Cymro 🔻

Geo-politics.

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

Iran President Pezeshkian at the UN:

"Those who are terrorists and train terrorists tell us that we are terrorists."

"For two hundred years, Iran has not attacked any country. For two hundred years, we have always defended ourselves."

"They bombed and killed these children, with weapons supplied by America and Israel. They were guilty of nothing. They had committed no crime."

"In Gaza, they murdered more than eighty thousand innocent people."

"Then they say others are terrorists, these are the ones causing instability -- are we the ones causing instability?"

"Anyone they want to destroy, they label a terrorist."

"Palestine remains a wound on the body of the conscience of the international community, and Gaza remains a symbol of the failure of international mechanisms to prevent the suffering of civilians."

"Israel murders thousands of people in Gaza every week. But Iran was bombed while at the negotiating table."

"Yet Israel receives billions of dollars in free weapons as a reward, and it is licensed to bomb any capital it wishes."

"The nuclear bombs are in Israel, but the inspectors are in Iran. Israel kills, yet Iran is sanctioned, and this is a tragedy that would make anyone you tell laugh."

"We must not build a world in which military power replaces legitimacy, sanctions replace diplomacy, terror replaces politics, and war replaces dialogue."

"We have found our answer. We need power. Because a nation that cannot defend itself, they crush it in this world."

"Let him know: the Iranian nation, in the face of force, will not bow its head, and will make the aggressors regret it."

[Cymro 🔻 @Cymro1234]

@JuliaHB1 Fuck up you bitch.

[Cymro 🔻 @Cymro1234]

@wesstreeting You terrorist cunt

[A View From Yorkshire @models_by_Russ]

I’m fucking disgusted with @SkyUK.

You want us to pay for this shite while you package up a simulated Russian attack on Britain as prime-time “event television”, complete with the same political class that helped weaken the country in the first place.

And then you wheel out Nicola fucking Sturgeon as Deputy Prime Minister.

The woman who spent years campaigning to break up the United Kingdom is now sitting in a fake COBR room telling Britain how to prepare for war.

You genuinely could not make this level of political theatre up.

Meanwhile Britain has real problems staring us in the face — borders, defence, infrastructure, policing, public services and collapsing public trust.

But apparently the message is still:

RUSSIA. RUSSIA. RUSSIA.

Fear. War. Prepare yourselves.

Fuck off.

I’m sick of broadcasters creating this constant atmosphere of fear while the political class avoids answering for the problems already happening here at home.

And Sky, don’t dress it up as “important debate” and expect me to clap because you’ve added dramatic music and a room full of former politicians.

To me, it looks like fear-mongering dressed up as television.

So tonight I cancelled Sky.

Will one cancellation make the slightest fucking difference to you?

Probably not.

But it makes a difference to me, because I’m not paying you another penny to be lectured, frightened or fed political theatre by people I’ve completely lost faith in.

So @SkyUK — cancellation submitted.

I know you won’t give a fuck.

Neither do I.

Fuck off

[Cymro 🔻 @Cymro1234]

@Lab4IndyWales Who told you that... was it ... The Guardian newspaper ? You are genuinely embarrassing.

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

The EU couldn't care less about Ukraine, that's why they are happy to keep fighting Russia down to the last Ukrainian, no matter how much EU citizens money it costs...

[Cymro 🔻 @Cymro1234]

@Lab4IndyWales You sum up a liberal perfectly. Claim to be anti-nazi yet due to being so illiterate in geopolitics end up supporting genuine nazis. Did you cheer when the House of Trade Unions went up in flames in Odesa in 2014 too? That was done by the same people attacking Moscow you idiot.

[Cymro 🔻 @Cymro1234]

@Lab4IndyWales Get a grip you stupid liberal 🤡

[Cymro 🔻 @Cymro1234]

@Lab4IndyWales You are celebrating an attack on Moscow, perpetrated by Ukrainian nazis backed by Brit terrorists.

[Cymro 🔻 @Cymro1234]

@Lab4IndyWales Sounds like you're so into Nazis. Stupid confused liberals.

[Cymro 🔻 @Cymro1234]

@tom_watson You fucking pig

[Kate 🕊 @affleckquine]

Here's Ed 'I don't take sides' Sheeran performing for IOF soldiers, meeting a released hostage, standing with Ukraine....

[Cymro 🔻 @Cymro1234]

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg Pig

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[Cymro 🔻 @Cymro1234]

@RupertLowe10 Prepare for war then arsehole

[Birger Høst @CommonSenseASAP]

🇷🇺Russia: The Soviet Union no longer exists, can you let us into NATO like everyone else?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Okay, but can you please not threaten us by expanding NATO to the East?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Alright, we saw you're developing new missile systems, will you let us work on them with you?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Fine, hypersonic missiles it is, but can you at least not put military bases right in front of our borders?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Well, you just carried out a military coup to overthrow a democratic election in Ukraine, can we still have a friendly relationship with them?

🇺🇸USA: No

Russia: Gotcha, but the people of Crimea are really pissed off about that coup, can you please let them have independence?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Roger, but surely you can at the very least stop bombing the civilians living in Donbass, right?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Huh, we've been trying to find a diplomatic solution for a 8 years but you refuse to even talk to us... I guess that if you want to use military force to solve issues so much we have no choice but to do the same.

🇺🇸USA: OH MY GOD PUTIN IS A MADMAN, AN IMPERIALIST GENOCIDAL DICTATOR, LITERALLY THE SECOND COMING OF HITLER, WE MUST STOP HIM AT ANY COST BEFORE HE TRIES TO CONQUER ALL OF EUROPE

#SigerDetBare

[Cymro 🔻 @Cymro1234]

@richbarry_03 @RichardJJYM The IRA never attacked us 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 😎

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

Freedom of Expression is under threat in an EU that's becoming more Authoritarian. The Soviets defeated the German Nazis to liberate Europe but Fascism hasn't gone away...

[Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺 @Alex_Oloyede2]

🇷🇺 The Russian Army dropped a flower at the Ukrainian controlled WW2 memorial in Kherson.