Vaudeville’s back in Vogue, in OUR Roaring 20s.. with De-Nile shifting to Deutschland. What days

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin extended his congratulations to the veterans of the Special Operations Forces of the Russian Armed Forces on their professional holiday.

“You and your fellow soldiers carry on the noble military legacy of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, upholding the legendary traditions of our special forces and adding new, remarkable chapters to the history of Russia’s military achievements”

He expressed gratitude to both active personnel and veterans for their professionalism and commitment. Putin highlighted the unwavering loyalty to their military duty and oath, as well as the courage and resilience displayed by the special forces members.
⭕️ 🇷🇸🇧🇦🇷🇴 Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik on the arrest of Călin Georgescu in Romania:

The arrest of Călin Georgescu in Romania and my conviction in Bosnia are part of the same campaign of abuse of justice by globalists, who are desperately trying to retain power by silencing the opposition and rigging elections.
⭕ 🇲🇾🇷🇺Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergei Shoigu arrived on a working visit to the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.

During the trip, he plans to hold a series of talks with the country’s top leadership on a number of pressing issues
[His first stop was Indonesia (full BRICS) and now partner-BRICS (and vociferous anti-imperialist and anti-zionazi) Malaysia. Alotta low hanging fruit for the Russkie and civilizational-states these days! The Demented did choose to dig their own deep deep graves]
⭕ 🇺🇸US Stock Market plunges $500 billion in just an hour after Trump announces new EU Tariffs.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺Russian delegation arrived for talks with US at US Consul General’s residence in Istanbul |media|
[Highly symbolic location! This is CONSTANTINOPLE. And Perfide, just before WW1, used this hook to suicide the Romanovs into joining the Triple Entente.. They sent much of their army towards this direction, and were overthrown during the legerdemain. What risible offers do USUK today make to those who so ache to recapture Holy Constantinople?? Each civilization has its sweet spot, its predictable weak spot]

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Every Palestinian prisoner released in the ceasefire deal carries with them a thousand untold stories—testimonies of torture, deprivation, sleep and food starvation, humiliation, and the systematic violation of prisoners’ rights. Yet, mainstream media remains overwhelmingly focused on the Israeli captives, overlooking the broader context of why these events unfold.

These Palestinian detainees were not captured in a vacuum—their imprisonment is the direct result of Israel’s long-standing rejection of Palestinian self-determination, a right that was supposedly recognized in the 1993-1995 Oslo Accords but never realized. For decades, Israel’s occupation, human rights violations, and refusal to uphold international agreements have fueled the very resistance it seeks to suppress. However, the media largely ignores this narrative, choosing instead to highlight the suffering of Israeli prisoners while downplaying the systemic oppression endured by thousands of Palestinians languishing in Israeli jails

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🌍 The Rome Statute “only applies to the enemies of the West,” says an international law analyst

Arnaud Develay responded to comments made by Friedrich Merz, the prospective future German chancellor, who stated that he was ready to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu despite the ICC arrest warrant.

🗣 “All signatories, provided they have the possibility of arresting a person who is the subject of an international arrest warrant, must take all necessary steps to achieve this arrest,”the French lawyer stated.

However, according to Develay, the Israeli prime minister benefits from “preferential treatment” in the West. When Netanyahu visited Washington and had to pass through French airspace, Paris cited the fact that Israel has not ratified the Rome Statute as an excuse, the lawyer noted.

🗣 “As long as you are in the good books of this West, you risk absolutely nothing,” Develay stated.

Develay is skeptical about the idea of reforming this international institution, just like the UN Security Council. He believes it reflects the current “balance of power” in the world.

🗣 “It’s difficult to imagine any reforms that could realistically challenge this hegemony,” the lawyer explained.
⭕ 🟠Trump administration cuts more than 90% of USAID’s overseas funding, boasting of “saving taxpayers nearly $60 billion.”
⭕ ❗️The territories that became subjects of the Russian Federation and which are mentioned in the сonstitution are an integral part of the country, this is not up for discussion, the Kremlin says
[translation: “Come and take it if you can, suckers!”]

💠@kuluary_zaliva (В кулуарах Залива):
⭕ Emir of Qatar announces plans to visit Russia

During a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Doha, Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said he plans to visit Russia on April 17. The next meeting of the Russian-Qatari intergovernmental commission will also take place in Moscow in March.

Following the talks, the parties confirmed their commitment to developing relations and agreed to intensify work in all areas, including trade and economics, investment, energy, technology, cultural and tourist exchanges, and others.
[Lavrov made a stop over in Doha right after Iran, and on way to Turkey.. “Victory has a hundred fathers and Defeat is an orphan…” — JFK. The desert bedouins smell the Wind, and mince over to the Russkies & Iran.
Qatar is also the regional Anglo “Airstrip One” – and the first to be raptured by Iran during the kinetic exchanges after Zero Hour. So there is desperation too]

[What a worthy title! And not clickbait at all]

💠 “Regime change specialists NED announce suspension of funding — National Endowment for Democracy has been forced to furlough most of its staff and halt support for “nearly 2,000 partners worldwide””

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Russian military liberated the settlement of Nikolsky in the country’s Kursk region, the Defense Ministry reports

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ Even at 100%, it wouldn’t be sufficient to win a high-intensity industrial-grade war against Russia, China, or even Iran.

The US needs to relinquish its empire, reduce its overseas bases down to a few dozen (or less), bring the troops home, and focus on rebuilding America.
🔻 Gilda Mundson: I hear you but the forces who want to keep empire at the expense of Americans and maintaining 1st world living standards are very dominant.
🔻 WS: It doesn’t matter what they “want”. All that matters is what they can actually achieve. Fighting a war against Russia, China, and Iran would result in a catastrophic defeat, and the US would be effectively demilitarized for at least a generation.
🧵 Last Stop Before Willoughby
🔻 Gilda Mundson: That’s why they’re dividing responsibilities with the Europeans. Division of labor. Europe supports war in Ukraine. Israel tries to destabilize Iran. While the U.S. prepares for China.
🔻 Ramesh: You are missing the Economics issue

US can not re-industrialize with their current Economics as in Financialized Economics. They have been at the optimum spot for a while and whatever they do will hurt their economy.

Moving to Industrial Economics is not easy as they have to do
🔻 WS: You clearly have not followed me for long. I have written on this topic repeatedly over the past several years.
🔻 Ramesh: MASSIVE DEBT FORGIVENESS which they have been fighting for a long time and now has become a humongous task. They have forgotten the importance of The Jubilee Year and why since Babylonian times it was THE thing rulers did to hold their subjects free from bondage to defend fight
🔻 WS: Again, you’ve clearly not followed me for very long.

Put this in your 𝕏 search bar: Jubilee from:imetatronink
🔻 Ramesh: Yup. I missed this. Sorry

Thank you for the correcton
🔻 WS: I have contemplated ancient debt jubilees for 40+ years. Although they would be irrelevant in the context of what I regard as the “perfect” economic system (which I have deliberately never discussed on Twitter/𝕏), regular debt jubilees would enable debt-based systems to survive.
🔻 C3: well that’s just like your opinion, man.
🔻 WS: No. It’s a simple matter of mathematics and logistics. And no amount of delusional American exceptionalism can alter those cold, hard facts.
🔻 C4: Neither side would be able to win a war against each other. It’s all logistics
🔻 WS: Nonsense. In a putative war between the US and its potential major power adversaries, Russia, China, and Iran would all possess interior lines in their own countries and neighborhoods. US supply lines would literally “span the globe” in every case, with numerous choke points.
🔻𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩: The contiguous borders and interior lines of regional hegemons like China and Russia also makes them pay very close attention to defense of homeland in a way the US doesn’t even have in its martial imagination.
🔻 C5: Except all the money DOGE saves will be sent to Israel.
⭕ China has signaled for years that it was willing to let its real estate bubble burst, and not seek to bail out the creditors. In other words: let capitalism run its natural course.

The supposedly capitalist US socializes its losses by bailing out the creditors. |link|
🔻 Erminio Mancini: Will, just just read the source of this information to understand its validity only at the propaganda level
[he links the source of zero hedge being The Epoch Times rag]
🔻 C2: Privatize the gains, socialize the losses
⭕🎸 No Time

Two old songs dedicated to Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the destruction of Ukraine over which he has presided. |media|
🎸 Hang On to Your Life

“And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.” |media|
[Yup. Thinking alike. I dedicated the theme of this Apocalypse as a farewell to our plucky little coked pianoman]
⭕ I remain dubious that the Americans, here in 2025, will be able to “make a deal” with a victorious Russia nearly as easily as they could with a defeated Germany in 1945. |media|
🔻 JimNorCal: One one hand, RU was betrayed by Minsk 1/2. They’ve shouldered sanctions, sent their boys to the front, endured EU/US hatred. They’ve paid a steep price already. OTOH, war sucks and things are going slowly (like ejecting UA from Kursk).
[this ain’t a typical denizen of Anoxia! Maybe his missing a dose of fentanyl or something]
🔻 WS: Why would the Russians have wanted to eject the AFU from the Kursk Kauldron? Ukraine has foolishly fed into that kill zone the remainder of their best troops and equipment: 50k+ casualties since early August.

It has been the most catastrophically effective trap of the whole war.
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: There’s so much to unpack in that movie. The part where Oddball hadn’t reporting his commanding officer dead because Crapgame was collecting his ‘whiskey’, and probably other things like his pay, is exactly what is going on in Ukraine all over.
🔻 WS: If they had edited out about 45 minutes of the movie, I think it would have been a real masterpiece.

Carrol O’Connor steals the show in his scenes.
🔻 C3: There are really two questions. 1. Do both sides have a shared understanding of reality? 2. Are there benefits to both sides to end the conflict sooner rather than later? Yes, Russia has won. But the war will not go on forever. If the answers to questions one and two are both yes then after all of the posturing and bargaining is done, there ought to be a feasible solution to end the war.
⭕No matter how many times Putin et al. repeat that their inviolable terms include resolving the “ROOT CAUSE” of the Ukraine War (NATO’s encroachment beyond the borders defined by the 1997 NATO/Russia Founding Act), many continue to believe a US/Russia agreement is a “slam dunk”.🤦‍♂️
🔻 C1: Hard to believe Putin would take the bait…
🔻 WS: Yes, indeed.

I therefore repeat myself yet again: 📜 Dictating Terms
🔻 Konstantin: But Trump has already made a move toward Putin. Why would he have done that if he wasn’t sure the deal was almost done? Otherwise, he will look like a clown
🔻 WS: Why?

Willfully blind hubris.
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: It’s utterly comical how so many after everything that has happened in the last three years, and the last ten, thinks everything is all forgiven and US companies will wander back into Russia. There is no agreement on anything.
🔻Rolf Shmidt: If Trump really wants to be able to pivot US forces against China, he’ll have to serve Zelensky’s head on a silver platter with parsley sticking out of his ears and that’s just the beginning haha.
🔻 C5: I don’t believe forces redirecting is what Will was talking about
🔻 WS: Math and logistics are hard concepts for those whose understanding of war has been shaped by Hollywood movies.

⭕‼️ Trump hereby leans into a repeat of the Nixon blunder in Vietnam, and will henceforth own the Ukraine War.

It should go without saying that this comes as no surprise to me.
[links:
🔻 Michael Tracey: After Ukraine agrees to the mineral “deal,” Trump says in return Ukraine receives “the right to fight on.” He boasts that he was the one who first gave Javelins to Ukraine, which wiped out a lot of Russian tanks. He says US weapons could continue to flow to Ukraine “for awhile” |media| ]
🔻 DirtyWhiteBoy: In other words the continuation of the status quo. If anyone complains about how much we have dumped and continue to dump on Ukraine this “minerals deal” will be pointed to in defense of the money dumping as they will pay us back.
[except nuthin shall ever be paid back. It’s another scam on top of older scams]
🔻 C3: Everyone should take Mike Tracy’s hot takes with a HUGE grain of salt. The guy is notoriously tendentious in his presentation of things.
🔻 WS: Your opinion of Mike Tracey is irrelevant.
[posts leading transcript. Yup. Trump took the Swan Dive, and doomed what was left to doom of his silly con]
🔻 Angry Old Reporter: Will you apologize next week when this war is over?
[a misleading nomiker (or face?). His handle is of a pleasant older chap that doesn’t look like a presstitute]
🔻 WS: Will you when it isn’t? Because I can guaran-damn-tee you this war will not be over in a week, nor a month, nor on any other terms than those which Russia will dictate.

That is what happens in the real world when you win a big war.
📜 Dictating Terms
🔻 Angry Old Reporter: Oh, so now you admit Trump will do it but “on terms Russia will dictate.” That’s what you’ll say next week; the peace deal isn’t a good? Russia will get back what the CIA took, maybe.
🔻 WS: Misrepresent my words ==> Block
🔻 TurnsoutIwaswrong: Not sure if this is a blunder or a way to suck UK & France into sending troops which get wiped out in 6 months, leading to the humiliation of the EU and collapse of the current order.

I’ll wait and see.
🔻 WS: Meh. The French and British will TALK about “sending troops” to Ukraine, but they will never actually do it — mainly because they have no meaningful military force to send. All of the EU combined could not send a force capable of facing the Russians at this stage of the game.
🔻 C6: It’s a no win situation for America. Trump needs to extricate America, from the conflict. With the hope that a period of peace ensues. My feeling is that hostile parties will aggravate the situation.
🔻 TurnsoutIwaswrong: [“This tweet is unavailable”]
🔻 WS: 3000 troops against 1.5 million?

“Tripwire” to what?
🔻 TurnsoutIwaswrong: Sorry I meant 3 brigades each. 30,000 men, so everything they have.

As an attempt to suck in USA (which would fail).

I’m just saying…are these people actually sane? Is that a valid assumption?
🔻 WS: If ALL the NATO countries combined sent ALL their combat-capable forces to Ukraine, it would still not be sufficient to fight the Russians, and it could not be equipped and sustained for even 100 days. (It would also be a disorganized mob at best.)

NATO is an empty shell.
🔻 C7: Russia has also secretly offered Trump mineral rights in illegally occupied Ukraine territory. The smug asshole thinks he made a win-win deal for himself. But no company would risk investing there without security guarantees.
🔻 WS: You have misrepresented what Putin said. But no matter, it’s not going to happen anyway.
🔻 Silence: This is what negotiation looks like.
🔻 Goku: Lots of doomers reading tea leaves not trusting the plan. Being willing to either escalate or make peace is the correct negotiating tactic. Give them a choice. We make lots of money together, or we play who runs out of 18 to 35 year old men first.
🔻 WS: “The plan” 🤦‍♂️

Trump is the ultimate “making it up on the fly” kind of guy. Always has been.
🔻Goku: Well then I guess we are going to be playing a little game of “who runs out of 18 to 35 year old men first” with Russia.
🔻 WS: No we’re not. The US could not win and will not fight a war against Russia.
📜 The United States Could Not Win and Will Not Fight a War Against Russia
🔻 Goku: We shall see. Stranger things have happened.
🔻 WS: Maybe you should at least read what I wrote before simply posting a reply to the title.

But whatever …
🔻 Goku: I read it already. Its ok to disagree with people on Twitter. Believe it or not, but you could be incorrect or i could. We are all reading tea leaves.
🔻 WS: Arithmetic and logistics are not tea leaves.
[well some magical math CAN be closer to sifting through pigeon entrails]
🔻 Silence: Neither country could survive an all-out war. Hence the negotiation tactic.
[and that is what folks shall come to understood of Agent Orange Chaos: he is a continuation of the Biden Complex Nuclear brinkmanship. It is solely the Russkie who “negotiates” in earnest. The other devil continues to wave the “or else.”]
🔻 Christo: Things are not what they appear. Something is cooking.
🔻 WS: This is what is cooking: the Russians are in no mood to compromise on any of their long-stated demands. And consequently, Trump thinks he must “raise the stakes”, even though he’s playing a losing hand.
🔻 Pran: People always underestimate Trump’s persuasion game here. He might just be persuading both parties to settle asap
[LOL]
🔻 Ghost Town Original: Russia doesn’t have to settle. They have all the cards.
🔻 Pran: That may be the case but Trump prvodes Putin a great opportunity to integrate with the west – Trump may open up American markets for Russian goods and vice versa – think thats the broad goal
[why not take it to the limit? Will share the young boys and pizzas, too?? That such delusion continues to be even voiced…]
🔻 WS: You do not understand the degree to which things have changed over the past three years. |link|
🔻 catherine raats 🇷🇺🇿🇦🇷🇸🇧🇾🇭🇺: Whÿ do you think Russia wants ghat they’ve done very well without. What exactly does the west have to offer
🔻 Pran: Russian has definitely not done well economically without international trade. They are just good at defence and offence. They need the international markets for growth – also FDIs / FIIs
[this guy’s handle photo looks like Adam Schiff…. Nuf said]
🔻 WS: You are misinformed.

Russian real GDP has, since 2022, surpassed both Japan and Germany and is now 4th in the world behind China, US, and India.
⭕ What a time to be alive …

🤦‍♂️ |media|
🔻 uptohere: May the Lord bless and protect us
🔻 C2: Orange Hitler may have just outdone his original “Pocahontas” remark. This is next level trolling.
🔻 C3: WTF
🔻 I’m hunting wabbits: never let a tragedy go to waste…
🔻 C5: This level of hubris actually makes everything else seem almost normal
🔻 Counselling for Highly Sensitive Persons: True

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Nina 🐙 Byzantina: Fact check: true! Which one are you? |options|
🔻 WS: Un vagabondo solitario.
⭕ Trump Paraphrased:

“I was the first POTUS to give Ukraine serious US weaponry, and now that we’ve got a deal for payment from Ukraine, we’ll keep supplying them until Putin agrees to end the war.”
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‼️ Trump hereby leans into a repeat of the Nixon blunder in Vietnam, and will henceforth own the Ukraine War.

It should go without saying that this comes as no surprise to me.
🔻 Gasan Guseinov: Very sad.
🔻 WS: Numerous people commenting on this thread have accused me of misrepresenting Trump’s words. This is patently false, and I provide below a partial transcript of the press conference linked above by @mtracey.
[see same image above, “Transcript, beginning at 0:28….”]
🔻 Blackson: What happened in Riyadh?
[yeah, Rubio may be on way out, and KSA was dropped like soiled pants..]
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: What happened to “in 24 hours” or “in 100 days”?
🔻 Sergio 🇪🇸: So that was the big plan? Keep doing what Biden govt. did, but with a piece of paper that says “Ukraine will pay back”?
🔻 gpcus: Seems pretty dumb, doesn’t it? I mean: what’s the value of a receipt from a disappearing country? And what was discussed in Ryad?
[“NYET!”]
🔻 Dr. J.Hawk: Proper puppets give thanks, no matter what is done to them, he’s not one of those, clearly.

Yes, the war will go on. But I doubt it will go on with the level of US support Biden (and Harris) would give it.
🔻 WS: I agree with your last sentence, but not because it’s a question of policy.

US armaments stockpiles are now so depleted that it will be impossible to maintain the level of arms and equipment shipments seen in the first three years of the war.
🔻 Dr. J.Hawk: Yes, that’s true too. But from now on Ukraine will have to produce cash up front (from the “metals deal”) to get even that. Even Boris Johnson, who said Ukraine should take the deal, said the country was being “robbed”, just like UK during Lend-Lease. 😂😂😂
🔻 WS: Nonsense. There will be no payment of “cash up front”. Anything sent to Ukraine will still be on credit, with payment deferred until some point much further down the road — in other words, it will never truly be paid.

This is all an exercise in the sunk cost fallacy.
⭕🔻 Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵:
Told you so. 🤷‍♀️ |media|
[crone, that may be why Russian delegation in Istanbul was non-commital. What is there to say? How long will they even bother to give the lunatics fig leaves and attend these “negotiations”??]
🔻 Dr. Priscilla RivasLoria 🇺🇳🇪🇸🇵🇷🇺🇸: He didn’t say that
🔻 Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵: He clearly does at 0:11

Reporter: what does Ukraine get out of the deal?

Trump: (recounts aid provided) AND THE RIGHT TO FIGHT ON…

Reporter: How long will military aid keep flowing?

Trump: It could go on for quite a while.
🔻 WS: Precisely. And yet people willfully blind themselves to the indisputable reality of what he said, and the context in which it was said.
[“trust the Plan, Will!”]
🔻 Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵: It’s easier to deceive people than to convince them that they have been deceived.

Same as during his first term, when every decision contrary to his campaign speeches was 4D-chessed into complying with them.
⭕ 🤔 Whatever happened to the bold talk of going to Fort Knox to audit the gold? Looks like that idea was nipped in the bud posthaste, and has now entirely disappeared from the news cycle. |link|
🔻 C1: They are afraid of what they might find, or not, in Fort Knox.
🔻 WS: Of course they are.

Gold is and has always been the only Tier 1 Asset in the world.

Everything else is credit.
🔻 C1: You mean debt.
🔻 WS: credit = debt

They are synonymous terms.

In any case, I was directly quoting J. P. Morgan.
🔻 Herodotus: Since when is “news cycle” proof of anything?
🔻 WS: It is merely an indicator — quite often a very meaningful indicator.
🔻 Gary L: Yes, the new cycle, even the “google search numbers” are indicative of the interest and subsequent impetus for a particular action. As the news interest and searches wane, so does the probability of the subject being acted upon.
🔻 Vrai Nom: Pussy Galore got to Trump and he nixed the idea 🥸
🔻 WS: Well … it’s an old story. Samson and Delilah, David and Bathsheba.

Did she tie him to the kitchen chair? |Goldfinger|
⭕🔻 U.S. Central Command: A ⁨U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II patrols the skies over the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.⁩
🔻 John Ʌ Konrad V: Wait I thought we were retiring the A10?
🔻 WS: As slow and archaic as it is, I’m sure it will still suffice against people who lack the capability to shoot back.

But try to use it against Russia, China, or Iran, and it will be revealed as an obsolete flying coffin.
📜 Flying Coffins
🔻 LeeRoyJenkins®: Funny, that flying coffin was designed specifically for a Soviet engagement, and all the talk surrounding its demise was directly related to the fall of the Iron curtain. Unless you’re saying Russia is now stronger than the Soviet Union was, your point is moot
🔻 WS: You are woefully misinformed.

The Pentagon wouldn’t dare fly F-16s or A-10s against Russian air defenses. Nor against Chinese or Iranian air defenses. In fact, given how easily the Yemeni picked off MQ-9 Reapers, they wouldn’t even dare fly them against the Houthi.
🔻 LeeRoyJenkins®: If they weren’t designed to kill T-62 and T-72 Soviet Tanks during an Eastern Europe invasion, please inform me what adversary they were designed for. I’ll wait…
[i miss those days too. And reading Tom Clancy in secret by night-light..]
🔻 WS: Non sequitur. The A-10 was designed in the 1960s, and produced between 1972-1984. It is now 2025. The A-10 was not designed to face 2025 battlefield air defenses, nor could it do so. That you apparently believe otherwise is a reflection of your ignorance, not mine.
🔻 NotPeaches_Sab: Right, tell me again that you actually know nothing about modern combat and are using what you don’t know as a cudgel. Every A/C frame the US uses is designed to fly into a “contested environment” or else they wouldn’t be useful as a combat aircraft. The F-35 isn’t rough field capable, the A-10 is. The A-10 carries more A-G armament than the F-35.
Your argument fails because you actually know nothing.
[these are the lads you want storming over the lip of the trench into the hail of machine gun fires perched over dead-flat open terrain. A Glorious Charge, one way or the other]
🔻 WS: US airpower has not fought in a “contested environment” since Vietnam, where they lost 10,000 air frames. The US military has not fought a peer adversary since Korea. The US has not achieved strategic victory in a war since WW2.

The A-10 is an obsolete aircraft against 21st century air defenses such as those fielded by Russia, China, and Iran. They would be shot down in droves trying to fly in Ukraine. Same with all 4th generation US fighters. The F-35s would be safe, because they would be in the maintenance hangars 90% of the time.

You are consumed by misinformed delusions.
🔻 NotPeaches_Sab: Again, re-read what I wrote. All US combat aircraft are designed to work in a contested environment.
[No. I underestimated him. This is the Volunteer you send on a probe to the Sun, to test everything needing testing, and then some]
🔻 C1: US aircraft are NOT made to work in a contested environment — nor have they ever done so. They are made to generate massive profits for the US arms manufacturers, lobbyists, and bought-off members of Congress.

But to return to the original topic of the A-10: it could not survive more than a couple sorties on a battlefield such as Ukraine. And no one who knows anything about 21st century warfare believes otherwise.

You are deceived by American exceptionalist delusions.
🔻 NotPeaches_Sab: Actually yes they are, and since you obviously never served, your opinion is irrelevant.
[I have a feeelin’ .. as the US Navy was tested around the Gates of Tears of the Red Sea, and the Jarheads and other landlubbers now fertilize the rich, black soil of 404, we’re gonna see an Air Armada soon .. daring the very Sky. What days]
⭕‼️ Trump Owns the Ukraine War

By claiming to be the first POTUS to send serious US weaponry to Ukraine, and boasting that “lots” of Russian tanks were thereby destroyed, and then saying arms shipments will continue until Putin “makes a deal”, Trump has now assumed ownership of the Ukraine War.

(Partial transcript [above])
🔻 C1: Putin holds all the cards. Trump is supporting a loser.
🔻 Gilda Mundson: Moronic.
🔻 JoChap: a man who shots from hip often misses
🔻 C4: If the military action in Ukraine escelates as I supect it will, (Putin and Russia have no other choice).
Trumps MAGA army could dwindle substantially,
🔻 Mr Jed: This sounds like a major fuckup. The Russians have come a long way. They can sustain the war of attrition for another couple years and bleed the Trump support dry.
🔻 Jeff Wells: Democrats will be lining up to say “Clearly there’s much about which we disagree, but today Donald J Trump became President.”
🔻 WS: |bullseye|
🔻 C7: How is Trump going to convince Russia and China to reduce their defence budgets by 50% if he is advocating for more escalations in Ukraine?
🔻 WS: No one on the planet is going to be reducing their military budget by 50% anytime soon. We’re still in the first quarter of WW3 — or what I prefer to call The Last World War.
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord:
Actually the bypass route off the MSR, by the way.

MSR may be unusable at this point. |media|
🔻 WS: Now watch the Russians sit back and leisurely engage in target practice for the next few weeks — deliberately refraining from cutting off the road altogether.
🔻 Mike Mihajlovic: Indeed.
⭕🔻 iosefinapascal:
BREAKING: Georgescu’s hearing ended just now.
He is under judiciary control for 60 days, which is around the time when the presidential campaign ends.

His right to free speech online was blocked under the judiciary control.

So, that means he cannot post anything online during the campaign.

Absolutely shocking communist measures.

He said he is optimistic about his chances and will continue to fight for democracy and against the abusive measures.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: After throwing out the first round of votes because the public voted for the wrong guy, Romania just derailed Georgescu’s campaign again with trumped-up criminal charges.

We need a new word for this system of government, because it sure as hell ain’t democracy.
🔻 WS: Is this purely an internal political conflict in Romania, or are there external powers dictating this course of action?

If external, I submit the EU has no credible power over Romania. That leaves the US/NATO as the only possible actor.

Attempting to retain control over Romania, its NATO bases, and its Aegis Ashore missile system are American objectives directly in opposition to Russia’s demands that the “ROOT CAUSES” of the Ukraine conflict be addressed as a prerequisite to an agreement between Russia and the US.
[well reasoned. Attempting to retain “a card” by the drowning degenerates?? Romania, like all East Europe, is struggling mightily to free itself and correct course, afore it becomes one with the glowing aether. The Usual Suspects attempt to stay Time a little longer..]
🔻 Динарски двори: Explanation
🔻 WS: Yes, this is precisely my point.
‼️ The Accelerating End of NATO
🔻 TurnsoutIwaswrong: Romania has it’s own Deep State based in the local military intelligence services that have ruled behind the scenes for the last 35 years. Very wealthy & corrupt, own many businesses.

They are allied with CIA & Mossad. Hence the enthusiastic NATO participation. @TheEmperorisNa1
🔻 We are the Asteroid; Look in the Mirror: Romania controls nothing.

The empire controls it all.

Romania’s cancer is the major NATO/US base established there.

With Ukraine being a pile of garbage, this is used against Russia.

And because of this, pro Russian politicians are threats.

So democracy has to go. 🤡🤡🤡🤡
🔻 Jan Kobel 🇵🇸: Yes. The US coups Romania and JD Vance plays the moral high ground of democracy in Munich. What pathetic idiots this “Trump Team” is.
🔻 misterEkko: It´s a joint venture most likely.

If there´s a court order and prosecutors envolved that´s usually a good sign of a EU operation, under US supervision offcourse. lol

That´s how we roll.
Americans usually prefer a little more spectacle…
⭕ 🐶🍪 USS Trembling Puppy Update

Given that there is not a seaworthy CVN available to replace her, the USS Trembling Puppy got Band-Aids for her owies and ventured back into the Red Sea, with the redoubtable Captain Soggy Cookie (late of the USS Brave Sir Robin) now at the helm.

⭕🔻Mike Lee: Great meeting with @ElbridgeColby today; he’s a true patriot

I can’t wait to vote to confirm him as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy
🔻 WS: 🤦‍♂️ What an undiscerning fool Mike Lee has become. |gonna be biblical|
⭕ What few people seem to appreciate is that the Fall of the American Empire IS like the Fall of Rome — but at a highly accelerated speed consistent with the 21st century 24-hour news cycle and the attention span of the average American.

Days are minutes; years are weeks.
[links:
🔻 Cernovich: “My entire lifetime people would say of something happening in America, “This is like the fall of Rome!”

I bought the Gibbons 6 volume set and never saw the parallels.

Bolshevik revolution and Spanish Civil War far more relevant to our times.”]
🔻 C1: Don’t tell that to Cernovich. He believes that the US is a perpetual empire that cannot be surpassed.
🔻 WS: Well, he inadvertently confessed that he only BOUGHT the Gibbons books … not that he had actually READ them.

And that is a VERY American approach to pretty much everything.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14442071/Gene-Hackman-wife-Betsy-Arakawa-dead-Santa-Fe-home.html

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Trump extends sanctions against Russia for another year, imposed over “threats to the territorial integrity of Ukraine”

💠@kuluary_zaliva (В кулуарах Залива):
⭕ Hamas Calls on Israel to Begin Second Phase of Ceasefire

The Palestinian Hamas movement said it was ready to negotiate the next phase of a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip after the swap in the first phase of the deal was completed.

In the second phase, Hamas is expected to release dozens of remaining hostages in exchange for more prisoners and a lasting ceasefire. Hamas officials have stressed that negotiations and compliance with the agreement are the “only way” for Israel to secure the release of the remaining hostages

turns into English ~2 min point

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu arrives in Beijing

“I would like to especially note that I arrived in hospitable China on the instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin following his telephone conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping on February 24. The fact that our meeting was agreed upon in such a short time is evidence of the special nature of the bilateral dialogue,” Shoigu said at a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

Moreover, Russia and China have similar approaches to key international and regional issues, the official said, adding that the countries take unanimous positions within the UN and its Security Council, the G20, APEC and other structures. |media|
⭕ 🇳🇮🇺🇳 Nicaragua to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council, the vice president says

“For Nicaragua, these disrespectful structures have lost their nature and essence. We do not recognize them and do not consider ourselves participants or accomplices in attacks on the sovereignty, equality of states or the dignity of peoples. For this reason, Nicaragua hereby expresses its sovereign and irrevocable decision to withdraw from the Human Rights Council [HRC] and from all activities related to this council and all its subsidiary mechanisms,” Rosario Murillo said.

The HRC in its recent documents – namely, the report of the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua, the annual report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the report of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General to the 58th HRC session – violated its own principles of objectivity, impartiality and non-selectivity in considering human rights issues, Murillo noted, addressing UN HRC President Jurg Lauber.
⭕ 🇺🇸 Trump reportedly eases restrictions on US Airstrikes, military raids

Earlier in the month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a directive during a meeting with US Africa Command leaders that would weaken the government’s central control over airstrikes and the deployment of US commandos, the CBS broadcaster reported.
⭕ #sputnikviral | 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 “Could you take on Russia by yourselves?”

UK Prime Minister Starmer was embarrassed by Trump, as when the US president asked that, the whole room started laughing.

There are now some 75,166 regular soldiers in the British Army. |media|
⭕ ❗️Russian military liberated the settlement of Novaya Sorochina in the border Kursk region, the Defense Ministry reported
⭕ 🇺🇸✂️ US State Department reportedly faces radical cuts

Trump administration intends to focus the department’s work on areas such as transactional government agreements, ensuring US security and encouraging foreign investment in the United States, a Western media outlet reported, citing sources.

It is not yet clear how many embassies will be closed, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to cut a significant number of them, a source told the publication.
[Hallelujah!]
⭕ 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 Russia highly values ​​the agreements reached with China and aims to deepen cooperation, Russia’s Shoigu said at a meeting with Xi Jinping |media|
⭕ ❗️ Russia has received an agreement for the new ambassador to Washington, the foreign ministry stated

Alexander Darchiev is expected to leave for his diplomatic mission in the United States in the near future, the ministry noted.

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is furious – to deny his own responsibility as he has been doing since – over his army’s open acknowledgment of the total intelligence and operational failure on October 7, 2023—particularly regarding how Hamas defeated the Israeli Army’s Gaza Division within hours, how the military and air force reacted only six hours after the attack, and the controversial implementation of the Hannibal Directive, in which Israeli forces killed other Israelis to prevent their capture. This revelation directly contradicts the narrative Netanyahu’s government has sought to maintain, further damaging his already embattled leadership.

The Israeli military and intelligence establishment had severely underestimated Hamas’s capabilities and intentions before the October 7 onslaught. Officials wrongly believed that Hamas did not pose a significant threat, assuming the group was uninterested in a large-scale war. Military assessments also concluded that Hamas’s tunnel networks had been significantly degraded and that Israel’s high-tech border fence would effectively prevent cross-border attacks.

These critical miscalculations led to one of the most severe Israeli intelligence failures in decades, allowing Hamas to breach the border, launch an unprecedented assault, and expose fundamental weaknesses in Israel’s defense strategy. As the investigation unfolds, Netanyahu’s frustration reflects his growing political isolation, particularly as blame for the security breakdown shifts toward his government’s policies and mismanagement.
⭕ Abdullah Ocalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has issued a statement from prison calling upon the group to dissolve itself and lay down its arms in its fight against the Turkish state. His announcement won’t affect the US-proxies Kurdish groups in north-east Syria.
⭕ retweet:
Exclusive — BBC and Guardian editors held secret meetings with Israel’s former army chief one month after the Gaza bombing began.

The meetings were seen by Israel as a key avenue for promoting the brutal onslaught in Gaza.

My latest with @alex_macondo: |link|
⭕ retweet:
This is one of the videos @MaxBlumenthal is referring to.

Zionism is a hateful supremacist ideology and is utterly irredeemable.

They’re mocking a grieving child, complete with blackface.

Who can justify this? Who can excuse this? |media|
⭕ retweet:
Watch the release of 46 children detainees, marking the seventh phase of the ongoing prisoner exchange agreement.

They are all teenagers, yet racist Western journalists and legacy media are silent. |media|

Almost a week old, but Sign O the Times – huge protests in Romania too.. expected to boil over given ongoing shenanigans by Zio-USUK’s criminal compradores. ALL European vassals are currently being incinerated by the imperial core, to raise the billion starving stormtroopers for the Last Drang against mankind. And so, the race is on – perhaps “a change of elites….”

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ US Secretary of State Marco Rubio 🇺🇸 on Thursday condemned Thailand 🇹🇭’s return of at least 40 Uighurs to China 🇨🇳, where Washington says members of the Muslim group have faced genocide.
Bangkok Post!
[Thailand reaches escape velocity! A former Anglo playground. Now in BRICS fold, and mending ties with sorely aggrieved neighbors. See 007 above how one night in Bangkok can make a hard man humble]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇦🇫 Trump suggests US Secretary of Defense fire all generals responsible for Afghanistan withdrawal
⭕ 🇺🇸🇨🇦 The Trump administration has proposed withdrawing Canada from the Western Five Eyes intelligence alliance, according to the Financial Times.

The Five Eyes intelligence alliance comprises five countries: New Zealand, the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada. These countries are members of the UK-US Multilateral Agreement, which is a treaty on electronic interception.
[Pressure tactics to force the “voluntary accession” of the putative 51st state?! What days]
⭕ US President Donald Trump has refused to answer a question about whether the United States 🇺🇸would defend Taiwan 🇹🇼 against an attack by China 🇨🇳
⭕Taiwan 🇹🇼 detains a Chinese ship captain accused of cutting an undersea cable connecting the Penghu Islands offshore. Authorities suspect China 🇨🇳 of using foreign-flagged ships to disrupt its inter-island cable network.

TaiwanPlusNews!
[One trick ponies.. copy and paste from Baltics, where other pining chihuahuas reside]

💠 @Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ This year would mark the first time that a political group in the United States has received a predominantly unfavorable assessment of Israel, with 60% of Democrats expressing that view, according to a Gallup poll.
[there is no future for zionazidom, even within the demented West. End of the Line. Use it or Lose it time… pregnant days ahead]
⭕️ Egypt announces that negotiations between Israel and Hamas on the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire have begun in Cairo.

The negotiations on the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement aim to negotiate an end to the war, including the return of all hostages still alive in Gaza and the withdrawal of all Israeli troops from the territory.

According to Israel, 59 people remain captive, 24 of whom are believed to be alive.

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺The US has handed over an official note with an agreement on the appointment of Alexander Darchiev as the Russian ambassador to Washington, his departure is expected in the near future — Russian Foreign Ministry
[Are Russkies trollin’?! This fella looks like the long-lost lovechild of Salvador Dalí. And quite a salute to Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge]
⭕ 💬Emergency power outages have been introduced in Kiev, Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk regions, DTEK reports.

the most suitable nesting ground for unsolicitous limey solicitors???

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ ‼️ The Chinese Navy is delivering a modest but firm message to the silly Australians and their American overlords. |media|
🔻 Simple Life: Just out for a walk about.
[Yup. Crocodile Dundee woulda appreciate] 
🔻 C2: Canada thinking they will divorce the US and just trade with Australia. Lol
🔻 C3: That’s a good troll. Maybe just circle the island a few more times, it will be funnier.
🔻 EvaG: Australia is the Lithuania of the south.
[is that disrespectful to the Baltic Chihuahua?! At least they bark meaningfully, and with eye-catching venom..]
🔻 BigGreatPlums: And I believe that message is “Don’t Start None, Won’t Be None”.
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: Sailing through the Torres Strait without a local pilot is impressive enough…
🔻 Neil Rollinson: Freedom of navigation with Chinese characteristics.
[OK. I will stop here. The memes continue ad nauseam. You get the idea. The Season for being served Cold Crow has arrived]
⭕ The last remnant of AFU troops in the Kursk fire bag are now in operational encirclement and are being systematically annihilated.

So … let’s resurrect the myth of North Korean troops fighting alongside the Russians! 🤦‍♂️

#TheImaginaryWar is the zombie that will never die.
[links this crap:
🔻 zerohedge: North Korea Sends More Troops To Russia With Kursk Momentum Strong]
🔻 Mist – Free speech 🥩 🥚: The AFU Kursk operation has been losing men and machines for months. When does it end, weeks, months longer?
🔻 WS: When they run out of men and machines — and the will to send them there. Until then, the Russians will gladly keep the door open to the killing fields.
🔻 C3: Actually North Korea should want their troops there, that kind of combat experience would be priceless. Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Russia didn’t allow some NK troops for that reason, but I don’t think the Russians need help
🔻 WS: I agree they could use the experience. But it would simply not be practicable. In fact, it would be disruptive. You can’t just seamlessly integrate a foreign force into your well-oiled operations at this juncture of a big war.

The whole “North Korean troops” story is a myth.
🔻 C4: The losses both AFU lives and material in the Kursk region over the past two days alone have been utterly horrendous.
🔻 🛠️ Joe Biden is a MF’ing Warmonger 💥: Everyone got the memo! |media|
🔻 Gorin: To think that at one point in time zerohedge acctualy had some good takes. It’s a crazy world we live in.
🔻Angelo Biondi: Westerners are unable to even contemplate the idea that Russians are better soldiers.

Russian victories through history are always dismissed as propitiated by luck, winter, external help, etc.

Westerners are also unaware that the average Russian is way more educated than them.
⭕ 🎸 Killing Crows
⭕ Seven years ago. Sadly, it DID become “the most destructive of all”.
[links his older from 07Jan2018:
“Ukrainian factionalization has produced intermittent civil war for centuries, as anyone familiar with the history of Ukraine knows. This latest iteration, if not soon resolved, could be the most destructive of all. And blaming Russia is not the answer.”]
🔻 C1: Wise words from those who see the bigger picture usually go unheard—that’s just how it’s always been throughout history. And those who should take such words seriously usually ignore the facts.

That’s why everything that was said back in 2018 carries even more weight today, in 2025.
🔻Herodotus: Remarkably prescient.
🔻 questo non è un uovo 🐕: Second only to WW2, when current Ukrainian regime official “Heroes” sided with the Nazi invaders and willingly killed scores of Jews, Poles, Russians.
🔻 OsageCatZ: 550 y Anglos been going after Russia.
Now at end of 172y Crimean War.
This will end Monarchy.
⭕🔻 Simon Mikhailovich:
👇 We are in the middle of a full-scale intra-elite civil war… |media|
🔻 WS: reposts his older from 30Dec2022:
“You don’t understand how civil wars work. They don’t arise out of popular protests. They arise from the polarization of extremely powerful interests within a nation. In such a scenario, the military power of the nation gets divided, and then supplemented by foreign interests.”

and his older from 22Feb2022:
“The powerful wealthy “elite” are not a monolith. Civil War 1.0 in the US was between factions of the wealthy elite.

I submit that virtually ALL civil wars in human history have been between factions of the powerful wealthy elite.”
🔻 Hari: All wars in human history, and to come, is between factions of Wealthy elite
[the curse, and bane, of mankind! Elites…]
⭕🤔 I have determined that the X search function is suppressing results.

For example, earlier today I tried to search “from:imetatronink” for the post linked below, using “schism”, “masses”, and “masters”.

This post will NOT come up in the search results. It is being suppressed.
links his older from 21Aug2024:
“‼️ Civil wars do not happen because the masses rise up against their masters. They happen when a schism forms between the masters, who then use long-refined methods to enlist factions of the masses to fight for them against their rivals.”
🔻 EvaG: And the bots that immediately like some of your posts as soon as you sent it ? They’re your social credit scores.
🔻 WS: Yes. Instantaneous porn bot likes to most of my posts.
🔻 C2: To be fair, I believe it’s not so much nefarious as it is a broken system. I can no longer effectively search for any past tweets on my timeline. That has been the case for months.
🔻 WS: The only reason the SQL would filter out certain results is if it is doing so on the basis of some other field value that flags the post for the exclusion.
🔻 C2: And yet this has been the case across almost every search parameter I’ve run. Results are just an incompete jumble of seemingly random posts.
🔻 WS: I do know that, if you search for something that is only found in the portion of your post beyond the original 280 characters, it will not find it. The X search engine only searches the first 280 characters of a post.
🔻Suresh Nirody – snirody.eth: X search on ‘schism’ from you brings up 10 tweets; this appears to be one you use a lot. Interestingly, it doesn’t bring up the Aug 20th, 2024 tweet but it does your RT from earlier today.
🔻 WS: I’ve searched for and successfully found this particular post several times since 2024-08-20, because I have then copied the link and reposted it as a reply or embedded link several times. But now it will not appear in my search results.
🔻 Oklahoma Gamgee ✝️: Not suppressed. Just broken. Known issue.
[suppressed AND broken??]
🔻 WS: Well … if it is a “known issue”, then it’s more than just embarrassing. How hard is it to assemble a simple select/sort search string with two parameters? I’m sure there are literally millions of American teenagers that could do it.
🔻 Oklahoma Gamgee ✝️: If I had to guess, they’re behavior modifying you to search Grok rather than that functionality.
🔻 WS: Grok does, in fact, return that post. And it also returned another one, from a week previous, where I used the same terms “civil wars”, “masters”, and “masses”. Neither post is returned from the X search engine.
[welcome to the Brave New World of Orange Chaos.. the old order has less and less utility.. will be shoved down and deep into dark Rabbit Holes]
🔻 Oklahoma Gamgee ✝️: Bingo! They want to drive traffic to Grok. They CAN fix it but won’t.
[bastards! They’re really pushing and unleashing A.I. I do increasingly find myself assaulted, and involuntarily, everywhere I go and on every App, with this crap. they’re really churning the Chaos Magick…]
🔻 NotABot: Maybe they broke search to motivate ppl to use Grok?
🔻 Happy Corgi Pants: I was first shadow-suppressed during COVID for my criticism of the jab’s effectiveness, etc.

After Elon’s acquisition, it seemed to get better.

However, after posting AI-generated political cartoons critical of the Gaza situation, my replies on high traffic threads went dry.
/1
[note the pattern with the putative head of the Orange Wrecking Crew. Big Grand Proclamations, a [brief] rosy honeymoon period, followed-up with even worse totalitarianism than before]
🔻 Happy Corgi Pants: In fact, I began only receiving 1 or 2 likes per reply on high traffic threads (>20,000 views) from SEX BOTS advertising OnlyFans trials.

I was also added to Posts from crypto scam bots that would list 5-10 users.

These are known tactics to exploit X’s moderation logic.

/2
🔻 WS: Yes, after a relative hiatus of a few months, I am again being assaulted by the porn bots and crypto scam bots, both in my time line and my DMs. It has grown exceptionally bad in just the past several days.
🔻 Happy Corgi Pants: Case in point (and this was almost immediately after my second reply): |link|
⭕👀 Starlink Satellite Network

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

He cannot simultaneously be both.
🔻 The Golden Rim Motor Inn: The fact that you even entertain whether a billionaire defense contractor is a champion of free speech shows how successful his idiotic propaganda is.
🔻 WS: reposts older:
“As to the emerging Twitter “revelations”, I smell a Limited Hangout in progress.

In my view, to assess these matters, one must first ascertain if Elon Musk is a bona fide champion of the people’s “free speech” or a sworn disciple of the empire.

He can’t simultaneously be both.” |media| ]
🔻 Continuity of agenda continues under Trump: Sworn disciple of the empire for $1,000 Alex!
🔻 StarBoySAR 🇭🇰 🇨🇳 🥭: The mask dropped quite a while ago SpaceX has long crossed into Military-Civil Fusion space, as the US is militarizing space, developing and deploying offensive space weapons, conducting military attack and defense exercises and technical experiments for the “battlefieldization” of space

Musk has repeatedly promoted Starlink as better than the DARPA’s “Project Blackjack” it’s the best choice for the US future space-based defense/strike system

Below is a in-depth video on China’s, EU’s and Starlink/Starshield LEO satellite constellations |media|
🔻 Paulo: Everyone can be turned…Epsteined …
🔻 C5: I don’t believe you can be that wealthy (publicly) without striking a deal with the devil.
⭕🔻 John Ʌ Konrad V:
BREAKING: At his confirmation hearing, the new SECNAV John Phelan says Trump gave him three clear orders:

“SHIPBUILDING. SHIPBUILDING. SHIPBUILDING.”
🔻 WS: ‼️ If the US, starting TOMORROW, made shipbuilding its highest priority going forward, it would take AT LEAST 20 years — an entire generation — before American shipbuilding could produce even 20% of current Chinese output.

Prove me wrong.
🔻 Boomer_Gen: Not with Elon & AI.
🔻 WS: I don’t understand what this even means.
🔻 Boomer_Gen: It won’t take 20 years for Elon when you look at all he’s accomplished in record time.
🔻 broken dick tusk after failed enlargement surgery (@DickCheneyFacts): Cult devotion and blind faith in the cult leader.
🔻 Source Code: AI-generated virtual alternative reality funded by Elon Musk, with saturated propaganda support from the media, somewhat similar to Ukraine’s imaginary strategic, tactical, & operational victory over Russia that Biden & Blinken were talking about a year ago.
[Yeah. Fully into La La Land. And we shall be entertained. “Trust the Plan”]
🔻 broken dick tusk after failed enlargement surgery: US has also had problems with shipbuilding for 150 years for various reasons, interesting capsule history here. |story|
🔻 alpha: Why? Not arguing but curious as you why you say this?
🔻 WS: It’s quite simple, actually: the US currently lacks the facilities, expertise, skilled workforce, and national will necessary to become a prolific shipbuilder again. In terms of heavy industry, the US is effectively an deindustrialized nation, and cannot soon change that reality.
🔻marley4142: Liberty ships.. This deficit under proper management can turn on a dime.
🔻 WS: Don’t be dumb.
🔻marley4142: Liberty ships
🔻 WS: Don’t be dumb.
🔻marley4142: What we couldn’t tool up and build ships the way we did with Liberty ships. Better advice, base pessimism is not predicting the future.
🔻 WS: Don’t be dumb.
🔻 marley4142: Will, like your writing and enjoy checking out your substack, but don’t fool yourself, you’re not brilliant, an acute observer yes. Do better..
🔻 WS: Don’t be dumb.
[LOL. Bob finally went away..]
🔻Create Alliances for Better and Prepare for Worse: If my friend who was a materials analyst working on nuclear reactor and other critical aspects of navy ships (later manager of the top black site lab) told you what he encountered in construction corruption when we could, the fact we can’t, would be a great relief.
⭕‼️ Commit to memory the names and the faces, and never forget, because every single one of them is complicit in this charade.

“Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”
― Euripides
🔻 Pink Shirt Migo: Can you tell us what do you think. Do you think the documents are not real?
🔻 WS: It is what is called a “limited hangout”. In this case it’s an exceedingly limited hangout. It’s a total charade that reveals nothing that was not already in the public domain. |definition|
🔻 Gayle 🎗️: The new narrative that they knew there was no damning evidence in the binder.
🔻 Cannoneer Marine: |prelim Judgment|
🔻 McTablecloth: The right wing grift-o-sphere on full display today
🔻 C5: All bought and paid for by the new generation of corrupt media.
Just with a new name #PaidInfluencers
🔻 Sherlock: This is not what we voted for…
[well suck it up! Yer gonna get it up the wazoo]
🔻 C7: The hats make it even more of a clusterfuck
What a bunch of assholes
⭕🔻 Always Right:
Sorry. I gotta call it like I see it. Today’s Epstein binder fiasco was hugely embarrassing for the Trump administration. Whoever thought it’d be a good idea to have social media influencers parade around and take pictures as if it’s the Academy Awards should be fired.
🔻 NAFO Disrespecter 40K 🚀🇰🇵: So much of this admin is just hype smoke and mirrors lol

Re-releasing already public files on epstein but adding MORE redaction, lmfaoooo
🔻 WS: What I find so depressing is how many otherwise seemingly discerning people have become — and will undoubtedly, for some time yet, continue being — credulous apologists for this entirely predictable trajectory of events.
🔻 heretolearn: Hope Springs eternal, don’t it.
After the constant metaphorical teeth kicking in by gov, it’s all people have left.
🔻 Decelerationist1: Revealing on who is legitimate and who has been playing a role, consciously or not
🔻 Punished ZZZapling ♋️: I think some people are just so tired of the constant deceit and hopelessness that has become so characteristic of each subsequent administration for who knows how long, that when a Nero-like figure as Trump engages in theatrics, it makes them think he’s actually doing something.
⭕ All currently active UK and French combat personnel should view a “greatest hits” video compilation of these sorts of strikes.

You wanna go fight the Russians? Ok. Here’s what to expect. |media|
🔻 Geronticus: They are making sure they only see ukro hits. At least in my country.
🔻 WS: And they all look pathetic viewed side by side with FAB-500s, and 1000s, and 3000s, and screaming Iskanders air-bursting hundreds of sub-munitions in a big circle, wiping out everything inside it, followed by salvos of 300mm rockets.

It’s long since become a pitiless massacre.
⭕ 🔻 Armchair Warlord:
Russians will back-clear a city after taking it and geobrocators will turn the resultant sporadic fighting with AFU diehards and demolition of booby-trapped structures into a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

(this is happening in Toretsk right now; it’s happened several times before)
🔻 WS: I just hope I live long enough to read the definitive and authoritative history of this war, and compare its descriptions and conclusions to what you and I and others have struggled to accurately ascertain from our open sources, logic, and discernment.
🔻 C2: It will be read as a completely different war. Our grandfather’s that fought ww2 view that war completely different than how we view it through books and movies. There watch band of brothers and see a totally different reality than what we envisage
🔻 Geronticus: Fiction will replace truth. Read a scholarly book on the history of the Russian language written before 2014 and one written now. Actual scholarly, not wikipedia-tier. They’ve invented a “Ukrainian” language out of whole cloth and are now teaching its made-up history as fact.
⭕ I’d love to change the world, but I hate my generation.
🔻 Lisette Gonza: Same mood here.
From Germany with love 😩
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Lena Petrova: As Zelensky is on his way to the White House to hand over what’s left of his country, UK PM Starmer says the rare earth deal between the US and Ukraine is an ‘incredible achievement.’

‘We need to defend the line, protect the deal” – PM Starmer.

Never has a nation with a poverty rate of 24% (as of 2022, much worse now) fought an unwinnable proxy conflict against a nuclear neighboring state, killed nearly 1.5 million of its own people, and destroyed its economy and infrastructure….only to hand over its natural resources to a foreign nation that funded the conflict. |media|
🔻 Wingchunlion: UK should chip in some opium to sweeter the deal?


🔻 WS: I live my life like there’s no tomorrow
All I’ve got, I had to steal
Least I don’t need to beg or borrow
Yes, I’m livin’ at a pace that kills

———–

“The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.” |link|
[and posted two leading excerpts above]
⭕ For everyone who genuinely believed Fort Knox gold was going to be audited and the customers of Jeffrey Epstein were going to be revealed, Johnny Rotten gets the last laugh: |link|
🔻 WS: 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?” |cheated|
🔻 Xopxe Стронгарм: As an American, my most pressing concern at this moment is to prepare for the coming collapse of the United States of America.

Prepare yourself both spiritually and temporally. Buy gold, silver, and XMR. Stock up on food and basic supplies.

If you can, get your family out of the US.
🔻 WS: Read Part 1 at the link below.
📜 Welcome to the Last World War
🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ: Seems the term ‘populism’ is being reinvented to mean exploiting popular conspiracy culture to lead the masses with carrot-n-stick as replacement for bread and circuses while the status quo fat cats laugh to the bank.
🔻 WS: Welcome to America 2025

More circuses; less bread.

Make Canada the 51st state? Annex Greenland? Invade Mexico? Seize the Panama Canal? Expose the Epstein Island perverts? Audit the gold?

It’s all circuses. Only the ringleader and the clowns have changed.
🔻 Randy Clark: The smell of the grease paint. The roar of the crowd. 🤡
🔻 Zara: Is this where the empire crumbles? I was expecting it be at a slower pace but we thank God for small mercies.
🔻 Le Van Blanc: Step right up and see the bearded lady Elon Musk!
🔻 Ant-i: Spot on. More of the same, only the narrator this time is a bit more entertaining.
🔻 thunupa: Only the velocity of spin is increasing…
🔻 Dr Ragin: When “The Babylon Bee” that has been solidly in your camp mocks your circus…. |link|
🔻 Yasha: Transparency has never been so opaque. Yet some people are celebrating it.
🔻 Dave Collum: My bullshit meter is now pegging. Bondi said the files were on her desk. Now she is screaming foul cause there was nothing new in them. Did she forget to open the files? Now they are going to “investigate.” Thankfully, Gene Hackman, his wife, and dog died to keep us distracted.
[when even our organic chem friend smells the Noxious Wind.. and yes, I too suspect Old Gene became a prop, was offed, to feed the Mighty Wurlitzer.. Brother Casey will serve out the lowdown soon. It was spelled out in recent movie predictive programming]
🔻 Christo: Maybe it is the way Israel works.
This is phase 1 of the Epstein files release.
Next, Hamas must release some hostages and the next batch of Epstein files will be released in phase 2.
⭕🔻Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山:
Serious doubts about the existence let alone the viability of rare earth in Ukraine.

The U.S.-UKR is so vague it is largely meaningless. It all hinges on a future “funds agreement”.

Is Zelensky luring the U.S. back in with fictitious resources? |link|
🔻 WS: The US and all the EU countries know damn well there are no significant / viable / economical “rare earths” deposits in non-Russian Ukraine. This whole narrative is a lame psyop designed to “save face” for the humiliated Americans.
🔻 EL DUCK: And have an implicit protection as US interests will be present.
🔻 WS: The Russians will permit exactly ZERO foreign military presence in the rump Ukraine. They get Russian security guarantees, or they’ll have none at all.
🔻 Man on the Silk Road: More significantly it provides leverage in negotiations with Russia: “Look, you gotta give us economic concessions otherwise it might be politically imperative for us to defend our interests in Ukraine”, etc.
🔻 WS: They got nuthin’.

I’ve heard of “shotgun marriages” but apparently a messy shotgun divorce just took place in the Orange House. And Russkie-Bear ain’t buying any of this shitshow

💠@Communism:
⭕ Happening now: Greece is on fire as a nationwide strike brings the country to a standstill. Hundreds of thousands swarm the streets, paralyzing multiple cities in a showdown with the state.

Riot police deployed tear gas, water cannons, mass arrests, and excessive violence. More than 80 people are detained, and at least five are injured in Athens alone, authorities report.

Masked protesters hurl Molotovs and makeshift explosives at police lines. Clashes erupt as demonstrators repeatedly try to breach barricades and storm the parliament in the capital.

Two years ago today, Greece suffered its deadliest train disaster—a catastrophe many blame on years of austerity, neoliberal policies, and a rotten infrastructure. |media|
[wow. a belt of fire down the Balkans all way to Romania/Moldava and into 404 itself]

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇦🇺🇸Ukrainian Ambassador to the US Reacts to Trump-Zelensky Dispute |media|
[keep scrolling down for the latest voodoo show. We shall be Entertained]
⭕ ⚡️Trump to Zelensky: Your problems start right now
⭕ ❗️There is a spat between Vance, Trump and Zelensky

Vance: I speak for diplomacy, which prevented your country from being destroyed. Now you have a shortage of people, men.

Zelensky : You haven’t been to Ukraine

Vance: I see the history, I see what’s happening to the Ukrainian people. I see that you can’t recruit people into the army. You can’t attack our administration.

Trump to Zelensky: You have no right to dictate anything to us. You are now in a very disadvantageous position.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦Trump appears to have kicked Zelensky out of the White House. His motorcade is pulling up to West Wing now.
⭕ ⚡️ Trump and Zelensky’s press conference after their spat at the White House meeting has been cancelled — CNN
⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦The reaction of Ukrainian financial circles to Zelensky’s falling out with Trump.

“I don’t know what to do. I exchanged dollars for pounds,” wrote Monobank co-owner Gorokhovsky.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️Everything was ready for the signing of the fossil agreement, after which there was supposed to be a press conference. There were tables, pens were on the tables, but everything fell apart — Sky News
⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦”A diplomatic disaster. There is no other way to describe it. Of all the possible outcomes of today’s high-stakes meeting at the White House, Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump screaming at each other was not what anyone had pictured. It goes beyond the worst-case scenario. With that, months – years – of careful diplomacy by Ukrainian officials and diplomats went up in smoke. When the smoke cleared, Ukrainian-American relations were left lying in a pool of blood.” (c) Telegraf correspondent
⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️Trump-Zelensky spat likely to accelerate U.S. efforts to investigate possible abuses in Kyiv’s use of aid — Reuters, citing a U.S. official

💠@Dmitry Medvedev:
⭕ A fierce scolding in the Oval Office.
For the first time, Trump told the cocaine clown the truth to his face: the Kiev regime is gambling with World War III. And the ungrateful swine got a hard slap in the face from the owners of the pigsty. That’s a good thing, but not enough – we must stop military aid to the Nazi machine.

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇦🇫🇺🇸 Trump: “Afghanistan must return the military equipment we left there.”
[Hamas, Hezbollah and the Russian General Staff burned up quite a lot, eh?? Scrounging furiously worldwide.. and good luck prising them outta the meaty hands of beady-eyed burly bearded Afghans!]

💠@Multipolar Market:
⭕ Italy Suspects Ukraine in Seajewel Tanker Attack Last Week

Italian authorities are investigating Ukraine as a potential suspect in the attack on the Seajewel tanker last week. The vessel, which was transporting Russian oil, suffered two explosions below the waterline. Although disaster was averted, the incident could have catastrophically impacted Italy’s premier resorts and disrupted the tourist season entirely.

Intelligence sources note that, aside from Ukraine, no other party appears to have a motive for such an attack. Ukraine has already been linked to terrorist acts within the EU, including the earlier attack on the Seacharm tanker in Turkey.

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇳❌🇺🇦The UN has suspended financial aid programs in several regions of Ukraine due to a reduction in support from the United States, Guterres said.
[404 is being dropped with extraordinary alacrity]
⭕ 🇷🇺🤝🇧🇾 Vladimir Putin has signed a law ratifying the treaty with Belarus on security guarantees within the Union State
[on the very day the Cokehead got tossed unceremoniously, and denied the security guarantees for which he came hat in hand!]
⭕ 🍿🇺🇦🇺🇸 Everyone watching this train wreck in the White House. |media|
[a savvy African onlooker!]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇩🇪”The scenes from the White House are shocking. How can one betray the president of an invaded country like this? Free Europe will not abandon Ukraine,” – CDU Party of Germany, who won the recent snap general elections.
⭕ 🇻🇦 Pope Francis’ health has deteriorated today.
[did he watch the Orange House vaudeville??]
⭕ 🤡Zelensky made US assistance almost impossible with his behavior in the White House — Senator Lindsey Graham
⭕ 🇺🇦🇺🇸 You know it’s bad when even Lindsey “To The Last Ukrainian” Graham says he’s done.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺Pentagon chief orders US Cyber ​​Command to halt all activities against Russia, including offensive cyber operations — industry publication Record
⭕ 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦- UK Prime Minister and rare bastard Keir Starmer confirms 17 European nations will take part at the Ukrainian Summit on Sunday in London.
[why not make it 13? or 19? or 33? or 666?]

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸 For the first time in U.S. history, President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order making English the official language of the United States.
Source: WSJ
[does this apply to the horny ordained witch that speaks in tongues inside his oval office? “One Rule for thee…”]
⭕️ 🇹🇷 PKK announces ceasefire with Turkey.
[Yanquis really are leaving Syria… Kurds over the barrel]

💠 @Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ The US State Department has announced to Congress that it plans to sell Israel nearly $3 billion worth of weapons, including thousands of bombs and armored bulldozers worth $295 million.

According to the State Department, three separate sales have been sent to Congress for approval.

One is for $2.04 billion for 35,529 MK 84 or BLU-117 heavy bombs and 4,000 I-2000 penetrating warheads. Deliveries are expected to take place next year.

The second is for $675.7 million for 201 MK 83 1,000-pound bombs, 4,799 BLU-110A/B 1,000-pound bombs and 5,000 JDAM guidance kits. Deliveries are scheduled for 2028.

The third sale, valued at $295 million, includes Caterpillar D9 excavators and related equipment. Deliveries of the excavators, used by the Israeli military, are scheduled to begin in 2027.
⭕️ Hamas spokesman said there were no ongoing talks for a second phase of the ceasefire and that he rejected Israel’s “formulation” aimed at extending the first phase.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️ Russian military liberated the settlements of Skudnoe and Burlatskoe in the DPR, the Defense Ministry reported
⭕#sputnikviral | 📹 Calling the US VP a “b**ch”: Zelensky introduced Americans to Russian swear words

More and more memes from a fiasco meeting in the White House go viral.

Among the highlighted parts is Zelensky’s obscene expression in a whisper in response to JD Vance’s remark. |media|
[Triggered outta character!]

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇦🇺🇸 Kvartal 95, the comedy studio founded by Zelensky, decided to support the expired Ukrainian president by comparing the U.S. president to a piano that Zelensky once played with his privates.

Way to go Ukrainians, calling Vance a bitch and then mocking Trump will surely get you another meeting in the White House.

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Ramadan Mubarak to all observing it.
⭕ The US will be ruthless with Ukraine under President Zelensky from today onward.
[imagine we all think this, AFTER 1 – 1,500,000 UkroNazis were murdered at Russian hands, on behalf of the former Shining City on the Hill. This is the same as threatening Gaza with hell. What days]
⭕ IL will remain in Philadelphi Corridor as in Leb & SY, said Katz. It’s against Intn’l Law & David Accords. It threatens EG’s sovereignty. Will EG do anything? Phil.Cor is along border with EG. Zone A. IL is unilaterally expanding its borders. Holds 3 provinces in SY & 6 in Leb.
[synopsis of his latest article]
⭕ Zelensky left (kicked out by Trump) the White House earlier than scheduled after this bickering.
What will happen next? In his fantasy, he believes Europe can help him without the US support. He will soon discover the bitter reality and how impotent the EU leaders are.
⭕ Zelensky did not challenge Donald Trump without the whispered support of the EU. Relying on Europe is naive and wrong.
⭕ I must credit President Zelensky for displaying far more courage than any European or Arab leader. He stood firmly against two powerful bullies, confronting them head-on in the same room, and did so with the entire world watching.
[well said. Even if part of the credit must be given to the power of pure Columbian snow, and the power of whichever wretched principality inhabited the equally wretched meat-suit]
⭕ NATO is the US.
[so RIP, for ever and forever more..]

This is one of oldest masjids on earth, known as the Great Mosque of Gaza, first built in 7th century. Destroyed countless times, including by first Crusaders, the Mongols, natural disasters, and now the Zionazis on Dec 07, 2023 with US munitions. A survivor like the Palestinians and peoples of the Holy Land. It shall be back

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Nina 🐙 Byzantina: [lead image w/ an offer by The Firm]
🔻 WS: This is what the old timers in my neck of the woods used to call “a pig in a poke”: you paid for such and such “deposits”, spent 5 years drilling and identifying the resource; another 5 years building an appropriate plant and developing a 10-year mining plan. Then, if you manage to extract some ore, ya gotta send it either to Russia or China to be processed. In the end, the final product yield is far less than forecast at five times the price expected, so you operate at a loss or you walk away.

Welcome to the real world of mining hard to extract minerals, and going broke as you do it.
⭕🔻 Nina 🐙 Byzantina: Is Zelensky 🇺🇦 rehearsing for a super important meeting with the EU Commission 🇪🇺 to show his European values? 😌 |media|
🔻 WS: Frat Night Amateur Hour Cabaret

All the tawdry decadence; none of the beguiling charm.
⭕ In the immortal words of Bob Dylan

“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”

Learn to weld.
links:
🔻 Zack Labe: After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I’m so sorry to everyone also affected.

My job was to strengthen NOAA’s use of machine learning and AI for subseasonal-to-decadal weather and climate prediction
[I had an elderly relative used to work for the NOAA branch in Maryland. Visited her there back in the day]
🔻 LesenUndTeilen©  🌍 🇪🇺: So sorry. I‘d wish I could say: Come over to Germany and work on.

But as it is: Germans did vote for a new canceler who wishes to reduce workforce as well.

i hope you may find a great opportunity to work on in the same field.
[did our german friend mispell or use punning on “Chancellor”?? For cancellation is indeed their role since 1991..]
🔻 C3: China is hiring. They take climate change seriously. You could probably go over there and do some really excellent work. Or if that’s not your thing then Europe still believes… But the USA for the next 4 years, nope, if you want to do climate change science it won’t be here. ☹️
🔻 C4: So, your job was to feed false info into AI to further the lie of climate change?
[don;t throw out the baby with the bath water! There IS real, and shocking, climate change underway.. but the attribution, and solution(s) ..]
🔻 C5: The government is broke. Not your fault. Clean up your resume and get a different job.
🔻 C6: No joke, I’m in awe of people who can weld well. They make or fix anything
🔻 Autodidact: Or plumb.
⭕🧵 2018 Ukraine Posts

Back in 2018, during the Trump 45 administration, when I used to talk about the growing danger of a war in Ukraine, people would just roll their eyes, secretly wonder what a “Ukraine” was, and then ignore me.

January 7, 2018: |THREAD|
🔻spavic: Tragic how avoidable this all was. Avoidable, unnecessary, wasteful. A true blunder by evil, short-sighted people..
⭕🎸 It’s Over

Requiem for Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
🔻 Agnieszka Pilchowa: …don’t shed a tear 💧
🔻 #Liderazgoinnovador: It was the best Big Brother reality show I’ve ever seen. It only lacked Oprah
🔻 Chicken Little: Remember all the worlds a stage. Only believe 1/2 of what you see and nothing you hear. Cheers
⭕🤦‍♂️ “Apex Fighter”

The F-22 has never once engaged in aerial combat, nor faced potent air defenses, and its mission-capable rate has always been atrocious. It is a maintenance-hangar queen. In its sole chance for “glory”, it took TWO missiles to shoot down a big balloon.
[links:
🔻 Tyler Rogoway: “There will never be another true apex fighter like the F-22. For good reason, but it’s just interesting to ponder. That moment is now behind us.”]
🔻 Андрей Владимирович 2.0 🇧🇾🇷🇺: On July 28, 2024, the Su-35S multirole fighter of the Russian Aerospace Forces set a world record for using an air-to-air missile against an enemy fighter. The target (MiG-29 of the Ukrainian Air Force) was destroyed at a distance of 213 kilometers by an R-37M missile.
🔻 WS: Russian air-to-air missiles are faster, and outrange, BY FAR, any of their US counterparts.
🔻 Sridhar Shelat: All airforces also need to ponder how to fwd deploy complicated jets without bringing them into harms way of Gerans or similar long distance drones.
🔻 WS: They have no defense against 1000 km range Iskanders screaming down on them at Mach 4+.
⭕🔻 Robin Monotti:
I would like to ask my American friends how they feel about what happened in the Oval Office today? What are your thoughts and feelings about it all?
🔻 WS: In part, it was a deliberate setup to do precisely what was done: publicly and ruthlessly humiliate Zelensky in front of a global audience.

But it was primarily intended to continue to cultivate the narrative that none of this was Trump’s fault.
📜 Some Sins Will Not Wash Away
🔻 WS: But I was warning about the coming Ukraine War from the early stages of the Trump 45 administration, because the US was already involved in it up to their eyeballs:
🔻 Dr. Anton: What about the efforts put into negotiating this minerals deal?
Did Trump need that as a ‘win’ ? 🤷🏻‍♂️
🔻 WS: There are no meaningful rare earths deposits in Ukraine.
[exactly! Ponder THAT. The entire show .. was over buying a unicorn. The lies, and risible stratagems, of the Liars are the counterpart to the minds of the Russkie, described as a Matryoshka doll. Layers of lies, and targets]
🔻 Elydia35: you’re right but there’s an actual document that they prepared for Zelensky to sign (which he didn’t want to sign). They were planning to film the signing in the oval office
[yeah. Follow the red cape folks!]
🔻 WS: The document was a meaningless prop. The whole “Ukrainian mineral treasures” narrative is a ridiculous psyop. There is no substance to it whatsoever.
🔻 Elydia35: I totally believe it’s an empty tactic to convince Trump supporters that he’s doing smthg to address the absurd amount of aid the US has given Ukraine. My point is that there was a real signing planned for the cameras, which got derailed.
[even the signing was staged, repleted with a luncheon with “sunset tomatoes”. A shitshow, cover to cover. And it took over the global spotlight for a day or two, itself worth it from their perspective]
🔻Gary L: You’ve concluded what should have been obvious based upon the paucity of RE stores there, that this is a face-saving operation rather than an economically advantageous one. Now it at least makes some perverse sense.
🔻 Robin Monotti: I think he provoked them.
🔻 WS: I submit that the provocations – and the pressure – have been deliberately cranked up over the past several days.

Did Zelensky melt down first today? Sure. But today’s episode was the final act in the play. Zelensky is a dead man walking, and he knows it.

I again submit that the primary objective is to cultivate and perpetuate the fictitious narrative that none of this catastrophic war was Trump’s fault. But it was. And the receipts are there to be found for those whose memories of this conflict date back prior to February 24, 2022.
🔻 AndiHaHa: So you don’t believe this has anything to do with preventing the EU/Ukraine from dragging all of NATO into WWIII?
🔻 WS: None of that was ever even a realistic possibility. European NATO is an utterly empty shell. Nor does the US have the military wherewithal to go fight Russia in eastern Europe. It’s all ridiculous posturing. The US could not win and will not fight a war against Russia.
🔻 Hypocrisy Sucks: No one forced him to open his mouth. 🤷‍♀️
🔻 WS: True enough … but they knew damn well that he would.

And think what one may about Trump, he’s a master at manufacturing precisely this kind of thing. I have no doubt whatsoever that it was preconceived and set up to play out more or less as it did.
🔻 jumblepie: Agree it was somewhat of a setup that Z walked into but you also maintain a peace plan is almost impossible w/o Odessa and Kharkov included.

Assume Trump already knows this and the objective makes more sense. This puts it on Z what is about to happen, likely inevitable anyway.
🔻 Noms: How was it Trump’s fault?
🔻 WS: I never said it was Trump’s fault. I said Trump is working to convince people NONE of it was his fault. But it was. It very much WAS. And Trump clumsily admitted it on Wednesday.

Of course, I’m talking about THE WAR. Read the article I linked above. It’s a mere 400 words long.
⭕ retweet of old:
‼️ Trump Owns the Ukraine War

By claiming to be the first POTUS to send serious US weaponry to Ukraine, and boasting that “lots” of Russian tanks were thereby destroyed, and then saying arms shipments will continue until Putin “makes a deal”, Trump has now assumed ownership of the Ukraine War.
⭕ cont thread:
🔻 Sarah Francis Ackerman: While it’s true that U.S. support for Ukraine increased during Trump’s tenure, the characterization of this as a “parabolic” trend line specifically attributable to 2017–2021 is an exaggeration. U.S. military aid to Ukraine began in earnest under the Obama administration following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. The Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, funded through Congress, was established in 2016, before Trump took office. Trump’s administration continued this policy, most notably by approving the sale of Javelin anti-tank missiles in 2017—a decision framed as a response to Russian aggression rather than an escalation toward open war.

The trajectory of U.S./NATO support was not uniquely aggressive under Trump. Data from the U.S. Department of Defense shows that lethal aid remained limited compared to what followed under Biden in 2022 (e.g., HIMARS, Patriot systems). The Trump administration’s approach was cautious, often tempered by Trump’s personal reluctance to entangle the U.S. in foreign conflicts, as evidenced by his public statements questioning NATO’s value and his hesitance to confront Russia directly. The “parabolic” trend, if it exists, is more accurately tied to the post-2022 escalation after Russia’s full-scale invasion, not the preparatory phase under Trump.

The claim about AFU’s overstates the AFU’s capabilities prior to 2022. While Ukraine had a sizable military— bolstered by its Soviet-era inheritance and post-2014 reforms—it was not “by far” the most potent in Europe. Pre-2022 assessments, such as those from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Military Balance, show that Ukraine’s forces were large but outdated, underfunded, and heavily reliant on legacy Soviet equipment. Countries like France, the UK, and Germany maintained more advanced and better-resourced militaries.

The AFU’s air defense and artillery were particularly weak against a peer adversary like Russia, as demonstrated by their struggles in the early phases of the 2022 invasion. The absence of modern Western systems like M-777 howitzers or HIMARS during Trump’s tenure wasn’t because they “didn’t need” them, but because U.S. policy under Trump avoided providing such heavy weaponry to prevent escalation with Russia—a stark contrast to the author’s narrative of deliberate war preparation.

Regarding your claim that “The AFU was trained on systems like M-777 and HIMARS during Trump’s tenure, as evidenced by their rapid deployment in 2022.”

There’s no credible evidence that Ukraine was systematically trained on M-777 howitzers or HIMARS during Trump’s administration. These systems were introduced after Russia’s February 2022 invasion, with training programs accelerated under Biden. Pentagon announcements in mid-2022 (e.g., June 2022 for HIMARS) confirm that training began *after* the invasion, not before. The rapid battlefield deployment within 90 days reflects Ukraine’s urgent adaptation and NATO’s post-invasion surge in support, not a pre-existing Trump-era program.

The Javelin and NLAW systems provided under Trump were defensive, portable anti-tank weapons, not indicative of training for large-scale offensive operations with artillery or rocket systems. So your claim isn’t based on documented timelines .

Regarding the AFU’s integration with US/NATO command, secure communications, and ISR capabilities during Trump’s tenure made it “very formidable.”

While Ukraine received enhanced intelligence-sharing and communications support from the U.S. post-2014, the depth of integration claimed here is overstated for the Trump years. Full integration with NATO command structures and comprehensive ISR access (e.g., real-time satellite data) only became pronounced after the 2022 invasion, as NATO shifted from a deterrent posture to active wartime support. Under Trump, aid was framed as defensive—e.g., countering Russian-backed separatists in Donbas—rather than preparing Ukraine for a broader war.
[was this AI generated? The plausible deniability being crafted for the Last American Prez of the Last Satanic Empire! He MUST be adorned with the shiny false cape of “peacemaker” — even as he incinerates our world]
🔻 WS: This is false. It commenced during the Bush 43 term, and continued during the Obama term, but it “began in earnest” during the Trump 45 administration — and I started writing about it “in earnest” in late 2017.

By 2021, everything was in place to set the war in motion.
[one could argue it began centuries ago, an unfinished Anglo-Western project..]
🔻 Bill Bottrell: This is worthy history. Thanks.
But I remain steadfastly against this US coup and proxy war whether preparations that started in 2014 carried through the hapless Trump administration #1 or had paused at that time.

The best evidence for a non-Trump proxy war is the timing of Putin’s invasion. He waited for Biden’s administration.
🔻 WS: The Ukrainians positioned their two strongest armies outside Donetsk and Mariupol in the latter half of 2021. The Russians responded with their own forces across the border. The AFU began artillery preparation of the battlefields in early February 2022. The Russians preempted the AFU moves against Donetsk and Mariupol on February 24th.
🔻 Bill Bottrell: It’s good to have a scholar around here.
🔻 WS: I am no “scholar”. I am just a watcher.
🔻 Bill Bottrell: I read “900 days” full of military details and was a bit surprised I couldn’t put it down.
If scribes still exist, I’d hope to read your histories.
🔻 WS: Well, Bill, I’m flattered you think so.

I’ll do you back one: I think Full Moon Fever and Tuesday Night Music Club are two of the most finely produced albums I ever heard. I’m going to listen again to both of them this afternoon in your honor.

⭕ 🔻 Alex Christoforou: Oh boy…
🔻 Dr. Anton: Sounds quite conciliatory given what happened

Surely 🇺🇸 will withdraw all support now. What more do we need to see/hear ?
🔻 Aaron: It’s over for Elensky now. Trump will not accept contempt.
🔻 Dr. Anton: I wonder.
Trump also doesn’t want to look like a loser and 🇺🇸 has lost its proxy war and Russia is emboldened
🔻 Aaron: Trump has withdrawn the US from Biden’s proxy war against Russia, maybe saving the world from WW3.
[that’s the desired outlook instilled in the casual viewer of the ongoing Show]
🔻 WS: 📜 Some Sins Will Not Wash Away
🔻 Aaron: Whatever happened during Trump 1, he has forced a ceasefire in Gaza and has now effectively ended the war in Ukraine. Credit where credit’s due.
🔻 WS: Nonsense. The Russians are the ones “ending” the war in Ukraine.

Trump said to Zelensky today, “You don’t have the cards.”

That is true, but it is pure projection.

Here are the “positions” at present: the Russians have a royal flush, and the US/NATO is holding king high.
[and the Resistance forced the pause on the other theatre. Conventionally, the entire demented West is over the barrel. Nuke or Kneel time]
⭕🔻 Dmitry Medvedev: The insolent pig finally got a proper slap down in the Oval Office. And @realDonaldTrump is right: The Kiev regime is “gambling with WWIII.”
🔻 WS: It was an epic meltdown, to be sure. And the fool was so easily maneuvered into it.
🔻 Blue Eyed Devil 😈: Why would the media even be invited? It sounded like that was Zelenskyy’s idea?
🔻 WS: I don’t believe for a moment it was “Zelenskyy’s idea” to have the media there. That’s unquestionably a Trump move.

The little green goblin walked into an ambush and then desperately tried to shoot his way out. But he was in way over his head, as he always has been.
🔻 Elydia35: Richard Hanania (very pro-Ukraine) saw the entire press conference & explains that things were going smoothly until Zelensky started to say things that annoyed Vance & Trump
🔻 WS: In my not-so-humble opinion, Hanania is a clueless imbecile on any topic he addresses.

That said, I’m sure his mother still loves him. Mothers are like that.

I am firmly convinced this was a cunningly conceived ambush, and once he fully realized it, Zelensky simply broke.
[who is Hanania?? US talk show circuit? for decades have avoided the presstitutes like the plague. Got one life to live, and one mind to lose]
🔻 MarsAutomatic🇺🇲: People keep saying it wasn’t an ambush but I think it clearly was. If the intent was ever to sign, Trump would not have allowed JD to go off the rails like that and change the entire tone. Zelensky was playing media games before too. This is his punishment.
🔻A Cruel Lancia Thesis🦊🍀: There didn’t even have to be an ambush. The very fact he decided to speak without an interpreter to a person who is famously a hard and persuasive talker and has by default way more experience in politics and life overall, given Z’s mediocre knowledge of English, was suicidal.
🔻 Kenan Beg: Vance lit the fuse . It woke me up about him. Also today’s interaction leaves Starmer in a spot. Does he continue the UK’s 100 year iron clad guarantees for Ukraine or does he fold and join Trump? Europe has just dug a deeper hole for itself
[I didn’t watch the preceeding context (apparently over a half-hour in itself), but in the short last segment we all saw, it DOES appear our Manchurian Candidate played the redheaded passive-aggressive lil fire-starter, lol! Played it to a T, calculated to detonate the coked up and antsy little green goblin, setting up the coup-de-grâce for Orange. What a slick sanctimonious slimeball]
🔻 Matt Bracken: Absolutely. Like an old Bond movie with a trap door in front of Mr. Big’s desk.
🔻 Here_4_D_News: Did you notice it started on the doorstep with the unsettling quip about dressing up?! Zelensky was instantly ill at ease.
And Trump said it himself during the exchange ‘that’s why I kept this going so long’… he was waiting for Zelensky to snap.
It’s not Trump’s first meeting with intent.
🔻 Euan Udzero: If he can bath, get a haircut, shave, wear fresh clothes, he can wear a suit. Period
🔻 WS: He wears the costume the script dictates. He has no agency in the matter.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Mark Sleboda: “Wartime” – well at least the US Blob admits they believe they are at war with Russia. Maybe they will eventually reach the point where they can grudgingly admit they are losing that war, badly, too… |media|
🔻 C1: @ianbremmer
The US lost its vile & criminal proxy war against Russia .
Now the losers gather in the Oval Office to argue about their defeat.
This episode will become a historic day that marks the beginning of the end of the US’s illegal proxy war campaigns from 1945 to 2025.
[no they didn’t begin in 1945, and they certainly won’t end. Evolve, until they’re finally stopped for good]
⭕ ‼️ Zelensky, of course, is finished. He is of no further use to anyone.

But I doubt those who have long lusted for Russian blood are quite ready to concede defeat.

So we are now at a dangerous crossroads. If there is a last desperate play left to make, it will come soon.
🔻 C1: What is your best educated guess at the reaction we see from EU?
🔻 WS: They’ll complain loudly and posture boldly for a while, but nothing substantive will come of it in the end.
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: In my estimation, the “U.S.-Ukraine rare earth minerals deal” narrative has evolved into an intricate maneuver designed to facilitate the entry of substantial Western military weaponry and forces into Ukraine.

The ultimate Western objective remains to orchestrate a second Cold War against the Russians through Ukraine, with the purpose of effecting upon the Russian Federation what the first Cold War through Germany has affected upon the Soviet Union, leading to its dissolution.

If implemented, the anticipated trajectory of the initial phases may unfold as follows:

(1) The U.S. would enter into an ambiguous or even an entirely fabricated (the Kyiv regime and oligarchy want to maintain control over whatever wealth Ukraine has) mineral mining and revenue-sharing rights agreement with Ukraine, implicitly granting the U.S. the authority to (at a minimum) support any military forces purportedly safeguarding or protecting the mineral mines that become ostensible U.S. property. Such support may be direct or indirect, military or political, on the battlefield or through perception capacities (i.e., deterrence).

(2) Subsequently, the British and Europeans could devise a maneuver to dispatch into Ukraine more than just Western ISR, armaments, trainers, mercenaries, and military contractors.

(3) The West would then continue fighting the Russians through Ukraine, now ostensibly utilizing revenues from Ukrainian resources (for considerations related to U.S. domestic politics) and with U.S. political and military support/cover.

The consequence of such a stratagem is predictably the inevitable financial/economic and military downfall of the entire Western Empire.

In such circumstances, the Russians ought to maintain a policy of zero tolerance toward everything and everyone from the West in Ukraine (everywhere, all the time).

The Trump administration would be making a critical mistake.
[Ed’s usually an informed commentator… but like Wilkerson and Ritter, a dated man of his times and class…]
🔻 WS: Nah. Never happen. There is no “substantial Western military weaponry and forces” to speak of. And any attempt to insert western forces into Ukraine will result in their comprehensive slaughter. As I have repeatedly asserted: NATO and the EU will very soon cease to exist.
🔻 C3: Those in power in the EU will never admit defeat.
🔻 WS: Doesn’t matter. They still can’t do anything about it.
🔻 C4: They’ll install Zaluzhnyi fast.
Zelensky – the usual end for his ilk – I expect.
🔻 C5: Europe is getting ready for war without US
🔻 WS: No they’re not. They’re looking for a delicate exit from this catastrophic turn of events.
🔻 Benjamin Schoendorff🪁: They are but chihuahuas. They spent their last cartridges this week with the pathetic Starmer (my ex-roommate 🤮) thinking he could sway Trump by playing on his narcissism with his “historic, unprecedented” offer of a second state visit. Yapping clowns all…
⭕ Never happen. Zelensky’s days are numbered and few. Dead men tell no tales.
🔻 Hershel: You seriously think his life is in imminent danger? I mean operates in a war zone/conflict, but you think he could be targeted specifically by a particular entity? Wild.
[come on Mr. Walker! Fire up the imagination…]
🔻 WS: The most likely candidate, in my view: a palace coup.
🔻 tranquiltempest: Sigh! I was hoping that he might get to enjoy that chateau that he acquired.
⭕ 🔻 Francis Fukuyama: I want to double and triple underline this point: The United States is Appeasing Evil |LOL|
[The REAL piano-man’s rejoinder]
🔻 WS: History has a way of catching up with bad historians.
🔻 C2: End of history, my azz!🤓
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: They always have to double down on their stupidity.
⭕‼️ The Zelensky Ambush

Just to be perfectly clear, I state unequivocally that I am convinced Zelensky was deliberately lured into a preconceived and expertly executed ambush today. And once he fully realized it, the little goblin just snapped.

The jig is up. The noose is out.
🔻 Sharmine Narwani: What ambush? Zelensky started it.
🔻 Luke Reeshus: Agreed. This wasn’t a real diplomatic conference; it was a media stunt

I’d feel bad for Zelensky, but his entire ‘rule’ over Kiev has been a media stunt. What comes around goes around
🔻 NAFO Disrespecter 40K 🚀🇰🇵: I actually think this was less of a premeditated American ambush and much more of an Ukrainian attempt to try to “play” the Americans (turning the mineral deal into a way to coerce them into offering a security guarantee) that blew up massively in their own facces.
🔻 WS: I respect your opinion, but I firmly disagree on this particular point.
🔻 C4: If you don’t mind expanding:

Do you think that the people that sent him in there wanted him chewed up and spit out?

(Like to save what’s left of Ukraine?)

Do you think they coordinated the plan with Trump, if that was the plan?
🔻 WS: I don’t know the answers to those questions. I just feel like I know an ambush when I see one. And that’s how it looked to me.
🔻 Otto von Benchpress: It can be both. They both entered the meeting with a play ready
🔻 OhioGanja: Vance’s shit delivery of his script lines was the tell. Completely unnatural
🔻 Marta: Manca poco, chissà se riuscirà a utilizzare tutti i soldi rubati
[a roman’s natural first query!]
🔻 WS: I morti non comprano.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Dago Supremacy: I watch full 49 minute video of Zelensky meeting

25 minutes standard stuff…Zelensky small jabs….then Zelensky starts to sperg out and things start going sideways…Trump tries to re-center…stays ok for 15 more minutes but Zelensky keeps trying to dictate terms then kerflewey Zelensky goes off the deep end attack Vance…media questions really egged it on.

JD kind of escalates a little to be honest…but I think Zelensky was poking the bear for a while and they’d had it. |media|
🔻 Американец 📉: I highly recommend listening to the entire meeting.

• Both parties clearly went in knowing there would be no “mineral deal.”
• Trump’s team used this meeting as an opportunity for Zelensky to dig his own grave by revealing how uninterested he is in a peace deal. He explicitly said that he will make “no compromises” with the Russians, and Trump brings this up later.
• Trump makes a reference to having wanted people to hear this from Zelensky directly.
• Both sides were worlds apart from the beginning, with Trump talking about the need for an end to the war while Zelensky stuck to his usual routine about Russia being a terrorist state hellbent on destroying Ukraine
• Zelensky was antagonistic as soon as they started taking questions from the press, frequently shaking his head and directly contradicting Trump
• Vance seems to have been chosen as the one to first directly antagonize Zelensky. He doesn’t speak much until the famous argument begins
• Zelensky thought that the mineral deal gave him leverage over Trump, and that he could demand security guarantees in exchange for signing it. As I’ve said repeatedly, the mineral deal was never really about the minerals. This was Zelensky’s key mistake. Trump was explicit that he expected Zelensky to sign without any guarantees.
• Starmer and Macron were part of Zelensky’s effort to extract a concession from Trump on security guarantees. Their meetings with Trump over the past week clearly failed.

The mineral deal was a trap, and Zelensky fell for it. Trump can now dispense with him and point to this meeting as an example of Zelensky’s intransigence.

💠 “Indian crude imports from Russia fall sharply“
“… Imports to India, the country that became Russia’s second largest buyer of oil following the outbreak of the Ukraine conflict, decreased by 14.9% from the previous month, averaging just around 1.4 million barrels per day in February, … The shortfall from Russia was compensated for by several countries, primarily Iraq and Saudi Arabia.”
This is suicidal virtue-signaling that will cost India. Persian Gulf hydrocarbons will soon cease to flow altogether.. they made their bed with Anglos…

💠 “Ukraine attempted to attack TurkStream – Russian MOD“
while the Cokehead was getting dressed down by Kool Orange & the Gang.

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇲🇽 US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened top Mexican military officials with US military intervention inside Mexico if it does not meet Trump’s border demands.
[the photo should be framed and captioned: “Retarded Row”]
⭕ 🇨🇳 China has tested a new hypersonic missile, the test was spotted in the Inner Mongolia region of China. |media|
⭕ 💸 War in Ukraine: Emmanuel Macron prepares for a new budgetary effort

🇫🇷 Excluding pension expenditure, the army budget has increased from 32 billion euros in 2017 to more than 50 billion euros in 2025.
[ a reprise of “Let them eat cake…” they’ve got a Russkie-Bear to slay, come what may to the lemming-hostages]
⭕ 🇮🇷🇹🇷 Turkish Foreign Minister Fidan to Iran:

If you support a group in another country to make them uncomfortable, another country will support another group in your country to make you uncomfortable.

Therefore, nothing can be hidden in the world anymore. What you have, someone else has. If you don’t want stones thrown at your window, don’t do it at someone else’s window.
[interesting days ahead between Turkey and Iran. It was always gonna require a state force to “birth the Moshiach”. But a murder-suicide, as with the Anglos. Constantinople shall soon be emancipated…]

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ Israel has agreed to a proposal from the U.S. Special Envoy for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza during the periods of Ramadan and Passover, according to Netanyahu’s office.
[they won’t reenter Gaza or Lebanon. They’re busy digesting Syria and their pet Salafis, and trying to start war with Egypt, Jordan , KSA and Iran. What madmen. And we haven’t seen yet the Yemeni response to this shitshow. Gaza remains under siege and occupied. Expect fireworks soon over Tel Aviv]
⭕ In a statement announcing an additional $4 billion in aid to the rogue apartheid state, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that Since Trump took office in January, the regime has approved over $12.1 billion in new arms sales to the Zionists.

While Zelensky is sent packing, America’s REAL ally gets everything they could ever want from Trump.
[why not just send all social security, medicare, medicaid, the young boys, and other entitlements too??]
⭕ US authorities will speed up the delivery of $4 billion in defense aid to Israel, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Al-Qassam Brigades have released a video of former Israeli prisoner Yair Horn bidding farewell to his brother Eitan, who remains imprisoned

Eitan urges the Israeli government to advance to the second and third stages of the prisoner exchange and ceasefire deal. The video was filmed two weeks ago. |media|
[well chosen dagger released at perfect time]
⭕ Preliminary reports of Israeli airstrikes on Damascus.
[this was overnight. the zionazis have normalized aggression against every neighbor]
⭕ About three hours ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a statement in support of the newly formed ‘Suweida Military Council,’ vowing to ‘defend’ the majority-Druze city of Jaramana, southeast of Damascus, against the ‘extreme Islamic regime’ of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)

This statement came just after clashes were reported between the Druze forces and HTS militants.

Local sources have spotted trucks with Israeli and Druze flags carrying ‘aid’ in Suweida.

Sources claim HTS fighters reportedly withdrew after Israeli jets and drones were seen in the area.

The Israeli military was later ordered to ‘monitor’ the situation.

Just days ago, the Israeli Defense Minister called for the complete demilitarization of Syria south of Damascus, despite repeated statements from Syrian President and HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (al-Jolani) claiming they have no hostile intentions against Israel.
[this incineration and exposure of demented salafis is beautiful to witness. 100 years of Anglo-Zionist mindwashing is being removed from the majority sunnis… “defeat is an orphan”]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕🇷🇺🇹🇷 Russia’s FM Lavrov asks Turkish counterpart Fidan to talk to Kiev to prevent attacks on TurkStream

“The [Russian] minister strongly urged his Turkish colleague to use the opportunities available to Ankara in working with Kiev to prevent further attempts by the Kiev regime to launch terrorist attacks against civilian infrastructure,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said following a phone conversation between the two ministers.

The top Turkish diplomat assured Lavrov that necessary measures would be taken, the ministry added.

🔺On Friday night, three Ukrainian drones attacked the infrastructure of the Russkaya compressor station, which is located in Russia’s Krasnodar region and ensures gas supplies through the TurkStream pipeline. The Russian air defense forces shot down all the three drones while they were still a safe distance away from the station, the Defense Ministry reported.
⭕ 🪖 Kiev lost 38,920 troops in February, mobilized less than 28,000, Russian Defense Ministry says

According to the ministry’s data, In February, Kiev lost 38,920 personnel, but was only able to mobilize less than 28,000.

Ukraine’s losses between November 2024 and January 2025 reached 160,000, compared to 95,000 mobilized troops.
⭕ ❗️Brazil has invited Mexico, Uruguay and Colombia to take part in the BRICS summit, the country’s president said
⭕ Elon Musk agrees with the idea of the US withdrawal from the UN, NATO

In late February, Republicans in the US Senate introduced a bill to fully withdraw the country from the UN. The document called for ceasing all US funding to the UN and banned any US involvement in UN peacekeeping missions.

Soon after taking office on January 20, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on the country’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization, citing its unfair funding policies.

Trump has also repeatedly criticized Europe for its low contribution to NATO’s defense capability and demanded that all member countries increase defense spending to 5% of GDP. In February, US entrepreneur and podcaster Patrick Bet-David told RIA Novosti that Trump ignores European NATO allies because he is “not a fan of what NATO does.”
[why is Russian Sputnik propagating the PoV of this autistic usurper? Is he the real Emperor??]

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Europe is saying to President Zelenski: “You are not alone. We are with you.” Let’s see how long and how far this support would last. In my experience, not for very long.
🔻 C1: Elijah dp you think this is a modern day (western equivalent) of the sino soviet split?
🔻 EM: I don’t think so.
[exactly. This is another contrived shitshow. Europe is chained to their AZE masters to the End. And this sorry attempt by the Anglo-Zionists to create “strategic depth” will shortly be exposed as the vassals run outta means, showing the lies and evil intent of the AZE. And the combined hyena lot shall be incinerated, as were Sodom or Carthage]
⭕ The US said it has assassinated a top commander of Hurras-Eddine, the new name al-Qaeda in Bilad al-Sham took several years ago when Ahmad al-Asharaa, aka Abu Mohamad al-Joulani, said he distanced himself from AQC.
Why would the new leadership in control of the country offer haven to AQ? The west will never trust al-Sharaa.
[good. let the criminal pirates on their way out cut the loose ends, and save the region endless heartache]
⭕ Soon, the Druse of Lebanon?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz are behaving as if they are the striking force anywhere in Syria.

Netanyahu and Katz instructed the Israel occupation Forces to “prepare to defend” the Druze-majority city of Jaramana on the outskirts of Damascus in Syria, “currently under attack by the forces of the Syrian regime.”

According to reports from Syria, authorities from the new Syrian government have been clashing with local Druze gunmen during a security campaign in Jaramana. At least one Syrian officer was killed, while another was captured and later released, the reports said.

“We will not allow the extreme Islamic regime in Syria to harm the Druze. If the regime harms the Druze, it will be struck by us,” Katz said.

“We are committed to our Druze brothers in Israel to do everything to prevent harm to their Druze brothers in Syria, and we will take all the steps required to maintain their safety,” he added.
⭕ Israel has unilaterally decided to extend Phase One of the ceasefire agreement—a plan it originally proposed itself—without consulting the Palestinians and without transitioning to Phase Two, which was set to begin today. This move effectively freezes the negotiations at a stage that favors Israel’s strategic interests, delaying key commitments that were expected in the next phase, including a potential Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza and further prisoner exchanges.

Israel retains military leverage by keeping the ceasefire locked in Phase One, avoiding the obligations that Phase Two would have entailed. This unilateral decision sidelines Palestinian voices, reinforcing the pattern of Israel dictating the terms of engagement while bypassing diplomatic agreements that require mutual consent.

Iftar (إفطار) = the sunset breaking of the day’s fast, whether in Ramadan or on other days of the year. It means “breakfast” in Arabic

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ✍️ 🇺🇸 Tucker Carlson сalls for investigation into Zelensky’s сrimes

“Over the past three years, with the tacit support of its western patrons, the Ukrainian government has committed a remarkable number of serious crimes. The Ukrainians sold huge quantities of American weapons on the international black market at twenty cents on the dollar,” Carlson wrote on X.

He stressed that “God knows what the Ukrainians have done with the pathogens in American biolabs in their country.” Tucker accused Ukraine of political assassinations, “including American journalists and a European head of state.”

“This is all true, and it’s all going to come out at some point. Better to start blaming it on Zelensky now,” Carlson added.
[if this is sincere, and acted on, it is the Last Chance Saloon to save CONUS from thermonuclear incineration. To jettison zionazidom, salafism, and other criminal compradores worldwide. To become a normal human society, rather than satanic plague on mankind. Otherwise both sides keep going up the escalation ladder to the third and final act.
But there’s likely nothing new under the sun, and the same stale games are in play.. “Alas, Babylon….”]

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇺🇸The talks in Riyadh were perceived as a sensation – the world is reacting to the dialogue between the delegations of the Russian Federation and the United States as “something out of the ordinary”, Sergey Lavrov told Zvezda. According to him, the public was brought to this by Biden’s rule.

“This was a normal conversation between two completely normal delegations. And what is striking is that this normality was perceived as a sensation. Our Western partners have brought world public opinion to this point during Biden’s term”

Countries will never think alike on every issue of world politics – delegations acknowledged this in Riyadh. But where interests coincide, it would be foolish not to use this to achieve mutually beneficial results, Lavrov emphasized.

“Where interests do not coincide, it is the duty of responsible powers not to allow this to degenerate into confrontation. Marco Rubio and Michael Waltz are absolutely sane people. They talk based on the fact that they do not command us, and we do not command them. We are simply two serious countries”
[Our disingenuous Uncle Lavrov leaves out the Elephant in the Living Room: the Orange Effluvium is the Biden Complex on steroids! What the orange does every other day! At this point, we wouldn’t be surprised to see a pink unicorn prance outta the oval office as the next gimmick]
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇪🇺🇺🇦 The discussion in Europe about peacekeepers for Ukraine is impudence, a continuation of the “incitement” of Kiev to war against Russia, Lavrov said.

The appearance of European peacekeepers in Ukraine will mean that the root causes of the crisis will not disappear for Russia.

The West cannot explain what will happen to the territory of Ukraine and the Russian language if it is taken under control by European peacekeepers, Lavrov noted.
[ahhh. why we love him so. The diplomatic equivalent of pistol-whipping, or backhanding, the raving fools..]
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇺🇸 Trump is a pragmatist with the slogan of “common sense” – Lavrov

Trump’s actions give a lively, human character to politics, which is why he is interesting
[ok. He remembered the Elephant. Need to dress up the freakin’ loon somehow. Consider the emphasis on “lively” as code, or the mother of all euphemisms]

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇨🇳🇷🇺 China plans military parade for WWII anniversary, with Putin to attend

China is set to hold a rare military parade later this year to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, likely to be attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the South China Morning Post.

Putin will travel to Beijing for the parade that will commemorate the anniversary on September 3. The Russian leader is also expected to be in the country for a few days, as he will also attend the annual Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, which will be hosted by China and held around the same time.

According to another source, Putin is expected to visit other Chinese cities during his trip.

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ The Trump administration’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, will not travel to the region until late next week at the earliest.

Witkoff had said last Sunday that he would travel to the region on Wednesday, but ended up postponing his trip because Zelensky traveled to Washington.

There is currently considerable uncertainty about whether the Gaza deal will continue to the next phase, the first of which ends today.
⭕ US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has signed a declaration aimed at expediting the delivery of about $4 billion in military aid to Israel.
⭕ Israel suspends humanitarian aid to Gaza after Hamas refuses to extend truce as proposed by the United States.

The move was denounced by Hamas as a violation of the ceasefire agreement.
[is it clear?? The Orange criminals stopped their zionazi “peace” envoy from traveling to occupied Palestine, ramped up arms deliveries, and watch as Satanyahoo cancels the ceasefire and reimposes the starvation siege on Gaza. We shall see what the regional Resistance has to say]

what a Brave New World, eh? Anglo nazis have a Russkie gun permanently pressed against the overlarge head. Equally beleaguered zionazis have Yemeni projectiles permanently aimed at their bunghole

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸 What’s left of “The West” then? Europe? Loooool
⭕️ 🇷🇺💬🇪🇺Lavrov on the essence of European politics:

Over the last 500 years, all the world’s tragedies have been born in Europe or due to European policy. Colonization, wars, crusaders, the Crimean War, Napoleon, World War I, Hitler. The peacekeepers’ plan in Ukraine is a continuation of the incitement of the Kiev regime to war against us.

Just as they are not going to implement the Minsk agreements. Just as they brought Poroshenko to power on their bayonets, then Zelensky, and as they incited Zelensky to make a 180-degree turn.

Although, perhaps, Annalena Baerbock would have regarded this as a 360, but he turned around 180 and from a man who came to power on slogans of peace, on slogans of “leave the Russian language alone, it is our common language, our common culture,” in six months he turned into a pure Nazi.
⭕ 🇬🇷🇺🇦🇷🇺OSCE observers in Donbass passed on secret data to Ukrainian special services about the location of military positions of the LPR and DPR, the former Greek ambassador to Ukraine admitted.

These areas were then shelled, Vasilios Bornovas said in an interview with Hellas Journal.
[And UNIFIL played similar games, if mostly inadvertent by serving as human shields and invasion routes; UNPROFOR did the same service for NATO against Serbia, per testimony by another Ambassador delivered to my father in Vienna in early 1990s. The atomic agency etc, etc, etc. ALL western/UN bodies, like USAID, must be dismantled for peace to have a chance]
⭕ 🇧🇷🇺🇦🇺🇸🇪🇺 Brazilian President Lula da Silva stated that Zelensky’s remarks during his meeting with Trump had harmed Europe.

“In the entire history of diplomacy, there has never been a scene as grotesque and disrespectful as what we witnessed in the Oval Office of the White House. I believe Zelensky’s speech damaged the European Union. I told the German president that it is very likely Europe will bear the responsibility for rebuilding Ukraine, for maintaining NATO, and perhaps even for the ongoing catastrophe,” Lula said.
⭕ 🏁💩 We may be looking at the last days of NATO – James Stavridis, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in Europe |media|
[This is no peacenik. The warmonger was exhorting Turkey to open the Bosporus for NATO just weeks ago.
The presstitute looks like it may cry! At least the lost little admiral kept a stiff upper lip. And where’s General Ben “Estrogen-rich” Hodges?! Someone put him on Suicide Watch, or pump chemical restraints into him. Goodness, what days!]

⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦 No bro… we were told that the US has so many weapons that it could fight Russia for decades.
[He’s been vacationing in Vermont and skiing. There’s something in the brisk Vermont air that makes one spill the beans. I smelt it myself, before taking the detour from Montreal to stop by Burlington’s Ben & Jerries back in the good ol days]

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ The Israeli military reported carrying out an airstrike against a group of Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip for allegedly planting an explosive device near Israeli forces.

Palestinian media reported this morning that an Israeli airstrike in Beit Hanoun killed four people and injured five others.
[why not claim they operated out of a hospital too?? Note the location of the aggression. There shall never be peace on the World-Island whilst UkroNazis, ZioNazis, Salafis, or Anglo-Saxons wield power or influence on the world stage. Thankfully, ALL their days are numbered.]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ Refueling tankers are the Achilles heel of the USAF fleet, and now deliveries of the new KC-46 have been halted because they’re structurally defective.

Looks like the 65-year-old KC-135s can’t retire yet … |link|
[Good God. Avoid Boeing if possible]
🔻 OsageCatZ: What happens when Pentagon prevents Boeing from failing.
[at this point, the Pentagon itself may be “Boeing” – or significant enough percentage]
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: Air forces are yesterday’s news unless you can keep them under an umbrella of air defences.
🔻 What did you do to try to stop the Genocide?: The age of their airframes, is not coincidentally, the age of their foreign policy.
⭕ cont. thread:
‼️ Trump hereby leans into a repeat of the Nixon blunder in Vietnam, and will henceforth own the Ukraine War.

It should go without saying that this comes as no surprise to me.
🔻 TurnsoutIwaswrong: Not sure if this is a blunder or a way to suck UK & France into sending troops which get wiped out in 6 months, leading to the humiliation of the EU and collapse of the current order.

I’ll wait and see
🔻 ProperGanja: If that were to happen, it could trigger Article 5 and WW3 would be on for real.
Here´s hoping the collapsing govts of Starmer/ Macron aren´t THAT stupid, but I wouldn´t put it past them.
🔻 WS: Article 5 is a mirage.
📜 Little Stick
[ouch! To put the mug of big Lloyd (Lord Raytheon) to the imputation of a lil stick… what days]
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Koskovics Zoltán: This is when everyone, even with a cursory understanding of DJT, knew this would go very badly for Mr. Zelensky. |media|
🔻 Dr Sq: “You can get away with coke for a long time in the studio. It’s not like working a chainsaw.”

– Andy Taylor (Duran Duran)

Trump & Vance 2 : 0 Zelensky |media|
⭕ cont. thread:
‼️ The Zelensky Ambush

Just to be perfectly clear, I state unequivocally that I am convinced Zelensky was deliberately lured into a preconceived and expertly executed ambush today. And once he fully realized it, the little goblin just snapped.

The jig is up. The noose is out.
🔻 Detroit Supremacist: Trump began the day wanting to get the deal, but when Zelensky showed up dressed in character to run his shtick, Trump switched into Reality TV mode, and that’s all the lead time he needs to do to turn a press conference into a Reality TV climax.
🔻 WS: Well, the “deal” is all theater and no substance, because there are no rich deposits of rare earths to exploit. But otherwise I agree with your “Trump Reality TV” thesis.

Zelensky, in extremis as he is, walked into the lions den, was easily provoked, and got chewed to pieces.
🔻 Detroit Supremacist: I understand that the deal was theater and I think Trump was going to use it to justify the time it would take to wind down in negotiations and not simply up sticks. He was under pressure from Bloodfeast and friends I’m sure.
🔻 Detroit Supremacist: But, Zelensky showed up at his door gift wrapped in his Chr Guevera outfit and Trump saw that he could take it a different way. Oh, we’re doing television today? I’m pretty good at television.
🔻 WS: Easy pickings.
🔻 Detroit Supremacist: Agree that Trump ambushed Zelensky, but I believe it was hasty ambush.
🔻 WS: It could very well have been more ad hoc than pre-conceived. Either way, it was well executed.
🔻 Detroit Supremacist: Absolutely.
🔻 Sharmine Narwani: What ambush? Zelensky started it.
🔻 WS: Well, he started it after a manner of speaking. But from the moment he exited the limo and Trump mocked his costume, the little gremlin was being primed for an easy provocation. Trump, notwithstanding all his other shortcomings, is a master of this sort of thing.
🔻 Elydia35: have you seen the entire presser and how it unfolded?
🔻 WS: Yes. My opinion of the matter remains unchanged.
🔻 Shahab Langah: What manner of speaking? The administration was very polite to him and Trump even came out to greet him – he didn’t do this for Macron or Starmer. Zelensky was rude through out the meeting and kept talking over Trump trying to put him down with fact checks.
🔻 WS: Of course he did. Zelensky is a very desperate man. That’s what made him such an easy mark.
🔻 Salamanca: You are right that this was all staged: a professional comedian staged a fight with a former TV host, who finalised the discussion with : ‘this surely will be great television!’
[this apt comparison puts it nicely! BOTH “Prezes” were auditioned for their ongoing roles. All (the satanic) world is a Stage …]
🔻 Shahab Langah: He then he tried to publicly humiliate the Vice President calling him by his first name and telling him he’s knows nothing about negotiations and then tried to gaslight Trump over his Ocean between us comment.
🔻 WS: The desperate little gremlin never had a chance in hell to “publicly humiliate” ANYONE in that setting. And Trump, Vance et al. couldn’t have been more pleased with themselves by what was happening. That was the true tell: the intense self-satisfaction as the gremlin melted down.
🔻 C6: Br’er Fox, pleaasse don’t throw me in that briar patch. Whatever will I do?
🔻 C7: Exactly! But you have to watch the entire meeting or the US news will only show you mean ole Vance ganging up on him. I hate US news!
🔻 WS: I watched it all. What I saw was Zelensky being gradually brought to a boil, and then he just exploded. Not surprising at all. The dude is in extremis; he has “led” his country into an incredible catastrophe, and now it’s all crumbling around him. His time on the stage is over.
🔻 Sophia: Will, with all due respect, it was the other war around. Zelensky refused the deal twice before asking for a WH meeting, which was interpreted as a change in posture, and which should have been, otherwise, why ask specifically for a WH platform ? 1/
🔻 Sophia: Zelensky wanted max exposure to do what he always does, shame the West for not helping Ukraine and then demand more. The fact that Zelensky under performed does not mean he was ambushed. 2/
🔻 Sophia: Trump & Vance were able to use the situation to their advantage. But the fact that they did, and that Zelensky misread the mood and the room and was under prepared, does not mean this was an ambush by Trump. 3/
[well said. Both sides may have laid the trap.. and they deserve each other thank you very much]
🔻 WS: I always value your views. Very much so.

But I continue to hold to mine on this particular question.

I think, over the course of the past week, the White House, with malice aforethought, sought to humiliate Macron, Starmer, and Zelensky in sequence.
🔻 M E: I think it’s become clear, with hindsight and Susan Rice’s MSNBC appearance, that it’s rather malicious planning by Europeans- Zelensky-American Biden neocons to set up Trump…box him in. Butter up with Macron, Starmer visits first, then Z, who’d been coached to “stand up to Trump”. Bessent, Rubio and Kellogg fill in the blanks here.
🔻 Ceyda Karan: “Brian Berletic” Kalibrated Live #138 [subsequently taken down or missing]
🔻 WS: Brian is a really smart guy. Although not always, I usually concur with his perspectives. And I pay pretty close attention to what he writes and says.

Give me a brief summation of the subject matter in this particular interview. I may take time for it later.
🔻 Ceyda Karan: Well what we all think.. He notes that both personalities are experienced actors on stage.. Says the rare resource deal is meaningless. That the staging was to deceive the Russians.. He says that the US and Europe have a division of labor. Based on Hegseth’s statements, the war is being transferred to Europe while they turn to Asia… And those who are optimistic with Trump are deadly wrong etc.
🔻 WS: I might check it out. Sounds like reiterations of things he’s been saying lately. My only objection, as it were, to his thoughts of late is that the notion of a “division of labor” is fundamentally futile.

I remain convinced that all of NATO, US included, would be shredded in relatively short order if they actually attempted to concentrate a force to fight the Russians in eastern Europe. It would be a slaughter at least equal to and probably worse than what #TheMotherOfAllProxyArmies has suffered the past three years.

The US/NATO are not even remotely prepared at this time to fight and sustain a serious BIG WAR against Russia, let alone China, nor even, in my estimation, Iran.
🔻 Dazzed Peter: Europe should be sacrificed in the desperate attempt to bleed Russia to some breakdown

and Europe appears to be willing, the leaders and, after yesterday’s theatre, the public

if it doesn’t work, no worries, not an US problem
⭕ 🔻 Armchair Warlord: Of late there have been a lot of reports out of Ukrainian circles and less-reliable Russian circles (Rybar, looking at you) that Ukrainian troops are “infiltrating” the recently-seized city of Toretsk.

A thread on how rumors and clickbait turned into a Ukrainian offensive.⬇️ |THREAD|
🔻 Armchair Warlord: What is likely occurring in the city is the Russians clearing AFU holdouts and booby-traps.

Thanks to drone logistics, enemy holdouts can even be resupplied by air – making them more dangerous and persistent than in previous wars.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: More-grounded Russian commentators agree with me, such as Sofa General Staff – who generally have the best maps of any outlet.

Unfortunately, a lot of unscrupulous broenkors monetize doomscrolling and lazy accusations of treason and incompetence thrown at the Russian military.
🔻 WS: The Broenkors Guild has been a hive-mind of sixth-columnist ne’er-do-wells from the very beginning. But I have long regarded them as valuable contra-indicators of the truth.
⭕ 🎹 Perfect Pitch

My wife and I have been raising our two grandsons (13 & 8), the oldest of which is pretty profoundly autistic — and yet he is an absolute prodigy-level genius in many respects.

I’ve recently discovered that he has absolutely perfect pitch, and has somehow learned to associate every note in the chromatic scale with its proper name — even though he cannot even identify the notes on a piano … unless you play it, in which case he will name it instantaneously.

Not only can he identify every note by name, he can identify any 1/3/5 triad chord I play, major or minor, and in any inversion. And if he listens to just a few bars of any song, he can instantly tell you what key it is in. And when I played a C major with a suspended 4th, he paused for a moment and then said: “C major with an F”.

It’s an extraordinary gift. Now my challenge is to somehow get him to focus on learning an instrument. In the meantime, maybe I can rent him out to orchestras to help them properly tune their instruments. 😏 |THREAD|
⭕🔻 Michael Vlahos: I must take issue with Professor Hanson’s fine assessment, on one singular and yet essential point:
His number (4.). The key dynamic of this war has always been casualties, ever since the mid-2022 shift by Russia into an attrition-centric strategy. Ukrainian irrecoverable casualties, combined with outflows of able-bodied men, means simply that Ukraine can continue this war only for a few months now. Hence, President Trump must bring this war to an end as soon as possible. Otherwise, he faces an extraordinary Western defeat. I believe he fully understands this, and is focused on a settlement that avoids the shame of total defeat. There is no other way ahead for Ukraine, that might otherwise deliver a more hopeful outcome. Professor Hanson is simply wrong to call the battlefield situation a “stalemate” — because it is not. Ukraine inhabits the desolate strategic space of the CSA in the autumn of 1864, or that of the German Army in August 1918. Russia knows this, and I believe (or hope) that President Trump knows this. There are no other paths available to the “Collective West” — and certainly, for Ukraine. Please refer to my most recent analysis, here: |link|
[careful, this old CIA-man Vlahos is dangerous, like a Siren. Listened to him for years on the zionazi Jon Bachelor show, along with Prof Stephen Cohen, before taking a good shower and dropping him for good. A most learned scholar and apologist for Empire. Interviewed Macgregor at the Army-Navy Club in Dec 2022 to moan about the coming Collapse. Had a good rant about him on the Saker]
🔻 WS: Fact is, Hanson is hardly alone in terms of having his perspective of the realities of this conflict so thoroughly distorted by the disinformation spread by the host of faux “experts” who have spun the diverse tall tales of #TheImaginaryWar.

Very few understand #TheObjectOfWar.
⭕ ‼️ The only “shared existential enemy” is the one within.

The rest is yellow peril hysteria — and ultimately irrelevant in any case.

The US and its western Pacific vassals could not, combined, militarily defeat China.

China’s neighbors must learn to coexist as best they can. |crap|
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: Indeed, the people (nations, kingdoms, city-states, civilisations, call them what you will) that occupy lands in Asia have long managed complex relations with each other & with China. Most continue to do without rancour. There was an Asia before Europeans.
🔻 CrocodileChuck: 85% of the US’s antibiotics come from CHI

This is one of hundreds of categories of its imports

Like, it’s going to kill m’s of its citizens through infection in order to go to war with its biggest trading partner?

Everyone in the US gov’t who parrots this nonsense is insane.
[Yes to his Q. And it would be a bonus for the eugenicist scum. Indeed it may justify the war in itself to suddenly sever the multiple lifelines. This very interdependency that the Chinese see as “insurance” is seen by their amoral counterparts as “opportunity”]

⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord:
Trump needs to come down on the Norwegians like a ton of bricks over this. Every single person involved with this decision needs to be fired. I don’t remotely care that it’s a private company doing this – their government will make them comply or there will be hell to pay.
[LOL. Truly a classic linear-track Yanqui armchair warrior]
🔻 WS: I don’t mean to imply that I take a position on the action itself, because I am mostly a watcher, not a judge.

I would however note that the virus of open defiance is spreading rapidly.

📜 Open Defiance
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: You can smell the blood in the water.
🔻 Matthew McCracken 🇨🇮🇮🇪🇺🇸🇱🇷🇷🇺🇳🇱🇷🇴🇹🇩: We can always count on Europeans hating Russia more than the US. There is nothing the US can’t do to make them hate Americans more than Russians. The US will countinue to blow up cheap Russian gas pipelines and make them thank us for it. They are Reek and we are Ramsay Bolton. |link|
🔻 WS: Reek does redeem himself in the end. So, there’s that. And I still have hope for my beloved Italy.
[this is in reference to the “Game of Thrones” TV cable series. Never watched it]
🔻 Marta: Non so Will , qui in Italia abbiamo solo servi🤦
[sorry Will. With over 100 USUK bases, the HQ of the gunboats of the mare nostrum and the Vatican, and the primary ISR mosquito-drones bedeviling Crimea and the Black Sea… Italia is gonna be among the first to be Raptured at Zero Hour. Pity. I like them too. One of the very few places in Europe black skin is seen as beautiful! And I had many more ruins to visit… que sera, sera. Rome may not have been built in a day, but it shall undone in hours]

⭕🔻 SPACE LIBERDADE : 🚨AGORA – O senador americano Mike Lee pediu que os Estados Unidos “saíssem da OTAN”
🔻Punished ZZZapling ♋️: Reminder that @imetatronink was 300% correct when he said one of the consequences of the Ukraine war would be the delegitimization of NATO as a credible military force
🔻 WS: links older:
The End of NATO, American Imperial Hegemony, and The Rebirth of A Multipolar World

A short🧵

It’s appearing increasingly likely that the Russians are going to remedy the “strategic depth” issue they perceive in eastern Ukraine — and probably much sooner than later. |THREAD|
⭕🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山:
U.S. pattern: intervene in other countries, create death & destruction, under one administration. Extract what they can. Change administration, wash hands of the mess & move onto the next victim. Repeat & rinse. |media|
🔻 WS: And yet it is now so abundantly evident in retrospect how profoundly futile and self-destructive these imperial “regime-change” undertakings have repeatedly proven to be.
⭕🤦‍♂️ Thus the incomparably clueless Ted Cruz, to whom I hereby bestow my highly coveted and rarely awarded #FiveClowns designation.

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 |media|
[You gotta give Orange’s handler the props for selecting nicknames — in this case, “Lying Ted” along with Little Marco]
🔻 Levi Zendt: Ted is perhaps one of the sharpest minds in congress – when he chooses. Once he chooses to be himself, he may be a genuine force.

Those who can strategically play possum for such a duration of time, are either philosophical or ethical cowards, which are perhaps the worst amongst us.

Honor.
🔻 Htx Observer: Who the hells listens to Cancun Cruz’s podcast.
🔻 Beto Ochoa: You see what we have to put up with here in Texas…
Cornyn, and Cruz
Lord…
I blame Bush
🔻 Ingemar: Ted has been promoted into a 5 clown general🫡
⭕🔻 DD Geopolitics: This is the military coalition that will defend Ukraine. Good luck. |media|
[Good God. Did the British Royal Navy get permanently beached and wildly share their “grand traditions,” per Churchill?]
🔻 Armchair Warlord: This is the kind of recruitment material that you produce when you’re trying to attract people that shouldn’t be in the military to begin with.
🔻 WS: I have no doubt this strikes incomprehensible fear into the hearts of Russian, Chinese, and Iranian warriors, even as it stokes the secret hopes of anti-woke western culture war combatants.
🔻 Canadian Tire Battle Ork: Shoigu literally pooped his pants… he laughed so hard.
⭕🔻 Charlie Kirk:
James Carville is now speculating that Trump has Syphilis after the confrontation with Zelenskyy.

For his own sake, a loved one should take the computer and internet away from this man. Trump has broken him. He’s not the first, and he won’t be the last. |media|
🔻 Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch): Projection is always the MO. Take one look at Carville and Trump and tell me who is more likely to have syphilis?
[he could just be outta adrenochrome. What a cesspool, top to bottom, especially among decomposing old handlers of deposed degenerate Emperors]
🔻 WS: reposts his older from 23 Feb 2020:
My impression of Carville, going clear back to the Clinton years: He is an intellectual bantam weight with a cute-at-first mild talent for folksy aphorisms.

Now he’s become a tedious meme stuck in a ten second loop.
🔻 Cathryn Mataga: He’s basically the Clinton’s Steve Bannon, and he had the right instincts for the 1990s, but with anyone right now under age 50 or so, he’s hopelessly out of touch
🔻 WS: Agree with him or not, at least Bannon has a manifest depth of intellect. If you scratch too hard on Carville’s mind, you’re bound to poke a hole right through.

I haven’t followed the hysterical EuroConference yesterday in London.. they are irrelevant. Their fate is sealed and to be determined elsewhere. But I note three so sorry attendees, tucked safely in the back! Look closely at the group photo. Where do the representatives of the drowning Germans, Italians and Turks stand?? Perfide, impeccable to the dregs in messaging priorities and nuance through scatological protocol
NB. consider the slighted are the 1st & 3rd economies of EU, and the FM of the most powerful NATO land army on Afro-Asia! The main ones with heft among the barking chihuahuas

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ The European Union condemns Hamas for its refusal “to accept the extension of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza”.

In a statement from its External Action Service, the EU also warned that Israel’s decision to block the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza “could have humanitarian consequences”, but it stopped short of condemning Israel directly.
[that’s it in a nutshell, wrt to “western values” today]

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸 Donald Trump has started a mafia-like struggle for global power

The economist:

The breakdown of the post-1945 order is accelerating. In extraordinary scenes at the UN this week, America has sided with Russia and North Korea against Ukraine and Europe. Germany’s likely new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, is warning that by June, NATO could be dead. We are fast approaching a world where might is right, where big powers make deals and bully small ones.

The administration is a whirlwind of ideas and egos, but its members agree on one thing: Under post-1945 rules and alliances, Americans have been drawn into unfair trade and paid for foreign wars.

This new system has a new hierarchy. America is number one. Next come countries with resources to sell, threats to make, and leaders unwilling to democracy. Vladimir Putin wants to restore Russia to its status as a great imperial power. Muhammad bin Salman wants to modernize the Middle East and push back Iran. Xi Jinping is both a committed communist and a nationalist who wants a world fit for a strong China. Third are America’s allies, whose dependence and loyalty are seen as weaknesses to be exploited.

The territory is up for negotiation, which blows up the post-1945 rules. Ukraine’s borders could be fixed by a handshake between Trump and Putin.

The borders of Israel, Lebanon and Syria have been blurred by 17 months of war. Some outside powers are indifferent. Yet Mr. Trump has eyed Gaza, as well as Greenland, and in possible Sino-American talks, Mr. Xi could also make an offer of territory, offering, for example, to limit exports in exchange for concessions on Taiwan, the South China Sea or the Himalayas.
[I only submit to show the limey lunacy and meme-du-jour]

⭕ 🇺🇸❌❌🌐 Elon Musk agreed on March 2 in a message posted on X that the United States should leave NATO and the UN.

“I agree,” he wrote in response to a post from a right-wing political commentator who claimed it was “time” for the United States to leave NATO and the UN.

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️Trump will meet with his national security team on March 3 to discuss and possibly take action regarding Ukraine, The New York Times reports.

The package of measures could include suspending or canceling military aid to Kyiv agreed upon under the previous US administration.

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 What Now? Zelensky Pushes for War to Continue

This weekend was a PR disaster for Ukraine, marked by political drama, European leaders making noise but failing to agree on much, and Russia remaining mostly silent.

The coming days may offer more insight into Moscow’s next steps, but one trend remains clear: Russia should steadily prepare to integrate more regions of what is still called Ukraine. Next time negotiations are discussed, the “realities on the ground” that must be considered may look quite different.

Each time Britain intervenes, Ukraine’s position seems to deteriorate further—and this weekend was no exception.

Time will tell. Until then, the fight continues…
⭕ 🇺🇸💬🇺🇦The only Ukrainian in the US Congress Victoria Spartz wants Trump to be tough with Zelensky |media|
[Yeah, it’s a wrap. Stick a fork init. Conventionally, Uncle Schmuel’s tapped out. Next!]

I was listening to Ania and Krainer and she struck a cord. What i most enjoy about her and why listen periodically is her attention to the spiritual.

She noted the overt emphasis by Trump to be known as a “peacemaker.” We’ve discussed this for weeks. But in context of the ongoing humiliation rituals, bitter retreats, and disintegration of all western positions and the West itself, and everyone’s expectation that a “Hail Mary” is coming, I got to thinking of the assumed Jesus-complex and what Brother Casey noted as Trump’s Janus personality. The devils always engage in biblical mockery. The Moshiach’s very mission is to impersonate the true Messiah,; thus his minions play similar roles.

The First Coming was relatively unobtrusive, as a peacemaker and warner. The Second Coming will be altogether different!! Not merely with kind word, but the Sword. And so this mini-Moshiach appears to be rolling – a bumbling browned buffoon first pleading for peace, then after the head wound should see a crazed psycho breathing fire and destroying nations??? We shall see soon enough

💠 @Africa Intel:
⭕ 🇹🇳 Tunisia Stands Firm: Cutting Ties with the IMF

Tunisia has made a bold move by severing all communication with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), signaling a significant shift in its economic strategy. President Kais Saied accused the IMF of overstepping its role and interfering in the country’s sovereignty. This decision comes as Tunisia faces high inflation, unemployment, and a growing public debt, while negotiations for a $1.9 billion loan package remain stalled due to disagreements over reforms.

The move reflects Tunisia’s desire for greater economic independence but raises concerns about its ability to secure international financing. Without IMF support, the country risks economic isolation, yet it may also open doors for alternative strategies. This development could influence other African nations weighing their relationships with global financial institutions.

🖇 Source

#Tunisia
@africaintel

💠 Lord Bebo Exclusive:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦‼️🚨 AMERICAN JOURNALIST WAS TORTURED, EXTORTED AND KILLED BY UKRAINE:

The Ukrainian Special Services did this to Gonzalo Lira, they:
– Tortured him
– Extorted $70,000 from him
– Tried to pick out one eye with a toothpick
– Broke his ribs
– Kept him away from medical services so he died!

This was also done to cover for Biden administration’s State Secretary Anthony Blinken and US ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, who effectively gave the go ahead for Gonzalo’s killing.

➡️ Ukrainian whistle blower, who is imprisoned right now in Ukraine, tells Gonzalo’s story.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇪🇬🇵🇸 Egypt to present the Gaza reconstruction plan at the Arab League summit, the foreign minister says

“Preparations are over. It will be presented to our Arab brothers at the ministerial session and the Arab League summit,” Badr Abdelatty said at a press conference.

📄 The plan may be presented to any foreign actor only after it is approved, the Egyptian top diplomat noted.

The emergency Arab League summit on Palestine will take place in Egypt’s capital Cairo on Tuesday.
⭕ 🇪🇺📈🇷🇺 EU again increasing dependence on Russian fertilizers, Eurostat data shows

Since the imposition of sanctions against Russia, EU countries swiftly cut their Russian fertilizer imports by 20.5% in 2022 and another 8.2% the following year. By 2023, imports hit an 11-year low at just 3.9 million tonnes.

However, last year, EU fertilizer imports from Russia surged by 25%, nearly offsetting the previous two years’ decline. In total, 4.93 million tonnes were imported in 2024, compared to 5.37 million tonnes in 2021.

📊 The share of Russian fertilizers in EU imports also rose: from about 23.5% in 2022 and 2023 to 27.4% in 2024. The high price of gas for local producers prompted this shift in policy.

👨‍🌾 These ongoing imports amid declining production may be linked to a decrease in EU farms: there were 9.1 million farms in 2020, down from 10.5 million in 2016. Agricultural output continued to fall for the second consecutive year by 2024.
[the sheer lunacy of waging totelen krieg on the neighbor who is top provider of both energy and food security!]

💠 “France denies entry to Algerian envoy’s wife“ — The move comes amid reports of leaked official documents outlining tough measures by Paris against the former colony
Brittle and disintegrating Rummy’s Olde Europe lashes out to the Four Winds in impotent rage. But who is in need of whom?? wealthy Algeria/Africa in need of France, or?

💠 “German engineering giant announces more job cuts“ — Bosch has reportedly signaled that up to 10,000 positions could be at risk

💠 “USAID vs. India: How Trump’s crackdown alters Washington-Delhi dynamics“ — By Kanwal Sibal, retired Indian foreign secretary and former Ambassador to Russia
This is the diplomat that his former colleague Amb. MK Bhadrakumar has a running dialogue with on Twitter, and which I periodically share. Their views are not always aligned but they’re cordial. Sibal’s view is that Trump will overall turboboost Anglo-Indian relations after tensions with Dems, much due to dismantling of USAID, NED and the sanctimonious lecturing and hectoring…

💠@BhadraPunchline:
⭕The great paradox of the conflict in Ukraine is that while a defeat is shaping up for Kyiv, the war itself is reaching an apparent stasis—so much so that a conclusive end to it can only be in a manner and with a timeline that Moscow decides. |link|
⭕1/2 More than coincidence? Fault lines appearing in Trump-Putin tango:
Donald Trump + Keir Starmer
Vladimir Putin + Ri Hi-yong
2 meetings on the same day, same time poles apart
Agenda: “special relationship” in Ukraine, amongst other things
[this was written on Feb 28, before the epic WH tableau.. we shall be entertained]
⭕2/2 Ri Hi-yong is formerly career diplomat for 3 decades; foreign minister for over 4 years; & nuclear negotiator in talks with US.
Currently, holds the key position of secretary of central committee of the ruling party headed by General-Secretary & Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un |link|
⭕US company to revive Nord Stream 2 for supplying Russian gas to Europe.. |link|

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇪🇺 Europe Rapidly Depleting Gas Reserves, Gazprom Reports

Europe is rapidly drawing down its underground gas storage reserves, according to Gazprom. Currently, only 39.2 billion cubic meters of gas remain in storage, accounting for just 38.5% of total capacity.

The gas reserves accumulated for this winter were fully used up by January. Refilling storage facilities this summer is expected to be a significant challenge.
⭕ 🇷🇺💥🇺🇦 February 2025 Sets Record for Drone Strikes as Missile Attacks Decrease

Russia’s use of drones in Ukraine reached an all-time high in February 2025, while the number of missile strikes declined, according to data compiled from public sources.

➡️Record Drone Strikes

• 3,097 kamikaze drones (Geran, Gerber, and Parody) were launched in February, surpassing the previous record of 2,599 drones in January.
• On February 23, Russia launched a single-night record of 267 drones.

➡️Decline in Missile Strikes

• Only 99 missiles (Iskander, KN-23, Kh-101, Kh-59, Kh-22, etc.) were fired throughout the month.
• Just one large-scale missile attack was recorded, on February 1.
• Strikes primarily targeted military, industrial, and energy infrastructure in Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, and Poltava regions.

➡️Surge in FPV Drone Usage

• Over 17,000 FPV drone strikes occurred in February, setting a new record.
• A single-day record was hit, with over 1,150 FPV drone strikes in 24 hours.
• The average daily FPV drone usage in 2024 was 250-300 strikes per day, but in 2025, it is approaching 1,000 per day under good weather conditions.

➡️Lancet Drones Make a Comeback

The Lancet loitering munitions, previously overshadowed by the hype around fiber-optic FPV drones and new “Molniya” drones, also set a record with over 200 strikes in February.

➡️Growing Pressure on Ukraine’s Air Defenses

The increasing use of low-cost, mass-produced kamikaze drones and decoys is putting significant strain on Ukraine’s air defense systems (SAMs), which rely heavily on Western-supplied missiles.

This issue is becoming more critical as U.S. officials hint at a possible end to military aid, which could leave key systems like the Patriot missile defense vulnerable due to a lack of interceptors.

➡️Escalating Pressure on the Frontline

The surge in FPV drone strikes is increasing Ukrainian personnel and equipment losses.

The introduction of advanced FPV drones, including those with fiber-optic guidance, target-locking capabilities, and heavy warheads, is further complicating Ukraine’s battlefield situation.
Via: @milinfolive
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇬🇧 Maria Zakharova:

British Prime Minister Starmer: “Europe will continue to arm Ukraine “after peace is established.”

Well, it’s like giving a kleptomaniac pedophile a job as an accountant in a kindergarten after treatment and punishment.
[oh! this is getting delicious. Especially the pedophile part. Oh Perfide! The sins of 10 Forefathers are now due with the calm Russkie with the Iron Ledgers. Woe to your generational degeneration!]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🔍 Zelensky’s lies exposed: Did Palantir give Trump & Vance the REAL Ukraine intel?

While Volodymyr Zelensky brazenly questioned JD Vance’s knowledge of Ukraine in the White House slapdown, Donald Trump and his veep may have already exposed all his corrupt schemes. Here’s how:

🔗 Palantir turns Ukraine into an AI WAR LAB

• Time Magazine boasted that tech giant Palantir Technologies embedded its state-of-the-art analytics AI software into Ukraine’s government operations in June 2022.
• More than half a dozen Ukrainian agencies, including its Ministries of Defense, Digital Transformation, Economy, and Education, now rely on Palantir.
• The company has access to virtually all Ukraine’s data, from real-time satellite and drone footage to financial and economic records, according to the media.
• Beyond its military AI solutions, Palantir is also tasked with “rooting out corruption” in Ukraine
•  effectively making it the Zelensky regime’s invisible watchdog.

🔗 Palantir’s DEEP TIES to the CIA, Pentagon… and Trump

• Founded in 2003, Palantir was backed by the CIA’s venture arm, In-Q-Tel, and worked on US-NATO operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
• Billionaire Peter Thiel, Palantir’s co-founder, has been a loyal Trump ally since 2016.
• Thiel mentored JD Vance since 2011, backed his Narya Capital, and donated $10 million to his Senate campaign in 2021.
• With Palantir’s insider access, it likely holds intel on Ukraine’s corruption, misuse of US funds, forced conscriptions, and more – intel Thiel could have shared with Trump and Vance.
• Rumors suggest Palantir’s AI may have been used by Elon Musk’s DOGE team, hinting that Kiev’s schemes could already be exposed, much like USAID’s murky dealings.

[truly an incestuous snakepit, whether the blue side of the Pit, or the red]

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ “Gaza must live in hell. And hell also means the bombing of all the aid depots that Hamas has,” as well as the cutting off of electricity and water, said Ben Gvir, a former Israeli national security minister.

“I ask the prime minister to announce that Israel will take these measures before resuming fighting, which of course must happen,” he added.

If he does so, “it will cause mass starvation among Hamas terrorists and their supporters in the Gaza Strip and allow us to resume the war with considerable force, when the Hamas terrorists are weak and exhausted, without any significant capacity to respond, and we can crush them without difficulty.”

Israel must inform Hamas that “harming an Israeli hostage will result in the execution of the terrorists in Israeli prisons through emergency regulations and the permanent imposition of sovereignty over large areas of the Gaza Strip,” he added.
[a beautiful local gauleiter of Orange & Gang! A worthy rep of western values! Even though he waltzed outta the zionazi ruling gang due to the halt of the Annihilation of Gaza, he continues to wax poetic and waft perfume to receptive western media]

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ 🔻 Naftali Hazony: Israeli forces are preparing to advance toward Damascus, Syria, to defend the Druze suburb of Jaramana, currently under attack by the Syrian regime (HTS).

Druze reinforcements have arrived in Jaramana with support from the Israeli Air Force.

Here’s how this could unfold: |THREAD|
🔻 EM: Nonsense. Israel is not advancing toward Damascus but using Druze & Kurds to fragment Syria —a classic divide-and-conquer tactic to weaken Syria. Aligning with Israel is risky. Once Netanyahu is gone, any gains would likely come at a steep price.
⭕🔻 Roberta Sutton:
Phase 2 of agreed C-F was to begin TODAY. BN has delayed it. Plus he had closed all exits & is demanding release of 30 of remaining 59 IL hostages before moving to Phase 2.That is NOT what was agreed. BN is trying to take sole sway instead of keeping agreed terms. Will Trump act? |link|
⭕ Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with an ICC arrest warrant for his war crimes, blows up the second phase of the ceasefire agreement and wants to negotiate a new one, hiding behind US ME envoy @SteveWitkoff’s proposal and successfully manipulating him. He is now back to his war crimes and crimes against humanity, with a collective punishment deja vu, cutting off all humanitarian aid and threatening to cut off water and electricity to what is left of Gaza.
[and the poor Palestinian civvies are en masse a “negotiation tactic” again. The satanists will never relent. Be Annihilated or hit the Exodus. And as long predicted, the ONLY solution is a land invasion and reciprocal purging, as happening to UkroNazis occupying Russian soil]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Sal Mercogliano: USS Truman Repaired

1️⃣USS Harry S Truman Repaired After 5 Days in Souda Bay
2️⃣ Truman CO relieved by @ChowdahHill
3️⃣Transits the Suez Canal and Underway in the Red Sea
4️⃣MV #Besiktas-M offloading in Romania
5️⃣Damage to the bow will be Repaired |media|
🔻 John Ʌ Konrad V: I don’t see any upside for @ChowdahHill taking command of USS Truman after a major collision. None.

His reputation as a combat leader is cemented. He’s famous. He’s loved. His path to admiral is already assured. He deserves shoreside time with his family.

He doesn’t know this crew. The risks are enormous. Another incident could be career-ending—especially under a @SecDef who actually values accountability.

And THIS is why I respect him.

He took this job not because it helps his career, but because his nation needs him.

BZ Captain 🫡
🔻 C3: @imetatronink can’t stand him. * I know nothing of the Navy.
🔻 WS: To the contrary, I think Captain Soggy Cookie is the most entertaining carrier skipper in the entire fleet, and I can’t imagine anyone more qualified to take the helm of the USS Trembling Puppy than the former commander of the USS Brave Sir Robin. 😏
⭕‼️ We are now witnessing in real time the inexorable and accelerating dissolution of NATO and the EU.

Both institutions will work hard to “keep up appearances” for a while, but the pace and trajectory of events can no longer be arrested.
🔻 Mr East: Both are cooked –
this is a very good thing for humanity.
Next up: WHO and UN
🔻 C2: Thank God.
🔻 Gunny is my Dog: I am predicting there will be massive backpedaling by EU leaders once their people realize there is no way to maintain their socialist economies.
Ex. Medical costs are low for most Europeans due to the weak investment in this defense. This allows them to subsidize healthcare massively.
There are only two options to be able to increase defense spending to the point of military deterrence.
1. Increase taxes even more.
2. Decrease healthcare subsidies.

Neither of these options are going to be acceptable to their people.
🔻 Carlos_Banger: I think you’re right about NATO, not so sure on EU. NATO has been nothing more than an arms selling scheme by us. We expand the members, poke the Russia bear, and demand members spend a certain percentage on weapons to be safe from the bear. Rinse and repeat. It serves almost no useful purpose and without the US backing its saber rattling has zero credibility. I honestly have no idea what the Europeans think their long game is.
🔻 SwedeInWarsaw 🇸🇪🇵🇱: Europe made mistakes but the new situation where US hints they will leave Europe/Nato will mean a stronger Europe and a European alliance, more nuclear powers etc. US at the same time loses influence all around the world.
[a Swede in Poland.. a combustible combination indeed! Double the Trouble]
🔻 WS: It really IS that simple.

And all of western Europe combined simply lacks the military wherewithal to fight Russia, nor could they materialize it until 2040, at the earliest.

These are simple economic and organizational / logistical realities.

Nor do they have WILL to do so..
🔻 Michael Huff: Like nobles that no longer have their fortune and can’t even fix the leaky roofs of their palaces.
🔻 WS: “Hey neighbor, when you gonna fix that leaky roof?”

“Well, neighbor, when it’s raining, it’s too wet to fix it, and when it’s dry, it’s just as good as any man’s house.”
⭕🔻Lord Bebo:
🇺🇦🇨🇦 CANADA TO SEND PEACEKEEPERS TO UKRAINE?

Trudeau was asked about the peacekeepers “coalition of the willing” and he said: “We will support with whatever it takes for as long as it takes”

He also said that Canada “invested” $20 billion into Ukraine. |media|
🔻 Alex Christoforou: Canada has been supporting Ukraine “from the very beginning for over ten years now.”
At least Trudeau acknowledges when all this started.
🔻 WS: “Unprovoked aggression” 🤦‍♂️
🔻 Mike Mihajlovic: Trudeau can say something correct and intelligent… sometimes… but that is so rare that it is almost at the border of fantasy.
🔻 jumblepie: 51st state sounds a lot more appealing than this idea.
⭕🤦‍♂️ It is difficult to fathom the depths of delusion in which these desperate people are drowning.

The Russians will, of course, tell them to pound sand, and then continue to pursue their stated objectives until they are achieved in full.
[links:
🔻 Sam Greene: “The plan emerging from London seems to be:

1. 🇪🇺, 🇬🇧 and 🇺🇦 agree on the contours of a deal and present it to 🇺🇸
2. An initial month-long partial truce to gauge 🇷🇺 intentions and build confidence.
3. If the truce holds, a ceasefire starts, backed by a 🇪🇺🇬🇧 force”]

🔻 Pay that G.A.M.M.A his money: Why do westerners say/think Russia’s military is depleted? I keep hearing that in academic circles.
🔻 WS: #TheImaginaryWar
🔻 Marta: Quante pecore mamma mia come si fa🙏🙏🙏🤦🤦🤦🤦
🔻 🇨🇦🇷🇸TurboSerbo 🇷🇸🇨🇦: Still waiting for the destruction of Dneiper bridges and all railway infrastructure.
🔻 WS: Why would the Russians want to prevent the US/NATO from delivering more of their weapons stockpiles to the Ukraine battlefield where they can be more easily destroyed?

And why would Russia want to destroy infrastructure they desire to eventually use themselves?
🔻 Pink Shirt Migo: This is an excellent point. For the first two years of the war, I didn’t understand why Russia would leave infrastructure or cauldrons. They’re essentially draining NATO equipment used by poorly trained Ukrainian soldiers. The history books are going to be quite interesting.
🔻 Marta: Denazificare detto dalla Russia dal primo giorno
🔻 C6: Should be fun to watch, though.

“Um, Mr Putin, would you mind having your boys stand down so we can convince you to give back all the land you control?”
🔻 Ghost in the Machine: Negotiating without two principals (Russia and the US) is silly.
[or the Rest of the world, which has a stake at this point, given the global dimensions of the unmitigated catastrophe. There are no Africans, Latin Americans, or Asians, in addition to the two that most count. What an absolutely delusional shitshow]
⭕🔻 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩: Mr. President,

It is time to start the emergency Time Phased Force Deployment Data (TPFDD) process to return all American troops and their dependents home from Europe starting with the UK. Invoke the Withdrawal Clause, Article 13, immediately and start the clock for a thirty day rapid withdrawal.

Whatever equipment that can’t be returned, destroy it in place.

This is a five alarm fire.

NATO is trying to go kinetic against an armed nuclear power for no satisfactory reason that improves the national security posture of America since the Ukraine is not a member of NATO.

The EU is the Red USSR of the 21st century; membership is no longer an advantage to American national security.

Leave Europe now.

US personnel in NATO
🔻 WS: The US Army 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team (3500 troops) was deployed to Poland in January, and is scheduled to be there at least nine months. |link|
[well done crashtestdummy team. They set up the blue team with tripwires and plausible deniability, to some degree…]
🔻 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩: Reversing TPFDD is quite possible.
🔻 WS: I simply noted it as an addendum to your chart, which did not reflect their deployment.
[and most of that, or any official chart, is pure crap. Both official, and black ops forces / mercs, are off, in any theatre, as we saw in Syria et al]
⭕ retweet:
🔻Caitlin Johnstone: [retweets the older leading, and:]
🔻 Antiwar.com: US Releases $870 Million in Military Aid for Taiwan, Angering China
The US has sold weapons to Taiwan for decades and started providing US-funded aid in 2023
by Dave DeCamp |link|
⭕ 🎸 September When It Comes

My cover of Johnny Cash’s swan song.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Philip Soos: Watch this clip and tell me how the West, which includes Australia, can possibly defeat China in a war?

The Chinese will crush us like a bug. Those who tell us the West can win are the same people who claimed that Ukraine was winning against Russia i.e. completely delusional. |media|
🔻 Yuriy Kravtsov: China will not get past the @USMC hidden throughout the islands
[NB. there was no /sarc at the end. Perhaps the island traps will also contain Japanese on stand-by since 1945?? What days]
🔻 Dreamspace2: Easy.

America has breakaway technology and laser weapons.
🔻 WS: Silly nonsense.
‼️ Many believe the US military possesses “super-tech” (possibly alien-derived) that it will unleash on America’s foes if they ever become an annoyance to the interests of the empire.

I am confident this is an American exceptionalist fairy tale: |link|
🔻 Dreamspace2: This is compelling.

And the only thing that makes sense as to “why” is that we did this so the technology wouldn’t get into the hands of the Chinese. |link|
[Lord have Mercy. I post the crap FYI. Don’t waste time]
🔻 WS: “Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”

― Euripides
⭕ 🤔 Beware the Ides of March

“He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass.”
🔻 Marta: Allora manca poco😍
[and the second thing romans think of is their cherished bloody spectacle to come!]
🔻 Paveway IV: Ides of March (full moon) would be Friday, March 14th this year.
DOOM:ON [for somebody
🔻 Celio: Yeah, I’ve been thinking the same. Only a false flag would change Trump’s stance on Ukraine. Maybe…
⭕🔸 Whether or not you are persuaded by his reasoning, I can think of few people more fluent in their own arguments than is Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal).

In my estimation, his is a voice that deserves serious consideration.

* HIGHLY RECOMMENDED * |media|
🔻 Balando con Lobos: What a time to be alive to witness such monument shifts in alliance and power. Watching NATO and the EU decide to implode in real time is incredible to watch yet so predictable. You’ve done a very thorough job laying this out the last couple years I’ve been following you
⭕The USS Trembling Puppy (with two miles of duct tape covering its wounds) and Captain Soggy Cookie are sallying forth boldly to face anything the Yemeni can throw at them.
links:
🔻 Visegrád 24: Hazam al-Assad, a top Houthi official, has said they’re ready for an all-out war with attacks against U.S. interests in the Middle East if the Israel-Hamas war restarts in Gaza now that the ceasefire has ended.

Attacks against ships in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait could restart soon
⭕🔻 Tristan Snell:
A peace proposal for Ukraine:

1. Russia and North Korea completely withdraw from all Ukrainian territory
2. Ukraine will not give one inch of its soil to Russia
3. Russia will release all prisoners and kidnapped individuals
4. Russia will pay 100% of Ukraine’s reconstruction

🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: I’m not trying to pick on this guy in particular, he’s certainly not unique or even uniquely bad in this regard, but his post illustrates a broader point.

Part of the reason the conversation about Ukraine is so muddled is that many people (like this guy) view war as a sort of aberration from normal politics. The battlefield has an unreality for them that has to be rectified. They view war as being subordinate to law, rather than the other way around. Therefore, their idea of “negotiation” is to codify some idealized outcome.

The truth is that war is the *most* real aspect of politics that exists, since the foundational reality of politics is coercing others to behave the way you want, and violence is the purest method.

The point of “negotiations” isn’t to “make a deal”, as if this is purely transactional. The point is to codify an expression of relative power and the state of the war. In other words, the battlefield has its own reality, and the task of the negotiator is to translate this into the formal grammar of treaties. The diplomat is like an oracle who channels the will of a higher power, which is the bullet.

Lots of people affirming Clausewitz, “war is politics by other means.” Yes, but I’m saying something slightly different: war is prior to politics and it is the prospect of war that undergirds the possibility of international politics and law at all.
🔻 WS: 🔥 The Big Serge dispenses a sobering dose of cold, hard truth.
🔻 mork: I blame the creators of war games. I have never played any, but it would appear that “negotiations”, being on the losing side, having to confront & admit “defeat” is not part of the game plan. Does one just *play* until everyone is dead?
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: I see this mental illness everywhere. The media and the political class is infested completely with it. They really think they can make wishes, repeat them endlessly and simply will them into happening.

Algeria and Tunisia are boycotting tomorrow’s “Arab League Summit” in Cairo. This appears another betrayal against Palestinians in the offing, along with their own posterity.
A den of compradores, unworthy of attendance…
He also says that Hamas or other active Resistance were NOT invited to this “Arab Piss” Summit.
consider their abject position! They are like the Europeans, thoroughly naked and infirm, on the cusp of regional annihilation, and they still posture and strut and bark! as crazed Euros hold their own bark-fests in London and Paris!
There will not only be a coming change of elites, but erasure of Sykes-Picot, just as with the 30 little Chihuahuas created after 1919 and 1945 you know where

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Did president Donald Trump and his ME envoy @SteveWitkoff approve the Israeli suspension of humanitarian aids to Gaza? This is a crime against humanity.
⭕ Israel bombed the anti-air defence brigade in Tartous, north of Syria, causing one injured person.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ⛓️‍💥 A split in the collective West: Alexander Dugin explains the broader context behind Zelensky’s spat with Trump

“Zelensky was simply kicked out of the White House. But this signifies much more than just inappropriate behavior… It’s a major split in the West. The collective West no longer exists after Zelensky’s visit to the Oval Office in the US,” said philosopher Alexander Dugin on Radio Sputnik.

According to him, the West has divided into two poles: Trump, with his idea of ending the Ukrainian conflict, and the globalists, who want the war with Russia to continue using Ukraine.

🇷🇺 Earlier on Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that the collective West has partially started losing its collectivism. Fragmentation and more nuanced positions are starting to appear among various countries and groups of states, he added.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Deliveries of military aid to Kiev from the United States ceased today at around 1:30 GMT, media reports
[soon enough, we shall see the truth of the matter….]
⭕ ❗️Latest statements by US Vice President JD Vance on the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict:

• The US is working on a peace treaty together with Russia after Trump stopped aid to Ukraine;
• Zelensky will eventually agree to peace talks;
• Trump will be the first to pick up the phone if Ukraine wants to talk about peace;
• On Friday, the Ukrainian leader demonstrated “disrespect” during a meeting with Trump;
• If Zelensky gets “serious,” then the US will be ready to talk in the Oval Office again;
• Zelensky must accept Trump’s terms on the mineral deal and start negotiations with Russia;
• The best security guarantee is American economic interests in Ukraine. This is better than 20,000 soldiers from a random country;
• A peace agreement on Ukraine will not make anyone happy, and everyone will have to make concessions;
• The Europeans, despite publicly supporting Ukraine, privately must convince Zelensky of the need to end the conflict.

⭕ 📌 Major world events by the morning of March 4

• Libya announced the first oil exploration tender in 17 years;
• All deliveries of military aid to Kiev from the United States, including weapons in transit on planes and ships, as well as those waiting in transit zones on Polish territory, ceased at around 1h30 GMT on Tuesday, Western media reported, citing a source;
  [so Mr P, it may have been true that the US itself warned the Russians of that British ship with arms that was Iskandered on the pier of Odessa! What days]
• US President Donald Trump expressed confidence that a deal to resolve the conflict in Ukraine can be reached very quickly, but some are against peace;
• The US is working on a proposal to lift restrictions on a number of Russian companies and individuals, including some businessmen, according to the media;
• Trump doubled import duties on goods from China, from 10% to 20%, accusing Beijing of ineffectiveness in combating drug trafficking to the US; the introduction of import duties has also begun on goods from Canada and Mexico, the White House reported;
• China announced the introduction of additional tariffs on some US products from March 10, including 15% on wheat, 10% on beef, fruits, vegetables and dairy products; Beijing also filed a complaint with the WTO over the increase in US tariffs on Chinese goods.

⭕ ❗️If the US really decided to suspend military aid to Ukraine, this could push Kiev towards the peace process, the Kremlin says

Talking about the potential normalization of relations between Russia and the United States, the Kremlin spokesman noted that it should involve the lifting of anti-Russian sanctions.
[the key metric of serious intent, and dissolving malignant work, will be USUK forcing the Eurocrazies to cancel their sea of sanctions, as well as return the bulk of stolen Russian forex, held in Europe..]
⭕ ❗️Zelensky should give up power and leave Ukraine, Elon Musk says

🗣 “As distasteful as it is, Zelensky should be offered some kind of amnesty in a neutral country in exchange for a peaceful transition back to democracy in Ukraine,” the US entrepreneur and senior advisor to President Trump noted.
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇸 Negotiations between Moscow and Washington on Ukraine can hardly begin before the resumption of diplomatic missions, Kremlin spokesman says

It is too early to say where the next talks might take place, Dmitry Peskov said.

Over the past two weeks, the Russian and American delegations have already held talks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Istanbul, Turkey.

The last meeting was focused on the resumption of work of the two countries’ embassies. According to Russian diplomacy, the issue of returning Russian diplomatic property in the United States, which had been seized earlier, was discussed.
⭕ ❗️Russia has agreed to act as a mediator between the US and Iran in the nuclear talks, the Kremlin tells Western media

Trump addressed Putin with this request in a telephone conversation, and the US and Russian delegations discussed the topic at their meeting in Riyadh, the media reported.
[this is good news! The duplicitous Europoodles, esp UK, Germany, and France, are AGAIN being sidelined, for the mere possibility of the greater peace]

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦❗️US suspends all military aid to Ukraine until Kyiv demonstrates commitment to peace talks – White House

Also, all deliveries that were on their way to Ukraine are being turned back and returned.

It is worth noting that the suspension of military aid will primarily concern air defense missiles, HIMARS ammunition and artillery.
⭕ 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺❗️Ukraine will be able to maintain the current pace of fighting for several weeks or perhaps only until early summer after the US suspends military aid, a European official told CNN.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦⚡️The United States has suspended the delivery of military cargo to Ukraine through the logistics hub at Jasionki Airport in Rzeszow, Poland, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk confirms.

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇹🇼Chinese PLA activity around Taiwan through February 2025 saw a 40% increase in flight operations compared to January.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇹🇼🇨🇳 Taiwan Defense Minister on Relations with the United States:

We cannot rely on the goodwill of others to maintain peace in a rapidly changing international landscape.
[LOL. What would VVP say? The Asian vassals will soon repent, sit by the feet of the Imperial Court and wag their chastened tails??]
⭕ 🇰🇷🇰🇵🇺🇸 US aircraft carrier makes show of force in South Korean port

The US aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson arrived in the southern city of Busan in South Korea on Sunday to make a show of force, the South Korean Navy said.

The visit is part of the US’ “ironclad” commitment to extended deterrence and is intended to show that the military alliance between Seoul and Washington is ready to fight North Korea.

The nuclear-powered ship, part of Carrier Strike Group 1, was joined by the guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton and the guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett, the Navy said.
[LOL. We shall miss this Last Satanic Empire, and its febrile impotent postures, when it finally croaks] 
⭕ 🇰🇷🇰🇵🇺🇸 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister said her country would respond to the arrival of a US aircraft carrier in South Korea and other military activities.

“The DPRK also plans to carefully consider the possibility of increasing actions that threaten the enemy’s security at the strategic level, in order to cope with the fact that the deployment of US strategic assets on the Korean Peninsula has become a vicious habit and negatively affects the DPRK’s security,
[FAFO time. Did you get the same vibes from the Yanquis as the desperate zionazis in the Holy Land? The latter wander in despair into Gaza and Lebanon, knowing they’ll get their very balls chewed off, merely to bolster the “image” that not even they believe in anymore.. and so it is everywhere with their Anglo cousins in crime]
⭕ 🇹🇷🇮🇷 – “Iran urged Turkish officials to avoid incorrect statements and unrealistic analyses that could damage bilateral relations, following Turkey’s accusations of Iranian interference in regional affairs”
[this was retort to the salty Turk Foreign Minister yesterday above]

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ Israel is advancing 13km deep into Syria, in the Tel al-Mal peak in the Daraa Governorate, where a Syrian military post once stood.

The hill is well outside the so called “buffer zone” between Syria-Israel, which Israel seized following the HTS’ de-facto leadership.

Israeli bulldozers were also heard in the area, as well as helicopters and drones.

Israeli military vehicles were also seen in the nearby town of Masharah, and on a road to the Syrian al-Tyha village.
[the rape of the salafis proceeds nicely. It is all on them. A needed change of elites is imminent. Their cupidity and sheer ignorance of realpolitik is unsurvivable]
⭕ But Syrian FSA activists are gonna tell you that everything is pico bello and that there is no Israeli occupation on Syrian lands 🤡
⭕ The Israeli occupation flag was seen being raised in a central square in the Syrian city of Sweida, in southern Syria. |media|
[keep scrollin down. It was torched within minutes]
⭕ The same Israeli occupation flag, that was raised in the Syrian Druze village Sweida, was reportedly lowered by local villagers and burned down.
⭕ Btw, Israel’s 18km deep penetration into Syria in Tal al-Mal, is the longest penetration since 1973.

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ According to Syrian reports, Israeli troops are operating on a hill in Daraa province, specifically in a former Syrian Arab Army military post, located 13 km from the border.

Helicopter, drone and excavator activity has been heard in the area. Military vehicles have also been seen in the Syrian city of Masharah and on a nearby road.

💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ We have just received breaking news indicating that the Yemeni air defense forces have successfully shot down an American drone of the MQ-9 model.
⭕ Violent explosions are shaking the occupied city of Jaffa, known as Zionist Tel Aviv, right now.
[this was late overnight. An unannounced op? If so, by whom? TBD]
⭕ 🔴 The Political Bureau of Ansar Allah:

• The Israeli enemy’s persistent violation of the cease-fire and the complete closure of Gaza’s crossings to humanitarian aid is a dangerous escalation.
• The Palestinian people have the right to resist the Zionist arrogance and all war crimes committed with the support and encouragement of the American terrorist administration.
• Yemen’s position remains steadfast in supporting Palestine and its resistance, and the Yemeni armed forces have declared their readiness to resume operations in response to Zionist breaches.
• We urge the Arab summit to take a firm stance against the war crimes being committed in occupied Palestine and to take practical steps to save civilians and break the siege.
• We call on Arab nations to support the Palestinian cause and to work together to confront the comprehensive aggression targeting the entire nation without exception.
  ⚡️ @BABalMANDAB

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel target assassinated a Hezbollah militant in south of Lebanon due to the absence of deterrence.
[war is counter-waged by asian civilizations in unusual ways. Sometimes one takes hits.. to let the satanic expose themselves. To build a mighty fire of hatred of all around them, to assist in the necessary expungement. And it is made crystal clear to the fat desert bedouins and somnolent Sunni they shall never enjoy peace and tranquility whilst such exist among them. There are many ways of skinning a deranged cat. What days]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ Black leather really brings out the power and authority in her severe Nordic countenance. Who wouldn’t gladly march to Moscow for that face?
[response to:
🔻 Alex Christoforou: “Ursula announces the luanch of “ReArm” Europe.
Very catchy!
This will be a big hit with EU citizens, ready to send whatever money they have left to another Brussels fund that will enrich the lives of the unelected, aristocrat class, while shifting more control to the EU/Brussels center.
EuroBonds coming soon. Then EU ‘federal’ income tax.
MUST STOP THE PUTIN!” |link|]
🔻 NewEraThought: Hugo Boss is so 1939. We’re in the postmodern reductionist era of black turtleneck sweaters and sweaty olive-drab t-shirts
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: Unfortunately that uniform conveys a sense of competence that Ursula doesn’t have.
🔻 James Newell Osterberg: I’m crazy about being given orders in broken English.
🔻 Dr Sq: “Vee only haf to kick in ze door…”
⭕ ‼️ 125K

Thanks to all those who, for whatever reasons, have chosen to follow my various ramblings here on 𝕏.

I think it’s an amazing thing that I get to interact with thousands of smart people all around the world.
🔻 ale b: I miss you on substack though
🔻 WS: I’m sorry I’m not more prolific on my blog. Part of it is because I have lots of other things going on. Part of it is because it’s hard work and I’m lazy. And the rest is because I feel like my blog is the place for when I have something important to say, and I don’t always.
🔻 El Dasein: Will, you are one of the most serious geopolitical analysts working today. You predicted exactly everything that happened in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
🔻 WS: I am flattered you think so.

There are many exceedingly competent “non-certified” geopolitical analysts who have emerged into varying degrees of prominence over the course of this war. No doubt most are more competent than I. I mostly just try to shine light on the key elements.
🔻 Howard (no blue check needed): I’m just here for the Cracker tunes. Oh and your longer form pieces at imetatronink.substack.com
Lets get those numbers up too, people!
🔻 WS: 🎸 Loser

Here’s some Cracker for you, covering an old Grateful Dead song. Johnny Hickman is a great lead guitarist.
🔻 Howard (no blue check needed): Ah yes, Lowry’s voice is perfect for this tune and Johnny channels Jerry admirably here.
[I had roommates back in the day that were acolytes of Jerry, kinda like Bill Walton, wandering the nation from oasis festival to the next oasis gathering. Disturbingly into the Grateful Dead. They saw him as a prophet. Made their living making/selling tie-dye shirts, glass bongs and paraphernalia. Merely hanging around them made you high. I almost entered their rabbit hole and never exited. Thankfully too busy studying, which kept me out.]
🔻 Howard (no blue check needed): Are my San Francisco roots showing?
🔻 WS: I won’t hold it against you. After all, my wife and her entire family are long-time Bay Area residents.
[I had a chance to visit San Fran in 1981 when we were in LA but ran outta time. It must have been still comely then? As for now! Lord have Mercy. Even the shithole of Seattle may be presentable and survivable in comparison]
⭕‼️ Russia started out with an advanced electronic warfare capability.

They rather easily adapted to defeat all the US/NATO GPS-guided weaponry. But the “lower-tech” stuff was harder to defeat. Looks like they have now solved that problem.

Russia has dominated western tech.
[links:
🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ:
⚡️🇷🇺”Crimea has not been attacked by UAVs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces for a long time. NATO resources write about a certain “super-REB” that blinds NATO intelligence over the peninsula. This electronic warfare system is capable of jamming GPS and Starlink signals, it has been operating in the Crimea for recent months and there is very little information about it.

It is known that on the instructions of the Head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov, a group of talented engineers of JSC “Russian Dome”was assembled. It took several months of work and good investments for the electronic warfare system to work.
The system appeared in the spring of 2024, and now with the help of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, they plan to scale it up and distribute it throughout the country. The software is Russian, the element base is partially Russian.” ]
🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ: Part 2:

Why enemy missiles and UAVs don’t fly into Crimea: how the region created electronic warfare to protect the peninsula

One of its creators , call sign “Docent”, recalls those days:

“Previously, there were no necessary counter-drone systems on the territory of Russia. The employees of the “Russian Dome” were regularly in the zone of the SVO and decided to create electronic warfare devices to combat drones. The head of the Republic of Crimea gave the opportunity to conduct tests on the territory of the region, facilitated the trial operation, during which we have already achieved the landing of Ukrainian drones without damage.”

Such effective electronic warfare was noticed at the very top. In the spring of 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Ministry of Industry and Trade to provide assistance to the Russian Dome company and increase the share of the Russian component base in these systems.

More than 150 people are currently involved in the development, the software is entirely Russian. Domestic industry already covers part of the need for the element base.

The main indicator is that enemy UAVs and missiles fly anywhere but at the target. The adviser to the general director of the Russian Dome, with the call sign “Mayor”, speaks out clearly:

“The devices operate within a radius of 20 kilometers, this has been confirmed by the Ministry of Defense. No one else has this. Our products are recommended for purchase for the needs of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in the interests of their deployment at critical facilities, as well as on the line of combat contact.”

The reason for the lack of analogues to the Russian electronic warfare is simple: the use of combat experience and the participation of specialists from the front and technical advice from the Ministry of Defense. During development, there are also incidents: testing of the “Russian Dome” led to the suppression of GPS signals in one of the European countries neighboring Ukraine – the developers had to revise the operating parameters of their device.

“Russian Dome” also ensures the security of commercial enterprises. At one of the factories in the Rostov region, after the “Russian Dome” electronic warfare system was turned on, 25 drones were assembled in a field near the factory.

“The Ukrainians now often resort to trickery: they conduct a combined attack, first drones fly without a warhead, decoys, which are supposed to reduce the effectiveness of classic air defense systems against drones equipped with a warhead. But our electronic warfare system does not care who is suppressed – a “decoy” or a combat drone. Any one will be suppressed – says “Mer”.

They also helped in Kursk: “almost immediately after the Ukrainian troops entered the territory of Kursk Oblast, we moved to the scene. We deployed one of our experimental devices, I can’t reveal the details about it, but we managed to take very tight control of the sky in a week”

“We work with the entire oil industry,” adds “Mer.” “After working with us, all drone flights are reduced to zero. We protected the Zaporizhzhya NPP, the Kursk NPP. And there simply wasn’t a single UAV flight to Crimea after the “super-REB” took over. And when the Ukrainians realized that they couldn’t get through to us, they started flying to the Krasnodar Territory and even further.”

As a result, the war has become more expensive for the enemy; initially, UAVs costing 30-40 thousand rubles were flying in dozens, but now their devices cost 2-3 million rubles, which significantly complicates their performance of combat missions.

And the Russian dome stands in defense of the Crimean peninsula

SMI2, Crimea
🔻 Phantom_X: Does lack of long range weapons also play a part? I haven’t heard about Himars or storm shadows in a long time.
🔻 WS: HIMARS, Storm Shadows, ATACMS … they are precisely the GPS-guided US/NATO weapons the Russians have defeated.

ATACMS was the biggest failure of all. The US delivered 500+ of them to Ukraine, and they were utterly ineffectual, whereas the Russian Iskander has been devastating.
🔻 Kenan Beg: We’ve seen it time and again but Russias ability to learn and develop is impressive.
🔻 Edward Spencelah: “Russia has dominated western tech”

“China has…” (don’t even need to say it)

USA: “Free fries and a monster-sized…”
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: It has long been rumoured that the Russians have some extremely capable and eyebrow raising electronic warfare systems. GPS is completely impotent and the West still has no solution. The problem is it’s hard to defend everywhere.
🔻 Doimo Manu: Many East Europeans and people from the Soviet Union in general were members of an electrotechnical or radio club. There were numerous magazines from the 1970s and 1980s until the end. One can be surprised with ingenious solutions and innovation expectedly.
[there may be yet a role for radio afficionados from Anoxia! Like docs working until they croak in their 90s, some skill sets endure and are always in high demand…]
⭕🔻 John Ʌ Konrad V:
Everyone thinks aircraft carriers and B-1 bombers are expensive or all the money is wasted on $500 toilet seats. But the real cost? People.

Personnel costs dwarf hardware, and it’s the sheer number of people—layers of bureaucracy—that grind new procurement projects to a halt. |media|
[it wouldn’t be an Empire without such obscene extravagance and waste. And Thank God – this sows the seeds of their own defeat, freeing us from universal bondage all the faster]
🔻 WS: 🔸 The US military is not built and maintained to fight an actual big-time war.

It is a massive wealth-transfer scheme hiding behind a neo-feudalistic social welfare program, whose primary purpose is to justify and forge consent for the wealth-transfer scheme’s perpetuation.
🔻 Em Grove: An extended fast mobile war, yes. A Ukr v Russia war would be a high casualty flustercluck without a massive overhaul.
FWIW, most of Europe is in much worse shape.
🔻 WS: I submit the US is logistically incapable of prosecuting ANY manner of “extended” war.

And I remain thoroughly convinced that, even if the Russians permitted them to assemble unimpeded for a full year, a US/NATO ground force in Ukraine would be comprehensively destroyed.
🔻 JamesKaneInFlorida: Yes I am no expert but you are and I agree. The US mil. is a total waste of money and the only thing they have is a big nuclear stick.
🔻 WS: I’m not even convinced the US has a “big nuclear stick”. There are a LOT of indications that a large proportion of the US strategic nuclear force is considerably less than “mission capable” — both silo- and sub-launched ICBMs.

And the Russians can likely shoot down many of them.
🔻 Em Grove: I see why you would come to that conclusion. What I believe you’re undervaluing is the U.S.’ ability to become rabidly laser focused when the right buttons are pushed. But I’ll concede that the days of going rabid a la 1941 are unlikely
🔻 John LeGalt: But but those 8 inch floppy drives
🔻 WS: Probably old IBM 128k like they used on the System/3x series. In a 10 disk magazine. 🤣 |media|
[i get PTSD seeing those..]
🔻 Johanna deMartin: Mainly because its operators retired 30 years ago after the US flexed its absolute hegemony – and then freaked out, rejected it, and threw the entire world into the better kind of chaos.
🔻 Citizen: And what is the most important in all that, Kremlin is well aware of this. The reason Trump has initiated the idea of nuclear disarmament.
🔻 EvaG: Is there widespread support among Americans for real war with China ? US think tanks definitely pro-war, even pro-Nuclear war. Lots of Americans (incl Maga) seem to think Australians, east Asians eagerly await US pivot to confront China, which I assure you, we wait with dread.
🔻 WS: I have no doubt most Americans believe China is “the enemy” and that American military might can send “evil commies” back to the stone age in less than a couple weeks.

Of course, they’ll reassess the situation quickly after the entire US 7th fleet is sunk in the first week.
🔻 EvaG: Unfortunately when the bombs start flying it’ll be too late to stop. We’re be looking at very possible full nuclear exchange. It’s a problem that Americans are so unrealistic about war with China.
🔻 Rand Fanshier: It’s worse than anyone imagined. A systematic devolution of the American mind. A looting of capital. A loss of ability to manufacture.
🔻 Pink Shirt Migo: What are your thoughts on what @elonmusk has said on the @joeroganhq podcast about; if he revealed all the fraud, he would be killed |media|
🔻 WS: Musk is a salesman, and the thing he’s selling is himself.
links to older:
“👀 Starlink Satellite Network

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

He cannot simultaneously be both.”
[well said. To expect the occult DOGE vehicle to drain the swamp is like expecting the British Empire to truly forbid opium and human slavery]
🔻 Pink Shirt Migo: Who do you trust to reduce corruption in the US federal government?
🔻 WS: The avenging angels, when they come. Until then, I’m not very sanguine about the prospects of “reducing corruption” in the halls of empire.
⭕ 🔸 Starlink

At the link below my friend @NebojsaMalic muses about the significance of Starlink on the Ukraine battlefield.

My response:

There has long been evidence that Russia can jam Starlink via ECM. They probably can’t do it everywhere all the time, but they can do it where they decide it’s important (like in Crimea).

And they are constantly expanding the coverage area of their countermeasures.

That being the case, I can see no logical reason for the Russians to seek to destroy the Starlink array in the region. After all, they may well want to have it available for the civilian population in the future. Why not?

It’s the same situation with the GPS system: the Russians have shown they can defeat GPS where and when they choose to do so. There is no need to destroy components of the system itself.

t.me/thenebulator/1929
🔻 Nina 🐙 Byzantina: Doesn’t Russia also use Starlink within the Ukrainian territory (without fully depending on it)?
🔻 WS: So it has been rumored. And they’ve certainly captured enough terminals to make it worth their while.
🔻 Nebojša Malić: Even more reason for @elonmusk to push a button and turn it off.
🔻 Johanna deMartin: Russia not deploying a giant baseball glove in space and swatting all the shitty satellites (not juist starlink, but *ALL* the space trash) out of orbit and into eccentric orbits is forever the thing I will blame it for.
🔻 WS: I understand why many people seem frustrated in that respect, but when you stop and think about it, starting a major war in the orbital space would be as potentially destructive of modern civilization as it would be to turn a few big cities into craters.
🔻 Johanna deMartin: You’re right, of course, but it is exactly during these tidal change moments, with what used to be a unified West shattering and realigning.. where I feel it would not be beyond the realm of possibility.

“I will blame them forever” is a childish rhetoric, but you got the point.
[not childish at all. And the Last Satanic Empire WILL force the civilizational-states into this extreme move, sooner or later. Uncle Stanley predicted it in the sumptuous “2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)” – the coming star wars will be their cherry on top to bring on the long night of Dark Winter. There are even prophetic prophesies on these star wars!]
⭕🔻 Koen:
I’m totally with @walterkirn & @mtaibbi. This was a setup, but by Zelensky & UK/EU.

And, I add, Trump has to be very careful re assassination attempts andor false flags

MI6 etc are not going to let their centuries-old UKR project be taken away from them |media|
🔻 WS: Yeah, I’ve seen these arguments. I’m not persuaded by them. Trump and Vance seemed far too pleased by the outcome of the whole thing as it was happening. To me, that was the big tell.

But, frankly, either way, I don’t think it matters one whit.
🔻 Koen: Zelensky does not seem particularly concerned or apologetic either.
⭕🔻 #Liderazgoinnovador:
Ciao @imetatronink da LeVang fino a Morricone, con i film, anche spaghetti western, la musica ha catturato l’immaginazione di molte popolazioni nel mondo per essere lo sceriffo o il bravo ragazzo americano universale.
Ma quale musica rappresenta oggi l’avventura degli USA?
🔻 WS: 🎸 Long Road Out of Eden

Weaving down the American highway
Through the litter and the wreckage and the cultural junk
Bloated with entitlement, loaded on propaganda
Now we’re driving dazed and drunk
Been down the road to Damascus, the road to Mandalay
Met the ghost of Caesar on the Appian way
He said, “It’s hard to stop this binging once you get a taste
But the road to empire is a bloody stupid waste”
🔻 #Liderazgoinnovador: Grazie mille, ascoltando
⭕🔻 Koskovics Zoltán:
Indeed, @ElbridgeColby is a deeply thoughtful man. Very prudent in his approach to defense and realistic in his assessments.
Absolutely the best man for the job, and that is why the deep state is trying to torpedo |media|
🔻 WS: I am the antithesis of a “Deep State” disciple, and yet I have argued incessantly for the past few years that Colby should be kept far from the foreign policy levers of power. He is a yellow peril zealot that would lead the US into a calamity. |REMINDER|

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇨🇳👻🇦🇺🇳🇿 Rising Tensions in the Asia-Pacific

While global attention remains focused on the conflict in Ukraine, tensions in the Asia-Pacific region are escalating. On one side, China is increasing its military activity, while on the other, regional nations and their NATO allies are stepping up their presence.

Last week, a Chinese naval task force conducted live-fire drills—not just anywhere, but in the Tasman Sea, near the coasts of Australia and New Zealand. The task force included the guided-missile destroyer Zunyi, the frigate Hengyang, and the replenishment ship Weishanhu.

Notably, the Chinese military informed New Zealand in advance via radio channels but did not notify Australia, triggering a wave of alarm in Australian media. In response, Australia scrambled reconnaissance aircraft and deployed naval assets to monitor the Chinese fleet.

The Australian side sent the frigate HMAS Arunta (FFH 151) and a P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft, while New Zealand deployed the frigate HMNZS Te Kaha and another Poseidon aircraft. The Chinese forces completed their drills and continued their journey, skirting the Australian coastline. Meanwhile, debates erupted in Australia over whether China was conducting reconnaissance to identify strategic vulnerabilities.

From a regional security perspective, tensions in the Asia-Pacific have not been this high in years. China is operating farther south than usual, NATO is expanding its presence in a region historically outside its core focus (for example, a French carrier strike group recently participated in exercises against China), and Australia is rapidly militarizing.

With U.S. strategic priorities shifting from Europe to countering China, increased military activity in the region is all but certain. Washington is already adjusting its military training programs to reflect this shift—something that has been noted in recent reports.
⭕️ 🇸🇾 Some of the “achievements” of the “revolution” currently ruling Syria:

• Power outages occur every seven hours, with power restoration lasting anywhere from 15 minutes to half an hour, sometimes extending up to 12 hours.
• Salaries for those who remain employed have stayed the same, with no increase as promised. Most employees have been dismissed.
• Factory and industrial equipment is being stolen and moved to Idlib, along with the electrical grid equipment.
• Killings are happening based on identity, with anyone seeking revenge or settling scores freely killing others, labeling them as “regime remnants.”
• The bitterest part of all… Israel continues to steal from and invade southern Syria daily without opposition, while the de facto government remains asleep, preoccupied with persecuting Alawites and Shiites.
  Via: @Eye_of_resistance

⭕ ❗️The link between Zelensky, Trump, Albanese, Dutton and the Chinese fleet circling Australia.

🎙Unpacked by @AussieCossack.   |media|
⭕ 🇮🇹❌🇺🇦The Italian prime minister said she had rejected an offer from Paris and London to send Italian troops to Ukraine as part of a European force.

“In my opinion, this is a very difficult thing to implement, I am not sure about its effectiveness, that is why we said that we will not send Italian soldiers to Ukraine”

🐻 In other words – “You can go die if you want to”
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇷🇴🇪🇺EU leadership is behind Romanian prosecutor’s decision to bring charges against Georgescu – Russian Foreign Intelligence Service

Ursula von der Leyen demanded that the authorities in Bucharest not allow him to participate in the elections in May and threatened to restrict the country’s access to EU funds if the representative of “non-systemic forces” continues to participate in the campaign.

Following the attack on Georgescu, new attempts by Europeans to suppress dissent in the EU can be predicted, the Foreign Intelligence Service noted.
⭕❗️More destroyed Australian Bushmasters being towed from the front lines in Russia’s Kursk region.

🇦🇺💰Another $2.5 Million of Australian tax payer’s cash wasted by Albanese… |media|
⭕ 🇺🇸🇵🇸 The U.S. flying strategic nuclear bombers low over Gaza’s coast is a weird flex—
but it sure says a lot about the world’s biggest bully. |media|

💠 @Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ The Syrian President met with the President of the Palestinian Authority on the sidelines of the extraordinary Arab summit “Palestine Summit” held in Cairo.
[All u need to know about this useless compradore coven. Traitor A meets Traitor B]
⭕ Israel plans to cut water and electricity supplies to Gaza, FT reports.

[note the British rag reporting it. I wonder, at this point, of extreme distress and sorrow of the Anglo-Zionists, does Gaza serve as a black voodoo doll in which they can safely stick pins, to deflect global attention through systemic wounding?? What a bestial paradigm]

Pass over the puffery and pretensions of the pained propagandist and speed to the end to see a preview of what comes to nazis on this round too. The Donbass has the death penalty. And when full sense and sovereignty returns to Moscow, it will too

Who did this?😂 pic.twitter.com/VHklKs4aCs

— Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) March 4, 2025

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ♥️ Major world events by the morning of March 5

• US President Donald Trump, speaking before Congress, drew attention to his successes in curbing illegal migration, called Joe Biden the worst president in American history, and criticized the Democrats for not supporting his initiatives;
• China will increase defense spending by 7.2% in 2025, to $245.5 billion, according to the country’s draft budget;
• The United States is ready to accept Greenland into its territory if the Greenlandic people express such a desire, Trump said, emphasizing that the US will get Greenland “one way or another”;
• Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko invited Putin, Trump and Zelensky to Belarus for talks; he praised Trump’s efforts to resolve conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and stated that he is “ready to stand by him”;
• Trump said that he had received a letter from Zelensky expressing his readiness to engage in peace talks in Ukraine as soon as possible; the US president also mentioned that the document contains Kiev’s consent to a deal on rare earth metals;
• A number of Canadian provinces have banned the sale of American alcohol in response to the tariffs imposed by Trump, according to the media;
• Trump announced his intention to raise tariffs on imported goods and warned that China, India, and the European Union should be prepared for retaliatory tariffs from the US, which will take effect on April 2.

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇾🇪/🇺🇸 WATCH: Yemen’s Ansarullah have published footage of shooting down the MQ-9 ‘Reaper’ drone.  |media|
⭕ 🇷🇺/🇺🇦 NEW: Russian forces have seized a border checkpoint in the Kharkov region and taken up positions along the main highway to the city of Kharkov for the first time since 2022.

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇨🇦🇺🇸❗️Trump Will Never Be Able to Annex Canada — Trudeau

Trudeau also stated that the US has started a trade war against Canada.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇨🇦❗️ “The US will immediately increase tariffs on Canada if it introduces retaliatory measures”

— Trump said commenting on Trudeau’s words about the start of a trade war with the United States

On March 4, duties were already increased by 25% on almost all imports from Canada, but Trump is ready to increase them further
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇸❗️Russia is ready to cooperate with American companies on rare earth metals, including in Donbass and Novorossiya, but this is only possible after the lifting of US sanctions – Peskov
[What a clever device. Not only lift sanctions, and acknowledge Russian sovereignty over Novorossiya, but they pay to extract the economically unviable stuff at serious cost, adding to the shit burger of strategic defeat already eating. Indeed, could be seen as meeting terms of reparations of the Surrender, massaged and packaged in New Yawk Business terms. Maybe, since the loot of the Tarrifs is held exclusively by the Executive, this is another slush fund for Reparations?? What days.]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️Russian Armed Forces liberated the settlements of Loknya and Okhochiy in the Kursk region
⭕ 🇨🇳🇺🇸Embassy of China in the USA:

If the United States wants war, whether it is a tariff war, a trade war, or any other type of war, we are prepared to fight to the end.

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇸🇾| The birth of an indigenous resistance group in Syria, by Syrians, against elements in the country trying to balkanise the country.

According to reports, an “Islamic Resistance in Syria”, an umbrella group made up of resistance forces in Syria, was formed to confront US-Israeli-Turkish plots to dismantle Syria with the help of the current militia ruling Damascus.

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸 The Trump administration is considering selling 443 federal properties, including the headquarters of the Justice Department and the FBI.

💠 @Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ 🔴  The flight of American reconnaissance aircraft in the skies of several Yemeni provinces
⚡️ @BABalMANDAB

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇨🇳🇪🇺Blocking Russian assets will cost Europe dearly. China is preparing to withdraw $62 trillion worth of its securities from the European market.

Hong Kong authorities are working on creating an alternative to European securities depositories Euroclear and Clearstream to reduce dependence on Western financial infrastructure, the Financial Times reports. The Hong Kong Exchange (HKEX) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority plan to transform the Central Money Market Settlement System into an international depository capable of handling cross-border payments and currencies including the yuan.

China’s debt securities market is valued at $25 trillion, of which $5 trillion is managed by CMU, while Euroclear and Clearstream currently administer $42 trillion and $20 trillion, respectively.
[A useless Black Hole starts to form on a withering peninsula of Asia….]
⭕ 🇺🇸 The only funny thing was Trump taking a jab at Elizabeth Warren, who apparently wants another five years of war in Ukraine.  |media|
[See Pocohantas on the Open Thread, the wannabe native! Seriously, i cant wait for Brother Casey to itemize the similarities of this dud of a SOTU address with Idiocracy’s Camacho, who was similarly booed and trashed during his SOTU shitshow. An empty mindless sloganfest tenuously tethered to reality. What days]
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇺🇸🇺🇦 Medvedev called the suspension of American military aid to Kiev “a symbolic gesture”:

“The American administration wanted to see how the insolent drug clown and his pathetic European patrons would crawl on their knees to beg for forgiveness.”

Washington will resume arms supplies to Kiev if the agreement on mineral resources with Ukraine is signed, Medvedev believes.

I previously shared the State of the Union (SOTU) of the character (US Prez Camacho) on our Open Thread (#46425)
The Orange Camacho Gang enter the Stage.

Several of the clips from that movie have the SOTU. For those who endured the Don’s lunacy last night — do you see any similarities? At this point, with the devils in full charge, it is safe to say there is satanic mockery, and much of Trump’s lines, delivery and themes of grandeur will have been previewed in this movie!
Can’t wait for Brother Casey in next days. Gonna be fun

☝️Good God, we’re having a live run of Idiocracy. Replete with (orange) Camacho, boorish congress-critters, and selling the snake oil of mElon Musk as the world’s smartest (retard) that shall fix ALL our [self-inflicted] problems 👇🏽 (SOTU last night)

💠 @kuluary_zaliva:
⭕ US, Israel reject Egypt’s Gaza plan

Washington said the Gaza reconstruction plan presented by Arab states at the Arab League summit fails to take into account the reality that the enclave is “uninhabitable.”

National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes said Donald Trump would stick to his earlier plan to evict Palestinians from Gaza. Israel also said it wanted to give Trump’s initiative a chance because the Egyptian plan “does not reflect the realities of the situation.”

Arab leaders backed Egypt’s Gaza reconstruction plan at an emergency Arab League summit in Cairo on Tuesday, where they called for a long-term solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
[Good. The immediate disdainful rebuttal, like smacking the Cokehead around at the Oval Orifice last week, shows the power direction. Let the tranny chihuahuas mull it over, stew some more, and cycle through the stages of grief to the acceptance of the position in the world henceforth. Being an inbred moneybags is no salvation – on either peninsula, the European or Arab one]

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ Italian Defense Minister Crosetto:

The United States is an indispensable ally for us, Europe and NATO.

Without them, we would lose our deterrence and defense capabilities.

It would be a mistake to push the United States away and hope that they will leave us alone.
[The European Lunch takes umbrage at being speared by forks! Why so late the indignance? They’d been loving prepared, arranged like bouquets on prim square French plates on tables with starched cloth for generations. And they think to complain whilst enroute to the Mouth?]

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇪🇺❗️ The European Parliament proposes to create a common EU army — Western media

And also to appoint Kaja Kallas as EU foreign minister, expand the bloc’s powers in the area of ​​defense and prepare for enlargement
[Mel Brooks would weep in sheer joy at the farcical tableau! Exquisite! Orgasmic]

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Why did the US CENTOM commander General Michael Kurilla attend the handover ceremony of Eyal Zamir, the new 24th Chief of Staff of the Israeli army? Because of the total partnership between the two armies, sharing attacks, intelligence, planning and killing.
⭕ In the latest war, Israel killed 174 Hezbollah commander of all levels:
6 Jihadi Council
15 Heads of units
All the others are 2d level commanders

💠 “Trump announces reciprocal tariffs on India“ — The US President has levied tit-for-tat import duties on all products from the South Asian nation, which will kick in on April 2
☝️ some are in a hurry to reinstate the Dust Bowls of the Great Depression. What days. The Orange Camacho must be making Old Hoover smile wistfully, far far below

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ Viri honorati. 🤔
⭕🔻 Dr.Snekotron: I just got off a conversation this morning with a European who told me about the dire fiscal straits the EU is in right now. While that is true, the US isn’t going to be the last bastion of the west either. We’re heading for a crisis.

Debt service fee last year > Pentagon budget
🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: “Ferguson’s Law”, named after 18th Century Scottish historian Adam Ferguson, argues that great powers reach a point of interminable decline once they start spending more on their debt servicing than they do on defense. The US is now solidly past this horizon.
🔻 WS: Pretty much sums it up (pardon the pun).

My friend @LukeGromen has been preaching this evangel for about a decade now. If you don’t follow him, you should start.
⭕ “There is no America. There is no democracy. The world is a business.” |media|
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ Notwithstanding how much respect and high regard I have for Russians, their intellect, their culture, and their nobly ferocious warrior spirit, it never ceases to amaze me how credulous and naïve they can be at times.
[it comes with being spiritual and seeking the higher…]
🔻 Милан Лукић: Everyone always starts their presumptions about others from theirselves.

Lier thinks everyone is lying to him.
Cheater that everyone is cheating.
Etc

Russian presume good faith bcs that makes sense to them.
🔻 WS: This is syllogistically illogical argumentation.
[a roman, or modern westerner, may not understand, lol]
🔻 Alessandro Del Prete: non credi abbiano imparato la lezione? non si lasceranno attrarre troppo dalle favole di Trump.
[THIS roman qualifies it well: the lesson has not had time to be forgotten. It is still red hot, ergo the severe conundrum of the Orange Effluvia Gang]
🔻 WS: Vogliono sempre essere amati e accettati dai loro cugini occidentali. È un sentimento ammirevole, ma non protegge dai pugnali alla schiena.
[don’t worry Will. They’ve been scalded to a sufficient degree as to form a strong scar..]
🔻 Alessandro Del Prete: è vero…c’è questo tipo di fascinazione in atto. ma sono stati traditi troppe volte per ricascarci ancora. non credo si fidino di più, e non credo gli USA riescano a rompere completamente il rapporto stabilito con la Cina. Siamo all’inizio del processo di riordinamento mondiale. #multilateralismo
🔻 结愿: 普京在奥利弗斯通的采访中评价丘吉尔的话，也许可以看做他作为政治家的行为守则。十一个时区的土地并不是一夜之间上帝赐予他们的，在九十年代无序混乱之后迅速的复兴，这是天真幸运的小白兔能做到的吗？普京经历冷战，解体的混乱并且带领俄罗斯新时代的重建，却那么多人相信他天真本身就是一种宣传胜利
[welcome to the global village! A beautiful reminder by Chinese brother or sister who peers through the shells of the Matryoshka doll. And it requires more, much more, than Russian military science or engineering to comprehend! It requires Dostoevsky and Love.. and Asian/African sensibilities, free of supremacism, which taint most through association and contact]
🔻 BuboAsper: As an ordinary Belgian citizen I find it impossible to understand the statement from a USA official saying that “500 000 dead children are worth it”.
Am I being naïeve too?
The complete heartlessness of the USA “culture” is for me beyond understanding. Point final.
🔻 WS: If you queried 1000 average Americans, probably fewer than 2 would have any idea what you’re talking about in terms of Madeleine Albright’s infamous statement about Iraqi children.

Americans, with few exceptions, are a psychologically subjugated and blissfully ignorant people.
🔻 BuboAsper: You are right about your fellow Americans. That is also my experience. (Used to visit +3/yr for 25yrs. work related.)
However it has all the characteristics of an “Es haben wir nicht gewusst” – excuse.
🔻 Max Headroom 🇷🇺: What are you recommendations for the Russians?
🔻 WS: That’s an intriguing question. I will ponder it a while and then come back to reply. In the meantime, I will refer you to this reply I made elsewhere on this thread:
links:
“I was, of course, making a sweeping generalization based solely upon my interpretation of the modest amount of Russian history I know and understand.

I’m sure that same history attests notable exceptions to this type.

I have been VERY impressed by the letters of Ivan IV.”
🔻 WS: With the preface that my view on such matters is typically ~20% rational and ~80% visceral, my advice to the Russians, at this juncture is: go “all in”; call every bluff; but be prepared to face a shootout — and if it comes to that, keep shooting ’til they stop twitching.
🔻 Pleas Lucian: I’ve often wondered aloud whether they genuinely grasp the psychology of the empire.

It will have to be compelled to submit to reason. Power is the only currency. One has to speak a language the other can understand

It makes perfect sense when you understand the psychology. The trouble has been acclimating the rest world to the degree of pathology inherent in western societies.

Stated simply, Putin has been naive, even by his own admission. |link|
🔻 Ingemar: Sometimes, history needs a push.

V. I. Lenin
🔻 James: Since Borrell and other top unelected EU bureaucrats always stood by their deep desire to have this “decided on the battlefield”, Russia should give them what they ask for. Totally unhinged.
[Patience. Undoubtedly this comes. We shall soon enough pray for the return of these days. But we shall be entertained first. There are rituals afore the Conflagration. Orange belly-dancers need to twerk and twist and twirl, to their handler’s satisfaction. So it has always been on the Stage, in the proper sequence]
🔻 IonCannon47801: If Rus (and China for that matter) accept anything other than the dissolution of NATO (short-med term) and the complete balkanization of the US (long term), than they are as stupid as we are told they are.
🔻 Migs42: I wouldn’t call it naive, I would say they will trust u until u betray that trust and then they will never trust u again..
🔻 WS: More like seventy times seven.

In any case, sometimes you only get one fleeting chance to discern the true nature of a thing, and you have to choose wisely and act decisively, because everything depends on it.
[will! That is what it means to fall in love, and risk it again, and again. Stop reading Melville, and other stuffy unimaginative Puritans, all the time. Indulge in Tolkien, Tolstoy and romantics and poets like Pushkin]
🔻 Bradonja.🇷🇸☦️🇷🇺.Србија: Forgive and trust in God that He will pay you back. It is fate, not naivety.
🔻 WS: That is not how faith works; it is certainly not how the hard ball geopolitical world works, and it strikes me as an exceedingly foolish policy to practice.
[ah! Will has a blind spot. Lack of appreciation of the eastern soul.. even looking at it from “the hard ball geopolitical world” – who is still standing, the Teutonic Knights, Swedish Empire, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Napolean, and German Nazis or Russia? Who has kept degrading through the centuries, and who kept rising??]
🔻 Bradonja.🇷🇸☦️🇷🇺.Србија: Tell me about it.
Faith that God will pay for good is what hold us as Ortodox Christians. Or we would burn Catholic west to the ground considering number of times they attacked us or betrayed us.
[exactly. And the Palestinians and tormented Persians have had the same forbearance. Few westerners will ever understand, much less than appreciate. Many time – many – the killing hand was stayed, not outta weakness, but love for God and divine injunction.. no more. And they comprehend not that they play the evil foil on the real Grand Chessboard. One role which shall shame them even as they roast in Hell. Pity]
⭕ cont. thread:
Nothing ever happens as fast as I tend to believe it will. But this is still an interesting post from one week into the ongoing slaughter in the Levant. |link|
🔻 UpTheReds ⚒️: Over a year later and pretty much everything you predicted has come true. Do you think there will be a conflict between Egypt and Israel next?
🔻 WS: My sense is that the Egyptians will make their move just in time to show up for the victory parade — no matter the victor.
[and what if they’re themselves among the buffet meat at the parade??]
🔻 UpTheReds ⚒️: What are your latest thoughts on the 50,000 Egyptian troops on the Philadelphia Corridor?
If the ceasefire fails, do you think the Arab league countries and Egypt will unite to declare war on Israel in order to reinstate the ceasefire or to protect Gaza during Ramadan?
🔻 WS: My thoughts are that none of the leadership of the Arab countries genuinely care one whit about Gaza and its inhabitants, and all their pretensions to the contrary are politically motivated lip service. They will remain spectators for the time being.
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ Utter nonsense. He is describing tactical madness inside a bubble of strategic miscalculation and logistical impossibility.

For many years, I’ve not heard a single active US flag officer speak with any clear appreciation of what the US would face in a war against China.
[links:
“Gen. Schneider, Commander of @PACAF, says China’s Rocket Force continues to build their inventory of ballistic missiles, adding numbers & range, that threaten U.S. bases in the region.

Agile combat employment—places, not bases—allows the U.S. to stay ahead of that challenge👇

“There’s a lot of things we’re doing to gain access to bases & fields, to rehabilitate fields we haven’t used in a long time, to work with sovereign nations for access, basing, & overflight, to continue to look at opportunities to project air power from multiple locations, multiple axes, around the region.”” |media| ]
🔻 C1: China threatening our presence in the region of China
🔻 Paulo: For what? Back off…spend the money at home…let the world grow and let people be happy
[that would defeat the Mission of Legion and the Last Satanic Empire]
🔻 Prajnanam: It is beyond the security classification of a General Officer to come out with such appreciations in public.

I presuppose that at least they are aware of Chinese capabilities and its implications on US forces deployed in Pacific & Indo Pacific.

If not, they are up for disaster.
🔻 raven murmur: Australia is host to the most important US base globally – Pine Gap – and neither we nor the US forces we host have any sort of adequate/comprehensive air defence against missile attack.
🔻 Ayodele ajayi: These fools…what if Japan, SK and Taiwan all wake up from their slumber and decide that taking their fates in their hands and dealing with China w/ Honor & Integrity will give them better outcomes…what then…you’d b defeated w/o a single shot fired…we are headed there
🔻 The Goshnje: The ultimate simulator of spring offensive showed high probability of success. Yet on the field nobody took into consideration that one tank crew would run from bushes into 7 vehicle column and stop them all 🤷
🔻 Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn: This is an audition for a consulting gig with the MIC. Give him a break he’s retiring soon
⭕ 🔹 Final Act

Zelensky getting in character as he contemplates his final act.
🔻 WS: 🎸 Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked

There ain’t no rest for the wicked
Until we close our eyes for good
🔻 WS: 🎸 Loser

All that I am asking is for ten gold dollars
And I could pay you back with one good hand
🔻 Marta: Bellissimo dipinto😍

Salutiamo il cocainomane bye bye
🔻 Dr. J.Hawk: This is a painting of a medieval Polish jester named Stanczyk, who was nothing like Zelensky. The closest equivalent Ukraine has to a court jester who knows what’s really happening is Arestovych.
🔻 WS: It’s one of my favorite paintings.
[it reminds of the immense sadness of The Satan at the futility of all his works on this dimension… and his time’s nearly up]
🔻 Dr. J.Hawk: I’m astonished someone outside of Poland is aware it exists! 😇
⭕ 📚 Best Books

One of the best books I’ve read in the past twenty years is Konstantin Stanislavski’s An Actor’s Work.

Of course, your mileage may vary. |link|
⭕ ‼️ How the USS Trembling Puppy Lost an F/A-18
(And almost lost another)

Bear in mind it was a modest (<20) salvo of Yemeni drones/missiles that caused enough confusion for the US Navy to shoot down its own aircraft.

Yeah, let’s go fight China. 🤦‍♂️ |media|
🧵 How to Lose A Carrier Strike Group in An Afternoon
[the vibe’s in the air, eh? and China’s circling like a hungry shark around Oz..]
🔻 Mr Anonymous: I guess it’s not technically hard to destroy the fleet probably fairly easy however the real protection it relies on is psychological.
Is anyone prepared to accept the consequences of attacking the sacred cow.
🔻 WS: “Psychological protection” is meaningless and irrelevant.

What do suppose the US will do with their entire 7th fleet sunk or severely damaged within a couple weeks or less? You think they’ll commit national seppuku over the disaster? I don’t.
🔻 Mr Anonymous: Most actions in the world are based on the perception of fear of consequences so I disagree that psychological protection is meaningless.
I don’t know what the reaction would be and wouldn’t want to find out.
🔻 WS: What you mean to suggest is that the Chinese are or ought to be intimidated by the US military presence in the China Seas and contiguous environs. They are not, and they have very good objective cause to not be.

The US has no capability to project decisive power against China.
🔻 whitemonkey1: the guest was very informative no nonsense USN vet , very good discussion on (unclassified) data on the event..

but the host spread ukrop lies about ukraine pilot F16 shotdown 6 air target in one single day

he also invited justin bronk the propagandist in other vids
[yeah, I’ve featured this hagiographer of the US Navy and all Wars several times before. He was even in one with a discombobulated Sal the Sailor. But even during these stunts, if you keep perky, you can read between the lines of the Sad and Threadbare State of Play – and the ongoing drowning of Pharaoh’s modern Sea Chariots]
🔻 Dosadian: Better bring some allies along to increase the chance of winn… oh. |link|
🔻 zed z: America is illegally bombing Yemen with no UNSC mandate so they have no right to self defence there
⭕ 🔥 Unprecedented Chinese Boldness

Witness the growing boldness of the Chinese, who are now clearly serving notice that they are ready to fight if that’s what it comes to.

From a lost proxy war against Russia to a direct war with China: out of the frying pan and into the fire.
[links:
🔻 Spokesperson发言人办公室: “The fentanyl issue is a flimsy excuse to raise U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports. Our countermeasures to defend our rights and interests are fully legitimate and necessary.

The U.S., not anyone else, is responsible for the #FentanylCrisis inside the U.S. In the spirit of humanity and goodwill towards the American people, we have taken robust steps to assist the U.S. in dealing with the issue. Instead of recognizing our efforts, the U.S. has sought to smear and shift blame to China, and is seeking to pressure and blackmail China with tariff hikes. They’ve been PUNISHING us for helping them. This is not going to solve the U.S.’s problem and will undermine our counternarcotics dialogue and cooperation.

Intimidation does not scare us. Bullying does not work on us. Pressuring, coercion or threats are not the right way of dealing with China. Anyone using maximum pressure on China is picking the wrong guy and miscalculating. If the U.S. truly wants to solve the fentanyl issue, then the right thing to do is to consult with China by treating each other as equals.

If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end.” ]
🔻FrensWeMade: Tweets have the same weight they had yesterday. Nothing.
[LOL. Says the drowning WHOLLY dependent on gaslighting, optics, mediawars,  psyops, cyberwars, and unending digital BS pumped through the aether, with the bountiful aid of the Prince of the Sky. We be sooooo fragile nowadays..]
🔻 WS: And yet these facts remain:

– The Chinese have NEVER, in the Xi era, spoken with such boldness and authority.

– The US military would be comprehensively eviscerated by China in a war in the western Pacific. It would be the most shocking military outcome in modern times.
🔻 Eomar – Diligent News: It’d only be shocking to people on a steady diet of propaganda.
🔻 W8nC: They’ve had enough.. and they know they’ll win.
🔻 John Metzner: No users, no market. It is that simple, really.

🔻 Eomar – Diligent News: If Trump is smart he will continue and intensify our withdrawal to the Western Hemisphere, it is the best choice for our nation and the only thing that will prevent severe damage. |link|
🔻 Nñ¶£m³¢¶: That is a clear signal that power Now resides with China and not US anymore
🔻 Pietka T: We are living in very interesting times
🔻 Terry SU: You @imetatronink may bash the Chinese for being devious, playing an underdog game when they are not or manhood is at stake. Mind you they’ve been tortured to be shrewd/cunning by their 5-thousand-year history of ups & down’s & they don’t for a minute believe in end of history!
🔻 WS: I have no idea what you’re talking about, but it certainly has no relationship to anything I have EVER said about China.
🔻 Terry SU: Forgive me Will for my narrative. By “you” I didn’t mean you, & I just mean to say that my fellow Chinese tend not to be a bull, instantly rushing towards the red cloth waved before them, unlike, say, Russians & Ukrainians. Tact & acumen sank in the fibres of the statecraft here.
🔻 四维: I think he’s saying that you overacted to China’s “boldness” because the Chinese are historically un-confrontational. He probably scripted the tweet in Chinese and then translated into English so it came out weird.

Speaking of boldness, the Qing sailors would definitely be able to give today’s PLAN a run for its money. |link|
⭕ ‼️China is already the de facto regional hegemon in the western Pacific. The US is simply struggling to come to grips with that reality. The rapidly declining empire has no power nor means to arrest China’s continued rise, and only undiscerning fools like Colby believe otherwise.
[links:
🔻 Stephen Wertheim: Significant statement by @ElbridgeColby: “I’ve always said that Taiwan is very important to the United States, but as you said, it’s not an existential interest . . . The core American interest is in denying China regional hegemony.”]
🔻 StarBoySAR 🇭🇰 🇨🇳 🥭: Basically Eldridge is asking Japan and Taiwan to transition to war economies…as American carrier strike groups stay out of the First Island, except for the occasional exercise before being chased away by the PLAN, clearly the US decided to hang out Taiwan as a main flashpoint and Japan to hold the line acting as a missile sponge while the US retreats to the 2nd Island Chain and beyond
🔻 Ikkyu Sojun: U.S. can’t see it.

They are too busy believing its own propaganda, that old hegemonic trap.

Power’s slipping fast, no muscle left to halt China’s climb. It’s pitiful watching the empire fade, stuck in denial while reality marches on.
🔻 C4: If China plays its cards right and tones down its own aggressive “wolf diplomacy” it may well capture all of the US allies (or at least make them neutral) following Trump’s quick alienating
[it’s a fine line, no?? Between appearing weak and similarly alienating the US allies.. Ultimately, as with Russia and Iran before, China will likely issue demarches, show their teeth, and wait for the deranged to mawl themselves in well-prepared traps.]
🔻 rubyinthewild🇸🇬: In the first place, what is the basis for the US to “deny” China from being a “regional hegemon”?
[Asking the right question answers itself. IOW, the sheer presumptuous and irrationally supremacist Hubris! The leveling to come will put in the pale all preceding Pharaohs or biblical tyrants — so far have they puffed themselves up, higher than even Icarus]
🔻 CS: The proof was last weeks soirée in the Tasman Sea

⭕🔻 Tina Marie: |link|
🔻 Brian Berletic: I thought President Trump was dismantling the deep state. Looks more like he’s feeding it…

Blackrock – it doesn’t get more deep state than that, no more so than Marco Rubio as Secretary of State or hiring a Soros partner to head the US Treasury…

Must be a 5D chess move my small brain can’t comprehend that simply looks like continuity of agenda to me…
🔻 WS: The hard-core true believers will hold to their faith for some time to come, using all manner of mental gynastics to rationalize their devotion.

But as spring turns to summer and then to autumn, more and more people will come to grips with the truth. |media|
🔻 Mister Factologist: They have gone from Trump Derangement Syndrome to Trump Worship Syndrome. Either way they are fanatical cultists who refuse to use logic, reasoning, facts, evidence and think for themselves.

the “united Arab League” dog & pony show stands exposed… they’re disintegrating, like their suzerain, and the Euro-Chihuahuas..

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸 According to Republican sources, Rubio has told people he is “upset by his lack of influence on foreign policy, despite being the administration’s top diplomat.”

“One said he feels like Rubio is often the last to know when foreign policy decisions are being made in the White House.”

Source: Vanity Fair
⭕ Canada🇨🇦 and the United States🇺🇸 have offered to take in 48 Uighurs detained in Thailand 🇹🇭 over the past decade, sources told Reuters, but Bangkok has taken no action for fear of upsetting China 🇨🇳 or they have been repatriated.
[yeah. This ain’t continuity of gov, and the Anglos have repented..]
⭕ U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to cut about 80,000 jobs: memo

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ South Africa condemns Israel’s recent restrictions on aid entering Gaza, calling it a form of starvation used as a weapon of war

Preventing food from reaching Gaza is a “plausible genocide” based on the ICJ ruling, the South African foreign ministry stated, calling for international accountability.

🗣 “The people of Gaza are experiencing immeasurable suffering and urgently need food, shelter and medical supplies,” the ministry said.

Prior to Sunday, a fragile ceasefire since January had allowed increased humanitarian aid into Gaza. However, Israel then announced it would block deliveries until Hamas accepted its terms for a truce extension.
⭕ 🌍 Europe cannot acknowledge Zelensky’s failure, a French politician says

The war in Ukraine “is ruining Europe,” Thierry Mariani, Member of the European Parliament, told Sputnik Africa, likening the situation to the Soviet Union’s downfall triggered by the Afghanistan war.

He said that the damage caused by the war in Ukraine may not be immediately obvious, because Europe has been taking out loans that will never be repaid.

🗣 “In a few years, very quickly, the Europeans will discover that ultimately all the loans made to Mr. Zelensky will have to be repaid. And when the Americans, with Mr. Trump, fight to get their money back, the French, the Europeans will have nothing left,” Mariani said.
⭕ ⚡️ Macron: “Russia has become a threat to France and Europe”

French President made several statements on the Ukraine conflict in his address to the nation:

• Macron initiated talks on using French nuclear weapons to defend the EU.
• He spoke against a ceasefire in Ukraine, saying that peace cannot be “a capitulation of Ukraine.”
• Macron also announced a meeting of the chiefs of staff of countries willing to “guarantee a future peace in Ukraine,” to be held in France next week.

[mini-Jupiter has gone off the rails. Some one get his daddy-wife to slap sense back into him]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Israeli reporter Barak Ravid writes for Axios that the Trump administration is in direct talks with Hamas about the release of U.S. hostages in Gaza and a potential broader peace deal

These discussions, led by U.S. Envoy for Hostages Adam Boehler, have taken place in Qatar and mark the first ever direct communications between the United States and Hamas.

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Unprecedented: Without Israel’s consensus, US special envoy for hostage affairs Adam Boehler has been holding direct talks with Hamas officials in Qatar on the possibility of releasing hostages, including Americans, in Gaza.