💠@imetatronink:
🔻 Thomas Fazi: Trump may be sincere about his intention to secure a peace deal in Ukraine, but this is likely to prove very challenging.

Here’s why:

– The main hurdle is that the West’s relentless push for an impossible Ukrainian victory against a much stronger opponent has strengthened Russia’s hand.

– By rejecting earlier opportunities for negotiation — when Ukraine was in a stronger position — Western leaders have allowed Russia to consolidate its military gains, leaving little incentive for Putin to compromise on his core demands: legal recognition by Ukraine and the West of Russia’s annexed territories as part of the Russian Federation; and Ukraine’s renunciation of NATO membership aspirations and adoption of neutral, non-aligned status.

– In this sense, the belief that the West can achieve at the negotiating table what it failed to secure on the battlefield is a dangerous illusion. As John Mearsheimer put it: “To win at the negotiating table, you have to win on the battlefield, and it’s the Russians who are winning on the battlefield”.

– Ukraine — and the West — thus face a difficult decision: either accept Putin’s terms, or endure the continuation of the war, which will further weaken Ukraine’s position (while causing countless more lives to be lost for nothing).

– Certain factions will undoubtedly decry such terms as an unacceptable capitulation. However, the reality is that accepting a deal now is Ukraine’s best option. All evidence suggests that the longer the war continues, the worse Ukraine’s position will become.

– However, it will be very hard for Trump to sell an agreement on Russia’s terms — to Ukraine as well as inside the US, where he is likely to face intense pushback from the pro-war establishment.

– Trump’s vision of a “quick fix” in the form of a ceasefire or truce, pending a more comprehensive agreement, is also unlikely to succeed. Putin believes a prolonged ceasefire would merely allow Ukraine to rearm and prepare for a renewed offensive.

– But perhaps most crucially, reaching a comprehensive settlement means understanding that this war is about more than just territory or NATO membership; it’s about the future of the world order. For peace to truly take root — not just between Ukraine and Russia, but between Russia and the West — the latter must abandon its (failed) attempts to isolate and weaken Russia, and take genuine steps to address Russia’s security concerns. This is why Putin has emphasised that a comprehensive peace deal must include the removal of all sanctions against Russia.

– Achieving such a geopolitical grand bargain, though, would require an all-out paradigm shift, in which the West relinquishes its pursuit of dominance and recognises the multipolar nature of global power dynamics. Yet, no Western leader — including Trump — seems prepared to make this leap.

– Europe, too, represents a major obstacle. Even though its long-term economic and security interests clearly lie in ending the war and renormalising relations with Russia, European leaders have shown little inclination toward diplomacy, with some actively opposing Trump’s overtures. Indeed, the EU’s stance today is much more hawkish than the US’s; in psychoanalytical terms, it’s as if Europe is reacting to its transatlantic identity crisis brought on by Trump by projecting the United States’ role onto itself, replicating the aggressive stance of its former protector.

– Meanwhile, NATO’s general thrust seems unaffected by Trump’s impending return, suggesting that it answers more to the US military-security apparatus than it does to the White House.

In short, the path forward remains fraught with obstacles. Putin’s conditions for peace are uncompromising, Western leaders remain entrenched in their positions, and Europe’s hawkish stance only complicates matters further.

For a deep dive on this, check out my latest article: |media|
🔻 Nebojša Malić: Trump is in a unique position that he CAN make this paradigm-shifting leap, with a clear mandate and the opportunity to define “America First” as meaning the REPUBLIC, not the EMPIRE which is its mortal enemy.
But will he be able to?
🔻 Kit Klarenberg: He likes precedents, firsts, and wins. A Ukraine peace would be fucking huge and one way or another get the Empire off his back a bit.
🔻 WS: I remain convinced the US (Trump) wields no substantive leverage at this point in time.

The only way for Trump to “win” would be for Russia (Putin) to submissively yield, which I consider inconceivable.

(Excerpt [in above image] from my 2024 Year in Review)
🔻 C4: As of now, the deal is that Russia agrees to leave Odessa alone and Trump agrees to everything else. Events soon may make this deal obsolete.
🔻 WS: What and whose “deal” are you talking about?
🔻 C4: Putin wants recognition of the four oblasts and Ukraine forever out of NATO. He’s not giving that up. He could offer to Odessa alone and Trump could spin it as a win, even though Russia doesn’t hold Odessa. Would come with political costs to Putin though.
🔻 WS: reposts his old:
I firmly believe that, if Putin fails to annex Nikolayev and Odessa to the Danube, he will be regime-changed from within in favor of someone who will.
⭕retweets his old:
Oh, my!

Gazprom with an epic troll of the EU countries.

“And the winter will be big …” |media|
⭕🔻 Glenn Diesen: Russia can diversify away from Europe, but Europe can’t diversify away from Russia
– The people who made this argument over the past years have been attacked for “discrediting” the sanctions and thus spreading “Russian propaganda”. We have become a very silly continent.
🔻 WS: retweets old from 13.01.2022:
The End of NATO, American Imperial Hegemony, and The Rebirth of A Multipolar World

A short🧵

It’s appearing increasingly likely that the Russians are going to remedy the “strategic depth” issue they perceive in eastern Ukraine — and probably much sooner than later. |THREAD|
🔻 C2: You failed to predict (who didn’t?) that Europe would line up obediently to back Volodymyr Winston-Churchill Zelensky, at least back him rhetorically with max ferocity.

I simply can’t understand this unstinting support, unless our leaders are being blackmailed.
🔻 WS: It’s because they realize the defeat of the empire’s #MotherOfAllProxyArmies in Ukraine means the end of NATO and the EU.

As I repeatedly aver: this war has become existential for both sides.
🔻 C3: I read this thread for the first time and I’m astonished of the accuracy of your predictions.
May be you overestimated the Germans, expecting them to resist the energy cut? 😉
🔻 WS: I did not expect the Germans would commit economic and cultural suicide. But given that Line B of Nord Stream 2 is still functional, I suppose they still have one last chance to change course before it gets really cold. I expect riots in the streets before long.
[this last was written on 11 Oct 2022.. none of us coulda foreseen the absolute satanic control over Germany – even as being openly suicided]
⭕🔻 C1: 🇺🇸 Matthew Leavelsberger, who shot himself in the Tesla Cybertruck he blew up outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, served in Germany in a unit training Ukrainian troops, the Las Vegas sheriff said.
– FRWL
🔻 WS: 🤔 Curiouser and curiouser …
🔻 C2: How do you shoot your self and then blow up explosives ? 🧨
🔻 C3: Just like 9/11 the I.D. always survives to make it perfectly simple to point 👉 the finger
🔻 C4: Hey, look! Another fireproof passport!
[hey. They’re dealing with unfortunate hostages that have been sprayed, vaxxed, miseducated, undereducated, wokefied, mindblasted by media, dumbed by fluoride, and drugged up the wazoo… so the filthy perps need to leave breadcrumbs visible from Mars]
🔻 C5: Why the fuck would he have his passport with him?
🔻 C6: yeah..
his entire truck interior is charred..
his body is charred..
he has a bullet wound to the head, which is NOT self inflicted, and he was most obviously dead before the vehicle blew up..
and yet..
somehow..
we are supposed to believe the chain of events as they describe them..
oh yeah.. and somehow..
his military ID survives everything with only minor portions not burnt by the fire..

fucking clown show..
that cyber truck was on auto-self-drive mode and delivered a dead man’s body to the hotel lobby..
for the explosion..
🔻 C7: SOF guy was a plant he was obviously killed in Ukraine. Flown back and planted in a Tesla with auto pilot on. Then remotely detonated at Trump Tower
[sounds plausible. Why waste a good crisis? Now that’s stacked functioning!]
⭕♦️ US intel and state security agencies are the poster children for the competency crisis in America.
🔻 C1: Now we are about to enter a period led by three snake oil salesmen. Trump, Elon and master Vivek. Who are supported by an evil witch (Meriem).

God help us.

P.S. I voted Trump 2016 & 2020
[NOW he says “God help us” after legitimizing the clown show through the sham voting?!]
⭕🤡🌎 “… some of Biden’s aides, including Sullivan, think that the degrading of Iran’s air defenses and missile capabilities … would improve the odds of a successful strike and decrease the risk of Iranian retaliation …”

Brilliant. Break a leg. |story|
🔻 C1: Like Iran would just wait and calmly sit down as they break it’s legs? Wtaf!
🔻 WS: “Break a leg” is a euphemism for “good luck”.
🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ: I thought Israel wiped out “all Iran’s air defenses” last time–oh that’s right, it was another phony ‘success’
🔻 Ed H. Hanna: On the one hand, these people seem dangerously incompetent.

On the other hand, a seismic event on Iranian territory confirming that the Iranians have already made the right decision should give Sullivan/Biden a sense of the risks they would be taking.
🔻 C4: Somebody tell Sullivan to get a razor or a toupee. It would be a more sane decision than the current line of reasoning.
🔻 C5: The rumor is Russia and Iran are planning to sign a defense pack this month
⭕🤔 Someone help me out here.

From what I have been able to ascertain, the photo below is of Matthew Livelsberger with a wife from whom he has been divorced for several years.

Why would he be wearing a “Slava Ukraini” t-shirt several years ago?
🔻 Soapy: Because the US has been training the Ukraine military since at least 2009 when there were Ukrainian officers at Infantry School and 2012 when the Ukraine Airborne came to train at Ft Bragg. US training for them has been going on for a long time.
🔻 C2: When this slogan emerged?
🔻 C3: 2013
🔻 C4: No, in the beginning of the 20th century.
🔻 C2: Of course it’s the battle cry of the UAP and has seen a resurgence post 2014
🔻 WS: Everyone has missed my point.

Of course the slogan has been around for years.

But, of all the possible combinations of photos and t-shirts, WHY was one from ca. 2016 selected FIRST OF ALL for media distribution — one that showed the “perp” wearing a “Slava Ukraini” t-shirt?
🔻 C4: What’s your take?
🔻 WS: I have no “take”.

All I know is nothing “smells right” about any of the story we’re being fed.

It has the scent of COINTELPRO.
🔻 C4: It’s getting increasingly more bizarre for sure. None of it makes sense.
🔻 C5: They’ve used the same playbook so many times over so many years that the patterns become not only impossible to hide, but also impossible to miss.
🔻 C6: Good catch. Because he is a patsy. Ne needs to look like a bad news. CIA probably offed him and directed the vehicle toward the tower. Why? Perhaps he broke ranks. However, as you rightly observe, due to incompetency the car exploded in front of the tower not inside.
🔻 C7: Nowadays, the first question needs to be ‘is this photo (or rather image) authentic or the result of some sort of (AI) manipulation?
🔻 WS: The saturation looks like it got boosted to about 70, but I saw a recent photo of her, and it’s the same woman, sans all the makeup.
🔻 C8: He had other plans, and someone actually made a present. Like a cat brings mouses in front of your house
🔻 Empress Moo: Thats not a woman
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: So we have a senior SF NCO stationed in Europe – exactly the kind of person who would be doing runs into Ukraine and making extensive contact with the GUR and SBU – go on leave to the US and die in an apparent terror attack at a Trump hotel.

Was he being directed from Ukraine?⬇️

1. It would be naive in the extreme to think that the GUR does not run a Western-facing collection and attack network, or that they refrain from targeting Western advisors for subversion.

2. Blackmail can make people do insane things, and senior NCOs are incredibly invested in their careers – to the point they’re the single highest risk military demographic for suicide after losing status due to misconduct.

3. The level of kompromat the Ukrainian authorities could generate on an unwary advisor is mind-boggling. Involvement in war crimes, torture, enforced disappearances, human trafficking, extreme corruption, hard-black Nazism, etc.

4. The Ukrainian leadership has good reason to hate and fear Trump, given their involvement in his previous impeachment, his ambitions to end the war even at their expense, and obvious Ukraine-nexus corruption involving the present Administration.

It goes without saying that if this was a state-sponsored attack, the harshest consequences should flow for those responsible for it. Army Counterintelligence needs to get on this immediately.
[links:
🔻 Stolen Valor: Preliminary insights from sources within the Green Beret community indicate that Matthew Alan Livelsberger was serving on Active Duty with the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) stationed in Germany.

He was on leave in the United States at the time of the incident and was involved in activities related to the G8 domain.]
🔻 WS: All of your points are well taken.

I would only add that it did briefly cross my mind that this could be nothing more complex than a casualty laundering mission masquerading as a creatively incompetent COINTELPRO op.
⭕ ‼️ Wow. This is an exceedingly prescient take. |media|
⭕ retweets his old from 10 Jan 2024:
‼️ Drop in the Bucket

There continues to be an undercurrent of speculation that the US/NATO will step in to rescue the situation in Ukraine.

It is pure fantasy.

To make any manner of serious attack at any locus of the Russian lines in Ukraine — e.g. Crimea — would require, for starters:

• 1000 of the most advanced tanks the US can scrounge up
• at least 3000 armored vehicles of various types
• at least 1500 front-line artillery tubes, with a minimum 2.5 million 155mm shells for 100 days of combat, and another 2.5 million in ready reserve
• essentially every MLRS in every NATO country, with every single rocket available (which would still be a mere fraction of what the Russians have)
• 1000 helicopters of various kinds, with all the missiles/ammo they require
• 1000 attack aircraft, along with the entire US/NATO stockpile of missiles those aircraft can carry (which would amount to no more than about two weeks of high-intensity air strikes)
• lots of air-refueling tankers
• every single available air defense system in the US/NATO arsenal, along with the entire current stock of interceptors
• 2500 Tomahawk cruise missiles, with the optimistic hope of achieving a 20% successful strike ratio (500)
• at least half a million combat troops
• at least half a million combat drones of various types, with another half-million in ready reserve
• and most importantly, secure and efficient logistics, including 24/7 maintenance facilities

Now I’ve left out many other minimum requirements for such a campaign, but you get the idea.

In other words, it won’t happen.

It is quite literally an impossible thing.

The pervasive impression of United States military might and unrivaled supremacy that preceded the war in Ukraine has been exposed as a myth. And all the significant players on the planet know it. |media|

💠@Alon Mizrahi:
⭕ 🔻 Douglas Macgregor: BREAKING: New Report indicates that Matthew Livelsberger, the suspect in the Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion near Trump Tower worked at the same military base as Shamsud Din Jabbar, the New Orleans attacker.
🔻 C2: C’mon, man. U know better than most that Fort Bragg (Liberty now?) is the biggest base in US. Even if ur just in for 4 years, good chance you’ll cycle through there
🔻 AM: They were both members of the notorious ‘US MIlitary Radicalized Me’ organization
⭕ 🔻 Glenn Diesen: Russia can diversify away from Europe, but Europe can’t diversify away from Russia
– The people who made this argument over the past years have been attacked for “discrediting” the sanctions and thus spreading “Russian propaganda”. We have become a very silly continent.
🔻 AM: The US is using Europe as a human shield
⭕🔻 Seth Harp: Now seems like a good time to mention that I wrote an impeccably sourced 6,000-word article on rampant child sex abuse by Fort Bragg soldiers, but a major national magazine rejected it on the grounds that it was simply “too dark” to publish. |THREAD|
[why is it you scratch an anglo-zionazi op, go far enough up the chain, and up pops pedophilia?? A key glue and control mechanism of the Big Club]
🔻 AM : Not one forgotten corner of normalcy
⭕ You have to be kidding me |media|
⭕ I just said this yesterday
[“Is it me or has the quality of CIA productions got really bad? The 2000s felt like the golden age of black flags: major events, tight scripts, suspense, worthy villains. Today it’s like watching a 3rd rate Netflix movie because you can’t find the remote and are too lazy to look”]
🔻 no to japanese cartoons: The new generation is dumber and more incompetent. Signs of a dying empire
🔻 AM: My feeling as well
🔻 C2: We’re also in the age of information. Today news happen in real time and staged events are also debunked in real time. Corporate media no longer holds the narrative. The Fourth State collapsed.
🔻 C3: Or perhaps the powers that be don’t care anymore. Too powerful to care. Who can hold them accountable? Could it be a taunt to the masses?
[well said. I lean more towards this PoV, in addition to being dumb as a sack of rocks. Contemptuous satanic mockery.]
⭕ ‘I came for the yoga pants and stayed for the islamophobia’
⭕🔻 Douglas Macgregor: BREAKING: US army vet arrested for hacking Trump’s phone..
🔻 AM: Breaking: the US
⭕ 🔻 AM: Breaking: ISIS claims responsibility for the Kennedy assassination
🔻 AM: And also for Covid*
🔻 AM: They have no limits
⭕🔻 Zito: Sorry, I’m still laughing at the NYT reasoning that having Palestinian reporters writing about Palestine/Israel would be too biased, while their actual Middle East reporter is a former IDF soldier and they have several other former IDF soldiers and AIPAC affiliated reporters.
🔻 AM: ‘Screams without words’
🔻 Zito: Why are there so many former IDF soldiers in American journalism?
🔻 Alan MacLeod: For answers, you should read my investigation: |LINK|
🔻 C3: What does the New York Times have to do with the news?

The betrayals in motion shall go down in human History as particularly uniquely malignant. Far worse than how Eisenhower betrayed the wretched dregs of Anglo-France in the original Suez Crisis. Zion has a mission now to humiliate both the Anglo-Saxon and the fat PetroSheikh. The terror of Crooke offers a clue. Often divine wisdom returns the “divide et impera” favor and gives us the spectacle of evil cannibalizing evil. After Zion dispenses with these two Antagonists of All, they and the Moshiach shall then be chopped up.

💠 “Now is the opportunity for the Lebanese state to prove itself through political action,” Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Naim Qassem said in a speech on Wednesday, echoing recent comments by the resistance group’s MPs and officials.
Hezbollah officials have recently said that the current period represents a test for the Lebanese state regarding whether or not it will be able to protect the south from Israeli attacks and violations once the resistance is no longer present south of the Litani River.”

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕🇷🇺🇺🇸 The US is the main beneficiary of the halt in Russian gas supplies via Ukraine, Moscow says

Kiev’s refusal to renew gas deal with Gazprom “weakens Europe’s economic potential,” the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said in a statement.

🗣 “The United States is the main beneficiary of the redistribution of the Old World energy market and also the main sponsor of the Ukrainian crisis. The first victim of its predatory strategy is Europe’s largest economy, Germany,” she noted.

Berlin is forced to buy natural gas at “much higher prices,” the diplomat noted, adding that Europe is “paying the price of American patronage.”

The agreement on the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine expired on December 31. Volodymyr Zelensky rejected the possibility of extending this agreement even to purchases by third countries.

Henceforth, the only pipeline carrying Russian gas to Europe is the Balkan Stream, which is connected to the Turk Stream.

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕❗️BREAKING: The IDF has drawn up plans to maintain a permanent presence in Lebanon and Syria

Reportedly, the Israeli leadership wants to build 12 outposts in Southern Lebanon, one opposite each Northern Israeli settlement, and 9 outposts in Syria, two of which will be located on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon. – Hebrew Media
⭕❗️Hezbollah-affiliated journalist in the South: ‘If Israel does not withdraw all of its troops from Lebanon within the 60 designated days, then the ceasefire agreement exists no more, and we will once again go to war, and we will expell the enemy by force. This is how simple it is.’

💠 @FirstbloodH:
Ah, the times we live in, when crypto-Salafi hypocrites openly high-five their soulmate in genocide, Netanyahu. IOF soldiers posing in Syrian tunnels while Muslims cheer? The betrayal is as loud as the bombs they ignore. Spinless Cowards

💠 Ahmed Hassan 🇾🇪 أحمد حسن زيد
⭕ who does not surrender will not be defeated. That is why Yemen is always victorious
⭕️ I will tell them :
Do not be sad, this life is not as beautiful as you think..

Do not be sad. You lost your homes and your lives, but the rest of the world lost its humanity.

Do not be sad, you are dying while you are human beings, and the rest of the world lives as animals..

I tell you, do not be sad because you are the only ones who still have feelings and emotions to be sad, and the rest of the world is stripped of all feelings and emotions..

We Yemenis feel sorry and sad about what is happening to you, we feel we have failed you, we will not forget what happened to you and we will not forgive whoever was the cause of your suffering.. O children of Gaza know that we are doing everything we can to help you, know that we will not hesitate to do anything we can to protect you. I know that what we are doing is not enough and I hope you forgive our weakness, I hope you forgive us because we are not close to you to protect you, I hope you forgive us because the Arab rulers who prevent us from reaching you are traitors..

We promise you that we will not continue to live normally, we promise you that what happened to you will not be meaningless, we promise you that the anger that fills our hearts will push us to become stronger to protect those who remain of you..

Our hearts are with you, and our weapons are for you, and our pens belong to you, and our eyes are towards you, and our souls are a sacrifice for you

We will not abandon you no matter how the enemy tries to scare us, we will not abandon you no matter how the enemy tries to bribe us, we will always choose to live with you or die with you
⭕ retweet:
Everyone laughed at them back then, starting with the Arab and Islamic world

Today they are taking the American navy head on and sieging the port of Eilat and bombing Tel Aviv  |media|

☝️ sharp lady. Someone else smelled a rat about the recent spate of countries “kicking out” Frenchie’s official muscle. Senegal and Ivory Coast appear to be getting “the HTS upgrade.” Frenchie will wear blackface going forward, like a young clever Trudeau..

This filthy ritual at New Orleans:

• Shamsuddin = “Sun of the Faith” Commonly conjoined names
• Jabbar = the Great or Mighty; one of God’s names (wiki)

Now this appears a satanic secret society pun – Lucifer is the “morning star” – for example, Trump’s penthouse on the 66th floor (of a 58-floor building!) is all golden, after Apollo, an alter ego. He’s called himself the “Golden boy” – etc. I’ve shared many times over years. So “the Great Sun of the Faith” appears to allude to the coming Reign of the Moshiach. Their usual demented biblical mockery; as John the Baptist was the forerunner of the Messiah, so will the False Messiah have many “forerunners”, heralds, and trumpets of his coming “glory”. And Trump’s already commented on twitter on this, using to stoke xenophobia and sectarianism.

In the Dune fantasy world, the “Gom Jabbar” is a deadly needle used by noble houses and Bene Gesserit to kill enemies or test humanity. (Dune wiki) I dare say this was a testing ordeal. In Dune, the protoganist is called a Moshiach…

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Left: Abu Ghreib, Iraq.
Right: Gaza, Palestine.

Nothing has changed.
⭕ 🌍 The Memo That Changed History 🕵️‍♂️

What if a single directive saved an entire resistance movement from destruction? What if a rushed intelligence decision altered the course of a war?

My forthcoming article uncovers the truth behind Hezbollah’s survival due to a simple internal intelligence memo and how Israel’s Unit 8200 misinterpreted and miscalculated in a way that may have prevented an undisturbed occupation of Lebanon.

It is a real-life tale of espionage, misinterpretation, and near-catastrophe.

📖 Stay tuned—this story deserves to be a blockbuster espionage film.

#Espionage #MiddleEast #IntelligenceFailure #Geopolitics

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 🤡🌎 Foreign Affairs, one of the primary mouthpieces of the #EmpireAtAllCosts cult, waxes exceedingly delusional in this end of 2024 piece.

These people are not rational actors, and they apparently cannot awaken from the pipe dreams of #TheImaginaryWar. |screed|
🔻 C1: “Dr. Polyakova is a recognized expert…” no, she is not; how she could become ceo of cepa is part of the deeper issue here but on the surface shows that academic background doesn’t matter for western policy think-tanks |CV|
[i think this guy has been watching too much Smoothie.. checking CVs like I check for signs of satanism, lol! I’ll give the link rather soil our pristine thread..]
🔻 WS: What is intriguing to me is how so many Ukrainians, or Americans of Ukrainian descent, have managed, over the course of many years now, to wriggle themselves into positions of significant foreign policy influence: Nuland, Blinken, and a great many others.
[it’s a Big Club, particularly greased for scions of ancient Khazaria, and the Wehrmacht]
🔻 C2: Freeland
🔻 C3: Vindman. A retired Lt. Col associate of mine describes him only as “an idiot.”
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: Trump doesn’t have the luxury of time. The collective west doesn’t have the luxury of men & materiel. The longer Trump waits, the more he begins to co-own the debacle & defeat
🔻 WS: Classic rock and a hard place situation for Trump personally and the empire in general.

The not-so-irresistible force meets the long-enduring immovable object.

📜 The Ontological Incoherence of American Imperial Exceptionalism
🔻 OldJarHead: That woman’s face is the personification of evil.
⭕ cont. thread:
“Reinforcements”? 🤦‍♂️

Not only are there no meaningful NATO reinforcements of equipment and ammunition available to ship to Ukraine — more importantly, there is no meaningful army to receive and use them.

This is ridiculous nonsense.
🔻 C1: 120 flights are equivalent to like 1.1
Cargo ships of stuff. It’s not that Much
🔻 WS: Herein lies a widely unrecognized problem: US Navy sealift capacity is so critically reduced as to be nearly negligible in the context of sustaining a major overseas conflict. Expensive and woefully inefficient airlift is all they’ve got.
⭕ Ed is definitely on the right track here.

He is describing what happens in the real world when you win a big war: you dictate terms.
[links:
🔻 Ed H. Hanna:
“👆Quotes from the article and my informed views on them: 👇

Quote (1) — “Russia has laid out demands for Kyiv and its partners: permanent neutrality for Ukraine with no future option for NATO or EU membership, Western recognition of the [now] Russian parts of Ukraine, the removal of all Western sanctions, and broader agreement from the West to recognize Russia’s self-defined ‘sphere of [concern/security].’”

VIEWS — First of all, the Russian preconditions for initiating peace talks are:

(a) Permanent neutrality: no NATO, EU, or any alliance, and non-nuclear status, as well as undergoing demilitarization and denazification.

(b) Withdrawal of forces from currently contested territories and formal recognition of the entirety of Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia as part of the Russian Federation.

(c) Legal/Constitutional safeguards for the rights and freedoms, including faith (the Orthodox Church of Ukraine—OCU), of Russian-speaking citizens in Ukraine.

(d) A permanent peace treaty and removal of all Western sanctions and other Russophobic practices.

Quote (2) — “To negotiate with Moscow from a position of strength, the president will need to establish far more leverage over Russia than the United States currently has.”

VIEWS — Considering current realities on the ground and in the grand scheme of the geostrategic landscape, the West is incapable—and will not be able anytime in the coming months and likely years—of establishing “significant strategic leverage over Russia.”

Now, I should mention that the article lists various “maximum pressure strategy” suggestions for the incoming Trump administration, most—if not all—of which have been implemented by the Biden administration with minimal effectiveness.

The notion that some “maximum pressure campaign” would ultimately bring the Russians to the negotiating table—with little-to-no preconditions—without simultaneously bringing the Western economies and likely militaries to their knees is quite amusing.

My initial assessment of the West’s strategy to get the Russians to negotiate: The West is acting like a teenage boy trying to bully his crush into a date. This is not the first time I have seen it, and I know how it ends. My assessment remains unchanged.”]
🔻 Pandem(on)ical Order of Good Cheer: Worth mentioning that these are the conditions for negotiations to *begin*–and we’re missing the key phrase “Taking into account realities on the ground”.

Without the rest of the Black Sea coast it’s not worth the sacrifice to date.
[without the formal deconstruction and eradication of the cancer known as NATO it’s not worth the sacrifice to date]
🔻 C3: The West has lost, but doesn’t want to come to terms with reality.

They are making a nad situation worse. By refusing to come to terms with the military and economic reality of the situation, Russia will continue to advance and the final terms will be much harsher on Ukraine.
🔻 C4: The US has already gotten most of what it wanted out of this war. Europe is its vassal and cheap Russian natural resources are eliminated. “Overextending” Russia in Ukraine is just a bonus. I think the US will agree to terms if Blackrock can keep its export port in Odessa.
🔻 WS: I firmly believe that, if Putin fails to annex Nikolayev and Odessa to the Danube, he will be regime-changed from within in favor of someone who will.
[that’s too harsh a judgment and unbefitting such a capable Tzar deep in his twilight. The successor would merely complete the job.. no need to throw out the baby with the bathwater]
⭕ 📜 It Was …
(Ode on An Age)

22 years ago this evening, my wife and I, as part of our New Year’s celebration (as it were), watched a History Channel documentary entitled “Hippies”, after which I scribbled out these lyrics on a legal pad.
🔻 WS: And I dreamed I saw the bomber jet planes
Riding shotgun in the sky
Turning into butterflies
Above our nation

We are stardust, we are golden
We are caught in the devil’s bargain
And we’ve got to get ourselves
Back to the garden |media|
🔻 WS: Find the cost of freedom
Buried in the ground
Mother Earth will swallow you
Lay your body down
Find the cost of freedom
Buried in the ground
Mother Earth will swallow you
Lay your body down |media|
🔻 WS: And you can see them there
On Sunday morning
Stand up and sing about
What it’s like up there

They call it paradise
I don’t know why
You call someplace paradise
Kissin’ it goodbye |media|
🔻 WS: Been down the road to Damascus, the road to Mandalay
Met the ghost of Caesar on the Appian Way
He said, “It’s hard to stop this binging once you get a taste
But the road to empire is a bloody stupid waste” |media|
[Yep. For what comes, only lamentation, contemplative immersion in memory, or spirits will succor those who can already see the incoming meteor]
memories⭕ retweet:
“The only thing an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, real fast, and if you’re not careful it’s too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth.”

– Norm MacDonald |link|
⭕ 🎸 I’m So Afraid

Lindsey Buckingham is not often mentioned among the great rock guitarists. He should be. |media|

Wait, I know even less about this than you, but much sounds like psyop. And linguistic warfare to puff themselves up. Even i could claim, back in the day, that mothers slipper had sixth gen aerodynamic properties as it streaked across the room to home on my obnoxious noggin! These clowns can’t even BS properly anymore.

How can any of the Europeans, who still fly their own outdated 2nd and 3rd generation planes, if at all, since they’ve largely hopped onto the US extortion bandwagon, create even 5th gen, much less 6th??

And they’re all getting deindustrialized and eaten for lunch by Uncle Schmuel as we observe right now! It is all nonsense. Half of them will not exist tomorrow, as they’ll dissolve along with NATO and the EU! Many chihuahuas created after ww1 will disappear, just like Sykes-Picot in greater arabia. Russia has stuck a fork in the entire lot. When it comes to war industries, the entire West is downsizing and reorienting around a single, itself collapsing pole in CONUS.

Indonesia buys its hardware from France and Russia and others.. the fact remains only a handful of countries have the know-how to build fighter aircraft engines.

For example, Brazil’s Embraer, the third most successful international civilian airliner seller worldwide after Boeing and Airbus, doesn’t have such high-end “later-gen” fighter, even though it was created half a century ago precisely to make their military competitive.

This entire list appears created by a NATO hand or fanboy or someone desperate to lower the achievements of the top two civilizational-states. How can they even include Indonesia and European Lilliputians…

The US stopped innovating even before Gorby sold out the USSR. Since early 1990s, it’s been coasting on inertia alone, especially after they handed over the Pentagon to Wolfowitz and other crazies from the basement. These promptly looted it and diverted everything to sacking the Middle East and Balkans and setting up Pax Judaica.

That leaves Russia and China. And I’m not sure if they’re even serious about manned warjets as the entire paradigm of precision missiles and drones is changing up everything and making it obsolete like aircraft carriers. Perhaps they’re repaying empire for Raygun’s Star Wars gimmick and forcing Empire to spend spend spend faster into collapse.

And at the same time lifting up the self-esteem of their own population by lapping the crazy barbarians in their own former dominant niche.

It must be said, as the British Royal Navy once “ruled the waves” (before rise of Bismarck’s Germany) so Pax America for a while was as dominant in the air.. as late as May 1960, they had the wherewithal to roam deep inside the territory of the USSR with spy planes before the Russkie developed the air defense missiles to shoot them down and safeguard sovereignty. Today, the entire Sky is being sealed off, including to ICBMs.. what times.

BTW, this may inform the supernatural patience of Russkie and Persian. They’re furiously ending MAD, so they can then Oreshnik the savages into submission. The very last gun on the wall, or the monkey’s grenade, is being carefully removed while the possessed lunatics caper around Syria and strut on cameras.. can they do it?? The greatest bet in History is on..

Regardless, many more humiliations to come, either a la carte or with us strapped-on and included. “What is sauce for the goose…”

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Why do the new rulers of Syria dance in front of the camera?

Many of these groups, such as those now affiliated with the leadership of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), were previously associated with extremist ideologies. To gain legitimacy in the eyes of the international community, they need to project a more moderate and approachable image.

The (British-hired) spin doctors aim to rewrite the story of Jihadist groups from one of militancy to one of leadership, governance, and pragmatism. This narrative shift is crucial for gaining broader acceptance and transitioning these groups from armed insurgents to political players.

Dancing in front of a camera, appearing confident, or engaging in culturally appealing behaviours are symbolic actions designed to humanise these figures. These performances aim to resonate with domestic and international audiences, softening perceptions of their past and emphasising their potential role in Syria’s future governance.

Public relations professionals or “spin-doctors” specialise in crafting narratives that emphasise these groups’ transformation, pragmatism, and alignment with Western values, distancing them from their militant past.

Western governments and NGOs often require a palatable leadership figure to justify aid, negotiations, or political support. By presenting these leaders as credible and relatable, foreign powers can more easily justify their involvement in Syria’s reconstruction or their backing of certain factions.

This rebranding also isolates remaining adversaries, such as Iran and Hezbollah, by showcasing the new Syrian leadership as modern, cooperative, and unaligned with traditional resistance ideologies.
It also signals a break from past alignments, suggesting to Western and regional powers that these groups can lead a state without fostering international instability.

The strategy aims to neutralise criticism of past associations with extremist ideologies by presenting leaders as charismatic and forward-thinking. The more relatable they appear, the harder it becomes to dismiss them based on their history.

Such rebranding often attracts scepticism and criticism, particularly from communities that have suffered under these groups’ previous actions. Critics view these rebranding efforts as a cynical attempt to whitewash history for geopolitical gain.

The approach risks alienating factions that oppose these groups, potentially exacerbating divisions within Syria.
🔻 C1: Well Turks in charge now. you can cry all day long but President Erdogan is driving
🔻 EM: Cry? Why should I?
🔻 C1: because this ‘judeo-christian’ boomer mindset that europe shares with these old idiot boomers. youre all obsolete. I’m looking at this fuking CLOWNSHOW. you all allow bibi to hijack your countries
[the folks in west asia are doomed. Their own worst mindwashed enemy. Whether salafis or Kemalist, they are irredeemably deluded. Apres le Ashes.. They really think Erdogan has agency or fights against his Anglo-Zionist masters and co-conspirators! Mass insanity]
⭕ Threats at the UN are veiled or implied, as outright aggressive rhetoric can undermine the speaker’s position and violate diplomatic norms except for Israel. |media|
⭕ The exodus of Christian businessmen and families from Syria poignantly reflects the region’s ongoing turmoil and shifting demographics. Historically, Christians have been a cornerstone of the Middle Eastern mosaic, contributing to its rich cultural, social, and economic fabric for centuries. Their presence is not only a testament to the region’s diversity but also an essential element of its identity. The prospect of their diminishing numbers raises profound concerns for the region’s future and its pluralistic heritage.
⭕🔻 C1: Best News Report of the year, who are you giving to???
🔻 EM: @FirstbloodH
[OK will report from them. Seems a focused young warrior like Fotros Resistance. But I aint a tech guru like Amarynth that can juggle 100 channels, so bear with me. Will get to what can; I do not prioritize the young warriors, preferring the forest view, except for the balanced Fotros, an Iranian scholar]
⭕ More than 12 US-UK air attacks on Yemen‘s capital, Sanaa.
⭕ Syria:
From one-man ruling Al-Assad Baath party to one-man ruling Al-Sharaa Islamic Baath party.

💠@FirstbloodH:
⭕ History will record that, despite the betrayal and cowardice of a broken Ummah, my people stand unyielding. They face the empire of evil and deception (🇺🇳🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇱🇪🇺) with courage in their hearts and their heads held high, refusing to surrender or retreat, no matter the odds.
⭕ Fireworks won’t drown out genocide, wars or injustice. Celebrating the New Year while the world burns is delusion. Change won’t come from a countdown. Action is needed.
⭕ Israel imposed this war on us, we tried to avoid it as much as possible

And despite the cowards and the manchildren whining online all day, my people will not sit by and be killed or occupied without resisting and fighting back
⭕ Tel Aviv 🔻🔻🔻

27 days left…
[this is to the end of the cessation of hostilities in Lebanon..]
⭕ Hezbollah’s VP of political council Mahmoud Qomati to Al-Manar: “Our patience lasts 60 days. On the 61st, Israeli forces will be seen as occupiers, and we will act accordingly. Let the U.S. and Israel understand this.”
⭕ retweet:
🔻C1: Hezbollah allegedly sent a message through the international channels to the Israelis and Americans that :

1) 1 min after the ceasefire ends in 29 days will not be tolerated. Any Israeli soldier or vehicle that remains in Lebanon will be targeted and any violation of Lebanese sovereignty could lead to the rules of engagement being reinstated.

2) the Israelis must withdraw to the blue line and if the Lebanese army does not take its positions on the blue line then the hezb will deploy and have a visible show of arms, meaning 1701 will be null and void.
🔻C1: Hebrew newspaper “Yedioth Ahronoth” – Yossi Yehoshua:

Senior security officials have clarified that Hezbollah has fully regained its military strength and is now more dangerous than ever before.

Israeli Media sources: The army is preparing for the possibility that Hezbollah will decide to violate the ceasefire and move in a joint operation with the Houthis.
⭕ Invading Afghanistan is not a good idea.

Ask the Americans.
[good advice to the Pakistani Junta, current running dogs of USUK..]

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧: In a conventional conflict NATO crushes the Chinese and Russia militaries that is just a fact.
🔻 WS: In a conventional conflict against China and Russia, NATO would exhaust its entire magazine depth of all missile types, lose dozens of capital warships and hundreds of top-flight aircraft – all in less than a month.

NATO would then be effectively demilitarized for a decade.
🔻 C2: There’s one fundamental problem with your analysis; it’s based on the assumption that @WarMonitor3 deals in serious analysis in turn, when he is, in fact, part of the entertainment industry, in the genre of imperial rom-coms. Every story ends in happily ever after.
🔻 WS: And yet there are uncounted millions of people around the world who genuinely and devoutly believe such ridiculous nonsense — many of them are powerful and influential US military and political leaders.
🔻 C3: China has one seaboard on its eastern side and Russia is essentially landlocked – how are they going to get anything? Those maritime shipping lanes function because we patrol them. The ships don’t sail unless they’re insured. The insurance companies don’t insure without US Navy presence.
[Good Lord. We may have been born too late. That we end up in an era with such cretins…]
🔻 WS: And here we have a prime example of the delusions that hold sway among the millions of hopelessly propagandized ignoramuses who know virtually nothing about current military and geostrategic realities.
[links his old:
“By its own admission, the US Navy cannot put to sea more than about 60 surface warships at any time. They can float 5 carriers, but only outfit a maximum of 3 of them for combat operations — they lack experienced air and shipboard crew for any more.” |link| ]
🔻 WS: I disagree with many of Ritter’s ill-considered (and sometimes unhinged) excesses.
[a response to a hidden comment. Will’s like Amarynth and many of us – he learned to take the Good Marine with a jaundiced eye! He has his moments..]
🔻 Svelte Catonator: That’s why the real power has installed Trump -only way out of losing all – and he’ll become the scapegoat for leaving on Putin’s very reasonable terms..
🔻 WS: 📜 Dictating Terms
🔻 C5: Nukes up then?
🔻 WS: 📜 To Nuke or Not to Nuke?
⭕ “Lines on the Map” have only marginal meaning in relation to the progress of wars.

At every stage of this conflict, Russian strategy has aimed to maneuver enemy forces to where they can be most efficiently destroyed.

That is the object of war.

Territory, per se, is irrelevant. |media|
🔻 C1: Still get solid Western analysts such as Larry Johnson & Daniel Davis head scratching over RF General Staff’s ‘neglecting’ to take down the Dniepr bridges.

‘What–and have them retreat, forcing us to bear the burden of sustaining our logistics in the West under NATO air cover?’
[and need to give the millions of civvie nazis in Novorossiya an escape route to join their brethren in the Garden..]
🔻 C2: Capturing castles was once important. But since, it’s been about destroying the armed forces of the other side, not which towns or cities you control.
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: Territory can be mopped up once there’s no opposition. What is it about this logic that western “analysts” don’t understand?
⭕ 📜 The Weakling Wunderwaffe
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: Or Trump will do what, exactly? Slap him with the most insane sanctions package ever devised and send hundreds of billions of dollars and half of America’s national stockpile of heavy weapons to his enemies?

Wait, Biden already did that lol
🔻 WS: I would add that the ubiquitous inefficacy and frailty of American weapons systems have been exposed for every major military power in the world to plainly see.

Iran and Yemen have also played a significant role in this big reveal of American military vulnerability.
🔻 C2: The last time I checked, Putin holds all the cards. Not to mention weapon systems that we have no defense against. We don’t want the smoke.
A friendly reminder |The Don|
🔻 WS: 📜 Dictating Terms
🔻 C3: High cost, high maintenance, fragile and low production quantities that they seem unable to increase.
🔻 @babywhitemonkey: US Weapon Systems are fine against natives on canoes and insurgents wearing sandals.

it is not made for long attritional warfare against peer enemies or even non peer with access to modern weapons like yemenis

True Promise and Prosperity Guardian exposed the con game
[the fellas, or gals here, one finds online! She looks like a teen on her thumb! Social Media has blown up the Con, and worldwide among the Sentient, especially the youth watching Gaza, bless them both]
⭕ “Reinforcements”? 🤦‍♂️

Not only are there no meaningful NATO reinforcements of equipment and ammunition available to ship to Ukraine — more importantly, there is no meaningful army to receive and use them.

This is ridiculous nonsense.
[links:
“A Russian milblogger released an update on western supplies to Ukraine:

The activity of Western countries in supplying Ukraine has increased in November and December as Ukraine prepares for a new military offensive.

In November alone, Western aircraft made more than 120 transport flights to the Rzeszow air base in Poland. In December, that number increased to 135 flights. The Rzeszow air base is a key logistics point used for sending aid to Ukraine.

These flights are mainly coming from the US and sometimes from Canada, however this is only a part of the deliveries. A significant part of the equipment and weapons are delivered by rail from European countries.

From the US, large-sized equipment is delivered with cargo ships, chartered for the needs of the US armed forces, which transports everything to the ports of Belgium, The Netherlands, or Greece, and from there, everything is transported by rail or in motor convoys.

This means that the scale of the reinforcements is enormous, indicating that Ukraine is not preparing for negotiations, but rather for war.”]
[yeah agree it is nonsense. It is copium to extract the last strip of meat from Ukies. And the music’s about to stop either way. Nuke or Kneel Time for the West. End of [their] History either way]
⭕ ‼️ A Quarter Century of Putin

Hard to believe it has now been a full quarter century since this portentous moment transpired. |media|
🔻 C1: Putin basically singlehandedly saved Russia 🇷🇺 and by saving Russia 🇷🇺, he saved the world, just like Stalin before him.
🔻 C2: Putin represents Russia’s leadership class. No man would have been able to achieve what he has “single-handedly”. Behind Putin stand many of Russia’s elites as well as a great majority of the population.

If you take out Putin the system in place in Russia will continue as is. Putin has been representing Russia. He isn’t Russia. Russia is not Syria or Libya to collapse if it loses its President.
🔻 WS: Putin has worked to build a resilient leadership apparatus. There are several highly qualified and capable leaders waiting in the wings, and a system in place to produce more. Russia will be economically vibrant and a highly desired place to live and work in the 21st century.
🔻 C2: Indeed. When Putin goes the system will continue. This is why I believe the Empire doesn’t just want to get rid of Putin. Their goal is to destroy Russia and Balkanize it. Do to it what they did to Yugoslavia.
[yep. The same with each of the civilizational-states. And Legion should succeed for the brief life of the flicker of a flame.. Night shall nearly encompass the Earth at the Second Coming, as straitened as the Israelites on the banks of the Red Sea with the Chariots of Pharaoh on their heels]
⭕🔻 Culture Crave 🍿: Meta confirms they plan to add tons of AI-generated users to Instagram and Facebook

They will have bios, profile pics, and can share content

(via @FT)
🔻 WS: In recent weeks I have encountered, here on X, several instances of what appeared to be AI-driven accounts attempting to interact with me and invade my threads with long rambling posts.
[And in last weeks I noticed with every upgrade of seemingly every App, AI enters the App without a way to turn off…]
🔻ICHIGO: Realizing your 7-month talking stage was with a bot. |media|

🔻 C3: Dead Internet Theory.
It’s finally here in full.

Replace users with AI accounts and distort all perception of digital reality using thes advanced bot accounts. This is going to make it incredibly easy to “fake” support for different things.
🔻 C4: As if there weren’t already enough reasons to leave, we can finally all agree we’re out.
[yeah, these bots may ruin a good stretch of the internet.. runs costs up the wazoo to admin and filter crap. Demoralizing most sentient?? But that worth fighting for must be fought for, otherwise the Night shall descend in full]
🔻 C5: I swear I am a biological entity
🔻 C6: [quotes:
“🔻 Whitney Webb: The Kissinger/Eric Schmidt book on AI basically states that the real promise of AI, from their perspective, is as a tool of perception manipulation – that eventually people will not be able to interpret or perceive reality without the help of an AI via cognitive diminishment and learned helplessness.

For that to happen, online reality must become so insane that real people can no longer distinguish real from fake in the virtual realm so that they can then become dependent on certain algorithms to tell them what is “real”.

Please, please realize that we are in a war against the elites over human perception and that social media is a major battleground in that war. Hold onto your critical thinking and skepticism and never surrender it.”]
🔻 C7: Go to a truly big account and look after every post there are dozens of AI accounts trying to grow themselves in the traffic. It sucks.
⭕ retweets:
🔻 C1: I am 100% down to “make America great”. I am 100% down to “make America healthy”. But I don’t see how either of those are possible if we walk away from the covid era without holding a single person accountable for the decisions that were made during that time.

Further, it appears the agenda is to move straight on into operation bird flu to muddy the waters enough to get people to forget about covid while the compliant fall back in line with the plandemic infrastructure they built throughout 2020-22. It’s very frustrating to watch this happen all over again. How the same cast of characters can even show their faces on TV today is beyond me, and that anyone would still listen to the likes of Fauci, Birx, or Wen is completely mind numbing.
🔻 C2: If they memory hole Covid and the vaccines it’s new boss is same as old boss and it’s fucking over. I mean over
🔻 WS: No one will be held accountable. No one will even be publicly shamed. Nothing whatsoever will change for the better. Matters will accelerate from bad to worse.
⭕ 🧵 How to Lose A Carrier Strike Group in An Afternoon
🔻 Old Greybeard: And subs, too. I recall an incident a year or two back when a PRC sub surfaced in the middle of a US carrier group, undetected, said “hello” & disappeared again. New trousers all round amongst senior USN commanders 🙂
🔻 WS: The aggressively upgraded Russian sub fleet is once again the largest and most capable in the undersea world. The Chinese sub fleet would overwhelm the US in their littoral waters.

For connoisseurs of Dave McGowan — “Helter Skelter” indeed. A loaded term

New Years greetings to Lord Mountbatten’s lads on the floating tombs.