PetiBácsi

International Relations and Geopolitics hobbyist. Realist. Political independent, just trying to apply common sense and remain sane. Non-elite runner.

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

Oman tanker data goes dark

Iran is choking Hormuz, forcing a brutal choice:  escalate or surrender control

Trump wants out, but Iran is forcing the “escalation trap”

The collision course is set, and worse is yet to come 

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

US households are "fighting" inflation with debt:

Total consumer credit surged +$25 billion in March, to a record $5.14 trillion.

This marks the largest monthly increase since March 2025.

Revolving credit, which includes credit cards, jumped +$10 billion, to $1.34 trillion, the highest since November 2024.

This was also the biggest monthly increase since February 2024.

Non-revolving credit, mainly auto and student loans, rose +$15 billion, to a record $3.80 trillion.

As a result, total consumer credit has now surged +$1.05 trillion since the 2020 pandemic.

US consumers' debt levels are skyrocketing.

[PetiBácsi @PBacsi]

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[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iranian state media says it has now "no choice but to obtain the atomic bomb" to remove "the military option for the occupation and partitioning of Iran" from the table, arguing Iran must "absolutely reach nuclear deterrence" before current negotiations can be conducted "from a correct position," per Fars.

Iran adds the acquisition is not only driven by negotiation leverage but also by Trump's two recent nuclear threats against Iran, including his April warning that "a whole civilization will die tonight" and his May threat of "one big glow coming out of Iran."

This is also among the most direct nuclear weapons advocacy published on Iranian state media to date.

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

Unfortunately, the law is no longer in effect in Ukraine, and the only way to protect yourself from TCC is with a gas canister.

In Zaporizhzhia, bystanders used a cane and gas canister to save a man from being forcibly mobilized by TCC officers.

The video shows two TCC officers restraining the man and attempting to force him into a car.

At that moment, the man, using a walking cane, repeatedly strikes one of the military commissariat officers, while a second bystander sprays gas canisters in their direction. The TCC officers were then forced to release the man.

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski - "If Putin wants a fight, if Ukraine isn't enough for him, then we will do what we have always done."

This kind of rhetoric fits perfectly with what I’ve written: Europe’s political class needs war to mask its economic collapse and escape its debt trap.

[PetiBácsi @PBacsi]

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[Daniel Davis Deep Dive @DanielLDavis1]

Buy your definition, Mr. President, YOU ARE A COMMUNIST.

You have redirected hundreds of millions of dollars away from the American people, into the pockets of your wealthiest friends and most especially your family member members.

You stand in front of the American people and declare we don’t have money for daycare or other things to help low income Americans — while you beg for $500 million more dollars to bloat the Defense budget to $1.5 trillion, also benefiting the wealthy elite in America.

Where do you think that money comes from, Mr president? It comes from the pockets of regular Americans, and you redirect it into the pockets of your wealthiest friends.

THEREFORE, YOU ARE THE VERY THING YOU WARN US AGAINST: A COMMUNIST

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇩🇪 German public broadcaster ARD is out there dropping anti-air conditioning propaganda in the middle of a record heatwave.

Their infographic basically says: "Sure it cools you down, but it heats up the planet."

Meanwhile Germans are melting and only 6% of homes even have AC.

Nothing says "we care about you" like lecturing people to sweat for the climate.

Climate warriors would rather you die of heatstroke than install an AC unit.

Source: ARD Quarks, Tagesschau / Writer: Sol

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

The war propaganda in NATO countries is becoming increasingly absurd. Why? Nobody can push back without being smeared. Truth is long gone, and everything is assessed by the extent it support NATO narratives. So lets all pretend that Putin has kidnapped Lukasheko...

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Lebanon signed a deal with Israel yesterday and Fmr Israel Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy couldn't believe what he was reading

The Iranian MOU already required unconditional Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, and then the Lebanese government turned around and signed a separate deal making that withdrawal conditional on disarming Hezbollah

Daniel's line: Iran negotiated better terms for Lebanon than Lebanon did for itself

An Israeli military commentator went on Channel 13 the same night and called it a win-win, either Israel stays in Lebanon or Lebanon is forced into civil war with Hezbollah

Why did Lebanon do it? Daniel says they don't have leverage, they over-internalized their weakness, and they handed away what little bargaining power the MOU had given them

Collaborating with Israel doesn't get you dignity, it gets you humiliated in front of your own people

Has the Lebanese government just signed its own death warrant?

[Anatolij Sharij @anatoliisharii]

Zelenskyy’s TCC officers failed to take a man who was walking his dog. The man ran away.

Then these brave warriors took the dog itself and, after some time, threw it out completely covered in blood, with its paws broken.

This country is like a cancerous tumor. This country is like a foul-smelling hole that sucks in everything good and spews out everything bad.

People are trying to escape from there, and the hypocrites of the “civilized world” simply do not notice it.

Dictatorship, killings, suppression of the opposition, the madness of the security services.

[Will Schryver @imetatronink]

Welcome back to the episodical war with Iran.

I count this as Round 6.

Round 1: Soleimani / Ayn al-Asad
Round 2: True Promise 1
Round 3: True Promise 2
Round 4: 12-Day War
Round 5: Ramadan War
Round 6: World Cup War

I hope the intermission was refreshing.

[Marta Havryshko @HavryshkoMarta]

The EU's refusal to grant asylum to Ukrainian men of draft age is yet another piece of evidence that the war in Ukraine is a Western proxy war against Russia.

Ukrainian men are treated as cannon fodder.

Ukrainian land has become both a killing field and a testing ground for next-generation weapons and technologies.

Ukraine has become the West's military outpost.

[PetiBácsi @PBacsi]

Why would anyone fight for a country like this?

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

NATO-funded military recruiters in Ukraine

[PetiBácsi @PBacsi]

@Glenn_Diesen Why would anyone fight for a country like this?

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

German militarism and war enthusiasm continues its revival

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

The second Iranian ship strike today has sunk Hormuz transits

Despite Trump halting all military attacks, Iran remains completely undeterred and ready to shut the Strait

As global oil inventories run down, their leverage grows by the hour

Iran survived—and that changed everything

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇱🇧🇮🇱 Chaos in Beirut right now

Crowds have completely taken over the streets, burning tires and blocking roads in fury over the Lebanese authorities signing an agreement with Israel.

They say it legalizes Israel's occupation of South Lebanon and gives Netanyahu immunity for war crimes.

This could escalate fast.

Writer: Sol

[PetiBácsi @PBacsi]

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[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

🇪🇺 The EU Commission shut down the air conditioners for floors 1-7 during the heatwave

The thing is that all high-ranking bureaucrats work above the 7th floor. Von der Leyen works on floor 13 with nice cool air conditioning, Politico reports

@MyLordBebo

[PetiBácsi @PBacsi]

@ArmstrongEcon Russia - your turn now. You know what to do.

[PetiBácsi @PBacsi]

Fuck Trump

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

😩 JESUS CHRIST!!! Cops give a brutal beating on the bridge between Ohio and Kentucky to young people who were protesting against Trump's policies and against the Genocide in Gaza.

Spread this far & wide!!!