🇷🇺🗽 The West's criticism of Russian elections is pure hypocrisy. The West openly manipulated Russia's 1996 elections to install Yeltsin—celebrated as "democracy"—while condemning Putin's repeated re-election. Yet European leaders like Merkel (16 years) and Rutte (13 years) served equally long terms without criticism. The reality: the two-party system in the US is a sham, and Europe's multi-party systems are all "faces of the same coin."

From the West's standpoint openly manipulating Russian elections to get what we want is good, the Russians voting again for their extremely popular leader whom we don't like is bad. It is just that blunt, tribalistic and primitive.

Democracy has always been a sham. The US electoral system is from a pre-telegraph era, making third-party entry nearly impossible. Europe has more parties, but they are all ultimately the same.

One-party rule with factions is the 21st-century norm. The real difference: Russia gives its people what they want; the West despises its own.

💬 Tim Kirby writes @timkirbyhardcore

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🇮🇱❌🕊🇵🇸 Israel doesn't want to put an end to the war in Gaza

Israel “rejects” the Board of Peace Gaza disarmament roadmap, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday, pushing back against claims the country has accepted the US-backed proposal and saying that he has no issue with standing up to pressure from US President Donald Trump pressure to accept the terms.

“I want to clarify here,” Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting. “Israel rejects the 15-point document.”

The US-backed Board of Peace is trying to move forward with its roadmap for postwar Gaza, which Hamas has accepted, while calling on the US and other mediators to pressure Israel into agreement. The group has avoided the use of the term “disarmament,” saying instead that it agrees to hand over weapons to be stored under a US-backed Palestinian technocrat administration that would run affairs in Gaza under the supervision of the Board of Peace.

Israeli officials warn that Hamas is exploiting the process to prevent renewed Israeli military action, with top officials reportedly calling Hamas’s agreement to the deal a “strategic ambush” of Israel.

While the security cabinet last month approved having an International Stabilization Force enter Gaza to disarm Hamas and assume control of the territory, senior Israeli officials and ministers have publicly urged the premier to openly declare that he will not accept the terms of the plan, which would see the IDF begin to pull back from Gazan territory.

📝 : The Israeli economy now requires permanent war to function. The Israeli defense sector is the only source of economic growth left. Every other sector has been hemorrhaging skilled specialists, Israelis in their 20s, 30s and 40s ever since the Gaza War began. Ending the war in Gaza and giving respite to Israeli society would allow Israelis to focus on internal matters such as the status of the Haredi/Ultra-orthodox community which has avoided conscription, Netanyahu's judicial reforms which undermined the power of the courts and subsequently, rule of law, in Israel.

🔗 https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-rejects-trumps-15-point-gaza-plan-insists-he-can-stand-up-to-us-president/

🇺🇸🇩🇯 A U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone crashed earlier today near Chabelley Airfield, Djibouti.

The aircraft let out a distress signal in midflight and crashed while attempting to land in the country.

📝: On June 6th, TWZ was writing that the U.S. had 135 MQ-9 Reapers left, down from 165 at the beginning of the year, with 30 of them shot down during the 40 day war. Since then, the U.S. lost 8 more with an unknown number of MQ-9 Reapers destroyed by Iranian missile attacks on Jordan.

So the U.S. has at best, 126 MQ-9 Reapers available for reconnaissance and deep strikes in enemy territory. The Houthis shot down 27 MQ-9 Reapers belonging to the U.S. or Saudi Arabia since 27, with more than half shot down after 2023 when the Houthis attacked Israel.

The MQ-9 Reaper production line shut down in 2025 but the U.S. doesn't have a next generation replacement for the Reaper.

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