It’s because to trump, and let’s be real, 45% of Americans minimum, Iran and Iraq are the same country with the same people (Muslims) only Iranians have upgraded Muslims (Shia).

Neonazi terror in Europe is going to be off the charts for the next generation

Neither are history but I really enjoyed reading both journey to the west as well as romance of the three kingdoms. Find annotated versions of both, I found the notes helpful.

I read the Julia Lovell translation of journey to the west recently and it was loads of fun. I read it aloud to my child and we all enjoyed it.

I don’t know, I just know that embedded videos have given the thread trouble before. When there are lots of embeds, even normal sized ones, it starts fucking up the thread for mobile users. Thank you!

it’s a bit more understandable when you see these shitty plates served on a long-deployed carrier off the gulf, but this is in california.

please remove the embedded video and post as a link

I’d let this slide if it wasn’t 8500 pixels tall lol

Like I said, he’s a euro lib. Sort of to his credit, he’s also not a military analyst. He’s on firmer ground talking about energy issues than what the AFU ought to do. Still, I think he is worth reading. He has a couple good interviews on radio war nerd.

Agreed, she could be one of us lol

Ben aris of bneintellinews on the state of ukraine. This is a good roundup article if you haven’t been paying attention to that conflict in the last few months. Ben is a ukraine sympathizer and a lib, but he’s pretty clear eyed in his writing even if his heart is with ukraine.

https://www.intellinews.com/long-read-zelenskiy-sounding-increasingly-desperate-as-the-hunt-for-air-defence-ammo-fails-458638

this isn’t hugely newsworthy, but as part of an ongoing royal commission on antisemitism in australia, they interviewed an australian researcher about the role of the manosphere in violent extremism.

The article is almost entirely about the link between misogyny and violent extremism, but I think notable that this is coming up in the context of an event about antisemitism. linking increasingly-perceived-as-bullshit antisemitism with misogyny and manosphere stuff is good for zionists if they can pull it off.

Dr Meger said her survey of 1,100 boys aged between 13 and 17 and 2,300 adults found misogyny was the most common predictor of men being driven to extremist ideologies. “More so than how someone places themselves on a political spectrum, more so than their religiosity, their ethnicity, what online things they engage with, the one thing we measured that was most likely to be able to predict if someone any of the forms of violent extremism we measured was their attitudes about the permissibility of violence against women,” she said.

“It finds that if you combine the hostile gender attitudes with only the gendered online behaviours [such as] manfluencer engagement, online dating and online pornography, these factors together accounted for between 90 and 97 per cent of all the explained variants in how someone responds to the violent extremism measures.”

the researcher in question didn’t have any quotes specific to antisemitism. I looked up her list of publications and she has one about revolutionary feminism and che guevera, another that uses the term political economy in relation to feminism, and also a dud, arguing russia won’t invade ukraine in mid-feb 2022 (whoops!).

I also found this quote from the article notable:

Dr Meger said her research also included qualitative and quantitative data provided by more than 500 Australian teachers about the manifestation of misogynistic and extremist views in the classroom. “It was roughly 25 per cent [of teachers surveyed] said they had experienced sentiments from students that violence to resist government authority was legitimate,” she said.

I’m surprised that’s not higher after several years of watching government authority actively support genocide and execution of children.

Middleeasteye.net with a deep dive on Hezbollah’s last few years, from Oct 7 through the pager attacks and into the reconstitution of their armed forces and current status. This was an interesting and detailed article, worth reading in full

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/the-resurrection-of-hezbollah

Generally trump being a racist fox news uncle is not newsworthy, but you could share round ups of his more notable posts if he’s hitting a particular topic hard. But we don’t need to hear whatever tripe he’s spewing every time someone changes his diaper. That includes his twists and turns of seething over Iran, the last 6 months have proven that his signal to noise ratio is low. Use your judgement.

FT on the UAEs investment in Africa. I didn’t appreciate the scope of their activity

https://archive.ph/EcNYx

Gulf operations are what the lcs was for

Tbf, Pakistan was also playing calvinball during mou negotiations

And now where did that get them

The shitposts here are really moving up the value chain lately, keep it up everyone

This was literally the battle plan for the infamous 2023 counteroffensive

rofl

if he does bail he’s going to have to be pretty careful about where he chooses to settle. there are some real crazies in the iranian diaspora community

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed Thursday that it targeted Al-Azraq Air Base in Jordan’s eastern desert with ballistic missiles, destroying three F-35 fighter jets and heavily damaging three others, according to Iranian media.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/iran-claims-ballistic-missile-strike-destroyed-3-us-f-35-jets-at-jordan-air-base/4013824