Gabriel Magnus

@leonidragozin The wsy things are lining up, Russia may soon neighbor Romania again ...

Putin had signed a decree allowing the residents of Transnistria to get Russian citizenship through a fast track procedure. Sounds like commitment to fight for the region if someone tries to seize it. It also potentially opens a path to Russian citizenship to at least some people in Odessa region.

@OwenShroyer1776 Well, the stable genius seems to believe that a return to war in Iran is going to take care of this. It might, but not the way he thinks.

This is still too close for comfort.

@AXChristoforou Bibi's bitch is big mad and working hard to justify the resumption of hostilities.

In the same 40 second clip Trump calls Iran leadership "very dishonorable people" and then rattles off the levels of leadership he killed in decapitation strikes.

@BillMelugin_ @barnes_law @FoxNews @johnrobertsFox Oh, put him to pasture already.

NEW: President Trump tells @FoxNews colleague @johnrobertsFox in a phone call just now that he is “seriously considering making Venezuela the 51st US state”, adding that there is $40 trillion in oil there and “Venezuela loves Trump”.

@barnes_law Quite frankly, it doesn't seem like he gives a s***t about his presidency at this point. The focus is clearly on completing the agenda that he was bought/constrained to drive.

Trump destroying his Presidency fighting Israel's war against Iran.

@OwenShroyer1776 @barnes_law No, all this is to try and make Israel the uncontested hegemon of the Middle East.

All this to stop a nuke that didn't exist and open a strait that wasn't closed.

@ZaidJilani @Rothbard1776 These are not real Christians, they're apostates.

The bulk of Christian evangelicals support the foreign army that seems to hate Christians. One of the oddest arrangements I’ve seen.

@OwenShroyer1776 Bolsonaro seems to be what Trump pretended to be.

Trump loyalist and friend Jair Bolsonaro rots in jail under the Lula regime and he does nothing. Trump better be negotiating his release or the Trump betrayal continues.

@s_m_marandi Have you considered that the collapse of the global economy might be the actual end goal here?

Final warning. If Netanyahu and his sidekick Trump start another genocidal assault on Iran, the Islamic Republic's response will be ruthless. The global economy collapses. And across the world, people will be hunting for the Epstein-class.

@JDVance This should be the kiss of death - see what happened to Viktor Orban a few weeks ago after your endorsement. Maybe you should stay out of the endorsement business for a while if you truly like the candidate.

Great to be in Cincinnati this morning to vote for Vivek Ramaswamy for Governor, Jay Edwards for State Treasurer and Eric Conroy for Congress (OH-1). I hope you’ll do the same, Ohio!

The Western colonial empire is dying in the very cities where it was born. London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Sydney. You can see it in rents, in food prices, in the price of a doctor's visit, in the closed factory at the end of every regional town. The headlines call it recession. But its actually the empire eating itself, because the outside has stopped feeding it. For 300 years the deal was to extract from the Global South, subsidize the Global North. Cheap cotton, cheap rubber, cheap oil, cheap tin, cheap cobalt, cheap labor, cheap everything. The Western worker was poor by global standards but rich by global standards at the same time, because the rest of the world was bleeding out so they didn't have to. That deal is over. Because the people doing the bleeding stopped agreeing. The Gulf states have quietly dropped petrodollar exclusivity. China and Russia settle in yuan and ruble. India buys Russian oil in rupees. Brazil and Argentina trade in local currency. The African Sahel kicked French troops out of 4 countries in 24 months. Niger nationalized its uranium. Burkina Faso is mining its own gold. Mali built a refinery for the first time in its national history. None of this was supposed to happen. It is happening anyway. I think most Western analysts cannot see this because they were trained to look upward at presidents and downward at GDP, and the actual movement is sideways across capital flows. Notice how the headline countries, the US, UK, France, keep losing wars they pretended to win. Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. Syria. Niger. Ukraine. The military is still the loudest instrument in the toolkit. It is also the only one left that still works, not by serving its colonial states, but by fattening private sector profits. When a hegemon's only working tool is the gun, and the gun keeps missing, that is what decline looks like in real time. Now, the toolkit the West built to control the colonies is being repointed at its own population. Debt traps. Criminalization. Prison labor. Surveillance. Mass eviction. Drug-economy management. Engineered scarcity. Permanent renter classes. Two-tier policing. The same playbook that flattened Congo, Indonesia, Honduras and the Philippines is now being applied to Detroit, Marseille, Manchester, Newcastle. The boot is the same boot. This is the part that should make a working-class American or a British retiree or a single mother extremely angry, and unfortunately not at the people they're being told to be angry at. Migrants did not cause this. Welfare recipients did not cause this. China did not cause this. The class that owns the boot caused this, and it owns the boot in every country including yours. Some of you might call this overblown. You might say the West is still rich, still strong, still the world's reserve currency, still where the world's billionaires want to live. All true. For now. Empires take a long time to fall, and the rich exit the building decades before the lights go out. They have already exited. Watch where the wealth is parked. Not in the country it was extracted from. The capital has gone where the growth is, which is not London and not New York. It is Riyadh, Dubai, Mumbai, Jakarta, Shenzhen, Sao Paulo. The owner class moved their money. Then they will move their passports. The flag will be the last thing they put down. For the everyday person in the West, the next 20 years is going to be a managed contraction. Real wages flat or falling. Public services rationed. Pensions clipped. Insurance unaffordable. Housing impossible. They will tell you it is the migrants, then China, then the climate, then a new virus, then the algorithm. It will be none of those. For the everyday person in the Global South, the next 20 years is messier but freer. New patrons, new dependencies, but also new bargaining power. The petrodollar is no longer the only door. BRICS is no longer aspirational. The IMF is no longer the only lender. Africa is no longer waiting for permission. Latin America is choosing its own debtors. I do not think this is a happy story for everyone. Multipolarity is not peace. It is a different kind of pressure, distributed differently, with the violence rotating to new edges. But the colonial age that started in 1492 is closing. Not gracefully. Not neatly. Not with a flag-lowering ceremony. But forcefully. Because capital dictates. And it is dictating that the Western colonial empire is over.

@TheOtherSideRu Simion is not "Russia-friendly", and nothing about the guy feels genuine. During last year's elections, he was exposed as just another stooge (i.e. doing everything possible to avoid winning).

🇷🇴🇺🇦 Zelensky’s curse strikes again Romania’s pro-Ukraine government has collapsed after losing a no-confidence vote The political crisis was triggered by Socialists teaming up with right-wing eurosceptics led by Russia-friendly George Simion — forcing Prime Minister Bolojan to resign President Nicușor Dan is now expected to either fast-track talks on a new majority or call early elections

@joekent16jan19 @ArmchairW Failed state is exactly what Israel wants. So, from their standpoint, that would be mission accomplished.

The sooner we recognize this hard truth—that there’s no military solution to the conflict with Iran—the better off the United States will be. Sheer military force cannot reopen the Strait of Hormuz without escalating the war and sucking us into another endless, bloody quagmire that delivers zero benefit to our people. We can’t get rid of the emboldened government in Tehran, regardless of how many leaders we kill. If we try we will end up with a government or failed state, worse than what we have now. The inevitable reality is this: we will have to cut a deal with Iran. We can be pragmatic and do it now on our own terms, or we can keep listening to the same neocons and the Israeli government who got us into this mess, only to cut the same deal after we’ve lost even more. Recognizing that we have hit the point of diminishing returns and pulling out now is not weakness. It is strength—and it’s the right thing to do for the American people.

@ArmchairW Maybe they put them in the air so they don't get hit on the ground. They don't have that many, after all.

The extremely obvious massed tanker activity does tend to weigh against any kind of actual attack. Might be a show of force or a demonstration to see how the Iranians react.

@nicksortor @CLewandowski_ Nah, I am sure Trump's crazy "pastor " is doing all the praying. Maybe that's the problem, who knows?

🚨 BREAKING: An armed man opened fire in the vicinity of JD Vance’s motorcade near the White House, per USSS The man opened fire on Secret Service, USSS returned fire, taking the shooter down. NO law enforcement officers were injured Pray not only for 47, but ALSO VP Vance🙏🏻

@Alex_Oloyede2 Well, Zelensky isn't much taller.

Lol, Meloni.

@StealthQE4 @barnes_law It's the latter. He was brought in to engineer a collapse.

Trump: “Maybe we’re better off not taking a deal” Oh yeah. Great idea. Keep the Strait of Hormuz closed for another month🤦‍♂️ This guy is becoming delusional. I honestly don’t think he understands the consequences of what he’s doing. Or he just doesn’t care It’s disturbing.

@IranMilitaryEN Prediction: he will not get to meet Xi if this isn't resolved by then.

Behind the scenes, the United States is demanding the opening of the Strait of Hormuz before Trump meets with the Chinese President in the last week of May.

@RandPaul Private funding = private influence.

My bill doesn't just rubber-stamp a ballroom. It creates a permanent process: any White House addition must be approved by the Oversight Committee chair and the National Capital Planning Commission chair. Private funding only. No blank checks.

@cenkuygur She's just another controlled Muppet, doing everything her handlers tell her to do in order to "win". Totally scripted and fake.

The first part of this answer is incorrect, if you're a progressive. She was asked if she would replace Trump with Tucker Carlson and she said she wouldn't, and that it was a toss-up. If you think Tucker has all of the wrong positions Trump has on everything else, no problem. But Tucker is against the war and would withdraw from it immediately. He's also opposed to the genocide and to funding Israel. Those are all really, really important issues - and he is 100% better than Trump on those. The question wasn't whether you'd vote for Tucker or if you like him better than Bernie. It was whether he's better than Trump. That's not close. That should have been a very easy yes. But she's worried about her brand. If she says something nice about Tucker, even if it's vis a vis Trump, some on the left will jump down her throat. Too politically risky!