The IDF behave exactly like the grunts from Half Life 1

Syria Says Jordanian Airstrikes 'Unjustified'

Last month, Jordanian forces bombed an area of Al-Suwayda, leaving a dozen dead, including women and children.

On Tuesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Syria condemned the "unjustified" airstrikes by Jordan on its territory that left at least ten people dead in the Al-Suwayda province.

"Syria expresses its deep regret for the airstrikes carried out by the Jordanian Air Force against several villages and areas within Syrian territory," said the Foreign Affairs Ministry.

Previously, on Dec. 18, 2023, Jordanian forces bombed an area of Al-Suwayda, leaving a dozen dead, including women and children, according to data from the activist network AlSuwayda24 and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

This is the first time that Syrian authorities have publicly commented on Jordanian bombing campaigns on their territory, operations that Jordan usually does not acknowledge authorship of and are aimed at combating drug trafficking.

"There is no justification for such military operations," Syrian diplomacy said, asserting that its country is is avoiding causing "tensions or affecting the ongoing restoration of the fraternal relationship between the two countries."

Since the outbreak of the war in 2011, Syria "has suffered the influx of tens of thousands of terrorists and the passage of huge amounts of weapons from neighboring countries, including Jordan," the Foreign Affairs Ministry recalled.

Jordan is a significant destination and transit point for a type of amphetamine called "captagon," which is produced in large quantities in Syria.

In mid-2023, Syria and Jordan inaugurated a joint committee for cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking after Syria was readmitted to the Arab League with the commitment to redouble efforts to tackle drug smuggling.

BTW one thing for COTW, New Zealand this week - one of the big controversies with the old Labour coalition was the pushing of co-governance. Basically Labour expanded the power sharing agreements between the 'Crown' (The State) and the iwi (Maori Tribes), giving them more autonomy and decision making in areas like conservation, waterways etc. If you want to know more about it, you can read up here: Exploring Co-Governance

This ended up being quite unpopular, and there was a lot of concern trolling about 'democracy', and 'being decisive', from the right opposition. There were several other reasons why the Labour coalition was on its way out electorally, and pinning it solely on co-governance would be wrong, but of the populace that had an opinion on it, 26% were in favour, 31% against.^1^and it was a bit of a mask off moment. Anyway, part of the pushback the new National coalition is doing on Treaty issues/Iwi relations can in part be attributed to this pushback to co-governance expansion.

^1^ bonus TERFism in the polls XD

@Kereru@hexbear.net is afaik the only other active hexbear from here so they can correct me if I'm getting anything egregiously wrong. I'm less informed on local issues than I admittedly should be.

come on texas, do the funny

someone @ me when civil war starts

https://youtu.be/9k3hAkr1FNc?si=bQ93KWqpDGbE6iM7

Grey Zone interview with Yemeni spokesperson (23min)

civil war in '24

Looking at the Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) capabilities for various air forces, and holy crap Europe is in a vulnerable position. The only aircraft in the air forces of European countries that can do SEAD and general electronic warfare(EW) at the same time is the Tornado ECR. Some countries have fighter jets like the F-16 equipped with anti radiation missiles for SEAD, but no electronic warfare capabilities. And their electronic warfare platforms are based off of passenger or cargo aircraft. So only Germany and Italy have a plane with proper SEAD and EW capabilities simultaneously in the Tornado ECR. Germany has 35 of these, and Italy 16. The plan here is clearly to rely on the Americans for this with the EA-18G squadrons, plus hope that the F-35s can do some miracle work with "datalink". That's exactly what the UK are trying to with the F-35B.

To put this into perspective, Australia has better SEAD and EW capabilities than most of the European continent, as Australia has 12 EA-18G aircraft.

Russia has also realised through the Ukraine war how important this is, that's why they plan to manufacture 30 Su-34M/ Su-34 NVO fighter planes, which have both EW and SEAD capabilities. Russia only had 10 of them before the war started, and it's only other proper SEAD and EW fighter plane was the Su-24MP, of which only 10 exist.

China have the J-10D and J-16D variants as the aircraft that can do both SEAD and EW. Heavily investing into this area. They also have multiple aircraft types that can fulfil one of the two roles.

The United States has 85 EA-18G aircraft.

I don't think people realise how important these aircraft are to winning wars and achieving air superiority. It is the backbone of any air operation. The whole reason that non stealth jets from the US and NATO were able to carry out such uncontested aerial bombardments with minimal losses during the Gulf war, the bombing of Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, etc, is due to their SEAD and EW capabilities, which were developed after the massive losses in Vietnam. The only aerial losses that occurred during the bombing of Serbia, happend when the EA-6B jets were grounded due to weather. The EA-6B, now replaced by the EA-18G, is credited for the US and NATO achieving such minimal losses during these operations. Being able to simultaneously jam the enemy early warning radar, and take out any active air defense systems with anti radiation missiles, is an essential capability. It can't be split between two platforms. The fact that only Germany and Italy have this capability in Europe is crazy. If America pulls the plug, most of Europe won't be able to take out peer enemy air defenses. Europe is basically entirely dependent on the USA for this.

New Hamas video (I think this is from the operation that killed 22 cummers)

https://twitter.com/jafra_ps/status/1749885319539798040

https://nitter.cz/jafra_ps/status/1749885319539798040

https://explain.co.za/2024/01/23/south-africa-vs-israel-at-the-icj-what-comes-next/

Rip to tanker (maybe?)

Waiting for Beto, a tragicomedy in two acts in which two liberals wait around in a Texas wasteland for the titular Beto, but he never arrives.

Did anyone know what legal argument the court gave for not ordering a ceasefire? I feel like there's a difference between "we don't have the legal mandate to order you to stop the war part of your genocidal war" and then "we're sure you're willing and able to change your genocidal war into a non-genocidal one"

We have a Updated on the Bierhall Hitler versus Bauhaus Hitler confrontation in the holed out wastes of the Imperial Core . Apperently the Bierhall Hitlers have advance up to the Gates of the Capital allready , and into the Core of the Montan Industrial Base ..

Vice governor of Rio Negro responds to Javier Milei's threats: "We could leave the government without energy". Link (Spanish Only)

Vice-governor Pedro Pesatti assured that his province must defend itself and that the President must understand that "Patagonia is the real energy engine".

In declarations to Radio 10, Pesatti assured that "Patagonia is fundamentally the true energy engine of Argentina due to the amount of energy produced here".

"We, the Patagonians, produce 90% of the energy that Argentina needs. In this game of threats, we respond as best we can", he added.

Then, he criticized the President's manners: "It seems to me that it is not possible to use threats as a methodology to govern. Who does he think he is, the one who is currently occupying the presidency? Just another citizen? He cannot say such a thing".

"Río Negro, like Patagonia, are not territories that live hanging from the national budget. On the contrary, they contribute to help Argentina find the roads it needs, every day with their effort, work and resources", explained Pesatti.

Finally, he stated that his province deserves "the utmost respect. We are not in a monarchy, we are in a republic. And in a federal republic". Milei's threat to the governors: "I am going to leave you without money, I am going to melt you all down"

On Thursday afternoon it was leaked that President Javier Milei threatened the governors who object to the Omnibus Law project. "I am going to leave them without money, I am going to melt them all", it was reported that he told his ministers in the Cabinet meeting this Thursday. The strong threat was revealed by the newspaper Clarín and responds to Milei's anger with the governors, without party distinction, who put several conditions on the Base Law, specifically on the withholding taxes issue.

During the meeting with his ministers, the President analyzed the political repercussions after achieving the majority opinion with dissenting opinions in the Lower House on the Base Law, supported the threats made by his Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo to the provincial governors and posed a complex scenario for the vote count in the Lower House.

His words are in addition to those reflected by the head of the economic portfolio who on Wednesday launched a new threat against the provinces by announcing that they will be cut if any of the economic articles of the Omnibus Law is rejected.

"Today I held a meeting with the Secretary of Finance and the Undersecretary of Provinces to outline all the provincial items that will be immediately cut if any of the economic articles is rejected", the official communicated through his X account (formerly Twitter).