Hezbollah statement here: https://t.me/PalestineResist/54342

🚨🟡🟢 BREAKING - Hezbollah: — 2 In His Name, the Almighty

25-8-2024

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful "Indeed, we will take revenge upon the criminals."

First, by the grace of Allah Almighty, the first phase has been completed with complete success. This phase involved targeting zionist barracks and sites to facilitate the passage of attack drones towards their intended targets deep within the entity. By the grace of Allah, the drones crossed as planned.

Second, the number of Katyusha rockets fired so far has exceeded 320 towards enemy sites.

Third, the sites that have been successfully targeted and hit by the grace of Allah are:

1. "Meron" Base
2. "Neveh Ziv" Artillery Position
3. "Zaatoun" Base
4. "Zaoura" Artillery Positions
5. "Sahel" Base
6. "Keila" Barracks in the occupied Syrian Golan
7. "UAV" Barracks in the occupied Syrian Golan
8. "Nafah" Base in the occupied Syrian Golan
9. "Yardena" Base in the occupied Syrian Golan
10. "Ein Zeitim" Base
11. "Ramot Naftali" Barracks

Fourth, further details about the military operation will be provided in subsequent statements.

"And victory is only from Allah, the Mighty, the Wise."

Islamic Resistance

Gotta love to see the US failing to learn from its failed policies.

The United States has seen an epic factory boom, from early 2021 through 2022, which tripled construction spending for manufacturing facilities. Most of these factories are devoted to the electrification of our transportation networks, and to semiconductors. Further, the objective is to build these technologies domestically and thereby wrest control of these supply and production chains from China.

But all that manufacturing will require huge production of batteries, which in turn require graphite. China has monopolies on most of the refined and synthetic graphite that is used for such batteries, and in late 2023 announced strict export curbs on the metal. Graphite exports immediately collapsed over 90%, leaving North America and Europe scrambling for new sources.

The earliest domestic (US) production of new graphite will be in 2027, and in a best-case scenario will be about a fourth of anticipated US demand.

These realities leave China in a most advantageous position: they can either continue the graphite bans and produce all the batteries for the global market themselves, or use their monopolistic position in graphite to negotiate sharp reductions in tariff rates for other Chinese exports.

Even AP has been overtaken by Russian bots...

The US has been looking more and more like a snarling, wet chihuahua.

As always, direct action gets the goods.

It's almost as if they're more interested in scoring propaganda points than actual analysis.

Now they won't be able to shoot themselves in the foot...

China bad because China good? Got it.

Monopoly capitalism really can't help itself... it's death can't come fast enough.

I haven't read the whole thing quite yet, but this looks good. It concludes:

The Lao PDR, as a developing nation, still has a long road ahead in its pursuit of socialism. However, by pursuing socialism without entering a period of full capitalism, building the socialist-oriented New Economic Mechanism, and continuing the development of economic reforms on the basis of Marxism-Leninism, the Lao PDR, with the LPRP at the helm, has accomplished more in the past five decades than would have seemed possible in 1975.

Link to Foreign Policy article: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/26/russia-oil-price-cap-sanctions-evasion-ukraine-war-shipping-tankers-us-eu-g7-india-china/