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[THE ISLANDER @IslanderWORLD]

🇮🇷🇺🇸 The New York Times — not a Telegram channel, not a Russian state broadcaster, the New York Times — has published satellite imagery confirming what Iran said it was doing while Washington was busy telling you it wasn’t working. Every major US base across the Gulf. Systematically and methodically.

Bahrain, Fifth Fleet headquarters, the nerve centre of American naval power in the region. Al Udeid Qatar — already missing its $1.1 billion AN/TPY-2 radar. Camp Arifjan Kuwait. Ali Al Salem. Prince Sultan in Saudi Arabia. UAE facilities. SATCOM terminals destroyed. Radomes cracked open. Satellite dishes gone. Missile tracking infrastructure — the AN/TPY-2 radar systems that coordinate every Patriot and THAAD battery in theater — targeted with what the imagery confirms was not luck but architecture.
Iran didn’t just strike US bases. It mapped the communication and coordination layer that makes American missile defense function as a unified system and then it peeled it apart, base by base, across five countries simultaneously.

This is not retaliation but doctrine. Thirty years of studying exactly how the American military machine sees, communicates, and coordinates and then, when the moment came, going straight for the eyes. The interceptors are blind. The magazines are depleted. The Navy can’t guarantee escorts in the Strait. Raytheon is being summoned to emergency meetings. South Korea is sitting exposed. And the New York Times just put the satellite pictures on the front page.

Washington built the most expensive military architecture in human history. Iran just showed you the blueprint for how to dismantle it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ This is not going according to plan.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Former U.S. Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor just told Matt Gaetz that all of the U.S. bases in the Iranian region have been destroyed and Iran is fairing very well.

They are admitting that Trump is failing.

“China and Russia are providing satellite intelligence which accounts for some of the tremendous successes [of Iran] particularly in Israel, and our US bases. All of our bases have been destroyed. Our harbor installations are destroyed. We actually have to fall back on India and Indian ports which is less than ideal. And I think Iran, much to our disappointment, is fairing very very well.”

Please pray for our U.S. military personnel.

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

Over the past ~24 hours, we have heard via witnesses that the number of U.S. personnel injured in Iranian attacks in Kuwait is much higher than has been acknowledged. CENTCOM has not responded to our requests for comment.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.

And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.

Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy."

This is about the petrodollar system that has kept America the dominant economic power for 50 years.

And Venezuela just threatened to end it.

Here's what really just happened:

Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.

The largest on Earth.

More than Saudi Arabia.

20% of the entire world's oil.

But here's the part that matters:

Venezuela was actively selling that oil in Chinese yuan. Not dollars.

In 2018, Venezuela announced it would "free itself from the dollar."

They started accepting yuan, euros, rubles, anything BUT dollars for oil.

They were petitioning to join BRICS.

They were building direct payment channels with China that bypass SWIFT entirely.

And they were sitting on enough oil to fund de-dollarization for decades.

Why does this matter?

Because the entire American financial system is built on one thing:

The petrodollar.

In 1974, Henry Kissinger made a deal with Saudi Arabia:

All oil sold globally must be priced in US dollars.

In exchange, America provides military protection.

This single agreement created artificial demand for dollars worldwide.

Every country on Earth needs dollars to buy oil.

This lets America print unlimited money while other countries work for it.

It funds the military. The welfare state. The deficit spending.

The petrodollar is more important to US hegemony than aircraft carriers.

And there's a pattern of what happens to leaders who challenge it:

2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros instead of dollars.

2003: Invaded. Regime change. Iraq's oil immediately switched back to dollars. Saddam lynched.

The WMDs were never found because they never existed.

2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade.

Hillary Clinton's own leaked emails confirm this was the PRIMARY reason for intervention.

Email quote: "This gold was intended to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar."

2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi sodomized and murdered. Libya now has open slave markets.

"We came, we saw, he died!" Clinton laughed on camera.

The gold dinar died with him.

And now Maduro.

With FIVE TIMES more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined.

Actively selling in yuan.

Building payment systems outside dollar control.

Petitioning to join BRICS.

Partnered with China, Russia, and Iran.

The three countries leading global de-dollarization.

This isn't coincidence.

Challenge the petrodollar. Get regime changed.

Every. Single. Time.

Stephen Miller (US homeland security advisor) literally said it out loud two weeks ago:

"American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property."

He's not hiding it.

They're claiming Venezuelan oil BELONGS to America because US companies developed it 100 years ago.

By this logic, every nationalized resource in history was "theft."

But here's the DEEPER problem:

The petrodollar is already dying.

Russia sells oil in rubles and yuan since Ukraine.

Saudi Arabia is openly discussing yuan settlements.

Iran has been trading in non-dollar currencies for years.

China built CIPS, their own alternative to SWIFT with 4,800 banks in 185 countries.

BRICS is actively building payment systems that bypass the dollar entirely.

The mBridge project lets central banks settle trades instantly in local currencies.

Venezuela joining BRICS with 303 billion barrels of oil would accelerate this exponentially.

That's what this invasion is really about.

Not stopping drugs. Venezuela accounts for less than 1% of US cocaine.

Not terrorism. There's zero evidence Maduro runs a "terror organization."

Not democracy. The US supports Saudi Arabia, which has zero elections.

This is about maintaining a 50-year-old agreement that lets America print money while the world works for it.

And the consequences are terrifying:

Russia, China, and Iran are already denouncing this as "armed aggression."

China is Venezuela's biggest oil customer. They're losing billions.

BRICS nations are watching a country get invaded for trading outside the dollar.

Every nation considering de-dollarization just got the message:

Challenge the dollar and we will bomb you.

But here's the problem...

That message might accelerate de-dollarization, not stop it.

Because now every country in the Global South knows what happens if you threaten dollar hegemony.

And they're realizing the only protection is to move FASTER.

The timing is insane too:

January 3rd, 2026. Venezuela invaded. Maduro captured.

January 3rd, 1990. Panama invaded. Noriega captured.

36 years apart. Almost to the day.

Same playbook. Same "drug trafficking" excuse.

Same real reason: control of strategic resources and trade routes.

History doesn't repeat. But it rhymes.

What happens next:

Trump's press conference at Mar-a-Lago sets the narrative.

US oil companies are already lined up. Politico reported they've been approached about "returning to Venezuela."

The opposition will be installed. Oil will flow in dollars again.

Venezuela becomes another Iraq. Another Libya.

But here's what nobody's asking:

What happens when you can no longer bomb your way to dollar dominance?

When China has enough economic leverage to retaliate?

When BRICS controls 40% of global GDP and says "no more dollars"?

When the world realizes the petrodollar is maintained by violence?

America just showed its hand.

The question is whether the rest of the world folds or calls the bluff.

Because this invasion is an admission that the dollar can no longer compete on its own merits.

When you have to bomb countries to keep them using your currency, the currency is already dying.

Venezuela isn't the beginning.

It's the desperate end.

What do you think?

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

Trump's troops detain a Black lawyer in D.C.—swarmed by 20 officers just for walking down the block.

Paul Bryant plans to press charges on those who assaulted him "in a way that I will not forget anytime soon."

He is a West Point graduate—and served as Infantry Officer in Army before starting his legal career.

Officers from the Metropolitan Police Department, FBI, and other federal agencies stopped him for no reason in Logan Circle, Washington D.C.

He was handcuffed for an hour while his vehicle was searched without permission. #DemsUnited

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

President Trump's ceasefire announcement was timed within 2 minutes of US futures markets opening, causing NASDAQ index futures to soar 150 points in an hour.

Do you get it now?

[Lauren McKenzie @TheMcKenziest]

Remember kids, it’s always morally correct to punch *****

:)

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel wipes out the village of Meis al-Jabal in South Lebanon.

A village that has stood for centuries.

A war crime and a crime against humanity.

While the “international community” just watches in silence.

[Rania @umyaznemo]

What's there not to understand? Living under a brutal, criminal occupation will naturally lead to uprisings!

[Rania @umyaznemo]

That's what it's like arguing with an idiot, the clueless Piss Morgan!

[Hussain Makke @HMakke91]

I've been living in South Lebanon for the last 10 years.

And this is my kitchen.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING :

Israel is dropping internationally-banned white phosphorus bombs on civilian villages in South Lebanon, in the middle of the night.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Beirut right now.

Israel is launching massive bombings on residential areas in Lebanon’s capital.

[Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account @leibowitzadak]

Imagine if when Germany invaded Poland in 1939 all the U.S. news articles were like “You have to admire the innovative and effective Blitzkrieg tactics. Groundbreaking. Definitely heil-worthy whatever your politics.”
Lebanon right now.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

They’re now bombing Baalbek.

Baalbek is a world heritage site. And the same people who issued condemnations of ISIS, rightfully so, for their destruction of Palmyra will be silent if Israel destroys the temple of Bacchus.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

in 2006 Israel invaded Lebanon, as the entire Western media class cheered it on as they are now. George Galloway was invited onto Sky News, and utterly destroyed their propaganda. Here is a thread of the entire exchange, beginning with him exposing the "reporter" for what she is:

[MC @JRZ_MC]

@DomCharlandX @michele_s123 @MarioNawfal Dude was scheduled to appear on an arrest for firearms violations.

Totally programmed?

Sure, programmed by the NRA.

[Gage Goulding @GageGoulding]

This is some of the most intense fire video I’ve ever seen. A California ski resort burned to the ground on a livestream.

@mthigh resort in Wrightwood, CA has been consumed by the #BridgeFire.

[firevalleyphoto @firevalleyphoto]

#bridgefire #wrightwood this was interesting last night