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Image is of China's ambassador to Afghanistan, Zhao Sheng, meeting Taliban Prime Minister Hasan Akhund in September 2023.

I know the Rambo title card is a hoax.

The COTW was chosen in the wake of the aborted sequel to the attempted assassination of Trump being performed by a guy who is VERY enthusiastic about Ukraine, to the point of trying to sneak Afghan soldiers into Ukraine by setting up a house in Pakistan to house them and then further transport them. He also apparently offered to send thousands of Afghan soldiers to Haiti to help them combat gang violence. Whomst among us doesn't have the numbers of thousands of Afghan soldiers on speed-dial. Do you reckon there's a group chat?

Anyway, while there is still no official recognition of the Taliban's government by any country, China has taken a different course than the late USSR and the US - forming economic in-roads, rather than trying their own invasion. This has been a big boon for the struggling country, with various mines and oil and agriculture deals helping keep things barely afloat. A total disintegration of the social fabric of Afghanistan is not in the interest of any of the powers that border it - China, Pakistan, and Iran, with Russia not too far away - so an interesting dynamic of helping-without-official-recognition has been established. I wonder who will be the first country to fully recognize them?


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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.
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Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

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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.
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[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago (1 children)

MEE - Florida lawmaker sparks outrage for celebrating Turkish-American activist's killing in West Bank

Randy Fine, the Republican state representative for Florida, is facing a wave of anger and accusations of Islamophobia after celebrating the death of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old Turkish-American activist who was fatally shot by the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank.

"Throw rocks, get shot. One less #MuslimTerrorist. #FireAway," Fine wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, in response to a post announcing Eygi's killing last weekend.

This is a Florida State Representative and a white one attacking Palestinians at that, so I expect nothing to happen to him.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago (3 children)

So, latest update about the Norwegian owner of the company linked to the terror attack in Lebanon...

He was on a business trip to the U.S. when the attacks happened. VG, a Norwegian news outlet, writes that he got on a plane to Boston on Tuesday, but never attended the conference he was scheduled for:

The man was to attend a conference in Boston on behalf of his Norwegian employer, according to VG's information.

VG has seen documentation that the Norwegian arrived in the USA on Tuesday.

Nevertheless, he never took out his name tag or registered at the conference, the organizer told VG.

He's (probably?) still in the U.S., but no one has heard from him since Wednesday 👀

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago

🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: — Unity of blood: a step on the path of victory.

Long live the joint Lebanese-Palestinian struggle in the face of zionist terrorism

[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Thoses brain chips that elon is pushing will be for sure filled with explosives. But the more I think about it the more stupid this whole pager attack was. China win again by doing nothing

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So Israel successfully pulls off their Bond villain-ass plot, and they aren't immediately invading in the chaos it caused? What's the goal there? If it's just to kill people, sending planes to bomb would work and not give away the secret plan. Maybe I'm overestimating their intelligence, but if I had sabotaged a country I wanted to invade, I'd wait until I was about to invade to activate it.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Further down in the mega there's reports that two Hezbollah members were aware of the plot, and were in the process of reporting it up the line. One was 'neutralised', and Israel apparently pulled the pin ahead of time. I'll scroll down and link you shortly

Edit: here https://hexbear.net/comment/5398959

[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I looked up the EU "terror list" just for fun. I knew it was a list of scary Muslims but I would have imagined that they would have put a few token white guys in there.

But no, out of 21 designated "terrorist" organisatios, 17 are from the Muslim world. All 21 are from the global south. Was it really that hard to find some small group of politically insignificant Nazis and add them to keep up appearances?

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Doctor Ziad Mohammed Al-Dalou, the Deputy Director of the Internal Medicine Department at Al-Shifa Hospital, ascended to martyrdom in detention three days after his abduction by zionist forces on March 21st, 2024.

He is one of dozens of prisoners who have ascended to martyrdom due to zionist abuse and torture. Additionally, he is one of 900 health workers who have ascended to martyrdom, representing about 1 in 40 martyrs.

Glory to the martyrs.

https://t.me/PalestineResist/57812

Editor’s note: they killed him in 3 days??? He was just kidnapped this week

[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago (19 children)

CPUSA: “For non-Black radicals to champion separatism through the resurrection of the old national question interpretation, the Black Belt Thesis, is to resurrect Jim Crow.”

I hate the CPUSA

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago

What Israel did is the technological equivalent of poisoning the well. How such a rabid insane state can exist is just wild.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Mourning people I’ve never known. Glory to the martyrs

(1) Hezbollah mourns Ahmad Mahmoud Wahbi from Adloun in southern Lebanon, martyred on the path to Al-Quds.

🚩 @ResistanceTrench

https://t.me/ResistanceTrench/31124

(2) 🇮🇷🇱🇧🇸🇾 Picture of martyr Ahmad Wahbi with martyr Hajj Qassem Soleimani during the fight against ISIS terrorists in Syria

🚩 @ResistanceTrench https://t.me/ResistanceTrench/31125

[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Isisrael destroyed Motorola Solutions didn't they? They injured a bunch of Lebanese people and even killed a few but really who is going to buy a Motorola pager ever again? What police officer is going to wear a Motorola radio when it could be hacked and blow up? What sane person is going to buy from a company that intentionally or unintentionally allowed for their devices to be turned into bombs used in a terrorist attack?

If Motorola Solutions is as cooked as it looks how does the usa respond? This is a direct attack on american Capital. A $74 billion dollar company is going to get wrecked because ISISrael cant see past their bloodlust.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 months ago (5 children)

The new failed Trump assassin is obviously another freak as usual, but I low-key respect him for his unwavering dedication for his dumbass causes. We need this energy on the left. This guy was spamming Zelensky on twitter for any chance to help, he actually went to fucking Ukraine in some dumbass belief that he could somehow help out, he hated Trump so much that he was actually ready to kill him. It's hard to not respect a true ideologue in these days, when most libs fold at any true pressure. Good for him honestly, he truly did his best along the whole journey and almost died like a true martyr and could've gone to liberal heaven. The guy who tried this in July was just a massive loser, this new guy has some very respectable dedication all the way. It's a shame that he's not a leftist.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Death to Israel this is more supervillain shit

Full Hezbullah statement on the pager explosionIn the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

Initial statement issued by Hezbullah:

"At approximately 3:30 pm on Tuesday 09-17-2024, a number of message receiving devices known as “pagers” exploded, which were owned by a number of workers in various Hezbullah units and institutions.

These explosions, the causes of which are still unknown, led to the martyrdom of a child and two brothers, and the injury of a large number of people with various injuries.

Hezbullah's competent agencies are currently conducting a wide-ranging security and scientific investigation to determine the causes that led to these simultaneous explosions.

Likewise, medical and health agencies are treating the wounded and injured in a number of hospitals in various Lebanese regions.

We ask God Almighty to have mercy on our righteous martyrs on the road to Jerusalem, and we pray for the wounded and injured to recover quickly.

We call on our honorable people to be aware of the rumors and false and misleading information that some parties are spreading in a way that serves the psychological war in the interest of the Zionist enemy, especially since this is accompanied by the Zionist enemy’s speeches of intimidation and threats and what it calls changing the situation in the north.

We affirm that the resistance, at all its levels and various units, is at the highest level of readiness to defend Lebanon and its steadfast people."

Tuesday 9-17-2024 13 Rabi` al-Awwal 1446 AH

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago (10 children)
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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago (5 children)

New slammer banger
That is the actual missile Yemen used yesterday btw, Palestine wingtips and all.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago

Israel apparently raided an Al Jazeera bureau and has attacked 400 sites so far in Lebanon

[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago (6 children)

DPRK (North Korea) wins U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia. The North Korean team won against Japan, 1 - 0.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It sounds like Israel believes Hezbollah will finally retaliate tonight with a massive rocket attack. It's 21:00 in Lebanon, so the night is young.

Israel claims to have destroyed many Hezbollah launchers, which... honestly I don't really doubt at this point. Hopefully they have plenty of decoys and hidden launchers.

Inshallah, we will see the Zionazis pooping their diapers tonight goku-halal

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Thread on Motorola's collaboration with the Zionist entity. The pagers were Motorola pagers:
https://xcancel.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1836083424702194070

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Israel submits challenges to ICC on Gaza arrest warrant requests

The Israeli foreign ministry said that its first legal brief outlined the ICC’s “manifest lack of jurisdiction” in the case. The second paper, it said, argues that the ICC prosecutor breached court rules by “failing to provide Israel with the opportunity to exercise its right to investigate by itself the claims raised by the prosecutor, before proceeding.”

Is this something they have a right to? Like a mass murderer being arrested and saying "you can't do that, you didn't allow me to investigate myself to see if I murdered all those people!" After they were filmed shooting a crowd.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The next 9/11 should be just some hacker group blowing up all Iphones in America

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

In light of what happened, it is relevant to take a look at some ressources:

https://antonyloewenstein.com/books/the-palestine-laboratory-how-israel-exports-the-technology-of-occupation-around-the-world/

Antony Lowenstein - Palestine Laboratory which gives some insight on how the surveillance technology but also military hardware are tested on Palestine to be sold into the world. I think we can see Israel conflicts with its neighbouring countries as a giant tradeshow to sell the tech to potential buyers.

I also find it insightful some interviews by Electronic Intifada done with Shir Hever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7qO9fGYZA&t=2839s

He is the author of the article done on Mondoweiss regarding the prolonged war can inflict a blow in Israeli economy. What I find relevant is the case he mentioned on France's Carrefour expansion into Israel. Carrefour wanted to expand into the country, but there are concerns regarding the ethical practice of some of the expansion, the company didn't want to expand inside Palestinian settlement (not for any moral arguments, but there are fear that it can be complicit in Israeli colonization and occupation). However, the Israeli court rules out that Carrefour can't decide where they can or can't open a store which to according to Shir implies that there are some political exceptionalism Israel can exercise on people who wants to do business in the country, which can lead to people thinking twice in investing into a country that doesn't allow you to have a legal even playground.

TLDR, the states exceptionalism is not good for the civilian sector of global capitalism to operate in, expecially if corporation know the trajectory of the next generation wouldn't have a positive opinion regarding the Israeli state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGVnqFK7jm0

In the second interview, Shir mentioned that Israel's main export is really in its military and surveillance sectorw, he does say that October 7th does make potential buyers question its military hardware performances, but I think today's cellphone's attack does give some Israel a good demonstration on some of its potential in terms of surveillance and population control.

I think it's important to not neglect today's attack in its context especially regarding the current state of the world which climate change causing social instability can push some states appetite to consider buying Israeli savoir faire in order to control its population more efficiently (border control, policing tech, surveillance, etc.).

In the future, we will all be Palestinians

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

We fucking feasting comrades, what else shamans blessed russia to do

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Well so much for my "you only get to do this trick once" bit yesterday. So we've got to be looking at the prelude to invasion, right? Two attacks in two days? This one with larger explosions but a smaller number of targets (way less folks seem to have walkie talkies than pagers)? I just don't understand the calculus otherwise. What a shitshow, godspeed to the people of Lebanon.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago (5 children)

When you see someone on the internet saying that they are not fans of dying in a nuclear holocaust and that they would love their rulers not to escalate things to that point, those are not real people. It is fake Russian comments, disinformatskaya intended to scare you into not supporting total war against Putin's Asiatic hordes.

We already know that real westerners love getting nuked and that they would never support peace. But now the FBI and a bunch of Euro mainstream media says they have the receipts to prove it.

Here is Danish government broadcaster DR's version of the story (machine translation):

Secret Psychological Warfare Plan Revealed: Russia Aims to Strike the West with a ‘Nuclear Psychosis’

Internal Russian documents show how scare campaigns are designed to make Europeans fear a new world war.

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  • The propaganda company Social Design Agency in Moscow created a video on “information attacks” against the West, planned in close cooperation with the Kremlin.

In meeting after meeting, people from President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle have spent months planning how Russia can instill fear in Europe and the rest of the West.

This is done in close collaboration with a propaganda company in Moscow that spreads streams of disinformation, fake stories, and millions of pro-Russian comments on social media platforms like Facebook and Telegram.

The goal is to make Europeans fear nuclear war, hoping they will pressure their governments to stop supporting Ukraine.

This is revealed in internal documents, videos, and other materials from the Russian company Social Design Agency.

The company has fabricated stories, including claims that Europe will face power outages and a shortage of fever-reducing medicine, which will result in “a surge in child mortality,” according to a draft of an influence campaign.

Social Design Agency has also crafted numerous fake social media posts where imaginary Europeans express fear of nuclear war:

“I don’t want my country to enter an open confrontation with Russia. Isn’t it clear that our actions could lead to World War III? Russia is not our enemy,” reads one of the messages the company aims to spread through fake profiles.

Another document outlines how Social Design Agency plans to influence public opinion polls so that at least 50% of people in European countries feel “fear for the future.”

“If the Kremlin is unhappy with conditions in the international system, this is one of the channels they can try to influence. And the message in these campaigns is effective because we all fear nuclear war,” says senior researcher Flemming Splidsboel from the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), who studies information operations and has reviewed several of the documents for DR.

FACTS: The Basis of This Story

  • The German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, public service stations NDR and WDR, and the Estonian media outlet Delfi have accessed material from Social Design Agency and shared it with DR and other media.
  • The material includes thousands of internal files from 2022, 2023, and 2024, such as employee lists, emails, campaign concepts, reports, meeting notes, texts for fake articles and social media posts, comments, memes, and cartoons, documentation for publications, and cost summaries.
  • Together with newly released documents from the FBI about Social Design Agency, the material offers a deep insight into Kremlin propaganda strategies.

Documents Provide Deep Insight into Russian Operations

Page after page, the internal documents reveal how Social Design Agency operates.

On the one hand, the company meticulously monitors Western media and opinion-makers, producing daily reports on the news landscape.

Additionally, Social Design Agency analyzes the target audiences for Russian propaganda—mainly European citizens—to determine how they can be emotionally manipulated, according to one document.

Afterward, the company develops the actual content for the campaigns, which is then distributed through replicas of real news sites and on social media using artificial intelligence.

“By thoroughly preparing our information attacks and having a clear understanding of the project's goals, we firmly believe we will succeed,” states a message in a video from the internal material of Social Design Agency.

You can watch the video at the top of the article, where the founder of Social Design Agency explains the company’s work.

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  • Here’s an example of one of the countless memes Social Design Agency has developed for social media. (© DR News)

Claims to Have Spread Millions of Fake Comments

The documents paint a picture of a company that produces vast amounts of disinformation to promote Russia’s cause.

In one report, Social Design Agency claims to have posted 33.9 million fake comments on social media in the first quarter of 2024 alone.

The company also claims that in the same period, it produced 39,899 original posts, including videos and memes or cartoons.

Many of the company’s comments and texts have limited reach. However, international media outlets that accessed the company’s material have found several instances of real people sharing content from Social Design Agency.

Senior researcher Flemming Splidsboel views the campaigns as an attempt to pressure Western governments to force Ukraine to submit to Russian demands:

“The goal could clearly be to initiate negotiations so that Russia can secure the areas in Ukraine they have already conquered and annexed,” he says.

Media Partners in the Investigation

  • Süddeutsche Zeitung, NDR and WDR in Germany, Delfi in Estonia, DR, Dossier Center, Schemes in Ukraine, De Standaard and Profil in Austria, NRC in the Netherlands, RFE/RL in the Czech Republic, Shomrim, VSquare, and Frontstory in Poland.

Multiple Meetings with Putin’s People

This is far from the first time Russia has been linked to influence operations targeting Western voters.

Recently, the FBI released documents specifically addressing Social Design Agency’s role in these efforts.

The FBI documents describe at least 20 meetings between Russia’s presidential administration and the Moscow-based company in recent years.

DR also has access to summaries from these meetings, which, according to the FBI, were written by Social Design Agency’s founder, Ilya Gambashidze.

These include notes from a meeting on March 12 of this year, where Ilya Gambashidze summarizes the thinking behind influence operations against Western countries:

“We need to scare them,” he writes in the meeting notes.

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  • Content from Social Design Agency is meant to amplify Russia’s message that the U.S. has dragged Europe into a conflict over Ukraine with significant consequences, says Flemming Splidsboel. (Photo: © Meme from Social Design Agency)

Aims to Create a ‘Nuclear Psychosis’

According to the FBI, former Russian Prime Minister Sergey Kiriyenko coordinates Social Design Agency’s influence operations on behalf of the presidential administration.

This is confirmed by a European intelligence source to Süddeutsche Zeitung, with whom DR collaborated on the story.

Sergey Kiriyenko is now the First Deputy Chief of Staff for the Presidential Office and is often described as President Vladimir Putin’s right-hand man.

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  • Here’s a picture of President Vladimir Putin with Sergey Kiriyenko from June of this year. (Photo: © Alexander Kazakov, Ritzau Scanpix)

According to the FBI, Kiriyenko participated in a meeting with Social Design Agency on April 16, 2022, where he discussed various topics to be spread as propaganda.

At this meeting, Sergey Kiriyenko reportedly summarized the goal of creating “a nuclear psychosis” in the West.

Involvement of such a high-profile figure underscores, according to Flemming Splidsboel, that Social Design Agency’s operations are deeply connected to the core of the presidential administration.

“All in all, this suggests a large Russian campaign that comes from the top and is clearly a high priority,” says Flemming Splidsboel.

Neither the Russian presidential administration, Social Design Agency, nor Ilya Gambashidze responded to questions from DR and the other media partners involved in the investigation.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago (21 children)

Iranian media constantly assuring that its ambassador in Lebanon is just slightly injured, now they say he had a "little" eye surgery and he is good and all.

Meanwhile a low ranking conservative official raised questions about Raisi's helicopter crash and whether Israel did the same thing to the electronics aboard the helicopter that it did to Pagers in Lebanon.

I purpose adding more Hijab Police to streets because thats apparently more important than the national security 😒.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Some unconfirmed rumors floating around in Twitter:

There were multiple brands involved, including Motorola and a Taiwanese brand:
https://xcancel.com/zenonymous11/status/1836133420038263292

The American University of Beirut hospital had a device refresh where they quietly replaced their pagers 10 days before the terrorist attack (CW: the subsequent tweet shows someone lying in a pool of their own blood):
https://xcancel.com/Somali_ICS/status/1836168564480352310

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I’m repurposing a comment I left on a post about Palantir’s involvement in the pager attacks (posted to c chapotraphouse).

Palantir CEO Alex Karp appeared as the main interview on Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday. He is an enthusiastic believer in the moral authority and superiority of the US.

He says the future of modern warfare will be peer to peer and drone to drone. “You’re going to be using software to control small instruments and there’s going to be hundreds of thousands of them.” He mentions fighting China and Russia specifically.

I don’t know if this is news but interesting to hear him say a lot of evil shit out-loud on a pretty mainstream platform. Also I watched it after the pager attack happened so it took on extra significance.

edit - fixed spelling of guy’s name

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Let's be honest, Iran has no other option than to make nukes. They are already treated like shit, isfake has shown such bloodlust that shows this is the only way. Even if the zionist entity dissolves in most peaceful way, there will be threat of nuclear attack to them at last minute. You are not missing out by not getting western goods that probably have some bomb on them

[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I told a lib at work who fears Putin or Kim Jong Un would fire a nuke that the most likely nation to use a nuke would be America, and that the government wouldn't go after Western countries but would use it on a place like Iran, and that frankly many countries would be okay with it and would justify it. The lib hates the Iranian government because he believes their people are all basically prisoners and he thinks he feels for them, but I keep telling him the American solution would be invasion, and I think he actually believes that that would be good for Iran, even though I've mentioned again and again that our invasions target civilian infrastructure and always leads to the death of tons of people.

Frankly I don't think any country in the global South would ever be grateful to get help from libs.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago

It seems that Haiti has once again turned into a dictatorship. The pro-US Haitian elite has dissolved the presidential role and created a Presidential Transitional Council that controls the entire country, at least the parts it controls that are not under the control of the Haitian right-wing militias. The postponed the elections to 2026, which were originally supposed to be held in 2019.

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Saudi Arabia: Crown Suspends All Relations with Israel Until it Recognizes Palestine - Telesur

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The Crown Prince stated that «the Kingdom will not stop its tireless work towards the creation of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital».

Saudi Arabian heir to the throne, Muhammad bin Salman, strongly condemned on Wednesday the war crimes of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people and said his country would not recognize Israel without a Palestinian state.

During a speech to the members of the Shura Consultative Council, which he delivered on behalf of King Salman, the Crown Prince stated that «the Kingdom will not stop its tireless work towards the creation of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital».

He then stated that without this status his country «will not establish diplomatic relations with Israel».

He rejected «the crimes of the Israeli occupation authority against the Palestinian people, ignoring international humanitarian law in a new and painful chapter of their suffering».

Saudi Crown Prince and PM Mohammed bin Salman stated that normalization of relations with Israel is impossible without an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital

He also emphasized the commitment of the Saudi authorities to a good-neighbourly policy, which is why he aims to improve regional and international security through diplomatic solutions to crises in countries such as Yemen, Sudan, Libya and others.

On behalf of the Palestinian people and their leaders, the President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, welcomed bin Salman’s speech and the firm positions of Saudi Arabia at all levels in support of the Palestinian people and their just cause.

He also highlighted the efforts made by Riyadh to stop the ongoing aggression against Gaza and the West Bank, their lands and holy places, and to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.

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Hey news nerds, just a quick check in, are we within five years of me fragging my officer after getting drafted into WWIII, or no?

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