If I'm running a dysfunctional threatened African or Asian state now, what would the point of being allied to China or Russia? Iran is probably the 3rd most valuable state in the anti-Western camp after China and Russia, and now they're actively suffering in a existential war and the Russians and the Chinese are just allowing Iran to get ran over while having phone conversations with Netanyahu about mutual trade. They let Syria fall while Russia was too busy elsewhere, they didn't lift a finger to help Armenia, and now they're just watching Iran fight alone. They're probably the shittiest military allies you can have, there's literally 0% chance that they pull off something like Desert Storm to help you out. Russia helped out in Syria, but they're basically too busy with their own stuff, but China's anti-interventionist stance is actively harmful right now.

Beautiful scenes from Tel Aviv

Ukraine update from a sicko that still reads daily map updates:

3/4 of the big Russian winter battles have been wrapped up. Velika Novosilka, Kurakhove and Toretsk are now done, with Chasov Yar probably wrapping up before the end of this month. Well what's next? The big spring/summer battle will probably be the Pokrovsk-Myrnograd urban agglomeration, which seems to be heading towards the classic Russian maneuver of advancing towards the flanks, then making a quick dash to a village close to the last supply line of the city, putting the city into a semi-encirclement before starting to squeeze out Ukrainian units from the city by entering it before the encirclement really closes.

Other interesting developments are happening in the Oskol front near Kupiansk and the western sector of the Pokrovsk advancement. Russia has achieved a quite remarkable breakthrough on the Oskol front, establishing a good bridgehead on the western bank of the Oskol River, and now advancing fairly quickly due to the dire state of the AFU on that front. Another bridgehead was established closer to the Russian border a few days ago, and there are reports that there's a quite significant Russian grouping on the Belgorod-Kharkov border that might dash to Velkyi Burluk against barely armed Ukrainian border guards very soon.

The western sector of the Pokrovsk front is just 3 km from the borders of Dnipro Oblast. Crossing an imaginary border on a map is not really a major accomplishment, but it is still a bit symbolic and it would be the first time since the start of the war that Russia has a meaningful presence in Dnipro, after driving through a few times during the chaos of the first two weeks of the war. The way I see it, the war is not a decisive victory without at least a small presence in Dnipro, so entering that Oblast is at least a moral victory.

Israeli tanks have officially crossed the border of the demilitarised zone between the occupied Syrian Golan and Quneitra. Fuck Israel for not even letting people have one hour of fucking calm and good mood.

مَتَىٰ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ أَلَا إِنَّ نَصْرَ اللَّهِ قَرِيبٌ

“When does victory from Allah (come)?” Verily, victory from Allah is surely near.

The new failed Trump assassin is obviously another freak as usual, but I low-key respect him for his unwavering dedication for his dumbass causes. We need this energy on the left. This guy was spamming Zelensky on twitter for any chance to help, he actually went to fucking Ukraine in some dumbass belief that he could somehow help out, he hated Trump so much that he was actually ready to kill him. It's hard to not respect a true ideologue in these days, when most libs fold at any true pressure. Good for him honestly, he truly did his best along the whole journey and almost died like a true martyr and could've gone to liberal heaven. The guy who tried this in July was just a massive loser, this new guy has some very respectable dedication all the way. It's a shame that he's not a leftist.

I watched all the political shows possible before the 2018 election, because her dad is one of those old newspaper dudes who loves arguing about an obscure Arabist party that died out in 1967 or something. So I remember a much younger me sitting with him one day and I was almost an expert on Muqtada Al Sadr's alliance with the communists and the rebranding of the Supreme Islamic Council to Al Hikma. I kept rambling on about seat totals and possible government formations, after a few mins he looked at me and basically said "how do you know this you Lebanese freak", which confirmed that he respected me.

One week without Suriyakmaps and life has never felt this empty, I need to know which wheat field Russians have taken or I'm going crazy

Don't tell my wife this Hexbros, but I need name suggestions for my soon to be released son. We're both Arab for context. She wants to name him something cool and hip like Rayyan, but I want to give him a powerful name like Fahad (leopard) or Hassan (Nasrallah reference), or maybe even Qassam (no I won't do this)

I love how broken the mobile layout gets whenever I post my cuck n chad ranking, the mobile layout is the real cuck

mr zaluzhny your fired sir

Have been neck deep in personal stuff recently and honestly forgot a bit about this beautiful website. I'll catch up a bit with news and hopefully post a little Cuck n Chad ranking update inshallah. Avdiivka seems kinda toast, basically a bigger Soledar, another long ass city with a weird industrial thing and important tunnels.

Moving to Iraq to experience a real democratic nation where a man can wear an Abu Obeida headband at work at the business factory

Lebanese WhatsApp and Telegram groups telling people to chill now, saying that it was a media drill from Hezbollah and that only 2-3 smaller drones were actually sent, the other news was fake to incite a response from the Israelis