Luigi
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Cittadino 🇮🇹 Costituzione, uscITA, no€, noNATO. La libertà ha un prezzo, la schiavitù te la danno gratis.
The New York Times report on the rescued US airman falsely implies local Iranians aided him. I asked Julian Barnes, co-author of the report, what the evidence was for this. His Response: 'Oh, Iranians didn't assist the airman. This was speculation "from our Iran experts." (The article never clarifies that this was pure speculation, without any evidence; it has not been edited to indicate that in Barnes's own assessment the airman was not assisted by local Iranians; and it is being used to manufacture consent for this war, based on the conspiracy theory that 'Iranians want this.' Do better, @nytimes. Very disappointing.)
🇮🇷🇷🇺 Iran FM Araghchi held a call with Russian FM Lavrov to address the escalating war. Tehran says the past 37 days of strikes hit everything: infrastructure, hospitals, schools, residential areas, even nuclear sites; calling them war crimes. They’re now demanding urgent UN action and warning about U.S. threats to Iran’s energy sector. Russia is backing that line. Lavrov condemned the strikes and warned the situation could escalate further. Source: Araghchi Tg
If an army was going door to door warning people that giving sanctuary to their Jewish neighbors would result in their houses being bombed, there'd be no question what was going on here.
The conventional deterrent in Asia vanished not with the expenditure of missile inventories. It vanished once it was demonstrated that the US cannot suppress Iranian missiles and that US forward bases cannot survive under Iranian missile fire. This is elementary but important to understand. The conventional deterrent threat in Asia is that the US will fight China if the latter attacked Taiwan. Can the US now credibly promise to do that? No, it cannot. In order to fight China, US forces need to survive in the Western Pacific. Where are they supposed to survive? Which bases are secured from Chinese missile fire? Which ships are secure? If you have dispersed forces, as the Archipelagic Defense proposal suggests, maybe survival rates would be marginally higher. But how do you propose to resupply them without a functioning surface fleet in the region? How does the US propose to fight the air war? Even if the Anderson and Press proposal for base hardening is followed, what will be the survival rate of the hardened bases? They model a 30 day war. Why will China stop at day 30 if there are bases still standing? On top of the paramount issue of base vulnerability is the magazine depth issue. Not in the sense that Kelly is implying: that we’re emptying the magazine. Rather in the sense that if even the full magazine is insufficient to subdue Iran, it was already laughably insufficient for war in Asia. Iran has proven that the US cannot fight China. Get over it. Or we will end up in a vastly larger military humiliation than we are suffering right now.
EU President Ursula von Der Leyen deleted all the texts from her phone of her ‘negotiations’ with Pfizer so she could not be prosecuted for corruption. And now Poland and Romania have to pay !
“I am personally proud of the holocaust of Gaza, and that 80 years from now, they will tell their grandchildren what the jews did" May Golan. Israeli Minister of Social Equality.
The tensions between the IDF and the Netanyahu government have come to the surface. IDF officials are admitting that defeating Hezbollah is an unrealistic goal. Meanwhile, the government is insisting Hezbollah can and will be defeated: 1) Senior IDF officers privately — and now publicly — acknowledge that airstrikes on Hezbollah command centers in Beirut and the Bekaa Valley will not bring the organization to collapse. The realistic best-case scenario, in military eyes, is degrading infrastructure south of the Litani and inflicting ongoing casualties north of it. The capabilities will remain. 2) The government is meanwhile in full propoganda bullshit mode. Netanyahu speaks of total victory. Defense Minister Katz makes sweeping promises of total defeat "from the Euphrates to the Nile." These statements have no military backing. 3) Chief of Staff Zamirbis caught in the middle. He shares his officers' realistic assessments privately, but is periodically pressured by the political level to align with their bombast. So Zamir says meaningless things like that full disarmament remains the goal, just not achievable in this round, in this format. 4) The same thing happened in Gaza. The IDF setting realistic operational expectations while the government makes maximalist promises to the public, leaving the military to manage the gap. 5) The Israeli people know the government is lying. Northern Israeli residents are in their fifth consecutive week in bomb shelters. If residents don't trust that returning home is safe and permanent, they won't return. That has enormous long-term implications for Israel's northern border communities. The gap is more dramatic than it sounds. IDF officers are briefing journalists against the government line. Senior officers don't brief journalists against the political line without a reason. It suggests frustration has reached a point where parts of the military feel the public narrative has become dangerously detached from reality. The average Israeli knows exactly who to believe. The war in Lebanon is not winnable and the Israeli people know this very well.
Japan's most senior oncologist prof. Fukushima: "Genetic vaccines are totally unacceptable. The introduction of transgenes into the human body is gene therapy. How can this be considered acceptable for creating vaccines?"
Israele sta radendo al suolo interi villaggi in Libano. Questo è il villaggio cristiano di Taybeh che esisteva da oltre 7.000 anni. Completamente cancellato, con tutta la che c’era dentro: persone. #IsraelTerroristOrganization #israel_is_evil #IsraelIsNazi
The US just found out the hard way that Iran didn’t need radar to shoot down its F-15E. It used passive infrared detection — a heat-seeking system that emits zero signal, cannot be detected, cannot be jammed, and is completely invisible to the electronic warfare architecture America built its air superiority doctrine around. The F-15E’s systems never saw it coming. No radar alert. No countermeasure window. The EPAWSS electronic warfare suite — America’s most advanced jet protection system is designed to defeat radar-guided threats. Passive infrared doesn’t use radar. It uses physics and heat signature (both the F15 and F35 emit plenty of heat). It locks onto engine heat and kills in seconds. This same passive infrared system hit an F-35 on March 19th the most expensive weapons program (1.7 trillion) in human history, built specifically to be undetectable and forced it into emergency landing with the pilot reportedly pulling shrapnel from his body. Five weeks into a war Trump said Iran had “no ability” to fight, the IRGC’s aerospace force has now downed or damaged the two most advanced aircraft in the American arsenal using a system that cost a fraction of what Washington spent trying to make its jets invulnerable. Washington built the most expensive air force in the history of warfare to defeat radar-guided threats. Iran read the physics textbook instead, built an Infrared heat sensor and rendered the Pentagon procurement manual irrelevant.
‼️ 🇸🇰 Fico Calls EU a “Suicide Ship,” Urges End to Anti-Russia Energy Sanctions ⠀ Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico called the EU a “suicide ship” and, following Orban, urged the bloc to lift sanctions on Russian energy. ⠀ ➡He said restrictions on Russian gas and oil imports must be removed and called for restoring dialogue with Russia, warning current EU energy policy leads to self-destruction.
