Filippo Botti

Iran just fired missiles at five countries simultaneously. Here is what actually happened to each of them. Bahrain. Confirmed hit on the US Navy Fifth Fleet headquarters. Bahrain’s own state news agency reported the strike. No casualty figures released yet. This is the command center for every American naval operation in the Persian Gulf. It was struck. UAE. Multiple missiles intercepted by Emirati air defenses. One civilian killed in Abu Dhabi from falling debris. The UAE defense ministry confirmed the intercepts. The Emirates just absorbed an act of war on its sovereign territory from a country it shares a maritime border with. Qatar. Missile intercepted. Zero damage. The Qatari Interior Ministry confirmed. The same country Iran just attacked is the country that hosted Al Udeid for twenty years as a gesture of regional balance. That balance ended this morning. Kuwait. KUNA state news agency confirmed missiles were “dealt with” in Kuwaiti airspace. No reported damage. Kuwait, which stayed neutral through every Gulf crisis since 1991, just had Iranian ballistic missiles flying over its cities. Jordan. Two Iranian ballistic missiles shot down by Jordanian military. Confirmed by the Jordanian armed forces directly. Jordan intercepted Iranian missiles in June 2025 as well. That was in defense of Israel. This time Iran targeted Jordan itself. Saudi Arabia. Fars News claims strikes. No confirmation from any Saudi source. No Tier 1 or Tier 2 verification. Either it did not happen or Riyadh is not yet ready to say it did. Both possibilities carry enormous implications. Now understand what Iran just accomplished strategically. In attempting to retaliate against Israel and America, the IRGC fired missiles at six sovereign nations in a single morning. Not one of those nations attacked Iran. Bahrain did not bomb Tehran. The UAE did not launch strikes on Isfahan. Qatar hosted diplomatic back channels. Kuwait maintained neutrality for three decades. Jordan was mediating. Iran just converted every neutral and semi-neutral state in the Gulf into a potential co-belligerent. Every nation whose airspace was violated, whose civilians were killed, whose sovereignty was breached now has legal and political justification to join whatever coalition forms next. And the damage tells the real story. One civilian dead from debris. Intercepts across four countries. No confirmed destruction of any US military asset. No reported American casualties among 40,000 troops in theater. Iran fired at the entire Gulf and the Gulf caught almost everything. Compare this to what Israel did to Tehran this morning. Precision strikes on the IRGC Intelligence Directorate. Explosions near the Supreme Leader’s office. Three detonations in central Tehran confirmed by Iranian state media itself. One side hit what it aimed at. The other side hit one civilian with debris. This is the asymmetry that will define the next 72 hours. Iran demonstrated intent to strike everywhere and capability to hit almost nothing. The Gulf states demonstrated they can defend themselves. And now those states must decide whether the country that just fired ballistic missiles across their borders gets to do it again. They will not let it happen again. Watch for the joint statement. Watch for airspace coordination between Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Manama, and Kuwait City. Watch for the coalition that Iran just built against itself with a single salvo. Iran did not retaliate against Israel this morning. Iran gave every country in the Middle East a reason to retaliate against Iran.

@thenewarea51 Seems that’s how this one begin

What in the actual F am I watching here?! Is this AI or everyday Russian helicopter shenanigans?

Bananas feel eternal. Always there, always cheap, always the same. But that’s an illusion. There is an emergency. A devastating disease - Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) - is ripping through East Africa. Once a plant is infected, it wilts, fills with yellow slime, the fruit rots, and the whole thing dies. Within weeks, the harvest is gone. Yields? Often 100% loss. For us in Europe, losing bananas would sting. For more than 70 million people in Africa, especially those who depend on starchy cooking bananas as their main food, it would be catastrophic. Scientists have tried to breed resistant bananas. But here’s the catch: cooking bananas are sterile. No seeds. No crossbreeding. New varieties take decades, and so far none are fully resistant. Some are tougher, yes, but they taste and cook differently - hardly a solution when people rely on them as daily food. This is where modern biotech shines: Ugandan and Australian scientists added two genes from bell peppers. ➝ Bananas became resistant without changing taste, yield, or texture. In Kenya, researchers used genome editing to switch off “self-sabotage” genes. ➝ Several banana lines turned out completely resistant to BXW. That’s not science fiction. Those are field results. The irony: Despite these breakthroughs, small farmers may never see them. Why? Because opposition to biotechnology - often fueled by Western NGOs - blocks adoption. The same countries where bananas are a snack luxury are telling Africans not to use the very tools that could save their staple food. Critics love to claim gene editing is “unnatural.” But let’s be clear: Nothing we eat today exists in the wild. Wheat, rice, potatoes, strawberries - every single one is the product of human intervention. Traditional breeding is messy. Thousands of genes get shuffled. Risks come along for the ride. Modern biotechnology is more precise. We know exactly what’s being changed. And more than 4,400 safety assessments in 70+ countries have shown the same result: GMOs are no riskier than conventional crops. Biotechnology isn’t just about saving bananas. It’s about speeding up what farmers have always done - adapting crops to survive diseases, droughts, and climate change. If we care about food security, we can’t afford to dismiss the very tools that may keep bananas - and millions of people - alive.

@MarcoCantamessa Abbassare il costo del lavoro.

Ho smesso di contare gli imprenditori che, intervistati, affermano “bisognerebbe fare qualcosa affinché i giovani si fermino, e non debbano andare altrove”. Ma chissà cos’è questo misteriosissimo “qualcosa”.

@putino Si sarà ricordato di questo

Dmitry Medvedev scrive un tweet in cui paragona positivamente Nicolas Sarkozy (l’ex presidente francese che di recente ha detto che la Crimea è russa e che l’Ucraina non ha posto nell’UE) rispetto ai governanti attuali. Si sarà già dimenticato il ruolo di Sarkozy in Libia?

@luisaMononoke Peugeot 505?

Era una Peugeot station wagon, con tre file di sedili più poltroncine nel bagagliaio, non ricordo il modello, bellissima. Qualcuno lo sa? 😁

@bobocraxi “Latitanza” è la definizione corretta

Il 19 Gennaio di ventitré anni fa moriva mio padre aveva 65 anni. Era in un auto-esilio perché in Patria veniva considerato un criminale.

@TheSubHunter1 I actually feel bad for taking away the thrill

@TheSubHunter1 Looks like a mast on the Akula itself

Nicola Consoli has eagle eyes over on the NGB Facebook page Can you spot what it is ? Looking at it I’d say that mast belongs to a Norwegian Ula SSK

Siamo passati da governi che fanno cadere i coglioni, a coglioni che fanno cadere il governo. #crisidigoverno

@AndreaVenanzoni “Di massa” in tutti i sensi

Il generale russo Pavel Popov, veterano dell’Afghanistan richiamato in servizio da Putin per la guerra in Ucraina, sarà il primo caso di alto ufficiale utilizzato direttamente come arma di distruzione di massa

@bravimabasta “I social”:

La questione #Astrazeneca va ovviamente approfondita con tutte l'attenzione del caso. Ma al momento sembra il primo caso al mondo in cui i social prevalgono sulla sperimentazione clinica. #15marzo

@GiovanniToti Staff, toglietegli il Twitter che gli fate un favore

Per quanto ci addolori ogni singola vittima del #Covid19, dobbiamo tenere conto di questo dato: solo ieri tra i 25 decessi della #Liguria, 22 erano pazienti molto anziani. Persone per lo più in pensione, non indispensabili allo sforzo produttivo del Paese che vanno però tutelate.

@GiovanniToti Ci spieghi perché lei sarebbe indispensabile per il Paese

Attenzione, i sindaci non hanno il dovere, ma il potere di chiudere, e se non hanno chiesto chiusure finora significa che non le reputano necessarie (il potere già lo avevano). Se invece non hanno i mezzi, ma vogliono chiudere, chiedano al Min. Salute che se ne faccia carico lui