Blackwater commander killed by Hamas

Collapsed a tunnel on his ass lmao

Italy, Spain and France have all withdrawn from "Operation Prosperity Guardian" and are withdrawing their warships

Yemen wins again

Logged in here again after a few days of being forced to deal with stuff in a place called the "real world" for nerds or something.

Was happy to see hexbear.net/u/ThomasMuentzner remembering my existence. We're all mostly unemployed daydreamers here, but it still warms my dead heart that I've made a miniscule impact on someone's life.

I'm preparing a little effortpost to celebrate the COTW being Yemen this week. It has barely anything to do with politics, but I'll give you guys three hint words: Jews, Music, Poetry. I also have a really interesting political story about northern Yemen's transition from the Imamate to modern chaos that I have written somewhere in Arabic, gotta translate it and post it here during this week.

Norway has banned the landing of a Russian plane with a dying man on board. On a Nordwind Airlines flight from Moscow to Cuba, a person began bleeding internally due to an ulcer.

Passengers on the flight told Shot that the pilots requested permission to land at one of the nearest airports in Norway, but were refused. Afterwards, the pilots announced the plane was turning around back to Moscow. The Norwegian authorities stated that they allowed the airliner to use the country’s airspace in order to “fly back faster.”

At the time the plane landed in Moscow, the injured passenger was still conscious. He was taken away by ambulance.

Seriously Norway?!

Operation Prosperity Guardian is not going well for the US:

• Iran fired at Israeli tanker in the Indian Ocean
• Spain wont participate at all without UN or Nato running the show, so Spain is out for now
• Italy is sending just 1 frigate, and not as part of the operation
• France is still in, but not under US command
• Netherlands, Norway, and Denmark are sending no ships. Sending liason officers only.
• Currently, the operation consists if 7 US ships, Incl. 1 carrier, 1 British warship, and 1 Greek warship
• Permanent ceasefire called in Yemeni Civil War.

Yemen has apparently come out of an impending war with half of the west even stronger than it started. This might be the best day for the resistance since Oct 7th

EVERGREEN DENIES ISRAELI SHIPPMENTS AND CARGO !

(evil german Source

Putin admitted that in the “zero” he was a naive person, believing that the West did not want confrontation with the Russian Federation. In an interview with journalist Zarubin, the president explained his wish to “myself from 2000” not to be naive and overly gullible.

“Still, I had a naive idea that the whole world, I am absolutely convinced, the so-called civilized one, understands what happened to Russia. That it has completely become a different country, that there is no longer ideological confrontation, which means there is no basis for confrontation <...> I believed that this was simply the inertia of thinking and action,” Putin said.

Putin is sad that Russia was not allowed to join the League of Fascism even after a successful rebranding. Maybe it’s time to wake up that it’s the AES that are standing up for you, not the Western imperialist countries you admire so much.

But it’s still funny to see him admit to himself that he’s a naive person (very true).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67748813

Ukraine war: Kyiv forced to cut military operations as foreign aid dries up

Buckle up

To shoot or not to shoot: Chinese-developed ‘golden veil’ could make deadly missiles look like passenger planes

A gold-plated camouflage veil that can make a cruise missile look like a passenger plane on a radar screen could “change the face of war”, according to the team of Chinese scientists behind the design.

The low-cost technology can confuse expensive air defence systems and significantly reduce the time available for military commanders to respond – if at all.

Developed by a research team in northwest China, the project is part of an ongoing effort by China to build up a wide range of ways it can penetrate air defence systems in the first island chain, Guam or even the US homeland.

I can see a major problem with this - you're assuming that the United States is above shooting down passenger planes.

Milei takes refuge inside the federal police HQ.

The President of Argentina, Javier Milei, and the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, monitor the protests in the city of Buenos Aires, at the headquarters of the Argentine Federal Police.

Police block streets during protest against roadblock ban in Argentina.

Am I getting this right that with the USS Carl Vincent underway, we will soon have three carriers in the vicinity of the Red Sea?

Hezbollah was a two-carrier militia threat. The Houthis are a three-carrier militia, according to the US Navy.

Zelenskyy confident us will not betray Ukraine

I'm sure the Kurds, Saddam, Gaddafi, the Mujahideen, South Vietnam, etc etc felt the same way

Critical support to the Senate staffer who posted videos of himself having anal sex in the Senate Judiciary hearing room. Apparently, the top used to work for the German government.

Said staffer worked for Senator Ben Cardin (D-Maryland).

US after 9/11: Torture think piece

US now: Genocide think piece

If Yemen sinks an aircraft carrier then I, a uselessly monolingual Brit who did terribly in language classes, will do everything I can to learn Arabic

Lol. And perhaps Lmao:

"I was one of those who expected Ukraine to break through to the Sea of Azov, a move that might well have ended the war,” Hannan writes in a passage I find amusing. “Why did I get it wrong? I had been talking not only to Ukrainians, but to British military observers with direct knowledge of the battlefield.

Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?

From here. 10 min read

Testimony by 2 released prisoners from Gaza:

The resistance allowed us to play sports and taught children new games, including "Warq Al-Shadah" (playing cards). They nicknamed one of us "Salsabeel," and women are considered sacred queens among them.

One person even placed a towel on his hands so as not to touch me when we played "hand-to-hand combat."

Mental image of a Hamas fighter hoverhanding a woman hostage

Well my country is basically head first on the slide to fascism, french government passed a massive bill on immigration, using the infamous 49.3 emergency loophole (basically, refuse to acknowledge us rubes who consistently vote against such bullshit and pass the shitty laws anyway), and it has divided the country even more, everyone hates macron even more (somehow), the "left" basically told him fuck you, and the right also said fuck you because they think the bill was weakened (lol, lmao, even.) Unfortunately Darmanin, who was going to resign when the Bill was rejected by parliament, won't resign now that the Bill passed. If anyone was curious on the state of french politics, yes, it somehow got even worse, and no, short of a fucking civil war i don't see how this country will ever get better.

Satan is currently torturing Bandera in hell by showing him videos of Ukrainian fascists being buried in Israeli flag-draped coffins.

Ok hear me out: Home Alone: Lost in Palestine

• IDF drops leaflets in a neighborhood saying everyone must evacuate because they’ll bomb it
• The family flees to a refugee camp in Egypt, only to realize they forgot their son
• It turns out the IDF fabricated the bombing campaign
• The truth is that the IDF evacuated everyone so they can let settlers take over the Palestinians’ homes
• Palestinian Kevin ends up at a mosque, gets advice from a Maoist guerrilla
• He leaves the mosque - “This is my house. I have to defend it!”
• The settlers get owned over and over again trying to steal the house
• Right when the settlers corner Palestinian Kevin, the Maoist guerrilla from the mosque saves Palestinian Kevin by comically blasting the settlers 20 feet with an RPG

Nobody is really impressed with the United States Operation , Including a US Flagged ship called Liberty.. UAE and Saudis allready said "oh Fuck no." And we have the First Shipper that complies with Yemens Demands

USA now has Apperently Ordered THE NEXT Carrier Strike group "Carl Vinson " from the freaking Singapour ... and Still the Shipping companies dont "Bet" on it beeing cleared anytime soon...

Bonus

Wholesome reminder that Kissinger is dead

Very interesting story about the massive political changes in Yemen in the 1940s. Had this saved in Arabic somewhere, so I translated this for you homies and cleaned it up with comrade ChatGPT.

Until the mid-twentieth century, Yemen in the 1700s retained a sense of enduring stability, seemingly impervious to the transformative winds of change. To external observers, Yemen appeared motionless and resistant to evolution. In the northern part of the country, the Zaydi Imamate stood as an institution with an eleven-century legacy, interrupted only briefly on two occasions. The entrenched divides, passed down through generations, manifested predictably in various relationships: Zaydis versus Shafi’is, Zaydis versus the diminishing Isma'ilis, Qahtanis and Seyyids, Upland tribes versus the villages and plantations of Lower Yemen, and coastal towns versus inland towns, among others. Although change had the potential to manifest, the fundamental structure remained steadfast.

Remarkably, Aden, under British administration, thrived as the world's second-busiest port at times, trailing only behind New York City. Meanwhile, families from Hadhramut sought prosperity in far-flung places such as Singapore and Indonesia. International trade in coffee flourished, sustaining activity in the western uplands and a few Red Sea ports, despite a decline initiated by evolving commercial and global cultivation patterns by the mid-eighteenth century. However, these shifts failed to shake the foundations of deeper traditions.

One might have anticipated that Aden, as a bustling port, could become a breeding ground for ideological shifts. It seemed plausible that subversive ideas could disseminate among the diverse migrant labor population, originating from all corners of Yemen, and subsequently find their way back to their respective homelands. Alternatively, returning Hadhramis might import provocative notions from their experiences abroad. Yet, when disruption eventually unfolded, it did so unexpectedly, emanating from a source that caught everyone off guard.

In the aftermath of World War II, the Kingdoms of Iraq and Saudi Arabia identified in Yemen a kindred, traditionalist state, deserving of reinforcement. This was particularly crucial as the Yemeni Imamate was undergoing a significant shift towards hereditary rule, mirroring the established royal traditions in Saudi Arabia and Iraq, in stark contrast to the Zaydi Shia tradition. A strategic plan was devised to enhance and modernize the Yemeni military. In 1940, Iraq implemented a multifaceted approach, flying in Yemeni students for enrollment in its military academy while concurrently dispatching a training mission to Yemen. This mission included Jamil Jamal, a young officer from Mosul, a decision that would prove to have profound consequences.

Merely four years earlier, Jamal had served as the aide-de-camp to the leader of the 1936 coup, directly implicated in the murder of the Iraqi Army's 'founder.' Despite the coup's failure and the demise of its leader, authorities sought to rehabilitate Jamal, consigning him to career exile as an officer in the riverine police. Unexpectedly, he found himself attached to the Yemen training mission, offering an opportunity for redemption. The mission concluded in 1943, yet Jamal chose to remain in Yemen. Five years later, he employed his coup-making skills, aligning with a plot to assassinate the ruling Imam. A new Imam briefly ruled in Sana’a before being overpowered by the slain Imam’s son and Jamal was executed soon after. This event triggered a series of complex local wars in both northern and southern Yemen, financially and logistically supported by regional powers. The ensuing two decades, spanning the 1960s and 1970s, witnessed a convoluted interplay of old cleavages, with Aden losing its significance due to geopolitical shifts brought about by the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Aden, once a bustling maritime destination, diminished in importance as the Suez Canal blockade during the Arab-Israeli conflict rendered it largely irrelevant. By the time the canal reopened, technological advancements allowed ships to travel longer distances without the need for restocking, further diminishing Aden's strategic value. In the late 1970s, a substantial portion of Yemen's male population sought employment as migrant laborers in the oil-rich Persian Gulf countries, reshaping the nation's economic landscape. As remittances from abroad became the primary source of income, Aden and traditional coffee cultivation ceded their prominence. The societal fabric in Yemen began to unravel swiftly, and the dissolution of long-standing structures occurred surprisingly rapidly. This tumultuous period prompted adventurous figures, such as the late President Ali Abdullah Saleh, to actively participate in reshaping Yemen's destiny.

This vile fucker...

Ceasefire would ‘validate’ Hamas attacks: Kirby

The White House National Security Council spokesman again reiterated Washington’s opposition to a comprehensive ceasefire in Gaza.

However, he denied the US was out of step with other Western powers on the issue. The foreign ministers of the UK and Germany said over the weekend said the need for a ceasefire was “urgent” but that it was not yet time to call for one.

Kirby said a ceasefire “would simply validate what Hamas did on the 7th of October.

“It would leave them in power in Gaza, which is unacceptable to us and to our Israeli friends,” he added. “And of course, it would give them a much longer timeline to prepare and plan additional attacks. We do support smaller, more localised, more targeted humanitarian pauses to get hostages out and to get more aid in.”

Kirby added that eight US captives are thought to still be held in Gaza.

- Al Jazeera

trust me bro, we can totally defeat Ansar Allah dude, it will be more like a three day training exercise because the US is so strong bro, they will regret this bro

Port workers in South Africa suddenly having to cancel their Christmas holidays I guess

Yemen's air force

Americrakkker do the bare minimum research before cheering on a war challenge (impossible)

r/Argentina is coping really hard rn that their ancap hero is destroying their country.

They are saying that Brazilians are spreading fake news about Miley. It didn't help that Brazil became the world 9th economy like yesterday.

University shooting in czechia, 10 dead

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/21/prague-shooting-charles-university-deaths-injuries

Get the fuck out and stay the fuck out: The last French troops deployed to Niger left the country on Friday (December 22), sealing a withdrawal that is dealing a further blow to France's influence in the region. Macron said in September that 1,500 troops would pull out of Niger by the end of the year.

American Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, member of the organization Jews United Against Zionism also known as the Naturei Karta, attended the International Conference on Palestine held in Iran’s Tehran today

https://nitter.cz/EyesOnSouth1/status/1738586177605640672#m 🔥🔥👌✅🙂

Hyperloop One is shutting down, firing all staff. Traingang keep winning.

https://archive.ph/ywaZ6

I’m fascinated by how long it took for America to have any kind of non-passive stance on Ansarallah. Like, one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world suddenly is seen as treacherous and not worth the risk to use, due to military actions being taken by a Iran-backed militia movement that most of the world doesn’t recognize as a state actor. And it took weeks for the globe-spanning empire that built an entire global order off of the promise of safety provided by its giant navy to get involved? Its like the cops showing up to a domestic disturbance call 3 weeks late and saying “damn that sucks” to the half-decomposed corpse of the victim before leaving.

What are folks’ thoughts on why it took so long for something to be done? Was fear of escalation with Iran region-wide strong enough to deter yanks from doing basic “globe spanning maritime empire” anti-piracy stuff? Do you think it was anxiety about whether their current surface fleet is capable of engaging a force that relies so heavily on missiles and drones? What led to this historically unprecedented reluctance from the USA?

I’ve seen this one before!

Here is a cursed thought with the lathe - at some point in the coming decades, there will be a wave of refugees coming to someplace in the global north and the right wing will demonize them as settler-colonizers.

It seems that Milei has ordered public transport to stop today. He really doesn't want people to protest, but that will only delay the protest, not stop it.

The situation will get worse very soon, and I doubt that the police and military forces will be on Milei's side when he stops paying them.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/12/18/french-foreign-affairs-ministry-official-killed-by-israeli-bombardment-in-gaza_6354377_4.html

French diplomat killed in Gaza in indiscriminate Israeli strike on the home he was sheltering in in Southern Gaza.

Macron will send a strongly written letter to Netanyahu I'm sure

IOF soldier stood too close when the artillery fired a shell: https://nitter.cz/CHECKYSTOMPER69/status/1736821007288250794