Totally Expected.

 And this is the only thing those cowards in London and D.C. are capable of. So, the warning has been issued. 

❗️❗️❗️❗️Kiev is preparing a provocation to disrupt the negotiations scheduled for August 15 between Putin and Trump, warned the Russian Ministry of Defense. According to available data, on Friday the Armed Forces of Ukraine have planned a provocative strike using UAVs and missiles on one of the densely populated residential areas or a hospital in the Kharkiv region. The consequences are to be "documented" by Western journalists brought in. For this purpose, a group of foreign media journalists was delivered to the city of Chuhuiv the day before under the pretext of "preparing a series of reports about the residents of the city in the frontline zone." The Kiev regime plans to place all responsibility for the strike on the Russian Armed Forces to create a negative media background and conditions for disrupting the negotiations. Provocations are also possible in other settlements controlled by the Kiev regime, - added the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Per Western journos--most of them are war criminals and many are down right terrorism supporters. Nothing new here really. 

Yes, They Did.

 And most news outlets report this: 

The US gave Iran advance notice before launching strikes on three of its nuclear facilities, according to a report on Sunday, in what appears to have been a calculated move to avoid full-scale war. Speaking to the London-based outlet Amwaj Media on condition of anonymity, a high-ranking Iranian official said the Trump administration informed Tehran that it did not seek an all-out confrontation and would only launch a 'one-off' strike on the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites. US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared to partially confirm this later on Sunday, when he said that the US “does not seek war” with Iran in the aftermath of the surprise overnight attack overnight. “This mission was not and has not been about regime change,” Hegseth added.

Of course it was a Kabuki theater but it also paraded Trump Administration as subservient to Israel and Israeli lobby in the US which completely corrupted US foreign policy and exposed the US as a rogue state. 

The aftermath of "Operation Midnight Hammer," the U.S. military's audacious strike on Iran's key nuclear facilities Saturday night, has plunged the international community into a new state of alarm. While U.S. officials maintain the goal was to dismantle Iran's nuclear ambitions and avoid war, a stark warning from former Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has intensified fears of a dangerous escalation: a number of countries are now prepared to arm Iran with nuclear warheads.

Well, the US had a good run. Meanwhile, if Iran doesn't learn her lesson, I can only assume that one cannot deal with Iran either. We'll see with what face Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will talk to Vladimir Putin (especially after Araghchi's verbal equilibristic in interview to NBC 48 hours before US strike) on Monday after Russia went out of her way trying to convince Iran that it plays a losing game with the West and that it should have followed the path of North Korea in terms of security arrangements with Russia. I speak about this in my video today, which should be up soon.  

From Plato To NATO(c).

This is the manifestation of the best of old British intellect as coined by Alastair Crooke. Everything that we all warned about is now visible to anyone who cares to see. 

It is over for the West and we all, and you all know who we are, warned about it for years. The reckoning is upon us and no narrative can change it. I just want to remind you what I wrote five years ago:

Warfare is a geopolitical tool of the first order. In fact, geopolitics as a field of interaction of nations cannot exist without it. Warfare, in the end, formed and continues to be anchored in the human condition, and as a result, in our political, social, economic and cultural institutions. No understanding of warfare is possible without understanding its most important tools, weapons and people, tactics and operational art. It is precisely the field in which American political class has zero competencies—they simply do not teach nor grant degrees in what amounts to military science in the United States.

It took Russia, again, to start dismantling what today has become the house of demons and horror in the West and by the West, and she is doing it again in a Russian way--by defeating it on the battlefield.