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ParticipantALASTAIR CROOKE’S LATEST …
‘One quiet early morning in Beijing, the dollar’s crown slipped’
‘One quiet early morning in Beijing, the dollar’s crown slipped’
ParticipantPurloined from Smoothie’s: I highly recommend –
Participantvia Smoothie’s site:
Thomas Keith
@iwasnevrhere_
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“While Israel screams that “Hamas hides in hospitals,” leaked 3D maps from Iranian channels now reveal that Netanyahu himself was holed up beneath Soroka Hospital in Tel Aviv, alongside Israel’s military command.13 floors above. 4 underground. A full command center, tunnel-linked to the IDF’s war rooms.
During the 12-day war, Israel quietly moved its top brass into this civilian medical facility, the same kind of site it bombs in Gaza while calling it a “terrorist base.” And on June 19, Iranian missiles landed with surgical precision near Soroka.
Every accusation they make is a confession.”
Life is about details. Iran will duly note.
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Thomas Keith
@iwasnevrhere_
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“Correction: The location is Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center – Ichilov, not Soroka. Netanyahu’s bunker is in central Tel Aviv, directly beneath a civilian hospital.”ParticipantParticipantLarge ambushes within Gaza strip … (30 min vid … details at beginning)
IOF Claim that they control 65% (one of their generals disputes this on ‘israeli’ broadcasting system)
Participantvia https://t.me/VA_Nikonov/45985
Chronicle of strikes on the territory of Ukraine from July 4 to July 5, 2025
Yesterday, day and night, the Aerospace Forces and missile forces struck targets in the Donbass, in the Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Kherson regions (the entire spectrum of weapons), the outskirts of Voznesensk in the Nikolaev region, Dnepropetrovsk (Iskander-M), Kiev, Vyshgorod, Brovary and Bucha in the Kiev region, Cherkassy, Zvenigorodka and Kanev in the Cherkasy region, Kamensk Kryvyi Rih and Pavlograd in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Podolsk district of the Odessa region, Khmelnik, Krasilov and Starokostiantyniv in the Khmelnytskyi region, Vinnytsia region, Chernihiv and Nizhyn in the Chernihiv region (Geraniums/Gerberas).
July 4, 2025.
• 08:35 Kiev – explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 08:50 Kramatorsk – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.
• 10:45 Krivoy Rog – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas. A fire broke out in the city after landings.
• 10:30-10:35 Sumy region – explosions. UMPK. Khoten.
• 10:55 Krivoy Rog and Dnepropetrovsk – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.
• 11:35 Sumy region – explosions. UMPK. Khoten.
• 11:38 Krivoy Rog – explosion. UMPK.
• 12:05 Zaporizhia region – explosions. UMPK. Crossroads of 3 regions.
• 12:19 Donbass, outskirts of Kramatorsk – explosion. Iskander-M.
• 12:25-12:30 southern outskirts of Zaporizhia – 3 explosions. Heavy MLRS.
• 13:55 Kherson – explosions.
• 14:06 Voznesensk vicinity – explosion. Iskander-M. The strike was carried out in the area of the airfield.
• 16:05 Sumy region – explosions. UMPK
• 16:12 Dnepropetrovsk – explosion. Iskander-M.
• 17:00 Sumy region – explosions. MLRS. Vorozhba.
• 17:00 Kharkiv region – explosions. UMPK. Vovchansk.
• 17:20 Zaporizhia vicinity – explosions. UMPK.
• 17:25 Zaporizhia region – explosions. UMPK.
• 17:30 Kamenskoye, Dnepropetrovsk region – explosions. Gerani.
• 18:20 Krivoy Rog – explosions. Gerani.
• 18:37 Krivoy Rog, more explosions. Gerani.
• 21:45 Shostka, Sumy region, and the outskirts of Nizhyn, Chernihiv region – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.
• 22:00 Kyiv region – explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 22:05 Donbass – explosions. UMPK.
• 22:05 Sumy – explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 22:10 Chernihiv – explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 22:10 Kharkiv region – explosions. UMPK.
• 22:15 Kyiv – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.
• 22:20 Brovary, Kyiv region – explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 22:40 the outskirts of Kharkiv – explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 22:50 Zaporizhia region – explosions. UMPK.
• 23:00-23:15 Chuguev, Kharkiv region – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.
• 23:15 Zaporizhia region – explosions. UMPK.
• 23:15-23:20 Chuguev, Kharkov region – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.
• 23:30 outskirts of Kiev and Kremenchug, Poltava region – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.
• 23:45 outskirts of Kiev – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.
• 23:55 Bucha, Kiev region – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.🚀💥Fiery greetings from Russia: massive strikes by the Russian Armed Forces hit military targets across Ukraine
🇷🇺⚡️🇺🇦Last night, the Russian Armed Forces launched powerful combined strikes on military targets in 13 regions of Ukraine. They used 322 attack drones, which took the Kiev regime’s breath away. Ukrainian media, as usual, report “292 downed” drones – but the destruction on the ground says otherwise.
🚨The Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Rivne and Zhitomir regions were hit . Ukrainian facilities in Starokostiantyniv and Krasilov suffered particularly serious losses – it was there, according to monitoring data, that key targets were eliminated.
❌ An oil depot in Chuguev was successfully hit: a powerful fire broke out at the site. The hit on the oil refinery is confirmed by fire maps.
The Russian Armed Forces continue to methodically destroy the infrastructure that provides weapons and logistics to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
ParticipantNot familiar with the author, Martin Jay (yes, he writes for the Daily Mail (even a stopped clock…); but his words ring true … for me.
The End Game in Iran also means the demise of Trump’s credibility around the world
ParticipantAbout 13 mins
ParticipantThank you Mr P …
ParticipantPutin’s Offensive SHOCKS NATO, Ukraine DEVASTATED
w/ Scott Ritter , Col. Lawrence Wilkerson and Garland Nixon
Participantvia ‘X’
Thomas Keith
@iwasnevrhere_
Iran has initiated its long-delayed transition from legacy-era aviation to a fused, multi-domain aerial doctrine, structured around Chinese systems integration and Russian high-capability airframes. With the Su-35 tranche capped due to Russian wartime production constraints, Tehran is shifting toward a scalable acquisition of J-10CE multirole fighters, recalibrating its force structure into a dual-axis fleet: Su-35s for strategic deterrence and high-altitude interception, and J-10CEs as the operational backbone for regional air superiority and saturation coverage. The J-10CE’s inclusion brings critical uplifts, AESA radar arrays, PL-15 BVR missile integration, modular EW compatibility, and sovereign BeiDou time-sync routing, delivered through China’s full-spectrum export ecosystem. This system includes depot-level sustainment, airframe lifecycle support, secure comms channels, and C2 interoperability across SCO-aligned nodes. The procurement pipeline is lubricated by oil-for-airframe barter, reactivated after Washington’s June 24 exemption for Chinese purchases of Iranian crude, marking a quiet end to dollar-clearing bottlenecks in bilateral arms trade.
This layered architecture now fuses Russian kinetic depth, Chinese production throughput, and Iranian drone-swarm doctrine into a single operational lattice. Su-35s provide long-range AWACS denial and strategic reach; J-10CEs handle multirole sorties, point defense, and tempo-based attrition cycles; Iranian UAVs fill the ISR, EW, and loitering munition domains with modular redundancy. The result is a sovereign, C4ISR-synced air grid that no longer merely contests Western-dominated skies, it rewrites the framework entirely, rendering previous assumptions about Iranian vulnerability functionally obsolete.
https://x.com/iwasnevrhere_/status/1940072054323118475/photo/1
ParticipantPosted on July 1, 2025
by Yves Smith
Yves here. It is exceedingly difficult to keep of top of Turkish President Recep Erdogan’s ongoing playing of various parties against each other. Readers can give many examples, but one layer of his many schemes was being helpful to Russia after the start of the Special Military Operation by continuing to trade with Russia and refusing to allow military ships to enter the Black Sea, to the great annoyance of the US. At the same time, Turkiye’s considerable role in the collapse of Syria was to Russia’s detriment.
That is a long way of saying I cannot evaluate Korybko’s thesis but it is plausible.
By Andrew Korybko, a Moscow-based American political analyst who specializes in the global systemic transition to multipolarity in the New Cold War. He has a PhD from MGIMO, which is under the umbrella of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Originally published at his website
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Elijah J. Magnier
@ejmalrai
Since 1948, no one but Iran has levelled dozens of buildings in Tel Aviv, wiped out over 11,300 apartments, hit military bases, airports and energy depots in just 12 days—and forced Israel to beg for a ceasefire first.
2:16 PM · Jun 30, 2025
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ViewsParticipantHi Mr P …
Descendants of The Confederacy would agree with your ‘concept’. We (Southerners) never refer to ‘Civil War’ … but ‘The War Between The States’ … for sovereignty of States. The famous, or infamous, South Carolina senator, Strom Thurmond (1902 – 2003) spent most of his political life fighting for States’ Rights.
There also existed a period of Reconstruction (1865 – 1877) in the Confederate States … which some view as occupation.
See https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/the-south-during-reconstruction/
ParticipantAlastair suggests US was convinced Iran was very close to getting ‘the bomb’ …
due to Palantir AI information ….
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