Hajro Çini

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

History will show that no one did more to promote left-wing ideas than Donald Trump, and no one did more to advance the Palestinian cause than Benjamin Netanyahu.

[The PFBC Media @The_PFBC_Media]

Ron Unz recommends the work of A. J. P. Taylor and Pat Buchanan to explore WWII revisionism, highlighting how their work shifted from critically acclaimed to highly controversial.

“Hitler certainly did not want to get into a war […] it was only a British diplomatic blunder.”

[Nolan Denaro @nolandenaro]

Pat Buchanan is one of the most vindicated men in America.

Read as many of his books and articles as you can.

[AF Post @AFpost]

Today is Pat Buchanan’s birthday. Buchanan famously re-popularized the dormant phrase of “America First” when he became an outspoken opponent of the neoconservative GOP faction.

Buchanan prophetically warned of the disaster caused by the wars in the Middle East and predicted the effects of America’s globalist and liberal project, including threats foreign and domestic, namely the hollowing out of America’s economy, religious values, and the replacement of its population.

Buchanan would eventually launch a promising presidential run but, against the advice of fellow dissident Sam Francis, Buchanan refused to break with the Bush-era GOP fully and failed to disrupt the uniparty establishment.

He is now credited, in part with Donald Trump, with laying the foundation for the Tea Party and later the MAGA movements.

Despite his efforts to support and maintain loyalty to the old guard of the GOP, Buchanan was slandered as an antisemite in the early 2000s.

Follow: @AFpost

[Mark @Mark4XX]

NETANYAHU’S NUCLEAR DEMAND: FORMER DIPLOMAT EXPOSES THE IMPOSSIBLE HIT

Former British diplomat Alastair Crooke joins to examine reports that Benjamin Netanyahu is pressing Donald Trump for a tactical nuclear strike on Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain facility in the days after the midterms. Crooke, drawing on Israeli media and the physics of the site, explains why such a weapon cannot reach the buried target. The mountain is granite and the facilities sit far deeper than any tactical device can go. What does a former diplomat see that the briefings keep missing?

THE NUCLEAR DEMAND
➡️ Netanyahu has been calling Trump almost daily to press for strikes, and Tucker Carlson reports the Israeli leader wants a tactical nuclear hit on Pickaxe Mountain.
➡️ The decision window sits days after the midterms, around November 7.
➡️ Israeli media treat the Qatar-mediated talks as going nowhere while the pressure for a strike continues.

THE PENETRATION FAILURE
➡️ “A nuclear tactical nuclear weapon is not a deep penetrating weapon.”
➡️ The best conventional bunker-buster, the B61-11, must be dropped from a C-130 and reaches only about 10 meters into granite.
➡️ Pickaxe Mountain facilities sit at least 100 meters below the surface in solid granite.
➡️ Crooke’s verdict: “It won’t be effective at all. It will probably mostly bounce off the granite wall.”
➡️ Steep slopes make even accurate delivery difficult; the device simply cannot reach the target.

THE TELEVISION WEAPON
➡️ The MOAB creates a huge airburst pressure wave designed for caves and canyons, not deep mountain granite.
➡️ Its real value, Crooke notes, is the visible fireball that “will look good on television” so leaders can claim the nuclear program is finished.
➡️ Effectiveness is highly doubtful, yet the claim of success remains easy to broadcast.

THE ISRAELI FOLLOW-ON
➡️ If the United States is first to use a nuclear weapon, Israel already possesses nuclear-capable Tomahawks that can be loaded into submarines.
➡️ Those submarines must surface to fire, giving Iran a short detection window.
➡️ Crooke puts the odds of a successful Iranian counter at roughly 50/50.
➡️ Elbridge Colby has been revising the protocols for tactical nuclear use, though the exact status remains unknown.

THE BOTTOM LINE
A tactical nuclear strike on Pickaxe Mountain is theater that cannot reach the target, yet it risks opening a door Israel is prepared to walk through. Crooke’s warning is simple: the physics do not care about the politics. The mountain does not yield.

#NuclearStrike #PickaxeMountain #AlastairCrooke #TacticalNuke #IranWar #Netanyahu #Trump
HT: YouTube Danny Haiphong

[Hajro Çini @HajroC]

@ConradMBlack Do you still bet on Netanyahu?! Or you were drank?

[Syrian Girl @Partisangirl]

“For Israel to have nuclear weapons, we had to sell stolen black babies to families in the US, where they did medical experiments on them. Now Israel has enough nuclear power to wipe out the entire world in a minute.” - Rabbi Yosef Mizrahi

Wait what????

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.

Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.

To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.

The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.

And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.

We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.

Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.

They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.

One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The brilliant Pulitzer-Prize winning author, @BenMoser123, is now on Twitter (welcome, and condolences, Ben). Follow him!

His new book on Jewish anti-Zionism is one of the best histories of Zionism ever written. I spoke to him about it here:

https://t.co/shNOggYsY0

[ًً @kelevitch]

Muslims are being killed in France and the UK, and the killers are white supremacists dressing up as crusaders. They think their religion makes them superior and that Islam is barbaric. Nobody confronts them with their own history.

Too many Muslims respond by begging for acceptance. “Islam means peace” is the line they repeat, as if we owe anyone a character reference. We don’t. The people calling Islam barbaric come from a civilization that built its wealth on atrocity and prayed while doing it.

Slavery was sold to Africans as submission to the white man in exchange for heaven. Leopold’s Congo killed millions, and the damage still rolls on today. Christian Zionism, especially in Britain, helped build the political ground Israel stands on, and many believers today cheer it on while Gaza’s children are buried under rubble. The biggest terrorist state today is built and funded by Christians

Christian rhetoric still cloaks Western power: the US wages an illegal war on Iran while its Secretary of War parades religious language.
Then they turn around and call Muslims terrorists. Resistance only exists because invasion came first. Nobody had to fight in Afghanistan or Iraq until Western armies showed up. Destroy Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, then act shocked when refugees arrive. The wreckage came from their hands.
You created what you’re crying about

[مهتاب شاهدIranian @mahtab1133]

Look at how Dr. Ali Shariati, the Iranian philosopher, writer, and thinker, described America so accurately nearly 50 years ago:

“America! This immense stupidity, civilized savagery, modern barbarism, violence with a label, legalized plunder, ugly happiness, vulgar freedom, stupid democracy, mass-produced individualism, and ...”

[Primod @chrisprimod]

When the Crusaders took Jerusalem in the First Crusade, they slaughtered tens of thousands of people — Muslims, Jews, even local Christians. It was a bloodbath.

About 90 years later, when Saladin’s Muslim army took the city back, he let the Crusaders and the Christian civilians leave without harming them.

He set a small exit fee as part of the surrender terms. The rich Crusader princes paid for themselves and refused to pay for the poor Christians.
Saladin covered the fees for those civilians himself.

That’s the real character of a Muslim — mercy and justice, even toward those who had shown none.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Here is the arithmetic that the phrase "Global South" obscures:

Africa: 1.6 billion people.

Asia: 4.9 billion people.

Latin America and the Caribbean: 670 million people.

Together: roughly 7.2 billion people out of 8.3 billion on earth.

The "Global South" is not a minority asking to be included.

It is the majority that has been structured out of power.

The entire architecture of the post-war international order, the Security Council veto, the IMF voting weights, the WTO rules, the dollar as a reserve currency, was built to ensure that 7.2 billion people would not have proportional influence over the decisions that shape their lives.

That architecture is not natural law.

It is a set of choices made by the winners of a particular moment in history, encoded as permanent, and maintained by the threat of consequences for those who question it.

Questioning it is not radical.

It is arithmetic.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The British starved Ireland and then cited Irish poverty as evidence of Irish inferiority.

The Belgians extracted the Congo’s resources for a century and then cited Congolese underdevelopment as evidence that Africans needed to be governed.

The Americans sanctioned Cuba for 66 years and then cited Cuban economic difficulties as evidence that socialism doesn’t work.

The structure is the same.

It has always been the same.

You remove the conditions necessary for success.

You wait.

You point.

You conclude.

The only thing that changes across centuries and continents is who’s being pointed at.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Everyone still supporting Israel is a disgusting bigot. They're saying we should be ok with the fact that they killed 75,000 people, 22,000 children and destroyed all of Gaza because Muslim lives are no big deal. They prefer their fascist, ethno-state to lives of Muslim children.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The Iranian waged a 800 year war ag Romans. The Iranian frontier bankrupted Byzantium and led to the Arab invasion.
Same with the Ottomans. Border stayed firm. The mistake everyone makes is to underestimate how stubborn Persia is

[Davut Paşa @CokYasaaa]

L’islam n’est pas majoritaire dans les Balkans pour la simple et bonne raison que la majorité des musulmans ont été expulsés lorsque les territoires ont été perdus.

Après la guerre de 1878, avec les vagues d’exil et de massacres, la population musulmane de Roumélie chute de moitié. En 1880, elle ne représente que 23% de la population, 15% en 1905.

Les guerres balkaniques de 1912-1913 causent la mort de 1,5 million de musulmans et l’exil de 800.000 d’entre eux.

Après la 1ere guerre mondiale, 500.000 musulmans de Grèce partent en Turquie ainsi que 200.000 musulmans de Bulgarie. On note des dizaine de milliers de départ de Yougoslavie et de Roumanie.

Après la seconde guerre mondiale, on dénombre 150.000 musulmans de Bulgarie qui quittent le pays en 1951, 115.000 entre 1968 et 1978, puis 300.000 après 1989.

Au Kosovo, plus de 100.000 musulmans sont partis entre 1950 et 1960.

C’est le plus grand nettoyage ethnique jamais opéré en Europe dans l’indifférence la plus totale.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Jeffrey Sachs tells Tucker that Iranian leaders were KILLED while discussing peace talks with the U.S.

He says on February 28 the officials, including Ali Khamenei, were at the residence talking about the next round of diplomacy that was supposed to start the following week in Vienna.

He points out an Omani mediator had just said progress was being made the day before.

Netanyahu has spent years saying to skip the negotiations and go after them instead.

Source: @TCNetwork / Writer: Lucas

[The American Conservative @amconmag]

Pat Buchanan to Sean Hannity in 2015: "Your friend Bibi [Netanyahu] has been talking about Iran getting a bomb since 1992."

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

Did you know there is a chapter called 'The Romans' in the Qur'an that is supportive of the Christian Byzantines over the Sasanian Persian polytheists and opens with a profound geopolitical prophecy in their favour?

It was revealed after the Persian Zoroastrian (Majūs) fire-worshippers defeated the Eastern Roman forces in Jerusalem. The pagans of Makkah celebrated this because of their mutual polytheism, taking it as a sign that they would likewise overcome the Muslims, while the Muslims viewed it with deep sadness due to the natural closeness they felt to the Christians as fellow People of the Book.

Allah revealed the surah to counter the pagans' joy with the prophecy that the Byzantines would be victorious ‘within a few years' (using the Arabic term bid‘ sinīn, meaning between 3 and 9 years), and that the believers would rejoice.

At the time, around 614–615 CE, this was practically impossible to foresee. The Byzantine Empire was on the verge of collapse after military defeats, economic ruin, and civil war.

Yet, against all odds, Emperor Heraclius launched a counter-offensive in 622 CE. By 624 CE, roughly 9 years after the fall of Jerusalem, the Romans had invaded the Persian heartland.

This coincided exactly with the Muslims' first major victory against the Makkan pagans at the Battle of Badr.

The Qur'anic prediction that 'on that day the believers will rejoice' came true in two ways: the Muslims rejoiced at their own victory and at the fulfilment of the prophecy of the Roman victory.

Subhana Allah!
Glory be to God.