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— 🇺🇸/🇰🇷/🇰🇵 NEW: President Trump says the U.S. will reduce joint military exercises with South Korea
Trump stated that he has a great relationship with Kim Jong Un and that North Korea has always been ‘unthreatening and respectful’.
Trump called previous U.S. military exercises ‘innapropriate and hostile’ to the People’s Republic of North Korea.
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Beyond the fact that this is just kinda hilarious, I post this because, I suspect this is just a thinly veiled way transfer of supplies from one US imperialist outpost (South Korea) to a more active zone.
Honestly, I am bewildered. This is absolutely awesome!
I suspect this is just a thinly veiled way transfer of supplies from one US imperialist outpost (South Korea) to a more active zone.
That seems very plausible, but if this goes through it is a proper material win for DPRK. What a time to be alive!
Oh it’s undeniably a good thing, I just felt it was worth saying. No amount of bandaid will be able to fix the fatal wound Iran has dealt to the Empire’s presence in West Asia.
While somewhat unrelated (?), I recently asked the President of South Korea if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said, “No thanks!”
I can’t help but wonder if he’s doing this out of pettiness because the president of Occupied Korea didn’t go along with everything he wanted. But the material analysis is probably the more accurate one and his petulant stuff is more for show in this case.
I think the pettiness is a bone for him to throw at the MAGA base. When the US capitulates to Iran’s demands, this will likely be one of the reasons the fascist cult in the US will use as a reason.
“We could have won, but our allies abandoned us, therefore we need to put them under heel even more.”
That’s the narrative I expect at least.
Makes sense.
100% agree, I think the Kim Jong Un comments and general trolling is some deliberately inflammatory red meat for western media to latch on to so we don’t draw the correct conclusions.
It’s kinda like how zionists are learning their ideology is so toxic that the best thing you can do to sabotage political obstacles is to inflate Israel’s interactions on the global stage. This was attempted against Burkina Faso recently, however I don’t think it was very effective.
I think either Trump himself or one of his handlers, know that if he speaks about North Korea, Libs will just thoughtlessly parrot that the DPRK is a dystopian wasteland. At a time where it’s becoming more impossible to maintain that image of the DPRK, the US ruling elite are using the spectacle of their political theater to obfuscate the truth as long as possible.
Agreed. I think we can know for sure by observing how the Demonrats and talking heads react to this and what they’ll fixate on. If we get the re-heated “Trump’s licherally friends with autocratic dictators” (the stalest of microwaved nachos; we’ve seen this deployed for similar purposes for 10 fucking years now) then that basically proves it.
VIDEO | “They should not live. They are not people.”
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir calls for continued killing and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, suggesting that 30 to 40 Palestinians should be killed every night. He also called for the permanent reoccupation and settlement of the enclave, declaring that “all of Gaza” should become Israeli territory with Israeli settlements throughout, while advocating the removal of Palestinians from the Strip and saying he would “turn the world upside down” to implement the policy.
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/66255
The disgusting rat continues to prove why Israeli soceity is beyond redemption.
Every time I see that fucker’s name it’s guaranteed to piss me off. Worst part is that there are countless others just like him, they’re all thinking the same shit, he’s just the one representing them all as a part of the government.
❗️US strategic petroleum reserve falls to lowest level since 1980’s amid war on Iran, raising fears over emergency readiness
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▪️The United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) has fallen below 300 million barrels for the first time since it was filled in the early 1980s, after Washington released 172 million barrels in response to supply disruptions caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran. Stocks are projected to fall to around 243 million barrels, prompting experts to warn that the rapid drawdown could damage the underground salt caverns used to store the oil, reduce the reserve’s ability to respond to future energy emergencies, and leave critical infrastructure at increased operational risk, according to CNBC.
▪️Energy experts told CNBC that while the US Department of Energy says the reserve can safely operate with as little as 70 million barrels, the practical operational floor is closer to 250–300 million barrels, warning that repeated large-scale releases over decades have weakened the aging storage system. They said continued drawdowns risk slowing emergency oil releases, damaging pumping equipment, destabilizing the storage caverns, and reducing the reserve’s long-term viability. A Government Accountability Office report also warned that repeated drawdown-and-refill cycles have deformed caverns and left parts of the reserve unavailable, with one former US energy adviser cautioning that inventories below 300 million barrels place the US in a more vulnerable position during future crises such as major hurricanes, according to CNBC.
The Pentagon is set to launch a Western civilization course this fall for schools serving military families, with a curriculum centered on Christianity, classical education, and patriotic values. The initiative is part of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s broader push to overhaul the military’s education system, according to AP.
The course will be rolled out across the War Department’s roughly 160 schools spanning 11 countries, which together serve around 70,000 students. It will draw on “The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition,” published by the conservative publisher Encounter Books, along with lesson plans co-developed with Hillsdale College.
Critics contend that the curriculum conflates Western civilization too closely with Christianity, depicts Islam as uniquely prone to violence, and downplays conflicts waged by Christians, such as the Crusades.
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🇮🇷🇺🇸| The Iranian Army has put a bounty reward for delivering an American soldier
Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Army, Maj. General Hatami, says a $30,000 reward for every American military aggressor, dead or alive.
And… if a women were to hand over the American soldier, she will receive TWICE the reward.
The weapon used to kill an American invading soldier will be purchased for twice its value, and they will receive a new weapon as well.
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⭕️ 4,346 people have been killed and 12,301 injured in US-backed Israeli attacks on Lebanon since 2 March, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
🇮🇶一 Iraqi judiciary reports the seizure of another $20 million and recovery of 60 kilograms of gold in a case involving an Oil Ministry official.
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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: The Iranian judiciary announces that a domestic Mossad collaborator has been executed by method of hanging until death
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https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/35940
⭕️ According to local sources, Jewish settlers, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, continue to besiege the homes of the Abu Rida and Hassan families in Qusra, south of Nablus in the West Bank, for the eighth consecutive day.
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/66248
⭕️ According to local sources cited by Palestine Today, a UNICEF delegation has arrived at the besieged home in the town of Qusra, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, carrying food supplies and drinking water.
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/66252
❗️Israeli War Minister vows to ‘settle scores’ amid escalating massacres in south Lebanon
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▪️Israeli War Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday that “no score on any front will remain unsettled,” adding that Israel would “forcefully defend our soldiers and citizens” following reports of overnight airstrikes in southern Lebanon, as reported by the Times of Israel. His remarks came after three Israeli soldiers were reportedly seriously wounded by a Hezbollah explosive drone attack near the Ali al-Taher Ridge, with the Israeli military also announcing it had killed another senior Hezbollah commander in strikes the previous day.
▪️Lebanese sources said Israeli warplanes carried out fresh strikes on the Ali al-Taher Ridge overnight, hours after residents in northern Israeli settlements were warned to expect explosions from military activity across the border. The reported raids followed Israeli strikes on Saturday that massacred 11 people, including women and children, while Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun condemned the attacks as a “clear message” ahead of upcoming US-sponsored negotiations between Lebanon and Israel. Hezbollah, meanwhile, warned that the strikes would receive an “appropriate” response.
🇮🇶一 Iraqi judiciary reports the seizure of another $20 million and recovery of 60 kilograms of gold in a case involving an Oil Ministry official.
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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: In the war against Iran, the U.S. Air Force and Navy suffered the most aircraft losses per sortie since World War ll
Per 1000 sorties, the U.S. lost about 2,9 aircraft, more than the Iraq War, Vietnam, and Korea combined.
In contrast to those wars, the vast majority of aircraft losses during operation Epic Fury came as a result of Iranian ground-to-ground strikes.
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https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/35938
🇮🇷❌🇶🇦🇺🇸一 The number of USAF aircraft parked at Al-Udeid Airbase in Qatar has decreased sharply, as seen on Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, 16/08/2026.
Three days ago there were 7 refueling tankers and a single C-17A, while today there are only 3 tankers.
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❗️Israeli attacks continued across southern Lebanon overnight
▪️According to the page of the late Al-Manar correspondent Ali Shoeib, Israeli attacks since midnight have included phosphorous artillery shelling and helicopter machine-gun fire around Ali al-Taher; airstrikes targeting the area between Ali al-Taher and Al-Dabsha, Kfar Rumman, and the outskirts of Qantara toward Deir Siryan; Merkava tank shelling of Mansouri; heavy machine-gun fire targeting Taybeh and the outskirts of Kfar Shuba; illumination flares over Kfar Rumman; artillery shelling of Haddatha and Burj Mtoullin northeast of Kfar Shuba; the incursion of two Merkava tanks and a D9 bulldozer into the Al-Shmeis area northeast of Kfar Shuba; and an Israeli demolition operation in Majdal Zoun.
