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The White House has released a video of Trump's visit to the NATO summit in The Hague accompanied by the song Hey Daddy. The footage is accompanied by the caption "Daddy's home" - "daddy is back" or "daddy is home".

Let us recall that at the summit, Secretary General Rutte called Trump "daddy". Although he later stated that he was misunderstood. "I didn't call him 'daddy'. I just said that sometimes in Europe I hear some countries asking: 'Hey Mark, will the US stay with us?' And I said that it sounds a bit like a little kid asking his daddy: 'Hey, are you still staying with your family?' So in that sense I used the word 'daddy' - not that I called President Trump daddy," Rutte said.

I love how trump uses the N word to refer to nuclear lmao

If, and that's a humongous IF, if Trump is really right about this ceasefire thing, then I'll bury myself in a bunker somewhere in Albania and commit the rest of my life to touching grass and smoking grass, because there's really no rational actor on my beloved Axis of Resistance after Soleimani and Nasrallah.

European Workers Warn Against Cutting Social Spending for Defense Increases - Telesur English

they were talking about regime change yesterday day i ain't buying the "it's time for peace thing".

im not a geopolitical analyst (thank god) but imo there's two possibilities:

1. they're gonna keep violating the ceasefire and when iran responds trump can justify a full scale invasion to his base on the account of "they took away muh nobel peace prize".

2. the more likely scenario, it's there to buy time for another surprise attack like the first day/launching a civil war. im not saying israel was in a worse position than iran, but the fact is that they were running out of interceptors. they believe (and unfortunately im inclined to believe as well) that they have done enough damage to iran's missile program to stop us from replenishing our missile stockpile, while they fill up their interceptors, re-establish bases and contacts inside iran and gather intel for another attack or even attempt an uprising.

there's already reports of light weapons being smuggled into iran and there's ongoing talks with shah's failson. climate change ain't making the weather any cooler and there's an eerie sense of anger hanging in the air. the last large scale protest was 3 years ago and looks like we have those every couple of years now.

islamic republic has failed to establish deterrence and now the only path forward is to both change domestic policy and root out corruption to appease the populace, and to get a nuclear weapon to establish real deterrence. and I'm sad to say but seeing our geriatric and libbed out leadership (with a huge portion of them being outright assets) i don't have high hopes. i hope im wrong but it looks like iran is on the path to become the next libya.

Dem Fascist (Senator Kirsten Gillibrand) meltdown over Zohran;

https://x.com/barbarismcrit/status/1938309709842550831

Israel has closed its airspace until further notice.

-Telegram (DDGeopolitics)

IAEA chief Grossi gave an interview on French radio today, link here. What I find most interesting is this statement:

Yes, and the knowledge we have of the facilities and capabilities, for example. I'll give you an example: Fordow, the major underground facility that everyone's talking about. It's almost like a movie script. We've seen the images of the perforations from these high-penetration bombs. Obviously, we can't assess the degree of damage. But given the power of these devices and the technical characteristics of a centrifuge, we already know that these centrifuges are no longer operational, because they are fairly precise machines: there are rotors, the vibrations have completely destroyed them. There couldn't have been any nonsense about significant physical damage. So, we can draw a fairly precise technical conclusion. I know the Fordo facility. It's a network of tunnels where different types of activities took place. I can also tell you that what we saw in the images and analyzed more or less corresponds to the enrichment hall.

So that's all the centrifuges at both Fordow and Natanz gone according to the IAEA. Over 15 000 of them were in active operation, 13 000 at Natanz and 2000 at Fordow, with Fordow being especially costly as the advanced IR-6 centrifuges were located there. So the blast pressure and overpressure through the ventilation shafts directly into the enrichment halls destroyed the centrifuges, according to Grossi. Also pretty clear why Iran no longer want to co operate with the IAEA.

I have a question regarding the wests ultimate goals in Iran and how they don't really make much sense in regards to regional and worldwide safety from nuclear threats.

Let's say that Iran hadn't evacuated their 60% enriched stockpile from Fordow, and these strikes were a complete success. There is now half a ton of enriched uranium buried at the site.

And let's also say that a successful decapitation strike occurs. Iran is thrown into civil war with many factions. Some have extreme ideologies, maybe more extreme than the regime ever was.

Now obviously this would not result in a nuclear weapon, assuming the country is fractured and unstable. But whoever ends up controlling the fordow site now just needs to do a bit of excavation and we are looking at material to make dozens of dirty bombs, potentially falling into the hands of a group as extreme as ISIS. How is burying half a ton of nuclear material and destabilizing the country at all going to lead to safety for the world?

Juan Shaihdo has just declared himself interim president of Iran

Iran’s top military command vows ‘more forceful’ response if Israel repeats aggression

Having lived in Qatar and knowing many people there, kind of insane to see first hand accounts and videos of the missiles.

Mashallah. I support the Islamic Republic against the US and Zionist imperialists.

Looks like Israel have responded by launching a symbolic airstrike targeting a radar in Tehran.

🚨🇮🇱 Channel 12: Israel Braces for Major Iranian Response Tonight — Home Front Command Maintains High Alert ⚠️🛡️

https://bsky.app/profile/fintwitter.bsky.social/post/3lscakoacv22q

Does anyone here know the Iranian born western academic Vali Nasr? He wrote "The Shia Revival" a while back and also a book titled "The Rise of Islamic Capitalism: Why the New Muslim Middle Class Is the Key to Defeating Extremism" (just so you know where he stands).

Anyway he put out a book written right before the Assad government fell called "Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History", it's what it says on the tin. I think for anyone confused about why the fuck Iran does what it does and what its leaders think, usually in their own terms and not the author's, this is a good read.

But before reading just listen to that episode of about the terms "proxy" and "backed" because the author views Iran's "Forward Defense" strategy of supporting these organizations as reprehensible, while no doubt he would not say the same about whatever NGOs the US literally funds. Despite that, it's not too axe-grindish a read I think he did a good job of relaying what the hardliners and reformists believe and why, and any sensible reader will read this and note how in plenty of matters the hardliners are correct.

There's lots of good stuff about Khamenei too, like how he was influenced by new left theories of anti-imperialism and dependency theory. Also explains why Iran for a long time (and even until today) is very reluctant to join a Russia-China axis (the iranian foreign minister literally has "neither east nor west" on its entrance)

At the end he puts out a warning to the regime that basically there's a chasm forming between its commitment to its strategies for resisting the united states as a means of becoming a regional power and the wishes of many iranians to adopt a more """""pragmatic""""" approach (like nuclear negotiations). This was obviously all before the recent missile lobbing war so I hope that chasm as been reduced in favor of the regime.

It's on the audiobook torrent site too

EDIT: Found the guy's twitter and he seems to understand that Iran is not just going to return to the negotiating table after one happens, and it may have only hardened Khamenei's already incredibly hard will to resist the US

US visa changes

https://www.thejournal.ie/us-visa-changes-6740830-Jun2025/

Fire erupts at the World Heart Hotel in the Iraqi city of Baghdad.

Russian forces liberated eight more settlements over the past week (Novaya Kruglyakovka and Petrovskoye in Kharkov oblast; and Dyleyevka, Novosergeyevka, Zaporozhye, Perebudova, Shevchenko and Yalta in the Donetsk People’s Republic): https://tass.com/politics/1982135

SouthFront has another big collection of recent Russian combat footage: https://southfront.press/summary-of-russian-combat-footage-from-june-27-2025/

A Russian missile strike destroyed a Kiev regime ammunition depot (video): https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/06/27/1474304.html

Interesting analysis:

THREAD: It seems a ceasefire has been achieved in what US President Trump is now calling the “Twelve-Day War” between Israel and Iran. What motivated the parties involved to accept it?