toasted empire

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

This is the guy that the NATO left wants us to believe is some sort of tyrant

Putin provides for his people what the left in the United States could only dream of accomplishing here

[Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山 @baoshaoshan]

As opposed to those strong concerns about bombing Iran. Thanks for reminding us of the shallow hypocrisy of the G7 & those that cling to its tattered coattails.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Russian MFA spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reports the woman killed in the Ukrainian strike on a bus full of kids was pregnant

Zakharova says she leaves two children motherless, and that eight others, including six kids, were injured in the terrorist strike.

RIP.

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

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[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

People mistake this for a single war. It's not. Iran is just 1 theater in a 3-front energy blockade that includes Russia and Venezuela.

Washington haven't lost the strategic advantage; they've expanded it. The US now control global oil, gas, and fuel—and will never give that up

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Strategy dictates that when you have an advantage against an adversary, the worst thing you can do is take the pressure off.

So this entire affair is either yet another trick for the 100th time or a deadly mistake.

The US will not let up. Mark my words.

[Daniel Davis Deep Dive @DanielLDavis1]

🔥Will the US get dragged back into the Iran war?
Netanyahu’s goals run deep — “in the marrow of his bones” — and he won’t simply walk away from the greater‑Israel project, despite the MoU Trump signed.
So the real question is what happens next: “If Israel doesn’t abide by this deal… and goes back to fighting with Hezbollah… are we going to be dragged back into the war?”
This moment will reveal who’s actually in charge.
Can Trump hold the line and say, “That’s between Israel and Hezbollah” and America won’t get dragged back into another war antithetical to our interests — no American bombs, no military, no re‑entry into the Iran war.
Because as I say in the clip, “That’s what he should do.”

👉 Watch the full clip — the next move could decide the entire Middle East conflict.

https://t.co/1bUVpiSQD3

#IranWar #USStrategy #MiddleEastConflict #DanielDavis
#Netanyahu #Hezbollah #ForeignPolicy #NationalSecurity
#IranDeal #Geopolitics

[Sputnik @SputnikInt]

🚨🇷🇺 Russia and ASEAN committed to forming fair and democratic multipolar world order - Putin

Putin's key statements:

🔸 Russia will continue to supply ASEAN countries with the food and energy they need

🔸 Russia and ASEAN are expanding transcontinental maritime and rail freight routes and opening new corridors

🔸 Russia proposes increasing exports of high-value-added products to ASEAN, including fertilizers and pharmaceuticals

[Laurent Michelon Officiel @LAURENTMICHEL0N]

This event went completely unnoticed, but is definitely a sign of the times :

The 2nd World Conference on Classical Civilizations has just concluded in Athens.

The first conference took place in Beijing in 2024, during which President Xi Jinping delivered a speech.

Titled this year “Dialogue Between Antiquity and the Modern World: Contemporary Inspiration from Classical Wisdom,” the conference brought together 200 international specialists in classical studies and was co-organized by China and Greece.

This year, participants emphasized the importance for nations to strengthen bridges of dialogue between antiquity and modernity, in order to “cultivate the MORAL character of citizens, focus on NATIONAL prosperity and progress, using CLASSICAL wisdom to reinforce the SPIRITUAL foundations of modernization, [...] and to apply classical wisdom to address global challenges.”

Morality, nations, classics, spirituality—all words that have been forgotten, deemed outdated, or even demonized in the degenerate West.

The predicate of this Sino-Greek collaboration is that classical studies—particularly the thinkers of ancient China and Greece, though not exclusively—can help us find appropriate answers to the contemporary challenges facing humanity.

First, the learning of history, which is sorely lacking, and thus allows for the rewriting, in the most shameful way, of entire chapters of history, as we have seen in recent years at the highest levels of the political and media spheres, in order to justify new hegemonic ambitions.

Then, searching the classics for philosophical, diplomatic, and ecological insights that our ancestors had already contemplated.

As I wrote in my book "Understanding the China-West Relationship" (2022), China bases its diplomacy and its relationship with the world on a central concept of Chinese philosophy, the Doctrine of the Mean (中庸之道), which has shaped Chinese civilization for millennia.

In 2026, the last remaining civilizational states—China and Russia—serve as repositories of memory for declining civilizations, particularly the West, which long presented itself as a universal model but is now incapable of defining itself, having been held hostage and militarized against the sovereign states of the Global South.

Are #China and #Russia the Noah’s Ark of a dying European civilization?

@PAPlaquevent

[Will Schryver @imetatronink]

I would only remind the Iranians that one must never underestimate the Anglo-American-Israeli talent for ruthless treachery. They've never been very accomplished at big league war, but they will swiftly slit your throat if you drop your guard.

[🇷🇺 Yuri Podolyaka @YuriPodolyaka]

Moscow. A Record Attack. My Hat's Off to the Air Defense

On the night of June 18, over Russia, 555 long-range drones were shot down. Over the capital region - 180 at this moment. I have no doubt that the rest were intended for Moscow, but were shot down over other regions.

The attack was carried out in waves, with the "Carpet" simultaneously deployed at all four Moscow airports - Vnukovo, Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Zhukovsky - plus Kaluga, Penza, Saratov, Nizhny and Nizhnekamsk.

What we have in terms of results.

▪️ The air defense shot down more than 180 targets on approach - a figure that could not have been operated on at all a month ago. The anti-aircraft and electronic warfare crews worked at the maximum pace possible on the capital route.

▪️ Several drones made it to the Moscow Refinery in Kapotne. The second arrival in three days. The pattern is clear: they are finishing off what they haven't managed to restore yet.

▪️ In the Moscow region - a hit on a multi-story building in Zhukovsky (Gagarin Street), a fire on the roof of the "Belaya Dacha" shopping center in Lyubertsy, two burnt summer houses in Pavlovsky Posad, a destroyed house in Chekhov, a damaged "Sadovod" shopping center in Moscow. In Elektrostal, a woman was injured - a minor injury, she refused hospitalization. At Sheremetyevo, passengers were evacuated from the aircraft to shelters in the parking lot - for the first time in the history of attacks on the capital's air hub.

In May, I wrote: the enemy is probing the echelons, looking for vulnerabilities, testing the reaction time of the crews. And I warned - when they find it, they will strike for real. On June 16, the first "real" wave took place - 90 UAVs, one breakthrough at the MNZ. On June 17 - a trial repeat. On the 18th - a massive strike on the already scouted corridor. This is one operation in three stages: reconnaissance, verification, strike.

Several breakthroughs to the MNZ - yes, it's unpleasant, annoying, we need to figure it out. But only a few of the 555 drones made it to the targets in the capital. And this still says something. It's not just the "Pantsir" alone. It's also the people's design bureaus, which were still startups in garages two or three years ago, and serial electronic warfare systems, and drone interceptor operators, and the coordinated work of the Ministry of Defense, Rosgvardiya and the Aerospace Forces in one circuit. This system grew out of the war. It learns every day - and gets better every day.

My deepest respect to the anti-aircraft crews, electronic warfare operators, air force crews, emergency services of Moscow and the Moscow region, drone fighter pilots and engineers who are currently restoring the refinery. You are doing the impossible - and you're doing it in the mode of a new norm.

Keep working, brothers! We hold the sky!

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Kaja Kallas touts 21st Moscow sanctions package during press remarks, claims Russia is not winning on the battlefield

Delusion has a name.

[Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山 @baoshaoshan]

JPM HK says no to Claude. The French government says no to Palantir. Who’s next? U.S. proprietary models are high risk to national data sovereignty.

Meanwhile, the Australian Defence Department continues to open its doors for Palantir. #auspol

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

I have a bad news: The new Iran “peace deal” is a textbook scam engineered to fail from day one >> just like the Minsk accords.

It’s not peace. It’s a pause.

The US empire is buying time, regrouping, and preparing the next round of aggression against Iran.
Ultimately, Washington’s goal remains regime change >> they’ll wait years, even decades if needed.
This interim framework > sanctions relief tied to vague “compliance,” uranium dilution, Hormuz reopening, and a 60-day window for more talks >> gives Iran some breathing room after US-led strikes while Washington resets for escalated pressure.
No real security guarantees for Iran, no genuine de-escalation, no trust.
History shows exactly how this plays out.
Iran gets limited cash flows from oil sales and frozen assets unlocked after enduring American aggression.
The US gets a tactical timeout to reposition, with weak promises that everyone knows won’t hold.

Same old script: kick the can, let tensions simmer, then justify the next wave of sanctions, threats, or attacks when convenient.

This is pure US aggression dressed up as diplomacy.

Manufactured “Israel vs USA tensions” provide the usual cover while the empire maintains its forever pressure campaign in the region.

No peace on the horizon.
This is just another delay tactic in America’s long war on Iran aimed at regime change.

Watch what the US does with any renewed leverage and how quickly the accusations restart.

Stay skeptical.

[Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺 @Alex_Oloyede2]

🇺🇦 Here's how weapons are brought into Ukraine from Poland using civilian trucks.

The drones which attacked Russia today are made in the UK, shipped to Poland and sent into Ukraine in disguise.

Notice the 'H' in a split frame? That's Ukraine's Nova Poshta for civilian packages.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

Ukraine's Fire Point booth at Eurosatory 2026 in Paris is displaying footage of today's FP-1 and FP-2 drone strikes on Russia's Moscow refinery.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Trump walks back the demands that Iran must give up its ballistic missiles.
- In my opinion, it is good that Iran has a strong conventional deterrent, as this reduces the need for a nuclear deterrent.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

Some Singaporean colonial minds love imagining that Singapore’s value comes from holding China hostage through the Strait of Malacca.

Cute fantasy.

Malacca is important.
But it is not destiny.

Thailand is reviving a $30 billion Land Bridge project to connect the Gulf of Thailand with the Andaman Sea through ports, railways, roads, and pipelines — a coast-to-coast corridor designed to reduce dependence on Malacca.

So, will it replace Malacca overnight?

Of cause not, but that is not the point.
The point is that China and the region are not stupid enough to leave their future permanently trapped inside one chokepoint controlled by Western-aligned fantasies.

There is Thailand.
There is Malaysia.
There is the China-Laos Railway.
There are overland corridors.
There are ports, pipelines, railways, and industrial routes being built across Asia.

Singapore’s mistake is thinking geography alone equals permanent leverage.
It does not.

Geography gives you a seat.
History decides whether you become a partner or a tool.

And if Singapore thinks its strategic value lies in helping the West choke China, then China will do what China always does:
build around the choke point.

So yes, Malacca matters.
But China’s answer to pressure has never been begging.
It is routes, rails, ports, corridors, ships, pipelines, and time.

Every attempted choke point eventually becomes another engineering problem.

[The Duran @TheDuranReal]

Largest strike on Moscow since the war began. Same week NATO ministers gather to discuss Ukraine's security guarantees. Same week Zelensky vows Moscow will burn. Kyiv doesn't reach this deep without sign-off from somewhere.

Someone needs Russia to overreact. Someone may get their wish.

[Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 @AngelicaOung]

This is just the lesson we have to learn over and over again. The rules-based international order is just some version of be our vassals or we will break you but with extra bullshit on top.

The Russians were told « don’t worry about nato it’s a defensive alliance. » right after that happened the Kosovo war where nato went in Serbia. That was not a defensive war. No NATO territory was under threat.

So the Russians went back to NATO and said geez…does that mean NATO can attack Russia too? NATO was like…of course not. Russia is a nuclear-armed country. So as soon as that happened, Putin knew what was protecting Russia was not NATO’s defensive nature but Russian ability to defend itself and that’s how he has been acting ever since.

Iran has earned the respect of the United States not by giving them what they want but by proving they cannot be coerced.