Russ Long
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I don’t think Republicans recognize what they’ve done; our allies who have stood by us for ~80 years revile us.
They may never appreciate the gravity of what they’ve done, but this is a paradigm shift. The era of a united west led by the US is dead, and we’re all worse off.
Scott Robertson@sarobertsonca
PM Carney says the days of sending 70 cents of every dollar in military spending to the United States are over and gets a standing ovation
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@tastefullysaucy I like how the ultra sound p pictures are completely undamaged under a rock. The bear looks new. Gotta do better with these propoganda fakes. Hezbollah had a terrible day.
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@shanaka86 No, they massacred civilians and now you’re running propaganda for them.
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A rumor is circulating on pro-Hezbollah forums that Israel tracked the IP addresses of Hezbollah officials during a Zoom meeting, geolocated 100 positions simultaneously, and struck all of them in ten minutes. The IDF has not confirmed the method. No mainstream outlet has verified it. The rumor originates from Tier-4 sources with zero corroboration from Israeli, American, or independent intelligence reporting.
But the rumor is less important than what it reveals about the strike itself.
One hundred command targets across three geographic zones, Beirut’s southern suburbs, the Beqaa Valley, and southern Lebanon, struck simultaneously in a ten-minute window. Intelligence headquarters. Missile infrastructure. Radwan Force assets. The Aerial Unit that operates Hezbollah’s drone fleet. The IDF confirmed every detail. What the IDF did not confirm is how it knew where every target was at the exact same moment.
That simultaneity is the signature. Hitting 100 targets in sequence is air superiority. Hitting 100 targets in ten minutes is intelligence supremacy. It means real-time location data on the entire senior and mid-tier command structure, updated continuously, cross-referenced with physical infrastructure, and fed into a strike package that executes before anyone can move. Whether the method was Zoom IP tracking, cellular metadata, SIGINT intercepts, human intelligence, or some combination of all four, the capability demonstrated is the same: Israel has penetrated Hezbollah’s operational architecture to a depth that allows simultaneous decapitation across an entire theatre of war.
The pager operation in September 2024 demonstrated that Israel could compromise Hezbollah’s supply chain to deliver explosive devices into the pockets of hundreds of operatives. If the Zoom rumor contains any truth, it represents the evolution from hardware compromise to software compromise, from physical infiltration of devices to digital infiltration of communications. The pagers required months of supply-chain engineering. An IP geolocation exploit requires only that the target connects to a network.
Hezbollah’s response will be predictable: abandon all digital communications. Go dark. Return to couriers and face-to-face meetings. But that response creates its own vulnerability. Couriers can be followed. Face-to-face meetings require physical movement that satellites and drones track. The more Hezbollah retreats from digital infrastructure, the slower its command cycle becomes, and the slower the command cycle, the less capable the organisation is of coordinating the kind of distributed response that Mosaic Defence requires.
This is the intelligence trap that decapitation campaigns create. Every adaptation the target makes to survive reduces its operational effectiveness. Go digital and risk geolocation. Go analogue and risk paralysis. The IDF does not need to confirm the Zoom rumor for it to achieve its strategic purpose. The rumor alone forces Hezbollah to assume its communications are compromised, which degrades command and control whether or not the compromise actually exists.
The pagers changed the supply chain. If the IP tracking is real, it changes the meeting. If neither method was used and Israel has something else entirely, it changes the assumption that any form of communication is secure. In all three cases, the effect is identical: Hezbollah’s command structure operates under the permanent assumption of penetration. And an organisation that assumes it is penetrated behaves like an organisation that already is.
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
In the last six hours, the following things have happened simultaneously under a ceasefire. The IDF just completed its largest coordinated strike across Lebanon since Operation Roaring Lion began. One hundred Hezbollah targets in just TEN minutes. Intelligence command centres in Beirut. Missile infrastructure in the Beqaa Valley. Radwan Force assets in southern Lebanon. The Aerial Unit that operates Hezbollah’s drone fleet. All hit in a single coordinated wave while the ceasefire that Pakistan says includes Lebanon is supposedly in effect. Netanyahu confirmed hours earlier: the ceasefire does not include Lebanon. Trump posted that Iran has undergone a productive regime change, that there will be no uranium enrichment, and that many of 15 points have already been agreed. Minutes later he posted that any country supplying military weapons to Iran will face 50 percent tariffs on all goods sold to the United States, effective immediately, no exclusions, no exemptions. Explosions hit Iran’s Sirri Island and Lavan oil refinery. Iranian state media called it an attack by enemies. No perpetrator claimed responsibility. The UAE’s National Crisis and Emergency Management Authority issued a live alert confirming air defence systems are responding to an active missile threat. Kuwait absorbed the heaviest IRGC strikes of the entire war. Cluster munitions hit Beersheba. Japan’s Prime Minister called Iran’s President to demand safe Hormuz navigation. Oman’s transport minister told parliament that international agreements prohibit Hormuz fees. The IRGC’s Larak toll booth continued operating regardless. Hezbollah paused its attacks. Israel responded by launching its largest strike of the war against the militia that stopped shooting. This is not a ceasefire. This is the most kinetically active diplomatic pause in modern military history. The IDF’s 100-target strike has a specific strategic logic that connects to everything Trump posted. Netanyahu’s office said the United States told Israel it is committed to achieving shared goals in upcoming negotiations and that the ceasefire does not include Lebanon. The shared goals are the 15 points Trump referenced: zero enrichment, nuclear removal, proxy cutoff, missile limits. Hezbollah is the proxy. The IDF is executing the proxy cutoff clause of the 15-point framework through kinetic means while Vance and Witkoff prepare to negotiate the diplomatic version at Islamabad on Friday. The 50 percent tariff on arms suppliers completes the architecture. China shipped sodium perchlorate from Gaolan Port on five IRISL vessels in the past six weeks, enough propellant precursor for hundreds of ballistic missiles. Those missiles are the ones that hit Israel and the Gulf after the ceasefire. The tariff threat prices the cost of continuing to supply the regime at 50 percent of China’s entire trade with America. The IDF strike degrades the proxy that uses the missiles. The nuclear removal claim eliminates the programme that justifies the proxy. And Islamabad on Friday negotiates the terms under which sanctions relief flows in exchange for all of it. Three posts. One strike. One exploding island. Six countries under missile alert. A toll booth charging yuan. A militia that stopped firing being bombed. A supreme leader unconscious in Qom. And a deal team flying to Pakistan in 48 hours to close a framework that every party interprets differently. This is April 8th 2026. This is what a ceasefire looks like when the war is bigger than any agreement can contain. Full analysis on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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@DrAlmarielao Completely undatable narcissist zero value female. I am happy the guy did not have to endure her.
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A 40-year-old woman posts a video venting about dating… She says a 60-year-old man invited her to dinner at Cheesecake Factory, but she turned it down. Instead, she told him to take her to a robot show; something fun, different, “worth getting dressed up for.” After that? Silence. He disappeared from the app.
She shrugs it off, saying she’s “high maintenance,” doesn’t really like men, and just wants them to take her out so she can enjoy herself; no overthinking, no emotional investment. In her words, she has “bigger things to think about… like AI and the future of the world.”
There’s confidence… and then there’s treating people like entertainment. Wanting fun is fair, but expecting someone to play along while admitting you don’t even like them? That’s a different dynamic altogether.
Is she just being honest about what she wants; or is this a mindset that guarantees she’ll keep getting ghosted?
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Hear it directly from me. These allegations are flat false. And I will fight them.
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Former CDC Director Robert Redfield confirms - BY OATH - that they were hiding the side effects of the Covid-19 vaccines:
"There was inappropriate decisions by some to try to underreport any side effects because they argued that would make the public less likely to get vaccinated."
"One of the greatest mistakes that was made, was mandating these vaccines! They should have NEVER been mandated, they don't prevent infection, they DO have side effects!"
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Reminder that under Obama's Iran Deal the Iranians shipped 98 percent of their enriched uranium out of the country - without a pointless and devastating war.
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Israel has wiped the Lebanese village of Naqoura off the map.
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