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Slavyangrad.org — Nuestra Ira No Tiene Limites — There is No Limit to Our Anger — (c) V. M. Molotov
The former chairman of the UN Security Council, Singaporean diplomat Kishore Mahbubani — on the fact that the West should take responsibility for the endless attacks from the rest of the world.
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Soar Atlas has obtained new high-resolution satellite imagery of drone strikes at Port of Fujairah, UAE, from Mar 14th.
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🇺🇸🤡President and Commander-in-Chief of the US Armed Forces, Donald Trump, is gradually starting to backtrack and say that it's the task of other countries to unblock the Strait of Hormuz. The US "shouldn't have been there", because they supposedly have plenty of oil anyway.
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💥Footage of a fire at Dubai International Airport.
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💥An explosion occurred in Zaporozhye, after which a column of smoke began to rise.
A subscriber reports that a strong fire broke out after the arrival of the "Geraniums".
The local Administration stated that the strike hit an energy facility.
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🇺🇸⚡️ — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth cut staff in offices responsible for preventing and investigating civilian casualties from about 200 to fewer than 40 despite warnings from military leaders, POLITICO reports.
➡️ Critics say the move weakened oversight before the strike on an Iranian girls’ school in Minab that killed more than 170 students, while Hegseth viewed the offices as unnecessary and linked to “woke” policies.
- Tabz
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The Iranian national football team will be able to participate in the current World Cup despite the war if the team's matches are moved from the US to Mexico, The WSJ reports, citing the Iranian ambassador in Mexico City
According to him, the problem is that the first stage matches will be held in the United States.
Under the original plan, the championship matches were to be held in all three North American countries – Mexico, Canada, and the US
"Washington is not providing the Islamic Republic's team with the necessary logistical or administrative support to obtain visas to the US," Ambassador Abolfazl Pasandideh said, denying earlier reports that Iran might withdraw from participation. Pasandideh has appealed to FIFA, the sport's global governing body, to intervene in the matter," the WSJ reports.
The publication reports that if the matches are moved to Mexico, Iran will participate.
Shouldn't the US lose rights to World Cup and be banned from competing? Rules based order I recall.
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For some reason, the USA has switched to using B-52 bombers instead of deploying more fighter jets from aircraft carriers and sea-based cruise missiles from destroyers. The B-52s are presumably currently depleting the stockpile of JASSM cruise missiles accumulated in the USA over several years against IRGC targets in Isfahan. There is a hypothesis that this is mainly due to the need to replenish the supply of "Tomahawks", which may have been less abundant than expected.
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The G7 could tap strategic reserves for maybe 1.2 million barrels/day tops.
That covers, well... 7.5% of the hole left by the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz.
SPRs buy a few weeks; that's not a fix.
Oil prices aren’t coming down easily.
• Kobessi Letter
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🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — Chinese satellite imagery shows Iran’s drone carrier IRIS Shahid Bagheri still floating in the Strait of Hormuz after earlier U.S. strikes.
➡️ The vessel appears damaged but has not sunk, with the images showing an uneven flight deck and oil spilling into the water.
- Tabz
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Yanis Varoufakis drops a bombshell theory: Israel and Netanyahu have blackmail on Trump 2.0. There is no other rational explanation.
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🇧🇪"De Wever calls on the EU to start negotiations with Russia on peace in Ukraine": Belgium proposes to the European Union to surrender and talk with Moscow.
"Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever called for giving the EU a mandate from member states to negotiate with Russia, as it has so far not been possible to persuade Moscow to end the war in Ukraine.
"Since we are not able to threaten Vladimir Putin by supplying weapons to Ukraine, and we cannot strangle him economically without US support, there is only one way - to make a deal," he said.
De Wever stressed that it would only be possible to break Russia if there was "100% support from the US".
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🇮🇷🇷🇺The key to resolving the conflict in Iran exists, and it lies solely with Russia, — Al Jazeera
- Russia could become a key mediator in resolving the conflict over Iran.
- Moscow's key advantage is its ability to maintain working contacts with all parties to the conflict.
- Russia is well acquainted with the specifics of Iranian security systems and maintains stable ties with the leadership of the Islamic Republic.
- At the same time, the Kremlin maintains communication channels with Washington and Tel Aviv, which makes dialogue between the opposing sides possible.
- In the current conflict, Moscow is not acting out of "blind loyalty" to Tehran, but based on its own pragmatic interests and desire for regional stability. The combination of these factors gives Russia diplomatic tools that Western mediators do not possess.
- That's why Moscow can propose a compromise negotiation format capable of stopping the escalation and returning the parties to dialogue.
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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran has launched massive strikes on American military facilities in the Persian Gulf countries, — IRGC
- The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps reported missile and drone strikes on American military facilities in the UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain.
- The strike was carried out on the Al Dafra airbase in the UAE. Patriot system radars, a control tower, and air defense hangars were hit.
- The Sheikh Isa airbase in Bahrain was also targeted — early warning radars, hangars, central parking areas, and fuel tanks of American aviation were destroyed.
- In addition, a massive missile and drone strike on the Al Adairi helicopter base in Kuwait was reported. There, helicopter hangars, collection points, and storage facilities were hit.
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🇬🇷 A Greek tanker was attacked by an "unknown object" in the Black Sea
- The Greek oil tanker Maran Homer was attacked by an "unknown object" in the Black Sea, the ship's operator reported.
- The incident occurred in the morning, when the tanker was outside Russian territorial waters and was awaiting permission to enter the KTC terminal in Novorossiysk.
- The vessel was due to receive a batch of oil from Kazakhstan.
- Previously, in the Black Sea, tankers heading to or leaving Russian ports have already been attacked by Ukrainian unmanned boats.
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Oil prices opened higher in morning trading.
The most popular grade, Brent, is approaching $105 per barrel.
As a reminder, the US eased sanctions on Russian oil yesterday. However, as we can see, this has failed to bring down prices, which are rising due to Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
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Canadian Prime Minister Carney disavowed statements about the desire for nuclear weapons:
Canada does not seek to possess nuclear weapons - there are no changes in this policy. Like other countries, we benefit from membership in NATO - an alliance, the basis of which, as is well known, is nuclear deterrence.
I would like to note the initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron to create an additional, multi-level element of the deterrence system. The specific mechanisms and scale of this initiative have yet to be determined, but we welcome it both from the perspective of NATO and from the point of view of European security.
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Trump’s Coalition to open up da Strait of Hummus
• Japan - No
• Australia - No mate, I barely have 2 weeks of fuel
• Britain - No, I don’t have much of a navy anymore but I like to pretend I do
Checkmate
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An Italian MQ-9A Predator surveillance drone worth about $30–35 million was destroyed after a drone struck the protective aircraft shelter where it was parked at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, according to Italian media.
➡️ The drone was operated by Italy’s Task Force Air and was being used for intelligence and surveillance missions in support of the coalition fighting ISIS.
- Tabz
Mamma mia
Apparently there was a lot of ISIS in Kuwait...
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U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Iran:
I think that this conflict will certainly come to the end in the next few weeks; it could be sooner than that, but the conflict will come to the end in the next few weeks.
We were very aware that we would cause a little bit of increased gas prices for Americans.
Prices today are still far below what they were in the Biden administration, where they were begging, bartering, and bribing Iran to behave better.
- Tabz
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🇺🇦 The Language Ombudswoman of Ukraine, Ivanovskaya:
“The Russian language is equal to arrogance, such arrogance. Neurolinguists should study the very structure, the specifics of this language. Because, have you noticed, for example, such a pattern that we really easily assimilate Russian. (Russian-speaking children - Rare.) They move to Lvov, and already the children of Lvov start speaking Russian, not the other way around”
“Usually, when these Russian-speaking people appear in our children's environment, they position themselves with arrogance and the language of power. And when there is a language of power, everyone else submits. The Russian language has a vertical structure. The Ukrainian language has a horizontal structure”
🤡🤡🤡
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B-2 Spirit bombers, in turn, flew to Iran again at night to strike with GBU-57/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs at a certain missile base, the location of which is not specified. It's unclear why all available weapons are being used again and again, if Trump has already declared that Iran has been destroyed, trampled, annihilated, and defeated.
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🇺🇸🤡White House Press Secretary Levitt - about the fact that the war in the Middle East will not end until all Trump's goals are achieved.
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🇺🇦🇺🇸❗️“Zelensky is the last person we need help from” — Trump
“I'm surprised that he doesn't want to make a deal. Tell Zelensky to agree, because Putin is ready to negotiate. It's much more difficult with Zelensky.”
Ooooofff, meanwhile British journalists are pretending that Ukraine has a lot to contribute..... even though they can't defend their own country lol
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The Russian Duma is about to adopt a law permitting the extraterritorial engagement of the armed forces to free Russian citizens arrested or detained by foreign courts. The government commission on legislation has just approved the respective draft legislation.
US Supreme leader Paula White performing an exorcism.
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🇮🇷 War in Iran threatens a global food crisis, — FT
- The main problem is related to a shortage of urea, the most common nitrogen fertilizer in the world, writes the Financial Times.
- According to the analytical company Kpler, out of 2.1 million tons of urea, almost half did not reach the global market: more than 1.1 million tons of fertilizers are now accumulating in the Persian Gulf amid the escalation of the conflict.
- Additional pressure is exerted by rising prices for natural gas, which is used in the production of nitrogen fertilizers from ammonia. Due to the rising cost of gas, some factories in Asia have already been forced to suspend production.
- The Middle East plays a key role in the global trade of fertilizers and energy resources: about a third of the global export of urea passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
- Against the backdrop of blocked shipping, the price of urea has risen by more than 40% since the beginning of the conflict.
- It was also previously noted that about 26% of the global trade in nitrogen fertilizers passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
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Trump knew about the risk of Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz, but approved the military operation anyway, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources.
The newspaper notes that Trump was encouraged by the successes in Venezuela, as well as the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities last summer. Because of this, the US administration was infected with "overconfidence" on the eve of the conflict.
Although before the war, US Chief of Staff Dan Kaine repeatedly warned the White House that a strike on Iran could lead to the strait's closure – intelligence believed Tehran was capable of using mines, drones, and missiles to achieve this.
WSJ sources claim the president acknowledged this risk but believed Iran would capitulate rather than take such a step. He added that even if an attempt to close the Strait were to occur, the US military could quickly resolve the problem.
..these expectations have not been met, and Iran is attempting to use the Hormuz as its main lever of pressure on US allies.
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🇺🇸🤡Trump on the US's superiority over Iran.
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