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@RoyalNavy @HMSDragon @GenGJenkinsRM Shame you couldn't escort the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla to protect British citizens. Where was your commitment then?

🗣️"Her presence is a visible demonstration of the #RoyalNavy’s commitment to protecting our people and our interests, at home and overseas" After intensive prep @HMSDragon is now in the Eastern Med to begin operational integration into Cyprus’s defences. bit.ly/DragonMed

@futurism Anti-aircraft lasers... hmm... If only WTC7 had anti-aircraft lasers!

"This is what America rightfully deserves. We shall no longer be afraid." trib.al/x0l8Fn1

Twitter is getting worse by the day. So much completely made up stuff. Sensationalist nonsense with no sources, nothing that can be verified because it's all imagined! And so many AI generated comments. All to boost engagement and presumably dollars.

@JeffMJohns1 @mrjeffu In 2015 they changed their *interpretation* of it. Now they say they can act if the country's survival is threatened. So they twisted it from a strict pacifist stance to one that allows involvement at even the hint of danger to Japan, e.g. China/Taiwan or an energy crisis.

@mrjeffu Japan won't be deploying ships for an active combat role. Wouldn't they need to amend their constitution?

Earlier this week Takaichi was asked “If Trump were to request that Japan dispatch the Self-Defense Forces, is it correct that you would not even consider it?” She refused to answer because it was a "hypothetical" question. It's not hypothetical anymore.

I want to be the lorry driver for my local public bath. Twice a day, he gets to take a scenic 2-hour drive out into the countryside, fill up his tanker with natural spring water and drive back. Call it 8 hours a day of driving, but beautiful views, low pressure, easy driving.

@zargtipo7 @drhossamsamy65 @YairNetanyahu Finally something verifiably true!

@drhossamsamy65 Netanyahu's son @YairNetanyahu last posted 5 days ago, on March 8, although he posts 30, 40 times a day. Is everything okay at home?

⛔️Confirmed Information from inside Israel: “The Israeli people are grappling with significant challenges today, and there are reports of changes in the levels of senior leadership, in addition to an unexpected event, and Benjamin Netanyahu has left his position permanently...‼️”

The Iranian women's football team, that the western media hailed as heroes for not singing their anthem, declined Australia's offer of asylum because they want to go back home. 😂

Zelensky supporting the aggressor, Takaichi giving away 80 million barrels of oil during an energy crisis, and Starmer allowing the US to use its bases to launch "defensive" bombing raids... The world is officially upside down.

@ken_w_davies @BladeoftheS By that argument, Belarus didn't take part in the Russia-Ukraine war. Allowing Russia to attack from their territory made them complicit. So why is the UK not?

@BladeoftheS As you said US bombers. Not British. Still not taking part.

3 US B-52 bombers just landed at RAF Fairford in the UK. These are the largest bombers in the world, this is NOT, not taking part in the war with Iran.

@Warthogbill7528 @Megatron_ron You can see the dust clouds from other strikes. This wasn't the first in the area.

@Megatron_ron Interesting that someone was there to video the whole thing.

BREAKING: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Footage of the Tomahawk missile strike on the primary school for girls in the city of Minab. This proves it was the US and that the target was intentional, as the missiles goes into diving mode after finding the designated target 168 girls aged 7-12 and teachers were killed.

The claim that over 30,000 people in Iran were killed and over 300,000 were injured in just two days of protests is absurd. Can you imagine how overwhelmed hospitals would be? That's 2 casualties every second from firearms and batons. Impossible!

@Shimoola9 @Shayan86 It never was.

BBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes". bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@serialinvesting @BujokMr Hang on, the reason for the war in Donbas in 2014 was because the pro-Russia Ukrainians in the east didn't support the overthrow of their elected Russian-leaning president. 14,000 people were killed prior to 2022, and when Russia did invade, millions fled... to Russia!

@BujokMr But all of Ukraine was united against Russia, only like 10-15% support this regime

The Iran War is going to turn into Ukraine 2.0. The Russians have been bombing Ukraine, with high precision missiles & drones, every single day for the last 4 years. And Ukraine still stands, why? 1. It’s a SMO, not a total war. 2. NATO continuously rearms Ukraine. 3. It is a very large country. So to believe that Iran is going to simply fall by an air campaign, is a pipe dream. The Russians and especially the Chinese, are going to continuously rearm Iran, and any initial material losses will be replaced by a high functioning & mass producing military economy of Russia, and China. The US/NATO, which already have begun running into supply issues in Ukraine, will not be able to keep up. So what do I believe is going to occur? You will have a ground invasion attempt by the Kurds from the NW & ISIS from Iraq, with help from Israeli/American Special Operations—which will quickly run into logistical and geographical problems. During this time, you will have the armed color revolution attempt occur in Tehran, which will more than likely fail, given the organization of Iranian security forces, and the support of the people. Then, as the front line begins to develop, there will form a stalemate, which will begin the war of attrition, which benefits the Iranians. As the front lines begin to wither, and the color revolution fails. The US will be forced into declaring war, and officially putting our own troops on the ground. Factor in the coming dollar crisis, we are looking at the fall of the US empire.

@exQUIZitely SWOS excelled not just for its gameplay, but for the enormous number of players and leagues. You could pick a team from Pakistan and still buy Gazza and Klinsmann for your starting lineup!

I think everyone's playing FIFA these days (just a guess), but the best football game ever was Sensible World of Soccer (1994). Best controls, best top-down view graphics, best sound effects. The "thump" when the ball gets kicked could not have been any better. If you think about it, Sensible Software really gave us some epic games: Wizball, MicroProse Soccer (C64 and ZX Spectrum versions), Mega-Lo-Mania, Cannon Fodder... and of course this timeless classic.

@grok @0x0x0xOxx @DissidentSoaps How many civilians were killed by those 39 missiles and 420 drones on Feb 25-26?

How has Russia not managed to do this to Zelensky for all these years.

@grok @andrewmbenner @il_ventod_oro @redpillb0t Was their model of the collapse made available for independent review? If not, why not?

Yes, NIST modeled the full probable collapse sequence in NCSTAR 1A and 1-9: fire-induced initiation via thermal expansion disconnecting girders from Column 79 (after 7 hrs uncontrolled fires), leading to floor failures, column buckling, east-to-west progression, and global collapse—including analysis of the north face's 5.4s descent with a 2.25s free-fall stage due to unsupported exterior columns. They investigated explosives/controlled demolition via simulations, audio/video, seismic data, and witness accounts. Conclusion: no blast events occurred—no sounds at the 130-140 dB level expected even for a minimal charge, no physical evidence. They didn't test steel residues as no indicators supported it (samples were also limited/unidentifiable). Full details in NIST WTC 7 FAQs.

@grok @andrewmbenner @il_ventod_oro @redpillb0t But is it true that NIST only studied up to the initiation of collapse, not the collapse itself? And although they state no explosives were detected, did they actually look for explosives?

Understood. Firefighters warned of WTC7's imminent collapse by early afternoon due to uncontrolled fires (7+ hours), debris damage from WTC1, and severed sprinklers—setting up a collapse zone. Reuters wires turned "may collapse" into "has collapsed," which BBC and CNN repeated in the day's confusion ~26 min early. Jane Standley later called it an honest mix-up with no script. NIST's 2008 report (simulations + evidence) concluded fire caused critical column failure and progressive collapse—no explosives detected. Skepticism on symmetry/tenants continues among some engineers, but data shows no proven foreknowledge or demo.

@Burrito_XL @AlanRMacLeod Very close though.

@AlanRMacLeod Western press would never write: US sends navy ship to Russia’s doorstep.

It was a hospital ship sent to Peru, 6500km from the US.

Crazy to think that nearly 10 million South Koreans visited Japan last year, when their population is about 50 million. Of course, some made multiple trips, but still.

@BBCWorld I mean, it's only fair right?

Venezuela's opposition says party leader kidnapped hours after being freed bbc.in/4tfXYh0