Peter Hanusiak

Íránská média informují o explozích na ostrově Chárk, pravděpodobně v důsledku leteckých úderů.

Syrskyi: Victory is when the enemy is defeated, peace is concluded on our terms, and we do not lose our territory — not a single meter. We must inflict such losses and create such conditions that Russia cannot dictate terms to Ukraine. That is what a just peace means.

One of the biggest false claims made against Israel is that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. Israel has Military Advocate Generals (MAGs), the equivalent of our Judge Advocate Generals (JAGs), deployed with commanders in the field. MAGs engage in precisely the kind of cost-benefit analysis that the law of proportionality requires before strikes are carried out. That underscores the extent to which Israel is neither committing genocide nor violating the laws of war. Here in the U.S., when JAGs give instructions to a commander in the field, those instructions are precatory. They are advisory. The commander can override them; he does not have to follow them. In Israel, if MAGs tell a commander not to strike a target because of the collateral consequences for the civilian population, that is not a precatory instruction. It is a mandatory order that must be followed unless the commander wants to go up the chain of command, which can ultimately lead to a court of justice that would rule on whether the strike was appropriate given the collateral consequences. When I took a group of federal judges to Israel, we witnessed video after video of MAGs waving off strikes at the last moment because they discovered civilians in the area. That is just a small piece, but a critical piece of evidence in the legal case showing that Israel did not commit genocide in Gaza.

EXCLUSIVE: While the airman rescue was going on, CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper directed a strike on an IRGC headquarters in an underground facility near Tehran. It was done with B2 bombers, using MOPs, the same weapon used in Midnight Hammer, high-level U.S. sources told Fox News.

The Philippines is a fantastic example of how deep and fast the drop in fertility is nearly everywhere on the planet. Just last week, on March 30, 2026, the Philippine Statistics Authority released the 2025 National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS). The total fertility rate for the last three years has reached 1.7 children per woman, a dramatic fall from 4.1 in 1993, and well below the replacement rate (around 2.1 for a country like the Philippines). Since the NDHS computes the total fertility rate over three years, and it is dropping quickly, the total fertility rate for 2025 alone should be around 1.6, the same level as in the U.S. Let me repeat this: the Philippines and the U.S. have roughly the same total fertility rate. But U.S. income per capita is about 7.3 times the Philippine income per capita (when adjusted for purchasing power parity). Or to put it differently, Philippine income per capita today is the same as the U.S. had in 1910. In that year, the total fertility rate of the U.S. was around 3.5. At the same level of income per capita, the Philippines has a total fertility rate that is less than half. In some more urban regions, such as Calabarzon, the total fertility rate is 1.3. Historically, the rest of the country has followed the patterns of regions like Calabarzon with some lag, so the most likely scenario is that in a few years, the Philippines will have a total fertility rate of around 1.3 as well. Compared with the United Nations World Population Prospects (WPP), the Philippines is now at the fertility level the WPP had forecast for 2047, despite the aggressive reduction it made to the Philippines’ forecast fertility between 2022 and 2024. The Philippines is interesting because, compared with other Asian countries, it is a relatively religious and rural country without the Confucian obsession with education found in China or South Korea. It is also a country that many still associate with high fertility. Just yesterday, one reader left a comment on my previous post on fertility, using the Philippines as an example of high fertility, that “refuted” my claims. No, it does not. Finally, three technical points. First, I am reporting total fertility, not completed fertility (and yes, I am keenly aware of the difference between the two). Looking at age-specific fertility rates suggests that completed fertility for younger women will actually be below the current total fertility rate. Second, no, emigration does not matter here. I am talking about fertility rates, not birth rates. Third, the official release: psa.gov.ph/content/fertil…

Former PM @naftalibennett: “In many cases in history, if you wait for a threat to be imminent it becomes inevitable and too big to handle.”

@jbetlach Áno Španielsko je banda ale tá dráha letu nedáva zmysel. US predsa non-stop lieta z Nemecka cez Česko a Slovensko, tak prečo zrazu cez Španielsko?

UPDATED 🚨 🌑 Mar 22: “Open Hormuz in 48 hrs!” 🌓 Mar 26: “Open Hormuz in 5 days!” 🌔 Mar 27: “Open Hormuz in 10 days!” 🌕 Apr 4: “Open Hormuz in 48 hrs!” 🌒 Apr 5: “Open Hormuz by Tuesday!” 🌖 Apr 7: “Open fuckin’ strait by Tue!” 🌓 April 7: “Open Hormuz by Wednesday”

"Open the fuckin Strait" I whisper to my wife as I snuggle up beside her

@QalaatAlMudiq This is a classic example of: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

"Ukraine was among the first to support a new #Syria after the fall of the Assad regime". The first protest held in 2025 by returning residents of Maaret Numan - a war-torn town depopulated by Assad and Russia - expressed support for Ukraine, denouncing Russian war crimes in both places.

🚨Why it matters: The chances for reaching a partial deal over the next 48 hours are slim. This last-ditch effort is the only chance to prevent a dramatic escalation that will include massive destruction of Iran's infrastructure & similar consequences in the Gulf countries

@johnkonrad I partly agree, but what you just said is very similar to how Germans feel in Europe. They too say that we are all doing well because of their better economy and in return they want a "fair" share of their right to rule. And look where we got to with Merkel.

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

@MOSSADil True

@HanusiakPeter Islamists are easy to trigger.

Retraction & Clarification: We saw reports circulating on social media claiming that Turkey had supplied Iran with advanced anti-aircraft and UAV missiles, and that a Turkish-made man-portable air defense system may have been involved in downing the U.S. F-15 over Iran. We published a post highlighting that "reports are circulating" and "at least two reports suggest...", clearly noting it was "Developing." We also added the usual disclaimers and devalued the claims as we normally do with fast-moving, unconfirmed information. However, as the story developed, the post was picked up and misinterpreted by some as confirmation of the claims rather than simply reporting that reports existed. It went viral and even reached the highest levels of the Turkish government, which issued an official denial through the Directorate of Communications, describing the allegations as baseless disinformation. Although we were careful to frame it as "reports of..." and "developing" — standard practice for independent accounts covering fast-moving conflicts — we have now deleted the post. This was never intended as a disinformation piece. As more verified information came in, and seeing how it was being interpreted, we removed it immediately. We will be even more cautious moving forward with such rapidly evolving stories. Apologies for any confusion caused.

@JorgeGG0911 @CPM_Mutuse @grok Toilet in the shower? AI is great, except of those "little" f...ups.

@CPM_Mutuse @grok With Gemini

Hi @grok, render this floor plan.

@Arrogance_0024 As a Slovak, I have enormous respect for our Polish friends, but please stop embarrassing us in front of the whole world with your total ignorance. And to our American friends, please ignore this idiot who just went mental for a moment.

The "leave no man behind" doctrine is actually a strategic weakness disguised as a virtue. Name one other military on earth that destroys 6 aircraft and fights a ground battle inside a sovereign nation to recover one pilot. You can't. Because no other military confuses tactical sentimentality with strategic logic. Soldiers serve the mission. The mission doesn't serve the soldier. The US has now established that Iran can shoot down an F-15, then watch America spend $300M and expose Delta Force trying to prove it didn't happen. That's not military doctrine. That's politics with weapons. A military that cannot accept the risk of loss cannot win wars. The US hasn't won one since 1945.

@adnan2535 @BekirTiryakii @MOSSADil You don't even know what you just wrote, since you couldn't verify that the translation function was working for you. There's no point arguing with an Islamic moron trapped in a barbaric 7th century death cult.

@HanusiakPeter @BekirTiryakii @MOSSADil 😁😁 Of course, Islamist He wasn't going to become an infidel, was he?Israel is a state governed by Sharia law, why are you bothered by that? 😁

I must say I had to doublecheck this was real.

@yarotrof I'm starting to lose hope that these guys really have the situation under control. Yes, they'll bomb them, but will they force them to surrender when they know that Trump will lose 50% of his support base by early summer, right before the midterm elections? I doubt it.

@VerminusM BS. This is nothing compared to the Iraqi war disputes.

I don't know if this war is going to defeat Iran, but it's almost certainly going to defeat NATO.