CheetoVonTito posted:

With all these bleak news. It’s these little wins that remind me how our efforts, really are working.

https://x.com/qudsnen/status/1780900321943855333?s=46

CheetoVonTito posted:

With all these bleak news. It’s these little wins that remind me how our efforts, really are working.

https://x.com/qudsnen/status/1780900321943855333?s=46

Al-Saqr posted:

aljazeera breaking news that Hamas Announces they've Sniped an israel soldier in Beit Hanoun, the town israel closest to the northern border of gaza that israel said they controlled from day 2 of the ground invasion.

crepeface posted:

East Germany and Eastern Europeans thought when they got rid of communism they'd have banana year-round and Western advertised brands AND all their state benefits like housing and education.

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

we do not deserve to be forgiven when our time comes

The Alchemist posted:

A clever ad campaign. I dont think I've ever even heard of Maldives before, now I want to have my next vacation there, looks cozy

Chillgamesh posted:

Joe is going to campaign on "Preventing a major, disastrous war between Israel and Iran" lol

Bro Dad posted:

it's the number one destination for the world's billionaires and is the most expensive place on earth

Chillgamesh posted:

Joe is going to campaign on "Preventing a major, disastrous war between Israel and Iran" lol

Spoondick posted:

it's also been stated that an israeli attack on rafah would be incredibly destabilizing in egypt especially and egypt would either have to attack israel or put down massive riots

Spoondick posted:

it's also been stated that an israeli attack on rafah would be incredibly destabilizing in egypt especially and egypt would either have to attack israel or put down massive riots

The Alchemist posted:

What is this a reference to?

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

The Alchemist posted:

PawParole posted:

Djibouti?

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

the Arab regimes just participated in a major air operation to protect Israel.

Weka posted:

Beyond Jordan, has the participation of any other Arab state been confirmed?

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

Al-Saqr posted:

uh oh. Maariv just published details of the Iranian Strike and let slip that the reason why Israels so spooked is because the iranians succeeded in Knocking on the door of the Dimona Nuclear facility. and that not only did the americans do most of the defending the interception rate was at most optimistically 84%.

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Satellite images show at least one direct hit at one of the nuclear reactor buildings at Dimona in the Negev, and two injuries to its vicinity, the newspaper added.

https://www.aljazeera.net/news/2024...31593;&%231604;

Jel Shaker posted:

i’m sure one of the architects for the iraq war and the literal provincial governor in iraq will have good opinions

it’s an aside but i remember how the bbc kept saying how good it is that the british armed forces are controlling basra, thanks to our experience in doing a great job in northern ireland….

quote:

Having overcome Basra’s flimsy defences, the army had to administer an occupied city. The British and American forces seemed to see the resistance they faced as inexplicable, nihilistic violence. The looting and burning of Basra Central Library in the first days of the occupation came to stand as a symbol of the disorder the invaders had unleashed. British officers told the Americans that they knew what they were doing thanks to their exploits in Northern Ireland. Yet they failed either to pre-empt or recognise the emerging Shia resistance. The British army proved incapable of securing the city, and not for lack of trying. In September 2003 British forces arrested a group of men, including the hotel receptionist Baha Mousa, and took them to battalion headquarters. There, Akam writes, ‘Mousa died of his injuries’ – one way to describe torturing a prisoner to death. Mousa was hooded and suffered 93 distinct injuries. Here were the skills acquired in Northern Ireland. The army was warned by its lawyers to prevent the abuse of prisoners, but Akam reports that the divisional commander, General Peter Wall, refused to give this order to the forces under his command. He was later promoted to chief of the general staff.

British behaviour in Basra inspired widespread hatred. Officers deceived themselves by talking of their good works, such as repainting schools (which their own forces had damaged). But the occupation forces never achieved the minimum objective of rebuilding Iraq’s domestic security services. The number of British soldiers killed began to rise. Local militias soon had a freer hand than the occupiers. By 2005, IED attacks were common. In 2006 the British made a push to re-establish their authority, but their own soldiers couldn’t move around safely. Akam describes an institution in a state of constant insecurity about its reputation with the Americans, but the US military had long since become disillusioned with British claims to expertise. American generals produced their own counterinsurgency manuals, with the aim of building up Sunni tribes against the Shia militias in classic colonial mode – the ramifications are evident today. They ramped up troop levels with the so-called surge, an option that wasn’t available to the British. By early 2007, the forces in Basra were holed up in a garrison under constant shelling. When Blair left office in June that year, the British army was releasing prisoners to the city militias in exchange for temporary cessations of attacks on its positions. Akam describes all this well, but gives little sense of what any of it was like for Iraqis.

It took about eight weeks to remove British military equipment from central Basra, but the soldiers withdrew from the city in a single night like criminals leaving a burgled house. Their departure had been negotiated in advance with the Shia militias. British forces exercised so little control over the city by September 2007 that to leave without such an arrangement would have been very difficult. The midnight convoy was subjected to just one IED attack, which given the circumstances was counted a success. Basra was left to the militias. Having invaded Iraq’s second city and occupied it for four years, British soldiers ended up sitting in an out-of-town airport while militiamen took pot shots at them with rockets. In the spring of 2008, American forces had to move south to support reconstituted Iraqi army divisions in retaking Basra. The British force was gone from Iraq within a year. In military circles this episode is seen as a total humiliation. Akam calls the Basra debacle ‘the nadir of the post 9/11 wars’, but there is also a sense in which it was a fitting end.

Weka posted:

Beyond Jordan, has the participation of any other Arab state been confirmed?

Al-Saqr posted:

uh oh. Maariv just published details of the Iranian Strike and let slip that the reason why Israels so spooked is because the iranians succeeded in Knocking on the door of the Dimona Nuclear facility. and that not only did the americans do most of the defending the interception rate was at most optimistically 84%.

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Satellite images show at least one direct hit at one of the nuclear reactor buildings at Dimona in the Negev, and two injuries to its vicinity, the newspaper added.

https://www.aljazeera.net/news/2024...%A7%D8%B9%D9%84

Blaisedell posted:

lol the british army were telling the americans this too

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n13/tom-stevenson/the-most-corrupt-idea-of-modern-times

Sancho Banana posted:

https://twitter.com/HochmanGuy/status/1780903907981660473?t=7fWLyyVRaHHpqFtuH2ZQRw&s=19

Bear Retrieval Unit posted:

I've been trying to find this on maariv, so far I found the source for the 84% claim, but nothing about hitting dimona.

Sancho Banana posted:

Israelis have been absolutely seething about this footage of Palestinians on Gaza's Beach since yesterday. Ever since January or so, whenever footage comes out of Palestinians just living their lives in some capacity instead of cowering in fear all the ghouls tweet indignantly about "how DARE they exist on the beach while our hostages aren't back, blah blah WE HAVE TO KEEP FIGHTING HARDER IMMEDIATELY ENDSIEG"

https://twitter.com/N12News/status/1780586563270754423?t=b_ORZm-lm6w2TFi0FRwWzQ&s=19

https://twitter.com/HochmanGuy/status/1780903907981660473?t=7fWLyyVRaHHpqFtuH2ZQRw&s=19

Hollow, venomous people

Al-Saqr posted:

what do the captions say?

also lol stay mad nazis.

Al-Saqr posted:

what do the captions say?

also lol stay mad nazis.

Pistol_Pete posted:

The British armed forces have been a complete embarrassment for the entire 21st century, a fact that most British people remain blissfully unaware of, due to the press and politicians never publicly mentioning it.

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

I think they couldn't do it before this past weekend, the world's patience with them had run out, but by sparking a confrontation with Iran, they got enough diplomatic cover to go ahead with Rafah?

It seems like Israel keeps getting what they want through making the situation worse. It's like disaster capitalism as statecraft.

The Alchemist posted:

A clever ad campaign. I dont think I've ever even heard of Maldives before, now I want to have my next vacation there, looks cozy