Links 6/25/2026

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1. The Rev Kev June 25, 2026 at 7:09 am

   “Trump signals Turkey could rejoin F-35 programme ahead of NATO summit”

   Would that be wise for Turkiye? Israeli politicians have already come out and said that they want to go after Turkiye. So lets assume that Turkiye has equipped itslef with F-35s when Israel finally attacks. How do the Turks know that Washington, supporting Israel as always, will not activate the kill switches on all those Turkish F-35s rendering them as just expensive paperweights?

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2. Carolinian June 25, 2026 at 7:18 am

   Re children killed in Gaza

   https://scheerpost.com/2026/06/25/hezbollah-hunts-down-hind-rajabs-killers-crushes-israeli-offensive/

   Now the 401st Armoured Brigade — the unit identified as being behind Hind’s killing — is being hunted down in Lebanon by Hezbollah. The Hind Rajab Foundation, a non-for-profit seeking justice for Palestinians killed in Israel’s genocide, filed a 120-page complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) that named 24 Israeli soldiers and commanders responsible. Among those names was that of Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Ella, a commander of the 52nd Armoured Battalion, who was targeted and seriously injured back in 2024 by Hezbollah and whose replacement commander was also critically wounded.

   Accountability in The Hague moves notoriously slowly. But accountability on the battlefield is much swifter as Hezbollah has continued to pursue the leadership structure implicated in Hind Rajab’s brutal killing. In May of 2026, Hezbollah seriously wounded Colonel Meir Biderman of the 401st Brigade. Then, on June 19, another commander of the 52nd Battalion was killed when his tank was destroyed in southern Lebanon by an FPV drone strike, eliminating him along with three other soldiers attempting to advance upon the Ali al-Taher Hills area.

   The Israelis like to talk about their “price tag” attacks on their enemies. Backtoya.

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3. AG June 25, 2026 at 7:49 am

   re: SMO / McGovern / Sleboda

   Yesterday I posted a link to Russian audio-only Q&As by audience to a member of Russian Special Forces.
   Martyanov was kind enough to transcribe in English at least a few of the audience questions which I alread found very helpful:

   https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/96f37fb811c2d2904be7f0b41f57caf3498e51acbe0fd9c276ed6993dfa7dab1.jpg

   p.s. Am not through yet but Ray McGovern at least in essence rejected the core of the current NATO PR of “RU WWIII or losing war” in Glenn Diesen´s podcast.

   Considering the in the West ubiquitous military nonsense this is important.

   It´s shocking how quickly even altern. media have forgotten those fragments of truth about the Ukraine War which seeped through.

   Like we never heard of those 2M AFU casualties, the Hundreds of Thousands of deserters, Western mercenaries reporting war crimes by Ukraine and the rising brutality not only at the front by fascist units against their “own” but also with forced conscription.

   Someone recently on fb commented, UKR is essentially a concentration camp for men.

   Ray McGovern: Putin Under Pressure to Retaliate Against NATO
   50 min.
   https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/ray-mcgovern-putin-under-pressure

   Also:
   Mark Sleboda with Jamarl Thomas Video #2
   15 min.
   https://marksleboda.substack.com/p/diplomatic-posturing-and-dancing

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4. DJG, Reality Czar June 25, 2026 at 7:56 am

   The use of Italy as a air bridge for the war in Iran (and, presumably, I’d venture, for the genocide in Palestine).

   The scandal was bubbling along low-key here in Italy. I had read reports in Fatto Quotidiano by the excellent journalist Stefania Maurizi (who is an ally of Julien Assange). But even in FQ, it was hard to put the details together and get the story in front of a wider public.

   Now, Mark Rutte has blabbered. Just a comment on our over-mediated society: Imagine what would have happened in WWII if someone had blabbed something like that on a newsreel — a meeting with a projectile would follow. Yet in this time of too many media all the time — plus selfies — there is no end to people willing to do anything on camera. Or in an ultra-long logorrheic post on Substack. What may be what is doing in Taibbi. Let’s hope that Rutte’s blabbering does him in, too.

   To wit:

   Italy’s Defense Ministry immediately rebuked the statement, saying Rutte’s comments were “totally misleading.”
   They insist they only authorized logistical and technical flights, not direct combat support, and that Rutte had no role in the operation.

   Crosetto is seeing how many missiles he can get to dance on the head of a pin. Logistical, as if they were picking up loads of arancine at Sigonella to feed the U.S. troops in the Gulf.

   A bigger scandal has now broken out. I note, though, that there is still almost not reporting surfacing on YuToob.

   My solution: The Italian government should simply close all of the bases. They exist so that an occupying power can occupy a loser from WWII. They are a source of interference in Italian politics. Some commentators here have started essays by asserting that Italy has no enemies. Which isn’t exactly true. Yet an invasion by Slovenia, Albania, or Greece is unlikely.

   A moment of caution: And yet the Germans now have loads of guns and a dolt like Merz of banking fame in charge. But the U S of A isn’t going to protect Italy from the Germans. Al contrario.

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