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Terry and a turtle

@terryrus99

22 years in international aid & development; 17 years in Southeast Asia. With global issues, picking a side is easy; understanding is harder.

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Terry and a turtle
Terry and a turtle@terryrus99·
@MarioNawfal Is Shapiro really one of the biggest voices on the right? Or are his audience numbers artificially inflated by Zio-bots? Surely Americans have figured out that he's not on their side.
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Mario Nawfal
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal·
🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 16,000 strikes on Iran in under 3 weeks. Day 1 alone saw 900 strikes in 12 hours. Over 1,200 bombs in the first 24 hours. 29 out of 31 Iranian provinces have been hit. For context, NATO bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days straight in 1999 and carried out around 10,000 strike sorties total. The U.S. and Israel just beat that in 3 weeks. And they are not done yet. Source: Wall Street Journal, @AJABreaking
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Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Ben Shapiro is targeting Tucker Carlson's audience with ads about Iran's collapse. Two of the biggest voices on the right, with opposite conclusions about the same war, are fighting over the same viewers. The Iran war is reshaping the Middle East AND it's splitting the American right in real time. And both sides are buying ads about it. @AFpost

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Terry and a turtle
Terry and a turtle@terryrus99·
@BohuslavskaKate Pretty ridiculous argument from Hegseth. If he was 'still dealing with the environment Joe Biden created' (ie. depleted war supplies), he shouldn't have gone to war. You only go to war when you're prepared.
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Kate from Kharkiv
Kate from Kharkiv@BohuslavskaKate·
Hegseth: "We're still dealing with the environment Joe Biden created—depleting our stockpiles and sending them to Ukraine instead of our own military. Every time we face a challenge, it traces back to 'Well, sent it to Ukraine.'" It looks like they’re just going to blame Ukraine whenever anything goes wrong now, doesn’t it? It’s depressing to watch because while this administration will eventually leave office, a segment of Americans will keep hating Ukraine without even remembering why.
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Terry and a turtle
Terry and a turtle@terryrus99·
@Uncommonsince76 It might be a short-lived canal for israel. As the US declines - morally, economically, militarily and diplomatically - Israel may not survive.
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Uncommon Sense
Uncommon Sense@Uncommonsince76·
America and the gulf countries destroy each others oil… America pretends it’s not involved… Israel scoops right in to save the day with the Ben Gurion Canal… which will ship to Europe… 5d chess alright.. but not for America. Many have said if the gulf countries oil infrastructure is destroyed it will take 5-10 years to build… How long would it take the Ben Gurion canal to be built? 5-10 years…
AF Post@AFpost

Confirming a longstanding geopolitical theory, Netanyahu says that he "envisions" oil pipelines running from the Gulf countries West through Israel to the Mediterranean to Europe to avoid conflicts with Iran in the future. The move would dramatically improve Israel's standing in the world. Follow: @AFpost

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Terry and a turtle
Terry and a turtle@terryrus99·
@CollinRugg You said 'The protesters were accused by the regime of killing two police officers with knives and swords.' Did they do this during the January demonstrations to incite violence and a riot? Sounds like treason, probably funded by Israel.
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Collin Rugg
Collin Rugg@CollinRugg·
19-year-old champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi executed by Iran in a public hanging. Mohammadi, Mehdi Ghasemi, and Saeed Davoudi were executed as part of Iran's brutal crackdown on protests. According to human rights groups, Mohammadi was tortured to confess "to the capital crime of waging war against God." "His execution was a blatant political murder, part of the Islamic Republic’s pattern of targeting athletes to crush dissent and terrorize society," said human rights activist Nima Far. The protesters were accused by the regime of killing two police officers with knives and swords. They "fast-tracked proceedings that bore no resemblance to a meaningful trial," Amnesty International said. RIP.
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Terry and a turtle
Terry and a turtle@terryrus99·
@EvanWritesOnX Good observation. But it's still a real war. Even in real wars, the sides need to decide whether neutral countries get drawn in. India, unlike the Arab vassals, does not host US bases.
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Evan
Evan@EvanWritesOnX·
If you want to really know how theatrical this is, just look at the latest strike by Iran. Iran has hit Haifa multiple times with ballistic missiles. The Bazan oil refinery adjacent to the port has been struck, suspended operations, and caught fire. But the Adani-operated port itself has been untouched every single time. It’s right next to it. Shrapnel from interceptors landed on port premises. Projectiles hit the refinery next door. But the port continues operating with eight ships handling cargo normally throughout a war. Adani’s CFO personally went public to call damage claims “false.” Iran is avoiding Haifa Port. And it is avoiding it because India is the relationship Iran cannot afford to damage. India is one of the countries granted safe passage through Hormuz. India is Iran’s Chabahar partner. India is a BRICS member. India is one of the pillars of the post-war economic architecture Iran needs. Hitting Adani’s port would rupture that entire relationship for zero strategic gain. Unless this was a real war. Then it would be the dominant strategy to involve India. But it’s. It’s not the dominant strategy. Because it’s not a real war.
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Terry and a turtle
Terry and a turtle@terryrus99·
@MarioNawfal This is the FM of a country, Saudi Arabia, which attacked Yemen for many years and hosts US bases that attacked Iran.
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Mario Nawfal
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal·
🇸🇦🇮🇷 Saudi FM just torched Iran on the floor: "I do not understand how they claim to defend Islamic causes while attacking Islamic countries! Even before this war, what was Iran’s contribution to the Islamic world?" x.com/i/status/20347…
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal

🚨🇮🇱🇮🇷 Netanyahu: "We need alternative routes instead of the Hormuz Strait. We should have pipelines going right up to our ports in Israel." The war created the problem. Netanyahu just announced the solution. Notice who profits from both. x.com/clashreport/st…

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Terry and a turtle@terryrus99·
@Microinteracti1 The F-35 that was hit yesterday landed safely. But it makes us wonder whether the F-35s that 'crashed' earlier this month, allegedly due to 'friendly fire', were also seen and hit y Iran. F-35 pilots themselves would know the truth.
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Gandalv@Microinteracti1·
The F-35 was supposed to be unkillable. That was the whole point. Lockheed Martin spent thirty years and four hundred billion dollars, the most expensive weapons programme in human history, building an aircraft that the enemy simply could not see. Not on radar. Not on infrared. Not on anything. The F-35 was not just a fighter jet. It was a theological statement. America’s way of saying: we have moved beyond the reach of your missiles, your sensors, and your prayers. Iran apparently didn’t get the memo. Somewhere over Iranian airspace on March 19, 2026, an IRST system, infrared search and track, the kind of sensor your grandmother could probably explain, looked up, found the F-35, and locked on. Not because Iranian engineers are geniuses. Because the F-35, it turns out, is extremely hot. All that engine. All that thrust. All that carefully sculpted stealth geometry, and the bloody thing glows like a kettle. The heat signature data Iran now holds is not just embarrassing. It is a gift that keeps giving. To Moscow. To Beijing. To every procurement ministry on the planet that has been quietly wondering whether to spend the money on systems designed to kill this aircraft. The answer, as of this week, is yes. And here is the bit that should really worry the Pentagon. You can patch software. You can redesign coatings. You cannot reprogramme a pilot’s brain. Every F-35 driver who takes off from here on knows, actually knows, that someone down there might be able to see them. That changes everything about how they fly. Caution replaces aggression. Hesitation replaces instinct. Four hundred billion dollars. And in the end, it was done in by a heat sensor. Tremendous. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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Terry and a turtle@terryrus99·
@TMT_arabic Let's not block humanitarian supplies to Bat Yam. When we show humanity to civilians, Israelis might learn something.
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Terry and a turtle
Terry and a turtle@terryrus99·
@SprinterPress If we ignore the fluff, Netanyahu is admitting that Iran continues to bomb Israel and that the blockage of Hormuz is a huge problem. And the crux of Netanyahu's solution: We need alternative routes instead of the Strait of Hormuz. We need boots on the ground.
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Sprinter Press@SprinterPress·
We destroyed the entire Iranian fleet in the Caspian Sea, - Netanyahu. His other statements. Iran does not have the capability to enrich uranium or produce ballistic missiles. The lifespan of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps will be very short. It's too early to say whether the Iranian people will take advantage of the current conditions - we are working to make this happen, but ultimately, it all depends on them. Iran is trying to strike at us. This is causing damage and will continue to do so. There are victims, losses, and wounded. In some aspects, we have turned Israel into a global power. Iran is trying to blackmail the world by closing the Strait of Hormuz, but this won't work. Israel is helping the US efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in its own way. They say Israel dragged the US into a conflict with Iran. Does anyone seriously think that you can tell Trump what to do? Come on. We need alternative routes instead of the Strait of Hormuz. We should have oil and gas pipelines running west through the Arabian Peninsula, directly to our ports in Israel. This is definitely possible. I see that this war will end much faster than people think. America is not fighting for Israel. The (Iranian) regime might survive. I think the Americans will reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and oil prices will drop. I'm not sure who is currently running Iran. Mojtaba hasn't shown his face. Have you seen him? We haven't. You can't conduct revolutions from the air - that's true. There must be a ground component. There are many opportunities for this ground component. I won't share all these opportunities. I don't think any two leaders have been as well coordinated as Trump and I. Trump is the leader, and I'm his ally.
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Terri Newton
Terri Newton@TerriNew28095·
@terryrus99 @DrTrozzi Absolute were other bad batches. I have a friend in Australia who was severely injured by one of the known bad batches. In the Philippines, whole families died in close proximity to vaccination. Govt always says ‘nothing to see here’
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Terry and a turtle
Terry and a turtle@terryrus99·
@GenFlynn Trump 'could not be controlled.' 🤣🤣🤣 He's been controlled for years by Kushner, Lutnick, Adelson and Netanyahu.
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General Mike Flynn
General Mike Flynn@GenFlynn·
Breaking: America versus the Globalists No candidate in modern American history has faced what Donald Trump has faced. Not opposition. Obliteration. The full weight of institutional power was deployed against a single political figure because he could not be controlled. Look at Europe. Those leaders were selected. Trump was elected. Three times. While European citizens watched their sovereignty handed over quietly to Davos and the UN, Americans refused to follow. That difference is everything. They had the same plan for America, and the American people rejected it at the ballot box. This is not politics as usual. This is good vs evil. @realDonaldTrump @JDVance
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Terry and a turtle@terryrus99·
@tonywalker1 @guardian If the Zio takedown of Australians' free speech faces setbacks in our court, they'll go after our court. The US Supreme Court is no longer impartial. It's been subjugated by extremely political appointees. That's what's coming to Australia.
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Terry and a turtle
Terry and a turtle@terryrus99·
@IbrahimMajed As soon as we see that word 'bold' in the first sentence, we know Ibrahim is a propagandist for another Arab vassal.
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Terry and a turtle
Terry and a turtle@terryrus99·
@md_deepesh Interesting level of detail (no doubt with the good bits omitted because you're clearly biased). The bit about outsmarting sanctions was revealing: you think US-imposed sanctions came from some higher moral authority. The barter between Venezuela and Iran seems smart to me.
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Dr. Deepessh Divaakaran (Dr. DD)
If you think America is the villain in Iran, You don't know what Khamenei actually was. The man preached sacrifice to 90 million people. His secret portfolio was worth $200,000,000,000. That's bigger than Romania's economy. Bigger than Hungary's GDP. 1989. Khomeini dies. Khamenei takes over. First thing he does is not pray. First thing he does is build a machine. He takes a small "charitable" body called SETAD. Originally meant to manage abandoned properties after 1979. He turns it into something else entirely. Revolutionary courts start declaring assets "abandoned." Seizure by decree. By 2013, SETAD controls $95 billion. Oil. Telecom. Pharma. Real estate. Agriculture. A conglomerate answerable to nobody. But how does a sanctioned country sell oil? 166 companies. Mostly in UAE, Hong Kong, Singapore. Ghost firms. No Website. No Address. Just bank accounts and fake invoices. Iranian oil enters. Dollars come out. The money travels up. Front company to shell company. Shell company to SETAD. SETAD to assets abroad. All clean. Then enter Ali Ansari. An Iranian businessman. Registered a company called Ziba Leisure in Nevis. Then set up shop in London. Suddenly there are luxury properties across Knightsbridge. A portfolio worth £150 million. All with SETAD's money. The City of London did not ask questions. Isle of Man shell companies. Luxembourg structures. BVI entities. The British system provided the laundry. Then enter Hossein Shamkhani. Son of Iran's top security adviser. Running a hedge fund from 180 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge. Laundering Iranian oil money. In plain sight. On one of London's most expensive streets. But London was not enough. Enter Venezuela. Enter Maduro. Iran ships gasoline to Venezuela. Venezuela ships crude back to Iran. No dollars. No SWIFT. Pure barter. Phantom invoices. Ghost ships with AIS switched off. Venezuela then pipes 70K barrels of oil per day to Cuba. Cuba pays back in intelligence operatives. G2 agents. Soviet-trained. Three sanctioned regimes. Running a parallel economy. Worth billions annually. The terror crescent is not ideology. It is a business model. Hezbollah gets funded. Houthis get armed. Hamas get support. Strait of Hormuz gets weaponized. Insurance premiums in the Red Sea spikes. Lloyd's of London collects. The crescent controls the choke. The Britain gives legal cover. And rest pays the toll. Then came cryptocurrency. Untraceable. Borderless. Khamenei family moved into crypto. Wealth beyond reach of any sanctions list. Now ask yourself who is actually suffering. Iranians are paying 40 years of sanctions. While Mojtaba Khamenei, the new Supreme Leader, Owns hotels in Frankfurt and villas in Dubai. Linked to a golf resort in Mallorca. And a ski hotel in Kitzbühel, Austria. This story has no Heroes. The war is between Villian vs Villian. Let them fight and finish each other.
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Terry and a turtle
Terry and a turtle@terryrus99·
@PoliticalAnim13 @ParanoidPol Handed Jordan with strings attached. To this day, Jordan remains a vassal state of Israel and the West. A bit like saying 'look, the Venezuelans after the 2026 coup have been handed Venezuela.'
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Aristonkle
Aristonkle@ParanoidPol·
Imagine the Jews being persecuted throughout the entire Middle East and Europe so an idea was birthed to go to a centralized place in the pursuit of safety that had a religious and historical connection to Judaism. Then Jews legally buy 7% of the land from Arabs for decades who sell it to them at way over market prices, and then the Arabs decide to slaughter Jews in 1920, 1921, and 1929 so the Jews say maybe we should create self defense organizations so we don’t get slaughtered again despite most of us being pretty woke lefties that just want to farm and be safe, so much so that despite killing us and losing our trust, we still want to be good neighbors and split the land with you into two countries where one didn’t exist before. Imagine the local Arabs saying no repeatedly after multiple offers were made for a state and launching a war to attack Jews and verbatim drive them into the sea, and then getting their asses kicked by a bunch of Auschwitz survivors. Then they tried again twice, and lost both times. Then the Israelis offered them a state again, and they said no and launched suicide bombing campaigns while the Israelis kept building their country. And now here we are - they keep trying to destroy, the Israelis keep trying to build, and the axis of resistance is in literal shambles and all of the top guys have fucked their people over for no other reason than militant religiously fueled radicalism. Palestinian leadership has consistently prioritized a struggle over a state and they’ve gotten it. The Israelis will continue to build, and the funny thing is, they just want those around them to do the same. But you’re too ideologically captured to recognize that.
doomernat@doomernat22

imagine i steal and squat your house, and as a compromise i give you back your bedroom and some of the bathroom.

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David Roth-Lindberg
David Roth-Lindberg@RothLindberg·
‼️🇮🇱🇵🇸 The genocidal Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir: The Palestinian prisoners must be killed by shooting them in the head, and until passing this law, we will give them little to live on.
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Terry and a turtle
Terry and a turtle@terryrus99·
@afshinrattansi Even after 'peaceful' regime change in Venezuela (via the kidnapping of Maduro and killing of scores of Cuban body guards), the result is the same. The US steals Venezuelan gold and reroutes Venezuelan oil revenue into US-controlled bank accounts.
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Afshin Rattansi
Afshin Rattansi@afshinrattansi·
Want to know what will happen to Iran’s sovereignty after a US🇺🇸 regime change war? Just look at Iraq🇮🇶: Since the 2003 illegal invasion, Iraq’s oil revenues were placed into the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI), held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. For years, Washington sent Baghdad pallets of cash on cargo flights derived from the oil sales. To this day, custody of oil revenues at the New York Fed remains in place today as an account of the Central Bank of Iraq and gives Washington the ability to essentially control Iraqi politics and the economy. Just in the last week, the US has threatened to stop Iraq from receiving its oil revenues if parties it considers ‘pro-Iran’ are included in the new Iraqi government, despite the fact the formation of a new government is based on a democratic election which took place in November 2025. When the US claimed it would bring ‘democracy’ to Iraq, it was code word for total domination and disaster capitalism.
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Going Underground@GUnderground_TV

On this day in 2003, the US🇺🇸 and UK🇬🇧 illegally invaded Iraq after lying to the world about Iraq possessing WMDs and having ties to Al Qaeda. While many know the statistic of 1 million deaths as a result of the war, here are some stats you may not know: -The US occupation privatised 200 Iraqi state-owned companies and allowed foreign firms to have 100 ownership of Iraqi assets -After an initial half a million Iraqi citizens abruptly lost their jobs, over 50% of the workforce became unemployed -Not only did the US military-industrial complex make huge profits from the war, US corporations profited from reconstruction: during the first year of occupation, approx. $50 billion of reconstruction contracts were commissioned to various US corporations, including Halliburton, which Vice President Dick Cheney was the CEO of before he stepped down to assume office. Only 2% of contracts were given to Iraqi firms -By 2007 85% of Iraqi households lacked a stable source of electricity and nearly 70% of households struggled with getting rid of garbage -By 2007, a third of Iraqis lived in poverty Remember this as the Trump Administration prepares to deploy boots on the ground in Iran to ‘liberate’ the Iranian people.

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Alan Eyre
Alan Eyre@AlanEyre1·
spot-on, from @anneapplebaum Money quote: "Donald Trump does not think strategically. Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places." "He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions. He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong. Instead, he acts on whim and impulse, and when he changes his mind—when he feels new whims and new impulses—he simply lies about whatever he said or did before." theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…
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Terry and a turtle
Terry and a turtle@terryrus99·
@Microinteracti1 Too many Europeans like Gandalv focus too much on NATO as the solution. Europe's security lies in 3 steps: 1. Reviving international law 2. Reviving trade with Russia 3. Focusing their deterrents more on cyber war, economic war and political interference than on missiles.
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Gandalv
Gandalv@Microinteracti1·
Europe told Trump and Vance, clearly and seriously, that Russia’s war against Ukraine and its hybrid warfare campaign across the continent represents the greatest security threat Europe has faced since 1945. Europe said this as a NATO ally. As a partner of seven decades. As a bloc that has housed American bases, funded American adventures, and sent its sons to die in American wars without much complaint. Trump and Vance looked at this and said: not our problem. It’s happening on your continent. We have important things to attend to. The important things turned out to be nothing. There were no important things. There was golf, there was television, and there was a remarkable amount of time spent being angry about things on the internet. Then, approximately some months later, the same administration announced it intended to seize Greenland. A sovereign territory. From a NATO ally. By force if necessary. So to summarise: defending Europe from an actively invading nuclear power is not America’s problem. Illegally annexing a Danish island in the Arctic is apparently a matter of urgent national interest. Now. If anyone in the MAGA universe is sitting there expecting Europe to provide diplomatic cover, logistical support, intelligence sharing, or a single sympathetic press release for whatever America is currently doing in the Middle East, I have some news for you. You told us you weren’t our allies. We were listening. You don’t get to turn the alliance on and off depending on which direction the aggression is pointing. That is not how it works. That is not how any of this works. Europe will not be helping. Europe will be watching. You made that bed. Enjoy it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1
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