While I was briefly back in the US, I was disheartened by how many would say "oh is that still going on?" when referring to the war in Ukraine.
It was incredibly frustrating for me especially as an active duty medic in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At that point its just willful ignorance. Everyone has a cellphone, laptop, tablet, etc. Information is literally at your finger tips. But instead of informing oneself properly, the choice seems to be watching AI slop, mainstream media, and other short attention span apps.
The was is not over, it has not slowed down, we are still working and fighting for freedom in Ukraine, the frontline is still 1000 km long, civilians are still being killed by r*ssia every day. We can only go so far to inform you. The rest is up to you. Up to date sources, @KyivIndependent@KyivPost@saintjavelin@U24_gov_ua
Stay informed and inform others.
โก๏ธUpdate: 1 killed, 13 injured in Kyiv, surrounding region amid massive Russian missile, drone attack.
At least one person has been killed and 13 others injured in Ukraine's capital region following a large-scale Russian missile and drone attack.
https://t.co/6Er84lz4Zx
Our intelligence services reported receiving data, including from American and European partners, about Russia preparing a strike with the Oreshnik missile. We are verifying this information.
We are seeing signs of preparation for a combined strike on Ukrainian territory, including Kyiv, involving various types of weaponry. The specified intermediate-range weapons could be used in such a strike. It is important to act responsibly on air-raid alerts, starting this evening. Russian madness truly knows no bounds, so please protect your lives โ use shelters.
Second, we are drawing the attention of our partners in the United States and in Europe to the fact that the use of such weapons and the prolongation of this war also sets a global precedent for other potential aggressors. If Russia is allowed to destroy lives on such a scale, then no agreement will restrain other similar hatred-based regimes from aggression and strikes. We count on a response from the world โ and on a response that is not post factum, but preventive. Pressure must be put on Moscow so that it does not expand the war.
Third, we are preparing our air defense as much as possible, and we will respond fully justly to every Russian strike. We have given permission for a parade, but Russia has no permission for madness. This war must be ended โ we need peace, not some missiles satisfying the sick ambitions of one individual. I thank everyone helping to protect lives. Once again, please take care of yourselves and use shelters tonight.
Russia uses 695 forms of torture against Ukrainian prisoners of war, including beatings, physical torture, sexual violence, and psychological abuse.
This was reported by Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, during the presentation of the project โMade in Russia. Delivered into Captivity,โ which documents Russian war crimes.
The Ombudsman said that prisoners are strangled, attacked with dogs, beaten with electric shock devices, and forced to stand in one place for up to 18 hours. If they try to sit down, they are beaten again.
โOne form of torture is the โbarbershop.โ During shaving, the Russians cut off not only hair but also pieces of skin from the head. If a person starts screaming, they are beaten physically or shocked with electricity,โ Lubinets said.
Russia has returned to Ukraine the bodies of 375 military personnel and civilians who were verified as prisoners. Of the verified Ukrainian prisoners of war, 149 were tortured to death.
He also emphasized the lack of international response. In particular, representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross were invited to the event, but none attended.
๐ท: Instagram / libkos
Mayor of Charlotte, NC asks that we not post about this lady murdered on a Charlotte train by a repeat offender with 14 prior arrests
I say in Irynaโs memory please share and make this go viral! A repeat offender with 14 prior arrests should not be roaming the streets of ANY city! They should be locked up!! Epic failure in the justice system..
We will never forgot her ever
As an Iranian inside Iran, I will explain the oil situation:
Look at this. Iranian oil literally overflowing, gushing into the ground like a broken sewer โ because the Islamic Republic canโt sell a single barrel. The US naval blockade has them completely strangled. No buyers. No tankers. No escape. This is not โresistance economy.โ This is total collapse, caught on camera, happening in real time.
A regime that once bragged about flooding the world with cheap oil is now watching its black gold poison its own soil, rivers, and farmland. The environment is being obliterated โ wildlife dying, water tables ruined, entire regions turned into toxic wastelands โ and the IRGC doesnโt lose a minute of sleep over it. They donโt care about the Iranian people theyโve starved, tortured, and executed for decades. Why would anyone believe these butchers suddenly care about nature, animals, or future generations? The same regime that rapes protesters in Evin Prison and guns down children in the streets is now casually destroying the land itself while they pretend everything is fine on state TV.
This video is proof of their weakness, not their strength. They are isolated, broke, and desperate. Their so-called โaxis of resistanceโ has left them bleeding out economically while the Persian Gulf stays locked down tighter than ever.
The mafia in turbans knows the game is over. They canโt feed their own people, they canโt sell their only real asset, and now even the earth itself is paying the price for their criminal rule.
Iranians inside and outside the country โ this is our moment. The regime is rotting from within. Keep the pressure on. The Lion and Sun is rising again, and nothing can stop it.
President Trump and the free world: keep the blockade ironclad. Starve the beast. The Iranian people will finish the job.
History is not just watching โ itโs accelerating.
#IranRevolution2026
#KingRezaPahlaviโForIran
#FinishTheJob
๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐. ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
Every time someone trots out the Crusades to lecture Christians or the West, they leave out four centuries of history. I'm putting it back on the record.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐๐ข๐๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ฒ
Muhammad died in 632. Within three years, Muslim armies had taken Damascus (635). The next year, Antioch (636). The year after that, the entire Holy Land (637) โ the spiritual center of Christendom, gone. Armenia became the first Christian nation fully conquered (639). Egypt, the Coptic Christian power, fell two years later (641). By 650, Muslim forces had reached southern Italy and Cyprus, taking thousands of captives as "๐ด๐ญ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ด" and "๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ค๐ถ๐ฃ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด." Then came Spain โ Muslim armies crossed from North Africa in 711 and overran most of Iberia by 715.
In roughly 80 years, Christianity lost the Middle East, North Africa, and most of the Iberian Peninsula.
๐๐ก๐๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ฏ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ โ ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ญ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฒ
This was not exploration. This was conquest. In 717, Muslim forces besieged Constantinople itself โ the capital of Eastern Christendom. The siege lasted a year before they were repelled. Had it succeeded, the path into Europe would have been wide open.
In 730, they invaded France. Charles Martel stopped them at Tours. In 792, the ruler of Al-Andalus called for a second invasion of France. Repelled. In 848, a third invasion of France. Repelled again.
In 827, Muslims invaded Sicily and Italy, persecuting monks and pillaging Christian communities. Sicily would remain under Islamic rule for 250 years. In 846, they invaded Rome itself and forced the Pope to pay tribute. By 909, they had taken Sardinia.
This was relentless, coordinated, and existential.
๐๐ก๐๐ง ๐๐ก๐๐ฒ ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐๐ค๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ
In 937, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher โ built over the site Christians believe is the tomb of Christ โ was burned to the ground. More churches in Jerusalem were torched alongside it. In 1009, the Church of the Resurrection was destroyed. By 1012, Al-Hakim's oppressive decrees against Christians had begun in earnest.
Christian pilgrims could no longer safely visit the sites of Christ's ministry. The holiest city in Christendom was ruled by a hostile power systematically destroying the faith itself.
๐๐ก๐๐ง ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฉ
In 1071, Muslim Turkish forces shattered the Byzantine army at Manzikert and occupied most of Anatolia. Constantinople was now directly threatened.
In 1094, Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos sent envoys to Rome begging Western Christendom for military aid.
In 1095, Pope Urban II declared the First Crusade.
๐๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ฌ๐ญ. ๐๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐. ๐๐ก๐ซ๐๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐. ๐๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฌ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐๐ข๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฒ. ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐. ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ก๐๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐๐ง'๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ. ๐๐ก๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฒ.
Sold as a 13-year-old child bride in Iran, she was raped and tortured by her Muslim husband. Now safe in America, she devotes her life to warning the West about Islam.
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Adolf Eichmann, a high-ranking Nazi and one of the architects of the Holocaust, fled to South America after World War II.
In 1962, he was captured and brought to Israel for trial.
During the proceedings, the prosecution brought in survivors from Nazi death camps to testify against him.
One of them, Yehiel Dinur, entered the courtroom and came face to face with Eichmann, who was seated in a glass box. The moment Dinur saw him, he collapsed to the ground, shaking and sobbing uncontrollably.
Years later, in an interview with 60 Minutes, journalist Mike Wallace asked Dinur if his reaction had been caused by traumatic memories from the concentration camps.
"No," Dinur replied. "It was not the memories that made me collapse. It was the realization that Eichmann was not a demon. He was an ordinary man.
Hannah Arendt, a journalist for The New Yorker, attended Eichmannโs trial and later wrote about it.
She noted that Eichmann was not a psychopath, not a man burning with sadistic hatred. He was ordinary.
That is what made him so terrifying. He was a man who followed orders, who did his job, who justified the horrors he participated in without ever questioning them.
All humans have the capacity for evil. We all have within us the ability to justify unspeakable horrors if the conditions are right.
The question is not whether we are capable of evil, but what prevents us from committing it?
Most religions restrain human evil. They set moral boundaries, condemning acts of violence, injustice, and cruelty.
Christianity commands its followers to love their enemies, forgive those who harm them, and refuse vengeance.
Judaism, despite its history of persecution, never formed a doctrine commanding global conquest or the extermination of non-Jews.
Islam, however, does the opposite.
When an ISIS fighter beheads a captive, he is not acting outside the teachings of his faith. He is following the example of Muhammad, who personally oversaw the beheading of hundreds of Jewish men in Medina.
When Hamas terrorists slaughter Israeli families, they are not betraying Islam, they are fulfilling the doctrine of jihad, which commands war against non-Muslims until Islam dominates the world.
Unlike Christianity, which calls for self-sacrifice, Islam calls for sacrificing others. Unlike Judaism, which focuses on preserving its own people, Islam commands the subjugation or destruction of all who reject it.
We all have the potential for evil. But the difference between a person who commits atrocities and one who does not is the belief system that shapes them.
A Christian who commits murder is violating his faith. A Muslim who kills an apostate is fulfilling his.
A Buddhist who wages war is going against the teachings of his religion. A jihadist who slaughters unbelievers is doing exactly what his religion commands.
The Nazis did not commit genocide because they were born different from us. They did it because they were indoctrinated into an ideology that justified mass murder.
The same is true for every Hamas terrorist, every suicide bomber, every ISIS militant.
Their faith tells them that their victims are not innocent, not human, not worthy of mercy. And so, they kill without hesitation.
The reality is, Islam is the only major religion that actively commands the atrocities we fear. It is the only faith where genocide, subjugation, and violence are not historical accidents, but divine commandments.
It is a mistake to think Islam is just another religion, rather than the most dangerous ideology the world has ever known.
๐จPRINCE REZA PAHLAVI JUST WENT FULL NUCLEAR ON THE ENTIRE EU PRESS & PARLIAMENT! ๐ฅ๐งจ
I want to speak DIRECTLY to the people of Europe. In the past two weeks I held TWO MAJOR press conferences โ one in Stockholm, one in Berlin. Over 150 JOURNALISTS showed up. We spent MORE THAN TWO HOURS with themโฆ
And guess what?
NOT ONE SINGLE of those 150 journalists asked about the 40,000 IRANIANS SLAUGHTERED on the streets of my country on January 8th and 9th!
NOT ONE asked about the 19 political prisoners EXECUTED in the last two weeks.
When I told them 20 more are currently sentenced to death โ CRICKETS. Not a damn question.
I stood right next to a grieving mother and father who lost their sons in that massacre and begged them to listen to their storiesโฆ
NOT A SINGLE ONE of those 150 journalists asked them a thing.
Let that sink in.
My 40,000 BRAVE INNOCENT COMPATRIOTS who were butchered fighting for liberty? They donโt give a damn.
They are too busy criticizing America and Israel for taking out the dictator whoโs been slaughtering our people for 47 YEARS โ instead of going after the regime thatโs actually doing the killing!
Theyโd rather dig up Iranโs history than talk about whatโs happening RIGHT NOW or the free democratic Iran weโre fighting for.
One EU parliament member even had the nerve to say Iranians arenโt ready for democracy. To that coward and to every fake journalist in the room I say this:
Iranians arenโt just โreadyโ for democracyโฆ 40,000 of them just DIED for it! And I will NOT let their blood be in vain.
SO HEAR ME LOUD AND CLEAR:
Whether Europe stands with us or notโฆ
Whether your journalists do their damn jobs or notโฆ
Whether your politicians grow a spine or notโฆ
I WILL FIGHT FOR MY PEOPLE AND MY COUNTRY.
Even if we have to do this ALONE โ we are fighting until IRAN IS FREE! ๐ฎ๐ท๐ช
#RezaPahlaviโForIran
@PahlaviReza
The continued easing of sanctions against Russia does not reflect the real situation in the war or in diplomacy and fuels the Russian leadershipโs illusion that they can continue the war. This week alone, the Russians have launched over 2,360 attack drones, more than 1,320 guided aerial bombs, and nearly 60 missiles of various types at our cities and communities.
Every dollar paid for Russian oil is money for the war. More than 110 tankers from Moscowโs shadow fleet are currently at sea. On board are over 12 million tons of Russian oil, which, due to the easing of sanctions, can once again be sold without consequences. That is $10 billion โ a resource that is directly converted into new strikes against Ukraine.
That is why it is important that Russian tankers are stopped, not allowed to deliver oil to ports. The aggressorโs oil exports must decrease, and Ukraineโs long-range sanctions continue to work toward that goal. I am grateful to every one of our warriors for their precision, and I thank all partners who are helping to increase pressure on Russia for this war.
They keep circulating the same old clips of Bibi Netanyahu warning that Iran is โmonths awayโ from a nuclear bomb, 1992, 2002, 2009, 2012, over and over.
The useful idiots laugh: โSee? Heโs been lying for 40 years!โ
No. Bibi didnโt lie.
Iran was close every single time, and every single time, Israel stopped them.
โข 2010: Israel and the US unleash Stuxnet, the first cyber weapon in history. It destroys over 1,000 centrifuges at Natanz and sets Iranโs program back years.
โข 2010โ2020: Mossad systematically assassinates Iranโs top nuclear scientists, one after another, in the heart of Tehran.
โข 2018: Netanyahu reveals the secret โnuclear archiveโ Mossad stole straight out of a Tehran warehouse, proving Iran lied and never stopped its weapons program.
โข 2020โ2021: Multiple sabotage operations blow up Natanz, explosions, blackouts, entire centrifuge halls wiped out.
โข 2021: Israeli drones hit the Karaj centrifuge manufacturing facility.
โข 2024โ2025: Direct Israeli strikes hammer Iranโs nuclear and military sites, assassinating key commanders and scientists.
Every warning Bibi gave was a call to action, and Israel answered it.
If it wasnโt for Bibi's voice, Israelโs intelligence, and Israelโs willingness to act when the world refused, Iran would have had the bomb a decade ago.
The people mocking the old clips are exposing how much they hate the one country that actually stopped the worldโs most dangerous regime from going nuclear.
Without Bibi, and without Israel, weโd already be living in a world where the Islamic Republic has nukes.
Ukrainian jets just did something that should have been impossible.
On 14 April, they dropped American GBU-39 glide bombs on a Russian drone depot at Donetsk airportโa target 40 km behind the front line. The bomb only ranges 40 km from low altitude, meaning the launching MiG-29s either flew high over Russian-held territory or flew low and got close.
A year ago, both were suicide. On 14 April, both came home.
The reason is a methodical campaign that destroyed 492 Russian air defense systems between June and early March. "Collapsing the layered defensive architecture that the Russian integrated air defense doctrine depends upon to function," as https://t.co/WA9n68BIJh put it.
It's also why Russian Shahed strikes, once trending toward 7,000 a week, have flat-lined at 1,500. Ukraine is blowing the drones up before they fly. https://t.co/UCXko8W4E1
๐๐๐: ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐. ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐.
Victor Davis Hanson just did what no one in legacy media will do. He looked at the Iran war empirically.
The verdict isn't close.
Iran โ ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฉ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐, the largest military power in the Middle East by every measure, feared by the Gulf monarchies and Europeans alike โ has just suffered one of the most lopsided asymmetric defeats in modern history.
Hanson: "๐๐ต'๐ด ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ด๐ถ๐ข๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ท๐ช๐ค๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข๐ด๐บ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ค ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ, ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ด๐ต."
The scorecard:
Iran has lost ๐ก๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ โ possibly ๐ก๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ฌ โ in a half-century of investment in missiles, drones, submarines, and capital ships. Gone.
Their command and control is "๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ณ." Nobody โ not the theocracy, not the IRGC, not the political class, not the army โ knows who's actually in charge. They're afraid of each other. They're afraid to look soft. And they're afraid that cutting a deal means "๐ธ๐ฆ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ฆ'๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ."
Meanwhile, the American left spent one day calling Trump a warmonger and a "๐๐ช๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐ง๐ช๐จ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ." The next day, after he announced negotiations, they called him a "๐ต๐ข๐ค๐ฐ" โ a Neville Chamberlain, a Jimmy Carter.
Hanson nailed the pathology. They don't analyze the war empirically. They analyze it politically. In his words, Tom Friedman and Bill Kristol "๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐จ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ณ๐ต ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ฅ ๐๐ณ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฑ."
๐๐๐,๐๐๐ ๐๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ข๐๐ซ๐ฌ are in that theater right now. Risking their lives to make sure Iran never puts a nuclear-tipped missile on Tel Aviv, London, or eventually Chicago. And half the political class is ๐ซ๐จ๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง because of who's in the Oval Office.
Read that again.
And the losers don't stop at Tehran.
๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐: no more Venezuela. No more Latin America. No more Middle East. Assad is gone. The drone pipeline with Iran is severed. Bogged down in Ukraine, bleeding over a million and a half casualties.
๐๐ก๐ข๐ง๐: took 80 percent of all Iranian oil. That pipeline is now contingent on the United States. And Beijing just watched America broadcast to the world that it's about to mass-produce a half-million to a million drones. Any fantasy of crossing 110 nautical miles to take Taiwan just got a lot more expensive.
๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐, in Hanson's words, is "๐ข ๐ฃ๐ช๐จ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ." We asked them for bases and airspace. That was it. Spain closed its embassy in Israel โ "๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ๐ด, ๐๐ฑ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต." France wouldn't let us use its airpower or clean up H-z-b in Lebanon, its own post-colonial responsibility. Italy wouldn't let our bombers land in Sicily. The United Kingdom โ the nation that built the Royal Navy โ "๐ค๐ข๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐บ๐ฆ๐ณ" to protect its own base in Cyprus.
Turkey, a NATO member, is openly siding with Iran and threatening a NATO partner, Israel.
Hanson's verdict: "๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐๐๐, ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ." Going forward, the United States will pick and choose which NATO members are actually worth the alliance. The rest are "๐ฆ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ."
And the Strait of Hormuz? The left spent two weeks shrieking that closure would end the world. Reality: it carries ๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ง๐ญ of world oil, ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐๐. The Saudis are expanding their Red Sea pipeline. The Emirates are expanding theirs. A pipeline across the desert through Jordan to Haifa is on the table. Within a few years, the Gulf "๐ฎ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ฆ ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ." Their leverage becomes their liability.
If the war ends in two or three weeks, Hanson estimates seven months to economic recovery. Then comes the realization.
Iran is not threatening the Middle East. Iran has no ballistic missile threat. Iran has no immediate path to a nuclear weapon. Iran has no military. Its command and control is wiped out. Its population is stewing.
"๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ญ."
Not the next day. Not the next month. But within months โ or within two years, like the Soviet Union โ regime change.
This war was fought on Western American terms. No Fallujah. No house-to-house in Taji. No villages in Afghanistan where you can't tell friend from enemy. The asymmetry โ by design โ was total.
The 24-hour news cycle will keep shrieking. The Democrat-media borg will keep cycling through whichever narrative hurts Trump most that morning.
But the map has already been redrawn. ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐. ๐๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐๐. ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐๐. ๐๐ซ๐๐ง ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐ค. ๐๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐๐ค ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฆ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐ฏ๐๐ฌ.
The last time I visited Amsterdam was in June 2023.
I ordered an Uber to take me from my hotel to Dam Square. The driver was a Dutch-born man of Turkish origin.
We started talking about the immigration crisis in Europe. And with complete confidence, he looked at me and said:
โBy Allah, we will take over Europe.โ
I asked him, โBut you were born here. Youโre Dutch. How can you talk like this?โ
He said:
โWhat unites us is Islam. The world must submit to Islam. We donโt see borders.โ
I tried to talk to him rationally about Islam, its historical violence, its authoritarianism, why it doesn't coexist in any modern society, and I shared with him that I was a former Muslim.
He got visibly angry.
God knows Iโm not exaggerating, he threatened me. He told me, flat-out, that I deserve to die and he would do it himself.
This wasnโt in Syria, Iraq, or Iran.
This was in Amsterdam. A liberal, Western European city. Supposedly free. Supposedly safe.
This is the consequence of importing ideology without accountability, Islam wrapped in Western citizenship.
They may hold European passports, but their allegiance isnโt to Europe, itโs to a global Islamic identity that rejects your freedoms, your values, and your existence if you dare question it.
Want to hear a joke that isnโt funny?
Today, Russia celebrates Cosmonautics Day, honoring the space exploration led by the Ukrainian Serhiy Korolyovโthe man the USSR repressed for his genius.
๐ฉ The reality of his identity
Serhiy Korolyov was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. He always identified as Ukrainian, even explicitly stating his Ukrainian nationality in official Soviet questionnaires. While Moscow claims his success today, they spent years trying to break his spirit and his body.
โ๏ธ Survival in the Gulag
In 1938, the NKVD broke his jaw during "interrogations" and sent him to the brutal Kolyma gold mines. He only survived because the regime realized they needed his brain to build rockets, moving him to a "sharashka"โa prison for scientists.
๐ฉบ A tragic end
The Soviet state literally killed him. In 1966, Korolyov died during surgery because doctors couldnโt intubate him. His jaw, broken by Soviet guards decades earlier, had never healed properly, making a routine procedure impossible.
๐ Modern-day hypocrisy
Today, Russia puts Korolyovโs face on posters while bombing Zhytomyr, his birthplace. They claim a "Russian" space race, but it was built by a Ukrainian man who loved his land, a man they tortured, using technology developed in Dnipro, Ukraine.
Russia didnโt conquer space. A Ukrainian man gave them the stars, and the empire gave him a prison cell in return. Now Russia is destroying his homeland whilst cynically โhonouringโ the name of a Ukrainian. By the way, they stole him too, trying to claim everywhere that he was Russian.