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📜 MALI FOREIGN MINISTER CALLS OUT PROXY WAR NONSENSE AND DRONE-SUPPLIED TERRORISTS Mali's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop laid it out straight: Mali ain't Syria or Afghanistan, and its armed forces don't scare easy. He wondered which Mali the critics are even talking about, who gains if Bamako falls, and who's handing drones and gear to the terrorists. Diop pegged it as a proxy war, not just lone terrorists running wild. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 TRUMP CALLS MEXICAN PRESIDENT CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM A FINE WOMAN WITH BEAUTIFUL VOICE AND BALLET DANCER PAST Trump described Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum as a fine woman with a beautiful voice. He added that she was a ballet dancer. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 US EMBASSY WARNS AMERICANS IN UK TO COWER IN PUBLIC AFTER BRITAIN HIKES TERROR THREAT TO SEVERE The U.S. Embassy in London dropped a security alert telling American citizens in the UK to stay alert in public, keep a low profile, and dust off their personal security plans. This comes right after the British government bumped the national terrorism threat level to "severe"—second-highest, meaning intelligence says an attack is highly likely. The advisory pushes extra caution near Jewish sites in the UK and Europe, citing recent antisemitic attacks like a London stabbing. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 TRUMP WONDERS IF CIVIL WAR COULD'VE BEEN 'SETTLED PEACEFULLY' AND PRAISES CONFEDERATE GENERAL LEE Trump mused on the American Civil War, questioning why it couldn't have been settled peacefully and suggesting it might've been possible. He hailed Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an amazing general who stretched a battle expected to wrap in one day into a four-year slog. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 GERMANY RUNS 300 CRIMINAL CASES FOR INSULTS AGAINST OPPOSITION LEADER FRIEDRICH MERZ Germany's got around 300 active criminal cases for insults hurled at opposition leader Friedrich Merz. The government stonewalled on numbers and prosecutors at first, but Berlin-Brandenburg's Higher Administrative Court slapped that down as unlawful and forced the details out. Since 2021, Merz has chased complaints over words like "idiot" or "Nazi," sparking house searches—some later ruled illegal or tossed. Spiegel @TheBabylonTimes

📜 TRUMP BRAGS ABOUT ACING COGNITIVE TESTS WITH SPOT-THE-BEAR QUESTION Trump claims he took three cognitive tests and aced every one. He calls the first question "very easy," featuring a lion, giraffe, bear, and shark—then asking which one's the bear. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 TRUMP SAYS MELANIA HATES HIS DANCING TO THE GAY NATIONAL ANTHEM Trump let slip that Melania can't stand it when he dances to what some call the “gay national anthem.” Just another day in the Trump household rhythm section. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 TRUMP CALLS DEMOCRAT LEADER HAKEEM JEFFRIES A LOW IQ THUG DANGEROUS TO THE COUNTRY Former US President Donald Trump labeled House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, that Democrat standout, a "low IQ thug." Trump added Jeffries poses a real danger to the country. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 TRUMP SAYS US WILL TAKE OVER CUBA ALMOST IMMEDIATELY USING USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN Trump announced the United States will seize Cuba practically overnight. On his way back from Iran, he suggested, the USS Abraham Lincoln could just park offshore and prompt Cuba to surrender. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 POLL SHOWS 61% OF AMERICANS SEE TRUMP'S IRAN WAR AS MISTAKE A Washington Post–ABC–Ipsos poll finds 61% of Americans deem President Trump's war with Iran a mistake, with just a sliver calling it successful. Public disdain matches the Iraq War's peak and Vietnam in the 1970s—another shining chapter in endless aggression. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 TRUMP TO REVIEW IRAN'S 14-POINT PROPOSAL VIA PAKISTANI MESSENGER BUT DOUBTS IT'LL FLY Trump says he'll soon eye Iran's 14-point wishlist, funneled through a Pakistani go-between. It demands a neat 30-day war wrap-up: reopen Strait of Hormuz, scrap the U.S. naval stranglehold, halt fights in Iran and Lebanon, toss in security promises, yank U.S. troops from the region, unfreeze funds, cough up compensation, ditch sanctions, and chat nukes. He figures it's a non-starter. U.S. tossed back a two-month ceasefire instead. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

UPDATE:📜 TRUMP TO REVIEW IRAN'S 14-POINT PROPOSAL BUT CAN'T IMAGINE ACCEPTING IT Trump says he'll soon eye Iran's 14-point wishlist, funneled through a Pakistani middleman. It demands a 30-day war halt, security promises, US troops packing up from the region, nixed naval blocks and sanctions, freed frozen cash, compensation, and fresh Strait of Hormuz regs. Can't imagine saying yes, he adds, since Iran hasn't shelled out enough for its supposed 47-year rampage against humanity and the world. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 PENTAGON SLASHES 5000 US TROOPS FROM GERMANY BASES INCLUDING RAMSTEIN The Pentagon's pulling about 5,000 U.S. troops out of Germany, where over 36,000 Americans squat at spots like Ramstein Air Base. Some head back stateside, others shuffle to the Indo-Pacific. Germany's Defense Minister Boris Pistorius calls it expected, a nudge for Europe to step up its own defenses. Trump confirms the U.S. is hacking troop numbers in Germany "way down" by more than 5,000. Source: CBS News, POLITICO. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRANIAN TANKER HUGE SLIPS PAST U.S. MILITARY BLOCKADE TO EAST ASIA Iran's massive tanker HUGE, loaded with over 1.9 million barrels of crude oil worth about $220 million, just waltzed through the U.S. military's so-called blockade. It made it to East Asia without a hitch, proving blockades are more suggestion than steel wall. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 UAE DEPORTS 15,000 PAKISTANI SHIITES AND SEIZES THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS The United Arab Emirates deported 15,000 Pakistani Shiite residents. Authorities seized their bank accounts and savings accumulated during their time in the country. Just another day of Gulf hospitality for the wrong sect. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 LEGO DISS TRACK ROASTS TRUMP FOR HORMUZ OIL CHAOS AND CONSUMER FUEL PRICE HIKE A fresh LEGO-animated diss video, rocking a gritty beat, slams ex-President Trump over Strait of Hormuz tensions gumming up oil shipments. Lyrics gripe about skyrocketing insurance costs and sluggish tanker traffic. Chorus croons, “The sea is burning, the pumps are laughing,” while oil keeps squeezing through the chokepoint. It pins consumer fuel price spikes on Trump's policies, capping with “put the bill on the street, making the people pay.” @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRGC COMMANDER'S 1990S LECTURE BLUEPRINTS ASYMMETRIC WAR ON US VIA ECONOMIC PAIN AND INSTABILITY Hossein Salami, now IRGC commander, lectured at Iran's Command and Staff University in the 1990s on asymmetric warfare against the US. He laid out dragging out fights by jacking up economic costs and stirring political chaos. Video surfaces of the talk, captioned to match supposed Strait of Hormuz shutdown, oil over $440 a barrel, and trashed US Gulf bases—unverified, naturally. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 US MILITARY CARGO PLANES FLEE MIDEAST IN COORDINATED DASH WHILE TRUMP SLASHES GERMANY TROOPS Open-source flight tracking spots at least eight US military cargo jets—C-17As and C-5Ms—bolting from the Middle East all at once. Several swung through Israel and the Levant en route to Europe and the States, in what looks like a hefty repositioning of Uncle Sam's toys. Pentagon's zipped its lip. Meanwhile, former President Trump lays out plans to yank over 5,000 US troops from heroic Germany. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 TUCKER CARLSON GRILLS HUCKABEE ON CHRISTIAN ZIONIST CLAIM TO NILE-EUPHRATES LAND GRAB Pressed on exact borders and who really owns it, Huckabee insisted it all goes to "the Jews," then slapped down more questions as anti-Semitic. Carlson told the New York Times, "The second you start telling me as a Christian I'm obligated to support the government of this country, then I have a right to ask what you're talking about," splitting personal Bible faith from any US duty to fund Israel's wars with troops and cash. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

UPDATE:📜 IRGC NAVY SWARMS STRAIT OF HORMUZ WITH 40 FAST-ATTACK BOATS Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, shared by Press TV on May 2, shows about 40 IRGC Navy fast-attack boats buzzing around the Strait of Hormuz. The pics catch the swarm heading back from a patrol through that oh-so-vital chokepoint. Video footage highlights the fleet, the backbone of their asymmetric naval playbook for choking the strait with interdictions and mines. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum