Adfikri Kevin Marvel

"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes -- they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice... The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves that they don't give a damn."

Mereka yang sering bersembunyi di balik "rahasia militer", sekarang jadi yang terdepan menuntut transparansi sipil.

Germany NT players in 2021 protesting against the Qatar World Cup👇🏽

The agony of defeat

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⭕️ WSJ: UAE carried out dozens of secret airstrikes on Iran during war and after ceasefire 🔹The United Arab Emirates secretly carried out on Iran from the early days of the war through the day after the ceasefire was announced — a far deeper military role than previously reported, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the matter. 🔹 Israel and the U.S. provided intelligence on the strikes, which targeted Qush and Abu Musa islands in the Strait of Hormuz, the port city of Bandar Abbas, Lavan Island’s oil refinery, and the Asaluyeh petrochemical complex, according to the report.  🔹 The UAE has not publicly acknowledged the strikes. But the story was amplified Friday by Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a prominent Emirati political scientist and informal adviser to UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed, who appeared to admit the UAE’s involvement was “deeper than was previously known.” He also rejected that UAE was acting as a forward operating base for Israel, saying the nation was defending itself.

🔺BREAKING: Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Speaker of Iran’s Parliament and the country’s lead negotiator in indirect talks with the U.S., posted a warning Friday as negotiations over a potential deal continue: “1. We do not obtain concessions through negotiations. We obtain them with our missiles. Negotiations only make them understand that. 2. We have no trust in guarantees or promises, only in actions. We will not take any step before the other side acts first. 3. The winner of any agreement is the one who is better prepared for war the next day.” The post aligns with what an Iranian official told Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill on Thursday — that while a final draft MOU exists, Iran has “zero trust” in Trump or the U.S. and cannot rule out further strikes, and will not consider “Trump’s decision as definitively finalized until the financial markets close at the end of this week.” Ghalibaf, a former IRGC general who was re-elected as parliament speaker this week with 235 votes, has emerged as one of Iran’s most powerful figures during the war and leads Tehran’s strategic engagement with Washington.

The oil market has historically and routinely overreacted to geopolitical headlines that never manifested into actual supply shocks Now it's overreacting to negotiation headlines that haven't yet done anything to ameliorate our current ACTUAL historic supply shock Consistency.

This will ruin your day, perhaps your summer, or even the rest of your life. But you need to listen to it. You need to know the crimes that are done in your name and with your tax money. A British surgeon in Gaza testifies that Israeli soldiers used Palestinian children as target practice. One day, they would shoot the children in the testicles, and on other days, in their necks. They were practicing their shooting on children.

🎥 At the 2026 Munk Debate, Stephen Walt, one of the world’s leading scholars of international relations and a leading advocate of realist foreign policy, challenged the idea that powerful countries can use military force to remake the world in their own image. Walt warned that rather than making the world safer, such crusades often leave societies becoming “more like the monsters you were trying to change than they had become like you.”

⭕️ Exxon Senior Vice President Neil Chapman warned Thursday: “Commercial inventories of crude oil, of liquids, think petroleum, gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, they’ve all run down... We’re approaching unheard of inventory levels. I mean, really, really low levels. You can debate whether that’s going to hit those really low levels in two weeks or three weeks. Once you get to that point, then you’ll see price shoot up. I mean, I think dated Brent, most people, well, a model would say dated Brent will shoot up. Once you get to that really low inventory level, up to $150, $160. The models would tell you that. And then what happens is when the price gets to a certain level, demand destruction brings it back into balance. Prices go so high, it becomes unaffordable. And that’s what happens. And so we’re at that level right now. And I think crude being in this sort of $90 to $110 for the last whatever it is, six weeks, has really been mitigated by running down inventories. It can’t last forever.“

Everyone should read what Senior Vice President of Exxon Neil Chapman says about the oil price surge coming in 2-3 weeks The next wave of the energy shock is approaching fast

It will take 5+ years to replace 39 days of munitions used in the Iran war What an absolute disaster

Israel spent 2 years running an elaborate lobbying campaign to have Hamas added to this UN sex-abuse blacklist, making the case that the UN designation was thorough, evidence-based and widely respected, which was why it was so important for them to get Hamas added to it. Now that Israel has been added to it, they say the whole thing is a sham.

TRUMP SUPPORTER: “I think bombing Iran is absolutely in the American people’s interest...” GREENWALD: “You seem like a young guy to me. Have you ever thought about going and fighting in this war that you’re cheering on?”

The bottom of that kids feet is more worthy than all you monarchists

25/26 Bruno Fernandes G&A - 30 24/25 Mohamed Salah G&A - 47 22/23 Erling Haaland G&A - 44 17/18 Mohamed Salah G&A - 42 13/14 Luis Suarez - G&A - 42 02/03 Thierry Henry G&A - 44 Madness to even ask this question 😂

Barcelona, if you're in the market for a tall plank of wood who averages 7 Premier League goals per season, can I interest you in one of the finest young landlords in world football?

Should we be trying to weaken autocrats like Putin? Mearsheimer: "The sad fact is that in international politics, minor powers have to pay really serious attention to what Great Powers think, and what Great Powers believe their interests are. Am I happy about the fact that this is the way the world works? Absolutely not." I think liberals really hate hearing this, because they have an idea about how the world is, how it ought to be, and how people ought to behave in it. The problem is that others often have ideas about how the world is, how it ought to be, and how to behave in it, and the ideas of others will often conflict with your own. Instead of accommodating themselves to this fact, McFaul and company want to recreate the world according to how they think it ought to look like. What this means practically is killing millions of people. Mearsheimer isn't a foaming Putin apologist. He's the only one advocating for Ukraine to not commit suicide.

Heh. At 47:00 Nuland threatens that if Iran got nukes, then Israel might have to. She doesn't seem to think she's lying. Could this horrible, destructive woman really be as ignorant as she seems?

Tony Blair: Wow, get a load of AI. We should probably cut welfare somewhat. Also, we should be involved in the Iran War for some reason. Broadsheet columnist: Say what you like about the man, but the sophistication of his analysis is unparalleled.