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[Crystal #PutinTeam @CRSTAL_52]

Special thank you to my 7 new followers from UK., and more last week. https://t.co/tXDA8AtHB8

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇬🇪 Georgia's more pro-Russian Prime Minister, Irakli Garibashvili, has said the controversial Foreign Agent bill "will help prevent Ukrainization".

To which the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reacted furiously, stating, "Russification, but not mythical ‘Ukrainization’, is a real threat to Georgia."

Georgia's pro-Western President, Salome Zurabishvili, again reiterated she will veto the "scandalous bill", but this time acknowledged that her veto will be "overturned", as the bill is supported by the majority of Georgia's Parliament.

Many of the protesters were Ukrainian refugees and EU/Ukrainian flags were seen.

[☦️Jacob🇷🇺Charite☦️ Иаков @jaccocharite]

I've shown you the beauty of Galitsa park in Krasnodar. Now I'm showing the beauty in Galitsa park in Krasnodar.

I hope there won't be problems with the music 🤷🏻‍♂️

[☦️Jacob🇷🇺Charite☦️ Иаков @jaccocharite]

🤔 who abducted who? Liars keep being liars....

161 Ukrainian children were found in Germany, who were considered to have been taken to the Russian Federation

“Thanks to our cooperation with German law enforcement agencies... the location of 161 Ukrainian children in Germany
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[☦️Jacob🇷🇺Charite☦️ Иаков @jaccocharite]

🏥 Luna Fenner from the USA returned to Russia to undergo a new operation.

Four years ago, Russian doctors were able to remove a huge birthmark from her face: in the United States the doctors refused to make this procedure.

Now St. Petersburg specialists will remove the
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[Russia Direct @RussiaDirect]

President Putin: The Russia-Ukraine conflict is, to some extent, a civil war, but reunification is inevitable.

🔗 Full transcript: https://t.co/N8VAd6A5Yx

[Russia Direct @RussiaDirect]

President Putin reacts to Switzerland’s plans to host a Ukraine peace summit without Russia’s participation.

🔗 Full transcript: https://t.co/L1x60etNUK

[Russia Direct @RussiaDirect]

President Putin: The idea of Russia posing a threat to NATO is nonsense, being used to justify the funding of the war in Ukraine.

🔗 Full transcript: https://t.co/L1x60etNUK

[Armchair Warlord @ArmchairW]

Let's walk through Iran's strike on Israel two days ago. What's remarkable is much of the battle occurred in plain view but officials are still telling us not to believe our lying eyes.

The strike was much smaller than claimed and largely defeated Israel's missile defenses.⬇️

I'll preface this technical analysis with a political one - the balance of power in the Middle East shifted last weekend. Israeli military primacy has been a cornerstone of the region's politics for generations. That primacy no longer exists following the grinding campaign in Gaza and this Iranian attack. Israel can bleed and its regional enemies are clearly unafraid of its fury.

Now let's figure out what happened. Israeli officials claimed to have shot down "99%" of the attack, claiming to have downed over a hundred ballistic missiles, close to two hundred drones, and thirty-plus cruise missiles with only "trivial" damage inflicted to Nevatim Airfield in the Negev. The United States and Jordan - Israeli allies - echoed these claims. Video circulating online created the impression of ballistic missiles coming in across Israel, none of which seemed to have landed.

The desert can be a strange place. There's a known phenomenon in such hot and dry conditions where people will wildly underestimate how close distant objects are to them. Israel is a small country and atmospheric conditions during the attack were extraordinarily clear, leading to a situation in which observers across the country (and in fact outside it!) filmed a single flock of missiles diving on a target deep in the Negev and reported them as separate attacks across Israel. Burning white-hot from hypersonic reentry, the warheads were effectively large meteors and visible across much of the region. This single group of warheads appears to have constituted most of the ballistics fired by Iran and was the source of most of the extant footage of incoming Iranian missiles.

Don't believe me? Good, I wouldn't expect you to. Believe the videos instead. The stills below are from five separate videos that showed a good view of the missile stream - shot from Be'er Sheva, Shomron, Jerusalem, a location in the Negev, and Amman in Jordan. All of them capture a single moment when one of the rearmost warheads sloughed off a bright piece of material as it reentered the atmosphere at hypersonic speed, creating a distinctive double fireball. You can see immediately how the angle of the warhead stream changes between observers, with the observer in Amman basically looking at it from more of a rearward angle.
When the fog of war cleared there were three target areas identified as having actually been struck - the Nevatim and Ramon airbases in the Negev and a site in the Golan Heights. What's quite interesting is that this group of warheads was widely - and incorrectly - reported as diving on Nevatim. It actually came in at Ramon, much further south. This can be immediately verified by comparing the frame from Be'er Sheva with those from the Jerusalem area. If this attack had struck Nevatim, observers in Be'er Sheva would have been looking straight at it and instead they saw it from much the same angle as more northernly observers.

I've prepared a graphic illustrating this - compare the angle at which observers in Be'er Sheva, Jerusalem, and Amman would have seen warheads diving on Nevatim vis-a-vis Ramon.
There's more footage out there showing multiple warheads hitting Ramon despite intense fire from anti-missile batteries (I'll post one of the videos in a reply), and it's very telling that we haven't actually gotten any satellite photos or firm announcements about damage at that base. If Nevatim was struck by ballistics at all it was by one of two warheads that attacked south of Jerusalem in a separate, smaller group from the one pictured above - the same ones, I believe, that were dramatically photographed over the Knesset.
The Israelis released a small amount of footage from Nevatim. Given the limited cratering observed at the base it's likely a cluster warhead of some kind was employed. US officials have claimed a C-130 was damaged on the ground, again suggesting something of a shotgun blast that peppered the ramp and which was not visible on the low-quality satellite photos released yesterday.
Now let's work through what else happened that night that we could observe. There was a large Grad volley from Hezbollah in Lebanon, leading to Iron Dome firing in the north of the country, and Iron Dome fired in Ashkelon for reasons unknown despite a lack of reported fire from Gaza. An Israeli corvette in Eilat harbor engaged and shot down a drone (probably launched from Yemen), and video of a single target being destroyed in outer space by an Arrow III interceptor emerged (I suspect this was also against an older ballistic missile on a lofted trajectory fired from Yemen). A small amount of debris fell, injuring a civilian in Israel and killing three in Jordan.

There were also serious reports that the Golan Heights was hit, although no footage seems to have emerged of a strike there and - significantly - no footage of highly visible incoming ballistic warheads. The Iranians subsequently came out and stated they had targeted an Israeli surveillance site in the area. There have been rumors of significant damage and a press blackout.

The IAF subsequently released a video showing them downing eight Iranian drones (of a mixture of Shahed and Ababil types), although it's unclear from the footage if they were all actually shot down. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. For their part, the IRGC released three videos showing their end of the attack - one showing 22 ballistics launched, one showing eleven drones flown off, and another showing 22 cruise missiles launched. Observers in Iraq posted videos of a handful of ballistics moving out, and a single drone and cruise missile were filmed en route at treetop level, but there was no evidence on the "near" side of huge ballistic volleys or drone swarms.

So what are we to make of this? Well, here's one final data point - there were no reports, and no footage, of massive Israeli air defense launches with heavy missiles before ballistics appeared in the sky over Israel. This indicates that there was little in the way of a "midcourse" interception effort before the warheads became visible during reentry - most if not all of the battle was fought during the "terminal" phase against diving warheads. And, most significantly, most of what was launched from Iran arrived over Israel and dove on targets.

That defensive fire was spirited but unsuccessful - only a small number of the warheads filmed reentering appear to have been intercepted, with multiple confirmed hits caught on camera.

The conclusions to be drawn from the evidence are clear:
- Iran launched a few dozen missiles and drones, not hundreds
- Most of the ballistics fired penetrated air defenses
- Most of the ballistics fired were targeted at Ramon AB
- Nevatim AB was a secondary rather than primary target
- The Golan site was likely struck with cruise missiles
- It is unclear if a large number of drones were even launched
- Israeli "outer-layer" defense systems (read: Arrow) may be ineffective against modern Iranian missiles attacking on depressed trajectories
- Israeli claims about the size of the attack and the success of their defensive effort should not be taken seriously
- Iranian claims about their operational goals and targets should similarly be taken with a large grain of salt, a lot of what has come out of their camp seems to be supposition and speculation

With all of this in mind - and also bearing in mind that the Iranians seem to have little appetite for another round - the obvious path forward for Netanyahu is to declare victory and go home. He can spin the results of this strike into a victory via control of a pliant Western media apparatus, an obvious offramp crafted by the Iranians and being pushed by the US. What he should not do is seek further confrontation, because the Iranians have, I believe, now proven quite decisively that they can break Israeli missile defenses.

[Crystal #PutinTeam @CRSTAL_52]

@leandro_ptbr Challenge accepted 😏

[Crystal #PutinTeam @CRSTAL_52]

@Alex_Oloyede2 English blood Russian heart

[Cillian @CilComLFC]

Last Monday, Barack Obama met with British PM Rishi Sunak.

Since then, a terror attack in Moscow killed at least 137 people, with Russia blaming the US, UK and Ukraine, and now a ship has hit and collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, leading to suspension of port traffic and huge economic implications.

Are you getting it yet? 🤔

[Cillian @CilComLFC]

I commend anybody who DIDN’T wear a mask or get vaccinated.

Unfortunately, I was threatened with expulsion from school if I didn’t wear a mask, and I was coerced into getting the jab at 16.

I "woke up" after getting injured from my second jab. Not all young people are sheep.

[Cillian @CilComLFC]

I’m an Irish teenager who suffered shingles after my second COVID jab (never before seen in someone so young, according to my local doctor). That’s when I realised I can’t trust the Government, the Media or so-called health “experts” anymore. Many young people like me are awake.

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇬🇧🚨‼️ “When the US, UK and others quickly tried to convince me that it was ISIS that carried out this massacre in Moscow, I automatically knew they were lying.

And this is what I discovered …”

— UK MP George Galloway

[The Eurasianist ☦️ @Russ_Warrior]

⚡Expect some major announcements from president Putin in coming hours or days.
NATO aggression is officially underway inside internationally recognized Russian territory, the Western globalists are using various tactics: not just Ukrainian cross border attacks but terrorism too.

[Olga Bazova @OlgaBazova]

The liberal media and shitlibs condemned the FSB for cutting off the ear of a terrorist because of its brutality.

Should have tied him to a tree, gagged him, pulled down his pants, painted his face and beat the shit out of him, like it's done in civilized democracies.

[JHArnous @JHArnous]

The opening day of the new observation post near Golan Heights is getting closer
🇸🇾🤝🇷🇺

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

BBC's Steve Rosenberg has lived in Moscow since the 1990s, he hates it here but he's never been kicked out, yet he shits on Russia weekly, to the Western audience...
https://t.co/lAcS4av9Ed
"We don't like you much, really" - RT Boss Simonyan. But he won't be kicked out, still. Because Russia respects freedom of speech.

When was the last time RT journos ambushed the BBC boss? Never.

Meanwhile, those of us who try to build bridges between East and West, are continually written hit pieces on, by the same culprits, sometimes undercover.

[gpovanman гпованман @gpovanman]

It has been a very long while since the last post, yet with events continuing apace, the time has come for the first in a new series of articles examining current happenings in Eastern Europe…

https://t.co/74TTCEXAfv