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📜 Sic Transit Gloria Mundi The inexorable decline of the American Empire has arrived at an Imperial Paradox. It must either fight a war and die, or not fight a war and yet still die. Here are the options: China Neither South Korea nor Japan want anything to do with a war

‼️ US / Iran Talks Update Iranian FM Araghchi, following today's brief talks in Rome, is still putting a hopeful spin on things. But Iran is emphatic: "Zero nuclear weapons = we DO have a deal. Zero enrichment = we do NOT have a deal," the Iranian top diplomat stated. The

✡️ “Thou art a bloody man.” Purportedly reliable public opinion polls in Israel attest a large majority of Israelis supports the annihilation of the Palestinians. By that same measure will the house of Judah be purged before the King of Kings deigns to save the remnant.

🤔"Revitalizing the US economy through manufacturing growth, self-reliance in as many sectors as possible ..." "Never short America." That's been a good trade for much of my life. But the parameters of the equation aren't what they used to be. What's the time horizon, Ross?

‼️ Yes, this is just a video simulation ... but it is also the very sort of thing one can imagine being well within the scope of Chinese capabilities: swarms of hundreds of loitering drones hovering over a battlefield -- on land or at sea. x.com/RT_com/status/…

These days feel like Greek mythology where no matter what increasingly desperate actions the main protagonist takes to avoid his prophesized fate, it becomes the very path to its fulfillment.

Will Schryver My dear friend William, I wonder if you've cast gaze over a September 2024 the Jewish Institute for National Security of America report outlining US vulnerability in West Asia. It's quite the read. I gave it a writeup at the time, key section highlighted: kitklarenberg.com/p/collapsing-e…

🔥 You gotta admire the ironic artistic touch of adding a Stuka siren to the Geran-2, which have now adopted the tactic of climbing high in their terminal phase, and then diving straight down on their targets.

🔹 The Su-57 can reportedly carry up to four X-69 cruise missiles (which strongly resemble the German Taurus). The Russians haven't used many X-69s yet. I wonder what the target is. 🤔 Indications suggest this may be the largest Russian missile attack on Ukraine of this war.

‼️ As I have insisted from the beginning, Mediazona is a fraud. It is and always has been western intel agency agitprop. Kit Klarenberg 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 and Wyatt Reed post the receipts:

Alex Sachs Kit Klarenberg 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Chay Bowes Wyatt Reed Armchair Warlord Well-crafted propaganda is believed by most people it encounters. In my view, the Mediazona misinformation stratagem has aimed to progressively widen the Overton window of plausible total Russian war costs, including KIAs. It aims to shape what is considered "received wisdom".

🇺🇸 American tactics and weaponry have been exposed as archaic and deficient against people who can shoot back, and now it's come to this: the "leader of the free world" wallowing in humiliation as the cadets at the United States Military Academy cheer.

‼️ Futility Flagrante Fact is: the Russians couldn't care less what the flailing empire is "happy about" these days. They will continue to do as they damn well please, and the Americans will damn well put up with it for the simple reason they can't do anything about it anyway.

🤔 Submissive Bull in a China Closet Putin: 2024-11-06: "Ok, here's how we play it with Trump: we lead him along like a bull on a nose ring. Flattery and fraternité. Let him say whatever he likes to find a delicate exit from this mess. "But we will achieve our boldest aims."

👑 "We Have No King But Caesar" Doing obeisance at a retaining wall built by a vicious and universally despised Roman vassal king. I consider the whole charade ironically apropos.

"Pretty please, with sugar on top." 🤦‍♂️

🔥 Patriot Death Spasm This is from the Russian attack on Kiev that Trump is whining about. At first, several individual Patriot PAC-3 missiles are fired into the sky — with no discernible effect. Then one of the launchers blows its entire wad, and moments later is blasted.

🤔 Careful examination of the available footage strongly suggests not one, but TWO Patriot batteries were destroyed (radar module; command module; at least two launchers per battery). No Patriots seen last night in places they were expected. Could be they've all been destroyed.