Khalid Khan

Interested in respectful n meaningful discussion on things which affect our lives. Try to keep my biases and presups in check. RTs/follows not endorsements.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

And there it is….it’s now so obvious they manufactured the Spain "invasion" so Trump can have a new talking point and distraction from his disastrous Iran war

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

As I’ve been saying for a while now, the war never actually ended. It was just a truce to ease economic pressure and restock arsenals. The decision makers are under heavy pressure.
By all accounts, it is about to resume with new fronts and more players, an escalation I’ve already warned about in my articles.

Fasten your seatbelts, because if no one can cool down the tensions, we’re going to see something on a much bigger scale than what we've witnessed so far.

https://t.co/P6RN2eyQzB

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

It's quite the tell that Danon's argument is essentially "you lecture us yet you too are a colonial power" 😏

Which, incidentally, is false in the case of Spain: Ceuta has been continuously Spanish since 1580 (with its inhabitants full Spanish citizens), which predates Morocco's Alaouite dynasty by almost a century.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

Sometimes I think back to this moment.
1 November 2023

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

Trump Fatigued: Iran Takes the Initiative in the Conflict Using Allies

Anyone observing the war in the Middle East and hearing that Iran is still standing often asks how a country that has been bombed for months can possibly remain so resilient.

What many people, including myself, had already been saying has now been told directly to President Trump. After successive waves of air attacks, the U.S. military leadership informed Trump that the campaign has lost its effectiveness.

The top military chief, General Dan Caine, warned that there are no longer relevant pinpoint targets and that the region’s air defenses risk exhaustion.

On March 18, I wrote:

“They possess the technology, the strategic advantage of their geography, and are proving to be remarkably resilient. Their command and control chain is decentralized, with a backup plan for every leader, including a scale of three to seven pre-designated successors. The U.S. is fighting a war unlike any it has ever faced.”

Today, I would add that Iran realized the truce was a situation in which it could exercise no pressure at all. Consequently, it strategically mobilized and activated its regional allies to degrade the Saudi position, effectively opening a new front aimed at forcing the closure of the Bab El-Mandeb strait. 

It decided to seize the initiative by cutting off the Oman route and expanding the operations of both the Houthis and the Iraqi PMF, just as it did with Hezbollah during the war, opening a new front against Israel. 

There are already daily bombings and missile exchanges between Saudis and Yemenis, and none of this occurs without Iran’s hand. The trend is that the situation can escalate to the point of compromising Saudi oil production and triggering a larger conflict.

Iran has moved from a purely reactive posture throughout the conflict and the truce to actively assuming the initiative at this stage of the war.

Facing Trump’s lack of options, this reveals a White House exhaustion that will be difficult to cure.

Indeed, the United States is already feeling a strong and early war fatigue, driven by the contrast between Donald Trump’s promises and the harsh economic and military reality of the conflict.

The war against Iran has completed five months and quickly turned into a strategic quagmire that exhausts the patience of the American population and institutions, feeding a general sense of frustration.

After all, Trump promised to play the role of peacemaker in his second term, yet the American voter finds himself trapped in a dynamic of mutual retaliation in the Middle East with no clear horizon for victory or an exit, all while public coffers are being drained.

This American frustration, reflected in recent opinion polls, is motivating Iran to take the initiative and move to block Saudi exports, a very bold measure when one considers that the country is at war with the planet’s greatest military power.

All of this is unfolding as the midterm elections approach. Whatever decision Trump makes, it will look like a defeat.

Continue reading:
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[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

Excellent, so we'll call the West Bank "Palestine", then.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Wow

[Oliver Larkin for Congress @OliverALarkin]

I could do this all day.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Fox News wrapped this segment REAL quick

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Skys John Sparks, speaking from Jerusalem: ".. the ceasefire in Gaza, the 1st phase was implemented last Oct, its brought about a semblance of peace in Gaza"

Moments later:

Dr James Smith, speaking from Gaza: "I must challenge your correspondent, there is no ceasefire in Gaza"

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Out of the approximately 60,000 migrants who crossed into Ceuta, around 25,000 have already voluntarily returned to Morocco.

The rest remain stranded in Ceuta, as they are not permitted to travel to the Spanish mainland. Spain and Morocco are also co-operating on plans to return them to Morocco.

The scaremonger from the right can chill now. They're not making their way to the UK

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Maybe you should focus on the lack of democracy in the UAE and your country’s support for a genocidal militia in Sudan, and let European democracies do their own thing.

Sheesh, these Emirati ‘influencers’ and their racist, Islamophobia-inciting BS.

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

No there isn't. Stop scaremongering.

[Zo Brown @receipts_lol]

Let's talk about @BBC's Lucy Williamson @LucyWilliamson for a moment.

1/ In this interview she straight up lies to protect Israel's reputatation when the settler says he believes a Jewish life is worth a million Palestinians.

But Lucy Williamson has a history.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

“Conflict in Gaza”?

It’s a genocide, Ed.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

FAFO.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

What kind of undignified crash out is this?

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

CNN: Yeah, I think a lot of people watching this to hear you, a Parkland survivor, talk about AIPAC in the same breath as NRA, will be surprising.

HOGG: It shouldn’t be. Both are getting kids killed. I don't draw a line between whether it's kids in Parkland, kids on any street in America, or if it's kids in Palestine.

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

It's time to consult a map. Ceuta isn't in Europe. Schengen freedom of movement doesn't apply to it. The migrants are going nowhere except back to Morocco.

Stop scaremongering, Dishonest Bob.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

Because the US Constitution is so outdated that it does not actually have an article spelling out what is and isn’t a presidential duty. What can the he do? Pretty much anything Congress lets him. So the question “can the President even break the law?” is not seen as ridiculous