"And what did they get for 15 years’ worth of work and planning?"
Killed their entire tech sector I would say. Who in their right mind would buy any electronic device made in Israel now, or from anyone with any connection to the place?
I wonder about the sanity of Muslims walking around with iPhones in their pockets seeing how the US adore Muslims. They do love iPhones, they all want to own one. I guess it will be a vulnerability for when the time comes for the US to follow the Israeli lead.
Nope. Israel didnt name their hardware. They concealed the origin. They havent lost anything of ”tech”. They are leading in spyware. Palantir? Heard of Whatsapp?, Wayze? You are forced to use a navigational device in every car and phone. Be sure they are all compromised.
I differ on this part: "you are forced to....". No you are not. In the US you can happily buy a very good used car from 2010 without any automatic navigation. We are not going to be able to mandate electric cars in this country and more and more people I talk to (who are not from California) claim they are putting more effort into fixing their older cars and/or buying older, non electronic equipped cars. In parts of the country there's huge suspicion of these electronic widgets.
As for phones, why do you need a smart googled phone? I have three phones; the Android smart phone never leaves the house and is used strictly for whatsup conversations (I disabled all the other stupid apps for which I have no use). The phone I take with me is a non-internet enabled, no google flip phone good for conversations and texts only (that's actually great because i can tell people to sdtop sending me links as I can't read them. Or photos for that matter. They have e mails. Use those if you want me to look at a photo). The third phone is secret of course. A friend is bringing me a Huawei (darn, expensive!!) with Chinese OS, no google. The Chinese are welcome to spy on me to their hearts' content.
Young people I speak to- the smart kind - have become very suspicious and cautious about electronic devices. I go to one smart ass 25 year old when I need advise .....always useful.
PS I don't need or use GPS usually. I truly enjoy finding my way using maps I check ahead of time. Perhaps if I was lost in the Andes mountains or needed to find an outlet on a creaky old highway GPS would be useful.
Glad you found your way! Agree you are not forced per se. But if you are meant to functions in this ”society” you are traceable and spied on whenever government or other states wish to.
That would seem to be the case, but wherever there are measures, counter-measures will be found and have been.
I think people, normal people, regular people, should not give up so quick. Indeed, it is within our power to rebel even against AI. We can at least preach and we can select friends and enemies alike. As consumers we do have power.
Example; I just trashed a cute little translator I bought because it said "made in taiwan". My personal choice, as an authentic human in this world, is to avoid anything made in taiwan (and indeed put some bad reviews out there when time allows). Taiwan is guilty because they were too lax. How are we ever to believe any company brand from there?
I will personally do the little I can to send Gold Apollo into premature bankruptcy. Their excuse is pathetic anyways.
As for that company in Hungary, I am still working on it. The point is buy nothing electronic unless made in China with ALL supply chains in China. Hopefully Russia can get in on the act. Me, I see major new business opportunities for smart entrepeneurs who livwe in the "right" country.
OH yes, also avoid anything from israel, whenever possible. Whatsup is Ok for talking to friends in israel and getting them all mad. I always hope someone is listening....
Zarif is a traitorous whore and I would not doubt he is a mole. I can not stand him. Pezeshkian has to go already. You can not negotiate with terrorists. Pezeshkian does not seem to understand this unless he is also a traitor and does understand.
No point going to war with Israel if it risk social unrest and collapse of the Government (and in this aspect, nobody can beat Israel and Iran, and every society will have traitor, no matter how loyalty the population is. Somebody said it only take 2% of population to cause social unrest and toppling the government (on X or somewhere on Simp previous post). I think the Ayatollah knew this when he accepted Pezeshkian presidential election victory.
I am not implying Iran should go to war. I am just talking about the well known nature of Zarif and his past actions. I could not believe he was back. Pezeshkian is either very naive or something worse. Iran has security agreements with Lebanon and Syria. You can not just condemn the murderous actions of Israel and it’s master US and leave your allies to get slaughtered.
Simp, do you think Hezbollah will escalate by attack Israelis dual use infrastructure (like Haifa port, oil and fuels depots, electrical generation capabilities)? Because as far as i can see, nobody, not even Iran will lift a finger when the time is not right, this is not Iran or Turkey War, as emphasize by many other people. National interest comes first and national interest for Iran by now is to do nothing overt. As such will this lead to the collapse of the resistance axis?
Hizbollah dont have anything to ecalate with. They are gone. As an organization they no longer function in a coherent way. Small island can stir some unrest but Israel managed to realize their long thought out plan. To eradicate Gaza and Hizbollah right before everyones eyes. West Bank is next. This enlighten the 7th October in a new way.
Nope he is right. Thier time came and went and they did not take it. Israel has been methodically hunting Hezb commanders and taking them out, the pager attack threw thier commuincations into chaos ( I know the Hezb military don't use pagers but ALL electronic devices are now suspect) so they are not able to effectively reorganise , Nas rah rah's kill'n has knocked them bad and Israel is now hammering thier posts and tak'n advantage of the chaos in Hezb's ranks. We can easly see now Hezb is riddled with informers -how else can they hit so many commanders. Hezb's bunkers are shit-the one that Nas rah ra was in was obviously thier best one and look at it now. As for having a face to face commders meeting at this time? Seems reckless ot me at least. Hezb's internal security is clearly castrated. Hezb's inabilty to hit back effectively mutes thier reason to exist. All they do is bring Israeli terror to the Lebanese peolple who should rise up and tell em to fuck off then sign a treaty like Jordan did. Iran is just playing Lebanon for it's own geostrategic advantage , paid for with Lebanses blood. Iran blinked and pissed itself after the embassy bomb'n. All it could offer was a theastrically staged show of force telegraphed and coordinated well in advance Israel saw this as the weakness it is. Time for Lebanon to cast off these fuckers. The weak suffer the stronger dominate. As much as it sucks hard , you gotta give the Israeli's credit.
You have to give the occupiers credit - they take advantage of every opportunity presented. However, don't sell Hezbollah or Iran short - their entire structures are built on the possibility of their leaders being taken out because they know the occupiers relish doing such things, so they plan accordingly. Israel is still trying desperately to get a war on so the US will be forced to enter. They know their time is short and the US is a declining empire, so it is important that that they escalate now. The Resistance is certainly not ignorant of this and is playing the long game to the occupier's ultimate disadvantage.
This is not over. Hezbollah is not destroyed. Iran remains patient. The occupier is circling the drain as its economy implodes and its hubris and overconfidence draws it close to catastrophe.
Nope. They are fucked, gotta be think'n of the kids. Iran is just using the Lebanese. If they were putt'n up a propper fight - no problems. why should the Lebs get butt fucked for Iran when Iran has not nuts. Minced up kids makes it easy.
I actually think Hezballa wants the IDF to launch a ground invasion into Southern Lebanon. They beat the IDF in 2006 when they tried to do it and they are far stronger now then they were then.
It ain't 2006, Israel ain't the Israel of 2006. 'Crazy' now seem to be a well thought out strategy-they cut Iran's balls off ( no Iran will not respond , just more words-they are scared of Israel) any land invasion of Lebanon will be preceded by some kinda ariel dropped holocaust on Lebabnon. Israel clearly has many agents in Hezb so they'll take advantage of the disorientation now rampaging through Hezb. First it's a systematci hunting of Hezb commanders and now watch as Hezb bunkers are taken out. Heb's bunkers are shit. The best one was the one that Nasrallah was in-look at it. They can not rely on thier communication systems as the pager attack shoed all electronic stuff is comprimised , so this hinder Heb's ability to reorganise effectivly. Hezb's internal security is clearly shit. So after some INSANE level of bombing , those 40 thousand US marines heading to Israel will lead the land charge. Israel has played it well. What a fucken mess.
AFTER Lebanon is turned to a bloody sandpit. Yes , 40 thou marines have been sent to supprt Israel. They planned that bunker Nasrallh was in for years......some plan'n
What do you mean "I actually think Hezballa wants the IDF to launch a ground invasion into Southern Lebanon."???
Nasrallah himself stated that several times, even just before his death. So you are just repeating his words, nothing to do with your "original thinking" 😉
It is instructive, in the most appalling of Object Lessons possible, to witness "brutal full-scale wars of aggression" side by side in Real Time & be able to determine which is indeed *brutal* and which is indeed *full-scale* & which is not.
Russia is prosecuting a war, strategic, orderly & methodical in nature.
Israel is enacting an unbridled harum-scarum 21st Century annihilation, pitiless of norms or humanity.
Russians With Attitude nailed it: one can't play 3-D chess or any chess against mentally ill, sexually-confused teenagers who have been on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors since Day One.
For them, there is no chessboard, there are no chess pieces, there are no tactics or ploy. There is only a heedless uncurbed frenzy, like an incontinence of the soul.
O, Lord our God, we ask in the spirit of love that you will shred our enemies, that you will blast their hopes, blight their entrails, drown their fields w/ tears & stain the pure white driven snow w/ the blood of their wounded children, for our sake who adore Thee, O Lord
Unfortunately, your Lord never gave a flying f*ck about his "children", he let catastrophe upon catastrophe befall onto them without ever lifting his little finger.
He must have other planets to look after that are much more important.
They'll run into a lot worse than that. They got their asses handed to them by Hezballa in 2006 when they tried to invade southern Lebanon. That place is a fortress and Hezballa is armed to the teeth and disciplined. In the 2000s North Korea sent specialist to help build deep underground interconnected defensive networks.
Everyone keeps repeating this 2006 stuff... Don't you realize: it's 20 years later? Don't underestimate the enemies either. They learned too! Never succumb to overconfidence because of past achievements...
Although, given Israels "performance" in Gaza, I think they're going to get another ass-whooping. But I doubt Hezbollah will go all the way and decapitate the rogue states heads. So we'll be with this simmering conflicts for decades to come.
Actually, the quality of the occupier's military has worsened over the years whilst Hezbollah and the rest of the Resistance have massively improved. Israel, like the US, is fuelled mainly by hubris and terrorism, now.
Hezbollah was entirely decapitated and hasn't really hit Israel seriously at all even after Israel launched a full-scale war.
This after sitting on its hands for a year waiting for God knows what, and then receiving a devastating pre-emptive strike. Because the Israelis are serious about war, unlike certain others.
Hezbollah and Iran were supposed to have the tools to destroy the Israeli air-force on the ground and to blockade Israel from the sea by destroying any ship that tries to supply it and any US plane that tries to land there.
But where are those mythical missiles and other capabilities? We have two options:
1) They didn't really exist
2) They weren't used because reasons, i.e. the "Resistance" was too scared to act because of fears of retaliation.
Well, what did that get them?
By the end of last year it should have been perfectly clear that this time it is different, i.e. the Israelis are not going to just drop some bombs and then go back to the way things were previously as they did in the past. Because the large-scale genocide in Gaza was on full display to the whole world already. Israel never did anything like it since the original Nakba. In fact this time it is worse than the Nakba, because back then they didn't have an air force.
So the rule of the game changed completely and it became one of a fight for physical survival. But the "wise" leadership of the "Resistance" apparently didn't understand that, so here we are.
Gaza is gone, and so will be Lebanon unless drastic action is taken now.
Again, why does Israel still have an airforce and why are the slow and ponderous US transport planes still allowed to land in Israel and bring in more JDAMs? When something is done to address those issues, we can talk about serious resistance; until then apparently these people have decided to just lie down and allow themselves to be slaughtered.
Then the same will happen to the Russians eventually too, who have been playing the same self-defeating game.
I don't often agree with you GM but here you have a good point.
Russia has strategic depth and massive manufacturing capacity. Going slow made sense as they needed time to bring it up to speed, and also keep allies onside for the real game which is multipolarity.
Hezbollah are being attrited by Israel and their pet the USA. The longer they wait the less they will have. Israel has made clear that they intend killing all of them, yet the oil refinery and ports and power stations are still unharmed. Madness.
Exactly GM. You, Dugin and RWA are right and see the facts as they are. Isreal have been following Nasrallah in real time for years. In fact, they have followed every single ”enemy” for years. The let 7th October happen. Even enforced it. I will never forget when the media presented news one or two days after that Isreal had issued a statement that they ”have found 1200 dead Hamas warriors”. ”Found”? They have done everything according to plan. Even the ”premature” pager-attack is disinfo. It all went according to plan. Having a senile US president AND election year is the perfect timing for Israel.
And Russia be better to realize that nothing plays along any rules. We are in a state of kill or be killed.
Exactly. Btw. I think that the crucial decapitation happened with that helicopter crash in Iran and the silent colour revolution overe there. I have a feeling that someone was advising Hezbollah to hesitate and now we see how that played out. Israel played this one perfectly. Its their durvival at stake and they do what it takes to secure their goals.
Yep. Hezb is a shit show. Hd thier chance but pussied outa it. Hezb are riddled with Israel agents, hence all those commanders get'n knocked. The pager attack put thier communications in disarry cause they gotta be careful about ALL electronic stuff now, so now leaderless, disorientated , unable to effectilvey communicate a reorganisation, internal security a joke , now Israel will methodically target those shit bunkers-the one Nasrallah was in was clearly the best they got-you don't put the boss in a shitty bunker do you? Shoulda been hitt'n the fuel terminals , especially the jet fuel terminals a year back. What a shit show.
Zelensky and Netanyahu play the role of Con artists for the Money Empire psywar against Russians and Muslims. They, and their supporters, are the biggest losers controlled by fear and ignorance of how bad living conditions are becoming; just like dumbed down Americans and their British frogs in boiling water.
>Would Russia “win” by killing Zelensky in a strike?
No, but it would win if it killed all the AFU generals and colonels and if it sealed the Polish and Romanian borders. Which Israel is doing in its wars. And Russia is not, because the Israelis are out to win while the Kremlin is run by traitors who are primarily out to protect oligarch interests
No he is not actually I think exactly like him on this matter now.
Russia should have followed up the red lines with hard facts in 2022
But Putin would rather play the slow long game and that has killed loads of Russians that could have been saved if Russia would have put down the feet in 2022
Israel is out to win, yet Israel has become a pariah state with worsening economic decline. Russia is going slowly and has emerged a stronger economic power embarking on a financial path that may collapse the western financial system. The race is between the rabbit and the hare it's not the blistering sprint that wins a marathon it is endurance, strategy, achievable objectives and goals that creates long term sustainability. The western strategy is the same as the Nazis in WW2, but after destroying the assumed entirety of the Red army they faced even more divisions. Israel has killed the face of Hezbollah's political arm preaching restraint. So let them launch a ground invasion and face the veterans hungering for blood.
Russia is not only destroying the entire Ukrainian military and its nazi regiments, at the same time minimising civilian casualties, but they are slowly depleting NATOs weapons and supplies. None of that could have been accomplished with a quick win.
Someone is willing to pay an assassin as paltry an amount as $150,000 to poke a gun barrel through shrubs in order to perform a decapitating strike on an elderly presidential candidate while he plays golf. Can you get more Judas than this--?!!?
Decapitating Strikes in the U.S. are Walmart-calibre: cheap & tawdry.
Most of the country has gone brain dead. Our time as an empire and even as a prosperous, comfortable country is coming to an end. Nothing can change that.
We don't have substantial proof, no physical body, that Nasrallah is dead (maybe its already 200ft in the ground), other than Hezbollah making a statement, so they do that for every martyr, a fool method in itself. No funerals for senior members, who were also supposedly taken out earlier. What 'IF' it is a deceptive plot to lure the israeli's into a ground invasion and decapitate them instead? Could they be that cunning?
Hizb got their asses handed to them. I can't understand how anyone can argue otherwise. The Israeli operation was a classic lightning strike - the pager op, the radio/walkie talkie op, and then the missile strikes to decapitate the leadership. Hundreds of casualties? They don't care. Meanwhile supposedly Hizb has all these shiny big missiles they are keeping in reserve or restraint. Please. This reminds me of bad movies where some scrawny kid says he has some secret ninja move but constantly gets beaten up by stronger boys because he "doesn't want to to show secret". So far - as expected, all we see are oversized fireworks exploding in fields.
And yeah, their economy is in the toilet but who cares? They have a 20 trillion dollar vassal across the ocean who has its own vassals in Europe. Israel will come out richer and with more money than when this conflict started. This is what pure power looks like, and Dugin is right; the side constantly exercising restraint and calculating everything to the nth 0.000001 percentile is the weaker side.
Re: Ukraine, the 1:3 loss ratio is lower than expected. But, removing Wagner casualties and DPR / Lugansk militias and such, I think it grows to 1:5 or 1:6 as commonly reported.
My feeling is that the lack of resistance and lack of Iranian revenge attack is conspicuous. The "preemptive" attack by Israel is only preemptive because Iran did not respond to the assassination provocations. Iran and Hizb clearly knew the next steps were on their way. So now Israel is the aggressor. Western support for Israel is now under threat, as anyone living in the UK or US will know, and the Arabs are incensed even further. The lack of reaction is profound, and can only be explained by a restraint for reasons of timing.
The degree to which the ruling elite in the U.S. & the obeisant media crowed, boasted & gloated about the decapitating strike makes obvious that they see this as legitimately part of Israel's *self-defense.*
U.S. support for Israel is *unwavering* & will remain *unwavering.*
What *unwavering* means is that there is no act Israel could commit which would cause the U.S. to turn away
Well popular opinion has changed in the West. I sometimes wonder if mass importation of foreign nationals isn't a way of drumming up pro Palestinian support. Support for Ukraine was unwavering until politics got in the way. Now it takes them a year to approve weapons aid.
Hizbollah was never a threat to Israel. They held weapons and oral threats to keep peace in Southern Lebanon. It held for almost 20 years. Their mistake was that believed in their own words. They didnt have the imagination of how evil their enemy Israel can be.
Ruthless&Evil. Creating an apartheid state and stealing land every week is nothing the ”Rule based World Order” should allow. The mistake Israels enemy are doing is to measure them according to religious beliefs. Zionism is godless.
So Ukrainians have to keep dying to safeguard the investments of Black Rock and George Soros?...I suspect that it has ever been thus, but makes me almost ashamed to be part of the human race...As for Mr. "end of history" Fukuyama, he should crawl back into his burrow and hope he isn't tried for encouraging terrorism....
>It’s no different to how US “won” the fraudulent Iraqi war by merely paying off a host of poor Iraqi generals with blood money; to them a cool million bucks is a lifetime treasure, while to the US state dept it’s pocket change.
How much would it have cost Russia to pay the Ukrainians more than the West paid them and buy them off versus how much has it cost Russia so far to wage war and how much will it cost it in the future?
Worse, Russia did in fact pay the Ukrainians countless billions in the form of subsidized gas and oil and other resources, but it did in such a way that it exercised absolutely no soft power over them in return for those subsidies. And it still got the major war in return.
To increase weapons production, the U.S. will have to revamp & expand existing factories & plants or build new ones & then attract and train a workforce in order to step up production, something that will take years.
Hey, Ukraine--stall a little bit, would'ya? We've somehow found ourselves demilitarized until late-2026
There are two sides to every story. Until now. We are not a democracy anymore.
Being first poster so what!
We haven't been a democracy for 25 years.
ahem *Jekyll Island* cough cough
It hasn't been a democracy since 1865.
The Creature From Jekyll Island; G. Edward Griffin.
A great read.
YES!!!
1913
When we play 3-D democracy, we must calculate more sides.
For 5-D democracy, add 7-13+12÷3 & toss in a bag of chips
"And what did they get for 15 years’ worth of work and planning?"
Killed their entire tech sector I would say. Who in their right mind would buy any electronic device made in Israel now, or from anyone with any connection to the place?
Not just Israel but anything made in the western axis of evil.
I wonder about the sanity of Muslims walking around with iPhones in their pockets seeing how the US adore Muslims. They do love iPhones, they all want to own one. I guess it will be a vulnerability for when the time comes for the US to follow the Israeli lead.
Related: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1299
Does anyone walk easy w/ a cellphone in the front pocket any more--?!!?
Yes because unlike westerners, most people don't use Iphone. Most people use cheap to mid end (less) smartphone here.
You should visit the middle east to test that hypothesis.
Amerikan, dumb Amerikan.
Nope. Israel didnt name their hardware. They concealed the origin. They havent lost anything of ”tech”. They are leading in spyware. Palantir? Heard of Whatsapp?, Wayze? You are forced to use a navigational device in every car and phone. Be sure they are all compromised.
I differ on this part: "you are forced to....". No you are not. In the US you can happily buy a very good used car from 2010 without any automatic navigation. We are not going to be able to mandate electric cars in this country and more and more people I talk to (who are not from California) claim they are putting more effort into fixing their older cars and/or buying older, non electronic equipped cars. In parts of the country there's huge suspicion of these electronic widgets.
As for phones, why do you need a smart googled phone? I have three phones; the Android smart phone never leaves the house and is used strictly for whatsup conversations (I disabled all the other stupid apps for which I have no use). The phone I take with me is a non-internet enabled, no google flip phone good for conversations and texts only (that's actually great because i can tell people to sdtop sending me links as I can't read them. Or photos for that matter. They have e mails. Use those if you want me to look at a photo). The third phone is secret of course. A friend is bringing me a Huawei (darn, expensive!!) with Chinese OS, no google. The Chinese are welcome to spy on me to their hearts' content.
Young people I speak to- the smart kind - have become very suspicious and cautious about electronic devices. I go to one smart ass 25 year old when I need advise .....always useful.
PS I don't need or use GPS usually. I truly enjoy finding my way using maps I check ahead of time. Perhaps if I was lost in the Andes mountains or needed to find an outlet on a creaky old highway GPS would be useful.
Maps are King. And you cant hardly find papermaps anymore…
Same here.
Glad you found your way! Agree you are not forced per se. But if you are meant to functions in this ”society” you are traceable and spied on whenever government or other states wish to.
That would seem to be the case, but wherever there are measures, counter-measures will be found and have been.
I think people, normal people, regular people, should not give up so quick. Indeed, it is within our power to rebel even against AI. We can at least preach and we can select friends and enemies alike. As consumers we do have power.
Example; I just trashed a cute little translator I bought because it said "made in taiwan". My personal choice, as an authentic human in this world, is to avoid anything made in taiwan (and indeed put some bad reviews out there when time allows). Taiwan is guilty because they were too lax. How are we ever to believe any company brand from there?
I will personally do the little I can to send Gold Apollo into premature bankruptcy. Their excuse is pathetic anyways.
As for that company in Hungary, I am still working on it. The point is buy nothing electronic unless made in China with ALL supply chains in China. Hopefully Russia can get in on the act. Me, I see major new business opportunities for smart entrepeneurs who livwe in the "right" country.
OH yes, also avoid anything from israel, whenever possible. Whatsup is Ok for talking to friends in israel and getting them all mad. I always hope someone is listening....
Zarif is a traitorous whore and I would not doubt he is a mole. I can not stand him. Pezeshkian has to go already. You can not negotiate with terrorists. Pezeshkian does not seem to understand this unless he is also a traitor and does understand.
No point going to war with Israel if it risk social unrest and collapse of the Government (and in this aspect, nobody can beat Israel and Iran, and every society will have traitor, no matter how loyalty the population is. Somebody said it only take 2% of population to cause social unrest and toppling the government (on X or somewhere on Simp previous post). I think the Ayatollah knew this when he accepted Pezeshkian presidential election victory.
I am not implying Iran should go to war. I am just talking about the well known nature of Zarif and his past actions. I could not believe he was back. Pezeshkian is either very naive or something worse. Iran has security agreements with Lebanon and Syria. You can not just condemn the murderous actions of Israel and it’s master US and leave your allies to get slaughtered.
Simp, do you think Hezbollah will escalate by attack Israelis dual use infrastructure (like Haifa port, oil and fuels depots, electrical generation capabilities)? Because as far as i can see, nobody, not even Iran will lift a finger when the time is not right, this is not Iran or Turkey War, as emphasize by many other people. National interest comes first and national interest for Iran by now is to do nothing overt. As such will this lead to the collapse of the resistance axis?
Hizbollah dont have anything to ecalate with. They are gone. As an organization they no longer function in a coherent way. Small island can stir some unrest but Israel managed to realize their long thought out plan. To eradicate Gaza and Hizbollah right before everyones eyes. West Bank is next. This enlighten the 7th October in a new way.
LOL. He's back. The Uber Doomer Troll.
Nope he is right. Thier time came and went and they did not take it. Israel has been methodically hunting Hezb commanders and taking them out, the pager attack threw thier commuincations into chaos ( I know the Hezb military don't use pagers but ALL electronic devices are now suspect) so they are not able to effectively reorganise , Nas rah rah's kill'n has knocked them bad and Israel is now hammering thier posts and tak'n advantage of the chaos in Hezb's ranks. We can easly see now Hezb is riddled with informers -how else can they hit so many commanders. Hezb's bunkers are shit-the one that Nas rah ra was in was obviously thier best one and look at it now. As for having a face to face commders meeting at this time? Seems reckless ot me at least. Hezb's internal security is clearly castrated. Hezb's inabilty to hit back effectively mutes thier reason to exist. All they do is bring Israeli terror to the Lebanese peolple who should rise up and tell em to fuck off then sign a treaty like Jordan did. Iran is just playing Lebanon for it's own geostrategic advantage , paid for with Lebanses blood. Iran blinked and pissed itself after the embassy bomb'n. All it could offer was a theastrically staged show of force telegraphed and coordinated well in advance Israel saw this as the weakness it is. Time for Lebanon to cast off these fuckers. The weak suffer the stronger dominate. As much as it sucks hard , you gotta give the Israeli's credit.
You have to give the occupiers credit - they take advantage of every opportunity presented. However, don't sell Hezbollah or Iran short - their entire structures are built on the possibility of their leaders being taken out because they know the occupiers relish doing such things, so they plan accordingly. Israel is still trying desperately to get a war on so the US will be forced to enter. They know their time is short and the US is a declining empire, so it is important that that they escalate now. The Resistance is certainly not ignorant of this and is playing the long game to the occupier's ultimate disadvantage.
This is not over. Hezbollah is not destroyed. Iran remains patient. The occupier is circling the drain as its economy implodes and its hubris and overconfidence draws it close to catastrophe.
Sign a treaty? With genocidal murderers? To be weak cunts is what you are suggesting. You are deluded.
Nope. They are fucked, gotta be think'n of the kids. Iran is just using the Lebanese. If they were putt'n up a propper fight - no problems. why should the Lebs get butt fucked for Iran when Iran has not nuts. Minced up kids makes it easy.
I actually think Hezballa wants the IDF to launch a ground invasion into Southern Lebanon. They beat the IDF in 2006 when they tried to do it and they are far stronger now then they were then.
Let's see. It sure are interesting times to live in.
It ain't 2006, Israel ain't the Israel of 2006. 'Crazy' now seem to be a well thought out strategy-they cut Iran's balls off ( no Iran will not respond , just more words-they are scared of Israel) any land invasion of Lebanon will be preceded by some kinda ariel dropped holocaust on Lebabnon. Israel clearly has many agents in Hezb so they'll take advantage of the disorientation now rampaging through Hezb. First it's a systematci hunting of Hezb commanders and now watch as Hezb bunkers are taken out. Heb's bunkers are shit. The best one was the one that Nasrallah was in-look at it. They can not rely on thier communication systems as the pager attack shoed all electronic stuff is comprimised , so this hinder Heb's ability to reorganise effectivly. Hezb's internal security is clearly shit. So after some INSANE level of bombing , those 40 thousand US marines heading to Israel will lead the land charge. Israel has played it well. What a fucken mess.
The marines? The IOF? Hezbollah is waiting for them. Hezbollah wants them on their own ground - they have been planning this for many years now.
AFTER Lebanon is turned to a bloody sandpit. Yes , 40 thou marines have been sent to supprt Israel. They planned that bunker Nasrallh was in for years......some plan'n
What do you mean "I actually think Hezballa wants the IDF to launch a ground invasion into Southern Lebanon."???
Nasrallah himself stated that several times, even just before his death. So you are just repeating his words, nothing to do with your "original thinking" 😉
It is instructive, in the most appalling of Object Lessons possible, to witness "brutal full-scale wars of aggression" side by side in Real Time & be able to determine which is indeed *brutal* and which is indeed *full-scale* & which is not.
Russia is prosecuting a war, strategic, orderly & methodical in nature.
Israel is enacting an unbridled harum-scarum 21st Century annihilation, pitiless of norms or humanity.
Russians With Attitude nailed it: one can't play 3-D chess or any chess against mentally ill, sexually-confused teenagers who have been on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors since Day One.
For them, there is no chessboard, there are no chess pieces, there are no tactics or ploy. There is only a heedless uncurbed frenzy, like an incontinence of the soul.
No , it is just the Western Way. Vietnam , Iraq, wars against the native peoples. Israel just continues a long tradition.
O, Lord our God, we ask in the spirit of love that you will shred our enemies, that you will blast their hopes, blight their entrails, drown their fields w/ tears & stain the pure white driven snow w/ the blood of their wounded children, for our sake who adore Thee, O Lord
Unfortunately, your Lord never gave a flying f*ck about his "children", he let catastrophe upon catastrophe befall onto them without ever lifting his little finger.
He must have other planets to look after that are much more important.
Let's hope Israel actually does try a land invasion and run into boobytraps and shit.
They'll run into a lot worse than that. They got their asses handed to them by Hezballa in 2006 when they tried to invade southern Lebanon. That place is a fortress and Hezballa is armed to the teeth and disciplined. In the 2000s North Korea sent specialist to help build deep underground interconnected defensive networks.
So it was NK helping out. No wonder.
Everyone keeps repeating this 2006 stuff... Don't you realize: it's 20 years later? Don't underestimate the enemies either. They learned too! Never succumb to overconfidence because of past achievements...
Although, given Israels "performance" in Gaza, I think they're going to get another ass-whooping. But I doubt Hezbollah will go all the way and decapitate the rogue states heads. So we'll be with this simmering conflicts for decades to come.
Instead of going for the decapitating strike, it may be more fitting to allow Israelis to deal w/ Bibi et al in time
Actually, the quality of the occupier's military has worsened over the years whilst Hezbollah and the rest of the Resistance have massively improved. Israel, like the US, is fuelled mainly by hubris and terrorism, now.
In order to do that, they'd better get diapers factory running 24/7 and ensure the safety of the chain supply from outside isreal. Can they?
What level of cope is this?
Hezbollah was entirely decapitated and hasn't really hit Israel seriously at all even after Israel launched a full-scale war.
This after sitting on its hands for a year waiting for God knows what, and then receiving a devastating pre-emptive strike. Because the Israelis are serious about war, unlike certain others.
Hezbollah and Iran were supposed to have the tools to destroy the Israeli air-force on the ground and to blockade Israel from the sea by destroying any ship that tries to supply it and any US plane that tries to land there.
But where are those mythical missiles and other capabilities? We have two options:
1) They didn't really exist
2) They weren't used because reasons, i.e. the "Resistance" was too scared to act because of fears of retaliation.
Well, what did that get them?
By the end of last year it should have been perfectly clear that this time it is different, i.e. the Israelis are not going to just drop some bombs and then go back to the way things were previously as they did in the past. Because the large-scale genocide in Gaza was on full display to the whole world already. Israel never did anything like it since the original Nakba. In fact this time it is worse than the Nakba, because back then they didn't have an air force.
So the rule of the game changed completely and it became one of a fight for physical survival. But the "wise" leadership of the "Resistance" apparently didn't understand that, so here we are.
Gaza is gone, and so will be Lebanon unless drastic action is taken now.
Again, why does Israel still have an airforce and why are the slow and ponderous US transport planes still allowed to land in Israel and bring in more JDAMs? When something is done to address those issues, we can talk about serious resistance; until then apparently these people have decided to just lie down and allow themselves to be slaughtered.
Then the same will happen to the Russians eventually too, who have been playing the same self-defeating game.
I don't often agree with you GM but here you have a good point.
Russia has strategic depth and massive manufacturing capacity. Going slow made sense as they needed time to bring it up to speed, and also keep allies onside for the real game which is multipolarity.
Hezbollah are being attrited by Israel and their pet the USA. The longer they wait the less they will have. Israel has made clear that they intend killing all of them, yet the oil refinery and ports and power stations are still unharmed. Madness.
Exactly GM. You, Dugin and RWA are right and see the facts as they are. Isreal have been following Nasrallah in real time for years. In fact, they have followed every single ”enemy” for years. The let 7th October happen. Even enforced it. I will never forget when the media presented news one or two days after that Isreal had issued a statement that they ”have found 1200 dead Hamas warriors”. ”Found”? They have done everything according to plan. Even the ”premature” pager-attack is disinfo. It all went according to plan. Having a senile US president AND election year is the perfect timing for Israel.
And Russia be better to realize that nothing plays along any rules. We are in a state of kill or be killed.
It'll be hard for Russia to lose. They have escalation dominance like Israel over its foes.
Russia also has more men who don't seem to mind dying so as incompetent as Putin is Ukraine runs out first.
And the C-17 unload cargo after cargo. I suggested long ago they, Iran, should take out the airfields with the cargo-planes.
Unfortunately the plain and painful truth
It's over for the Palestinians and the Lebanese
The US is in total support of the genocide including most European countries
China and Russia won't do anything for reasons hard to understand but that is the reality
Dark ages ahead in the middle east Pissrael will eternaly slaughter the Arabs
Exactly. Btw. I think that the crucial decapitation happened with that helicopter crash in Iran and the silent colour revolution overe there. I have a feeling that someone was advising Hezbollah to hesitate and now we see how that played out. Israel played this one perfectly. Its their durvival at stake and they do what it takes to secure their goals.
yeah that chopper crash made some Iranian pee thier pants, no matter what caused it.
Yep. Hezb is a shit show. Hd thier chance but pussied outa it. Hezb are riddled with Israel agents, hence all those commanders get'n knocked. The pager attack put thier communications in disarry cause they gotta be careful about ALL electronic stuff now, so now leaderless, disorientated , unable to effectilvey communicate a reorganisation, internal security a joke , now Israel will methodically target those shit bunkers-the one Nasrallah was in was clearly the best they got-you don't put the boss in a shitty bunker do you? Shoulda been hitt'n the fuel terminals , especially the jet fuel terminals a year back. What a shit show.
Zelensky and Netanyahu play the role of Con artists for the Money Empire psywar against Russians and Muslims. They, and their supporters, are the biggest losers controlled by fear and ignorance of how bad living conditions are becoming; just like dumbed down Americans and their British frogs in boiling water.
>Would Russia “win” by killing Zelensky in a strike?
No, but it would win if it killed all the AFU generals and colonels and if it sealed the Polish and Romanian borders. Which Israel is doing in its wars. And Russia is not, because the Israelis are out to win while the Kremlin is run by traitors who are primarily out to protect oligarch interests
You're completely full of shit. Russia is buttfucking nato in front of the world.
General Moron is consistent with his verbal diarrhea. He should be given a badge, or a lapel pin.
He's either a troll or thinks he might enjoy nuclear war or both.
He'd be the first to cosplay, just like that house niggah Nance.
No he is not actually I think exactly like him on this matter now.
Russia should have followed up the red lines with hard facts in 2022
But Putin would rather play the slow long game and that has killed loads of Russians that could have been saved if Russia would have put down the feet in 2022
Now we are all close to Armageddon
Ukraine is a country with a large military, not a paramilitary political party.
Israel is out to win, yet Israel has become a pariah state with worsening economic decline. Russia is going slowly and has emerged a stronger economic power embarking on a financial path that may collapse the western financial system. The race is between the rabbit and the hare it's not the blistering sprint that wins a marathon it is endurance, strategy, achievable objectives and goals that creates long term sustainability. The western strategy is the same as the Nazis in WW2, but after destroying the assumed entirety of the Red army they faced even more divisions. Israel has killed the face of Hezbollah's political arm preaching restraint. So let them launch a ground invasion and face the veterans hungering for blood.
Russia is not only destroying the entire Ukrainian military and its nazi regiments, at the same time minimising civilian casualties, but they are slowly depleting NATOs weapons and supplies. None of that could have been accomplished with a quick win.
Forget about Dugin, the shock of his daughter's assassination and senility with age, makes him utter nonsense.
I thought something similar when I read his comments. He’s really out to lunch these days.
What exactly was nonsense in what Dugin said?
General Moron, by not understanding the Dugin nonsense proves your lack of intellect beyond all doubt.
You are an ignoramus and worse, you are too thick to self reflect and recognise that truth.
Dugin is overrated, so yeah leave him alone then.
Someone is willing to pay an assassin as paltry an amount as $150,000 to poke a gun barrel through shrubs in order to perform a decapitating strike on an elderly presidential candidate while he plays golf. Can you get more Judas than this--?!!?
Decapitating Strikes in the U.S. are Walmart-calibre: cheap & tawdry.
Most of the country has gone brain dead. Our time as an empire and even as a prosperous, comfortable country is coming to an end. Nothing can change that.
The downward trajectory of hypersonic thralldom is so steep it would take an air defense system functioning @ parabolic speed to intercept it.
We don't have substantial proof, no physical body, that Nasrallah is dead (maybe its already 200ft in the ground), other than Hezbollah making a statement, so they do that for every martyr, a fool method in itself. No funerals for senior members, who were also supposedly taken out earlier. What 'IF' it is a deceptive plot to lure the israeli's into a ground invasion and decapitate them instead? Could they be that cunning?
Quote: "No funerals for senior members, who were also supposedly taken out earlier"
Every martyr whether fighter or leader is given a funeral within days. Most recently to Leader Fuad Shukr.
Quote: "What 'IF' it is a deceptive plot to lure the israeli's into a ground invasion and decapitate them instead? Could they be that cunning?"
Hezbollah doesn't lie coz they can't, it would contradict teachings of the Quran.
There were funerals. And during one another attack happened right there in the crowd.
Hizb got their asses handed to them. I can't understand how anyone can argue otherwise. The Israeli operation was a classic lightning strike - the pager op, the radio/walkie talkie op, and then the missile strikes to decapitate the leadership. Hundreds of casualties? They don't care. Meanwhile supposedly Hizb has all these shiny big missiles they are keeping in reserve or restraint. Please. This reminds me of bad movies where some scrawny kid says he has some secret ninja move but constantly gets beaten up by stronger boys because he "doesn't want to to show secret". So far - as expected, all we see are oversized fireworks exploding in fields.
And yeah, their economy is in the toilet but who cares? They have a 20 trillion dollar vassal across the ocean who has its own vassals in Europe. Israel will come out richer and with more money than when this conflict started. This is what pure power looks like, and Dugin is right; the side constantly exercising restraint and calculating everything to the nth 0.000001 percentile is the weaker side.
Re: Ukraine, the 1:3 loss ratio is lower than expected. But, removing Wagner casualties and DPR / Lugansk militias and such, I think it grows to 1:5 or 1:6 as commonly reported.
My feeling is that the lack of resistance and lack of Iranian revenge attack is conspicuous. The "preemptive" attack by Israel is only preemptive because Iran did not respond to the assassination provocations. Iran and Hizb clearly knew the next steps were on their way. So now Israel is the aggressor. Western support for Israel is now under threat, as anyone living in the UK or US will know, and the Arabs are incensed even further. The lack of reaction is profound, and can only be explained by a restraint for reasons of timing.
The degree to which the ruling elite in the U.S. & the obeisant media crowed, boasted & gloated about the decapitating strike makes obvious that they see this as legitimately part of Israel's *self-defense.*
U.S. support for Israel is *unwavering* & will remain *unwavering.*
What *unwavering* means is that there is no act Israel could commit which would cause the U.S. to turn away
Well popular opinion has changed in the West. I sometimes wonder if mass importation of foreign nationals isn't a way of drumming up pro Palestinian support. Support for Ukraine was unwavering until politics got in the way. Now it takes them a year to approve weapons aid.
Hizbollah was never a threat to Israel. They held weapons and oral threats to keep peace in Southern Lebanon. It held for almost 20 years. Their mistake was that believed in their own words. They didnt have the imagination of how evil their enemy Israel can be.
The Israelis are ruthless. But I don't consider that a criticism, tbh, if I put myself in their shoes.
Ruthless&Evil. Creating an apartheid state and stealing land every week is nothing the ”Rule based World Order” should allow. The mistake Israels enemy are doing is to measure them according to religious beliefs. Zionism is godless.
So Ukrainians have to keep dying to safeguard the investments of Black Rock and George Soros?...I suspect that it has ever been thus, but makes me almost ashamed to be part of the human race...As for Mr. "end of history" Fukuyama, he should crawl back into his burrow and hope he isn't tried for encouraging terrorism....
It was ghastly to read F-ck-your-mama. Pure evil.
>It’s no different to how US “won” the fraudulent Iraqi war by merely paying off a host of poor Iraqi generals with blood money; to them a cool million bucks is a lifetime treasure, while to the US state dept it’s pocket change.
How much would it have cost Russia to pay the Ukrainians more than the West paid them and buy them off versus how much has it cost Russia so far to wage war and how much will it cost it in the future?
Worse, Russia did in fact pay the Ukrainians countless billions in the form of subsidized gas and oil and other resources, but it did in such a way that it exercised absolutely no soft power over them in return for those subsidies. And it still got the major war in return.
to be fair, NATO is rapidly becoming demilitarized at precisely the same time it is too broke to re-arm, so there's that
To increase weapons production, the U.S. will have to revamp & expand existing factories & plants or build new ones & then attract and train a workforce in order to step up production, something that will take years.
Hey, Ukraine--stall a little bit, would'ya? We've somehow found ourselves demilitarized until late-2026