Current situation

"The destruction of eleven MQ-9 Reaper drones worth more than US$330 million (RM1.25 billion) during Operation Epic Fury is exposing the vulnerability of America’s flagship surveillance-strike UAV against Iranian air-defence networks and reshaping the strategic debate over drone warfare in contested airspace."
https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/us-mq9-reaper-drones-shot-down-iran-air-defense-operation-epic-fury/#:~:text=The%20destruction%20of%20eleven,warfare%20in%20contested%20airspace.

This war is not primarily about conquering Iran, it is about forcing the exposure of dependency, overreach, and fragility of Israel, while using Iran as the arena where that exposure becomes impossible to hide.

Reuters reported this week that the White House is meeting major defense contractors because the strikes on Iran are already drawing down U.S. stocks, and the Pentagon is discussing a roughly $50 billion supplemental to replace weapons used in recent conflicts. The public line that “we can do this forever” is simply not true.

On the other hand, Iran may actually be able to absorb more pain than the public narrative suggests. Iran’s drone-production capacity is estimated at around 10,000 per month. So the story that “Iran is about to collapse militarily” is not something I would assume.

I believe Trump is giving Israel enough backing to walk into the trap, but not enough backing to emerge sovereign from it.

That means Israel gets to escalate, burn through interceptors, rely increasingly on U.S. resupply, and reveal that its aura of invincibility ultimately depends on Washington’s industrial base, diplomatic shield, and regional cover.

If the war stretches past the point of easy victory, Netanyahu stops looking like the master of events and starts looking like the man who dragged everyone into a conflict Israel cannot finish alone.

The way I see it, the objective is not to “save Israel” at all costs, but to let the limits of its power become visible, allow Netanyahu to own the political fallout, and only then step in and shape the final settlement from a position of authority.

That settlement would amount to a regional reset in which Israel loses freedom of action, loses moral standing, loses the myth that it can dominate the region indefinitely, and is forced back inside harder limits. Not “Greater Israel,” but a smaller, constrained Israel.

So if my premise is right, the strategy is not simply to weaken Iran, the strategy is to allow Israel to walk deeper into a strategic miscalculation.

Israel believes the United States will stand behind it indefinitely, that American resupply, interceptors and munitions will continue for as long as the war lasts.

But what if that assumption is wrong?

What if Israel is being allowed to push further and further into a conflict under the impression that Washington will sustain it indefinitely… only to discover, at a critical moment, that the ceiling has been reached?

At that point the dynamic of the war changes completely.

Israel suddenly finds itself exposed in a confrontation it cannot sustain alone, and the political responsibility for that overreach lands squarely on the man who drove it: Netanyahu.

In this scenario Netanyahu gets used, not rescued.

He becomes the man who exposes the limits of the system he helped sustain for decades; a system built on covert operations, false flags, political pressure, coercion, blackmail networks, narrative control and intelligence dominance that allowed Israel to punch far above its natural weight.

If this war unfolds the way I suspect it might, then what we may be witnessing is not simply another Middle Eastern conflict, it may be the moment when Israel’s architecture of covert power finally collapses.

Trump may have set a trap and Israel may have already walked into it.

Mossad’s motto: “By way of deception, thou shalt make war.” is being used against them.

https://t.me/LauraAbolichannel

🇷🇺🇮🇷 Russia confirmed that its consulate in Isfahan was damaged in the strike, which primarily targeted the town hall.

According to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, some diplomats sustained light injuries, but no one was wounded bad enough in order to require hospitalisation.

The incident isn't expected to lead to serious consequences affecting the bilateral Russian-American ties. However, it gives the Russian state media machine another occasion to blame the West.

Traditionally, the United States and Israel attempted to avoid striking objects in Iran, where Russian citizens were present. Many speculate that there is an unofficial agreement in place to guarantee safety of Russians working inside consulates, NGOs, and nuclear facilities.

BREAKING: The FBI has warned police departments in California that Iran wants to retaliate for American attacks by launching offensive drones against the West Coast, according to an alert reviewed by ABC News.

“We recently acquired information that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United State Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the event that the US conducted strikes against Iran,” according to the alert distributed at the end of February. “We have no additional information on the timing, method, target, or perpetrators of this alleged attack.”

Read more: https://abcnews.visitlink.me/cfiaiA

@police_frequency

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Meta acquires Moltbook (🔥 Score: 155+ in 2 hours)

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🌉 Suspension bridges in bad weather can behave like this

And this is normal - the design allows for such operating conditions

So in addition to a looming shortage of fertilizer, promising badly for next harvest, farmers in Australia, one of the world's biggest food exporters, can't get hold of diesel to harvest their current crops.

Biometric ID Required for Food for 800 Million People - Digital IDs Accelerating

800 million people—roughly 10% of the world's population—now require biometric identification just to receive their monthly food rations. Fingerprints or facial scans are NOW mandatory at India's fair price shops, as digital ID systems like BritCard and the EU's Digital Wallet are being rolled out to support the technocrat's goal of a fully tokenized, blockchain-tracked food supply chains.

How do we fight this agenda? Grow your own food. Know and support your farmer/rancher. Start a victory garden today!

Substack: https://unshadowed.substack.com/p/biometric-id-required-for-food-for
Youtube: https://youtu.be/xe3aoXkQgXU
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/cEBr26q0jGhp/

BREAKING:

🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷 The US and Israel struck another girls’ school in central Iran

The airstrikes on Khomeyn, central Iran, two hours ago struck yet another girls school, the Shaghayegh Girls' School.

Ironically, at the 33 second mark of the video, graffiti sprayed on the girls school reads "Long live the Shah."

Note, there were two airstrikes within minutes, indicating a double-tap.

@Megatron_ron

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester
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Republicans are spineless and pathetic.

Let’s consider the experience of Carthage through the lens of Polybius and Innis. Polybius reports the Carthaginian constitution was “originally well contrived” with a balance of power similar to that of the Roman Republic. From where did the Carthaginians arise? What factors contributed to their downfall?

https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/ii-153-case-study-carthage-564

"For the last 60 years or so, science has been running an experiment on itself. The experimental design wasn’t great; there was no randomization and no control group. Nobody was in charge, exactly, and nobody was really taking consistent measurements. And yet it was the most massive experiment ever run, and it included every scientist on Earth.

"Most of those folks didn’t even realize they were in an experiment. Many of them, including me, weren’t born when the experiment started. If we had noticed what was going on, maybe we would have demanded a basic level of scientific rigor. Maybe nobody objected because the hypothesis seemed so obviously true: science will be better off if we have someone check every paper and reject the ones that don’t pass muster. They called it “peer review.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/experimentalhistory/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web