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[Regnum] Archival documents about the bloody crimes of the Poles in the village of Skopov in March 1945 were made public by the Federal Security Service (FSB).
According to the agreement signed in Lublin on September 9, 1944, “On the evacuation of the Ukrainian population from the territory of Poland and Polish citizens from the territory of the Ukrainian SSR,” voluntary resettlement was implied; in reality, the process turned out to be deportation.
The Home Army was officially disbanded in January 1945, many of its members joined the ranks of the civil militia, the Polish Army and the local administration. The struggle of part of the White Polish underground resulted in robberies, murders and violence against peaceful Belarusians and Ukrainians living in Poland and in the border regions of Belarus and Ukraine.
"One of the bloody crimes was committed by Polish thugs in early spring 1945. On March 6, 1945, a detachment of the so-called "People's Guard" attacked the village of Skopov, located 27 km west of Przemysl, " the FSB Public Relations Center clarified.
About 200 Ukrainians died then, including women, children and priests. The killings continued for two weeks.
The FSB has declassified letters from engineer Nikolai Demyanchik to Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy and Metropolitan of Kyiv and Galicia John about the murder of his family and other residents of the village of Skopov. On February 27, 1945, people applied for resettlement to the Ukrainian SSR (the territory of the village was to become part of Poland). Upon returning from Przemysl, where Demyanchik went to speed up the move, he learned of an attack on his house by a detachment (about 30 people) of Polish police soldiers and civilians, who killed all his relatives.
In his letters, Demyanchik asked the hierarchs to support his request “to conduct an investigation into the Skopovsky case and to punish the guilty.”
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the FSB regularly publishes archival documents on the events of the Great Patriotic War. In April, the agency declassified crimes committed by the Nazis in the Smolensk region during the Great Patriotic War, including materials on the execution of Poles and the falsification of the "Katyn case" by the Third Reich's special services.
On October 4, 2023, the FSB declassified an archive on the collaboration of Poles with the Germans in the Stalag-1A concentration camp. According to the documents, Poles in the Nazi concentration camp earned the right to occupy the best places from the Germans. They were appointed to manage sections - the canteen, the bathhouse, the warehouse. By currying favor, the Poles received good positions.
A test, when the pot met the kettle,
Of totalitarian mettle!
First up was the pot:
"Um... today all I've got
Are tall tales of a teacup to peddle."
[sad trombone]
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] An interesting detail in the biography of Ryan Routh, who recruited mercenaries for Ukraine (Routh himself recruited more than 70 people for the war, of course with the knowledge of American intelligence services) and made an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Trump.
During a search of the home of the son of the "fighter for Ukraine", large amounts of child pornography were found.
The mass media associated with the Democrats continue to try to present Routh as a crazy loner, while it has already been established that Routh had been in the FBI's sights for many years, which considered him a "criminal who owns a firearm".
The United States has extensive experience using such characters to assassinate unwanted politicians, including in their own country.
And then they are all declared "lone lunatics".
More from regnum.ru Son of Ukraine supporter who tried to kill Trump found with child porn
Oran Root, the son of Ryan Routh, who was arrested on suspicion of a second assassination attempt on former White House chief and US presidential candidate Donald Trump, was taken into custody on federal charges of possessing child pornography. This was reported by the American television channel ABC News.
It is noted that this case has no relation to the investigation against his father. According to the TV channel, the porn was discovered after checking the man's SD card.
“A check of the SD card revealed that it contained hundreds of files of child pornography,” the TV channel quotes the lawsuit as saying.
Oran Routh is due to appear in court on September 24.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the assassination attempt on Trump took place on September 15 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Near the Trump International Golf Club, where the former president was playing, Routh opened fire with an AK-47, the barrel of which he stuck through the fence of the golf club.
He missed Trump. After the assassination attempt, the former US president said that he was fine and that he would "never give up."
Ruta was detained and taken into custody. It turned out that he had been to Kiev and participated in the recruitment of mercenaries for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In turn, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene pointed out Routh's participation in a video in support of the Ukrainian national formation "Azov".
In turn, the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, noted that the second assassination attempt on Trump should be a reason for the US intelligence services to think about the fact that they are playing with fire by supporting Ukraine.
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[ALTAIRUSIDEA] Military leaders of the North-East Military District. 20 names of 2024.
Colonel General Kuzovlev
He did not ask for the position and, according to purely statistical indicators, had no significant defeats. Having managed to command two districts at once in six months and eventually becoming the commander of the Moscow Military District, he did not spend a single day in the newly opened headquarters on Kosmodamianskaya Embankment, for which he immediately came to the attention of the Staroarbat officials, becoming the object of personal hostility.
Kuzovlev was among the first to promptly form and send personnel to stop the breakthrough in the Kursk direction. And although Kursk was and remains the area of responsibility of the Group of Forces "North", the commander of the Moscow Military District did not fail to extend a helping hand to his comrade at the front. On September 11, 2024, Andrei Belousov flew to the command post of the Group of Forces "West". The Minister of Defense tried to feel out the environment and understand what mood reigned in the headquarters of the group, for which he took Yevgeny Nikiforov with him. The inspection not only did not reveal any violations, but was also completely satisfied with the work of the group.
Today, the forces of the Group of Forces "West" are destroying the enemy's echeloned defense on the approaches to Kupyansk and have already reached the Oskol River, and revenge for the events of the fall of 2022 will become the main challenge for Sergei Kuzovlev himself.
Colonel General Anashkin
The command highly appreciated his merits as commander of the 8th Army. Having become the chief of staff of the district in January 2024, just two months later Gennady Anashkin was appointed commander of the Southern Military District and awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 2nd degree with swords.
The "South" group of forces has significantly increased its forces today: back in July, enemy sources wrote about the accumulation of reserves in the Zaporizhzhya direction. All year Anashkin has been increasing the combat and numerical strength of the artillery brigades of the district at the expense of barrel artillery, largely due to friendly relations with his neighbor in the operational direction and concurrently deputy commander of the Joint Forces (s) Mikhail Teplinsky.
Despite the ongoing positional battles in the area, the OGV(s) command believes that it is the “South” group that will win the strategic initiative in 2025, but Anashkin himself strives to remain out of the limelight and does not use his apparatus resources for PR campaigns, believing that a good commander is an inconspicuous commander.
[ManhattanInstitute] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report estimates the lifetime fiscal impact of immigrants, of various ages and educational attainment, to the United States. It offers a methodological upgrade over similar analyses and estimates and evaluates the fiscal impact of various proposed immigration reforms.
A clear picture of the fiscal cost of immigrants is particularly important, given the ongoing border crisis. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the border surge will number 8.7 million unlawful immigrants between 2021 and 2026. The original analysis in this report finds that the border crisis will cost an estimated $1.15 trillion over the lifetime of the new unlawful immigrants—a cost larger than the entire U.S. defense budget and almost equal to the cost of Social Security in 2023.
Looking at immigrants more broadly, this report shows that the average new immigrant (lawful or unlawful) has a positive fiscal impact and reduces the federal budget deficit by over $10,000 during his lifetime. For comparison, the average native-born citizen is expected to cost over $250,000 to the federal government. Despite the average immigrant reducing the budget deficit, immigrants without a college education and all those who immigrate to the U.S. after age 55 are universally a net fiscal burden by up to $400,000. The large positive fiscal impact of young and college-educated immigrants pulls up the overall average. Each immigrant under the age of 35 with a graduate degree reduces the budget deficit by over $1 million in net present value during his lifetime.
Therefore, for policymakers considering the fiscal impact of immigrants to the U.S., the characteristics of people seeking entry into the country are crucial. Certain immigrants are fiscally beneficial; others are fiscally detrimental.
This report quantifies the fiscal impact of common immigration reform proposals:
Mass deportations would significantly reduce the national debt over the long run, but a policy of selective legalization, coupled with mass deportations, would be even more fiscally beneficial, reducing the debt by about $1.9 trillion.
Given the education, age, and earnings of H-1B visa recipients, doubling the number of H-1B visas for just one year would reduce the budget deficit by $70 billion over the long run—and by another $70 billion each year thereafter.
The most beneficial immigration policy change would be to exempt STEM graduate degree holders from green-card caps, increasing immigration by some 15,000 people per year and reducing the visa backlog; this would reduce the deficit by $150 billion in the first year and $25 billion each year thereafter.
Eliminating refugee resettlement and permanent immigration by parents of U.S. citizens would reduce the debt by a combined $40 billion in net present value every year.
Congress could upskill the existing immigration flow by eliminating the diversity visa category and increasing the visas available to the top employment-based categories, and requiring immigrants to have earned a high school diploma to be eligible for a family visa, reducing the national debt by over $60 billion per year.
By enacting a selectionist immigration policy—which requires securing the border from unlawful immigration, reducing low-skilled immigration, and expanding high-skilled immigration—the U.S. could reduce future federal debt by trillions of dollars over the long run. This report proposes a legislative package that provides over $2 trillion in net present value during the first year and over $200 billion each subsequent year, without accounting for the additional productivity growth resulting from high-skilled immigration. Furthermore, under these reforms, the annual number of immigrants who are new permanent residents decreases by about 15% after a temporary legalization program and a partial clearing of the employment-based visa backlog. Over the long term, annual legal immigration decreases under this plan from approximately 1 million in FY 2019 to approximately 860,000.
[Bee] SAINT PAUL, MN — Facing new allegations of inappropriate ties to the Chinese Communist Party in the middle of the home stretch of the presidential election, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz offered a swift and stern rebuttal in perfect Mandarin Chinese.
Members of Congress have sounded the alarm over Walz's history with China, launching an investigation to determine if any laws were broken. Walz has maintained a staunch position that he is guilty of no wrongdoing.
"共产主义是最好的! 好好好!" a defiant Walz told reporters on the campaign trail when asked to comment on his alleged ties to China. "And I mean that. There is absolutely no truth to any of these scurrilous accusations. These Republicans will apparently stop at nothing to try to connect me to the great and powerful Chinese Communist Party, which is led by the honorable and wise President Xi Jinping."
New Poll Shows Kamala With Huge Lead Among Deranged Assassin Demographic
Walz said that any and all dealings he has had with China over the years were entirely legal. "It's a bunch of ridiculous lies," he said. "Just because I've taken multiple trips to China, stayed at the presidential mansion, and went on a couple of spa dates with Xi, everyone thinks I'm some type of undercover Chinese asset. Well, to that, all I have to say is, ’伟大的中国共产党万岁, 统治世界!'"
At publishing time, the Minnesota governor headed off to prepare for his upcoming vice presidential debate with J.D. Vance and denied rumors that he answered to the nickname "The Great Walz of China" in the corridors of the Minnesota State Capitol.
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Interestingly, there is some sportsball player who has a pet alligator and PETA is on his ass, "How would you like to have your mouth shut, put in a room, and never let out?"
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[REGNUM] For several days in a row, an intense exchange of attacks between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah has continued, the largest in the past two decades.
In the first hours of the Israeli operation, dubbed "Arrows of the North," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Lebanese population to immediately leave the border area and "not interfere with justice."
Soon enough, the Internet was flooded with footage of multi-kilometer traffic jams - civilians in southern Lebanon were trying to leave the escalation zone, often under Israeli bombardment. Other footage was also distributed - for example, of the hasty evacuation to bomb shelters of the population of Haifa, Israel, where they had already become unaccustomed to rocket attacks from Lebanon.
Both sides have seriously raised the stakes with the intention of forcing the opponent to “throw in the white flag” at any cost. Moreover, both Israel and Hezbollah are absolutely certain that the enemy is about to waver, and that victory over it will be quick and final.
However, recent events increasingly indicate the opposite.
SECOND GAZA
The current actions of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) differ little from its offensive tactics in the Gaza Strip. In an effort to bleed Hezbollah dry, Israeli forces are practically non-stop ironing out Lebanon with all available means. In the last 24 hours alone, Israel has attacked more than a thousand targets in Lebanon, not limiting the geography of the raids to the border zone.
The Israelis claim that the initiative is entirely on their side. Thanks to intensive combined strikes, they allegedly managed to destroy up to half of Hezbollah's arsenal, as well as "tie up operational control" of the movement's rank-and-file fighters.
According to information released by the IDF, several dozen high-ranking Hezbollah commanders were killed or seriously wounded in the raids, including officers from the elite Radwan special forces unit and close associates of the movement's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah.
It should be noted that Israel explains its actions against Lebanon by security considerations and the “desire to protect not only its own, but also the Lebanese civilian population,” who “found themselves hostages” of Iranian proxies.
At the same time, the notorious “pager attack,” which resulted in almost 4,000 Lebanese casualties (most of them civilians)
…the civilian thing is a lie that the Russians have repeated before. But then Hezbollah is a client of Russia’s client Iran, so Russia waxes sentimental…
and which just a week ago the Israelis themselves called a “brilliant operation by the intelligence services,” is gradually being covered up.
Thus, Israeli President Isaac Herzog publicly stated that Israel was not involved in the pager explosions in Lebanon, and that the terrorist attack against Hezbollah commanders could have been carried out by the movement’s “numerous ill-wishers.” Most likely, Herzog tried to tone down the overly bellicose rhetoric of Prime Minister Netanyahu, who threatened new retaliation against all those who support Hezbollah, even indirectly.
The president of Israel is a ceremonial figurehead, functionally an elected king hauled out to kiss babies and meet other powerless ceremonial kings. Before he was president he was a leader in various iterations of the Labour party. Naturally, he doesn’t like Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.
BEFORE THE THROW
The ultimate goal of Israel's intimidation campaign is not difficult to determine: Tel Aviv is trying to provoke panic and discontent among the Lebanese toward Hezbollah.
At this point, in terms of power and influence in the Lebanese government, anyone not aligned with Hezbollah is a Non-Playing Character. Given that the NPCs have been fleeing Lebanon’s cities for the countryside, and even crossing into Syria, I’d say that panic and discontent have been accomplished.
It is precisely popular pressure, according to the plan of the Israeli General Staff, that should force the movement's fighters to retreat beyond the Litani River, which the Israelis promptly declared the "northern border" of their country.
This will provide the IDF with the opportunity to freely enter southern Lebanon and stop the shelling of northern Israel (by creating a “security zone” in the border area), which has not stopped for almost a year.
For Netanyahu, who has still not been able to “pick the keys” to the sympathies of northern refugees, whose number has already exceeded 100 thousand people, such a scenario seems advantageous.
However, the Israeli leadership does not rule out a more complex option, which would involve a protracted struggle with Hezbollah.
A full-scale offensive into southern Lebanon is fraught with risks. The cost of error, given previous failed Lebanese campaigns, seems too high.
The IDF seems more interested in shaping the battlefield by continuing to destroy Hezbollah’s arms caches and kill its leadership from the air, now that their communications have been thoroughly destroyed.
And among the IDF command staff there are plenty of those who personally participated in the Lebanese campaigns and are trying in every way to dissuade Netanyahu from another attempt at revenge. In addition, the country's leadership is constantly under pressure from the public, dissatisfied with the prospects of opening a "second front."
Bibi was their Donald Trump even before Trump came along. The Never-Bibi crowd can never agree that he’s right even if he is doing exactly what they would do were they in power.
In light of this, the Israeli military is looking for unconventional options to break out of the strategic impasse.
Among other things, Israel can use the Golan Heights (Syria) it has occupied
…not occupied — absorbed. Israel will never give the heights back to Syria, and when he was president Donald Trump formally recognized it…
for an offensive, where the IDF has previously promptly removed several large minefields. A thrust across the Golan Heights will allow the Israeli army not only to seize the operational initiative, but also to bypass Hezbollah's well-fortified defensive nodes in southern Lebanon, taking a bridgehead with fewer losses.
An interesting thought…
In this sense, the Israeli General Staff is taking into account the mistakes of the failed Lebanese campaign of 2006.
However, a strong pretext is needed to develop an offensive, and Tel Aviv hopes to provoke Hezbollah into a serious response.
This would allow the remaining “moral restrictions” on the operation to be lifted and to invade Lebanon without regard for US opinion.
HOW WILL HEZBOLLAH RESPOND?
Despite Israel's air superiority, Hezbollah still holds its own and even tries to respond to Israeli actions in proportion.
The first step was to increase the depth and frequency of the strikes. Over the past 24 hours, the movement has launched at least 200 rockets and kamikaze drones, some of which have managed to penetrate Israel's missile defense system. As a result, not only the northern border region has come under attack, but also calmer cities such as Haifa.
And although the damage caused by Hezbollah is nothing compared to that caused by the Israelis, the media effect of the attacks is very high. Especially since the movement, apparently, managed to hit the Haifa explosives factory, as well as the infrastructure of the Megiddo military airport.
Hitting is not the same as damaging. Was there significant damage?
Moreover, Hezbollah is trying its best to show that it is not defending itself, but the people of Lebanon – these theses have been voiced by the movement’s leaders during the last few appeals to supporters.
Not bothering to appeal ti non-supporters?
The appeal to a “common cause” is intended not only to calm ordinary Lebanese, but also to legitimize the change in the vector of Hezbollah’s operations to make them more offensive. The movement is determined not only to draw off some of the Israeli forces, but also, if necessary, to “grind” them down.
It should be noted that in some cases Hezbollah deliberately shows weakness in order to accelerate the IDF's shift in focus from the Gaza Strip to northern Israel.
Going for the Pyrrhic defeat defence, are they?
Given that most Hamas battalions maintain a relatively high level of combat readiness
…you keep telling yourselves that…
even after a year of operations in Gaza, even a slight weakening of Israeli attention to the enclave would be enough to regroup and strike at the depleted IDF contingent.
And given that Israeli society perceives the operation in Gaza as “close to completion,” any abrupt change in the balance of power is guaranteed to have the effect of a bomb exploding.
Be that as it may, both Israel and Hezbollah, in their pursuit of “final victory,” are missing an important detail: their direct clash will not be limited to local disputes, no matter how much the parties try to convince their supporters of this.
On the contrary, given the high stakes that have been placed over the past year, the conflict risks spreading to the entire Middle East and drawing into the confrontation even those powers that have tried with all their might to maintain neutrality or reconcile their opponents.
The Arabs have tried that before. Israel would beat them even if they were reduced to fighting with rocks and sticks.
However, neither side is yet willing to give in, as the confidence that the enemy is about to waver only grows stronger in the heat of the fight.
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[REGNUM] The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a "preemptive" offensive against the Lebanon-based Shiite organization Hezbollah. The "preemptive strikes" began on the morning of September 23.
"We are striking at the military infrastructure that Hezbollah has been building for the past 20 years," said IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy, adding that the Israeli military is preparing for the next stages of the conflict, which Halevy promised to talk about later.
In turn, Hezbollah representatives announced rocket attacks on an Israeli industrial complex in northern Haifa. The attack on the night of September 24 was called a response to the pager explosions that occurred in Beirut. In addition, the Shiite movement attacked Megiddo airport in northern Israel with rockets three times overnight.
At the same time, Hezbollah began to strike Israeli territory on September 21, using an arsenal of long-range missiles. The targets of the attacks were military facilities of the Israeli IDF. According to the group's statement, Fadi-1 and Fadi-2 missiles were used for the shelling. Most likely, these munitions were delivered to Lebanon from Syria, military expert and author of the ImpNavigator blog Yuri Lyamin told Regnum news agency.
"In fact, no one hid the fact that Syria supplies these rocket munitions to Hezbollah. They were first used back in 2006, during the Second Lebanon War. Moreover, during the civil war in Syria, government troops practically did not use them, so everything that was produced on Syrian territory went to Lebanon in case of a new war with Israel," the expert noted.
The weapons are supplied by Iran. Syria transfers them to Hezbollah because they’re next door, and they try very hard to conceal the transfers from Israel. Sometimes they succeed.
The 220 mm Fadi-1 is designed to hit targets at a distance of up to 70 kilometers, the mass of the missile's warhead is 83 kilograms. The Fadi-2 class missiles have a caliber of 302 mm, carry a warhead weighing over 100 (according to some sources - over 150 kilograms) and are designed to strike at a distance of up to 100 kilometers.
According to Israeli intelligence, the Fadi class missiles are a modification of the Kheibar-1 missiles, developed in Syria in the early 2000s based on the Chinese WS-1 missiles.
Israel has repeatedly tried to stop the supply of missiles from Syria, striking Syrian military enterprises. In early September, the Israeli Air Force attacked a military facility near the city of Masyaf in the Syrian province of Hama. Presumably, Fadi missiles were being manufactured at this facility.
However, Israel is not able to completely stop the supply of ammunition from Syria, Yuri Lyamin is sure.
"The length of the border between Syria and Lebanon is hundreds of kilometers. Moreover, it passes through hard-to-reach mountain ranges. Israel manages to cover and destroy something, but Syria itself is large, there are places to hide missiles, there are many supply routes," the expert believes.
At the same time, a supply route for more sophisticated missiles passes through Syria, heading to Lebanon from Iran, Hezbollah's main ally.
TARGETS FOR STRIKES
The current escalation between Hezbollah and Israel began in October 2023. The Lebanese group shelled Israeli territory in support of the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian group Hamas.
At first, Hezbollah limited itself to shelling Israeli territory with “salvos” of unguided rockets, which were destroyed on approach by the Iron Dome missile defense system. This exchange of pleasantries generally suits both sides, since, on the one hand, it allows for the appearance of support for the “Palestinian resistance,” and on the other, it does not escalate the conflict to a new level, since the shelling does not lead to casualties among the civilian population.
At the same time, the shelling also has a strategic goal - to exhaust, if possible, the stocks of Israeli air defense/missile defense missiles. And it is quite possible that this was the task set by the group's command at an early stage of the conflict, military expert Alexander Mikhailovsky said in a commentary for the Regnum news agency.
"Along the demarcation line - since there is no de facto border between Israel and Lebanon - there are probably hundreds of launchers of calibers from 80 to 122 mm hidden. They are buried in the ground, hidden in caves, camouflaged. It is quite difficult to find them. At the same time, the launch of 50-100 missiles, fired according to the principle of "whoever God sends", allows, for example, to cover the launch of a drone, which will then work on a specific target," the expert explains.
In the summer of 2024, Hezbollah showed footage taken by reconnaissance drones that had penetrated the Iron Dome. The drones captured, among other things, the Israeli Navy base in Haifa, as well as a number of military installations in the northern regions of the country. They later became the target of large-caliber missile strikes. But it is difficult to assess the damage caused by the shelling.
"Israeli intelligence services keep any data on rocket attacks on military targets secret, and Hezbollah likes to exaggerate its successes. So, most likely, they are causing damage to the said targets, but limited. However, this could be a test run, and the main strikes are still ahead," Mikhailovsky believes.
Arab media outlets have made a similar assessment, predicting more extensive strikes on Israel and hinting at the use of ballistic missiles capable of reaching central Israel.
MODERN ARSENAL
Israeli intelligence agencies have repeatedly stated that Hezbollah has a large number of different types of missiles. According to the Alma Research Center, the movement has about 5,000 long- and medium-range missiles capable of hitting targets at a distance of 200 kilometers, 65,000 short-range missiles (the range of destruction is from 45 to 200 kilometers) and about 145,000 artillery and small-caliber rocket munitions with a range of up to 20 kilometers.
For obvious reasons, Hezbollah officials have not disclosed the size of their arsenals. However, the movement's media outlets occasionally publish footage of individual types of weapons.
One of the photos published online from Hezbollah warehouses showed Mushak-200 missiles with a 600-kilogram warhead and a range of up to 200 kilometers. Presumably, these missiles are a copy of the Iranian Zelzal-2 missiles.
"Iran has never hidden the fact that it supplies weapons to Hezbollah. Israel has attempted to destroy arms shipments on the supply route through Syria, for example at Syrian Air Force air bases. But here, again, it is physically impossible to intercept all the supplies, the territories are too large," notes Yuri Lyamin.
The name of the missile refers to the Quran's sura "Earthquake", which describes the events of the End of the World. In other words, the name is a very specific warning to a potential enemy.
Theoretically, Hezbollah may also have Zelzal-3 missiles with a range of up to 250 kilometers. And Israel Hayoum suggests that Hezbollah has Fateh-100 missiles, also known as M-600, with a range of up to 300 kilometers.
In other words, Hezbollah is capable of striking most of Israel's territory, so the IDF command's concern about the "threat from the north" is well founded.
ISRAEL TRIES TO CREATE A 'BUFFER ZONE'
Traditionally, the main areas of Hezbollah activity are considered to be the territories of southern Lebanon, as well as part of Beirut and its suburbs, where representatives of the Shiite Muslim community live.
Unable to disrupt the supply of missiles, the Israeli army plans to eliminate Hezbollah's infrastructure and the movement's main bases.
Earlier, the IDF command repeatedly stated that the goal of the operation in Lebanon should be the creation of a "buffer zone" - a territory stretching 20-30 kilometers along the border between Lebanon and Israel. This is where most of Hezbollah's military facilities, underground shelters and missile arsenals are located.
In this way, Israeli troops plan to secure the northern regions of the country from the threat of rocket attacks. But whether this will be successful is a big question.
[PJMedia] The origin of the rocketry term Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (RUD) is shrouded in mystery but it's just the funny engineer's way of saying the rocket blew up. What you've been witnessing in southern Lebanon these last several days is the Rapid Scheduled Disassembly of the Hezbollah terrorist organization, involving thousands of explosions instead of just one big one.
The RSD got started last week with Israel's three-part virtual decapitation of Hezbollah's organization. That is, if "decapitation" is the correct word when exploding pagers removed Hezbollah bits a bit further down than their large heads. That was followed up, as I'm sure you know, the next day by exploding walkie-talkies. When Hezbollah's remaining leadership began to meet in person to overcome their crippled comms, the Israeli Air Force bombed the meetings.
Now that Hezbollah is disorganized, almost leaderless, and deathly afraid to communicate with one another, Israel is going after its terrorist infrastructure — aided by some of the highest tech in service.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is "destroying thousands of missiles and rockets aimed at Israeli cities and Israeli citizens."
"If the terror group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, insists on continuing to launch rockets and drones at Israel to demonstrate solidarity with Hamas — a decision that has cost his organization and Lebanese citizens dearly — Israel’s current attacks will prove advantageous in the event of a ground invasion of Lebanon," Lazar Berman wrote on Monday.
..."This is what happens when you f*** with the people of Einstein and Oppenheimer: you make science & technology your enemy," one X user replied. "Not a wise move these days."
"What Israel has been doing in the north for 10 months now is attriting Hezbollah, surveilling it, building detailed centimeter-level 3D lidar maps of every inch of its heartlands," author Saul Sadka posted in an X thread one month ago (!!!), eerily accurate in predicting what would follow in September. "Humans and AI have analyzed every olive tree, every field, and every mosque to identify weapon storage locations."
...If you want to do the deep dive, read Sadka's full thread, starting here.
Imagine spending two decades slowly and ruthlessly building up your missile arsenal, only to find that those damn Jews know where everything is and can target it with pinpoint precision. Israel underestimated Hamas' stupidity. But, as we finding out, not Hezbollah's. And the part nobody talk about is:
Hezbollah lorded it over Lebanon for 20 years. The other Lebanese don't like it very much - but their militias are no match for Hezbollah. Until now. If the IDF - in addition to destroying Hezbollah terrorist threat - inflicts sufficient damage on Hezbollah’s military power, there will be a reckoning - Arab style.
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Bee] SAINT PAUL, MN — Facing new allegations of inappropriate ties to the Chinese Communist Party in the middle of the home stretch of the presidential election, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz offered a swift and stern rebuttal in perfect Mandarin Chinese.
