https://xcancel.com/PawlowskiMario/status/2037198262185177466

Europe sent $750 million to US to support Ukraine with weapons from U.S. The Pentagon now plans to use that money to refill U.S. weapons stockpiles instead. (Most likely because of the war in Middle East) Even U.S. officials admit it’s unclear if European countries fully understood where the money would actually go. WTH is going on here?

https://xcancel.com/QBCCIntegrity/status/2037145536109961486

China has cut Australia off for Jet A1 fuel (kerosene), all of next months shipments cancelled. Normally 12/month. There’s one ship inbound. That’s it. China is Australia’s largest Jet Fuel supplier.

How much jet fuel does Australia have in emergency stores? I'm guessing China has cancelled the shipments to prioritise their own requirements

A few weeks.

lol. lmao https://archive.ph/MEUh3 (machine-translated)

USA circumvents Swiss payment freeze for Patriot air defense system

• Switzerland stopped payments for the Patriot air defense system in the fall because delivery has been delayed by years.
• Research by SRF now shows: The payment freeze is ineffective.
• The US is diverting large amounts of Swiss fighter jet money and using it for Patriot.

[Content warning for graohic images post-torture behind link]

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🇧🇭🔵 Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society: Bahraini Regime Kills Citizen Sayyed Muhammad al-Mousawi Under Torture in an Attempt to Extract Confessions Related to Iran

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

The Bahraini regime has killed Bahraini citizen Sayyed Muhammad Sayyed Mohsen al-Mousawi, from the Muharraq Governorate, days after his arrest, as a result of the brutal, deadly torture practiced by the Bahraini regime against innocent people in order to entrap them in fabricated and false cells and organizations.

Sayyed Muhammad al-Mousawi was arrested days ago at a security checkpoint on one of Bahrain's streets after being illegally detained on sectarian grounds while he was with some of his friends. After his news went silent for days, Sayyed Muhammad was handed over as a lifeless corpse, torn by brutal torture instruments, at the hands of the Bahraini regime represented by the Ministry of Interior—notorious for committing crimes against humanity over the past years.

Since the start of the American-"Israeli" war on Iran, the regime has arrested hundreds of citizens on higher orders, including women and children, and has subjected them to the most heinous forms of brutal torture. It has publicly shamed many of them by publishing their pictures and organizing unethical media campaigns attacking them and their honorable families, especially the women among them.

Al-Wefaq extends its deepest condolences and sympathies to the people of Bahrain and the family of the martyr for this great tragedy, declares its solidarity with his family and loved ones, and affirms that the Bahraini regime reveals its true nature built on killing, revenge, torture, and the practice of all forms of targeting against a defenseless, oppressed people living under the weight of injustice and persecution.

The US has begun laying minefields from the air near Iranian missile cities in Iran, in an attempt to complicate/deny movement around the missile cities, and cut them off from nearby supply lines and villages (people underground need food, water and medicine once stockpiles run low). This involves laying mines in the villages itself, and on the outskirts.

Photos have emerged of BLU-91/B anti tank/heavy vehicle mines in Kafari, Shiraz, Iran, about 2 kilometres away from the underground Shiraz missile city. These are magnetically activated airdropped mines that arm contact with the ground, and set off when the magnetic signature of a heavy vehicle is above them, blasting straight up. They may also go off if disturbed or moved.

This is part of the GATOR airdropped mining system, which makes use of cluster munitions dispensers which can be launched by US tactical fighter aircraft and strategic bombers.

The CBU-89/B is the most likely culprit, as it can be fitted with a Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser (WCMD) tail kit, allowing for high altitude launch with INS guidance with minimal drift due to the launch aircraft's GPS updating it's position just before launch, a CEP (Circular Error Probable, also known as mean error radius) of 26m/86ft for the cluster munitions dispenser. The CBU-89/B becomes the CBU-104/B when fitted with a WCMD. This allows for a range of 15 miles when dropped from altitudes of 40 000ft, instead of having to fly directly over the target at very low altitudes without the WCMD. A single CBU-104B can be equipped with 72x BLU-91/B anti tank mines, and 22x BLU-92/B anti personel mines (not seen yet), with 4x tripwires each, very nasty, they explode horizontally. An F-15E can be equipped with up to 18x CBU-89/CBU-104, though a loadout of 10x is more realistic with two external fuel tanks taking up the pylons on the wings. This allows a single F-15E to realistically disperse close to 940 land mines per sortie with high altitude bombing. The CBU-89/104 is designed to disperse mines over an area of 200mx650m, to create a minefield of that size with a single bomb.

BLU-92/B:

The self-destruct feature of the mines can be set for 4 hours, 48 hours, or 15 days, and any that fail to self destruct should be disarmed after 40 days, due to the batteries running out of energy. However, this still leaves the potential of unexploded ordnance scattered around cities. Even a single percentage dud rate can lead to dozens of unexploded landmines. And cluster munitions aren't known for low dud rates.

If anyone here is in Iran and sees this, stop moving immediately, you are in the middle of a minefield, surrounded by dozens, potentially more landmines.

Trevor Ball Twitter thread, with article

Howard Altman article for Yahoo

https://xcancel.com/RobertClark62/status/2037040880092156243

CENTCOM forces are looking for urgently delivered, transportable bunkers that can be delivered to King Hussein International Airport in Jordan -- asking for any available contractor who can deliver them. AFCENT is prioritizing a <30 day timeline, per new Sources Sought notice. "Vendors are requested to submit three potential delivery options reflecting estimated timelines of 3 days, 15 days, and 30 days." "The USG’s review of documentation priorities are delivery timeline first, followed by protection level of the bunker systems." -- 1st ETSG/TKO

Requirements for stuff like this are normally identified during the pre-war planning process. That this didn't happen against a widely known threat is yet another indicator of a truncated, half-ass planning process for EPIC FURY.

lol. lmao

https://xcancel.com/policytensor/status/2037308902665040292

Israel’s Channel 14 reports that Iranian officials believe ongoing “negotiations” may be an American intelligence effort aimed at gathering “precise information about leadership locations and decision-making centers.” The report adds that this concern has led Tehran to avoid electronic communications and instead rely on field intermediaries to manage sensitive contacts.

The idea of decapitation owes its origins in American strategic thought to nuclear strategy. Nuclear strategists first became alarmed at the prospect of a splendid first-strike not on your deterrent but your command and control, the destruction of which posed the risk that a second-strike could be neutralized by destroying the ability of the national command authority to communicate launch authority to launch crews in silos, SAC and submarines. With the precision-strike revolution in the 1980s, strategists began to think in terms of attacking the enemy’s command and control first and foremost as the best means of limiting damage. But this war plan raised a very thorny problem. The problem was that, given that the enemy could pre-delegate launch authority to commanders (as indeed we did with the undersea deterrent), if you decapitated the enemy’s leadership and command authority, there would be no one left to call off the damn ICBMs.

if only some fella had made a movie about this in the '60s... (although technically in that case there was a person with the authority, just without the means to actually successfully pass the message due to damage to the bomber plane's communication systems)

More precisely, a comprehensive attack on the enemy’s command structure made the problem of war termination almost impossible to solve. This is an important problem raised by the Israeli policy of decapitation. The Iranian response to this policy has been to pre-delegate launch authority to local commanders. This means that even if the decapitation were successful — a tall order — it will make the problem of war termination impossible to solve. On top of this, you have the total breakdown of trust. They won’t even meet with the Americans because they are afraid they will be killed in the encounter. That makes war termination extremely difficult.

https://archive.ph/cE7D2

U.S. uses hundreds of Tomahawk missiles on Iran, alarming some at Pentagon

More than 850 have been fired in just four weeks, people familiar with the matter said, raising concerns about the weapon’s limited supply.

Twitter for Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, banned revolutionary political movement in Bahrain.

https://xcancel.com/AlWefaqEnglish

Markets are not doing great. Stocks down, bond yields up, crypto down. Japanese Yen/USD is approaching the magic 160 number. There is no automatic "Japan blows up here" number, but it is still an important milestone.

whoopsie https://xcancel.com/WoodMackenzie/status/2037515052937290200

A major explosion and fire at Valero’s Port Arthur refinery has taken one of the largest U.S. refining facilities offline, removing approximately 415,000 barrels per day from supply amid heightened market volatility. Our North American Refinery Intelligence Service has released a new report analysing the incident, using infrared monitoring across 12 key processing units at the site. Together, these units represent a significant share of PADD 3 refining capacity. Combining aerial imagery captured within 24 hours of the event with detailed operational analysis, the report assesses the scale of the disruption. Key findings include damage to the diesel hydrotreater, impacts on surrounding infrastructure, and the operational status of major units across the facility. With geopolitical pressures already tightening global energy markets, this outage adds further uncertainty to refined product supply.

Heavy rains in Dubai cause serious flooding - Prensa Latina

Díaz-Canel thanks Mexico and Sheinbaum for their support of Cuba - Prensa Latina

Mexican Navy activates EMERGENCY PROTOCOL to locate two sailboats carrying aid to Cuba after losing contact in the Caribbean

Brazil is sending a second ship with aid to Cuba.

Actually watching the weird white house videos people were freaking tf out about and heaving a sigh of relief that "ok it's launching soon" is in NFT tone of voice and not nuke tone

Balendra Shah sworn in as prime minister [of Nepal]

And in more alarming but inevitable news:

[Newly appointed Finance Minister Dr. Swarnim Wagle] announced that the government would move ahead with the process of abolishing the Revenue Investigation Department. [He] stressed private-sector friendly policies, simplification of procedures and facilitation of large development projects through new legislation and amendments to existing laws. ... he has previously served in senior roles at the World Bank, UNDP and Nepal's National Planning Commission.

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https://xcancel.com/policytensor/status/2037120121915740514

As shown by this week’s strikes on a U.S. helicopter and radar with optic-wire FPV drones, a technology pioneered by Russia in 2024, Iran has carefully studied how warfare was transformed on the battlefields of Ukraine. Have American troops also drawn the right lessons? My analysis.

Senior U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization commanders long discounted the relevance of the drone revolution in Ukraine, arguing that the Western militaries would prosecute a different kind of war because of their ability to suppress the enemy with overwhelming air power and precision strikes. “There is still this wall of arrogance, including at the top of NATO, because we have much more advanced systems,” said Fabrice Pothier, chief executive of Rasmussen Global, a geopolitical advisory firm, and NATO’s former director of policy planning. “But in fact what you want to do is to be much more Ukrainian. What is happening with Ukraine, and with how Iran is dealing with the air campaign against them, is a wake-up call.” The U.S. and Israeli air campaign against Iran that began Feb. 28 has so far failed to stop missile and drone barrages against the Persian Gulf states or Israel, or to reopen to free navigation the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil used to pass. In the war between Russia and Ukraine, FPV drones account for most of the battlefield casualties, with a drone “kill zone” extending more than 20 miles on each side of the line of contact. Many, if not most, of these drones are now piloted with a fiber-optic wire. Some models can spool this wire as far as 30 miles, which is about the breadth of the Strait of Hormuz at its narrowest point.

These drone crews could be suppressed using the U.S. military’s superiority in longer-range weapons and in intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance systems, said Michael Knights, head of research at Horizon Engage, a strategic-advisory firm in New York. “If we are going to do a Hormuz operation, we are going to have very intense cover over Hormuz. If you have the world’s most capable electronic-warfare military focusing on an area of 30 miles by 30 miles, it is probably a lot more difficult to make effective use of FPV drones.” Ukrainians aren’t so sure. “No armed forces are prepared for this challenge, not the Americans and not the Europeans,” said Pavlo Klimkin, a former Ukrainian foreign minister. “Not technically, not mentally and not experiencewise.”

It’s not just cheap attritable drones. Iran is a much more advanced missile power than the United States. This is an embarrassment. We’re years away from catching up in terminal maneuvering and hypersonic missiles. Let’s not over learn the drone war lesson. Against a bigger, more advanced precision-strike power, drones can be attrited with good air defenses. We have no counter to the missile threat posed by Russia and China. This is more important for defense.

and genuinely one of the most "Hitler-in-the-Fuhrerbunker" comments I've ever seen, https://xcancel.com/NGC_1084/status/2037127463013064858

If that were true, Iranian missiles would have destroyed US/ISR air bases and completely disrupted their operations

DID YOU MISS LITERALLY THE ENTIRE WAR UP UNTIL NOW!?

Lebanese resistance forces have destroyed at least 21 Zionist "Merkava" tanks over the past 24 hours:

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/03/26/765898/merkava-massacre-hezbollah-destroys-nearly-100-israeli-tanks-6mn-each-weeks

Severe explosions have occurred at a US military base in Saudi Arabia, according to Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency. - The Guardian update

The agency, linked to the Revolutionary Guards, said media reports indicated drone attacks on the Sultan Amir base in eastern Saudi Arabia.

https://x.com/i/status/2037207892890206283

https://xcancel.com/i/status/2037207892890206283

I also think it would be a good idea to concentrate all of the Iranian diaspora willing to fight on one of the small islands off Iran's coast that all happen to be within Iranian missile range.

those Russian ports that got hit and supposedly led to 40% of their oil exports going down? well, the biggest one is back in action after a couple of days https://archive.ph/y8rTO

Key Russian Oil Port Resumes Loading Amid Attempt to Divert Flow

Russia’s top oil port in the Baltic Sea resumed loading days after it came under attack from Ukrainian drones, although the company that pipes crude there said it is trying to divert barrels elsewhere because of the incidents. The Minerva Georgia, a Suezmax-class vessel capable of hauling about 1 million barrels of crude, berthed on Wednesday, shipping information seen by Bloomberg shows. Another, the Anlan, is scheduled to depart Thursday having been there for several days.

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never trust Ukrainian claims about how they've totally taken out 5000% of Russia's oil capacity and the poor Russian gas station economy is done for this time, trust us! they've done this several times already

https://xcancel.com/clashreport/status/2037215388753174559

BIG: In a leaked cabinet recording, Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir warned that the IDF is nearing a breaking point after prolonged conflict. “I am raising ten red flags,” Zamir told ministers, stressing the urgent need for new laws on conscription, reserves, and extended service. “The reserves will not be able to hold out under these dramatic circumstances,” he added, warning that “it won’t be long before the IDF is no longer fit for even routine security missions.” Source: N12

DropsiteNews;

Israel’s Channel 14 reports that Iranian officials believe ongoing “negotiations” may be an American intelligence effort aimed at gathering “precise information about leadership locations and decision-making centers.”

The report adds that this concern has led Tehran to avoid electronic communications and instead rely on field intermediaries to manage sensitive contacts.

Iran's Fars News Agency is reporting that should America undertake a military operation to re-open the Strait of Hormuz, that the UAE's Barakah nuclear power plant, the Jebel Ali desalination plant, and the MBR Solar Park, among other locations, will be targeted by Iran.

https://x.com/Seamus_Malek/status/2037286554582843805

Trump: "They were planning to have a nuclear weapon if we didn't hit them with the nuke-- with the B2 bombers."

Using nukes out of desperation while saying we had to "use nukes to prevent nukes" would be the most American thing Trump can do.

Israeli Military Chief warns the IDF could soon "collapse" if there is no solution to its manpower shortages, Jerusalem Post reports.

U.S. considers deploying up to 10,000 additional troops to Middle East

The Pentagon is weighing a plan to send as many as 10,000 more ground troops to the region, according to The Wall Street Journal, with Fox News reporting similar details citing a senior defense official.

Maybe the current troops and the new troops that are considered are really going in there to evacuate the US soldiers from the region and help invade Lebanon.

Iran's Fars News Agency: The US-Israeli attack on a steel factory in Isfahan targeted a power plant and a steel production line

(Edit)

US-Zionist regimes just bombed majors Steel Companies in Isfahan & Khuzestan

The attack on Mobarakeh Steel Co. involved a total of 5 missiles, and part of the production facilities and energy complex of Mobarakeh Steel Company was hit by the enemy.

I wanted to know how urea is made. Eventually I found a very good ~1 minute explanation. The link skips the first 46 seconds which is company PR. https://youtu.be/6BFs-wZ-lAY?t=46 The explanation is from ~0:46 to ~1:46. I didn't watch after 1:46. It seems to be more PR.

According to one shipping services company, the Signal Group, 20 percent of the world’s fertiliser originates in the Gulf, while 46 percent of global urea supply comes from the Gulf.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/3/18/not-just-energy-how-the-iran-war-could-trigger-a-global-food-crisis