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[RIA] Alice Wu, a film critic from Hong Kong, brawls in print: we here in Asia should have been delighted to meet the Hollywood masterpiece "Barbie" - this is a feminist feast on the screen. Instead… South Korea is a terrible place for feminism, there is an election campaign going on and the candidates are scared like the plague lest they be suspected of pro-feminist sympathies. There is no need for a movie like this.
[TRENDINGPOLITICSNEWS] Four months ago, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison acquired nearly 98% of the 141 square-mile Hawaiian island of Lanai, buying it from billionaire David Murdock for an undisclosed sum, rumored to be around $500 million. Ellison’s holdings on the island include two resorts, golf courses, numerous commercial and residential properties, and extensive undeveloped land once used for pineapple cultivation. Lanai is about 40 miles west of Lahaina in western Maui, where the fires took place.
The island’s 3,000 inhabitants have been uncertain about Ellison’s intentions for Lanai. However, in a recent interview on CNBC’s "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo," Ellison disclosed his vision of transforming the island into an eco-friendly haven, emphasizing electric vehicles, organic agriculture, and solar energy.
"What we are going to do is turn Lanai into a model for sustainable enterprise," said Ellison, one of the world’s richest men, to Maria Bartiromo. "I own the water utility, I own the electric utility. The electric utility is all going to be solar photovoltaic and solar thermal where it can convert sea water into fresh water."
However, Ellison’s vision goes beyond merely powering the island with solar energy and using solar thermal for desalination to generate fresh water. He also intends to introduce organic farming.
"We have drip irrigation where we are going to have organic farms all over the island. Hopefully we are going to export produce — really the best, organic produce to Japan and elsewhere. We are going to support the local people and help them start these businesses. We will have electric cars. So it’s going to be a little, if you will, laboratory for sustainability in businesses of small scale."
Thus, Ellison was pitching the concept of turning Lanai into an ’eco lab’ featuring electric cars, solar energy, and organic farming. But local residents complain Ellison did not engage with the island’s community, failing to communicate his intentions, address potential concerns, or gather feedback. Ellison has also been accused of seeking to turn the 90,000-acre island into a "playground for the super rich."
Pulama Lanai, the management company he set up to oversee the island’s transformation, was also lambasted by residents for creating a "housing shortage."
The Real Deal reported, "Ellison owns the island’s main grocery store, the only gas station, the community newspaper and the only non-Four Seasons hotel. His development plans tend to be secret. Many locals have heard that he plans to make the island ’sustainable,’ though not how."
"Residents say that no other entity can balance Ellison’s control, meaning his decisions carry the weight of the law, with minimal discussions of new projects and almost no due process," the report added.
There are also serious questions about the government’s response to the wildfire.
The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency confirmed that no sirens linked to Maui’s Emergency Alert System were activated on that day. Adam Weintraub, a department spokesperson, explained that the system, which comprises 80 sirens across Maui, is designed to motivate people to seek detailed emergency information, like via online, TV, or radio broadcasts.
"The siren is a message, but it’s not a very specific message, and so each time we sound them, there is a balancing in the decision," Weintraub said. "Will it cause more good or more harm?"
"The best I can say is that given the speed and demands of the incident, I don’t have any concerns in the way that Maui County handled it the way I know now, but we can talk about that again after we’re done ensuring people are safe," he added.
Describing the devastation, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green attempted to deflect responsibility for the emergency response failure to NBC’s Lester Holt.
"It’s too early for me to tell," Green said when asked whether the siren system wasn’t employed because of human decision or equipment failure.
"Much of the equipment was destroyed with fire and it’s a very remote place. This was a western edge of the island of Maui," Green said. "Of course, we would never diminish any kind of responsibility. They were all fighting in fires across the islands."
In May, Hawaiian officials reported suspected widespread arson on the island of Maui.
"Fire and police suspect someone is intentionally setting them," said Maui Mayor Michael Victorino.
In June 2012, Larry Ellison, then CEO of Oracle Corporation, purchased Castle & Cooke's 98 percent share of the island for $300 million. The state and individual homeowners own the remaining 2 percent, which includes the harbor and the private homes where the 3,000 inhabitants live.[23] Ellison, who believes renewable energy must be cost-competitive with fossil fuels in order to be viable,[24] stated his intention to invest as much as $500 million to improve the island's infrastructure and create an environmentally friendly agricultural industry.[25][26] As of 2016, Ellison had spent an estimated $450 million to remodel his Four Seasons Resort Lanai at Manele Bay, which reopened in April 2016 after a seven-month shutdown. In Lanai City, he built a new water-filtration system and a resort-style, Olympic-size public pool. He also refurbished the historic movie theater (built in the 1920s but mostly shut since the 1970s), turning it into a state-of-the art movie house. His second Four Seasons Resort, at Kōʻele in the mountains, was renovated and reopened as Sensei Lanaʻi in 2020.[27] Ellison also started a solar-powered hydroponic farming venture, “Sensei,” which has two 20,000-square-foot computer-monitored greenhouses, and, as of April 2020, he plans to build four more.[28][9]
Until 2020, Ellison was in negotiations to purchase the diesel-powered utility assets of the island in order to build a sustainable power system consisting of solar power and batteries.[29][9] However, it was reported in May 2020 that, while plans to transition from using fossil fuels to renewable resources continue, the talks by Ellison's company to acquire the utility had ended.[30]
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The island’s 3,000 inhabitants have been uncertain about Ellison’s intentions for Lanai. However, in a recent interview on CNBC’s "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo," Ellison disclosed his vision of transforming the island into an eco-friendly haven, emphasizing electric vehicles, organic agriculture, and solar energy.
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Anyone familiar with Santa Ana winds knows how quickly they can drive fires. Lahaina got hit with Super Santa Ana conditions because of the hurricane system passing to the south. That part of West Maui is very dry in the months leading up to August. The combination of an energized ramshackle electrical grid, dry fuel in the form of invasive grasses and winds gusting to hurricane strength is a formula for disaster. Now DEW or even arson (though that is a possibility) required. Lahaina town was full of wood structures built long before fire codes that were grandfathered "island style".
A big surprise to me was how little Fire Department capacity Maui County has: 60ish on duty at any time; 13 trucks; 2 ladders; 1 MD-500 chopper. This is spread across three large islands: Maui, Lanai, Moloka'i. No off road fire vehicles on islands with plenty of combustible areas away from roads. Maui PD was fighting a large fire in Kula 90 minutes or so away from Lahaina and another fire in the Kihei area an hour away. The West Maui fire crews would have been overwhelmed early.
Maui and most of the other islands are blanketed with warning sirens. Why no alert? Huge, huge failure.
One conspiracy angle I can't get my head around is that the Maui Chief of Police was previously the Incident Commander for the Las Vegas mass shooting event.
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I was in Hawaii- Kauai and Hawaii islands - a few years ago and spent my time getting as far back in the sticks as I could go. The amount of long, dry grass everywhere was striking. Combined with a breezy climate, pronounced dry season, steep hillsides and old wooden houses , made an ominous combination for an old bushie from Australia. Wrote Hawaii off as an option to move to.
Went home to Oz, to the North coast of NSW. Lost house in wildfire, November 2019. So it goes…
My sympathies to all Hawaiians. This is dreadful.
[TheCradle] As developments in West Africa demonstrate, the francophone countries are no longer willing to accept French neo-colonialism. With the fear factor finally removed, Africa’s quest for genuine independence is steadily coming to fruition.
The 26 July coup in the West African nation of Niger, which threatens to undermine French and US military presence in the region, has shed light on the historical exploitation and continued practices of Francafrique - the term used to describe the persistent exploitation by the former French Empire in Africa.
France heavily relies on nuclear energy, with 68 percent of its power coming from nuclear plants. It obtains 19 percent of the uranium required to run these plants from Niger. Despite this significant contribution toward France's energy needs, only 14.3 percent of Nigeriens have access to a power grid, and even that is often unreliable. This stark contrast highlights the disparities and ongoing exploitation by rapine foreign powers throughout the African continent.
THE LEGACY OF FRANCAFRIQUE
Francafrique has been known for its exploitative systems designed to profit from African resources, using pressure, capital, and frequently outright force to maintain control over its former empire. As a result, many African states, including Niger, continue to face poverty and underdevelopment.
Burkina Faso’s young, charismatic leader Ibrahim Traore recently spoke at the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg and decried the fact that Africa is resource-rich, but its people are poor, and criticized African leaders seeking hand-outs from the west, as they perpetuate dependency and poverty. He also described what is being imposed on Africa as a form of slavery, stating: Read the rest at the link
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Moreover, a vast network of French business interests, which include major multinational companies, dominate industries such as energy, communications, and transportation in many African countries.
Where before France. there was nothing. After France departs, nothing will return.
This is the franc that the French created and forced African countries to use. Africa sends their rich resources to France, France sells them back this paper at a profit. This has continued for decades. And the French think that they're generous in removing Africa from its wealth. You think Africans aren't angry at finding out they're being ripped off in this way?
Remember Khadafi's gold-backed dinar, for trade among African countries? That would deprive the French of their highly unethical usury? Wow, he got overthrown super fast after that idea. Now the cork is off the bottle of African migration and they're flooding Europe.
Shows you what they will do to protect their right to loot other countries.
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I often read that African mortality rate was less, that unemployment was less, and poverty was less, and literacy rate was increased and they had larger middle class (where less bush meat is consumed) under colonialism.
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Looting? Perhaps, but the usual situation is that most colonies cost more than they bring back in revenue and are held more for national prestige.
The French also had an interesting custom in that there was their armed forces were divided into the Metropolitan France forces based and paid for from European France. Almost all of the colonial forces were paid and recruited from the colonies directly. As the French began shuttering their colonial empire their 'oversea army' imploded spectacularly. As they pulled back they negotiated favorable, almost monopolistic, trade agreements ...but compared to the endemic corruption of the Third World it is hard to say if these contracts were 'a good thing or a bad thing'.
There is a story (Too good to check?) that the departing French presented a bill to the 'new governments' for all of the colonial improvements --paid in full if they did not sign up for French (near-)monopolistic interests in their post-colonial countries. Supposedly, as the story goes, one colony told the French to 'pound sand and just leave!' ...the French then started boxing up all the municipal indoor plumbing, rolling up all the overhead cables and basically returning much of what was there to empty concrete buildings. Supposedly the other ex-colonies got The Message™.
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RE: #3 A bit of a graphic design nightmare, but I suppose it cuts down on counterfeiting.
Lemme see if I understand this right:
So there was this dirt in Africa nobody was using for nothing.
Western Civilization in the form of France shows up and says we'll trade you money for that dirt.
France turns the dirt into electricity to run their corner of civilization.
African leaders squander the money on things other than building the infrastructure to power their future.
So yeah, it's definitely the White Man(tm)'s fault.
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[REGNUM] The ongoing NWO in Donbass is full of historical parallels. Russia went through all this already 80 years ago, when it freed its heart from the Nazis, and then treated it from the consequences of the Nazi occupation.
During the period of the Soviet Union (or Greater Russia),
...otherwise known as the good old days?
Donbass was not only one of the most urbanized regions of the country, but was also considered its real industrial heart. Before the war, 62% of all Soviet coal was mined in it, a quarter of all Soviet steel and half of pig iron were smelted. It was the heart of Donbass that gave blood to the entire Soviet industry, stimulated the economic development of the entire Black Sea region, as well as the most important process of industrialization for the country.
And this heart was captured by the Nazis during the war. “Already in 1941, the Donbass played a significant role in Hitler's operational plans. He believed that the outcome of the war would depend on the mastery of this territory, located between the Sea of Azov, the lower reaches of the Don and the lower and middle reaches of the Donets and extending in the west approximately to the Mariupol-Krasnoarmeyskoye-Izyum line, the outcome of the war would depend,” wrote German Marshal Erich von in his memoirs Manstein.
The Germans called the Donbass the "Eastern Ruhr" (the Ruhr region was the industrial center of Germany itself) and used the resources of the region for the needs of their military-industrial complex. “It is absolutely impossible to give Donbass to the enemy even temporarily. If we lost this area, then we would not be able to provide our military industry with raw materials,” Manstein gave another Nazi argument.
Almost 700 days Donbass was under their occupation. For almost 700 days, a real genocide was carried out against the inhabitants of Donbass (who, unlike local coal, the Nazis did not need).
“My maternal grandmother Anastasia was with her children in Stalino (today’s Donetsk) during the occupation. She failed to evacuate, the train she was supposed to be on was bombed, she had to return from the railway station to her house on Gorsad. The Germans occupied their house, so she had to go around the villages and change things for food,” Anna Revyakina, a Donetsk poetess and deputy chairman of the DPR Public Chamber, tells IA Regnum.
“Grandma did not like to remember that tragic period of her life. She said that the worst thing is when your child wants to eat, and you have nothing to give him. She also said that the Ukrainian policemen were much more cruel than the Germans. They shot people with great frenzy and sent them to the camps. One of them was where the Eternal Flame is now burning. And in this camp, a lot of people died from starvation. Grandmother came up to the fence and threw bread to those people. She could have been shot for this, but the Lord had mercy,” she adds.
The Soviet troops were able to begin the liberation of their hearts only in the third year of the war - exactly 80 years ago, on August 13, 1943, the troops of the Southern and South-Western fronts, with the support of the Azov military flotilla, began the Donbass operation. Donetsk, Artemovsk, Mariupol - all these cities were liberated. A striking episode of the operation was the battle for the most important height - Saur-Mogila, where the soldiers of the Soviet army accomplished a real feat, which in 71 years will be repeated by their grandchildren, who defended the height from the ideological descendants of Nazi punishers.
As a result, in almost a month (from August 13 to September 22) Donbass was liberated. The Soviet army marched up to 300 kilometers and reached the Dnepropetrovsk-Melitopol line, liberating the cities of Donetsk, Taganrog and Mariupol and access to the Dnieper.
The Red Army defeated 13 divisions from the German Army Group South. A total of Soviet soldiers gave their lives for the liberation of the region, which, of course, was destroyed by the Nazi troops on the principle of "so don't get you to anyone." Retreating from the Donbass, the Nazi troops destroyed all production facilities, all capacities.
That is why, after a military feat, a civilian one immediately started. The Soviet Union began to restore the Donbass at an accelerated pace and put its enterprises into operation.
And the Ukrainian people, who in their millions had died during Stalin's artificial famine during the Communist collectivization of the previous decade, were they restored, too?
A month after the release, the generators of the Rudchenskaya hydroelectric power station and the Zuevskaya thermal power plant started working.
In 1943, a full metallurgical cycle was restored at the Enakievsky Metallurgical Plant. By September 1944, the output of engineering products in the south of the Ukrainian SSR reached 30% of the pre-war level. In the same year, the USSR received 21.1 million tons of Donbass coal, and by the beginning of 1945, coal mining had been established in most mines.
Now, 80 years later, history is repeating itself, taking into account, of course, modern features. Russian troops are once again liberating the Donbass from the Nazis, who once again have the military-industrial potential of most European countries behind them. Again, our soldiers not only liberate territories and enterprises, but also save people's lives from those for whom the inhabitants of Donbass are “second class”. Quilted jackets, colorados - those who can be killed and destroyed, and then dumped into the mines.
Yes, this time the occupation lasted longer - the lands of Donbass have been under it for nine years (if you count from the Ukrainian Maidan) or even 30 years (if you count from the creation of the Ukrainian state).
Yes, this time there is no quick release - in almost a year and a half, the NVO managed to liberate almost the entire territory of the Lugansk People's Republic and only part of the Donetsk.
However, the strategic turning point has already arrived. Partly because Ukraine's resources are running out - the mobilization potential shows the bottom, which is why the "future drivers of the Leopards" have to be driven into the military registration and enlistment offices with sticks. There is almost no economy left: the country's budget is more than half dependent on external borrowing, and military spending exceeds its entire pre-war profitable part. There is a growing number of citizens and politicians in the US and the EU who are in favor of stopping funding for the Kyiv regime, especially against the backdrop of its lack of military success.
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Therefore, now our fighters are holding back the onslaught of the Ukrainian Nazis, for whom the current summer offensive will be, in fact, the last big offensive operation. Russia is exhausting their forces in order to continue the liberation of the occupied territories in the future.
At the same time, just like 80 years ago, our soldiers understand that they are fighting for a just cause. For the destruction of the terrorist Nazi regime, which does not disdain either the torture of prisoners or nuclear terrorism, for the liberation of the Russian lands of Donbass and Novorossia. And, of course, for the life of every Russian - like 80 years ago, this military conflict has an existential character for us.
“For us, this is not a geopolitical task, but the task of the survival of Russian statehood, the creation of conditions for the future development of the country and our children,” Vladimir Putin said .
The Ukrainian regime, again reflecting the behavior of its Nazi ideological ancestors, while retreating, destroys the infrastructure of the region. “Nazis always act the same way. The current Ukrainian warriors treat the population of Donbass in much the same way as the Germans treated them 80 years ago. Both those and others considered these lands to be their war trophy, inhabited by people alien to them. Both those and others, preparing for a retreat, resorted to scorched earth tactics, ” Vladimir Kornilov, a political observer for Rossiya Segodnya MIA, explains to IA Regnum.
The Russians, reflecting the behavior of their ancestors, have already begun to restore the Donbass. Throughout the liberated territory, even the one that is still reachable by Western missiles delivered to Kyiv, large-scale construction is underway. And not just large-scale, but nationwide.
Black gold for the Black Continent. African prospects for Donbass coal
Builders from all over Russia work at the facilities, and the Russian regions take patronage over the cities and regions of Donbass - in the best Soviet traditions, when it was necessary for the whole world to restore the same Tashkent from the consequences of an earthquake. And Donbass now resembles exactly the territory after the earthquake, and some of the objects were destroyed by the Kyiv regime during the war, and some - by it over 30 years of its consumer attitude to the region. Alien, in general, for the Ukrainian state project "anti-Russia".
Therefore, Russia is not just restoring, but also modernizing. New houses are being built in cities, and industrial enterprises are being revived on the basis of new technologies. Some have already been resurrected. So, from Mariupol by water to the port of Rostov, metal products from Makeevka, Enakievo, Alchevsk have already gone. “The entry of products of industrial enterprises of Donbass to the Russian market is the next stage in the integration of new regions into the economic space of the country,” says Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin.
Next and not the last. After all, a country cannot exist without a heart. Without a whole heart. Which will be again, like 80 years ago, torn from Nazi hands.
Putin is a reactionary Russian patriot, natural ally of any sovereign, conservative nation-state. The American objective is to end Russian sovereignty and make it over in the woke image of America: a radical Jacobin stronghold. By America’s prescriptions, Russia should be a woke, minority white, multicultural sewer, awash with MeToo, BLM, and ANTIFA sensibilities.
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And the Ukrainian people, who in their millions had died during Stalin's artificial famine during the Communist collectivization of the previous decade, were they restored, too?
There are plenty of bitter memories to go around for everybody. War does that. Chose one. Cling to it. Hate and there will always be more.
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The only way to stop the hate is for people to forgive each other. We have all sinned and we are all in need of forgiveness. Ask an American Indian if he forgives Custer or an African American if he forgives Thomas Jefferson.
You say you're not Custer or Jefferson?
Putin is not Stalin.
The writer here is attempting to inspire his people to defeat what many Russians see as a threat to their existence. That would be NATO. German tanks rolling in their direction make the writer's job easier. They summon bitter memories.
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*** Checks map *** No, it's still Russians on the Ukrainian side of the border (with tanks). When they're gone, then you've got a leg to stand on. Until then, just apologia for atrocities.
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It would be really helpful, Abu Uluque, if President Putin, et al, had not been talking in terms of genocide since the beginning of this thing. Instead, they went straight from the flattery of “Kiev is the heart of the Rus” to “nationalists are Nazis and we have to kill them all like we did last time,” and talk about reconstituting the Soviet empire. badanov cleans out most of the Ukro-nazi and similar vocabulary from his translations, leaving us merely the task of facts to weigh, but forgiveness has to be matched by at least an end to threats. As it stands, what will happen if Ukraine stands down versus what will happen if Russia stands down?
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I understand that Putin wants to denazify Ukraine. Dunno how that translates to genocide. My impression is that he really wants to keep NATO out of there. It seems he equates NATO with the Third Reich. The way they keep moving east makes that understandable.
I've heard a lot from people who want to kill Russians.
#8
Custer and his soldiers were massacred by indians in considerable part because of his foolish grandstanding.
Custer's descendeants may forgive the Indians, but what did Custer do to the Indians that they should forgive? Die when slaughtered?
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#9 was on my cell phone. Sorry for any confusion.
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How does wanting Ukraine to be independent rather than another Russian province equal Nazis, Zorba Tholugum4787? I was shocked when I first read it. Yet the Russians loudly so define them, following up with the need to wipe them out as they wiped out the German Nazi in the second world war.
And this, when there is quite as much fondness for white supremacy in Russia as there is in the Ukraine.
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#7, Zorba was on my cell phone. Let confusion reign.
Yeah, I think Custer did some dirty deeds before he got to Little Big Horn. Whatever. American Indians got a raw deal. The history of advanced civilizations meeting less advanced is unfortunate.
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It's been dirty for dirty, dear trailing wife, all down the line, to quote Joni Mitchell. Sorry but it's getting late and that quote does seem to apply. It serves no purpose to recount all the bloody crimes that have been committed in the past. American presidents should be wise enough to know that and seek peace instead. I believe that an America president, in spite of our nation's decline, still has enough power to call for negotiations that would end this war. Instead Joe Biden sends more guns so that more people die. It's tragic. Call me a Russophil if you want but I believe that Russians have a place in this world, as do Ukrainians. The border between them is negotiable. I also believe that part of the world is beyond any legitimate sphere of influence that NATO should ever claim. We need to mind our own business and our own borders.
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[IsraelTimes] Nasrallah sees opportunities for small gains while Jerusalem is distracted, but there are larger forces pushing the group’s aggressive behavior on the border
Israel is clearly alarmed by a marked change in Hezbollah’s posture along the country’s most combustible border, in the north.
Last Wednesday, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and President Isaac Herzog made separate trips to the Israel-Leb
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] Arab tribal militias operating against US troops in eastern Syria fired rockets at three US military installations in the provinces of Deir ez-Zor and Hasakah. This is reported by Fars News Agency.
There was no information about possible casualties or damage to objects.
According to the agency, the Syrian fighters said they would continue to destroy the strongholds of the American troops, "until the entire Syrian land is cleared of the occupiers."
Earlier, explosions occurred at a US military base in the Syrian province of Hasakah.
For those who complained that American bases in the USA are not shelled.
Periodic shelling with makeshift rockets and UAVs continues.
As a rule, various Iranian proxies do this. The campaign of US retaliatory strikes against Iranian proxies in western Iraq and eastern Syria cannot stop this process. Iran is weakly sensitive to losses and its presence is only growing. There are no problems with recruiting new personnel for the Axis of Resistance.
Similarly, Iranian proxies regularly attack logistics convoys and US bases in Iraq, especially outside of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Actually, the near-zero result of the campaign of retaliatory strikes and the annoying activity of Iranian proxies in Iraq and Iran are forcing the US to voice threats to try to block the border from Iraq to Syria in order to destroy the Tehran-Beirut land corridor.
From a practical point of view, this is a rather problematic task, even with direct intervention, and the threat itself will not lead to a decrease in attacks, but to their intensification, since for Iran the land corridor to Lebanon is a strategic priority, so attempts to block it will only lead to increased hostilities in the area of the Syrian-Iraqi border and more active strikes against American bases.
In principle, such an attempt by the United States would suit Russia perfectly, but I believe that the United States will not give us such a gift now. There is also an intervention in Niger that needs to be supported.
PS. It is worth noting that yesterday the IRGC said that Iran's accusations that it poses a threat to the countries of the region are unfounded.
Yes, but they have to say that, don’t they?
Iran, according to the IRGC, poses a threat only to the US, NATO and the Zionist entity, and the US is the driving force behind global piracy and robbery. Interesting that a Russian commenter, given that President Putin has been wooing Israel for years, hoping for influence through Israel’s large population of Soviet emigrants, here uses Iran’ term: the Zionist entity. More from regnum.ru US military bases in Syria hit by rocket fire
Missile attacks on three US military facilities in the provinces of Deir ez-Zor and Hasakah were carried out by detachments of militias of Arab tribes. This was reported on August 12 by Fars News Agency.
As specified in a statement given to the agency by the militias, five rockets were fired at the positions of the American occupying forces in the area of the Koniko gas field. Four more missiles flew to the US base located near the El Omar oil field. One rocket exploded at the airfield at the Al-Shaddadi base.
The Syrian militias said in a statement that they would continue to destroy strongholds of American troops, wherever they were. The fighters specified that they would act until "until they clear the entire Syrian land of the invaders."
Earlier, IA Regnum reported about explosions on the territory of the US military base in the Ash-Shaddadi region in the south of the Syrian province of Hasakah. It was noted that the explosions occurred in houses on the territory of the Al-Jabsa oil field, which the US military uses as a military base.
Damascus considers the military presence of US troops in Syria as an illegal occupation, which the United States decided to plunder the natural resources belonging to the Syrian people.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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