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they are “happy with the treatment of people in Aleppo” by HTS

there are already counterfactuals to this, if you have the stomach for them - the sick fucks are reportedly posting execution videos

of course the baying Dogs of Moloch are happy

happens to the best of us mate

so we’re locked in for WW3 then?

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ahahahahah what the fuck

this started and ended before I woke up lmao

lmao is that the actual picture they’re using?

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/43117

‘Ukrainian Trained, Turkish Sponsored Syrian Rebels Lead Assault on Aleppo’

Today 09:20 Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in Gaza: “Israel” has killed 120 people in the past 24 hours

feels like the modern version of that old truism - take the radio stations first thing and declare victory, control perception, demoralise your opponent into laying down arms

Lula pls

[DJ Khaled voice] another one

yeah, fair, more just noting that the summary provided wasn’t fully reflective of the wording. Didn’t really help with my own imprecision lol

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/full-text-ceasefire-agreement-lebanon-and-israel

Full text of the ceasefire agreement. MEE’s blurb at the top is inaccurate - the only mention of a 60-day period in the document applies to IDF withdrawal from Lebanon, not Hezbollah fighters

bien sûr

It is very hard not to be a doomer about it.

yeah, I’m feeling that a lot. Trying not to give myself over to it just yet, there’s still a lot that’s unclear. Hug someone you love, I’ll do the same.

from Al Mayadeen (breaking news feed):

Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades: The ceasefire between the two fronts of the struggle in Lebanon and the Zionist entity would not have been possible were it not for the steadfastness of Hezbollah fighters.

The US enemy is the entity’s partner in all its crimes and must pay the price for that sooner or later.

One side of the Axis of Resistance taking a break will not affect the unity of the battlefields, rather new parties will join in to boost the arena of the sacred struggle.

We will not abandon our people in Gaza, no matter how great the sacrifices, regardless of the enemies’ threats, their treachery, and their criminality.

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trying to decide on a paint color and change the aesthetic

surely brat green

Infowars

yeah, I feel you comrade. sitting at a safe distance (in the west no less!) boasting someone else’s fighting prowess and spilled blood feels a bit crook, to say the least. we can’t really know. I stand on the assessment with the limited tools and information available, but I’ve been wrong about so much. Hezbollah are certainly projecting strength.

Israel finally eking out some territory isn’t surprising, it’s surprising that it took them so long - when the ground invasion started, a lot of e-ink was spilled exhorting people not to despair when Israel made large and rapid territorial gains. My (uninformed) read is that doing those massive controlled demolitions of border villages are allowing them to now advance a bit further. I’d also be more skeptical of numbers in an asymmetric warfare situation, Russia-Ukraine is two standing armies along a line of contact which presumably makes it easier to count and assess these things. My understanding is that the Israelis are having trouble engaging Hezbollah in a significant way, I don’t think the attrition rate or morale situation are comparable. 60 Merkavas in less than 2 months.

Hezbollah have fighting and fall-back positions layered 10s and 10s of km from the border, and then there are the mountains. They have been preparing for this for 20 years - to hear them tell it, they have more volunteers than they have capacity to train and equip. Every US-Israeli bomb makes as many fighters as it does martyrs.