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🇹🇷 Turkish strike drone Bayraktar AKINCI has successfully tested new munitions — including ones capable of punching through concrete bunkers During one flight, two types were tested: 📍 TOLUN-F — fragmentation, designed for personnel and unarmoured vehicles. 📍 TOLUN + ASAF fuze — hits through concrete: effective against bunkers,... show more

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🇹🇷 WATCH: Turkish defense firm ASELSAN has dropped fresh test footage of its TOLUN P guided munition, captured as a Bayraktar AKINCI drone delivers a precise strike on its target. This 250-pound-class weapon packs a specialized penetrating nose and serious kinetic energy, enabling it to smash through a full meter of reinforced concrete. Built to take out underground bunkers, command centers, and armored hangars, it gives combat drones a powerful new edge against fortified targets. Pretty badass!! Source: TABZ (TG) / Writer: Jamie

🇹🇷 WATCH: Turkish defense firm ASELSAN has dropped fresh test footage of its TOLUN P guided munition, captured as a Bayraktar AKINCI drone delivers a precise strike on its target. This 250-pound-class weapon packs a specialized penetrating nose and serious kinetic energy, enabling it to smash through a full meter of reinforced concrete. Built to take out underground bunkers, command centers, and armored hangars, it gives combat drones a powerful new edge against fortified targets. Pretty badass!! Source: TABZ (TG) / Writer: Jamie

Mario Nawfal

54,543 次观看 • 2 个月前

Türkiye's ASELSAN says its TOLUN family of precision-guided munitions has entered powerful serial production and is ready for operational deployment. ASELSAN posted footage of hundreds of TOLUN units lined up in storage hangars, factory assembly, an F-16 release with glide wings deploying, and a direct hit on a hardened concrete bunker. The 250 lb-class SDB-equivalent features a ~105 kg penetrating warhead capable of breaching 1 meter of reinforced concrete, INS/GNSS guidance with CRPA anti-jam antennas, sub-10-meter CEP accuracy, and a stand-off range of up to 100+ km when released from F-16s or Bayraktar AKINCI UAVs. With variants including TOLUN-P, TOLUN-F, TOLUN-IIR, ground-launched TOLUN-S, and the newer TOLUN-EW, ASELSAN's mass-production capacity signals a major boost to Türkiye's indigenous stand-off strike capability.

Türkiye's ASELSAN says its TOLUN family of precision-guided munitions has entered powerful serial production and is ready for operational deployment. ASELSAN posted footage of hundreds of TOLUN units lined up in storage hangars, factory assembly, an F-16 release with glide wings deploying, and a direct hit on a hardened concrete bunker. The 250 lb-class SDB-equivalent features a ~105 kg penetrating warhead capable of breaching 1 meter of reinforced concrete, INS/GNSS guidance with CRPA anti-jam antennas, sub-10-meter CEP accuracy, and a stand-off range of up to 100+ km when released from F-16s or Bayraktar AKINCI UAVs. With variants including TOLUN-P, TOLUN-F, TOLUN-IIR, ground-launched TOLUN-S, and the newer TOLUN-EW, ASELSAN's mass-production capacity signals a major boost to Türkiye's indigenous stand-off strike capability.

Clash Report

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🇹🇷 Turkey's making TONS of bombs ASELSAN has moved its TOLUN precision-guided munition into full serial production and declared it ready for deployment. The 250 lb-class glide bomb can breach 1 meter of reinforced concrete, hits within 10 meters of its target, and has a stand-off range of 100+ km when launched from F-16s or Bayraktar AKINCI drones. Hundreds of units are already in storage. Turkey's domestic strike arsenal is growing fast.

🇹🇷 Turkey's making TONS of bombs ASELSAN has moved its TOLUN precision-guided munition into full serial production and declared it ready for deployment. The 250 lb-class glide bomb can breach 1 meter of reinforced concrete, hits within 10 meters of its target, and has a stand-off range of 100+ km when launched from F-16s or Bayraktar AKINCI drones. Hundreds of units are already in storage. Turkey's domestic strike arsenal is growing fast.

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‼️🇺🇸🇮🇷 How Does the GBU 57 Destroy Deep Underground Bunkers? The GBU 57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is one of the most powerful conventional bunker buster bombs ever built. Designed to destroy deeply buried military facilities, it can penetrate through layers of reinforced concrete, rock, and soil before detonating. Unlike ordinary bombs that explode on impact, the GBU 57 uses its massive weight, hardened steel casing, and delayed fuse to burrow deep underground. Only after reaching the intended depth does it detonate, sending a devastating shockwave through tunnels, bunkers, and underground command centers. This capability makes it one of the United States' most effective conventional weapons against heavily fortified underground sites, including hardened nuclear facilities. The bomb is typically delivered by the B 2 Spirit stealth bomber, allowing it to strike high value targets while minimizing exposure to enemy air defenses. It is not carried by the B 52. Its combination of deep penetration and delayed detonation is what sets the GBU 57 apart from standard precision guided bombs, making it a unique weapon for attacking deeply buried infrastructure.

‼️🇺🇸🇮🇷 How Does the GBU 57 Destroy Deep Underground Bunkers? The GBU 57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is one of the most powerful conventional bunker buster bombs ever built. Designed to destroy deeply buried military facilities, it can penetrate through layers of reinforced concrete, rock, and soil before detonating. Unlike ordinary bombs that explode on impact, the GBU 57 uses its massive weight, hardened steel casing, and delayed fuse to burrow deep underground. Only after reaching the intended depth does it detonate, sending a devastating shockwave through tunnels, bunkers, and underground command centers. This capability makes it one of the United States' most effective conventional weapons against heavily fortified underground sites, including hardened nuclear facilities. The bomb is typically delivered by the B 2 Spirit stealth bomber, allowing it to strike high value targets while minimizing exposure to enemy air defenses. It is not carried by the B 52. Its combination of deep penetration and delayed detonation is what sets the GBU 57 apart from standard precision guided bombs, making it a unique weapon for attacking deeply buried infrastructure.

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🚨Satellite images have revealed a shocking discovery at Iran’s Parchin military complex. Tehran had attempted to conceal a highly secret facility known as “Talagan 2” under massive reinforced concrete and huge soil mounds to disguise and protect it from aerial attacks. This facility was not merely a military storage site—it was directly linked to Iran’s nuclear program, designed to produce high-purity plastic explosives for shock wave generators used to miniaturize nuclear weapons for easier transport and deployment. Despite months of heavy fortification, including arched roofs and ultra-strong concrete, U.S. technology had other plans. In an operation dubbed “Operation Epic Fury”, B-2 Spirit stealth bombers—the only aircraft capable of carrying the U.S. military’s heaviest conventional bomb, the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP, GBU-57B)—were deployed. Weighing 30,000 pounds (≈13.6 tons) and costing $4 million each, the MOP is designed to penetrate up to 200 feet (≈60 meters) of reinforced concrete before detonating, effectively turning hardened bunkers into “melted rubble.” The images show three massive holes in the facility’s roof, demonstrating extraordinary accuracy. The bombs penetrated the fortifications and detonated inside, causing catastrophic destruction from interior to exterior. Israeli forces then conducted complementary strikes using 2,000-pound bombs and fighter jets to destroy control buildings and surface equipment, rendering the facility completely inoperative. This operation sent a harsh strategic message: even Iran’s deepest and most secretive fortifications are exposed and vulnerable to U.S. air power. With B-2 bombers repositioned at British bases and new MOP bombs worth over $100 million being purchased, this strike appears to be only the beginning of a wider wave of attacks on underground nuclear and military facilities. Despite Iranian threats and demands for halting operations and reparations, the three holes in Talagan 2 make it clear: the balance of power has shifted dramatically, and Iran can no longer rely on traditional fortifications for protection.

🚨Satellite images have revealed a shocking discovery at Iran’s Parchin military complex. Tehran had attempted to conceal a highly secret facility known as “Talagan 2” under massive reinforced concrete and huge soil mounds to disguise and protect it from aerial attacks. This facility was not merely a military storage site—it was directly linked to Iran’s nuclear program, designed to produce high-purity plastic explosives for shock wave generators used to miniaturize nuclear weapons for easier transport and deployment. Despite months of heavy fortification, including arched roofs and ultra-strong concrete, U.S. technology had other plans. In an operation dubbed “Operation Epic Fury”, B-2 Spirit stealth bombers—the only aircraft capable of carrying the U.S. military’s heaviest conventional bomb, the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP, GBU-57B)—were deployed. Weighing 30,000 pounds (≈13.6 tons) and costing $4 million each, the MOP is designed to penetrate up to 200 feet (≈60 meters) of reinforced concrete before detonating, effectively turning hardened bunkers into “melted rubble.” The images show three massive holes in the facility’s roof, demonstrating extraordinary accuracy. The bombs penetrated the fortifications and detonated inside, causing catastrophic destruction from interior to exterior. Israeli forces then conducted complementary strikes using 2,000-pound bombs and fighter jets to destroy control buildings and surface equipment, rendering the facility completely inoperative. This operation sent a harsh strategic message: even Iran’s deepest and most secretive fortifications are exposed and vulnerable to U.S. air power. With B-2 bombers repositioned at British bases and new MOP bombs worth over $100 million being purchased, this strike appears to be only the beginning of a wider wave of attacks on underground nuclear and military facilities. Despite Iranian threats and demands for halting operations and reparations, the three holes in Talagan 2 make it clear: the balance of power has shifted dramatically, and Iran can no longer rely on traditional fortifications for protection.

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In Kryvyi Rih, emergency and rescue operations are ongoing at the site of yesterday’s Russian strike on a shopping mall. The fire, which spread across 9,000 square meters, has been extinguished. SESU specialists are clearing the rubble and continuing to search for people. Rescuers from seven regions and canine search teams are involved in the operation. Sadly, 16 people have now been confirmed killed and 130 injured, including 23 children. My condolences to all the families and loved ones… There were also missile and drone strikes throughout the evening and night. In Kyiv, ballistic missile strikes damaged railway infrastructure. One person was killed and another injured. In Zaporizhzhia, there was an absolutely inhumane FPV drone strike on a city minibus, injuring three people. Odesa, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Sumy, Kherson, Chernihiv, and Mykolaiv regions also came under attack. Residential buildings, energy and railway infrastructure facilities, and civilian businesses were damaged. Every day that Ukraine lacks sufficient air defense means casualties that could have been prevented. Protecting lives requires daily decisions and effective support from the world, and right now, new supplies of ballistic missile interceptors and other missiles can help. Thank you to everyone who is helping our people and supporting Ukraine with concrete steps.

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Commander of the USF, Robert “Magyar” Brovdi, publicly highlighted an issue with munitions supplied by certain manufacturers. Effective decisions are only possible when based on real, unfiltered information. Without acknowledging, analyzing, and fixing mistakes, quality military operations are impossible. Working with the truth moves us further away from the legacy of the USSR – an empire of lies. Also, Magyar emphasized that in-house munitions production at Tsukrarnia (Candy Shop) meets quality standards and covers the majority of the USF units’ needs. Below is a direct quote from Magyar: ‼️What the hell is this warhead for, I’m asking! The destruction of a command post of a unit from the enemy’s 58th Army (Kadiivka, temporarily occupied Luhansk region, 55 km from the frontline) is a typical example. We are constantly scaling strikes on key enemy command locations, where senior command staff of brigades, divisions, armies are based. Is it important? No doubt. ‼️But this damn warhead… Just compare the first and second drone runs. Both with 100 kg warheads. Six aircraft were spent on that den-club. It should have taken exactly TWO to completely level the site. The other four Birds could have destroyed two more such dens. WTF? – I’m asking! Gentlemen manufacturers of warheads – this is for you. Maybe stop feeding us junk for high-value systems? This is a persistent issue, otherwise I wouldn’t be raising it publicly. Take your eyes off super-profit calculations and fix the problem immediately. Not in office meetings, but through direct engagement with the units using your products. And don’t provoke – this is a deliberate, though concise warning. I know your lobbying capabilities. Neither rank nor position weighs on me. That’s why the USF Grouping produces and uses the vast majority of its munitions at Tsukrarnia – assembled in-house, based on its own developed lines and specifications. 100,000 units per month. All types, except for warheads for middle and deep strike. We lack the resources; we would produce those ourselves as well. Follow USF results live: USF online scoreboard “PIDRAKHUIKA” MAGYAR 🇺🇦 24.04.26

Commander of the USF, Robert “Magyar” Brovdi, publicly highlighted an issue with munitions supplied by certain manufacturers. Effective decisions are only possible when based on real, unfiltered information. Without acknowledging, analyzing, and fixing mistakes, quality military operations are impossible. Working with the truth moves us further away from the legacy of the USSR – an empire of lies. Also, Magyar emphasized that in-house munitions production at Tsukrarnia (Candy Shop) meets quality standards and covers the majority of the USF units’ needs. Below is a direct quote from Magyar: ‼️What the hell is this warhead for, I’m asking! The destruction of a command post of a unit from the enemy’s 58th Army (Kadiivka, temporarily occupied Luhansk region, 55 km from the frontline) is a typical example. We are constantly scaling strikes on key enemy command locations, where senior command staff of brigades, divisions, armies are based. Is it important? No doubt. ‼️But this damn warhead… Just compare the first and second drone runs. Both with 100 kg warheads. Six aircraft were spent on that den-club. It should have taken exactly TWO to completely level the site. The other four Birds could have destroyed two more such dens. WTF? – I’m asking! Gentlemen manufacturers of warheads – this is for you. Maybe stop feeding us junk for high-value systems? This is a persistent issue, otherwise I wouldn’t be raising it publicly. Take your eyes off super-profit calculations and fix the problem immediately. Not in office meetings, but through direct engagement with the units using your products. And don’t provoke – this is a deliberate, though concise warning. I know your lobbying capabilities. Neither rank nor position weighs on me. That’s why the USF Grouping produces and uses the vast majority of its munitions at Tsukrarnia – assembled in-house, based on its own developed lines and specifications. 100,000 units per month. All types, except for warheads for middle and deep strike. We lack the resources; we would produce those ourselves as well. Follow USF results live: USF online scoreboard “PIDRAKHUIKA” MAGYAR 🇺🇦 24.04.26

414 Magyar's Birds

73,746 次观看 • 5 个月前

HOW IRAN OUTSMARTED AMERICA: DECADES UNDERGROUND BEAT A WAR OF CHOICE America stumbled into its Iran war with no clear objectives and no method to win. Iran had been preparing for exactly this fight for decades. One side improvised a war of choice. The other had already buried the war it expected. THE STUMBLE ➡️ America entered without settled aims or a plan to achieve them. ➡️ Iran treated the fight as existential years in advance. ➡️ It built regional allies, readied its leadership to survive a decapitation strike, and put what it valued most underground. THE 35 MISSILE CITIES ➡️ Western analysts put about 35 “missile cities” at the center of Iran’s war plans. ➡️ Their job was to shelter ballistic missiles aimed at Israel and America’s Gulf Arab partners. ➡️ February strikes knocked out many launchers. The fire rate fell by as much as 80%. ➡️ Missiles already deep underground could not be touched. ➡️ So the campaign shifted to caving in tunnel mouths. ➡️ Iran hunkered down, fired what survived more slowly, and dug the entrances back out. ➡️ Commanders admitted the bunkers were so deep that none of America’s munitions could reach them. ➡️ “Everybody is going underground.” MOSAIC COMMAND ➡️ They hardened command as well as concrete. ➡️ When senior leaders were killed on the first night, officers elsewhere already had authority to launch counterstrikes. ➡️ The same complexes stored the speedboats, drones, and missiles built to close the Strait of Hormuz. THE STOCKPILE AMERICA NEVER BUILT ➡️ Iran had built large weapons stocks. America had not. ➡️ At the start: around 1,000 ballistic missiles able to hit Israel, and as many as 4,000 that could strike the Gulf. ➡️ Even after firing and losses, enough remained to keep some operations going. ➡️ Bombing wrecked much of the capacity to make new missiles. ➡️ Small drone workshops were another matter. Those can keep producing almost indefinitely. THE BOTTOM LINE The Iranian government has survived. Guard commanders stepped into key roles. Arab capitals got a lesson in geography and in the limits of American power. Washington showed a president hooked on short-term politics and a military short of the tools for a war of survival against another state. This was never a war of choice against an insurgency. It was a prepared state versus an improvised one. #IranWar #Hormuz #MissileCities #MosaicCommand #AxisOfResistance #BabElMandeb HT: YouTube Times Originals

HOW IRAN OUTSMARTED AMERICA: DECADES UNDERGROUND BEAT A WAR OF CHOICE America stumbled into its Iran war with no clear objectives and no method to win. Iran had been preparing for exactly this fight for decades. One side improvised a war of choice. The other had already buried the war it expected. THE STUMBLE ➡️ America entered without settled aims or a plan to achieve them. ➡️ Iran treated the fight as existential years in advance. ➡️ It built regional allies, readied its leadership to survive a decapitation strike, and put what it valued most underground. THE 35 MISSILE CITIES ➡️ Western analysts put about 35 “missile cities” at the center of Iran’s war plans. ➡️ Their job was to shelter ballistic missiles aimed at Israel and America’s Gulf Arab partners. ➡️ February strikes knocked out many launchers. The fire rate fell by as much as 80%. ➡️ Missiles already deep underground could not be touched. ➡️ So the campaign shifted to caving in tunnel mouths. ➡️ Iran hunkered down, fired what survived more slowly, and dug the entrances back out. ➡️ Commanders admitted the bunkers were so deep that none of America’s munitions could reach them. ➡️ “Everybody is going underground.” MOSAIC COMMAND ➡️ They hardened command as well as concrete. ➡️ When senior leaders were killed on the first night, officers elsewhere already had authority to launch counterstrikes. ➡️ The same complexes stored the speedboats, drones, and missiles built to close the Strait of Hormuz. THE STOCKPILE AMERICA NEVER BUILT ➡️ Iran had built large weapons stocks. America had not. ➡️ At the start: around 1,000 ballistic missiles able to hit Israel, and as many as 4,000 that could strike the Gulf. ➡️ Even after firing and losses, enough remained to keep some operations going. ➡️ Bombing wrecked much of the capacity to make new missiles. ➡️ Small drone workshops were another matter. Those can keep producing almost indefinitely. THE BOTTOM LINE The Iranian government has survived. Guard commanders stepped into key roles. Arab capitals got a lesson in geography and in the limits of American power. Washington showed a president hooked on short-term politics and a military short of the tools for a war of survival against another state. This was never a war of choice against an insurgency. It was a prepared state versus an improvised one. #IranWar #Hormuz #MissileCities #MosaicCommand #AxisOfResistance #BabElMandeb HT: YouTube Times Originals

Mark

131,690 次观看 • 26 天前

‼️‼️🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪🇵🇱 BREAKING | Alarm is growing across NATO’s eastern flank that Russia could move from hybrid pressure and repeated airspace violations toward a direct test of the Alliance, with the Baltic states and Poland urgently seeking billions to prepare for a potentially far more dangerous security environment. A leaked letter from the European commissioners representing Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland warns of a “deteriorating security environment,” including increasingly frequent airspace violations and drone incursions, and calls for roughly $115 billion to reinforce Europe’s frontline defenses. Priorities include protecting energy infrastructure, expanding strategic stockpiles and shelters, strengthening cyber defenses and improving military mobility. Meanwhile, the repeatedly discussed “drone wall” along the EU’s eastern frontier remains largely on paper. As one Baltic official put it: “Talking about a drone wall is easier than building one. Nobody has such a wall yet, not even the Ukrainians.” The Baltic states have already reached, or are approaching, NATO’s new target of spending 5% of GDP on defense, but crucial projects such as Rail Baltica remain years behind schedule. The urgency is reinforced by Washington’s own intelligence picture. CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow on August 25 specifically to warn Russia against escalating with NATO’s Baltic members, following U.S. intelligence assessments that Moscow could seek to test the Alliance through limited aggression. Taken together, the intelligence warnings and Baltic demands point to the same strategic problem: Eastern Europe is racing to close vulnerabilities before Moscow decides NATO’s eastern frontier can be tested. The Baltics are spending at extraordinary levels, but money alone cannot instantly produce air defenses, hardened infrastructure, military mobility or an effective counter-drone shield. See the latest updates with us: Visioner

‼️‼️🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪🇵🇱 BREAKING | Alarm is growing across NATO’s eastern flank that Russia could move from hybrid pressure and repeated airspace violations toward a direct test of the Alliance, with the Baltic states and Poland urgently seeking billions to prepare for a potentially far more dangerous security environment. A leaked letter from the European commissioners representing Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland warns of a “deteriorating security environment,” including increasingly frequent airspace violations and drone incursions, and calls for roughly $115 billion to reinforce Europe’s frontline defenses. Priorities include protecting energy infrastructure, expanding strategic stockpiles and shelters, strengthening cyber defenses and improving military mobility. Meanwhile, the repeatedly discussed “drone wall” along the EU’s eastern frontier remains largely on paper. As one Baltic official put it: “Talking about a drone wall is easier than building one. Nobody has such a wall yet, not even the Ukrainians.” The Baltic states have already reached, or are approaching, NATO’s new target of spending 5% of GDP on defense, but crucial projects such as Rail Baltica remain years behind schedule. The urgency is reinforced by Washington’s own intelligence picture. CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow on August 25 specifically to warn Russia against escalating with NATO’s Baltic members, following U.S. intelligence assessments that Moscow could seek to test the Alliance through limited aggression. Taken together, the intelligence warnings and Baltic demands point to the same strategic problem: Eastern Europe is racing to close vulnerabilities before Moscow decides NATO’s eastern frontier can be tested. The Baltics are spending at extraordinary levels, but money alone cannot instantly produce air defenses, hardened infrastructure, military mobility or an effective counter-drone shield. See the latest updates with us: Visioner

Visioner

141,594 次观看 • 1 个月前

🚨🇷🇺 NATO IN PANIC: RUSSIA UNVEILS DAN-T JET-POWERED STRIKE DRONE BUILT TO BYPASS AIR DEFENSES Russia has unveiled the Dan-T, a combat-proven air-launched strike drone capable of hitting targets up to 450 km away while following a dedicated flight profile designed to evade enemy air defenses. Presented publicly for the first time at the El Alamein International Airshow in Egypt, Dan-T is not a showroom prototype. Russia’s state-owned defense conglomerate Rostec says its effectiveness has already been demonstrated through hundreds of successful launches against enemy targets. 🔸 Jet-powered attack: Unlike slower propeller-driven loitering munitions, Dan-T uses a compact turbojet engine to reach higher cruising speeds, reducing the time available for air defenses to detect and intercept it. 🔸 Long-range reach: With a range of up to 450 km, the weapon allows aircraft and helicopters to launch strikes far from the target area while remaining farther from enemy air defenses. 🔸 Multiple launch platforms: Dan-T can be carried by Russian and foreign aircraft and helicopters, allowing the weapon to approach targets from different directions without depending on a single specialized carrier. 🔸 Fire-and-forget: Once released, Dan-T continues toward its target autonomously without requiring constant operator control or an uninterrupted command link. 🔸 Built to evade defenses: Rostec says the weapon has a special flight mode for bypassing air-defense systems, complicating detection and interception on the way to its target. 🔸 Already tested in combat: Hundreds of successful launches have given Russian engineers operational data to refine the weapon long before its international debut. Dan-T combines the reach and speed of a cruise missile with the flexibility and potentially lower cost of a strike drone. Aircraft and helicopters become mobile launch points, while the weapon continues independently after release. The key advantage is mass: Russia can add jet-powered autonomous weapons to mixed strike waves containing drones and cruise missiles, forcing air defenses to track more targets approaching at different speeds and from different directions. Every additional target consumes attention, radar capacity and an interceptor that may cost far more than the weapon it destroys. Could Dan-T give Russia a cheaper way to overwhelm NATO air defenses?

NewRulesGeopolitics

17,885 次观看 • 1 个月前

NEW: Bill Maher just conceded what most of the media still won’t say—Trump is one of the most effective politicians of our time. And this wasn’t a throwaway line. Maher meant it. “Trump is one of the most effective politicians,” Maher told Chris Cuomo. “Whatever you think of the policy and him as a person… just as a politician.” What won Maher over? Raw authenticity and moments no one else in politics can pull off. Maher continued: “People are not savvy about issues, but they smell a phony a mile away… and that kind of shit, nobody else does it.” Then he dropped two jaw-dropping examples where—even as a self-professed Trump critic—he had to give the man credit. The first: “When he did that thing where the guy came in from the Taliban and he said, ‘This is an aerial picture of your house. If during our withdrawal, one American is hurt, just know I know where you live.’” “I was like, oh can we just play the music now? Because I don’t care it’s Donald Trump and he’s the worst person ever, blah, blah, blah—I F*CKING LOVE THAT!” The second: “One time they were doing something, something was going on and he said, ‘You know what? When you come after New York, you got to go through me.’ It’s like, oh—hometown boy.” Maher summed it all up: “You know, he has those moments that no other politician has. And the Democrats have to find that guy.” But let’s be real: they’ve been searching for years—and they’re still coming up empty.

NEW: Bill Maher just conceded what most of the media still won’t say—Trump is one of the most effective politicians of our time. And this wasn’t a throwaway line. Maher meant it. “Trump is one of the most effective politicians,” Maher told Chris Cuomo. “Whatever you think of the policy and him as a person… just as a politician.” What won Maher over? Raw authenticity and moments no one else in politics can pull off. Maher continued: “People are not savvy about issues, but they smell a phony a mile away… and that kind of shit, nobody else does it.” Then he dropped two jaw-dropping examples where—even as a self-professed Trump critic—he had to give the man credit. The first: “When he did that thing where the guy came in from the Taliban and he said, ‘This is an aerial picture of your house. If during our withdrawal, one American is hurt, just know I know where you live.’” “I was like, oh can we just play the music now? Because I don’t care it’s Donald Trump and he’s the worst person ever, blah, blah, blah—I F*CKING LOVE THAT!” The second: “One time they were doing something, something was going on and he said, ‘You know what? When you come after New York, you got to go through me.’ It’s like, oh—hometown boy.” Maher summed it all up: “You know, he has those moments that no other politician has. And the Democrats have to find that guy.” But let’s be real: they’ve been searching for years—and they’re still coming up empty.

The Vigilant Fox 🦊

913,472 次观看 • 1 年前

IRAN'S MESSAGE TO WASHINGTON: THE HIT-AND-RUN ERA IS OVER Iran has a message for Washington, and it is coming from the IRGC's own aerospace force. Brigadier General Ali Balali, an adviser to the commander of that force, says Iran has as many missiles as it needs, can sustain this war for years, and that the era of striking Iran without consequences is over. That claim sits in direct conflict with what the Trump administration has been telling the public since April. The gap between those two stories is now the story. THE CORE CLAIM ➡️ Balali says Iran no longer has to ration fire. During the eight years of the Iran-Iraq war, he says, Iran fired 88 missiles in total. ➡️ "We had no choice but to launch the missiles one at a time and in limited numbers so that we could sustain operations until the end of the war." He says that problem is gone. ➡️ "Today, in every operation, the armed forces launch as much as necessary with power and determination so that the enemy is disciplined and understands that the era of hit and run is over." THE WASHINGTON LINE Back in April, Trump described a different war. ➡️ "Their command and control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is being decimated as we speak. Their ability to launch missiles and drones is dramatically curtailed." He said weapons factories and rocket launchers were being blown to pieces, with very few left. ➡️ "Never in the history of warfare has an enemy suffered such clear and devastating large-scale losses in a matter of weeks." US officials have repeatedly said Iran's missile industry has been largely destroyed. The public tally is a 90% drop in ballistic missile attacks and an 83% drop in one-way attack drones. THE UNDERGROUND PROBLEM The Wall Street Journal reported last month, citing US and Middle Eastern intelligence officials, that Iran has resumed producing ballistic missiles inside underground facilities, including a complex near Tehran, both liquid-fueled and solid-fueled. ➡️ That report already cut against the Pentagon's 90% claim. Balali's interview reinforces the same picture. Iran has built what it calls missile cities. These are underground sites carved into mountains, with automated rail systems linking assembly, storage, and concealed launch points. ➡️ America's GBU-57 bunker buster can penetrate about 60 meters of reinforced concrete. The deepest of these cities, on this account, sit 500 meters down. That is the stated reason US strikes have degraded Iran's missile force without eliminating it. The briefing says the sites were built to survive exactly this kind of bombardment. Through the same period Trump has called the arsenal exhausted, Iran has kept firing at US bases in Jordan, the UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain. THE SANCTIONS ANSWER This week Washington sanctioned 13 individuals and entities in China, Hong Kong, Pakistan, and Russia for helping Iran procure weapons components. The stated goal is to cut the supply chain. ➡️ Balali's answer is that barriers and sanctions "could not prevent the Islamic Republic of Iran from building up its power and advancing in the missile, drone, and other fields." Read as a reply to policymakers, the interview has three parts. The stockpile has not been exhausted after seven months of war. Production, he says, can replace what is fired. Any country that hosts American forces and supports strikes on Iran should expect a response proportionate to the attack it enables. THE BOTTOM LINE Washington is still selling a missile force that is nearly used up. Tehran is selling a force that can fire as needed, refill underground, and punish the hosts. Those two stories cannot both be the whole truth, and the bases still taking fire are the test. The era of hit and run is the claim. The next salvo is the proof. #IranMissiles #IRGC #HitAndRunOver #MissileCities #PentagonClaim #GulfWarning #HormuzWar

IRAN'S MESSAGE TO WASHINGTON: THE HIT-AND-RUN ERA IS OVER Iran has a message for Washington, and it is coming from the IRGC's own aerospace force. Brigadier General Ali Balali, an adviser to the commander of that force, says Iran has as many missiles as it needs, can sustain this war for years, and that the era of striking Iran without consequences is over. That claim sits in direct conflict with what the Trump administration has been telling the public since April. The gap between those two stories is now the story. THE CORE CLAIM ➡️ Balali says Iran no longer has to ration fire. During the eight years of the Iran-Iraq war, he says, Iran fired 88 missiles in total. ➡️ "We had no choice but to launch the missiles one at a time and in limited numbers so that we could sustain operations until the end of the war." He says that problem is gone. ➡️ "Today, in every operation, the armed forces launch as much as necessary with power and determination so that the enemy is disciplined and understands that the era of hit and run is over." THE WASHINGTON LINE Back in April, Trump described a different war. ➡️ "Their command and control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is being decimated as we speak. Their ability to launch missiles and drones is dramatically curtailed." He said weapons factories and rocket launchers were being blown to pieces, with very few left. ➡️ "Never in the history of warfare has an enemy suffered such clear and devastating large-scale losses in a matter of weeks." US officials have repeatedly said Iran's missile industry has been largely destroyed. The public tally is a 90% drop in ballistic missile attacks and an 83% drop in one-way attack drones. THE UNDERGROUND PROBLEM The Wall Street Journal reported last month, citing US and Middle Eastern intelligence officials, that Iran has resumed producing ballistic missiles inside underground facilities, including a complex near Tehran, both liquid-fueled and solid-fueled. ➡️ That report already cut against the Pentagon's 90% claim. Balali's interview reinforces the same picture. Iran has built what it calls missile cities. These are underground sites carved into mountains, with automated rail systems linking assembly, storage, and concealed launch points. ➡️ America's GBU-57 bunker buster can penetrate about 60 meters of reinforced concrete. The deepest of these cities, on this account, sit 500 meters down. That is the stated reason US strikes have degraded Iran's missile force without eliminating it. The briefing says the sites were built to survive exactly this kind of bombardment. Through the same period Trump has called the arsenal exhausted, Iran has kept firing at US bases in Jordan, the UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain. THE SANCTIONS ANSWER This week Washington sanctioned 13 individuals and entities in China, Hong Kong, Pakistan, and Russia for helping Iran procure weapons components. The stated goal is to cut the supply chain. ➡️ Balali's answer is that barriers and sanctions "could not prevent the Islamic Republic of Iran from building up its power and advancing in the missile, drone, and other fields." Read as a reply to policymakers, the interview has three parts. The stockpile has not been exhausted after seven months of war. Production, he says, can replace what is fired. Any country that hosts American forces and supports strikes on Iran should expect a response proportionate to the attack it enables. THE BOTTOM LINE Washington is still selling a missile force that is nearly used up. Tehran is selling a force that can fire as needed, refill underground, and punish the hosts. Those two stories cannot both be the whole truth, and the bases still taking fire are the test. The era of hit and run is the claim. The next salvo is the proof. #IranMissiles #IRGC #HitAndRunOver #MissileCities #PentagonClaim #GulfWarning #HormuzWar

Mark

20,399 次观看 • 10 天前

🚨🇷🇺🇮🇷 PENTAGON IN PANIC: U.S. BASES FACE RUSSIA’S UPGRADED SHAHED ATTACK DRONES U.S. bases across the Middle East face a more dangerous Shahed threat as reports indicate that Russia is returning battlefield-tested upgrades to the Iranian design. AP reported in March that upgraded Russian-built drones were being sent to Tehran, while Reuters later said Western analysts were examining whether Russian technology helped Iranian drones strike CIA facilities in Riyadh and eastern Iraq. 🔸 Iran originally supplied Russia with the Shahed-136 design. Russia then established mass production of its Geran-2 derivative and refined it through years of large-scale combat use. 🔸 Russian development work has produced Shahed variants with improved satellite navigation, stronger protection against jamming, new radio links, cameras and upgraded flight computers. Other versions have appeared with jet engines and onboard AI, although AP’s sources did not identify which variants were reportedly sent to Iran. 🔸 Reuters cited two Western officials who believed Russian-enhanced Shaheds were used in the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh. One drone reportedly opened a hole in the building before a second passed through it and detonated near the CIA station. No casualties were reported. 🔸 Western intelligence sources also claim Russia supplied Iran with the Kometa-M satellite-navigation module, designed to maintain greater accuracy under electronic attack. The Kremlin dismissed the report as “fake news.” 🔸 Faster and harder-to-jam drones create an expensive problem for defenders. Low-cost Shaheds can arrive in waves, forcing U.S. forces to consume limited stocks of missiles that cost far more than the targets they destroy. 🔸 AP’s sources could not confirm the number or exact type of drones involved. But access to Russian navigation, communications and anti-jamming upgrades could matter more than the size of a single shipment. Iran supplied the original design. Russia mass-produced it, improved it under years of battlefield pressure and may now be returning those lessons to Tehran. For U.S. bases, the danger is not one drone but repeated salvos that are harder to jam, faster to adapt and far cheaper than the missiles used to stop them. Do you think upgraded Shaheds could change the balance in the U.S.-Iran conflict?

🚨🇷🇺🇮🇷 PENTAGON IN PANIC: U.S. BASES FACE RUSSIA’S UPGRADED SHAHED ATTACK DRONES U.S. bases across the Middle East face a more dangerous Shahed threat as reports indicate that Russia is returning battlefield-tested upgrades to the Iranian design. AP reported in March that upgraded Russian-built drones were being sent to Tehran, while Reuters later said Western analysts were examining whether Russian technology helped Iranian drones strike CIA facilities in Riyadh and eastern Iraq. 🔸 Iran originally supplied Russia with the Shahed-136 design. Russia then established mass production of its Geran-2 derivative and refined it through years of large-scale combat use. 🔸 Russian development work has produced Shahed variants with improved satellite navigation, stronger protection against jamming, new radio links, cameras and upgraded flight computers. Other versions have appeared with jet engines and onboard AI, although AP’s sources did not identify which variants were reportedly sent to Iran. 🔸 Reuters cited two Western officials who believed Russian-enhanced Shaheds were used in the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh. One drone reportedly opened a hole in the building before a second passed through it and detonated near the CIA station. No casualties were reported. 🔸 Western intelligence sources also claim Russia supplied Iran with the Kometa-M satellite-navigation module, designed to maintain greater accuracy under electronic attack. The Kremlin dismissed the report as “fake news.” 🔸 Faster and harder-to-jam drones create an expensive problem for defenders. Low-cost Shaheds can arrive in waves, forcing U.S. forces to consume limited stocks of missiles that cost far more than the targets they destroy. 🔸 AP’s sources could not confirm the number or exact type of drones involved. But access to Russian navigation, communications and anti-jamming upgrades could matter more than the size of a single shipment. Iran supplied the original design. Russia mass-produced it, improved it under years of battlefield pressure and may now be returning those lessons to Tehran. For U.S. bases, the danger is not one drone but repeated salvos that are harder to jam, faster to adapt and far cheaper than the missiles used to stop them. Do you think upgraded Shaheds could change the balance in the U.S.-Iran conflict?

NewRulesGeopolitics

22,922 次观看 • 2 个月前

Caitlin Clark isn’t just good—she’s a generational talent reshaping women’s basketball. From rewriting the NCAA record books at Iowa to exploding onto the WNBA scene as the No. 1 pick in 2024, Clark has delivered elite production at every level. Deep range that stretches defenses beyond the logo, laser precision on passes, elite vision as a playmaker, and the competitive fire to hunt big moments. In the pros she’s already a Rookie of the Year, multi-time All-Star, assists leader, and record-breaker—reaching career milestones in points and assists faster than anyone in league history. This season she’s averaging over 21 points and 8 assists while dropping triple-doubles and career-high scoring nights (including a 45-point explosion). She elevates teammates, fills arenas, and drives viewership like few athletes ever have. Yet for all that brilliance, Clark has also absorbed an unusual amount of physical punishment from opposing players. Hard fouls, late hits, and plays that go beyond standard contact have been a recurring theme since her rookie year—most notably the infamous Chennedy Carter hip-check and, more recently in 2026, Alyssa Thomas’s fist-to-the-throat contact during a scramble that drew no immediate whistle, later upgraded to a Flagrant 2 with a one-game suspension. Her coach has publicly called some of these “cheap shots” and “disrespectful,” and stats from earlier seasons showed her drawing a disproportionate share of flagrant fouls. Basketball is a contact sport, and every star gets tested. But the frequency and nature of some of the hits on Clark have sparked legitimate questions about consistency in officiating and whether the league’s biggest draw is being adequately protected. Through it all she’s largely stayed composed, focused on playing, and spoken out against the toxic harassment that has spilled over onto other players. What impresses you more about Caitlin Clark — her elite skill or the toughness she’s shown through all the physical play?

Jan

22,630 次观看 • 2 个月前

The Bolshevik Revolution and the aftermath of World War II represent two of the most devastating blows ever delivered to Christian civilization and the same networks were heavily involved in both. In Russia, Jews were a tiny minority, yet they achieved wildly disproportionate power in the early Bolshevik regime. While Jews made up roughly 4-5% of the population, they held key leadership positions in the Party and especially the Cheka secret police during the Red Terror. Figures like Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Sverdlov, and Yagoda were central. The Cheka, under leaders including Genrikh Yagoda, systematically targeted the Russian Orthodox Church executing tens of thousands of priests, destroying or desecrating over 50,000 churches, and wiping out the spiritual backbone of Christian Russia. This was not random violence. It was a deliberate ideological campaign to eradicate Christianity as the soul of the Russian people. The same pattern of ethnic overrepresentation and targeted destruction of Christian institutions seen across centuries was on full display. After World War II, the assault continued through different means in the West. The Frankfurt School almost entirely Jewish intellectuals like Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, and Fromm developed Critical Theory, a weaponized form of cultural Marxism designed to undermine Western Christian civilization from within. They attacked the family, traditional morality, authority, and religion itself, repackaging their ideas for American universities. These ideas metastasized into the cultural revolution of the 1960s and beyond. The post-war period also saw heavy Jewish influence in Hollywood, media, academia, and the legal system that accelerated the removal of Christianity from public life. The same networks that helped dismantle Christian Russia now worked to secularize and transform Christian America and Europe first through legal challenges (removing school prayer), then through mass immigration, then through control of cultural output. The post you’re looking at nails it: The Bolsheviks didn’t just defeat armies. They understood that to kill a civilization, you must destroy its art, its architecture, its music, its liturgy the forms through which its beliefs live in the world. Cathedrals demolished. Sacred art destroyed. Liturgy suppressed. That is exactly what they did to Christian Russia. And the cultural equivalents of that destruction were transmitted to the West after the war. The pattern is unmistakable. When these networks gained power over Christian societies whether through revolution in Russia or cultural infiltration in the West the target was always the same: the historic Christian faith and the civilization it built. The survival of Christian culture was never accidental. It survived centuries of pressure precisely because it was rooted in something deeper than politics or economics. The current assault is simply the latest chapter in a very old war. The forms through which Christianity lived in the world cathedrals, liturgy, art, family, public morality are under sustained attack. The Bolsheviks showed what total war against Christian civilization looks like. The post-war West shows what sophisticated, institutional subversion looks like. Both chapters deserve serious study. It’s repeating under new names today…

The Bolshevik Revolution and the aftermath of World War II represent two of the most devastating blows ever delivered to Christian civilization and the same networks were heavily involved in both. In Russia, Jews were a tiny minority, yet they achieved wildly disproportionate power in the early Bolshevik regime. While Jews made up roughly 4-5% of the population, they held key leadership positions in the Party and especially the Cheka secret police during the Red Terror. Figures like Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Sverdlov, and Yagoda were central. The Cheka, under leaders including Genrikh Yagoda, systematically targeted the Russian Orthodox Church executing tens of thousands of priests, destroying or desecrating over 50,000 churches, and wiping out the spiritual backbone of Christian Russia. This was not random violence. It was a deliberate ideological campaign to eradicate Christianity as the soul of the Russian people. The same pattern of ethnic overrepresentation and targeted destruction of Christian institutions seen across centuries was on full display. After World War II, the assault continued through different means in the West. The Frankfurt School almost entirely Jewish intellectuals like Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, and Fromm developed Critical Theory, a weaponized form of cultural Marxism designed to undermine Western Christian civilization from within. They attacked the family, traditional morality, authority, and religion itself, repackaging their ideas for American universities. These ideas metastasized into the cultural revolution of the 1960s and beyond. The post-war period also saw heavy Jewish influence in Hollywood, media, academia, and the legal system that accelerated the removal of Christianity from public life. The same networks that helped dismantle Christian Russia now worked to secularize and transform Christian America and Europe first through legal challenges (removing school prayer), then through mass immigration, then through control of cultural output. The post you’re looking at nails it: The Bolsheviks didn’t just defeat armies. They understood that to kill a civilization, you must destroy its art, its architecture, its music, its liturgy the forms through which its beliefs live in the world. Cathedrals demolished. Sacred art destroyed. Liturgy suppressed. That is exactly what they did to Christian Russia. And the cultural equivalents of that destruction were transmitted to the West after the war. The pattern is unmistakable. When these networks gained power over Christian societies whether through revolution in Russia or cultural infiltration in the West the target was always the same: the historic Christian faith and the civilization it built. The survival of Christian culture was never accidental. It survived centuries of pressure precisely because it was rooted in something deeper than politics or economics. The current assault is simply the latest chapter in a very old war. The forms through which Christianity lived in the world cathedrals, liturgy, art, family, public morality are under sustained attack. The Bolsheviks showed what total war against Christian civilization looks like. The post-war West shows what sophisticated, institutional subversion looks like. Both chapters deserve serious study. It’s repeating under new names today…

Madlad

21,811 次观看 • 3 个月前

Hello everyone who follows Ukraine and wants to help. I am currently fundraising for a non-lethal aid in form of excavators and engineering equipment for Ukraine. (Donation link in the end) The fundraiser has stalled 100/120k goal, with only 20k left to collect so I would like to add a small video and explain the importance. Please watch the video to understand in which conditions these machines work, and how thick vegetation is, and that no other machine can work in such conditions. It’s literally working inside the bush under the tree without breaking the branches. Fortifications that these machines built are not those huge centralized bunkers for battalions. The size of the position is usually for a 5-20 men. While this seems small and insignificant, a good concealed position with dedicated and determined personnel can be an impenetrable fortress for the enemy. Our excavators are designed to build exactly that, their ability to work in a tight concealed areas without breaking the cover of leaves have proven to be decisive in building fortifications. What’s funny is that initially most of the engineers and commanders are skeptical of these machines, because they aren’t popular and unfamiliar in Ukraine. It takes time, first two weeks after getting the equipment they learn on practice how to apply machine capabilities, after a month they start calling and praising it saying they never expected such productivity and ability to work in tight spots. A month later all neighbors of that unit start calling and asking for similar machines. I know this isn’t a sexy drone, but this is a non lethal boring machine that saves lives. While it’s hard for me to quantify the impact, it’s no rare for me to receive a message from someone saying that they were recently under heavy artillery and drone attack but they felt safe because the enemy didn’t know their exact position and their bunker is deep enough to withstand direct hits. I think that this is a low hanging fruit of the life saving for Ukrainian defenders. Donation link:

Hello everyone who follows Ukraine and wants to help. I am currently fundraising for a non-lethal aid in form of excavators and engineering equipment for Ukraine. (Donation link in the end) The fundraiser has stalled 100/120k goal, with only 20k left to collect so I would like to add a small video and explain the importance. Please watch the video to understand in which conditions these machines work, and how thick vegetation is, and that no other machine can work in such conditions. It’s literally working inside the bush under the tree without breaking the branches. Fortifications that these machines built are not those huge centralized bunkers for battalions. The size of the position is usually for a 5-20 men. While this seems small and insignificant, a good concealed position with dedicated and determined personnel can be an impenetrable fortress for the enemy. Our excavators are designed to build exactly that, their ability to work in a tight concealed areas without breaking the cover of leaves have proven to be decisive in building fortifications. What’s funny is that initially most of the engineers and commanders are skeptical of these machines, because they aren’t popular and unfamiliar in Ukraine. It takes time, first two weeks after getting the equipment they learn on practice how to apply machine capabilities, after a month they start calling and praising it saying they never expected such productivity and ability to work in tight spots. A month later all neighbors of that unit start calling and asking for similar machines. I know this isn’t a sexy drone, but this is a non lethal boring machine that saves lives. While it’s hard for me to quantify the impact, it’s no rare for me to receive a message from someone saying that they were recently under heavy artillery and drone attack but they felt safe because the enemy didn’t know their exact position and their bunker is deep enough to withstand direct hits. I think that this is a low hanging fruit of the life saving for Ukrainian defenders. Donation link:

✙ Constantine ✙

295,846 次观看 • 1 年前

This is the oldest surviving icon of Christ, the oldest painted portrait of the face of Jesus that has come down to us. It was made around 1500 years ago, and if you cover one half of the face, then the other, you are looking at two different men... It's called Christ Pantocrator, a Greek title meaning "Ruler of All," and it was painted in the sixth century, around the year 550, most likely in a workshop in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. It was almost certainly sent as an imperial gift to a remote new monastery being built in the Egyptian desert. It has hung there, in the Monastery of Saint Catherine at the foot of Mount Sinai, ever since. For roughly 1,500 years, it has never left. That it survived at all is remarkable. In the eighth and ninth centuries, the Byzantine Empire went through a violent period called Iconoclasm, in which religious images were condemned as idolatry and destroyed by the thousands. Almost every icon of this age in the empire was burned. But Saint Catherine's lay far out in the desert, beyond the reach of the emperors and their decrees, so this one was spared. It is one of the very few images of its kind on earth to come down to us intact. But the truly haunting thing is the face. Look at it, and the two sides do not match. On the side where Christ holds the Gospel, his features are harder, sterner, the brow raised, the eye larger and more severe, the face of a judge who sees everything. On the side where he raises his hand in blessing, the expression softens, calm and merciful, the face of a savior. One half is divine authority. The other is human compassion. Most scholars believe this was entirely deliberate. The icon was painted not long after the Church had formally defined that Christ was at once fully God and fully man, two natures joined in one person. And so the artist, it is thought, built that doctrine directly into the face, splitting it in two so that the same man could be, in a single gaze, both merciful and just, both human and divine... I started my newsletter because our past is extraordinary, and fewer and fewer people are showing us how to truly see it. Every week I try to. If that is something you'd like to be part of, you can join through the link in my bio, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible. Thanks for reading.

This is the oldest surviving icon of Christ, the oldest painted portrait of the face of Jesus that has come down to us. It was made around 1500 years ago, and if you cover one half of the face, then the other, you are looking at two different men... It's called Christ Pantocrator, a Greek title meaning "Ruler of All," and it was painted in the sixth century, around the year 550, most likely in a workshop in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. It was almost certainly sent as an imperial gift to a remote new monastery being built in the Egyptian desert. It has hung there, in the Monastery of Saint Catherine at the foot of Mount Sinai, ever since. For roughly 1,500 years, it has never left. That it survived at all is remarkable. In the eighth and ninth centuries, the Byzantine Empire went through a violent period called Iconoclasm, in which religious images were condemned as idolatry and destroyed by the thousands. Almost every icon of this age in the empire was burned. But Saint Catherine's lay far out in the desert, beyond the reach of the emperors and their decrees, so this one was spared. It is one of the very few images of its kind on earth to come down to us intact. But the truly haunting thing is the face. Look at it, and the two sides do not match. On the side where Christ holds the Gospel, his features are harder, sterner, the brow raised, the eye larger and more severe, the face of a judge who sees everything. On the side where he raises his hand in blessing, the expression softens, calm and merciful, the face of a savior. One half is divine authority. The other is human compassion. Most scholars believe this was entirely deliberate. The icon was painted not long after the Church had formally defined that Christ was at once fully God and fully man, two natures joined in one person. And so the artist, it is thought, built that doctrine directly into the face, splitting it in two so that the same man could be, in a single gaze, both merciful and just, both human and divine... I started my newsletter because our past is extraordinary, and fewer and fewer people are showing us how to truly see it. Every week I try to. If that is something you'd like to be part of, you can join through the link in my bio, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible. Thanks for reading.

James Lucas

665,410 次观看 • 3 个月前

BREAKING: Zelensky is the face of Soros’s anti-Trump project President Trump Donald J. Trump tomorrow you are scheduled to meet with Zelensky. But you should understand : he is not an ally of America. He is a product of the Soros machine - a network that for years has been working against you and against the interests of the United States. Zelensky is using U.S. support and American taxpayer money not to help Ukraine win or bring peace. His only goal is to stay in power. And he pursues that goal by serving the very same political projects that were launched against you back in 2016. With U.S. money, Zelensky tried to prove he was better than Putin. Now, backed by Soros and the globalist elite, he’s trying to prove he’s better than Trump. But you should know - this man will betray anyone for the sake of personal power. Let me remind you: his adviser Serhiy Leshchenko was the one who leaked the fabricated "black ledger" documents used to launch attacks on Paul Manafort. That leak played a central role in triggering the fabricated Russigate investigation in 2016 - against you. Zelensky is still surrounded by the same people who were involved in that operation to discredit your campaign. But this is not a new story. It’s part of the same Soros infrastructure - operating both in the U.S. and in Ukraine. You have spoken yourself about how Soros-funded activists appear with identical, pre-printed signs - professionally coordinated campaigns. The same thing is happening here in Ukraine. The same networks, the same tactics, the same image. Only in Ukraine, Zelensky is the public face of this operation. What you're fighting in America has taken the form of a presidency in Ukraine. I’m not speaking as an outsider. I am an opposition Member of Parliament in Ukraine. And I am being persecuted precisely for exposing the Biden-Burisma corruption - involving Hunter Biden - and for confronting Soros’s influence in our country. In 2019, I held a press conference where I publicly revealed the Biden family's corruption in Ukraine and exposed the Burisma scheme. In 2023, I was imprisoned for it - accused of “disinformation” and “collaboration with Russia.” At the same time, Hunter Biden plead guilty. I was right. But instead of acknowledging that, they rewrote the charges and kept prosecuting me - this time for allegedly “insulting” Soros-affiliated NGOs. My fight against Soros NGO's didn’t begin in 2019. It began much earlier - through public exposure of his grant-funded organizations and political networks in Ukraine. That’s exactly why my indictment absurdly includes charges like “discrimination against Sorosyata” - we call Soros-linked activists like this. I’m being targeted because I represent real resistance to Soros’s system in Ukraine. And because I exposed how that system was integrated into the global campaign against you - using Ukrainian institutions and media. Today, my criminal case reflects the full architecture of what Soros, Biden, and their Ukrainian agents tried to build against you. Mr. President, by meeting with Zelensky, you are meeting the face of the “anti-Trump” project. His role is to discredit your peace efforts and protect Soros’s interests. Zelensky is a fraud. He will betray his own people, his allies, even his handlers - for the sake of staying in power. And the most dangerous part: he and his backers continue to interfere in U.S. politics. You are meeting a man who represents Soros’s anti-Trump agenda. The goal of this project is to use Ukraine to: – Discredit your peace goals – And whitewash the Bidens and Soros, who act as the primary USAID contractors in Ukraine — and who helped build the very system that led to war, corruption, and the waste of hundreds of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars. Elon Musk Ed Martin Donald Trump Jr. Ambassador Mike Waltz Mike Benz Glenn Diesen General Mike Flynn FBI Director Kash Patel Pam Bondi Rep. Jim Jordan Chuck Grassley Marco Polo Jeffrey Pedersen

BREAKING: Zelensky is the face of Soros’s anti-Trump project President Trump Donald J. Trump tomorrow you are scheduled to meet with Zelensky. But you should understand : he is not an ally of America. He is a product of the Soros machine - a network that for years has been working against you and against the interests of the United States. Zelensky is using U.S. support and American taxpayer money not to help Ukraine win or bring peace. His only goal is to stay in power. And he pursues that goal by serving the very same political projects that were launched against you back in 2016. With U.S. money, Zelensky tried to prove he was better than Putin. Now, backed by Soros and the globalist elite, he’s trying to prove he’s better than Trump. But you should know - this man will betray anyone for the sake of personal power. Let me remind you: his adviser Serhiy Leshchenko was the one who leaked the fabricated "black ledger" documents used to launch attacks on Paul Manafort. That leak played a central role in triggering the fabricated Russigate investigation in 2016 - against you. Zelensky is still surrounded by the same people who were involved in that operation to discredit your campaign. But this is not a new story. It’s part of the same Soros infrastructure - operating both in the U.S. and in Ukraine. You have spoken yourself about how Soros-funded activists appear with identical, pre-printed signs - professionally coordinated campaigns. The same thing is happening here in Ukraine. The same networks, the same tactics, the same image. Only in Ukraine, Zelensky is the public face of this operation. What you're fighting in America has taken the form of a presidency in Ukraine. I’m not speaking as an outsider. I am an opposition Member of Parliament in Ukraine. And I am being persecuted precisely for exposing the Biden-Burisma corruption - involving Hunter Biden - and for confronting Soros’s influence in our country. In 2019, I held a press conference where I publicly revealed the Biden family's corruption in Ukraine and exposed the Burisma scheme. In 2023, I was imprisoned for it - accused of “disinformation” and “collaboration with Russia.” At the same time, Hunter Biden plead guilty. I was right. But instead of acknowledging that, they rewrote the charges and kept prosecuting me - this time for allegedly “insulting” Soros-affiliated NGOs. My fight against Soros NGO's didn’t begin in 2019. It began much earlier - through public exposure of his grant-funded organizations and political networks in Ukraine. That’s exactly why my indictment absurdly includes charges like “discrimination against Sorosyata” - we call Soros-linked activists like this. I’m being targeted because I represent real resistance to Soros’s system in Ukraine. And because I exposed how that system was integrated into the global campaign against you - using Ukrainian institutions and media. Today, my criminal case reflects the full architecture of what Soros, Biden, and their Ukrainian agents tried to build against you. Mr. President, by meeting with Zelensky, you are meeting the face of the “anti-Trump” project. His role is to discredit your peace efforts and protect Soros’s interests. Zelensky is a fraud. He will betray his own people, his allies, even his handlers - for the sake of staying in power. And the most dangerous part: he and his backers continue to interfere in U.S. politics. You are meeting a man who represents Soros’s anti-Trump agenda. The goal of this project is to use Ukraine to: – Discredit your peace goals – And whitewash the Bidens and Soros, who act as the primary USAID contractors in Ukraine — and who helped build the very system that led to war, corruption, and the waste of hundreds of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars. Elon Musk Ed Martin Donald Trump Jr. Ambassador Mike Waltz Mike Benz Glenn Diesen General Mike Flynn FBI Director Kash Patel Pam Bondi Rep. Jim Jordan Chuck Grassley Marco Polo Jeffrey Pedersen

Oleksandr Dubinskyi

237,576 次观看 • 1 年前

On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists from the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda—founded by Osama bin Laden—hijacked four commercial passenger airplanes and carried out coordinated suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Within two hours, both towers had collapsed into rubble, demolishing a large section of lower Manhattan. A third plane hit the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. The passengers and crew of the fourth plane fought back, and the hijackers crashed the plane in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, including the 19 al Qaeda terrorists. The shocking events of September 11 were televised globally and left much of the world reeling in horror. The administration of President George W. Bush responded by declaring a “war on terror” and launching the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan. The attacks also led to a sweeping reorganization of the federal government, including the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. ...... On September 11, 2001, at 8:46 a.m. on a clear Tuesday morning, American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 carrying thousands of gallons of jet fuel, crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact left a gaping, burning hole between the 93rd and 99th floors of the 110-story skyscraper, instantly killing hundreds of people and trapping hundreds more on higher floors. As the evacuation of the tower and its twin got underway, television cameras broadcast live images of what initially appeared to be a freak accident. Then, 17 minutes after the first plane hit, a second Boeing 767—United Airlines Flight 175—appeared in the sky, turned sharply toward the World Trade Center, and sliced into the South Tower between the 77th and 85th floors. The collision caused a massive explosion that showered burning debris onto surrounding buildings and onto the streets below. It immediately became clear that the United States was under attack. The hijackers were members of al Qaeda. Fifteen were from Saudi Arabia, two were from the United Arab Emirates, one was from Egypt and one was from Lebanon. The attacks were orchestrated by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who cited America’s support of Israel, its involvement in the Persian Gulf War and its continued military presence in the Middle East as grievances. Some of the hijackers had lived in the United States for more than a year and had taken flight training at American flight schools. Others had slipped into the country in the months before September 11 and acted as the “muscle” in the operation. The 19 terrorists smuggled box-cutters and knives through security at three East Coast airports—Logan International Airport in Boston, Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia and Newark International Airport in New Jersey—and boarded four early-morning flights bound for California, chosen because the planes were loaded with fuel for long transcontinental journey. Soon after takeoff, the terrorists commandeered the four planes and took the controls, transforming ordinary passenger jets into weapons. As millions watched the events unfolding in New York, American Airlines Flight 77 circled over Washington, D.C., before crashing into the west side of the Pentagon military headquarters at 9:37 a.m. Jet fuel from the Boeing 757 ignited a devastating inferno that led to the structural collapse of a portion of the Pentagon's giant concrete building, which is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. All told, 125 military personnel and civilians were killed at the Pentagon, along with all 64 people aboard the airliner. #archaeohistories

On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists from the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda—founded by Osama bin Laden—hijacked four commercial passenger airplanes and carried out coordinated suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Within two hours, both towers had collapsed into rubble, demolishing a large section of lower Manhattan. A third plane hit the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. The passengers and crew of the fourth plane fought back, and the hijackers crashed the plane in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, including the 19 al Qaeda terrorists. The shocking events of September 11 were televised globally and left much of the world reeling in horror. The administration of President George W. Bush responded by declaring a “war on terror” and launching the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan. The attacks also led to a sweeping reorganization of the federal government, including the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. ...... On September 11, 2001, at 8:46 a.m. on a clear Tuesday morning, American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 carrying thousands of gallons of jet fuel, crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact left a gaping, burning hole between the 93rd and 99th floors of the 110-story skyscraper, instantly killing hundreds of people and trapping hundreds more on higher floors. As the evacuation of the tower and its twin got underway, television cameras broadcast live images of what initially appeared to be a freak accident. Then, 17 minutes after the first plane hit, a second Boeing 767—United Airlines Flight 175—appeared in the sky, turned sharply toward the World Trade Center, and sliced into the South Tower between the 77th and 85th floors. The collision caused a massive explosion that showered burning debris onto surrounding buildings and onto the streets below. It immediately became clear that the United States was under attack. The hijackers were members of al Qaeda. Fifteen were from Saudi Arabia, two were from the United Arab Emirates, one was from Egypt and one was from Lebanon. The attacks were orchestrated by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who cited America’s support of Israel, its involvement in the Persian Gulf War and its continued military presence in the Middle East as grievances. Some of the hijackers had lived in the United States for more than a year and had taken flight training at American flight schools. Others had slipped into the country in the months before September 11 and acted as the “muscle” in the operation. The 19 terrorists smuggled box-cutters and knives through security at three East Coast airports—Logan International Airport in Boston, Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia and Newark International Airport in New Jersey—and boarded four early-morning flights bound for California, chosen because the planes were loaded with fuel for long transcontinental journey. Soon after takeoff, the terrorists commandeered the four planes and took the controls, transforming ordinary passenger jets into weapons. As millions watched the events unfolding in New York, American Airlines Flight 77 circled over Washington, D.C., before crashing into the west side of the Pentagon military headquarters at 9:37 a.m. Jet fuel from the Boeing 757 ignited a devastating inferno that led to the structural collapse of a portion of the Pentagon's giant concrete building, which is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. All told, 125 military personnel and civilians were killed at the Pentagon, along with all 64 people aboard the airliner. #archaeohistories

Archaeo - Histories

56,810 次观看 • 1 个月前