Geopolitical Watch

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[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

I was arrested at Heathrow Airport under the Terrorism Act, Sec 12 because of my reporting.

6 police officers were waiting for me at the entrance of the aircraft.

I was held for almost 24 hours and questioned.

I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.

I feel that this is a political persecution and hampers my ability to work as a journalist.

[WW2 The Eastern Front @ShoahUkraine]

Since there's been a lot of interest in the Battle of Kursk recently, I thought I'd dive into some details on how the Red Army defeated the German forces in Kursk Oblast. Here's a thread...🧵

1. Anticipating the Enemy:

The Soviets didn't just stumble upon German plans; they actively manipulated them. Soviet intelligence, particularly the "Lucy" spy ring, fed the Kremlin precise details about German intentions months in advance. Stalin and his generals, knowing the German penchant for encirclement, deliberately left the Kursk Salient exposed, baiting the Germans into a trap. This bold gamble turned German blitzkrieg tactics against them.

[SportsDokita (Odogwu ☝️) @Sports_Doctor2]

“THE WILLIAMS BROTHERS”
(Kweku The Traveler)

Inaki Williams, the elder brother of Spanish wing sensation and Euros 2024 winner, Nico Williams had just turned 20 when he asked his mum, “How did we come to Spain?”

His mum told him, “Sit down, I think you’re ready to hear the story of papa and me now.”

For years, nobody knew that side of Inaki Williams who was now an Athletic Bilbao star with his brother, and his parents refused to tell him the story until he turned 20.

His parents, Maria and Felix left Ghana shortly after they got married, they crossed the Sahara desert without food or water.

“EVERYONE HAS A STORY TO TELL, BE WILLING TO HEAR IT BEFORE JUDGING”
RT!
#OdogwuTales

[Miss Li @MissQuanyi18]

The 🇺🇸 has realized that surface combatants such as destroyers and carriers are non-survivable near 🇨🇳 coastlines, SCS and Taiwan strait. they turned to their wonderwaffen; nuclear submarines which they hope can sink all of PLAN and blockade 🇨🇳 🤭...🧵

https://t.co/h7iIq3vD75

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@s_m_marandi We're in Indonesia waiting some information about Pezeshkian vision in the midst of recent radical geopolitical changes. Hopefully Iran would be one of the great geopolitical changer together with China, Russia and many global south countries.

[StarBoySAR 🇭🇰 🇨🇳 🥭 @StarboySAR]

Against all odds - 🇨🇳China's Space Exploration program 1994 - 2024🚀🛰️

1994 - China applied to join the International Space Station, but was denied and declared "untrustworthy" by the U.S.

1993 - The United States shut down their GPS targeting the Chinese container ship Yinhe, leaving the ship stranded at sea and unable to navigate for 33 days - after being falsely accused by the US of carrying chemical weapons precursors to Iran

1996 - The United States turned off its GPS in the South China Sea, forcing China's missile tracking to fail

2003 - China applied to join the EU's Galileo global satellite navigation system, paid €230 million but was eventually forced out by the EU

2011 - The United States passed the Wolf Amendment Law, which prohibits NASA from cooperating with China in space

Despite being stigmatized and isolated, Chinese scientists and taikonauts remained determined and worked hard to become self-sufficient

1999.11.20 - Shenzhou 1 - China's first spacecraft - where the dream began!

2000 - The first experimental BeiDou Navigation Satellite was launched

2003 - Shenzhou 5 - China's dream of flying into Space came true! Taikonaut Yang Liwei (杨利伟) was blasted successfully into space as part of China's Shenzhou 5 mission. China became the third country to launch a person into space independently, after the Soviet Union and the United States

2005 - Shenzhou 6 - Fèi Jùnlóng (费俊龙) and Niè Hǎishèng (聂海胜) launched into space aboard the Long March 2F carrier rocket. It marked the official second launch of China's manned spaceflight program and the start of crewed scientific research in space

2007 - The first lunar exploration probe Chang'e 1, part of the first phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, was launched and successfully orbited the moon, marking the third milestone in China's space program

2007 - The BeiDou-1 navigation system was completed and began operation in China. The fourth positioning system, next to the American GPS, Russian GLONASS, and European Galileo

2008 - Shenzhou 7 - Taikonauts Zhai Zhigang (翟志刚) and Liu Boming (刘伯明) completed China's first "Spacewalk" extra-vehicular activity (EVA)

2011 - The Tiangong-1 prototype space station was launched, marking the start of construction on China's first space station

2016 - marks the launch of Tiangong-2, China's first space laboratory. Tiangong-2 was not constructed or planned to be permanent, but rather as a test-bed for critical technologies utilized for the final Tiangong Space station

2020 - Chang'e 5 marks China's first lunar landing retrieving lunar soil. For the first time in 44 years, humans have brought back rock and soil samples from the moon

2020 - China's BeiDou-3 navigation system provides complete full global coverage

2020: Mars - here we come! China launched Tianwen-1, China's first Mars probe

2022: China completed construction of its permanently crewed Tiangong space station

2024 - Chang'e 6 mission: China became the first nation to land and return lunar soil samples from the far side of the moon

It took China 28 years and the sacrifice of countless heroes risking their lives working day and night to overcome China's Western-imposed isolation and construct its own space station and global navigation system, and to become a leader in space exploration 🇨🇳🫡

[DaiWW @BeijingDai]

When the United States imposed sanctions on Huawei in 2019, Huawei led the world only in 4G/5G and mobile phone business, but Huawei's phones used Qualcomm's chips, Android operating system and many American components, and Huawei's 4G/5G devices also have many components from Western companies.

In 2024, Huawei's 4G/5G business still leads the world, and Huawei's mobile phones return to the top in the Chinese market, with its own HarmonyOS and 7nm 5G chip, Huawei helped China break through chip sanctions and promoted the development of many domestic component manufacturers. Huawei's AI driving system is one of the best in the world, and Huawei's GPU card poses a big threat to Nvidia in the Chinese market. Huawei has developed domestic alternatives to EDA or other 78 western software......

I have no doubt that Huawei cannot achieve these achievements in 5 years without US sanctions. Thank you.

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@BeijingDai What a great sense of humour. I really love it!

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Menkes Jokowi jadi bahan tertawaan seluruh dunia. Terutama mereka yang tahu betul bagaimana pandemi 'palsu' ini dibikin. Memalukan bener.

[Geopolitical Watch @translationidea]

There's nothing morel happiness than reading this great development. It's good for moslem countries building powerful united Islam countries. By doing this, satanic regime like US and Israel couldn't devide them easily like what they have done in the last 4 centuries!

[Iran Observer @IranObserver0]

⚡️BREAKING

There has been a major breakthrough between Saudi Arabia and Iran

Saudi has accepted all economic proposals made by Iran and stressed developing a roadmap for economic cooperation and expediting its implementation ‐ Iran's economy minister

[Iran Observer @IranObserver0]

⚡️Iranian president says crackdown on student protesters shows true face of USA

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

The impact of Gaza: the US is becoming (even more) toxic throughout the Muslim world.
https://t.co/WCR4MiphPe

It's quantifiable as this Bloomberg article highlights: when asked in a survey if they preferred to align themselves with the US or China, 73% of Indonesians respondents now answer China. That number was 54% before Gaza.

Similar move in other Muslim nations in South-East Asia (https://t.co/hgj1HiYxFv):
- Malaysia: 75.1% now want to align with China (up from 54.8%)
- Brunei: 70.1% (up from 55%)

[Geopolitical Watch @translationidea]

Sharp comment of the contemporary US political life. Making 99% of powerless people as terrible victims for the sake of 1% US powerful people.

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

So Trump gave his backing to the funding of Ukraine and Israel.
Are you still Trump's supporter ?

"fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me"

Many pro-Trump gave him the benefit of the doubt during his first term mentioning he was naive, he could not do much, he was surrounded by the wrong people, he didn't understand how the deep state works.
Now we see Trump working closely with the deep state and the Neo-cons, far from "MAGA" ideology.

How many more times are you going to be fooled ? The system needs to give an illusion of two sides confronting each other, to be polarised otherwise no-one would vote for a one-party system.
with Trump, it brings an illusion of free choice, of fight, of alternative. Ultimately it is just an illusion, they are actors who tells us what we want to hear and we are numb consumer of this circus made in order to entertain us and give us an illusion of free choice.

Ultimately, it will be a choice between a sleepy, senile blue clown and a billionaire red clown.

anyone that will vote will give legitimacy to a rigged system and ultimately will be accomplice to a big fraud.

Biden is worth + 70 Million dollars
Trum is a billionaire.
They are the "one percent"

We are the "99 percent", they don't represent us, they despise us, they manipulate us, they are the enemy.

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@Naila_Ayad YES

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@Alex_Oloyede2 Z

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Brilliant analysis

[Fadi Quran @fadiquran]

On Iran’s strike:

At Stanford, I attended a masterclass on military strategy led by a person with decades of experience, including serving at the highest levels in the military and government.

One lesson he thought that I always remember was this:

He asked us:

“Say the US decided to attack Iraq with a new stealth jet it hadn’t used before that evaded all radars? The attack was a success. Was it strategic?”

Many in the class raised their hands to say “yes, it achieved its goal”. But the professor said: “It may not have been”.

Why?

“Because now your adversaries know your capabilities and it’s a matter of time before they find ways around them. If this attack could be done with conventional weapons, it’s better to keep your top weapons until you need them. Using them creates a disadvantage.”

My analysis is that the scale of Iran’s attack, the diversity of locations it targeted, and weapons it used, forced Israel to uncover the majority of anti-missile technologies the US and it have across the region.

The Iranians did not use any weapons Israel didn’t know it had, it just used a lot of them. But the Iranians likely now have almost a full map of what Israel’s missile defence system looks like, as well as where in Jordan and the Gulf the US has installations. It also knows how long it takes to prepare them, how Israeli society responds…etc

This is a huge strategic cost to Israel, while Arab regimes now are being blasted by their peoples, particularly the Jordanian monarchy, for not doing anything to protect Gazans but then going all out to protect Israel.

Crucially, Iran can now reverse engineer all the intel gathered from this attack to make a much more deadly one credible. While the US and Israel will have to re-design away from their current model which has been compromised. Its success in stopping this choreographed attack is thus still very costly.

Moreover, with the threat of a regional war that neither the US nor the Arab regimes want feeling nearer, it’s likely their pressure on Israel to back down will increase, making a ceasefire more feasible.

Anyone assuming this is just theatrics is missing the context of how militaries assess strategy versus tactics. Theatre is an important factor, but gathering intelligence of the “enemy’s” posture is more valuable, especially if one believes they’re in a long war of attrition.

Netanyahu and the Israel government prefer a quick hot and urgent war where they can pull in America. The Iranians prefer a longer war of attrition that bleeds Israel of its deterrence capabilities and makes it an ally for Arabs and the US that’s too costly to have.

Lastly, if you are a person who hates war, if you want peace, the best and only way to get there in the region is to support the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and dignity.

There is no sustainable peace possible as long as Palestinians live under an oppressive system of apartheid.

[Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis @DrLoupis]

This man is a TRAITOR!

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

Algerian support for Iranian attacks
Algeria is the first government to announce its support for Iran's attacks.

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@MochammadKhabi4 @idextratime Semoga tidak ada korban jiwa. Adakah bangunan/rumah yg ambruk?