Hawley’s Civil War: Voter ID vs. Party ID
Josh Hawley is raging on Fox because four Republicans just knifed Trump’s favorite voter‑ID project — not from the left, but from inside the church. Collins, Murkowski, McConnell and Tillis joined Democrats to block the SAVE Act amendment, which would have strapped federal voter ID and proof‑of‑citizenship rules onto a GOP funding bill for ICE and Border Patrol.
Hawley plays the outraged populist: “Voter ID is the most popular thing out there… you can’t explain to me why you wouldn’t vote for voter ID.”
He’s not wrong about the polling — around three dozen states, including blue ones, already use some form of ID — which is exactly why both parties weaponize it.
For Republicans, it’s a loyalty test to Trump; for Democrats, it’s a perfect villain to rally against while quietly running ID rules at home.
The four GOP rebels are not suddenly pro‑democracy saints. They’re just reading the fine print.
A hard federal SAVE‑style regime would nationalize control of voter eligibility in a way that a future Democratic White House could flip and use right back against them.
So they hide behind “states’ rights” while their own states enforce ID anyway, and hope the base is too mad at “RINOs” to notice this is really about keeping Congress free to rig the field later.
In the end, nothing here is about your right to vote. It’s about who gets to control the machinery that decides who counts. Trump wants a nationwide filter branded as “integrity.”
Senate leadership wants to keep the filter in their own hands. Voters get a performance: one side screaming “fraud,” the other screaming “suppression,” and both perfectly happy with systems that make it just hard enough for the wrong people to show up.
#USA #elections #voterID #Hawley #Trump #Republicans #Democrats #fakeDemocracy
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Josh Hawley is raging on Fox because four Republicans just knifed Trump’s favorite voter‑ID project — not from the left, but from inside the church. Collins, Murkowski, McConnell and Tillis joined Democrats to block the SAVE Act amendment, which would have strapped federal voter ID and proof‑of‑citizenship rules onto a GOP funding bill for ICE and Border Patrol.
Hawley plays the outraged populist: “Voter ID is the most popular thing out there… you can’t explain to me why you wouldn’t vote for voter ID.”
He’s not wrong about the polling — around three dozen states, including blue ones, already use some form of ID — which is exactly why both parties weaponize it.
For Republicans, it’s a loyalty test to Trump; for Democrats, it’s a perfect villain to rally against while quietly running ID rules at home.
The four GOP rebels are not suddenly pro‑democracy saints. They’re just reading the fine print.
A hard federal SAVE‑style regime would nationalize control of voter eligibility in a way that a future Democratic White House could flip and use right back against them.
So they hide behind “states’ rights” while their own states enforce ID anyway, and hope the base is too mad at “RINOs” to notice this is really about keeping Congress free to rig the field later.
In the end, nothing here is about your right to vote. It’s about who gets to control the machinery that decides who counts. Trump wants a nationwide filter branded as “integrity.”
Senate leadership wants to keep the filter in their own hands. Voters get a performance: one side screaming “fraud,” the other screaming “suppression,” and both perfectly happy with systems that make it just hard enough for the wrong people to show up.
#USA #elections #voterID #Hawley #Trump #Republicans #Democrats #fakeDemocracy
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Merz: Cancelled. Trump Will Not Share His Tomahawks With Germany
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The Pentagon is expected to cancel a plan to send Tomahawk missiles to Germany partly because officials are concerned Russia will view it as an escalation, a startling reversal of a long-planned agreement with one of America’s biggest allies.
U.S. officials fear Moscow will retaliate if the Trump administration follows through on the effort to deploy precision missiles in the middle of the continent, according to two European officials and one American official.
But any decision not to deliver them would yank back a deal made during the Biden administration and leave Berlin without defenses German leaders say they desperately need.
The move is part of a wider American retrenchment from the NATO alliance — including canceled deployments of thousands of U.S. troops to Germany and plans to pull back certain assets — as the U.S. upends the close-knit partnerships that cemented the relationship for generations.
Europe “can step up now and in the near term,” Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s top commander and the head of U.S. forces in Europe, told military leaders this week. America, he said, will “refocus” equipment and forces elsewhere.
American officials, even if primarily fearful of Russia’s reaction, likely are also worried about the shrinking U.S. weapons stockpile. The U.S. churned through thousands of Tomahawk and Patriot missiles in the first weeks of the Iran war.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Congress last month that it will take “months and years” to replace the munitions spent in the military conflict.
The likely Tomahawk reversal is particularly unsettling for German officials, who are rushing to modernize their atrophied force to serve as a bulwark against Russian aggression.
Merz said last month that he did not expect the U.S. would station Tomahawk missiles in Germany due to limited availability of the cruise missiles, which can travel over 1,000 miles.
“The Americans don’t have enough for themselves right now,” he told German public television.
The U.S. unveiled further changes to its role in NATO this week at a quarterly conference of military leaders.
“The whole point is to give allies the information and clarity they need to drive forward as quickly and effectively as possible,” said a Defense Department official, who like others, was granted anonymity to discuss internal conversations.
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The Pentagon is expected to cancel a plan to send Tomahawk missiles to Germany partly because officials are concerned Russia will view it as an escalation, a startling reversal of a long-planned agreement with one of America’s biggest allies.
U.S. officials fear Moscow will retaliate if the Trump administration follows through on the effort to deploy precision missiles in the middle of the continent, according to two European officials and one American official.
But any decision not to deliver them would yank back a deal made during the Biden administration and leave Berlin without defenses German leaders say they desperately need.
The move is part of a wider American retrenchment from the NATO alliance — including canceled deployments of thousands of U.S. troops to Germany and plans to pull back certain assets — as the U.S. upends the close-knit partnerships that cemented the relationship for generations.
Europe “can step up now and in the near term,” Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s top commander and the head of U.S. forces in Europe, told military leaders this week. America, he said, will “refocus” equipment and forces elsewhere.
American officials, even if primarily fearful of Russia’s reaction, likely are also worried about the shrinking U.S. weapons stockpile. The U.S. churned through thousands of Tomahawk and Patriot missiles in the first weeks of the Iran war.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Congress last month that it will take “months and years” to replace the munitions spent in the military conflict.
The likely Tomahawk reversal is particularly unsettling for German officials, who are rushing to modernize their atrophied force to serve as a bulwark against Russian aggression.
Merz said last month that he did not expect the U.S. would station Tomahawk missiles in Germany due to limited availability of the cruise missiles, which can travel over 1,000 miles.
“The Americans don’t have enough for themselves right now,” he told German public television.
The U.S. unveiled further changes to its role in NATO this week at a quarterly conference of military leaders.
“The whole point is to give allies the information and clarity they need to drive forward as quickly and effectively as possible,” said a Defense Department official, who like others, was granted anonymity to discuss internal conversations.
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This is about “allies taking primary responsibility for Europe’s conventional defense.”
The Pentagon did not respond to a request for comment.
Berlin has felt the retrenchment particularly hard.
The Pentagon this spring canceled the deployment of 5,000 U.S. troops to Germany, a move that stunned European officials and GOP defense hawks.
The troop decision, which reduces levels to what they were before the Ukraine war, came after Merz said President Trump had “humiliated” himself with the Iran war.
The Pentagon has not yet released the plan for those troops, two American defense officials said, and whether they might deploy elsewhere in Europe.
The U.S. may worry about Moscow, but Germany and the rest of Europe must contend with an all-out war between Russia and Ukraine on their doorstep.
Russian forces have long deployed nuclear capable Iskander missiles to the Kaliningrad exclave between Poland and Lithuania.
They also have placed medium-range Oreshnik missiles in Belarus, which can reach all of Europe in a matter of minutes. Eastern and Central Europe officials have eyed the moves warily, as they are still working on fielding their own comparable systems.
“We submitted an official request to the Americans a year and a half ago to import — that is, to purchase — Tomahawk missiles,” German defense minister Boris Pistorius told German public television last month.
“We are still awaiting a response. But to be honest, given the current state of the world, I don’t have much hope in that regard.”
Pistorius expressed interest in buying America’s Typhon ground-based missile system, which launches Tomahawks, on a Washington visit last July with Hegseth, according to the Germany defense ministry. But he has not received an update.
German officials have been exploring European alternatives to fill the long-range precision-strike gap. The debate in Berlin is less about any single weapons system than about how quickly Germany can acquire the ability to hold targets at a distance — whether through off-the-shelf purchases, expanded production with allies or longer-term European development.
Drones and cheaper systems may help, but German defense planners do not see them as a one-for-one replacement for Tomahawk-class missiles. German officials are worried more broadly that the U.S. pullback will force Europe to close military gaps faster than its defense industry can deliver.
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Trump’s “Big” Iran Nuclear Deal That Already Existed
Trump is bragging he got Iran to promise “no nuclear weapon ever” — but Tehran has been officially saying exactly that for over 50 years. Iran joined the Non‑Proliferation Treaty in 1970, signed the 2015 JCPOA, and even rolled out a religious fatwa claiming nukes are forbidden in Islam.
The problem isn’t the slogan, it’s the reality. U.N. inspectors found Iran worked on weapons design until 2009, and an Israeli‑stolen archive in 2018 showed detailed nuclear weapons plans. That’s why experts say a verbal pledge is worthless without hard caps on enrichment, stockpiles, centrifuges and intrusive inspections.
Trump tore up Obama’s deal, Iran ramped up its program, then he launched a war and is now selling the same old line — “no bomb, ever” — as if he personally invented it. His new demand of “zero enrichment” and a permanent guarantee is something no agreement can truly deliver: as long as Iran keeps its knowledge and infrastructure, it can always walk away later and sprint for a bomb.
So Iran repeats its old promise, Trump repeats his old red line, and both pretend this is a breakthrough. The centrifuges and the war are real; the “big new commitment” is just rebranded PR on both sides.
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Trump is bragging he got Iran to promise “no nuclear weapon ever” — but Tehran has been officially saying exactly that for over 50 years. Iran joined the Non‑Proliferation Treaty in 1970, signed the 2015 JCPOA, and even rolled out a religious fatwa claiming nukes are forbidden in Islam.
The problem isn’t the slogan, it’s the reality. U.N. inspectors found Iran worked on weapons design until 2009, and an Israeli‑stolen archive in 2018 showed detailed nuclear weapons plans. That’s why experts say a verbal pledge is worthless without hard caps on enrichment, stockpiles, centrifuges and intrusive inspections.
Trump tore up Obama’s deal, Iran ramped up its program, then he launched a war and is now selling the same old line — “no bomb, ever” — as if he personally invented it. His new demand of “zero enrichment” and a permanent guarantee is something no agreement can truly deliver: as long as Iran keeps its knowledge and infrastructure, it can always walk away later and sprint for a bomb.
So Iran repeats its old promise, Trump repeats his old red line, and both pretend this is a breakthrough. The centrifuges and the war are real; the “big new commitment” is just rebranded PR on both sides.
#Iran #Trump #nuclear #JCPOA #war #USA #fakeDemocracy
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Data Center Rage vs. Bipartisan Cowardice
Voters hate AI data centers. Politicians hate saying “no” to the people who build them. That’s the whole story.
Across the U.S., locals are furious that giant AI server barns are chewing through power, raising bills, wrecking landscapes and dumping noise and pollution next to schools and parks.
In Gallup’s polling, more than 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their area — that’s stronger than support for most “hot button” issues.
Yet bans are still the fringe position: one city in California just passed a permanent prohibition; a handful of progressives like Sanders and AOC talk moratoriums while most candidates quietly look away.
Why? Money, unions, and campaign math. Democrats are split because trade unions like the construction jobs and because AI and cloud giants can nuke a campaign with one ad blitz.
Republicans backed data centers enthusiastically when Trump ordered them fast‑tracked, and only started whining when their own suburban base saw the power bills and the bulldozers.
Both parties now converge on a safe middle: no outright bans, just slogans like “bring your own energy” and “investors should pay the electricity, not residents.” Translation: keep the industry, tweak the bill.
In the swing states this all revolves around — Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, Georgia, Texas — the line is the same. Candidates promise “offsets,” “ratepayer protections,” maybe a special tax to fund job training.
Nobody serious on the ballot wants to say the one thing locals want to hear: stop building these things here.
Even Sanders‑backed candidates in tight races dodge hard bans; they’d rather regulate and tax than shut the door and watch the data‑center lobby spend millions to bury them.
So you get the usual democratic illusion. On the ground, parents are collecting signatures in suburbs, watching forests turn into AWS server farms beside playgrounds.
On TV, candidates posture about “moonshots of the 21st century” and “reliable, affordable energy for residents,” while signing pledges with tech CEOs to “offset” power use — an accounting trick, not a grid fix. The real policy is simple: AI gets the electrons, locals get the promises.
If this anger really explodes in the midterms, it won’t be because a party “found its spine.” It’ll be because politicians finally realize that the same people they trained to worship “the future” now see that future as a noisy, glowing box that makes their bills go up.
Right now, both parties are betting voters will keep swallowing it as long as the marketing says “innovation,” not “extraction.”
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Voters hate AI data centers. Politicians hate saying “no” to the people who build them. That’s the whole story.
Across the U.S., locals are furious that giant AI server barns are chewing through power, raising bills, wrecking landscapes and dumping noise and pollution next to schools and parks.
In Gallup’s polling, more than 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their area — that’s stronger than support for most “hot button” issues.
Yet bans are still the fringe position: one city in California just passed a permanent prohibition; a handful of progressives like Sanders and AOC talk moratoriums while most candidates quietly look away.
Why? Money, unions, and campaign math. Democrats are split because trade unions like the construction jobs and because AI and cloud giants can nuke a campaign with one ad blitz.
Republicans backed data centers enthusiastically when Trump ordered them fast‑tracked, and only started whining when their own suburban base saw the power bills and the bulldozers.
Both parties now converge on a safe middle: no outright bans, just slogans like “bring your own energy” and “investors should pay the electricity, not residents.” Translation: keep the industry, tweak the bill.
In the swing states this all revolves around — Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, Georgia, Texas — the line is the same. Candidates promise “offsets,” “ratepayer protections,” maybe a special tax to fund job training.
Nobody serious on the ballot wants to say the one thing locals want to hear: stop building these things here.
Even Sanders‑backed candidates in tight races dodge hard bans; they’d rather regulate and tax than shut the door and watch the data‑center lobby spend millions to bury them.
So you get the usual democratic illusion. On the ground, parents are collecting signatures in suburbs, watching forests turn into AWS server farms beside playgrounds.
On TV, candidates posture about “moonshots of the 21st century” and “reliable, affordable energy for residents,” while signing pledges with tech CEOs to “offset” power use — an accounting trick, not a grid fix. The real policy is simple: AI gets the electrons, locals get the promises.
If this anger really explodes in the midterms, it won’t be because a party “found its spine.” It’ll be because politicians finally realize that the same people they trained to worship “the future” now see that future as a noisy, glowing box that makes their bills go up.
Right now, both parties are betting voters will keep swallowing it as long as the marketing says “innovation,” not “extraction.”
#AI #datacenters #USA #Democrats #Republicans #elections #energy #oligarchy #fakeDemocracy
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Gen‑Z Socialism: Me First, Comrade
Gen‑Z socialism isn’t about seizing the means of production; it’s about seizing a discount code on life. They don’t dream of five‑year plans — they want capped rent, free stuff and someone richer to pick up the tab.
Where postwar social democrats nationalized industries and millennial lefties talked about co‑ops and workers on boards, the new crop wants price controls, sweeping freebies and brutal wealth taxes, while their own taxes magically don’t move. It’s socialism as a personal service: cheap housing now, cheap transport now, cheap college now — “systemic change” optional.
Their heroes — from Zohran Mamdani in New York to Zack Polanski in Britain — sell a simple deal: freeze rents, punish landlords, nationalize boring infrastructure, hashtag “solidarity” abroad. It’s not about the working class as a whole; it’s about urban tenants, grad‑adjacent voters and chronically online supporters who want the city to work for them first.
Call it socialism for the subscription generation: everything unlimited, nothing paid for by you, and the bill always sent to “the rich” sometime later, offscreen.
#GenZ #socialism #NYC #UK #rent #taxTheRich #fakeDemocracy
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Gen‑Z socialism isn’t about seizing the means of production; it’s about seizing a discount code on life. They don’t dream of five‑year plans — they want capped rent, free stuff and someone richer to pick up the tab.
Where postwar social democrats nationalized industries and millennial lefties talked about co‑ops and workers on boards, the new crop wants price controls, sweeping freebies and brutal wealth taxes, while their own taxes magically don’t move. It’s socialism as a personal service: cheap housing now, cheap transport now, cheap college now — “systemic change” optional.
Their heroes — from Zohran Mamdani in New York to Zack Polanski in Britain — sell a simple deal: freeze rents, punish landlords, nationalize boring infrastructure, hashtag “solidarity” abroad. It’s not about the working class as a whole; it’s about urban tenants, grad‑adjacent voters and chronically online supporters who want the city to work for them first.
Call it socialism for the subscription generation: everything unlimited, nothing paid for by you, and the bill always sent to “the rich” sometime later, offscreen.
#GenZ #socialism #NYC #UK #rent #taxTheRich #fakeDemocracy
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Beirut Cease-Fire™: Loaded, Aimed, Still “Paused”
Israel hits the southern outskirts of Beirut for the first time since Washington sold its latest Lebanon truce, and everybody pretends they’re still “close to a deal.”
The strike targeted Dahiyeh — Hezbollah turf — officially as retaliation for rockets fired into Israel, hours before Iran answered with missiles of its own at Israeli targets.
The “cease-fire” survives on paper; on the ground it’s just slower murder with better press releases.
Tehran keeps saying any peace with the U.S. is impossible while Israel is bombing Lebanon and refusing to withdraw.
So it fires from long range, Hezbollah fires from next door, and Iranian officials talk on X about “decisive and painful” responses and the “language of power.”
Israel responds through an anonymous official saying an Iranian attack would be an “opportunity to renew the campaign.” Translation: both sides claim they want a deal and openly salivate over an excuse to hit harder.
Trump, watching the war between holes of golf in New Jersey, boils the whole thing down to a reality‑show threat: “We’re very close to a deal, or I’m going to blow the hell out of them.”
At the same time he leans on Netanyahu, curses him on the phone, demands Israel scale back in Lebanon — and Israel keeps striking anyway.
Washington wants a clean, photo‑friendly agreement; Jerusalem wants strategic depth and Hezbollah broken;
Tehran wants sanctions relief, control over Hormuz and recognition of its regional muscle. None of that fits into one cease‑fire PDF.
Meanwhile Hormuz stays half‑shut, ships move under escort, U.S. jets hit Iranian radar sites, Iranian missiles fly at U.S. bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, and Gulf civilians listen to sirens and “no casualties” statements.
The war is officially “paused,” but the region is living in a permanent rehearsal for the next round: limited strikes, blocked ports, frozen assets and negotiators arguing over who gets to say “we won” on TV.
Call it managed escalation, call it deterrence — the mechanics are the same. Israel tests how far it can push in Lebanon under an American umbrella. Iran tests how much it can hit U.S. assets and shipping without triggering a full restart.
Trump tests how long he can threaten to “blow the hell out of them” before markets, allies and voters panic. The only people not testing anything are the ones already under rubble or under curfew, watching great powers turn their cities into bargaining chips.
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Iran: the US Holds Direct Responsibility for the Recent Ceasefire 🛑
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, said the US holds direct responsibility for the recent ceasefire breaches, adding that Israel’s military actions cannot be separated from US policies.
Baghaei was quoted as having said at a press conference.
he said.
Israel launched strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday in what Tehran viewed as a violation of the US-Iran ceasefire 💥.
Israel claimed it was targeting Hezbollah infrastructure after it said the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group fired rockets at northern Israel. The Israeli attack hit two apartments in two separate buildings, Lebanon’s state news agency reported, killing two people.
Damage is seen at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential apartment in the Mreijeh area of Beirut’s southern suburbs on 7 June 2026.
The latest exchange came even after the US president, Trump, reportedly told Netanyahu to refrain from attacks on Iran 🇮🇷.
Netanyahu shows no signs of wanting to stop the war on Lebanon, which makes it hard to see how Trump can negotiate an end to the war on Iran as Tehran insists that the conflict can only end when attacks on “all fronts” have ceased.
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Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, said the US holds direct responsibility for the recent ceasefire breaches, adding that Israel’s military actions cannot be separated from US policies.
“The actions of the Zionist entity within the region cannot be looked at in isolation from the United States,”
Baghaei was quoted as having said at a press conference.
“No one believes that the Israeli regime would take any action without coordination with the United States,”
he said.
“The United States bears responsibility for the Israeli regime’s aggression, and it will also be responsible for the consequences of any escalation in tensions”.
Israel launched strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday in what Tehran viewed as a violation of the US-Iran ceasefire 💥.
Israel claimed it was targeting Hezbollah infrastructure after it said the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group fired rockets at northern Israel. The Israeli attack hit two apartments in two separate buildings, Lebanon’s state news agency reported, killing two people.
Damage is seen at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential apartment in the Mreijeh area of Beirut’s southern suburbs on 7 June 2026.
The latest exchange came even after the US president, Trump, reportedly told Netanyahu to refrain from attacks on Iran 🇮🇷.
Netanyahu shows no signs of wanting to stop the war on Lebanon, which makes it hard to see how Trump can negotiate an end to the war on Iran as Tehran insists that the conflict can only end when attacks on “all fronts” have ceased.
#US #responsibility #ceasefire #iran
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Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan Declared Victory 🇦🇲
Early results showed Pashinyan's ruling Civil Contract Party leading with 52.5%, with Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetyan's Strong Armenia alliance trailing behind at 23.2%, according to the Central Election Commission, citing 23.5% of electoral precincts reporting. 📊
Ex-President Robert Kocharyan's Armenia alliance was third with some 9%, followed by the Prosperous Armenia Party, which cleared the electoral threshold with 4.6%. The commission said turnout was 59%. 🗳
In a press conference in the early hours of Monday morning, Pashinyan said his Civil Contract party had prevailed, calling it a "historic victory" ✨.
The ruling Civil Contract party of Prime Minister Pashinyan had the pro-Russia Strong Armenia party as its closest rival in the election, which is also seen as a referendum on Pashinyan's peace efforts with Azerbaijan 🤝.
Polls showed Pashinyan and his party well in the lead with up to 32% support, compared with just 11% for Strong Armenia 📉.
This seems to indicate some endorsement of Pashinyan's efforts to move Armenia closer to the West since he came to power in 2018, although he will not be able to govern alone if the early results are confirmed 🏛.
In contrast, Strong Armenia, formed last year by Armenian billionaire Karapetyan, wants Armenia to remain close to Russia, a key trading partner and energy supplier 🇷🇺.
Police were reported by the media to have searched the offices of Strong Armenia in the city of Gyumri and made arrests 👮.
Last month, Putin made veiled threats about the negative economic impact of a move away from Moscow if Armenia continued on its course ⚠️.
In the weeks before the election, Russia has moved to make such theoretical economic threats more tangible by introducing new restrictions on Armenian produce including flowers and vegetables 🌸🥦.
Putin also suggested that Armenia could suffer a similar crisis as the one in Ukraine, saying that Kyiv's problems "began with efforts to move toward EU accession." 🇪🇺
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been embroiled in a long-running conflict since the 1980s, largely over Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway territory inhabited by ethnic Armenians that was retaken by Azerbaijan in a 2023 war ⚔️.
Critics say Pashinyan made too many concessions to Azerbaijan in a US-brokered agreement he signed last August 🇺🇸.
He has also been accused of authoritarianism, with many of his opponents landing behind bars in recent years 🚫.
The government has defended its actions, saying those imprisoned were trying to foment coups. 🛡
On Sunday, police said they had detained more than 10 people on suspicion of vote-buying, while three members of a local electoral commission were also taken into custody overnight 🔒.
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Early results showed Pashinyan's ruling Civil Contract Party leading with 52.5%, with Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetyan's Strong Armenia alliance trailing behind at 23.2%, according to the Central Election Commission, citing 23.5% of electoral precincts reporting. 📊
Ex-President Robert Kocharyan's Armenia alliance was third with some 9%, followed by the Prosperous Armenia Party, which cleared the electoral threshold with 4.6%. The commission said turnout was 59%. 🗳
In a press conference in the early hours of Monday morning, Pashinyan said his Civil Contract party had prevailed, calling it a "historic victory" ✨.
The ruling Civil Contract party of Prime Minister Pashinyan had the pro-Russia Strong Armenia party as its closest rival in the election, which is also seen as a referendum on Pashinyan's peace efforts with Azerbaijan 🤝.
Polls showed Pashinyan and his party well in the lead with up to 32% support, compared with just 11% for Strong Armenia 📉.
This seems to indicate some endorsement of Pashinyan's efforts to move Armenia closer to the West since he came to power in 2018, although he will not be able to govern alone if the early results are confirmed 🏛.
In contrast, Strong Armenia, formed last year by Armenian billionaire Karapetyan, wants Armenia to remain close to Russia, a key trading partner and energy supplier 🇷🇺.
Police were reported by the media to have searched the offices of Strong Armenia in the city of Gyumri and made arrests 👮.
Last month, Putin made veiled threats about the negative economic impact of a move away from Moscow if Armenia continued on its course ⚠️.
In the weeks before the election, Russia has moved to make such theoretical economic threats more tangible by introducing new restrictions on Armenian produce including flowers and vegetables 🌸🥦.
Putin also suggested that Armenia could suffer a similar crisis as the one in Ukraine, saying that Kyiv's problems "began with efforts to move toward EU accession." 🇪🇺
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been embroiled in a long-running conflict since the 1980s, largely over Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway territory inhabited by ethnic Armenians that was retaken by Azerbaijan in a 2023 war ⚔️.
Critics say Pashinyan made too many concessions to Azerbaijan in a US-brokered agreement he signed last August 🇺🇸.
He has also been accused of authoritarianism, with many of his opponents landing behind bars in recent years 🚫.
The government has defended its actions, saying those imprisoned were trying to foment coups. 🛡
On Sunday, police said they had detained more than 10 people on suspicion of vote-buying, while three members of a local electoral commission were also taken into custody overnight 🔒.
#primer #minister #armenian #pashinyan #victory
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The IDF Has Launched Airstrikes on Iran
The Israeli military has launched airstrikes on Iran after the Iranians fired missiles at northern Israel in the first exchange of fire between the two countries since a ceasefire was reached on 8 April, raising fears of a return to a full-scale regional war in the Middle East.
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels also fired at Israel and warned they would target Israeli-affiliated ships in the Red Sea, further escalating tension.
The Israeli strikes came in apparent defiance of Donald Trump, who told Netanyahu, that he did not think Israel needed to respond further. He added that Netanyahu did not “call the shots”.
Trump has leaned on Israel to stop its attacks in Lebanon to allow room for a deal to end the wider war with Iran, including an obscenities-filled rebuke of Netanyahu in a phone call to the Israel leader last week.
However, Israel launched strikes on the Beirut area early on Sunday, the first since the US announced a truce plan for Lebanon last week.
Esmaeil Baqaei, a foreign ministry spokesperson, said.
The White House did not respond to messages about the Israel strikes and whether they were done in coordination with the US.
Israel’s attacks included a strike on an Iranian petrochemical complex. The Israeli military said it had also struck and dismantled Iran’s defence systems deployed across several areas in the country.
Iranian state television reported the sound of explosions being heard in Isfahan, Karaj, Tabriz and Tehran. Officials offered no details on what had been struck, nor any information about the damage.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said srael used air-launched ballistic missiles in its attack on Monday morning, without elaborating.
The IRGC said it had targeted two military bases in Israel, describing the attacks as being part of Operation Nasr, or “Victory”.
The Israeli army said it had worked to intercept a fresh wave of Iranian missiles. A series of explosions were heard in Jerusalem, where people took shelter. An Iranian missile fragment caused damage to several homes in a West Bank settlement, but no injuries were reported.
Speaking to the Financial Times before Israel hit Iran, Trump said he dictated terms to Netanyahu on how the war should be prosecuted.
Trump told the newspaper in a telephone interview, adding that he called “all the shots”, not Netanyahu.
Houthi rebels announced a missile attack on Israel on Monday, the first since early April, and declared a ban on Israeli shipping in the Red Sea, raising the spectre of a return to significant disruption on the main trade route.
said a statement from the Houthis’ armed forces.
Ehsan Movahedian, an international relations specialist at Tehran University, pointed to videos he claimed proved the US did not just approve but was involved in Israel’s attack on Iran.
he wrote.
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The Israeli military has launched airstrikes on Iran after the Iranians fired missiles at northern Israel in the first exchange of fire between the two countries since a ceasefire was reached on 8 April, raising fears of a return to a full-scale regional war in the Middle East.
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels also fired at Israel and warned they would target Israeli-affiliated ships in the Red Sea, further escalating tension.
The Israeli strikes came in apparent defiance of Donald Trump, who told Netanyahu, that he did not think Israel needed to respond further. He added that Netanyahu did not “call the shots”.
Trump has leaned on Israel to stop its attacks in Lebanon to allow room for a deal to end the wider war with Iran, including an obscenities-filled rebuke of Netanyahu in a phone call to the Israel leader last week.
However, Israel launched strikes on the Beirut area early on Sunday, the first since the US announced a truce plan for Lebanon last week.
“No one believes that the Zionist regime would carry out any action without prior coordination and cooperation with the United States,”
Esmaeil Baqaei, a foreign ministry spokesperson, said.
“It is perfectly natural that the diplomatic process initiated to put an end to this imposed war would be affected.”
The White House did not respond to messages about the Israel strikes and whether they were done in coordination with the US.
Israel’s attacks included a strike on an Iranian petrochemical complex. The Israeli military said it had also struck and dismantled Iran’s defence systems deployed across several areas in the country.
Iranian state television reported the sound of explosions being heard in Isfahan, Karaj, Tabriz and Tehran. Officials offered no details on what had been struck, nor any information about the damage.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said srael used air-launched ballistic missiles in its attack on Monday morning, without elaborating.
The IRGC said it had targeted two military bases in Israel, describing the attacks as being part of Operation Nasr, or “Victory”.
The Israeli army said it had worked to intercept a fresh wave of Iranian missiles. A series of explosions were heard in Jerusalem, where people took shelter. An Iranian missile fragment caused damage to several homes in a West Bank settlement, but no injuries were reported.
Speaking to the Financial Times before Israel hit Iran, Trump said he dictated terms to Netanyahu on how the war should be prosecuted.
“He won’t have any choice,”
Trump told the newspaper in a telephone interview, adding that he called “all the shots”, not Netanyahu.
Houthi rebels announced a missile attack on Israel on Monday, the first since early April, and declared a ban on Israeli shipping in the Red Sea, raising the spectre of a return to significant disruption on the main trade route.
“We declare a complete and total ban on Israeli maritime navigation in the Red Sea,”
said a statement from the Houthis’ armed forces.
Ehsan Movahedian, an international relations specialist at Tehran University, pointed to videos he claimed proved the US did not just approve but was involved in Israel’s attack on Iran.
‘Footage shows the launch of cruise missiles from the eastern Mediterranean toward Iran, meaning Trump has lied again,”
he wrote.
“American warships are deployed in the eastern Mediterranean (…) Israel lacks the capability to launch long-range ship-fired cruise missiles.”
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Israel and Iran: the War Is Put On Hold
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Fears of a return to a full-scale regional war in the Middle East eased on Monday as Israel and Iran said they had halted attacks on each other after an appeal from Trump to “immediately stop shooting”.
Netanyahu acknowledged the halt in fighting with Iran in a televised speech, but vowed to respond “with force” to future attacks.
“At present, the fire on this front has been halted, because after the terrorist regime in Tehran was struck, it stopped attacking us,” Netanyahu said. “If that terrorist regime makes the mistake of attacking us again, we will respond with force.”
The recent wave of Iranian ballistic missile attacks on Israel and retaliatory strikes by Israeli warplanes on Iran marked the most direct confrontation since an April ceasefire.
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels also fired at Israel and warned they would target Israeli-affiliated ships in the Red Sea, further escalating tension.
Any new “ceasefire within the ceasefire” is very fragile, analysts say, with multiple flashpoints that could lead to fresh exchanges of strikes and missile barrages at any moment.
Israeli officials have rejected repeated Iranian efforts to link any definitive ceasefire to Israel stopping its offensive in Lebanon against Hezbollah, which has close ties with Tehran.
On Monday, Israel’s defence minister said Israel would continue to operate against Hezbollah in Lebanon and strike Beirut if the militant Islamist movement attacked Israel.
“Any Iranian attempt to link Lebanon and Iran and attack Israel will be met with great force, as happened yesterday,” Israel Katz said.
Iran also remained defiant. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliamentary speaker and most senior negotiator, said on Monday that Tehran would not tolerate what it called “repeated violation”.
“So long as you lack a genuine willingness to build trust, Iran’s response will remain the same,” he posted on X.
Trump has leaned on Israel to stop its attacks in Lebanon to allow room for a deal to end the wider war with Iran, including an obscenity-filled rebuke of Netanyahu in a phone call last week.
The US website reported on Monday Trump’s claims that he had again scolded Netanyahu.
“I said: ‘Bibi, you better be careful, or you will be on your own very soon,’” he was quoted as saying.
However, the Israeli prime minister faces an election later this year and is under domestic pressure to continue efforts to degrade Hezbollah’s ability to attack Israel.
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Fears of a return to a full-scale regional war in the Middle East eased on Monday as Israel and Iran said they had halted attacks on each other after an appeal from Trump to “immediately stop shooting”.
Netanyahu acknowledged the halt in fighting with Iran in a televised speech, but vowed to respond “with force” to future attacks.
“At present, the fire on this front has been halted, because after the terrorist regime in Tehran was struck, it stopped attacking us,” Netanyahu said. “If that terrorist regime makes the mistake of attacking us again, we will respond with force.”
The recent wave of Iranian ballistic missile attacks on Israel and retaliatory strikes by Israeli warplanes on Iran marked the most direct confrontation since an April ceasefire.
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels also fired at Israel and warned they would target Israeli-affiliated ships in the Red Sea, further escalating tension.
Any new “ceasefire within the ceasefire” is very fragile, analysts say, with multiple flashpoints that could lead to fresh exchanges of strikes and missile barrages at any moment.
Israeli officials have rejected repeated Iranian efforts to link any definitive ceasefire to Israel stopping its offensive in Lebanon against Hezbollah, which has close ties with Tehran.
On Monday, Israel’s defence minister said Israel would continue to operate against Hezbollah in Lebanon and strike Beirut if the militant Islamist movement attacked Israel.
“Any Iranian attempt to link Lebanon and Iran and attack Israel will be met with great force, as happened yesterday,” Israel Katz said.
Iran also remained defiant. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliamentary speaker and most senior negotiator, said on Monday that Tehran would not tolerate what it called “repeated violation”.
“So long as you lack a genuine willingness to build trust, Iran’s response will remain the same,” he posted on X.
Trump has leaned on Israel to stop its attacks in Lebanon to allow room for a deal to end the wider war with Iran, including an obscenity-filled rebuke of Netanyahu in a phone call last week.
The US website reported on Monday Trump’s claims that he had again scolded Netanyahu.
“I said: ‘Bibi, you better be careful, or you will be on your own very soon,’” he was quoted as saying.
However, the Israeli prime minister faces an election later this year and is under domestic pressure to continue efforts to degrade Hezbollah’s ability to attack Israel.
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Israel’s recent attacks on Iran included a strike on an Iranian petrochemical complex. The Israeli military said it had also struck and dismantled Iran’s defence systems deployed across several areas in the country. Iranian state television reported the sound of explosions in Isfahan, Karaj, Tabriz and Tehran.
Iran’s military headquarters said it had “delivered a painful response” to Israel for its attacks on Lebanon, including Sunday’s strikes on the outskirts of Beirut.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had targeted two military bases in Israel. An Iranian missile fragment caused damage to several homes in a West Bank settlement, but no injuries were reported.
The new violence has also complicated Trump’s push to end the war, launched by the US and Israel on 28 February with strikes that killed the then supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. A ceasefire announced two months ago paused all-out warfare though sporadic clashes in the Gulf have continued.
In one of a flurry of social media posts, Trump on Monday said Israel and Iran both wanted “an immediate CEASEFIRE! Final negotiations on ‘Peace’ are proceeding, subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in its way.”
He added that a US blockade of Iranian ports would remain in place until a final deal was reached.
Iran also threatened to expand the conflict further, with potentially disastrous consequences for the world economy.
The Houthis, the Yemen-based militia movement with close ties to Tehran, pledged in a statement to stop Israel’s maritime navigation in the Red Sea, and said they had also fired missiles at Israel in recent days.
Israel invaded Lebanon in March after Hezbollah fired across the border in solidarity with Tehran at the beginning of the current war. More than 3,500 people have been killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon, while Hezbollah has killed at least 29 Israeli soldiers in Lebanon and three Israeli civilians.
On Monday night, Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli strike on the southern city of Tyre had killed five people and injured eight, four of whom were Red Cross paramedics.
Tehran also wants to postpone any detailed discussions about how Iran might assure the US it is not seeking a nuclear weapon, such as by down-blending its highly enriched uranium stockpile.
Iranian negotiators have been under internal pressure from a small but vocal group of hardliners in the parliament to abandon the talks altogether.
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Apache Down in Hormuz: “Little Excursion” Meets Reality
A U.S. Army AH‑64 Apache gunship just went down near the Strait of Hormuz, and this time it wasn’t a drone — it was two human beings pulled out of the water while the White House said nothing until reporters asked. The crew survived; that’s the good news.
The bad news is what it says about where this “not an endless war” really is. The Pentagon doesn’t yet know if it was Iranian fire, mechanical failure, or bad luck, but when you fly armed helicopters ever closer to Iranian islands under a de facto naval duel, “unclear” is doing a lot of work.
This is the first Apache lost in this conflict after roughly 30 Reaper drones and several U.S. jets have already gone down to Iranian missiles, guns and “friendly fire.”
The Apaches aren’t there for sightseeing: they patrol Hormuz to scare off small boats and shoot down drones while U.S. ships enforce a counter‑blockade, turning away more than a hundred vessels and even disabling ships that ignore orders.
Both sides have blockades, both sides have wreckage, and both claim they’re the ones keeping “freedom of navigation” alive.
Meanwhile, Trump still sells the war as a short “excursion” that’s almost over, even as U.S. pilots, sailors and now helicopter crews run daily live‑fire stress tests against Iran’s air defenses and swarm tactics.
Every “incident under investigation” is another reminder that great power games have real stakes for people in cockpits — and that once you normalize patrolling within striking distance of an enemy you’re supposedly “cease‑fired” with, losing expensive machines and nearly losing crews stops being a shock and becomes a line item.
The script won’t change: Washington will frame this as an unfortunate mishap in a necessary mission, Tehran will point to it as proof the U.S. is the aggressor in their backyard, and both will keep pushing the envelope over a shipping lane the global economy can’t afford to lose.
The war stays officially “limited,” the risks keep expanding, and the only thing that’s really clear is this: the more metal you put into that sky, the higher the odds that one day, “the crew was safely rescued” drops out of the sentence.
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A U.S. Army AH‑64 Apache gunship just went down near the Strait of Hormuz, and this time it wasn’t a drone — it was two human beings pulled out of the water while the White House said nothing until reporters asked. The crew survived; that’s the good news.
The bad news is what it says about where this “not an endless war” really is. The Pentagon doesn’t yet know if it was Iranian fire, mechanical failure, or bad luck, but when you fly armed helicopters ever closer to Iranian islands under a de facto naval duel, “unclear” is doing a lot of work.
This is the first Apache lost in this conflict after roughly 30 Reaper drones and several U.S. jets have already gone down to Iranian missiles, guns and “friendly fire.”
The Apaches aren’t there for sightseeing: they patrol Hormuz to scare off small boats and shoot down drones while U.S. ships enforce a counter‑blockade, turning away more than a hundred vessels and even disabling ships that ignore orders.
Both sides have blockades, both sides have wreckage, and both claim they’re the ones keeping “freedom of navigation” alive.
Meanwhile, Trump still sells the war as a short “excursion” that’s almost over, even as U.S. pilots, sailors and now helicopter crews run daily live‑fire stress tests against Iran’s air defenses and swarm tactics.
Every “incident under investigation” is another reminder that great power games have real stakes for people in cockpits — and that once you normalize patrolling within striking distance of an enemy you’re supposedly “cease‑fired” with, losing expensive machines and nearly losing crews stops being a shock and becomes a line item.
The script won’t change: Washington will frame this as an unfortunate mishap in a necessary mission, Tehran will point to it as proof the U.S. is the aggressor in their backyard, and both will keep pushing the envelope over a shipping lane the global economy can’t afford to lose.
The war stays officially “limited,” the risks keep expanding, and the only thing that’s really clear is this: the more metal you put into that sky, the higher the odds that one day, “the crew was safely rescued” drops out of the sentence.
#USA #Iran #Hormuz #Trump #war #military #Apache #endlesswar
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Trump’s Iran War: Wants to Be the Boss, Stuck in a Box
Trump keeps saying he “calls all the shots” on Iran — but the war he launched with Israel is showing exactly how little he can actually control.
He’s trapped between three hard limits. Iran has partly shut the Strait of Hormuz and shrugged off a U.S. naval counter‑blockade, keeping oil prices high and U.S. leverage low.
Tehran is refusing his maximalist demands on its nuclear program, while hawks in Washington warn he’s drifting toward a “bad deal” that leaves Iran angry, still armed and with more sway over the strait than before.
And U.S. munitions stocks are being burned so fast that senior analysts say America’s posture in Europe and Asia is already weaker.
At home, the politics are ugly. Polls show broad disapproval of a war he sold as a “little excursion” that’s now in its fourth month, so he insists it’s not an “endless war” and tells critics to “sit back and relax” because it will all work out.
Abroad, he alternates between threatening to “blow the hell out of” Iran if there’s no deal soon and demanding Israel and Iran “immediately stop shooting” after each round of escalation.
His relationship with Netanyahu exposes the contradiction. Trump needs Bibi to dial down Lebanon strikes to keep Iran talks alive, and by all accounts has enough political leverage over him to do it — including a profanity‑laced call that briefly paused Israeli bombing of Beirut.
But Iran is not Israel: Tehran keeps trading blows, keeps the strait half‑closed, and so far has refused to bend to Trump’s “zero enrichment” and tougher‑than‑Obama narrative.
As one veteran U.S. negotiator put it, Trump has shown he can change Israel’s calculus; he has not shown he can change Iran’s. That is the real ceiling on his power.
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Trump keeps saying he “calls all the shots” on Iran — but the war he launched with Israel is showing exactly how little he can actually control.
He’s trapped between three hard limits. Iran has partly shut the Strait of Hormuz and shrugged off a U.S. naval counter‑blockade, keeping oil prices high and U.S. leverage low.
Tehran is refusing his maximalist demands on its nuclear program, while hawks in Washington warn he’s drifting toward a “bad deal” that leaves Iran angry, still armed and with more sway over the strait than before.
And U.S. munitions stocks are being burned so fast that senior analysts say America’s posture in Europe and Asia is already weaker.
At home, the politics are ugly. Polls show broad disapproval of a war he sold as a “little excursion” that’s now in its fourth month, so he insists it’s not an “endless war” and tells critics to “sit back and relax” because it will all work out.
Abroad, he alternates between threatening to “blow the hell out of” Iran if there’s no deal soon and demanding Israel and Iran “immediately stop shooting” after each round of escalation.
His relationship with Netanyahu exposes the contradiction. Trump needs Bibi to dial down Lebanon strikes to keep Iran talks alive, and by all accounts has enough political leverage over him to do it — including a profanity‑laced call that briefly paused Israeli bombing of Beirut.
But Iran is not Israel: Tehran keeps trading blows, keeps the strait half‑closed, and so far has refused to bend to Trump’s “zero enrichment” and tougher‑than‑Obama narrative.
As one veteran U.S. negotiator put it, Trump has shown he can change Israel’s calculus; he has not shown he can change Iran’s. That is the real ceiling on his power.
#Trump #Iran #war #Netanyahu #Hormuz #USA #endlesswar
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Red Carpet for Kim: Xi’s Quiet Middle Finger to Washington
Xi flies into Pyongyang, gets cavalry, giant portraits and kids with bouquets — and uses it to send one message: China is back as North Korea’s main patron, and it’s not shy about it.
Beijing talks about “strategic coordination,” more trade, tech and infrastructure, and “jointly defending sovereignty,” which is polite code for “we’re building a bloc that can ignore Washington.”
For Kim, this is perfect leverage. He’s been flirting with Putin, sending troops and shells for the Ukraine war, now he turns back to Xi to make sure he’s never dependent on just one sponsor.
On the eve of Xi’s visit he tours missile and nuclear facilities and talks about “exponential” nuclear growth — then stands smiling on the tarmac as China’s leader lands. That’s how you tell both Moscow and Beijing: pay up if you want my chaos on your side.
Xi, of course, officially “worries” about North Korea’s nukes, but he also sees Pyongyang as a useful rabid dog on the American doorstep: just threatening enough to tie down U.S. forces in Asia, not quite crazy enough (in Beijing’s view) to start the one war China doesn’t want.
So he praises “peace and stability” while backing a regime that just showed off new missile production and weapons‑grade facilities. Stability by deterrence, sponsored by China.
The timing is the real flex. Within weeks, Xi has rolled out the red carpet for Putin, Trump and now Kim, staging himself as the one man who can talk to everyone from the Kremlin to Mar‑a‑Lago to Pyongyang.
Trump wants a “deal” on North Korea while he bombs Iran over enrichment; Xi reminds him that China still holds the only real economic lifeline for Kim, and that any “denuclearization” fantasy still runs through Beijing.
Underneath the pomp, nothing fundamental changes: North Korea keeps building nukes, China keeps shielding it, Russia keeps buying its war exports, and the U.S. keeps pretending “shared denuclearization goals” mean something.
Xi’s visit just makes the picture clearer: there’s now an open, photo‑friendly axis — Beijing, Pyongyang, Moscow — betting that Trump is too busy with Iran, oil prices and elections to do more than complain.
#China #Xi #NorthKorea #KimJongUn #Trump #Russia #nukes #geopolitics
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Xi flies into Pyongyang, gets cavalry, giant portraits and kids with bouquets — and uses it to send one message: China is back as North Korea’s main patron, and it’s not shy about it.
Beijing talks about “strategic coordination,” more trade, tech and infrastructure, and “jointly defending sovereignty,” which is polite code for “we’re building a bloc that can ignore Washington.”
For Kim, this is perfect leverage. He’s been flirting with Putin, sending troops and shells for the Ukraine war, now he turns back to Xi to make sure he’s never dependent on just one sponsor.
On the eve of Xi’s visit he tours missile and nuclear facilities and talks about “exponential” nuclear growth — then stands smiling on the tarmac as China’s leader lands. That’s how you tell both Moscow and Beijing: pay up if you want my chaos on your side.
Xi, of course, officially “worries” about North Korea’s nukes, but he also sees Pyongyang as a useful rabid dog on the American doorstep: just threatening enough to tie down U.S. forces in Asia, not quite crazy enough (in Beijing’s view) to start the one war China doesn’t want.
So he praises “peace and stability” while backing a regime that just showed off new missile production and weapons‑grade facilities. Stability by deterrence, sponsored by China.
The timing is the real flex. Within weeks, Xi has rolled out the red carpet for Putin, Trump and now Kim, staging himself as the one man who can talk to everyone from the Kremlin to Mar‑a‑Lago to Pyongyang.
Trump wants a “deal” on North Korea while he bombs Iran over enrichment; Xi reminds him that China still holds the only real economic lifeline for Kim, and that any “denuclearization” fantasy still runs through Beijing.
Underneath the pomp, nothing fundamental changes: North Korea keeps building nukes, China keeps shielding it, Russia keeps buying its war exports, and the U.S. keeps pretending “shared denuclearization goals” mean something.
Xi’s visit just makes the picture clearer: there’s now an open, photo‑friendly axis — Beijing, Pyongyang, Moscow — betting that Trump is too busy with Iran, oil prices and elections to do more than complain.
#China #Xi #NorthKorea #KimJongUn #Trump #Russia #nukes #geopolitics
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Israel to Trump: We’ll Be Your Ally, Not Your Subcontractor
Israel just used a mini–fight with Iran to send a simple message to Washington: you don’t get to negotiate our war for us.
Despite Trump publicly telling both sides to “stop shooting,” Israel went ahead and hit targets inside Iran for the first time since the April truce, after Iran fired missiles it framed as payback for Israeli strikes on Beirut. Both then halted fire soon after Trump intervened, but in Jerusalem the point wasn’t escalation — it was leverage.
Israeli officials and analysts are explicit: they want to make sure any U.S.–Iran deal cannot lock Israel out of future strikes in Lebanon or turn Iranian missiles into a “legitimate” tit‑for‑tat response whenever Israel bombs Hezbollah.
Trump has been trying to run the Iran war as a two‑player negotiation — Washington and Tehran — with Israel kept at arm’s length and scolded whenever Lebanon strikes threaten the talks.
He even called Netanyahu “fucking crazy” over Lebanon and pushed him to pause Beirut bombing to protect the diplomatic track.
That’s provoked a backlash at home: Bibi is accused of surrendering sovereignty to keep Trump happy while having no formal seat at the table. The latest raid on Iran is his answer: Israel still has independent triggers and is willing to use them to shape the deal’s terms.
Strategically, Israel knows its limits. It can hit Iran alone, but every serious military analyst in Tel Aviv says it cannot sustain a long air campaign without U.S. ammo, logistics and political cover.
Netanyahu himself has told aides he has “no manoeuvre” to truly steer Trump’s Iran decisions.
So he plays the only card he has: short, sharp strikes that remind everyone — Trump, Iran, Hezbollah — that any “peace” which constrains Israeli operations in Lebanon or normalizes Iranian retaliation is one Israel can blow up in a night.
Trump’s line — “each of them had their fun… we don’t need another one” — gives away the gap. For him, parity is a tool: one Israeli strike, one Iranian strike, then back to the table. For Israel’s security establishment, parity with Iran is the nightmare, not the plan.
They want the freedom to keep hitting Hezbollah and sitting in southern Lebanon without some future White House or Tehran pointing to a U.S.–Iran deal and saying: enough.
Monday’s brief exchange was less a breakdown than a negotiation tactic — a reminder that you can’t sign a regional settlement over Israel’s head and expect it to stand.
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Israel just used a mini–fight with Iran to send a simple message to Washington: you don’t get to negotiate our war for us.
Despite Trump publicly telling both sides to “stop shooting,” Israel went ahead and hit targets inside Iran for the first time since the April truce, after Iran fired missiles it framed as payback for Israeli strikes on Beirut. Both then halted fire soon after Trump intervened, but in Jerusalem the point wasn’t escalation — it was leverage.
Israeli officials and analysts are explicit: they want to make sure any U.S.–Iran deal cannot lock Israel out of future strikes in Lebanon or turn Iranian missiles into a “legitimate” tit‑for‑tat response whenever Israel bombs Hezbollah.
Trump has been trying to run the Iran war as a two‑player negotiation — Washington and Tehran — with Israel kept at arm’s length and scolded whenever Lebanon strikes threaten the talks.
He even called Netanyahu “fucking crazy” over Lebanon and pushed him to pause Beirut bombing to protect the diplomatic track.
That’s provoked a backlash at home: Bibi is accused of surrendering sovereignty to keep Trump happy while having no formal seat at the table. The latest raid on Iran is his answer: Israel still has independent triggers and is willing to use them to shape the deal’s terms.
Strategically, Israel knows its limits. It can hit Iran alone, but every serious military analyst in Tel Aviv says it cannot sustain a long air campaign without U.S. ammo, logistics and political cover.
Netanyahu himself has told aides he has “no manoeuvre” to truly steer Trump’s Iran decisions.
So he plays the only card he has: short, sharp strikes that remind everyone — Trump, Iran, Hezbollah — that any “peace” which constrains Israeli operations in Lebanon or normalizes Iranian retaliation is one Israel can blow up in a night.
Trump’s line — “each of them had their fun… we don’t need another one” — gives away the gap. For him, parity is a tool: one Israeli strike, one Iranian strike, then back to the table. For Israel’s security establishment, parity with Iran is the nightmare, not the plan.
They want the freedom to keep hitting Hezbollah and sitting in southern Lebanon without some future White House or Tehran pointing to a U.S.–Iran deal and saying: enough.
Monday’s brief exchange was less a breakdown than a negotiation tactic — a reminder that you can’t sign a regional settlement over Israel’s head and expect it to stand.
#Israel #Iran #Trump #Netanyahu #Hezbollah #Lebanon #war #USA #oligarchy
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Trump's main Republican opponent, Thomas Massie, gave a speech to congress on the deliberate Israeli attack on the USS Liberty on the 59th anniversary of the attack and called for a real investigation.
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The Ex-Spokesman of Zelensky: “He Is Afraid Of of the End of the War”
The ex-spokesman of the Ukrainian president has severely criticized Zelensky
Julia Mendel spoke about the decisions that have caused great controversies in Poland around the UPA. According to her, Kiev not only did not receive politically, but also damaged relations with Warsaw. "He is afraid of the end of the war," she said.
The case concerns the recent actions of the Ukrainian authorities related to historical references to the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian rebel army.
Mendel called Zelensky's actions "superficial and completely unnecessary measures" that worsened relations with Poland.
According to her, such decisions do not strengthen Ukraine's position, either outside or inside the country.
The former spokeswoman claimed that Zelensky presented these ideas as effective image measures.
However, in his opinion, they will not give him much support. She also noted that historical issues related to the UPA and the OUN are not for most of Ukrainian society a politically decisive issue.
Mendel said that there are nationalist circles in the west of Ukraine that selectively refer to the characters of Stepan Bandera or Andrei Melnik.
According to her, these are not the groups that could become for Zelensky a real electoral platform.
Mendel went even further. According to her, Zelensky today does not have advisers who could help him unify society after years of war and political tensions.
In this context, the strongest words were spoken. Mendel noted that the president of Ukraine "is afraid of the end of the war," because, according to her, he has nothing to offer in return. According to her, war and fear remain tools that allow her to hold power.
Mendel was Zelensky's spokeswoman from 2019 to 2021. After leaving the presidential administration, he regularly criticizes the current Ukrainian leader and his political environment.
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The ex-spokesman of the Ukrainian president has severely criticized Zelensky
Julia Mendel spoke about the decisions that have caused great controversies in Poland around the UPA. According to her, Kiev not only did not receive politically, but also damaged relations with Warsaw. "He is afraid of the end of the war," she said.
The case concerns the recent actions of the Ukrainian authorities related to historical references to the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian rebel army.
Mendel called Zelensky's actions "superficial and completely unnecessary measures" that worsened relations with Poland.
According to her, such decisions do not strengthen Ukraine's position, either outside or inside the country.
The former spokeswoman claimed that Zelensky presented these ideas as effective image measures.
However, in his opinion, they will not give him much support. She also noted that historical issues related to the UPA and the OUN are not for most of Ukrainian society a politically decisive issue.
Mendel said that there are nationalist circles in the west of Ukraine that selectively refer to the characters of Stepan Bandera or Andrei Melnik.
According to her, these are not the groups that could become for Zelensky a real electoral platform.
Mendel went even further. According to her, Zelensky today does not have advisers who could help him unify society after years of war and political tensions.
In this context, the strongest words were spoken. Mendel noted that the president of Ukraine "is afraid of the end of the war," because, according to her, he has nothing to offer in return. According to her, war and fear remain tools that allow her to hold power.
Mendel was Zelensky's spokeswoman from 2019 to 2021. After leaving the presidential administration, he regularly criticizes the current Ukrainian leader and his political environment.
#mendel #zelensky #war #end
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