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(Hopefully this post, containing only links concerning one current event, is according to The Rules(TM) )
Iranian ballistic missile fragment hitting the old city of Jerusalem, falling roughly 400 yards from the Western Wall and Al-Aqsa.
Not the first time it happened.
Oordinary oops? Final Iranian desperate move to incite Spirit of Jihad(TM)? Israeli false flag, in preparation to finally remove these obstreperous buildings to make space for Third Temple?
Reminder that really spicy times hadn't began yet.
Or, another possibility is when Al-Aqsa gets destroyed for real, nothing really happens. The Ummah, tired of lifetime of fruitless rage, just shrugs their collective shoulders. "We have enough mosques at home".
Mother of all anti-climatic endings ensues.
Just stay calm and keep monitoring the situation.
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Another news, another habbening, concerning this time both Eastern European and Middle Eastern situations.
A radical anti-Israeli group set fire to a drone manufacturing plant in Pardubice, Czechia.
Looks like continuation and escalation of previous actions, looks as Edinburgh January 2026 action except this time with more competency.
(competency as: use gasoline instead of spray paint and hammers, and do not wait to be arrested, GTFO to fight another day)
Group calling itself "The Earthquake Faction" was never heard about before, and the plant was manufacturing drones for Ukraine, not Israel.
It is rather clear what is going on - even FSB/GRU are learning, and instead of trying to derail European war effort with exploding dildos, found out how to redirect pro-Palestine useful idiots on more fruitful targets.
The perpetrators are very unlikely to be locals - in Czechia, as in whole post-Soviet Central/Eastern Europe, opinions on Middle Eastern situation range from "GO ISRAEL GO! SMASH BURN DESTROY!" to "Pox on the whole sand box". Sympathy for Palestine is extremely rare even among local woke folx, pro-Palestine protests are pathetic affairs with few dozens attending at best.
Situation still developing, keep monitoring.
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Situation status: MONITORED
Situation update:
The object was protected, but no one could predict that someone would use Star Trek tier technology to get in.
Fire in Pardubice: They forcibly entered the building using a hammer and an axe
Not ordinary hammer, but large assault hammer (probably painted black). Obviously, all resistance was futile.
The damage seems to be substantial.
The Pardubice hall that caught fire must be demolished
Hundreds of millions. Zbrojovka estimated the damage after the arson attack
Hundreds of millions in local money. 100M CZK ~ 4,7M USD right now. Do the maffs.
Cost of operation: train tickets, few hammers, axes and cans of gasoline, about half dozen activists.
Good ROI? Certainly better than throwing soup at paintings, chaining yourself to road or releasing rats in fast food restaurant.
Now, the question is: how many activists are there, and can the recruiting pipeline deliver new ones faster than the existing are hunted down? If the answer to the later question is yes, get ready for spicy times.
I mean, that's not wrong. Generally, security these days isn't "leave it unmonitored with a wall nobody can get past", it's "have sufficient fence/barbed wire/whatnot to delay people long enough for security to respond."
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