I told you, like Iran told me, that they'd get to 'Israel' eventually. I went to bed thinking that was the big news—them hitting Haifa Refinery—but I woke up to even bigger news, them hitting an F-35 (plus three). The White Empire has now lost air supremacy, naval supremacy, and never had land supremacy; all they have left is White Supremacy, which just looks silly. I said Iran won on day one of the Ramadan War, but that took some explaining. By day 20, I think everyone can see. So let's see.

The F-35

Nuclear weapons, missile defense, and stealth airplanes were the Empire's three pillars of power. They enabled them to appear omnipotent and remain unipolar. But these were all illusory powers, as Iran is showing us. Iran has showed that you don't need nukes for it to be MAD to attack you, that missile defenses can be rendered defenseless, and that stealth aircraft can spotted and dotted too. Just look for yourself. It's beautiful.

I said Iran hit an F-35 ‘plus three’ because Iranian spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaghari said four hostile aircraft were intercepted, and he has never lied to me. The Cradle reported that a second F-35 was hit (though Ary pulled that story). I don't know the provenance of the other two bogeys.

The Empire is saying these planes somehow limped back to base (in the UAE, you understand why Iran is bombing that satrapy), but the Empire has always lied to me. They keep ascribing hits to dryer lint instead of just taking it.

How did Iran hit the unhittable F-35? Through indigenous air defenses and ingenious air offenses. As Press TV (Iran) reports, “Commander of the IRGC's Aerospace Force, Brigadier General Seyyed Majid Mousavi, says that what is more dangerous than F-35s, drones and expensive American aircrafts are the things that hunt them down in the skies, built by the knowledge and might of the Iranian youth.” I would note that most Iranian scientists are women, in case you need to liberate yourself of some preconceptions.

An Iranian military analyst (forgive me, can't find the name) is calling this a SAMbush, a Surface-to-Air Missile Ambush. That's a cool name but from his general description this could actually be an Air-to-Air Ambush (possibly using a loitering defensive drone like a 358/359). But that would just be an AAmbush which isn't as cool.

This analyst's analysis is that, via COMBATE,

• Iran likely deployed "SAMbush" tactics – mobile air defense ambushes using systems with minimal radar emissions to avoid detection
• The F-35 was supposed to be invisible and unhittable – that's why it's the most expensive weapon in human history
• The US can't blame a foreign operator this time – it was their own jet, their own pilot at the controls
• This forces the US to rethink operations: they no longer face open, uncontested skies
• Concern for US tanker aircraft in Iraq increases "tenfold, twentyfold"
• Major implications for F-35 manufacturers and international buyers who were sold on invincibility

The last point is a bit funny because the F-35 is hideously expensive, perennially back-ordered, and now basically unmakeable. It's more than an illusory power projection, the plane itself is somewhat illusory. They're shipping current deliveries with gym weights in the nose because they can't make the radar anymore. The F-35 was always a bit of a joke, but joke's on them now. The F-35s did work as a very expensive illusion of power but now that illusion is shattered.

The fact that F-35s are being shot down now shows that America was scared of Iranian airspace before. They've been using expensive planes as self-propelled artillery, pulling up to the border and firing stand-off munitions (JASSMs, etc) over. And still getting shot down, like the F-15s in Kuwait. But the American military isn't built for this sort of 'horizontal' warfare. They follow an outdated vertical model of warfare (drop bombs down) whereas Iran is horizontal (shoot smart missiles across). They don't have many ‘horizontal’ munitions which is why they now have to risk their irreplaceable planes going over Iran. Which they can't. They can't even survive over Iraq.

I don't know what the “things that hunt them down in the skies, built by the knowledge and might of the Iranian youth” are. People speculate that a new form of loitering defensive drone (the 358/359, as previously discussed), though it's obviously combined arms. Iran is using some combination of minimal radar-emissions detection, satellite oversight (stealth is not actually invisible), and old-fashioned intelligence gathering and observation. Since Iran is so mountainy, planes would have to take certain paths, which could be predictable. I don't know, but Iran does, and America is finding out. This is a huge strategic loss, because America's whole air strategy is dropping expensive bombs on poor people and they can't do that to Iran. This is also a great victory for poor people across the world.

Haifa

The White Empire (America, 'Israel', same thing) bombed Iran's gas production—hitherto untouchable because of mutually-assured destruction‚ and Iran has responded with mutual destruction. Iran hit Qatar's complicated LNG plant, deading 17% of their capacity, with damages that won't be fixed for 3-5 years at least. This is a major hit to the entire global (re: imperial) economy and even Trump had to disavow 'Israel's' attack and say he'd stop the next one, as if he had nothing to do with the first one. Of course he did, it's one White Empire and always was.

The Qatar hit was like previous hits where Iran is hitting the Greater Israel that is the Gulf Apostates, but not scoring great points against 'Israel' itself. But this is not what the people want, they want the Greatest Hits of the 12-Day War, like Boom Boom Tel Aviv. And Iran has finally delivered. Of course, they have been hitting 'Israel' steadily, along with Hezbollah, with strikes, be some accounts, every 90 minutes. However, the picturesque strikes were missing, until last night. Just look at this. This is the Haifa power plant burning. Iran has tried many times with smaller strikes but now they've unleashed the bug guns. Nasrallah is back, in munitions form.

As the IRGC said in their usual update (via al-Manar),

🔸 The Haifa and Ashdod refineries, two of the largest oil refining facilities of the Zionist regime, along with a number of security targets and military support centers of this entity in the region, were struck by precision missiles in the 65th wave of Operation True Promise 4.

🔸 In this operational wave, carried out under the slogan “O Aba Abdillah al-Hussein (peace be upon him)” and dedicated to the martyrs of the IRGC Aerospace Force, the Nasrallah missile system (the upgraded and guided Qadr system) was used for the first time.

🔸 The medium-range missiles “Qiam” and “Zulfiqar” also hit American targets and interests at Al-Kharj base, which is the main site for supporting the refueling of F16 and F35 fighter jets and American AWACS spy planes, as well as Sheikh Issa base, the headquarters of the command and control center, data and combat communications facilities of the terrorist American army, and Al-Dhafra base, where these targets were hit with precise hits by medium-range missiles that operate with liquid and solid fuel of the multi-warhead Qadr type, Khaybarshakan, Qiam, and Zulfiqar types.

There were reportedly power outages in Haifa and environs, which is important. Having lived through power-cuts, once they get beyond about 12 hours you overthrow your government, and 'Israeli' society is more fragile than Sri Lanka's. They are cracking now and the smart ones are already getting out.

Another fascinating thing is that Nasrallah is back, in the form of a powerful missile. The Empire keeps killing leaders (Al-Qassam, Sheik Yassin) who then get reincarnated as weapons (the Al-Qassam Brigades, the Yassin-105) that torment them forever.

There's more that happened yesterday, much more, but I have to take my kids to school and see if I can find some diesel (there's rationing and outright shortages across South and South-East Asia). I can tell you that the imperial power system is disconnecting and Iran is taking power, we can already feel it down here. Change hurts but a change had to come. More power to Iran.