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A short thread on what I think is happening - for future ref. To be clear, I think this is a disaster, but I think it's happening. 1 - US reverts to pre WW1 international behaviour. Isolationism, tariffs, rejection of international treaty organisations, 'spheres of influence'.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has just called to congratulate us on our victory.

The Gaza war is constantly described as uniquely destructive and deadly. It isn’t. By every key measure, recent wars, including those fought by the US and western allies, have been similar or worse than Gaza. Here are the facts to cut through the propaganda:

BREAKING RIGHT NOW Iranians in London are flooding the streets after Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi’s call to support the people of Iran. Media completely blacks it out. The left pretends it doesn’t exist. Cry harder, lefties.

The first exit polls in Hungary 👀🇭🇺

In the 1920s, 1 out of every 4 residents of Baghdad were Jews (50,000 out of 200,000). That ancient Jewish community is now completely gone.

Yesterday in Munich, following the attack on the Israeli restaurant Eclipse Grillbar, a Jewish-owned business bombed overnight with explosive devices, a crowd gathered in solidarity with the community. Among them, one sign stood out.

The biggest wealth destroyer in the UK right now is PCP car finance. People on a £32k salary will happily lock themselves into a £500/month contract for a Mercedes they will never actually own, just to sit in gridlocked traffic on the M25 and try to impress people in the lane next to them. Then they get to the office and complain that taxes are too high and the government is holding the working class down. If you put that £500 a month into an S&P 500 ISA instead of a rented German car, you'd be a millionaire by retirement. Stop blaming the Prime Minister for your own terrible capital allocation. Your car isn't an asset. It's an anchor.

I encourage all journalists to focus on Hungary today. I get that the whole Iran debacle is still news, and Trump is working hard today to just talk his way out of all of his losses.... but the big story, the huge story, is Orban getting thrown out. Trumps best buddy in europe, fellow Putin stooge. Gone. There are so many geopolitical ramifications to it....please cover it. I guarantee you that Putin is pissed, Trump is pissed, and Ukraine is cheering. If you figure out that paradigm, you now know why this is a huge huge geopolitical event.

Pls God let Orban be the domino that takes them all out

This enormous anti-Orbán crowd isn't just rejecting him; they're saying f*ck you to Putin, trump, JD Vance, and every other fascist jackass trying to prop him up. Godspeed, Hungary. May you SOUNDLY defeat Orbán.

Spread of four words for 'camel' across the Old World

@RabbiPoupko The lie goes back a lot. x.com/cptallenhistor…

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"I couldn't care less what Trump thinks about me. He's the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he'd be consigned to the trash heap of history!" - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Do you agree with Springsteen?

You fuckers killed hundreds of Dutch citizens. You are the enemy of us all

If you are saying that war is horrific and this one (like most urban wars) has involved tragic loss of life destruction and suffering and we need to find a way to end all wars and conflicts including this one then I am 100% in agreement with you. I do engage in a fair amount of work between Israelis and Palestinians and broader interfaith diplomacy for that purpose. Pictures like the one you show are often intended to imply that the IDF wantonly destroyed buildings out of some kind of spite vengeance or wilful disregard for life and property. But if you speak to soldiers who served and had to fight house to house what emerges is that in areas like the one pictured literally every second building and sometimes every building was a battlefield. At the start of the war Hamas fielded 40 brigade sized forces each of which operated in dense urban fortresses where every move a soldier made could have an explosive detonate a building on top of them, an ambush team emerge from a tunnel underneath them, and constant sniper and mortar fire. Ironically in that phase of the war there was less damage to buildings (tho still a lot of damage) as the fighting was house to house room to room tunnel to tunnel and a lot of it was small arms grenades and automatic weapons and bomb disposal engineering teams. Later as Hamas brigades fell apart they resorted to concentrating massive amounts of IEDs often in many different parts of each building so as IDF units would be diffusing one another would detonate. Eventually it became clear that the only solution was to a) send drones into buildings to ensure they were free from civilians b) detection systems to see if likely to have explosives and if so c) destroy the building. In addition in later parts of the war as more and more tunnels were mapped and destroyed those tunnels often brought down buildings on top of them. Importantly there seem to have been over 1000km of tunnels in a 40sq miles of territory - 25km of tunnels for each square mile. Pictures like this are the result of those tactics used by Hamas. I don’t think any army on earth given current technologies could have fought in a way that would have produced less damage and kept more buildings intact. If there could be such a possibility I am sure the IDF (and many other militaries) would love to know.

All while Africa adopted anti colonialism and marxism.

@realAtlasPress Love this.

6000 Years of World History in 1 Picture

@specialopsmag It's also racist, arrogant and ignorant to claim it was all done by one man. Which I guess is part of the reason why this narrative gets repeated by ignorant, arrogant racists.

@specialopsmag He worked closely and competently alongside Kenyan CT Recce - they'd been training together. Dusit was a good op, but like any team effort, it took a team. It's daft to claim that it was all down to one man.

Christian Craighead. British Special Air Service (SAS). The man known as Obi-Wan Nairobi, his actions on January 15, 2019 became legend. Christian was in Kenya training local forces when five al-Shabaab terrorists launched a coordinated attack using explosives, arson, and mass shooting. Off duty and out shopping, Craighead kitted up from the back of his car, raced to the scene, organized Kenyan police and military units, and then went in alone. He repeatedly entered the building, engaging terrorists and pulling out hostages floor by floor. By the end he was credited with helping save over 700 civilian lives. He was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, the second highest military decoration in the United Kingdom. Then the same government that decorated him tried to stop him from ever telling the story.