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  • in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 31 May 2025 #59371
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    Has blessed Yemen found the sweet spot against the US Air Force too, in addition to the Navy?? In every way imaginable, the Murder-Suicide against Persia is carved into the Yemeni mountains…

    💠@ejmalrai:
    ⭕ I don’t understand why Australia, NewZeland and the UK impose sanctions on two extremists ministers Itamar ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich when these two cannot take any decision without their boss, prime minister Bewnjamin netanyahu, with an ICC arrest warrant for his war crimes?
    retweet:
    Cameron has been caught red-handed trying to pervert the course of justice. If Putin had done that it would be on the front page of every newspaper and the UK would call an emergency meeting of the UNSC. Instead media silence. My new column for MEE: |link|
    retweet:
    🔻 Middle East Observer: ⚡️A growing crisis in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has led to the unprecedented deployment of female soldiers to front-line roles, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. This shift highlights the extent of the IDF’s manpower challenges amid ongoing military operations.

    Previously, women constituted just 14% of military personnel. That figure has surged to 21% as the army grapples with a confirmed shortfall of approximately 10,000 troops. The IDF spokesperson recently acknowledged the deficit, further validating concerns about recruitment and retention. |link|

    Occupied Palestine.
    9th of June, 2025.
    [like their UkroNazi cousins, there is an ongoing zionazi use of Volkssturm…]
    “European Colonial extraction” means decades of stealing the wealth of other countries. This is how Europe became wealthy. Natural resources “availability” is over. The last chance was Russia and it has failed.

    Fascinating study. |link|
    Yemen Ansar Allah said that not only ben gurion airport but also the Haifa Harbour are, from now on, a legitimate target after Israel’s bombing of Sanaa airport and Hodeida harbour in Yemen. Ansar Allah warned all shiping companies to avoid Haifa harbour.
    ⭕ Benjamin Netanyahu, with an ICC arrest warrant for his war crimes, is saying “there are progress in the negotitaions to release the Israeli prisoners, but have no hope”.
    He is a real comedian, a criminal comedian. He is syaing aboslutely nothing because he has no intention to stop the war.

    💠@Middle East Spectator:
    ⭕ NOTE: The E3 is France, Germany and the United Kingdom. Those are the remaining Western signatories of the original 2015 Nuclear Deal (officially called the JCPOA).

    After the United States withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018, these European nations called on Iran to stay in the deal. So Iran did.

    Slowly but surely, the E3 nations started to abandon their committments, and in response, in full compliance with the JCPOA, Iran did the same.

    (The JCPOA allows Iran to scale back its committments if the other side fails its obligations).

    These European countries are now complaining that Iran doesn’t keep its committments, while they were the very first to abandon theirs.
    ⭕ ❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇸 NEW: U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says there are ‘plenty of indications’ that Iran is moving towards ‘something that looks like a nuclear weapon’
    ⭕ ❗️🇮🇷/🇪🇺/☢️ Vahid Ahmadi, Member of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security Committee:

    ‘If the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) approves the censure resolution and declares Iran in non-compliance, we should raise our uranium enrichment level to 90% (weapons-grade).

    And if they subsequently trigger the ‘snapback’ mechanism, Iran should withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) on nuclear weapons.

    If any of these two things happen, the responsibility lies squarely with the United States and Europe.’

    💠@imetatronink:
    ⭕🔻 — GEROMAN — time will tell – 👀 –: According to preliminary information, an expanded meeting of the Security Council of the Russian Federation will be held in Moscow today under the leadership of President Putin.
    Sources said that the composition and importance will be greater than before the start of the special operation in Ukraine Feb. 21, 2022

    (The SMO could be upgraded to an ATO / Anti Terror Operation – this would make all Kiev regime members to terrorists – which can then be targeted directly – no matter where they are.
    I also think that the face of the SMO will change)
    🔻 Armchair Warlord: Given recent developments in the war it’s likely that a good-faith negotiated peace simply cannot be made with the regime currently sitting – unlawfully and by armed force alone, I remind you – in Kiev.⬇️

    Putin is a patient man and one who seems to be quite sensitive to charges of waging a war of aggression for conquest’s sake – and as I’ve said many times, if the Davos Regime had been smart enough to bribe him with EU membership he would have been leading Moscow Pride and hosting the USN in Sevastopol – but he’s not stupid. The SMO was the result of “escalating to deescalate” what was developing into a clear and present danger to Russian national security in Ukraine. If necessary he will take another step up the escalation ladder.

    And I believe it has become necessary.
    [as our Olde Larch, from the beleaguered burning hellhole that is LA would say, “he’s way over his skis”. Soldiers should stick to soldiering, and analyzing soldiering, not impromptu psychoanalysis beyond their ken..]
    🔻 WS: “… if the Davos Regime had been smart enough to bribe him [Putin] with EU membership he would have been leading Moscow Pride and hosting the USN in Sevastopol …”

    So you think Putin’s “principles” have no substance and are elastic affectations of political convenience? 🤔
    🔻 Armchair Warlord: I think he’s a neoliberal who did everything he could to integrate Russia with the West until it became flagrantly obvious the West wanted him dead and Russia dismembered and prostrate.
    🔻 WS: I have heard this perspective voiced by many over the years. In my view, it is a fallacious interpretation of what Putin has said and done.

    I remain convinced Putin’s strategy has ALWAYS been to do whatever was necessary to BUY TIME to prepare Russia for war against NATO.
    🔻 Armchair Warlord: I don’t think that’s the case. In fact I think his policy of appeasement of people who obviously wanted his taxidermied corpse mounted over their mantelpiece puts Chamberlain to shame.
    🔻 WS: Well … we’ll have to agree to disagree on this point.

    In any case, I enjoy our occasional disagreements, and things were boring around here while you were gone. 😏
    🔻 Justin Glyn SJ: Another possibility. Putin’s a lawyer & seems to see power as exercised within the constraints of law. As a result, I don’t think he’s either bribable or a democrat in the neoliberal sense. He did try coexistence but believes in international law as a constraint on national power
    🔻 Peter: I agree Will. If we consider when Putin came to power, it was at a point when Russia was at its weakest and fending off attempts to further destabilise the country. It was also at a point when Russia was unable to stand up to NATO, for example in aid of Serbia.

    Putin came to power to reverse Russia’s decline. So Putin has played nice as he rebuilt Russia, but if you listen to him even 15 years ago it is clear he understood who he was dealing with and where Russia had to go in dealing with NATO.
    🔻 Miangelego: Era obvio, que, tras el discurso de Putín, en la conferencia de Seguridad de 2007 en Múnich y tras el hundimiento del submarino Kurst por otro americano tipo toledo, la guerra de Georgia y Chechenia, que occidente no quería la amistad de Rusia, sino destruirla
    🔻 Alexander G. Rubio: He’s a lawyer.
    🔻 WS: I have followed Putin closely for 2+ decades. I have read a large proportion of his public speeches and observed his actions over that period.

    In my judgment, he has been remarkably consistent in word and deed — albeit conscious and cautious in the face of Russian weakness.
    🔻 WS: When one compares his famous speech at the 2007 Munich Security Conference to his speeches of February 21 and 24, 2002, one would be hard pressed to identify any inconsistency.

    But he needed to BUY TIME to get Russia in a position to face the west from a posture of strength.
    🔻 WS: As for the notion that, pursuant to political ends, Putin would have “led the Moscow Pride Parade” … well, I just don’t buy that. There is nothing I have ever perceived in his words or deeds that would support that view.
    reposts his older from 2 Mar 2022, and leading excerpt:
    “How does one become the arch-enemy of the elite thought-shapers of 21st century western civilization? By saying things like this”
    🔻 Alexander G. Rubio: I agree. But some of the things he’s been consistent on is a punctilious, bordering on pedantic, approach to diplomacy and deal making, and a willingness to go far to achieve those deals.
    🔻 solid myostate: I think he’s saying that Putin is a complex man who’s grown from atheist kgb company man to Solzhenitsyn fan boy then realized he’s in game of thrones w)dragons but god be real & realizing what his place as protector of the rus and Christianity is
    🔻 Elydia35: absolutely NO WAY would he ever adopt the pride agenda. At most, he might’ve refrained from passing anti-LBTQ propaganda. His religious orthodox convictions are real, not an act.
    ⭕‼️ Summers of Love

    The summers of my 11th and 12th years, I was hired by our neighbor, Mrs. Traynor, to weed her flower garden. She paid me $1/hour.

    Mrs. Traynor was very kind, very classy, and very beautiful. Even so, I wasn’t too enthusiastic about weeding. I did a pretty good job when I was focused on it. But I always had my little 9V AM transistor radio nearby, tuned to the best local station, and would often daydream while listening to the best songs of the late 60s and early 70s.

    That said, her husband, Dr. Traynor, paid me $1.25 to wash, wax, and vacuum his late 1950s Mercedes 300 SL Roadster — and that was a job I actually enjoyed.

    Plus, in their shed where all the garden implements and car maintenance stuff was stored, Mr. Traynor had stacked every single issue of Playboy magazine from the 1953 debut with Marilyn Monroe to the early 1970s — so I always made sure to put away and carefully “organize” things in the shed when I was done. 😏

    Also, one day I had to use their bathroom, and Mrs. Traynor sent me in with directions. I went upstairs, spotted the bathroom, but as I was entering it, out of the corner of my eye I saw into the master bedroom, and over the headboard of the bed was a large oil painting of Mrs. Traynor, fully nude, laying on a couch.

    I confess I leaned inside the bedroom door to get a better look at it before I prudently entered the bathroom and shut the door behind me.

    Meanwhile, I heard Mrs. Traynor enter the house and scurry quietly up the stairs. When I exited the bathroom shortly thereafter, the master bedroom door had been shut. 🤣

    Those were the days …

    To my frustration, in the last couple years, I have struggled to find teenage boys willing to help me with my yard work, despite the fact that I pay them $20/hour + one 90% silver US dime (worth ~$2.50) if they do a good job, and never ask of them more than 2 – 3 hours on any given day.😞

    Maybe I need a better car and a better shed. 😉
    🔻 Marked safe from Western Propaganda: Very enjoyable read. And this is why many can’t talk to women. They have access to millions of images of women no thanks to technology at a very young age. Unprecedented in human history. In many societies most men still don’t see more than 5 naked women their whole lives. We have no idea what this is doing to boys. And no one seems to care.
    🔻 CBJC: Don’t they have a powder room, usually on the main floor nowadays, back then?!
    [ask Melania]
    ⭕‼️ Trump’s recent hagiographic descriptions of American military prowess are ahistorical nonsense.

    (Trump’s latest eye-roller linked in subsequent reply.)
    🧵The Myth of Western Military Prowess
    🔻 Dr. Anton: Sounds like he’s trying to be @MedvedevRussiaE but without the teeth
    ⭕ HIMARS in a Box

    It is still just a six-shooter short-range rocket launcher, or a one-shooter ATACMS launcher — both of which have long-since been proven ineffective in Ukraine.
    links:
    🔻 Tyler Rogoway: Mysterious Shipping Container Rocket Launcher Spotted At Trump’s Visit To Fort Bragg

    A pop-out launcher for rockets and ballistic missiles inside a shipping container offers extreme flexibility and can hide in plain sight. |link|
    🔻 …with a K: That’s how they are snuck into the conflict zone.
    [and two can play. And who exactly is existentially dependent on sea trade with extremely distant supply chains??]
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    🔻 Tyler Rogoway: China is pumping out surface combatants at a bewildering pace. It’s nuts how fast their yards move. It’s accelerating. Every day we lose ground. And no, qualitative advantage is not everything in this equation. Every single day the gap is widening. It will take a massive coalition shipbuilding approach & new thinking entirely about naval warfare to shrink the chasm.
    links:
    🔻 Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan: As you heard from me today at the Senate Armed Services Committee, I’ll always be transparent and I will not be afraid to make the difficult choice. We need more ships, a stronger industrial base, a warfighter culture, and real investment in our people. If it doesn’t add to our readiness, we will not fund it. |link|
    🔻 Tyler Rogoway: This is not just about money, it’s also about mindset and willingness to break old dusty molds and taboos, slay sacred cow programs. We are so in denial.
    🔻 Tyler Rogoway: More sobering background: |link|
    ⭕🔻 Tom Shugart:
    “Tom Shugart, a former U.S. Navy submariner, told Newsweek: “China is now, by far, the world’s dominant maritime power by every measure other than sheer naval tonnage (U.S. Navy ships are, on average, still larger), and its maritime interests are global in nature. That we also see global Chinese naval power should come as no surprise.”” |link|
    🔻 Ron Snyder: Tom, is this a reasonable approximation of the age disparity between the U.S. Navy vs PLAN warships?

    “A rough estimate, based on these trends, might place the U.S. Navy’s average warship age in the range of 20–30 years, given the longevity of its major platforms (e.g., carriers and destroyers from the 1980s/1990s). The PLAN’s average age is likely closer to 10–15 years, reflecting its aggressive modernization and shipbuilding since the 2000s. However, these are broad approximations, as the exact mix of ship classes (e.g., carriers, destroyers, frigates, submarines) and their commissioning dates varies significantly.”
    🔻 Benwick: US ships are much more proven in combat and maintenance, and have been modernized many times. So it’s not JUST a matter of “they got newer videocards so they’re better” but it’s still alarming for sure.
    🔻 WS: “Combat”? Until their most recent traumatic encounter with the Yemeni, the US Navy had seen no “combat” whatsoever since 1945.

    And what we discovered is that the US Navy is not even prepared for the Rookie League, let alone a serious engagement against a peer adversary.
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    🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Yesterday might have been the most consequential day for Taiwan in years, yet – as often – literally no Western media covered it (I checked, only Taiwanese media did).

    There are many ways to wage war but the best way, or so the Chinese doctrine famously goes, is to conquer the enemy’s strategy, not their army. Or, put another way, to win without fighting.

    Imagine for the sake of argument that you’re a president and your intelligence chief walks into your office to inform you that, for the better part of the past decade, your government’s top national security advisors, even your top aide, have been feeding your adversary every classified briefing, every military plan, every diplomatic strategy.

    Every “secret” weapon, every tactical advantage, every backup plan, your every thoughts – they knew it all in real time.

    How would you feel in that moment? You’d surely feel betrayed, but more than that – completely outmaneuvered before the game even began, utterly exposed and defenseless. Right?

    Well, that’s exactly what just happened in Taiwan. This isn’t a hypothetical scenario – it’s literally yesterday’s news from Taipei (link)

    What happened?

    Four former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) members were indicted on June 10, 2025 for espionage on behalf of the PRC: Huang Chu-jung (黄取荣), Chiu Shih-yuan (邱世元), Ho Jen-chi (何仁杰), and Wu Shang-yu (吴尚雨).

    As a reminder the DPP is the “anti-China“ party in Taiwan, the pro-independence party that’s been in power continuously since 2016.

    These people weren’t just ordinary party members:
    – Wu Shang-yu was one of president Lai Ching-te’s top aides
    – Ho Jen-chieh was top aide to Joseph Wu when Wu served as foreign minister (Wu is now National Security Council Secretary-General)
    – Chiu Shih-yuan is the former deputy head of the DPP’s Taiwan Institute of Democracy, the DPP’s own internal think tank

    In other words, it’s safe to assume that every major Taiwanese defense plan, every diplomatic initiative, every presidential movement, and every strategic assessment has been an open book to Beijing for the better part of a decade.

    Sure, it’s possible that this is itself a psyop, that these people are in fact all innocent and that the DPP is waging a paranoid witch hunt.

    But even if that were the case, the outcome is virtually the same: China has effectively already won the psychological warfare.

    How can Taiwan’s military and political leadership ever again have confidence in their own security apparatus? The mere suspicion of such comprehensive penetration at the highest levels of government is enough to paralyze decision-making and destroy the trust essential for effective defense.

    It also results in destroying the trust of Taiwan’s partners: seeing this as an American, you can only conclude that you must operate under the assumption that any exchange of classified materials, operational details, or strategic assessments with the government in Taiwan will be on Xi Jinping’s desk before the meeting ends. It effectively neutralizes any meaningful defense cooperation.

    In other words, the conclusion is devastating for Taiwan: China might have just achieved the ultimate expression of its own strategic doctrine – they have conquered Taiwan’s strategy so completely that conquering by fighting becomes unnecessary.

    And this isn’t the only immensely consequential recent news for Taiwan.

    In fact, yesterday – decidedly quite the eventful day – there was an even more important revelation: China has effectively “broken” the so-called “First Island Chain“.
    ————

    Read the rest on my new Substack 

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 10 June 2025 … Open Thread #59358
    AHH
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    Danny does many two-fers – the first hour is one guest, the second hour another.. in this case, it is still live. Crooke’s hour is done – if you scroll to the beginning, you’ll see it

     

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 31 May 2025 #59344
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    Magnier said even if they oust Satanyahoo, he gets another 90 days of mayhem, per the annual parliamentary summer break. And when did legality or norms give pause to nazis? He can overturn the entire faux democracy, if it suits his side. Romanoff notes jews invented modern western democracy; they can massage it as it fits them..

    The issue transcends Nutty or the current ruling criminals.

    It is even more hopeless than hoping for International Law or the UN system to step in and stop the madness. Their ENTIRE polity is frothing at the mouth. They fully support what is being done to Gaza – ALL of them, even the ostensibly limp European liberals. The latter appear to want to get rid of him, to change too filthy linens, and blame him for their joint messianic hitjob.

    And replacing or not replacing him is irrelevant at this point. The ENTIRE lot are complicit, and beyond recovery. And they all know they CANNOT pause the regional holocaust of the entire arabs, even for a month, having burnt all bridges to comity and co-existence. It is kill and be killed, unto expungment of the last deranged nazi.

    I always recall the words of the accursed Rebbe of Novorossiya .. and that his Bibi was fated to be the Last Leader of Zion. Every single day, we see why more and more clearly. Their kind threw all the dice, and thereby damned themselves forever more. Mass murder of innocents, in open satanic offering to demonic deities as in biblical days, only ends in one way for the perps

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 31 May 2025 #59343
    AHH
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    ☝️ may be of interest to Amarynth, who was praising UNAFIL last year.. yes, there are honorable elements within them. But as with ALL UN/western NGOs, they are part of the shameless Big Club, working solely for one side in every Forever War

    💠 @Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
    ⭕🇾🇪 Yemen’s Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and Security, President Major General Mahdi Al-Mashat:

    • Our response to the Zionist aggression against our country will be in multiple directions.
    • Our strikes against the enemy will be calculated, effective, and vital, ensuring that our forces maintain superiority and control over the battlefield.
    • For the safety of the embassies of countries near our legitimate targets in occupied Yafa, the enemy government must ensure they are distanced sufficiently for their security.
    • If the enemy government does not respond to any embassy with this request, we advise them to shut down and leave to avoid exposure to danger.
    • Countries that have embassies in the Zionist entity can have their foreign ministries contact ours in Sanaa to ensure their surroundings are free from any legitimate targets of our forces.
    • We will direct our foreign ministry to inform any country about the status of its embassy in the Zionist entity.
    • The capabilities of our missiles, as previously announced, have not yet been utilized, and coordination is essential before their use.

    💠@Middle East Spectator:
    ⭕ ❗️A ballistic missile was launched from Yemen
    [yesterday, working backwards]
    ⭕ The missile was intercepted above Israel
    At least half a dozen interceptors had to be launched to intercept the missile

    Ben Gurion Intl. Airport has temporarily suspended operations.
    ⭕ A THAAD interceptor fell in Al-Khalil in the West Bank
    [a single one of those interceptors is like $30,000,000+??]
    ⭕ Hebrew Media:

    ‘The missile launched a short while ago from Yemen is unusual. Immediately upon entering Israeli airspace, the missile separated into several smaller warheads, necessitating the launch of a large number of air defense missiles to intercept its components.’
    ⭕ Based on info from Israeli sources, it seems that Yemen may have launched an Iranian ‘Qadr-F’ ballistic missile

    The Qadr-F is a long-range ballistic missile which has the capability of being equipped exo-atmospheric submunition release, also known in simpler terms as ‘cluster warheads’, to strike a wide area. This is why many interceptors were needed.

    Yemen launched one of these before, in November 2023, but the missile was intercepted before it managed to release its warheads.
    [see the leading image]
    ⭕ — 🇮🇷 Meanwhile, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi took a moment to make an appreciation post about Persian carpets

    ‎’The Iranian carpet is the fabric of history: A manifestation of Iranian culture, color, and imagination. From Khorasan to Fars, from the Turkmen Sahara to Kurdistan, from Isfahan to Baluchistan, every corner of this land has a design and a special role, a distinctive color, and a narrative of the lives of the people.

    ‎This unique art form has been the target of sanctions for years, but the luxurious Iranian carpet still adorns presidential and royal palaces in the four corners of the world; a symbol of Iranian authenticity, splendor, and taste.

    ‎Every piece of the Iranian carpet is an ambassador from the heart of Iranian culture, art, and history to the hearts of people everywhere in the world.’
    [his tweet shows him sitting on one of those carpets in the hall of the Egyptian dictator.
    NB. he may be trolling as well, since I read somewhere last year his family made their significant fortune selling these carpets!]

    ⭕ ❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇳/🇪🇺 NEW: Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the United States have submitted a ‘censure resolution’ to the IAEA, stating that Iran is in non-compliance with its nuclear obligations – AFP
    [as expected, the Dastardly will use lawfare & lies to return medieval economic siege on Iran. But their heft and fortunes, and Iran’s alliances, are markedly different in 2025 vs. 2015… see the flailings and despair of trying to submit China right now.. Another Boomerang in the offing]
    ⭕ Censure resolution is really nothing more than a formal condemnation.

    But Iran will respond.
    ⭕ ❗️🇮🇷/🇪🇺/☢️ BREAKING: Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Ismael Baqaei, says that if European nations activate the ‘snapback’ clause of the JCPOA, Iran may withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
    ⭕ Retired IRGC Brigadier General Kanaani Moqadam on Iran’s ‘Ofoq’ TV:

    ‘In Iran’s secret operation against Israel, more than 40,000 hours of footage from Israeli CCTV cameras was seized, including from very sensitive sites.

    We also obtained passwords and accounts of regional spy networks, as well as the precise location and details of Israel’s declared and undeclared nuclear sites.

    Additionally, we now possess detailed information about Israel’s nuclear warhead storage locations, and the locations of Mossad’s covert headquarters in the region.’
    ⭕ —❗️An Iranian journalist has allegedly gotten some preliminary information on the recently seized Israeli files

    It is currently still unconfirmed, but according to him, Iran seized the following:

    • An important top secret 4-year Israeli roadmap towards advanced nuclear weapons.
    • Locations and data on nuclear, military and industrial facilities.
    • A weapons import plan from the United States and the location of the storages.
    • Massive bribes to four important figures in the Arab world to advance the Abraham Accords.
    • Complete profiles of 23 Israeli spies and their network of contacts in the region
    • Information about 6 million Israeli Facebook, Instagram, Telegram and Twitter users.
    • Information on 400,000 judicial & criminal cases of the Israeli judiciary.
    • Personal information on Netanyahu and his wife, including medical documents, testimonies of judges, and bribery cases.
    • Information from Netanyahu’s private office, including six 4-terabyte hard drives and 1,720 sheets of classified documents.
    • Information from Shin Bet’s monitoring of the Israeli opposition, including footage from hidden cameras in their bathrooms, bedrooms, and from their mobile phones and PCs.
    • Thousands of high-res copies of aerial images of all Israeli cities and infrastructure.
    • 40,000 hours of CCTV footage from sensitive military and security sites in the country.

    ⭕ U.S. Secretary of State Rubio condemns the sanctions imposed on Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, urging the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, and Australia to reverse them.
    ⭕ Last week, Iran tested a new super-heavy ballistic missile, with a warhead of 2000 kilograms, the largest warhead of any Iranian missile by far – Tasnim
    [that one is unlikely to reach Zion. It is custom-built to cause more “concussions” on corn-fed lads hunkered down just across the Persian Gulf pond…]

    💠@Sputnik Africa:
    ⭕ ❗️ The Russian army reached the western border of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Russian MoD reports
    Russia Counts on Win-Win Cooperation With Global South & East Countries in Education Area: Putin

    The Russian president addressed the participants of the Third International Forum of Education Ministers entitled “Shaping the Future.”

    Free access to knowledge and technology is a major factor in building a just, multipolar world, he stressed. |media|
    [the eternal conundrum: Innovation vs Informational Hygiene. The damning razor’s edge]

    💠@Fotros Resistance:
    ⭕ 🇾🇪| Yemen announces:

    They targeted Ben Guiron airport with 2 ballistic missiles, Palestine-2 BM and one Zulfiqar BM.

    ❗️Yemen says one of them directly hit the airport.
    ⭕ Iran says it tested a missile with a 2-ton warhead about a week ago — Iran’s Defense Minister
    ⭕ 🇮🇷| Iran’s Defense Minister warns:

    We hope for successful US-Iran talks, but if the enemy imposed conflict on us, Iran will respond decisively, targeting ALL US bases in host countries.

    US would then be compelled to leave the region.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 10 June 2025 … Open Thread #59341
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    interesting pattern to that map.
    Mostly Blue states??
    The Duopoly really takes its tasks seriously, and to heart. Biden’s gang focused on Red Texas, and other flyover deplorables. Red-Orange Chaos focuses on the degenerate Blue woke Dem grounds..

    “the sauce good for the goose is good for the gander.”

    This is how the professionals do it, a gentle rocking of the boat, here and there, alternating by term. How to stoke a Mighty Fire indeed.

    The civilizational-states have the eternal profile of the Sea Peoples.
    They have no need to invade CONUS whatsoever, save to safeguard the dangerous WMDs in the downstream. This controlled demolition has been in the works for generations -recall Bankster Warburg’s declaration in 1946 Senate: we shall have our NWO, by consent or conquest. And the USA was always the last stop on that train ride. So – who needs allies with such enemies???

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 31 May 2025 #59323
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    ☝️ Quite a bracket (and contrast!) with the Russian Global Digital Forum in Nizhny Novgorod, held within days of each other, eh? Like Night & Day.. USA & Russkie. Invitations to Digital Panopticon Techno-Feudalismo & Rabbit Holes…


    ☝️ The Simpsons season 30 … aired on Fox between September 30, 2018 and May 12, 2019

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 31 May 2025 #59292
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    https://strategika510.com/2025/06/06/pourquoi-la-fete-rituelle-musulmane-de-laid-a-peu-de-sens-aujourdhui/

    💠@ejmalrai:
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    🔻 Trita Parsi: This is Julian Reichelt, the former editor-in-chief of Germany’s largest tabloid, Bild.

    Perhaps Germany’s pro-genocide policy in Gaza is not rooted in historic guilt over the Holocaust, but rather in the very same racism that led to the Holocaust in the first place…
    ⭕ Israel continues to flagrantly violate international law with apparent impunity. Its leaders act as though the state is above all legal constraints, free to commit any act without accountability. The recent piracy of the Freedom Flotilla vessel Madleen is yet another example. Israeli forces intercepted the civilian ship in international waters, an open violation of Article 87 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which guarantees the freedom of the high seas.

    This blatant act of piracy drew little reaction from world leaders, exposing the international community’s failure to uphold even the most basic legal standards. It comes on top of a long list of Israeli violations: war crimes, crimes against humanity, and an ongoing campaign in Gaza that legal experts have increasingly described as genocide. Each transgression reinforces the message that Israel sees itself as untouchable — operating in full view of a world unwilling or unable to enforce the very laws it claims to uphold.

    UN Article 87
    “The high seas are open to all States, whether coastal or land-locked. Freedom of the high seas is exercised under the conditions laid down by this Convention and by other rules of international law.”
    Iran-Israel espionage hit:

    Rafael Grossi, the director of the International Atomic Agency, confirmed Tehran’s acquisition of documents apparently related to the Israeli nuclear research center at Soreq. This acknowledgment marks the first admission from outside Iran that the country has obtained such documents. In an exclusive interview with Hebrew media, reported by Yedioth Ahronoth, Grossi warned of the consequences of an attack on Iran. He indicated that Iranian officials told him that any Israeli attack on nuclear facilities could provoke a nuclear response. Grossi also highlighted the depth and breadth of Iran’s nuclear program, noting that the facilities are heavily protected and an attack could drive Iran to seek nuclear weapons or withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

    Last Saturday, Iran’s official news agency, tied to the country’s radio and television authority, cited informed intelligence sources claiming Iran had secured a vast trove of sensitive and strategic documents from Israel, which includes thousands of files related to Israeli nuclear projects and facilities. The substantial size of the material and the need for secure transportation were cited as reasons for maintaining secrecy until everything reached the intended secure locations. The report also noted an arrest by the Israeli Shin Bet and police in May, involving two Israeli youths accused of espionage for Iran. If linked to this case, the arrests reportedly happened after the documents left the occupied territories.

    Iranian intelligence officers reportedly accessed a “treasure trove” of strategic and operational Israeli information, according to Iranian Security Minister Esmail Khatib. In a related development, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei stated that documents revealed European support for Israel’s military nuclear program and promised further disclosures. Baghaei criticized Western double standards, pointing to nations that advocate nuclear non-proliferation while allegedly enabling Israel’s nuclear ambitions. Israel has not officially responded to these claims or whether they relate to last year’s hacking of an Israeli nuclear research center. The Iranian government newspaper described these events as a significant intelligence victory over Israeli security services, illustrating the ongoing intelligence battle between Tehran and Tel Aviv. It noted that Israeli authorities have opened numerous espionage cases related to Iran and issued over 30 indictments in the past year.
    ⭕ Iran’s Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee spokesperson, Ibrahim Rezaii, announced that Iran is signing an agreement with Russia to build eight nuclear power plants, four of which will be in Bushehr.
    retweet:
    🔻 Mel: “You’re one trick ponies… you’re not going to silence my ass by invoking the Holocaust. I don’t give a shit. I see what’s happening clearly, I’m going to speak up about it and no one’s going to shut me up.”

    🔥 pump this straight into my veins |media|
    ⭕ Israel bombed for the third time Yemen’s al-Hodeida harbour, a civilian infrastructure, confirming that it has no bank of objectives and no military installations to hit.
    UK FM: We are observing an unprecedented Israeli barbaric attack on Gaza. We shall continue working with our partners to force Netanyahu to comply with a ceasefire agreement.

    Oh, Sorry! My bad.

    Please replace:
    Israeli with Russian
    Gaza with Ukraine
    Netanyahu with Putin

    💠@Middle East Spectator:
    ⭕ ❗️The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence confirms based on recently obtained Israeli files that sensitive and confidential communications between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) were shared with Israel through covert channels, and the IAEA had become a complete tool for the Israelis – Fars News

    💠@imetatronink:
    cont. thread:
    ⚓️ HMS Prince of Pretense Update

    Spent a fruitless hour searching OSINT for news on the flagship of the Royal Navy.

    As you may recall, the British recently beseeched the Yemeni for safe passage through the Bab-el-Mandeb.

    Since then, the Prince of Pretense has gone silent. 🤔
    🔻 MT Anderson: 🇬🇧UK CSG 2025🇬🇧
    HMS Prince of Wales remains in port on 9 June 2025 in 🇴🇲Duqm [Oman]

    She likely arrived on 4 June or very early on 5 June (prior to 07:00 UTC)

    Appears to be a USNS vessel in port as well
    🔻 WS: HMS Prince of Pretense docked in Oman, confirming that the Yemeni did indeed permit it to transit the Bab-el-Mandeb.

    I find it odd it was necessary to seek refuge in a friendly port so soon after a relatively brief voyage through the Red Sea. 🤔
    [so many soggy man-diapers can strain the ballast…]
    🔻 William C: Two reasons, detergent and pants. Sailors on the HMS PoW crap their pants (to a man) for about 3days straight passing the Bab-el-Mandeb. There’s a noticeable stench in the Quarters now. Badly needed supplies.
    [LOL. we’re on same wavelength.. FAFO against Yemenis or Russkies have a predictable result]
    🔻 WINE TRAVEL: I smell a rat 🐀…

    BTW, Will, the plumbing on board the carrier doesn’t work so well, so there’s a chance 😀 they stopped for a proper shower
    🔻 Timothy Leary’s Dead 🏴‍☠️🌱🐑🐕 🎣🎇👀🐈‍⬛⚠️🎲: Maybe his propeller fell off again😭
    Or then again maybe he’s hanging around the Arabian Sea hoping to get in on some action. Will stupid prevail?
    🔻 Sahib3030🌍🌎🌏: Looks like a significant gathering over there.
    Perhaps both want to hit Iran hard ?
    [Good Point. Oman is on other side of Hormuz from Iran. And Limeys are suckers for sabotage, terrorism and cowardly sucker punches]
    ⭕🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ:
    ⚡️🇷🇺❕BREAKING: US military expert admits Abrams tank obsolete, almost ALL were destroyed in Ukraine.

    Military strategist Christopher Kirchhoff said this in an interview with CNN.

    “At the beginning of the war, we provided the Ukrainians with 31 Abrams. Almost all of them have now been destroyed by Russian kamikaze drones. This suggests that the era of mechanized warfare, which began during the First World War, is coming to an end,” Kirchhoff said.

    That’s that then…. |media|
    🔻 WS: Here in 2025, the arrows are able to defeat the shields.

    It will be interesting to see what and how soon countermeasures get developed to defeat the arrows.

    The Russians are currently in the best position of any great power to develop BOTH better arrows AND better shields.

    💠@Sputnik Africa:
    ⭕ 🚨ORGAN TRADE FOR THE ELITES

    Rockefeller lived to 100 w/ 8 heart transplants.

    Ukraine legalized forced organ harvesting in 2022—no consent needed. Why no bodies returned?

    You can buy ‘spare parts’ online. Biohacking elites run this. |media|
    ⭕ Putin holds a meeting with Russia’s Security Council
    [today’s the Day]

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 31 May 2025 #59262
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    💠 @Alon Mizrahi:
    ⭕ Anyway, if you ignore the economy, education, trade, political unrest, fear and instability, international relations, China, Ukraine, Gaza, Canada, Europe, Asia, Greenland, and the Epstein files, Trump’s first 6 months in office have been fairly positive overall
    ⭕️ I mean, just imagine what he can achieve in one full year, or two
    ⭕ This woman looks and sounds like a giant next to the middling little men of Trump’s administration |media|
    links:
    🔻 Samuel 🇲🇽: 🚨🇲🇽🇺🇸 President Sheinbaum urges U.S. authorities to ensure “all migratory procedures are carried out with due process and within a framework of respect for human dignity”.

    She also called on “the Mexican community to act peacefully and not fall for provocations”.
    ⭕ Translate this and realize what country Israelis live in. Because this was tweeted in Hebrew, for Israelis
    Links:
    🔻 @Israel_katz [current War Minister]:

    אני מברך את צה”ל על ההשתלטות המהירה והבטוחה על משט “מדלן” כדי למנוע מהם לפרוץ את הסגר ולהגיע לחופי עזה.

    הנחיתי את צה”ל להקרין בפני נוסעי המשט את סרטון הזוועות של טבח ה-7 באוקטובר כאשר יגיעו לנמל אשדוד.

    ראוי שגרטה האנטישמית וחבריה תומכי החמאס יראו בדיוק מיהו ארגון הטרור חמאס שבו באו לתמוך ולמענו הם פועלים ומה מעשי הזוועה שביצעו בנשים, זקנים וילדים ומול מי ישראל נלחמת להגנתה.

    צה”ל ימשיך במלחמתו מול מרצחי החמאס במלוא צדקתו המוסרית עד להכנעתו ושחרור כל החטופים והבטחת ביטחונה של מדינת ישראל
    ⭕ Let it be made clear for now and forever: the only reason – the only reason – the Gaza holocaust has been allowed to go on so long, and has met virtually zero international resistance or backlash, is because it is being carried out by Jews.

    The only reason |media|
    ⭕ And Jews have a collective responsibility and will face justified eternal shame for this
    ⭕ The harsher the domestic oppression in the US becomes, the closer we are to war with Iran. This is all part of one big plan to unleash a pure white Judeo-Christian kingdom to dominate humanity for 1000 years. And I think we haven’t seen nothing yet. The genocide was just the introduction. After the war begins, the US will become a full on police state, with curfews in major cities and armed men everywhere. I’ve been seeing this coming for over a year, and we’re almost there
    [Martial Law is de rigueur for $500 oil and collapsed global economy and empty shelves.. and with the Jarhead advance battalion now in LA, thats securing 40% of the country’s cargo port lifeline, no??]
    ⭕ Children are dying of starvation on display. And still, all embassies in Tel Aviv are open as usual

    A world against children – led by the Jewish state |media|
    ⭕ Almost all the people, everywhere, stand with Gaza. Almost all the governments, everywhere, whore for Zionism.

    The biggest mystery of our time |media|
    Palestine will set the whole world free |media|

    💠 @Sputnik Africa:
    ⭕ ❗️The third round of Russia-US consultations on bilateral irritants will take place very soon, a Kremlin aide says

    Russia will seek a clear response from the US to Moscow’s proposals to resume air traffic, Sergey Ryabkov noted.

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    💠@Middle East Spectator:
    ⭕❗️BREAKING: Iran’s Foreign Ministry, for the first time, officially states that there is evidence the European Union is directly supporting Israel’s nuclear program

    Spokesman Baqaei says that the secret files Iran retrieved from Israel will expose active involvement of various European states in Israel’s nuclear weapons program.

    He calls European nations hypocritical for telling Iran not to produce nuclear weapons, while they actively support Israel doing so.
    ⭕ NOTE: This was always well known, but the fact that there is now actual evidence does change the situation.

    If Iran does indeed have the ambition for nuclear weapons, this can be used as a valid pretext / argument to shift policy.

    Europe supports Israel’s military nuclear program, so Europe has no right to tell Iran what to do.
    ⭕ ❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇸 BREAKING: Iran announces that it has officially rejected the latest American proposal, and says they’re preparing a counter offer via Oman

    The Iranian Foreign Ministry stated that the U.S. proposal was ‘unacceptable’ and that it was not the result of the negotiations, but rather a delusional proposal with no basis.
    ⭕ No need to sugar coat it – Iran has outrightly rejected Trump’s Iranian Nuclear Deal.

    The Ayotollah said do what you want we’re not giving up our Nuke Program.
    Events regarding Iran’s ‘Nuclear Issue’ in the past 24 hours:

    • Iran officially rejected the latest U.S. proposal. The proposal allowed Iran to enrich uranium at civilian levels (3.67%) temporarily, until a regional enrichment consortium would be established & Iran would be forced to gradually dismante its nuclear infrastructure. Iran called the proposal ‘delusional’ and ‘one-sided’.
    • Iran made a counter-proposal to the U.S. via Oman, the contents are currently unknown. Two things are known: Iran insists on domestic enrichment (permanent, not temporary) and on immediate sanctions relief. Some reports claim Iran also advocates for a ‘nuke-free Middle East’, urging Israel to destroy its existing nuclear arsenal.
    • Immediately after Iran’s rejection of the U.S. proposal, Trump and Netanyahu held a phone call regarding Iran. In the phone call, Netanyahu basically expressed support for the American offer — temporary enrichment on Iranian soil which would be gradually phased out (a red line for Iran).
    • Tonight, following the phone call, Netanyahu will hold a high-level security meeting with various ministers and IDF commanders at the Kirya. The topic: A possible strike on Iran.
    • IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi admitted that Iran did indeed manage to obtain thousands of sensitive nuclear files from Israel in a secret operation.

    ⭕❗️BREAKING: Iran’s Supreme National Security Council has released an unprecedented statement:

    ‘Any aggression by the Israeli regime against Iranian nuclear facilities will be met with an immediate strike on Israel’s secret and undeclared nuclear sites as well as economic and military infrastructure.
    ⭕❗️Full statement by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council:

    ‘In the name of God Almighty.

    The recent complex intelligence operation carried out by the anonymous soldiers of the ‘Imam of our Time’ (Imam Mahdi) are a great intelligence achievement and an important part of the intelligent design and covert and secret actions by the sacred Islamic system against the enemies’ schemes.

    Another important part of this is the round-the-clock struggle of our armed forces to create operational capacity aligned with the weaknesses and strengths of the Zionist regime and its supporters.

    Today, access to this newly revealed information and the completion of the intelligence and operational cycle have enabled the warriors of Islam to immediately counter any possible attack by the Zionist regime’s against our nuclear facilities.

    To any such aggression, including any aggression against our economic or military infrastructure, we will respond instantly by attacking their hidden nuclear facilities.
    ⭕ This statement is unprecedented.

    It’s not the same as your average General saying ‘we’ll destroy Israel’ for the 20th time this week. That’s just normal rhetoric.

    The Supreme National Security Council is solely responsible for any military action carried out by Iran, and it answers directly to the Supreme Leader.
    ⭕❗️Iran’s Supreme National Security Council: ‘The ‘target bank’ of Israel is now on the table of Iran’s armed forces’
    ⭕ NOTE: They way it was written in Farsi implies that Iran has somehow managed to obtain Israel’s entire bank of targets within Iran, so Iran now knows where the Israelis want to strike & which locations are exposed.
    ⭕ ❗️BREAKING: IAEA D.G. Rafael Grossi says Iran has notified him that any Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear sites WILL lead to Iran withdrawing from the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and developing nuclear weapons – Jerusalem Post

    In an interview today, IAEA Chief Rafael Grossi told the Jerusalem Post:

    ‘An Israeli strike could have devastating consequences. I will say it plainly: They will pursue a nuclear weapon or withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). They told me this directly’. |link|
    [take w/ salt. It is one zionazi tool talking to other foaming zionazis, and on their presstitute rag]
    ⭕❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇳 Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency:

    • ‘The scope of our cooperation with the IAEA far exceeds our duties and responsibilities’
    • ‘If the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) does not appreciate our cooperation, then we will simply reduce our cooperation’
    • ‘We have tried diplomacy and reasoning for over 40 years, but the West does not understand diplomacy nor reason’

    Looks like Iran and the IAEA are finally getting a ‘divorce’.

    Some have hinted that Iran may have exploited weaknesses within the IAEA to obtain Israeli nuclear files from the Soreq facility, the only nuclear site in Israel monitored by the IAEA.

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    💠 @Sputnik Africa:
    Russia Destroys Almost All of US Abrams Tanks Delivered to Ukraine

    Out of the 31 vehicles announced by Biden, 26 have been dismantled, according to Sputnik’s calculations.

    Moscow repeatedly cautioned Western nations that arms shipments to Ukraine would not alter the course of the war but would only prolong the conflict.
    [The West always lies. I agree with WS who thinks much more than 31 were delivered. BTW, note the big shiny colorful US flag slapped onto the tank by the helpful Russkie to the easily draw the eye for attribution]
    ⭕ 💥👍 Russia turns Ukraine’s Abrams tanks to SCRAP — only 5 remain

    Russian forces have destroyed 26 out of the 31 Abrams tanks supplied to Ukraine by the US, according to Sputnik’s estimates.

    ▪️In January 2023, then-US President Joe Biden announced the delivery of 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine.

    ▪️The first of these tanks was reportedly destroyed by fighters of the Tsentr Group of Forces on February 26, 2024, in the Avdeyevka sector.

    Russian forces have a track record of turning NATO’s most prized armor into scrap metal.

    Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Maxim Buyakevich, emphasized at the 2024 OSCE Permanent Council meeting that “over-hyped NATO military equipment burns under the pressure of Russian weapons.”

    “Take, for instance, the much-praised American Abrams tanks: two-thirds of the already delivered tanks have been destroyed, despite the fact that the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ command only rarely uses them in action,” Buyakevich noted in September.
    Russian FM Lavrov’s Speech at Future Forum 2050: Key Statements:

    • The special operation in Ukraine will continue, but in parallel, Russia is ready for diplomatic measures;
    • The results of the special operation achieved on the ground will one day be formalized in the form of legal documents;
    • The best diplomats in the Ukrainian conflict are Russian fighters on the front lines, they are fighting for the truth and honor of the people;
    • Russia will do everything to suppress the risk of an increase in the terrorist threat from Ukraine;
    • The lack of an investigation into the tragedy in the Odessa Trade Union House (May 2, 2014) is a disgrace for the Council of Europe;
    • Russia will be ready to resume negotiations with the United States on strategic stability when the discussion is equal;
    • Russia is in a “more normal” relationship with the Trump administration than it was with the Biden administration.
      [between the lines: “… but is still a fucked up relationship with those agreement-incapable lunatics”]

    ⭕ ❗️The British are 100% helping Ukraine in terrorist attacks against Russia, Lavrov says

    💠@Middle East Spectator:
    ⭕❗️BREAKING: Iran’s Foreign Ministry, for the first time, officially states that there is evidence the European Union is supporting and funding Israel’s nuclear weapons program

    Spokesman Baqaei says that the secret files Iran retrieved from Israel will expose active involvement of barious European states in Israel’s nuclear weapons program.

    He calls European nations hypocritical for telling Iran not to produce nuclear weapons, while they actively support Israel doing the same.

    💠@imetatronink:
    ⭕ ⚓️ HMS Prince of Pretense Update

    Spent a fruitless hour searching OSINT for news on the flagship of the Royal Navy.

    As you may recall, the British recently beseeched the Yemeni for safe passage through the Bab-el-Mandeb.

    Since then, the Prince of Pretense has gone silent. 🤔
    retweet of his older:
    ‼️ Sudzha Road of Death

    This is an intense 5 minutes of combat footage.

    As I have noted repeatedly, western militaries are not even remotely prepared at this point in time to fight this kind of war.

    You will try in vain to count the number of destroyed vehicles on this road. |media|
    [ALOTTA myths went to die on that hill on the blessed, rich, fat, black soil of Novorossiya. An entire degenerate Old Order, way past its sell date, came to be incinerated, and was duly incinerated. God Bless the slow-saddling Russkie-Bear]

    retweet:
    🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: About 2 months ago I was having an argument on Twitter with someone telling me they were “really disappointed with my take“ and that I was “completely wrong“ for saying that AI was “just a extremely gifted parrot that repeats what it’s been trained on“ and that this wasn’t remotely intelligence.

    Fast forward to today and the argument is now authoritatively settled: I was right, yeah! 🎉

    How so? It was settled by none other than Apple, specifically their Machine Learning Research department, in a seminal research paper entitled “The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity“ that you can find here (ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers…).

    What does the paper say? Exactly what I was arguing: AI models, even the most cutting-edge Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), are no more than a very gifted parrots with basically no actual reasoning capability.

    They’re not “intelligent” in the slightest, at least not if you understand intelligence as involving genuine problem-solving instead of simply parroting what you’ve been told before without comprehending it.

    That’s exactly what the Apple paper was trying to understand: can “reasoning“ models actually reason? Can they solve problems that they haven’t been trained on but would normally be easily solvable with their “knowledge”? The answer, it turns out, is an unequivocal “no“.

    A particularly damning example from the paper was this river crossing puzzle: imagine 3 people and their 3 agents need to cross a river using a small boat that can only carry 2 people at a time. The catch? A person can never be left alone with someone else’s agent, and the boat can’t cross empty – someone always has to row it back.

    This is the kind of logic puzzle you might find in a children brain teaser book – figure out the right sequence of trips to get everyone across the river. The solution only requires 11 steps.

    Turns out this simple brain teaser was impossible for Claude 3.7 Sonnet, one of the most advanced “reasoning” AIs, to solve. It couldn’t even get past the 4th move before making illegal moves and breaking the rules.

    Yet the exact same AI could flawlessly solve the Tower of Hanoi puzzle with 5 disks – a much more complex challenge requiring 31 perfect moves in sequence.

    Why the massive difference? The Apple researchers figured it out: Tower of Hanoi is a classic computer science puzzle that appears all over the internet, so the AI had memorized thousands of examples during training. But a river crossing puzzle with 3 people? Apparently too rare online for the AI to have memorized the patterns.

    This is all evidence that these models aren’t reasoning at all. A truly reasoning system would recognize that both puzzles involve the same type of logical thinking (following rules and constraints), just with different scenarios. But since the AI never learned the river crossing pattern by heart, it was completely lost.

    This wasn’t a question of compute either: the researchers gave the AI models unlimited token budgets to work with. But the really bizarre part is that for puzzles or questions they couldn’t solve – like the river crossing puzzle – the models actually started thinking less, not more; they used fewer tokens and gave up faster.

    A human facing a tougher puzzle would typically spend more time thinking it through, but these ‘reasoning’ models did the opposite: they basically “understood” they had nothing to parrot so they just gave up – the opposite of what you’d expect from genuine reasoning.

    Conclusion: they’re indeed just gifted parrots, or incredibly sophisticated copy-paste machines, if you will.

    This has profound implications for the AI future we’re all sold. Some good, some more worrying.

    The first one being: no, AGI isn’t around the corner. This is all hype. In truth we’re still light-years away.

    The good news about that is that we don’t need to be worried about having “AI overlords” anytime soon. The bad news is that we might potentially have trillions in misallocated capital.
    ———–

    Read the rest on my newly opened Substack
    [be patient. This is the first clumsy iteration. Legion from the Pit, many multiples of all humans ever alive, will shortly man the station – and start to interact like a “friendly distant customer service from an Anglophone third world country”. THEN it shall get interesting]

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 30 May 2025 … Open Thread #59189
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    I bet this entire LA scenario was stoked by controlled agents – aren’t most cross-border gangs in incestuous relations with the DEA and federalos? I saw amazing photos of the “rioters” that held the ICE goons in a curious cul-de-sac waving Mexican flags. (!!) a useful crisis indeed, for all concerned.

    • Gangs’ turf expands just before Collapse, making state recovery difficult
    • Federalos get to geld one of still most potent states
    • Federalos make precedent of invading “hostile territory” with standing troops (Posse Comitatus)
    • Federalos get to make another precedent with unlawful detention and deportation based on political expedience (what did the Border Barbie say about Habeas Corpus?)
    • The Blue-Red Janus get to play more divide & rule, helping resuscitate the filthy Dems (did u see Orange tweet “Newscum“?!)
    • Excellent reality TV (and real!) for both internal & external audience as the imperial fortunes go tits-up  world wide. Keeps eyeballs rapt on distracting narrative

    I am tired these days, but all this was predicted in their usual programming.. the one-eyed Snake above had two very interesting (if crappy) movies. Escape from New York was about Corona, and took place on the eastern coast.. the first Tribulation, handled somewhat calmly and in subdued dark tones. [C-19 in CONUS took off from NY State…]

    The Escape from LA is a proper riot, about the Disintegration of the very nation by the time the Tribulation arrived on west coast; gangs, penal colonies and absolute bedlam in fiery colors and rage. By this point madness reigns.. [I assume they intend the real chaos to spread now centrifugally from LA to all points CONUS (Alaska to Mother, Hawaii to Celestial Empire?)]

    I hope Brother Casey will have something out shortly. He’s a sharp cookie and already did the NY bracket

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 30 May 2025 … Open Thread #59182
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    LA’s having a “bonfire of the vanities”

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    💠@Sputnik Africa:
    ⭕ 🇸🇩🇺🇦 Sudanese Foreign Ministry Announces Ukraine’s Support for Militants in Africa

    An employee of the Sudanese Foreign Ministry’s Department for External Relations, Muhammad al-Sir, accused Ukraine of participating in supporting groups in Libya, Somalia, Niger and Sudan.

    💬 “Ukraine has been found to be involved in supporting other groups in Libya, Somalia and Niger. It supports organizations such as Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab in Somalia, and in Sudan it supports the Rapid Reaction Force (RSF) by providing them with drones, which are offered at very low prices,” said a Sudanese Foreign Ministry official.

    Earlier, al-Sir stated that Ukraine supplies armed terrorist groups in Sudan with UAVs and also sends instructors to that country who help use drones to strike civilian and military infrastructure.
    ⭕ At least 61 Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russian regions overnight, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
    ⭕ ❗️The Russian army liberated the settlement of Zarya in the DPR, the Russian MoD reports
    ⭕ ❗️Russian troops entered Ukraine’s Dnepropetrovsk region, the Russian MoD reports

    💠@Dmitry Medvedev:
    ⭕ They were all warned—the green lice and their patrons.

    Those who refuse to acknowledge the realities of war at the negotiating table will face new realities on the battleground.
    Our Armed Forces have launched an offensive in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

    The shagreen skin of the Banderite state continues to shrink.
    The great delousing continues.

    💠@ejmalrai:
    ⭕ Benjamin Netanyahu destroyed Gaza, established dozens of new settlements in the West Bank, devastated southern Lebanon, bombed its suburbs whenever he argued with his wife, Sarah, occupied southern Syria and bombed Yemen.

    Despite this, he failed to achieve security for Israel.
    ⭕ Without consulting the cabinet, Benjamin Netanyahu, with an ICC arrest warrant for his war crimes, offered weapons & protection to Abu Shabab, a Palestinian drug dealer and gangster in Gaza who steals humanitarian aid. Yet, it is Hamas who are accused by Israel of stealing aids.

    💠@imetatronink:
    cont. thread:
    ‼️ “The Other Way”

    The US demands Iran give up its nuclear program. Iran says NO. Trump says if Iran refuses to obey, the US will use military means to compel them.

    This is ridiculous nonsense. The US has no efficacious military option against Iran.

    This will end badly. |media|
    🔻 J. L. Hardy: Go read up on the great USA war game, the “Millennium Challenge 2002.” US against a familiar Near East country (Iran, wink, wink)The US, “Red Team” got their ass handed to them by the “Blue Team.” Trump has NO concept of what he speaks..
    🔻 WS: reposts his older:
    I’ve been making this argument for several years now — shouting it from the housetops, as it were. And I have been endlessly mocked for it, notwithstanding the fact that legendary Marine General Paul K. Van Riper effectively proved it 20 years ago.
    📜 Lessons Never Learned
    [but they CANNOT afford to learn such lessons. Their entire messianic mission depends on submission of Persia. Even at total cost to USUK]
    retweet:
    🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ: So the US admits it doesn’t have the capability to cripple Iran? @imetatronink
    links:
    🔻 Charles Lister: ‘The best we could do is set it back 3 months.’

    – That’s what a *very* prominent US military official told me in February about what a major US air/missile assault on #Iran’s nuclear program would do.

    ‘Some of it, we can’t even reach anymore,’ they added.
    🔻 IAmSagzee: It seems that the only crippling ability the USA is being left with is against itself and vassals.
    🔻 Ork on the WAAAGHpath: They can’t even stop Yemen, forget Iran.
    🔻 Drago: They need to stick to the unarmed goat herders.
    ⭕ 🔥 Big Boom

    FAB-3000 glide bomb obliterates a concentration of Ukrainian troops.

    The blast radius is stunning. |media|
    🔻 The Goshnje: That is one heavy motherfucker, 100m around strike point obliterated.
    🔻 WS: The blast pressure alone would kill any exposed human within ~250 meters, and severely damage anyone within ~400 meters.
    🔻 The Goshnje: I saw 120mm howitzer explosions from 800 meters away — they looked like firecrackers compared to this.
    cont. thread:
    🤡🌎 Neocon Porn

    Fantasizing the conquest and colonization of Russia is the pornography of choice for these onanistic fools.

    But they are irreversibly impotent. They lack the physical wherewithal to bring their delusions to a satisfying climax.
    🔻 Levi Zendt: Interesting they salivate over the thought of turning yet another country into the hell-scape of what used to be the west. The thin line between western civilization, and whatever in the hell one would call the UK and Germany now, is being held by Russia, Hungary, Serbia, and perhaps Poland albeit reluctantly. The first three are under attack with Russia of course taking the brunt of the suicidal intentions of the “elite” of the so-called Western world. They won’t stop until they destroy every country and great culture while they line their pockets. Perhaps the anti-Christ is a collective.
    🔻 WS: Yes, it is a supranational secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and peoples.
    ⭕🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: Taking Mrs Serge on a romantic roadtrip through Ohio.
    🔻 WS: I have driven that road several times over the years, and from Columbus to Charleston. In my many business trips to Charleston and Morgantown, WV, I typically flew from Las Vegas to Columbus or Pittsburgh, and then drove the last segment. Beautiful country.
    ⭕ ‼️ The Chinese are rapidly turning the EV into a viable car. I would still chose an ICE vehicle for my situation and purposes … but I would think a battery than can go 1000 km on a 6-minute charge is a game-changer for lots of people in a metropolitan setting.
    [EV = electric vehicle; ICE = internal combustion engine vehicle]
    links:
    🔻 David Lee: 🇨🇳 Gotion’s all solid state battery is undergoing road test
    6 min of charging can drive 1000 km
    It is expected VW and Audi will use Gotion battery (VW holds 24.45% of Gotion shares) in the future |media|
    🔻 David Lee: You may also try BYD Qin L PHEV (hybrid) introduced in 2024
    1 tank of gas will give you >2000 km range
    The battery technology is making a lot of breakthroughs these days

    ⭕🔻 Jerome Starkey: 🚨 Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton has been picked as the next Chief of Defence Staff

    He beat Roly Walker to the job

    A career engineer, with a 1st Class degree from Cambridge, Knighton was the first non-pilot to lead the RAF

    He will now command all 3 services via MSHQ
    [He looks like a Ken Doll. And one who will remain cheery even half way down the 20,000 leagues]
    🔻 WS: Commander of the Royal Token Military

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 30 May 2025 … Open Thread #59144
    AHH
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    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 30 May 2025 … Open Thread #59136
    AHH
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    ☝️ Akhmatova of Odessa..

    Russians are just built different. In this they remind of Palestinians, who also have supernatural patience. Most would flee oppressive occupation and bestial Gauleiters. But these burrow and bide their time, for ages and ages if needed. They know their comrades will eventually return and bring hell. And the returning comrades also know someone will always be there at the right time to provide targeting or unlatch the gates at night..

    And it isn’t just about land. During the Barbarossa invasion, German nazis were amazed and horrified at the smiles of those civilians and noncivilians they led to execution squads; the latter knew comeuppance would arrive sooner rather than later.

    I suppose necessity shapes, after facing legion century after century, unending waves. The collective survival, the flock, takes precedence. “.. thy will be done.” Each day is precious, cherished, savored. These are not merely the most spiritual and grounded humans on earth, the Novorossiyan Russkies, Yemenis, Greater Syrians, but also the most practical and calculating – they have developed the antidote to the life-loving hyper-individualistic Legion. The rocks on which shatter even “immortal gods”.

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