💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇪🇺❗️The United States will deploy a task force of strategic bombers to Europe in the coming days, the US European Command said.
[Whom are they planning on bombing?? Hungary and Slovakia? Liechtenstein?? There are no other viable targets in East Europe]
⭕ 🇷🇺❗️The world order based on Western rules will soon collapse — Medvedev
[This a suitable follow on comment to the one above!]

💠 @Palestinian Commie:
⭕ 🛸 Lebanese drone cruises by Zionist air defense helicopters and detectors; strikes factory in Achziv, north of Nahariyya |media|
[This was more extensive damage than let on in first images! There goes industry and toilet paper in the north of occupied Palestine!]
⭕ 🌟 What happened last night?

The only videos released to social media were that of a Palestinian home that was “hit with a missile” in Tel Aviv, causing 11 injuries (none critical, thankfully) – all other photos or videos of the actual target were censored. Unfortunately, this was circled by all “friendly” Telegram channels too, racing for a “BREAKING” caption (get fucked)

⚫️Now we have the video above showing that the Palestinian house was in fact bombed by a Zionist interceptor that backfired

What was really targeted was announced by Hezbollah this morning:

“In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their valiant and honorable resistance, in defense of Lebanon and its people, and within the framework of the Khaybar operations series and in response to the attacks and massacres committed by the Zionist enemy and with the call “Labbaik Ya Nasrallah”, at 02:30 in the morning of Saturday 02-11-2024, the fighters of the Islamic Resistance bombed the Glilot base of the Military Intelligence Unit 8200 in the suburbs of Tel Aviv with a barrage of special types of rockets |media|

{And victory comes only from God}”
[do u begin to understand the subtlety of the lying?? They WILL reveal some initial images of the inevitable damage due to relentless daily barrages, but show (1) the least damaging ones to feed to social media; and preferably (2) of arab damage, which they can create themselves, to seek to demoralize the Resistance or divide arabs, and so on. Essentially like USUK or 404, being cut of the same cloth, they will lie to the dregs]

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇮🇷General Kothari:

“The entire Axis of Resistance to join Iran’s response against Israel”

“The response will be bigger than Operation True Promise 2″

“Israel even with USA’s help won’t be able to stop a regional strike against it”.
[it appears Resistance has chosen to piggyback this Iranian retaliation for larger aims. Lebanese and Palestinian lives waste away – and for sure Iran is gonna get nuked now, so get in first blows on the bastards]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕❗️ Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khamenei: ‘Our enemies, both America and the Zionist regime, should know that they will receive a tooth-breaking response to what they are doing against Iran and the Resistance Front.’
[They serve intent to enter the Rapture together. One cannot sweet talk Legion determined to exterminate you]

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🛑| A team of over 25 Israeli Special Forces carried out a sea landing, where they abducted a Lebanese man, who was alone at the location.

The sea landing was coordinated with German navy, they are part of UNIFIL’s mission to prevent the Lebanese navy, who fights anti-smuggling operations in the area, from intervening in Israel’s abduction.

> Germany yet again adding upon its failures by helping the Israeli commando team to abduct a Lebanese man. |media|
[Warn off the Krauts. If they do not comply, sink them]

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ A German navy ship belonging to UNIFIL took an active part in an operation to kidnap a Lebanese citizen from the South Lebanese coast by a commando of 25 men from the entity.

This is the third time in succession that German UNIFIL military personnel have taken an active part in Israeli military operations.
[What is wrong with the misplaced chivalry of the Greater Syrians?! They doom themselves, tolerating skullduggery by the honorless. Defend yourselves!]

💠 @imetatronink:
⭕ This is silly talk.

What systems can Poland deploy in an attempt to “shoot down Russian missiles”? Patriot PAC-3s? Even if you parked them right on the border, their range would extend no further than Lviv.

Besides, the PAC-3 has been a total failure against ballistic missiles.
🔻 C1: GEM T missiles.
🔻 WS: PAC-2 GEM-T. Annual production: ~250 units.

Wasn’t Israel firing GEM-Ts at Iranian missiles back in April?

In any case, it was reported the Israelis retired all their PAC-2 systems in the immediate aftermath of that strike
🔻 C1: Agree with you.
PAC 2 system failed every time in Ukraine.
Also the recent destruction of MPQ65 in Dnipro. They fired 2 Gem T but failed to intercept 1 Iskander M.
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ Mearsheimer’s Blind Spots

Here is a perfect example of John Mearsheimer’s American-exceptionalist blind spots severely impairing his capacity to accurately discern the world in which we live |THREAD|
🔻 C1: He gets Russia and Israel correct, but his China views are more in line with people he usually criticizes….
🔻 WS: He grossly underestimated Russia’s military and economic power in the years leading up to the war in Ukraine.
🔻 C2: What part of what he says makes u think he has a “severely impaired capacity to discern the world in which live”?

If anything, all he argues fits perfectly with his theory of offensive realism, the same one that earned him a place among the greatest political thinkers in history.
🔻 WS: I do not believe Mearsheimer is “among the greatest political thinkers in history”.

At any rate, read my other replies in this thread for examples of what I regard as his “severely impaired capacity to discern the world in which live”
🔻 C3: Exactly Emmanuel Todd’s critic of Mearsheimer: ‘He still thinks the US is a nation’
🔻 C4: Freud: *snort* Every woman envies penises, every man wants to have sex with his mother and kill his father.

Mearsheimer: Every country logically wants to stomp on the face of the rest of mankind until the heat death of the universe in a zero sum descent to hell to secure power
🔻 WS: Extending your Freudian quip, the overriding “reality” is that NONE of the current major powers has the reproductive vitality to pursue anything more than regional hegemony.

Absent a baby-boom of unprecedented proportions, demographics will constrain imperial aspirations.
🔻 C5: Can you tell more about the blind spots?
🔻 WS: In addition to an incurable case of American Exceptionalism, Mearsheimer is borderline clueless about military matters, and understands next to nothing about China. He suffers from full-blown “Yellow Peril” virus.
[And he’s lived long enough in the Windy City.. Nuff said]
🔻 C6: But he is spot on regarding Ukraine
🔻 WS: I’ve followed Mearsheimer for at least a decade. I’ve watched his views on Ukraine and Russia undergo a slow evolution over that time. It took him until about mid-2023 to finally come to grips with many realities he either rejected or resisted up until then.
🔻 C6: Haven’t followed him to that extent, but he was talking about NATO expansion and the 2014 Maidan coup for years.

Anyhow. I am not an expert and don’t pretend to be. I’ll take your expertise on issue over mine
🔻 WS: Mearsheimer spoke very eloquently and insightfully about the folly of NATO expansionism and using Ukraine to strategically weaken Russia. I recommended him quite often over the 2014 – 2022 time frame. (Search Mearsheimer from:imetatronink).

But he still underestimates Russia.
🔻 C7: Yet his Ukraine analysis is entirely believable and is being borne out in real-time
🔻 WS: Mearsheimer’s Ukraine analysis was not the same in 2014 as it was in 2021, and then morphed rather reluctantly until mid-2023 (or so) when it finally caught up to the realities of the situation — when it finally became politically acceptable to speak the whole truth.
🔻 C8: “Realism” is a dead-end street. It’s just interventionism-light.
🔻 WS: My biggest criticism of the so-called “Chicago School of Realism” is that it is only sometimes (and then often only tangentially) in touch with reality.
[but was he in touch with Barry’s bathhouses?? It IS is small-Big Club, and thank the Lord we ain’t init, given the sodomite rites of ascendance within..]
🔻 C8: I’d still take Mearsheimer over any neocon, any day of the week. And on a personal level he is the consummate intellectual and gentleman
🔻 WS: I have learned a LOT from Mearsheimer over the years. I have always regarded him highly, and I agree with you that he is a “consummate intellectual and gentleman”.

My criticisms of him are quite narrowly focused. But I consider it very important to recognize his blindspots
🔻 C9: What I adore about Mearsheimer is he never takes those criticisms personally and is always willing to change his mind if he finds the counter-argument compelling. I, however, agree with your assessment of his blind spots.
🔻 WS: I like Mearsheimer a lot. He is a very personable guy. I agree with him on many things. But I do think he tends to be myopic at times — failing to take into account big picture realities.

He is also, imo, effectively clueless about military and economic matters
🔻 C10: I appreciate Mearsheimer’s take on Ukraine; however, he cannot transcend his roots in Anglo-American hegemonic thinking.

Imperialism is inherently destructive; it is not sustainable. Only a “balance of power” can achieve peace and stability. Hegemony requires permanent war
🔻 WS: Well said.
🔻 C11: I do some dissecting here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/warwickpowell/p/mearsheimers-blindspots
🔻 WS: 🎯 Bullseye! Superbly done, Warwick! I had not previously been aware of this excellent analysis. From now on, I encourage you to DM me a link when you publish excellent articles like this. Otherwise I’m bound to miss it in the maelstrom of other stuff in my timeline
🔻 C12: He’s a lightweight compared to Steven Cohen. I listened to him at the beginning of the conflict and that was all I needed to know what he thought. Subsequent interviews and talks didn’t add anything
🔻 WS: Professor Cohen was a giant. I deeply regret that he did not live to comment on the events of the past four years.
🔻 C13: You’re mistaking Mearsheimer’s views. He’s not advocating these views because he is American. He would be saying the exact same thing if the roles were reversed. It’s nothing personal, just the nature of his ‘realism’ perception of international relations.
🔻 WS: I have followed him closely for years. I own and have read several of his books. When it comes to Mearsheimer, I understand precisely what it is I am critiquing.
🔻 C14: Hmm Who to believe…
🔻 WS: “Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.” ― Euripides
⭕‼️ Since it arrived, the USS Abraham Lincoln CSG has lurked quietly in the deep blue waters of the Arabian Sea — close enough to pretend it was “deterring” something, but always safely outside Yemeni and Iranian missile range.

Now it’s softly slinking away to calmer seas
⭕ 💥 You have to be impressed by the Hezbollah PR team. These guys have mastered their craft |media|
🔻 C1: It also shows me we are all humans who love well made cool cut videos.
🔻 WS: It’s well-made propaganda. First-rate 21st century rhetoric. The ancient Greek rhetoricians would have loved it.
🔻 C2: I’m still trying to make a website for my fishing guide service. Can I hire Hezbollah or is that some violation of US law?
🔻 WS: All I know is I want to find a good nearby stream where I can catch both German brown and Bonneville cutthroat trout. In my 20s and early 30s I had such a place to go. Then it got discovered by wealthy elites who bought up all the nearby land and made it private. 😡
🔻 C3: I’m not a zionist…

But there are reports 《¿propaganda?》of IAF decimation of kornet stocks.

What do you think about it?
🔻 WS: There have been over 40 Merkava tanks smoked since the IDF moved into southern Lebanon, and hundreds of IDF casualties from well-placed ATGM strikes.

Hezbollah is not stupid. They disperse their munition stores in a prudent and professional manner.
⭕ 🔻 C1: When did you find out that Putin isn’t the bad guy?
🔻 WS: 🤔 When did I realize Vladimir Putin was not the “bad guy”?

No later than his 2007 Munich Security Conference address. I loved watching John McCain and Joe Lieberman squirm in their front-row seats.

This short extract [above] from a 2013 speech sealed the deal
⭕ ‼️ In my view, as I have stated persistently, this is a facile perspective that leads to numerous fallacious conclusions
[Sir Will is factually correct, but still! 🤣 😅 😀 it is increasingly the PoV of the Global Majority, lol, warranted or not. The entire mankind, even within Empire, see USUK as the bitch being led on chains]
🔻 C1: You have your shortcomings. That’s OK. Nobody’s perfect.
🔻 WS: I understand the Jews. I understand so-called “Zionism”. And I understand the nature (and future) of the Anglo-American Empire.
🔻 C1: You’re too close to the picture.
We all understand the Jews. Zionism is an expression of their genetic disorder.
They are the zombie-ant fungus of the “A-A Empire”.
🔻 WS: For your argument. Not for mine.

Those who believe “the Jews rule the empire” do not understand things as they really are. They are being misdirected, and thereby deceived.
[Agreed. They are merely one dominant faction within Legion. But perhaps now, more than ever to date, a decisive gluelike element, like the “Bene Gesserit” of Empire, premier portals of evil black magic, mindwashing, and secret society control levers]
🔻 [Uncle Tolstoy]: …

💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: “The people of Yemen have come to you, and they are the most tender-hearted of people. Faith is Yemeni, and wisdom is also Yemeni.”
⭕🔻 The occupied city of Jaffa, called Tel Aviv by Zionists, is an unsafe city. |media|
[keep scrolling down. These are effects from same Hezbollah barrage of last night]
⭕ 🇾🇪 Yemen is facing a conspiracy from Arab countries aimed at hindering the operations of the Yemeni armed forces that support the Palestinian and Lebanese people. This escalation is seen as the last card of the American forces and their allies to protect Israel from Yemeni attacks. We would like to emphasize that no army in the world can stop Yemen from supporting and assisting the resistance in Palestine and Lebanon. Furthermore, no military force can prevent Yemen from targeting Israeli ships and lifting the blockade against them.
⭕ 🇾🇪 We warn the Saudi and Emirati regimes against involving themselves and their followers in following American directives. If these two devilish countries follow the American steps, we promise them that their end will come swiftly. Yemen will respond with a level of violence they do not expect, as Yemen does not take lightly the conspiracy against the Palestinian cause and the struggle for the rights of the oppressed people of the nation.

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇮🇷 The Iranian government increases the defense budget for 2025 by 200% without specifying the exact amount.

According to SIPRI, Iran spent $10.3 billion in 2023-2024.

Applying a 200% increase, the budget would reach approximately $30.9 billion.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Today, Hezbollah only carried out 7 operations, compared to 20-30 on average

I can tell you one thing – silence from Hezbollah is not a good sign for the Israelis.
⭕ Red Alerts in Tel Aviv, ballistic missiles from Lebanon
[two minutes after he wrote the prior comment]
⭕ I must say, the timing is impeccable.
⭕ Reports of large explosions in Hod HaSharon area of Tel Aviv, where the Mossad headquarters is located – unclear if from interceptions or impacts
⭕ A direct impact was recorded in Tira, near the West Bank, unclear if any damage
⭕ Something was definitely hit, but likely not the Mossad HQ
[same videos as in above Yemeni channel]
⭕ The house that was hit by a Hezbollah missile in Tira
⭕ Unfortunately, the missile hit an Arab building. Luckily, nobody was killed.

Israeli air defenses are known to only intercept missiles heading towards Jewish areas, and to avoid intercepting missiles that are predicted to land on Arab towns.

Israel likes to do this, so they can frame a story that ‘Hezbollah is only targeting Arabs’, which is complete nonsense.
⭕ As mentioned, the so-called ‘Arab-Israelis’ are literally second-class citizens of the Zionist regime.

They have no shelters, no sirens. The Iron Dome and other air defenses let incoming missiles through on purpose, because they don’t give a shit about anyone who isn’t Jewish. Arab towns apparently don’t deserve to be protected. Even NBC News admits this.
⭕ To all Americans, if you care about Palestine or humanity, I have only one simple message: DO NOT VOTE.

Neither of the two candidates is going to make any sort of difference. There is no ‘lesser of two evils’ here. US foreign policy will always be the same: Unconditional support for Israel and its war crimes.

Yeah, Trump may be slightly more conservative regarding domestic social issues, but that’s it. Are you really willing to vote for a war criminal because of that?

The only thing you can do to truly change things, is to show your absolute rejection of the U.S. government by not voting.

Boycott the election.
⭕ Multiple Hezbollah drones managed to bypass the Israeli Air defenses. Hebrew Media reports that Several explosions were heard in different places. One of the drones hit a factory in “Akhziv” in the Western Galilee, near Nahariya.
[about 2-3 hours ago]
⭕ Damage to the factory in “Akhziv” north of Nahariya after being targeted by a Hezbollah drone.
⭕ Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khamenei: ‘Let the enemies, America and the Zionist entity, know that they will certainly receive a harsh response to what they are doing against Iran and the resistance front.’
⭕ The Islamic Resistance in Iraq announced that they targeted four vital locations in “Eilat” using a number of drones.
⭕ IRGC Spokesman, Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Naeini:
🔻’The Zionist entity thinks that Iran will not respond to it. The Zionists believe that Iran is afraid of entering into a war with them and confronting them directly. This perception is an example of the Zionist entity’s wrong calculations.’
🔻’Iran’s response to the Zionist entity is inevitable and will be decisive, strong, and thoughtful and will exceed the enemy’s imagination.’

https://crescent.icit-digital.org/articles/global-ramifications-of-us-iran-tensions-stability-in-west-asia-on-the-line

☝️ this is video from before the SMO. They’re reportedly deployed now, at least in Moscow and Crimea..

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ Russia and Georgia have one faith and one history, and only Saakashvili is responsible for the 2008 war, Medvedev said.

“We are historical neighbors. We have one faith, one history. We have helped the Georgians many times throughout this history. Yes, there was this incident, but it is the president who is responsible for it, not someone else. NATO is a military bloc, the European Union is quite far away, not to mention the United States. And Russia is nearby,”
– Medvedev said in an interview with RT.

He added that Georgia knows what the “Maidan” is, how it ended for Ukraine, and that the country had become much more pragmatic, and Russia is happy about this.
[All’s well that ends well. The howling and screeching and pained hissing from certain quarters is music, and says it all]

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🛑| 50,000 Israeli Soldiers Keep Failing to Occupy a Single Lebanese Village

Yedioth Ahronoth reported that “after a month of ground operations, 5 Israeli military divisions & a reserve brigade—over 50,000 soldiers, triple the number deployed in the 2006 July War—have failed to establish a foothold in southern Lebanon. Despite extensive firepower and air support, the Israeli military has not managed to occupy a single village in South Lebanon.”

The report attributes this failure to Hezbollah’s “effective tactical strategies,” which include multiple defensive lines equipped with munitions capable of accurately targeting Israeli armored vehicles, tanks, and soldiers. Additionally, it notes the army’s difficulties in mapping Hezbollah’s positions and countering the threat posed by small, hard-to-detect drones.

In an interview, Colonel Jack Neriya, a former advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, explained that Hezbollah fighters are deliberately allowing Israeli forces to advance, only to trap them in ambushes. This tactic has created a dire situation for Israeli troops, including elite units like Golani and other commandos. Neriya warned that the human cost of any advance could be severe, potentially surpassing “Israel’s” total casualties since the late 1940s (via Al-Akhbar)
⭕ Today, a massive crowd of two million Yemenis gathered in Al-Sabeen Square in the capital Sana’a, showcasing their readiness to confront any American-Zionist escalation to stop Yemen’s support for Gaza and Lebanon. |media|

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper’s frontpage says:

“Difficult data is accumulating—in October alone, 64 soldiers & 24 settlers were killed. 4,600 missiles & drones were launched at Israel. 14,000 alarms sounded & 101 hostages remain.”
[“difficult events” in a “difficult month” add up to “difficult data” indeed — and that’s what their shameless censorship regime permits them to admit. Plenty more servings to come, of that rest assured]

💠 @Palestinian Commie:
⭕ 👔🇪🇺 Meanwhile in [the] Ukraine |media|
[Now THAT’s NATO-Standard training for ya!]

💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ The Telegraph:
🔻We are faced with an unavoidable reality, a horrifying image, as the German Navy – part of the NATO and EU naval task force – is afraid to pass through the Red Sea.
🔻The Germans, who are part of the EU naval task force to counter attacks from Yemen, are sending their warships to navigate around Africa, avoiding the Red Sea
🔻Earlier this year, the British government prevented the British aircraft carrier “HMS Queen Elizabeth” from deploying in the Red Sea.
[LOL! Why not admit it here too, that their lads were too “afraid to pass through the Red Sea”]
🔻The Red Sea has become an embarrassment for NATO, as Yemeni forces reveal decades of resource shortages affecting our naval capabilities.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ Retweet:
🔻 Filippo Neri: So, where do we go from here?

Project Ukraine has failed: the US will leave it to the Europeans, who are beginning to show signs of desperation.

Project Iran is also showing signs of failing, although we aren’t at the desperation phase yet. Bibi is still trying to stay out of jail.

Project China has already failed: the Chinese shipyards are too productive, and the Chinese missile forces are too strong (including nuclear missiles.)

America can retire behind two oceans, protected by a still-powerful navy (but watch the rust), and become a leading member of the international community.

Europe will lose all privileges and status and fall to the living standards afforded by its own natural resources—low by any measure.
[and who says the West will dictate anything, including the terms of its surrender and enforced Retreat into Oblivion???]
⭕🔻 C1: 🧵🇱🇧 One Month of Maps from Lebanese Resistance (Hezbollah) operations against the Israeli occupation.

From October 1st to October 30th, will add 31st tonight. |THREAD|

Conclusion: There is 0 sign that Hezbollah capabilities has been disrupted by the Israeli army, as they claim.

Hezbollah fighters are fiercely defending the border, hitting deeper into israeli territory than they ever did, amid enemy’s air superiority and constant US support.
🔻 C2: in the meantime US ambassador to lebanon is busy fomenting a civil war/see zero hedge article 2days ago. confirmed by friends in Beirut!
🔻 WS: That’s gonna be a very hard sell, I suspect. And all those who buy in will be signing their own death warrants.
🔻 Normalisation is a crime against humanity (@AuntySemite88): Yup. It rests on Maronite buy in. The Sunnis of Lebanon most certainly won’t be the ones to stick a knife in the backs of the only people to stand up for their Sunni brothers in Palestine. And the maronites are split on the resistance & also would be ensuring their own demise…
[Listen. Ignore all the crap about Sunni/Shia/Christian in West Asia henceforth. Ultimately blood is thicker than water. Arabs are not dumb. They see ALL of them are painted targets named “Amalek” and will coalesce accordingly to save themselves, save for some ignorant desert bedouins and delusional elites too few to be worth mention]
⭕🔻 C1: The Biden White House not only rejected Zelensky’s demand for Tomahawk missiles but also leaked the conversation to the media.

Wait till Trump gets to the office. It’s gonna be much worse! 😆
🔻 WS: If I were Volodymyr Oleksandrovych, I would expedite plans to skedaddle to a distant corner of the planet, incognito, and lay very low for the remainder of my days.
🔻 C2: I wouldn’t even trust him on the dark side of the Moon.
🔻 WS: Haven’t you heard? There is no dark side of the moon. It’s all dark.
🔻 C3: Will, why do you think that Speaker Johnson(R) and
Trump worked the phones so hard a few months back to get the additional 61 Billion USD approved for Ukraine ?
Something still does not add up with that
🔻 WS: Possibly because they were told the vast majority of the allocated funds would be used to replenish severely depleted US munitions stockpiles.

Zelensky himself is complaining that, of the funds Congress authorized, only a small fraction has actually gone to Ukraine.
⭕ ⁉️ Tomahawks to Ukraine?

Tomahawk missiles cannot be delivered to Ukraine.

First of all, it is almost exclusively a naval missile. It would require an Aegis-Ashore installation, of which I believe there are currently only two: one in Romania; one in Poland.

The Pentagon doesn’t even have enough Tomahawk missiles to load all its warship magazines ONCE.

The Tomahawk has been effectively deprecated as an air-launched system, being mostly replaced by the JASSM.

The Tomahawk is slow and relatively archaic. Even the Syrians have been able to shoot down several over the years.

And besides, any NATO cruise missiles penetrating Russian airspace will be treated as a US/NATO nuclear first strike-in-progress. The vanguard of the Russian counterstrike will probably hit before any of the Tomahawks make impact on Russian soil.

See: the two Aegis-Ashore missile installations in Romania and Poland. These are what you call “static targets”.
🔻 C1: Moreover, Tomahawks are guided by GPS. Good luck getting any GPS guided weapon to hit a Russian target. Ain’t gonna happen.
🔻 WS: The Tomahawk also has terrain contour matching. But it is still a slow-flying relatively antiquated system that can be detected, tracked, and defeated without much difficulty.

They would need to be launched in the hundreds to achieve meaningful strike impact against Russia.
🔻 C2: There’s a thing called the Strategic Mid-range Fires System, and it can launch Tomahawks just fine.
🔻 WS: 🤣

Typhon is effectively still in beta-testing mode. As I understand its purpose, it is primarily intended to fire SM-6. They say they will put one in Germany next year. I guess we’ll see.

This much is certain: they can’t be sent to Ukraine.
🔻 C3: The Aegis Ashore does not fire Tomahawks. It has been repeated again and again, it can only use SM-3 interceptors, no offensive armament.
🔻 WS: You are misinformed. Aegis Ashore can be configured to fire every missile type an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer can fire.
🔻 C4: I agree with your larger points. Tomahawk does not need Aegis. Tomahawk in denied environments needs DMASC. I’ll dm you with for more details if you like.
🔻 WS: You have misapprehended the argument. The point is how a Tomahawk could be launched at this point in time.

They could NOT be launched from Ukraine.
🔻 C4: You argument is it cannot be land or air launched because it needs Aegis. It does not need Aegis. We know this because Subs/Bombers launch Tomahawks. In an EM contested environment it needs DMASC, otherwise GPS is sufficient.
🔻 WS: You have misunderstood the argument.

Air-launching has nothing to do with Aegis Ashore, which is obviously a ground-launch platform.

But, as I wrote, air-launching Tomahawks has been deprecated, and would require extensive refitting to enable.

Ukraine cannot launch Tomahawks.
🔻 C5: Why do you seem to discount the US/NATO attempting a nuclear first-strike? The likelihood of this occurring at some point in the not too distant future is much higher than many are comfortable with contemplating
🔻 WS: Because I don’t believe the US/NATO are suicidal.

Do you?
[Yes. All Empires are so at the End….]
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: The level of Russian trolling playing into NATO’s collective hallucinations about North Korean troops gallivanting around Russia lately has just been a sight to behold.
https://t.me/vicktop55/27823
🔻 WS: 🤣 Easy pickins.
⭕ Retweet:
One of the most remarkable images out of Spain yesterday is from this town in Aragón.

That’s a lot of water, but the dam — which was ordered built by the [Roman] Emperor Augustus — held firm, just as it has for the past 2000 years.

Roman concrete: Never leave home without it. |media|
⭕ I remember how everyone pronounced the T-72 an utterly worthless tank when several Iraqi specimens got smoked in 1991.

And yet, over the past 2+ years, the consistently upgraded Russian T-72s have acquitted themselves better than any western main battle tank.
⭕ I’ll bet it ain’t easy these days for the BoE to source 100+ tonnes of good delivery gold. They’re no doubt robbing Peter to pay Paul.
🔻 C1: This was India’s reserves kept in BoE, in the early 90s.
Ideally it was supposed to be there as such!
🔻 WS: I’ll bet not a single bar of the original deposit remained. And whatever was returned was likely refined to 99.99 and recast into SGE-standard 1-kilo bars.
🔻 C1: I guess so. If the orginal gold was maintained in that status, they would have released in one shot, without delay. I would assume long discussions were happening between the Indian side and BoE/British Gov to get them repatriated in phases.
🔻 C2: Looks like 40 percent of the gold owed is yet to be delivered.
[it takes EVERYTHING (and then some) to run a satanic Empire. Absolute insanity for the lunatics who keep at it for centuries… until they’re totally broke and spent and wasted away like a ring-wraith, which is I suppose the perfect metaphor for the condemned]
⭕ Retweet:
🔻 Armchair Warlord: I posited earlier that, based off the experience of the First World War, the Ukrainian War is likely to eventually end via a revolution or series of revolutions in Ukraine leading either to a general state collapse or unconditional surrender.

So what will that look like?⬇️

Well, first we need to assess the existing Ukrainian government – now ruled by President-for-Life Zelensky and a crony clique. The important thing to remember is that while there are plenty of Nazis in Ukraine, Zelensky is not Hitler – he is not some kind of Fuhrer figure that the ultranationalists will support unquestioningly. He is a tolerated frontman, approved by Ukraine’s Western sponsors, and he has amassed great power and wealth because of that – but he is replaceable.

Zelensky knows this, of course – many of his absurd power-fantasy statements lately read more like attempts to bolster his position among the ultranationalist hardliners that keep him in power than attempts to communicate serious talking points to a Western audience. They’re meant for internal consumption, and they suggest his position is rapidly weakening.

That position will collapse once there is an unmistakeable, un-spinnable, un-copeable disaster at the front. I suspect that disaster will be a rapid Ukrainian defeat in the upcoming Battle of Pokrovsk – a battle which I suspect will have more in common with the recent and relatively bloodless fall of several cities in that immediate area than the Bakhmut meatgrinder. That defeat will yank out the linchpin of the entire Ukrainian defensive scheme in the Donbass and set up the Russians to advance on a “big arrow” level for the first time since February 2022.

And Zelensky will be out of answers. At that point there will be a good case to be made that his failures caused this disaster and he must pay – more could have been done and he failed to do it, relying instead on promises of Western support that didn’t materialize (it’s nonsense but he’s been complaining about that recently) and complicated operational-strategic schemes that didn’t pay out. “Enough with NATO! Enough with Europe! Ukraine must fend for itself, with fire and blood and steel!”

So Zelensky and his clique will be overthrown by the ultranationalists and replaced by people made of sterner stuff – this is the “Kerensky government” I mentioned earlier. A government that will resort to the desperate measures we got a small glimpse of in February 2022 – national mobilization, calling out the Volkssturm, going from scraping the barrel to throwing the barrel itself into the fires of war.

Will NATO support this? Maybe, Western governments and media have shown a remarkable willingness to gaslight the public about the nature of their Ukrainian clients. Will this faze the Russians? No, they’ll accelerate their advance as the AFU turns into a rabble. That will probably lead to the outright collapse of the AFU, the collapse of the Ukrainian state with it, and either unconditional surrender by some rump government or otherwise the rapid conquest and partition of Ukraine by Russia and opportunistic NATO states.

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ Satellite images BEFORE/AFTER of Lebanese border settlements destroyed by Israel.
[do not let this fool you. These are already underdeveloped impoverished villages, easy to rebuild. And the combined western hyenas seek to leverage mass extermination of humans and their infrastructure into “successful achievement of military objectives.”

Yet objective analysis informs that the Zio-West suffered immeasurably worse damages, being more developed with more to lose. Just in year one, some $90B due to war costs, not counting lost income, tourism, export/import industry, permanent lost goodwill worldwide leading to stringent BDS, etc etc. Zion, like 404, has converted into a permanent Black Hole sucking all western resources, and into the coming generations if it could have continued to exist. And this does not include the incineration of the north occupied Palestine by Hezbollah, which even if they miraculously regain it, would need to be rebuilt, just as does Lebanon. The Resistance Plan: one step back, losing infrastructure as expected by vindictive satanists, but we shall inherit ALL]
⭕ 🇺🇸Missouri lithium battery recycling plant after explosion.

The plant was one of the largest in the United States and the world. The primary explosion caused a secondary detonation and then a large fire that destroyed part of the production.
⭕ 🇰🇵New footage of yesterday’s launch of the newest ICBM “Hwasong-19” from the territory of the DPRK. |media|
[the Arrows of Armageddon… will one visit Yellowstone National Park’s caldera as uninvited tourist?]
⭕ 🇰🇵🇷🇺⚡️DPRK will help the Russian army and people in their holy war – Foreign Minister Choi Son Hee

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🔴 🇱🇧 Full statement by the Operations Room of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, November 1:

The Islamic Resistance continues to confront the Israeli aggression in Lebanon, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy in terms of equipment and personnel along various confrontation axes and deep into occupied Palestine.

1. Land Confrontations:
In recent days, the Israeli army attempted to advance in southern Lebanese villages, facing resistance across multiple axes:

• First Axis: In the area of the 146th Division, Israeli forces attempted to infiltrate towards the southern neighborhoods of Sheheen and Al-Jbeen, as well as Wadi Hamoul. The Mujahideen confronted them, forcing a withdrawal and targeting enemy positions in Al-Dhuhayrah and Ras Al-Naqoura.
• Second Axis: In the area of the 36th Division, the Resistance targeted Israeli gatherings amidst attempts to penetrate Aita al-Shaab and Aitaroun.
• Third Axis: In the 91st Division area, after heavy losses during recent confrontations, the enemy maintained fire control but did not attempt further advances.
• Fourth Axis: In the area of the 98th Division, resistance fighters confronted an Israeli force advancing towards Kfar Kila, inflicting casualties and forcing evacuation by military helicopters.
• Fifth Axis: In the area of the 210th Division, the Resistance targeted attempts to advance near Kfar Shouba and Shebaa, effectively countering enemy movements.

2. Missile Force: The missile force has conducted 655 operations since September 17, 2024, including 63 in the last three days, targeting Israeli military sites up to 105 km into Israel, reaching the northern suburbs of Tel Aviv with various types of missiles, including precision guided ballistic missiles.

3. Air Force: The Air Force has conducted 76 operations with over 170 drones since September 17, 2024, striking deep into occupied Palestine, including 11 operations in the last three days, reaching up to 145 km deep into Israel.

4. Air Defense Unit: The Air Defense Unit has launched 20 surface-to-air missiles against Israeli aircraft, with 4 launches in the past three days.

— Total Enemy Losses:

• Over 95 Israeli soldiers killed and 900 wounded.
• 42 ‘Merkava’ tanks, 4 military bulldozers, 2 ‘Humvee’ vehicles, an [unnamed] armored vehicle, and an armored personnel carrier destroyed.
• 3 ‘Hermes-450’ drones and 2 ‘Hermes-900’ drones shot down.

The Islamic Resistance asserts that enemy forces avoid visibility to prevent being targeted and rely on nighttime infiltrations. Supply lines remain intact, allowing for continuous resupply of weapons. Despite Israeli intelligence efforts, resistance fighters maintain the ability to launch rocket barrages from Lebanese territory without interruption.
⭕❗️🇱🇧 Hezbollah announces the Zionist losses since the start of the ground war in Lebanon:

• Over 95 dead and 900 wounded among officers and soldiers.
• Destruction of 42 ‘Merkava’ tanks, 4 military bulldozers, 2 Hummer vehicles, an armored vehicle, and an armored personnel carrier.
• Downing of 3 ‘Hormuz-450’ drones and 2 ‘Hormuz-900’ drones.

These losses do not include any casualties or damage from missile and drone attacks inside occupied Palestine.
⭕ 🇮🇶 NEW: Yesterday, on the 31st of October, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq carried out 7 drone operations against Israel

Today, as of 06:00 AM Baghdad time, barely 6 hours into the day, they have already carried out 4 drone operations against Israel.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq says (and shows) that it is escalating its attacks against Israel and its allies significantly.

💠@Strategika51:
⭕ Reuters…
[the joke’s on viewers.. the satanists really eat babies, just as they drink their blood (adrenochrome) or rape them… la creme de la creme of the West! This is why I term these scum The Last Satanic Empire]
⭕ We didn’t know that the FBI and CIA were supervising the voting of illegal migrants in 14 US states.
We missed a chance to vote, but that’s okay: you’d have to be an idiot to still be voting in 2024.
⭕ Telegram has been hit by a frenzy of updates in the last 24 hours…It’s highly suspicious!
⭕ North Korea’s KCNA news agency has published beautiful images of the test of the new Hwasongpo-19 intercontinental ballistic missile. The missile flew for 5156 seconds and covered 1001.2 km, reaching an altitude of 7687.5 km. It is designed to deliver 14 independently guided warheads, six of which serve as decoys for opposing ABM systems on re-entry into the atmosphere.

💠@Hamas/Tsahal:
⭕ Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps [of Iran]:

“Iran will give an unimaginable response to Israel. The Israelis think they can change history by launching a few missiles, but they have not forgotten the missile attack of October 1. They made a mistake and will have to face the response.”

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇩🇪❌🇮🇷 – Germany has recalled its ambassador from Iran to protest the execution of a leading Iranian-German nationalist, The Associated Press reports.

• Germany on Tuesday protested to the Islamic Republic of Iran the execution of German Iranian prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who was abducted in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces, and recalled its ambassador to Berlin for consultations.
• The Foreign Ministry wrote on the social network X that Iran’s chargé d’affaires in Berlin had been summoned to hear “our strong protest” against Tehran’s action and added that it reserved the right to take “further measures.” It did not provide further details.
• He is one of several Iranian dissidents abroad who in recent years have been tricked or kidnapped into returning to Iran as Tehran began to unravel after the collapse of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers including Germany.

Iran has accused Sharmahd, who lived in Glendora, California, of planning a 2008 mosque bombing that killed 14 people — including five women and a child — and wounded more than 200 others, as well as plotting other attacks through the little-known Kingdom Assembly of Iran and its Tondar militant wing.
[Germany should light a candle for its own future in the civilized world too. What idiots. They wax sanctimonious over a useless terrorist serving his sentence, whilst supporting another holocaust to the hilt against the will of nearly 8Billion! The Anglos succeed yet again – not only incinerating German relations with Russia and China, but an Iran which was a centuries’ long friend. Unsurvivable racist derangement. Perhaps, after a century or two of returning to being bought and sold in the slave markets of Tripoli, they’ll regain humility and perspective]

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ The West is in decline – its end is near – Emmanuel Todd

• The West has already lost the strategic confrontation in Ukraine. The reason for this is the simultaneous decline of nation-states and religion. According to Max Weber, the rise of the West was associated with the adoption of Protestantism. Its current denial is the main reason for the defeat of the West, says the famous French sociologist and historian Emmanuel Todd.
• The West has made many mistakes in its response to the Ukrainian conflict. Among them is the belief that Russia is no longer supported by any state. In fact, the majority of humanity wants Russia to win. “As a historian, one thing is certain: the United States will lose this conflict,” Todd said.
• “Emmanuel Todd predicted the collapse of the USSR in 1976. Today, the same Todd predicts the death of the West. And it could happen sooner than expected,” underlines the German daily Frankfurter Rundschau.

⭕ 🇷🇺🔴The Russian military has liberated the settlements of Leonidovka, Novoukrainka and Shakhtarskoye in the DPR

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ How can any leader or individual in the Middle East stand by as @Netanyahu, a war criminal, declares his intent to reshape your nations & dictate your systems?

Has the region & its people truly abandoned its dignity and humanity to follow such a path?

Are you so disconnected?
[Answer from elite compradores: Yes and Yes. None are as abject as German and Arab compradores in all this sordidness. What compounded losers that will pay the price for centuries!]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ ‘Iran is preparing to attack Israel from Iraqi territory in the coming days, using a large amount of drones and ballistic missiles’ – Axios
⭕ I highly doubt this:

1. First of all, Iran was attacked on Iranian territory by Israel itself, so the response will come from Iran, and it will be directly on Israeli territory. Iran even responded directly against Israel when Israel targeted the Iranian Embassy in Syria. Iran could have easily chosen to target Israeli assets abroad, but they decided to strike Israel itself, from Iran, with Iranian missiles. If they did it back then, when Iran was not even directly attacked, then they’ll definitely do it now.

2. Second of all, it’s not like Iran has missile bases or military bases inside Iraq. Saying that ‘Iran will attack Israel from Iraqi territory’ implies that it will be Iraqi militias doing it. This is not feasible, as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq does not have enough ballistic missiles and drones to launch a major attack against Israel simultaneously. They could launch probably a few dozen at once, but nothing more. And it will be easy to intercept. It would likely also instantly exhaust the majority of their current stockpile.

3. Third, it seems to me that the Israelis are publishing this in order to signal to Iran that this is a type of response they’ll allow to go unpunished. Barak Ravid, the Israeli journalist who wrote the article, is basically telling Iran; ‘attack us from Iraq, and we won’t strike back’, in the hopes that Iran will avoid a direct strike on Israel.

All in all, I think it’s extremely unlikely for the response to come from Iraq. It’s possible that the Iraqi Resistance is planning their own attack, but this would be seperate and independent from Iran’s response.
[this is why i rarely republish their crap, or Politico, or other western yellow rags. BTW, the youngster appears uninformed of Iraqi stockpiles, which I heard are impressive. But they are saving them for western bases and ISIS and occasionally potshots at Zion..]
⭕ Like bro, Iran DIRECTLY struck Israel after the Damascus embassy attack, and after Ismael Haniyeh’s assassination. Do they really think Iran will suddenly use its ‘proxies’?

This time, Iranian territory was attacked on a large scale, and 5 Iranians died, including 4 members of the army. The Israelis are either dumb, naive, desperate, or all three at once.

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇾🇪 The Yemeni Armed Forces publish a report detailing a year of their operations in the zionist depth as part of the support from for Al-Aqsa Flood.

This includes five operations in Haifa, in cooperation with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, targeting six ships, two vital targets, and an important target.

In occupied Yaffa, “Tel Aviv,” five military targets were struck, an important target, “Ben-Gurion” airport, a vital target, a military base, and other “various targets.”

A vital target was targeted in occupied Asdod, and in Asqalan, a vital target and the industrial area were targeted.

The Yemeni Armed Forces added that, on 4 occasions, they targeted various sensitive and important military targets in the zionist depth.

Lastly, occupied Umm Al-Rashrash, “Eilat,” was targeted 19 times, targeting military, sensitive, and vital sites.
⭕ — 🇮🇷|🇮🇷 IRGC Commander Salami: The Israeli Regime is Collapsing

“The Zionist regime is behaving like a system on the brink of collapse. When regimes reach the point of disintegration, they act blindly and irrationally.”

Commander Salami warned Israel and said:

Look back at history. Study our operations in the war; observe how the Iranian people act in battle against their enemies.

Your missiles and intelligence were active, and you were fully present on the field—we saw you. Even after that, in sanctions, cultural attacks, and attempts to politically isolate Iran and incite domestic unrest, you were evident.

“You’ve been on the path of decline, losing all that you once gained in West Asia and the Islamic world.”

“You have only faced defeat, yet you’ve learned no lessons. You don’t even have a place to flee!

You have nowhere to run. Once again, you’ve made a mistake and you will soon taste our wrath.

Our enemy is small and rootless and will soon fall.”
[I doff my hat! Iranians upped the psywar level. Even I’m getting kinda psychotic, and I’m neither the target nor a demented zionazi]
⭕ Mohammadi Golpayegani, Chief of Ayatollah Khamenei’s Office:

Iran’s response to Israel’s attack will be harsh & regrettable.
⭕ ✏️ True Promise-3 is going to be painful, and unlike TP-2, it’s going to inflict serious damage to Israel’s military capabilities.
[last two times they aimed for the airfields that flew the bombers and spy sites and Gaza bases and tank depots..]
⭕ ℹ️ Your important reminder to disregard anything the NYtimes reports regarding Iran, especially regarding the IRGC or Imam Khamenei, and ESPECIALLY if it’s written by Farnaz Fassihi, the infamous lying ogre.
⭕ 🇮🇶 Islamic Resistance in Iraq announces its 6th operation today:

They attacked a vital target in the middle of the occupied territories this evening, using one-way attack drones.

This is likely the attack in the Golani Junction.
⭕ Back-to-back: 7th operation confirmed by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq:

They attacked a vital target in the south of the occupied territories, using one-way attack drones.

💠@Eyes on South:
⭕ So the Israeli intelligence is claiming that Iran is preparing to retaliate against the occupation, most likely via its allies in Iraq. (Why? Idk).

Given the absurdity of this claim, the question is: are Israelis manufacturing a narrative to launch an aggression on Iraq?
[Highly likely. They need to keep active, either killing alotta humans, blasting cities, or being shown to be aggressive somewhere. The Iranian pirozhki is not yet cooked; and Iraq has been very active lately]

Ah! Now i see. The Krauts are wise indeed to steer clear of the Red Sea. Practical folks. This helps explain their new orders to steam around South Africa.

The civilizational-states have the wisdom to stop digging and not sinking good money after bad. In fact, Russia and Iran have leveraged their stolen sovereign assets into geopolitical coups against the Pirates; China is using its current US treasuries and dollar assets against the USD and to birth new cryptos and whatnot and is prepared to lose an arm to save the body. Now for the desert bedouins…. just watch the uncontainable wide smile on the Prof’s pleasant face to understand how the region feels about the next moves of the West, which will do the region a tremendous favor!

“All the king’s horses and all the king’s men / Couldn’t put Humpty together again.” Some things are written in the very beautiful stars, such as deadweight compradores going down with the Old Order

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — The IDF’s Modus Operandi in Lebanon:

1. Try to infiltrate a Lebanese village.
2. Fail and retreat.
3. Airstrike the entire village.
4. Due to the airstrikes, Hezbollah does a tactical retreat to the second line of defense.
5. The village is now empty, and the IDF rigs it with explosives.
6. The IDF blows up the village, and leaves.

Guess what? Hezbollah will return to these towns, even if they are turned to rubble, ashes and dust, because they are the people of the land, and this is their home. So will their families, and the thousands of civilians.

Israel will never achieve its objectives, so they resort to these short-term ‘solutions’, which will be obsolete 1-2 years from now.
⭕ — 🇱🇧 WATCH: Hezbollah published footage of targeting the ‘Shragah’ base, the ‘Elyakim’ camp, and the ‘Ein Shemer’ base with a combined operation of precision missiles and suicide drones.  |media|
[Just so you’re aware as i do not usually list them, except for daily Hezbollah summaries, but the attrition is relentless, Day and Night, by all Resistance factions]
⭕️❗️UPDATE: Another Israeli has died of his injuries as a result of the Metula rocket attack

The total death toll of Israelis due to Hezbollah’s rocket attacks today, in Metula and Krayot settlements, has now reached 8.
⭕️ — For the record, 4 of these deaths were Thai ‘workers’ in Israel. Workers that deliberately chose to work in occupied Palestine, and contributed to the Israeli economy.

No tears shed from my side.

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🛑| 🇩🇪🇮🇷 NEW: Following the execution of Jamshid Sharmahd, an Iranian with German citizenship, Germany closed the Iranian consulates in Hamburg, Frankfurt and Munich.

Sharmahd masterminded the 2008 Shiraz terrorist bombing killing 14 Iranians.

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ North Korea has tested a Hwasong-17 ICBM that increasingly resembles the Russian Sarmat…
[Lord have Mercy. Did the BatshitCrazy Russkie give Sarmat to the Chairman Rocketman and his Madmen!?? Worst news of 2024 since 1991. That’s it. Say your prayers lads and ladies]
⭕️ “Ukraine is over and Russia will never get back on its feet again. This was only a secondary objective: the most important thing is that we have ensured that Germany, France and other European countries no longer have any possible future, and that’s what matters most to us”.

A former US Marine general talking about the war in Europe on Radio Liberty.
🔻 C1: Radio Liberty is low-end propaganda, France was finished well before the war in Ukraine which did not really have an impact on our already devastated economy and our non-existent diplomacy. Germany it is true really got screwed over this time. Russia could recover but on condition of significantly boosting its demographics (it is not won…) and finally when we look at what the United States has become we cannot help but smile because the situation is hardly better. In the end it is the West that committed suicide through stupidity but especially through pride!
[A dour Frenchman sees the silver lining looking over at the bilious and equally beset Anglos!]

⭕ The Israeli media are making too much noise: for 7 or 8 deaths in the north, they declare that the end of the world has just begun…
Anyone who picks up on their news (which is more like endless whining) will be a fool.
⭕ And come to think of it, who picks up the news from Israeli tabloids and radio/TV the most? The Palestinians and the Lebanese. No wonder they’re manipulated from A to Z.
[As I’ve said repeatedly, the saving grace of zionazis were invading the over-civilized and chivalrous Greater Syrians. If they’d tried the stunt in Yemen…. the boil would have been lanced weeks after Balfour, over a century ago]
⭕ If Kamala Harris becomes president of the United States, her speeches will be simplified for the world: “hahhaha! Hahahahahaha! Hahahaha!”. The Deep State and the Obama scum will take care of the rest of the world.
⭕ Is a 14-warhead missile real?

Answer at 🇰🇵 [DPRK]