💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ retweet:
🔻Roberta Sutton:
Arabs unite against the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. Lack of tents won’t sway them. BN has suspended Phase 2 of talks to delay scenes of well hostages & well-armed fighters marking his failure to degrade Hamas. US has delayed aid. Will BN’s trip to DC resolve anything? |link|
[synopsis of his latest article]
⭕ More than 20,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from their homes in the West Bank, as Israel escalates its military operations in the occupied territories. This ongoing campaign, marked by the systematic destruction of homes and critical infrastructure, mirrors the tactics employed in Gaza, aiming to uproot Palestinian communities and enforce a policy of forced relocation. Israeli forces have targeted residential neighborhoods, schools, and public utilities, leaving entire towns in ruins and pushing thousands of families into a state of perpetual displacement. This aggressive expansion of military activities in the West Bank represents not just an assault on Palestinian land, but a deliberate strategy to fragment the social fabric and undermine the Palestinian presence in their own homeland.
⭕ Israel is actively destroying civilian homes and infrastructure in the villages of Blida and Yarun in southern Lebanon, escalating tensions and committing clear violations of the ceasefire agreement. These acts of aggression are not isolated incidents but part of a broader strategy aimed at increasing the reconstruction cost, turn the society against the resistance, destabilising Lebanon and exerting military pressure beyond its borders. The targeting of residential areas and essential infrastructure in these Lebanese villages constitutes a direct act of warand a blatant breach of international law. Such actions undermining efforts for peace and security in the area.
🔻 C1: Do you still believe it is in the best interest of the Lebanese people and Hezbollah, that Hezbollah limit itself to exercise restraint in order to avoid escalation, and in order to avoid providing Israel with the justification of self-defense?
🔻 EM: Yes I do, for now.
[it won’t prevent the inevitable resumption of Mutually Assured Annihilation, and total solution on the messianic jews in West Asia, but it will justify what comes next, by making clear to both moral and worldly law who is the irredeemable savage needing pest control]
🔻 C2: Ceasefire agreement? Isn’t this ceasefire over? Why are we still speaking their language?
🔻 EM: It was extended until the 18th of Feb.
[note both the Gaza and Lebanese “ceasefires” are set to expire around similar dates. This gives the Orange Camacho Gang one last chance to effect control over their savage Frankenstein’s monster. Ultimately these delays are to strip all covers off the USUK establishment, and make clear Biden-Blinken-Sully were mere peas of the same pod]
⭕ Eight Israeli military personnel were wounded in the shooting attack at an army checkpoint near the northern West Bank village of Tayasir, east of Tobias, North of the West Bank.

There is no military solution but a negotiation and a Palestinian right to self-determination

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ retweet:
🔻Mohammad: is the cia so washed that they’d allow elon to defund usaid? there isn’t a bigger play here i don’t think
🔻 professional hog groomer: Imperialist regime change fronts USAID and the NED are being retired not because the CIA is being defunded, but because these tools are now outdated.

Of what use are orgs using “freedom and democracy” as operational cover in this new era?
🔻professional hog groomer: In all likelihood, new overt and covert strategies are already in place.

– Sentiment influence via A.I. bot swarms?
– Crypto funded terrorist attacks?
– Overt support of fascist political parties?
🔻 Mia: Any chance bullying countries with tariffs and military intervention rebuilds a domestic industrial economy?
🔻 C4: No, but it will keep the gullible rubes happy for awhile, at least until they see their grocery bill.
[the BEST CASE SCENARIO for the Orange wrecking crew is that they are carrying out the hidden new Yalta. Paying damages, on the backs of the to-be-thoroughly-fleeced sheeple hostages. We shall see]
🔻 professional hog groomer: Zero chance. Rebuilding our industrial economy will take massive investment in the public sector (infrastructure, education etc).

Military and economic bullying appear more likely to be means to facilitate protection racket payments.
🔻 professional hog groomer: And there it is! USAID (and likely more to follow) are being folded back into the State Dept. Likely done as both a cost cutting measure and to centralize control under new admin |link|
⭕ 🔻 MenchOsint: This guy is a Saudi/UAE/US puppet. Definitely does not represent the Yemeni people.

Something is cooking in Yemen, the US may reactivate its assets soon.

French, US & Saudi aircraft have been gathering intelligence on a daily basis in the past 2-3 weeks. |link|
🔻 WS: If mischief is afoot again in Yemen, that would explain why CSG-8 (USS Trembling Puppy) has quietly returned to its “safe space” at the mouth of the Gulf of Suez.
🔻 WS: 🤔 The more I ponder it, the more I’m persuaded there is no way the empire will slink away meekly from what discerning observers around the world view as a strategic defeat in the Red Sea.

Sooner or later, they will undertake to settle the score.

And their luck might run out.
🔻 C2: They’re cutting out pieces so the can focus on war is my thesis. There’s no way the empire will go down without a severe beating. It needs a reality check.
🔻 C3: The British Empire ended in this same body of water.
[not hyperbole. As the Holy Land serves as traditional interment grounds for Empires, so does this adjacent and connected body of water. The Limeys were both evicted from Aden, Yemen in 1960s, soon after the 1956 Suez Crisis at the other end of the Red Sea.. And Pharaoh died being drowned in the Red Sea.. so many parallels with the Last Satanic Empire]
🔻 Nemac: This whole thing doesn’t seem like US isn’t going away quietly into the night, instead it’s regrouping. “Tarif game” aimed at consolidating northern and southern border, NGO restructuring under Sec of State…we haven’t seen the last of this.
🔻 Johanna deMartin: Someone just needs to remind POTUS that the Red Sea exists and that it is embarrassing for the USA.
That worked with Somalia, which he bombed (unfortunately). But any action against Yemen might expose the flotilla of baby sharks.
🔻 ziphius: By looking at the current cultural “reallignement” going on rn in the US, I can’t help but think that it’s all a pack up operation. Only thing that eludes me is destination.
It’s over…😒
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: They need to let the Middle East go. It’s over. Lest they get a very bloody nose indeed.
⭕“Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”

― Euripides |link|
[hey, just a bunch of slick Indian salesmen who plan on nabbing a piece of the Anti-China hog’s trough. They know how to work the Anglo Angst. And good for the multi-nodal future too – it will surely soak up dollars in safe futility as was sending heaps of nazis and armor to Novorossiya]
🔻 C1: Mans most valuable trait is to filter through, and scroll past idiocy, fast.

⭕🔻 Caitlin Johnstone: This is what dopey Trump supporters are trying to frame as a devastating blow to the deep state. |story|
🔻 WS: They want to believe so badly. But in the end, nothing will change. Nothing at all. In fact, it will be seen clearly in retrospect that everything that matters most got worse.

From September 2023: 📜 The Ashes Will Come First
⭕Speaking of Rare Earth …

🎸 Big Brother

Hey, big brother, as soon as you arrive
You better get in touch with the people, big brother
Better keep them on your side, big brother
Keep them satisfied

Now that you’ve got the picture
What you going to do?

⭕🔻 Justin Trudeau:
I just had a good call with President Trump. Canada is implementing our $1.3 billion border plan — reinforcing the border with new choppers, technology and personnel, enhanced coordination with our American partners, and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl. Nearly 10,000 frontline personnel are and will be working on protecting the border.

In addition, Canada is making new commitments to appoint a Fentanyl Czar, we will list cartels as terrorists, ensure 24/7 eyes on the border, launch a Canada- U.S. Joint Strike Force to combat organized crime, fentanyl and money laundering. I have also signed a new intelligence directive on organized crime and fentanyl and we will be backing it with $200 million.

Proposed tariffs will be paused for at least 30 days while we work together.
🔻 Armchair Warlord:
From arrogance to unconditional surrender in less than a day.

Love to see it.
🔻 WS: But will anything substantively change as a result of the submissive moves by both Mexico and Canada?

Describe for me the chain of events that would bring about substantive change.

Will the supply of and demand for fentanyl be affected in any way?

Can the fundamental parameters of North American trade be substantively altered in a time frame less than a decade?

Can five or ten million immigrants be deported in less than a decade?

Can the reindustrialization of the United States be effected in anything less than a decade — or even a generation?

Forgive my lack of faith when it comes to these things, but I simply do not see expeditious solutions to these problems in anything that could be characterized as near- or intermediate-term.
🔻 C3: So what happens when a high margin goods supply chain is disrupted? The resiliency of the network determines how efficiently it resumes the flow of goods. Unless the “backbone of fentanyl distribution” is dismantled, demand will continue to drive deliveries the same as before. 😎
🔻 WS: I have no idea what “the backbone of fentanyl distribution” even means, nor how it could be efficaciously “dismantled”.

Fentanyl use in the United States is an indicator of socioeconomic despair and spiritual malaise.
[bingo. All that would happen, even if they could circumscribe the MX/CA pipelines, is move shop to new suppliers WITHIN the continental USA]
🔻 Bart Simpson: People will just move on to another more accessible drugs
🔻 HilltopFool: The whole thing is little more than a “feel good” exercise to generate some “wins” for the orange conman. To help keep opposition quiet in what is to come. genocide, ethnic cleansing…
⭕🔻 zerohedge: Clearest Image Of US Navy’s Directed-Energy Weapon Firing Laser Rounds |link|
🔻 WS: 🤔 Why is this a black & white photo?

Are these super-tech laser beams in the visual spectrum?

And are they apparently 2 – 3 feet in diameter (as indicated by the photo)?

“Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”
― Euripides
🔻 C2: One other thing — maybe this was at a very high ISO — a lot of cameras are sensitive/can be corrupted by UV.
🔻 WS: Are laser-beams visible in the infrared spectrum?
🔻 Loose Cannon News: It was taken at night using an infrared camera.

And as is evident from the irregularity of the beam width, it appears wider due to dispersion of the light particles in the moist sea air.
🔻 WS: That doesn’t look like an infrared night-time photo to me. What is your source for this assertion?
⭕🔻 C1: Powerful: The legendary Tom Brady and Snoop Dog have teamed up for a Stand Up Against Hate Super Bowl Commercial:

“I hate that things are so bad that we have to make a commercial about it.”

It’s time to stand up to hate 🙏👏 |media|
[Good God, we are DOOMED]
🔻 WS: At first, I thought they were referring to Russians, Chinese, Iranians, and North Koreans.

My mistake.

I’ve always struggled with enemy identification.
🔻 C2: Opposing Hate is one of those meaningless categories that only obscures efforts to actually make people get along.
🔻 C3: Lol, they sound angry and hateful.
🔻 C4: what if i hate these narcissists ??
🔻 Eastgermannative: Lol.
[posts above plucked eagle being prepped for The Pot]
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: The remarkable thing is that this tank was sent to the front without any auxiliary armor whatsoever – just a couple of EW systems of dubious usefulness.

Smacks of desperation more than anything else – did this unit not have time to prepare for combat before being ordered in? |media|
🔻 WS: We’ll probably see horse-drawn carts before the summer solstice.

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇸🇻🤝🇺🇸 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the President of El Salvador has offered to accept people deported from the United States, regardless of their nationality, as well as violent American criminals currently imprisoned in the United States.

President Nayib Bukele “has agreed to the most extraordinary and unprecedented migration deal in the world,” Rubio said.

“Mass migration is one of the great tragedies of the modern era,” Rubio said, speaking later in a nearby building. “It impacts countries all over the world. We recognize that many of those who seek to migrate en masse are often victims along the way, and that’s not good for anyone.”
Source
⭕ 🇺🇸 Elon Musk’s aides at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) have banned career civil servants from accessing key computer systems containing sensitive data on federal employees.

Musk, appointed to reduce the federal workforce, quickly placed allies inside OPM and revoked senior executives’ access to critical databases.

Officials warn that the lack of oversight could pose cybersecurity risks. Affected employees can still use basic functions like email, but cannot access workforce data.

OPM memos encourage employees to accept severance packages and take vacations. Experts including Don Moynihan raise concerns about congressional oversight and transparency at the agency.

Source: Reuters

💠 @Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Netanyahu met with leaders of the American evangelical community in Washington on Monday, including Trump’s nominee to become the next U.S. ambassador to Israel.

Netanyahu also met with Elon Musk and Trump.
⭕ Benny Gantz, Chairman of [zionazi] National Unity [Party]:

The transition to the second phase of the hostage deal must include the replacement of the Hamas regime and the demilitarization of Gaza.

The reconstruction efforts in Gaza must be conditioned by the replacement of the Hamas regime. Either Gaza will be demilitarized or it will continue to be demolished. This must be the condition of reconstruction, in coordination with the United States and the rest of the world.

Once Hamas is replaced and its sources of funding are cut off, we must hunt down all Hamas terrorists in their tunnels and hideouts.

We must not let this opportunity pass. Coordination with the Americans is crucial… We must continue to bring back our hostages, dismantle Hamas, weaken Iran, and make progress in normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries, which can be done in the coming months. This is what a real victory means.
[Do not ask me of the degenerate logic! “Get them to disarm, then we’ll hunt them down in the same tunnels we never dared enter!” The dregs of Zion become ever more deranged by the day, as their similarly doomed cousins in Kiev]
⭕ Israeli Prime Minister’s Office:

In light of numerous requests from U.S. officials for meetings with Prime Minister Netanyahu, the Prime Minister’s visit will be extended until Saturday.
[So unexpected bad news! Perhaps second phase of Gaza truce will happen]
⭕ Trump claims that Israel is small territorially and will soon talk about the West Bank:

“You see this beautiful pen? My office represents the Middle East, and this pen is Israel. It’s not ideal… It’s amazing what they’ve been able to accomplish… but it’s a very small territory. It’s amazing what Israel has been able to accomplish with a lot of intelligence, but very little territory. I have no guarantee that the agreement will hold. I’ve seen people go through brutal ordeals. No one has ever seen anything like it.”

Trump in August 2024:

“Israel looks ‘tiny’ on the map compared to other Middle Eastern countries. Is there a way to get more? It’s so tiny.”

If I were Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, I would be worried. |media|

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ War in Gaza will not resume after first stage of ceasefire, senior Hamas official says

💬 “I rule out that the war will resume after the first stage [of the ceasefire deal]. Not because he [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] is peace-loving, but the Israeli army will fight, and the remaining prisoners are its servicemen. In total, more than 60 Israeli prisoners of war are in captivity,” Hamas political office deputy head Musa Abu Marzouk told Sputnik.

He added that Israel would probably agree to a second deal in order to secure the release of its servicemen. He also responded that the Israel Defense Forces was unlikely to resume hostilities that could result in the death of prisoners of war.

💬 “Therefore, the Israeli army will not fight while their comrades are in captivity. All this time they fought to free women, the sick and civilians, but they did not free soldiers,” Abu Marzouk said.
[An interesting take. Hope it is true!]

💠 @Arab_Africa:
⭕ 🇫🇷🇲🇷 France to supply Mauritania with advanced military equipment under EU deal

Local sources reported that during a visit to Mauritania, the French Defense Ministry’s representative for armaments, Manuel Shiva, handed over modern military equipment and electronic equipment to the Mauritanian authorities, including combat vehicles, motorcycles, engineering vehicles, fuel trucks and mobile repair vehicles.

During his visit, Shiva met with Mauritanian Defense Minister Hannana Ould Sidi and discussed expanding cooperation between the two countries in the field of security and defense. Let me remind you that in December 2024, the European Commissioner for International Partnerships visited Nouakchott, and during his visit, a batch of military equipment was also handed over, and even earlier, Czech special forces instructors were sent to Mauritania.

According to some observers, all these NATO movements are connected with the fact that European countries fear that after success in the Sahel, Moscow will be able to establish its presence in the countries of the Atlantic coast in Africa, including Mauritania, which has a sea line of 755 km.
[Yeah, the Lilliputians can holler, and huff and puff, but even the last FOBs on the coasts are on the line. It is End of the Line on 500 years, come Hell or Highwater.]

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸 Palantir Technologies: The Future of USAID?

Earlier today, we made the claim that, “in coordination with Musk’s X, which will collect unprecedented amounts of data, Peter Thiel’s Palantir will run the data analytics and use it to come up with methods of statecraft and foreign policy previously unthinkable by intelligence organizations. Palantir has been making partnerships with foreign governments for years in preparation for this.”

This raises two questions:

1. How has Palantir prepared itself to be able to exert influence over foreign governments (what industries have they infiltrated)?

2. How many partnerships with foreign governments has Palantir made so far?

Let’s answer both:

Palantir has extensive partnerships with governments throughout Europe, and has been given contracts to work with European governments in the following capacities:

Providing data analytics, intelligence, and logistics for European law enforcement, counterterrorism task forces, defense departments, and armed forces (including mission planning). They notably have collaborated with NATO and the EU to support Ukraine in their war effort.

Additionally, through their data analytics and logistical support as well as in other capacities, they have been contracted by European governments to assist with supply chain management, financial services, tax auditing, transportation and infrastructure projects, healthcare services (especially during the COVID-19 pandemic), immigration and asylum operations, and building government web servers (through Palantir Government Web Services).

Since doing data analytics for all these industries throughout Europe and the world, Palantir has become one of the most significant intelligence forces in the world.

We were able to find that the following European countries have awarded contracts to Palantir since at least 2015 when France awarded Palantir a contract to assist with counterterrorism efforts (there are likely many more, but we were only able to find information about the following):

Italy, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, France, Norway, Netherlands, Switzerland, and Denmark, and the UK.

In Asia, including the Middle East, Palantir has worked with governments in all the aforementioned ways as European governments, as well as for disaster-relief logistics in Japan and, notably, intelligence and data analytics for the Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza while they were carrying out their genocide. We were able to find that the following Asian countries have awarded contracts to Palantir.

The UAE, Qatar, Israel, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and India.

Some more notable countries Palantir has contracted with:

The Australian Department of Defense partnered with Palantir in August 2024.
Palantir was given a contract with Canada’s Department of National Defense in 2019.
Palantir has contracts in New Zealand, Mexico, and South Africa.

For America, the issue with giving all this influence over the world to the CIA-backed Palantir is that it is not a one-way street. It is a channel through which foreign governments can also exert influence over the United States. When Palantir has all this influence over the world, the US government becomes dependent on it, a private company, to wield that influence. And because Palantir is reliant on contracts from foreign governments for its revenue, it can easily be influenced by foreign governments.

JD Vance, who is Peter Thiel’s protege and who Thiel heavily pushed for the VP position, is the Trojan Horse through which Palantir and the Thiel network have started to merge with the- federal government to become the New Deep State, with a future Vance presidency to complete this amalgamation as the ultimate goal.
[in the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy of Prof JRR Tolkien, the Palantiri, of which this Five Eyes spyden was inspired, were tools of spying and direct mindcontrol – called the “seeing stones”. At the end, they came to be dominated by the chief protagonist and fallen angel, or Maia, the dark lord Sauron, whose symbol was the One All Seeing Eye. Go figure! And note the Eye symbol embedded with Palantir’s logo.
So the transition from USAID merely heralds a worse, more insidious form of remote digital control, part of the rising global digital gulag, phase 3 after colonialism, and neocolonialism. There is not a shred of good in the Last Satanic Empire]
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇺🇸The US transition to the “America First” concept has an alarming resonance with the slogan of the Hitler period, “Germany Above All,” – Lavrov

The focus on “establishing peace through force” could finally bury diplomacy; such ideological constructs do not have a shadow of respect for Washington’s obligations under the UN Charter, Russia’s Foreign Minister emphasized in an article for the magazine “Russia in Global Affairs.”
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇺🇸🇺🇦Trump proposes not to continue providing Ukraine with assistance on a gratuitous basis, but to provide it on a commercial basis — Peskov commented on Trump’s statement that Ukraine could pay for the aid with its natural resources

“It would be better, of course, not to provide assistance at all and thereby contribute to the end of this conflict,” said Vladimir Putin’s press secretary.

Trump turn is bad news for West Asia

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇫🇷🇸🇳⚡️France has begun withdrawing its troops from Senegal

As reported by the Senego portal, the Marechal, Saint-Exupéry and Rear-Admiral Prote bases have already been handed over to the Senegalese military. The French contingent should completely leave Senegal by September, the portal notes, citing its sources.
[de Gaulle was nearly assassinated for similar move in Algeria.. what times]

special humiliations on this dimension, and unusual torture in the Hellfire, is reserved for the human and nonhuman savages behind Gaza Annihilation.
As for the surviving heroes, they are in limbo, and need to stay in a holding pattern for a few more years.. quite soon, the original Palestine from which they came shall be opened up wide to them. The Eras of the Sea Peoples draws to a close

Our intrepid Lebanese journo, a watched favorite even within Zion, is showing southern Lebanese streaming back into their villages. The hand signs mean the crazed zionazis came into Lebanon vertical, and were carted out horizontal. These signs were used in one of Nasrallah’s last speeches, so well known to both sides in the region

Good point emphasized in this video. The IRGC is the top shelf in Iran, having the vaster, and the best, of all gear and tech. So what is shown is far less than available to Iran

💠 “Hundreds of South African NGOs at risk from Trump’s aid halt threat”
They are bleating among ALL suddenly-deprived fifth columns – from Kiev to Cape Town! When the Tide goes out so sudden, one gets to see who has clothes – and honor – and who used to be on the dole. Good riddance to USAID and other imperial tentacles

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇲🇩 Gas began to flow to Transnistria on February 1.

A solution to the issue of sustainable gas supply has yet to be found, Russia is ready to facilitate this, Alexey Polischuk, head of the second department of the CIS countries of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with TASS.
[This is great news, balm for the heart. It dramatically lessens risk of war expansion, as Transnistria is sieged on all sides by hostiles or NATO poodles. Apparently the more sane got the Russian Memo]
⭕ 🇺🇸 The USAID headquarters will close on February 3, with most employees working remotely, The Washington Post reports, citing an email received by the organization’s staff.
⭕ 🇲🇽🇺🇸The United States is suspending tariffs on Mexican goods for a month.

The President of Mexico announced this following a telephone conversation with Trump.
[Good. Orange and the Blowhards caved. This is not a 1950s band btw. That may be the real story behind Panama too. Some sop was thrown to them about reinforcing The Border, and other adequate lullabies for the narcissist criminally insane. This is a good start indeed. Orange can blare the Bullhorn all the way to a dignified retreat, Monroe included. I think Latin America is going to be great very soon. They’ll act meek and contrite, even as the chains are being lopped off by the civilizational-states.]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 📷 Fire in the Sky

Been a lot of that lately.
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: snow season is over?!
🔻 WS: I hope not, because, since one decent snowfall in mid-October that broke lots of limbs on my still fully-leaved trees, we have gotten virtually none here in the high desert.
🔻 snarkyslang: Red sky at night, sailor’s delight.
🔻 NeuralUnity: Nothing ever happen bros are catching a case of the NAFOs.

Stuff is most certainly happening.

Elon’s announcing red pill bangers on the hour on x.

Murdered USAID, NED, Kristol, Zelensky, Treessuruly, DEI, OPS, thousands of NGOs, GAE pedo ideology…

DOE tomorrow.

LAWD.

⭕Maria is a very prolific and eloquent 𝕏 historian. This is a fine specimen of her work.

The past is a foreign country. They see and do things differently there. And many things only seem reprehensible in retrospect.

Our era will be held in extreme contempt by our descendants.
[links:
🔻 Maria Dubovikova:
A thread 🧵

The most famous Nazi sympathizers in the West

1. Henry Ford

In his spare time, the father of the global automotive industry enjoyed exposing the worldwide Jewish conspiracy. The October Revolution in Russia, which brought the Bolsheviks to power, made a significant impression on him. He considered it a scheme by the global Jewish underground and acquired the little-known newspaper *The Dearborn Independent*, where he began to publish excerpts from “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” as well as articles revealing the “true nature of the Jews.” The circulation of the newspaper was increased to over half a million copies, making it one of the most read American newspapers of that time.

Not stopping there, Ford published a collection of articles from the newspaper in a special book titled “The International Jew,” which was also published in a fairly large print run. Three more books followed about the secret and malevolent activities of Jews in the USA. The publication of these articles and books provoked a broad public response; Ford was condemned by various civic organizations, Christian churches, and prominent politicians who sent him open letters criticizing his views. Jewish civic organizations called for all Jews to boycott Ford’s products.

Finally, when public pressure became so great that it threatened his thriving business, Ford publicly apologized and repented for his campaign in the media, promising not to do it again. However, his books had already been published in large quantities in Europe, especially in Germany, where they became favorite reading among future activists of the NSDAP (the Nazi party led by Hitler).

It is known that Hitler himself held Ford in high regard, one of the few Americans praised in the Third Reich. Various sources also claim that Ford’s financial support helped establish and strengthen the Nazi party in the 1920s. In one interview with American journalists before coming to power, Adolf Hitler placed Ford’s portrait in his office to show how respectfully he regarded him.

Ford was awarded the highest award for foreigners by the Reich, and when France was occupied by the Germans, Ford’s factory was not nationalized as a sign of respect and continued to operate. Several Ford factories opened in Germany under the Nazis, continuing to operate throughout the war.]
⭕🔻 S.L. Kanthan: Here’s debunking of Trump’s primary logic against Canada, Mexico, EU, China etc.

🔹Trump’s views on trade deficit and desire for dollar supremacy are inherently contradictory!
🔹The ONLY way that US dollar can be the global currency is if America runs trade DEFICIT with the rest of the world.
🔹How are other countries going to get hold of dollar to trade or to save in their foreign exchange reserves? By running trade surplus with the US.
🔹Thus, to say that “other countries are ripping us off” shows a deep misunderstanding of fundamental economic principles.

In 1960, Belgian economist Triffin explained this obvious dilemma
🔻 WS: Apparently there are a great many people who have convinced themselves that Triffin’s Dilemma no longer applies to the United States and its “exorbitant privilege”.

They are wrong.
🔻 Julian Macfarlane: What export economy?
🔻 Gary L: This time it’s different. 😆
🔻 C4: Having cake and eating it too has always been America’s dream.
🔻 GroknRoll 38 Social Credit Score:
[reposts:
🔻Santiago Capital: “You will never understand Trump’s tariff strategy if you only analyze how it will affect the United States. And you will never understand Trump’s tariff strategy if you look it only in economic terms.”]
🔻 WS: Brent has been consistently wrong for at least seven years. He is largely clueless about geopolitical and military realities, and how they relate to his so-called “milkshake” thesis. |media|
[i had a vision of Biden’s ice cream, dropped and forgotten on Rehoboth Beach..]
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: So many of the MAGA crowd assumes that Trump has a bunch of magic weapons that he would pull out of his hat and things would fall in the way the Trump/US diktats.

The world has changed much, esp since feb’22. Even for Trump penny will drop sooner than he realizes
🔻 GroknRoll 38 Social Credit Score: It’s boring to read so many geopolitical and military experts just knee jerk react taking face value everything Trump says and does.
[exactly. The Head Blowhard vents towards different directions, and cross purposes, some being uncontrollably gastrointestinal]
⭕Fact is, the majority of American programmers had become sloppy and inept by no later than about 2005 — 20 years after I had started, when my program size was still limited to 64k. That required economical coding.
[links the escapades of this genius:
🔻 Andrej Karpathy: There’s a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding”, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It’s possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like “decrease the padding on the sidebar by half” because I’m too lazy to find it. I “Accept All” always, I don’t read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I’d have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can’t fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It’s not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I’m building a project or webapp, but it’s not really coding – I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.”]
[Good God. They really ARE screwed. One can’t fix such levels of dumb. These are those hired to man the Cyber-Forts.. After the Ashes..]
🔻Solis: That quoted post almost triggered my ptsd of the developers i had to work with 😂. That really is their attitude, and they didn’t have ai coding yet. It’s impossible to create something maintainable in this way.
🔻 Johanna deMartin: Many coding languages were built too robust and fault-tolerant. Take PHP, you can throw the kitchen sink at it and it’ll still accept that your programme should animate an svg car.

Dad taught me COBOL back in the day. Now *that* required discipline.
🔻 Elementary, Watson: It’s not just that, they’ve had “code reuse” drummed into them at Unis by lecturers who, for most part, had zero real-world coding experience, so we’re in a situation where we have multi-layer APIs and wrappers around wrappers around wrappers

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇨🇦❌🇺🇸 Pierre Poilievre, Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada:

Canada will never be the 51st state. We are an independent, proud and strong nation.
[translation of the weasel’s weasel-words: I’m about to squeak. Just provide the requisite lubrication!]
⭕ 🇺🇸🇿🇦 Trump announces he is cutting off aid to South Africa.

“Terrible things are happening in South Africa. The leaders are doing terrible, horrible things. They are taking land, they are confiscating land. They are doing things that are perhaps much worse than this.” |media|
[what a shameless exceptionalist hypocrite! The personification of self-indulgence and Rules-based Order. One rule for me (Greenland/CA/MX) and one for thee O goyim]
⭕ Elon Musk claims President Donald Trump has ‘accepted’ the closure of USAID.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Agency for International Development is on the verge of being shut down, according to billionaire Trump administration adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has been battling for control of the agency in recent days.

On Monday morning, Elon Musk held a live session on X Spaces, formerly known as Twitter Spaces, and said he had discussed USAID in detail with the president. “He agreed that we should shut it down,” Musk said.

“It’s become clear that this is not an apple with a worm in it,” Musk said. “What we have is just a ball of worms. We need to get rid of this. It’s irreparable.” “We’re going to shut it down.”

His comments come after the administration placed two senior USAID security officials on leave after they refused to hand over classified material in restricted areas to Musk’s government inspection teams, a current and a former U.S. official told The Associated Press on Sunday.

Soon Europe’s elites will stand at Trump’s feet and ‘gently wag their tails’ — Putin

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇫🇷⚡️France to Double Its Defense Budget — Macron
[another weasel, or monkey, quick to surrender and squeak!]

💠@Arab_Africa:
⭕ 🇷🇺🌍 Russia will continue to expand its military-technical and economic presence in Africa

This was reported by leading official Arab media outlets, citing research from European defense agencies.

Russia currently has military cooperation agreements with 36 African countries, ranging from general, protocol-based ones to more specific ones that include such items as arms supplies, access rights to seaports and air bases, training of African officers at Russian military academies, and the deployment of Russian military advisers.

The data also shows that Russia has become the main supplier of weapons to Africa. The countries with the largest stockpiles of Russian weapons on the continent are Algeria and Egypt, which purchased $8 billion and $3.1 billion worth of weapons from Russia between 2009 and 2018, respectively.

Overall, Russia accounted for about 44% of the continent’s military imports between 2017 and 2021, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, with a clear upward trend.
[You can imagine that percentage, outside of open colonies like Rwanda, is nearing 100% since the SMO and 2.2.222, given demonstration of absolute dominance of Russian arms against the invading Horde of 50 western nations]

Map designations:

• Countries with which Russia has a military cooperation agreement (signed before 2015) are marked in blue
• Countries with which Russia has a military cooperation agreement (signed after 2015) are marked in dark blue
• Anchor : countries where Russia has the right to use ports
• Aircraft : right to use air bases (Libya is not included, as no official agreement with the Tripoli authorities on the use of air bases was signed)
• Machine gun : countries with which contracts for arms supplies have been signed
• Stone : Russia’s Investments in Mining

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ Freeze USAID Funding Forever Please

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is has an annual budget of over $27 billion. Its stated mission is to “provide economic, development, and humanitarian assistance worldwide.”

However, in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states, USAID’s activities go far beyond humanitarian aid, serving as a tool for advancing U.S. geopolitical interests, promoting regime change, and destabilizing governments perceived as adversarial to American influence.

This region has been a focal point for USAID due to its strategic importance in countering Russian influence and expanding Western political and economic interests . Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the U.S. sought to fill the power vacuum by installing pro-Western puppet regimes. USAID funded programs aimed at weakening Russian influence and integrating these nations into Western institutions like NATO and the European Union. .

USAID has been implicated in several regime change operations in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states, often under the guise of promoting democracy.

🇺🇦 Ukraine (2004 Orange Revolution and 2014 Euromaidan Revolution)

– Gave millions of dollars to Ukrainian NGOs, media outlets, and civil society groups that played a central role in mobilizing protests against pro-Russian governments.
– 2004, USAID-funded organizations like IRI and NDI supported opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, who became president.
– 2014, USAID-backed groups were instrumental in the Euromaidan protest.

🇬🇪Georgia (2003 Rose Revolution)

– Provided significant funding to Georgian opposition groups and media outlets that supported the Rose Revolution, which overthrew President Eduard Shevardnadze.
– Brought Mikheil Saakashvili to power, a pro-Western leader who aligned Georgia closely with NATO and the EU.

🇷🇸Serbia (2000 Bulldozer Revolution)

– USAID funded opposition groups and independent media that played a key role in the ouster of Slobodan Milošević.

Propaganda and Soft Power

USAID’s funding often supports media outlets, educational programs, and NGOs that promote pro-Western narratives. For example:

– Ukraine, USAID funded media projects like Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which broadcasts PRO-WEST content critical of Russia.
– Belarus, USAID supported opposition media and civil society groups that challenge the Lukashenko admin.

NGOs are not needed in Belarus. They are a waste of money. They are a fifth column. They are a tool used by the West to destabilize our country.
— Lukashenko
⭕ 🇷🇺 “Thousands of [foreign-funded] organizations are working in Russia. They are a powerful tool of external influence on our society, and we will not allow them to be used as instruments of political pressure.” — Vladimir Putin

Russia kicked USAID out in 2012, ending two decades of U.S. influence operations disguised as “development aid.”

What Did USAID Do in Russia?
• Funded Opposition Groups: nearly $50 million annually into Russian NGOs, including election monitoring organizations that directly challenged Kremlin policies.
• Influenced Elections: supported Golos, a so-called independent election watchdog that was exposed for pushing anti-government narratives.
• Backed Separatist Movements: Funded NGOs in the North Caucasus (Chechnya/Dagestan).
• Media and Propaganda: bankrolled “independent” Russian media outlets that spouted pro-West talking points.

Moscow saw USAID’s work as following the same regime-change playbook used in Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine. The Kremlin recognized that foreign-backed NGOs were a Trojan horse for U.S. soft power and subversion. Putin learned from the 2011-2012 protests, when Western-backed groups orchestrated mass demonstrations against his re-election.

What Did Putin Do?
• Foreign Agent Law (2012): NGOs receiving foreign funding had to register as “foreign agents.”
• Crackdown on U.S.-Funded Media: Outlets like Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and others faced legal restrictions.
• Western NGOs Expelled: The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Open Society Foundations (Soros)were also banned in 2015.

USAID is a criminal organization that has caused immeasurable harm around the world.
⭕ 🇧🇾 “We know very well how USAID operates. Their grants do not build economies—they build revolutions.”
— Alexander Lukashenko, 2020, on Western-backed protests in Belarus

In 2021, Belarus shut down 200+ Western-backed NGOs, labeling them as tools of foreign interference. USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and other groups were caught funding opposition movements, training activists, and attempting to manufacture another Color Revolution—just like in Ukraine.

USAID and NED poured over $200M into Belarus from 2011 to 2021, funding opposition media like Belsat and Tut.by and “Activist training” programs modeled after Color Revolutions. USAID also engaged in economic pressure campaigns that targeted Belarus’ state-owned industries, including Belaruskali (potash), Belneftekhim (oil), and major manufacturing plants, using sanctions, funding for worker strikes, and economic pressure to destabilize the country.

The 2020 protests were engineered:
• USAID spent $50M in 2020 alone under the pretext of “civil society support.”
• NED directly funded opposition figures, including Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s network.
• Leaked documents showed Poland, Lithuania, and the U.S. coordinated sanctions & protests.

What Did Lukashenko Do?
• BANNED NED, Open Society Foundations, and USAID-linked groups from operating in Belarus.
• Arrested pro-Western agitators and expelled foreign-funded journalists.
• Signed a strategic agreement with Russia to counteract Western pressure.

USAID wasn’t promoting democracy—it was running a destabilization op. Lukashenko shut it down, ensuring Belarus didn’t become another Ukraine.
⭕ 🇨🇳 “Some foreign NGOs, under the guise of development and human rights, are actually promoting separatism and destabilizing nations. China will not tolerate such interference.”
— Xi Jinping (2016, before enacting China’s strict Foreign NGO Law)

Before the West launched its “Uyghur genоcide” propaganda campaign, China had already identified the real threat—U.S.-funded NGOs pushing separatism. In 2016, Xi enacted one of the world’s strictest Foreign NGO Laws, forcing groups like USAID, NED, and Open Society Foundations under heavy restrictions.

• NED funneled millions into Uyghur, Tibetan, and Hong Kong separatist groups:
Hong Kong Protests → NED-backed activists pushing for regime change.
Uyghur Separatists → USAID/NED funding “human rights” groups linked to extremism.
Tibet Unrest → U.S. NGOs sponsoring “cultural preservation” efforts tied to separatist networks.

• USAID backed Radio Free Asia (RFA)—the primary source of the “genоcide” claims, despite zero evidence.
• The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), openly calling for Xinjiang’s secession, received U.S. State Department & NED funding.

What did Xi Do?
Xi enacted the Foreign NGO Law, one of the strictest regulations on foreign organizations in the world:

✔ Requires all foreign NGOs to register with the Ministry of Public Security (MPS).
✔ Bans any activity deemed a threat to national security.
✔ Mandates full government oversight of funding, partnerships, and projects.
✔ Shut down U.S.-funded groups promoting separatism, protests, and “civil society” activism.

Just like in Russia, Belarus, Venezuela, and Syria, the U.S. used NGOs as Trojan horses for color revolutions, subversion, and separatism.

Xi stopped them before China could become the next Ukraine.
⭕ 🇸🇰 Fico: USAID & NGOs Caught Engineering a Coup in Slovakia

USAID, NED, and Soros-backed NGOs have poured millions into Slovakia to manufacture protests, destabilize the government, and force a pro-Western regime change and PM Fico is exposing the game.

USAID & NED have been caught funding Slovak NGOs under the guise of “civil society” and “democracy promotion.” The same tactics were used in Ukraine (2014), Belarus (2020), and Georgia (2023) to push pro-Western regime change.

Recent Protests:
— Up to a third of protesters are Ukrainians and other foreigners.
— Ukrainian media openly backs the protests, and Kiev-linked organizations are coordinating unrest.
— Western embassies are openly collaborating with opposition groups, just like in past color revolutions.

On 24 Jan, Slovakia’s General Health Insurance Company was hit by a cyberattack—Fico called it a “textbook example” of pressure on governments rejecting Ukrainian and Western demands.

The May 2024 Attempted Assassination was linked to foreign-backed networks:
— The man who tried to kill Fico last year was a pro-Western activist with ties to foreign-funded groups.
— This came just as Fico began moving to curb NGO influence and expel foreign operatives.

What is Fico doing?

✅ Expelling foreign instructors accused of working to destabilize Slovakia from within.
✅ Investigating NGO funding sources and restricting foreign-backed organizations.
✅ Introducing new laws to expose and dismantle U.S.-funded influence operations.

USAID out of Slovakia.
[Good Riddance! What a plague on mankind.]

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕retweet:
🔻 Kit Klarenberg: USAID’s X account has been deleted too 😲😲😲😲😲

OK, fucking WOW. The entire USAID website is down 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

So Samantha Power is out of her job as USAID chief (🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳). And if you check the still-extant X accounts of USAID divisions, they haven’t tweeted since Trump’s inauguration. It would appear USAID is an ex-intelligence agency front. It has ceased to be.
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand:
It’s becoming clearer and clearer that we’re looking at a seismic shift in the US’s relationship with the world, between:

1) The US dismantling its foreign interference apparatuses (like USAID 👇)
2) Marco Rubio stating that we’re now in a multipolar world with “multi-great powers in different parts of the planet” (state.gov/secretary-marco-ru…) and that “the postwar global order is not just obsolete; it is now a weapon being used against us” (foreign.senate.gov/imo/media…)
3) The tariffs on supposed “allies” like Mexico, Canada or the EU

This is the US effectively saying “our attempt at running the world is over, to each his own, we’re now just another great power, not the ‘indispensable nation’.”

It looks “dumb” (as the WSJ just wrote) if you are still mentally in the old paradigm but it’s always a mistake to think that what the US (or any country) does is dumb.

Hegemony was going to end sooner or later, and now the U.S. is basically choosing to end it on its own terms. It is the post-American world order – brought to you by America itself.

Even the tariffs on allies, viewed under this angle, make sense, as it redefines the concept of “allies”: they don’t want – or maybe rather can’t afford – vassals anymore, but rather relationships that evolve based on current interests.

You can either view it as decline – because it does unquestionably look like the end of the American empire – or as avoiding further decline: controlled withdrawal from imperial commitments in order to focus resources on core national interests rather than being forced into an even messier retreat at a later stage.

In any case it is the end of an era and, while the Trump administration looks like chaos to many observers, they’re probably much more attuned to the changing realities of the world and their own country’s predicament than their predecessors. Acknowledging the existence of a multipolar world and choosing to operate within it rather than trying to maintain an increasingly costly global hegemony couldn’t be delayed much further. It looks messy but it is probably better than maintaining the fiction of American primacy until it eventually collapses under its own weight.

This is not to say that the U.S. won’t continue to wreak havoc on the world, and in fact we might be seeing it become even more aggressive than before. Because when it previously was (badly, and very hypocritically) trying to maintain some semblance of self-proclaimed “rules-based order”, it now doesn’t even have to pretend it is under any constraint, not even the constraint of playing nice with allies. It’s the end of the U.S. empire, but definitely not the end of the U.S. as a major disruptive force in world affairs.

All in all this transformation may mark one of the most significant shifts in international relations since the fall of the Soviet Union. And those most unprepared for it, as is already painfully obvious, are America’s vassals caught completely flat-footed by the realization that the patron they’ve relied on for decades is now treating them as just another set of countries to negotiate with.
⭕ retweet:
It’s actually happening.🚨

America just admitted defeat to BRICS

THIS IS THE END OF THE EMPIRE

Marco Rubio: “In 5 years we won’t have the ability to sanction anyone”

Kicking Russia off SWIFT will go down as one the biggest blunders in history |media|

Amen Emerson. I don’t follow the central African tragedy closely. But Lavrov appears to hit the nail on the head. Rwanda remains a disturbed and disturbing construct, since their genocide in mid-1990s. Note how instrumentalizeable they remain, with a Tutsi minority leading the Hutu majority; a classical, and unsustainable, imperial setup. M23 are also Tutsi led..

Rwanda switched official allegiance from France to Britain, and is now even tighter integrated into Empire via the British Commonwealth. Remember the risible deportation of Africans in Britain to Rwanda in the prior regime of Sunak et al.

One image that stood out, at the height of the Gaza Genocide, was the zionazi Prez Herzog visiting Rwanda along with Clinton and other functionaries.

I suppose, as Chad was once the French gendarme of the entire Sahel, Rwanda is such for the Anglos, and ever more important as one of the very last extant outposts.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 U.S. Attorney DC: Former Senior Adviser for the Federal Reserve Indicted on Charges of Economic Espionage |link|
🔻 WS: Senior Fed adviser arrested for selling information normally reserved exclusively for Jamie Dimon, Larry Fink, and other Wall St. bigwigs.
[there’s a big showy round up and dismissals of finks and whatnot, at FBI, Pentagram, etc etc. The Orange Camacho Gang came in breathing heavy and with hardon for God knows what. The new scoundrels are OF the same swamp!]
⭕This is the big lie that they will try to make stick going forward.

China was set up as the fall guy for a DARPA-engineered operation they sold as
[there u go. It’s all optics and different shell game/sleight of hand. All they mesmerize is the captive disintegrating nation. The Caravan’s moved on elsewhere..]
he links: “The White House claims that COVID-19 originated from a lab leak in Wuhan.

“Conspiracy theorists” vindicated once again.” |media|
⭕Ender’s Game – 2025 |media|
🔻 C1: Please don’t tell me we are believing anything that comes out of this illiterate woman’s mouth? Or anything from the Trump administration, for that matter.
🔻 ADAM: I don’t know where it came from but I know it wasn’t a wet market.
🔻 WS: reposts old from 31 Mar 2020:
Mmmm…

Do we know where COVID-19 originated?

In June 2019, near the US bioweapons lab at Fort Detrick, MD (closed down in August 2019 due to reported “security” lapses), there was a serious breakout at a Fairfax County, VA assisted care facility. |media|
🔻 C3: Any idea why China went along with the scam? It’s probably one of the most important questions.
[LOL. Will has become the reincarnation of the Oracle of Delphi. Just ask any question.. but they’re not depositing the requisite fee to the acolyte]
🔻 WS: Maybe they just wanted to get access to what the US was doing. And then maybe they simply didn’t understand what was really happening at first, nor for a long time afterwards. The Chinese aren’t geniuses about everything.
🔻 C4: My opinion is China and the US were we’re trying to find vaccines for future illnesses and it got out of hand. They are both to blame.
🔻 WS: Nonsense. DARPA was the originator of this whole thing, and it goes back at least 20 years. The US has been the foremost developer of bioweapons going back to at least the 1950s.
🔻 C4: Are you saying China did not regulate a laboratory on its soil? Your nuts.
🔻 WS: Anyone who knows anything about China knows that the “government” is absolutely unable to strictly regulate huge sectors of Chinese society and industry.

You’re naive and uninformed.
🔻 C5: The emphasis should be on the word “sold”. It is not obvious to me that this was a pandemic at all in the real sense of the word. Cf. @JAHockett76 @NickHudsonCT
🔻 WS: It was a long-planned and clumsily executed psyop. And yet, by and large, it “worked”, and continues to “work” in a great many ways.
[reposts his old from 25 Apr 2020:
“The most disconcerting aspect of the plague hysteria is how many people to whom I had previously attributed an extraordinary degree of discernment have been rendered completely disarmed by a psyop directed at a blind spot.”]
🔻 Dr. Anton: Do you think 🇺🇸 Presidents know the real origins of said plague?
🔻 WS: I don’t believe there was any “plague” to speak of, except for a plague of psychological manipulation and social engineering.

And, to whatever extent a bioengineered “virus” was indeed unleashed, they should have let the collective human immune system deal with it unassisted.
⭕🔻 Donald J. Trump: Photo of beautiful water flow that I just opened in California. Today, 1.6 billion gallons and, in 3 days, it will be 5.2 billion gallons. Everybody should be happy about this long fought Victory! I only wish they listened to me six years ago – There would have been no fire!
🔻 WS: This post would have had a whole lot more impact if it had showed Trump walking on the water.
🔻 C2: President Knut outlaws fire, if we had only known.
🔻 C3: I read somewhere that there are consultations on holding a unification Easter service «in the name of peace» in the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, which will be attended by Trump, the Pope and the Eastern Patriarchs. During which he can get an unattainable sacral status.And then
⭕retweet:
🔻 Jessica Hockett: …and just like that, we are back in January 2020, with people still believing six impossible things before breakfast, including a Tall Tale about a coronavirus coming out of a U.S.-funded Wuhan lab & circumnavigating the globe.

Incredible |media|
⭕ retweet of his old:
31 May 2024
‼️ Bleeding the Beast

I am inclined to believe that, in the absence of some truly egregious escalation on the part of the US/NATO, the Russians are more than willing to continue to fight this war on the strategically idiotic terms it has long-since assumed: the west expends its military strength piecemeal into the battle, and the Russians methodically defeat and/or destroy it.

Why should the Russians object if the US/NATO sends more of its scant stockpiles of short-range ballistic and longer-range cruise missiles? The success rates for ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles has been abysmal, and steadily decreases with the passage of time. They are strategically meaningless. And there is effectively zero replenishment capacity!

Why should the Russians object if the US/NATO sends a squadron — or even five — of antiquated F-16s to Ukraine. Yes, of course, they would be piloted by NATO “volunteers”, and they might even achieve a handful of overhyped and fleeting “successes” in the early going. But if they actually attempt to mount serious sorties over the Ukraine battlefield, old F-16s with inadequate logistics and sustainment are going to have a life span numbered in mere HOURS.

And why, above all, would the Russians object if the US/NATO sends “ground troops” into Ukraine to face the Russian army?

It simply must be understood that the US/NATO could not assemble, equip, send, and sustain even a dozen competent combat brigades to engage the Russians in Ukraine.

Do you realize what would happen to 50k NATO combat troops — none of whom have EVER experienced high-intensity warfare — if they were suddenly thrust, with necessarily deficient leadership and coordination, into the Ukraine battlefield?

They would be mercilessly slaughtered.

It would be even worse for the NATO forces than it was for the AFU during its catastrophic summer 2023 “counter-offensive”.

So, if I’m Gerasimov, I would say, “Bring ’em on!”

At the rate this whole Ukraine debacle is going, essentially all European-based military power — be it indigenous or in the form of American expeditionary forces — is going to be attrited to “combat-ineffective” for at least a decade, and probably more.

If I were the Russians, I would view that objective as the summum bonum to be achieved as a result of this war, and I would be loath to interrupt the Masters of Empire while in the process of handing it to me on a silver platter.
⭕🔻 S.L. Kanthan: Trump tariffs:

🔹25% on Canada and Mexico
🔹10% extra on China
🔹Unknown tariffs on EU
🔹All pharmaceuticals and medicines (targeting Denmark)

For a man with only a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
🔻 S.L. Kanthan: Also, tariffs on:

Steel, aluminum, semiconductor chips, oil, gas and copper! 😆

How Trump thinks this won’t create massive inflation is a mystery.
🔻 WS: The ONLY answer to the US debt burden is to massively depreciate the dollar.
⭕ 🎸 Brothers in Arms

This is, imo, the single greatest performance of this majestic song, and one of the greatest performances of ANY song, ever.

It’s written in the starlight
And every line in your palm
We are fools to make war
on our brothers in arms. |media|
⭕ I’ve read several persuasive and seemingly informed explanations of how and why this could have happened, but I still find it incomprehensible that the helicopter cluelessly flew straight into that jet. |media|
[if airliners have remote control, why wouldn’t choppers…]
🔻 🇺🇸MadMike1776🇺🇸: Cone vision.
🔻 WS: Probably so. Still, that shouldn’t have affected the ability of SOMEONE in the helicopter whose job was to keep an eye on the altimeter.
🔻 🇺🇸MadMike1776🇺🇸: I agree. I still can’t understand how it had clearance to fly through an airport lane but I don’t know anything about air traffic.

💠@TASS – Agencia rusa de noticias:
⭕ 🇳🇴🇷🇺 Police in the Norwegian county of Troms have released the Silver Dania ship with 11 Russian crew members, broadcaster NRK reported, citing a statement from a law enforcement official.

According to police prosecutor Ronny Jorgensen, the officers carried out “the necessary procedures for the investigation” and received all the information necessary to comply with Latvia’s request .

The investigation will continue, but we see no reason to continue holding the ship in the port of Tromso. <…> No evidence was found linking the ship to the incident [in the Baltic Sea, where an underwater cable was damaged],” the officer added.
⭕ 🇳🇴🇷🇺 The Norwegian ship Silver Dania with a Russian crew, which was detained by Norway on suspicion of damaging a cable in the Baltic Sea, “did nothing wrong,” said Tormod Bo Fossmark, CEO of the company Silver Sea, which owns the ship.

“We were passing close to Gotland, but we did not anchor there. We did nothing wrong, the Norwegian authorities moved our ship to the port to eliminate the rumor that we were involved [in the cable damage],” he told AFP.

Law enforcement is questioning the crew members. The Russian Embassy in Norway is investigating the details of the ship’s detention.
[and Legion shall keep on prodding the Bear, until…]

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ The US military will be able to conduct operations against Mexican cartels after they are designated as terrorist organizations, Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth said.
[life is gonna get interesting in “the New World.” But they waste their time. If they want to go after the REAL cartel bringin in the Dope – head to northern Virginia]