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Eritrea’s Exit from IGAD — A Long-Overdue Stand for Integrity 🇪🇷🔥 🌍 Eritrea’s decision to leave IGAD is NOT impulsive — it is the result of years of dysfunction, bias, and failure to uphold the very principles the bloc was created to protect. When an institution stops serving regional...

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🇪🇷 Eritrea’s Strategic Patience — AU & UN, Silence Has Consequences 🚨 Eritrea has been patient. Patience ≠ weakness. While Abiy’s nonstop war-drums escalate, regional institutions (AU) and the UN remain maddeningly quiet — even as the Horn burns. This cannot stand. The Problem (Why AU & UN look ineffective): 🟥Domestic carnage ignored: Abiy’s campaigns have left Amhara, Oromia and others devastated — yet little meaningful AU/UN action. 🟥 Tigray’s fragile peace undermined by failure to fully implement agreements. 🟥 Sudan’s civil war and Somalia’s instability — crises ignored by global guardians. 🟥 Daily propaganda & revisionism aimed at undermining Eritrea’s sovereignty. What Eritrea’s Restraint Really Means 🔷 Prepared to defend sovereignty — Eritrea will protect its territory and people. 🔷 Not seeking war, but ready to respond decisively to any aggression. 🔷 We know the likely international script: if forced to act, Eritrea risks being judged before facts are set — as history sadly shows. 🔷 Abiy’s brinkmanship is a cover for internal collapse — he seeks distraction, not solutions. Call to Action (AU • UN • Intl. Community) ▶️ Speak clearly — condemn threats to sovereignty and insist on respect for international law. ▶️ Act early — preventive diplomacy and credible mediation now will avoid escalation later. ▶️ Protect civilians — prioritize humanitarian corridors and safeguards for border communities. ▶️ Uphold legal rulings — ensure binding border decisions and treaties are respected. ✨ Wisdom to Guide Us “Peace is not the absence of strength, but the mastery of restraint.” “Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.” Bottom line: Eritrea stands for peace — but will defend its sovereignty. The AU and UN must stop failing the Horn. Act before it’s too late. 🇪🇷🇪🇹🇸🇩🇸🇴 | #Eritrea #Sovereignty #HornOfAfrica #AU #UN #PeaceNotWar #RegionalStability
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🇪🇷 Eritrea’s Strategic Patience — AU & UN, Silence Has Consequences 🚨 Eritrea has been patient. Patience ≠ weakness. While Abiy’s nonstop war-drums escalate, regional institutions (AU) and the UN remain maddeningly quiet — even as the Horn burns. This cannot stand. The Problem (Why AU & UN look ineffective): 🟥Domestic carnage ignored: Abiy’s campaigns have left Amhara, Oromia and others devastated — yet little meaningful AU/UN action. 🟥 Tigray’s fragile peace undermined by failure to fully implement agreements. 🟥 Sudan’s civil war and Somalia’s instability — crises ignored by global guardians. 🟥 Daily propaganda & revisionism aimed at undermining Eritrea’s sovereignty. What Eritrea’s Restraint Really Means 🔷 Prepared to defend sovereignty — Eritrea will protect its territory and people. 🔷 Not seeking war, but ready to respond decisively to any aggression. 🔷 We know the likely international script: if forced to act, Eritrea risks being judged before facts are set — as history sadly shows. 🔷 Abiy’s brinkmanship is a cover for internal collapse — he seeks distraction, not solutions. Call to Action (AU • UN • Intl. Community) ▶️ Speak clearly — condemn threats to sovereignty and insist on respect for international law. ▶️ Act early — preventive diplomacy and credible mediation now will avoid escalation later. ▶️ Protect civilians — prioritize humanitarian corridors and safeguards for border communities. ▶️ Uphold legal rulings — ensure binding border decisions and treaties are respected. ✨ Wisdom to Guide Us “Peace is not the absence of strength, but the mastery of restraint.” “Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.” Bottom line: Eritrea stands for peace — but will defend its sovereignty. The AU and UN must stop failing the Horn. Act before it’s too late. 🇪🇷🇪🇹🇸🇩🇸🇴 | #Eritrea #Sovereignty #HornOfAfrica #AU #UN #PeaceNotWar #RegionalStability

G. Drar

17,098 views • 10 months ago

🚨 Abiy’s Desperate Cry to the UN — Eritrea Won’t Be Intimidated 🇪🇷 💡 “When a house is collapsing, its owner blames the neighbor for the cracks.” 📍 What Abiy & PP Tried to Do: 🔴 Sent a desperation letter to the UN whining about Eritrea’s provocation to cover up FANO success. 🔴 Threatened to even revoke Eritrea’s independence recognition — as if history & blood can be erased. 🔴 Covered up their open warmongering for Eritrean ports by hiding behind fake diplomacy. ⚠️ The Hard Truth About Abiy’s Regime 🇪🇹: 🟥 Abiy & his cadres openly preached taking Eritrean ports by force. Now they know they lack both force & diplomacy. 🟥 Trying to divert attention from chaos inside Ethiopia — but no Ethiopian is falling for it. 🟥 Fano dismantling his army daily. 🟥 OLA/Shene capturing more Oromia territory. 🟥 TPLF unifying Tigray & calling Eritreans to resist Abiy’s madness. 🟥 Economy collapsing 💸, inflation soaring, debt crushing millions. 🟥 Opposition parties already discussing a smooth transition after Abiy’s inevitable fall. 🌍 Eritrea’s Clear & Consistent Position 🇪🇷: 🟢 No provocation, no destabilization. 🟢 Always ready for stability, peace & cooperation. 🟢 Full respect for sovereignty & territorial integrity. 🟢 Decisively prepared to break the back of any aggression — especially from a weakened, reckless Abiy. 📌 Reality: Abiy’s UN letter = A desperate SOS 🚨 to cover his political & military suicide. Eritrea doesn’t fear cries of desperation — Eritrea prepares, protects & prevails. 💡 “A drowning man will clutch at straws, but straws cannot save him.” #Eritrea #Ethiopia #AbiyAhmed #HornOfAfrica #RedSea #Geopolitics #Africa
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🚨 Abiy’s Desperate Cry to the UN — Eritrea Won’t Be Intimidated 🇪🇷 💡 “When a house is collapsing, its owner blames the neighbor for the cracks.” 📍 What Abiy & PP Tried to Do: 🔴 Sent a desperation letter to the UN whining about Eritrea’s provocation to cover up FANO success. 🔴 Threatened to even revoke Eritrea’s independence recognition — as if history & blood can be erased. 🔴 Covered up their open warmongering for Eritrean ports by hiding behind fake diplomacy. ⚠️ The Hard Truth About Abiy’s Regime 🇪🇹: 🟥 Abiy & his cadres openly preached taking Eritrean ports by force. Now they know they lack both force & diplomacy. 🟥 Trying to divert attention from chaos inside Ethiopia — but no Ethiopian is falling for it. 🟥 Fano dismantling his army daily. 🟥 OLA/Shene capturing more Oromia territory. 🟥 TPLF unifying Tigray & calling Eritreans to resist Abiy’s madness. 🟥 Economy collapsing 💸, inflation soaring, debt crushing millions. 🟥 Opposition parties already discussing a smooth transition after Abiy’s inevitable fall. 🌍 Eritrea’s Clear & Consistent Position 🇪🇷: 🟢 No provocation, no destabilization. 🟢 Always ready for stability, peace & cooperation. 🟢 Full respect for sovereignty & territorial integrity. 🟢 Decisively prepared to break the back of any aggression — especially from a weakened, reckless Abiy. 📌 Reality: Abiy’s UN letter = A desperate SOS 🚨 to cover his political & military suicide. Eritrea doesn’t fear cries of desperation — Eritrea prepares, protects & prevails. 💡 “A drowning man will clutch at straws, but straws cannot save him.” #Eritrea #Ethiopia #AbiyAhmed #HornOfAfrica #RedSea #Geopolitics #Africa

G. Drar

13,256 views • 11 months ago

🇪🇷 Eritrea & The US🇺🇸: A New Chapter in the Making 🤝 💡 “Nations have no permanent enemies, only permanent interests.” 💡 “Nations don’t choose their neighbors, but they can choose their partners.” 📖 The Truth Few Dare to Say: For decades, it wasn’t Eritrea — it was Washington that went all-in to suffocate Eritrea. 🔴 Clinton, Bush, Obama → sanctions, lies & attempts at regime change. 🔴 Obama even engineered the Sana’a Forum with Meles, Al-Bashir & Yemen to blockade Eritrea. 🔴 Strategic depopulation → to weaken Eritrea’s sovereignty. ⚡ Result? All regimes that targeted Eritrea — Meles, Al-Bashir, Yemen’s leaders — are gone. Eritrea still stands tall. 🇪🇷✊ 🌍 Turning Point Moments: ✅ Trump’s era (2016–2020) → a window of reconciliation, 2018 peace deal. ❌ Biden reversed course → sanctions & demonization returned. ⚖️ Now with Trump back, a new pragmatic chapter is opening. 🚨 Why the US Needs Eritrea Now More Than Ever: 🟢 The Horn is burning: Sudan’s war, Ethiopia’s civil conflicts, Somalia vs Al-Shabaab. 🟢 The Red Sea is under Houthi threat — global trade choked. 🟢 Eritrea = the only stable nation with full control of land, sea & air. 🟢 Eritrea’s geostrategic location: no power can bypass without a heavy cost. 🟢 Blessed with minerals & resources → a reliable partner for investment & security. ⚠️ Meanwhile Abiy’s Camp 🇪🇹: 🔻 Nervous & angry that Eritrea is engaging the US & West. 🔻 Dreaming of invading Eritrea’s sovereign ports & resources. 🔻 But history proves: Eritrea stops aggression before it happens. 🇪🇷 Eritrea’s Message: 🔵 We welcome dialogue. 🔵 We seek peace, stability & partnership. 🔵 But we’ll defend sovereignty against any aggression — Abiy’s reckless cries for war included. 💡 “History shows: those who tried to bury Eritrea only planted its resilience deeper.” 📌 Truth: Eritrea welcomes peace, cooperation & investment — but will crush any reckless adventure against its sovereignty. 💡 “You can cage the bird, but you cannot stop the sunrise.” 🌅 #Eritrea #US #HornOfAfrica #RedSea #Geopolitics #AbiyAhmed #Trump #Biden #EritreaRising
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🇪🇷 Eritrea & The US🇺🇸: A New Chapter in the Making 🤝 💡 “Nations have no permanent enemies, only permanent interests.” 💡 “Nations don’t choose their neighbors, but they can choose their partners.” 📖 The Truth Few Dare to Say: For decades, it wasn’t Eritrea — it was Washington that went all-in to suffocate Eritrea. 🔴 Clinton, Bush, Obama → sanctions, lies & attempts at regime change. 🔴 Obama even engineered the Sana’a Forum with Meles, Al-Bashir & Yemen to blockade Eritrea. 🔴 Strategic depopulation → to weaken Eritrea’s sovereignty. ⚡ Result? All regimes that targeted Eritrea — Meles, Al-Bashir, Yemen’s leaders — are gone. Eritrea still stands tall. 🇪🇷✊ 🌍 Turning Point Moments: ✅ Trump’s era (2016–2020) → a window of reconciliation, 2018 peace deal. ❌ Biden reversed course → sanctions & demonization returned. ⚖️ Now with Trump back, a new pragmatic chapter is opening. 🚨 Why the US Needs Eritrea Now More Than Ever: 🟢 The Horn is burning: Sudan’s war, Ethiopia’s civil conflicts, Somalia vs Al-Shabaab. 🟢 The Red Sea is under Houthi threat — global trade choked. 🟢 Eritrea = the only stable nation with full control of land, sea & air. 🟢 Eritrea’s geostrategic location: no power can bypass without a heavy cost. 🟢 Blessed with minerals & resources → a reliable partner for investment & security. ⚠️ Meanwhile Abiy’s Camp 🇪🇹: 🔻 Nervous & angry that Eritrea is engaging the US & West. 🔻 Dreaming of invading Eritrea’s sovereign ports & resources. 🔻 But history proves: Eritrea stops aggression before it happens. 🇪🇷 Eritrea’s Message: 🔵 We welcome dialogue. 🔵 We seek peace, stability & partnership. 🔵 But we’ll defend sovereignty against any aggression — Abiy’s reckless cries for war included. 💡 “History shows: those who tried to bury Eritrea only planted its resilience deeper.” 📌 Truth: Eritrea welcomes peace, cooperation & investment — but will crush any reckless adventure against its sovereignty. 💡 “You can cage the bird, but you cannot stop the sunrise.” 🌅 #Eritrea #US #HornOfAfrica #RedSea #Geopolitics #AbiyAhmed #Trump #Biden #EritreaRising

G. Drar

11,890 views • 11 months ago

The Oromo Prosperity Party–aligned head of IGAD Secretariat, Dr Workneh Gebeyehu, has demonstrated such deep-seated hate toward Amhara that he has employed Cherinet Hariffo, a social media activist who previously and openly insulted Amhara people online using genocidal slurs such as “neftegna” during the northern Ethiopia war. It is important to recall that this same term was used publicly by the President of the Oromia Region, Shimelis Abdisa, shortly after Abiy Ahmed Ali 🇪🇹 came to power, when he stated: “we have broken the Neftegna/Amhara in the same place where they broke us for 150 years.” Following this speech, violence and genocidal attacks against Amhara living in Oromia sharply intensified.
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The Oromo Prosperity Party–aligned head of IGAD Secretariat, Dr Workneh Gebeyehu, has demonstrated such deep-seated hate toward Amhara that he has employed Cherinet Hariffo, a social media activist who previously and openly insulted Amhara people online using genocidal slurs such as “neftegna” during the northern Ethiopia war. It is important to recall that this same term was used publicly by the President of the Oromia Region, Shimelis Abdisa, shortly after Abiy Ahmed Ali 🇪🇹 came to power, when he stated: “we have broken the Neftegna/Amhara in the same place where they broke us for 150 years.” Following this speech, violence and genocidal attacks against Amhara living in Oromia sharply intensified.

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11,997 views • 8 months ago

To Muslims who have seen the footage of Iranians burning mosques over the past days. One point must be made clear. The Islamic Republic is not merely using religion as a political tool. It is using religion as physical cover to carry out mass murder. My friends were present the day the first mosque was burned on Friday. I asked them what exactly they burned, because it was unclear on the video. They anwsered: “A mosque. But they were shooting at people from the inside.” If you believe it is acceptable to use a mosque as a military position to fire on civilians, then my conversation with you ends here. If you do not, then you should stand with the people of Iran, who are fighting a regime that exploits your religion to commit crimes in its name. The late Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was a devout Muslim. He survived multiple assassination attempts by Islamo-Marxists and other extremists. Those experiences brought him closer to God and to Islam. This may not resonate with everyone, but he remains the single historical figure I admire and respect most, and I will not speak against what he believed in. To my fellow Iranians, please read his book: 'Answer to History'. Today, it is his son, Reza Pahlavi, whom the people have chosen as their leader. Reza Pahlavi seeks internal peace for Iran. But internal peace is impossible without regional peace. A country does not exist in isolation. It is like buying a house, renovating it, and turning it into a beautiful place to live. If the neighbouring houses are crack dens, filled with violence and instability, your house will never truly be safe, nor will it hold its value. Under his leadership, religion will be separated from the state. Not erased. Separated. And an Iran without an antagonistic Islamic regime will bring regional stability. That stability will save the lives of millions of Muslims in the years to come.
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To Muslims who have seen the footage of Iranians burning mosques over the past days. One point must be made clear. The Islamic Republic is not merely using religion as a political tool. It is using religion as physical cover to carry out mass murder. My friends were present the day the first mosque was burned on Friday. I asked them what exactly they burned, because it was unclear on the video. They anwsered: “A mosque. But they were shooting at people from the inside.” If you believe it is acceptable to use a mosque as a military position to fire on civilians, then my conversation with you ends here. If you do not, then you should stand with the people of Iran, who are fighting a regime that exploits your religion to commit crimes in its name. The late Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was a devout Muslim. He survived multiple assassination attempts by Islamo-Marxists and other extremists. Those experiences brought him closer to God and to Islam. This may not resonate with everyone, but he remains the single historical figure I admire and respect most, and I will not speak against what he believed in. To my fellow Iranians, please read his book: 'Answer to History'. Today, it is his son, Reza Pahlavi, whom the people have chosen as their leader. Reza Pahlavi seeks internal peace for Iran. But internal peace is impossible without regional peace. A country does not exist in isolation. It is like buying a house, renovating it, and turning it into a beautiful place to live. If the neighbouring houses are crack dens, filled with violence and instability, your house will never truly be safe, nor will it hold its value. Under his leadership, religion will be separated from the state. Not erased. Separated. And an Iran without an antagonistic Islamic regime will bring regional stability. That stability will save the lives of millions of Muslims in the years to come.

Arsalan Naamdar

18,294 views • 7 months ago

The court left three dead children in a hung jury and called it part of the process. That is not justice. That is cowardice. The jury refused to do the one thing that would have been appropriate and find Lindsay Clancy guilty. Patrick Clancy was in Midtown again, sunglasses on, walking like any other Sunday. Two days earlier a Massachusetts jury could not decide whether his ex-wife murdered Cora, Dawson, and Callan. Eleven jurors were ready to end it. We do not know for certain which way they were leaning, but most people think they wanted to acquit. One was the holdout. The prosecutor is expected to try the case again. So the man who already took the stand and described coming home to what his wife did to his kids now lives with the chance he will have to say it all a second time. The sidewalk photos of Patrick are not a victory lap. They are what life looks like when the system cannot finish the job and the cameras still follow the father instead of the verdict. Notice how little the press does to mourn the children. It is easier to drum up drama about a man walking on a sidewalk. A mistrial does not bring Patrick’s children back. Nothing does. Not even a guilty verdict heals those wounds. But a conviction would at least show there is accountability. A life sentence would tell other parents that Lindsay’s kind of act is not a loophole. Patrick now walks with the mistrial on him. It does not settle the facts. It postpones the pain and asks the surviving parent to keep taking the cameras as he moves through public. The kids are still gone. The case is still open. That is the story. Not that a man went for a walk.
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The court left three dead children in a hung jury and called it part of the process. That is not justice. That is cowardice. The jury refused to do the one thing that would have been appropriate and find Lindsay Clancy guilty. Patrick Clancy was in Midtown again, sunglasses on, walking like any other Sunday. Two days earlier a Massachusetts jury could not decide whether his ex-wife murdered Cora, Dawson, and Callan. Eleven jurors were ready to end it. We do not know for certain which way they were leaning, but most people think they wanted to acquit. One was the holdout. The prosecutor is expected to try the case again. So the man who already took the stand and described coming home to what his wife did to his kids now lives with the chance he will have to say it all a second time. The sidewalk photos of Patrick are not a victory lap. They are what life looks like when the system cannot finish the job and the cameras still follow the father instead of the verdict. Notice how little the press does to mourn the children. It is easier to drum up drama about a man walking on a sidewalk. A mistrial does not bring Patrick’s children back. Nothing does. Not even a guilty verdict heals those wounds. But a conviction would at least show there is accountability. A life sentence would tell other parents that Lindsay’s kind of act is not a loophole. Patrick now walks with the mistrial on him. It does not settle the facts. It postpones the pain and asks the surviving parent to keep taking the cameras as he moves through public. The kids are still gone. The case is still open. That is the story. Not that a man went for a walk.

Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸

52,125 views • 2 days ago

🔥Another lonesome Russian invader dressed as a penguin was destroyed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine When the MoD of the Russia said that they would issue a new "Arctic" uniform, Private Ivanov did not expect that it was just a prop from an abandoned children's theater. Now he is the only one in the position who looks official - as if he was going to a session in "Madagascar", but instead of "smile and wave" it turns out "freeze and lie down".
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🔥Another lonesome Russian invader dressed as a penguin was destroyed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine When the MoD of the Russia said that they would issue a new "Arctic" uniform, Private Ivanov did not expect that it was just a prop from an abandoned children's theater. Now he is the only one in the position who looks official - as if he was going to a session in "Madagascar", but instead of "smile and wave" it turns out "freeze and lie down".

Cloooud |🇺🇦

20,105 views • 7 months ago

Not long ago, Turkey was running a neo-Ottoman project across the Arab world. The Muslim Brotherhood was the tool. Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, the Gulf media wars. Western analysts called it one of the defining threats to the regional order. They were right! That era is over! It did not end through Western pressure. It ended because Saudi Arabia spent a decade building the economic, religious and diplomatic weight that made accommodation with Riyadh worth more to Ankara than confrontation. Investment. Mediation. Religious authority. Doors quietly closed. Soft power in its least glamorous form, and its most effective. I think we should be grateful for that. We rarely are. Turkey is now moving toward the Arab world, not away from it. On 7 August, in Mecca, Erdoğan, Mohammed bin Salman and Shehbaz Sharif signed a joint defence agreement: an attack on one is an attack on all three. It did not come from nowhere. Ankara joined a Riyadh-led maritime coalition in late July, one of fourteen founding members. The 2023 drone contract was Turkey's largest defence export deal at the time. This is the Middle East Western analysts spent fifteen years asking for. Two days before the signing, Steven A. Cook published a column in Foreign Policy arguing that strategic blunders have plagued Saudi Arabia's approach to the region. The verdict arrived before the ink was dry. Read it closely and it collapses. Cook says Riyadh has no strategy. Then he lists it: protect the economic transformation, avoid a wider war, lower tensions with Iran, stop armed factions from imposing facts by force, tie normalisation with Israel to a Palestinian state. That is not the absence of a strategy. That is a hierarchy of priorities. His real objection is that it is not his strategy- one that would have Saudi Arabia tolerate the STC, hold the UAE partnership regardless of conflicting aims, welcome an Israeli foothold in Somaliland, and stand as the front line against Iran. He says the Sanaa runway strike was unnecessary. In the same breath he concedes Mahan Air is tied to the IRGC, and that the Houthi delegation may have carried more than pistachios and carpets. He accepts the violation, then faults the attempt to stop it. He also assigns the strike to Riyadh. Saudi Arabia never claimed it. Yemen's internationally recognised government announced it. Then the pattern. Restraint is weakness. Action is recklessness. De-escalation is buying calm. Interdiction is provocation. Cook recommends retreat, then cites the retreat as proof there is no strategy. And he blames Riyadh for the Houthi escalation - as if the Houthis had not been firing at Saudi cities for years, as if Iran's proxy project began this July. A possible Saudi miscalculation does not absolve Iran and the Houthis of their own violence! Underneath all of it sits the oldest false narrative in the file: that Saudi Arabia is weak. Remember Yemen. The Kingdom had the capability and the intent to end the Houthi project militarily. What constrained it was Western political pressure in the name of human rights - war powers votes, suspended munitions, withdrawn targeting support. Riyadh was told to stop. It stopped. Then it absorbed years of missiles and drones on its airports, its cities and its oil infrastructure while holding a truce it was never legally obliged to hold! You can argue the restrictions were right. You cannot impose them, watch the adversary rearm through the corridor you protected, and then call the result a Saudi failure. Restraint imposed by allies is not incapacity. Saudi Arabia is not the architect of this crisis. It is the state repeatedly asked to carry the cost of other people's strategies - and it is now building, with Ankara and Islamabad, an architecture that reduces its need to. The criticism came before the agreement was a week old. That says less about Saudi strategy than about how hard it is for some analysts to read an order they no longer write.
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Not long ago, Turkey was running a neo-Ottoman project across the Arab world. The Muslim Brotherhood was the tool. Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, the Gulf media wars. Western analysts called it one of the defining threats to the regional order. They were right! That era is over! It did not end through Western pressure. It ended because Saudi Arabia spent a decade building the economic, religious and diplomatic weight that made accommodation with Riyadh worth more to Ankara than confrontation. Investment. Mediation. Religious authority. Doors quietly closed. Soft power in its least glamorous form, and its most effective. I think we should be grateful for that. We rarely are. Turkey is now moving toward the Arab world, not away from it. On 7 August, in Mecca, Erdoğan, Mohammed bin Salman and Shehbaz Sharif signed a joint defence agreement: an attack on one is an attack on all three. It did not come from nowhere. Ankara joined a Riyadh-led maritime coalition in late July, one of fourteen founding members. The 2023 drone contract was Turkey's largest defence export deal at the time. This is the Middle East Western analysts spent fifteen years asking for. Two days before the signing, Steven A. Cook published a column in Foreign Policy arguing that strategic blunders have plagued Saudi Arabia's approach to the region. The verdict arrived before the ink was dry. Read it closely and it collapses. Cook says Riyadh has no strategy. Then he lists it: protect the economic transformation, avoid a wider war, lower tensions with Iran, stop armed factions from imposing facts by force, tie normalisation with Israel to a Palestinian state. That is not the absence of a strategy. That is a hierarchy of priorities. His real objection is that it is not his strategy- one that would have Saudi Arabia tolerate the STC, hold the UAE partnership regardless of conflicting aims, welcome an Israeli foothold in Somaliland, and stand as the front line against Iran. He says the Sanaa runway strike was unnecessary. In the same breath he concedes Mahan Air is tied to the IRGC, and that the Houthi delegation may have carried more than pistachios and carpets. He accepts the violation, then faults the attempt to stop it. He also assigns the strike to Riyadh. Saudi Arabia never claimed it. Yemen's internationally recognised government announced it. Then the pattern. Restraint is weakness. Action is recklessness. De-escalation is buying calm. Interdiction is provocation. Cook recommends retreat, then cites the retreat as proof there is no strategy. And he blames Riyadh for the Houthi escalation - as if the Houthis had not been firing at Saudi cities for years, as if Iran's proxy project began this July. A possible Saudi miscalculation does not absolve Iran and the Houthis of their own violence! Underneath all of it sits the oldest false narrative in the file: that Saudi Arabia is weak. Remember Yemen. The Kingdom had the capability and the intent to end the Houthi project militarily. What constrained it was Western political pressure in the name of human rights - war powers votes, suspended munitions, withdrawn targeting support. Riyadh was told to stop. It stopped. Then it absorbed years of missiles and drones on its airports, its cities and its oil infrastructure while holding a truce it was never legally obliged to hold! You can argue the restrictions were right. You cannot impose them, watch the adversary rearm through the corridor you protected, and then call the result a Saudi failure. Restraint imposed by allies is not incapacity. Saudi Arabia is not the architect of this crisis. It is the state repeatedly asked to carry the cost of other people's strategies - and it is now building, with Ankara and Islamabad, an architecture that reduces its need to. The criticism came before the agreement was a week old. That says less about Saudi strategy than about how hard it is for some analysts to read an order they no longer write.

𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢

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If the Universe’s only way to realize itself is through intelligent beings, why did it not protect life during earth’s evolution? Or does it have other purposes — and are we merely a byproduct of its creation? : If the Universe can only know itself through conscious minds, why did it let life on Earth teeter on the edge of extinction dozens of times? Asteroids, ice ages, supervolcanoes, and mass die-offs all struck without mercy. No shield, no mercy, no intervention. That silence is the answer. The Universe is not a guardian. It is an arena. It does not care whether intelligence ever arises, survives, or dies. The emergence of minds is not its goal; it is an accidental side effect of laws that permit complexity. We are not protected children of a loving cosmos. We are the rare, fragile spark that sometimes flickers into being inside an indifferent storm. Our existence proves nothing about cosmic purpose. It only proves that, out of countless dead rocks, one managed to keep the spark alive long enough to ask why. The Universe has no obligation to us. We have an obligation to the spark. That is the whole story.
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If the Universe’s only way to realize itself is through intelligent beings, why did it not protect life during earth’s evolution? Or does it have other purposes — and are we merely a byproduct of its creation? : If the Universe can only know itself through conscious minds, why did it let life on Earth teeter on the edge of extinction dozens of times? Asteroids, ice ages, supervolcanoes, and mass die-offs all struck without mercy. No shield, no mercy, no intervention. That silence is the answer. The Universe is not a guardian. It is an arena. It does not care whether intelligence ever arises, survives, or dies. The emergence of minds is not its goal; it is an accidental side effect of laws that permit complexity. We are not protected children of a loving cosmos. We are the rare, fragile spark that sometimes flickers into being inside an indifferent storm. Our existence proves nothing about cosmic purpose. It only proves that, out of countless dead rocks, one managed to keep the spark alive long enough to ask why. The Universe has no obligation to us. We have an obligation to the spark. That is the whole story.

Zafar Mirzo | Quotes

272,822 views • 9 months ago

A point of utter embarrassment and shame for many Iranians is the manner in which elements of the diaspora danced on the streets in Western capitals as bombs rained on Tehran. It is also a source for a lot of anger among Iranians in Iran who oppose the theocracy but nevertheless did not favor war and who are stunned to see some in the Diaspora being so indifferent to the suffering caused by the war. But there is another aspect that deserves closer scrutiny. These, almost exclusively pro-Shah elements of the Diaspora, did not dance to celebrate the downfall of the regime. They didn't dance because they had won. They simply danced because the war had started, nothing more. As if their goal was neither freedom nor democracy, but simply revenge and the pleasure they took from seeing Iran bombed. Had they danced after the theocracy had fallen (which it hasn't), it would be a bit different. It would be a moment where they could argue that the price was very high, but because the regime is defeated, it was worth it, and, as a result, a cause for celebration. But they didn't wait for the regime to fall. They danced right away. Signalling that the cost was worth it, EVEN IF the regime didn't fall. Because it was always about selfish revenge, not freedom.
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A point of utter embarrassment and shame for many Iranians is the manner in which elements of the diaspora danced on the streets in Western capitals as bombs rained on Tehran. It is also a source for a lot of anger among Iranians in Iran who oppose the theocracy but nevertheless did not favor war and who are stunned to see some in the Diaspora being so indifferent to the suffering caused by the war. But there is another aspect that deserves closer scrutiny. These, almost exclusively pro-Shah elements of the Diaspora, did not dance to celebrate the downfall of the regime. They didn't dance because they had won. They simply danced because the war had started, nothing more. As if their goal was neither freedom nor democracy, but simply revenge and the pleasure they took from seeing Iran bombed. Had they danced after the theocracy had fallen (which it hasn't), it would be a bit different. It would be a moment where they could argue that the price was very high, but because the regime is defeated, it was worth it, and, as a result, a cause for celebration. But they didn't wait for the regime to fall. They danced right away. Signalling that the cost was worth it, EVEN IF the regime didn't fall. Because it was always about selfish revenge, not freedom.

Trita Parsi

129,205 views • 3 months ago

Nobody comes into my office and says they've been losing ground for years. They come in for a knee or a shoulder. But when you ask the right questions, a different story emerges. They stopped hiking because it got too hard. They gave up tennis. They hesitate before the stairs they used to take without thinking. They've quietly rearranged their lives around what they can no longer do... and most of them didn't notice it happening. This is what I think of as the narrowing of people's lives. It's not a dramatic event. Instead, it's a gradual shrinking of what's physically possible, so slow that people mistake the adaptation for a choice. It wasn't a choice. It was the slow, quiet disappearance of capacity that nobody warned them to protect. They normalized all the changes and attributed them solely to aging. The narrowing is not inevitable!! Dammit... it's not ;-)! But it requires intention to resist because the body will not hold the capacity to do things you do not train, and the losses accumulate in silence until they don't.
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Nobody comes into my office and says they've been losing ground for years. They come in for a knee or a shoulder. But when you ask the right questions, a different story emerges. They stopped hiking because it got too hard. They gave up tennis. They hesitate before the stairs they used to take without thinking. They've quietly rearranged their lives around what they can no longer do... and most of them didn't notice it happening. This is what I think of as the narrowing of people's lives. It's not a dramatic event. Instead, it's a gradual shrinking of what's physically possible, so slow that people mistake the adaptation for a choice. It wasn't a choice. It was the slow, quiet disappearance of capacity that nobody warned them to protect. They normalized all the changes and attributed them solely to aging. The narrowing is not inevitable!! Dammit... it's not ;-)! But it requires intention to resist because the body will not hold the capacity to do things you do not train, and the losses accumulate in silence until they don't.

Howard Luks MD

76,975 views • 6 months ago

#OmShanti Rajiv Ruparelia! In the quiet aftermath of tragedy, questions must rise louder than sirens. #Uganda mourns a prominent young businessman, a man of industry and intent, whose life ended not in the boardroom or from the frailties of age, but in the twisted wreckage of a burning car -snuffed out by what may have been an unwarranted, senseless barricade. What was its purpose? Who sanctioned it? Why was it there at that hour, without warning, lighting, or logic? A barricade, by its very definition, is meant to protect. To guide. To prevent harm. But in this case, it became the architect of death. And if indeed it was haphazardly placed -by a negligent contractor, a lazy construction team, or an unbothered arm of government -then someone must be held accountable. A man is dead. Not from recklessness behind the wheel, but from the recklessness of policy, procedure, or sheer indifference. This isn’t just about one man - however towering his presence may have been. It’s about a system that shrugs off responsibility until lives are lost. Uganda’s roads cannot be an obstacle course of surprises. Lives, investments, and dreams speed down those tarmacs every day. We owe every driver the dignity of predictable safety. To the family of Rajiv Ruparelia: may peace find you amidst the flames of this injustice. But to those who placed that barricade - whether in ignorance or arrogance -know this: what you built wasn’t a roadblock. It was a funeral pyre. Justice, not condolences, is what we should now erect. #Uganda Sudhir Ruparelia
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#OmShanti Rajiv Ruparelia! In the quiet aftermath of tragedy, questions must rise louder than sirens. #Uganda mourns a prominent young businessman, a man of industry and intent, whose life ended not in the boardroom or from the frailties of age, but in the twisted wreckage of a burning car -snuffed out by what may have been an unwarranted, senseless barricade. What was its purpose? Who sanctioned it? Why was it there at that hour, without warning, lighting, or logic? A barricade, by its very definition, is meant to protect. To guide. To prevent harm. But in this case, it became the architect of death. And if indeed it was haphazardly placed -by a negligent contractor, a lazy construction team, or an unbothered arm of government -then someone must be held accountable. A man is dead. Not from recklessness behind the wheel, but from the recklessness of policy, procedure, or sheer indifference. This isn’t just about one man - however towering his presence may have been. It’s about a system that shrugs off responsibility until lives are lost. Uganda’s roads cannot be an obstacle course of surprises. Lives, investments, and dreams speed down those tarmacs every day. We owe every driver the dignity of predictable safety. To the family of Rajiv Ruparelia: may peace find you amidst the flames of this injustice. But to those who placed that barricade - whether in ignorance or arrogance -know this: what you built wasn’t a roadblock. It was a funeral pyre. Justice, not condolences, is what we should now erect. #Uganda Sudhir Ruparelia

Patrick Oyulu

49,708 views • 1 year ago

Jeff Bezos just told you exactly how to price AI. Nobody listened. Bezos: “AI is real and it is going to change every industry. In fact it’s a very unusual technology in that regard in that it’s a horizontal enabling layer.” Horizontal enabling layer. Three words that reprice the entire technology sector. The iPhone was a vertical. One product. One new market. Electricity was a horizontal. One substrate that rewired every market on Earth. Wall Street is pricing AI like it is the next iPhone. Bezos is telling you it is the next electrical grid. Right now, thousands of companies are trying to sell AI as a product. A feature. A tool. A subscription tier. Every single one of them will be priced to zero. You do not sell a horizontal layer. You do not compete with it. You build on top of it or you disappear beneath it. For a century, entire industries survived on one thing. Complexity. The friction of navigating law, medicine, logistics, finance. That was the moat. If you could not memorize the maze, you could not compete. A horizontal layer does not navigate the maze. It dissolves the walls. Electricity did not compete with the candle industry. It erased the need for one. The most dangerous part of a horizontal shift is how quiet it is. It moves underneath the economy. The surface looks normal. Revenue still holds. Every day you operate on the old substrate, you accumulate a debt you cannot see and cannot repay. The internet repriced distribution. AI is repricing cognition itself. When intelligence becomes a utility that runs through the walls of every company on Earth, the premium on human expertise does not erode. It evaporates. This is not a disruption. Disruptions replace products. This replaces the ground you are standing on.
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Jeff Bezos just told you exactly how to price AI. Nobody listened. Bezos: “AI is real and it is going to change every industry. In fact it’s a very unusual technology in that regard in that it’s a horizontal enabling layer.” Horizontal enabling layer. Three words that reprice the entire technology sector. The iPhone was a vertical. One product. One new market. Electricity was a horizontal. One substrate that rewired every market on Earth. Wall Street is pricing AI like it is the next iPhone. Bezos is telling you it is the next electrical grid. Right now, thousands of companies are trying to sell AI as a product. A feature. A tool. A subscription tier. Every single one of them will be priced to zero. You do not sell a horizontal layer. You do not compete with it. You build on top of it or you disappear beneath it. For a century, entire industries survived on one thing. Complexity. The friction of navigating law, medicine, logistics, finance. That was the moat. If you could not memorize the maze, you could not compete. A horizontal layer does not navigate the maze. It dissolves the walls. Electricity did not compete with the candle industry. It erased the need for one. The most dangerous part of a horizontal shift is how quiet it is. It moves underneath the economy. The surface looks normal. Revenue still holds. Every day you operate on the old substrate, you accumulate a debt you cannot see and cannot repay. The internet repriced distribution. AI is repricing cognition itself. When intelligence becomes a utility that runs through the walls of every company on Earth, the premium on human expertise does not erode. It evaporates. This is not a disruption. Disruptions replace products. This replaces the ground you are standing on.

Dustin

542,106 views • 4 months ago

"Some eejit in government buildings said we have a better chance of getting this through if we say it's going to be held on international women's day, 8th March" Senator Michael McDowell The so-called 'women's rights organisations' and 'feminists' in Ireland lobbying for a yes vote on international women's day are NOT representing the interests of women but instead are serving the interests of the political establishment. A US feminist Ivy Pinchbeck inspired de Valera to insert Article 41.2 in our Constitution so that working class mother's were not forced out to work in factories for pittance money and with no option but to leave their young children at home. The Clause was created to protect mother's from the greedy clutches of industrialists. The State and their agents have manipulated and lied that Article 41.2 states that a "woman's place is in the home". It says nothing of the sort. It protects mother's from economic attack and is as important today as it was when our ancestors drafted our Constitution. STAND up for mother's, women, families and our country on international women's day. Do NOT trust the government. #VoteNoNo
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"Some eejit in government buildings said we have a better chance of getting this through if we say it's going to be held on international women's day, 8th March" Senator Michael McDowell The so-called 'women's rights organisations' and 'feminists' in Ireland lobbying for a yes vote on international women's day are NOT representing the interests of women but instead are serving the interests of the political establishment. A US feminist Ivy Pinchbeck inspired de Valera to insert Article 41.2 in our Constitution so that working class mother's were not forced out to work in factories for pittance money and with no option but to leave their young children at home. The Clause was created to protect mother's from the greedy clutches of industrialists. The State and their agents have manipulated and lied that Article 41.2 states that a "woman's place is in the home". It says nothing of the sort. It protects mother's from economic attack and is as important today as it was when our ancestors drafted our Constitution. STAND up for mother's, women, families and our country on international women's day. Do NOT trust the government. #VoteNoNo

Lawyers For Justice Ireland

83,900 views • 2 years ago

Modi is to India what Nero was to Rome. When Rome was burning, its emperor - Nero - wasn’t even there. Similarly, Narendra Modi is rarely there, where he is needed. India is facing an energy crisis, but instead of helping the nation solve this problem, he is busy pleading for votes while indulging in baseless and frivolous propaganda to suggest that there is no energy crisis. Incapable of offering a solution, all he provides is shameless denial. But the distressed faces, the long queues, and the shuttered restaurants across India tell a very different - and far grimmer - story. India needs a leader, not a dealer who becomes a mute spectator, in crisis.
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Modi is to India what Nero was to Rome. When Rome was burning, its emperor - Nero - wasn’t even there. Similarly, Narendra Modi is rarely there, where he is needed. India is facing an energy crisis, but instead of helping the nation solve this problem, he is busy pleading for votes while indulging in baseless and frivolous propaganda to suggest that there is no energy crisis. Incapable of offering a solution, all he provides is shameless denial. But the distressed faces, the long queues, and the shuttered restaurants across India tell a very different - and far grimmer - story. India needs a leader, not a dealer who becomes a mute spectator, in crisis.

Pawan Khera 🇮🇳 ಪವನ್ ಖೇರಾ

74,305 views • 6 months ago

TESLA HALTED MODEL S AND MODEL X PRODUCTION TO BUILD AN ARMY OF OPTIMUS ROBOTS The Fremont assembly line was torn down in 46 days. In its place, Tesla is building a line for humanoid production, aiming for a million units a year A humanoid robot is a body shaped like a human. Physical AI is the intelligence that controls that body Walking and making coffee is often just imitation learning from a scripted routine. But once the environment shifts, the learned trick stops working Language models had the entire internet to train on. Robotics has nothing close to that scale of data, which is why one giant brain hasn't worked for anyone yet The industry is moving toward modularity instead - separate models for vision, movement, and planning, each improved on its own The real question is no longer whether a robot can move impressively. It's whether it can pull its sensors into one picture of the world and adapt to whatever wasn't scripted for it
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TESLA HALTED MODEL S AND MODEL X PRODUCTION TO BUILD AN ARMY OF OPTIMUS ROBOTS The Fremont assembly line was torn down in 46 days. In its place, Tesla is building a line for humanoid production, aiming for a million units a year A humanoid robot is a body shaped like a human. Physical AI is the intelligence that controls that body Walking and making coffee is often just imitation learning from a scripted routine. But once the environment shifts, the learned trick stops working Language models had the entire internet to train on. Robotics has nothing close to that scale of data, which is why one giant brain hasn't worked for anyone yet The industry is moving toward modularity instead - separate models for vision, movement, and planning, each improved on its own The real question is no longer whether a robot can move impressively. It's whether it can pull its sensors into one picture of the world and adapt to whatever wasn't scripted for it

iamigorekk

22,205 views • 23 days ago