Re: Main news thread - conflicts, terrorism, crisis from around the globe

[Zambeezi]

Defeat On The Border | Russian Deep Strike On A Chopper Base


https://rumble.com/v4j2hgn-the-bloom-defeat-on-the-border-russian-deep-strike-on-a-chopper-base.-milit.html?mref=331eul&mc=atat4

[Zambeezi]

kraine’s Manpower Crisis: No Amount of Money or Aid Can Solve It

[Zambeezi]

Yemen successfully conducted a test of a hypersonic missile, a military source close to the Ansar Allah movement told RIA Novosti.

According to him, Yemen intends to start manufacturing such missiles for use during attacks in the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, and the Gulf of Aden, as well as against targets in Israel.
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/104265

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U.S. SECRETLY NEGOTIATING WITH IRAN OVER HOUTHI ATTACKS
as Western aggression fails to stop Houthis from supporting Gaza, U.S. opens backdoor communication with Iran to "to convince Tehran to use its influence over Yemen’s Houthi movement to end attacks on ships in Red Sea."
https://t.me/IntelRepublic/34842
https://t.me/IntelRepublic/34896?single
https://t.me/IntelRepublic/33071

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Houthi fight extracts heavy cost from Pentagon | The Hill
https://archive.is/r8rCR
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4501958-houthi-fight-pentagon-cost/
More than two months of direct fighting with the Houthis has heavily taxed the U.S. military, which is spending a significant amount of money to take down cheap drones,

[Böhse Tante]

https://t.me/garlandnixon/645

YouTubers Getting Crushed By Massive Copyright Violation Scams

https://garlandrnixon.substack.com/p/youtubers-getting-crushed-by-massive?utm_campaign=post&triedRedirect=true

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[Zambeezi]

[KneelB4Zod!]

https://t.co/CJnH2LdgdD pic.twitter.com/iajP1rdF9w

— Black Diamond (@blackdiammon) March 13, 2024

[KneelB4Zod!]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1768014603123130636

[Zambeezi]

► Young Teen Palestinian reflecting on the loss of her home...precious ordinary moments


https://rumble.com/v4j4tw6--young-teen-palestinian-reflecting-on-the-loss-of-her-home...precious-ordin.html?mref=331eul&mc=atat4

[Zambeezi]

► Rybar Review of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on March 12-13, 2024


https://rumble.com/v4j5jh2--rybar-review-of-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-on-march-12-13-2024.html?mref=331eul&mc=atat4

[Zambeezi]

► SouthFront | Gaza Fire Spreads From Lebanon To Yemen | March 14 2024


https://rumble.com/v4j5kk8--southfront-gaza-fire-spreads-from-lebanon-to-yemen-march-14-2024.html?mref=331eul&mc=atat4

[Qui]

Who Is REALLY behind the TikTok ban? ()

TikTok has 103 million monthly active users in the US.

More than 1/3 (37.36%) of mobile internet users actively engage with TikTok.

Half of TikTok’s US users are between the age of 10 and 29, with teens making up the bulk of the user base.

Over 50% of content creators are between 18 and 24 years old.

From October 23-30, 2023, posts with the # ‘standwithPalestine’ were posted 10x more than posts with the # ‘standwithIsrael’.

Posts with the # ‘standwithPalestine’ also received 5x as many views.

When TikTok was accused of deliberately pushing Pro-Palestinian content, they denied the claim and made it clear that the algorithm pushes whatever people engage with.

Jonathan Greenblatt, the director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which is an extremely powerful Jewish-Zionist organization that has often targeted free speech, was very worried by this.

Seeing Gen Z in the US overwhelmingly support Palestine in the face of Israeli aggression, TERRIFIED him.

Is it such a coincidence that today the ‘TikTok Ban Bill’ passes after MONTHS of congress pushing for it so heavily?

They are demanding that the Chinese company ‘ByteDance’ sell the platform if the app wants to remain in the US.

With the ADL being so entangled with this decision, I would imagine they’d want to manipulate the algorithm to push Pro-Israeli content while halting Pro-Palestinian content.

The Chinese lobby isn’t a lobby Americans should be worried about, it’s the Zionist one.

Because the Zionist lobby has been altering US domestic and foreign policy for over half a century.

Nothing to do with privacy or national security Zuckerberg wants control of the internet and what can or cannot go on it and the American intelligence spy network is behind him the anti Israel thing I believe is a red herring

It’s funny how every Israel supporter on my feed wants TikTok banned. Without fail they’re the only ones who care at all.

Goofy groupthink

— ayden (@squatsons) March 14, 2024

Some "people" hate the truth, they call it antisemitism

[Mr Badger]

0815 UTC

Alexander Kots writes (https://t.me/sashakots):

Belgorod border region. Right now, new attacks

From a direct participant:

"The reeling attacks continue. At the moment we are repelling an attack on the Spodariushino border post. The enemy is 50 meters away, throwing grenades at us. Tanks, BMP "Bradley" are being pulled up, aviation and MLRS are working.

At the settlement Kozinki - opposite Velikaya Pisarevka - from there are trying to break through with armored vehicles.

The situation is tense. But our guys are fighting like tigers. They are both units of the mobile action department "Hunzakh", and storms, and the Ministry of Defense. Repelling of the attack is underway, at the moment - small arms combat."

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/91423

US doing what it does best.

I remember back in 2005, my cab driver to work in Leeds one morning was an ex-Mujahideen fighter. We had a good chat. He was still very bitter and angry with the US. He said something like: "They gave us weapons and made all these promises..."

[Mr Badger]

0937 UTC

Ukrainian DRGs do not give up attempts to enter the territory of the region, Russian border guards did not allow them to do this, said the governor of the Kursk region.

Meanwhile, a missile threat has been declared in Belgorod, the city mayor's office reported.

Residents of Belgorod report a loud explosion in the city center near the station

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/91430

Just thinking that all this kicked off around the same time that Nuland left her post.

[Mr Badger]

The UKMTO reports that a ship has been attacked  in the Gulf of Aden, 50 nautical miles southeast of Aden, Yemen.

https://t.me/PalestineResist/32416

[Zambeezi]

President Duda vs PM Tusk
Polish government clashes with president over recall of 50 ambassadors
https://archive.is/wip/rkN6Z
https://notesfrompoland.com/2024/03/14/polish-government-clashes-with-president-over-recall-of-50-ambassadors/
Under Poland’s constitution, foreign policy is the responsibility of the government. However, the constitution also stipulates that ambassadors are appointed and dismissed by the president.
Therefore, any such decisions would have to be approved by Duda, who is aligned with the former ruling PiS party and has regularly clashed with the new government.
The clash marks the latest conflict between the president and the ruling coalition that replaced PiS in power in December. It came just one day after Duda and Prime Minister Donald Tusk had put on a display of unity by jointly visiting the White House to meet Joe Biden.
FM chief Radosław Sikorski, had “decided to end the mission of over 50 ambassadors”. That represents more than half of all of Poland’s ambassadors.

[Zambeezi]

tank incursion into Russia thwarted


https://rumble.com/v4j6cnh-new-video-as-ukrainian-tank-incursion-into-russia-thwarted.html?mref=331eul&mc=atat4

[Zambeezi]

Kiev's agents caught trying to poison humanitarian aid for Donbass


https://rumble.com/v4j6fku-kievs-agents-caught-trying-to-poison-humanitarian-aid-for-donbass.html?mref=331eul&mc=atat4

[Zambeezi]

Ukrainians Continue To Try To Break Through The Border


https://rumble.com/v4j6525-the-ukrainians-continue-to-try-to-break-through-the-border.-military-summar.html?mref=331eul&mc=atat4

[Zambeezi]

something stinks about this 'report'. i call bs.
Report claims Yemen’s Houthis have a hypersonic missile, possibly raising stakes in Red Sea crisis
https://archive.is/NPoUU
https://apnews.com/article/yemen-houthi-hypersonic-missile-red-sea-e2bc170ff4470712f314fbb80bf24716

[Zambeezi]

Mahmoud Abu Elheija is a 37 year old Palestinian from Jenin, a father of 4 girls and a 1.5 year old boy . He was shot and killed for no reason yesterday by the Israeli army in the emergency room of Jenin hospital. pic.twitter.com/BLiYjxCEXA

— Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti (@MustafaBarghou1) March 14, 2024

[Zambeezi]

this exchange perfectly captures the totally deranged hysterical propaganda campaign being waged against TikTok by the US media and political class and the Zionist propaganda complex pic.twitter.com/vqOHxN03zp

— (@zei_squirrel) March 13, 2024

[Zambeezi]

Scott Ritter
@RealScottRitter
Scott Ritter: Putin’s message is warmongers will ‘get more than they asked for’ in fight with Russia
those “looking for a contrite Russia, a weak Russia, a compliant Russia” won’t find it in “the Russia that Vladimir Putin was presenting to the world in his interview,”
“Instead, what he's saying is that Russia's not looking for a fight, but if somebody wants to bring the fight to Russia, they'll get more than what they asked for. And if the world is looking for peace with Russia, it'll be done on terms that are acceptable to Russia,”

[Qui]

This is an exceedingly rare and fascinating article in French magazine Marianne, who got access to "several confidential defense reports" from the French army on the situation in Ukraine: https://marianne.net/monde/europe/guerre-en-ukraine-endurance-russe-echec-de-la-contre-offensive-ce-que-cache-le-virage-de-macron

The situation looks exceedingly bleak for Ukraine, which might in part explain Macron's recent declarations around sending troops to Ukraine. I translated the important parts of the article:

"A Ukrainian military victory now seems impossible"
The reports Marianne consulted write that Ukraine's counter-offensive "gradually bogged down in mud and blood and did not result in any strategic gain" and that its planning, conceived by Kiev and Western general staffs, turned out to be "disastrous": "Planners thought that once the first Russian defense lines were breached, the entire front would collapse [...] These fundamental preliminary phases were conducted without considering the moral forces of the enemy in defense: that is, the will of the Russian soldier to hold onto the terrain".

The reports also highlight "the inadequacy of the training of Ukrainian soldiers and officers": due to a lack of officers and a significant number of veterans, these "Year II soldiers" from Ukraine - often trained for "no more than three weeks" - were launched into an assault on a Russian fortification line that proved impregnable.

Without any air support, with disparate Western equipment that was less efficient than the old Soviet material ("obsolete, easy to maintain, and capable of being used in degraded mode", the report mentions), the Ukrainian troops had no hope of breaking through. Add to this the "Russian super-dominance in the field of electronic jamming penalizing, on the Ukrainian side, the use of drones and command systems".

"The Russian army is today the 'tactical and technical' reference for thinking and implementing the defensive mode," writes the report. Not only does Moscow have heavy engineering equipment that allowed it to construct defensive works ("almost total absence of this material on the Ukrainian side, and the impossibility for Westerners to supply it quickly") but the 1,200 km front, known as the Sourokovine line (after a Russian general), has been mined to a huge extent.

The reports also highlight that contrary to Ukraine "the Russians have managed their reserve troops well, to ensure operational endurance." According to this document, Moscow reinforces its units before they are completely worn out, mixes recruits with experienced troops, ensures regular rest periods in the rear... and "always had a coherent reserve force to manage unforeseen events." This is far from the widespread idea in the West of a Russian army sending its troops to the slaughter without counting...

"To date, the Ukrainian general staff does not have a critical mass of land forces capable of inter-arms maneuver at the corps level capable of challenging their Russian counterparts to break through its defensive line," concludes this confidential defense report, according to which "the gravest error of analysis and judgment would be to continue to seek exclusively military solutions to stop the hostilities". A French officer summarizes: "It is clear, given the forces present, that Ukraine cannot win this war militarily."

"The conflict entered a critical phase in December"
"The combativeness of Ukrainian soldiers is deeply affected," mentions a forward-looking report for the year 2024. "Zelensky would need 35,000 men per month, he's not recruiting half of that, while Putin draws from a pool of 30,000 volunteers per month," observes a military officer returned from Kiev. In terms of equipment, the balance is just as unbalanced: the failed offensive of 2023 "tactically destroyed" half of Kiev's 12 combat brigades.

Since then, Western aid has never been so low. It is therefore clear that no Ukrainian offensive can be launched this year. "The West can supply 3D printers to manufacture drones or loitering munitions, but can never print men," notes this report. "Given the situation, it may have been decided to strengthen the Ukrainian army, not with fighters, but with support forces, in the rear, allowing Ukrainian soldiers to be freed up for the front," admits a senior officer, confirming a "ramp-up" of Western military personnel in civilian clothes. "Besides the Americans, who allowed the New York Times to visit a CIA camp, there are quite a few Britons," slips a military officer, who does not deny the presence of French special forces, notably combat swimmers for training missions...

"The risk of a Russian breakthrough is real"
On February 17, Kiev had to abandon the city of Avdiivka, in the northern suburbs of Donetsk, which had until then been a fortified stronghold. "It was both the heart and symbol of Ukrainian resistance in the Russian-speaking Donbass," highlights a report on the "battle of Avdiivka," drawing a series of damning lessons. "The Russians changed their modus operandi by compartmentalizing the city, and especially by using gliding bombs on a large scale for the first time," notes this document. When a 155mm artillery shell carries 7 kg of explosive, the gliding bomb delivers between 200 and 700 kg and can thus pierce concrete structures more than 2 m thick. A hell for Ukrainian defenses, which lost more than 1,000 men per day. Furthermore, the Russians use sound suppressors on light infantry weapons to foil acoustic detection systems on the ground.

"The decision to retreat by the Ukrainian armed forces was a surprise," notes this last report, highlighting "its suddenness and lack of preparation," fearing that this choice was "more endured than decided by the Ukrainian command," suggesting a possible onset of "disarray."

"The Ukrainian armed forces have tactically shown that they do not possess the human and material capabilities [...] to hold a sector of the front that is subjected to the assailant's effort," continues the document. "The Ukrainian failure in Avdiivka shows that, despite the emergency deployment of an 'elite' brigade – the 3rd Azov Air Assault Brigade –, Kiev is not capable of locally restoring a sector of the front that collapses," alerts this last report.

What the Russians will do with this tactical success remains to be seen. Will they continue in the current mode of "nibbling and slowly shaking" the entire front line, or will they seek to "break through in depth"? "The terrain behind Avdiivka allows it," signals this recent document, also warning that Western sources tend to "underestimate" the Russians, themselves adept at the practice of "Maskirovka," "appearing weak when strong." According to this analysis, after two years of war, Russian forces have thus shown their ability to "develop operational endurance" that allows them to wage "a slow and long-intensity war based on the continuous attrition of the Ukrainian army."

This is an exceedingly rare and fascinating article in French magazine Marianne, who got access to "several confidential defense reports" from the French army on the situation in Ukraine: https://t.co/awu9xCEISP

The situation looks exceedingly bleak for Ukraine, which might in…

— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) March 12, 2024

[Qui]

Ted Cruz wants TikTok gone because it spreads "anti-Israel propaganda"

We know who is really behind the campaign to ban TikTok

It's not about China, they want it replaced with ADL controlled platforms like Meta and YouTube where they can censor anti-Zionism pic.twitter.com/lBNvn4ZfMZ

— Keith Woods (@KeithWoodsYT) March 13, 2024

[Zambeezi]

A complete coastal strip inhabited by more than 2.3 million people was destroyed by Israel in plain sight and with the support of the white Western world, which claims to be civilized.
Genocide by all means, Genocide by all definitions. #GazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/bSawzgjQs9

— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) March 13, 2024

Make sure to visit the Tel Aviv district of Jaffa, home to a mass grave of Palestinians slaughtered by the apartheid Israeli regime's forces in 1948. (https://t.co/nI0TVZ2ys1) Heck, yoou might even be at the beach where another Palestinian mass grave exists.… https://t.co/LLFMp72hsD

— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) March 13, 2024

[Zambeezi]

One of the most popular tracks on YouTube among Jewish Israeli youth is this cringeworthy genocidal rap anthem

Unlike a typical Grayzone livestream, YouTube has not suppressed or demonetized this Zionist call for mass extermination https://t.co/NzskKJTtNw

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) March 13, 2024

[Qui]

Jewish Federations of North America praised the US House of Representatives for overwhelmingly passing a bill on Wednesday that would give TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the US assets of the short-video app, or face a ban.

According to a statement from JFNA, research shows a spike in antisemitism on TikTok more than any other social network.

TikTok has helped fuel a horrific spike in antisemitism, JFNA President and CEO Eric Fingerhut said in the statement, and Wednesday's vote showed bipartisan support ensuring TikTok cannot push hateful messages.

https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-791814

[Zambeezi]

Don’t fall for #TikTok ban madness.

40 years ago, US politicians were literally hammering Toshiba boombox, as America was gripped with anti-Japan hysteria.

It’s all about maintaining technological hegemony, which underpins geopolitical hegemony.#China #CCP pic.twitter.com/ehrxMJnqWh

— S.L. Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) March 13, 2024

"This legislation, if signed into law, WILL lead to a ban of TikTok in the United States".

Meaning they will not sell. Good! Never bow down to bullies, never yield to extortion, which is what this is. https://t.co/AavbDWdbRM

— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) March 14, 2024

https://rumble.com/v4j2r0l-the-us-is-terrified-that-china-is-making-inroads-blogger-and-political-anal.html?mref=331eul&mc=atat4

[Zambeezi]

“Where have we thrown our humanity? Why this hypocrisy?”

During a joint press conference on 11 March, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim criticised Western countries for their stance on Israel’s war on Gaza, after his German counterpart, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, emphasised… pic.twitter.com/QtExvg5mcV

— TRT World (@trtworld) March 14, 2024

[Qui]

We want Congress to tell TikTok that their time is up. We’re done with the lies the platform spreads about the Jewish people and Israel. Take action now! https://t.co/4IXoKMziiu #TimesUpTikTok pic.twitter.com/6vOcwkcQNt

— The Jewish Federations of North America (@jfederations) March 13, 2024