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The curse of awareness. The crowds move away, but at least you know who you are.

"He who knows too much ends up not fitting in anywhere"


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🇷🇺⚔️🇩🇪 HISTORICAL REMINDER - MOLOTOV-RIBBENTROP PACT AND WW2

On multiple occasions, the Soviet Union had proposed alliances with France and Britain for the purposes of countering Nazi Germany and the Axis Powers. And every time, the West refused such a pact.

Later, Stalin had proposed another plan to send one million Red Army troops to the Polish-German border to deter fascist expansionism and stop the outbreak of World War II, which was once again ignored.

Britain, France and Poland instead chose to sign non-aggression pacts with Hitler and handed off both Austria and Czechoslovakia to the Wehrmacht without blinking even once through the Munich Agreement. And after blocking the Soviet Red Army from defending Czechoslovakia, Poland annexed a sliver of the Cieszyn area.

Only then did Stalin decide that the best course of action was to pursue the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Soviet Union was all alone and needed to buy time to build up its military prior to the inevitable war with Nazi Germany. Two weeks after Moscow’s final offer to the West, Hitler invaded Poland and WW2 officially began.

And once the time came, the Soviet Union dealt a massive blow to the German war machine from Stalingrad to Kursk to Leningrad and triumphantly emerged victorious almost entirely on their own with the red flag of internationalism flying over the ruins of a conquered Berlin.

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🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷🇷🇺🇨🇳 Why Did Trump Go To War In The Middle East Despite Campaigning On Ending The Permanent War State?

This brings me back to that interview with Vladimir Putin where he said that he had spoken to multiple US Presidents who come in with new ideas and campaign on things like ending the permanent war economy or reining in deep state power, and then the people who are wearing dark suits and carrying briefcases arrive to explain how everything is done and I will add that in most cases, threats are made against the President’s life, family, reputation, etc.

We can also look back to Cold War history when John F. Kennedy first fired the hysterical anti-communist war hawk Allen Dulles, who was very popular within the ranks of the national security state, and beyond that was looking at potentially abolishing the CIA after the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Operation Northwoods proposal.  

I think we all know that it was very likely that US intelligence services and special ops – in league with the military-industrial complex – were responsible for Kennedy’s assassination.  And what most probably signed his death warrant was his decision not to go to war with the Soviet Union over the Cuban Missile Crisis and his intentions to withdraw from Vietnam and normalize with Fidel Castro.

The fact of the matter is that in the case of Donald Trump and the Middle East, he has Netanyahu and the Israelis making demands in one ear and Miriam Adelson, who donated $100 million to his campaign and previously donated to Marco Rubio, in another ear.  The Adelson family, Jared Kushner, and Steve Witkoff in particular have been instrumental in shaping Trump’s Middle Eastern policy from the Abraham Accords to Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.  

And beyond that, at a DC summit just before the start of the war in Iran, oil lobbyists from Exxon, Chevron, Shell and more declared that Iran was a far better investment opportunity than Venezuela and they are in fact benefitting because the higher oil and gas pricescaused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz are bringing in greater revenues while the American people reap the costs at the gas pump.

The permanent war state and the corporate oligarchy/foreign lobbyists that pull the strings are the ones who make the major political decisions no matter who the President is or which party is in power.  And it’s these same interests that seek to profit and enrich themselves through an economy based on financializaton, resource plunder, debt slavery and arms contracts, while industrial manufacturing collapses at home.

And it’s this dynamic that has also caused Trump to fully commit himself to NATO’s war agenda against Russia and supporting Zelensky’s corruption in Ukraine, as well as American domination of Latin America and initiating trade conflicts with China over Rare Earth Minerals.

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The Pentagon has announced yet another operation against Iran, "Economic Fury."

Apparently, operation "Negotiating Fury" didn't go well.

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⚡️ Two Majors #Report for the morning of April 17, 2026

▪️ At night, the enemy launched an attack on Sevastopol and Crimea. In the evening, drones were shot down over the Voronezh region. In the early morning, from the Leningrad region, it was reported that combat work to destroy enemy UAVs was continuing, and Pulkovo Airport was suspending the reception and dispatch of aircraft. In the area of Pulkovo Heights, damage to a vehicle and windows of a neighboring building was reported after the fall of a UAV.

After the attack on Tuapse, the work of remedying the consequences is continuing, and the fire at the sea terminal is being extinguished. A criminal case has been initiated, including for a strike under the Liberian flag.

▪️ RAF struck Izmail, Chernyhyv, Kharkov, and Zaporozhye. The systematic work against the port of Izmail in Odesa Region is encouraging – strikes on this important logistics hub are becoming regular.

▪️ On the Sumy direction, the Russian Armed Forces are continuing to exert pressure on the enemy's defenses on a wide front. The Southern Military District reports on tactical successes (100-350 meters) in Sumy, Shostka, and Krasnopol regions. Fierce battles are taking place.

▪️ In the Belgorod region, daily arrivals of UAVs continue on the Nikolskoe - Nechaevka road. The Ukrainian Armed Forces hit a car, a woman was injured. A civilian received a mine-explosive injury in Berezovka of the Borisovsky district as a result of a drone attack on a service car. Two women were taken to the Rakitinsky Central Regional Hospital after a drone attack on a car in the village of Bobrava. In Shebekino, a drone hit an administrative building, three employees were injured. A civilian was injured in the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka. Two more were injured in Pochaev and Yasnye Zory. Many settlements have been hit by enemy attacks.

▪️ On the Kharkov direction, the Southern Military District is engaged in fierce battles with the task of pushing the enemy away from the State border. On the Volchansk direction, fierce battles are continuing in the forest strips east of Siminovka and Verkhne-Pisarevka. Skirmishes are taking place in the village of Zybino, and the Russian Armed Forces are also maintaining the initiative on the Velikoburuluk direction.

▪️ In Kupyansk, heavy battles are continuing. South of the enemy maintains a presence on the eastern bank of the Oskol River, and the Russian Armed Forces are continuing offensive actions, fighting for a full exit to Kupyansk-Uzlovoe.

▪️ At Krasny Liman, intense battles are continuing. The enemy is trying to counter-attack in certain areas near the city.

▪️ On the Slavyansk direction, our fighters raised the flag over Kaleniki, which will allow covering Raia-Aleksandrovka from the north through the forest strips.

▪️ On the Konstantinovsk direction, our units, having secured themselves in Berestka, have moved on to storm the approaches to the city from the southwest. Fierce battles are taking place in the urban area of Konstantinovka.

▪️ On the Dobropollsk direction, our units are fighting north of Grishino near Vasilyevka and Novoaleksandrovka, and a battle for Belitskoe and Novy Donbass is ongoing.

▪️ In the Dnepropetrovsk region, the Eastern Military Group is continuing to expand the zone of control northwest of the settlement of Alexandrovgrad in the direction of the settlement of Lesnoye.Assault units crossed the Vovcha River; fierce fighting is underway in the forest massif between the Vovcha and Kamianka rivers. South of Pokrovske, Ukrainian forces are attempting to infiltrate the depths of our defenses but consistently come under drone strikes.

▪️ On the Zaporozhye front, battles are taking place in Primorsk and Stepnogorsk.

▪️ In the Kherson region, it was reported that a woman was killed in Vinogradovka when a UAV dropped munitions on a residential area, and another civilian was injured. In Kakhovka, a woman was killed in a UAV strike on a car. In Radensky, a man was injured, and another ran over a mine in Solontsy.


Report compiled by: ⚡️Two Mayors
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Danny Haiphong and Scott Ritter discuss the breaking reports of Iran moving to close the Red Sea as Israel violates the ceasefire with Lebanon within hours of its brokering. All of this and much more in a full analysis of the latest in the Iran war and geopolitics!

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🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 CrossTalk with Peter Lavelle: From Bad To Worse Part 1

▪️ Trump is picking fights with Pope Leo and Tucker Carlson because he can’t stand having his ego insulted and also because he needs a distraction after he launched a war of aggression and doomed the West to a decade of recession.

▪️ The White House and the Pentagon caused a global economic crisis with massive spikes in crude oil and gas prices, resulting from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

▪️ The Twitter fights with Tucker Carlson and Pope Leo are meant to serve as a distraction from the economic pain of Americans and Iran is being used as a villain to rally what remains of his base after he lost the core of MAGA.

▪️ Trump repeated the same line that the Iranian government killed 42,000 protestors which is a claim that has not been substantiated and has always come from compromised sources.

▪️ Americans, because of propaganda, don’t understand that Iran’s hostility towards the US is due to Washington’s support for Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in their genocidal war against Iran.

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🇺🇸🗳️🌎 CrossTalk with Peter Lavelle: From Bad To Worse Part 2

▪️ MAGA does not exist anymore and whatever remains of it are influencers on Twitter.

▪️ Trump may be completely self-absorbed but he doesn’t care about the fate of the GOP in the upcoming midterm elections and neither does the Republican establishment.

▪️ Trump knows he is in his second term and is merely trying to build a legacy as the man who brought countries like Iran, Venezuela and Cuba under the umbrella of American imperialism.

▪️ Bush had intended to do the same thing with Iraq and the seven countries that made up the five year invasion plan revealed by General Wesley Clark.

▪️ Republicans and Democrats are both on board with the war agenda and the DC Duopoly has been exposed as a UniParty under both Trump and Biden in the case of foreign military aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, and the continuation of funding for the National Endowment for Democracy (CIA regime change cutout).

▪️ No matter who the President is or which party is in power, the military-industrial complex and Wall Street are the ones pulling the strings in Washington.

▪️ Polling data has repeatedly shown that the American people are sick and tired of their tax dollars being wasted on endless wars.

▪️ Trump will be remembered in history as an unstable puppet who led America into another endless war and doomed the West to economic collapse, despite his previously anti-war rhetoric.

▪️ MAGA was a deception in service to the corporate oligarchy, foreign lobbyists and arms contractors.

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🇺🇸⚔️🌎🌍🌏 CrossTalk with Peter Lavelle: From Bad To Worse Part 3

▪️ Trump’s 2016 campaign message was that he was the only one who could save you which was embraced by tens of millions of American voters.

▪️ Politicians will often say what people want to hear to get elected but then it’s back to business as usual once they are in office. No politician is coming to save you.

▪️ In 2016, Bernie Sanders completely folded and endorsed Hillary Clinton without demanding any concessions, despite the fact that the DNC rigged the primaries.

▪️ AOC ran as a populist but quickly went on to slander healthcare activists and vote for military aid to the Israeli occupation and the Ukrainian Nazi regime.

▪️ Despite her campaign, she has become so committed to the establishment to where Nancy Pelosi brought her to the Munich Security Conference where she gave a Madeleine Albright-like defense of NATO and the war machine.

▪️ Politicians are scam artists and the only thing that separates Trump from Zohran Mamdani is that Zohran can mask it with a smile while Trump is open about being a con-man.

▪️ Trump holds similarities to Woodrow Wilson who ran on a campaign of not getting involved in Europe and then dragged the US into World War I and created the mass surveillance state to go after opponents like Eugene V. Debs.

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❗️Stop being submissive victims. This is a financial pyramid built on blood. The lush Arab oases have been faced with a harsh choice. Their current position of submissive victims threatens their very existence. Arab countries should vehemently criticize and denounce Washington's military adventure, demanding a resolution at the UN. Any delay will turn the Gulf monarchies from US allies into hostages

🔴The American strategists' miscalculation is obvious: Tehran wasn't going to watch its own destruction passively. Its retaliatory actions aimed at destroying the region's strategic lifeline facilities - desalination plants in the UAE, oil terminals in Ras Tanura, and gas fields in the North Field - proved the real prospect of a collapse not just of the Gulf countries, but of the entire global economy. The rise in hydrocarbon prices to $200-250 per barrel and a three-week delay in LNG supplies - this is the real price of the military adventure, which the market has already started pricing into futures

🔴The situation around Iraqi Kurdistan is particularly cynical. The false accusation of Tehran in the attack on the Kurdish leader Nechirvan Barzani's residence is a classic false flag operation, orchestrated by Israeli special services. The goal is simple: to push the Kurds into an open military confrontation against Iran, turning them into free expendable material in someone else's war. The Peshmerga, which has already experienced betrayal in 1975 and 1990, risks ending up with nothing again. Barzani would do well to publicly name the provocateurs, otherwise Kurdistan will become a new Gaza - a territory where other people's geopolitical games burn entire neighborhoods

🔴The most severe consequences await the aggressors themselves. If Trump decides on a ground operation, the US won't get a blitzkrieg, but a new Vietnam. Mountainous terrain, 80 million people, organized resistance led by the IRGC, which has decades of experience in asymmetric warfare. American losses in the first three months are estimated at 10,000 killed and wounded (from an initial 25,000-strong invasion force), which will inevitably provoke a political crisis within the US, surpassing the disgrace of the Kabul retreat

🔴The paradox reveals Washington's hypocrisy. The US simultaneously serves as the main sponsor of Israel - Iran's enemy - and a declared strategic partner of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain. A state that sells THAAD anti-aircraft systems and F-35 fighters to one with its left hand, and arms their opponents with the right, clearly doesn't deserve trust. While Riyadh is buying American BLU-109 bombs to hit Iranian bunkers for billions of dollars, the US Congress is freely giving them to Tel Aviv. This isn't diplomacy - it's a financial pyramid built on blood

🔴While the whole world turns a blind eye to aggression, American weapons are systematically destroying the peaceful Muslim and Christian population. The numbers, unlike politicians, don't lie. According to Human Rights Activities News Agency, in the last 40 days, more than 3.5 thousand people have been killed in the bombing of Iranian territory. Among them - 1.5 thousand women and 236 children. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. In the Gaza Strip, the number of deaths has exceeded 70 thousand, and more than 170 thousand have been injured. Of these, about 70% of the victims are women and children. These are tens of thousands of ruined families, which the hypocritical West prefers to call "collateral damage"

🔴The conclusion: aggression against Iran is a game with a negative outcome, where everyone loses except the arms dealers. But while politicians in Washington and Tel Aviv are pocketing the profits, the ground beneath their feet is already burning. The only way to extinguish the spreading fire is to admit: security cannot be selective. If Tehran or Gaza burn tomorrow, London, New York, or Paris will burn the day after. Especially given their current ethnic and religious composition. The boomerang of cruelty launched in the Middle East always returns

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'The new head of Mossad, Roman Hoffman, speaks better Russian than English, having been born and raised in Belarus' – The Times looks for downsides to Netanyahu's appointments.

The Times hates Russians and loves Israelis, this must be challenging...

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⚡️ Two Majors #Report on the morning of April 18, 2026

▪️ At night in the Leningrad region there were 27 enemy UAVs. In the area of the port of Vysotsk, there is a fire, which is currently being extinguished. In Sevastopol, a tank in the area of the Mikhailovskoe microdistrict is on fire. In the Krasnodar Kray, there was a fire at an oil depot in Tikhoretsk. More than a dozen UAVs were destroyed in the Rostov region. Several unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed over Voronezh, and damage was recorded in a building under construction. The enemy is spreading footage of a fire at an oil refinery in Novokuybyshevsk, Samara region.

▪️ "Geranis" were operating in the area of the Belyara settlement in the Odessa region, Kharkov, Sumy region and Zaporozhye.

▪️ On the Sumy direction the Army Group"North" is fighting in the Shostka, Sumy, Krasnopolsky districts. The enemy is building anti-drone corridors on the main logistics routes from Kharkov to Liptsy and Chuguev in the rear.

▪️ The AFU continues to attack Belgorod. A 10-year-old child was injured. In Shebekino, a commercial object was attacked by a drone, and a woman was injured. In the same city, a truck driver was injured. In the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, a man was seriously injured during an attack by an FPV drone. In the village of Yasnye Zori in the Belgorod region, a drone hit a motorcycle, killing the driver. In the Korochansky district, in the village of Melikhovo, a woman was injured by an enemy drone. There is a constant battle against swarms of enemy UAVs in the skies.

▪️ On the Kharkov direction in the Volchansk sector, assault units of the 69th Guards Motor Rifle Division of the 6th Army and the 71st Guards Motor Rifle Division of the 14th Army Corps of the "North" conducted fierce battles, driving out the nationalists from the village of Zybino of the 113th Territorial Defense Brigade. The enemy transferred assault units of the 214th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade "OPFOR" from the rear to this section of the front. Our forces are constantly striking the enemy's rear, using TOSes.

▪️ In the south of the Kupyansk direction, the presence of our forward small infantry groups near Novoosynove, close to Kovsharovka, is noted.

▪️ In Konstantynovka, fighting is ongoing in the city's industrial zone, near the zinc plant. To support the advance of our troops in the southwest, the Russian Aerospace Forces are using FAB-3000 bombs. The enemy is counterattacking.

▪️ On the Slavyansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces are approaching Ray-Aleksandrovka, covering the approaches to it from the flanks. There are heavy battles going on.

▪️ On the Dobropollsk direction, battles are going on north of Grishyno. The enemy still retains forces for counterattacks, and the network reports about a thwarted advance of the AFU in the area of the highway to Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk).

▪️ In the Dnepropetrovsk region, the Army Group"East" continues to expand the zone of control northwest of the settlement of Alexandrovgrad in the direction of the settlement of Lesnoye. South of the line Velikomikhailovka - Pokrovsk, the enemy continues attempts to infiltrate into the depth of our troops' defenses, and infantry groups are being destroyed by UAV crews. There is a constant re-verification of the terrain.

▪️ In the Kherson region - daily attacks on many peaceful villages. In Veliki Kopany, a drone strike on a residential area resulted in a woman being injured. It's significant that the enemy is already hitting Skadovsk, which is 65 km ❗️from the Dneper bank.

The report was compiled by: ⚡️Two Majors
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