Taiwan Lost but Iran gained?
- Dagny
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Trump threw Taiwan under the bus during his visit to China.
(Did he get something from China in return? One hopes so.)
It's amazing nobody is talking about that.
It used to be a huge concern...
The reason to withhold some ammunition and weaponry was so we could fight China if needed...
Trump on Taiwan: When you look at the odds, China is very, very powerful, big country. That's a very small island. Think of it, it's 59 miles away. We're 9500 miles away. That's a little bit of a difficult problem. Taiwan was developed because we had presidents that didn't know what the hell they were doing. They stole our chip industry.
(Also Europe under the bus)
4,000. That's how many soldiers were supposed to land in Poland this week. They never boarded. Pete Hegseth — sitting in Beijing, two seats from Xi Jinping — picked up the phone and cancelled the entire deployment. 4,000 troops. Gone. No warning. No vote. No explanation. The Pentagon found out AFTER the call was made. FROM CHINESE SOIL. Let that satisfying chill run down your spine. The Secretary of Defense dismantled NATO's eastern wall while eating roast duck in the Great Hall of the People. Republican senators are screaming. NATO commanders are panicking. Poland is silent. Germany just lost its deployment too. AND NOT A SINGLE PERSON IN WASHINGTON KNEW IT WAS COMING.
Xi stuns the room saying to Trump: “We should be partners, not rivals"
I have spent over 33 years in uniform and in service to this country, including as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and as National Security Advisor to the President of the United States. I have seen the intelligence, read the assessments, sat across the table from our adversaries, and I will tell you plainly what I believe to be true. The Chinese Communist Party is the single greatest external threat to the United States of America. That is not a political statement. It is not an opinion offered for effect. It is the operational reality I lived as Director of DIA, and it is the conclusion confirmed by every serious threat assessment produced by the United States Intelligence Community in the years since. What has changed in the last five years is not the nature of the threat. What has changed is its speed, its scale, and its sheer brazenness. It is a war fought under the doctrine the People’s Liberation Army itself codified in 1999 as Unrestricted Warfare, a strategy that treats every domain of national life as a legitimate battlefield. The Chinese Communist Party fights on every front except the conventional battlefield, and they do so because they understand fifth-generation warfare better than most of the officials in Washington, D.C. They target the American mind through information operations, academic infiltration, and the algorithmic capture of our young people on platforms owned by entities legally obligated to cooperate with Chinese intelligence services under the 2017 National Intelligence Law. They target the American supply chain through deliberate dependencies in pharmaceuticals, rare earth minerals, semiconductors, and the industrial base that sustains our military. They target the American family through the deliberate export of fentanyl precursors that have contributed to the deaths of more than three hundred thousand Americans since 2020. They target the institutional core of this Republic through cyber intrusions into our power grid, our water systems, our ports, and our telecommunications networks, including the Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon campaigns that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has publicly attributed to the People’s Republic of China. What follows is a record of ten specific, documented actions taken by the Chinese Communist Party against the United States since 2020. Each is drawn from a named federal indictment, an agency advisory, or an official threat assessment of the United States Government. They span espionage, cyber warfare, economic coercion, transnational repression, narcotics trafficking, biological risk, and the corruption of American institutions at the federal, state, and local levels. 1. The Fentanyl Precursor Indictments |
On October 3, 2023, the Department of Justice unsealed eight indictments against China-based chemical manufacturing companies and their employees for the production and distribution of fentanyl precursors. The lead case named Hubei Amarvel Biotech Co., Ltd., along with executives Qingzhou Wang, Yiyi Chen, and a third defendant operating under the alias “Er Yang.” DEA Administrator Anne Milgram stated at the time that Chinese chemical companies are the source of the fentanyl crisis killing Americans. The Centers for Disease Control reported more than 107,000 overdose deaths in 2023, the overwhelming majority driven by synthetic opioids that begin as precursor chemicals shipped from Chinese laboratories to the cartels. In November 2024, DOJ followed with additional charges against Hubei Aoks Bio-Tech Co., a company that admitted in its own marketing that fentanyl precursors were most popular in Mexico and that the profit on sales was “worth the risk.” This is industrial-scale chemical warfare against the American people, run by companies that the Chinese Communist Party permits to operate. 2. The Volt Typhoon AdvisoryOn February 7, 2024, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Security Agency, and the FBI jointly released advisory AA24-038A, formally attributing a multi-year campaign to Chinese state-sponsored actors known as Volt Typhoon to pre-position offensive cyber capabilities inside American critical infrastructure. The advisory confirmed that Volt Typhoon had compromised IT networks in the communications, energy, transportation, and water and wastewater sectors across the continental United States and in our Pacific territory, Guam. CISA Director Jen Easterly stated that Volt Typhoon intrusions had been “found and eradicated” across multiple sectors, and that what had been found to date was “likely the tip of the iceberg.” The agencies assessed with high confidence that this activity is not espionage. It is battlefield preparation. Beijing is positioning to disrupt our power, our water, and our communications at a moment of their choosing, most likely as part of a move against Taiwan. Volt Typhoon actors have maintained access inside some American networks for at least five years. 3. The Salt Typhoon Telecom PenetrationIn October 2024, U.S. officials confirmed that a separate Chinese state-sponsored group designated Salt Typhoon had penetrated at least nine American telecommunications carriers, including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Lumen, Charter Communications, Consolidated Communications, and Windstream. The hackers accessed call detail records, metadata, and the contents of certain communications. Most disturbingly, they compromised the systems telecom carriers maintain under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, the very portals through which American law enforcement conducts court-ordered wiretaps. On January 17, 2025, the Department of the Treasury sanctioned Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology Co., Ltd., citing the company’s direct role in the campaign and its links to China’s Ministry of State Security. Between August 2023 and August 2025, AIDE recorded more than 72 million China-origin attack attempts against decoy systems emulating telecommunications networks. Within this broader dataset, AIDE identified patterns consistent with Salt Typhoon’s tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)—providing an empirical view of the campaign’s operational tempo and corroborating indicators described in public advisories by CISA, the FBI, and industry partners. By August 2025, the FBI confirmed Salt Typhoon had compromised more than 200 companies across 80 countries. Senator Mark Warner called it the worst telecom hack in our Nation’s history. Read those two sentences again. A foreign communist power obtained a map of which Chinese agents American law enforcement had identified for surveillance, and they did it by walking through the front door of our own legally mandated wiretap system. |
🇨🇳 "I am willing to do anything that is helpful to cross-strait peace." - Zheng Liwen, leader of Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang, following her meeting with Xi Jinping. 🇨🇳 "We cannot let Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait become a battlefield." - Kuomintang leader Zheng Liwen of Taiwan after her talks with Xi Jinping.
🇨🇳 "This is a choice between peace and war." - Kuomintang leader Zheng Liwen of Taiwan after her talks with Xi Jinping.
Democrat Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona has reportedly established a back channel with enemies of The United States including communist China and Iran to warn them of future US war plans as well as to reassure them that they should go through Democrat members of Congress including himself rather than the Trump administration for diplomacy. In other words, this former member of the military is once again BETRAYING his country by undermining the US President and working directly for our nation's worst enemies who seek the destruction of our country. This is the second time that Kelly has led what amounts to a coup attempt against President Trump and asked others to disregard the words and orders of our nation's duly-elected Commander in Chief. What do you think fellow patriots? LETS LOCK THIS TURNCOAT UP NOW!
BREAKING: Iran has seized the Honduras-flagged vessel HUI CHUAN, a Chinese-operated "floating armory," 38 nautical miles northeast of Fujairah, UAE, and is towing it toward Iranian territorial waters.
What is the HUI CHUAN?
The vessel is described as a "floating armory"—a weapons storage ship used by private military contractors and maritime security firms to arm commercial vessels transiting pirate-prone waters. These ships store rifles, ammunition, and defensive equipment that security teams pick up and drop off as needed.
The HUI CHUAN, flying a false Honduras flag, was operated by Chinese private military contractors. It had been anchored in the Gulf of Oman for the past month, positioned to supply weapons to ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz to defend against Somali, Houthi, and Iranian threats.
The timing: Iran seized this vessel during Trump's summit with Xi Jinping in Beijing, where the two leaders discussed the Strait of Hormuz crisis. Trump said Xi agreed that "the Strait of Hormuz must remain open to support the free flow of energy."
What this likely means: Iran is clearing the maritime security infrastructure that enables commercial shipping to bypass its control. The HUI CHUAN was arming vessels so they could transit the Strait without Iranian approval. Iran just confiscated the weapons depot.
This doesn't appear to be a message to China, it's more likely that Iran is taking the weapons to inspect them, possibly redistribute them to allied forces, or eliminate a private security operation it views as a Western proxy in its waters.
This is at least the third vessel Iran has seized since February.
🤥✡️ Zionists manipulated Trump into assassinating Iran’s moderates to doom diplomacy - Ex-counterterror chief
💬 “These relative moderates were enforcing a prohibition on the development of a nuclear weapon and were also seeking a diplomatic solution with President Trump and the United States,” former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent, who resigned over the war, said.
By eliminating them Israel and US forces inadvertently empowered hardliners, including the IRGC, who now push for aggressive actions against the US and renewed nuclear ambitions, Kent explained.
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Iran Deal on the Precipice
Just after Trump spoke with Putin:
🇺🇸🇮🇷The US has put forward five conditions for Iran to continue the settlement process, according to Fars News Agency:
📍Refusal to pay any compensation for the damage caused during the bombings of Iranian territory;
A throwaway
📍Exporting 400 kg of enriched uranium from Iran to the US;
Will be modified for Russia to receive
📍Only one active nuclear facility will remain in the Islamic Republic;
Bushehr for Russia
📍The US does not intend to release more than 25% of Iran's frozen funds;
Up it to 50% for a deal
📍The issue of ending the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, should be resolved during the negotiations.
Impossible anyway allowing Israel Hezbollah to continue to the benefit of both ruling elites.
@Intelslava
IEA chief warns commercial oil stocks could last only weeks amid Hormuz closure
International Energy Agency head Fatih Birol told Reuters that commercial oil reserves would last only a few weeks given the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
He added that the onset of the spring planting season and summer tourist season would accelerate the drawdown of stockpiles even further.
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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 How Iran can freeze the global economy with one anchor
Everyone’s eyes are glued to US missiles, airstrikes, sanctions—but Iran doesn’t need any of that. The true major leverage is sitting quietly on the seafloor.
Fiber-optic cables, the veins of the global economy, are entirely exposed. These are physical lines, mostly unguarded, mapped publicly, and vulnerable to anyone with a boat and intent.
💸 The digital lifelines
1.4 million kilometers of subsea fiber wrap the globe 35 times. $10 trillion in financial flows move through these cables daily: SWIFT transfers, stock trades, AI data pipelines, digital supply chains.
The Red Sea alone carries 17% of global internet traffic. These cables are more critical than any missile.
⚠ Unheard vulnerabilities
Drag an anchor, snag a fishing net, and you can effectively freeze entire economies:
▪Peacetime repair: 2–8 weeks
▪In conflict zones: months
▪Globally, only ~63 specialized cable repair ships exist
▪70% of faults appear accidental
🛑 The Gulf’s digital arteries
Strait of Hormuz cables are flagged as a “vulnerable point” by Iran-linked sources in April 2026. Cut them, and GCC economies lose their digital lifeblood simultaneously.
Critical infrastructure, finance, AI, and communications all grind to a halt without Internet connection.
📊 The Achilles heel of the US market
The US built a powerful navy and air force, designed to defend against missiles, aircraft, ships, and troops. None of it protects 1.4 million kilometers of garden-hose-thin fiber on the ocean floor.
Iran doesn’t need nukes to hit Wall Street—they just need the seafloor map and an anchor. Governments, militaries, and corporations assumed the Web is resilient. It isn’t.
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✡️💵 Zionist war machine hits empty? IDF blows through 2026 budget by May
The Iran war, genocide in Gaza and attacks on Lebanon have left the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) begging for an extra $9 billion to continue current operations, reports Israel Hayom.
The IDF is operating on a roughly $49 billion budget, but has reportedly told the Finance Ministry it has exhausted it. The regime is now the world’s biggest military spender per capita after the US.
What caused the crisis?
♦️ “Excessive” reserve mobilization: The IDF planned to call up 40,000 reservists, but is currently holding about 100,000 – more than double the target
♦️ The costly war unleashed jointly with the US against Iran has drained ammunition, fuel, and maintenance budgets at an unsustainable rate
Neglect of basic maintenance: Due to the budget shortfall, the IDF has halted tank repairs, frozen construction at military bases, and is reportedly about to shut down major production lines in defense industries.
The military has reportedly sent a stark message to the political leadership: either reduce the scope of missions on all fronts, or increase the budget.
👹 PM Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to convene an urgent security cabinet meeting to tackle the matter.
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🇮🇷🇷🇺 Iran is ready to hand over its enriched uranium to Russia instead of the United States, according to Tehran’s updated draft conflict settlement agreement with Washington, quoted by the Al Hadath television.
The document, revised by Iran, says that the Islamic Republic is ready “to transfer the enriched uranium to Russia instead of the United States under certain conditions.” However, these conditions were not specified in the TV report.
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🇮🇷 Iran’s retaliation would wipe UAE off face of Earth – Scott Ritter
Both Russia and China have been notified by Iran that, if the US attacks it, the United Arab Emirates “will cease to exist as a viable nation-state,” claims Scott Ritter.
💬 “They will have no fresh water, no ability to generate power, and they will have no ability to generate gas or oil,” he predicted during an interview with George Galloway.
🗣 “They’ll be bankrupt, they’ll be thirsty and they’ll be baking in 54-degree temperatures because there’s no air conditioning.”
Ritter also suggested that other US allies in the Gulf, like Bahrain or Kuwait, might share a similar fate.
Media reports from last week indicate that UAE, a close ally of the United States, had actually carried out its own covert attacks against Iran during the latest US aggression against the Islamic republic.
One of these attacks was ostensibly coordinated with Israel who also supplied UAE with Iron Dome batteries to defend itself against Iranian retaliation.
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UAE seems to have accepted the status quo indefinitely 🚨
The United Arab Emirates after leaving OPEC announces plans to CIRCUMVENT the Strait of Hormuz entirely with a new pipeline — and will DOUBLE oil export capacity
The United Arab Emirates after leaving OPEC announces plans to CIRCUMVENT the Strait of Hormuz entirely with a new pipeline — and will DOUBLE oil export capacity A major realignment is underway "Officials in OPEC-free UAE announced plans to build a second pipeline to bypass the Strait of Hormuz and boost export capacity, doubling it by next year." —
Tucker saying no more lying about military strength
🤥🇮🇷 Trump stuck in Iran war he is being pushed to escalate - ex‑counterterror chief
Joe Kent thinks Trump is being pressured to keep the failed Iran war going.
💬 “It's a problem with how much influence and access we've given the Israelis,” the former head of the National Counterterrorism Center points out.
If it were just a matter of telling Israeli donors and the pro-Israeli echo chamber, “Hey, you guys have had enough, I need you to get out of this now,” he feels that Trump would do it, he says.
Every time Trump appears close to solving the equation with Iran, “someone or some entity comes and says, ‘no, no, no, you need to continue to escalate it,” notes Kent.
👉 Kent warns that this raises a critical question: “Is the president under some pressure from something that has power over him? Because if something has power over the president of the US, we have a major problem with our entire system.”
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1.5
🇦🇪⚔️🇮🇷 Bloomberg reports the UAE unsuccessfully tried to convince Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf states to join a coordinated military response against Iran after Tehran launched waves of drone and missile strikes across the region following the US-Israeli bombing campaign.
UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed reportedly argued the Gulf states needed to respond collectively to deter Iran, but most neighbors refused, insisting the conflict was “not their war.” Abu Dhabi was left frustrated as Saudi Arabia and Qatar instead favored de-escalation and diplomatic channels.
The report says the UAE then deepened coordination with Washington and Israel on air defense, intelligence sharing and interception operations, while tensions between Abu Dhabi and Riyadh worsened behind the scenes.
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🇺🇸🇦🇪🇮🇷| Trump’s admin are allegedly pushing the UAE to do their own dirty work in the Persian Gulf by attacking & seizing one of Iran’s 3 islands.
The US failed to achieve control over the Strait of Hormoz, so they want the sand zionists to do their dirty work instead.
@FotrosResistancee
Emirati call for Gulf unity against Iran falls on deaf ears – report
Emirati President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed urged neighboring countries, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to join the US and Israeli war on Iran on February 28, Bloomberg reports.
The countries refused, leaving the UAE frustrated and pushing it closer to Israel.
Israel supplied the UAE with Iron Dome anti-rocket batteries and crews, but the other Gulf states avoided direct involvement.
The UAE launched secret independent attacks on Iran in March and April, the media reports.
The disagreement led to UAE leaving oil-producing bloc OPEC in April and reviewing its membership of regional bodies like the Gulf Cooperation Council, revealing its rivalry with Saudi Arabia and deepening cooperation with Israel.
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Saudi-Iran pact may lay groundwork for post-US & post-Israel order in Middle East
Saudi Arabia is considering a non-aggression pact between Middle Eastern states and Iran modeled on the Cold War-era Helsinki Accords, the Financial Times reports.
What’s known so far?
🔴 The Gulf states are concerned that the large US military presence in the region could be scaled back once the Iran war is over, according to the FT
➡️Iranian strikes crippled US bases and air defense infrastructure, The New York Times and The Washington Post revealed
➡️Iran signaled it would no longer tolerate a US military presence in the region
➡️The US failed to protect Gulf nations: “Arab countries now experience that security co-operation [with the US] as an acute vulnerability, threatening their present security and future prosperity,” Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi wrote for The Economist
🔴 Gulf states acknowledge that, despite US-Israeli strikes, Iran remains militarily strong, with formidable ballistic missile and drone capabilities
🔴 Iran has demonstrated effective control over the Strait of Hormuz — a crucial artery for Gulf energy trade
🔴 Gulf states see both Israel and Iran as the “biggest sources of conflict.” But while recognizing that bringing both into a new non-aggression framework may be unrealistic, Gulf states appear more eager to strike a deal with Iran, an FT source suggested
What could it mean?
🔴 Iran has reinforced its status as a major regional player and a leading power in the Muslim world
🔴 A Saudi-Iran non-aggression pact could signal that the pro-Israel Abraham Accords are fading into irrelevance
🔴 Such a pact could also point to the eventual end of the US military era in the Gulf, as Tehran is unlikely to sign any agreement while US troops remain stationed across the region
🔴 Saudi Arabia may also be quietly welcoming Iran’s growing pressure on the United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of Israel’s closest Gulf partners. Saudi-UAE rivalry has reportedly intensified since early 2026 due to:
➡️diverging interests in Yemen and Sudan
➡️economic competition tied to Vision 2030
➡️expanding Israeli influence in the UAE
➡️growing distrust between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) and UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MBZ), mentioned even in the Epstein files
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💰 Trump’s son-in-law deceived Gulf kings: He took their money & threw them under the bus in the Iran war
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates have reportedly grown angry with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to Bloomberg.
Why? He took their money but didn’t give them a meaningful say in White House politics.
Classy pay-to-play
🔴 Kushner plays a dual role: Trump administration Middle East “peacemaker” and founder of Affinity Partners, a private investment firm managing Gulf royal families’ money
🔴 Affinity is a Delaware-based LLC founded in 2021 with offices in Florida. The company is solely owned by Kushner
🔴 Since 2022, Affinity has been feeding off Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF)
🔴 Official disclosures show the firm held $6.2 billion in assets under management across 6 clients in 2025
🔴 The capital comes almost entirely (around 99%) from non-US investors. Main clients:
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇶🇦 Qatar
🇦🇪 the UAE
🔴 Affinity Partners has expanded rapidly since Trump returned to the Oval Office:
💸 $6.2 billion in 2025
💸$4.8 billion in 2024
💸$3 billion in 2023
🔴 In addition, Kushner’s firm receives “tens of millions of dollars in fees annually” from the Gulf kingdoms for investing their money — primarily in the US and Israel
🔴 The arrangement bears all the hallmarks of a classic pay-to-play scheme: Gulf monarchies pay Trump’s son-in-law for access to the US president and influence over Washington’s Middle East policy.
Kushner doesn’t deliver
🔴 The problem is that the White House’s Middle East policy backfired on the Gulf: Bloomberg says the Iran war ran against Gulf kingdoms’ interests from day one
🔴 The US didn’t protect them and still can’t resolve the Strait of Hormuz crisis, hammering the Gulf economy
🔴 Jared Kushner has done nothing as either a “peacemaker” or Trump’s relative. Given his close ties to Israel, some may suspect he and Netanyahu see Gulf economic pain as a way to make the monarchies more compliant
🔴 Saudi Arabia is now reportedly weighing a peace pact between Arab states and Iran. Tehran suddenly looks far more reliable.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar draw the line:
Israeli False Flag trying to stir up the war...
🇦🇪| The UAE says 3 drones “from the west” entered its territory and one drone struck the electrical generator outside the inner perimeter of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant, in the Al Dhafra Region.
West region can mean Saudi Arabia, Iraq, or Yemen.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A drone strike sparked a fire on the edge of the United Arab Emirates’ sole nuclear power plant on Sunday in what authorities called an “unprovoked terrorist attack.” No one was blamed, but it highlighted the risk of renewed war as the United States and Iran signaled they were ready to fight again.
There were no reported injuries or radiological release. The UAE, which has hosted air defenses and personnel from Israel, recently accused Iran of launching drone and missile attacks. Tensions have risen over the Strait of Hormuz, a vital energy waterway gripped by Iran, which is under a U.S. naval blockade.
✡️ Radical Zionist Ben-Gvir can’t stop praising new genocidal law
Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir appears fixated on the gallows—releasing a video of himself “dreaming” about a noose.
Earlier this month, even his 50th birthday cake featured the same symbol.
The message? The noose points to a new Israeli law allowing the death penalty by hanging for Palestinians convicted of what are labeled terrorist killings.
👉 History, however, has its own symbolism: those who presided over genocidal atrocities against other ethnic groups also ended up on the gallows after the Nuremberg Trials of 1945–46.
✡️ Israel’s Finance Minister Smotrich promises more Zionist land grabbing across the Middle East
➡️ Speaking at the founding ceremony for yet another Israeli illegal settlement in the West Bank, Smotrich promised that Israel would expand its borders into Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria.
➡️ He also boasted that Israel’s expansion in the West Bank helps destroy any chance of creating an independent Palestinian state.
https://t.me/geopolitics_prime/68020. Hebrew Video with subtitles
Comment online: I think the Zionists have built their entire history on lies though haven’t they. I mean, they’re not remotely from the Middle East, and they’re not even Jewish.
Where in the World Christians Are Forced to Pay Jizya for Protection from Islamists
The jizya is a tax historically levied on non-Muslims living under Muslim rule, understood as a fee for protection, exemption from military service, and permission to practice a non-Muslim faith. Historically, jizya was imposed by Muslim countries across the Middle East, South Asia, North Africa, and Central Asia, a practice that has been abolished in most Muslim nations.
With the exception of Taliban-governed Afghanistan, no internationally recognized nation-state in the Islamic world currently imposes jizya by name or in formal legal code. However, it is being actively imposed today by jihadist groups operating as de facto governing authorities across West Africa, Central Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East.
The most well-documented active cases are in Mali and the broader Sahel, where JNIM (Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimin), an al-Qaeda affiliate, controls large rural areas beyond the reach of the Malian government. In August 2024, church leaders in the Dougouténé area of southern Mali were summoned to a meeting with JNIM militants and given new rules the entire community was required to follow.
The group subsequently imposed a tax of 25,000 CFA francs, roughly $40 to $41, on all Christians over the age of 18 in Douna-Pen, the largest Christian village in eastern Koro, Mopti. Payment was set as a condition for the free practice of religion. Those unable or unwilling to pay were warned their churches would be closed. Militants collected the money openly and without resistance.
ISIS’s territorial caliphate collapsed in 2019, but its provincial affiliates in the DRC, West Africa, and Mozambique continue the practice. The debate over whether Coptic Christians should pay jizya has also surfaced periodically in Egypt since the 1980s.
Video of assistant "Operation Paperclip scientist Wernher von Braun’s former assistant Carol Rosin says that von Braun explained to her their final play. "The last card they play will be the alien card, and it's all a lie" -Wernher von Braun https://t.co/TuHrH3vOxF" / X
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