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Spotted a B-2 over our skies today (Middle East)

Well fuck that's not good. The USA got the big guns out for this.

Does Iran have the capability to detect this aircraft? The last time a stealth aircraft was shot down over the Balkans, it was a much simpler and less stealthy design in the F-117, was only detectable because it used the same flight path as before, and was detected by setting the early warning radar to its lowest frequency and widest band. This meant the radar only had a range of 25km, or around 15 miles.

Here is a bulletin from CBS News. In Dallas, Texas, three banhammers were fired at President of Fake News Melina's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Melina has been seriously wounded by this shooting. We will keep you updated as we receive more information.

Interesting tweets regarding Russia and China abstaining from the UNSC vote:

https://nitter.cz/snarwani/status/1745601115645731239

https://nitter.cz/EyesOnSouth1/status/1745952997459345632

A strong explosion was heard in Haifa Bay near the refineries.

https://twitter.com/Lebnews2004/status/1746431054649450843

https://twitter.com/Lebnews2004/status/1746431541792670053

Houthi Retaliation Threats Echo After US Airstrikes in Yemen

All U.S. and British interests have become legitimate targets, the Houthi's Council declared.

A geopolitical storm is brewing in the Red Sea after U.S.-led strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen on Friday sparked a strong reaction from the Iran-backed militia, who immediately condemned the "brutal aggression" and vowed retaliation.

The Houthi's Supreme Political Council declared that it would not allow the aggressors to escape punishment and "all U.S. and British interests have become legitimate targets."

Meanwhile, the internationally recognized government of Yemen issued a statement condemning recent military actions by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea, blaming the Houthis for "dragging the country into a military confrontation arena for propaganda purposes."

The strikes mainly targeted weapons stores and drone assembly workshops to "intentionally avoid a direct impact on senior Houthi leaders," said Salah Bin Laghbar, an Anden-based political analyst.

Laghbar suggested that the primary message behind the strikes was to convey that "the Houthi piracy in the Red Sea would not go unpunished," while the U.S., being in an election year, may "seek to project power through such military actions against Houthis in Yemen."

Yemeni political observer Ibrahim Jalal echoed that the strikes were a U.S. attempt to project strength, protect prestige, and address concerns about a potential rise in energy prices, but it fell short of addressing the root causes of the threat.

Internally, Jalal said the U.S.-led attack will instill fear and increase anti-Western sentiments among civilians as well as enhance Houthi domestic support due to its opposition to foreign intervention, while externally, Jalal points out the likelihood of the Houthis continuing and expanding the scope of their attacks, including "American interests in the region."

Yemenis are expressing widespread disapproval of the U.S.-led military actions. A prevailing sentiment among the population is rooted in a deep-seated resistance to foreign intervention in Yemen's internal affairs. Many Yemenis argue that Western involvement only exacerbates the complex socio-political dynamics in the war-torn country.

Yemeni researcher Adel Dashela said the actions are more likely to escalate the tension, which may "transform the Red Sea region into a battleground for international and regional conflicts, ultimately destabilizing the area."

The key to regional stability lies in addressing broader issues, such as "halting Israeli military aggression and lifting the siege on the Gaza Strip, as well as working towards establishing a Palestinian state. The stability in the region will not be achieved by violating the sovereignty of Yemen, a UN member state, through military interventions," he noted.

For several weeks, the Houthi group has intensified military operations in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait, targeting commercial ships "in connecting with Israel" with armed boats, drones, and sea missiles, in response to the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

The Houthis have controlled the capital Sanaa and much of northern Yemen since ousting the internationally recognized government in 2014. The conflict has drawn in a Saudi-led coalition fighting on the side of the government.

White House released a statement:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/01/11/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-coalition-strikes-in-houthi-controlled-areas-in-yemen/

Anyone have a good read for how the liberals aided the rise of nazis in 1930s germany? By choosing not to stand with the commumists?

Considering what's coming on Thursday, I'm surprised that South Africa wasn't the pick for COTW, what with the relations (and genuinely hostile demeanor) between a former and a current apartheid state all but having collapsed harder than

Gonna say it: I love that someone painted over a KMT flag on a jacket and has all the weird liberals all foaming at the mouth on twitter, it's just a clear improvement. Get fucked lmfao.

Love to see my boy Richard Medhurst getting recognition, he had an interview on PressTV earlier this week on the ICJ hearings and he has a lot of expertise around Yemen too. So glad to have a non-chud as public commentator on our side after 2 years of enduring lots of chuddery around Ukraine. Never heard him admit that he's a communist but he has mentioned he's broadly "on the left" and uses a Marxist dialectical lens in all of his videos without using those terms, and I've never seen him miss. He's a very good face for convincing normies.

March On Washington For Gaza LIVE

so what chapter of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is the United States on now? It's got to be at least book 5 or maybe 6 by now

Pentagon failed to track Ukraine arms worth more than $1bn, says watchdog | Financial Times

The Pentagon failed to properly track more than $1bn worth of weapons the US provided to Ukraine, according to a watchdog’s report that could fuel concerns about whether the arms had been diverted from Kyiv at a time when Congress is weighing whether to send more military aid.

The report from the defence department’s inspector-general did not offer an assessment on whether the weapons had been diverted but found that the US did not appropriately monitor at least $1bn of $1.7bn in weapons sent to Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of its neighbour nearly two years ago.

The exports covered by the report include shoulder-fired missiles such as Javelins and Stingers, switchblade or “kamikaze” drones and night vision goggles.

The equipment that was designated for so-called enhanced end-use monitoring covers only a small part of the more than $44bn in lethal aid the US has provided since Russia’s invasion.

“It was beyond the scope of our evaluation to determine whether there has been diversion of such assistance,” said the report, which was published on Thursday. It added that the high rates of missing or unaccounted for weapons “may increase the risk of theft of diversion”.

A defence department official said: “There is no credible evidence of illicit diversion of US-provided advanced conventional weapons from Ukraine.”

The inspector-general’s report shows that the practices employed by US diplomats and military officials to track weapons fell short of the stringent monitoring processes the Biden administration has cited as part of its argument for additional assistance. That is likely to intensify concerns in Congress and the American public about how taxpayer funds are being spent.

The report found that US diplomats and military officials experienced logistical and personnel issues that contributed to their shortfalls in tracking aid inside Ukraine as well as neighbouring Poland, where the US maintains a logistics hub.

It also assessed that even if the Pentagon improves its monitoring methods, tracking changes to the inventory will continue to be challenging. 

The debate on approving more assistance for Ukraine has grown increasingly fractious in Congress, especially among Republicans. House and Senate Republicans have demanded that President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats agree to a border security and immigration package in order to pass tens of billions in additional assistance for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. 

Republicans have demanded that the White House provide more accountability for the aid as well as lay out a strategy for US support for Ukraine and a pathway to resolving the conflict.

The current situation in Ecuador is the result of Dollarization and the comprador and neoliberal goverments that said they had "solutions" for the economical problems they caused on the country. When the population needed the State the most, It was unable to act.

I doubt this would have ever happened during Rafael Correa's goverment. When the US attempted a coup against him in 2010, he literally went to the building where the coup leaders were organizing and delivered a harsh speech and he dared them to kill him.

I wonder what Milei must be thinking rn.

Here's two pieces that describe and explain the current state of the Chinese economy. I strongly encourage you to read it. It's very good.

Orikron:

The government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines joined the increasing group of countries that have supported South Africa's genocide case against the State of Israel. The Caribbean nation's support was expressed through a communique.

Putin - about Soviet cartoons: You watch these modern Western-made cartoons - everything there shoots, jumps, runs, in half an hour your head will fall off from this film. How can children stand this? But our Soviet cartoons, of course, are of a completely different quality. Both the emotional impact and the aesthetic impact on the developing person are completely different.

True or not?

(This is from an interview with Putin yesterday, his first time visit to the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, the northernmost tip of the Russian Far East, and the only region he hasn’t visited before. How can you be the leader for more than 20 years and still have a state you have never been to?)

[DJ announcer voice]: And rocketing in at a surprise number one this week it's We Don't Care (Make It A Grand World War) by Bascially All Of Sana'a

"We don't care

We don't care

We don't care

Make it a grand world war

Our hearts long for rifles and battles

By God, living like this is forbidden to me"