<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title><![CDATA[indi.ca]]></title><description><![CDATA[Views from the third world. Earth.]]></description><link>https://indi.ca/</link><image><url>https://indi.ca/favicon.png</url><title>indi.ca</title><link>https://indi.ca/</link></image><generator>Ghost 6.44</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:18:59 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://indi.ca/rss/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[How This Is The Worst World Cup Already]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inviting the world just to kick them out]]></description><link>https://indi.ca/how-this-is-the-worst-world-cup-already/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a27ed08e1855d00017f5b6a</guid><category><![CDATA[Football]]></category><category><![CDATA[USA]]></category><category><![CDATA[World]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[indi.ca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:21:39 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/senegal-1.png" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/image-10.png" class="kg-image" alt="How This Is The Worst World Cup Already" loading="lazy" width="938" height="1172" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/06/image-10.png 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/image-10.png 938w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Senegal Team getting searched</span></figcaption></figure><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/senegal-1.png" alt="How This Is The Worst World Cup Already"><p><em>Join me for a live discussion on </em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi_fYFiWGoM"><em>World Cup 2026: Geopolitics and the Beautiful Game</em></a><em>, with Gazan journalist Abubaker Abed, Latin American historian Alex Avi&#xF1;a, and host Adnan Husain today. </em></p><p><em>(June 9th) at 14:00 EST, 21:30 IST. <br>Or whenever, the link will still work.  </em></p><hr><p>The United States (along with Canada and Mexico) was chosen to host the FIFA World Cup in 2018, at which point it was already an obviously bad idea. By 2018, Donald Trump A) existed and B) had already signed a &#x2018;<a href="https://www.aclu-wa.org/timeline-muslim-ban/">Muslim Ban</a>&#x2019;, approved by the US Supreme Court about the same time as the World Cup bid. The signs were already there that this was a bad idea, but FIFA went ahead anyways and here we are. The 2026 World Cup is an offensive debacle before it&#x2019;s even started.</p><p>In the lead-up, the United States has bombed Iran&#x2019;s Azadi Stadium, where the national team trained. They have banned the Iranian team from staying overnight in &#x2018;America&#x2019;, and banned many Iranian staff members and journalists entirely. The animus doesn&#x2019;t apply just to Iran, many fans from qualifying countries are banned from the relevant visas entirely, and many from all over are getting rejected. Not only fans but also team members, staff, and referees. This is not a World Cup, nor even really a North American Cup, it is an &#x2018;American&#x2019; Cup, meaning draconian, hostile, and extortionate.</p><p>I must add that on top of this, <em>America is conducting a genocide in Palestine</em>, imposing starvation sieges on Cuba, has murdered schoolchildren in Iran, kidnapped the President of Venezuela, installed an Al-Qaeda regime in Syria, and any countless other outrages. At stolen home, the &#x2018;Americans&#x2019; are rounding up North American natives (called illegal immigrants now) and placing them in concentration camps. They have the largest prison population on a good day and Kansas (City) was building a &#x2018;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7309921/2026/06/09/world-cup-argentina-kansas-city-jail/?unlocked_article_code=1.o1A.WgA_.nqA6LWWFUH33&amp;source=athletic_user_shared_gift_article_twitter">World Cup Jail</a>&#x2019; for some reason. They repress their own people&#x2019;s speech and impose those restrictions on people visiting. The United States of today has committed and is committing far more violations than the Nazis did when they hosted their 1936 Olympics, but where&#x2019;s the outrage? </p><p>Well, here&#x2019;s the outrage. </p><h3 id="not-a-fan-of-fans">Not a Fan of Fans</h3><p>The World Cup is supposed to be, as it says on the tin, a moment when the world gathers for something besides war. But war is all &#x2018;America&#x2019; is doing now, and the World Cup is no exception. Now the World Cup has become a site of ritual humiliation, a dying empire lashing out against a world it can no longer control. None of this is normal. Indeed, it violates norms going back to time immemorial.</p><p>When Brazil hosted the World Cup in 2014, they passed a 900-page <a href="https://oliveiralawyers.com/news/international-law/fifas-general-law-the-world-cup-full-effect-brazil/">General Law of the World Cup</a> <em>&#x201C;covering everything from visa and work permits to social campaigns to criminal provisions.&#x201D; </em>When Russia hosted the 2018 World Cup, their Parliament gave <a href="https://www.bal.com/immigration-news/visa-free-entry-to-be-extended-for-world-cup-fan-id-holders/">visa-free entry to FAN ID holders</a> <em>for the rest of the year</em>. Qatar (2022) is easy enough to access normally, and they <a href="https://www.fragomen.com/insights/qatar-relaxed-requirements-for-2022-fifa-world-cup-visas.html">offered their Hayya Card</a> to people with match tickets or just proof of accommodation. This included public transportation. </p><p>Going further back, when the United Kingdom considered refusing visas to the North Korean team in 1966, but an <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/10305374">internal memo said</a> <em>&#x201C;Apparently FIFA has made it very plain to the FA (Football Association) that if any team [that] has won its way through to the finals is denied visas then the finals will take place elsewhere.&#x201D; </em>More recently, when Indonesia refused to grant the &#x2018;Israeli&#x2019; <a href="https://old.uiii.ac.id/perspectives/read/57336/what-really-happened-in-2023-fifa-u-20-world-cup-that-was-to-be-held-in-indonesia">under-17s visas in 2023</a>, FIFA moved the U-20 World Cup entirely, despite the fact that &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; had killed members of the Palestinian team and Indonesia was doing the right thing. There was the principle of the thing, but now we discover that the principle is just White Supremacy. </p><p>&#x2018;America&#x2019; never relaxed its draconian visa regulations (on stolen land) and has never stopped its Gestapo roundups of natives. Even the Nazis toned it down during their games but not the Nazis that won, the &#x2018;Americans&#x2019;. Again, Trump&#x2019;s &#x2018;America&#x2019; was awarded the games <em>during</em> the furor over his Muslim Ban and, predictably, <a href="https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/06/08/world-cup-visas/">many Moroccans</a>, have had their visas rejected. But it&#x2019;s not just Muslims. Many <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy2yleex87o">British (Scottish) fans have had approval withdrawn as well</a>. Now that &#x2018;America&#x2019; requires social media screening before entry, who can tell? </p><p>Of course, as a matter of course, fans from Haiti, Iran, Senegal, and Ivory Coast are banned from the recommended visitor visas categorically. And <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx212p8r28eo">until May</a>, fans from Algeria, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Tunisia had to pay a $15,000 deposit. Many countries that qualified have a visa rejection rate of over 40% normally. Meanwhile, the 8% ticket allocation due to Iran (under FIFA rules!) has simply been <a href="https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c9q2vrdx0ewo">revoked by &#x2018;America&#x2019; entirely</a>. </p><p>When FIFA&#x2019;s craven (bald) head Gianni Infantino said, in 2017 before awarding the bid, <em>&#x201C;Teams who qualify for a World Cup need to have access to the country, otherwise there is no World Cup. That is obvious,&#x201D;</em> he missed his own point. </p><p>These are things FIFA should have a problem with, but they are, of course, part of the problem. FIFA, like every other supposedly international institution, has been revealed as just another part of the White Empire. They gave Trump a FIFA Peace Prize <em>while</em> he was conducting a genocide, including the murder of many Palestinian sportspeople and destruction of all facilities in Gaza. Play Nazi games, win Nazi prizes. This is the worst World Cup ever, and should honestly be boycotted in solidarity with all the people kept out. It&#x2019;s not just fans, &#x2018;America&#x2019; is attacking the players, referees, everybody in the world is fair game in this unfair cup. </p><h3 id="anti-competitive-to-teams-referees-everybody">Anti-Competitive to Teams, Referees, Everybody</h3><p>It&#x2019;s not just fans that can&#x2019;t access the World Cup. It&#x2019;s <em>teams</em>. Switzerland&#x2019;s star striker Breel Embolo was denied a visa and unable to travel with the team (he is, not coincidentally, colored). His visa was <a href="https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cn8p894wyq8o">just approved</a> after much uproar, but this has an anti-competitive effect already. The entire South Africa team&#x2019;s departure was <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/5/31/south-africas-world-cup-2026-departure-delayed-over-mexican-visa-debacle">delayed</a> because of &#x2018;visa issues&#x2019;, which also again disadvantages them from the beginning. The same thing happened to <a href="https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2026/06/314776/world-cup-2026-zakaria-el-ouahdi-receives-visa-to-join-atlas-lions-in-us-camp/">Moroccan player Zakaria El Ouahdi</a>. Iraqi striker Aymen Hussein was <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/sports/iraqi-football-player-questioned-for-7-hours-after-arriving-in-us-reports/3958681">detained and questioned for seven hours</a>. These egregious examples have been &#x2018;sorted out&#x2019; but they have an anti-competitive effect <em>already</em>. </p><p>As further examples, the Senegal team was <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-in/sports/fifa_world_cup/watch-senegal-football-players-screened-on-airport-tarmac-ahead-of-fifa-world-cup-2026/ar-AA258wvD">singled out for body searches on the tarmac</a> when they arrived. The <a href="https://x.com/trtworld/status/2064244856562597940">Uzbekistan team was strictly searched</a>, body by body, when they got off the bus, having already cleared immigration before. There is a clear racist dimension to this intimidation that would make Hitler proud, though even he was too ashamed to do it in 1936. Oh, how the Whitey have fallen.</p><p>The Iranian team, of course, is the most egregious example. Not only did &#x2018;America&#x2019; bomb one of their training facilities, they are also denying them the right to even sleep after their games. As Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum <a href="https://frontofficesports.com/iran-world-cup-us-war-trump/">said</a>, <em>&#x201C;The United States doesn&#x2019;t want the Iranian national team to stay overnight in the United States.&#x201D;</em> FIFA is in on this, even after Trump said he could not guarantee the <em>&#x201C;life and safety&#x201D;</em> of Iranian players (seems important!), they still refused their request to move their matches to Mexico. So instead the team must fly in and out of the country entirely before and after games, putting them at a real disadvantage physically. Not to mention in physical danger from their hosts, admittedly. Meanwhile Iranian staff, including coaches, have been denied visas, as have journalists. </p><p>And the outrages don&#x2019;t stop there. &#x2018;America&#x2019; has even rejected FIFA referees! Somalian referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan was <a href="https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/football/us-denies-entry-to-somali-referee-traveling-for-world-cup">denied entry at the Miami airport</a>. FIFA issued a craven statement saying <em>&#x201C;FIFA is not involved in host country immigration processes, including visa adjudications,&#x201D;</em> which is a lie, they often get legislation changed beforehand, but not for &#x2018;America&#x2019;. There is also no report of them simply moving this ref to games in Mexico or Canada. FIFA doesn&#x2019;t even take care of their own people. </p><h3 id="the-state-of-the-games">The State of the Games</h3><p>This Cup is already a shambles before the first ball has been kicked. There has been a school shooting near the England camp, because of course, &#x2018;America&#x2019; has a shooting almost every day, it would be an anomaly if they <em>didn&#x2019;t</em>. The Swiss camp was beset by snakes, the Senegalese training pitch didn&#x2019;t bounce, Japan had to <a href="https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/48968591/japan-world-cup-training-pitch-monterrey-mexico-tigres">change venues due to terrible facilities</a>. </p><p>&#x2018;America&#x2019; is not a safe or decent place to travel to and the world knows it. As the <a href="https://archive.ph/PDwYT#selection-887.0-897.51">Wall Street Journal reports</a>, <em>&#x201C;The World Cup starts later this week. U.S. hotels are already in last place.&#xA0;Hotel bookings in&#xA0;Canada&#xA0;and Mexico are outpacing all but one American city [San Francisco].&#x201D; </em>&#x2018;America&#x2019; as a colony is just a pyramid scheme nearing its end, the whole thing is a con, including the World Cup. Tickets are selling for more than $20,000 (some upwards of a million), but who wants them? And even if you can buy them, can you attend? </p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/image-11.png" class="kg-image" alt="How This Is The Worst World Cup Already" loading="lazy" width="934" height="1124" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/06/image-11.png 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/image-11.png 934w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><p>As part of the con, FIFA set up its own scalping platform, but that&#x2019;s not going well. After the 26% &#x2018;resale fee&#x2019; the median ticket for the US/Paraguay match (for example) costs $800, and 4,400 are still available because who is buying this? In contrast, tickets for Mexico at home have only 300 tickets available. As the <a href="https://archive.ph/uV4QC#selection-1879.0-1879.122">FT reports</a>, <em>&#x201C;Fan groups estimate the cost of following a team at this summer&#x2019;s World Cup will be five times higher than four years ago.&#x201D;</em> For all their greed, this World Cup may see empty seats. Indeed, should. The whole thing stinks to high heaven. This World Cup is already a hotbed of corruption, racism, and greed. Hardly a hot ticket.</p><h3 id="showcase-shows-over">Showcase: Shows Over</h3><p>Sanctimonious nations like Norway (which said they&#x2019;d skip the Qatar World Cup despite not qualifying) and Germany (which posed hands over mouths and wore rainbow Rolexes) made a huge fuss about Qatar, but they&#x2019;re saying nothing now. About a Cup where even teams and referees can&#x2019;t travel freely and everybody gets their social media scanned to see if they&#x2019;re suitably quiet about the genocide currently going on. And the same journalists and officials who protested about Qatar are quiet because that was, in hindsight, just racism. These fake nations, fake institutions, fake journalists; they&#x2019;re all part of the White Empire. All a bunch of false flags to match the false internationalism of FIFA. This event, like so many events this century, reveals the White Empire behind the scenes, and it&#x2019;s obscene. </p><p>A World Cup is supposed to be showcase for the host nation and the 2026 Cup is. This is an awful World Cup hosted in an evil nation. As Maya Angelou said, <em>&#x201C;When someone tells you who and what they are. Believe them the first time.&#x201D;</em> FIFA should have known from the time of the &#x2018;Muslim Ban&#x2019; that &#x2018;America&#x2019; was a wildly unsuitable candidate to host a World Cup, but they went ahead anyways because the leadership of FIFA is wildly unsuitable themselves. </p><p>FIFA is obviously craven and corrupt, no countries have the guts to speak up, and White journalists treat these things as an anomaly rather than a host nation worse than the Nazis, historically. &#x2018;America&#x2019; is showing the world who they are with the World Cup, which is hostile to the world. And this will have consequences. Like China&#x2019;s Olympics was a &#x2018;coming out&#x2019; party to the world, this is a &#x2018;party&#x2019;s over&#x2019; message from &#x2018;America&#x2019;. They&#x2019;re really trying to take their ball and go home. The funny thing is, &#x2018;Americans&#x2019; don&#x2019;t even like football and it shows. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Dahiyeh Doctrine: Retaliation]]></title><description><![CDATA[‘Israel’ cannot get away with this anymore]]></description><link>https://indi.ca/the-new-dahiyeh-doctrine-retaliation/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2650e4e718450001b4d23f</guid><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[IranWar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hezbollah]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lebanon]]></category><category><![CDATA[War]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[indi.ca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:15:45 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-17.10.00-1.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-17.10.00-1.jpg" alt="The New Dahiyeh Doctrine: Retaliation"><p><em>I&#x2019;ll be live on </em><a href="https://substack.com/@resistanceisfertilepodcast"><em>Resistance Is Fertile</em></a><em>/</em><a href="https://youtube.com/indications" rel="noreferrer"><em>@indications</em></a><em> (podcast) in 15 minutes to discuss this piece and other pieces de resistance. That&#x2019;s at 19:00 IST, 9:30 EST. </em></p><hr><p>One cannot step in the same river twice. Three years after the Al Aqsa Flood, &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; cannot just sally forth to Beirut when they want to take five from Hezbollah. The river has changed its course, and the region is not riven against itself anymore. Thus when &#x2018;Israel bombs Daniyeh in north Lebanon, it gets an answer from Iran in the east, Yemen in the south, and crickets from the West which is honestly fed up with its bullshit.  </p><p>666 has been the number of the Middle East for a long time. As Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in 1992, <em>&#x201C;America will remain the nation&#x2019;s chief enemy and the greatest Satan of all. Israel will always be for us a cancerous growth that needs to be eradicated, and an artificial entity that should be removed, even if all the rulers [of the world] recognize it.&#x201D; </em>Now more and more people can recognize the vision that Nasrallah fought and died for. </p><p>For many years, ceasefires with the White Empire have been empty words, <em>you cease and we fire</em>, but not no more. As when America violated before, on the night of June 7th (2026), &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; ate its empty words in the form of missiles. As Iran&#x2019;s Speaker <a href="https://x.com/mb_ghalibaf/status/2060338759321715058">MB Ghalibaf said</a>, <em>&#x201C;We seize concessions not through dialogue, but with missiles; in negotiations, we merely make them understand.&#x201D;</em> </p><h2 id="the-new-security-architecture">The New Security Architecture</h2><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/telegram-cloud-photo-size-4-5848364419467906719-w.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="The New Dahiyeh Doctrine: Retaliation" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="1600" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/06/telegram-cloud-photo-size-4-5848364419467906719-w.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/06/telegram-cloud-photo-size-4-5848364419467906719-w.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/telegram-cloud-photo-size-4-5848364419467906719-w.jpg 1200w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><p>On June 7, 2026, &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; attacked apartments in the Dahiyeh (or Dahieh) suburb of Beirut. In their own words, this was just terrorism. As their <a href="https://www.c14news.com/article/1465688">Channel 14 said</a>,</p><blockquote>The current tension comes after the Israeli Air Force struck the Dahieh neighborhood in southern Beirut shortly after 3:00 p.m. A fighter jet targeted a Hezbollah terror headquarters that was <strong>not</strong> manned by senior operatives at the time.<br><br>According to Israeli intelligence sources, <strong>the strike&#x2019;s purpose was more psychological and public than operational</strong>. They claim the target was chosen for its location in the heart of Hezbollah&#x2019;s Dahieh stronghold, rather than for its operational importance, as part of a message designed to address public criticism and maintain Israeli deterrence.</blockquote><p>This is the Dahiyeh Doctrine, so oft repeated that it&#x2019;s a doctrine. They periodically just bomb this Shia suburb. This is &#x2018;Israel&#x2019;s&#x2019; traditional insecurity architecture, when they&#x2019;re losing to men in the field, they take it out on innocents. This is done in order to terrorize the natives, as well as to placate the bloody-minded Jews at (stolen) home.</p><p>The usual response to this is, not much. While Hezbollah can beat &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; in guerrilla warfare in Southern Lebanon, they cannot impose like-for-like deterrence on the occupiers of Palestine. And Iran, which militarily could, politically couldn&#x2019;t. The Islamic Republic of Iran is accountable to Iranians, and they did not want to bring war home. But now, the war has already been brung. So now it&#x2019;s on. </p><p>This is the moment the martyr leader of Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was talking about in <em>1992</em>. He said,</p><blockquote><strong>The resistance has another aim&#x2014;namely, to awaken the region&#x2019;s masses. </strong>This means that the resistance has two interim objectives: the first is to keep the enemy bleeding through guerrilla warfare against its military patrols and positions, and to cover its entire body with wounds; the other is to awaken the masses.</blockquote><p>This is precisely what happened. Hezbollah has been bleeding &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; daily in the south, in the <a href="https://indi.ca/hezbollahs-greatest-hits/" rel="noreferrer">FPV battles especially</a>, and when &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; tried to compensate by bombing apartments they suddenly found themselves facing the awakened masses of the entire region.  This is that long-awaited day, when the <a href="https://indi.ca/the-unity-of-the-fields/" rel="noreferrer">Unity of the Fields</a> becomes powerful. </p><p>As Nasrallah said, again 34 years ago, seeming to describe the <em>danse macabre</em> today, between negotiations and bombs, <em>&#x201C;We are counting on the day when the will of the people is manifest to all. In my estimation, a war of attrition rather than a classical war is liable to destroy the Zionist entity; <strong>this war might be ongoing even while negotiations are underway, or reconciliation is in the offing</strong>.&#x201D;</em> Ain&#x2019;t it so, just as he called it? God, I wish he were here to see it, but he&#x2019;s with God now. You can see how deep the strategic thinking is behind what the news parses as mere tactics. </p><h2 id="the-lebanoniran-axis">The Lebanon/Iran Axis</h2><p>If you&#x2019;re asking&#x2014;as Iranians surely should be asking&#x2014;how Lebanon and Iran are connected, it is as Nasrallah said in 1986. He said, <em>&#x201C;We consider all borders throughout the Muslim world as fake and colonialist, and therefore doomed to disappear. We do not believe in a nation whose borders are 10,452 square kilometers in Lebanon; our project foresees Lebanon as part of the political map of an Islamic world in which specificities would cease to exist, but in which the rights, freedom, and dignity of minorities within it are guaranteed.&#x201D;</em></p><p>You can see the fake colonialist borders drawn around the Muslim World now disappearing. The Ramadan War exposed all the Gulf Apostates&#x2014;Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, and Bahrain&#x2014;as false flags, waving in the wind like a spider&#x2019;s web that&#x2019;s been cut. They were really part of Greater Israel <em>already</em> and Iran simply ignored their sovereignty because they have none. The Gulf Apostates were just military bases for the White Empire and were treated as such. </p><p>Now what&#x2019;s happening is that the will of the people, including the people in those occupied territories, is becoming apparent. And the connection between places like Lebanon and Iran, which is ancient, is being drawn with modern weapons. This didn&#x2019;t happen before largely because the collective consciousness hadn&#x2019;t awakened before. While the Islamic Republic of Iran always supported the Axis of Resistance, the people of Iran (as we all do) cared about their daily existence. But now, by the Empire&#x2019;s own hand, this war has become existential for them also and they have been out in the streets for 100 days now. They are protesting for their &#x2018;regime&#x2019; to go hard, and they have not gone home.</p><p>Now the streets themselves have called for support of Lebanon, the fronts are truly joined. If Iran <em>didn&#x2019;t </em>strike &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; now, hearts at home would burn. Don&#x2019;t take my word for it. Just look at them.</p><p>As lawyer <a href="https://x.com/Helyeh_Doutaghi/status/2063757601578324180/photo/1">Helyeh Doutaghi reports</a>, <em>&#x201C;<strong>There has been a noticeable intensification of demands in response to escalating violence against Lebanon over the past week in the streets of Iran. Many carry Hezbollah flags and have been calling for action.</strong> In this, pressure emanating from the popular base of the revolution has significantly shaped the posture of the armed forces, particularly amid internal tensions among differing political factions, including reformist elements within Iran. The pics taken over the past several nights [follow].&#x201D;</em></p><figure class="kg-card kg-gallery-card kg-width-wide"><div class="kg-gallery-container"><div class="kg-gallery-row"><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/helyeh-1.jpeg" width="2000" height="1693" loading="lazy" alt="The New Dahiyeh Doctrine: Retaliation" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/06/helyeh-1.jpeg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/06/helyeh-1.jpeg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/06/helyeh-1.jpeg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/helyeh-1.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/helyeh-3.jpeg" width="1536" height="2048" loading="lazy" alt="The New Dahiyeh Doctrine: Retaliation" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/06/helyeh-3.jpeg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/06/helyeh-3.jpeg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/helyeh-3.jpeg 1536w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div></div><div class="kg-gallery-row"><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/helyeh-4.jpeg" width="2000" height="1500" loading="lazy" alt="The New Dahiyeh Doctrine: Retaliation" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/06/helyeh-4.jpeg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/06/helyeh-4.jpeg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/06/helyeh-4.jpeg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/helyeh-4.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/helyeh-2.jpeg" width="2000" height="1150" loading="lazy" alt="The New Dahiyeh Doctrine: Retaliation" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/06/helyeh-2.jpeg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/06/helyeh-2.jpeg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/06/helyeh-2.jpeg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/helyeh-2.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div></div></div></figure><p>Remember that the Iranian people have been in the streets <em>every night </em>since the martyrdom of Khamenei the Elder protesting <em>for</em> &#x2018;the regime&#x2019;. The previous security architecture was such that Iran helping Lebanon directly could fracture it within, but now it is the vassals of White Empire that are cracking under internal tensions. Meanwhile Iran is unified around winning this thing. Just hear the people cheering as the missiles fly overhead. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular" data-kg-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/media/2026/06/Rapid-Report---WATCH----Iranians-cheer-as-missiles-fly-to-Israel--2063701717808480256-_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail>
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        </figure><p>We now see the shape of a new security architecture, planned not by the Great Satan and its devils (who &#x2018;spread corruption in the land and call it peace&#x2019;), but by men of God, literally. Hezbollah (the party of God), Ansarallah (supporters of God), Hamas (an acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement), and the Islamic Republic of Iran are imposing deterrence not just on &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; but on the White Empire entirely. They are facing the final boss of colonialism, and bossing them around for once.  </p><h2 id="the-implications">The Implications</h2><p>This day&#x2019;s response to &#x2018;Israel&#x2019;s&#x2019; violation was not particularly big&#x2014;my wife just flew through it via Qatar&#x2014;but the implications are enormous. Iran launched multiple missiles at &#x2018;Israel&#x2019;, and Yemen joined the fray hitting both &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; and Saudi Arabia (reportedly), and even Gaza joined in the rocket fire (again, reportedly, still fog of war). As Hazem Qassem, spokesman for Hamas in Gaza said, <a href="https://x.com/MujammaHaraket/status/2063724199517012386">via Mujamma Haraket</a>, <em>&#x201C;Iran&#x2019;s response to the &#x2018;Israeli&#x2019; occupation&#x2019;s rampage against the brotherly Lebanese people is an embodiment of the genuine solidarity that ought to exist among the members of the Umma.&#x201D; </em></p><p>This is the history being made amidst the news. As Helyeh Doutaghi puts it, <em>&#x201C;Tonight is the result of two developments: the regional balance of force has shifted in a decisive manner, prompting Iran, for the first time ever, to carry military campaign in defence of its allies.&#x201D;</em> The alliance of the wicked was broken in the Battle of Hormuz and it&#x2019;s a new battlefield now, one where the Resistance is united and the occupation is divided. </p><p>I repeat what gets whitewashed out in the news cycle, that Iran emptied the US bases in the Persian Gulf and exposed the Gulf Apostates as worthless. They have <a href="https://indi.ca/persian-gulf-war-over/" rel="noreferrer">taken the Strait of Hormuz</a> and scattered the US Fifth Fleet forevermore, sending CENTCOM, effectively, back to Tampa, Florida. The US Navy was <em>already</em> <a href="https://indi.ca/how-us-navy-defeated/" rel="noreferrer">defeated in the Red Sea</a>, but because they didn&#x2019;t get the point, Yemen has now (as part of this Dahiyeh response) closed the Red Sea <a href="https://x.com/Safarnejad_IR">to</a> <em>&#x201C;Israeli vessels and those who are affiliated with the Zionist regime.&#x201D;</em></p><p>This is a big response if you measure it not in the language of the colonizers (dead bodies and ruined buildings) but by the language of resistance (unity and military targets). There is a new security architecture not based around Jewish insecurity but on the legitimate security concerns of the native population. To not be blown up in their apartments with nothing being done about it. And for the first time in a <em>long</em> colonial history, there&#x2019;s nothing the Empire can do about it. This is not an anti-colonial war, which the Empire has lost before, but an anti-imperial war (hat-tip Justin Podur). The Empire is not just losing Iran (which it never had in the first place), it is getting pushed back further and further. Iran&#x2019;s demands now include ceasefire in Lebanon, and if the Empire violates as they&#x2019;re accustomed to, they get violence back in even greater measure. It&#x2019;s a brave new Muslim World.</p><p>Long ago, Sykes and Picot drew lines all across this deeply connected region and Lord Balfour and Rothschild created a Jewish ghetto there to keep it divided and conquered. That&#x2019;s all breaking up now. As Nasrallah said, <em>&#x201C;Experience has shown us that red blood is capable of obliterating red lines, and if the nation chooses to follow this path, Israel and America will find that they are incapable of changing anything in the equation.&#x201D; </em></p><p>That&#x2019;s where we&#x2019;re at now. Yes, &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; can still attack Lebanon, yes they can still cut off food to Gaza (as they have just done) but <em>no</em>, they cannot do this without great retaliation. The Empire used to being a historical arsonist finds itself burning too, and this they are not used to. But they better get used to it. This is the new Dahiyeh doctrine. Hit Dahiyeh, and get hit too. </p><h3 id="quranic-aside">Quranic Aside</h3><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/image-9.png" class="kg-image" alt="The New Dahiyeh Doctrine: Retaliation" loading="lazy" width="1053" height="496" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/06/image-9.png 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/06/image-9.png 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/image-9.png 1053w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The message on the missile</span></figcaption></figure><p><em>If you want a Quranic aside related to the current affairs, read The Ants/al-Naml 28:48, it&#x2019;s free, or read on (paid subs) for the verse and my ignorant application. </em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Nazi World Cup]]></title><description><![CDATA[How World Cup 2026 is shaping up]]></description><link>https://indi.ca/the-nazi-world-cup-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2282c8e718450001b4c571</guid><category><![CDATA[Football]]></category><category><![CDATA[USA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[indi.ca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:49:48 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/Screenshot-2026-06-05-at-14.46.00-1.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/Screenshot-2026-06-05-at-14.46.00-1.jpg" alt="The Nazi World Cup"><p><em>I&#x2019;ll be (Internet connection down south allowing) on a livestream with </em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@adnanhusainshow"><em>Adnan Husain</em></a><em>, Abubaker Abed (recently out of Gaza), and Alex Avina on the World Cup. Should be available via Adnan&#x2019;s link or </em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@indications"><em>@indications</em></a><em>, which should be unbanned by then.</em></p><p><em>Tuesday, June 9th at 19:00 Dublin (GMT+1) / 14:00 PM EDT / 11:00 PT / 21:00 PM Kazan / 23:30 PM Sri Lanka. </em></p><hr><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/image-8.png" class="kg-image" alt="The Nazi World Cup" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1125" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/06/image-8.png 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/06/image-8.png 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/06/image-8.png 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/image-8.png 2048w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A screenshot showing ticket prices for the final, going up to $2.3 million (</span><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/world-cup-final-tickets-go-on-sale-for-2-3m-each-13535665"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">each</span></a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></figcaption></figure><p>This is shaping up to be the worst World Cup in history because the worst people in history are hosting it. Ze &#x2018;Americans&#x2019;. </p><p>The entire (re: all) Iranian team has been denied stays in &#x2018;America&#x2019; and has to &#x2018;commute&#x2019; from Mexico. Their physical safety is <em>not</em> assured. Switzerland striker <a href="https://www.espn.in/football/story/_/id/48946383/us-delays-entry-switzerland-breel-embolo-world-cup-travel-documents">Breel Embolo has had his visa withdrawn</a>, hours before he was due to travel. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86dxvql3qno">South Africa&#x2019;s entire team had to delay travel</a> until their visa issues were resolved. <a href="https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2026/06/314776/world-cup-2026-zakaria-el-ouahdi-receives-visa-to-join-atlas-lions-in-us-camp/">Moroccan Zakaria El Ouahdi</a> was unable to join the team until his visa was finally approved. None of this is their fault. This is racist &#x2018;American&#x2019; policy gone to the races.</p><p>As <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/trump-uscis-world-cup-visa-denial-ban-soccer-football-embassy/">Mother Jones</a> reports, <em>&#x201C;The Trump administration has a record of denying international athletes visas, including members of an Ethiopian delegation to the World Athletics Cross Country Championships, whose 44-year medal streak was broken by a mass visa denial in January. Multiple Cuban sports delegations have also been&#xA0;</em><a href="https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/11/24/us-denies-visas-to-cuban-athletes-to-compete-in-olympic-qualifiers/"><em>locked out</em></a><em>&#xA0;of sports competitions since 2025 by the US&#x2019; refusal to grant them visas&#x2014;including Olympic qualification events.&#x201D;&#xA0;</em></p><p>This hostile policy extends to fans, with the US (until so recently that it was too late) requiring people from 50 &#x2018;developing&#x2019; (re: colonized/colored) countries to post $5,000&#x2013;15,000 bonds for a visa. <a href="https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2026/05/14/us-relaxes-visa-bonds-for-world-cup-fans">The countries include </a>Algeria, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Senegal, and Tunisia. Haitian and Iranian fans are effectively banned from the competition. Meanwhile everyone else has to submit their social media records to a nation committing genocide, to see if they&#x2019;re too vocal about it. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/image-7.png" class="kg-image" alt="The Nazi World Cup" loading="lazy" width="1082" height="712" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/06/image-7.png 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/06/image-7.png 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/image-7.png 1082w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The absolutely dystopian MetLife Stadium. It is illegal to walk here, and even if you could, it is illegal to have your own water</span></figcaption></figure><p>Other World Cups have not been like this. For <a href="https://thepointsguy.com/news/russia-waiving-visa-requirements-for-world-cup-attendees/">Russia (2018)</a>, your spectator card (obtained via a ticket) was your visa. Qatar had visa-on-arrival for 95 countries, and fans got a Hayya card that gave them free public transportation. In &#x2018;America&#x2019; they&#x2019;re charging <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/world-cup-2026-fans-to-pay-150-for-train-ticket-to-stadium/a-76839579">$150 to get to the stadium</a> (which you cannot walk to because dangerous) and you&#x2019;re <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7331461/2026/06/03/fifa-world-cup-water-bottles-u-turn/?source=emp_shared_article&amp;unlocked_article_code=1.nVA.zu0q.f96re-4aQsxt">not even allowed to bring water bottles</a>, you have to pay for that also. That isn&#x2019;t even getting into accommodation and travel between cities and all the other price gouging. It is wild how vile this World Cup is. </p><p>This is in many ways <em>worse</em> than the 1936 Nazi Olympics where Blacks and Jews that Hitler obviously hated were able to compete and overt displays of racism were toned down in front of visitors. The Nazis suppressed Jews and Roma within the German team, but did not ban visas for athletes from other countries, like America is doing. Nor were they, at the time, actively invading or besieging other countries. The &#x2018;Americans&#x2019; are, of course, worse than the Nazis because the Nazis at least fizzled out after 12 years. &#x2018;America&#x2019; has been at this for centuries.</p><p>The corruption of already corrupt football extends to FIFA. &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; has killed over 1,000 Palestinian athletes and staff and murdered dozens of footballers, including Suleiman Obeid (the Palestinian Pele). As I write, &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; has just arrested Natalie Abu Dayyeh and Rand Al Halawini of the Palestinian women&#x2019;s national team. This is obscene, yet &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; is still allowed in FIFA competitions. Even after Jews rioted in the streets of the Netherlands, the &#x2018;Israeli&#x2019; ghetto (where Europeans deported their Jews to) is still allowed in these competitions. If we&#x2019;re being honest, all the false flags of the White Empire should be banned, &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; is just the most egregious example. </p><p>Yet that&#x2019;s not how the bans work because every international organization, including FIFA, is under the Empire&#x2019;s thumb. Daring to be independent Russia is still banned despite that country fighting &#x2018;American&#x2019; proxies in a relatively restrained fashion. Even the Federation of International Football Associations&#x2014;which &#x2018;Americans&#x2019; do not even acknowledge the proper name of, calling it soccer&#x2014;is an &#x2018;American&#x2019; proxy for some reason. The &#x2018;Americans&#x2019; have no real interest in the game and are literally just playing spoiler. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Might As Well Support Hamas. They’ll Punish You Anyways]]></title><description><![CDATA[It’s the only moral position]]></description><link>https://indi.ca/might-as-well-support-hamas-theyll-punish-you-anyways/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a1d27d6b5412100011f04f0</guid><category><![CDATA[Hamas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[White Empire]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[indi.ca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:13:08 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/Screenshot-2026-06-04-at-12.29.01-1.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/Screenshot-2026-06-04-at-12.29.01-1.jpg" alt="Might As Well Support Hamas. They&#x2019;ll Punish You Anyways"><p>The liberal position is to support Muslim corpses but not their rockets. This is not a coherent position, but they&#x2019;re sticking to their not-guns. But the Empire punishes them anyways. If they&#x2019;re going to call you a terrorist anyways, might as well support Hamas. <a href="https://indi.ca/tag/hamas/" rel="noreferrer">Join the club</a>. </p><p>Francesca Albanese condemns Hamas and Iran&#x2014;ie the people actually doing something&#x2014;and for what? She gets personally sanctioned by the White Empire anyways. And Cenk Uygur <a href="https://x.com/cenkuygur/status/2061908612319166670">says</a> <em>&#x201C;I&#x2019;m for a two state solution and I&#x2019;m against all terrorists groups,&#x201D; </em>accepting both &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; and their definition of terrorism, and gets punished for his troubles. He gets banned from the UK anyways (it&#x2019;s all one White Empire, if you haven&#x2019;t figured it out). </p><p>All of their pious platitudes, all of their fundamental loyalty to the Empire, it all comes to naught. These people cancel themselves out in history, and are cancelled in the present also. What&#x2019;s the point of all this posturing? If you&#x2019;re getting the punishment, might as well do the thought-crime. As Dostoevsky said, <em>&#x201C;Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.&#x201D;</em> </p><p>I understand that supporting the Resistance is currently illegal within the Empire. Hamas, Hezbollah, etc are proscribed organizations, so I can understand not supporting them openly. But at the same time, even if you try to dance around a fundamentally incoherent position, you get punished anyways. You get deplatformed, sanctioned, and travel-banned <em>anyways</em>. So, at this point, many years into an extermination campaign, why not show some courage? Or just shut up, and show some dignity.</p><p>I cannot stand these people condemning the Resistance, the only people who have stood up and paid in blood. This diet imperialism is a common position, which I think is repulsive to everyone. Condemning both the empire and the resistance appeals to no one. Such people offend the Jews and the Christian Zionists no matter what, and they offend free- -thinking people who can see what&#x2019;s what. </p><p>These people should just keep the Resistance&#x2019;s name out they mouths, or have some real courage and speak up. Break the seal on what is an unassailable position, which more and more people feel but aren&#x2019;t saying. That the people blowing up tanks and attacking military bases are the good guys, and the bad guys are the ones blowing up hospitals and schools and censoring you for complaining about it. You might as well support Hamas, because they&#x2019;re going to punish you anyways. Or just shut up. </p><p>I live in the most of the world where all these organizations banned <em>by the people committing the genocide</em> are not illegal. This limits my ability to travel, but that says more about those places than me. Looking at it objectively, this is not a remotely complicated situation. You&#x2019;ve got a bunch of open child killers working for pedophiles in the White Empire, and the Axis of Resistance blowing up tanks and defending their land with very few civilian casualties. Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah, and Ansarallah are <em>unequivocally</em> the good guys in the World War III that&#x2019;s going on (if you include colored people in the world). I mean, we&#x2019;ve got a genocide, multiple invasions, and every country is affected; what else do you want to call it? And who do you think the good guys are, the people committing genocide and invading people, or the people resisting and defending their homes? </p><p>This time around, it isn&#x2019;t even controversial. Past liberation movements <em>have</em> seen excesses: the killing of civilians, rape, torture, the ugly accoutrements of war. But these fighters have much more precise weapons and exceptional ideological discipline through Islam. The Axis of Resistance has used pinpoint missiles on military targets, treated prisoners of war well, and not raped anyone, despite <em>their pediatricians </em>being raped to death themselves. </p><p>Even the &#x2018;civilian&#x2019; casualties of October 7th were mostly due to &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; invoking the Hannibal Directive and killing its own people rather than letting Hamas achieve its goal, taking prisoners of war for an exchange with the thousands of Palestinians held in rape and torture prisons. What are we even talking about here, once you get out of the media bubble of people that protest for their right to rape and openly talk killing children? One side is blowing up hospitals and schools, while the other is blowing up tanks with their bare hands. This is not a complicated moral position. That&#x2019;s why I wholeheartedly support the Resistance against such evil and will never &#x2018;condemn Hamas.&#x2019; </p><p>However, pious liberals <em>always</em> say this, as if to signal that they&#x2019;re loyal opposition. Western &#x2018;leftists&#x2019; (not a thing) quite vocally hem and haw. They&#x2019;re quite happy talking about the suffering of Palestinians and the cruelty of the Empire, but someone actually doing something about it? That&#x2019;s too far. It&#x2019;s like a firefighter&#x2019;s convention where no one is allowed to talk about water. </p><p>Again, as the saying goes, <em>those who support our corpses and not our rockets are hypocrites and not of us</em>. It is obvious to anyone that&#x2019;s watched a movie that one should <em>fight back</em> against such great evil, but such great weasels dominate Western discourse that this becomes complexified into nothing. As Shakespeare said, the Western liberal, <em>&#x201C;struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.&#x201D;</em></p><p>Take Nicholas Kristof&#x2019;s piece, in the New York War Crimes, talking about well-documented rapes by the &#x2018;Israeli&#x2019; military, during a time when they also raped people from all nations in the flotilla, just to rub it in. Kristof, however, opens his piece with the lynching lie that Hamas raped people at all. They didn&#x2019;t! There is no physical evidence of this and no named victims, just like the 40 dead babies, but even people that bemoan &#x2018;Israel&#x2019;s&#x2019; excesses still spread its propaganda! And what does Kristof get for his both-sidesing of rape victims? Jews protest against him anyways, lol. There is no point to any of this. There is no point to any of these people. The Jews that protest to rape in &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; are, in fact better, than the dumb goys that protest against it, because at least they&#x2019;re being honest with themselves. </p><p>This intellectual dishonesty is endemic among American intellectuals. I tried to watch a debate with John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt vs. war ghouls Victoria Nuland and Mike Pompeo, and there actually is no debate. The war pigs (Nuland and Pomeo) are at least honest with their hate when they said, <em>&#x2018;do you think Iran is a monster?&#x2019;</em> Stephen Walt has been trying to sound all reasonable, but even he has to throw Iran under the bus because they&#x2019;re <em>all</em> loyal imperialists. Walt says, <em>&#x2018;I&#x2019;m glad I don&#x2019;t live there.&#x2019; </em>What does that mean, Stephen?</p><p>The idea that a White man should want to live in other places is fundamentally colonial. How dare this useless man talk down on the one country in the world doing its duty under the genocide convention. The arrogance of all of these people. Both Imperialism and Diet Imperialism share the same fundamental disrespect towards every place on Earth, which is shared by everyone on that stage, regardless of their meaningless debate about how to do it. These are all useless people. These are all debates <em>within</em> White Empire. </p><p>And the funny thing is that the people trying to square the circle&#x2014;to not support Empire, but to condemn its enemies, making themselves harmless&#x2014;these people get cancelled <em>anyways</em>. Mearsheimer is isolated to podcasts and other countries for his trouble trying to save America from the &#x2018;Israel Lobby,&#x2019; as if it isn&#x2019;t one big corruption ouroboros. And I&#x2019;ve never even heard of Stephen Walt. These men are punished by (relative) obscurity now and will be condemned or just ignored by history entirely.</p><p>This all reminds me of the story of Sun Wukong trying to jump out of the Buddha&#x2019;s hand in <em>Journey to the West</em>. The dear Monkey King flew 10,000 leagues on a cloud, got out, saw some pillars marking the edge of the universe, and pissed on them to mark his territory. Then he flew back and demanded his boon from the Buddha. The Buddha just smiled and pointed to the piss pooled in his palm. The Monkey King had flailed about to get nowhere at all, and was buried under the five-finger mountain for thousands of years until he learned his lesson.</p><p>All of these debates <em>within</em> Empire while condemning the actual Resistance are like the arrogance of the Monkey King, without any of his redeeming characteristics. Such debaters searching for the magical center of Nazism will be condemned for their cowardice, or just ignored by history, which they have piously crossed themselves out of. Indeed, they have perfectly triangulated a position to piss everyone off, like classic liberals. They support the <em>idea</em> of resistance while condemning the people dying for it, and support the <em>idea</em> of imperialism, while condemning the people actually killing for it. </p><p>If you condemn &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; and also Hamas, I guess you&#x2019;re neutral, which means what? You&#x2019;ve taken the side of the oppressor, you morons. You&#x2019;re the loyal opposition <em>within</em> a White Empire when, as Noel Ignatiev said, <em>&#x201C;treason to Whiteness is loyalty to humanity.&#x201D; </em>Even supposed &#x2018;supporters&#x2019; like Francesca Albanese, Cenk Uygur, or Hasan Piker, still operate within imperial structures like the UN or Democratic Party, who are all in on it.  At best they&#x2019;ll say that &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; is more evil than the Resistance, but this is nonsense. The Resistance is actually good. </p><p>These supposed &#x2018;good guys&#x2019; are still fundamentally on team evil and are thus frauds. These people still deny selfhood and self-defense to non-White people and assert that liberation must be <em>given</em> by White lawyers and intellectuals, people who cannot even liberate their own minds. And the funny thing is, even after piously trying to signal their loyalty to empire, they get punished anyways. Might as well support Hamas. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Battle Of Hormuz Is Over. Iran Won]]></title><description><![CDATA[If America wants to take back the Persian Gulf, that’s another war]]></description><link>https://indi.ca/persian-gulf-war-over/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a1e62809ca0850001ed6c86</guid><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[War]]></category><category><![CDATA[History]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[indi.ca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:12:43 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/image-5-1-1.png" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-width-wide kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/image-5.png" class="kg-image" alt="The Battle Of Hormuz Is Over. Iran Won" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1332" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/06/image-5.png 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/06/image-5.png 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/06/image-5.png 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/image-5.png 2000w" sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 1200px"><figcaption><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Hoarding in Tehran: &#x201C;The Strait of Hormuz will stay closed &#x2014; the entire Persian Gulf is our hunting ground.&#x201D;</span></figcaption></figure><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/image-5-1-1.png" alt="The Battle Of Hormuz Is Over. Iran Won"><p>The Battle of Hormuz is over. Iran has taken the Persian Gulf. If White Empire wants to take it back, they can try. But that&#x2019;s another war. This one is done. </p><p>People confuse the current lack of fireworks with a lack of firepower and nothing could be further from the truth. Don&#x2019;t take Iran&#x2019;s kindness for weakness. Because Iran focuses on precision strikes, you don&#x2019;t get much sound and fury, but that all signifies nothing, as the Bard told you. Iran is making history, not news. And the historical fact is that Iran cleared every US base on day one and the Persian Gulf is now theirs to lose. That war is over. The Empire can start another one if they choose. </p><p>This sort of civilized war is hard to understand for still hypothetical Western Civilization, but it is nonetheless true. War is just killing to White people, but just war is different. The great philosopher king Ali Khamenei exhorted his troops, saying, &#x201C;<em>Go back. Give me more accuracy. What if there is an innocent person that&#x2019;s going to die?&#x201D;</em> And the Islamic Republic Guards delivered for their martyr commander. Don&#x2019;t take my word for it; listen to the fleeing White spooks. As some Washington ass told the <a href="https://archive.is/xnR2n#selection-1013.555-1013.609">Washington Wipe</a>, <em>&#x201C;The Iranian attacks were precise. There are no random craters indicating misses.&#x201D;</em></p><p>These precise craters are now facts on the ground. America&#x2019;s bases are gone forever, its fleet is scattered, its planes exposed. As Reverso Clausewitz said, politics is war by other means, and Iran has political control of the Gulf. This is precisely the power &#x2018;America&#x2019; used to have, but now Iran has UNO reversed them. Trump says he holds all the cards, but he&#x2019;s got the game all wrong.</p><p>Again, if the White Empire wants to take back the Persian Gulf, they have to go to war again. What the Ramadan War established, they will have to unestablish. The Empire can blockade the blockade, but they cannot command the Strait. Their great fleet has been reduced to petty piracy, hiding and hijacking ships now and then. The Resistance won the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, and the White Empire are just being sore losers, doing donuts in the Indian Ocean. This is lost in the news cycle, but don&#x2019;t worry, it&#x2019;ll be written in the history. That&#x2019;s precisely what I&#x2019;m doing.  </p><p><strong>If Iran sunk 100 ships a day that&#x2019;d be news, but when 100 ships slink away, that&#x2019;s merely history.</strong> As Master Sun said, <em>&#x201C;winning a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the best possible outcome. Best is to subdue the enemy&#x2019;s troops without ever engaging them on the battlefield.&#x201D;</em> Iran has subdued the sub-dudes while barely engaging them. </p><p>When &#x2018;America&#x2019; tried starting something on May 31st, Iran rapidly re-trained them. An American and British soldier (same thing, White Empire) were killed in &#x2018;training accidents&#x2019;. The White Empire dishonors its dead like this, but this belies the greater lesson taught by greater powers. In short, the White Empire is doing what White people always do. Lying. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-gallery-card kg-width-wide kg-card-hascaption"><div class="kg-gallery-container"><div class="kg-gallery-row"><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/image-3.png" width="544" height="680" loading="lazy" alt="The Battle Of Hormuz Is Over. Iran Won"></div><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/image-2.png" width="1200" height="675" loading="lazy" alt="The Battle Of Hormuz Is Over. Iran Won" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/06/image-2.png 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/06/image-2.png 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/image-2.png 1200w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div></div></div><figcaption><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">These men were war criminals, and they died like criminals. A bunch of child-killers working for pedophiles. Goddamn them for their service</span></p></figcaption></figure><p>I repeat what they try to white out, that Iran has taken the Persian Gulf from the White Empire, a historic <em>rout</em>. All their base are belong to us. Bahrain, Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait, all the apo/states. These bases are all unusable now, even if they&#x2019;re still using them. The skeleton crews left can get turned to skeletons whenever Iran feels like it. This is strategic defeat, and all the White soldiers can do is take a tactical dump in their pants on the way out. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-width-wide kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/image-4.png" class="kg-image" alt="The Battle Of Hormuz Is Over. Iran Won" loading="lazy" width="1920" height="1280" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/06/image-4.png 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/06/image-4.png 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/06/image-4.png 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/06/image-4.png 1920w" sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 1200px"><figcaption><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Ramadan weather forecast in Iran</span></figcaption></figure><p>The markets haven&#x2019;t priced this in only because the markets are completely fraudulent. We&#x2019;re in South Sea Bubble territory, a bunch of White people pretending to control oceans that don&#x2019;t belong to them. Asking these markets about the real world is like asking a degenerate gambler the weather. What do they know? They never set foot outside the casino. But reality has the last word, eventually. As Allah Themself said, <em>&#x201C;They are planning a scheme, and so am I: so bear with those who deny the truth, and let them be for a little while.&#x201D;</em></p><p>It&#x2019;s taking a while for base reality to sink in, that all the evil bases have been blown to the wind, but the Al-Aqsa Flood is only rising. The White Empire has lost the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. The White Fleet is fleeing, and Donald Trump is merely flinging bath toys around a circling drain. History is written by the victors, and the &#x2018;Americans&#x2019; are just sore losers. The Battle of Hormuz is over. Iran won, first round TKO.</p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hezbollah’s Greatest Hits]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bonus track: the Hezbollah Orchestra]]></description><link>https://indi.ca/hezbollahs-greatest-hits/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a17e5b4b5412100011ef5fd</guid><category><![CDATA[Hezbollah]]></category><category><![CDATA[War]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[indi.ca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 11:56:47 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-10.23.50-1.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-width-wide kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-10.19.22.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="Hezbollah&#x2019;s Greatest Hits" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1119" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-10.19.22.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-10.19.22.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-10.19.22.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w2400/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-10.19.22.jpg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 1200px"><figcaption><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Hezbollah Orchestra, producing the hardest image in the history of orchestras via drone footage (foreshadowing)</span></figcaption></figure><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-10.23.50-1.jpg" alt="Hezbollah&#x2019;s Greatest Hits"><p>Hezbollah&#x2019;s reunion tour of south Lebanon has been delivering hit after hit. <a href="https://x.com/r_burgundy/status/2059460510848844195">Ron Burgundy</a> has compiled about 1.5 months worth of them, albeit sans the usual music. We&#x2019;ll get to that at the end, when you can meet the Hezbollah orchestral unit.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular" data-kg-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/media/2026/05/Ron-Burgundy---I-compiled-every-confirmed-Hezbollah-FPV-drone-strike----from-the-past-...--2059457024870502402-_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail>
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        </figure><p>What you can see in this highlight reel is &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; reeling. While Lebanon is being savaged civilianly, &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; is being dismantled militarily. You can first-person view hits on A) Merkava tanks ($5m), B) Namer troop transports ($5m), C) command-and-control jeeps and hummers ($300k), and D) D9 bulldozers ($3m). </p><p>You can also see multiple casualties, including the commander of the 401st Brigade (the murderers of Hind Rajab), hit <em>inside</em> a house with his skeleton crew (0:34). You see dudes jumping off tanks, into buildings, or just falling over in confusion. But don&#x2019;t worry, it&#x2019;s not gory. You&#x2019;ll also witness the unfitness of multiple air defense batteries, leaving the Iron Dome lonely.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xtlt_uAdYI">Jon Elmer of Electronic Intifada</a> has the best analysis (in English) which I&#x2019;ve regurgitated before (<a href="https://indi.ca/all-riot-on-the-northern-front/" rel="noreferrer"><em>All Riot On The Northern Front</em></a>). Please take him as an authority and me as color commentary. Suffice it to say, FPV (first-person view) drones have been a force and <em>fear</em> multiplier for Hezbollah. They amplify Hezbollah&#x2019;s conventional arms and turn &#x2018;Israelis&#x2019; into asses and elbows (what you see when they&#x2019;re running). </p><figure class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular kg-card-hascaption" data-kg-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/media/2026/05/Jon-Elmer---..-the-beginning-of-the-video-shows-the-fibre-optic-spool-on-the-FPV-...--2059383749431721984-_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail>
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            <figcaption><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">An excerpt of a longer video. The sign says, Dedicated to the dear people of Iran for your constant support</span></p></figcaption>
        </figure><p>As you can see in this short clip&#x2014;the first frame of which shows someone missing fingers from the pager attacks&#x2014;FPVs are relatively simple to assemble, though the devil is in the details.  </p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-09.22.56.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="Hezbollah&#x2019;s Greatest Hits" loading="lazy" width="1974" height="996" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-09.22.56.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-09.22.56.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-09.22.56.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-09.22.56.jpg 1974w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><p>The carbon fiber frame you&#x2019;re looking at must cost about a lakh on AliExpress, so roughly $300, without batteries. Add batteries, fiber-optic spool, and a $350 munition (RPG-7, say), and you&#x2019;re looking at maybe $1000. This tool can then blow up multiples of that in men and mat&#xE9;riel. They&#x2019;re spending Ks to burn Ms. Whatever the numerator is, the common denominator is that expensive mat&#xE9;riel is getting whacked, and the asthmatic Sardaukar are having panic attacks. </p><p>I&#x2019;ve watched Hezbollah flying these drones from the beginning, and they&#x2019;re not a <em>wunderwaffen</em>; a lot of skill is needed. At the beginning the pilots were obviously not very good at this, especially compared to those in the Russo-Ukrainian War, but they&#x2019;ve visibly leveled up now. Hezbollah is also using drones as part of combined warfare, as an <a href="https://indi.ca/all-riot-on-the-northern-front/">Iranian think tank discusses in detail</a>. At the most basic level, there&#x2019;s a lot of intelligence work involved in selecting targets and coordinating swarms. You can see Hezbollah&#x2019;s sophistication from the LOW BATTERY alerts on many videos. They&#x2019;re carrying <em>just</em> enough battery packs for the objective and no more. </p><p>Tactically, Hezbollah has <em>immediately</em> adapted the lessons of Ukraine, using fiber optics to avoid jamming. They have also innovated by putting relatively giant anti-tank munitions on these things, making them very damaging. Fiber optics give them immediate and fine-grained control, and the giant anti-tank shells can pierce thick armor. These drones fly too slow to trigger air defenses (like the Trophy system) and can target weak points in armor. &#x2018;Israelis&#x2019; have resorted to fishing nets like they have in Ukraine, but they don&#x2019;t have nearly enough, and Hezb just flies under them. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular kg-card-hascaption" data-kg-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/media/2026/05/Drop-Site--------Hezbollah-released-high-quality-footage-showing-an----Ababil----FPV-sui...--2059394224441704448-_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-11.45.35.jpg">
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            <figcaption><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The full video from above, where they smoke a Humvee full of invaders</span></p></figcaption>
        </figure><p>As you can see (in the extended version of the video above), these drones are causing <em>chaos</em> in the ranks. Here the drone casually chases down a jeep full of IOF and they&#x2014;instead of shooting at the drone&#x2014;just run away from each other, and can&#x2019;t. &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; is only reporting about a dozen casualties over the past few months, but I&#x2019;ve personally seen multiples of that. And &#x2018;Israelis&#x2019; have Telegram, they are not unaware of these facts.</p><p><strong>You and I are watching these videos, which means that the &#x2018;Israelis&#x2019; are too; they are really the <em>target</em> of this psychological warfare. Now the IOF is crowdfunding fishing nets as protection; they are literally on the ropes.</strong> What they call &#x2018;air hammers&#x2019; make the IOF, in their own words, &#x2018;duck and pray.&#x2019; </p><p>FPV drones enable the <em>third-person view</em> of propaganda footage, something that Hezbollah used to require a separate (also exposed!) team to do. I see these videos all the time, and they&#x2019;re all over the Arab channels, but that&#x2019;s not the target audience. It&#x2019;s &#x2018;Israeli&#x2019; minds getting blown. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-11.21.27.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="Hezbollah&#x2019;s Greatest Hits" loading="lazy" width="1996" height="1338" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-11.21.27.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-11.21.27.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-11.21.27.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-11.21.27.jpg 1996w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A sign Hezbollah made as part of the psych-war</span></figcaption></figure><p>Remember that Hezb already had conventional Anti-Access/Area Denial&#xA0;(A2/AD) capabilities with Kornet anti-tank missiles and on-the-ground intelligence. I&#x2019;ve published many videos of that, though often weeks or months after the fact. Now we get close-ups on a daily basis, sometimes with a flyby to confirm damage after. Hezbollah&#x2019;s conventional arms and footage&#x2014;already formidable&#x2014;have been multiplied by FPV drones that perform surveillance, attack, and propaganda purposes in one package.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular" data-kg-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/media/2026/05/Jon-Elmer---Hezbollah-vs-IDF-in-Haddatha----Fighters-with-SVDs--PKMs--RPGs---IEDs-v...--2060191141459316740-_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail>
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        </figure><p>You can see their conventional capabilities here, in the Battle of Haddatha on the 19/20th May. As Jon Elmer reports, you can see <em>&#x201C;Fighters with SVDs, PKMs, RPGs + IEDs vs IDF advance on 19/20 May; 1) IDF remotely-operated M113 unloads explosives; 2) IEDs set; 3) PM firefight, IEDs, artillery vs IDF with air support; 4) AM shows burning IDF APC and abandoned D9.&#x201D;</em></p><p>What this means is SVDs and PKMs are Soviet rifles and machine guns, respectively; rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs, possibly something like a 93mm Soviet PG-7VL), and improvised-explosive devices (IEDs), which could even be anything. The &#x2018;Israelis&#x2019; are fundamentally cowards and try to advance with robots (M113), get blown up with IEDs, end up in a firefight anyways, and run away. Then you see sons of the soil standing with the D9 bulldozers meant to uproot them. Not today colonizer, not today.</p><p>I include this video because it&#x2019;s <em>not</em> an FPV attack. Instead you see men in the field, wielding sniper rifles and ultimately clashing steel on steel. Hezbollah has been doing this for decades, and FPVs multiply these capabilities; they don&#x2019;t reveal them. I say all this to lean away from technological determinism, the idea that drones change everything. I suppose they do change everything, but <em>everything</em> is doing a lot of work here. </p><p>More than technological determinism, the point is that Hezbollah is jsust <em>determined. </em>They&#x2019;ll liberate their people <em>by whatever means necessary</em>, as Malcolm X said. Or as that counter-revolutionary John Lennon said, <em>&#x201C;I&#x2019;m an artist, and if you give me a tuba, I&#x2019;ll bring you something out of it.&#x201D;</em> Hezbollah actually has a tuba player, and he too is blasting. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-10.18.01.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="Hezbollah&#x2019;s Greatest Hits" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1124" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-10.18.01.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-10.18.01.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-10.18.01.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w2400/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-10.18.01.jpg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Hezbollah actually has a tuba player. Revolution can, in fact, come out of a tuba given the right hands</span></figcaption></figure><h3 id="broad-historical-conclusion">Broad Historical Conclusion</h3><p>I have discussed Iran&#x2019;s <a href="https://indi.ca/irans-islam-art-of-war/" rel="noreferrer">Islamic Art of War</a> and the <a href="https://indi.ca/iran-and-the-tunnel-missile-war-part-2/" rel="noreferrer">paradigm shift into tunnel/drone warfare</a> that makes riding tanks and aircraft this century look like riding a horse into WWII. But if we zoom out even further, the big point is not technological change but <em>regression to the mean</em>. Historically, invading and attacking places was painful and costly, and Iran, Palestine, and Lebanon are re-establishing the natural primacy of defensive weapons. </p><p>War, historically, is a constant battle between sword and shield, where one momentarily slips ahead. After 500 years of the offensive White Empire invading and crusading wherever it pleased, things are finally regressing to the mean. Where offense becomes a pain in the ass, and defense becomes feasible.</p><p>To zoom back to World War II, <em>because that&#x2019;s still the historical frame we&#x2019;re in</em>, &#x2018;after&#x2019; World War II, &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; got to use those world war tools on unrelated and unprepared Semitic people. Understand that &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; is not a real country; <a href="https://indi.ca/israel-is-the-last-jewish-ghetto/" rel="noreferrer">it&#x2019;s just the last Jewish ghetto</a>, as far from Europe as the Europeans could push them. The Jews were deported from Europe and corrupted with their own mythology (classic British trick) and encouraged to redirect their Holocaust&#xA9; trauma against actual Semitic peoples. The White Empire killed two birds with one stone, they got Jews to self-deport and serve as stormtroopers near the oil. I say this not to absolve the Jews&#x2014;they are effectively a death cult now&#x2014;but to damn the whole crew.</p><p>It&#x2019;s all one White Empire and &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; cannot survive for a second without White weapons. However, it&#x2019;s been a minute, and those weapons are <em>outdated, </em>the Jewish victim card is expired,<em> </em>and their corruption (corruption goes two ways) is exposed. This is not, historically, a good place for Jews, and the first-person-view shows it in 1080p. &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; is fighting the battles of last century, while the Axis of Resistance is battering them presently. The so-called terrorists are precisely targeting military vehicles, and the so-called military can only do luxury terrorism. </p><p>Like the <a href="https://indi.ca/oil-markets-are-about-to-get-mugged-by-reality/" rel="noreferrer">rising oil prices</a> and the <a href="https://indi.ca/the-ai-bubble/" rel="noreferrer">AI bubble</a> and the <a href="https://indi.ca/the-watermelon-economy/" rel="noreferrer">everything bubble</a>, they can lie a little longer, but they&#x2019;ve made their bed and eventually will have to lie in it. The White media is obviously still Jewish-controlled, and stovepipes like Axios can still move markets, but this control <em>doesn&#x2019;t work so well when it&#x2019;s obvious</em>. It&#x2019;s like that moment in <em>Inception</em> when the dreamers notice that someone is trespassing on their dream and get pissed off. The wolf that cried antisemite is being smited by actual Semites, and nobody feels bad for them now. </p><p>But this isn&#x2019;t about the Jews, who in my opinion are being used (not an excuse), nor is it about the White Empire which is used up (also not an excuse). These sorry excuses for humanity are no longer the <a href="https://indi.ca/how-iran-is-changing-the-subject-of-history/" rel="noreferrer">subjects of history</a>. As they lose the plot, history is being rewritten without them. As the martyr leader of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said (in 1986!), <em>&#x201C;Experience has shown us that red blood is capable of obliterating red lines, and if the nation chooses to follow this path, Israel and America will find that they are incapable of changing anything in the equation.&#x201D;</em> So it goes with $1,000 drones against $1,000,000 weapons systems. Blown away like the spider&#x2019;s web Nasrallah always said it was. </p><p>So I leave you not with hope that the Empire is losing, but that the Resistance is winning. And on that note, here&#x2019;s the Hezbollah band to play us out. Ron Burgundy did great work by editing Hezbollah&#x2019;s greatest hits together, but changed the usual soundtrack to something classical. But Hezbollah doesn&#x2019;t lack on that front either. Here they are performing on a mountaintop, along with another montage of oldies but goodies. This video alone is a bonkers feat of organization (how do you get tuba up mountain when they&#x2019;re trying to kill you?). 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        </figure>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Storm Drains Of Colombo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Urbanature]]></description><link>https://indi.ca/the-storm-drains-of-colombo/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a168b113bd9e300011edb95</guid><category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colombo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[indi.ca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 05:13:18 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/kbg-1.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-width-wide kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/IMG_20260507_091003_1.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="The Storm Drains Of Colombo" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1500" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/IMG_20260507_091003_1.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/IMG_20260507_091003_1.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/IMG_20260507_091003_1.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w2400/2026/05/IMG_20260507_091003_1.jpg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 1200px"><figcaption><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A kabaragoya, or land monitor. Basically a mini Komodo dragon. Sometimes not so mini</span></figcaption></figure><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/kbg-1.jpg" alt="The Storm Drains Of Colombo"><p>Sri Lanka has less fuel, which makes me realize what a fool I&#x2019;ve been. I used to drive 5 km in a car to walk 5 km on a treadmill, which, in hindsight, was obscene. Now I just walk to a gym 5,000 steps away, killing two birds with one stone in that now I can also go birding. And lizarding. And also, sadly, garbaging. I walk along the storm drains of Colombo, which are their own ecosystem. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/IMG_20260521_080217.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="The Storm Drains Of Colombo" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="2666" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/IMG_20260521_080217.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/IMG_20260521_080217.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/IMG_20260521_080217.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w2400/2026/05/IMG_20260521_080217.jpg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><p>Colombo has a network of canals stretching north and south out of Colombo. From what I&#x2019;ve heard and badly remembered, my grandfather used to load logs with elephants near Kalutara and float them up to, I assume, Moratuwa. I&#x2019;ve looked on a map, and you can transit Colombo just on the inland waterways, though at some points you&#x2019;re just going through gutters. This canal network still exists, though it&#x2019;s only used by lizards for transport. For humans it&#x2019;s drainage and, sadly, refuse.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-width-wide"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/IMG_20260507_075744.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="The Storm Drains Of Colombo" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="2667" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/IMG_20260507_075744.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/IMG_20260507_075744.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/IMG_20260507_075744.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w2400/2026/05/IMG_20260507_075744.jpg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 1200px"></figure><p>I have taken pictures, but the water isn&#x2019;t picturesque. I&#x2019;m hiding the plastic waste and the stinky sludginess. If you look closely, you can see the problem, though I try not to. I mostly look for animals, of which there are plenty. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-width-wide"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/IMG_20260519_085959.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="The Storm Drains Of Colombo" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1500" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/IMG_20260519_085959.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/IMG_20260519_085959.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/IMG_20260519_085959.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w2400/2026/05/IMG_20260519_085959.jpg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 1200px"></figure><p>One of my favorite creatures is the <em>kabaragoya</em>, or water monitor. There are two types of monitor: the land monitor is not dangerous and supposedly edible, while the water monitor is dangerous if you ever mess with them. One got into my house once (long story) and I just left. I just sat on the other side of the road until they wandered out by themselves. These are magnificent creatures but not to be messed with.</p><p><em>Kabaragoyas</em> love the gutter and are plentiful in the canal system. The canals are their highway, along with the crocodiles. I usually see one or the other every day, and the <em>kabaragoyas</em> directly cross my path. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-width-wide"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/IMG_20260521_092529.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="The Storm Drains Of Colombo" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1501" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/IMG_20260521_092529.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/IMG_20260521_092529.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/IMG_20260521_092529.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w2400/2026/05/IMG_20260521_092529.jpg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 1200px"></figure><p>Colombo is also a paradise for birders and birds, I get the order mixed up in my human supremacism. The city is the most urban part of Sri Lanka but it&#x2019;s barely urbanized; if you go just off the main road you can be right back in the jungle. The land is fundamentally a wetland, and if we ever try to build too much, the whole place floods to bring the wet back again. Birds thrive in this environment, eating fish and whatever else they&#x2019;re doing. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-gallery-card kg-width-wide kg-card-hascaption"><div class="kg-gallery-container"><div class="kg-gallery-row"><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/IMG_20260428_074133.jpg" width="2000" height="2667" loading="lazy" alt="The Storm Drains Of Colombo" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/IMG_20260428_074133.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/IMG_20260428_074133.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/IMG_20260428_074133.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w2400/2026/05/IMG_20260428_074133.jpg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/IMG_20260511_081220.jpg" width="2000" height="1500" loading="lazy" alt="The Storm Drains Of Colombo" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/IMG_20260511_081220.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/IMG_20260511_081220.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/IMG_20260511_081220.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w2400/2026/05/IMG_20260511_081220.jpg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div></div></div><figcaption><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The painted stork</span></p></figcaption></figure><p>One of my favorite birds is the painted stork, with its beautiful pink paint job. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-gallery-card kg-width-wide"><div class="kg-gallery-container"><div class="kg-gallery-row"><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/IMG_20260429_090725.jpg" width="2000" height="2667" loading="lazy" alt="The Storm Drains Of Colombo" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/IMG_20260429_090725.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/IMG_20260429_090725.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/IMG_20260429_090725.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w2400/2026/05/IMG_20260429_090725.jpg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/IMG_20260521_075959.jpg" width="2000" height="1500" loading="lazy" alt="The Storm Drains Of Colombo" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/IMG_20260521_075959.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/IMG_20260521_075959.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/IMG_20260521_075959.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w2400/2026/05/IMG_20260521_075959.jpg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div></div></div></figure><p>Or the purple coots (swamphens), with their beautiful blue feathers, that seem to flock together. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-gallery-card kg-width-wide"><div class="kg-gallery-container"><div class="kg-gallery-row"><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/IMG_20260527_150954_1.jpg" width="2000" height="2667" loading="lazy" alt="The Storm Drains Of Colombo" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/IMG_20260527_150954_1.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/IMG_20260527_150954_1.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/IMG_20260527_150954_1.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w2400/2026/05/IMG_20260527_150954_1.jpg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/IMG_20260527_150916.jpg" width="2000" height="2666" loading="lazy" alt="The Storm Drains Of Colombo" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/IMG_20260527_150916.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/IMG_20260527_150916.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/IMG_20260527_150916.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w2400/2026/05/IMG_20260527_150916.jpg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div></div></div></figure><p>And the magnificent, regal pelican, which likes to perch on top of lampposts, surveying everything. You see them atop the highway, like kings of the road. </p><p>Colombo is a place where man has given little thought to nature, but where nature also gives little thought to man. No matter how much we urbanize, the jungle keeps jungling. </p><p><em>Bonus picture of a katussa for paying subscribers.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Israel’ Is The Last Jewish Ghetto]]></title><description><![CDATA[They got the Jews as far from Europe as they could]]></description><link>https://indi.ca/israel-is-the-last-jewish-ghetto/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0eddf71f980b00013eb432</guid><category><![CDATA[History]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[indi.ca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 07:02:44 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-22-at-10.44.23-1-1.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-22-at-10.44.23.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="&#x2018;Israel&#x2019; Is The Last Jewish Ghetto" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1785" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-22-at-10.44.23.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-22-at-10.44.23.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-22-at-10.44.23.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w2400/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-22-at-10.44.23.jpg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">All the places that participated in Eurovision (before Russia got kicked out). You can see the Jewish ghetto on the fringes. What is Australia doing there lol. </span></figcaption></figure><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-22-at-10.44.23-1-1.jpg" alt="&#x2018;Israel&#x2019; Is The Last Jewish Ghetto"><p>&#x2018;Israel&#x2019; is the last ghetto Europeans deported their Jews too. They got them as far from Europe as they could, and all their &#x2018;support&#x2019; for &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; doesn&#x2019;t extend to giving the property back they took. No, &#x2018;after&#x2019; World War II, the Whites dusted off the Nazi/Zionist Haavara Plan and deported the Jews out of Europe entirely. </p><p>This is the most &#x2018;antisemitic&#x2019; idea imaginable (<em>go back to where you came from!</em>) but if you complain you get called &#x2018;antisemitic&#x2019; now. While the Jews slaughter actual Semitic peoples in front of you. Like everything else in the White Empire, they massacre language and logic first. </p><p>But just look at it on a map, if you dare. &#x2018;After&#x2019; World War II, were Jews given their land back in Europe? No, they&#x2019;re not there. Like Frankfurt pushing their Jews across the moat, Europeans pushed their Jews across the Mediterranean by boat. You can see &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; at the very edges of the &#x2018;Eurovision&#x2019;, where Europeans don&#x2019;t really have to see them (except during that dreadful song competition). </p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/image-17-1.png" class="kg-image" alt="&#x2018;Israel&#x2019; Is The Last Jewish Ghetto" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1500" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/image-17-1.png 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/image-17-1.png 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/image-17-1.png 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/image-17-1.png 2016w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Frankfurt Judengasse in 1628, after the city expanded past the moat (moat highlighted).</span></figcaption></figure><p>Compare this to a map of Frankfurt in 1458, where you can see the same phenomenon in microcosm. Frederick III pushed the Jews outside the city moat into a narrow <em>Judengasse</em>. Within this ghetto, Jews could govern themselves (just as &#x2018;Israelis&#x2019; can now), but they still depended on imperial protection (just as &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; does). Jews were eventually given permission to build on the other side of the moat, until they were pushed completely out, across the Mediterranean Sea into &#x2018;Israel&#x2019;. I put it in quotes because this was not the promised land, Eretz Israel, which only the messiah can command. No, this Ersatz Israel was just another ghetto, a poisoned deal with the White Devils, now reaching its 80-year foreclosure.</p><p>You can bring all the Biblical stuff into it, and the fact that Zionist really believe in this &#x2018;Israel&#x2019;, but Zionism was a fringe belief at the time. It&#x2019;s only recently that the death cult has corrupted the entire religion. Some Torah Jews still shout about the fact that Palestine was created not by the messiah but by the British incarnation of White Empire, which is as close to Satan as you get. Britain, much more than functionally illiterate &#x2018;America&#x2019;, specialized in bamboozling the natives using their own mythology. </p><p>As the ersatz &#x2018;Israeli&#x2019; Yuval Noah Hariri said in his execrable book <em>Sapiens</em>, <em>&#x201C;The European conquerors knew their empires very well. Far better, indeed, than any previous conquerors, or even than the native population itself.&#x201D;</em> In his Jewish supremacy, Hariri couldn&#x2019;t see that &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; itself was conquered territory, not by the Jews, but by the Europeans, and used to deport Jews <em>to</em>. </p><p>The Jews actually think they&#x2019;ve joined the White club now, <em>but they haven&#x2019;t</em>. They&#x2019;re still in the ghetto, serving as kapos over the real semites, slowly discovering that they lack the final, most vital White privilege, committing a genocide and getting away with it. </p><p>&#x2018;Israel&#x2019; was thus the <em>post</em> war act of pushing European Jews almost completely out of Europe, using the fringe belief of Zionism as a carrot and Hitler as a stick. But Hitler was kindling at this point, Jews could have (and should have) been given their European homes back and reparations, or encouraged to join relatives in &#x2018;America&#x2019; at the least. But that didn&#x2019;t happen. Which tells you what really happened. The Jews were not supported. They were deported instead. </p><h2 id="ghetto-fabulous">Ghetto Fabulous</h2><p>This much was obvious to many of the Jewish refugees landing in occupied Palestine. As David Nasby said in <em>The Last Million, </em>&#x201C;<em>For many of the Jewish displaced persons who immigrated to Israel, the exhilaration of leaving Germany and arriving in their new homes was followed rather quickly by disappointment, approaching desperation. They had miraculously survived one war in Europe. They were now entering another war zone.&#x201D;</em></p><p>This ghettoization seems less obvious now that &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; is relatively rich, but they&#x2019;re just ghetto fabulous. The constant shooting has <em>never</em> stopped, and Jews are increasingly ostracized from the White spaces they crave inclusion in. In sports, music, and commerce they face increasing boycotts and open derision. Not because of &#x2018;antisemitism&#x2019;, but because of what they&#x2019;ve actually done to actual Semites. &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; is thus an increasingly distant ghetto to Europe and an absolutely hated (albeit rich) ghetto wedged into West Asia.</p><p>It also seems less obvious that &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; is a ghetto if you see all the rich Jews, but ghettos have rich people too! These are in fact the most conspicious rich people, which can skew your view. The Jewish ghettos in Europe always had rich, &#x2018;court&#x2019; Jews, many of whom rose to great power under various White princes. However, the bulk of Jews then, as now, were wedged into ghettos while a few rich Jews gallivanted around, indulging in corruption that eventually brought it all down. History rhyming, can you not hear the sound?</p><p>Like in other ghettos, many Jews moving, primarily, outside &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; have risen to great power, but ask Chinese eunuchs how such proximity to princes goes. You&#x2019;re still not whole. Again, Jews are testing if they have the ultimate White privilege&#x2014;committing genocide and getting away with it&#x2014;and <em>they don&#x2019;t</em>. &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; is not a place of their own, it has no power to stand on its own. It&#x2019;s just another ghetto. </p><p>I&#x2019;ll return to history in a way that might be repetitive, but history repeats, deal with it. I repeat the historical fact that European Jews did not get their European homes back after World War II. They were <em>kicked out </em>to clear the way for American/Nazi collaboration<em>.</em> As survivor Samuel Gringauz explained in Commentary (1948, via <em>The Last Million</em>), <em>&#x201C;Germany is to be transformed from a defeated enemy into the guardian of our European front line. The Jewish survivors in the occupied zone of Western Germany are an obstacle to this development.&#x201D;</em></p><p>The other historical fact is that World War II was <em>never</em> about the Holocaust (which killed more Slavs and communists, but nevermind that, as the White history does). &#x2018;America&#x2019; pushed boats of Jews back into the concentration camps and did not want to take in Jews after the war either. As American Senator James Eastland said (ibid), <em>&#x201C;We are getting away from American ideals when we admit to this country from eastern Europe people with an Oriental philosophy, a philosophy not compatible with that of the people of the United States.&#x201D;</em> This is literally the same logic that Hitler had for exterminating the Jews (his main enemy was communism), taken to a <em>penultimate</em> solution that the Nazis were also cool with. Deportation out of Europe.</p><p>&#x2018;Israel&#x2019; is the very racist idea that Jews should &#x2018;go back to where they came from&#x2019;. This was an idea that then fringe Zionists collaborated with Nazis on, in the Haavara Plan, as mentioned. Zionists were pulled from the fringes in order to singe an entire region and smoke the oil, or at least the spoils, out. And what happened to the Jews, in the main? They were moved from the concentration camp of the Nazis that lost to a conscript colony for the Nazis that won. If you can&#x2019;t beat &#x2018;em, join &#x2018;em, I guess. </p><p>Zionists collaborated with Whites that <em>still hated the Jews</em> and this wacky, self-reinforcing, self-deporting Jewish extremism has become mainstream now, corrupting the whole crew. Judaism is a rare religion that went from a cult to a religion and back to a cult again. Now <em>most</em> Jews think they&#x2019;re going to hurry God and bring the end times on, when God will roast the Christians. Meanwhile Christian Zionists think God will roast the Jews instead. It&#x2019;s a really perverse alliance, where each side actually wants the other dead. That&#x2019;s the eschatology of the matter, but historically, it&#x2019;s not that complicated. </p><p>The Messiah obviously isn&#x2019;t here yet, and if they were, they&#x2019;d be horrified at what the Jews are doing <em>right before</em> judgment day, when you should be on your best behavior. If you look at the mess they&#x2019;ve made, here, it&#x2019;s clear that &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; is just a ghetto to keep Jews away from White people that didn&#x2019;t like them, and at the throats of Muslims the White Empire likes even less. This obviously wasn&#x2019;t a deal with the Messiah but the Great Satan. </p><p>All the Jews have done&#x2014;and I say Jews because they&#x2019;re completely corrupted now&#x2014;is become the worst version of themselves in the European imagination, which is just normal Europeans to everybody under colonization. They thought they&#x2019;d get acceptance from White people from this, but instead they get only condemnation, for doing the same stuff Australians and Canadians did, just in the wrong century, and without enough time to get away with it. <strong>Thus the Jews find themselves in the same situation as time immemorial, a few of them collaborating with fickle princes and living royal, while the bulk are stuck in a ghetto near the oil. In this way, the Jews are screwed. They might be ghetto fabulous, but they&#x2019;re still ghetto.</strong> </p><h2 id="jacob-esau-rothschild-balfour">Jacob &amp; Esau (Rothschild &amp; Balfour)</h2><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/image-18.png" class="kg-image" alt="&#x2018;Israel&#x2019; Is The Last Jewish Ghetto" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="2632" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/image-18.png 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/image-18.png 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/image-18.png 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w2400/2026/05/image-18.png 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><p>Another clue as to the ghetto status of &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; is in its founding document. I used to wonder about the Balfour Declaration. Why was the creation of &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; declared by Britain (which didn&#x2019;t own Palestine) to Lord Rothschild (who was just a private citizen)? In ghettonomics, however, this makes sense. Rothschild was, in fact, receiving the deed for a new ghetto, evidenced by the fact that he never moved to &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; himself. </p><p>In Europe, court Jews like the Rothschilds mediated (often mendaciously) between the court and the ghetto. The court Jews got some concessions for their people, while their people took the blame for the rich Jews&#x2019; evil. The Rothschild&#x2019;s personal history is instructive here, and we can get it from a book they co-sponsored, <em>From Court Jews to the Rothschilds</em>. That book describes 1807, saying, <em>&#x201C;Salomon Rothschild came to feel the impact of the provisions of the new St&#xE4;ttigkeit, as the town council forbade him to rent an apartment for himself and his wife outside the ghetto.&#x201D; </em>As you can see, even the Rothschilds were once stuck in the Frankfurt ghetto themselves. But not since.</p><p>The European Rothschilds had a &#x2018;meteoric rise&#x2019; and then, from the outside, never stopped <em>&#x201C;using their influence to act as champions for the Emancipation of the Jews in those countries in which they themselves lived.&#x201D;</em> But you can see the problem with Lord (Lionel Walter) Rothschild little deal here, because he himself lived and died in England. So what exactly was he championing in &#x2018;Israel&#x2019;? It wasn&#x2019;t a &#x2018;country in which he himself lived.&#x2019; The Rothchilds remained, almost to a man (minus Bethsab&#xE9;e de Rothschild) in Europe or America. So what had Lord Rothschild won? Just a further deportation of the Jews, from across the moat of Frankfurt to across the entire Mediterranean. Where he did not follow them.</p><p>Today the surviving French and British branches of the Rothschilds live, primarily, inside the core White Empire, not the &#x2018;Israeli&#x2019; ghetto on its fringes. They are &#x2018;the known benefactors&#x2019; of &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; but they don&#x2019;t stay there, because &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; is a ghetto and the Rothschilds are rich Jews, <em>in that order</em>. What Lord Rothschild, fencing stolen goods, accomplished was not &#x201C;<em>the Emancipation of the Jews in those countries in which they themselves lived,&#x201D;</em> but ghettoization somewhere new, disguised as somewhere old for fundamentalist rubes.</p><p><strong>This is an age-old story, elite Jews serving European princes as courtiers (corrupting them quite consensually) while the Jewish masses live in a ghetto themselves (bearing the consequences). </strong>Jewish rabbis likened the relationship (between Jews and Christians) to that between the biblical Jacob &amp; Esau. As the book of the same name by Malachi Haim Hacohen tells the tale,</p><blockquote>With the help of his mother, Rebecca, he deceived his father, Isaac, by wearing Esau&#x2019;s clothes and received the firstborn&#x2019;s blessing. A furious Esau conspired to kill him, and Jacob escaped abroad, returning, after two decades, wealthy and mature, and with a large family. He feared that Esau would still seek revenge and decimate his family, but when they met, they fell on each other&#x2019;s shoulders and cried. The Genesis story ends in reconciliation.</blockquote><p>This story intersects with Christianity in the sayings, <em>&#x201C;the elder shall serve the younger&#x201D; (Genesis 25:23). [And that] &#x201C;The older people of the Jews,&#x201D; said Augustine,&#x201C;was destined to serve the younger people, the Christians,&#x201D;</em> (ibid). The point is that this a tale as old as time, this abusive relationship between Europeans and Jews. And the story doesn&#x2019;t end in reconcilation like the Biblical version, but repetition.</p><p>Jews are constantly &#x2018;dressing up&#x2019; as White men, getting chased out, taken back because (some of them) are prosperous, and then starting the cycle all over again. This has happened all over the fake continent of Europe and now it happens globally via the fake country of &#x2018;Israel&#x2019;. </p><p>The bulk of Jews are isolated in &#x2018;Israel&#x2019;, in constant danger, while their elites move across the imperial courts, doing well. In this way, some Jews can rise to great power but they do not <em>have</em> power. &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; is not their country, won by their own arms and held by their own diplomatic charms (lol). No, &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; is ghetto of the White Empire, protected from the furious masses surrounding them by imperial force, only sold to imperial dumbasses through massive propaganda and now censorship, and only held in place by imperial diktat, overriding all &#x2018;international&#x2019; institutions.</p><p>People say Jews run the Empire, and it certainly looks like it, but war is the art of deception, as Master Sun said, and this is an old trick. Again, ask the Chinese Eunuchs or any class placed in front of the emperor to take the heat. The very fact that we <em>see</em> Jews out in front of every evil and horrific imperial decision protects the Whites (just soulless stand-ins for Capital) equally in on it. This is an old European trick, such that when Selma Stern describes it historically (in <em>The Court Jew</em>) she&#x2019;s really describing the current predicament. Stern said,</p><blockquote><strong>The masses knew little about the intrigues, hatreds, setbacks and discouragements to which the war contractor was subjected. They saw only despised Jews, who only a short time before had been expelled from the country, now returning as distinguished gentlemen</strong>, speaking the language of the country, wearing the clothes of the time, dealing with ministers, politicians and generals, living in beautiful homes in which they imagined there must be fabulous treasures. <strong>They themselves were burdened with heavy taxes and duties, their business had declined to the vanishing point, their fields lay waste</strong>, their houses had been destroyed by the weapons of the enemy, their soldiers suffered hunger and cold, went without uniforms and were seldom paid.</blockquote><p>Can you not see it happening this way? The dumbasses in the imperial core know little about the intrigues involving a disproportionate amount of Jews, but also a bunch of White people as well, as well as &#x2018;colored&#x2019; people applying whitening cream. All they see is their costs going up, their businesses shuttering, and the soldiers eating shoe leather, dying for their Jew betters. Meanwhile they see Jews crying wolf on the news about &#x2018;antisemitism&#x2019;, openly calling for genocide and the right to rape in &#x2018;Israel&#x2019;, and openly committing every atrocity they were every accused of, like corrupting governments and raping children. It&#x2019;s not a conspiracy theory if it&#x2019;s in front of you and proven, is it? </p><p>Jews are just a part of the problem (the whole White Empire is rotten), but they&#x2019;re a big part of the problem, and now the most prominent. This is not, historically, a good place for Jews to be, in between corrupt princes and angry masses as the visible face of corruption. But those that don&#x2019;t learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and so here we go again, with the ghetto a flight away from Europe instead of walking distance. </p><h2 id="the-jewish-problems">The Jewish Problems</h2><p><em>Do you want to read more? This is long enough already, but if you want a few more sources and a bit more discourses, please pay me. I am just an Internet beggar, with hat at the ready. </em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Watermelon Economy]]></title><description><![CDATA[How 2008, COVID, Ukraine, Palestine, and Hormuz create immense pressure that’s going to pop]]></description><link>https://indi.ca/the-watermelon-economy/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0c0b64e49d1200012c55fa</guid><category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Collapse]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[indi.ca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 10:50:02 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/watermelon-dudes-1.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-19-at-12.40.06.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="The Watermelon Economy" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1125" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-19-at-12.40.06.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-19-at-12.40.06.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-19-at-12.40.06.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w2400/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-19-at-12.40.06.jpg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The slow-mo guys blowing a watermelon up</span></figcaption></figure><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/watermelon-dudes-1.jpg" alt="The Watermelon Economy"><p>You can keep putting rubber bands on a watermelon for a long time before it explodes. But then it explodes, this is known. So it is with the imperial economy, now strung taut with Palestine at the center of it, about to blow. </p><p>The White Empire hasn&#x2019;t learned anything from all its crashes before, hence the big one, <em>inshallah</em>. As <a href="https://youtu.be/IAqAl292ozs?si=eHBbVn1XvG2Rhivb&amp;t=216">John Tuld</a> (not a real person) said, <em>&#x201C;1637, [1720], 1797, 1819, &#x2018;37, &#x2018;57,&#x2018;84, 1901, &#x2018;07, 1929, &#x2018;37, &#x2018;73, 1987, 92, 97, 2000, and whatever we want to call this [2008]. It&#x2019;s all just the same thing, over and over. We just can&#x2019;t help ourselves.&#x201D;</em> Of course, they do help themselves, and the crashes fall on someone else. They&#x2019;ve gotten away with it so many times before. What&#x2019;s one more?</p><p>The first (not the first) rubber band they strapped on the globe was 2008, when the US economy actually crashed, but they bailed out the banks to literally paper things over. This was a band-aid on a bullet wound, but the zombie economy lumbered on, eating brains with Grey Poupon. </p><p>Then next rubber band was COVID-19, a mass-death, mass-disabling event that&#x2019;s been memory-holed, but which still kills people and still exerts pressure across households. But let&#x2019;s ignore that, like Pharoah ignored plagues before.</p><p>Then they strapped a band across Asia, dividing the racist concept &#x2018;Europe&#x2019; from the continent it&#x2019;s actually on. The Ukraine War literally blew up Germany&#x2019;s economy and increased energy and fertilizer pressure everywhere, while making bands for the corrupt military-industrial complex. And that&#x2019;s just there now, a pressure point everyone forgot about because of more piled on top.</p><p>Then we had the (accelerated) genocide of Gaza leading to the closing of the Red Sea, then the aggression against Iran leading to the closing of the Strait of Hormuz. The former stopped but the latter continues, drawing a band across the Middle East that may just be the one that make the watermelon explode.</p><p>Look across the globe and it&#x2019;s covered with rubber bands, each asserting a pressure that only builds up. There&#x2019;s one band going through Ukraine, one through the Gulf. There&#x2019;s hundreds of little bands called tariffs, criss-crossing every country on Earth. Trump even tried to go <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDddlvCfTiw">BAND4BAND</a> with China before withdrawing into a stalemate that&#x2019;s only good in that it could be worse. This is all pressure, and it all adds up. </p><p>The pressure is building and building and building and markets are not pricing this in, they&#x2019;re colluding against reality to make a fast buck in the virtual world. Speaking of, the decadent West has tried to cover up the death of its real economy in 2008 with various artificial scams, first crypto, then VR, before AI finally stuck. Now their whole economy depends on a multi-level marketing scheme, NVIDIA selling chips to Microsoft which rents them to OpenAI which sells compute to Microsoft with funding from NVIDIA. Does this make sense? No. But it makes dollars, so the scam goes on. But for how long?</p><p>What&#x2019;s at the bottom of this multi-level marketing scheme? <em>Energy</em>. All of these data centers delivering nil or negative productivity use hideous amounts of energy, and where does that come from? Oh, Hormuz, which is banned to the Empire now. It doesn&#x2019;t matter if &#x2018;America&#x2019; has its own energy supplies, its oil companies are &#x2018;American&#x2019; in name only and will sell to the highest buyer. And when energy prices rise, inflating the energy at the bottom of the AI bubble, what happens to the artificial pyramid they built on top? What happens to all the fake-ass pharoahs, building castles in the cloud? They&#x2019;ll be entombed with their billions in bunkers while everything around them turns to dust. </p><p>You can only string so many bands across world trade before world trade blows up. You can only string so many bands across global energy before the real economy seizes up. And you can only inflate an artificial bubble atop all of this before the whole thing acts like watermelon bubble gum and goes pop. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bust-Out Of ‘America’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Or Leveraged Buyout (LBO) as the White Mafia calls it]]></description><link>https://indi.ca/the-bust-out-of-america/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0aa9891d3ea2000132f065</guid><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[USA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Business]]></category><category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[indi.ca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 12:18:46 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-18-at-17.26.53.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-18-at-17.26.53.jpg" alt="The Bust-Out Of &#x2018;America&#x2019;"><p>If you analyze &#x2018;America&#x2019; politically, you&#x2019;re making an error, unwittingly. &#x2018;America&#x2019; is not a polity, people&#x2019;s opinions have nothing to do with policy, it&#x2019;s a business, pathologically. The war business is booming when bombs are flying and the healthcare business is making a killing when people are dying and the media business is talking money when they&#x2019;re lying. </p><p>Understanding &#x2018;America&#x2019; through its politics is like trying to understand Coca-Cola through its advertising. Coke isn&#x2019;t trying to make &#x2018;moments&#x2019; or &#x2018;memories&#x2019; or &#x2018;open happiness&#x2019; or anything so humane, they&#x2019;re a corporation, do I need to explain? In the same way, &#x2018;America&#x2019; isn&#x2019;t trying to deliver &#x2018;human rights&#x2019; or &#x2018;democracy&#x2019; or &#x2018;freedom&#x2019;, are you insane? They&#x2019;re all just lying in order to sell you something. Like Michael Corleone said, it&#x2019;s not political, it&#x2019;s strictly business. </p><p>The class structure of &#x2018;America&#x2019; has <em>always</em> been oligarchy, ie rule by the rich, who in Marxian terms are really just placeholders for the artificial species I call Capital. At founding only a fraction of even the White population could vote. They immediately put down a debtors rebellion (Shay&#x2019;s) of unpaid soldier because hell with them, even being a White man wasn&#x2019;t enough, you had to be a propertied White man. &#x2018;America&#x2019; is designed for rule by <em>property</em> and that has never changed and never will. That&#x2019;s the whole business model and why mess with a bad thing?</p><p>Colonialism has always been a business, it&#x2019;s important to understand this. If you read about England at the height of its colonial power, the people in the imperial core lived like shit, you almost feel bad for them. England made poverty (even more of) a crime to turn Australia into a debtors prison. In Sri Lanka, the crocodile ringed neighborhood the colonizers used was called Slave Island or also Kompanna Veediya (company town). It&#x2019;s the same thing! Colonialism was always a business and the value accrued to shareholders, not citizens (an antiquated concept). </p><p>If you understand colonialism as a business you can understand that <em>it never ended</em>, it just rebranded. The banner of White Empire went from Lisbon to Amsterdam to London to Washington, changing marketing terms from monarchy to democracy, but never changing the underlying business model. Why change when you&#x2019;re making bank?</p><h2 id="the-colonial-business-model">The Colonial Business Model</h2><p>If we accept that colonialism is a business and that the business never ended, what is the business model? It&#x2019;s not terribly complicated. It&#x2019;s <a href="https://indi.ca/the-military-industrial-mafia/" rel="noreferrer">Mafianomics 101</a>. </p><h3 id="a-bust-out">A Bust-Out</h3><p>Everything you need to know about what&#x2019;s happening to (and from) &#x2018;America&#x2019; is in this one scene from <em>Goodfellas</em>.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular" data-kg-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/media/2026/05/Goodfellas-Bust-Out-2_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail>
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        </figure><p>The Mafianomics business model is simple, and what is happening is called a <em>bust-out</em>. You take over a business&#x2014;when the owner gets into your debt or comes to you for protection against someone else&#x2014;and then start running up bills on the joint&#x2019;s credit. When the debts overwhelm the actual business you burn it and move onto the next one. You light a match. This is the colonial business model writ small.</p><p>In the exact same way, the White mafia has &#x2018;busted-out&#x2019; entire continents. They corrupt local compradors, debt trap entire nations, strip the resources, and then &#x2018;light a match.&#x2019; They have done this to every country on Earth and now there&#x2019;s nothing left to bust-out, so they&#x2019;re cannibalizing the imperial periphery (Europe, the UAE) before descending on their own corpse. </p><p><em>This</em> is how you understand what&#x2019;s happening today, with war everywhere, prices rising even in the imperial core, and yet the stock markets going gangbusters. Of course, stock markets are just the place where genteel gangs do their dirt in public. The seeming illogic of modern politics is simply an age-old mafia bust-out.</p><h3 id="a-leveraged-buy-out">A Leveraged Buy-Out</h3><p>In genteel gangland, however, this isn&#x2019;t called a bust-out. It&#x2019;s called a leveraged buyout (LBO). It&#x2019;s the same thing with more lawyers. In an LBO, private equity guys (White word for oligarchs) borrow against a company (which they don&#x2019;t own yet) to buy the company. If this sounds like a con, it&#x2019;s because it is, but it&#x2019;s legal because the bank&#x2019;s in on it. &#x2018;America&#x2019; has <a href="https://indi.ca/how-the-us-legalized-corruption/" rel="noreferrer">legalized corruption</a>.</p><p>Once the PE gang takes over the company, they run up bills on the joint&#x2019;s credit, unload assets out the back, fire people, and maybe do a bit of insider trading. Then when the underlying business inevitably fails, they leave it for dead and move onto the next one. It&#x2019;s carnivorous capitalism. A genteel bust out. </p><p>When &#x2018;Republicans&#x2019; said (in the 1980s) that they wanted to run government like a business, this is the business model. They have been busting out the world and their own country since then, stripping assets, bilking labor, and goosing the stock market to get paid now. Now, especially since Citizens United gave corporations &#x2018;speech&#x2019; rights, they have completed a leveraged buyout of the US government, making the two-party system as redundant as Coke and Pepsi. And making analyzing their political positions as relevant as comparing marketing. </p><p>Now you can buy a Presidency for as little as 2 billion USD and bust out a multi-trillion dollar economy. It&#x2019;s the biggest leveraged buyout in history, running up the faith and credit of the &#x2018;United States&#x2019;, looting the US Treasury, and lighting a match to the whole imperial economy. This seems cruel if you take it personally and insane if you take it politically, but remember. It&#x2019;s nothing personal. It&#x2019;s strictly business.</p><h2 id="what%E2%80%99s-happening">What&#x2019;s Happening</h2><p>This is the power that explains. We are witnessing a bust-out of the &#x2018;United States,&#x2019; an LBO of &#x2018;America,&#x2019; and lighting a match to the White Empire of centuries. This is what explains why the stock market goes up while everything else goes down. This is what explains all the wars against &#x2018;America&#x2019;s&#x2019; national interests, because shareholder interest (literally) trumps all. It&#x2019;s really not that complicated if you stop believing the marketing and follow the money. If you ignore the politics and look at what colonialism always was. A business, built on bones.</p><p>In this sense, Trump is the perfect bag-man for the end of the &#x2018;American&#x2019; experiment, running a country like a business and using liberal philosophy as marketing. Trump had <em>no</em> political experience, his first elected office was President. And he has a lot of experience with bankruptcy and fraud in many ways (from Trump Water to Trump Air to Trump Casinos) that <em>is</em> his business. And of course it&#x2019;s not just Trump. </p><p>Obama busted people out of their homes and bailed out banks. He pretended to give them healthcare while actually entrenching the insurance companies. Biden busted-out the entire nation of Ukraine to unload expiring military supplies, and accellerated the genocide of Palestine as a going-out-of-business firepower sale and cut off the brief rise in living standards post-COVID to get back to business. They represent &#x2018;America&#x2019; as much as Trump. This is the business of colonialism, and every US President is just a paid spokesman. </p><p>We are now at the stage in <em>Goodfellas</em> where they light a match to the restaurant and drive away. We are witnessing a last orgy of insider trading and profiting on controlled volatility while the strategic reserve of oil is emptied and even the home economy is hollowed out within. The peripheries of Empire are getting busted-out first but make no mistake, the whole thing is going bust. This is, inshallah, the end of it all. There&#x2019;s no more out to bust, and no more leverage to be bought. </p><p>People may be like &#x2018;this is bad for America!&#x2019; or &#x2018;this is bad for Americans&#x2019; but this misses the point entirely. What do y&#x2019;all have to do anything? You&#x2019;re like the customers or workers of a company being bust-out by the Mafia, irrelevant. Colonialism was bad for everybody else in the world and after the colonizers ran through us, the colonial core is getting their just desserts in the end. </p><p>As Malcolm X said, chickens coming home to roost never made me feel bad, they always made me feel glad. Go cluck yourself, to put it indelicately. &#x2018;America&#x2019; started as a scam by oligarchs and ends in a scam run by &#x2018;private equity&#x2019;. Call it the bust-out of the &#x2018;United States&#x2019;, the LBO of &#x2018;America&#x2019;, &#x2018;America&#x2019;s&#x2019; death throes by any other name would still reek. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Riot On The Northern Front]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hezbollah’s FPV innovations]]></description><link>https://indi.ca/all-riot-on-the-northern-front/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a06f1f91d3ea2000132e2ca</guid><category><![CDATA[Hezbollah]]></category><category><![CDATA[War]]></category><category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[indi.ca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 11:28:36 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/drone-stack-1.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/drone-stack-1.jpg" alt="All Riot On The Northern Front"><p>Let&#x2019;s check in with Hezbollah on the northern front, because God knows they&#x2019;re body checking &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; well enough. Hezbollah was never defeated, albeit depleted, but this has only repleted their ranks to display great feats of bravery, which we have first-person views of now, <a href="https://indi.ca/hezbollah-joins-the-drone-wars-videos/" rel="noreferrer">as discussed</a>.</p><h2 id="first-context">First, Context</h2><p>&#x2018;Israel&#x2019; has invaded and occupied southern Lebanon, blowing up bridges, hospitals, homes, and generally trying to Gaza the place. </p><p>&#x2018;Israel&#x2019; has <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260407-israel-sends-more-troops-to-southern-lebanon-to-expand-ground-offensive/">at least five divisions</a> there. Their names are, I shit you not, Fire, Rage, Steel, Galilee, and Bang. These are stormtroopers, armor, armor, infantry, and reserves, disrespectively. They also have a lot of &#x2018;civilian&#x2019; contractors (mainly for the purpose of denying them benefits) doing demolition work (with Caterpillar D9 Bulldozers, etc). </p><figure class="kg-card kg-gallery-card kg-width-wide kg-card-hascaption"><div class="kg-gallery-container"><div class="kg-gallery-row"><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-16-at-13.34.09.jpg" width="1724" height="3382" loading="lazy" alt="All Riot On The Northern Front" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-16-at-13.34.09.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-16-at-13.34.09.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-16-at-13.34.09.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-16-at-13.34.09.jpg 1724w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-16-at-13.34.22.jpg" width="1728" height="3384" loading="lazy" alt="All Riot On The Northern Front" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-16-at-13.34.22.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-16-at-13.34.22.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-16-at-13.34.22.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-16-at-13.34.22.jpg 1728w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div></div></div><figcaption><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">&#x201C;Bint Jbeil and its surroundings no longer exist.&#x201D; As this </span><a href="https://x.com/BenTzionMacales/status/2053188868111794255"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">&#x2018;Israeli&#x2019; OSINT person</span></a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> says rather proudly</span></p></figcaption></figure><p>The goal is the ethnic cleansing of predominantly Shia villages in southern Lebanon, to attack the base of Hezbollah as a people&#x2019;s organization by attacking the people. They are of course targeting hospitals and healthcare, this is openly their thing now. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-15.46.07.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="All Riot On The Northern Front" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1337" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-15.46.07.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-15.46.07.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-15.46.07.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-15.46.07.jpg 2010w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Lebanon Ministry of Health report on the targeting of healthcare</span></figcaption></figure><p>As Ha&#x2019;aretz (the thinking man&#x2019;s Der St&#xFC;rmer) reports, </p><blockquote>Khiam is ruined and desolate. It looks like&#xA0;<a href="https://archive.ph/o/kYned/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-security/2026-05-05/ty-article/dozens-of-south-lebanon-villages-reportedly-razed-by-idf-in-recent-hezbollah-war/0000019d-f850-d5a3-abbf-f8fb128d0000">not a single structure is standing</a>. When one of the soldiers speaks of the &quot;destruction of homes,&quot; his commander corrects him &#x2013; &quot;destruction of infrastructure.&quot; </blockquote><p>Note that &#x2018;Israelis&#x2019; don&#x2019;t really lie in Hebrew, they don&#x2019;t care to. But within that report you can also see how Hezbollah is responding. As the report continues,</p><blockquote>The tractors and bulldozers are parked in a corner of the town after a long day of work. Along the way to the town, one can spot Defense Ministry contractors, who are civilians. While getting off the vehicles, two soldiers climb up a mound of rubble. These are stargazers of sorts: They are looking for drones. Within a few minutes, an &quot;Air hammer!&quot; call is heard, a heads-up that there may be a drone in the area. What do the soldiers do? Not very different from what they did in wars a century ago. They look for cover and jump behind a sandbank. Other soldiers try to neutralize the threat by firing their guns.</blockquote><p>That is what Hezb is facing here, and you can see how they&#x2019;re facing it. With a First-Person View against genocide.</p><h2 id="fpvs">FPVs</h2><p>Max Planck said, <em>&#x201C;A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.&#x201D; </em>First-Person View (FPV) Drones existed all through this fight, but for whatever reason Hezbollah didn&#x2019;t use them much. But now an entire layer of top and middle management has been martyred and the new Hezbollah has seen the light. </p><p>None of this is to disparage those great martyrs that went before, the innovations that they pioneered (Kornets, larger drones, trained ground troops, intelligence units) form the backbone of the war effort. But that effort has four more arms now, in the form of quadcopters. Peace be upon those who went before, and more warpower to those that go forward.</p><h3 id="drone-technicalities">Drone Technicalities</h3><p>I lean on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O-lAj1idkY">Jon Elmer&#x2019;s technical reporting here</a>, I recommend just watching his updates on Electronic Intifada, I&#x2019;m just regurgitating. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-16.40.42.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="All Riot On The Northern Front" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1346" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-16.40.42.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-16.40.42.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-16.40.42.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-16.40.42.jpg 2000w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The literal tech stack: fiber optic spool on the top, anti-tank warhead in middle (93mm PG-7VL), drone and battery valiantly keeping the whole thing afloat. </span></figcaption></figure><p>Elmer says Hezbollah immediately jumped to fiber-optic drones (which evolved out of radar-jamming in Ukraine slowly). These things, as you can see, have a big &#x2018;fishing-line&#x2019; spool of fiber-optic line that literally flies the drone by wire. Hezbollah has then strapped their standard anti-tank shell (what looks like a 93mm PG-7VL) which is comically large ordance for a drone, I dunno how these things even fly, but they do. </p><p>Fiber-optics come with two benefits, they are unjammable and incredibly responsive. And using large rounds can cause significant damage even through a cope cage (the grills and netting placed around tanks since Ukraine). The only defense against these fishing lines with bomb bait is, wait for it, fishing net. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-gallery-card kg-width-wide"><div class="kg-gallery-container"><div class="kg-gallery-row"><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/drone-netting-01.jpeg" width="1280" height="960" loading="lazy" alt="All Riot On The Northern Front" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/drone-netting-01.jpeg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/drone-netting-01.jpeg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/drone-netting-01.jpeg 1280w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/drone-netting-wall.jpeg" width="1280" height="960" loading="lazy" alt="All Riot On The Northern Front" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/drone-netting-wall.jpeg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/drone-netting-wall.jpeg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/drone-netting-wall.jpeg 1280w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/drone-netting-jeep.jpeg" width="960" height="1280" loading="lazy" alt="All Riot On The Northern Front" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/drone-netting-jeep.jpeg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/drone-netting-jeep.jpeg 960w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div></div></div></figure><p>As the prophet Jesus said, talking about something else entirely, <em>&#x201C;Now as He walked by the Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers.<sup> </sup>And Jesus said unto them, &#x2018;Come ye after Me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.&#x2019;&#x201D;</em></p><p>Since the Rocket-Propelled Grenade (RPG) shells Hezb uses are not, in fact, rocket-propelled, all &#x2018;Israeli&#x2019; defensive mechanisms are like <em>what the hell?</em> For example, you can sometimes see the defensive Trophy system on Merkava tanks turn around, but it doesn&#x2019;t fire. If it fired at FPV drones it would also be firing at every flipping bird, which would be absurd. <strong>FPV Drones are too slow-moving for the air defenses &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; has evolved. It&#x2019;s like the &#x2018;slow blade&#x2019; in <em>Dune</em>, where the advent of personal shields took them back to sword-fighting because anything fast-moving would be stopped.</strong> </p><p>The only way to reliably intercept FPV drones is with dumb fishing wire net, which limits your freedom of movement and still has an entrance <em>somewhere</em>, or with smart, situation-aware soldiers using shotguns, which does not describe IOF home invaders and panty raiders. IOF soldiers still park their tanks with the hatches open, still do not cover their tanks with infantry, and hang out on the hood. And now I have seen them blown up in all three circumstances. They have learned nothing from Gaza, let alone from Ukraine.</p><p>Another technical aspect of these drone strikes is that they can take apart &#x2018;Israeli&#x2019; armor (Namer transports, Merkava tanks) at the weak points. Even Caterpillar D9 bulldozers are relatively well-armored, but they still have doors, joints, ammunition stores, fuel tanks, and other spots where a well-placed round can cause catastrophic damage. And FPV drones can course correct up until the last moment to hit these exact points. </p><h3 id="drone-eventualities">Drone Eventualities</h3><p>As per the Iranian think tank Union Center, there were 73 FPV strikes in one monthish and by the time <a href="https://indi.ca/iran-and-the-tunnel-missile-war-part-2/" rel="noreferrer">I did a report on their report</a>, there&#x2019;s a dozen more. While I honestly feel like I&#x2019;ve seen every major Kornet strike, I cannot keep up with the FPV attacks of the last 24 hours. 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        </figure><p>Note what Hezb is targeting here, and how. The scenes open with multi-barrel rocket launchers, ie old-school but highly effective artillery. You can see the sons of the soil in the dirt, hand-assembling these things, next to pictures of the martyrs Nasrallah and Khamenei. Then they launch Hezbollah&#x2019;s older, &#x2018;third-person&#x2019; drones, ie mini-Shaheds. These operations hopefully hit something, but we can&#x2019;t see, limiting their propaganda utility.</p><p>Then we get to the FPVs, flying with the missile. These scenes open with them targeting a JCB digger, ie the &#x2018;civilian&#x2019; equipment &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; uses to attack civilians. In the same way, they come across a wealth of demolition targets, and choose to hit a bulldozer right in the chink of its armor. </p><p>In these videos you can see the ruins the invaders have made of south Lebanon, demolishing houses and tearing up roads. Hezbollah is hitting the evil men who do this, and the machines they use to do so, and you can&#x2019;t say it&#x2019;s undeserved. </p><p>This is one of the best videos, not included in the montage, that shows them expertly targeting a command-and-control vehicle. Things are increasingly out of control for the &#x2018;Israeli&#x2019; invasion of Lebanon, which was already not going well. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular kg-card-hascaption" data-kg-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/media/2026/05/---------------------------------------------This-is-the-best-Hezbollah-FPV-operation-so-far--and-there-are-a-few-...--2054918608510140417-_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail>
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            <figcaption><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">&quot;&#x623;&#x64E;&#x628;&#x64F;&#x648; &#x639;&#x650;&#x631;&#x652;&#x641;&#x64E;&#x627;&#x646;&#x650; &#x67E;&#x627;&#x631;&#x633;&#x6CC; - This is the best Hezbollah FPV operation so far, and there are a few&quot;</span></p></figcaption>
        </figure><h3 id="drone-psychology">Drone Psychology</h3><p>Describing the new drone threat, an IOF officer told Ha&#x2019;aretz, <em>&#x201C;It&#x2019;s a tactical threat, but not strategic,&#x201D;</em> but IOF soldiers and contractors are taking tactical dumps in their pants nonetheless.<strong> The biggest impact of FPVs is psychological. The IOF knows that they can get hit, as Janet Jackson said, <em>anytime, anyplace</em> and that puts the fear of God into otherwise g-dless people. </strong></p><p>And in terms of propaganda, FPVs record at the same time as flying. So We are suddenly getting <em>a lot</em> of footage, unsettling the settlers terribly. In the past, for an anti-tank missile strike there would be one team spotting, one team shooting, and possibly another recording, and then someone editing the montage together. This could take days or weeks, not to mention the physical danger to everybody involved, and the video you got only showed impact from afar. Now they just take the footage from the drone, put a title card on it, and upload. And you see the asses and elbows of IOF soldiers running. The ordanance is less, but the pyschological impact is more. </p><p>This is important because the materiel you see getting blown can get replaced&#x2014;the &#x2018;Israeli&#x2019; conscript colony has received more than <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-894754">115,600 tons</a> of military equipment in 403 airlifts and 10 sealifts since this Iran War alone&#x2014;but the conscripts and contractors operating it can break permanently. Many of them have already been deployed for years and in addition to Hezbollah fighters&#x2014;described as ghosts&#x2014;they now have drone fears. &#x2018;Israel&#x2019;s&#x2019; will to fight has been broken in Lebanon before, and <em>inshallah</em> will be again.</p><p>Finally, as context for these drone wars, it&#x2019;s worth noting what &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; uses its drones for. It used one for a strike on a father in a car, and then when his 12-year-old daughter ran away, it chased her down and killed her too. This is the absolute depravity of these people. Meanwhile the so-called terrorists are targeting exclusively military targets. So-called by who? Adjust your first-person view.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paradigm Shift: Iran and The Tunnel/Missile War (Part 2)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Iran has skipped manned flight almost entirely and entered the unmanned era]]></description><link>https://indi.ca/iran-and-the-tunnel-missile-war-part-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a02c222ecc3720001e8165d</guid><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[War]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category><category><![CDATA[IranWar]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[indi.ca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 15:12:35 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/missiles-in-hand-1.png" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/image-13.png" class="kg-image" alt="Paradigm Shift: Iran and The Tunnel/Missile War (Part 2)" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="1165" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/image-13.png 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/image-13.png 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/image-13.png 1280w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/missiles-in-hand-1.png" alt="Paradigm Shift: Iran and The Tunnel/Missile War (Part 2)"><p><em>Part 1: </em><a href="https://indi.ca/the-paradigm-shift-of-war-part-1/" rel="noreferrer"><em>Why America Sucks At This</em></a></p><p>In the future, kids will ask what a fighter jet is, and we&apos;ll say <em>&#x2018;a drone with a person inside it&#x2019;</em> and they&#x2019;ll think we&#x2019;re insane. This is the paradigm shift Iran more than anyone has ushered in. Iran pioneered the Shahed drone that Russia copied as the Geran and &#x2018;America&#x2019; as the shitty LUCAS. Iran&#x2019;s missile program is the most innovative in that they do the most on a shoestring. Trump crows about destroying their Air Force, but <em>the IRGC doesn&#x2019;t have an Air Force</em>. They have an Aerospace Force, which is a different paradigm entirely.</p><p>Then our future kids will also ask, <em>&#x2018;wait, you just parked those human drones in the open?&#x2019; </em>and <em>&#x2018;you parked them on the ocean?&#x2019;</em> and think we&#x2019;re even more senile. Airbases and aircraft carriers are too exposed for the modern era. Palestine and Iran have taken war literally underground and either tied or won against the greatest empire (hitherto) around. It&#x2019;s a brave new world and all the &#x2018;American&#x2019; bases are <em>gone</em>. And where&#x2019;s Iran? Still in Iran. As a local said about Isfahan mountain (source: Internet) <em>&#x201C;This mountain, we see it get bombed almost every night, we see the smoke rise. Yet when we wake up in the morning, it&#x2019;s from these very same mountains that we see missiles rising into the sky.&#x201D;</em></p><p>As Sun Tzu said, covering what&#x2019;s really a return to an ancient paradigm, <em>&#x201C;To excel at defense means hiding oneself away in the deepest recesses of the earth. To excel at offense means striking from the highest reaches of the heavens.&#x201D;</em> I repeat this a lot because it&#x2019;s repeating, we&#x2019;re in the age of tunnel defense and missile war. </p><h2 id="iran%E2%80%99s-missile-program">Iran&#x2019;s Missile Program</h2><p>After the Islamic Revolution Iran had a few F-4s and F-14s, which &#x2018;America&#x2019; was not going to upgrade for them anymore. 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        </figure><p>Iran&#x2019;s missile program, however, was initially a joint venture with <em>&#x2018;Israel&#x2019;</em>. Iran under the Shah paid &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; $280 million for a &#x2018;Project Flower&#x2019; which bore no fruit at all. After the Islamic Revolution, &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; took the documents (which would have built obsolete technology anyways) and bounced, though the check didn&#x2019;t. Iran paid &#x2018;Israel&#x2019; in oil for spoilt fruit. </p><p>As Professor Mohammad Marandi said, <em>&#x201C;Project Flower was a useless scrap of paper. This was the crushing reality born from the old regime&#x2019;s dependency, especially on the Israeli regime. There were no missiles to fire back. The lesson of Project Flower was seared into Iran&#x2019;s national consciousness. <strong>True security cannot be imported. It cannot be contingent on another entity&#x2019;s politics or permissions.</strong>&#x201D;</em> This last bit is the watchword of Iran&#x2019;s military in general. <em>If you want something done right, do it yourself.</em></p><p>Iran also got a baptism of fire during the Iraq/Iran War when Iraq&#x2014;armed by both Eastern and Western Blocs (ie, the Soviets and Americans)&#x2014;bombarded them relentlessly. As the IRGC said, &#x201C;<em>Bitch, we on fire! Fire back!&#x201D;</em> Of course they didn&#x2019;t say that, they said (via Marandi, ibid),</p><blockquote>&#x201C;IRGC commanders had proposed that the issue of missile bombardment must be responded to at the same level at which the Ba&#x2019;athist regime was operating. But there was no system, no infrastructure, not even a single suitable rocket. A decision was made. The mission was to build a missile unit from absolute zero. They chose a man for the almost impossible task. A young artillery commander named Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam.&#x201D;</blockquote><figure class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular" data-kg-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/media/2026/05/Khamenei-Media---The-man-who-forbade-despair--The-narrative-of-Elham-Heidari--wife-of-...--1988642331667427331-_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail>
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        </figure><p>Under the now martyred Mohaddam and the also martyred successor Amirali Hajizadeh Iran&#x2019;s rocket science advanced <em>dramatically</em>. I&#x2019;m skipping ahead a billion years and a lot of blood, but Iran&#x2019;s missile program is now the best in the world <em>for what it&#x2019;s designed to do</em>. Defend Iran. Iran does not have missiles that can reach &#x2018;America&#x2019; because it does not want to, same reason it doesn&#x2019;t have nukes. Both weapons are <em>fatwa</em> locked. But it does have missiles that can hit the face of a radar across the Gulf and exact buildings as far as &#x2018;Israel&#x2019;, or Cyprus if it comes to it. Iran can defend itself now, and in doing so, help liberate the entire region from occupation. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/image-14-1.png" class="kg-image" alt="Paradigm Shift: Iran and The Tunnel/Missile War (Part 2)" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="746" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/image-14-1.png 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/image-14-1.png 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/image-14-1.png 1280w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><p>As the Martyr Commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh said (pictured next to Moghaddam I think at the far right), </p><figure class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular" data-kg-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/media/2026/05/Press-TV--------Here-is-why--according-to-Martyr-Hajizadeh--the-former-head-of-the-IR...--2035814070507741184-_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail>
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        </figure><blockquote>If we were to follow the path that the world has taken, for example, the world&#x2014;West and East&#x2014;has mainly gone in search of aircraft. It went after the aircraft for an offensive weapon. If we were to follow the path the world has taken&#x2014;now the world has reached, for example, 5th generation aircraft&#x2013;if we wanted to go down this same path we probably would have been struggling in the 3rd generation to move forward. That means we were behind them in everything we did. We were 50 years apart. But instead of choosing a route that would actually lead us behind the enemy and not reach them at all, we chose the path that we now face the enemy head on. I mean it&#x2019;s true that we&#x2019;ve seen threats over the year [but] at least in the last decade we have moved goal-oriented. The means we were looking for issues, we were looking for weapons, we were looking for possibilities that would allow us to actually achieve success from a point that would render all of the enemy&#x2019;s capabilities ineffective.</blockquote><p>That about sums up the path Iran took, and you can see the destination now. &#x2018;America&#x2019;s&#x2019; expensive aircraft are burning and they only way they were able to stop Iran&#x2019;s missiles was by running into them. This has been obvious from the beginning and the IRGC spokesman never led you wrong, but if you must get your news from imperial sources, they are doing what they usually do, reporting the truth after the propaganda work of the lies has been done. </p><p>The <a href="https://archive.is/xnR2n#selection-1013.555-1013.609">Whitewashington Post</a> &#x2018;reports&#x2019; that,</p><blockquote>Iranian airstrikes have damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at<strong>&#xA0;</strong>U.S. military sites across the Middle East since the war began, hitting hangars, barracks,<strong>&#xA0;</strong>fuel depots, aircraft and key radar, communications and air defense equipment, according to a Washington Post analysis of satellite imagery.</blockquote><p>What imagery? <em>&#x201C;The Post reviewed more than 100 high-resolution Iranian-released satellite images&#x2026; No Iranian imagery was found to have been manipulated.&#x201D;</em> As I said, might as well trust the Iranian sources in the first place, and/or their Sri Lankan Copy-Paste Brigade of one. </p><p>The Iranian strikes were precise and surgical on the cancer that is America occupation. As some swamp creature told the Post, <em>&#x201C;The Iranian attacks were precise. There are no random craters indicating misses.&#x201D;&#xA0;</em></p><p>And as the <a href="https://archive.is/UBgfC#selection-759.0-759.250">New York War Crimes</a> now &#x2018;reports&#x2019; (they&#x2019;re just funneling whatever the government tells them, including feelings), </p><blockquote>Most alarming to some senior officials is evidence that Iran has restored operational access to 30 of the 33 missile sites it maintains along the Strait of Hormuz, which could threaten American warships and oil tankers transiting the narrow waterway.</blockquote><p>The NYCrimes goes onto make up some percentages of missiles and missile launchers destroyed (source: trust me bro). The &#x2018;intelligence&#x2019; sources the NYCrimes is stovepiping are duplicitious and dumb, and because they refuse to be actual reporters and just listen to Iran, these &#x2018;journalists&#x2019; stay dumb. As an IRGC spokesperson said during the war (via <a href="https://x.com/iwasnevrhere_/status/2033262745345237355">Thomas Keith</a>), <em>&#x201C;Most of the missiles currently being fired were produced over a decade ago.&#x201D;</em> Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Arachchi directly responded to these jumping, meaningless percentages (dividing what they know little about by what they know zero) by <a href="https://x.com/araghchi/status/2052703834888360089/photo/1">saying</a>, <em>&#x201C;Also the CIA is wrong. Our missile inventory and launcher capacity are not at 75% compared to Feb 29. The correct figure is 120%. As for our readiness to defend our people: 1,000%.&#x201D;</em></p><h2 id="iran%E2%80%99s-tunnel-cities">Iran&#x2019;s Tunnel Cities</h2><figure class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular" data-kg-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/media/2026/05/Iran-military-shows-footage-giving-tour-of-underground--missile-city---v2xVNk1LEw8-_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail>
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        </figure><p>The reason Iran&#x2019;s missiles cannot be destroyed (except by running into them) is the same reason Hamas could not be destroyed. Because they&#x2019;re underground. And while Hamas was fighting from under a concentration camp, Iran is fighting from mountains in a nation state it controls. Iran does not have tunnels but tunnel cities and the martyr commander Hajizadeh said <em>&#x201C;If we unveil one missile city per week, it will take at least two years to show them all.&#x201D; </em>That&#x2019;s 104 if you&#x2019;re counting. And these are <em>cities</em>, complete with rocket metros, multiple entries, and these are not merely underground, they&#x2019;re under mountains. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/image-16.png" class="kg-image" alt="Paradigm Shift: Iran and The Tunnel/Missile War (Part 2)" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="722" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/image-16.png 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/image-16.png 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/image-16.png 1280w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><p>These things cannot be bombed, they cannot even be nuked, they simply cannot be stopped. Even Iran&#x2019;s boats are in tunnels, this is not a sinkable fleet either.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular" data-kg-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/media/2026/05/Red-Marker-------------------------Iran-has-released--or-resurfaced--video-footage-displaying-its-underg...--2031845610421207040-_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail>
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        </figure><p><strong>While the third dimension of air was a paradigm shift in war, the third dimension <em>below</em> the ground is a shift also</strong>. There were tunnel battles in World War I, but this is an exponential leap in sophistication. What this does for self-defensive nations is level the playing field, by literally going underneath it. </p><p>So after nearly a century of unchecked air White supremacy, things are returning to the historical mean. For most of history the defender had an advantage, especially in defending what Sun Tzu called &#x2018;walled cities&#x2019;. Master Sun said besieging walled cities was shitty, especially if it gets drawn out. He said,</p><blockquote>Once you&#x2019;ve committed to a campaign, you should know that, if the victory is long in coming, both your soldiers and their weapons will lose their edge. Should you lay siege to a walled city, you may cripple your troop strength. Therefore, if those in power are not fully aware of the harm that may come from using troops, then they can never truly understand the advantages to be gained from deploying troops.</blockquote><p>This is precisely what happened to &#x2018;America&#x2019; because the paradigm shift they benefited from&#x2014;aeriel bombing&#x2014;is done. That cheatcode past the usual rules of war is done and walled cities (ie, tunnels) are back with a vengeance now. In the constant battle of sword vs. shield, the shield has caught up, and the sword has become automated. &#x2018;America&#x2019;s&#x2019; command of 1900s technology (specifically air power) let them exterminate people without air defenses but it&#x2019;s the 2000s now, and there&#x2019;s a new tech stack in town. Even poor, non-state actors like Hamas in Palestine and Ansarallah in Yemen have figured out how to build walled cities <em>underground</em>. And so war returns to the mean, which is that attacking walled cities is (literally) hard. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-14-at-13.11.06.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="Paradigm Shift: Iran and The Tunnel/Missile War (Part 2)" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1105" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-14-at-13.11.06.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-14-at-13.11.06.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-14-at-13.11.06.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w2400/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-14-at-13.11.06.jpg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The entrance to an Iranian tunnel city lol</span></figcaption></figure><h2 id="the-state-of-the-art-of-war">The State Of The Art (Of War)</h2><p>This is the paradigm shift. The aircraft/carrier age is over and the missile/tunnel era has begun. &#x2018;America&#x2019; has taken a fighter jet to a missile fight and an open-air base to a tunnel war. They are packing light and not getting far. Meanwhile Iran has known themselves, known the enemy, and&#x2014;though they actually follow an <a href="https://indi.ca/irans-islam-art-of-war/" rel="noreferrer">Islamic Art of War</a>&#x2014;followed Sun Tzu to his logical conclusion. Command the heights, command the depths, and win the war. </p><p>Master Sun summed up the Art of War, saying,</p><blockquote>The art of war consists of:<br><br>1. measurements;<br>2. estimates;<br>3. calculations;<br>4. weighing;<br>5. victory.<br><br>The terrain leads to measurements;<br>The measurements lead to estimates;<br>The estimates lead to calculations;<br>The calculations lead to weighing the options;<br>The weighing leads to victory.</blockquote><p>In this way, Iran <strong>measured</strong> the terrain and saw that A) they had the high ground behind mountains and B) all the Empire&apos;s bases up to &apos;Israel&apos; were in firing range. They <strong>estimated</strong> the range of missiles they&apos;d need, the amount of air defense missiles the enemy had, and built and planned accordingly. Khamenei the Elder actually issued a fatwa <em>limiting</em> the range of missiles to what they&apos;d need and <a href="https://youtu.be/DP9h1TTCIR0?si=ZEs-yX-nhwVizeeF&amp;t=764">constantly said</a> (via Laith Marouf), <em>&#x2018;Go back. Give me more accuracy. What if there is an innocent person that&apos;s going to die?&#x2019; </em>As you can see, estimates lead to <strong>calculations</strong>. </p><p>Iran calculated that they&#x2019;d be forever behind in jets and that, while seemingly impossible, it was <em>less</em> impossible to do rocket science. They <strong>weighed</strong> the options and made the paradigmic leap from manned to unmanned warfare. Now &#x2018;America&#x2019; is technologically behind, flying horses into World War III, while Iran has taken artillery to the next level and blows them up on a screen. It&#x2019;s like Nokia vs. the smartphones. There was a brief moment where smartphones existed and Nokia still had top market share, and we&#x2019;re in that brief moment militarily now. If you don&#x2019;t believe me, wait for the White rags to admit it in a few months. Iran has won <strong>victory</strong> in this war, proved itself a great power, and is pound-for-pound the greatest modern innovator in war. I&#x2019;M WRITING IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE IT&#x2019;S A SHIFT.  IRAN HAS DELIVERED A PARADIGM SHIFT IN WAR.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hezbollah Joins The Drone Wars (Videos)]]></title><description><![CDATA[The roar of warplanes being replaced by the hum of drones]]></description><link>https://indi.ca/hezbollah-joins-the-drone-wars-videos/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a03e07a84cd230001856290</guid><category><![CDATA[Hezbollah]]></category><category><![CDATA[War]]></category><category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Military]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[indi.ca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 07:11:05 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/drone-runner-1.png" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular" data-kg-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/media/2026/05/C4H10FO2P----------Whats-about-------------Trophy----active-protection-system------2053420118261039104--1_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail>
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        </figure><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/drone-runner-1.png" alt="Hezbollah Joins The Drone Wars (Videos)"><p>Hezbollah has been sharing first person views of &apos;Israelis&apos; running into port-a-potties, falling out of bulldozers, and jumping off tanks, ie, shortly before they get blown up. Hezbollah&#x2014;left for dead after the assassination of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah&#x2014;is back with vengeance, and leaving the colonizers for dead instead. </p><p>As per the US sanctioned (and thus reputable) <a href="https://almanar.com.lb/components/uploads/2026/04/manar-94af27cc1a4297c9.pdf">Union Center</a>, there were <a href="https://almanar.com.lb/components/uploads/2026/04/manar-8c05d866e63285b6.pdf">73 FPV</a> (first person viewer) drone attacks between March 19 and April 25, 2026. They categorize them, helpfully, and I add videos below, followed by my views. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/image-12.png" class="kg-image" alt="Hezbollah Joins The Drone Wars (Videos)" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="717" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/image-12.png 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/image-12.png 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/image-12.png 1280w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Computer, enhance</span></figcaption></figure><h2 id="the-five-types">The Five Types</h2><p>In chess terms, Hezbollah is using drones as knights, sacrificial pawns, pawn swarms, rooks, and bishops. Let me explain.</p><p>They used them as knights in the sense that they&apos;re able to move in an L-shape, either horizontally then vertically to get past (ballistic) air defenses, or vertically then horizontally, to get past (Trophy) tank defenses. Hezbollah also uses drones as sacrificial pawns in that they can be used to trigger and exhaust defenses, or as pawn swarms in that they can completely overwhelm them. These drones are used as rooks in the sense of ambush weapons, and also as bishops, for very precise targeting from afar. Furthermore they can be used <em>together</em>, with other weapons, making them a force multiplier.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/image-11.png" class="kg-image" alt="Hezbollah Joins The Drone Wars (Videos)" loading="lazy" width="960" height="1200" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/image-11.png 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/image-11.png 960w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><p>These are the types of usage that the Union Center reports:</p><ol><li><strong>&#x265E;Vertical dive attacks:</strong> Disabling the horizontally oriented Trophy defense system on tanks by cutting like a knight in chess. The drones drop down vertically and then cut in at the last minute, under the cope cage (the BBQ on top, seemingly the only thing &apos;Israel&apos; learned from Ukraine). </li><li><strong>&#x265F;&#x265F; Double strike:</strong> Using the drone with conventional munitions (like the anti-tank Kornet). They describe using a Kornet to <em>trigger</em> a defensive response, and then using drones to finish the defenseless tank off.</li><li><strong>&#x265F;&#x265F;&#x265F;&#x265F; Incendiary bombardment: </strong>Coordinated group attacks, ie drone swarms. For example, <em>&#x201C;On Monday, April 13, 2026, the resistance launched a simultaneous attack using incendiary devices, targeting six different Israeli positions at the same time. This tactic completely paralyzed and confused Israeli observation and command systems, preventing them from providing fire support or evacuating the wounded.&#x201D;</em></li><li><strong>&#x265C; Supporting ambushes</strong>: The <em>general</em> strategy in guerrilla war is to lure the invaders into ambushes. Hezbollah then lights them up with artillery and small arms. FPV drones now supplement this tactic, enabling the Resistance to stay further away without sacrificing accuracy or adaptability. For example, <em>&#x201C;On Thursday, March 19, 2026, an Israeli infantry force was lured to a specific location in the area of Baydar al-Fuqa&apos;ani, east of Taybeh, through a light ambush. As soon as the force was exposed and gathered to take up defensive positions, incendiary devices attacked them simultaneously with artillery shelling.&#x201D; </em></li><li><strong>&#x265D; Urban/Night Warfare</strong>: A classic Palestinian tactic was striking IOF soldiers hanging out near windows, but this was done through snipers or anti-tank missile operators, most of who are sadly dead now. Using humans, this is a very high risk operation, requiring very skilled operators who then disappear forever (may their sacrifice be accepted). The Lebanese are now doing the same thing via FPV drones, and presumably surviving (I hope). With night vision, they can do this at night, harrying the IOF endlessly.</li></ol><h2 id="the-six-uses-with-examples">The Six Uses (With Examples)</h2><p>In terms of the purpose of these attacks, the Union Center divides them into six main use cases, which I&apos;ll illustrate with examples. </p><h3 id="1-armor-killer">1/ Armor Killer</h3><p><em>&#x201C;Hunting heavy armor (the Merkava and Nameriyah massacre): More than 27 operations targeted Merkava tanks and Nameriyah armored personnel carriers. Incendiary devices became the primary &quot;armor killer,&quot; surpassing guided missiles that could reveal the shooter&apos;s location.&#x201D;</em></p><figure class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular kg-card-hascaption" data-kg-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/media/2026/05/barry-with-the-NED---Hezbollah-publishes-footage-of-an-FPV-strike-on-a-Merkava-in-Qantara....--2050262879677337600-_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail>
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            <figcaption><p dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">&quot;Hezbollah publishes footage of an FPV strike on a Merkava in Qantara. Seems like the blast penetrated the cope cage and ignited the inside via the hatch or it ignited the rear of the turret.&quot; (</span><a href="https://x.com/bonzerbarry/status/2050264171762098186"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">@bonzerbarry</span></a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></p></figcaption>
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            <figcaption><p dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Like in Gaza there&apos;s just parking tanks in a circle which Hezbollah can now pick off without risking their men, as Palestinians had to do (blowing up tanks with their bare hands)</span></p></figcaption>
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            <figcaption><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">&quot;Hezbollah vs IDF in Qantara: FPV quadcopter carrying an anti-tank RPG warhead vs IDF Namer troop carrier with a soldier sticking out the hatch on 24 April; field report said op was response to IDF ceasefire violations that day in Kherbet Selem near Bint Jbeil. [Hezbollah 28/4]&quot; (</span><a href="https://x.com/jonelmer/status/2049259721136194033"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Jon Elmer</span></a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></p></figcaption>
        </figure><p>There are <em>many</em> videos like this, I&apos;m honestly selecting a bit randomly. Tanks have obviously evolved to be armored, but they&apos;re not armored <em>everywhere</em>, and drones can target them precisely, literally taking them apart at the joints. That means hitting the Merkavas in their defensive systems (called Trophy), ammunition stores, and sometimes just flying in the hatch, which these dumbasses leave open.  </p><p>Massed armor, in general, has been proven a dumbass tactic in the modern era, but the &apos;Israelis&apos; are used to slaughtering children and still just park their tanks in circles with the hatches open. They have evolved &#x2018;cope cages&#x2019;&#x2014;grills protecting the tank&#x2014;so they&apos;ve learned something from Ukraine, but not much, and it appears that Hezbollah is learning faster.</p><h3 id="2-neutralizing-engineering-and-destroying-command">2/ Neutralizing engineering and destroying command</h3><p><em>&#x201C;Bulldozers (Caterpillar D9 armored, as happened in Sharaf and Taybeh) were targeted to prevent the enemy army from leveling terrain, building roads, or demolishing houses. A significant focus was also placed on striking Humvees to sever communication lines.&#x201D;</em></p><figure class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular kg-card-hascaption" data-kg-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/media/2026/05/Syrian-Girl---The-last-moment-of-life-of-an-Israeli-bulldoze-operator-demolishing-h...--2051274404487639040-_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail>
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            <figcaption><p dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A Caterpillar being targeted, the still is AI generated, but the impact is real</span></p></figcaption>
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            <figcaption><p dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">&quot;Hezbollah FPV drones hit 2 Israeli Namer APCs, a Merkava Mk.4M tank, and an M113 at IDF staging areas in Lebanon. Some Israeli units have started camouflaging vehicles, but mostly in a basic/limited way and not consistently.&quot; (</span><a href="https://x.com/clashreport/status/2051274748840038897"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Clash Report</span></a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></p></figcaption>
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            <figcaption><p dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">&quot;</span><b><strong style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Hezbollah</strong></b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Uses </span><b><strong style="white-space: pre-wrap;">FPV</strong></b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Drones To Take Out Three Israeli Military Vehicles. Two armoured personnel carriers &amp; one military hummer hit directly as seen on film.&quot; (</span><a href="https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/2038993715524481352"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">MintPress</span></a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></p></figcaption>
        </figure><p>&apos;Israel&apos; is one of the few militaries to field armored bulldozers, because they&apos;re fundamentally genocidal and want to destroy human habitation. These bulldozers are armored up to a point, but also open, and Hezbollah is now just flying drones in the side, or taking them apart at the joints. Same thing for cranes, all the civilian technology they use for dismantling civilian life. </p><p>The IOF also uses open jeeps and lightly armored (from the side) Humvees, and Hezbollah is using drones to chase them down and sever communication lines (ie, to target commanders and messengers that travel in them). You can see this happening over and over. In Gaza they were exposed to, effectively, small arms fire, but with drones the arms become <em>much</em> longer now, with the brain tucked safely away. Since Hezb is using fiber-optic drones, these connections cannot be jammed. </p><h3 id="3-targeting-forces">3/ Targeting forces</h3><p><em>&#x201C;The incendiary devices provided a flexible and accurate alternative to artillery. Hunting infantry in urban warfare: (Ada, Shama, Taybeh). These attacks inflicted fatal casualties inside fortified rooms that were located inside houses.</em>&#x201D;</p><figure class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular kg-card-hascaption" data-kg-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/media/2026/05/Hala-Jaber---Israeli-truck-driver-Alexander-Glovanyov--47--from-the-transport-batt...--2053773517208870912-_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail>
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            <figcaption><p dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">&quot;Israeli truck driver Alexander Glovanyov, 47, from the transport battalion, sprinting desperately to a row of portable field toilets near the Lebanese border. Not even that pathetic cover saved him. The strike lands as seen in the Hezbollah FPV drone footage.&quot; (</span><a href="https://x.com/HalaJaber/status/2053773757634806086"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Hala Jaber</span></a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></p></figcaption>
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            <figcaption><p dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Targeting three dudes, who all run in the same direction?</span></p></figcaption>
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        </figure><p>Drone warfare has made troop concentration very difficult, a lesson the IOF is learning. Even taking shelter in buildings doesn&apos;t work because, unlike artillery, these munitions can just fly in the window or the door. This being the warm Middle East, and the &apos;Israelis&apos; having a tendency to destroy civilian infrastructure, structures tend to be open. I suppose the IOF will adapt, but so far Hezbollah is making it look easy to target them. </p><p>Any concentration of &apos;Israeli&apos; troops can be targetted at any time which has a <em>fear</em> multiplying affect. These guys are used to having air superiority and now they just don&apos;t. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular kg-card-hascaption" data-kg-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/media/2026/05/LogKa---Hezbollah-FPV-drone-strikes-near-a-group-of-Israeli-soldiers-doing-a-...--2048692287849320448-_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail>
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            <figcaption><p dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">&quot;Hezbollah FPV drone strikes near a group of Israeli soldiers doing a helicopter CASEVAC in the town of Taybeh, southern Lebanon. The strike wasn&#x2019;t successful as it neither hit the soldiers nor the helicopter. The drone operator was either relatively unskilled or it got shot down.&quot; (</span><a href="https://x.com/LogKa11/status/2048692456405741702"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">@LogKa)</span></a></p></figcaption>
        </figure><p>One thing to note is that I&apos;ve been watching these videos for a while, and at the beginning Hezbollah was not very good at flying, especially compared to what&apos;s happening in Ukraine, but they&apos;re getting better and better all the time. Above, in an earlier (April) video you can see that they miss a helicopter evac, but the troops scatter and are terrified nonetheless. This is the <em>fear</em> multiplier factor. With drones, especially fibre-optic drones that can&apos;t be jammed, no place is safe.</p><h3 id="4-tactical-deception">4/ Tactical deception</h3><p><em>&#x201C;Highly sensitive radars and intelligence equipment were targeted. Most notably, precision strikes were directed at the Merion Air Base, targeting artillery emplacements and rooms.&#x201D;</em></p><figure class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular kg-card-hascaption" data-kg-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/media/2026/05/barry-with-the-NED----gt-Hezbollah-announces-that-they-struck-another-Merkava-and-a-gather...--2053537331244654592--1_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail>
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            <figcaption><p dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Taking their time to look around and just fly into an open garage door</span></p></figcaption>
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            <figcaption><p dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Targeting an Iron Dome battery</span></p></figcaption>
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            <figcaption><p dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">&quot;</span><b><strong style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Hezbollah</strong></b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Military Media released on Monday a video showing how an </span><b><strong style="white-space: pre-wrap;">FPV</strong></b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> (First-Person View) drone targeting an Israeli surveillance camera in the southern Lebanese border town of Al-Bayyada. The video, captured by an onboard drone camera, depicts how the drone identified and attacked a modern surveillance camera mounted on a building window.&quot; (Al-Manar)</span></p></figcaption>
        </figure><p>By &apos;tactical deception&apos; the Resistance means counter-intelligence, literally blowing up Iron Dome batteries (including radars) and taking out surveillance cameras. FPV drones do not carry heavy payloads (<a href="https://alahednews-news.translate.goog/post/97643/?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en-US&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp">most around 7 kg</a>), though <a href="https://alahednews-news.translate.goog/post/97648/?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en-US&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp">reportedly some go up to 35 kg</a>, making them armor piercing. In most cases, however, this isn&apos;t necessary. A precisely aimed blast can hit these systems right where it hurts, which you can see Hezb doing, over and over. </p><p>In terms of counter-intelligence, these drones also <em>gather </em>intelligence. Sometimes you see them go straight to a target, meaning that they&apos;ve scoped it out before, but sometimes they just loiter around and look. As you&apos;ll see below, there&apos;s times when they seem to be just browsing before finding something to cook. And again, the drone commits suicide, the operator doesn&apos;t. This information can be used.</p><h3 id="5-fire-management">5/ Fire management</h3><p><em>&#x201C;Incendiary devices brought about a radical change in the dynamics of the front, as they imposed a field reality that led to a &quot;complete operational paralysis&quot; of the Israeli ground forces.&#x201D;</em></p><figure class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular kg-card-hascaption" data-kg-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/media/2026/05/barry-with-the-NED---This-is-a-nightmare-for-the-occupation-army-and-the-northern-settleme...--1--2053103878023823366-_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail>
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            <figcaption><p dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">From an &apos;Israeli&apos; source, showing how these drones can just loiter around. The IEDs fly now, and this must be terrifying. In many videos you can see them somewhat casually selecting targets</span></p></figcaption>
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            <figcaption><p dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">&quot;This video shared recently by </span><b><strong style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Hezbollah</strong></b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> shows how relaxed the operator is while choosing the target and monitoring the scene for a second attack&quot; (</span><a href="https://x.com/AliRida_SB/status/2050975610780983334"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Ali Rida Sbeity</span></a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></p></figcaption>
        </figure><p>FPV drones are not a force on their own, they&apos;re really a force multiplier. The Resistance uses them <em>with</em> existing missiles (like Kornets), as part of their usual infantry ambushes, and for both intelligence gathering and propaganda purposes. Drones can scout targets, hit targets, and also produce the videos we&apos;re watching here. They can be used as part of combined arms warfare in ways we&apos;re just finding out. Basically, the IEDs fly now.  </p><p>Drones enable what the Resistance calls &apos;fire management&apos;, that is conserving their more expensive weapons and pricesless men, but lighting a fire under &apos;Israel&apos;s&apos; ass nonetheless.</p><h3 id="6-death-squares">6/ Death Squares</h3><p><em>&#x201C;The fires redrew the battle map and reversed the pressure axes, and 3 sectors emerged as enemy killing zones. Any Israeli movement, whether on foot or in armor, was transformed into a &quot;suicide mission.&quot; The soldiers were no longer able to assemble, and the command was forced to adopt a policy of &quot;permanent concealment&quot; and remained in the basements, which thwarted the ground combing and prevented the enemy from establishing effective control over a number of Lebanese border villages and towns.&#x201D;</em></p><figure class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular kg-card-hascaption" data-kg-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/media/2026/05/Jon-Elmer---Hezbollah-vs-IDF-in-the-past-few-days.--2054222172659367938-_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail>
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            <figcaption><p dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Another &apos;greatest hits&apos; video</span></p></figcaption>
        </figure><p>I include a general video here because this is a general point. &apos;Israel&apos;s&apos; strategy is to use its air superiority to cover its infantry and armor and move into southern Lebanon. This already didn&apos;t work well because Hezbollah was giving them hell with infantry ambushes and missiles, but that was at great cost to Hezb. The missiles are expensive and they lost a lot of men. Hezbollah&apos;s strategy is to lure the IOF into &apos;death squares&apos;, and FPV drones let them do this without dying so much themselves, or exhausting their limited wealth. </p><p>FPV drones are cheap, the operators are far away, and they can be used to harry the IOF alone or as combined arms. Thus the Union Center poetically concludes,</p><blockquote>The weapon, once a troublesome tactic, has become a decisive field deterrent. The Islamic resistance has proven its ability to neutralize Israel&apos;s formidable technology using precise, innovative, and cost-effective tools. This weapon has not only inflicted heavy losses on armored vehicles (the crown jewel of the army) and infantry, but has also been the decisive factor in establishing the equation of &quot;active deterrence.&quot;<br><br>During the Israeli-style ceasefire attempts, the interceptor aircraft work to prevent the enemy from consolidating its control on the ground or imposing a new reality through freedom of movement on the ground, proving that the final word on the modern front is no longer written only by the roar of warplanes (F-35s, small burners). Those that hover in the upper atmosphere, with a buzzing sound, they [can carry out] &quot;operations to impose control&quot; to swoop down silently, unseen and unheard, yet they strike a fatal blow, reducing what the enemy calls a &quot;war of survival&quot; for his soldiers hiding in the sacred soil of the South.</blockquote><p>The autotranslate is mangling it, but you can see the poetry in there, I&apos;m sure it sounds better in Arabic. It really is poetic justice, that the final word on the modern front is no longer written by the roar of warplanes, but by in insistent, resistant drone. </p><div class="kg-card kg-file-card"><a class="kg-file-card-container" href="https://indi.ca/content/files/2026/05/Union-Center.pdf" title="Download" download><div class="kg-file-card-contents"><div class="kg-file-card-title">Union-Center Report</div><div class="kg-file-card-caption">Badly auto-translated</div><div class="kg-file-card-metadata"><div class="kg-file-card-filename">Union-Center.pdf</div><div class="kg-file-card-filesize">165 KB</div></div></div><div class="kg-file-card-icon"><svg viewbox="0 0 24 24"><defs><style>.a{fill:none;stroke:currentColor;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-width:1.5px;}</style></defs><title>download-circle</title><polyline class="a" points="8.25 14.25 12 18 15.75 14.25"/><line class="a" x1="12" y1="6.75" x2="12" y2="18"/><circle class="a" cx="12" cy="12" r="11.25"/></svg></div></a></div><div class="kg-card kg-file-card"><a class="kg-file-card-container" href="https://indi.ca/content/files/2026/05/Union-Center-List.pdf" title="Download" download><div class="kg-file-card-contents"><div class="kg-file-card-title">Union-Center-List</div><div class="kg-file-card-caption">List of operations</div><div class="kg-file-card-metadata"><div class="kg-file-card-filename">Union-Center-List.pdf</div><div class="kg-file-card-filesize">368 KB</div></div></div><div class="kg-file-card-icon"><svg viewbox="0 0 24 24"><defs><style>.a{fill:none;stroke:currentColor;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-width:1.5px;}</style></defs><title>download-circle</title><polyline class="a" points="8.25 14.25 12 18 15.75 14.25"/><line class="a" x1="12" y1="6.75" x2="12" y2="18"/><circle class="a" cx="12" cy="12" r="11.25"/></svg></div></a></div><h3 id="conclusions-and-some-propaganda-videos">Conclusions And Some Propaganda Videos</h3><p><em>I won&apos;t lie, the conclusion is pretty good, it ties in the chess metaphors. But this is unnecessary, I hope you&apos;ve got the vital information above. And the propaganda videos (one AI and one using falconry) are cool too, but publically available. </em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Paradigm Shift Of War: America's Loss (Part I)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fighter jets are starting to looking like cavalry]]></description><link>https://indi.ca/the-paradigm-shift-of-war-part-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a016c43ecc3720001e81415</guid><category><![CDATA[War]]></category><category><![CDATA[USA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Military]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[indi.ca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 06:56:21 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/damaged-sites-1.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-12-at-11.43.27.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="The Paradigm Shift Of War: America&apos;s Loss (Part I)" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1672" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-12-at-11.43.27.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-12-at-11.43.27.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-12-at-11.43.27.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w2400/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-12-at-11.43.27.jpg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">&apos;America&apos; taking things too far, as usual. Sun Tzu said hide in the recesses of the earth, while &apos;America&apos; hides behind the Earth itself.</span></figcaption></figure><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/damaged-sites-1.jpg" alt="The Paradigm Shift Of War: America&apos;s Loss (Part I)"><p>Sun Tzu said, <em>&#x201C;To excel at defense means hiding oneself away in the deepest recesses of the earth. To excel at offense means striking from the highest reaches of the heavens.&#x201D;</em> This remains the paradigm of war, but the paradigm has shifted, hard. We&apos;ll cover the first part of this today, &apos;America&apos;s&apos; loss. Tomorrow (inshallah), Iran&apos;s gain. </p><p>&apos;America&apos; used to hide itself figuratively under the earth, attacking people on the other side of the globe. I don&apos;t think Sun Tzu thought of this, but you can&apos;t get a better defensive position than putting the mass of the entire planet between you and your enemies. And they used to get away with it, too, because they could <em>strike from the highest reaches</em> using aircraft and satellite overview. But now the paradigm has changed and they&apos;re a parody of themselves. Their warships are succumbing to dryer lint, their bases have been bombed out of existence, and their planes get blown to the wind; all thanks to the Resistance. Not because Iran <em>et al</em> beat the Empire conventionally, <em>but because they changed the conventions</em>.</p><p>Turning on a paradigm, the Islamic Resistance has hidden itself literally underground. Palestine fought from tunnels and Iran from tunnel cities that cannot be found, let alone dismantled. I&apos;ve been to basic Vietnamese tunnels, which were already clowning &apos;Americans&apos;, but what Iran has are entire mountain redoubts. Even under the concentration camp of Gaza, Hamas was able to tunnel and hold out for <em>years</em> without the White Empire being able to take them down. How do you take down what is already down? This is a paradigm shift of dimensional proportions and any advantage the old, effectively 2D, paradigm gave them is gone. The Resistance has hidden itself away in the deepest recesses of the earth and can defend itself indefinitely.</p><p>At the same time, Iran is able to <em>strike from the highest reaches of heaven</em> using these hidden assets. Not just missiles but fast boats are hidden underground until it&apos;s time to run and gun. Iran has leapfrogged the idea of manned aircraft entirely to an entirely new paradigm, smart missiles and drones. &apos;America&apos; has rode into World War III with aerial cavalry, and Iran is carving them up with artillery x1000. The paradigm shift really is as big as the shift from horsepower to mechanization. </p><p>Why, in the 2000s, would you send a man to deliver dumb bombs when the smart missiles deliver themselves now? This isn&apos;t asymmetric warfare as much a technological leap akin to the smartphone. &apos;America&apos; is Nokia in this case and Iran is Apple, and you know how that goes. And why would you need an aircraft carrier when you have an unsinkable carrier called <em>land</em>? Warfare is returning to the mean where you don&apos;t fight on the other side of the planet because the colonized have done more than reach technological parity. They have changed the playing field paradigmatically. </p><p>Donald Trump crows about destroying the Iranian Air Force, but <em>the IRGC doesn&apos;t have an Air Force.</em> It has an Aerospace Force, largely unmanned and almost entirely underground. He crows about destroying the Iranian Navy, misunderstanding what their Navy is. It&apos;s a bunch of fast attack boats hidden also underground, not a bunch of ungainly ships waiting to be hit. This is a paradigm shift, and &apos;America&apos;, <em>mashallah</em>, is in deep shit. </p><h2 id="americas-loss">America&apos;s Loss</h2><p>The old defensive paradigm of &apos;America&apos; (which enabled it to be so offensive) was &apos;America&apos;. They spent hundreds of years invading and genociding Turtle Island and that has given them cover for a hundred years of genociding and invading the rest of the world. &apos;America&apos; can hit anybody in the world, but nobody can hit them back. This is before even discussing nuclear weapons.</p><p>&apos;After&apos; World War II (it only ended for White people) &apos;America&apos; began both consolidating and <em>negating</em> that advantage with military bases, many of them inherited from the British. They won a wide White Empire from the failed European colonizers, but this also gave them <em>a lot to lose</em>. As Rudyard Kipling said in 1899, referring to the US colonization of the Philippines and the <em>White Man&apos;s Burden</em> they inherited.</p><blockquote>Take up the White Man&apos;s burden&#x2014; <br>  Send forth the best ye breed&#x2014;<br>Go bind your sons to exile<br>  To serve your captives&apos; need;<br>To wait in heavy harness<br>  On fluttered folk and wild&#x2014;<br>Your new-caught sullen peoples,<br>  Half devil and half child. </blockquote><p>The White Man&apos;s Burden weighs heavy upon them now. Nearly 800 bases gave them a seemingly stable way to spread chaos and coercion but it also gave the Resistance hundreds of isolated targets that are much easier to hit than &apos;America&apos;. And yet &apos;America&apos; concentrated its power there, like horcruxes of hubris.</p><p>Let&apos;s take just CENTCOM, as Iran has, lol. They based their Fifth Fleet out of Bahrain since 1997 but have now had to retreat to Florida. Iran and we have been saying this bases was cooked from the beginning but now the <a href="https://archive.ph/XxIG7">Whitewashington Post</a> comes out and admits it, saying, <em>&#x201C;A U.S. official said that damage at the Naval Support Activity [Bahrain] is &#x201C;extensive&#x201D; and that the headquarters there relocated to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, the home of U.S. Central Command. It is unlikely that troops, contractors or civilian employees will return to the base &#x201C;anytime soon,&#x201D; the official said.&#x201D;</em></p><p>CENTCOM has been chased back to Florida, which is defensible, but which cannot sustain offensive operations on the other side of the world. Just as their stolen valor in WWII marked &apos;America&apos;s&apos; takeover of White Empire, the stoic valor of Iran in WWIII marks their final takedown. These bases are <em>never</em> coming back. Mark my words, or actually, mark <em>their </em>words. As former CENTCOM Obergruppenf&#xFC;hrer Frank McKenzie <a href="https://indi.ca/why-america-will-lose-to-iran/" rel="noreferrer">said in a report</a> to his literal Jewish bosses (JINSA), <em>&#x201C;The United States will not be able to maintain these bases in a full-throated conflict, because they will be rendered unusable by sustained Iranian attack. It is the simple tyranny of geography.&#x201D;&#xA0;</em>This was in 2024, and his &apos;contingency&apos; is exactly what happened. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-12.42.58.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="The Paradigm Shift Of War: America&apos;s Loss (Part I)" loading="lazy" width="1640" height="1496" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-12.42.58.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-12.42.58.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-12.42.58.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-12.42.58.jpg 1640w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><p>&apos;America&apos; has had to withdraw to its second line of bases (Saudi, Jordan, &apos;Israel&apos;) but these are also not defensible. The whole White line they drew across the Middle East is being rolled back, to Cyprus, Diego Garcia, and ultimately England. The latter is the only truly safe place to park, and as McKenzie said, <em>&#x201C;There is no strategic depth. An F-35 is very hard to hit in the air [not really]. On the ground it is nothing more than a very expensive and vulnerable chunk of metal sitting in the sun.&#x201D;</em></p><p>Bahrain was just one base, which I use to illustrate my point, but they all got pinpointed. As Marc Cancian of the ISIS of think tanks, CSIS, told the White Post, <em>&#x201C;The Iranian attacks were precise. There are no random craters indicating misses.&#x201D;</em> The bases that McKenzie said would be &#x2018;rendered unusable&#x2019; included, in the main, Al-Udeid (which Qatar built to occupy itself in 1996), six bases in Kuwait (including Camp Buehring, established 2003, unestablished 2026), and whatever shady shit they were up to in the UAE. These bases are now effectively gone, forwarding address Florida. &apos;America&apos; inherited the White Empire from the Europeans, but they also inherited the fate of every previous incarnation. Overextension. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-12.51.16.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="The Paradigm Shift Of War: America&apos;s Loss (Part I)" loading="lazy" width="1998" height="1984" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-12.51.16.jpg 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-12.51.16.jpg 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-12.51.16.jpg 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-12.51.16.jpg 1998w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"><figcaption><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">&quot;Iranian airstrikes have damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites across the Middle East since the war began, hitting hangars, barracks, fuel depots, aircraft and key radar, communications and air defense equipment, according to a Washington Post analysis of satellite imagery. The amount of destruction is far larger than what has been publicly acknowledged by the U.S. government or previously reported.&quot; (the </span><a href="https://archive.ph/XxIG7#selection-453.0-461.268"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">White Post</span></a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></figcaption></figure><p>Whereas &apos;America&apos; can still theoretically command from the heart of White Empire, they cannot control without the regional bases they have come to rely on. They&apos;ve thus been reduced to petty piracy and luxury terrorism. Al Qaeda was &apos;America&apos; and now &apos;America&apos; is Al Qaeda, it&apos;s come full circle.</p><p>All the natural advantages &apos;America&apos; had are negated by their inheritance of White Empire&apos;s basing and their own freebasing of naked White power. &apos;America&apos; once hid behind most of the land mass of Earth, but they negated that advantage after 9/11 when they moved to regional occupation. They then had a lot to lose, and now they&apos;ve lost it.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/image-10.png" class="kg-image" alt="The Paradigm Shift Of War: America&apos;s Loss (Part I)" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1000" srcset="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w600/2026/05/image-10.png 600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/image-10.png 1000w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/size/w1600/2026/05/image-10.png 1600w, https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/image-10.png 2000w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Do We Do Tonight? Try To Take Over The World]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pinky and The Brain]]></description><link>https://indi.ca/what-do-we-do-tonight-try-to-take-over-the-world/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f80bf23602d10001187662</guid><category><![CDATA[White Empire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Media]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[War]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[indi.ca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 09:08:59 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/pinky-and-brain-1.webp" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/images/2026/05/pinky-and-brain-1.webp" alt="What Do We Do Tonight? Try To Take Over The World"><p>&apos;American&apos; goals aren&apos;t complex. It&apos;s literally black and White Empire. It&apos;s almost cartoonish, like the plot of <em>Pinky</em> <em>&amp; The Brain</em>, a capsule episode of which I reproduce below.<em> What are we going to do tomorrow night? </em>Pinky always asks. <em>The same thing we do every night, try to take over the world.</em></p><h2 id="pinky-the-brain">Pinky &amp; The Brain</h2><figure class="kg-card kg-video-card kg-width-regular" data-kg-thumbnail="https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/5b/e85b7799-d704-466e-8ceb-4f31ee39569d/content/media/2026/05/A-Meticulous-Analysis-of-History--n9aYrURLHh0-_thumb.jpg" data-kg-custom-thumbnail>
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        </figure><p><em>Pinky &amp; The Brain </em>is a cartoon I used to watch as a kid, as part of <em>The Animaniacs</em>. That cartoon was ratchet but occasionally educational, like this episode. <em>Pinky &amp; The Brain </em>have the same plot every episode, though this one digressed into <em>how</em>, using history.</p><p>First, The Brain finds that Cleopatra failed because she depended too much on the Romans. So he says, <em>&#x201C;I won&apos;t need world alliances when I&apos;m commanding everyone&apos;s appliances.&#x201D; </em>This is basically &apos;America&apos;s&apos; plan to corner the world energy markets today (I didn&apos;t say it&apos;s a good plan, neither are The Brain&apos;s). </p><p>Then, analyzing Hannibal&apos;s failure to take Rome, The Brain says <em>&#x201C;an elephant is not required if I can use the media to be admired.&#x201D;</em> This is Trump&apos;s plan for life, it&apos;s getting uncanny here. The US military is like an elephant that&apos;s been dragged through the Alps; impressive once, but tired and out of place now. All the big aircraft carriers are dying from laundry fires but it doesn&apos;t matter, Trump can still use the legacy media to be admired. </p><p>Referring to Attila the Hun, The Brain said, <em>&#x201C;why pillage like a criminal when I can send out messages subliminal.&#x201D;</em> It&apos;s not quite subliminal, but Trump is moving markets by tweet, making actual pillaging unnecessary. He has not seized much Venezuelan oil, let alone Iranian, but his messaging means he and his cronies can profit from the volatility immediately. </p><p>Finally (for our purposes), The Brain describes how the Roman Emperor Caligula made people salute his horse. He says, <em>&#x201C;why rule like such a reprobate when I can put the world in a hypnotic state.&#x201D; </em>Trump doing both, hypnotizing the world <em>by</em> being a reprobate. Look at the markets, doing donuts around the still-closed Strait of Hormuz. Caligula was actually onto something here, and if anyone&apos;s Caligula, it&apos;s Trump. It&apos;s like lost forum user Thomas777 said,</p><blockquote>Having a clown government is one of the ways America antagonizes the world I believe. Its a &apos;gaslighting&apos; manuever. America will menace you with some kind of horrific arial assault, and send Hillary Clinton or some other bizarre clown to &quot;negotiate&quot;. Normal groups of people don&apos;t have any idea how to respond to such things, so anything they do will be &quot;wrong&quot; within the parameters of the rigged psychological game. <br><br>Its like Caligula making you salute his horse who has been made a &quot;general&quot;, and if you don&apos;t he&apos;ll torture you to death or invade your territory.</blockquote><p>At the end of this history lesson, Pinky&#x2014;who is otherwise busy trying to make a hot dog without a bun and doing the chicken dance&#x2014;chimes in with the punchline that one-shots The Brain immediately. He says, <em>&#x201C;I&apos;ve learned that one thing&apos;s true, everyone of them has failed and so have you.&#x201D;</em></p><h2 id="taking-over-the-world">Taking Over The World</h2><p>The fact is that taking over the world is fundamentally absurd. The United Kingdom invaded all but 22 countries and then imploded. The US has 800 military bases across at least 80 countries minus the ones Iran just exploded. The White Empire keeps re-forming without reforming and exploding and then imploding. It really is like <em>Pinky &amp; The Brain</em>, which is the same plot over and over. </p><p>In this sense, &apos;America&apos;s&apos; foreign policy isn&apos;t complex as much as cartoonish. Iran exists independently and has resources. It must be smashed and/or its resources must be tooken. Asking why Trump is attacking Iran&#x2014;hopefully his last stand&#x2014;is like asking Jeffrey Epstein why he raped the last girl, the one that sent him to remand. Why wouldn&apos;t they? They always got away with it before. </p><p>Ever since colonialism sprang out of Europe, there has only been one plan. Take over the world. Take land. Take resources. Take children. Raze what can&apos;t be taken as a lesson to those that would resist. The leadership has changed hands but the plan never has. The core of White Empire is greed incorporate and it either spreads or dies, there is no chilling. They&apos;re dying if they&apos;re not killing, that&apos;s the nature of an infinite growth algorithm (the stock market) that turns natural life into artificial waste. </p><p>Trying to analyze White Empire&apos;s predation through the &apos;American&apos; nation, or the Jewish nation, or any such abomination (like Germany, France, take your pick) is like trying to analyze heart disease through just a foot or an ear. There&apos;s certainly some information there, but there&apos;s more afoot here. </p><p>Whatever state claims the false flag today, it&apos;s the same greed incorporate at the unbeating heart of it, it&apos;s long been this way. Since the VoC first IPO&apos;d in Amsterdam (1602), since the South Sea Bubble blew up in London (17something), and since Trump pumped and dumped the US stock market (wait for it). What are they going to do tonight? Bro, is it your first episode? Not for me, I&apos;ve been colonized three times before, four if you count the IMF, which I do. <em>Try to take over the world</em>. </p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>