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A century ago, the Anglo-Zionists had time. They could slowly bring the odious nazis into power, through seeming legitimacy via the loaded ballot box. Russia had been decapitated like Hezbollah, signed the humiliating Brest-Litovsk treaty, and still far from sufficiently modernized and industrialized. The Ottomans were no more, China still prostrate, and they were meticulously going for the final knockout on the unlucky Russkie.
This time they lack the time, and face checkmate by a superior industrial power, in alliance with other formidable civilizational-states.
Do we see the raving nazis being ditched for the more sober older-guard nazis?? Kohl and Merkel’s party in the saddle! None are as deadly to their own than Anglo-Saxon agents on tight leashes, and on as tight schedules
💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇸 Germany’s next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, suggests that Europe may need its own defense alliance, independent of NATO.“Given that the US nuclear umbrella is no longer reliable, we must negotiate with the UK and France to extend their nuclear support to other European nations.”
⭕ 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇸 The next German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz:I wonder whether by June we will still be talking about NATO as we do today, or whether we will have to create an independent European defence structure much earlier.
💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Disregarding official recognition and focusing purely on the percentage of the national population in attendance, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral (25.9%) appears to have the highest recorded percentage in history.Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (2025) – 25.9% of Lebanon’s population (1.4 million out of 5.4 million).
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1989) – 16.67% of Iran’s population (10 million out of ~60 million).
C.N. Annadurai (1969) – Estimated 10-12% of Tamil Nadu’s population (~15 million attendees, but Tamil Nadu’s population was around 100-120 million at the time).Since funerals with more significant numbers were held in far more populous countries, the national population’s attendance percentage was lower than that of Nasrallah’s funeral in Lebanon.
Thus, based on available data, Nasrallah’s funeral had the highest percentage of national population attendance in recorded history.
[an outpouring of love and celebration of Resistance.. amazing. Little Gaza and Little Lebanon, constituent parts of Greater Syria and the Holy Land — the traditional burial grounds of countless former empires and hegemons, once more on duty]
💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 📷 Toadstool HoodoosThe wife and I took our two grandsons (13 and 8, whom we are raising) on another weekend road trip to Kanab, Utah (one of our favorite destinations). We did a short hike to the “Toadstool Hoodoos”. Such a beautiful day. |media| |more|
🔻 C1: Are they naturally weathered like that, a tighter crystalline structure layered on a softer, or are they man made ?
🔻 WS: Completely natural. There are cool hoodoos throughout southern Utah. I’ll try to remember to take more photos in Zion National Park tomorrow on our way home.
🔻 C2: I was only able to hike the Kolob Canyons part of Zion when I visited. Will be interested to hear your impressions and see your photos of wherever you explore.
🔻 WS: From my house, I can drive to the incomparable Kolob Canyons in less than a half-hour. Put this in the Twitter search bar:Kolob from:imetatronink
🔻 C2: Outstanding collection of photos of the canyon and peaks, many of which I recall in my mind’s eye. Especially the snow dusted one from 2010.
🔻 WS: The photos never adequately convey the height and expanse of those canyons. You have to be there. But if you go on Google Earth and watch the altimeter value when you move the pointer, you can see it is about a kilometer from the top of the cliffs to the creek bed below.
🔻 C1: Thanks for the reply. Nature is marvellous.
🔻 WS: |media|
🔻 C3: US west has so much amazing geography….
🔻 WS: Today we walked on several patches of fossilized seabed — at ~6000 ft. altitude. Much of the Colorado Plateau was once the floor of an inland ocean.
🔻 C4: Lovely, clear blue sky
🔻 WS: As stunningly blue today as it ever gets.I also took a few dozen shots with my Canon 5D and my best lens. I will post some of those early next week after we get back home.
🔻 WS: I think some people don’t appreciate the actual size of these “hoodoos”, and the white sandstone cliffs behind them. To gain perspective, note the two people walking in the background on the right side of the first two photos posted below.
⭕🔻 Sana Saeed:
This past week has felt like the first three months of the genocide – the same intensity and ferocity of genocide propaganda & manufacturing, of anti-Palestinian hatred.
🔻 Sunil Joshi: They are trying to exploit the deaths of that family to rebuild consent for the genocide domestically and internationally. It had started to wane a bit due to natural fatigue and also horror at what was being done. It is very, very scary.
🔻 Sana Saeed: And so transparent. So, so transparent. It’s horrifying.
🔻 Caitlin Johnstone: This is true. I don’t know if it’s as obvious to smaller accounts who don’t get as many hasbarists flooding their mentions, but right now the shrillness and intensity of the consent-manufacturing machine is at levels I haven’t felt since the beginning of the Gaza holocaust.
🔻 WS: I’m sure you get targeted more than most because, quite simply Caity, your writing on the topic is nonpareil. It almost seems as though you were born to document this period of time.
🔻 Arabianbucketnews: That is true, her writing on the Palestinian young man with Down syndrome who was attacked by an I-sraeli dog was unparalleled. Responded to the dog attacking him by speaking to the dog in the manner he was spoken to his entire life, love and compassion. “Enough habibi”
[habibi = arabic word for “my love”]
⭕Gonzalo and I exchanged lots of DMs back in 2022. He invited me multiple times to be interviewed on his podcast, but I politely declined because I didn’t want to paint a target on my back. But Gonzalo was fearless in that respect. He deserves justice.
[I recall Gonzalo commenting on the Saker, and then his father, which Amarynth had to defend from a troll..]
⭕ cont. thread:
🤔 So the Russians demanded that NATO withdraw its military presence from eastern Europe — all the way back to its 1997 borders!Who could have possibly imagined such a bold set of terms?
This is what happens in the real world when you win a big war.
🔻 Manny Menéndez: This is nothing new. This demand was floated years before 2022. Everyone (even Putin) understands this is not going to happen but it costs nothing to ask. Once in NATO, you’re in. Ukraine, Georgia, etc. on the other hand, not in. What is surprising is that Russia allowed NATO to get as far east as it did. They got lucky. If you like “Bazaar Style” negotiation tactics fine, but high stake professional negotiators don’t waste their time doing this. At the top, all sides know the CenterPoint and Bazzar posturing for “public brownie points” is considered an amateur move. In my estimation, everyone serious knows what the Ukrainian peace deal will look like. Only kinetic power on the battlefield can change this. 300k European boots at the line of contact plus the EUs combined airforce gaining air dominance over Ukraine will change the centerpoint now. And since that is just pie in the sky, good luck.
🔻 WS: As I have written repeatedly for the past several years, American hegemony will crumble as a result of this war, and neither NATO nor the EU will survive this war as credible political/military/economic/monetary alliances.
🔻 Manny Menéndez: Sadly, the odds are currently in your favor. There will come a time not too long from now when we will look back a wish this wasn’t so. Maybe I’ve read too much Russian history, but I’ve long believed Putin is a pussy compared to those who are waiting in the shadows.
🔻 WS: Either the US will remove the Aegis Ashore installations in Poland and Romania, or the Russians will do it.
🔻 Hye-jin Song: Now you’ve moved into fantasy land. Just as I believe it’s insane for NATO to attack Russia directly, it’s even more insane for Russia to attack the US directly.
🔻 WS: The US, UK, and France have already attacked Russia multiple times. Russia is entirely justified to return the favor and eliminate the missile threat against them. If the US does not remove these missile systems, the Russians WILL do so.
🔻 Hye-jin Song: I mean, Aegis is literally a missile defense system. So go for it if you want, but it would still be absolutely insane to directly attack the US when Trump is trying to negotiate peace. Seems counterproductive. Trump would send the army to die in trenches. The US Airforce would have complete air supremacy. Look at the Israeli strikes against Iran for a taste.
🔻 WS: You are woefully misinformed, and thoroughly propagandized.Simply put, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
The Aegis Ashore system can launch all the missiles that can be launched from a US Navy ship.
The US could not prosecute an air campaign against Russia. They would be utterly savaged by Russian air defenses – and the Pentagon KNOWS this to be true.
📜 Staggering Towards the Abyss
🔻 Hye-jin Song: Care to address my points rather than simply toss insults out? All the analysis I’ve seen indicates that Russia has greatly improved its artillery speed and accuracy, as well as production, but the S400 was useless against Israeli F-35s and Russia has what, 3 SU-57s tops?
[A youngish gal on her thumb photo.. at times, ignorance is truly bliss. Imagine how many less gray hairs, and worries, we’d have with this young gal’s trust in Big Media, knowledge-base and gusto for life!]
🔻 WS: You, along with many others, have been deceived by the mythology of #TheImaginaryWar.You are ignorant of the facts.
📜 Betting the Farm on the Imaginary War“In the end – and it will come sooner than later – the only thing that will not be soon forgotten is how briefly the American unipolar moment endured, and how shockingly and suddenly it all came crashing down.”
🔻 Sense Checker: Will,Don’t let this interrupt Kanab! But if you’ve pondered on it: does Lavrov’s Tehran visit next week strike you as newly formed partners politely keeping each other in the loop, or do you see scope Russia was asked to pull Iran into a wider stability construct posed by US?
[on the thumb on this fella, he looks as old as Time]
🔻 WS: I remain thoroughly convinced the Russia / China / Iran / North Korea alliance is set in stone for many years to come.I’m also convinced the Russians will do whatever it takes for as long as it takes to achieve ALL the objectives of the SMO. Their long-stated terms will be met.
🔻 Sense Checker: Thought you’d say that. Suppose the cost of being naive is too heavy for anyone to assume that this is anything other than an attempt at a temporary – albeit potentially broad – rapprochement, in order to draw a breath.
🔻 WS: I think the Russians are willing to talk with the US in order to clearly reiterate and emphasize their terms, and give Trump an opportunity to concede to them.My analysis of the Tucker Carlson / Vladimir Putin interview expands fully on this argument. |link|
🔻 C4: Poland joined NATO in 1999. Today Trump “reassured” Poland he wouldn’t remove US 🇺🇸 soldiers.Putin says roll back NATO to 1997 borders (when Poland wasn’t a member).
I want to see them thread this needle.
🔻 WS: The US was a signatory to the 1997 NATO/Russia Founding Act. Russia’s demand that NATO military forces be withdrawn to their 1997 borders strictly conforms to the 1997 agreement.
🔻 C5: And Trump will do his part by abandoning NATO and Europe without formally stating he has agreed to Putin’s terms.He will just say he is reducing US presence because NATO doesn’t pay its fair share and military spending it too high.
🔻 Hye-jin Song: What air defenses? What systems? Be specific. Because your assertion is contrary to recent evidence. Are they holding back systems more advanced than what was provided to Iran?
🔻 WS: You are ignorant of the facts, and of military capabilities in general.You have been deceived by propaganda.
Not a single Israeli aircraft of any type crossed from Iraq into Iran. And there has been zero credible evidence that Iranian air defenses incurred any meaningful damage, aside from the antique Hawk system that served as a decoy.
‼️ Iranian Air Defenses
🔻Victor: I don’t see anything surprising here. Yes, the US is leaving the war with Russia in Ukraine. They came and left on their own. How could they defeat a nuclear Russia? I told you three years ago that the US would leave this war, that is the objective reality. What are you surprised about?Yes, Russia has won and is demanding what it demanded before the war – equal security guarantees for everyone in Europe. You yourself suggested that Russia first defeat you in the war, and then demand this. Well, Russia has won and is demanding.
🔻 WS: Victor, I was being facetious. I have been writing about this topic for over three years now, ever since the December 2021 draft treaty was submitted, and then Putin’s February 21, 2022 speech.
🔻Victor: Yes I know, thank you for answer
🔻 WS: Sometimes my sarcasm doesn’t translate very well in an 𝕏 post.Anyway, just to emphasize my point: I remain convinced the Russians will, sooner or later, achieve their objective of rolling back NATO to at least the 1997 borders.
Most likely, NATO will simply evaporate.
⭕ 🔥 Medvedev’s Latest Incendiary MissiveOn strategic ambiguity
[same posted on main site yesterday]
🔻 🇨🇦🇷🇸TurboSerbo 🇷🇸🇨🇦: I need this in Russian to show my wife
🔻 WS: |Russian|
He has both a Russian and an English channel. And his English channel always has better renderings than the Telegram “translate” function of his Russian channel. FYI
🔻 Mwangi Kimani: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Micron 🤣🤣🤣🤣
🔻 Eastgermannative: Oh wie gut und treffend.
🔻 C4: The Russians have to assume that “Western strategic ambiguity” means hostility to Russia, based on how they have reacted in the past.The Western politicians who think they are being clever are not fooling anyone. They can’t come to terms with the magnitude of the Western defeat
🔻 C5: And uninformed Americans, et al., want Putin overthrown? They ain’t seen n-n-nuthin’ yet.
⭕So small it vanished as quickly as it appeared.The Kursk Kamikaze Inkursion will be seen, in retrospect, as arguably the single most catastrophic NATO/AFU debacle of this entire catastrophic war.
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🔻 OSINTdefender: The Ukrainian Armed Forces have reportedly launched a Small Offensive over the last 48 hours in the Kursk Oblast of Western Russia, with Swedish CV-90 IFVs and American M1A1 “Abrams” Tanks spotted on the move near the Frontline. |media|
[the demented are STILL attempting Suicide Charges!! YEARS after they lost this damned war. Dig THAT!]
🔻 C2: Worse than Robatinasomething?
🔻 C3: They can’t do anything else but go on the offensive and get battered because the only alternative is to retreat but to retreat is to admit defeat at this point.
🔻 Gunny is my Dog: Although I do empathize with the people of the Kursk region, it has shown to be a brilliant tactic by the Russians to allow the salient to exist in its current scope.
The Russians have effectively created a scenario where they can effectively and continually destroy material.
[and the combined nazi Horde must continually and persistingly supply men and materiel in order to uphold Optics undergirding the last shred of evaporating prestige, mojo, and hegemony. Damned if they don’t, damned even faster when they do. Mete]
⭕🔻 Sal Mercogliano: MSC books up to eight megamaxes at Changhong International |link|
🔻 WS: China has become the most prolific ship-building juggernaut in naval history.
🔻 Matthew McCracken 🇨🇮🇮🇪🇺🇸🇱🇷🇷🇺🇳🇱🇷🇴🇹🇩: It’s not even close. If the US increases its ship building capacity to 100 times its current levels, China will still have double the capacity of the US. This is how lopsided it is. |link|
⭕‼️ Malcom Kyeyune expounds on the hopeless insanity and essentially irremediable state of affairs in the US military here in 2025.Lengthy, but highly recommended. |link|
🔻 C1: Ouch!!!! That will leave a mark! 🙂 Are you getting ready for your spring garden!?… I think we’ve had our last freeze… Ready to roll waiting on the mesquites to let us know the old timer say when they bought out the last freezes over… Cheers! You’re smart motherfucker 🙂
🔻 WS: My house sits at about 5600′ altitude, so we can get a hard freeze even in mid-May. I never plant until the last week of May or first week of June. This also means that, without a greenhouse, I basically can’t grow cabbage, broccoli, or even peas. Nor apricots, cherries, etc
🔻 C2: Great article! We have allowed our ideological passions to rule over our rational integrity for so long that we have become blind to any distinction. I fear that we are long overdue for a reality-infused correction, making the impact of that all the more devastating.
🔻 Neil Youngson: “The Navy is not just building ships; it is trying to shield an increasingly fragile American leadership class from reality…”The message from the political class to its own people that the USA is the greatest country will soon be seen as no longer true, if it ever was.
[And Orange Gang fired those very Navy folks sheltering the very sky from falling..]
🔻 Neil Youngson: Any reason not to have a greenhouse, just curious?
🔻 WS: Just never got around to it yet. Several of my neighbors have them. I should, too.
⭕🧵 Scott BolandA thread of a few excellent songs from my friend Scott Boland (@IshmaelWon), a great singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer.
⭕ cont. thread:
📜 Some Sins Will Not Wash AwayI disagree strongly with those who seek to exonerate the Trump 45 administration of culpability for the war in Ukraine. …
🔻 Daniele Gatti: Reminds me of the chorus from this song:
“Even if you believe you’ve been acquitted/you’re forever implicated” |media|
🔻 WS: Eccellente!E se credete ora
che tutto sia come prima
perché avete votato ancora
la sicurezza, la disciplina
convinti di allontanare
la paura di cambiare
verremo ancora alle vostre porte
e grideremo ancora più forte
per quanto voi vi crediate assolti
siete per sempre coinvolti
🔻 Daniele Gatti: Indeed. Incidentally, he was one the greatest Italian singer-songwriter of all times, he even recorded an album based on Spoon River: |media|
⭕ This is indeed a must-read thread by the always-excellent Arnaud Bertrand.
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🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: I get asked this all the time, so I am reposting my famous thread of all the top strategic thinkers – from Kissinger to Chomsky – who warned for years that war was coming if we pursued NATO expansion, yet had their advice ignored (which begs the question: why?). |THREAD|
⭕🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: Beautiful Poland, you poor sweet summer child…
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“🔻Stuart Dowell: Poland has spent 30 years building its foreign policy around a strong US alliance. Yesterday, that foundation cracked. Andrzej Duda flew across the Atlantic for a planned hour-long meeting with Trump. He got ten minutes.This wasn’t just bad optics. It was a humiliation. Poland has positioned itself as America’s most loyal ally in Europe. But when Trump is reshaping US policy on Ukraine and NATO, Poland was given barely a moment of his time.
Duda had no offer, no clear role after refusing to be part of a stabilisation mission. Meanwhile, France and the UK are shaping proposals on Ukraine. They have leverage.
After the meeting, Duda and his camp scrambled to spin it as a success. They searched for breadcrumbs: Trump’s warm words, a vague mention of military cooperation, a possible visit to Poland. But none of it changes the reality.
Trump’s words were warm, but the actions matter. His team is cutting Ukraine out of talks with Russia. US support for NATO looks uncertain. And yet Duda left Washington with nothing but scraps.
For years, Poland’s security strategy rested on unquestioning faith in the US alliance. That strategy is being dismantled day by day.”]
🔻 WS: reposts his old:
“History teaches us to never underestimate the Poles’ prodigious talent for geopolitical blunder; grossly mismanaging their international relations in advance of a great-power conflict, and then getting trampled to rubble in the ensuing maelstrom.”
🔻 Arwyn: What is that old saying again ?“There does not exist an chasm deep enough that a Pole does not jump in it.”
Today we see why Hezbollah kept its powder dry through over a thousand ceasefire violations, etc. A massive show of public support is shattering Anglo-Zionist-Salafi pretensions in Lebanon. So they may bring the abject compradore elite to heel without much fuss after this. The Lebanese “authorities” were even forced to let in an Iranian plane carrying the Iranian parliament speaker, Foreign Minister, MPs, and accompanying leaders of the Iraqi Resistance. The murder of Nasrallah was as big a mistake as that of Soleimani.. but the dregs of the Anglo-Zionists lack any wisdom
💠 @PressTV:
⭕ Aerial image shows mourners in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley heading to Beirut en masse to participate in the funeral ceremony of martyred Hezbollah leaders Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine.💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼Trump has released previously suspended foreign military aid to Taiwan, including $870 million for arms deliveries. |media|💠 @War Monitor:
⭕ ⚡️Heavy engineering equipment arriving from Egypt entered the northern Gaza Strip this morning. |media|
💠 @Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Images from the funeral of Hezbollah’s historic leader Nasrallah in Beirut |media|
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⭕ The funerals of Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine are expected to take place in the presence of the Iranian parliament speaker and a delegation from the Iraqi PMF, as a sign of the Axis of Resistance’s support for Hezbollah.
💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Today, Beirut hosts dignitaries from 70 countries at the national stadium to honour the revered resistance leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. Hundreds of thousands are expected to gather to bid their final farewell to what is widely considered the most charismatic Lebanese leader of the past 35 years. In a deeply symbolic gesture, a small bottle containing sacred earth from Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa has been sent to accompany Nasrallah into eternal rest—a testament to his ultimate sacrifice for Palestine
⭕ History will forever chronicle the choices made in the ME — distinguishing between those who abandoned Palestine, contributed nothing, or even conspired against its future, and those who stood by its side, sacrificing their lives and all they had to advance its cause. The memory of those who opposed the brutal murder of children, women, and the elderly—and who shared in the collective suffering—will be etched in history for all time.
⭕ The society that supports Hezbollah is making a powerful statement: we stand firmly behind your decisions, no matter how difficult they may be.Iran’s commitment to this society is unwavering—it will never abandon them, no matter the obstacles and challenges. |media|
⭕ Such a gathering—a resolute display of strength and defiance against Israel in the aftermath of war’s devastation—is a rare sight.Sayyed Nasrallah not only united the people in his lifetime but continues to inspire the same unwavering unity even after his passing. |media|
⭕ It is almost fitting to see Israeli drones hovering over Beirut, blatantly violating its sovereignty—because they serve as silent witnesses to a powerful truth. Benjamin Netanyahu and his army must now realize that the hundreds of thousands gathered today for the funeral of the leader he assassinated are not defeated. Instead, they stand stronger.
⭕ Today is far from being described as a local funeral of one leader but nations wide powerful display of solidarity and strength.
⭕ The final moment of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah among the masses who gathered to honour his 35 years of unwavering resistance and sacrifice—dedicated to the cause of Palestine. |media|
💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ 🇱🇧 First footage from the air of the Grand funeral of Sayyed Hassan.It’ll officially start in about one hour.
Footage from the large gathering of crowds at Beirut’s Sports City Stadium attending the funeral.|media|
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⭕ In an attempt to cause panic, Israeli fighter jets flew at very low altitude above the stadium in Beirut – in response, massive chants of ‘Death to Israel’ by the public
⭕ The streets in the Lebanese capital, Beirut – an absolutely massive presence for the funeral
⭕ 🇱🇧 Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem: ‘Die and seethe! The resistance remains and continues.’💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇱🇧🇮🇷| A large delegation from Iran arrived at Beirut airport, defying the blockade set for Iranian planes to land in Beirut, to attend martyr Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral.Families of martyrs Raisi, Amir Abdollahian, and Qassem Soleimani, along with the Iranian President’s advisor Mohsen Rezaee, Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf, FM Araghchi and judicial figures, are among the delegation, including approximately 40 deputies.
⭕ 🇱🇧🇮🇷| Imam Khamenei also sent a delegation of 4 of its high-profile representatives to read a letter on his behalf at the funeral.He did not attend in person due to security complexes.
⭕ 🇮🇷🇱🇧| Part of Iran’s strong delegation at the funeral in Beirut:• Gen. Ali Fadavi, IRGC Deputy Commander-in-Chief
• Gen. Iraj Masjedi, IRGCQF Deputy Coordinator
• Kazem Gharibabadi, Deputy Legal & International Affairs MinisterAnd some other judicial & authoritive figures |media|
[scroll up and down for much more media. IRGCQF = Quds Force of the IRGC, which used to be Soleimani’s department]💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕🇷🇺💬Western companies are exploring the prospects of returning to the Russian Federation in the information field but the priority is Russian business, which has made large investments – Minister of Economic Development Reshetnikov
⭕ 🇷🇺💬The condition for the return of foreign brands to the Russian market could be the placement of their stores, including in the territory of Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya, First Deputy Prime Minister Manturov told VGTRK journalist Pavel Zarubin.
⭕ 🇷🇺Russian airlines will primarily purchase domestic aircraft even if foreign ones return, First Deputy Prime Minister Manturov told VGTRK journalist Pavel Zarubin.💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the liberation of the settlements of Ulakly and Novoandreyevka in the DPRIs the UN suddenly growing teeth? The US side appears to have been instructed to take back seat?? There are new demarches against Rwanda, universal voted on at the UNSC. Rwanda in turn is screeching in denial and pain, like our plucky Kievan piano-player right now, at being abandoned so brutally and suddenly by the Anglo master of the last three decades. Let’s see where it goes.
💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕🌍 Confederation of Sahel States adopts an official flagThe AES ministers launched the confederation flag this Saturday at a working meeting in Bamako, according to the Malian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The flag has a green background with the AES logo in its center.
The Malian ministry noted that the green color symbolizes “hope and prosperity, rebirth and renewal”.
“It thus represents the immense natural resources of the confederal space for a future of shared prosperity.”
⭕🇺🇳🇨🇩🇷🇼 The UNSC adopts a resolution calling on Rwanda to withdraw forces from the DRC🛑 All 15 council members unanimously supported the resolution, urging “the Rwanda Defense Forces to cease support to the M23 and immediately withdraw from DRC territory without preconditions,” while condemning the ongoing offensive and advances of M23 in the DRC.
The resolution, which was submitted by France, also called on the DRC and Rwanda to return to diplomatic talks without preconditions.
“This delivers a clear message: there is no military solution to the conflict in the east of the DRC. The offensive carried out by the M23 supported by Rwanda must be put to an end,” France’s UN ambassador Nicolas de Riviere stated.
🇷🇺 Russian ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia said the resolution was adopted after significant diplomatic efforts in the UN and during the summits of African leaders.
“This needs to be fulfilled by all parties without delay. Hostilities must cease. Lives must be saved. The civilian population must be able to return to their homes,” Nebenzia emphasized.
⭕ 🌍🇷🇺 Africa seeks unrestricted grain and fertilizer trade with Russia to ensure food security amid sanctions, an international negotiator says🌾 Africa wants to have absolute freedom to buy and negotiate with fertilizer and grain suppliers, including Russia, president of the Brazzaville Foundation, aimed at promoting African initiatives for peace, Jean-Yves Ollivier told Sputnik Africa, commenting on the importance that G20 chair South Africa attaches to food security amid sanctions against Russia, a major supplier of grain and fertilizers.
💬 “The problem is the imposition of US sanctions, mainly against Russia, which are focused on grains, but we should also mention fertilizers. Fertilizers are a very important element of food security. And Russia is a major player in the supply of fertilizers, as we know very well,” the foundation’s president said.
African countries are therefore keen to trade with the Russians to ensure their food security, he noted.
💬 “This is not just an individual position of South Africa, it is a common position of Africa as a whole,” the speaker emphasized.
⭕ 🇺🇸👋🇺🇳 “Good riddance to a bad rubbish”: Nigerian professor explains why Africa won’t miss the US at the UNThe potential US withdrawal from the United Nations is not a loss but a long-overdue shift in global power, Abubakar Sadeeque Abba, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Abuja, told Sputnik Africa.
He argued that the US has used the UN to maintain dominance, and its exit would mark “the end of the hegemonic power of the United States of America.”
🌍 Rather than creating instability, he believes this move would empower developing nations. Africa, he added, is prepared to strengthen ties with China, Russia, the EU, and BRICS.
“We are not going to miss the United States of America. In fact, it is good riddance to a bad rubbish,” the professor said.
🇷🇺 He also sees an opportunity for Russia to step up as a key global player.
“Russia is dancing between the devil and the devil, and [fortunately] for Russia, the devil has decided on his own to commit suicide,” Sadeeque Abba said.
If Russia remains committed to fairness and justice, he argued, it could “re-establish itself not only as a global power but as a power that has a listening ear” and address imbalances left by colonialism and imperialism.
[LOL. This is ANGLOPHILE Nigeria, not the former French neocolony of Niger. Loved the part of the devil’s “auto-suicide”]
⭕ 🇫🇷🇨🇮 France “pulls the wool over the Ivorians’ eyes,” reorganizing its military presence in Cote d’Ivoire, a writer saysThe fact that France recently announced its withdrawal from the Ivorian base in Port-Bouët does not change the situation, and Cote d’Ivoire still remains a “department of an occupying country,” Ivorian writer Tape Groubera told Sputnik Africa.
The 1961 Franco-Ivorian colonial treaties, which allowed Paris to “intervene in Cote d’Ivoire, even to go into its subsoil and extract what they wanted”, are still in force, the speaker emphasized.
💬 “So, fundamentally, the removal of the base, while maintaining the agreements, leaves the problem unchanged. That’s what you call pulling the wool over people’s eyes,” the writer noted.
According to Groubera, it is wrong “to say that military bases exist to provide security; on the contrary, they exist to provide insecurity in Africa.”
💬 “Therefore, Western military bases, not to mention all bases foreign to the territory, to Africa, must leave the African continent. All foreign bases that are not African bases, in our opinion, in our vision, must leave African territory,” he argued. |media|
⭕ 🌍🇷🇺 While the West uses Africa to serve its interests, Russia has helped some nations gain independence, an Ivorian writer says💬 “If Russia had perhaps not been there [on the Africans’ side], maybe we wouldn’t be talking about independence for some African countries,” Ivorian writer Tape Groubera told Sputnik Africa, commenting on the recent withdrawal of French troops from his country.
Ivorians are “fed up” with former colonial power military presence, which was established “to serve French interests,” the speaker emphasized.
💬 “When we were occupied, that’s right, we need to tell the truth as well. When what we call the independences happened, who came to the aid of the Africans? It was Russia, the USSR, and Cuba. Against whom? Against whom? Not against some aliens, it was against the West,” he noted.
Moreover, there have never been “cooperative relations” between the West and Africa, the writer added, citing Russia as a counter-example.
💬 “Russia has always been on our side, as has the USSR, from which Russia emerged. They have all stood by us. They even had soldiers who came and died for us. That is a reality,” Groubera pointed also out. |media|
💠@Africa Intel:
⭕ 🇷🇼 Rwanda’s Fiery Rejection of EU ResolutionThe Rwandan Parliament has strongly condemned a recent European Union resolution criticizing Rwanda’s alleged role in the ongoing conflict in eastern DRC. Lawmakers accused the EU of “selective outrage” and failing to address the complex historical and ethnic dynamics fueling tensions. Rwanda highlighted the presence of FDLR militia in eastern DRC, a group linked to the 1994 genocide, and criticized the EU for ignoring its legitimate security concerns.
Rwanda’s Foreign Minister called the EU’s approach “simplistic”, emphasizing the need for a balanced resolution that tackles root causes like ethnic discrimination and the presence of genocidal militias. This rejection marks a significant escalation in diplomatic tensions, raising questions about the future of peace efforts in the Great Lakes region.
🖇 Source
#Rwanda #DRC
@africaintel
⭕ 🇨🇩 Bintou Keita Urges Immediate Ceasefire in Eastern DRC Amid Escalating ViolenceUnited Nations Special Representative Bintou Keita has called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as the conflict intensifies. Speaking at a UN Security Council briefing, Keita emphasized the need for diplomatic solutions to halt the crisis, particularly following the recent offensive by M23 rebels, who have captured key cities like Goma and Bukavu.
Keita, head of MONUSCO, warned that the conflict has displaced hundreds of thousands and risks escalating into a regional war. She stressed that there is no military solution and urged a return to dialogue through regional mediation efforts. The UN Security Council has also adopted Resolution 2773, demanding an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of M23 forces.
🖇 Source
#DRC
@africaintelIn Odeisseh, along the Palestine border. Zionists failed to capture the town after 2 months of heavy fighting with Hezbollah. But, during the ceasefire, amid Western media silence and UN indifference, regime forces entered town after town, destroying everything in their path. pic.twitter.com/tg1FWg8PpA
— Seyed Mohammad Marandi (@s_m_marandi) February 22, 2025
💠@Amore:
⭕ Beirut.Preparations for the funeral of Sayyed Nasrallah.
With my drop dead cool Yemeni bro Ahmed Hassan.
[I’ve featured Ahmed now and then 👇🏽]
💠Ahmed Hassan 🇾🇪 أحمد حسن زيد:
⭕ From the borders of Palestine and Lebanon
🔻 Mohamad Al Shami محمد الشامي 🇾🇪🇵🇸: Yemenis at the Lebanese-Palestinian border—Zionists looking at this photo: sweating, shaking, dialing Washington. Sleep tight, occupiers. 😂🇾🇪✊🇱🇧🇵🇸
⭕ I never thought that my first meeting with The bravest American man @jacksonhinklle would be in Beirut , Lebanon |media|
💠@Leila Hatoum:
⭕ When you stand by what is right, it does not matter what the world thinksTHANK YOU @RealPepeEscobar & @Ahmed_hassan_za for supporting our people at such dark times, and not backing off
as for @ME_Observer_ you are AMAZING. Thanks for all that you do despite all the challenges
[and we featured the lovely lady Leila several times – including post for main site on the polio bioweapon gambit. Gaza survives it all!!!]
sorry couldn’t resist. Steve! I think Aussies are so dandy and jolly because they got all the sun in the world and are free of that Sunless Isle with endless fog!
what a people. They will live to see the Last Satanic Empire buried in shame in the Holy Land. And note the youngest at the very end – she utters verses in the Qur’an promised to the Jews: they will be smashed and thrown out of the Holy Land as happened at hands of the Babylonians and then the Romans, if they return to the oppression and insolence of such eras, when they rewrote the holy scriptures and killed the prophets and innocents..💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️The Russian Defense Ministry reported the liberation of the settlement of Novolyubovka in the LPR
⭕ 🇷🇺 Russia’s Iskander-M missiles hit over 1,400 targets during Ukraine conflictThe Iskander-M systems are compatible with a variety of munitions including high-explosive incendiary, concrete-piercing, cluster, incendiary and nuclear explosive charges, the Russian defense ministry said.
Depending on the task, Iskander-M crews use either ballistic or cruise missiles, targeting locations where Ukrainian troops are concentrating their assets, the ministry said.
“They [Iskander-M missiles] cannot be destroyed by air defense systems because of their hypersonic speed,” the statement read.
💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺Trump said that a new round of US-Russia talks will take place on February 25 in Riyadh
⭕ 🇲🇩 Supporters of the Socialist Party of Moldova gathered outside the presidential building, demanding the resignation of the current government💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ An American publication warns Trump against suicidal intervention in Yemen.The American magazine “National Interest” has cautioned Donald Trump against any military intervention in Yemen, asserting that it would be an expensive venture.
This warning comes amid proposals from American military and political advisors to invade the coastal province of Hodeidah alongside factions loyal to the Saudi-UAE coalition to impose a siege on its vital port.
In a report prepared as a message to Trump, the magazine stated that the Middle East is akin to a geopolitical quagmire, highlighting that previous American military interventions have squandered trillions of dollars and cost thousands of lives without achieving their objectives.
It emphasized that the notion of occupying the Hodeidah port to counter the Houthis is nothing more than a strategic illusion that could put American troops at risk of death or capture. The magazine stressed that any direct American intervention in Yemen, particularly for retaliatory reasons linked to Sana’a’s support for Gaza and military operations in support of the Palestinian cause, would be a costly trap that historical lessons strongly advise against.
The magazine pointed out that Sana’a has become a model of “rigid resistance” that foils external plans, noting that all previous military campaigns have failed to achieve their goals, from the war in 2015 to the present day.
💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 🤔 So the Russians demanded that NATO withdraw its military presence from eastern Europe — all the way back to its 1997 borders!Who could have possibly imagined such a bold set of terms?
This is what happens in the real world when you win a big war. |link|
[nuthin’ new! Stated OPENLY in the Dec 2021 Ultimata. And those will be enforced, come Armageddon or Highwater.
NB. Was this the tableau that DOOMED Lil Narco?? The meek folded hands and panicked gazing up to the Stars in Prayer, to avoid looking at uber-cold Rooskies who observe with delight and with hands in pockets?? ‘Tis the Season to carve out nazi pounds of flesh..]
🔻 WS: I see many people still believe these terms are subject to compromise. I continue to believe — as I have for three years now — that these terms are effectively non-negotiable.
📜In for A Pound
🔻 The Nutter Projects: They are probably nice and didnt ask for 1989 borders
🔻 WS: Their demands conform 100% to the stipulations of the 1997 NATO/Russia Founding Act.
[it’s a start, like giving a pebble on top of the Hindu Kush mountains a kick downhill. Soon it will take everything in its path with it, including Anglo pretensions and claims and rights to any point on the continent…]
🔻 C2: Putin gave an ultimatum in December 2021, just before the SMO began. Review this speech to understand the terms and conditions of the Russians for ending this conflict.
🔻 WS: All the essential documentation can be found here:
🧵 Russia’s Peace Terms
🔻 C3: Even if additional forces are removed, article 5 implications based on increased risk-taking behavior by new members are problematic
🔻 WS: Article 5 is a myth.
🔻 C4: Yes. It’s means nothing.
As a Polish general said: you don’t really believe the USA would go to war with us against Russia bc. of an article? And if they wanted, they needed 300K troops in our country. Where are they?
🔻 C5: No one has agreed lol
🔻 WS: Either the US will remove the Aegis Ashore installations in Poland and Romania, or the Russians will do it. |link|
🔻 C6: When did 3 Chihuahuas join NATO? 😉( I know, when)
🔻 WS: The US/NATO would not fight Russia to save the Baltic chihuahuas.
🔻 C7: Don’t tell it to them.
Those villages believe that they are the most important in the world.
Let them live in their dream world.
🔻 C8: It’s highly unlikely that NATO will be going backwards given that NATO are controlled by the PENTAGON. The PENTAGON is a threat to Russia and China. Nothing as changed except the tactics.
🔻 WS: Nonsense. The US could not win a war against any ONE of Russia, China, or even Iran. And anyone who believes otherwise is misinformed and/or hopelessly propagandized.
🔻 TexasPuma: Seems that Iran could just hypersonic Israel’s nuclear power plants and anything else it wants. Right?
🔻 WS: I do not believe Iran would strike Israel’s nuclear facilities … but they could, and they could also severely degrade Israel’s air bases and important economic sites. Israel is a small highly vulnerable target.
🔻 TexasPuma: If I were Iran, I’d say my targets are your power producing facilities. I have hypersonic missiles that you can’t defend against. If you attack, your country will be destroyed as well. Seems like that should be a good deterrent.
[Nope. Unfortunately Persians are too civilized. But the Yemenis know how to handle rank savages in the most instructive of ways]
🔻 C10: The US would, in my view, overwhelm Iran but at heavy cost in material and manpower
🔻 WS: First of all, Iran is not alone.
📜 All for One and One for AllMost importantly, the US absolutely could NOT mount and sustain an “overwhelming” military force in the Persian Gulf region. It is a logistical impossibility.
📜 Staggering Towards the Abyss
🔻 C11: Conventional war.
We have more and better nukes.
And our guy’s a sociopath.
🔻 WS: You are misinformed.
🔻 C12: Both “misinformed and propagandized.”
🔻 C13: This whole story is based on the “information” of Cristian Diaconescu, aide to the interim Romanian president.2 hours after he made those claims, he backtracked saying he wasn’t referring to recent discussions but an old discussion from 2022. He’s a liar and a libtard
🔻 WS: No, the “whole story” is that the Russians made this demand in December 2021, and have repeated it incessantly ever since.
🔻 C13: They made that demand back then but didn’t make it during the Riyadh talks but the article you’ve shared says otherwise citing Diaconescu who’s an unreliable source and he also retracted his claim hours laterPeskov also denied Diaconescu’s claims |TASS|
[take Peskov with a bucket of salt on a good day. And why would Russkie try to humiliate the Yanqui whilst in full Retreat?? They’ll be left fig leaves… for now. But in 5 years or so..]
🔻 C14: What will Russia offer in return?
🔻 WS: Nothing.
📜 Dictating Terms
🔻 C14: Oh. I agree on the dictating terms bit.But will it break from China and join the Western hemisphere again?
[LOL.]
🔻 WS: Russia and China (and Iran and North Korea) will remain devoted allies for many decades to come.
📜 All for One and One for All
🔻 Cith Lord: So you believe that NATO will just revoke the Paland , Romanian and Balltics membership?
🔻 WS: Reading comprehension is hard.Read what Putin has clearly and repeatedly stated on the matter.
⭕ retweets:
🔻 The Greatest Primarch 🏴☠️:
Good article. Glad to see someone not giving Trump a pass for the role of the U.S. in Ukraine from 2017-2020.I’d add that there’s no possibility of Trump being unaware of what was happening – he not only knew, he bragged about providing weapons that Obama didn’t. |media|
🔻 anxon: Bingo! Under Trump’s 2016 admin, US funded more weapons to Ukraine and pushed for greater NATO-Ukraine interoperability. Had the situation on battlefield been any different today, Trump would sing opposite tune and claim credit for backing NATO. Trump is an opportunistic neocon.
⭕ 🤦♂️ Misinformed American commentators continue to perpetuate the myth that non-Russian Ukraine has massive economically extractable deposits of this, that, and the other mineral resources.It’s all fictitious nonsense.
[links:
🔻 Tyler Rogoway: U.S.-Ukrainian Mineral Deal Getting Close To FruitionUkraine Situation Report: If signed, the mineral deal could sooth growing tensions between Trump and Zelensky. |link| ]
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: Upon closer examination of what has been evolving into a “U.S.-Ukraine mineral deal” narrative, I can’t help but notice some theatrical elements.If the U.S. were to “secure” a formal agreement for mineral mining in Ukraine (regardless of the value of the mineral deposits within Ukraine), it would grant the U.S. the right to deploy U.S. forces within the country, ostensibly to safeguard the mines that become the property of the U.S.
This move would ultimately serve as the catalyst for U.S. military entry into an unstable Ukraine. In a few years, Ukraine would potentially resemble the situation of West and East Germany, leading to significant destabilization for Russia, regardless of how much of eastern Ukraine becomes part of the Russian Federation.
Now, whether this is Trump’s strategic plan or not, the projected/estimated trajectory of events suggests that such an outcome is highly probable. Finally, considering the years and substantial resources invested in Project Ukraine and the deep-seated centuries-long (Western) aspirations to dismantle Russia, it seems highly likely that this scenario would unfold.
What are your thoughts, Will (@imetatronink)?
🔻 WS: I believe there is virtually zero possibility the US will put itself in a position where war against Russia could happen. As I have long argued, the US could not win and will not fight a war against Russia in eastern Europe.
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: I agree with your overall assignment, Will.However, the U.S., U.K., and France were in West Germany after WWII and did not “fight a war” against the Soviet Union (USSR) that was in East Germany, while NATO managed to destabilize and eventually affect the dissolution of the USSR from such a position.
What prevents a similar scenario from developing over several years in Ukraine?
[Lack of means. And Russian public promises to blast to Bandera any NATO forces stupid enough to waltz in]
🔻 C3: It’s a ploy by the deep state to trick Trump into keep funding the war.
🔻 WS: Futile.
🔻 Fecund Stench: It was always about Monsanto and GMO wheat infecting Russia.
[kudos to this old guy for the creative handle]
🔻 C5: on the other hand, they’ve been so annoying this entire time that the thought of turning their country into a giant strip mine is oddly satisfying
🔻 Ikkyu Sojun: Absolutely, the hype around Ukraine’s supposed mineral bonanza is pure fiction—fueled by clueless American pundits who’ve swallowed their own propaganda whole. It’s laughable how they keep peddling this myth that non-Russian Ukraine is sitting on some world-changing stash of economically viable resources. The reality? Ukraine’s got coal and iron ore—big whoop, so does half the planet. The U.S. Geological Survey doesn’t even rank Ukraine on its lists for lithium or rare earth production or reserves. Titanium? Mostly oxide for pigments, not the high-value sponge for aerospace—that’s a factory game, not a mining one. And graphite? Sure, they’ve got some, but 20% of global reserves is a stretch when most of it’s unproven or stuck near war zones. Forbes Ukraine tossed out a wild $14.8 trillion valuation in 2023, but that’s speculative nonsense—experts like Tim Worstall have shredded it, pointing out extraction costs often outweigh the value. Meanwhile, 40% of Ukraine’s metallic resources are in Russian-held territory anyway, per We Build Ukraine’s 2024 estimates. This isn’t a treasure chest; it’s a fantasy cooked up to justify endless aid. Total BS, and the numbers prove it.
⭕🔥 This is but one majestic post in The Thang’s multipart rhetorical evisceration of a random faux-intellectual troll. I recommend the entire series, but this one is a fine specimen on its own.Sony Thang is one of the finest writers and thinkers I have read over the past year.
links:
🔻 Chris Watson: In a discussion you can be against something specific. But “empire” here doesn’t seem to be specific, it seems to be a broad if not vague concept. It certainly isn’t a concept that would be broadly accepted. So it seems to be a dislike of a vague concept. Is it actionable?
🔻 Sony Thang:
Empire is only vague to those who refuse to see it.It’s not some abstract theory, not some intangible force floating in history books.
It is the world order that shaped the past, dictates the present, and seeks to control the future.
You say you don’t acknowledge empire in the way I describe it.
That’s not a counterargument—that’s an admission.
An admission that you either don’t see it, or worse, you choose not to.
Because empire isn’t just flags on foreign soil.
It’s not just colonial governors handing out orders.
It’s more sophisticated now—financial, political, cultural, systemic.
The IMF, the World Bank—institutions designed not to lift nations up, but to keep them shackled in debt.
The endless wars, the regime changes—not for “freedom,” but for control.
The media monopolies, the narratives spun—not to inform, but to manufacture consent.
The world isn’t ruled by direct conquest anymore.
It’s ruled by economic dependency, by financial warfare, by institutions that claim neutrality but function as enforcers of a global hierarchy.
That’s empire.
You ask if it’s actionable?
Absolutely.
Empire survives because people pretend it’s not there.
It survives because those in power can always count on enough “intellectuals” to debate its existence rather than confront it.
Being against empire means exposing it.
It means recognizing that the system is not broken—it is functioning exactly as designed.
It means rejecting the illusion that “rational arguments” alone can dismantle power that was built by force and deception.
And most of all?
It means understanding that empire will not reform itself.
It will not step aside willingly.
It will only be broken when enough people stop “trying to understand it” and start tearing it down.
And that is the difference between us.
You intellectualize power.
I name it.
You analyze oppression.
I call it what it is—and say it has no right to exist.
And that is why your world is fading.
And mine is rising.
[“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” — Charles Baudelaire]
⭕Another in the series:
🔻 Chris Watson: Your description of empire is entirely idiosyncratic. For clarity’s sake could you please provide an comprehensive definition. I’m getting bits and pieces and trying to put it together and I may be mistaken as to how you are using the word.
🔻 Sony Thang:
You still think this is a debate.That if I just give you the “right” definition, you’ll finally see the light.
That’s not how this works.
Empire isn’t something you need defined—it’s something you need to acknowledge.
But fine.
Let’s strip it down.
Empire is a system of global dominance that maintains Western economic, political, and military supremacy at the expense of the Global Majority.
It operates not just through direct rule, but through financial coercion, military intervention, media control, and institutional strangleholds.
It does not need to plant flags—it plants debt, dependency, and division.
It speaks the language of “development” while enforcing underdevelopment.
It preaches “democracy” while installing puppets.
It wages war in the name of “freedom” while looting nations in the name of “stability.”
It is the reason why Africa remains trapped in a cycle of debt imposed by institutions it never consented to.
It is the reason why Latin America’s wealth has flowed outwards for centuries while its people suffer.
It is the reason why the Middle East burns, why Asia had to claw its way out of imposed stagnation, why every time a nation seeks true sovereignty, it faces sanctions, coups, invasions.
It is the “rules-based order”—where the rules only apply to those outside the empire.
It is the invisible hand that writes history, shapes narratives, and convinces people like you that it doesn’t exist.
But here’s the thing.
Empire is no longer unquestioned.
No longer unchallenged.
And no longer unbreakable.
The Global South is rising.
Multipolarity is here.
And for the first time in centuries, the empire is afraid.
Because it knows what happens when those it oppressed finally stop playing by its rules.
It knows what happens when the world stops debating its existence—
And starts dismantling it.
[From “The Book of Tribulations and Portents of the Last Hour”
(20) Chapter: Ad-Dajjal
It was narrated that Hudhaifah said:
The Messenger of Allah said: ‘I know what the Dajjal (Anti-Christ/Moshiach) will have with him. He will have two flowing rivers, one that appears to the eye to be clear water, and one that appears to the eye to be flaming fire. If anyone sees that, let him go to the river which he thinks is fire and close his eyes, then lower his head and drink from it, for it is cool water. The Dajjal has one blind eye, with a layer of thick skin over it, and between his eyes is written “disbeliever,” which every believer will read, whether he is literate or illiterate.’]
⭕🔻 Thomas: Without U.S. military equipment shipments to Europe, due to a lack of further aid packages and “logistical issues” with fulfilling EU orders, Ukraine believes it can avoid collapse by using reconnaissance and FPV drones. I speculate that it will be far easier for the Russian military if the Ukrainians lack sufficient quantities of heavy weaponry. Perhaps they could employ a simple encirclement strategy. However, this area of expertise lies with @ArmchairW, who will probably write about it soon.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Tatarigami once wrote a tendentious thread about Russian “meat assaults” and then couldn’t provide a single example of Russian forces ever actually conducting one when challenged on the matter.That’s about the value of this cope masquerading as analysis.
🔻 WS: He has long-since blocked me. But my favorite part of his post was “my readers know how accurate I have been” — coming from someone whose entire existence over the past three years has been a relentless litany of the perpetual delusions of #TheImaginaryWar.
⭕🔻 Shashank Joshi:
With proper allied backing, the US & Europe could ensure Ukraine has a long-term advantage in lethality. That would in turn ensure that the impact of Russia’s population advantage is not as severe as it need be. Ukr of course has to get mobilisation right- no question.
🔻 Американец 📉: Who started this “lethality” thing? The first person I remember measuring military capability by talking about “lethality” was Kamala saying she’d make our military “the most lethal” it had ever been. Now both Trump admin people and their opponents use it.
🔻 WS: This is yet another incoherent disciple of #TheImaginaryWar who blocked me long ago – undoubtedly because I mocked his presumptuous imbecility.Life these days must be a sore trial for him and all his clan of clueless charlatans.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 C1: An important and unappreciated point. Out of all Russian leaders, Europe (and the USA) could not do business with PutinIt’s spells out what Europe and the USA were all about
🔻 Armchair Warlord: People don’t really appreciate the fact that at this point literally everyone in Russian politics who isn’t an employee of the CIA is more hawkish than Vladimir Putin.We’re three years into World War Three with the serial numbers filed off and he still wants to negotiate.
🔻 Constantine: Yeah, people should check the Russian space for once. I’ve been looking following people on the front (Russians and foreigners). Pretty interesting information but what I deduced is Putins demands are the minimum. Many want more.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Putin is so well-liked and respected in Russia that he’s actually moderating a political consensus that wants to see Kiev burn.
🔻 C4: Navalny was more hawkish on Ukraine than Putin. At least at first.
🔻 C5: The sheer will he has to exert to reign in everyone in Stavka who just want to make a desert and call it peace…
🔻 Caoimhin O hArgain: Stop with rhe warmongeringRussia has no intention of invading Europe
It’s going to put manners in nato though
🔻 Cavalier Thoughts: The first thing to understand about Putin is that he was always a man of German (for Russians, the “typical” European) character and sensibility, enamoured with a whole complex of fetishized Western free-market “civilizational” markers, from pop music (ABBA) to business organizational management. (Aside from a certain calculated machismo and an impish sense of humour, Putin’s political speechifying is to this day characterized by wearying compendia of statistics and clichés hardly distinguishable from the mutterings of a Brussels Eurocrat!)Indeed, Putin’s own experience taught him that Russia was never more internationally consequential, more relevant to the diplomatic and military calculations of a multipolar world, than when working in concert with the remaining powers of Europe; one simply has to recall his bonhomie with Chirac and Schroeder, a trio which threatened to derail the Anglo-American attack on Iraq – before a “New Europe” was hastily conjured to neutralize the diplomacy of the Old – to realize who stood to benefit, and to lose, from a “concert of Europe” inclusive of Russia.
Why Putin would rationally choose, without any external pressure or provocation, to alienate these potent allies, only to prey upon the far less consequential actor that is Ukraine, has always cried out for an explanation; the lack of explanation has always been damning to the popular bien pensant narrative of Russian perfidy.
⭕🔻 Brian Berletic: Those accusing me of suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” need to rationalize why what I’m saying has to be somehow wrong and rooted in some sort of irrational hatred of Trump rather than fact.Fact is I have covered continuity of US foreign policy from Bush to Obama to Trump to Biden.
This was my warning 4 years ago to enthusiastic Biden supporters that war and confrontation around the globe would continue…
It was NOT a lucky assumption, but based on large amounts of evidence regarding US policy and the unelected interests driving it.
🔻 WS: Looks like you and I are the “voices in the wilderness” on this topic. I knew my view would be exceedingly unpopular — and quite possibly slow to materialize to an indisputable degree. But in time our contrarianism will be vindicated. |link|
