets they do have, seem to have survived.
🔻 WS: Not surprisingly, US “precision strike munitions” work much better against large static targets than they do against small highly mobile targets.

Iran has placed much emphasis on making its missile forces highly mobile. They would prove VERY difficult to track down and destroy.
⭕ 🤣🔥 I can’t vouch for the veracity of the purported Trump/Vance conversation recounted below.

But it’s damn funny. And, if true, it does underscore one of Donald Trump’s few redeeming virtues.
links:
🔻 Ending Bigly: JD, trying to explain Conquest’s Third Law: “So it’s like, imagine every bureaucracy is run by its enemies.”

Trump: “Can we do that?”

JD: “No, you’re not getting it, it’s not something you do, it’s something that happens.”

Trump: “Alright, let’s make it happen.” |link|
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Walter Kirn: The long and unreliable NYT piece on the “secret history” of the Ukraine war disproves the notion that history is written by the victors.

Quite often history is written by the losers trying to cover their asses.
[nooooo. The Fat Lady hasn’t sung. Carthage merely flops in the interim..]
🔻 C2: Everything in the NYT is unreliable. I can’t even trust a baseball box score.
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: Rather interesting that B-2s based out of Diego Garcia are apparently flying missions into… known snake pit of advanced air defense capabilities (sarcasm), Yemen.

This actually explains a few things about the deployment. Allow me to explain.⬇️

Deploying B-2s to Diego Garcia to threaten Iran makes very little sense, because it puts billions of dollars of irreplaceable stealth bombers in range of Iranian drones and missiles, which in the event of war can and will be fired at the base in salvo strengths which the local defenses cannot reasonably expect to defeat. And while it’s certainly possible that American war planners are stupid and arrogant, and don’t think Iran has the stones to shoot missiles at an American air base despite the fact they’ve already done that to the Israelis multiple times, it’s more likely the deployment had some other purpose than exposing our strategic assets to preemptive attack in the hopes of shaving a few hours off a notional timeline for an attack on Iran vis-a-vis strikes staged out of Missouri.

Enter Yemen. Let’s take a look at the situation:

1. Yemen actually has significant anti-access/area-denial capabilities, to the point the USN has probably gotten very leery of operating carriers in the southern Red Sea because they keep getting engaged by Yemeni antiship weapons. This level of forced standoff, by the way, seriously degrades the effectiveness of the (short-ranged) carrier air wing, which is now going to be relying on complex tanker shuttles (which the carrier also has to support from its own limited resources) to reach and return from the target area.

2. Yemen has real if somewhat sparse air defenses. They’ve shot down over a dozen Reaper drones at this point, and they may have downed an F/A-18 that was subsequently claimed as a bizarre friendly fire incident by the Navy. The last thing the USN wants is to lose aircraft over Yemen and have captured American aviators get paraded through Sana’a – a very real prospect if they start trying to launch large strike packages inland. Not to mention that a single carrier group would likely struggle to sustain such a high-intensity campaign for any period of time – see my above comment about the logistical support required to stretch the legs of the carrier air group.

3. Trump appears to want a serious campaign waged against the Houthis. This means more strikes deep in Yemen than the USN has standoff weapons to conduct, at least without badly depleting the national magazine of long-range missiles.

4. Unlike Iran, the Houthis do not have a lot of heavy missiles and their standoff land attack capability appears to be marginal. They’ve never even tried to hit US bases in Djibouti, for instance, and those should be in easy drone range across the Bab al-Mandeb. Unlike Iran, an effective Houthi attack on Diego Garcia is not a realistic prospect.

Enter the B-2s. Staging out of Diego Garcia, they can easily reach Yemen, destroy anything anywhere in the country with near-total impunity, and then flit back to their convenient forward base to do it all again the next day for as long as the campaign takes.

TL;DR: The Navy just got fired from the Yemen operation, and the Air Force is breaking out the power tools to get the job done.
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: How expensive are the B-2 operations out of Diego Garcia into Yemen… In terms of ammo/weapons and also $$ wise…?!
And how long can the US sustain that?!

I read somewhere that B2 bombing couldn’t destroy Yemeni underground missile storage/facility as well…
🔻 WS: All I know is that, if the US is willing to play Houthi whack-a-mole with top-shelf precision strike munitions, the Iranians will gladly provide jet fuel for every B-2 sortie from Diego Garcia to Yemen, and sandwiches for the ground crews.

#TheBigAttrition
⭕🔻 Middle East Observer:
⚡️ Trump to Iran:

“If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing — and it will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.”
🔻 Doug Ford Respecter 40K 🇨🇦🚀🇰🇵: This is so funny because the orange retard just lives in a forever 1991 (very common with older people on the verge of dementia).

Iran can shoot back. The era of uncontested airpower is just gone, man. Expensive manned aircraft vs cheap missiles is a stupid trade.
🔻 WS: I’ve been shouting this sort of thing from the housetops for years. It is encouraging to finally see light break out in the otherwise shadowy corners of the Self-anointed Commentariat. I used to be the loony crank. Now I’m just the annoying “told you so”. Not sure which is worse.
🔻 Doug Ford Respecter 40K 🇨🇦🚀🇰🇵: If you’re bombing Iran, that’s definitionally *an attrition war*. It’s no longer shock and awe, technology has just shifted past the point where that thinking is relevant.

No American actually believes they can survive attritional warfare given how rickety US society is now.
🔻 WS: Imagine little supply capillaries streaming out behind the battle lines, each one carrying some irreplaceable widget to keep the machine of war moving. So many things can go wrong, and before you know it, the entire army is halted for lack of enough stars on a general’s lapel.
⭕️ For the first time in his long and often tawdry existence, Trump is gleefully living the ultimate Thug’s Life.
links:
🔻 Lord Bebo: “🇺🇸🇮🇷 “We know if the Iranian regime does not want a deal the president is clear he will pursue other options which will be very bad for Iran”
— Tammy Bruce, US State Department” |media|]
🔻 Jes_J_Bel: Trump reveres Capone, said so just recently. When he feels persecuted and put upon, he channels his hero. |media|
🔻 Bobyloong: If I remember correctly, this guy used to say, ‘No new wars.’ A real ‘dove of peace’😂
🔻 Ebr Pho: Why are they pushing Iran toward the bomb?!. Iran is the only nation that they don’t want to build bombs but hardly pressured to find no other choice.
🔻 AK: We all know how things usually end up for thugs. Bad things happen!
⭕🔻 Sprinter Observer: Iran has activated its 9th Qadir phased array radar somewhere in Yazd province, boosting its air defenses
🔻 Brandon: The only way the Iranians will clip our B-2s is with an eyeball approach/lucky shot. Definitely possible. But highly unlikely. It’s the second and third order effects that worry me.
🔻 WS: Not sure how much “luck” will be involved. They can definitely track the B-2. And they have now incorporated infrared and optical targeting sensors that activate in the terminal phase to guide their AD missiles home. If the bomber gets within AD missile range, it can be killed.

Re: “Bravo! As I read your post I kept wanting to interrupt it with “Scott is scared!” and so I was very glad when you got to the last part and said it. We begin to see, I think, Scott’s fundamental assumption.”

is he scared so much for his country? Even a loyal talking-head soldier knows USA is irreparable in current configurations with appetites vastly exceeding means, not to mention acceptable morals of majority of mankind for the only kinetic course left open.

Or does he agonize at the End of the Line for his own employ, which is now measured in perhaps days and weeks?? When the Orange Wrecking Crew does what they intend to do, a guaranteed “lose-lose” scenario, it will render all Yanquis toxic for our lifetimes, outside their own shrinking media bubble.

Who will ask for his services abroad? Will “open” media be permitted internally? What further need is there for all such pundits? Negotiations, comity, dialogue, exchange of views, etc. – are permanently circumscribed, no?

It is “kill and be killed” – like the nazis of old (and modern zionazis). We all return to the primordial land of tooth & claw. The ending of the horrifying series WestWorld was beyond horrifying – after the global human population had been vaxxed and 5G tuned to the max and beamed on them, they just killed each other worldwide, like the kingsman church scene. It is not accidental, the way so many of these apocalyptic movies weave the same themes

Indeed, Orange’s ongoing chainsaw approach to the global economy, supply chains, detonating the Persian Gulf and ending Petroleum Man, shutting down imperial PR (USAID, NED…) is the practical preparation for furious retreat given intent to proudly adorn the Black Hat. The era of pretensions draw to a close…

NB – why do you say four months A? As I count it, that is the more likely window too – ending around Obama’s birthday, when Orange is supposedly shot in the head again. Even Black Hats require “a justification”, just in case they win the round

Chaos is about to expand dramatically, and not only at the hands of Empire

Hamas’s new resistance strategy abroad against Israel?

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ A 25% across-the-board US tariff isn’t a policy shift. It’s a wrecking ball aimed at the heart of global trade. In today’s economy, everything is connected. Taxing exporters at that scale means higher prices for US consumers, job losses at home and abroad, inflation spikes, broken supply chains, and retaliation from allies and rivals alike. This isn’t economic protection, on the contrary, it is a self-inflicted damage with worldwide consequences.
[iirc, Orange passed fumes last week saying these measure take effect on April 02?? Alas, Babylon! We shall miss thy prosperity. But every former dutiful iteration also leapt off the Cliff to safeguard the next Host.]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇿🇦📈 South African mining stocks soar amid gold and platinum rally

An index of local mining companies jumped 33%, the biggest monthly gain since 1995, helping the FTSE/JSE All Share Index outperform other emerging markets and US stocks, Bloomberg reported.

Gold producers led the rally:

🟡Harmony Gold Mining and Sibanye Stillwater skyrocketed 48%
🟡DRDGOLD and AngloGold Ashanti were also among the top performers

Gold has been hitting new all-time highs due to strong demand from central banks and investors looking for a safe-haven asset amid global economic uncertainty. Goldman Sachs has predicted further gains, with prices possibly reaching $3,300 an ounce.

Platinum miners are also benefiting from rising prices, fueled by a slowdown in electric vehicle sales, which has boosted demand for gasoline-powered car components that use platinum.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ ⚡️🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 – Note:
A video uploaded by Iran’s Navy on May 2024 displays the “IRIS Shahid Mahdavi” Ship had completed a voyage only 1km away from the “Diego Garcia” island, harboring UK-US Coalition base, likely in anticipation to such scenario occurring today.
[Greetings to Diego Garcia! Apparently an old lover of Persia…]
⭕ 🇮🇷/☢️ Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Former Minister of Information: ‘Nuclear weapons are the will of the Iranian nation. A vast majority of the population believes in the need for Iran’s nuclear ambition.’

More and more political figures, both current and former, are openly pushing for the development of nuclear weapons. This includes people like Mohammad Javad Jahromi, a political heavyweight within Iran’s Reformists wing.
[he’s in incumbent Prez Pezeshkian’s cadre. Note, as in last winter when zionazi attempted to bomb Iran, the Iranian “we need Da Bomb NOW’ crew pop outta the woodwork. It may not mean as much. At this point, they have it, or will not have it fullstop. But a telling metric of the closeness of actual active hostilities..]
⭕ 🇮🇷 🇮🇷 Iran’s Space Program: A Cover for ICBM testing?

In recent months, Iran has been launching a large amount of satellites into space, using several different SLV (Satellite Launch Vehicle) rockets.

One of these SLVs in particular, the Qaem-100, a three-stage solid-fuel rocket, looks and functions very similar to an ICBM in development, epecially after its recent modifications.

When Qaem-100 was revealed in 2022, as well as the version that was used while unsuccessfully launching the ‘Nahid’ satellite in 2023, it had a rounded tip. Additionally, the rocket also featured roll-control thrusters.

In Qaem-100’s new launch, which took place two days ago while sucessfully putting the ‘Soraya’ satellite into 750km orbit, we can see that there have been several modifications to the rocket.

Firstly, the tip of the rocket has become sharpened. This is typical in the design of long range missiles such as ICBMs. Second, the liquid-fuel roll thrusters have been omitted, to improve the missile’s shelf life and decrease maintenance. Lastly, four stabilizing fins have been added, a common feature found in ICBMs.

While Iran has always been interested in expanding its space program for scientific and civilian purposes, it is likely that the launch of SLVs, in particular the Qaem-100, are a cover for testing a preliminary ICBM model. The launching of satellites is an added bonus.

This, in combination with Iran doubling its production of highly enriched U-235 uranium to 9kg a month, poses a real challenge to Israel and the United States, who now have to deal with Iran being a latent nuclear power. |media|

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇨🇳 Putin confirms that Xi Jinping will not only attend Victory Day celebrations in Russia as the main guest, but will also make a separate state visit.

He adds:

“We will have the opportunity to discuss our bilateral relations and cooperation on international platforms—especially the UN Security Council, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, BRICS, and others where we work together successfully.”

The Russia–China partnership continues to deepen across all fronts. |media|
⭕ 🇷🇺🇨🇳 Putin sends warm greetings to Xi Jinping, calling him “our good friend,” and invites him to Russia for the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and WWII.

“We will mark this anniversary together—the victory over Nazi Germany and over militarist Japan.”

Russia and China, shoulder to shoulder against fascism—then and now.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺The United States is considering the possibility of introducing “aggressive sanctions” against ships carrying Russian oil, Fox News claims.

It is noted that Washington assesses the effectiveness of the current anti-Russian sanctions at “level 3 out of 10”. It is specified that among the new possible measures, the United States may attempt to ban ships carrying Russian oil from passing through the Baltic Sea.
[now we’re talkin’. Put the pedal to the metal. Enforce it!]
⭕ ⚠️🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦Fox News, citing an informed source: Trump is upset with Putin and believes Russia is stalling on ceasefire talks with Ukraine.

Fox News, citing an informed source: Banning Russia’s shadow fleet carrying illicit oil through the Baltic Sea will be an easy target for pressure.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺US senators threaten to impose 500% tariffs on countries purchasing Russian oil, gas and uranium if Moscow refuses peace talks.

🐻 When has Russia refused peace talks? These people are just throwing random numbers around now that the whole tariff thing is “in”.
[what’s being sold as demented Orange pique and irrationality is actually in lockstep with ongoing moves in Persian Gulf: war expansion beyond 404 in European theatre]
⭕ 🇾🇪🤜🇺🇸 AnsarAllah’s media page published footage showing the wreckage of the downed MQ-9 drone they shot down yesterday.

This is the 16th downed MQ-9 since October 7th 2023. And the 20th in general. |media|
[Yemen by itself has downed 16% (20 of 126) of all Reapers ever made for US military! And these appear their workhorse drone]