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One year on. Hundreds of thousands are dying or dead, millions are displaced, the Middle East is undergoing its greatest changes in a generation, Iran has directly attacked Israel twice in one year, and Yemen has proven that the US Navy ain't worth shit. We are the closest we have been to nuclear war (discounting accidents) in decades, but also the fall of Israel.

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Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

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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:

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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.
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.


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[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 75 points 7 months ago (10 children)

News from Argentina

Now 13 yo can legally do stonks

Lolbertarians and lowering legal age limits, name a better duo

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[–] YoungSheldonAdelson@hexbear.net 75 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

I love seeing the headlines about Hurricane Milton being "not as bad as expected." It was just a mild climate change-fueled nightmarish natural disaster where millions of people were displaced and thousands of people, some already impoverished, lost possessions and lives. Don't think about it, Americans. It definitely couldn't happen to you. Enjoy your slop.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 75 points 7 months ago (7 children)

After Elon Musk backed down and agreed to comply with Brazilian law, the Supreme Court has decided to follow the Attorney General's advice and unblock X.

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[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 75 points 7 months ago

خلّفت الأمطار الاستثنائية التي هطلت على النيجر منذ يونيو 339 قـ تيلاً وأكثر من مليون متضرّر، بحسب ما أفاد الإعلام الرسمي.

ونقلت وكالة أنباء النيجر عن مديرية الحماية المدنية التابعة لوزارة الداخلية قولها إنّه حتى 23 سبتمبر تسبّبت الفيضانات بسقوط "339 قتيلا و383 جريحا" كما خلّفت 1,176,528 متضررا.

Floods in Niger kill 339 people, injure 383 and left 1,176,528 without homes

[–] Prole_Strongman@hexbear.net 74 points 6 months ago

IDF tanks forced their way into UN peacekeeping camps, and used chemical weapons on UN workers apparently.

[–] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 74 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Finland to take part for the first time in annual Nato Steadfast Noon -nuclear war rehearsals that start on the 14.10.

The Left Alliance is voicing opposition to this, stating that there has been no discussions about this in parliament. Failing to aknowledge for the fact that they themselves voted for Finland to join NATO knowing fully well that this would follow.

But to uphold the mask of some kind of left politics they've put up a stern post critizining this move, a post that of course changes nothing. Link in Finnish.

Even Norway does not take part in these, but Finland is now speedrunning imperialism as the local bourge has finally been able to seal the deal on NATO after almost a century of propaganda. Nothing is being discussed in public or if it is, it's all glorifying american imperialism. Making Donald Duck the go to reading material for kids in Finland really paid of for the fascists.

nato-cool

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[–] companero@hexbear.net 73 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Supposedly the Ukrainian troops in Kursk are getting cooked right now. The fog of war is still pretty thick, but:

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/126087

The Russian Armed Forces have pushed through the left flank of the Kursk group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces , report Ukranian sources

They call today "extremely terrible" because in the Novoivanovka area, the only forces that the Russian Armed Forces encountered from the Ukrainian side were artillerymen and UAVs.

https://t.me/intelslava/68224

A large group of Ukrainian Armed Forces fled across the border in the Kursk region using equipment, [Russian General] Apty Alaudinov said.


Somewhat related: I saw a few videos recently of large train shipments of vehicles with North Group markings. Notably, there were lots of MRAPs, which I'm starting to think are a good indicator of planned offensives (both Russia and Ukraine seem to use them that way).

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[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 73 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (9 children)

Ahahahaha fuck you occupiers, maybe if you stopped colonizing you wouldn’t have to worry about being blown up at dinner. Dozens of casualties with multiple confirmed deaths at a base south of Haifa.

~~Just a telegram rumor, but apparently Herzl Halevi may have been killed in the attack~~

Hezb statement

🟡| Statement issued by Hezbollah’s Operations Room:

  • We had previously warned that the Israeli enemy's continued aggression against our noble people in all parts of resilient Lebanon would make Haifa and beyond, for the resistance's missiles and drones, equivalent to Kiryat Shmona, Metula, and other border settlements with Lebanon. We accompanied this warning with information gathered by our drones, "Al-Hudhud," regarding "sensitive" Israeli military targets and "vital" Israeli facilities in occupied Palestine, especially in the occupied city of Haifa. We also assured this enemy that the Islamic Resistance sees and hears where they do not expect.

  • The Israeli enemy wagered that the Islamic Resistance would not be able to carry out its threat after their despicable security operations and the assassination of our honored leaders, foremost among them our most revered martyr, His Eminence, Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (may his soul rest in peace). Ignoring our warnings, they continued their aggression against our noble people and committed the most heinous massacres against women and children, particularly in Beirut and the southern suburbs.

  • In response to all of this, the decision of the Islamic Resistance leadership was to discipline this enemy and show a fraction of what it is capable of, at any time and place of its choosing, whether secretly or openly. The target was one of the training camps of the elite Golani Brigade in Binyamina, south of occupied Haifa, a location unknown to many settlers.

  • In a sophisticated and complex operation, the Islamic Resistance's missile forces launched dozens of rockets towards various targets in the areas of Nahariya and Akka to engage the Israeli air defense systems. Simultaneously, the Islamic Resistance's air force launched swarms of various drones, some of which were used for the first time, towards different areas in Akka and Haifa. These advanced drones successfully penetrated the Israeli air defense radars without detection and reached their target at the training camp of the elite Golani Brigade in Binyamina, south of occupied Haifa. They exploded in rooms where dozens of Israeli officers and soldiers were gathered, preparing to participate in the aggression against Lebanon, including senior officers, resulting in many casualties.

  • The Islamic Resistance pledges to the most honorable and pure people that it will remain their protective shield and will not allow this cowardly enemy to isolate them. It renews its promise to its most revered martyr that it will continue to defend the beloved land of Lebanon according to the field plans that were personally overseen by him and the martyred leaders. The enemy is warned that what they witnessed today in southern Haifa is only a glimpse of what awaits them if they decide to continue their aggression against our proud and noble people.

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[–] totalyNOTaPIRATE@hexbear.net 73 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Rules based order did it again, now Unifil People got injuried by Israel.

William Christou

William Christou reports from Beirut for the Guardian

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called for a UN inquiry into Israeli attacks on peacekeepers belonging to the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) on Friday, after three separate attacks on Unifil personnel in south Lebanon.

HRW said that Israel’s attacks on UN peacekeepers could be a violation of the laws of war, as peacekeepers, including armed members, are civilians. It further called for the UN to “urgently establish” an international investigation in Lebanon and Israel and that their results are made public.

On Friday morning, a Unifil outpost in south Lebanon came under fire. On Thursday, its headquarters in Naqoura had been repeatedly hit, injuring two peacekeepers after an Israeli tank fired at an observation tower on the base. The Israeli military shot at a Unifil position where peacekeepers were sheltering on Wednesday and an Israeli drone flew up to the entrance of the bunker where they were sheltering, Unifil said.

Unifil said its more than 10,400 peacekeepers would remain in south Lebanon until the situation becomes impossible for them to operate. Peacekeepers are already severely restricted in their movements due to Israeli troop presence in south Lebanon.

The peacekeeping force has been present in south Lebanon since 1978, originally designed to confirm Israel’s withdrawal and ensure that armed groups could not use the area as a launching pad for attacks against Israel. Since 2006, it has been tasked with an observation mission to ensure that armed groups do not operate in the area, in line with UN Resolution 1701 which ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Unifil has also had a focus on facilitating humanitarian access and aid to south Lebanon, a mission it continues to this day.

“With over 2,000 people killed and over one million people displaced in Lebanon since mid-September, it is crucial for Unifil to be allowed to fulfil its civilian protection and humanitarian functions”, Lama Fakih, Middle East and north Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said.

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 73 points 6 months ago (4 children)

BREAKING: Nicaragua to break relations with Israel by decree in the coming hours, fulfilling the instruction of the National Assembly and President Daniel Ortega.

https://xcancel.com/KawsachunNews/status/1844868460611842411

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[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 73 points 6 months ago (17 children)
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[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 73 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

In a story on the Ukraine - Russia front that was missed with everything going on in the Middle East, video has emerged of a Russian stealth 5th generation Su-57 fighter jet shooting down its own friendly partnered S-70 stealth drone at high altitude, after it lost control of the drone, to prevent technology from the drone falling into enemy hands. This occurred relatively deep inside Ukrainian territory, around the city of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk Oblast. Videos emerged of some of the wreckage of the S-70 drone on the ground.

While it is obviously not good that Russia lost one of their handful of stealth partner drones, this incident reveals some key information and battlefield firsts. Russia, now with visual evidence, has become the first nation to deploy 5th generation stealth aircraft over highly contested enemy airspace. The stealth capabilities of the Su-57 are very real. It went undetected by Ukrainian air defence systems, including the US manufactured Patriot system, and the remaining Soviet/Russian S-300 systems Ukraine has, while over 20km inside Ukrainian airspace (when measured at the frontlines of the conflict, much further inside Ukraine if measured from 1991 borders) at high altitudes that these systems should have no issue covering. Western copium about the Su-57 not being a true 5th generation stealth aircraft, based off of images of outdated prototypes, has now been disproven by actual evidence.

This also really brings to the forefront two other realities: Ukraine's air defence is very degraded, and Russian commanders are confident that the Su-57s stealth capabilities are enough to carry out deep strikes without being detected with regards the current state of Ukrainian air defence. I have already talked about the stealth one two punch that the Su-57 offers with its stealth cruise missiles in the Kh-69 before, and how this enables Russia to effectively extend the range of these cruise missiles and strike deep inside Ukrainian territory. The most obvious example of this has been the strikes against energy infrastructure using the Kh-69 cruise missile.

Editing to say: Key takeaways from this? Ukraine should be very glad that Russia only have a handful of Su-57 aircraft and S-70 drones, if they had the same amount of these aircraft as the USA has F-22s, the aerial campaign against Ukraine would look very different. Secondly, Iran should be worried about their air defence capabilities against stealth aircraft. The backbone of Iran's air defence is the Russian S-300PMU2 system (NATO name: SA-20B), and locally produced variants of it. We already know that Israeli stealth aircraft in the US made F-35 can bypass the Syrian S-300PM (NATO name: SA-10B) air defence systems with some effort, but still with relative ease. With Iran currently having the most advanced S-300 systems, even more advanced than the S-300PMU (NATO name: SA-10C) systems Ukraine has, some might think that they would do better against stealth aircraft. But that is quite a gamble to take when a lot of the radar technology in the more advanced variant of the system Iran has is simply an evolution of older systems, systems which have now proven to be incapable of detecting both Russian and US made stealth aircraft. Iran ideally needs S-400 systems soon to adequately deter the stealth threat.

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[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 72 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In case you missed it, the satanically racist WaPo is attempting to incite an anti-Chinese pogrom with their latest “report” on the subversive hivemind orientals

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 72 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Time-lapse map showing the missile strikes on the Zionist entity since the beginning of the war:

https://xcancel.com/leb313shihin/status/1843435528227828067
🔴 Gaza 🟢 Lebanon 🟠 Iran 🟣 Yemen 🔵 Iraq

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[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 72 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Exceptionally clean hamas-red-triangle just dropped. Not sure whether it's a new clip but it's a good one so fuck it

"O Lord they killed the women and kids.."
"O Lord, so accept [this act] from us, O Lord."
"Allah is the greatest and glory to Allah and Islam!"

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[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 72 points 6 months ago

New UN OHCHR report on Israeli war crimes against Palestinians

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/10/un-commission-finds-war-crimes-and-crimes-against-humanity-israeli-attacks

cw sexual violenceSome truly awful stuff in this report, massremoved, sexual torture, terrible dehumanization.

Acts of sexual violence documented by the Commission were motivated by extreme hatred towards and a desire to dehumanize the Palestinian people.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 71 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

I present this graph without comment on why sanctions on russia failed

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[–] IceWallowCum@hexbear.net 71 points 7 months ago (16 children)

What even is America's interest in keeping Cuba starved? Is it afraid of having a communist country that close?

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[–] refolde@hexbear.net 71 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Why can't the U.S. just economically sanction the hurricane?

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[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 71 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Least genocidal state department ghoul

🚨 “Carpet bomb the Irish area and then drop napalm over it”

  • @MattRJBrodsky, US foreign policy advisor

https://nitter.poast.org/StopArabHate/status/1843310944266621260#m

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[–] SupFBI@hexbear.net 71 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Will there ever be a reckoning for these celebrities who have endorsed Kamala? It makes me fucking SICK! Fucking fascist hell hole of a country.

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[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 71 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (13 children)

Is Israel just taking out its impotency on the civilians of Palestine and Lebanon? Because they damn sure haven’t eliminated Hamas or Hezbollah

For context, Al Jazeera war crimes documentary. Sick to my stomach, everyone involved deserves Nuremberg https://youtu.be/kPE6vbKix6A

Hilarious how they keep cutting to the British guy who says “destroying civilian possessions and doing [REDACTED] in prisons is against international law”

Unimportant, but this also confirms the stereotype of Israelis having shitty music taste, we get big room “may your village burn” and psytrance blowing up houses

Don’t watch the doc if you don’t want your whole day ruined

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 71 points 6 months ago

Generalplan Ost with Zionist characteristics:
https://xcancel.com/AbujomaaGaza/status/1845326161703796953

⚠️ 𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑰𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘

israeli occupation forces are implementing General’s Plan for ethnically cleansing Palestinians from northern parts of #Gaza.

𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍’𝒔 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒃𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒔:

▪️The israeli occupation military is enacting a plan that will effectively ethnically cleanse the Palestinian population in northern Gaza after a siege that could last months.

▪️Conceived by retired israeli Major-General Giora Eiland, the plan aims to empty northern Gaza of its 400,000 residents to make way for a “closed military zone.”

▪️The plan calls for the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza, warning that those that remain will face starvation.

▪️"The right thing to do is to inform the approximately 300,000 residents who remained in the northern Gaza Strip… we are ordering you to leave," Eiland said last month.

▪️"In a week, the entire territory of the northern Gaza Strip will become military territory."

[–] NoamParenti@hexbear.net 71 points 7 months ago (6 children)
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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 70 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

So Boric, Lula and Petro actually sent their air forces to rescue their citizens in Lebanon and Syria. Meanwhile, Ecuador (Noboa) and Argentina (Milei) have basically told them to get out in commercial planes, because they're not going to do anything to help their own citizens. I understand that Ecuador is in a very bad situation, but what about Milei? Fuck that guy, I hate that guy, literally a pos.

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 70 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (9 children)

some big brain moves (or mossad counter op)

*also seems to be working (shitty, but it was always kinda slow for me), did this really happen thonk

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[–] Sasuke@hexbear.net 70 points 6 months ago (10 children)

From UNIFIL on X, posted a few minutes ago after the IOF attacked them:

Despite putting on protective masks, fifteen peacekeepers suffered effects, including skin irritation and gastrointestinal reactions, after the smoke entered the camp. The peacekeepers are receiving treatment.

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[–] Flaps@hexbear.net 70 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Local elections in Belgium and in its biggest Flemish city, Antwerp, it is a neck to neck mayoral race between the ruling Flemish nationalist Party and the openly ML workers party. Gonna be real here and assume we are not going to be the winners, but the fact that one of our biggest cities, with one of the major ports of Europe, came this close to a red mayor is noticable in and of itself.

The campain the nationalists set up was fucking dumb tho. Going all in on the European tradition of xenophobia, islamophobia more specifically. "They go and get their votes at mosques! They praise the Taliban!". Our sitting mayor also said that the workers' party's position that headscarfs and other religious symbols should be allowed in public positions is 'apartheid' (all while being a vocal supporter of the zionist entity)!

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 69 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Palestine Action handshake IRGC

fucking up F35s

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[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 69 points 7 months ago (6 children)

According to this map, MacDill Air Force Base, home to US Central Command and Special Operations Command, will be facing 9+ feet of storm surge.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/instant/sidebar/index.html?appid=7c47f1ae3d214946bc89a327ca87481b

God knows what nasty chemicals they are keeping there that will be released into the bay.

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[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 69 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Happy October Seventh everybody!

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[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 68 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

Apartheid-era South Africa, just like shitty-ass-doo-doo-real, also had a plan for a total war against it's neighbours. Of course, this would also include Tanzania and countries bordering Namibia, as South Africa was already at war with Angola, which South Africa ended up losing along with 800,000km² of illegally occupied land (L bozos, fidel-bat ). Pretty much everything in Africa south of the Equator was on the settler-colonialist regime's hit list.

The casus belli was neighbouring countries to South Africa were hosting safehouses and training camps for the ANC/MK guerillas, gun runners, weapons caches and smuggling routes. It was the 1970s and 80s, "israel" had just given South Africa nuclear weapons, IMI Galil rifles (and a license to produce the Vektor R4-R6 series), electrified fences, border security and other weaponsystems. They also decided to overlook the actually anti-semitic tendencies of their Apartheid cousin across the continent. Tanzania was also a key stronghold for anti-apartheid activity and the immortal Rhodesia turned out to be not so immortal afterall, L ( nuke qin-shi-huangdi-fireball ) and while Tanzania doesn't border South Africa, it likely would have been a target. More likely targets to create a "buffer" would have included Mozambique, Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Angola. With it being the 1970s-80s, this was also the climax of South Africa's apartheid violence and a rapidly escalating period of resistance activity.

Mozambique signed the Nkomati Accord in 1984 with South Africa to expel and prosecute anti-apartheid guerillas, in exchange for South Africa ceasing its covert operations against FRELIMO. South Africa of coursed reneged on this promise and continued to support the anti-communist RENAMO party. This treaty may have also been signed under coercion with Mozambique on the brink of collapse at the time.

Also South Africa, with the possible collaboration of AmeriKKKan and "israeli" regimes, was intending to develop ethnic weaponry for the purpose of creating an ethnostate (and obviously a genocide of half a billion Africans resulting from the planned war), along with other chemical and biological weapons under Project Coast.

40-ish years later, the isnotreali nazi regime is much on the same trajectory.

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[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 68 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Biden administration no longer supporting an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon.

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[–] iie@hexbear.net 68 points 7 months ago (11 children)

Why did America try to overthrow Assad, and why did Russia step in? I’ve heard vague things about Americans guarding oil fields in Syria. Was the operation in Syria mostly motivated by oil or is the picture more complicated?

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