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  • in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 06 Nov 2023 #20846
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    In light of the absolute catastrophe in hospitals and continued intransigent genociding, I expect severe words and decisions by Nasrallah in his next speech tomorrow in about 18-19 hours. The Iranian FM indicated as much. Gazans simply lack time for careful protracted diplomacy..

    💠@Arab_Africa:  
    Libyan representative to the UN questioned the authority of the International Criminal Court [ICC]
    On November 8, at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Libya with the participation of the ICC, US Deputy Permanent Representative Jeffrey de Laurentiis called for continued international criminal prosecution of Seif al-Islam Gaddafi.
    However, Libya’s representative to the UN, Tahir al-Sunni, said that the ICC has not yet made public the results of the investigation into the mass graves discovered in the city of Tarhuna and has not named the names of those involved in this crime, so the ICC does not have the right to keep Libya under its close attention.
    Al-Sunni also called for reconsidering the authority of the ICC if this organization does not take decisive steps to protect the people of Palestine. [This appears huge. Part of lawfare. There is close coordination between Libya and Russia, with its leader visiting Putin a few weeks ago; a Russian base is mooted in Libya. Payback for Gaddafi, and the ICC and its use as a western weapon against Africa, Putin, Serbia. It is now on the dock for silence in Gaza. ALL UN bodies are going to be reformed or discarded in the trashbin]
    Abu Ubaydah (a representative of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas), is now extremely popular in the Arab world. His live performances are awaited and watched by the whole family. The video shows a taxi driver from Tunisia who decorated his car with a portrait of a Palestinian hero. [video]
    How the Arab world views the appeal of Al-Qassam military representative Abu Ubaida. It seems to me that if the president of all Arab countries were elected in the Arab world, he would easily win them. Nobody gathers as many people around their TVs as Abu Ubaydah. In the photo: a trend in Arabic social networks. #HAMAS [media]
    An Algerian parliamentarian donated a thousand dollars to Abu Ubaida to purchase two Yassin 105 missiles, [effective against tanks] and also advised all Algerians to follow his example.
    Algerian Society for Peace MP Zakaria Belkheir announced a donation of money to the Palestinian resistance. He sent the appeal, made from the rostrum of parliament, to the representative of the Al-Qassam Brigades (the military wing of Hamas) Abu Ubaydah.
    Belkheir drew an analogy between the current war in the Gaza Strip and the Algerian liberation war against France from 1954 to 1962. He recalled that the Algerian resistance fighters who liberated the country from French colonialism were first called “terrorists,” but then the whole world was forced to recognize them.
    He also asked Abu Ubaydah to write his father’s name on one of the rockets so that he could at least gain the honor of joining the jihad waged by HAMAS.
    Let us recall that in 1962 Algeria gained independence from France, the price of which was the death of about 150 rebels and up to 1.5 million civilians. [what a bitter symmetry. That may be also the case in Gaza, after they launched the ground ops]

    💠@Resistance News Network:
    ⭕ Gazans in Rafah, southern #Gaza, are using sunflower oil in their vehicles in light of the fuel shortage due to the zionist siege. [Likely thanks to Ukraine too, lol!]
    ⭕ Islamic Resistance in Iraq: The fighters of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeted the American occupation base ‘Al-Tanf’ in Syria with a drone, directly hitting its target.
    ⭕ Martyr Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades [Hamas]:
    🔹targeted at dawn today a zionist bulldozer with a “Al-Yassin 105” shell and a tank turret with a “Tandem” shell south of Gaza City.
    🔹targeted a zionist tank with a “Al-Yassin 105” shell, east of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
    🔹destroy a zionist tank northwest of Gaza City with an “Al-Yassin 105” missile.
    🔹target two zionist tanks and a bulldozer with “Al-Yassin 105” shells south of Gaza City.
    [I usually do not report these, as too numerous, but submit this sample to highlight the importance of “Al-Yassin” local munition and the awareness of the appreciative arab street throughout the region]
    Ministry of Health in Gaza: The toll of martyrs from the “israeli” aggression rose to 11,078 martyrs, including 4,506 children, 3,027 women, and 678 elderly people, and 27,490 citizens sustained various injuries. The “israeli” occupation committed 12 major massacres during the past hours, claiming the lives of 260 martyrs. We received 2,700 reports of missing persons, including 1,500 children still under the rubble.
    Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:

    The Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip, with all its military wings, is fighting the battle according to a strategy designed to exhaust the enemy forces and achieve victory for our people. This war will not end except with a victory for the resistance.

    The resistance has not yet faced any setback or failure, and our people’s confidence in the resistance is complete in what it declares. This is the main point of strength in this battle, alongside the determination of the resistance fighters and leaders to achieve victory.

    The resistance is exerting all its efforts to spare our people from the brutal crimes of the enemy, which imposes additional burdens on it, which it rises to with determination and a spirit of sacrifice.

    We call on the masses of our people, our nation, and the free people of the world to escalate action and struggle against the forces of the aggressive alliance, and to transform popular anger into a fire that burns the forces of aggression and their supporters in every place in this world.

    We affirm our complete confidence in achieving a historic victory for our people, despite the brutal crimes of the enemy’s army and the ongoing genocide, and the collusion of the forces of aggression against our people.
    Hezbollah releases the photos of its seven martyrs whose martyrdom was announced today:
    – The martyr fighter Jawad Mahdi Hashem “Abu Saleh.”
    – The martyr fighter Mohammed Ali Abbas Assaf “Jawad.”
    – The martyr fighter Jaafar Ali Sarhan “Mehran.”
    – The martyr fighter Abdul Latif Hassan Sweidan “Safi.”
    – The martyr fighter Qassim Mohammed Awada “Malak Ghanem.”
    – The martyr fighter Ali Khalil Al-Ali “Khader.”
    – The martyr fighter Mohammed Qassim Tleis “Abu Ali.”
    Glory to the martyrs.
    [we do not hear much. The Resistance gives the spotlight to the Gaza Genocide and heroics, to burn the Zionists and combined West faster thereby. But the fighting is relentless and deadly for both sides in northern Palestine, every single day.]
    ⭕ Saraya Al-Quds [Palestinian Islamic Jihad]: Watch: Various barrages of missiles used by Saraya Al-Quds to bomb occupied cities, military sites, and invading zionist forces.
    Al-Aqsa Flood. [video]
    [largely militarily futile. However huge morale boost to the oppressed of Gaza who easily see these continued acts of defiance and very existence of their Resistance every day. It helps keep them going. The reverse is true: it adds to horror and abandonment of the zionist project. At least 250,000 have fled so far to their dual passport nation..]
    The criminal IOF carried out a series of new massacres of displaced Gazans.

    At least 25 martyrs ascended in the bombing of Gaza City’s Al-Buraq School, which housed a large number of displaced people. Civil Defense crews continue to search for dozens of wounded survivors under the rubble. (Media 1-3)

    In another strike, the IOF committed a massacre of displaced Gazans on Salah Al-Din street in central Gaza. Convoys of displaced people were targeted in the so-called “safe corridor” as they were moving south.

    After survivors arrived in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, they said, “The army brutalizes the displaced, assaults them, and practices threats and terror against them. Today, occupation aircraft targeted a large number of the displaced convoy near the Netzarim junction on Salah al-Din Street.” Another survivor said, “They struck women. They struck children. Their bodies are halved and we can’t recover them.” Someone adds, “For 20 days, martyrs have been on the ground on Salah Al-Din street. Ambulances cannot even reach them.” [these latter may be the ones eaten by dogs..]
    Hamas:

    In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

    The occupation’s massacre of the displaced on Salah Al-Din road and in Al-Buraq school is a stain on the forehead of humanity. Our people will not be broken in the face of this criminal fascism.

    The killing by the occupation of more than 50 martyrs in this massacre and its continued perpetration of more crimes in full view and hearing of the world, constitutes a stain on the forehead of the international community and all of humanity. Anyone who thinks that these massacres, which are carried out with the absolute support of the American administration, trampling all laws and human rules, will break our people and their resistance, is delusional. They do not understand the nature of this mighty people and their valiant resistance, rooted in this land and clinging to their rights until liberation and return, God willing. [this is why Genocide was decided on by the combined West. They have the excellent measure of Palestinians and know the veracity of these words by Hamas. Palestinians will not kneel in a hundred generations….]

    Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
    Friday: 26 Rabi’ al-Thani 1445 AH
    Corresponding to: November 10, 2023 AD
    ⭕ The Director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex:

    Today was a day of war on hospitals.

    We have exhausted every drop of fuel in the Gaza Strip, and this is a warning I direct to the world. Our fuel stock will run out tomorrow.

    Ten minutes after the power cut, all patients on artificial respiration will die.

    The situation is tragic in every sense of the word.

    Patients and wounded occupy all the hospital corridors, and we cannot perform surgical operations. Displaced people inside the hospital facilities are without food and water.

    No aid has entered the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

    The international community has not provided us with any water or a liter of fuel, and we are in a real crisis.

    The medical staff is frustrated because they cannot provide treatment to the wounded.

    Every day we lose a cancer patient or a child suffering from dehydration.
    ⭕ The Indonesian Hospital in northern #Gaza is completely out of electricity.
    ⭕ The IOF are opening fire on the Intensive Care Unit inside Al-Quds Hospital in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, west of #Gaza.
    ⭕ In Yemen, a major mass protest in the capital of Sana’a in support of the steadfastness and resistance of the Palestinian people and Axis of Resistance, featuring Palestinian flags and flags of resistance groups across the region.

    “With our souls and with our blood, we will redeem you, O Aqsa.”
    “O Gaza, we are with you! You are not alone!”
    “By Allah, we support the Flood!” [video[on the arabian peninsula, the only ones with humanity and a future reside in Yemen…]
    ⭕ During its strikes on southern Lebanon, the criminal IOF bombed Meis Al-Jabal hospital, but the missiles did not explode. [now the hospitals of LEBANON are being struck!!!]
    ⭕ Dr. Nidal Abuhadrous, head of neurosurgery at Shifa Hospital: “Dear colleagues. The situation in Shifa now is extremely dangerous. We as medical staff want to leave, but we can not! We might not survive till morning. We don’t want to be killed here, just because we remained committed to our patients & our medical profession. I am calling for help urgently! Please do whatever you can through your government or ICRC to arrange a safe corridor for the medical staff.”
    ⭕ A text message from @GhassanAbuSitt1, who is currently at Al Shifa Hospital, to journalist @IamArwaDamon
    Intense armed clashes are currently taking places in various axes in the northern #Gaza Strip. Resistance fighters are engaged in violent clashes with the IOF in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Medical Complex in conjunction with violent enemy artillery shelling to the area.

    The resistance is also fiercely clashing with the occupation forces near the Al-Quds Hospital in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood. Intense armed clashes are also taking place west of Beit Lahia.

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 06 Nov 2023 #20840
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    💠@Yeni Şafak in Russian:
    ⭕ 🗣🇺🇸 Dead children will never bother you, but living ones will – Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, an American scientist of Lebanese origin, author of the “Black Swan” theory, spoke about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
    ✍️ According to the Black Swan theory, certain events that are almost impossible to predict have a huge impact on the world, literally determining the course of subsequent history.
    ❗️ Taleb writes that “ Netanyahu has turned a local conflict into an Islamic one. And there are 2 billion Muslims in the world… ”
    Queues for food in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip [video]

    💠@Strategika51:
    ⭕ APDS arrow shell from an Israeli tank on which is written in Hebrew: “I hope it blows up innocent people”
    ⭕ Last night in Gaza…An unidentified weapon was allegedly used with the use of flares. [video]
    ⭕ Zionist propaganda shows cars destroyed on 07/10/2023. Noting the high number of damaged or destroyed vehicles, we quickly realize that armed men would never have had the time to cause such damage. Only rotary cannon fire from attack helicopters and artillery can cause such damage in such a short time. [video]
    ⭕ Another Israeli soldier lost in the Gaza Strip. The Falashas of Ethiopia have a holy horror of Netanyahu and now he is sending their children to war in Gaza… The race riot is not far away. [it already arrived, seen between factions of Eritreans, close relatives of Ethiopians, who periodically fight each other on the streets of occupied Palestine]
    White phosphorous munitions fall near the “safe” passage for civilians taking refuge towards the south of the Gaza Strip… [it appears the “safe” passages were designed and coordinated with gunships to better cull… Fortunately most listened to Hamas and stayed put in north Gaza.]

    💠@Middle East Spectator:
    ⭕ Red Alerts in the Galilee near Kiryat Shmona — Apparently fired from Syria. [this is same town bombarded by Hezbollah few days ago, causing most to evacuate]
    Israel itself will assume ‘full control’ over the Gaza strip after victory over Hamas, no regional or international forces – Netanyahu
    ⭕ NOTE: The ‘victory over Hamas’ is obviously a hypothetical scenario, and Hezbollah will never let this happen, Sayyed Hassan said it in his speech clearly. But currently, we have not even reached that point, as the resistance is doing well for themselves.
    ⭕ By the way, even if you don’t believe Hezbollah will interfere for solidarity, you must understand something. Gaza and the war against Israel is not just in Hezbollah’s interest because of ‘solidarity with the Palestinian cause’. In fact, as Nasrallah said, the victory of Hamas is a vital interest for Lebanon.
    If Gaza comes under Israeli occupation, they know that Israel will be able to focus attention & its forces and set its sight on Lebanon, which will undoubtedly be next. Gaza is the last line of defense for Hezbollah, so they won’t let it fail.
    Hezbollah confirms they launched 3 suicide drones against positions in the Galilee, hitting their intended targets
    ⭕ 🇺🇸/🇱🇧 NEW: American CH-47F ‘Chinook’ helicopters were seen rapidly heading towards Hamat airbase in northern Lebanon. Hamat airbase is operated by the Lebanese military, and has no official U.S. presence. [this is not a Hezbollah base, and Lebanese military is under partial GCC influence] [video]

    💠@Marwa Osman–MidEaStream:
    ⭕ Israel targeted Al-Shifa Hospital with U.S-made [Hellfire] R9X non-explosive missiles, as the missile turns into blades that fly over a distance of 100 meters to cut off human limbs in a criminal scene that is chilling to the bone. The U.S. regime is a primary accomplice to Zionist Israel in this Genocide. [I saw the absolutely horrifying result in this same hospital, a man who’s leg had been diced and severed. He likely bled out given the immediate blood loss gushing all around him]

    💠@MedManTG:
    ⭕ According to the Governmental Media Office, the official media outlet for the Hamas government of the Gaza Strip, over 50% of housing in the Strip has been damaged, with 40,000 housing units being completely destroyed. Initial estimated value of damage sustained to the Strip is worth at least over 2 billion US dollars. [these were largely tall concrete hovels built by Qatar… most enterprises and efforts of the satanic GCC are cursed in this dimension. Totally fruitless in most areas of the world.]
    3 unidentified drones coming from Lebanon entered Israeli airspace in the Upper Galilee. Most likely, these drones are either from the Palestinian factions in Lebanon or Hezbollah.
    One drone was intercepted, and two apparently hit their targets, there is an Israeli gag order on the event and therefore the situation is not clear.
    ⭕ Netanyahu states that Israel will establish full security control after the elimination of the government of Hamas. This means that Israel will take over the security, economic, and political functions of the Gaza Strip, which it withdrew from in the early 2000s during Ariel Sharon’s time. By that, Netanyahu seems to have also rejected the concept of an international peacekeeping force occupying the Gaza strip, that plan seems to have also failed. [The Palestinians rejected it; zionists are breathing bravado at the moment. They are flotsam whose terrible fated is to be determined by the Resistance Axis]
    ⭕Israeli artillery is, at the moment, bombing Mays al-Jabal in southern Lebanon.

    💠@Intel Slava Z:
    Two special planes arrived in Cairo to evacuate Russians from Gaza, a third plane is expected to arrive – source RIA Novosti
    Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that the scale of Israel’s conflict with the Hamas group will inevitably increase, Mehr agency reports. “Due to the increasing intensity of the war against the civilian population of Gaza, the expansion of the scale of the conflict has become inevitable,” the minister said yesterday in a telephone conversation with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani. [NOTE this fateful words. Evident some weeks ago really.. What remains to be seen is how much of the region is going to be torched. And how much of the GCC will escape the rubble.]
    Ebrahim Raisi will visit Saudi Arabia to attend an extraordinary meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The agenda of the negotiations is the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This will be the first visit of an Iranian leader to Riyadh since the restoration of diplomatic relations between the countries.
    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will also attend the OIC summit.
    ⭕ The Biden administration has received stark warnings from American diplomats in the Arab world that its strong support for Israel’s destructive and deadly military campaign in Gaza “is losing us Arab publics for a generation,” according to a diplomatic cable obtained by CNN. [they underestimate the damage. It is worse than Russo-European severance of relations, which appear will last a century or more.. The staying power of the West in West Asia now directly correlates with residual and ever-faster ebbing military capabilities.]

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon 8/11/2023 … Open Thread #20831
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    💠@MedManTG:
    ⭕ The United States is again threatening to blow up a Russian gas pipeline.
    Elena Panina, director of the Institute for International Strategic Studies:
    If someone promises to kill you, it’s better to believe him. Moreover, in this case, “killing Arctic LNG-2” is threatened by the same Geoffrey Payette, who, together with Nuland, distributed cookies at Euromaidan as the US Ambassador to Ukraine.
    From a technical point of view, “killing Arctic LNG-2” is [not] possible except through sabotage. All other options are excluded because the necessary equipment for the project, much to the surprise of the Western media, was imported after the sanctions were imposed.
    One way or another, Russia needs to be prepared for new sabotage at infrastructure facilities. And also prepare to punish those who try to harm us.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon 8/11/2023 … Open Thread #20819
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    “re 20779 above… recalling Ruskie Arctic LNG-2 Project is said to be highly disapproved of by US State Department. One of the stooges just made those sorts of oblique remarks similar to those uttered in respect to the gas pipes…”

    This is no joke! The same criminal who detonated the Kiev Maidan was promoted to be an Assistant Secretary of State and made the same threat as Nuland before they blew up the Nordstreams. Smelling the wind, just hours later, the Russians tightened movements in the approach of the Barents Sea to LNG-2…

    The criminality and aggression is ENDLESS and limitless and breathtaking in scope. The fight will be eventually taken to them. The crazed leave no alternative.

    From The Lookout-Z:
    “US puts ally at risk just to ‘kill’ project in Russia

    The United States is seeking to kill the Russian Arctic LNG-2 project implemented by NOVATEK. This was stated by US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Geoffrey Pyatt.

    “Last week we leveled new sanctions against the Arctic LNG-2 project which is NOVATEK’s flagship LNG project. Our objective is to kill this project.”

    Such an open confession, however cynical, this time is not only about Russia.

    It remains unknown whether Mr. Pyatt is aware that Japan, the US’s closest ally in every way, has invested $3 billion in the project.

    As of 2021, the Japan Arctic LNG owns a 10% stake in it.

    And despite the unfolding Ukrainian conflict, the Japanese government insisted that this involvement be continued due to the project being vital to Japan’s energy security.

    Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Yasutoshi Nishimura said that the latest US sanctions against the Arctic LNG 2 project will surely have an impact in the country and they now need to assess it.

    These words are quite interesting since they prove that the imposed sanctions came as much of a surprise to Japan as they did to Russia.

    Perhaps even more so, since allies are not usually expected to undermine your own energy projects.

    Thus, Mr. Pyatt just made it clear that if there is an opportunity to ‘kill’ an opponent’s project or two, it makes absolutely no difference who else gets hurt in the process.”

    ====

    Note the dual-use term “to kill,” even more explicit and evocative than Biden’s “put him down.” And what are the odds the Japanese will demonstrate more self-preservation than the Germans at what unfolds?? But the sappers first need to get to the Russian terminals. This is qualitatively different than simple gas pipes with ease of access in NATO waters.

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 06 Nov 2023 #20814
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    Iraqi tribemen

    Short answer: I don’t know emerson. My heart wants to believe the optimism of Shahid Bolsen and Bhadrakumar, but my mind, knowing history, some eschatology and human nature of deviants, tends to heed the weary bitter two who know the region and their people better  — Crooke and Abdel Bari Atwan. There will be blood. The evangelicals and zionists have primed a terrible pump. The fight is on.

    The former two do not appear to know the nature of the Gulf arab elites well. They are emotionally, spiritually and criminally tied to the combined West, even if they want to dissociate and save themselves. They have committed a sea of crimes!! The bagmen who killed MILLIONS. This is unforgivable among a people of honor who demand retribution. For generations they underwrote, justified, proselytised, funded, armed, and provided a rear base to the criminal extremists who torched MUCH of mankind. Their own kin and kith!! One cannot simply walk back such crimes, as terrible and countless and consequential as the Americans or any other. And so, like the current criminal impulses of the West, they are also constrained in a “flight forward,” in rank terror of accountability.

    And their western “friends” have a ton of kompromat. They will call on every card at this moment. So the bedouins are stuck.

    And even with the tremendous support, and forgiveness, and guidance and diplomatic cover of the major three civilizational states, they are on thin ice at home, as thin as ice just formed minutes ago! They appear even more hated at home than abroad, and susceptible to color coups if they deviate from provided scripts. All the numerous tribes they fiercely control hate them, aware of their rank hypocrisies and ways of life.. “The Age of Satan” did indeed arise in the Nagd of the Arabian peninsula, about a century ago. And the ones who will dismantle it are their very arab neighbors and restive tribes surrounding the oil. A learned friend told me several years ago, when the Yemen war started, that ALL countless saudi tribes were armed to the hilt and waiting for some signal to tear the artificial construct of Sykes-Picot to shreds. So where is the putative future of the Gulf??!! Karma is coming in a big way…..

    I suspect Iraqis, especially Sunnis, are wealthy due to ungodly bribes given by USUK in last years, in order to maintain the optical nature of occupation.. rather the US bases are all indefensible hostages surviving at their pleasure. Remember the huge desert area connecting eastern Syria, Jordan, western Iraq, and N/E KSA are populated by essentially same nomadic tribes, even having the same names after millennia.. These bases will be blasted to hell now. NOTHING will stop it, even if they nuke Baghdad. This Gaza war is healing their divisions in a good way, as everywhere. And creating true independence from their fellow tribesmen in GCC.

    USUK is really afraid. Karma is coming again in “Syraq,” as in Yemen.. In this I agree with Bolsen and MKB — a great opportunity arises for regional unity, against both the demonic west and the lost GCC moneymen. An early gift of Gaza

    Arab tribes (1947) and seasonal nomadic movements. Crafted with malice by the Brits and handed off to the new US gendarme.. A little dated, but largely holds, and has held for millennia in the four-state desert area. Borders tended to be ignored by nomads and tribes as in many other British-crafted border areas, whether between Niger-Nigeria or the Durand Line between AfPak. Sykes-Picot is only a century old. All these current states are new constructs. Loyalty remains to tribe…

    This is a representative map of Saudi tribes, and their wild numerous diversity. KSA is a HUGE land, 12th largest country in the world by area at 2.15M km². This is half the entire EU space of 4.2M Km²! Cobbled together into an irrational confederation of mutually-hating tribes by those studious Brits planting bombs to go off in a rosy needed future… Has this future arrived, with the construct now more a hindrance than a benefit?? Many areas in KSA still do not have electricity. The disparity in wealth is even more staggering than in US. Some 60-70% live below poverty line, on handouts, not receiving the oil wealth, resentful of those contemptuously begrudging them any development because they are a rival tribe! It is a primed powder keg.

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 06 Nov 2023 #20802
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    This is why MKB’s piece is a prayer: Is the US seeking a Gaza cease-fire to spare Israel, or is it just pretending? The writer, our old friend Abdel Bari Atwan, himself an incorrigible romantic, was born in a refugee camp in Gaza… Remember Hegemony is on the line. Cessation of hostilities at current juncture is defeat not only for the local Cancer, but its USUK Boss too. The zionist entity will be thrown under the bus, and its future torched, if this preserves Hegemony… So events remain most precarious in this elastic moment; war momentum may have acquired its own logic too… too many players have gotten a taste of zionist blood in last weeks

    💠@ejmalrai:
    ⭕ [retweet:] The US military has delivered a new batch of aerial bombs to the Israeli army. The United States supplies Israel with weapons every day. [US can keep this up a long time.. see below]
    ⭕ Israel’s invincible army asked the #US for help to defeat north of #Gaza (78 sq km).
    The US sent:
    US Generals to advise planning and attacks
    Drones
    Special Forces
    Delta Forces
    Jet carriers
    and
    Pampers diapers
    ⭕ To save Netanyahu & his trembling army, a “tactical ceasefire” will be offered to #Gaza and the Israelis to have a break as the Palestinian resistance has exhausted them. Netanyahu is upset because he wants to kill more children who represent the worst nightmare of #Israel.
    Excellent report. Israel’s attacks on Gaza: Examining the weapons and scale of destruction with quotes from @ejmalrai. aje.io/rgx8bj
    Who is waging war on #Gaza? The #US announced a four-hour ceasefire in northern Gaza, and @Netanyahu rejected it, saying he had not been informed.
    ⭕ The #Iraqi resistance attacked two #US bases in Ayn al-Assad and Hariri in response to the US-Israeli war on #Gaza. [chivalrous arabs can be strange fellas. They can endure or ignore their own foreign occupation but will fight the same foreigner to the death to avenge comrades or cousins thousands of kilometers away! No amount of USD can smooth over certain things..]
    ⭕ The 4 hours serve to support the Palestinian second Nakba from the north to the south of #Gaza and help #Israel to advance faster in its invasion. [precisely what I said! No honor dealing with nazis. Like Ukies who shelled Russians under a truce coming to collect their dead and wounded]
    ⭕ While #Yemen Ansar Allah claimed its responsibility for bombing Eilat, new explosions were heard in #Eilat this evening. Don’t underestimate the role of Yemen & what it is expected to do in the near future on the Red Sea and all shipments coming to Eilat harbour. [Ultimately the Hegemon and its proxies have to be defeated in the wallet for lasting peace]
    ⭕ According to my sources, #Yemen will be one of the main pillars of the defence of #Gaza if #Israel continues its genocide. Ansar Allah missiles and drones can stretch another 100 km deeper easily, but not now. Yemen won’t burn the steps unless… Will explain more …one day.
    [AHH: Note the difference with MKB, who thinks it is Hezbollah.. Yes, Hezbollah is closer, but Lebanon has been depleted and internally divided and exhausted like Syria.. Yemenis have Energizer bunny batteries strapped to their backs and little to lose. And they see the beloved bastard child of their USUK tormentor is now vulnerable, wide open to attack.
    I tend to agree with Magnier, who’s lived in Lebanon and the region for 30+ years over MKB on this issue. The Resistance should have calculated well whom to forward for each specific task. Yemen presents terrible choices for the Hegemon. It brings KSA, Dubai, Petrodollar, Red Sea, oil ships to Europe, Suez, etc.. into the game. And there’s little to level in Yemen, unlike Lebanon. And will generate tremendous hostility worldwide in attacking such an underdog too, like Gaza, which itself was genocided months ago too. Imagine the loss in prestige when little Yemen sinks capital ships! And Yemen has more numbers than Syria, Lebanon and Palestine combined and will fight on for centuries, having more testosterone than is healthy for any male. Their worst enemy in current circumstances is beloved Yemen….]

    ⭕ Keep in mind that #Israel built a city made of tents in #Eilat for all the settlers who escaped from the north (Lebanon) & south (Gaza) fronts. If #Eilat is bombed regularly, it means the following:
    No place is safe for the Palestinians.
    No place will be safe for the Israelis.

    From The Economist [Slavyangrad] — air-launched munitions used in Palestine were hardly used in the Ukraine. JDAMs have been the work horse ironing Gaza

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 06 Nov 2023 #20801
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    There is a massive accelerated “ironing” of Gazan hospitals throughout the last 24 hours… This will calm or console you given what you are about to read:

    Optimistic article from a fellow romantic; his tea leaves are our collective prayer..

    💠@MedManTG:
    106 Trucks of aid entered Gaza yesterday, Egypt and the United Nations are starting to be more and more consistent with the trucks entering Gaza.

    💠@Slavyangrad:
    ⭕ The Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces said that the military is already at Al-Shifa Hospital in central Gaza. According to the IDF, a Hamas command post is located in a bunker under the hospital. [Chief of Staff lies on both counts, but the intent is made clear by the map. Al Shifa Hospital complex is in the way of fully encircling north Gaza..]

    💠@Resistance News Network:
    ⭕ The tenth martyr of Jenin is martyr fighter Mohammed Al-Fayed. Mohammed continued to resist the occupation despite losing his right hand until he ascended in defense of the camp against the invaders. He is seen here with martyr Amjad Al-Fayed.
    Glory to the martyrs.
    Ministry of Health: The young man Qadri Azmi Qadri Hattab (22 years old) was martyred after being shot in the abdomen by occupation soldiers in Balata, Nablus.
    – The number of martyrs in Jenin has risen to 11.
    – The toll of martyrs since the morning in the West Bank has risen to 15 (11 in Jenin, one martyr in Al-Am’ari, one martyr in Balata, one martyr in Dura, one martyr in Beit Fajjar).
    ⭕ An IOF drone strike targeted a car in Burqin, #Jenin. It is at least the fourth airstrike in the camp today. No injuries were reported.
    Government Media Office in Gaza: This may be our last call... you must realize the plight of our people now, immediately; otherwise, regret will be of no use when an entire nation has been left to die from hunger, thirst, and disease after this occupier has used its military arsenal to kill and slaughter them.
    ⭕ Heavy IOF bombing targets the vicinity of the Indonesian Hospital in northern #Gaza, leading to a number of martyrs and wounded.
    Saraya Al-Quds military spokesman, Abu Hamza: Our people are being subjected to the most heinous crimes and massacres in complete silence. Our fighters are repelling the enemy’s tank columns and mercenaries on all fronts of the battle.

    We are facing with all defiance and steadfastness a world war, who clear target is the genocide of our Palestinian people. The enemy, in the midst of madness, targets everything, even its own prisoners in the hands of Saraya Al-Quds and the Palestinian resistance.

    We are an integral part of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation and we stand shoulder to shoulder with the Al-Qassam Brigades [Hamas].

    We disclaim our responsibility towards the enemy prisoners in light of the barbaric bombing of every inch of Gaza.

    We announce our readiness to release Mrs. Hanna Katzir for humanitarian and health reasons, noting that we may not be able to provide her with healthcare in the face of exhaustion of fuel, electricity, medicine, and all life essentials.

    We declare our readiness to release the boy Yaghil Yaakov for humanitarian reasons and for his young age, noting that the prisons of the occupation are filled with hundreds of prisoners from the children of Palestine.

    We reassure our people and all those who love and support us across the world, that Saraya Al-Quds and the resistance are a thousand thousand times well, and our enemy, attempting to advance on different fronts for several long days, is tasting pain and horror in their tanks, which have become mobile coffins, with the help of God.
    [this is a non-Hamas faction in Gaza, trying to bring out hostages but unable to do so under the difficult conditions they list. BTW, this fact of unprecedented alliance of all Palestinian factions within Gaza was noted with horror by their external enemies; I posted it earlier if you scroll up. This fact alone, the unusual unity, defeats intent to re-occupy Gaza. In the face of Egyptian refusal to open Sinai and other neighbors to serve as prison guards, the main options now are to kill them all or to submit to Palestinian will. If we can avert regional war, these are very promising developments to roll back the Empire]
    ⭕ The IOF has completely withdrawn from #Jenin after two multi-hour invasions today. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reports 14 martyrs have ascended as a result of the IOF aggression. 20 Palestinians were abducted by the IOF.
    ⭕ The Arrow/”Hetz” anti-ballistic missile system was activated above “Eilat” following the recent attacks on the settlement, likely originating from Yemen. Each interceptor missile costs the IOF $6 million. [this is unsustainable, costing double the most expensive versions of the Patriot interceptors. tic-tic-tic…]
    The unbreakable spirit of Palestine’s heroic collective resistance shines in this video from the clashes in #Jenin earlier today. All embody resistance: A resistance fighter, wounded while engaging in an armed clash with the IOF, fell to the ground. A medic rushed to save him, carrying the fighter’s rifle to safeguard it. An IOF sniper shoots the heroic medic, who also fell.

    At this moment, a bystander came from afar to uplift the cause, took the inherited rifle from the medic, and continued to shoot at the zionist forces with the rifle and the united determination of a people who will never kneel. [video[I wept!]
    ⭕ Abu Khaled, the military spokesman for the Omar Al-Qasim Forces: Our heroes from the Omar Al-Qassim Forces at 9 AM today on 9/11/2023, destroyed an “israeli” enemy troop carrier northwest of Gaza City with RPG shells, killing and wounding the “israeli” soldiers inside, and showered it with bullets, confirming the death of the enemy soldiers within.

    The rocket artillery and heavy-caliber mortars rained down last night on 8/11/2023 upon the enemy soldiers and their vehicle gatherings at the “Sofa” site – east of the Strip, and flames were seen engulfing them.

    The valiant resistance, in all its formations, has succeeded in turning the land invasion of the occupation forces into a war of attrition against the enemy forces in heroic battles.

    The losses disclosed by the spokespeople of the occupation army only represent the tip of the iceberg, and when the combat actions cease and the aggression is broken, the grievous losses will be revealed in the ranks of the enemy and their lies will be exposed.

    Omar Al-Qasim Forces – the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
    Military Media
    9/11/2023 [this is yet another group joined in the defense of Gaza]
    ⭕ Resistance fighters open fire on the colonial “Tzovim” checkpoint near #Qalqilya [West Bank]. Reports of casualties among the enemy ranks.
    ⭕ After repeatedly targeting the homes surrounding Al-Shifa Medical Complex a short while ago, IOF artillery targeted the hospital yard next to the journalists’ tent. There are several injuries. Four are injured, one critically
    [zeroing in on the journo’s electronic signals?? This silences the witnesses, homes in on the packed courtyards, and panics the internally displaced survivors to flee north Gaza..]
    ⭕ The Government Media Office in Gaza: The “israeli” bombardment of the hospitals in the Gaza Strip is an international crime that violates international law and indicates the brutality of the occupation. The American president encouraged the occupation to target hospitals and commit massacres through support and silence on the ongoing crimes.
    Hamas: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
    Today, the fascist occupation launched a series of raids around the Indonesian Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip, resulting in dozens of martyrs and wounded, causing panic among the patients, the injured, and the thousands of displaced people inside it, continuing its cycle of fascist crimes today, after targeting Al-Nasr and Al-Rantisi Children’s Hospitals, with shelling that affected the internal wards, and caused the blood bank in Gaza to go out of service.

    The international community, which stands today as a witness to unprecedented violations of all laws of war and international agreements, including the protection of civil facilities—most importantly hospitals—is demanded to assume its responsibilities, and to raise its voice against this zionist arrogance that relies on blatant support from the U.S. administration and to stop the Nazi genocidal war that is waged on civilians in the Gaza Strip that seeks to terrorize and forcibly displace them from their land and homes. [Like Khamenei, Nasrallah, Mahathir, Putin, Wang Yi, and others, their clarity of attribution is astounding. And will find traction and consequences where it counts]
    ⭕ The Director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex announces that all children’s hospitals in the Gaza Strip are completely out of service. Earlier, the IOF bombed Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital twice, taking all sections out of service except the ER. Rantisi Children’s Hospital had its third flood bombed in recent days and was bombed again hours ago.
    ⭕ For at least the fifth time today, the IOF bombed the vicinity of Al-Shifa Hospital in northern #Gaza.
    Footage of moment the occupation carried out a series of airstrikes in the vicinity of Al-Awda Hospital in Tal Al Zaatar, northern #Gaza. The hospital is significantly damaged and number of ambulances were destroyed. The Director of the hospital confirmed that a number of paramedics and hospital staff were also wounded. [video]
    Ministry of Health in Gaza: New targeting of the maternity hospital in Al-Shifa Medical Complex with artillery shells, which led to the martyrdom of a citizen and the injury of a displaced child.
    ⭕ In a continuation of its escalated attack on hospitals, the IOF heavily bombs the vicinity of Al-Quds Hospital in #Gaza City, where medical staff, patients, and 14,000 displaced Palestinians are being housed. It is at least the seventh hospital bombed today. At least eight hospitals were directly bombed in the last three days.

    💠@Intel Slava Z:
    ⭕ ❗️The first 85 Russians living in the Gaza Strip will leave the enclave today through the Rafah checkpoint – Rafax Online  [A gentle word from Maria Z goes a long way…]

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 06 Nov 2023 #20800
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    Why Eilat? It isn’t just Yemenis hitting it. Gazans launched against it; Iraqis too. After Ashdod, the main port (??) was shut down just after October 07 due to Hamas bombardment and easy access from Gaza making it nigh uninsurable, operations key to the occupation were rerouted to Eilat port, including iirc the Azeri/Kurd / stolen Syrian oil tankers sent by “Brother” Erdogan via Ceyhan.. this is a reciprocal total war, focusing on harming their economy.. putting them fully on the US-Western tab, another anchor dragging them quicker into Davy Jones’s broke locker. Note how quickly 404 funds have dried up!! God Bless the Iranian brianiacs, the wunder-minds of the Resistance coordination. What did that crusty Russian sailor say about implanted knives? Russians aren’t the only ones who know how to turn the knife two inches from the heart, inflicting maximum pain.

    Why the obstinacy in maintaining the genocide, from the perspective of Empire? We’ve discussed a lot the racial purification desired by the Zionists, but there are prosaic reasons from the Imperial core too. They hope the terrible things unfolding will generate at least one of two desired outcomes, or both. Like millions of shocked and awed arabs and muslims watching Iraqis being burned en masse during the criminal 2003 invasion, it will radicalize many, opening wide the recruitment centers for useful idiot extremism.. and it will also destabilize the regional arabs, either overturning the insufficiently compliant rulers or make the survivors even more pliant. Either way it sets the arabs back, dividing rulers and people, creating cruel police states, denying needed development. It will make the delegitimized survivors ripe for coups later, continuing the regional chaos. So the crazies plan. Yes they will get the revolutions they drive, but to which end this time?? Gene Sharps’ little human-skin-bound grimoire is well thumbed by Russia-China-Iran by this point in time. A stale playbook indeed. It should work out like Kazakhstan in January 2022, or Belarus before that.

    Another reason is to engender tremendous hatreds worldwide, as repeatedly voiced by Russians, especially since the Dagestan airport by Putin, and earlier today in Maria Zakharova’s brief. It is dividing folks in every country! And driving incredible anti-Jewish sentiment. This will serve to repopulate the dying Zionist entity, as was primed during and after WW2 too. And stoke fascism in inclined regions, now evident in Europe. The entire world’s getting uglier.

    💠 @DDGeopolitics:
    ⭕ ⚠️ Confirmed: Live network data show a major internet outage on #Yemen’s Houthi-controlled YemenNet telco; the incident has knocked the operator offline, leaving overall national connectivity at 33% of ordinary levels 📉
    [Did they cut the fiberoptic cable from Djibouti running at the bottom of the Red Sea? Two can play.. don’t piss off the Yemeni! They’re inventive and won’t back down. And will use the time freed up without internet to make more babies for their effective legions…]
    ⭕  Director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex: At least 6 people were killed in the Israeli bombing of Al-Shifa Hospital in central Gaza. [They finally did it. Struck the courtyard of Gaza’s largest hospital, with possibly another hellfire missile as at Baptist Hospital.. horrible videos — man still alive in initial moments holding the stump of a severed leg!]
    ⭕ Scenes of #Israel’s targeting of medical crews at Al Awdah Hospital in #Gaza tonight. Israel targeted three hospitals simultaneously, leaving dozens of casualties.

    💠 @Resistance News Network:
    ⭕ 🚨Victory in Balata. A fierce battle was waged in Balata camp, #Nablus. Resistance fighters in the camp rained bullets and explosives on the invading zionist forces for the last two hours, with the support of fighters from cities across the West Bank. An IOF military vehicle was damaged, and the vehicles that withdrew from the camp were targeted with heavy gunfire. At least 21 Palestinians were wounded by IOF gunfire.

    A massive march breaks out now in Balata, #Nablus in support of the camp’s resistance, after they forced the IOF to withdraw without achieving its goals of abducting wanted resistance fighters following a long battle.

    “From Balata, a salute to the proud Jenin!”

    “Put the sword before the sword! We are the men of Mohammed Deif!” [iirc, this latter man planned Hamas’s October 07 military op] [videos]
    ⭕ 🚨 After bombing its gate, the IOF continues to shell Al-Nasr Childrens Hospital in #Gaza City.
    ⭕ more Eilat footage [video]
    ⭕ 🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:

    The Refugee Affairs Department of the Popular Front calls on UNRWA to assume its responsibilities towards our people away from interfering in matters that do not concern it.

    The Refugee Affairs Department of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine called on the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to assume its responsibilities towards the relief of our people affected and displaced by the aggression, away from interfering in issues that do not concern it and we do not allow interference in.

    The department affirmed that UNRWA’s administration has abandoned its responsibilities since day one of the aggression, succumbed to the threats of the occupation, moved its operations center from Gaza City to the south, and left behind thousands of citizens groaning under the bombing and hunger, in a dangerous alignment with the occupation’s displacement plans. Despite all this, in the last hours, it appointed itself as an international guardianship over our people, by sending general messages to our people, through which this propaganda pretended that it can atone for the serious mistakes it has made since the beginning of the aggression.

    The department clarified that what is required from the United Nations institutions and the Relief and Works Agency is the actual cessation of aggression and the provision of our people’s needs in the shelter centers who are suffering under the weight of the aggression, which would alleviate their suffering, not to issue futile instructions that are not their responsibility. Most importantly, it is necessary for it to make a decision to return to its operations center in Gaza City, to fully assume its responsibilities required in relieving our people across the regions of the Strip and not only in the south.

    The department called on the international community, especially the United Nations institutions, to continue to pressure for stopping the aggression and breaking the siege imposed on the Strip first, with the importance of opening crossings and introducing relief aid into the Strip, noting that the international institutions bear to a large extent the responsibility for the ongoing zionist holocaust against our people in the Strip, which is taking place with the green light from this complicit or negligent international community.

    The department concluded its statement by affirming that our people will not forget and will not forgive UNRWA for what it has done, its escape from its responsibilities, and leaving our people prey to bombing and hunger, especially in the Northern Gaza governorates.

    The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
    Refugee Affairs Department

    November 9, 2023  [The UN is in essence a criminal enterprise]
    ⭕ 🚨 BREAKING – Ministry of Health in Gaza:

    The Blood Bank Association in Gaza City is out of service as a result of the intensive targeting by the occupation.
    ⭕ 🚨 The nine martyrs of Jenin and its camp during the ongoing invasion so far:

    – Mahmoud Abu Nada (43 years old) from Jenin camp
    – Ayham Al-Amer (24 years old) from Jenin camp
    – Ra’fat Omar Abu Aql (21 years old) from Jenin
    – The child Mohammed Zayed (15 years old), from the town of Yamoun
    – Lotfi Saeil Howaiti from Jenin camp
    – Mohammed Matahen (30 years old) Jenin camp
    – Qais Dwaikat (21 years old) from Nablus-Balata Al-Balad.
    – Mohammed Al-Sabbagh (30 years old) Jenin camp
    – Mu’tasim Issa (30 years old) from the village of Anin

    Glory to the martyrs.
    ⭕ 🚨 Palestinian Ministry of Health:

    The Ministry of Health in Gaza announces the cessation of services at the only eye hospital in the Gaza Strip due to the exhaustion of fuel, and the exit of the mental health hospital from service, which will have serious repercussions.

    All services at the Al-Nasr and Rantisi Children’s Hospitals have stopped, with only incubators remaining operational.

    The cessation of children’s hospitals deprives them of treatment for kidney, cancer, seizures, and internal services, and will have serious implications for their lives.
    ⭕ 🚨 The Director of Al-Rantisi and Al-Nasr Children’s Hospitals, Mustafa Al-Kahlot, announces the martyrdom of a child after oxygen was cut off following IOF strikes, and demands the protection of the hospital, staff, and patients.

    After Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital was bombed twice today—once at the gate and again in the medical sections, causing significant damage—the Director announced that services have completely stopped in all sections except the ER. Oxygen and electricity were cut off from medical devices in various sections.

    The Director says that the situation is extremely bad and that the staff is besieged in the hospital and that ambulances cannot reach it. He says that ambulances have been targeted by the IOF on the way to Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital and that anybody who leaves the hospital is targeted by the IOF. [videos]

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon 8/11/2023 … Open Thread #20795
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    The US is about tapped out in conventional rearmament capabilities, with even bleaker prospects?? 86% of its “50 critical minerals” are “import reliant”.. a sure and easy way to squeeze the warmongers into obsolescence if not into full submission. See the gallium move wrt to Chinese chips saga. What other surprises do the “critical-minerals-rich” civilizational states have in store for the permanent-war junkies??

    Again, we return to Ray’s attractive locked box on the top shelf! The Gun in our ongoing Third Act

    💠 @Intel Slava Z:
    ⭕ “Military rearmament is just getting started — without enough critical minerals.

    Secure critical mineral supply chains are essential to sustain any significant military.  The challenge: the US identified 50 critical minerals in 2022 but was 100% net import reliant for 12, and had a net import reliance greater than 50% of apparent consumption for 31 others.

    In other words — as highlighted by recent export ban on gallium and germanium by China, which supplies 54% of all US Germanium — the US military critical mineral supply chain is extremely vulnerable.”  📎 The Oregon Group
    ⭕ “Outside of mineral constraints, there are only two facilities capable of producing military grade explosives in the entirety of the United States, neither of which have been modernized in decades and don’t have expansion plans until the end of this decade.

    There is a reason, after all, the U.S. keeps missing it’s production targets…”

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 06 Nov 2023 #20794
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    @12 minutes Crooke highlights lies of western MSM and many Telegram channels who fell for it: only 50,000 of the ~ 900,000 living in north Gaza evacuated to the south so far. This is about 5.5%, far less than the 25% claimed by Hamas today. What a tough, blessed people! Inspite of demonic bombing, lack of safety, electricity, water, bread, hospitals, or let up in the bombing, and most living in tents or hospital courtyards, 95% stayed in place. Now many tens of thousands could be under rubble too, a horrible toll to be determined once heavy equipment are able to operate there…

    👆👆👆 the importance of this factoid in debunking the lie almost all north Gaza was cleansed of civilians: it allows them to mask the true scale of ongoing genocide. And that they do it with nearly a million still on site! And reveals the sheer hate and venom in their hearts for the humans there. This is no longer even an op to move them south, but an Op to cull and to entomb them in place. That is why they lie — to mask the malice of even greater crimes.

    Yet the Truth always outs. Word will get out, what was done to how many, why, where, by whom, and pretenses will not wash. Folks in that region have abacus-like minds with better memory banks than IBM machines

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    Btw, in the above video of that little girl shot at by the crazed zionists just because she was looking at them from the window of her house — she lives in the Shufat refugee camp in Jerusalem.

    💠 @Slavyangrad:
    ⭕ Southfront: More than 10,812 Palestinians were killed and more than 26,900 others were wounded as a result of Israeli airstrikes, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health;

    On November 9, clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters continue in Beit Hanoun;

    On November 9, Palestinian fighters repelled Israeli attacks in the Shati and Sheikh Radwan areas;

    On November 9, Israeli forces advanced along the al-Rashid road and reached the Riashi square;

    On November 9, Palestinian groups fired several rockets at Kissufim, Reim, Nirim;

    On November 9, Palestinian groups fired several rockets at Nahal Oz, Netivot, Alumim.

    💠 @DDGeopolitics:
    ⭕ The US State Department: There will be no more occupation or siege of the Gaza Strip after the current operation – Hamas will not return to control Gaza. [This could be face-saving mechanism to make Zionists/West bite the bullet of loss. Just rebrand, the same way they do with Al-Qaeda franchise. Give same Hammas cadre a new name “Sammah,” a new logo, flag, colors, and repaint the tunnels too to match it all.]

    💠 @Yeni Şafak in Russian:
    ⭕ Palestinian girl from the Gaza Strip: ” I’m fine, just leave me and find my sister.”  [video] 😭😭😭
    The war spreads to the West Bank. In the footage, Jenin, which is part of the administration of the Palestinian Authority, but is almost not controlled, there various forces have rebelled against the Zionists and are waging a fierce war, in this way the war is expanding not only in Gaza but is already moving to the West Bank, opening a new front against the Zionists.
    ⭕ Israeli Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi : ” The Palestinian Authority in Ramallah is doing everything possible to prevent demonstrations by Hamas supporters in the West Bank .”
    🗣Israeli Domestic Intelligence Shabbat : ” We are in communication with the Palestinian Authority to prevent the opening of an additional war front with Jerusalem (Al-Quds in the original ed.), the West Bank or other regions.”
    ⭕ The municipality of Çoruma [Turkey] decided to transfer the salary card of its staff from MasterCard to TROY.
    📱 Related news: Against the backdrop of events in the Gaza Strip, it came to a financial boycott
    ⭕ According to the head of the press service of the Gaza Strip government, Salam Maaruf, at least 56 mosques in the Gaza Strip were destroyed, and another 136 were damaged as a result of Israeli strikes. [video]
    ⭕ The occupying forces struck the south of the Gaza Strip, which they had declared a safe zone..
    ❗️ And in the second video, occupation forces bomb the area around an Indonesian hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.
    ⭕ Real heroes! The father of a health worker said goodbye to his child killed in an attack and went to save other children – This is Gaza! [video[this father and the little sister just above — among reasons why Palestinians will outlast them and inherit the Holy Land. And they know it, why they seek to blot them out, the entire society]

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    💠@DDGeopolitics:
    ⭕ Clashes continue in Jenin: [video]
    🔹Jenin Camp has gone into total street warfare. Palestinian militants managed to blow up a military vehicle as seen in the footage.
    🔹While the Israelis are using everything they can including explosive drone attacks and airstrikes. 8 Palestinians have been killed and 14 wounded.
    🔹School and kindergarten kids are still trapped in their facilities unable to make it home due to the Israeli attacks, more army units have been reportedly sent to Jenin.
    🔹A reported message from a member of the Palestinian resistance: Our morale is sky-high, we will not leave the camp for them [to take], we’re the righteous ones and our cause is just.
    ⭕ In light of Israel’s statements regarding nuclear weapons, Russia considers it relevant to create a zone free of such armaments in the Middle East, stated the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova. [this is major. Every day, new signs of Russia discarding its “neutrality” pretense, especially as it becomes clear it will be given no mediating role. Israelis help their cause with open enmity! They deny release of Russian hostages, spew hate & threats on TV, etc. Steadily, the “israeli” file is being consolidated and joint-managed alongside the nazi western file. Global-SMO = now officially zionazi pest-control]
    British Foreign Secretary to Sky News Arabia: The war will end in the Gaza Strip when Israel feels secure. [[[We]]] will reach peace when there is a leadership committed to it in the sector. [this is most helpful! *we* are in a single camp with genociding maniacs, loyal to our proxy]
    ⭕ Israeli media: What distinguishes Hezbollah’s attacks today from previous days is the intensity compared to other days
    [Urban Street Fighting — sweet dreams are made of these. Not for the faint of heart. Got balls?? Drugs and false bravado only take cowards so far…]  [video]
    Russia is withdrawing from an agreement with Japan on cooperation in order to eliminate nuclear weapons subject to reduction [I include as a favor on behalf of future admins of the Asia-Pacific front!]
    ⭕ Taher Al-Nono, media advisor to the head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, denies that a truce agreement has been reached with the occupation. No truce agreement has been reached with the occupation, and the talks are still continuing. [EVERY WORD, with every breath, must be considered a lie until proven otherwise. See Smoothie’s last video at the end. This is now not merely an occasional flummoxed default, but the current primary operative functionality of the despairing deviants. All the talk about ceasefires today was an internal circle jerk or something to vent pressure. Not true at all, per Hamas]
    ⭕ Palestinian militants just released a video of two hostages blaming Netanyahu. [video]
    ⭕ IDF spokesperson: A surface-to-surface missile was intercepted in Eilat. Further to the initial report, a missile was detected that was launched into the territory of the State of Israel and was successfully intercepted in the Red Sea area, by the air defense fighters using the long-range defense system “Arrow”. The target did not cross into Israeli territory
    ⭕ Israeli media: The economy in the northern regions has been completely frozen due to Hezbollah’s daily operations, and no compensation is being provided to the residents. [what lunatics! Counting shekels at this point, when they have unlimited backing by globohomozionazidom. And cost-effective weekend safaris hunting Palestinians are done. You’re stuck in permanent Alamo!]
    ⭕ Yemen: Spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree:

    We launched a batch of ballistic missiles at various sensitive targets of the Zionist enemy entity in southern occupied Palestine.
    The operation successfully achieved its objectives and led to direct casualties on the specified targets despite the enemy’s secrecy
    Our forces will continue to carry out their military operations in support of the oppression of the Palestinian people until the Israeli aggression on Gaza stops.
    ⭕Israeli media: Residents in the city of Eilat report an explosion and another interception heard in the city
    ⭕ Israeli media: Attempts from Yemen will continue despite all the layers of protection and warplanes patrolling the Red Sea [indeed, Sherlock! Excellent deduction old chap]
    ⭕ Al-Araby TV correspondent: The Israeli army announces the interception of a new air target near Eilat. Israeli media report that Patriot AA system was activated. [this is balm for our hearts; a warm glow suffuses Pepes and my belly! All fronts have raised the heat on the satanists. Got enough interceptors?? And this is the foreplay, before Hezbollah and Iran really enter the scene]

    💠@Sputnik Africa:
    ⭕ ❗️ The latest updates on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
    🔻 Hamas has accused the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) of colluding with Israel to forcibly relocate citizens of the Gaza Strip;
    🔻 At least 19 people were killed in an airstrike on a residential building in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, the enclave’s Interior Ministry said;
    🔻 Some 650 trucks with humanitarian aid have entered Gaza since October 21 through the Rafah checkpoint;
    ⭕🇿🇦 ANC calls for Israeli ambassador to leave South Africa. ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula commented on the Israel-Palestine conflict, emphasizing that the government will take appropriate action.The South African ruling party supports this move to demonstrate its solidarity with Palestine.
    🗣 “It’s not a war, it’s genocide. It’s a total annihilation of a nation,” Mbalula noted. [video]

    💠@Strategika51:
    Hezbollah pursues a relentless logic by targeting Israel’s northern defense line following the strategy of small steps and with limited engagements. Analysts are carefully following this strategy.
    ⭕ Several explosions heard in Eilat

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 06 Nov 2023 #20788
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    Escalation by Hezbollah: direct clashes against zionists.. Escalation in Iraq through massive strikes leaving burning US bases.. Escalation with Syrian army and US army directly clashing in East Syria.. Escalation in south Palestine, with Eilat burning in parts from Yemeni drones.. the heat dial is gently raised. tic-tic, about 44 hours before Nasrallah’s next talking points. That’s how it is done folks, when confronting monkeys holding big grenades.

    💠@Arab_Africa:  
    ⭕ Current street art in Morocco. [the lovely Moroccan people are solid, unlike their bestial oligarchy] [video] ‘

    💠@Resistance News Network:
    ⭕ ISRAELI SOLDIER SHOOTS Palestinian girl from her own window after he catches sight of her, moving up in front to take aim, knocking girl and camera to the ground as she let’s out terrified scream. [video [these images are beaming worldwide, dooming zionist lunatics.. what absolute criminals. And worse still, those who arm them, fund them, give them intelligence, and media-politico-diplomatic cover…]
    US Al-Harir military base in Erbil, northern Iraq burns [video]
    ⭕ This is how ethnic cleansing looks like, Palestinian families abandoning Gaza walk in fear with their hands up under the sound of the Israeli drones. [video[there are certain images, like little naked Vietnamese girls running on fire, that can condemn entire peoples in perpetuity. What will happen to them as military supremacy is completely lost?? Where can they hide? Where will they not be followed? Indeed, this makes likely the short-term nuking of most of mankind, in last futile attempts to avert Retribution.]

    💠@MedManTG:
    ⭕ The US base in Harir, Northern Iraq was struck by a missile from the Iraqi resistance, causing a significant fire as the missile struck the weapons depot. This marks a substantial retaliation by the Iraqi resistance following today’s US strike, sending a clear message that they mean business. [videos] see following video too. This was huge.
    ⭕ Massive IDF strikes near the Indonesian hospital in the north of Gaza. [video]

    💠@Strategika51:
    Hezbollah is burning all Israeli military posts on the border with Lebanon. The damage is estimated at nearly US$10 billion. 1,500 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters in Syria received orders to redeploy to South Lebanon.
    Yemen: The Samad-3 kamikaze drone range: 1600 km [video]
    Direct clashes between elements of Lebanese Hezbollah and Israeli forces on the border. (Al-Mayadeen video)
    Russian MPs have proposed a new definition of Zionism: “Israeli fascism” and therefore suggest that it should be classified with Nazism.

    East Syria US bases (Deir-ez-Zur and red areas west of Euphrates River under the Syrian army control; Yellow areas occupied)
    💠@Slavyangrad:
    Syrian army fighters entered into a firefight with American troops east of the provincial center of Deir ez-Zor (420 km from Damascus). Al Mayadeen TV channel reported this. According to his information, the sides are using large-caliber machine guns, mortars, and artillery pieces. Clashes began in the Euphrates River area after an attack by the US Air Force on the eastern neighborhoods of Deir ez-Zor.
    ⭕ At least 15 missiles were fired in the early morning of November 9 at a US military base located in the Al-Omar oil field in eastern Syria. As reported by Al Mayadeen TV channel, the Shiite movement “Islamic Resistance of Iraq” took responsibility for this attack.
    ⭕ To make the sequence of events clear, the US attacked areas in Syria that they perceived to be used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. This then resulted in clashes between the SDF and American troops. Rocket strikes on US military bases also occurred.
    ⭕ The influx of foreign mercenaries into the Armed Forces of Ukraine has decreased by more than half. According to Come and See , the flow of foreign mercenaries into the Ukrainian army began to dry up. “In general, more than twice as much as in the fall of last year,” said the channel’s source. According to him, this is due to high losses, corruption in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and lack of prospects.

    “An alternative hot spot has also emerged in Israel,” he added.

    This information is indirectly confirmed by civilians in the Kharkov region. “Foreigners are almost invisible in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It’s becoming less and less common to hear Polish or English spoken,” a resident of the front-line region told Come and See.
    ⭕ I propose we station Houthi anti-aircraft units on oil platforms in the Black Sea. They can claim piracy rights.
    ⭕ The rapid-fire calls for a “humanitarian pause” or even “pauses” in the Gaza conflict from the West, ranging from the G7 diplomats to Macron and Biden, and discussions of “what a humanitarian pause in Gaza would look like” in the Western press (e.g. the likes of The New Yorker), over the past few days, mean only one thing:

    The brutal Israeli invasion of Gaza is in trouble and bogged down without result.

    When the West (and this includes Israel) calls for a ceasefire or a “pause,” they are merely trying to gain time and revise their failing strategy. There is nothing “humanitarian” or peacelike in these proposals, and, whether or not the Gaza civilians would benefit, the proposals are not being floated in their interest.
    ⭕ The White House announced that there will be “4 hour humanitarian pauses” in Gaza.
    The only war with a lunch break…
    Thinking of how Western countries deliver weapons to Israel while also delivering “aid” to Hamas reminds me of a comment from a comedian that I remember from the 90s: “Explain to me how you send a plane dropping bombs followed by another dropping sandwiches…”
    ⭕ The problem for Israel is that the longer its campaign continues without result, the more obvious it will become that it’s an act of genocide.

    It’s one thing to demonize a military superpower like Russia—the Western (particularly American) public has been trained to root for the underdog champion appointed by their ruling elites, and Russia’s strength makes it an unlikely recipient of the sympathy vote among the brainwashed.

    It’s quite another—impossible—thing to permanently demonize the Palestinians en masse, as they are dying (eventually) in the tens of thousands at the hands of the Israeli army. The Palestinian cause has deep roots, especially among the Western youth. Eventually, the sympathy vote will outweigh the mass media programming.

    Israeli had (still has, but even more minuscule?) one remote chance—somehow to finish everything in one rapid stroke. It was never going to work, but then the Israeli government dug themselves into a bottomless pit with its jingoistic rhetoric early on. So, they had no choice but to try. Now, I am not sure they know how to get out of this mess in one piece.
    ⭕ “Afghanistan is ready to provide Iran with the Wakhan corridor for the transit of goods to China,” said Afghan Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund. [drones, and parts, and whatnot… Afghans lust and ache to obliterate zionists as much as Yemenis… Do you understand part of the ABSOLUTE hate the West has for Iran?? In addition to being facilitator of the Resistance since Soleimani, and sharing drone tech and other gear and military leadership, they also look steps ahead to future sources of Voentorg and build alliances via their extremely potent diplomatic corps, easily on par with Russia and China]
    ⭕ They write that this is a US military base in Iraq right now! 🔥 🇺🇸🏴‍☠ An effective blow was struck by pro-Iranian troops! [another photo of a burning base]
    ⭕ A statement issued by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq: The Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeted the American occupation base, Harir, in northern Iraq, with two drones, hitting their targets directly.

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 06 Nov 2023 #20784
    AHH
    Blocked

    Apparently today is a 911. Let’s pray the deviants don’t pull a FF or fast one. Many other occult dates in this month coming up too

    💠@Strategika51:
    ⭕ A missile has just fallen in Eilat without causing an air alert and without anti-missile missile action. It’s either a missile fired from Yemen or Iraq.
    Morocco is the only country in the MENA region that has refused to criticize Israel or recall its diplomats from Tel Aviv. For a source close to Moroccan intelligence services, the question of Western Sahara takes precedence over the Palestinian question and Israel is a leading military ally (media)
    ⭕ The Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank is in a situation of urban guerrilla warfare.
    The difference with Gaza is that in Jenin there are no weapons. The weapons you see in this video are weapons intended for the civilian market with calibers 222 and 223, at best semi-automatic. Many of his weapons are single-shot. [thanks to the Palestinian Authority which disarmed its people…]
    ⭕ Missiles fired from Syria target Israeli military objectives in the occupied Golan. [these may be Palestinians or Iraqis or Hezbollah firing from Syrian territory. Syrian army appears uninvolved for now…]
    Palestinian rockets hit eight settlements near Gaza. [they still keep it up from within Gaza! Imagine their preparatory stocks..]
    ⭕ The explosion in Eilat was not caused by a missile but by a kamikaze drone.
    ⭕ A 74-year-old Palestinian man, sick and walking towards southern Gaza, was killed by an Israeli sniper near Netsarim. Eyewitnesses say it was a deliberate assassination.
    ⭕ For the first time in four decades, voices are being raised in the Arab world against the very powerful feminist organizations, totally untouchable until now for their total silence in the face of the horrors experienced by women and their children in the besieged Gaza Strip.
    Critics long gagged when it came to confronting Arab feminists are beginning to emerge: “A word on the 55,000 women who lost their babies in Gaza or is your fight confined to more sexual freedom, castration of the male and have all the possible privileges without any merit or effort? Fuck you!” launches a famous Arab influencer. These criticisms are completely unprecedented because Arab feminists have formidable power more than anywhere else in the world. [this is among what Crooke meant of a change in consciousness taking place. ALL contrived western paradigms and issues of division are being boiled away….]
    ⭕ For those who don’t know yet, the two parallel blue bands of the Israeli flag represent the Nile and the Euphrates. It represents the idea of “erez Yisrael” or Greater Israel from the Nile (Egypt) to the Euphrates (Mesopotamia) and no one has ever found fault with it…
    In Germany, demonstrators who chanted “From the river (Jordan) to the sea (Mediterranean), Palestine will live” were prosecuted for aggravated terrorism.
    🔹[commentator response:]
    The Israeli Health Ministry said 7,262 Israeli soldiers had been injured since October 7. This is very interesting because it can give us an idea of the losses. If there are more than 7,000 wounded, this means that in terms of death/wounded ratio we are often 1 to 3, so the Israeli government tells us that there could be at least 2,000 killed in these ranks. If we now correct these figures, because generally the toll provided by Israeli officials is always lowered, to at least 1/2, or even 1/3, that would mean that they would have at least 14,000 wounded, and at least 4,000 dead. . 4,000 dead is the figure that Strategika gave us a few weeks after the start of the conflict. And all this, while the Northern Front is still not open.
    We understand the impasse in which the state of Israel, and especially the US government, currently finds itself. At this sustained rate of losses, it will be necessary to send GI’s to replace the Israeli soldiers.
    However after the last and very controversial election of Biden, not sure that the US government will find enough volunteer GI’s to go and get butchered. The same in Europe, when we look at the popularity of Macron, of the British Prime Minister, and the infamous O Sholtz who in Europe wants to go and die for leaders in Israel who only talk about revenge, about Amalek, about nuclearizing Gaza.
    At this stage one thing is certain, for Israel there is no longer a military solution in Gaza, and the fear, the nightmare of the Israeli leaders is a counter-offensive by the Palestinians, this is the reason for the US obsession above all, not to lift the blockade, and to refuse the ceasefire.

    💠@Arab_Africa:
    ⭕ Famous Egyptian TV presenter Amr Adib described on his social network page his attitude towards Hamas, apparently expressing the prevailing opinion among Arabs. “It seems that I am not yet mature enough to want reprisals against Hamas. Even despite my clear stance against the Muslim Brotherhood (banned in the Russian Federation) and despite what has happened to Hamas over the years, I cannot hide my sadness when a Hamas resistance fighter is killed or captured. Rather, I wish them resilience and dream of the day of Palestinian victory.
    Should I see a psychiatrist or contact any human development expert for this? Don’t know. I only know how I feel when I observe the operations of the Palestinian resistance and learn about Israeli losses. And I rather refuse to blame them (i.e. Hamas) or hold them accountable for actions that are extremely controversial and have no solution. Rather, I am calling for resistance, for Gaza and for Palestine to live.”
    [the odious regional compradore oligarchy is in zugzwang. Even the most limp liberals are enraged. The Empire’s sword or their peoples’ sword!]

    💠@Middle East Spectator:
    ⭕ Huge amounts of gunfire heard on the Lebanese border near Misgav Am. Reportedly, direct clashes are taking place between Hezbollah and the IDF.
    Hezbollah: To support our Palestinian brethren, we destroyed two Merkava tanks in Metula
    White House: Israel will begin implementing a four-hour daily truce in northern Gaza
    ⭕ The Islamic Resistance in Iraq says it targeted the U.S. base in Ayn Al-Assad [in Iraq] three times today [Knock-knock. Who’s There?]
    ⭕ The Islamic Resistance in Iraq says it targeted the Al-Harir [US] airbase near Erbil [in Iraq] with two suicide drones [Saddam. Eh, Saddam?! We hung him!]
    Footage of the attacks on Ayn Al-Assad base today, released by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, using drones and ballistic missiles [video[We are Saddam’s Ghost, lol. Now git lost from Mesopotamia!]
    ⭕ Images of martyr Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Mohandes on the wings of Iraqi suicide drones
    ⭕ Red Alerts in Eilat, missiles and drones incoming [Knock-Knock. Not Again!!!]
    ⭕ Hysteria in Eilat [video]

    💠@MedManTG:
    ⭕ Genuine question. Is there infighting in the United States Federal Government? why is one top official contradicting the President? why is the President being contradicted by Kirby. Who should we trust in this, a senile old 80 years old grandfather or the White House Spokesperson? [when WASN’T there infighting and byzantine imperial intrigue, always present in end-stages?]
    ⭕ White House states that there will be a daily truce in North Gaza. The Truce will last for four hours every day, and it will only be limited to the North of the Gaza Strip. [what demons! So the southern sector, (1) to which funnel the people, and (2) which has the only open border crossing at Rafah — will continue to be bombed. This appears entirely a risible deception to get Hamas fighters to stop fighting in the currently critical northern sector so they can advance… sorry, not gonna work]
    ⭕ Several drone and missile attacks on Eilat reported, no dead so far – only a religious Hebrew school was damaged alongside other facilities.
    ⭕ A Hezbollah Missile has killed 1 Israeli and wounded 2 IDF soldiers, according to Hebrew Media outlets.
    ⭕ The head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, has arrived in Cairo. He is the head of the HAMAS delegation from the movement and is going to meet with the director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Services, to discuss several events in the Gaza Strip.
    ⭕ Important to note that before the Hamas delegation visited Egypt, the director of the CIA had visited Cairo, and before that, an Israeli diplomatic mission also visited Cairo, If I am going to take an educated guess, I think that everyone is getting together to finally draft a truce, or are holding some sort of negotiations regarding prisoners in Hamas custody.
    Saudi Arabia has FINALLY done something for Palestine, in terms of aid. The first Saudi plane landed in Al-Arish on the 9th of November, carrying 35 tons of Aid. They are now the last Arab state to have sent humanitarian aid to Gaza.
    ⭕ A senior Biden administration official said the death toll of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is likely far higher than the 10,000 number being reported by the health ministry in Gaza, The Hill reports.

    ⭕ Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova: The lists of Russian citizens to be evacuated from the Gaza Strip include many children – approximately 300 underage Russian nationals. They have been in a blockade there for a month.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon 8/11/2023 … Open Thread #20779
    AHH
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    Russia severely tightens movements in the Barents Sea areas of its
    littoral (thx to Nat South TG):

    “In areas No. 13 and 27, the navigation of all vessels is prohibited, with the exception of ships, boats and vessels of the Navy and FSB agencies

    No swimming areas have been established in the Barents Sea. The order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation dated September 29, 2023 (No. 330) “On the establishment of prohibited areas for navigation in the Barents Sea and the rules for them” was published on the portal of legal acts.

    According to the appendix to the document, in areas No. 13 and 27 of the Barents Sea, the navigation of all vessels is prohibited, with the exception of ships, boats and vessels of the Navy and FSB agencies.

    The order, signed by the acting Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Andrei Kostyuk, was registered by the Ministry of Justice on November 7, 2023.”

    Perhaps new phases and missions dawn in the unfolding Global-SMO… happy hunting fellas!

    This is as likely a defensive posture — protecting the Northern Sea Route (NSR) now active between East Asia/India and western Russia/Europe, as well as protection of the North Fleet sub bases and oil/gas installations.. since 22.2.2022, Norway, on behalf of NATO, was already aggressive with ISR intrusion flights and attempted denial of shared Russian ports and outposts at Svalbard

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