Rudi Larno

A Fictional Tale? x.com/i/grok/share/f…

@ENJU1123PIPI Groeten uit Vlaanderen, België 🇧🇪

私はこのポストを日本語で書いてます🇯🇵 このポスト、日本以外の国の人に届いてますか？ 届いたらコメントくれたら嬉しいです！ 世界の壁を超えて、仲良くなりましょう🌏

@ManaByte you can add global warming deniers to that list

There is a reason people do not debate Flat Earthers or Moon landing deniers. It is not because the evidence is weak. It is because the conversation is rigged from the start. You can bring measurements, physics, engineering, independent tracking, international verification, and experiments they can do in their own backyard, and none of it matters. The moment the facts show up, they shout fake, edited, CGI, conspiracy, or “that’s just your belief.” You cannot debate someone who treats every piece of evidence as invalid by default. You cannot debate someone who demands proof and then rejects the proof the second it appears. You cannot debate someone who thinks their personal disbelief outranks measurable reality. A debate requires both sides to accept evidence. Flat Earth and Moon landing denial collapse the moment evidence enters the room, so the only move left is to deny the room exists. That is why people do not debate them. Not because the globe is fragile, but because the argument they bring is. You cannot have a real discussion with someone who decided ahead of time that nothing you show them will ever count.

@JimLevando88392 @RnaudBertrand Not like Trump, he never lies.🤦‍♂️

@RnaudBertrand Your problem is you are getting information from a nation that has repeatedly lied. You can't believe anything the Iranians have reported and if you do you are a fool. Not everything is a conspiracy. You are doing it for clicks like Candice. Shame on you.

So, if I got that right, here's the narrative: - A US F-15E fighter jet got shot down over Iran, despite Trump saying 2 days beforehand in his nationwide address that Iran has "no anti-aircraft equipment. Their radar is 100% annihilated." (apnews.com/article/donald…) - The plane's weapons systems officer - a "highly respected Colonel," according to Trump - ejected from the plane and got "seriously wounded" (still according to Trump: @realDonaldTrump/116351956955900185" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…) - He still managed to "hike up a 7,000-foot [2.1km] mountain ridgeline and hide in a crevice" in the Zagros Mountains, despite his wounds (time.com/article/2026/0…) - U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones started killing all "Iranian military-aged males believed to be a threat who got within three kilometers of [the American's location]" (x.com/ByChrisGordon/…) - To retrieve him the U.S. managed to seize an "abandoned airport," 200 miles deep inside Iran, near Isfahan (bbc.com/news/articles/…), which happens to be where Iran's largest atomic scientific center is located (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isfahan_N…) - They landed two MC-130 military transport planes in that airport (theaviationist.com/2026/04/05/u-s…) in an operation involving "hundreds of special forces troops and military personnel" (time.com/article/2026/0…) - Both MC-130 planes got "stuck in the sand" and the U.S. destroyed them themselves "to prevent them from falling into Iranian hands" (theaviationist.com/2026/04/05/u-s…) - They deployed "three new aircraft to extract all the U.S. personnel" on the ground (theaviationist.com/2026/04/05/u-s…) - There are videos circulating online of "heavy clashes" with presumably Iranian missiles raining down in Kohgiluyeh County, in the Zagros Mountains during that night (x.com/Afshin_Ismaeli…) - Iran sent pictures of the aftermath at the "abandoned airport" and it's a sight of utter destruction, with US plane and MH-6 helicopter parts scattered all over the ground, still smoking (turkiyetoday.com/region/wreckag…). Iran claims they are the ones who in fact destroyed all the aircraft. - Meanwhile a second U.S. plane, an A-10 Warthog, also crashed on Friday near the Strait of Hormuz according to two U.S. officials speaking to the NYT (#47863db0-d61e-51bf-b7e1-6c4a9dc988e7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nytimes.com/live/2026/04/0…). In that instance too the lone pilot was apparently "safely rescued." - In all this, after the multiple planes and helicopters destroyed or shot down, the documented heavy clashes, the "hundreds of special forces troops and military personnel" operating deep inside Iran, not a single US soldier was reported killed "or even wounded" (according to Trump: @realDonaldTrump/116350133044957842" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…). - And the 'highly respected Colonel' this was all for? No name. No photo. No interview. Nobody has spoken to him nor knows who he is. So to sum up: anti-aircraft equipment that supposedly didn't exist shot down an F-15 (and, apparently, an A-10 Warthog the same day). A seriously wounded man climbed a 2.1km mountain. The US seized an airfield 200 miles inside a country it's at war with, next to one of its most strategic nuclear sites, and deployed hundreds of troops all apparently unimpeded. Lost two planes to "sand" and destroyed their own helicopters. Videos show heavy clashes, missiles raining down - but not a single person got "even wounded". And the man at the center of it all? Nobody knows who he is, completely anonymous, zero pictures, but Trump says he is "SAFE and SOUND." And so is the rescued A-10 Warthog pilot, who also remains anonymous. Trump concludes this all proves the US has "achieved overwhelming Air Dominance and Superiority over the Iranian skies" (@realDonaldTrump/116350133044957842" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…), despite the whole episode only happening because Iran shot his planes out of the sky. Basically, the only thing that's "overwhelming" here is the audacity of the storytelling...

My good friend Dave in the UK tells me that Trump's ultimatums, disturbing as they are, are less disturbing than the continued enablement by the GOP. He says the global mindset among politically astute pro-democracy world citizens, is that it's the GOP that is killing America. Nobody weeps for the Iranian regime, Dave says, but the world sees the Iranian people as real flesh and blood people with families and dreams and emotions, but the GOP as purely motivated by politics and political gain, and Trump and his cabinet as unchecked sociopaths.

It’s not a coincidence that the astronauts who’ve traveled further than any human don’t talk like they know everything. They talk like students and explorers. Their wonder and curiosity are on full display. That’s what science does to you. It dissolves your ego and forces you to confront the vastness of the unknown. It makes you more careful with your words, more open to being wrong and more in awe of the questions than obsessed with the answers. It softens you in the best way possible.

@JerryHinson16 @JeffStorobinsky It is after all an Israeli war. There is absolutely no upside to the US or even Trump to continue this war.

@JeffStorobinsky The IDF is already taking out bridges, Jeff. x.com/osint613/statu…

Prior to the 800 pm deadline tonight Trump will falsely claim that Iran has agreed to something that they have not. He will then say we're extending the deadline by 2 weeks Iran will then issue a statement claiming they have agreed to nothing It has become quite obvious that there will be no resolution in 2 weeks or even two months Fuel prices will continue to rise fueling inflation

Based on some of the responses here I think people are operating on a fundamental misunderstanding of the EU-USA relationship. After WW2 the USA was the most powerful country on Earth while Europe was in literal ruins. Thus the USA were the ones who got to dictate the terms of the post-war world order and they are the ones who decided on the current arrangement we are all now living in which is as follows: -The USA is permitted to have military bases in Europe that allow them to project power around the world -Europe would not militarise to the same levels it did previously to rival the USA militarily -In return the USA would handle security concerns and ensure the peace in Europe You can argue whether this was a good or bad deal for either side but it was the USA who decided on this status quo and it is now the USA who wants to abandon it. But you can't have your cake and eat it too. Americans will have to choose between power projection and control vs saving on military spending. Since Trump demanded it and after the Ukraine War, Europe has been contributing more and more to the defence budget and as the Europeans start to pay a bigger share of the pie it's natural that the Europeans will start to ask why the Americans get to have bases in Europe if Europeans can't have bases in America etc and the whole arrangement starts to unravel as we are seeing happen now.

@SenMarkKelly Dear sir, Wake-up call: the United States are no longer regarded as moral, ethical, trustworthy. Not by the EU, nor Asia, nor India, nor Africa and certainly not the rest of America.

"A whole civilization will die tonight” are words no President of the United States had ever spoken until this morning. Donald Trump’s behavior is unhinged and making Americans less safe. After a 25-year career in the United States Navy, I have never met or served with anyone who so completely lacks the qualities of good leadership as Donald Trump does. If the President takes the actions he has threatened to take, countless Iranian civilians will die, it will massively escalate this war, and the United States will be seen as a country without a moral or ethical compass. That will make Americans less safe right now and risk the lives of thousands of service members. The consequences will have a lasting and damaging effect on our nation. Trump's mistakes have led us to this perilous moment, but the solution is not to escalate even further. This must stop.

Probably the weakest threat to the Iranian extremists leadership. Proclaim that they will all die as martyrs at the hands of the most evil people on the planet. Exactly what they have been saying for decades. This is how narcissistic Trump is. He'll TACO or forever lose.

@53LunaticFringe @IAmSophiaNelson 💯 % this.

@IAmSophiaNelson Putin has instructed his US asset to support Orban..Simple as that....

Serious question--what is Trump's fixation with Victor Orban and Hungary? What am I missing? Seriously??

Voila, vooral de NMBS, de politie en de organisatie gaan hier in de fout. sporza.be/nl/2026/04/07/…

Moeten er dan ook boetes zijn voor elke zone 30? Rond punt oprijden in tegengestelde richting? De 'sans-uniek' negeren? Niet stoppen aan een Stop bord? Totaal idioot dat parket! vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026…

Ronduit belachelijk: Parket zal renners vervolgen die door rood licht rijden aan overweg tijdens Ronde van Vlaanderen Als er een schuldige is, is het de organisatie, niet de renners. vrtnws.be/p.pAl3ENqGd

The United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia signed the Budapest Memorandum in 1994. The deal was simple: Ukraine surrendered its massive nuclear arsenal, and in return, those powers promised to respect its sovereignty. Everyone needs to remember that

@BernieSanders Nor what Putin is doing in Ukraine Nor that JD Vance is now enabling Putin to keep control over Hungary to block any aid to Ukraine

While the world focuses on the destruction in Iran, we must not ignore what Israel is doing in Lebanon. 1,461 have been killed. 4,430 have been injured. 1.2 million have been displaced. Israel now occupies 14% of Lebanon. Enough is enough. No more US military aid to Israel.

Watching history unfold again 🌙 Through the eyes of Redwire cameras, we’re getting a front-row seat to Artemis II as it carries forward the legacy of Apollo 8—when humanity first saw Earth from the Moon. That message still resonates: exploration changes how we see ourselves. And today’s lunar flyby is another reminder—we’re not just watching the journey, we’re part of it. Tune in at 1pm ET: nasa.gov/ways-to-watch/

@anneapplebaum These people always state what they are doing by accusing other of it.

While interfering in Hungary's election, Vance baselessly accuses other people of interfering in Hungary's election

@Ahmed_Nashwan_ 10 years ago maps.app.goo.gl/ghs6A3PNMAc2hP…

This is my city, Beit Hanoun. It was once known as the “Green City” for its abundance of olive and orange trees. It produced and exported oranges and olives to the entire world. Israel has bulldozed the city, leaving not a single tree behind. Trees as old as history itself, that had lived for hundreds of years, were spared nothing by this Zionist terror.

@RnaudBertrand #MAGA and the #zionists are the new Nazis, that much is obvious today. (and also the religious zealots that they pretend to hate)

He needs to be stopped. I know the comparison to Hitler is overused but it's rarely been more warranted: he's literally speaking about erasing a whole civilization.

It should even be the default option. Why deny us citizens the opportunity to learn/adjust to international standards? All public @NASAArtemis communication is imperial? How does such a decision happen? Deliberate?