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[Konda @KondaTerminus]

This is the final nail in the coffin for democracy. The social contract is completely null and void if the constituency can be over-ruled by the import of foreign voters. Every democracy will do this now.

This is now a race to the bottom for them all.

[N News @NoticerNews]

Sweden's left-wing opposition has a narrow election lead over the centre-right government after winning 70% of non-European voters, many of whom were recently given citizenship.

A pre-election poll also found 85% of Muslims planned to vote for the left, and a data analysis found the Muslim vote alone was more than enough to decide the election.

[Konda @KondaTerminus]

@richardhirschs1 We will return to the mean which is 70% down from where we are.

[Konda @KondaTerminus]

@cirnosad Physiologically, it can't be the whites, yet the whites are empirically better at adapting to their environment. So we can conclude that while whites do not originate on this world, they are utilising it better than the native race(s).

[Konda @KondaTerminus]

@real_ltc @trader1sz Wow, crazy how people don't like you guys when you're so lovely.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The Albania Government has lost control Albanians breaking into Government offices and take anything they like, this Israel owned Government will fall soon.

Good riddance.

[Crisprtek (Online Death God) @CollapseAnime]

Indonesia, country with population of 288 million people, had massive generational single day stock market collapse and is experiencing widespread fuel shortages

Keep telling us the war in Iran is over and the strait is open.

[RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa]

Italians have woken up. Across Italy, blockades are taking place because people can not make ends meet anymore and do not know how to feed children. This will not end well.

[RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa]

Italy in chaos. Not just Brindisi today. Nationwide Italy. About 600-700 trucks blocking roads around Brindisi alone, but protests also in Calabria, Puglia, Lazio, Campania and Sicily. Truckers and farmers together against fuel costs.

[Desi H-1Bhenchods @desitechsuppoat]

Indonesia ran out of gasoline. This is a country where 90% of the population uses scooters that sip 90mpg. They keep their domestic consumption quite low.

Economy is grinding to a stop and people cant get to work.

[Yarub Ibn Qahtan @yarubibnqahtan]

A severe regional escalation is imminent.

[Konda @KondaTerminus]

@s_m_marandi Please be aware Marandi, my war quant is rarely wrong 😬

https://t.co/MFga9c0PeW

[Korobochka (コロボ) 🇦🇺✝️🇷🇺 @cirnosad]

☢️ Why is the US running a MOAB PSYOP on Iran? /📄

It's very rare to hear the US media speak about specific munitions. If they ever talk about war, it's usually about delivery systems such as F-22s and B-2 which excite the laymen. Never munitions.

Yet, all over the news, almost in unison, everyone is now talking about MOABs with regard to Iran. Even Trump! In an interview Trump stated, in short that:

1. He may have to use a MOAB.
2. America is strong, doesn't need to use a nuke.
3. MOAB is totally conventional and definite not a nuke.
4. ... It's like a tiny nuke. (his words)

Why is the sitting president of the most powerful country in the world talking about munitions and what brought it up in the first place?

The MOAB is an extremely impractical weapon. It requires a complicated parachute/cradle/separation system that is normally used to deploy armoured vehicles into battlefields, which is why the only aircraft capable of deploying it is the C-130. Flying such a large and slow airplane into Iran is a suicide mission. Doing it to drop the equivalent of 20 Mk84s. It's never going to happen.

Why would they even bother? Three F-15s can carry 21 Mk84s and the area of damage that can be created by those bombs can be far more damaging than the ~10 tons of a MOAB.

It's obviously a cover for a nuclear strike.

The majority of people around the world are barely sentient enough to breathe. Even without Trump prompting them, the moment they see a mushroom cloud and all the signs of a nuclear attack, they fall back to the regular pre-programmed excuses:

1. It's a MOAB (their favorite one).
2. It's an ammo dump (even on open ground or high in the sky)
3. It's thermobaric (they're unaware of how these look like or how small these bombs are despite plenty of footage online)
4. They would tell us if nukes are used, the camera man's eyes would melt like in the movies, and plenty of other ret*rded nonsense.

But let's skip these idiots, nothing will convince them, not even being mortally wounded by a nuclear strike. Let's talk about why Trump is doing this and the consequences, if Iran doesn't chicken out as I sadly expect it to.

The purpose of the coming nuclear strike on Iran isn't to take out Pickaxe mountain but to take out critical infrastructure. To destroy Iran itself. Nothing Trump has done so far has achieved this. Almost all bombed targets were repaired quickly with spare parts. There's a precedent for this: WWII Germany, whose industrial capacity increased despite allied strategic bombing.

Here's how it works: A cruise missile of a 2000 pound bomb can damage certain sensitive sites, destroy civilian cement structures or kill people. But it cannot dent a large industrial facility. You can do the math and calculate the over pressure. Bombs have kill mechanisms that either work by distributing shrapnel or using the blast damage of the high explosive mixture inside. Neither of which are effective against heavy industry.

Not convinced? Remember Azovstal heavy ironworks in Ukraine, Mariupol? Despite weeks of bombardment by Russia, including the deployment of 3 ton bombs (comparable to the MOAB), the facility wasn't even scratched.

In contrast, a carefully calibrated nuclear air burst can flatten whatever infrastructure is below it. There will be nothing left to save or repair. Just debris where a factory or industrial facility was.

This is the only way the Americans now believe they can bring Iran to heel. By doing this attack sequence once (destroying something inside Iran, likely insignificant), showing that:

* Iran is too chicken sh*t to announce it was struck by a nuclear weapon (a catastrophic position to be in if one doesn't have the ability or will to retaliate, just announcing it can cause a state to collapse).
* The world will remain silent as it has with all previous nuclear strikes, especially the most recent one on Syria which has been proven to be nuclear beyond any reasonable doubt (down to radioactive soil samples).
* The American public is so dumbed down that they'll buy the MOAB cover without question.
* The attack can be repeated as many times as necessary to get Iran to surrender.

In short, these nuclear strikes will be demonstration or de-escalation strikes. Meant to stop the war by demonstrating a lack of ability or will on one party's behalf.

If this sounds insane, consider what is at stake. The US's allies in the region have been disrupted to such a degree that there is hardly any oil export coming out of the middle east. The world is living off strategic petroleum reserves which as rapidly being drained. There's no time left. Iran either opens the Hormuz or the world suffers the most catastrophic energy and food crisis in history -- and everyone will blame Israel and the US.

The fall out would be worse than a nuclear war. We are talking mass starvation, and the complete absence of fuel for billions and billions of people. The death toll will be in the same unit as that you expect from a nuclear war: megadeaths. So the closure of the Hormuz has crossed into that threshold.

Can Iran stop this from unfolding? Perhaps. One strategy is to call out the PSYOP -- but I don't expect them to do this. They have carried out clandestine attacks of their own and keeping the public ignorant about limited nuclear warfare is in the interest of every nuclear state including Iran.

An alternative is to preemptively carry out an attack of its own, targeting the very infrastructure required to carry out the nuclear attack. This would not only directly stop the attack, but it will also demonstrate the will necessary to fight the coming nuclear war.

/End

P.S. I fully expect the US to transition to talking up the MOP and B-2 again after enough people realise the MOAB is not deployable over Iran. It's the same BS with another munition.

[Korobochka (コロボ) 🇦🇺✝️🇷🇺 @cirnosad]

☢️ Why is the US running a MOAB PSYOP on Iran? /📄

It's very rare to hear the US media speak about specific munitions. If they ever talk about war, it's usually about delivery systems such as F-22s and B-2 which excite the laymen. Never munitions.

Yet, all over the news, almost in unison, everyone is now talking about MOABs with regard to Iran. Even Trump! In an interview Trump stated, in short that:

1. He may have to use a MOAB.
2. America is strong, doesn't need to use a nuke.
3. MOAB is totally conventional and definite not a nuke.
4. ... It's like a tiny nuke. (his words)

Why is the sitting president of the most powerful country in the world talking about munitions and what brought it up in the first place?

The MOAB is an extremely impractical weapon. It requires a complicated parachute/cradle/separation system that is normally used to deploy armoured vehicles into battlefields, which is why the only aircraft capable of deploying it is the C-130. Flying such a large and slow airplane into Iran is a suicide mission. Doing it to drop the equivalent of 20 Mk84s. It's never going to happen.

Why would they even bother? Three F-15s can carry 21 Mk84s and the area of damage that can be created by those bombs can be far more damaging than the ~10 tons of a MOAB.

It's obviously a cover for a nuclear strike.

The majority of people around the world are barely sentient enough to breathe. Even without Trump prompting them, the moment they see a mushroom cloud and all the signs of a nuclear attack, they fall back to the regular pre-programmed excuses:

1. It's a MOAB (their favorite one).
2. It's an ammo dump (even on open ground or high in the sky)
3. It's thermobaric (they're unaware of how these look like or how small these bombs are despite plenty of footage online)
4. They would tell us if nukes are used, the camera man's eyes would melt like in the movies, and plenty of other ret*rded nonsense.

But let's skip these idiots, nothing will convince them, not even being mortally wounded by a nuclear strike. Let's talk about why Trump is doing this and the consequences, if Iran doesn't chicken out as I sadly expect it to.

The purpose of the coming nuclear strike on Iran isn't to take out Pickaxe mountain but to take out critical infrastructure. To destroy Iran itself. Nothing Trump has done so far has achieved this. Almost all bombed targets were repaired quickly with spare parts. There's a precedent for this: WWII Germany, whose industrial capacity increased despite allied strategic bombing.

Here's how it works: A cruise missile of a 2000 pound bomb can damage certain sensitive sites, destroy civilian cement structures or kill people. But it cannot dent a large industrial facility. You can do the math and calculate the over pressure. Bombs have kill mechanisms that either work by distributing shrapnel or using the blast damage of the high explosive mixture inside. Neither of which are effective against heavy industry.

Not convinced? Remember Azovstal heavy ironworks in Ukraine, Mariupol? Despite weeks of bombardment by Russia, including the deployment of 3 ton bombs (comparable to the MOAB), the facility wasn't even scratched.

In contrast, a carefully calibrated nuclear air burst can flatten whatever infrastructure is below it. There will be nothing left to save or repair. Just debris where a factory or industrial facility was.

This is the only way the Americans now believe they can bring Iran to heel. By doing this attack sequence once (destroying something inside Iran, likely insignificant), showing that:

* Iran is too chicken sh*t to announce it was struck by a nuclear weapon (a catastrophic position to be in if one doesn't have the ability or will to retaliate, just announcing it can cause a state to collapse).
* The world will remain silent as it has with all previous nuclear strikes, especially the most recent one on Syria which has been proven to be nuclear beyond any reasonable doubt (down to radioactive soil samples).
* The American public is so dumbed down that they'll buy the MOAB cover without question.
* The attack can be repeated as many times as necessary to get Iran to surrender.

In short, these nuclear strikes will be demonstration or de-escalation strikes. Meant to stop the war by demonstrating a lack of ability or will on one party's behalf.

If this sounds insane, consider what is at stake. The US's allies in the region have been disrupted to such a degree that there is hardly any oil export coming out of the middle east. The world is living off strategic petroleum reserves which as rapidly being drained. There's no time left. Iran either opens the Hormuz or the world suffers the most catastrophic energy and food crisis in history -- and everyone will blame Israel and the US.

The fall out would be worse than a nuclear war. We are talking mass starvation, and the complete absence of fuel for billions and billions of people. The death toll will be in the same unit as that you expect from a nuclear war: megadeaths. So the closure of the Hormuz has crossed into that threshold.

Can Iran stop this from unfolding? Perhaps. One strategy is to call out the PSYOP -- but I don't expect them to do this. They have carried out clandestine attacks of their own and keeping the public ignorant about limited nuclear warfare is in the interest of every nuclear state including Iran.

An alternative is to preemptively carry out an attack of its own, targeting the very infrastructure required to carry out the nuclear attack. This would not only directly stop the attack, but it will also demonstrate the will necessary to fight the coming nuclear war.

/End

P.S. I fully expect the US to transition to talking up the MOP and B-2 again after enough people realise the MOAB is not deployable over Iran. It's the same BS with another munition.

[Italia 24H Live 🔴 – Notizie dall'Italia @Italia24HLive]

⛽ Puglia, carenza di carburante: code chilometriche in numerosi distributori, a secco dopo il blocco dei varchi della raffineria Eni di Taranto, in corso da lunedì.

Video di TeleRama, da Parabita, e foto di Alessio Valente. Problemi anche un Basilicata e Calabria.

[Konda @KondaTerminus]

It hurts to watch. After years it becomes an emotional burden.

But we can never look away. Not for a second. Because that's how evil wins.

[RT @RT_com]

FIRST VIDEO: Palestinian girl TRAPPED INSIDE INFERNO after Israeli airstrike hit west of Gaza City

33yo mother BURNED ALIVE

Her DAUGHTER PULLED from the FLAMES — MIRACULOUSLY SURVIVES

[Konda @KondaTerminus]

@SBSNews ULTIMATE BETRAYAL!

[Jawad @levantupdates]

Regarding the MOAB (mother of all bombs) threat on pickaxe mountain.

It can only be dropped from a Hercules C-130 a transport plane with a max ceiling of 33,000 feet that is going to have to fly directly 565 KM DIRECTLY into Iranian airspace either hugging a mountain peak or across the Persian gulf without being shot down to drop the MOAB which is a dummy bomb and can’t be guided while at the same time traveling another 565 KM and refueling somewhere over Iranian airspace without being shot down.

If you read this scenario and think it’s logically possible, then you deserve every participation trophy ever handed out for being that confidently stupid.

[Konda @KondaTerminus]

@BasedTorba Based Torba 😎

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇸🇦🇾🇪 Saudi Aramco CEO's office destroyed following Houthi strike on its headquarters.

[Konda @KondaTerminus]

There really isn't anyone in charge.

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

NEW: 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Zelensky continues to strike Russian refineries, despite warnings from Trump.

strikes hit Russian refineries in Rostov and Ryazan yesterday and today.

[Konda @KondaTerminus]

This should end well

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Ukraine to restart major strikes on Russia's oil refineries, with Zelensky declaring "The block on attacking refineries is out. We're done," per the FT.

Zelensky says the reason for the restart is Trump lying to him by deliberately blocking Starlink but presenting it to Kyiv as a "technical glitch," as well as telling Ukraine that the missed ballistic missile warnings earlier this week was due to "bad weather," which killed 6.

"It was not a technical problem, it was the will," from Trump, he says.

He also slammed Trump's eagerness to strike a diesel deal with Russia and Trump's apparent admiration for Putin, saying Trump has an instinctive affinity for autocrats and the super-wealthy. "He speaks about it openly and loudly that he loves such people and he respects such people," Zelensky says.

[Konda @KondaTerminus]

@JohnBB68138609 5 million Indians probably have something to do with it.