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🇺🇸🇨🇳 Top US military officials admit energy dominance is central to US geopolitical strategy including using “geography” (straits) to “impose costs” (blockade) “competitors” (China).
The problem is no one watches these hearings or reads the policy papers these statements are echoing.
Instead, many are listening to the garbled version of this filtered through daily Western political theater by politicians who are repeating talking points they themselves don’t understand and often are tasked with deliberately misrepresenting or directing attention away from these policies.
I know 2-3 hour long hearings and 200 page policy papers are a lot to work through but they have been telling us the plan for years through both.
If you listen to the hearing the US is obviously planning to impose the same sort of servile dependence Europe is already under upon Japan, South Korea, Philippines and Australia.
The US plans to use its control over these nations to create battering rams against China just like Europe serves against Russia.
The US war on Iran and its direct/indirect blockade on the Strait of Hormuz has already accelerated this process by weaponozing access to energy - ruling out normal economic activity for its proxies and forcing them into war-time postures.
The US Senate hearing begins by talking about Iran and quickly links it to China - pointing out China as the number one priority the US must resolve.
It makes sense from the angle of putting other countries into deeper dependency on the US, but, this also opens up China’s electrification to new markets. Japan, South Korea, Philippines and Australia have a choice between US oil/gas or cheaper+cleaner Chinese solar/batteries. It was too late before the war even started.
Even on Wikipedia, there’s a rule not to cite primary sources.
wait, what
why? wouldn’t primary sources be the most reliable?
Because they don’t want primary sources to be interpreted “the wrong way”.
Do you have a link to this guideline? I remember that original research is not allowed, but not a rule against primary sources. 🤔
Wikipedia articles should rely on published secondary sources and, to a lesser extent, on tertiary sources.
In theory, primary sources may also be used. Reliance on primary sources can lead to interpretive clambs, analyses, or synthetic claims, which must be referenced to a specific source that makes the same claim or analysis.
It is not proper to rely on original analysis of the primary-source material by Wikipedia editors.
—❗️🇮🇱/🇸🇴 BREAKING: Somalia announces a ban on all Israeli ships passing Bab Al-Mandab
Oooh shit
“OHHHH!!! and it’s Somalia with the chair!!! israel did not see that coming!!! That has to hurt.”
Somalia should take a page out of the history books and deputize their pirates against Israeli shipping lol
I don’t think people have really let it sink in what we witnessed in the past 2 months.
Iran, as a sole & sanctioned country, fought against the largest, most gilded nuclear powered army in the world, and still stands strong and speaks from a position of strength.
As an example, Iran literally bombed a US base with a six decade old fighter jet while the US was armed with 4th & 5th gen aircrafts… please let this sink in.
Unrelated but it really got me worried. All of the updates regarding a horrible attack on Mali which is a revolutionary country from the AES of Sahel.
🇲🇱 Jihadist forces attempting to storm Kati, a strategically vital suburb of the capital Bamako, were decisively crushed. The Malian army and Russia’s African Corps destroyed dozens of militants before they even reached the perimeter. FPV drones and motorcycle assault tactics failed to make a difference.
Via: @Rybar_africa
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/182800?single
🇲🇱 Somewhere in Mali…
Some militants, having expended all their ammunition, attempt to flee, but local Malians lynch them on the spot
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/182801
🇲🇱 Captured militants somewhere in Mali.
🔴 @DDGeopolitics
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/182802
🏴⚡️🇲🇱🇷🇺 Wagner base in Mali overrun by JNIM fighters.
🏴⚡️🇲🇱 Helicopter operated by Mali was shot down by JNIM Al Qaeda branch in Sahel.
⚡️🇲🇱 The Defense Minister was alleged to have been killed in the conflict in Mali, however, government outlets only say he was severely injured in a VBIED attack, other outlets now report that the Chief of Staff was also killed at his post.
⚡️🇲🇱 Gunfights in the Malian capital is over as crowds lynch Al-Qaeda fighters and the rest were wiped out by the reorganized Malian army assets and some Afrika Corps.
The same can not be said in terms of other cities.
⚡️🇲🇱 Al-Qaeda in Mali states that they have officially entered an alliance with the Ethnic Rebels to topple the Malian government.
They offer the Russian Federation a deal - to abstain from the conflict and the Russian soldiers and specialists who are currently besieged in their installations will be left alone.
@medmannews
Fuck the French and whoever is funding the terrorists in the JNIM in the Sahel
🔥 Hezbollah shot down a Zionist Hermes 450 drone with a surface-to-air missile over the city of Tyre.
You got a ‘Buy me a coffee’ or something I could sponsor you with? You’re doing such impressive work in these threads I wish I could show gratitude in more ways than just saying ‘thank you’.
Thank you for your kind words! With the upvotes, it is enough for me.
🫡
This^. A monero address would be good
⭕️ Let’s be ready for the apocalyptic battle
🔺 The above image is a map of the deployment of the aggressive American war equipment in West Asia, and the Great Satan has brought everything it had hidden in its warehouses to the front line, which means an apocalyptic war is ahead.
On this side, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, with youthful spirit and exemplary decisiveness, holds the helm of the country, and the people of the Islamic Iran, who have been sent forth, have filled the important and decisive street trenches historically and civilizationally with enthusiasm and awareness for 60 days and nights. The brave and alert soldiers are just waiting for a signal to wreak havoc on the enemy, and the international resistance front, now more united and motivated than ever, is counting down the moments for the final battle.
Soon, the roar of missiles will smash the military, armament, industrial, and infrastructural centers of America, Israel, and their regional allies, and this time, no mercy will be shown.
The strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait will be blocked, following the model of the Strait of Hormuz.
Unity of fronts in the axis of resistance has taken a more serious and forceful form, and the warriors of Islam are ready to be present in the occupied lands.
Let us be prepared for the bitterness and sweetness of war.Source -> https://t.me/kriyaassess/65276
Unrelated but also worth mentioning.
🇺🇸🇨🇩🇦🇫Washington to Dump Loyal Afghan Allies in War-Torn Congo.
In a move that critics are calling a profound betrayal of international trust, the Trump administration is reportedly negotiating to deport roughly 1,100 Afghan nationals—who risked their lives to serve American interests—to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This decision marks the final collapse of an initiative intended to provide sanctuary to those who enabled the decades-long US occupation of Afghanistan. Having served as the “boots on the ground” for American forces, these interpreters and their families now find themselves discarded by the very empire they helped sustain.
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/182581
This is good warning to all of those pro west bootlicking gusanos from Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and other countries.
It doesn’t matter how much of the West propaganda you parrot.
It doesn’t matter how much you try to look like them or act like them in mimicking their hate toward your roots.
It doesn’t matter how much you kill for the West.
You will never be considered part of them. You will never look to them as another white supremacist that can have the same rights and privilege.Till they (added: not just the aforementioned groups but gusanos of every ethnicity) experience it personally they never fucking learn (and even then). Apparently empathy is that challenging to the human condition (Marx was on point about material conditions).
Look at the Kurds. Took them being used and cast aside about twenty times before they finally got the hint. The west (especially the US) and Israel are never to be allied with. They’re evil deceitful hideous beasts who only show allegiance to wealth.
🇮🇷| Military enthousiast from Iran says:
“I personally witnessed them bombing an Iranian missile base, and 2 hours later, Iran launched a missile from the very same place… That’s when I realized that America has lost this war.”
Now, that people have been agitating against the US empire actions in Iran, lots of agitators will find this attitude from pro imperialist Westerners that Sony Thang synthesised here:
There is a specific American psychological condition with no official name.
It is the condition of a person who genuinely believes their country has, on balance, been a force for good in the world, and who will experience any evidence to the contrary not as information, but as a <personal> attack.
You are not arguing with their politics when you present them with history.
You are threatening their personality.
Their goodness is not separable from their country’s goodness.
Their innocence is national innocence.
Their pride is imperial pride.
It has all been fused together so completely that historical fact functions as personal accusation.
This is not an accident.
This is the deepest mechanism of imperial culture.
Make the citizen and the empire one psychological unit.
Then any critique of the empire feels like an assault on the self.And people defend their selves with everything they have.
Source -> https://xcancel.com/nxt888/status/2047340650346233980#m
In void of an actual personality the empire itself becomes the personality. This is the height of the identity crisis that capitalism fuels; the annihilation of the individual and the community at the same time, leaving people aimless and isolated. They have no group to look toward and nothing internal to analyze. They become shells, empty husks, worker drones. They adopt the empire as their child and strive to protect it with a parental love. They have nothing else. Capitalism robbed them of community, broke up and scattered their family, and has even withered away their sense of self. There is only the country now.
Imperialist Personality Transference Disorder.
🇸🇴🌟🇮🇱🇺🇸Seizure of a cargo vessel off the Somali coast
➡The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported early this morning that a maritime hijacking incident has occurred 6 nautical miles northeast of the port of Garacad, Somalia.
➡According to the alert, unidentified armed individuals have seized control of a cargo vessel and diverted it toward Somali territorial waters.
➡No further details have yet been released regarding the crew, cargo, or nationality of the hijacked vessel, and investigations by the relevant authorities are ongoing.
🐻Since the Somali federal government hasn’t spoken on this, this is clearly an independent action by Puntland — one of Somalia’s semi-autonomous federal member states. Unlike Isreali/USA-backed Somaliland, they are not separatists — they formally acknowledge the federal government, but operate in practice as an autonomous region with their own president, police and military.
Garacad has been the center of Somali piracy since the early 2000s.
To repeat what we wrote 2 weeks ago — Yemenis are just sitting on the shore and watching the world burn.🔥Lloyd’s: 26 Iranian ships broke the US naval blockade
🔹According to Lloyd’s List, at least 26 vessels associated with Iran’s “Shadow Fleet” have successfully bypassed the blockade declared by the United States.
🇮🇷🇺🇸| Some of the energy facilities Iran will target in case ceasefire does not uphold, according to IRINN.
I can tell you that the target bank is much bigger than this:
Qatar »
RasGas: LNG production.
Ras Liffan: LNG productionUAE (Eastern Israel) »
Das Island: Oil and LNG.
Zirku Island: Major offshore oil fieldKingdom of Saudi »
Abqaiq: World’s largest oil producer.
Safaniya: World’s largest offshore oil field.
Khurais: Oil fieldKuwait »
Burgan: 1.6–1.7 million oil barrels/day
🇺🇸🇮🇷| Headline of the day: A US Navy electronics technician for mine countermeasures ship, on his way to the Strait of Hormuz, was severely injured by a monkey after stopping in Thailand.
He’s been transferred to Japan for medical treatment.
https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21224
LOOOOL
Critical support to monkeys.
Uncritical support for comrade monkey.
Even monkeys and bees know these removed are the bad guys.
Lebanese lawyer Ahmad Alawiyye was killed in action in southern Lebanon. He had decided to leave his law practice to go south and confront the Israeli invasion.
https://xcancel.com/InfosLiban/status/2046727652799619504#m
Honor and glory to this brave fighter.
🫡 rest in power, may your sacrifice be not in vain, fida’i
Is that Arabic? Regardless, it was a shame that someone like that died.
The word fidāʾiyy (Arabic: فدائي; plural: فدائيون fidāʾiyyūn (standard) or فدائيين fidāʾiyyīn (informal), often rendered in English as ‘fedayeen’) means ‘sacrifice’ or ‘one who sacrifices himself’ (a literal translation of fidāʾiyyīn might be “martyrs”). The Palestinian fedayeen are militants or guerrillas of a nationalist orientation from among the Palestinian people. Most Palestinians consider the fedayeen to be “freedom fighters”.
It is tragic, LZ. If there were no Zionist Entity, there would be no need of people like him dying.
I bet he would have been a damn good lawyer with that level of actual integrity. RIP comrade.
❗️🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 - Iran Foreign Ministry spokesperson:
- The US proposal is unserious and its demands are unrealistic.
- There is no plan to participate in the next round of negotiation.
- Transfer of nuclear material outside of Iran is not on the table.
- Iran is in continuous contact with its partners in Moscow and Beijing.
@GeoPWatch on Telegram
This seems like a diplomatic escalation. Iran has not explicitly mentioned its partners in Moscow and Beijing up until now.
Everyone knows Russia and China are involved in back office capacity, but it seems like Iran is planning on deepening strategic ties in the new multipolar world order.
✋🧐🤚 Absolute cinema
Have Russia and China been brought up like this before? As direct partners? That kinda sounds like a big deal considering that China does not like being directly involved.
I think they are saying that the first round of talks was asked for by China but Russia has backed Iran in explaining that negotiating with usa is like negotiating with a rabid dog and China has now accepted that.
