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@ripplebrain Two Iranian vessel and 22 crewmen returned to Iran via Pakistan; two U.S. cargo ships leave the Persian Gulf. Could be dead wrong but smells like kabuki around a hostage swap.

This is the first official Iranian statement on the incident that happened earlier this morning and they call it warning shots rather than claiming they actually hit anything

@Mehdi3008194749 @Jangjouye @RahehalTV Think this was a down-low hostage swap for the two U.S. commercial tankers from this morning?

@Jangjouye @RahehalTV خود کشتی رو هم تحویل پاکستان دادن، همون توسکا هست

دزدی دریایی یک کشتی دیگر ایران توسط امریکا . 22 ملوان توسط امریکایی ها تخلیه شدند

@AgbalusiaMayor @BowesChay It’s homefront morale they’re worried about. Of course Russia, China and Iran can see it.

@BowesChay And they think Russia and China don't have the images from their own satellite?

Journalist Ana Kasparian claims Trump administration begged private satellite firms to hide images of destroyed US bases after Iran strike

@JLefebreve @FaytuksNetwork There’s a hefty fuckin’ fee

@FaytuksNetwork Freedom isn't free.

At least 15 people have been shot at a campground in Edmond, Oklahoma, with two shooters possibly still at large. Shots are still actively being reported over police scanners.

@ripplebrain One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. Trump is one of the dingbats who thinks the Strait is closed by mines, and not by the word of the IRGC, who have many methods, only one of which is mines, to control traffic. And because he’s POTUS, the Pentagon and State had to go along

You have to be kidding me. WSJ:

@intelFromBrian @AnalyticaCamil1 LMAO Ever since Isfahan Trump has shown again and again that he’s scared of the IRGC. A scared animal with the firepower he has at his disposal is a dangerous one, though.

US official to WSJ: New Strait of Hormuz operation does not include escorting by US warships

@bonzerbarry Wall Street Journal now saying it’s a glorified customer service hotline, not an escort

A humanitarian mission

@JLegalt @donaldgorbachev “Support to”

@donaldgorbachev What’s this

The five-second epistemology of Project Freedom downgraded to a help desk because the pathetic piece of shit troops cannot enter the strait. President ALL CAPS posted Project Freedom. The U.S. flag-folding-and-crying service will escort. The U.S. flag-folding-and-crying service will guide. The U.S. flag-folding-and-crying service will deal forcefully with interference. Then the officials walked it back. Not an escort. A coordination cell. A radio frequency. A clipboard. The U.S. flag-folding-and-crying service is not entering the strait on Monday. The U.S. flag-folding-and-crying service is opening a customer service line. Fuck the troops. Fuck the pathetic piece of shit troops. The pathetic piece of shit troops got the news and exhaled. The help desk means they live another day. They get to come home. They get to put on the dress whites. They get to stand on the field at the Super Bowl and cry while the flyover happens. That is what the U.S. flag-folding-and-crying service is for. The flyover. The cry. The salute. The hand on the heart while the camera pans. The Lockheed sponsorship. The Budweiser commercial. The U.S. flag-folding-and-crying service is not a fighting force. It is a parade. It is a halftime show. It is a parasitic welfare program with afterburners. Leeches in dress whites who have not won a war since 1945 and have spent eighty years figuring out how to lose more expensively each time. They lost Vietnam. They lost Iraq. They lost Afghanistan. They lost the Red Sea to a guy in a jambiya. They lost Hormuz to a toll booth. They are losing right now in real time and they are about to come home and cry at the next sporting event because crying at sporting events is the only operation they have left. They cry because they are pathetic. They cry because they know. They cry because the cry is the only thing that still works. The cry plays on the jumbotron. The cry sells beer. The cry sells trucks. The cry sells the recruiting commercial that brings in the next batch of teenagers who will also one day cry on the jumbotron because they will also lose every war they are sent to and the only operation they will close successfully is their own funeral. The U.S. flag-folding-and-crying service is a closed loop. They fold the flag. They cry at the funeral. They cash the check. They send the next teenager. They fold his flag. They cry at his funeral. They cash the next check. Project Freedom downgraded to a coordination cell is the kindest thing the empire has done for the pathetic piece of shit troops in twenty years. President ALL CAPS just told them they do not have to enter the strait on Monday. They do not have to be in the water with the IRGC. They do not have to be in the geometry. They get to stay in Oman. They get to do donuts. They get to come home. They get to be alive for the next Super Bowl. They get to cry on the field while the F-35 they cannot keep in the air does the flyover. They get to fold the flag for the camera. They get to cash the check. The IRGC has been handing the pathetic piece of shit troops their ass for sixty-five days. The IRGC published the Al Nahyan home address two hours before President ALL CAPS posted Project Freedom. The IRGC is not playing the same game. The IRGC is on a 4,000-meter wall with a 2,000-kilometer return envelope and the U.S. flag-folding-and-crying service is at sea level 700 kilometers away with a 390-kilometer strike radius. The math is the math. The pathetic piece of shit troops cannot enter the strait. They will not enter the strait. They will open a help desk and they will go home and they will cry at the Super Bowl. The only war they win is Call of Duty. The only operation that closes successfully is the halftime show. The only flag that gets folded is the one that comes back without the troop inside. The crying is the product. The crying sells the recruiting commercial. The recruiting commercial brings the next teenager. The teenager goes to the strait.

@JavierBlas @admcollingwood And “may” Rather than “exploding in two weeks” three weeks ago

Shifting the goal posts: On April 26, it was in “three days.” On May 2, it’s “next week.”

@DeItaone The U.S. doesn’t have nationalized oil. All this means is that foreigners are bidding up the price, making it more expensive for Americans.

TREASURY'S BESSENT: US NOW HAS RECORD LEVEL OF ENERGY EXPORTS

@itsalireza_akb @Narjes_Rahmati Somewhere in Heaven Alfred Hitchcock is smiling

So today it’s dolphins carrying mines tomorrow Iran will send crows to attack US warplanes

@hasanahmadian What’s the significance of condition 4? Isolate Abu Dhabi and Bahrain by forming a new security agreement with Saudi, Pakistan, Oman and Turkey?

Summary of Iran’s amendment to the previously submitted proposal: 1. The agreement begins with ending the war regionally, including the lifting of the blockade and addressing the situation in Lebanon—with international guarantees. 2. Negotiations over the Strait of Hormuz will not bring about a change on the ground until after the war ends—and shall be built upon the new realities emerging after the war. 3. Talks on the nuclear program comes after the end of the war, and includes concluding a non-aggression pact. 4. Regional security will be discussed regionally, that is, without direct U.S. involvement. If Washington agrees with it, this would reinforce a reality born out of war and Washington's military failure; and if it doesn’t, it will face nothing but similar responses facing its difficult options.

@Mazifx_ @AryJeayBackup Who is they

@AryJeayBackup They're clearing the area. That VHF order is never a drill.

After reports that Iran attacked (& likely seized) a bulk carrier ship in the Strait of Hormuz … now UKMTO reports that a VHF broadcast directed ships to move from their anchorages, near Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.

@DaliaCanora @AJENews UAE

@AJENews Is there anywhere in the region they’re not attacking?!

BREAKING: Israeli forces attack Syria's Quneitra and Daraa, Syrian state media says 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/o4g2s6?update=…

@policytensor x.com/hhshkmohd/stat… You see this?

“Thaad radars have already been lost to Iranian drones in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.” wsj.com/world/iran-war…

@DropSiteNews Of course no president will voluntarily strip himself of a power, but the sanctions shit has gotten way out of control and is now effectively an act of war

🇨🇺 Trump signs executive order dramatically escalating "sanctions" on Cuba, targeting energy, finance, and security sectors President Trump signed an executive order Friday, marking one of the most sweeping expansions of US economic pressure on Cuba in decades, blocking the US assets of foreign individuals and entities operating in Cuba's energy, defense, financial services, metals, mining, and security sectors, as well as anyone acting on behalf of the Cuban government. The order also authorizes sanctions on foreign financial institutions that conduct significant transactions with designated Cuban entities, potentially cutting them off from US correspondent banking. This move could further isolate Cuba from the international financial system, limit foreign investment, and exacerbate the island's already severely restricted access to medicine, food imports, and basic goods. The order builds on Trump's January declaration of a national emergency over Cuba — the same legal basis used to justify the ongoing fuel blockade. Researchers at the Center for Economic and Policy Research found that US unilateral coercive measures had driven Cuba's infant mortality rate to its highest level in decades, rising 148% since 2018.

@ARetardation99 @ME_Observer_ “I will slap this Bezos in the mouth”

@ME_Observer_ Its almost infuriating that revolutionary Iran has this capacity and is not shutting down every single one across the globe. 🤷🏼‍♂️🫡

⚡️ Amazon Closures in UAE and Bahrain Amazon announced: 🔹Direct damage to hardware equipment is estimated at over $850 million. This incident has led to the complete outage of 37 critical services, disrupting access for over 12,000 enterprise and government customers across the region. 🔹Technical reports indicate that over 40% of data storage capacity in the affected centers requires physical recovery.

@trismegistus99 @ME_Observer_ The bases are finished too

@ME_Observer_ Gulf region's tech pivot is finished. Just stick to pumping oil and hosting bases

@RankingSolx @BalochNadir5 I have no idea if the claim is true or not, but “no official UAE sources confirm” is laughable as a debunking

@BalochNadir5 Certified liar, propaganda launched by India-backed proxies

The UAE has deported tens of thousands of Pakistanis belonging to the Shia sect, not only deported them, but also took away all their wealth, bank accounts, and & hard earned assets, and sent them literally empty handed back to Pakistan.

@DarlaLek @SayWhatYerLike @jonsac @MarinaPurkiss @JeremyVineOn5 The point is, this kind of black and white thinking aimed at manipulating double-digit IQs cannot survive contact with a cursory knowledge of world events or recent history. No one in America is afraid of Shia militias. It’s not 1983.

@DarlaLek @SayWhatYerLike @jonsac @MarinaPurkiss @JeremyVineOn5 We also know who the allies of Saddam Hussein were in the 1980s and of the Taliban in the 1990s. We know who helped us defeat our erstwhile Afghan allies after 9/11 and played a pivotal role in stopping ISIS. We know our buddy in Abu Dhabi is destabilizing half of Africa.

I found this whole exchange appalling to be honest… I don’t know how to debate this Genuinely Rude, dismissive, and unable to acknowledge any role that the actions of the Israeli government plays in fanning antisemitism.