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@z_Armenia @Osint613 You do realise that the naval and air forces cost that whether they are in the Middle East, the Pacific or the Atlantic. The big difference between war and peace is the consumption of weaponry.

This is a ridiculous statement given the US is spending over a Billion $$$ USD each day just to remain in this war… by the estimations in this statement. Iran apparently loses by day 14 approx 5.6b, while the US stands to lose over 14B… Iran cost of living in Tehran approx 1500USD per month. In New York it’s approx $9k USD per month. This war makes no sense!

We are approaching day 8 of the U.S. naval blockade on Iran. Estimated losses stand at roughly $435M per day, putting total damage near $3.4B so far. At that pace, once this stretches into double digits around the 14 day mark, the pressure starts compounding and it won’t be easy for the IRGC to absorb. For context, a family of 4 in Tehran can live reasonably on about $1,500 per month. Everything paid.

@Peston Unless he was forced to sell them but given time to do so?

Here is an interesting question about Peter Mandelson, which presumably Olly Robbins can answer tomorrow. If - as has been reported - UK Security Vetting’s red light on appointing Mandelson as US ambassador was because he was thought to be too close to a Chinese pharma research firm Wuxi, through Global Counsel, the advisory firm Mandelson founded, why on earth didn’t Robbins force Mandelson to sell his shares in Global Counsel as a condition of becoming ambo? Mandelson kept his stake of just under 20% all through his time as ambassador. He only sold them in Feb this year. Yet another weirdness in this extraordinary story

@merman1974 @adamboultonTABB 1. Starmer should never have appointed such a flawed character to such an important and visible position. It was stupid. 2. It's the cover up that causes the real damage. He didn't know, it was someone else's fault blah blah. Useless and dangerous.

Boris Johnson failed vetting, yet Theresa May appointed him Foreign Secretary. Dominic Cummings was never vetted, yet had free access to Government and Number 10. Quit trying to bring down Starmer.

@MaxHuijgen @Osint613 Pour encourage les autres

@Osint613 You're telling me that the mightiest navy of the world won the battle with a container ship? If that's worthy of CENTCOM communication there is something deeply wrong.

MUST WATCH 🔴 CENTCOM: On April 19, U.S. forces in the Arabian Sea enforced the blockade by intercepting the Iranian flagged M V Touska heading to Bandar Abbas at 17 knots. USS Spruance (DDG-111) issued repeated warnings over 6 hours. After non compliance, the crew was ordered to clear the engine room, which was then disabled by 5 inch MK 45 fire. Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit boarded the vessel. It is now in U.S. custody. CENTCOM says the action was deliberate and proportional. 25 vessels have been turned back since the blockade began.

@Osint613 Iran is really pathetic. The US action is a direct response to Iran doing precisely what they accuse the US of. They are increasingly desperate and buffoonish.

Iran Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Baghaei: The United States’ so-called “blockade” of Iran’s ports or coastline is not only a violation of Pakistani-mediated ceasefire but also both unlawful and criminal. It violates Article 2(4) of the UN Charter; it constitutes an act of aggression under Article 3(c) of the UN General Assembly Resolution 3314 (1974), which explicitly includes the blockade of a state’s ports or coasts among such acts. Moreover, by deliberately inflicting collective punishment on the Iranian population, it amounts to war crime and crime against humanity.

@HenriPcr35330 @Osint613 Israel are on the frontline against the global intafada that seeks to destroy the west. They aren't subtle about it, they scream it in the streets across the west, but people are to stupid to realise what is happening It is more advanced around Israel and they have said no more

@Osint613 It's great to live in a free country because we can tell you that we disagree. And, we have the right to remove the government too. Just saying . The jews are not our friends..They are the enemy of all humans on this planet.

U.S. President Donald Trump: "Whether people like Israel or not, they have proven to be a GREAT Ally of the United States of America. They are Courageous, Bold, Loyal, and Smart and, unlike others that have shown their true colors in a moment of conflict and stress, Israel fights hard, and knows how to WIN! President DJT."

Douglas Murray on the current state of the UK: “I don’t recognize our country anymore. I don’t understand why we have given in to Islamists who parade in London, calling for jihad and praising Hamas. They hate Britain just as much as they hate Israel.”

The world really is taking the piss, isn’t it? 2000 years of this nonsense. Persecution, expulsions, blood libels, pogroms, the full works & then an actual genocide to top it off. Every crowd’s had a go: Egyptians, Babylonians, Romans, Christians, Muslims, even the clever-clogs atheist academics. Apparently anti-Jewish hate is the one prejudice that’s acceptable. Then the Shoa happened. Oh, the world was ever so sympathetic. Tutted nicely, sent thoughts & prayers. No country would take us in, though. Jews left rotting in DP camps while Nazis got cosy new lives in America & Britain, their crimes quietly brushed under the carpet. “No more dirty Jews, thank you,” said the Yanks. “No aliens wanted, old chap,” added Britain. And the Arabs? They backed Hitler and couldn’t wait to finish the job. Brilliant, really. Those same Arab populations have had no trouble flooding into Britain, the States & France. Plenty of room for yet more failed states, apparently, but sharing a tiny strip of land with some homeless Jews? Absolutely not. Extermination or nothing. They wrecked the ancient communities in Yemen, kicked us out of Egypt & emptied Iraq of its Jews. Thousands of years of history, gone. Barely a Jew left in the Arab world now. Only Israel remains & they want that gone too. We’ve tried everything to keep them happy. Handed over Transjordan for free. Peel Commission in 1937? No. UN partition 1947? No again. Even after ‘67 we offered Judea & Samaria back to Jordan. Khartoum’s reply? Three firm no’s, from the capital of Sudan’s latest genocide. Charming. The UN, the ICJ, the ICC & those sainted South Africans? They suddenly go blind unless Jews are involved. In the 90’s & 2000’s we had one last go. Offered everything short of suicide. Their response? A big fat no, followed by buses exploding and weddings turned into abattoirs. Thanks ever so, Yasser Arafat, you absolute melt. And the West blamed the Jews, naturally. ‘Palestinians’ were just “resisting,” poor lambs. “Just offer them a state,” they said. We did. This was the thank-you note. Roll on to now. The ‘palestinian’ Authority spins fairy tales about Jewish history, calls us “Europeans,” claims they suffered “fifty Holocausts.” October the 7th? Babies burned alive, women raped, music fans butchered. The liberal West managed a whole day of solidarity before the script flipped: Israel must stop, war crimes, genocide, the usual blood libel remix. The same institutions built after the Shoa, shaped in the fires of Nuremberg, are now being swung at us like a blunt instrument. Sudan? Congo? Syria? Not a peep. But Jews defending themselves? International emergency. The media swallows Hamas numbers whole. “Hospital hit! Carpet bombing!” Then a quiet little retraction weeks later, buried on page 26. Governments chase Muslim votes, invite more Gazans to London and let the hate marches own the streets while Jews hide their kippahs. Keir Starmer’s crew promises to stop a genocide that doesn’t exist and cheer on a terror state right next to Tel Aviv. Masterstroke. The ‘palestinians’ have turned down state after state. Offer peace, they choose rockets. Hand over land, they use it to target civilians. Yet the answer is always “Israel must be proportionate” while our kids sleep in bomb shelters. Spare me the lectures about consequences. The ‘palestinians’ wrecked Jordan, helped ruin Lebanon. Do we want that on Israel’s border? No. Israelis want peace, but when every offer gets thrown back, every leader is demonised & the world rewards rejectionism, you end up with hardliners in charge. Surprise. So, free world, what’s the plan? Keep letting the ‘palestinians’ dodge every consequence of their choices? Carry on appeasing the genocidaires until the Middle East pitches up on your own doorstep? Oh wait, it has, you flung open your doors & now scratch your heads wondering why social cohesion is in free fall. So, please, just f*off & don’t say we didn’t warn you.

@HFalconerMP @FCDOGovUK @RedCrossLebanon The UK is clear but Hezbollah refuses thus making idiots of the UK government.

The UK is clear that Lebanon must be included in the ceasefire. I have seen the vital work of @redcrosslebanon in Tebnine; the killing of an aid worker is tragic. Ongoing strikes risk a humanitarian crisis. Hizballah must disarm and Israeli strikes stop now.

@Kassandra_Zerb @ShamakhelKhan @zriboua It was the jews who lived there for thousands of years. Arabs are from Arabia.

@NorthernLad20 @ShamakhelKhan @zriboua I think people whose ancestors lived in Pаlestine for thousands of years are Palеstinians. How are they not?? Again, it's not a persona. Arab Рalestinian nationalism is organic and real.

The Arab Word is Watching a Different War: Three reasons why it has been difficult to understand the Arab position: The first is the Arab relationship with Iran. From the vantage point of Brussels or London, Iran presents itself as a resistance movement with a grievance against American hegemony and Israeli occupation, and this presentation maps comfortably onto familiar Western anticolonial frameworks. What it does not map onto is the lived experience of Arab populations in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and across the Gulf. In those countries, Iran's presence meant Hezbollah holding the Lebanese state hostage to Tehran's decisions, thirty-five armed factions in Iraq drawing salaries from Iranian funds channeled through the Iraqi national treasury, and Houthi commanders answering to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps while firing on Arab civilians from Yemeni soil. Freedom is not the word any serious Arab observer would use for what Iran brought. Indeed, the Arab world's quarrel with Iran runs far deeper than American bases or Israeli airstrikes. What drives it is the systematic subversion of Arab sovereignty by a foreign power that uses the language of Islamic solidarity as cover for an imperial project conducted through proxies. The second dimension is the proxy question itself, where Western analysis fails most comprehensively. Iran goes far beyond supporting armed groups. Parallel state structures get built inside Arab countries, financial systems get captured, and political figures get installed who owe their existence and survival entirely to Tehran. The Iranians who have administered this project understand it as the export of a revolution, but what Arab populations have experienced is closer to a colonial occupation conducted through intermediaries, and as of now, they’re not mourning the Islamic Republic. When Westerners treat these proxy networks as instruments of legitimate resistance rather than as mechanisms of subjugation, they endorse an imperial project while believing themselves to be opposing one, and as a matter of fact, make themselves the legitimizing force behind Iran’s war against the Arab world. The third dimension is the most counterintuitive for a Western audience, and it is the one most consequential for how the current war is understood and misunderstood. For Arab nationalists, including secular nationalists and even those with deep reservations about Israeli policy, Iran represents a greater and more immediate threat than Israel does. This is a position that Western media are structurally ill-equipped to render intelligible, because Western discourse on the Middle East has been organized for decades around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the primary axis of regional injustice. The result is that when Western governments and Western publics take strong positions against Israel’s actions against Iran’s operations, they believe themselves to be standing with the Arab world. In reality, they are advancing a position that the Arab world does not share and has not asked for, while ignoring the threat that Arab governments and Arab populations actually live with. The rhetorical use of Israel as a perpetual alibi for Iranian aggression has been one of the Islamic Republic’s most durable tools, and Western opinion has served as the unwitting amplifier of that tool across the entire duration of the Islamic Republic’s existence. open.substack.com/pub/zinebribou…

@MattSkiCA @EthanLevins2 @TheDemocrats @SenAdamSchiff @TrackAIPAC @SenAlexPadilla @RepHuffman @CA_Dem @AsmStefani What do you think genocide actually means?

@NorthernLad20 @EthanLevins2 @TheDemocrats @SenAdamSchiff @TrackAIPAC @SenAlexPadilla @RepHuffman @CA_Dem @AsmStefani Nice try Lad. The only ones who “think” there is no genocide are you and the Israelis. Otherwise the world is no longer debating it.

Israel has destroyed 37,836 homes, killed 2,000+ people, and murdered 250+ children in Lebanon. It’s only been 40 days.

@Osint613 You want Hezbollah to disarm, but they refuse and have refused for more than 20 years Without a plan to disarm them ypu are just spouting hot air.

UK PM Keir Starmer: We call for Lebanon to be included urgently in the ceasefire. Hezbollah must disarm. But I'm equally clear: Israel's strikes are wrong. The bombing should stop now.

@Osint613 So who is going to make them disarm? UK? EU? NATO? UN failed to make any disarming in over 20 years. If not the Israelis, who?

@Kassandra_Zerb @ShamakhelKhan @zriboua They adopted the persona, that is a historical fact. Ir do you think the Egyptian arab who set up the PLO was actually a Palestinian.?

@NorthernLad20 @ShamakhelKhan @zriboua It's obviously not. Do you think Arab nationalists of Pаlеstine were unable to make an adjective out of pаlestine?? What's the argument here?

@riteinthemiddle @LDelsoll @Ostrov_A Fundamentally different.

@NorthernLad20 @LDelsoll @Ostrov_A Probably no worse than what settler terrorists do to Palestinians

Whatever one’s views on the politics of Viktor Orbán, two facts are undeniable: 1. Under his leadership, Hungary became the safest place in Europe for Jews; and 2. He was an unflinching supporter of Israel, unwavering in his solidarity with the Jewish state and fearless in standing up to the hordes at the European Union and the United Nations. This we will never forget. Thank you! 🇮🇱 🇭🇺

@Kassandra_Zerb @ShamakhelKhan @zriboua What i said is completely true.

@NorthernLad20 @ShamakhelKhan @zriboua That's completely false and so easily debunked. Why lie so stupidly??

@riteinthemiddle @LDelsoll @Ostrov_A It is impossible for jews to live under Hamas. They throw LGBT off roofs- what do you think they would do to jews?

@NorthernLad20 @LDelsoll @Ostrov_A Do you really think Jews want to live in Gaza as Palestinian citizens? Do you think Palestinians control the Gazan border?Your claim is absurd

@riteinthemiddle @LDelsoll @Ostrov_A How else would you describe a place that forbade Jews to live? That is the very definition of apartheid.

@NorthernLad20 @LDelsoll @Ostrov_A Gaza was an apartheid regime? You're a moron

@riteinthemiddle @LDelsoll @Ostrov_A Gaza had fired tens of thousands of rockets at Israeli citizens prior to October 7th targetting schools, kindergarten, homes. Gaza was an apartheid regime- zero Jews allowed. ZERO. Why shouldn't Israeli children be allowed to grow up in peace instead of the constant attacks.

@NorthernLad20 @LDelsoll @Ostrov_A Israel had already killed 38 Palestinian children in 2023 prior to October 7th.

@riteinthemiddle @LDelsoll @Ostrov_A Do you mean Atrocities like October 7th, instigated by Iran and carried out by Hamas, that triggered the war. That was followed by thousands of rockets from Gaza and Lebanon even before Israel has responded? And by marches round the world against Israel before any response?

@NorthernLad20 @LDelsoll @Ostrov_A I'm not the one doing the counting. What has you so heavily invested so heavily in atrocity propaganda?