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“… My only hope is that Putin and Biden can agree that if Russia hydrogen bombs Britain and Brussels, that there will be a devil’s (not gentleman’s) agreement not to bomb each other.”
💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Visegrád 24: BREAKING:Spiegel reports that the incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is about to announce the transfer of German Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine.
Taurus has a larger warhead & longer range (500 kg & 500+ km) than the UK/French Storm Shadow cruise missiles used by 🇺🇦
🔻 WS: And exactly how are the “Ukrainians” going to launch these cruise missiles? 🤦♂️
🔻 Visegrád 24: Just like they launch their Storm Shadows.Su-24 after modifications
🔻 WS: There have been no Su-24s seen in months. Nor have there been any Storm Shadows launched in months.You’re a mediocre propagandist.
🔻 Херсонец🍉🇺🇦: They never seen them when they launched SS too, thats doesnt say to me there are no SU 24 left, we still got F16 and Mirage, its not a big deal to launch Taurus, we’ll figure it out and you’ll be surprisingly sad, as always
🔻 WS: Many Su-24s were shot down during Storm Shadow launch missions. The rest were destroyed on the ground. I have seen no credible reports of Su-24 combat sorties in months. There may be 2 or 3 still airworthy, but I doubt it. Nor have F-16s or Mirage flown any combat sorties.
🔻 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩: East German Trabants?
🔻 Brad Crawford: 😉 |link|
🔻 Spaceman 🇺🇲: With Ukrainian hopes and dreams.
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: In practice, since they’re air launched, this seems to be more of a warehousing and inventory liquidation issue–transfer from warehouses in Germany, for disposal in warehouses in Ukraine by Kinzhal.
🔻 Full Frontal Patriot: You do realize that they have been launching them for almost 2 years on the Su-24 right?
🔻 WS: No Taurus missiles have ever been used in Ukraine.No Su-24s have been seen in months.
You should get yourself more informed on these matters.
🔻 Sam Spade: F-16s?
🔻 WS: F-16s cannot launch Taurus missiles. And besides, there is no evidence that a single F-16 sortie has been flown over the battlefield in Ukraine.
🔻 Naji El: If the su24 can be wired to launch Scalps surely the f16 can be tweaked to launch the Taurus no ?
🔻 WS: I don’t believe so. And besides, there is no evidence a single F-16 has flown a combat sortie in Ukraine. Either they’re all gone, or they can’t find any NATO “volunteers” to fly them against the Russians.
🔻 Sam Spade: Forbes says su24.
🔻 WS: There have been no Ukrainian Su-24s seen in months. And no Su-24 has ever launched a Taurus missile.The only way Taurus missiles can be launched is by NATO aircraft, piloted by NATO pilots, with German technicians on the ground to program them.
🔻 Walter Kurtz: I can’t wait to see Oreshnik falling on MDBA, Saab, Rheinmetal, Krupp, Blohl&Voss etc factories in Germany…
[I pray it doesn’t … but sadly appears in our cards. There MUST be denouement, as in all prior Tragedies]
⭕ cont. thread:
‼️ The Kursk Kamikaze InkursionThis August to March time-lapse map illustrates conclusively how the Russians repeatedly “created space” for the AFU to push more men and equipment into the sack.
I remain thoroughly convinced this entire operation was a preconceived massacre.
🔻 Roberto Lodigiani: Your last sentence is irrelevant (you have no proof of anything) –we can have our own conclusions.
Good work on the map, though.
🔻 WS: The Russians have lured the AFU into a series of fire sacks over the course of this war, and then methodically destroyed them:Kherson – summer 2022
Kharkov – autumn 2022
Bakhmut – winter 2022-spring 2023
Zaporozhye – summer 2023
Kursk – summer 2024It’s what the Russians do.
🔻 ⚕Володя𐊛: How can Kherson and Kharkiv be considered as a victory for Russia?
🔻 WS: Those were the places where the second iteration of the Ukrainian army was methodically destroyed. Version 2 was the first to receive massive infusions of NATO implements of war, and many NATO “volunteers”.The object of war is to destroy the enemy army.
The Object of War
🔻 Nick Durie, Alba Glasgow North: Why would they do that?
🔻 WS: It is a staple of Russian military doctrine, and has been for centuries. It’s what they do.History sometimes rhymes. |Glantz|
📜 Fall Like A Thunderbolt
🔻 Halloween ON TOP: Feign retreats have been a thing for eons
🔻 twittaccount357: is this worse than the 2023 counter offensive?
🔻 WS: I’m pretty sure this Kursk fiasco has been the most costly battle of the war for the NATO/Ukraine forces.
🔻 twittaccount357: i disagree. the 2023 UKR counter offensive cost way more lives, resulted in the destruction of countless Nato donated equipment. More important it showcased the stupidity of Zelensky and his UKR generals, and began the slow decline of confidence in Zelensky amongst Americans
[how? Mrs. Milley, Radakin & Gang designed the Galactic Fiasco. The retards nuked themselves, and their anti-civilization, and in perpetuity, all praise be to God. But let’s not look too closely into the mouth of gift horse]
🔻 twittaccount357: but if you disagree, im welcome to hear some data. greetings from Elko Nevada, neighbor
🔻 WS: Been through Elko many times over the years.On occasion, we still drive out to Ely for a weekend getaway. This photo is from just outside Great Basin National Park, very near the Utah/Nevada border: |media|
🔻 Brenda Factor: A common war strategy. No?
🔻 WS: For the Russians it is. Against Napoleon, the Russians abandoned Moscow, then burned down a lot of it after the French army occupied it, then systematically destroyed them all the way back to Paris.The Russians understand the object of war.
🔻 yoshi999: After having recognized the defacto unlimited arms supply by US and EU to Ukraine, the obvious and rational decision of RUS has been to concentrate on the detoriation of the only limited resource of the opponent – Ukrainian soldiers!Sad but true!
🔻 WS: You are laboring under a misconception.Euro-NATO has been de facto demilitarized to the point of being combat-incapable for a generation.
US stockpiles are severely depleted, its production capacity exposed as woefully deficient, and its weapons exposed as largely ineffective.
🔻 Vicente López T. ✝ 🇲🇽: Yes. It definetly seems that way.
Moreover, the timing of the Rus counteroffensive seems suspicious and very coincidental, to say the least.
Right when Ukraine thought they had a strong bargaining chip in Kusrk in a possible negotiation, Russia suddenly goes: “No, you don’t”.
🔻 WS: Exactly. When they decided the fire bag had yielded all it could in terms of men and equipment, they closed the whole thing down in a couple weeks, and entrapped the remnant forces.The casualty ratio in this 7+ month battle is at least 10:1 in favor of the Russians.
🔻 Brian Stark: What I kept telling idiots on Quora. Kursk in not a stalemate. It’s a slow mo killing ground .. Especially as trees shed their leaves in November. There was no concealment and little cover
🔻 Anton Moric: I hope that you’re wrong. Because Russian civilians suffered horribly at the hands of NATO/UKR. 2,000 are still missing, w/ many probably in mass graves, as have already been found. If preconceived, why didn’t the Russians evacuate their civilians?
🔻 Nineglyph: They did evacuate but there are always elderly villagers and pensioners that don’t want to leave all they have. I saw one vid where 4-5 people had been found executed in their house along with the family dog.
🔻 WS: From what I have been able to ascertain, the Russians began quietly advising residents to evacuate several weeks in advance. And they conducted well-organized evacuations in the initial days of the operation. But they did not compel an evacuation, and many chose to stay.I have seen scant evidence to support the claims that “many thousands” of civilians have died. But I do not dispute that “many hundreds” may have.
🔻 Randall Adams: When Zelensky refused to retreat in Bakmut the Russians had his number
🔻 WS: I do not believe Zelensky has ever had any control, or even meaningful influence, over military matters.I do not believe the AFU has ever done anything at the operational or strategic levels in which NATO officers were not intimately involved, and most likely in direct command.
[Where’s Love-handles Milley and the Beached-Admiral Radakin! Their mugs are permanently etched in the History books]
🔻 WS: 🔸In relation to the issue of civilian casualties, and in the context of my argument that the Russians anticipated, prepared for, and deliberately baited a potential NATO/AFU incursion into the Kursk region last summer, pursuant to creating a large cauldron on favorable ground.
[reposts his comment just above, “From what I have been able to ascertain …”]
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: You may recall, as I think I do, what appeared to be a geniune expression of anger directed by Putin at the Kursk Governor, or so it seemed. In retrospect it may have been that the response to protect/withdraw civilians from the expected incursion was in fact deficient.
[good point. The action plan was well underway, and the governor didn’t adequately discharge his part…]
🔻 Drago: Kursk was industrial scale liquidation, brilliant UK planning. Imbeciles
⭕🔻 American Vatnik🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺:
Russian FPVs take out Uke vehicles on the great Sudzha skedaddle |media|
🔻 WS: I’m very pleased to have introduced the obscure term “skedaddle” into our group lexicon. 😏
[helter skelter will do too]
⭕🔻 Dmitry Medvedev:
UK updates Trump: Russia should accept the proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine without any conditions, says the British Foreign Secretary. Britain and its minister can shove their idea back up the sh*thole it came from, diplomatically speaking.
🔻 WS: 🔥 Дышащий ОгнёмMedvedev has a rare gift for diplomatic eloquence. 😏
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: They’re getting better at the media game.The likely reason why the British and now Trump are so animated about a ceasefire is because they have operatives in the middle of this Kursk fiasco.
🔻 Tod🏁🚩🏴🏳️: I guess if he didn’t speak diplomatically they will take away his IP. 😆
⭕ ☹️ No FarewellsOver the past year I sent, to two old and dear friends, and two long-time friendly neighbors, links to a selection of my blog articles.
All four abruptly ceased further communication with me.
No explanations; no replies; no farewells. |media|
🔻 Господин Виљушка: They were never your friends.
🔻 WS: Yes, they were. And they will be yet again. For now, they are simply blinded by lies, and filled with a futile hope that somehow America can change course and be made “great again”.They cannot accept the terrible idea that “the ashes will come first”.
📜 The Ashes Will Come First
🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ: 🍻
🔻 Koen: What prompted you to send them the links?
[LOL. A wise question. But we all did it.. testing the wind, and hearts, of former fella travelers]
🔻 Fabius Maximus (Ed.): Leftists play to win, and consider tolerance to be a trait of losers
[I think he means the post-1991 “leftists”, or the dregs that pass for it in the decomposingWest]
🔻 President_Beurre: He didn’t say they were leftists
🔻 WS: All four are actually mega-MAGA Republicans; strong believers that Trump is the savior of America, and that America is the savior of the world.
🔻 Dazzed Peter: do you regret sending those links?
🔻 WS: No. I do not. Much of my prior analysis has already been vindicated, and I remain persuaded time will yet vindicate most of that which remains unconfirmed by actual events.That said, I do not like to feel “that kind of lonely”. |media|
🔻 Ephemeral: It is unconfortable but it is best to know what friends one truly has.That said, I have… maybe one.
🔻 WS: My wife is my only “best friend”, and always has been.But she is far and away the best person I have ever known in my entire life, and the person I would rather “hang out with” more than anyone. So I always have that overriding compensation for any other lack.
🔻 Ephemeral: I’m glad you have such a priceless companion. It’s a blessing.
🔻 Dazzed Peter: on a wall in Salamanca you’ll find a phrase dedicated to Unamuno, someone’s motto, “Primero la verdad que la paz”for some, this can be a lifelong uncomfortable dilemma
thank you for the song
🔻 WS: I have been a life-long aficionado of female singer-songwriters, and Patty Griffin is without question my all-time favorite. I have seen her several times live over the years, and each time was a supernal experience. |media|
🔻 Dazzed Peter: i’m now drifting through a reel of this lady’s songs and i’m delightedthis one is inebriating |media|
🔻 WS: Great song.Best albums, in my opinion:
Living With Ghosts (solo demo recordings made into her debut album)
1000 Kisses
Impossible Dream
Children Running Through
American Kid (when she and Robert Plant were a couple, and collaborators)
Patty Griffin (2019 eponymous album)
⭕🔻 Lord Bebo: 🇺🇦🇷🇺 “Kursk operation of the AFU fulfilled its task” – Zelensky🗣️Maria Zakharova commented on Zelensky’s statement:
“Zelensky stated that the operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region ‘fulfilled its task.’
So, the task of Bankova [the Ukrainian presidential administration] was to kill civilians, bury as many Ukrainian soldiers as possible, and surrender the remaining Ukrainians as prisoners?”
🔻 Rak Vulture: I believe @imetatronink that #Kursk was a way to lure lots of Ukranian men and materiel into a fire pocket.
And it worked, #Russia löst about 5000, #Ukraine️ 75000.
🔻 WS: Maybe the ratio was more like 10:1, or even 8:1 … but I seriously doubt it. I think it was more like 12:1 or even 15:1.Russian forces operated under an umbrella of OVERWHELMING FIREPOWER, and seldom exposed their troops to concentrations of enemy fire.
It was a slaughter.
⭕ 🎸 Il Sale della TerraMy wife and I were there for Ligabue’s full-moon equinox show at the 30 AD Roman Arena di Verona. 8th row, stage left. The most stunning and memorable arena show I ever saw (and I saw many).
(English rendering of lyrics in reply.) |media|
🔻 Red.Sniper: It’s quite the experience. I come from Istria, the province just east over the Adriatic, known for another Roman Amphitheater, the Arena of Pula.
Great song. Do you speak Italian?
🔻 WS: Yes, I speak, read, and write Italian. I lived there for two years from 1979-1981, and have never ceased since then to speak, read, and write in Italian. I love Italy, Italian, and Italians.
🔻 Marta: J’adore questo uomo😍
⭕ ‼️ Trump talking real tough to the Yemeni and Iranians. Now we get to see how much more effective the US military proves to be against Ansarullah than it has been previously. Could be the Houthi have some new tricks up their sleeve.
These heroes shall soon have peace and tranquility .. even before the accursed bones of the legion of the Last Satanic Empire bleach
💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇮🇷🇷🇺🇨🇳 Iran, China, and Russia’s joint military exercises aim to end Western dominance, says an expertThe recent joint military exercises, dubbed Security Belt 2025, conducted by Iran, China, and Russia off the Iranian coast, have drawn significant attention from geopolitical analysts, highlighting the strategic implications of this collaboration.
“From a geopolitical perspective, the joint military exercises involving Iran, China, and Russia point to a growing strategic partnership among the three countries,” Dr. Darlington Ngoni Mahuku, a lecturer in the Department of Peace and Governance at Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe, told Sputnik Africa.
He emphasized that Security Belt 2025 reflects “demonstrates a desire to create alternative power and security frameworks, decoupling from western dominated institutions and forging new paths for regional solidarity and stability.”
🗣 “The joint exercises demonstrate that Iran, China, and Russia are geared at strengthening their partnership and, in the process, ending NATO dominance, which is a Western military alliance that has been constantly misused in an endeavor to maintain Western hegemony and dominance,” Dr. Mahuku stated.
He added that the exercises serve as a reminder that Western powers can no longer dictate global politics unilaterally, and that “emerging powers in partnership with Russia and China are now asserting their influence,” he said.
💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇸🇴🇵🇸 Somalia and Somaliland deny receiving any US or Israeli proposal to resettle Palestinians from GazaSomalia would categorically reject any plan that undermines the Palestinian people’s right to live on their land, Somalia’s Foreign Minister, Ahmed Moalim Fiqi, told Western media.
🗣 “There are no talks with anyone regarding Palestinians,” Somaliland’s Foreign Minister, Abdirahman Dahir Adan, said.
Earlier, US and Israeli reportedly approached Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland about resettling Palestinians displaced from Gaza under US President Donald Trump’s proposed postwar plan.
[Unbelievable. Lyin’ for the sake of lying, and creating divisions, and keeping risible narrative and psywar going. Absolute degeneracy]
💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇬🇧🇷🇺British Prime Minister and rare bastard Keir Starmer said during a virtual summit with world leaders that Russia will inevitably have to sit down at the negotiating tableKey statements by the British Prime Minister:
- If Putin is serious about peace, he must stop attacking Ukraine and agree to a ceasefire;
- Ukraine needs to be strengthened, both militarily and financially, to ensure long-term security;
- Leaders of participating countries are discussing the creation of a “coalition of the willing” that could play a key role in a future peacekeeping mission.
“We cannot just sit and wait. We must move forward and put pressure on the Kremlin,” Starmer said.
[How sad for them. An abominable government whose worldly role for centuries has been a thrombosed hemorrhoid in our collective arse. But ‘Tis the Season for incision and removal of useless superfluity]💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️Many Ukrainian soldiers are surrounded (in the Kursk region), we do not want them to die – Trump |media|
[Watch the very next video for Russian response! The Hunt continues for nazis of ALL persuasions and backgrounds]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️ The Russian Armed Forces have returned control over the settlements of Zaoleshenka and Rubanshchina in the Kursk region — the Russian Ministry of DefenseWith the liberation of Ruban region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are blocked in the Kursk region
The Russian Armed Forces also continue to advance in the Sumy region.
💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Adam Boehler (@aboehler) on CNN: “The US is not an agent of Israel and has its own interests” and “Hamas are pretty nice guys”.Result: Removed from his position as the President’s hostage envoy for putting America’s interests first.
@marcorubio wants to stay on as Secretary of State: “Hamas are monsters.”
⭕ When u live in your own country, which is writing a new constitution & claiming that its new rule is fair for everyone, and yet you seek refuge in a foreign (Russian) base to be safe, afraid of being massacred just because you & your children are Alawites. |media|
⭕ The Anglo-Saxons cannot bear the prospect of peace with Russia in Europe, as Donald Trump envisions, because it undermines their historic strategy of dividing and ruling the continent. A stable Russo-European accord would weaken the Anglo-Saxon grip over European affairs, diminishing their ability to manipulate security alliances, control economic dependencies, and dictate geopolitical narratives. Without a manufactured Russian threat, the pillars of NATO expansion, military-industrial profits, and transatlantic subjugation would crumble—an outcome the Anglo-Saxon elite finds intolerable.
⭕ Despite the continuous killing up to this moment, the Alawites and their western mountains in Latakia and Jableh, which produced Izzeddine al-Qassam and Sheikh Saleh al-Ali, who fought against the occupiers, will not be defeated by the Takfiris under a new revolutionary name. Time will tell.
[al-Qassam’s revolutionary work in 1920s inspired the name of the military wing of Hamas, triumphant in Gaza in 2020s…]
⭕ Trump is challenging the UK and vice versa: In light of President Trump’s annexation remarks, King Charles III has demonstrated subtle support for Canada.During Commonwealth Day celebrations, the royal family made discreet yet significant gestures:
- The Princess of Wales wore a red coat-dress matching the Canadian flag.
- The King and Queen were seated in Canadian birch chairs, symbolizing solidarity.
- King Charles displayed Canadian honors during a visit to HMS Prince of Wales.
President Trump’s annexation rhetoric challenges Canada’s sovereignty and, by extension, its constitutional ties to the British Crown. The United Kingdom, through King Charles III, has shown subtle support for Canada, reinforcing the nation’s autonomy.
[the Defeated may flop & flail and pine to their hearts’ content. The music truly stopped for Perfide. ALL shall be stripped, including Malvinas, Chagos, Gibraltar, etc – reduced to the Sunless Isles of Unending Fog. And this is the best deal possible, if they avoid becoming Atlantis II]
I’ve always marveled at the psychological profile of the Pirates! From day one, reminding us of their Mission handed off by Perfide on the 5,000-year lineage, they prioritized saving their prerogative to decapitate and burn Russia over the protection of their major population centers.. Force projection and Hegemony even at cost of “mussing heads of hair” per Buck Turgidson. Russia prioritized its people, mostly gathered around Moscow..💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 📹 Iran, Russia, and China conclude ‘Maritime Security Belt 2025’ exercises with a naval parade |media|💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ The European Union is set to extend sanctions on over 2,400 individuals and entities associated with Russia for an additional six months.
⭕ Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited Nicholas Maduro, President of Venezuela, to attend the Victory Day Parade in Moscow on May 9th.
⭕ Afghanistan will soon begin construction to complete a highway through the Wakhan Corridor that will connect the country with the Xinjiang Province of ChinaShould the road be completed, and integrated into the Afghan highway system, China will have direct trading routes to Iran and the rest of the Middle East that bypasses Pakistan and Central Asia, areas where there have been a high risk of sabotage to the One Belt One Road Initiative.
⭕ The Foreign Minister of China, Wang Yi, and the Deputy Foreign Ministers of Russia and Iran, Sergey Ryabkov and Kazeem Gharibabadi, met in Beijing today to discuss Iran’s nuclear programThe three sides released a joint statement that called for the ending of unilateral sanctions and the need for negotiations based on the principles of ‘mutual respect’.
[note Wang Yi is also XJP’s security secretary, and Ryabkov handles major security files for Russian MFA, esp vis-a-vis the demented West. We’re in calms afore major storms in the Persian Gulf]
⭕ Sudan, Somalia, and Somaliland have all rejected US propositions to settle displaced Palestinians in their respective countries.
💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ IMPORTANT:Druse of Suweida to Israel and NO deal with Damascus as falsely claimed:
In a surprising and fiery statement, Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, the spiritual leader of the Druze community, declared during a local gathering in As-Suwayda Governorate that there is “no reconciliation or agreement with the political administration in Damascus.” He further accused the transitional government of extremism.
He emphasized that he “will move in the direction that best serves the interests of the Druze community.” Warning of the dangers of the current phase, he stated, “We are at a stage of ‘to be or not to be.’”
Meanwhile, a delegation of dozens of Syrian Druze clerics is preparing to travel to Israel today on a religious visit—the first of its kind.
The visit comes in response to an invitation from the Druze community in Israel who confirmed that the delegation is awaiting a “final security clearance” from the Israeli authorities.
The Druze clerics intend to cross overland from Syrian territory into Israel via the border town of Hadar in occupied Quneitra province (southwestern Syria). They plan to visit the shrine of the Prophet Shu’ayb, a revered religious site for the Druze community, and to meet with Sheikh Muwaffaq Tarif, the spiritual leader of the Druze in Israel.
[very sad for the Druze. Outta the fire of salafi nazis, into the pot of zionazis. Unbelievable. The world’s gone insane. They should review history to understand what occurs to collaborationists at hands of either side – the Quislings, or Vichy, etc etc]
🔻 Erna: I don’t understand this , maybe learn it later what is the Druze ?
🔻 EM: A branch of Islam called “Muwahhedeen”, and live mainly in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Jordan.
🔻 Erna: I see and what are they teaching? What are their basic principles ?
🔻 EM: |media|
⭕ The moment the Syrian Druse travelled to Israel, disregarding the Syrian sovereignty |media|
⭕ Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under an ICC arrest warrant for his war crimes, didn’t respect the 1st phase, ignored the 2nd phase of the ceasefire agreement and agreed to the new proposal by US ME envoy @SteveWitkoff for the release of 5 Israeli prisoners and a ceasefire until April 20th, when all other prisoners will be released.This proposal can’t be accepted by the Palestinians because nowhere does it mention a permanent ceasefire, the end of the war, the withdrawal of all Israeli occupation forces from the Philadelphi and other inhabited areas in Gaza and the respect of the original agreement to fully respect the humanitarian protocol and allow the reconstruction of Gaza.
Benjamin Netanyahu is continuing the policy of starving Gazans and Israeli prisoners by denying food and medical supplies to Gaza, closing access to Gaza and cutting off electricity to the population. These are war crimes that Israel is ignoring and the international community is not trying to impose international law on Israel.
⭕ Abdullah Makki Musleh al-Rifai, known as “Abu Khadija”, has been eliminated in a decisive counter-terrorism operation in Iraq. As deputy caliph of ISIS, he also held key leadership positions, including governor of Iraq and Syria, head of the Delegated Committee, and head of the External Operations Offices.On 8 June 2023, the US State Department designated him as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) for his leadership role in ISIS. Recognised as one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world, his removal represents a significant setback for ISIS, disrupting its leadership structure and operational capabilities
💠@imetatronink:
⭕⁉️ Anduril AltiusHere is a bold claim that the Anduril Altius loitering attack drones have been ravaging Russian equipment in Ukraine. Surely there must be an abundance of battlefield video exhibiting the prowess of this new wunderwaffe. Anyone out there have any links?
Here is a photo of an Anduril Altius wunderwaffe, for reference.
(Quite fearsome-looking, you have to admit. 😏)
[links:
🔻 Palmer Luckey: Altius attack drones have already taken out hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Russian targets, including critical hardware hardware protected by EW systems that would have been hard to defeat any other way.Credible threat of violence is the backstop for good diplomacy.
this grifter links:
🔻 Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧: The UK has struck a £30M deal with Anglo-American company Anduril to supply advanced attack drones for Ukraine, boosting @DefenceU capabilities to tackle Russian aggression in the Black Sea. This follows over 10,000 drones delivered to the front line so far. 🇬🇧🤝🇺🇦]
🔻 SJP research: probably billed us military for $20,000.meanwhile… |media|
🔻 WS: Reportedly over $1,000,000 each.
🔻 Palmer Luckey: That is sensitive information given ongoing conflicts, as I am sure you know, but total production of Altius is only in the thousands so far.Autonomous weapons of this sort are pretty new and still being tested by the US, major acquisition programs are a couple years out.
🔻 WS: I’ll bet it’s “sensitive”. 🤣Just like there is no credible evidence these “not so new, but still in development” (and manifestly inferior) toys have achieved ANYTHING of note in Ukraine.
Russia, China, and Iran are laughing at you. You’re a flim-flam man. Nothing more.
🔻 P Shekter: Sorry will, can you remind us all of your experience and credentials? I’m trying to decide which one of you is a more reputable source here.
🔻 WS: I’m a seer. 😏 |media|
🔻 Yasha: JB weld?
[another photo showing one of those downed crappy drones. It does look glued together with spit and spot-welding. Unbelievable. The Denarius is down to 0.000000000001% silver…]
🔻 alfred venison: “All fun and games”, Granny said, “till someone has an eye out !”
🔻 Noirspectre: I believe the claims, but not the target. The buyers of these so called drones have been decimated instead.
Their wallets ravaged, expectations scorched and common sense vandalized.
⭕🔻 Brian Hart: According to our analysis, a single Chinese state-owned shipbuilder produced more commercial vessels by tonnage in 2024 than the entire U.S. industry has since World War II.Read our full @CSIS report: |link|
[Good Lord. The defeated Pirates should hoist the billowing white knickers right now, while they’ve time]
🔻 Sal Mercogliano: |Hoist It!|
🔻 WS: And yet there are people out there, like Elbridge Colby, who believe China can be “contained”, and who even advocate for military threats and compulsion to be applied, if necessary to arrest China’s accelerating rise.The US cannot compete with China, so it seeks to destroy it.
🔻 Mobile Infantry 🚜: Can we root out the agents of influence for China and treat them at traitors? IMO they are implementing the sitting on a hill watching two tigers fight gambit.
🔻 WS: Who are the “agents of influence for China”?
🔻 Mobile Infantry 🚜: Squeeze China and have them cough up the names. I for one think anyone that pushed for war in Ukraine. Any of the MFN trading status advocates another.
[typical Yanqui! root out influence peddlers clamoring for war by warring on China directly. Unbelievable. The madness descends from on top down to all disintegrating layers. And not an ounce of sense between the sorry lot]
🔻 Daniel McAdams: Every single “realist” I have encountered holds this position. That is why I consider them “neocon-lite.”
🔻 C5: That the likes of Colby are held up some kind of highly intelligent experts says everything about how shallow the pool of genuine US experts actually is.
🔻 NerdTech: The US is incapable of halting China’s rise nor destroy it (without MAD), but it can definitely try, and in doing so, will destroy itself faster like the last global superpower, the British Empire vs America’s rise.
⭕🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: The Kremlin points out the obvious, that the proposed 30-day ceasefire would do nothing for Russia while giving Ukrainian forces to regroup and recover from their temporary disconnect from American intelligence and munitions.
🔻 WS: These facts remain:– Ukraine’s capacity to replenish its human losses cannot be restored
– US/NATO supply of munitions and equipment is effectively exhausted
There is no longer any way to “regroup and recover”.
🔻 Henrik Németh: What about the 18-24 year olds?
🔻 WS: Look at a Ukraine demographic chart. It gets really skinny in the 18-24 age bracket. And, they’re a lot harder to catch than the older guys.
🔻 Spaceman 🇺🇲: Which is why the idiotic plan by Starmer & Macron was to have their soldiers on the ground as a tripwire backed w/ US guarantees.It wouldn’t have worked, but the only hope they see is a US air campaign to shift momentum, & were prepared to sacrifice their troops to get it.
⭕ repost of older:
‼️ Russia — China — Iran AllianceFor what I believe is the first time ever, high-level representatives from Russia, China, and Iran will meet later this week in Beijing to coordinate their actions in the face of US threats against Iran.
📜 All for One and One for All
🔻 Spaceman 🇺🇲: So much for peeling Russia away from China. Lol
⭕🤦♂️ I never cease to be amazed by the utter nonsense that ostensibly intelligent Americans believe about Russia. (And the misinformed nonsense they believe about the meaningless metric of nominal GDP.)Also, Ukraine was the most powerful military in Europe (by far!) in 2022.
[reposts the nonsense by our PhD from yesterday:
🔻 Peter St Onge, Ph.D.: “The “domino” argument for war never gets old.Russia is Mexico with nukes — literally same population, same GDP. The only reason it’s winning is that Ukraine is Sri Lanka without nukes.”]
⭕🔻 Olga Bazova:
Putin says that Russia is in favor of a ceasefire, but with certain conditions, while questioning how this time will be used by the AFU, who’s on the back foot.Russian doomers: PUTIN CAVED.
He didn’t agree to any cease fire.
Listening comprehension is a good skill to have.
🔻 WS: I don’t understand, after so many years of Putin expressing himself in this identical fashion, that Russians (and others) still struggle to pay close attention, and when necessary, to read between the lines.What I heard: “Our terms remain unchanged.”
🔻 Olga Bazova: Precisely.
🔻 ChinesePatriot999: some news headlines didn’t put in the details. I fell into the same threat. Western media and propaganda at work
🔻 Deacon Brucke 🇷🇺: You’re just a groupie who hears what he wants to hear. If he’s such a strong leader then why didn’t he just say that? 3 years of this crap and it will end with some sort of a half assed victory, Russia will be fooled again and there’s going to be another war in 10 years
🔻 WS: 📜 Ok, DoomerI have struggled in vain for two and a half years to understand why it is a great many Russian observers of this war are constantly haunted by a sense that inevitable humiliation is lurking in the shadows just ahead.
🔻 Deacon Brucke 🇷🇺: You’re a grifter, and it’s Minsk 3. All for the sake of lifting sanctions. You’re not Russian, you don’t understand that boomers like Putin will always look for the west’s approval. He’s been pro west most of his life.
[now that’s delicious salty hasbara to behold]
⭕ cont thread:
🔻 Armchair Warlord: I’m endlessly amused by how people think the Russians are just going to take an objectively absurd ceasefire offer that the West agonizingly negotiated with itself and which Zelensky’s goons are walking back as we speak.The real message sent here is that Trump has no leverage.
🔻 Silence: This is step 1 in a broader negotiation. Trump has a fuck ton of leverage. Why start with what Russia wants?
🔻 C3: The winner writes the rules….deal with it
🔻 Silence: They were always going to win that type of war. Trump will give up the land they won and we’ll take our money back with all their minerals. Done.
🔻 WS: There are no proven economical mineral reserves. The whole story is a big fat lie.
🔻 Chad von Rizzington: Describe this “fuck ton of leverage” Trump has.
🔻 Silence: They agreed to it
🔻 C5: Maybe actually watch the video
🔻 Silence: I did – and got the official translation. All is going according to plan – they get land, we get the money
[I wanna some of that potent stuff this fruitcake has ingested, imbibed or inhaled]
🔻 WS: There is no money to get. You are very misinformed about these matters.
⭕ 📜 Tirania EliteiIn my view, the tirania elitei in vassal Romania is likely to see its grip on power become ever more slippery over the course of 2025 and beyond.
[his latest article on substack drops… it seems mete, in a sad way, to witness the ongoing Suicide of Romania. Recall, Romania was a Roman outpost and largely thought to be populated to this day by their descendants.. ALL parts of ancient Rome are on the chopping block.. “Alas, Babylon…”]
🔻 Cannoneer Marine: A couple of nuggets: Romanian seems a lot like Latin in some word structures, it seems like a much easier language to learn than Hungarian, Polish, Russian due to this Latin influence. Secondly, I have read that the Satanic Bible is written in backwards Romanian. I know, I know, just find it interesting. Romania is an odd place, but importantly home of Aegis ashore and I think that is what is part of why the Trump State Department is not having more of a hissy fit about recent shenanigans. Regardless, Romania is home to truly old world mountains, peoples, legends from Transylvania to the Dracul family legends. And then what they did in WWII, their own anti Jewish/gypsy activities, executions, etc. They are a strange people in a strange, weird land.
[reportedly an ancient outpost of the Rome, left abandoned during the Retreats of the Collapse at the End, like Brittania, and subsequently confirmed in modern genetic studies…]
🔻 WS: Romanian is very similar to Italian. Perhaps not as close as are Spanish and Portuguese, but close enough that I can usually comprehend the gist of anything I read in Romanian.
🔻 Assange Is Free!!: I am Portuguese, and for me Romanian goes from absolutely, totally comprehensible sentences, virtually no difference from Portuguese, to really hard to comprehend sentences.
🔻 Avatar: I would say romanian and italian are the most similar romance languges.
As a romanian child, I realized could fully understand TV shows in Italian. Not so with spanish or portuguese.
🔻 Herodotus: Your are correct, sir. Romanian history is witness to a recurring pattern of treasonous elites siding with foreign powers against the commonality, due in no small part to its geography. The fate of ‘Michael the Brave’ is the best known illustration of this historical trope.
[another commonality with duplicitous roman elites! sons of their fathers..]
🔻 Marta: Come dici tu le leggi le dettano chi ha vinto la guerra….una lezioncina al biondo dovrebbero impartirla
⭕ ‼️ The Kursk Kamikaze InkursionThis August to March time-lapse map illustrates conclusively how the Russians repeatedly “created space” for the AFU to push more men and equipment into the sack.
I remain thoroughly convinced this entire operation was a preconceived massacre. |media|
🔻 John LeGalt: Disregarding their own civilians?
🔻 WS: That is an inaccurate description of what happened.
links his older:
“No civilians were “forced” to leave in Kursk. But most had ample opportunity.In any case, war is a messy business. And if you are not prepared to face the arithmetic of war, you cannot win.
Russians have long attested a nature prepared to face the arithmetic of war.”
🔻 WS: And, in any case, war is a messy business.
links his older:
“It is increasingly apparent that there are relatively few civilian casualties.But you have to understand: war is a messy business.
Sometimes both good soldiers and innocent civilians are sacrificed in service to strategic imperatives.
It is an unavoidable aspect of war.”
🔻 vakibs: Ukrainians are learning what Napoleon learned, but on a mini scale.
🔻 C3: Sherman in Georgia was so delighted with Hood’s diversionary incursion into Tennessee that he said if Hood would march to Ohio, he would give him rations. Same energy here.
🔻 Farmazone: I don’t think they “planned” to have Ukrainians invade it there, but when they did, I’m sure the plan was to keep them in for as long as possible. Having yet another doomed pocket front but with no defenses whatsoever is a blessing in disguise for Russia.
⭕ War is an inherently messy business.But if you have an opportunity to potentially trade 5000 casualties (including civilians) for 75,000 casualties inflicted on the enemy army, that is what you must do — and without a second thought.
🔻 OsageCatZ: 1:20 ratio w March Kursk
I’ve got 72,500 Kia since Aug6=
3625Kia RuF + 100’s Kia civilians.
🔻 Matthew McCracken: The collective west decided to trade 75,000 casualties in exchange for propaganda points with no regrets.
🔻 Louis Kasatkin: In any given set of circumstances the most determined wins. And Russia above & beyond all Nations is nonpareil in this respect.
⭕🔻 santos-inistas: 200% tariff on wine? Yeah we’re winning every single suburban house seat in 2026
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Like wine moms drink imported stuff lol
🔻 WS: Sweet white something from a box, over ice, with a jigger of sugar-free Sprite. Nectar of the nymphs. Make a hummingbird forget how to fly. 😏
⭕ Trump: I strongly requested Putin to spare the soldiers trapped in the Kursk region.Putin: If they surrender, we will spare their lives.
This is what “dictating terms” looks like, folks.
📜 Dictating Terms
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: Some Thoughts on the DevelopmentFirst of all, I would like to emphasize that, unlike the Western cards and ballgame players, President Putin’s statement in response to their unserious 30-day ceasefire offer is not only diplomatically and strategically masterful, but also genuine and highly empathetic.
Those who lack such intellectual and strategic acumen often fail to appreciate and tend to misinterpret such statements, as has been evident in public discourse during the last circa 24 hours.
President Putin has also made an extensive effort to help Western administrators evaluate their assumptions by posing questions on the details of their proposal to elucidate these assumptions.
Secondly, as for my thoughts on the surrounded troops and equipment—that is, if I had a say in the decision, I would recommend that, in principle, no one who trespasses on Russian territory or attacks Russian civilians should be permitted to escape either judgment or punishment, and no military equipment used in the invasion should be permitted to withdraw.
Now, it’s worth mentioning that President Putin mentioned these matters and stressed the latter point, albeit in a rather highly diplomatic manner, which may have unintentionally obscured the message, making the statement difficult to decipher for Western administrators and the public.
That said, the encircled “AFU” forces, including any embedded Western mercenaries or contractors, should only be afforded a single opportunity to surrender. Their weapons and military equipment should be either surrendered to the Russians or destroyed.
[and the last bolded section dear comrades explains the sudden howling of Orange & Gang, begging for mercy, as at the cauldron at Debaltsevo for which Merkel personally flew to Moscau…. a gang of shameless honorless hyenas]
[links:
🔻 Glenn Diesen: “Putin responds to the ceasefire proposal:
– It is worth watching instead of relying solely on the media’s “interpretation” of his comments” |media|]
🔻 git_gud_&_win(⬡, ⬡): it seems that what we see and what is going behind the scenes have 0 correlation.most Trump statements will be noise.
☝️ Did you know that Perfide ONCE told the Truth?? In the 17th century, they admitted their lineage and mission on earth…
💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Anas Hassan Khattab, aka Abu Ahmed Hudud (born 1987), is the current Head of the General Intelligence Administration in the Syrian Interim Transitional Government. He assumed this position on December 26, 2024, as part of wide-ranging changes following the fall of the Assad regime. He also serves as the Deputy Commander of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Idlib under Ahmad al-Sharaa and was the Head of the General Security Apparatus within the group.
Khattab left Syria for Iraq in 2008 when he was 21, with reports indicating that his departure was intended “to fight against the American occupation”, and fought under the “Islamic State” banner.
In 2012, he joined Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of “the Islamic State” and later al-Qaeda in the Levant, which later split from al-Qaeda and rebranded as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS.
As of early 2014, he served as the administrative emir of Jabhat al-Nusra and was a member of its Shura Council. The United States designated him a terrorist in 2012, followed by the United Nations in 2014.
Similar to the CIA and MI6 directors, the ex-Emir has a social media account: @Anas_Khatab_sy
[what days. A veritable freak show in every corner of the decomposing Empire!]
⭕ For the first time since the fall of Bachar al-Assad, a Russian tanker with 30,000 tons of fuel arrived in Banias following an agreement between Damascus and Moscow.
Iran used to supply Syria with 3 million barrels a month, a supply that stopped after Damascus considered Iran an enemy.
⭕ Syria’s new constitution gives the president full executive powers (no prime minister), the selection of a third of parliament whose members have no power to dismiss the president, the power to select judges for the Supreme Court, freedom of the press as defined by national security, and more powers for the self-appointed de facto president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, alias Aby Mohamad al-Joulani.
⭕ Europe believes that allowing Russia to annex Ukrainian territory is a perilous step. It would encourage other countries to follow suit, ignoring what Israel has done in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon.
[how is the Lunch, itself on beautiful Menus, and about to be carved up, in a position to even mewl??]
⭕ Iran has received Donald Trump’s letter through the United Arab Emirates envoy and is reviewing its content.
💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇸🇳 A Senegalese artist creates a graffiti depicting the guillotined head of MacronThe graffiti measuring 3 by 7 meters on a wall in Dakar bears a message: “Cut off the head of neocolonialism”.
France does not have the right to keep an army in Senegal, the graffiti artist told Sputnik.
He believes that there should be “total freedom” in the relationship between Senegal and France. The artist says he is spreading this message to make the Senegalese free.
The French army is in Senegal to protect the interests of France, while claiming that they are there to protect the Senegalese people.
🗣 “They brought all the evil that plagues Africa here. They are the cause,” the artist asserted.
Regarding the central image of the severed head of the French president, the artist explained that this was the fate of the soldiers who fought for France in 1944.
When Senegalese snipers demanded their wages, the French killed them, the graffiti artist explained, stressing that the Senegalese people “haven’t forgotten that.”
[what days!! After the loss of Algeria, Senegal was to France what the Indian Raj was to Perfide, or Zion to the Yanquis..]
⭕️ US and Israel reportedly approach Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland about resettling Palestinians displaced from Gaza under Trump’s proposed postwar planSudan has reportedly rejected the proposal, while officials in Somalia and Somaliland deny any awareness.
According to the media, anonymous US and Israeli officials confirmed the outreach, led by Israel, after US President Donald Trump presented his plan to displace Palestinians.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, advocating for “voluntary” Palestinian emigration, stated Israel is identifying potential host countries and preparing a dedicated emigration department within its Defense Ministry.
Trump’s plan suggests permanently displacing over two million Gazan residents, with the US taking control and developing the territory. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hails this once unthinkable idea as a “bold vision.”
Palestinians and Arab nations strongly oppose the plan, advocating for reconstruction within Gaza. However, the White House maintains Trump “stands by his vision.”
⭕ ❗️Russian troops liberated the settlement of Goncharovka in the Kursk region, the country’s MoD reportsUkrainian forces lost more than 260 servicemen over the past day, the ministry added.
⭕ ❗️Ukraine’s accession to NATO is no longer under consideration, the alliance’s Secretary General Rutte confirms in an interview with US media
[Before being garroted, cut up and thrown to the dogs, NATO shall be dragged through the mud… ancient rites due the abject Loser]
💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ The land area Israel now occupies in Syria is larger than the land it occupied in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon combinedNOTE: This area is not fully under control of the IDF, but this area Israel has announced it will not allow any Syrian forces to deploy inside.
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced sanctions on Iran’s Minister of Petroleum, Mohsen Paknejad, as well as several ‘Iran-linked’ shipping companies in China, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, India, Seychelles, Indonesia, Marshall Islands, Singapore, and 13 vessels.
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇷🇺 U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: ‘On a scale of zero to ten, the Biden administration’s sanctions on Russia were probably a three; on the way out the door, they took them to a six. And I can tell you, we wouldn’t hesitate to take them up to a ten.’
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇺🇦 NEW: The United States is set to resume shipments of long-range Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs (GLSDB) to Ukraine, purchased under President Biden’s administration through the ‘Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative.’💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️Trump Tightens Sanctions on Russia, Imposes Additional Restrictions on Oil, Gas, and Banking Sectors — CBS NewsIt is reported that the US President did not renew the Treasury Department’s license, which allowed foreign companies to make payments for Russian energy resources through sanctioned Russian banks.
Restricting access to American banking systems makes it difficult for other countries to buy Russian oil, thereby limiting global supplies.
The media claims that this will serve as one of the levers of pressure to convince Russia to agree to a ceasefire.
💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ Portugal rejects the F-35 and considers European alternativesPortuguese Defense Minister Nuno Melo announced that Portugal would not purchase F-35 fighter jets from the United States, citing geopolitical uncertainty and the unpredictability of American policy.
Poder Aéreo
Portugal hinted that it might be interested in Dassault Rafale jets and stressed the importance of having “reliable allies in defense planning.”
⭕ 🇺🇸🇵🇦 The White House has asked the U.S. military to develop options for strengthening the U.S. military presence in Panama.
U.S. Southern Command is developing plans ranging from a closer partnership with Panamanian forces to the less likely option of U.S. troops taking the Panama Canal by force.
Source: NBC
⭕ 🇺🇸 Trump: I think the annexation of Greenland will happen.
⭕ 🇺🇸 Elon Musk visited the US National Security Agency (NSA). The discussion focused on staff reductions and operations.
Source: WSJ
[the ENTIRE old order is being incinerated by the minions of the Moshiach – under guise of efficiency and making lean within CONUS. What days. Full speed ahead in the digital panopticon. Night descends on the former Shining City, lording it over slums and rubble]
💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇺🇦 NEW: One of the participants in the Odessa Trade Union House Massacre, Demyan Gaul, was murdered in OdessaOn May 2, 2014, Russian-speaking Ukrainians who were protesting against the ousting of former President Viktor Yanakovich were barricaded into the Trade Union House where supporters of Ukraines ‘Right Sector’ lit the building on fire and shot those who tried escaping.
Just yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found Ukraine guilty of the massacre.
[an overture, or marker of submission, by the Last Satanic Empire to the Russian Victor?? The public execution of this nazi was extraordinary. What days. Probably cleaner this way, rather than tolerating these satanic madmen at Nuremberg II. Hunting season’s gonna open on ALL such nazis worldwide]
💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇮🇷/🇧🇾 NEW: Iran and Belarus have signed a strategic defense cooperation agreement in Minsk
[On same day Lukashenko is on a state visit with Putin.. symbolism. An interesting triangle of our End Times to watch. Our Olde Tractor Farmer Luka offered nukes to Iran a while back (!) Not One Step Back…]
💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 🔥🧵 Excellent History ThreadI was an odd child in many respects. I first became obsessed with WW2 history at 8-years-old. I came to realize very early on that you NEVER want to make the Russians your enemy. The Russians are poet warriors. You cannot defeat them.
links:
🔻 Rina Lu🇷🇺: Even Hitler’s Army Was Shocked: The Unstoppable Courage of Russian Soldiers🧵👇
Here are quotes from German soldiers and officers about Russian soldiers.
Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, one of Hitler’s top generals:
The Russians were not afraid of death. They fought with a determination I had never seen in any other army. |THREAD|
🔻 James Fitzjames Stephen: The Kaiser’s Imperial German Army did. So did the French and British in the Crimean War. I certainly don’t want a war with Russia, but no-one is invincible.
[LOL. A salty limey]
🔻 WS: The western-facilitated Russian Civil War fractured Russia in WW1. The Crimean War was a strategic defeat for the French and British.
[and the latest Russian civil war in Novorossiya is wrapping up. Woe to the fools who are NEXT!]
🔻 James Fitzjames Stephen: Still an undeniable German victory. How the Crimean War was a defeat for France and Britain is beyond me when even the Russians regarded it as a loss.
🔻 WS: The Crimean War was a “victory” for France and Britain in the same sense Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were “victories” for the US.
[and a decade later, the Russkie Navy made the Anglo-French eat bile on the two Yanqui coasts…]
🔻 James Fitzjames Stephen: The Vietnamese believe they lost the Vietnam War? The Taliban believe they lost, too? OK.
🔻 WS: The concept of strategic victory and defeat is lost on most people. 🤦♂️
[but all recognize the meanness of soul and spirit and lack of any goodness, this grasping endless totalen krieg which does not permit the insane loser to accept Defeat, until the next “salting” of Carthage is arranged]
🔻 Benjamin Schoendorff🪁: Maybe not an absolute surprise your grandson is autistic. 🙂
[LOL. A salty zionazi]
🔻 WS: This is more true than I ever imagined before observing him over the past several years.In retrospect, I now feel sorry for my poor wife, having to deal with me for the past 43 years.
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: They might be a little naive early on, they might get a few things wrong, but they learn and they just keep on coming.
🔻 Global Southerner: The Slavs have unparalleled levels of tenacity and grit. That goes for the Ukrainians as well as the Russians, which is why Ukraine has held on far longer than many expected.The Anglos are great at sowing division between similar people and getting them to fight to the death.
⭕ 📜 Never Underestimate the RussiansSeems like an apropos time to revisit this essay from January 2024.
⭕ Think what you may about Iran and Khamenei, but he’s right: Iran has the capability to strike back.#NoEasyWarsLeftToFight
[it is eery, how many of the most pivotal battles in history took shape when neither side wanted it, catastrophically ending the reign of one or both sides..]
links:
🔻 Iran Observer: 🚨 Ayatollah Khamenei responded to America’s repeated threatsIran’s Supreme Leader says initiating a war isn’t a one-way street
‘Iran is not seeking war, but if Americans and their clients make a mistake, the response from Iran will be decisive and definite, and the one who will suffer the most is the US. Iran has the capability to strike back’
🔻 C2: What do you make of Turkey’s threats about upholding Ukraine’s ‘sovereignty’?
🔻 WS: Don’t listen to what the Turks say. Watch what they do over time.
🔻 C3: But he doesn’t have a missile that can get to Western Europe let alone the US.Honestly If he was smart he’d use that acct to capitalize on increasing American popular disenchantment re: Israeli influence on our foreign policy, esp as it relates to his country
🔻 WS: Iran has absolutely no need nor reason to strike at western Europe or the continental US.But they CAN hit any US/Israeli base and other strategic targets in the Middle East, any US ship in the Persian Gulf, and they have formidable integrated multi-layered air defenses.
🔻 Eomar – Diligent News: Yep, Americans are so heavily propagandized they think it is still 1990. A war with Iran would be an unmitigated disaster |link| https://www.diligent.news/p/a-wider-war-iran
🔻 Paracelsus: So? You think that’d deter us? Lucifer and his demons fought the most difficult and impossible to win fight in existence with full knowledge of the outcome yet zero hesitation. This isn’t about material practicalities it’s about ontological evil and the desire to subjugate. |link|
⭕ ‼️ Russia — China — Iran AllianceFor what I believe is the first time ever, high-level representatives from Russia, China, and Iran will meet later this week in Beijing to coordinate their actions in the face of US threats against Iran.
📜 All for One and One for All
[the meeting’s tomorrow, the 14th]
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: First time AFAIK that this has manifest–esp. in context of concurrent military exercises–military undertones.
⭕ repost:
🤦♂️ Trump is making it up as he goes along.He has no grand unifying principle or plan, other than naively believing the US still has leverage over everyone, and all he has to do is growl menacingly enough for his adversaries to submit.
⭕🔻 Thomas Fazi: “Putin will invade Europe” is the new “Iraq has weapons of mass destruction”.
🔻 Peter St Onge, Ph.D.: The “domino” argument for war never gets old.Russia is Mexico with nukes — literally same population, same GDP. The only reason it’s winning is that Ukraine is Sri Lanka without nukes.
🔻 WS: 🤦♂️ I never cease to be amazed by the utter nonsense that ostensibly intelligent Americans believe about Russia. (And the misinformed nonsense they believe about the meaningless metric of nominal GDP.)Also, Ukraine was the most powerful military in Europe (by far!) in 2022.
🔻 Cannoneer Marine: Ukraine in 2022 had armored brigades that were the best in the world and would have been extremely difficult for a US Army equivalent to defeat. They were superb formations but they’re all dead or maimed now. Every single one. And not sure anyone could prove me wrong in that assertion, as like I’m the 3rd Reich, the best units were used until they were destroyed.
🔻 WS: This is a common but entirely false characterization of the Ukraine War.Few people understand that the Russian army’s most impressive work in this war arguably occurred in 2022, which is when they eviscerated the original cohorts of the AFU.
🔻 Jydskatomkraft: Russia destroyed the original army, then the 2nd army which was rebuilt and then the 3rd attempt at making an army.It’s quite an impressive feat.
🔻 Matthew McCracken: Nominal GDP has us believing Italy has a much larger economy than Russia’s. These intelligent people can’t see how absurd that is. |voodoo|
🔻 WS: Listed by “Real GDP”, Russia comes in 4th, behind only
China, the US, and India.
🔻 Matthew McCracken: And when we count the informal economy and use updated GDP base years add another 26% for Russia.By the way, look at Mexico getting ready to leave the UK in the dust. |beauty|
🔻 WS: For many years, from many different people, I have heard it persuasively argued that Russia’s “informal economy” is ~40% of the “on the books” Russian economy.And Russia is the single most autarkist nation on the planet.
🔻 Matthew McCracken: Prof. Michael Hudson believes 40% of the US economy is fake. Late fees for credit cards get counted as GDP growth, categorized as “Financial Services.”The “economic powerhouses” of the collective west are service economies. Russia and China make tangible goods. |nirvana|
🔻 Aunque ande en: St Onge is, in fact, a smart guy indeed.
Trouble is expertise is non-transferable
🔻 Pavel +: Russia has twice the population of Mexico, none of the cartels in charge and more resources than any other nation on earth . Guy can’t do any research? Typical phd. A clear case for getting rid of the dept of Education
🔻 Pink Shirt Migo: Did you know; Mexico makes hypersonic missiles?
🔻 Doimo Manu: When NATO opted to support Ukraine, it was obvious that the weaponry would be stored there. Probably today all that listed capacity is much lower.
If this count is near the truth, the West has nothing to counter Russia. The question is: what is the real count?
🔻 WS: Everything on that list in the Ukraine column was former Soviet equipment.The “real counts” in the remaining columns were considerably LESS than listed, and they are even less now after so much NATO equipment has been sent to and destroyed in Ukraine.
🔻 Holger Lehmann: The graph is missing one very important item: Air defence systems.
🔻 WS: This is true. But we can see very clearly in retrospect that Ukraine had, BY FAR, the best integrated air defense systems not only in Europe, but including US and Israeli IADS. The older model Ukrainian S-300 and Buk systems were more formidable than anything in the US inventory.
🔻 Holger Lehmann: My point. More stuff than most of NATO combined. Very mobile and developed for real warfare and not some air-conditioned showroom.
⭕🔻 Rob Lee: Photos of Anduril Altius loitering munitions.
🔻 Chris Combs: Any senior design team at a US university would be embarrassed to show up with this at their final presentation
🔻 Palmer Luckey: Name a single system anywhere in the world that does a better job of doing what Altius does.Really easy to sling shit when you have no idea what you are talking about.
🔻 WS: America circa 2025 is the most accomplished producer of con men hawking mediocre products in all of human history. Coupled with clueless Pentagon procurement, the US military consistently ends up with crappy stuff like Altius, the F-35, and Ford-class aircraft carriers.
🔻 EL DUCK: Have you traveled to France recently ? It would change your mind
🔻 WS: Hyperbole is a rhetorical device, not a statement of objective reality — more a flourish than a fact, but still a valid vignette.
🔻 Spaceman 🇺🇲: He can’t come up with a unit cost because he knows it’s several times the cost of an Iranian/Chinese/Russian analogue.
🔻 WS: Russia/China/Iran all field (and manufacture at scale) superior highly mobile and man-portable long-range loitering drones with higher speed, greater range, multiple sensors, optional AI autonomy, and more powerful warheads than the already antiquated Altius.
[yeah, a microcosm of a degenerate Empire scrapping the bottom and scooping the unfiltered bilge for drinking water]
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: Palmer Luckey…….. Has no knowledge of production or manufacturing, no clue about weapons or warfare, named his shell of a company after a sword out of Lord of the Rings and is now onto the latest fascist grift where he sucks off more printed Dollars.
🔻 shaavy: Peter Thielism. Destroying America one sector at a time.
🔻 skeetzsche: One Nation Under Grift. My favorite examples are OpenAI and Anthropic. Raise billions selling the story that you need endless compute, get smoked by a creative team that realizes you don’t. Cant pivot away from story because valuations would collapse.
⭕ ‼️ KatastrophicThe Kursk Kamikaze Inkursion has been the coup de grace for the series of NATO/Ukraine armies fielded and methodically destroyed over the course of this war.
67,000 casualties (the majority of which were KIA)
7000 vehicles (the majority of which were NATO-made)
🔻 questo non è un uovo 🐕: According to an interview released by general Masiello, the Chief of Staff of the Italian Army, the RF “suffered 460K casualties” during the last year alone, that is “100 losses per square kilometer conquered” during this period of time.
🔻 WS: So, Generale Masiello is parroting Ukrainian Ministry of Defense casualty statistics. Che coraggio!
📜 In War, Losers Lie the Most“… as a general rule, the side that is really winning is much more likely to tell the truth, and the side that is losing is, far more often than not, lying through its teeth.”
🔻 questo non è un uovo 🐕: The interview has been published on the January issue of ‘Limes’, titled as “How we prepare for war”.
It acknowledged “Russian unpaired narrative superiority”.
You’d consider the Officer basic motive: encourage a doubling of Defense funds. Which is being granted via ReArmEU.
[Perfect title for the rag! “Limes” — I’m having flashbacks of skinny starving limeys sans teeth floating somewhere on the sun-drenched South Seas]
🔻 Assange Is Free!!: che imbecile
🔻 AncientSion: source for the 7000 vehicles ?
🔻 WS: Russian Ministry of Defense, straight from the mouth of General Valery Gerasimov.
🔻 Kushagra: It’s about time the US Special Forces units entered the fray.
[LOL. And who does he think has helped fertilize the rich, fat, black soil of Novorossiya all these years, since at least 2014??]
🔻 WS: Why would US Special Forces units want to commit suicide?
[“There’s a sucker born every minute” — P. T. Barnum]
🔻 ReadingforLiberation: Some individuals have already have lol hence why they stopped going. They also wouldn’t change anything. Turns out that SOF glorification doesn’t work when all you fought were villagers with 70’s Ak’s.
[even then, laddie, even then! Who ran; who is still unmoved on their Mountains, as if the Himalayas had birthed a mouse after laboring twenty years?]
🔻 Info Junkie: Where do those numbers come from?
🔻 WS: Global Firepower |link|
⭕🔻 Ian Ellis:
In the past 3 months, the U.S. moved F-35A, F-35B, and F-35C Lightning II Squadrons into the Indo-Pacific, replacing F-15s, F/A-18s, and AV-8Bs in Japan.A pivotal shift from 4th to 5th generation aircraft in America’s priority theater.
🔻 WS: 🧵 Hangar QueensYes … but did they also triple the number of maintenance hangars and technicians? Because the maintenance hangar is where 75%+ of these F-35s would be at any given time (at least until Chinese missiles targeted US bases in the region).
📜 The Weakling Wunderwaffe
🔻 Naji El: Why did the Us stop producing the f22 which on paper is a superior platform to the f35 and they kept funneling lots of resources on the f35 despite it’s many blunders
🔻 WS: 🤣 The Balloon Killer?IIRC, only the B-2 and F-35B have worse combat-capable rates than the aging F-22 — a platform with inherently limited utility.
Russian and Chinese jets can compete with the F-22 and F-35. They would outrange the F-22 in any realistic battle scenario.
🔻 Matthew McCracken: The solution is to paint the maintenance hangers with stealth paint. Problem solved.
⭕ cont thread:
[“the ball is in Russia’s court” C&P crap]
What this demonstrates more than anything is that the supposed divide between the US and Europe is an act. They are obviously working in close coordination with each other.The US and its NATO vassals are clearly not willing yet to admit defeat in their war against Russia.
🔻 KC Sceptic 🇷🇺 🇳🇿 🇮🇪: “6uild 6ack 6etter.”
[yep. A lowercase b is similar to a six (6). Hence Biden’s bbb meme in 2021 = 666. These degenerates ALL have their numerology and signs, on both sides of the aisle. Wouldn’t be surprised if “the ball’s in Russia’s court” has some link to the zionazi kabbalah]
🔻 Craig Stewart: The head long march towards WWIII continues unabated.
The actors playing their parts.
How else will they get to declare one day, “The only way to stop conflict is to have a one-world government. So give up your rights and freedoms, and do as you are told.”
🔻 WS: 🔸 I continue to strongly believe that totalitarian order will not follow whatever is to come on this planet.The would-be world conquerors simply do not possess sufficient organizational acumen and hard power wherewithal to impose their will.
Rather, more disorder will result.
🔻 mayankites2: Warlord era
🔻 Matthew McCracken: Which makes the US a danger to the world. We are at the stage where the battered wife is leaving and the loser abusive husband cries out, “If I can’t have you no one can!” This is the most perilous stage for the battered wife (world). When she decides to leave.
🔻 Oleg Federov: 100% correct. And thank God for that.
People Such as Ursula Von Der leyen and Jean Claude Juncker would be BRUTAL DESPOTS if they ever had the chance to be.It is a blessing to see their army’s battered and left in ruins before people like them assume world domination.
⭕ ‼️ Wunderwaffe KaputZelensky confesses the obvious: Ukraine has no remaining ATACMS missiles.
At least 500 were delivered between late 2023 and late 2024. Only a minute fraction of them struck their intended targets. The ATACMS was an ineffectual embarrassment. A total bust.
[but they sure look good to the uninitiated. Too bad the Big Bad Russkie always tests the devils]
🔻J⚡H the Denier: I know this is true but where is the source of admission please ?
🔻 WS: I saw the headline pass by in numerous posts today. Seemed pretty uncontroversial, so I commented on it. Not sure of its original source.And yes, whether the little gremlin said it or not, I’m sure it’s true. ATACMS and Storm Shadows have disappeared from the battlefield.
🔻 Marcus Tullius Cicero: It is a slightly older system…still isn’t much of an excuse though.
[you gotta give the former degenerate bastards – they had worthy names, unlike the current motley crew]
🔻 WS: It is still the best produced-at-scale specimen of the SRBM class the US has to offer. And there is no reason to believe the still-in-development Precision Strike Missile will prove more effective at penetrating Russian or Chinese (or even Iranian) air defenses.
🔻 WS: Ask Grok:What is the best American short range ballistic missile?
And it will tell you the ATACMS is the best short-range ballistic missile in the US inventory.
The Russian Iskander is FAR SUPERIOR to the ATACMS.
🔻Baba ka Kezia: Another Myth Busted…😎
⭕ Excellent summary analysis of the Kursk Kamikaze Inkursion by Just Me @failure1991.
links:
🔻 Just Me: A few observations on what Armchair Warlord has called the Battle of Sudzha-Korenovo – now that it is very near its end |THREAD|
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Armchair Warlord: I’m endlessly amused by how people think the Russians are just going to take an objectively absurd ceasefire offer that the West agonizingly negotiated with itself and which Zelensky’s goons are walking back as we speak.The real message sent here is that Trump has no leverage.
🔻 Silence: This is step 1 in a broader negotiation. Trump has a fuck ton of leverage. Why start with what Russia wants?
[on the preponderance of this perception in the benighted Halls of Shiny Cities on High Hills hang the agonizing possibilities of Armageddon………]
🔻 WS: Silly talk.The US has exactly ZERO leverage.
📜 Dictating Terms
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: Zelensky’s subordinates start making noises they want a ceasefire that would be very beneficial for Ukraine:
> Putin shows up in Kursk in military uniform
> Tells Gerasimov to create a buffer zone in Ukraine
> Orders AFU POWs tried as war criminalsWhat could he mean by this?
[links earlier:
“Some people think Putin is just this ultimate comprador who will agree to anything in the spirit of noble compromise despite the fact that he’s been fighting a massive war for the last three years?”]
🔻 WS: History sometimes rhymes. |Glantz History|
🔻 WS: 📜 Fall Like A Thunderbolt
🔻 Zan: Amongst all the chatter of a cease fire. Wearing a military uniform was as much of a message to his generals as it was externally ie not only war continues albeit an incoming offensive.💠@geopolitics_live:
⭕ How Sudzha’s liberation became the ENDGAME for Ukrainian forces in Kursk⚡️🇷🇺 Sudzha liberated! Russian troops have driven Ukrainian forces out of the city in the Kursk region, says Russia’s Ministry of Defense.
So, what led to this rapid collapse of enemy defenses?
- No supplies = no army. Cutting off Ukraine’s supply lines in Kursk was the key to breaking their defense in Sudzha. First, Russia hit Ukrainian positions with Iskander-M missiles, crippling their support and air defense from the Sumy region. Then, they sealed the deal by cutting off their supply route through Yunakovka.
- Gas pipeline surprise. Ukraine got a nasty shock when Russian forces broke through into their rear via the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhhorod gas pipeline, once used to send gas to Europe. The bold move sent the West into a panic, with talks of blowing up all Russian pipelines.
- The end of the “adventure.” Demoralized and battered by constant airstrikes, artillery, and drones, Ukrainian forces are retreating to the Sumy border. Full expulsion from the region is just around the corner. This is the result of Ukraine “sacrificing” large parts of Donbass in 2024-2025.
With Sudzha’s liberation, Ukraine loses a major negotiating advantage. But the bigger story? A strong, battle-ready Russian force is now freed up to create a crucial “buffer zone.” 💥
💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Russia’s troops are entering the FINAL STAGE of the operation to liberate the Kursk region, the Kremlin spokesman announced, citing the Russian Sever Battlegroup’s report to Putin.
⭕ 📌 Major world events by the morning of March 13- The Kursk region must be completely liberated and consideration must be given to creating a security zone along the state border, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a visit to one of the command posts of the Kursk group of troops;
- Polish President Andrzej Duda called on Washington to deploy US nuclear weapons on Polish territory, according to the media;
- Russian air defenses destroyed 77 Ukrainian drones overnight over the Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Voronezh, Rostov and Belgorod regions, the Russian Defense Ministry reported;
- The UK is interested in disrupting the normalization of relations between Russia and the US, as well as negotiations on Ukraine, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev said;
⭕ 🇷🇺🇧🇾 The Russian and Belarusian Presidents will hold talks in Moscow today
Aleksandr Lukashenko arrived in the Russian capital on March 13 for a state visit.
According to the Kremlin, the discussions include:
- Key issues of the further development of bilateral relations of strategic partnership and alliance between Russia and Belarus;
- Prospects for integration cooperation within the framework of the Russia-Belarus Union State;
- Current issues on the international agenda.
✍️ In addition, the meeting is expected to conclude with the signing of several joint documents and a joint press conference by the leaders.
[timing NOT an accident, as the SMO winds down and the NEXT! phase is upon us. And wearing military fatigues last night. Let zionazi orifice Witkoff who arrived in Moscow dwell on developments]
⭕ ❗️The town of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk region has been liberated, the country’s Defense Ministry reportsSudzha is the largest settlement in the territory that was occupied by Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region.
⭕ ❗️Russia has reviewed the US and Ukraine’s statement following the meeting in Jeddah, the Russian Foreign Ministry saysMoscow is ready to discuss the initiatives contained therein during future contacts with Washington, the ministry added.
[diplomats are so gracious in telling you to get lost, and even provide useful roadmaps to Hell in the process!]
⭕ ❗️Russia does not accept the deployment of units of the armed forces of other countries in Ukraine, this would mean involvement in a conflict with Russia, Moscow will react, the country’s Foreign Ministry says
[LOL. rinse and repeat. Mayhap broadcast with music in Ebonics, to help the demented better hear and comprehend, if that is at all humanly possible.
NB. the position on ANY “peacekeeper” has hardened. Before it was circumscribing NATO goons; now it appears ALL non-Russians on 404??]
⭕ ❗️The proposed temporary cease in Ukraine is nothing but a temporary respite for the Ukrainian military, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov saysAccording to him, Russia seeks for a long-term peaceful settlement that takes into account Moscow’s interests and concerns.
💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ South Korea wants to sell submarines to Canada as relations with the United States deteriorate.A delegation was sent to Canada to present South Korea as a reliable source of military equipment.
Maintenance facilities would be established in Canada, and unlike with American weapons systems, the South Koreans would give Canada full access to the onboard technology.
Source: Ottawa Citizen
[Lord have Mercy. Loony Tunes World. Does the sub comes with K-Pop, and twerking teens as well – in the fine tradition of the bummy British Royal Navy, of which Canaduh is a willing recipient? They DO observe their traditions ya know]💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️Russia has presented the United States with a list of demands for a ceasefire in Ukraine, Reuters reports, citing sources.The agency’s interlocutors did not name the exact demands. But they said that they were talking about resetting relations with Washington.
They described the Kremlin’s conditions as “broad and similar to the demands it had previously made to Ukraine, the United States and NATO.”
[LOL. Cute. Did they brush off the Dec 2021 Ultimata, add cartoons and much imagery, reduce all words to max two syllables, and hand it over again?! What ever it takes to eat such sandwiches, which shall keep being served however way they want – as a package, a buffet, or a la mode]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️Ukraine has used up all of its ATACMS missiles, AP reports.The US has transferred less than 40 of these missiles to Kiev, and their stocks ran out at the end of January, the agency’s source said.
💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇫🇮Patrushev reminded Finland that the Gulf of Finland is not its property but all states are obliged to comply with the norms of international maritime law.This is how the Russian presidential aide commented to the magazine “National Defense” on the plans of Helsinki and Tallinn to block Russia’s exit from the Gulf of Finland.
[Yoda and son’s warned two particular madmen in 24-hours – Perfide and Finns…]
⭕ 🇷🇺💬Aide to the President of Russia, Chairman of the Naval Collegium Nikolai Patrushev gave an interview to the magazine “National Defense”.Main points:
- There is information that NATO countries intend to intensify terrorist actions against Russian underwater pipelines, tankers, and dry cargo ships.
- NATO is practicing cyberattacks on navigation equipment of Russian ships to create emergency situations, including those leading to accidents.
- There is a high probability of further increasing threats to Russian ports and freedom of navigation in the Baltic from the navies of European NATO countries.
- Russia will not allow any encroachment on its national interests in the Baltic region.
- The European wing of NATO continues its policy of blocking Russia in the Baltics, neglecting the restoration of dialogue between Russia and the United States.
- Judging by the results of the EU summit, which decided on large-scale militarization of Europe, military threats will only increase.
- Great Britain is interested in disrupting negotiations on Ukraine, as well as disrupting the normalization of Russian-American relations.
- Finland, once again, as in 1939, is turning into a springboard for potential aggression against Russia, now under the auspices of NATO.
⭕ 🇷🇺💬Russian Ambassador to Britain Kelin on Moscow considering Washington’s ceasefire proposal:
We will consider the American proposal for a ceasefire. We will stop military actions only when we have a full, comprehensive agreement. Russia has repeatedly stated that a temporary ceasefire is not an option for resolving the situation.
In addition, the Russian side has expressed skepticism about any peace talks, insisting that it will take time to reach a lasting agreement. Russia is approaching the US initiative with great caution.
⭕ 🇷🇺Russian military liberated the settlements of Melovoy and Podol in the Kursk region — Russian Defense Ministry
⭕ The US has identified a mediator in negotiations with Russia – it is not Steve Witkoff, Yuri Ushakov told Zvezda.A temporary truce is far from a long-term settlement that takes into account Russia’s interests, the presidential aide noted. No one needs an imitation of peace.
Treacherous Albion draws the world back into warSVR Press Office of Russia, March 10
The press office of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation reports that, according to data received by the SVR, the British leadership sees a threat to its interests in promoting a dialogue between the United States and Russia on resolving the Ukrainian conflict. In London, they fear that this will lead to the failure of the British strategy of “containing” Moscow, which is central to control over Ukraine. Its likely loss, according to the British, will undermine plans to create a Russophobic “belt of limitrophic states” in Europe and organize a naval “blockade” of the Russian Federation.
London is extremely annoyed that Donald Trump ” conducts a dialogue with Russia as a superpower and demonstrates disregard for its closest allies.” Starmer was stung by the US president’s” provocative question “during a joint press conference about the “ability of the British nation to stand up to the Russians alone.” Following the results of the Prime Minister’s visit to the United States, Downing Street concluded that” loyal friends ” de facto throw the British on the sidelines of the process of reformatting European and global security.
In the current situation, the British authorities consider it an “urgent priority” to undermine the “peacekeeping” efforts of the new American administration on the Ukrainian track. The media and” profile ” NGOs are tasked with demonizing Trump, presenting him as “a person with a poor track record in the field of peacemaking, vulnerable to manipulation by the Kremlin.”
At the same time, Starmer’s office is doing its best to strengthen the Kiev regime’s resilience to increasing pressure from Washington. From London, there are loud promises to send missiles, troops and aircraft to Ukraine, no matter what it costs the UK economy, which is in deep crisis. Nevertheless, on the sidelines, British politicians admit that all these intentions may turn out to be “noise out of nothing”, since without maintaining American support, they are impossible to implement.
As we can see, London today, as well as on the eve of both world wars of the last century, acts as the main “instigator” of global conflict. At the same time, the British themselves, obviously, again expect to sit out on their island. It’s time to bring them to light and send a clear message to the treacherous Albion and its elites: you won’t succeed.
SVR Press Office of Russia 10.03.2025
💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦During a meeting at the headquarters of the Kursk group of forces, Russian President Vladimir Putin wore a military uniform for the first time since 2021.
[symbolically just as the SMO is being wrapped up. NEXT!]
⭕ ⚡️Russian military crossed the border in a number of places and entered the Sumy region of Ukraine, the head of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces reported.
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk border region exceeded 67 thousand people, 400 were taken prisoner, Chief of Staff Gerasimov reported.
[wow. that is less than 0.6% captured alive. iow, > 99.4% were killed on Russian soil. We’ve seen too many videos too count on some being executed with extreme prejudice. What awaits the next bunch of hopeless nazis after the SMO!!]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦Putin said that he contacts Russian soldiers fighting in the Kursk region every day, morning and evening
⭕ 🇫🇷🇷🇺🇺🇦About 15 countries have expressed their readiness to participate in ensuring security guarantees for Ukraine, stated French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu.
[perhaps the bulgarian prophesies of the incineration of Rummy’s Olde Europe are at hand…]
💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇨🇳 Chinese warships surround Australia.A flotilla of three Chinese naval vessels sailed around Australia for nearly a month, entering and leaving its exclusive economic zone, conducting live-fire exercises, and forcing civilian flights to divert.
The two Chinese warships were equipped with 144 missile launchers, while the Australian fleet, consisting of 10 ships, had only 200. The two Australian tankers, essential for long-range operations, were out of commission.
The Australian Navy is old and dependent on the United States.
NYT!
[senile, brittle, and yellow-toothed in Europe, and in the South Seas…. where is there vigor among the barking mad??]
⭕ 🇨🇳🇮🇷🇷🇺 China will hold talks with Russia and Iran on the Iranian nuclear issue in Beijing on March 14, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.
[note the location, and who is absent from perhaps the last stop on this sordid saga! It appears ALL serious discussions, including security arrangements, will be held amongst the adults, far far apart from u know who]
⭕ 🇱🇹🇫🇷 The French nuclear shield worries Lithuania: Prime Minister Paluckas believes that France cannot be solely responsible for the EU’s nuclear security.It is impossible to say that “France will now take care of it (protecting Europe with nuclear weapons).” “This is terribly irresponsible and dangerous,” the Lithuanian Prime Minister said.
NATO’s nuclear weapons in Europe cannot be replaced by a single weapon,” he added.
[LOL. A tad late to panic! And yes, Lavrov is not the only one musing aloud of the utility of the 3 or 4 Frenchie nukes…]
⭕ German automaker Volkswagen is considering manufacturing equipment for the German military as Europe accelerates its rearmament.With German auto exports having fallen by 50% compared to pre-pandemic levels, automakers have spare production capacity.
[good luck converting in time to be of any use. How the mad make themselves bombing targets yet again!]
⭕ Polish Defense Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz:Poland is open to the French proposal to extend the nuclear umbrella, but we need details.
⭕ 🇨🇳 China maps seabed to gain new advantage in warChina maps the seabed to gather intelligence. This data is used for submarine detection, deep-sea mining, and China’s naval expansion.
Two state-of-the-art vessels, the Xiang Yang Hong 01 and the Dong Fang Hong 3, mapped the seabed in the eastern Indian Ocean, collecting data on currents, temperature and salinity.
India and Japan have protested Beijing’s use of civilian research for military purposes. A CSIS study found that most Chinese research vessels have military ties or serve Beijing’s geopolitical interests.
WSJ
[that’s the Malacca Straits in the middle, between Malaysia and Indonesia.. ducks being lined up for the start of hunting season, to abuse metaphors]
⭕ Germany supports a European army✅ 84% of respondents think it’s a good idea.
❌ 12% oppose it.
[this is an unfair poll though, with guaranteed user biases. It is like asking Yemenis if they like to kick ass. A martial people have their reflexes. But they need to get off the estrogen-rich diet and wokeness to be even presentable, much less combat worthy]
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Fireworks restart in Zion around Friday night into Saturday…💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇮🇷| Leader of Iran, Imam Khamenei:If we had wanted to build nuclear weapons, the US wouldn’t have been able to stop us. The fact that we neither possess nor seek nuclear weapons is because we ourselves don’t want to. If we want to, they wouldn’t be able to stop us.
War isn’t good. We’re not seeking to start a war. But if someone takes any action, the response from us will be firm and definite.
💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️ Russian troops launched a missile strike on the Druzhba Hotel in Krivoy Rog, where French mercenaries and the Armed Forces of Ukraine officers were located, a Russian official saysIn this hotel, “they were being prepared for deployment to the Kursk Region,” Vladimir Rogov, the chairman of the Commission of the Public Chamber of Russia on Sovereignty Issues and the co-chairman of the Coordination Council for the Integration of New Regions, told Sputnik.
⭕ 📹The liberation of Dneproenergiya settlement in the DPR: the Russian MoD releases footage
⭕ 📹 Vladimir Putin visited the Kursk region, which had suffered from an attack by Ukrainian forces. He also received a report from Gerasimov:- Russian troops have liberated over 1,100 square kilometers of territory in the Kursk border area.
- Gerasimov also reported that the Ukrainian forces’ losses in the Kursk border region have exceeded 67,000 people. |media|
⭕ ❗️Ukraine wanted to create a foothold in the Kursk region and use the situation as a bargaining chip, Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov reported to Putin.
Plans of the Kiev regime in the Russian region have failed.
⭕ ❗️Our task is to defeat the enemy entrenched in the Kursk region in the shortest possible time – PutinVladimir Putin instructed to “give special thought” to the creation of a security zone along the Russian-Ukrainian border.
⭕⚡️Prisoners taken in the Kursk region of Russia should be treated as terrorists – Putin
⭕ ❗️Putin reminded that foreign mercenaries are not covered by the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War.
💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇮🇷/🇦🇪/🇺🇸 NEW: Iran received Trump’s letter today from a UAE envoy. It was ‘opened, read, and promptly ignored’ – Sources
⭕ — 🇮🇷/🇺🇸 Iranian Member of Parliament:‘America is a country made up of weak people. Their people nowadays are not the same as those who landed in Normandy, or those who stormed Okinawa, They don’t know what war is. Their society is weak, and their politicians are risk-averse.
War against a conventional enemy will tell them an entirely different story than Iraq or Afghanistan.
Of course, if there is a war, it won’t be on American soil. But neither will it be on Iranian soil. Trust me, they will not manage to step even one foot in Iran.
The moment their sons start returning home in coffins, they will back down. America has not fought a real war in 50 years.’
⭕ This morning, IDF soldiers killed around 100 sheep in Quneitra, southern Syria.
⭕ 🇺🇸❌🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 — Lavrov says “Washington has demanded that Iran stop supporting its militias as a precondition for a new nuclear deal.”
[You can hear it in his interview with Judge and Larry. And immediately dismissed the arrogant nonsense, as any with self respect would]
⭕ HAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHA
⭕ Choke on your deal bro
💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ Al Houthi:- Decision to ban Israeli enemy navigation through the Red Sea, the Bab al-Mandab Strait, the Gulf of Aden, and the Arabian Sea has come into effect.
- Any Israeli ship crossing in the declared operational zone will be targeted, and this is a practical step and a necessary stance.
- The enemy’s actions of preventing aid from entering the Gaza Strip and closing the crossings aim to starve the Palestinian people.
- What is worse is the World Bank’s announcement that some Arab regimes are opening a land route to circumvent the Yemeni blockade against the Israeli enemy.
- criticized the Arab League’s no practical steps neither politically at the level of diplomatic boycott, nor economically, nor in any other form.
- Major Arab regimes are complicit with the Americans and Israelis and work to prevent any practical steps that serve the Palestinian cause.
- Trump administration is keen to exert more aggressive steps than those taken by Biden administration before.
- The criminal, aggressive, and unjust steps taken by the Israeli enemy are carried out with American support and Arab-Islamic inaction.
- The Arab and Islamic stance does not rise to the level of humanitarian, religious, and moral responsibility expected of this nation
- Stance of the two-billion-strong Muslim nation is not the correct stance for a nation that possesses all these capabilities and resources.
- We will move towards other escalatory steps at a high level if the Israeli enemy continues to starve the Palestinians and prevents the entry of aid.
- Banning Zionist navigation is only the first step in our position.
- American support enables Israeli enemy to take significant aggressive steps, which can only be stopped through deterrence and strong, practical stances.
- The steps taken by the Israeli enemy must be met with practical steps in response
- All practical options are on the table in response to the continued starvation of the Palestinian people
- If the Israeli enemy decided to demolish Al-Aqsa Mosque or completely displace the Palestinian people, would Arab stance not go beyond statements of condemnation and denunciation!!
- America stands fully in partnership with the Israeli enemy in all its escalatory and aggressive steps, even participating in threats and intimidation against the Palestinian people
- It is everyone’s duty to support any stance that backs the Palestinian people, as long as it is a practical, actionable step that pressures the Israeli enemy
- All blame, protest, criticism, and pressure should be directed at the Israeli enemy, as it seeks to starve the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip
- Some Arab regimes harbor intense hostility towards us for our stances in support of the Palestinian people
- The Arab situation is largely one of inaction, partial complicity, cooperation with the Israeli enemy, and containment of stances
- Some Arab regimes secretly incite the Israeli enemy to take aggressive steps against the Palestinian people, and this is truly regrettable.
- Some Arab regimes give the Palestinians a statement on a piece of paper, with no practical steps behind it, while opening land routes for economic support to the enemy
- The facts expose complicity of Arab regimes through their active cooperation with the Israeli enemy
- All options are on the table in our practical preparations and for implementation if the enemy does not stop besieging and starving the Palestinians in Gaza
