This world is a curated mirage. Airbrushed, anesthetized, and pipelined into our senses with surgical precision. Because its true form is far too grotesque for the average soul to stomach. Behind every skyline lies a slum erased from the lens. Behind every flag, a graveyard no one visits. We applaud the illusion as the machinery of decay keeps spinning beneath it. Quietly, efficiently, and mercilessly. Cut through the propaganda fog and what remains is a world where profit trumps people, where the strong recite ethics while sharpening their knives, and where morality is a luxury reserved only for the victors. As for the rest, their existence is silenced, censored and systematically erased. Only the illusion was crafted to survive. The truth was buried to never return.

Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir released a video showing detained participants of the intercepted Gaza-bound flotilla being bound and dragged in Israel's Ashdod Port, writing, "That's how we welcome the terror supporters. Welcome to Israel." Read more here: haaretz.com/israel-news/isra…

The Norwegian journalist who stopped PM Modi for a question has no manners. This isn’t how a democratic country works. Our journalists don’t heckle ministers. They sit politely and ask important, respectful questions like: How do you eat mangoes? Where do you keep your purse? How do you get so much energy? Norwegian journalists should learn something first.

Photo of the decade.

In Norway, when foreign leaders visit. The press usually will get to ask questions. Not many, but a few. That was not the case today with Modi, and will not be tomorrow either.

You have to admit though that Modi's evasive maneuver is far better than that of the Indian Rafale(s) 😉 Or perhaps Modi finds English hard to understand and the reporter should have asked him in Hindi.

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. • C.S. Lewis

🚨"Hostilities Imminent" The phrase has become Middle East’s permanent weather forecast. Everyone mobilizes. Everyone threatens. Everyone leaks “sources familiar with the matter.” Then, either both sides claim victory, or diplomacy quietly sneaks back in through a side door.

Explosions in Israel and UAE A precursor to a bigger arc

BREAKING: Drone strike causes fire at nuclear power plant in Abu Dhabi 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/36vepz?update=45798…

india is more than welcome to take up the role to strive for peace between Iran and the aggressors of this war. However, there are two key prerequisites: 1) the concerned parties acknowledge india as a mediator 2) india accepts this responsibility Neither has happened so far.

Beijing's diplomatic trolling of a ghost state in plain sight 🙂

While it sounds reasonable in theory, lasting stability in the Gulf requires mutual restraint from everyone. That means Iran, the GCC states, Israel, and external powers alike. No point lecturing Iran on ethics while the aggressors and their abettors remain above reproach.

Quite unbecoming of an Indian Army Chief to threaten to erase a nuclear-armed country from geography and history. And then they get riled up when we say we are the Pakistan Army and they are the Bollywood Army.

Iran is no stranger to absorbing strikes, recalibrating, and then escalating asymmetrically to drag the conflict into a long attritional contest. Neither military actions automatically solve the core problem nor can Iran’s nuclear knowledge be simply bombed out of existence. There is a long history of leaders declaring diplomacy dead right before diplomacy quietly returns through another door.

True. The problem with the "serpent club” is that everyone believes they are the exception until they discover they were merely a means to an end. Highly likely that the UAE will finds itself tied to more conflicts, perceptions and consequences that it cannot fully control or publicly defend.

There is probably some truth to this assessment. The trap of asymmetric partnerships always has one side gaining strategic depth while the other inherits strategic baggage. MBZ once had a reputation for being one of the few Gulf leaders capable of operating pragmatically across rival camps. With regional polarization hardening, his room for maneuver(s) is shrinking dramatically.

India and UAE achieved more from a much shorter Modi visit than what Trump got from China. Beijing massaged his ego, inflated his pride, and waved him goodbye on the Air Force One. That says a lot.

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300, but instead of Gerard Butler, it’s Elliot Page.

This scrawny Indian dude with chicken legs jumps up in the cinema right after the movie ends and loudly declares: “Hindu bhaiyon, start marrying Muslim girls to finish off their population” The levels of seething hatred and delusion indians carry is actually insane.