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I don’t think people have really let it sink in what we witnessed in the past 2 months.
Iran, as a sole & sanctioned country, fought against the largest, most gilded nuclear powered army in the world, and still stands strong and speaks from a position of strength.
As an example, Iran literally bombed a US base with a six decade old fighter jet while the US was armed with 4th & 5th gen aircrafts… please let this sink in.
—❗️🇮🇱/🇸🇴 BREAKING: Somalia announces a ban on all Israeli ships passing Bab Al-Mandab
Oooh shit
“OHHHH!!! and it’s Somalia with the chair!!! israel did not see that coming!!! That has to hurt.”
Somalia should take a page out of the history books and deputize their pirates against Israeli shipping lol
🇺🇸🇨🇳 Top US military officials admit energy dominance is central to US geopolitical strategy including using “geography” (straits) to “impose costs” (blockade) “competitors” (China).
The problem is no one watches these hearings or reads the policy papers these statements are echoing.
Instead, many are listening to the garbled version of this filtered through daily Western political theater by politicians who are repeating talking points they themselves don’t understand and often are tasked with deliberately misrepresenting or directing attention away from these policies.
I know 2-3 hour long hearings and 200 page policy papers are a lot to work through but they have been telling us the plan for years through both.
If you listen to the hearing the US is obviously planning to impose the same sort of servile dependence Europe is already under upon Japan, South Korea, Philippines and Australia.
The US plans to use its control over these nations to create battering rams against China just like Europe serves against Russia.
The US war on Iran and its direct/indirect blockade on the Strait of Hormuz has already accelerated this process by weaponozing access to energy - ruling out normal economic activity for its proxies and forcing them into war-time postures.
The US Senate hearing begins by talking about Iran and quickly links it to China - pointing out China as the number one priority the US must resolve.
It makes sense from the angle of putting other countries into deeper dependency on the US, but, this also opens up China’s electrification to new markets. Japan, South Korea, Philippines and Australia have a choice between US oil/gas or cheaper+cleaner Chinese solar/batteries. It was too late before the war even started.
Even on Wikipedia, there’s a rule not to cite primary sources.
wait, what
why? wouldn’t primary sources be the most reliable?
Because they don’t want primary sources to be interpreted “the wrong way”.
🇮🇷| Military enthousiast from Iran says:
“I personally witnessed them bombing an Iranian missile base, and 2 hours later, Iran launched a missile from the very same place… That’s when I realized that America has lost this war.”
Now, that people have been agitating against the US empire actions in Iran, lots of agitators will find this attitude from pro imperialist Westerners that Sony Thang synthesised here:
There is a specific American psychological condition with no official name.
It is the condition of a person who genuinely believes their country has, on balance, been a force for good in the world, and who will experience any evidence to the contrary not as information, but as a <personal> attack.
You are not arguing with their politics when you present them with history.
You are threatening their personality.
Their goodness is not separable from their country’s goodness.
Their innocence is national innocence.
Their pride is imperial pride.
It has all been fused together so completely that historical fact functions as personal accusation.
This is not an accident.
This is the deepest mechanism of imperial culture.
Make the citizen and the empire one psychological unit.
Then any critique of the empire feels like an assault on the self.And people defend their selves with everything they have.
Source -> https://xcancel.com/nxt888/status/2047340650346233980#m
Imperialist Personality Transference Disorder.
In void of an actual personality the empire itself becomes the personality. This is the height of the identity crisis that capitalism fuels; the annihilation of the individual and the community at the same time, leaving people aimless and isolated. They have no group to look toward and nothing internal to analyze. They become shells, empty husks, worker drones. They adopt the empire as their child and strive to protect it with a parental love. They have nothing else. Capitalism robbed them of community, broke up and scattered their family, and has even withered away their sense of self. There is only the country now.
Unrelated but it really got me worried. All of the updates regarding a horrible attack on Mali which is a revolutionary country from the AES of Sahel.
🇲🇱 Jihadist forces attempting to storm Kati, a strategically vital suburb of the capital Bamako, were decisively crushed. The Malian army and Russia’s African Corps destroyed dozens of militants before they even reached the perimeter. FPV drones and motorcycle assault tactics failed to make a difference.
Via: @Rybar_africa
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/182800?single
🇲🇱 Somewhere in Mali…
Some militants, having expended all their ammunition, attempt to flee, but local Malians lynch them on the spot
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/182801
🇲🇱 Captured militants somewhere in Mali.
🔴 @DDGeopolitics
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/182802
🏴⚡️🇲🇱🇷🇺 Wagner base in Mali overrun by JNIM fighters.
🏴⚡️🇲🇱 Helicopter operated by Mali was shot down by JNIM Al Qaeda branch in Sahel.
⚡️🇲🇱 The Defense Minister was alleged to have been killed in the conflict in Mali, however, government outlets only say he was severely injured in a VBIED attack, other outlets now report that the Chief of Staff was also killed at his post.
⚡️🇲🇱 Gunfights in the Malian capital is over as crowds lynch Al-Qaeda fighters and the rest were wiped out by the reorganized Malian army assets and some Afrika Corps.
The same can not be said in terms of other cities.
⚡️🇲🇱 Al-Qaeda in Mali states that they have officially entered an alliance with the Ethnic Rebels to topple the Malian government.
They offer the Russian Federation a deal - to abstain from the conflict and the Russian soldiers and specialists who are currently besieged in their installations will be left alone.
@medmannews
Fuck the French and whoever is funding the terrorists in the JNIM in the Sahel
Unrelated but also worth mentioning.
🇺🇸🇨🇩🇦🇫Washington to Dump Loyal Afghan Allies in War-Torn Congo.
In a move that critics are calling a profound betrayal of international trust, the Trump administration is reportedly negotiating to deport roughly 1,100 Afghan nationals—who risked their lives to serve American interests—to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This decision marks the final collapse of an initiative intended to provide sanctuary to those who enabled the decades-long US occupation of Afghanistan. Having served as the “boots on the ground” for American forces, these interpreters and their families now find themselves discarded by the very empire they helped sustain.
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/182581
This is good warning to all of those pro west bootlicking gusanos from Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and other countries.
It doesn’t matter how much of the West propaganda you parrot.
It doesn’t matter how much you try to look like them or act like them in mimicking their hate toward your roots.
It doesn’t matter how much you kill for the West.
You will never be considered part of them. You will never look to them as another white supremacist that can have the same rights and privilege.Till they (added: not just the aforementioned groups but gusanos of every ethnicity) experience it personally they never fucking learn (and even then). Apparently empathy is that challenging to the human condition (Marx was on point about material conditions).
Look at the Kurds. Took them being used and cast aside about twenty times before they finally got the hint. The west (especially the US) and Israel are never to be allied with. They’re evil deceitful hideous beasts who only show allegiance to wealth.
⭕️ Let’s be ready for the apocalyptic battle
🔺 The above image is a map of the deployment of the aggressive American war equipment in West Asia, and the Great Satan has brought everything it had hidden in its warehouses to the front line, which means an apocalyptic war is ahead.
On this side, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, with youthful spirit and exemplary decisiveness, holds the helm of the country, and the people of the Islamic Iran, who have been sent forth, have filled the important and decisive street trenches historically and civilizationally with enthusiasm and awareness for 60 days and nights. The brave and alert soldiers are just waiting for a signal to wreak havoc on the enemy, and the international resistance front, now more united and motivated than ever, is counting down the moments for the final battle.
Soon, the roar of missiles will smash the military, armament, industrial, and infrastructural centers of America, Israel, and their regional allies, and this time, no mercy will be shown.
The strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait will be blocked, following the model of the Strait of Hormuz.
Unity of fronts in the axis of resistance has taken a more serious and forceful form, and the warriors of Islam are ready to be present in the occupied lands.
Let us be prepared for the bitterness and sweetness of war.Source -> https://t.me/kriyaassess/65276
Lebanese lawyer Ahmad Alawiyye was killed in action in southern Lebanon. He had decided to leave his law practice to go south and confront the Israeli invasion.
https://xcancel.com/InfosLiban/status/2046727652799619504#m
Honor and glory to this brave fighter.
🫡 rest in power, may your sacrifice be not in vain, fida’i
Is that Arabic? Regardless, it was a shame that someone like that died.
The word fidāʾiyy (Arabic: فدائي; plural: فدائيون fidāʾiyyūn (standard) or فدائيين fidāʾiyyīn (informal), often rendered in English as ‘fedayeen’) means ‘sacrifice’ or ‘one who sacrifices himself’ (a literal translation of fidāʾiyyīn might be “martyrs”). The Palestinian fedayeen are militants or guerrillas of a nationalist orientation from among the Palestinian people. Most Palestinians consider the fedayeen to be “freedom fighters”.
It is tragic, LZ. If there were no Zionist Entity, there would be no need of people like him dying.
I bet he would have been a damn good lawyer with that level of actual integrity. RIP comrade.
—❗️🇮🇱/🇮🇷 BREAKING: In a statement, Hezbollah announces it targeted an Israeli artillery emplacement in Kfar Giladi
It was targeted with rockets and a swarm of drones, in response to repeated breaches of the ceasefire.
From now on, Hezbollah will respond to every violation.
Hezbollah has officially decided it will respond to all Israeli ceasefire violations and to not allow the post-2024 situation to continue.
💬 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims (https://www.gov.il/en/pages/pm-netanyahu-s-remarks-at-the-government-meeting-13-april-2026) the following: “In every generation they rise against us to destroy us, in this generation as well. The regime in Iran planned a Holocaust. They plotted to annihilate us with nuclear bombs and thousands of ballistic missiles”. Earlier, he also said (https://www.gov.il/en/pages/spoke-start130426) that, “had we not acted, the names Natanz, Fordow and Bushehr <…> would have joined the names of the death camps: Auschwitz, Majdanek and Sobibor”.
Was it Iran that carried out the first Holocaust? Let us recall that under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran declared war on Nazi Germany in 1943. Subsequent generations in Iran spoke openly and positively about that decision.
So who did perpetrate the Holocaust – the mass extermination of Jews, Roma and millions of other victims? It was Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, their lesser satellites, collaborators of the Vichy regime, as well as Baltic and Ukrainian accomplices.
Since 2014, Israel has not uttered a word of condemnation about the Kiev regime, which has elevated to the rank of national heroes those complicit in the extermination of Jews – figures such as Symon Petliura, Yaroslav Stetsko, who pledged allegiance on behalf of what he called an “independent Ukraine” in Lvov, a city soaked in Jewish blood, along with other Banderites and Galicians who served in the SS.
Who financed Hitler’s Nazi Party? The Bank of England – not to be confused with the Bank of Iran – was among its sponsors. The very same forces are now backing the Kiev regime, which has embraced Nazi ideology and kills people on ethnic and linguistic grounds, including those it nominally claims as its own citizens.
To invoke Auschwitz, Majdanek and Sobibor in the context of an alleged Iranian “nuclear Holocaust” against Israel is an insult to the memory of all victims of the Second World War, the victims of genocide, the victims of the Holocaust, and the Red Army soldiers who liberated the death camps.
Why? Because such comparisons are baseless, conceptually false and historically distortive.
Israel, of all countries, should know perfectly well that Bushehr is an exclusively civilian nuclear facility – a fact repeatedly confirmed by the IAEA (https://www.iaea.org/).
I would also recall Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks (https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/2097833/) at a joint press conference with his Libyan counterpart on April 21:
“Our experience has taught us to rely on facts….
In his statements, President Trump has focused on preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. The 2015 comprehensive agreement (#JCOPOA) was designed precisely to address this issue.
It provided for Iran to refrain from any military nuclear activity and introduced the strictest controls over its civilian nuclear programme – far beyond the standard safeguards the IAEA applies to countries party to safeguard agreements.
History, as they say, ought to teach us something. It would be a major success if the ongoing efforts by the negotiators – which we support, meaning the Iranian and American negotiators – were to lead to something similar to the 2015 agreement”.Not to mention a small nuance – in fact, Israel does not have a safeguards agreement with the IAEA.
Source -> https://t.me/MFARussia/29440
Entire neighborhoods in South Lebanon are being erased… my hometown, Khiam, reduced to rubble before the world’s indifferent gaze. And what do our incompetent president and prime minister do? Bow, submit, and grovel for approval at Trump and Netanyahu’s feet while their own people are buried under debris. This is a disgrace. A nation abandoned by those entrusted to defend it. We will remember very well who stood firm to protect us and who chose humiliation over dignity.
Is this from your perspective? If so, sorry to hear that.
Nope. This is the perspective from Marwa Osman. A lebanese from South Lebanon.
I am sharing it here so people can see how much pain the lebanese are feeling due to their traitorous gov’t.
I hate to see this. It’s easy to say from over here where I’m safe but the Lebanese shouldn’t allow this. They’ll be Palestine in a decade or two if they don’t build up deterrence.
🇺🇸A fire broke out on board the US destroyer “USS Zumwalt” (DDG-1000) of the “Zumwalt” guided missile class, resulting in the injury of three sailors; the cause of the fire is still under investigation.
It’s impressive how inexplicable fires and internal accidents happen when US ships are near Iranian waters.
The American troops know better than to engage
Don’t forget they’re having issues with food supplies too
🇺🇸🇮🇷| Headline of the day: A US Navy electronics technician for mine countermeasures ship, on his way to the Strait of Hormuz, was severely injured by a monkey after stopping in Thailand.
He’s been transferred to Japan for medical treatment.
https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21224
LOOOOL
Critical support to monkeys.
Uncritical support for comrade monkey.
Even monkeys and bees know these removed are the bad guys.
🇮🇷🇺🇸| CONFIRMED: An hour ago, an Iranian bulk carrier ship carrying a cargo of rice, despite the US Navy’s attempt to seize it, was escorted by the IRGC-Navy and, after safely passing through the Sea of Oman, arrived safely in Iran — Fars
