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@Ryandally08 @kaitlancollins @KristenhCNN Nowadays half of the billions of people that interact online, don't actually exist. They're bots to manipulate us to create engagement for profit. It is always funny to see that the ones programmed to pose as right wing need to be presented as stupid as well. Art imitates life?

@grilli262 @Mylovanov Probably need to go back and look at the signatories of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum there, champ. By international treaty, it explicitly IS a war for which we have obligations. And furthermore: taking money to sell weapons, then withholding them, is also a breach of contract

Massive geopolitical shift. Gulf nations completely refuse to retaliate against Iran despite taking heavy damage. They are furious at Washington, admitting US & Israel started this disastrous war without even consulting them. US military bases are now seen as a massive liability

BREAKING: Zelensky just landed in the UAE and signed a defence cooperation agreement with President MBZ. The deal on the table changes everything about this war. Ukraine is offering Gulf states 1,000 drone interceptors per day. Each Sting interceptor costs $2,100. Each Patriot missile it replaces costs $3.9 million. In exchange, Ukraine wants the Patriot missiles the Gulf states are burning through, because Kyiv cannot get enough of them to stop Russian missiles. Read that again. The country America refused to arm fast enough is now arming America’s allies with a weapon that costs 1,857 times less than the one America cannot produce fast enough. The National reported on March 27 that Zelensky told reporters: “We’d like to quietly receive the Patriot missiles we have a deficit of, and give them a corresponding number of interceptors.” AFP confirmed the UAE agreement on March 28. Eleven countries have formally requested Ukraine’s drone defence expertise per Zelensky’s own count. Over 200 Ukrainian military specialists are already deployed across the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Jordan. Here is the arithmetic that should terrify every Pentagon procurement officer on earth. The United States fired 943 Patriot interceptors in the first four days of the Iran war per a US Congressional study cited by the Jerusalem Post. That is eighteen months of Lockheed Martin’s annual production consumed in 96 hours. Each of those 943 shots cost $3.9 million. Total expenditure: $3.68 billion in four days on defensive interceptions alone. Iran produces 10,000 Shahed drones per month per Reuters. Each drone costs $20,000 to $50,000. The cost exchange ratio is 114 to 1 in Iran’s favour per Military Times. Ukraine’s Sting interceptor inverts this arithmetic entirely. At $2,100, the cost ratio flips from 114-to-1 against America to roughly 10-to-1 against Iran. Ukraine can supply 1,000 per day. That is 30,000 per month against Iran’s 10,000 Shaheds per month. For the first time in this war, the defender’s production rate exceeds the attacker’s production rate at a fraction of the cost. And the country that built this weapon is the same country that Trump publicly rejected. “No, they are not helping. We do not need their help. We know more about drones than anyone else” per Fox News. He doubled down: “The last person we need help from is Zelensky.” Meanwhile the Pentagon notified Congress of plans to redirect $750 million in Ukraine-bound Patriot missiles to Gulf states per House of Saud reporting. America is simultaneously refusing Ukraine’s cheap solution and cannibalising Ukraine’s expensive one. Zelensky framed this explicitly. He told The National: “No matter how many Patriots, THAADs, or other air-defence systems are in the Middle East, that alone is not enough for fully effective air defence.” He told the UK Parliament: “When it comes to shooting down massive Shahed attacks, only Ukrainian experience can really help with this today.” The Pentagon is spending $3.9 million per interception, raiding Swiss fighter jet accounts to cover shortfalls, and diverting Ukraine’s own Patriot supply to the Gulf. Zelensky is offering the same result for $2,100 and producing 1,000 units per day. The market has a word for this kind of disruption. The $2,100 drone is the most important weapon in this war. And the country that built it is the one America said it did not need. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@allenanalysis "This is the President of the United States." - no, it's the current state of US journalism; the funnel through which the US public is informed (since they don't read, lack critical thinking, due to the majority being illiterate up to 6th grade) and therefore can be fed this BS.

Trump at a press conference today: “I’m going to take a few questions. You can ask me anything you want. You can talk sex.” Day 27 of the Iran war. Israel just struck Iranian nuclear facilities. Iran is demanding sovereignty over the Strait as a peace condition. The Philippines has 40 days of oil left. April 6th power plant strike deadline approaching. Thousands dead across the region. “You can talk sex.” This is the President of the United States.

@Tweet4AnnaNAFO if for centuries RU forced to stay the biggest country in the world, they also believed to be unconquerable because of the distances...but now a new era is introduced by UA. Thanks to their drone tech, RU became defenseless because of those same distances.

🔥Trump’s war against Iran won’t save Russia. Ukraine made sure of it. 🧵 1/14

@Acyn He forgets to mention the biggest fake news FAFO of them all: 787 million payout to the votingmachine guys

FCC Chair: Trump is winning. Look at the results—PBS and NPR defunded. Joy Reid, Sleepy-Eyed Chuck Todd, Jim Acosta, John Dickerson are gone. Colbert is leaving. CBS is under new ownership, and soon enough CNN will have new ownership as well.

@JoJoFromJerz @Acyn

@Acyn He’s legitimately insane.

Question: What do you want your legacy to be? Trump: I would love my legacy to be made as a great peacemaker because I really believe I’m a peacemaker.

@ptrlapp @ZardSi @ArizonaBJJ We're dealing with a 'Bowl of Tarantulas'...there is no one to root for.

@ZardSi @ArizonaBJJ The fact you retweeted something from Iranian state media tells me all I need to know about you & your loyalty.

🇮🇷 Iranian state media has released an AI-generated troll clip of Trump being captured and interrogated by an IRGC spokesperson over truth and lies questions. This troll video is currently going viral across Iran.

@DakdaR22 No. NATO should be dissolved. It's a paperless tiger serving only the needs of the vetoers. I support establishing the Three Seas initiative to take over. (t.ly/YDM5s)

🇺🇦Do you support Ukraine joining NATO?😉

No one trolls like Iran trolls. No one.

And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Let’s keep this in the spotlight every day.

“Not our war.” But it was very much your business when you forced Ukraine to give up one of the world’s largest nuclear arsenals. Funny how that part gets forgotten.

Do you think Ukrainians could ever forgive how the US openly sided with Russia and supported its genocidal war against Ukraine? My trust in the US is shattered for the rest of my life.

Give us our nukes back!

@mmeeuw Hij probeert een invasie gelijk te stellen met een grensconflict. Dat is gelijk aan een bargevecht gelijkstellen met een verkrachting. Synchrone versus asynchrone oorlogvoering. Zijn oplossing is het slachtoffer helpen vast te pinnen zodat de verkrachting sneller voorbij is.

#fvd kamerlid Dekker wil de banden met Rusland aanhalen om Russisch gas te kopen. "De situatie rondom Rusland wordt wel heel karikaturaal voorgesteld, er zijn altijd twee kanten aan een verhaal. Het cultiveren van vijandbeelden valt te nuanceren, de informatie is heel eenzijdig."

I know *nothing* about Dutch politics but seeing Rutte at NATO has made me retrospectively *so sorry* for them 😳

NATO is supposed to be a defensive organisation not an organisation that supports American regime change wherever they feel like it. Mark Rutte is a disgrace and he needs to be fired.

I always knew he was a douche

'That's not AI?! That's genuine?' James O’Brien can't believe who Donald Trump sounds like in this Iran update.

Trump is now calling Iranian negotiators “very different and strange.” They are “begging.” They have been “militarily obliterated.” There is “NO TURNING BACK.” I am genuinely frightened. Not of Iran. Of the man writing this. Because what I’m watching is a fragile ego stumbling deeper into a war that will make Vietnam look like a parking dispute. Every post is angrier than the last. Every threat needs to be bigger than the previous one. That’s a man who cannot afford to be seen backing down, because backing down, in his internal universe, is annihilation. Military experts are not subtle about what actually controlling Iranian territory requires. We are talking three to four million boots on the ground to control a small part of Iran. For a country three times the size of Iraq, with 90 million people and mountains that make Afghanistan look flat. The logistics alone would break the US military budget inside eighteen months. Someone in that building needs to walk into the room, look the president in the eye, and say: sit down. So far, no one has. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1