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because being number two is just first to lose.

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Holding a cup of lemon tea 😄, pouring effort into work, and growing through relentless effort!

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🍂 An autumn stroll with leaves underfoot, plus a dreamy star-patterned blanket draped over the bed, making the scene feel even cozier.

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🧘‍♀️Balcony yoga session
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Volleyball game
The volleyball game is really engaging.

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🤐Acceptance, inspection, assembly excellent progress in one day!703356Winter Walk The snow is fresh

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🥩Starry sky patterned blanket on the bed527294The dog watches birds in the sky

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Strolling casually through the city center helps sustain an upbeat and lively lifestyle. Taking frequent walks outdoors keeps both your physical and mental state calm and full of energy. 🗄 Apricot Compote—the apricots are perfectly ripe now.

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@MarioNawfal People seem to forget another front of warfare is PSYOP, especially against a nation that has very limited access to technological resources. Some may agree some will disagree but it’s something that has been perfected by many advanced nations.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: On March 14th, a Chinese engineer posted a tutorial explaining how to use passive infrared sensors to detect and track American fighter aircraft without triggering their radar warning receivers. Three weeks later, an American F-15E Strike Eagle is in a crater in central Iran. The IRGC says it was brought down by a “new aerospace defense system.” The system appears to be exactly what the tutorial described.

The principle is elegant. Radar is active: it emits radio waves that bounce off the target. Every American fighter carries a warning receiver that detects those emissions. But infrared detection is passive. It reads heat. Jet engines produce heat. A passive sensor tracking that signature emits nothing. The warning receiver stays silent. The pilot does not know he is being tracked until the missile is already in the air.

The F-15E is not stealth. But the tutorial was designed for the F-35. The same principle applies: stop looking with radio waves, start looking with heat, and the $1.7 trillion stealth programme becomes a coating on an airframe that is still hot. The tutorial was posted on Chinese social media, translated within days. Three weeks later, the technique appears to have been operationalised.

This is the second time passive tactics have brought down a generation-defining American combat aircraft. The first was March 1999, when a Serbian battery commanded by Colonel Zoltan Dani shot down an F-117 Nighthawk over Kosovo using long-wavelength radar and visual cueing. The F-117 was retired within a decade. The lesson: stealth is optimised against specific frequencies. Change the sensor, change the war.

Iran’s layered defense integrates Russian S-300 for radar search, Chinese electro-optical trackers for passive acquisition, and Iranian Raad-family missiles with onboard IR cameras for terminal guidance. Radar finds the area. Passive sensors track without emitting. The missile guides on heat. The pilot’s systems detect radar. They do not detect infrared. That gap killed the F-15E.

Now consider who built this kill chain. Russia supplied the S-300 base. China supplied the passive sensors. Iran assembled the hybrid. And China is simultaneously the country supplying the rare earth magnets in every F-35 engine, the country blocking the UN Security Council resolution to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the country paying yuan tolls to transit the closed strait, the country co-authoring the five-point peace plan with Pakistan, and the country whose engineer posted the tutorial that appears to have taught Iran how to shoot down the aircraft China helps manufacture.

China occupies every chair at this table. Supplier of the components that build the jet. Teacher of the countermeasure that kills it. Mediator of the peace. Blocker of the UN resolution. Beneficiary of the closure. The molecule passes through the strait in Chinese tankers paying Chinese currency while the aircraft designed to reopen it falls using Chinese technology.

The F-15E did not fail. The assumption that the enemy would always look with radar failed. And the country that taught the enemy to look with heat is the same country offering to negotiate the peace while its rare earth controls ensure the replacement cannot be built without buying from the nation that taught the enemy to destroy the original.

The kill chain starts in Beijing. The peace talks start in Beijing. Both end in the same crater.

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨#BREAKING: Venezuela's Maduro and his wife were captured by Delta Force, the US military's elite special mission unit

[Stats @redsoxstats]

Happy Yankees Elimination Day 2025. Sixteen years, 0 championships, despite Brian Cashman annually averaging the second-highest payroll and spending $3.9 billion.

[Jared Carrabis @Jared_Carrabis]

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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I can’t believe the Red Sox lost to these bums.

[Barstool FSU @FSU_Barstool]

BALL GAME

FSU 31 - bama 17

I DONT GIVE A PISS ABOUT NOTHIN BUT THE TIDE

[Red Sox @RedSox]

W.

[Section 10 Podcast @Section10Pod]

WE GOT HIM!!

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@GTA6Intel Analysts still haven’t given us trailer 2 or actual release date

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

no one would be able to speak to me for the rest of the night.

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@Jared_Carrabis I’m told Vladdy’s decision next year is between Houston and Boston

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@siddawa https://t.co/7EPeMmIXeS