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    the narrative keeps flipping.. from Nat South on her channel: “Um version 1, it fell off during an abrupt turn.
    Version 2, it fell off with a toe truck – ooops
    Version 3, it failed to land…

    Which version or is there another one?”

    💠 “‘Real de-Nazification’ would include all Europe – Medvedev
    ☝️☝️☝️ and from there is a mere stepping stone to the den of Nazidom in Five Eyestans, no?? Slowly, slowly, what we anticipated of a global SMO unfolds.

    💠@DDGeopolitics:
    ⭕ 🇮🇳💬🇵🇰 Indian PM Modi: Military Has Full Freedom to Respond to Terror Attack

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that the country’s armed forces have “full operational freedom to decide the methods, targets, and timing of our response” to the recent terrorist attack that New Delhi has blamed on Pakistan, according to The Times of India.

    Modi affirmed his “complete trust and confidence in the professional capabilities of the Indian Armed Forces” and reiterated the government’s full support for the military. He also declared his intent to “crush terrorism.”

    ℹ️This comes after Pakistan’s Defense Minister warned that “war between the two countries could potentially break out within the next two to four days,” though he later clarified he did not mean war was inevitable.
    ⭕ 🇨🇳🇮🇳🇵🇰 China Calls for Restraint Between India and Pakistan Amid Rising Tensions

    China has reiterated its call for both India and Pakistan to exercise restraint following the recent border clashes. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun stressed the importance of peaceful coexistence between the two countries, emphasizing that it is vital for the peace, stability, and development of the South Asian region.

    Guo’s comments came in response to the exchange of gunfire between Indian and Pakistani troops after the Pahalgam terror attack. As a neighboring country, China urged India and Pakistan to resolve their differences through dialogue and consultation to maintain regional peace and stability.

    💠@Sputnik Africa:
    ⭕ 🇺🇸🤑🇨🇳Trump’s trade tariffs ‘REAL GIFT’ to China – report

    “It’s a mistake to think the tariff damage is only domestic. The willy-nilly assault on friends and foes has shaken global confidence in US reliability,” the WSJ writes.

    The news outlet notes that China is already capitalizing on the situation as it is “courting US allies as a more dependable giant market.”

    The newspaper points out that Trump’s tariffs – the US’ largest economic policy shock since 1971 – could finally “sink” his presidency.
    [1971 was when Tricky Dicky regime removed the dollar peg to gold, ending what is termed by some as “Bretton Woods I”]
    Russian Aircraft Extinguish Fire in Iranian Port of Shahid Rajaee

    Be-200ChS and Il-76 aircraft from the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry dropped approximately 130 tonnes of water on the fire, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry reported.

    The fire has been brought under control, the Russian Embassy in Iran stated, expressing hope that it will soon be extinguished.

    👉 On April 26, a massive explosion rocked Bandar Abbas. The Iranian Interior Ministry said the incident was caused by negligence. As a result, at least 70 people were killed and at least 1,200 others injured. |media|
    ⭕ ❗️Russian troops liberated the settlement of Doroshovka in the Kharkov region, the Russian MoD reports

    Moreover, the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Su-27 jet, the ministry added in its report.

    The day before, the Ukrainian Air Force reported the loss of the plane, without specifying the circumstances, but referring to the “human factor.”
    [whilst most focus on the recapture of Donbass – pieces of two other Ukie oblasts of Kharkov and Sumy, right on southern borders of Russia, continue to fall day after day]
    American roots of German nazism, Part 9: How Nazi Germany championed and copied US racial segregation laws

    “America’s former Jim Crow laws, namely, legislation enforcing the racial segregation of African Americans, had a huge influence on the creation of the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935,” Yegor Yakovlev, a lecturer specializing in Nazi crimes against humanity at St. Petersburg State University, told Sputnik.

    In this exclusive Sputnik video series, this historian who specializes in the origins and evolution of Nazism discusses how Nazi lawyers not only drew inspiration from the said American laws—such as prohibitions on interracial marriage and immigration restrictions—but also adapted and enacted these laws in even more radical ways.

    #Victory80 |media|
    [Good God, was EVERYTHING done by the german nazi regime of the 1930s-40s imported lock, stock and barrel from the US sugar-daddy???]
    Putin and Lukashenko Lay Wreaths at the Eternal Flame in Volgograd

    They also laid wreaths at the grave of Marshal Chuikov.

    Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad, was the site of a key battle in World War II that turned the tide of the conflict.

    Marshal Chuikov and his 62nd Army defended Stalingrad, which had been reduced to rubble, in brutal street battles in the fall of 1942. From there, on the Volga, the army, which became the 8th Guards Army, reached Berlin and victoriously ended the war. |media|
    [this was both a poignant day and massive message to the demented, right from the former Stalingrad too: it will be down to the last Berlin Bunker route if needed. All three major spoxmen spoke today – Zakharova to the Germans, Medvedev to Anglo Saxons, and Patrushev to the Europeans on their nuclear ravings]
    ⭕ ❗️Putin’s proposal for a Victory Day ceasefire is the start of direct negotiations with Kiev without preconditions, Lavrov says
    [this is an indirect rebuke to the Orange Camacho Gang, especially that traveling NYC huckster Witkoff]
    ⭕ ‘A Return to Normalcy’ – Lavrov Downplays Hype Around US-Russia Dialogue

    Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov cautioned against portraying recent Russia-US contacts as sensational, speaking during a BRICS foreign ministers’ press conference:

    Key points from Lavrov’s remarks:

    • Moscow keeps BRICS partners regularly updated on talks with Washington;
    • Russia is committed to developing US ties without compromising its partnerships;
    • Dialogue with the US continues on various issues — “always preferable,” according to Lavrov;
    • BRICS members remain concerned about unilateral sanctions, protectionism, and economic fragmentation;
    • Lavrov reiterated that the Bucha provocation “still remains on the conscience of the West;”
    • Trade between BRICS nations is increasingly de-dollarized — over 65% of settlements now occur in national currencies;
    • On Ukraine, Lavrov stated the conflict can only be resolved by addressing its root causes, notably abandoning Ukraine’s NATO aspirations.
    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 23 April 2025 #56771
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    💠@imetatronink:
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    🔻 Armchair Warlord: The elephant in the room is the fact that the modern US Navy doesn’t actually own enough missiles to fill the battle line’s VLS magazines more than once – ergo there was no point maintaining capability to reload them.

    I wrote a post on this last year. See the first reply.
    [links:
    🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️: “The reloading of VLS at sea by the @USNavy is a moot point.

    1. The Navy abandoned the ability after the Cold War, when it became apparent they would not be fighting waves of Backfire bombers a la Red Storm Rising
    2. Post-Cold War, they never delved too deeply into their magazines except for select strikes and targets
    3. The US Navy did not need to worry about Contested Logistics so reloading in port was not seen as an issue
    4. The introduction of drones and low-cost swarm attacks changes the picture
    5. FINALLY: NO ONE is talking about the fact that even if you develop the ability to load VLS at sea, the current fleet of @MSCSealift T-AKEs cannot load enough of them to make any appreciable difference as the internal cargo elevators are not designed for them.”]

    🔻 Royrogers55: Critical intel apparently lost on the Pentagon’s brass.
    [they likely know it. They’re promoted and paid to salute the prevailing criminal wind]
    🔻 The Warden: I don’t get it. USA spends more on military than rest of world combined or some such. It all the money being wasted like USAID?
    [is grease slippery? Did USAID learn their bag of tricks from the Pentagram?]
    🔻 Pietka T: You can’t reload those dam things at sea you need a crane and sheltered waters and then which make you a sitting duck during reload !
    🔻 TurnsoutIwaswrong: Imagine the US Navy shows up near Taiwan, fires every missile in their inventory at the PLAN over a 6 hour window, turns around and sails back to San Diego and waits 3 years to reload…

    History refers to this as the Six Hour War…
    🔻 mntahoe: So are we just cooked in the event of a near peer or peer level naval fight? I grew up loving the US Navy and it’s a bit heartbreaking seeing how it is now
    🔻 Sua Caesarea Maiestas: The implications of this in a war against China are not good, to say the least.
    🔻 Woodcutter P: It’s all missiles, not only cruise.
    The USN SAM arsenal has:
    >less than 1,000 ESSMs
    >1,500-ish SM-6
    >maybe 3-4 thousand various SM-2 mods
    >600-ish SM-3
    Basically one single loadout for the fleet.
    🔻 Uke Meat Mincer: Cope is “we only need one salvo anyway to take out the enemy’s defenses, then our B52 fleet can just cruise in undisturbed and drop cheap bombs at will”, yes?
    🔻 Pete Shearer: Life before we chased camels with ASW helos…
    [posts the leading badge of the good ol days turkey-hunting Iraqis.. we shall soon see the complete reversal – of the deranged being outta ammo and means being turkey-hunted. 100% enroute. Pity the corn-fed lads holding the smelly bag when the music stops…]
    ⭕ ‼️ This is an essential piece of analysis by the Warlord.

    I follow it below with a related analysis of my own.
    links:
    🔻 Armchair Warlord: The United States has approximately 3500 Tomahawk missiles on hand – so few that at-sea reloading capability is pointless because in the event of war the USN will actually run out of missiles before it runs out of launchers.

    Let’s run the numbers.

    First of all, the Tomahawk is an old system and has been manufactured in several blocks since its introduction in the 1980s. Block II missiles have long since been taken out of service and Block III missiles appear to have left service recently – the only models currently in use are Block IV (produced since 2004) and Block V (remanufactured Block IV missiles “produced” since 2021).

    An examination of public DoD budget materials indicates that the Pentagon purchased 3882 missiles between FY 2004 and FY 2020.* Wikipedia lists 385 missiles fired in anger since 2004, the vast majority from 2011 onwards when Block IV missiles would have been preferred. As such it’s likely that the current US stockpile of Tomahawks is approximately 3500 Block IV and Block V weapons.

    * Raytheon claimed to have manufactured 4000 Block IV missiles as of 2017 – I believe this discrepancy can be explained by low-volume British orders.

    Now let’s apply this data to operations. This is almost entirely a naval missile, although there is some work to bring back a surface-fired capability that once existed in the 1980s. The USN has 73 Arleigh Burke-class missile destroyers and 13 Ticonderoga-class missile cruisers in service, as well as 4 converted Ohio-class cruise missile submarines and 48 nuclear attack submarines with VLS silos. Obviously the surface units will fill only a portion of their silos with land attack missiles – I understand the load is generally 32 missiles (graphic courtesy Sal Mercogliano). The attack subs have 12 tubes each and the SSGNs have 154 tubes each, all loaded with Tomahawks.

    As such to completely load the USN battle force with Tomahawks requires 3,944 missiles. There is thus a shortfall of some 500 missiles, which makes sense given that a portion of the USN battle fleet is in the yard at any given point in time and cannot be made ready to sail even in an emergency.

    Now to the question of reloading VLS tubes at sea, a capability which the USN got rid of in the mid-1990s when it was rapidly drawing down after the Cold War and the writing was very much on the wall about how much ammunition Congress was willing to fund going forward. The takeaway here is that the United States Navy doesn’t “need” an at-sea VLS reload capability because our current policy appears to be to only buy enough missiles to fill the Navy’s magazines once. There will be nothing to reload the silos with, at least in the immediate term, so including extra equipment to do it at sea would be pointless.

    As a final aside, given that Tomahawk production since 2021 seems to have been remanufactured rather than new missiles, I have questions about whether the US actually retains the capability to make new missiles of this type. |media|
    🔻 WS: 📜 Magazine Depth and Shields
    🔻 Beto Ochoa: We paid for better than this.
    🔻 TurnsoutIwaswrong: The implication of this is that in a potential war with China, each US destroyer runs out of missiles on the first day of action, and must then turn around and sail for San Diego.

    36 Tomahawks = 6 hours of combat.

    Similar story for air defence missiles.
    🔻 WS: First day?!

    No, against China they’ll run out of AD capability in the course of the first salvo.

    They would lose an entire carrier strike group in an afternoon.
    [exactly. Why should Russkie, China, or Persian give them a chance to reload & return? They’ll sink the demented pirates and be rid of the problem]
    🔻 John Reddick: You can look at the bright side – no need to worry about the logistics of reloading.
    🔻 bc: Obviously we just need to raise tariffs on the Houthis.
    🔻 155 AUF1: “Also bear in mind that very similar scenarios could just as easily play out in the Baltic Sea or the Persian Gulf.” 👍Or the red sea. Or pretty much anywhere, limited only by the range of attacking smart ammunitions.
    Ammunitions (in numbers) are underrated, carriers, overrated.
    🔻 Elly Maloba: China and Russia have mastered the art of overwhelming numbers
    Naval warfare has irreversibly changed and the Pentagon hasn’t a clue. Landing ships; amphibious assault ships. 🤦‍♂️ These are not serious people.
    [links:
    🔻 USNI News: “Reconciliation Bill Calls for 16 New Battle Force Ships, $4.9B in Unmanned Vessels – USNI News” |link|]
    🔻 NerdTech: This is actually good for the world. America weakens itself internally while the rest develop onwards.
    🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: What happens when Contractors decide what the Navy should have and not the other way round…
    🔻 pigmilkgelato: Yup. It’s like investing in horse cavalry during ww2
    🔻 John: the MIC must be fed… regardless of whether the product has any use or merit.
    ⭕ ⚡️ 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.
    🔻 deepbluediver: The sailors can soon go snorkeling in Sharm el Sheikh.
    ⭕🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️: When everyone says that the there are no ships heading to the United States, show them this.

    Green are cargo ships, red tankers and blue are passenger ships

    Check out the latest What the Ship

    1️⃣Flag Hopping
    2️⃣EU Demands Ship Insurance
    3️⃣Transpacific Trade: Are US Ports Empty and Are Ships Turning Around?
    4️⃣COSCO & Port Fees
    5️⃣IMO & Decarbonization Tariffs |link|
    [so what gives? More premature BS from Hal? Or Sal is spinning like a whirling dervish. We shall know soon enough by facts on the shelves…]
    🔻 WS: I believe the Trump admin will do whatever is necessary to make sure the shelves at Walmart and Home Depot remain mostly full, even if higher priced because they were routed via third countries.

    They seriously believe they can juggle all the contradictions of the narrative.
    🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: There are two things that Mr Trump pay attention to and treat with respect:

    1. Mr. Bond (Bond Market) – Trump got a teaser of Mr Bond’s power!
    2. Supermarket shelves… I hope he has considered that seriously!
    🔻 kate Spelman: Dark days ahead for the people who live in the US. The regular people.
    🔻 Dw😉: Even partially empty shelves could start panic. Fully empty, civil unrest.
    🔻 hans Koenig: I highly doubt that they are as adept as the Slavs in regards to import re-routing. Or the ordinary citizen as composed when there is the slightest shortage of article x. Never4get the great toilet paper shortage of 2020.
    🔻 IQWACP: It is easy to keep walmart shelves full, just keep all shelves locked away.
    ⭕🔻 Kit Klarenberg: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
    🔻 Armchair Warlord: “Because the Russians will figure out where they’re based and kill them all within 24 hours.”
    🔻 WS: The whole notion of the French and British sending troops to Ukraine was ALWAYS an absurdity, and I don’t believe anyone in the high command of those countries ever seriously considered it — just as I believe the Pentagon has never seriously considered it. It would be a massacre.
    ⭕🔻 Margarita Simonyan:
    “The war will end, but the work of our special forces will only begin. We must make sure these people are afraid not only to leave Russia, but to leave their homes for 10, 20, 30 years.”

    Look at the smirk on the face of Roman Kostenko, the top Rada national security deputy, as he takes credit for the assassination of General Moskalik in Moscow.

    Denazification is not an abstraction – it’s the reality. Many Kiev leaders have no place in post-conflict society. |link|
    [note on the UkroNazi front, as in the even more desperate ZioNazi front, they’re reduced to celebrating the murder of replaceable folks to boost morale and to serve as “war successes” to despairing polity]
    🔻 Armchair Warlord: This is a prime example of why the Russians continue to insist on the denazification – read: not just a change of faces at the top, but the comprehensive excision of the entire post-Maidan leadership class – of Ukraine.

    Many of these people are genuine fanatics.
    🔻 WS: The only way to eradicate them will be to relentlessly hunt them down. That could take a decade or more.
    [thankfully Russkie has mucho experience in this department. Soviet Iron Ledgers still exist detailing the plans]
    🔻 Olga Bazova: It took a decade after WWII. Quite possibly it will take the same now.
    🔻 Anna: Unfortunately, most of these deplorables will be living in the West, committing acts of terror in Western nations and blaming the West for losing this war.
    🔻 Avatar: I’m sure the russians are looking forward to this hunt.
    🔻 Ken Lovegrove: And sadly UK intelligence will aid these Nazis
    🔻 Coco the Canadian Socialist Rat🇨🇦 🇨🇦: Canada will protect many by allowing them to immigrate!

    ⭕🔻 Alexander G. Rubio: 1/6

    – The Diplomatic Problems of Modern Democracy –

    People in general, and politicians in particular, tend to move in herds, especially if they suspect they’re in the wrong; ’cause if it’s everybody’s fault, no one’s at fault. That’s why modern democracy is untrustworthy. |THREAD|
    🔻 Alexander G. Rubio: This has become an acute problem in bringing the conflict in Ukraine to a close. Because, while Western media will claim Russia is not to be trusted, it’s rather those Western states that has a history of treating treaty papers like Cersei Lannister.
    🔻 Alexander G. Rubio: Swearing a false oath, “meineiðr” in the Old Norse, was a griveous sin across all European nations. This was true for individuals, but no less for chieftains in the name of their tribe, or kings representing their people.
    🔻 Alexander G. Rubio: It used to be that any treaty or accord agreed by two nations was vouched for by the sovereign of that nation on behalf of that nation as a collective people, and wasn’t simply discarded by the next set of politicians, at least not lightly or on a whim, nor “Orange Man bad”.
    🔻 Alexander G. Rubio: But modern Western democracies, despite their protestations of a “rules based world order”, no longer identify as nations, a people united by common blood, cause, AND responsibility, nor hardly even states in the sense of the Westphalian Treaty. Democracy is a licence to lie
    [the last sentence is key. How can a system conceived from the get-go by Harlot Babylon (iterations 3, then the current Last) as a fulcrum to deceive function in a truthful manner??]
    🔻 Alexander G. Rubio: There are rumours that a report by Russian intelligence services is circulating in the Kremlin and Parliament pointing out that any agreement Trump might sign off on would possibly, if not even likely, be simply set aside by any future US administration. Are they wrong?
    🔻 WS: They are NOT wrong. But, in my view, it’s a moot issue, for the simple fact that the US will be no more capable of defeating Russia + China + DPRK + Iran in a war in four years, or eight years, or twenty years from now.
    🔻 Alexander G. Rubio: True. But if, and if so, how, they might try is of some importance, not least to those of us tied to the mast of this Western ship.
    [untie thyself and swim far away!]

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 23 April 2025 #56769
    AHH
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    💠 @DDGeopolitics:
    ⭕ 💬🇵🇹 Scenes from a Portuguese supermarket after blackouts that have lasted for over 8 hours in some places. |media|
    [this is terrifying. These insouciant exceptionals haven’t experienced hunger in some 80 years. And even then, quite briefly, with 400 years of plenty before then. I recall the consequences of Mr P’s “missing nine square meals”. All pretensions are dropped as former gardens become proud Jungles]
    ⭕ 🇺🇸 Earlier today, the U.S. Navy reported an F/A-18E Super Hornet and a tow tractor were lost overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman while operating in the Red Sea.

    According to official reports, the aircraft was being moved in the hangar bay when control was lost, sending both into the sea. One minor injury was reported. An investigation is underway.

    However new satellite imagery (photo) may suggest a much bigger story.

    The USS Harry S. Truman appears to have performed an emergency turn on April 27th to evade a large-scale Yemeni missile and drone attack. The maneuver was so severe it could have caused the loss of the Super Hornet.

    If true, this indicates that:

    • U.S. carrier group air defenses (including escort ships) failed to intercept the incoming attack.
    • USN assets were vulnerable enough to force a last-resort emergency maneuver.
    • Ansarullah have reached a new level of operational pressure against forces in the Red Sea.

    As shown in the video, emergency maneuvering of a nuclear aircraft carrier is extremely stressful on crew and equipment and only undertaken as a last resort.

    It’s a major signal that the Red Sea is no longer safe waters for U.S. ships.
    ⭕ 📝Energy Collapse in Europe📝

    During the day, a massive power outage occurred in major cities across Spain, where the metro, factories, communication networks, airports, and road infrastructure were left without electricity. As a result, the country experienced a transportation collapse.

    Similar problems were observed in the neighboring countries of France, Portugal and Andorra. The exact cause was not specified, but local energy operators officially attributed the failure to some “rare atmospheric phenomenon.”

    📌The reality, however, seems different: such a total blackout could have occurred due to improper operation of the emergency automation and initial design flaws in the system.

    Possibly, there was a failure at a nuclear power plant, and then everything went in waves due to frequency fluctuations that the existing capacities were unable to stabilize. Including those built in Europe as part of the “green transition.”

    ❗️This example clearly shows the difference in the approaches to power system design: the Ukrainian power grid, created during the Soviet era, despite all the losses, withstood dozens of massive strikes. In Spain, everything collapsed from a single failure without a single impact.

    It is possible that if the energy facilities were subjected to a real attack, the region could have plunged into a pre-industrial era. Interestingly, do the affairs in other parts of Western Europe coincidentally not be in the same way?
    #Spain #Portugal #France #electricity
    ⭐️@rybar |media|
    ⭕ 🇷🇺 NATO is simulating scenarios involving the seizure of Kaliningrad and preemptive strikes on nuclear facilities during exercises near Russia’s borders, as stated by Nikolai Patrushev in an interview with TASS.
    ⭕ 🇷🇺 In an interview with TASS, Nikolai Patrushev stated that the West, in its quest to maintain dominance, is not hesitant to flirt with scenarios of nuclear apocalypse and engage with neo-Nazis.
    ⭕️ 🇾🇪🇺🇸 The Truman Show |media|
    [this “process” of deflating Hubris couldn’t have happened to a better named floating tomb]
    ⭕ 🇫🇷🇷🇺France to Increase Pressure on Russia in Next 8-10 Days – Macron

    Macron: The next 2 weeks will be key in trying to achieve a ceasefire and increase pressure on Russia. I think I have convinced the Americans that it is possible to escalate threats and possibly sanctions to force Russia to accept this ceasefire.
    [along with a posted threat to Russia’s Red SQ on Victory Day by the UkroNazis, it is safe to say next few weeks will be dangerous. The criminal nazis openly plan]
    ⭕ 🇷🇺 Medvedev stated that Russia’s special military operation must end in victory and that the Kiev regime must be destroyed.
    ⭕ 🇷🇺 As long as the special military operation continues, not only the Ukrainian Armed Forces but also foreign mercenaries are legitimate targets for Russia, Medvedev stated.
    ⭕ 🇷🇺 “The Anglo-Saxon clique is to blame for the current global crisis, and Russia was shortsighted for trusting it for so long,” said Medvedev.
    ⭕ 🇷🇺💬Any negotiations, if conducted correctly, end in peace, I hope that this will be the case too – Dmitry Medvedev

    “However, negotiations in the current conflict are a complicated matter. That is why we do not comment on them,” he said.
    ⭕ 🇷🇺 Medvedev predicted that Zelensky, who boasts about the killing of Russian General Moskalik, will meet a “very grim end” himself.
    ⭕ 🇷🇺🇾🇪 One of the three Russian sailors injured in recent U.S. strikes on Yemen has been hospitalized in Sana’a and will require surgery, according to the Russian Embassy.

    The other two sustained minor injuries during the American attack on the port of Ras Isa, Russia’s acting envoy in Yemen confirmed.

    The tanker “Seven Pearls” remains docked at the port, with 19 Russian crew members still on board.
    [Why is Russkie tanker still in port? If not damaged, was this intentional, to serve as shield for defense of most VIP port to north Yemen?]

    💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
    ⭕ The top 10 countries devoting the largest share of their GDP to defense spending in 2024:

    1 – Ukraine 🇺🇦: 34% of GDP
    2 – Israel 🇮🇱: 8.8% of GDP
    3 – Algeria 🇩🇿: 8% of GDP
    4 – Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦: 7.3% of GDP
    5 – Russia 🇷🇺: 7.1% of GDP
    6 – Kuwait 🇰🇼: 4.8% of GDP
    7 – Poland 🇵🇱: 4.2% of GDP
    8 – United States 🇺🇲: 3.4% of GDP
    9 – Colombia 🇨🇴: 3.4% of GDP
    10 – Greece 🇬🇷: 3.1% of GDP
    Source: SIPRI
    [if you remove NATO & the complicit / narcostates, that leaves just TWO with sincere “defense” spending]

    💠@ejmalrai:
    The pleasure to kill:

    Israel continue killing civilians in Gaza. In the last 48 hours, It has bombed a densely populated street, killing 48 people, a daily crime that is not defeating the resistance nor freeing g the Israeli prisoners.
    US said an F/A-18 ended in the Red Sea while manoeuvring to avoid Ansar Allah fire.

    The US is ready to lose 21 of its most expensive MQ-9 Reaper, over one billion dollars since the beginning of the attack against Yemen but not ask Israel to lift the unlawful humanitarian siege on Gaza.

    No Israeli supply has crossed the Red Sea during the US intervention and attack on Yemen and Ansar Allah still fire missiles on Israel.

    💠@imetatronink:
    ⭕ ⚓️ 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.
    🔻 chickadee: what kind of “evasive maneuver” can an aircraft carrier do?
    🔻 WS: Not much. They are counting on the fact that they’re trying to evade a subsonic cruise missile that, hopefully, isn’t sophisticated enough to perform effective corrective maneuvers in its terminal phase. |media|
    🔻 chickadee: Then you have to wonder how such a missile got through all the destroyers in the group. Then the carrier had to know the group was unable to shoot it down and had to perform some slow evasive maneuver. It must’ve been chaos out there.
    🔻 chickadee: Yemen must have overwhelmed them with drones and missiles. I wonder if Truman is out of ammo.
    🔻 Dax: They only need to park up at longer range.
    🔻 WS: They can’t “park” anywhere. They have to keep moving. Problem is, there ain’t much room for maneuver compared to the open sea. They’re like ducks swimming in a pond hoping the kids on the shore with .22 rifles don’t make a lucky shot.
    🔻 Neanderthal Intellectual: Imagine what will happen when the US finally fights a peer war?
    🔻 WS: They will lose a carrier strike group in an afternoon.
    🧵 How to Lose A Carrier Strike Group in An Afternoon
    🔻 155 AUF1: That’s ridiculous. If a missile is “smart” enough evade anti-missile systems of the protective fleet, do you expect it to be “dumb” enough to be fooled by some last minute “hard turn” of such massive ship?
    🔻 WS: It was obviously a desperate maneuver. That’s my whole point. Sooner or later one of these massive ships is going to get hit.

    The aircraft carrier is an obsolete relic of a bygone era.
    📜 Dinosaurs of the Deep Blue Sea
    🔻 155 AUF1: I rest my case (which doesn’t contradict yours). Either your “iron dome” is able to detect and fend off the missile, or it isn’t, but in any case no maneuver at 20 m/s will save you from a +300 m/s missile bend on hitting your ship.
    🔻 Dadams: Wait, are you trying to shit on a U.S. Navy Asset? Why? Because you don’t like Donald Trump?
    Pretty disrespectful of the service men and women aboard. Curious if you’d use that nickname to their faces.
    🔻 WS: Captain Soggy Cookie is a ridiculous fraud. |Soggy Cookie|
    🔻 Jeff English: You’re enjoying this, aren’t you!?
    🔻 WS: It’s simply a confirmation of what I’ve been saying for a few years now: #NoEasyWarsLeftToFight
    🔻 The Jew-Bot Detector: I had the very same thought.

    After the baseless war in iraq, the middle-east has been promptly prepping.

    Discreetly sharing intel, weapons, and resources across the board, with the US getting fed limited knowledge of any advancements.

    Gonna be an interesting next few months..
    🔻 hans Koenig: You are half wrong on this one. Point defence is so close that you don’t have time to even start turning in a capital ship.
    🔻 WS: No. You simply misunderstood. They would have calculated several minutes in advance that point-defense was inadequate, and acted accordingly.
    🔻 hans Koenig: Fair. Makes one question what kind of missile was incoming. US point defense (the guns) is a bit trash for the current year but should have no issues with drones.
    🔻 WS: It was probably just an older-design subsonic cruise missile. But it’s not unlikely that its efficacy has been enhanced by a guidance system upgrade — like maybe optical-electric / infrared sensors and control-mechanism enhancements.

    #NoEasyWarsLeftToFight
    🔻 Jeffrey Jensen: They seem to be overheating. That’s the vulnerability I’ve heard anecdotally.
    🔻 WS: A CIWS only has about 20 seconds of ammo. If it “overheated”, it means they fired them all in a burst — and then it doesn’t matter anyway.
    🔻 Pete Shearer: Former CG TAO, these could be precausionary evasion.
    🔻 WS: Of course they’re precautionary! You got cruise missiles that just penetrated your main line of air defense, and you apparently have no CAP up to deal with the threat. So Captain Soggy Cookie shouted “Hard to port!” and everyone started praying as an F/A-18 splashed into the sea.
    🔻 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩: That betrays a lot as far as flotilla perimeter, CAP and BCAP penetration. I question the wisdom of diffident sea room for maneuver operating in the the Red Sea if that occurred there. The odds are tilting.
    🔻 McTablecloth: Remember the Maine: Red Sea Edition
    🔻 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
    🔻 Finkus Dinkus: “Too close for guns, switching to full left rudder”
    🔻 Lavr Dyogtev 🇳🇿 🇷🇺 ✝️ Bot. blocked instantly: Assume Truman was prudently operated beyond the range of Noor & short range (<200km) missiles. Say 250-300km. Missile flight time would have been >> 10 min. The layered AD still struggled, & Yemen targeting data was so good that Truman had to change course extremely rapidly.
    🔻 WS: They have consistently remained 1000+ km away. Often further. They are getting AT LEAST a full-hour lead time on these subsonic cruise missiles. 2x – 3x longer for the drones.

    We are witnessing the result of magazine depletion and operational exhaustion.
    [the deep irony of what is going down. just beyond the northern part of this map is the point the red sea was parted during Exodus and the legend of the first sea chariots was created. History indeed repeats as farce for the ahistorical exceptionalist fools determined to suicide their own sea chariots]
    🔻 Johanna deMartin: Did they also run out of resupply ships?
    🔻 WS: The VLS (Vertical Launch Systems) of the cruiser and destroyers cannot be replenished at sea.
    [another boon with the folding of the USSR – when the at-sea replenishers were retired with end of the Cold War. And they stopped making sufficient stocks..]
    🔻 Johanna deMartin: Ah, that helps explain a bit why the TL is bustling with “we need humongous battleships with fat armour and massive arsenals” today.

    Not that a fat battleship with 18 inch guns would do much better in the Red Sea, I guess they want them for China and the Indo Pacific. Preparing for a repeat of WWII forgetting about modern anti-ship missiles.
    🔻 WS: Someone is pumping the idea of bringing back the battleship in 2025?!

    Please post a link so I can go indulge myself with some well-deserved mockery.
    🔻 Johanna deMartin: Here you go. You’ve had dealings before, in the recent past, I believe.

    Aesthetically, I love the idea of battleships returning, buuuuuuuuuut some concerns which you’re far more adept at pointing out.
    [links the poor John Konrad:
    🔻 John Ʌ Konrad V: “BaTTLeSHiPs aRe ObSoLeTe We HaVe CaRRieRS aNd JDaMs aND TLaMs”

    Let me spell it out in crayons:

    Satellite spots a Houthi leader in port. You have three options:

    1) Fire the last 2 of ~30 Tomahawks. Hope they hit. Then sit around for 2 weeks while your ship runs home to reload.
    2) Launch an F/A-18. Drop 8 bombs. Fly 2 hours back. Reload. Fly 2 hours out again.
    3) Launch a $2B B-2 bomber. Drop 80 bombs. Pray it doesn’t get smoked. Fly 5 hours back to Diego Garcia. Spend 5 hours rearming. Fly 5 hours back.

    Or…
    You sit a battleship offshore. Fire 1,200 Volkswagen-sized shells at every target that blinks.

    Reload at sea in 8 hours. And stay in the fight.

    Stay mad.

    P.S. Don’t tell me to “reactivate museum ships.” I don’t want antiques — I want new monsters built for this century.

    P.S.2 And don’t insult everyone’s intelligence with “it would take 2 years and $20B.” Samsung could weld one together on budget in 18 months — faster than the US Navy can rebuild a seawall.

    Do better.” |media| ]
    🔻 WS: With this single post, John has permanently discredited his understanding of naval warfare.
    🔻 Lysander, Y Sinwar I am Legend: And also, how effective is a carrier that has to stay 1000 KMs away from the contested space? Even if that distance was actually safe?

    Which, I guess it isn’t.
    🔻 Lysander, Y Sinwar I am Legend: Would the US force an entire battle group that is no longer combat capable to stay in place, just to avoid the embarrassment of admitting they lost to Yemen?

    Rhetorical question.
    [best comment of the day. The same conundrum unfolds on the Red Sea as in 404.. the Losers CANNOT countenance admitting they’ve lost. For that means they’re no longer Exceptional, no?? So… as UkroNazis are sacrificed to the last, the eternal Parasite shall suicide the worn Host of USUK, specifically US Navy and aviator lads, to the last]
    🔻 William C: This arms-race between supersonic variable trajectory missiles, drones & ballistic missiles VS naval warships is fascinating,with huge implications for the projection of sea power.
    Size determines range, weapons-loads & radar power. Yet size is antithetical (maneuverability,
    🔻 NTG: Wait, depletion of the whole CSG? wtf, really?
    [yeah. Before they even got to Iran or China!! Yemen should be put on a pedestal and feted with the extracted pirate loot for the next three generations by the civilizational-states – provided the world doesn’t go “Poof”]
    🔻 James W Fiala: Magazine depletion and operational exhaustion? Glory hallelujah!
    🔻 Alexander G. Rubio: We’re witnessing the truth slowly dawn on people that there is no “Wunderwaffe” if it can not be produced at scale, if it can not be stamped out like funkopops from a hot plastic extruder.
    🔻 Optimistic Burger: The “evasive maneuver” is more to turn the anti missile “CWIS” weapons towards the threat, not to dodge to missile.
    The CWIS systems are mostly located on the sides.
    🔻 WS: This is nonsense talk. A CIWS has a 360-degree traverse.
    🔻 Optimistic Burger: Yes of course…. But when mounted amidships do you expect these to shoot through the hull of ship? |media|
    🔻 WS: There are typically four CIWS mounted on a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, which are positioned to provide 360-degree coverage of the ship.
    I’ll let Grok explain more of the details: [missing]
    🔻 Optimistic Burger: Buddy, I don’t need grok to explain.
    They will position the ship perpendicular to the threat, so that 2 of those can fire simultaneously.
    In a head on/rear position there is a dead zone right in front of the ship. Just look at the ship… 🤦‍♂️
    🔻 WS: They resorted to evasive maneuvers because they panicked. Period.

    There were undoubtedly multiple ASCMs bearing down on them from multiple vectors, and Captain Soggy Cookie had no other options, so he frantically screamed “Hard to port!” because he didn’t know what else to do.
    🔻 Optimistic Burger: We’ll agree to disagree.
    🔻 WS: Either way, I guarantee CSG-8 will take up a position near the mouth of the Gulf of Suez — and they may very well run away again to the Mediterranean under the pretext they need to recuperate and rearm. They’ll spin the narrative they “inflicted great damage” and call it good.
    🔻 Optimistic Burger: I don’t disagree with that.
    Carriers are giant sitting ducks in the missile age.
    🔻 WS: 📜 Dinosaurs of the Deep Blue Sea
    🔻 Optimistic Burger: Yes, we’ve put all our eggs into the super carrier basket, when the navy should be focusing on many more smaller ships that diversify the number of targets to shoot at.

    All it takes is one missile to get through to sink/disable a large percentage of our naval capacity.
    ⭕🤦‍♂️🤡🌍 @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
    [wow. do you understand the agony of the Pirates, and the untold blessings of Yemen?? Battleships, even if could withstand modern long-range precision missilry and drones, lack the range to get onto the Yemeni mountains, a good 50-70+ km from the coast. In every way, Yemenis own the real estate at the Gate of Tears. Why the smarter Romans quickly conceded, honored them with the title “Felix Arabia” and rapidly retreated in good order to savage and plunder softer areas of the tormented world]
    🔻 C1: We’re presuming that we’re talking about WW2 BBs. A modern class of BBs would use modern artillery tech that can range closer to 100 miles.
    🔻 WS: This is ridiculous silly talk. There are no “modern” battleship designs being seriously discussed, and no serious person would even consider discussing them. The whole idea is utterly ludicrous.
    🔻 C1: He mentioned it as a hypothetical. As opposed to our unarmored ships that are tin cans if they get hit. I don’t see the the concern or the humor.
    🔻 WS: This is ridiculous silly talk. There are no “modern” battleship designs being seriously discussed, and no serious person would even consider discussing them. The whole idea is utterly ludicrous.
    🔻 C1: People laugh at ideas until they see them in action and say, “Thank you, I had no idea what I was talking about.” LOL.
    🔻 WS: This is ridiculous silly talk. There are no “modern” battleship designs being seriously discussed, and no serious person would even consider discussing them. The whole idea is utterly ludicrous.
    🔻 b g.: Konrad was referring to targets in ports.. no?
    It’s a different matter that houthis probably are not doing anything military from their ports, expecting the obvious
    🔻 The Surgeon: Not to mention that they were already vulnerable to air attacks. What does he thinks it would happen to it if it goes against missiles?
    🔻 يونس الغاضب: How they gonna fare against China in South China sea?
    🔻 WS: They will fare very poorly.
    🧵 How to Lose A Carrier Strike Group in An Afternoon
    🔻 Red lantern: This happened a few weeks ago for me when I thought has he always been like this or has someone got to him. I thought I was going to learn something about shipping with his mate Sal the Italian
    🔻 Joe: Unless the target of the guns is the American public. I don’t know, just posing the possibility.
    🔻 Bart Simpson: Living in the past. Even the whole Pacific fleet cannot dislodge the entrenched Japanese on a tiny island. The Americans (USA) should really experience war on their soil again to stop this warmongers.

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    💠@Sputnik Africa:
    ⭕❗️Russian military liberated Kamenka in Kharkov region, Defense Ministry reported
    ⭕ Some 6 to 10 Hours Needed to Fully Restore Power Supply in Spain, Reports Say

    The country’s power grid operator described today’s blackout as an unprecedented event in history |media|
    [this appears another live experiment]

    💠@DDGeopolitics:
    ⭕ ❌💬🇪🇺 Widespread power outages reported across Europe—residents of Spain, Portugal, France, and Belgium are complaining about network failures.

    According to local media, disruptions in electricity and internet services have been reported by residents of Lisbon, Algarve, and Coimbra in Portugal, Madrid and Barcelona in Spain, and the Burgundy region in France.

    Publico reports that Lisbon’s metro is out of service, and there are also reports of power outages in the Netherlands and Belgium. According to El Mundo, Madrid’s Barajas airport is not operational. The cause of the massive power grid failure has not yet been revealed.
    ⭕ 🇪🇸 BREAKING! The authorities of Madrid will ask the government to activate “Emergency Plan 3” in order for the military to intervene during the power outages, if necessary.
    [“…in order for the military to intervene….”]
    ⭕ 💬🇪🇸🇵🇹 Power Outage in Spain and Portugal: Authorities Predict Restoration Could Take 6 to 10 Hours

    A massive power outage has left Spain and Portugal without electricity, with full restoration expected to take between 6 to 10 hours, according to El Pais. The exact cause of the blackout remains unknown.

    The disruption has affected all sectors, including train services, air travel, public transportation, and traffic lights.
    ⭕ 🇺🇦💬🇪🇺 Ukraine is ready to help Europe with their energy troubles in the most valuable way – by sharing what it’s like not to have electricity
    ⭕ 🇵🇹A “rare atmospheric phenomenon” that could last for another week could be the cause of a major blackout in Spain and Portugal, Portuguese operator claims

    🐻 Then they will definitely need Ukraine’s expertise
    ⭕ 🇵🇹💬Portugal is considering different versions of the causes of the blackout, but there is no indication that it was a cyber attack, the prime minister said.
    ⭕ 🇵🇰🇮🇳 Pakistan has stated that its military has been placed on the “highest level of alert” in anticipation of a reportedly “imminent” attack from India.

    Pakistan has also added that they will only use their arsenal of nuclear weapons if “there is a direct threat to our existence”.
    ⭕ ⚠️🇮🇳🇵🇰 Pakistan Defence Minister: Indian military invasion is inevitable and will happen soon.

    Pakistan Defence Minister: Countries should refrain from using nuclear weapons.

    💠@imetatronink:
    ⭕ 🤔 This is a valid observation and question.

    And the history of the past half-decade suggests the powers that be in China seek fewer peasants among their populace, whereas the powers that be in America seek to make more peasants among their own.
    links:
    🔻 Shaun Rein: America buys refined rare earth, antibiotics, iPhones, lithium batteries from China

    China buys soybeans, corn & beef from America

    Who are the peasants?
    🔻 CounterPoint China: Yep…. I’ve been living here in China for 25 years, and all they the govt and people have done is work their butts off to improve their country and the entire time do it in peace, never warring or attacking any other nation. The best America’s govt can do in turn is sow a whole bunch of lies about China, because they themselves have failed. It’s incredibly sad frustrating and disheartening.
    ⭕🔻 zerohedge:
    Schweizer: Chinese Chemists Working With Mexican Cartels Creating Fentanyl To Kill Americans |link|
    🔻 WS: “Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”

    ― Euripides
    🔻 Zap Radon: ZH gets more hysterical all the time.
    ⭕ The US has bold plans to increase GMLRS rocket production to 19,000 annually.

    That’s enough for 50 HIMARS launchers to fire five salvos per day for a little less than two weeks. |link|
    ⭕🔻 China Xinhua News:
    At an event in Hangzhou, China, Chinese and French guests simply donned 49-gram Rokid AR glasses and spoke in their own languages while instant subtitles appeared on the lenses, enabling seamless dialogue. |link|
    🔻 WS: We’re not many years away from Star Trek’s “Universal Translator”.
    ⭕ ‼️ There are now well over 5000 Starlink satellites in earth orbit.
    reposts his older: “👀 Starlink Satellite Network

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

    He cannot simultaneously be both.”
    ⭕ ‼️ Thread from June 2023 … PRIOR to the ongoing attempt to erase Gaza, Syria, and Yemen (and Iran?) from the face of the earth. |THREAD|
    ⭕ ‼️ USCENTCOM is very anxious for everyone to believe they have everything “under control” in the ongoing Battle of the Red Sea.

    They also insist that everyone believe it’s Iran that is to blame for it all.

    Meanwhile, the Yemeni remain the gatekeepers of the Bab-el-Mandeb. |link|
    ⭕ The Iranians may have their reasons for refusing to acknowledge that the explosions at Bandar Abbas were the result of “enemy action”, but I don’t believe there is any room for doubt.

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    supposedly shipping cargo is at or near zero in main US pacific ports. With what is about to go down in CONUS, it is no wonder the criminal elite seek to blow up the world, involving Pakistan-India as the latest desperate detonator.

    💠Americans increasingly reliant on loans for groceries – survey”
    ☝️ Gen Z defined as those born 1997-2012 (so today 13-28 yo)

    💠 “Massive blackout hits EU countries — Spain and Portugal have been paralyzed by a widespread power outage on Monday”
    if only EU folks knew how much of their energy gets rerouted to 404…

    💠 @ejmalrai:
    ⭕ Only in Lebanon people stand together fearlessly, waiting for Israel to launch a missile with hundreds of kg of explosives against a location tens of metres away, feel no fear and repeat pro Hezbollah slogans. |media|
    [All the demon West has left now is to kill and be killed. There is no positivity whatsoever, esp no soft power, no fear factor shown by Others, no good will, no comity. And billions with sharpened knives live for and await their sputtering MIC to seize up, and the inevitable change of local elites, before finishing them off on the World-Island]
    US bombs Yemen detention centre, killing 30 migrants, Ansar Allah Houthi media says.
    ⭕ The problem of think-tank researchers is the fact they sit in a tank and talk to one another and communicate with other researchers also sitting in a tank. The common points among these are: they don’t see what is happening outside their tanks and they all say the same thing so they agree with one another. So when they are expressing wishful thinking and have no real clue about the reality, it is ok because they all make the same mistake and, in consequences, nobody cares. I am referring to the current common analysis about Iran and its allies.

    💠 @Middle East Spectator:
    ⭕ — 🇮🇳/🇵🇰 NEW: India’s aircraft carrier, the INS Vikrant, returned to its home port shortly after being deployed to the Arabian Sea

    India likely decided not to take the risk after Pakistan deployed large amounts of air assets to forward airbases in the South.

    For the past 48 hours, India has largely been backtracking from its original ‘tough stance’, asking Iran to deliver messages to Pakistan aimed at de-escalating tensions.
    ⭕️ 🇾🇪/🇺🇸 WATCH: A new massacre by the U.S. Air Force in Yemen has resulted in dozens of inmates being killed and wounded

    This prison was previously struck by the Saudi-led coalition in 2022.
    ❗️Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, on X:

    ‘Israel’s fantasy that it can dictate what Iran may or may not do is so detached from reality that it hardly merits a response.

    What is striking, however, is how brazenly Netanyahu is now dictating what President Trump can and cannot do in his diplomacy with Iran.

    Conveniently, Netanyahu’s Allies in the failed Biden Team—who failed to reach a deal with Iran—are FALSELY casting our indirect negotiations with the Trump administration as another JCPOA.

    Let me be clear: Iran is strong and confident enough in its capabilities to thwart any attempt by malicious external actors to sabotage its foreign policy or dictate its course. We can only hope our U.S. counterparts are equally steadfast.

    Many Iranians no longer believe the JCPOA is sufficient. They seek tangible dividends. Nothing Netanyahu’s Allies in the Failed Biden Team say or do will change this reality.

    There is no military option, and certainly no military solution. Any strike will be immediately reciprocated.’
    Pakistan’s Minister of Defense, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, says that Indian military action is ‘imminent’ – Reuters
    ⭕ ❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 Pakistani Minister of Defense, Khawaja Muhammad Asif:

    ‘We have reinforced our forces because it is something which is imminent now.

    So in that situation some strategic decisions have to be taken, and those decisions have been taken.’

    💠@kuluary_zaliva (В кулуарах Залива):
    Iran has determined the cause of the explosion at the port

    The explosion at the Shahid Rajaee commercial port in Bandar Abbas was caused by negligence, and those responsible have already been found, Iranian Interior Minister Eskander Moameni said . On April 26, a powerful explosion occurred at the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, injuring more than a thousand people.

    Despite the speculation, Iranian authorities have rejected the theory of outside interference . Earlier, there were suggestions of Israeli sabotage. The explosion in Bandar Abbas occurred on the day when another round of talks between Iran and the United States on the fate of the Iranian nuclear program began in Oman . The Israeli government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, has repeatedly stated that it considers negotiations with Iran a mistake.
    [right. we believe you. We’ll know soon enough, after the zionazi rapture]

    💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
    ⭕ The official spokesperson for Ansar Allah, Mohammed Abdulsalam, stated:

    • A brutal crime has been committed by the U.S. administration this morning against African migrants by bombing their shelter in Saada.
    • The brutality exhibited by the U.S. administration will not cover for the military failures they are experiencing in their aggression against Yemen.
    • The U.S. administration’s escalation in its aggression against Yemen will not yield any achievements for them.
    • The international silence regarding America’s crimes encourages it to continue its bloodshed by targeting civilian gatherings, misleading the world into believing they are military targets.
    • Washington’s resort to such claims does not make them a reality; the true reality is that Washington harbors a premeditated intent for crime and terrorism.

    ⭕ Initial images from the crime of the American aggression targeting the Saada Reserve Prison |media|
    ⭕ The Political Bureau of Ansar Allah stated:

    • The American aggression against our country continues to commit deliberate crimes against civilians, the latest being the massacre of African migrants in Saada.
    • The war crimes of the American aggression represent the peak of moral failure and downfall reached by the U.S. administration.
    • The barbarism and excessive use of force once again confirm that America is a transnational terrorist entity.
    • The shiny humanitarian narratives that preceded Washington’s wars aimed at enslaving nations in the name of freedom and human rights.
    • We call on the free people of the world to increase their pressure and to show greater solidarity with the Yemeni and Palestinian peoples.
    • We renew our commitment to Palestine and Gaza, affirming that American barbarism will not stop our people and armed forces from continuing their struggle.
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    💠@Fotros Resistance:
    ⭕ 🇵🇸| Al-Qassam Brigades:

    Targeted an Israeli Merkava-4 tank with a Yassin 105 tandem rocket, east of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, in Gaza City.
    ⭕ 🇮🇷| Three days of public mourning were declared by the Governor of Hormozgan province for the 28 deaths in the Bandar Abbas port accident.
    ⭕ 🇮🇷| Iran’s judiciary issued criminal charges against several media outlets and media activists due to publishing fake news about Shahid Rajaei incident.

    Some of these outlets have used this catastrophic tragedy as a tool to further their agenda through the publishing of fake news. Thankfully, they’ll be dealt with.
    [hyperbolic Hal’s lying is off the charts. He spewed bilge water about five separate points of the Iranian port being attacked, and now is mouthing off about the Pakistani DM threatening a nuke attack. What a clown show, the desperate Anglo-Zionazi dregs]
    ⭕ 28 dead and 1,242 injured in Shahid Rajaei Port blast incident in Iran’s Bandar Abbas — Red Crescent
    ⭕ 🇮🇷| UPDATE: Latest death toll in Bandar Abbas blast incident sits at 40 — Eskandar Momeni, Minister of Interior.

    The pier where the explosion took place holds a maximum of 3,500 containers. It’s a small area on scale compared to the entire Shahid Rajaee Port’s 30,000 containers, but it was also a major incident, says the minister.
    ⭕ Former Shin Bet chief: Civil disobedience against Netanyahu has begun. Netanyahu is a clear threat to Israel’s existence and is fighting against its people.
    ⭕ The Talmudic terrorist regime just issued a threat to bomb Hadat, in Dahyeh (Beirut’s Southern Suburb).
    ⭕ A drone from Yemen was launched at Israel, from the eastern borders.

    The IAF claims it shot down the drone.
    [the missiling and droning by Yemen is relentless now. Several times every day. The rats live in Bunkers]

    💠@red:
    ⭕Do you see the Western hypocrisy?
    [it will be relief to have this criminal whining hypocritical era of Harlot Babylon behind us. Never has such a wretched hegemon strutted the earth. Like Zion, they weep and whine, even as they holocaust continents. The very dregs of the Babylonian System, the little fat toes of mixed iron and clay]

    💠@Middle East Spectator:
    Hundreds of officers belonging to the UAE-backed ‘Yemeni National Resistance’ have defected to Ansarallah (the Houthis), and gathered in the capital Sanaa for briefing
    ⭕These officers defected from the UAE-backed ‘Yemeni National Resistance’, their territory is illustrated by the Blue area on Yemen’s Western Coast

    They are led by General Tareq Saleh, nephew of the late President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former Houthi ally that defected to the side of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in 2017.

    It seems almost all of their high command have defected.
    [excellent. Saleh’s cadre were trained by russkies of the USSR iirc. And note how Ansarallah’s iron grip on the Bab El Mandeb tightens. And this reduces possibilities for distracting them with internal civil war – as really the only ground forces on earth which could trouble them are other yemenis already inside yemen.. One of the best prophesies of the bitter End Times would be the reunification of Yemen after countless millennia… undoubtedly the source of the rising Fire which shall sweep all mankind to the Holy Land]

    💠@ejmalrai:
    ⭕ The Palestinian resistance released a video showing the rescue of Israeli hostages trapped under debris caused by an Israeli airstrike on the very location where they were being held. The footage documents how some hostages were buried alive, and how at least one was rescued and provided with oxygen as he responded to first aid.
    This powerful film should deeply shake Israeli society, offering undeniable evidence that their own army’s bombardments are endangering and killing Israeli hostages, an event that has occurred more than once. It also reinforces a growing perception: that the Israeli government, already widely seen as indifferent to the welfare of its citizens over the past year and a half, prefers risking the death of all hostages rather than negotiating their release.
    🔻 Syrian Girl: Where can one see the footage ?
    🔻 EM: |media|
    ⭕ Israel is prepared to bomb a building in the suburb of Beirut, al-Hadath, and warned the civilians to evacuate it. This could have serious repercussion, totally undermining the Lebanese government’s authority.
    ⭕ Don’t expect Hezbollah to retaliate. It is the responsibility of the Lebanese government to take up its responsibility.
    ⭕ Israel hit and destroyed the designated building in the suburb of Beirut while a civilian aircraft was taking off from Beirut airport.

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    💠 @Sputnik Africa:
    Death Toll in Blast in Iran’s Bandar Abbas Port Rises to at Least 25, Authorities Say

    The injured toll has reached 1,139 people, government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said.

    The explosion may have reportedly been caused by a solid missile fuel.

    A video by Iranian news agency Mehr shows the aftermath of the explosion |media|
    ⭕ ❗️Putin Sends Condolences to Iranian Leadership Over Deadly Port Explosion

    The Russian president also expressed readiness to provide help to the Iranian authorities in relief effort, the Kremlin said.
    ⭕ ❗️❗️❗️Pakistan Has No Intention to Start Conflict With India Unprovoked, Defense Minister Says

    “But if India attempts to invade Pakistan or attack Pakistan, they’ll be met with more than a matching response,” Khawaja Muhammad Asif told Sputnik.

    More statements by the Pakistani defense minister:

    • Pakistani-Indian tensions are unlikely to escalate into a nuclear exchange;
    • Pakistan seeks an international investigation into the April 22 terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir;
    • Accusations of Pakistan’s involvement in the attack are “hollow claims” without evidence;
    • Russia and China could “play a positive role” in resolving the crisis, joining the investigation.

    India-Pakistan tensions have escalated after the recent terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir, which killed 26 people, prompting India to reduce embassy staff, suspend the Indus Waters Treaty, and close the last open land border crossing.
    [these are very positive developments. Perhaps sanity is returning to the Pakistanis. Along with admiting (and hopefully repenting of) their criminal role as imperial gauleiters foisting salafi hordes on the region, they now openly call for Russian-Chinese mediation, which for sure will be more impartial and honest than any Anglo fingering of a situation they themselves created in 1947]

    💠@Fotros Resistance:
    ⭕ The fire extinguishing operations continued the entire night, at the Shahid Rajaei port blast site, and is reaching its final stages.
    ⭕ 🇮🇷| IRGC Captain Soodsaz:

    IRGC helps with fire extinguishing operations of Shahid Rajaei port.

    Humanitarian relief operations are one of the core missions of the IRGC, thus we converted an aircraft (Ilyushin) for deployment within 3 hours.

    We carried out nighttime water drops and moved from Tehran toward Bandar Abbas, despite the spread of the fire and the high-risk conditions. We accepted the risk and conducted nighttime operations. |media|
    ⭕ 🇮🇷| Iran’s Defense Ministry Spox to IRIB:

    “There were no imported/exported military-related cargoes in Shahid Rajaei Port, as suggested by our investigation & documentation.

    Any reports about missile components [such as the rumour of Chinese cargo] being the cause of fire is solely foreign media creating a chain of hype about it, it’s bogus.”
    ⭕ 🇮🇷| The Shahid Rajaei port is back (partially) operational as only one section in the dock was impacted. Transit is back in motion.

    💠 @BhadraPunchline:
    1/2 “All signs indicate the stage is being set for further escalation in tensions and a possible military standoff. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s message from a rally in Bihar is the threat of punishment “beyond imagination” |media|
    2/2 “Given geopolitical currents, revulsion at such targeting of innocent tourists, and a broad understanding of India’s stand on the issue of cross-border terrorism, it is unlikely that other countries such as the U.S. will press New Delhi to restrain its next steps…”
    ⭕ While preparing an appropriate response to the Pahalgam attack, Islamabad’s realignment with Dhaka should be kept in view. Pakistan Army seems concerned of US’s support for India |media|

    💠@imetatronink:
    ⭕ 🤦‍♂️ 🤡🌍 The biggest irony of the Trump silly talk below is that, here in late April 2025, the Yemeni have been the gatekeepers of the Suez Canal for 18 months and running.
    [and shall remain so, long after the Last Satanic Empire has dissipated like a colorless noxious gas in our collective nightmare]
    🔻 Alex Ocana: Trump has the illusion (delusion) that he owns everything in the world and that the USA invented and constructed everything in the world. Trmp’s grasp of history, and of the world outside his glitzy billionaire club, is zero. Megalomaniac.
    🔻 Imperius Fistus: From a guy that is already planed to charge a tariff on all the ships made in China and has a complete ignorance of who built the Suez Canal. “50 Shades of Orange Reality Show” style
    ⭕ 💥🔥 Bandar Abbas Fireworks

    All I have to say about the massive explosion and fire at Bandar Abbas in Iran is that we are long-since past the “enemy action” threshold for these sorts of things. |media|
    ⭕ The stock-trading “denial of service” bots on X have absolutely run amok. Every post I make is now immediately assaulted with a dozen or more of these bot replies within a minute or two after I click “Post”.
    🔻 Timothy Leary’s Dead 🏴‍☠️🌱🐑🐕 🎣🎇👀🐈‍⬛⚠️🎲: I always report them as spam, but it doesn’t do much good.
    🔻 WS: They are clearly a deliberate “denial of service” gambit. They are designed to muddy the waters of any post and subsequent thread that is deemed “undesirable” at this point in time. I hide and block them as much as I can, but they are far too numerous to defeat entirely.
    🔻 Majid Hosseini: The reason is you mentioned gold and silver
    🔻 Jeff English: Elon is supposed to clean up fraud, waste and abuse in the US government but he can’t even clean up his crappy app!
    🔻 Ed H. Hanna: I noticed the issue and, a few days ago, took it upon myself to block around 50 of them.

    While it’s recommended to report and block such accounts, I didn’t have the time to report each one individually.
    🔻 Eomar – Diligent News: Yea, I got the same thing. I don’t think it is a coincidence, they are so obviously bots I could run a script to boot them. Notably, Cheq, an Israeli company, is supposed to clean up the bots. Also, after waves of that, I’m often found in “probable spam”. |link|
    [Right! Like going to Dr. Fauci for advice and solutions to corona….]
    ⭕🔻 ₦₳V𝚜𝚝é𝚟𝚊 🇷🇺 ᴢ:
    I, too, didn’t believe North Koreans were fighting in Kursk. I was wrong.
    🔻 WS: I never thought there was persuasive evidence of DPRK troops in Kursk, but I always thought:

    1) It would have been a good idea for both DPRK and China to send troops to experience big war combat;

    2) It was perfectly legitimate for them to do so.
    🔻 ゆすふ: Why do you think they revealed it now?
    🔻 ₦₳V𝚜𝚝é𝚟𝚊 🇷🇺 ᴢ: Got me, but all of us have egg on our faces over it.
    🔻 Nicholai_Korea: Opsec is over so N Korea played this well and gained a lot of experience.
    🔻 Reader: I think Chinese and Iranian military is present there but not in combat
    retweet:
    🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: “Tell me why I am wrong”

    You’re wrong because you assume – probably like Trump – that the Chinese will prioritize profits over national dignity and sovereignty, which is simply not going to happen.

    Again, Mao, when he declared the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, didn’t promise wealth, he said: “Ours will no longer be a nation subject to insult and humiliation. We have stood up.”

    This is the fundamental legitimacy of the Communist Party, much more than money.

    So the notion that China would submit to bullying that is eerily similar in nature to what they suffered at the hands of the West during the century of humiliation is a fundamental misunderstanding of the country.

    Heck, even from a profit standpoint it wouldn’t be beneficial to them because what would happen if China yields? The principal reason why Trump has zero deal on the table right now is because China’s position emboldens other nations to also resist American pressure.

    If China were to yield, it would send a message to the world that multipolarity is over, and we’d witness American hubris on steroids, with Trump and future administrations validated in their belief that unilateral bullying is effective foreign policy. It would become their blueprint in an even worse way than it already is.

    How is that beneficial for China’s or anyone’s prosperity, beyond the US’s?

    So all in all, you’re wrong because you’ve fundamentally misread the nature of this confrontation. This isn’t merely an economic calculation for China, but an existential question about what kind of world we’ll live in tomorrow. China understands that yielding now means surrendering not just on tariffs, but on their right to determine their own economic future.

    Their resistance isn’t just about this particular trade dispute; it’s about establishing boundaries for how great powers interact in the 21st century. By holding firm now, China is investing in a future international order where American unilateral coercion doesn’t work anymore. The “damage” you describe pales in comparison to the stakes at play here. |link|
    🔻 開國領袖華國鋒: He is wrong on another level, too.

    Yes, Apple could move the assembly lines to India, but smartphones are almost 20 yrs old.

    Other new industries, ‘the New Quality Productive forces’ like EVs and Robots, Chinese companies have both brands and whole supply chain, they don’t move
    🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Great point
    🔻 Doggy Dog: You are wrong because:

    1) China is the larger market. Far larger. By multiples. And growing at least 2x as fast. If you think otherwise… well… that’s exactly why Bessent and team ran right into the China wall.

    2) Efficient high quality capacity will stay in China to source domestic and ex-US markets. Less efficient and lower quality capacity will by offshored, Galapagos-ising the US economy to permanent sloppy seconds.

    3) There are now 192 economies to run transshipment trade. The US does not have the state capacity to enforce export sanctions on NVidia, an American company with a few banned products. How does it plan to stop transshipping by Chinese and global entrepreneurs?

    4) in the medium term, the longer China waits, the greater the collapse of US domestic industrial output from lack or parts and REEs drying up and the more permanent damage is done. China is actually incentivised to draw this out until US REE inventories run out and America’s high tech manufacturing sector is destroyed.

    Tell me why I’m wrong.
    🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Yes, excellent points too
    retweet:
    🔻 Armchair Warlord: Breaking the “Drone Wall” |THREAD|

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 23 April 2025 #56636
    AHH
    Blocked

    “The latter claim seems rather dark.”

    this is incitement of India to suicide herself. An official blessing and stamp of approval by USUK for the nuclear conflagration in South Asia. What criminals!

    B-52’s are as doomed over Pakistani skies as over Novorossiya. Pakistan is armed up the wazoo – in addition to native hardware, Turk/US/Russkie gear, she has Papa Xi & Lads behind her. US Air Force would never send these dated slow relics over such contested skies – they do not dare do it today against Yemen, which has a minuscule fraction of what Pakistan does. And above all, the Exceptionals do not openly wade in against a nuclear power..

    But the evil intent is nevertheless clear.

    “Brother India – Go jump off that Cliff! We’re 300% behind you. TRUST US”

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 23 April 2025 #56635
    AHH
    Blocked


    You must hand it to the handlers of Orange. To every constituency – he’s gotten burnished cache. To the crude men, he’s grabbed them by the Tom Jones. To the pedos of the Big Club – he’s Teflon Don, a lifelong Epstein pal who pretends to expose Epstein. To the inbred old elites, vexed to smithereens watching their entire scam go up in flames – he’s the Clown you send in to bedevil the civilizational-states. To the Rapturists – his blooded ear the proof of divine favor. And how much of the black vote did this ostensible flirtation with jail time swing? Surely one so abused on trumped up charges cannot be another swamp creature??


    💠@ejmalrai:
    ⭕ At least 14 people have died and around 750 others were wounded following a massive explosion in Bandar Abbas. The origin of the explosion remains unclear, with officials promising to disclose the cause after an ongoing investigation. Despite the deployment of 700 firefighters, the fire has not yet been brought under control, as secondary explosions continue to erupt due to the highly explosive materials contained in several containers.
    retweet:
    🔻 Joshua Landis: 13 Alawite civilians were executed in Homs, #Syria in the past 24 hours.

    Another 4 in Damascus. All were summary executions.

    President Sharaa is not speaking out about this. Over 50 Alawite girls have been abducted over the last two months.

    This is not to mention the 1800 Alawite civilians killed on the coast in March, or the 8 Alawite villages north of Hama that have been completely cleansed.

    The government has done little if anything to stop these killings, many of which have been carried out by government forces.

    Meanwhile, crowds in Homs have been parading in the Alawite sections of town chanting “Homs is for the Sunnis, Alawites get out.” At Homs Univ. Imams have been preaching against Christians and Alawites.

    These sectarian killings complicate the effort by Western gov’s to lift sanctions or to affirm that the Sharaa gov is doing the right thing.

    Video shows Sunnis in #Homs walking between two #Alawite Neighborhoods, chanting that Syria is for Sunnis and that Alawites get out.

    💠@DDGeopolitics:
    ⭕ 🇵🇰 Posts Russian YARS ICBM from the Victory Day Parade 🤣

    🐻 If you thought there was a lot of fake news and videos from the Middle East in the past year or so, just wait until India and Pakistan go at it.
    [Yeah. I used to enjoy Bollywood as a lad. The Bollywood Boys shall gaslight us all and without any hesitation. May our guts hold out]
    ⭕ 🇵🇰🇮🇳 One of the fakes already circulating on the internet claims this is a destroyed Indian checkpoint.

    In reality, it’s a fire in the Mourne Mountains, County Down, Ireland, from March 17.
    ⭕ 🇵🇰🇮🇳 Pakistan has ordered all doctors, nurses, paramedics and ambulance drivers to be placed on stand-by status in the districts of Jhelum Valley and Leepa Valley, near the Line of Control in the Kashmir region, following the eruption of heavy clashes along the Pakistan-India border region.
    [Both melodramatic Bollywood Boys shall be like putty in the hands of the Anglos. Easy pickings. All they need to determine is the timing]

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 23 April 2025 #56612
    AHH
    Blocked

    A fateful step was taken in Iran today…….

    💠 Dutch town hall throws away Warhol artwork – Nearly 50 works of art have reportedly disappeared in the municipality of Maashorst due to poor storage and oversight”
    I’d put the last four words in quotation marks. And not a good sign. Nazis tend to clean shop when they hit the ratlines. Given what they intend to do, do they expect the Russians, or more likely their Fire, to be coming to the low countries??

    💠@Middle East Spectator:
    ⭕ The Yemeni Armed Forces have announced attacks on Tel Aviv and Ashkelon using drones, hours after last night’s ballistic missile attack on an Israeli military target in Negev

    Additionally, they have continued to target the American USS ‘Harry S. Truman’ aircraft carrier.

    Israeli media reports that the accuracy and precision of recent attacks from Yemen have improved, despite constant bombardments from the U.S. Air Force.
    Al-Qassam Brigades have released footage of sniping Israeli soldiers in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza. |media|
    ⭕ ❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇴🇲 Informed sources for Iran’s IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News:

    ‘In today’s and previous negotiation rounds, the topic of transferring uranium to a location abroad has not been raised or discussed.

    Additionally, the U.S. has not made any demands for ‘zero enrichment’, and the principle of Iran’s right to uranium enrichment is not among the points of disagreement.’
    [LOL. The Age of Unkind Cuts. NYET! On every side awaits humiliation. Even Rules-based Terrorism cannot cover for this]
    ⭕ Firefighting efforts at Shahid Rajaee Port continue into the night
    ⭕ A state of emergency will be declared in Bandar Abbas due to the possible spread of hazardous substances due to the fire in Shahid Rajaee Port
    ⭕❗️🇮🇷 NEW: The fire is getting worse |media|
    ⭕ The Minister of Roads, Farzaneh Sadeq, visited the site of the fires

    The chief of the local firefighting department complains they don’t have enough equipment to extinguish the fire.
    The situation is very bad.

    The fire is spreading to other areas of the port, including areas with flammable containers, and more explosions are likely to happen.
    ⭕ The order has been issued to completely evacuate the entire port and all its surrounding facilities
    [btw, this was the chief port iirc for not only 85% of Iran’s cargo, but for the INSTC too. Chabahar had not been completed for decades, as planned, due to foot-dragging by India.. it is easy to destroy, and eviscerate all the golden plans for the harmonious multi-nodal world future. There is a reason Medvedev is visiting Kapustin Yar today…]
    ⭕ While speculation at this stage is pointless, it is at least suspicious that the fires in Shahid Rajaee Port were present at two different sides of the main port road

    How did the fire manage to spread from one part of the port to another, or were there several simultaneous explosions? The second option would indicate sabotage. We have to wait and see.
    ⭕ I also refer the public to this statement made by Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi 3 days ago, where he warned of any sabotage attempts by Israel to derail the US-Iran talks.
    ⭕ 🇮🇷 Headline of ‘Kayhan’, conservative-aligned Iranian newspaper:

    ‘Severe explosion in Shahid Rajaee port: Accident or sabotage?’

    However, the subtext of the newspaper then continues to talk about the possibility of an accident as the most likely scenario.

    💠@Fotros Resistance:
    ⭕ 🇮🇷| UPDATE: Iran’s Interior Minister present at Shahid Rajaei port, confirmed 750 injuries so far, mostly minor ones.

    Additionally, fire continues to spread to nearby containers as fire fighters attempt to control the fire. Fortunately, everyone has been already evacuated. Unfortunately, this incident will leave an economical impact. |link|

    💠@DDGeopolitics:
    ⭕ 🇻🇦🇺🇦 The Telegraph reports: Vatican Bent Protocol to Secure Zelensky a Front-Row Seat at Pope Francis’ Funeral

    The Vatican broke with traditional protocol to ensure Zelensky was given a front-row seat at the funeral of Pope Francis, alongside Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron, The Telegraph reports.

    Normally, arcane diplomatic rules dictate that world leaders are seated alphabetically according to their country’s name in French, the traditional language of diplomacy. Under these rules, Mr. Zelensky would likely have been placed in the third row or farther back.

    Instead, he was seated in the front row, 11 seats away from Trump, who was positioned to his right.

    The Vatican did not deny that protocol was altered. “I believe they filled a vacant place,” Matteo Bruni, the Vatican’s spokesman, told The Telegraph.

    Between Zelensky and Trump were the presidents of India, Hungary, Gabon, as well as Macron and his “wife,” Brigitte, and Finnish President Alexander Stubb.

    In French, the United States is listed as États-Unis, starting with an E. To the right of Trump and his wife, Melania, sat Estonian President Alar Karis and Spain’s King Felipe (Espagne in French).

    To Zelensky’s right was Irish President Michael D. Higgins, further suggesting that normal seating protocols were deliberately adjusted to give Zelensky a more prominent position.

    Elsewhere, the established rules appeared to be strictly followed, with Argentine President Javier Milei placed at the far right of the front row, seated next to a standing Swiss Guard.

    🐻 All that for the Narcoführer, who didn’t even bother to wear a suit and tie, despite Vatican protocol requiring formal attire at such events.
    [did u catch the numerology? 7 on each side = 77. In Hebrew or Arabic (and likely Aramaic), a 6 appears as 7. So saluted off with a 66]
    ⭕ 🇷🇺 Dmitry Medvedev visited the Kapustin Yar training ground in the Astrakhan region. |media|
    [this is where the first Oreshnik was launched. Not in Kazakhstan]

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 23 April 2025 #56601
    AHH
    Blocked

    reminds of the CBS News and other US presstitutes within hours rushing to show the pristine passport which fluttered down from floor 80 of the TT, through miraculous jet fuel that melted mountains of steel and vaporized much of the building. It is a sad reflection on the dumbed-down state of the recipients of the spin, that they must be force-fed this gruel.

    However, this is simultaneously a prod to the civilizational-state, publishing within minutes such a polished work. “Whacha gonna do abut it?”

    We shall remain calm, and finish burying you.

    What a sad show… Rules-based Terrorism, strutting sans even a fig leaf and humiliating themselves. These aren’t little countries without muscle or a long memory and iron will. They can even decapitate the entire leadership – how’re they gonna make a civilizational-state in existential war-mode change course??? Impossible

    USUK shall end up just like the EUroCrazies and UkroNazis and ZioNazis right now – wetting themselves as they collapse in despair

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 23 April 2025 #56598
    AHH
    Blocked

    A “Timid Vinny” is born. And not the one whose woman’s biological clock was ticking like the remaining usual suspect’s Time!

    💠@ejmalrai:
    retweet:
    🔻 Tehran Times: This is the front page of tomorrow’s edition of Tehran Times.

    Visit tehrantimes.com to read more
    [do you know whose mug is on bottom right?]
    In the coming weeks, Benjamin Netanyahu—wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes—will be forced to accept a ceasefire deal with Hamas and end the war on Gaza.

    This won’t necessarily mean the end of Israel’s policy of targeted assassinations, especially in Gaza and Lebanon, but it will mark a strategic admission: the Israeli military has failed to defeat the Palestinian resistance.

    Despite months of destruction, mass displacement, and a campaign resembling ethnic cleansing, Israel has not achieved its declared objectives. The forced expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza has failed. So has the effort to dismantle Hamas by force.

    The war has reached its limits. The longer it continues, the deeper Israel sinks politically and militarily. What’s left is a narrow path forward—negotiation and recognition of the resistance as a reality, not a force that can be erased.

    Netanyahu may claim victory. But facts on the ground will say otherwise.
    ⭕ Israel is exempt from accountability for the Gaza war crimes, my take to @TehranTimes79 |link|
    [exempt by their fella criminals in the nazi Internationale. NOT among the regional natives. They wait for Legion to fall, as it must imminently. And for Voentorg to dry up very soon. Then the same Afghan knives wielded by women on dumb british lads abandoned on their plains without any more ammo or backup will come out. This ends only one way now. And the demons know it – why they speed up the extermination, to get in their retaliation first]
    ⭕🔻 Elon Musk: Time to end the slaughter
    🔻 EM: Indeed, Time to End the Slaughter in Gaza too.
    [is it me, or is Orange spending most of his time jetting around, like it’s the Love Boat? The crashtestdummy used to vegetate on Rehoboth Beach, DE, New Zion, and the Last American Prez bloviates with the presstitutes way up in the air, among other Princes of the Air]
    ⭕Despite the daily killing of dozens of Palestinians and the imposition of a humanitarian siege on Gaza for nearly two months, Israel’s military shows a striking sensitivity to its own losses. In just the past two days, the deaths of two Israeli officers and the wounding of seven others in Gaza have already prompted the Chief of Staff to consider recalling reservists, a reaction that exposes the army’s low tolerance for casualties, even as it wages a devastating campaign against a besieged civilian population.
    Syrian foreign minister Asad Al-Shaibani revealed the launch of a “Transitional Justice Authority” following the surge in killings carried out by factions affiliated with or linked to the new administration, under the pretext of “the failure of responsible authorities to punish perpetrators of crimes.” In Aleppo, Homs, and other areas, killings were justified as acts of “retribution”.
    Syria Foreign Minister Asad al-Shaibani: “We have repeatedly declared our commitment that Syria will not pose a threat to any country in the region or the world, including Israel.”
    [the Abomination that set up shop in Damascus rivals that in Tel Aviv, or London. It has a special mention in the prophesies of the End Times. An Army from Damascus will march on the liberated arabian peninsula, soon after Armageddon, and be swallowed up by the very earth, somewhere between Makkah and Madina]
    retweet:
    🔻 Roberta Sutton: Soon after Al-Jolani took over SY he appeared with UK& MI6. Now in full recognition UK has lifted all sanctions. UK approves Jolani’s plan to work with IL & ban Hamas & Pal.Islamic Jihad. Gone are the days when SY worked with the Resistance. EU has suspended not lifted, sanctions |link|
    [synopsis of his latest article. one thing is for sure: after the serial barbarity of zionazis, the headchoppers, and the entire West, after the imminent denouement, wearing the western suit will become impossible. ALL the civilized will rush to return to their own traditional attire – including Eurocrazies to animal furs inside their darkened caves and the Black Forest]
    ⭕ UN said Israel is guilty of imposing man-made starvation, an accountable crime against humanity. |link|
    US complicit:
    President Donald Trump said “Netanyahu is keen to accept the idea of allowing humanitarian aids to Gaza”, disregarding the fact that withholding aids and collective punishment are war crimes and crimes against humanity.

    💠@imetatronink:
    ⭕🔻 Bill Bottrell: Oh, shut up you lying corrupted fools..
    By now everyone knows Covid-19 was made in the USA and offshored to Wuhan for deniability.
    [responds to:
    🔻 Senate Republicans: (which posted the leading Yellow Peril hate job)“]
    🔻 WS: reposts his older from 31 Mar 2020:
    “Mmmm…

    Do we know where COVID-19 originated?

    In June 2019, near the US bioweapons lab at Fort Detrick, MD (closed down in August 2019 due to reported “security” lapses), there was a serious breakout at a Fairfax County, VA assisted care facility.” |link|
    [Good Lord. A decade earlier than that, I routinely drove by this area. Even took care of the elderly at another nursing home in NW Virginia]
    🔻 WS: reposts his older from 11 Apr 2020
    “I’m sure it’s just an odd coincidence that DARPA — the Pentagon’s “A-Team” for developing advanced weapons technologies — has expended untold millions researching corona viruses from Chinese bats over the past several years. |link|

    Cambridge University researchers phylogenetic analysis suggests Wuhan strain of COVID-19 virus (Type “B”) descends from the strain (Type “A”) most prevalent in the US.” |link|
    ⭕ 🤦‍♂️ Ranger Cringe

    “What will you do when you feel its breath upon your neck?”

    You’ll say, “What in the hell am I doing here?”

    And then you will meet your maker.

    #NoEasyWarsLeftToFight |link|
    🔻 Rokossovsky Respecter: I think theyll find Slavs to be tougher and smarter opponents than most Arabs
    [nope. They already killed many more Russkies – some 40-45+M if you include the 1990s to both WWs. Russkies have been luckier and more ruthless. And they industrialized quicker, leading to autarchy and independence of the west. Otherwise their trajectory was worse than arabs. But what doesn’t kill you entirely makes you stronger..]
    🔻 WS: I assess the probability at ZERO that the US will attempt to fight the Russians. Not even the dumbest generals in the Pentagon are that foolish.
    🔻 Earl: We have two massive oceans to protect us.
    🔻 WS: That won’t help if you’re fighting in the mountains of Iran.
    [that’s the rub of the Way of the Pirate, eh? YOU gotta be the aggressor and cross oceans and mountains to reach the enemy, complete with your stormtroopers, hardware and logistics. A big ask indeed, century after century, especially as you circle the drain after exhaustion and bleeding out in dribs and drabs]
    🔻 growler: If only ads and movies represented military exceptionalism…
    ⭕ 🔹 USS Timid Vinny Goes to War

    USS Timid Vinny (CVN-70) is cowering in the deep blue waters of the Arabian Sea, launching long-distance F-35C strikes against Yemen — except the supposedly “stealthy” F-35s are firing mostly from stand-off positions for fear of Yemeni air defenses, and otherwise hunting lawnmower engine drones with their gun that doesn’t shoot straight.

    I guess this is supposed to be training for going up against the Iranians or the Chinese, right? 🤦‍♂️ |link|
    🔻 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩: Long distance F35C?

    That’s funny.
    🔻 WS: There is no way they’re launching sorties from the Arabian Sea without tankers refueling them at some point.
    [I was reading somewhere those tanker loads were provided gratis by the UAE…]
    🔻 C2: The irony of this is that the air defense of Yemen is effectively a deterrence for the US Navy.

    It highlights the limitations of US air power and how they would not be able to just fly in and bomb Yemen at will.

    Certainly not a war with Iran, much less Russia or China.
    🔻 Elydia35: “Timid Vinny” 😂😂
    🔻 Carborundum Crew: Expensive, complicated (and thus with many modes of failure) weapons that require several degrees and years of training to operate do not seem likely to win wars.

    After all, as someone said, “during war the easy stuff is very difficult and the difficult is fucking impossible!”
    🔻 Nasim Watani: The US premier fighter is firing missiles into Yemen from standoff range!

    The US is so dysfunctional. It’s any empire dying from a thousand cuts.
    🔻 WS: 📜 Bleeding the Beast
    ⭕ Not only are they now the greatest manufacturing nation in history, but the Chinese have also become formidable meme generators. 🤣
    🔻 Maya Majueran: And educated Americans to recognize the evolving global landscape and the gradual shift away from U.S. hegemony.
    🔻 Matthew McCracken: I fear that this horse has already left the barn. China is not going to help Trump reverse course. We are headed to a deep economic depression. The Chinese are ready for the long term struggle. During the 2020 Covid year the Chinese GDP still grew 2.5%.
    ⭕🔸 For the record, and irrespective of who is making it, I continue to stand by what I wrote in this three-post thread: |THREAD|
    ⭕‼️ The supposedly lowly Yemeni are inflicting upon the US Navy and Air Force one of the most astounding strategic military defeats seen in many generations.
    links:
    🔻 Natasha Bertrand: NEW: The Houthis have successfully shot down at least seven multi-million-dollar American drones over last 6 weeks, hindering the US’ ability to move into “phase two” of the operation against the group, per multiple officials. |link|
    [yeah, the qualifiers start to enter the chat. “Supposedly”. Wait til the Yemenis get going. They’re as slow as the Russkie]
    🔻 Natasha Bertrand: The US was hoping to achieve air superiority over Yemen within 30 days, officials said, and degrade Houthi air defense systems enough to begin a new phase focusing on ramping up intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance of senior Houthi leaders in order to target and kill them, the officials said.

    But the platforms among the best suited to conduct that persistent effort, the MQ9 Reaper drones, keep getting shot down, the officials explained. In fact, the Houthis are only getting better at targeting them. with @halbritz @ZcohenCNN
    🔻 John: it was foretold that, in end times, ‘a fire would come out of Yemen’
    [my brother!]
    🔻 Ant-i: The US will run out of aircraft carriers soon
    [but we shall be entertained with ever new nicknames, courtesy of WS]
    🔻 John Casey: Hmm.
    Yemen Military 🇾🇪
    We call on international media to demand that the criminal Trump release the data from the aircraft carrier Truman for the period of March 20 to 23, 2025 — including footage from cameras mounted on its sides and inside its command room.”

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    💠 @Sputnik Africa:
    ⭕ ❗️The defeat of the Ukrainian military that invaded the Russian Kursk Region has been completed, Chief of Staff Gerasimov said

    The last settlement in the region, the village of Gornal, was liberated on Saturday, Gerasimov added.

    The complete defeat of the enemy in the Kursk border region creates conditions for further successful actions by the Russian Armed Forces in other key areas of the front, Putin said.
    ⭕ ❗️Liberation of the Kursk region brings closer the defeat of Kiev’s neo-Nazi regime, Putin says

    More statements by the Russian president:

    ▫️The Kiev regime’s “gamble” has completely failed;

    ▫️Putin thanked the Russian military, who liberated the Kursk region, for their courage and heroism.
    ⭕❗️Russia Thanks North Korea for Helping to Defeat Ukraine In Kursk Region

    The North Korean military, acting shoulder to shoulder with Russian forces in the Kursk region, demonstrated resilience and heroism, Gerasimov stated.
    [LOL. God Bless the Russkie. Trolling the trollers]
    ⭕ The number of victims in the explosion in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas has risen to 516, Iranian media report

    💠 @Fotros Resistance:
    ⭕ 🇾🇪| The Yemeni Armed Forces announce the targeting of:

    • Vital sites in Jaffa [Tel Aviv] and Askalan

    • US army ships in the northern Red Sea with drones.
    [The second ops reported today. They are increasing their tempo. Mahmoud Od reported last night the Trembling Puppy was removed from Red Sea, per Yemenis. So this may be increasing confirmation, as more projectiles are able to get through uncontested air — also we now hear Zion is clamoring for another tactical “ceasefire” via Qatar, in order to find a solution for Yemen, and the Last Ever British Carrier group is enroute to sink and die in the Red Sea]
    ⭕️ South of Iran, Shahid Rajae port, explosion report:

    • Massive explosion caused damage to a few buildings, cars in the vicinity with high number casualties.
    • Explosion has no connection to refineries or fuel tanks
    • Explosion was caused by a number of containers
    • Preliminary: 50 injuries so far

    ⭕ 🇮🇷| Hormozgan Crisis Management Director:

    “We had previously issued warnings and conducted inspections as well— both by the provincial crisis management team and by other responsible agencies. Now that this incident has occurred, after providing the necessary services, we will review the causes of the incident and, if there was any negligence or shortcoming, proper follow-up will be carried out.“
    ⭕ 🇮🇷| Reporter from Fars News:

    The explosion reportedly occured in the sulfur storage area of the port.
    ⭕ 🇮🇷| IRINN Reporter:

    While preparing for this report, I heard several explosions. Right now, I can point to flames rising exactly where I heard the blasts.

    Initial observations suggest negligence was the cause of the incident.

    • Injuries increased to 281 (Tasnim News)
    Director General of Hormozgan Crisis Management:

    Due to our rapid relief & rescue measures, the scene is completely under control.

    Firefighting operations are on-going, which may take time depending on the conditions and hot weather.

    After the completion of the rescue and firefighting operations, if negligence is proven, legal action will be taken.

    So far, no deaths have been reported, and the initial injured have been treated on an outpatient basis.
    ⭕ UPDATE: Injuries in the Shahid Rajaei port blast reached 516 (many are very minor injuries)
    ⭕ UPDATE: Sadly, so far 4 people have been confirmed dead in the Shahid Rajaei Port blast in Iran — Head of Iran’s National Rescue Organization
    ⭕ 🇮🇷| Iran’s GOV spokeswoman:

    It is difficult to announce the cause of Bandar Abbas’s Shahid Rajaei Port’s blast, as the incident needs to be investigated & this is time-consuming.

    What has been determined so far is that stored containers in a corner of the port, which probably contained chemicals, exploded.
    [iow, we will give our conclusive report to you on Judgment Day. Keep waiting]
    ⭕ UPDATE: Death toll reportedly reached 20 unfortunately.
    ⭕ 🇮🇷| VIDEO: A very close-up footage showing the initial moments of the Shahid Rajaei Port blast. |media|

    Summary:

    • 516 injuries, mostly minor
    • 20 confirmed dead
    • Explosion came from chemical in stored containers (not inside the main port)
    • No sabotage
    • Reason likely negligence

    [this channel’s owner is a young man based in Iran. He’s covered it extensively]

    💠 @Middle East Spectator:
    ⭕ — 🇮🇷 Iran’s Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance is at the Pope’s funeral, right inbetween Biden and Trump
    ⭕️❗️🇮🇷 BREAKING: A large explosion has rocked Shahid Rajaei Port near the city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran, with 516 injuries reported, some of them severe

    No deaths have yet been recorded, and investigators on the scene state that the explosion is likely the result of improper storage of highly flammable chemicals, such as ammonium nitrate, used as fertilizer. |media|
    [All this is likely never gonna be made clear either way, just as with the likely murder of Iran’s Prez Raisi in the chopper incident. That is how the civilizational-states decided to respond with the anticipated rollout of Terror by Murder Inc.
    NB. The murder of the Russian General day of “negotiations” with VVP. And today was the day of “negotiations” with Persia, via offices of Oman]
    ⭕ —❗️🇮🇷 WATCH: The clearest footage of the explosion in Shahid Rajaee Port until now

    It starts with orange mist from Ammonium Nitrate (often used as fertilizer), then a fire, and then the main explosion. |media|
    ⭕ — 🇮🇷/🇺🇸/🇴🇲 BREAKING: The United States has officially accepted Iran’s red lines regarding its ballistic missile program

    Witkoff formally acknowledged Iran’s right to continue its development of all conventional defense capabilities as it sees fit.
    ⭕ — 🇮🇷/🇺🇸/🇴🇲 BREAKING: In the indirect talks with Steve Witkoff, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi formally rejected the possibility of fully ceasing its uranium enrichment activities, stating that Iran’s right to nuclear enrichment is ‘non-negotiable’
    ⭕ — 🇮🇷 NOTE: Shahid Rajaee Port is Iran’s largest port, handling 85% of all loading and unloading of containers in the country

    It is also the 2nd largest container port in the entire Middle East region.
    [this was no ordinary target. It is like attacking Shanghai’s port in China, or LA/Oakland in USA… actually more essential than either of those. The California pair handle only 40% of the entire US sea cargo…. and a satanic mockery too – Lebanon’s deep immiserization and ongoing calamitous poverty really took off when Beirut port blew up one fine summer day, right on Obama’s birthday too]

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    Funny how that works, like clockwork. We see it in Russia too. One member of Legion, the Yanquis in both, hold “reluctant negotiations” whilst another appendage releases Terror. Love and Hate. Ice and Fire. Male and Female. The vexing duality of the Moshiach…

    It is also a subtle process of rocking the boat, of getting intra-elite conflict brewing among the targets of the civilizational-states. Factions, often associated with the power sectors like the Military and security services, will question the sanity of even talking with such bestial enemies, whilst they engage in assassination, sabotage, terrorism, and other cowardly skullduggery.

    The only chance the Sea Pirates have is to create the potential for implosion, through the eternal divide et impera

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