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Straight outt Moscow.
This is VERY special - took place just before the war on Iran, which we knew it would happen.
Tracking the extraordinary series of itvws I did in Moscow in the past 2 weeks, with links to several of them + two bonuses. Key themes: the proxy war in Ukraine, Russia, NATO, US and BRICS.
🇮🇷 Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei was assassinated in what is being described in western media as a joint airstrike operation. Even though the Israeli air-force carried out airstrikes in and around Tehran, it is clear that these were supported by the U.S. military. As such, the U.S. is complicit in the murder of the Head of State of a sovereign nation.
If this military action drags out inconclusively, then the mid-terms may prove catastrophic for Trump.
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🫣 Donald Trump:
Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective.
VIDEO | Footage shows an Iranian drone impact on the luxury 5-star Burj al-Arab hotel in Dubai earlier tonight.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 The warnings came, but most chose to ignore them, believing that Trump was bluffing and using the military threat as a negotiating tool, typical of a bully who has little if any diplomatic verve. Very few of the community of commentators, including the author, could actually believe that Trump would be so stupid as to start a war with Iran with so many factors stacked against the U.S. and Israel, ensuring they would not come out of it well. But Alastair Crooke’s prescient words just a couple of days before, warning of the “momentum of war,” will be remembered for years to come. The machismo, chest-beating, and deplorable insecurity of weak, middle-aged men who never fought in war themselves, who are determined to serve their own political agendas while using uneducated young men as lambs to the slaughter, finally gave way to reason.
It would appear that Israel has kicked off the war and yet America hasn’t signed up for it yet.
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Correction:
Operation Epic Stupidity.
⛸️ It would seem not, at least judging by the dominant presence of Russian contenders on three sides in the international figure skating competition at the Milan Winter Olympics.
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⚠️ Once again, the Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight.
New revelations made by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR, indicate a disturbing deepening of European involvement in the Ukrainian conflict. According to recently released information, France and the United Kingdom are coordinating a joint plan to transfer nuclear weapons or radiological devices to Ukraine. If confirmed, such an initiative would represent a qualitative shift in the conflict, significantly increasing the risk of direct confrontation between nuclear powers.
According to the SVR, the project would involve sending technological components and strategic materials that would enable the assembly of these weapons on Ukrainian territory. The fragmentation of shipments, with parts delivered separately and assembled locally, would aim to reduce the political cost of the operation for London and Paris, creating room for plausible deniability. Formally, it could be claimed that the weapons were developed independently by Kiev, although the essential inputs would originate abroad.
Russia will not tolerate this type of maneuver and may respond against any of the actors involved.
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📛 Britain and France are preparing to arm Ukraine with a nuclear bomb, according to the SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service).
The transfer of nuclear weapons to Kiev is allegedly being planned under the guise of a Ukrainian development project.
Key Points:
◾️ London and Paris understand that the evolving situation in Ukraine leaves no chance for a victory over Russia by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but they are unwilling to accept this outcome;
◾️ The plan involves a covert transfer to Ukraine of European components, equipment, and technologies related to the nuclear sphere. One option under consideration is the French compact TN75 warhead, designed for the M51.1 submarine-launched ballistic missile;
◾️ Berlin has refused to participate in this.
Source: RT, photo credit: anna-news
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🌐 One of two things: either democracy is a totally inadequate system for governing anything at all, or what is presented to us as democracy is not actually democracy and is something else, even if, in appearance, it takes the form of direct and tendentially universal suffrage.
The latest Munich Security Council meeting was framed by its respective Report, entitled “Under Destruction”, in a clear allusion to the ongoing destruction of the rules-based order of the USA and the collective West, as well as the so-called “international order”, as referred to by the global majority of non-Western countries.
Fear leads as much to bad consumer choices as it does to bad political choices.
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📛 The Epstein Files revealed the commitment of neo-atheist icons to the cannibalistic pedophile. Since neo-atheism is committed to Zionism, the relationship between the observant Jew Jeffrey Epstein and neo-atheism cannot be limited to utilitarian support aimed solely at scientific discoveries.
If occultism doesn’t publicly profess everything it believes in, is it possible that militant atheism is the exoteric layer of a Hermetic religion?
☁️ Bruna Frascolla writes
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🇺🇦 In recent days, so-called peace negotiations have resumed, this time in Geneva, Switzerland. The almost standard intensified attacks, mostly drone-based and generally targeting civilians by Ukraine on Russian territory, were less intense this time than during all other attacks in the course of so-called peace talks.
Does this mean Ukraine is ready for peace? No, of course not. They are suffering heavy losses on the battlefield and desperately trying to recruit more people, not voluntarily, but by force, dragging men, especially, into recruitment agency vans, as numerous videos on social media demonstrate. The West, and especially Europe, is whispering to them that Putin and the Russian army are weak and that they must continue the war.
The root of the evil lies in the attitude of the right-wing radicals in Ukraine, and therefore peace can only be achieved with a different Ukrainian government.
☁️ Sonja van den Ende writes @devendonline
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🇬🇧 Things are heating up in the UK over the Epstein affair, and while the press have a field day with daily revelations, it is becoming clearer and clearer who will be protected from prosecution and who will be sent to the gallows. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, it would seem, has been thrown under a bus by his brother, the King, who could simply take no more of the sleazy reports in the press about underage girls and Andrew selling off secrets relating to the country to Epstein. Something had to be done to make a clear statement, if for nothing else, to protect the British royal family from being dragged down into the sewer with Andrew.
The arrest by UK police of Andrew on the morning of 19th February is interesting as it throws up a number of questions which surely British journalists will not bother asking. Namely, why did it take so long? And perhaps more importantly, who actually made the decision that Andrew had to be arrested?
For Andrew, it seems there is no depth profound enough for his brother King Charles to push the knife in.
☁️ Martin Jay writes
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🇬🇧 An important job for any General is to make the case for larger military budgets. Britain is no different in that regard, not least in light of the government’s commitment to spend 3.5% of GDP on defence by 2035. Yet, it seems, in Britain today, that money there is none, while its army shrinks and it can’t build new military kit for toffee.
UK defence is reportedly short of £28bn with the budget envelope that it has.
☁️ Ian Proud writes
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🛑 Only 24 hours in, and Iran is looking like the player who has a salient military strategy, while holes start to appear in Trump’s.
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🇮🇷 The recent military escalation in the Middle East revealed a strategic miscalculation on the part of Washington and Tel Aviv. By launching a direct offensive against Iran, authorities in the United States and Israel apparently assumed that Tehran would repeat the pattern observed in previous confrontations: initial restraint, calibrated retaliation, and delayed timing. This pattern was evident both during the so-called Twelve-Day War and in earlier episodes of Israeli aggression against Iranian targets and regional allies. This time, however, the calculation proved mistaken.
The Islamic Republic shows it has learned from past decision-making mistakes.
💬 Lucas Leiroz writes @lucasleiroz
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💢 We may just be reaching the portal of the post-U.S. West Asia order.
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💢 Israel attacked Iran with 200 jets in ‘largest military flyover’ in air force history
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💥🦅 It seemed like a distant, grim scenario, but it happened: on Saturday, February 28, 2026, the Zionist entity known as the State of Israel attacked the Islamic Republic of Iran once again.
Israel chose to do what it had failed to do in recent weeks with American support, preferring to act alone and risk everything. And it succeeded. Within a few hours, America was also dragged into the conflict, opening up a scenario that, on the sidelines of the war between Pakistan and Afghanistan that broke out on February 27, is definitely an act of pure madness. Yet that is how it is.
Iran is a millennial civilization, whose sword is ready to slay the Israeli lion.
💬 Lorenzo Maria Pacini writes @ideeazione
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📛 Iran is hitting oil facilities of the Persian Gulf monarchies (allies of the United States) and blocking the Strait of Hormuz. The goal is to raise fuel prices and cause maximum economic damage to Washington.
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💢 From Adolf to Ursula: the European Reich is true to itself
The heirs of the demoniacal Fuhrer needed their own nuclear "umbrella". Times and physiognomies are changing, and the course towards fanning the global nuclear conflagration remains unchanged.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 America’s failed democracy has brought it to the brink of war with Iran, yet it will be Russia, China and Iran who reap the rewards.
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☢️ In the context of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, statements from the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR) have reignited the international debate, which for months has been preoccupied with other highly sensitive issues, about the risk of further military escalation and, above all, about the possibility that Ukraine may be equipped with nuclear weapons. According to reports from the Russian intelligence service’s press office, the United Kingdom and France have acknowledged in their internal assessments that it is impossible for the Ukrainian armed forces to achieve a decisive military victory against Russia under the current conditions of the conflict. Nevertheless, the political and strategic elites in London and Paris are reportedly unwilling to accept the possibility of a Ukrainian defeat and, consequently, a retreat of their geopolitical influence in Eastern Europe.
The European leadership is a clear, obvious, and unequivocal concrete threat to global security.
💬 Lorenzo Maria Pacini writes @ideeazione
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⚠️ Falun Gong represents a hybrid, full-spectrum threat to Brazil, writes Raphael Machado.
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💢 There’s no Plan B.
We have already entered a new historical phase: no holds barred; no periphrasis; not even an attempt to justify anything. That applies, for instance, to piracy by the Americans – and to a certain extent the Europeans – on Russian naval assets.
Iran mirrors the ultimate showdown: either US-Zionist imperialism prevails, or it’s multipolarity – as represented by the Russia-China strategic partnership and BRICS.
So it’s no wonder that the omnipresent battlefield is bound to get more ferocious day after day.
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🇺🇸🇹🇷 Relations between the United States and Turkey have been one of the strategic pillars of the Eurasian and Middle Eastern geopolitical balance since the Second World War, forming a bilateral relationship which, while maintaining a structurally cooperative dimension, has developed along a trajectory marked by strategic differences, divergent perceptions of threat, and profound changes in the regional balance.
Turkey continues to be a useful ally for Washington, but no longer a necessary one, and certainly a problematic one.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 Rising tensions between Iran and the United States/Israel are reaching a critical point. Aggressive rhetoric, military moves, and successive exchanges of veiled threats indicate that the situation is heading toward a dangerous inflection point. Although diplomatic discourse is still formally maintained, everything suggests that there will be no agreement capable of satisfying the parties involved. The strategic deadlock runs too deep, and the interests at stake are existential for both Middle Eastern powers.
Washington continues its policy of maximum containment against Tehran, sustained by economic sanctions and indirect military pressure. Tel Aviv, in turn, views the advancement of Iran’s strategic program as an existential threat. Tehran has consolidated a posture of active deterrence, expanding its response capabilities and combat readiness. It is already possible to say that the current scenario is substantially more tense than the one that preceded the hostilities of 2025.
The U.S., Israel and Iran escalate their tensions.
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🇺🇸 The United States of America is not letting go, and never will: it is simply changing its strategy. While direct attack is now inadvisable and no longer objectively possible, the path of influence, soft power, and military downsizing remains viable. All with a spaghetti western or Little Italy mafia twist.
Europe will be forced even more to choose sides, deprived of its presence in the Mediterranean and control of the routes. An incredibly effective soft power.
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🔊 For discerning observers, there was an obvious attempt this week by Britain to poison a delicate stage in peace negotiations for ending the conflict in Ukraine.
The sabotage effort was as vivid as, well, how should we put it?, as vivid as a brightly colored dart frog from the South American rainforests.
Concocting propaganda is part of Britain’s toxic agenda.
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