🇺🇸🇧🇪⚔️🇨🇩 On this day in 1961, Patrice Lumumba the Prime Minister of DR Congo, known for his struggle against colonization and imperialism was overthrown and arrested by Colonel Mobutu Sese Seko, a US and Belgian backed military officer who would become a crony dictator of said country for 32 years, cracking down on anti imperialist opposition and allowing foreign companies to mercilessly exploit the country. DR Congo is the richest country in terms of raw untapped minerals worth of an estimated 24 trillion dollars, yet 81% of the Congolese people live on less than 3$ per day.

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🇺🇸🏴‍☠️⚔️🇮🇷After the IRGC announced that the tanker El Gaia had exploded after hitting a naval mine while passing through the restricted zone south of the Strait of Hormuz, CENTCOM presented a different account. CENTCOM claimed the tanker had been disabled a month earlier by an Iranian missile, was struck again by a drone last weekend, and that the IRGC’s claim of a “mine strike” was incorrect.
However, vessel‑tracking data now shows that El Gaia passed through the Strait of Hormuz nine days ago and was operational — a detail that challenges CENTCOM’s assertion that the tanker had been inactive for an entire month.

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