Anna Dravid. Interested and observant of Geopolitics, Culture, Politics and Global Trade for the last 3 decades. My comments are personal and my own views.
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I swear no one trolls Trump as hard as the Iranians 😂
Yes, that is a living billboard of him in JAIL in the heart of Tehran
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"Allahu Akbar" has been said at the bedsides of dying parents.
At the birth of children.
At the moment of surviving something unsurvivable.
It means "God is great."
It is said billions of times a day by people making tea, driving to work, watching their children sleep.
Then one man says it before he kills someone, and suddenly it belongs to the violence.
"God Bless America" has been said over every war the United States has launched since 1945.
Korea. Vietnam. Iraq. Afghanistan. Libya. Yemen. Iran.
Said from podiums by men who had already signed the orders.
Said in the same breath as the casualty projections.
One phrase gets blamed for its worst day.
The other gets absolved of its daily use.
That asymmetry is not an accident.
That asymmetry is a policy.
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They will tell you Islam has a violence problem.
They will tell you this with a straight face in a civilization that invented the atomic bomb, used it on civilian cities twice, built enough nuclear warheads to end human life on earth seventeen times over, and has been in a continuous state of military conflict somewhere on the planet for the entirety of the modern era.
The violence problem argument requires a very specific form of selective vision.
It requires you to see the violence of the powerless as ideology and the violence of the powerful as policy.
It requires you to see a man with a knife as a cultural symptom and a man with an aircraft carrier as a strategic asset.
It requires you to read the Quran for verses that justify violence and to not read the history of Western colonialism for the same.
That selective vision was not an accident.
It was curated.
By the people who needed the threat to come from somewhere else.
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National security is just a flimsy excuse. Reminds me of the Pegasus software.
The real point is allowing Ambani and Jio to establish a complete monopoly over the Indian telecomm business, so that no other company can claim a share of the market.
We all know how the domestic psu company BSNL has been reduced to.
As long as Modi is in power, Starlink won't be able to do business in India.
Let that sink in.
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It only took 4 weeks for Pakistan, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia to send fighter jets and soldiers to Yemen.
After 4 years of genocide in Gaza, they sent NOTHING.
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China laying bare the brutal facts:
Donald Trump:
"It is costing us $2 billion a day to reopen the Strait of Hormuz"
China's Foreign Minister:
"The Strait was open before the war. The root of the problem lies in your illegal operations against Iran; you created a global crisis out of nothing"
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It’s not China they fear.
It’s what China disproves.
That a nation can rise without plunder.
That poverty can fall without war.
That growth doesn’t need Wall Street permission slips.
That a billion people can be fed, housed, and educated without invading anyone.
That is what terrifies the empire.
Not tyranny.
But competence.
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Pentagon Cites "Security Concerns" to Pull ALL 12 B-1 Bombers From RAF Fairford
Was the alleged Iran FALSE FLAG used to justify the U.S. bomber exit?
The incident was quickly BLAMED ON IRAN despite NO explosives being found, NO charges being filed and all 6 suspects being released on bail. Signs instead point to FUEL THEFT.
Iran calls it a FALSE FLAG meant to manufacture an Iranian threat. And now, conveniently, that same "threat" gives Washington cover to pull its bombers without looking WEAK.
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They have a word for what happens when a foreign power enters your country, removes your government, installs a compliant replacement, opens your markets to foreign capital, and leaves your population with the debt:
They call it "liberation."
You are expected to be grateful.
If you are not grateful, you are "radicalized."
If you resist, you are a "terrorist."
The vocabulary was designed so that every possible response to what was done to you confirms the story they told about why they came.
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If it’s true that Iran has threatened US interests worldwide, it might be instructive, Mr. Secretary, why they would so threaten us.
Might it, I don’t know, have something to do with the fact we started two wars with them in the span of one year without justification, assassinated there leader — including his granddaughter — blew up a school killing hundreds of little girls and teachers, and threatened to annihilate their civilization?
Do you think those might be at least potential factors? No, I’m sure u don’t think so. There’s only nefarious intent and evidence of wickedness of the Iranian side, and no justification for doing anything to us — or at least that’s the way you would like it to be.
You want the freedom to assassinate and kill everyone you want in their country, and there b literally no pushback from them.
You may want that, but that’s not how the real world works, and by pushing down that road, you put all of *us* at unnecessary risk as well, and the well-being of our country. That’s something you and President Trump caused.
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Give it a few days and it’ll become apparent that these were fuel thieves who were stealing diesel from farms in huge barrels in vans (explosive, not explosives… hence not viable). Who just were literally in the wrong place at the wrong time. A not uncommon crime in rural Gloucestershire.
news.sky.com/share/13527288
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After the Gaza genocide, it’s clear the United Nations represent little more than a forum for w(h)ining and dining on the international stage.
It’s where world leaders come to embrace Trump with hope the U.S. media embrace them. It’s where Al-Qaeda receives a warm reception in NYC. It’s where we hear the same blah, blah, blah every year.
Then of course, this is the same organization that established itself as the guarantor of territorial independence and national sovereignty, only to swiftly turn around and use its mandate to establish the planetary cancer known as Israel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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From Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian's speech at the UN General Assembly:
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• “Either we will build security together, or we will endure insecurity together.”
• “We do not ask permission from anyone to defend our country.”
• “We cannot speak of peace while ignoring Palestine. Lasting peace in West Asia will not last without justice for Palestine.”
• “Iran has learned one truth clearly in its long history: the world without power is dangerous, but a world that only understands the language of power will not have sustainable security.”
• “The nuclear bomb is in Israel, but the inspectors are in Iran. Israel kills, but Iran is sanctioned. This is a tragedy; if you tell this to anyone, they will laugh. It kills, and we are sanctioned.”
• “Let [Trump] know that threats make our nation more united and stronger, and increase the resistance of Iranians. They must know that the nation of Iran will not bow its head before force, and it will make the aggressors regret it. This is what Trump and those who want to bully must understand.”
• “We are ready for dialogue, but let them know that we will not accept the language of force.”
Anna retweeted
Donald Trump’s maniacal rant before the UN General Assembly today, complete with ridiculous braggadocio, narcissistic puffery, an almost unbroken line of absurd, demonstrable lies, open criminality, and deranged, murderous threats, should awaken even the most cowardly and complicit among world leaders that their attempts at appeasement of Trump and the tyrannical Axis that he leads can only result in further aggression, economic terrorism, murder, and genocide. The world must unite to counter the threat and to defend peace, human rights, and the rule of law, which are, after all, declared purposes of the UN.
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What exactly has Iran done that is so unforgivable?
Did it invade continents?
Colonize half the earth?
Drop atomic bombs on civilians?
Build military bases around the globe?
Topple the governments?
Starve nations with sanctions?
NO.
It's US who did this all!
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In Deir Mimas, south of Lebanon, the Lebanese army has received instructions to withdraw from the village while the US-backed netanyahu occupation forces were advancing.
This clearly confirms that Lebanon doesn't have a state fulfilling its duty to protect the country from the occupier, and it shows why the resistance refuses to hand over its weapons to an army instructed by President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam not to defend the inhabitants.
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Saudi Arabia should stop the siege and the war against Yemen. The Gulf should organise its own security arrangements including Iran and without Israel and the United States. STOP fighting each other
