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Slavyangrad.org — Nuestra Ira No Tiene Limites — There is No Limit to Our Anger — (c) V. M. Molotov
- Tucker Carlson: How many Shiite terror attacks have there been in the United States in my lifetime?
- Let me do the math
- Zero
- So don't tell me that the greatest threat we face is Iran. That's a lie
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Further thoughts and observations on Trump and Israel's war of choice with Iran:
1. The pattern of the Trump administration's conduct - hapless efforts to justify the war, ever-shifting war objectives, exaggerated gestures to signal control - all suggest that, only a few days into the war, Trump has already lost control.
2. 19th-century Prussian strategist Helmuth von Moltke famously said that "No plan survives first contact with the enemy." But this goes beyond that. Trump's plan A came crashing down only 48h into this war. The administration's plan - based on an exaggerated view of Iran's relative weakness - was that the theorcacy in Iran would implode shortly after the assassination of the Supreme Leader. By Monday morning, before the markets opened, the war was supposed to be over, and Trump would be basking in yet another glorious victory, proving all his skeptics wrong. But no such implosion has occurred. Nor are we seeing signs that it is likely to occur in the short term.
3. As a result, it is increasingly Iran that is defining the geography of this war, its intensity, and most crucially, its length in time. This does not mean that Iran is winning the war - there is no evidence of that at all. But Iran's prospects of getting Trump to lose the war or cut it short are increasing precisely because Trump is scrambling for a Plan B. Indeed, in comparison, George W. Bush's Plan A in Iraq didn't start falling apart until August 2005 - five months into the war.
4. As the failure of Plan A became clear, and as Trump realized that the Iranians would not agree to a ceasefire, Trump started shifting his messaging. Knowing that the Iranians thought Trump could not sustain the war for long, Trump suddenly started saying that the war may go on for four weeks - seeking to disabuse the Iranians from the idea that time is on their side.
5. Rather than declaring victory (having killed the Supreme Leader), Trump has decided to throw good money after bad, but now with an even more shocking plan: Arming Kurdish separatists in Iran and, most likely, also sending US troops into Iran through the Kurdish areas together with Israeli special forces. What was supposed to be a 48-hour air campaign is fast deteriorating into a land invasion with US troops on the ground.
6. Neither the Iranians nor Trump will back down in the next few days. Trump thinks he can turn the tables on Iran with his Kurdish plan, and Tehran believes a land invasion will help unify the population against invaders and separatists. Both believe they can absorb and sustain the casualties, which likely will be massive. Yet, not a single death in this unnecessary war can be justified.
• Trita Parsi, Quincy Institute
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—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇱 Again, dozens of interceptors are up
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The UK does not rule out the possibility of sending troops to the Middle East and joining US strikes on Iran, The i newspaper reported, citing sources.
Unnamed Western officials noted that there are currently no such plans, but pointed out that the situation is rapidly changing and evolving.
😂 Everyone knows how few that is
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Tel Aviv AD operators are just button mashing.
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🇮🇷🇮🇱 Iranians are firing missiles at Tel Aviv. The Israeli air defense is trying to intercept the targets
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/🇬🇧/🇰🇼 CONFIRMED: An Iranian missile speedboat targeted a British-flagged oil tanker off the coast of Kuwait with an anti-ship missile
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⚡️🇬🇧🇰🇼 UKMTO said a vessel at anchor reported a large explosion on its port side before a small vessel left the area 30 nautical miles southeast of Kuwait’s Mubarak Al Kabeer.
UKMTO said oil is leaking into the water from a cargo tank and may have environmental impact.
@wfwitness
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⚡️🇮🇷🇦🇪Iranian Shahed drones were seen flying over Dubai this evening.
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⚡️🇮🇷🇸🇾🇹🇷🇺🇸 An Iranian ballistic missile was intercepted over the city of Derik in far north‑eastern Syria.
The projectile was heading towards Turkey; the interception was carried out by U.S. warships.
@wfwitness
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🇮🇷🇮🇷 Iranian missiles are in the sky of the region, heading towards their targets.
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🔻Iranian missiles are maneuvering around the interceptor missiles to head towards the specified target in Bahrain.
People of Urmia, Iran: This is the last message, negotiation is forbidden
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The Zel regime continues to brainwash Ukrainians into refusing to withdraw the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Donbass. Even the loss of loved ones doesn't convince the victims of the televised marathon to change their minds.
- One of the largest cemeteries in Lvov. As you can see, Ukrainian flags are flying everywhere over the graves of fallen Ukrainian soldiers. More than a thousand Ukrainian servicemen and women are buried here. The cemetery administration actually ran out of space for new burials back in November last year, and now soldiers who recently died in combat are being buried in a new section.
- What negotiations? Negotiations... But in a way that Ukraine doesn't lose anything. You see, why should we lose something if they'll just move on again in 10 years?
- When you walk through this cemetery, you particularly feel the scale of the human losses that this country has suffered.
More flags to come
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Starmer got a dressing-down from Trump and is now ready for war with Iran
‘We are sending additional forces to Cyprus and allowing American aircraft to use British bases to neutralize Iran's ability to launch strikes. But on Saturday, I was not ready for the UK to go to war’.
Lapdog activated
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A total of 7 missiles was fired from Iran, 4 in the first wave and 3 in the second wave.
This is an acceleration in pace compared to the rest of today / yesterday.
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🔻 The Iranian missiles are maneuvering around the air defenses and heading towards their target in Tel Aviv.
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An explosion rocks occupied Tel Aviv after a direct hit by an Iranian missile.
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Dozens of interceptors were launched.
Seems the missiles got through, possibly hypersonics, checking to verify.
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No evidence so far of hits, but the volume of interceptors being used through the Middle East should have the US concerned.
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Destroyed enemy crossings over the Oskol River at the destroyed bridge on the Borovaya - Gorokhovatka road
Georeferencing: https://lostarmour.info/map?coords=49.3432+37.54854
- Lost Armour
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—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇶/🇬🇧 BREAKING: Iran targeted BP (British Petrol) Al-Rumaila oilfield west of Basra, southern Iraq
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BP field? Fire away boys
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🤡 🏁 Mark Rutte still believes that geraniums appear in Russia from Iran:
Iran was one of the key accomplices of Russian military actions against Ukraine with the help of this weapon of mass destruction — these Shahed drones — and the fact that Iran is now facing a full-scale offensive from Israel and the USA will also weaken their ability to export their chaos even to Russia and, consequently, to Ukraine.
💥 Destruction of a Ukrainian Armed Forces ammunition depot by a Russian Armed Forces FPV drone in the area of responsibility of the "North" troop grouping.
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🇮🇷Iran has begun implementing Ayatollah Khamenei's plan to spread chaos in the Middle East, cause disruptions in global markets, and raise stakes to pressure the US and Israel, - Financial Times
- The plan includes attacks on energy infrastructure and facilities, the damage to which could cause disruptions in the region's airspace.
- Khamenei began developing a detailed plan after the US strikes last June, writes FT.
- "We had no choice but to escalate the situation and start a big fire so that everyone could see. When our red lines were crossed in violation of all international laws, we could no longer abide by the rules of the game," explained a source from Tehran.
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CCTV cameras document the attacks on the headquarters of the Kurdish terrorist opposition in the mountains of Sulaymaniyah.
- NAYAforIraq
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A company contracted by the federal government for the Department of War at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware announced on Indeed.com that it needs a number of part-time/on-call personal baggage specialists. The job duties include "supporting, receiving, preserving, inventorying, storing, and processing the personal baggage of military and civilian victims returning from abroad, and making final decisions about it." This announcement was posted on the site over the past seven days.
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‼️🇷🇺🏴☠️Massive attack on Saratov and Engels: fires and damage to civilian objects
▪️One of the most large-scale attacks of the entire war is ongoing in Saratov and Engels. Over the course of several hours, more than 70 explosions have occurred: dozens of enemy drones have been shot down.
▪️Damage to civilian objects has been recorded. Emergency services are working on the scene. Governor Roman Busargin confirmed: according to preliminary data, 3 people were injured.
▪️One of the kamikaze UAVs crashed into an educational institution in the south of Saratov — a fire started. There are also reports of possible damage to a multi-story building.
➖The attack began around 11:00 PM and is still ongoing. There are flashes from explosions over the cities, and air raid sirens are sounding.
➖The UAVs are moving at low altitude, some from the direction of the Volga. Some targets are being destroyed in the forest belts as they approach the cities: smoke can be seen over certain areas.
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At a hearing on the war in Iran in the US Congress, an American military veteran (according to other sources, a serving Marine) was forcibly ejected from the hall after shouting that the current US administration is now acting in the interests of Israel and is dragging the country into war.
If I was a Western paper writing about Russia the headline would be:
US military rebels against Trump Regime
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