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Pope Leo: Unacceptable (none / 0)
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Pope Leo XIV calls Trump's Iran threat 'truly unacceptable'

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Wed Apr 8th, 2026 at 01:26:35 AM EST
Trump Pauses Anger for Two Weeks (none / 0)
Trump suspends attacks on Iran for two weeks

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide
by Oui on Wed Apr 8th, 2026 at 01:32:33 AM EST
Netanyahu Reluctantly Joins Pauze - Lebanon (none / 0)
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Iran War Ceasefire |
Axios Report: Benjamin Netanyahu Pressed Trump To Avoid Iran Ceasefire Call

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Wed Apr 8th, 2026 at 01:37:01 AM EST
Russia-China Veto Bahrain UNSC Resolution (none / 0)
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China, Russia veto UN Security Council resolution on Strait of Hormuz

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Wed Apr 8th, 2026 at 01:43:57 AM EST
UAE Remains Strong Ally America/Israel (none / 0)
Improved relations have continued during the Trump Administration, culminating in the President's visit to the UAE in May 2025-the second time a U.S. President has visited the Emirates. After the visit, the White House announced that President Trump had secured over $200 billion in commercial deals between the United States and the United Arab Emirates. Beyond traditional defense ties, U.S.-Emirati relations have broadened into other domains, including into new fields, such as artificial intelligence. In May 2025, the United States and the UAE announced Emirati plans to purchase 500,000 of the most advanced Nvidia Corporation chips annually from 2025 to 2027. In 2024, the UAE was the second-largest U.S. trading partner by value ($34 billion) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region (after Israel).

Trump: I want to thank our allies in the Middle East: Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain. They've been great and ...

The UAE suffered almost as many Iranian missiles and drones as Israel in the first twenty-four hours of the war

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Wed Apr 8th, 2026 at 02:24:55 AM EST
Helium Production in Qatar Hit by Iran (none / 0)
Needed for chips production ...

    What The Helium Shortage Means For Semiconductors

Iran war cut off helium from Qatar, and shortages will start to bite in a few weeks, threatening chip supply chains that fuel the AI boom | Fortune |

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Wed Apr 8th, 2026 at 02:26:11 AM EST
New West Asia Coalition Egypt-KSA-Türkiye-PK (none / 0)
Saudi-Pakistan-Turkey-Egypt Defense Pact, crisis in West Asia | Times of Israel |

The prospect of a coordinated defense pact involving Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey, and Egypt would represent a profound shift in the security architecture of West Asia and South Asia. While such an alignment is often framed in benign terms--regional self-reliance, Muslim-world cooperation, or strategic autonomy--the underlying consequences could destabilize already fragile balances, undermine existing deterrence frameworks, and sharply increase risks for Israel and Western interests.

This would not be a symbolic bloc. It would unite four militarily significant states spanning nuclear capability, control of strategic waterways, expeditionary forces, and ideological influence. The danger lies less in formal treaty language and more in the convergence of capabilities, ambitions, and grievances.

Each of the four states brings a distinct and consequential asset to such a pact.

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Combined, these capabilities would create a trans-regional security axis stretching from the Eastern Mediterranean through the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean. Such geographic continuity is unprecedented among Muslim-majority powers and would inevitably challenge the current balance maintained through US alliances and informal regional deterrence.

For Israel, the risks are structural rather than immediate. A coordinated bloc that includes Egypt--a cornerstone of Israel's regional security since the Camp David Accords--would weaken the strategic predictability on Israel's southern and western fronts. Even absent open hostility, Egypt's participation would constrain Israel's freedom of manoeuvre in Gaza-related contingencies and Red Sea security.

Turkey's inclusion adds another layer of concern. Ankara's increasingly confrontational posture toward Israel, combined with its operational reach and defense exports, could translate into indirect pressure via proxy forces, intelligence sharing, or arms transfers hostile to Israeli interests.

Pakistan's role is the most destabilizing from a deterrence perspective. Even without direct involvement, Pakistan's nuclear umbrella, doctrinal expertise, and symbolic weight would embolden hard-line actors and weaken Israel's qualitative military edge by altering regional risk calculations.



Amnesia and Gaza Genocide
by Oui on Wed Apr 8th, 2026 at 02:39:35 AM EST
Re: New West Asia Coalition Egypt-KSA-Türkiye-PK (none / 0)


Amnesia and Gaza Genocide
by Oui on Wed Apr 8th, 2026 at 02:40:08 AM EST
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Mediator Pakistan Announces Immediate Ceasefire (none / 0)
Lebanon 🇱🇧 included ‼️

Trump stops bombing Iran after conversations with PM Shehbaz Sharif, Field Marshal Asim Munir; Iran, US agree to two-week ceasefire | Dawn News |



Amnesia and Gaza Genocide
by Oui on Wed Apr 8th, 2026 at 02:49:40 AM EST
The Royal Shell Oil Man as Trump Whisperer (none / 0)
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On the future of NATO | Bob Deen Clingendael Institute | Buitenhof

STOP PAMPERING ... BOTH MEN NEED TO GROW A SPINE

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Wed Apr 8th, 2026 at 10:28:55 AM EST
Re: The Royal Shell Oil Man as Trump Whisperer (none / 1)
Rutte and the Tangerine Latrine becoming responsible adults?  What fantasy alternative universe would this happen in?
by rifek on Thu Apr 9th, 2026 at 02:44:13 AM EST
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Top Level Delegation In Islamabad Talks (none / 0)

Iran's engagement removed doubts about Vance's participation in Islamabad talks | Dawn News Pk |

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Thu Apr 9th, 2026 at 09:01:57 PM EST
Re: Top Level Delegation In Islamabad Talks (none / 0)
By March 2026, the operator cell itself appears to be triggering the same pattern. Iran has explicitly refused to continue negotiating with Witkoff and Kushner, demanding Vice President Vance be sent instead. Tehran says it feels 'stabbed in the back' by the two men -- a government publicly naming the negotiators and demanding to bypass them. The Oman Foreign Minister said active negotiations were undermined. Diplomats said Witkoff misrepresented the key exchange.

Speaking to American media after the Geneva talks collapsed, Foreign Minister Araghchi gave his account directly: 'On the 26th of February when we met in Geneva, we were able to make good progress, as the Omani Foreign Minister said -- it was significant progress'. On the specific claim that he had boasted about building nuclear bombs, Araghchi was blunt:

I never said that we are going to make bombs. I said that we
have 440 kilos of 60 per cent enriched material, and that was
not a secret -- that is what is mentioned in the reports of the
IAEA. I said that this, if enriched more, can be good enough
for ten bombs, as your own experts claim -- so we are
ready to give them up and give them away.


Amnesia and Gaza Genocide
by Oui on Thu Apr 9th, 2026 at 10:24:06 PM EST
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Tehran Bombing: Zionism Becomes Anti-Semitism (none / 0)


Amnesia and Gaza Genocide
by Oui on Fri Apr 10th, 2026 at 07:58:35 PM EST
'She Stoops to Conquer' (none / 0)


Amnesia and Gaza Genocide
by Oui on Fri Apr 10th, 2026 at 08:06:46 PM EST
Re: 'She Stoops to Conquer' (none / 0)
Türkiye's Fidan calls for extension of US-Iran truce, warns against Israeli sabotage | TRT World |



Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Fri Apr 10th, 2026 at 08:45:41 PM EST
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A Murderer At Large, the World Sits Back and Watches | 16 comments (16 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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