Jon Levy

Geopolitics for Beginners A Guide 📌

"Man in military fatigues" is a new one.

Hi @guardian Will you be updating this and informing readers that the person who abused the Al Jazeera journalist is a serving police officer? Don’t forget to give @declassifiedUK credit

Sorry but this is a sloppy and blatant false flag.

As I said - this was always total bullshit. They went to reception and asked if they were allowed to go in.

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Israel executed Hassan today in Aaitit, South Lebanon. Not a combatant. Not armed. Just a paramedic on the front lines saving lives. Israel dropped a bomb on his ambulance, killing him and wounding 4 others. Read that again.

BREAKING: Keir Starmer sends Israel strongly worded apology after discovering missile attack on Diego Garcia came from an Israeli submarine 👀

@IsraelMFA Fuck Off!

The Iranian regime devastated Arad and Dimona by deliberately striking civilians with missiles. Over 100 people were injured, including children. A blatant war crime. Pure terrorism.

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.

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Israel killed every single paramedic in this photo today in South Lebanon. 12 paramedics slaughtered in one Israeli strike. Israel DELIBERATELY targeted their medical center. Killing medics is a war crime. Killing medics is a crime against humanity. This is medicide.

Fuck Keir Starmer - A man who couldn't get us cancelled from Glasto - A man who couldn't beat us in court - A man who has destroyed the Labour Party - A man whose government supports war criminals in Israel with weapons and intelligence

US bombers loading up on UK airstrips before raining down bombs on Iran. Parliament wasn't consulted - and polling shows huge numbers oppose it. When do MPs get a say over our involvement in this war?

They raped a man. They gang-raped him. They raped him so brutally that he had to be hospitalized. Doctors documented the injuries. The video of the assault was leaked. Now the rapists are free. This is not just unlawful and immoral. It is sick! #ThisIsIsrael

@ThatTimWalker @DaveJGarton Did you see this interview yesterday on Sky? Needless to say they aren’t showing the clip.

If you believe in the importance of the Guardian as a liberal UK media institution (as I do), this rank hypocrisy stinks: the Guardian’s leadership sold its journalism (& journalists) out to OpenAI in a shady financial deal it refuses to disclose. 1/

A Feb 17 tweet by India’s Eastern Naval Command. 2 weeks later, IRIS Dena lies on the sea bed. On our watch, in our oceanic backyard. A 100 sailors who marched in Visakhapatnam on Feb 19, now at the bottom of the sea. On our watch, in our oceanic backyard.

The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise. We were the hosts. I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless. The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before our president . The attack by the US submarine was premeditated as the US was aware of the Iranian ship’s presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute, presumably with this operation in mind. The US has ignored India’s sensitivities as the ship was in these waters because of India’s invitation. We are far from politically or militarily responsible for the US attack. Our“responsibility” is at a moral and human plane. A word of condolence by the Indian Navy ( after political clearance) at the loss of lives of those who were our invitees and saluted our president would be in order.

Pete Hegseth said this was "the first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since WWII" (which is false, but that's beside the point), so I decided to look at what happened in WW2 and... this might surprise no-one: turns out the Nazis were more humane than the Americans. Probably the most abject part here is that the warship had many survivors - 32 to be precise (apnews.com/article/sri-la…) - and the U.S. made zero effort to rescue them, despite it being required by the laws of naval warfare and simply being the honorable thing to do. It took little Sri-Lanka, with its very modest means - especially compared to the $1 trillion US defense budget - to do the honorable thing and launch a (successful) rescue operation. Even the literal Nazis, during WW2, rescued the survivors of ships their U-boats sank. It was considered a matter of basic honor. The history of this is actually interesting: the Nazis rescued survivors all the way until the so-called Laconia Incident in 1942 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia_i…). The Laconia was a British troopship sunk by U-156, a German U-boat, off the West African coast. Right after the sinking, the Nazis immediately began rescuing over 400 survivors, broadcasting - as was common practice - in plain English their position on open radio channels to all Allied powers nearby, so they wouldn't get attacked during the rescue. That's when a US B-24 "Liberator" bomber attacked the submarine anyway, even though all the rescued survivors were on its foredeck. The B-24 killed dozens of Laconia's survivors with bombs and strafing attacks, forcing U-156 to cast into the sea the remaining survivors that she had rescued and crash dive to avoid being destroyed. The American B-24 pilots mistakenly reported they had sunk U-156, and were awarded medals for bravery... This event completely changed Nazi policy on this matter: Karl Dönitz, commander of the U-boat fleet, issued the "Laconiarefehl" - the Laconia Order - forbidding U-boats from rescuing survivors, because the risk to the submarine was now too high. In other words, the Americans during WW2 essentially forced the Nazis to abandon survivors - from the allied side (!) - at sea. Dönitz at least had an excuse.