Ndèye Gnima DIENG

# Éducation, # Gender, # Child Protection, #environnement, #Sécurité alimentaire,...La beauté des choses est invisible ! Aller au-delà des apparences !

[Lawrence Kitema @lawrencekitema]

No matter how big your house is, how good your car looks, how beautiful you are, or how much your bank account holds, the sad reality is that our graves will always be the same size. So always stay humble.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

Taking a picture of a woman and posting it online for the way she chooses to dress is dishonourable behaviour that should be rejected by any society that wants to maintain a shred of integrity or moral standards.

May God protect this sister and keep her steadfast.

[Lissa♥️♥️ @lizzkelly7]

He told me he wanted a "traditional woman" who knew her way around a kitchen and kept a peaceful home. I told him that sounded lovely, and asked if he was prepared to provide the traditional 1950s salary that allows a woman to stay home and focus on those things.
He stuttered and said, "Well, in this economy, we’d both obviously have to work full-time."
I just laughed and said, "So you don't want a traditional wife. You want a second income that also doubles as a maid. I’m an investment, not a charity project. Find someone else to subsidize your lifestyle."

[Ndèye Gnima DIENG @GnimaDieng]

@sanambna @tomfriedman 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai]

Anyone who thinks Iran will hand Donald Trump a deal he can brag about is living in fantasy. Trump killed Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, General Qassem Soleimani and a long list of Iran’s senior leaders. Tehran is not going to decorate him with a diplomatic victory after that.

Iran may negotiate when it serves its interests. But it will not reward Trump. It will not give him a trophy. And it will not sign anything he can sell it as a win.

If Trump is furious about Iran’s leverage over the Strait of Hormuz, then Tehran has even less reason to give it up. That card is one of Iran’s strongest, and it will not hand it to him just to calm his anger. On the contrary, Trump can stay angry until the end of his term. Iran is not in the business of rescuing his ego.

[Jimmy Virk - Imranian 🇵🇰 @JimmyVirkk]

بات واضح ہو رہی ہے۔

ایران کا امریکی اور اسرائیلی بمباری میں 270 ارب ڈالرز کا نقصان ہوا ہے۔

1۔ ایران کا کہنا ہے سب سے پہلے امریکہ یہ تاوان ادا کرے۔ (نہيں کرے گا تو ایران امارات، کویت اور بحرین میں موجود اتنے اربوں ڈالرز کے اثاثے اپنے قبضے میں لے لے گا۔)

2۔ آبنائے ہرمز کے جس حصے میں سے تجارتی جہاز گزرتے ہیں وہ ایران کے پانیوں میں ہے۔ انٹرنیشنل واٹرز میں نہيں ہے۔ آبی گزرگاہ کے دوسرے حصے میں گہرائی کم ہے۔ جہاز نہیں گزر سکتے۔ ایران کا کہنا ہے کہ جو ہمارے پانیوں میں سے گزرے گا ہماری اجازت سے گزرے گا۔ یہ ہمارا علاقہ ہے۔ جس سے ہم چاہیں گے تجارتی راہداری یعنی ٹیکس لیں گے۔ جس کو چاہیں گے جانے دیں گے۔ یعنی خلیجی ممالک کی شہ رگ پکڑ کر رکھیں گے۔ اور یورپی طاقتوں اور ایشین پاورز کی بھی۔ جو تھوڑا ٹیڑھا ہوگا اس کی شہ رگ دبا دیں گے۔

3۔ ایران سے امریکی پابندیوں ختم کرو۔ اور سو ارب ڈالرز سے زیادہ کے منجمد ایرانی اثاثے ریلیز کرو۔ پھر جنگ بندی ہوگی۔

یہ ہیں ایران کے صاف اور واضح مطالبے۔ امریکہ قبول کرے گا تو ٹھیک ہے نہیں تو دنیا 200 ڈالرز تیل کے لئے تیار ہوجائے۔ اور یورپ قحط کے لئے تیار ہوجائے۔ ٹرمپ اپنے مواخذے کے لئے تیار ہوجائے۔

[RAMZPAUL @ramzpaul]

Everyone knows (including Iran) that Trump is looking for a face-saving way to get out of the war. At this point, Iran could offer some vague promises to not enrich uranium, and Trump would jump on the deal. But Iran sees that Trump is weak, and they are enjoying humiliating him.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

It sure looks to me as if Iran is intentionally frustrating Trump. It almost looks to me as if Iran is mocking Trump.
It certainly looks to me as if Iran understands strategy and posture better than him. It also looks to me as if Iran absolutely understands how to exploit the emptiness underlying Trump's bloviations and hyperbole.
But Trump cannot stop his bloviating, no matter what. He needs to project grandiosity when he can, or he'll melt. Having the world's most powerful military should be an asset, but for Trump, who needs to obtain narcissistic nutrition from posting threats daily, the strength of our military, in a way, becomes the narrative which facilitates faux grandiosity -- which is weakness.
So, it looks to me like Iran holds one really major card. It's not the Strait of Hormuz and it's not the enriched uranium. It's that they know Trump, desperate for an exit, is trapped by his own uncontrollable grandiosity.

[Ndèye Gnima DIENG @GnimaDieng]

Truth!!!!👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The real cost of this war isn't measured in dollars or missiles. It's measured in long-term American interests sacrificed for short-term gains...

Look at what the U.S. has actually traded over 76 days of war.

Alliances built over decades got tested and many failed publicly.

NATO refused to join the campaign.

The UK was slow to provide bases. France led European efforts to find off-ramps Trump didn't want.

Germany's chancellor publicly called the U.S. strategy a humiliation.

The Gulf states pulled airspace access to force operational pauses.

The trust required for future coalitions takes generations to rebuild and was burned in weeks.

Strategic Petroleum Reserve drew down to manage price shocks.

Munitions stockpiles depleted to dangerous lows.

1,100 JASSM-ER missiles fired with only 1,500 left globally.

The strategic deterrent designed for Pacific contingencies got spent on Iran.

Replacement timelines stretch six years.

National debt added through emergency defense spending will be serviced by taxpayers for generations.

Iran ended up with long-term strategic gains the war was supposed to prevent.

Hormuz leverage formally codified into Iranian law. Toll collection operationalized.

Regime more entrenched than before the bombing.

IRGC stronger relative to civilian government. Nuclear program preserved per the intelligence community's own assessment.

The "moderates" the war was supposed to empower never materialized.

The hardliners the war was supposed to weaken consolidated power.

America's reputation as the indispensable security guarantor took the worst hit of all.

The Gulf states watched the U.S. struggle to enforce its own blockade without their cooperation.

Allies witnessed America publicly demanding their assistance after weeks of insulting them.

Adversaries observed exactly how stretched the U.S. military becomes when pulled across multiple theaters.

The implicit deterrence that kept Taiwan, Ukraine, and the Korean peninsula stable just got measured and found wanting.

What did America gain in exchange? Short-term degradation of Iranian conventional military capability.

Disruption to Iran's economy. Some demonstration of resolve.

That's it. That's the entire ROI for everything America just spent...

[Ndèye Gnima DIENG @GnimaDieng]

@aliiroba Absolutely 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽!!

[HE. Capt. Ali Ibrahim Roba, EGH, MP @aliiroba]

“Iran is not a country manufactured yesterday around election slogans, quarterly profits, and televised patriotism. It is a civilisation that was ancient when America was still undiscovered wilderness. While Washington measures history in four-year election cycles and stock market reactions, Iran measures survival in centuries.

The Americans continue to make the fatal mistake of confronting a people whose national memory stretches thousands of years deep; a civilisation that has buried empires, absorbed invasions, survived monarchs, sanctions, assassinations, isolation, and yet still stands intact.

America believes pressure creates surrender because that is how modern powers think. Iran believes pressure is simply another chapter in a very long history. That is the difference between a superpower obsessed with immediate results and a civilisation trained by time itself to endure indefinitely.

Sanctions did not break Iran. Threats did not break Iran. Isolation did not break Iran. Instead, every punishment merely hardened a population already conditioned by history to survive hardship as a normal part of existence.

And perhaps the greatest miscalculation of all is psychological: America confronts a society whose patriotism is civilisational, not transactional. A people who do not see death with the same fear-driven lens of modern Western politics, but as an inevitable cycle of life that can arrive at any moment. Such societies are extraordinarily difficult to intimidate.

The arrogance of Washington is now colliding with the patience of Persia and history repeatedly teaches the same brutal lesson: empires intoxicated by power often mistake restraint for weakness until the cost of that miscalculation becomes irreversible.”

[IRAN Embassy in Austria @IraninAustria]

The latest interview with Marco Rubio—the so-called Secretary of State of the U.S. regime—was a sickening cocktail of hypocrisy, lies, venom, arrogance, and outright contradictions. Let’s tear his words apart, piece by piece.

1- He pretended to mourn the dead in Iran’s so-called “peaceful protests,” waving around fake statistics. Yet just today—and many times before—Trump proudly bragged about shipping weapons to those same Iranian “protesters.” Peaceful protests? That’s a joke.

2- With a straight face, Rubio tried to cry over sailors on ships trapped in the Persian Gulf. Who trapped them? The U.S. and Israeli regimes, with their war on Iran and their ruthless naval blockade. Would anyone believe a thief shedding tears for the victim he just robbed?

3- He lectured us on “freedom of navigation” under international law. But the very first principle of international law is non-aggression. The U.S. and Israel have shredded every single article of that law in their aggression against Iran. Now they want to weaponize the scraps against us.

4- Rubio dares to talk about a “real diplomatic path” with Iran. Does he think we’ve all lost our memory? The U.S. bombed Iran twice—TWICE—in the middle of ongoing negotiations.

5- Like his boss Trump, Rubio mistakes thuggish barking for strength. Every diplomat learns the first lesson: speak with respect. What a tragedy that a brute like Rubio now sits atop America’s diplomatic machinery.

[Doug Casey's International Man @intlmandotcom]

We are likely witnessing the end of US global dominance, much like the fall of the British Empire in the wake of the world wars and the 1956 Suez Canal Crisis, but significantly more consequential.

No matter what happens, the outcome of the Iran war will make it clear to the world that the emperor has no clothes.

Many people are unprepared for such a historic shift. But when you put all the pieces together, the Big Picture becomes clear.

Changes in the world order are rare, history-defining events—with massive implications, both geopolitical and financial.

We are living through one of those rare moments right now.

That’s why it’s critical to tune out the noise, cut through the propaganda, and understand the true geopolitical landscape.

[Ndèye Gnima DIENG @GnimaDieng]

@adama_citizen @iamuthman1 😂😂😂😂👌🏽

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Notice that NATO allies are no longer talking about reopening the Strait of Hormuz to ensure Freedom of Navigation.

During the height of this US-Iran war, there was no diplomatic missile they did not fire at Iran over the closure of the Strait in retaliation for US airstrikes. Even the UK Prime Minister was all over the news, posturing about a 40-nation coalition to force open the waterway.

But as soon as the US blockaded the Strait and began targeting all vessels entering and leaving Iranian ports, they suddenly lost their voices. NATO allies are quiet not because they have lost interest in the Strait, as they are currently suffering an energy crisis much more severe than any other continent.

Their silence is because the US blockade has changed the math.

Reopening the Strait now would require one of two things: diplomatically forcing the US to end its blockade, which is politically impossible within the alliance, or joining the US in an illegal act of war. Again, both of these options are impossible for NATO.

They are currently spirit-broken and defeated. They cannot even criticize the US publicly. Following Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s comments that the US was being humiliated by Iran and that the war was illegal, the Pentagon immediately announced the withdrawal of 5,000 troops from Germany.

Also, recall that Germany had a Russian option: opening the tap on Nord Stream 2.
This was a valve they could have used to exit the energy crisis if domestic political pressure became too great.
But as soon as plans were in place, the empire physically destroyed the infrastructure.

This ensured that Germany and the EU could not meddle in the economic war by seeking a separate peace or a cheaper energy alternative.

This has created a captive market where European industry is forced to operate at a significant price disadvantage compared to American industry.

It should be clear by now that Europe is no longer a partner to the US. It has been effectively subsidized and secured into submission.

[Jerome Chisikwa @JeromeChisikwa]

No foreign companies are allowed to extract minerals in America, China, or Europe, but in Africa African countries rely on foreign companies to extract their own minerals. Don’t we have engineering companies with African engineers in Africa? This trend must end!

[Amir Nourdine Elbachir @amir_nourdine]

🔴🟢🇨🇳 On apprend que la Chine🇨🇳 a construit et remis à la Communauté économique des États de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (Cédéao) son nouveau siège à Abuja, la capitale nigériane, pour un montant de plus de 56,5 millions de dollars.
On se rappelle que le 28 janvier 2012 la Chine🇨🇳 offrait aux africains, clé en main, le nouveau siège de l'Union africaine, à Addis-Abeba, en Éthiopie🇪🇹 pour un montant de 200 millions de dollars américain.

L'Union africaine compte 55 États membres et la Cedeao, 12 pays membres.
Je suis pour l'ouverture de l'Afrique et des pays sous-régionaux aux coopérations multipolaires, tant que c'est dans nos intérêts. Mais il y a des dons qu'on ne devrait plus accepter. Des infrastructures qu'on devrait financer nous-mêmes, surtout les temples de nos prises de décisions. Comment pouvons-nous prétendre agir et parler librement lorsque nous ne sommes pas “les architectes“ des lieux censés centraliser nos idées ?
Comment pouvons-nous revendiquer avec fierté, nous opposer aux diktats extérieurs avec dignité, lorsqu'un seul pays fait un don aux 55 États d'un même continent ? C'est une véritable honte. C'est une forme de soumission qui ne dit pas son nom, une forme de contrôle à peine voilée.

Pour finir je vous rappelle quelques sommets :

▪️ Sommet France🇫🇷 - Afrique
▪️ Sommet Chine🇨🇳 - Afrique
▪️ Sommet États-Unis🇺🇸 - Afrique
▪️ Sommet Russie🇷🇺 - Afrique
▪️ Sommet Japon🇯🇵 - Afrique
▪️ Sommet Inde🇮🇳 - Afrique
▪️ Sommet Turquie🇹🇷 - Afrique
▪️ Sommet Corée du Sud🇰🇷 - Afrique

À ces sommets, c'est un seul pays qui fait face à 55 États africains, comme un instituteur fait face à 55 élèves dans une salle de classe.

Que Dieu aide les peuples africains ! Amine 🙏 !

[Abdelhay-yahya abou ishaq @ishaq_abou]

Les Arabes disaient autrefois :

Quatre choses séparent les frères :
l’argent, les femmes, la jalousie et la mort.
Quatre choses te font perdre ta valeur auprès des gens :
trop parler, trop rire, mentir et colporter (les ragots).
Quatre choses par lesquelles une épouse détruit son foyer :
l’entêtement, la nervosité, le doute et élever la voix.
Et quatre choses par lesquelles un homme détruit son foyer :
l’éloignement, la négligence, la dureté et l’avarice.

[Reza Nasri @RezaNasri1]

The war benefited Iran in at least one aspect: The overt attention given to Iran for the last 50 days has completely shattered the fabricated image that Israeli-affiliated media had crafted of the country for decades.

Many people have now realized that:

1- Iran is not run by mad apocalyptic “mullahs". Many Iranian officials are sophisticated technocrats, steeped in political science, literature, mathematics, international relations, and philosophy. They hold PhDs and strong academic credentials from renowned universities, and have actually authored books on Immanuel Kant, negotiations and governance. In fact, they are much more sophisticated than their Western counterparts. For one, none of them ever appeared on the Epstein list. That is precisely why they do not have to bend or bow before Israel or its network of lobbies.

2- The Iranian people are proud and patriotic. They are willing to risk their lives by forming human chains around bridges and critical infrastructure to protect their homeland. They have never welcomed, and will never welcome, foreign intervention. Neighboring countries were mistaken in assuming they would need to close their borders to manage an influx of refugees fleeing war from Iran. Not only did Iranians refuse to flee the war zone, but many living abroad actually returned home by land once the conflict began.

3- Iran is a resilient nation that has endured decades of illegal sanctions, sadistic “maximum pressure” campaigns, covert operations, and outright war. It stood tall, relied solely on itself, and built a formidable military, industrial, and scientific base. By contrast, countries with far stronger economies are already complaining about the economic fallout from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and are growing impatient. Iran withstood their sanctions for nearly fifty years, yet they cannot tolerate fifty days of reciprocal economic pressure. Hopefully this reality will force them to recognize the depravity of their past policies.

4- Iran is not a state sponsor of terrorism. Its only “sin” has been to be the sole country on Earth that has firmly, openly, and proudly stood up to Israeli apartheid and genocidal policies. That is the real source of all the demonization.

5- Iran did not squander money—or the brief proceeds from temporary sanctions relief—on destabilizing the region. It invested in infrastructure instead. The sheer number of hospitals, airports, petrochemical plants, railroads, bridges, ports, pharmaceutical factories, and universities targeted in the war reveals exactly where that money was spent.

6- Iran did not seek war. It pursued serious diplomacy, only to be betrayed on multiple occasions. The United States withdrew from the JCPOA and then attacked Iran twice while new negotiations were underway. All the smears claiming that Iran fails to honor its international commitments or is prone to lying and cheating are pure nonsense unsupported by empirical evidence.

7- Iran’s foreign policy is guided by values, principles, and national pride rather than materialist “cost-benefit” calculations. Understanding this is essential to reaching any genuine deal. Otherwise, within a narrow “cost-benefit” paradigm, Israeli experts and think tanks will continue to rush to portray Iran’s intentions as hostile—just as they have done for decades by relentlessly disseminating the falsehood that Iran is seeking to build nuclear weapons.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The best math you can learn is how to calculate the future cost of current decisions.”