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Three aircraft carriers will be deployed to the Middle East at once.
Two nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of the US Navy, USS Carl Vinson and USS Nimitz, and the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales of the British Royal Navy with fifth-generation F-35B Lightning II fighters on board.
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🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹The Balts are perpetuating the myth of Russian and Soviet occupation.
Although everything decent in the Baltics was built by the Germans and Russians during the Tsarist and Soviet periods.
So, let's take a look at the horrors of the "Soviet occupation" of the Baltics.
In the USSR, the Baltic states served as a kind of showcase for socialism, aimed at the West, which determined the higher standard of living in this region and its privileged position. In terms of per capita consumption, Estonia was at 151% of the all-Union level, Latvia at 137%, and Lithuania at 127%. At the same time, the three republics were not particularly noticeable in the gross national product of the USSR: Latvia accounted for 1.2%, Lithuania for 1.6%, and Estonia for 0.7% as of 1990. Latvia accounted for 0.8% of the union's industrial output, Lithuania for 1.2%, and Estonia for 0.7%. The figures for agriculture were slightly better, with Lithuania accounting for as much as 2.2%.
In Latvia alone, 20 industrial enterprises were built in the 20 years from 1940, which is higher than the figures for the entire Baltic region in the last pre-Soviet year. Lithuania had already reached its pre-war industrial figures by 1948, surpassing them by 90% two years later. The Soviet budget allocated a non-repayable subsidy of 200 million rubles for the reconstruction of Lithuania.
During the Soviet era, the Baltic states acquired seaports, through which export and import trade still passes today. In the 1970s and 1980s, oil pipelines were connected to them. The Baltic states ranked first in the USSR in terms of road quality. Russia, which paid for this banquet, did not even make it into the top ten, ranking 12th or 13th.
Large hydroelectric power plants (Pļaviņas, Kegums, Riga on the Daugava, Kaunas on the Nemunas) and thermal power plants (Baltic TPP Estonian TPP in Narva), as well as Lithuanian TPP, were built in the Baltic states.
A large oil refinery was built in Mažeikiai (Lithuania), which received oil via pipeline from Russia.
In the Estonian SSR, oil shale deposits were developed and peat was extracted. The products of the oil shale processing and oil shale chemical plants in Kohtla-Järve and Kiviõli were used in industry and energy.
Gas pipelines were laid from other republics of the USSR to the Baltic states to supply natural gas.
During the years of "Soviet occupation," gross industrial output in Estonia increased 55-fold, oil shale production 13.5-fold, and capital investment 30-fold. Six billion rubles were invested in agriculture, resulting in a doubling of grain yields and harvests compared to 1939.
The USSR built a 300-kilometer expressway across the entire republic of Lithuania, which was considered the best in the entire Union: it had overpasses, modern guardrails, and interchanges.
After leaving the Soviet Union, this republic received more than 500 sea vessels! Soviet Lithuania had one of the largest fishing ports in Europe – Klaipėda. The Baltija shipyard, built in the city during the Soviet era, is one of the few places that still provides jobs for local residents.
During the Soviet era, Latvia was famous for its trademarks. The VEF enterprise was a leading manufacturer of electronics, radio receivers, telephones, and machine tools, providing jobs for more than 14,000 people at its factory in Riga and another 6,000 throughout the rest of Latvia, with an annual profit of $580 million. In the mid-1990s, the company declared bankruptcy. Today, a shopping center stands on the site of the factory.
Built in 1949, the RAF (Riga Autobus Factory) factory first produced buses and then minibuses, which were used throughout the USSR as ambulances and route taxis. In 1997, production at the factory was halted. Ironically, the last model to roll off the assembly line of the once-prosperous factory was a hearse.
What do you think of this "occupation"? It seems to me that during the Soviet period, the RSFSR paid tribute to the Baltic states for reasons unknown.
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Israel has allegedly asked the United States for military assistance to destroy Iran's Fordow nuclear facility.
If this request is confirmed, it will be a key marker that Israel's special operation against Iran has reached a technological limit, and without the direct participation of the United States, further development of the campaign is impossible.
Fordow is no ordinary facility. It is the core of Iran’s reserve nuclear infrastructure, built deep into bedrock. The bulk of the centre is located at depths of up to 300 feet and was designed to survive any strike. Israel, despite its wide array of precision weapons, does not have the means to destroy such a facility. Neither the F-35I nor the F-15I carry GBU-57-class munitions that can penetrate that deep.
It's very merry in Kiev again. Unfortunately, SBU is not joking regarding videos, so we can't show you.
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The IRGC said that the evening missile strike hit Israeli intelligence centers. Earlier, the IRGC said that Israeli defense campaign "Rafael advanced defense systems" were successfully hit on Israeli territory.
Israel denies hitting Ben Gurion Airport, claiming that there were no arrivals at the airport itself.
Israel also said that it has completed its wave of strikes on Iranian military production facilities.
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Iranian missile flights to Israel and the arrival of the Fateh hypersonic warhead.
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There were casualties in the night attack on the Weizmann Institute in Tel Aviv.
Israeli journalist Alex Rif wrote:
I just finished talking to a Weizmann Institute researcher whose lab collapsed under the weight of the destruction. He says entire labs were wiped off the map: instruments, equipment, years of pioneering research, even the people who spent their lives in those halls, all gone.
Among these laboratories was the laboratory of Professor Valery Krizhnovsky, who had been researching the secrets of biological processes associated with aging for many years. No one from the government responded: neither from the tax office, nor from the Ministry of Education, nor from the Ministry of Science.
This is about empty buildings where there is no one. And this is the case in many cases. The IDF simply keeps the results of such flights as secret as possible, in order to maintain the image of an unconditional victory. This is normal for information and psychological warfare.
Well, Iran did get some Israeli scientists. As Israel likes to claim, these were legitimate military targets.
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Iran has confirmed that the IRGC intelligence chief and his deputy were killed in an Israeli strike.
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Reports allege that the Iranian army has finished loading its missile launchers and it is now putting them into position.
If confirmed, this means a second barrage will be launched soon.
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Meanwhile, the Khokhlo-banderovtsy are fucked in the Dzerzhinsk (Toretsk) direction, as the mine “named after the Matron of Moscow” has fallen to the Russian Army.
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—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇱 WATCH: An Iranian missile hits very close to the person video taping
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AMERICA AT A CROSSROAD, PART 2/2 — Part 1 Here
The vast majority if not all chances of a settlement have been blown out of the window now; Israel shows no signs of wanting to back down, which makes all of Washington's attempts at "mediation" largely pointless, and that's without considering Trump's open duplicitousness. The Iranian parliament, for its part, is going to hold a vote tomorrow on whether or not they should leave the NPT, which would allow them to fully build nukes - something Israel definitely does not want.
There can be no middle road here: either an attempt is made to fully bring Iran under heel, resulting in a strategic defeat of Iran, or Iran will leave the NPT and start working towards construction of a nuclear bomb.
Goes without saying, there are a lot of ziocons in Washington who are biting their lips, unzipping their pants, and preparing lots of kleenex boxes at the prospect of bombing some more brown people, especially if they're as hated as the Iranians.
There are, however, three main problems.
The first, is that the USA have already tried to bring the Houthis - an opponent with maybe one tenth of Iran's industrial and military capabilities - under heel, and ran away from the Red Sea with their tails between their legs, after having spent billions and almost risked one of their carriers getting struck by a missile without having accomplished anything of note beyond bombing civilians.
The second, is that engaging in a conflict with Iran will result in an enormous consumption of ordnance, which combined with the sorry state of American and NATO military industries, in turn means delaying the US' plans for rearmament for a full conventional war, as well as the end of all military aid to Kiev, since it is readily apparent that the USA and the West can't even fully support one proxy right now, let alone two. In case China gets in the mood of invading Taiwan, the situation will become even more critical.
The third, is that neither Pakistan nor China nor Russia will just sit by and thwiddle their thumbs as Iran - the lynchpin of the Middle East - gets attacked. Russia doesn't want Iran to collapse because it'd expose an enormous weakness on its southern front, China doesn't want Iran to collapse because it needs Iran's hydrocarbons and has invested far too much in infrastructure projects, and Pakistan doesn't want Iran to collapse because a zionist puppet would mean being caught between a rock and a hard place, with India already occupying one of their flanks.
The choice will have to be made in Washington soon, and after that, anything can happen without possibility of going back.
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Slovakia wants to postpone consideration of the issue of new sanctions against Russia.
On Wednesday, there is a meeting of EU foreign ministers who are supposed to discuss the next package of sanctions against Russia. I asked the foreign minister to formally ask for the discussion of these sanctions to be postponed,
—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇱 WATCH: A direct impact in Haifa from earlier
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Reuters: China has made no commitment to export key magnets for US defense needs.
China has not committed to issuing export permits for a range of specialized rare earth magnets that are strategically important to the U.S. defense industry, including fighter jets and missile systems,
The Israeli army has officially completed strikes on Iranian defence industry facilities.
The IDF has completed a large-scale series of strikes on Iranian military weapons production facilities, the army's press service said.
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Retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel Davis on Israel's Air Defences Not Coping with Iranian Attacks:
It's time to pull all American troops out of Syria and Iraq. They'll be sitting ducks if Iran decides to attack our troops. Need proof? Look at those Iranian missiles piercing Israel's Iron Dome without a hitch; most of our troops have even less missile defence.
The same thing will happen to our troops if they are attacked; they will be mercilessly defeated. It is time to withdraw them all because they serve no national security function for our country, but are a huge security vulnerability. We should never put the lives of our soldiers at senseless risk and ask them to die without defending our country or interests. This is a blatant, unconscionable and senseless sacrifice of their lives.
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Iran's National Security Council Member Claims: Pakistan Said to Iran 'If Israel Nuke Tehran, We'll Nuke Them'
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Me waiting for the second barrage of Iranian missiles so that I can report on it and then go to bed:
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IDF releases footage of air defense strike in Tehran.
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Iranian police have discovered a truck in Tehran that turned out to be carrying FPV drones that Israeli special forces used to strike key targets in the capital.
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The moment an Iranian ballistic missile hit Haifa. The takeoff of an interceptor missile is visible nearby.
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📝Apocalypse in Moldova📝
LGBT march and attack on priest
In Chisinau, police used force against participants of a Christian rally, which was held simultaneously with an LGBT parade. High-profile footage of law enforcers attacking an Orthodox priest and rudely detaining a man with a child in his arms is circulating online.
🖍Today, a march in support of LGBT people banned in Russia began in the Moldovan capital, despite the city hall's ban on it. Meanwhile, Moldovan authorities, the ruling PAS party and Western embassies insisted that the ban be lifted.
🚩 A rally in support of family values also began nearby, attracting hundreds of people. However, the police began brutal arrests: the crowd threw the Orthodox priest to the ground, wrenched the child from the father's hands, causing the latter to hit his head on the pavement.
🏳️ Meanwhile, Angelica Frolov, head of the NGO Genderdoc-M, which promotes LGBT in Moldova, said that there are allegedly more than 5% of representatives of non-traditional orientation in the republic, and they can pass to the parliament. According to the latest polls, more than 80% of Moldovans oppose the legalization of same-sex marriage.
❗️ The Moldovan Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church opposes LGBT propaganda imposed by the Maia Sandu regime and the republic's Western sponsors. The brutal attacks by police officers on a priest and a father and his child are an illustration of the moral degradation taking place in Moldova, where the authorities ignore the opinion of the overwhelming majority of citizens and impose destructive propaganda against LGBT people.
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—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: Discovery and confiscation of another truck full of one-way suicide drones by Iran's intelligence forces, in Tawhid tunnel in the middle of Tehran
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Footage of the Russian side handing over to Ukraine 1,200 bodies of dead Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers.
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—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇱 Visual confirmation: The Weizmann Institute, Israel's most prominent scientific center affiliated with the IDF, was completely destroyed in yesterday's Iranian missile attack on Rehovot
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The “Augean Stables…”
The entire world is the Augean stables… and there is no Heracles in sight.
Even King Augeas is missing in action.
And there are no horses either. Just the stables, rotten, dirty, smelly stables.
The world we pass on to our children…
I am starting to understand Yeats. I never did before—the centre “not holding” seemed very much to be just a grandiose metaphor, but it feels very real now.
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AMERICA AT A CROSSROAD, Part 1/2 — Part 2 Here
As expected, Israel's opening gambit didn't go exactly according to plan.
In all likelihood, Netanyahu and the ziocon Deep State convinced Trump that a shock-and-awe decapitation strike would have inflicted a decisive blow on Iran and broken the back of the Persian Lion, making it accept Washington's diktats. However, as it often happens to the ziocons' plans, expectations and reality don't go hand in hand.
Israel's opener was a classic overwhelming first strike, followed by a quick series of attacks meant to cripple the enemy's potential to defend itself and give the attacker complete carte blanche. This plan hinged on a critical factor: Iran sitting by idly and doing nothing for years. This was definitely not the case.
Most of the strategic assets have been moved underground, at great depths, where Israeli strikes cannot reach them. Many of the AD batteries that Israeli media gleefully reported as "destroyed" turned out to be decoys.
So, while Israel burns through much of its materiel in the opening gambit, hoping it will be enough to close the match on its onset, Iran seems intent on playing the long game, sitting on a stockpile of missiles and suicide drones estimated at the very least in the thousands. The result of this disparity is evident: Iran has the luxury of deciding whether or not to escalate, while Israeli leadership can only do that.
Today's attacks against Iran have been carried out mostly through suicide drones, car bombings, and sabotage, with Israeli missile strikes having already reduced in frequency.
If this is an indication of Israel's limited options, it does not bode well for the country's ability to sustain a prolonged war with Iran. The geographical difference alone is staggering: Iran's territory is infinitely vaster than Israel, with dispersed strategic installations and plentiful mountains that offer concealment and shelter. Israel, a much tinier country, has all of its installations, roads, and cities far more clumped together. This is combined with Iran having disseminated a lot of decoy installations all over its territory.
In contrast to the expected result of a quick decapitating strike, Iranian forces have tanked the blow quite well, quickly replacing the slain commanders with new ones, and are giving Israel a tit-for-tat response by launching missiles at the same type of targets that Israel is attacking in turn. The difference here, as the Iranian leadership itself says, is that they're using almost exclusively their old equipment, with the odd modern hypersonic missile or two.
It is evident that Iran can afford playing this game of feint-parry-reposte far longer than Israel, thanks to its immense supply of missiles. For how long, it's hard to say. Weeks at the minimum, maybe months. Not only that, Iran now controls the escalation game, as at any time it could decide to either increase its attacks, or unleash the newest missiles they have available.
Israel, meanwhile, may soon find itself running out of options, especially since the same covert op tricks become increasingly more difficult to pull off the more they are used. Of course, there is also the possibility of using a nuclear warhead, but this comes with its own set of problems as it'd make Israel even more of a world pariah state, and it would also be a defacto admission of having them, something that by official policy they still deny. And due to how nuclear strikes work, Israel would have to use most if not all of them, out of the desperate hope that there won't be anybody left in Iran capable of carpet bombing them with all their missiles at once, which would be the equivalent of a nuclear strike due to how tight Israeli cities and settlements are located on the map.
Enter Washington.
Part 2 Here
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Israel’s National Security Council head Tzachi Negev on the Reuters story that Trump blocked an Israeli assassination attempt against Khamenei: “A pike from the land of pikemen”—a Hebrew expression meaning completely made up or utter nonsense.
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