💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Bro is scared
[he should be]

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ Secret deal sees UAE deploy Israeli-made radar to Somaliland: Report

The Gulf nation has said it ‘fears attacks’ from the YAF
[Somaliland is the breakaway region of Somalia, just across the Bab El Mandeb. YAF = Yemeni Armed Forces. They DO have much to fear. However this is a stupid location, an easy reach for YAF..]

💠@Голос арабов | صوت العرب:
⭕ 🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪 One of the factors why Houthi Yemen can afford to resist the zionist entity and the west is the presence of a professional regular army in Yemen, which is led by officers who graduated from military academies, including Soviet/Russian ones.

🇾🇪 Over the years, people have developed a false impression of the Houthis as guys in flip-flops and kalashnikovs in national dress with jambiya daggers on their belts, but in fact, they are fighters of tribal militias, whose commanders are directly the tribal leaders, and not the army itself.

🇾🇪 The fact is that when the Ansarullah movement carried out a revolution in 2014 and occupied the capital of this Arab republic, the city of Sana’a, the regular Yemeni army and its senior officers were directly involved in this, since the Houthis took power in alliance with the former long-term president of Yemen (1978-2012) General Ali Abdullah Saleh , who in 1990 united northern and southern Yemen into one single Yemen, and when Saleh resigned in 2012 against the backdrop of the events of the ‘Arab Spring’, he retained relatives, friends and colleagues who remained loyal not to his weak successor Abd-Rabbu Mansur Hadi, a protege of the Gulf kings and the United States, but directly to Saleh. Therefore, when the Houthis and Saleh formed an alliance, they easily took power into their own hands.

🇾🇪 During the revolution, the Houthi government took over 80% of the Yemeni army’s equipment and most of its personnel, along with the command, including air defence, armoured vehicles, a ballistic missile arsenal, a navy, and even aviation. It also included technical specialists, engineers, and military-industrial complex facilities.

✅ And Yemeni army officers remained on the Houthis’ side even when Ansarullah came into conflict with Saleh personally in 2017, accompanied by the latter’s attempt to seize power, after which he died.

✅ Therefore, the idea that the Houthis are some kind of group in which only fighters in slippers and national dress serve is not true and is amateurish, because the Houthis are the people’s government of Yemen, which relies primarily on a professional regular army, which has all the attributes of such, including a unified command, insignia of the Yemeni army, ranks, shoulder straps and all branches of the armed forces, whose servicemen wear the military uniform of Yemen.

🇷🇺 If you try to start speaking Russian in the General Staff of the Yemeni Armed Forces, it will also turn out that a considerable part of the senior officer corps studied in Soviet/Russian military academies, including the command.

📸🇾🇪 Senior officers of the Yemeni Armed Forces at a military parade in September 2023, marking the anniversary of the revolution and the founding of the Republic of Yemen.

👉 Yemeni formula of power.

Auto-translated from a Russian language channel on Arab socialism.

💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ Leader of Ansar Allah, Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi – 26 Shawwal 1446 AH

• This week, nearly a thousand members of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip were martyred and injured. For over a month, the Zionist Jewish criminals have been committing brutal atrocities and burning the tents of displaced people with heavy American-made bombs. |media|
• The Israeli enemy relies on starvation as a method of extermination against the Palestinian people and to exert pressure for their forced displacement from the Gaza Strip. The complete and comprehensive blockade on Gaza has been ongoing for more than 50 days.
• A video has been released by the Israelis titled “Next Year in Jerusalem,” depicting the demolition of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the construction of what they refer to as the alleged temple. The Israeli approach towards Arabs relies on a strategy of conditioning and psychological preparation to accept what should never be tolerated at all.
• War is a battle of will, centered around morale and faith. Our people believe in the divine promise, and this immense resilience and unified stance over more than a year and a half is a victory in every sense of the word. The words of the families of martyrs reflect awareness, faith, and strength in their position. The steadfastness of our beloved people expresses their will: no matter how much the American escalation intensifies, it will not break the will of this confident nation that relies on God Almighty. This is an important lesson that the entire nation needs; the more the Americans escalate, the stronger our position becomes.
  [this was yesterday, his weekly Thursday speech to the nation]

⭕A difficult security incident is currently unfolding in Gaza, resulting in a number of Zionist soldiers being killed and injured. Helicopter evacuations are underway to Soroka Hospital within the occupied territories of Palestine.

💠@Yemeni Armed Forces:
⭕ A popular uprising aware of all Zionist ambitions in our Arab and Islamic countries…and a firm, comprehensive, and decisive Yemeni decision to continue strangling the Israeli enemy entity and confronting the American enemy’s support for it.
Million-man march: ” We stand with Gaza… despite the Americans and their crimes ”
#صنعاء
#ميدان_السبعين |media|
⭕ A renewed “human deluge” in a march titled by “Standing with Gaza، against the will of US and its crimes”
The Yemeni decision to ban Israeli shipping is a moral and humanitarian stance supporting oppressed Gaza, all the brutality of US and Israeli intervention cannot stop this decision

Wouldn’t you want your Obituary recited and displayed by these imperial presstitutes? They can make even a dying end-stage satanic paradigm appear manly, focused, and hopeful. We shall be entertained

🇮🇱 An Israeli band broadcasts images of the Gaza genocide during a concert in front of a euphoric crowd.

lsraeIis are literal demons. pic.twitter.com/9Ie4b6MtcV

— ADAM (@AdameMedia) April 23, 2025

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ China has officially switched on the world’s first commercial 10G broadband network in its futuristic high-tech city of Xiong’an, overpowering the USA.

The launch marks a major step in the evolution of ultra-fast internet and smart city infrastructure, and a clear statement of intent from the nation aiming to dominate next-gen connectivity.

The rollout, jointly developed by Huawei and state-owned China Unicom, uses cutting-edge 50G Passive Optical Network (PON) technology.
Real-world speeds clocked in at blistering rates – up to 9,834 Mbps downloads, 1,008 Mbps uploads, and latency as low as 3 milliseconds. That’s enough bandwidth to download a 20GB file in under 20 seconds or stream lag-free 8K content with ease.
⭕ A win/win farce:
The only way for the US to save face in Yemen is to have Benjamin Netanyahu, who now carries an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes, lift the humanitarian siege on Gaza, so that Ansar Allah can, in turn, lift its blockade on Israeli-linked shipping. Then Donald Trump can step in and declare “victory” over the Houthis, and the entire spectacle can be spun into a geopolitical success. Everyone wins—except the truth.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ American Roots of German Nazism, Part 8: Who Coined the Term ‘Untermensch’ in the US, Why and How the Nazis Adopted It

One of the cornerstones of Nazi ideology was the belief that the so-called Aryans were superhumans. They also coined the term “untermensch” (subhuman), used to describe ethnic groups they didn’t consider fully human, such as Jews, Romani people, and Slavs.

However, the origin of this term and the concept of racial hierarchy actually emerged in the United States.

In the eighth video of this exclusive Sputnik series, Yegor Yakovlev, a historian of Nazism and the author of “The War of Annihilation”, explains who created and popularized the term in the early 20th century.

#Victory80 |media|
[this Last War is really the denouement between the Anglo-Saxons and the Russkies. Act Three. German Nazis were the patsies in Act II, as the UkroNazis serve these days. But the Supermensch shall have to wade in, all worthwhile proxies attrited and exposed. What days]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕❗️Trump has clarified that he didn’t ‘stop’ Israel from attacking Iran’s nuclear sites but did not ‘make it comfortable’ for them, preferring a deal over military action

He expressed no concern about Netanyahu dragging the U.S. into war, stating that the U.S. will not be ‘unwillingly involved,’ and he would willingly engage if a deal isn’t reached.

He adds that ‘By the way, he [Netanyahu] may go into a war’ and says that U.S. will not stay out of it.
⭕ President Donald Trump: ‘I think Saudi Arabia will go into the Abraham Accords, and by the way, I think it will be full very quickly.’

the Murder-Suicide on Persia and the arabs comes with a package: Pakistan. No islamic country can be seen to have retaliatory nukes given the bestiality in motion. So another Murder-Suicide is being arranged vis-a-vis India.. Will India survive Modi, in every which way??

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Major World Events by Evening of April 23

• Japan’s use of Russian assets for a loan to Ukraine will be complicity in Kiev’s crimes and will entail tough retaliatory measures, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated;
•  In February, Russia ranked second after the US in the total value of gas imports to the EU with a share of 18.4%. This happened despite the complete stop of gas transit through Ukraine since the beginning of the year, according to Eurostat data;
•  China is conducting the largest military buildup in history, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said; 
  [in ITS history, or OUR world history? And whachta gonna do about it, besides moan and mewl?]
•  The US can no longer be the guarantor of Europe’s security, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said;

⭕ ‘Russia Seeks Negotiations, While Europe Desires War’

Other key statements from the Kremlin’s spokesman to the French magazine Le Point:

• Ukraine must withdraw troops from the Novorossiya and Donbass regions that have joined Russia to end the conflict;
• The presidents of Russia and the US share the understanding that refusing dialogue is absurd;
• Putin respects Trump because he is a strong political figure and a strong personality;
• A meeting between Trump and Putin should be productive, and preparatory work is underway;
• Russia has no territorial claims against the Baltic states;
• Europeans attempt to teach Russia about democracy, yet they often violate these principles themselves;
• Russia has no intention of attacking anyone;
• Russia will achieve its goals by peaceful or military means;
• Russia has learned to live under sanctions, while they create significant problems for the EU;
• Trump did not set a deadline for establishing a ceasefire in Ukraine, and Russia also finds it inappropriate to set dates;
• Russia’s relations with the West are at an impasse, and Moscow is trying to improve relations with Washington;
• Neither Macron nor other European leaders wanted to listen to Putin when he told them that Russia was being cornered regarding its security.

⭕ Togo and Burkina Faso Abolish Roaming Fees—Is Lomé [Togo] Edging Closer to the Sahel States Alliance?

Here are some indicators of a growing rapprochement between the country and the bloc:

• “A bold sign of solidarity”: Former lawmaker Iba Karim notes that this move strengthens “human and economic bonds” and advocates for “a united West Africa;”
• Togo’s FM Robert Dussey has reiterated twice (Jan & Mar 2025) that joining the AES is a consideration, describing it as a “strategic decision;”
• Despite AES countries leaving ECOWAS, of which Togo is a member, Mali’s FM has expressed a warm welcome for bilateral cooperation with Togo;
• Malian analyst Abdoul Diallo opines, “ECOWAS is heading for disaster,” and sees security advantages in Togo’s cooperation with the AES;
• Togo was invited to Niger’s International Women’s Crafts Fair, a gesture of inclusion from AES countries;
• “Togo is a key player, closely aligned with the AES vision,” said Burkinabe analyst Lianhoué Imhotep Bayala. Additionally, Togo’s ports have the potential to become a “maritime hub” for the alliance.
  [The last is crucial for the landlocked Sahelian Junta. The pack of combined hyenas worked hard to besiege them in every direction. But the ice melts..]

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇪🇺 U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated that the United States can no longer serve as Europe’s security guarantor. |media|
[A major marker. What worth is Article V then?]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇨🇳 US Wants to Restructure China’s Economy (LOLOLOLOL)

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just admitted it:

“We want to help China pivot away from exports… Their model is unsustainable and hurting the world.”

Translation? The U.S. couldn’t crash China with tariffs — so now it wants to force structural change through policy, pressure, and “partnership.”

Bessent also says the trade war is unsustainable, and talks will happen “below the level of Trump and Xi.”

This isn’t about compromise, it’s about control.

The U.S. is still trying to dictate how China runs its economy, just without calling it regime change.
[A tad early to say the demented cannot crash the world economy and impede China’s rise. Very premature. It is easy to destroy for those practiced in the dark arts. The Murder-Suicide with Persia fulfills many tasks]
⭕ 🇮🇳🇵🇰 India has ordered three changes in its relations with Pakistan, following the recent killings of 26 Indian tourists by Islamist militants in the Kashmir region:

1. The regional border between India and Pakistan along the disputed Kashmir region has been closed.
2. Pakistani citizens are banned from entering India indefinitely, despite a visa-exemption scheme.
3. A water-sharing treaty between the two countries has been suspended.

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has stated that those who had planned and carried out the massacre – including those “behind the scenes” – would see a “swift response”.

Pakistan has denied involvement in the massacre.
[this last measure is shocking and tantamount to declaration of war, if not rapidly reversed. They can literally starve Pakistan, dependent on the Himalayan waters for food and water. Even Iran protested yesterday, disturbed by the disproportionate aggression, which threatens to detonate a nuclear war on its eastern border. Now I was joking that the JD the Manchurian Candidate may leave India dead the next day, but this is unbelievable, the reckless moves underway. Perhaps it was wise of Brazil to schedule the BRICS Summit this early in July. There is gonna be needed a hell lotta deconfliction in South Asia. And China has the SCO chair later too – of which both Pakistan and India are members. Madness]
⭕🇮🇳🇵🇰 India Suspends Indus Water Treaty (1960)

Signed by Nehru & Ayub Khan, the treaty gave Pakistan 80% of the Indus system’s waters. It was brokered by the World Bank & hailed as a rare success in Indo-Pak cooperation.

But on April 23, India suspended the treaty, citing national security after a deadly attack in Kashmir.

The Indus Waters Treaty:

• Gave India rights to the eastern rivers (Beas, Ravi, Sutlej)
• Gave Pakistan rights to the western rivers (Indus, Jhelum, Chenab)
• Allowed India limited use of western rivers for power & irrigation
• Included a dispute resolution mechanism (commission, arbitration, neutral expert)

⭕ 🇷🇺 European countries are openly preparing for a potential war with Russia, according to Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu in an interview with TASS.

“Timelines for such a conflict are being discussed at various levels — ranging from three to five years,” he stated.

💠 @Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ The Differences Between Qatar and the UAE”
[on top: Qatar. On bottom: the Emirates]
⭕ We know where America’s pain is, and how to drain it.

Yemen is fine; there’s no need to worry.

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ The Syrian government’s recent claim of holding approximately $25 billion in foreign debt notably omits a substantial obligation to Iran, estimated between $35 billion and $50 billion.​

This omission is significant given Iran’s extensive financial and military support to Syria during the Assad era. Iran’s investments included oil shipments, military aid, and infrastructure projects, with the total support estimated at over $50 billion.
[Even if never recouped, a worthwhile investment. It delayed “7 countries in 5 years” by a catastrophic two decades, now ensuring a Murder-Suicide]
⭕ A Blatant War Crime and Crime Against Humanity:

In the past 24 hours, Israel has killed at least 50 Palestinians in Gaza and deliberately targeted and destroyed a school in the besieged Strip. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—already facing an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his war crimes—announced that humanitarian aid would be allowed into Gaza after nearly two months of complete siege. However, his own Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, publicly threatened to topple the government if any food or fuel is allowed to reach the Palestinian population.
⭕ US Secretary of State @marcorubio stated that Iran can pursue a nuclear program like any other country, as long as it does not include military-grade capabilities. Suppose this is indeed the full extent of US demands. A deal may be achievable in that case, provided it includes sufficient guarantees and enforcement mechanisms to sanction any party that violates the agreement.
[This is not a concession. It is admittance of the obvious – like its blistering hot in the Saharan summer at noon. Iran already has this right in international law. What it says is the Pirates dissemble – pretending to be sincere and peaceful in front of cameras, whereas not one step has been taken back from the brink. Indeed, it is a veiled threat, as in 404, where similar nonsensical “negotiation” is willfully slow-walked to ensure it is settled only on the battlefield]

Did you know Rummy is a member of the 88 Curtains Club??

I’ve always disliked sci fi, with few exceptions. I think it has to do with deep disquiet with machines.. where do we stand?? Like A.I. it can be for, or against us. Sci fi usually depicts and celebrates the future of machines.. Star Trek as a lad raised the same discomfort as horror movies

Rummy also let slip the cardinal direction of the West when he proclaimed “The Long War.” i think the horrifying predicament of the zionazis today, bone-tired and despairing but unable to retreat, merely mirrors the Machine Mission of the Long War begun really before 2001, in 1991.. The Last Drang is quite a marathon, with no off ramp to either side. Survival and Plunder ethics are in manifest conflict now, no? Even before suicide or civil conflict, external force now threatens the former if continue to pursue the latter. Note the Lebanese Hezbollah are wisely getting their breather in now.. and the even more wise Persians and Chinese haven’t begun yet. The civilizational-states have nicely paced themselves

I’ve disliked and avoided both video games and especially first-person shooter games. This interesting movie called Gamer (2009) let’s slip about remote controlling the real living fighter, like the planes that hit the Twin Towers (if they weren’t CGI). Apparently various drugs (ahem – c-19) can open portals to remote possession too. Several other movies did too, like the Matrix. This may explain the unusual warrior abilities of UkroNazis and Salafis and other proxies, who just keep on fighting, even after being shot up and dying, like zombies of the Apocalypse. What days. Remember to read the drug’s fine print, o nazi warrior! For ser you’ll get the ride of your lives
NB. the villain in the movie is tech billionaire hellbent on controlling mankind via neural technology, like Neuralink. mElon, our Red Horse??

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ Last Sunday, the 20th April 2025, coincided with the first futuristic mission in the 2012 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

Some notable plot elements of the game’s single-player campaign’s storyline, often hailed as one of the best in the long-running first-person shooter franchise:

– The US military conducts military operations against armed militia movements in Yemen.
– AI and the usage of drones becomes standard in warfare.
– A new cold war emerges between the United States and China.
– China halts all exports of its rare earth materials.
– Additional: Somebody has just reminded us that a US carrier gets sunk as well. Foreshadowing…?

Of course, this is all just a work of video game fiction.

Wait a minute…
[file this one as another example of burrowing deeper into the Rabbit Hole. If Reality is too traumatizing.. the sea of enemies can be “handled” in video games]
⭕ 🇨🇭🇷🇺 Switzerland has joined EU sanctions by imposing restrictions on eight Russian media outlets, including Zvezda, Lenta.ru, and EADaily.
[a Sign, for those who think the EuroCrazies, like the zionazis, can retreat, or that the Anglo-French won’t openly enter Odessa. ALL bridges were burnt to settlement with the civilized world]
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇺🇸🇺🇦Russia continues contacts with the US, but the settlement on Ukraine should not be put into a short time frame — Peskov

🐻 Translation: there will be no deal this week, regardless of what Trump has been saying
⭕ 🇺🇦🇬🇧 Ukrainian channel RezidentUA writes:

According to sources, MI6, together with the GUR, is preparing an operation involving a humanitarian catastrophe in order to discredit the peace process. The option involving phosphorus or poisonous gas was rejected by British intelligence. The main scenario now is either the explosion of a reactor at a nuclear power plant or the death of children in a missile strike.
[lemme guess. Those will be Russian children, east of the Dneiper??]
⭕⚠️🇺🇸🇮🇷 USA expanded the sanctions against Iran
[a good sign! They pile on the sanctions when unable to physically attack…]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Kiev Buys Russian Gas That Comes to Europe Via TurkStream, Ukrainian MP Admits

“We cannot determine the origin of the molecules,” Oleksiy Kucherenko said.

👉 For the next heating season, Ukraine will need to purchase between 4.5 and 6 billion cubic meters of gas on the European market, he added.

Part of this volume will inevitably be of Russian origin, said the parliamentarian, a member of the energy committee.
[LOL. NB. the same TurkStream they and the Limeys are trying to blow up! Their last significant lifeline]
⭕❗️Russian troops liberated the settlement of Sukhaya Balka in the DPR, the Russian MoD reports
⭕ The American roots of German Nazism, Part 7: How Nazi propaganda copied the aesthetic of American westerns

“The idea of parallels between the conquest of territories in Eastern Europe and the American West was widely spread in Nazi Germany,” Yegor Yakovlev, a lecturer on Nazi crimes at St. Petersburg State University, tells Sputnik.

👉 In this video from our exclusive series, the historian, who specializes in the origins and rise of Nazism, explains how the aesthetics of American Westerns influenced Nazi propaganda, which convinced both adults and youth that the people in the East were “savages” and encouraged the conquest and colonization of their lands.

#Victory80 |media|
⭕Major World Events by Evening of April 22

• The US wants to help India develop its natural resources, including offshore natural gas reserves and critical minerals, US Vice President JD Vance said;  [we hope India won’t be found dead tomorrow!]
• Over 100 American universities have signed a letter condemning US authorities for reducing or terminating their funding;  [what was that saying about knowing who is naked when the Tide goes out?? USAID was only one among many rotten sugar daddies. Must say though – the sledge hammer being taken to Uncle Ray’s Academia is heartwarming. They do deserve the Orange Storm]
• A court in Germany has allowed German intelligence not to share information about the origin of the coronavirus with the media.
  [well this is indirect proof, an admission through their law of omerta, as with the Nordstreams, no??]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Yemen Military 🇾🇪: Soon,
[this appears a Yemeni military channel? They posted a US B-2 bomber under one of their target sights, like the countless ones already provided of the downed Reaper drones]
🔻 WS: The odds of Yemen downing a B-2 are very slim. Of course, no one believed 18 months ago they could shoot down 21 MQ-9s.

And I bet Iran can shoot down B-2s. Maybe they’ll find a way to assist the Yemeni. That would throw a big stick in the spokes of US plans to attack Iran.
🔻 C1: What are they shooting down the mq-9’s with, does anyone know or is it just speculative?
🔻 WS: Surface to air missiles. They’ve posted lots of video of the shootdowns.
🔻 C2: the design is for evade ground radar stations ,of course is possible if the Yemen start to use AWACS
🔻 WS: If a B-2 ventures too close and flies too low and the Yemeni can get a missile up above it, it can be targeted. Yes, that’s a lot of “IF”s, but it’s not an impossibility.
🔻 C2: Remember that plane has a small echo,you will see a small ping on your screen ,if you will able to see something,then after the launch 🚀 maybe the rocket won’t be able to find and acquire the target
🔻 WS: The B-2 is much more visible from above than below. A missile can be guided not only via data link from ground radars, but it can use active radar, optical, and infrared sensors in the terminal targeting phase.
🔻 C2: Of course the plane is done if after the launch the rocket can level and acquire the target ,who knows what kind of systems the houthis have ? Maybe old Soviets systems or more capable Iranian systems!!got your point.
🔻 WS: I highly doubt the Yemeni can bring down a B-2. But I’ll bet the Iranians can if B-2s attempt to penetrate Iranian airspace in order to deliver bunker-buster bombs on hardened targets.
🔻 Baba Yagga: So why will the B2 fly too low?
🔻 WS: “Too low” relative to how high the SAM can ascend.
🔻 C4: Iran probably has good odds due to Russia supplying the air defense.
🔻 WS: Iran’s air defenses are predominantly domestic-build, albeit mostly originating in Soviet/Russian designs.
🔻 C4: Really? I swear roughly 6 months ago I saw an article saying they’d done a deal and Russia was basing some of their top tier air defense there
🔻 WS: The rumor was that S-400s were delivered, but there was never any subsequent evidence it had happened. And even if a few have been delivered, they would represent a small portion of Iranian AD. Iran produces excellent indigenous AD systems.
🔻 C5: Yemen is shooting down nothing.

Russia/China are testing gear.
🔻 WS: You are misinformed.
🔻 C5: Quite possible.

Reuters/U.S. State Department = Highly unreliable. |link|
🔻 WS: Yeah, I commented on this report the other day.

I don’t believe any Russian or Chinese weaponry is being used by the Yemeni, but they could very well be using various Russian/Chinese components in missiles, sensors, radars, etc.
🔻 RedCowNewz: Iran can absolutely shoot down the B-2’s as well as the flankers that are running interference.
🔻 WS: You touch upon an important point: I think the Iranians can shoot down several aircraft in the vanguard SEAD strike. And, if they do, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the remainder of the strike abruptly aborted.
🔻 Mamad: They are using stand off missiles such as JASSMs.
🔻 WS: There is no point for the B-2 to be used to launch JASSMs against Yemen, given that they can be launched by a wide variety of other US platforms (B-52, F-15E, F-16, F/A-18). The B-2 is designed to penetrate enemy air defenses. Using it in a stand-off role against Yemen is dumb.
🔻 Mamad: I know it’s dumb, but that’s what they have been doing. |source|
🔻 WS: OSINTtechnical is a notoriously unreliable site.

And the JASSM is not particularly “stealthy”.

In any case, as I’ve said many times, if the US wants to use B-2s and JASSMs to strike at Yemen, the Iranians will gladly provide aviation fuel and sandwiches for the ground crew.
🔻 Mamad: I agree with you, but this time he was quoting a reporter covering the Pentagon.

Imo, B-2s won’t be effective against Iran, and Americans know it. They are just trying to project power using B-2s, but they are very careful not to lose one to a minor faction such as Ansarallah.
🔻 Jonah Cray: On May 2, 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the Serbian 250th Rocket Brigade shot down a B-2, “The Spirit of Missouri” (AB-810 88-0329), with two rockets. The plane crashed in Spachva Forest near Vinkovci, Croatia.
🔻 Daniele Gatti: No, a F-117 was shot down that year (27 March) in Serbia, not a B-2.
🔻 Jonah Cray: On March 27, 1999, the Serbian 250th Rocket Brigade shot down an F-117 and an F-16. Less than two months later, on May 20, 1999, they downed a B-2.
🔻 WS: You are misinformed. No B-2 was shot down by the Serbs. Of the 21 built, one B-2 (Spirit of Kansas) crashed on take-off in Guam in 2008. It was a total loss. IIRC, another was damaged on landing at Whiteman AFB, and was eventually deemed too expensive to repair.
⭕ In recent years I have encountered people who not only believe Japan would fight alongside the Americans in a war against China, but even some who believe Japan is militarily superior to China.

Both these beliefs are ridiculous nonsense. Japan can see the weather vane.
links:
🔻 S.L. Kanthan: How Japan got its groove back!

“If Japan concedes everything [to Trump], we won’t be able to secure our national interest,” Prime Minister Ishiba said in parliament on Monday.

Japan needs to export cars and protect its agriculture. And it cannot afford to decouple from China.
🔻 #Liderazgoinnovador: What do you think about this?
[links:
🔻 Alon Mizrahi: As I predicted a few days ago, Hegseth is being destroyed by the Israel lobby for his objection to an Iran war. They won’t let him off the hook – and that’s before kompromat. He’s going to be replaced by a pro-war hawk” |link|]
[as if Temple Mount Hegseth has ANY agency, even over his own bodily functions whilst in the Pentagram. More Cirque du Soleil]
🔻 WS: I think Hegseth is in way over his head. And there are probably a lot of people who want to see him gone, for many different reasons.

That said, I think he correctly concludes there is HIGH RISK and low probability of strategic success in launching an air campaign against Iran.
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: but it’s sort of comforting to see that the Japanese looked down and they spotted the tiny balls… to conjure up the courage to try and stand up to the US….
[LOL. this should go in the next idiom dictionary edition, under “damning with faint praise”]
🔻 whitemonkey1: when Japan have more backbone than South Korean govt, it is obvious which one is the most loyal house slave in asia
🔻 Aaron A: Japan is an occupied vassal. But even vassals have their limits.
⭕🔻 Douglas Macgregor:
Iran is strategically vital to Russia.

This is exactly why Russia will not stand by and do nothing if we unleash a massive attack on Iran.

Take a look at the history of the region, especially during WW II.
[can u feel the sonorous and solemn intonation with their precise cadence vibrating in the air??]
🔻 Brian McDonald: If Iran were “strategically vital” to Russia, Moscow would’ve signed a defense pact like it did with North Korea. It didn’t. That tells you everything. Moscow didn’t risk it for Armenia. It’s not about to jump into an Israel–Iran showdown.
🔻 WS: I doubt the Iranians want a pact like the DPRK made — but that does not mean Iran is not “strategically vital” to Russia.

I think Russia (and China) will “help” Iran against the US in a fashion similar to how the US “helped” Ukraine against Russia. And that will suffice.
⭕🔻 The War Zone: USMC Anti-Ship Missile Deployment To Highly Strategic Luzon Strait Is Unprecedented

From the Batanes Islands, Naval Strike Missiles would be able to engage any surface vessel transiting the channel between Taiwan and The Philippines. |link|
🔻 MenchOsint: With this deployment, the US military communicates that it is ready to target Chinese warship, in a scenario where China invaded Taiwan.

PLA Generals having a good laugh, this & surrounding US Navy warships would be destroyed in a minute if they acted irresponsibly.

This threat to Chinese PLA Navy navigation will be dealt with in the first seconds if things heat up.
🔻 WS: Meh. There have only been a relative handful of these $2M/each missiles produced, and the USMC only has a few launchers on these Filipino islands. They are subsonic and have limited range. But yes, they will be targeted in the initial stages of any US/China conflict.
⭕‼️ Gresham’s Law

Some believe the US dollar still being used for ~50% of global transactions is somehow contradictory to reports of its increasing deprecation.

The USD is still being used for ~50% of global transactions precisely because it is increasingly deprecated.
links:
🔻 unusual_whales: “U.S. Dollar is now used in nearly 50% of global payments, the highest level in more than 12 years,” per Macrobond
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Roi Lopez Rivas: Última hora: Juan Guaidó se acaba de autoproclamar Papa en una cancha de padel en Miami.
[why not? It would liven up the freakshow. But first: lift the hem and confirm its got one of each. Exceptional days require unique equipment in the exalted halls of the gated Inner Garden..]
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Kit Klarenberg:
🧵: With news that Israel is still contemplating a “limited strike” on Iran, important to understand why the US is so resistant to this, why it would be a complete and utter disaster of epic proportions for the Empire, and why fears of a wider war on Iran are overblown… |THREAD|
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Luke Gromen: “What currency is going to replace the USD as global reserve currency?”

Central Banks: “No currency is going to replace the USD, but gold has been replacing USTs as primary reserve asset for 11 yrs. Gold has crushed USTs in that time, but most still refuse to accept reality.”
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Armchair Warlord: People are somehow still reluctant to believe that the casualty ratio is frighteningly lopsided in this war when the Ukrainians themselves admit that they only have one effective weapon system left and their MEDEVAC is terrible.

Yes, Virginia, the side whose most-casualty producing weapons are artillery and airstrikes is going to inflict a lot more casualties than the side whose most-casualty producing weapon is an RPG warhead taped to a drone.
🔻 Unclean: Syrskyi said something like ~24k Russian projectiles are impacting daily last week.
Be extremely charitable and let’s say only 25% are having any effect.
That’s 6k rounds effecting somebody as only artillery can. Per day. 42k rds/week. 180k/month.
“The Somme” doesn’t even cut it.
🔻 MarsAutomatic🇺🇲: They still believe Ukraine is killing Russians at 10:1 ratios despite a constant imbalance in drones, artillery, manpower, air support, etc, because western weapons and intelligence are simply advanced enough to mitigate these deficits. And they take the static line as proof.
🔻 mntahoe: I feel like we are finally reaching the end of the cope cycle and sooner or later there will be a full admission that the nato side got their clock cleaned in this war. The usa is gearing up for a shift back to the middle east and the pacific anyway
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: This is interesting: Justin Yifu Lin, former Chief Economist of the World Bank and a China’s State Council Counsellor, explaining why in the trade war “the losses for the United States will be greater than those of China”.

He essentially frames a trade war as an economic war of attrition where market size ultimately determines which side can maintain the R&D investments necessary for technological leadership.

As he explains the “U.S. is a high-income nation [that mainly relies] on high-tech industries. A defining characteristic of high-tech industries is that maintaining technological leadership requires substantial R&D investment.

The profits generated from R&D are determined by the market size. China constitutes a market twice as large [as the U.S.]. With [China’s] market support, technology enterprises can achieve high profits. Without access to the Chinese market, [U.S. companies’] profits would be lower, potentially rendering them unprofitable.

Moreover these high-tech enterprises need to continuously invest in R&D. If profits remain low or nonexistent, they will be unable to sustain their technological leadership.”

To sum-up, to him, China has effectively two key advantages:
1) it’s less of a “one-trick pony” than the high-income US that heavily depends on high-tech industries, giving it greater resilience during trade conflicts;
2) and second its massive domestic market – now twice the size of the U.S. – means that in an economic “war of attrition”, which is what a trade war is, China can both provide its own firms with higher profits than the US can with its own firms, and China can hurt American high-tech firms more than America can hurt Chinese firms. |link|
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: This is another reason why, as I’ve already argued, Trump’s extreme tariffs on China are much the same strategic miscalculation we’ve witnessed in the Russia sanctions regime 👇

In Ukraine, NATO decided to go on a war of attrition against a Russia that proved to have greater industrial capacity for arms production than the West, and proved to be less dependent on the West than the West was dependent on Russian energy resources, creating a fundamental asymmetry in economic leverage.

With China, Trump is choosing to go on an economic war of attrition against an economy that has both greater manufacturing diversity and a larger domestic market than the US, giving it the same relative advantage of resilience. |link|

⭕ “officials and sources”

🤦‍♂️
[he quotes and links a since-deleted Al Arabiya, which deserves to be in quotations too, like NYT and BBC and other presstitutes. They had boasted about 500 “Houthis” killed by Yanquis in last month. It will get there at current rate of savagery, but not yet..]
🔻 WS: Meanwhile, the Yemeni are the gatekeepers of the Bab-el-Mandeb, and the USS Trembling Puppy remains bottled up in the northern Red Sea
🔻 Dr. Resistance 🔻: The death toll is 500 when you add up every dead woman, children, senior citizen and stay dogs, so I guess everyone must be houthis in Washingtons eyes🤦‍♂️this is what happens when you kill civilians because you have no intelligence on “houthis” due to them shooting down your MQ9😆
🔻 Old Greybeard: It’s not the “Gate of Tears” for nothing 😁😭😁
⭕The US is preparing a GROUND INVASION of Yemen?

With what forces? And how will they get there? |link|
🔻 Jeffrey Jensen: Arabs. And humvees.
[LOL. Ain’t no evil arabs with balls left willing to re-invade Yemen, esp not under current regional dynamics and Yemeni mood. For one thing, they need those goons to save their own thrones right now from their own masses]
🔻 Jagdpanthercat🐱: Certain people in our ruling class have talked about using all three marine divisions there. John McCain looking up would be pleased. “Boots on the ground!”
🔻 RuhRoh: They’re talking about using other Yemeni factions to do it(floated by UAE), but I doubt it’ll ever take off. Saudis aren’t on board with it
🔻 WINE TRAVEL: Seems they want to use UAE and Saudi Arabia supported groups in the rest of Yemen to take the port

🚨🇮🇱🇮🇷 BREAKING: ISRAEL THREATENS TO BOMB IRANIAN NUCLEAR SITES

On today’s episode of Legitimate Targets, Jackson Hinkle speaks with Elijah Magnier (@ejmalrai) about Hezbollah’s REFUSAL to DISARM, ZIONIST espionage in the Axis of Resistance & Trump's OPPOSITION to BOMBING IRAN. pic.twitter.com/2Tj913e7hg

— Legitimate Targets (@LegitTargets) April 21, 2025

Russia: The main obstacle to the globalist project of world reordering

historically, there were certain key individuals, or societies, that functioned as the last levee holding off the cresting and tsunami of Legion. Russia is ours in the End Times. May she hold

💠”China warns countries not to align with US in trade”
“Beijing has issued a warning to countries considering limiting their trade with China in hopes of gaining tariff relief from the US, saying it will retaliate against any such moves.

The administration of US President Donald Trump plans to pressure other countries into limiting trade with China, including imposing monetary sanctions, in return for better trade terms, according to media reports.

China “firmly opposes any party reaching a deal at the expense of China’s interests,” the Commerce Ministry said in a statement on Monday, adding that Beijing would “resolutely take countermeasures.””

💠”Chinese envoy calls Trump tariffs an ‘echo of Great Depression’”
well we can safely predict at the end of this process, what comes will be more than “an echo” – it will make the terrible 1930s seem like a little dust kicked up by a babe in the bowl of her cradle

💠”California mayor proposes tackling homelessness with fentanyl”
Good Lord. The devils openly preen & prance in California. They aim to summarily clear the slate and otherwise accelerate the mass suicide in motion

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel has effectively abandoned its prisoners in Gaza, prioritizing the destruction of the Strip and the forced displacement of Palestinians over the lives of its own citizens.
The founding principle of “never leave anyone behind,” once a cornerstone of Israeli military and national identity, has been discarded. In its place stands a new doctrine—one where the lives of Israeli captives are expendable, sacrificed for the ideological ambitions of the extremist leadership now in power. The goal is no longer recovery, but conquest.
⭕ Israel targeted and destroyed a car in Ba’warta, Shouf, Lebanon, violating the ceasefire with impunity. The number of casualties is unknown.
The Lebanese government and its prime minister rarely condemn these violations (over 2700 so far) and the Israeli killing of Lebanese citizens, as if these are not part of the country.
⭕ To the Palestinians:

The arrest of Khaled Khaled, head of operations for Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in Syria, alongside several other PIJ figures, marks a sharp turn in Syria’s posture toward the so-called Axis of Resistance. Far from a routine security measure, the move reflects external pressure—chiefly from Israel via the United States.

During the Trump administration, one of the quieter conditions for potential sanctions relief on Syria was the curtailment of Iranian influence and its affiliated non-state actors, including Hamas and the PIJ. The arrest of a high-ranking PIJ commander doesn’t serve Syrian strategic interests directly. It serves only and solely Israel’s.

This act points to a deeper, more transactional shift inside the Syrian leadership. Targeting a group like PIJ—long funded and supported by Iran—suggests a willingness among key figures in Damascus to entertain US-Israeli security interests, even at the expense of ideological commitments that have shaped Syria’s alliances for decades.

In short, this isn’t just a crackdown. It’s a signal. Syria, devastated by over a decade of war and strangled by sanctions, is looking for a rapprochement with Israel, economic relief and diplomatic rehabilitation. Arresting PIJ operatives is intended to show Washington that Damascus is open to quiet compromise and can be a partner in “counterterrorism” and an anti-Palestinian campaign when it suits.

But the cost is real. This move erode Damascus’s credibility among Palestinian factions in exodus and resistance movements against Israel, for whom Syria was once a safe haven.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Putin signs a law ratifying a strategic partnership agreement with Iran

The document provides for the strengthening of cooperation in the areas of security and defense.

• Its third article stipulates that if one of the parties faces aggression, the other must not provide any assistance to the aggressor;
• The parties will also refrain from joining third-country sanctions against them and will guarantee the non-application of unilateral coercive measures;
• The agreement was concluded for 20 years, with automatic renewal for five-year periods.

⭕ Gold to the Rescue: How African Nations Are Banking on Bullion

As global financial uncertainty persists, several African countries have been turning to gold as a strategic tool—to stabilize currencies, build reserves, and shield their economies from volatility. With prices now surpassing $3,400 per troy ounce, their gold-focused policies are gaining even more relevance:

• Zimbabwe launched a gold-backed currency (ZiG) in April 2024 to fight hyperinflation and bring financial stability;
• Uganda plans to buy domestic gold from artisanal miners to boost its foreign exchange reserves and reduce reliance on volatile global markets;
• South Sudan aims to diversify reserves by adding gold, according to Central Bank Governor James Alic Garang;
• Madagascar’s central bank is investing in gold to offset falling vanilla exports and support the national currency;
• Tanzania began requiring miners and traders to sell 20% of their gold to the central bank, strengthening reserves;
• Nigeria is considering legislation to have 30% of reserves in gold, with the Central Bank becoming the main buyer.

⭕ ❗️ Russian troops liberated Gornal St. Nicholas Belogorsky Monastery in the Kursk region, bordering Ukraine, a source in the military group that carried out the liberation tells Sputnik

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 💵❗️Gold prices exceeded $3,500 per ounce for the first time in history

Good God. The news keeps comin fast & furious. Every single day there’s more bad news. The deranged must be tempted: