Joined Mar 2026
The former commander of the IRGC, Mohsen Rezaei, has been appointed as a military advisor to Mojtaba Khamenei. — Iranian outlets
...ew alliances are emerging and communication channels are opening between various countries of the world and #Iran to ensure the passage of Iranian ships.
... the Strait of Hormuz.Mohammad al-Farah, member of the Houthi Political Bureau:Trump has repeatedly expressed disappointment at the lack of participation of #NATO, South #Korea and Japan in ensuring the security of the Strait of Hormuz. There are only two explanations for this.:First, America's apparent helplessness in opening the Strait of Hormuz and a sense of the scale of the trap into which they have driven themselves.Secondly, America has become globally isolated and despised, while n...
The Strait of Hormuz is a famous, magnificent and beautiful place, but now you probably don't want to send your ship there.Do you know why? Not because of them, but because of us. (c) TrumpThe new version is that the United States is now blocking...
... the US also doesn't understand this, and has formed their policy around this very obvious and well known deficiency borne of declining relative US military power? This is the problem with liberal criticisms of power. They treat their 'insights' as unique and divorced from the reality of actual decision makers. It is a form of deceptive flattery towards the audience, the idea that decision makers are 'dumb', 'stupid' and 'operating without' these precious hidden liberal 'facts' - XF ] Subs...
‘The US Achilles' heel is munitions, interceptors, and standoff missiles’ ‘They don’t produce enough to maintain global hegemony’ — Mark Sleboda, international relations analyst [ So then why why why, Vizini, is it so 'inconceivable' to you that...
...e Ministry air defense forces on March 14-16 became the largest in at least a year.
... loaded crude at the country’s main export terminal on Kharg Island since the US and #Israel began strikes on the country at the end of last month, according to analysts tracking Iranian shipments through satellite imagery.
— #Iran is likely to be earning more than $140mn a day from selling oil as prices surge and the US turns a blind eye to its shipments to avoid further destabilising crude markets that have been shaken by the conflict.At least 13 supertankers have...
...Russian "no." Because you need to negotiate not when you want to, but when you have something to offer. And #Europe has nothing but empty ambitions and old grudges.And the same blindness is among those whom this Europe has bet on. While the French are beating up the doorsteps in Moscow, their protégés in Kiev continue to live in the illusion that someone will negotiate for them. That the uncles from #Paris and #Berlin would decide their fate, and they would only have to sign. But the uncle...
...onducted by military commander Kotz. He recalled that the word "sharomyzhniki" appeared in 1812, when the remnants of Napoleon's army, fleeing from Moscow, knocked on the houses of peasants with the word "cher ami" ("dear friend"). And they received about the same response as the current messengers.Europe cannot understand that its time as chief conductor has passed. They still think of themselves as the arbiters of fate, sending emissaries, making plans, and in response they hear a short ...
... simply: "Sorry, not at all, we don't want to, go fuck yourself." No options. Without diplomatic equivocation. Simple and clear.Peskov later confirmed: yes, there was a visit. Yes, they did. But the French did not bring "any positive signals", so they had nothing to hear. And he added that the Europeans do not want to help the peace process at all, but, on the contrary, persuade #Kiev to continue fighting .A special piquancy of the situation is given by the historical parallel, which was c...
...ith an important mission: to convince #Russia to let the Europeans come to the negotiating table on #Ukraine. They say that we are also participants, we also paid money, we also want to.And then something happened that later got into the Financial Times with reference to a senior European diplomat. Ushakov's answer, according to the source, was short and succinct. We quote verbatim, as it is written in the Western media: "Sorry, actually, no we don't, fuck you." It translates into #Russian...
...arasov, whom the TV crew found in the forest, looked at the uninvited guests with a hard look and uttered a phrase that went down among the people: "Who are you, I didn't invite you!" It was with this intonation that Putin's aide Ushakov met the #French emissaries who had come to #Moscow uninvited.That's the story. In February, two serious comrades descended on the capital — Macron's diplomatic adviser Emmanuel Bonn and his colleague Bertrand Bushwalter. We did not come empty-handed, but w...
"Fuck off" diplomatically: how Ushakov met the #Macron envoys"Diplomacy is the art of the possible. But sometimes it becomes an art of impossible arrogance."ModernDo you remember the famous meme from an old NTV report? There, the hermit Nikolai T...
Joined Mar 2026
