By their numbers ye shall know them: the number 88 & DJT. A double ouroboros snake
(BTW, the 90-day extension of the Tariffs on all except China & Mexico, is 2 + 88)

Just watch first 8 minutes (or minutes 4-8 to hear the Don himself casting the 88s hex)

Donald Trump: The Game (1988)

Trump Sings Midsummer Madness By 88rising, Joji, Rich Brian, Higher Brothers, AUGUST 08

cats can see what we cannot see… and it doesn’t like what it sees peering outta the eyeslits of the Don. A Bad energy

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 💬🇨🇳⚔️🇺🇸 China raises the tariffs on the US goods to 125%

“Given that US exports to China already have no market acceptability under the current tariff rates, if the US further imposes additional tariffs on Chinese goods, China will simply ignore them,” said the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council, the country’s cabinet.
[👏👏👏. So US raising it to 145% or 1,000% will not be reciprocated henceforth, as their crap is already priced out at over 100% with import substitution internally and externally kicking in..]

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🤍 Non-BRICS Countries Will Have Access to BRICS Payment Platforms, Lavrov Says

“In addition to national currencies, there is an opportunity to form payment platforms independent of external influence. One option is the Central Bank of Russia’s financial messaging system, it is convenient and does not depend on any SWIFT. There are a number of other initiatives that are being considered, in particular, within the BRICS framework,” the Russian foreign minister told reporters.
[👏👏👏 This open exhortation by the Russian FM for all the sane to continue fleeing the breached Titanic says it all, in spite of “warming relations” and “negotiations” and Witkoff’s latest arrival in Russia. The nature of scorpions is unchanging and “agreement incapable”.]
⭕❗️ Price of Gold on Exchange Reached New Historical Record of $3250 Per Troy Ounce

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ The E3 told Iran they would trigger the JCPOA snapback mechanism by the end of June.

Iran responded that doing so would mean harsh consequences & a review of its nuclear doctrine [such as leaving the NPT] — Reuters quoting European officials
[even though it is British Reuters, this was thought to be likely. “Snapback mechanism” obligates ALL UN members to levy full sanctions on Iran… an interesting test for multipolar bloc. Certainly the new dominant trading partners of Iran will ignore this political nonsense, entirely contrived to strangle Iran as was done to Syria, Cuba, DPRK, etc etc etc. Somehow, a point will be made to circumvent these satanic economic siege warfare]

💠 @imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Bill Ackman: This was brilliantly executed by @realDonaldTrump. Textbook, Art of the Deal
🔻 Kirill A. Dmitriev: Fully agree with Bill — one of the world’s greatest (and yes, most controversial) investors.
🔻 WS: In terms of anything and everything Trump and his entourage of imbeciles are doing these days, what the Russians say in public and what they think, say, and do in private are distinctly different things.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand:
I’m normally not a big fan, but this is an absolutely brilliant answer by Larry Summers to the oft-repeated argument that China is somehow “cheating” in trade.

In fact it’s probably the best answer I’ve ever heard on this.

It goes back to the point I was making (link) in reply to Steve Miran’s completely insane argument that having the dollar as a reserve currency is such a burden to the US that other countries need to compensate them for it.

Thanks to the dollar reserve status, to quote Summers’s rhetorical question: “If China wants to sell us things at really low prices and the transaction is we get solar collectors or we get batteries that we can put in electric cars and we send them pieces of paper that we print. Do you think that’s a good deal for us or a bad deal for us?”

Characterizing this as “cheating”, like Summers rightly says, should be rejected entirely. At the end of the day, who’s more “cheated”: the party doing the hard work of producing goods at very low prices on razor thin margins, or the party that simply prints a virtually infinite amount of fiat money to pay for all this stuff? |media|
[this Larry Summers was perhaps more than “just” an Epstein client – a patron? He was in his NYC mansion along with Bill Gates and the Don. A former boss of Harvard, and Sec Treasury, etc. A load that floated up to the top of the bilge water of the Big Club]
🔻 Alexander: It’s the same with the conversation of “over capacity”
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Absolutely
🔻 C3: Yes, Canada especially @melaniejoly use this false term on an ongoing basis I think most of the Western countries and Europe does. I’ve never understand how they came to that conclusion.
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: It really annoys me, so ignorant and condescending
[A pirate needs to justify The Racket, and ever newer developing permutations..]
🔻 my FIN twit: Misses the point.

The U.S. shouldn’t t rely on ANY country for critical resources, components, products, etc., let alone a hostile adversary.

The U.S. should manufacture as many critical components & products as possible, & 100% of anything required for national security.
🔻 WS: Woulda, coulda, shoulda.

But right now, they don’t. And they can’t materialize such capability in any time frame less than “many years”. Energy production and infrastructure, mines, refined materials, manufacturing, complex finish production and assembly, workforce training …
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ Lessons learned apparently now forgotten, the Japanese are once again playing with matches in the powder magazine.

Stupid is as stupid does.
[links:
🔻 Sony Thang: 🇷🇺MARIA ZAKHAROVA:

[On April 9, the Government of Japan announced its decision to join NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU), a centre that coordinates military assistance, including arms supplies, equipment maintenance and personnel training. This happened in the wake of the recent visit to Tokyo by NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. What is your comment?]

“Japan is pursuing a policy of accelerated remilitarisation.

Against this background, it is increasingly involved in the Ukraine conflict and expands its material and logistical support for the terrorist regime in Kiev.

These destructive actions, which take Japan even farther from the concept of peaceful national development preached by the former generations of Japanese politicians, are not only leading to the actual loss of its status as a pacifist state, a status that was at the base of trust on the part of its regional neighbours, but are also fraught with Tokyo’s open participation in military ventures and crimes committed by the Ukrainian nationalist upper crust, with all ensuing long-term consequences.

In this connection, we would like to warn Japan that any of its steps related to direct or indirect participation in supplying arms and military equipment to Ukraine, which arms and equipment will be used to kill Russian citizens or assist in training Ukrainian militants, will be regarded by us as unequivocally hostile.

If implemented, these will inevitably entail our tough retaliation that will cause substantial damage to the Japanese interests in the most sensitive areas”]
🔻 Alejandro Rodriguez: Vassal states will do what vassal states do
🔻 Haschbruder M.: At least the Kamikaze style could be of value when you only have outdated F-16s.
🔻 Beto Ochoa: The Japanese are desperate
🔻 readysetgo888: I think they all are. They maybe thinking that this time it will work
🔻 The Poets Of Zwan 🪶🏴‍☠️: Japan only has 10 years left. It’s an island of Gen-X retirees with a negative population recruitment
🔻 Christo: Japan is an occupied nation, even worse than Germany
⭕️🤦‍♂️ I can only shake my head at the common folk in America who genuinely believe Trump has THEIR best interests in mind with the things he does.

The same people who were leveraged long yesterday before the market opened were leveraged short today.
[Links: “🇺🇲 Donald Trump was caught on video explaining that his billionaire friends made billions yesterday with tariffs and stock market manipulation. |media| “]
[The satanic mockery of the bobble-heads is priceless. The wrecking crew is a full spectrum disorder, leveled at all. He has same approach the Cokehead has for his “troops” – being merrily sent to the front, year after year in insane futility. The same regard.]
🔻 ÉRH/UASC: The thing to remember is that it’s not really the ‘common folk’. The median income amongst his supporters is significantly higher than that of the population as a whole. His base is people who are actually quite well off.
🔻 Christo: The Trump Show term 1 concluded with the warp speed mRNA.

Term 2 has to top it.
[Well said. He IS prophesied as the Last American Prez for a good reason]
🔻 Mick Wynand: Common people weren’t aware when Rome collapsed after it was conquered by the barbarians because the barbarians kept the system going without greatly changing its appearances.

The US is run by a criminal enterprise in the same fashion as Rome was run by the barbarians.
[Sounded good. Then we remember the Barbarians have Sarmat and Poseidon this time. We may argue there shall be “disruptions” on Plato’s Cave Wall]
🔻 Farmazone: What I like the most is how the corporate media keeps pretending the stock market is a reflection of how Americans are doing.. he just pat on the shoulders few dudes in oval office that made billions of $ of this scam scheme and that’s it, all problems solved and America is saved
[The mesmerizing allure of the Moshiach System: it manufactures the consent of those being forthrightly depopulated by their owners! Even the survivors are prophesied to lament, “Alas, Babylon” for the very demons that holocausted them! The insouciance is unbelievable.]
🔻 Hazkaz2001: This whole re-industrialization thing is about making people support whatever Trump is doing and accept higher prices and lower living standards, while the usual suspects get richer.
🔻 Roy Rentals: I think you are wrong.
🔻 Hazkaz2001: You impose tariffs to protect your industry. You don’t impose tariffs when you don’t have an industry to begin with
🔻 Roy Rentals: We’ll see how it goes. I wouldn’t bet against Trump.
🔻 WS: I would bet the farm against Trump, just I would have anyone else elected POTUS over the course of my lifetime. But Trump will prove to be exceptionally dangerous, and will lead the United States into the most cataclysmic war of its entire history.
🔻 Hazkaz2001: That is the plan. Scorch earth war to burn the house down, but first bring critical supply chain and production of essentials to survival home. You can’t destroy China with missiles rods and antibiotics “made in China”.
🔻 Elydia35: it’s weird; I never thought he was dangerous during his 1st term – thought his desire to pull out of Syria & negotiate with N. Korea were good choices (others not so much). But this 2nd term….he’s unhinged, chaotic, very dangerous
⭕️ retweet:
🔻 Kit Klarenberg: 💥💥My latest – Collapsing Empire: The Delusion of US Air Power💥💥 |media|
⭕️🔻 Jostein Hauge: China’s share of global manufacturing is now larger than the *combined* share of the US, Japan, Germany, and South Korea
🔻 WS: Tariffs will not alter this trend
🔻 Nick Hudson: Absolutely true. But China’s internal contradictions will destroy that trend
🔻 WS: Elaborate.
🔻 Nick Hudson: They have inflated through mercantilist policies, importing creativity generated elsewhere, suppressing the nominal costs of all factors of production, and building a system capable only of implosion, as they have been inclined to do for a few thousand years. Don’t ask me about root causes. I only spent enough time there to smell it.
🔻 WS: Well … although I am in the midst of an attempt to learn much more, I will not pretend to understand China as well as I do, say, Russia.

That said, it occurs to me your description above closely parallels British criticisms of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
🔻 Nick Hudson: Interesting. A key difference is that they didn’t have a few thousand years of observations of America with which to work.
🔻 WS: I don’t dispute the Chinese favor mercantilism. But I don’t believe history supports the argument China notoriously “imports creativity”.

History does support the argument that Americans exceled in that respect. And I’m not convinced it is a grievous sin, albeit a common one.
🔻 The Pastoral Economist: If you trade with Borg you prob are not going to win.
🔻 WS: So you equate the Chinese with the Borg?
🔻 The Pastoral Economist: Yes. They will assimilate your value added production & consume your resources as a vassal state.
🔻 WS: I find this common argument much less than persuasive. At most, I consider it a transitory state of affairs. Assimilating “value added production” was the hallmark of America in its so-called “Golden Age”, and well beyond, in many respects (e.g. its nuclear and space programs).
[But Will! “One rule for thee, one for me”]
🔻 The Pastoral Economist: Persuasive for what? Free trade with the Chinese is not a smart play. Chinese play by their own rules which are incompatible with western rule of law. It’s not even illegal to defraud foreigners in China.
🔻 WS: Non sequitur to my preceding post about “assimilating creativity”.

In any case, I’m confident you are unaware of how hypocritical your post above really is.

Yes, China (and many others) refuse to submit to the dominion of the current “rules-based international order”.
🔻 The Pastoral Economist: I don’t blame them. It is in China’s interest to take advantage of Western short term greed & stupidity. If you study how China industrialized you will find large tariffs & tax cuts to draw in foreign investment then tech & process theft. After that they use CCP run banks to fund domestic champions & sell at loss to bankrupt foreign competitors. You cant free trade with ” State directed & funded “capitalists”. Finally, if a western corporation makes money in China–good luck getting it out.
[at least they shall have Hate. This will sustain millions and millions. Lord Byron: ‘Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.’]
🔻 WS: I hear this echoed from a million voices.

It’s such a pathetic whine.

So the Chinese learned how to play big-time hard ball global business and bested the supposed western masters of big-time hard ball business.

And now they have a massive potent military that can prevent the masters of the declining empire from resorting to arms to eliminate a big-time hard ball business competitor.

Welcome to the real world, as it is, and as it has always been.
🔻 Wℹ️ll🆗: So when Texas gives Amazon tax free status you do t see this as the government picking winners and losers or a country subsidizing a private company?
🔻 WS: [bull’s eye gif]
🔻 bond, James bond: I like what you write. Until the mid-20th century, China was a nation decimated by colonialism and opium. No one gave them anything, and best of all, they didn’t wage war on anyone to make them what they are. “Welcome to the real world, as it is, and as it has always been”.
🔻 Shivan Mahendrarajah: tariffs will not change trends in 🇺🇸 or major Global South players. Manufacture of ships, trains, farm equipment, cars, aircraft, etc., once dominated by 🇺🇸, are built in 🇨🇳🇮🇷 🇷🇺. Sanctions forced 🇮🇷 into self-sufficiency, just as it’s doing for 🇷🇺 |link|
🔻 Wasteinc: Pasta, paper, silk, gunpowder, porcelain some notorious chinese creativity moments that were imported by the west (by industrial espionage). Just to pick up a few material stuff
🔻 WS: It is my observation that all products of human creativity spread far and wide as a natural and inexorable process.

The ancient American civilizations were exceptional agronomists and horticulturists, to whom we owe much for corn (maize), tomatoes, and cocoa.
🔻 Wasteinc: I would say all the nightshades (aubergines etc). I come from the med I can’t imagine my food culture without them. We have probably not even touched the tip of the iceberg when we talk about the ancient american civilizations. Arrogant modernists that we are 🙂
⭕️🔻 FXHedge: TRUMP’S TARIFFS ON CHINA ARE NOW AT LEAST 145%, WHITE HOUSE CONFIRMS—HIGHER THAN HE PREVIOUSLY CLAIMED (Forbes) President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports are even higher than the 125% rate initially announced, as the White House confirmed Thursday there’s now a 145% tariff on many goods from China—and higher in some cases.
🔻 Wall Street Mav: “Made in China” will soon be a thing of a past. 😎
🔻 WS: 🤦‍♂️ The #MessiahTrump disciples have gone hallucinatory.
🔻 Ikkyu Sojun: The U.S. is the one crumbling, not China. Tariffs are a scared empire’s flail, not a kill shot.

Pure madness to think otherwise!
🔻 Kaiser Galactic: It reminds me of the red trousers of 14 charging with bayonets fixed against the German machine guns, it’s going to be a massacre
🔻 Ray: Absolutely. Plus, they disappeared when the Stock Market crashed today
⭕️ cont. thread:
🔥 Yuliana nails it.

As I often note, the inhabitants of the so-called “western democracies” are, with precious few exceptions, the most misinformed and most easily and thoroughly propagandized people in human history.
🔻 Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵: Here, take it from the horse’s mouth:

This whole tariff clown show?

Just another chapter in the U.S. playbook—slowly containing, eroding, and dismantling any state seen as a threat to their global dominance, all fueled by a steady diet of national psychosis.

It’s not about bringing jobs back.

It’s about starving China and softening them up for the war everyone pretends isn’t on the menu.

Tariff the planet, then dangle a deal where others have to pick: “us or them.” …. [see above for rest]
🔻 Matt: Have you seen all the ships China is building? There is no reason to build up such force unless you are planning a naval war. Trump isn’t blind.
🔻 Elydia35: gee, I wonder why China would build so many ships. I mean, it’s not like multiple US govts haven’t repeatedly threatened, insulted China, said China is a threat to the US, surrounded China w/US bases, patrolled China’s region with the US navy🤔
🔻 WS: China’s military posture is inherently defensive in nature. It is designed to secure its local seas, and protect its interests in both the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific.

At present, China cannot be defeated in its local seas, and is increasingly potent throughout Asia.
🔻 James Maillette: I guess I have generally thought of it as being more regionally focused as opposed to inherently defensive, but perhaps it is largely a distinction without difference. In any case, I absolutely agree that the areas mentioned are effectively locked down if they choose to do so.
🔻 WS: The Russian, Chinese, and Iranian force structures are inherently defensive in nature. They have been intentionally designed to defeat American imperial reach into their respective spheres of influence.

None of them is expansionist in intent or capability.
⭕ 😭 How pitiful that, of all the nations upon this increasingly vexed planet, the United States of America — arguably the greatest master of big-time hard ball business in human history — is now reduced to whining about how the rest of the world (China foremost) has cheated them.
links older, “I hear this echoed from a million voices.

It’s such a pathetic whine.

So the Chinese learned how to play big-time hard ball global business and bested the supposed western masters of big-time hard ball business.

And now they have a massive potent military that can prevent the masters of the declining empire from resorting to arms to eliminate a big-time hard ball business competitor.

Welcome to the real world, as it is, and as it has always been.”
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: The Trump administration’s governing by PR has been juvenile and humiliating thus far.

However, the people of the United States, not the government, have been cheated by the international bankers in collusion with the U.S. government for over a century: 👇 |link|
🔻 Nova Scotia Tony 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇱🇧: There is no graciousness or humility, just bluster and wingeing
🔻 Stirling: They were all fine with it and went there voluntarily. Only the last few years when China became a peer did it become a problem. Very insecure bunch.
[oh very secure in their Piracy. Just sore losers]
🔻 It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it: China beat these pigs at their own game.
⭕ ▪️ Shiny Superstition

It may be no more than a superstition, but when the silver to gold ratio rises above 100 (100+ ounces of silver to buy 1 ounce of gold), I buy silver.
🔻 Latin_Casanova: Currencies were made of gold,copper and silver to keep their intrinsic value. Fiat money destroyed that until this day.
⭕ The so-called “Milkshake Thesis” is melting.
[links:
🔻 The Kobeissi Letter: The U.S. Dollar has exited the room.

Once again, something is broken.” |link|]
🔻 MGT | Playbook Coach 📈: Now with the dollar crashing too, it confirms the fear…when investors ditch stocks, bonds, and even the dollar, it’s a full-blown flight to safety. The fact that money is pouring into gold shows people aren’t just rotating. they’re escaping.

This isn’t normal market behavior. It’s a sign of serious uncertainty, and when everything gets rejected except gold, you know confidence in the system itself is breaking.
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: That was not supposed to happen. Whenever the US engineered or was the prime culprit of a global economic chaos, the capital used to ‘fly’ to the US. So, this is a significant reversal.
[Col, we need you!]
🔻 CS: And currently looking at currency movements it’s all allies repatriating their assets. SMH, elect a clown become a circus
[“Trust the Plan” bobble-heads! Amerika will be made Great]
⭕ Foreign Policy has forfeited any semblance of credibility it ever had. It is now just a ridiculous propaganda rag.
[links:
🔻 Baron of the Taiga: What a load of shit. lol

Of all the various silly explanations for why Russian soldiers don’t revolt, the author never even considers the possibility that Ukraine’s claims about ‘meat waves’ and ‘barrier troops’ are simply fictitious.” |link|]
🔻 Динарски двори: Russophobia, a disease without a code that put “só-called cientistas” in intelectual mediocrity.
[and a Liar gotta lie. To admit the bitter Reality, and that they lost it all, is unbearable]

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ The Trump Doctrine of Global Democracy: Obey, or Be Punished

Under Donald Trump’s revived “America First” worldview, democracy comes with a unique twist: the US reserves the right to impose crushing tariffs, sweeping sanctions, and economic sabotage on any country it chooses. But should the targeted nation dare to retaliate or assert its sovereignty, it is swiftly labeled a threat and warned of military consequences. The message is blunt: accept being bullied and economically suffocated, and you may earn the privilege of being submitted and not being bombed. Resist, and you’ll face “maximum pressure,” American-style.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 The Grayzone: AIPAC leader boasts of influence over top Trump natsec officials in leaked audio obtained by @MaxBlumenthal

At a closed AIPAC session, the group’s CEO explained how they cultivated special “access” to Rubio, Waltz, and Ratcliffe

Full audio & report: |link|
⭕ More than 1,000 Israeli Air Force reservists and 150 Naval reservists have publicly protested the ongoing war in Gaza, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with an ICC arrest warrant for his war crimes, of waging a personal war for political survival rather than national security. The reservists, many of whom have served in combat roles, issued statements condemning the lack of strategic clarity, the mounting civilian casualties, and the government’s disregard for the safe return of Israeli prisoners.

In an unprecedented move, Israel’s Defense Minister responded by ordering the immediate dismissal of all protestors from their roles in the armed forces, accusing them of undermining military unity and national morale during wartime. The decision has triggered a wave of criticism across Israeli civil society, including from retired generals, legal scholars, and hostage families, who argue that silencing dissent among elite military units only deepens the crisis of legitimacy facing the Netanyahu government.

The dismissed reservists warned that the war is no longer about national defense but about protecting Netanyahu from early elections, potential legal prosecution, and public scrutiny over the intelligence and operational failures of October 7, 2023.

This internal rebellion within Israel’s security establishment reflects the growing fracture lines within Israel as the war in Gaza continues with no clear endgame, rising international condemnation, and increasingly vocal domestic opposition.
[this is irrelevant. The zionazi war minister even imperiously fired 100 such aviators.
Reality: as all is sacrificed to Zion as we witness in the media, international courts, UN system, USUK, EU, etc…. – they have at their beck and call tens of thousands of NATO aviators, whether as mercs, “retirees” or active on duty, who have already been rotated through, as they were in every prior bloodletting of arabs in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, etc etc etc. Birds of a flock]
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Hala Jaber: The Daily Express has published a wildly irresponsible claim suggesting Hezbollah may launch attacks on the U.S. from Latin America. This kind of fear-mongering, pushed by its so-called defence & diplomatic editor, is reckless propaganda designed to inflate threats & mislead the public. Past history shows a clear pattern: these stories tend to spike in sync with U.S. foreign policy goals.
When there’s a need to justify pressure on Iran or military aid to allies, suddenly Hezbollah becomes omnipresent—operating in Venezuela, Mexico, & now apparently hiding under your bed.
The parody video below was made by @Totti_H20 as a
dedication to @marcogiann’s brilliant Oscar-worthy analysis. |link|
⭕ A potential breakthrough in negotiations between Israel and Hamas, mediated under US supervision, appears imminent. The emerging deal reportedly includes the release of 24 surviving Israeli hostages, out of the 59 believed to remain in Gaza. The bodies of the deceased are expected to follow in subsequent stages.

Real estate developer, Trump associate and special envoy Steve Witkoff has reportedly been tasked with overseeing the fine print of the deal and acting as a guarantor for commitments toward the Palestinian side—an unusual but politically significant move that may help bridge lingering trust gaps between parties. While final terms are still being refined, all parties are under increasing pressure to finalise the agreement and end the stalemate.
[another betrayal will soon follow. And it is all a process to normalize the holocaust, through stop-go-stop-go intervals of offering human kindling to the blazing furnaces of their lord Moloch. As Curtis LeMay noted with the firebombing of Korea – this is the template to assuage residual conscious in his people, who must be kept perfumed throughout]
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Current Report: Houthis are draining billion-dollar US missile stockpiles using low-cost, one-way drones.

Commander of US special operations Command raises a serious concern, saying: ‘Our adversaries use $10k drone and we shoot them down with $2 million missiles.’ |link|
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Suppressed News: ⚡️🇺🇸🇾🇪JUST IN:

American warplanes carried out 11 airstrikes on Sana’a, including east and northwest of the city. 4 of these strikes targeted Mount Nuqum, where an American attack destroyed the historic Al-Qashla fortress two days ago. |background|
[YESTERDAY, wiki curiously updated this page on historic castles in Yemen. Ever do criminals work to cover their tracks. It’s a Big Club] 

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ From Colonial Legacy to National Identity: Why Hausa Could Be Niger’s Best Choice for National Language, Political Analyst Explains

“It is better to promote a national language spoken by the majority of Nigeriens than to continue to talk about sovereignty by promoting a colonial language,” Nigerien socio-economic and political analyst Issoufou Boubacar Kado Magagi told Sputnik Africa.

At a time when French has become a mere working language, Hausa can offer serious advantages as a national language, he said, commenting on Niger’s Refoundation Charter, published this week, which designates Hausa as an official language.

“The choice of Hausa as a national language was not due to subjectivity, but due to the influence and spread of the language around the world,” the expert explained.

The analyst emphasized that Hausa:

• boasts 80% native speakers among Nigeriens;
• ranks as Africa’s third most spoken language, with about 100 million speakers;
• serves as a vital commercial language in all countries bordering Niger;
• is promoted by UNESCO through the development of a dictionary;
• is widely used in academic institutions in Nigeria, Europe, the United States, Sudan, and Egypt.

⭕️ Sudan Accuses UAE of Complicity in Genocide at UN’s Top Court, Urges Action to End Atrocities

“The genocide against the Masalit [ethnic group] is being carried out by the RSF, believed to be Arab from [West] Darfur [state], with the support and complicity of the UAE,” Justice Minister Muawia Osman told the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

According to the minister, some 10,000-15,000 Masalit were killed by the RSF and allied groups in West Darfur last year. A similar potential catastrophe could happen in the North Darfur state if its capital El Fasher falls to the rebels, Osman emphasized.

The UAE’s logistical and other support to the RSF rebels is fueling the ongoing genocide marked by killings, rapes, displacement, and destruction of property, the Sudanese official noted.

Meanwhile, the UAE rejected Sudan’s accusations. “It is a cynical and baseless PR stunt,” a top official at the UAE Ministry, Reem Ketait, told reporters ahead of the hearing at the ICJ.

Sudan filed a case at the ICJ in early March, accusing the UAE of breaching its obligations under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention.  |media|
[Scratch a Genocide worldwide, and you’ll invariably find Anglo-Zionists behind it, and one of their two henchmen: Europeans or the GCC..]

💠 @Arab_Africa:  
⭕ 🇺🇸🇲🇦🇩🇿 US leaves Algeria without Sahara

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, meeting with his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita, expressed support for Morocco’s plan to grant Western Sahara autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty. According to Rubio, this is the “only serious basis” for resolving the decades-old conflict.

The US position does not suit Algeria, which advocates for the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination and supports the authorities of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).

Marco Rubio’s words provoked a response from Algeria. In a statement, the country’s Foreign Ministry expressed regret over such a position of a permanent member of the UN Security Council, “which must be committed to respecting international law in general and Security Council resolutions in particular.”

“Any neutrality in this context does not serve the cause of resolving the conflict and does not in any way change the facts that have been recognized and established by the UN through all its official bodies, including the General Assembly, the Security Council and the International Court of Justice,” the Algerian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

According to analysts, the US position will have little impact on the political and military situation in the region, leaving the conflict open.

The Moroccan proposal, presented to the UN in 2007, would grant the Saharawi people broad autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty. Under the plan, local affairs would be decided by elected bodies, and Morocco would manage foreign, defense and security policy.
[This is vicious Anglo-Zionist retaliation on Algeria for her principled support of Palestinians at the UNSC and ICJ, and refusal to even acknowledge the existence of the invasive entity. And so they help fuel the next war, between compradore Morocco and sovereign Algeria..]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇮🇷/🇸🇩 NEW: Iran continues to arm Sudan against the Rapid Support Forces, with military cargo deliveries on a regular basis
[Note the countries that must be flown around…]

We are Chinese. We are not afraid of provocations. We don’t back down. 🇨🇳 pic.twitter.com/vPgifasYmI
— Mao Ning 毛宁 (@SpoxCHN_MaoNing) April 10, 2025

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇮🇷| Iran’s Army Naval Commander: We Will Drown the Aggressor Enemy at Sea

“By the grace of God, we’ll defeat and drown the devil and the aggressor enemy in the sea, just as the people of Pharaoh were drowned.

Today, the international community regards the Army’s strategic naval force on par with global powers, and my comrades are ready to sacrifice their lives for the honor and pride of our beloved Iran and its people.“
[Godspeed!]
⭕ 🇮🇷|🇮🇷 IRGCQF Commander Qaani:

The US & Israel have not yet been able to understand how our missiles hit their targets with such precision.

The Yemenis alone have increased their missile range by 700 kilometers in just one year.
[This is the man who took over and runs Soleimani’s Quds [Jerusalem] Force subdivision of the IRGC]

💠 @Sputnik Africa: 
⭕❗️ Russian troops liberated the settlement of Zhuravka in the Sumy region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported
⭕️❗️ The Ukrainian military launched 11 attacks against Russian energy infrastructure assets, the Russian Defense Ministry said

Facilities in the Zaporozhye, Kursk, Kherson, Bryansk, Belgorod, and Krasnodar Krai areas, as well as the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, were the targets of the attacks.

💠 @Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb: 
⭕ By God, we will make the American cry tears of blood!
⭕ Yemeni Ministry of Health: 

• Three children and two women are among the victims of the American aggression in the residential city of Amin Maqbel.
• The death toll from the American aggression in the residential city of Maqbel in Al-Hudaydah has risen to 6 martyrs and 16 wounded.

⭕ 🔴 🔘 The American who showcases footage of the aircraft carrier conveniently overlooks the distance it has moved away from its operational range. This is the battlefield and the stakes we are challenging. We call for live footage that clearly shows the location of the carrier and the islands or shores it is adjacent to, from the moment it began deployment to the live broadcast, to prove that the carrier (Truman) has not retreated, as claimed by the armed forces.
⭕ 🔴 Breaking News – Hebrew newspaper “Globes”: The port of “Eilat” has remained deserted for 16 months due to the success of attacks from Yemen in paralyzing Israeli maritime traffic in the Red Sea – Gulf of Suez.
⭕ 🔴 America kills our children to stop us from supporting #Gaza 

🎥 Heart-wrenching footage of a child’s lifeless body being recovered after the American enemy’s airstrikes on the residential city of Maqbel in Al-Hudaydah
#US_Aggression_Crimes
#We_Will_Not_Abandon_Gaza
⭕ Yemen, Al Hudaydah Governorate: The number of martyrs has risen to 12, including 6 women and 4 children, as a result of the massacre committed by the American enemy against the residential neighborhood in Al-Hawk District.
⭕ 🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪 We are the ones who decide when to strike deep into the territory of the occupying Zionist entity that has seized our land, Palestine, and when to cease the bombardment. Palestine 2 is coming to greet a Zionist figure in the occupied city of Jaffa, referred to as Zion in Tel Aviv.
⭕ 🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪 The United States is deliberately killing civilians in Yemen, and we must clarify that there are still unarmed civilians trapped under the rubble from the American airstrikes in the city of Amin Makbel in Al Hudaydah Governorate, nearly twenty hours after the Americans targeted them. The Civil Defense in Yemen has been unable to extract them, and the Bab al-Mandab Channel will explain the reasons.

Firstly, Yemen has been a media victim since 2015.

In 2015, a decision was announced to wage war on Yemen, and this decision was declared from within the White House, the official sponsor of this American-led war. Saudi Arabia and fifteen allied countries joined this war, including the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, and from the Western nations, both France and Germany and the UK participated, overseeing the war with logistical and military support and arms from the Israeli entity and the United States.

Since 2015, they have imposed a blockade on Yemen, preventing the entry of medicines, food, and other essentials, as well as blocking the entry of four-wheel drive vehicles and heavy equipment into Yemen.

They have also banned any commercial flights from leaving Yemen.

As a result, dear brothers, they have destroyed all vital civilian infrastructure in Yemen, including schools and healthcare facilities.

They have targeted heavy equipment used for clearing rubble.

They have also attacked fire trucks in Yemen.

Additionally, they have targeted ambulances in Yemen.

In any case, dear viewers of the Bab al-Mandab Channel on Telegram, they have been conducting destruction operations since 2015 up until the present moment.

They have reportedly dropped about half a million tons of bombs on Yemen.

Thus, we ask for your understanding as we inform you that there are still people trapped under the rubble, making it difficult for us to rescue them. This is our challenge.

Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, the Yemeni people are a noble and dignified nation. Despite the significant number of Yemenis suffering from poverty due to the blockade imposed on our country.
⭕ The Yemeni Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates:

• We condemn in the strongest terms the ongoing American aggression against Yemen and the war crimes being committed against civilians and civilian objects.
• The American aggression has resulted in the martyrdom of 107 civilians and the injury of 223 others, most of whom are women and children since mid-March.
• the American aggression is a gross violation of Yemen’s sovereignty and all international norms, charters, and laws.
• The American aggression against Yemen is an extension of the ongoing assault by the aggression coalition led by Saudi Arabia for over 10 years.
• The continuation of aggression and escalation against Yemen will be met with a greater and more painful response.
• Those who threaten navigation in the Red Sea are the ones who came from the farthest land to militarize it.
• The world knows very well that Yemen has used the Red Sea as a leverage to pressure the Zionist entity to stop its siege and crimes in Gaza.
• Yemen has utilized the Red Sea as a pressure tool after the failure of the Security Council to fulfill its role and the betrayal of the Arab and Islamic world towards the Palestinian people.
• We reaffirm the right of the Republic of Yemen to respond and defend itself, a right enshrined in all international norms and charters.
• We hold the United States responsible for destabilizing security and stability in the region and escalating tensions in the Red Sea, threatening international navigation.
• We confirm that security and stability in the region can only be achieved through ending the aggression and siege on Gaza.

⭕ Statements by Former Bolivian Foreign Minister Fernando Huanacuni

In a series of urgent statements to Al Masirah, former Bolivian Foreign Minister Fernando Huanacuni emphasized the significance of participating in the Palestine Conference in Yemen, describing it as a defense of life rather than merely a political stance. He praised the bravery of the Yemeni people, noting their resilience in the face of adversity and their confrontation with what he termed “the greatest monster,” referring to the United States.

Huanacuni articulated his commitment to bringing the Yemeni cause alongside the Palestinian issue back to Bolivia, underlining the interconnectedness of these struggles. He characterized Yemen’s revolutionary government as a stand against imperialism and colonialism, expressing optimism about the potential for change in the global, unipolar system, especially for countries in the Global South, including Yemen, Palestine, Africa, and Latin America.

He criticized Israel’s justification for its actions in Gaza, labeling them as acts of genocide rooted in a racist ideology of superiority. Huanacuni called for unity among nations of the Global South and proposed the establishment of new mechanisms for integration to enhance self-defense capabilities.

Furthermore, he voiced skepticism regarding the United Nations, suggesting that it operates in favor of Israel, the U.S., and Europe, and advocated for Bolivia’s valuable resources, including lithium, to remain untapped by American and European interests. He called for the creation of a technological and productive alliance among like-minded nations to escape American hegemony.

In light of the ongoing Israeli operations in Palestinian territories, Huanacuni expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people, asserting that their struggle is emblematic of broader challenges facing Arab nations. He reiterated the importance of education and the promotion of authentic cultures as vital for future generations.

Ultimately, Huanacuni emphasized the necessity of strategic alliances to foster a multipolar world, highlighting the critical moment for Yemen and Palestine, and commending Yemen’s significant role in defending the Palestinian cause.
[This is same conference attended by Pepe a couple weeks ago]
⭕ 🇾🇪 Do not be intimidated by Trump; he is nothing more than a clown. He excels in theatrical performance and holds diplomas, so all these threats are a clear indication of the fear and panic he is experiencing.

Message from the Bab al-Mandab Yemen channel on Telegram.
⭕ 🔴 U.S. Secretary of Defense: We will stop shelling the Houthis if they cease fire on our naval sectors.

However, dear failed Zionist, Yemen will not stop this unless you halt your aggression and lift the siege on our brothers in Gaza. If you do not do so, we will continue to chase you generation after generation and nation after nation.
⭕ Ministry of Health in Yemen: An initial report indicates 3 civilian casualties as a result of the U.S. airstrike on the Al-Nahdain area in the Sabin Directorate, south of Sana’a.

⭕ The Yemeni Ministry of Culture and Tourism: 

• The American targeting of the historical “Qashlah” fortress at the summit of Mount Nuqm is a violation of international agreements that criminalize attacks on historical monuments.
• The targeting of the Nuqm fortress is an extension of the ongoing and repeated assaults on Yemen’s history and its cultural and civilizational heritage that is deeply rooted in history.
• We condemn the silence of international organizations; the aggression against Qashlah Nuqm targets the cultural heritage of humanity as a whole and is a violation of international agreements.

[as the cowards uproot Palestinian/Lebanese date palms and olive tree groves and demolish historical sites to systemically wound their enemies, tied to their heritage and land, they do so in Yemen]
⭕ The General Authority for Antiquities and Museums in Yemen:

• The Qashlah Nuqm embodies the deep cultural heritage of Yemen, and its targeting is a major cultural crime that affects Yemeni identity and civilization
• We call on the relevant international organizations to condemn the blatant American aggression that targets the shared cultural heritage of humanity.

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ There’s growing confusion in Lebanon between two often conflated demands: enforcing the principle that only the Lebanese government and armed forces should bear weapons, and the broader, far more complex call to disarm all armed groups across the country.

No one in Lebanon wants militias or civilians walking the streets armed or setting up checkpoints—that authority belongs to the state.

But disarming Lebanon is not as simple as issuing a decree. From Hezbollah and Amal to the Druse and far-right Lebanese Forces, various political and sectarian groups retain weapons, and many individuals also own arms privately. True national disarmament would mean collecting weapons from every faction and citizen alike—an impossible task without consensus, trust, and a functioning central authority. The result is a deadlock: disarmament is completely unexecutable under current conditions and Israeli occupation. Syria is the best example
⭕ There’s little doubt where the 1st wave of missiles would land. Israel has been preparing for this scenario, destroying Syria’s military capabilities to operate freely in Syrian airspace.  In this context, stable Israeli-Turkish relations are strategic.  |media|
[links:
🔻 Suppressed News: ⚡️JUST IN: U.S President Trump:

With Iran, yeah, if it requires military, we’re gonna have military – Israel will obviously be very much involved in that, and be the leader of that”]
⭕ Nonsense. The “Axis of Resistance” is no longer operational—nowhere, in any meaningful form.
[links:
🔻 Critical Threats: NEW | Iranian Information Operation: Iran and the Axis of Resistance are continuing to conduct an information operation targeting the West ahead of “high-level” talks between Iran and the United States on April 12. This campaign likely seeks to set conditions for Iran to argue during the negotiations that it is distancing itself from the Axis of Resistance, which is reportedly a US demand. Iran is continuing to support the Axis of Resistance despite its claims to English-language media that it is reducing support for its proxies and partners. (1/5)”]
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Mao Ning 毛宁 (@SpoxCHN_MaoNing): We are Chinese …
[see embedded above w clip of Papa Mao]
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: When Chinese spokespersons get the old Mao clips out (which they actually never do, first time I see it), you know you awoke China’s fighting spirit.

From what I’m seeing, Trump has zero understanding of China. He and his minions keep saying China will call for a deal but if they indeed wanted a deal, unilaterally and publicly attacking China in that way was the single worse thing he could do.

Accepting a deal now would mean that China would have to publicly bend to U.S. demands, which will not happen, it’s a matter of national pride which is worth almost any cost.
⭕ A weaker yuan may spark alarm in global markets, but for China, it can serve as a powerful economic tool. By making Chinese exports cheaper and more competitive abroad, devaluation helps sustain industrial output and cushion the economy during periods of global slowdown or trade tension/war. It also acts as a counterweight to foreign tariffs, especially in the context of Trump-China rivalry.

While a devalued currency can raise import costs and trigger capital outflow concerns, Beijing often uses this strategy selectively and with tight control. For a manufacturing powerhouse like China, modest yuan devaluation isn’t a crisis—it can also be a leverage.
⭕🔻 Douglas Macgregor:
Russia signed what amounts to a mutual defense pact with Tehran.

Given Russia’s demonstrated technological superiority in the production of precision-guided missiles like the Oreshnik, it would be a serious mistake to discount the quality and impact of Russian military assistance to Iran in a future conflict with the U.S. and Israel.
[ah! “… in a future conflict”. We’ve moved beyond the thunderous drums of March.. rinse and repeat old loyal soldier]
🔻 EM: No war on Iran is expected. However, Russia won’t be a supportive side next to Iran in case of war.
⭕ Saudi Arabia crown prince will never declare this 👇
[links:
🔻 West Echelon: 🇸🇦🚨BREAKING NEWS

Saudi Arabia has banned all public displays of support for Palestine.

Prince Mohammed bin Salman:

“The Palestinian cause is not my cause. I only care about my country and the people of my country. We will not waste time with radicalism. We will modernize rapidly.””]
[see how abject is the western-zionazi position in Arabia! They need to lie about their own compradore, to divide and rule the sea of rising enemies. Hangin on by fingernails. And those nails are yellowed and most brittle indeed]

highly unlikely. this is not the civilizational-states way. Even Russia, under open satanic assault on its own lands, keeps its powder dry and doesn’t reveal what it does to counter by helping Yemen and others.

This is prudent for several reasons. Among them: it torments the opposing side with their own hybrid “plausible-deniability” game, not knowing what is truly arrayed against them. Second, it keeps the official atmosphere cooler, preventing uncontrolled slide into nuclear war between the major powers; any open declaration of support of war on either by the other would eventually degenerate into a nuclear war, as seen in war games.

So as the demented West will never openly say they’re at war with Russia, or any with nukes, or those with the ability to annihilate them like Iran on its own turf, so the other side will not openly declare their support for fellow travelers…

the sad game all must play in these extremely cruel and deceptive end times.

‼️🇨🇳🇺🇸 Meanwhile, on Chinese social media… #China

They're already mocking the #USA attempt at re-industrialization. pic.twitter.com/YFxONpKM7I

— Maimunka News (@MaimunkaNews) April 8, 2025

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️US tariffs on Chinese products in the amount of 104% will begin to apply from April 9 – Fox Business journalist citing the White House
⭕ 🇺🇸🇨🇳❗️The White House confirmed the increase in import duties on Chinese goods, specifying that they will take effect from early Wednesday local time, White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt said.

📍Trump is convinced that China wants an agreement with the US on tariffs, but Beijing does not know how to do this.

📍If Beijing reaches out to Washington for a deal, Trump will be ‘incredibly generous’.

💠@The Islander:
⭕ 🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 The Morag Axis: Tel Aviv’s Ethnic Cleansing Corridor

Welcome to Gaza’s Morag Axis. A sanitized military term crafted in 🇮🇱 war rooms, where the real battle is for erasure, not security. What the Israeli regime calls an “operation” is nothing more than a methodical land grab drenched in blood and smoke. The “axis”, a stretch of agricultural land between Rafah and Khan Younis, is being carved out not for defense, but for division, surgically slicing the Gaza Strip in two. Behind the euphemisms and IDF press briefings lies the brutal clarity of settler-colonial logic: fragment, isolate, expel.

Netanyahu’s obsession with this corridor isn’t strategic in the classic sense, it’s genocidal by design. Rebranded from the ruins of the illegal Morag settlement, dismantled in 2005, the name itself reeks of imperial nostalgia. Morag 2.0 is not about defeating Hamas; it’s about decapitating Palestinian presence altogether. Bisection of Gaza via the Morag Axis is the next stage in what the West politely refuses to name: forced population transfer. It’s a scorched-earth enactment of Trump-real estate fantasies, operationalized through US funded and welfare basketcase IDF, then sanitized by media stenographers.

More than military containment, It’s about creating a corridor of death that makes Rafah uninhabitable and turns Gaza into two disconnected Bantustans, penned-in zones of slow-motion suffocation. Control of this axis provides Israel with a permanent noose to throttle aid, block freedom of movement, and destroy Gaza’s social fabric. While the world sleepwalks through headlines, Tel Aviv engineers a cartographic reality where Palestine vanishes, one corridor, one bulldozed olive grove, one bombed apartment block at a time.

We’re witnessing colonial engineering in real time, and yet the usual suspects in Washington, London, Berlin, and Ottawa pretend it’s just “defensive operations.” The Morag Axis is Gaza’s Warsaw Ghetto wall, reimagined for the digital age, livestreamed for satanic engagement, and rationalized in real-time by complicit liberal democracies who wring their hands but fund the tanks. There’s no moral ambiguity here. This is structural apartheid hardwiring itself into the geography of the Strip, under the convenient alibi of “cutting off Hamas.”

In truth, the Morag Axis is a euphemism for demographic engineering, Netanyahu’s cynical move to create “facts on the ground” ahead of any ceasefire talks. By bisecting Gaza, he can collapse any future vision of Palestinian self-determination. A people can’t govern what they can’t access. And once Rafah is cut off, what remains of Gaza can be managed like micro prison yard, with water, food, and medicine metered out as bargaining chips.

What’s chilling is how this is all unfolding beneath plausible deniability. Western diplomats murmur about “de-escalation” while Netanyahu redraws borders with bombs. The media parrots lines about “security corridors” without asking why food convoys are blocked and hospitals are bombed. The same liberal establishment that screamed “Never Again” now shrugs at modern pogroms launched by a nuclear-armed ethnostate.

For the Palestinians, the message is clear: if you’re not expelled through Rafah, you’ll be choked off in Khan Younis. For the Global Majority watching from afar, the lesson is sobering. This is what hegemony looks like when it’s desperate, censoring dissent, criminalizing resistance, and weaponizing geography to redraw borders. Tel Aviv’s gamble is that the world will accept apartheid by increments, as long as it’s wrapped in military acronyms and sold as “anti-terrorism.”

But history has a way of unraveling imperial lies. The Morag, like the Green Line and the apartheid wall before it, will become another scar in the long
memory of Palestinian resistance. And when the tide turns, as it always does, it will be corridors like Morag that are remembered not for securing peace, but for revealing the true face of a state built on dispossession.

💠@kuluary_zaliva (В кулуарах Залива):
⭕ ❗️Israel has occupied more than 50% of the Gaza Strip

Since renewing its military operation against Hamas last month, Israel has significantly expanded its presence in the Gaza Strip – the Israeli army now controls more than 50% of the territory, pushing Palestinians into small pockets of land .

In recent weeks , Israel has doubled the size of the buffer zone, pushing its forces up to 3km into Gaza in some places , including retaking the Netzarim corridor. Last week, Benjamin Netanyahu said the IDF would create another corridor that would run through southern Gaza , cutting off the city of Rafah from the rest of the territory.

Netanyahu said Israel intends to pressure Hamas until the group releases the remaining Israeli hostages and its leaders leave Gaza, but occupying the territory also serves the goals of Donald Trump’s push to resettle Palestinians from the enclave .

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Israeli troops have been seen clearing land and building watchtowers in recent days in parts of Gaza they seized.

Residents said there were growing signs that the military was settling in for an extended stay, building watchtowers in Shejaiya, in the north, and between the towns of Khan Younis and Rafah, in the south.
⭕ After months of activity on the northern front, troops of the Golani Brigade, under the command of the 36th Division, have returned to the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army reported.

For the past week, the brigade’s troops have been operating in the Rafah region.
[there are scant battles. They’re avoiding most settled areas and pockets of resistance. Objectives appear to complete the extermination by air and through starvation siege. And to keep herding surviving civilians into ever tighter and smaller pockets]
⭕ Trump’s statements on Gaza:

Having a US peacekeeping force controlling and owning Gaza would be a good thing.

For years, all I heard about the Gaza Strip was the problems with Hamas, but if you take the Palestinians and move them to other countries, and there are many countries that would be willing to do that, and you establish [in the Gaza Strip] a zone of freedom, a zone where no one will be killed, it’s an incredible place. I don’t understand why Israel abandoned the Gaza Strip [in 2005].
⭕ Trump during his meeting with Netanyahu:

“We are working very hard to free the hostages. We are considering a new ceasefire; we will see what happens. We want to free the hostages. The Israeli people want to free the hostages. This man (Netanyahu) is working hard with us to achieve that. I don’t know, I hope he will be recognized because he has been a great leader. He works hard with the hostages and many other things…. It is a difficult place in the world.”

Netanyahu: “I have a good partner.”

Trump: “You have a good partner, and we have a good partner.”
⭕ A report by the Israeli human rights group Breaking the Silence reveals that Israeli troops have destroyed large residential, agricultural, and industrial areas in Gaza to create a “death zone” of 800 to 1,500 meters along the border.

Citing testimonies from soldiers who participated in the operation, the report noted the demolition of some 3,500 buildings and the loss of 35 percent of the enclave’s arable land. The soldiers described scenes of utter devastation, comparing them to Hiroshima, and expressed doubts about the proportionality of the military actions.

Another human rights group, Gisha, confirmed the severe impact on Gaza’s agricultural livelihoods.

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸 U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, the U.S. military’s representative to the NATO Military Committee, has been fired in what appears to be a purge of senior Trump administration national security officials.

This dismissal follows the dismissal of the head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber ​​Command, as well as a senior female naval officer.
[what is being sold as dismantling of DEI and woke hires helps the retreat off Euroasian continent…]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇹🇷🇸🇾The US president said he could mediate between Israel and Turkey.

“Whatever problem you have with Turkey, I think we can solve it, as long as you’re reasonable, you have to be reasonable,” he told Netanyahu.

According to Trump, his Turkish counterpart is “very smart.” Trump praised Erdogan for doing “what no one has done in 2,000 years: taking control of Syria.”

Netanyahu pressured US Secretary of State Marco Rubio not to sell F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, Middle East Eye reports.
⭕ 🇪🇸 The Spanish government has approved €2.08 billion in new defense spending.
⭕ 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺 Brazil reintroduces visa requirements for US, Canadian, and Australian citizens

Brazil has announced that it will reinstate visa requirements for citizens of the United States, Canada, and Australia, marking a shift toward reciprocity in international travel policies.

Since 2019, these nationals have benefited from a visa exemption, while Brazilians are subject to strict visa procedures when traveling to these countries.

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ Ayatollah Javadi Amoli in 2015 prior to signing the JCPOA:

“Count your fingers after shaking hands with the Americans. The infidels who do not stop being enemies, you too should be enemies with them, be careful.”

[NB: Javadi Amoli was the representative of Imam Khomeini to Mikhail Gorbachev during the USSR era, in 1988.]
[on the left is the current Iranian Foreign Minister, Araghchi, back then the chief Iranian negotiator]

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸💊Trump said the US would impose tariffs on pharmaceutical products.
[catastrophic news for health in USA]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ The IDF’s Arabic Spokesman proudly visited occupied southern Syria today – while Al-Jolani sits and watches in silence
[what a wretched existence, before being expunged. Kill & be killed, living in fear, flitting from bunker to basement. Like other nazi tourists to Kursk. That is the entire reality of zionazidom and the second set of western crusades in the region. Keep in mind whenever they engage in risible optics and lies]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Kata’eb Hezbollah, one of the main factions of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, has confirmed that an ‘exclusive’ Reuters report claiming Iraqi Shia militias have agreed to disarm is a fabrication.
[how did we miss the “Reuters” part? Some shall remain perfidious to the point of expungement!]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ Trump doubles down on dumb. 🤦‍♂️
‼️🧵 Important Thread |THREAD|
🔻 In Other Words: Actually, he’s tripling down. Netanyahu is in town for a visit!
🔻 Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵: Starting to feel like the dancing Israelis on 9/11. 🤭😂
🔻 Amir Harati: Trump main problem is not understanding the scales. Just tactics might be ok for real estate deals but are laughable at state level deals.
[YEP. They were ALL weighed and found wanting]
⭕ ‼️ Although it obviously is not, it should be clear to everyone by now that the Chinese are not going to bend the knee to the United States.

Here in 2025, China is no longer meaningfully vulnerable to American-style economic siege warfare.
[links:
🔻 Sony Thang: “🇨🇳LIN JIAN:

“The U.S. hegemonic move in the name of ‘reciprocity’ serves its selfish interests at the expense of other countries’ legitimate interests and puts ‘America first’ over international rules.

This is a typical move of unilateralism, protectionism and economic bullying.

China has issued the Chinese Government’s Position on Opposing U.S. Abuse of Tariffs to express our serious and just attitude.

The U.S. abuse of tariffs deprives countries, especially Global South countries, of their right to development.

Analysis of WTO data shows that in light of the uneven economic development and strengths, the U.S. tariff hikes will further widen the wealth gap among countries and less developed countries will feel a heavier blow.

This gravely hurts the effort for realizing the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The U.S. tariffs with differentiated rates violate the WTO principle of non-discrimination, severely disrupt the international trade order and the security and stability of the global industrial and supply chains, severely undermine the multilateral trading system, severely hinder global economic recovery, and will certainly be rejected by the international community.

Open cooperation represents the trend of history and mutual benefit is what the people want.

Development is a universal right of all countries, not an exclusive privilege of a few.

Countries need to uphold the principles of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefit, remain committed to true multilateralism, jointly oppose unilateralism and protectionism of all forms, safeguard the international order with the UN at its core, and uphold the multilateral trading system with the WTO at its center.”

Answer by Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian to a question from CCTV at the Regular Press Conference, April 7, 2025.

Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, P.R.C.”]
🔻 Stfudonny: Could you imagine in WW2 having your “arsenal of Democracy” having to buy your components from Nazi Germany? That’s what we have now. Just about every little widget is made in China now. It will be hard to wean off from too.
🔻 Hazkaz2001: They decoupled from the US economy over the years. It will be a blow but not fatal. The impact on the US consumer will be fatal. Empty shelves and hyperinflation
[and that may be the real target of the eugenicist scum]
⭕🔻 DD Geopolitics:
🇷🇺 Another Abrams down somewhere in Sumy. |link|
🔻 WS: It is a loaves and fishes miracle that the US claims to have sent ~31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, and yet the Russians have destroyed, damaged, or captured about twice that many — and almost every day a few more appear on the battlefield, always with more elaborate cope cages.
⭕🔻 Zlatti71: 🇪🇺🇺🇦 Europe to Arm Ukraine “to the Teeth” as U.S. Aid Wanes — The Economist
With American support for Kyiv drying up, Europe is stepping in. According to The Economist, EU nations are doubling down—regardless of how peace talks unfold.

“Step one: more ammo and air defense systems. Step two: build up Ukraine’s own defense industry,” the report states. Europe’s message is clear: they’re in this for the long haul.
🔻 WS: Ridiculous silly talk.
🔻 bc: The economist.
[indeed. A most useful limey rag. De rigueur messaging platform amongst the Big Club satanists. For the PR to come, the direction of the spin, and who precisely is to be suicided next for the Moshiach]
⭕ cont thread:
⚡️ China warning Japan (and other regional US vassals) to not become American cannon fodder in a conflict with China.

Fact is, neither Japan nor South Korea are going to become the Ukraine of east Asia.

The US can no longer hope to “contain” China, nor Russia, nor even Iran.
🔻 C1: By “contain” China do you mean prevent it from invading Taiwan?
🔻 WS: As I have written countless times over the years: I cannot envision ANY scenario where China would invade Taiwan. A blockade of the island accompanied by a decisive PLAN defeat of the US Navy would be followed by a bloodless reunification with the mainland.
⭕ ‼️ “Error upon Error”

“The U.S. threat to escalate tariffs on China is adding error upon error, once again exposing the extortionate nature of the U.S., which China absolutely does not accept. If the U.S. insists on going its own way, China will certainly fight to the end.”
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🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: As predicted, new Chinese Ministry of Commerce statement (link) that vows China will “fight to the end” against tariffs, that Trump is “adding error upon error” and that China “absolutely doesn’t accept” the “extortionate nature” of his “typical unilateral bullying practices”.l

This is the full translation:

“Ministry of Commerce Spokesperson Comments on U.S. Threat to Escalate Tariffs on China

China has noted that on April 7 Eastern Time, the U.S. threatened to further impose 50% tariffs on China, which China firmly opposes. If the U.S. implements these escalated tariff measures, China will resolutely take countermeasures to protect its own interests.

The so-called “reciprocal tariffs” imposed by the U.S. on China are completely groundless and are a typical unilateral bullying practice. The countermeasures China has already taken are legitimate actions to safeguard its sovereignty, security and development interests, and to maintain normal international trade order. The U.S. threat to escalate tariffs on China is adding error upon error, once again exposing the extortionate nature of the U.S., which China absolutely does not accept. If the U.S. insists on going its own way, China will certainly fight to the end.

China reiterates that there are no winners in a trade war, and protectionism leads nowhere. Pressure and threats are not the correct way to deal with China. China urges the U.S. to immediately correct its erroneous practices, cancel all unilateral tariff measures against China, stop economic and trade suppression against China, and properly resolve differences through equal dialogue on the basis of mutual respect.””]
[this was their response to Orange’s 24-hr ultimatum. Pity all the civilizational-states, Medvedev excepting, are so legalistic, diplomatic, and staid – ever working to keep the room temperature low. We could use more Yemeni, or DPRK, forthrightness]
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: What the countermeasures may be this time around 👇
[links:
🔻 CN Wire: 🇨🇳🇺🇸Source: China Poised to Unveil Six Major Countermeasures in Response to U.S. Tariff Threats
Niutanqin, a WeChat account affiliated with state news agency Xinhua: According to sources, China has prepared at least six major countermeasures against U.S. Tariffs:
1. Significant tariff increases on U.S. agricultural products such as soybeans and sorghum.
2. Banning import of U.S. poultry into China.
3. Suspending Sino-U.S. cooperation on fentanyl-related issues.
4. Countermeasures in the service trade sector.
5. Banning the import of U.S. films into China.
6. Investigating the intellectual property benefits of U.S. companies operating in China.” |link|]
[oh oh! The ticker skipped a few beats. IP is the nuke, as also unrolled by Russkie. LOL. Among the very lifeblood, and exorbitant privilege of the Vampire Balls]
🔻 Zhai Xiang: I completely agree with your point. The likelihood of China making concessions on this issue is extremely low. Beyond the diminishing marginal returns of compromise, it also touches on matters of national dignity.

So far:
– Higher prices for Americans ✅
– Stronger Chinese rhetoric ✅
– No factories returning ✅
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
🔻 cosmo: This is a near carbon-copy of China’s language during previous trade escalation cycles (2018, 2019, 2020). The use of “奉陪到底” (we’ll accompany you to the end) is a signal that China will not blink first.

Beijing isn’t saying it wants to win. It’s saying it won’t fold, and any talks must preserve face and parity. This is the same principle on China’s strategic psychology: no submission, only symmetrical de-escalation.

No surprise here. China’s messaging is exactly what sane people expected: no capitulation, no rush to negotiate, and full strategic posture mode. If the U.S. thought it could provoke a reaction, or trigger concessions with a tariff ultimatum, it misunderstood the entire playbook Beijing’s been refining since 2018.
🔻 Alves: These mutual tariffs looks to me like a way to force a decoupling.

After that, there will be no western leverage on China, just like it happened with Russia a few years ago.

China (and its citizens) better be smarter than Russia with its assets in western run countries, though.
🔻 NotABot: The tariff war is just the start of a large scale hybrid war against China. The US wants to use it to negotiate from weaker countries a hostile position against China.

Blueprint from Trumps chief economic advisor, a hard core Zionist: |link|
🔻 Brenda Factor: The way the U.S. treated Russia since 2014 and especially the past three years, was a cautionary tale for China. Putin and Xi have had an unbreakable bond since Biden expelled Putin from the SWIFT banking system and both nations are now thriving. China builds, USA destroys.
⭕ ‼️ Iran will never accede to the terms the US must necessarily demand. This standoff will eventually lead to Iran calling the US bluff to make war against them.

And the US/Israel may very well attempt an air campaign — one which will prove inefficacious and extremely costly.
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🔻 Scott Ritter: And yet…

Iran just agreed to engage in negotiations with the US in Oman on the nuclear issue.

This Saturday.

Negotiations which will be conducted within the framework of the NPT.

Negotiations which if successful will prevent a war.

When will you admit you simply don’t know what you’re talking about?”]
[we need whatever Scotty lad is chugging to get an IP and start earning untold free lunches. Can easily replace opium or LSD and lay prostrate putative continents beyond the Ice Rim of Antarctica..]
🔻 Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵: Stop the misdirection.

No one’s shaping policy around your Twitter posts. That era’s over.

You could inform people about the real motives—decades of U.S. foreign policy cloaked in justice, leaving millions dead.

You could expose the lies, the treaty-breaking, the moral theater.

Instead, you pretend to believe the narrative, polish and justify it, and hand it off like gospel.

That’s not analysis. That’s PR for empire.

And that’s why you’re being called out.

Your readers aren’t angry.

They’re disappointed.
[God help the fool hounded by a Russkie lady.. I recall a cussin and most formidable one on the Saker that had Larch stuttering in admiration every time she strode into the Chat. iirc she was named after the empress that took Crimea from the Sublime Porte.]
🔻 what’s in a name?: It looks like you missed her point.
🔻 Scott Ritter: No.

She thinks I’m running PR for imperialism.

When I’ll I’m doing is spoutingvfact-based realism.

If it was a PR campaign Iran wouldn’t be negotiating.

These negotiations are a byproduct of reality.

Maybe she should stop trying to be more Iranian than the Iranians
🔻 In Other Words: Regardless of the diplomatic tango (however frivolous and performative), you are not saying anything of substance to repudiate her commentary (and that of many others).
[this is the third lady in a row. But I dunno if latter two are russkie]
🔻 D.L. Mагsнаll: What happened to Scott Ritter?
🔻 The Butterfly Collection 🌍 🌏 ☮️ 🙏: Does every country in the world have the right to defend itself?

But Iran doesnt?
🔻 RC Pilot: Don’t get too excited Scott, sending 40,000 troops implies your readying up for something huge. I can hear them tapping their head gear with 60 round magpuls already…

I guess that’s just in case the negotiations go ok ?
🔻 Timothy Leary’s Dead 🏴‍☠️🌱🐑🐕 🎣🎇👀🐈‍⬛⚠️🎲: They already can’t agree on whether the negotiations will be direct or indirect.
🔻 WS: Iran will seek to delay US military action, because every week of delay further attrits US capability.

It is really hard and costly to project military power across ocean. And the US simply lacks the material and logistical capacity to do it against a peer adversary.
🔻 Ikkyu Sojun: Tariffs are a shaky move.

A scared empire flailing to look tough, as we’ve seen with the U.S. mucking about in trade wars.

But a military strike on Iran now?

That’s not just daft.

It’s a bloody disaster waiting to happen.

We’re not talking pocket change here.

The U.S. can’t afford it, not with its debt choking on future resources and its factories long gone.

Thousands would die because you don’t print victories with dollars.

It’d rip the guts out of an already wobbly nation.

Neocons keep pushing, like they’ve got a death wish for the West,

Anyone cheering for this isn’t a mate to the U.S..

They’re a proper enemy, torching what’s left of a system that’s lost the plot.

It’s the last gasp of a power that’s forgotten how to survive.

Madness.
🔻 bitquoter: Agree, also think that Iran will call the bluff.
I think the USA is a falling empire, and Iran , China , and Russia know it. When empires fall, war looms.
🔻 OneQuantumLeap: Iran is of the hyper realist school

Iran understands the US/ Israel are bad faith actors in the extreme and that negotiations would be futile. Iran would choose another path to conflict if it felt there was one that could secure its longterm security interests but there is none.
[agreed. All these “negotiations” serve is to delay and to while away, hoping against hope that the demons croak before launching the Murder-Suicide. A similar calculus was made by the Leningrader cadre in Russkieland]
🔻 Ibrahim: To my knowledge, Iran still refuses direct negotiations.

In his first term, Trump was eager to even get a phone call with the Iranian president. The fact that he wants direct negotiations this bad shows how weak USA is in front of Iran.
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ Absurd

In the context of a war against Iran, there is ZERO strategic logic for the US to control Bagram Airbase.
[links:
🔻 Dan Hollaway: The United States is taking Bagram Air Base back from the Taliban at the Taliban’s request. I have confirmed this article’s content and that the deployment will be announced publicly later this week. ” |link|]
[the lies are fast, thick, and furious. Unbelievable. The stiff who posted this crap (and leading map) has 26,000 Twitter followers and the post was “hearted” by 3,300. The dying monkeys are going bananas, blasting effluvia left and right and center.
PS – this may have been the wetdream, and reason for persistence of holding onto Afghan soooo long. And his map left out Russia just to the north. Afghan, like Yemen, really squats on ideal terrain against the civilizational-states and control nodes of global connectivities. Too bad they’ve got mountains with indefatigable and undefeated mountain tribes!
PPS – the Bagram psyop leaves out the little fact the Yanquis cut the electricity and fled in the dark of night without ANY advance notice to even their doomed local compradores or fellow EUroPirates!]
🔻 Tabby: Why would Taliban give the US an airbase in Afghanistan ?
🔻 Rune: Taliban denies it: |link|
🔻🇰🇵: The Taliban would have to undermine their core legitimacy -their sovereignty- and the US would have to negotiate a basing agreement with a government that it doesn’t recognize nor have relations with.
[don’t expect common sense by enamored bobble-heads]
🔻 EvaG: Can’t imagine why Taliban would surrender their sovereignty to invite US military back in.
That would be as strange as Washington wanting to ask Vietnam to let US military back in.
[the lunatics recently did! US Navy wanted to return to Cam Ranh Bay for the China Drang. Unbelievable. Only a jewish word does justice to their brazen impudence: chutzpah. And I bet the little spinner above was messaging what the imperialists are trying right now: seducing the Taliban in order to return. I read of it last week (here) with more projection BS being pumped by CNN]
🔻 Alain Diver: Why would the Taliban hand a base over to the US after throwing them out ? Doesn’t make any sense.
⭕ Myth America

“… you’re drowning in a story you no longer believe—and yet still can’t stop telling.

“And that’s the saddest ending of all.”

👏
[when the Myth dies…. really the Mission, the raison d’être for arising from bunks in the morning and holocausting continents — what is there?? It is like the Music stopping. And being forced to look into the Mirror. And realizing you were in freefall for generations…]
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🔻 Sony Thang: And Scott, if you thought calling me “The Sphinx” would sting—thank you.

I’ll take it.

Because in mythology, the Sphinx was not nonsense.

The Sphinx asked the riddle.

And those who couldn’t answer?

Perished.

So riddle me this, @RealScottRitter:

If Vietnam was so broken, why did it still rise?

If Iran is so weak, why is it feared?

And if America is so strong, why must it threaten the world just to feel safe?

You say I’m nothing?

No, Scott.

Nothing is what you become when you serve empire your whole life, only to wake up and realize it never served you back.

You need help.

Not because you’re stupid.

But because you’re drowning in a story you no longer believe—and yet still can’t stop telling.

And that’s the saddest ending of all.
🔻 Cardano Wail: Mic drop 🎤 I’m here for the daily beatings
🔻 Hanjo Girke: No matter how evil the US empire behaved, militarism and patriotism runs deep through american society.
They will hang on to the myth of American exceptionalism to the bitter end.
🔻 go: The empire recently raided his house and took all of his stuff, terrorizing his entire family but he’s still simps for them the most pathetic way imaginable. What does that tell us? He’s either compromised or a fool.
[or the raid, and passport heist, were an act]
🔻 The Matrix: At this stage, i think it would have been better if Mr Scott has gone quiet with honor after the FBI raid than his new defenceless writings. There was once a Scott Ritter.