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A Chinese video by “Laohu Talks World” is going viral online, breaking down how Iran could try to target the F-35 Lightning II using existing equipment by simplifying the problem step by step. The speaker argues that air combat isn’t realistic given Iran’s aging fleet, including decades-old Grumman F-14 Tomcats, and instead focuses on ground-based air defense. He contrasts large systems like the S-300 and Bavar-373 with smaller, mobile systems like the Majid air defense system, arguing that lighter, decentralized setups using infrared tracking could be harder to detect and survive longer. The video is part of a wider phenomenon from China as the Middle East conflict unfolds: civilians are volunteering, without pay, their technical skills on social media to help Iran counter U.S. military power.

here is a graph showing per capita steel production in Iran vs USA from 1980-2025. I show steel production because it is a fundamental component of a modern economy and is a "real", not monetary, statistic. In the days of the Shah, despite Iran being an extremely large oil exporter, Iran produced little to no steel. Since 1979 (when the Shah was deposed), Iran's per capita steel production has become greater than USA's per capita steel production. Which, during the same period, has declined by approximately 50%. This has taken place despite decades of US economic warfare against Iran, warfare that has now expanded into destruction or attempted destruction of Iranian steel plants that are important social capital of the Iranian people.

- Pull out of NATO. - Close all bases and remove all military personal from the UK, Germany, Spain, and France. - Never protect these countries again. - Stop all trade with these countries. ZERO. - Refuse to share any military technologies and don't allow to them to buy any military equipment. Ever. - Don't share any intelligence with them. NONE. - Tell them they have to provide 100% of weapons and money to Ukraine. - Cut them off completely.

When POTUS tells the Europeans, Indians, etc., to open the Strait of Hormuz on their own, it's very simple what these nations will do: they will cut deals with Tehran, pay tolls to pass through the Strait, and they will pay those tolls in Chinese Yuan. End of Petrodollar.

Israel is explicitly warning Christian and Druze residents in southern Lebanon not to hide Muslim residents among them as their forces advance. Not a peep from Sheryl Sandberg.

The main challenge for Trump is to declare victory without being able to open the Strait of Hormuz: "Let France do it... Let the European countries do it… Let South Korea do it... Let Japan do it… This was not part of what I wanted to do"

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“We want the Americans to re-open the Straits but they can't use our airspace or their own military bases in our country to run the logistics of any of that”: our European “allies.”

The "Daily Mail" commercial map of Africa, made about 1898. Map shows the trans-continental railway route, steam ship lines, natural resources, telegraphs, and more!

The Persian word for war, "jang" (جنگ), doesn't come from a word for fighting. It originally meant "to walk" or "stride”, later meaning troops marching into battle. Strangely it shares the exact same Indo-European root as the English word "gang"

The Old English word for “alive” was cwic, pronounced almost exactly like “quick”, which is the word’s descendant in Modern English (from the sense of being active). That’s why you often hear the fossilized expression “the quick and the dead”.