“Lookout Mountain” rings a bell. Wasn’t that the secretive walled-off and forested high ground (with a radar station?) that was ground zero for military intelligence that unwrapped the entire decade of “Sex, Drugs & Rock & Roll”?? They may have doubled as debriefing and MK-ULTRA black ops site too. McGowan went over it..

i actually took an eye opening upper class seminar with that title. I figured at the time the Prof, a first rate historian, was a humorless tightass, but in hindsight he was a bitter man that fingered the Ops the shafted his nation. And it is the products of that generation currently leading us merrily to Armageddon

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Ukraine talks possible only if West understands, accepts Putin’s peace proposals —  Russian Deputy Foreign Minister

“If the Kiev regime’s handlers, its puppeteers, recognize that there is no alternative to the solution outlined by President Putin at the meeting with the Foreign Ministry leadership on 14 June, adjusted for the developments ‘on the ground’ that have taken place since then, if they see that there is no alternative, then, of course, a negotiated solution is possible,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told Sputnik.

If the West continues along its current trajectories, there will be no basis for any talks, he added.

“The choice before them is quite simple, binary — either accept what Putin has proposed or stay where they are now, with the prospect of further deterioration of the situation for them,” Ryabkov also said.  [there is the ineluctable premonition we’re all gonna enjoy similar upcoming dispensation of Pearls of Wisdom by Headmaster Ryabkov to the demented class flunkies… !]
⭕ ❗️ New American missiles are inferior to the Russian ones in their characteristics, Putin states

More key statements made by the Russian president at the CSTO summit:

• The 9K720 Iskander is an analogue of all three modifications of ATACMs, while the range of the Russian system is even greater;
• Russia knows how many Western weapons have been delivered to Ukraine and how many are planned to be delivered;
• Russian hypersonic systems have no analogues in the world, their production is increasing;
• Russia produces 10 times more missiles than all NATO countries combined and will increase production by a quarter;
• Russia was forced to test the Oreshnik hypersonic missile in response to long-range missile strikes on the Russian Bryansk and Kursk regions;
• The Oreshnik missile can hit even highly protected and deep-sea targets;
• Supply of even most modern weapons to Ukraine will not change situation on battlefield.

⭕ 🌍 An alternative to the Nobel Prize should be created within the BRICS framework, a Russian presidential advisor says

🗣 “The time has come when we, together with our partners, need to think about a worthy alternative to the Nobel Prize. Perhaps this is within the BRICS framework, perhaps on the basis of non-governmental forms of cooperation, but this must definitely be done,” Anton Kobyakov, advisor to the Russian president and head of the interdepartmental working group on the preparation and holding of the Congress of Young Scientists, said.

He argued that many foreign scientific data systems were discredited, citing the widespread practice of Russian and other scientists paying intermediaries to secure co-authorship with prominent researchers to boost their rankings.

Kobyakov called for an alternative to the Hirsch index, arguing that its focus on citations, rather than scientific discovery, is inappropriate for humanitarian research and is manipulated by Western intelligence agencies. He also advocated for the development of independent BRICS-based scientific citation criteria and databases.
⭕ 🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin compares the power of the Oreshnik to a meteorite

“These are quite powerful elements that heat up to a temperature of 4,000 degrees. Comparable to the temperature of the surface of the Sun. A kinetic blow, a powerful blow, this is how a meteorite falls,” the Russian president  said during his press conference in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan.

The fall of a meteorite is capable of forming entire lakes, he noted.

“Everything in the center turns to ashes, crumbles into crumbs. And objects located at a depth of 3-4 floors, and maybe more, are affected. And not just floors, these are fortified structures. The force of the impact is colossal,” Putin said.

The launch of the new ballistic missile was carried out on November 21. Capable of reaching a speed of Mach 10, or 2.5 to 3 kilometers per second, the Oreshnik was deployed in its non-nuclear hypersonic configuration.

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇲🇲Myanmar’s military leader, General Hlaing, said he doesn’t give a damn about the ICC warrant and does not recognize the body.

💠 @Palestinian Commie:
⭕ 🇸🇾 The attack carried out by militants in the western countryside of Aleppo, with the possibility of attacks on other fronts, is a violation of the de-escalation agreement signed between the Russian and Turkish presidents in 2020 (the March 5 agreement)

This attack has given the Syrian army a justification to carry out a large-scale operation with the support of Russia and its allies

There remains suspicion about the timing, coinciding with the ceasefire in Lebanon, which gives indications of the beginning of pressures on Syria for supporting the resistance”

– 🌟 Analyst Khalil Nasrallah
➖➖➖
“What the terrorists did in Idlib is not only a violation of the Idlib de-escalation agreement in 2020, but it is an annihilation of the entire agreement

The Syrian Arab Army and its allies now have every justification to carry out a military operation in various parts of Idlib Governorate to eliminate terrorist organizations in the region and resolve this file once and for all”

– Syrian correspondent
⭕ ✈️ Russian airforce pounding terrorist positions since early morning [Syria]  |media|
⭕ 🇸🇾 Syrian Arab Army units managed to ambush a terrorist force near Saraqib in the southeast Idlib region, killing 40 militants at once

💠 @Eyes on South:
⭕ The US-Zionist (Arab regime proxies) hegemonic plots against liberation movements are nowhere near over

Vigilance is key now

The genocide in Gaza is ongoing, the revival of terrorist groups in Syria, the vague “ceasefire” in Lebanon

We are in a “catching a breath” period

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ ‼️🇮🇷| BREAKING: Iran’s FM: Continued threats of sanctions could potentially shift Iran’s nuclear discussion toward nuclear weapons

In Lisbon, the Iranian Foreign Minister stated:

• If the West continues to threaten to reimpose all UN sanctions, the nuclear debate inside Iran will likely shift to Iran’s possession of nuclear weapons.
• Iran’s engagement with the West on its nuclear program is not guaranteed.
• Aragchi says that he believes that if the snapback mechanism is triggered, we will face a crisis [yeah no sh*t, you signed the JCPOA]
• The E3 have chosen a confrontational policy.
• Following the recent IAEA BoG resolution, Iran has decided to bring thousands of advanced centrifuges into motion. Gas injection into these centrifuges has already begun; this is a direct consequence of their pressure.
• Currently, we do not intend to enrich beyond 60%, and this remains our position for now.

⭕ ✏️ This is a very important diplomatic step. If Iran is ever going to step foot in possessing nuclear weapons, it needs to lay down the diplomatic preparations for such.

As a country that respects conventional laws, you can’t just immediately jump into possessing nuclear weapons. What the foreign minister said today is a good step forward.
⭕ 🛑|🇺🇸🇮🇶 JUST IN: Resistance factions have just targeted the US Conoco base with a number of missiles.
[This is in western Syria. Two can play]
⭕ 🛑| Israeli bases on the border with Lebanon suffered significant damage due to Hezbollah’s use of Burkan IRAM rockets — Yedioth Ahronoth
[This is today, after the “ceasefire”. Zion is being reciprocated on most infringements with bombardment. And no mere love taps! The Burkan warhead runs up to a half ton of explosives]
⭕ 🛑| 🇹🇷🇸🇾 Turkey officially admits that it was behind the instigation of the US-backed proxy groups in the Aleppo offensive.

Turkey says it wanted limited operations but had to expand due to Russian airstrikes. Obviously this is a lame excuse, as airstrikes are a normal reaction to the offensive.
[Turkey, like Zion, will be solved, and soon]
⭕ 🇸🇾 Syrian Field report:

The SAA 25th Division managed to repel a terrorist attack towards the Saraqib axis in the southeastern part of Idlib, regaining control of Jobas & Kafr Battikh.

They are now advancing towards Dadikh, where battles are currently taking place on its outskirts.

Dozens of terrorists have been killed, and vehicles, armored carriers, and transport trucks have been destroyed.

Reports of terrorists reaching the M5-road aren’t true. It was temporarily cut off due to the clashes.

(Map is not accurate; only for geolocation representation)

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ In #Syria, the attack against the Syrian gov forces is unlikely to reach the city of #Aleppo’s first line of defence where the #Hezbollah Ridwan forces are deployed. Hezbollah forces stationed and deployed in Aleppo, #Syria, never left, even during the Israeli war on Lebanon.
⭕ The ceasefire/cessation of hostilities will not be fully respected for the next few days until the five-member committee meets and starts work within the next 48 hours. So don’t be too pessimistic after every violation of the agreement. The bombing has stopped. That is important.
⭕ France will grant war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu immunity from the @IntlCrimCourt if he respects the cessation of hostilities in #Lebanon.
[what a cesspool, this dregs of western civilization, that they’re reduced to overtly breaking international law to induce the more criminal factions into compliance!]
⭕ I don’t rule out that the #Israeli PM, a war criminal with an arrest warrant from the @IntlCrimCourt, has #Syria on his agenda to continue his wars and stay in power.

He is also planning to annex the West Bank once Donald Trump reaches the White House.
⭕ The 13 Key Points of the Ceasefire Agreement

Cessation of Hostilities:
The cessation of all military operations on both sides begins at 4:00 AM, November 27, 2024. This includes a halt to offensive actions by both Israel and Hezbollah, with the aim of reducing escalation and preventing further loss of life.

Prevention of Armed Activities:
The Lebanese government is tasked with ensuring that no armed activities targeting Israel originate from its territory. Similarly, Israel agrees to cease all military actions against Lebanese territory, including both civilian and military sites.

Reference to UN Resolution 1701:
The agreement is rooted in UN Security Council Resolution 1701, with a renewed commitment from both parties to implement its stipulations fully, including the disarmament of all non-state armed groups in Lebanon.

Recognition of Self-Defense Rights:
Both Israel and Lebanon retain the right to self-defense under international law, provided it does not breach the terms of the cessation of hostilities or undermine the agreement.

Deployment of Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF):
A force of 10,000 Lebanese soldiers is to be deployed south of the Litani River. This deployment is aimed at ensuring state sovereignty and preventing unauthorized armed presence in the area.

Exclusive Authority for Lebanese Forces:
Only the Lebanese Armed Forces and UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) are authorized to operate south of the Litani River. No other armed entities are permitted in this area.

Control Over Arms Transfers:
The agreement mandates strict oversight of arms transfers to Lebanon. All transfers are to be managed exclusively by the Lebanese government, with production and storage of weapons within Lebanon subject to official control.

International Support for the Lebanese Army:
Countries such as the United States and France will provide technical, logistical, and financial support to the Lebanese Armed Forces, enabling it to fulfill its obligations under the agreement.

A joint international monitoring mechanism, involving the United Nations, Lebanese Armed Forces, Israeli Defense Forces, and representatives from the United States and France, will oversee compliance with the ceasefire terms.

Israeli Withdrawal:
Israeli forces are to withdraw from southern Lebanon within a 60-day timeframe, contingent upon the Lebanese Armed Forces’ full deployment to the vacated areas.

Hezbollah Redeployment:
Hezbollah is required to move its armed personnel and infrastructure north of the Litani River, ensuring the area south of the river is free from non-state armed groups.

Humanitarian Assistance and Reconstruction:
The agreement emphasizes the need for humanitarian aid and reconstruction in war-affected areas. Both parties, with international collaboration, will work to facilitate the return of displaced persons and rebuild destroyed infrastructure.

Commitment to a Long-Term Ceasefire:
Both sides express a commitment to progress towards a permanent ceasefire and a broader peace framework, addressing unresolved issues to foster long-term stability in the region.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ Hold on while I sharpen the hatchet …
⭕ I see many people suggesting Russia will not retaliate for US missile strikes until AFTER the Trump inauguration in late January.

I don’t believe that enters into their calculations.
📜 Patiently Waiting to Strike
🔻 C1: You know Will, I believe he will respond, but it won’t be what many expect.
The outgoing administration has created a dangerous escalation, at least designed to prevent future negotiations and dialogue with Russia.
Now Putin has two options: preclude himself from this dialogue, with a retaliation that will put Trump and his administration in an uncomfortable situation, so much so that he will have to sustain support for Ukraine indefinitely, or put on the handbrake for the next eight or nine weeks to see what happens.
I repeat: if Putin chooses the first option, the objective of Biden and his neocon friends can be said to have been successfully achieved.
🔻 WS: I think I understand the rationale. Many people make the same argument.

I, however, reject the premise that this consideration is part of the Russian calculation.

I believe the Russians will respond intentionally because Biden will remain a “lame duck” president.
[I agree. The Last Degenerate Empire will need to be physically defeated and shown to be publicly humiliated in the wide gaze of the global commons. There is no getting around this. So this is as opportune a time, against a reviled and exhausted lame duck criminal regime. IF Trump is serious, which most serious observers doubt, then he could use this necessary disciplining to wipe his hands off the entire matter, attributed to the last group of scum, and move on as a regional power — “America First” — without the raving supremacist overtones or aggression worldwide. Alas, that is not in the cards. The Dumpster is another mere Huckster selling Koolaid to lemmings]
🔻 C2: It would seem that the neoconservatives here in the U.S. want Putin to retaliate against NATO for the purpose of expanding the war in Ukraine into a world war or nuclear scenario. It is not impossible that when they say he is bluffing, it’s an attempt to do reverse psychology.
🔻 WS: I don’t understand why the US would want to provoke a war it cannot win, and which would leave it in rubble and ashes afterwards.
[reread Faust, or Dostoevsky..]
🔻 C1: I slightly disagree. I think Moscow is keenly aware that they will probably get the deal they’ve been waiting for if they ignore the yapping poodles known as NATO at their ankles and wait for Trump to have the authority to negotiate and execute a deal with them.
[Right genius. Let’s trust to Minsk #799 over the last 1000 years…]
🔻 WS: If, by “cut a deal”, you mean he can agree to whatever terms the Russians dictate, then yes, Trump can “cut a deal to stop the war in Ukraine”.

Either way, the Russians will do what they damn well please. That’s what happens in the real world when you win a big war.
⭕🔻Sony Thang: The U.S. has profited immensely from Europe’s wars before—WWI, WWII—and its economy flourished while Europe lay in ruins.

Washington’s strategy hasn’t changed; they create chaos abroad to keep their own economy afloat.

It’s a pattern: let Europe burn, then swoop in to profit from both destruction and reconstruction.

History doesn’t just repeat itself—it’s actively being orchestrated by those who benefit most.
🔻 Bob: Pathetic take. US sacrificed much to help defeat totalitarian regimes in Europe. Consider the outcome had the US not intervened.
🔻 C3: How did the #USA intervene pls?

By joining the war after the war was almost over?
🔻 Bob: WWII – December of ‘41 to September of ‘45. Consider the course of the war had the US not intervened. It was far from over. And I take nothing away from the allies fighting the war.
🔻 WS: Had the US not “intervened”, the only difference is that the Red Army would have marched through Paris, Rome, and Tokyo, as well as Berlin.
🔻 Bob: Which would not have been good for the global order and would have likely guaranteed a war between the US and Soviets. Good times.
🔻 WS: What was “good for global order” was the balance of powers that then ensued until the late 1980s. Fortunately, that balance of powers is now returning.
⭕ I am frequently asked why I believe the US could not win a war against Iran. I almost always respond in the same way: I understand logistics and geography.
[repost his older comment:
“Yes, I do believe the “plan” is to “go Roman” against the “barbarians” (this time in Iran). Just like Varus’ XVII, XVIII, and XIX legions did in the days of Caesar Augustus.

Quintili Vare, legiones redde!”]
🔻 C1: Russia’s future Is now tied to that of Iran and China. It won’t play the bystander in these matters.
🔻 WS: Nor will China.
📜 All for One and One for All
🔻 C2: Add to logistics and geography, the geopolitical tectonic shift that has occurred in the past two or three years. And don’t overlook the military capabilities and determination of the Iranian people. The US has only won wars in Hollywood movies, not against peers or quasi-peers.
🔻 WS: [repost:] I don’t believe anyone associated with the emerging Trump administration has any clue as to how the world has irrevocably changed over the past three years.

From my perspective, we are viewing the opening scenes of a clown show for the ages.
🔻 C3: The Phony Ceasefire.. |LINK|
🔻 WS: If I were Hezbollah, I wouldn’t sign it, either. It benefits only the Israelis.
[westerners have a hard time understanding the Asian way of war! Russia did it too in Syria — stop-go, stop-go, of temporary truces and deconfliction and rearrangement of the deck. To save hostage civilians and to consolidate extremists into smaller and smaller fire sacks. This is now being done to Zion. Most of them are consolidated into the central greater Tel Aviv region. This is what it means to boil the frog, and to set up the next juicy fat target when they inevitably go on the next rampage. The current generation intends to settle with the western settler hordes imported since Sykes-Picot once and for all. This is their way of exterminating the diseased ideology of zionism, whilst leaving most of the region intact…]
🔻 C4: It’s not impossible though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran
🔻 WS: Non sequitur. That wasn’t even a war. It was a series of effectively unopposed long drives through the countryside.
🔻 C4: I imagine that long drive through the countryside was inspiring for some. I’m old enough to remember “”boys go to Baghdad, but real men go to Tehran” and the thinking at the time, from what I remember, Iran’s oil fields are located in flat terrain near to the Iraqi border.
[but controlled via missilery and dronification and forces stationed on the surrounding mountains and cliffs. It is this, and this alone, including the 90M inside Fortress Iran, that has prevented the Pirates from attempting the suicide to date..]
🔻 C5: What part of mountanus , bigger than Texas , heavily armed don’t these people get?
🔻 C6: Gone are the days when one would need to buy a map from the bookstore whenever they take a trip out of town.

I wonder what percentage of Americans would point upward if asked which way is north
⭕ [continuing thread:]
If only rolls of $100 bills could be used in rockets and missiles, the US would truly have a wunderwaffe.
🔻 C1: When you are technically superior it helps in every facet of war.
🔻 WS: “Technically superior” 🤣

Combat-capable rates for the entire US air fleet are abysmal. F-22: <20%; F-35A: <30%; F-35B: <15%; F-35C: <20%: B-2: <10%.

US Navy surface fleet: <75 sea-worthy ships

Every US weapons system sent to Ukraine has proven to be fragile and ineffective.
🔻 C2: And for 1 hour of flight, the F-35 requires 10 hours of maintenance
🔻 WS: No. At least 20. F-15s and F-16s, for every hour of flight time, require ~18. F-22s and B-2s require several days.
🔻 C1: Don’t we have nuc subs capable of turning any defeat into a resounding victory? Can anyone match that?
🔻 WS: Russia has a superior submarine fleet compared to the US. It is one of their foremost strengths. Especially their attack subs. The US sub fleet struggles to keep combat-capable boats at sea.
🔻 C3: Serious question: is there anything in the military sphere that 🇺🇸 does better than 🇷🇺 at (not including propaganda)?
🔻 WS: They can airlift a lot of stuff in a relatively short period of time – if no one shoots at them.

They can put a lot of refueling tankers in the air, too – if no one shoots at them.

And they can intimidate weak countries with aircraft carriers – if no one shoots at them.
[LOL! Have we arrived at the Groveling Stage of Disintegration? When the Emperor must beg for the privilege of Continuing the Plunder????]
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord:
I think what’s going on is twofold:
1. Most of this population cohort has fled overseas; and
2. The remainder are either (a) untouchable nomenklatura scions or (b) already volunteered early in the war.

So this move would likely do nothing while undermining a key talking point.
🔻 Nebojša Malić: @ArmchairW , what do you think of this?
[“Zbigniew Brzezinski notoriously said that Russia cannot be an imperial power without Ukraine. I think he was wrong, but that’s irrelevant; the foreign policy Blob in DC thinks this is Gospel truth. https://t.me/thenebulator/1745 “]
🔻 WS: You didn’t ask me, but I’ll reply anyway.

First of all, I think you accord the #MastersOfEmpire far too much credit for deliberate cunning. I think, with very few exceptions, they’re just “making it up as they go along”.

At the moment, they want to prop up, for just a few more weeks, the myth of the brave Ukrainians standing boldly against the mighty Russians. Then they hope to be able to sell a “Trump abandoned Ukraine” narrative to distract from their culpability for the disastrous debacle.

If it costs a few hundred thousand 18 – 25 year-old Ukrainian lives to purchase a “stalemate” until Ground Hog Day 2025, they couldn’t care less.

And all the continued depopulation of Ukraine achieves, at this point, is an empty slate for the Russians — and quite potentially a huge opportunity for the millions of Ukrainians currently relocated to Russia and western Europe who, if provided generous incentives (read: “a share of the spoils”), will return to Ukraine over the course of the next several years.

As for the Banderites, I predict they will be aggressively hunted down and systematically eradicated from the face of the earth.
[Ground Hog Day 2025 = February 2nd. i.e. after Jan 20 assencion of the Orange Camacho Gangsters]
⭕ [continuing thread:]
‼️ Ambassador-at-Large

Apparently Elon Musk has been appointed United States Ambassador-at-Large.

It seems oddly proper and fitting to this time and place.

I doubt Russia, China, and Iran will feel inclined to genuflect.

We’re now entering the “big stakes” stage of the game
🔻 Brandon: Frame it however you want, the US is not impacted really at all by Russia retaining its presence on the Black Sea or holding onto traditional Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine. So, it’s not really that onerous for us to…
1) Recognize Crimea’s annexation by Russia
2) Stop all attempts to dislodge Russia from the Donbas
3) Give a written guarantee that Ukraine never is allowed into NATO

Trump’s about to go Roman on Iran and then do the mother-of-all-pivots to Indo-Pacific. At least, that’s the plan. We’ll see how badly Washington cocks it up.
[who said USA was sovereign and not the bitch of the Moshiach?? Control of Crimea and the Black Sea is foundational to protection of rising Pax Judea from the Russian Navy and Aeroforces – albeit the latter may become circumscribed after Armageddon damages the skies for a while]
🔻 Amir: Read Rome-Iran historical war records. Going Roman does not have a very strong tone in that historical context.
🔻 Brandon: lol. Look, I’m not endorsing the strategy. Or opposing it. I’m just telling you what’s coming. Iran’s regime is not going to last the next four years if all goes to plan.
🔻 Amir: I am no expert on this however then your term is not correct since result of Roman Iran wars was weakening of both overtime not a regime change in any of them. Perhaps you should think chingiz khan not Rome.
🔻 Brandon: I don’t give a shit what you want to call it. The Iranian regime is about to get blown up into next Wednesday. That’s just the way it’s going to be. Look at his nat sec team. That’s where this is going.
🔻 WS: As I wrote two weeks back, the proposed Trump national security team is built for war with Iran.

I think I need to write a formal blog post on why the US cannot successfully prosecute war against Iran. In fact, I am convinced it would be a shocking disaster for the US military.
🔻 WS: My post on this topic from two weeks ago:
In my judgment, Musk’s portfolio did not consist of conciliatory gestures, but rather warnings and threats.

To me, it strongly appears that Trump has assembled a cabinet focused on the objective of knocking Iran back several decades, in service to both US and Israeli interests.
🔻 Brandon: If you’re looking for a comment to use I’m happy to give you one or two. Let me know. Because I’m convinced the Iranian regime is the target.
🔻 WS: I request a further definition of terms:

– What IS the “Iranian regime”?

– By “target”, do you mean to say “assassinate”?
🔻 Brandon: The mullahocracy and the IRGC elements undergirding it. The ideological components. And, yes, if the last year proved anything it’s that assassinations will be used not only against terrorists but state organs in the Mideast .
🔻 WS: I consider such a plan almost childlike in its naïveté.

It is a plan conceived in the realization of weakness.

It is a plan that has zero possibility of achieving strategic success.

Most meaningfully, it is a plan that cannot hope to disarm Iran, nor sever it from its allies.
🔻 Brandon: I’m not saying that I endorse it. I’m just saying that’s what’s going to happen in my summation.
[LOL. The couch warrior tries to weasel out of it, understanding the abjectness of his ideological fellow runners. That’s the dregs of western geopolitics in this end stage as they circle the drain: Murder Inc that changes not an iota, except advancing strategic defeats..]
🔻 WS: Yes, that’s how I interpreted what you wrote.
🔻 Brandon: The funny thing is, it might work…only because Trump is touched. It’s quite interesting to watch this era. But, there’s no other way to explain the Trump phenomenon. But, that’s another chat for another time.
🔻 WS: If, by “work”, you mean to say it will ignite a conflagration that will ultimately render the United States incapable of expeditionary warfare for at least a generation … well, then, I would submit it is guaranteed to “work”.
🔻 Brandon: What I mean is that Trump defies the laws of strategy. Clearly. Nothing he did for most of the campaign made any sense to anyone who has ever worked national campaigns. Yet, despite the odds, Trump won. He survived two assassination attempts. The guy is touched
[another Dumpster Blowhard. Sad. Yes, touched indeed – the little tooting horn of the Moshiach]
🔻 C3: LOL . Trump is the “Super Man” who will rescue the Empire. Excellent cope
🔻 Brandon: I didn’t say he will rescue the empire. I said he’s touched. That’s very different
🔻 WS: I agree Trump is a bit “touched”. 😏

And I appreciate that many people sincerely believe he is a man of destiny. I have previously expressed myself on that question: 📜 “Man of Destiny”
⭕ retweet:
🔻 @DanielLMcAdams: This knucklehead wanted a US “no-fly” zone declared over Ukraine – in other words, he wanted the US military to shoot down Russian planes. How do you think that bonkers bullsh!t would have worked out? |media|
[responding to:
🔻 Aaron Maté: Trump has appointed Ret. Gen. Keith Kellogg, an ex-advisor to Mike Pence, as his special envoy on Ukraine. If Kellogg’s previous views are any guide, that is a sign that Trump intends to continue the Biden policy of using Ukraine to fight Russia.
In March 2023, Kellogg told Congress that it’s the “acme of professionalism” to use Ukraine to fight Russia because that “takes a strategic adversary off the table” without “using any US troops.”]
🔻 WS: 🤦‍♂️ No-Fly Zone?

USAF Colonel (Ret.) John Venable, the former commander of the USAF Thunderbirds demonstration team, summarizes the reality of the situation: |media|

⭕🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: “There he is! Look who finally came out of his room! Come have some turkey and tell grandma about your campaign!”
🔻 WS: “Once upon a time, it was very cold …”
🔻 C2: In Russia at Borodino…
⭕ Throne of Games

“Chaos is a ladder.” |media|
⭕ Retweet:
🔻 Armchair Warlord:
Let’s revisit a bad arms control decision and talk about the collapse of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.⬇️
The INF treaty was prompted by the “destabilizing” effect of the proliferation of intermediate and medium-range cruise and ballistic missiles in Europe starting in the 1970s. To explain what those terms mean, exactly, these are missiles with ranges of between 500 and 5,500 kilometers. The thinking was that these systems – lighter and cheaper than intercontinental doomsday missiles while being almost as fast and hard to defend against – would allow one side or the other to devastate the other’s military forces deployed within Europe in a surprise attack that could not be reasonably defended or hedged against. Thus, they incentivized exactly that course of action, at least to a certain kind of Cold War policy wonk.

Was this actually the case? Well, the United States and Soviet Union deployed substantial numbers of intermediate-range weapons to Europe in the late Cold War – Pershing I and II, Tomahawk GLCM, Pioneer and Oka – and nobody pulled the trigger, for what that’s worth. But the arms control concern remained, and with the coming of Gorbachev, glasnost and perestroika the security situation thawed to the point that a push to ban these weapons found traction. The INF Treaty – a bilateral agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union – was ratified by both sides in 1988. It banned all ground-launched missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 km in both sides’ respective arsenals – but not sea and air-launched weapons, which require far more involved and time-consuming deployment of launch platforms prior to firing.

The treaty collapsed a generation later for two reasons: (1) the United States adopted a highly confrontational policy in Eastern Europe against the Soviet Union’s legal successor, the Russian Federation, focused on encouraging local satellite states to antagonize the bear; and (2) American war planners came to view the treaty limits as unreasonably constraining their plans to militarily confront the People’s Republic of China – a nonparty with a huge force of intermediate-range missiles.

But AW, you say – didn’t the US withdraw from the treaty citing Russian violations, specifically the deployment of Iskander-K cruise missiles?
Yeah the Russians did that in direct and proportional response to us developing AEGIS Ashore in the early 2010s and then building two large missile sites in Romania and then Poland. While largely intended to defend NATO states from a Russian missile attack (and thus encourage proxy antagonism towards Russia as part of a long-running policy that eventually came to fruition in Ukraine), a Tomahawk missile doesn’t know whether it’s loaded into a Mark 41 VLS tube on a missile destroyer at sea or one in a building in Romania. Ergo, AEGIS Ashore was a flagrant INF treaty violation – and you’ll also notice that we never at any point made a serious offer* to allow the Russians inspection rights to assuage their concerns about this system which we swore up and down was totally intended to defend Europe from the Iranians.
The real reason for American heartburn with the INF Treaty, however, was Chinese. They weren’t a party to the treaty and they have a huge force of intermediate-range missiles that menace US forces and allies in the Asia-Pacific region. The endless mid-2010s screaming emanating from the US Navy Institute about carrier-killing DF-21s comes to mind immediately. Well, the thinking at the time was that withdrawal from INF would allow us to threaten them right back with our own missiles based ashore in the First and Second Island Chains. So we withdrew, blamed it on the Russians, and set to work on a fancy new set of long-range missiles to fight the Chinese with.

There were, however, two small problems with this course of action.

First, none of these new missiles worked. The Competency Crisis hit American rocket science perhaps the hardest of any discipline, and the crop of fancy new hypersonics that the Pentagon war planners thought they’d have by now never materialized. American deployment of less demanding systems has been glacial. For our withdrawal from the INF treaty, in 2024 the United States temporarily deployed a single VLS battery with a total throw weight of sixteen ground-launched Tomahawk missiles to the Philippines – a handful more than the missile payload of a single attack submarine or half of those habitually carried by missile destroyers. At the moment there are two (2) of these “Typhon” batteries in existence. I’m sure Xi Jinping is terrified.
Second, the Russians immediately set to work developing systems far scarier than Iskander-K, and by all indications their stuff works quite well. And “Oreshnik” is the system we know about, God knows what else they’re cooking up.

* The US made a nonserious offer a few weeks prior to the start of the Ukrainian War as part of the diplomatic stonewalling that led directly to the current conflict.
⭕ ‼️ The Beginning of the End of NATO

Historians of the future will see catalysts of the ultimate dissolution of the NATO alliance in this 2024-11-25 declaration: |source|
🔻 WS: FYI: It’s a 3+ page document. Click on the link above and then view the .pdf file.
🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ: The final desperate act of raving children, this ‘declaration’ will soon be used as valuable toilet paper in the post-collapsed EU economy
🔻 WS: It is a truly astounding document in many ways. And yes, it is infused with an almost childlike detachment from reality. I can already envision Viktor Orbán et al. shaking their heads and exclaiming, “We need to get off this train posthaste.”
⭕ 🤣🤣🤣
⭕retweet:
🔻 C1: The ratio of insider selling to buying is now at a 20+ year high

1. Stocks are at an all-time high

2. Corp execs are huge net sellers

3. It doesn’t take a genius to see that the insiders are cashing out while the getting is good…leaving everyone else to be the patsy when the rug-pull arrives
🔻 WS: The secret to a long life is knowing when it’s time to go.

Reminder!
Hezbollah doesn’t operate in a vacuum, but coordinates closely with the Resistance. It imposed the current cessation of hostilities above all to redirect the world’s gaze to Gaza, being mercilessly exterminated. Many have starved to death, especially in north!

This entire war is to save the Palestinians.

These stop-go cycles are necessary to pressurize the satanic Anglo-Zionists to feed them and to allow supplies inside. It is the major weakness of the Resistance and why the attrition gets dragged out so long. And it is effective.

Recall the whining of the zionazi Smotrich about not being allowed to starve 2 million Gazans! This is why. The guns must fall silent periodically to pressurize the western devils.

And why the frantic West always compensates by firing up a distraction or atrocity elswhere through bombing Yemen, or sabre rattling Iran, or a controlled conflagration with Hezbullah. The criminals seek to turn heads elsewhere off the seminal crime of our times.

And the Resistance works to also expose Anglo perfidy. In next weeks, it will be shown Biden lied yet again; that a permanent ceasefire neither took place, the Gaza extermination was not halted, and it was all a ruse to save the sinking zionazi.

No matter. Each side has its prerogatives. And we know who will pay the full price at the end, even as they drag it out and keep doubling down into the very core of our planet.

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕❗️A Hezbollah drone is flying in a circular pattern above southern Lebanon, observing the Israeli positions

Channel 14 is extremely paranoid, and says ‘an enemy drone is terrorizing our forces in the south of Lebanon and northern Galilee’.
⭕ — 🇸🇾 🇸🇾 NEW: More than 75 HTS terrorists have been killed by the Syrian Arab Army so far, including many mercenaries of foreign nationalities such as Turks, Uzbeks, Uyghurs (Chinese) and Tajiks
⭕ > Ceasefire in Lebanon
> Syrian rebels immediately start an offensive against the Syrian Arab Army, after Netanyahu said Assad is ‘playing with fire’

Couldn’t the Mossad logistics department have made it slightly less obvious?

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇸🇾| The US activated its terrorist proxy group in Syria, simultaneously with the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, coincidence?

… No!

The ceasefire period allows Hezbollah to regroup, rebuild, repair its infrastructure & reinforce its weaponry system through deliveries from Iran.

Syria plays a pivotal role here. Both in Hezbollah’s file as for the West Bank & even Gaza. Syria’s Bashar Assad is a prominent figure in the Resistance Nexus and a torn in the plans of the west, that’s why we see the activation of the US-backed proxy groups in Syria to create instability.

Video shows SAA (Syrian Arab Army – Syria’s national army) firing artillery shells towards the terrorist groups.

At the same time, Syrian & Russian warplanes are carrying out air raids along the western Aleppo countryside axis, focusing on gatherings & HQs of US-backed terrorists around Darat Izza.

The terrorists had heavy losses in these successive strikes since the afternoon.

(Map by IWN)
⭕ One day after Netanyahu threatened Syria to stop arming the resistance, Al Qaeda terrorists were activated in Syria.

— Former head of Mossad:

• Israel helps Al-Qaeda terrorists
• Israel provides assistance to Al-Qaeda for tactical purposes
• Confirmed that Al-Qaeda has never attacked Israel

(N.B. This is not a new interview)   |media|
⭕ Likud Knesset member, Amit Halevi: In contrary to opinions, there was absolute no Israeli victory in Lebanon.
⭕ — 🇸🇾 Syrian Field report:

The losses of the US-backed terrorists in the west Aleppo offensive so far have exceeded 120 killed, including commanders.

Over 100 deaths among terrorists have been confirmed through social media, in addition to dozens of fatalities among Arab, Turkish, Uyghur, and Uzbek fighters. A large number of wounded have also been reported.

The SAA (Syrian Arab Army) has destroyed several armored vehicles, tanks, rocket launchers, and artillery, and seized several other vehicles.

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ The new European Commission (EC) is made up of 27 (political) Commissioners, including the unelected President of the Commission, the so-called Ursula von der Leyen, who took office on December 1, 2019 after being the worst Defense Minister in Germany’s history. Nightclub and cocaine addict Kaja Kallas, former Prime Minister of Estonia, finds herself bombarded as head of European diplomacy. Former and short-lived French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné is to take charge of the European Union’s Prosperity and Industrial Strategy.

Former Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis will become European Commissioner for the (wartime) economy. The former head of the Lithuanian government, Andrius Kubilius, will be in charge of War against the Russian ogre and its friends, while the former Austrian Finance Minister, Magnus Brunner, will be assigned to Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship. It promises a crazy tomorrow.
⭕ So we’ve got a corrupt and devious German, the Baltic states enraged and wishing for a world war with all their heart, and an EU center of gravity that’s totally Atlanticist and resolutely pro-austerity, pro-taxes, pro-vax and pro-war.
⭕ Lebanon should dissolve itself. Some of these minorities have been calling for this for decades.
Some Maronite movements dream of handing the country over to France, while others want it to join Syria or Saudi Arabia.
In any case, Lebanon is not a reliable state.
⭕ Unsurprisingly, the better-armed and well-supported Syrian rebels have unleashed a general offensive against the Syrian armed forces on the instructions of the empire.
The neutralization of the resistance in southern Lebanon leaves Syria in the front line.
The problem is that the Syrian armed forces have lost over 95% of their capabilities since 2011. They are therefore vulnerable to proxy hybrid warfare operations.
[But they’re not alone. Thousands of Iraqis, Iranians, Afghans, Yemenis, not to mention sizable contingent of Russian Air Force. And reportedly half of Hezbollah remains deployed in Syria. And Empire is in equally poor condition ….]
⭕ The experience of the Palestinian Authority, which has totally disarmed all the Palestinian populations living in the West Bank territories, has been disastrous for the Palestinians, who have suffered both the dictatorship of an archaic, corrupt power and a greedy, murderous, fanatical occupation from the dregs of Israeli society.

When you disarm a people, you shouldn’t be surprised to see them crushed and robbed of their rights.

The same thing happened in Gaza: certain factions of the resistance wanted to have an exclusive and absolute monopoly on armed force, whereas it would have been more appropriate to let the population arm itself to face up to the occupation. The result of such a policy is hard to see: civilians being massacred.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 🤔 If the Russia / China / Iran axis is really serious about knocking the empire back on its heels, then what they should do is coordinate their actions.

If Russia struck NATO targets in eastern Europe simultaneous to Iran launching a massive retaliatory strike against Israel and China making an unprecedented bold move in the South China Sea, it would severely stress the US decision-making centers, because the US lacks the capability to deal with concurrent crises in three separate regions of the world.
🔻 William Hayes-Wood: US immediate response would be panic, they would immediately go nuclear and we would have WW3 with total obliteration within short order.

On balance not a good idea.
[I must agree with this William. And so do the civilizational-states, through their deliberately measured lowkey approach. They could have been more open, and hastened the humiliations to come. But they do coordinate, but in ways and methods inappreciable to the western mind..]
🔻 WS: You think the US would commit suicide because Russia destroyed (using conventional weapons) the Aegis Ashore installations in Poland and Romania?

I don’t.
🔻 William Hayes-Wood: Different point. You’re now talking about regional action not global.

In your updated scenario, hawks in Washington believe a tactical nuclear exchange can be limited to Europe thereby defeating Russia who won’t dare respond against US homeland.

They are so very wrong.
🔻 WS: What are you talking about. It’s not my fault you apparently misunderstood my entire original point.

Russia WILL respond against the US/NATO as a result of these continued missile strikes. So why not coordinate their counterstrikes with the impending Iranian retaliation?
🔻 William Hayes-Wood: I understand your point.

I just think it completely misunderstands the Russian, Chinese and Iranian mindset. None of them want war. They don’t need it as time, and the tides of history, are working for them.

Only the US and Israel want war.
🔻 WS: The war has already begun.
🔻 C2: You’re assuming that the people controlling US policy are rational. I’m not so sure.
🔻 William Hayes-Wood: You are quite right.

Putin is entirely rational.

Washington is not.

If US has the choice of accepting military humiliation by Russia or pressing the nuclear button with all its potential consequences, US will choose the latter.
🔻 WS: I disagree. I believe there would be a military coup d’etat to prevent such a rash move.
🔻 C3: Do you think they’ll back off and accept defeat, without using the only weapons (tactical nukes) they can think might stop or reverse the defeat?
I wouldn’t bet on it.
🔻 WS: So you think whoever is currently controlling US military power is suicidal?

Granted, we have no idea at this time who IS currently controlling US military power, but it is a suicidal move to attack Russia with nuclear weapons.

Let’s hope for a Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov.
[not suicidal. Playing with house money. The Moshiach is fated to torment his side as much, and rather MORE. What are either the Anglos or the Zionazis to the Muse that inspired depopulation and eugenics and the Georgia Guidestones!]
🔻 C4: This is true and logical. But they will never do that because that side has no unity/hegemony. Look at 🇮🇷 there’s always chatter of them abandoning RU for sanctions relief. China is betting on economically outlasting the west and is not really helping RU either. That’s why they lose and the globalists win. West has unified sheeple mindlessly following central orders. Any resistance is arhythmic, lacking resolve, organization and unified action.
🔻 WS: You are grossly under-informed regarding geopolitical developments.
📜 All for One and One for All
🔻 C5: I’m sure they’ve discussed this. Don’t forget North Korea.
Four fronts.
[so zionazis face seven immediate fronts. The Big Nazis four big ones and seventy little others worldwide. How much contentedness and tranquility flows their way!]
🔻 C6: I think they’re worried about putting the US on a war economy and turning this into a proper world war
🔻 WS: “War economy” 🤦‍♂️

What a joke.

The US is a deindustrialized nation.
🔻 C7: Wait! US has Facebook and X
🔻 C8: True that.
🔻 C6: Yes but it’s also an extremely rich nation. I don’t doubt that if by mandated state directive, like what occurred in WW2, they could transform their economy. Also many of their key vassals, like Germany, South Korea and Japan are not deindustrialised.
[he/she didn’t get the latest trove of Germany memos.. nor the fact SK/Japan are hostages to DPRK, China and Russia]
🔻 WS: The US is the single most indebted nation in human history.
🔻 C6: The debt doesn’t matter as long as the reserve status holds. It will still take decades to unwork and dedollarise. Currently it still holds the capital to reindustrialise should it come to all out war.
[is this a Treasury employee.. Yellen?!]
🔻 WS: Uninformed nonsense.
🔻 C6: Clearly the Chinese, Russians and Iranians understand this or they would be working in concert.
🔻 WS: They are.
📜 All for One and One
[in the Islamic Eschatology recounted by Imran Hosein, he identifies the central reason for Armageddon being the petrodollar and the fight to retain the free lunch. It is clearly the most challenging task of all, being saved for last after the demilitarization, the stripping of the mask of benevolence and champions of international law and right to host the UN with Gaza, etc.. So dedollarization is being fought with the most subtle, and unsubtle, tools of all, and being slow-walked to arrive as a fait accompli after the attrition on all other fronts. That is why Legion counters with nuclear escalation right now, before they lose life force and nerve and their internal cohesion]
🔻 C7: There’s no way to successfully defend Taiwan, we should not get involved. Europe would have to handle RU. That conflict involves their neighbor in their backyard. And then we could focus on Iran. Which we could win. Hopefully RU is running low on supplies/reinforcements
🔻 WS: I said nothing about China invading Taiwan, and I don’t believe they will ever do it. There is no need to do so.

But I have argued for several years now that the US absolutely could NOT defeat Iran in a war.
[and has that been the realizable objective of any post-Korea war?? The Parasite will murder-suicide the old Host]
🔻 C7: Why do you think Iran would win? You sound so confident
🔻 WS: Because I consult maps.
🔻 C8: Where can I read about this info?

Us wouldn’t be able to sustain a ground assault against them, Persians for a reason have never truly been ever conquered cause of geography but US blocking campaigns would be lethal
🔻 WS: The US Navy would not be able to operate in the Persian Gulf without Iranian permission.

US airbases in the region would be acutely susceptible to Iranian missile strikes.
🔻 C9: Iran is only bag of hot air. Lack decisive militarily decision making abitility. They r scared of losing all they have achieved till now. They keep on saying operation true promise 3 every day so much so that it has become a meme now
🔻 WS: Or perhaps they are operating on a timetable that differs from yours.
[yes. they will launch and likely within days.. the baton is handed from Hezbollah. Attrition will be maintained on Zion; members of the Resistance may rotate to rest and replenish, but neither the West nor Lil Cancer. Until they’re either submitted or we’re all Raptured along with them]
🔻 C10: Perhaps it would be more effective to strike Western targets when Trump is in the office? You know, negotiate from a place of strength with the art of the deal negotiator in chief and his band of neocons. |media|
🔻 WS: I do not believe the Russians are concerned with such considerations. They correctly understand that the power of the empire is not vested in the President of the United States.

The Russians will do what they deem best when they damn well deem it best to do.
🔻 C11: Don’t be daft. They will de-escalate. The west needs a war to reset their economy and divert their social problems. They will not attack so they are pushing the Russians to escalate. Your take is exactly what they want.
🔻 WS: Don’t be daft. A war would not “reset” western economies. It would destroy them. And it would greatly exacerbate social problems to the point of violent chaos in many areas.

The fools in the west have no idea what they’re doing. They are making it up as they go along.
🔻 C12: what is “China making an unprecedented bold move in the South China Sea”?
🔻 WS: A move bolder and more strategically meaningful than any they have made previously.

Perhaps something as incremental as seizing the Diaoyu Islands.
[Located between Taiwan and Japan, these former Chinese sea-soaked rocks currently host panicking Japanese squatters]
🔻 C13: Pentagon has analysts and strategists calculating next moves if this ever happens. IMO they will handle China first since it’s the money bag for both.
🔻 WS: China?

The same China that can crank out THOUSANDS of missiles every single day of the week?

You think the US is going to make war against CHINA?

That is #BatshitCrazy silly talk.

Propose me an Order of Battle for a US war against China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_battle
⭕ 🔻 SIMPLICIUS Ѱ: Listen carefully |media|
🔻 WS: Obviously somewhere in Kharkov, autumn 2022.

I have consistently argued, since that time, that both the Kherson and Kharkov moves were deliberate punishing withdrawals to prepared positions. Many mocked me then and continue to do so. But I have not altered my view.
🔻 Olga Bazova: Kherson definitely was. Kharkov not so much, there was some odd number of volunteer units holding off the Ukrainian advance for an orderly retreat, but it wasn’t a deliberate maneuver. Russia was way overstretched.
🔻 WS: I disagree. I remain convinced the plan was always to contract the line to the other side of the Oskol, and to lure the AFU/NATO forces into a disastrous battle of maneuver under a hail of pre-positioned fires.
🔻 Olga Bazova: Perhaps. The pre-arranged fire boxes I agree with, but the speed with which the Kharkov offensive took place is indicative of the fact that it was not a pre-planned retreat maneuver.

I would definitely agree that we were well prepared for it though
🔻 WS: I submit the speed and discipline of the Russian withdrawal is one of the strongest indicators of the deliberate plan at work.

Also the relentless massacre of men and equipment that was inflicted on the AFU/NATO force from the moment they breached the line of contact.

And last of all, the impassable defense line they ran into on the other side of the Oskol.

If the entire operation was not pre-conceived, then it was one of the most brilliantly improvised fighting retreats I can recall in my 50+ years of studying warfare.
[do you remember the meltdown at the Saker those days! Threads 300+ comments long wailing nonstop. Folks were too emotional. iirc even Olde Larch was ready to leap off a Cliff, overcome by delicious Angst and Doubt. I kept my two inexperienced but beady eyes on the ball: demilitarization was still well in progress, the territory be damned]
🔻 Olga Bazova: I submit to your vastly more experienced knowledge of the warfare.

I never miss your write ups. I have learned quite a lot about it through your writings actually. It’s nothing I’d usually delve into, but it’s definitely been educational to read about it from the likes of yourself, @ArmchairW and a handful of other analysts on this platform.
🔻 WS: Don’t misunderstand. I’m just presenting my reasoning on the matter. I’ve felt strongly about this topic since the first days of the so-called “Kharkov Counteroffensive”.

But I may be wrong. We’ll have to wait for the Russian military histories to be written in coming years.
🔻 C3: The results bear out your proposition. By the time the Russians got behind the Surovikin Line the Ukrainians had 300,000 casualties and exhausted their entire army’s offensive capability. The Russians lost less than 14,000.
🔻 C4: I can’t wait to read the history of this war, at least what we don’t know. And we know a lot of you think about it. But much we don’t.
🔻 WS: I think this war is, for a number of reasons, the single most fascinating war of modern times. There are so many moving parts, and they span the globe.

And I’m sure it holds its secrets.

But it is also the most extensively recorded, with much of it finding its way online
⭕ 🔹 My friend the Armchair Warlord @ArmchairW believes the AFU is the operative agent of ATAMCS missile strikes.

I have my doubts, but I consider it largely irrelevant.

I will note these recent ATACMS strikes have so far strictly conformed to US-dictated rules of engagement.
🔻 C1: Exactly. Butt the fear is being ramped up to a near fever pitch over strikes that cannot be decisive in any way. Seems like something else is in play-why the seemingly exaggerated reactions? I get fear of WW3 but there’s no existential danger from these strikes.
🔻 WS: So … if Russian missiles launched from Mexico were striking military targets in Texas or Arizona, but not doing severe damage, these strikes would not be sufficient cause for the United States to strike back at Russia?
⭕ ‼️ This post perfectly exemplifies why anyone interested in the important details of the war in Ukraine should be following the Warlord.

Herein he makes many compelling observations and provides extremely insightful analysis.

I read it twice.

* HIGHLY RECOMMENDED *
🔻 Armchair Warlord:
Ukrainian Missile Crisis: Day 7⬇️

There were two significant developments in the last day that have shed new light on the ongoing escalation crisis between NATO and Russia. At this point it’s clear Ukraine wasn’t alone in their scheme – the UK and France were also key players.

1. The Russian Ministry of Defense made an unprecedented public disclosure of the targets, weapons, and outcomes of two Ukrainian ATACMS raids on November 23rd and 25th, including several photographs of missile debris at the targeted locations.

The actual net results were unspectacular – an air defense radar damaged and several Russian soldiers wounded, for 13 missiles expended – but it is interesting that the missiles used were very old base-model M39s, manufactured in the 1990s (see picture #2, with a vintage Lockheed Martin Vought Systems nameplate). These lacked the range to strike anything important in Crimea from Ukrainian territory, and rather than being new deliveries were likely from earlier tranches retained for tactical use after the Ukrainians ran out of newer M39A1 and M57 models firing them at Crimea.

2. Around the same time, the British Labour government disclosed that they had shipped as many as 150 Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine in the last few weeks, replenishing the AFU’s arsenal after they had run out (!) of these weapons. Given known stocks and the glacial production rate of these missiles, I wouldn’t be particularly surprised if this represented Britain’s entire remaining national stockpile.

This is a key piece of information that indicates that this missile escalation was in no small part planned by Britain and France, who – along with Ukraine – have been aggressively lobbying Washington for months now to order a strike campaign in “old” Russia. Ukraine wasn’t so much “going rogue” as it was aggressively playing different factions of NATO off each other to get the policy outcome it wanted.

Now, the interesting thing here is that Ukraine has only actually launched one raid with Storm Shadow missiles, on November 20th – almost a week ago now. There’s been nothing since despite the Ukrainians supposedly having a substantial stockpile of these missiles available and a whole “Christmas list” of targets in the Russian interior to strike. One would think they’d be getting busy.

This brings me to my theory for the evening.

Let us recall that in “retaliation” for the Ukrainian missile raids on November 19th and 20th, on the 21st a Russian “Oreshnik” IRBM plowed dozens of kinetic penetrator submunitions into the Yuzhmash industrial plant in Dnipropetrovsk at something like Mach 14. Muted secondary explosions could be seen on videos of the strike shortly after the impact. Yuzhmash is known to have a deep bunker complex underneath it dating from the Soviet Union, presumably to allow some level of industrial production to continue even following an all-out nuclear exchange.

Let us also recall that the Russians have located and destroyed Storm Shadow stockpiles in Ukraine on multiple previous occasions, despite what are presumably heroic operational security measures by the AFU. I’ll just put it this way – the SVR and GRU are very, very good at their jobs. As such it would make a great deal of sense for the Ukrainians to store their long-range missile stockpile in a facility which, even if the Russians could sniff out the missiles there, they would have great difficulty targeting. A facility like, say, the doomsday bunker under Yuzhmash.

The British and French national leadership are full of war hawks that are, for whatever deranged reason, perfectly happy to play nuclear Russian roulette. I doubt that they would be sufficiently deterred by the Russians unveiling yet another weapon system that could reheat their nations over the course of a lunch break so as to order a U-turn on their scheme to dramatically escalate the war and “lock in” American policy before Trump takes office. The Russians know this very well of course.

What if last Friday’s Oreshnik strike wasn’t actually aimed at deterring anyone but was instead a disarming attack that destroyed the latest – and possibly last – shipment of Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG missiles in a hardened warehouse underneath Yuzhmash? This would explain both a lack of follow-up Storm Shadow attacks and new trial balloons floated in its aftermath by the same bad actors about transferring JASSM cruise missiles to Ukraine. I’ve even heard from a flight monitoring contact that covert transfers of Taurus missiles from Germany may be underway – something that would be totally unnecessary if the Ukrainians still had 100+ Storm Shadows on hand.

As I’ve said many times, the winning move for the Russians here is to continue to play the existing game rather than start a new one by widening the war. Under the rules of that game, anything in Ukraine can be targeted – and if these fancy British missiles cook off in their storage bunkers then there’s really no need to deter anyone from using them.

This is, by the way, far more consistent with the normal logic of war than some kind of tit-for-tat retaliation scheme. You use everything you can, all the time, to inflict maximum damage upon the enemy so as to defeat them. That’s well beyond mere deterrence. |media|
[if true, and why not, as clever Russkies work to attrit ALL means before they get raptured too, this is well done. It puts the US on the horns of the dilemma – the script had been to hand off the suicide charge to the Anglo-French, but now they need what was earmarked for the China Seas… and no undivided attention for Iran either. Decisions, decisions. This may hasten “Seven Days in May” as the brass knuckle-draggers realize the lunatics, within and without, will ask for the football case]

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕️ ⚡️| 🇵🇸 Hamas issued a statement on the ceasefire in Lebanon.

We commend the central role played by the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon in supporting Gaza and the Palestinian resistance, showing significant sacrifices made by Hezbollah and its leadership, particularly by martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Israel’s acceptance of the agreement with Lebanon, without [Hezbollah] meeting their conditions it had set, marks an important step in breaking Netanyahu’s illusions of reshaping West-Asia through force and his misguided belief in defeating or disarming resistance forces.

This agreement would not have been possible without the steadfastness of the resistance and the support of the people behind it. They expressed confidence that the Resistance Nexus will continue to back their people and support their struggle by all available means.

We are committed to cooperate with any efforts aimed at halting the violence in Gaza. We are focused on ending the Israeli aggression against our people based on the national parameters agreed upon for a ceasefire. These include a full ceasefire, the withdrawal of occupying forces, the return of displaced people, and the completion of a comprehensive prisoner exchange deal.
⭕ — Good News: 17 Hezbollah fighters, who were thought to have been martyred after losing contact with them, made contact again.

All of them were in one of the border villages that had been under the control of Israel for weeks.
⭕ Lebanese Southerner man makes fun of the Merkava tank in the background   |media|

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️Ukrainian Armed Forces Attack Sevastopol [Crimea] Airfield with NATO Storm Shadow Missiles

Also involved are about 40 UAVs and several Neptune missiles.

At the moment, all targets have been shot down.

💠 @Eyes on South:
⭕ Even Israelis admit their war objectives in Lebanon failed
⭕ Lebanese returning to the border city of Khiam standing meters away from an Israeli tank.
Even Israeli journalists are astonished 😂
⭕ True

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Cope and seethe.
[When one side is celebrating nationwide, the other side’s delusional maniacs can spin it until they’re blue. The outcome is clear]
⭕ — 🇱🇧/ 🇱🇧 People everywhere in the South are showing support for Hezbollah, carrying weapons and Hezbollah flags

In one town, a destroyed Hezbollah rocket launcher was moved to the center of the town square on top of the roundabout, and ordained with flags, as a tribute to the fighters.  |media|
⭕ — 🇱🇧 NEW: Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri calls on all the Lebanese to return to their homes, including those who have fled to countries such as Syria
⭕ — 🇱🇧 🇱🇧 NEW: Hezbollah’s heavy ‘Fadi’ rocket launchers, after the ceasefire, are seen freely driving on the roads of southern Lebanon, like nothing ever happened

Meanwhile, the IDF has retreated from almost all their positions in the South, less than 24 hours after the ceasefire going into effect. |media|
[LOL. Cheeky swagger. They’ve earned it. Well done, heroes]
⭕ — 🇱🇧 🇱🇧 NEW: In a rare show of solidarity, workers of Lebanon’s ‘Future Movement’ political party, which consists mostly of Sunnis affiliated with Rafic and Saad Hariri, distributed sweets to civilian Hezbollah supporters arriving home
⭕ — 🇾🇪 🇱🇧 Statement by Yemen’s Ansarallah on Hezbollah’s victory in Lebanon:

‘We salute the great resilience of Hezbollah and the dear Lebanese people in confronting the brutal Israeli aggression. Through this steadfastness and the unity of the people, army, and resistance, Lebanon has achieved another victory by repelling this aggression and thwarting its malicious goals.

The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, with its immense sacrifices, has only grown deeper in its roots, stronger, and more steadfast. It has excelled in its escalating operations, both in quantity and quality, forcing the Zionist enemy and its American sponsor to agree to a ceasefire that preserves Lebanon’s security, sovereignty, and independence.

We have full confidence in the choices of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon. We believe its wise leadership has managed to regain the initiative in a short time despite the significant wounds inflicted upon the resistance, especially after the assassination of the esteemed Secretary-General, the martyr of Islam and Muslims, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah — may Allah’s blessings be upon him. The Israeli enemy would not have relented and accepted a ceasefire were it not for its confrontation with a resilient resistance that stood firm against treacherous assassination crimes. This resistance rose with even greater ferocity, proving its ability to engage in a prolonged war of attrition — something a fragile and weak entity like the Zionist regime cannot endure. As described by the martyred leader His Eminence Sayyed Nasrallah, this entity is more fragile than a spider’s web.

The martyrs of Hezbollah are martyrs on the path to Al-Quds. Hezbollah has performed admirably on this challenging path, continuing its support for Gaza and Palestine despite the shameful and disgraceful Arab and Islamic betrayal, with rare exceptions.

The struggle against the Zionist enemy is inevitable, and the wars with it are rounds in a conflict that will inevitably end with its demise, God willing.’
⭕ — 🇱🇧 🇱🇧 The Lebanese people will never abandon the Resistance
⭕ — 🇱🇧 🇱🇧 A house in southern Lebanon where Hezbollah lived:

‘Peace be upon you.

Please forgive us for using your home, livelihood and the supplies of the house.

In order to maintain our good conscience, we decided to put a modest amount of money for compensation.

With the hope that you will return to your beautiful home with your heads held high.

Sincerely, the Men of God (Hezbollah).’

☝️ it appears Satanyahoo lied. The core of the “ceasefire” is a promised halt to bloodshed inside Gaza. An Egyptian delegation is in Zion for first time. Hamas gave its blessings in advance. The Resistance must have agreed to keep silent about the real humiliating terms, so as to preserve Zion some face. The card they hold is refusal to allow the northern Palestine settlers (their oldest and most influential colonies) to return to their rubble until implementation of the agreement.

We’ll see if this holds. Expect betrayal by the Satanists who CANNOT allow peace to break out, and the full understanding of their strategic defeat to sink in worldwide. They’ll double down somehow. Especially with the messianic freaks of the Orange Camacho Gang baying in the wings.

And note in the meantime, Yemen, Iraq and Iran are under no “ceasefire” obligations. The humiliating and utterly destructive Siege on Zion remains in place, as long as the one on Gaza and Palestinians remains in place.

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇮🇹🇮🇷| Italy’s ambassador to Iran personal home has the highest household electricity consumption nationwide.

This has sparked some questions. Some say it’s bitcoin mining but I don’t think he’d jeopardise his dignity for crypto. It’s likely spying equipment.
⭕ 📝 The latest news regarding the ceasefire:

The Israeli cabinet agreed to a ceasefire deal, but a senior Hezbollah official announced that they’re going to examine the deal “Israel” agreed to before the Lebanese Government officially approves it as they do not trust Netanyahu.

The ceasefire deal Hezbollah agreed to is one like resolution 1701 that ended the 2006 war. It doesn’t give Israel the freedom to conduct airstrikes against Lebanon at will.
⭕ 🇱🇧| Lebanese MP Fadlallah told Al-Mayadeen:

The ceasefire letter that reached us in Lebanon is not the same as the one that is being released to the public by Israel.

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕— 🇵🇰 NEW: In Pakistan, protests have erupted in support of Former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is currently imprisoned. These protests have turned violent, resulting in the death of at least four security personnel and injuring over 100 people, including protestors and Police officers

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI, Imran Khan’s party) convoys from all over the country have managed to enter the capital Islamabad despite several blockades and containers. Islamabad is under total lockdown, and mobile networks have been shut down.

The government has also invoked Article 245 under which the Pakistani Armed forces have been called in, and according to several reports, clear orders have also been issued to shoot any ‘troublemakers’ on sight.  |media|
[This is a nearly failed state with nukes! Just like the leading three heads of the Hydra — Zio-USUK!]
⭕ After 2 months of ground war in Lebanon, Israel needed a ceasefire:

• Israel has not defeated Hezbollah militarily.
• Israel has not managed to stop the launching of missiles and drones into northern Israel.
• Israel has not managed to capture any major village beyond Hezbollah’s first line of defense.
• Israel has not returned its citizens to the North, and won’t be able to do so for many months.
• Israel has not reached the Litani River or stopped the flow of Iranian weapons to Hezbollah.

⭕ Only 26% of Israelis say they believe Israel ‘won the war’ against Hezbollah, while 61% say Israel did not win, and 13% are unsure
⭕❗️Large scale Hezbollah rocket barrage south of Haifa

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇩🇪 German steelmaker, ThyssenKrupp says it will have to cut 11k jobs or 40% of its workforce by 2030

The company said Monday that it is aiming to cut around 5,000 roles by 2030, through reducing production and streamlining administration. A further 6,000 jobs will be transferred to external service providers or shed through the sale of business units.

“Increasingly, (global) overcapacity and the resulting rise in cheap imports, particularly from Asia, are placing a considerable strain on competitiveness,” Thyssenkrupp Steel said in a statement.

The news is the latest blow to Europe’s biggest economy, where storied manufacturers face a perfect storm of competition from Chinese rivals, traditional disadvantages such as steep labor costs and high taxes, and energy costs driven higher by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
[Wow. Among the backbone of the Wehrmacht and iirc among those industries spared by the self-interested Anglo bombing. I’ve ridden on their excellent elevators in several continents. This is truly the end of the Old Order]

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Hamas spokesperson Osama Hamdan acknowledged Hezbollah’s role, stating, “Any announcement of a ceasefire in Lebanon pleases us because Hezbollah stood by our people and made great sacrifices.”
🔻 @PapaDuvalier: has Hezbollah made any statements yet? i am coming to the conclusion the Israelis, with their control of the worlds media, are playing make-believe mind games
🔻 EM: No, it hasn’t because what Netanyahu said is unclear.
⭕ Hezbollah has not accepted the cessation of hostilities yet because it needs to see the “deal” and be informed of all its details before accepting it.
⭕ Please read this to understand what is happening and why Netanyahu unilaterally announced the end of hostilities.

The UNSCR 1701 doesn’t include a ceasefire but a cessation of hostilities, which is a huge difference. A cessation of hostilities is typically a temporary or provisional halt in active combat, often declared unilaterally or bilaterally, to allow for negotiation efforts or to de-escalate a conflict without committing to a formal peace process. It may be short-lived and lack binding short—or long-term commitments. It often focuses on halting specific types of violence or combat in designated areas rather than ending the conflict outright. It can be announced without formal negotiations or written agreements between parties. This is what Netanyahu did.

💠 Leila Hatoum:
⭕ The US wants a ceasefire as of 10am tomorrow

the israeli occupation wants a ceasefire as of tomorrow evening

Netanyahu in so little words did not say he agreed to the resistance’s remarks

the resistance is yet to comment

Blinkin claimed they’re finalizing the hurdles
[An achingly solo Anglo-Zionist circle jerk! Remind you of similar desperation to get a pause in 404, lol??]
⭕ until now.. ma fee shi
[The last part says “There is nothing.” Nothing agreed to by the Resistance. Only media, AZE, and compradore hyenas have been barking]