I looove Marmite!
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Yes it’s a loss, and accepting deals like this, with so many concessions to the enemy, is part of it, it’s what a defeat entails.
I’m not trying to weasel around it, this is the reality. It’s either accept such deals or fight until everyone is dead. That is the very unfortunate reality. It’s why Hezbollah took the deal earlier, it’s why talks between Israel and Hamas are so advanced right now.
Insert Kissinger quote about being America’s friend here.
This is quite different, the negotiations are in Cairo this time and not Doha (Netanyahu is even set to attend), and there are rumoured clauses that would allow Israel to continue military operations in the south, the IDF would only completely withdraw from the north.
Yes the terms of these ceasefires are quite bad, the situation is quite negative, but what is the alternative, fighting to the last Palestinian, to the last Lebanese, fighting until all supply routes are cut? That’s even worse.
The US will not carry out airstrikes against Turkish backed forces. They’ll either get Turkey to stop, or abandon the SDF/YPG positions there.
Yes, the situation is not positive. It looks as if the SNA, with Turkish close air support, will attempt to encircle the SDF/YPG positions at Kobani. There are also US forces located in Kobani on the side of the SDF/YPG.
More and more reports incoming about a potential ceasefire agreement/prisoner exchange deal with regards to Gaza. The attitude and media reports are of a very similar tone to the Hezbollah ceasefire in Lebanon. No matter how “bad or good” the ceasefire deal is, a ceasefire is a ceasefire and will bring desperately needed relief to millions under siege in Gaza.
Uhh does Ukraine want to exist?
A Minuteman III ICBM was actually successfully tested (along with it’s MIRV component) a few months ago, just to re-establish that it still works and reaffirm deterrence. But that’s exactly why the US will modernise their nuclear forces. The Minuteman III ICBMs are so old that they can’t effectively be maintained for much longer. So the US will need to build new missiles and warheads to replace them.
yeah… 
With the current timeline:
What it really is
americans seeing the sky for the first time under biden regime
Doesn’t help that if you do anything resembling OSINT or technical analysis you get accused of being a government/federal agent lol (think it’s called fed jacketing). Bit discouraging as a new account to posting. I’ll try to take it as a compliment on the perceived accuracy of the information I post (I say perceived as I know that I’ve made mistakes in the past)
Updated my original comment with some statements from both sides, the USA and a news correspondent on the ground in Yemen (yes I know I’m doing the “both sides” joke, I’m not validating the USA I’m just posting what they said they did).
also isntreal bombing yemen
It was the USA according to the CENTCOM statement. An Al Arabiya Washington correspondent even leaked it last night, thinking that the bombing already took place. Or maybe there was also a bombing last night, who knows anymore.
CENTCOM statement:
On Dec. 16 Yemen time, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted a precision airstrike against a key command and control facility operated by Iran-backed Houthis within Houthi-controlled territory in Sana’a, Yemen.
The targeted facility was a hub for coordinating Houthi operations, such as attacks against U.S. Navy warships and merchant vessels in the Southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
The strike reflects CENTCOM’s ongoing commitment to protect U.S. and coalition personnel, regional partners, and international shipping.
Al-Mayadeen News:
US and British raids targeted the Ministry of Defense headquarters in the Al-Urdi area in the center of the capital, Sana’a
Seems like the first time Sana’a got hit in the US campaign against Yemen and Ansarallah. Wonder what the response will be.
In one way I’m glad some of them aren’t on here to see this and having to deal with our stupid arguments, the last few weeks have just been really bad. They’re probably feeling the same emotions we are feeling times a hundred, and way more complicated and nuanced, as they actually live there and have a personal attachment to their country. Imagine commenting on and correctly predicting the downfall of you and/or your loved ones’ country, for example. And then seeing people, maybe even someone you know being freed from prisions. And then the country gets bombed by a powerful adversary. In another scenario, imagine returning to your homeland after months of bombings, after a ceasefire agreement gets singed (no matter how bad the terms, a ceasefire is a ceasefire). That’s extremely emotional. Being on the internet and arguing with a bunch of people (mostly westerners) who didn’t even know what the SAA, 1974 agreement, the blue line, South Litani area, HTS, SNA, SDF, etc, were until a few weeks ago is probably not the best course of action in such a scenario.
I’ll keep on reporting until the end, no matter how bad it gets, someone has to do it after all. Or good, never give up hope comrades, even in the worst hours, we have to be resilient, there is no other choice.
This bit will never end lol.
Giving a 610,000 lb MTOW, 300+ seat wide body airliner that’s over 200ft long, 4 engines with just over 30 000lbf of thrust each, was certainly a choice. That’s a thrust to weight ratio barely over 0.2 at maximum takeoff weight. It’s a miracle it gets off of the ground.
At least the weather balloon was actually real and got shot down, by an F-22 lol. I haven’t seen any real evidence of the drones being real.
Don’t forget Mars!
I don’t understand how a society with such advanced technology can be so ignorant. I think modern smartphones with their camera arrays are playing a large part here. Now anyone can get a camera in their hands with decent zoom and low light capabilities, and take point and click photos of the sky and whatever’s in it, and post it on twitter or Reddit, where’s there’s no moderation.
It looks like Israel hit one of the main power stations in Sanaa, so going after energy infrastructure in Yemen. Oil and/or gas depots were probably also hit, though it’s too early to say exactly what was hit, aside from electrical infrastructure in Sanaa as the electricity went out during the bombings. Yemen also fired a ballistic missile at Israel, during which there was an interception attempt in Israeli airspace, leading to the missile crashing into the ground and destroying a building.