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North Korean Koksan M1989 170mm calibre Self Propelled Gun (SPG) on the frontlines of the Ukraine-Russia war in a camouflaged position, presumably in Kursk. Video here. These SPGs were seen earlier late last year on trains within Russia itself, once on it's own, and another time accompanied by a delivery of North Korean ballistic missiles.

Interesting note about this SPG. The actual gun is said to be based off of 17cm WW2 era Soviet naval guns or German guns, or a domestic North Korean design combining technology both both countries. The chassis is based off of the Soviet ATS tracked tractor chassis, which uses the same engine as the T-55 tank. Range is reported around 40km for normal shells and 60km for rocket assisted shells. This is likely why Russia would want to use these, their long range is rare on the battlefield and useful for counter battery operations, pushing Ukrainian artillery futher backwards in Kursk. Another fact: the reported DPRK name for this SPG literally translates to "Juche Cannon".

In more news about North Korea in the war, Zelensky decided to publish a propaganda interview with an alleged North Korean POW. Video here. While Ukrainian propaganda continues to get more unhinged, it does appear that the POW has a distinct accent (when compared to presumably the South Korean interpreter) and is just saying whatever the interpreter and Ukraine says he must say, meaning that the answers have no value, as with almost all POW videos. I don't speak Korean, so I have no idea or opinion on the accent or the dialect, if it's North Korean or South Korean, other than it sounds distinct/thick. Any possible Korean users with any opinion?

Milei Update: Argentinian cars with paper license plates are seen driving around Brazil and Paraguay.

New Argentinian vehicles have been 'registered' in this way due to a lack of material to manufacture the metal plates. And what may seem like an irregularity is actually the reality of the Argentine country which, due to a lack of raw material to manufacture the metal item, has been issuing license plates with unusual material on a temporary basis.

The authorization for cars from Argentina to circulate in Brazil and Paraguay with paper plates dates back to December 2024, and came about after the Brazilian and Paraguayan Foreign Affairs Ministries decided to issue the plates.

According to the Argentine press, the lack of materials is the result of one of the measures taken by Argentine President Javier Millei to cut costs, which has led to changes at the Mint. Without maintenance, the equipment has become incapable of manufacturing the items. In addition, the press claims that there has been an increase in demand for the manufacture of the item, which is also aggravated by the difficulty of exporting the raw material, a problem Argentina has faced for some years.

A day after Trump spoke of the 'Gulf of America', Mexico's president defends calling the US 'Mexican America'.

Claudia Sheinbaum's ironic suggestion was a rejoinder to Trump, who suggested renaming the Gulf of Mexico the 'Gulf of America' during a press conference on Tuesday (7). The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, suggested on Wednesday (8) that the United States should be renamed “Mexican America”. Her comment was a rejoinder to President-elect Donald Trump's talk of renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America”, referring to the USA.

“Obviously the Gulf of Mexico is recognized by the United Nations. But why don't we call [the United States] 'Mexican America'? Nice name, right? Let's call it that, then,” said Sheinbaum, pointing to a map showing Mexico with territories that currently belong to the US, and with the US appearing in green under the name ‘Mexican America’.

Trump defended the name change of the Gulf of Mexico, the largest in the world, during a press conference on Tuesday (7), less than two weeks before returning to the US presidency. Trump also made other inflammatory statements, such as not ruling out the use of military force to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal, in addition to the intention to fix Canada's economic strangulation.

To explain the suggestion, made ironically, Sheinbaum cited a Constitution of Apatzingán, promulgated in 1814, but which was never broken. The text proposes the creation of a State throughout the territory of North America, which covers Mexico, the USA and Canada. The Mexican president also said that Trump is living in the past.

you know, of all the elements I thought would get LA in the end, I'd have presumed earth and then maybe water before fire.

Gunman in ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy attack fatally shot by North Carolina police

Any libs in the DC area trying to do something funny?

This is your problem now, Jack!
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/01/08/biden-administration-will-not-revoke-hts-terror-designation/

US officials told the Post that the decision about the terrorist designation will now be up to the Trump administration. They said HTS must show that it has really broken from al-Qaeda for the designation to be lifted, though HTS’s history did not stop the US from supporting the HTS takeover of Syria.

Anyone have the dumbed down legalese for how the government banning TikTok is not a flagrant violation of freeze peach

Haven’t used tik tok in awhile, but like, huh?

Wish the free speech absolutists would always be this silent!

https://i.redd.it/gml6qmnh3lbe1.jpeg

Egypt is literally doing the who must go meme

I'm actually a bit surprised Qassam doesn't use drones too much against the genocidal entity. We have seen a bunch of those on Oct 7th and a few afterwards, which includes that famous shot of a drone dropping a small grenade on a gathering of iof soldiers. Tbh I expected to see more of that, and perhaps even FPV drones which would disable enemy armour.

Huh, perhaps they couldnt get ahold of a significant number of drones due to the blockade and the limited number they have are used to plan for ambushes or observation, who knows. Also FPV drones are a novelty too, but the ones that drop explosives aren't. It's a shame because they could inflict a fuckton of casualties on the colonizers.

As (COTW) Canada starts with the ability to Farm tundra tiles , you first rush Animal Husbandary to unlook camps, then rush Temple of Artemis to get the amanities in you Tundra capital , as you nearly always have a camp. then its mostly empie building (dont forget to get the Kremlin) until you unlook the Mounties , Mounties are extremly Op ,they have 2 charges to create a National Park ( so worth 3000 Faith per unit basiclly) and Tundra tiles often have high appeal . So you can Bomb National Parks accross you Nation to get ridiculus amounts of Amenities. All While you advance with you Eco Fascist Horse Lord Mounties ,founding National Parks in the Pillaged Conquered Lands to keep the new citizens in Line.

Its a very strong Nation , with the Downsite of it beeing Canada. So you dont actually want to lead it to glory.

The UK's "Chancellor of the Exchequer" Rachel Reeves is currently in China for the 11th China-UK Economic and Financial Dialogue:

Chinese VP meets with UK chancellor of exchequer; China-UK Economic and Financial Dialogue convenes after a six-year hiatus - Global Times
Reeves defends China visit and hails £600m boost to UK - BBC
UK seeks to to rekindle 'pragmatic' economic China ties - DW
How to trigger Trump: Britain’s cozy China trip risks America’s anger - Politico

The Iranian capital has not been relocated and will not be relocated. Tehran remains the capital.

Pezeshkian's government spokeswoman said that they are examining plans to move the capital more towards the Persian Gulf coast so that transporting raw materials to / from the capital would be less resource-demanding, but there is absolutely no basis for this and it will never happen.

It costs too much money, and it is not logistically feasible either. It would take massive amounts of resources and decades to complete. For a country like Iran, already under sanctions & with a weak economy, this is simply impossible. Former President Rouhani proposed it, Ahmadinejad also thought about it, but it is a dumb idea and neither the parliament nor the Supreme Leader will accept it. It won't even pass the examination stage.

A native of Tajikistan, accused of terrorism in his homeland, received a high post in the new Syrian army

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Source is Radio Freedom but it does appear to check out, they link the Tajik Central Bank site listing sanctioned individuals

https://rus.ozodi.org/a/urozhenets-tadzhikistana-obvinyaemyy-v-terrorizme-poluchil-vysokiy-post-v-novoy-siriyskoy-armii-/33264599.html