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March 30, 2025
Palestine Open Thread 2025-067
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Columbia students tore up diplomas ehile chanting “Free Palestine” to protest the crackdown on protesting the genocide
https://t.me/presstv/134415
Posted by: Mary | Mar 30 2025 14:59 utc | 1
Reuters has the latest from America’s Bully In Chief
Trump says “there will be bombing” if Iran does not make nuclear deal
What a petulant child we have here. Not a fucking world leader by a long shot.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 30 2025 16:00 utc | 2
What a petulant child we have here. Not a fucking world leader by a long shot.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 30 2025 16:00 utc | 2
How do we square this with the fact that he was (ostensibly) democratically voted into power?
Should we be aiming our vitriol at Trump or the moronic masses who put him into power?
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 30 2025 16:06 utc | 3
Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 30 2025 16:00 utc | 2
I’m thinking early stages of dementia. Reminds me of Biden grabbing “disobedient” constituents by their collars back in the primary days.
Or just a big fat baby not getting his way. 🤷
Posted by: Mary | Mar 30 2025 16:21 utc | 4
What a petulant child we have here. Not a fucking world leader by a long shot.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 30 2025 16:00 utc | 2
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Disagree.
Trump is merely expressing the American id. I like Trump blurting the quiet parts out loud.
I know Americans at the bar hate to hear it, but we have a couple of centuries of evidence that America is not the good guy. Can’t blame this party or that. It’s not just Trump or 2025. This is who America is.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 16:38 utc | 5
Should we be aiming our vitriol at Trump or the moronic masses who put him into power?
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 30 2025 16:06 utc | 3
We should be directing our ire at the inauthentic opposition who didn’t give said masses an alternative.
Posted by: drinky crow | Mar 30 2025 16:40 utc | 6
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 30 2025 16:06 utc | 3
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I don’t believe Western voters have any agency.
That said, democracy loves Demagogues like Trump.
China doesn’t have these problems. Russia doesn’t have these problems. North Korea doesn’t have these problems.
One of the poorest countries, Yemen, doesn’t have these problems.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 16:41 utc | 7
LD is right. trump isn’t the disease, he’s merely the symptom.
Posted by: drinky crow | Mar 30 2025 16:42 utc | 8
“Anti-government group urges civil disobedience gathering in Jerusalem starting Sunday” (Times of Israel)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/anti-government-group-urges-civil-disobedience-gathering-in-jerusalem-starting-sunday/
Posted by: WMG | Mar 30 2025 16:48 utc | 9
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 30 2025 16:06 utc | 3
>>>
DJT is getting desperate and is showing.
Posted by: pepe | Mar 30 2025 16:50 utc | 10
Ire to be directed toward those behind him…they who put him there twice and who are now extracting their “bond”…was they also who made his appeal to MAGA; he’s made for TV..like Hanna-Barbera. It is their agenda being worked thru his persona and position. It’s turning his hair white. He may pop at any moment.
Posted by: Cocoliso | Mar 30 2025 17:41 utc | 11
🚨🇾🇪”Stay tuned for the biggest crushing defeat of the U.S. Navy.”
@Yemenimilitary
https://x.com/Yemenimilitary/status/1906397791540367373
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 17:49 utc | 12
Just as Russia coming to the defense of the Donbass against genocide, Yemen is following international law that commands countries to intervene in an ongoing genocide.
Remember, Ansar Allah (Houthis) is on the side of the law.
Hamas is a legitimate resistance against an occupation. As was Hezbollah when Israel tried to invade Lebanon.
Anyone who calls them terrorists is ignorant or a liar.
America and Europe, as well as the cuckolded Arab states, are all in violation of or ignoring international law.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 17:54 utc | 13
Some clever devil here at the bar recommended a book by Israel Shahak. Reading now. Excellent! Peace to the bar!
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Mar 30 2025 18:14 utc | 14
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 17:54 utc | 13
I asked my friend, who works on Yemen and knows quite a number of Yemenis, how Yemenis were doing under the bombs. She said the bombardment was the heaviest for a long time. The heaviest ever? No it was like that under the Saudi bombardment, she said.
It should not be forgotten that the Houthis come from Sa’da, in the north of Yemen, I was reminded. They are not necessarily appreciated in San’a. (That is a weakness.)
Posted by: laguerre | Mar 30 2025 18:46 utc | 16
Repeating the set of local Palestine links….
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/gazanewsnow2021?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/GazaNewsNow?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/NewsPs0?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
Martyred:
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/hossamsshbat?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
Posted by: Ornot | Mar 30 2025 18:58 utc | 17
Iran wins the international concrete contest every year. No one else even comes close. Were talking 25,000 PSI. Lots and lots of talented engineers to place the bar.
Dirt is pretty much a unlimited resource. mega dirt. Lots of uber concrete . lots of bar.
A conventional explosive bunker buster is limited by the payload of the plane and other physical constraints.
Kinetic energy weapons are better. Hazelnuts. Use of kinetic energy that exceeds the power of conventional explosives. No explosive that has to go off that has to survive the “burrowing” If you can get the projectile to hold together your going to be able to get deep. Does the USA have such weapons? Who knows. I dont.
Is a kinetic weapon delivered from space “bombing”?
Conclusion. Conventional explosive bunker busters will not defeat Iranian bunker designs. If conventional explosive bunker busters are used they will not destroy their targets. Kinetic energy weapons might destroy their targets. Nuclear weapons of either known or unknown design will destroy their targets.
Conclusion. If implemented the “bombing” will be known to either effective or ineffective prior to the mission. If effective either weapons of unknown design or nuclear weapons will be necessary. If ineffective the goal is not the destruction of Iranian nuclear facilities. Either way a war with Iran spells the end of energy transit. The idea that this is not understood is very naive. The consequence of the strike are far greater than the issue of whether the strike achieves its supposed goals. The stated goals are hogwash because they are not important compared to the consequences. It really doesn’t matter whether the bunkers are destroyed or not. That is irrelevant to the consequences.
On the other hand never underestimate stupidity especially in regard to the mental illness known as exceptionalism. Never underestimate human capacity to fuckup a good thing from delusion. Still.. I dont believe that level of incompetence is present. IMO Far more likely the consequences are desired. Trump implements Greta goals.
In 3.5 years the neoliberals will be back. Pepsi exceptionalism not Coca Cola. They will put Trump behind bars this time. What could he do to prevent that? Trumps situation is not much different than Netanyahu.
https://en.irna.ir/photo/85206560/National-concrete-competition-in-Iran
Posted by: LosBanos | Mar 30 2025 19:03 utc | 18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cysDmL_jxjE&ab_channel=MiddleNation
Shahid Bolsen breaks down the number of people killed by the west in the last 500 years.
Posted by: Norsk | Mar 30 2025 19:31 utc | 19
Iran wins the international concrete contest every year. No one else even comes close. Were talking 25,000 PSI. Lots and lots of talented engineers to place the bar.
Posted by: LosBanos | Mar 30 2025 19:03 utc | 18
whoa.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 30 2025 21:08 utc | 20
Gaza: A monument to human courage and dignity
Posted by: Adasim | Mar 30 2025 18:23 utc | 15
Hezb-HouT: A monument to human courage, righteousness and dignity.
Defending those who are not in sect, not just their own, for sake of justice.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 30 2025 21:12 utc | 21
“Eid is difficult for Umm Muhammad Al-Sahhar, difficult enough to remember a morning a year ago when she would gather around the breakfast table, where there was feseekh and fried tomatoes, and lots of fun and laughter with four of her sons: “Ahmed,” a doctor who was killed while treating the wounded in Al-Awda Hospital; “Salah,” a policeman who was killed at his door; “Amjad,” as he was returning with bread to them at the “Compassion Yemen” shelter; and Ibrahim, as he was returning from the south of the Gaza Strip to the north. The bereaved mother remembers the story of five young men like rose petals, whom she raised with the “pearls of her eyes,” who died one after the other, days apart: “Every two days they bring me news of one of them until they are gone.” She gathered them all in one grave with their father… a grave pursued by the chains of the “D9s” to gather the crushed hearts… but death will never end the story…
Journalist Youssef Fares – Gaza – Palestine”
(Photos)
https://t.me/youseffares19/72130
“The will of the martyred child Omar Muhammad al-Jamasi, in Gaza:
I, Omar al-Jamasi, owe a debt (one shekel) to a boy named Abdul Karim al-Nairab. Abdul Karim lives on Abu Nafith Street. I, my dear friends, love you and hope that you will not abandon prayer and that you will continue to read the Quran and seek forgiveness.”
https://t.me/youseffares19/71981
Posted by: Ornot | Mar 30 2025 21:23 utc | 22
Posted by: LosBanos | Mar 30 2025 19:03 utc | 18
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According to Pepe Escobar, many Muslim engineers were trained in Russia and China in the past.
The formerly Communist states were very fond of supporting liberation movements. It may all have been cynical anti-West politics, but the result is that they helped those countries out a lot.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 21:25 utc | 23
UAE Aiding US Airstrikes on Yemen
https://x.com/Currentreport1/status/1905655365674696765
“UAE-Backed forces in southern Yemen are leaking sensitive intel to the US military for airstrikes against the Houthis.
Houthis vow retaliation against Dubai and Abu Dhabi if this continues.” – ISNA
Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 29 2025 15:03 utc | 89
bring it on, Houthis
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https://x.com/Ahmed_hassan_za/status/1905771095426560028
Ahmed Hassan 🇾🇪 أحمد حسن زيد @Ahmed_hassan_za
You should not be surprised by Yemen’s position. You should be surprised by the position of those who do nothing to save 2 million people from hunger and bombing.
https://x.com/EyesOnSouth1/status/1906079810058686716
Hussein @EyesOnSouth1
US bombing Yemenis on Eid night, for supporting Palestinians in Gaza, who have been subjected to an ongoing Israeli genocide for over 15 months, including Eid night today.
The evil is one and the same.
https://x.com/againstwarvoice/status/1906057534701797815
Voices Against War @againstwarvoice
Now (29.3.25) demonstartors in Jerusalem are chanting: “Don’t say we didn’t know — ethnic cleansing is on all of us.”
Holding signs reading “refuse to be war criminals”
Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 30 2025 22:21 utc | 24
https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/1905632809189859346
Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald
That’s because Biden bombed Yemen all throughout 2024 with very little Dem objections.
So bombing the Houthis is a bipartisan policy, and Dems thus couldn’t object to the bombing itself, so had to confine themselves to feigned anger over the Signal sideshow.
…It took many conservatives about 8 weeks to go from: “No more Mid East wars! Fuck the military-industrial complex! Keep that money here at home” to “Hell yeah! Trump re-started Biden’s bombing of Yemen and we’re collapsing residential buildings throughout the Mid East!”💣🇺🇸🔥
https://x.com/caitoz/status/1906101839852142618
Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz
The word “terrorist” is a meaningless tool of imperial narrative control.
Want to bomb some people? Designate them as terrorists.
Want to silence protesters and dissidents? Say they’re supporting terrorists.
Want sweeping surveillance powers? Say you need them to fight terrorism.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/15-humanitarian-workers-bodies-with-tied-hands-retrieved-fro
15 humanitarian workers bodies with tied hands retrieved from Rafah
The bodies of 15 humanitarian workers, previously besieged in Rafah, have been recovered. The workers had gunshot wounds in the chest.
Palestinian civil defense teams announced on Sunday that after eight days of coordination with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), they had recovered the bodies of 15 martyrs in the Tal al-Sultan area of Rafah, southern Gaza.
The victims, killed in an Israeli targeting, included civil defense personnel, Palestinian Red Crescent medics, and an employee for UNRWA…..
Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 30 2025 22:49 utc | 25
“A holiday drenched in blood in the Gaza Strip.
No one listens.”
https://t.me/youseffares19/72151
Posted by: Ornot | Mar 30 2025 22:57 utc | 26
🚨 Media reports: Yemen’s Armed Forces targeted the E2 command aircraft of the USS Harry Truman, crippling its systems. The White House and Pentagon are now scrambling. 🇾🇪🔥
and then …
The USS Harry S. Truman hasn’t been this humiliated since World War II. Decades of flexing undone by a few missiles and some fearless men in sandals. 🇾🇪🔥🚀
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 22:57 utc | 27
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/yemeni-armed-forces-target-us-carrier-e-2-aew-aircraft–excl
The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) successfully targeted an E-2 command and control aircraft belonging to the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, a senior Sanaa government source told Al Mayadeen on Sunday.
According to the source, “The Truman lost command capabilities following the attack, while both the White House and the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) have launched an investigation into the incident.”
Details on the targeted E-2 aircraft
The targeted E-2 aircraft is designed to provide critical intelligence on potential threats faced by the warship during military operations. While it does not directly participate in attacks, it plays a crucial role in surveillance and tracking
Posted by: Mary | Mar 30 2025 23:06 utc | 28
…It took many conservatives about 8 weeks to go from: “No more Mid East wars! Fuck the military-industrial complex! Keep that money here at home” to “Hell yeah! Trump re-started Biden’s bombing of Yemen and we’re collapsing residential buildings throughout the Mid East!”💣🇺🇸🔥
I am old enough to remember when American conservatives were “free speech absolutists” last year. 😂😂😂
One small taste of power was enough to corrupt their “deeply-held Constitutional values”.
Tribalism makes people bloodthirsty and insane. Americans have always been like this.
That is why false flags work so well. Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin, 9/11.
Just look at the MAGAs making every excuse for everything that Trump does. Muppets.
c1ue is arguing in another discussion that Trump didn’t talk to NBC, and it was a deep fake/good impersonation, and someone agreed with him.
Scotty, beam me up!
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 23:12 utc | 30
Sirens sounded across central “Israel” and al-Quds at midday on Sunday following the launch of a missile from Yemen. Debris was also found in Modi’in and Tel Aviv.
According to “Israel’s” Channel 12, two people were injured in Gush Dan. One woman exited her vehicle when the sirens went off and fell into a five-meter-deep pit, while another person sustained a head injury in Tel Aviv while heading to a shelter.
UNTENABLE
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 23:27 utc | 31
https://x.com/KarimHassoun_79/status/1905430123286852012
Karim Hassoun ~ كريم حسون @KarimHassoun_79
The Dutch cabinet is officially opposing the renewal of @FranceskAlbs as UN Special Rapporteur on #Palestine.
After refusing to receive her last month during her visit to the Dutch parliament, they now make it clearer than ever: anyone who takes international law, humanitarian law and war crimes investigations seriously, hence becomes a threat to #Israel, is considered persona non grata.
Moral bankruptcy officialised… #Genocide is the new standard!
https://zeteo.com/p/germany-tried-to-silence-me-a-un
Germany Tried to Silence Me, a UN Official, for Talking About Israel’s Genocidal War in Gaza
Francesca Albanese on her five-day trip that exposed Germany’s harsh deviation from democratic values and shrinking landscape for freedom of expression.
….I was expecting it to be not unlike my last visit in May 2024, when I – then the main UN voice denouncing Israel’s genocide in Gaza – met with dozens of think tanks and civil society representatives eager to discuss my work. But instead, my five-day visit descended into a chaotic trip full of harassment, cancellations, attacks on organizers, changing venues, and even threats of arrest over my comments…..
https://x.com/UNISPAL/status/1902029650940801258
UN Palestinian Rights Committee @UNISPAL
🚨”Palestinians face serious risk of mass ethnic cleansing as Israel advances its long-held plan to take Palestinian lands and evacuate them of Palestinians under the fog of war”, @FranceskAlbs
warned today.
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/tragedy-foretold-and-stain-on-our-collective-humanity-special-rapporteur-18march2025/
Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 30 2025 23:41 utc | 33
🇻🇪 Venezuela President Maduro marks end of Ramadan:
“We, the children of Christ, are blood brothers of the people of Mohammed, the prophet.
One people, united in the struggle for world peace & justice.
We will see it sooner rather than later… A Palestinian people living free on their ancestral land.”
1 minute 10 second video with subtitles
https://x.com/upholdreality/status/1906491731220337086
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 23:51 utc | 34
⚡️BREAKING
Iran puts 60000 US troops on notice across the Middle East
Hundreds of ballistic missiles are loaded onto launchers in all underground missile bases and are ready for launch – Tehran Times
Comment
Yuliana Dlugaj 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵
The U.S. could lose more troops in a week than it did during the entire Vietnam War—and this time, there won’t be a draft to blame or a jungle to hide in.
Just body bags and bad decisions.
Another comment
🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉
@apocalypseos
The ‘Great Satan’—America—needs a bloody nose. America is used to murdering and terrorizing poor, brown goat-herders. Iran isn’t Iraq; Iran isn’t Afghanistan. And when the price of oil skyrockets, the U.S. dollar will crash.
A roundabout way to accomplish the Great Reset. You will have nothing (like the Yemenis) and you will like it.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 23:56 utc | 35
RE: Trump says “there will be bombing” if Iran does not make nuclear deal”
What a petulant child we have here. Not a fucking world leader by a long shot.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 30 2025 16:00 utc | 2
Do it Trump! Let’s see ya big mouth…double dare ya!!
Trash talking idiot. Won’t do a thing…even Iran knows this
Posted by: Trubind1 | Mar 31 2025 0:01 utc | 36
Muhammad Shehada
@muhammadshehad2
Getting many questions about the demonstrations in Gaza
So here’s my full assessment of the protests; their potential & limitations; genuineness & spontaneity vs outside influence; motives & goals; & their ability to actually challenge Hamas or bring the war close to an end🧵
Thread:
1\ The protests seem to have started spontaneously in small numbers & limited areas. Their grievances are genuine; people are tired, desperate for the genocide to end at any cost, many want Hamas to step down from gov to take away Israel’s pretext for the siege & killing
But…
2\ The protests quickly drew the interest & influence of external actors, keen to exploit Gazans’ despair & pain, & this may end up undermining the movement instead of helping
e.g. Israel demanding Gazans take to the street or face death, land theft & forever war will backfire
3\ When Israel suddenly blesses Palestinians’ right to expression against Hamas (while detaining, maiming & murdering those exercising that same right against the occupation), it discourages people from taking part in the protest lest they be called “Israel’s collaborators”
4\ An apparent Fatah influence is detectable in some of today’s protests, with the chant “Ya Shia” being added.
This chant, accusing Hamas of being Iranian stooges, was popular in 2007 amongst Fatah partisans during the Fatah-Hamas conflict that saw the latter take over Gaza
5\ Israeli media identified one of the protesters today as someone whose family affiliated with Muhammad Dahlan’s Fatah
Similarly, a Fatah influence on the demonstrations will make it easier for Hamas to dismiss/delegitimize them as “pushed by an external agenda”
6\ The protesters’ messages are simple, uncontroversial, & realistic: “We want to live”, “End the war/genocide”, “We want peace & normal life”, “Hamas must step down from gov”…
Some sent reassuring messages like “We’re not against Hamas, but against its rule”
7\ However, actors trying to exploit these protests to escalate the messaging to the next level (e.g. demanding disarmament, fully dismantling Hamas, foreign gov in Gaza, whitewashing Israel, framing Hamas as the sole problem) are undermining the potential of these demonstrations
8\ MANY Gazans want Hamas to step down from gov (even inside Hamas itself), many want a permanent ceasefire, but full disarmament is a very sensitive topic
The mere existence of any form of weapons in Gaza is seen by many as a deterrent against the IDF staying in Gaza forever
9\ The protest demands (end the war, Hamas step down from gov) have already been largely accepted by Hamas, who has been calling for a permanent end to the war & accepted ceding governance to a technocratic PA gov or an independent administrative committee
Israel says no to both
10\ Even if Hamas is toppled by those protests, Israel is unlikely to accept an alternative form of Palestinian governance, an IDF withdrawal from Gaza or an end to the war.
Netanyahu maintains a veto on all the above & depopulating Gaza remains Israel’s priority
11\ The more Israel talks about emptying out Gaza, the lesser those protests’ potential & the more strength Hamas will draw by portraying itself as the only entity that can prevent or at least challenge this scenario & make the IDF stay in Gaza costly
12\ Add to this, the continuation of Israeli attacks will probably be the biggest factor in limiting the expansion of the demonstrations.
Israeli mouthpieces called on Gazans to demonstrate in certain areas that were then bombed by the IDF!
13\ The genocide creates a rallying around the flag effect that strengthens Hamas’ survival. What Israel failed to accomplish in 16 months of total war, it won’t succeed to get by demanding starved & desperate Gazans march to its tune
14\ Popular demonstrations usually succeed by disrupting life, shutting down the economy, making it impossible for the government to function & its leaders to move around
Israel did all this & more already. There’s nothing left protesters can do to pressure Hamas amid genocide!
15\ Ultimately, a true popular reckoning with Hamas can only happen once there is a ceasefire… at the ballot boxes
Nonetheless, the protests are a natural right to Gazans who’ve been through hell on their own for 16 months; no one outside has a right to lecture them
https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1905015799149961615
Posted by: Menz | Mar 31 2025 0:23 utc | 37
Roger Gall
@Shambles151
I stand with Francesca Albanese – because I am a human being.
https://x.com/Shambles151/status/1905961125847474487
Posted by: Menz | Mar 31 2025 0:25 utc | 38
Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
🚨Al Jazeera Mubasher’s correspondent, citing eyewitnesses, reports that the bodies of two Red Crescent and Civil Defense workers were discovered in a single grave, with signs that they had been thrown into it by Israeli forces while handcuffed.
The Palestinian Red Crescent stated that 14 bodies have now been recovered, including eight paramedics from its team and five members of the Civil Defense, who had been missing for eight days in Rafah’s Tel al-Sultan area. One paramedic remains missing.
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1906392894644142121
Posted by: Menz | Mar 31 2025 0:26 utc | 39
believe your own eyes, ears and reasoning; not the rhetoric, propaganda and mendacity
see the photo at the first link
https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1906386462964400265
Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi
A Zionist regime airstrike hit a tent in Khan Yunis, killing a father and his three children as they celebrated in their holiday clothes.
Trump is a childkiller.
https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/1905968207061492064
DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard
President Trump IS the President of Peace. He is ending bloodshed across the world and will deliver lasting peace in the Middle East.
Where Joe Biden failed, President Trump will succeed.
——
https://x.com/AssalRad/status/1906470034547110071
Assal Rad @AssalRad
Oh Palestinians are dying because of lack of medical supplies? Why, is someone blocking it?
https://x.com/BBCWorld/status/1906393827436363816
BBC News (World) @BBCWorld
Wounded Palestinians dying over lack of supplies, US surgeon who worked in Gaza says
Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 31 2025 0:26 utc | 40
Kylie Cheung
@kylietcheung
NYU canceled a speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she was going to discuss the genocide in Gaza. A slide about the death toll in Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic”:
https://x.com/kylietcheung/status/1906419412879413646
Posted by: Menz | Mar 31 2025 0:27 utc | 41
Trump shredded the Iran nuclear deal for Israel because Natanyahu is afraid Iran can still wipe his merry bands of genociders off the map with advanced missiles, making deterrence via nuclear fallout so passe’. But Iran knows if it gives up its missiles, it will experience the same shock as Iraq. It would be foolish if Putin abandons Iran as he did Syria. Perhaps Trump reneged on a promise to trade Ukraine for Syria and Putin fell for it — again.
Posted by: Willow | Mar 31 2025 0:32 utc | 42
Posted by: Willow | Mar 31 2025 0:32 utc | 42
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There is no indication that Trump and Putin have organized anything together. People need to stop projecting Russia as “world police”. They have less interest in that than the Chinese, who have zero interest. No one wants to repeat America’s mistakes with foreign adventurism.
Besides, Iran can handle itself. The Islamic Revolution was explicitly created for this moment.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 31 2025 0:55 utc | 43
Posted by: Willow | Mar 31 2025 0:32 utc | 42
“Putin” has one more base in Syria tha before he intervened.
“Putin” propped up Assad for nine years.
Assad’s generals gave up on him and the SAA.
Assad is now in Russia.
Save your simplicities for reddit, home of the midwit.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 31 2025 1:12 utc | 44
https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1906290821382775107
Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi
How many Palestinian and Yemeni kids have you killed today?
https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1906247585213415472
Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer
As the holy month of Ramadan ends, I wish Muslims in the UK and across the world a blessed and joyful Eid-al-Fitr.
https://x.com/AbubakerAbedW/status/1906272723254292845
Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW
How cute are you! I can’t believe that. You kill us and walk in our funerals. That’s so cute, shame Keir.
One day, you will walk to your end, insha’Allah. Shame on you and every Muslim who replied to you. You are just a shameless genocidal monster who one day will be tamed in a cave.
This is what we wish for you. And if any Muslim wishes you otherwise, we wish more for them.
You’re Shame Keir. That’s how we should call you
Eid Mubarak!
https://x.com/alon_mizrahi/status/1906370331066946017
Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi
I wish you (Starmer) life in prison after the Gaza Genocide Trials
https://x.com/HalaJaber/status/1906313959327604888
Hala Jaber @HalaJaber
Spare us the Eid greetings, @Keir_Starmer. You can’t cheer on the slaughter of Muslims in Gaza one day & pretend to care about Muslims the next.
Your words are as hollow as your slogans. You haven’t earned the right to say Eid Mubarak.
https://x.com/LibyanIntegrity/status/1906252105746112569
Ahmed Sewehli @LibyanIntegrity
Sends weapons to massacre Muslims then says have a blessed Eid!! British Muslims hate you for your support for genocide.
https://x.com/Humanityclouded/status/1906300822402556406
Humanity United @Humanityclouded
Are we taking a break from bombing them today? Are the RAF Intelligence flights from Cyprus to Gaza on holiday today?
Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 31 2025 2:14 utc | 45
“Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 30 2025 16:06 utc | 3
Should we be aiming our vitriol at Trump or the moronic masses who put him into power?”
I blame the moronic masses who thought there were only two choices, and picked Trump as the least vile – at least they were right about that, even with their blinders on.
Posted by: Dalit | Mar 31 2025 2:18 utc | 46
….. Iran wins the international concrete contest every year. No one else even comes close. Were talking 25,000 PSI. Lots and lots of talented engineers to place the bar.
Posted by: LosBano…….
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Double Wow ! Most extraordinary achievement
Posted by: Exile | Mar 31 2025 3:04 utc | 47
and picked Trump as the least vile – at least they were right about that, even with their blinders on.
Posted by: Dalit | Mar 31 2025 2:18 utc | 46
The jury’s still out on that …
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 31 2025 3:21 utc | 48
Details on the targeted E-2 aircraft
The targeted E-2 aircraft is designed to provide critical intelligence on potential threats faced by the warship during military operations. While it does not directly participate in attacks, it plays a crucial role in surveillance and tracking
Posted by: Mary | Mar 30 2025 23:06 utc | 28
Don’t know much about military stuff, but I assume this reduces the ability of the CSG to detect incoming threats?
Which means it only gets worse for the CSG in the Red Sea from here on if the Houthi decide to go harder.
That, or the entire CSG high tails it out of there as fast as possible …
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 31 2025 3:26 utc | 49
We should be directing our ire at the inauthentic opposition who didn’t give said masses an alternative.
Posted by: drinky crow | Mar 30 2025 16:40 utc | 6
What is this “opposition” of which you speak?
I see one backside each half an opposing cheek.
With a controlling arsehole hidden in a mysterious crack betwixt.
To be succinct:
There is no opposition except that ancient, eternal opposer with cloven feet …
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 31 2025 3:36 utc | 50
@ Arch Bungle | Mar 31 2025 3:26 utc | 49 & Posted by: Mary | Mar 30 2025 23:06 utc | 28 about the E-2 Hawkeye..thanks
I found this
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The newest version of the E-2C also has a Aegis Weapon System.
Most incredibly, the new radar – the APY-9 – is actually capable of detecting fighter-sized stealth aircraft such as the Su-57 and some of the newer Chinese fighter types.
But this is not the radar’s only trick. Another important aspect is to guide weapons from other aircraft. It is possible for the E-2D to guide AIM-120 and SM-6 missiles fired from other aircraft to targets outside the range of the fighter that launched it.
”
It may have been forced to use its Aegis loads and had to retreat back to carrier so no more support for aggression, eh?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 31 2025 3:58 utc | 51
#49
Since entering combat during the Vietnam War, the E-2 has served the US Navy around the world, acting as the electronic “eyes of the fleet”.
More recently, E-2Cs provided the command and control for both aerial warfare and land-attack missions during the Persian Gulf War.
The E-2 Hawkeye is a crucial component of all U.S. Navy carrier air wings; each carrier is equipped with four Hawkeyes (five in some situations), allowing for continuous 24-hour-a-day operation of at least one E-2 and for one or two to undergo maintenance in the aircraft carrier’s hangar deck at all times.
Methinks CSG is kinda screwed without them. It will be interesting to see how Ansarallah managed to nullify them.
Posted by: Sir Reginald | Mar 31 2025 3:58 utc | 52
draw the carriers in.
blind e2
glub glub down go Israel and carriers.
promise 3?
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 31 2025 4:38 utc | 53
Menz 37
‘Nonetheless, the protests are a natural right to Gazans who’ve been through hell on their own for 16 months; no one outside has a right to lecture them’
The only trace of DNA of Christianity left after 2000 years of Chritianity is ‘ Judge not lest ye be judged’. Compassion has disappeared down the plughole of Evangelaism. Nazism flourishes supreme in the “”””Chritianity”””” of the West.
Anybody disagree with that?
So since Chritianity is as extinct as Jurassic Patk, what does Islam have to say about Dahlan’s, Fatah, Joseph Chamberlain, appeasement of Nazism?
Islam says that we are placed here on Earth to be tested whether or not we will accept martyrdom in the pursuit of Justice, based on Faith in God’s Promise of Resurrection in Paradise for those those struggle against the worldly power of Fascism/ Tyranny.
The Palestinians and Hamas fully 1000% accept Allah’s message. Dahlan and Fatah 1000% rejects it.
“”Christian””dead DNA waffle about not judging Palestians for wanting Chamberlain-style APPEASEMENT OF ZIONIST NAZISM, is wrong on two fronts.
1/ History tells us that appeasement of Nazism doesn’t work.
2/ Islam tells us that it isn’t just Palestinians who are being tested here.
Every single human being on the Planet Earth that ignores this genocide and allows it to happen unchallenged, has already failed the God Test, the test of whether we are prepared to fight against Tyranny.
It is obligatory on every Muslim to fight against Tyranny, not just to say it’s somebody else’s problem.
If all the UK Muslims descended on London on April 1, the Starmer Zioninst government would collapse, and its MIC wars in Ukraine and West Asia would instantly end.
We are all being tested, not just Palestinians.
Posted by: Giyane | Mar 31 2025 5:10 utc | 54
Catastrophic risk. No benefit. Thats not strength. Trump is a weak man pretending to be strong. Just like every narcissist. Deep down they know. Thats why they pretend so hard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9nTv-sSxjM
Posted by: LosBanos | Mar 31 2025 5:31 utc | 56
Posted by: Sir Reginald | Mar 31 2025 3:58 utc | 52
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They took down 16 Reaper drones, I believe.
While their material lives are simple, they possess ingenuity and creativity. The racist belief that brown people cannot match Western technology is an enormous blindspot.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 31 2025 5:34 utc | 57
Posted by: Giyane | Mar 31 2025 5:10 utc | 54
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Eid Mubarak, brother.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 31 2025 5:34 utc | 58
CrossTalk: Trump’s Wars
https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/614864-trump-yemen-illegal-war/
“The Signal text scandal should signal to us all that the Trump administration is pursuing an illegal war against Yemen and intends to eventually force regime change in Iran.
The US president claims to be a peacemaker while conducting and preparing illegal wars.
CrossTalking with Mohammad Marandi, Omar Nashabe and Lisa Issac.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 31 2025 6:37 utc | 60
“It’s only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it’s not terrorism.”
– Noam Chomsky
see the 26-second video at the last link. warning: graphic. israel/america is the great satan.
https://x.com/BladeoftheS/status/1905729470071546270
BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS
Enemies of Francesca Albanese are trying to get the UN Special Rapporteur blocked from being renewed in May this year.
This is how they work if they can’t beat you, and they can’t smear you, they cancel you
Show your support for Francesca who dares challenge Israel’s war crimes
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1906447843105312991
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
The “peace president” has given Benjamin Netanyahu the green light to ethnically cleanse Gaza, is bombing Yemen on a daily basis, edging toward war with Iran, and wants to buy Greenland, annex Canada, and wreck Europe’s economy. Hard to imagine what the world would look like if he wasn’t a peace president.
https://x.com/RamAbdu/status/1831796230932029752
Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu
Graphic: After the Israeli airstrike, no one survived. When I saw this child killed, she had put her fingers in her ears, terrified of the sound. She was hiding under her blanket, covered in blood. These scenes we are witnessing are beyond words. #GazaGenocide
insta: nooh.xp
Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 31 2025 7:02 utc | 61
I Am A Yemeni…
https://x.com/Ahmed_hassan_za/status/1905768561953722865
“I do not want to see my people killed and their houses and businesses destroyed. However my concern for my life, the lives of my family and the lives of my people is no excuse for me to watch criminals kill others without doing anything to stop the criminals.
We know that criminals will not choose to stop the killing, destruction and massacres. We know that they will choose to kill anyone who tries to stop them.
We are trying to stop this killing, destruction and genocide, and this is the national, correct and right decision from any human being.
The fact that my country is being destroyed and my people are being killed does not mean that we made the wrong decision.
The decision to stand up to evil criminals was never and will never be a wrong decision regardless of the consequences of that decision.
Yemen wants peace for all, and Israel and America want killing, destruction and war for all…”
How refreshing this honest and ethical Yemeni lesson to our watching world. Let us take it up, organize and act to put things right.
Silence is complicity. Resist don’t collaborate. Free Palestine. Yemen forever. Down with USrael.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 31 2025 7:03 utc | 62
QNN: Israel’s Netanyahu, Wanted by ICC, to Visit Hungary This Week
https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1906456581900058650
For USrael all outrages are committed and permitted.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 31 2025 7:15 utc | 63
Most incredibly, the new radar – the APY-9 – is actually capable of detecting fighter-sized stealth aircraft such as the Su-57 and some of the newer Chinese fighter types.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 31 2025 3:58 utc | 51
Most not incredibly, that’s bullshit. They can’t even name the “newer Chinese” stuff? Newer than autumn of 1996?
I love texts written by diversity hire: “Yeah yeah, put the latest Russian shit and some Chinese shit whatever their names are, who cares”
Posted by: rk | Mar 31 2025 7:35 utc | 64
Calling them animals would be insulting animals:
Arya – آریا
@AryJeay
Israeli minister of war & minister of security in the Knesset enjoying a meme of bulldozing Palestinian homes.
They are enjoying their ethnic cleansing like two devilish monsters.
See photo:
https://x.com/AryJeay/status/1906046986794520939
Posted by: Menz | Mar 31 2025 8:26 utc | 65
Max Blumenthal
@MaxBlumenthal
Netanyahu acknowledges he controls the Trump admin and calls to “pressure other governments” to enact the same speech crackdowns
Trump’s Israel First (MIGA) Ambassador, David Friedman, then calls to jail even more anti-genocide speech criminals
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1906557835434979331
Posted by: Menz | Mar 31 2025 8:27 utc | 66
Khalissee
@Kahlissee
Abby Martin is Correct – Israel’s Propaganda failed and the Youth are Waking Up WORLDWIDE @AbbyMartin
https://x.com/Kahlissee/status/1905938233311064533
Posted by: Menz | Mar 31 2025 8:28 utc | 67
Seyed Mohammad Marandi
@s_m_marandi
·
1h
The US is a terrorist regime, and CENTCOM’s forward headquarters is in Qatar.
Doha helps the US murder the people of Yemen.
Doha supports ISIS and Al-Qaeda in Syria.
Doha helps the US protect the Zionist regime from Iranian drones and missiles.
https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1906608022178197544
Posted by: Menz | Mar 31 2025 8:30 utc | 68
Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 31 2025 7:02 utc | 61
Post doesn’t exist. Taken down?
Posted by: KingCobra | Mar 31 2025 8:54 utc | 69
Jerusalem Post: ‘Israel Wants To Occupy & ‘Cleanse’ Gaza, Likud Lawmaker Says’
https://x.com/AssalRad/status/1906389132328464813
“They’re openly telling you what they’re planning and Western media still manages to avoid it.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 31 2025 9:00 utc | 70
That is why false flags work so well. Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin, 9/11.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 23:12 utc | 30
You forgot the false flag called October 7.
That is why false flags work so well. You know, October 7, Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin, 9/11.
There, fixed it for you.
Posted by: false flag | Mar 31 2025 9:04 utc | 71
@ psychohistorian
Read somewhere recently of the same capability possessed by SU35/SU57 and S400 combo.
Posted by: necromancer | Mar 31 2025 9:16 utc | 72
Re: E-2 Hawkeye
Very roughly for laymen:
The E-2 forms the core of the Carrier‘s Integrated Command and Control System. Think of the E-2 as a sea based AWACS. Without it, the Carrier Group is (mostly) blind and (mostly) uncoordinated.
Posted by: Exile | Mar 31 2025 9:26 utc | 73
see the 20-se3cond video at the third link
https://x.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1905914541331952049
Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg
Western democracy as we have known it was always imperfect, but it had its merits. That system of basic respect for human liberties has in practice ceased to exist.
Western democracy is no more
https://x.com/novaramedia/status/1905676965312442409
Novara Media @novaramedia
🚨 BREAKING
Police have raided a Quaker meeting house and arrested six young people meeting to discuss concerns about the climate crisis and the Gaza genocide.
On 27 March, more than 20 officers – some carrying tasers – reportedly forced their way into Westminster Meeting House in central London.
According to Quakers in Britain, the officers “broke open the front door without warning or ringing the bell first, searching the whole building and arresting six women attending the meeting in a hired room”.
Paul Parker, recording clerk for Quakers in Britain, said: “No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory.”
“This aggressive violation of our place of worship and the forceful removal of young people holding a protest group meeting clearly shows what happens when society criminalises protest.”
https://x.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1905607836505088221
Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc
Missing for 4 days, 16 Palestinian Ambulance crew members found point-blank executed by the israelis after being illegally kidnapped in south Gaza
Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 31 2025 10:29 utc | 75
Is Iran now arming Venezuela?!?
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/16911
— 🇮🇷/🇻🇪/🇺🇸 NEW: Iranian military cargo flights to Venezuela, likely moving missiles and drones
This plane was previously involved in arms shipments to Sudan, and was recently denied entry into Lebanon.
@Middle_East_Spectator
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Posted by: Mary | Mar 31 2025 10:37 utc | 76
Bucharest, March 31, 2025
Today, the Hind Rajab Foundation, through its legal representative, has filed a criminal complaint before the Romanian Prosecutor’s Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice against Orel Benyaish, an Israeli soldier from the 432nd Battalion of the Givati Brigade. He is accused of committing war crimes and acts of genocide during Israel’s ongoing military operations in the Gaza Strip.
The evidence submitted includes images and videos posted by Benyaish himself, showing his direct involvement in the destruction of residential buildings in the Netzarim corridor—a heavily targeted area where thousands of Palestinian civilians were forcibly displaced. He appears in uniform, smiling in front of homes rigged with explosives. In these same images is fellow soldier Yuval Vagdani, also of the Givati Brigade, who was photographed in the moment explosives were being placed for a controlled demolition. The two acted together, knowingly and deliberately, in destroying civilian homes without any military justification.
This is not a matter of battlefield tragedy. It is the calculated and boastful destruction of civilian life, carried out with impunity and celebrated in social media posts. The detonation, which reduced entire homes to rubble, is not only a war crime under international humanitarian law—it is an expression of genocidal intent. These actions were not part of legitimate combat. They were designed to humiliate, terrorize, and annihilate a people, in flagrant violation of the Geneva Conventions, the Rome Statute, and the most fundamental norms of human dignity.
Last December in Brazil, a judge issued a probe order against Yuval Vagdani for his role in this same crime. The Romanian complaint is therefore not isolated, but part of a broader international legal effort to end the impunity of soldiers who participate in the collective punishment and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population.
Romania, as a party to the Rome Statute and the Geneva Conventions, bears not only the legal competence but the moral obligation to act….
Posted by: Mary | Mar 31 2025 10:42 utc | 77
Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg
Western democracy as we have known it was always imperfect, but it had its merits. That system of basic respect
Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 31 2025 10:29 utc | 75
False.
There has never been a Western Democracy.
There has been a Western Colonial Empire, with a facade’ of democracy for the proletariate regulated by a separate democracy for the elites further regulated by a tiny democracy for the rulers over the levers of power.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 31 2025 10:48 utc | 78
It may have been forced to use its Aegis loads and had to retreat back to carrier so no more support for aggression, eh?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 31 2025 3:58 utc | 51
Will be informative to see how this plays out over this week.
Watch the skies …
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 31 2025 10:51 utc | 79
23 – The demise of the socialist bloc was definitely a loss for anti-imperialism, and made the Americans and the Israelis think they could get away with anything now. With results we still see…
Posted by: Waldorf | Mar 31 2025 11:21 utc | 80
“Scotty, beam me up!”
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 23:12 utc | 30
Yes, Scotty please do as I for one I am sick of this guy’s non stop posting which has no merit.
Barflies, If you haven’t read yet, I invite you to my early morning posting in seven parts on the open thread for criticism. All things are connected and why the Gazans are being exterminated not just genocided.
I see that dozens of massive troop carrying aircraft are transiting between South Korea and The natzios Bases in West Asia.
They talk Jaw-Jaw but march to War-War.
The ziofascist illegal apartheid entity and it’s collected boorish murderous ‘settlers’ death wish is to be granted as their masters shapeshift away and pretend to be multipolarists – to rise again n another century.
From River to Sea Palestine is Free.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Mar 31 2025 11:53 utc | 82
Mary @ Mar 31 2025 10:37 utc | 76
This makes strategic sense as Venezuelan oil is required if the strait of Hormuz is blocked. There is no conflict with Iran that doesn’t also involve an attack on Maduro.
Posted by: SOS | Mar 31 2025 14:43 utc | 83
The “two stripe, one star”* state was established on the perception that “other peoples” hated them so much they needed their own nuclear “state” to feel safe.
I’m not surprise whatsoever to see the actual iteration still making all what they can for the world to hate them : it’s their “raison d’être”.
* There are multiple ways of understanding this metaphor , most people will get at least two , I hope much will see the third one ^^.
Posted by: Savonarole | Mar 31 2025 15:18 utc | 84
Journalist Suhaib Al-Masalma
“World Food Programme:
Our food stocks to support our operations in Gaza are only sufficient for less than two weeks
– Stocks in bakeries and food parcel distribution kitchens are at an unprecedented low in the Gaza Strip.”
Journalist Youssef Fares
“Head of the Gaza Bakeries Association: All Gaza bakeries working with the World Food Programme will close due to a shortage of flour.”
Large area ‘evacuation notice’
https://t.me/Sohaibpress/98065
Protests in Egypt.
https://t.me/Sohaibpress/98078
Notes:
Occupation military said preparing for large incursion.
Destruction of a Gaza tunnel by blasting.
Continued atrocities, approximately fifty to a hundred people martyred/killed daily, mostly women and children.
The Red Crescent ambulance crews were handcuffed and executed.
A ceasefire does not look realistic, occupation changes details and talks of only considering talks on phase 2 if half prisoners released.
Posted by: Ornot | Mar 31 2025 15:27 utc | 85
Can anyone help me quantify how much these sorties to bomb sand and bounce rubble are costing the US?
There are fuel costs, planning costs, personnel costs (do troops on aircraft carriers get danger pay?)
Plus the types of bombs being dropped, how long until they run out at this rate, etc. all the while Ansar Allah laughs at the Orange madman?
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Mar 31 2025 15:47 utc | 87
Plus the types of bombs being dropped, how long until they run out at this rate, etc. all the while Ansar Allah laughs at the Orange madman?
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Mar 31 2025 15:47 utc | 87
(Not the answer you’re looking for)
It’s in the range of a few billions per month for sure but it doesn’t matter while the U.S runs on fiat currency – they’ve essentially used the dollar-fulcrum to turn the world’s resources against itself.
The only time they’ll begin to feel it is when the Global South (BRICS) decide to de-dollarize en masse.
Until then it just doesn’t matter. The World says “You’re Good For It, Uncle Sam!”.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 31 2025 16:07 utc | 88
Thanks, Arch. I get it on the fiat currency printer. But you cannot print bombs! Or jet fuel, or spare parts for aircraft.
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Mar 31 2025 16:16 utc | 89
Plus the types of bombs being dropped, how long until they run out at this rate, etc. all the while Ansar Allah laughs at the Orange madman?
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Mar 31 2025 15:47 utc | 87
This is the crux of the matter. How will they be replaced while China has banned the sale of critical elements & components?
I remember decades ago when a co-worker said to me, “They think because we are honest & decent it means we’re stupid & weak.”
Apply that “thinking” to all the ZioNazis…the spawn of Satan, Father of Lies
Posted by: Mary | Mar 31 2025 16:22 utc | 90
This is the moment for China to strike. Ban everything, all exports to the US.
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Mar 31 2025 16:30 utc | 91
Breaking: Amnesty International says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must be arrested and handed over to the International Criminal Court should he visit Hungary or any other states that are members of the court.
Posted by: pepe | Mar 31 2025 16:49 utc | 92
Egyptians with Palestine
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/1234/543839/Egypt/Foreign-Affairs/Millions-of-Egyptians-rally-in-solidarity-with-Pal.aspx
Posted by: Minaa | Mar 31 2025 16:57 utc | 93
But you cannot print bombs! Or jet fuel, or spare parts for aircraft.
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Mar 31 2025 16:16 utc | 89
Very true.
In which case we shouldn’t think in terms of dollars being spent but in volumes of stockpiled legacy ordnance being poured in.
What is striking is that all the materiel being poured into Ukraine, Yemen, Israel is relatively old.
As you say, you can’t print weapons quickly at the rate the Americans use them.
That suggests we’re looking at stockpiles being consumed.
Ukraine.
Israel.
Syria.
Yemen.
Iran.
Venezuela?
China?
I have no idea how the Americans plan to run all these wars on stockpiles.
Perhaps they’ll start using nukes in lieu of conventional weapons …
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 31 2025 17:34 utc | 94
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei (AHK) said in a sermon on Eid Al-Fitr on Monday that he did not believe in a US military intervention but added that Washington would get a tough response if it tried to raise a revolt in Iran. According to Baghaei, US of A President DJT’s threats to bomb the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRA) run counter to the United Nations Charter and the safeguards under the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Posted by: pepe | Mar 31 2025 17:53 utc | 95
Headline at Reuters:
Israel proposes hostage deal as fighting continues in Gaza
subtext under headline:
Israel has proposed an extended truce in Gaza in exchange for the return of about half the remaining hostages, Israeli officials said.
To the average headline reader this sounds somewhat reasonable from Israel
as well as peace-seeking.
Open up the article, though, and read to the fifth paragraph and one finds that
all this is contingent on Hamas surrendering.
No surprises for barflies.
Posted by: Otto Penn | Mar 31 2025 17:57 utc | 96
The Occupation is Using New Deadlier Weapons…
https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1906528351973515391
“There is something unusual about the strikes and bombardment this time. The bombs used by the occupation seem entirely different – their sounds are louder than ever and their destructive power is immense.
Israel’s weaponry now is unlike anything we’ve witnessed before. The occupation is using new, deadlier weapons to destroy everything in its path.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 31 2025 18:03 utc | 97
Israel has officially “asked” Egypt to remove infrastructure on the Sinai Peninsula, claiming it violates the Camp David Accords.
Middle East Spectator – MES
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Today, the Israeli media outlet “Israel Hayom” reported of negotiations between Israel and the United States concerning Egypt, where it ended with Israel submitting an official request to Egypt, “asking” Egypt to dismantle all the military and strategic infrastructure in Sinai, because, allegedly, it poses a significant threat towards Israel and is a “major violation of the security annexes and the Camp David accords.”….
….Development projects that are subject to the Engineering Authority and the Government does not require to be first approved by foreign states, do what you wish, but remember that the consequences of all your actions are solely on you.
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Posted by: Mary | Mar 31 2025 18:18 utc | 98
“Alia Hamada, a victim of the ongoing massacre, joined her father today along with her brother and little sister. Families celebrate Eid al-Adha in a mute, one-eyed world. Spread the most beautiful laughter of our martyred children.”
https://t.me/youseffares19/72195
In theory, Egypt and Turkey are in line with US and so with “Israel”. Doubts aired about Turkey’s intent with Syria and the likes of the following might just be propaganda/distraction , but I think it is more likely “Israel” is being proactively aggressive to try to keep or build a sense of command.
Journalist Youssef Fares
“Israel Hayom:
Israel has approached Egypt and the United States with a request to begin dismantling military infrastructure established by the Egyptian army in Sinai, in violation of the peace agreement between the two countries. A senior security official described these Egyptian measures as a “significant violation” of the security annex.
The Israeli official stressed that Israel is committed to preserving the peace agreement with Egypt and does not intend to change its military deployment along the border with Egypt. However, he stressed that Israel “will not accept this situation.””
Remembering Hamas had asked for aid deliveries to be made via Rafah crossing in future (in event of a ceasefire)
Journalist Suhaib Al-Masalma
“Axios quoting an Israeli official:
The army will expand its ground operation in Gaza to occupy 25% of the Strip within two or three weeks. The ground operation is part of a maximum pressure campaign to force Hamas to agree to the release of more hostages.
The army’s plan is to expand the buffer zone it controls in the territory near the border.”
They don’t say which border and presumably with Gaza, but given Rafah is currently being told to evacuate, further isolating the Egyptian border is also likely part of any plan.
Within two to three weeks there will be no food left in Gaza, if reports are correct.
It is not easy to read the wider circumstance, beyond the obvious.
Posted by: Ornot | Mar 31 2025 18:25 utc | 99
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator?before=16963
— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iran has put into operation its 9th ‘Qadir’ Phased Array Radar, somewhere in Yazd Province, boosting its air defense
These radars have the ability to monitor enemy air bases, detect air targets, stealth aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles, and LEO satellites.
One of Iran’s ‘Qadir’ phased array radars, stationed in Ahvaz, was destroyed in the Israeli attack in October 2024. It is currently undergoing repairs. Image 1 shows current Iranian radar coverage.
*Location has been blurred in accordance with military censorship.
@Middle_East_Spectator
Posted by: Mary | Mar 31 2025 18:27 utc | 100