vassilis

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies

[Ένα παιδί μετράει τ'άστρα @XalaraSeLew]

Η πιο ισχυρή απόδειξη πως δεν σε αγαπάνε είναι πως σε εκμεταλλεύονται

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The Cuban Missile Crisis is taught in American schools as the moment the world almost ended because the Soviets put nuclear weapons in Cuba.

It is almost never taught as:

The moment the United States discovered what it felt like to have nuclear weapons pointed at it from nearby, which was the permanent reality of every Soviet city that had lived under American nuclear targeting from bases in Turkey, Italy, and Britain for years before the Cuban deployment.

The Soviets put missiles in Cuba specifically because the United States had missiles in Turkey pointed at Soviet cities.

Kennedy's team knew this.

They negotiated a secret deal: the Soviets would remove the Cuban missiles, the Americans would remove the Turkish missiles.

The American removal was kept secret from the public for decades because admitting it would have revealed that the resolution of the crisis was a mutual concession, not an American victory, and that the Soviet position had a strategic logic that American audiences were not supposed to understand.

The lesson taught to American children:

Soviet aggression.
American resolve.
Crisis averted.

The lesson the Soviets drew:

We deployed the weapons. We achieved the withdrawal of the Turkish missiles. We established that the Americans will negotiate when the cost becomes real.

The lesson for everyone watching:

Deterrence works in both directions.

That is why the powerful try so hard to ensure it only flows in one.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Muammar Gaddafi gave up his nuclear program in 2003.

He negotiated. He complied. He handed over the centrifuges and the documentation and accepted international inspectors and did everything the West said a responsible leader should do.

He believed the deal.

He believed that compliance would produce security.

In 2011, NATO bombed his country for seven months.

Hillary Clinton, upon hearing of his death, after he had been captured, sodomized with a bayonet, and killed by a mob, appeared on camera and laughed:

"We came, we saw, he died."

Kim Jong-un watched this.

The Iranian leadership watched this.

Every government on Earth that was considering what compliance with Western demands actually produces watched this.

Gaddafi is the lesson.

Not the lesson the West wants to teach.

The lesson history actually teaches.

The empire does not reward disarmament.

It schedules it.

[Τζιριτζάντζουλα @biologisttobe]

Έχω 2 εβδομάδες τώρα που με χορεύει το στρες πεντοζάλη.

Με ενδιαφέρει πολύ να ακούσω τι κάνετε ΥΠΟΒΟΗΘΗΤΙΚΑ, όπως πχ χόμπι κτλ. Δεν θα απαντάω αλλά θα τα διαβάσω μπας κ με πιάσει έστω ένα 10% τίποτα.

Θενκς.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇷 CENTCOM has drafted two weeks of massive bombing against Iran, and one question tears the whole plan apart: where are the carriers?

The New York Post reports CENTCOM's commander has drafted a two-week, large-scale bombing campaign, the biggest operation since the ceasefire.

Colonel Larry Wilkerson, who taught at the Naval and Marine Corps war colleges, measures the plan against one number: not a single American carrier has come within a thousand miles of Iran's coast.

"One carrier, 24 hours. Two carriers, 72 hours.

Three carriers, indefinite air ops."

Why they stay away tells you everything, and his answer is worth the full interview.

He also explains why America's other war commanders are furious at Washington over vanishing munitions, what a former defense secretary privately told him about the physics of shooting down missiles, and the Iranian weapons he says nobody has seen used yet.

Some wars run out of plans.

This one keeps running through them.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Netanyahu and Vance just had the argument nobody was supposed to see, and it says everything about where Israel stands in this war

Axios reports Netanyahu sat alone with Vance at Blair House this week and confronted him over months of criticism, including Vance's warning that Israeli officials should "not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left."

Netanyahu now says it's all straightened out.

John Kiriakou, fifteen years inside the CIA, isn't buying the harmony.

He breaks down why Israel has gone silent in this war, why the mission may already be complete, and why Israel sits on America's spy threat list next to Russia and China.

Then he tells a story from his own desk at the agency, about a secure call that dropped and the voice that spoke into the silence, and you have to hear it to believe it.

The argument got resolved in private.

The listening never stopped.

@JohnKiriakou

[Alan Eyre @AlanEyre1]

Here are my current #IranWar operating assumptions - what have I got wrong/what am I missing?

1. The US initiated this illegal, immoral, and unwise war in the hopes of a ‘quick win,’ and after that become unobtainable has been strategically flailing.

2. The main US goal now is to reopen the SoH, to relieve global economic pressure

3. US Military force is insufficient to open & keep open the SoH.

4. Iran sees control of the SoH as integral to its national security.

5. Military force cannot change Iranian redlines, since Iran believes capitulation on key issues will increase (not decrease) pressure on it and decrease regime viability (hence it is unlike Khomeini accepting the 1998 cease-fire).

6. The Iranian regime doesn’t trust the US administration to fulfill any commitments it makes. So unless the US is prepared to ‘collapse’ the regime into failed-state status (which one would expect the Iranian regime to react to), future use of US military force is probably counter-productive.

7. Ongoing/increased US military force will likely cause Iranian retaliation/escalation, to include against GCC infrastructure.

8. The US administration is either unwilling or unable to engage in the serious, sustained diplomacy needed to solve the SoH issue, much less the nuclear issue.

9. Significant easing of US economic pressure on Iran (easing of sanctions, unblocking of Iranian assets) is unlikely for domestic political reasons

10. The best chance for a least-bad resolution of the SoH problem are ongoing negotiations between Iran on the one side and Oman on the other, with Oman consulting with fellow GCC countries. In this scenario, all the US has to do is:

1) forego attacks during these negotiations while maintaining the naval blockade
2) approve whatever final settlement the two sides reach.

11. Short-term Iranian control of the SoH is decidedly sub-optimal but probably unavoidable.

12. US claims about the importance of preserving preserve freedom of navigation in the SoH is risible. The Trump administration believes in power, not international law, or as White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller put it:

“We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world—in the real world, Jake—that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time.”

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Rubio: “Iran would be a much different country if it spent its wealth on its people instead of weapons.”

Trump: “We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of Medicare, daycare, Medicaid, all these things.”

The US spends over $1 trillion a year on war while its own people sink into poverty.

It has no right or standing to lecture any country, especially one that it’s actively bombing on Israel’s behalf.

𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐒 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐚𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞.

[Τζονι Μνημονικ @yancp]

Οφ κορς

[Reuters @Reuters]

Exclusive: China has begun mass producing domestically developed immersion deep-ultraviolet lithography machines, a technology crucial to advanced chipmaking, marking a key step forward in Beijing's drive to reduce its reliance on foreign technologies https://t.co/jFIWhQvLXE

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

We were taught the story of WWII wrong. This is the main reason many of us are so confused (at least on the West).

You see, we were told that in the Second World War, two major armies were fighting the Nazis: the Red Army and the American-led army, uniting France, Britain and other countries.

The only problem is, the Nazis and the American-led coalition of nations were in perfect agreement on everything the world except one issue.

Both the Americans and the Germans believed in the values of colonialism, ethnic cleansing and genocide. Both believed that black people were subhuman, and that Asians, Arabs, native Americans, and Slavs (read: all indigenous people on earth outside Western Europe) were inferior races - beliefs that now unite Europe, the US and other white colonies around the world.

Both believed their whiteness represented a divine right to rule and subjugate all of humanity, and own all its resources.

The only difference between the two sides was the Jewish question: Americans idolized them, and Germans demonized them. That's the entire difference. It is a minor dispute in an otherwise perfect harmony.
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The punchline is this: the story of WWII was not the USSR and the US fighting one Nazi amy. The real story was the USSR fighting two Nazi armies.

And the Soviets made amazing gains and had heroic achievements, but eventually they lost the war when the Soviet Union was brought down in the early 1990s.

What we are seeing today is THIS WWII - the real WWII - still being waged, with Russia and China still fending off the Nazi attack (of which Japan is still a part, and Zionist is a central spearhead).

The war never ended. It just evolved.

The big difference now, which guarantees the defeat of the white supremacist, Jew-idolizing Nazis, is the reemergence of new-old anti-Nazi forces: China as the biggest and most powerful military and industrial power on earth; Iran as a major native power sitting on top of the world's energy reserves, and Russia regaining its confidence and power after the trauma of the 1990s (Yemen and North Korea add depth and weight to this alliance).

Additionally, the US has lost momentum and steam, and the white supremacist civilization is clearly the intellectual and military underdog that will never be able to subjugate all of humanity, and therefore has to collapse under the weight of its own insane delusions and megalomania)

If you look at things this way, everything make perfect sense, without gaps and inconsistencies.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇫🇷 WATCH: Horses fleeing as deadly wildfires approached Biscarrosse, France, a few days ago.

Fires have been burning through the southwestern part of the country, as well as parts of Spain, leading to the evacuation of 300,000+.

Horses got to get out of Dodge, too... 🐎🔥

Writer: Michael

[Nick Katsikas @katsikasnick1]

Οι φτωχοί πολεμάνε τους φτωχούς, για λογαριασμό των πλουσίων.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Trump trying to negotiate his way out of the Iran war 😂

Writers: Mhedi, Ian

[Will Schryver @imetatronink]

👀 These are the kinds of little details that speak volumes about what has really been happening in the US war against Iran.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Freedom, in America, has been successfully repackaged as a consumer product.

You are free to choose your streaming service.

You are free to choose your phone plan.

You are free to choose between two candidates, both of whom were selected before you arrived, both of whom are funded by the same industries, both of whom will maintain the same foreign policy, the same military budget, the same basic architecture of whose interests the government actually serves.

You are free to express any opinion on the internet.

Provided it doesn't cost anyone with power anything.

Provided it stays on the internet.

Provided it doesn't become organization, doesn't become bodies in the street, doesn't become the kind of friction that actually changes material conditions.

Opinion is free. Disruption is criminal.

Speech is protected. Strikes are complicated.

Dissent is tolerated. Resistance is terrorism.

This is not freedom.

This is freedom's aesthetic, mass-produced and distributed cheaply enough that everyone can afford to feel like they have it.

The founders whose portraits hang in the schools would not recognize it as the thing they were describing.

Though several of them, being wealthy men who feared genuine democracy as much as they feared the British, might recognize the function perfectly.

[P.G. Papanikolaou @PGPapanikolaou]

ΕΠΟΣ

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Anyone who thinks a ground invasion of Iran is a serious possibility needs to watch this...

Matt Bracken is a former Navy SEAL and spec ops veteran, and he just delivered one of the most sobering comparisons I've heard yet:

Kharg Island is the size of Iwo Jima, where the U.S. pounded the island with battleships for WEEKS before landing 70,000 Marines... and still lost 7,000 lives and had 19,000 wounded in a single month.

Qeshm Island is bigger than Okinawa, which took 3 months and cost 12,000 American lives.

Iran has had decades to tunnel these islands, study U.S. tactics, and prepare for precisely this scenario, and unlike Japan in WWII, they have precision missiles that can reach every inch of the Persian Gulf.

"If we went into Iran, I think we will lose everybody we send in, the more we send in, the more we lose, and the Iranians have been very open about saying, come on in, we welcome you."

Matt ended by saying rationality is out the window, and that this started with a February 28th sneak attack, so nothing should be considered off the table.

Great talking to you, @Matt_Bracken48

[Φερμίνα @ferminadas85]

Το 2002, η Σάρον Όσμπορν διαγνώστηκε με καρκίνο
του παχέος εντέρου.
Οι γιατροί τής έδιναν περίπου 33% πιθανότητες επιβίωσης και η χημειοθεραπεία την είχε εξαντλήσει.
Τα μαλλιά της έπεφταν,
οι δυνάμεις της την εγκατέλειπαν και, όπως έχει περιγράψει η οικογένειά της,