💠 @kuluary_zaliva:
⭕ Lavrov: The West has sabotaged the creation of a Palestinian state for decades 🇵🇸

• 📝 The Russian Foreign Minister stated the need to resume negotiations on the final status of the Palestinian territories in accordance with UN resolutions. He noted that these decisions have been sabotaged by Western countries for decades.
• 📊 The minister accused European leaders of hypocrisy regarding the recognition of Palestine, claiming that recognition only occurs when it has no practical significance, counting on the fact that by the time of recognition Israel will have completed its actions.

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸 Trump orders that the wall at the Mexican border be painted black so that it “heats up in the sun and makes it more difficult for migrants to climb over.”
⭕ 🇻🇪⁉️🇺🇸 Venezuela / USA, tensions rise in the region in anticipation of potential operations

Last night, a flight from a well-known company associated with the CIA reportedly arrived in Brazil. This event, linked to the presence of US military vessels off the Venezuelan coast, appears to have worried the countries concerned: Maduro is reportedly arming militants in the streets, Brazil is closely monitoring the situation on Venezuela’s borders, and in Colombia, there is strong opposition to overtures toward Maduro.

Also during the night, unrest was reported in Havana, Cuba.

🤔 What really happened yesterday at the White House, where the empire’s impotent vassals sat obediently as Donald Trump ritually humiliated them?

Nothing more than Trump seizing an opportunity to wash out of his mouth the bitter taste of Putin dictating terms to him in Alaska. pic.twitter.com/gF0UXhedCM
— Will Schryver (@imetatronink) August 19, 2025

💠 @imetatronink:
⭕🔻 jGiusi 📚🎨🐦: Il Padrino 1

Questo l’ho capito. Trovasti il paradiso tuo in America (…) a che ti serviva un amico come me? Ma ora vieni da me e mi dici Don Corleone, fatemi giustizia!Però non lo domandi con rispetto, tu non offri amicizia, non ti sogni nemmeno di chiamarmi padrino.
🔻 WS: Fatemi giustizia!

Ma, salvo rare eccezioni, non esiste giustizia in questo mondo. Esiste solo potere bruto.
🔻 C2: Meloni looks like she’s at the principal’s office.
🔻 TCP:  Why is no one asking the obvious question why did they all show up this time What did Russia tell Trump in Alaska, it spooked them all
🔻 C. Sallustius: Europe congratulates itself endlessly on its “soft power,” a phrase beloved by those who possess no other kind. But there was nothing soft about this tableau of abasement. Every camera angle screamed the same truth: the “power” of Brussels, Berlin, and Paris is a polite fiction, and the only man in the room who looked like he owned it was the one slouched behind the desk, radiating the insolence of actual authority.
🔻 kamfongchun: What was on the lunch menu ? . . . Lemons ?
🔻 Decorator UK: Where’s Wally?
🔻 Kristian Thyregod: In reality, the survival of the European Union as is, depends on the war continuing.

Losing the war will create potentially insurmountable headwinds for the federalization of the Union.

And, Starmer seems frantically to attempt anything merely to stay in the frame.
🔻 Web Platypus: Meloni looks extra attentive. 🙄
🔻 Carol Jones: @TFL1728 The body language says it all. Merz is screwed- no expansion of the German war machine. Rutte knows NATO countries don’t have money to meet US spending targets while the keen new boy (Finland) takes notes. Starmer is so important he doesn’t even make the picture 🤣
🔻 YHM: Vassals must know their place. Daddy had to remind them.
🔻 bond, James bond: For these dark characters, the concept of dignity is unknown. They are so miserable that they don’t mind being treated like schoolchildren in front of their principal. But beware, this lack of dignity and self-respect is compensated with vileness and betrayal at any time and under any circumstances. They are children of evil; that is how they manifest themselves

Caterpillar: Profiting From Genocide

Caterpillar Inc. likes to brand itself as a global leader in construction and mining equipment. But in Palestine, its bulldozers are not building, they are demolishing. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/MeLe0Jwya0
— Thomas Keith (@iwasnevrhere_) August 18, 2025

The Al-Yassin 105 is a locally designed and manufactured anti-tank rocket created by the al-Qassam Brigades and named after Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder of Hamas. Inspired by the Soviet RPG-7 but significantly upgraded, it was built to penetrate modern Israeli armor and has… pic.twitter.com/ux9H6rZfvi
— Thomas Keith (@iwasnevrhere_) August 18, 2025

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ Finnish MP Eemeli Peltonen, aged 30, committed suicide inside the Helsinki Parliament, local media confirmed. The incident occurred today, August 19, 2025. Police rule out any criminal involvement; the investigation is ongoing. Prime Minister Orpo has expressed his condolences.
⭕ 🇰🇵🇺🇸🇰🇷 North Korea’s Kim calls for rapid strengthening of nuclear arsenal

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stated that his country must quickly expand its nuclear armament and described the US-South Korea military exercises as an “obvious expression of their will to provoke war,” the official KCNA agency reported on Tuesday.

South Korea and its ally the United States launched joint military exercises this week, including testing an enhanced response to North Korea’s increased nuclear threats.

The annual 11-day exercises, called Ulchi Freedom Shield, will be similar in scale to those in 2024 but adjusted by postponing 20 of the 40 field trainings to September, the South Korean military said earlier. These postponements come as South Korean President Lee Jae Myung seeks to ease tensions with North Korea, although analysts remain skeptical about Pyongyang’s reaction.

The exercises were a “clear expression of … their intention to remain the most hostile and confrontational” towards North Korea, Kim said. He added that the security environment requires the North to “rapidly expand” its nuclear armament, noting that the recent US-South Korea exercises included a “nuclear element.”
⭕ 🇻🇪 Venezuela bans all drone flights, sales, and training nationwide after Trump raised the bounty on Maduro to 50 million dollars due to alleged links with drug trafficking.

Only state security and defense forces are exempt.
⭕ The United States will impose restrictions on [Chinese] steel, copper, lithium, and other imports due to concerns related to forced labor of Uyghurs, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

💠 @Palestinian Commie:
⭕ 🇾🇪🇾🇪Yemen AnsarAllah official, Mohamed Al Bukhaiti: “It was expected that the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist groups would lead the ranks in support of Gaza, not ally with the Zionists against the fronts supporting it.

In Yemen, America found no better ally than the coalition of the Brotherhood and Salafists to halt our operations in support of Gaza.

The greatest deception the nation has ever faced throughout its history is the delusion of millions of Muslims by these groups.”
@stayfreeworld
[The continued occupation and holocausting of arabs since Sykes-Picot in WW1 was made possible in large measure due to these two groups. Now is the season they reap the whirlwind, at hands of both their suzerain and the region]

BAY OF PIGS 2.0

ALERT 🚨 Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro said he would deploy 4.5 million militia members in response to US “threats,” after Washington raised the bounty for his arrest and launched anti-drug operations in the Caribbean

READ: https://t.co/2uiBWoZcUX pic.twitter.com/Ol5MUPgL94
— The Sacred Blue Tent (@SabrinaGal182) August 19, 2025

https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/republica/aviao-russo-sancionado-pelos-eua-que-esteve-no-brasil-foi-a-venezuela-e-esta-em-cuba/

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇺🇸❌🇻🇪💊 — The United States is deploying warships near Venezuela to combat drug-related threats, according to sources cited by Reuters.

• Three American Aegis guided-missile destroyers will arrive off the coast of Venezuela within the next 36 hours as part of an effort to address threats from Latin American drug cartels, two informed sources said on Monday.
• President Donald Trump wants to use the military to target Latin American drug gangs that have been designated as global terrorist organizations.
• 📝 The sources indicated that the ships are the USS Gravely, the USS Jason Dunham, and the USS Sampson.

⭕ 🇨🇳 The new Chinese missiles designed to sink American aircraft carriers

China will unveil four new anti-ship missiles during its September 3 parade: the YJ-15, YJ-17, YJ-19, and YJ-20.

YJ-15: compact supersonic
YJ-17 and YJ-19: probably hypersonic (maneuverable, hard to intercept)
YJ-20: hypersonic aeroballistic

They are designed to overwhelm the US Navy’s defenses and threaten aircraft carriers.

This is part of China’s A2/AD strategy in Taiwan and the South China Sea. |media|

Two strategic missile carriers Tu-95MS (with “Kh-101 cruise missile”) escorted by fighters Su-33 performed a scheduled flight over the waters of the Barents Sea.https://t.co/m9JgAfkwmU
📹MoD RF (Aug. 18) pic.twitter.com/6gNjtllYIM
— Massimo Frantarelli (@MrFrantarelli) August 18, 2025

There was one chance for a positive outcome out of all of this, and it required putting the screws to the Europeans and Zelensky to sign a deal they’re going to hate – because it would make it clear that they have in fact been defeated.

Bombers are up. That’s Putin’s answer. https://t.co/J9rHCcmL9o
— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) August 18, 2025

💠 @imetatronink:
⭕ One must read very carefully what Trump said about the call to Putin, and how Trump “began the arrangements” for a bilateral Putin/Zelensky meeting.

Maybe such a meeting will take place, followed by a “trilat” meeting including Trump.

But it has certainly NOT been arranged YET.
🔻 Superbubble ☘️: “Security guarantees provided by the various European countries”

Good lord
🔻 Memorious: “YET”…
🔻 Zebra12🇺🇲⚡🔥 sic semper tyrannis ☀️Molon Labe: Did Putin agree to the security guarantees? That’s the word.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Almost certainly not, unless they’re structured in a very particular way to not be tantamount to NATO membership.
🔻 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗰: Trump/US is just making a show out of passing on the cost of Ukraine’s proxy war against Russia to the EU.

It’s simply America continuing its longstanding foreign policy goals:
– cannibalize Europe
– continue to bleed Russia
– evade culpability
– pose as mediator to the world
[Nope. It is itself being cannibalized due to imperial overstretch, bled white, bankrupted beyond repair, blamed by All, and no longer seen as anything but a naked shriveled and dying Vampire]
🔻 Spaceman 🇺🇲: This was always the outcome.

Thinking otherwise is foolish. Only change is Putin officially entered the world stage with Russia as a Great Power
🔻 Mr reply guy: Ukraine was defeated by May 2022. This is the defeat of the US.
🔻 Gary L: I can’t in my wildest dreams imagine that Russia would allow the US to provide “security.” Such would be tantamount to a de facto admission into NATO for Ukraine. Ain’t gonna happen.

it may not matter. It is like the endless crap tweeted by Goldfinger. By the time you’ve worked yourself into a lather over the latest affront, a new dementia is tweeted that keeps the circus going. ALL of the fronts in the western Garden appear disposable condoms. So what if they’re followed into the outhouse? 1001 new condoms are ready for each used up one. EVEN if the ultimate condom in the smoky shadowy back room is found and disposed of, will it materially affect the current course and trajectory? After the highly efficacious mindwashing of over a century, and imbibing Hate with breastmilk for 100 generations, they are a hivemind, set into inflexible molds. And is a human even in charge? What terrible days, and such an evil unreasoning enemy.

I have no doubt whatsoever that Mike Pence dreams of electric sheep. https://t.co/C6qw5CsluH
— Will Schryver (@imetatronink) August 17, 2025

💠 @imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Matt Bracken: Tears in the Rain – Blade Runner (9/10) Movie CLIP (1982) HD |media|
[these references he cites are likely true.. most “protagonists” in Hollyweird are principalities and demonlords. So much truth in their Arts. And they fly mighty high and far, beyond our ken .. where they’re chased away by shooting stars and fire by Guardian Angels of the skies]
🔻 kamfongchun: Some of these people genuinely believe what they say based on the intel./information they receive.
If Pence believes that Trump can drop the hammer down on Putin then he is 100% correct. . . . . IN HIS OWN MIND.
[or maybe we need to understand the real meaning of the term “hammer”]
⭕🔻 Glenn Diesen: The British wants a ceasefire, but makes a ceasefire impossible by threatening to send send troops
🔻 WS: 🤣 Deploying the British military in Ukraine is the functional equivalent of a ceasefire in the context of war against Russia.
🔻 Istina_Intel🇭🇷🌎🕊️: GB doesn’t have enough soldiers to secure half the frontline 😮‍💨
⭕ 🔸 The EU never even sniffed the heights of kingdom. It is a self-appointed supranational club for grasping mediocrities who flattered themselves into believing they could meld the iron and clay of Europe into a coherent concentration of power, which they would then command.
🔻 C. Sallustius: The EU is empire inverted: clerks in Brussels play at Caesars, smothering nations beneath paperwork and draining the life from Europe itself.
🔻 ᴍʏʙᴀᴄᴋᴜᴘ: This sums it up:
The term Fourth Reich (German: Viertes Reich) is commonly used to refer to a hypothetical successor to Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich (1933–1945) and the possible resurgence of Nazi ideas
⭕ 📜 To Nuke or Not to Nuke?
🔻 TonyBananas 🇺🇸: Hardly any nuclear scenario gamed out has either side WANTING to go to nuclear war. The scenarios most likely are out of control escalation through a security dilemma. Youre applying rational arbitrage, which any student if history can tell you do not exist in a security dilemma.
🔻 WS: Outside the past several decades, history never attested this security dilemma.

In the Cold War nuclear crises, the two parties in question stepped back from the precipice.

That said, I plainly allowed for irrationality to prevail, but perhaps you didn’t read the whole piece.
🔻 Canadian Tire Battle Ork: Kaliningrad is Russia’s weak spot. A conventional move on Kaliningrad by Nato could result in Russia deploying Tac nukes to take it back.
🔻 WS: This is total nonsense. The US/NATO would be shredded to pieces if they ever attempted such a thing.

But, as I have noted several times lately, I think they should let Chris Donahue give it a try. It might prove very salutary, all things considered.
🔻 Canadian Tire Battle Ork: A quick naval blockade and Poland has the force size to overwhelm Russia in that theater, 8:1. Would it be bloody? Yes. Very. Can I see the dummies trying something like this to keep a landline to the Baltics open? Yup. We shall see.
🔻 WS: Nonsense. No naval blockade could be effected. And, for all its historical stupidity, Poland is not going to play sacrificial proxy for NATO against Russia!

There will be no attempt to conquer Kaliningrad, and if there were, it would be a catastrophic debacle for the US/NATO.
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: A thought about the state of my former employer, the US Army – an organization which drove me to distraction when I was in it and which continues to do so now that I’m enjoying civilian life.⬇️

It is customary for state visits for a military honor guard to greet the visiting dignitary as both a show of respect for their person and as a display of military discipline. This is how things are done, including in the ever-parochial United States, so often “exceptional” in our own mediocrity.

Well, Vladimir Putin flew into Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska the other day and was greeted by an “honor guard” of… parked F-22s, a color party, and a small detachment of unarmed personnel in dress uniform, standing well back from the carpet. In fact I had to go back and review pictures of his arrival to realize they’d even been present for the ceremony at all, initially I’d thought there’d been no troops assembled whatsoever.

This is how it’s done in Russia for a visit of, frankly, far lesser importance. Xi Jinping is a powerful man but was just dropping by to watch a parade at the time, not negotiate a peace treaty.

I keep banging this drum. We saw this at the Army’s 250th birthday parade two months ago and we just saw it again. We aren’t impressing or scaring anybody by being ostentatiously unable to march in step, do basic drill, or organize straightforward military ceremonies when the eyes of the world are focused on us. The only message we’re sending with continued displays like this is that the US military is unmotivated, undisciplined, and fundamentally unserious. |media|
🔻 Kurt Kleinschmidt: If it was in D.C., I would have expected more pomp. This was a very brief meeting ostensibly to find out if there would be further meetings, or not.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Thing is they clearly put in a lot of effort for it. This was not a casual drop-in.
🔻 Russians With Attitude: At least there was no Coinbase ad
🔻 WS: I submit the mistake was to have NOT run banner ads during the whole thing — with numerous cited endorsements of Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

What possibly could have been better late-stage America than that?

I feel cheated that they didn’t do it. 😏
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Jim Sciutto: Don’t forget: Putin has called the collapse of the Soviet Union “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century” and has been working to rebuild Russia’s sphere of influence since he took power.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: And he was completely, unironically, absolutely, correct.

The fall of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact did not bring about peace – it brought war, poverty, and the ongoing collapse of the Western order in a sinkhole of hegemonic hubris.

It benefited nobody.

What people don’t seem to understand is that “Cold War” is actually a synonym for peace.
🔻 Johanna deMartin: Global South says naah to that
[Indeed. It was merely a truce between “1st” and “2nd” “World”(s). The Rest were being exterminated with ever increasing vigor and verve]
🔻 leo Salgado: it was war on the margins, afganistan, korea, angola, vietnam…
🔻 BenLayZenji: In Europe, yes. Elsewhere…🙄
🔻 भारत धर्म: The existence of the Soviet Union put some pressure on the Owner-Oligarchs of the West to treat their own people with some decency. When that pressure was removed, there was nothing to curb their rapaciousness.
🔻 Kojo Kasena: Unless you were victims of covert operations of imperialism
🔻 Martin Anantharaman: It’s what Johan Galtung called a bad or unjust peace – without good faith intent to come to a constructive and respectful understanding.
🔻 bobcat: Yeah “peace” unless you’re in South America, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the military….

the criminals shoulda really respected the Laws of War… O, well

I’ll always remember the Nimitz for its starring role in Hollywood. pic.twitter.com/obKgg4damy
— Rosie’s Juan Epstein Island (@DarnelSugarfoo) August 18, 2025

💠 @imetatronink:
⭕ What I find most amazing is that, during its entire half-century of naval history, the Uncle Chester never once faced enemy fire.
[patience. She remains swimming distance from Persia. All good things come, or go, to those who wait.]
🔻 Gun Barons: “no serious combat-capable carrier presence anywhere around the globe”
Poor planning of deployments?
There simply are few combat-capable carriers?
Or because they suspect they might be sitting ducks in a real war?
[all of the above!]
🔻 Paul Becker: But…but… we flew a big plane over Putin!
🔻 azraell_RP 🇵🇱🇮🇷🧯: In the current situation, carriers have ceased to play a significant role, only costs. This isn’t just true for opposition to major players, but the Yemen experience itself has exposed their weaknesses. One good hypersonic will end the myth. Yes, it’s a powerful force, on paper.
🔻 Ahmed #YEMEN: اليمن كسر هيبتها
⭕🔻 Lee Slusher:
US seeks to “wrap up” Ukraine as it repositions for the resumption of war on Iran, esp. after Israel needed bailing out (again).

First the Zangezur deal, now the redeployment of troops in Iraq.
links:
🔻 The Cradle: US forces redeploy in Iraq amid rising tensions: Asharq al-Awsat

Asharq al-Awsat reports that US forces in Iraq have begun a new redeployment, shifting equipment and personnel between bases, including Ain al-Asad, in response to emerging security threats linked to rising tensions between Iran and Israel. A US official told Asharq al-Awsat the moves are “not wide in scope” but are tailored to a new security risk map, and do not alter the withdrawal agreement signed with Baghdad in 2024 that schedules an initial drawdown in September 2025 and full withdrawal by the end of 2026. Recent activity at Ain al-Asad included storing heavy logistical equipment and relocating sensitive technologies such as radars and early-warning systems to other regional bases.

The redeployment comes as Iran pressed Baghdad to help secure the border after reporting infiltration during its recent war with Israel. Iranian security chief Ali Larijani visited Baghdad but left dissatisfied, with Iraqi officials admitting they lacked the capacity to fulfill Tehran’s request. On 11 August, Larijani and Iraqi National Security Adviser Qassem al-Araji signed a memorandum on border control, which drew US objections.

Baghdad has so far maintained that the US withdrawal schedule remains unchanged. Iraqi officials insist the recent transfers are technical operations rather than an accelerated exit, while US officials emphasize the adjustments are part of coordinated security planning under the existing agreement.
🔻 WS: And time is increasingly of the essence given that Iran’s partners (Russia / China / DPRK) are now providing significant reinforcing armaments.
🔻 Lee Slusher: Absolutely. Tick tock.
🔻 Shivan Mahendrarajah: I don’t disagree, but evidence on types of weapons systems needed (esp air def & jets) is thin. Larijani tried to get Iraq to tighten air defenses but tough to do since Iraqi systems are basically non-existent. Iran is now patrolling Iraqi skies with UAVs
🔻 Lee Slusher: Agree. This is why I’ve thought, since just after Assad’s outster, that the plan was to cause enough instability there for Turkey to intervene. The US doesn’t have the forces. Not saying this is a good plan, only that I think it’s “the” plan.
links:
🔻 Daily Turkic: Donald Trump:

“Turkey is a major force – which had not been worn out with war. They’ve built a very strong powerful army.” |media|
🔻 KC Viernes: Tomorrow, Trump will side with Zelensky et al. Winning a 3-front war is the US dream.
🔻 Low Voltage 🇺🇲: Turkey would be making a huge gamble, but they also have huge aspirations (an empire from Libya to the Xinjiang). This would be their chance to become a world super power.
🔻 WS: The Turks can no more build an empire from Libya to Xinjiang and become a world superpower than conquer Mars.

Türkiye stands between Russia and Iran, and would be opposed by the titanic Chinese.

Türkiye may do something impulsive they live to regret, but nothing meaningful.
[but they may try. These are irrational times. And Eschatology informs Turkey will be dismantled. Wonder why, if they’re so rational and peaceful and stay outta their neighbors’ business??]
🔻 Caligula’s Horse: Sir – I say as sign of respect rather than any intention to demote – I presume you’re a veteran of many Atropian campaigns? It appears to me that in order to remedy the deficiency of ’12-day war’, some sort of ground component will be necessary to attempt to lever out the regime.

Now it appears that to supply that ground component, revolutionary fires amongst Iranian minority populations will be stoked – primarily the Azeris. But what is Azerbaijan actual geopolitical/military situation? Because, even w/ the corridor, it seems to me difficult to resupply.

Or, at any rate, far easier for Iranian-Russian pincers to take the country than for Turkey to defend.
🔻 Lee Slusher: I think it’s a terrible idea, but so was Ukraine. War with China over Taiwan would be an even worse idea by orders of magnitude, yet the Pentagon is reportedly planning for it.

Consider how ridiculous the 12-Day War was—relying on standoff weapons and Afghan saboteurs while Iran rained down missiles. But Israel won’t give up and therefore neither will the US. They see Iran as the weakest link in an effort to revive the US hegemony on which all of Israel’s maximalist aims, domestic and regional, rest.

I think the *goal* is to make Turkish involvement inevitable (not that Turkey wants this, would win, or that such a war would remain localized). US/Israel will continue to remove guardrails and to stir the pot. Azeris would play a role, but the Kurds, too.

The Zangezur deal is audacious as is. If it were to go uncontested, the West would use it as a pressure point, ratcheting it up to starve the burgeoning Middle Corridor and the existing North-South one. If there’s a war, then the other side is being “contested” or “tied down,” which DC considers a win in itself.

The empire is applying pressure where it can, and the options to do so are much more limited than they were in the past. Things become more desperate as this dynamic plays out.
🔻 WS: I appreciate this analysis, and believe it has much merit. But, in my view, it still all depends on the US being able to simultaneously project decisive power to a multitude of strategic hotspots.

I am thoroughly convinced at this point that they lack such capability.
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: yes… didn’t the US take some 7 months to airlift stuff to friendly ME countries in 2003 to invade Iraq?!

War with Iran would require 2-3 times of that…
🔻 WS: The overwhelming majority of the war matériel was delivered by sea, through the Strait of Hormuz.

In 2025, it could not be done via sea nor air. US ships and bases would be highly vulnerable to Iranian missiles.

War against Iran is, plain and simple, a logistical impossibility.
🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: So, all that the Empire is left with is the Israeli and British concocted sabotage and subversion Ops! 😏
🔻 Salamanca: But they are delusional enough to try anyway, aren’t they?