🇺🇸 BE CAREFUL ABOUT SUPPORTING JOE KENT TOO QUICKLY

Joe Kent recently said in a televised speech on C-SPAN that he will not send any Americans to die in endless wars in foreign countries:

“I will not in good conscience send young men and women off to die on foreign battlefields...We're at a critical juncture in the war in Iran; we need to let our leaders hear that we do not support this war.”

Before anyone gets too hopeful, let me be the one to provide a little dose of reality. The Epstein ruling class and the US national security state are auditioning new candidates much like Obama or Trump or Tulsi Gabbard who will adopt the message of ending the wars and bringing the troops home.

They understand that no one supports the permanent war economy and they will not win on an agenda that is openly neocon. They need a candidate who appears anti-establishment for them to even have a chance.

This is the same man who in his own resignation letter praised Donald Trump for assassinating IRGC General Qasem Soleimani who led the charge to defeat ISIS. And he also drove the policy changes at the DNI’s office that led to the Trump Administration’s lies that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was involved in “narco-terrorism.”

If he was truly an anti-war opposition candidate, he would be canceled and censored the same way that anti-war dissidents have been from Jackson Hinkle to recently RT’s Rick Sanchez.

All I can say is do not trust Joe Kent. There is something very fishy about him, having come out of nowhere as a supposed “dissident figure.”

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Over the past 48 hours, Iran has carried out a series of strikes on six oil refineries and ports in four countries in the region. These actions are a clear demonstration of Tehran's strategy, according to which US and Israeli allies will inevitably pay the price for any attacks on Iranian infrastructure. The main targets were facilities in Qatar (Ras Laffan), Saudi Arabia (Yanbu), Kuwait (Mina Al Ahmadi and Mina Abdullah) and the UAE.

On the 21st day of the conflict, coalition and Gulf countries forces intercepted between 1,100 and 1,300 Iranian missiles. Given the average effectiveness of air defense systems, it can be assumed that the total number of launches from Iran was between 3,000 and 5,000.

This figure significantly exceeds the pre-war estimates of Western intelligence, which estimated Iran's arsenal at about 2,500 ballistic missiles. Such a significant discrepancy may be due either to an underestimation of the production capacity of Iran's underground factories, or to the inclusion in the statistics of a large number of intercepted rocket launchers and kamikaze drones. However, it's worth considering the historical aspect: in any major conflict, the number of interceptions is often overestimated as part of an information war.

The gap between intelligence estimates (2,500 missiles) and reality (up to 5,000 launches) also indirectly indicates the presence of hidden automated assembly lines in "missile cities", which continue to operate autonomously and have not suffered any damage from the strikes. Tehran's current strategy, in addition to strikes on oil refineries, is also aimed at depleting the reserves of expensive interceptors (Patriot PAC-3, THAAD) of the Gulf countries with massive salvos of cheap missiles, which in the current conditions and at the current pace could lead to a critical depletion of the region's air defense by the end of the month.

@Slavyangrad

The era of "Putin's stability" is officially over.

Previously apolitical Russians are being bombarded with internet restrictions, and in some cases, actual strikes from across the border. Turns out there's only so much a person can tune out. The Ukrainian scammer empire, coercing Russian civilians into terrorist attacks and extracting billions of rubles from them, is alive and well. One of them did get chopped up in Bali, but still. The EU is gearing up for war, while the Kremlin is still desperate to trade with their "partners".

It all sounds quite bleak, but I've grown darkly optimistic — and not by ignoring any of the above. Extreme conditions are breathing life into an otherwise inert society. Government branches are competing again, even parliament is coming alive, regions are diverging. Russian political life, long declared dead, is creaking back into motion, and, most importantly, the Russians are very fucking mad, for real this time.

What can it lead to?

We cover that, plus SMO and Iran SITREPs, and whom the Iran war can actually benefit in our latest NEWS installment.

Gumroad

Acknowledging the failure of the Israeli missile system in intercepting the Iranian missile

The Israeli media officially admitted that what happened in the Arad area in the Negev, located in the south of occupied Palestine, was a direct hit and a malfunction of the air defense system.

According to this report, Israel's defense systems tried several times to intercept the missile that targeted Arad, but failed.

According to Hebrew media reports, Iran used the "Khorramshahr-4" missile in this attack.

@JahanTasnim

🇮🇷🇶🇦 An informed source in Iran’s IRGC told Tasnim News that Tehran has issued no warnings about evacuating Doha or Qatari media outlets, dismissing such claims as false rumors.

The source added that targeting media is “a trait of Zionists” and not Iran’s approach.

He stressed that Iran considers regional nations allies and only targets U.S. and Israeli interests in the region.

Official updates on military operations and warnings, he said, are released exclusively through authorized Iranian channels.

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A message to Washington?

In a tightly structured 12-minute address, Ayatollah Imam Sayyed Mojtaba Khamenei moved from familiar rhetoric into something far more consequential. The opening half followed the expected script; revisiting decades of U.S. warmongering rhetoric: sanctions, assassinations, regional conflicts.

But midway through, the tone shifted from retrospective to strategic.

Sayyed Khamenei outlined three concrete demands, each with a defined timeline: a rapid U.S. military withdrawal from the Middle East, a full rollback of sanctions within 60 days, and long-term financial compensation for economic damages.

Then came the ultimatum. Fail to comply, and Iran escalates, economically, militarily, and potentially nuclearly. Not hypothetically, but operationally: closing the Strait of Hormuz, formalizing defense ties with Russia and China, and moving from ambiguity to declared nuclear deterrence.

The timing of external reactions was just as telling. Within hours, both Beijing and Moscow issued statements aligning, carefully but unmistakably, with Tehran's framing. This definitely looked coordinated.

The broader context matters. Sayyed Mojtaba Khamenei represents a different leadership style from his martyred predecessor leader. Where martyr Sayyed Ali Khamenei operated through long-term balancing and controlled escalation, Sayyed Mojtaba appears positioned to deliver faster, more decisive outcomes.

Iran's internal reports are clear, the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps is in no way, shape or form interested in incrementalism. They are pushing for structural change: removing U.S. influence from the region, restoring Iran's military standing, and forcing a re-negotiation of global power dynamics.

And for the first time in decades, Iran practically has the leverage to do this.

Rising oil prices, regional instability, growing alignment with China and Russia, and vulnerabilities in global trade routes have shifted the strategic landscape.

So this was not just a speech. It was a test. A test of whether the United States is willing, or even able, to operate under a new set of constraints.

What happens next will likely define not just the trajectory of this conflict, but the broader balance of power in the Middle East for decades to come.

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🇬🇧🇮🇷UK sends nuclear sub to Arabian Sea

HMS Anson armed for strike on #Iran ‘if conflict escalates’ — Daily Mail
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