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Feb 5 8 tweets 3 min read
🚨🇹🇷🇸🇾 CODE RED: Erdogan's Syria Gamble is Backfiring?

Don’t be fooled, all is not well between Turkey and 🏴 Syria’s new jihadist leadership

👇🧵 Here’s what you need to know (feat. @RealPepeEscobar) Image At first glance, it looks like Turkey is on a big winning streak in Syria

In December, Turkish-backed jihadists overthrew Assad and seized power

Now the new Syrian regime is offering to host Turkish airbases and give Turkish companies lucrative reconstruction contracts Image
Feb 4 10 tweets 4 min read
🚨🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump is demanding Ukraine's RARE EARTH METALS in exchange for continued military aid

The US needs these resources to compete with 🇨🇳 China

But there’s ONE MAJOR PROBLEM with this strategy

👇🧵 Here’s what you need to know Image “We're looking to do a deal with Ukraine where they're going to secure what we're giving them with their rare earth metals and other things.”

There’s been speculation about this for months, but Trump publicly admitted it for the first time yesterday.
Feb 3 11 tweets 5 min read
🚨🇺🇦☦️ Ukraine regularly bombs churches, abducts priests, and tortures/murders Orthodox Christians for their beliefs

👇🧵Today, we’re going to EXPOSE Ukraine’s war on Orthodox Christianity Image In August 2024, Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the country’s largest religious denomination.

In the months preceding this ban, armed thugs seized churches all across Ukraine and assaulted priests.


Feb 2 7 tweets 3 min read
🚨🇺🇦🪖New horrific details of Ukrainian WAR CRIMES in Kursk have emerged

👇🧵Today we’re going to EXPOSE these BARBARIC ATROCITIES

⚠️ WARNING: Graphic images and testimony Image When Russian troops liberated the village Russkoe Porechnoe, they discovered basements filled with the dead bodies of civilians.

Many of these bodies were badly mutilated and showed signs of rape and torture.
Feb 1 8 tweets 3 min read
🚨🪖✈️ This video of Tucker Carlson SCHOOLING Piers Morgan on NATO aggression against Yugoslavia is going VIRAL

But what Tucker didn’t mention is that NATO killed HUNDREDS of civilians during its “humanitarian intervention”

👇🧵Here’s what you need to know NATO’s bombing campaign in Yugoslavia resulted in ~500 civilian deaths in 2.5 months, according to Human Rights Watch.

That’s about rate of 200 civilians per month.

However, Serbian officials have put the number of dead closer to ~2000. Image
Jan 31 9 tweets 3 min read
🚨🏴🇸🇾 Tulsi Gabbard is the first Trump administration nominee to admit that Al-Qaeda has SEIZED POWER in Syria after the fall of the Assad government

👇🧵Today, we’ll EXPOSE the longtime Al-Qaeda operatives now running Syria by name President of Syria: Ahmed al-Sharaa

2003: Joins Al-Qaeda in Iraq

2011: Establishes Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria, an Al-Qaeda branch

2012 - 2015: Jabhat al-Nusra conducts widespread attacks, suicide bombings, chemical attacks, targeting civilians & government forces Image
Jan 29 13 tweets 5 min read
🚨🇨🇳🇷🇺 China and Russia are laying the foundation for a NEW TECHNOLOGICAL ORDER

🇺🇸🌐 This poses an EXISTENTIAL THREAT to American global primacy

👇🧵 Here’s what you need to know Image Over the past few months, China and Russia have dropped several TECHNOLOGICAL BOMBSHELLS:

🇨🇳🤖 China’s DeepSeek AI (Jan. 24)

🇨🇳✈ China’s J-36 sixth-generation fighter jet (Dec. 26)

🇷🇺🚀 Russia’s Oreshnik hypersonic missile (Nov.21) Image
Jan 28 13 tweets 5 min read
🚨🇺🇦📉 Ukraine is headed for a DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS

☠ Even if Ukraine somehow ‘wins’ the war, it will be a DEPOPULATED WASTELAND

👇🧵 Here’s what you need to know Image Even before the start of the war, Ukraine was in demographic downward spiral

Ukraine’s population plummeted from 52 million in 1991 to 41 million in 2021

Ukraine had one of the lowest fertility rates (1.2) and one of the highest death rates (18.5) in Europe Image
Jan 27 10 tweets 4 min read
🚨🇨🇳🇺🇸 China is CRUSHING the US in the global tech race

🤖 DeepSeek is just the tip of the iceberg

👇🧵 Here’s what you need to know Image China is FAR OUTPACING the US in 5G connectivity race

This is a HUGE DEAL because mobile broadband is the enabling technology for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, just as railroads enabled the First Industrial Revolution

Faster data = Greater productivity Image
Jan 26 9 tweets 3 min read
🚨🇺🇸🇨🇦Is Trump preparing to ANNEX Canada?

🌎 Don’t be fooled, Trump’s NOT BLUFFING when he says Canada will become the 51st US state

👇🧵 Here’s why Canada‘s DAYS ARE NUMBERED Image Why does Trump want Canada?

For starters, the US wants control of the Northwest Passage, a sea route that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via Canada’s northern coastline

This would provide a massive boost to US Arctic ambitions
Jan 25 13 tweets 5 min read
🚨🇵🇱 Poland dreams of becoming a EUROPEAN SUPERPOWER

🏭🪖 Over the past few years, Poland has become one of Europe’s FASTEST GROWING ECONOMIES and it is trying to build the STRONGEST ARMY in Europe

👇🧵But can Poland realize its geopolitical ambitions, or is it doomed to fall short?Image Poland has experienced a significant economic takeoff over the past 25 years, emerging as the tenth largest economy in the European Union

Under the current trends, Poland is set to overtake the UK in terms of GDP and living standards somewhere in the 2030s Image
Jan 24 9 tweets 3 min read
🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺 Trump has THREATENED TO IMPOSE TARIFFS on Russia if Putin refuses to accept his Ukraine plan

🏭👨‍🌾 Such a move would hurt American manufacturers and farmers more than Russia

👇🧵Here’s what you need to know Image Let’s start with the fact that US-Russia trade is MINISCULE

The trade turnover for 2023 was just under over $5 billion

Needles to say, tariffs won’t make much a dent in the Russian budget Image
Jan 23 13 tweets 5 min read
🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺 Trump is trying to INTIMIDATE Putin into a Ukraine peace deal

🪖🏭 This strategy is DOOMED TO FAIL because Russia is MORE POWERFUL NOW than it was at the beginning of the war three years ago

👇🧵Here’s what you need to know Image Over the past couple of days, Trump has claimed that the Russian economy is “failing” and threatened Putin with new sanctions if the latter doesn’t accept a peace deal on America’s terms.

He’s also dubiously claimed that Russia has lost ~1 million troops Image
Jan 22 13 tweets 5 min read
🚨🇷🇺🇺🇦 Trump claims that Russia has suffered significantly higher casualties than Ukraine

🛑 This assertion is simply NOT CREDIBLE if you look at the current battlefield realities

👇🧵Here is why you should be SKEPTICAL of people pushing INFLATED Russian losses Image For starters, Trump has been ALL OVER THE PLACE in his Russian casualty numbers

Just last month, Trump claimed that Russia had lost 600,000 soldiers, and now out of nowhere he’s claiming nearly a million

Raises questions about the quality of info he’s receiving
Jan 21 9 tweets 4 min read
🚨🇺🇦🏦 Zelensky has SOLD OUT Ukraine to multinational corporations

👇🧵Today, we’re going to EXPOSE some of Zelensky’s CORRUPT DEALS

🤯 Send this thread to people who think that Ukraine is “fighting for its freedom” Image Let’s begin with some basic context.

Ukraine is home to:

🔸Rare earth metal reserves valued at $26 TRILLION, 116 types of minerals

🔸Most fertile agricultural soil in Europe

But despite all this natural resource wealth, Ukraine is the POOREST COUNTRY IN EUROPE Image
Jan 18 7 tweets 3 min read
🚨🇺🇸🇵🇸Joe Biden is a WAR CRIMINAL responsible for the deaths of +40,000 Palestinians

We all knew about his complicity in the Gaza genocide, but NEW DETAILS have emerged EXPOSING HIS DEPRAVITY

👇🧵Here’s what you need to know Image Qatar’s Prime Minister revealed that the current ceasefire deal was already ready back in December 2023

"13 months of a waste, of negotiating details that [have] no meaning and aren't worth any single life that we lost in Gaza, or any single life of those hostages"
Jan 17 10 tweets 4 min read
🚨🇷🇺🇮🇷 Russia-Iran strategic partnership has the potential to COMPLETELY TRANSFORM global commodity markets and ACCELERATE DE-DOLLARIZATION

🇺🇸😨 This is why their growing cooperation makes the United States EXTREMELY NERVOUS

👇🧵Here’s what you need to know Image Let’s start with a map

This is the International North South Transport Corridor (INSTC), a network of ports, railways, and automobile roads connecting Russia to India via Iran

INSTC offers a route that is 40% SHORTER and 30% CHEAPER than the traditional Suez Canal route Image
Jan 16 11 tweets 4 min read
🚨🇮🇷🚀 Iran is RAMPING UP its air defense capabilities

🇺🇸🇮🇱☢️ This comes amid reports that the US and Israel are considering STRIKES on Iranian nuclear facilities

👇🧵 Here are the MAJOR WEAPONS in Iran’s air defense arsenal Image 📡 Iran recently conducted the EQTEDAR 1403 air defense drills in Isfahan, in which it showcased new MISSILE AND RADAR SYSTEMS

🔻Iran also unveiled a PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN Laser Air Defense System
Jan 15 10 tweets 4 min read
🚨🇩🇪🏭 GERMAN ECONOMY IS DOOMED

📉😱 Everyone know that the past few years have been rough, but things are even worse than you can imagine

👇🧵 Here’s why Germany is headed for ECONOMIC IRRELEVANCE Image Germany closed 2024 with NEGATIVE GDP GROWTH for the second year in a row

2023: -0.3%

2024: -0.2%

This one of the WORST PERFORMANCES among developed economies

Why is this happening?

Let’s break it down Image
Jan 14 13 tweets 5 min read
🚨🇺🇦⚰ Trump is pushing Ukraine to lower its conscription age from 25 to 18

🪖☠ This the latest sign of Ukraine’s growing MANPOWER CRISIS

👇🧵 Here’s why the Ukrainian military is at risk of reaching BREAKING POINT Image Over the few months, the Ukrainians have lost a series of frontline towns and important economic assets in the Donbass

One of the biggest reasons for these defeats – Substantial troop shortages all along the frontline Image
Jan 13 8 tweets 3 min read
🚨🇺🇸🇬🇱Trump’s Greenland annexation push isn’t just about natural resources and Arctic trade routes

☢️🇷🇺 It’s also part of a larger strategy to prepare for a possible NUCLEAR WAR with Russia

👇🧵Here’s what you need to know Image In the final days of the first Trump presidency in 2021, the US Navy published a strategy called “Blue Arctic”

The document calls for the US to ramp up its naval presence in the Arctic as ice in the region begins to recede Image