DEATH TO ISRAEL

https://thecradle.co/articles/gaza-on-brink-of-mass-death-due-to-israeli-imposed-famine

God, Gaza is going to starve to death while the whole world watches, isn’t it?

At Hampton Synagogue this morning, Andrew Cuomo said he "didn't debunk" Mamdani enough.

Cuomo added that Mamdani got "more than 50 percent" of the Jewish vote.

"Those young people, the under-30 people, they are pro-Palestinian, and they don't consider it being anti-Israel."

https://x.com/jacobkornbluh/status/1947022207810433487

Candidates are creating hidden Israel policy pages to send to donors, but they seemingly don’t want the donors to know they’re hidden so they just remove it from their site navigation instead of using password protection

George Hornedo has a secret page on his website that shows how he really feels about Israel and Palestine:

It's hidden from view and inaccessible from the navigation menu on the site

https://x.com/JesseForIndy/status/1946719552303226921

More than 1,000 reported dead in violence in southern Syria - Prensa Latina

New patterns are being observed in Russian large scale air raids on Ukraine. Over the last two attacks, Russia has been fully loading it's Tu-95MSM bombers with Kh-101 cruise missiles, a first in the war. A single Tu-95MSM can carry 8 Kh-101 cruise missiles at a time, all on external pylons/hardpoints, it can't carry the Kh-101 internally (only the Kh-55 and it's conventionally armed variants can be carried internally). In the first attack about a week or two ago, Russia fired 26 cruise missiles from 4 Tu-95MSM bombers, and two days ago they fired 15 missiles from 2 Tu-95 MSM bombers, according to monitoring channels for the number of bombers, and the Ukrainian Air Force for the amount of missiles fired. So close to, or just over the maximum payload. Either a miscount by the Ukrainian Air Force (monitoring the movements of strategic bombers is a lot more difficult now, and Ukraine has always been shoddy with interception rates, intercepting 25/26 missiles obviously did not happen), or Russia fired an inert Kh-55 as a decoy, or some remaining Kh-555 stock (no longer in production). Either way, the trend is clear.

That brings the question, why only now? In my opinion, it's because of three reasons: the loss of multiple Tu-95 MSM specification bombers to Ukrainian attacks (Operation Spiderweb), the drag penalty, and aerial refueling being a scarce resource in the Russian Air Force.

Fully loading an aircraft with external weapons stores comes at a large penalty to aircraft performance and range due to the increased aerodynamic drag, which reduces top speed and cruise speed, increases fuel consumption, may require more maintenance due to increased stress on components, etc. Russia, before the start of the Ukraine war, only had 19 Il-78 aerial refueling aircraft in service, and bombers may require multiple aircraft to refuel during a mission if fully loaded, these are large planes. So it made more strategic sense for the Russian Air Force to fly out more bombers from airbases like Olenya, with partial weapons loads, and avoid the the use of aerial refueling.

However, with the loss of multiple Tu-95 MSM bombers to the Ukrainian attack, this strategy is no longer optimal. So now Russia fully loads the bombers up with Kh-101 cruise missiles, and if they're flying from further out than Olenya (one of the airbases where Russia lost bombers), they utilise aerial refueling so that they can have the required amount of fuel to get to the launch lines and return to base. The latest mission was the first to utilise aerial refueling according to monitoring channels. Kh-101 cruise missile attacks are also increasingly supplemented by ground launched Kalibr cruise missiles, from the Iskander K system, to supplement the numbers.

US Ambassador Huckabee did end up visiting Taybeh after getting kicked out of the Netanyahu trial (a few days ago actually I got the timeline wrong before) and sending some strongly worded letters.

https://xcancel.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/1946563436227539264

Like the people in the replies mention, he does not say who bombed the church, who committed the crime. He's acting just like the NYT despite the Israeli state treating him and his cause like chopped liver.

I think the spat will still deepen as Netanyahu's trial continues, Trump is very much against the trial because he is birds-of-a-feather with the war criminal. Trump wants "the witch hunt" against Netanyahu to end. And Huckabee is the instrument to influence outcomes, the Evangelicals donate a ton of money to Israel voluntarily, and they even travel to Israel to volunteer their labor after Oct 7 (fucking freaks). Hence the vauge threats to mention Israel is unsafe for Christians.

In light of the resurgence of these unspeakable videos where some repulsive Wahhabi recites the holy Quran before beheading a child, it is time to bring this video back.

Radical-Islam Moderate-Islam by Hashem al-Haidari

https://t.me/PalestineResist/80263?single

Breaking | In an urgent and important press statement, Gaza Health Ministry reports and appeals to the world:

⭕️Unprecedented numbers of starved civilians of all ages are arriving at emergency departments in severe exhaustion and fatigue.

⭕️We warn that hundreds of severely emaciated Palestinians are at imminent risk of death due to hunger and their bodies’ inability to endure any longer.

Notably bellicose speech from Naim Qassem, leader of Hezbollah, today.

Our strength as a resistance lies in our faith and our stance. Military capability is only a part, and it’s tied to the strength of our position.

If we defend and suffer heavy losses—which is expected—we still have hope. If we resist, we can close the door to the enemy and open a door to liberation.

Lebanon faces three real dangers: Israel on the southern border, Daesh-aligned elements on the eastern border, and American hegemony attempting to control Lebanon, impose guardianship, and paralyze its ability to act and live.

Let our stance be united. Let’s prioritize confronting these dangers. Afterward, we are open to discussing a national defense strategy and a security strategy.

We will not abandon our faith and strength. We are ready for confrontation. We will not surrender or hand over our weapons to "israel."

We know confrontation is very costly—but surrender leaves us with nothing. Learn from what’s happening in the region and the world.

We are ready for defensive confrontation if "israel" attacks.

As long as we live and breathe, “israel” will not achieve its objectives. We can guarantee this because we have an extraordinary popular support base—unprecedented in history—ready to sacrifice for dignity, pride, and Lebanon’s independence.

Speaking openly of the cost of confrontation and the necessity of it. There may be war soon.

Mike Huckabee, the US Ambassador to Israel and of course rabid Zionist evangelical believer in an imminent rapture, has said some mean things to Israel regarding their blocking of visa renewals for evangelical clergy.

According to The Times of Israel, which obtained a copy of the letter.

“If the government of Israel continues to cause the expense and bureaucratic harassment for the granting of routine visas that for decades have been routine, I will have no other choice than to instruct our consular section to review options for reciprocal treatment of Israeli citizens seeking visas to the United States,” Huckabee warned.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/huckabee-threatens-to-declare-israel-not-welcoming-christians-as-visa-row-blows-open/

Note that:

1. This is about Evangelical Christians ability to obtain visas easily, not about the recent terrorist attack the IDF committed against a church in Gaza. Though you could say the timing is peculiar.
2. Not in the article, but Huckabee is in Israel supporting Netanyahu (idk how just cheering him on i guess) in his corruption trial. The letter is also not addressed to the PM. So no serious divide will come of this in case that wasn't clear.

I hate her so much

https://x.com/AOC/status/1946588421197046084

Ukrainian military journalist Boiko: "today the Armed Forces of Ukraine have no infantry. At all. The infantry is either on the run, in hospitals, or in cemeteries."

WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO

New details are emerging with regards to the missions carried out by the US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft deployed to Jordan on October 2024, which returned to RAF Lakenheath yesterday, July 18th 2025. These were the F-15Es equipped with 6 seven shot APKWS laser guided rocket pods for intercepting one way attack drones, for a total of 42 guided rockets per aircraft. The planes show various signs of wear and use, and feature nose art depicting horror movie characters and various interesting kill maks. By all indications they were very busy intercepting one way attack drones from Iran during the 12 day Israel/US-Iran war, but also bombing targets, who or what is unknown (Iran and Yemen are the obvious options).

Source article

Picture of F-15E Strike Eagle with 42 APKWS rockets, for illustrative purposes:

According to the markings, the squadron of 8x F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft:

• Shot down 115 one way attack drones using APKWS laser guided rockets (only 6 aircraft feature kill marks).
• Executed 54 electronic attacks, lightning bolt symbol (likey jamming the guidance systems of one way attack drones, same red colour as APKWS markings)
• Launched 28 JASSM stealth high altitude subsonic cruise missiles. (only 7 aircraft feature kill marks).
• One aircraft conducted 4 high value electronic attacks, possibly against incoming surface to air missiles or radars tracking the aircraft, black lighting bolts.
• Dropped over 100 JDAM guided bombs. (Haven't done an exact count)

A squadron of 8 aircraft taking out around 170 one way attack drones via hard kill (APKWS rockets) and soft kill (jamming) methods is, well, a lot. Especially if these were the drones that managed to make it to Jordan. I think over 1000 drones were fired throughout the entire war, with one impact.

Big question is who were they launching the JASSMs at, they were likely bombing Yemen with JDAMs, did they use JASSMs there too, or were these fired at Iran?

The 42 APKWS laser guided rockets per aircraft loadout has also been put on F-16CJ block 50 aircraft at Shaw Air Force base, in the last few days.

What is APKWS?

Brian Berletic on twitter: America is dispersing Pacific assets in preparation for war with China

https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic/status/1946385847206772765

Much like in The Spectator yesterday there was also a piece attacking Zelensky in the FT 2 days ago

Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused of authoritarian slide after anti-corruption raids

Check this out

“Taking advantage of the war, Zelenskyy is making his first, yet confident, steps towards corrupt authoritarianism,” wrote the editorial board of Ukrainian Truth, Ukraine’s most-read online news outlet.

“A crackdown on the country’s most famous anti-corruption crusader can’t be happening without at least the silent approval from President Zelenskyy, if not active permission,” the English-language Kyiv Independent said.

The president’s top political rivals followed suit. Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko warned that “under the guise of war, the authorities persecute those deemed inconvenient: political opponents, local governments, experts, journalists and activists”.

To my knowledge this didn't start recently but it's nice that the Ukraine overton window moved to where I can send libs shit like this about Z-man

What do we think? Mistake? Should be propping up a successor like with Dilma?

That was my first thought but when you think about how close the 2022 election was, which pitted Lula, unarguably the left's strongest candidate, against Bolsonaro, arguably a weak candidate for the right, I'm sure there are more palatable bolsonaristas the right could run with, it could really be that the PT won't be able to win without Lula.

From portuguese language twitter sometimes I see news about crazy brazillian right wingers that are apparently popular, but not so much about center-left or left-wing figures that could take Lula's place, I only hear about Guilherme Boulos but he's much to the left of Lula (from what I understand) so he likely wouldn't be the PT's candidate

FBI agents were told to ‘flag’ any Epstein records that mentioned Trump, Sen. Durbin says

The Spectator: Ukrainians have lost faith in Zelensky

Check out this CRAZY bit

Ukraine’s social media is filled with daily videos of men being bundled into vans by recruitment officers. In the first six months of this year, Ukraine’s Prosecutor’s Office reported that it had opened 107,672 new criminal cases for desertion. Since 2022 some 230,804 such criminal cases have been instigated, suggesting that more soldiers have deserted the Ukrainian army than there are fighting men in today’s British, French and German armies combined

How long can this go on?

House overwhelmingly rejects Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's amendment to cut funds to Israel 422-6.

The six: Al Green (TX) Green (GA) Lee (PA) Massie (KY) Omar (MN) Tlaib (MI)

Trump's announcement to send Patriots to Ukraine seems to cause confusion:

Trump's mysterious arms "deal" (Süddeutsche Zeitung, in German)

When Trump finally announced that Patriot systems were already on their way to Ukraine, this was immediately denied. According to German government circles: “Nothing is in the bag yet.”

But it is still completely unclear when and from whom Ukraine can receive additional Patriot batteries, unless the USA itself is prepared to hand over its own systems.

It's not even clear how useful these Patriots are. They're not cost effective when shooting down Geran drones, and they can't reliably shoot down Russia's most advanced missiles. I guess they can shoot down something in between, but surely that's not going to make a difference.

The US leader Donald Trump has ordered the cancellation of the visas of Alexandre de Moraes (the Supreme Court Justice Bolsonaro attempted to kill), his family members and his “allies on the court”. It is not yet known whether by “allies” he means other Justices. Trump, through its Secretary of State Marco Rubio, states that “his administration will hold foreign nationals responsible for censoring protected expression in the United States accountable.”

Rubio: "@POTUS made clear that his administration will hold accountable foreign nationals who are responsible for censorship of protected expression in the United States. Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes's political witch hunt against Jair Bolsonaro created a persecution and censorship complex so sweeping that it not only violates basic rights of Brazilians, but also extends beyond Brazil's shores to target Americans. I have therefore ordered visa revocations for Moraes and his allies on the court, as well as their immediate family members effective immediately."

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Czech government takes a stand against cummunism

Apparently Hersh thinks Zelensky is cooked.

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/the-end-for-zelensky Is anyone still subscribed and can get the full article?

https://archive.ph/3pP4t

No time to waste: NATO chief urges rapid industrial mobilization

As the U.S. and its allies in Europe pledge to ramp up defense spending amid mounting global threats, the supreme allied commander of Europe is calling on industry to deliver real capabilities to the field in record time. “We can tell industry exactly what it is that we need for all the leaders that are out there. It’s our job, I think, to hold industry accountable to deliver quickly and to hold ourselves accountable for giving industry the ability to deliver quickly through our acquisition processes,” U.S. Air Force Gen. Alexus Grynkewich said July 17 during his first public speech since taking command at the Association of the U.S. Army’s inaugural LandEuro conference in Wiesbaden, Germany.

"hold industry accountable"? Uh, yeah pal, it's called nationalization and economic planning, but I'm afraid that's all lost technology, even the Adeptus Mechanicus can't figure out what it was all about. We just don't know!

“We’ve got to do this fast. We need real capabilities and we need them delivered as soon as possible. We can’t afford to wait, future pledges are no longer enough,” he said. “To do this, the defense industrial base on both sides of the Atlantic is going to have to become fully activated.” Grynkewich stressed there’s plenty of work to go around, it’s not a matter of investing in one or the other. “It needs to be one seamless industrial base that can deliver capability and capacity for the alliance,” he said. Moving quicker is easier said than done. Every country will have to contend with their own budget approval process and work through red tape across borders.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth made a pledge earlier this year on a trip to NATO headquarters that the U.S. would conduct major foreign military sales reform. Even so, the U.S. military and NATO have developed solid regional plans beginning with a clear one focused on the Baltic States that will help guide government and industry in getting capabilities to units there. The U.S. Army Europe and Africa commander, speaking a day earlier at the conference, said the “Eastern Flank Deterrence Line” plan aims to enhance ground-based capabilities and drive military-industrial interoperability across the alliance.

As part of the plan to counter Russian threats and enable scalable, global deterrence, the Army and its NATO allies are urgently developing standardized, data-driven systems, common launchers and cloud-based coordination. The plan includes a system to share data. NATO has already procured that system – Palantir’s Maven Smart System – an artificial intelligence platform that takes a vast amount of data and rapidly analyzes information to help military commanders make decisions. U.S. Army Europe and Africa officials have also adopted Maven at headquarters, using it for mission command and visibility across the theater. The system has completely replaced PowerPoint briefings and offers information to commanders in real-time.

you know what's going to drag us out of our deindustrialization quagmire? that's right, THE CLOUD! AND AI!

On NATO’s wish list, according to Grynkewich, are capabilities that mirror a Ukrainian brigade. “How do we get our brigades to have the same level of capability where we can match what they’re able to do today?”

ah, so they're finally admitting that the Ukrainians are way ahead of them in terms of adaptation to the modern battlefield... but wait, aren't those guys, like, not doing too good? Uh oh!

Additionally, Grynkewich said he wants to focus on air defense. “There’s never enough air defense. You always want more, but it’s an acute requirement, whether it’s counter-[unmanned aircraft systems] or counter-ballistic missiles,” he said. And there will also be a continued focus on long-range fires, Grynkewich noted. “We need the capability to hold things at risk.”

Industry now has real incentives in place, Grynkewich said, with the new commitment made by NATO nations at the last summit to spend 5% of their gross domestic product on defense by 2035. “I would ask industry folks who are here and elsewhere to realize that sustained commitment should be a powerful signal to do the things you need to do, to expand production lines, to increase [research and development] spending, etc., so that we can get where we need to go,” he said.

"a signal to do the things you need to do" y'know, maybe you shouldn't need to fucking "signal" industry, like "oh pretty please expand your production lines, c'mon guys!", maybe you should be able to, I dunno, order them to do so?

Leadership is now moving to deliver new and emerging technology to the battlefield along with legacy technology that is still relevant and will work to make things interoperable. “I challenge each of the chiefs of defense, land forces commanders and every leader in here to hold themselves to account for that. There’s no time to waste,” Grynkewich said.

this guy really loves holding stuff accountable I guess

Hopefully, if anything, this whole Syria thing finally makes it crystal clear to the Resistance and other potential Arab targets that there is no capitulation or cooperation with the US and its allies. Once you are marked for destruction, that's it, regardless of whether or not you decide to play ball or if you are one of "their guys". So don't play ball.

https://apnews.com/article/facility-sheriff-los-angeles-dead-explosion-da7ad1fdc444bbb7d8c14f33b44333e6

Lol, lmao

Felix Baumgartner has died

https://apnews.com/article/felix-baumgartner-death-paragliding-skydiver-40aee076396adceffdd322d4105af0e4

The only thing that I can say is Hillary 2028!

China’s Ministry of State Security warns of foreign espionage attempts to smuggle rare earths via shipping channels

https://archive.ph/FyIgD whoops, MIC machine broke!

US diverts Patriot systems from Switzerland to Ukraine

U.S. officials have told the Swiss government that Patriot air defense systems in the production pipeline for the alpine country would be diverted to help defend Ukraine, according to a Swiss announcement. The July 17 statement by the Swiss, which said the notification from the United States arrived the prior day, illuminates some of the hasty mechanics behind Washington’s newfound emphasis on helping Ukraine repel near-constant Russian attacks with missiles and drones.

Switzerland ordered five Patriot systems, made by Ratheon, in 2022. Deliveries were set begin in 2026 and go through 2028. The U.S. foreign military process, which governs the sale, makes the diversion of defense goods possible, the Swiss announcement notes. No information was available about how many systems would be affected and what the new timing for future deliveries would be. Switzerland’s Patriot pick was part of a lengthy air-defense and air-policing review by the government that also led to an order of 36 U.S. F-35 fighter aircraft.

Last year, the United States told Switzerland that a batch of ordered PAC-3 MSE interceptors, the most advanced interceptors fireable with Patriot, would similarly be diverted to Ukraine. Meanwhile, Germany this week offered to buy two Patriot systems from the U.S. and give them to Ukraine. One Patriot setup costs roughly $1 billion, depending on the number of interceptors, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said during a visit to Washington on July 14. Details for the purchase are now under discussion with the U.S. administration, Pistorius said following talks with U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Outstanding questions surrounding the transaction are all “solvable,” he added.

Speaking at the LandEuro conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, on July 17, top NATO commander U.S. Air Force Gen. Alexus Grynkewich signaled a new dynamic in supplying Kyiv with the defensive weapons. Grynkewich said he would bring European nations together to work on delivering Patriot and other capabilities to Ukraine. The idea is to “look at what’s the art of the possible” in orchestrating the flow of new production equipment to Ukraine’s defense, he said.

Unlike Russia with its weak economy having to delay deliveries of equipment, the Western MIC is going strong!

Not posting on Syria right now. There’s too much misinfo, videos from years ago being represented as Druze and/or Bedouin massacres, groups claiming to hold this or that roundabout or intersection. I’m going to take my own advice and wait. Too much chaos, back and forth fighting, I will wait till there’s a semblance of clarity before posting more

People used to fight wars with no phones, just living in the moment. Now look how far we’ve fallen smdh

In local austrian news: Felix Baumgartner, the guy who jumped from the stratosphere for Red Bull and spent the rest of his life being a loud racist, misogynist, and Nazi party FPÖ fanboy, is dead. His paraglider crashed into a hotel area. A worker was injured and is in the hospital. Rest in Piss, he died just like he lived: falling from the sky.

Lots of fake Xi Quotes going around while he still has real bangers:

From the Central Urban Work Meeting:

“When it comes to launching projects, it’s always the same few things: artificial intelligence, computing power, and new energy vehicles. Is every province across the country supposed to develop industries in these exact directions?” General Secretary Xi Jinping said, viewing industrial planning from the perspective of “acting in accordance with objective laws,” pointing out the root issues in development: “We must firmly oppose formalism and bureaucratism, and also address the problem of pretending to understand when one doesn’t, and being self-opinionated. We must prevent the emergence of ‘three-pat’ cadres — those who pat their chest, pat their head, and pat their butt.”

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After decades of relentless struggle and repeated delays, a French court has finally approved the release of Georges Abdallah, the iconic Lebanese resistance fighter and the longest-held political prisoner in Europe.

The decision, made today, July 17, 2025, mandates his release later this month on the condition that he leave France and not return.

Abdallah, eligible for release since 1999, has endured 40 years of unjust imprisonment. His freedom has been consistently obstructed by immense zionist and US pressure. Previous court approvals, including one in 2013 and another in November 2024 for a December 6, 2024 release, were overturned due to this external intervention. In June 2025, the decision was again postponed until today.

It was revealed in 2015 that Hillary Clinton herself ordered the French Foreign Minister to keep Georges imprisoned, absurdly claiming the 72-year-old "may return to the battlefield."

Russia responds to Trump's ceasefire ultimatum: Moscow does not accept threats.

Brazilian Federal Police carry out search and seizure warrants against Jair Bolsonaro. He will have to comply with precautionary measures imposed by the Supreme Court, such as wear an electronic anklet, not using social media, stay at home from 7pm to 7am and not going near embassies due to the Supreme Court's fear that Bolsonaro would seek asylum in the USA.

A Federal Police convoy has just left Bolsonaro's house and is taking the President away. Bolsonaro is being taken to the nearest prison to be fitted with an electronic anklet. The defense lawyer says that Bolsonaro's cell phone and computer have been seized, and that the HQ of Bolsonaro's party, the Liberal Party, has also been investigated.

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the Ezra Klein episode on Epstein that just came out is so fucking painful. Why does it take 45 minutes for them to say "Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself...probably."

▶️ Israeli PM Netanyahu announces plans to occupy southern Syria, from the Golan Heights to the Druze Mountain near Damascus.

@PressTV (Iran) telegram w/video of Bibi doing peace through strength BS.

Al Mayadeen reporting that Jolani has left the Syrian capital accompanied by his family.

So, as I understood, Turkey and the gulf states were OK with the Julani comprador state if it meant stability in the region and kicking Iran out.

I can't imagine they are too happy at the destabilization taking place in Syria. Will they spring into action?

Syrian State TV coverage suddenly ends. Syrian local sources deny that the clashes have spread inside As-Suweyda and clarify that they are confined to the outskirts of the city. Reports of Israeli airstrikes in Homs. Reports that Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa and his family have left Damascus – Al-Mayadeen

Al Mayadeen has claimed that an assassination operation targeted 3 major figures in the Syrian Transitional Administration, including Defense Minister Marhaf Abu Qasra.

The TV station was stormed by a rogue Syrian military unit – Al Mayadeen

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US attacks on Iran damaged only one of three nuclear sites targeted: Report

India can secure oil even if Russian imports sanctioned, minister says - Reuters, 17 July 2025

India is confident of meeting its oil needs from alternative sources if Russian supplies are hit by secondary sanctions, Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday.

India should be able to deal with any problems with Russian imports by seeking supplies from other countries, Puri said. He noted there are many new suppliers coming onto the market such as Guyana and supply from existing producers such as Brazil and Canada.

Additionally, India is increasing exploration and production activities. "I'm not worried at all. If something happens, we'll deal with it," Puri said at an industry event in New Delhi.

"India has diversified the sources of supply and we have gone, I think, from about 27 countries that we used to buy from to about 40 countries now," he said.

Responding to Rutte's comments, India's foreign ministry spokesperson said that securing energy needs was an "overriding priority" for the country, in which it was guided by what was on offer in markets and the "prevailing global circumstances".

"We would particularly caution against any double standards on the matter," spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal told a regular media briefing.

And from the state owned and run Indian Oil Corp, the largest Indian SOE in this field:

In case Russian supplies are hit, Indian Oil Corp will "go back to the same template (of supplies) as was used pre-Ukraine crisis when Russian supplies to India were below 2%," company Chairman A.S. Sahney told reporters at the event.

India folded almost immediately?

The mayor of Lvov has apparently had hundreds of Soviet war dead exhumed from the Hill of Glory, including an NKVD guerrilla, Nikolai Kuznetsov, who directed the assassination of numerous high level Nazi officials including 3 German generals, the vice-governor of Galicia and the Nazi appointed chief judge of Ukraine during WW2, before being killed in a firefight with Banderites in 1944.

He hopes to exchange them with the Russian government for Ukrainian soldiers' remains.

He posted about this to his telegram account.

Jeremy Corbyn is most popular politician among 16 and 17-year-olds

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/jeremy-corbyn-is-most-popular-politician-among-16-and-17-year-olds-395699/

New polling by for ITV News asked 500 16-17 year olds for their thoughts on a range of political figures. Corbyn came out on top, with 12% saying they ‘strongly approve’ of him, versus 9% who said the same about Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage.

The figures with the highest approval were Greta Thunberg on 27%, YouTuber Mr Beast on 21%, and Jeremy Clarkson on 17%.

The young people surveyed said their most important issues were: the economy (30%), healthcare (28%), crime/ law and order (25%), Israel/Palestine (25%) and immigration (23%).

Issues like climate change, housing, and education were much further down the list.

The figures actually seem pretty tight, young people look open-ended to me and will require some very serious work. The left can not just expect them to fall in with us when figures like Clarkson and Tate have their ear.

it is july 17 and stalin saved the world from fascism

Belgian court bans further transit of all military equipment to Israel in landmark ruling

https://pers.11.be/belgian-court-bans-further-transit-of-all-military-equipment-to-israel-in-landmark-ruling

In its ruling, the court immediately prohibits the Flemish government from authorizing any new transit to Israel. Since 2009, there has been an agreement that no arms strengthening Israel's armed forces would be exported — a policy that in practice has been severely undermined. To enforce the ban on new transits, the court has imposed a penalty of €50,000 per shipment that still leaves for Israel. The judge criticized the Flemish government for providing little to no information and stated that Flanders gave the impression it "did not have the situation under control." This passive attitude is particularly problematic given the “crushing responsibility,” the judge said.

Did trump just order coke to put cane sugar back in the soda the same week as slapping Brazil with a ludicrous tariff?

In a direct reference to President Donald Trump, Lula was emphatic: "We don't accept anyone, from any country outside Brazil, meddling in our internal problems. This is the first time in the history of this country that we have three four-star generals in jail. And they're not in jail for nothing. They're in prison because they tried to stage a coup. And they're going to be tried, not because Lula wants them to be. They're going to be tried on the basis of the case file."

The president compared the Brazilian situation to the attempted coup in the United States in 2021: “If Trump had tried here in Brazil what he did on Capitol Hill, he could also be arrested.” Lula continued in a confrontational tone. "It's not a gringo who's going to order this president of the Republic. I know who I have to respect in this country. That person's name has only four letters: his name is the Brazilian people."

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Trump has been diagnosed with Chronic venous insufficiency

Idk what that means though but I hope he suffers

Chinese President Xi Jinping Accuses Israel Of Being A Terrorist State

“We studied the concept of terrorism in the United States and saw that it is entirely attributable to Israel”, China’s leader stated.

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Yall are right as I haven't seen direct video or other collaborating reports. Most recent out of China has been thier spokes people and representatives condemning Pissreal attacks on Syria. But not in terms of "terrorist state" or from Xi himself. Don't know where MPN got it from or why they published it. They are usually reliable.

I always thought the whole "Russia is baiting Ukraine into a war of attrition what a smart strategy" thing was dumb, because who wants to get into a war of attrition? Especially when you're trying to make the land you're taking a part of your country, you're going to have to rebuild all of that depopulated land. I don't think they could have avoided it but it's not a good thing to spend years and thousands of lives grinding through fortifications, even if you're the Russian army and you have to go through a mandatory set of purges for incompetence in the first 2 years of any given war.

also who remembers the T-14 Armata? that was fun

The situation in Syria is complex and deteriorating.

An agreement brokered by the United States last night is in place, which has led to Al Jolani/HTS official forces withdrawing from Suwayda and south of Damascus, and Israel ceasing airstrikes on HTS forces. However, this is not the end, as sectarian violence between the Bedouin and Druze is escalating, with reports of massacres on both sides, Druze factions "taking revenge" and sectarian violence against the Druze continuing, despite HTS withdrawal. Armed groups seperate from HTS, part of various tribes/clans or factions, could still go towards Suwayda, and the Druze would be vastly outnumbered. It's unknown what the Israeli response would be, or the response by other groups such as ISIS, who have carried out massacres in the region before.

Israel has begun airstrikes against Bedouin groups, according to Israeli sources

Cuban Labor Minister Resigns After Statements on People in Vulnerability - Telesur English

On NATO warning sanctions on India, China, Brazil over Russian trade, senior journalist Waiel Awwad says, "A lot of rhetoric coming from the US and the NATO forces because they know that war in Russia is going to be continued, and will send more sophisticated arms to hit Moscow. It seems the US President has given up. They wanted to isolate Russia, but they have failed to do so in the last 3 years. This rhetoric is about putting pressure on Russia.

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Second Israeli ultra-Orthodox party to quit government in blow to Netanyahu

The ultra-Orthodox Shas party says it will leave the government in response to dispute over mandatory military service. A key partner in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government says it is quitting, dealing a major blow to the Israeli prime minister that could leave him heading a minority coalition in parliament. The ultra-Orthodox Shas party said on Wednesday that it was leaving the cabinet in protest against lawmakers’ failure to guarantee future exemption from military conscription for religious students.

“Shas representatives … find with a heavy heart that they cannot stay in the government and be a part of it,” said the group in a statement. It was not immediately clear whether the decision would leave Netanyahu with a minority in parliament. Without Shas, Netanyahu’s coalition would have 50 seats in the 120-seat Knesset.

Shas, which has long served as a kingmaker in Israeli politics, said it would not work to undermine the government once outside it and could vote with it on some laws. It also said it would not support its collapse. The departure of Shas from the government comes one day after another ultra-Orthodox party, United Torah Judaism (UTJ), resigned from the government over the same issue, which has prompted an explosive debate in the country after more than 21 months of war with Hamas in Gaza.

While ultra-Orthodox seminary students have long been exempt from mandatory military service, many Israelis are angered by what they see as an unfair burden carried by other groups who serve. The moves by Shas and UTJ come just before the Israeli parliament starts a three-month recess on July 27, giving the prime minister several months of little to no legislative activity to bring the parties back into the fold.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders say full-time devotion to holy scriptures study is sacrosanct and fear their young men will turn away from religious life if they are drafted into the military. Last year, the Supreme Court ordered an end to the exemption. The parliament has been trying to work out a new conscription bill, which has so far failed to meet the demands of both Shas and UTJ. Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli, a member of Shas, said on Wednesday that rabbis were angered after Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee chairman Yuli Edelstein reneged on promises regarding the bill, according to a report in the Times of Israel. Malkieli, reading from a statement by the Council of Torah Sages, also hit out at actions taken by the Israeli military and attorney general to pursue draft dodgers, describing the move as “nothing less than cruel and criminal persecution against yeshiva students”.

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France, Italy, Czech Republic, Hungary don’t plan to participate in NATO program to purchase weapons from USA for Ukraine

Denmark and Germany have so far agreed to participate in the new format of arms supplies to Kyiv, proposed by US President Donald Trump, while France, Italy, the Czech Republic and Hungary have refused, Western media reported on Wednesday. In addition, Bloomberg noted on Wednesday that Europe increasingly feels the need to end its dependence on American weapons.

"Europe relies heavily on the US defense industry. However, due to trade tariffs, President Trump's attitude toward NATO and his lack of commitment to defending the alliance's countries, European countries will increasingly prioritize investments in their own defense complexes," the agency's sources said.

According to the European portal Politico, France has refused to participate in the purchase of American weapons for Ukraine. The publication's sources reported that the country's government intends to focus instead on increasing its own defense budget, which last weekend the president of the republic, Emmanuel Macron, promised to increase by 2027 almost twice as much as the 2017 budget. In addition, Paris wants to support European manufacturers who previously supplied Ukraine with anti-missile systems and other weapons.

Italy also does not intend to purchase weapons from the USA for delivery to Ukraine, but will continue to provide military assistance to Kyiv. Unnamed representatives of the Ministry of Defense told the ezine La Stampa - the department has never discussed purchasing American weapons for Kyiv. The ezine also notes that Italy does not have the means to carry out such operations. According to the publications’ sources, this problem is so acute that the only purchase from the USA that Italy has planned for the next ten years is a batch of F-35 fighters for its own needs.

The Czech government, in turn, stated that military aid to Kyiv would continue, but through participation in other initiatives and purchases from Czech, not American, manufacturers.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said that Budapest does not intend to participate in the purchase of American weapons for Ukraine.

Official consent to purchase weapons from the USA has so far been given by Berlin and Copenhagen. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Rasmussen has declared his full readiness to join in the financing. The Dutch Foreign Ministry, in turn, said that it was considering the possibility of participating in the program. However, despite the government's positive assessment of the initiative, Amsterdam has not yet confirmed its commitment to direct participation in it. According to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, it is expected that Sweden and Norway, as well as the United Kingdom, may join in the funding.

On July 11, Trump announced that USA’s NATO allies would buy weapons from Washington that could later be transferred to Ukraine. Rutte, during a press conference with Trump on Monday, called it "logical" that European countries would pay for the supply of American weapons to Ukraine. The head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, said on Tuesday that EU countries would prefer Washington to provide some military aid to Ukraine free of charge. "If we pay for these weapons, it means that it is we, and not the United States, who provide this military aid," Kallas said at a press conference in Brussels. She stressed that Brussels "would like to see a distribution of these costs."

Shot: https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/16/labour-conference-passport-gender-checks/

Kerr Stürmer has decreed that the national labourite conference will mandate that participants report the gender on their passports, which is both useless and performatively evil in equal measure.

Chaser: https://skwawkbox.org/2025/07/16/starmer-on-track-to-lose-his-seat-to-the-corbyn-party-that-doesnt-even-exist-yet/

Corbyn's still-hypothetical party that has already been mired in a power struggle behind the scenes... is polling highest for Starmer's own seat.

Of course we're 4 years off the next GE and the party hasnt even registered itself yet (and these polls don't even know who would run for the seat!!) so don't take this at any deeper than "lol lmao get fucked kerr stürmer"

Jennifer Geerlings-Simons Sworn In as Suriname’s First Female President - Telesur English

Video: British police are using Palestine Action proscription to target even mentioning Palestine, Gaza or freedom in protests of any kind. If you tick off having 2 opinions that are associated with Palestine Action the police have reasonable cause to suspect you of support for a proscribed terrorist organisation and to act on that. For example supporting Palestine and wishing for Gaza to be freed meet this threshold.

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/07/15/video-police-using-palestine-action-proscription-to-target-even-mention-of-palestine-gaza-freedom/

So yeah. Currently the vast majority of the population would meet the criteria.

Pro-Palestine protesters breach fence of Edinburgh arms firm factory

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25314744.pro-palestine-protesters-breach-fence-edinburgh-arms-firm-factory/

Proscribing Palestine Action was never going to stop anything.

John MacArthur, pastor of the Grace Community Church megachurch and founder of Grace to You Ministries is dead at 86

Most of you who were not raised in American Evangelicalism probably don’t know who this bozo was, but for those who were, please celebrate with me!

Reddit is introducing a photo ID requirement for anyone in the UK to see anything on the site marked as nsfw.

https://hexbear.net/post/5560292

This is quite bad for queer people, particularly access to some very important trans subs. /r/transdiy for example has the entire sub marked as nsfw.

“Some of our favs may be implicated.”

After celebrating the overthrow of Assad and staying silent for months of pogroms against Syrian minorities (and attacks on other Palestinian factions), Hamas has bravely come out to condemn the “martyrdom” of the HTS militants bombed by Israel in Syria. Their position on Syria overall remains a major weak point and one to be dissected

https://t.me/hamaswestbank1/8584

Here’s some footage of the mass executions, church burning, and drone bombing that HTS have committed in the last 24 hours:

https://t.me/stayfreeworld/45260

https://t.me/nayaforiraq/35095

https://t.me/PalCommie/5591

Anyways, these future “martyrs” are now marching on Al-Suwayda after failing to take it yesterday. Hoping for safety for anyone not fighting for Zionist interests, as of right now Israel is backing both horses

It's clear Israeli expansionism is going to collapse the US client system in West Asia, fascism doesn't know when to stop, a smart group of genociders would use a mercenary regime like HTS to attack its enemies in Lebanon or pay to ship them to Gaza and Yemen to do it's dirty work

But no, Israel is actively trying to destroy its new client sibling, because an ideology of racial supremacy demands it for the sake of short term popularity in Israeli polls

Another good sign that there is no long term viability for this disgusting nazi abomination

https://xcancel.com/johnkonrad/status/1945308143212249566

Massive shipbuilding changes in DC. None of them good. @gCaptain has confirmed from a White House source that Trump has closed the shipbuilding office at the NSC. Reuters reports that Ian Bennitt, the President’s Special Assistant for Shipbuilding at the White House, has been fired. Favored candidates for Provost and Superintendent positions at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy have received denial notices. At a recent USNI shipbuilding conference, it became clear: major shipbuilding primes are actively fighting plans to expand commercial shipbuilding.

Sources inside the Pentagon say Admirals and SES are digging in their heels on several key shipbuilding objectives. Some Jones Act companies now expressing fear that building new ships could devalue their current fleets.

lol. lmao

Congressional sources say progress on the SHIPS Act is stalling in committee. It’s also unlikely the new Commandant will be confirmed before the August break. We’ve confirmed that the French billionaire who offered to invest $20B in U.S. shipping sent a letter to Trump saying he’s not getting the support he needs to move forward. The U.S. Coast Guard is slashing cutter orders left and right.

Reports from my sources in Korea say the new far-left, pro-China president is chilling U.S.-Korean shipyard cooperation.

man, I love when Americans will label the most milquetoast of libs as communists for simply not being frothing-at-the-mouth psychos

Nobody has seen or heard from @SecDuffy’s new acting Maritime Administrator. The plan to centralize shipbuilding under the Department of Commerce is apparently stalled or stalling. I spoke with half a dozen senior sources in DC—every single one is frustrated. Yes, there’s still optimism around @SECNAV’s commitment to shipbuilding but his plate is full with emerging priorities. Not a single Admiral has publicly supported the SHIPS Act or the White House’s “Restoring America’s Maritime Dominance” plan.

Deadlines are being missed or pencil-whipped on the Maritime Executive Order, and with the NSC shipbuilding office closing, no one knows how the next deadline will be met. Zero follow-through on Trump’s State of the Union promise to open a dedicated White House shipbuilding office. New intel confirms more Navy shipbuilding delays, including further slippage in carrier programs. ... It’s been 252 days since the election, and not a single new ship has been ordered.

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The Baltimore Bridge removal is delayed another 9 months, and retrofits to prevent future bridge strikes around the nation are postponed. Still zero word from @PeteHegseth on fixing the Army Corps of Engineers, the agency responsible for inland rivers and dredging. What am I missing? The number of panicked and/or depressed calls I’ve received from DC in the last few days is unreal. I’m struggling to find a silver lining.

Massive arms shipment from Iran to Ansarallah/Houthis in Yemen was intercepted by the US and Saudi Arabian supported Yemeni groups/government, known as the "National Resistance Force". Apparently a 750 ton shipment. Many components, referred to as knockdown kits (weapon comes disassembled in many different parts, and is reassembled after shipping, like giant Legos), for anti ship ballistic and cruise missiles, electro optical seekers for anti ship ballistic missiles, surface to air missiles, MANPADs, and most interestingly an Iranian clone of the US "counter UAV" Coyote system, one way attack drone components, manuals for the weapons systems (the manual posted is instructions for how to use a rangefinder), etc. Too much to identify right now. Anyone familiar with Iranian and Yemeni missiles will immediately recognise many components in the pictures. Feel free to reply and comment on anything you recognise or find interesting.

Obviously this is quite a negative development, as the US will get first hand access to some of Iran's most advanced weaponry, and the large shipment of weapons will not arrive in Yemen. It is confirmation that the Iranian and Yemeni arsenal of weapons is very similar (if not the exact same), and that Yemen gets the "latest and greatest" from Iran.

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The "Hague Group" announced measures against Israel at Bogotá conference.

To kickstart that process, 12 states from across the world — Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Malaysia, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and South Africa — committed to implementing the six measures immediately through their domestic legal and administrative systems to break the ties of complicity with Israel’s campaign of devastation in Palestine — and set a date of 20th September, to coincide with the 80th UN General Assembly, for additional states to join them. Consultations with capitals across the world are now ongoing.

Around 30 countries participated at the meeting (including, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and China), though it's unclear which states are willing to join this initiative in September.

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Three Labour MPs failed to declare an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel

Cat Eccles, Kevin McKenna, and Peter Prinsely all joined a delegation organised by the Labour Friends of Israel lobby group, which is anonymously funded. The purpose of their trip was to “show solidarity” with the Israelis while they committed genocide, posing with the Israeli president whose statements were cited at the ICJ as calls for genocide.

https://xcancel.com/witte_sergei/status/1945276561529180182

Primordial NATO: The Delian League

I was thinking recently about the similarities between contemporary NATO and the cloaked imperialism of Athens. It’s not a perfect parallel, obviously, but the similarities are quite strong. Like NATO, the Delian League was formed as a defensive alliance against a hostile foreign power, with the Persian Empire as a stand in for the USSR. Polities in Northern Greece, fearing that Sparta’s strategic standoff in the Peloponnese would render them an unreliable protector, formed the Delian League to wage a continuation war against Persia.

Athens was obviously the preeminent naval power within the alliance, but it was nominally governed by an assembly in which each member state had an equal vote. This system became a thin veneer over de facto Athenian hegemony. The league became a vehicle for a creeping Athenian imperialism through its unique system of military commitments. Member states were obligated to either maintain a requisite number of ships and men, or make an equivalent cash contribution. As time went on, more and more members opted to contribute cash rather than maintain forces, which Athens used to raise the equivalent forces for themselves. Rather than fielding a coalition navy, the league became a revenue stream for the growing Athenian fleet.

This in turn made the lesser members more and more subservient to Athens as the military power disparity grew. Despite the nominal system of equal votes, Athens was more and more able to impose its will. Members who attempted to defect were severely punished. Within a relatively short period of time, the Delian League became a de facto vehicle of Athenian Empire: a mechanism for extracting resources from tributary states and subjecting them to Athenian political domination.

NATO is very similar, as this week we see European members agreeing to buy more American weapons as part of a shell game to arm Ukraine. Revenue from Europe flows to American companies, and Europe bends to American foreign policy. Like the Delian League, NATO ostensibly has a consensus-driven governance and nominally consists of a coalition of forces, but in reality Europe is unable to make autonomous foreign policy choices. NATO has also helped to hollow out European defense manufacturing, and instead funnels money into the US as Euro members scramble to purchase HIMARS, Patriots, aircraft, and more.

As a mechanism for aggrandizing state power, this is a very effective and very ancient model which works for the US just as it worked for Athens. The comity implied by the word “alliance” is a diplomatic narcotic that numbs the tributaries to the reality of empire. As a coda, the connection is even deeper, because Donald Kagan, who wrote a magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War and was an absolute gem of a historian, was also the Father in Law of Victoria Nuland. So, make of that what you will.

Hopecore: Zohran Mamdani walks into endorsement conference of American Federation of Musicians Local 802 to the tune of unionized musicians playing Solidarity Forever

multiple successful resistance ambushes in the Gaza strip reported today, 7 killed apparently??

All White House press are currently being held in the Brady Briefing Room after the U.S. Secret Service unexpectedly cleared the North Lawn. No official explanation has been given.

Al Quaeda fighting Jewish ISIS in Syria to decide who gets to genocide the country and in what specific way

cool stuff happening, happy for the people in organiser chats i'm in that scolded everyone who expressed any dismay at the fall of Assad last December. they are strangely quiet about it now!

Very funny to watch America warmonger over Taiwan incessantly when the PRC is just going to win a culture victory and make a military takeover unnecessary

Interesting reporting coming from both the Financial Times and Washington Post today.

Financial Times

Two people familiar with the conversation between Trump and Zelenskyy said the US president had asked his Ukrainian counterpart whether he could hit military targets deep inside Russia if he provided weapons capable of doing so.

“Volodymyr, can you hit Moscow? . . . Can you hit St Petersburg too?” Trump asked on the call, according to the people.

They said Zelenskyy replied: “Absolutely. We can if you give us the weapons.”

Trump signalled his backing for the idea, describing the strategy as intended to “make them [Russians] feel the pain” and force the Kremlin to the negotiating table, according to the two people briefed on the call.

During a meeting with US defence officials and intermediaries from Nato governments, Zelenskyy received a list of long-range strike systems that potentially could be made available to Ukraine via third-party transfers.

The arrangement would allow Trump to sidestep the need for Congressional approval on direct US military aid by authorising weapons sales to European allies, who would then pass the systems on to Kyiv.

The Ukrainians had asked for Tomahawk missiles, precision strike cruise missiles with a range of around 1,600km. But the Trump administration — like the Biden administration — had concerns about Ukraine’s lack of restraint, said a person familiar with the list shared with Zelenskyy.

Washington Post

What Trump didn’t talk about is that the military assistance might also include authorization for some powerful new offensive weapons. I’m told by a source involved in the decision that this is likely to include permission to use the 18 long-range ATACMS missiles now in Ukraine at their full range of 300 kilometers (about 190 miles). That wouldn’t reach all the way to Moscow or St. Petersburg, but it would strike military bases, airfields and supply depots deep inside Russia that are now out of range. The package might also include more ATACMS.

Trump also considered sending Tomahawk cruise missiles, the same weapons fired against Iranian targets last month. If fired from Ukraine, these could hit Moscow and St. Petersburg, and they were included in discussion as late as Friday. But the Tomahawks are off the delivery list for now, I’m told. They could be deployed later if Trump wants even more leverage.

Trump’s determination to squeeze Putin was conveyed in a conversation last week with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a source told me. Trump asked Zelensky why he didn’t hit Moscow. “We can if you give us the weapons,” Zelensky said. Trump said Ukraine needed to put more pressure on Putin, not just Moscow but St. Petersburg, too.

Trump decided to escalate for three reasons, according to a source familiar with administration discussions. First, he believed that Putin was disrespecting him, feigning a readiness to make peace but ignoring the U.S. president’s call for a ceasefire. Second, he saw the efficacy of U.S. military power in the use of B-2 bombers and Tomahawk missiles against Iran. And third, he thought Putin would only negotiate if threatened with greater force. As the Russians like to say, Trump decided to “escalate to de-escalate.”

So TLAMs (Tomahawk Land Attack cruise Missiles) are up for consideration for Ukraine, but currently not being sent. More ATACMS are likely on the way, to supplement the current 18 ATACMS missiles Ukraine has. No mention of JASSM or JASSM-ER air launched stealth subsonic cruise missiles or PrSM ballistic missiles, or SM-6 in a surface to surface role. JASSM is interesting because the US could send the shorter range older variants for now, as a test run of sort, and there are many of these in the stockpiles likely set to expire soon.

The point about Trump getting to see the effectiveness of US military power in Israeli and US airstrikes on Iran is something very much overlooked. Part of the Trump right wing is full of useful idiots and grifters that don't understand basic science, think that the weather is controlled by the CIA, that F-35s don't work, don't understand stealth technology, vastly understate US military capabilities as the US military was "destroyed by woke", etc. Laura Loomer, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth to an extent, etc. Those kind of grifters. They got shut down and shut out in real time, and now Marco Rubio and US Military Generals are in with Trump, given the events of the past few weeks, they essentially proved themselves to Trump. One could say that Rubio is effectively president here. This is very concerning, an emboldened Rubio, Trump, and US Military may choose to throw their weight around on other issues and in other theatres.

Just like in Syria, Afghanistan the hub of international Jihad stopped being that the moment the U.S. attacked.

Corbyn party now at 15. This is probably the last shot the UK has to pull out of a tailspin without a revolution.

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-law/what-maharashtras-urban-maoism-bill-says-10121114/