Interesting revelation and I wonder if Japan will demand an explanation/clarification from Putin regarding this ... https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/other...ei=13#image=17
Interesting revelation and I wonder if Japan will demand an explanation/clarification from Putin regarding this ... https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/other...ei=13#image=17
A little ot
South Korean opposition Leader stabbed in the neck
https://twitter.com/arfdy12/status/1...cKba5N9_A&s=19
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Chas Freeman, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
Key points in the video:
- He agrees that many of the victims of Oct 7th were killed by the Israeli army in the form of "undisciplined fire by helicopters with hellfire missiles or by tanks with incendiary rounds directed at buildings". In the case of the victims of the music festival he even says they "were largely killed, it appears, by hellfire missiles and by other undisciplined fire by Israeli forces". To him this "disgrace in military terms" stems from a "lack of discipline and training necessary to respond" but also from the IDF's "Hannibal directive", which "says that rather than get into bargaining over hostage exchange you should just kill the Israeli hostages along with their captors."
- He says that with Oct 7th "Hamas had 2 objectives": 1) "Put the Palestinian self-determination issue back on the global agenda", something he says they've "succeeded" in doing since they're is "widespread recognition outside Israel that only self-determination for Palestine in the form of a 2-state solution can provide security to Israel". He says that even in "the US, which has a larger Jewish population than Israel, many Jews have come to realize that this is the case. Younger Jews in particular in the U.S. are very disillusioned with Zionism and don't want to suffer contagion from it in the form of antisemitism, which is actually growing now as a result of Israeli actions".
2) "Give Hamas enormous popularity among Palestinians because they are seen as having stood up, as having been willing to accept death rather than captivity". He refers to Norman Finkelstein's "analogy of slave revolts in the U.S." and particularly the "1831 revolt by Nat Turner, a well-educated very intelligent enslaved African who led a slave revolt in Southern Virginia which had as its objective the murder of every white person they encountered." He says it "raises a moral question: 'Is the violence of the slave-owner morally the same as the violence of the slave trying to end that violence?'. The same moral question arises with Israeli oppression of Palestinians versus Palestinian resistance to oppression."
- All in all he concludes that much like the violence against African-Americans that followed slave revolts in the 19th century, the Israeli vengeance against Palestinians "won't be remembered fondly by anyone in the future". In fact he goes as far as saying that "when people think of Israel in the past they thought of it as a refuge for the victims of the Holocaust... now they will think of it as the home of perpetrators of genocide. When they think of Israel, they will think of burned buildings and dead babies. This is an image problem of a fundamental nature and from the point of view of Israel it strips Israel of its protection by charges of antisemitism against anyone who is critical of Israel because to be critical of people who are carrying out genocide cannot be antisemitism, it cannot be considered immoral. Antisemitism is a despicable attitude but to oppose genocide by Israel is not."
Of all the Western Mainstream News Channels... Not one is broadcasting the opening of the Genocide Trial vs Israel at the International Court of Justice in the UN.
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𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲’𝐬 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐫. 𝐓𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬:
“Madame President, Members of the Court, the Genocide Convention was a solemn promise made to the Jewish people, to all peoples, of “Never Again”.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞. 𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬, if Provisional Measures can be triggered in the way it suggests, the Convention becomes an aggressor’s charter.
It will reward, indeed encourage, the terrorists who hide behind civilians, at the expense of the States seeking to defend against them.”
https://twitter.com/elikowaz/status/1745790041081663592
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Even US and UK ships are now under threat of attacks and boarding from Houthis. Ships are now using a new tactic of broadcasting to Houthi rebels of non-western entuty links and using all Chinese crew to avoid attacks...
Shipping now takes nearly a month longer through the Cape of Good Hope route vs the Red Sea/Suez Canal...
Fear Of Houthi Attacks Prompts Ships In Red Sea To Show Links With China
Each vessel is signalling ‘All Chinese Crew’ in a place which usually shows the destination. Two such ships are in the Red Sea, while the other two have crossed the waterway and are headed towards Asia. The fifth ship is going towards the Gulf of Aden.
The companies that own these ships believe that being affiliated with an Asian Country might help avoid an attack by the Houthis. The destinations are usually manually entered by crew members and can be accessed by anyone online.
Amir Tsarfati
Biden: “The US does not support Taiwan’s independence.”
Why do I smell a soon Chinese invasion??
The Palestinian President, Abbas: "We recognize China's sovereignty over Taiwan.”
Aleksandr Dugin, Putin's close adviser: I believe the timing is optimal for China to start its military operation (in Taiwan).
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These "scary" manuals are making a comeback ... https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/other...ei=12#image=19
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the U S needs to remind everyone they can flatten entire countries
we must have forgotten
yes please it's time to remind us again how powerful you are
haha
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yes pls attack iran
so iran can show the world how powerful the U S really is
Last edited by uls; January 29th, 2024 at 09:00 AM.
Francis Fukuyama's book in 1992
the U S basked in the glory of winning the cold war after the collapse of the Soviet Union
the U S became a unipolar power
the following 2 decades they could do anything unopposed
they could bomb anyone and nobody could fight back
that was peak U S power
well history did not end
the U S is past its peak and on the decline
but their gerontocratic leaders still think it's the late 90s/00s
so yeah i'd like to see them attack iran
things will definitely not turn out the way they imagine
In North Korea ... Kim Jong-Un rips up plan to reunify Korea, raising fears of all-out war
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Biden decided not to attack Iran as the US media demanded,
Biden signed a short time ago the decision to retaliate against the forces supported by Iran in the territories of Iraq and Syria.
The airspace over large parts of Syria and Iraq is currently empty.
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Iran: Four Kurdish political prisoners, Mohsen Mazloum, Pejman Fattahi, and Hajir Faramarzi, were executed in Qezel Hesar prison this morning. Condolences to their families and to all the people of Iran! The death sentences of these four prisoners were issued based on confessions obtained under torture and without fair trial, and the executions are considered extrajudicial killings. Khamenei and the judiciary of the corrupt Islamic Republic regime must be held accountable for these crimes. The international community must show a practical response to the relentless and daily executions by the Islamic Republic, and the smallest response from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to today's executions should be to cancel the Deputy HC Nada Al-Nashif's trip to Iran. So far in January at least 65 people have been executed in Iran!
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are you aware that in low-intensity conflicts (iraq, yugoslavia, libya, afghanistan) western high-tech weapons will trump low-tech?
on the contrary low-tech will trump high-tech in a high-intensity conflicts with sheer numbers because its easier to manufacture low tech war machines or equipments. since it will take longer to finish high-intensity conflicts will drain the resources of the protagonists and repleshing battle losses will play a crucial role
hence, should the US directly engage russia in a conventional warfare they will likely lose. the only way for the US to avert defeat from russia will be to escalate things into a nuclear war
since the US is the only country to have used a nuclear weapon against another country (hiroshima and nagazaki) then its highly probable that the US will fire the 1st nuclear strike and russia will only retaliate
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4 days have passed since the attack of the Iranian militias on the US base in Jordan in which 3 American soldiers were killed and many were injured without any reaction from Biden.
The New York Post on President Biden: "A man without a plan" - Biden's response to the death of the soldiers: "I don't want a wide war".
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