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siegecrossbow

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Remember Iranian FM was in Delhi on May 9 signing a strategic agreement while India was at war with Pakistan.
Further back, Iran bombed the Pakistan border out of blue.

There is a supposed Russia-Iran-India axis, Iran has some misplaced vision.

Netanyahu says that he will talk to Putin later.

From Axis of Resistance to Axis of Incompetence — How NOT to Play on the Grand Chessboard.
 

Eventine

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From Axis of Resistance to Axis of Incompetence — How NOT to Play on the Grand Chessboard.
All you need to know about the power disparity between countries is to look at the way they respond to foreign aggression.

US (in response to 9/11): we won’t stop until Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are dead, and Iraq & Afghanistan are in ruins

China (in response to US economic war): we’re not talking to the US until they roll back all the tariffs & come begging for negotiations

Iran (in response to Israel’s bombings): we’re ready to make peace & negotiate, just stop attacking us, we’re only retaliating because you’re attacking us

Many people here want to believe that Iran is somehow holding back or playing for the “moral high ground.” But all I smell is weakness, fear, and a futile attempt at saving face. Like the Carthaginians before the Third Punic War, it is a lesson in the brutal reality of power.
 

W20

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"Axis of Resistance"

That's fantasy, my dear Sigecrossbow

From the despicable Vladimir, who is neither rational nor patriotic, to the last European puppet, everyone in the West is driven by Biblical-Zionist mental fantasies from Persian (!) times

Note how in the heated discussion between Vladimir Putin and his cousin Vladimir Zelensky, both of them do not care if a lot of Russians and Ukrainians die.
 

Fatty

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The opinion I've seen on Weibo is that it should just be large UAV.
What are the odds H-20 may be at the September parade?


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Exclusive: India moves to conserve its rare earths, seeks halt to Japan exports, sources say​


NEW DELHI, June 13 (Reuters) - India has asked state-run miner IREL to suspend a 13-year-old agreement on rare earth exports to Japan and to safeguard supplies for domestic needs, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, aiming to reduce India's dependence on China.
IREL also wants to develop India's capacity for rare earth processing, which is dominated globally by China and has become a weapon in escalating trade wars. China has
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its rare earth materials exports since April, pressuring automakers and high-tech manufacturers worldwide.

In a recent meeting with auto and other industry executives, Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal asked IREL to stop its exports of rare earths, mainly neodymium, a key material used in magnets for electric vehicle motors, one of the sources said.
The Commerce Ministry, IREL and the Department of Atomic Energy, which oversees IREL, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The sources declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Under a 2012 government agreement, IREL supplies rare earths to Toyotsu Rare Earths India, a unit of Japanese trading house Toyota Tsusho
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, which processes them for export to Japan where they are used to make magnets.

In 2024, Toyotsu shipped more than 1,000 metric tons of rare earth materials to Japan, commercially available customs data showed. That is one-third of the 2,900 tons mined by IREL, although Japan relies mainly on China for its rare earths supply.
Toyota Tsusho and Toyotsu did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
IREL has been exporting rare earths due to a lack of domestic processing capacity, but following the recent disruptions to supplies of Chinese material it wants to keep its rare earths at home and expand domestic mining and processing, a second source said, adding that IREL is awaiting statutory clearances at four mines.
However, India may not immediately be able to stop supplies to Japan because they fall under a bilateral government agreement, the person said.
IREL wants this to be "amicably decided and negotiated because Japan is a friendly nation", the person added.

Japan's Trade Ministry said in a statement to Reuters: "We would like to refrain from answering questions about bilateral exchanges in general, not just about this matter."

EXPANSION PLANS​

China's recent export controls on rare earth materials have
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the global auto industry, which has warned of supply chain disruptions and
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China also weaponised its supplies in 2010, when it briefly stopped shipments to Japan. That prompted the Japanese to turn to India for rare earths.
India has the world's fifth-largest rare earth reserves, at 6.9 million metric tons, but there is no domestic magnet production. India relies on imported magnets, mainly from China.
In the fiscal year to March 2025, India imported 53,748 metric tons of rare earth magnets, government data showed. These are used in automobiles, wind turbines, medical devices and other manufactured goods.

Rare earth mining is restricted to IREL, which supplies India's Atomic Energy Department with materials for nuclear power projects and defence-related applications. India lacks wide-scale technology and infrastructure to mine rare earths, and the development of any commercially viable domestic supply chain is years away, analysts said.
IREL has a rare earths extraction plant in the eastern Indian state of Odisha and a refining unit in Kerala, in southern India. The miner, founded in 1950, plans to produce 450 metric tons of extracted neodymium in the fiscal year to March 2026 with a plan to double that by 2030, the second person said.

It is also looking for a corporate partner for the production of rare earth magnets for the auto and pharmaceutical industries, the person said.
India is firming up plans for incentives to companies to set up
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and magnet production facilities to meet local demand, people familiar with the matter told Reuters earlier this month.
All the conflict in the world has been very hard on Japan. The trade wars have been tough on them and this spike in oil cost is also going to rattle them severely, especially since they are in a large inflation spell already. They were actually even quicker than China to condemn Israel’s attacks on Iran I think lol
 

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Let's remember the crossroads (1991/97-) at the "cold war" end

If there had been a rational and patriotic man in Washington, and a rational and patriotic man in Moscow ... we wouldn't have experienced the spectacular Barbarism we've been experiencing since 1991/97

The Chinese have a fortune that Russians, Ukrainians, Americans and Europeans cannot even dream of.
 

mellowcookie

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What are the odds H-20 may be at the September parade?



All the conflict in the world has been very hard on Japan. The trade wars have been tough on them and this spike in oil cost is also going to rattle them severely, especially since they are in a large inflation spell already. They were actually even quicker than China to condemn Israel’s attacks on Iran I think lol
Japan and Canada are basically the only one in the G7 that actually have their own self interests at the forefront. Attacking Iran basically is a self own for all these countries: for the USA, they have to divert valuable ammunitions away from both Ukraine and the Pacific; for the UK, France, Italy and Germany, regardless of whether they defeat Iran (and spike their energy costs) or don’t defeat Iran (in which case valuable ammunition and resources have been wasted) they lose out from helping Israel. Goes to show how far Zionist interests are/have become entrenched, in that they would rather help Israel than help their own people. These elites are so unaware/don’t care about their own people’s opinions.

Anyways the longer this drags on the better it is for China. Actually insane how much MENA has been a meat shield for the West’s attention.
 

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So Israel is now remote-detonating car bombs in Tehran.

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This strikes me as a bit desperate. Seems like the Israeli strategy was all about dragging the US into the war. Trump is a puppet of the Israel lobby so it wasn't a bad plan: but any war with Iran would be deeply unpopular among his MAGA base. So if it doesn't happen, then I don't see how Israel comes out looking good here. Many elite Zionists are begging for B2 bombers on social media. They know they have hit their limits.

This also exposes a fundamental truth: Israel is a parasite which cannot do any real force projection without exploiting Uncle Sucker to their dirty work for them. A lot of MAGA accounts understand this instinctively. This isn't 2003 anymore. People are smarter when it comes to war propaganda now, but it may still not be enough. The orange dotard dances to the tune of the Adelsons and his other Zionist sponsors.
 
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