Kareem Nada

I have 2 eyes, eyebrows, nostrils, ears and a nose.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

[Global Footy Hubb 🌍⚽ @Globalfootyhubb]

Lionel Messi's former Barcelona teammates and managers from La Masia tell a unique story about their attempt to convince the uncapped future superstar to stop waiting for an Argentina call-up and instead, play for Spain.

[Ashraf Goda @AshrafG77956231]

@fhd8866h اندفاع حسام حسن للهجوم اخر ربع ساعه و الفريق كسبان ٢ صفر ..كان المفروض ينزل حسام عبد المجيد مدافع تالت طويل يستحوذ علي الكرات العرضية و ينزل محمود صابر ديفندر تالت في نص الملعب بدل التغييرتين الفاشلتين بتوع تريزيجيه و الغير موفق مرموش و قفل الجيم و لو فيه مرتده يرميها لصلاح

[Censored Humans @CensoredXHumans]

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Conan visits Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in 2017.

These are the people Israel wants you to think are terror-loving psychopaths.

[Kareem Nada @kareemnada]

@alkhatba_ متوفر

[Kareem Nada @kareemnada]

https://t.co/bTWyzHlBfk

[🇨🇳 Guo Shen 郭深 @GuoShenCN7]

🚨 Do you understand what Iran just did to the global economy less than 24 hours before Trump's deadline..

they hit Jubail Industrial City.. Saudi Arabia's largest petrochemical complex.. the zone that produces 60,000,000 tons of petrochemicals a year.. 6 to 8 percent of EVERYTHING the world makes..

this isn't a military target.. this is the chemical backbone of modern civilization..

> SABIC.. the fourth largest petrochemical manufacturer on Earth.. is on fire

> Dow Chemical's Sadara complex.. 26 production units.. already suspended operations weeks ago

> Saudi Aramco paid $70,000,000,000 for their stake in SABIC.. that investment is literally burning right now

> 85 percent of Saudi Arabia's non-oil exports come from this ONE zone

here's what nobody is framing correctly..

Iran didn't hit a refinery.. they hit the feedstock that becomes your plastic.. your fertilizer.. your packaging.. your medical supplies..

and they did it the night before Trump said he'd turn Iran into rubble..

you're not watching a war.. you're watching two countries racing to see who can destroy the other's economy first while yours pays $4.12 a gallon to watch..

if you're not following me you're finding out about this 24 hours late from someone who read my post.. it's only getting crazier from here..

[الجزيرة - تكنولوجيا @aljazeeraTech]

"أنا لست رقمًا".. مبرمج مصري يطلق مشروعًا يوثق بيانات أكثر من 60 ألف شهيد في غزة ليحفظ قصصهم

[RT @RT_com]

'Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake' — new cover of The Economist

Or, in other words: 'Do nothing — win'

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

El Gobierno de España condena la pena de muerte contra palestinos que acaba de aprobar el parlamento de Israel. Se trata de una medida asimétrica que no se aplicaría a los israelíes que cometieran los mismos delitos.

Mismo crimen, distinta pena.

Eso no es justicia. Es un paso más hacia el apartheid.

El mundo no puede callar.

[The Ricky Gervais Clips @gervaisclips]

The single greatest moment to have happened on live television. 🔥

[Adil Raja @soldierspeaks]

Thanks God, at least somebody is speaking the truth. Former MI6 Chief Alex Younger says #Iran has the "upper hand"...

VC:@EconUS

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I don't think people realize just how extraordinary what we're witnessing with Iran is.

I was arguing with a dear journalist friend of mine yesterday who was telling me that Iran was winning, yes, but only on the strategic level, not tactically.

The type of thing a skinny kid getting stuffed in lockers in highschool tells himself to make himself feel better: "These people will BEG to work for me in ten years. Everyone knows jocks peak in highschool. They'll literally beg." 😏

I think that's precisely wrong, and that's what makes the Iran war different. As of now, Iran is in fact holding its own tactically too.

Think about other U.S. wars of aggression these past few decades. Take Vietnam, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Serbia, etc. (the list is unfortunately very long). The pattern was roughly always the same with an immense power differential between aggressor and victim. These wars were, by and large, imperial: the empire attempting to crush a much weaker people whose only realistic recourse was guerrilla resistance. And that is when they actually had the will to resist: some - like Libya - barely even bothered, just resigning themselves to their fate (despite being, at the time, the richest country in Africa).

As spectators of these wars, if you had any moral sense, the dominant emotion was a kind of helpless disgust: you were watching a giant stomp through someone else's house.

Sure, the U.S. actually lost many - if not most - of these wars, famously replacing the Taliban with the Taliban or being expelled with their tail between their legs from Vietnam, but the power differential was no less real for it.

It's just that power doesn't always guarantee victory: sometimes the giant can't kill everyone, and eventually tires of trying. But the “victories” won this way were always pyrrhic at best: the people endured, yes, but what they were left with was a country in ashes that takes decades to rebuild. Meanwhile, in the grand scheme of things, the giant walked away with little more than a bruised ego.

Iran is - remarkably - proving to be an entirely different beast: when others were merely surviving a giant, Iran appears to be able to compete with one.

What just happened over the past 48 hours is the best illustration of this. You had the President of the United States issue a formal ultimatum: reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours or we "obliterate" your power grid.

Iran's response was essentially: we dare you, if you do this we'll make all your Gulf allies uninhabitable within a week.

And, as we saw, Trump backed down: pretexting non-existent "VERY GOOD AND PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS" with Iran, he said his ultimatum no-longer applied (or, rather, became 5 days). Adding he now envisaged the Strait of Hormuz being “jointly controlled by me and the Ayatollah.” To the amusement of Iran’s diplomacy (https://t.co/o4JnJJoAGS).

That, folks, is a textbook tactical victory. It is, remarkably, Iran demonstrating in this instance that it had escalation dominance over the United States of America. That is, the ability to credibly threaten consequences so severe that the US - for perhaps the first time since the Cold War - found it preferable to stand down.

That's no skinny kid being locked in a locker dreaming of revenge fantasies. That's the kid grabbing the bully's wrist mid-shove and watching his face change.

And it's not the only tactical victory in this war so far. Take the episode over the Israeli attack on Iran's South Pars gas facility. Iran had warned that if that happened U.S. allies in the region - including Israel - would face a symmetrical response.

And they delivered: famously devastating Qatar's Ras Laffan facility - which produced roughly 20% of global LNG supply - and leading, according to Qatar themselves, to a $20 billion loss of annual revenue for the next 5 years (https://t.co/Myd3QZDbYf).

Not only that but they also managed to hit Israel's Haifa refinery (https://t.co/XvFqewBZPZ), one of the country's most strategic and protected sites.

The result was Trump distancing himself from the South Pars attack, saying that Israel had "violently lashed out" unilaterally and that "NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field." Israel then said it wouldn't strike Iran energy sites anymore (https://t.co/tk0rA5NaWS).

From where I stand, that's another tactical victory. It is, at least, Iran demonstrating that is can fight back **symmetrically** against the U.S. and its allies. Not through asymmetric resistance with IEDs hidden in the roadside or traps hidden in the jungle, but eye for eye, and against some of the most heavily protected sites on the U.S.'s side.

That's qualitatively different from any other adversaries the U.S. has directly fought in recent wars.

There's plenty more, such as the pretty relevant fact that Iran has gained control of the single most strategic energy chokepoint on earth and the U.S. is finding it impossible to break that control.

To the point where Trump has been reduced to publicly begging China - of all countries - for help, which given Trump's ego mustn't have been easy to do. Only to be told no. By China. And by everyone else he asked.

This is the topic of my latest article: how this is, in fact, the first genuine "multipolar war."

First, in the narrow sense: because Iran is revealing itself to be a genuine pole of power - not a superpower, but an actor that cannot be submitted, which is all multipolarity is.

And second, because the war itself is accelerating multipolarity everywhere else: the U.S. has never been more isolated, never looked weaker and its security guarantees have never been more hollow.

In my article I lay out the full scoreboard - military, economic, political - and explain why this war has already changed the world, regardless of how it ends.

Enjoy the read here: https://t.co/FoB8dIKwTb

[Mastery Mindset @_masterymindset]

She literally shares 4 years of learning in just 60 seconds.

[Sojourner @ozarkwarrior]

It’s literally a verbal bloodbath every time Tucker Carlson sits down to talk to people now. Seems to be pretty hard to box him into a corner when only one person is talking off a script. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I have waited years for someone to challenge this nonsense phrase on mainstream media. An indictment of the liberal PEP media that it took Tucker Carlson to do it. And he undeniably did it well.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

Israel says it is bombing bridges to disrupt Hezbollah supply lines.

But on the ground the reality is stark: entire routes into southern Lebanon are being severed — effectively cutting off around 1 million people from their homes.

Families who have lived on this land for generations now face the very real risk of permanent displacement, unable to return, rebuild, or even reach what remains of their communities.

What is being framed as a military tactic is also reshaping the map of civilian life

[Adi Alardah @alardah91]

@NickJFuentes Israel targets RT journalist Steve Sweeney in a missile strike during coverage in southern Lebanon.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba

I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film

As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes

It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions.

But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken