Luigi Martino

Teaching #CyberSpace and Int. Relations, University of Florence. Ass. Prof. at @UniBo and @KhalifaUniversity In touch with #NationalSecurity and #Intelligence

[Luigi Martino @mrtlgu]

Center for #CyberSecurity and International Relations Studies https://t.co/hFwezrM0jN

[دِفء |🌿 @z_ou7]

مشاهد مُهيبة الآن من مراسم تغير كسوة الكعبة اللهم أجعل هذا البلد امناً 🕋🤎

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I love the incredible people of SpaceX beyond words

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SpaceX was less than 10 people back then. We didn’t even have office furniture.

[Tahnoon Bin Zayed Al Nahyan @hhtbzayed]

On the occasion of Eid Al Adha, I extend my warmest wishes to the President of the UAE, its leadership and the people of the UAE.
May this blessed occasion bring joy, blessings, and prosperity to the Arab and Muslim nations.

[محمد بن زايد @MohamedBinZayed]

I congratulate my brothers, the Rulers of the Emirates, all those who call the UAE home, and Muslims around the world on the occasion of Eid Al-Adha. We pray that God bestows his blessings on our nation and grants peace, stability, and prosperity to all.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🇺🇸🇺🇸 Welcome home! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[HH Sheikh Mohammed @HHShkMohd]

دخلت دولة الإمارات الأزمة الأخيرة متحدة .. وخرجت منها وهي أكثر اتحاداً والتفافاً وولاءً.. مواطنين ومقيمين .. صغاراً وكباراً .. عسكريين ومدنيين .. حكوميين واقتصاديين .. الجميع متحد تحت راية الدولة وعلمها ورمز وحدتها ..

علم الإمارات رمز القوة والفخر .. ندعو أبناء الإمارات والمقيمين على أرضها الطيبة أن يرفعوه فوق المنازل والمؤسسات والمباني..

فخورين بدولتنا .. فخورين برئيس دولتنا ..فخورين بقواتنا المسلحة .. فخورين بقوة اقتصادنا .. فخورين بفرق عملنا .. فخورين بجميع مواطنينا والمقيمين على أرضنا .. فخورين بعلمنا 🇦🇪..

لنرفع العلم شامخاً فوق كل بيت ومبنى .. دليل محبتنا .. ورمز ولائنا لرئيس دولتنا.. وراية وحدتنا وتوحدنا ..

حفظ الله الإمارات وشعبها وأدام بالعز رايتها ومجدها ..

#فخورين_بالإمارات 🇦🇪

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@beffjezos I never give up. Never.

[🇦🇪 HGS @Sajwani]

Just in: UAE President HH Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed and Italian Prime Minister @GiorgiaMeloni discuss regional developments and bilateral cooperation in Abu Dhabi — WAM

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

My idea of a good time is working with amazing engineers to create incredible technology 🤩

The Tesla chip research fab will have all the machines needed to do logic, memory, packing & masks in one building for a lightning fast development cycle. Heaven 💫

[🇦🇪 HGS @Sajwani]

I will never forget who stood with my country. 🇦🇪 Thanks to all our true friends.

You will be remembered forever

[Michele Boldrin @micheleboldrin]

Il @Corriere celebra in prima pagina che (per la sesta volta) la Sapienza di Roma sarebbe "prima" negli "studi classici" (in realta' "Classics and Ancient History", se ho capito bene) in una delle mille classifiche universitarie che girano per il mondo...

Questo da' la misura non solo di un sistema universitario fallito ma di una classe "dirigente" ridicola.

Il patriottismo e' l'opposto del celebrare le proprie miserie.

[Dario D'Angelo @dariodangelo91]

🚨🚨🚨🪖🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇱🇮🇷 Le lancette sull’orologio le vedo pure io. E che le ore siano ancora troppo piccole lo intuisco benissimo. Ma ciò che è accaduto questa notte è un potenziale game-changer: questo punto nave non può attendere. 

Mi spiego: i lanci di missili balistici andati in scena questa notte contro la base angloamericana di Diego Garcia hanno il potere di cambiare la natura di questa guerra. O almeno dovrebbero. 

Non più o non solo una guerra nell’interesse esclusivo di Israele. Non più o non solo “l’escursione” (cit.) di un Presidente degli Stati Uniti verso cui non nutriamo particolare simpatia. Una guerra giusta, invece. Necessaria. Difensiva. Di natura preventiva. 

Forse ora qualcuno riconoscerà - forse, ripeto - che il programma missilistico iraniano è davvero una minaccia per tutti. E che il rifiuto categorico di Teheran di inserire questo argomento nei negoziati nucleari con gli Stati Uniti nascondeva una trappola per il mondo intero, anzitutto per gli europei. 

Ora, dobbiamo intenderci: abbiamo ancora troppi pochi elementi per dire cosa sia accaduto con esattezza. Non sappiamo ad esempio dove siano atterrati di preciso i due missili diretti verso la base di Diego Garcia. E nemmeno se - come viene ipotizzato - almeno uno sia stato ingaggiato dagli americani con successo con un intercettore SM-3. 

Possiamo fare però qualche ipotesi: il maggiore indiziato, se cerchiamo il vettore che potrebbe aver percorso una distanza vicina ai circa 4000 km che separano il territorio iraniano da quello della base USA-Regno Unito nell’Oceano Indiano, è il Khorramshahr-4. Le stime ufficiali gli attribuivano in realtà una gittata di 2000 km e rotti. L’ipotesi di scuola è che trasportando una testata molto più leggera possa spingersi ben oltre. 

Promemoria: l’Iran ha sempre negato di essere in possesso di missili capaci di percorrere una distanza superiore ai 2000 km. 

Qualche anno fa, in un intervento pubblico, perfino Ali Khamenei disse che dai Guardiani della Rivoluzione gli era arrivata una richiesta: aumentare la capacità dei missili iraniani fino ai 5000 km. Rifiutò. O almeno così disse ufficialmente. Non sappiamo se fu un bluff o se (ampiamente possibile) i Guardiani della Rivoluzione abbiano perseguito ugualmente i loro disegni. 

L’alternativa che mi viene in mente è che l'Iran stia ora attingendo al proprio arsenale di vettori spaziali convertendoli in missili balistici. Chi conosce la natura di questo regime sa da tempo che questi razzi sono stati a lungo presentati come funzionali ad attività per scopi civili ma che in realtà servivano ad acquisire tecnologia militare per la creazione di missili in grado di trasportare una testata nucleare. Vedremo. 

Ciò che sappiamo dopo stanotte, in ogni caso, è che forse la precisione sarebbe ancora un problema, che le probabilità di un impatto diretto sarebbero comunque ridotte, ma che il raggio della guerra iraniano deve essere allargato. Il problema riguarda tutto il continente europeo. Alto Nord escluso, probabilmente. 

Questo per dire cosa? In una notte senza sonno, l’ennesima, per dire che nessuno in Europa può dire in coscienza “non è la nostra guerra”. 

Lo è, potrebbe esserlo, e non per nostra scelta. 

Il Blog continuerà ad aggiornarvi con l’onestà e l’impegno di sempre. Chi apprezza questo spazio di informazione indipendente lo sostenga: https://t.co/HPfjUHUqMm

Ps: buonanotte o buongiorno, a seconda di quando leggerete.

[Luigi Martino @mrtlgu]

RT @hhtbzayed: On Mother’s Day, we celebrate mothers, the foundation of society and the heart of every nation, honoring their role in raisi…

[Luigi Martino @mrtlgu]

"تريندز" ينشر دراسة جديدة بعنوان "شبكة الدفاع الجوي الإماراتية تتصدى للنيران الإيرانية"، بقلم الدكتور لويجي مارتينو، باحث علمي لدى جامعة خليفة وأستاذ في جامعة بولونيا.
لقراءة الدراسة:https://t.co/U08dKLpovZ

My article on the military airspace supremacy of #UAE

[Ahmed Khalifa @_A_khalifa]

To every resident in the UAE
from all nationalities, faiths
& backgrounds you are this
country’s true treasure..

Thank you for standing with us.
Your support means we’re not alone
in this crisis. Your feelings reached
every Emirati home.

This is your home too. 🇦🇪❤️

[🇦🇪 HGS @Sajwani]

To all those residents making beautiful videos, taking pictures, and spreading positivity about Dubai and defending the UAE 🇦🇪 …

THANK YOU 🤍 we will never forget you

[سيف الدرعي| Saif alderei @saif_aldareei]

To every resident in the UAE,
you are part of this nation’s strength.

Thank you for standing with us.
Your solidarity reached every Emirati home.

This country is your home too. 🇦🇪❤️

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: President Trump just released the footage. The most secretive bomber in the American arsenal hitting the most valuable military real estate in Iran. And he wants the world to watch.

The video published on Truth Social shows B-2 Spirit stealth bombers conducting precision strikes on Kharg Island’s military infrastructure. Runway cratering charges tear the airbase apart in sequential detonations. Multiple explosions bloom across IRGC missile launch sites, coastal defence batteries, radar installations, and garrison facilities. The footage is steady, clinical, and unmistakable. The bombs are 2,000-pound JDAMs, GPS-guided GBU-31 and GBU-32 variants, the same munitions that cratered Iraqi airfields in 2003 and Afghan command centres for two decades. They are dropped by an aircraft that Iran’s air defence network cannot detect, track, or engage.

The oil terminals are visible in every frame. They are untouched.

That is the message. Not the destruction. The restraint. Ninety percent of Iran’s crude exports flow through those terminals. The loading jetties stand. The storage tanks are full. The infrastructure that funds the IRGC, that pays for the Shaheds, that finances the Mosaic Doctrine’s 31 autonomous commands, that underwrites every mine on the seabed of Hormuz, is intact and one presidential decision from joining the rubble surrounding it.

The B-2 Spirit was designed to penetrate Soviet air defence networks during nuclear war. It carries 40,000 pounds of ordnance inside a flying wing with a radar cross-section smaller than a bird. Twenty aircraft exist. Each costs $2.1 billion. The United States sent its most expensive, most classified, most capable strategic asset to crater a runway on a 20-square-kilometre island in the Persian Gulf because the message required the messenger. A B-52 could have dropped the same JDAMs. An F-15E could have cratered the same runway. The B-2 was chosen because its presence means Iran had no warning, no interception opportunity, and no defence. The bombs arrived before the sound.

The runway cratering is tactically decisive. A cratered runway cannot launch aircraft, receive resupply, or evacuate personnel. The IRGC garrison of 250 to 500 personnel is now isolated on an island whose military defences have been destroyed, whose airstrip is inoperable, and whose only remaining value is the oil infrastructure the United States deliberately chose not to destroy. The garrison cannot be reinforced by air. It cannot project force by sea because the IRGC Navy is at the bottom of the Gulf. It exists on an island that America controls from the sky while Iran controls from the ground, and the ground shrinks every hour the runway stays cratered.

The footage itself is a weapon. Trump did not release it for documentation. He released it for deterrence. Every IRGC commander watching the video sees an aircraft they cannot detect delivering ordnance they cannot stop onto an island they cannot defend. Every Iranian decision-maker watching the terminals standing untouched beside the rubble understands the conditional: the restraint is voluntary. The next strike does not need to be restrained.

The strategy emerging from the strike, the Marines deployment, and the Kharg footage is sequential strangulation. Destroy the military capacity to defend the island. Crater the runway to isolate the garrison. Deploy the Tripoli ARG with 2,500 Marines and F-35Bs for air superiority and potential amphibious seizure. Hold the oil terminals as leverage for a war-ending negotiation in which Iran’s 90% export revenue becomes the ransom for every American objective: open the Strait, surrender the uranium, dismantle the enrichment programme.

Iran’s crown jewel is no longer Iran’s. It is a hostage sitting on a cratered runway surrounded by rubble, guarded by a garrison that cannot be reinforced, watched by an aircraft it cannot see, and one decision away from ceasing to exist.

https://t.co/eMrt5qYYst