The US says the timing of the strikes was unrelated to the transfer of the remains of the troops killed in Jordan, which took place just hours earlier.

Rather, the weather determined the timing, the Pentagon says.

"This was designed around the weather," director of operations for the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, Douglas Sims, told reporters.

"Good weather presented itself today, and as a result this took place."

Multiple military aircraft were involved, including long-range B-1 bombers that were dispatched from the US.

"The beauty of the American bomber is we can strike anywhere in the world at a time of our choosing," Mr Sims said.

can we kill america already please thanks

Good video by BadEmpenada about false claims of anti-Semitism by Zionists. But that's stuff we're probably most all familiar with. So even better is this article he cites as one of his sources. Powerful shit:

• Jewish settlers stole my house. It’s not my fault they’re Jewish.

Mondoweiss: U.S. admits it hasn’t verified Israel’s UNRWA claims, media ignores it

I think the article is right that the U.S. and Israel and the West would like to deny generations of Palestinians of refugee status, of course:

Many on the pro-Israel and Israeli right and center believe doing away with UNRWA would essentially allow Israel to do away with Palestinian refugees because they believe UNRWA is the only thing maintaining that generational definition.

But I think a more urgent point is that denying Palestinians aid right in this moment is a way to advance the genocide. There's a reason the acute attack on UNRWA came on the fucking day the ICJ made its ruling.

Hilariously, though, it says Israel may be trying to reverse the U.S. de-funding of UNRWA because such abrupt starvation of people might tend to cause the global population to force an end to the military component of the genocide:

The Israeli official made clear what the Netanyahu government’s reasoning was. “If UNRWA ceases operating on the ground, this could cause a humanitarian catastrophe that would force Israel to halt its fighting against Hamas. This would not be in Israel’s interest and it would not be in the interest of Israel’s allies either.”

Like, not so fast, U.S.: WE want to genocide these people; no stealing our thunder!!!

But nothing is as familiar to Joe Biden as the own-goal. By suspending the aid to UNRWA, he now has to take positive action to restore it, which will leave him even more vulnerable to bipartisan attack.

response presumably tonight

Denmark Fast-tracks Military Expansion Amidst Growing Regional Instability

THE WEST'S DESCENT INTO FASCISM - In a move that is threatening the fragile stability of the Baltic region, the Danish regime is planning to increase the pace of its aggressive military buildup. Just last summer the nearly-unanimous parliament of the American satellite state rubberstamped the succdem-led right-wing regime's plans of a decade of rearmament at an unprecedented scale.

However, recent geopolitical developments have seemingly ignited a fresh wave of anxiety within the regime's inner circles. The increasing inevitability of a NATO defeat in the Ukraine war and the military-industrial capacity of Russia outperforming that of the American bloc is exacerbating existing fears of vulnerability in the Copenhagen regime, prompting hasty revisions to it's military spending plans.

As a result, upcoming negotiations between the regime and it's rubber-stamp parliament on military policy will most likely lead to a hasty expedition of the regime's militaristic agenda, allocating funds at an accelerated pace to hasten the buildup of its armed forces. This abrupt escalation in military expenditure comes at a significant cost to the nation's populace, who are grappling with the harsh realities of rising inflation and deteriorating public services as the regime starves essential social services to fund it's militaristic agenda.

The regime refuses to divulge details on the rearmament plans to the public but reports done by the nation's Liberal Party-controlled ministry of defense suggests that F-35 attack aircraft, ground or sea-based air defences, naval anti-submarine capabilities and satellite capabilities will be included in the extravagant spending spree.

There appears to be a semblance of public support for the accelerated military buildup but dissenting voices seems conspicuously absent from public discourse that is dominated by government media touting the necessity and urgency of militarisation. The authenticity of public support for the building remains unverified by independent sources.

the drone was allowed to fly into the US base' airspace because they thought it was an American drone. What if there's someone redpilled in the ranks and this is their modern day fragging

Very interesting interview of President Traoré (Burkina Faso for the unaware). Some interesting bits that stood out to me:

• He once again basically accuses the west of allowing terrorist groups to run wild in the AES, and on top of that actively hindered their efforts to build up their own military. It honestly seems like he might have been implying that they're the direct agents of the west at one point lol, or at least that's what the talk of the "sleeper cells" activating and his wording around it made me think that.

• He emphasized more than once that the AES can be entirely self sufficient in the (near?) future, and they are currently doing lots of experimenting on that front (i assume meaning to increase crop yields in particular). He uses this to kinda just brush aside the concerns of the AES leaving ECOWAS, he honestly barely spent anytime elaborating on them lol.

• He glazed up Russia quite a bit in this interview, really emphasizing that they give access to any weapons they ask for, and will even commit to sending troops to help Burkina Faso if asked, although he vehemently denied they were currently in the country. He also mentioned that Iran and China also give access to their entire market of weapons. He also made sure to shit on the west again here lol.

• I havent read (or at least dont remember) anything about this, but apparently there was concerns that they had given entire mines to Russia? He denied that, although he did say something about giving them a liscense that they have to pay a tax on? idk the english seemed kinda unclear there to me.

• another thing that seemed like a potential breakdown of the english was how the government intends to pay for all this, especially the weapons. I couldnt tell if he was being evasive or the translation was just bad lol. Part of it was him saying that the previous government was extremely corrupt and inefficient (which is also a part of the whole self sufficiency angle he's going for, they have almost everything they need to be self sufficient, they just need to utilize it). There's something about saving ~800 million US$ in subsidies in 2023 alone, although once again the english seemed unclear to me and I'm not sure if he's saying that they've made sure the subsidies arent just being pocketed and are actually being efficiently used, or if this is him bragging about austerity, or some other 3rd thing.

• he addresses the coup situations in a kinda funny, kind of sad way: he basically says he's not gonna get got by sticking to friendship like Sankara did, which is definitely a good thing, I mean we've already seen several coup attempts against him already, but also just makes me sad thinking about how good of a person Sankara genuinely was.

Overall, pretty hopeful interview. Also, makes sense since he has risen to be a very powerful person at such a young age, but he is a quite charismatic person. Nothing obviously marxist that I noticed, but I do think they're definitely taking a very materialist view of the world, he really hammered down that every decision they're making is only made after careful analysis, and I havent really seen anything to contradict that (although I haven't been looking at news from the Sahel all that much so i could have easily missed stufff...). One last thing to leave off on is that he also mentioned his desire to "awaken the people". He framed it in a nationalistic, patriotic way, but a quote someone posted in here a day or 2 ago popped in my head while watching the interview. “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living," and in Burkina Faso the shadow of Sankara looms heavier than anyone, and I honestly wonder even if Traoré doesnt become a communist like I've hoped he might, by raising this patriotism in burkina faso, it might also raise their class consciousness just because of Sankara's legacy.

Yemen's Ansar Allah Movement Attacks USS Gravely Destroyer

Houthis will also continue to prevent Israeli commercial vessels or ships bound for Israel from transiting the Red Sea.

On Wednesday, Yemen's Ansar Allah Movement (Houthi) attacked a U.S. warship in the Red Sea with missiles.

"In support of Palestinians in Gaza, and response to the aggression on our country, we fired several missiles at the USS Gravely destroyer," Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said.

"We confirm that all U.S. and British warships in the Red and Arabian Sea participating in the aggression against our country are within the target bank of our forces and will be targeted within the legitimate right to defend our country and people."

Sarea also warned that the Ansar Allah Movement will continue to prevent Israeli commercial vessels or ships bound for Israel from transiting the Red Sea until "the aggression against Gaza ceases and the siege is lifted."

Earlier on Wednesday, however, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said that its navy forces had shot down an anti-ship cruise missile fired by the Houthis toward the Red Sea.

The missile was shot down by USS Gravely, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, and no injuries or damage were reported, it added.

On Monday, the Houthi group claimed responsibility for attacking a U.S. warship in the Gulf of Aden with a ballistic missile, a day after it claimed another missile attack against a British oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden that set the tanker on fire for several hours.

Millennium Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/31/politics/us-warship-close-call-houthi-missile/index.html

A cruise missile launched by the Houthis into the Red Sea on Tuesday night came within a mile of a US destroyer before it was shot down, four US officials told CNN, the closest a Houthi attack has come to a US warship.

In the past, these missiles have been intercepted by US destroyers in the area at a range of eight miles or more, the officials said. But the USS Gravely had to use its Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) for the first time since the US began intercepting the Houthi missiles late last year, which ultimately succeeded in downing the missile, officials said.

The CIWS, an automated machine gun designed for close-range intercepts, is one of the final defensive lines the ship has to shoot down an incoming missile when other layers of defense have failed to intercept it.

The Houthis got within seconds of destroying a US warship and managed to get a cruise missile to evade all other lines of defence and interceptor missiles, except for the CIWS. That is not good news for the US. Their airstrikes have failed to limit the Houthi's ability to carry out attacks on both cargo and US military ships, and the US only has so many interceptor missiles left, and missile defence with CIWS is too close to rely on. The Houthis will successfully strike a US warship if the current status quo continues. (It will not continue indefinitely obviously, as soon as the US retaliates. But then again, previous US airstrikes have failed to stop the Houthis or hinder their capabilities. )

The Houthis have continued to launch missiles and drones at vessels in the Red Sea, however, and on Wednesday morning were preparing to launch a surface-to-air missile that posed a risk to US aircraft operating in the region, according to US Central Command.

In a statement, CENTCOM said US forces successfully destroyed the missile before it launched.

Again, US Navy and Air Force Suppression of Enemy Air Defence (SEAD) operations are top notch. This kind of thing should worry Iran. The US airforce successfully baited the Yemeni air defence systems targeting radar to turn on, jammed it and destroyed it. A lot of people joke about that one US strike in which only one plane and one missile was fired at a radar site in Yemen earlier, but if it's at a control centre or early warning radar, it shows the capabilities there.

So in essence we have an asymmetric situation where Iran and various other military groups have the capabilities to strike US ships and ground assets if need be, but the US has the ability to suppress their air defence and launch airstrikes. What happens next, nobody knows.

interesting (and really long) article I came across covering Ukrainian nazis and CIA fuckery (archived)

While researching the topic of CIA links with post-soviet Ukrainian secret services and rightwing nationalists, I came upon the short book Hitler’s Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War, which relies almost exclusively on declassified CIA and US military documents. It can be read online here. While there is plenty of fascinating material in the book about the post-war careers of high-ranking German Nazis in both the anti-western Arab world (where their murky careers were often cut short by the local Mukhabarat) and West Germany (where they had fruitful careers helping in the struggle against communism), I will be focusing on the last chapter, ‘Collaborators: Allied Intelligence and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists’.

some highlights:

God damn. This fucking YouTube "journalist"...he went so far beyond the usual token "I condemn Hamas". He spent a quarter of the fucking video going "TERRORIST Hamas" and "steals humanitarian aid" and "the ATROCITIES!!!!" and even when he says some of the Israeli claims are "dubious at best" he uncritically repeats shit like "as Hamas fighters went DOOR TO DOOR KILLING EVERYONE"" blah, blah, blah (not to mention the Biden apologia). This shit just isn't worth the rest of the video where he talks about repression of pro-Palestine protests and the self-flagellating Zionism of Germany, IMO.

IDK Hexbear. Should I restore it in /r/BreadTube, or am I correct in assessing that the damage these do to the already "dubious at best" audience there isn't worth it?

• thread: /r/BreadTubet thread
• Direct YouTube link: video

EDIT: What I wrote when removing the post, for anyone who doesn't want to go to the fasci-snoo site:

Pre-emptive Zionist propaganda used to mollify anyone who might be upset over criticisms of Israeli genocide...you can shove that right up your ass, OP/content creator. Removed.

Anyone have a link to that research comparing Bandera's approval rating in Ukraine and how it compared/changed from before 2014, to after 2014 ,and just before the war started? I remember seeing it just after the the Ukrainian war started and just being shocked at how blatant it was with Bandera's approval skyrocketing post 2014.

Maybe it should be on the dunk tank I dunno but should they ask #HBO do you condemn Hamas too?

Rybar Russia lost another boat, a coordinated sea drone attack with support from US intelligence. While nothing can be done about US assistance even Rybar already put their hands in the air basicaly saying its hopeless given the current leadership.

lol

President Andrzej Duda reiterated this position during an interview on YouTube channel Kanal Zero late on Friday. However, when asked if he believed Ukraine would really be able to retake Crimea, he said, "It is hard for me to answer that question".

"I don't know if (Ukraine) will regain Crimea, but I believe it will regain Donetsk and Luhansk," he said.

He said the Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized in 2014, eight years before launching its full-scale invasion, "is a special place... also for historical reasons. Because in fact, if we look historically, it was in Russia's hands for most of the time."

CW: Blood, Partial nudity, Torture, Satanic IOF Cruelty

What happens if Ansar Allah decides to launch like 10 Shahed drones at the same time / in the same tight window at a US military boat ?

Genuinely asking, these interceptor mechanisms must have an incoming throughput limit, right ?

Also and not to mention, IIRC some of those interceptor missiles cost a million+ bucks a piece. They can't have an unlimited number of them onboard.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68171280

US approves plan to strike Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq, officials say

Lol EU's solution to the widespread farmers protests is reducing imports from Ukraine and reducing environmental regulations

The King's New Green Clothes

Following a seemingly bloodless transition of power from the aging queen Margrethe to her son and hand-picked successor Frederik, the Danish monarchy and government-controlled media has embarked on a campaign to brand the new king as a "climate king".

In a manifesto published mere days after rising to power, the king talked about wanting to use his position to further the green transition. He repeated that message recently in a speech given in Warsaw while travelling with a Danish business delegation.

Politicians from the radlib and otherwise traditionally republican Social Liberal Party as well as from the green radlib Alternative party has urged the newly-minted monarch to incorporate standards of green sustainability into a revamped scheme for the "purveyor to the royal Danish court" predicate that is given to businesses that are considered established and respectable. The predicate, which has previously been granted based purely on vibes, was put on hold shortly before the transition of power and all existing grants were recalled.

The monarchy seems to understand the utility of attaching royals to progressive causes as a way of constructing a widespread cult of personality, like they did when then crown princess Mary was appointed protector of the 2021 World Pride event in Copenhagen. Associating themselves with climate issues or the LGBT community might earn them some ire from fringe reactionary circles but it serves to make the monarchy seem relevant and relatable to a much wider group of people than those who are swayed by traditional monarchist appeals to authority, tradition and hierarchy.

How deeply felt these progressive sentiments really are remains unclear. The royals, keeping their tradition of maintaining an "apolitical" public image, are certainly not calling for the kind of sweeping social changes that would be required to stop climate change and bring about climate justice. It remains uncontroversial milquetoast liberalism and even that is seemingly superficial. Six months before becoming king, Frederik attended a climate conference in the city of Aalborg. Not only did he chose to fly there rather than suffer the four hour drive (or train ride) from Copenhagen, being too fancy of a lad to take a taxi from the airport he had an empty limo driven all the way from Copenhagen and back, just to ferry him between the event and the airport. While at the event a journalist caught him off-guard and asked him a softball question about what measures the monarchy are taking to reduce their personal carbon footprints, sending the future king into a desperate incoherent mumbling about "hybrid" solutions that made him look more like a student being caught at not having done his homework than a climate-conscious champion of green transition.

@Evilphd666@hexbear.net

I'm replying to your comment here because I can't see your original comment from my instance.

I feel that the state of queer rights is actually getting worse and that Singapore as a whole is getting more reactionary. The stuff below are what got me to this conclusion.

Al-jazeera headline: US senate grills tech executives

Me:

IOF has confirmed it is pumping seawater into Gaza tunnels. (English articles are available on ynet and Haaretz)

Carl Weathers, the actor whose credits include Rocky and Predator, has died at 76. His family released a statement through his agent to announce that he died “peacefully in his sleep” on 1 February. “Carl was an exceptional human being who lived an extraordinary life,” the statement continued.

⚡️Al-Qassam (Hamas) published a video showing its forces target IOF militants vehicles & sniping a Zionist officer in the Tal Al-Hawa and Sheikh Radwan neighborhoods, west of Gaza City.

What a beautiful sniper shot directly in the officer’s neck 🔻

https://twitter.com/AryJeay/status/1753105974347596193

I think there is a need for a new term to describe war-genocide. When war is waged with not only the intent to destroy the military completely, but destroy all people of the enemy. Like the amerikkkans in native lands they stole, japan, korea, and vietnam, or the germans in eastern europe, or the japanese in china, and now the zionists in gaza.

Israeli warplanes bombed a kindergarten where displaced people were sheltering east of Rafah at dawn on Sunday, the Wafa news agency is reporting. Several people, including two girls, were killed in the attack, and dozens of others were injured, Wafa reports, citing medical sources. As Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reported earlier, Israeli attacks on the Al-Salam neighbourhood, east of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, have been intensifying as concern grows Israel will expand its ground invasion to Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinians are sheltering in overcrowded conditions. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/4/israels-war-on-gaza-live-us-says-yemen-strikes-send-message-to-houthis?update=2676854