Sheikh Usta

Political analyst. The Pulse (geopolitical weekly podcast) Masters in International Relations (in-prog) @kingscollegelon RT != endorsement.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇨🇳 China launches 36 warships in the time it takes America to build one.

Malcolm Nance, former U.S. Navy intelligence officer, breaks down how decades of offshoring hollowed out the industrial base America would need to actually fight a major war, and the shipbuilding gap is where it shows up most brutally:

"China is now America in 1950."

The factories, the workers, the production lines that won World War II all exist today.

They're just on the other side of the Pacific, and the window to bring them back may already be closed.

@MalcolmNance

[Armed Forces Update @ArmedUpdat1947]

According to OSINT Reports, Lebonan has already shown Interest in JF-17 Thunder Fighter Jets, and they also want PAF to Provide Advanced Training to LAF Pilots. 🇱🇧⚡🇵🇰

Should PAF Provide JF-17 Fighter Jets to Lebonan?

BTW, Lebanese Air Force currently Operates Cessna 208 and Super Tucano Aircraft, so buying JF-17 Thunders would be a Huge Leap to Deter Israeli Airforce, which often Intrudes to Bomb Lebanese Areas.

[Turkish Century @TurkishCentury]

🇪🇬🇹🇷 The deepening strategic partnership between #Egypt and Türkiye is sending ripples of unease through #TelAviv, #Athens, and #AbuDhabi. Israel, in particular, is said to be quietly pressing Washington to restrain #Cairo, lest these two historic heavyweights of the Eastern Mediterranean forge a tangible axis—one capable of reshaping the regional balance of power.

Consider the game-changing potential of a fresh Egyptian-Turkish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) agreement in the #Mediterranean. By recalibrating maritime boundaries—potentially at the quiet expense of Cairo’s earlier arrangement with Athens—Egypt could gain thousands of additional square kilometers of sovereign waters. More importantly, such a deal would sever any clean corridor linking Israeli and South #Cypriot waters to Greek claims, effectively torpedoing multiple Israeli #energy pipelines, #trade corridors, and #security architectures.

One can almost picture the Greek and South Cypriot diplomats frantically waving their #EU membership cards, hoping #Brussels will magically redraw the map in their favor. Alas, geography remains stubbornly unimpressed by membership fees.

Israel has long viewed Egypt and Türkiye as the region’s two natural counterweights to its ambitions. Consequently, it has every incentive to sow discord between Cairo and Ankara—often enlisting Greek, Cypriot, American, and Emirati voices to amplify the noise. Divide and rule is an old playbook, but it grows less effective when the two “divided” parties start comparing notes.

Fortunately, both nations have moved beyond past frictions, including the painful chapter of the #Morsi era. Under Presidents #Sisi and #Erdoğan, ties have steadily warmed. High-level coordination is expanding, trade volumes are rising, and mutual recognition is growing: these are brotherly peoples whose strategic interests align far more than they clash. Shared #Ottoman heritage, Mediterranean temperament, and a deep civilizational memory bind them in ways that transient alliances cannot replicate.

Should this Turco-Egyptian synergy mature over the coming decade, the two countries are well-positioned to reprise their historic roles as anchors of stability across the #Levant. Together they can check Israeli expansionism while also containing destabilizing Iranian adventurism—without needing lectures from distant capitals. The result would not be confrontation for its own sake, but a pragmatic equilibrium that allows the region’s 250 million combined citizens to breathe, build, and prosper.

In an era of shifting global sands, this emerging partnership carries the quiet promise of something greater: the stirrings of a new Golden Age for the Islamic world—one rooted not in nostalgic slogans, but in hard power, economic complementarity, and civilizational confidence.

Egypt and Türkiye are rising side by side. The map is changing. And history is watching. ☪️

[gdh @gundemedairhs]

Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan:

Yurt dışında yaşayan vatandaşlarımıza da yeni bir çağrı yapıyoruz.

Türkiye'ye gelin, Türkiye'ye yerleşin, sizler de yeni ve güçlü Türkiye'nin büyüme hikayesinin bir parçası olur.

Ülkemize yerleşen yabancılar ve yurt dışında yaşayan vatandaşlarımız, belirli şartları sağlamaları halinde yurt dışından elde ettikleri gelirler için 20 yıl boyunca vergi ödemeyecek.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

There has never been a war in history where 80% of the country has been destroyed, 100% of the population displaced, and 50% of the deaths children.

Call it what it is: GENOCIDE.

[Adele Shoko @AdeleShoko]

Watch until the end to see the scale of the problem. It's not an isolated incident. Settlers are burning Palestinian crops across the West Bank🇵🇸, causing devastating economic damage.

[Oğuzhan Uygun @ogzhn_uyg]

Roketsan devreye girecek yeni tesisleriyle, Hisar, Siper ve Tayfun gibi füzelerin üretim kapasitesini 5 katına çıkaracak.

Lalahan'da ise Avrupa'nın en büyük harp başlığı tesisi kuruluyor.

[The Saviour @TheSaviour]

Israel killed his mother and father.

Because of Israel, his leg was amputated.

Because of Israel, his left hand is now also at risk of amputation.

Don’t stop talking about Gaza.

[Dilly Hussain @DillyHussain88]

“I took my rocket launcher and ordered the soldiers to bombard a building in Gaza where a Palestinian family lived…It was very fun to hear them scream while they burned alive.”

— IDF soldier Yarden Megira.

This is Zionism, and it’s mainstream in Israel.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

What does it say about you if you look at this infant and see a threat that must be eliminated?

And what does it say about the values of the countries that defend and enable these murders?

This is the 7-month-old Palestinian baby shot & killed by an Israeli soldier yesterday.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel just assassinated Ali in South Lebanon.

Not a fighter. Not armed.

Ali was a nurse.

They hunted him down with a drone, and executed him as he made his way to work at Hiram hospital in Tyre.

Israel isn’t targeting combatants.

It’s targeting the people who save lives.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

At the request of the illegal “Havat Maon” settlers, Israeli forces detained five Palestinian children, aged 8–12, for gathering wild vegetables and flowers near the settlement.

[Öznur Küçüker Sirene @SireneOznur]

Reuters:

➖"Yirmi yıllık devlet yatırımları, Türkiye’yi insansız hava araçları (İHA/SİHA) ve diğer askeri teçhizatların önde gelen ihracatçılarından biri hâline getirdi. NATO üyesi Türkiye, Batı’nın yeniden silahlandığı ve güvenlik ittifaklarının yeniden şekillendiği bir dönemde bu ivmeyi daha da ileri taşımayı hedefliyor.

Bir zamanlar büyük ölçüde yabancı silah üreticilerine bağımlı olan Türkiye, bugün başta Körfez ülkeleri, Afrika, Asya ve Avrupa’nın bazı bölgeleri olmak üzere yaklaşık 40 ülkeye silah tedarik ediyor. Pek çok alıcı, Türk savunma ürünlerini alternatiflerine kıyasla daha uygun maliyetli, daha hızlı teslim edilebilir ve ihtiyaçlara daha kolay uyarlanabilir olarak değerlendiriyor."

[Global Scope @SpotGlobals]

🇨🇳🇮🇷 Have this Chinese technology really entered Iran?

If the Chinese hypersonic anti-ship missiles YKJ-1000 or YJ-21 have indeed reached Tehran, then US 🇺🇸 aircraft carriers are no longer safe, and any adventure by Washington could turn into an extremely costly gamble.

The YKJ-1000 hypersonic missile, made from low-cost materials — even foam cement and civilian components — revealed by Lingkong Tianxing, can reach speeds of up to Mach 7 and a range of 800 miles, while its maximum cost does not exceed around $99,000 — several times cheaper than US interceptor missiles.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Jimmy Dore: "We preach democracy to China. But we don't have democracy here - the oligarchs run everything. The Princeton study proved 90% of people's wishes never become law. Only the top 10% of wealthy matter.

In China, the government sits above capital. The economy works for the people. Here, capital sits above government. The economy works for billionaires"

[Palestine Daily News✌️🇵🇸✌️ @Palestinedaily1]

Meet the Palestinian Muslims whom Israel will execute without trial. Look at them.

Even Nazis didn’t do this to jews.

Repost please

[𝓙𝓲𝓶𝓶𝔂 𝓙 @JimmyJ4thewin]

In 2014, Ayman Mohyeldin was on the ground in Gaza when he witnessed IsraeIi gunboats fataIIy shooting children.

Instead of letting him report the truth, NBC News immediately pulled him from the scene and replaced him.

Media complicity isn’t new, it’s policy.

[neyi kaybettiğini hatırla @neyikaybettik]

🔴İspanyol Dışişleri Bakanı:

▪️İtalya ve Almanya, Avrupa Birliği ile İsrail arasındaki Ortaklık Anlaşması'nın askıya alınmasını engelliyor.

▪️Ukrayna söz konusu olduğunda Almanya ahlaki bir bekçi gibi davranıyor, ancak Filistin söz konusu olduğunda üç maymunu oynuyor. Almanya ikiyüzlü ve acınası bir devlettir.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Fahd Abu Heikal carries the body of his infant son Sam, who was executed yesterday night by israeli troops for being born Palestinian

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on US to HIGHEST level

The counterintelligence threat level was raised by the DIA after growing concerns that Israeli espionage had become more aggressive than usual.

https://t.co/JInAf3aURa