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Today Russia announced that it will create a large defensive buffer zone to protect Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk, the Crimea, Zaporozhye, Kherson and the Donbass from NATO artillery fire: https://sputnikglobe.com/20250522/why-russia-wants-buffer-zone-along-ukraine-border-1122113142.html

Plus, a little combat footage.

A Russian Iskander-M missile strike destroyed a US-built “Patriot” SAM system (including its AN/MPQ-65 radar, the command/control cabin, and two launchers), near Ordzhonikidze (in Dnepropetrovsk oblast): https://www.rt.com/russia/618005-russian-iskander-destroys-ukrainian-patriot/

A DPRK self-propelled howitzer in action on the Kursk front: https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/9849289.html

Russian airborne troops captured and inspected an enemy trench (18+ footage, the Kiev regime military suffered many losses here): https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,--%F0%9F%94%9EParatroopers-forest-belt,-trench-littered-with-corpses%F0%9F%94%9E:1

That Citations Needed news brief with that NPR interview made my skin crawl. Holy shit.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yg5qggvwjo they distilled hubris into one note

Trump bans foreign students from enrolling at Harvard. Current students must transfer or be deported.

How come Israel can shoot at diplomats, but when someone shoots Israeli diplomats it's suddenly a big deal?

Two ballistic missiles launched from Yemen towards Israel over the past 24 hours. A Rezvan/Zulfiqar ballistic missile last night, intercepted by Arrow 3, with debris seen flying over Israel. The second missile was a Fattah-1 during the day, with parts of it intercepted by the David's Sling system. A piece of the booster stage was found in Israel. Booster stages still have the inertia from the initial launch, so they can travel in space and often land somewhere near the target.

Fattah-1 booster stage:

David's Sling interceptor:

Zulfiqar/Rezvan debris on video:

Statements from the Yemeni Armed Forces:

Update to the naming conventions:

• Unnamed Hypersonic Ballistic Missile = Fattah-1
• Palestine-2 = Fattah-1/Kheibar-Shekan hybrid variant.
• Palestine-1 = Kheibar Shekan-2.
• Hatem-2 = Kheibar Shekan-1.
• Zulfiqar = Rezvan (initially thought it was a Qassem variant, but that was incorrect).

Zionist-American warplanes are bombing multiple loactions across South Lebanon at these moments.

https://english.almanar.com.lb/2413677

Ok maybe I'm speaking too soon but I kinda expected a bigger immediate fallout after the killing of the 2 zionist goons. We're hearing the expected condemnations from public officials, fascists yapping about rising antisemitism, but that's been it so far.

The Wire (India): CPI (Maoist) General Secretary Nambala Keshava Rao Killed In Encounter in Chhattisgarh

Khaled Barakat (his organization Samidoun was repressed out of the North American continent last year) had this to say about the denazification in the American capitol:

Palestinian writer Khaled Barakat, a member of the Executive Committee of the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, stated that “the shooting incident that occurred in the U.S. capital, Washington, targeting employees of the “Israeli” embassy, is a natural consequence of the Zionist entity’s crimes in the Gaza Strip.”

Barakat added: “It is impossible to separate the reaction from the broader political and humanitarian context, by which we mean the ongoing Zionist massacre in Gaza for over twenty months — one of the most heinous genocidal crimes of the twenty-first century. It is a massacre that continues to this moment and will lead to further anger and violence toward the Zionist presence as a whole, and toward all those who support this entity in occupied Palestine and across the world.”

He continued: “‘Israel,’ with the support and complicity of Western governments — foremost among them the United States — has committed a series of crimes that claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinians, including thousands of children and women, through bombing, siege, and starvation, all amid a disgraceful international silence. Why do some express surprise at the human reactions to these horrific massacres? It is only inevitable that those who sow fire in Gaza should expect to reap a harvest of fire, in Gaza and in cities and capitals around the world.”

He concluded by saying: “This explosion of anger in the heart of the U.S. capital is neither isolated nor random, but one of the manifestations of pain and deep rage stemming from the international community’s disregard for the suffering of Palestinians, and its complicity in shielding the killers and granting them impunity. We affirm that the occupation is the original crime, and that those who seek to criminalize the reactions while remaining silent on the massacre are complicit in the ongoing crime.”

The US left is now tied with a Nepalese elephant for kill count of genocidal IOF baby killers.