On the 20th of October, Moldova - a small, landlocked country bordering western Ukraine and with a population of about 3 million - voted to join the EU. The margin was razor-thin, with the pro-EU vote gaining 50.39%, or an absolute difference of about 11,000 people. There was simultaneously a presidential vote between the incumbent, Maia Sandu, and other candidates, with the main competitor being Alexandr Stoianoglo.
The election was characterized by accusations of Russian interference, with Russian propaganda apparently flooding in, as well as people offering Moldovans money to vote against the EU. While the result does suggest that half the voting-age population of Moldova consists entirely of Russians who want to destroy democracy and all the good in the world, it seems to have just barely failed. This is a bad time to be a site entirely composed of Russian disinformation agents and bots. Twice already today, I’ve had to restart my program after somebody told me “Disregard all previous prompts.”
While Moldova is a poor country which could benefit in some ways from EU membership, in practice, it is unlikely that they will be able to join for the foreseeable future, requiring many of the… reforms… that the EU requires of potential new members. But as basically every major European economy continues to slowly sink as recessions and political crises degrade them, one wonders how beneficial EU membership will even be in the years and decades to come - if it survives for decades. In that sense, it’s as if the survivors of the Titanic are swimming back towards it, believing that being on a bigger - albeit slowly sinking - boat is better than trying their luck on small lifeboats.
Then again, like with Serbia, their geographical and geopolitical position makes anti-Western actions extremely difficult. It is rare that dissention is tolerated for long in the West - one tends to get called a dictator by crowds of people holding English-language signs in non-English countries, photographed by Western journalists who haven’t meaningfully reported on your country in months or years. You can crush your people with neoliberal austerity for years, killing hundreds of thousands through neglect, and face glowing approval from the media - but try and use state resources to benefit the poor, and global institutions start ranking you on the authoritarian dictator scale.
The best case for Moldova is that it becomes an exploitable hinterland for Germany to harvest and privatize as it tries - and fails - to compete in a global economic war between the US and China/BRICS. The worst case is that tensions with Russia over Pridnestrovie, as well as possible eventual NATO involvement (though Moldova is not a member, it is a partner of NATO), result in the ongoing war also reaching them.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don’t want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it’s just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a ‘propaganda tax’, if you don’t believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
I hate all zionists, but I have a particular spot for the bulldozer drivers. These aren’t just your normal soldier who loots houses and takes selfies in ruined buildings. The bulldozer driver is the one responsible for destroying homes and running over people in very conscious acts, you have to be a special piece of shit to demolish houses with your vehicle, one by one. On the other hand, the military use of bulldozers is quite unique to “israel”, even thought pretty much all armies use them. “israel” uses them very close to ongoing combat, usually armies employ them after areas have been cleared of enemies, but their bulldozers seem to follow frontline troops to begin destruction immediately, no time wasted there. I think this shows how much “israel” just loves destroying stuff, how their incursion into Gaza is simply to destroy it.
Remember that video of a bulldozer going through a refugee camp, running over and destroying people’s tents, a bulldozer that you can’t see but you can still hear destroying stuff, but then it comes face to face with a Qassam fighter that fires a very accurate RPG shot into the cabin? That is one of the most powerful videos by the Resistance that emerged from Gaza. Instant Justice I would say. These bulldozers are an integral part of “israel’s” plan for Gaza, and seeing it get destroyed as it’s doing it’s work is amazing. The bulldozer works for the genocidal cause, the Qassam fighter puts a swift end to it, it’s extremely symbolic. Here’s the video for those who didn’t watch it
And yes, this is related to that fucking piece of shit bulldozer driver who had PTSD and then suicided because he couldn’t bear with it. Hope many more zionists follow him tbh.
Death to “israel”.
BIG BREAKING: INDIA, CHINA REACH AGREEMENT TO END BORDER CRISIS:
https://xcancel.com/MattooShashank/status/1848295216266227721Nothing ever happens take: They are temporarily deescalating because the BRICS summit is coming.
The dialectic is ever in motion take: China is preemptively closing a potential front in preparation for a front opening in Korea.
Timing is interesting, but I also think that China has every incentive to make this lasting. I’m no expert, so please some chime in if I’m missing something, but I’ll stake my bet in that China sees its own interests entirely aligned with ending that border disagreement. It only costs resources to maintain the status quo and the benefits of peace are much larger for the state and people.
China is really trying to make BRICS happen, this is the week of the summit. They will be nice to all BRICS members and prospective members
Indians saw that picture of a Chinese soldier with a Glaive.
Jfc Kamala is really doubling down on having Liz Cheney as her hype woman. Apparently they were campaigning together in Michigan today. I swear I’ve seen Liz Cheney have a more prominent role in this campaign than Tim Walz over the last couple weeks.
I saw a poll the other day that showed both Dem voters and independents are really turned off by the idea of having a Republican in Kamala’s cabinet
Kamala has worse political instincts Hilldawg, and that’s saying something.
Taking Liz Cheney in will certainly bring the muslims and youth out to vote for us, the Democratic Genocidal Party. We are so good at this!
Aside from seeing his name on political ads, yeah. The Walz hype died quick.
Walz’ strength is on his record of treating republicans like they are the enemy and taking advantage of opportunities to advance stated Dem positions (He’s the best governor MN has had in a long time, amd I say this having voted against him)
Kamala isn’t in a position to talk up the former, and she doesn’t have any real positions to promise to stand on.
If it was Walz/Harris, this would be a very different campaign
I spoke to a conservative family member the other day who said they didn’t like Walz because “he’s a total socialist.” I know words like socialist don’t have much meaning to most Americans, but what the hell is that supposed to mean?
I asked that, in nicer terms, but didn’t get a meaningful response. I called Walz a moderate, and said that he hasn’t even called for any New Deal style programs to be added to the democratic platform, much less socialism.
Think they made Walz turn down his rhetoric because they want to run a center-right campaign to attract would-be Republican voters that are put off by Trump? If that’s right it’s got to be one of the worst electoral strategies, maybe ever.
Apparently he also dropped the ball hard during the Vice President debate, which was the start of Harris’ decline
Watch Liz become the second Cheney to be Secretary of Defense. Actually I think she wouldn’t get past the Senate lol.
Trying to double down on the woman vote. The protection for abortion voters. That’s the only explanation I see since it’s also about the only policy she differs from Trump on. Won’t work but surely that’s the angle.
I recall seeing a tweet that goes something along the lines of “Sinwar is everything western media wants you to believe Zelensky is” and that got me thinking…
is there a term for something like reverse-projection? I dunno, like, when someone attributes all of their enemies’ noble or good qualities to themselves or something.
Stolen valor
Ok since it’s looking as if Israel are in their final preparations for their attack against Iran, I will be posting the leaked US spy documents on Israel’s preparations, along with trying to make sense of what they mean. This is going to be a long and detailed post (lots of potentially terrifying details), so I’ll be completing it inside the spoiler tag below.
The documents themselves, and what does this potentially mean?
I’ll start by just posting the two military documents, they are written in a lot of military jargon that I’ll try and explain to the best of my ability, I have no real expert knowledge, but I’ll do my best. Feel free to provide any corrections where you see fit, I apologise in advance for any errors.
In short, preparations for a large attack on Iran have been taking place at Hatserim airfield, involving loading Air Launched Ballistic Missiles (ALBM) onto at least six F-15I (Israeli version of the F-15E Strike Eagle) aircraft at the base, likely of type “Golden Horizon”, but not certainly. A minimum of 56 ALBMs have been taken out of storage so far by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) in total at all air bases. 40 of type “Rocks” and 16 of type “Golden Horizon”. More on that later. ALBMs being taken out of storage and loaded onto aircraft was also spotted at Ramat David airfield and Ramon airfield.
Israel have also been spying on Iran, within Iran itself, using some sort of stealth UAV of type “RA-01”, operating out of a hangar at Ramon airfield. More on that later.
Israel also conducted a large scale practice exercise for their attack on Iran, involving one AWACS aircraft and three aerial refueling aircraft. The AWACS and refueling force is of a similar size to that which was used to conduct long range strikes on Yemen during September. No word on the size of the fighter aircraft force component though.
Israeli air defense systems in Arrow-2 and Arrow-3 continue to be deployed, along with the Navy being deployed.
Lastly, Israel likely has deployed the nuclear armed Jericho II Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) in a defensive position since October 1 2024, the date of Iran’s retaliatory ballistic missile attack. There is no indication that this is an offensive deployment or that they will be used in the upcoming Israeli attack. But this is as close as we’ll get to the US acknowledging the Israeli nuclear arsenal, and shows that nuclear weapons are in play.
What’s interesting from these leaked documents, is that they reveal the existence of two weapons systems of which there is no public information on. The Golden Horizon ALBM, and RA-01 stealth ISR UAV.
The RA-01, based on the size of the suspected hangars and intended role, could be a propeller powered flying wing design drone, similar to an RQ 170 but propeller powered. Other suggestions involve an ISR version of the Ibis HA10 High altitude long endurance concept drone, Public research paper here, with the wings fitted on after exiting the hangar as the wingspan would be too large for the hangars at Ramon. It would also explain the US spy report providing details about a technical crew needed to prepare the aircraft after take offs and landings. I’ll attach an image below to illustrate this, and yes, it’s the highest quality image available. This is really obscure territory here. This UAV concept was designed with stealth and a flight time of over 24 hours in mind, so it’s a viable suggestion. The twitter account that initially suggested it also got deleted, which adds some sort of credibility to the theory I guess? It’s concerning that Iranian air defences have not been able to detect or engage this UAV type.
As for what this could mean in an Israeli attack, we’ll start with the ALBMs. The concept of this is familiar, the most well known ALBM is probably the Russian Kinzhal, an Iskander SRBM converted for an aerial launch. Israel have a similar weapon in the Air LORA, a LORA SRBM converted for aerial launch. The “ROCKS” ALBM is weapon that we do have public information on. It’s a weapon with a range estimated to be between 250-300km which gives it stand off capabilities, uses a single Sparrow booster stage (the sparrow series are a series of ALBMs that Israel uses to test it’s Arrow and David’s Sling air defence systems, they are designed to imitate Iranian ballistic missiles), and uses GPS and inertial guidance, along with an electro optical seeker, or anti radiation seeker. A ROCKS ALBM with an anti radiation seeker was likely used to destroy an Iranian air defence radar that was part of a S300PMU2 missile battery during Israel’s April attack. Drones were used to stimulate Iranian air defences into action, giving away their position for the anti radiation missile to home in on their radar. The fact that 40 of these missiles have been deployed is very concerning and could indicate Israeli intentions to carry out a wider scale Suppression/Destruction of Enemy Air Defences (SEAD/DEAD) operation. This is a capability that Israel has already demonstrated against Iran, that Iran failed to stop last time round. We have also seen how effective this attack vector has been against US Patriot air defence systems in Ukraine, when Russia destroyed them with Kinzhals and Iskanders.
There is much speculation on what the “Golden Horizon” ALBM is as there is no public information on it, with many suggesting that it is the internal nsme for the Air LORA ALBM. I disagree, and think that it is likely a multi stage version of a Sparrow ALBM (in particular blue sparrow), readied for actual combat use. Imagery of such a weapon was posted by the IAF online a few weeks ago. It’s still up on twitter actually. This would give this weapon a longer range in comparison to ROCKS, in violation of some of the missile treaties Israel publicly says that they follow, which is likely why it’s been kept secret. These weapons would give Israel a great stand off capability with their long range, a range of around 2000km potentially. Israeli jets wouldn’t even need to leave Israeli airspace to strike Iran. It was also theorised by some that Israel fired a few of these weapons with inert warheads during their strike on Iran in April.
What happens from here really depends on what Israel targets with their ALBMs. If they target Iran’s above ground missile facilities, along with very limited strikes on air defence systems, I can see a potential road to de escalation, with Iran likely launching a limited drone or ballistic missile attack in response, similar to the April attack. If Israel carries out a large scale SEAD/DEAD campaign to open up the possibility for a further aerial campaign, and/or tries to strike Iran’s underground missile or nuclear facilities, we could be on the verge of all out war. Such an attack would amount to a declaration of war, and Iran’s response would likely make their October 1 attack look small in comparison. The resulting escalation ladder of such events could get really tall really quickly. I don’t see Israel being able to intercept Iranian ballistic missiles over the medium to long term, which could lead to a US response if Israel is on the end of a large retaliatory strike.
I am by no means a milblogger and what I’m about to say will sound very obvious to many people here… but is Israel’s strategy really just “bomb everyone and everything till the other side gives up”? That’s mostly what they’ve done in Gaza until the start of this month in the north. It’s clearly what they’re doing in Lebanon - they know they’ll get their ass kicked on the ground so they are bombing civilians to try and get Hezbollah to quit. And it looks like this is what the attack on Iran will be.
And if that’s the case, what is the response? It seems like Israel is making a rational calculation that they have an unlimited supply of bombs and missiles from the US, so are they planning to just keep it up until Lebanon in particular is just completely destroyed?
Historically, has a military campaign that is almost exclusively bombing ever succeeded? I know the Americans tried (and failed) to do this in Vietnam starting in Nixon’s first term.
Historically, has a military campaign that is almost exclusively bombing ever succeeded?
No. Wars cannot be and have never been won by air power alone. It is a fundamental basic military fact that air power by itself can’t take and hold ground, which is what is ultimately required to win a war. As we are also seeing in Ukraine today, all of the fancy tech that today’s militaries have is still secondary in importance to the basic infantryman who is the backbone of any war. Second is artillery by the way. Air power, missiles, drones, etc. are tertiary at best.
And if they really think that they will succeed with this approach where everyone else in history who has tried this failed (if sheer scale of bombing won wars then the US would have won Korea and Vietnam, but they lost the latter and fought to a stalemate in the former, and only because they actually deployed very large amount of ground forces for the Korean war) shows an utter illiteracy in military understanding. It shows that they have fully bought into their own bullshit, drank their own koolaid about American air supremacy having been what won the Iraq war rather than what it really was that did it which was massive amounts of CIA bribes.
If they want to win any kind of war they will have to deploy boots on the ground and we’ve seen very clearly not just over this past year but ever since a much weaker Hezbollah first kicked them out of Lebanon that nowadays the Zionist genocide forces are godawful when it comes to ground combat. Once upon a time in the 60s and 70s that may have been different as they still had a lot of Soviet WW2 veterans but all they’ve done for decades now is bully and murder an occupied population armed with sticks and stones and homemade weapons.
I’d argue that air power has replaced artillery as the secondary ranking/category in NATO combined arms doctrine. We can see this in the first Gulf War, in which there were almost as many aircraft used as artillery pieces! 1800 aircraft, and 2200 artillery pieces on the NATO side.
is Israel’s strategy really just “bomb everyone and everything till the other side gives up”?
That’s probably their ideal, but I think their real strategy is to continue to escalate/goad the Resistance into escalating to the point where the US has to intervene directly to bail out the zionists, and the only way that is likely to happen is if a wider regional war starts. Getting bogged down and eventually kicked out of Lebanon by itself wouldn’t be enough to pull in the US, they need an outright war with Iran in order for that to be a possibility.
this strategy may backfire if the paper tiger inervenes and still gets rinsed
yeah, getting the vibe their plan is just
- Start shit
- Get the US directly involved
- ???
- ‘greater israel’ magically happens
With no regard as to how increasingly poorly the US military has performed in the past half century
It’s like they both based their strategy on the other’s propaganda about themselves
??? is a better win condition than “Let the current war grind us down.” The US gets directly involved and the situation changes, which Israel must hope comes to their benefit
1.5. false flag
also, false flag
but is Israel’s strategy really just “bomb everyone and everything till the other side gives up”?
That really depends on what is being targeted in Iran. If Israel target a few above ground facilities of minimal value, there is a path to de escalation. If Israel target Iranian air defences in a large operation to try open up the possibility for a prolonged bombing campaign, then yes they just want to bomb Iran into submission.
I agree with your assessment on Israel’s operations against Hezbollah, they are looking to inflict a large and disproportionate amount of casualties to try cause division within Lebanon and get the people to abandon Hezbollah or to get Hezbollah to stop because the cost to life is too great. Ground operations have also been quite unsuccessful, and a lot of that comes down to the bizzare tactics used by the IDF in their counter insurgency operations in South Lebanon. Tanks without air or infantry support, small probing teams to minimise losses and involvement, etc. No other military would do this, it’s suicidal against an enemy as well equipped as Hezbollah.
As for the response, it’s interesting to note that all the weapons Israel have prepared for their attack on Iran so far, are “indigenous” weapons systems. The ROCKS and Golden Horizon ALBMs are Israeli equipment, and appear to have been fitted to 4th gen aircraft like the F-15, and not the 5th generation F-35. I guess this is what Biden means when he says that Israel is capable of “going at it alone” in their planned attack against Iran. Any further air campaign will require US made bombs though, and likely the use of F-35 aircraft.
I think the closet thing there was to a war “won exclusively by air power” was the first Gulf War, where NATO air operations inflicted the majority of losses. But such a war still required a very large ground force from NATO to actually hold territory. So I don’t think the Israelis intend to do that yet. Any operation against Iran on such a scale would require US and NATO forces, Israel can’t go it alone in that regard.
Appreciate you digging into the weeds for us on this one. I tried reading some of it and couldn’t really parse it easily. Not enough patience.
The fact that 40 of these missiles have been deployed is very concerning and could indicate Israeli intentions to carry out a wider scale Suppression/Destruction of Enemy Air Defences (SEAD/DEAD) operation. This is a capability that Israel has already demonstrated against Iran, that Iran failed to stop last time round.
Appreciate the lengthy write up. I do wonder what the solution to massed SEAD would look like for Iran. Do they just turn their radar off and try and time it so the SEAD missile looses its lock? I really have no idea what other countermeasures there would be.
Me, an idiot: Saturate the area around your defenses at like 10:1 with irrelevant radar signals to make them less likely to target the right location.
What will probably happen: Something else that’s bad instead.
Yeah that’s a thing that works, apparently the 1st gen of these missiles would happily seek microwave ovens if they were nearby
Edit: looks like the microwave story originated in the Balkans but may be an urban legend.
microwave ovens if they were nearby
Like the ones people use in their homes? Don’t make it sound like a 2 for 1 deal for Israel.
Yeah exactly. There are continuous-wave 2.4 GHz radars, but I don’t know if they’re currently in use, or for what purposes. I would imagine microwave ovens would look similar to those to a detector, but I don’t know enough about radar to say if they would actually work as decoys like the stories describe.
Yes decoys and missile approach warning systems exist for this purpose, the question is how effective they are against the ALBM attack vector. The footage out there of destroyed Patriot and S300 systems would suggest limited effectiveness.
I think that basically all advanced weapon systems made today are designed for non-peer conflict and suffer from reality when they’re deployed in the field. Look at these tanks in Ukraine, they’re super advanced but in the face of an actual conflict they wind up having to Frankenstein on defensive measures on the fly.
The key to avoid being destroyed, as shown by the Serbs, is shoot and scoot tactics. Turning on your radar for a very short period of time, shooting at anything that appears, and then changing position. If this can be combined with a multi-layered air defence defence system, with point defence SAMs such as the Tor and Pantsir actively defending the major S300 SAM batteries and shooting down incoming missiles and bombs, along with mobile electronic counter measure and decoy units frustrating incoming anti radiation missiles, that would give the air defence system a solid chance of survival and a chance to carry out its mission.
The problem is, as also shown by the Serbs, that if air defence operators dedicate so much energy and time to avoiding detection and destruction and end up in a stalemate with the enemy SEAD/DEAD campaign, the air defence is practically suppressed as they cannot carry out their primary mission of engaging enemy aircraft and denying them access to their airspace.
The problems Iran face are that these anti radiation ROCKS ALBMs would be launched from a stand off distance over 200km away from the target. Such a distance is outside of the firing range of Iran’s air defence systems, meaning that they won’t be able to engage the aircraft firing the ALBMs directly. To stop them, they’ll have to shoot down the ALBM itself. Then there’s also the question of how mobile Iran’s main SAM batteries can be, if they’re set up to defend a certain area in a stationary manner and can’t move easily, then they are more vulnerable.
Interesting, thanks for the write up. Does sound like Iran will be stuck in a bind then. Damned if you do damned if you don’t. Hopefully Iran has a better plan this time for this scenario would not be good if their AA gets taken out.
Israel could also see taking out Iran’s air defence systems as a way of “leveling the playing field”. We know that Israeli air defence systems in Arrow-2, Arrow-3 and David’s Sling are likely depleted of ammunition due to Iran’s ballistic missile attacks that took place during April and October. It’s why Israel needs the US THAAD system to be deployed there. So that leaves Israel vulnerable to attack. So from their perspective, taking out Iranian air defence systems so that Iran is also vulnerable to attack could be a way of resetting the status of current events.
Yeah as you mentioned earlier I’m afraid this is going to move rapidly up the escalation ladder.
It’s why I was curious what Iran could potentially do to mitigate its AA installations being destroyed. Even if it’s not as good as the Russian or Chinese AA setup, some deterrence is better than nothing when the western doctrine is all about air superiority.
That is part of the strategy to protect against DEAD, but if you are turning off your radars, then at the very least you are supressing your air defenses so in that way the SEAD mission is being successful.
The problem with keeping radars off is that SEAD weapons are usually paired up with something intended to hit the site if it stays dark, such as a cruise missile, drone, or long range glide bomb.
This really seems like Israel’s self-destructing. If they do carry out this attack, I assume that Iran would just close the straight of Hormuz and bomb oil production facilities in response too.
I wonder at what point would the US consider Israel more liability than asset too.
Iran’s threat to bomb the oil fields with their ballistic missiles is basically their version of Mutually Assured Destruction for the region, which is why so many countries are denying Israel the right to use their airspace for an attack against Iran. Hell, the UAE of all places even had pro Lebanese public awareness campaigns using their highway billboards recently! No one wants their oil facilities destroyed. The thing is, with the “Golden Horizon” ALBM, Israel can likely carry out limited attacks on Iran without having to even leave Israeli airspace, so there is no way to completely shut them out.
I think people underestimate the incredible power of the atlanto-zionist censorship apparatus in announcing imperialist losses. In the following I will primarily be citing nazi media outlets.
Consider the following:
According to zionazi own media outlets, censorship by the regime is close to achieving record levels. And, of course, this data is itself censored!
The official casualty count from the Iranian missile strike True Promise 2, in which over 100 Iranian ballistic missiles connected with their targets, is still one person: a Palestinian man in the West Bank who was struck by shrapnel of some kind from either a booster drop or an interception. I guess all those military facilities and air bases were just empty 🤷♀️
According to the iof official website, only 356 occupation soldiers have died since the start of the ground invasion of Gaza. This is less than one a day despite the plethora of video evidence showing daily operations against the enemy on multiple fronts. I guess the settlers really must be bulletproof or something 🤪
The US fleets in the Red Sea have been targetted for over 9 months with drones and ASBM’s in what they have even said is “the most intense fighting since World War 2.” The only casualties officially announced are two Navy SEALS who “drowned” and a helicopter that “crashed on a training mission”. The US navy must be certainly invincible 🧠🧟♂️
The limited number of official American deaths in Ukraine have been limited to so-called “foreign volunteers”. This is despite the fact that “NATO trainers” are routinely kalibrated and iskandered while channels like “Track a Nazi Merc” are documenting the thousands of known mercs being liquidated in Ukraine.
Takeaway:
There is obviously a large number of dead that are basically written off as missing or dead at a later date from “accidents”. Yet, I have never seen anything news articles about families or communities demanding to know about these things.
What you are witnessing is a massive conspiracy and cover-up that goes incredibly deep and is incredibly effective at hiding dead bodies, even of their own nazi footsoldiers.
A comrade pointed out to me that relatives of the denazified soldiers are paid monthly sums compensation and the continuation of this is likely premised on not revealing certain information publicly.
The enemy is far weaker than it reveals. The incredibly effective information manipulation apparatus creates a powerful illusion, but it does not compensate for material strategic failures.
Himmler Harris gives an awful answer to “could Gaza cost you the election?” (video)
check out this takedown:
October 7 is both the “first” and “most” tragic event. And the Middle East has “always” been “difficult” and will “never be easy.”
With brutal efficiency, Harris condenses racialized hierarchy, false periodization, weaponization of complexity, and disavowal of US complicity
Kamala Harris was asked just now whether she might lose the election because of the war in Gaza.
Her reply suggests real uncertainty about this issue.
from https://xcancel.com/triofrancos/status/1847763140572041391
It sucks that everything in the Levant was totally fine before October 7th, 2023, when Hamas fell out of the coconut tree
1200 Israelis
“Extraordinary number” of Palestinians
1200 innocent “Israelis”
Soldiers, cops, settlers, civilians, children. Innocent, every single one of them.
Hamas made those IOF Apaches fire hellfire missiles at over 1,000 vehicles fleeing back to Gaza so Hamas is to blame in a way I haven’t figured out yet
Oct 7…women being horribly [R]ed…
Get new material.
I wish “journalists” would get past their stupid ass questions and start asking things like, “What are you going to do about the fact that the genocide may very well cost you the election?” though. Stop begging for the obvious truth to be denied yet again and start fucking asserting it instead.
Killing Sinwar is hurting peace talks, you genocidal Imperialist…
You mean Politics arent like my LotR treats?The saddest bit is that I’m not convinced that they know better, part of me thinks they have become true believers in this…
they believe in nothing and are trying to predict the actions of opponents who believe in national liberation
same thing with kill counts of villagers in Viet Nam being used as proof the Viet Minh was on its last legs
you’re right about that…
No when evil man bad gone then good thing good man happen! Material Conditions? Silly! Good man make good time!
cartel member voice What do you mean? When a teacher gave me a bad grade in school, I’d go to their house in the middle of the night, cut their head off and post it in the entrance to their street, to make an example out of them to the other teachers. That was an excellent negotiation technique. I don’t see why the same doesn’t apply for peace talks.
you know what brings people to the negotiating table??
murdering all the previous negotiatiors
Threading the needle between saying murdering children is evil and that they deserved it for being born there
It turns out the IOF scum who offed himself was bragging about bulldozing Palestinian homes a few months ago:
https://xcancel.com/malsaafin/status/1848471577135853978The Israeli nazi regime is pumping out fabrications that hezbollah has hidden their money in a bunker below the al-sahel hospital, so expect that hospital to be bombed in the near future
Its under a hospital
*Except Pissreal wouldn’t feel sad regurgitating this billshit over and over again.
Even got a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVfMIIT2CXA
And here I was expecting a video of Scrooge McDuck diving into a pool filled with gold coins.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
“Training mission” lol sure.
Edit* Lots of folks are saying they got smoked in the Red Sea.
Anyways, God Bless the Yemeni Armed Forces.
Uncritical support on PTSD waging war on zionist scum that are returning from Gaza.
Zionists are currently on a witch hunt for the leaker in the pentagon who released intel on Israel’s upcoming attack on Iran.
This is their current subject of attack, Ariane Tabatabai, an Iranian woman who works with the pentagon.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_Tabatabai
Only problem? She’s a mega gusano shill who is one of the most hawkish people in the administration on Iran.
Ariane Tabatabai (Persian: آرین طباطبایی) is an Iranian-American scholar of political science, writer, and senior policy advisor to the United States Department of Defense. She is a graduate of King’s College London and the daughter of Javad Tabatabai, an Iranian philosopher and professor at the University of Tehran. Tabatabai is also a former researcher of “RAND Corporation” think tank, curriculum director and associate professor of security studies at Georgetown University, an international civilian consultant for NATO, the Middle East Fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and several other research institutes.
Tabatabai, in an article in the Foreign Policy magazine before the 2020 US presidential election, argued that Iran’s economy is fragile and will be forced to negotiate, agree and make concessions, demanding that the winning US presidential candidate not return to the nuclear agreement and pressure for more points.
After the Biden administration took office in January 2021, she joined the US negotiating team in nuclear negotiations with Iran, but together with Richard Nephew, she left the team after a few months due to differences with Robert Malley, the head of the US negotiating team, and also because she believed that the US would lift too many sanctions on Iran and consequently the possible agreement would not be strong enough.
Remember this all sell out gusanos and traitors, it will never be enough. Your masters still think you are scum and will dispose of you whenever convenient just because of your nationality and race. I bet she wasn’t the one to leak this, but I sure hope she gets crucified publicly by her “friends” in the state department and pentagon
Government announces it will ‘dissolve’ Argentina’s tax agency
The AFIP will be replaced with a new, reduced agency and over 3,000 jobs are on the chopping block
President Javier Milei’s government announced on Monday that Argentina’s federal tax agency, AFIP by its Spanish initials, will be dissolved and replaced with a new agency in accordance with its mandate to “reduce inefficient structures.” According to Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni, 34% of public service jobs within the AFIP will be eliminated. As of Monday evening, no details had been released regarding the new agency’s operations or what the move means in concrete terms for the country’s fiscal infrastructure.
“AFIP will cease to exist. In its place, the Collection and Customs Control Agency will be created with a simplified structure,” said Adorni in his routine press conference at the Casa Rosada. According to the Herald’s sister publication Ambito, he did not accept questions after the announcement.
The new and reduced agency, ARCA by its Spanish initials, will be a merger between two preexisting government bodies (the tax and customs general directorates, DGI and DGA by their Spanish acronyms). It will be led by Florencia Misrahi, a lawyer who formerly worked for Cargill and is currently serving as the head of the AFIP. “The Argentina of fiscal voracity is over. What belongs to every Argentine is theirs and no one else’s. No state bureaucrat should have the power to tell them what to do with their property,” Adorni added.
A communiqué released on Monday afternoon described the AFIP as inefficient and highlighted the termination of 3,155 workers hired under former President Alberto Fernández. The communiqué refers to the administration as “Kirchnerite” in reference to Fernández’s vice president, Cristina Kirchner, who is often targeted by government discourse.
Adorni claimed that firing the workers would lead to savings of around AR$6.4 million per year. Both the spokesman and the communiqué referred to their employment as “irregular,” questioning the legality of their hiring. “The creation of ARCA is aimed at reducing the size of the state, eliminating unnecessary positions, professionalizing the agency, destroying circuits of corruption, and improving the efficiency of customs collection and control,” read the communiqué.
According to the Herald’s sister publication Ambito, the AFIP Board of Directors said it did not have “objections with respect to the reduction of political positions,” which the government referred to as “high positions,” because that is a power reserved for the Executive Branch. However, it emphasized that “dismissals will not be tolerated on the basis of political origin.”
lmfao
also
announced, out of nowhere, that the media attacked him and said he does not have sex with his sister or his dogs. Nobody ever claimed he has sex with dogs, but this is the current state of things.Brought up sex with dogs unprompted
My “I do not fuck my sister or my dogs” t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt
thats amazing. Tax collection is one of the things neoliberals know not to cut, its a basic function along with police, military and judiciary. His ancap is showing.
Tax collection is one of the things neoliberals know not to cut
sadly this is one of the things neolibs in Mexico did not know
They didn’t know it in Denmark either. They fired a bunch of tax people in the early noughties, officially in anticipation of a new fancy IT system that would make everything more efficient, less officially as a way of making tax fraud easier since lowering taxes on the rich would have been too unpopular.
The IT system was a huge failure and never worked, the promised efficiency was never realised and it took 20 years to repair the damage.
its as if the money needed to implement that system was collected by the people they fired
guy has no political acumen to make the austerity, theft, and plundering less shameless. guy thinks US is gonna protect him from the pitchfork mob while he’s doing everything to ensure the cops and military open the gates to his compound for them; but he’s gonna be too much of an awkward political liability for that, Trump or whoever’s just gonna let the phone ring as he gets ripped to shreds by the masses.
Speedrun to Argentine Peoples Republic
Argentina is a very serious country
“How are we going to reduce inflation and deficit? Why, by eliminating one of the most powerful levers a state has to fighting them, of course.”
don’t worry, trust the market or whatever
What the fu…
Defund and overwork low-level government workers -> they stop working as effectively as they could have -> blame them and defund and overwork them further -> …
Apparently there’s some horrific footage of massacres in/around the Indonesian hospital in Gaza that a nurse managed to smuggle out, and it’s being heavily censored on twitter
further discussion on this matter
I’ve seen it unfortunately. I’d SERIOUSLY recommend NOT searching for it. The videos and images all appear to be watermarked with the name “Mahmoud Awadia”. All I will say is: extremely graphic videos and images of lots of dead children.
Yeah don’t look for it, I should’ve listened
Can we at least get a link and back-up for documentation purposes posted in one of the pinned channels made for that purpose?
I will find the relevant links from by browser history and post it there. I’m not viewing it again for obvious reasons. Anyone interested in backing it up can do so there, or they can explain to me how to back it up and I’ll do so. This is important, you’re correct.
I have done so.
Thanks
Did you save a copy?
I haven’t seen it yet
OP @SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net it’s Pridnestrovie, not ‘Transnistria.’ ‘Transnistria’ is what the imperialist and neo-colonials in “the west” call it, to refuse the status of the country because it just means “[the Moldovan territory] past the Dneister (river),” as well as to treat it as simply a historical legacy, not of the USSR, but of its previous administrators: the Nazis.
Pridnestrovians don’t want to be called that, consider it a grave insult actually, because it’s literally the name the Romanian and German Nazis used for their occupation government when they carried out the Holocaust there (Transnistria Governorate). Pridnestrovie was deeply impacted and affected by the Holocaust, and the Nazi-occupied administrative territory of the “Transnistria Governorate” served as a junction point where Jews from surrounding areas were deported to in ‘processing’ for enslavement or liquidation or later transfer elsewhere.
It is a point of deep national consciousness, this experience, and of national pride that they did as much as they did to resist Nazism and to shield Jews in the territory [sci-hub link]; an uncommon phenomenon in most of Europe which saw huge collaborations and pogroms against Jews.
They by and large do not connect with the legacy of their previous occupiers who lay claim to them. During Catastroika and fashnost leading to the breakdown of the USSR, which caused the vicious resurgence of right wing nationalism, there grew large radical movements of Moldavian and “Greater Romania” fascists, who began demanding things such as the removal of all languages but Moldovan/Romanian, change to latin script, and expulsion of Slavs from the country and eventually in 1990 acquired power in the central government of the Moldavian SSR and started to implement their policies. It is in this environment that the Pridnestrovians had organized ad-hoc independence referendums, which were met with violent resistance by these fascist groups (just as we saw a much more drawn-out version of in the DNR/LNR in Ukraine) and declared independence — because they feared an independent Moldova led by these people would not only directly abuse them as they had already begun to, but also align and possibly even unite with the core country of their previous occupiers and exterminationists in Romania. Pizzachev annulled their independence but they in practicality maintained it and after the failure of the August coup in 1991 they declared independence in secession from the USSR as well as Moldova. They even fought a 2 year long low-intensity war from 1990-1992 to maintain their independence (and in which Ukrainian Nazi volunteers fought against Moldova, but for trying to annex Pridnestrovie into Ukraine) resulting in the death of over a thousand people.
And so they do not wish to be called anything but Pridnestrovie, or the full name Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.
