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Someone in the PNW burnt a ballot box cw: link

edit: guess they got a few

https://apnews.com/article/vote-ballot-drop-box-democracy-fire-f66c52f774955106fb9e7c8172825cff

Some videos from Gaza, Kursk, and the DPRK.

Palestinian resistance forces released recent combat footage showing IED strikes destroying two more Merkava tanks, plus RPG strikes on other armored vehicles (all in northern Gaza): https://southfront.press/israeli-army-continues-to-bleed-in-gaza-videos-2/

A Russian Lancet strike destroyed another Kiev regime self-propelled howitzer in Kursk oblast: https://lostarmour.info/media/videos/news/25382.mp4

Yesterday’s Hwasong-19 ICBM test launch in the DPRK (the missile has a range of 15,000+ kilometers): https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/dprktest:1

There's a report that Trump wants the war/genocide over by January or before inauguration? Does anyone have the report?

If France attempted to attack Algeria, who would they attempt to set up as puppet rulers? There will be consequences for Western Sahara being thrown under the bus.

Another ballot drop-off arson attack has occurred (I believe this is the third), this time in Vancouver, WA.

https://www.katu.com/news/local/vancouver-ballot-box-seen-smoking-same-morning-as-portland-ballot-box-arson

Where are our Moldova election watchers?

So what I'm getting from the latest elections (clarify if i missed anything) is that

• Georgia's generic regional post-soviet center-right big tent party kept its majority but also was possibly pulling nixon shit but also going up against an opposition that desperately wants to pull another color revolution with a little cia moolah, too much of a mess for me to sort out
• LDP got fucked as we all know, afaik it'll be succeeded by a coalition between the half-dozen center-left parties and center-right libertarian Osakans
• Bulgaria elected basically the exact same parliament as last time, the bitter rivalries the three identical center-right parties and their justified reluctance to team up with the four fascist parties means they're gonna have to do this again in a few months, one must imagine sisyphus happy etc
• Despite the loss of their most hitlerite faction, the lithuanian succdems are able to keep their coalition with two(?!) agrarian conservative succdem parties
• Demsocs seem likely to win the Uruguayan presidency but we've gotta wait another month for the second round
• Uzbekistan had elections too but all the parties were on good enough terms with their own generic regional post-soviet center-right big tent party for no one to care

The day the U.S. sends a black transman into the UNSC is the day they'll crack the earth

English article from Fereshteh Sadeghi on the US-israeli attack on Iran last week.

The Iranian army later in the day announced the death of at least four officers, including a colonel, killed during Israeli air raids in Khuzestan. An informed source speaking to The Cradle on condition of anonymity reveals that the number of Iranian casualties is higher than what is officially being reported.

Details about the Israeli air raids or the extent of the harm to the Iranian military are unclear and patchy at best. Both sides have a vested interest in controlling the narrative: Tel Aviv to project power and deterrence, and Tehran to maintain an image of resilience and minimize perceived vulnerabilities.

Israel says it deployed over 100 F-35 fighter jets to conduct the offensive. However, an Iranian conservative lawmaker on Saturday morning claimed that the strikes in Tehran were actually carried out by small drones or quadcopters.

Hamid Rasaei wrote on his Telegram channel that “the Zionist regime’s agents in Tehran were involved in those attacks and Iranian anti-aircraft guns fired at those microdrones.”

The narrative in the west of the country was different. Images of an Israeli missile’s booster falling in Iraq’s Salahuddin province suggest Israel used the Golden Horizon Air launched Ballistic Missile to hit Iranian radars in the western belt of the country.

The use of Iraqi airspace by Israel was confirmed by the Khatam Al-Anbiya Air Defense Base. It has blamed the US military for allowing Israel to fire air-launched ballistic missiles into Iranian territory from 100 kilometers deep inside the Iraqi soil. No such permission had been granted from Iraqi authorities.

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Although the official Iranian media have downplayed the extent and strength of the Israeli strikes, University of Tehran academic and political analyst Mohammad Marandi tells The Cradle that “it was a big operation on the side of Israel and actually a considerable one, as Israelis did harm Iranian radar and defense systems.”

Fouad Izadi points to a stellar performance by Iran's air defense systems, in which “Iran was basically able to minimize the effect of this aggression” by Israel.

Marandi, who served as a consultant for the Iranian negotiating team at the last round of Vienna nuclear talks, agrees with the assessment that Iran’s air defenses performed well: “Iranians had conducted security and intelligence operations ahead of the strikes and succeeded in limiting the extent of damage by dummies and decoys as well as spreading misinformation about sensitive sites.”

As he tells The Cradle, the damage inflicted on Iranian military sites was not grave because “the possibility of a direct confrontation with the United States convinced Iranians many years ago to relocate almost all sensitive sites and strategic production facilities underground. Neither warplanes nor missiles are able to penetrate into those underground facilities.”

“What remains on the ground are small workshops producing missile spare parts and they are scattered across the country, but not near borders, that’s why the strike failed to leave a significant harm,” Marandi adds.