Ukraine defense minister says lack of manpower is a serious problem https://elpais.com/internacional/2024-10-21/a-ucrania-le-faltan-soldados-para-frenar-a-rusia.html
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Zelensky is under constant pressure to conscript women or lower the age of conscription. The west needs more bodies to drive their old hummers into mines.
BIG BREAKING: INDIA, CHINA REACH AGREEMENT TO END BORDER CRISIS:
https://xcancel.com/MattooShashank/status/1848295216266227721
Nothing ever happens take: They are temporarily deescalating because the BRICS summit is coming.
The dialectic is ever in motion take: China is preemptively closing a potential front in preparation for a front opening in Korea.
Timing is interesting, but I also think that China has every incentive to make this lasting. I'm no expert, so please some chime in if I'm missing something, but I'll stake my bet in that China sees its own interests entirely aligned with ending that border disagreement. It only costs resources to maintain the status quo and the benefits of peace are much larger for the state and people.
According to Israel's Channel 13, a "very large" attack will soon take place against Iran, after the deployment of the THAAD missile defense system has been completed.
Preparations for the attack are underway.
Casualties are reported in the Israeli attack near Hariri hospital, where no evacuation of the population was requested.
3 dead dozens of injured
Blinken is going to be in Israel this week also, it was said before that his visiting usually preceded major actions by them which would be logical, I'm not sure if that's always the case though.
Okay I definitely better make my analysis of the leaked US spy documents before the attack takes place. It's not looking good... I hope this all ends one day
The Israeli nazi regime is pumping out fabrications that hezbollah has hidden their money in a bunker below the al-sahel hospital, so expect that hospital to be bombed in the near future
Its under a hospital
*Except Pissreal wouldn't feel sad regurgitating this billshit over and over again.
I recall seeing a tweet that goes something along the lines of "Sinwar is everything western media wants you to believe Zelensky is" and that got me thinking...
is there a term for something like reverse-projection? I dunno, like, when someone attributes all of their enemies' noble or good qualities to themselves or something.
Stolen valor
Prabowo inaugurated as Indonesia president. Seems like another far right head of state https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/20/asia/prabowo-indonesia-presidency-int-latam/index.html
DPRK flag spotted in Ukraine. Mil summary YT 10:20s
They say its just Russian trolling for now. The narrative seems like ever increasing Russian cope which I don't understand why, I admit its wierd but also I don't quite think someone right at the front(see the video geolocation) has time or reason to be bothering with internet memes, just a weird situation imo, why would you carry a DPRK flag around just in case?
To me this seems like the funniest narrative of the past year imo. Its going to be so funny to watch all these silly mil bloggers experts trying to justify the extremely obvious reasons why DPRK was willing to send some small amount of troops.
Meanwhile SK is officially taking the matter seriously South Korea summons Russian envoy to protest North Korea troop dispatch.
I can also easily see some 19 year old RF private being like "Hey mom, can you send me a DPRK flag? I'm gonna do something funny"
If westerners are allowed to openly lie and play coy about their Nazis just “trolling Russians” than turnabout is fair play. Just openly lie about DPRK troops and say it’s trolling and grin wolfishly.
Every photo of the front will inexplicably have the DPRK flag somewhere in the background.
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An Israeli soldier testifies that he has PTSD from driving over both living and dead Palestinians in his bulldozer
Archive link
It's worth pointing out the racist etymology of bulldozer.
bulldozer (n.) • "person who intimidates others by threats or violence," 1876, agent noun from bulldoze (q.v.). The sense was extended to "an engine-powered ground-clearing caterpillar tractor" in 1930.
bulldoze (v.) • by 1880, "intimidate by violence," from an earlier noun, bulldose "a severe beating or lashing" (1876), said by contemporary sources to be literally "a dose fit for a bull," a slang word referring to the intimidation beating of black voters (by either blacks or whites) in the chaotic 1876 presidential election. See bull (n.1) + dose (n.). The bull element in it seems to be connected to that in bull-whip and might be directly from that word. The meaning "use a mechanical ground-clearing caterpillar tractor" is from 1942 (see bulldozer); figurative use in this sense is by 1948.
God damn the English language is an endless etymological treasure trove of racism
Will nobody think of the poor Einsatzgruppen troops having to crush the untermensch to death 😢
No sympathy of course, but this reminds me of what some others here have said before: that even true believers in the genocidal fascist doctrine get mentally fucked up by committing war crimes like this. And something about PTSD like Vietnam vets, which might be related due to committing a bunch of horrific war crimes themselve and I'm unsure how to word right now but omething something or other.
I'm glad he's still agonizing over it, even if he feels no guilt for murdering innocent people.
I hope he burns in hell in his mind everyday for the rest of his life and then for an eternity once he has died. Which I hope occurs when he is run over my a bulldozer as slowly as possible. Only fair