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Sinaloa cartel sicarios just filmed themselves on the Ukrainian front, shouting greetings home while wearing full AFU kit. Mexican officials keep insisting “it’s only Colombians.” Watch the video. These aren’t idealistic volunteers but actual cartel foot soldiers using someone else’s war and Western funding as a free advanced infantry and drone academy. While Kyiv burns through money and bodies, Sinaloa gets real combat experience in FPV drones, fiber optic guidance, and modern small unit tactics for the price of a few mercenary contracts. Colombians die for wages. Mexican criminal networks treat the front as paid training. Mexican social media is already panicking about the “veterans” coming back. Intercepted FPV shipments and fiber-optic spools in Sinaloa itself show the skills transfer is already happening. When these guys start dropping explosives on government vehicles or police helicopters with the same methods used near Kharkiv, Mexico City won’t be able to shrug it off. This is what “support Ukraine” actually funds right now: a pipeline that upgrades Latin American cartels with peer-conflict combat experience. The blowback lands in Mexican cities and on the U.S. southern border. Is the inevitable blowback worth it? Wake up! #Cartels #Mexico #Ukraine #Sinaloa #Colombia
THE ISLANDER1,214,224 просмотров • 6 дней назад
🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran just destroyed the AN/FPS-132 radar at Al Udeid with a single missile. One missile. That radar was not just a target. It was the nervous system of every Patriot battery, every THAAD launcher, every layered air defense architecture the United States has spent four decades and several trillion dollars constructing across the Gulf. Every interceptor in theater just went partially blind. The backbone of American missile defense in the most fortified US base in the Middle East — taken out by a single Iranian strike while they were busy stripping South Korea’s defenses, summoning Raytheon to the White House, and requesting $50 billion in emergency funds to restock magazines that were already hollow before this war began. The Air Defense shortage is worse than most imagined. Qatar claims to have intercepted 101 missiles during this conflict (likely inflated). Qatar claims two got through. One hit the only target that mattered. That is asymmetric warfare distilled to its purest form. Iran has to succeed once. The United States has to be perfect every time. And of course they weren’t. And now the US Navy — the force Trump promised would escort Gulf shipping through the Strait — has announced it cannot provide escorts in the Strait of Hormuz. No escorts. No timeline. But even if they do they're sitting ducks for Iran's coastal defence forces, no Iranian Navy presence required. The petrodollar runs through a chokepoint the United States can no longer credibly protect, defended by interceptor systems now operating without their primary radar, restocked by a Raytheon production line that makes 37 THAAD interceptors a year. 3,200 ships are sitting idle. European gas is up 50% and climbing fast. A global recession is no longer a forecast — it’s a Wednesday. The Gulf monarchs who rented their soil to Washington are watching their ports burn and their pipelines get threatened while the Navy says it needs more time. One missile just changed everything. This timeline is insane and cannot be distilled in a single post. History will need several volumes.
THE ISLANDER2,715,644 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Is this how Russia ultimately wins the war in Ukraine? Protests and anxiety in Kiev over Russian strikes on bridges across the Dnieper over the past three days, and Kyiv has started talking about ending the war. The two developments are closely linked. A bridge, especially in Kyiv is a piece of infrastructure that serves many purposes. Major water pipelines and power lines cross the river on these structures, so damage to them spreads beyond transportation and into heating, water and electricity for the whole city. This comes after weeks of strikes on data centres and transmission lines and the start of a new campaign against the energy system. The protests themselves are small. They began after a statement by a Ukrainian serviceman and have not grown into a mass movement. Treating them as the voice of the whole country would be a mistake. Their real significance lies elsewhere. Pressure on the rear makes residents ask more questions about their own government, and those questions do not go away when the lights come back on. #Kyiv #Ukraine #Infrastructure #Energy
THE ISLANDER131,157 просмотров • 15 дней назад
🚨In case anyone struggles to understand the reasons why the West has sought to seize Russia for centuries, Margaret Thatcher offers a few clues. 🇬🇧 Margaret Thatcher explained why London, and now the EU, hate Russia. That's why it's so stupid when the Anglo-Saxons say that Russia is trying to invade Europe.
THE ISLANDER208,193 просмотров • 28 дней назад
🇮🇷🇮🇱 Iran to Israel... Time to evacuate Israel as Iran has turned much of Israel from Haifa to Tel Aviv to Arad into an orange Apocalyptic hellscape. All thanks to Bibi's 40 year theologically perverse third temple cultist dream. Was it all worth it Epstein coalition?
THE ISLANDER1,441,761 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
🇮🇷🇺🇸 The IRGC has officially announced that the USS Abraham Lincoln March 12— CVN-72, nuclear-powered, 100,000 tons, the ship CENTCOM posted selfies with to prove it was untouchable — was struck by Iranian missiles and drones in the Sea of Oman, rendered non-operational, and is now withdrawing toward the United States. Unclear if true at this point though confirmed by Iranian state broadcaster IRIB, by Al Mayadeen, and by Iran’s own ambassador to Russia. Meanwhile the IRGC spokesman says Washington’s “mild brain injuries” classification is how they disguise their dead — the same trick they ran after the Soleimani retaliation in January 2020, when “concussions” eventually became 110 confirmed TBIs. CENTCOM called the Lincoln claim a “LIE.” That’s also exactly what they said on March 1. And March 7. And March 13. Three denials. One ship that’s no longer in the region. We'll watch how it develops for more clarification.
THE ISLANDER1,322,931 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
🇩🇪 Another piece of Germany just died. Playmobil — the iconic “Made in Germany” toy that filled childhoods for generations — has shut its last factory on German soil after 57 years. 350 workers gone. The machines, the tools, even the leftover figures are now being auctioned off from €1. They cite the usual suspects: weak economy, inflation, soaring wages, transport… and energy costs that no longer make sense. This wasn’t inevitable. It was a choice. Cheap Russian energy once kept German industry competitive. Sever that lifeline for the geopolitics of national suicide, double down on expensive alternatives and the green protection racket, and watch the factories leave for Czechia and Malta. “Made in Germany” is becoming a museum piece while the establishment in Berlin talks about “reform.” Merz and the political class can announce all the tax packages they want. The industrial base is already packing up and walking out the door. Sad day for Germany. Continued contempt and betrayal by Germany's political class.
THE ISLANDER405,518 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
Putin just dismantled the NATO fairy tale on Finland with ice cold precision. “What did Finland join NATO for? Did we have any territorial disputes with Finland? No! Everything had long been settled.” He didn’t stop there. “Why did they join NATO then? In the hope that everything here would collapse, and they’d swoop in and grab what they could. They’re already building a border along the Sestra River.” Then, with that signature dry St. Petersburg sarcasm: “I would make certain gestures and say a few things, but since I come from the cultural capital, I’ll refrain.” No bluster, just the facts. Here’s the question the entire Western client media refuses to ask out loud: Did turning Finland into NATO’s shiny new forward operating base right on Russia’s longest European border, make the Finns more secure… or dramatically less secure? Now that the've morphed into an existential threat by hosting NATO on Russia's border. For decades Finland lived in calm, stable neutrality with a settled 830 mile border and zero territorial friction. Then it rushed into NATO, doubled the alliance’s frontier with Russia, and suddenly Helsinki is building fences and hosting NATO troops. This of course was never about “defending” Finland. It was about turning a peaceful neighbor into a frontline provocation. Natural consequences don’t hand out one sided security guarantees. They hand out front row seats to the very confrontation you claimed you were avoiding. Finland of course didn’t buy peace and there was never the point beyond the ridiculous sales pitch. What it did buy is a frontline ticket and Russia just reminded everyone who actually controls the neighborhood.
THE ISLANDER729,135 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад
🇷🇺🇩🇪 Russia turned another German “wonder weapon” into scrap metal. The Gepard NATO’s prized short-range air defense system was supposed to be Ukraine’s low-altitude savior. German-made, twin 35mm cannons, radar-guided, mobile as hell, range out to 5 km. Berlin scraped together roughly a hundred of them and sent them east with great fanfare. Watch what happens when a single Geranium 4 Seeker drone finds one. One precise strike ane one more burning wreck in a field. And that’s the reality NATO refuses to admit: these machines are irreplaceable in any meaningful numbers. The replacement pipeline is a joke compared to the destruction rate. Every Gepard lost is a permanent hole in Ukraine’s air defense umbrella. Moscow is methodically dismantling NATO's best hardware with cheap, precision drones. One more Gepard down. How many more before the entire line collapses?
THE ISLANDER615,575 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
🇮🇷🇮🇱 Israel getting pounded hard by #Iran Haven't seen much of US/Israeli Air Defense be it THAAD, Patriots, David's boomerang with these last Iranian attacks, Iron Sieve with the earlier rocket attacks from Hezbollah. A lot getting through... $50 Billion emergency order put it with Raytheon. Israel's Channel 12 told you Iran was basically out of launchers more than a day ago! I guess the IRGC is lobbying these by hand. This is not going according to plan despite what anyone tells you. And we are only into the early days.
THE ISLANDER852,380 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
This is What It Means to Have Balls It’s a kind of psychopathy. That’s the only word for it. They are killing people wantonly. They are bombing schoolgirls — 150 of them. Not combatants. Children. And the machinery of Western power grinds on as if this is simply the cost of doing business. Thirty years. Thirty years of this madness. And it has cost us trillions. Not billions — trillions. Trillions bled out of the American body while the roads crack and the bridges rust and the living standards of ordinary Americans stagnate or fall. Netanyahu is a madman. That is not hyperbole — it is a clinical description of a man who operates outside every boundary of law, humanity, and restraint. And Israel, under his direction, has become what it has become: a rogue, murderous state that kills with impunity because it has calculated, correctly, that Washington will cover every crime, fund every atrocity, and veto every consequence. Trump is an utter disgrace to this nation. Let that be stated plainly. Every word of America First was a lie. Every promise of restraint, of ending the forever wars, of putting the American people before foreign entanglements — inverted. Reversed. Betrayed. He did the exact opposite of what he told the American people he would do. The exact opposite. Congress? Dead. It does not matter whether it is Johnson or Schumer. These people are useless. They are on the Zionist lobby’s payroll and they have been for decades. They have squandered our wealth. They have squandered our strength. They have mortgaged the future of this country to a foreign policy that serves no American interest whatsoever. Ask yourself the simple question: why does China have 50,000 kilometers of high-speed rail — roughly 30,000 miles — and the United States has not one mile? Why is Chinese infrastructure advancing at a pace that would have seemed impossible a generation ago while American infrastructure is literally falling apart? The answer is not complicated. China does not go to war. The United States is in nonstop, undeclared war. War that is never voted on, never debated, never honestly accounted for. The cost is not just money. It is freedom. It is the steady transformation of this republic into a military state — one that funds foreign carnage while its own people live on crumbling foundations, both literal and figurative. This is madness. It is shocking, disgraceful, and it is bankrupting the United States, morally and financially. And Trump lied. Every word of it. Every last word.
THE ISLANDER445,867 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
🇮🇷 Iran built underground missile cities near the Strait of Hormuz. The B-1B is the best tool America has to crack them. So here’s the problem. Iran’s most critical facilities are buried 1,500 feet deep in solid granite with a natural compressive strength of 25,000 to 40,000 PSI. Against that rock, the world’s most advanced bunker buster is mathematically capped at a penetration depth of just 20 to 30 feet. Physics dictates the underground facilities remain functionally immune.  Military engineers call the 1,400-foot gap between the bomb’s maximum reach and the facility ceiling the dead zone. Satellite data confirmed that even after weeks of intensive strikes, many sites remained operational. The engineering focus is on ensuring the launch infrastructure stays functional even if the surface is cratered.  The B-1B is a decent lethal bird. But you cannot bomb a mountain into submission. Iran built its deterrent inside the mountain and spent 40 years doing it. The missile keeps flying. But the mountain and physics always wins.
THE ISLANDER375,322 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
🇺🇸🏴☠️🇮🇷 Ex CIA veteran Larry Johnson just looked the empire dead in the eye and called its bluff. Larry Johnson didn’t mince words: the U.S. strike and boarding of that Iranian vessel was an act of war... illegal, and indefensible under any reading of international law. No “routine interdiction.” No “sanctions enforcement.” Because the only mechanism for legal sanctions is the UNSC. A guided missile destroyer opens fire on a commercial ship in international waters, then sends Marines swarming aboard. That’s armed piracy by the world’s wannabe sheriff. Washington crossed the Rubicon the moment it put holes in that hull. Tehran knows it. The world just watched it happen in real time. This is the empire openly declaring war on the high seas and daring anyone to call it what it is. Iran will call it what it is with its full arsenal of kinetic business cards delivered to targets it's already named.
THE ISLANDER305,617 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
🇭🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺 Orban is now openly telling the world what anyone paying attention already knew. “If the war ends, the funding stops. Ukraine’s plan is to make sure the war doesn’t stop.” Hungarian officers recently stopped Ukrainian armoured trucks carrying $82 million in cash, gold and euros rolling out of Austria — routinely apparently. Once a week. Every week. While Ukranian body bags pile up. Zelensky isn’t a president, hasn't had an electoral mandate for almost 2 years . He’s a glorified mafia capo running collections for his bosses in London and Brussels. The war is an odious business model and peace kills the revenue stream. And the Eurocrat merchants of war who designed this arrangement... who mortgaged Europe’s future and counted their consultancy fees, kick backs from defence contractors over Ukrainian corpses, are still lecturing Russia and Hungary about democracy.
THE ISLANDER350,951 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
Two Oreshnik missiles. One night. Both aimed at the Kiev region. Russia just doubled the entire combat history of that weapon in a single operation — and pointed it at the capital. The Oreshnik carries MIRVs. Multiple warheads, independently targeted, hypersonic on descent. The footage shows them hitting in sequence. Nothing in NATO's protection racket can stop this and London, Paris and Berlin know it. The message was never for Kiev — it was for the paymasters who handed the Kiev regime the tools to massacre 18 students in a Luhansk dormitory. The Europeans who thought they could run a proxy war from a safe distance are learning there is no safe distance. Wake the hell up Europe!
THE ISLANDER224,785 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
🚨Jeffrey Sachs: In the ranking of stupidity, I put the British number one. They have the worst imperial mentality of any country in the world. They still think they run the world. 🚨BOJO: 'The most ELEGANT solution to this whole THING is to get Ukraine in NATO. People are worried about escalation & provoking Putin. It's rubbish' — Ex UK PM WARMONGER finding 'THE MOST ELEGANT' solution for Ukraine
THE ISLANDER50,060 просмотров • 29 дней назад