At the end of empire, the actors always lack self-awareness, they increase in hubris, isolate themselves even from their allies and generally bite off more than they can chew.
Ultimately, however, they tend to implode from within.
"What is the evidence that, in your words, we are 'hurtling towards' being an Islamic country?"
@bbcnickrobinson presses Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe on a recent claim he made in a social media post.
"Do you think the monarch of this country is a white Briton?"
@bbcnickrobinson asks Restore Britain's Rupert Lowe about a report he quotes, that defines a Briton as someone with two white British-born parents.
One of the most terrifying realities we live with in Gaza one that almost no one in the world talks about is the presence of more than 100 military towers, each standing over 30 meters tall, surrounding the Gaza Strip from every direction.
Each tower is equipped with an automated machine gun that fires remotely without a soldier standing behind it. It makes no distinction between a child, a woman, or an elderly person, nor between civilians and anyone else. It can open fire at any moment, turning the simple act of moving into a potential death sentence.
These machine guns are capable of firing more than 6,000 rounds per minute, with a range of nearly 3,000 meters enough to cover most of the small area of Gaza where the population has been confined.
We are not only living under bombardment; we are living under constant surveillance by machines that know neither mercy nor hesitation. Gaza has become completely exposed to these weapons, and fear follows us with every step. Even leaving to search for food or water can become your last journey.
This is not science fiction. It is not a scene from a movie. This is the reality we live every single day in Gaza.
We are literally living inside Squid Game.
🚨 “Friends” allegedly got a Black girl with epilepsy so drunk she blacked out — they brutally beat her and threatened to kill her.
According to the victim, the girls invited her over knowing she had epilepsy and mental health issues.
They got her extremely drunk until she blacked out.
She says she has no memory of the night and couldn’t press charges at the time because there was no proof until this video came out.
They called her a friend while using her vulnerabilities against her.
How do you call someone a friend after this?
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It’s no longer Republican vs. Democrat.
It’s not even common sense vs. crazy.
It’s America-loving vs. America-hating COMMUNISTS, and today’s Democrat Party has shown us who they really are.
Democrats want to destroy America. Republicans LOVE America and will FIGHT to keep the United States the greatest country in the history of the world.
It’s only been a few hours since the first viable Muslim
Senate candidate won a primary and his GOP opponent is already running ads featuring Osama bin Laden and 9/11.
The Islamophobia over the next few months is gonna be vicious.
@ZiaYusufUK So your proposal is that the UK will directly and repeatedly violate French sovereignty with its military forces despite understandably stern warnings from the French advising against this?
I mean, what could go wrong??
🔴 Breaking | Israeli military vehicles have advanced beyond the “yellow line” in Rafah, opening heavy fire toward tents sheltering displaced Palestinians, according to Shehab News.
Abu Toha reports that Israeli tanks are also opening fire in Khan Younis. ⤵️
@tedcruz@Heminator Could you make your treachery a little more obvious, please? There are still a few pockets remaining who are in denial and lag behind.
@MarioNawfal I think this is all fear-mongering to convince the American people that we have to spend another couple trillion on the defense budget but here's the thing we wouldn't be in this position if Trump didn't attack Iran unprovoked
🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Trump erupted at Hegseth at Camp David over the missile shortage, telling him he thought the problem "had been fixed."
-Two people familiar tell the Washington Post the president confronted his defense secretary on the sidelines of Friday's cabinet meeting, demanding to know why he had apparently been misled about how bare the shelves are
=Hegseth defended himself and blamed his deputy, Stephen Feinberg, for the shortages and for not keeping Trump informed
=The numbers behind the anger are STAGGERING: more than 850 Tomahawks and over 1,000 Patriot and THAAD interceptors fired in the FIRST MONTH alone, plus more than 1,300 Army tactical ballistic missiles, with the ATACMS stockpile now described as basically empty
-Between February 28 and the April ceasefire, the U.S. struck more than 13,000 targets in Iran and defended against more than 8,500 incoming munitions and drones
-Replacements take up to two years to build, and one analyst put it plainly: "You don't just flip the switch and suddenly the munition appears in the hands of the warfighter"
-The White House calls the whole account "100% fake news," with Leavitt saying Trump has "the utmost confidence in Secretary Hegseth"
The blame game is kind of the least interesting part.
What matters is that the number nobody could argue with finally reached the president, and it arrived as a surprise, which is its own kind of scandal five months into a war.
Source: Washington Post / Writer: Daniel
WATCH: IRANIAN PRESIDENT PEZESHKIAN:
“No matter how much I think about it, I cannot find any logical reason why they killed our Leader, our commanders, and our scientists.
Many of our commanders and scientists who were killed did not even own a home.”
If you’re Israel, or a supporter of its wanton violence and oppression, and you need this level of protection wherever you go on the planet, it’s truly time to readjust your focus.
The Football Association of Ireland have banned Irish fans from watching Ireland play football in Ireland so genocidal Israelis feel safe — diabolical from a once-colonised country