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The Parable of Gaza reminds of the Parable of Nimrod, the Mighty Hunter.. As that one who had subjected most men was defeated by a mosquito, so the Last Satanic Empire by Little Gaza! Imagine the humiliation in London, DC and Tel Aviv.. In 1990s, Anglo-Zionists had declared an End to History after watching Russkies kneel and most nations rush to prostrate themselves. And today they can’t swallow Little Gaza! But the Balloon of Hubris is gonna be deflated by many more hot needles in bitter days to come. Death by a thousand cuts, even if they escape Armageddon, their most likely exit card
NB. he says repeatedly what I’ve said as well: “the Great Return is near” [to historic Palestine, between Gaza and WB] .. and finishes with last words of Nasrallah, “and the days are between us.” This was always fated to be finished with short swords at the end..
So! Trump was projecting all along. It was Yanquis that tried to steal the hypersonics in the wild 1990s
💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️The Doomsday Clock has been moved one second closer to midnight, to 89 seconds“This is the closest the world has ever come to midnight,” said Daniel Holz, chairman of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Council.
The Doomsday Clock first appeared on the cover of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947.
The time remaining until midnight symbolizes the tension in the international situation; midnight signifies the moment of nuclear cataclysm. In recent years, the hands have only been moved forward.
[LOL. The political stiffs are left to Orange’s antics and scaremongering. Come Hell or Highwater, the sun shall set on you know who!]
⭕ 🇷🇺⚓️ The Russian Navy is being equipped with unmanned surface vehicles, the production has increased significantly, presidential aide says“I can say that the Russian Navy is already equipped with unmanned surface vehicles (USV). Their production has been significantly increased, taking into account the experience of the special military operation,” Russian presidential aide and chairman of the Maritime Board of Russia Nikolay Patrushev told a Russian newspaper.
Russia is creating a unified center of competence for the production of USV that are superior to foreign models, he noted.
“This work will involve the necessary financial resources, as well as the best personnel – not only military, but also civilian, including from leading companies in the technology sector. AI and machine learning technologies are expected to be used in the creation of new types of USV,” Patrushev added.
⭕ ⚰️ 🇳🇪 First anniversary of the AES nations exiting the ECOWAS: Niamey residents have “buried” the communityThousands of Nigerien capital’s residents have taken to the streets to demonstrate in support of the country’s withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African States.
During the demonstration, participants “buried” an effigy covered in a shroud bearing the organization’s logo.
According to a Sputnik correspondent at the site, some demonstrators carried Russian flags. |media|
[that “Doc” needs to be fined for attempting a resuscitation!]
⭕ 🇨🇩 The embassies of Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Japan, the US and France have been attacked in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
[all vassals of Anglo-French…]💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇩🇰🇷🇺The Danish Ministry of Energy has issued a permit to Nord Stream AG, the operator of the Nord Stream pipeline, to carry out work to preserve the damaged branch of the pipeline.
⭕ 🇨🇩In the capital of the DRC, Kinshasa, supporters of the government threw burning tires at the US diplomatic mission building. People are chanting “death to the imperialists.”This is happening because the American government is funding the rebels from the March 23 Movement group.
💠 “New Delhi and Beijing have agreed to restart direct flights after a five-year hiatus caused by Covid and diplomatic tensions following the 2020 border clashes”
💠@imetatronink:
⭕ retweet:
“Foreign aid is when the poor people of a rich country send money to the rich people of a poor country” |media|
⭕ ⁉️ “Gravitic Propulsion” Update?Have I missed all the sensational new revelations about the Las Vegas Trump Hotel Cybertruck “Bombing” — purportedly at the hands of Matthew Livelsberger, an active US special forces Green Beret with several visits to Ukraine on his resumé?
You know, with the claims that the late-2024 drone sightings were actually a demonstration of supersecret supertech flying machines powered and steered by “gravitic propulsion”?
What happened to this story? It started off with such promise … and now it seems to have entirely fizzled out.
I am so disappointed …
🔻 C1: Yeah, the Hollywood fires & smoke affected the script writer’s house for that episode.
🔻 Henry Thoreau: A high ranking commander in the US Airforce also reports that the drones were somehow stealing our precious bodily fluids
🔻 C3: I was thinking about that today.Remember that one time two dudes both decided to rent electric trucks and launched weird quasi-terror-attacks with them and then everyone just quit caring like three days later
⭕ 21st century pharisaical canon law.I’m surprised the prescribed sentence is not public stoning.
⭕ 🤦♂️ Imagine being counted among the still-devoted followers of Shawn Ryan and Sam Shoemate — who, if they were not entirely complicit in this PSYOP, were nonetheless useful idiots for its absurdity.
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“‼️ This was brought to my attention about an hour ago.To be perfectly clear: although I have no reason to believe Shawn Ryan and Sam Shoemate are complicit, I think this whole thing reeks of amateurish PSYOP.
To what end, I will not speculate.” |media| ]
⭕🔻 Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch): https://www.rt.com/news/611694-russia-europe-political-elites/
🔻 WS: I wrote on this very topic back in February 2024:
📜Welcome to the Last World War
📜The Vladimir Putin Interview – Part Two
⭕🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ:
[links above and below:
🔻Ben Hodges (27.01.2025): Russia is more fragile now than many comprehend. Their industry, economy, and oil/gas infrastructure are fragile, vulnerable. We should be putting maximum pressure on all of that, including sanctions on India and China for continuing to buy Russian oil.
🔻 WS: By the time the Russians take Odessa and are soaking their feet in the Danube, I have no doubt General Ben will have the worst eye twitch ever seen. |Pink Panther|
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord:
A more realistic peace plan, taking into account the minimum acceptable Russian position (as otherwise the war will simply continue), in Fourteen Points:⬇️1. Ukraine will never join NATO or the EU, and will conduct no direct or indirect military cooperation with any member of those blocs outside of that explicitly allowed under the present treaty; nor will it allow bloc members to maintain expansive diplomatic missions in Kiev or elsewhere.
2. The Armed Forces of Ukraine will be disbanded and their equipment disposed of under joint NATO-Russian supervision; NATO is invited to recover donated equipment for its own use. Postwar Ukraine may maintain a gendarmerie equipped with light weapons, as well as sufficient aerial and naval forces to police its own airspace and remaining coastline.
3. The GUR and SBU are to be disbanded and not replaced by any successor organizations.
4. All Ukrainian ultranationalist organizations are to be banned and their leadership barred from public office.
5. All personnel who served as senior leaders in the Ukrainian security services from 2014-2025 are to be barred from further service to the postwar Ukrainian state.
6. Ukraine will formally cede the five oblasts to Russia in their administrative boundaries; Ukrainian forces will withdraw from any portions of Kursk still occupied at the time the treaty enters into effect; Russian forces will similarly withdraw from occupied portions of Kharkov Oblast.
7. The Russian language is to be given coequal status with the Ukrainian language.
8. All actions taken against the canonical UOC, in communion with the Moscow Patriarchate, are to be reversed and all seized Church property returned.
9. All Soviet and Imperial-era memorials are to be restored.
10. All memorials and monuments to members of the OUN-UPA and other Nazi collaborators, as well as those erected in honor of proscribed ultranationalist entities and individuals in the current war, are to be destroyed.
11. All Ukrainian nuclear facilities are to be occupied by, and operate under the supervision of, the joint NATO-Russian disarmament task force on a permanent basis; Ukraine commits to end all nuclear research immediately and to decommission all three power plants no later than 2040.
12. All political parties and individuals proscribed and persecuted by the Maidan-era Ukrainian authorities are to be restored their freedoms and properties.
13. Free and fair elections are to be held under the supervision of the joint NATO-Russian disarmament task force within three months of the treaty entering into force.
14. Those Russian funds currently detained in Western banks are to be allocated for civil reconstruction and development in postwar Ukraine, controlled by a joint NATO-Russian reconstruction commission.
Formalities such as a ceasefire and an exchange of prisoners are of course to be incorporated. I doubt the Russians care all that much about immediate sanctions relief at this point – with peace having broken out, sanctions will be eased in the normal course of economic business.
There will additionally be an unofficial “understanding” that – the Russians having achieved their stated war aims – NATO will view any moves by the Kremlin to seize additional territory in Ukraine very dimly, and will at a minimum introduce forces to occupy Western Ukraine in such an event. |Orange BS|
🔻 WS: I remain persuaded that, if Putin were to accede to terms such as the Warlord describes above, he would fall prey to a palace coup.
📜Dictating Terms
🔻 WS: Well … I’ve been 100% consistent on this question for over two years. In my view, what you propose is tantamount to a NATO/Russia partition of Ukraine.I believe the balance of power in the Kremlin would decisively rebel against that course of action.
📜In for a Pound
💠 @NEWWORLDORDYR:
⭕ 🇵🇸🏴☠| Jenin’s oldest prisoner to be released🔸Prisoner Raed al-Saadi, who has been in Israeli captivity since 1987, will be released today as part of the Storm of Freedom agreement.
💠 @Lex:
⭕ Keep a close eye on the fact that almost everything Trump is trying to do will be deeply damaging to the U.S. economy as currently structured. From the low oil prices he dreams about (which will destroy the U.S. oil sector) to getting rid of immigrants (who do a large portion of working class labor which is the source of capitalist profit) to gutting federal funding of loads of stuff like NIH (pharmaceutical companies don’t do research, federal grants to universities do the research).It would be one thing if he had a replacement model and actionable means to implement it. He does not. It’s like tariffs. A good tool to protect your industry, but if you don’t have one and aren’t interested in actually building one, tariffs are just sawing off one of your limbs as performative art.
💠 @The Cradle:
⭕ Mohammad al-Tous, a Fatah leader born in 1956, is one of the 23 remaining pre-Oslo prisoners detained by Israel. He once survived an Israeli airstrike on a car he was traveling in, earning him the nickname ‘the living martyr.’ He joined Fatah in 1970 at the age of 14, and was a part of several operations between 1983 and 1985 targeting Israeli forces and settlements.Al-Tous was arrested multiple times. He first entered prison in 1970 and escaped in 1975, becoming wanted before being re-arrested four more times by 1985. He was sentenced to multiple life terms by a military court since he refused to stand by the court. In prison, he became one of the leaders of the prisoner movement, and participated in hunger strikes to protest prison policies.
Al-Tous has authored two books: Eye of the Mountain (2021), detailing his life, resistance activities, and views on the Palestinian cause, and Sweetness and Bitterness (2023), chronicling his prison experiences.
He is expected to be liberated today.
💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇨🇳 “There is great disorder under heaven; the situation is excellent.”— Mao Zedong
⭕ 🇨🇳🤜🇺🇸 Chinese AI Breakthrough DeepSeek Shakes Global Tech Market, Triggers $1 Trillion Loss for Western GiantsThe rapid rise of Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek, which has demonstrated superior efficiency and cost-effectiveness compared to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, has sent shockwaves through the global tech industry.
According to CNN, the success of DeepSeek has led to a significant decline in the stock prices of major Western tech companies, wiping out a staggering $1 trillion in market value in a single day.
Nvidia, a leading supplier of AI chips, saw its shares drop by 12%. Other tech giants, including Meta (parent company of Facebook) and Alphabet (Google’s parent company), also experienced sharp declines. The ripple effect extended to Nvidia’s competitors, such as Marvell, Broadcom, Micron, and TSMC, all of which reported substantial losses. The downturn also impacted companies involved in data center operations, including Oracle, Vertiv, Constellation, and NuScale.
⭕ ❗️Trump has already buried Zelensky telling him that “it’s over, it’s finished”.“The Zelensky regime is in it’s final days like the 3rd Reich in April 1945 – desperately gang pressing civilians into front line service in a futile attempt to hold back the advancing Russian army.” |media|
[This is opinion of Mercouris too. The plug was quietly pulled on 404, covered by Orange’s projectile noxious noise and “the temporary freeze of arms for 90 days” – that shall be as temporary as zionazi land occupations]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇸🇾 The Russian delegation has arrived in Damascus for a visit for the first time since the change of power in Syria.The delegation includes Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and Russian Presidential Special Envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentyev.
💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇮🇷| Iran Foreign Minister’s taunt to Trump:Instead of relocating Palestinians, take Israelis to Greenland so you can hit two birds with one stone.
💠 @Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕️ The IDF announced yesterday the death of Ihab Abu Atiwi, Hamas leader in Tulkarm, West Bank, in a drone attack.The movement announced his death along with that of another fighter.
[And the Annihilation, and sop to zionazi polity, continues unabated.]
⭕ Images of the construction of Israeli military posts on top of Mount Hermon, Syria. |media|
💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇲🇽🇺🇸Mexican drug cartel gunmen have opened fire on U.S. Border Patrol agents near Fronton, Texas.
[“Suspected”..]
⭕️ 🇨🇩🇷🇼❗️ A new war has begun in AfricaDR Congo forces have crossed the border into Rwanda and entered the town of Gisenyi. Fighting is currently raging in and around the town.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦❗️US suspends program for refugees from UkraineThis was reported by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services. Applications for funding are no longer being accepted.
[Yeah, a useless gesture after 80 years of admittance of Banderites and other nazis to California and other states! Plenty of nazi seeds collected for future rainy days]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇸🇾Russian military equipment has been removed from Syria, according to satellite images of the port of Tartus.Earlier, dozens of military vehicles were concentrated in Tartus after most Russian military facilities in Syria, with the exception of the Khmeimim airbase and the Tartus naval base, were closed. |media|
[Happy hunting in Africa and other points requiring pest control!]
💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕🇷🇺 The West is trying to disrupt the celebration of the 80th anniversary of Victory, Russian intelligence chief says“Today, we already see attempts being made by a number of Western capitals to disrupt the participation of international, foreign leaders in the celebration of the anniversary of the Great Victory,” director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergey Naryshkin told Sputnik.
According to the SVR chief, Western capitals understand that “their success in such actions will have a significant impact on their plans and dreams of the complete isolation of Russia.”
🎯 However, while the West fails to achieve this goal, the attempts are one of the priorities of the foreign ministries and intelligence services of Western countries, he added.
Russia will be glad to see everyone who wants to come to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in December 2024 during a press conference. Many heads of state received an invitation to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Victory in Moscow, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov told journalists last week.
[The Cup of Impotent Malice brims over..]
⭕ Biblical scenes from PalestineThousands of Palestinians are walking along a coastal road north of the Gaza Strip, where they were allowed to return following an agreement between Israel and Hamas. |media|
[This is what prompted the gnashing of teeth and Orangeman’s bilious calls to Jordan, Egypt and all points vassal. Good!]
⭕ #sputnikviral | 🇷🇺🎄🇨🇳Moscow prepares to celebrate Chinese New Year on a grand scaleThis is in line with the declaration made by the leadership of both countries, designating 2024 and 2025 as the years of Russian and Chinese culture. Colorful decorations, garlands, and Chinese-style red lanterns are being installed in the city’s main squares and avenues.
The festivities will take place from January 28 to February 9. For two weeks, Muscovites and visitors to the Russian capital will be able to enjoy a program that includes parades, master classes, tea ceremonies, and much more. |media|
⭕ 📌 Major world events by the evening of January 27- Russia’s Putin held a telephone conversation with the president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, the Kremlin reported. The leaders discussed the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict and the coming to power of the new American administration;
- Moscow has no direct contacts with the new US administration yet, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov;
- The authorities of the city of Duisburg in western Germany have promised to give out free beer to voters who vote in the early Bundestag elections in February.
⭕ 🪧🇨🇩🇺🇸 Protest in front of the US Embassy in the DRC to denounce Washington’s complacency towards Rwanda
💬 “It is time for the Congolese state to declare war on Rwanda, and we demand that the heads of state conclude geostrategic partnerships with China, Iran, and Russia,” Fortifi Lushima, national coordinator of the Panafrican Emergency Movement DRC, told Sputnik Africa.
The Lumumba operation, which intended to denounce Washington’s support for Rwanda, was stifled, he said, because the government had “deployed very heavy security for the embassy.”
👉🏾 However, the organizers of the event intend to hold another gathering in the coming days.
💬 “We are not here to beg for the pity of the international community, but to say that any entity supporting Rwanda is considered hostile to the interests of the Congolese people. These entities must pack their bags and leave,” he explained. |media|
[Uncle Schmuel, who took over for Belgium in the African Heart of Darkness, lost more hearts and minds. Anglo-Zionists instrumentalize Rwanda, pumping terror and foreign militias into neighboring resource-rich Congo, as Jordan or Pakistan do against their neighbors, and at behest of the same. The hatred of the duplicitous west and their local compradores by the common man is incandescent — on every sovereign land on Earth!]
⭕ 📌Major world events by the morning of January 28- Polish President Andrzej Duda called for dismantling Nord Streams, saying the pipelines pose a serious threat to his country, as well as Ukraine, Slovakia and other Central European states;
- US journalist Tucker Carlson believes that the Biden administration tried to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin. The journalist did not provide any details or arguments in favor of his version; |media|
⭕ 🇵🇸🔙 Over 300,000 Palestinians return to northern Gaza Strip on January 27, government says
💬 “Today, more than 300,000 displaced Palestinians returned from the southern and central provinces to the Gaza and Northern Gaza provinces,” the Gaza government’s media office said.
The official spokesperson of the Qatari Foreign Ministry, Majed bin Mohammed Al-Ansari, said previously that Israeli authorities would allow displaced Palestinians to return from the south of the Gaza Strip back to the north in exchange for the agreement to release three Israeli hostages. |media| [Wow!]
⭕ 🕯 At least 5,399 civilians became victims of Ukrainian crimes in 2024, says the Russian Foreign Ministry💬 “In 2024 alone, based on the most conservative and verified data currently available, at least 5,399 people have fallen victim to Ukrainian crimes, among whom no fewer than 809 people have been killed,” stated Rodion Miroshnik, the Special Envoy of the Russian Foreign Ministry for crimes of the Kiev regime. “But this is just the tip of the iceberg.”
He noted that these numbers are expected to rise as territories are freed from the presence of the Ukrainian regime and investigative actions are conducted.
“Facts of mass killings, violence, and looting are being uncovered. Already, the reported number of casualties does not include at least another 300-350 civilians killed by Ukrainian militants in territories already liberated or being liberated by our armed forces. Legal proceedings are still ongoing for them,” he explained.
He said that many victims of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have been found in this area, with testimonies from their closest relatives collected, revealing new burial sites and establishing the circumstances of these individuals’ deaths.
🗣 “Speaking about the systematic and planned shelling of the civilian sector by the AFU, I can definitively state that the highest density and intensity of the shelling had cynical, deliberately calculated political motives and objectives,” Miroshnik emphasized.
⭕ 🇳🇦 🇨🇩 Namibian foreign ministry calls for end to DRC conflictNamibia’s Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation executive director, Penda Naanda, in a statement issued Monday said Namibia is alarmed that if a solution is not found soon, there is potential for the conflict to spill over into neighboring countries.
“Namibia is monitoring with great concern the escalation of conflict and the deteriorating security situation in the eastern part of the DRC and expresses hope that only regional mediation and diplomatic efforts will bring about lasting peace in the DRC and halt the tension between the DRC and the Republic of Rwanda,” Naanda said.
[IMO, as with vaxxes, Africa, and this central region in specific, is another western testing ground, in this case for how genocide can be accomplished in broad daylight under scrutiny of global screens, through incessant stop-and-go “ceasefires” lasting decades, leading to increasing desensitization fatigue and disinterest. And how far Chaos can be seeded. IOW, preparation for the cleansing of the Holy Land by the Moshiach and his Legion. And the example thereby to also serve to terrorize mankind to submit, lest they receive the same]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇧🇷 Russian President Putin expresses support for Brazil’s BRICS chairmanship, Brazilian presidential office says📞On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian presidential office said in a statement.
“Putin expressed support for Brazil’s BRICS chairmanship and expressed readiness to continue working to promote trade and investment facilitation initiatives among the members [of the association],” the statement said.
President Lula has been invited to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Victory Day in Moscow, and expressed his intention to attend, the office noted.
🤝 Due to the transfer of the BRICS chairmanship from Russia to Brazil in 2025, the mutual commitment to closely coordinate positions on the entire extensive agenda of the BRICS activities was confirmed, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
⭕ 🇫🇷🔥🇨🇩 The French embassy in the DR Congo is on fireThe population of Kinshasa is protesting against Rwandan aggression in the East, suspecting Paris of complicity.
[Good! A healthy start]
⭕ 🇧🇪 🇨🇩 In the DR Congo’s capital Kinshasa, the Belgian Embassy is reportedly in flamesAfter the French Embassy, the Belgian Embassy fell victim to the demonstrators, local media reported.
Scenes of chaos are currently taking place in front of the building, with the demonstrators violently expressing their discontent.
⭕ 📹🇨🇩 Demonstrators protesting events in eastern DRC attack the Ugandan embassy in KinshasaAccording to social media reports, the protesters attacked the Ugandan embassy over Kampala’s perceived support of the M23 rebels
💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Ali’s unjust imprisonment was a violation of his fundamental rights and an attack on press freedom and the principles of justice. His detention without charges underscores the immense challenges journalists face in their pursuit of uncompromised truth.
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🔻 Ali Abunimah:
I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two nights in a Swiss prison cut off from communication with the outside world, in a cell 24 hours a day with one cell mate, not even permitted to contact my family. On Saturday in a police interview in the presence of my lawyer they accused me of “offending against Swiss law” without ever telling me what crime I had committed in Switzerland or listing any charges. As far as I know I have not been charged with any crime whatsoever and I was held in “administrative detention.” On Sunday morning, they took me from my cell for questioning by Swiss defense ministry intelligence agents without the presence of my lawyer, and they again refused to allow me to contact her or my family. I refused to talk to them without my lawyer and told them take me back to my cell. During my imprisonment I refused every meal and every cup of coffee or tea they offered me except the last meal, after I knew I would be going home. I accepted only water, which is the right of every human being. All of this was after I was abducted off the street around 1:30pm on Saturday while on my way to the Palestine teach-in by undercover agents, handcuffed, forced into an unmarked car and sped straight to the prison. My “crime”? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it. I came to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice for Palestine, to talk about accountability for a genocide in which Switzerland too is complicit. But while I was hauled off to prison like a dangerous criminal before I even had a chance to say a word, the Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who declared at the start of the genocide that there are no civilians in Gaza, no innocents, received a red carpet welcome in Davos, a carpet soaked in the blood of the more than 47,000 known victims of the genocide and the thousands more still under the rubble, or who died of deliberately inflicted starvation and denial of medical care. And on this very day Netanyahu freely travels to Poland to make a mockery of the Auschwitz commemoration despite an outstanding ICC arrest warrant. That is the perverse, unjust world we live in. This ordeal lasted three days but that taste of prison was more than enough to leave me in even greater awe of the Palestinian heroes who endure months and years in the prisons of the genocidal oppressor. More than ever I know that the debt we owe them is one we can never repay and all of them must be free and they must remain our focus. The police gave me my phone back only at the gate of the plane so I’m only seeing now the extent of the overwhelming support and solidarity from all over the world. I’m deeply grateful to each and every person who stood up for me. I’m especially grateful to my lawyer Dina Raewel and her team, to our friends in Zurich who I learned afterwards demonstrated outside the prison, to my family and my colleagues at EI and so many others. I honestly had no idea what was happening outside that concrete room! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I want to tell the whole story of what happened, perhaps in an @intifada livestream in the next day or two, because I think it’s important for people to know the depths to which their Western so-called “democracies” have sunk in the abject service of genocidal Zionism. Right now I’m glad to be on my way home. I’m looking forward to hugging my mom and dad, taking a shower and sleeping in my own bed. Journalism is not a crime! Speaking out for Palestine is not a crime! Standing against racist genocidal Zionism is not a crime! Say it with me:From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free! ❤️🇵🇸✌️
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🔻Eye on Palestine: “Don’t leave, don’t leave me” .. A little girl embraces her father after returning to the north of Gaza. |media|
⭕ Over 300.000 Palestinians returned from the south to the north of Gaza. Many spent the night in open air, with no water or food on al-Rashid street, waiting for the first morning light to continue their way back.
⭕ retweet:
🔴IMPORTANT🔴
The Lebanese Army Command has strongly denied a claim reported in the @thetimes of London, suggesting that a Lebanese army chief had leaked classified military secrets to Hezbollah , during the ceasefire agreement with Israel.The allegations in The Times, reported that Suhail Bahij Harb, a senior officer in the Lebanese Army, who holds the position of Chief of Military Intelligence for Southern Lebanon, had allegedly leaked classified military information to Hezbollah.
Harb, according to the “international intelligence report seen by The Times,” was accused of sharing sensitive details from a security control room, operated jointly by the United States, France, & the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
The report also alleges that, “Harb is one of dozens of officers in the Lebanese army who have leaked information to Hezbollah, giving them advance warning of raids or patrols, allowing them to remove weapons and evade detection.”
A statement issued by the Lebanese Army Command on Monday strongly denied the reports “of alleged security leaks involving its officers & categorically rejected claims that any of its higher-ups had given away sensitive military information to a partisan entity.”
The Army’s statement underlined “the dedication & competence of its officers, who are tasked with carrying out their duties in various units with the utmost professionalism.”
DISSECTION & CONTEXT:
The Times report forgot to mention:
📌that Harb was personally handpicked for the job five years ago by President Michel Aoun, when the latter was Commander in Chief.📌Aoun, who is now President of Lebanon, was actually selected, vetted & appointed by the “international” powers because of his good relations with the west & in particular the US.
📌 The fact that Harb is a “Shiite,” which the Times highlight in its report is irrelevant, since in line with the country’s 6/6 formula for distribution of power, this position in the south has always been held by a Shiite.
Even if Harb was to be replaced, the next candidate will also be from the Shiite sect.📌 In its reporting of the breach, the Times decided to define Hezbollah as “the Iran-backed group,” as if to paint some sinister correlation with the actual accusation. If anything, Hezbollahs’s relation with Iran, on this occasion, is actually irrelevant to both the report & allegation.
📌The times report said that the “alleged breach comes at a crucial time for the tentative ceasefire, as Israeli soldiers defied a deadline to withdraw from Lebanese territory.”
— One could also argue that the timing of such accusations, by this unnamed“international intelligence report” comes at a critical time & plays directly into Israel’s hand & justification for refusing to withdraw from South Lebanon, as per the original agreement.📌 The “intelligence document” states that apparently “ Hezbollah use internal, sensitive information regarding the Lebanese army to hide its actions from the international entities in charge of regional security.”
It adds that “the leaks raise concern over the ability of the Lebanese army to take over effectively the mountainous south of the country, where Hezbollah has for years been the dominant political and military force.”
Such an assertion is not only extremely dangerous, but also sets the stage for & on behalf of Israel, to use as false pretext & justification for a continued occupation of certain positions in South Lebanon.CONCLUSION:
📌 The whole thing seriously raises questions about both the timing & purpose of this so called “international intelligence report.”
Given that the author of the report is based in Tel-Avi was this in fact based on Israeli intelligence & not western ones?
Whose interest does it really serve & to whose detriment?📌 It also goes without saying that such an accusation puts Harb’s life in grave danger, given Israel’s long history of target killings/assassinations.
[the abject Lebanese “Army” and compradores will be sacrificed, whether they assume the position or not. Hezbollah CANNOT be defeated. Its people are as resilient as those of Gaza and Yemen. So like the Chinese saying of “to strangle the chicken to fright the monkey” – the compradores will be massacred, as if that will either impress Hezbollah, or give the abject compradore the wherewithal to initiate a civil war against those who were unbowed in front of the entire combined western hyenas. A lose-lose scenario for arab compradores throughout the region, every which way]💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ The government of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), a breakaway region of Moldova, has declined an offer made by the central government in Moldova and Ukraine on the supply of Ukrainian coal to help with the country’s energy crisisThe crisis began on New Years Day when Ukraine stopped the transfer of Russian pipeline gas through its territory. The PMR government stated that Ukrainian coal is unsuitable for the Cuciurgan Power Station, which is located in the PMR and was responsible for over three quarters of the electricity generation for all of Moldova prior to 2025.
Estimates are that fuel and coal reserves on the territory of the PMR will run out sometime in February, leading to a potential catastrophe in the region.
[another lever of pressure on Russia. The collapse of PMR is being linked to the ongoing collapse of 404.. a cruel and effective passive-aggressive move]
⭕ Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has denied reports from Hebrew media claiming that Albania is in discussions with the U.S. to accept 100,000 Palestinian refugees from Gaza.
[iow, the criminal mafia regime in Albania is fully onboard with its share of the arranged Exodus. But there is the pesky issue of Palestinians themselves…]
⭕ 🇺🇸 Poll conducted among U.S. citizens aged 18-30: ‘Democracy is at the core of American values, and must be protected.’Agree: 71%
Disagree: 23%
Not sure: 6%Nearly 1 in 4 young Americans states that dictatorship is not necessarily bad.
⭕ 1 in 4 young Americans are now basically fine with dictatorship. The future will CERTAINLY be interesting.
⭕ Google has announced they will change the name of the ‘Gulf of Mexico’ to the ‘Gulf of America’ on Google Maps for U.S. based users once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names SystemUsers in countries that officially recognize the territory as the ‘Gulf of Mexico’ will still see the name used by their respective governments, while users in countries that don’t officially recognize any name will see both names.
[and that is how it is done folks. The envelope of Unreality is pushed by blowhards the digital way, to be forcibly accepted in due time. So the raving hope]
💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇩🇰🇬🇱The European Union’s top military official, General Robert Brieger, has proposed deploying EU troops to Greenland, citing the need to strengthen regional security and counter external threats.Mr Brieger, who chairs the EU’s military committee, said such a move would “send a strong signal and could contribute to stability in the region”.
Denmark will spend $2.05 billion to boost its military presence in the Arctic, following US President Donald Trump’s renewed interest in controlling Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory.
[so Orange’s bloviating succeeded in pushing the drive to militarize the arctic even further, now sold as EU-Anglo rivalry]
⭕ 🇬🇧 52% of British Gen Zers think the UK would be better off if it had a “strong leader” who didn’t have to deal with parliament and elections.33% think the UK would be better off if the military were in charge.
47% think British society needs to be radically changed by revolution.
The Times
[interesting series of polling of targetted youth! The bright future being planned for them by their exceptional betters. It is a good time to die now! A soma-rich metrosexual Fascism in which ye shall having nutin’ and be grinning all the way into your grave]
(L) The FSB celebrates the Year of the Trumpotron.
(R) Moscow welcomes the Year of the Snake.
synergy of the two is total coincidence
💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ A raining morning in Beirut.
⭕ This is what a total defeat, not victory, of Benjamin Netanyahu looks like.
Media reports the return on foot of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the south to the north of Gaza after 15 months of war through the “death corridor “ called Netzarim via Al Rashid coastal road that opened minutes ago. Cars are allowed in through Salahoddine street after an inspection conducted by an American security agency.
The Palestinians of the north are mainly 1948 refugees who refuse to leave Palestine and accept to live in a tent but stay. Israel can never defeat these people.
⭕ Yesterday in Lebanon and today in Gaza are glorious days for the resistance and a moral defeat to the most brutal, immoral and unethical government and army in the Middle East.
🔻 Syed Zeeshan Ali: @ejmalrai does the return of plaestinians mean the war is over, i mean is their return now a deterrent for IL to resume WAR. It would be catastrophic if these pure souls are once again subjected to genocide . They deserve peace and all our love
🔻 EM: Nothing is certain with Netanyahu in power.
⭕ The right of return of the Palestinians is happening.
The Palestinians love life.
⭕ Even if it means living in a tent, the people of southern Lebanon and Gaza must return to their land. This is how the occupier is ultimately defeated—through steadfastness, resilience, and an unbreakable connection to the soil of their homeland. Returning is not just an act of survival but a powerful declaration of defiance and the reclamation of dignity.💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇪🇺🇷🇺Foreign Ministers of 27 EU countries agreed to extend sanctions against Russia — media
💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ ❗️🇵🇸 🇵🇸 NEW: After civilians were finally allowed to return to Northern Gaza, Israelis are shocked at the sight of hundreds of Al-Qassam fighters emerging from the rubble |media|💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ The official spokesperson for Ansar Allah in Yemen, Mohammad Abdul Salam, stated:“The flood of return to northern Gaza is a resounding popular message that affirms the resilience of the Palestinian people and their steadfastness to their land, as well as their absolute rejection of the relocation project.
We congratulate the people of Gaza for their victory of will in the face of the most brutal and bloody wars, and we affirm that Yemen will always stand by the Palestinian right until complete liberation.
The entire world should stand in reverence and admiration for the people of Gaza and southern Lebanon for their display of steadfastness that has rendered the Israeli aggression, fully supported by America, ineffective.
What the peoples of the region must understand is that confronting Israeli and American arrogance is the safest and most appropriate path, and that true peace is achieved through the return of the Palestinian people to all of their land and the liberation of the nation’s sanctities from the filth of the Zionist occupier.”
💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇵🇱💬🇷🇺🇪🇺’I believe that the Nord Stream pipelines must be dismantled. They pose a very big threat to Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, and other Central European countries’ – Polish President Duda
[Brits and Poles! Eager to blow on and heap on tinder on a fire getting soggy]
⭕ 🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin laid flowers at the “Boundary Stone” on the day of the lifting of the blockade in LeningradThe inscription on the monument says: “You, who are alive, know that we didn’t want to leave this land, and we didn’t. We fought to the death by the dark Neva. We died so that you could live” |media|
💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Nina 🐙 Byzantina: Is it just me, or does this fluffy dog make you want to vote for Lukashenko STAT 🇧🇾 ? 😜
🔻 WS: All I know is that few men could pull off this fashion ensemble as well as Uncle Sasha does.
🔻 Nina 🐙 Byzantina: Facts! Luka can pull off any style though. 😅|media|
⭕🔻 Maria Dubovikova:
>>>> Due to a divine plague, he could not be received immediately, but once it passed, we met with him. However, he again spoke primarily about trade. We sent our boyar, Prince Afanasy Ivanovich Vyazemsky, our printer Ivan Mikhailov, and clerk Andrei Vasiliev to discuss the state matters, but Randolph still mainly discussed trade. Eventually, we agreed on how to proceed, wrote letters, and affixed seals. You should have similarly written letters and sent worthy envoys with Anton. We sent our envoy Andrei Grigorievich Sovin with your envoy.Now you have sent our envoy back without sending one of your own, and the matter was not handled as agreed. The letter you sent was like a travel document, not suitable for such affairs which require oaths and exchanges of ambassadors. Your nobles only discussed trade with our envoy, and your merchants, Sir William Garrard and Sir William Chester, managed everything. We thought you governed your state, concerned for its honor and benefit, but it seems others, even mere merchants, control these matters for their profit while you remain in the status of a simple maiden. We shall set these matters aside. Let these merchants see how they will trade without our state’s cooperation. Even without English goods, the Muscovite state has not been impoverished. Return the trade decree we sent, or not; we will not act upon it. All previous decrees regarding trade are now considered void.
Written in our Muscovite state, in the year from the creation of the world 7079 [October 24, 1570].
🔻 WS: I have really enjoyed these letters, Maria. Are they from a volume printed in English, or are you translating them for our benefit? I ask, because I have now become very intrigued by the communications of Ivan IV with his contemporaries in Europe, and I would like to add such a volume of letters to my library.
🔻 Maria Dubovikova: I translate them myself. I’m not sure if they’ve ever been translated into English before, but given their original specific and complex language, even native speakers might find it challenging. Therefore, I prefer to interpret the texts myself. They are truly fascinating, and I’m glad you enjoyed them!
🔻 WS: Someone on this thread linked me to this pdf file that he seemed to believe was an English translation of the stuff you have been posting. |link|
⭕ 🧵 The Ukraine War: February – October 2022USMC Lt. General (retired) Paul K. Van Riper et al. published a September 2022 analysis of the war in Ukraine that has aged extremely well.
* HIGHLY RECOMMENDED *
🔻 WS: In October 2022, I posted a short essay on maneuver warfare in the context of a book on John Boyd that I read at that time.📜Maneuver Warfare
⭕ 🎸 Lunatic FringeLunatic fringe
In the twilight’s last gleaming
This is open season
But you won’t get too far
‘Cause you got to blame someone
For your own confusion
We’re on guard this time
Against your Final SolutionYes – he is the son of Bandar “Bush” – Saudi Ambassador to US on 911, and subsequent intel chief/paymaster of the Horde unleashed on Syria…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_bin_Bandar_Al_Saud_(born_1977)
I wouldn’t take too seriously any insistence on two-state principle by those who normalized with zionazidom long before any of us here were born! Indeed, some historians note it was a criterion with the creation of their entity during Sykes-Picot, reformalized and renewed on the USS Quincy with FDR (on the SUEZ on his way back from YALTA)..
https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2025/Jan/23/trump-and-putin-stay-locked-in-staring-contest
💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ The will of the inhabitants of the south of Lebanon is stronger than the most powerful Israeli unethical and immoral occupation forces.
⭕ Israel killed@11 civilians in the south of Lebanon and wounded 34 without intimidating the southerners to leave their villages.
⭕ The Israeli occupation forces look confused with the vicinity of many Lebanese civilians at a very close distance from their tanks and guns in the southern villages they refused to leave from.
⭕ Israel murdered 15 civilians and a Lebanese army officer and wounded 83 without preventing the inhabitants from forcing their ways into their bordering villages. The bordering villages of Alma Al-Shaab, Teir Harf, Ayta, Hanin, kfar Kila, Maron Al Ras, and Yarun are free from the occupation forces.
🔻 Said: The officer had 2 kids. are you still going to say the Lebanese army are traffic police?
🔻 EM: Yes it is a police force and a border guardian. The army officer wasn’t fighting and all army armoured vehicles are not equipped with machine guns but personnel only carry light weapons.
⭕ retweet:
🔻Ghadi Francis | غدي فرنسيس:
شعبنا |media|
[the arabic word means “Our people”]
⭕ The people of South Lebanon today sacrificed 22 martyrs, the price they paid for challenging the Israeli occupation and forcing a return to their land. There is no place for occupation when the owners of the land are prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice.
[do you now understand why the criminals target women and children in Gaza, and elsewhere in Greater Syria?]
⭕ The courage I saw on the Lebanese borders today and the determination of the people of all ages to return is difficult to explain in black and white. No one is forcing people to return to their land. The Lebanese army has been extremely cooperative, opening the road for people in the southern border villages.
⭕ The Israeli settlers did not return to the bordering settlements they occupy because they don’t trust their army and their government.
[note the distinction – it is greater fear of their criminal authorities to protect them, or use them as bait, than Hezbollah’s word to honor the ceasefire!]
⭕ In theory, Palestinians in Gaza should be able to return from the south to the north via the Nitzarem corridor at local time crossing through al-Rashid costal road. Benjamin Netanyahu, accused of war crimes by the ICC, tried to delay the process for only a few days and succeeded. Let’s see what other useless tricks he has up his sleeve.💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ Israel and Lebanon have extended the deadline for the withdrawal of Israeli troops to February 18, the White House stated.
[well, as much of remaining zionazis were summarily pushed out by CIVILIANS yesterday, fig leaves will be provided the demented. And you can bet the laggards will flee within next three weeks]
⭕ 🇨🇴🇺🇸 Colombia imposes retaliatory tariffs on goods from the United States. President Gustavo Petro called for replacing American products with domestic ones.Earlier, Petro ordered a ban on U.S. planes transporting deported Colombians from landing in the country. In response, Trump stated that his administration would impose 25% trade tariffs on imports from Colombia for the country’s refusal to accept a flight with illegal migrants.
⭕ 🇷🇺 Russian flags have been raised over all areas of the liberated Velikaya Novoselka in the DPR.
💠 @Arab_Africa:
⭕ 🇱🇾🇷🇺 Europe continues to express concern over the transfer of Russian military equipment from Syria to LibyaThus, several European publications reported that since the end of December 2024 alone, 10 flights of IL-76 and AN-124 military transport aircraft have been recorded, which delivered advanced military equipment to the Haruba and Jofra air bases, including the S-300 and S-400 air defense systems.
In addition to the existing bases of the African Corps of the Russian Ministry of Defense, “Jofra”, “Brak al-Shati” in the south of Libya, “al-Qardabiya” in the city of Sirte and “Haruba” in the northeast of the country, a new, strategic base was recently added on the border of Chad, Sudan and Libya – ” Muathan al-Sara “.
The possibility of a Russian naval base being created in the city of Tobruk, which is only a few hundred kilometers from southern Europe, continues to cause particular concern in the European press.
now THIS is people power
💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Citizens have forced the Israelis out of Yaroun, and the Lebanese Army is now entering the town |media|
⭕ Maroun Al-Ras is liberated – the Israelis have withdrawn |media|
⭕ The Lebanese Armed Forces announces in a statement that one Lebanese soldier was killed by Israeli gunfire in the South
⭕ 🇨🇴🇺🇸Colombian President Gustavo Petro has banned US planes carrying deported citizens from entering the country due to the inappropriate treatment of migrants by US authorities, according to the head of state himself.
[it may be inappropriate to the civilized and even to narco-states, but this is SOP within the Land of the Brave and the Absolutely Free. Abu Ghraib had a template: the Gulags in CONUS]💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️The Oreshnik system will be deployed in Belarus “any day now,” the country’s President Alexander Lukashenko statesHe added that on Belarusian territory, the missile complex could be positioned near Russia’s Smolensk.
💠@imetatronink:
⭕ ⁉️ Once again, I ask:What is the mission description for this operation? What are their orders? What is the military objective?
[links:
🔻 Libs of TikTok: JUST IN: Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division, the 10th Mountain Division, and a Stryker brigade from the 4th Infantry Division, have reportedly been told they will be deployed to the border next.]
🔻 C1: Prior to this deployment the S3/G3 created an Operation Order with related Rules of Engagement.Distribution of that Operation Order is going to be restricted so cartels and traffickers are not reading it on X.
It may look like the Op Order currently in use by the TXARNG
🔻 WS: Succinctly:In my view, there is no credible mission for US front-line combat forces in a border security role, nor in a meaningful series of “decapitation strikes” against Mexican drug cartels.
But Russia, China, and Iran will look favorably upon such an undertaking.
🔻 Mel Glibson: I think it is refreshing to wage war on one’s own borders versus fighting one halfway across the globe.
🔻 WS: War against whom? What is the target list? What is the order of battle? What are the operational and strategic objectives?
🔻 Tim Kennedy: I think Trump is planning a war with the Mexican drug cartels. He started by designating them terrorist organizations now he’s securing our territory in the border before taking the fight to them
🔻 WS: Where are the front lines of this putative war?Where and what are the military targets?
How can we assess military successes in this war?
How will we know when this war is “won”?
🔻Tim Kennedy: We’re not fighting a state we’re fighting a criminal organization. They hold territory but since they don’t wear uniforms and they use gorilla warfare they might not be easy to identify.There are some metrics that can be used for measuring success although it isn’t as clear cut as collapsing a regime. I’m sure there are smarter people than me who can lay out specific metrics but here are some hypothetical ones. Disruption of criminal operations such as cartel violence, human and drug trafficking as well as reducing the territory where they have free rein. Which can be measured in square miles of Mexican government control rather than cartel control.
[crickets. Unbelievable. I bet there are “decision makers” with this mindset. Buckle up Amarynth!!! The Retards Cometh. The Show shall go ON. Someone else needs to get “Gaza’ed” to keep the music goin’. It is AGAINST the rules for there to be uncomfortable Silences]
🔻Captain Jack: Secure the border.
🔻 WS: on sequitur.What does this even mean? How will it be accomplished?
🔻 Captain Jack: No more illegal migration
🔻 WS: How will a few thousand of America’s front-line combat troops “secure the border”?How will their unique set of capabilities be employed to achieve this objective?
🔻 C6: From what I understand, they plan on putting up a wall, and then prevent individuals from coming into the country except at ports of entry. Various other countries do so successfully.
🔻 WS: So front-line American combat brigades are going to build a wall? 🤔
🔻 C6: The sent engineering brigades first. I saw some cool video of the machine they use to roll out large amounts of razor wire. I would imagine the combat brigades are there to backup BP and prevent breaches of the border.
🔻 WS: I have heard no reports of “engineering brigades” being deployed. And even if there were, combat engineering brigades are not equipped to build effective border walls. This is silly talk.
🔻 C6: I never said it was a great idea, and it may be silly talk, but you should let them know that, I have nothing to do with it. I’m just letting you know what they are doing.
🔻 WS: What evidence is there that US combat engineering brigades have been sent to the Mexican border?
🔻 C6: Arizona Daily Startucson.com › news › local › troops-deployed-to-arizona-installing-razor-wire-on-nogales-border-fence › article_fd7831fc-68b8-5188-a4e1-54784ff0d99c.html
Troops deployed to Arizona installing razor wire on Nogales border fence
🔻 WS: I rest my case.There is no meaningful US military capability at this time — nor any time in the near- to medium-future — to construct any fashion of barricade sufficient to block illegal immigration.
But the Russians, Chinese, and Iranians would be pleased to see the US try.
🔻 C6: That may be true, but you should tell someone who cares, which isn’t me. You asked for evidence that they are sending engineering units. They clearly are. I don’t really care, they’ll be in your area long before mine.
[LOL! Sounds like a youngster — “let him get it first” – has it already begun?]
🔻 C6: You don’t mind if I continue to enjoy your substacks, do you?
🔻 WS: It has always seemed to me that exchanging views is a net positive, even when disagreement — or seeming disagreement — is present.I am making a narrow point about the ill-advised and inefficacious deployment of front-line US ground forces in a border security role.
🔻 Mersius: Please use your old profile pic..
[another aching youngster..]
🔻 WS: I am currently prohibited from changing it. I only meant to change it for a few hours. But 𝕏 then took away my blue check and froze my ability to alter my profile settings.
🔻 Mersius: Oh Okay…hope it won’t take long.
🔻 Uhuru Worldwide: Operation Just Because 😏😔
For the non history buffs, it’s just a play on “Operation Just Cause” (US invasion of Panama)…
🔻 WS: Operation Just Cause“Just ’cause we can, and no one can stop us.”
🔻 Uhuru Worldwide: Exactly!
🔻 C9: Cartels, invasion of Mexico.
[why not to seal the jail for american hostages? Many aver the border wall was to keep them in.. and given what Drumpf is about to roll out, many will certainly try to flee]
🔻 WS: To me, it is an absurd proposition. It would be a huge strategic blunder.
⭕ 📺 Star Trek is haughtily scorned by a great many. But I am confident Aristotle and Aristophanes would have heartily approved. The Poetics adapted to the limited modern attention span.
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“The troglodytes in every epoch become the masters of forging steel — and sooner or later they fashion it to their own ends, thereby catalyzing the end of an age.The “barbarians” are at the Bab-el-Mandeb, and the lamentations have just begun.” |media| ]
🔻 WS: “In every revolution, there’s one man with a vision.”And it’s always one the common folk understand. |media|
[I wonder, in CONUS, whether that is Trump?? And the vision is quite dark. Keats did not write “the passion of the worst” for nothing]
🔻 C1: Watching the first series on Netflix… apart from the dated female roles, the scripts are surprisingly good, the remastered video has a great color palette, and the stories cover both human and political issues without patronising the audience.
🔻 WS: In my considered opinion, Deep Space Nine (1993-1999) is, by a significant margin, the best series of the Star Trek franchise. The first season takes a while to find its focus, but from Season 2 forward, it gets better and better.Just FYI.
[no thx! Despise Star Trek and most sci fi..]
🔻 C2: The original Star Trek, shows the future as a kind of utopia which is unattainable in my view. It posits that once man’s material needs are met, all wars and strife will be over. It completely fails to get that man is more than an animal.Nevertheless still entertaining.
⭕Pure gold never ages.
⭕ I do not believe US JASSM missiles are significantly, if at all, more capable than their British/French Storm Shadow/SCALP counterparts.Russian AD has dominated the SS/SCALP missiles from the time of their introduction in Ukraine.
Maybe Iranian AD is far less capable against a subsonic high-altitude cruise missile. But I wouldn’t bet heavily on that assumption. |media|
⭕retweet:
🔻 Armchair Warlord:
Good evening, Commander. Let’s talk about battle theory.Specifically, let’s talk about the foundational concept of combined arms – which is necessary for success at all levels of modern war down to the individual soldier.
Allow me to introduce the “Iron Triangle.”⬇️
Traditionally (by which I mean during the black powder age when the concept of the modern army itself developed from earlier feudal hosts), the “Iron Triangle” of combined arms warfare involved the interaction between infantry, cavalry, and artillery on the battlefield. This interaction could be crudely described as a game of rock-paper-scissors: artillery blows up infantry, infantry shoot down cavalry, cavalry ride down artillery. Of course things were somewhat more complicated in practice (generally because the defensive measures infantry took in response to threatened cavalry attack made them particularly vulnerable to artillery), but you can immediately see how successful application of combined arms in the Napoleonic period acted as a force multiplier vis-a-vis “symmetrical” combat between the combat arms branches.
Initially I had thought to confuse the reader with a description of how the neat Napoleonic triangle had turned into a tactical dodecahedron in the modern day as technology has advanced and specialized combat arms developed. Ergo only TRVE PROFESSIONALS have the ability to really understand war in the modern day, in the intricate interplay of infantry, scouts, armor, anti-armor, fast air, slow air, anti-air, drones, sappers, light artillery, heavy artillery, electronic warfare… but that isn’t really the case. The concept of the Iron Triangle still applies if you look at things in terms of combat functions: Maneuver, Fires, and Reconnaissance.* The US Army doctrinally uses a concept of five functional areas to organize the service branches in staff work: Maneuver, Intelligence, Fires, Protection, and Sustainment. This is too complicated to use as a tool to describe tactics.
Allow me to treat each of the combat functions in turn, keeping in mind that the basic objective of war is to find the enemy and kill him. As enemies generally come in large groups with complicated deployments, both steps are far more involved than it would appear at first blush. Similarly, the enemy is going to be trying to do this to you, so there’s an equally critical “Shadow Triangle” of countering the enemy’s own efforts: anti-Maneuver, anti-Fires, and anti-Reconnaissance.
Thus, Maneuver involves moving across the battlefield for the purposes of closing with and defeating the enemy in close combat by forcing him to run away or killing him where he stands and then physically occupying his real estate. Fires involves attacking the enemy from a distance without attempting to advance upon him. And Reconnaissance involves finding him in the first place to inflict the aforementioned violence.
You can immediately see how all the combat branches* sort themselves into either performing these functions or denying them to the enemy – and most troops can and will perform multiple functions at once. For instance, infantry can assault the enemy (Maneuver), defend positions (anti-Maneuver), do attacks by fire at range without assaulting (Fires), entrench themselves (anti-Fires), conduct offensive patrols and emplace LP/OPs (Reconnaissance), and conduct security patrols (anti-Reconnaissance). In fact, it wouldn’t be particularly unusual for the same infantry unit to do all of these in a single day of combat.* Yes, I will be addressing logistics later. Those of you who have spent an inordinate amount of time researching and “interpretating” my service record are doubtless familiar with the fact that I’m actually something of a logistician and not one to unprofessionally handwave the matter.
Thus combined arms on the complex modern battlefield actually becomes quite simple – you need to maintain your own Iron Triangle and destroy your enemy’s to be successful. Generally this process involves finding the enemy, striking him at range to degrade him, and then closing with and destroying him. The manifold service branches of the modern army all do their bit to accomplish this.
Moreover, and quite critically, many of the branches’ efforts are somewhat fungible and redundant. So long as the infantry get across the objective in the end, it doesn’t really matter whether the enemy was hit with kill drones or artillery to soften them up, or whether their position was initially discovered by interrogating prisoners of war or triangulating radio signals – just that those combat functions were performed.
As an aside, this “results-oriented” conceptualization of combat is sort of a drastically expanded method of “backwards planning,” which is a basic time management concept taught to new recruits – you figure out when you need to be somewhere and then work backwards from that point to determine when you need to wake up in the morning. In this case it’s a process of imagining ourselves high-fiving on the objective and then working backwards from that point to determine everything that needs to happen so we can get there.
🔻 WS: This description of combined arms concepts all makes sense in the context of, for example, the war in Ukraine.I find myself straining to apply it to border security and Mexican bandito safaris. But perhaps I simply lack sufficient imagination.
Elijah is in southern lebanon, accompanying flood of people forcing their return home, in spite of still occupying zionazis. The following media appear from his own. Zionazi west will be humiliated OUT of their positions through popular flood, lol. No wonder Hezbollah kept calm. There are many ways to skin a crazed cat
💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Southerners challenging Israel’s violation of the ceasefire and heading towards their villages on the borders. |media|
⭕ Israel has yet to honour the agreement brokered by the US, Qatar, Egypt, & Hamas regarding its withdrawal from the Netzarim corridor at the al-Rashid level.Likewise, it will not adhered to the agreement mediated by the US, France, the UN, & the Lebanese gov concerning its withdrawal from Lebanese territory.
⭕ Israel vowed to liberate all Israeli prisoners through military action and to decisively defeat and dismantle Hamas. However, it has failed to fulfill these promises. Instead, Hamas has taken control of the narrative and the image, showcasing its strength and organisation during the high-profile prisoner exchange, further cementing its position in the ongoing war.
⭕ Israel vowed to defeat and dismantle Hezbollah, yet it has failed to achieve its stated military objectives. Instead, it has resorted to negotiating a ceasefire agreement, while Hezbollah capitalises on the pause to rebuild and strengthen its military capabilities, further solidifying its position in Lebanon.
⭕ Israel pledged to protect the Israelis but has devastatingly failed to do so, particularly in areas around Gaza and the northern regions. In the north, over 64,000 settlers are refusing to return to their homes, fearing a repeat of the events of October 7th, this time orchestrated by Hezbollah. This underscores the fragility of Israel’s defensive strategy and policy.
⭕ Southerners insisting and gathering to cross to the nearby border villages where Israel is still occupying to force the withdrawal. |media|
⭕ The road opened now with hundreds of people moving towards the borders. |media|
⭕ People of all ages holding Hezbollah‘s flags heading towards their villages. They support the resistance. |media|
⭕ The first homes on the Lebanese borders. |media|
⭕ One feels the aggression of the occupier and the violation of people’s properties. An atmosphere of sadness and joy.
⭕ People saying everything will be reconstructed with their will to remain on their land. |media|
⭕ In Chamaa where the resistance killed an Israeli officer of the Golani with Zeev Erlich, an Israeli archaeologist violation the sacred location. |media|
⭕ This is the location from where the two members of the Lebanese special forces – still alive – open fire against the occupation forces and killed two in Chamaa next to the shrine. |media|
💠Ahmed Hassan 🇾🇪 أحمد حسن زيد:
⭕ He was taken before the signing of the Oslo Accords.
37 years in Israeli prisons. Today, he was released
⭕ Stop barking for 1 minute..Israel wanted to eliminate Hamas
To recover all the prisoners without negotiations with Hamas
To expel the Palestinians from Gaza
To occupy GazaHamas wanted a prisoner exchange and for the war to stop
Who imposed what he wanted?
Now bark
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This is insane. @AliAbunimah, journalist and Executive Director for the @intifada has been arrested in Switzerland! Where are all you “free press” bitches??? |media|
⭕🔻 Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده: 🧵The arrest of @AliAbunimah in Zurich represents a shocking adoption of Israeli incitement by Swiss authorities. This unprecedented crackdown on freedom of expression marks a grave moral and ethical decline for Switzerland. Speaking out for justice in Palestine is NOT a crime.
🔻 Mick Wallace: Arresting @AliAbunimah is one more example of Western Powers drift to Authoritarianism – Switzerland used to describe itself as a neutral State but it too has now sold out to US Empire. Follow the money…
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Israel is a satanic existential threat to the entire planet.
[links:
🔻 Anya Parampil: In his memoirs, longtime Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko writes about his final meeting with JFK, two months before the president’s assassinationJFK named two groups as stifling peace efforts between Washington & Moscow: ideological anti-communists & Zionists |media| ]
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🔻 Palestinian Youth Movement: The PYM demands @AliAbunimah’s immediate release and freedom to continue his press tour unimpeded in Switzerland or anywhere else. The world is watching the west continue to prove that their ‘freedom of speech’ is a sham. Our struggle will not be silenced.
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🔻 Richard Medhurst: The police are (again) seeking to extend their “terrorism” investigation against me by another 3 months, til May 2025 at least.
⭕ Trump is stupid and arrogant, and he will not like the result.
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“🔻 Megatron: JUST IN: Trump says he is pressuring Jordan and Egypt to take in Palestinians from Gaza, as a plan to “just clean out” the territory — AP“I spoke with the King of Jordan about the possibility of transferring Gazans to neighboring countries”
“I told him to take more people because the Gaza Strip is in a real mess. I want Egypt to take in people too, and I will talk to Al-Sisi tomorrow””]
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The people of south Lebanon ladies and gentlemen🫡 |media|
⭕ ** The difference between Netanyahu and Yahya Sinwar :** |media|
