🚨Alex Krainer explains why Saudi Arabia, after watching the West freeze nearly $300 billion of Russian assets, is now paying a protection racket to Turkey and Pakistan. The Gulf states understand their own trillions in Western-held sovereign wealth are next.
“The way I interpret this new alliance between Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia is that Saudi Arabia is deciding to pay a protection racket to Turkey and Pakistan. Two of these three nations are major military powers; one of them is a pipsqueak. Why would Pakistan and Turkey sign an alliance with Saudi Arabia—an attack on one is an attack on all? If somebody attacks Turkey, is Saudi Arabia going to come to their aid? That’s a joke.”
🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡– Prof. John Mearsheimer on Trump Admin:
"They’re desperate. They’ve tried every trick in the book. They started with a major air campaign. They went to blockade… and none of that worked. The Iranians were still standing.
We do not have a military card left to play. It’s the Iranians who have the military card.
The balance of military coercion has shifted, I think, almost decisively in their favor. It’s a truly remarkable situation."
The Prophet Muhammad (saww): "O Ammar! If you see Ali walking on one path, and all of mankind walking on another path, follow Ali and leave mankind, for he will never lead you to destruction, nor will he ever take you out of true guidance."
Iran is not fighting this war only for Iran.
Understand that first. Absorb it. Because until you understand it, nothing else about this conflict makes sense.
Iran is fighting for the right of any nation on earth to exist outside the permission structure of Washington and Tel Aviv.
It is fighting for the principle that sovereignty is not something granted by empire, it is something inherent. And if it must be defended with blood, then blood is what gets spent.
Every country that has been sanctioned into poverty for daring to disagree.
Every government that has been coup'd out of existence for nationalizing its own resources.
Every leader who has been assassinated by a drone because he refused to make himself useful to someone else's agenda.
Every people told that their choices are submission or destruction.
Iran is fighting for all of them.
You don't have to like the Iranian government to understand what's at stake.
You don't have to agree with every policy, every ideology, every internal decision.
That's not the point.
The point is that a country of 90 million people has looked at the most powerful military and financial empire in human history, and said: no.
Said it for forty-seven years.
Said it under sanctions that would have broken most nations.
Said it while being threatened with annihilation on a weekly basis by countries with actual nuclear weapons.
The question this war is really asking is not whether Iran survives.
The question is whether any country is allowed to survive on its own terms.
That question belongs to all of us.
To the Turks who are angry at us pointing out Turkey's cowardice and hypocrisy please explain this to us.
How can you be against Israel while facilitating the most important element of it economy!?. Energy.
Give a good answer and we will close the case.
The United States is the world's largest producer of oil it cannot refine.
American refineries were built for heavy crude. American shale wells produce light crude. So the world's largest oil producer imports 8 million barrels a day, and drains its Strategic Petroleum Reserve to its lowest level since 1983.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Energy Secretary tours Texas telling Americans they've never been more "energy dominant."
The largest producer. The largest importer. The lowest reserves in 40 years. And a minister whose job is to make sure you don't notice all three are true at the same time.
Dear Turks
If Israel attacks you, Iran will join you in attacking Israel
You use your fighter jets, we use our missiles, let's just finish the job once and for all
Karbala was not a defeat.
This must be understood. Without understanding this, you cannot understand anything about why Iran fights the way it fights, with the commitment it has, in the face of what it faces.
In 680 CE, Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet, took a small group of seventy-two companions and family members to stand against the army of Yazid at a plain called Karbala. He knew he was going to lose. He knew most of them would die. His companions knew it too. He gave them every opportunity to leave. Some did. Most stayed.
They fought. They fell. Hussein was killed. His head was taken. The women and children were taken prisoner.
By every conventional measure: a defeat. A massacre.
And that defeat has been burning in the hearts of hundreds of millions of people for nearly fourteen hundred years.
Not as a wound to be avenged and then forgotten. As a permanent reference point. As the axis around which a certain understanding of justice and resistance and the willingness to stand for truth regardless of the odds has organized itself for fourteen centuries.
When an Iranian soldier goes to war, he understands himself in relation to Karbala. When an Iranian martyr falls, he understands his fall in relation to Karbala. When the movement suffers losses, it understands those losses in relation to Karbala.
The defeat at Karbala became the spiritual engine of a resistance tradition that has not stopped running since.
The empire has no historical reference point that functions like this. It has no equivalent depth of motivational infrastructure. It has soldiers who are paid and trained and equipped.
Iran has soldiers who believe. These are not the same thing.
It’s remarkable how obvious it now is to the whole world that China’s style of government is better for both its own citizens and the world than that of the United States
I'm going to say a very very unpopular opinion. Based off of what I've been researching, we didn't win World WAR II.
We allowed Satan to exist. I'm at the point of my research that Hitler was trying to save the world.
I never thought in a million years that I'd ever entertain that thought.
If I'm wrong, prove it to me and I'll stand corrected.
Every single person that has said what I'm saying has died a mysterious death.
Every single one.
Why?
Hurting feelings?
No!! We're destroying their narrative.
We've all been lied to.
This isn't a joke. Its reality.
If you look at the world around you right now, as we look at the world around us, a picture of almost total despair emerges.
Look at the great civilization or cultures of this world: they have nothing to offer you as food for your soul.
The West fluctuates between nihilism and total, open evil.
China is exclusively obsessed with material things to the point oof disgust (I bet you, too, can take no more videos and pictures of bridges, skyscrapers and 'humanoids').
India dives deeper and deeper into retardation and spiritual decay, so much so that it may as well be removed entirely from the books and discounted altogether.
Japan is enslaved and pathetic beyond belief.
Sunni Islam is fully occupied and subservient; it is impossible to listen it for one second. I avoid listening to any of them so I don't lose the 1% of respect I still hold for innocent and well-meaning believers.
Catholicism is utterly meaningless and laughable. A business model wrapped in religious artifacts.
The Church of England? Give me a break.
American Christianity? A living picture of hell.
Communism is dead, and its remaining proponents are annoying, disconnected and quite insufferable.
Science cannot be believed, and is the main instrument of turning this world into a nightmarish prison.
Academia is a sad joke.
The media carries the devil's voice.
Latin America is slowly dying under capitalism and colonialism.
Russia fight in silence: no ideological framing, no moral meaning.
Being a human today entails an almost unbearable sense of abandonment.
The only place and the only culture in this current world of ours that centers morality (and therefore sanity and humanity) as part of its discourse is Twelver Shia Iran.
It is the one light - the one organized, institutional, strong light - in an otherwise near complete darkness.
I am not looking for god (my bitter experiences with Judaism made me hate the concept with a fury); I am not drawn to mysticism; repetitive religious rituals have little charm for me. But the actual light that emanates from Iran's conduct, stance, doctrine, the courage and conviction it has shown (together with its allies and Shia and otherwise Islamic anti-colonial fighters elsewhere) connect with the very foundations of who I am, and what is sacred for me.
They are the only people I feel I could be in full dignity and humanity with. And I am not entirely sure yet where this sentiment is taking me, but I am up for an adventure
@Big_Mck Bro zzz I thought by now you must have realized that all our elites are bought and sold, democracy is just shenanigans of perpetuating their interests and subservience to the imperial core!
@AmirAminiMD Asking for denuclearization is not immediately realizable, what all peace loving humans need to do atm is to clamor for IRI's reciprocal nuclear strikes on any nation that seeks to attack it with NW!
I'm reminded of a few business meetings I had with Emiratis in Dubai a couple of years ago. At the time, my suspicions about the attitudes of some UAE Muslims were growing, as my interactions with them raised all kinds of red flags.
I was in the UAE on a consulting basis, helping a Muslim charity with campaigns targeting Western, particularly British Muslims. The two Emiratis I was working with simply could not understand the concern that British and Western Muslims had for Gaza, or indeed for Muslims anywhere in the world who were suffering and in need of help.
They literally asked me, “Why are you so concerned?”
I was flabbergasted by the question. But they doubled down.
They told me that Emiratis generally view British Muslims as extremists and laugh at what they see as their idiocy. I let them continue.
They said that British Muslims, in particular, were the strangest of all Muslims because, online, they seemed to only talk about the Ummah, its suffering and plight, and politics. To them, this was a very strange thing for Muslims to be doing.
So I asked them directly: “Do you not feel any concern or worry for Muslims around the world?”
“No,” they replied, seemingly perplexed that I would even ask the question.
I then asked, “Do you feel any connection to the Ummah at all?”
Again, they said no, with a bemused expression, as if the answer were completely obvious. Duh, why would we?
At that point, I made a mental note to tell the head of the charity that these individuals should be removed from their positions. I couldn't understand how a Muslim charity could have people working within it who appeared to have so little concern for Muslims, their suffering or their plight.
As these empty vessels continued talking in the meeting, I found myself thinking that what the UAE has done to its Muslim population bears some similarities to what Atatürk's government did to Turkish society.
The comparison is not 100%, of course. The UAE is not as openly or violently opposed to Islam as the Turkish government was under Atatürk. Instead, the UAE appears to use Islam as a kind of varnish, maintaining an outward Islamic identity while implementing policies that systematically restrict and depoliticise religious life.
Islamic education and religious guidance have been heavily centralised. There are restrictions on mosques and religious activities, and public Islamic expression is tightly controlled. Mosque sermons are regulated, Quran lessons require official approval, and unlicensed religious or educational activities, whether online or conducted privately, is prohibited.
There is also extensive monitoring of mosques and their attendees wit spies everywhere. Religious activity outside officially sanctioned channels can attract scrutiny, and even seemingly harmless religious reminders or advice after salah can be restricted unless properly authorised.
I am therefore not surprised that such an environment and system can produce Muslims who become increasingly detached, distant and unconcerned about the wider Ummah. What is clear to me is that this is not simply an unintended consequence, but part of a broader effort to discourage any idea of Muslim unity, political engagement, traditional Islamic learning and grassroots activism.
It's actually worse: the Muslims in the UAE are now actively attacking other Muslims around the world for engaging in precisely these things.
In the UAE, activities that many Muslims elsewhere would regard as ordinary aspects of community religious life, such as fundraising at mosques, organising religious events, conducting seminars, holding Quran memorisation sessions or distributing food, can face strict government regulation, and any unauthorised activity can carry serious consequences. The authorities justify these restrictions in the name of combating “extremism.”
The UAE government's treatment of Islamic religious and political expression needs to be called out. I also believe that UAE-based anti-Muslim influencers who actively attack Muslims elsewhere should be challenged, criticised, mocked and held accountable through every lawful means available.
My work experience in the UAE taught me a valuable lesson:
Do not assume that, simply because you are travelling in a “Muslim land”, everyone who wears Islamic clothing, carries a Muslim name or presents themselves as a Muslim is necessarily your friend.
That doesn't mean assuming the worst about everyone. Rather, assume the best while remaining sober and discerning. We need to develop a level of spiritual insight and discernment,’ Firasah,’ around these people and pay attention to their words, actions and loyalties.
For now, the UAE government should be seen as a hostile actor, an enemy of the Muslims and held at arm's length.