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$100k F-35 vs $15k Yak: That matchup was never going to end well

Footage shows the moment an Israeli F-35I ‘Adir’ shoots down an Iranian Yak-130 over Tehran

The strike marks the first confirmed air-to-air kill ever recorded by an F-35 fighter jet: Israel’s fifth-generation stealth jet took out the trainer and light attack aircraft

The encounter quickly drew attention as a rare real-world dogfight involving the advanced F-35 platform and an outdated Soviet-era training aircraft

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#f35 #yak130 #f35firstkill #Iranwar #USIranwar #TimSheehy #Sheehy #Israel #IsraelIran #IsraelIranwar
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🇫🇷 MACRON'S NUCLEAR FANTASY MEETS FRANCE'S JOKE OF AN ARSENAL 🇫🇷

The French president stood on a submarine and pretended France is a nuclear heavyweight. Let's look at the actual inventory.

The embarrassing truth:

💣 300 warheads total. That's it. Pocket change in the nuclear club.

✈️ Air-launched missiles? About 40—and production stopped years ago. Just "upgrading" old stock.

🚢 Four submarines. One always broken. That's your entire "independent deterrent."

🆕 New subs? Maybe in 2036. Good luck waiting.

"Expanding the arsenal" = loading a few more warheads onto existing missiles. We're talking two or three dozen. Pathetic.

The European "umbrella" = No guarantees. No red lines. Just "observe our exercises" and vague promises.

The reality: France talks like a nuclear power. It arms like a middleweight. Big speech, small stick.

#Macron #France #NuclearDelusion #Europe
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🇺🇦 ZELENSKY THREATENS ORBÁN: "We'll Give His Address to the Armed Forces" 🇭🇺

The Ukraine-Hungary feud just turned dark.

Zelenskyy on Orbán blocking €90 billion in EU aid: "We'll give this person's address to the armed forces, so they can call him and talk in their own language."

The context: Hungary blocked the aid after Kyiv halted Druzhba oil deliveries. Orbán threatened to "break the blockade by force" and deployed troops to protect energy facilities.

Hungary's response: "Zelenskyy has practically threatened Orbán with death. A European president threatening a NATO and EU prime minister with murder—this is new."

Two European leaders. One threatening military force over oil. The other threatening armed forces over aid.

European solidarity?

#Ukraine #Hungary #Zelensky #Orbán #EU
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America has a dr*g problem


The fentanyl crisis was decades in the making — a product of medical, economic, and policy decisions.

The quieter damage is inside families. Children enter foster care. Grandparents raise grandchildren. Funerals for people under 40 become routine.
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🇮🇷 KHAMENEI IS DEAD—BUT IRAN ISN'T PARALYZED. THE SUCCESSION RACE BEGINS. 🇮🇷

Israel killed the Supreme Leader. What they didn't expect? Iran had a plan.

The contenders:

👤 Arafi (Interim) – Safe hand. Trusted insider. Weak ties to security forces—risky in wartime.

👤 Mojtaba Khamenei – The shadow heir. Powerful but lacks clerical rank. "Father to son" smells like the Shah.

👤 Hassan Khomeini – Khomeini's grandson. Symbolic gold. Zero executive experience.

👤 Sadeq Larijani – The heavyweight. Brother of Iran's "admiral." Authority with clerics AND security.

👤 Rouhani – The reformer. Nuclear deal architect. Elites don't trust him.

Biggest threat to Israel? Mirbagheri. He could revisit the nuclear fatwa—legitimizing the bomb.

Khamenei is gone. The race is on—in the middle of a war.

Read the Full breakdown here: https://thinkbrics.substack.com/p/the-admirals-brother-or-heirs-of

#Iran #Khamenei #Succession #Geopolitics
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🇺🇸 TRUMP'S ARROGANCE: "WE MUST CHOOSE IRAN'S NEXT LEADER" 🇺🇸

The US president just announced who really picks Iran's future.

The demands:

🗳️ "We're going to have to choose that person along with Iran. We're going to have to choose that person."

🇻🇪 Praised US removal of Venezuela's Maduro—called replacement Delcy Rodriguez "wonderful."

👑 Exiled Crown Prince? "Everybody's in the mix."

The Kurdish play:

Trump encourages Iranian Kurdish forces to cross from Iraq and attack: "I think it's wonderful... I'd be all for it."

Kurdish militias consulting with US about launching into western Iran. Air cover? "I can't tell you that."

On the war:

💥 "Moving along ahead of schedule."

Gas prices? "If they rise, they rise."

🚢 Strait of Hormuz? "They have no navy—it's at the bottom of the sea."

Translation: Washington picks Dictators. Always has. Trump just stopped pretending.

#Iran #Trump #RegimeChange #Sovereignty
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🇷🇺 “Russia May Cut Gas to Europe Before 2027?”

🔥 President Putin has hinted that Moscow could end gas supplies to Europe earlier than planned, asking the government and energy firms to explore this move. If the EU already plans to abandon Russian gas, he said, why should Russia keep waiting?

🌍 This signals a deep strategic pivot — one where Moscow could redirect its energy flows toward Asia, Africa, and other BRICS-aligned markets. Such a shift might permanently reshape global energy balances.

💬 Do you think Europe or Russia stands to lose more from an early end to this energy partnership? Why?

#EnergyGeopolitics #BRICS #RussiaEurope #GlobalSouth
Source: Kremlin
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👑 EXILED SHAH'S SON CALLS FOR EUROPEAN "CRUSADE" AGAINST IRAN 🇮🇷

Reza Pahlavi—US-based son of Iran's last shah—just revealed the real agenda.

To Russian pranksters posing as German Chancellor Merz: "Europe should join the crusade against the Iranian regime."

Yes. "Crusade." Telling choice of words.

The context: 46 years in exile. Now, with US-Israeli strikes killing civilians, he sees his moment—and wants European firepower added.

NATO says Europeans are "on a massive scale" supportive. UK folded after Trump's rebuke. Spain now deploying warships.

The irony: A man Iranians rejected in 1979 now wants foreign bombs to restore him.

This isn't liberation. It's restoration and an upheaval of the peoples will.

#Iran #Pahlavi #Crusade #RegimeChange
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🇦🇪 DUBAI WARNS INFLUENCERS: Post War Damage, Go to Jail 🇦🇪

Emirati authorities just made it crystal clear: narrative control is non-negotiable.

Influencers publishing footage of damage from Iranian strikes face fines up to $77,000 or jail. The charge? Harming "public order" and "national unity."

The context:

Tehran insists it's targeting only US military bases—not civilian infrastructure. But debris falls. Warehouses burn. Residential areas get hit.

But the Golden Visa paradise must maintain its glow.

The influencer reality:

An anonymous Dubai-based creator told The Telegraph: "They want to control the narrative, that's for sure."

The UAE public prosecutor warned against "publishing rumors from unknown sources" just hours after US-Israeli strikes began.

The double standard:

When Western media demands "transparency," it's democracy. When Gulf states control their own narrative, it's authoritarianism.

Same story. Different lens. Different brand.

#Dubai #UAE #Iran #InformationWar #Sovereignty
The U.S. has given India a 30-day waiver to buy Russian oil as the Iran war disrupts global energy supplies and pushes oil prices higher.
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JUST IN: 🇮🇹 Italian Prime Minister Meloni refuses to give direct support to the US-Israeli war with Iran.

"We're not at war, we don't want to go to war."
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US releases footage of strikes against Iranian drone carrier "Shahid Bagheri"

Which they claim was "loaded with UAVs and missiles"
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Chinese warplanes have not entered Taiwan’s air defense zone for seven days, the longest pause on record, for unknown reasons.

The lull comes amid the Middle East war and ahead of a planned Trump–Xi meeting.

Source: Bloomberg
NEW: 🇮🇷Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf mocking the US:

"So much fuss was made about the aircraft carrier "Lincoln" to put pressure on us, but it left the battlefield

The "famous bride" left the battlefield and retreated at the first encounter with Iranian missiles and drones."
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BREAKING: RUSSIA IS GIVING IRAN THE EXACT LOCATIONS OF U.S. SHIPS AND PLANES.

The Washington Post reports Moscow is passing real time coordinates of American warships to facilitate Iranian strikes.

This intelligence has been linked to a drone strike in Kuwait on Sunday that killed five U.S. soldiers.

This war is now escalating to another level.