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[FurrieChief @FurrieChief]

@KZagaris A good article on the use of retardant on ground operations is also on the page. 👍👍👍

[JP Lindsley | Journalist @JPLindsley]

A $2,500 Ukrainian Interceptor Is Looking Very Attractive Next to a $4 Million Missile

The Iran war has helped the free world see what Ukraine already knew:

Using high-end missiles to swat cheap drones is a fast way to burn through both stockpiles and money. It's the way of the loser.

That is why Gulf states including Saudi Arabia and the UAE, who like to be cozy, winning, and wealthy, are now, looking closely at Ukrainian products ...

such as this low-cost Ukrainian-designed interceptor drone marketed by Japan’s Terra Drone and created by Ukraine’s Amazing Drones, with each unit priced at about $2,500—a tiny fraction of the roughly $4 million cost of a Patriot interceptor.

But one thing many still don't realize: Ukraine's true offer to the world is the rapid iteration skills of its human beings. Each Ukrainian drone and drone-interceptor is the product of learning from specific battlefield conditions and enemy adaptations. You have to account for weather, wind, terrain—there's no one-size fits all interceptor that can defend Dallas, Dubai, and Donbas.

So don't "buy Ukrainain drones." Instead "hire Ukrainian experts." And help Ukrainians by investing: They have the will to be free, the desire to win, and ability to innovate. They need the funds—to protect themselves and, as it turns out, YOU.

https://t.co/4n9K8xSndQ

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

While China was busy shipping missile chemicals to Iran and collecting yuan tolls at Hormuz, someone was inside its most sensitive supercomputer stealing everything.

CNN reports that a hacker group calling itself FlamingChina breached the China National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin and exfiltrated up to 10 petabytes of classified defence data. The samples posted on dark web forums include bomb and missile designs, animated explosion simulations, structural integrity tests, renderings of the J-20 stealth fighter, sixth-generation aircraft concepts, nuclear submarine schematics, hypersonic weapons systems, and target analyses for American assets including HIMARS launchers and carrier strike groups.

Ten petabytes. For context, the entire printed collection of the US Library of Congress is approximately 10 terabytes. This breach is one thousand times that volume. It is being sold for cryptocurrency on Breach Forums. Cybersecurity experts who reviewed the previews told CNN the data appears genuine, matching known output patterns from the NSCC Tianjin facility, which serves over 6,000 clients including defence agencies and aviation firms across China.

The timing is extraordinary. Trump posted a 50 percent tariff threat on any country supplying military weapons to Iran hours before CNN published this story. Five Chinese vessels shipped sodium perchlorate to Iran from Gaolan Port in the past six weeks, enough propellant precursor for hundreds of ballistic missiles. China’s ghost fleet continues operating through the IRGC’s yuan toll booth at Hormuz. And now the supercomputer that designed the weapons China is helping Iran reconstitute has been gutted by hackers selling its contents for the same cryptocurrency that Iran charges for strait passage.

The irony is architectural. China built a parallel financial system using yuan and crypto to bypass the dollar at Hormuz. A hacker group is now using crypto to bypass Chinese state security and sell Beijing’s most classified military designs to anyone with a wallet address. The same technology that enables sanction evasion enables espionage monetisation. The blockchain does not distinguish between a toll payment and a weapons leak. It processes both.

For Xi, this is a catastrophe arriving at the worst possible moment. Bessent’s mid-May Beijing summit was already going to be difficult. Trump holds the waiver on 140 million barrels of Chinese-bound Iranian crude. The 50 percent tariff threat targets China’s arms pipeline. The IDF just destroyed 100 Hezbollah targets using F-35I aircraft with Israeli software upgrades the Pentagon approved today. And now the classified designs for China’s most advanced military systems, the systems that justify the rare earth monopoly and the South China Sea posture and the Taiwan coercion campaign, are available for purchase on a dark web forum for less than the price of a single Hormuz transit.

If the data is genuine, every adversary and ally of China can now reverse-engineer the capabilities Beijing spent decades and hundreds of billions developing. The J-20’s stealth profile. The hypersonic glide vehicle’s trajectory calculations. The nuclear submarine’s acoustic signature. The sixth-generation fighter’s sensor architecture. All of it, priced in crypto, available now.

China wanted to build a post-dollar world. A hacker group just demonstrated what that world looks like when the technology works in both directions.

https://t.co/0fIdGsM5qH

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

ZELENSKYY: I want American people to understand: we are your allies in Europe. World has no distance anymore — when drones already strike thousands of kilometers.

One, two, three years — drones will strike ten, twenty thousand kilometers. With reactive engines, they will be very cheap. There will be swarms of these drones.

You can’t defend that by yourself. The world has to help countries defend themselves and push the aggressor back. That’s why, i think, Americans need us, and we need the United States.

[JP Lindsley | Journalist @JPLindsley]

China’s Underwater Presence Is Getting Harder to Ignore: Their sneaky drones are showing up in fishermen's nets

An Indonesian fisherman’s latest catch was not exactly tuna: authorities are now examining a suspected Chinese unmanned underwater vehicle recovered near the Lombok Strait, one of the region’s most strategically important maritime corridors and a key deep-water route between the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Indonesian reporting says the torpedo-like object was found off North Lombok on April 6 and is being probed by the navy, while outside analysts have linked the device to earlier Chinese underwater sensor activity in Indonesian waters.

This is part of a pattern in which Chinese-origin underwater systems keep appearing near critical Southeast Asian sea lanes, suggesting a sustained interest in mapping, monitoring, and potentially shaping the undersea environment in ways that could matter a great deal in any future naval war.

https://t.co/aePEGXL9cE

daily updates from our Ukraine team: https://t.co/0OqCEk5ob2

[Devana 🇺🇦 @DevanaUkraine]

📜 THE PRICE OF A RUSSIAN SIGNATURE: THE 2003 DECEPTION

In 2003, Vladimir Putin publicly renounced any claims to Ukrainian territories and signed the Treaty on the Ukrainian-Russian State Border. At the time, he personally assured the world that this agreement definitively closed all territorial issues between the two nations. It was presented as a cornerstone of long-term peace and mutual respect for sovereignty.

⚠️ A LESSON IN PERJURY

Fast forward to the present, and those same signatures have been trampled by the very man who set them. This history of broken treaties—from the Budapest Memorandum to the 2003 Border Treaty—serves as a grim reminder that a Russian promise is only as strong as the paper it’s written on, which is to say, worthless.

Can anyone in their right mind ever trust Russia again? To believe a Russian official today is not diplomacy; it is a clinical detachment from reality. History has taught us that for the Kremlin, "negotiation" is merely a pause to sharpen the knife.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

"Every time the Epstein affair resurfaces, bombs explode somewhere in the world and cause a distraction." Senator Claude Malhuret stood up in the French Senate this week and systematically torched every single member of Trump's cabinet.

Nobody was spared. Not one.

"A year ago, here in France, I compared Trump's presidency to Nero's Court. I was wrong. It's the miracle court," Malhuret began. Then he went through the roster.

"An anti-vaxxer, former heroin addict as Minister of Health." (That's RFK Jr)

"A climate-skeptic Minister of Economy." (That's Scott Bessent)

"An alcoholic TV host, Minister of the Armed Forces." (That's Pete Hegseth)

"An old Qatar agent, Minister of Justice." (That's Pam Bondi, whose former firm collected $115,000 a month lobbying for Qatar)

"A groupie of Putin, Minister of National Security." (That's Tulsi Gabbard)

Then he pulled back and went bigger.

"A Turkish proverb says: when a clown settles in a palace, he does not become king. It is the palace that becomes a circus."

Malhuret pointed out that since Trump created his so-called Board of Peace, he has launched more military strikes than Biden did in his entire term. He called out the Boeing jet Qatar gifted Trump worth $400 million.

He called out the stock market manipulation that only insiders benefit from. He called out the Gulf investment deals enriching Trump and his family.

"Any one of these conflicts of interest would have caused an immediate procedure of impeachment here," Malhuret said. "But we are not here. We are in MAGA's America where public business is conducted in favor of private interests."

Then came the line that cut deepest. "Every time the Epstein affair resurfaces, bombs explode somewhere in the world and cause a distraction."

This is how the world sees us now. Not through Fox News. Not through Truth Social. Through the cold, clear eyes of allied nations watching a great country be hollowed out by crooks.

Every American should hear this speech. Share it everywhere.

[Thomas P (TOM) Logan 🇯🇵 🇺🇸 @TokyoTom2020]

The lead article in #LePoint from #France (“The Great Heist”)is an extensive investigation into the intersection of Trump’s second term and his and family’s private business interests. The report argues that the White House under Trump has shockingly been transformed into a "cash machine" for the #Trump family and their associates.

Key themes of the article include:

1. The "Crypto-President": The report examines how the administration’s shift toward pro-crypto policies coincided with the launch of Trump-branded digital assets and "World Liberty Financial," alleging that regulatory decisions are being influenced by the President's personal holdings.

2. Insider Trading Allegations: Le Point investigates "troubling" market fluctuations that occur immediately following the President's social media posts or policy announcements. It suggests that a small circle of "insiders" may be profiting from prior knowledge of these shifts.

3. Real Estate & Private Clubs: The article details how foreign delegations and lobbyists continue to frequent Trump-owned properties (like Mar-a-Lago), creating a system where access to the Commander-in-Chief is effectively a commercial transaction.

4. The "Trumpification" of Washington: Beyond the money, the article describes an "aesthetic of power," where the President’s personal brand—symbolized by the gold coin shown on the cover—is being merged with the official symbols of the American state as the country approaches its 250th anniversary.

The tone of the piece is highly critical, framing these actions not just as ethical lapses, but as a systematic "heist" of democratic norms for private gain.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

On April 3rd, IRGC Lieutenant Colonel Ebrahim Zolfaghari released a video with satellite imagery of the Stargate AI data centre in Abu Dhabi and a promise: if the United States strikes Iranian power plants, the IRGC will “completely annihilate” the $30 billion facility that houses 500,000 Nvidia GPUs and represents the single largest concentration of artificial intelligence training capacity on earth. Three days earlier, the IRGC published a kill list of 18 American technology and defence companies designated as “legitimate military targets.” The list: Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, IBM, Dell, Palantir, Nvidia, JPMorgan, Tesla, General Electric, Boeing, Spire Solutions, G42. On March 1, Shahed-136 drones struck two Amazon Web Services facilities in the UAE and one in Bahrain, causing fires and outages that Amazon confirmed by waiving service fees. The war has expanded from oil infrastructure to digital infrastructure, and the front line now runs through the cooling systems of the buildings where the future is being computed.

A hyperscale data centre is a chemical plant that processes information. Its cooling loops run sulfuric acid for pH control, sodium hydroxide for alkalinity, biocides to prevent microbial growth, glycols for thermal transfer, and corrosion inhibitors to protect piping. These chemicals are dosed continuously by programmable logic controllers connected to SCADA systems, many of which retain remote vendor access for maintenance. In April 2020, Iranian hackers compromised the human-machine interface of an Israeli water treatment plant and attempted to spike chlorine dosing to toxic levels. The attack was caught. The architecture was identical: Siemens PLCs, SCADA remote access, chemical dosing pumps. The cooling loop of an AI data centre uses the same controllers, the same protocols, and the same attack surface. The difference is that a water plant serves a town. Stargate serves the global AI training pipeline.

The silent vector is not a missile. It is biofilm. If biocide dosing is disrupted remotely, bacterial growth forms on heat exchanger surfaces within 24 hours. The layer insulates. Heat transfer drops. Servers throttle. GPUs derate. The temperature drift is gradual enough that no alarm fires until the damage is done. No explosion. No crater. Just processors running slower until the training run fails. This is the Stuxnet model applied to chemistry: manipulate the physical process while the sensors report normal. Iran demonstrated the exact SCADA vector in 2020 when it compromised an Israeli water plant’s dosing system. The architecture is identical.

The facility runs on gas-fired electricity. The gas originates at infrastructure already damaged by the war. The GPUs inside contain rare earth magnets processed in China, the same country shipping missile fuel to Iran. The supply chain is a circle. And the IRGC just told the world it knows the address.

The war for the molecule and the war for the bit are now the same war. The chokepoint that controls 20 percent of global oil also sits within striking distance of the facility training the models that will shape the next decade of technology, defence, and economic power. The same adversary that privatised the strait is now threatening to destroy the data centre. The molecule and the bit share the same geography, the same power grid, and the same enemy. One burns at 1,200 degrees. The other fails at 85 degrees. Both are at risk tonight.

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: A quadruple increase in rejected mail-in ballots in California may be tied to recent changes in how USPS now collects and postmarks mail - a troubling sign for future elections if Trump's executive order on restricting mail-in voting holds.
https://t.co/eYzcYTWqhD

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

I wish conservatives understood this:

Without blue states, America would look like a developing country — patchy internet, collapsing schools, no tech, no medicine, no future.

Red states cash the checks. Blue states write them.

You don’t fund the nation — you drain it. The loudest shouts come from the emptiest hands.

[FurrieChief @FurrieChief]

@RonFilipkowski “Eric Trump just released a video of what he says will be the Trump Presidential Library in Miami.”

One Donnie skims most of the money for himself it will be reduced to this:
😂😂😂😂😂

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

🚨 THIS VIDEO FROM 1987 IS GOING VIRAL — AND SOMETHING ABOUT IT FEELS OFF

Watch this carefully.

In a 1987 interview with Barbara Walters, Donald Trump starts talking about the Middle East… Iran… and what the U.S. should do next.

Then says he’s thinking about running for president.

Not subtle.
Not vague.
Direct.

• Says the country is being “ripped off”
• Points straight at Iran as the problem
• Talks about going in and taking oil
• Warns a war in the Middle East is coming

This wasn’t last year.
This was 1987.

And now people are hearing it differently.

At what point does this stop being a coincidence?

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

🇩🇪Absolute masterclass in road discipline on the German Autobahn!
When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, a crystal-clear emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances, fire trucks, and rescue vehicles can fly through at full speed. It’s the law in Germany and Austria, and it literally saves lives. This is how you do it!

[Roshan Rinaldi @Roshan_Rinaldi]

"If I win, I may never see my golf properties — I may never see these places again. Because I’m going to be working for you, I’m not going to have TIME to go play GOLF. Believe me!"

- Trump, August, 2016

[FurrieChief @FurrieChief]

@GrouchoG @GoUncensored “Putin probably recommended this "idea" to Trump.”
🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

The Iranians destroyed one of these. They cost $300 million dollars. Russia gave them the coordinates.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Americans, Brits, and Russians need to remember the 1994 Budapest Memorandum.

Ukraine voluntarily surrendered the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world.

In exchange, Washington, London, and Moscow pledged to respect Ukraine’s borders

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Every fire exit the Gulf built to survive a Hormuz closure is being burned by the country that closed Hormuz.

The Habshan-Fujairah pipeline was constructed in 2012 for exactly this scenario. A 380-kilometre bypass carrying 1.5 to 1.8 million barrels per day of Abu Dhabi crude directly to the Gulf of Oman, avoiding the Strait of Hormuz entirely. It was the insurance policy. The infrastructure that guaranteed the UAE could export oil even if Iran shut down the strait. Satellite imagery confirmed today shows fires at two pumping stations along that pipeline. Iran hit the insurance policy.

This is not an isolated strike. It is a systematic campaign. On March 3, drone debris set fire to the Fujairah Oil Terminal, the pipeline’s destination, where 70 million barrels of storage sits across 15 tank farms. On March 14 and 16, successive drone strikes hit the Fujairah zone again, suspending loading operations. Iran struck Dubai International Airport’s fuel tank, shutting down the busiest airport in the Middle East. Iran struck the Shah gas field. Iran struck Oman’s Salalah port. Iran struck a Kuwait desalination plant. Iran hit Ras Laffan, the heart of Qatar’s LNG. Every facility the Gulf spent decades building to reduce Hormuz dependence has been struck within thirty days of the strait closing.

The only remaining major bypass is Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline to Yanbu on the Red Sea, 1,200 kilometres of exposed desert with multiple vulnerable pump stations. The Houthis, who entered the war on March 28, have explicitly warned that closing Bab al-Mandeb is “among our options.” If the Red Sea exit closes, the last bypass dies. The Gulf’s entire alternative infrastructure, built over forty years and hundreds of billions of dollars, would be neutralised by a combination of Iranian drones costing less than a Toyota and Houthi missiles fired from the poorest country in the Arab world.

Iran’s strategy is not to win the air war. It cannot. Seventy percent of its launchers are degraded. Its navy is destroyed. But none of that matters if Tehran can demonstrate that every molecule of Gulf oil, whether it flows through Hormuz or around it, passes within range of Iranian or proxy weapons. The message is actuarial, not military. Every alternative route that the insurance market might deem safe has been struck at least once. Every risk model has been updated with a confirmed incident. The fire exit has been set on fire. The insurance premium for the bypass is now the same as the premium for the front door.

The Gulf states did everything right. They diversified. They built pipelines. They invested in alternative ports. They prepared for the Hormuz scenario for forty years. And in thirty days, Iran demonstrated that preparing for the scenario and surviving it are not the same thing, because the preparation assumed the adversary would not think to burn the fire exits.

The adversary thought of it. https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[Adnene Nasri @TheOther_9]

Trump pardoned 77 people this week that stole from Medicare. This flew under the radar. I believe Trump is selling pardons which is enough to send Trump away.

Let it go viral 🔥
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