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💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups are already operating outside Pokrovsk – in the territory of the Dnepropetrovsk region.
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦Significant movements are reported in the northern part of Chasov Yar.Our troops are also fighting for a block of multi-story buildings next to a fireproof plant. There is also progress in the forest area near the city, where the enemy’s defenses have also been pushed back a little.
It is too early to talk about a complete collapse of the enemy’s defense, but in recent weeks there has been noticeable progress in the city. The liberation of Chasov Yar will be a harbinger of the battles for the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ WATCH: Scenes from Gaza since this morning. |media|
[Keep scrolling down…]
⭕ — 🇵🇸 WATCH: Hamas convoys continue to move openly through the streets of Gaza, after the ceasefire has come into effect
⭕ — 🇵🇸 WATCH: Al-Qassam convoys roam openly in Gaza – Hamas is alive and well
⭕ Commentator for Israel’s Channel 14: ‘The images and footage coming from Gaza, showing Hamas terrorists freely roaming around on trucks just like on October 7th, are truly horrifying and traumatizing’
⭕ Hebrew Channel 11: ‘As we celebrate this hostage deal, we are confronted with the sickening images of hundreds of Hamas terrorists freely roaming the streets, after more than 15 months of war’
⭕ ⁉️ “What have we been doing for a year and a half?”— Commentator on Israeli Channel 12
💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸 USAians are so dramatic
💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 C1: Can you name one thing Biden accomplished in 52 years in American politics?
🔻 C2: To get away with showering with his daughter? |media|
🔻 C3: Racism. The 1984 crime bill. He accomplished separating black families and keeping them in poverty.
🔻 C4: Dragged the US into the gutter of moral depravity where his kind and ilk companions thrive. Genocide Joe. Blinken the Butcher. The cackling Kamala the killer.
🔻 Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch): Destroyed Ukraine
🔻 WS: Effectively demilitarized most of European NATO; significantly attrited US munitions stockpiles.
⭕‼️ More than likely, Russian AD assets and their crews have already been in Iran for some time. The new treaty signing is simply the public announcement of their presence — and, as such, a formal warning to the US/Israel.
🔻 C1: I doubt there are Russian AD assets, manned by Russians, in Iran. Russia is not going to get into a war defending Iran from the U.S. or Israel.
🔻 WS: So, in your view, the 20-year “Strategic Partnership” agreement signed yesterday is meaningless?Permitting the US to effect regime change in a major country on its southern border is not strategically important to Russia?
🔻 C2: But, but, Will. The U.S. talking heads said that Iran’s AD capabilities were destroyed by Israel.
🔻 C3: Remember when planes flew in mass from Russia to Iran? Yeah, the decision was taken back then
🔻 C4: I agree. The new agreement is merely the formality.
🔻 Brandon: It won’t stop what’s coming, though. Unless Trump can get a real deal on Ukraine and the Russians don’t d*ck him around too much.
🔻 WS: I don’t understand what you mean by “it won’t stop what’s coming”.
🔻 Brandon: The Israelis, and by extension, the US are going to throw everything and the kitchen sink at the Iranians over the next two years. As I’ve said for some time now. And I am not convinced that Iran will ultimately be able to sustain a defense. But all that means is that we’re ultimately just handing the region over to the crazies in Turkey.
🔻 WS: “Everything and the kitchen sink”? What can this possibly mean? Describe for me the contents of a strike package consisting of “everything and the kitchen sink”.And … TWO YEARS?
In the context of a major air campaign, the US would run out of PGMs in about TWO WEEKS.
🔻 Brandon: I’m not just talking about military action. They’re going to throw economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a quixotic covert regime attempt using MEK-types. But the bottom line is that the Iranian regime is weak right now so it might collapse when all is said and done.
🔻 WS: Sorry, Brandon, but I think this is baseless wishful thinking.The IRGC is the power in Iran. They will remain so.
As for US “economic sanctions” and other “soft power” tools … they have long-since become all bark and no bite. They will be circumvented.
🔻 Brandon: It’s not wishful thinking. I don’t want another Mideast war. But I think Uncle Sam has one war left in him before he runs out of juice. It looks like this is the one DC wants. Unless Trump can stabilize things. That’s if he survives Inauguration Day.
🔻 C6: They have Chinese backing.
🔻 Brandon: Not to the level that they have Russian backing.
🔻 C6: The Chinese are backing the Russians. That’s why the Russians invaded.
🔻 Brandon: The Chinese are doing some things to back the Russians. Beijing is more than happy to see Moscow and Washington bleed each other in Ukraine, giving China the time it needs to ascend to the top geopolitical spot (which it is) w/o having to firing a shot itself.
🔻 WS: Similarly, both the Russians and the Chinese will be more than willing to materially back the Iranians against the Americans.
🔻 Brandon: Absolutely, but to what extent? Thus far, Russia has gone out of its way to restrain Iranian responses these last two years. And, China, while it has massive investments in Iran, hasn’t really done much to help them thus far.
🔻 WS: I submit Russia and China will be willing to back Iran to more or less the same extent the US/NATO has backed Ukraine.
🔻 Brandon: Will they have time to get into position. It looks like Israel is itching to go ASAP.
🔻 WS: What do you mean “get into position”?In any case, the Iranians absolutely have the ability to defend themselves for quite a while, and more importantly, they have clearly demonstrated the ability to strike back HARD against both US and Israeli targets in the region.
🔻 C7: They’re already in position, that position being Iran. Israel has very little to strike Iran with. They could send F-35 but they’d have to refuel 3 times to get there and back and half of them would be downed in the first sortie. Israel is a chihuahua barking from behind the US.
🔻 WS: It comes down to a question of geography.8,500 versus 636,000 square miles.
Everything in Israel is packed inside a little box.
Iran could very conceivably destroy ten key installations and thereby deliver a crippling blow to both the Israeli military and its economy.
🔻 Brandon: Defense, yes. The striking back bit is a bit more complicated because, as I have noted at The Washington Times, it looks a lot like they were having their hands tied behind their backs by Russia. If that persists, it won’t end well for the mullahs
🔻 WS: I remain firmly persuaded that the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) is the preeminent locus of power in Iran.In Persian, the corps’ official name is:
سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی
Literally: Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution
Its aegis and purview are separate and distinct from that of the Iranian Army.
And to the extent one fails to consider this reality in its proper light, one is bound to misapprehend Iran’s likely actions in any scenario that, in the IRGC’s view, threatens the integrity of the Islamic Republic.
Furthermore, in terms of conventional strike power, the Israelis are largely impotent against Iran. The Iranians can hit Israel back MUCH harder than Israel can hit them.
🔻 C8: Do you reckon Russia already began the preparative work and investigation on how to amplify Irans AD a lot further back, as in several years before they started to move equipment and crew more recently?Russia, China and Iran are in it together, and have been for some time.
🔻 WS: Yes.
⭕ The “democracies of Western Europe”. 🤣Robin Brooks has become one of the silliest clowns in the think tank circus tent.
Russia, China, Iran, and many others are now in open defiance of the empire — and there is nothing the imperial suzerains can do about it.
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: Three years of coloured charts & bloviating simply confirm that the rest of the world has moved on. The Potemkin Empire has no universal moral suasion & it doesn’t have the means to boss the world around. It often can’t boss its own subjects.
🔻 WS: 🧵 Open Defiance
🔻 C2: His posts divert so far from reality I wonder what world he lives in….
🔻 C3: They pushed those countries into deeper cooperation, and now can only complain, since they can’t do anything about it.
🔻 What goes around comes around… !: Robin Bro is a spreadsheets boy… he has no fkin clue what he’s talking about…
⭕🔻 Filippo Neri: The Project 09851 class SSDN “Khabarovsk” is a nuclear submarine armed with six Poseidon intercontinental nuclear-powered nuclear-armed autonomous torpedos.
(D means drone?)
🔻 WS: An autonomous unlimited-range stealthy torpedo purportedly packing a 100 megaton thermonuclear warhead — twice the yield of the Tsar Bomba.But yeah, let’s keep launching missile strikes into Russia. 🤦♂️
🔻 Filippo Neri: The Tsar Bomba was tested at a reduced yield. 100+ MT was perfectly possible in 1961.
🔻 C2: Isn’t that overkill for a ship killer?
🔻 WS: It’s designed to be a port killer; a destroyer of coastal cities.
🔻 C3: This one
🔻 C4: It’s essentially, IMHO, a Russian mega-M.A.D. “Doomsday Device.”“Launch your nukes at Russia, and no matter what else happens, we will erase your coastlines from Boston to Miami and Seattle to San Diego. So don’t.”
🔻 C5: Sure… but could it have put out the LA fires?
⭕ 🔻 Brandon: Lit the world on fire for the last four years but you can croon! |media|
🔻 WS: He’s a crappy guitar player and an even crappier singer. He would be refused a slot at a coffee-shop open mic night.
⭕🔻 MT Anderson: For those interested, here is a view of the different area of operations since CVN-75 transited the Suez Canal SB on 15 December 2024
🔻 WS: 🤦♂️ How embarrassing for you to have conveniently omitted the USS Trembling Puppy’s position on the 12th and 13th of January, when they were hiding out at the mouth of the Gulf of Suez.I’ve posted your own report in the reply to this post.
🔻 WS: reposts:
🐶 Tail Between Its LegsLooks like CSG-8 (USS Trembling Puppy) got its fill of dodging Yemeni missiles, and is headed back to calmer waters, leaving one of its F/A-18s at the bottom of the Red Sea.
As they say, “The secret to a long life is knowing when it’s time to go.”
⭕🔻 Brandon: Hearing reports from sources about a CREDIBLE Islamist threat to @realDonaldTrump being the reason for the cancellation of outdoor swearing in on Inauguration Day and the President-Elect’s arrival tonight at Dulles in darkness. Stay frosty!
🔻 WS: 🤦♂️
“Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”― Euripides
🔻 Brandon: In this case, though, it certainly explains many things. I’ve worked in gov during inaugurations. Was part of the Obama era ones (sadly). This is strange. It’s not just the weather.
🔻 WS: I don’t dispute the possibility that SOMEONE would still like to prevent Trump from assuming the throne — but I would say the highest likelihood is an attempt originating endogenously, not exogenously.
🔻 Brandon: Totally fair point. And it’s something I’ve raised. I’m just sharing what I’m hearing from my peeps. And, btw, both might be true. “Deep State” is going to leave gaps in the security to allow for the kooks from Afghanistan to do their thing. One hand washes the other. Plausible deniability. Etc.
[will we see a second [persian] “Sirhan Sirhan” moment??]💠 “US deploys upgraded nuclear weapons in Europe“ — The new B61-12 gravity bombs are “fully forward deployed.” .. previous B61 variants have been stored in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Türkiye under NATO’s nuclear sharing program.
☝️Not as worrying as sounds. More psyops to cover profound impotence. They need to be deployed by flying coffins near the target zone. Good luck coming within hundreds of kms of the border of the civilizational-states and surviving. The ATACMS appear to have more risk than these needing delivery by outdated and overmatched manned platforms
Did u catch all the lies by the anglophile presstitute on behalf of their AZE sponsor?
I doubt a nazi gets tired of killing women and children. However they are afraid of entering Gaza. Mighty afraid💠 @Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ 🔴 The Illusion of Support: Unmasking the Hypocrisy of Arab LeadersIn the midst of the ongoing tragedy in Gaza, we are witnessing a disturbing trend: the glorification of certain Arab leaders and monarchs who, for over 15 months, have stood by as silent accomplices to the atrocities committed against innocent civilians. Today, some commentators have taken it upon themselves to paint these leaders as champions of Palestine, claiming they have supported the cause from day one. This narrative not only defies logic but also betrays the reality of their actions.
Let’s be clear: these so-called “heroes” are anything but. While they trumpet their allegiance to the Palestinian struggle, the truth is that they have actively participated in the suffocation of Palestine. They have closed borders, restricted aid, and collaborated with the oppressors. They have even gone so far as to assist the Zionists in establishing land bridges, all while claiming to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
These leaders, who suppress dissent within their own nations, actively hunt down freedom fighters and silence the voices of those who dare to speak against their regime. Instead of opening their arms to the oppressed, they choose to imprison or execute those who seek justice and liberation for their brothers and sisters in Palestine.
It is time to peel back the layers of deception and expose the reality behind the facade. These leaders are not allies of Palestine; they are obstacles to its freedom. Let us not be swayed by their empty rhetoric or the orchestrated praise from their loyalists. The fight for justice in Palestine requires genuine support from those who truly understand the meaning of solidarity, not the hollow gestures of those who ultimately serve their own interests.
Let’s stand firm in our condemnation of this hypocrisy and ensure that the world sees through the smokescreen. Palestine deserves real allies, not false champions masquerading as saviors
⭕ 🔴 🇾🇪 The final bullet will be ours, aimed at the sensitive spot.
[And this is not hyperbole! It is prophesied for plucky Yemen]
⭕ 🇾🇪 I have left Harry 🛳
[LOL. One of latest salvos aimed at the floating tomb tremblin’ in north Red Sea]
💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — ❗️🇮🇷 🇮🇷 NEW: The IRGC just revealed, for the first time, an underground naval base in Iran.The base, which consists of dozens of tunnels, bunkers, and storage rooms for missile boats, is located underneath the Persian Gulf, with several exits into the open sea. |media|
[The ancient dance combatants do before the start of the engagement, of showing how fierce and deadly they’ll be]
⭕️ — 🇸🇾 NEW: After being outlawed for more than 60 years, the ‘Supreme Freemasonry Council of the Greater Syrian Levant Lodges’ has released a statement, declaring that the Syrian Freemasons are back up and running💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ A fact: In Lebanon and Gaza, Israel called for and agreed to the ceasefire because the most brutal, immoral and unethical very powerful army failed to destroy Hezbollah and Hamas.While jets, tanks, drones, and intelligence can inflict significant damage, they cannot defeat the resistance of a people determined to defend their land.
⭕ Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu, with an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes, said he “agreed with Donald Trump that the ceasefire is temporarily; he will supply us with weapons and bombs and we can resume the war anytime we want”.
⭕ A Palestinian travelled from ToulKarm to Levontin Street in Tel Aviv, crossing over 700 checkpoints to stab an Israeli.Israel can no longer ignore the Palestinians’ right to self-determination. After 15 months of devastating war, Israel failed to destroy the resistance and is not learning to negotiate and give the Palestinians their rights.
⭕ Less than 12 hours left to the ceasefire. Israel must be very upset to stop killing Gazans.
⭕ Important:
Tomorrow Israeli occupation forces will withdraw from all inhabited areas, to 400 meters in some zones and 700 meters in others. These forces will start leaving Nitzareem -alRashid street on day 7 and after 22 days from Nitzareem-Salahoddine. People cannot start returning from the south to the north tomorrow but can move freely within the zones and cities they are in.
The north was isolated and surround for over 110 days with thousands of people that will be free tomorrow to check their relatives and homes.
On day 7, Gazans can cross the south to the north through al-Rashid street. That will be the “RIGHT OF RETURN” earned for the first time since 1948.
🔻 Tangofoxtrox: Don’t want to be negative, but I doubt the Jewish regime follows up with the agreement
🔻 C1: Part one is ok. Netanyahu will play in part 2.
⭕ Hezbollah is expected to be part of the future Lebanese government and to have its ministers.
💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇷🇺 Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova weighed in on the recently-signed ‘100-year partnership’ agreement between Ukraine and the UK, sharply criticizing the deal.Here’s what she had to say:
- Zakharova dismissed the agreement as “null and void,” calling it insignificant and lacking substance.
- She argued that Britain’s involvement reflects its long-standing ambition to secure a foothold in the Azov-Black Sea region.
- She stated that there is no legitimate basis for Ukraine and Britain to collaborate in the Azov Sea.
- Zakharova described the agreement as a publicity stunt by the Ukrainian government, aimed at creating an illusion of strong alliances.
The agreement was signed during a visit by British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to Ukraine on Thursday. The published document outlines plans for the establishment of military bases in Ukraine and cooperation on long-range weapon systems.
💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Yemen’s Ansarullah carried out a ballistic missile attack on Israel’s Ministry of Defense earlier this morning
💠 @Ahmed Hassan 🇾🇪 أحمد حسن زيد:
⭕ retweet:
Has Israel been naughty again?Did Yemen find it necessary to discipline them again?
⭕️ You thought you would never go to the shelters again?
⭕️ retweet:
Who is the No.1 Terrorist Nation? |answer|
⭕ Israel was defeated in Gaza, Lebanon, and Yemen, but won in Syria
⭕ Assad is gone, try to forget himIsrael withdrew from Lebanon and will withdraw from Gaza, but did not withdraw from Syria
It expanded in Syria, and this is considered a victory
⭕ Stop being stupid, racists..Assad has nothing to do with Syria now, Assad is gone, stop using him to attack anyone who talks about Syria today…
The reality today is that Israel has expanded in Syria
And when you say Assad did not fight Israel and the Golan was occupied, yes what you say is correct, but this does not mean that what he did is right, nor does it mean that it is a justification for Syria’s failure today to expel Israel from the areas it has expanded into… How you defend the mistake made by the new Syria by accusing and criticizing Assad for making the same mistakeIf you support the new Syria because it does not fight Israel and does not prevent it from occupying Syrian lands, why do you curse Assad because he did not fight Israel?
Stop being hypocritical, and encourage the new Syria to correct the mistakes of the old Syria…Encourage Syria to liberate its land and we will all support you
🔻 C1: Maybe because Assad destroyed everything of the country and left it in a state that even if Salah-Aldin himself was in power, he wouldn’t be able to fight Israel with the current conditions🤔.
🔻 Ahmed: Stop talking in this stupid way, the whole world saw Israel destroying the Syrian army’s weapons..
The whole world saw Al-Jolani ready to fight Russia, Iran and Assad..
The whole world is watching Syria’s new statements that it is ready to fight Iran at any time, and is seeking peace with Israel..The bigger problem than Israel expanding in Syria is that some people do not realize that silence and not doing anything towards Israel is a problem
🔻 C1: Not here to defend/not defend the new Syrian government. I am talking about the reality. Syria cannot fight Israel right now. That’s a fact. And you said it yourself Israel destroyed all their weapons, the first day they were in power. What exactly should they fight with?
🔻 Ahmed: Does this mean that Syria today has no one to protect it?It cannot protect itself?
This means unconditional surrender and is considered a victory for Israel, right?
This is what I said, that Israel won in Syria And this is sad for me, and I hope that Syria will defend itself and we will be the first to support it with everything we have
🔻 C2: Brother, these people are snakes. They claim to hate Assad but they also hate iran and the entire axis of resistance, even if they like Hamas. They know the regime change in Syria is meant to isolate Hezbollah from their arms suppliers, just like Gaza with Egypt. They’re cancer.
🔻 C3: The whole world knows that fighting Israel means fighting America and Europe. Stop asking Syrians to turn into superheroes, you malicious idiot.
[This mentality is unfortunately common in region — half?? Beaten outta most after the occupation and bloodletting of a century. Most of the comfortable upper classes. Ahistorical dunces who do not realize submission neither nullifies their newly minted status as amalek nor will save them from what comes by their amoral masters. They can see UkroNazis for a preview]
⭕ I wish Syria and the Syrians all the best, that’s why I hate what Israel is doing in Syria, and I hate the silence of the Syrians towards Israel…I hope the situation changes and that the Syrians realize that silence on Israel will not make Israel give up implementing its plans in Syria
[Yemenis and Russkies are just different, unlike most. They neither tolerate Satanism nor will kneel, and will certainly take many with them regardless of the direct outcome. And in the longer outcome, they just win]
Yemenis aren’t breaking any truce, which has yet to take hold. They merely reciprocate the zionazi tactic of INCREASING savagery just before it takes hold. And they appear to include the US floating aircraft tomb as a package since they’ve placed themselves enroute to Zion in the north Red Sea. So a simultaneous “strike package” in pentagonese forces the demented Pirates to defend themselves, rather than engage in calm air defense for Zion. This saturation helps ensure leakers get through to reach Zion..
💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ Start of the multinational exercise LAPEROUSE25 in the PacificFrench Forces: LAPEROUSE25 starts!!
➡️ Multilateral cooperation 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇮🇩 🇲🇾 🇬🇧 🇸🇬 demonstrating an unwavering commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific.➡️ Ensure free access to common areas through an approach based on respect for international law.
⭕ 🇯🇵🇺🇸🇪🇺 Japan has opened a representative office at NATO, independent of the Japanese embassy in Belgium, the country’s foreign ministry announced on Thursday.💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ In southern Lebanon, and for 51 days so far (9 days left), Israel has been destroying dozens of civilian houses daily & flattening whole neighbourhoods, incl religious & historical sites. It is the criminal mind of this immoral & unethical army & gov. |Gaza|
⭕ Benjamin Netanyahu has lost.
[correction: the combined satanic West has lost]
⭕ The ceasefire in Gaza will start tomorrow Sunday at 08:30 am local time.
⭕ retweet:
Footage from the Turkish Army inside Latakia governate, supposedly Qastal Maaf village |media|
[this is good to see. Let the demented sunni arab compradore elites that continue to obey Legion get on their knee pads and service the Neo-Ottomans. This is suitable recompense – a return to the soft-slavery of the very despised Turk, in addition to Zion. And it will ensure a change of the same diseased elites]
💠@imetatronink:
⭕ retweet:
First official read-out from the Trump/Xi trade talks… Real progress!!
⭕ 🔻 Financelot: “China is the most imbalanced economy in the history of the world. They are in a severe recession/depression. They may have -4% disinflation.” -Scott Bessent |the BS|
🔻 C2: … and a 5% GDP growth y/y
😂🤡
🔻 WS: Translation:“China will collapse because they refuse to do things the American way — privatize the gains and socialize the losses.”
⭕🔻 C1: Want your small business to succeed? Work like he runs. This video gave me the chills. Dudes a warrior |media|
🔻 WS: All I can think of when I watch that is: season-ending knee blowout in 3 … 2 … 1 …
⭕ cont. thread:
💥 This is an amazing clip of a fiber optic FPV hunting a target in a dense thicket.US/NATO armies would be effectively defenseless against these things. It will take the US several years to adapt and train up a force able to fight this kind of war.
🔻 C1: The video quality is amazing, as is the ability to go in and out of the woods without snagging the lineWonder what the maximum range is before it drags too much fiber on the ground
🔻 WS: They don’t “drag” anything. It just spools out behind them, like fishing line.Whoever was “driving” had mad skillz. The way he quickly figured out the best avenue of approach was amazing.
🔻 C1: With enough distance, it will eventually drag on the ground, was my point. A mile let’s say.Unless it’s so light that it can just stay afloat with the wind indefinitely like a spiders web filament.
Anytime you make a turn you need to be aware of it catching on objects also. I am asking what are realistic operational ranges for this tech.
🔻 WS: Understood.I think most of them have 10 km of line on the spool, although I’ve seen some reports that they have some with 20 km spools. Until the spool runs out, I would think there’s no risk of the line “snagging” something and affecting the flight on the drone.
🔻 C1: That would be a very flat piece of ground, if they can do the whole spool. Impressive that it doesn’t break while still being light enough.In the video you posted, I noticed the guy backed out the way he came in, and approached from a different angle, most likely because of the concerns I am talking about.
Basically woods will require a skilled operator, but a field not as much.
🔻 Square Sponge: Just to be clear, the spool is on the drone. There is no snagging as it likely does not rely on pull (alone) to release enough thread, but on location too. It would imagine basic fail-safes are in place for it to go into some wireless or automatic mode should it lose connection.
🔻 C1: That makes sense. Didn’t think of the spool being on the unit. That means it can unwind line as needed to free itself.
[it is precisely on the unit. I’ve seen UkroNazis showing captured units]
🔻 Square Sponge: Yea. It likely can’t rely on mechanical force alone anyway to unwind with such a light fiber, it needs to do it as a function of its speed or something.
🔻 C1: Unwinding would be very easy with a small electric motor, it can do it to free itself, or like you said, based on distance traveled under normal circumstances
🔻 WS: As far as I have seen, the spools unwind freely.
⭕ cont. thread:
Of course Iran is determined to extend its ISR reach as far as it is able. It is logical. It is a strategic imperative for them, just as it is for all the major and middle powers on the planet.
🔻 C1: What do you make of this Will?
[links:
🔻 C2: People seem to be getting rather swept away by this, with much attention focused on how much credit Trump deserves for the ceasefire finally being accepted by NetanyahuYes, it was politically savvy of Trump to try to exploit this development by claiming that his arrival on the scene somehow caused it to happen, but seriously people, that’s 100% bullshit
We need to get one thing straight…this ceasefire was never going to happen over Netanyahu’s objections. The only reason it is happening now is because it is what Bibi wants…this time
Why would Netanyahu agree this time to the same deal he rejected before?
I say it’s for the same reason he suddenly pushed for a ceasefire vs Hezbollah: he wanted to shift focus (& assets) at that time to another theater (Syria)
This time, Netanyahu is intent on igniting the all-out war between the US & Iran that he’s been trying to orchestrate his entire career
If the Iran war blows up big time as Israel desires, the “ceasefire” in Gaza will be quickly forgotten, eclipsed by more dramatic developments
The extent to which Trump’s imminent inauguration might have factored into Bibi’s calculations, it would be his sure confidence in Donald Trump’s willingness to marshal all of USA’s military strength against Iran
If it turns out that Israel is able to regime change Iran as it desires, this ceasefire will be swept away like so many others before 😔
But if Israel miscalculates, it will be swept away…|thread|]
🔻 WS: The objective of the so-called “Zionists” is to conquer and permanently occupy “Eretz Yisrael” (ארץ ישראל) — from the Euphrates to the Nile.This is an unobtainable goal.
And I remain convinced, if the US/Israel make war against Iran, they will suffer a catastrophic defeat.
[the ***US*** will suffer the hegemony-ending defeat. But one must break eggs to make an omelette. The Moshiach is not sentimental wrt to prior used-up Hosts]
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: The “Zionists” may either be content with their current “sovereignty,” which is on life support for the foreseeable future, or eventually find themselves with no sovereignty at all if they don’t seek genuine coexistence and cooperation with their neighbors.If they do not recognize this reality on their own, history might repeat itself, which would be unfortunate, especially for them.
Neither their “nukes” nor endless wars in the region can preserve their “state.” Nukes did not protect the Apartheid regime in South Africa.
Nukes have become increasingly unusable and only serve as an effective deterrent in the hands of the few key players (Russia, China, U.S.) in the new multi-nodal global order.
Now, I am increasingly convinced that the Oreshnik missile is the most potent weapon on planet Earth today.
🔻 C4: The one question that remains unanswered is will Israel allow a catastrophic self-defeat without resorting to its formidable Nuclear weapons?
And what will be the consequences for Israel if it bites the Nuke option?
🔻 WS: As I understand its announced terms, the Russia / Iran agreement signed today provides for Russian air defense systems to be installed in Iran, and for the Iranian AD system to be integrated into the Russian systems.I would characterize this as a significant development.
⭕🔻 C1: From wiki.Normalcy bias is a cognitive bias which leads people to disbelieve or minimize threat warnings. Consequently, individuals underestimate the likelihood of a disaster, when it might affect them, and its potential adverse effects
🔻 C2: ‘Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.’
– Philip K. Dick
🔻 C3: Most American and other Western people don’t know what is happening to the US military and its wars / proxy wars.Unfortunately there is a lot of truth in the stereotype of the ignorant American.
[it’s universal feature among all humans.. and to be fair, it may be a Mercy, given what comes]
⭕ 🐶 Trembling Puppy UpdateAfter fending off yet another salvo of Yemeni missiles, Carrier Strike Group 8 (CVN75 – USS Trembling Puppy + 1 CG and 3 DDGs) made haste to its safe space in the far northern reaches of the Red Sea.
I’ve lost track of how many skedaddles this makes.
[links:
🔻 MT Anderson: 🇺🇸Carrier Strike Group 8🇺🇸
Spotted on Sentinel 2 on 16 Jan 2025 operating ~300km NW of YanbuAlong with CVN-75 are 3x Arleigh Burkes and USS Gettysburg
With USS The Sullivans transiting Suez NB last week, another AB must have transited SB…
Caveats apply
wrong date at the bottom of the image 🤦♂️]
🔻 C2: I’m just waiting for one to drown at this point.
[so is Zion, with particular interest. Mayhap they’ll tip the scales, as in 1967]
⭕⚓️ Meanwhile CSG-1 (CVN70 – USS Carl Vinson) is flexing the might of the only squadron of F-35Cs currently at sea.I wonder how many of its TEN aircraft are full-mission-capable at any given time. Very likely no more than SIX, and probably fewer.
[it would be funny, if not so catastrophic. We used to keep watch by the bed of old kings, awaiting the passing.. now we use the metric of inevitable aircraft sinkings for the proximity of Doomsday Clocks to the stroke of midnight.. what times]
CEDEAO = ECOWAS in French. Many are saying this is psyop, like Senegal/Ivory Coast “kicking out Frenchie”. However, either way, the Tidal pressure is building – ECOWAS is nearly as disparaged as Frenchie and seen as useless. And the AES Juntas confederation is on the mind, like Georgia back in the day..
💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇹🇬 Togo could say “yes” to joining the AES, the country’s foreign minister saysThe possibility of the country integrating into the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) is not excluded, stated Robert Dussey, Togolese Minister of Foreign Affairs.
🗣 “It is the decision of the president of the republic, but it is not impossible,” he told Voxafrica on January 16.
The minister also deplored the lack of genuine sovereignty on the continent, saying that “Africa is only used to serve the great powers, and this is not normal.” Furthermore, the rise to power of Assimi Goïta in Mali “is an opportunity” for that Sahelian country, he added.
As an example, he mentioned the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, stressing that “African countries were pressured by the great powers to position themselves.”
This is while Africa “is not against anyone,” he concluded.
⭕ 🇷🇺🇹🇬 Russia begins exporting wheat to Togo, shipping the first batch of 27 thousand tonnes, the Russian embassy saysThe batch was tested and received a safety and quality certificate, as well as a phytosanitary certificate confirming compliance with Togolese requirements.
Russia increased its wheat imports to Africa by 35% in the first 10 months of 2024, according to the Russian Embassy in Benin and Togo. Among the largest buyers are Egypt, Algeria and Kenya.
Deliveries to Morocco increased by 6, to Nigeria by 3.7 and to Kenya by 1.4. Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Djibouti resumed their purchases of Russian wheat last year.
[I’ve heard armies march on their bellies, and the way to a man’s heart is his stomach, but this may be a third – “wheat emancipation incentive.” There’s a furious ongoing seduction by all the civilizational-states on the coastal states, usually left unmolested by the West to serve as FOBs to launch aggression further inland. Peace in Africa requires sovereignty in these coasts, denial of terrorist havens, and realignment to multipolarity.]
💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ The funeral of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is scheduled for mid-February, with the location of the memorial expected to be near the airport road in Beirut.
⭕ Itamar Ben Gvir has announced that his party (him, Nuke Minister and other) will resign if the ceasefire deal is agreed (the cabinet is expected to meet tomorrow) because it means that Israeli forces will leave Gaza and all Gazans will return (from south to north).He wants Bezalel Smotrich to follow suit, but I do not think that will happen.
🔻 C1: I seen CNN framed this man as Far right Israel Ministery . Those bastards !
He can resigned and all his cabinet can resigned for all I care , who care ?
🔻 C2: What exactly are the differences between those 2?
[it is mere degree of scum, as with Blue/Red in western selectocracy]
⭕ Israel has (destroyed Gaza and killed tens of thousands of civilians but) lost the war.
🔻 C1: Define ‘War’ then?
🔻 EM: Define “objectives of the war”.
⭕ Benjamin Netanyahu, with an ICC warrant for his war crimes, will seek another war with the US support against Yemen and/or Iran, but not Gaza. His political future is shaky and he will face early elections if a commission of inquiry is set up to investigate the tonnes of failures for which Netanyahu is responsible.
⭕ Those who ask what is the difference between Ben Gvir and Smotrich, because both are extreme right-wing criminals:Ben Gvir is in charge of the police (border guards), prisons and atrocities against prisoners. Smotrich is responsible for the settlers. He steals Palestinian land, allocates budgets (finance minister) and offers it to the settlers. He has a bigger project than Ben Gvir.
More details
Itamar Ben-Gvir:
Known for his extreme nationalist and anti-Arab rhetoric, Ben-Gvir is the leader of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, which draws inspiration from the ideology of Rabbi Meir Kahane.
His primary focus is on asserting Jewish sovereignty, particularly in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. He advocates for policies that many see as openly discriminatory against Palestinians, including calls for mass expulsions of “disloyal” Arabs.
Ben-Gvir often uses inflammatory rhetoric and has been associated with crimes against humanity and violation of the Geneva Convention. He breaks into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound (Temple Mount), which has heightened tensions.
Serves as the Minister of National Security, overseeing the police and internal security. His position gives him significant influence over law enforcement and public order, particularly in Palestinian areas of East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
His tenure has been marked by calls for harsher crackdowns on Palestinian protests, increased police raids, and controversial policies targeting Arab citizens of Israel.
Ben-Gvir has a confrontational and populist style, often making headlines for his provocative statements and actions. His rhetoric frequently appeals to emotions and is aimed at mobilising grassroots nationalist and ultra-Orthodox Jewish supporters.
His past affiliations with extremist groups and controversial public displays, such as hanging a picture of Baruch Goldstein (who carried out the 1994 Hebron massacre), have made him a polarising figure.Bezalel Smotrich:
The leader of the Religious Zionism party, Smotrich also champions Jewish sovereignty but places a stronger emphasis on integrating religious law into Israel’s legal and governmental systems.
His platform is deeply rooted in religious Zionism, with a focus on expanding settlements in the West Bank and opposing Palestinian statehood. Smotrich also advocates for stricter adherence to Jewish religious values within Israeli society.
Serves as the Minister of Finance and also holds responsibilities related to civilian administration in the West Bank, including settlement development and infrastructure.
Smotrich’s policies are geared towards increasing government support for settlements and reducing economic benefits for Palestinians in the occupied territories. His financial portfolio extends his influence beyond security into broader economic and administrative areas.
Smotrich projects a more calculated and policy-driven image, although his views are equally controversial. He often frames his arguments in terms of long-term national and religious strategy rather than immediate emotional appeals.
His push for judicial reforms and his detailed plans for settlement expansion indicate a more structured, ideological approach compared to Ben-Gvir’s fiery rhetoric.
⭕ So the bottom line is that even if Itamar Ben Gvir resigns, the cabinet will only approve the ceasefire deal because of Donald Trump’s pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu.
⭕ Ukraine drones attacked the gas compressor station in Gai-Kodzor, located in Krasnodar Krai, southern Russia, near the Black Sea. It is part of the infrastructure supporting gas transit,TurkStream pipeline, which delivers the only source of Russian natural gas to Turkey and Europe. According to Russia, the drones were downed and the pumping station is in operation.After the suspension of Yamal, Nord Stream 1 and the sabotage of Nord Stream 2, TurkStream has become THE target.
[this is an old map. TurkStream is what is marked as “South Stream” before the criminal EU sabotaged it via Bulgaria]
⭕ retweet:
They’re wiping out whatever’s left of the border villages in south Lebanon. These are massive explosions |media|💠@imetatronink:
⭕ cont. thread:
🍺 American Diplomacy Circa 2025Remember back when the Biden diplomatic team grossly offended the Chinese at that summit in Anchorage back in 2021?
Marco Rubio: “Hold my beer.”
🔻 C1: Their theft of intellectual property on an industrial scale is real, and has and will continue to hurt the US economy. Why should they pander to them?
🔻 WS: Welcome to the real world, junior.No one in modern history “stole” more “intellectual property” than Americans over the past 250 years. Go back 125 – 150 years and the British were whining about the same thing in reference to the Americans.
Technological secrets are fleeting.
🔻 Gary L: When I worked in telecom infrastructure, our engineers laughed about how the Israelis had back-door portals into much of our network software. Easy to laugh when the thieves are “allies.”
[this is called moving shop by the Parasite. In effect since 1948.. And once shop movin’ is complete, there’s no further need for the used up old Host]
🔻 C3: The real world allows us to call them on being dishonorable. I don’t know what you think we stole, but reality (not Soviet sphere, the rest of the world) is that the communist sphere is where most theft has happened. You know this. Stop making up history.
🔻 WS: You are obviously ill-informed on these issues. This is common among those whose misplaced bigotry blinds them to the world as it really is — and as it really has been.In any case, I’m confident the Chinese and the Russians don’t care what you hypocritically “call them”.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Michael Vlahos: My cri de coeur on how the US-suborned, degraded, and created a lost nation is now here:
The Word must get out! |article|
⭕🔻 Tyler Rogoway:
Navy Warships Have To Leave The Red Sea Fight For Weeks To Reload Their Missiles, Navy Secretary SaysSuch a reality, & its implications for a war with China, are driving the development of the Transferable Reload At-sea Method. |article|
🔻 WS: reposts old:
‼️ “Neither the United States, nor any of its largely impotent client nations, possess ‘magazine depth’ sufficient to prosecute anything more than a relatively brief campaign against their potential peer adversaries: Russia, China, Iran.”
📜 Magazine Depth and Shields
🔻 Joe Snow: I think they’re all out of their heads on cocaine. It’s the only thing that explains the high-octane bravado coming out of their frontmen.
🔻 C3: Quantity is quality.
J. Stalin
⭕ Of course Iran is determined to extend its ISR reach as far as it is able. It is logical. It is a strategic imperative for them, just as it is for all the major and middle powers on the planet.
[in response to:
🔻 Sal Mercogliano: Iran’s Spy Ship Activity Extends Beyond the Red Sea |article| ]
🔻 C2: Yes, So what’s the point Sal?!
🔻 Sal Mercogliano: It is a good review of their ISR capabilities.
🔻 C3: so what? Only the US has the right to spy beyond its neighborhood?
[it is amusing to see the endless shock by supremacist imperial fanboys and orifices when the opposition gets similar capabilities and toys. Shocking! That’s NOT according to the “Rules-based Terrorism, Inc.” script. Do NOT defend thyselves]
🔻 C4: And it’s a good thing. If Iran was ‘blind’ then that would make everything much more unstable.
⭕🔻 Kuppy: Climate Change…🤷♂️🤷♂️
[this reminds me of zionazis, both “christian” and “jewish” — eager to help along the Book of Revelations by selective messianism.. sometimes Empire doesn’t need to play pyromaniac. Plenty of frustrated copycats, aching minions, and fellow travellers around]
🔻 WS: In the immortal words of the Prophet Bob:“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”
And …
“The pump don’t work ’cause the vandals took the handles.” |Song|
⭕🔻 Filippo Neri: The shipbuilding gap:“Currently, the number of U.S.-flagged vessels in international commerce is 80; China has 5,500.”
Measures to revitalize shipbuilding in the US are too little, too late. It isn’t just the industrial capacity that was lost but also the skills, both technical and organizational, necessary to run a large shipbuilding economy. |article|
🔻 Cat on the move: Well, that’s a big problem for a naval power
🔻 WS: And yet seemingly intelligent people believe preserving the “Jones Act” is somehow an even remotely meaningful objective at this juncture. 🤦♂️ |wiki|
⭕🔻 TastefulLindy: Great work to resolve Sino-American relations underway on Xiaohongshu
🔻 WS: 🤔 In the wake of the “Red Note” fad, I will make an almost certainly unpopular observation:Notwithstanding the reality that China is ascendant at present, history demonstrates that the Chinese have always been susceptible to hedonistic corruption and subsequent rapid decline.
🔻 Man on the Silk Road: Will, but that’s why Xi came to power in the place. Dealing with this was explicitly part of his mission.
🔻 WS: So Xi’s mission was to stamp out hundreds of generations of ingrained human nature?
🔻 Man on the Silk Road: His mission was to stamp out hedonistic and materialistic excesses as well as conditions for their existence.I don’t think categories of “hundreds of generations of ingrained human nature” are of any value.
🔻 kathleen 𓅄🍉: honest question, what large country does not have a history of corruption and wars over expansion?
🔻 WS: None I can think of. The Chinese have simply been around long enough to trace the cycle several times.
🔻 Blackson: And that’s where Mr Xi comes in
🔻 WS: The notion that one man can infuse enduring rectitude into a society is a childish fantasy.
[but the attempt must be made, irrespective of universal human nature. The alternative is the West, being gleefully suicided en masse by satanic pedophiles grooming hundreds of millions before they can walk into becoming catamites and lolitas]
🔻 The workers’ flag is deepest red: Nobody can “rectify” human nature, but somebody can try and stop the lethal rot US elite-led neoliberal capitalism injects into any social fabric. I think that may be seen as the sense and scope of Xi’s leadership
🔻 BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY🇵🇸🪂: what a weird, race essentialist thing to say
🔻 WS: Anyone who uses the term “race essentialist” automatically earns my rarely bestowed #FiveClowns designation.Congratulations! 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
As for my observation above, it applies to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people.
🔻 C7: your critic was quite pretextual and I’d say also a bit bigot. and considering that your culture is now clashing with chinese culture, it’s impossible to not portrait your critic inside this suprematist game
🔻 American Muslim: The Egyptian poet Ahmed Shawqi wrote a famous verse quoted by Arabic speakers:“Nations are nothing but their character for as long as they exist,
But if their virtues disappear, they too will vanish.”
⭕ Quite a spectacle. |media|
[the latest Space-X blowin up on way up. This ain’t Uncle Wernher Freiher’s crew, that’s for sure. They can neither get it up, nor fake it without Uncle Stanley around. And no puns intended!]
🔻 C1: Somebody blew up something that belongs to someone else.
⭕ 💥 This is an amazing clip of a fiber optic FPV hunting a target in a dense thicket.US/NATO armies would be effectively defenseless against these things. It will take the US several years to adapt and train up a force able to fight this kind of war. |media|
[I saw it earlier. Terrifying. There are no safe points anymore above ground. And all below ground can be “Oreshniked” and whatnot. Decisions, Decisions…]
⭕ “According to our calculations, the serfs are doing just fine. Never better. And if they’re not, it’s Putin’s fault anyway.”
[links:
“After blaming Russia for the depreciating value of the dollar — not the Biden Admin printing trillions — @SecYellen claims overall workers are better off.“According to our calculations, the typical wage earner is able to afford now the same basket of goods & services as back before the pandemic, with $1,600 left over to save or spend. So, the typical worker is better off.”” |media| ]
🔻 C1: So much of it is kabuki theater but these clowns on the way out this week are beyond kabuki theater
🔻 C2: Two retards.
🔻 C3: “We know they are lying.
They know they are lying,
They know that we know they are lying.
We know that they know that we know
they are lying.
And still they continue to lie.”
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn
