Luca Mainoldi

"Ricordati della fine e smetti di odiare" Sir 27, 30 - 28, 9 "Nessuno di noi vive per se stesso e nessuno muore per se stesso" Rm 14, 7-9 Dalla Liturgia XXIV DOMENICA DEL TEMPO ORDINARIO Anno A

Frase shock di Romano Prodi a Sky Tg24, che rivela più della situazione oggi in Occidente che mille discorsi di propaganda. "Mi lasci essere un po' cinico, ma anche ragionare sul futuro. Vede, il gas russo arriverà in Europa quando i fondi finanziari americani prenderanno delle azioni nei gasdotti. Va a finire cosi, vedrà come stanno le cose." La maschera è calata. Quanto durerà la menzogna?

Mollabashi Historical house. Isfahan, İran 🇮🇷 Credit 📷: Rasool Mojahedi

The US is deploying most of its long-range JASSM-ER stealth missiles for the Iran war, pulling them from global stockpiles. Only about 425 remain available worldwide out of 2,300 prewar. These missiles have been heavily used—over 1,000 in the first month—reducing reserves meant for other conflicts. Replacing them could take years. Source: Bloomberg

A large group of C-17 military transport aircraft of the US Air Force is crossing the Atlantic and heading towards the Middle East, according to data from Flightradar24. C-17s are used for transporting personnel, heavy weapons, and armored vehicles. This is one of the largest aerial troop deployments since the beginning of the war. Trump is not about to exit the conflict.

🏛🇮🇷 Going back to the Stone Age might not be such a bad idea after all... The courtyard of Youtaab Hotel in Shiraz, Iran.

Ci siamo +++ ANSA: LE NOTIZIE DEL GIORNO ORE 15.00 +++ (ANSA) - ROMA, 04 APR - - SCATTANO LE PRIME RESTRIZIONI SUI CARBURANTI PER GLI AEREI BP SEGNALA LIMITAZIONI A LINATE, BOLOGNA, VENEZIA E TREVISO Sono scattate, all'aeroporto di Bologna, Milano Linate, Treviso e Venezia le prime limitazioni di carburante per i voli. Air Bp Italia, uno dei principali operatori ha emesso un 'Notam', ovvero un bollettino aereonautico rivolto alle compagnie aeree, per informarle che per i prossimi giorni, fino al 9 aprile, nei 4 aeroporti ci saranno delle limitazioni per il carburante. La priorità nel rifornimento, ha spiegato la società che fa parte del colosso britannico Bp, sarà data ai voli ambulanza, ai voli di Stato e ai voli con durata superiore a 3 ore. Per tutti gli altri ci sarà una distribuzione contingentata.

Good piece by @nytimes, key point here on why getting a precise number on Iranian missiles has been difficult nytimes.com/2026/04/03/us/…

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Amid Ukrainian air strikes, the Kremlin is starting to relocate missile factories to Russia's internal regions - reports Telegraph.

4 aprile 1949 fondazione della #NATO. 77 anni e (non) sentirli

Germany has crossed another dangerous line. 11 million people, roughly 26% of the entire population, are now forbidden from leaving the country for more than 3 months without explicit written permission from the Bundeswehr. This is not a late April Fool’s joke. It is the new reality imposed by the Merz government and its parliamentary majority. From January 2026 onward, every German man aged 17 to 45 must obtain approval from the military before he can travel abroad for any extended period. Whether for studying, working, or simply traveling, the state now demands the right to decide if its own citizens may leave their own territory. This measure is an authoritarian power grab dressed up as administrative routine. The regulation violates core constitutional rights. It directly contradicts Article 11 of the Basic Law, which guarantees freedom of movement, including the right to exit the country. It also infringes on the general right to personal freedom under Article 2 and the principle of equality under Article 3, since it singles out men. Beyond that, it stands in clear conflict with EU law on free movement. No state of emergency exists. No credible threat justifies such sweeping control. The principle of proportionality has been completely abandoned. What makes this development particularly alarming is the lack of resistance. The German population has accepted this restriction with almost no public outcry. This passive Untertan mentality, this ingrained habit of obedience to authority, has once again proven stronger than any instinct for liberty. It is the same submissive mentality that allowed two dictatorships to take root in Germany within the last century. When citizens quietly accept ever greater state control, freedom erodes step by step until little remains. While leaders like @realDonaldTrump, @JDVance, and @ElonMusk continue to fight against the erosion of free speech and individual rights across Europe, the German public seems largely indifferent. Instead of protesting, Germans appear willing to let the bloated bureaucratic machine tighten its grip. The state grows bolder with every new restriction, and the people respond with silence. This is how authoritarianism advances. Not through sudden revolution, but through incremental bureaucratic overreach that obedient citizens learn to tolerate. Germany is once again drifting toward a darker chapter in its history. A country that requires its own citizens to ask permission before leaving has already abandoned any serious claim to being a free society. The direction is unmistakable, and the consequences for liberty are profound.

NEW - Germany now requires all men between the ages of 17 and 45 to obtain permission from the military before leaving the country for more than three months.

Newly released image of a USAF F-16 on an Iran strike mission, carrying WCMD dispensers, likely for air-dropped BLU-91/B anti-vehicle landmines. US forces have been dropping the mines around Iranian missile bases to destroy Iranian mobile launchers.

Reported aftermath of an Iranian drone strike that hit a US Army CH-47 Chinook at Camp Buehring in Kuwait.

The massive USAF airbridge to Europe and the Middle East continued today, with a number of C-5s, C-17s, and KC-135s flowing across the Atlantic.

Ukrainian attack drones successfully hit a major Russian petrochemical plant in the city of Togliatti overnight, setting multiple areas of the facility ablaze.

1972 ➡️2026 Apollo 17 ➡️ Artemis II

BREAKING: A US A-10 Warthog attack plane crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Friday, and the lone pilot was safely rescued, according to two U.S. officials - NYT

NEW: The Kremlin is setting conditions to imminently tighten restrictions on virtual private networks (VPNs) that allow Russians to bypass the Kremlin’s censorship measures. Other Key Takeaways: A law that took effect on April 1 allows the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to legally access any Russian organization’s databases without additional authorization. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky continues to signal Ukraine’s willingness to offer concessions and to negotiate with Russia. A Russian Northern Fleet Lieutenant General died in a recent plane crash in occupied Crimea. Ukraine’s European allies continue to support Ukraine’s drone innovation efforts. Ukrainian forces recently advanced near Slovyansk and in the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka tactical area. Russian forces recently advanced near Slovyansk and Borova. Ukrainian forces continued their long-range strike campaign against Russian oil infrastructure. Russian forces launched 172 drones against Ukraine.

WATCH: U.S. C-130 Hercules reportedly flying very low over Iran, deploying flares. The U.S. forces are highly likely searching the pilots of downed F-15E jet.

About 2,000 years ago, Jesus sat down with his twelve disciples in Jerusalem for a Passover meal. It was not the lavish feast that centuries of Western Renaissance art have suggested. The Last Supper was a first-century Jewish Passover Seder, and the menu was dictated by scripture, tradition, and the agricultural reality of Roman-era Judea. Unleavened flatbread baked from emmer wheat. A lentil stew spiced with cumin and olive oil, the same staple found in storage jars excavated at Masada and Qumran. Roasted lamb with bitter herbs, commanded specifically in the Book of Exodus as part of the Passover ritual. A sweet date and nut paste called charoset, representing the mortar used by Hebrew slaves in Egypt. And wine, always diluted with water in the Roman world, because drinking it undiluted was considered uncivilized. This was the meal. Humble, symbolic, and rooted in a tradition going back to the Exodus itself. The reconstruction behind this post comes from the work of Italian scholars Generoso Urciuoli and Marta Berogno, who led a study for the Museum of the Cenacle in Rome, cross-referencing the Gospel texts with Jewish dietary law, Roman dining customs, and archaeological findings from the region. © Eats History #archaeohistories