💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ Admiral Samuel Paparo, commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, said the United States was currently capable of defeating China in a potential conflict over Taiwan.

He warned, however, that China’s rapidly growing military power was making the situation increasingly difficult.
[yeah. the estrogen-rich fella is a ringing endorsement of capability, no? Why not post him to CentCom and try his hand at Yemen first?]

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Israeli Army:

During the night, five Syrian Druze citizens were evacuated to Israel for medical treatment.

The Israeli army is deployed in southern Syria and is preparing to prevent hostile forces from entering Druze villages. The Israeli army continues to monitor the situation, preparing for defense and various scenarios.

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺💬The Ukrainian Armed Forces used guided missiles, unmanned boats and aircraft-type UAVs in a massive attack on Novorossiysk.

Russian military spent the entire night repelling attempts by the Kiev regime to damage the city’s infrastructure. The threat of an enemy attack still remains. The scene of the incident is currently being examined, special services are working – city mayor Kravchenko.

Two children and two adults were injured in a drone attack on Novorossiysk, the region’s governor Kondratyev reported.

The victims are receiving medical assistance.

He specified that residential buildings were damaged as a result of the strike. In addition, three tanks at the grain terminal were damaged. Firefighters are working at the scene. |link|
[this is northeastern Black Sea. iirc the MAIN grain and oil transshipment port of Russia in her entire south. The one warm water port – the ancient bête noire of the accursed British Empire. A major hub for the entire global south. This should be seen in tandem with attack on Iranian oil on our global food and energy security, conducive to ushering in universal Dark Winters…

These raids are usually launched from around Odessa or the Danube estuary by the Anglo-UkroNazis. A similar massive combined drone attack was launched against Crimea the night before last. A visible uptempo by the nazi international, both to “commemorate” their loss in 1945, and to substitute for deep losses in 404 through terrorism]
⭕ 🇷🇺There were no casualties at the KSK terminal in Novorossiysk following the UAV attack; the fire was extinguished by the company’s own emergency teams in coordination with the Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM). The “DeloPorts” terminals are operating as normal, according to the Delo Group.

Employees responded in a coordinated and professional manner during the attack, noted Sergey Shishkaryov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Delo Group.

“Many of them have a military background, and they acted with military precision and speed, showing composure and courage,” he added.
[ALL ports of civilizational-states should station such military folks henceforth. The aggression will not let up, until the last nazi is expunged]
⭕ Air defense forces shot down 170 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions overnight, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

Russian air defense destroyed eight Storm Shadow cruise missiles and three Ukrainian Neptune-MD missiles over the Black Sea.
[the semi-useless british missiles appear back in action]
⭕ 🇬🇧80 years ago, Brits brutally murdered several thousand Soviet prisoners of war from Nazi concentration camps in the Baltic.

FSB has published declassified archival documents about how on May 3, 1945, the British sank three German ships in the Bay of Lübeck: the Cap Arcona, the Thielbek and Deutschland, on which the Germans were transporting prisoners to Norway.

The British cold-bloodedly bombed and shot defenseless people from the air, even though they begged for mercy, and then finished off those who tried to escape from boats.

According to various estimates, 7000 to 12000 people died. The overwhelming majority of them were Soviet PoWs. Only 300 people were saved. The crime occurred despite the Red Cross info about the upcoming convoy.
Vasily Salomatkin, who survived the tragedy, said that the British were no different from the Nazis in their atrocities. The British did not even want to bury the dead and the few survivors were placed in a camp, where they were tortured in every possible way. |link|
[the steady release of Anglo crimes does not bode well for the Last Satanic Empire which has one hydra-head headquartered in London]
⭕ 🇷🇺 Medvedev dismissed Trump’s claim that the United States played the leading role in winning World War II, calling it “pretentious nonsense.”

Trump recently announced that the United States made the main contribution to the Victory in World War II and that he would establish a holiday on May 8. A holiday is not bad. But the first conclusion is pretentious nonsense. Let him remember (or ask) who took Berlin. Who was destroying the enemy for more than four years. Who liberated ungrateful Europe.

Our people laid down 27 million lives of their sons and daughters in the name of destroying the damned fascism.

That is why Victory Day is ours and it is May 9! It was, it is, it will always be!
[don’t waste time on the Mad Hatter. Just finish off his legions. The rest shall fall in place… we can then leave barking dogs in the wake of our multi-nodal caravan]

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ The United States owes the world an apology—and compensation—for its role in the COVID-19 disaster. With increasing public statements, including recent remarks by the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, pointing to the virus’s origins in a Wuhan lab funded by American institutions, the question of accountability can no longer be dismissed as conspiracy or speculation.

The global toll has been catastrophic. Millions died. Businesses collapsed under lockdown policies. Entire economies were paralyzed. Governments declared “war” to impose restrictions but found themselves unable to compensate citizens for the forced closures that dragged on for months or even years. People were coerced into taking hastily developed vaccines just to travel or keep their jobs—policies that now raise serious legal and ethical questions.

Because US-linked funding and oversight were involved in the creation or accidental release of the virus, the responsibility does not end with investigations. It demands reparations—trillions of dollars in economic restitution for the lives disrupted and lost. The pandemic wasn’t just a natural disaster; it was, in many ways, a man-made catastrophe, shrouded in secrecy and deflection.

Until there is transparency, accountability, and compensation, the global community will remain justified in its outrage. The cost of silence has already been far too high.
⭕ After years of systematically weakening Lebanon, Israel has now turned its attention to Syria—methodically eroding what remains of the state’s sovereignty. With nearly 80% of Syria’s military infrastructure dismantled and destroyed in the last few months only, Israel is reviving a strategic vision first outlined in 1954: the isolation and separation of the Druze community to carve out an Israeli-friendly buffer zone in the south.

As of 2025, this policy has moved from archival blueprint to active implementation. Israel is escalating pressure on the Syrian presidency (bombing a few hundred meters from the presidential palace) and obstructing military redeployments, capitalising on the fractured and volatile post-Assad landscape.

Paradoxically, for Lebanon—and particularly Hezbollah—the weakening of Syria under this new leadership may not be entirely unwelcome. A fragmented Syrian front poses fewer constraints on Hezbollah’s regional maneuvering and may complicate Israeli efforts to encircle or confront it directly.

Just yesterday, Israel conducted seven separate airstrikes within Syrian territory, a stark reminder of its unchecked freedom of action. Israeli drones now patrol Syrian airspace as routinely as they do over Lebanon, solidifying a normalised pattern of violations with no meaningful pushback. The goal is unmistakable: to splinter Syria further, neutralise the little remaining of its deterrent capacity, and redraw the region’s balance of power in Israel’s favor piece by piece.

Ironically, during the era of Bashar al-Assad, international outrage was focused on Iran’s presence in Syria and the broader Levant. Today, as Israel expands its de facto occupation of Syrian territory and encroaches deeper into the country’s sovereign space, the global response is muted. No condemnations. No sanctions. No accountability. The silence is not accidental—it is strategic. And it is deeply complicit.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ cont thread:
🔥 War, War, War …

Just a little more than 100 days into his second term, Donald J. Trump is making a strong play to become the most pro-war president in American history.

Great dangers lie ahead.
🔻 WS: So … Trump has pledged close to another half billion to keep the war against Russia going.

Meanwhile the Yemeni have corralled a carrier strike group in the Red Sea, and Little Pistol Pete has promised strikes against Iran.

Something bad will happen before this year is over.
🔻 Bill Bottrell: The idea of trading minerals for wasted performative warfare does not pass the strategic, diplomatic, political, or moral smell test.
🔻 WS: Especially when you consider the fact there are no meaningful economic mineral deposits in whatever will remain of the former Ukraine — and even if there were, it would take 15 – 20 years to develop them.

It’s all a ridiculous joke.
🔻 Basedboy: Promised? Someone already striked “we know what you are doing, you will pay dearly” mumble mumble. |media|
🔻 WS: Ho notato che gli israeliani hanno negato il loro coinvolgimento in questo attacco. Di solito o rivendicano la responsabilità o non dicono nulla. E se non sono stati gli israeliani, allora è molto probabile che si sia trattato di un’operazione delle forze speciali statunitensi.
🔻 Alasdair Stirling: When did Trump pledge another half billion?
🔻 WS: Earlier this week $50M was announced. Today another $310M was announced. And more is rumored to be “in the pipeline”. I’ll bet it grows to at least $1B by the end of the month.

Trump is rather upset that Putin has defied him. |media|
🔻 Jeorj jeorj: Zugzwang is a term from chess that means a situation where a player is forced to make a move that will worsen their position. It often occurs in endgames, where any legal move leads to a disadvantage.
🔻 no to blue 🇮🇪 Z: Half a billion dollars to be fair isn’t going to last very long by the time everyone involved gets their cut.
🔻 Silvie Amst: Something bad will happen.
Fortunately, chances are much bigger than ever before that this “something bad” will happen to the U.S.
Like USS Truman landing on the bottom of the Red sea.
🔻 JJ✝️: So another promise broken and the money laundering will continue. I hope MAGA is proud of their master.
🔻 John Kayoss: MIGA cucks gonna cuck
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: That ‘minerals’ agreement is simply a vehicle to wash the cash through.
🔻 The multipolar world has arrived. 🎉🌟🤝 🎉🌟: He’s weak and he’s stupid.
The orange chimp is like a straw in the wind –

As i said before, all civilizations has an expiration date.
And if we look at the ‘quality’ of politicians and media in the West – Unfortunately, we seem to be getting closer and closer.
⭕ cont. thread:
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Did Trump just announce that China will “not be allowed to do business with the US in any way, shape or form”? Or isn’t he even aware of the implications of what he’s posting?

In either case, characteristically irresponsible.
🔻 WS: If I had to bet, I’d wager Trump simply doesn’t even know that China buys 90%+ of Iranian oil exports.

I am convinced there is no practicable way to enforce a ban on Iranian oil. Any US attempt to do so via “hard power” will produce a cascade of very undesirable consequences.
🔻 Bubbasmo.: I would like to counter your wager because I bet he does- I agree that getting these issues under control so we benefit are going to be painful but many times in life that is true- just don’t know how many people today will be up to the challenge!
🔻 WS: You’re missing the point.

China — defying US “sanctions” against it — has monopolized the market for Iranian oil.

And there is no practicable way to enforce a ban on Iranian oil. Any US attempt to do so via “hard power” will produce a cascade of very undesirable consequences.
[well some of those cascades were just launched by Yemen – banning Yanqui-bound oil from seas under their control. The role of Yemen shall only continue to rise and rise in the End Times, as they herd us all to wonders in the Holy Land. They were prophesied to be one of the major Ten Signs of the End Times, right up with the Legion of the Moshiach (Rising of the Sun from the West) and the true Messiah]
🔻 KaliConservativ63: It’s an excuse for a showdown, Taiwan best watch it’s six o clock
🔻 Aki K: China’s apparent discounts for the Iranian and also Russian oil have guaranteed it a cheaper source of energy than what the grandstanding West is able to get.
[it’s far bigger than “grandstanding”. It’s for all the marbles. we shall soon see sea piracy and sea jousts the likes of which weren’t dreamt of by even Jules Verne]
⭕ cont. thread:
🤦‍♂️ Trump’s historical illiteracy and American exceptionalist delusions have jumped the shark.
[referring to Orange tweet to recast Victory Day in ww2 as May 8th]
🔻 My Cat’s name is Charles David: Why does it bother ppl how AMERICA celebrates “ending” these wars?
🔻 WS: Non sequitur.

My point was narrowly focused: Trump’s historical illiteracy and American exceptionalist delusions have jumped the shark.

All crumbling empires cling to the illusion of greatness through celebrations of their imagined martial might and mythological victories.
🔻 TruthsayerUK: Not long before the Brits see the back of our incompetent warmonger!😀 |media|
[Starmer a lame duck dead horse. IOW, like Biden, perfect for the Murder-Suicide, being a totally empty and servicable meatsuit for principalities and A.I.]
🔻 WS: The United Kingdom should return to an absolute monarchy, but choosing the sovereign by totally random lottery, with a five-year term (or until abdication or assassination).

Term-limited absolute power.

Couldn’t be worse than the current system. Might be a vast improvement.
⭕ 🔸 The Hollywood Army

With scant few exceptions, the demonstrable fact is that the Americans have never manifest a particular acumen for warfare.

The belief that the US has ever been some brilliant maneuver army is a total Hollywood fabrication with no basis in actual history.
📜 The Myth of Western Military Prowess
🔻 Michael Rauls: I tried to think of well planned out, well executed, successful US operations that weren’t just blunt force stumbling.
I came up with Midway and The palm Sunday Massacre. Other than that, not much.
🔻 WS: I have read MANY books about the Battle of Midway. It was a stunning and decisive American victory. But it was anything but “well planned”. It was a crazy series of screwups punctuated by an amazingly propitious coincidence of American good luck and Japanese bad luck.
⭕ ‼️ Essential Reading

Lyn Alden puts together a great thread below.

And I have to laugh at all the “usual suspects” who try so hard to argue that the facts Lyn presents are not as important as they appear to be, because “US financial sanction power” is allegedly so omnipotent.
links:
🔻 Lyn Alden: For context, out of China’s total exports in a given year, the US buys like 10-15% of them.

Many people don’t seem to appreciate this. |THREAD|
⭕🔻 Dan Collins: Genetics matter. Every horse racing this weekend in the Kentucky Derby is a descendent of Secretariat.
🔻 WS: Most Europeans and Anglo-Saxon Americans are descendants of Charlemagne. I am.

Charlemagne aggressively “spread his seed”.

Thoroughbred breeders buy horse semen that has Secretariat in its genealogy.
[I read somewhere one in eight Koreans were descended from another serial rapist – Genghis Khan. And all humans alive today are reportedly descended from three men during prior bottlenecks in time, including Adam and Noah. But, whether from a devil or a prophet, we are each accountable for ourselves, and only ourselves…]
🔻 WS: And, of course, of all Secretariat’s progeny, none has ever broken his record time at Belmont. He was a once in a century horse. Maybe once in a millennium.
[which exposes the superstition behind much of genetics!]
⭕ Dog fights are back!

Where have you gone Ender Wiggins? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you. |media|

🇮🇷 [Thread] Iranian newspaper’s front pages

📰| Keyhan: “182 Sanctions in 100 Days; In What Language Should Trump Say He Has No Goodwill?!”

Keyhan accused Trump’s admin of hypocrisy and aggression. Despite claims of diplomacy, the US has imposed 182 new sanctions in just 100… pic.twitter.com/EhCOuynfzt
— Arya – آریا (@AryJeay) May 2, 2025

☝️☝️☝️ click to Twitter and keep scrolling down to see the rest of this thread of translated Iranian newspapers highlighting the damage of the Orange Wrecking Crew against their country in just 100 days…

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ UN Secretary General to Present Reform Proposals to Member States Soon, Spokesman Says

The reform proposal will be presented within a few weeks, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said during a media briefing.

🇺🇳 According to the spokesman, the “ambitious” reforms will focus on:

⦁ resource optimization;
⦁ mandate reorganization;
⦁ structural changes within the UN system.

In March, Antonio Guterres launched the UN-80 Initiative, including an audit of its operations to cut costs. The reforms come as the US reduces UN funding under Trump.
⭕ US State Dept. Approves Possible $310 Million Sale of F-16 Equipment to Ukraine, Pentagon Says

The potential deal includes aircraft upgrades, training, spare parts and ground handling equipment, according to the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency.

The US currently has no talk of “abandonment” of Ukraine, State Department Tammy Bruce said on Friday.

The US paused military aid to Ukraine in early March following a dispute between Trump and Zelensky, but resumed support after a March 11 meeting in which Ukraine agreed to a 30-day halt on attacks against energy facilities—a deal it later violated more than 140 times.

🚫 Russia has repeatedly said that Western arms to Ukraine block the peace process and make NATO nations part of the conflict.
⭕ ❗️ Zelensky Rejects Moscow’s Offer of Truce During the Celebration of the 80th Anniversary of Victory

He also said that the Kiev regime cannot guarantee the safety of foreign guests of the May 9 parade in Moscow.

💠 @Dmitry_Medvedev:
⭕ The unshaven green douchebag says he rejects Putin’s proposal of a 3-day ceasefire to commemorate May 9 and cannot guarantee the safety of the world leaders in Moscow.

Who was asking him for guarantees? This is nothing more than a verbal provocation.

The louse knows that, if there’s a real provocation on Victory Day, no one will be able to guarantee that Kiev will live to see May 10.

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇮🇷🇺🇸| Russia emphasizes Iran’s right to enrich

“I completely agree with Araqchi”

Russia’s permanent representative to international organizations based in Vienna said the Iranian FM’s statements regarding Tehran’s right to have a full nuclear fuel cycle are within Iran’s full rights and Russia supports it.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇮🇷| US: Iran must choose war or give up weapons

Marco Rubio—newly appointed acting national security adviser and US Secretary of State—says:

“The issue of enrichment level is completely irrelevant. If you can enrich 3.67%, you can reach 90% for weapons in a few weeks. If Iran does not accept the path of peace, it must expect the consequences: the destruction of nuclear facilities, the destruction of refineries, poverty and ultimately regime change.”
⭕ Me, an Iranian: Oh my! You truly scared us Rubio! (🥱)
⭕ US: No enrichment 🫵🏽
Iran: No. 🇮🇷
⭕ — 🇮🇱🇸🇾| The Israeli airstrikes in Syria’s Hama & Latakia hit the regime’s air defense sites to put Erdogan back in its place (supposedly).

The attacks come at a time when this morning, after Israel bombed Damascus, Turkish F-16 jets conducted patrol flights over Syria, especially the north of Syria to show air superiority (supposedly), Erdogan also had threatened Israel (supposedly).

✍ I write supposedly as these back-and-forth actions are merely a show. Backdoor, Turkey is a vital partner of Israel. The victims? Syrian people.
[these were aerial bombardments overnight]
⭕ Israel carried out one of its most intense air aggressions on Syria and targeted:

• Around the city of Harasta in the suburbs of Damascus
• Near Harasta Military Hospital
• Northern countryside of Daraa
• Around the city of Ezra in the central suburbs of Daraa
• Red Hills in Quneitra
• Shatahi village in the northwestern outskirts of Hama
• An air defense battalion in the Jabal al-Shu’ara area in Latakia
⭕ 🇾🇪| NEW: Yemen announced BANNING US crude oil exports starting on the 17th of this May.

Fleets of companies will be prohibited from crossing the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab, the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean.

Companies violating the ban will be placed on the sanctions list for perpetrators of aggression against Yemen.
[get ready Yanquis! Mad Max was on the ball: You’re gonna see the rise of warlords and tribes duking it over the Last Oil]
⭕ ❗️Kuwait Specialized Hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza:

• “Severe shortage of most essential medicines and basic food supplies needed for patients.”
• “The stock of medicines and medical supplies will not last more than a week.”
• “Gaza Strip is suffering from a severe shortage of more than 75% of essential medicines.”
• “The ability to continue providing medical services is now at stake.”

⭕ 🇾🇪| Yemen has launched 3 missiles & a drone over the past 24 hours against Israel.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ ❗️🇮🇱/🇹🇷/🇸🇾 BREAKING: Turkish and Israeli fighter jets are involved in an ‘aerial standoff’ in the skies of Syria

No shots or missiles have been fired, but pilots are exchanging threats over comms.
[even Bollywood or Turkish dramas can do better than this! What a sad spectacle. Two incestuous turkic cousins pretend to fight…]
⭕ More than 20 Israeli airstrikes against Syria so far, in Damascus, Hama, Idlib, Daraa and Latakia
[around midnight last night]
⭕ An Israeli military helicopter landed in Suwayda, dropping advanced weapons and ammunition for the Druze
⭕ Iranian Foreign Ministry: ‘The Islamic Republic unequivocally and strongly condemns the blatant Zionist aggression against Syria, and reiterates the need for an inclusive and strong Syrian state, representing all of the Syrian people’
⭕ Still waiting for the imminent Indian attack |media|
⭕ (Please nobody bring up True Promise-3)
⭕ Marco Rubio is expected to serve as both Secretary of State and National Security Adviser for at least six months, with several top advisers to President Donald Trump interested in making the arrangement permanent. – Politico
[not a problem. I’ve noticed how frozen and empty he looked recently – like a waiting robot. All the A.I. and principalities needed from Legion shall animate his meatsuit. One scary movie recounted 24 different such beasts pouring into one such human vessel. So everythings going according to script for the Last Satanic Empire. Into the Rabbit Hole]
⭕ Sirens in central Israel after a ballistic missile was launched from Yemen.
[about nine hours ago. Reported in above bulletin of the Yemeni Armed Forces]
⭕ — 🇮🇱/🇺🇸 WATCH: The inaugural Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) International Policy Summit held last week in Jerusalem included many controversial statements

• Former U.S. Senator Norm Coleman acknowledged that the majority of Gen-Z have a negative opinion of Israel, ending his statement with ‘The masters of the universe are Jews’
• Republican Jewish Coalition CEO Matt Brooks stated that Americans, especially those who support the Republican party and ‘MAGA,’ should not be allowed to criticize Israel or claim it’s not an ally of the United States.
• JNS co-founder Amelia Katzen mistakenly said that the news agency ‘is stomping on the truth about the IDF,’ before quickly correcting herself.
• JNS editor Melanie Phillips claimed, ‘The West will only survive if it decides to love the Jewish people,’ and noted that the West ‘is paralyzed before the Islamist death cult that threatens it.’
• Jordana Cutler, ‘Jewish Diaspora Policy Chief’ at Meta, boasted about censoring and banning critics of Israel and Zionists.

JNS stated that the summit’s goal was ‘to tackle Israel’s challenges and opportunities in a post-Oct. 7 world.’ |media|
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇾🇪 NEW: It has become increasingly clear that U.S. CENTCOM used incorrect ‘intelligence’ from a Twitter user with the handle ‘VleckieHond’ in an airstrike on Yemen last week, resulting in the deaths of 8 civilians instead of the intended target

The Twitter account has been obsessively publishing data and satellite imagery from Yemen for years, speculating on potential Ansarullah (Houthis) bases, and its activity increased alongside the intensifying U.S. aggression against Yemen during the Trump administration.

Evidence suggests that her work is taken seriously by U.S. military analysts and officials. As uncovered by Drop Site News, prior to the U.S. aggression against the Ras Issa port, ‘VleckieHond’ shared data about the location, which was later cited in an issue of the ‘CTC Sentinel,’ published by the ‘Combating Terrorism Center’ at the U.S. Military Academy.

In response to the lives lost, ‘VleckieHond’ published screenshots showing a €500 donation to two foreign organizations that are are not even Yemeni charities.

Despite having ‘Ceasefire Now’ in her bio, older tweets indicate that she is sympathetic towards Israel.

Good news. May it hold out…

India should tread warily on battlefield

[three days ago] “The international reaction so far, as Trump’s latest remark testifies, shies away from endorsing the war option. Simply put, no country, including our “time-tested” friend Russia or the so-called Global South, has any understanding for the sentiments expressed in India favouring military action against Pakistan. On the other hand, China has taken an exceptionally supportive position underwriting Pakistan’s sovereignty and security.”

India-Pakistan tensions show signs of easing

[today] “There are signs that life in India is moving on. The melancholy, long, withdrawing roar of a heavy heart is discernible. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is travelling out of Delhi.”

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕🔻 ساسان 🇮🇷: Alright so we got some Drama…

Apparently Grossi was the one that escalated the disruption of the Iran-US talks under pressure from the E3…

By providing “misleading information” and reports to the Americans, he aimed to create the impression that what Iran says about the status of its peaceful nuclear activities is not entirely accurate!

Seems as though Grossi is resorting to any means necessary to get himself and the IAEA involved into the negotiations process. 🇮🇷🇴🇲🇺🇸🇺🇳
🔻 EM: It is more complicated. There is a team behind Grossi who is not acting alone. The problem is related to trace of uranium left behind by foreign intelligence services that Obama rejected but not other successor presidents who wanted to believe the fake reports. Plus Israel demands (missiles and allies).
[scratch a festering wound in our world, ye shall find an Anglo or a Zionazi, and usually both, and often under the same skin. The Argentine is a priviledged zionazi jew.. consider his mug and the Persian’s posture]
⭕ Achieving stability in Syria remains a distant prospect.
⭕ The spiritual leader of the Druze community in Syria, Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, launched a scathing attack on the Syrian government, accusing it of killing its own people and calling for “swift and direct international intervention.”

In a statement issued today following the bloody events of the past two days in Sahnaya, Ashrafieh, and Jaramana in the Damascus countryside, al-Hijri described what happened as “ISIS-style sectarian massacres,” rejecting the label of “gangs” being applied to the residents of these areas.

He accused the government of carrying out “systematic and documented mass killings that do not need investigative committees like those formed for the crimes committed on the coast.”

Al-Hijri added, “We no longer trust an entity that claims to be a government… We no longer trust the presence of its members among us, as they are nothing but instruments of killing, bloodshed, abduction, and distortion of truth—driven by sectarian, extremist thinking that brands everyone as infidels.”

He concluded by noting, “We had never spoken of minorities, but they act with a mindset that considers all minorities from other sects and religions as infidels.”
⭕ Sirens on 250 villages and areas in northern Israel following a missile launched from Yemen.
[a specially brewed coffee early this past morning, courtesy of the industrious lads in Yemen]
⭕ It’s nearly impossible to hear a speech, statement, or interview from the current US administration without a swipe at the previous one, while paradoxically echoing and even praising every decision of Donald Trump’s policies.
[who cares? A filthy pot rightfully calls the former kettle corrupt. We condemn both]
⭕ This morning, Israel bombed an area close to the Syrian presidential palace in Damascus.
[this is nudge to their spiritual brethren the salafi Horde – to get on with dispensation of the targeted minorities, which in fact form the majority within Syria. The Horde is justifiably terrified with taking on All, but they made their beds with another strand of Legion. Damned if they do, damned if they don’t]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Lord Bebo: 🇨🇳🇺🇸🚨‼️ CHINA SAYS USA IS TO BLAME FOR COVID!

The Covid-19 pandemic originated from the United States and not Wuhan, China said on Wednesday, accusing Washington of “shifting the blame”.

China hit back, accusing the US of “shamelessly politicising” the virus’ origins:

“The US should cease from shifting blame and evading responsibility, stop finding external excuses for its internal malaise, and genuinely reflect on and overhaul its public health policies.

The US cannot continue to turn a deaf ear to the numerous questions over its conduct”
🔻 WS: This is incontrovertibly true.
🔻 Zardex🇫🇮🖤💙❤️🇷🇺🇰🇵🇵🇸🇱🇧🇾🇪🇸🇾🇮🇷🇨🇳: No abnormal variance with coronavirus related diseases was ever detected. All “novel” symptoms were media dramatizations of the old well known symptom variance with corona viruses and severity was very typical also. The only atypical thing was the over reaction around the world.
[but the timely provided “solution” of the Vaxx has had significant sequela]
🔻 WS: It was a psyop all the way
⭕ cont thread:
🤦‍♂️ Little Pistol Pete Talking Tough

Once again, I challenge anyone to describe the forces that can be arrayed and sustained to make war against Iran, and the strategy and tactics that can be employed to defeat them.
🔻 Michael D Thatcher: Only tactical nukes can beat them and that will set the whole world off.
🔻 WS: I assess the probability at near zero that the US will use nuclear weapons against Iran. To do so would mean war against Russia, China, and North Korea.

Not only that, but even if they DID attempt to use nukes against Iran, it would not disarm them. People overestimate the military utility of nuclear weapons.
🔻 Michael D Thatcher: 100% agree, I just meant that that was the only way to “win”.
🔻 WS: If by “winning” you mean that US and Israeli military bases in the region would be destroyed, along with at least dozens of US aircraft and warships.

Also, Iran could effectively shut down the Israeli economy with just a dozen or so strikes against key installations.
🔻 Michael D Thatcher: No, Will, you have got me wrong, I agree with all of that – “winning” was in parenthesis.
🔻 eLouai: What will the US do?

Maybe harness Balochistan extremists, and fund terrorist activities

That’s currently what US has structured itself to be. With media propaganda to provide cover
🔻 WS: #NoPotentProxyArmiesLeftToBuy
🔻 Bradley Mark Parsons: My guess is you will get a lot of responses like: bomb them into the Stone Age and/or turn the Middle East into glass. These have been the default for about 30 years.
🔻 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩: Trump was the first President in my adult life not to get us into a new conflict.

This saber rattling is childish and the audience is the Israel lobby and the MIC.
[but he made EVERY existing war incalculably WORSE. From West Asia, to arming up the UkroNazis before the SMO, and now the South Asian conflagration]
🔻 WS: 📜 Some Sins Will Not Wash Away
🔻 Caligula’s Horse: This was good and deserves praise; however, it may not have been planned. These things were popular at the time and did not cost anything. But defeat in Ukraine and Yemen would allow domestic enemies to call him weak – on Fox.

Now you and I, I venture to say, are thinking men initiated in the ways of our Armed forces. We know that we are weaker than we have ever been, and a conflict could be catastrophic for us; but Washington, as well as the Molon Labe, USA! crowd cannot accept this truth…
🔻 WS: Expeditionary warfare against anyone on the list of candidates (Russia, China, Iran, North Korea … and even Yemen) is simply out of the question. It could not be done. They could not put ashore anything approaching a sufficiently potent force.

And American air and naval power is a massacre waiting to happen against extremely formidable adversaries whose primary study, for decades running, has been to develop the capacity to asymmetrically defeat American air and naval power.
🔻 #Liderazgoinnovador: “Escalatory supremacy” interesting concept |O’Bomber|
🔻 John: the Emperor is now visibly naked for the world to see… Israel’s golem is impotent.
🔻 chickadee: Don’t forget they’re allegedly in “negotiations” with Iran, lol.
⭕ 📜 Welcome to the Last World War
[links:
🔻 RKM: “BREAKING 🚨🔥#Israel says, Iran were behind the Massive fire break out in Israel.

🚨 Several military bases at risk and Soldiers trapped inside.”]
🔻 MaryMacElveen 🇷🇺🇺🇸: I don’t believe anything that Israel says.
🔻 Mohammad Ibrahim Faraji: The fire on Israel and Burning everything 👍🤲🙏 wee need more wind and fire
🔻 Marta: Nessuno vuole dare una bella lezione a questi sionisti?
⭕‼️ If the HMS Prince of Wales carrier strike group attempts to transit the Red Sea and the Bab-el-Mandeb, it will run into big trouble along the way.
[links:
🔻 MenchOsint: “HMS Prince of Wales 🇬🇧 carrier strike group in the Mediterranean Sea, supported by US Navy P8 Poseidon sailing eastbound
and

UK Royal Navy’s HMS Prince of Wales carrier strike group (with F-35C squadron) entered the Mediterranean Sea, sailing toward the Indo-Pacific region.

It will cross the Red Sea in a few days.”]
🔻 chickadee: They finally got a carrier deployed, wow quite a feat for the UK
🔻 حلاوة العنتبلي: The old bitch is clinging to being a pimp …
🔻 direccion cinco: That seems like shake down speed. I doubt they even know if itll make it all the way there yet or not.
🔻 سيف اليمن🇵🇸🇾🇪 🇾🇪: We hope that the British aircraft carrier passes through the Red Sea. This is a fatty goal, we cannot miss the opportunity
🔻 ME: Coral reef in the making 🐠🐟🦞🦀🪸🐙🐚
🔻 catmando: Child killers
🔻 timcurtisart.bsky.social: It will be coming back with faults very soon then.

Or else it will be sunk by AnsarAllah
🔻 WS: 📜 Geography
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: If Russia has given anti-shipping missile tech to Ansarallah, we may be about to find out…
🔻 WS: I don’t think the Russians are involved.

But, as I mentioned recently, I suspect what has happened recently is that the Iranians have provided the Yemeni with the components necessary to upgrade the guidance and control systems of their pre-existing Soumar GLCMs.
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: I agree, I’ve run across no evidence that the Russians are involved, but the presence of a UK carrier within (plausibly deniable) missile range of Yemen must be sorely tempting.
🔻 Basedboy: Any serious war with iran would see bombing done from Arabia and Syria, no carrier is getting near, they know what happens then. But iranian air defense is still top notch, remember when trump sent 100 tomahawks at Syria?
🔻 WS: All of the Gulf States have stated explicitly that they will not permit US airstrikes against Iran from their countries.
🔻 SamT: Do you think when (if) the time comes, the Gulf states can hold firm?
🔻 WS: Well … if they don’t, the Iranians will lay waste to their oil exporting and refining infrastructure.
🔻 Lem Lemanski: Iran really terrified all the U.S. friendly Gulf States last year when they broke the Iron Dome, didn’t they?
🔻 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩: Not to mention maintenance trouble, I will be shocked if it does the round trip with zero engineering casualties.
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: HMS Prince of Wales carrier strike group should be treated as a hostile force if they get any closer to Yemen.

Let’s see how increasingly slippery the aircraft carriers’ decks have become.
🔻 Salamanca: Let’s see if they can even even reach the Red Sea… |media|
[I think they will. A Date with Destiny. It is fitting the last serious iteration of Harlot Babylon, whose navy had such global reach and pretensions, should join the war chariots of another Pharaoh to amuse the fish and divers in the blessed Red Sea]
⭕ cont thread:
🤦‍♂️🤡🌍 @johnkonrad has officially “jumped the shark”.

A battleship’s main guns have a 24-mile range. So you’re going to have to airlift them into the Yemeni mountains to get them close enough to shell Sanaa
🔻 🇪🇨 wayemeru 🔻: I used to follow Konrad but after Trump was elected he turned into a giddy little schoolboy spouting ever more ridiculous opinions.
[its happening every where – Scotty et al. After the shit show of Biden & Gang, all the remaining sane wanted desperately to believe the new wrecking crew HAD TO BE better and a viable alternative. They conned themselves. And how many are courageous enough to admit they were deceived so badly?]
🔻 WS: I think John is a great guy as a person, and he knows his stuff when it comes to merchant shipping. But I don’t think he appreciates how potent firepower and capable delivery systems have become so ubiquitous here in 2025.

#DemocratizationOfFirepower
#NoEasyWarsLeftToFight
🔻 🇪🇨 wayemeru 🔻: The captain for sure knows his stuff about the Merchant Marine. That’s why I followed him. However, he has gotten close to some administration planning committees and it’s gone to his head. It’s gotten more silly than I care to see on a daily basis.
⭕‼️ China buys over 90% of Iranian oil exports.

In other words, Trump is pouring gasoline on the fire.
links:
🔻 *Walter Bloomberg: “*TRUMP: ANY COUNTRY BUYING OIL FROM IRAN WILL FACE SANCTIONS”
🔻 Vicflair: Iran only sells their oil to China lol
[was this the handle of a WWF dude I used to watch in the early 80s??? A prim if meaty blond dude that used to wear velvety house coats iirc. No wonder Orange liked to hang around their dressing room]
🔻 Sam: Yea, good luck sanctioning China when they already paused majority of energy purchases from the United States.
🔻 Melancholyn: So he wants to impose sanctions against Turkey, India, and China? Just a reminder, Turkey is a NATO member
🔻 o_garoto_vin: He’s going to call China again and beg they also don’t buy oil?
We’re a Mickey Mouse country… |Mickey Mouse|
🔻 AndyB: Lmao. Let me guess;
China didnt pick up the phone when you called Yesterday 😂😂
🔻 Mongopotamus: 245% TARIFFS ON CHINA.

We’re making progress guys!!!
🔻 Tamara Anthony Ⓜ️🕸️🔗: cuz Trump’s over here,
watching you kiss her;
oh ho ho, ho ho
🔻 targa.s: The top three destinations for Iranian oil exports are China (primarily as the main buyer), Malaysia (mainly as a transit and relabeling hub), and the United Arab Emirates (also primarily serving as a transit country)
🔻 🅶🆁🆄🅼🅿🅻🅴🆂: At this rate, the only country permitted to trade with the US will be the penguins.
[Alas, they’re sanctioned up the wazoo too]
🔻 ₦₳V𝚜𝚝é𝚟𝚊 🇷🇺 ᴢ: DeepSeek says it is between 60-70%, but point noted.
🔻 WS: DeepSeek’s data is out-dated.

Iranian oil exports to China have increased significantly in the past few years. Multiple recent reports place the percentage at 90%+. |media|
🔻 JJ悟: Always remember, Trump posses wonderful flexibility.
🔻 Lysander, Y Sinwar I am Legend: Is that 500% on top of the 144%?
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: Why won’t the phone ring?
🔻 Truth Matters: Nothing surprises me about President Trump anymore. Late last month, he said he controls the world. He probably thinks he’s the ruler of the universe. If history is any guide, we know how this is going to end. Pride goes before the fall.
🔻 Lord Revon: So China will ignore the threat and effectively gain a monopoly on Iranian oil
⭕ Trump announces China will no longer be permitted to do business with the United States in any way, shape, or form.
links:
🔻 MenchOsint: 🇺🇸⚡️🇮🇷 Trump says he will sanction anyone who buys Oil from Iran.

It comes as a few hours ago, the 4th round of US-Iran nuclear talks was postponed, without any reason given.
🔻 Chitown Biker: Wait another 1/2 hour. He’ll change his tune.
🔻 Nasim Watani: Empty shelves and high prices are the future.
🔻 Tom Bergerson: Wtaf
🔻 Kuppy: Sounds like the China trade deal is making progress…🤣
🔻 Ikkyu Sojun: This loudmouth’s delusion is beyond belief.

Oure, jaw-dropping lunacy.

Trump’s tantrum just isolates the U.S., jacks up oil prices, and begs for war.

It’s a desperate, flailing clown act from an empire crumbling under its own ego.

Shut up, Don.

Your noise is just hot air, and the world’s sick of your circus.
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: Has the entire “negotiations with Iran” scheme been confirmed (or proven to be) as nothing more than an elaborate fig leaf?

Does that also apply to the “negotiations with Russia”?

How about “negotiations with China”?
🔻 oshiianic awareness 🇯🇵: Trump has more hot air than a Chinese “spy balloon”.
🔻 Question More: I always thought people underestimate the impact on the U.S. consumer when china finally sanction the U.S. and forbids export to them, but looks like the U.S. is doing it to themselves. If true Buckle up.
⭕ ‼️ China Will Not Submit

Apparently the Trump administration believes Xi will now call up Khamenei and say, “Hey, sorry, but the US says we can’t buy your oil anymore, and we must obey. So, good luck.”

Anyone who believes this has simply not been paying attention.
🔻 Daniele Gatti: Either that or they DON’T believe it and it’s all theater to stir up anti-Chinese sentiment in the US.
🔻 WS: What do you posit is the motivation for “stirring up anti-Chinese sentiment in the US”?

What is the end game? What advantage will derive from this course of action?
🔻 Daniele Gatti: Firstly, it creates a scapegoat. Trump is scrambling to reduce the trade deficit (which is only going to get more unsustainable as third part countries ditch the USD for international trade), he can’t do that without reducing imports from China. 1/n

Hence, I posit that he doesn’t really want a deal, or not a meaningful one anyway. Of course, he knows full well there will be severe repercussions on the US economy, and wants to pin them on the Chinese, as far as his domestic public opinion is concerned 2/n

That’s easier to do if a large portion of the US public hates the Chinese already. Also, if Trump wanted to have some sort of military confrontation with China (foolish idea, but so is packing your cabinet with neocons), monstering the enemy would be a requirement. 3/end
🔻 WS: They believe they can advance their interests by introducing multiple chaotic elements into the matrix.

I am convinced their plans will go awry, and they will lose control of events.

Chaos is not a ladder. It’s a bottomless pit. |media|
[well said. The lunatic criminals think it is a ladder they can climb at their leisure, and navigate at will. All the meanwhile they’re being cooked at the civilizational-states’ BBQ]
🔻 Daniele Gatti: Oh absolutely. They will either take it too far and suffer a crushing military defeat or backtrack and lose most of their domestic support.
🔻 SamT: I believe these are all Trump’s (so called) negotiation tactics. There are RUMORS in Iran that US agreed to allow sale of Iran’s oil, if enrichment is stopped at 3.5%.
🔻 WS: I strongly suspect the US/Iran talks are over.
🔻 ThirteenSecondsTruther: Yes but have you considered that he knows they won’t ‘obey’ but making a rule about this other party gives him the pretext to issue more tariff esque sanctions on China
🔻 WS: The Chinese couldn’t care less. They will not submit to US bullying. Those days are long gone.
🔻 ThirteenSecondsTruther: Yes and if it’s so obvious to you don’t you think the leaders in the US understand it as well. Therefore they know the response and intend the response. But it gives them pretense go further with the trade decoupling from China than they otherwise have political cover to do?
🔻 WS: I think they are geopolitically, economically, and militarily clueless, and are “making it up as they go along”. Sooner than later, this clown show is going to end in disaster.
🔻 Randy Clark: China will not kowtow this time. Advantage China.
🔻 Gun Barons: Besides the economics here favoring the Chinese, they simply have a vastly higher pain threshold so even if we were each receiving similar pain (which we will not) , they will withstand it far better.
🔻 Noah Christopher: It’s not about Xi submitting, it’s about raising the cost of defiance. Under Trump, sanctions actually bite. Remember when China backed off Iranian oil in 2019 after Trump threatened access to U.S. markets? Strength deters, weakness invites. Biden begged; Trump pressures. Xi respects leverage, not lectures. This isn’t fantasy, it’s how power works in the real world.
[this tool describes the desperate calculation. That China can be beaten back again, as in 2019. That they can wedge her apart from Iran again. But that was in galaxy long long ago, prior to the SMO Defeat, Barbarism in Gaza and the Insult of Tariffs]
🔻 African Elixir: I will be very surprised if Trump finishes his term of office. His admin seems to be sabotaging him with these erratic decisions.
🔻 Matthew McCracken 🇨🇮🇮🇪🇺🇸🇱🇷🇷🇺🇳🇱🇷🇴🇹🇩: My how times have changed quickly. In 2019, I remember we were able to force Chinese companies to back down from doing business with Venezuela. I can also remember the US forcing Russian oil companies to cut ties with Venezuela. This is no longer the case.
🔻 Ephemeral: Trump did express the belief that he controls the US and the world which means he expects Xi to obey.

Strange times, indeed.
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: This administration is a bunch of utter brainless morons. I didn’t think it could get worse after Biden.
🔻 黄威特: 因为美国反应较为迟钝，所以他们相信世界还是原来的样子，仅此而已。以前美国对于世界经济的影响比重非常大，现在则小了很多，变得不再那么那么重要（当然依然还是No1）关税是一把双刃剑，这次中美双方的角力的结果，全世界都在拭目以待。
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: Is this on top of 145% tariffs? 😜 Washington puts its foot down on the multipolarity pedal.
🔻 Modern day King of degeneracy: A nuclear war can’t come soon enough. The world’s fucked.
🔻 RationalInvestor: Empty threats won’t do it. Trump has to physically stop China from buying Iranian oil.
🔻 WS: And exactly how does that work? Describe the process.
🔻 RationalInvestor: This is one way 😆
[posts leading toon of Dragonfire on orange ass (pun intended)]
⭕ 🤔 We are led to believe the course of empire is shaped by whom we elect. It is plainly not so.

There is a continuity of oligarchic power and policy stretching back many generations.

It imposes its will.

The trajectory of events is not amenable to the voice of the people.
🔻 Oksana3112: UK
🔻 V.McKenna: |Shareholders Inc.|
🔻 daffy689: All we get is the illusion of choice, no more
🔻 Yusuf mk: It’s the antichrist nexus aka Jewish + Christian z10 Lobby.
⭕🤦‍♂️ The United States operates under the fallacious assumption that the other nations of the world have very limited choices — that everyone is intimidated by American power. They MUST use the US dollar and western banks; they MUST submit to US dominance and edicts … or else.
links:
🔻 Philip Pilkington: EU airlines saying they’re going to start buying Chinese planes instead of American planes… 🇪🇺🇨🇳
[Ryanair will cease to exist quite shortly. The lunatic eugenicists are sanctioning Russian aluminum! And China’s blocking essential parts and REE and minerals needed for planes and tech.. but the lunatics, planning to depopulate and reduce survivors to a walking sessile herd limited to 15-min radius, could care less about long distance travel or the old paradigm. Back to TechnoFeudalism!]
🔻 IAmSagzee: Slowly by slowly..

The Valar of the East is rising

As the Balrog of the West is fading

And Gold—God’s monwy—shines as the signal
🔻 Ikkyu Sojun: The U.S. empire’s arrogance is a rotting delusion. It assumes the world’s nations are chained, trembling before its might.

Use the dollar.

Bow to Western banks.

Obey Washington’s decrees.

Or face the whip.

What a pathetic fantasy.

America’s hegemony is crumbling, yet it still struts, blind to the defiance rising.

Nations aren’t cowed.

They’re ditching the dollar, trading in yuan, and laughing at U.S. threats.

From Iran to China, the Global South sees through the empire’s bluster.

Sanctions?

Sabre-rattling?

It’s the death throes of a bully losing grip.

The world’s choices aren’t limited anymore.

America’s power is.

Keep dreaming of dominance while your throne cracks.

Truth doesn’t kneel to fading lies.

The empire’s reign is over.

It’s just too vain to admit it.
[this must be a dear cousin of our Sony Thang, lol]
🔻 Dennis B: That was the case between 1945 to 2000.

Boomers such as Trump and Biden lived that era and continue to believe we are still living those times.

But nothing stands still.

The multi-polar wirld began when China unofficially became the biggest economy in the world in 2016.
🔻 jonesthecat21: But even in the 1945-2000 time frame, you had Korea (stalemate at best) and Vietnam (lost after more than a decade). I guess you could consider the Iraq turkey-shoot and Grenada “victories”. BFD.
🔻 Dennis B: 1971 Nixon exiting the gold standard, and unofficially defaulted.

1974 US forced the world to USD to buy petrol.

1987 US forced Plaza Accord on Japan.

US dictated many times during that era.

But now it is different.
🔻 jonesthecat21: Agree that the US had much more economic power and soft power then. But US military power has been overrated for a long time.
🔻 WS: 🧵The Myth of Western Military Prowess
⭕🔻 Arnaud Bertrand:
Did Trump just announce that China will “not be allowed to do business with the US in any way, shape or form”? Or isn’t he even aware of the implications of what he’s posting?

In either case, characteristically irresponsible.
🔻 WS: If I had to bet, I’d wager Trump simply doesn’t even know that China buys 90%+ of Iranian oil exports.

I am convinced there is no practicable way to enforce a ban on Iranian oil. Any US attempt to do so via “hard power” will produce a cascade of very undesirable consequences.
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Yes, this “ban” will be another demonstration of US impotence.
🔻 StarBoySAR 🇭🇰 🇨🇳 🥭: I’m fairly sure that Trump and his team of chicken hawks are aware that China is Iran’s biggest customer, as they are likely tracking all the ships

The whole fake outrage over Iran having an imaginary nuclear weapons program has more to do with Trump trying to re-establishing US control over the middle East and its energy resources, with the help of Israel, which is pretty shaky and probably will translate into further destabilizing the entire region

Nonetheless, this aligns with America’s broader strategy of containing China, given that China remains the largest energy importer from the Middle East

China is the world’s largest crude oil importer, even as it tries to diversify its imports, towards Russia, expand Gwadar Port and Sino-Myanmar Pipelines, the majority of its oil imports still comes from the middle east

I wouldn’t be shocked if the US would risk a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, with all it’s unforeseen cascading consequences and a spike in oil prices, just to create problems for China |link|
🔻 WS: You make several valid points. One observation I would make is that I don’t believe the US has the ability to blockade the Strait of Hormuz. And if they attempt it, they will end up with a bunch of wrecked ships and shot-down aircraft.
🔻 StarBoySAR 🇭🇰 🇨🇳 🥭: I completely agree with you, but judging by their desperate attempts to fight Ansar Allah, even putting US capital ships into confined seas like the Red Sea or Persian Gulf, suggest that they might try anyhow
[Yup. The Passion of the Worst. A Charge is comin’]
🔻 Yes ALL cops 🇵🇸🪂: Keep ‘em coming, I say. We need to be taken down a few million pegs.
🔻 Gunny is my Dog: I doubt it. The Chinese are all the sudden willin to negotiate on tariffs. If I know, he knows. Non partisan assessment.
🔻 WS: I have no idea what you’re talking about.
🔻 Gunny is my Dog: China “door is open” to talks. |link|
🔻 WS: I don’t think you are well-informed and correctly interpreting what the Chinese are saying. Nothing has changed. China says its “door is open” to talks only in the context of tariffs being rescinded.
[EXACTLY. The Chinese are turning the Yemeni dagger in the Wound. “in the context of” or “as long as” the demented humble themselves and reverse course. Which of course cannot happen, as it involves Pride. So the two sides shall march in lockstep into the End. As Putin said, there will be a change of elites — and this above all includes the Anglo-Zionists]
🔻 mohammad solymani: I think relations have soured so much that even lifting tariffs will not do much to resolve the dispute with China. And Trump is deepening the differences day by day.
🔻 Robert 🇵🇸 🇸🇪 🇩🇪: Trump is all theater in front of a high school audience.
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山:   放马过来吧…… just saying.
🔻 unifyforfreedom: If China buys 90% of Iranian oil… what happens if they Sabotage Iranian oil fields? Will it bring China and Iran to the negotiating table? |link|
🔻 WS: Sabotage Iranian oil fields? Are you serious?

Do you understand what the consequences of such an act would be?

Every US military base in the region would be savaged by Iranian missile strikes, and US-friendly Gulf States would have their oil facilities destroyed.
🔻 readysetgo888@yahoo.: Will, sometimes I think they don’t understand the consequences, based on what I see. Their behavior is so arrogant, plus in his case so ignorant that it makes me very concern that we have people like this in charge. I actually think they are all like this, no logic or strategy.
🔻 unifyforfreedom: I agree, Unimaginable destruction if done in haste, but done strategically, it could cripple China and Iran. |link|
🔻 WS: Incoherent nonsense.

And Eli David is a psychotic propagandist with whom I have long been familiar.
🔻 unifyforfreedom: Nonsense or not, this was a clear warning to Iran and it doesn’t appears Iran is backing down, Unless BRICS gets involved to ease the confrontation. No one wants war.
[reposts Temple Mount Hegseth’s puerile unhinged tweet]
🔻 WS: See this thread: |link|
🔻 unifyforfreedom: America has done it before but will they do it again?

“How America took out the Nord Stream Pipeline” |link|
[a busy little hasbara doll, with the mug of a middle-aged blond on the handle. Almost makes you wish they’d try, to discover the full meaning of FAFO]
⭕🔥 War, War, War …

Just a little more than 100 days into his second term, Donald J. Trump is making a strong play to become the most pro-war president in American history.

Great dangers lie ahead. |link|

⭕ 🤦‍♂️ Trump’s historical illiteracy and American exceptionalist delusions have jumped the shark.
🔻 John Metzner: In all my 8+ decades, I have not seen anything as unstable and erratic as Trump since he embarked on the disastrous Tariffs policy.
But this latest one on historical events takes the cake.
🔻 Peter: What a dickhead.

He must be trying to deliberately de-rail any “negotiations” on Ukraine with this kind of nonsense.
[good point. It’s like a temper tantrum aimed at Russkies, replete with a double Dubyian one-finger salute towards all points]
🔻 DaveP: Makes me ask what the outcome would have been if so much of the German army had not been tied up on the eastern front.
🔻 Pax Curl: The end result of people being taught history by Hollywood.
🔻 Angel: The Red Army had already entered Germany and was closing on to Berlin when the Americans started running like headless chicken on the beach of Normandy.
Good only for a Hollywood turkey.
🔻 Crypto1975: Americans think they live in an American Hero movie.
🔻 Anthony Sarich 🇦🇺🇭🇷: The Americans intervened in WW1. Out of 1M soldiers in action, about 100,000 were killed or 10% in about 12 months. It takes Britain and France 3 and 4 years respectively to reach 10% KIA. In short, the Germans slaughtered the inexperienced Americans.
[well, that’s not fair either – Frenchie and Limey ran and swam the Channel or surrendered, tout suite!]
🔻 Katusha Akula: Trump is turning into an annoying arrogant c-unt !
🔻 🇺🇸 Yoo Peterson 🇺🇸: This is a bitch slap to the Russians. Unreal to be honest with you. Trump is right when America was instrumental in those two wars but to say America did more than any other country is quite the stretch.
🔻 Pistis Sophia: They are trying to change history

note exactly which of their cousins came to save them back during the Carmel forest fires.. we are above all tribal, pretensions to civilizational and modernity notwithstanding. Blood will always remain thicker than water

i suspect this was a false flag. Major clue is the #23 he cites. The number 23 is one of the occult Big Club’s #s…

A nice recap of the catchier elements of Prof Cline’s magnus opus – on 1177 BC. well zionazi invader Horde were sent by the combined West on ships from 1890s onwards, accelerating in ww2… FDR ensured ships fleeing the European nazis couldn’t dock in CONUS. Gaza and Palestine are on the gates of Egypt too.. we currently witness the ongoing destruction of all West Asian cities in real time. How History repeats

note the traditional sequence – the new barbarians come to the Holy Land, cleanse its people, erase its cities, and the old order abruptly ends… there are certain taboos mortals shouldn’t touch. But we are an ahistorical species

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕Well done Donald Trump!

While the U.S. eyes exclusive access to Ukraine’s estimated $11 trillion in mineral wealth—framed as a return on its wartime investment—Europe got little more than a pat on the head and a front-row seat to the disaster. Ukraine, meanwhile, has lost over half a million men and Crimea, parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson oblasts, sacrificed on the altar of geopolitical illusions and “America first”.
⭕An Israeli drone strike targeted and destroyed a vehicle in Meis al-Jabal, southern Lebanon, killing three people. This strike is part of Israel’s ongoing policy of violating the ceasefire with impunity—undermining the credibility of the Lebanese presidency, government and army, and reinforcing Hezbollah’s raison d’être that its armed presence remains essential for national defence.
[and they bombed Syria, Gaza, and helped kill more civilians in WB, Yemen and other open fronts in Africa, and are planning the greatest disaster in South Asia. The decomposing West shall not survive its fetid bastard child]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🤦‍♂️ Little Pistol Pete Talking Tough

Once again, I challenge anyone to describe the forces that can be arrayed and sustained to make war against Iran, and the strategy and tactics that can be employed to defeat them.
[links:
🔻 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: “Message to IRAN:

We see your LETHAL support to The Houthis. We know exactly what you are doing.

You know very well what the U.S. Military is capable of — and you were warned. You will pay the CONSEQUENCE at the time and place of our choosing.”]
🔻 Alex Cole: Don’t worry Iran, drunk Pete will likely add you to his group chat and let you know what his plans are.
🔻 Andy Boreham 安柏然: Sit down, sir. Your time as the world police is well and truly up
🔻 Last Day With You: A real superpower doesn’t threaten accountability like it’s a mob hit.
If Iran is arming the Houthis, then show the evidence, build the coalition, and act within international law.
🔻 WS: 📜 An Air War Against Russia, China, or Iran Would Be Disastrous
🔻 whitemonkey1: the infantry part will be outsourced to mercenaries as usual , the syrian ISIS , the AZOV vets and all the same mercs that will be out of job when UKR fell

this seem the reason Trump Admin want to close UKR chapter so they can shift the resources to IRAN
🔻 kamfongchun: As Pete says, they “see” it, they “know” it & yet can do nothing about it.
Houthi’s still controlling the ‘Gate of Grief’
🔻 T: This is wwf . Never seen a more incompetent administration.
⭕ repost:
‼️ Apparently the loss of so many of its MQ-9 persistent surveillance drones has forced USCENTCOM to start developing target lists based on speculative OSINT analysis on TwitterX. Consequently, 8 innocent people were needlessly blasted to bits a couple nights ago in Yemen.
⭕ cont. thread:
🧵 Evasive Maneuvers
🔻 Kev: on one side, it’s great to see american navy getting their ass handed to them but it’s sad that the islamists terrorists are the ones doing it. not sure whether to book this as a win -win or a lose -lose
🔻 WS: One man’s “terrorist” is another man’s “heroic freedom fighter”.
⭕🔻 Baron of the Taiga:
I had a look at this ‘mineral agreement’.

Honestly, it’s laughable. Not exactly sure what Ukraine is ultimately getting but they have given away nothing of value. If it was ever the intention of the US to get something tangible from it, they’ve been played hard.

> The US has no say under the agreement on when or what gets extracted in Ukraine
> Both countries invest equally into an ‘investment fund’
> No debts for past aid are acknowledged
> The US will not see a single dollar from the investment, in the best circumstances, for 10 YEARS

It’s not even really clear what obligations there are regarding contribution to the investment fund, only that both sides match in contributions. In short, Ukraine seemingly retains the right to simply ignore the US and give preferential treatment to EU countries

They can decide how the investment fund gets used (what projects, timescales, when it happens etc.) So if France actually wants that sweet Lithium reserve in Shevchenko and they offer a better deal, it’s theirs.

Except it’s not, because Russia now owns Shevchenko 😁

(Though worth saying, the agreement certainly places no obligations on the US for security guarantees or anything of the sort either)
🔻 Armchair Warlord: This appears to be, at best, a nothingburger that allows Trump to claim he got a deal – never mind it doesn’t obligate Ukraine to pay us a red cent let alone the endless billions they’ve squandered or embezzled.

This is the Eastern European version of Mexico Paying For the Wall.

On the plus side the US isn’t obligated to actually do anything, so perhaps this is just something Trump intends to take to Putin and ask to be bought out of.

It occurs to me that this deal is basically the most that Ukraine has ever been willing to sign, and Trump likely had little leverage to get more at the end of the day – with American aid tapering off and little prospect for more, he had nothing to offer.
⭕🔻 Ian Ellis: Zumwalt-class destroyer USS Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001), on its maiden deployment, has been assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15 – the Navy’s “largest DESRON and U.S. 7th Fleet’s principal surface force” – and will be forward-deployed in the Indo-Pacific.

Currently in Guam.
🔻 Matt Bracken: “A bargain at only 1.5 BILLION dollars for a destroyer.”
/sarcasm
(what is the cost of a torpedo or a hypersonic missile? More obsolete on launching than battleships in 1941.)

“The inward-slanted hull sides make it invisible to radar.”
(Great idea circa 1970s)
LOL 2025
🔻 WS: These Zumwalt destroyers always remind me of the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz. |media|
⭕ retweet:
🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ: ⚡️‼️🚨New report:
Another Shocker: WSJ Reveals Russia Arming Massive New Rear Reserve Force |link|
🔻 John: what?… it’s almost as if the Russians don’t believe that zion don the con and his talking dummy zelensky are serious about peace talks..
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: Letting the Romulans in was either the best or the worst idea we’ve ever had, and the jury’s still out on which…

Good night, folks. 😀
🔻 WS: I put the question to my wife, who is a reliable source on such matters: “What Star Trek race is least trustworthy?”

Her answer was automatic and correct: The Romulans.

Of course, the British were extinct by the 24th century, otherwise …
⭕ #TheBigAttrition continues in Ukraine, even as “Signal Pete” Hegseth threatens Iran, a US carrier strike group remains bottled up in the northern Red Sea, B-2 bombers blow up civilians in Yemen, and the Yemeni remain the gatekeepers of the Bab-el-Mandeb.
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🔻 Lord Bebo: 🇺🇸🇺🇦Trump approves weapons sale to Ukraine.

“All DCS are quiet; they don’t get announced publicly like Foreign Military Sales. The news here is basically that it (US arms sales) is continuing, despite everyone predicting that Trump would cut Ukraine off completely”

— Colby Badhwar, security assistance analyst at Tochnyi, a research group, told Kyiv Post’s Washington correspondent.”]
🔻 Loose Cannon News: So now the US has got its hands on Ukraine’s strategic minerals they’ll be needing Ukraine to provide security.

Genius.
🔻 Statler77: Foreign Affairs predicted back in January:
Trump’s peace plan is a defeat for Russia, Putin won’t accept it.
Any other plan is a defeat for the United States,
so Trump will withdraw from the negotiations, blame Putin for the failure of the talks,
and continue the “Biden policy”.
[yeah. “Trust the Plan” bobble-heads]
⭕ 🔥 Medvedev – русский поэт экстраординарный

“… the degenerates in Foggy Albion are weeping, and the mad old hag of Europe is fuming. Things are far from pleasant. They must now come, hat in hand, to perform the ritual deal under the code name ‘kiss my ass.'” 😏
[links:
🔻 Medvedev:

“On the International Day of Labor“]
🔻 Marta: Senza freni🤣🤣e ha ragione

this is AI generated carrier image. Impossible they would keep it around, even for optics, if struck so severely. And would likely have sunk if really struck that repeatedly. It would mean they exhausted air defenses and were floating ducks…

IMO these floating tombs were left in the Red Sea precisely to be sunk so as to serve as casus beli (according to their deranged logic). And that the Resistance determined from day one NOT to bite, but to nibble, exhaust both their AD missiles and ammo and the nerve of the sailors many who are getting quite heavy doses of career-ending PTSD.

And to drag it out to emphasize to the US Military that they serve unredeemable evil, both in defending the right of zionazis to commit a holocaust, and attacking Yemeni and other civilians throughout the region who will never kneel.

And in the process of attriting the US Navy to the breaking point, they’ve also maintained their iron Gauntlet over the Bab El Mandeb, and kept hammering the bastards in Zion.

It is these cumulative humiliations and exposure, rather than being sunk, or losing hardware junk such as Reaper drones, that informs the impotent rage of Temple Mount Hegseth & Gang. They realize, like UkroNazis in similar end-stage, they have precious little time left indeed! So they aim to complete the ritual suicide of the West against Persia, whilst they still have any forces left willing to fight for the demented cause. A “use it or lose it” moment

we shall miss the demented West! Especially their endearing little humiliation rituals… they keep burnished the lamp of Demokracy and Freeum, as Dubya would say

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ More videos of the fires around Jerusalem.

➡️As we’ve stated earlier, this road leading to Jerusalem has no exists meaning the cars will either have to drive in the opposite direction to return or simply flee on foot. |media|
[huge forest fires and firestorms raging all across Zion. It’s both the season and the lunatics imported and mass-planted improper fir trees from northern Europe which exacerbate the problem. I posted a video on this several months ago.. keep scrolling down for many videos. But let us watch and see.. perhaps they’re not all natural fires, eh? And so soon after an Iranian port burned.. Welcome to the Apocalypse. What times]
⭕ 🔥 — A local Jerusalemite recorded a video of the fires having reached some cars on 1st road leading to Jerusalem.
⭕ Huge forest fires in Israel.
⭕ So-called ‘firestorms’ are raging all across Israel, with much of the country experiencing strong winds with velocities up to 110 km/h, reportedly a ‘highly unusual’ event per Israeli media
⭕ All ‘Independence Day’ events and gatherings are canceled across Israel due to the firestorms
⭕ The firestorm has reached an Israeli military base in Central Israel, with soldiers reportedly trapped inside their barracks and possibly being burnt alive
⭕ Israeli Channel 14: ‘There are dozens of fires burning across the country, and not a single one of them is located in an Arab area’
⭕ Map of firestorms in Israel

Not a single one in the West Bank or any Arab community inside Israel.
⭕ A massive sandstorm has started to appear in the Israeli Negev desert
[well, the messianic madmen wanted to go biblical. They wanted it Darker]
⭕ Israel has requested international assistance to combat the ongoing fires, reaching out to Cyprus, Croatia, Greece, and Italy for support.

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸 House Republicans are proposing $80 billion for mass deportations, including $45 billion for detention and $8 billion to hire 10,000 new ICE agents.
[wow. they’re openly building this generation’s Auschwitz and other hellhole holding pens]
⭕ The Philippines and New Zealand have signed a military visit agreement that strengthens security ties between the two nations.

The Philippines, a longtime U.S. ally, is strengthening its defense ties with other countries as it confronts China’s growing assertiveness in the region.

Bloomberg!

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ BRICS Countries Express Concern Over Crises in Sudan, Great Lakes Region & Horn of Africa

In a declaration released by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry after the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ meeting, the ministers urged an immediate cessation of hostilities, pledging their support for political solutions to the ongoing crises.
[this is a contrived belt or crescent of instability wrapped around the southern Red Sea into the northern Arabian Sea/Indian Ocean. It preceded Rummy’s and Cebrowski’s “doctrine” – really the same criminal policy of chaos unleashed as the last gasp of the demented West to raise their lord the Moshiach. All these crises began decades before Iraq and the barren Condi’s attempt to bring on the Birthpangs]
⭕ 9 Days to Victory

Sputnik Africa continues its historical odyssey, exploring the pivotal events of the Great Patriotic War. On this day 80 years ago, the Soviet troops raised the flag over Reichstag – the political heart of Nazi Germany.

Adolph Hitler and his wife committed suicide; their bodies were burned in the garden of the Reich Chancellery.

Meanwhile, the Soviet troops also liberated Ravensbruck – the largest female concentration camp – to exhausted women greeting the Red Army soldiers.
⭕ BRICS Must Decisively Oppose Glorification of Nazi Criminals: Russian Security Council Secretary

BRICS countries should jointly defend the historical truth, Sergey Shoigu said in a video address at the first session of the meeting of high representatives of the BRICS states overseeing security issues, which is taking place in the capital of Brazil.

“Europe has forgotten to whom they owe their liberation from the fascist invaders, and the sabre-rattling on the part of NATO and the EU is taking place against the backdrop of attempts to rewrite history and glorify Nazi criminals, questioning the feat of soldiers of the anti-Hitler coalition and the contribution of the Soviet Union to the victory over Nazism,” he said.

Shoigu expressed gratitude for the UN General Assembly’s support of the Russian resolution “Combatting glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.”
[and all your wishes on the Menu shall be granted on silver platters. The Victorious decide]

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel is calling up additional reservists for a renewed large-scale assault on Gaza, after negotiations reportedly collapsed due to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s refusal to accept a deal. Already facing an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes, Netanyahu appears willing to abandon all Israeli hostages in order to cling to power. Families fear there will soon be 54 cases like that of Ron Arad—disappeared, buried under rubble, never recovered—due to Israel’s own bombings potentially hitting the very locations where hostages are held.

Meanwhile, the US says it will merely “ask” Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, which remains under a devastating two-month siege.
⭕ The problem lies not only with those who commit crimes against humanity and war crimes, but also with those who remain silent or inactive in the face of such atrocities.
⭕ Israel said it has targeted a group of Syrian security forces in a convoy to “protect the Druse in Sahnaiya”, Damascus, a clear Israeli intervention to divide Syria in many provinces on the long run.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ cont. thread:
⚓️ The Saga of the Trembling Puppy

Bear in mind that, if CVN-75 felt compelled to perform abrupt evasive maneuvers, that means not only had its perimeter defenses been penetrated, but it also must have exhausted its point-defense systems, or deemed them inadequate to the threat.
🔻 tranquiltempest: Forgive my ignorance but what was the rest of the csGROUP doing? It is called a cs group for a reason. Aren’t they charged with perimeter defence ?
🔻 WS: CSG-8 consists of 1 CVN, 1 CG (122 VLS cells), and 3 DDGs (96 VLS cells each). Total VLS cells: 410, of which a large proportion will be land attack missiles. For the sake of argument, we’ll assume 300 cells dedicated to AD (SM-2, SM-3, SM-6). 150 attacking drones/missiles will exhaust the magazines.

The VLS (Vertical Launch System) cannot be reloaded at sea.
🔻 European Muslim future: If they cannot be reloaded at sea this will create limiting staying power especially in high intensity engagements.
🔻 WS: 🧵 How to Lose A Carrier Strike Group in An Afternoon
🔻 European Muslim future: Interesting. Even if we focus solely on target saturation, it would overwhelm the capacity of the defense systems. This doesn’t even take into account ECCM jammers and decoys, which would cripple the ability to track and target . I see no outcome where the carrier group survives.
[that may have been the unsaid mission. But those dastardly civilizational-states! They kept eking it out, in dribs and drabs. Sometimes Yemen cheekily announced it sent a volley of two drones and three missiles, lol. Remember, the mission on the responsible side is not to sink and risk the 5k+ corn-fed lads – but to enforce the Red Sea Gauntlet and keep Hammering the zionazis by air. They state it baldly in their daily operations bulletins. And no force can stop that for now.. All the continued presence of the US Navy does is reinforce the humiliating lack of capability and the change in modern warfare – and also raises the questions – WHY do the deranged risk their lads? Do they WANT them to be sunk? WHY do they risk total reputational loss in defending the Annihilation of an entire people by a third people? Etc.. ]
🔻 Para II: also are we to conclude if evasive action WASN’T taken then there would’ve been a direct hit on the carrier lol
🔻 Christopher Miller: No. Carriers don’t dodge missiles. The turn would be to allow the point defence systems to engage any incoming missiles.
🔻 WS: And so what happens if there are 4 cruise missiles coming in from four different points on the compass?
[this is easily within means of Yemen and others with access to Iranian missilry. AGAIN, reinforcing the mission is NOT to sink, but to deter, defang, and remove far from one’s own coast.. Consider the care that goes into their “strike packages” to keep it up for over 1.5 years, when a single salvo can sink the sorry tin cans]
🔻Bradley Mark Parsons: Enjoy your feed and the important context it provides. I don’t think it’s necessary to denigrate the ship and/or command/crew. They are out there in serious harm’s way, performing the mission they were given.
🔻 WS: They are launching stand-off munitions against civilians and civilian infrastructure, and have utterly failed, for 18 months, in the mission they were given to break the Red Sea blockade.

And, imo, Captain Soggy Cookie is an inept clown who should be summarily cashiered.
🔻 Bradley Mark Parsons: Fair enough. They were given the mission however. Doesn’t look like they have the tools for the job.
🔻 WS: I am certain the overwhelming majority of the crew and air wings are good people obeying bad orders.

I confess that I am convinced the overwhelming majority of US flag officers, in every branch, are inept clowns.

The best move for CSG-8 would be to go back home.
🔻 Marta: La meriterebbero una bella lezione questi guerrafondai
⭕ cont. thread:
⚓️ USS Trembling Puppy Update

Yesterday, in a frantic maneuver to evade incoming Yemeni missiles, noted internet influencer Captain Soggy Cookie of the USS Trembling Puppy lost an F/A-18 to Davy Jones’ Locker.

The Trembling Puppy may soon get its third skipper in the past year.
🔻 James Anderson: Why aren’t we pounding enemy locations in Yemen right now??
🔻 WS: Because they don’t know where these “enemy locations” are. Missile launchers emerge from tunnels burrowed into mountains, and then disappear again.

There’s a very good reason I dubbed this entire undertaking “Operation Whack-A-Mole” from the very beginning.
🔻 James Anderson: I hear you, but you’d think we have many eyes on that territory. I think they know where all of the missiles launches are… enough said.
[the arrogance of some people. They cannot locate and destroy most Gaza tunnels, a veritable turkey shoot in the tiniest slip and over folks without an air defense, for almost 2 years, and expect themselves to handle mountain people that outlasted EVERY iteration of Harlot Babylon in the last 5,000 years???]
🔻 WS: Obviously they DON’T know! They are all mobile launchers. They launch from somewhere, and then disappear, only to then reappear at a different place the next time.

The MQ-9 Reaper drones were supposed to keep track of them, but the Yemeni keep shooting them down.
🔻 cath liff: pretty sure the ship has AD to deal with missiles.
🔻 WS: You are misinformed.
🔻 cath liff: ok so why don’t they have adequate AD? is it so they can sit like a duck then whinge when they get hit?
🔻 WS: All they have are antiquated CIWS systems (3 or 4) that have enough ammo to fire for 20 seconds — only suitable for point-defense against slow-moving targets at short range.

Carriers are almost entirely dependent on their screening ships.
🔻 cath liff: cheers for info – so it didn’t trust its screening ship defence?
[Good Lord. We appear to have crept THROUGH the rabbit hole and into Dumb & Dumber World]
🔻 Sir Richard 1960 🇻🇦🇧🇷: It’s like the battleship in WWII. It’s an old concept that cheap missiles buried it now.
🔻 155 AUF1: I might be wrong, but I feel more confident in the survivibility of an old Iowa_class BB build with 10-15” thick armor to withstand a direct hit by a 1 ton, 600m/s moving shell.
Planes are the obsolete thing here. Not needed anymore, when ammo have 100s km range by themselves
🔻 WS: Iowa-class BBs also had 1.5″ deck armor — even thinner in some spots. Tandem charges would punch right through it. There are also numerous other soft targets all over the deck: radar and comms stuff; bridge; gaps between turrets and deck (disable its traverse), etc.
🔻 155 AUF1: True.
Now, at some point you have to accept that your man-o-war are all fated to die, and will survive only by sheer luck IF, even if, victory is the outcome (that is, the enemy died first).
[I assure you Yemenis will be last to die….]
🔻 Charles Keane: Think it’s time to bring back the battleships and unleash hell
[this is overall vibes. So sad. As their world goes to hell in a handbasket, like zionazis, and UkroNazis, and soon EUroNazis, they will compensate with the fixation on the Holocaust of Others for meaning. And the tool who wrote this looks like a boomer if that is his mug on the comment handle]
🔻 WS: You mean like at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?
🔻 Charles Keane: Not funny, but bring back the Battleships
🔻 WS: It wasn’t meant to be funny. It was meant to underscore why the battleship was rendered obsolete in 1941. The aircraft carrier was rendered obsolete in 1945 — but it is only now becoming understood. Battleships and carriers are relics of a bygone era.
🔻 Izzy_Taka | rahxephon | 🇷🇺: But the problem stays. Not hitting the ship. You don’t win games by almost scoring a goal.
🔻 WS: The only logical reason Yemeni missiles were able to penetrate the perimeter defenses is because they have exhausted their AD missile inventory. That means the CSG is now defenseless, and its only option is to retreat back to the Mediterranean to replenish. THAT is how you win.
⭕ cont. thread:
🤦‍♂️🤡🌍 @johnkonrad has officially “jumped the shark”.

A battleship’s main guns have a 24-mile range. So you’re going to have to airlift them into the Yemeni mountains to get them close enough to shell Sanaa
🔻 John Ʌ Konrad V: Did you bother to click the OP??

We are bombing Ras Isa Port
🔻 WS: So you are proposing a resurrected BB class whose primary purpose will be to launch 16″ naval shells at port cities in third-world countries?

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

I’m sure the Yemeni, for example, won’t have anything to punch through the 1.5 inch deck armor. 🤦‍♂️
🔻 John Ʌ Konrad V: I don’t want to resurrect anything. I would like to build a new class of ships.
🔻 WS: I understood that, John. And, just to be clear, I like and respect you. But I think your idea of building littoral bombardment ships is just plain silly in the context of an adversary that can fire back even at the limited level of the Yemeni. It would be borderline suicidal against a peer adversary like Russia, China, Iran, or North Korea.
🔻 Timothy Leary’s Dead 🏴‍☠️🌱🐑🐕 🎣🎇👀🐈‍⬛⚠️🎲: Not to mention that they are decommissioning ships because they lack the personnel to crew them. I doubt that is going to get better anytime soon.
🔻 WS: The US can barely keep 60 surface warships deployed at any given time.

SIXTY.

That is ridiculously insufficient for the waters they presume to cover.
🔻 chickadee: Come on John, you can’t even get close to Ras Isa port with a ship. Why do you think the Truman group is hiding north of Jeddah?
🔻 John Ʌ Konrad V: We can’t? Or the risk adverse Admirals won’t let them?
🔻 WS: It’s “risk averse”, and it’s the only smart thing the Admirals have done in a long time.

They have correctly concluded they cannot risk a transit of the Bab-el-Mandeb. Closing in to shell a port city with naval guns? It’s an absurd notion, and would prove laughably futile. 🤦‍♂️
[and thereafter, John left the chat. Gotta give him that – unlike some Marines, he knows when to beat a circumspect retreat]
⭕ cont. thread:
⚡️ Striking the Colors

The old adage holds: A ship cannot defeat a fort.

The cream of the US war machine cannot break the blockade of the Red Sea.

A US carrier strike group is effectively “bottled up” in the northern Red Sea, and will now move further away than it was before.
🔻 Brandon: Hence why the DC Crew is now talking about “invading” Yemen. And, I took Michael Rubin and others to task for that one…
🔻 WS: An attempted ground invasion of Yemen would be one of the most foolish things the US military has attempted in my lifetime (which includes the Vietnam War).

I challenge anyone to list an order of battle and how the troops and equipment would be landed and sustained.
🔻 ChainObserver: Does logic even come into it anymore? It feels like the US, like the UK, just can’t live without the military intervention high, no matter what the comedown.
⭕🔻 USNI News:
Operation Rough Rider: 45 Days, 1,000 Targets, No End in Sight – USNI News |media|
🔻 WS: “But the Yemeni haven’t hit a single US warship. So, of course, that means WE’RE WINNING!”

Meanwhile, CSG-8 retreats towards the marginally safer waters of the Gulf of Suez.

These people have no conception of the meaning of STRATEGIC DEFEAT.
🔻 Gun Barons: Too many people, including some at the top, still don’t understand that victory for the Houthis is simply disrupting traffic and surviving. Like in any guerrilla war.
Like in Vietnam. Or Afghanistan. Or the Spanish against Napoleon (which is where the term guerrilla comes from)
⭕ cont. thread:
🔻 USNI News: Reconciliation Bill Calls for 16 New Battle Force Ships, $4.9B in Unmanned Vessels – USNI News
🔻 WS: Naval warfare has irreversibly changed and the Pentagon hasn’t a clue. Landing ships; amphibious assault ships. 🤦‍♂️ These are not serious people.
🔻 MulletVBabylon: Will if you could wave a magic wand what would your ideal navy size and composition be?
🔻 WS: One must first answer these questions:

1) What is the navy’s mission?

2) What are the capabilities of its putative adversaries?
🔻 MulletVBabylon: Lets just keep it simple, what comp would you pick to counter China?
🔻 WS: Making war against China in the western Pacific is simply out of the question. It cannot be done now, nor could it be done a quarter century from now even if it were made the primary US military objective starting tomorrow.
🔻 MulletVBabylon: theoretically, how long before china has a navy capable of a reverse island hopping if they wanted to do a mainland invasion of the USA?
[Good Lord. It is a terminal condition. Cachexia of the Mind]
🔻 WS: China has no interest in an invasion of the USA. Their interest extends no further than establishing strategic depth out to the second island chain and securing its seaborne trade routes. China has never been expansionist beyond its near-abroad.
🔻 MulletVBabylon: sure but just in theory lets say they break bad, and wanted to, in terms of raw capability how close are they to that ability?
🔻 WS: China’s entire military posture is defensive in its orientation, just as Russia’s and Iran’s is. They are not configured for global-scale expeditionary warfare.
🔻 john: I love how USians are so cooked by decades of Tom Clancy and Red Alert plotlines that their default response to any kind of realistic assessment is always “but what if (insert target here) acted like the US anyway”
🔻 john: It’s always projection based on decades of anticommunist propaganda, the mere concept of a so-called rival having no actual ambitions for conquest is just so inconceivable that they have to craft a counterfactual just to make themselves feel better
🔻 MulletVBabylon: sir i was just entertaining a funny hypothetical about the number of ships that would be required to do a reverse island hop to the USA. its not a big deal.
🔻 WS: Pull up a map of the Pacific Ocean. You’ll see that there are lots of islands between the Solomons and Okinawa. Chains of them. But if you look east from the Solomons, there aren’t hardly any. It’s just a big, open ocean. There is no “reverse island hop to the USA” to do.
⭕ ‼️ Apparently the loss of so many of its MQ-9 persistent surveillance drones has forced USCENTCOM to start developing target lists based on speculative OSINT analysis on TwitterX. Consequently, 8 innocent people were needlessly blasted to bits a couple nights ago in Yemen.
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🔻 Vleckie: Allright, time for me to go through the mud.
Based on satellite imagery I’d marked this quarry as an underground base, and tweeted is out as such.
I’m fairly certain Centcom doesn’t take their targeting data from Twitter, but this still is a very severe mistake.” |THREAD| ]
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: They quite literally do not know what to do. The Houthis have got them chasing shadows and their own tail.
[and the criminals are told to drop ordinance and make things explode… it is Gaza all over. And in more ways that we shall appreciate. As some note, this is the Palantir World Order in charge of the Last Satanic Empire now…]
⭕ 📜 Evasive Maneuvers

Against all odds, the underestimated Yemeni remain the gatekeepers of the Bab-el-Mandeb, and are inflicting upon the US Navy one of the most decisive strategic defeats in its heavily mythologized history.
🔻 AKLaserWerx: 2-3% of US Trade flows through the Red Sea. Not as strategic as other straits. Why do we keep doubling down?
🔻 WS: One explanation I have frequently posited is that, if the US wants to go to war against Iran, it is IMPERATIVE to have seaborne logistics via the Red Sea, otherwise it would have to go via the Cape of Good Hope.

You can’t sustain a major army via airlift alone

☝️ they’re wheeling out ALL the surviving gargoyles from the Cheney regime era! This is the equivalent of sending a steady stream of EuroCrazy elite and functionaries to “Kyiv” to raise the despairing psyches of nazi psychos, but using Yanqui Christian Zionazis on this front. What days