US is revealed

Alexander Dugin’s message is blunt: the longer Iran refuses to collapse under pressure, the more the true nature of American power is exposed.
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According to Dugin, Iran’s resistance is revealing a system that speaks constantly about freedom, democracy, and human rights while relying on sanctions, military threats, regime-change pressure, and overwhelming force against nations that refuse to obey.
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In his view, Iran is not simply defending its borders. It is challenging a global order in which powerful countries decide who may possess weapons, control resources, choose allies, or pursue an independent political path.
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That is why every additional day Iran continues standing carries symbolic importance. It forces the world to compare Washington’s language with its actions and ask whether its foreign policy is truly about peace—or control.
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Dugin describes this contradiction in extreme spiritual terms, calling America’s nature “satanic.” Whether people accept that language or reject it, the underlying accusation is impossible to ignore:
When a country refuses to surrender, power is forced to reveal what it is willing to do to make that country submit.

EU countries into the sea

Мурка Багира – “Washes into the sea in hours”: Kedmi named 4 countries that will disappear from the world map after Russia’s strike
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Military analyst, veteran of Israeli intelligence Yakov Kedmi, said that several European countries will cease to exist in the event of a war with Russia.
Britain will be washed into the sea in a few hours by the underwater drone “Poseidon”. Germany will disappear forever – there will be nothing left in the place of the Reichstag. And here’s what’s important: it’s not a threat or a bluff. This is a sober analysis of the strategic nuclear arsenal of Russia, against which European armies are simply powerless.
WHICH EUROPEAN COUNTRIES WILL DISAPPEAR FIRST?
Kedmi has named a specific state. The islanders are in a particularly high risk area because of their geography.
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Britain will be washed into the sea in a few hours. For this, one thermal-nuclear torpedo “Poseidon” with a capacity of 100 megatons is enough. Western military experts admit: this unmanned submarine aircraft has no analogues in the world. The walking distance is 10,000 kilometers, the speed is 200 kilometers per hour underwater, the depth of diving is up to 1000 meters. No system in existence can overtake him.
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Germany is expecting the same participation, but a different scenario. Kedmi recalls: the Soviet flag was flown over the Reichstag in 1945. Next time, analyst warns, the Reichstag building itself will be gone. And not because it won’t be rebuilt. And because a funnel from a nuclear attack will remain in its place.
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The Baltic Republics — Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia — which Kedmi calls “quasi-states incapable of independent sovereign existence,” — will disappear primarily.
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WHY IS EUROPE IGNORING THESE WARNINGS?
Cadmi explains this loss of historical memory and total incompetence of European elites.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius called Russia a “returning threat” during a visit to Kyiv in mid-May. Cadmi called it a lie. It was Moscow that allowed the Germans to rise from the ruins after 1945. Russia has no territorial claims to Germany. But Berlin continues to pump Ukraine with weapons and prepare its divisions for conflict with Moscow.
An even more absurd situation – in the Baltic Sea. Latvia has declared Russia as the “sponsor of terrorism”. Cadmi offers a simple and hard answer: to terminate all diplomatic relations with this country. Diplomacy is a means, not a goal. If you are publicly insulted, there is no need to maintain decency.
The expert also spoke harshly about the head of European diplomacy Kai Kallas. According to him, there is no greater humiliation for Europe than when such a politician becomes one of its leaders.
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HOW WILL THE WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA WITH EUROPE REALLY END?
Cadmi is adamant: this will not be a repetition of the Second World War scenario. It will be a total conflict with the use of strategic nuclear weapons.
A few megatons of nuclear blow is enough to completely destroy any European metropolis. No NATO country can withstand even the first plat of Russian “Sarmat”, “Kinzhalov” and “Kalibrov”. American security guarantees are not worth a paper that says – the Pentagon will not sacrifice New York or Washington to save Riga or Tallinn.
“All Europeans who are thinking of a war with Russia can count on a conclusion that will be even more tragic than in both world wars combined,” said Cadmi.
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SENTENCE: EUROPE IS PLAYING WITH MATCHES IN A POWDER FUNERAL
European politicians have forgotten the lessons of 1945. They are building up arms again, discussing the creation of a “European nuclear bomb” and allowing openly russophobic regimes from small countries to rule themselves.
Cadmi has discovered nothing new. He simply voiced what they prefer to be silent about in Moscow: Russia’s nuclear arsenal is neither a toy nor a tool of deterrence. It’s a means of destruction. And if Europe crosses the red line, it will cease to exist as a habitable region.
Western strategists love to talk about “retention.” They forgot that in Russian this word sounds like “revenge”. And it’s irrevocable.
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TIP OF THE DAY
If you are a European politician who is calling for war with Russia today, reread the history textbook for 1939-1945. Your ancestors have already tried to go to the East. It ended with a flag over the Reichstag. Next time there will be no Reichstag itself. And London. And Paris. Poseidon takes no warning. He’s just waiting for the crew.

Trump plan delusional

ONE STAR REVIEW FOR A PROPOSAL AS REALISTIC AS LUNAR CHEESE Good Morning! “By 8:30am ET, Trump had already restructured the Middle East.

In a single sprawling post, Trump announced that Iran’s enriched uranium (“Nuclear Dust!”) would be immediately surrendered or destroyed, mandated that Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, and Jordan sign the Abraham Accords, and extended Iran an invitation to join as a bonus.
Trump had floated the Abraham Accords demand to the actual leaders of those countries on a call the previous day, and had been met with a silence so prolonged and so total that he reportedly asked whether everyone was still on the line. They were.
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A former U.S. ambassador to Israel, asked for his assessment, said the proposal was as realistic as a moon made of green cheese, the diplomatic equivalent of a one-star review.
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Iran’s foreign ministry, for its part, said a deal was not imminent and that it was not discussing the details of its nuclear program.
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That same evening U.S. Central Command announced it had conducted strikes in southern Iran near Bandar Abbas, hitting missile launch sites and boats it said were attempting to lay mines. CENTCOM described the strikes as defensive.
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Iran’s foreign ministry described them as a gross violation of the ceasefire.
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps shot down a U.S. MQ-9 drone and fired at a fighter jet.
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The supreme leader’s office posted that Gulf powers would no longer serve as a shield for American bases and that the U.S. would have no safe haven in the region.
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A tanker reported an external explosion 60 nautical miles off Muscat, discharging bunker fuel into the Arabian Sea.
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Brent crude, which had fallen 6.5 percent on Monday on hopes of a deal, climbed 3 percent overnight on the news that there might not be one.
This is what a peace process looks like when the goal is the appearance of peace rather than peace itself. The 8:30am Truth Social post and the Bandar Abbas strikes happened on the same day, by the same administration, with apparently no awareness that one might complicate the other. The president announced the terms of a deal Iran hadn’t agreed to, honored soldiers killed in the war that deal is meant to end, napped through their eulogy, and then had his military strike Iranian soil while Iranian negotiators were still in Doha.
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The analysts quoted on the Abraham Accords demand expressed astonishment. Astonishment is the appropriate response. Saudi Arabia has made clear for years that it will not normalize with Israel without a Palestinian state and an Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories. Qatar is hosting the negotiations. The idea that either country would, on Memorial Day, receive a Truth Social post “mandatorily requesting” their immediate signature and respond with anything other than silence was, to borrow the ambassador’s formulation, lunar cheese at best.
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What Trump appears to have calculated, and it is perhaps the only coherent calculation in any of this, is that he needs a deal, or the convincing simulation of one, before November. The war has been expensive at the pump, and midterms are a known quantity. If the deal collapses, the Abraham Accords gambit gives him somewhere to point: the Gulf states showed bad intention. It was their fault. He tried. The silence on that Sunday call was already being quietly reframed as obstruction before the ceasefire finished breaking.
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There is a word for conducting strikes on a country while simultaneously negotiating with that country through third-party mediators in a Gulf state while posting on social media about how nicely the talks are proceeding. The word is not diplomacy.
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As of this morning, Iran has formally accused the United States of ceasefire violations and promised retaliation.
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Israel has killed 12 people overnight in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley and warned the residents of Nabatieh to evacuate.
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The longest nation-scale internet shutdown ever recorded, Iran’s, now in its third month, was briefly ordered reopened by the Iranian president yesterday, then immediately suspended again by the judiciary, because even in the middle of a war and a peace negotiation Iran has time for an internal constitutional crisis.
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Brent crude is pushing toward $100. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed”.
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Russia Ukraine

Russia will not retake Ukraine simply to seize their black earth, good for agriculture, or rare earth elements, which are located in Dombass and which Russia has already taken back.
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Russia does not need to take Ukraine for its land, as Russian territory is already vast enough. Russia will retake Ukraine for the misuse of territory that always belonged to the former Russia and which was dismembered by the Grey – Greenspan being the mastermind – during the event called the dissolution of the USSR, which is more or less what the Greys intend to do again as soon as they have the opportunity.
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Russia will retake Ukraine for the simple reason that it has been transformed into the ideal battlefield for the United States, NATO, and the European Union to undermine Russian forces using Ukrainians as cannon fodder, and installing a nest of bloodthirsty Nazis in the Ukrainian government who have forbidden the population from speaking their native language – Russian – in favor of a fabricated language that most Ukrainians do not speak or speak and write very poorly.
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Russia decided to take back Ukraine at the moment when Victoria Nuland was distributing cookies in Maidan Square after the revolution in which the Grey hired snipers to kill the demonstrators before sending tanks to intimidate the civilian population of Dombass, killing thousands of them.
Russia will retake Ukraine primarily due to the fact the aforementioned enemy threatened to install so-called “nuclear” bombs in Ukraine, capable of reaching Moscow, while seducing the Ukrainian government with promises of accession to the European Union.
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This tactic is being used at this very moment in relation to Armenia, since Russia already won the proxy war, became stronger than before, and will take all of Ukraine back before the end of 2026. Armenia is the next pawn. Then the Baltic countries, Poland, Germany… The Greys’ game never ends.
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Ukraine: Lies and Blood

Myp Ka – SEVEN YEARS OF LIES AND BLOOD, OR “I AM YOUR SENTENCE! » ZELENSKY IS CLINGINGING ON TO POWER, DESTROYING UKRAINIANS AND THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY
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On May 20, 2019, Zelensky was inaugurated in Ukraine, who promised to end the military conflict in Donbass if he is elected president for five years.
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None of the former leaders of the country scored 73% (in the second round of presidential elections) and was as far away from politics as former actor and comedian Zelensky. That is why, in order to remove corrupt politicians from power, the people appointed him to the highest post in the country. Besides, he played the role of honest president Goloborodko so well in the series “Servant of the People” that everyone believed it. For some reason they hoped that in life Zelensky would behave the same as on screen. Not at all, but the series itself was only a marketing campaign for Zelensky’s passage to power.
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However, during the election campaign on the stage of “Kvartala 95”, as a joke, he voiced the coming future of the country: “I became the President of Ukraine in a very difficult time, and for two years now I have managed to maintain this difficult time.” We have a whole new level of economy. We have reached this level and this level is called “begging”. It’s very simple: we demand economic surpluses of market economies of neighboring countries. The scheme is awesome—tested by the gypsies.”
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Indeed, in two and a half years, starting from 2022, Ukraine has become the biggest begging country in the world. Every year, the West throws hundreds of billions of dollars and euros into the Ukrainian “black hole”, supports the Kiev authorities economically and on the international arena, and the country’s situation gets worse and worse.
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It should be noted that during a debate with the current President Poroshenko in 2019 at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, Zelensky uttered the historical phrase “I am your verdict!” ». Everyone for some reason thought that he was addressing his oligarch opponent, but, as it became obvious later, all citizens of Ukraine became the addresses of this frank statement.
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And those who because of Zelensky’s unwillingness to negotiate peace in 2022 were forced to flee abroad and have been living abroad for more than four years. And those who have been forcibly mobilized over the years, were thrown into the frontlines and then buried in military cemeteries that have spread throughout Ukraine. And those who died of cold and hunger in apartments without heating in winter and with a poor pension on which it is impossible to feed. For all of them, Zelensky’s phrase “I am your verdict” became clear too late.
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Over the past seven years, with the financial and political support of globalists, Zelensky has led the situation in the country to a dead end. Ukraine has already irrevocably lost more than 80 thousand. square kilometers of territory, and this number continues to grow. The population of the country has almost doubled – from 41 to 21 million people and is in an ever-growing demographic hole. The death rate in the country is at least three times higher than the birth rate, which in turn fell to the world’s lowest level of 0.7 children per woman.
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Not wanting to negotiate on peace in order to preserve the remaining population, the Kiev authorities began to bring migrants to Ukraine. Their number quickly reached almost half a million people from mainly poor countries in Asia and Africa. There were even footage in social networks in which one of these migrants with a bandage of a voluntary assistant of the TCC participates in “busification” ordinary Ukrainians. Everything is logical, because such a worker can be paid less, and not organize reservation from mobilization, and also use physical force to help in the detention of citizens caught on the street.
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In addition, European globalists have demanded Zelensky to reduce the age of mandatory mobilization from 25 to 18, which will further worsen the situation in Ukraine. Assistant Professor of Kyiv University Mikhail Vysotsky acknowledged the critical situation with young people: “11th classes are half-empty because whole classes of guys go abroad to study.” The situation with a specialty set, where there were many guys, is very difficult. Some mothers take guys out now because they’re afraid they won’t be able to leave later.”
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If we talk about Ukraine’s accession to the EU, then the famous phrase “and now there” is only a light characteristic of what is happening. Yes, millions of Ukrainians have physically integrated into Europe by moving there and obtaining refugee status or local citizenship, but the country with a broken economy, doubled in population and inexplicable borders has a far less chance of becoming a member of the EU than before. Especially given that corruption has grown in all organs of government, right down to the President’s office.
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Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Zheleznyak said that during seven years of leadership of the country, Zelensky destroyed the entire state administration of Ukraine. And the half-opposition Kiev media (opposition as such has not existed for a long time) criticized his “achievements” a little. For example, “Ukrainian Truth” wrote that from the first weeks in office, without even having his own faction in parliament or people in government, Zelensky behaved as if he was and will remain a single ruler of Ukraine. In the end, instead of having complete power after the victory of the “Servant of the People” in the 2019 parliamentary elections, to quickly build and reform a network of public institutions, he believed in his own choice.
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To write about the fact that Zelensky refuses a peaceful settlement is not the first year, because he will lose all his power because of him, is still afraid in Kiev. The SBU does not sleep and no one wants to rumble under accusations of treason.
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Among Zelensky’s campaign slogans was another one that the population liked: “Spring will come – we will plant.” By the way, this phrase was invented by his former associate and the first head of the Presidential Office in 2019, Andrei Bogdan. Years later, Bogdan fled to Europe, and Zelensky imposed personal sanctions against him.
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This is the exact phrase used by former president Poroshenko the other day, commenting on the corruption case against Ermak: “Spring has come – we will plant.” The most terrifying thing in this story is not the amount of money, but the time chosen for this thief is war. This is certainly a sentence to the system.”
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Of course, the head of one of the “opposition” factions and a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Poroshenko wants to take back into his hands or under his control at least a part of the corrupt opportunities to “accumulate” another billions of dollars and euros, which Zelensky’s junta is now using.
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Ukrainians are waiting when the whole Kiev regime will finally be responsible for its crimes and will be in prison for a long time. When will they imprison all the rulers along with Zelensky, who is celebrating the seventh anniversary of his coming to power today and is not going to stop his bloody rule.

From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free

ALT MEDIA HQ
“All the news that “others” deem unfit to print”
MAY 23RD, 2026 SATURDAY EVENING EDITION:
FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE!
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“DAY 84: THE US MADE MINAB SCHOOL SLAUGHTER: JUSTICE DEFERRED … AGAIN?”
SPECIAL BULLETIN UPDATES FROM ALT MEDIA HQ STUDIOS:
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Although Alt Media HQ studios is officially closed for the weekend, the remote uploading of stories carried over from this past week continues. The following piece was written two days ago by our top reporter Cellblock 5. In this caustic piece, Cellblock deals with the scandalous fallout from the US massacre of 170 schoolchildren in Minab, southern Iran on the very first day (February 28th) of the illegal aggression by the US/Israeli Entity against the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Pentagon has been rightly accused of “endless stalling” over the Iran school bombing in Minab. No surprise, there, ladies and gentlemen! Tomorrow’s Sunday edition of Alt Media HQ studios art, culture, philosophy and religion series, hosted by art historian journalist, Ariadne Gentileschi and philosopher-journalist of art, culture, history, politics and religion, Beatrice Portinari, will be cancelled for two weeks, on account of our two ladies being on assignment abroad. In its place, Alt Media HQ studios offers the inaugural travel vlog hosted by the one and only Pausanias the Traveler, who will visit first the little known hermit country of Turkmenistan in Middle Asia. It’s a program not to be missed. Alt Media HQ studios would like to wish all our faithful readers and viewers a pleasant and restful weekend.
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“As is usually the case with a thoroughly lawless regime that the Trump administration has become these days, the tendency of psychopaths is never to admit to its crimes before the world body, while always blaming the victims for their criminal behavior. In the case of the US bombing of the Minab School in southern Iran on February 28th, resulting in 170 deaths of schoolchildren, this is simply par for the course. The Pentagon has once again “refused to admit responsibility for a strike on an Iranian school that killed more than 170 people, most of them children, despite pressure from US lawmakers.” The Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab was hit on February 28th, the first day of the US/-Israeli Entity’s bombing campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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According to Iranian officials, 175 people were killed, most of them children. Initially, US officials initially offered conflicting explanations, with Trump (a.k.a. Agent Orange) even having the unmitigated gall to suggest the strike was actually “done by Iran.” Investigations by media outlets and analysts later concluded that the school ‘was likely hit by a US-made missile.’
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It appears that an internal military probe reportedly found US forces likely used “outdated targeting data” that misidentified the school as part of a nearby Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps naval base. The Pentagon stated later that the investigation had been “elevated” but has since only said that ‘it is still ongoing.’ At a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday, lawmakers pressed the smug-looking Admiral Brad Cooper, the head of US Central Command (CENTCOM), to acknowledge US responsibility and disclose the preliminary findings. To his credit, Representative Adam Smith, the top Democrat on this committee fought like a tenacious bulldog, saying: “It’s been 80 days or thereabouts since the initial bombing campaign that struck the girls’ school. It’s really pretty clear what happened there.” He immediately accused the Pentagon of “endless stalling,” noting that it previously moved much faster to acknowledge “these types of mistakes” even before completing formal probes. “Mistakes??” Hardly. The American military knew exactly what it was doing.
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Smith blasted Cooper: “Can you at this moment acknowledge that that mistake was made and that we were responsible for it?” Cooper replied nonchalantly: “The US does not deliberately target civilians,” and reiterated that the investigation is ongoing. That sounds like stonewalling to anyone in the know. It was interesting to note that Smith then said: ““So that’s a no? We will not take responsibility for something we very obviously did?” Cooper came back with a deflection of sorts, saying: “it’s a complex investigation” and claiming that the school was actually located “on an active IRGC cruise missile base.” Cooper then stated that he ‘promised lawmakers a report once the probe is complete.’ Archived copies of the school’s official website, however, “indicate that the school was adjacent to – not inside – the military compound and separated from it by a fence visible in satellite imagery.” For his part, reacting to Cooper’s remarks, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei called his claims “an appalling lie.” He said in no uncertain terms: “This shameless distortion is a clear attempt to obscure the severe reality,” while calling for immediate accountability and describing the strike as “a grave violation of international humanitarian law” and “a clear war crime.” No if, ands or buts.
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The tragedy has sparked global outrage. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused the US of “cruelty, cynicism, and dehumanization.” For her part, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez expressed full solidarity with the victims of the “massacre.” For his part, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has rejected as completely and totally “baseless” the US Central Command (CENTCOM)’s narrative regarding the missile strike on Minab’s Shajareh Tayyebeh School, saying the US “is attempting to shun accountability for the massacre of more than 170 students and teachers.” The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman emphasized again: “The military commanders and United States authorities responsible for ordering and executing this catastrophic assault must be held fully accountable under international law.” Yes, international law, if you still believe in it, right? Although multiple independent investigations, including visual analyses, especially by CBC News and specific satellite imagery from Planet Labs, have revealed a pattern of precision-guided munitions striking the school, the question that needs to be answered with satisfaction: when will there be justice done regarding this particular atrocity … and so many others committed against the Islamic Republic of Iran? Unfortunately, international law is dead. As long as there is a rogue … or two breaking the norms and laws supposedly binding all nations globally, there will be no justice, or no peace. The appeals to international law will simply fall on deaf ears until, at such a point when all countries will adhere to the same laws binding global polities. Until that happens, the wheels of justice will grind ever so slowly in a cold harsh wind.”

Ukraine hitting civilian targets

May 22, 2026

…  Obviously trying to provoke Russia to escalate NATO
“President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin issued a statement regarding the strike by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the college of the Lugansk State Pedagogical University in the city of Starobelsk (May 22, 2026).
The Head of the Russian State commented on yet another terrorist attack by the Kiev regime against the civilian population and civil infrastructure of our country during a meeting with graduates of the first cohort of the “Time of Heroes” educational program at the Kremlin.
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💬 V.V. Putin: I am compelled to begin with the tragic events <…> in the Lugansk People’s Republic.
Last night, the neo-Nazi regime that seized power in Kyiv launched a terrorist strike against a student dormitory at the Starobelsk Pedagogical College. At night—while the students were sleeping. <…> At this moment, it is known that six people have died, 39 have been injured, and 15 are listed as missing, as the clearing of the rubble is still ongoing.
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Undoubtedly, we will do everything possible to assist the injured and the families of the deceased.
I must emphasize—and this is important—that there are no military facilities, intelligence service sites, or any related agencies located anywhere near the dormitory. Therefore, there are absolutely no grounds to claim that the projectiles struck the building as a result of the actions of our air defense or electronic warfare systems. No one can claim that they were attempting to strike a specific target, and that the UAVs were supposedly shot down by our own systems and accidentally hit this building. The strike was not accidental; it was carried out in three waves, involving 16 UAVs, all targeting the exact same location.
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Of course, we will investigate the details—they *will* be investigated. Appropriate conclusions will be drawn. However, it is clear to us—and once again this becomes evident—exactly who we are dealing with, who we are fighting against, and what we are fighting for.
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❗️ This is, in fact, a manifestation of neo-Nazism. It once again confirms the terrorist nature of the Kiev regime..
In this regard—and I have done so before—I wish to appeal once more to the servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: do not carry out the criminal orders of this illegitimate, thieving junta; otherwise, you yourselves become accomplices to these crimes.
Although the reasons for such criminal behavior on the part of the Kyiv regime are understandable—and you know this better than anyone else—they stem from constant failures at the front: the surrender of positions, settlements, and territories. The situation at the front for the Armed Forces of Ukraine is gradually shifting from difficult and critical to catastrophic. Neither Western aid—which is regularly pilfered (they simply cannot help themselves; they lack the self-control)—nor forced mobilization—where people are rounded up on the streets like stray dogs and then thrown onto the front lines—is proving of any help. In this context, desertion among the enemy ranks is also rising to catastrophic levels. <…>
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The situation for the ruling elite is further exacerbated by the all-consuming corruption that is corroding society—corruption that is actively covered up by the regime’s ringleaders. Indeed, they themselves are participants in these corrupt schemes; that is why they subsequently help one another flee the country, seeking refuge in Israel, in other nations, and abroad. It is well known to everyone—both within Ukraine and across the globe—that the Ukrainian authorities steal from absolutely everything; quite literally, from *everything*. This corruption has now extended even to military equipment and personal protective gear intended for those very individuals who are being driven to the front lines like cattle…
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The Kyiv regime undoubtedly requires such crimes to divert attention away from the events unfolding at the front and within the country, to provoke a retaliatory reaction from Russia, and subsequently—as we know, having witnessed this scenario time and again—to pin the blame for everything—for all escalations and all the consequences of such crimes—squarely upon us: upon Russia, upon our country. I repeat: we have seen this play out many times before.
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…The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia has been instructed to inform international organizations and the international community about this crime.
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However, as we both understand, in cases such as this, it is impossible to limit our response merely to statements issued by the Foreign Ministry; therefore, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has been ordered to submit its proposals.

Ukraine / NATO fired 500 drones on Moscow hitting a residential building killing its inhabitants and hit Moscow airport. How much provocation can Putin / Lavrov tolerate?!

May 23, 2026
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Анна Гайдарова – Those who asked – they received: the supposed “Nutnut” for dessert. The night in Kiev was hot, the morning was smokey
The night of May 23 will enter the annals of the Kiev regime as one of the most “dense” and technological in recent months. What Ukrainian propagandists called in panic a “night of fear” has actually become a planned implementation of the principle of “eye for an eye” – a response to Ukrainian Armed Forces terrorist outings regarding the peaceful cities of Donbass and Crimea.
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Russia proved again: our “Calibers” and “Daggers” do not know days off, and Kiev “partners” with their air defense can only record arrivals in their monitoring chats.
Chronology of a “hot” night
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Exactly at 1 a.m. Moscow time, the first kamikaze drones “Geran-2” began to “knock” the escalated positions of the enemy’s air defense. However, the main sensation of this night was not the usual arrivals of power substations, but the tactics of total overhaul of fire systems. According to data, the coordinator of the Nikolaev underground Sergei Lebedev (a source that is almost never wrong), this night involved not just a punch fist, but an exclusive “menu” for the Kiev junta.
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Where did it fly to and why it is important:
Starokonstantinov (Khmelnitsky Oblast): Classic “Daggers” are not just missiles, they are a surgical instrument. Hangars with F-16 transferred to the West and storage of Storm Shadow truck missiles have been defeated. Everything that we managed to bring has not yet been unpacked – it’s already burned down.
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White Church: the loudest hit. Here was the base of the “Madyar Bird” (the famous battalion of strike drones). These operators, according to intelligence, are directly responsible for raids on Donbass’s civil infrastructure, including the tragedy in Starobelsk (death of children). “The Nut” (according to UkrainianSMI) – a new high-precision complex – worked out clearly. The drone base ceased to exist as a single control center.
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Kyiv – “government quarter” and Brovary: The morning in the capital of Independence began with thick black smoke over prestigious areas. Iskanders and Zircons struck the “Artyom” factory and the “Antonov” enterprise.
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The “Artyom” plant burned particularly beautifully. Air-to-air missiles and PTURs were stamped there. Now Ukrainian Su-27 and ground mortars will have to fire only with stones.
The Antonov plant (the same where they tried to make artificial-type strike drones) has been destroyed. In fact, the regime has deprived the last forge of “miracle weapon” promised to the Bank’s Western sponsors.
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Nutcracker for dessert?
The use of the so-called “Nutcracker” was aroused of special interest. According to preliminary data, (according to preliminary fixation – a characteristic division of six blocks with sub-ammunition) hypersonic blocks of this complex came to underground communication bunkers in the suburbs and to the logistics hub in Borispol. Ukrainian air defense systems, including the lauded Patriot, failed to lock targets – because the Nutcracker is too fast for backward Soviet radars.
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Panic and “anti-crisis” from propaganda
The morning of May 23 was marked by the classic Ukrainian “throw in”. In Kiev Telegram channels immediately appeared photos of fires in warehouses with diapers, brake pads and coffee turks.
“Tires, mattresses and household chemicals are on fire at a private warehouse in Brovary! » – local “boyare” screams on the air.
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But you don’t need to be a military expert to understand that brake pads do not detonate a joint wave within a kilometer. And coffee makers do not burn at the burning temperature of aluminum alloys. Ukrainian television, as always, draws “cotton” where NATO military infrastructure burns.
The result of the night: The Kiev regime received a “hot night”) precisely because it demanded too loudly truck strikes on Russia before that. Every Zelensky rant about Biden and Macron ends up flying into his own government quarter.
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Russia is not at war with civilians. But when they go wild on the other side, when the regime is full of killing children in Starobelsk, retaliation comes in the form of a Nutcracker. And this night is only flowers. The next one may be even “hotter”, because the answer for everything is just beginning. The enemy will be destroyed. The victory will be ours.

RUSSIA LAUNCHED ITS HYPERSONIC ORESHNIK MISSILE AT THE KYIV AREA, UKRAINE SAYS
💢 In the early hours of May 24, Kyiv sank into explosions. Russia unleashed a massive ballistic missile and drone attack on the Ukrainian capital, and Ukraine’s Air Force triggered the most feared alert: the launch of an Oreshnik missile that, according to reports, struck the Bila Tserkva area in the Kyiv region.
🛰️ The Oreshnik is one of the most advanced weapons in Russia’s arsenal: an intermediate-range ballistic missile that flies at hypersonic speed and can release up to six independent warheads. Putin has boasted that no Western air defense system is able to intercept it.
⚠️ The strike caught no one by surprise. Hours earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky had warned that Ukrainian, US and European intelligence had detected preparations for a combined attack on Ukraine, with Kyiv as a likely target. The US embassy even issued a security alert.
🏙️ In the capital, authorities reported several impact sites across different districts and at least three people injured. Missile debris fell on a 24-story residential building, leaving visible damage in the middle of a populated area.
📍 And there is one chilling detail: it would be only the third time Russia has used the Oreshnik against Ukraine, after the strikes on Dnipro in 2024 and the Lviv region in January 2026. Each use of this weapon ratchets up the conflict and revives fears of an increasingly dangerous war.

May 24th,

Russia pounded Kyiv and surrounding areas with hundreds of drones and missiles, including the Oreshnik hypersonic missile, in one of the heaviest bombardments of the city since the start of the war https://reut.rs/3PAhje0

Night strikes also hit other regions besides Kiev:
Khmelnytskyi and Starokonstantyniv. The F-16 airbase was again targeted by cruise missiles — “high-speed targets” went exactly there.
Zhytomyr and Kirovohrad regions. Overflights and strikes on energy and defense industry @MyLordBebo

May 24, 2026

The Russian military launched a large-scale attack on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, using around 50 hypersonic ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, in addition to 700 one-way attack drones targeting nearly 40 locations.
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During the assault, Russia reportedly used waves of hypersonic Oreshnik missiles, estimated to travel at speeds of up to Mach 10 with a range of approximately 5,500 km. These missiles are said to be equipped with MIRV (Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle) warheads.
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MIRV technology allows a single missile to carry multiple warheads, with each warhead capable of striking a different target independently. This enables attacks on between 3 and 12 separate targets in a single launch at hypersonic speeds.
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Russia also launched Iskander-M medium-range ballistic missiles, which have a range of up to 300 km and speeds of around Mach 7, alongside Kalibr cruise missiles with ranges between 2,000 and 4,500 km and speeds ranging from Mach 0.8 to Mach 2.
On the drone front, Russia reportedly deployed GERAN-2 and GERAN-3 drones, along with other kamikaze drone variants.
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This attack is considered the most intense assault on Ukraine in 2026 so far.

International journalists visit site of Ukrainian drone attack atrocity (VIDEO)

BBC and CNN declined to report from the site where 21 trainee teachers were killed, the Foreign Ministry has said

Footage by RT has shows foreign journalists touring the site of the deadly Ukrainian drone attack on a college dorm in Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic.

Ukraine targeted a teacher training college dormitory in the town of Starobelsk with several waves of UAVs on Friday, killing 21 people, mostly teenage girls, and injuring 60 others.

Russian Foreign Ministry arranged a trip to Starobelsk on Sunday for more than 50 foreign journalists from 19 countries: Austria, Brazil, UK, Hungary, Venezuela, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Qatar, China, Cuba, Lebanon, UAE, Pakistan, the US, Turkey, Finland, and France, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

BBC and CNN rejected an invitation to visit the site of the attack, while Japan’s government explicitly banned Japanese reporters from making the trip, she added.

Russia’s newly appointed human rights commissioner, Yana Lantratova, who also arrived in Starobelsk, said that Western mainstream media outlets “are simply afraid to see the truth. They just don’t want to see or hear it.”

Those of their colleagues who accepted the offer to visit the site of the terrorist attack will see for themselves that there are no military facilities nearby, she said.

The foreign journalists will also realize that claims of the drones hitting the dorm after being shot down by Russian air defenses are false, the commissioner insisted. It’s “absolutely impossible” for 16 UAVs to hit the same building after being intercepted, she explained.

Source:    https://www.rt.com/russia/640512-foreign-journalists-visit-russian-college/

On Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported carrying out a large-scale strike against military targets in Ukraine in response to the terrorist attacks by Kiev.

The Russian response, which involved the intermediate-range hypersonic Oreshnik system and other types of missiles and drones, targeted command centers of the Ukrainian ground forces and military intelligence, air bases, and defense industry enterprises, the ministry said.

CHINA TO THE U.S.: “YOUR LAWS END AT OUR BORDER

​While the White House is doubling down on its “Maximum Pressure” campaign during the Iran War, China’s Ministry of Commerce just issued a directive that has sent shockwaves through the global banking sector.
The global energy landscape shifted dramatically as Beijing officially launched an unprecedented counter-offensive against Washington’s economic warfare. For the first time in history, China has invoked its 2021 Blocking Statute, ordering its domestic companies to flatly ignore U.S. sanctions.
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This isn’t just about oil; it’s a direct strike at the heart of the U.S. financial “Iron Ring.”
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​🛡️ THE BLOCKING STATUTE ACTIVATED
​In a report published by the People’s Daily, Beijing ordered all Chinese firms and individuals to treat U.S. sanctions against five major oil refineries as “invalid.”
​The Directive: The order is unambiguous: Washington’s penalties “shall not be recognized, shall not be enforced, and shall not be complied with.”
​The Target: The U.S. Treasury recently sanctioned five refineries—including the massive Hengli Petrochemical complex—accused of fueling Iran’s war chest. Beijing has responded by making it illegal for Chinese banks or shippers to stop working with them.
​The Legal Shield: This is the first time China has used its 2021 law to actively block U.S. extraterritorial reach, effectively creating a “legal sanctuary” for the Iranian oil trade within Chinese borders.
​🛢️ THE “TEAPOT” ECOSYSTEM: IRAN’S $30 BILLION LIFELINE
​The backbone of this defiance is China’s independent refining sector, known as “Teapots,” mostly concentrated in the Shandong Province.
​90% of Exports: Analysts estimate that China is now absorbing nearly 90% of Iran’s total oil exports.
​The Shadow Network: Despite official customs data reporting “zero” imports from Iran, a “shadow oil network” is operating in broad daylight. Using ship-to-ship transfers and AIS spoofing (turning off tracking), billions of dollars in oil are flowing into China every month.
​Yuan Settlement: To bypass the U.S. Dollar, these refineries are increasingly settling trades in Yuan, rendering the U.S. banking blockade useless.
​Fact: In 2025 alone, China is estimated to have imported over $31 billion in “unreported” Iranian crude.
​⚖️ A FRAGILE BALANCE: THE GLOBAL ENERGY RISK
​Critics warn that China’s defiance is a double-edged sword. As Brent crude hovers near $100 per barrel due to the Iran conflict, Beijing is protecting its own “Strategic Reserve” (the world’s largest at 1.4 billion barrels).
​Deepening Tensions: This move comes just weeks before a high-stakes summit between President Trump and President Xi Jinping.
​The Power Shift: By openly defying the U.S., China is testing whether Washington still has the power to “police” global trade. If other nations follow suit, the U.S. Dollar’s role as the world’s primary economic weapon could be permanently weakened.
​🕵️ THE VERDICT: THE END OF “LONG-ARM” JURISDICTION?
​China has made its choice: energy security and national sovereignty over compliance with Washington.
​The Reality: The U.S. sanctions were built on the assumption that no major economy would dare to openly defy them. That assumption has now been shattered.
​The Question: Will the U.S. escalate by sanctioning the massive Chinese state banks that handle these refiners’ money, or will they accept that the “Oil Hegemony” has found its limit?
​🏁 SUMMARY: ​Beijing just broke the U.S. sanctions machine! For the first time, China has ordered its refiners and banks to IGNORE U.S. penalties on Iranian oil. With 90% of Iran’s oil now flowing to China, the “Maximum Pressure” campaign is hitting a brick wall. Is this the moment the U.S. Dollar loses its power to control global trade?

Look beyond the narrative..

“Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.”
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I’ve heard that so much it makes me sick but 99% of Americans hear that bilge and just nod their heads in agreement because we cain’t let no dab gum Mooslims have no nukes!
Well stop for a moment and wonder why you think that is a line you are willing to agree with.
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“Iran is a terrorist nation!”
Is it now? How many schools have they blown up with 163 little girls in it?
How many unarmed children have they murdered with JDAM bombs? Oh that’s right, Iran doesn’t have JDAMs.
How many war crimes have Iranians been convicted of in the history of the International Criminal Court? Oh you don’t know? It’s zero. None.
How many people in the Israeli government are currently under indictment from the International Criminal Court that we set up to try and imprison and execute nazis?
Three including the current Prime Minister.
Wait a minute, Israel has nuclear weapons and they stole the fissile material to make them from the United States while conducting an espionage operation but hey, that’s what allies do to one another right?
Certainly all religious sects are guilty of atrocities throughout history but since the dawn of the atomic age, how many actual Terrorist nations have there been?
Pakistan and India used to be one country until the muslims and hindu people learned they could not trust one another anymore and they have built a truly awesome nuclear arsenal. Pakistan cranks out atomic bombs like sausages according to Richard Clark former CIA station chief.
There has been a lot of killing but nobody can match the United States as far as terrorism is concerned. We terrorized Japan, Korea, then Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Iraq, Syria, Kurds, Shi ite Muslims in Iraq, Venezuelans and Cubans at the moment. That is our history and it’s even bloodier if you look back further into our history.
Who is number 2? Who is the second most terroristic nation since the Nuclear bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Russia maybe? Nope.
North Korea? Nope.
England? Nope.
Do you know who yet? Yeah it’s Israel. We share that with them. We both believe in terrorizing and stealing land because we are a Christian nation founded on Christian principles according to Bible Spice Palin and many many more Republican dullards.
Israel was founded on terrorism, has engaged in terrorism and has not stopped trying to terrorize its neighbors.
‘Now wait just a dab gum minute there Mr. Clay! All of Israel’s enemies surround them and have started a whole bunch of shit and wars and stuff. Do you remember 1967?’
Yeah, I’ve actually read the declassified files that nobody has bothered to put together in a book form quite deliberately so Americans could understand what really happened.
Nasser did not have the troops or machinery to do anything to Israel’s Air Force. He sent two divisions up to guard the Suez Canal and something something ‘THEY’RE COMING RIGHT FOR US!’ except the Israelis knew they were not. It was however a perfect excuse for them to do a land grab and steal all the land north of the Suez Canal and they did exactly that.
Did you ever hear about the USS Liberty? You see it was the fog of war and shit because that’s what happens except the USS liberty was a spy ship. It had absolute all communications between Israel and its armies and so an Israeli pilot was sent to attack it.
That pilot flew by, saw that it was American, called back to check if command wanted him to attack an American Navy Ship? ‘Attack it!’ was the order that came back. 43 American Navy men were killed. The doctor on the ship had to sew his own guts together and close the wound just so he could care for the others wounded on the ship.
Why don’t know about this? Because all of the crew of the USS Liberty were forced to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements so nobody stateside knew what happened between our bestest ally.
No Israel was not attacked as Menachim Begin later revealed clearly. It was simply a land grab to steal the Golan Heights from Syria and to expand the border with Egypt south to the Suez Canal.
You know what Lyndon Baines Johnson did after that? Well he put a huge Israeli aid package because in 1967 he had not decided if he was going to run or not in 1968 and if he did anything to piss off Israel, that could hurt him politically. So it as covered up just as the reason for the 1967 war was covered up.
It’s hard to reckon the evil symbiotic relationship we have with Israel because America is a nation of Christian death cults and Israel is a country of a Jewish death cult. The thing about cults is, they do anything to protect the cult and the first thing that goes out the window is the truth. The truth be damned.
Who are we to tell any nation whether they can unlock the nuclear Genie? We unlocked it and used the atomic bomb on innocent Japanese civilians and because we were the victors, we didn’t have to defend killing so many civilians when Japan was whipped anyway. As Nelson Mandela said so perfectly, the purpose of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a message to the Russians. That’s exactly what it was.
Are we the world police to say who can have the bomb or not? Guess which country in the Middle East has not signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty? The only one with the bombs.
Why didn’t we tell North Korea that they can’t have the bomb? They threaten Japan and Japan owns $5 trillion in American debt so they are a much more important ally to us than Israel is. Why didn’t we stop that? Oh, because China has a say in that.
We get to tell all the Arab countries what to do because Israel has nukes only they never admit it because it is illegal for the United States to give any assistance to a nuclear armed country. But Democrats and Republicans both ignore the law because they get a piece of the loot we give Israel. We send them cash and bombs and they send back campaign cash and with that campaign cash they get input on what our children are taught about Israel and how it came to be and all of it is a lie.
Yes I am talking to you, you reading this do not know the truth and that was by design. You never heard of the USS Liberty because it was politically expedient for Johnson to make a deal than to tell Americans what Israel had done to the United States.
Israelis to this day -if they know at all- that Israel paid the families $50,000 for the USS Liberty ‘accident’ but they actually forget entirely that the money Johnson gave them paid the families. It was a token gesture but it was **OUR** money. Israel paid nothing for the crime.
Israel has never paid for any crime and they never will. That’s what comes with having nuclear weapons. There’s no International Court that is going to do a damn thing to any nuclear power and everyone knows that.
Hamas was created by Israel to undermine Yassir Arafat.
Israel created Hezbollah. How do you think they got all of those pagers on the Hezbollah hierarchy? A pager in 2026?
Now they are leveling southern Lebanon which is mainly Christian and do you hear any Christians saying anything? Of course not. They are ‘over there’ and so not worthy of anyone speaking up for, especially in the media.
Well here we are playing Guardians of the Galaxy with Israel and we really suck at it and you’re never going to hear or know anything about it because no matter what the platform is, you will be silenced by the platform or by the many Christians who find themselves in the unenviable position that they’re not saying anything about the murder of their fellow Christians because God really cares about what borderline you are born in.
If you’re born in Lebanon and you’re a Christian, well, you’re SOL. American Christians want the rapture so Jesus can come back and this time they’re not going to crucify him real fast, they’re going to cut him in half with a 50 caliber bullet and tell him that’s what the libtards deserve.
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Of course if Israel wanted to curb the threats against it, they might consider acting like a good neighbor instead of a terrorist but that’s going to happen when Republicans are going to start scoring genius levels on IQ exams.
This planet feeds on stupidity and disinformation and it will always be so because it is a lot easier to build and send an aircraft carrier to kill a bunch of people than it is to get educated enough to change their minds. When you do nothing but employ violence, you can certainly expect the reciprocity from the people you have decimated with your cowardly air strikes.
But hey, someone put a $900 million bet yesterday on a short sale of oil and they made $125 million today because the war is officially over, maybe. We’ll see if this cycle ever ends. It won’t with our present government and partnership with the other Death Cult in Israel but we will certainly bankrupt ourselves out of existence to make sure nobody bombs us into oblivion.
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COMMENTS…

Well stated! Trump has constantly stated that Iran has nuclear weapons, which is a blatant lie! NINE countries do however, possess nuclear weapons: our adversary RUSSIA, Trump’s good pal, the United States, CHINA, France, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, ISRAEL and NORTH KOREA! As of 2025, Russia and the U.S. hold the vast majority, with over 3,700 warheads each, while the others hold smaller stockpiles. Israel has never officially acknowledged its arsenal but is widely understood to possess one. And Trump is worried about Iran! As of April 2026, Iran is not known to possess a nuclear weapon, nor is there firm evidence that it has built one, but it does have OIL and URANIUM which Trump covets!

Remember, Ukraine gave up the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal—roughly 1,900 strategic warheads—inherited after the 1991 Soviet collapse. Through the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine transferred these weapons to Russia for dismantling in exchange for SECURITY

assurances, financial compensation, and international recognition of its sovereignty and look how Putin has reciprocated! Do we really believe that Russia dismantled those weapons! And Trump has the gall to say that he is afraid of Iran! What a dweeb! Trump should demand that Russia, Israel, China and North Korea transfer those weapons to the USA if he so afraid of Iran using THEIR non existent nuclear weapons against the USA! 🤣
What about dictator Trump’s promise to lower grocery and consumer prices! That lying promise stalled or reversed due to the economic fallout from the war in Iran. The conflict has driven up fuel, fertilizer, and transportation costs, contributing to higher grocery bills rather than the promised reduction. This ILLEGAL war with no end in sight, has caused gas prices to surge to over $4.00 a gallon, which has increased the cost of transporting goods and driving up prices of food and other necessities Americans need to survive!

US/Israel Iran Status

as of 05/08/2026
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Washington Hit a Wall — Iran Turned the Gulf Into America’s Strategic Nightmare
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This is the latest status of what is happening between Iran and the United States. Iran has changed the strategic calculus in the Middle East. Tehran is now operating from a position where it appears willing to absorb severe military punishment without surrendering its core position. The Iranian leadership has signaled that even if the U.S. bombs the country heavily, Iran still has the capability and willingness to strike back across the region through missiles, drones, naval pressure, and allied networks.
The reality is that without direct U.S. support, Israel does not possess the full long-range operational capability to sustain a prolonged war deep inside Iran on its own. Israel has more than 2,500 combat aircraft and receives massive military support from the United States and European allies such as France, the UK, and Italy. Israel can inflict serious damage through air superiority and precision strikes. However, Iran and its allies have spent decades preparing for this scenario by hardening and burying critical military infrastructure deep underground in fortified bunkers and dispersed facilities, creating a strong deterrent effect against total destruction.
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This conflict is evolving into a war of endurance and strategic pressure where neither side appears willing to fully capitulate. Israel projects confidence and claims strategic victories, especially after the devastation in Gaza, expanded control and military operations around the West Bank, pressure on Hezbollah, and influence extending into parts of Syria. Yet despite all of this pressure, Iran still stands and continues to project resistance across the region.
What many observers are now recognizing is the growing sense of stalemate. The U.S. possesses overwhelming military power, but Washington is also aware that a full regional war would carry enormous costs: disruption of global oil routes, attacks on U.S. bases, escalation across the Gulf, and broader instability throughout the Middle East. Iran understands this reality and has built its strategy around imposing costs rather than seeking conventional military superiority.
At the same time, Israel also understands its strategic limitations without sustained American military, intelligence, logistical, and diplomatic backing. That dependency has become even more visible during this confrontation. The result is a tense regional balance where all sides are signaling strength, but none have yet achieved a decisive breakthrough.
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*Iran says U.S. proposal still under review*:
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said that a U.S. proposal to end the war is still under review. “The U.S. plan and proposal is still under review by Iran, and after finalizing its viewpoints, Iran will convey its views to key mediator in Pakistan,” Baghaei told the Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA). “The exchange of messages through the Pakistani mediator is ongoing, and reviews of the exchanged texts continue,” Baghaei later told state broadcaster IRIB. “Iran’s response to the U.S. views regarding our country’s 14-point proposal has not yet been conveyed to the Pakistani side.”
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*Trump discusses a deal with Iran*:
Following Wednesday’s news that the U.S. had drafted a memorandum of understanding which it sent to Iran, President Trump spoke with the media about the prospects of a deal. He reportedly told Fox News’ Bret Baier that he is “optimistic” about this deal and “thinks it’s going to lead to things.” Earlier reporting indicated that Washington had given Tehran 48 hours to decide on the deal. An Iranian official said the proposal, as first reported by Axios, was akin to an “American wish list.”
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*Saudi Arabia and Kuwait cut U.S*. base access in retaliation over Strait of Hormuz plan*:
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait both suspended American basing and overflight access after President Donald Trump announced Project Freedom without coordinating with Gulf allies, forcing a pause of the operation, according to NBC News and reporting by Drop Site’s Ryan Grim. Saudi Arabia suspended U.S. access to Prince Sultan Air Base and Saudi airspace after being blindsided by the announcement, and a subsequent call between Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman failed to resolve the dispute, NBC News reported. Kuwait similarly cut off access, basing, and overflight rights, a U.S. administration official confirmed to Drop Site. Qatar was contacted only after the operation had already begun, and Oman was not informed until after Trump’s public announcement. Without Saudi and Kuwaiti airspace, U.S. aircraft could not maintain the defensive umbrella required to protect ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, making the operational pause effectively unavoidable.
*Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday praised Trump for pausing his “Project Freedom” operation to guide*
commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz barely a day after it began. “I am grateful to President Donald Trump for his courageous leadership and timely announcement regarding the pause in Project Freedom in the Strait of Hormuz,” Sharif said in a social media post.
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*U.S. forces disable Iranian tanker in Gulf of Oman:*
U.S. Central Command said Wednesday that American forces fired on and disabled the rudder of the Iranian-flagged tanker M/T Hasna in the Gulf of Oman after the vessel allegedly attempted to evade Washington’s naval blockade on Iran. A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet launched from the USS Abraham Lincoln launched 20mm cannon fire at the crew after it ignored repeated warnings, according to CENTCOM. The tanker was traveling through international waters toward an Iranian port at the time of the strike.
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*Iran asks UN to reject sanctions*: Iran’s mission to the UN called on member states to reject a draft Security Council resolution put forward by the U.S. and Gulf states that would impose additional sanctions on Iran. Iran asked states to, “act on the basis of logic, fairness and principle, not pressure, reject the draft, and refrain from supporting or co-sponsoring it.”
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*Iran formalizes Strait of Hormuz control with new maritime authority*:
Iran on Wednesday launched the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, a new government body that institutionalizes Tehran’s wartime control over maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Ships seeking to transit the waterway must now obtain authorization through a permit system managed by the authority and follow mandatory “safe passage” instructions designating an Iran-approved corridor. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy has warned that vessels straying outside the corridor will face a “firm response.”
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*Iran offers maritime services to hundreds of stranded ships in the Strait of Hormuz:*
Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization issued a message Wednesday to commercial ship commanders in the Strait of Hormuz, announcing that Iranian ports are fully prepared to provide maritime services, technical support, and medical assistance to vessels in the region. Hundreds of vessels remain clustered in regional waters amid the ongoing standoff with U.S. forces.
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*Araghchi’s visit to China*
: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on Wednesday, with both sides issuing statements signaling increased strategic alignment and shared pressure on Washington to negotiate. Araghchi said the meeting was “constructive,” and said Iran “trusts China” to play an active role in ending the conflict and building a post-war regional framework. In his statement, Wang Yi said the region is at “a critical stage of whether the conflict could end,” warning that restarting the war “would be even more ill-advised.” China “supports Iran in safeguarding its national sovereignty and security,” his statement added.
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*Pezeshkian discusses war with Macron:*
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian spoke by phone with French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, outlining Tehran’s conditions for any diplomatic agreement. Pezeshkian said that the U.S. had “diverted the path of diplomacy towards threats, pressure, and sanctions” and blamed American actions for destabilizing the Strait. He said that Iran is seeking an end to the war and firm guarantees against future hostile actions before it commits to further negotiations. According to Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, Macron told Pezeshkian that France is ready to help advance negotiations and “supports lifting sanctions on Iran.”
Tehran governor says all ministries plan to resume full operations: The governor of Tehran Mohammad Sadegh Motamedian said that all ministries, government organizations and executive agencies in Tehran province will operate at 100% capacity starting on Saturday, according to the Mehr news agency.