Ed Franks
@edfranks
MA: Theo/Fuller Sem/'08 PhD: Econolytics/RAND/'80 MPh: Policy Analysis/RAND/'78 MS: Biochem/MIT/'76 BS: Chem/UCSD/'74 ⬆︎Reagan/Hayek/Hume/Locke/PresZ⬆︎ ⬆︎TULIP/Calvin/Cromwell/Owen⬆︎ ⬇︎Putin/Marx/China/Quds/Hamas⬇︎ ____________________________________
See below story/pic of another (!) strike on Ryazan refinery. Also reported: SBU claimed responsibility for the attack in Perm, revealing that the target was the Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez refinery, located more than 930 miles from Ukraine. BRAVO! kyivindependent.com/wildberries-...
More on the merging of 2 wars via the important Caspian Sea issue: "Ukraine's ambassador to Israel, Yevgen Korniychuk, said the vessel had been carrying components for drones and missiles from Iran to Russia, not civilian cargo." www.msn.com/en-xl/news/o...
Ukraine had every right to attack this illegal Iranian supply line to & now from Russia. Iranian whining about it is beyond ridiculous. www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
Praise the Lord! kyivindependent.com/ukraines-ome... "Ukraine's Omega special forces say drone strike hit Russian Su-24M in occupied Crimea. The Su-24M is a modernized version of Sukhoi Su-24, Soviet-designed supersonic frontline bomber that Russia uses to carry out strike missions against Ukraine."
OMG, how glorious is this news, that UKR has hit a target with force that is 2500km (1550mi) deep into Russia! And the damage is large - this is not a small attack! Praise God. Video w/i the attached shows many fires & actual explosions ongoing on site. PTL. kyivindependent.com/russias-larg...
The only thing BBC should be covering during this endless parade of BS "devout" Shias is the story of NEDA, who was shot by a Basij thug from a nearby rooftop in Jun 2009. She was w/her music teacher & they were trying to get to the protest site. She bled out on the spot. The video went viral.
A remarkable recovery of a strategic strip of Ukrainian dirt has just occurred despite being under Russian control since Mar 2022! Praise the Lord! Slava Ukrayini! Allahu akhbar! (See map) kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-tr...
Brilliant! More serious drone strikes by UKR LR drones that carry warheads big enough to do serious damage to "hard" targets! Hallelujah! Armiansk bridge in the NW of Crimea is at risk. Glorious news! Henichesk and Chongar bridges in NE also shaky. God is good! kyivindependent.com/ukraine-conf...
More good news. New Behemoth drone, which was just made operational, carries a 1OOkgs in 2 warheads (1's a fragger; 2nd is thermobaric!) and can loiter for up to 180 miles at 100 feet thus putting much of Crimea at even greater risk, as this strike suggests?! PTL! kyivindependent.com/drone-strike...
Brilliant! Ukraine LR drone strikes a Russian corvette in a naval port near St Petersburg, about 1000km from Ukraine!? This is incredible news. UKR has already cleared the Black Sea - could the Gulf of Finland be next?! The Lord works in mysterious... kyivindependent.com/military-rel...
This is great! Finally, the 35yr frozen war in Moldova (Transnistria) is on the verge of ending; eliminating yet another lever from Putin's bag of tricks, leaving only Georgia (Ossetia & Abkhazia) & Kaliningrad to finally end Russia's post-WW2 grip on EU peace?! youtu.be/PaLNay_Uuls?...
Good news. 2 very expensive long distance recon Russian aircraft are no more, along with an Iskander launching system and misc destruction to boot. Praise God! kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-dr...
We gotta stiffen up our prison sentences for espionage, not to mention treason, esp vs China?! We go too easy on too many cases & we are too quick to exchange perpetrators!? www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
Brilliant long distance drone strike by Ukraine against Russian oil industry assets! Praise God. "Ukrainian drones strike Russia's Yaroslavl oil refinery, General Staff says amid latest mass attack inside Russia" kyivindependent.com/fire-reporte...
Glorious news as Ukraine drone strikes have caused major damage to Russian oil facilities near coast ½ way between the Kerch Strait & Georgia! Praise God. May Russia, indeed, suffer much "disbelief!" kyivindependent.com/a-nightmare-...
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! Praise Geez-zuzz-zuzz! www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-ru...
This war would've been nearly over by now if only anybody other than Tramp had been elected POTUS! But since Tramp is so dependent on whatever Putin's promised him, Ukraine must endure w/o any aid from the world's largest military for another 2 or 3yrs, insanely. kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-fo...
Finally, a relatively useful map of Pokrovsk & the Donetsk Oblast context!? I've been a careful (?) student of UKR since 2014, but I've been challenged tracking the Eastern Front's status! Many (?) who've long beaten the UKR drum may STILL be map-challenged. : / kyivindependent.com/zelensky-bel...
Glorious; brilliant; excellent; unbelievable! The UKR drone program, working in conjunction w/HUR intel ops, is just simply doing remarkable things under the most adverse circumstances. Slava Ukrayini! kyivindependent.com/ukraine-stri...
It's a puzzle that Tramp's never considered recruiting Mousavi, the last person in Iran to win a relatively free & fair election back in Jun 2009?! He's been under house arrest since he jumped on the Arab Spring bandwagon in Feb 2011. He's still bravely calling for reforms. He remains under arrest.
It seems exceedingly likely, given how far west some of these cities are (see map below), that Belarus is taking an overtly active role in the drone war, not just allowing overflights but also launches directly from SW Belarus!? Surely HUR's returning the favor! kyivindependent.com/russia-attac...
Good news. This is the first major evidence that the UKR LR drone attacks in recent days on the Russian Baltic ports NW of St Petersburg (Primorsk & Vyborg - see map below) have imposed some significant damage! Praise the Lord! : ) kyivindependent.com/russian-mili...
Brilliant news from Ukraine, or rather, from Russia's recently damaged Baltic Sea oil port at Primorsk, which constitutes an excellent way to offset Russia's oil export freebie due to Tramp's idiotic easing of Russian sanx! Praise the Lord! kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-...
The site of the school was 400' from a large IRGC base. There were 6 craters on the IRGC base; 1 on the school. It seems odd that Iran would put a school next to an IRGC base?! (NPR pics below on the left show the site before the attacks; on the right shows the site after the attacks.)
So it seems that this "holy" empire of Shia Muslims who run Iran has devolved into nothing more than a de facto hereditary kleptocratic monarchy?! How pathetic. & THIS is the mullah, Mojtaba Khamenei, who led the charge to steal Mousavi's election to the presidency in 2009. May he not prosper.
Glorious news! Much damage at a "Russian" port that the Russians removed to 3yrs ago when protecting Sevastopol became too difficult. Now what, Komrade Putin?! kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-...
Good grief, where does it say in the Quran or even in any of its vast troves of exegetical literature that government/secular leadership should mimic a hereditary monarchy?! The selection of Ali Khamenei's son to rule Iran for life should be appalling to anyone of any faith?!
Ukraine drone attack causes 6 explosions at Kaleykino oil pumping station near Almetyevsk, 1,200 kms (750 miles) from the Ukrainian border! Gotta be the new LR Flamingo drones that carry 2500lbs! May Ukraine quickly produce many of these new drones! Pray for Z! kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-...
Thank God the Flamingo drones seem to be in enough supply to put massive pressure on Russian assets deep in-country! These drones have range of approx 1800 miles w/payloads in excess of ONE TON! If production can be maintained, Russia itself may sue for a peace! kyivindependent.com/drone-strike...