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ParticipantGAZA LIVE BLOG: DAY 110
▪️On the 110th day of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, little has changed as far as Israel’s coveted victory.
▪️To the contrary, judging by the Maghazi operation and the ongoing Khan Yunis battles, the Palestinian Resistance seems to be getting stronger by the day.
▪️Meanwhile, Arab Resistance, namely Hezbollah in Lebanon and Ansarallah al Houthis in Yemen, continue to strike at Israeli positions, or Israel-bound ships, completely unintimidated by Israeli and Western threats.
▪️The humanitarian situation, however, is worsening, as nearly 800,000 Palestinians are reportedly experiencing extreme hunger.
▪️ISLAMIC RESISTANCE IN IRAQ: We targeted an American base near Erbil airport.
▪️YEMENI MILITARY SOURCE: The Ansarallah attacked a cargo ship near Bab Al-Mandab.
UKMTO: The British Maritime Trade Operations Authority announced on Wednesday that it had reported an incident 45 nautical miles south of Aden in Yemen.
▪️Slovenia’s foreign minister has called for an end to the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip as Israel continues its attacks for more than 100 days, saying “enough is enough.”
▪️Malnutrition in children means “a whole generation is now in danger of suffering from stunting,” the statement said.
Gazans now make up 80 percent of all people facing famine or catastrophic hunger worldwide, marking an unparalleled humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip amid Israel’s continued bombardment and siege, according to UN human rights experts.
“Currently every single person in Gaza is hungry, a quarter of the population are starving and struggling to find food and drinkable water, and famine is imminent,” the experts said in a statement.
▪️Hundreds of ancient sites, historic monuments, museums and archives have been damaged or destroyed since the start of Israel’s onslaught on the Gaza Strip, according to an Israeli non-governmental organization.
▪️Against all odds, the Palestinian national football team managed to secure their place in the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2024 Round of 16.Historic Victory in Doha – Palestine Punched Ticket to AFC Asian Cup Round of 16
🔸Persistent Palestinian Resistance Counters Israeli Aggression on Gaza for 110th Consecutive Day
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2032373
▪️In a remarkable display of resilience and determination, the Palestinian resistance continues to confront the relentless Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip for the 110th day in a row. Despite the ongoing massacres against defenseless civilians in the besieged area, the resistance fighters refuse to back down, even with what they perceive as an American green light for the Israeli enemy.
▪️When Terrorism and Organ Theft Connect… It’s ‘Israel’
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2032032🔸Iran’s security chief in Moscow for talks
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/211225/Iran-s-security-chief-in-Moscow-for-talks
▪️Ali Akbar Ahmadian has traveled to Moscow at the invitation of Nikolay Patrushev, the Secretary of the Russian National Security Council in order to boost bilateral relations.
▪️Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan officially welcomed Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi who has just arrived in Ankara on Wednesday.
▪️Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi says that, during his visit to Turkey, the two countries will sign documents to expand trade and economic ties.▪️Syria made history on Monday by qualifying for the next round of 16 of the Asian Cup underway in Qatar.
▪️US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Wednesday night that it targeted the positions of Iraq’s Islamic Resistance in response to the group’s recent attacks on American bases and facilities in the Arab country.
▪️The illegal US military base in the Koniko gas field, located in the northern suburbs of Syria’s Deir ez-Zor was targeted with missiles.▪️In a letter to High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, Amnesty International said it “concurs” with South Africa, which took Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to stop it committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, “that there are worrying signs of genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip.”
🔸Netanyahu’s Shape-shifting ‘Endgame’ – It Is No Ploy, But a Reversion to Earlier Zionist Strategy
by Alastair Crooke
https://www.unz.com/article/netanyahus-shape-shifting-endgame-it-is-no-ploy-but-a-reversion-to-earlier-zionist-strategy/
“The late Ariel Sharon, a long-time Israeli military and political leader, once confided to his close friend Uri Dan that, “the Arabs had never genuinely accepted the presence of Israel … and so, a two-state solution was not possible – nor even desirable”…The Four Horsemen of Gaza’s Apocalypse
by Chris Hedges
https://www.unz.com/article/the-four-horsemen-of-gazas-apocalypse/
“Joe Biden relies on advisors who view the world through the prism of the West’s civilizing mission to the “lesser breeds” of the earth to formulate his policies towards Israel and the Middle East.Joe Biden’s inner circle of strategists for the Middle East — Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan and Brett McGurk — have little understanding of the Muslim world and a deep animus towards Islamic resistance movements. They see Europe, the United States and Israel as involved in a clash of civilizations between the enlightened West and a barbaric Middle East…
Participant🔸Forwarded from Ostashko!
▪️❗️ Globalists are preparing a plan to control the world through a new deadly epidemic “X” and zombie viruses.
First of all, they began to accelerate the narrative about global warming and the “unfreezing” of zombie viruses in the Arctic. Allegedly locked in Arctic permafrost for millennia, viruses could trigger a “terrifying new pandemic” due to melting glaciers and increased Siberian shipping.
🌐In order to detect cases of the disease in a timely manner, scientists have come up with Arctic monitoring networks , with the help of which they will be able to monitor and collect data on all “infected” people in the Arctic.
🦠 The next thesis is preparation for “disease X”. On January 17 in Davos, at the World Economic Forum, a whole meeting was held on this topic. WHO warns of an unknown “disease X” that could emerge in the coming years and kill more than 50 million people.
In order to properly “prepare” and study this disease, WHO urgently needs systems of control and punishment for people (including prison) for spreading “misinformation” on the Internet.
🔴 The WEF also announced a new technology for measuring “personal CO2 emissions” . Alibaba Group President J. Michael Evans spoke about the creation of a new personal device to track carbon footprint.
📝 “What does it mean? It’s where they travel, how they travel, what they eat, what they consume,” he said.
✖️ Humanity is being brainwashed by the “green agenda”, new viruses, and global warming in order to ultimately justify the creation of an instrument of global control. And this is only a small part of the program of the globalists, whose goal is to build a totalitarian regime, which they call “democracy.”▪️🇺🇦🇫🇷 The media wrote that the strike in Kharkov hit officials from the French Ministry of Defense.
As previously reported, today, the Russian Armed Forces again struck the location of foreign mercenaries, whose citizenship has not yet been officially announced.
❗️Some sources suggest that these were representatives of the French defense department who were struck while the bodies of military intelligence officers killed in a previous strike were being handed over to them.
🇵🇱🇬🇧 Other media write that “Poles and Anglo-Saxons” may have suffered from the strike on the building in the Kievsky district of Kharkov . And among them, preliminary, there are serious losses.▪️Zelensky has serious problems at the front
– Yuriy Podolyaka, journalist
▪️Ukrainian channels constantly write about this. Zelensky entered into a fight with Zaluzhny. Judging by the channels of Poroshenko and Klitschko, there is a sharp increase in rhetoric against Zelensky.
▪️And he needs arguments. In addition to holding the front, he needs to show a national idea for which he can fight and ideologically contrast it with the ideas of Zaluzhny, who is openly supported by the United States.▪️🇷🇺🇮🇷 Russia and Iran are preparing an agreement that will forever change the Middle East – OilPrice
The publication writes that the agreement between the countries implies “far-reaching agreements” in the field of defense and energy.
❗️ Here are some provisions from the contract:
▪️In the energy sector, Russia will have priority rights to mineral extraction in the Iranian part of the Caspian Sea
▪️The agreement fixes prices for all industrial goods in trade between the Russian Federation and Iran , including military equipment and energy equipment
▪️There are plans to modernize facilities at key airports and dual-use seaports , which Russia considers useful for its aerospace forces and fleet.
✔️ The 20-year agreement will “change the landscape in the Middle East, Southern Europe and Asia . ” Iran’s military reach will expand, Tehran will gain new leverage and will be able to make political demands throughout the region.
🇺🇸✖️ At the same time, other countries may stop believing in the reliability of American protection.
▪️The Americans, in general, are even ready to dump Ukraine on us. But here are some fundamental nuances for us. Zelensky just wants to survive in this fight because his life is at stake.▪️🇹🇷🇫🇲🇸🇪The Turkish Parliament approved Sweden’s entry into NATO.
Remaining approval from Hungary.▪️🇺🇦 In Ukraine, doctors recommend that women go to the front line and conceive a child in the trenches.
Against the background of a demographic catastrophe and the mass death of soldiers at the front, Ukrainian women are offered to save the gene pool.
📝 “The doctor told me to go to the front to get pregnant and give birth, otherwise our Ukraine has no future,” the girl said.
✖️ It’s not that it still exists, it’s just that the Kiev regime, apparently, no longer knows how else to motivate women to go and die on the front line.▪️⚡ 🇷🇺 Il-76 crashed at about 11.00 Moscow time in the Belgorod region – Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
On board were 65 captured military personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces transported to the Belgorod region for exchange, 6 crew members, and 3 accompanying persons, the department reported.
⚡️ The launch of an anti-aircraft guided missile on the Russian side of the Il-76 was from Kharkov from a distance of 130 km.
The Rybar tg channel writes about this. The State Duma also noted that the Ukrainian leadership knew about the upcoming exchange and the method of delivering prisoners of war to the place where it would take place.
❗️According to MP Kartapolov, the plane was shot down by three Patriot or Iris-T missiles.
✖️ The leadership of Ukraine was well aware of the impending exchange and knew very well how prisoners of war would be delivered – Deputy Kartapolov
📝 “What a degree of cynicism – to destroy your own citizens, your own soldiers, who were agreed to be taken away,” Kartapolov said.
Earlier , he reported that the Il-76 plane was shot down by three Patriot or Iris-T missiles.
🇺🇦 After the first reports of the downed IL-76, the Ukrainian public and the media joyfully took responsibility.🇺🇦 UkroSMI, without blinking an eye, edits the news about the downing of the Il-76 aircraft by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The editors of the Ukrayinska Pravda publication, which initially reported that the plane was shot down by the Ukrainian army, simply changed the headline after reports of captured Ukrainian Armed Forces on board.
✖️ The article removed all references to the downing of the plane and the fact that this was “the work of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.”
Everything was as we expected.
🛩 The downed Il-76 plane was already transporting prisoners for exchange – and the Ukrainian side knew this.
The plane was always busy transporting prisoners of war to the Belgorod region, which Ukraine was aware of. Moreover, they knew all the details of the aircraft – model, tail number, as well as the date for which, after long negotiations, the exchange was scheduled.
🇷🇺 The exchange involving Il-76 was reported in a report on Channel One on January 3 (video) . So Kyiv could not have confused or been unaware of the plane where the Russian military might be.
🇺🇦 The exchange was supposed to take place today in the usual place, but Ukraine, for unknown reasons, decided to kill its own prisoners while preventing the return of ours.🔸Forwarded from Older than Edda:
▪️🇷🇺🇺🇦In the morning, after a long break, Russian troops again launched a combined missile strike on targets in the front-line and rear areas of the so-called. Ukraine.
▪️Once again, a series of explosions occurred in Kiev. Observers filmed the passage of cruise missiles: according to preliminary data, they hit objects in the right bank part of the city.
▪️In addition, there were reports of arrivals in Dnepropetrovsk and Pavlograd, which had also previously repeatedly become the target of attacks. It is also known about explosions in the area of the Mirgorod airfield, although there is no reliable information about a hit on it.
▪️In Kharkov, one of the strikes literally destroyed the building of the Volna fitness club – enemy sources suspect either the use of Soviet missiles with a relatively large warhead, or the use of ballistic missiles from the DPRK.
Most likely, the targets of the morning attack were military-industrial enterprises and other structures that the enemy used for his needs – since the beginning of the year, the Russian Armed Forces have hit precisely such targets several times in succession.
📌Judging by videos that appeared on the Internet, Russian troops used cruise missiles equipped with a jamming system at the final site to deceive air defense systems. Previously, such missile launchers were spotted during the attack on Lvov, but today, they were photographed in Kiev.
Representatives of the Ukrainian Armed Forces traditionally announced the successful repulsion of the attack and the interception of dozens of ammunition, although footage of explosions in cities under their control speaks for itself. It is possible that the enemy transferred a considerable number of its air defense systems to the front line to combat regular attacks by the Aerospace Forces, which led to a weakening of air defense in the rear areas.▪️Explosions not only in Kharkov, but also in its environs. Missiles and aircraft are working against the enemy. Just now he warned the ZSU military personnel stationed in the border areas – hand over the positions of your missile launchers, MLRS systems, artillery, places of deployment of mercenaries and other dashing people and FABs will not fall on you (you personally). Better yet, destroy and post the video, then you won’t have to spend FAB, and you can steal everything from the damned katsaps. Otherwise, you will have to play Little Russian roulette and wait to see whose PVD the FAB from UMPC will fly to.
▪️Judging by the video, the Il-76 military transport aircraft was on fire before the fall; fire is visible in the area of the right engine.
A year and a half ago, crests attacked the colony in Yelenovka with Himars, where Azov prisoners were kept, killing about 50 people. Today a plane carrying prisoners was shot down. I cannot explain this with normal logic.🔸Forwarded from Andrey Medvedev:
▪️I see some incomprehensible joy about the fact that Ukrainian prisoners were flying in the downed IL-76. Like the Ukrainian military killed their own.
Stop and stop entertaining the demons.
The Russian crew and pilots died. Russian soldiers who accompanied the prisoners.Well, the prisoners themselves. Yes, soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, citizens of Ukraine. But, as we know, these are essentially Russian people. Deceived. Reflashed. Sometimes they are completely mankurt. But still Russians. Although not ours. Perhaps, for now, not ours.
We flew home to our families. We don’t know repented, these captives, they realized something in captivity, they overestimated it. Or not? If he agreed to change, it was not necessarily because he dreamed of beating a Muscovite again near Avdeevka. Maybe someone’s mother was dying at home, and he agreed to the exchange? Only the one who compiled the lists knows this.
But to mock the death of a helpless person, even an enemy, is demonic.
Leave the devilry to the Banderites.
Pray for the fallen Russian pilots and Russian soldiers, and forgive the enemies who died today. They no longer answer to us 🙏January 23, 2024 at 15:10 in reply to: The Cornucopia – Art, Music, Poems, Creative Stories, Myth, & Glories 20.12.23 #24746Participant
from the poem by
Alexander Vertinsky –
“What I Have to Say”I don’t know who would need it and what was their reason,
Who’s sent them to their deaths with unquivering hand,
They’ve been granted no mercy when people were easing
Their bodies in wet graveyard sand.Cautious onlookers silently kept adjusting their fur coats,
And some woman from motley crowd with contorted pale face
Kissed the blue lips of her beloved, the deceased [one] she used to dote,
And she threw her engagement ring at the chaplain apace.They were covered with green fir boughs and with dirty sand layers,
Then spectators went home to discuss on the sly
That it’s high time to end all this [sad] disgrace and say prayers,
That a famine is coming soon and we’ll have to scrape by.And no one had a simple thought just to get down on his knees
And to tell these deceased young boys that in this dismal land
Even glorious feats are just steps to endless abysses,
To the Spring that is out of reach, that is splendid and grand.Participant“As a result, the riots have just started again and are likely to continue for some time.”
No such riots have started as of yet!ParticipantGAZA LIVE BLOG: DAY 108
▪️Israel has intensified its attacks on Khan Yunis in an ongoing attempt to besiege the city from all directions.
▪️Al-Qassam Brigades reported that they are repelling Israeli advancement, despite the intense bombardment and shelling that killed and wounded many, including children.
▪️Meanwhile, Israel has also attacked the western region of the city of Gaza, in addition to other areas in the northern Strip.
▪️According to a Hezbollah statement, the Israeli soldiers were preparing for an attack on Lebanese territory from an Israeli military post when they were targeted with missiles.
The attack reportedly resulted in a precise hit, causing casualties and wounded on the Israeli side.
▪️HEZBOLLAH: We targeted an Israeli force in the Abu Dajj Heights near the Zarit military barracks with appropriate weapons, confirming that a direct hit had been achieved.
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a gathering of Israeli occupation soldiers in the vicinity of the Raheb site and achieved a direct hit.
▪️GALLANT: Even if Hezbollah stops firing unilaterally, we will not do so until we guarantee the return of the residents of the north.
▪️The Israeli army deepened and expanded its operations in Khan Yunis. According to the Israeli Radio, seven Israeli brigades are currently active underground and above ground in the region.
▪️AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted an Israeli foot force with an anti-personnel missile west of the city of Khan Yunis, leaving it dead and wounded.
▪️AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We are engaged in fierce clashes with Israeli occupation soldiers and vehicles on the advance fronts in the city of Khan Yunis.
▪️Israel desecrated several cemeteries in the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Monday morning, during its ground offensive.
According to an investigation published by American CNN on Saturday, “the Israeli military has desecrated at least 16 cemeteries in its ground offensive in Gaza (…) leaving gravestones ruined, soil upturned, and, in some cases, bodies unearthed.”
Through the analysis of satellite imagery and social media footage, CNN was able to assess that “the evidence reveals a systemic practice where Israeli ground forces have advanced across the Gaza Strip.”
▪️Families of Israeli captives held in the Gaza Strip have begun a sit-in protest outside the home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, demanding their immediate release.
▪️On Monday morning, a group of relatives of Israeli captives also stormed a parliamentary committee session in Jerusalem, demanding that the lawmakers do more to release their children
▪️The Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas issued a 16-page document on Sunday, entitled ‘Our Narrative … Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’. The document addresses many critical questions about the context, the timing, and the events of October 7.Hamas Document Reveals: Why We Carried Out Al-Aqsa Flood Operation – SUMMARY & PDF
🔸Day 108: ‘Israel’ Pounds Khan Younis as Families of Hostages Mount Pressure on Netanyahu
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2031185
“Gaza’s Khan Younis has become the new war epicenter as the Israeli occupation intensified the aggression on Monday, hammering the southern city and committing brutal crimes against its residents…🔸VIDEO: Moment when IRGC missiles hit Mossad base in Erbil
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/211109/VIDEO-Moment-when-IRGC-missiles-hit-Mossad-base-in-Erbil
▪️Footage shows the moment when a Mossad spy base was targeted by IRGC missiles earlier this month.
▪️The Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson said Iran’s recent attack on the Mossad center in Erbil was a punishment against the aggressors against Iran’s national security and not against Iraq.
▪️The IRGC said the first missile strike targeted gathering places of commanders and main elements of recent terrorist attacks in the Iranian cities of Kerman and Rask. It said in a later statement that a missile strike had been launched at a main espionage center of the Israeli regime’s Mossad spy agency in the Iraqi Kurdistan. The strike destroyed the Mossad center, it said.▪️News sources reported on Monday that an explosion was heard in the Koniko gas field that is home to the US troops in eastern Syria.
The Iraqi Islamic Resistance claimed responsibility for the attack on the base after issuing a statement.
▪️Australia has recalled a ship carrying livestock to the Israeli-occupied territories over fears it may be targeted by the Yemeni armed forces.
The ship which was transporting sheep and cattle to Israeli customers, had started sailing from Fremantle port in western Australia for Aqaba port in Jordan on January 5, but it was forced to return to the port of departure.
▪️According to Arab media outlets, the Saudi Army has targeted the Baqim city in the northeast of Yemen’s Saada province.
No details have been yet released regarding the possible casualties caused by this attack.
The purpose of the attack is still unknown.🔸Forwarded from Ostashko!
▪️👔 Biden is preparing for a long military conflict in Yemen
The United States is preparing for a long military conflict in Yemen. The Washington Post wrote about this.
📝“ The Biden administration is developing plans for a sustained military campaign against the Houthis in Yemen ,” the newspaper said.
It is noted that officials in the country do not expect the actions to take years but admit that they cannot determine an end date.
✅At the same time, officials worry that an open-ended US operation could drag Washington into another Middle East conflict. In addition, the states are working to intercept arms supplies from Iran, the newspaper concluded.
▪️🇷🇺🪖 If Ukraine is defeated, Russia will take control of 30% of world wheat exports , – French Foreign Minister
In a conversation with the local publication, Le Parisien, the newly appointed minister Stephane Sejournet, outlined very negative consequences for the European Union if Ukraine is defeated.
🇪🇺According to him, Russia’s victory in the Northern Military District threatens the EU with inflation and will become a “very serious” food problem, so Paris will continue to support Kyiv.
European authorities understand that Russia not only has the lion’s share of energy resources on the continent. Control over the Little Russian breadbaskets revives Russia of more than a century ago, which fed all of Europe with bread.
▪️❗️ Yemen’s parliament plans to place US, UK and Israel on the list of the world’s top terrorists
Yemen’s parliament has issued a statement stressing that the US, UK and Israel should be placed at the ” top of the global terrorist list ” in response to Washington’s designation last week Ansarallah added to its own list of terrorist organizations.
▪️🇺🇦✖️🇺🇸🇮🇱Even Ukrainian cargo ships passing through the Red Sea are distancing themselves from the United States and Israel.
🤔 Can’t Yemen’s Houthis be able to put 2 and 2 together to understand that all cargo from Ukraine is supervised by Washington.
▪️🇮🇱Relatives of Israeli hostages burst into the Knesset, demanding that measures be taken to free them from Hamas captivity.
Judging by the video, Israeli deputies are not inclined to dialogue with relatives.
❗️What adds to the deplorability of the situation is that the IDF, in most cases, chooses the liquidation of hostages rather than their release.
In fact, the position on the negotiations between Tel Aviv and Hamas also clearly reflects Israel’s reluctance to engage in dialogue.
▪️🇮🇶✖️🇺🇸The Islamic Resistance in Iraq attacked the American military base of Ain al-Assad in western Iraq.
The strike was carried out using a kamikaze UAV.🔸Forwarded from Colonelcassad:
▪️Missile and drone attacks were observed at bases in the Al-Omar oil field and Al-Shaddadi. These attacks were expected, and they would obviously continue. Iran gradually transferred the shelling of American bases to a daily basis with the help of its proxies. The damage is limited but regular, part of Iran’s strategy to push the US out of Syria and Iraq through its proxies without having to engage in direct military action with the US.https://t.me/VanessaBeeley/24237
✍️ An X thread yesterday reminded me of the point here, about Hezbullah self limiting itself.This point is underappreciated and its impact is rather very big. Back when fighting in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, or anywhere else, Hezbullah knew the homefront was safe. Lebanon, Beirut, south Lebanon, the Homefront was safe, the people were safe, and so was their lifelihood and their existence.
Because of that, Hezbullah was able to mount offensives against Syria rebels, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and everyone else with ease. Hezbullah moved armies between countries and it’s fair to say they almost moved mountains that stood in their path.They were (and still are) men of war who won any challenge. But this time, it’s different. Not Hezbullah, but the conditions that dedicate how Hezbullah acts.
To understand how Hezbullah, whose smallest rocket launcher is 20 slots, is firing barely few rockets in some attacks, and to understand how/why Hezbullah hasn’t destroyed Israeli settlements or attacked with more intensity…is to understand Hezbullah wants to protect the homefront.Hezbullah doesn’t want to burden this homefront that barely exited a very harsh and devastating economic collapse and political instability. The homefront is too sacred and cherished to be risked immaturely.
This is why Hezbullah self limited itself, accepted more damage that it is causing, and had to resort to unorthodox tactics to engage the Israeli army to achieve some goals and reserve ability.
Hezbullah was successful in limiting the army resources in Gaza, forcing settlers to evacuate, destroying army gear and assets…all to a limited impact on the army and events.Hezbullah is ready for an extended war with the enemy, and they have been prepared for long and they are now prepared to go forward…
The only issue is, the goal is to end the war in Gaza not to expand the war. But that’s something the Israeli leadership isn’t planning to, and despite the heroic resistance in Gaza surviving this long, it’s a ticking bomb. Any day could cause enough damage that wasn’t done in months of effort.That, and the ever increasing heavy toll the Israeli army is inflicting on Hezbullah. While the Israeli army continues to hide its soldiers away from the current frontline in Lebanon and denying Hezbullah any targets in the current level of escalation.
Hezbullah isn’t attacking such few times a day because they decided to, the reality is the number of available legitimate targets to engage. It’s so easy to fire one projectile towards empty bases and fields and claim two dozen attacks. But Hezbullah isn’t trying to win a war on social media.
The Israeli army is acting very arrogantly and viscously in Lebanon, with full destruction of villages and targeted assassinations. It’s quite sorrowful that some are being martyred just few days into their deployment.
But with the current trajectory of events, it’s very clear that the situation cannot stay so for long. There cannot be stability based on this instability. How things progress will be very delicate and wil have ripple effects on many things to come.Hezbullah will not launch a war against the Israeli army, and it will only engage in one the moment the Israeli army does that to Lebanon. This was stated by his eminence.
It’ll be interesting days, ones full of pride and misery, but those are destiny and moments that influence a future that was never going to escape bloodshed.January 21, 2024 at 15:54 in reply to: The Cornucopia – Art, Music, Poems, Creative Stories, Myth, & Glories 20.12.23 #24684ParticipantFairuz – Le Beirut
To Beirut
From my heart salutations to Beirut
And kisses to the sea and the houses
To a rock that looks like an old sailor’s face
She (Beirut) is a wine
made of people’s spirit
From people’s sweat,
she’s bread and Jasmine
So, how did her taste turn
into the taste of fire and smoke
To Beirut
A glory of ash to Beirut
From the blood of a boy carried on her hand
My city has turned off its lamp
Closed its door
Stayed alone in the evening
Alone with the night
To Beirut
From my heart salutations to Beirut
And kisses to the sea and the houses
To a rock that looks like
an old sailor’s face
To me To me
Ah Hug me you are to me
My banner and tomorrow’s stone
and my travel wave
My people’s wounds have flowered
The mothers’ tears have flowered
You are Beirut to me
You are mineParticipant🔸Ukraine and the Middle East – Part 1[i]
by Aleks from BMA
https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-the-middle-east-i
“This first part focuses on events in Ukraine, and the second part, to be published soon, will focus on the Middle East and the overall perspective…🔸How the West Was Defeated
by Pepe Escobar
https://www.unz.com/pescobar/how-the-west-was-defeated/🔸Coastal missile complex “Redoubt”
https://en.topwar.ru/93335-beregovoy-raketnyy-kompleks-redut.html
The W-5 cruise missile of submarines, created in the second half of the fifties, became the basis for a whole family of missiles for various purposes. The result of its modernization was the appearance of the P-6 rocket with a homing system designed to arm submarines. For warships at the same time, the P-35 rocket was created with a set of appropriate equipment. In the future, the P-35 rocket became the basis for a new weapons with enhanced features and several new complexes. On the basis of it were developed coastal missile systems “Redoubt” and “Rock”.🔸The US isn’t ready for the Big Leagues
https://aftershock.news/?q=node/1336029
▪️According to the most complete information I collected in a short time, I managed to find out that the United States annually produces about 500 missiles used in Patriot air defense systems. At a price of 4-6 million dollars each. And over the next year, it is planned to increase this figure to 650 missiles per year.
▪️One Patriot division usually consists of 6 batteries, with 6 launchers in each. One launcher can hold up to 16 PAC-3 missiles. This means that one full load of the Patriot division is 576 such missiles.
▪️An attempt to shield three major air bases from a series of salvos of more than 100 different types of missiles will probably exhaust the entire American PAC-3 missile stockpile in a week or two. And the current annual production of such anti-missiles can easily be spent in a couple of days.🔸Long-awaited breakthrough in the south of Avdiivka
https://aftershock.news/?q=node/1336077
“Yesterday morning, we received information that our people had taken the Tsar’s Hunt . There is a sweep and they are moving further along the street. Sportivnaya and Sobornaya streets. No videos, no photos. But the Ukrainians had a quiet sadness, from which it was concluded that something really boiled there with a khokhlyad frog…🔸Forwarded from Zergulio:
The number of dead after the shelling of the market in Donetsk increased to 25, more than 20 wounded (c) DPR head Pushilin
The strike on Donetsk was carried out by 19 American-made M864 cluster munitions with a bottom gas generator to increase the firing range. The shelling was carried out by two M109 self-propelled guns from the Kurakhovo village area
▪️🇷🇺 All those involved and responsible for the attack in Donetsk will be punished, the Russian Foreign Ministry reports.
The attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the market in Donetsk is a barbaric terrorist act against the civilian population of the Russian Federation.
🔹The terrorist attacks of the Kyiv regime testify to its lack of will to peace and to resolve the conflict through diplomatic methods.🔸Forwarded from Ostashko!
▪️🚨 Four people survived the crash of a Russian plane in Afghanistan.
Four people survived the crash of a Russian Falcon 10 plane in Afghanistan, the fate of two is unknown. This was reported by the Federal Air Transport Agency.
📝“ Of the six people who were on board the plane, four are tentatively alive ,” the department reported. According to the Federal Air Transport Agency, the fate of the two passengers is unknown.
On January 21, a Falcon 10 business jet carrying Russian passengers crashed in the mountains of northeastern Afghanistan. The flight was reported as a flight of two private pilots.
✅The passengers were Anna and Anatoly Evsyukov, who were returning from Pattaya to Moscow for treatment on a chartered ambulance flight.▪️🌍 North Korea called Putin the closest friend of the Korean people
👔Pyongyang considers Russian President Vladimir Putin the closest friend of the Korean people and is ready to warmly receive him if he decides to visit the DPRK. This is stated in a statement from the Office of the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK following the visit to Russia of the head of the department, Choi Song Hee.
🔹As Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov previously stated, the exact dates of Putin’s visit to the DPRK are being agreed upon through diplomatic channels.
✅Moscow and Pyongyang have recently stepped up bilateral cooperation. In September 2023, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited Russia and held talks with Putin at the Vostochny Cosmodrome. After this, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited the DPRK in October.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a meeting with North Korean Foreign Minister Choi Song-hee in Russia last week, expressed his readiness to visit Pyongyang in the near future. Reuters writes about this.
◼️This will be the Russian leader’s first trip to North Korea in more than two decades. Putin came to Pyongyang in July 2000 to meet with Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un’s father.
🇷🇺Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the visit would take place “in the foreseeable future” but said a date had not yet been agreed upon.ParticipantGAZA LIVE BLOG: DAY 107
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▪️In a first, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said plainly that Israel should be ready to free its prisoners in Gaza in exchange for a ceasefire agreement.
▪️ His comment echoes those of other top Israeli officials. Netanyahu, however, is adamant, although he has no plan, neither for the war itself nor for the post-Gaza war.
▪️On the other hand, it seems that Gaza’s future is still squarely in the hands of the Palestinian people, especially those who continue to resist in Gaza.
▪️Knowing that the Palestinian Resistance is not isolated from the collective will of all Gazans, the Israeli army continued to bomb Palestinian cities, from Jabaliya to Khan Younis with complete impunity.
▪️Israeli Channel 12 reported that “an Israeli soldier, recently returned from fighting in the Gaza Strip, killed his friend inside an apartment.”
It said the shooting had criminal implications, and the perpetrator and victim were both 25 years old.
▪️Tommaso Della Longa, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ spokesperson (IFRC), said the situation in Gaza is getting “worse and worse.”
“What we are seeing is what we predicted, and not because we are magicians, but because we know by experience,”
According to the United Nations, 85% of the population of Gaza is already internally displaced, amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure is damaged or destroyed.
More than 1.9 million have been forced to leave their homes some multiple times.🔸Sayyed Nasrallah: Military Support to Gaza Will Continue till It Emerges Victorious
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2030525
▪️Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah stressed that Al-Aqsa Flood Operation deeply engraved defeat in the Zionists’ conscience, adding that the Israeli myth and sample have been smashed, while the Palestinian cause has been restored despite all attempts to obliterate it.🔸Iran not to leave Israel crimes unanswered: Raeisi
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/211063/Iran-not-to-leave-Israel-crimes-unanswered-Raeisi
▪️Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi says that the Islamic Republic will not leave the Israeli regime’s crimes unanswered.
Referring to the martyrdom of 4 IRGC advisors by Israel in Syria, Raeisi said that he condemns the Zionists’ act of aggression.
▪️The spokesman for Iraq’s Joint Operations Command (JOC) says the Baghdad government is determined to end the presence of foreign troops from the US-led military coalition purportedly formed to fight ISIL terrorist group.
“The Iraqi government is resolute to put an end to the deployment of foreign forces in the country. It has devised a vision plan for the next stage, which includes joint technical activities intended for the US-led coalition’s departure and subsequent security and military cooperation,” Rasool said.
▪️A senior member of the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas says Israel is collapsing at all levels as the regime is committing the most egregious crimes against humanity.
▪️The UK military has carried out some 50 spy missions over the Gaza Strip for the Israeli regime since last month, a new investigation has revealed.
In its latest report, Declassified UK, a news website focused on British foreign policy, said the flights have taken off from the UK’s controversial Akrotiri air base on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
▪️UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the Israeli army’s ‘wholesale destruction of Gaza’ as a ‘unprecedented’.
Speaking about Israel’s war on Gaza at the 19th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Kampala, Uganda, the secretary-general of the UN said: The wholesale destruction of Gaza and the number of civilian casualties caused by the Israeli army in such a short period are totally unprecedented during my mandate.
“This includes 152 of our own UN staff members, a heartbreaking tragedy for our organization, for their families and for those they were serving in Gaza,” he said.
“While humanitarian workers are doing their best to deliver relief, they face constant bombardments, daily dangers to themselves and their families and the enormous constraints by damaged roads, communication blackouts and access denials,” UNSG highlighted.
“Meanwhile, disease and anger are deepening, people are dying not only from bombs and bullets but from lack of food and clean water, hospitals without power and medicine, and grueling journeys to even smaller slivers of land to escape the fighting. This must stop,” said Guterres.🔸Forwarded from Ostashko!
▪️🔴 Iranian commanders of the IRGC and Hezbollah are in Yemen to help the Houthis in their attacks – Reuters
A massive attack on the positions of US Navy ships in the Red Sea is reported. Opposition publications to the Ansarullah movement, based in Aden (the part of Yemen controlled by the Houthis), write about this.
⚫️According to the materials, Iran is actively helping to collect intelligence and coordinate strikes using military satellites. Including the Soraya satellite launched two days earlier.
▪️💥 Footage of a US military base in Iraq five hours after a powerful shelling show that eight missiles arrived at the base of the US Army and its allies in Ain al-Assad in Iraq. According to unconfirmed reports, several American military personnel were killed. The Pentagon announced that two soldiers were wounded.
🇺🇸According to local media, Washington considers this strike to be a crossing of the Iranian proxy’s red line and is already considering options for retaliatory actions in accordance with the AUMF doctrine, which they used in Afghanistan after the September 11 terrorist attack.▪️🇺🇸🇾🇪 The US shelling of the positions of the Yemeni Houthis did not work , writes the French publication Le Monde.
The Yemeni Houthis have intensified attacks on Israeli ships in the Red Sea. The US and UK responded by launching airstrikes deep into Yemen.
✖️The French publication states that Washington tried to stop the Houthis with its strikes, but they did not have the desired deterrent effect.
Washington’s regional allies were skeptical of American attacks on Houthi targets. Thus, Riyadh, which for many years resisted the Houthis, causing a humanitarian crisis and thousands of civilian casualties, understands how pointless it is to pursue such a policy.
❗️Washington’s miscalculation also caused a new wave of worsening relations with Iran. In addition, American bombing in the Middle East turned out to be extremely unpopular within the United States. Society does not understand why further aggravate the conflict in such an unstable region, exposing the world to the threat of a global conflict.
The intractable Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is using the aggression of the United States to drag them into a war in the Middle East. They understand that Israel will not be able to emerge victorious alone, the authors state.▪️🇮🇱 Tens of thousands of people in Tel Aviv demanded Netanyahu’s resignation.
Last night, protest participants also demanded that the Israeli authorities call new elections.January 20, 2024 at 14:56 in reply to: The Cornucopia – Art, Music, Poems, Creative Stories, Myth, & Glories 20.12.23 #24653Participant“Aatini al-Nay wa-Ghanni”
(Bring Me the Flute and Sing).
Fairuz Sings Gibran
Aatini al-Nay wa-Ghanni lyrics
(Bring me the Flute and Sing)
by Kahlil Gibran
Bring me the flute and sing, for song is the secret of eternity.
And the wailing of the flute remains, even after the end of existence.
Have you taken the forest, rather than the palace, to be your home?
Have you climbed up the creeks and the rocks?
Have you bathed in perfume and then dried yourself with sunlight?
Have you tasted the wine of the early morning from goblets of ether?
Bring me the flute and sing; that is the secret of eternity.
And the wailing of the flute remains, even after the end of life.
Have you sat alone at dusk among the grapevines?
Among their clusters hanging like chandeliers of gold?
Have you made the grass your nighttime bed?
Have you wrapped yourself in the evening air with the sky as a blanket?
So that you can allow the future to come and let go of the past?
Bring me the flute and sing, so our hearts may be in balance.
And the wailing of the flute remains, even after the end of all sins.
Bring me the flute and sing; forget maladies and their cures.
For people are but lines of poetry, written, but with water.
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▪️Though the Biden Administration is speaking of a ‘demilitarized Palestinian state’, Washington still believes that the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza must continue.
Indeed, the war rages on, as hundreds of Palestinians continue to die as a result of Israeli bombardment on a daily basis. The latest attacks focused on the town and refugee camp of Jabaliya in northern Gaza, and areas east of Khan Younis in the south.
Resistance, however, remains strong in all axes of fighting.
▪️Two mothers are killed every hour by Israeli occupation forces in Gaza. This is the shocking number revealed by a UN Women report on Friday.
▪️Leaders of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries have condemned Israel’s onslaught on the Gaza Strip and called for an immediate ceasefire, during the annual summit of the 120-member bloc.
“We demand an immediate end to this unjust war against Palestinians and implementation of the two-state solution,” the Chairman of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahmat, reportedly told the meeting of heads of state in Uganda’s capital, Kampala.
▪️The AFC Asian Cup is underway and is two matchdays into the quadrennial tournament. The Palestine national team is, arguably, at their best condition in years, with talents like Oday Dabbagh getting to showcase his skills on Asia’s biggest stage.
Following an unfortunate 4-1 loss to Iran on January 14, Palestine locked in on matchday 2 as they took on Arab rivals, the UAE.🔸IRGC confirms martyrdom of advisors in Israel attack on Syria
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/211041/IRGC-confirms-martyrdom-of-advisors-in-Israel-attack-on-Syria
▪️Issuing a statement on Saturday afternoon, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) confirmed the martyrdom of several of its advisory forces in an Israeli strike on Syria.
According to the latest reports, the chief of the IRGC intelligence in Syria and his deputy along with 2 other members of IRGC were martyred during this attack in Syria.
▪️Iran’s power is different from other countries; so, the United States is not capable of carrying out any military attack on it, an Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force official said.
Iraj Masjedi, top advisor to the commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), addressed people in Abadan, Khuzestan province, on Friday, pointed out that the US sends messages to Iran, demanding Resistance combatants not to attack American forces, because Washington does not seek expansion of war.
▪️Arab news sources on Saturday evening reported that the US Ain al-Asad base in western Iraq was targeted with more than 20 missiles.
The Islamic Resistance of Iraq said that it had targeted the illegal US airbase in Anbar province in the west of Iraq with missiles.
▪️The Islamic Republic of Iran has set a “new” space launch record after successfully sending Soraya satellite to an altitude of 750 kilometers above the earth’s surface for the first time.
The Aerospace Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced on Saturday that the launch of the Soraya satellite into orbit was carried out by its domestically manufactured Qaem 100 satellite carrier.
Qaem 100, which can carry up to 100 kilos, placed a research payload with an approximate mass of 50 kg into a 750 km orbit in its third test launch.
▪️India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry, in its latest report, said the value of trade between Tehran and New Delhi increased by 21 percent in November 2023 compared to the same month in 2022.
▪️Iran’s oil revenues in the first nine months of last year (January to September 2023) reached $34 billion, accounting for 12% of OPEC member states’ total oil income.🔸Palestinian Resistance Continues Confronting Israeli Barbaric War on Gaza
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2030448
▪️Al-Qassam Brigades pounded the enemy’s infiltrating formations with mortar shells north and south of the city of Khan Yunis.
This video shows footage of Al-Qassam Brigades targeting enemy vehicles infiltrating the Ja’bari site east of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip…
▪️Israeli Soldiers under Hezbollah Fire: More Attacks on Border Targets
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2030415
▪️In support of the Palestinian people and resistance in Gaza and in light of the Israeli aggression on the various South Lebanon villages, the Islamic Resistance continued striking the Zionist occupation sites near Lebanon border.
▪️The case of panic is exacerbating in the northern settlements of the Zionist entity over the threats posed by Hezbollah, according to the Zionist media.
As Hezbollah strikes restricted the Zionist movement in the border area, Ynet reflected the catastrophic situation in Galilee.
“Galilee is no longer prosperous. It is a war zone,” Ynet mentioned.🔸Go, Palestine!
https://linhdinh.substack.com/p/go-palestine
“…Until then, we’re free to kick a soccer ball, scoop sand, or stare at toylike boats that bring us much deliciousness. May Gazans, those who survive, do the same soon.”🔸Israel Committing Genocide to Steal Gaza’s Gas?
https://kevinbarrett.substack.com/p/israel-committing-genocide-to-steal?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
The Palestinians are deprived of their wealth. What will happen to Israel’s plans to seize Gaza’s gas?🔸Israeli army gassed my son ‘like Auschwitz,’ mother of slain Israeli soldier says
by WYATT REED AND MAX BLUMENTHAL
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/01/18/israeli-army-gassed-auschwitz-soldier/
“An outraged Israeli mom has sparked an uproar after accusing the Israeli army of deliberately gassing her son to death while he was being held in a Gaza tunnel. Now she says the Israeli military had her son’s gravestone removed after her critical message went viral…🔸Forwarded from Ostashko!
▪️🤯The United States again did not see IDF war crimes in Gaza.
American administration spokesman John Kirby said that the White House is “gathering information” but has not yet found evidence that Israeli soldiers “deliberately committed” war crimes in the Palestinian enclave. This is how Kirby responded to Mexico and Chile’s appeal to the International Criminal Court with a lawsuit against the IDF.
📝”We have no indication that this was a deliberate… effort by the IDF to commit war crimes ,” Kirby said.
❗️The countries went to court after the publication of a video showing the shooting by the military of residents of the West Bank of Jordan, one of whom turned out to be teenagers. IDF soldiers deliberately opened fire on unarmed bystanders who posed no threat.
Note that footage from such Israeli “safari” leaks from the Gaza Strip regularly. Israel has already become a defendant in the Hague court in the case of the Palestinian genocide. However, the United States continues to take a position of denial of any facts about IDF war crimes and blocks any resolutions condemning Tel Aviv at the UN.
▪️🇬🇧✈️💥Britain is unable to send an aircraft carrier against the Houthis
A British aircraft carrier will not be able to participate in the operation against the Houthis due to a lack of personnel, island media reported.
🛥The fleet of a “normal country” is struck by the same crisis as the armed forces as a whole – there are too few people willing to serve Charles III.
▪️🇮🇱 Borrell said that Israel itself created Hamas.
The head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said that Israel was behind the creation of the radical Hamas movement.
📝“ I insist that Israel, by continuing to reject this decision, has gone so far as to create Hamas itself. Yes, the Israeli government financed Hamas in an attempt to weaken the Palestinian Authority ,” Borrell believes.
🔴 The number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks since October 7 has reached 24,762, with 62,108 injured.
▪️🌍 Italy suspended arms supplies to Israel so as not to fuel the conflict
Rome suspended arms supplies to Israel after the outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip. This was announced by the head of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani, in an interview with the Quotidiano Nazionale newspaper.
📝“ All this is blocked. The period when the largest number of weapons were sent to Israel occurred during the premiership of Giuseppe Conte. But with the outbreak of hostilities, we suspended all deliveries of weapons systems and military equipment of any kind ,” he said.Participant🔸Forwarded from Zergulio:
This morning I saw news from Germany and thought for a long time.
Bild writes that Mercedes-Benz is selling all 80 German car dealerships of the concern, including its headquarters in Stuttgart. The fate of the 8,000 employees employed at these car dealerships is unclear. Or rather, it is clear, they just don’t voice it out loud.The concern announced its withdrawal from Russia on March 3, 2022. Already at the end of the first half of 2022, Mercedes-Benz’s net profit decreased by 16% to 6.6 billion euros. In the second quarter of 2022, it fell another 13.6% to 3.1 billion. The total losses associated with leaving the Russian Federation amounted to about 2 billion euros. We are, of course, talking about one-time losses because it will be difficult and scary for Germans to calculate the entire amount of lost profits for 2022-2023.
At the same time, the concern ended 2022 with a profit, thanks to sales in Asia, especially in China. Moreover, a significant part of the cars was locally produced. Then, the company was concerned about weak demand in Europe.
And here’s bingo! Mercedes-Benz! leaves Germany. From Germany, Karl! Mercedes is no longer just a luxury for the Germans – it has ceased to be affordable for them.
Mercedes-Benz production is also leaving Germany (and what would it do there without Russian oil and gas). Already in 2024, a new production of four-cylinder engines will start operating in China – together with Geely. We are talking about hundreds of thousands of units. In September 2022, Mercedes-Benz, together with the Chinese Foton Motor, opened the production of heavy trucks in China. And such news comes in a stream – the concern’s factories are closing in Germany and opening in China and the USA.
I don’t know which is more symbolic. The fact that all Mercedes car dealerships are closing in Germany, or that in December 2022, the BIA Forst plant, which produced chrome Mercedes-Benz emblems, closed there.
Russophobia kills. Who will be the last to leave Germany – turn off the lights.
▪️⚡️The new Minister of Defense of Slovakia said that due to the transfer of weapons to Kyiv by the previous government, the country was left without air defense, combat aircraft, and even without the promised money for the MiG-29s transferred to Ukraine.
Commenting here will only spoil it 😄🔸Forwarded from Colonelcassad:
▪️Holland expressed complaints to Iran due to the fact that, among others, a child with a Dutch passport was killed at the destroyed Mossad base in Erbil.
The Dutch did not specify what the child was doing at the secret facility of the Israeli secret service. Of the 9 killed Mossad employees, data on only 2 people is known so far.
▪️The American MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance and strike drone was very likely shot down in Iraq by an advanced Iranian missile known as the 358 Missile. It was formally launched by local Iranian proxies.
A distinctive feature of Rocket 358 is its compactness, which allows it to be launched by a small crew from a mobile platform like a pickup truck.Using micro-turbojet engines, the rocket is thrown to the required height, after which the main engines are turned on and it begins to move towards the target. The missile can remain in the air for a long time and represent both a loitering munition (which has already been tested in combat conditions in Idlib, where Iran used it to destroy a fuel depot and in Afghanistan, where it hit a CIA air command post), and as a weapon Air defense, destroying helicopters, large and medium UAVs, attack aircraft and careless aircraft that do not expect that in the absence of active air defense systems, they can throw a missile from the ground at supersonic speed of 8 km (which is significantly higher than the standard ceiling of modern MANPADS), and then on main engines at a lower speed up to 12 km (in any case, these are the parameters stated for it) with a range of up to 100 km.
The appearance of this missile in service with Iranian proxies in Iraq creates additional problems for the United States.
The same missile is already in service with Hezbollah in Lebanon – at least 1 Israeli Hermes drone was hit by this missile.
Today, this is one of the most dangerous Iranian anti-aircraft weapons, which can be supplied to various irregular formations in various theaters of operations.
▪️An American spaceship with the flag of Ukraine, which was going to be delivered to the Moon, burned up after entering the Earth’s atmosphere.
The Ukrainian flag also burned down😀
▪️For those who were waiting for a “sudden Iran-Pakistan war.” The parties smile sweetly and are ready to discuss the development and strengthening of relations.
As I wrote immediately after the Pakistani strikes, this was an agreement where Pakistan was allowed to save face. They saved face and played up the situation. 19 Baloch were killed on both sides of the border, but not a single Iranian or Pakistani was injured. The Taliban again acted as the Peacemaker that no one expected.
▪️The large Eastern European NATO exercises starting the other day (several months and up to hundreds of thousands of personnel) are most interesting because of whether the enemy will be able to adequately assess their results. Or rather, even this: will the mugs in uniform be able to give an objective assessment of everything that they see, and report it to the mugs in civilian clothes as it is, and these latter will allow themselves to believe in what will be reported and draw rational conclusions from what is reported.The subject of the exercises will be the re-enactment of the beginning of a big European war – as any hedgehog knows, the NATO war against Russia. Their main task, well, at least as it should be in their minds, will be a comprehensive assessment by the enemy of the key components of its combat capability – ground, air, sea, logistics support, military-industrial. And on its basis – modeling the course and results, if not of the war as a whole, then at least of the first operations.
With the ability to successfully conduct a large, especially long-lasting, conflict of the highest intensity (and especially without many restrictions on our part, which we adhere to in the adjacent territory), NATO is objectively doing very badly. The point is not only that in two years a huge amount of weapons were raked out for the benefit of the crests, and in terms of ammunition they were simply stripped down to their underwear, that is, practically to the point of irreducible reserves. But there is also the fact that over these years their defense industry has essentially not even begun to scale up to the needs of wartime – and in wartime conditions this task will certainly not be solved. And the fact is that they have nothing to solve the problem of increasing the mobilization of the number of ground forces in many respects, from the reserve of command personnel at all levels to the materiel for new formations. And the fact is that our superiority in tactical nuclear weapons cannot be called anything other than absolute. And the very high, both absolutely and in comparison with us, vulnerability from the air of their strategic rear areas with industry, energy and other infrastructure. And the huge difference in combat experience accumulated over these two years. And in many other aspects of the economy, finance, the mood of the population and similar matters of a basic nature for conducting military operations.
And the main intrigue arising from the above is, accordingly, whether the results of the exercises will formulate the only possible conclusion, if we don’t lie to ourselves, that NATO’s combat capability today should be considered 1) extremely limited, 2) having a huge restoration cost in money and time , 3) having an unpredictable restoration price in terms of socio-political costs.
If they manage to look this whole reality in the eye, first at the military level, then at the political level, then when the crests as an organized military force end, there will be only one conversation with their owners about everything that will happen next. If the enemy instead prefers to assure himself that everything is in perfect order with him, and (an indispensable consequence of this self-deception) the Russian Untermensch are on their last legs and cannot withstand the very first collision with all the civilization of the civilized world, then it will be completely different.
And if the sense of self-preservation in the main part of Europe (the pack of the most complete Russophobes there can no longer be cured by anyone or anything) has not been lost, then the results of the exercises there may, although without a guarantee, pass as an excellent reason to crawl away from the line. And behave when the moment of truth comes, that is, when the crests run out and there is no longer any way to postpone fateful decisions, in the full understanding that beyond the line it is painful and scary, and most importantly – completely hopeless.
Whether these results will pass for this reason in fact, I don’t know.
🔸Forwarded from Ostashko!
▪️🇪🇸Michelin closes production in Spain due to crisis in the Red Sea
Attacks by Yemen’s Houthis on commercial ships from Israel, the United States and Great Britain have made the production of the largest tire manufacturer in Spain unprofitable. The French company intends to “temporarily” close four plants.
🇩🇪Previously, Michelin also curtailed production at three factories in Germany , but in that case, this was due to a sharp rise in energy prices .
This is not the first time a crisis has led to the closure of factories in Europe: Tesla suspended production in Germany, Suzuki did so in Hungary, and several Japanese shipping companies canceled shipments through the Red Sea for the same reason.
▪️🪖⚡️⚡️The energy crisis caused by the NWO ruined Bohemian glass in the Czech Republic. The production of the famous Bohemian Glass was forced to stop in the Czech Republic 230 years after its founding.
❕The reason was the rise in energy prices caused by the geopolitical war of the West against Russia, in which Russophobes from Prague also participate as much as possible.
▪️💱🇦🇷🤑Inflation in Argentina exceeded 211 percent
The figure of 211% exceeded inflation in Argentina at the end of 2023.
📑The previous time a Latin American country experienced such an economic cataclysm was in 1991, and the actions of the administration of the newly elected president only worsened the situation.
▪️💸💸💲The volume of foreign currency loans of Russians has reached a historical minimum.
The volume of foreign currency loans of Russians has decreased to a historical minimum, as follows from the published data of the Central Bank.
🧑Our fellow citizens no longer risk borrowing money in rubles, and therefore, the share of foreign currency loans has fallen to 0.1% of total debt indicators.
▪️🇪🇺👊🇺🇦Six EU farmer unions spoke out against Ukraine.
A call to limit the import of agricultural products from Ukraine was made by 6 EU farmer unions, united for this cause.
📨They sent a corresponding letter to European officials, and some farmers supported their call by blocking a piece of the Romanian-Ukrainian border.
▪️🔴 Microsoft announced an attack by Russian hackers.
Hackers from the Midnight Blizzard group, according to the company, gained access to the accounts of Microsoft management and cybersecurity employees. The corporation called the hacking a “state attack” and stated that the hackers were sponsored by the Russian authorities.
❗️The company claims that the hack did not affect Microsoft users in any way. It is noteworthy that the attack was carried out back in November 2023, but the company noticed its consequences only on January 12.
Microsoft has repeatedly announced attacks by hackers from this particular group. Moreover, the corporation directly calls them “hackers from Russia” without providing any evidence. The Russian government denies any connection with Midnight Blizzard, also known as Nobelium.
▪️🇺🇸🦠🤒Soros and Biden are involved in dangerous biological research.
The United States is involving non-governmental foundations controlled by the Democratic Party in military biological research. This was stated by the representative of the Ministry of Defense, the head of the RCBZ troops of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov.
🤒He named a number of well-known foundations that are involved in dangerous biological experiments.ParticipantI cannot say for certain if General Surovikin is currently in Algeria, but that is what the Telegram from Zergulio implied.
Perhaps General Armageddon has ensconced himself in Algeria and is now helping in the de-colonization of North Western Africa. Mayhap he has now involved himself with many other far-reaching endeavours ✊
ParticipantGAZA LIVE BLOG: DAY 105
▪️Former Chief of Staff and member of Israel’s War Council Gadi Eisenkot said that the Israeli prime minister clearly bears responsibility for the October 7 attack. His comments were the latest addition to the growing rift among Israeli politicians.
▪️Meanwhile, the Israeli genocidal war continues unabated. Israeli massacres are reported in Khan Yunis, Rafah and other areas in central and southern Gaza.
▪️Palestinian Resistance also continued at all axes of fighting in Gaza, including the northern regions.
▪️AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted an Israeli tank southwest of Gaza City with an Al-Yassin 105 shell, and another Merkava tank northeast of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted a building in which occupation soldiers were barricaded in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City, and opened fire on a soldier near it, wounding him directly.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We destroyed three Israeli Merkava tanks with “Shawaz” explosive devices east of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
▪️GALLANT: The continuation of fighting in the Gaza Strip in southern Israel means it will also continue on the northern border with Hezbollah, but Israel will not accept the current situation for long.
▪️WASHINGTON POST (quoting Western, Lebanese officials): “Israel has threatened to escalate its fight with Hezbollah if an agreement is not reached within weeks.”
▪️RUSSIAN FM: A delegation of Hamas, headed by the movement’s International Relations Office, Mousa Abu Marzouq, is headed to Moscow.
▪️SWISS ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE (to Al-Jazeera): The office is working on a statement following criminal complaints against Israeli President Isaac Herzog. A human rights legal group in Switzerland announced that individuals had filed accusations against the Israeli president to federal prosecutors and authorities in Basel, Bern, and Zurich.
▪️Nearly 20,000 Palestinian babies have been born into war in the Gaza Strip, while 135,000 children under age two in the besieged enclave are at severe risk of malnutrition, UNICEF has said.
“That’s a baby born into this horrendous war every 10 minutes,” Tess Ingram, a UNICEF spokesperson told a press briefing in Geneva on Friday.
“The situation of pregnant women and newborns in the Gaza Strip is beyond belief, and it demands intensified and immediate actions,” Ingram stressed 😢
▪️The latest report by the UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordination Office (OCHA) indicates that 2023 marked “the highest number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem” since the UN began recording casualties in 2005.
Since October 7, 2023, and as of January 18, 2024, a total of 357 Palestinians have been killed, including 90 children, in the occupied West Bank, according to the Situation Report, dated January 19.
▪️Silent ‘Genocide’: Israel’s War on Palestinian Bedouin Communities in West BankSilent ‘Genocide’: Israel’s War on Palestinian Bedouin Communities in West Bank – SPECIAL REPORT
▪️They left behind their homes with everything in them and were not able to return, not even to collect their belongings. Anyone who dared to go back was beaten, arrested, or had his vehicle burned…🔸US, UK ships to be targeted along with Israeli-linked ships
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/210987/US-UK-ships-to-be-targeted-along-with-Israeli-linked-ships
▪️Leader of the Yemeni Ansarullah Resistance movement said Israeli regime did not achieve any of its goals in Gaza aggression, warning that the US and UK ships will also be targeted in Red Sea along with Israeli-linked ships.
▪️The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has once again targeted the US base near the Erbil airport in the north.
▪️Shamshad Ahmad Khan, Pakistan’s former Foreign Secretary, says Jaish al-Adl is a US-backed terrorist group that has targeted Iran, noting a possible war between the two brotherly states will lead to a tense situation.
▪️In a telephone consultation with Hossein Amir-Abdullahian Friday, the Foreign Minister of Pakistan stated that his country emphasizes the necessity of restoring diplomatic relations with Iran.
▪️During the operational phase of the joint specialized air defense exercise “Defenders of the Sky of Velyat 2023,” various targets at low altitude were shot down by Iranian-made 9-Dey short-range missile system.
“The short-range and low-altitude air defense system ‘9-Dey’ produced by the IRGC Aerospace Force successfully intercepted and destroyed the targets assigned by the country’s integrated air defense network in the air defense specialized exercise of the Defenders of the Sky of Velayat 2023,” – Brigadier General Abbas Farajpour
▪️Local media in Iraq have reported the crash of an American reconnaissance drone in the east of the country.
▪️Yemen’s Armed Forces announce conducting a fresh missile strike against another American ship in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, who have come under a genocidal US-backed war by the Israeli regime.🔸Iran is caught in a ring of war
https://m.vz.ru/world/2024/1/18/1249097.html
“In just a few days, Iran struck three states at once. We are talking about Syria, Iraq and Pakistan. Shells also flew in the opposite direction, but only from the direction of Pakistan. What are the reasons for this escalation, what are the motives of the Iranian military and political leadership, and how can such a development affect Russia’s interests in the region?Participant🔸Forwarded from Ostashko!
▪️🚨 Jordan launched a strike on Syria, allegedly attacking drug traffickers.
According to local media, Jordanian air forces carried out several strikes on the Syrian border last night. Two fighter jets dropped several aerial bombs on buildings containing people in Orman and Malakh. Jordan said it allegedly attacked drug smugglers.
❗️It is unclear whether there were smugglers in the houses, but the strike resulted in the deaths of 10 people, including women and children. Obviously, such a step by the Jordanian Air Force will not stop drug trafficking but will lead to increased tension on the border with its neighbors.
🔴The Syrians themselves fired three rockets towards Israel this evening; no casualties have yet been reported on the Israeli side. Also, over the past two days, Iran and Pakistan exchanged missile strikes , which were even asked by the Afghan Taliban to stop the escalation . In addition, Iran has struck American targets in Iraq, and Yemen continues its war on Western shipping in the Red Sea.
Everything suggests that the situation in the Middle East is becoming explosive and will require the full attention of not only the White House, but also the entire West, which is now torn between supporting Ukraine and fighting for its interests in the Middle East region.🔸Ostashko!
Forwarded from Later than everyone else.
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🇮🇷Iran/🇵🇰Pakistan. The situation is very interesting and dangerous. What should be noted:
▪️Islamabad initially reacted with restraint. Then came a blow to Iran, which even forced the Prime Minister of Pakistan to urgently leave Davos (he was not aware of this particular response) . It turns out that in the Islamic republic, there is no unity in power, but there is an internal political crisis. There will be elections in a couple of weeks. Is a change of power possible?
▪️Pakistan is India’s sworn enemy. The activation of American intelligence services and the drift into the US geopolitical camp of one side automatically brings the other side closer to the China-Russia camp. This only strengthens the alliance within the SCO and BRICS. Of course, it would be great to attract Pakistan to us (and this was the case back in 2022 under Imran Khan) , but Pakistan is too unstable and vulnerable to influence from the states
▪️ All Iran’s attention is in Israel and Yemen. An additional front, especially with a reliable ally in the East, is absolutely not a good time. This means that by striking the Balochistani people, Tehran was preventing something very dangerous.‼️The US is activating all its capabilities in the Middle East against Iran and raising the stakes. Washington chooses escalation rather than negotiations
PS. Washington is choosing escalation rather than negotiations in this region as well. The same as in Ukraine. But they long ago needed to free up their hands in all directions and deal with China in the Asia-Pacific region.
They are burying themselves▪️💥An American MQ-9A Reaper reconnaissance drone was shot down over Iraq.
The Arabic channel Sabreen News reports this: according to its data, the UAV took off from the Ali Al-Salem base in Kuwait and was shot down near the Iraqi city of Al-Muqdadiya. There are still five Reaper reconnaissance aircraft remaining at the American air base, so US reconnaissance capabilities in the region have not been particularly affected, but the cost of one odious drone exceeds $30 million.
▪️⚡️The Houthis announced a strike on the American vessel Chem Ranger in the Gulf of Aden.
According to data from open sources, this oil tanker was going from Saudi Arabia to Kuwait.▪️🚀 The US hit the Houthi missile stockpiles in Yemen. According to CNN, the US military has launched its fifth strike on Yemen this week. The US Air Force was targeting two anti-ship missiles “that were aimed at the southern Red Sea and were ready to be launched.”
📝“U.S. forces detected missiles in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and determined that they pose an immediate threat to commercial and U.S. Navy ships in the region. American troops attacked and destroyed the missiles in self-defense ,” the American command said in a statement.There is a suspicion that the entire combat mission cost the American purse much more than these two missiles did for the Houthis, and such meager success will not in any way affect the combat effectiveness of the movement. However, even President Biden himself acknowledged the uselessness of US missile strikes 🤔
▪️📢 The Yemeni Houthis guaranteed the ships of the Russian Federation and China safe passage through the Red Sea.
As a member of the Ansar Allah Politburo, Muhammad al-Buheiti, said in a conversation with Izvestia, strikes will only be carried out on ships associated with Israel – they will not have the slightest opportunity to cross sea. The rest of the vessels are not in danger.
📝“As for all other countries, including Russia and China, their shipping in the region is not threatened. Moreover, we are ready to ensure the safety of the passage of their ships in the Red Sea because free navigation plays a significant role for our country ,” explained al-Buheiti.
He added that the escalation of the conflict in the Red Sea was the fault of captains who sailed to Israel and ignored warning signals from the Houthis. Because of this, the United States had to intervene in the situation on behalf of Israel, which led to open war off the coast of Yemen.▪️🌚👾👽NASA admitted that it will not complete the mission to the Moon on time.
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was forced to postpone the lunar missions planned for the current year and 2025.
🚀The department cited the failure of the Peregrine module launched on January 8, which did not even manage to fly to the Moon.
😄 they couldn’t take even one small step, wherefrom will come the giant leap for mankind (LOL)▪️🔴 North Korea tested a prototype of the Haeil-5-23 underwater nuclear weapon.
The tests took place in response to joint exercises by the United States, Japan and South Korea. They are taking place in the area of Jeju Island – the American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Carl Vinson is taking part in the exercises.▪️🚨 Lloyd Austin summoned to testify before Congress after ‘secret hospitalization’
Earlier this year, the US Secretary of Defense was admitted to the hospital for emergency surgery due to complications related to a procedure he had previously undergone to treat prostate cancer. The American public learned that the head of the Pentagon was in the hospital only a few days later – almost at the same time Biden and the White House learned about Austin’s hospitalization.
😉 Lloyd ‘Raytheon’ beware when Darth Vader arrives▪️🇷🇺🇬🇧 Putin declared a “fish war” on Britain.
The British are outraged that the Russian Federation “dared” to impose retaliatory sanctions against them, which, by the way, hit a painful point – the residents of Britain may be left without their favorite national dish, fish and chips.
According to the Daily Mail, Moscow plans to denounce the agreement allowing British vessels to fish in Russian Arctic waters.
📝 “One of Britain’s favorite dishes is under threat. Putin declared a “fish war” on Britain , the newspaper writes.
🎣 Now, British companies are catching huge quantities of haddock and cod in Russian territorial waters, the meat of which is used in their national dish. Last year alone, more than 566 thousand tons of cod were caught in the Barents Sea.
❗️The traditional question of Western countries after retaliatory sanctions is “what are they for?” In the case of the British, it is also accompanied by fears that the Russian Federation will use its navy to drive fishing vessels out of territorial waters.▪️💥 🇮🇷 NYT: Iran sent a message to Israel and the United States using the Kheibar Shekan missile.
This missile is capable of reaching a distance of 1,450 km and can hit Israeli territory, writes The New York Times. It is highly accurate, making it difficult for air defense systems to intercept it.
🇸🇾 The Khyber Shekan was launched during one of the attacks on ISIS targets in Syria, which was Iran’s demonstration to the West of its advanced ballistic missile capabilities.
🇮🇱🇺🇸Given that Iran may provide this missile to its satellites in the region, in particular the Houthis and Hezbollah, this message will be a serious reason for Israel and the United States to think about the advisability of subsequent attacks on Lebanon and Yemen.🔸Forwarded from Colonelcassad:
▪️The Iraqi Prime Minister, during a visit to Davos, confirmed that the expulsion of American troops from the country is one of his government’s top priorities and that he intends to achieve this with all his might.
The withdrawal of American troops from Iraq will obviously be one of Iran’s biggest victories, so the United States will put all possible pressure on Baghdad in order to delay the process of troop withdrawal or even force Baghdad to abandon its demands. Therefore, many upcoming attacks in Iraq (both by Iran on American bases and by the United States on Iranian proxies) will also have implications related to the issue of troop withdrawal.▪️Niger will be free❗
The Niger delegation, led by the country’s Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zein, who flew to Moscow with the cabinet of ministers, leaves Russia on the morning of January 19. During the four days of the visit, agreements were reached on comprehensive cooperation in many areas: from military and medical to humanitarian and industrial. Russia will build railways, get a market for its weapons, as well as new students and cadets in universities and military schools. Moscow will help Niamey gain fuel independence and improve healthcare. At the same time, Prime Minister Lamine Zein confirmed the desire of Niger and its allies – Mali and Burkina Faso – to free themselves from the control of their financial system by Paris (the countries do not have their own currency, it is replaced by the West African franc, a single monetary unit for the former French colonies). It’s time to switch to the West African rouble.ParticipantGAZA LIVE BLOG,: DAY 104
▪️The US military struck Yemeni targets again, hoping that Ansarallah would end its tactics in the Red Sea. The group, however, vowed to carry on until Israel ends its genocide in Gaza.
▪️The genocidal war continued, with scores of Palestinians killed in Rafah, Khan Younis, and other regions throughout the Gaza Strip.
▪️Palestinians Resistance too continued to score direct hits against invading Israeli forces, especially in central Gaza.
▪️AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted an Israeli special force holed up in a residential building with a TBG shell, killing and wounding its members east of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We blew up an Israeli troop carrier with an “Al-Yassin 105” shell and targeted a Merkava tank with a second shell near the Eastern Cemetery, east of Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our members blew up a house and targeted a foot Zionist force of 30 soldiers in Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis.
▪️NETBLOCKS OBSERVATORY: Gaza has entered its seventh day without communications, with the network outage exceeding 144 hours.
▪️IRANIAN NAVY: The destroyer “Alborz” in the Red Sea to escort our commercial ships and oil tankers.
▪️Israeli occupation forces have destroyed the main buildings of the Al-Israa University, located south of Gaza City.
The targeted structures housed graduate and undergraduate colleges, as well as a national museum.
In a press statement, Al-Israa University said that the assault extended beyond the main building to include the national museum, which contained over 3,000 rare archaeological artifacts. The occupying forces looted these valuable assets before destroying the museum.🔸Hezbollah Targets Israeli Positions, Deployments on Border
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2029381
▪️In a show of solidarity with the people and resistance in Gaza, facing brutal Zionist aggression backed by an American green light and the complicity of Western and numerous Arab regimes, the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon continues its targeted actions against Israeli enemy positions along the Lebanese-Palestinian border.🔸Fighting terrorism responsibility of all countries in region
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/210974/Fighting-terrorism-responsibility-of-all-countries-in-region
▪️Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says that fighting terrorism is a common responsibility of all countries in the region.
The top Iranian diplomat made the remarks during a phone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan on Thursday.
▪️Iraqi Resistance forces have carried out drone strikes on a US military facility near the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli, along the Turkish border. The attacks, directed at the Hemo base, situated west of Qamishli Airport, occurred early on Thursday.
The report indicated that the Hemo base, which accommodates around 350 American soldiers, is considered vital for US occupation forces in Syria.
▪️A key Israeli spy officer has been killed in a Monday missile attack by Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on a building in Erbil in Iraq’s Kurdistan region.
Ilan, nicknamed Fox, was a Mossad officer who coordinated the agency’s anti-Iran operations and also its recruitment efforts in the country. Four members of Ilan’s team, namely Malka, Adika, Hen, and Sharabir, were also killed in the attack.
▪️Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says that Tehran backs the security of navigation and shipping in regional and international waters, and will continue efforts aimed at ensuring security in West Asia.🔸❗A very fragile world. The Pakistan crisis in a global context
by Rostislav Ishchenko
https://ukraina.ru/20240118/1052763071.html
“Pakistan retaliated with air and missile strikes on Iran’s Balochistan region after Iran struck Pakistan’s Balochistan region the day before. In both cases, the official motivation was the same- the destruction of terrorists..…In any case, however, the Iran-Pakistan crisis that suddenly emerged out of nowhere showed how fragile the modern world has become and how easily it can slide into a major regional (on the verge of global) military conflict in just two steps. At the same time, the West is still focused on destabilizing the overall global situation, and this trend will continue to dominate world politics at least until the US elections.”
🔸BIDEN AND XI JINPING EXCHANGED TAIWAN: SECRET COMPROMISE REVEALED IN RUSSIA
https://m.tsargrad.tv/news/bajden-i-si-czinpin-razmenjali-tajvan-tajnyj-kompromiss-vskryt-v-rossii_948149
Joe Biden and Xi Jinping exchanged Taiwan. Secret compromise between the US and China was revealed in Russia. The essence of a possible behind-the-scenes agreement was calculated by Nikolai Vavilov…🔸Forwarded from Ostashko!
▪️🇮🇶✖️🇺🇸Iraq’s PM says we no longer need a US-led international coalition presence in Iraq – The Wall Street Journal
😄Not even a day has passed since Blinken’s statement about “all countries in the Middle East wanting a US presence.”
▪️⚡️The Yemeni naval forces hit the American ship Genko Picardy in the Gulf of Aden with anti-ship missiles.
The ship was sailing under the flag of the Marshall Islands.
The Houthis responded quite clearly to the fact that the United States again included them in the list of terrorist organizations and banned visas🤷♀️
▪️🚀 A missile strike is reported on the Israeli city of Eilat.
Air defense systems are operating in the skies over the Red Sea. It looks like Yemen’s Houthis are at work.
▪️🤡The height of hypocrisy talking head USA Miller
➖ “You said that the United States will defend its interests wherever they are. Iran uses the same argument when it attacks terrorist groups in Iraq, Syria, and Pakistan.
Do you think Iran has the right to defend itself the same way the United States would?” , asked the journalist.
➖ “We condemn Iran. It violated the sovereignty of other countries. And the difference with the United States is that the context is very important ,” replied US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller.
🇾🇪People in Yemen are now very perplexed.
▪️📢The IDF General Staff announced the increased likelihood of war with Lebanon.
The head of the General Staff, Herzi Halevi, said that the likelihood of Israel’s war with Lebanon has increased, and we are talking about military operations specifically on the territory of Lebanon – that is, Halevi means waging an offensive war. According to him, the IDF is already preparing for such a scenario.
📝“I don’t know when the war will start in the north. I can tell you that the likelihood of it happening in the coming months is much higher than before ,” Halevi said.
The head of the General Staff added that Israel’s goal is to “return” its citizens to the north of the country, from where they were forced to evacuate due to regular shelling by Hezbollah. Halevi believes that the IDF is now in a better position than the Lebanese to start a war.
❗️However, Halevi apparently forgot that the IDF had planned an easy ride through the Palestinian enclave in October, but ended up getting bogged down in a difficult war with ragged Hamas. The confrontation with Hezbollah is a completely different level; the movement is prepared to wage a full-scale war.
🤦♂️And don’t forget about Israel’s other enemies, the same Yemen or Iran, which has finally personally entered the fight for the Middle East – they are unlikely to simply allow Israel to fight on two fronts, but rather stretch it out over four.▪️👔 Lavrov: it is necessary to bring Israelis and Palestinians to the negotiating table.
Peace can only be achieved through direct dialogue, said the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
📝 “Children and youth in Gaza are born in conditions where the Palestinian state promised by the UN General Assembly has not only not been created, but the chances of its creation are becoming increasingly slim due to US policy ,” he noted.
✖️ Russia, Lavrov recalled, condemned the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7 immediately; we do not have double standards in relation to terrorists. But Israel, like the West, has it.
🇮🇱🇷🇺Thus, under former Prime Minister Lapid, Tel Aviv accused Russia of starting indiscriminate shelling by the Northern Military District. Now – under the Netanyahu government – they say that their shelling is a “tragedy of war.”
📝 “Let’s decide. There is a convention. The Russian army complies with the norms, we hit military targets in Ukraine,” said the Russian Foreign Minister.
✔️In addition, Lavrov drew attention to the fact that Israeli statements sounded like Palestinians are not people, but animals. Yatsenyuk and Zelensky spoke about the same thing about the residents of Donbass. Moreover, all this has not met with rejection in the West.
▪️🇺🇦 Ukraine faces the fate of Afghanistan and Libya – Sergei Lavrov
📝 “Because if you rely on the owner, without understanding that the owner thinks only about himself, and not at all about you, you cannot count on the interests of your people being taken into account in any way,” explained the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
He also spoke about rumors about negotiations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine in Geneva.
📝“ The negotiations presuppose a renunciation of Nazi rhetoric and racism, as well as a refusal to join NATO; these are not sky-high dreams, but an indispensable condition for the Ukrainian people to become independent. We need to talk about this with the West,” Lavrov said.
👔His other statements:
▪️The West is not interested in starting the negotiation process between Russia and Ukraine
▪️Neither the United States nor NATO have the slightest interest in resolving the Ukrainian conflict
▪️The conclusion of an agreement between Ukraine and individual Western countries is a half-finished product. They do not change the goals of the SVO.▪️🇫🇲 NATO will hold the largest exercise simulating the beginning of the “Third World War” – the Spanish ABC agency
40,000 soldiers (according to Reuters, the number of NATO troops is 90,000) from all members of the Alliance and Sweden will take part, awaiting the completion of the accession procedure.
The exercise will take place on German, Polish and Baltic soil, in addition to the North Sea.
The alliance said the exercises should be “a clear demonstration of transatlantic unity and strength, and the determination to continue to do whatever is necessary for the mutual defense of values.”
❗️Exercise Steadfast Defender is due to begin next week.🔸Forwarded from Colonelcassad:
▪️The US, in retaliation for its failure to force the Houthis to stop attacks in the Red Sea, again declared the Houthis “terrorists”. Previously, they had already included the Houthis as “terrorists”, and then they themselves turned them off. And he goes in and out.
In fact, in the current situation in the Middle East, the terrorists are the USA, Britain and Israel 🤔
▪️The Houthis decided to celebrate their latest inclusion in the list of “terrorists” with a successful strike on another merchant ship in the Aden area.
The ship was damaged after a drone attack. Of course, one drone cannot sink it, but the very fact of the attack is very eloquent.
The Houthis are not at all impressed by US threats and entreaties. We decided to drown until melted, literally and figuratively..
PS. And the terrible thing from the State Department is that the Houthis will not be able to get a visa to the USA 😄
▪️The US struck Yemen again overnight. According to the Pentagon, they are trying to hit anti-ship missile launchers.
So to speak, a “reaction” to the defeat of American merchant ships by missiles and drones in recent days.
The Houthis said the attacks would continue. The US actions look like an attempt to “carve out the sea” against the backdrop of the very specific strategic consequences of the Houthis’ actions for logistics to Israel through the Red Sea. The United States has not achieved a single operational-strategic or even tactical goal.
As a simple forecast, today, or at most tomorrow, there will be news about the defeat of another bulk carrier 😉
▪️Taliban peacekeepers have called on Pakistan and Iran to reduce tensions and maintain peace and cooperation in the region 😀
▪️Iran’s strike on Pakistan killed 9 Pakistani citizens.
And when Pakistan struck Iran, 10 Pakistani citizens were killed.
Iran and Pakistan killed 19 Pakistani citizens.
The Taliban called on the parties to stop killing Pakistani citizens.
The usual news for 2024. -
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