“This cannot be allowed under any circumstances,”
What then is Comrade Lavrov saying?

The cruel Russkie has been absolutely masterful. They have a right to crow, finally maneuvering a finale to the unending western torment and Drang of millennia. A worthy standard bearer of Civilization, and slayer of the Beast of Babylon. We shall toast them, and sing along with them, until the Horn of the Hour is blown

As the Anglo-Zionists use Gaza as the universal systemic wounding voodoo doll, to harm us day in, day out, without cease for two years (on top of decades); so the Russkie has pulled in the entire fragmented lot into the Black Hole of the rich, black, fat soil of Novorossiya.

The easiest War of all for them. On their historic lands; they know each cranny and nook. They own the logistics routes, superior forces, armaments, forges, and most importantly reduced complexity to the simple daily incinerator on Land, the weakest domain of Sea Peoples. This is the true “mowing the lawn” or ironing all demented in front of them with equal ease

They cannot escape! They cannot breathe! The Yanquis want, Oh so desperately, to pivot away to savage new parts of the World-Island, but the iron jaws remain tight around their necks. How can they flee, even though it is the ONLY possible solution, when their entire imperium, and that of Babylonia of 5,000 years, pumps and bleeds beyond recovery into the blessed soil of Novorossiya?

Stakes were so raised, that continued hegemonic maintenance now is reduced in the rapt eyes of mankind to this Denouement.

To stay is to die, to flee is to lose it all. Zugzwang. The Divine presents as great a wounding to the Beast as dealt to the Palestinians. Mete

So Uncle Lavrov will continue the gentle lectures, and string them along. And each time they buckle and beg him for terms, new ones will be found, impossible for exceptionalist inbred nazi internationale to accept.

As in Gaza, that is the precise point of “negotiations” — to be time wasters, unacceptable to the weaker side, as they are inexorably ground outta existence

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Future Buffer Zone is ‘Turning Point in Russia’s Defensive Architecture’: Analyst

The measure, announced yesterday by Putin, “aims to preserve the integrity of Russia’s western border, which is jeopardized by NATO’s constant policy of provocation,” Argentinian analyst Tadeo Casteglione told Sputnik.

The decision “reinforces the principle that the state has not only the right, but the duty to extend its defense beyond the physical border when threats emanate from it,” the international relations expert said.

The Russian armed forces are already working on creating the buffer zone along the Russia-Ukraine border, the Russian president said.
⭕️ ❗️The second round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will happen — and that’s already positive, says Lavrov

More statements from the Russian FM:

• Ukraine has confirmed there will be a second round of talks, but no dates or meeting locations have been set yet;
• The potential choice of the Vatican as a negotiation venue for Russia and Ukraine is “not elegant;”
• Ukraine had expected US support to be eternal, but Trump’s stance shows it’s “not his war;”
• Russia is working on a memorandum regarding the settlement in Ukraine;
• The simplest way to resolve the conflict in Ukraine is to demand that Kiev repeal laws that directly violate the UN Charter;
• It’s pointless to talk to Russia from a position of strength;
• The question of Zelensky’s legitimacy will be crucial when signing peace documents;
• Russia has always stressed that it is ready for peaceful negotiations with Ukraine aimed at addressing the root causes of the conflict, and has never avoided contact;
• Zelensky’s inadequacy as a leader is obvious;
• Russia will not allow people in Ukraine to live under laws imposed by Zelensky’s junta.
  [it is really best to settle early, and in a most pleasant way, with the cruel Russkie. Terms of capitulation will only keep escalating…]

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦Russia again raises the question of Zelensky’s “legitimacy”.

“The question of Zelensky’s legitimacy will be of fundamental importance when it comes to signing a peace agreement,” said Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov.

Let us recall that a similar statement was made yesterday by the director of the legal department of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
[as posted by Mr P, that director mused on the still present validity of the USSR, and thus settling with “former constituents” as a solely internal matter – and not just with 404, but the maddened Balts, etc]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️US Secretary of State Rubio advocates new anti-Russian sanctions.
[Yeah. The loons will jump off the cliff to new circumstances that will make the sane pine for the grinding deprivation, hunger, and dust bowls of the Great Depression]

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇸🇩🇺🇸 The U.S. State Department announced it has determined that the Sudanese government used chemical weapons during the 2024 conflict between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and that the United States will impose sanctions on Sudan.
[Almost certainly a lying justification. And an excellent sign the real Sudan is winning when they resort to economic war siege]

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ The US and Israel will not dare to blow up Iran’s nuclear centres and will never erase Iran’s nuclear program and knowledge.
[He assumes reason, rationality, and non-messianic times]
⭕ Yemen fired a missile at Israel, which claimed that it had been intercepted. Yemen has increased its efforts to persuade Israel to stop committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. Israel maintains a humanitarian siege on 2.5 million people in Gaza, and Yemen has vowed to achieve its goal by any means necessary.

Although Benjamin Netanyahu, who has an ICC arrest warrant out for him for war crimes, may be able to wage war, he cannot stop the daily missile attacks that Yemen is launching against Israel, forcing millions of people to take shelter. Netanyahu is pressuring Israeli society and the rest of the world merely to cling on to power and save his government’s coalition. He once claimed to be in control, but it has since emerged that he is in fact controlled and subjugated by the genocidal extremists of the far-right in his government

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Russians With Attitude: Honest question: Just what is the point of the EU?

Economic union? Failed

Open internal borders? Closing fast

Stopping wars in Europe? Failed on purpose by propping up an anti-Russian regime in Ukraine

What’s left — besides doing whatever the US says, just slightly more gay?
🔻 WS: What was the point of the European Union?

It was maskirovka for a calculated wealth transfer scheme, on a continent-wide scale, and laser-focused on the immediate benefit of the few at the expense of the long-term interests of the many.
🔻 Life is an Adventure: Purpose? EU = Economic Unload. Has been planned for a long time.
🔻 Sylwe Dydd: It is the most disturbing selfie I’ve seen in a long time.
🔻 C4: It was always just a “greater Germany” exercise, pushed by the French, who really wanted to lose WW2.
🔻 The Cuckservative: Not a working egg between them, but that works out because all Euros are openly homosexual.
🔻 Aaron A: The EU is useful to herd the European chickens into the American coop. They are much easier to vassalize and control under a single roof.
🔻 Sandgropper: In the beginning, one of the things it was about was preventing European states making war again by creating a system of mutually beneficial trade. However, in time, neoliberalism & the rise of unaccountable oligarchical power has degraded it (ironically) into a threat to peace.
⭕‼️ Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Wow! This is incredible. Zelensky was actually a prophet.
links:
🔻 Zlatti71: “🇺🇦 It turns out he’s been rehearsing all these years.” |media|
[I bet if you have the stomach to review Orange’s reality show sessions, you will find the same satanic predictive programming.. In fact one recent podcast by Brother Casey precisely followed one such Rabbit Hole – that the rival Yanqui oligarchs are now being told, “You’re Fired!”]
🔻 Haglund Ultra Maga🇸🇪🇺🇸🇧🇪: In Russian language
🔻 iamerica: He literally had an entire series produced … Based on everything we’re watching.

Your gonna see who played who in the end
🔻 MonaLisa ☦️ 🇷🇺🇸🇾: Zelenskyy is the reason the gene pool needs a lifeguard.

Fool!
🔻 Take America Back: His Man of the People show was produced with Soros and USAID money, to familiarize the public with him so that he could be made a puppet of the West.
🔻 Richie Ryan: Will he be playing piano again?😂
⭕ 🔥‼️ In a large-scale war against Russia, the US would suffer as many casualties in TWO WEEKS (50k) as it suffered in twenty years in Iraq and Afghanistan.

If the weakling European NATO countries try it in their own, it would be even more catastrophic. |link|
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: I suspect this is still an undercount. It was offhand, but Wilkerson was once asked for an estimate, & he said about 30,000 a week, indefinitely
⭕X is more broken today than I have ever seen it – and that’s saying something.

#CrisisOfCompetency
[enjoy it, and the net, while it lasts..]
⭕ 🔸 From the outset of this war, there have always been a lot of ostensibly Russophile doomers — most of them Russian; most of them the same faces all along; all of them certain Moscow will yield to the west in the end.

And they have always been wrong. |link|
🔻 Sahib3030🌍🌎🌏: From what I notice
Most of these Russophile doomers
are actually from the former Soviet Union Diaspora.
And they are mostly Ashkenaizi Jews
and some them are descended from parents or grandparents who were colluding with the German Nazis during WW2 and they all exhibit a deep set hatred for everything Russian.
These former Soviet Union diaspora are spread out amongst many NGOs and Thinktanks and some of them are also in the President’s admin team where they do a lot of work for the benefit of Israel or Ukraine and against Russia and China and Iran.
The pose a great danger to USA and American people as they try their best to make USA sleepwalk into another war !
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: The problem is they thought they could continue to fool the Russians because they got betrayed over Minsk and over Istanbul. When you run out of rope with the Russians you really have run out.
[unbelievable that folks still think Russkies were “betrayed” over Minsk or anything since 1990s..]
⭕ 🎻 Big Wheels

I’ve been thinkin’ it over …

So many times they say
you’ve got it made
They never understand
the answer lies within your soul
‘Cause no one knows
which side the coin will fall |link|
⭕ 🤔 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.
[wrong. Laith & Crooke say the obvious most forget or do not know. ALL the loot of the PetroSheikhs is already stored in Anglo-American banks and fully accessible to use as they please. Historically, some minor percentage – in single digits, were given to the desert bedouin to play “kings” with, and create the image of sovereignty. So this elaborate show was to impute power to the desperate desert bedouins watching sharpened knives headed their way for betrayal of all arabs, and to impute control to a dying Beast Empire and that it has hope of staying in the region, whilst really, they are in their very last days.

Trump and Yemenis also spoke the truth of the matter in last days – the former said the concubines would not last without his protection even ten days; the latter said the trillions of the Gulfies now directly pay for the holocaust against the Palestinians and other true semites.

We can add ALL wars of Barbaria Inc. since WW2 have largely been paid for by these unseen mechanisms. This is why the Islamic Prophet prophesied at the same time Yemen and Greater Syria (Shaam) would come into global prominence, the Satanic Age would arise simultaneously in the eastern half of the arabian peninsula. How could an unlettered man in the western arabian peninsula know this almost 1,500 years ago???]
⭕🔻 ᴠᴇʟꜱᴋ ☦: 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Putin: “A decision has been made to create a security buffer zone along the border between Russia and Ukraine.”

▪️ President Putin has confirmed the next phase of the Special Military Operation:
— Kharkov
— Sumy
— Chernigov
These regions are now priority zones to ensure lasting stability on Russia’s western frontier.

• The move is aimed at protecting the Belgorod, Kursk, and Bryansk regions from constant Ukrainian shelling and sabotage.
• The creation of a buffer zone is a strategic necessity — to safeguard Russian citizens and prevent further threats from NATO-backed Ukrainian forces on the border.

[the maps leaves more planned buffers – at least including what is marked as “Dnipro” (Dnipropetrovsk) on this western map, to protect the new Zaporizhzhia oblast which returned to Mother in Sep 2022, the Odessa region and connection to Transniestra, and the Rebbe’s Nikolaev, etcetc..]
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Looks like the Russians have their marching orders for the summer. How deep this “security zone” is going to be is an open question, but the Russians have certainly been accumulating reserves for a large operation.

I expect that operations along these lines have already begun.
🔻 WS: I expect this talk of a “buffer zone” will almost certainly eventually extend to everything east of the Dnieper, along with the Black Sea/Dnieper littoral regions including Dnipropetrovsk, Nikolaev, Kherson, and Odessa all the way to the Danube.
🔻 C3: Unavoidable and indispensable for the security of New Russia.
Particularly Odessa, where the source of most sea and air attacks is concentrated against Crimea.
It is also one of the most important sources of NATO arms supply.
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: And if the Russians are talking of a security zone in the North, they might initiate a large operation in the South onwards Odessa…
[excellent point. All this “buffer zone”, for now, focuses on northern front with the crazies. The southern front will be unrolled in due time, falling like a ripe plum into the lap, as NATO is bled white in the Blessed Compactor of History]
🔻 C5: Agreed. It feels like the Russians baited the Ukrainians to “force them” to make this decision!
🔻 NotABot: Lets be clear: The bufferzone need to go to pre 1997 Nato borders
🔻 Decelerationist1: Taking the littoral regions and Odessa is the only way to make the Black Sea safe from British SeaDoo drones

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Ramaphosa Offers Trump South African Rare Earth Minerals During Meeting at White House

“We’ve got critical minerals that you want to fuel the growth of your own economy, and reindustrialize. So, we have that on offer, including rare earth minerals,” the South African president said.
[Unbelievable. Amarynth covered his game, but he should be careful about trolling Barbaria. Even Russkies are respectful to the lunatics.
NB. A navy suit, and the light blue and white motif of the zionazi flag. A proper slap to South Africa that initiated the Genocide case at the ICJ. Every insouciant that wanders in to be ritually humiliated at the Oval Orifice brings it on upon himself. ]
⭕ West’s Isolation Plan Drowns Amid Global Support for Russia‘s Key Events, Upper House Chair Says

“The West should completely forget about it and never remember it again,” Valentina Matvienko stated to a Russian media outlet.

Over 76 countries are set to attend the 11th Nevsky International Ecological Congress in St. Petersburg on May 23–25, the official pointed out.

This will follow such significant recent events as the Victory Parade in Moscow, which gathered almost 30 foreign leaders, and the Kazan Forum, with over 100 countries participating, she added.
⭕ 📹 Russian Troops Destroy Two Patriot Air Defense Missile Launchers in Dnepropetrovsk Region With an Iskander Strike, the Russian Defense Ministry Reported |media|
⭕ Russian Air Defenses Thwart Major Ukrainian Drone Strike Amid Frontline Advances of Russian Army

Overnight, air defense systems shot down 105 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions — with 35 of them over the Moscow Region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

Meanwhile, over 160 flights are delayed at three Moscow airports, according to the Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor’s Office.
[As entire Ukie front slow-collapses, the Anglo-Zionists ramp up the ‘Terra’, as Dubya would say with nostalgia]
⭕ ❗️During the repelling of a massive raid by Ukrainian military drones from the evening of May 20 to the morning of May 22, 485 drones were shot down outside the special military operation area, the Defense Ministry reported
⭕️ 500% Tariffs on Russia’s Partners to Trigger ‘Economic Calamity Never Seen Before in US,’ Sen. Paul Says

A sanctions bill, proposed by US Senator Lindsey Graham,* demands 500% (or even higher!) tariffs on nations trading energy with Russia — hitting allies and the US itself, Senator Rand Paul said.

“[The bill] essentially amounts to an embargo. […] While tariffs make wars more likely, embargoes make wars difficult to avoid,” the official pointed out in an article for a US online magazine.

🤡 Paul highlighted that the US imported $624 million worth of enriched uranium from Russia in 2024 — asking:

“Are the proponents of this legislation honestly seeking to require the president to enact a 500 % tariff on ourselves?”

Despite 16,000+ sanctions, Moscow’s stance remains firm. Russia views its special operation in Ukraine as vital to national security, not unlike how the US defends its own interests, he emphasized.
[when this crazed measure is enacted, and it will be shortly, it is aimed primarily at top Russian trade partners of China and India. China will reliably tell them to get lost. We shall see whether India chooses to commit suicide, along with their former-ongoing Masters]
⭕ Failed Safari: Russian Units Stop Mercenary Influx in Kursk, Says General

Most of the foreign mercenaries, who entered Russia’s Kursk region with Ukrainian militants were Polish and Georgian nationals, Gen. Apti Alaudinov told Sputnik.

Initially, a significant number of mercenaries viewed their mission as an easy success. They underestimated Russian defenses, expecting a quick triumph, he said.

Russian units effectively dismantled this expectation, neutralizing the majority of foreign fighters who crossed into Russian territory. |media|
⭕ Moscow Hosts ‘Russia and the World: Dialogues – 2025. Strategies’ Conference

This high-level forum will convene in Moscow on May 22–23, 2025, bringing together distinguished scholars, policymakers, diplomats, and international experts to engage in in-depth discussions on key global issues and Russia’s strategic role in international affairs.

The conference will explore critical issues in contemporary geopolitics and the evolving structure of the world-system, providing a multidisciplinary platform for dialogue and analysis.

A special emphasis will be placed on questions of strategic culture, national identity, and the politics of historical memory, and how these factors influence international relations.
⭕ ❗️Russian troops are currently working on creating a buffer zone in border areas with Ukraine, Putin said
⭕🇷🇺 WHY RUSSIA WANTS A BUFFER ZONE – MILITARY LOGIC EXPLAINED

Retired Russian colonel and combat veteran Anatoliy Matviychuk, who served in Afghanistan and Syria, breaks down the military rationale behind Russia’s push to create a 100 km buffer zone along its border with Ukraine:

🛡 “This won’t just be a demilitarized belt — it’s about shielding Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk, Crimea, Zaporozhye, Kherson and Donbass regions from NATO artillery fire.”

🔎 Why 100 km?

“NATO-supplied long-range artillery can hit targets from 70 km. Add a 30 km safety margin — and you get a 100 km deep buffer.”

“In Afghanistan, the Soviet Union created a similar zone. Same logic, same scale.”

📍 Where exactly?

“We’re talking Sumy, Chernigov, Dnepropetrovsk, and Kharkov regions — territories bordering both the old and new Russian regions.”

🚫 No Kiev control allowed

“Yes, Ukrainians may live and farm there. But there will be no Kiev administration. Period.”

🎯 What does this mean for Zelensky and the Ukrainian Armed Forces?

“Push them back 100 km, and they lose the ability to launch raids, surveillance, or shell border towns with key weapons. Drones and long-range missiles? Maybe. But the backbone of their firepower — gone.”
👉 On Zelensky’s reaction

“He’ll cry crocodile tears, scream about ‘occupation.’ But our leadership won’t blink. The safety of our people comes first.”

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi on X, says it’s ‘time to decide’ for the United States

It seems like tomorrow’s meeting will be very important. Either the U.S. walks back its demand of ‘zero uranium enrichment’, or Iran withdraws from the negotiations.
[this was posted last night. Actually the meeting may be ongoing right now at this very moment in Rome]

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸The United States is considering the possibility of withdrawing about 4,500 of its troops from South Korea and redeploying them, including to Guam, the Wall Street Journal writes.
[this is a good sign. Retreat-Retreat better than War-War. Better to flee than remain a BFT in the already lost revolution in military affairs]

💠 @Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ The Trump administration revokes Harvard’s right to admit international students, accusing the university of pandering to anti-Semitism, violence, and the Chinese Communist Party. More than $2.6 billion in federal grants is frozen.

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Why does the Israeli army feel free to open fire on European diplomats in Jenin? Simply because it is unaccountable.

Why is it unaccountable? Because the West allows Israel to commit crimes against humanity and war crimes with impunity.

So Europe: Don’t complain about the results of your appeasement of Israel.
[another risible “humiliation ritual” – to show the world the new impotence of the former Garden, and the local compradore semites who wields the whip hand]
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Ayman Odeh: They dragged me off the Parliament podium, not for breaking a rule, but for speaking the truth.

Seventy-seven years after the Nakba, the world is witnessing a second Nakba unfold in Gaza.

You can try to silence me, but you cannot silence the Palestinian people, and you cannot silence the world’s outcry. |media|
[this appears a deluded Palestinian member of the Knesset, who thinks he can operate within the den of the Beast]
⭕ Two employees of the Israeli embassy were killed in shooting outside Washington D.C. Jewish Museum.
⭕ The 30-year-old shooter, Elias Rodrigues, shouted ‘Free Palestine!’ three times. Free Free Palestine!’

Seemingly not an anti-Semitic attack, but rather retaliation for the killing of 10s of 1000s of Palestinians and the starvation of 2.5 million people in Gaza.
⭕ Now watch how Benjamin Netanyahu will take advantage of the shooting in D.C. to divert the attention away from his crimes in Gaza and to “justify the killing of thousands more Palestinians”.

The propaganda campaign starts NOW.
[A useful moment of offing the zionazi photogenic pair. Even if fortuitous, who was it said “don’t waste a crisis?” – O’Bomber’s zionazi handler from the Windy City? Note, like the new “Papa” how many are from this place. In fact the shooter in this incident too]
⭕ Watch carefully to see how many world leaders will rush to condemn the attack on the two Israeli embassy employees in Washington, D.C. Then compare this to how they respond to Israeli crimes in Gaza. Notice the hypocrisy and double standards: some lives matter, while others don’t.
⭕ Millions Israeli rushed into their shelters following a missile fired from Yemen due to the Israeli humanitarian siege on Gaza. This is the 37 missiles or which 25 forced millions into their shelters and diverted all flights from and to Gen Gurion airport.

Solution?

Stop starving the population and committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ cont. thread:
‼️ Trump Owns the Ukraine War

By claiming to be the first POTUS to send serious US weaponry to Ukraine, and boasting that “lots” of Russian tanks were thereby destroyed, and then saying arms shipments will continue until Putin “makes a deal”, Trump has now assumed ownership of the Ukraine War.
🔻 WS: Trump is really working hard to sell the narrative that the Ukraine War was exclusively “Biden’s War”. This, of course, is a big fat lie.

The Ukraine War is owned by at least every POTUS from Clinton forward: Shrub, Obama, Trump 45, Biden, and now Trump 47.
🔻 ExFactor Financial: Truth. However I give him credit for trying to stop it.
🔻 WS: I don’t believe Trump or anyone in his administration is particularly interested in “stopping” it. They are merely interested in finding a delicate exit from what has turned into a decisive and humiliating strategic defeat for the US and its NATO vassals.
🔻 ExFactor Financial: There won’t be any exit other than a loss. He should walk away, leave it in Europes lap, and let the Eurocrats get the war they’ve been begging for. Watching the HQ in Brussels disappear to a hypersonic strike would be a sight to behold
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ The Big Beautiful Golden Dome

Trump says that, for a mere $175B, the US can have an anti-missile shield that will cover the entire United States, and that it will be completed in just THREE YEARS.

This is delusion to the nth degree.
🔻 Mitch Latendresse: If the missile systems are placed in the Canadian Arctic and not just Alaska you could save a couple trillion… 😎
🔻 WS: The Russians have missiles that can cross Antarctica and strike the US from the south.
🔻 Lovelace: Estimates for the creation of such a truly operational and functional system are 10 times higher, especially if we take into account corruption and the systematic increase in costs within the military-industrial complex.
🔻 WS: Second-tier Iranian ballistic missiles, on three occasions now, blew right through top-shelf American missile defense (Patriot, THAAD, SM-3).

The US is so far behind at this point it cannot catch up. Its best option is to relinquish empire and become a peaceful republic again.
🔻 AbbyAdams: The idea of American superiority is so entrenched in the psyche of the true believers, they won’t accept the truth until an Oreshnik takes out NYC/DC.
🔻 Dr. Anton: ‘If I am President, I’ll have that war (🇺🇦🇷🇺) settled in one day’

‘We’re going to go to Fort Knox, the fabled Fort Knox, to make sure the gold is there. If the gold isn’t there, we’re going to be very upset’
🔻 Priscilla RivasLoria, Ph.D. ☦️ 🇪🇸🇵🇷🇺🇸: What a horrible waste of money!

But we can’t afford universal healthcare!
🔻 Mike Mihajlovic: it will cost $450B and will not be competed in 15 years after which it will be obsolete anyway…
🔻 Gary L: I Multiply the cost by 100 and the timeframe by 10 and it would be closer, although that means never.
🔻 Martin L. Zinn: When you understand that these huge contracts are simply money making projects that will never see the light of day, it all makes sense
⭕ 📜 H. L. Mencken Whispers from the Dust

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
– H. L. Mencken
⭕🔻 Clint Russell:
The richest man in America. A guy who builds spaceships and robots and underground tunnels and brain chips and AI superintelligence, couldn’t reform the government. He couldn’t cut any spending

In fact, we are on track to spend more this year than any year EVER

We’re in trouble
🔻 WS: Well … at least we had it confirmed that there is no gold in the vaults at Fort Knox. 😏

It’s long-since been melted down, refined, recast into 99.99% kilo bars, and sold to wise people around the world.
🔻 IQWACP: Perhaps the richest man in the US is not smart as he think he is.
⭕‼️ Flirting with Disaster

In my view, there is near-ZERO possibility Israel will launch a major strike against Iranian nuclear sites unless the US is directly and intimately involved. At the very least, US air-refueling, ISR, and SEAD would be essential. |link|
🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ: |link|
🔻 WS: Shoot ’em down with WHAT?
🔻 Spaceman 🇺🇲: Presumably with what we have stationed at Prince Sultan Air Base near Riyad. Pretty sure the 378th Air Expeditionary Wing can scrounge together a few jets.
🔻 WS: You think the US will launch fighters to shoot down Israeli strike aircraft?

I give that an even less-than-zero possibility.
[Yet Iran informed ANY zionazi attack, regardless of US posture, would be considered a US attack, and would hammer all US assets throughout Persian Gulf. So they removed the same plausible deniability removed from Anglo-French in UkroNazi attacks into Russia proper. A Murder-Suicide it remains]
🔻 Kevin Teesdale: If there is an attack on Iran it will be an American attack, regardless of Israel.Yes, Israel alone lacks the ability to strike; but let’s emphasize that Israel is a US proxy.If the US attacks Iran, it will claim it’s merely helping Israel to disavow responsibility, as in Ukraine
🔻 WS: No one will be fooled by that gambit. Not anymore. At this point in the great game, everyone knows the score.

For example, Washington can proclaim victory as the US Navy skedaddles from the Red Sea, but everyone that matters understands perfectly well what really happened.
[exactly. In every front that matters, the Yanquis are outta proxies and down to the short swords being wielded personally]
🔻 Kevin Teesdale: Yes, but “everyone that matters understands” …because the public–which does not understand–no longer seems to matter. And the monsters who rule today have shown with Gaza that even when the public does understand, it will not deter them from the worst imaginable depravity.
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: 🔔Israel is a Western proxy in the ME

✅ If it launches an attack on Iran, Israel’s state institutions should be destroyed, and its executive and military leadership should be eliminated.

✅ Furthermore, every U.S. asset in the region should be targeted, including the oilfields that facilitate the $2.5 trillion investment by oil monarchies promised to the Trump administration last week. |link|
🔻 Neanderthal Intellectual: The only platform capable of carrying the bunker buster munitions necessary for the targeting of Iranian deep sites is the US B-2 Spirit bomber.

Israel does not posses the capability to do it alone.
[well those skedaddled back to CONUS too, after uncomfortable circumstances over Yemen]
🔻 Yuin Chung Lok: This puts the recent Pakistan-Indian skirmish and presence of NK troops in Kursk in greater importance. I think it probably caught the west by surprise how much China was involved in aiding Pakistan. Not just military hardware, but also satellite surveillance/comms…..
[good point. Imagine what backs up Persia, if duplicitous Pakistani Yanqui Generalos were backed up to that degree. It is as if the civilizational-states now say, wrt to major allies, Not One Step Back]
🔻 Renier P. du Plessis: Israel knows if Iran retaliate after a first strike
the US would back Israel by default
so near-Zero is not good math
🔻 WS: If the US assists Israel, Iran will strike back both at Israel and US bases in the region.

What will the US then use to strike back at Iran?
🔻 Renier P. du Plessis: Considering Iran’s subterranean infrastructure
probably nukes. At which point Iran will destroy all oil infrastructure in the middle east – collapsing the global economy.
⭕🔻 Spencer Hakimian:
“Secretary Noem, what is habeas corpus?”

“Habeas Corpus is a constitutional right that the President has to remove people from the country” – Kristi Noem

A complete idiot of a person.

6th graders know that is not what habeas corpus is. |link|
🔻 Emily: my god
@imetatronink, what is the Latin phrase for we are governed by children? I feel like I’m living “Lord of the Flies”
🔻 WS: a liberis regnatum
⭕🔻 Ian Ellis: Latest look @ U.S. Navy/USAF force posture:

– Truman CSG in the Med, heading home
– Vinson CSG remains in CENTCOM AOR
– Nimitz CSG transited the Malacca Strait
– Elements of Ford CSG entered the Med
– B-2s out at Diego Garcia, B-52s + F-15Es arrive
🔻 WS: 🤔 If CSG-11 (USS Nimitz) continues into the CENTCOM AOR, it could indicate a strike against Iran is being contemplated.

More likely, CSG-11 will simply replace CSG-1, and the USS Timid Vinny will head back home.

The US can no longer project overwhelming power around the world.
🔻 Renier P. du Plessis: a major attack would involve subs
where are they?
🔻 WS: Old, slow, 450-kg warhead Tomahawk missiles are not going to be able to do much against Iran’s deep bunkers within mountains. And a lot of them will likely be shot down.
⭕🔻 Jacob Shell:
Is anyplace in America quiet?
In the city it’s nothing but wailing sirens and loud music from the next apartment.
In the suburbs it’s nothing but dogs barking and lawnmowers roaring.
In the countryside it’s gunshots and woodchippers.
Is noplace quiet?
🔻 Amerikanets 📉: There are vast zones in this country devoid of people and even animals. There are forests where you can go hours without hearing a bird call while the ancient trees stand like great towering ghosts silently watching the empty eons march past.
🔻 WS: The overwhelming majority of the population of the US lives in a relatively few big metropolitan areas — mostly on the east and west coasts, with a few scattered in between. All one needs to do is book a window seat for a flight from LA to NYC, and watch what passes by below.
[yeah. Those bicoastal 80%+ are BFTs of Poseidons and other horrors best not entertained with continued lunacy]
⭕🤡🌎 Oh, My!

Captain Soggy Cookie should have been cashiered already after the debacle of the past several weeks. I am shocked that John is recommending him for … wait for it … A PROMOTION! 🤣

Yeah, they’ll promote him, after a fashion, to the board of Northrop Grumman.
links:
🔻 John Ʌ Konrad V: “Some well deserved rest for the Truman

Now @SECNAV, please promote the XO and book @ChowdahHill a ticket home for his promotion ceremony”
🔻 Carlos Lara Martinez: Navy personnel have a saying for that “fuck up to buck up”
[does that include a certain admiral’s son on a Pacific floating tomb? The same sweet singer in Hanoi who baked in the Murder-Suicide]
🔻 John Ʌ Konrad V: Losing two jets and zero lives after months of the most intense naval combat in decades isn’t a failure it’s a miracle.

If that rattles you, what’ll you do when a real war starts and we lose an entire battle group?

Get serious or get off my timeline
🔻 WS: I am dead serious.

Losing 2 fighters in “the most intense naval combat in decades” — against Yemen! — and running away for the SECOND TIME (first while in command of CVN-69), is, in my considered opinion, ample reason to be relieved, and consigned to the US Navy Hall of Shame.
🔻 Alexander Bryant: Your entire timeline is full of calling various US ships names and general contempt while at the same time being light on information. I think you have a bone to pick
🔻 WS: I think you are ignorant of what has been happening to the US Navy on the high seas for the past couple years.

The US Navy can no longer project meaningful power on the planet — not even against the lowly Yemeni. Heaven help our sailors if they go up against a formidable foe.
🔻 John Ʌ Konrad V: You know exactly how I feel about that. I agree entirely.

That doesn’t mean chowdah did a bad job with the limited resources he was given
🔻 WS: “Limited Resources”:

2 US Navy Carrier Strike Groups – 2 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers; 2 cruisers; 7 (8?) destroyers; unknown number of missile submarines; full-strength of CENTCOM air assets; Israeli air assets; UK air assets.

#NoEasyWarsLeftToFight
🔻 Alexander Bryant: Much of my life is on the high seas. Trust me the US is projecting. It has always been difficult to deal with a group like the Houthis unless you go in on the ground. They don’t care if they die and are supplied weapons. This is not surprising
🔻 WS: No doubt they’ll do much better against Iran, China, and Russia. 🤦‍♂️

#NoEasyWarsLeftToFight
🔻 Woolly Rhinoceros: Its not the commander’s fault. He is operating ancient obsolete weapons in the middle of a military revolution.
🔻 WS: This is actually a very incisive and accurate observation.
🔻 Noirspectre: Outdated Strategy vs Outdated Weapons.

If you give the best rifle in the world to a blind man, he surely will hit his mark.
Whatever that random spot gets to become the mark.

Imbeciles blame their tools.
A competent commander adapts their strategy.
[patience dear nazi. Barbaria is about to throw off the Restraint]
🔻 Alex1: Imagine a massive attack with different directions and objects approaching at different speeds and different altitudes and distances,it’s the ending of the mighty navy .
🔻 WS: The Yemeni never fired more than a couple dozen missiles and drones in any given salvo! All of them archaic hand-me-downs.

Iran would fire a couple hundred. China would fire a couple thousand — all of them MUCH more capable.

#NoEasyWarsLeftToFight
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Brian Berletic: Trump’s “Golden Dome” is another admission he works for the deep state, not against it.

This system will not protect America from any war it provokes with nations actually capable of striking back at the US.

Russia and China will easily be able to create countermeasures in the field of missiles and missile defenses they both already dominate in.

Instead, the “Golden Dome” will redirect huge sums of public money away from the actual needs of the American people, to private corporations for overpriced and underperforming systems just like the F-35, Patriot, HIMARS, and other garbage already failing all around the globe.

This is money that should be used on roads, rail, hospitals, nationalized pharmaceutical production, education and all the other factors actually needed to “make America great.”

Actions speak louder than words. MAGA was always just another slogan used to sell continuity of agenda with. |THREAD|
⭕ The Trump admin is developing in an alternate universe clown show fashion — just as entertaining as what preceded it, but in a different way.

That said, I do miss the Biden days. 😄 |link|
🔻 Ingemar: I’ve always found his most underrated performance was when he was reading off the teleprompter and said, “Repeat the line”.
⭕ ‼️ The Russian Teton Dam Break Offensive

I figure it’s about 0900 at present. But when these sorts of things get to a certain point, they rapidly accelerate. |progression|
⭕‼️ Eminently Scrutable

When it comes to Putin, you have to understand how he thinks; how he expresses himself. Often, you need to read between the lines.

But when it comes to Lavrov, Medvedev, and Patrushev … there is no room for misinterpretation.
📜 Dictating Terms
⭕ cont. thread:
‼️ “DOGE”

For the record:

“DOGE” is a mirage. Nothing meaningful and enduring will come of it.

It’s nothing but an illusory bone thrown to the gullible masses.
🔻 WS: 🔸 I took a lot of criticism for this post shortly after “DOGE” was announced back in early November 2024.

Well … I hate to say “I told you so”, but I did.
🔻 WS: Sometimes you simply need to ignore the hype and think these things through.
links his older, “No authority; no budget; no mandate; utterly powerless against the sprawling cancer of the imperial bureaucracy.”
🔻 Levi Zendt: And people still have the gall to describe Russia as a kleptocracy – they have nothing on us which is perhaps the one thing DOGE exposed.
🔻 Carlos_Banger: What Elon did was commendable, and I think Trump really wants to cut wasteful spending. The problem is, not matter what they say, very few Republicans in congress actually want to cut spending and that’s where real cuts have to take place. We’ll get cuts when we have no other choice and it’s guaranteed to cause max pain. We’re drug addicts and you gotta hit rock bottom
⭕This is why it is essential to follow the Warlord: |On MI|

The Resistance side lacks the moneys, and cruel cunning behind these slick productions with the authoritative british accented deeply intoning narrator. For every 90% of solid content, there is 5% or so of slander, or misdirection, or subtle poison. And even the Truth is used to spin 100% towards the desired goal – whether to build up any human into an unrealizable giant, or force him through carefully crafted image by external enemies into forced action to maintain the image, etc etc.

And they seek to harm relations between Russia and Burkina (or any other resistance) by coloring the relationship in ways not true, or holding Russia accountable for subsequent successful assassination, or not achieving developmental targets which neither side ever mentioned, etc. They’re shaping the terrain, for failure or attribution of failure in every eventually.

And most who love the global Axes of Resistance will fall for it – for these are extremely positive videos, what is not to like? They are driven to subliminally blame Russia for not doing enough — when history shows it is relatively easy to murder any individual anywhere. Note how Nasrallah was permitted to rise and build into an international colossus, until the trigger was pulled at the cruelest moment for maximum impact.

This is the new full-spectrum Hybrid War, using slick optics, beautiful imagery and audio, and imputing positions and relationships never stated or real in fact by the slandered, to craft the narrative towards the planned future crimes. Nothing new under the sun, except for the high-definition modern production

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Vladimir Putin has visited the Kursk Region |media|
[keep scrolling down for many video snippets and the entire visit video]
⭕ ❗️ KEY STATEMENTS FROM PUTIN IN KURSK

• The enemy is still trying to advance toward our borders.
• Defenders of Kurchatov [Nuclear Power Plant] during the Ukrainian incursion: Not a single person flinched—everyone stood firm.
• There is a need to deploy more demining units in Kursk region—people must return home safely and swiftly.

⭕ Russia Will Achieve All Its Goals Thanks to Unity of Citizens, Putin Says

“Here we are — a team, and the whole country is one team today. And this is the unconditional success of all our endeavors,” the president stated in the Kursk region.

More statements by Vladimir Putin:

• The actions of the armed forces of Ukraine give every reason to say that these are people with the ideology of neo-Nazism;
• Clergy of all Russia’s traditional faiths are aiding troops on the frontline. The president said he is aware of all the losses among priests in the special operation;
• In Ukraine and the West, they are demolishing monuments linked to Russia to erase the memory of those who “look toward Russia.”

⭕ ❗️Ukrainian forces turned churches in the Kursk region into fortresses, and the buildings were severely damaged when they were liberated, Putin Says
[by design, courtesy of well-aimed “systemic wounding” Anglo-French planning]
⭕ 📹 Putin Visits Kursk NPP-2’s Construction Site |media|
[per many, this was main objective of the collective nazis – as Z-NPP got away, this was the other main chip they fought to sabotage and to use as lever for negotiations]
⭕ 📹 Ukraine Still Trying to Move Towards Russian Border, Putin Says
⭕ ❗️Iran’s Parliament Approves Bill on Strategic Partnership Agreement With Russia, Reports Say

The comprehensive strategic partnership agreement was sent to the Iranian parliament in early May.

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺❗️US Secretary of State Rubio Explains Why Peace Has Not Been Made in Ukraine Yet

“The main problem is that Russia wants something it doesn’t have now and has no right to, and Ukraine wants something it can’t get back militarily. That’s the crux of the problem.”
[There are nuggets here, even among the ocean of lies. Russia can get back militarily “something it doesn’t have now and has no right to” and there’s nothing the entire fragmented lot can do about it]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳❗️The US has stated that Russia and China possess kinetic weapons in space

US Space Force Operations Chief Chance Saltzman said Russia and China allegedly possess weapons in space that could threaten US satellites. According to him, Russia has demonstrated “very aggressive capabilities” in orbit.
[every accusation is an admission]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Oil prices skyrocketed after reports of Israel preparing for an attack on Iran
⭕ 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Wendy Sherman, former U.S. chief negotiator during the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran:

‘I was the head of delegation during the negotiations with Iran in 2015, and I have personal experience with Araqchi. Convincing Iran to stop uranium enrichment is impossible. It’s desirable, but simply impossible.

If Iran wouldn’t agree to zero enrichment in 2015, they certainly won’t agree to it now — with industrial enrichment capacity and existing stockpiles that are dozens of times larger than 10 years ago.’
[But impossible demands are precisely essential to generation of guaranteed casus belli]
⭕ — Fun fact: Araqchi sent a ‘Merry Christmas’ letter to Wendy Sherman despite knowing she was Jewish

Also, he made her cry during the negotiations once.
[Araqchi is the current Iranian FM with the permanent affixed half-smirk]
⭕ Her [W. Sherman’s] personal memoirs

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 📣 My Essay/Paper on ‘Hybrid Warfare’ is FINISHED and now available.

This essay examines hybrid warfare & explains its topical significance. The paper then delves deeper into a case study on Syria, explaining different hybrid warfare determinants in this country, by Russia, and the U.S.

The case study on Syria talks about:

– Russia’s involvement in Syria
– Putin & Erdogan
– Different sorts of determinants in Syria, such as the “Friendship Gas Pipeline”
– Hydropolitics
– Psychological aspects such as propaganda
– White Helmets

It’s a 23-page PDF, academically written with sources, that took me weeks to write, and acts as a prelude to my upcoming book. It’s a “teaser” to what you could expect. To paper is available via the link below for a minimum of €10, and if you value my work you can increase the amount, but 10 is the minimum.

This is sort of a way to both support my work as well as getting a very valuable and quality piece of work that took weeks to craft. If you prefer crypto, please contact @FotrosContactBot .

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⭕️ 📝| READ: The US is not seeking a deal with Iran — They sabotage deliberately

Martyr Raisi’s Deputy Minister for political affairs’ shed light on some behind the scene indirect talks with the US, during the Raisi administration.

He said indirect negotiations were happening during Raisi, but the gov policy was not to publicize them.

For the same reason the US backed out of previous (JCPOA) deals, they did the same again this time, during Raisi era.

He said that just on the nuclear issue, there have been multiple agreements but every time they violated them.

• In 2010 (Ordibehesht 1389), a deal called the “Tehran Declaration” was signed. Obama had given a mandate to the presidents of Turkey & Brazil, Erdogan and Lula, to negotiate with Iran. They even drafted the framework. A deal was signed, and if you recall, they even celebrated — the presidents and foreign ministers held a ceremony. But then Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State at the time, gave a speech saying that Iran had only agreed to avoid sanctions. She tore up the deal.

Less than a month later, they put Resolution 1929 on the table — which is the harshest UN Security Council resolution against Iran, which later served as the basis for secondary sanctions.

Why did that happen? Because the US didn’t think Iran would agree. Their goal was to go through the motions, assuming Iran would reject the offer, so they could blame Iran and justify sanctions.

Dennis Ross, who was responsible for the Iran desk at the State Department and National Security Council, publicly said they crafted the best offer they were sure Iran would reject — just so they could shift blame and say, “It’s Iran’s fault.” And this is exactly what the Leader, Imam Khamenei, says today — that they’re not after a real agreement.

It wasn’t just in 2010. In 2012, there were also the Almaty-2 talks. The text was almost finalized after several rounds in Moscow. But again, the US backed out, saying, “Let’s see what happens after the elections.”

Later, when the 11th government (Rouhani’s) started, they scrapped the prepared draft and proposed a different set of conditions.

Even with the JCPOA — an actual agreement — they still violated it. So in different periods, including under the late President Raisi, we were close to reaching another deal in summer 2022 (1401). Everything was lined up, and the announcement was expected within days. But it coincided with the riots (WLF) of that year, and the Americans backed out, yet again. Even then, they were sending us messages.

When we went to New York for the UNGA in 2022, they told us, “Let’s do it after the elections, after the protests settle down.” But they kept postponing — again & again.

➡️ Plain and simply put: The US is not after a deal, they keep postponing & deliberately sabotage to further their agenda.
⭕ US-Israel Hybrid Warfare tactics to sabotage Iran-US talks

The CNN, citing US officials, reports that the US has “obtained new intelligence” that Israel is preparing to strike Iranian nuclear facilities.

US officials say unclear whether the Israelis made final the decision. Disagreements within US gov to back this decision.

➡️This is not an actual threat, it’s a media bluff to pressure Iran to cave into US demands to dismantle uranium enrichment & then for US to back out the deal.
⭕ — The media bluff about attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities has caused crude oil prices to increase.
⭕ Yemen’s Aerial Blockade… works

• Air France has announced extending cancellation of flights to/from Israel until May 24.
• Transavia also announced extending cancellation of its flights until June 24.

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ —❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Iran has declined Oman’s invitation to attend the fifth round of nuclear talks with the U.S. in Rome on Friday
[On cue, Trump and Temple Mount Hegseth will shout WAR from Oval Orifice in about 1.5 hours.]

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ — Hot topics this week:

• Azerbaijani Defense minister travels to Israel to meet with Israeli war minister
• 🇮🇷🇦🇲| Simultaneously, Iran’s Defense minister travels to Yereven to meet with Armenian defense Minister
• 🇮🇷🇦🇿| Iran & Azerbaijan hold Araz 2025 military exercise in Azerbaijan’s territory

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: While the U.S. remains a co-belligerent efforts to escape the reality of strategic defeat won’t fool everyone.
🔻 WS: ‼️ Warwick Powell hits the nail squarely on its head.

The United States is the party most responsible for the war in Ukraine, and has been and continues to be, by far, the largest supplier of arms and intel to Ukraine.

The US is indisputably a co-belligerent in this war.
🔻 Marked safe from Western Propaganda: The US is the primary aggressor
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Russians With Attitude: One thing it took me a while to conceptualize is the difference between American and Russian “styles” of diplomacy. American diplomacy is just “Art of the Deal” type showmanship; they begin with something ridiculous, then back down to something mild, they end up barely breaking even & call it genius.

Russian diplomacy is geological, it’s siegecraft. It takes a lot of time and effort for Russia to commit to something, but when it does the process is not really reversible. The initial demand is the lowest, kindest it will ever be. Decline it, and you will be negotiating uphill from then on, and every step will be a gradual, methodical increase in cost. Washington negotiates like it’s flipping a condo in Queens and genuinely does not understand that this just does not work on Russia.

As for the Ukrainians, it would be a mistake to call what they do diplomacy. Diplomacy presumes statehood, continuity, a concept of national interest. What Kiev engages in is theatrical convulsion. Every word from Podolyak or Zelensky sounds like it was drafted for applause from redditors and NAFOids and not resolution in the real world.

They can’t say yes, they can’t say no, they can only beg, leak, scream, and die. Their only hope is to be pitied more loudly than they are shelled.
🔻 Pistol™ 🔫: Exquisitely put.

There is nothing, no ‘diplomatic class’, within US politics anymore

Diplomacy a long long lost art there, drunk on hubris at end of Cold War

Sergei Lavrov; Putin himself, so many others; and China has too

. . .

Tower over the West; the snivelling conniving narrative and game creators

Game of gossip girls and back slapping

Threats and the rest

🥱
🔻 Niall Bradley: Great observation. The contrast exposes USA’s immaturity. Such a young, naive country.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 War Intel: ⚡️Iran’s Mega Railway Nears Completion

The multi-billion dollar Chabahar-Zahedan railway is set to connect Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Russia to the Indian Ocean, reshaping regional trade routes.

Iranian engineers constructed 100 tunnels to navigate the challenging terrain. |media|
🔻 OverlyPositivePatriot: This is just one of the reasons why the Jews want war with Iran. Iran is dynamically, changing the economic situation in real time.
🔻 George Pappas: Maybe they can give the incompetent Gov. California some advice to finish his grossly over budget and delayed rail line between Bakersfield and Merced
[is he alluding to Señor Noisome?]
🔻 EduardoALo85415: Becoming sanctions proof.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Robin Brooks: EU leaders don’t need to fret about being left out of peace talks. They can assert their seat at the table by shutting down Putin’s shadow fleet of oil tankers in the Baltic. That will get everyone’s attention. But this does require the courage to act… |media|
🔻 Brian McDonald: Robin Brooks says the EU should “shut down Putin’s shadow fleet” in the Baltic to earn a seat at the peace table.
Let’s walk through why this idea is not just wrong — it’s dangerous. 🧵

First: there is no such thing as a Russian “shadow fleet.”
That’s a media term for tankers not insured in London — not mysterious Kremlin ships with black sails.

These are mostly old vessels, flagged to countries like Panama or Liberia, operated by third parties.

They’re used to carry Russian oil under sanctions — yes — but they are not controlled by the Russian state.

Second: how would the EU “shut them down”?

That would require interdicting ships in international waters or blocking access to Russian ports.

In plain language: a naval blockade.

And under international law, a naval blockade — unless authorized by the UN Security Council — is an act of war.

There’s no ambiguity here. Blocking those ships would mean opening a military conflict with Russia.

Third: the EU can’t do it — even if it wanted to.
The EU is not a sovereign state. It cannot declare war. It has no navy. It has no authority to order military action.
Only individual member states can act — and none are likely to launch a blockade of Russia in the Baltic Sea. It would be absolute madness.

So let’s be clear:
— There is no “Putin fleet”
— There’s no legal way to “shut it down”
— And the EU has no mandate, force, or authority to try

If EU leaders followed Robin Brooks’ advice, it wouldn’t get them “a seat at the table.”
It would put them at war — a war they’re neither prepared for nor legally able to start.
🔻 Aleksandr Vasilenko: If Europe made good decisions there won’t be an EU
🔻 Tomato: Send him to block them with his whole family on board. No better way to end the conflict faster
🔻 mx: The messaging is for their own taxpayers to keep funding stupidity. I don’t think anyone in Russia gives a rat ass on what EU or Uk says or the high IQ plan of blockades. Some countries are living in 14th century believing they are superpowers.
🔻 Henribru: Wars are dark & dirty .. no one wants & needs it.. no one wants Islanders & kinzals falling 🍁 on its citizens … No one ….
[in some ways, it IS bliss to be ignorant. Terrible days to have a brain]
⭕🔸🧵 This 5-post thread from four years ago has aged particularly well:

From a military standpoint, the events in Gaza ought to seriously concern those who believe the US could successfully strike Iran.

In just a few more days of 100+ rocket launches, the Palestinians will have exhausted the Israeli Iron Dome missile inventory.

1/n

It ought to astound observers that, in the midst of extreme poverty, the Gazans have managed to build up an inventory of THOUSANDS of primitive rockets.

The Iranians have many times more missiles than that, and of MUCH higher quality, speed, and accuracy.

2/n

The Iranians proved, with their attack on the Ayn al Asad airbase, that they can drop 1000 lb. warheads within a 5m circle from several hundred kilometers away.

Now imagine them launching several dozen such missiles against US warships in the Persian Gulf!

3/n

They would easily overwhelm US defenses, and almost certainly sink several ships, not to mention being able to strike US bases throughout the region.

The asymmetry of this new military reality represents a radically altered calculus for the Pentagon.

4/n

Now consider this analysis in the context of the South China Sea, or the Black Sea, and it becomes readily apparent that the US is no longer able to militarily intimidate its “near-peer” adversaries into compliance with imperial edicts.

We have entered a new era.

/end
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: Wow 😮

That was many months before the start of the SMO in Ukraine.

You have been watching the empire’s deterioration for very long, Will. How many years?

What was happening in Gaza at that time?
⭕ 🔸 A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand

Israeli reservists ordered to fight in Gaza are refusing to obey.

Many Jews, both in Israel and in the Diaspora, are aghast at what has been done in Gaza.

Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation.
links his older, “‼️ 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.”
⭕🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ:
⚡️🇺🇦Zelensky – Servant of the People, final season coming soon….. |media|
🔻 WS: Money makes the world go around. |media|
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Armchair Warlord: The Russians want a long-term peace, not a one-month ceasefire to allow their enemies breathing room to rearm.

This requires the systematic disarmament, denazification, territorial reduction, and permanent neutralization of Ukraine.

Very simple, anyone could understand it. |THREAD|
🔻 Armchair Warlord: The Ukrainian Maidanites – like their ideological forebears in Berlin – bet everything on battlefield victory over the last three years. They failed, and they will reap the consequences of defeat.

They should be grateful the Russians are willing to offer them any terms at all.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Essentially the bottom line is thus: A “peace” where one side frantically rearms to renew hostilities as soon as possible isn’t actually peace and the people promoting it, by definition, are not interested in peace – they are interested only in continuing the war.
⭕ ‼️ Drones, Drones, Drones

Although I will say I am somewhat dubious of certain aspects of this interview, I still think it is an absolute MUST WATCH.

(Just fast-forward through the vulgar paid advertisement part-way through.)

* HIGHLY RECOMMENDED * |media|

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Megatron: BREAKING:

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Syria is maybe weeks away from “full-scale civil WAR of epic proportions.”

They are going to break it aparat so Israel through the Kurdish State will come closer to the border of Iran. |media|
⭕ The US and the EU are trying to wake up and open their eyes, partially, on Benjamin Netanyahu’s crimes against humanity and war crimes. Good start but Netanyahu, with an ICC arrest warrant for his war crimes, doesn’t care. His political future is more important than anything.