According to Kalibrated_Maps, Vuhledar is pretty much completely captured, Toretsk is completely under siege, but not much change in Kursk

https://archive.is/3TTMV

This might've been here already so I apologise if it has.

‘$16 Trillion By 2030’—BlackRock Is Quietly Backing A Radical New U.S. Dollar Rival Amid A Bitcoin And Crypto Price Boom

Myanmar People's Defense Forces ambush a Burmese Police vehicle and kill two officers in Minnaykone, Mandalay

I don't know what to make of all the factions in this particular civil war but this is an interesting video.

https://tankie.tube/w/tPZGqbKMPaBHrvsnoRZ2ae

West Bank rocket hit

https://files.catbox.moe/yb061h.mp4

https://files.catbox.moe/qfly1z.MP4

Israeli settler hiding behind his car as Hezbollah’s rocket impact near a highway close to Haifa

Other news from switzerland

There were two iniatives people voted on:

Biodiversity:

Yes 37.0% vs 63.0% No

Biodiversity has gone down over the last decade a ton so the state already has some new measures but according to the ones who proposed this initiative it wasn't going far enough and they wanted some additional laws and to double the budget for protecting Biodiversity. Why was it reject this much? The No camp campaigned on two major pillars, food insecurity and energy insecurity, No basically said that a ton of farms would have to close and switzerland would have to rely on foreign food imports even more and energy companies said that it'd have made new energy installations, even renewables, very hard to build. I'm personally not surprised by the outcome the proposal wasn't very well written although I agree with the general points.

Pension Reforms:

Yes 32.9% vs 67.1% No

Honestly this is kind of all over the news with media mocking the FDP (market liberals) and GLP (green market liberals) today. So for the past 2 years the FDP has been trying to box through pension reforms aka work longer for less money this third one is the largest no their initiatives have gotten and it's fun seeing the NO grow larger and larger, huge L for neoliberals big W for left and unions who told them to fuck off and try again, also double L for neoliberals because a few months earlier people voted for a 13th pension payment and against their 'raise the retirement age' so now the SP and unions are thinking about actually reforming pensions aka making them better not worse. Also huge not a single canton (basically states) voted yes and the only places that even voted more yes than no are municipalities that are famous for having a ton of rich people even being called the 'Goldcoast'

In addition to being bad at projecting power in the Arctic and bad at fighting Yemen the Danish military is also bad at managing money.

Despite having received their greatest budget ever this year and despite the regime pushing for aggressive head-over-heels military buildup, they have now run out of money and have cancelled live fire drills, participation in exercises and restricted recruitment. The Danish navy is effectively incapacitated with no frigates being operational at the moment.

The reason for this is the practice of "over-budgeting" where military bureaucrats would plan more activities than they had budget for. The reasoning behind this practice is that they expected not being able to carry out all planned activities due to exercises being cancelled and people quitting. And rather than not using their entire budget and having to hand the surplus back, they would rather plan extra expenses to be sure they spend their entire budget.

Politicians are mad and despite initially sticking to neoliberal orthodoxy and ruling out extra funding, the regime has now made statements about being open to give the military extraordinary funding to close some of the gaps.

The Danish military has lost the ability to learn from Ukraine

The Danish military currently lacks the capacity to systematically follow and learn from the war in Ukraine. This is according to a major from the military's development and planning staff, as stated in a September 26th article by DR (Danish state media). The piece, which also seems to serve as a promotional platform for drones, highlights a gap in the military’s ability to adapt lessons from the conflict.

No specific personnel have been assigned to gather insights from the war and apply them to the Danish armed forces. The major expresses the concern bluntly: "If we aren’t evolving, we’ll fall behind when the day comes that we’re the ones who have to stop Russia somewhere."

An analyst from the Danish Defense Academy adds that while many in the military are following the war closely, they do so in their free time without any coordinated institutional effort.

The major attributes this failure to manpower shortages, with other tasks taking priority. He also points out that the military’s development wing was gutted by politicians in the 2018-2023 defense agreement, and rebuilding that capability will take years.

An example is given, courtesy of Danish drone manufacturers. They have amassed substantial practical experience and made lots of money by supplying drone equipment to Ukraine. Despite this, the Danish army has yet to buy any of these drones for itself, causing the Danish military to be behind on modern warfare as well as Danish drone manufacturers to be unhappy.

On september 23rd Danish government broadcaster DR reported the results of a poll showing that less than half of the population have confidence that politicians are able to make sound decisions before sending Danish soldiers to war. A majority agreed that the Danish military should be tasked with defending the territory of Denmark as well as that of fellow NATO protectorates. This is a much less bellicose stance than what the media and politicians would normally have you believe.

The poll comes together with two retired generals making criticisms of the way Denmark has taken part in foreign imperialist adventures over the past few decades. Former chief of staff Jesper Helsøe is predicting that the people and the politicians will "think it very well through" another time before going to war again and brigadier general Ole Kværnø has made this comment:

We have been at war for 30 years, we have had 30,000 soldiers deployed. We have used military force and done violence to people we wanted to convince that our values were superior to any other set of values

While the public and military leaders are unable to see the benefits of imperialist adventures, Troels Lund Poulsen, head of the Liberal Party-controlled ministry of defense, dismisses the war fatigue. He points to how the Ukraine war made a majority of Danish voters support the abolition of Denmark's national abstention from EU's common war policy, stating that it shows how events "can luckily influence the individual Dane about what is sensible to do".

He goes on to admit that "errors " were made regarding the practical execution of the war but makes no mention of how imperial projects like the unprovoked full-scale invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan were fundamentally criminal endeavours.