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It turns out Iran didn't shoot a short-range anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBMs) at the USS George Washington and an accompanying destroyer escort but rather medium-range hypersonic "carrier killer" Qassem Bassir ASBMs that can reach speeds of Mach 5-8.
This is the first time in US history that we know of that a US near peer competitor has fired a hypersonic missile of any kind against a US warship. The US Navy has very little defense against hypersonic missiles and so these Iranian hypersonic ASBMs pose a deadly threat to US aircraft carriers and their escorts.
If even one or two hypersonic missiles hit one of our carriers and it caught fire and was forced to withdraw from the region smouldering it would be a massive blow to US prestige. That is something Iran could do at any time whenever it chooses to do so if Trump fooolishly decides to keep escalating his illegal, unconstitutional imperial war of aggression against Iran.
BREAKING: For the first time since the start of the war, Iran's IRGC attempted to hit a US nuclear aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Oman yesterday, using the Qasem Basir medium-range anti-ship ballistic missile which has a range of approximately 1,200km.
In response to the strike, US CENTCOM has permanently disabled 3 Iranian oil tankers, including the M/T Downy off the coast of Kharg Island, the M/T Stark 1 near Jask, and the M/T Kylo in the Gulf of Oman.
Iran now directly warns Trump that "All US naval ships are now targets. Any strikes on Iranian ships will be met with multiple strikes on vessels linked to countries participating in the anti-Iranian aggression."
Iran is again launching anti-ship cruise missiles toward a US aircraft carrier and/or vessels under US Navy escort in the past few minutes, per initial reports.
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🚨 JUST IN: In a bombshell statement, Brazil's President of the Superior Electoral Court Justice Kassio Nunes Marques just SOUNDED THE ALARM that there was absolutely NO RULE that allowed the voting to continue an extra +2 hours — an unprecedented order from Lula's Supreme Court flunky that helped his regions
"The preliminary decision given after the voting closing time generated DIFFICULTIES in the electoral process...there [were] no regulations authorizing any extension." 🤯
"Never, in the history of the TSE, has there been ANY extension."
"It would not be possible, in a few hours, to form a judgment with certainty that no side effects — especially in the technological aspect — arising from a court decision would significantly impact the vote count!"
He also pointedly reminded the Supreme Court that the Electoral Justice system is "the institution to which our Constitution attributed the exclusive competence to manage the electoral process"
Lula's handpicked justice bypassed the TSE after 5PM and ordered it anyway!
EVERYONE SAW THIS and even LULA knows he stole it. This judge is spot-on.
Sadly, Brazil is run by socialists and tyrants. The ONLY hope now appears to be annulling the results
No more shenanigans. Pray for the success of Bolsonaro and by extension the people of Brazil! 🇧🇷
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Everyone saw this coming. Brazil’s election could be annulled after Lula’s Supreme Court justice changed the rules mid-vote on Sunday. Justice Cristiano Zanin, appointed by Lula, ordered a nationwide two-hour extension after Lula’s campaign claimed transport problems. The New York Times reports the resulting confusion may be enough to throw out the result.
Some polling stations had already closed and shut down their voting machines when Zanin issued the extension. Those stations could not reopen. Electoral lawyers told the Times the situation is “extremely serious” and “critical.” One law professor said the election could be annulled if the margin is narrow and it turns out stations stayed open longer in areas that favor one candidate.
This is textbook left-wing election interference. Lula’s side spent years claiming the other side would undermine democracy, then used a hand-picked justice to rewrite the closing time while votes were still being cast. Early results had already started coming in. The count was paused. Both campaigns asked for limited extensions, but the order that stuck came from Lula and applied everywhere.
Lula and the Brazilian left don’t get to cry about election integrity after they just sabotaged their own. They changed the rules in the middle of voting, some machines were already off, and now the entire result is in question. That’s not democracy. That’s the same corrupt pattern they’ve run for years. The left in Brazil just got caught doing exactly what they always accuse everyone else of doing, and the evidence is public. They own this mess.
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The war is existential for Zelensky, because he banned elections while it is ongoing. He needs the war to continue forever so he can stay in power for ever. As soon as the war ends, he will be forced to face an election, and eventually justice.
Peace puts his political power and wealth at risk, which means there will be no peace while Zelensky has power.
The evidence is already coming in that Brazil's Marxist President Lula da Silva, who is has been strongly endorsed by the Communist Party of Brazil, stole the election from Trump-backed conservative presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro much like Biden stole the election from Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
Lula’s personal attorney, now a judge in Brazil, appears to be presiding over the open rigging of Brazil’s election today.
According to Brazilian observers, the corrupt judge waited until pro-Bolsonaro precincts had closed their polls and then said only polls still open—most of which were pro-Lula—could remain open.
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This war could have 100% been avoided if the NATO war ghouls hadn’t been so committed to throwing every Ukrainian into the meat grinder to appease their deranged imperialist fantasies, even if this meant destroying Ukraine in the process. Unconscionable.
Ukrainian MP confirms that 2023 peace plan, which was reported by @FT & accepted by Putin but rejected by Zelensky & Biden administration, envisioned:
"- Russia withdraws its troops from most of the four oblasts it had just declared “annexed.”
- The new line of demarcation runs roughly along the line as of February 24, 2022: Crimea and the part of Donbas that Russia controlled before the full-scale invasion.
- Ukraine recognizes Russian control over Crimea. - Ukraine grants Russia an unobstructed land corridor to Crimea.
- The ceasefire regime is guaranteed by NATO countries that provide protection for Ukraine.
- Russia begins negotiations with the US on its own security guarantees.
-Moreover, Russia was ready to give up the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant as well.
-And the 300 billion in frozen assets was to go toward rebuilding all of Ukraine, that is, together with the occupied territories.
-As for Crimea: we were not required to recognize it as Russian, only to recognize Russia’s control over it. In other words, we acknowledge that right now it is under Russian control (which is how it is). We were also required to adopt a law banning the return of Crimea by military means.
-The land corridor to Crimea, a highway and a railway, was to be built at Russia’s expense. The hardest question was how to guard it. That is why the Russians were ready to give up Melitopol, but not Tokmak: they feared we would cut the corridor with artillery.
-Zelensky rejected this proposal at the time."
Elon Musk warned about the Ukraine war years ago, and it's absolutely tragic how accurately he predicted the devastating cost of human lives from this conflict
Back in October 2022, Elon didn't just call for peace. He actually proposed a peace plan involving UN-supervised votes in occupied regions, recognizing Crimea as Russian, guaranteeing its water supply, and Ukraine remaining neutral
He warned that continuing this war would bring devastating death and destruction, with countless young Ukrainians and Russians losing their lives
And look at what's happened since then
More than 2 MILLION military casualties, entire cities destroyed, millions of people forced from their homes, and the war is still going on with no lasting peace
Elon faced enormous backlash for proposing a path toward peace, but the human cost he warned about has become an absolutely horrifying reality
And that's what makes this so tragic. These are human beings with parents, families, loved ones, and entire lives ahead of them, not disposable pieces on some geopolitical chessboard
How many more young people have to die in trenches before ending this endless slaughter becomes just as important as deciding who wins the war?
Elon saw the devastating human cost of a prolonged war coming years ago, and instead of taking his warning seriously, people attacked him for even putting a peace proposal on the table
Just imagine how many lives could have been saved if a lasting peace had been reached years earlier
How much more death and destruction will it take before ending this meat grinder becomes the priority??
David Pyne 🇺🇸 retweeted
Lula’s personal attorney, now a judge in Brazil, appears to be presiding over the open rigging of Brazil’s election today.
According to Brazilian observers, the corrupt judge waited until pro-Bolsonaro precincts had closed their polls and then said only polls still open—most of which were pro-Lula—could remain open.
A decisão do Min. Zanin provavelmente acarrete a anulação do segundo turno eleitoral no Brasil. A liminar foi comunicada quando algumas urnas já haviam sido lacradas e simplesmente não há como as reabrir.
Em paralelo, é ilegal haver início da apuração com a votação ainda em curso, e isso está acontecendo.
Para os que prediziam algum tipo de "golpe", ele foi dado.
Agora é esperar as consequências.
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Elon Musk again agrees that Zelensky "needs to go." As I wrote, Zelensky is one of worst leaders in history. He rejected peace deals, which could have avoided lose of lives of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, in favor of continuing unwinnable war & applauses by politicians & media.
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Rabbi Chaim Mentz (Chabad of Bel Air) just went on Fox News demanding Trump attack Iran immediately. “He has to do it.” “No more waiting. Now is the time.” Israel is “ready to roll,” and he wants it done before the midterms so Congress doesn’t cut off the money.
This is the same script as 2002. Foreign interests push the war, Americans pay at the pump and with their kids’ futures. Not our fight.
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The world must know the truth. @elonmusk Elon Musk is right that the Ukrainian elite and the authorities are prolonging the war for the sake of enriching themselves at the expense of the blood of ordinary young men who are abducted from their homes against their will and sent to the front under the threat of torture. It recently became known that Zelensky’s gangs, which abduct men for mobilization, tortured a man and threatened to cut off his genitals, after which they beat him until he was left in a vegetative state — his head is swollen, and he cannot speak.
In 2022, I buried my godbrother, who was killed in the war. Even then, I knew that his death could have been avoided, that a little child could have been spared becoming an orphan. My hatred for Zelensky knows no bounds.
Yesterday, the Financial Times published information that shocked Ukrainians. It was already known that Zelensky had rejected peace in April 2022. A meeting between Zelensky and Putin had already been scheduled for a specific date, but at the last moment Zelensky canceled the meeting to sign a peace agreement.
Let me remind you that at that time, there had not yet been millions of casualties among Ukrainian military personnel. Not a single city had been destroyed yet.
But Zelensky refused.
Now it has become known that he rejected peace for the second time, in 2023. Ukrainians are shocked by the fact that the terms for achieving peace were incredibly favorable. Putin was willing to make enormous compromises. But Zelensky did not want to.
But before moving on to the second rejection, let me remind you that Zelensky rejected peace for the third time when, through China, Putin proposed ending the war along the front line at the end of 2023, but Zelensky publicly refused at the time. Today, three years later, Zelensky is calling for the war to end along the front line, but now Putin is the one refusing — he demands that a permanent peace treaty be signed, which is very much against Zelensky’s wishes.
But here is what the FT says about Zelensky’s second rejection of peace, which was being negotiated by Ukrainian and Russian negotiators with Abramovich’s involvement:
What the draft agreement provided for:
Russia withdraws its troops from most of the four regions it had just declared “annexed.”
The new line of demarcation runs approximately along the line as it stood before February 24, 2022: Crimea and the part of Donbas that Russia controlled before the full-scale invasion.
Ukraine recognizes Russia’s control over Crimea.
Ukraine provides Russia with an unobstructed land corridor to Crimea.
The ceasefire is guaranteed by NATO countries, which provide protection for Ukraine.
Russia begins negotiations with the United States on its own security guarantees.
In addition, Russia was prepared to hand over the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as well. And $300 billion in frozen assets was supposed to go toward rebuilding all of Ukraine, including the occupied territories.
Regarding Crimea: Zelensky was not required to recognize it as Russian — only to recognize Russia’s control over it. In other words, we acknowledge that it is currently under Russian control (which is indeed the case). We were also required to pass a law prohibiting the return of Crimea by military means.
Zelensky rejected this proposal at the time.
But the Biden administration also did not support this peace deal.
After that, Putin’s demands on Ukraine increased sharply.
“Negotiators believe that the US and Ukraine missed a potential opportunity in 2023 to secure peace on significantly more favorable terms than those Putin is willing to accept now,” the publication writes.
After that, Zelensky lost even more territory, a huge amount of infrastructure, and hundreds of thousands of lives. Because ending the war means the end of his rule: he will not win the elections and will lose his immunity from law enforcement.
Brazil's 80-year old Marxist President Lula da Silva was re-elected today in a stunning defeat for Trump and MAGA supporters. Following Lula's second place showing in the first round of voting earlier this month,
Eric Daugherty began circulating a ridiculously misleading map of Latin America showing Cuba, Venezuela and Brazil under right-wing control rather than Communist/Marxist control as they actually are. Lula has closely allied Brazil with Russia, Communist China, Communist Cuba and Communist Venezuela.
Lula's victory over conservative Flavio Bolsonaro tonight represents a massive blow to freedom in Latin America. I strongly suspect the election was rigged as Lula was trailing almost every poll before Election Day though its very possible that Lula won because of the massive increase in fuel prices caused by Trump's idiotic Deep State forever war with Iran.
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🇺🇸 Trump is reportedly considering sweeping preemptive pardons for thousands of administration staffers ahead of the midterms.
The proposal comes due to rising concerns that Democrats would launch investigations against him if they regain control of Congress.
White House attorneys are now said to be exploring protections for officials involved in Trump's immigration, trade and military policies, shielding them from potential legal battles.
Trump says he hasn't seriously considered the proposal but insists he has the constitutional authority to issue such pardons.
In a statement of the matter, he said, “I certainly don't want to see innocent people go through hell and lose all their money."
Source: Daily Mail / Writer: Mhedi
You know Netanyahu has the goods to blackmail Trump because whenever he orders Trump to do something he does it even endorsing Natanyahu twice just like when he dogwalked Trump into starting another forever war in the Middle East for Greater Israel.
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The Iran War is a moral and strategic disaster, but politically, the problem is basically that now, the defining policy of Trump's political career makes Obama look great by comparison. Imagine if inflation was at Fed target and we were talking about immigration and DEI.
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Millions of Ukrainian men are hiding from Zelenskyy’s mobilization.
Thousands die daily trying to escape Ukraine.
He steals US & EU aid meant for Ukrainians while sending us to die.
Our protests are crushed.
This is genocide.
Please help us.
Replying to @skscartoon
The endless slaughter of Ukrainian and Russians must stop.
We should some sympathy for the poor Russian conscripts too. Those kids have no choice but to fight and die in drone strikes.
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He has no idea how bad he is doing in GA. And to threaten our state that he would refuse to help the good people of Georgia just because he doesn’t like who calls him shows how much he really doesn’t care.
Trump has become a curse to Republican candidates and it will be worse in ‘28.
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Because many in the IDF think Gadi Eizenkot is about to replace Netanyahu as Israeli Prime Minister.
I wouldn't count Bibi out. Dude will do anything to stay out of prison, including destroy the America First Coalition.
Oh, that's right. He did that already.
Report: In ‘unprecedented confrontation,’ IDF chief resisting carrying out military action ordered by Netanyahu relating to Iran
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