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@MarioNawfal So, does the world know. The new pipeline circumventing the Strait is over 50% complete. Soon Iran will hold no leverage

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran may have already found a weapon more powerful than a bomb. Ex-UN official Pyotr Kurzin says geography, not nuclear weapons, is now Tehran’s ultimate deterrent. “They realize they can create economic havoc at the flip of a switch by tightening control over the Strait of Hormuz.” When global trade bleeds, the U.S. economy bleeds too. Iran knows it. @pkurzin

@Ikennect @DebbieShor68366 She is pure scum.

Barbara Walters writes: Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War. The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho LoPrison, the "Hanoi Hilton." Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American "peace activist" the "lenient and humane treatment" he'd received. He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward onto the camp commandant 's feet, which sent that officer berserk. In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied application of a wooden baton. From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the "Hanoi Hilton". . . The first three of which his family only knew he was "missing in action." His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and clothed routine in preparation for a "peace delegation" visit. They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: "Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?" and "Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?" Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper. She took them all without missing a beat. . . At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him all the little pieces of paper... Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day. I was a civilian economic development adviser in Vietnam, and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years. I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one year in a cage in Cambodia; and one year in a 'black box' in Hanoi. My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Banme Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs.) We were Jane Fonda's "war criminals." When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with her. I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received. . . and how different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as "humane and lenient." Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weight placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane. I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer me. These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of "100 Years of Great Women." Lest we forget. . . "100 Years of Great Women" should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots. There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them. Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can. It will eventually end up on her computer, and she needs to know that we will never forget. See less

@lewit_alan @MarioNawfal Now people notice. This guy no longer has access to any classified info. Hasn’t for some time. That’s not how it works.

@MarioNawfal So how did they bomb Iran for 12 days last year without the US involved? Or did that slip your mind since it blows a huge hole in your claim.

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Any theory about Israel executing a military strike against Tehran is mathematically impossible without massive American intervention. Ex-CIA Larry Johnson points out that Israeli F-35 fighter jets fundamentally lack the operational range to hit targets inside Iran without multiple mid-air refuelings from U.S. tankers. Larry said that If a single bomb drops on Iranian soil, Tehran is fully locked, loaded, and prepared to instantly turn the entire Gulf into a total war zone. @newsonof

@MarioNawfal Oh? Did Larry analyze the SigInt? Satellite images? Humint? No? Nothing? Does he still have a security clearance? Access to any classified info? Nope, He just likes the sound of his own voice and you’re too dumb to give him an audience.

@DougAMacgregor Are you also cheering this on like you do any mishap internationally? Does this check the right boxes of rooting against America for you?

BREAKING: Anti-ICE protesters taking over grounds outside facility in Newark, New Jersey. Situation rapidly growing out of control.

@DA_Stockman Shut the Hell up, Old Man. You never served a single day in the military! What makes you think you know a damn thing military effectiveness? You ran the OMB? AND?

The US Navy costs $250 billion per year, and aside from the 13 strategic nuclear subs which cost a pittance, it's about as useful of General Custer's cavalry. America's homeland security never needed the ability to launch foreign wars of invasion and occupation in the first place, but thanks to the Donald's reckless attack on Iran, it's now obvious that Washington can't even do that in the age of so-called asymmetric warfare. But that's a phony term, too. It's nothing more than the ingenuity of folks engaging in self-defense when the Empire comes knocking on their front door. Time to bring the Empire home and slash the defense budget by at least $500 billion per year: Start by putting most of the US Navy in dry-docks and museums, where it belongs.

@DoryYinxuan @MarioNawfal Oh? Can you trade steel for rice? Because China can’t feed its people. Also, what it feel like to be forced to import the greatest amount of oil & LNG in the world? Can steel heat your homes?

@MarioNawfal This is what industrial power looks like! Half of the world’s steel production, no wonder they call it the infrastructure powerhouse 🔥

🇨🇳 China just produced MORE steel than the next 12 countries COMBINED.** 960.8 million tonnes in 2025, that’s 52% of the entire planet’s steel. India’s a distant 2nd at 165Mt. The US? Barely 82Mt. Europe is getting absolutely cooked. Steel = power. And the map is shifting hard Source: @jackprandelli

@caitoz Good thing you’re not in charge of our national security, Katey. How about the 4 SIGINT devices which can intercept 100% of our communications? Courtesy of China. Take up crocheting instead. You know zero about national security.

Not one person sincerely believes Cuba poses a threat to the United States. No one sincerely believes Cuba coincidentally became an urgent menace to US national security right when the US began scrambling to consolidate control of the western hemisphere. This is a performance.

@MarioNawfal Cmon man. No ever said US didn’t import ANY. We are a net exporter and it’s not even close. Do you realize many oil producing nations have few if any refineries?

🚨🇺🇸 The mainstream narrative that the U.S. has achieved complete energy independence by selling its own oil is an absolute illusion. While Washington heavily exports its light shale oil, our domestic refineries aren't even built to process it, forcing us to constantly import heavier crude from volatile regions like the Middle East. Economist Chris Martenson breaks down how the escalating war has turned us into a net importer overnight, warning that a massive global supply crunch is about to hit everything from helium to agriculture. @ChrisMartenson

@Microinteracti1 Congrats. All Europe’s startups across the past 4 decades don’t equal one American company—Apple. The US spits out $18b companies before breakfast daily. Keep patting yourself on the back.

Helsing was founded in Munich in 2021 by three German entrepreneurs who believed Europe had no credible technology company capable of building the AI systems modern warfare requires. Four years later, Helsing is approaching an $18 billion valuation, making it Germany’s most valuable startup. open.substack.com/pub/gandalv/p/…

@Microinteracti1 The whole concept of “career” officials is against our republic’s founding, not their purging. Stay of our lawn, commie euro queer.

🇺🇸 The Gun People Who Can’t Spot a Tyrant America is, when you think about it, absolutely magnificent in its absurdity. Here is a country so profoundly committed to the idea of armed resistance against government overreach that it wrote the whole thing down in its founding document. The Second Amendment. Sacred text. Non-negotiable. The entire philosophical premise being: we the people shall remain armed, so that should any future government attempt to seize illegitimate power, we can stop them. Remarkable foresight, really. There is, however, one rather catastrophic design flaw in this otherwise bold constitutional experiment. It assumed the people clutching the rifles would actually recognize tyranny when it walked through the front door, wiped its feet on the Constitution, and sat down in the Oval Office. They do not. It turns out you can dismantle democratic institutions in plain sight, in real time, on television, and roughly half the population will respond by eating toast. Some bacon, perhaps. A scroll through Instagram. Maybe a bit of outrage about something a liberal said in 2025. The checks are gone. The balances, wobbling. Career officials purged. Courts packed. The press called enemies of the state. Federal prosecutors weaponized. And the proud defenders of liberty, the people who will fight you to the death over a bump stock, are furious about exactly none of it. Because nobody told them what authoritarianism actually looks like in the early stages. It doesn’t arrive in a tank. It arrives in a suit, with a slogan, and it’s on your side, and it’s very mean to the people you already didn’t like. So they sit there. Chewing. Scrolling. Completely unaware that the country they are willing to die for has already, quietly, become a rather different country entirely. The guns, I should note, remain absolutely fine.

@BrandonLBradfor I doubt you have ever risked anything that is involved in resultant tax benefits of risking capital. No society that highly taxes risk capital will have capital for long.

Lol the top 1% in the US hold ~32% of all wealth while the bottom 50% hold 2.5%. Leaving that out as if it's not pertinent is a little dishonest. Labor is taxed at a significantly higher rate than capital gains, and this isn't even bringing up write offs.

@D162Michele As you criticize the West, in the West on an app not legally permissible in China. STFU.

You can't criticise the West if you live in the West.

@D162Michele Curious how fast it goes thru a VPN necessary just to use an app like X platform? Or Google. You know, stuff the free world uses regularly.

China is on 10G. I’m still struggling to get 5G in the UK! 😭 🐌

@knkuwari The Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) signed by over 190 countries since pre 1970, but who’s counting.

قرات تصريح لنائب الرئيس الامريكي قال فيه: "لا نريد فقط التزاما من الإيرانيين بعدم امتلاك سلاح نووي بل بألا يعيدوا بناء قدراتهم النووية مستقبلا". وهنا اتى في ذهني تساؤل… من الذي يملك حق تحديد من يسمح و من لايُسمح له بامتلاك نووي؟ وعلى اي اساس؟ ايران.. بالطبع لا امان لها ان امتلكت هذا السلاح! ولكن إسرائيل ايضاً.. لا امان لها! الولايات المتحدة الامريكية.. لا امان لها! كوريا الشمالية.. بالطبع لا! اذاً… من يستحق ان يحمل هذا السلاح؟ من الناحية الأخلاقية، لا توجد دولة "تستحق" امتلاك سلاح قادر على تدمير مدن كاملة.. النووي في أصله سلاح ردع مرعب! يُقال للعالم إن النووي خطر على البشرية، لكن من يملكه لا يتخلى عنه، ومن لا يملكه يُمنع من الاقتراب منه! من أعطى بعض الدول حق امتلاك نهاية العالم، ومنع الآخرين حتى من التفكير في أدوات الردع؟! مجرد تساؤلات.. ان كان لديك رداً فنورني 😁

@rcbregman Grok estimates Bezos paid $973M over a 5 yr period in one bucket of taxes, then another wealth taxes equaling $1.2B, yes Billion. That’s a far cry from “0”. But why let facts get in the way of your jealousy narrative.

This sounds nice, but it's a great way to undermine the welfare state. The strongest welfare states in the world (the Nordics) tax everyone, including nurses. And they give everyone universal healthcare, childcare, pensions, education in return. When the middle class has skin in the game, they defend the system. When welfare is 'just for the poor', it becomes a poor program: stigmatized, underfunded, easy to gut. That's why billionaires keep pushing this idea. The real scandal isn't that this nurse pays $12k. It's that Jeff Bezos pays $0.

@BrettErickson28 Blah, blah. What say you when the UAE completes their pipeline circumventing the Strait? Soon enough Iran will be irrelevant. Cmon finance guy. How does that logistics affect global oil trade?

It appears that this “letter of intent” wouldn’t even open the Strait of Hormuz during the 30-day period of negotiations. All this would do is act as a further extension of the ceasefire by 30 days. A ceasefire which, may I remind you, provides absolutely ZERO benefit to the United States, and ALL the benefit to Iran. The U.S. blockade has failed. Miserably. Iran is not even close to shutting in their oil wells or running out of storage. The regime is not teetering on the edge of collapse. All this letter of intent would do is allow for Iran to further their leverage by forcing the global economy to experience even greater pain due to the closure of the Strait.

@BrettErickson28 What’s your intel basis for this assessment? Nothing? Oh, statements by the IRGC. I see. Sounds really credible.

We are now 37 days into the U.S. Blockade of Iran… and what can we say has even been accomplished? During this time, more than a MONTH now in total, Iran has been able to dig out a large portion of their bombed out sites. They have been able to replenish their drone and missile capacity. They have been able to reposition their weaponry. And how EXACTLY has the United States benefited? The entire premise of the ceasefire was predicated on a temporary reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Obviously that has not happened. So we imposed a blockade meant to cripple the Iranian economy and destroy their oil infrastructure… And that has failed to produce noteworthy results as well. So what has been the outcome of this exactly? Iran is now stronger. Iran is better positioned. The global economy is now 37 days further into a crisis. And the United States? Asleep at the wheel.

@Microinteracti1 Sure. But the candidate that said “Europe” is a country, is really up to par.

Washington is caught in a pincer, and Iran is simply holding the handles. Scott Bessent flew to Paris this week to stand before the G7 and beg the very allies his government has spent two years tariffing, humiliating, and threatening with military irrelevance to please, if they can find it in their hearts, help America out of the hole America dug. Sometimes you have to wonder whether anyone in this administration understands that NATO and Europe and allies and Greenland-the-territory-they-want-to-steal are not four separate categories but one single thing they have spent two years kicking in the teeth. Whether this is ideology or just the inevitable consequence of sending people to govern who cannot find Canada on a map is, at this point, an open question. The Europeans are listening. They are also not forgetting. Iran, meanwhile, is checking the calendar. Nothing of consequence gets resolved while this administration is in office, and Tehran knows it. The pressure-washing comes in 2026. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@HealthRanger Cool. Now show the massive brand new bridge that collapsed.

I'm almost certain there's NOBODY in America that knows how to build structures in this manner. And for sure not at anywhere close to this speed.