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💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇮🇱🇸🇾 Archangel Spetsnaz comment on possible Israeli ambitions in Southern Syria 👇Is the “David Corridor” a Realistic Project?
Amid the ongoing genocide carried out by militants of the new Syrian authorities—with full approval from their leadership—Israel’s reaction has been unusual. As we previously reported, Israel’s Defense Minister condemned the violence in Latakia and Tartus.
A day before Alawite protests erupted, the Israeli Air Force launched another missile strike on HTS positions, targeting an air defense zone of Syria’s new army. Many observers believe Israel is supporting the Alawites in this situation.
However, for Israel, the current chaos in Syria presents a perfect justification to expand its operations in the country’s south. The so-called “buffer zone” is set to grow further, as Israel now has a convenient pretext—the need to “protect itself” from the uncontrolled violence of extremist factions.
Israeli forces have solidified their positions in occupied areas of Quneitra province and are now conducting raids deeper into the east, moving toward Suwayda and Daraa.
This has reignited discussions about Israel’s potential “David Corridor” project—a plan to establish an Israeli-controlled corridor through three southern Syrian provinces, securing a section of the border with Jordan and linking it to SDF-held territories that are aligned with Israel.
Further supporting this idea is the formation of the Suwayda Military Council by local Druze communities, reportedly loyal to Israel due to the large Druze diaspora in Israel advocating for territorial unification.
Similar trends are emerging in Daraa, where discontent with the Syrian government is rising. Meanwhile, the recent massacres of minorities in Latakia and Tartus suggest that Syria’s Druze population is preparing for the possibility of being targeted next.
Given Israel’s ambitions, the “David Corridor” project no longer seems implausible. Especially now, when Tel Aviv can use the specter of “HTS savages” rampaging through Syria as a justification for further occupation.
[this “David Corridor” is the diagonal red line on the lower map, also spoken of above by Knesset National Security Committee Boaz Bismuth as “Syria is our bridge to the Euphrates”.
On the Russian map: Сирия = Syria, Израиль = Israel, Иордания = Jordan, Ирак = Iraq, Ливан = Lebanon. It is very safe to say now, all save Zion will cease to exist in short order. Then Zion too, and the entire Sykes-Picot with it. As seen with the EuroNazis, these compradore arabs are unfit to survive in current configuration.]
⭕ 🇸🇾 “Let sectarianism fall, and let the nation live.”The Greek Antiochian Orthodox Patriarch John X stands before Jolani and delivers a powerful plea, confronting him over the massacres unfolding along the Syrian coast. He speaks not just as a religious leader, but as a voice for the innocent—Christians and Alawites who are NOT caught in crossfire but are being deliberately targeted.
He reminds the world that the majority of those killed are not “remnants of the regime”—they are civilians, women, and children, slaughtered in their homes, forced from their villages, and stripped of their lives simply for their faith and identity.
Icons of the Virgin Mary, whom both Christians and Muslims revere, have been desecrated, and churches and homes have been burned to the ground. He calls on Jolani to stop the massacres immediately and to return Syria to a path of peace, unity, and reconciliation.
The crowd erupts in applause, because they know the truth—this was never about a revolution, democracy, or freedom. It was always about sectarian hatred and destruction.
Yet, we were told that Christians were not being targeted, that their suffering was a “hoax,” and that they stood by as Alawites were slaughtered. How much more proof is needed? |media|
⭕ 🇸🇾 HTS jihadists continue to humiliate and brutalize SyriansIn areas under HTS control, militants force prisoners to crawl on all fours like animals, beating them while hurling insults. A lifeless body lies nearby as they recite Quranic verses, using religion to justify their cruelty. They mock their victims, shouting, “Pull yourself together, Abu Ahmed!” before calling them dogs and pigs. This isn’t warfare—it’s pure humiliation, sectarian hatred, and psychological torture.
Yet, these are the so-called “moderate opposition” the West has backed for years.
[the accursed West digs its own grave deeper, in full view of the global commons…. soon, the very term “western values” will be code for the shameless indulgence in rank satanism]💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ 🇾🇪 Our message to those infidels, the al-Golani gang in Syria, who engage in acts of genocide and kill innocent civilians, particularly targeting the Alawites in the coastal region, especially Barabsho and Zubar in the Lattakia countryside:You wretched ones, enough is enough! What you are doing—executions and the murder of defenseless Syrians—is despicable. If you claim to be heroes and real men, direct your weapons against those who have violated Syria, seeking to occupy and bomb it day and night right before your eyes. You, who pretend to be righteous, have chosen to turn a blind eye, as if you were dead, and we have not seen even a single bullet fired in retaliation against the Zionists.
Today, you take pride in killing innocent Muslims—civilians who are unarmed and defenseless. Is this what you call bravery, you scoundrels? You don the guise of Islam, yet you are Zionist Nazis hiding behind this facade. The true Islam that we follow is one of mercy and compassion. It forbids the killing of innocent civilians and the slaughter of captives. This is the Islam we uphold in Yemen.
We advise you, oh wretched ones of the al-Golani gangs in Syria, to remove your masks and reveal the true nature of your agenda, which seeks to fulfill multiple Zionist objectives. Your actions aim to distort Islamic teachings and portray Islam as a religion of terrorism. In reality, Islam is a religion of peace and mercy.
Consider this a dire warning: we are watching you, and your actions will not go unnoticed. Your days of deception are numbered, and the truth will prevail. You may hide behind a mask, but sooner or later, your true intentions will be exposed, and justice will be served.
⚡️ @BABalMANDABChaos deepens — in Europe, Romanian Georgescu’s presidential candidacy was “rejected” (!) Italia is telling Franco-Germans to get lost with EU Mobilization. Musk called Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski a “small man”.. Iranian-Russian-Chinese naval exercises are on just off Hormuz. Zionazis turned off Gaza’s electricity, inviting resumption of Resistance war with Yemen. BOTH Turks and Zionazis about to invade and dismember Syria. And it’s only Sunday on a “quiet” news day…
💠@Katharine Gun:
⭕ I posted this on fb because so many people are clueless.Only 3 months ago, British (all NATO) diplomats, politicians and intelligence chiefs were hailing HTS and their leader Al-Julani as reformed rebels and liberators of Syria.
This careful propaganda blitz to whitewash hardened terrorists with countless Christian, Kurd and others’ blood on their hands deceived many.
Now these same media organisations and political apparatchiks are silent on the explosion of massacres across the Alawite regions of Syria.
They will try and portray it as a fight between former Asad supporters and the current regime. The reality is, many people in Syria are realising that HTS are still fascistic terrorists paid for by terror supporting states in the region and backed by NATO.
The killings have been happening in twos and threes daily for the past three months. Syrians decided to resist and fight back and the regime has slaughtered them and many thousands of innocent civilians.
Thousands have fled to the Russian airbase for protection.
Western governments endorse, support and finance terrorists in direct violation of their own Anti-Terror Legislation. They are not only in breach of their own legislation, they are openly supporting ethnic cleansing and genocide. These are our leaders and representatives. They should be locked up!
💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ German intel chief wants Ukraine to bleed for NATO for another five years |media|If the Ukrainian crisis ended before 2029 or 2030, Russia would “use its technical, material and personnel resources” to threaten Europe, BND chief Bruno Kahl claimed in an interview with DW.*
💬 “An early end to the war in Ukraine would enable the Russians to direct their energy where they actually want it, namely against Europe,” the spy chief said, claiming Russia’s ultimate aim was to push back NATO’s “protective presence” to where it was in the late 1990s before the bloc’s eastward expansion.
Kahl’s message shocked and outraged Ukrainian politicians finally realizing their nation is being used cannon fodder for the West, but it’s far from the first time a Western official has expressed such sentiments.
1️⃣In early 2022, Biden Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin explicitly said the US’s goal in fueling the proxy war was to “weaken” Russia and “degrade” its military capabilities.
2️⃣“As long as we help Ukraine with the weapons they need and the economic support, they will fight to the last person,” Senator Lindsay Graham** boasted, calling US aid the “BEST MONEY WE’VE EVER SPENT.”
3️⃣“The Ukrainians are willing to fight the fight for us if the West will give them the provisions. It’s a pretty good deal,” Senator Roger Wicker echoed.
*LISTED AS A FOREIGN AGENT IN RUSSIA
**RECOGNIZED AS A TERRORIST IN RUSSIA
⭕ Israeli energy minister orders to immediately halt electricity supply to Gaza Strip“I have just signed an order to immediately cut off electricity supply to Gaza. We are using every tool at our disposal to ensure the release of all hostages and to guarantee that Hamas will not remain in Gaza the day after the war,” Eli Cohen said.
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cautioned Hamas, stating that if the Palestinian Islamist group did not free the hostages, it would face consequences it “cannot imagine”.
Last weekend, Israel declared that it would halt aid shipments to Gaza unless Palestinian militants agreed to its conditions for prolonging the ceasefire.
🇵🇸 Hamas has criticized Israel’s decision to stop the aid, accusing it of “committing the war crime of collective punishment” and claimed the action also affected Israeli hostages still in Gaza.
💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ The Israeli army carried out an airstrike in northern Gaza, targeting, according to the army, a group of “terrorist” operatives who were trying to plant a bomb near the troops.At least two people were killed in the attack.
⭕ Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the government was working to create an “immigration administration” that would oversee the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza.Smotrich said the issue of budget for such an initiative “will not be an obstacle” to the task, which he described as logistically “complex.”
💠@MOD Russia:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇮🇷🇨🇳 Start of Sea Security Belt 2025 naval exerciseThe opening ceremony of the international naval exercise Sea Security Belt 2025 was held in the port of Chabahar, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Detachments of ships of the Russian Navy, Iranian Navy and PLA Navy take part in the exercise.
The Russian side is represented by
▫️corvette Rezky,
▫️corvette Hero of Russian Federation Aldar Tsydenzhapov
▫️medium sea tanker Pechenga of the Pacific Fleet.On the eve of the start of the International Naval Exercise, the head of the Russian delegation Commander of the Primorye Flotilla of Diverse Forces of the Pacific Fleet Rear Admiral Aleksey Sysoyev, who is currently in Iran, reported to the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Admiral Aleksandr Moiseyev on the readiness of the Russian Navy ships to participate in the exercise.
💥During several days in the northern part of the Indian Ocean, the crews will work out the tasks of liberation of captured ships, search and rescue at sea as well as conduct artillery firing at sea and air targets.
The Sea Security Belt 2025 international Naval Exercise organised by the Iranian side is being held for the seventh time. It was first held in the waters of the Arabian Sea in 2018. Ships of the Iranian Navy, Russian Navy and PLA Navy participate in the exercise on a permanent basis. This year it involves about 15 ships, support vessels and combat boats, as well as naval aviation helicopters. The objectives of the exercise are: ensuring maritime security, countering maritime threats, and preventing the spread of terrorism.
💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇪🇺 Can the United States turn off Europe’s weapons?The answer: Absolutely YES!
European militaries rely on American technology for maintenance, software updates and spare parts.
If Washington cuts its support, key systems such as fighter jets, missile defenses and drones could become inoperable.
Richard Aboulafia warns of possible American “kill switches” in European weapons:
“If you postulate the existence of something that can be done with a small piece of software code, it exists.”
55% of Europe’s defence imports (2019-2023) come from the United States – a sharp increase from 35% in the previous five years (SIPRI).
Countries like Denmark, Norway, the United Kingdom and Switzerland rely on US-made F-35s for their air defense. The F-35 requires constant software updates via ALIS, which will soon be replaced by Odin.
Sash Tusa warns:
“If the US stops the updates, the equipment stops working – if not instantly, then very, very quickly.”
FT
⭕ 🇷🇴🗳⚡️ Tensions in Romania after Georgescu’s presidential candidacy was rejected by the Romanian Central Electoral Bureau.
⭕ 🇷🇴🗳⚡️Protesters try to enter the Central Electoral Office.Reserves of police and gendarmes are mobilized.
Some commentators on TikTok call for a “revolution” after the decision to block Călin Georgescu’s candidacy.
💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ The closest supporters of the current Syrian authorities and Ahmad a-Sharaa acknowledged the unjust killing of civilians in western Syria.
⭕ Regardless of the uprising by groups that oppose the current authorities but are not necessarily pro-Assad, the sectarian massacre in western Syria targeting the Alawite community cannot be overlooked. It highlights the fundamental impossibility of the West engaging with the new Syrian authorities, and any attempt to whitewash their actions is not only misguided but morally indefensible.
⭕ Many, though not exclusively, elements “Muhajereen” from Uzbekistan, Chechnya, Tunisia, and Turkistan are members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, as well as the Syrian Defense Ministry, and were among those who participated in the massacre in the coastal region of Syria. The responsibility for these actions lies with Ahmad al-Shara’ (also known as Abu Mohammad al-Joulani) and Turkey.Many within the Syrian military and segments of the general security forces under the current authorities participated in the massacre. Still, others were outraged by the killings perpetrated against civilians in Jableh, Tartous, Baniyas, and Latakia.
🔻 Jonah: Elijah why you beating around the bush? The majority of the governmental forces are delighted at what’s happening, the quick and somewhat unpublicised eradication of Syrian Alawites is a great thing for them. Clears the coast for them to replace the locals with their supporters
🔻 EM: No one can eradicate minorities.
⭕🔻 Charles Lister:
NEW – ongoing pro-#Assad attack on the Syrian Petroleum Company in #Latakia.Gunfire on the #Iraq border too, amid fear of a Shia militia attempt to cross the border. Tensions also very high on the #Tartus/#Homs border with #Lebanon.
🔻 EM: Disinformation and sensationalism must be rejected. There are no forces from Iraq or Lebanon involved, nor are any expected to participate. Attempting to divert attention from the real massacre is not only misleading but also morally disgusting.
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🔻 Sprinter Observer: Israeli official makes most dangerous public statementChairman of the Israeli Knesset National Security Committee Boaz Bismuth:
- We wake up the King of Jordan in the middle of the night to make him carry out our orders.
- Syria must be completely subordinate to us, as must Jordan, without any military capabilities.
- We will not allow a military force to emerge in Syria after Assad’s fall.
- Damascus must be under full Israeli control, and we will ensure that it comes under our control.
- Syria is our bridge to the Euphrates, and in the future we will reach Iraq and Kurdistan. |media|
☝️ pre-Requiem for EuroNazis in [Suicide] Heat
💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Philip Pilkington: US cut off Ukrainian access to American commercial satellites. The country is fighting completely blind. If they don’t lay down arms soon the front will collapse. 🇺🇸🇺🇦
🔻 ScipioIndicanus: This is apparently not true
[links the older WS tweet:
“ISR has NOT been “cut off” to Ukraine. NATO ISR platforms have, in fact, increased their sorties in recent days and weeks.Nor have weapons shipments from Poland decreased by any appreciable degree.
Ignore what they say; watch what they do.”]
🔻 WS: Maxar satellite imagery, for example, is readily available via the European NATO countries that are openly supporting Ukraine. French, British, and Scandinavian ISR aircraft are gathering intel. The whole “US has cut off Ukraine intel feeds” is a dodge.
🔻 ScipioIndicanus: This implies that the European armies can operate without American ISR if the British and French support them?
🔻 WS: Why would they even be deprived American ISR? That’s my whole point. The US can say, “We aren’t giving Ukraine any intel anymore.” But European NATO countries have capabilities and access, and they’re not cutting it off. So it’s all meaningless posturing.
🔻 Philip Pilkington: UK was told directly not to share US intel
🔻 WS: All I know is that NATO airborne ISR around Ukraine has increased, and European access to commercial satellite imagery remains unchanged.
🔻 PossumActual: At the very minimum there will be a coordination problem. At the maximum the Euros will not be able to fill the gap.
🔻 WS: Sure, the bottom line is that Ukraine still lacks soldiers, equipment, and ammunition. And intel or no intel, the AFU will continue to be slaughtered.My only point is that there is no reason to believe ISR assets and info have been meaningfully diminished.
[this entire rigmarole appears contrived to (1) provide alibi for coming total defeat (“US cut the ISR!”) and (2) to provide the illusion that Europe fights on by its self. Not gonna wash. (1) The whole world saw it coming BEFORE this last ditch measure, and (2) not gonna remove targeting solutions custom-designed for CONUS, held complicit with whatever deranged suicide is in motion by EuroNazi scum]
🔻 PossumActual: Maybe, maybe not. For instance, can the Euros run the same number of Global Hawk flights, with the same equipment, that the US did? Probably not.Can they sub in some of that intel? Probably. Do they have assets ready to go right now? Probably not.
🔻 Philip Pilkington: European ISR is ridiculously bad. US has told the UK to not share US intel – so very likely all of NATO have been told the same. Ukraine are welcome to crappy eurosystems. Good luck to them.
🔻 PossumActual: And, NATO countries are used to coordination with the US. So even if they have useful assets and even if they are in the theater, it will take weeks to figure out how to get stuff stovepiped to the Ukes. If thwy aren’t in theater, add weeks to months. If they don’t have assets?😬
🔻 ScipioIndicanus: The point @imetatronink is making is that this is all smoke and mirrors. Intel is being provided regardless. Trump is pretending for some strange reason that it has been cut off.
🔻 Philip Pilkington: Is there a RU news source that confirms this?
🔻 ScipioIndicanus: I don’t know a RU source but @imetatronink has been one of the best accounts to follow for coverage of the Ukraine War. Top drawer stuff and always rock solid reliability of information. I take his word on the ISR.
🔻 WS: It’s all open source stuff. Several people who follow flight tracking have posted the info in recent days. And all you have to do to get Maxar imagery is pay the fee.Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic has put out some good pieces on this topic. |Brian da Brain| |Brain Two|
⭕ Stone, Scissors, Paper
– Europe after Ukraine –I just barely got around to reading this excellent essay from the always insightful Aurelien.
Very worthwhile. |link|
⭕🔻 Brandon: 🚨DEVELOPING STORY: Over a month ago, two @USMC Harrier jets conducted live fire drills 25 miles away from the US-Mexico border in Southern California. This was likely **NOT** just another training mission. It was a clear message to the Mexican Drug Cartels. @TheNatlInterest |Orange Posture|
🔻 Brandon: The Harrier’s service in counterterrorism mission roles, such as the kind that dominated the Afghanistan War and Iraq War, make it uniquely qualified to operate in what many observers believe will be President Trump’s war on Mexico’s vicious drug cartels.
🔻 Brandon: These birds can deliver a wide array of weapons. What’s more, they are highly precise because of their loitering capability. These capabilities were tested during the recent NAF El Centro bombing run in the deserts of Southern California. |aerial suicide practice|
🔻 Brandon: Here’s the famous scene in True Lies my @TheNatlInterest article references: |Ahhnold|
🔻 Brandon: The Cartels are entering a world of pain. |media|
[EnterIranMexico. Enter Brandon. Enter Foot in Mouth]
🔻 WS: Maybe.But I also wonder how many MANPADs, ATGMs, heavy machine guns, mortars etc. delivered to Ukraine somehow ended up in Mexico (among other places).
#TheDemocratizationOfFirepower
🔻 Elydia35: no one in the US (major media, social media) seems to talk about Mexico’s consistent demand for the US to stop the influx of weapons from the US into Mexico, that end up in the hands of the cartels
⭕🔻 Jimieus:
If you want to know what happened at Toretsk, use the sentinel satellite imagery. The story starts with the image from Feb 21. That video is showing a rotation btw.
Toretsk is likely going to keep updating blue for a bit. At least until Red pushes back in.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: I love when I get replies like this that show so much of how brOSINT works – here, overinterpretation to fit a narrative.Here OP is claiming that disrupted snow = new Russian shelling when (1) there’s disrupted snow all over the place and (2) there’s none in the Feb 26 image.⬇️
So what are we to conclude here? That the Ukrainians steamrolled over the entire city of Toretsk on February 21st (before any rumors even emerged of an offensive) despite the Russians firing huge amounts of artillery into the city to fend them off, AND that the Russians gave up and didn’t fire anything on February 26th?
It’s far more likely that snow didn’t stick to disrupted ground from historic shell cratering, and this imagery shows nothing significant.
[all this nonsense is to justify the 1,001st UkroNATO “counteroffensive”, lol. Don’t waste time. More narrative filler during the Agony of arrived Defeats]
🔻 WS: I know this much: snow always melts faster on a plowed field than on an unplowed field, or on freshly heaped prairie dog dirt compared to the packed dirt nearby. I’m sure there’s some scientific explanation for this phenomenon I have long observed.
🔻 Noirspectre: Its more air/gaps in the disturbed soil that causes a lack of moisture content/retention.
🔻 Alexander G. Rubio: Indeed. As soon as you have some irregular ground exposed to the sun it absorbs a surprising amount of heat.
🔻 Dog Belly’s Wine: Surface area
🔻 JonDough: White powder obscures a lot in this conflict. Western media and NAFO delusionalists try to be a better snow job than mother nature. A mountain of snow though does not change reality. Ukraine’s counterattacks are the convulsions of desperation & come at the cost of senseless loss.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 J. C. Okechukwu: Europe is preparing for war with Russia. I’m afraid even Trump may not be able to stop them because the stakes are way too high.AFRICA is the reason for this war. Russia has cracked the code of freedom from neocolonialism on the continent and this has rattled colonial (Western Europe) to the core. That’s why they raised Zelensky and chose Ukraine to tackle, weaken and or eliminate the threat called Russia.
Like Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, many more African nations are reportedly making plans to dump their colonial masters and embrace true independence, with the help of Russia, between now and the next 12-18 months.
The colonials, led by France who has been the worst hit in the continent of Africa, are solidly and irreversibly on war path. This is why the so called talk of peace from Trump irritates them. This is why Zelensky intentionally acted the way he did in the White House. This is why for the first time since ww2, Europeans are ready to put out a whooping $1 Trillion dollars in defense budget for Europe – that’s about the same defense budget as the U.S. – just to fight Russia. That’s why they’re calling America’s bluff and openly countering Trump’s narrative of peace in Ukraine at every turn.
I thought we were in the clear on this ww3 thing. I was wrong. These children of the guns want it. And they want it desperately.
What a shame!
[well said by Ahhfrican brother. Except for conclusion. It will end in far greater fireworks that mere “shame”. Carved into the dancing orbits of the celestials..]
🔻 Pleas Lucian: Fortunately, Europe going to war with Russia is a joke punchline. They may talk a good game, but it’s little more than delusional political posturing.The 🇺🇦 army was the strongest army in Europe supported by all NATO and 🇷🇺 disassembled it.
[links WS’s older:
🔻 WS: “It really IS that simple.And all of western Europe combined simply lacks the military wherewithal to fight Russia, nor could they materialize it until 2040, at the earliest.
These are simple economic and organizational / logistical realities.
Nor do they have WILL to do so.”]
⭕🔻 JD Vance:
Today while walking my 3 year old daughter a group of “Slava Ukraini” protesters followed us around and shouted as my daughter grew increasingly anxious and scared.I decided to speak with the protesters in the hopes that I could trade a few minutes of conversation for them leaving my toddler alone. (Nearly all of them agreed.)
It was a mostly respectful conversation, but if you’re chasing a 3-year-old as part of a political protest, you’re a shit person.
🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: We need to rid our country of all Ukraine supporters. These are sick and deranged people who must be extirpated wholesale, like cutting out a tumor! We the People would support America First storm squads on the streets to keep the public safe from these lunatics!
🔻 WS: I hear HTS is opening a Storm Squad Training Center in Damascus: The Ahmed al-Sharaa College of Extirpation.Scholarships available for promising candidates.
⭕ 📜 All for One and One for All
⭕🔻 Tucker Carlson:
Fox News is wall to wall with dead-eyed politicians telling you that Iran is a dangerous “sponsor of terror.” Softening up the base for a war. But what exactly does that phrase mean, and how does it apply to the United States? Here’s one measure: over the past twenty years, how many Americans have been killed by Iran on American soil? Try to find that number, and then compare it to the number of Americans killed by drug ODs. Or suicide. Or illegal aliens. Or carjackings, diabetes and the Covid vax. Still think Iran is the greatest threat? How about we focus on our own country for a minute.
🔻 David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense: Please describe what a “war with Iran” would look like, realistically. Would we invade? Would we drop bombs? What? And please explain how it all goes down from there.
[“Republic”???]
🔻 WS: If war is made by the US against Iran, it has long been argued, by many within the Pentagon and in the public sphere, that the US Navy could not operate in the Persian Gulf, and that all the major US sheikdom airbases would be exceedingly vulnerable to Iranian missile attack.
🔻 Karol_está_Castigada: “The tyranny of geography” 😉
🔻 WS: In the context of a war against Iran, geography (and logistics) would be insuperable barriers to victory for the US military.And the same principle applies to US wars against Russia and China.
The US simply lacks the capability to project decisive power into those regions.
🔻 B: It’s been fascinating watching you kill yourselves trying for the zionists. You committed suicide for sheckles.
🔻 Floop: Iran would use Cyberwarfare.
🔻 WS: In a no-holds-barred war against the US, Iran would sink US ships, shoot down US aircraft, and potently strike US bases.And they would also receive significant help from their friends.
📜 All for One and One for All
🔻 NpapaG28: Israel just bombed Iran and they didn’t do shit so stop being dramatic, it would be over in a week
🔻 WS: You have been deceived by propaganda. But don’t feel too bad. The inhabitants of the so-called “western democracies” are the most misinformed and thoroughly propagandized people in human history.Most have been persuaded to believe in #TheImaginaryWar, both in Ukraine and Iran.
🔻 Fred Chester: Recent events prove that these 3 are standing on their own when facing separate aggressions. A Sino-Russo-Iranian alliance appears to be a work in progress for a potential scenario where they face simultaneous attacks. Their alliance now is a “do-no-harm” partnership.
🔻 WS: I adamantly disagree with your assessment of the situation.
🔻 Ezra A. Cohen: I haven’t seen anyone calling for America to go to war with Iran, let alone put American boots on the ground.Where is the freak out coming from?
Seems like manufactured outrage to distract from President Trump’s restoration of American strength and deterrence.
🔻 WS: “War against Iran? Preposterous! No one who is anyone in the halls of empire is contemplating such a thing. They’re all attending a lecture by Elbridge Colby, who is explaining the necessity of taking on China instead. We just need to halt Iranian oil exports to China first.” 😏
[exactly. Zionazis are cunning. They’re selling the suicide of the Last Satanic Empire in terms of severing Chinese oil lifeline, as with Japan in 1941, not understanding it is precisely THEY who are the hollowed-out Japanese Empire on its last legs]
🔻 Decelerationist1: I noticed he carefully frames only “boots on the ground” as war. So they’re thinking an air campaign (of course there will be boots on the ground but like in Syria they won’t admit that) is “limited” enough to not provoke immediate public outrage
🔻 Prajnanam: I sincerely hope USA doesn’t traverse that route; no matter how much compelled, it feels to take such an action.Proxy war with Russia started the chain reaction which will ultimately lead to demise of empire, yet there is a chance of extrication.
Attacking China will end it.
[it is already “ended” – a walking zombie of the Apocalypse, too braindead to compute it was already killed. However the process of burial can be expedited, juiced if you will, through certain mistakes. And all prospects for resurrection incinerated in perpetuity…]
⭕ repost of older:
🪦 To me, this Ukrainian Kursk “operation” is just a desperate throes-of-death kamikaze move.“Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.”
🔻 Kestrel: There is some method to the madness, if they can keep any actually Russian land at the times of negotiations, they cant keep it Russia wouldn’t allow it and in order to give it back they will demand a lot of conquered Ukrainian land.
🔻 WS: They will keep nothing. They have neither the intention nor the logistical wherewithal to “keep” anything.They will die there.
⭕🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山:
This report tells us when debt for developing countries denominated in USD is a problem. They need to earn USD by exports to service debt. The US government doesn’t have to “earn” USD to service USD-denominated debt. |link|
🔻 S.L. Kanthan: So, let’s say that the US issues $20 trillion of new debt (treasuries) this year.What will happen?
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: It does this after it is appropriated the funds. That is the $20B has already come into existence. The treasuries issued can be purchased by those with USD issued previously. The USD comes into existence before the Bonds.
🔻 S.L. Kanthan: What will happen if the US Treasury Department issues $20 TRILLION of bonds tomorrow?Walk me through the real-life scenario.
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: It only does this *after* appropriations. So $20T are created and credited to the Treasury’s Fed account. It then spends this out. It then issues Treasuries, which exchanges a non-interest bearing liability (dollars) for an interest bearing liability (a bond). …The Treasury account is now credited with $ received. The $ are taken out of circulation. The “debt” serves to enable a price to be determined for a risk free asset (backed by Congress that can’t run out of money) and in effect control the net change in money supply.
The receipts from the bond sales reduces what would otherwise be an “overdraft” at the Fed.
The change in total money in circulation can’t be controlled effectively because commercial bank lending also creates new money into circulation. Private debt is > than government debt in the U.S.
🔻 S.L. Kanthan: What else would happen?What would happen to bond rates and bond market?
What would happen to US dollar’s value?
What would be the reaction from foreign central banks?
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: Given that the estimated value of the USD bond market is ~$46T, a $20T injection of new product into this market isn’t trivial. So the constraints aren’t related to problems of servicing (the Congress can’t run out of dollars), it’s related to other implications. …
🔻 WS: Sooner or later, they will feel compelled to “print it all”. There is no other practicable “solution”. Von Mises’ prophecy will be fulfilled: |Mises|
🔻 yahoo from the river to the sea: Mises ‘economics’: 😅 Austrian School monetarism has no utility outside of scaring the public into acting for their own impoverishment.
🔻 WS: I said nothing of “Austrian School” monetarism. I simply asserted that this particular prophecy of Ludwig von Mises will be fulfilled. Dismiss its implications at your own peril.
🔻 yahoo from the river to the sea: Mises ‘economics’: It’s only a solution seeking an Austrian problem.What makes you think there is a problem?
[oh there’s a problem Houston. Look up “odious debt” and “trust” and implications among ALL external actors worldwide]
⭕ 🎸 MonopolyThis is just the first one to come to mind.
I contain multitudes.
🔻 WS: 🎸 Stolen CarAll my favorite heartbreak songs are sung by women with pain in their voices.
It looks like US ISR and support is withdrawn for good in 404! What speed the entire is being dismantled – including US federal bureaucracies. It really looks like the SMO may wind down before May 9th Victory Day??! A sumptuous offering by the Moshiach to the Russian Mir. Will the latter bite the forbidden apple?
💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦The entire Ukrainian front will collapse if I turn off my Starlink systems – Elon MuskMusk also said that the key to resolving the conflict in Ukraine could be the introduction of sanctions against Ukrainian oligarchs
” Impose sanctions on the 10 largest Ukrainian oligarchs, especially those who have mansions in Monaco, and this will stop immediately ,” he wrote on the social network X.
[it is already slow-collapsing. The Moshiach’s minions massage it as a benevolent gesture, to minimize the complete victory of Russians, who would still roll their proxies up, with or without ISR. Optical liars to the dregs]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️The Russian army took control of Constantinople in the DPR and the village of Novenkoye in the Sumy region, the Defense Ministry reported.Earlier, units of the North group of forces, during offensive operations, regained control of the village of Lebedevka in the Kursk region.
💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Iraq, Russia, Iran or Lebanon are not joining any battle in Syria in the near future.
[links:
🔻 SyedaAimanZahra 🍁: “⚠️ 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 ⚠️🇸🇾🇮🇶| 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗾𝗶 𝗧𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗽𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗠𝗙 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝘆𝗿𝗶𝗮…
The full force of 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚, 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧, 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐪 will be brought down on HTB like a hammer.” |media|]
[a lotta contrived emotional outpouring and rage – to sow division within Axes of Resistance. It will be then be imputed Russia did not come to the aid of the Syrians, etc. Always seeking the lying angle and narrative to further evil. What vile lyin beasts]
⭕ Israel carried out 24 air attacks – Friday night – on the Lebanese territories, violating the ceasefire and the 1701 UNSCR. Due to its incapability to confront Israel, the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has filed a complaint with the United Nations Security Council in response to Israel’s disregard for the ceasefire declaration.The complaint detailed Israel’s continuous violations of the ceasefire declaration since it came into effect on November 27, 2024, including its ongoing land and air attacks, the destruction of homes and residential neighborhoods, and severe violations such as the abduction of Lebanese citizens, including Lebanese army soldiers, as well as attacks on civilians returning to their border villages, which led to the death of approximately 24 civilians and injuries to more than 124 others.
The complaint also highlighted Israel’s targeting of Lebanese army patrols and journalists, affirming Lebanon’s rejection of Israel’s removal of five designated markers on the withdrawal line (the Blue Line) and any unilateral attempts by Israel to reposition these markers.
[the abject impotence of these compradores shall be emphasized. They can scream and flop around at the gelded UNSC, but their own people will eventually scream for the reignition of the Resistance. This is how to dispel all the optical lies and psyops of the Liars: expose their useless compradores and that armed Resistance is the only viable path to survival and peace]
💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇨🇦 The ruling Liberal Party of Canada to elect a new leader on Sunday🗳Four candidates participate in the run, namely former Bank of Canada head Mark Carney, former Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, former lawmaker Frank Baylis and ex-leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Karina Gould.
Registered party members across the country have been voting since last Wednesday with the results expected to be announced on Sunday at an event in Canada’s capital Ottawa.
🔙 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his intention to step down after more than a decade in position in early January.
[Good God. The real two runners are either a bonafide banderista nazilover and another Bankster tellerboy (who actually ran the Bank of England for a while!)]
⭕ 🇨🇳🇷🇺🇮🇷 China, Russia, Iran to conduct joint navy drills in March near IranThe Chinese Defense Ministry noted that the maneuvers would take place in the waters near the Iranian port of Chabahar in the first half of the month.
[Good. What timing. This is smack off Hormuz too]
⭕ 🇺🇸🥼 US Health Department reportedly offers all employees to resign for lump sum of $25,000The offer of voluntary resignation expires on Friday, March 14, CBS reported, citing a source familiar with the situation.
According to the broadcaster, the US Department of Health employs more than 80,000 people.
Earlier, a similar offer of $25,000 in compensation in the event of voluntary dismissal was made to employees of the US Social Security Administration.
In late January, NBC reported that the Trump administration was offering 8-month severance pay to government employees who agreed to resign voluntarily, with up to 10% of federal officials expected to accept the offer, and this initiative would save the government billions of dollars.
A senior administration official told the channel that 5-10% of federal employees were expected to be fired.
⭕ ❗️The Russian army liberated the village of Lebedevka in the Kursk region and the farm Novenkoye in the Sumy region of Ukraine
[note parts of Sumy are now being declared liberated! Kharkov oblast as well. What days]
⭕ ❗️ Russian troops have liberated the settlement of Konstantinopol in the DPR, the Defense Ministry reported
⭕ 🇫🇷 Hundreds protest in Paris against France’s intervention in the Ukrainian conflict“Macron, we won’t die for Ukraine!” and “Macron wants war—Macron, get out!” were the slogans of the demonstrators who rallied at the Place du Palais-Royal on Saturday.
The demonstration was organized by the Patriots party led by Florian Philippot. |media|
[they would ignore and roll over these, even if half the electorate.. but the bitter limiting factors remain the means, whether conventional or unconventional, which sees mighty Russia holding the entire European peninsula at her mercy]💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ 🔴 Breaking News 🔴The Political Council of Yemen, Sana’a, congratulates the announcement by the Leader of the Revolution, granting a four-day deadline for the enemy to deliver aid to Gaza.
The Political Council states:
- We affirm the full readiness of the armed forces and all relevant agencies to implement the directives of the Leader of the Revolution if the deadline expires.
- The naval operations against the Zionist enemy aim to impose a blockade on it and prevent it from committing genocide against the Palestinian people.
- Our operations come amid the weakness of Arab positions, which have not risen to the level of responsibility regarding the central issue of the nation.
- The American, British, and Western countries are conspiring shamelessly with the occupying entity that has seized the land of Palestine.
- We commend the responsible popular stance regarding the position announced by the Leader of the Revolution, Mr. Abdul Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi.
- The Zionist enemy and all those who conspired with it bear full responsibility for the resumption of Yemeni naval operations and their consequences.
⭕ The Yemeni Armed Forces say: “The promise is near…
⚡️ @BABalMANDAB💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕❗️BREAKING: IRGC-affiliated media claim that intelligence was just received, indicating a large scale Israeli campaign in Syria in the coming days
[it is inevitable, as with the Turks, to save the Moshiach’s crumbling position in Syria]
⭕ Iraqi Foreign Minister: ‘We have observed that certain events have unfolded in our neighbouring country, Syria’
⭕ Bro just woke up
⭕ Gunfire by Syrian Government Forces in Al-Bukamal, Syrian-Iraqi border – cause unknown
⭕ The Trump Administration has ordered the Iraqi government to halt all gas imports and electricity purchases from IranCurrently, Iraq has no alternatives to fully meet its energy needs.
⭕ German police in Berlin violently attack female pro-Palestine protesters on International Women’s Day. |media|💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇮🇷🇨🇦 Canada imposes sanctions on Iran🔻 The country’s Foreign Minister, Mélanie Joly, announced Saturday morning the imposition of sanctions against Iranian individuals and institutions under the pretext of “gross violations of human rights” and “destructive activities in the Middle East and around the world.”
The sanctions target three individuals and four entities that Canada says are linked to sophisticated technology supply chains.
🔻 Networks that support the production and sale of weapons by the IRGC, including to Russia in the war in Ukraine.
🔻 Canada has so far sanctioned 208 Iranian individuals and 254 entities.
[imagine what waits for the demented collective when the world counter-sanctions them for “gross violations of human rights” and “destructive activities in the Middle East and around the world” !! They themselves set the precedent]💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ A channel with close ties to the [Iranian] IRGC & [Iraqi] PMU:We’ve received intel, a short while ago, suggesting that Israel will carry out a major air and ground attack in the coming days that may reach vast areas of Syrian territory.
[this will have a healthy effect, helping dispel the western-salafi mindwashing effluvia. It is gonna wake up millions of sunnis, seeing themselves abject zionazi slaves, and their godless compradore elites continuing to be lickspittles!]💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel’s war drains its economy, but the West props it up. Billionaires will bankroll its survival. |media|
⭕ Syria’s New Reality: Rising Insurgencies and Iran-Turkey Power Struggles |link|
🔻 C1: Thank you very much for the diagnosis, Elijah. Do you think insurgency against HTS will go on or has it been defeated?
🔻 EM: It is expected to remain on and off.
💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸 41% of Danes would now consider the US a threat to Denmark.92% would think Denmark should prioritize Europe over the US when it comes to security.
Source: Verian poll for Berlingske
⭕ 🇺🇸🇹🇷 A bipartisan group in the House of Representatives has proposed a bill to reclassify Turkey as a Middle Eastern country rather than a European country within the State Department.They say the move reflects their concerns about Turkey’s drift away from the West and closer to America’s adversaries.
The move will have implications, as Turkey could leave the perimeter of EUCOM (U.S. European Command), which oversees military operations in Europe, to join CENTCOM (U.S. Central Command), which oversees the Middle East. This could disrupt Turkey’s coordination with its European allies.
⭕ 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇭🇺 Hungarian Prime Minister Orban:The European rearmament plan will lead Germany to create the largest army on the continent since World War II.
⭕ 🇵🇱 Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced in a speech to parliament that large-scale military training for all adult males is being prepared in response to the deteriorating security situation in Europe.Mr Tusk outlined plans to increase the Polish army from 200,000 to 500,000 soldiers in order to strengthen national defence.
He also indicated that he could support the development of nuclear weapons, saying Poland should equip itself with the most advanced capabilities, including nuclear weapons and modern unconventional weapons.
⭕ 🇺🇸 Only 16% of Germans trust the United States.Source: Infratest dimap
[the most shocking is the 80% who trust Perfide!!! That’s losing the plot altogether]
⭕ Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly:President Trump represents an existential threat to Canada and Europe is next to suffer the consequences.
[it’s a merry show in every pruned quadrant of the Garden]💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇸🇾This is what Khmeimim looks like now, where many peaceful Syrians who fled the terror of the new authorities were able to find refuge.People are laying out makeshift sun loungers right on the platform in front of the airport’s passenger terminal, and the crowd is guarded by Russian soldiers in armored vehicles. In essence, the airbase is turning into a large refugee camp.
From some angles there’s no room to swing a cat. |media|
💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ —❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇸 Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei:‘The United States insists on negotiating with us. However, these negotiations are not really aimed at solving issues, but rather at imposing certain conditions and expectations that they know the Iranian nation deems unacceptable.
For example, in addition to our Nuclear Program, they (Trump Admin) want to negotiate about our missile program and other things.
I state clearly: Iran will absolutely not accept their demands, and we will not surrender to the American threats or pressure.’
⭕ Iran has rejected Egypt’s proposal for Gaza’s postwar reconstruction, saying it prefers a ‘One State Solution’ instead, with one Palestinian state & no Israel
[source? Unusual statement.. this is the logical outcome, but not so phrased atm]
⭕ The Syrian Government has declared full military mobilization, and the suspension of all educational activities in Tartous and Latakia Governorates until Tuesday💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇮🇷| Leader of Iran, Imam Khamenei, in reaction to Trump’s remarks on negotiation with the US:“Thankfully, our Ministry of Foreign Affairs is active — one of the most active ministries (in Iran). The issue of relations with neighboring countries, as mentioned, is very important. The same goes for non-neighboring countries as well. But there are 1 or 2 key points.
Some bullying governments — and honestly, I can’t think of a more accurate term for some foreign leaders and heads of state than “bully” — insist on negotiations. But their negotiations aren’t about solving issues; they’re about domination. They use negotiations as a tool to impose their demands on the party sitting across the table. If the other side accepts, great. If not, they create a commotion, accusing the other side of walking away from the table, claiming they abandoned negotiations.
For them, negotiations are just a path to presenting new demands — and it’s not just about the nuclear issue.
They keep raising new expectations that Iran will definitely not fulfill:
• Restrictions on our country’s defense capabilities
• Limitations on international influence
• Telling us where we can or can’t invest money
• What we can or can’t produce
• Or that our missile range shouldn’t exceed a certain limit.If someone is willing to accept these demands, let them. But negotiations, in this sense, are for imposing control — far from fair diplomacy. Yet, they loudly repeat slogans and big words to influence public opinion, trying to pressure us with the claim that “the other side is ready to negotiate, so why aren’t you?”
But this isn’t about honest negotiations — it’s about coercion and imposition. Of course, there are other aspects to this issue that we won’t dive into here. I won’t get into the details. Perhaps we’ll discuss it more thoroughly at another time. But in short, this is the essence of the matter.
⭕ 🇮🇷| Imam Khamenei on western hypocrisy:“The double standards in the West are truly disgraceful and expose the hypocrisy of Western civilization.
They claim to support the free flow of information — but is that really the case? Is there truly freedom of information in the West? Can you mention names like Qassem Soleimani, Hassan Nasrallah, or martyr Haniyeh on Western-owned social media platforms [without facing shadow bans]?
Can you protest against the crimes being committed in Palestine and Lebanon? Can you question or deny the claims made about events involving Jews in Nazi Germany?
Is this what they call the free flow of information?
This so-called civilization has now revealed its true nature for all to see.”
💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇸🇾 The Patriarchs of the Syriac Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, and Greek Melkite Catholic Churches in Damascus have issued a joint statement, strongly condemning the recent massacres along the Syrian coast.
⭕ 🇷🇸🇺🇳🇺🇳A group for cooperation with BRICS has been established in the Serbian parliament; it is undergoing the registration procedure
⭕ 🇺🇦 Ukraine is preparing a third strike on the Crimean Bridge, according to Oleksiy Neizhpapa, the Commander of the Ukrainian Navy.The statement was cited by The Guardian.
The Vice Admiral expressed confidence that Kiev would be able to destroy the Kerch Bridge.
“The Russians are aware that we are actively discussing the third operation. There’s a saying: ‘Third time’s the charm,’” Neizhpapa said in an interview.
[might be beyond London’s capabilities at this point… what sewer rats]
⭕ At least 10 explosions in Zaporozhye, a very strong fire at the landing site .
Head of Zaporizhzhye OVA confirmed arrival on gas infrastructure.
[Mercouris said Russia’s been targetting the actual gas pipes and pumping stations needed to transit to Europe. Guess the point’s being made about future relations, and economic prospects of Euros..]We’re back to discussing dementia in a POTUS. What days
💠@imetatronink:
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Alex Christoforou: Given the fact that US officials are now openly admitting that they are in a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, it would be best for the Trump White House to simply admit that its proxy has lost and wind this thing down. Sanctions only strengthen Russia and weaken the Collective West.Trump’s art of the deal, back and forth with Ukraine is only setting up his administration for a military defeat. A defeat that could have been attributed to Biden and Co., but now runs the risk of being attributed to Trump…and this Truth post, on the heels of a closing Kursk cauldron, is a weak and panic look.
⭕ 🤦♂️ Tough-talking TrumpTrump sh*t-posting the Russians again this morning. The Russians couldn’t care less. They will not stop short of achieving their long-stated objectives.
And with each passing day, Trump owns this war — and defeat — a little more.
[links older:
“‼️ Trump Owns the Ukraine WarBy claiming to be the first POTUS to send serious US weaponry to Ukraine, and boasting that “lots” of Russian tanks were thereby destroyed, and then saying arms shipments will continue until Putin “makes a deal”, Trump has now assumed ownership of the Ukraine War.”]
🔻 C1: Trump needs to put on the big boy pants and cut Ukraine loose.
If he does not, he will own the debacle that is rapidly approaching.
[kinda hard when the vestige of hegemony itself is chained to eating the crow of this unmitigated catastrophe, the (Unreality) Galaxy-ending defeat]
🔻 Neil Rollinson: Shit posting everyone by the end of the day. USA vrs rest of the world.
🔻 C3: He will soon be more involved than Biden.
🔻 WS: ISR has NOT been “cut off” to Ukraine. NATO ISR platforms have, in fact, increased their sorties in recent days and weeks.Nor have weapons shipments from Poland decreased by any appreciable degree.
Ignore what they say; watch what they do.
🔻 WS: There have been no further ATACMS and Storm Shadow strikes into Russia for the simple reasons that:1) They were entirely ineffective — 95%+ were shot down or defeated via ECM.
2) They lack the missiles, launchers, and aircraft necessary to conduct these strikes.
⭕🤦♂️ More Tough-talking TrumpTrump also sh*t-posted Iran this morning. With each passing day, Trump’s delusions of American omnipotence grow.
Here is Iran’s response to Trump’s sabre-rattling:
🔻 Iran Observer: ⚡️BREAKINGIran says no negotiations with USA
“Iran will not enter into direct negotiations with the United States, as long as the US continues its policy of maximum pressure and threats” – Foreign Minister
[and that appears precisely why the Orange pressurizes and threatens – knowing it forecloses negotiations and peace…]
🔻 MisbehavingEconomist: Is what’s happening in Latakia to distract Russia while something is cooked up for Iran?
🔻 WS: Do you believe Russia has only one set of eyes, and one mind to interpret what is seen?There is no way for the US/Israel to conceal preparations for an attack on Iran. If that is their plan, it will not come as a surprise to Iran and their Russian and Chinese partners.
🔻 MisbehavingEconomist: Yes, and yet the same miltards who think Russia is losing the ‘attritional’ war in Ukraine will likely think a distraction will work..
[links:
🔻 The Atlantic: “Ukraine is not on the verge of collapse, and it is Russia, not Ukraine, that is losing the attritional war,” write @PhillipsPOBrien and @EliotACohen. That “makes the Trump administration’s decisions particularly shortsighted and tragic”” |link|]
🔻 WS: I think it’s great these two long-established clowns have published this nonsense in a prominent imperial organ so that they may attract the derision of historians for generations yet to come.
🔻 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗰: Jeez you’ll be taking shots at Anne Applebaum next!
🔻 alfred venison: I blame it on post modern sophistry,
new wave French philosophy filtered through American liberal arts academia & thence released into govt/ thinktank/ media intellectual ecosystem. A “quacks+walks like a duck whilst not a duck” type of b/s applauded as philosophical profundity.
🔻 Gender Studies for Men: You are stupid if you think Iran holds any cards.All President Trump has to do is snap his fingers and Iran’s strategic infra structure will disappear.
Israel is only waiting for that snap of the fingers.
🔻 WS: I honestly pity people like you who are so woefully misinformed about what is really going on in the world.Americans in general are the most thoroughly propagandized people in human history. So many bitter surprises await them …
[links his older: “🤦♂️ The mythology crafted in the immediate aftermath of the fictitious October 2024 “devastating strike” against Iranian air defenses continues to form the basis of the false confidence that Iran is a vulnerable sitting duck.#TheImaginaryWar”]
🔻 Ikkyu Sojun: I think Trump was banking on the world staying like it was from 2016 to 2020.He’s thrown off by how much it’s changed, and he’s starting to worry.
His tough talk, which used to carry weight, is now ignored almost everywhere.
The only exception is the EU. They’re basically doing what he wants, even though they act like they’re pushing back.
🔻 Чассен Комарова: Trump just basically stated that bombing Iran would solve the problem with Iran’s nuclear program.
🔻 Herodotus: Delusions of omnipotence … it was inevitable he would revert to type.
🔻 spider: Theres a video of this guy I watched today of him saying that he wants to negotiate but ayatollah wont let him talk to yankee
[lol]
🔻 Khadim🌹: Trump is going crazy!
[they all are at the predicament]
⭕🔻 Zlatti71:
🇺🇸 Only 62% of U.S. Air Force aircraft are ready to perform combat missions, reports the American weekly Defense News.This level of readiness is described as “the lowest in recent memory,” the publication notes.
– ukraine_watch
🔻 WS: 62% is what they call “mission capable” — essentially meaning the aircraft can take off, circle the base, and land again. It’s not a measure of “combat capability”.The category “FULL MISSION CAPABLE” is the one that matters, and it is MUCH lower than 62%.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Brian Berletic: 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷🇨🇳 Trump Administration Threatens War with Iran, Sanctions on Russia, Backs Anti-China Terrorists- Trump claims to seek (another) nuclear deal with Iran after unilaterally leaving the previous deal based on lies and also killing Iranian General Qasem Soleimani;
- Trump is also threatening Russia with banking sanctions if Russia doesn’t commit to a ceasefire in a proxy war Trump himself helped prepare for and provoke;
- This is after Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio demanded Uyghur terror suspects not be returned from Thailand to China, warning of terrorist attacks if they did and as Trump worked with Blackrock to seize ports near the Panama Canal;
- Like the first Trump administration, after a brief period of theater posing as breaking the cycle and pursuing peace, continuity of agenda and service to the deep state was always the actual plan; |links|
⭕ 🔻 Shipwreckedcrew:
Off topic observation for me:Continually hear justifications from pro-Ukraine advocates — including EU reps yesterday — that Ukraine is doing the US and Europe a great service by keeping Russian military tied up and doing serious damage to its fighting ability. The least we can do is continue to provide them with funding and weapons to keep up the fight as long as they are willing to go on.
But we’ve seen examples of poor tactics, poor training, and Russian weapons systems and equipment used against Ukraine that doesn’t quite measure up to its billing.
Some of the equipment, or significant components of the equipment are manufactured for Russia in North Korea and China.
To the extent the weaknesses in these systems are being exposed, isn’t a continuation of the war a opportunity for China and North Korea to modernize and improve the weapons systems that they may decide to use elsewhere?
Isn’t Ukraine a big testing field for them – and the Russians?
🔻 William: I suggest reading the works of @imetatronink for a pretty clear look at the situation
🔻 WS: It is impossible to reason with the brainwashed disciples of #TheImaginaryWar. Let them believe what nonsense they will. It makes no difference to things as they really are.
⭕ ‼️ It is increasingly clear that Trump is not listening to what the Russians are saying. He only hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.The Russians keep saying “the ROOT CAUSES must be addressed”, but Trump either does not listen, or simply does not understand.
[he cannot afford to listen OR understand]
[links:
🔻 M. K. Bhadrakumar: “1/2 Trump to reporters: “I believe them [Russia]. I think we’re doing very well with Russia. I’m finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine, and they don’t have the cards. I find that in terms of getting a final settlement…2/2 “it may be easier dealing with Russia, which is surprising, because they have all the cards. I will say that we’ve made a lot of progress with Ukraine and a lot of progress with Russia over the last couple of days…”]
🔻 M Silvennoinen 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 🇨🇦: I did not read any of that into what you shared. It is clear, not least by news today of the arrest of the main perpetrator of the Crocus terrorist attack, that the negotiations between the US and Russia are going well
🔻 WS: Perhaps you’re right.For now at least, I have a different sense of the matter.
I think we’ll get more definitive indications within another month or two.
🔻 chickadee: Or he thinks he can bully Russia
🔻 stevepfi1: Trump only wants to hear himself.
🔻 Noirspectre: I think he does not care, mimicking his masters.Anything that is said is to misdirect and confuse so that the agenda of the last decade can move forward as planned.
The Empire can’t be something it is not, so business as usual.
🔻 karl_OS 🔻: roots causes means US defeat and Trump will not allow this
🔻 WS: “Allow” has nothing to do with it. The US is a rapidly declining power. It will continue to talk tough, but it has no big stick to swing when it comes to the adversarial civilizational powers on the planet: Russia, China, and Iran.
🔻 karl_OS 🔻: yes i agree and Russians eventually have to take whole Ukraine to finally end SMO
🔻 alfred venison: Meanwhile Russia gets closer to taking the whole enchilada.
⭕🔻 DD Geopolitics:
🇺🇸🇷🇺 Trump on Russia Using U.S.-Ukraine Disputes to Its Advantage[Do you believe Vladimir Putin is using the suspension of U.S. intelligence and weapons transfers to Ukraine to his advantage?]
“Honestly, I think he’s doing what anyone else would do. I believe he wants this to end and for the conflict to be resolved. I also think he’s hitting harder than before. Anyone in his position would likely be doing the same right now.”
🔻 WS: And what will be Trump’s reflexive response to the realization that the Russians are “hitting harder than before”? Easily predictable: Trump will seek to raise the stakes, because he remains in thrall to the delusions of American omnipotence.
🔻 hans koenig: I am still amazed that he is doing the Nixon and owning the war. I guess, he too believed the propaganda and how a slightly better offer than Joe would do. Now we are in March and the agenda is getting consumed by that conflict
🔻 Mobile Infantry 🚜: Boomer is gonna Boom
🔻 Ben Magrane: You’re right, Will. He’s is in “thrall to the delusions of American omnipotence.” That’s the problem of old age: mental ossification. He can’t see the reality of the world as it is NOW. China is now the premier economic powerhouse, not USA. Chinese would deny it, being smart.
⭕🔻 Maria Dubovikova:
MOLOTOV-RIBBENTROP PACT. THE TIMELINE.
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From the moment the Nazis came to power in Germany, the USSR consistently acted as the most implacable opponent of the Third Reich in the international arena. This was particularly evident during the Sudeten crisis, when the USSR expressed readiness to provide armed assistance to Czechoslovakia against Germany, not to mention the confrontation between Soviet and German-Italian “volunteers” in Spain. All joint military programs between the two countries were suspended. From a trade perspective, the cooling of relations took numerical form: trade turnover between the USSR and Germany began to decline rapidly after Hitler came to power. Germany, which for several years had held first place in the USSR’s foreign trade, began to fall below the United States, England, and even countries like Belgium and Holland from 1935. In 1938, Finland purchased twice as many German goods as the USSR. By the time negotiations between the USSR and Germany began in the summer of 1939, the share of German exports to the USSR had decreased to 2.7% and imports to 2.2% in Germany’s foreign trade balance.On December 22, 1938, the German Foreign Ministry approached the USSR trade mission in Berlin with the idea of an intergovernmental agreement providing the Soviet side with a credit of 200 million marks for purchasing German goods in exchange for raw materials supplies of the same value over two years, but these negotiations lasted until July 1939.
On March 10, 1939, Comrade Stalin delivered a speech at the 18th Party Congress, which is often pointed to as the starting impulse for the “rapprochement” between the USSR and Germany. Indeed, in Germany, attention was drawn to the fact that besides the usual accusatory rhetoric against aggressor states, there was sharp criticism of the British, French, and Americans for their policy of “appeasement” of aggressors.
In March 1939, Germany occupied the remnants of Czechoslovakia. The USSR issued a note of protest.
In April 1939, Hitler gave instructions to develop a plan for a full-scale war against Poland, and it was no longer about solving the “Polish corridor” problem, but about conquering the Polish state. As part of the war plan development, special attention was paid to countering the alliance of Great Britain and France, as there was virtually no doubt about their entry into hostilities after declaring guarantees to Poland. Regarding the USSR, presumptive neutrality was stipulated, since the relationship between Poland and the USSR did not suggest motives for the Soviet state to stand up for Poland.
On April 17, 1939, the Soviet government proposed to the governments of England and France to conclude a tripartite mutual assistance treaty. Germany became aware of the USSR’s initiative, nevertheless Hitler did not make any adjustments to the timing of preparation and plans for war against Poland. In the current situation, it was not so much the conclusion of a non-aggression pact with the USSR that was important for Germany, but the prevention of effective military cooperation between the Western powers and Moscow. However, from Hitler’s point of view, such an alliance was unlikely, primarily due to ideological differences between the countries.
In April 1939, officials of the German Foreign Ministry were instructed to seize any pretext that Soviet representatives might give to draw them into a discussion about the general state of relations between the two countries.
On April 17, 1939, the Soviet plenipotentiary in Berlin, during a meeting with E. Weizsäcker, touched upon Soviet orders to the Škoda factory, which had come under German control after their occupation of Czechoslovakia. On May 5, German Foreign Ministry adviser J. Schnurre informed the USSR’s temporary chargé d’affaires G. A. Astakhov about his government’s readiness to settle the issue of Soviet contracts with the Škoda factories. |THREAD|
🔻 WS: This is an indispensable thread, Maria. I commend you for it. It will henceforth constitute my “one-stop shopping” link for when the need arises to rebut the nonsense most people believe about this entire episode in the history of WW2.
🔻 WS: 💥 For those who seek to understand better what REALLY happened in the summer of 1939, this is an essential thread to read.* HIGHLY RECOMMENDED *
[is he intimating we were in the “Sitzkrieg” to date, and the real festivities should soon commence??]
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: I have a few questions, but I should mention that I haven’t delved into this aspect of WWII/GPW history.(1) What are your thoughts on the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Will?
(2) Could it be inferred that the German intentions behind the pact included the neutralization, or rather, the pacification, of the Soviets while they (a) conquered Poland, (b) expanded their military strength, and (c) established safe routes eastward before attempting to conquer Moscow two years later?
(3) What are your views on the “secret protocol dividing Eastern Europe into spheres of influence” as a covert addendum of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact? Did it indeed exist? What is your approximation of its likely/true intended purpose for the Germans? Considering historical records indicate that it was a rather rushed German initiative, what is your estimation of its likely/true intended purpose for the Soviets, and why didn’t they consider its potential drawbacks?
On the latter point, I can’t help but notice parallels between such a covert protocol and what the Trump administration seems to be attempting to pursue with the Russians, where Eastern Europe would ostensibly fall within the Russian economic sphere of influence, while the U.S. becomes unhindered by other superpowers in their efforts in attempting to annex Canada and Greenland.
I would like to emphasize that I’m merely seeking to gain a deeper understanding.
[well said. At BEST, if it actually materializes, which is doubtful, an agreement with Russia via Orange would be modern equivalent of Mol-Rib Pact for this Fourth (and Last) Reich. A temporary breather, to reapply focus, pressure and dwindling resources in other directions]
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: There is so much that is hidden from us.
🔻 Perestroika Powell: Hitler’s own words: |media|
🔻 WS: This is fascinating, but I am somewhat reluctant, for the moment, to accept it at face value. What is the provenance of this recording? Where and when did this conversation take place?
🔻 Perestroika Powell: |link|
🔻 WS: Thanks!I am surprised this is the first time I have had this recording brought to my attention. It is VERY interesting.
🔻 Perestroika Powell: When trust breaks down and both sides arm with the expectation of a war, you are basically at war. The Europeans & Russians are VERY close to this point
⭕🤔 Unpopular opinion that will probably cost me a few hundred followers (and I couldn’t care less):I first mentioned this to my wife last summer, and, to me, it is becoming more apparent with each passing month: Trump is suffering from steadily creeping dementia.
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🔻 Lord Bebo: 🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸 “(Putin) wants to end the war, he wants to end it.I think he’s gonna be more generous than he has to be.”
— Trump” |media|]
🔻Hound Dog: Compared to Biden he’s a genious.
🔻 WS: Yeah, but even with Biden, you didn’t really start to notice it until 7 or 8 years ago. And even during the 2020 campaign, it wasn’t nearly as bad as it became in 2021-22. Then, of course, during 2023-24, he was totally lost.
🔻 Vivies: Sorry, but Biden was obviously in demencia from the very beginning. He could barely talk and be understood. And the doddering walk was there, and the vacant look was there during his presidential campaign right through his presidency till the very end.
🔻 WS: I don’t believe I said anything that is contrary to your description of the matter.
🔻 Lisa🌸: He is old. He is delivering on his promises. The end.
🔻 WS: Which promises have been fulfilled so far?
🔻 cardano: border & illegal immigration for a start.you sound smart, but seems to suffer from bias.
🔻 WS: No. I simply ignore what gets said and instead watch what gets done. I will grant that a “start” has been made in terms of immigration, but there is no way to yet assess something that will literally take MANY YEARS to accomplish.What other promises have been “delivered”?
🔻 cardano: 2 more, beyond tackling border crossings which went down >90% due to threat of enforcement.1. DOGE layoffs 2. Broad DEI / weird woke stuff.
These things are not done and dusted, but no one was expecting DOGE to be this radical or across the board DEI banning. Great start.
🔻 my Anon twit: Gentle reminder: the Republicans control the house and the Senate, so they can change any law that they want. They can also cut any budget they want.So far it’s been little more than optics.
🔻 WS: I hope some of these purges of government bureaucracies actually “stick”, but we’re already seeing that the power of the DC blob is greater than the enforcement authority of an executive order. I am dubious that much will meaningfully change. It will all bog down over time.
🔻 Chris Close: Unmistakable hesitation/memory loss.Could be dementia.
Could be old age and normal.
Could be a long day at 78 years old.
Curious to see how it develops.
🔻 WS: “IF” it is creeping dementia, it’s certainly early stage. And, like I said, it’s just my opinion — largely based on my fairly recent recollections of how my mother’s situation developed. It started with subtle little things, but it steadily progressed, first gradually, then fast.
🔻 Chris Close: Yep. No, I get it. Have 3 grandparents that died with Dementia/Alzheimer’s and volunteered at Alzheimer’s association back home for years.Absolutely could be.
He is also 78 and been under tremendous strain for the last 9++ years.
Time will tell. Good catch Will.
🔻 Gary L: I work with dementia patients, and had seen it progress in my grandmother. I’m curious if there are any quantifiable indications you’ve noticed, or what subtleties you’ve perceived. I have not noticed, but I certainly may have missed some signs.
🔻 WS: It’s just my opinion, man. Like I said, it’s a subtle thing. I’ve watched it happen with several people over the years, most recently my own mother. With her, it started to come on gradually when she was about 77, and by the time she died at 82, it was very advanced.
🔻 Gran Maestro: Same with my Brother who passed away last year aged 79 (due to pneumonia btw)
It starts slowly, for instance by forgetting obvious things you told the day before and than slowly progresses eroding cognitive abilities.
Very sad.
🔻 Red River D: Dude, Trump consumes the perfect diet of McDonald’s, bowls of candy, ice cream and Diet Coke.I don’t know why you would ever suggest his faculties aren’t in pristine working order.
🤣🤣🤣
🔻 Aashish Kaul: In six months he will be indistinguishable from the president he unseated.
🔻 WS: I don’t believe that. It will probably advance gradually for the next couple years, and then begin to accelerate.But again, this is just my opinion. YMMV.
🔻 Aashish Kaul: He will not be able to control what he is unleashing and it will fast track it. But I agree with you. I had the same feeling when he went on a rant about Obama, Bush and Biden during the Zelinsky presser. He looked helpless.
🔻Severed Legs: People have been saying this kind of thing for 10 years. There’s no evidence of this.
🔻 WS: “It’s a subtle thing. At first. Then it steadily worsens over the course of a couple years. I watched it happen with my mother.”
🔻 Not My Son’s. No War, No Where. Peace ✌️: Are you an expert?
🔻 WS: Only in certain things that I have studied, and with which I have experience. Otherwise, I reckon I am as big a fool as the next man.
🔻 I’m Douglass Truth Art: John Helmer agrees
🔻 WS: That worries me, given that I disagree with Helmer when it comes to about 90% of what he says. 😏
🔻 John Shaplin: So does John Helmer, or rather psychosis that is deteriorating to dementia under the pressures of the Oval Office, 6:35 |media|
🔻 WS: Well … I don’t listen to Helmer. I don’t read him. I have both listened to and read him in the past. I found him to be a singularly unreliable source.In any case, I’m just expressing my opinion that Trump attests what I would characterize as incipient dementia.
🔻 MB: He’s clearly lost weight, one sign of impending or early dementia in the elderly. It happened to my grandfather starting at 82.
🔻 Даниэль Баррет 🇲🇫: Despite your comment I remain your follower …
Trump has a tremendous intuition. He’s a political animal ! But his personalty is so big that he seems almost alone.
And in front he ‘s got a true patriotic team working with à true leader : Putin.
And this s gonna be tough for him
🔻 WS: Many people I like and respect view things as you do.I can only describe things the way I see them, and let the chips fall where they may.
🔻 Charlie p #Freedom 🇬🇧: What was your view on Biden?
🔻 WS: It is well attested in my posting history.But, for the record, I am religiously apolitical.
📜 The Ashes Will Come First
(September 4, 2023)
🔻 Mariano Rivera: There is no evidence to support that in this clip. Did you take your meds? You are usually pretty good.
🔻 WS: No, one pixel does not make a picture. But bump it up to even just 360×240, and you can begin to draw informed conclusions.
🔻 Mariano Rivera: I have no idea what you are implying.
🔻 WS: It’s probably just as well.
🔻 Margaret Kimberley: Agreed but he’s there because grandpa Biden, also with dementia, wouldn’t give up the keys.
🔻 WS: Perhaps so. But such considerations are separate from my narrow point, which is simply that it is my sense that Trump is attesting incipient dementia — like Biden was back at least as early as 2018 or so, and in a fashion similar to what I witnessed with my own mother.
🔻 Margaret Kimberley: I got your point, but I couldn’t help pointing out that we’ve had 2 presidents in a row in cognitive decline. At least they haven’t said that Trump just has a stutter. Not yet anyway.
🔻 WS: This is what 21st century American politics has wrought.As Mencken famously put it: “Democracy is the pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
Then again, things could go from bad to worse in the blink of an eye. Just consider the line of succession.
🔻 Margaret Kimberley: I’m in a good mood. I’d rather not consider that. LOL
🔻 Godfree Roberts: There is a certain cadence to decline, a rhythm of arrogance and desperation, of miscalculation and delusion. The late-stage empire, unmoored from reality yet clinging to myths of its own indispensability, lashes out at perceived threats not because they are real, but because it cannot conceive of a world in which it is no longer the gravitational centre of history. In this way, Russophobia and Sinophobia function not merely as ideological constructs, but as symptoms of systemic decay, the fever dreams of a civilisation struggling to process its own obsolescence. |link|
🔻 WS: Poetry.I will read this.
⭕🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: The situation in Kursk reached a decision point over the last 24 hours. Ukrainian forces around Sudzha have two roads connecting them to home. The main supply route (1) has been under Russian fire for a while now, and they’ve been leaning on the secondary route (2).A Russian attack out of Kurilovka managed to break through to this secondary road. There are reports that Russian troops reached the Ukrainian border, which would mean the road is physically blocked and not just under fire control. The advance has been confirmed by Ukrainian mappers like DeepState.
The AFU either needs to sort itself out to immediately withdraw from Kursk or else counterattack and attempt to unblock the road. They’re withdrawing from Malaya Loknya on the northern tip of the salient, but whether this portends a general abandonment of Kursk remains to be seen.
Given the dense Russian fires on the roads out over the past few weeks, Ukrainian withdrawal would likely entail abandoning or losing lots of equipment. Very difficult to imagine them squeezing out of the bottleneck in good order.
🔻 WS: In this particular case, I doubt the Russians are going to be in much of a mood for taking prisoners.
🔻 Capra Capra Capra!: Do you know what a tonnara is?
🔻 WS: So cos’è la Tonnara di Favignana. Vissi a Trapani per tre mesi alla fine del 1979
🔻 maxdixie: Definitely not, if even half the reports of the atrocities the Ukrainians committed on the civilians is true, and it likely is.
Does anyone know the composition of the Ukraine troops? Are they heavily Azov type?
🔻 Doimo Manu: Probably all foreigners will not live very long there, but most Ukrainians might live if they surrender.
⭕🔻 Rob Lee: Photos from the Ukrainian General Staff of a Mirage-2000 fighter engaging a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile.
🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ: Interesting. Looks like they’re forced to engage them at minimal possible distance, which doesn’t exactly speak well of the Mirage’s radar capabilities
🔻 WS: Ain’t no way there is a Ukrainian pilot in that jet. Just sayin’.
🔻 Mobile Infantry 🚜: Guarantee the Russians set a trap for Frenchie
🔻 Massimò Guzman: Looks like this is one of the very few air to air kills from a mirage jet they don’t really have much of a combat history if any
⭕💥 Absolute Must-Read 💥This essay by Kari McKern @Spacerkari is one of the finest, most concise, most timely, and most elegantly poetic pieces of geopolitical analysis I have come across in a long time.
***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ***** |link|
🔻 Gary L: Her 2/27 offering, “An Empire in Denial” is also erudite and insightful, all until the very last sentence, where she takes a politically scientific turn into “the actual existential threat of climate change,” but I can tolerate one hair in the soup.
🔻 WS: Even on the best albums of my favorite bands, it’s only some songs I love; that fully speak to me.And if I disowned an artist for his or her views with which I disagree, I’d have no songs left to love.
The spirit speaks through whom and when it will. |link|
🔻 Kari McKern: Thank you so much, sir, for this and for your observations, insights and reflections which are always illuminating.
Best Wishes.
🔻 WS: I do not dispense such praise lightly, Kari. I will explore more of your oeuvre with great interest.
🔻 Levi Zendt: Great essay. Many great assessments/observations but this one stood out:“The empires of the past did not fall because they were defeated by external enemies; they fell because they mistook their own pathologies for the laws of history.”
Hubris is the cause of many self-inflicted wounds.
⭕🎞️ I Reckon So“I came here to die with you. Or live with you. Dyin’ ain’t so hard for men like you and me. It’s livin’ that’s hard.” |link|
🔻 Mark Wilcox: A great movie.
🔻 WS: The Outlaw Josey Wales, Unforgiven, and Gran Torino are my favorite Clint Eastwood movies.
[watch the underrated slapstick, one of few I like: “Every Which Way but Loose (1978)” and the sergio leones]
⭕ 🎲 It is said a watched-pot never boils.I have objectively proven this is not true.
The pot I have been watching for many years is now a raging boil, and the flame is stuck on high.
iacta alea est
🔻 Montana Native: Very curious how Mother Russia moves forward here.
🔻 C2: Which pot? Seems like a whole lot of Norinchukin and Kursk and Bab al Mandab pots hotting up.
[ALL of them, esp in CONUS. Comin’ on to a nice boil indeed]
🔻 Чассен Комарова: I always thought it was “Alea Iacta Est”?
The Die is Cast.Or some interpret it as “Roll the Dice”
Maybe my mother who taught me Latin was wrong?
🔻 Timbot2002: Your mom taught you the standard wording from Suetonius, but will is not wrong, as a highly inflected language Latin can be pretty free with word order
🔻 WS: I cited it very deliberately. This is, I believe, the construction Caesar would have used. Although some say he said it in Greek, so maybe we’re all wrong. 😏
⭕🎹 Sonata Quasi Una FantasiaI’ve been trying for a decade now to capture something approaching a “perfect take” on this piece. I have yet to do so. But I keep trying. This is as close as I’ve gotten yet. |link|
🔻 Marta: Chiudi gli occhi e vola😍😍😍😍total relax, pezzo magistrale, bravo anche nella musica😍😍😍😍❤️
⭕🔻 Brian Berletic: US claims to suspend access to satellite imagery provided to Ukraine via US contracts with Maxar…Luckily Maxar has similar contracts with European governments who will most certainly continue/begin sharing imagery with Ukraine.
This is the rerouting of support, not its suspension.
A “division of labor,” as US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth himself stated.
🔻 WS: Now they also claim Mirage fighters are flying around western Ukraine.I doubt they’ll get anywhere near the line of contact.
Where’s the F-16s? 🤔
There’s enormous pressure on the United States to participate in a brand new war against Iran. The government of Qatar thinks that’s unwise, so of course they’re being slandered relentlessly in American media. Qatar’s prime minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, explains.… pic.twitter.com/wwIffmhnVT
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) March 7, 2025
💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ In a recently released interview with American political commentator Tucker Carlson, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammad bin Jassim Abdulrahman Al Thani states that if Iran’s nuclear power plant in Bushehr is ever attacked, the water in the Persian Gulf will become contaminated, and Qatar, Kuwait, and the UAE will run out of water within three daysAt one point in the interview, he admits, ‘We fought against Iran in Syria for 14 years,’ but emphasizes that the two countries maintain bilateral ties despite their differences.
He also mentions that a U.S. congressman urged him to cut ties with Iran, but he responded that this is not possible, explaining that he had to draw a map for Americans to illustrate how geographically close Qatar and Iran are. |media|
💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ Europe’s dilemma: welfare or defence?British journalist Janan Ganesh argues in the Financial Times that Europe must cut social spending to fund a stronger army.
Faced with rising security threats and uncertainty over US defence commitments, Europe can no longer afford to neglect its military preparedness.
Europe has three main options for financing its defence:
1️⃣ Borrow – Most EU countries are already heavily indebted, making this solution politically and financially risky.
2️⃣ Raise taxes – This could weaken Europe’s fragile economy, as France’s backlash against Macron’s tax hikes showed.
3️⃣ Cut welfare payments – This is the most feasible option. The European welfare system was established after World War II, but with an aging population and rising pension costs, it is impossible to maintain it while increasing defense spending.
Mr Ganesh points out that Europe’s dependence on American security has allowed it to prioritise social protection for decades.
Today, with America’s commitment uncertain, Europe faces a crucial choice: social spending or military power.
Source: FT
⭕ 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 According to the New York Times, Donald Trump told Justin Trudeau in a call in early February that he wanted to redraw the border between the United States and Canada by renegotiating the 1908 treaty that established it.The American president also mentioned the possibility of reviewing agreements on sharing lakes and rivers between the two nations.
[More fresh water grab, and the land bridge to Alaska, and the tar sands.. reparations gotta be paid, hand over fist, and that’s where prostrate vassals can make the process easier for all sides, no?]
💠 @BhadraPunchline:
⭕ Eminently reasonable suggestion by Wang Yi, which will be good for bilateral ties, regional peace & stability and allows a more optimal foreign policy strategy for India that is struggling in a radically transforming world-plus, marginalise militants & their lobbies.
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🔻 Sony Thang:
🇨🇳WANG YI:“China and India are each other’s largest neighbors.
China always believes that the two should be partners that contribute to each other’s success.
A cooperative pas de deux of the dragon and the elephant is the only right choice for both sides.
As the two largest developing countries, China and India have a shared task to accelerate our countries’ development and revitalization.
There is every reason for us to support each other rather than undercut each other, work with each other rather than guard against each other.
This is the path that truly serves the fundamental interests of the two countries and peoples.
As two ancient civilizations, we have enough wisdom and capability to maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas pending a fair and reasonable solution.
We should never allow bilateral relations to be defined by the boundary question, or let specific differences affect the overall picture of our bilateral ties.
As important members of the Global South, we have the responsibility to take the lead in opposing hegemonism and power politics.
We must not only safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of our countries, but also uphold the basic norms governing international relations.
When China and India join hands, the prospects for greater democracy in international relations and a stronger Global South will improve greatly.”]
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🔻 Douglas Macgregor: BREAKING: Direct links emerge between Ukraine and Trump’s second assassination attempt
⭕ 1/2 TRUMP UNBOUND – bringing out DNI Tulsi Gabbard, most media savvy member of his team, to calmly convey the tough message that he won’t tolerate the unholy Zelensky-European nexus subvert his Ukraine deal with Putin, which he’s determined to see through.
⭕ 2/2 Just as I’d predicted in my recent blogs, Zelensky’s goose is cooked. His ouster unavoidable. Possibly, Tulsi has come across hidden intelligence available with Biden Team regarding alleged Ukrainian (MI6) spooky role in the second failed assassination attempt against Trump. |media|
⭕ IMPORTANT… Gen. FLYNN is a courageous man; it cost him heavily under Obama administration. These are very serious allegations that have long been talked about. Lobby of émigrés from Eastern Europe, incorrigible Russophobes, handled US policy far too long. Blinken was the last. |link|
[I hope he is right in connecting the dots about the coming ditching of the zionazis. But I fear it is wishful, and driven by orange-team posturing, and global animus of the hateful]
⭕ Bravo! Trump on Fox Business today said he sent a letter to the Iranian government seeking to negotiate a deal! Letter was sent on Wednesday addressed to Ayatollah Khamenei.
