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  • in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 31 May 2025 #58759
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    💠@Zаписки мичмана Птичкина:
    ⭕ It will soon be twenty years since the Russian Federation has been working on the prospective long-range aviation complex (PAK DA)

    1. The program began in the mid-to-late 2000s.
    2. Information about the approval of the product’s appearance and the start of construction of the prototype aircraft appeared about five years ago.
    3. The first flight was planned for 2025.
    4. They wanted to put the PAK DA into production in 2027.
    (it is clear that officials do not announce any specific dates, we are content with the sources of news agencies)

    …The foundation of Russian strategic aviation was built during the Soviet years:
    ● The last Tu-95 was produced in ~1992.
    ● The last Tu-22M was produced in ~1993.
    ● Only the Tu-160 is currently being built from scratch in the Russian Federation (there are only two completely new aircraft so far). However, the aircraft made its first flight 43 years ago, meaning the airframe itself is not new despite all the upgrades).

    If the large warships of the “dead civilization” can already be counted on the fingers, there are more aircraft left and they will last “a little longer”.

    But Soviet technology is not eternal, nor is its modernization reserve.

    So it’s time to speed up.

    Collection for drones for our guys here

    💠@Eurasia & Multipolarity:
    ⭕ Some info:

    1. The launch of Shahed-136 from a launcher disguised as a truck at the Iranian Great Prophet exercise in 2017.
    2. Using a sea container to launch the promising American XQ-58A Valkyrie UAV in 2019.
    3. The Chinese installation for the cluster launch of barrage ammunition in 2020.
    4. A German installation for the cluster launch of 126 kamikaze UAVs in 2024.

    You provide satellite communications for launch and objective monitoring.
    You’re building a regular container with launchers.
    You bring it in enemy territory and use it.
    Similar attacks can be carried out from merchant ships, which can house containers from which UAVs can be launched.
    The enemy has not come up with anything new.
    It’s just the relevant structures were not ready for such attacks. Well, now we’ve met it in the same style as drones became a discovery in 2022, although for those who followed the wars in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, the drone revolution was obvious long ago.
    Inertia of thinking leads to unnecessary losses.
    ⭕ On Kiev regime’s (NATO) latest attacks on Russian soil.

    While it is understandable to be pissed off for various reasons about the events of the latest 12 hours in Kursk and Murmansk/Ryazan regions (why relevant bridges near the border have not been equipped with infrared CCTV and have not been heavily protected? Why strategic bombers are not always parked inside concrete hangars all over Russian territory?) it’s good to remind that the Konstantinovka and Sumy offensives led to significant advances over the last two weeks, two real breakthroughs so unless the bridge bombings and the attack on the strategic nuclear forces bases are going to lead to a halt of the current positive trend then it’s unnecessary to overreact. Coming weeks will tell us what would be the best response to these attacks which people wrongly describe as terrorism, unfortunately they are not, they are “average” war crimes (Kursk) or just acts of war (Murmansk/Ryazan) and you can partially blame yourself if you have not done everything you can to thwart them by taking all possible precautions.
    ⭕Anyway this might sound like “coping” right now but strategic nuclear bombers in the drones wars era are just large, slow, outdated planes which were important in the previous cold war but whose significance drastically diminished over the last 10 years also due to satellites (it’s very simple to spot them). It’s better to use systems that are very portable and cannot be detected by the enemy to conduct strategic strikes, it’s better to use Kinzhals, Oreshniks or the Avangard or even create strategic nuclear drones which can fly at very low altitude and be launched from everywhere.
    This does not exclude that of course strategic nuclear bombers should be parked in concrete hangars as it is better to preserve them rather than lose them.

    💠@Lord Bebo & Friends:
    ⭕ 🇺🇸 US strategic bombers can be taken out in the same way by anyone with access to
    – drones
    – trucks
    – explosives
    – a bit technical knowledge

    People need to realize the global implications to such an operation as Ukraine just did.
    [Yes indeed. The opened Pandora’s box works on all. Keep in mind what the Prez of the Ansarullah just said the other day: except hot summer in Zion, and good news of humiliations to their air platforms]

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 31 May 2025 #58747
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    South Lebanon is under siege. Their settler nazi Horde are afraid to return to northern occupied Palestine; they ensure commensurate pain on other side of the border, with US arms and ISR. Hezbollah has decisions to make. How much longer can they play possum? The official Lebanese gov is turning openly nazi too – assisting in disarming southern Lebanon and providing cover for Legion. One cannot win against enemies both outside and inside the walls….

    💠@imetatronink:
    ⭕ ‼️⚓️ HMS Prince of Pretense Update

    The Royal Navy humbly beseeched the Yemeni gatekeepers to grant the HMS Prince of Pretense safe passage through the Bab-el-Mandeb. The Yemeni magnanimously granted it to them.

    Meanwhile Lord Nelson spins in his grave.
    links:
    🔻 Yemen Military 🇾🇪: “Member of the Supreme Political Council, Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi: The Republic of Yemen was contacted regarding the passage of the British aircraft carrier “HMS” in the Red Sea without carrying out any combat operations.

    – The Yemeni Armed Forces allowed the British aircraft carrier to pass as long as it is on a non-combat mission and does not display hostile intent to intercept the armed forces’ operations in support of Gaza.”
    🔻 C2: More power to Yemen
    🔻 C3: Honorable, but trusting colonial powers in your waters is always a gamble. Respect to Yemen for taking the high road, but eyes wide open. History doesn’t forget 🫡
    🔻 Yasmin 🕊️: Are they not spying .. is it surveillance & spying …
    [for sure. It comes easier to Anglo-Zionists than breathing, or even lying. A guilty and fearful thief-murderer is always on guard]
    🔻 C5: I’m sure the politics are complicated but the “HMS” would make nice sea floor decoration.
    🔻 WS: Incidentally, as I predicted:
    links his older, “⚓️ The HMS Prince of Pretense Sallies Forth

    With a flourish of strained affectation, the Prince of Pretense has taken up station inside the same constrained parameters where the Trembling Puppy lately sailed.

    It may pass the Bab-el-Mandeb — but only if the Yemeni say so.”
    🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: Can’t really understand why Ansarallah would give them a pass–they’ve attacked Yemen countless times and are up to their necks in the genocide.
    🔻 Bart Simpson: Because Britain is publicly denouncing the Israeli actions.
    [and that may be why they dissembled – in order to get this pass. Now, what are the floating tomb-carriers carrying? After zionazis, who is most likely to deliver a dastardly sucker punch?]
    repost from his older of 8 Sep 2023:
    🧵 A Few Thoughts on China, Russia, and the Decline of American Empire

    (Late 2019 / 8 posts) |THREAD|
    🔻 Buythedip: I like your last sentence of this thread.
    “We can only hope and pray it will choose to revert to the American Republic without setting the world on fire.”
    Do you still have that hope?
    🔻 WS: No.

    📜 The Ashes Will Come First
    🔻 Low Voltage 🇺🇲: @BrianJBerletic seems to think the American Empire is back in the driver’s seat. What do you think he’s missing? 🤔
    🔻 WS: I like and respect Brian.

    I also think he tends to overestimate the empire’s current strength, and its ability to augment that strength within any meaningful time frame.

    I am convinced the US is at a point where it cannot credibly fight a war against Russia, China, or Iran.
    🔻 Mist – Free speech 🥩 🥚: The US leadership is doubling down on control rather than preparing the population for a lifestyle step down. I fear recent events make a violent break up of the country a certainty.
    ⭕🔻 Russians With Attitude:
    A lot of Western Ukraine war e-discourse is just foreign guys getting “redpilled” by their Ukrainian or Russian girlfriends

    Dating → “interest in the culture” → wild takes about the SMO pipeline

    Ukrainian wifeguys are more common: Ukrainian women emigrated more, and are generally more opinionated and heavily propagandized

    Russian wifeguys exist too — they make up a good chunk of our audience, but usually get there on their own, not because their girlfriend henpecked them into posting
    [an ancient principle. Men tend to start thinking after they “go native”. Realize their entire nazi existent was built on lies and worthless exceptionalism. This is why zionazi jews, and many other racists in the present and past, discourage mixing and marrying with “the enemy.”]
    🔻 WS: I guess I’m just one of the .001% of Americans who has always been favorably disposed to the Russians, dating back to my childhood — and, unfortunately (😏), my religion has long-since deprecated plural marriage, so I’ll never know how I might have fared with a Russian woman. 🤣
    🔻 Cannoneer Marine: I dated a Russian woman emigre when I lived in New Zealand and she opened my eyes a lot. She was beautiful, spoke three languages, masters in exercise physiology. She was full of class and culture.
    🔻 WS: Photos or it never happened. 😉
    🔻 Sun Gyat-sen: Are you active LDS?
    [LDS = Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, aka Mormons]
    🔻 WS: 🎼 I play the organ.
    🔻 Genghis Institute: Fundamentally Russians and Americans are quite similar in temperament and values as people. We have no territorial conflict nor do we need each other’s resources. The current conflict is bullshit, the product of British and European gaslighting of Washington.
    ⭕‼️🤦‍♂️ Greasy Pete Talks Tough

    I made myself watch this entire fantastical speech.

    I laughed repeatedly as Greasy Pete read from his well-rehearsed script.

    He was much more awkward during the Q&A.

    THE US CANNOT FIGHT NOR WIN A WAR AGAINST CHINA. PERIOD. |media|
    [respect to your constitution! Even as you knew what the one-trick parrot would be sayin]
    🔻 ₦₳V𝚜𝚝é𝚟𝚊 🇷🇺 ᴢ: Greasy Pete, lol – he does look like he uses vaseline or something in his hair.
    🔻 WS: Greasy Pete’s a Dapper Dan Man. 🤣 |media|
    🔻 Ed H. Hanna: Empires inevitably fail to resist engaging in wars that lead to their ultimate destruction.

    Today, no greater power than China exists.

    If China possessed even a fraction of America’s arrogance or belligerence, it would have destroyed every American power projection asset and military base in the Indo-Pacific region, especially those in or surrounding the East and South China Seas.

    When the Chinese dragon is unleashed, the American cat must either hide or perish, as there will be nowhere to hide.
    🔻 MammonLovesYou ❤️🍉🇵🇸🏴🇺🇸Fringe AF: US regime has no intention to fight a war against China

    This is a war against the American working class

    They mean to isolate us, and enslave us, and China will be the boogeyman they’re protecting us from
    🔻 WS: That won’t work out, either. It is a logistical challenge far beyond their capability. It will only result in the balkanization of America.
    🔻 MammonLovesYou ❤️🍉🇵🇸🏴🇺🇸Fringe AF: Yes, 100% — a unifying ideology & values are required to sustain a huge society

    Narcissism & greed are ultimately pathologies; not values, or beliefs
    🔻 Nader N. CHOKR: The morons in the swamp 2.0 know this. They just want to create chaos in the region through all means –hybrid warfare taken to the next level –so as to try to impede the inevitable rise of China to its rightful position. They will fail at that too. US will hit the Great Wall.
    🔻 Marta: Caro Will sono tutti burattini pagati
    [Temple Mount Hegseth, additionally thinned out by PTSD and drugs, appears a true believer too]
    ⭕🔻 Mario Nawfal:
    🇺🇸 SEC. DEF HEGSETH: WE’RE NOT HERE TO PREACH, WE RESPECT YOUR SOVEREIGNTY

    “The United States is not interested in the moralistic and preachy approach to foreign policy of the past.

    We’re not here to pressure other countries to embrace or adopt policies or ideologies.

    We’re not here to preach to you about climate change or cultural issues.

    We’re not here to impose our will on you.” |media|
    [“we just want you to suicide yourselves against China. That’s all”]
    🔻 Daniel McAdams: Buffoon. Flat out liar. Cannot manage even a 7-11, much less the Pentagon.
    🔻 WS: Greasy Pete’s a Dapper Dan Man. 🤣
    🔻 Gary L: Pete’s not bona fide either.
    🔻 WS: O Brother, Where Art Thou? is among our Top Ten all-time favorite movies. Probably in the top five. It is such a masterpiece.
    ⭕‼️⚓️ Underestimate the Chinese Navy at Your Peril

    Not counting the dozens of formidable Chinese submarines lurking in the region, China is now regularly deploying to its home seas more surface warships than the US Navy can put to sea.

    War against China is pure madness.
    [strap on for the ride to 20,000 Leagues beneath the Sea…]
    links:
    🔻 Ian Ellis: Reuters reported that China deployed nearly 60 and more than 70 ships on 21 and 27 May, respectively.

    “China has flexed its muscles this month by sending an unusually large number of naval and coast guard vessels through a swathe of East Asian waters, according to security documents and officials, in moves that have unnerved regional capitals.

    Since early May, China deployed fleets larger than usual, including navy, coast guard and other ships near Taiwan, the southern Japanese islands and the East and South China Seas, according to three regional security officials and documents of regional military activities reviewed by Reuters.”
    🔻 RealJohnGaltFLA: Conveniently, everyone in the Pentagon pigeon holed the USS Kitty Hawk incident when a Chinese diesel electric popped up in the middle of the group.

    Americans have become just piss poor at history and taking corrective action at almost every level.
    🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: Would they even need to use ships? Seems like China’s anti-shipping missiles would very quickly inflict intolerable losses on US navy
    🔻 hans koenig: And those ships operate under a umbrella of land based missiles.
    🔻 Chris: The US elite are just desperate to hold onto hegemony, so they are ignoring the overwhelming evidence.

    It’s like how the Japanese in WW2 ignored the advice of Admiral Yamamoto on the US industrial base at the time, only this time the US elite are the willfully ignorant on China.
    🔻 Constantine: China’s ship building capacity in tonnage is literally more than 200 times of US. One shipyard in china alone in 2024 built more ships in tonnage than the entire US during WW2. US will stay far away if war breaks out.
    🔻 🇪🇨 wayemeru 🔻: Not to mention they’ve microphoned all the surrounding seas and know where every US submarine and surface ship is at any given moment. The opening salvo of a shooting war would render the US Navy completely ineffective within the first few hours.
    ⭕ 🌮 Dunce in the Corner

    Make dunce caps great again.

    And TACOs, too.
    ⭕🔻 Philippe Lemoine:
    I find the debate about whether the g-word applies to what Israel is doing in Gaza really stupid to be honest, because it’s obvious that it’s not about the facts, but is just part of the propaganda war and it just makes me feel like people are trying to emotionally manipulate me, which of course is exactly what they’re trying to do.

    Nothing fundamental really hinges on that question: even if you think that it’s a legally accurate characterization, not that I think the concept is precise enough for there to be an objective fact of the matter, you could forgo using the word and make the exact same moral judgment about Israel’s actions.

    The only reason why people care so much about using that word is because it’s emotionally very powerful. (I’m not even saying they are conscious of that, I think for the most part they aren’t, but that doesn’t make it any less true.) They may be right from a propaganda perspective, though I’m not sure, but in any case it really annoys me.

    I know people will respond to this tweet by accusing me of being a genocide denier and wanting to defend Israel, which is really amusing given my views on the conflict, but if anything the opposite is true, because I often see tweets critical of Israel I would retweet but for the fact that they contain the g-word and that I’m too autistic to ignore it.
    🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: I generally agree with this sentiment. Conditions in Gaza are indefensible but the IDF isn’t actually committing “genocide”, and the ubiquitous use of that word derails people into a debate about vocabulary. It’s a conceptually toxic word, as I’m sure the replies here will prove.
    🔻 WS: For a variety of complex reasons, I have deliberately refrained from commenting much on this question. But I still stand firmly behind this December 2023 observation of the matter:

    “‼️ Israel’s aims vis-a-vis Gaza are, from what I have seen, rather explicitly manifest: the previously existing Gaza Strip is going to be razed to the ground and its prior inhabitants either exterminated or expelled elsewhere preparatory to something new being built in its place.”
    🔻 🇪🇨 wayemeru 🔻: Either of those outcomes constitutes genocide.
    🔻 EvaG: @witte_sergei how would you define genocide then ? There may not be giant ovens in buildings but watching the horrific videos everyday, it’s obvious to the blindest person Gaza is a open air extermination camp.
    🔻 po jahlovw: if this don’t qualify as genocide, then clearly nothing ever qualifies as genocide,,including holocaust.. the aim is quite clear and overt, uproot, displace and destroy a people.. they have made that claim quite often. at least they don’t doubt the aim and process is genocidaire
    ⭕ 🤔 The Chinese don’t appear to be in a very submissive mood these days.

    Maybe it’s because they can currently match (or surpass) the US carrier for carrier in any western Pacific battle scenario.
    links:
    🔻 Ian Ellis: The PLA released a poster yesterday showcasing the three carriers and elements of the Liaoning carrier group.

    💠@Middle East Spectator:
    ⭕ An image of the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence planning the ‘Web’ attacks

    💠@Sputnik Africa:
    ⭕ ❗️Drones attacked a military unit in Russia’s Irkutsk region, central Siberia, the local governor reports

    According to Igor Kobzev, the devices were launched from a truck, which is currently “blocked.”

    There is no threat to “the lives and health of civilians,” the governor emphasized. Emergency services are working at the scene.
    ⭕❗️An enemy drone raid was carried out against the territory of Russia’s Murmansk region, air defense is working, the region’s head Chibis reports
    ⭕ ❗️The Kiev regime committed a terrorist attack using FPV drones against airfields in several Russian regions, the Russian Defense Ministry reports

    👉 All attacks were repelled at military airfields in the Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions.

    In the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions, as a result of the launch of FPV drones from the territory located in the immediate vicinity of the airfields, several units of aircraft caught fire.

    ✅ The fires have been extinguished. There are no casualties among military personnel or civilian personnel. Some of the participants in the terrorist attacks have been detained, the ministry noted.
    [this is the official bulletin by the MOD. So not the “twenty” some sites are spewing. But several nevertheless… heads need to roll, both internal (for STILL not drone-proofing strategic platforms sitting under open skies) and external]
    General Tchiani Denounces ‘Indirect War’ by West Against AES

    The Nigerien leader accused France and its allies of destabilizing the Confederation of Sahel States through secret networks, armed groups, and regional support.

    He identified two “French cells” operating in the region:

    • The first, led by Jean-Marie Bockel, seeks to counter “Sahelian influence;”
    • The second, the “Sahel cell of the Élysée,” coordinated by Christophe Guilhou, is allegedly mobilizing the Joint Foreign and Military Intelligence Service of the French Republic, diplomats, and Francophonie with “unlimited funds.”

    Regional accusations and alleged support:

    • Benin is accused of harboring armed groups in its northern territories;
    • Nigeria is blamed for sheltering French troops expelled from Niger and supporting their activities logistically;
    • A secret meeting in March reportedly brought together Western powers, Boko Haram, and Daesh for an “indirect war” against the AES.

    💠 @Fotros Resistance:
    ⭕🇾🇪| Yemen announces 4 operations:

    • Attacked Ben Guiron Airport with a ballistic missile
    • Drone attack against an asset in Jaffa
    • Drone attack against an asset in Ashdod
    • Drone attack against an asset in Eilat

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 31 May 2025 #58730
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    💠@Intel Slava Z:
    ⭕ 🇺🇦🇷🇺❗️The Ukrainians are hitting the Irkutsk region with drones.

    Yes, you heard right. IRKUTSK region

    The red line gradually shifts towards Vladivostok… |media|
    ⭕ ❗️The Irkutsk region was attacked by more than 10 drones.
    They are trying to hit airfields and military units

    Presumably they were launched from a truck.
    ⭕ 🇺🇦🇷🇺-Drones take off from a Kamaz truck

    My version with the truck was confirmed.

    Someone drove a truck from where drones fly out.

    They are also hitting the Murmansk region |media|
    ⭕ ❗️ Drones are launched from a truck near Murmansk

    Eyewitnesses report that at the Rosneft gas station near Olenegorsk there is a truck from which drones are flying out one after another. |media|
    ⭕ ❗️ The SBU is conducting a large-scale special operation to destroy enemy bomber aircraft in the rear of Russia, – Ukrainian media

    SBU posts video
    ⭕ Drone footage.

    They destroyed our strategic aviation.

    While putin talks about some negotiations |media|
    [OK may be not maskirovka. And a very useful Op to de-legitimize the slow-saddling elite, to divide from their angry populace lapping up all the PsyOps. Keep scrolling down
    NB “Failsafe” – an apt metaphor indeed for those who know the movie..]
    ⭕ 🇺🇦🇷🇺Almost all the strategic aircraft parking areas are ablaze, it is difficult to say how many aircraft will survive after such a defeat.
    ⭕ Today it is clearly visible what long meaningless negotiations with the enemy lead to.
    ⭕ 🇺🇦🇷🇺A source in the SBU confirmed to the BBC that Russian airfields were attacked by Ukrainian drones today.

    According to a BBC source in the SBU, more than 40 military aircraft were damaged, including A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3.

    The source says that the special operation was called “Web” and was personally led by the head of the special service, Vasily Malyuk.

    Note that the videos that are being distributed online show four burning military aircraft. But this video is from one airfield.

    Let us recall that today three Russian airfields were attacked at once: Olenya in the Murmansk region, Dyagilevo in the Ryazan region, and the Belaya airbase in the Irkutsk region.
    [Note the BBC gets the glory – the first reportage of “success”. But there will be endless tears soon, for both Anglo-UkroNazis, among the survivors]
    ⭕ 🇺🇦🇷🇺Ukrainian media, citing sources in the SBU, report that four airfields were attacked – in addition to Olenyi, Dyagilevo and Belaya, there was also the Ivanovo airfield.

    Today, local chats in Ivanovo reported explosions near the city. But there was no video from there yet.
    ⭕ ❗️Putin to hold meeting with government members and Security Council session — Russia 1 TV channel
    ⭕ 🇺🇦🇷🇺The driver of the truck from which the drones took off during the attack on the airfield.

    Apparently he was strangled about 10 hours ago.

    💠@Middle East Spectator:
    ⭕ ❗️🇷🇺/🇺🇦 BREAKING: A huge covert Ukrainian attack from inside Russian territory has destroyed almost a dozen Russian strategic bombers

    The coordinated wave of attacks carried out by suicide drones, dubbed ‘Operation Web’ by Ukrainian intelligence, targeted four different airbases deep inside Russia.

    Ukraine claims that 41 Russian aircraft have been destroyed, including strategic bombers like the A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22M3, but at least 9 aircraft are confirmed to be lost.

    The attacks took place against four airbases: Olenya Airbase in Murmansk, Belaya Airbase in Irkutsk, Ivanovo Airbase in Ivanovo, and Dyagilovo Airbase in Ryazan.
    [The A-50 may be the most precious of all – a limited AWACS command center]

    💠@ejmalrai:
    ⭕ In an unprecedented NATO-sanctioned drone attacks, several Russian airports were attacks where around 40 strategic bombers Tu-95, Tu-22M3, as well as A-50 surveillance planes were attacked and destroyed.

    This is a major attack on Russia.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 30 May 2025 … Open Thread #58727
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    It seems too facile. I was just reading a mere day ago, “construction of additional parking spaces for aircraft has begun at the Engels-2 airbase in the Saratov region since the end of March” and then the same airfield get droned??

    What is this? Russkie Bear hasn’t survived and thrived and kept the largest territory on earth by being an idiot. This same strategic base was already targeted several times. Nazis have neither shame nor self-preservatory instinct.

    Could it be more maskirovka, by those who excel at it, and brought it even into the snake-tongue peoples’ lexicon? To bait the trap with the ultimate honey?

    It can be even by using really old airframes, ready to be scrapped or scavenged for parts for newer platforms. And clearly in the new age of warfare, manned platforms will increasingly take a back seat to dronification and precision missiles.

    Russkie Bear was prepared to lose precious civvy lives in Kursk in order to defeat this Drang; other sacrifices will be made too, and to show the fractious and lukewarm multi-nodal global majority world, being herded like cats to their own salvation, that what is coming to the nazi is justified.

    This may be a useful mechanism to upgrade war to the next suitable stage

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 30 May 2025 … Open Thread #58714
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    The Russian Investigative Committee said both bridges, blown up within hours of each other overnight last night, were terrorism.

    It’s a Big Club, working with multiple claws, here and there, and everywhere Murder Inc. sees fit.

    As drones weren’t doing the job of stirring the Russkie hornet’s nest, they’ve moved to infiltrating sabotage teams into border regions and blowing up bridges just in front of commuter trains, tracked by their ISR, at opportune times, and before the conductors can stop it in time. I think we shall shortly see similarly capable drones, flitting a few meters above tree level, planting time bombs here and there on the peripheries, and interior, of the largest country on earth. Impossible to stop.

    Mass civilian casualties, sure to stir the hornet’s nest and put unbearable pressure on the opposing elite. The Drang for imploding the civilizational-states remains on course, without the deviance of a micrometer.

    Note within minutes of the trains catastrophes, the hoary knuckle-dragger Kellogg gently waxes on the combined nature of the Drang – a skillful dagger aimed at the opposing elite. What are you gonna do about it? The heat’s being turned up on Russkie frog, commensurate to the pirozhki being prepped on the other side.

    Ain’t the public messaging delicious? Have any in history been so invited to front row seats of existential totalen kriegs that shall reshape the very surface of the earth for the next epoch?? How many historians would donate a kidney, or unwelcome aunt, to obtain such primary source material!

    What are the slow-saddlers gonna do??

    They remain perched on the knife’s edge expedience of leading the civilized world to liberty, whilst absolute barbarism freely stalks them inside their walls. The mindless sea of relentless enemies see pusillanimous “strategic patience” is their enforced stratagem du-jour.. that’s the hell of the Moshiach and his legions – you’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 31 May 2025 #58710
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    💠 @Sputnik Africa:
    ⭕️ ⚡️ Bridge collapses in Russia’s Bryansk Region, causing train derailment – reports

    A bridge collapsed in the Vygonichsky District of Russia’s Bryansk Region, resulting in an accident involving a train and several vehicles, according to regional Governor Alexander Bogomaz. Emergency services are currently assisting those injured.

    The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM) stated that fire and rescue teams are working at the site, with additional forces dispatched.

    One child is reportedly in serious condition, and 11 ambulance teams have been deployed, the Center for Disaster Medicine told Sputnik.

    The Moscow Railway said the derailment of a locomotive and several train cars occurred due to “unauthorized interference in transport operations.”

    The train operator was killed in the incident, authorities confirmed.  |media|
    ⭕️ 🚨 ‘Frankly, in a way it is’ – US envoy ADMITS NATO proxy war against Russia

    US special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg let the mask slip in a Fox News interview, conceding that Russian President Vladimir Putin may have a point:

    💬 “He [Putin] considers this a proxy war by NATO as well right now. And frankly, in a way it is.”

    Kellogg cited European military support as evidence — unintentionally confirming what Washington has long denied.

    So much for “not being a party to the conflict.”  |media|
    ⭕️ Bridges Blown Up in Russia: Latest Updates

    👉 According to the country’s Investigative Committee, premeditated explosions caused the collapse of two bridges in two regions of Russia.

    In the Bryansk region:

    • A passenger train traveling from Klimov to Moscow derailed at 7:44 p.m. GMT, according to Russian authorities.
    • The accident occurred when the train passed under a collapsed road bridge.
    • At least seven people died and 66 were injured, including three children, as a result of the tragedy. Forty-seven people were hospitalized, including an eight-month-old child in serious condition.
    • The local governor said that all passengers injured in the train accident were promptly taken to medical facilities. Emergency ambulance teams have been organized to transport the injured, including by air.

    In the Kursk region:

    • According to Russian Railways, a railway bridge partially collapsed, causing an accident with a cargo train.
    • A diesel locomotive and three empty cars derailed.
    • The train driver was injured.  |media|

    [Who gave them exact data when trains were about to pass under bridges? And two days before Surrender talks in Constantinople]

    ⭕️ ❗️Incidents with explosions on railways in Bryansk and Kursk regions are classified as terrorist attacks, the Russian Investigative Committee states
    ⭕️ ❗️The Russian army has liberated the village of Alekseyevka in the Sumy region, the Russian MoD reports

    💠 @Intel Slava Z:
    ⭕ 🇺🇦🇷🇺 the hohols in the Bryansk region blew up a road bridge under which a Moscow-Klimov passenger train was passing. Accordingly, the bridge fell on the train…

    There are 25 reported casualties, three of whom are in serious condition.

    Of course, this is not a coincidence and the hohols waited specifically for the time when the train would pass.

    Terrorist country.
    ⭕️ 🇺🇦🇷🇺The Russian Investigative Committee states that both bridges that collapsed in the Bryansk and Kursk regions were blown up.

    “On May 31, 2025, at 10:50 p.m. on the Vygonichi-Pilshino railway section in the Bryansk region, as a result of an explosion, the structure of the road bridge collapsed, the debris of which fell on a passenger train passing underneath. As a result of the incident, people were injured and killed.

    On June 1, 2025, at about 3 a.m., a railway bridge was also blown up in the Zheleznogorsk district of the Kursk region, causing a passing train to fall onto a road. As a result of the incident, the driver and his two assistants were injured,” the Investigative Committee reported.
    ⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺Trump’s special envoy Kellogg agreed that NATO is in a state of “proxy war” with Russia.

    “Putin has said, ‘If you continue to supply [Ukraine] with weapons, we will consider you aggressors.’ He believes that this has become a proxy war with NATO. And to be honest, in some ways it is. Look at the help that European countries have given. Clearly Putin sees that,” Kellogg said on Fox News.

    Earlier, he stated that the United States was ready to stop NATO expansion towards Russia.

    Let us recall that the cessation of Western military aid from the moment the ceasefire began is one of the main conditions for the Russian Federation to agree to a ceasefire.
    [“Look at the help that European countries have given”. What a coward! Admits part of the obvious, then lies by deflecting all the attribution and targeting onto the lesser criminals]

    💠 @Middle East Spectator:
    ⭕ — ❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇳 NEW: Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, held a call with the D.G. of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, telling him that Iran demands the agency to acknowledge that Iran is in full compliance with the JCPOA at the Board of Governors meeting next week

    Additionally, Iran demands from the IAEA that it strongly warns Europe against any hostile or politically-motivated act, and Iran notified the IAEA of ‘severe consequences’ if the agency is used as a tool by the Europeans to sow discord or narratives against Iran.

    💠 @ejmalrai:
    ⭕ This morning, Israel open fire on Palestinians coming to collect their share of food, west of Rafah, close to the US distribution centre, killing 26 and wounding 115.

    [As Orange assumed full responsibility for the lost 404 war, so for this true semite Holocaust in the Holy Land. His deranged and partial “mediators” are as complicit as in 404, and using the same time-wasting witless Witkoff!]

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 31 May 2025 #58687
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    No AZE “ceasefire” for Gaza. Hamas didn’t cave


    iblis = given name of The Satan in the Qur’an – the demon lord and chief enemy since the creation of Adam..
    very nice intro. In this episode he highlights Gog & Magog are like the opening of a portal to a strange hitherto never experience phase of human existence. And that they are intimately connected to the Holy Land, especially to the city of Jerusalem. Now, he limits it unnecessarily to the USA, which is merely the last standard bearer of the doughty Men of Westernesse.
    A better descriptor would be ALL of the western lands, since the first Crusades. Whether the early papal legions who fought for themselves alone (western Christendom) or the latter Anglo-French-Zionist since the 18th century. It is because they failed during the earlier Crusades, and even during Bony’s efforts, that the more devious British Empire hit on the motherlode of utilizing the european jew as catspaw


    how is it the most engaging Hollywood movies show portals opening to the Pit! And Orange on his first day established the Stargate Project “aiming to invest up to $500 billion in AI infrastructure across the U.S.”

    The city of NEOM, being built in northern KSA (around the real Mount Sinai, and former land of Midian) is also budgeted for $500 billion. The recently deceased father of the above French-Algerian Eschatologist delivered during peak corona days eye-catching lectures on the true purpose — it was a metaphysical effort by the Moshiach to build another “Golden calf” — an A.I. international city-state, one of the control nodes of Pax Judaica.


    another excellent sci-fi, one of my few favs, despite having elements of horror, which shows a more realistic scenario once the portal is opened

    💠 “Macron threatens China with NATO expansion
    I thought this was a typo. Like reading an ant trying to rob or mug an elephant. What days. I have altogether ceased reading fiction! It can’t get better than this

    💠 @kuluary_zaliva (В кулуарах Залива):
    Hamas sets new conditions for Gaza truce

    Hamas has responded to US Presidential Envoy Steven Witkoff’s proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. According to sources, some of Hamas’ conditions are in line with the mediators’ proposals .

    Thus, the movement agrees to release 10 hostages in exchange for a 60-day truce. However, Hamas opposes
    release of the hostages in two stages, insisting on a smoother process to contain the fighting.

    Hamas’ response also includes a demand for a “permanent ceasefire in Gaza,” the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the enclave, and the entry of humanitarian aid. The parties have not yet named a timeframe for the possible release of hostages or the entry into force of a ceasefire.

    💠@ejmalrai:
    ⭕ Hamas forwarded a draft for the ceasefire in Gaza and US presidential envoy Steve Witfkoff rejected it. War continue.
    [Hamas stuck to its core demands: “a “permanent ceasefire in Gaza,” the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the enclave, and the entry of humanitarian aid.” So end of the Annihilation of civilians, end of occupation of Gaza, and end of starvation siege — are not in the plans of the august zionazi internationale…]

    💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
    ⭕ **Urgent**

    A source in the Ministry of Defense calls on investors and companies operating within the Zionist entity to leave quickly, as the environment will not be safe.

    **Yemen – Sana’a**

    A source in the Ministry of Defense has confirmed that foreign investors and companies operating inside the Zionist entity must evacuate swiftly, as the environment will not be secure, and it is advisable to do so while the opportunity remains.

    The source stated, “Our missiles are designed to fragment upon interception, striking multiple targets, thereby rendering the enemy’s defense systems ineffective. Every Zionist should be on high alert.”

    Additionally, the source emphasized that Yemen’s missiles will not cease targeting the criminal Zionist entity until the aggression stops and the blockade on our people in Gaza is lifted.
    ⭕ 🇾🇪 🔘 A high-ranking Yemeni military official stated: “Communication has been made with the Republic of Yemen regarding the passage of the British aircraft carrier HMS, indicating that it will transit for maneuvers and will not carry out any combat operations in the Red Sea. The Yemeni armed forces have informed them to allow the passage, as long as it is on a non-combat mission and not an aggressive move to obstruct the armed forces from supporting Gaza, which is being targeted by the entity.”

    💠@Middle East Spectator:
    ⭕ The president of Italy’s southern ‘Puglia’ region, Michele Emiliano, has announced the severing of all ties with Israel, instructing all directors and employees of the region to terminate relationships with representatives of the Israeli government

    This comes a day after Barcelona’s City Council decided to sever institutional ties with the Israeli government and suspend its 1998 ‘friendship agreement’ with Tel Aviv.
    [these are both regions with alotta semitic genes.. “amalek”. Not that it matters – we be ALL amalek now]

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 30 May 2025 … Open Thread #58686
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    By “they” I meant the Svengalis and Goebbels that craft these memes and raise hatreds in billions against other billions. This is way above Sal’s paygrade. I actually like him and enjoy listening to him, foibles and extra-thick blinkers an all. I have just lacked the time in last months, being forced to sift and choose. And knowing the contours of the larger Drang, I do not doubt I will be forced to listen to him soon enough as new horrors appear on his area of focus

    here’s a recent preview from Nat South:

    💠 @Two Majors:
    ⭕ Maritime “unmanned vehicles”: from concepts to working systems

    “Two Majors” highlighted a new DARPA development, supposedly created to protect shipping:

    Pulling Guard is a situational awareness system with semi-autonomous unmanned surveillance/tracking vehicles (USVs and UAVs) equipped with target detection and identification sensors (using AI), as well as missile weapons.

    ● The idea of ​​such a project fits into the general trend of unmanned vehicle development.

    ● Leading maritime powers are moving towards the creation of network-centric systems, including unmanned ones, for monitoring selected objects or routes and subsequent combat operations.

    ● The main goal of such systems is not at all the protection of civilian shipping (this is only a secondary task), but the development of a mechanism for monitoring and protecting our ships/vessels and tracking the Russian (or Chinese) fleet, primarily the submarine fleet, in the areas of operation of our ocean forces.

    Spoiler: submarines built according to 30-40 year old designs have become simply big targets. Especially in the zone of dominance of enemy anti-submarine forces. I will keep quiet about our anti-submarine forces. The submarine fleet will change in the coming years or perish in any serious mess.

    ● It is clear that Pulling Guard is only one of many concepts, and it will not necessarily “take off” or become widespread. But the Americans generally like this: the US Navy can afford to build entire series of experimental ships, including unmanned ones.

    ● We cannot, and this is evident from the example of ocean-going unmanned systems (surface, underwater and air, assembled into a single circuit). By the way, where are they?

    “Majors” wonder about the need for such a program for the Russian Federation: “We hope that the leadership of the Russian Navy has already been concerned from the very beginning about NATO’s pirate actions in the Baltic region and the emergence of potential threats to civilian shipping in the Black Sea.”
    ● Similar programs can be developed if you have unmanned vessels/ships and unmanned aircraft capable of operating in the deep sea zone. And also communications for them.

    And it all started with “toy” one-meter-long unmanned boats.

    In the case of the USA, developments on the topic of “modern” BECs began in the early 1990s (see the last picture).
    https://t.me/two_majors/50715

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 30 May 2025 … Open Thread #58679
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    they like soundbites, especially short loaded ones to broadly paint perfidy on a target. PUTIN for Russia for example. Note “shadow fleet” starts automatically with a dark shade, and fleet must be a humongous # of ships which threaten to overwhelm the white hats of the high seas..

    in reality, these 400 or so (a year ago) ships are perfectly legit, but operate using Russkie or Indian or non-British insurance. “shadow fleet” is simply = not insured by Lloyds or other British reinsurers.. A deathhold they themselves broke by sanctioning Russia (shooting themselves in the head with both barrels) and forcing her to use new, equally valid, mechanisms. Like other neat workarounds such as SWIFT replacements……..

    in fact Mercouris, who knows his shipping, said the Russkie was one of those who had a Lloyds replacement ready for years, and one of the largest alternatives at that. It just takes cursory reading of history, and Anglo history in particular, such as the British blockade on Bony, or on the Japanese a century and a half later, and countless other episodes of totalen krieg, to see what would be attempted. Except they now lack the effective means, so it would be sanctions and financial and other such shenanigans of the weaker.

    So this really hurts. At the heart of “Britannia Rules the Waves” for a couple centuries was not just the Royal Navy, but Lloyds. At some points in history, Lloyds by herself could bankrupt nations reliant on sea trade, i.e. whether Persian Gulf producers of tankers, or the recipients, if an incident occurred in Hormuz

    “Shadow fleet” is really a canary cry of anguish! An impotent howl at the moon

    What has occurred during this SMO, and largely passed unnoticed, is the loss of 90% or more of sea insurance trade by Lloyds. A sea change. And the FIRE sector is largely what’s left in the Garden!

    The importance of applying this sweet knockout to the Limeys by the Russkie is also seen in moving Patrushev to all matters Sea … and what are the Sea Peoples when denied dominion over the Seas, such as at SLOCs, or sea trade, or ability to blockade Russia in her two warm water ports in the lower Baltic and the Black Sea??

    Another Leningrader, and son, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev also works as the Minister of Agriculture – coordinating closely with Africa and now helping establishing a BRICS Grain Exchange. The food and fertilizer that fills much of the dry cargo being moved on those ships under Daddy’s eyeball

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 31 May 2025 #58675
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    💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
    ⭕ The tools being used by the Israeli enemy to dig tunnels and excavations beneath Al-Aqsa Mosque and in Jerusalem aim to destroy the history, present, and future of Muslims. No Muslim should ever look at what is happening in Palestine as if it doesn’t concern them.

    Leader of Ansar Allah, Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi – 02 Dhu al-Hijjah 1446 AH |media|
    ⭕ The Bab Al-Mandab Channel informs you with good news that will heal the hearts of the believers.

    In summary, you will hear the cries and screams of the settler hordes and their so-called Israeli army.
    ⭕ Hamas acted wisely by issuing an official statement that exposes the explosive plan proposed by Steve Whitkoff in collaboration with Netanyahu…

    Here is the text of their statement:

    “After conducting a round of national consultations, and in light of our deep responsibility towards our people and their suffering, the Islamic Resistance Movement ‘Hamas’ has submitted its response today to the recent proposal by U.S. envoy Steve Whitkoff to the esteemed mediators. This proposal aims to achieve a permanent ceasefire, a comprehensive withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and to ensure the flow of aid to our people in the sector.

    As part of this agreement, ten living prisoners held by the occupation will be released by the resistance, in addition to the return of eighteen bodies, in exchange for a number of Palestinian prisoners to be agreed upon.”

    💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
    ⭕ Hamas has reportedly submitted to the mediators its response to US special envoy Steve Witkoff’s proposal for a ceasefire agreement and the release of the hostages, sources within the Palestinian group said.

    Hamas’s response is considered generally positive, but it wants the hostage release to take place in incremental stages, rather than on the first and seventh days of the first week of the 60-day ceasefire.

    💠@Fotros Resistance:
    ⭕ 🇵🇸| The destructive genocide on the Palestinian people in Gaza is easily visible through satellite images.

    A thorn in the pages of history, all nations except a few, should feel ashamed of themselves.
    [right-click and view larger on new tab. A Judgment comes on us all]
    Why does the Leader of Iran, Imam Khamenei, not interfere in here & there [in internal Iranian politics]?

    Imam Khamenei himself explained it very well:

    The Leader cannot constantly step into the specific decision-making processes of various government bodies and keep saying, “Do this,” “Don’t do that.” That’s not possible. Neither the law allows this, nor is it logical.

    Each organization has its own officials. If an official makes a mistake or does something wrong in a specific case, then it’s the Parliament’s duty to question or impeach them. That’s the responsibility of the Parliament.

    It’s not feasible for the Leader to monitor all these executive bodies—each making different decisions—and then decide which one is right and which one is wrong. That’s not how it works. It would be against the law, impossible to manage, and completely unreasonable.

    The Leader’s role is to step in only when it’s felt that a certain action is being taken that could derail the system—when such a threat is sensed, the Leader must take a stand and prevent it, in whatever way necessary.

    💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
    India Admits Losing Fighter Jets

    India’s top general confirmed for the first time that fighter jets were lost in the May clashes with Pakistan, but denied Islamabad’s claims that six aircraft were shot down.

    “The number is not important, but the reason they were shot down is,” Chief of the Defense Staff General Anil Chauhan said at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.

    💠@Middle East Spectator:
    Iran responded to the IAEA report, stating that Europe has continuously violated its commitments, so Iran sees no reason to keep its own commitments.
    Iran calls the information stated by the IAEA ‘fake’, says there have been no undeclared nuclear activities

    Iran says that Israel fabricated this info and submitted it as a third party, and that the IAEA report ‘lacks all professional standards’.

    It then goes on to say that the current situation is a result of America’s withdrawal from the JCPOA and European violations.
    ⭕ Iran in the 1st paragraph of the statement: All of the IAEA report’s info is fake and gay.

    Iran in the 2nd paragraph: Yes we do have a big uranium stockpile but it’s because America withdrew from the JCPOA.

    Iran trolling arc?
    ⭕ Iran ‘not interested’ in Morocco’s proposal to restore diplomatic ties between the two countries – Sources
    ⭕🇮🇷/🇺🇸 BREAKING: Iran confirms the Omani Foreign Minister has delivered a new American proposal to Tehran

    The proposal is under review, and Iran will respond to it in a way that ‘guarantees the rights and interests’ of the Iranian nation.
    [so the IAEA visit of last days delivered the “casus-belli” to the nazi internationale. Another UN agency thoroughly prostituted itself. In 2002, under Mohamed ElBaradei, it refused to grant the Yanquis under Cheney regime the same excuse, wrt to Iraq. But now it’s in place for Iran.. nevertheless, it still remains a Murder-Suicide, no ways around this]


    💠@imetatronink:
    ⭕🤦‍♂️ The Gaslighting Presidency

    We are now neck deep in an imaginary world.
    🔻 GeoTek: I actually thought this was satire
    🔻 Priscilla RivasLoria, Ph.D. ☦️ 🇪🇸🇵🇷🇺🇸: WE ARE LED BY A “PRETEND” PRESIDENT?

    He pretends not to know that Ukraine attempted to assassinate President Putin last week;

    He pretends not to know what’s going on in Gaza;

    He pretends not to know the mRNA shots are killing people;

    He pretends the western installed Al-Qaeda leader in Syria is merely a “young, attractive guy” with a “strong past.”

    If “WE THE PEOPLE” know, how can he not know?
    🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: No long just imaginary wars, the Simulacra is omnipresent.
    🔻 MyVeganDogs: Now it seems that POTUS shaking hands with imaginary people was not as embarrassing.
    cont. thread:
    The US still cannot put to sea more than about 60 surface warships at any given time.

    SIXTY.

    A blockade is an act of war. The Chinese would shoot back. They would destroy many US capital ships within days. Trade would be negligibly impeded. US weakness would be forever exposed.
    🔻 Doug Ford Respecter 40K 🇨🇦🚀🇰🇵: The US Navy is not practicing for a blockade mission at all. What that means is that this is a job that 1) they do not think they can even do, 2) under no circumstances want to be saddled with.

    Studies of blockading the malacca strait from the 00s just concluded “uh, no”.
    🔻 WS: Anyone who makes this blockade argument is simply exposing themselves as a woefully ill-informed analyst of these matters. Simply put, they have no idea what they’re talking about.
    🔻 Doug Ford Respecter 40K 🇨🇦🚀🇰🇵: Yes. I’ve only ever heard the blockade canard from civilians, who have this idea that blockades are easy and *of course* the Navy could do it if they wanted to, I mean they’ve got plans for it, right? They practice that stuff, right? How hard can it be?
    🔻 Asa ☭🔻🇵🇸 Z: I mean unless the US Navy is totally incompetent and just piss away all the funding they received they totally should be expected to be able to temporarily blockade the Malacca traits. How long is another question.

    Informing civilian cargo there is a no go zone is enough.
    🔻 Eu Unul: Technically possible but unfeasible. Ships would take a different route while also pissing off every country in the world.
    🔻 Asa ☭🔻🇵🇸 Z: I don’t think the US would give a shit if they were at war with China. The detour route the ships need to take are going around US vassals Australia and then up north toward the Philippines & Guam. In other words a bad time for Chinese cargo ships.
    🔻 WS: It’s all fun and games until the other guy shoots back.

    The Yemeni have chased away five successive carrier strike groups — on nothing but the credible THREAT of hitting US warships.

    China, Russia, Iran … all three would savage US warships in their respective regions.
    🔻 Swamp Ghost: The USN explicitly stated this strategy would fail seven years ago in 2018, both because China could adapt to it fairly easily but also because angering ASEAN would be a rather huge blunder. |media|
    [Yep. ASEAN is 3rd or 4th economic giant bloc on earth… and they’re increasingly organized]
    🔻 Asa ☭🔻🇵🇸 Z: I’m sure of that.
    I am talking strictly if they could militarily, and that paper agrees with me that the US military could.
    🔻 Swamp Ghost: In 2018, sure, but that ignores the USN is far weaker and the PLAN far stronger nowadays here in 2025. China took the largest navy by vessel count in 2020 and the proliferation of AShBMs in their arsenal and their “String of Pearls” basing.
    🔻 Swamp Ghost: Case in point the U.S. closed its only forward deployed fuel depot (Red Hill) in 2022 and has yet to replace it. USN is thus dependent on oil tankers across the Pacific or the good will of ASEAN to sustain its forces logistical.

    Issue: USN only has 10% of its tanker needs.
    🔻 Asa ☭🔻🇵🇸 Z: This is all correct, but in the end naval mines will enforce a naval blockade regardless. Clearing a naval minefield in contested narrow straits is no easy task.

    This will have major political ramifications of course, but so did unlimited u-boat campaign, which happened anyway
    🔻 Swamp Ghost: Issue with that is the USN mining capacity is very weak. Given the lack of forward logistical support it would also require material help from local Nations to enact; they’d need fuel, food and berthing docks to sustain the ships keeping the minefields. |media|
    [this tweet/article was retweeted by Will. So in additional to regional political antagonism and hurdles, the nazi internationale has sheer logistics and survivability issues discharging any mooted blockade. Temple Mount Hegseth was painting a lonely deranged vista at the annual Shangri-La Security powwow yesterday. Imagine a dry Rummy on LSD…. the lunatics cannot even mount a pretend “war” and everybody knows..]
    🔻 Asa ☭🔻🇵🇸 Z: I’m honestly stunned by that article. Never did I imagine that things were *that* bad within the US Navy. So much so that they cannot carry out simple and easy tasks like mining. Navies have been doing that for 100 years +, but the most expensive navy on earth struggles with it.
    🔻 Arthur Burton: The closest (easiest) detour would run through the Sunda Strait, which is entirely in Indonesian territory.

    And if you think that in a conflict between China and US Indonesia would take any side other than China, you are on some powerfull stuff.
    🔻 WS: So few people realize that, compared to the 1990s, the parameters of conflict here in 2025 have been completely altered.

    China is the dominant force in the western Pacific, both economically and militarily. The US can no longer project meaningful, decisive power into the region.
    🔻 Asa ☭🔻🇵🇸 Z: I am confident China will come out on top. But that doesn’t mean the U.S. Navy is just going to roll over.

    Closing a strait with mines is easier than attempting to clear the strait while the other side is harassing you.

    It is a long and difficult task,.
    🔻 WS: You don’t know what you’re talking about.

    The US can only put to sea ~60 surface warships. China can field over TEN TIMES as many!

    The US has fewer than a half-dozen operational mine warfare ships. China can field at least SIX TIMES as many.

    The US Navy is an empty shell.
    🔻 Eu Unul: US is not gonna engage in a shooting match with China.
    🔻 WS: And if they do, it won’t last long. The US would run out of precision-guided munitions of all kinds in just a matter of days — two weeks at most, and only if they severely rationed them in the second week.
    🔻 Eu Unul: And exactly that’s why it won’t. Risks are too great. Without a war US can still pretend for the next 20 years that is the greatest power ever, starting a war and then backing down would be truly THE END.
    🔻 Chris: If the US has difficulties against the Houthis / Ansar Allah, then the US will not stand much chance against the Chinese or Russians.

    There will be many hypersonic missiles that the Aegis and other US defense systems would be worthless against.

    Both also have drones and subs.
    🔻 WS: With production levels of 100s per day of 600+ km/h speed, 2000+ km range, 100 kg warhead loitering drones like the Russian Geran-3, then you’d only need to use a few high-precision missiles in any attack.

    A salvo of 300+ drones like the Geran-3 would overwhelm any US defenses.
    🔻 Chris: Yep, saturation of drones would be another big problem for the US Navy. Another may be the undersea drones.

    Yet another is that the US would face massive amounts of enemy naval mines.

    The big issue is that China/Russia have a huge industrial base and increasingly, better tech.
    🔻 Spaceman 🇺🇲: What nobody is talking about is how Ukraine (by extension, the West) is basically paying for China’s drone development program and setting up production lines.

    Although I’d wager the Russians have the best drone force on the planet.
    cont thread:
    🧵 How to Lose A Carrier Strike Group in An Afternoon
    🔻 Suresh Nirody: If it got to the point that China decides to blockade Taiwan, how come no discussion of the use of mines? Massive mining would certainly impede/prevent a US carrier strike group challenging the blockade. US MCM resources low, and the Chinese would not just sit back while they were deployed!
    🔻 WS: 🤦‍♂️ How many mines can a minelayer lay until it’s sunk to the bottom of the sea?

    Like I always say, it’s all fun and games until the other guy shoots back.
    🔻 Suresh Nirody: Uh, I was talking about 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 mines if they choose to blockade Taiwan
    🔻 WS: Sorry. I’m dealing with two conversations on mine laying in this thread.

    In any case, I don’t believe China would mine its own waters. It can easily secure the Taiwan Strait without cluttering it up with mines.
    ⭕ Notwithstanding the mounting humiliations of the past three+ years, the imbeciles in Washington still continue to believe they can bluster their way out of the empire’s terminal decline.
    🧵 Open Defiance
    ⭕ Yes. Precisely this.

    I have long asserted that, when the final tallies are made, this war will attest the most disproportionate casualty ratio of any major war in modern history.
    links:
    🔻 Armchair Warlord: The Telegraph recently published an article about Russian “triple chokehold” tactics in Ukraine.

    It’s nonsensical propaganda. Let’s examine it.⬇️

    Essentially the Telegraph’s claim – lifted from British think-tanks who in turn got it via “reports” from the Ukrainians (read: propaganda fed to gullible suckers) – is that Russians have begun attacking using a three-step process. Step 1 is allegedly to send in ground troops to fix Ukrainian troops in position and force them to entrench, Step 2 is to deploy artillery and drones to further pin them down, and then Step 3 is to finally kill them with glide bombs. So the argument goes, this has allowed the Russians to start making ground despite the best efforts of the Ukrainian Army.

    It’s also complete nonsense and likely a literal inversion of what is happening on the battlefield. The key thing to focus on here is the first step, which the Telegraph describes as unceasing assaults with “huge numbers of people” that are “exhausting” for Ukrainian soldiers – and, according to them, conducted prior to any preparatory fires! This simply is not happening. There is literally no evidence for it and there never has been during the entire course of the war.

    What this claim seeks to explain instead is how the Ukrainians can supposedly be inflicting enormous casualties on the Russians while simultaneously losing “some” ground. If the Russians are just throwing men at them to pave the way for more technical means of destruction – rather than the opposite, as has held true for every army in the history of war – it credentials their propaganda about Russian casualties.

    What’s actually happening in Ukraine is that the omnipresent threat of Russian artillery targeted by surveillance drones forces the AFU to dig in all along the front, kill drones can force enemy infantry entirely underground during assaults and thus suppress positions even moreso than would be possible with conventional weapons, and the Russian infantry storms in and mops up only once positions have been heavily “processed” by those systems as well as direct fire from combat vehicles. This minimizes Russian casualties and maximizes Ukrainian ones. It also makes for a rather ponderous advance as they slowly pick apart those positions and likely seek to maximize Ukrainian troops killed and equipment destroyed even at the expense of territorial gains.

    Meanwhile glide bombs actually don’t seem to be used much on front-line trenches any more and instead find their main use bringing down heavy fortified structures at the tactical level and for “operational-level” strikes agains Ukrainian rear areas. This of course makes logical sense, bombing is a very poor means by which to destroy field works. To provide an example, it took B-52 runs to start doing serious damage to the North Vietnamese trenches around Khe Sanh in 1968.

    Remember – much of the conventional narrative of this war, which is in the process of being created by a credentialed media that is an arm of the Davos Regime propaganda apparatus in a vile collaboration with Ukrainian and pro-Ukrainian shills, liars, and grifters, is simply going to be wrong. And this isn’t some novel claim for me to be making, much of the history of the Eastern Front of WWII as told in the west is Nazi bullshit, to say nothing of historical deficiencies in many other wars. If you think narratives about even granular combat action can’t be spun out of thin air to support sophisticated propaganda talking points… you’re wrong.
    ⭕ 🔥 Welcome to the New World of Warfare

    Russia cranks out these Geran loitering drones at a rate of several hundred per day.

    No doubt China can produce equivalent or superior systems by the 1000s per day.

    Imagine 1000+ diving on a carrier strike group in the South China Sea. |media|
    🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: You underestimate. Imagine 10k’s or multiples of 10k’s … imagine the sun blocked by a swarm… this is terrifying. People need to get real & think hard about what’s needed to achieve a modus vivendi before it’s too late.
    [he posts the leading horrifying image, the modern equivalent of ancient Persian arrow storms blotting out the very sun]
    🔻 Mark Marksson: But…but…targetting problems…laser emp superweapons….secret AI EW technology…Russia/China collapse…

    Just one more push & the Evil Empires will collapse. Just let the liberal/neocon interventionists have one more policy & victory will be “ours”.
    cont. thread:
    ⚓️ The HMS Prince of Pretense Sallies Forth

    With a flourish of strained affectation, the Prince of Pretense has taken up station inside the same constrained parameters where the Trembling Puppy lately sailed.

    It may pass the Bab-el-Mandeb — but only if the Yemeni say so.
    🔻 Xaddict: Gone live testing its CIWS?
    🔻 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿j_kane🇵🇸: HMS Paedophile.
    🔻 Brian Stark: I’m not sure how I should react to Prince of Pretense. Should I be “Repulsed” by it. Probably not, as the metaphor is spot on

    For those not well read on WW2, the reference is to the battleship “Prince of Wales” which was sunk by Jap aircraft days after Pearl Harbor. One ….
    ⭕🔻 Logan Hall: Vance is so good: “The American Space Program, the first program to put a human being on the moon, was built by American citizens. This idea that American citizens don’t have the talent to do great things, that you have to import a foreign class of servants, I just reject that.” |media|
    🔻 WS: 🤔 I perceive a fallacy in Vance’s logic: the notion that high achievement is intrinsic and spans the generations.

    History attests those things are typically a product of transitory social and national culture.

    American culture is radically altered in 2025 compared to 1945.
    🔻 JamesKaneInFlorida: It is but not everywhere It depends on where you go. Some places thing are so different they are strange. Others the kids are alright
    🔻 WS: I acknowledge there are places where the spiritual and cultural corruption is not nearly as advanced.
    🔻 Boston Smalls: Hey vance. Tell us more about these German scientist from ww2
    [and Uncle Stanley’s stellar camera work]
    🔻 bone: We have the best citizens |media| |ode|
    ⭕ 🌮 The TACO Trap

    So the “TACO” moniker (“Trump Always Chickens Out”) is gaining traction — and POTUS is infuriated by it.

    Of course, it’s a trap. And in order to prove his “toughness”, he will eventually be persuaded to do something exceedingly ill-advised.
    🔻 James Jos. Kroeger: Indeed, the split that has developed within Trump’s Zionist White House can be traced to sober Pentagon briefings (thanks, Tulsi) that have revealed to Trump et al. that an all-out US-Iran war is off the table; it promises only defeat and humiliation for the US & possibly the end of Israel…
    🔻 Ikkyu Sojun: Trump’s loudmouth antics, spewing unhinged claims like a human slot machine, are a self-inflicted wound, digging his own grave with every reckless outburst.

    The X post about a “fast deal” saving China from collapse followed by accusing them of violating it, is peak lunacy Trump:

    Zero evidence, maximum noise.

    He’s a walking caricature, vomiting contradictions that make his own problems worse.

    Like the Empty bluster about he’d end the Ukraine war in 24 hours.

    His tariffs, jacked up to 145% tanked trade, spiked prices, and cost households $1,200 a year.

    Yet he doubles down, crying:

    China’s cheating!

    Without proof he’s alienating allies and inviting retaliation.

    A man so obsessed with sounding tough he buries himself in chaos, oblivious to the wreckage.

    Self-owning lunacy.
    🔻 blindpig/1966: Hmmm 🤔 What could it be? Lol 😆 Try n make himself look tough, is the natural response for an EGO like his. It’ll be a military 🎖️🪖 response. Iran most likely. Trump doesn’t dare fuk with Russia or China. I hope he’s aware of Irans defense treaties with Russia and China.
    ⭕ 🤦‍♂️ Idiocy on Parade

    Based on their traumatic experience battling antiquated 125 km/h Yemeni drones, the USAF is now preparing for Iran by arming its fighters with more 70mm rockets.

    Hunting high-performance Iranian drone salvos with fighter jets is a ridiculous proposition.
    links:
    🔻 Tyler Rogoway: “F-15E Armed With Drone Killing Laser-Guided Rockets Appears In Middle East

    With 42 rockets and eight missiles, an F-15E now has 50 air-to-air engagement opportunities, not including its gun.” |story|
    🔻 Diving_TBD: Cost per flight hour of the F15 is $33,177 with an unknown cost per missile. I am sure it could be done cheaper. Dropping a $500 drone with a $100k mission and even more per missile does not make a lot of sense.
    🔻 Gun Barons: Drone warfare defence? Interesting in the face of drone swarms.
    🔻 Roxy’s Dad too: Wish you didn’t mention the gun. 5 seconds of gun against a target(s) with a 15-20 wingspan, moving at 100 knots. Sure, use the gun as a last resort but don’t think that it’s going to matter in the long run.
    ⭕🔻 Sputnik: 🚨🇷🇺🪖WHY IS KALASHNIKOV’S RPL-20 A GAME-CHANGER FOR RUSSIAN TROOPS IN UKRAINE?

    This first-ever belt-fed machine gun flips the script on Western-supplied arms in the Ukraine conflict zone – here’s how: |THREAD|
    🔻 Armchair Warlord: Russia’s conclusion from the real war they’ve been fighting is they need a squad automatic weapon for their infantry that’s in the same weight class as the battle rifles we’ve recently started issuing to our own because inFAnTRy haLF kiLoMETER.

    Make of that what you will.
    🔻 Armchair Warlord: Rather interesting in that the Russians have essentially taken the same approach to small arms design as we did after Vietnam and are now looking at a belt-fed SAW after a long time using a combination of GPMGs and mag-fed “heavy rifles.”
    🔻 WS: Just to put things in perspective (L to R) 5.56, 5.45, 7.62: |media|
    retweet:
    🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: Back to the Future: The Post-Dollar World Is Taking Shape.

    My latest |link|

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    💠@Sputnik Africa:
    ⭕ ❗️The Russian army has liberated the settlements of Vodolagi in the Sumy region and Novopol in the DPR, the Russian MoD reports
    ⭕ Trump announced a 50% hike in steel and aluminum tariffs by next Wednesday;
    [this will massively affect “partners” such as Canada, India, Turkey…]

    💠@ejmalrai:
    Netanyahu is in search of war: With a (temporary) ceasefire in Gaza; the US blocking any war with Iran, and after Israel targeted the last viable Yemeni civilian aircraft, it seems Israel is running out of targets.

    Which front remains next?

    To stay in power BN needs an arena. Given potential C-F in Gaza he may seek action in Leb. Hezb is reorgnised & prepred but must use caution. As the largest group with Amal in the Parliament there are those in the US/KSA bloc who resent them. IL occupies 5 high peaks. Keeps watch |link|
    ⭕ A few hours ago, Israel targeted three locations in Syria housing surface-to-surface missiles. Interestingly, media outlets aligned with the new Syrian leadership claimed these warehouses were linked to the “previous Assad regime.”
    Given the purportedly positive relations between Syria and Israel, perhaps it would be more efficient for Syria to simply disarm itself and hand over all leftover weapons from the former regime to Israel. This could minimise destruction and make the use of bombs unnecessary. (This is sarcasm.)

    💠@BhadraPunchline:
    ⭕ 🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: Trump has a well earned protagonist’s syndrome, because he’s been the singular driving figure of American politics for the last decade, but it really hurts his ability to understand Russia. He can’t understand that Russian actions in Ukraine have literally nothing to do with him.
    🔻 MKB: Absolutely. There are still gaps in Trump’s cognitive power. But benefit of doubt may be called for. Trump knows by now that Russian offensive is accelerating and broadening in scope way beyond Donbass; some grandstanding (being a humanist himself!) becomes necessary, hey?
    ⭕ 🔻 Dmitry Medvedev:
    If military aid to the Banderite regime continues, the buffer zone could look like this: |media|
    🔻 MKB: Cat is out of the bag. An apocalyptic scenario – ‘blank and pitiless as the sun’! Residual ‘neo-Nazism’ will be left to Poland to tackle mercilessly! Hungary, Romania should stand down – nothing left of carcass to pick. Time running out for West to evict neo-Nazi regime in Kiev!
    ⭕🔻 Chay Bowes:
    The US President didn’t know Ukraine had launched over a thousand attack Drones into Russia in the last 7 days?

    The US President didn’t know that it was the Antonov factory where those drones were produced that the Russians destroyed in Kiev?

    The US President didn’t know Vladimir Putins aircraft was threatened during this assault?

    The US President needs new advisors on Ukraine. Fast.
    🔻 MKB: Shocking that Trump didn’t even know Ukrainians tried to shoot down the helicopter in which Putin was travelling! What’s going on – in DC? Deep State back in driving seat? History repeating!
    retweet:
    JUST IN: 🇷🇺🇩🇪 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says “Germany is going down the same path that once led it to ruin.”
    ⭕ 🔻 Sputnik:
    🚨🇷🇺💥IF THEY STRIKE WITH TAURUS — RUSSIA’S NEXT TARGET WILL BE 🇩🇪GERMAN MILITARY FACILITY: EXPERT

    Russia’s task is to “retaliate with 2 Oreshnik complexes, says military analyst Igor Korotchenko. |THREAD|
    🔻 MKB: This is becoming deadly serious. For German chancellor Friedrich Merz, this may be revenge at a personal level, whose father had served in the Nazi war machine, but Russia is certain to retaliate. Where will Trump stand if Article V of NATO Charter is invoked? World War III?
    retweet:
    Putin isn’t stupid,he knows that every time Western long-range missiles hit Russian soil, it’s not Ukrainians behind the controls, it’s NATO personnel pulling the trigger.
    That makes places like Wiesbaden, where these attacks are coordinated and executed, legitimate military targets.
    Germany might think it’s playing puppet master from a safe distance, but it’s painting a bullseye on its own cities…. |link|
    [the linked video is older, of when VVP was in St. Petersburg earlier in the year..]
    retweet:
    🔻 Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil: Lavrov Responds to Merz’s Threat of Long-Range Missile Strikes Against Russia

    The incompetence of Europe’s current leadership |link|
    retweet:
    🔻 Habibullah Khan: China’s message delivered subtly yet loudly. Water is not a two party debate. If India blocks Pakistan’s water China will block India’s. Iron friend indeed 🇨🇳🇵🇰 |link|
    [wow! China is taking the gloves off. If you’ve followed Pravin Sawhney’s shocking videos above, he’s not hiding his fear either]

    💠 @PressTV:
    ⭕ Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei [on Monday, May 26]:

    • Some Europeans taking unconstructive approach in negotiations.
    • Iran not after buying time in negotiations.
    • Israeli use of civilians as human shields is a horrible crime.
    • IAEA Chief Grossi’s deputy will visit Iran this week.
    • We will stay in indirect negotiations with US as much as necessary.
    • Enrichment is inseparable element of Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.
    • There has to be no flexibility on Iran’s enrichment right, opposite side should consider our bold red line.
    • If aim is to deprive Iran of its inalienable right under NPT we think this process of talks will go nowhere.
    • Zionist regime seeks to annihilate Palestine as a nation.
    • Zionist regime’s use of starvation as weapon of war a war crime, source of shame.

    💠@Middle East Spectator:
    The United Kingdom, France, and Germany are pressuring the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to declare Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations at the next IAEA quarterly meeting. – Reuters
    ⭕ ❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇳/☢️ NEW: Iran’s stockpile of 60% enriched uranium has been increased to 408 kilograms, enough for up to 24 small-yield nuclear bombs – IAEA
    ⭕ ❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇳/☢️ Laurence Norman, nuclear weapons specialist for the Wall Street Journal:

    ‘To sum up the comprehensive report on Iran’s nuclear weapons and the latest quarterly report on Iran’s nuclear program, it would be pretty simple: it couldn’t be worse.

    The pace of Iran’s accumulation of highly enriched uranium is at least 1 nuclear weapon amount of fuel per month: 133.8 kg of uranium between February 8th – May 16th.

    There is no sign that Iran has modified its HEU production since nuclear talks with the U.S. started on April 12th.

    As for ‘safeguards’: Absolutely no hint of progress on any of the issues. The IAEA concludes that that Iran retains large amounts of undeclared nuclear material and nuclear-related activities at three undeclared locations: Lavisan-Shian, Varamin and Turquzabad, considered a ‘high risk’.
    ⭕ ❗️🇮🇷/🇪🇺/☢️ BREAKING: Iran has informed Europe that if it activates the ‘snapback’ mechanism of the JCPOA to reimpose sanctions, all equations will change and Iran’s attitude towards its nuclear program would ‘completely transform’
    ⭕ ❗️🇮🇷/☢️ NEW: Iran has vastly accelerated its 60% uranium production, from 30kg per month to 45kg per month — a 50% increase
    ⭕ Who’s under pressure to make a deal, Iran or America?

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    💠@Middle East Spectator:
    ⭕ Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani, one of the founding members of Al-Nusra Front, the official Syrian offshoot of Al-Qaeda, watches as the American flag is raised in Damascus outside the U.S. ambassador’s residence.
    ⭕ Israeli airstrikes target military sites in Tartus and Latakia, western Syria.
    ⭕ WATCH: President Trump discusses the possibility of pardoning Sean Combs, better known as Diddy. |media|
    [see leading animation for the predictive programming. It’s a filthy Big Club]

    💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
    ⭕ The United States will not relinquish its role as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander when it appoints the next top US general for Europe.

    Trump himself communicated this decision to NATO Secretary General Rutte.
    [it’s coming. But too soon an admission at the incendiary inflexion point. Too many additional portions of crow]
    The U.S. Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke the temporary protected status of 500,000 migrants.
    [and as Mr P said about the struggle underway, the Imperial Executive will hold sway over the lesser courts, and keep their tariffs, and whichever other measure they deem fit for the expediency of the hour, damned be the legalities]
    ⭕ US Defense Secretary Hegseth has ordered the dismantling of a Pentagon office supposed to oversee testing of the Golden Dome system.
    Source: CNN
    [the Final Grift and Looting is on. To be in the dark like Orange Mushrooms, and Rummy’s Pentagon accounting office after 911]

    💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
    ⭕ 🇾🇪 The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Yemeni Security, President Mahdi Al-Mashat, stated: “We have directed the identification of the routes used by the Israeli enemy to attack our country as hazardous areas for all companies.”

    Friday, 3 Dhul-Hijjah 1446 AH

    His Excellency Marshal Mahdi Al-Mashat, President of the Supreme Political Council, confirmed that the armed forces will be able to deal with hostile Israeli aircraft without causing any harm to air and maritime navigation.

    In an official statement, the President disclosed that good news will soon come regarding the Israeli aircraft used in the aggression against Yemen.

    He said, “You will soon receive good news, God willing, about the Israeli aircraft used in the aggression against our country; our armed forces, represented by our air defenses, will make the pride of the enemy’s aircraft a source of ridicule in the coming days.”

    He added, “For the safety of air and maritime navigation in the operational areas of our armed forces, we have directed the identification of the routes used by the Israeli enemy to attack our country as hazardous areas for all companies.”

    President Al-Mashat emphasized that, for the safety of companies, they should avoid navigation along the routes that the Israeli entity uses to attack Yemen.
    [See the leading video on the counter-militarization of the Red Sea, by GS friend Eritrea. There are only a limited corridor available to the Anglo-Zionists right down the Red Sea – on the western flank is petrified KSA that does not want to get drawn in; on the eastern flank is Egypt, and the risky war zone of Sudan. not to mention now hostile Eritrea. So just like the floating aircraft tombs, they’re funneled into the fish barrel …. and those warjets ALWAYS need refuelers, the easiest targets of all. Decisions, decisions, decisions… ]

    💠@Sputnik Africa:
    ⭕ Zelensky Wants Ukrainian Conflict to Continue Due to Fear of Losing Power, Russia’s UN Envoy Says

    “If this happens, he’ll have to hold elections and answer before his electorate for what he turned Ukraine into over the last six years,” Vassily Nebenzia stated at the UNSC.

    Key statements by Nebenzia:

    • Another reason for why the conflict is still dragging on is European warmongers, who are trying to keep Washington stuck in the conflict;
    • Russia will “consider all options” to respond “properly” if Germany supplies its Taurus missiles to Ukraine;
    • Merz’s maneuvering is not “fooling anyone.” Germany may be drawn into the conflict if its policy remains the same;
    • Russian troops are able to continue combat operations in Ukraine as long as necessary;
    • Russia is ready “in principle” to agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine, but it also wants Kiev to take steps in this direction;
    • It is fundamentally important for Russia to permanently resolve the root causes of the conflict.
    • [this was the open session of the awaited UNSC demarche yesterday]

    ‘Merz is War Criminal’ Responsible for Sabotaging Peace, Retired French Officer Says

    The German chancellor’s decision on long-range weapons leads to escalation at the very moment, when the peace talks are on the table, former officer of the French army Jacques Hogard told Sputnik Africa.

    “He is determined to prolong this conflict for interests that are purely mercantile,” he emphasized.

    While praising Putin’s “restraint, prudence, and moderation,” the speaker warned that Russia could respond in a “proportional, but terrible” manner. |media|
    African Countries Expect to Increase Grain Purchases From Russia

    🇷🇺🌾 As Africa’s grain consumption outpaces its production, the continent is increasingly looking to Russia to meet rising demand. In 2024, African countries imported approximately 71 million tonnes of grain, with a growing share coming from Russia.

    Gerald Masila, Executive Director of the Eastern African Grain Council, emphasized at the All-Russian Grain Forum that long-term trade, fertilizer supplies, tech assistance, and port modernization could deepen cooperation.

    Currently, Russian wheat supplies one-third of Africa’s grain market, reaching 40 countries. Exports have surged by a third over six seasons, with notable growth in Algeria, Kenya, and Tunisia.

    🌊 The Black Sea corridor and strategic partnerships could further strengthen this vital trade link, Masila added in an interview with Russian media.
    Algeria Unveils Its Russian-Made S-400 Triumf Air Defense Systems

    A video showcasing the weapons in action during a test has been released online by the Algerian Defense Ministry.

    ☝🏽 Algeria is the fourth foreign state to possess this equipment, which recently entered service.

    The S-400 is capable of:

    • detecting targets at a distance of up to 600 km,
    • shooting down aircraft and missiles at a distance of 380 kilometers. |media|

    💠 @Intel Slava Z:
    ⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺Trump said he does not know whether he will support a bill on new sanctions against Russia.

    He was asked about the document prepared by Senator Lindsey Graham, which implies a 500% tariff against countries trading with Russia.

    “I don’t know. I’ll have to see it. We’ll look into it,” the American president said.

    Let us recall that yesterday the authors of the bill, Senators Graham and Blumenthal, arrived in Kiev and promised to begin promoting their document in the US Senate next week.

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    “Patrik Baab on Germany’s downfall and Merz 14 minutes…Baab speaks of the road to Hell for Europe…”

    very nice. lucid and succinct man. Describes the Con, the medium, the targets, and the likely outcome.. Alas, such competence in leadership is verboten in this sad age.

    I forget the clinical and psychiatric terms for the lucidity and clarity that comes near the end of a life, or cycle, even among the infirmity and general dissolution.
    From the spiritual angle, it could be said to be a divine favor – a Good Warner sent to repent and face the Truth at the end, or forever keep peace with what comes; also to warn those who were asleep and can still heed the warner – to flee the Götterdämmerung that arrived.
    Eventually, always, the music stops, for each of us ….

    His eloquence is fleshed out as well as in this short observation I posted on the other thread yesterday, which describes their acute desperation, and why willing to gamble all, and likely lose all:

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    Today May 30th was Russian scheduled UNSC session over the NATO expansion of war in Europe, in light of fateful steps the Anglo-Germans are about to take with the Tauruses. Would love to be a fly on that wall .. and how apt it is, the last wunderwaffen to trigger the fateful escalation of Armageddon is named after the bestial shape of Moloch in the ancient Levant / Holy Land?

    💠 “Berlin’s approval of Ukrainian strikes deep into Russia could result in Moscow removing its own constraints, Sergey Shoigu has said”

    💠@Alon Mizrahi:
    ⭕ You ain’t seen nothing yet
    in response to:
    🔻 Ryan Grim: “What I’m hearing from medical professionals is that Trump’s student visa pause is also hitting J-1s — which means the kinds of doctors who staff up many rural and VA hospitals but also urban ones.

    We already face shortages which can be deadly. All this for Israel?”
    🔻 Prof Zenkus: Yes – who guarantees healthcare to all of its citizens.
    🔻 Still All Good: Everything for Israel. All day. Every day.
    🔻 The Accountant: Will Canadians be treated the same way?
    [aren’t they part of the Garden?]
    🔻 under fire: Ryan Grim is possessed.
    [LOL. By the Truth? At least he doesn’t have sanpaku eyes like the new Reichkanzler]
    🔻 Tom Vee: Clearly, Trump is ‘israel’ first, and not America first.

    It seems like the MAGA world is starting to notice
    🔻 EASTERN srcs: Paying or supplying 70% of Israhell’s genocide weapons since October 7 isn’t enough. ‘Merica must be ruined, too (take away free speech, ban clever minds from studying, cancel doctors, disconnect from the rest of the world l, so on) for Israhell’s right to kill children.
    ⭕ Arik Glasner, a famous, leading, award-winning Israeli literature critic, academic and researcher: ‘to judge what’s happening in Gaza, we need to refuse to look at images coming out of there’ (because the visual medium focuses on the present, while we need to be intellectually strong and remember the past)
    If Trump wanted to stop the genocide, it would have stopped months ago. If he wanted a ceasefire in Ukraine, it would have happened already. If he wanted a détente with Iran, it would have been established by now.

    The early days of his presidency are gone, and with them any illusion of swift change (except for the worse, domestically). The one positive aspect that remains about him is his erratic style and bizarre notions about projecting strength, which is enough to tip the balance in favor of a new emerging geopolitical order. Brute, whimsical American power is just what the world needs to extricate itself from its gravitational field, and it’s already happening
    retweet:
    🔻 Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي: The bombs on Gaza tonight are so brutal we are feeling their reverberations across the West Bank.

    This is a bloodbath by Israel
    ⭕ That’s a fascinating interview. And this is one of the reasons I don’t think Israel or the US will rush to use nukes against Iran: they don’t know how long it will take Iran to produce them. It could be days.
    Given Israel’s size, the vulnerability and density of American cities, and Iran’s hypersonic capabilities, using atomic weapons against Iran could open the Zionist alliance to retaliatory nuclear strikes
    links:
    🔻 SilencedSirs: 🚨Iran’s nuclear official Fereydoon Abbasi
    “Iran can produce a compact device capable of destroying an entire military base without it being classified as a WMD.

    The Zionists have a chance to leave now—those who stay will be eliminated.” |media|
    There’s nothing more America First than family-friendly kosher dildos in Poland
    links:
    🔻 Grim: A rabbi who runs a dildo sex shop with his daughter is now the face of the conservative movement. 💀🤣
    🔻 coon: You actually can’t make this shit up
    ⭕ People who teach their children to behave like that get the protection, devotion, love, money, and undying loyalty of an entire civilization. What garbage. They think skyscrapers and advanced computers and weapons are the mark of being ‘advanced’.

    There is only one trait of an advanced society: it says no to collective evil. All the rest is meaningless matter |media|
    ‘Israeli’ society, by the way, embraced collective, deranged evil, and no force can save it from itself
    ⭕ This is on you, Canadian, Australian, British, Italian, German, and French governments, and so many others.

    You have watched Israel doing this for months and decades, your intelligence briefings reveal to you a lot more, yet you continue to provide Israel with absolute immunity. Shame on you. You are a disgrace to your people and humanity

    We are sick of you

    ⭕ 🔻 The Cradle: Israeli police arrested Sanaa Salama, the widow of the late Palestinian intellectual and prisoner Walid Daqqa, while she was with her daughter Milad in Jerusalem after Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir demanded her deportation.

    According to the Prisoners’ Media Office, Sanaa was transferred to an interrogation center.

    The Israeli police confirmed the arrest in a statement, claiming she was being investigated for allegedly posting content that “incites against the state and its soldiers.”
    [I shared last year media of this decades-long political prisoner, who miraculously conceived this child through sperm smuggled outside the gulag. He never saw her in person. He was then murdered shortly after in the gulag, during the purges of last months |brief|]
    🔻 AM: What does Israel need to do for humanity to finally acknowledge its terminal sickness?
    ⭕ 🔻 Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده: Tears from Gaza… What is Israel doing to Palestinian civilians? |media|
    🔻 AM: Humanity has failed you. It would not stop the sick Judeo-Christian monsters
    A normal movement with normal people would have been at least somewhat ashamed and regretful by now. But Zionists still attack the media, the international community, the UN – everybody. Complete shamelessness in the face of a constant stream of irrefutable evidence of the most horrific war crimes ever caught on tape in the history of humanity.

    The shamelessness tells of a deeply flawed psychological makeup. This is not only about the overwhelming depravity and cruel, sadistic nature of the crimes themselves; it is also about a collective sociopathy and a genuine inability to feel, think, and speak like normal human beings.

    Zionism is a movement of unhealthy and profoundly disturbed people
    They really do feel that they are righteous and in the right and victims – even as they feel they must kill all Palestinians, which they both deny and commit at the same time, with full mental dedication to both ends of the derangement. I don’t think humanity has ever seen anything like this |media|

    💠@ejmalrai:
    ⭕ In just three years, Qatar plans to supply Syria—spanning 180,000 sqkm—with round-the-clock electricity, aligning its energy infrastructure with that of neighboring countries to facilitate energy exports.
    Meanwhile, Lebanon, a country over 10,000 sqkm in size, continues to grapple with chronic energy shortages, experiencing power outages that often last more than 12 hours a day even after four decades of efforts.
    ⭕ Very dangerous:

    The US is conflating criticism of Israel with criticism of a religion, which is a profound dangerous misrepresentation. It reflects a high level of ignorance and authoritarianism taking root in the US.

    It begins with violating the First Amendment rights of non-US citizens to eventually extend to US citizens themselves, undermining fundamental freedoms and open discourse. This approach risks fueling intolerance and silencing legitimate political criticism under the guise of protecting religious identities.
    links:
    🔻 Megatron: Marco Rubio officially announced that anyone who dares to criticize Israel will NOT be granted a visa to enter the United States.

    Btw this doesn’t apply if you criticise the US itself. |media|
    retweet:
    🔻 Sky News: ‘I think now we’ve gotten to the point where it’s unequivocal’

    While talking to @SkyYaldaHakim, Martin Griffiths, former under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief, accuses Israel of carrying out a genocide against Gaza.

    A claim Israel denies. |media|
    UNRWA has thousands of trucks stationed in Jordan, 3 hours from Gaza, capable of feeding approximately 200,000 people for an entire month. However, Israel continues to block their entry, effectively weaponising food supplies that are meant to sustain the Palestinian population. This deliberate obstruction adds a grave dimension to the ongoing humanitarian crisis, turning essential resources into an unlawful tools of pressure and control.

    For over a century, Palestinians have endured a relentless cycle of violations and crimes against humanity and war crimes, dating back to 1920. Their suffering, marked by displacement, violence, hunger, genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and systematic oppression, persists to this day, reflecting decades of unresolved injustice and ongoing human rights abuses.

    Why don’t we trust Steve Witkoff’s plan and Trump’s guarantee of a ceasefire in Gaza? 


    I agree. The Anglo-Zionists use these “negotiations” and “ceasefires” to increase the pressure and pain of the Palestinians and humanity at large, as well as to get breathers for themselves, from global opprobrium and Yemeni punishment. They should be denied them, under current arrangements, especially “guaranteed” by the faithless Yanquis


    Are some starting to whine, like our little coked-up Pianoman, about the arms?? Do they not realize, the armory’s nigh bare?? All this talk of “stopping arms” masks demilitarization, not unwillingness to continue the customary ritual bloodletting of continents.

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 19 May 2025 #58607
    AHH
    Blocked

    💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
    “100%” of Gazans at risk of starvation, says UN spokesman
    ⭕ During a visit to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, Defense Minister Israel Katz criticized Macron for declaring that recognizing a Palestinian state was a “moral duty.”

    The minister praised the government’s decision to build 22 new settlements in occupied Palestine, saying it sent a “clear message to Macron and his friends.”

    “They will recognize a Palestinian state on paper, and we will build the Jewish-Israeli state on the ground. The paper will be consigned to the dustbin of history, and the State of Israel will prosper,” Katz said.

    💠@Fotros Resistance:
    ⭕ Israeli terrorist settlers continue to attack trucks carrying aid to Gaza

    These terrorists closed the road at the Karem Abu Salem crossing, and are not allowing these aid trucks to enter Gaza City.

    And the Israeli regime lets it happen, because well, they are from the same egg. |media|

    💠 @Sputnik Africa:
    No Mediators Are Planned for Russian-Ukrainian Negotiations in Istanbul, Foreign Ministry Says

    Key statements from the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova on the upcoming talks:

    • The Russian delegation will arrive in Istanbul on June 2 with a draft memorandum and other proposals for a ceasefire;
    • Russia noted Kellogg’s remarks about the visit to Istanbul on June 2 by official representatives from the US, the UK, Germany, and France;
    • Russia does not see a connection between its direct negotiations with Ukraine and the presence of representatives from the US, the UK, Germany, and France in Istanbul.
      [LOL. What a delicious turn of events. Now the Yanquis are told they’re irrelevant and to wait outside the rooms with the High Table, along with the other redundant chihuahuas!]

    ⭕ ❗️ Moscow is ready to continue and increase combat operations in Ukraine “as long as necessary,” Russia’s UN envoy says
    [Oh! A doublefecta – a riposte to the demented, “As long as it takes”]
    ⭕ ❗️Russia is ready to consider a ceasefire, but for its duration, Western countries must stop supplying arms to Kiev and Ukraine must stop mobilizing, Russia’s UN envoy says
    [Now we can all appreciate the weight of their words, and who is being dictated to]

    💠 @Middle East Spectator:
    ⭕ Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam explicitly states that he wants to see normalization with Israel. |media|
    [In case you still pine for the ICJ, and consider the IMF which just issued another lifeline to 404 an aberration, this was the dude moved poste haste from stonewalling Genocide as the last ICJ “chief justice” into the puppet seat of the Lebanese government. It’s a hopeless Big Club]

    💠@imetatronink:
    ⭕ ⚓️ The HMS Prince of Pretense Sallies Forth

    With a flourish of strained affectation, the Prince of Pretense has taken up station inside the same constrained parameters where the Trembling Puppy lately sailed.

    It may pass the Bab-el-Mandeb — but only if the Yemeni say so.
    🔻 Chris: It will be interesting to see if Ansar Allah fires at this ship.

    The UK is even less powerful than the US and the Royal Navy was not in a good state even before this crisis.
    [it is almost certain they will be fired on. That floating coffin put itself where it did in order to intercept projectiles headed to Zion. There is no separate cease fire with the Limeys, who recently cowardly terror-bombed Yemen alongside the Yanquis]
    ⭕🔻 The Market Ear:
    A $142B arms deal. A $500B fantasy city. Meanwhile, Brent crude hovers at $60—far below break-even. Is Vision 2030 turning into Version Never and will the Saudi check to Trump eventually bounce? |link|
    🔻 WS: reposts his older, “🤔 Sheik Promises

    So … the oil sheiks allegedly made a trillion+ dollar investment pledge to the Americans.

    People are silly if they believe even a tenth of it will be realized.

    It was nothing more than a market manipulation gambit; a stock pump; a political machination.”
    reposts his older,
    “🤡🌎 Trump is more easily manipulated by feigned flattery than any POTUS in history.

    The sheiks played him like a fiddle.

    As for “healing the world” … oh, my! 🤦‍♂️

    I believe it very likely Trump will clumsily bumble the US into its most humiliating military defeat ever.”
    ⭕🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺:
    David Brooks wrote a column in the New York Times this morning in which he described himself as “pushed over the edge” by Patrick Deenan suggesting that soldiers in combat are more often motivated by duty and loyalty toward the other men in their unit than by abstract ideals
    🔻 WS: I suspect even “duty and loyalty” become “abstract ideals” when your squad is being shredded by a swarm of FPVs.
    ⭕ 🔥 No Escape

    In most of the fiber-optic FPV drone video we see anymore, targeted vehicles are driving hell-bent for leather as swarms of drones converge on them.

    They don’t escape very often.

    What a war this has become. |link|
    🔻 Chamberlain’s Ghost: As Leonid Ragozin has pointed out, the Russians are using drone strikes on vehicles as much as 30km behind the front lines. As you, what a war it has become.
    🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: Drones have certainly changed the battlefield, but the mistake those in the West have made is thinking they are the wunderwaffe they have been praying for. Unfortunately the Russians are winning there too.
    ⭕🔻 Chad Scott:
    The US would defeat China in 6 months. |link|
    🔻 T: Bro, we couldn’t even beat the Houthis.
    🔻 Chad Scott: We aren’t really trying
    🔻 Godfree Roberts: Chad, we have about 54 combat-capable warships whose average age is 20 years and whose sensor suites and missiles are a generation behind China’s.
    China has 118 combat-capable warships whose average age is 11 years and whose sensor suites and missiles are a generation ahead of ours.
    To add to our woes, their crews are much fitter, have 3-5 years more math than ours, and keen to fight for their country. |link|
    🔻 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐙 🇷🇺 🇷🇺: 1 word > HOUTHIS !!! |link|
    🔻 Euan Udzero: Parallel Universe stuff here.
    🔻 Martin L. Zinn: What a load of nonsense, China has hypersonic missiles that would sink American warships, the same navy that spent a billion dollars against Yemen which has no air force and it lost 3 F18’s and fled. Also ignore the fact the whole world needs China to trade. Delusional.
    🔻 Tony Munene: Yeah rightttt, couldn’t beat the Houthis, taliban, hezbollah, Hamas, Russians in Ukraine. But somehow you can beat China in its backyard, you can’t even repair 1/10th of your fleet during peacetime and you lack surge capacity. Be realistic, the USA hegemony moment is over
    🔻 Vlad: Does your wife’s boyfriend know that you post videos without his approval?
    🔻 Owen Poggenpoel: Delusion, is strong in this one.
    🔻 WS: The US still cannot put to sea more than about 60 surface warships at any given time.

    SIXTY.

    A blockade is an act of war. The Chinese would shoot back. They would destroy many US capital ships within days. Trade would be negligibly impeded. US weakness would be forever exposed.
    🧵 How to Lose A Carrier Strike Group in An Afternoon
    🔻 WS: Anyone who makes this blockade argument is simply exposing themselves as a woefully ill-informed analyst of these matters. Simply put, they have no idea what they’re talking about.
    🔻 Doug Ford Respecter 40K 🇨🇦🚀🇰🇵: Yes. I’ve only ever heard the blockade canard from civilians, who have this idea that blockades are easy and *of course* the Navy could do it if they wanted to, I mean they’ve got plans for it, right? They practice that stuff, right? How hard can it be?
    ⭕You ain’t no kind of man if you ain’t got land with a 40-foot hedge as a fence. |link|
    [now imagine the crimes it took to amass that fortune, and craft such abnormally precise gardens designed to still the very roiling spirit… fortunate indeed are we men without such hedges]
    🔻 blindpig/1966: Does a 20 ft cliff and 120 acres of rocks and enormous trees count? No hedge though.

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