Leaders of the five countries agreed to deploy a joint anti-terror task force backed by France in 2017 but...
military rulers of Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali have all accused Paris of having an outsize role after years of French deployments on their territories.
Burkina and Niger "have decided in full sovereignty to quit all instances of the G5 Sahel, including the joint force" as of November 29, the two countries said in a statement.

Protests against Israel-Hamas war expected in 13 London boroughs over weekend
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ … on-weekend

India agrees to withdraw soldiers from Maldives
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci … 023-12-03/

Not much comment in news articles from the Hindu Nationalist and India's ministry of foreign affairs did not immediately respond to a request for comment

They are mohammedans, Sharia Law and Sunni Islam being official, although far more interesting religions and beliefs may have existed in old ancient Maldivian cultures.

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tahanson43206 · 2023-12-05 08:20:41

In another topic, Mars_B4_Moon just posted a link to an article by Robert Zubrin....

Because the article concludes with an argument about war, I thought it might fit into this topic by RobertDyck...

But of course, it would be better to unite our world without war. To do so, we must ask ourselves why we need war. Tyrants claim that war will always be inevitable, since we live on a small world and there is only so much of it to go around. As Adolf Hitler put it in 1941, “The laws of existence require uninterrupted killing so that the better may live.” Limited resources imply eternal war, which justifies tyranny.
In fact, Earth’s resources are infinite. That is because there are no such things as “natural resources.” There are only naturally occurring raw materials, which are transformed into resources through human creativity and ingenuity in the form of inventions. Furthermore, inventions are cumulative: since all inventions are combinations of previous inventions, the more inventions there are, the more there can be. This is why, even though the human race has grown eightfold since Thomas Malthus wrote his erroneous thesis on the dangers of overpopulation two centuries ago, the resources available per person today are vastly greater than in his time.
But the idea that Earth’s resources are infinite is counterintuitive. Making people understand that can be like trying to convince a mathematically illiterate person that a 1-centimeter line contains an infinite number of points. It just doesn’t seem possible. But even the most elementary student of mathematics can readily accept the idea that there are an infinite number of points in a line that extends an infinite distance in both directions.
This is the true value of space. It is not a question of obtaining raw materials. We will probably not get oil from Mars. We will get inventions that will benefit humanity greatly. For just as the joyously innovative frontier society that was early America showered the world with inventions from the steamboat and the telegraph to the lightbulb, centrally-generated electric power, recorded sound, motion pictures, airplanes, and much more, so explorers and settlers on Mars will be forced to innovate dramatically in many vital areas, including biotech (to deal with the critical shortage of arable land), robotics and artificial intelligence (to overcome the severe labor shortage), and advanced forms of nuclear power (to provide for the needs of an energy-intensive society completely lacking fossil fuels.)
But these benefits, as great as they are, pale in comparison to the greatest blessing we will receive from Mars, which is the knowledge that there is no need to kill each other in provincial fights over territory on Earth when we can create new worlds for everyone.
To prevent war, the Weinersmiths would lock humanity in a cage. But that is the way to insure war. For the Weinersmiths, our freedom to explore space is the problem. But exactly the opposite is true. Freedom is not the problem. Freedom is the solution.
On to Mars.

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Mars_B4_Moon · 2024-02-19 08:25:23

U.S. military reports 1st Houthi unmanned underwater vessel in Red Sea
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-militar … l-red-sea/

Trouble at US space force as multibillion-dollar program cancelled
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 … -cancelled
Development of classified military communications satellite terminated over cost, scheduling and difficulty...

U.S. envoy: ‘Double down’ on sending information into North Korea
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/u-envoy-doubl … 18242.html
Washington's top envoy for North Korean human rights called Monday for a greater push in sending information about the outside world into the isolated state through

Russia claims full control of Avdiivka after Ukrainian retreat
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ … an-retreat

Ukraine claims to have sunk Russian landing ship in drone attack
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ … ack-crimea

400 detained in Russia for attending events in memory of Navalny
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world … lny-592296

Zeihan
who has been a subject of discussion in this thread, he had a big hissy fit calling Elon Musk a Communist, a Nazi, a South African White 'Racist' and every other defamed name you can imagine?

Godwin's law or Godwin's Rule an Internet adage asserting that everything eventually stupidly breaks down to Racism and 'Hitler' to win an arguement, the longer any topic happens the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches

In a shocking turn of events, renowned analyst Peter Zeihan has announced his resignation from X, citing backlash from users over his Ukraine War predictions. Zeihan, known for his geopolitical insights, took to Twitter to express his frustration, labeling his critics as bots and Russian propagandists. Furthermore, he made a sensational claim, alleging that Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, is a white supremacist from South Africa.

https://trendsnewsline.com/2023/11/30/p … premacist/

Zeihan’s crybaby attention seeker hissy fit and another final departure ...never to come back or so he claimed

'Elon Musk: I simply can’t support anything that man does anymore.'

Zeihan went crybaby but maybe his owners or sponsors must have told him to get his backside back in the chair posting vids and get back making political posts on twitter feeds
a few days after his drama queen hissy fit he returned to twitter or 'X'
ttps://zeihan.com/why-im-done-with-twitter-or-x-or-whatever-you-call-it/

South of the Border?

Venezuela building up troops on Guyana border, satellite images show
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ … ite-images

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kbd512 · 2024-02-19 10:51:34

Peter Zeihan thinks Elon Musk is a white supremacist because he's tired of feeding company resources into the process of Ukrainians and Russians mass murdering each other?

Lol.

Musk is saying that Zelensky is starting to act like another Putin thug, that the world doesn't need any more of those people than we already have, and he doesn't want to spend company money to perpetuate that thuggery any longer. Zeihan can throw as many temper tantrums as he wants to, but that doesn't or at least shouldn't make anyone else beholden to his irrational toddler-like demands. Charity for your pet cause is not owed to you by anyone. Leftists don't seem to get that.

Mars_B4_Moon · 2024-03-03 08:29:15

‘Flour massacre’: Lifesaving aid becomes a deadly struggle in Gaza
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east … ble-famine

Are Israel and Russia Influencing American Public Opinion and Policy?
https://artofneed.com/2024/02/29/corrup … egitimacy/

About 170 people ‘executed’ in Burkina Faso village attacks, official says
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ … stract.com

Economy another victim of war in impoverished Sudan
https://business.inquirer.net/447219/ec … shed-sudan

Darién Gap Migration Is Halted After Colombia Arrests Boat Captains
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/worl … rests.html

Colombia pauses buying Israeli weapons and president calls war in Gaza 'genocide'
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireSto … -107698152

rebels, marxist maosit lefists, nationalists and drug runner gangs

history from 2019

Clashes at the Venezuela-Colombia border
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47343322

Security forces have used tear gas to disperse Venezuelan protesters gathered at the country's border with Colombia.
President Nicolás Maduro has closed the country's border with Brazil amid a row over the delivery of humanitarian aid.

Turkey bears responsibility for possible war crimes in Syria, Human Rights Watch says
https://apnews.com/article/syria-turkey … 0dde75838e

Germany hosts new peace talks between Armenia, Azerbaijan
https://www.europeaninterest.eu/germany … zerbaijan/

How ‘Titanic’ encouraged defections from North Korea
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-titani … rth-korea/

Titanic shattered box office records in countless countries all over the world, but it ended up having an even more profound effect on a nation where even watching it was illegal. In 2007, Park Yeon-mi and her family fled North Korea in an effort to escape the oppressive regime, with her love of Cameron’s film playing a huge part in the risky decision.
Having witnessed the mother of a school classmate be executed for loaning a South Korean feature to a friend, the punishment associated with external cinema was capital. Undeterred, though, Park viewed mainstream movies as “a window for us to see the outside world.”
“There were different levels of punishment,” she explained to The Guardian. “If you were caught with a Bollywood or Russian movie you were sent to prison for three years, but if it was South Korean or American you were executed.” Despite the inherent dangers, Park and her friends developed a deep-seated love of popular titles.
“My favourite movies were Titanic, James Bond and Pretty Woman – people smuggled in pirate copies from China,” she continued. “Everyone was hungry so they couldn’t afford to buy many DVDs, so if I had Snow White and my friend had James Bond we would swap.”
The prospect of death looming overhead for doing something as innocuous as viewing a film is a spine-chilling prospect, but Park “couldn’t stop watching movies because there was no fun in North Korea.” Due to the mundane nature of her everyday life, “when I watched them, I saw something new and felt hope – fear didn’t stop me, nor will it stop others.”
The black market in North Korea for Western cinema has been booming for years against the express wishes of the authorities, but Titanic proved so powerful for Park that it served as the catalyst for her family to flee their home country for good

Why Yeonmi Park's Wild Stories Are Getting Meme'd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywEF67Z1YQs

After appearance on Joe Rogan, some accuse Yeonmi Park of exaggeration and even lying, she might be suffering trauma slight delusion of events in memory and there is no doubt life in North Korea is brutal but maybe stories can be told in a book and now she's got a source of income

Would Putin stop if he wins in Ukraine? Let’s not find out.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary … ing-putin/

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kbd512 · 2024-03-03 18:35:42

Mars_B4_Moon,

A lot of people with no frame of reference cannot imagine how a dictator who has no functional restraints on the use of his power might treat his own people. That doesn't mean Yeon-mi Park is lying, it just means the people who listened to what she described have no frame of reference for what she is talking about. Executing someone for watching a movie is wildly outside the western psyche. It seems completely alien to us. That's how different a communist country like North Korea is, when compared to say, America or England.

This is also how and why they come up with nonsensical explanations for what is so obviously true. An angry evil man wasn't responsible for murdering all those people using a gun, it was that no good rotten gun he was carrying. That is what a child's mind does to protect itself from the infinitely more horrifying idea that there are random people out there in society who are so consumed by their emotions that they'll randomly kill people if the opportunity presents itself. In the conservative mindset, rather than collectively punishing the rest of society for the evil deeds of the few, we separate those few immoral / irrational / evil people from the rest of society so that they can no longer visit their madness on everyone else abiding by the rules of civilized society. The radical leftists find this intolerable, because they know their ideology is depraved and evil. They would visit their depravity on others, if only the right opportunity was present for them to exploit. Having their darkest fervent desires structurally thwarted by the mechanisms of law and order is anathema to what they want, which is to destroy society and replace it with their own version of dystopia, which they've convinced themselves is utopia.

Recently on "The View", Whoopi Goldberg opined that President Biden has the power to "round up and jail all Republicans". "As the President, he has that power right now. I don't understand why he's not using it." Even if I think she's as nutty as the rest of the Democrats have become these days, I would be a complete fool to believe she's not sincere in her views. Whether I like it or not, that's her "view" of the world- that the purpose of political power is to round up and imprison anyone who doesn't share your own politics. It's not to serve your nation and its people- all of them, even the ones you disagree with, it's to punish your political enemies for daring to hold different opinions than your own.

That is why I opined that we are living through another age of unreason. We're regressing back to the dark ages, because our progressives are making great progress in transforming nations around the world into religious fundamentalist indoctrination centers which support one flavor of the progressive religion or another. They are merely the next group of unreasonable people trying to use force to assert domination over people who simply disagree with them and want no part of their madness. This new age of unreason from the political left (marxists, socialists, national socialists, communists), is authoritarian in nature, as it always has been, and always will be. This pointless endeavor is doomed to miserable failure, but between the lot of them they lack sufficient intelligence to understand why their latest bid for domination will also fail like all the rest before it. Nobody who is not deeply delusional or malevolent thinks society should be or can be run that way.

So long as there are about 10 good people out there in any given society who are willing to speak the truth, regardless of personal consequences, the ideas and egos of these "radical immoralists" are so fragile that failure is the only possible outcome. They know they're evil, we know they're evil, and they know that we know they're evil. We've seen the end results of around a dozen different experiments with radical immorality / communism now, but our leftists are still pursuing it. That can only mean they want collective punishment and other forms of depravity, and that they're incapable of learning from the mistakes of the past. They claim to be creative, but they're out of ideas and arguments for their ideology. There's no introspection or evaluation of results going on in their heads, and their justifications are not credible to reasonable people. That happens to describe most people, even if reasonability means very different things to different people.

I'm more worried at this point about what they'll do to themselves than I am about what they can inflict on anyone else. Watching their entire worldview collapse in real time has affected them in very unhealthy ways. Actions driven by blind anger and hatred are the only thing they have left, because they've well and truly lost the argument. Everyone who is not captured by their cult knows that there's something deeply wrong with them. Nothing worthwhile will ever come from teaching people to hate themselves or others.

I expect that the remainder of this century to be spent removing their poisonous influence over civilized society. In time, the cycle will repeat itself, just as it has so many times before.

Mars_B4_Moon · 2024-03-23 13:58:50

it seems people in the USA already sent Russians info on a possible islamist terror attack coming but Russia authorities had chosen to ignore warnings

Russia says United States must share any information it has on attack near Moscow
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ru … 024-03-22/

the Russians are focused on their meat grinder war in Ukraine

Several unnamed current and former officials described the FSB as less effective than the KGB, describing it as "rife with corruption, beset by bureaucratic bloat and ultimately out of touch"

Canadian Volunteers in Bakhmut, 2023
https://funker530.com/video/canadian-vo … hmut-2023/

This GoPro-style footage shows Canadians who have volunteered for Ukraine ( "Recon Team Kilo") in a firefight with Russian forces. This incident occured during the fighting for Bakhmut last year, in 2023. Some of their faces have been blurred in order to protect their identities.

Swedish built Leo 2 in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3QOORnXB1E

Leopard 2 is a 3rd generation German main battle tank (MBT)

Dozens of Nobel Prize winners demand release of Belarus political prisoners
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl … 15990.html

North Korea resumes missile tests, raising tensions with its rivals after their military drills' end
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wi … -108217700

UN must block Iranian missile supply to Houthis in Yemen, UK and US say
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ … and-us-say

Israel-Gaza war: Ceasefire needed for effective aid distribution, says UN chief
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-68648409

Vessel struck by projectile, catches fire off Yemen's Mukha, UK maritime-trade agency says
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-ea … 024-03-23/

Burkina Faso's Security Forces Are Killing Civilians, Say Survivors of One Massacre
https://www.voanews.com/a/burkina-faso- … 39248.html

Guyana expresses concerns over new efforts by Venezuela to claim Essequibo
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/03 … essequibo/

Police strike back against Haiti's feared 'Barbecue' gang leader: Cops kill several 'bandits'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … eader.html

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Mars_B4_Moon · 2024-04-06 12:18:14

Worrying signs exist that IS growing stronger in Syria
https://www.voanews.com/a/worrying-sign … 58782.html

Mars_B4_Moon · 2024-04-13 00:35:37

Rep. Tim Walberg ‘stands’ by his belief Israel should nuke Gaza
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep-tim-walb … 07029.html

Madness from the U.S. state of Michigan

does he want an airburst because Gaza looks pretty much bombed and burnt out and leveled, or does he want atomic fire to dig up the soil, does he want Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs to breath in all the 'Fallout' also
...and think he's back in 1945 when the Pakistanis didn't have the bomb, when Saudis didn't have huge influence on markets and islamic immigrants, when Iran was more friendly and didn't have those missiles?

He previously Faced Backlash for Praising some African dictators Plan to Kill Gay Lesbian People??

Walberg thinks man can not pollute the environment, he thinks 'God' will fix the world and rejects all of the scientific data on climate change thinking the Bible is a recorded historical documentary

http://time.com/4800000/tim-walberg-god-climate-change/

He has hung around with types who said Obama might be a woman or the First Lady may be transsexual and posted and promoted birther conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama, arguing that Obama can be impeached over 'fake' birth certificates.

https://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ss … ant_l.html

and now He admits Israel has Nuclear Weapons?

Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons, estimates of Israel's stockpile vary by different reporting. Israel has also declined to sign the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) a French uranium company based in Gabon may have sold Israel uranium in 1965 the USA launched an investigation but was unable to determine if such a sale had taken place, secret British documents obtained by BBC Newsnight show that Britain made hundreds of secret shipments of restricted materials to Israel in the 1950s and 1960s.
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov. … clear1.pdf

Mordechai Vanunu also known as John Crossman, an Israeli former nuclear technician and peace activist who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently lured to Italy by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, where he was drugged and abducted
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/21/inte … -NUCL.html
He felt that he was looked down on by those who ran the Dimona facility due to his Moroccan origin.
He claims to have suffered from "cruel and barbaric treatment" at the hands of prison authorities, and suggests that these would have been different if he had not converted to Christianity.

in 2018, Vanunu tweeted, "after 32 years of all the Israel Nuclear secrets had gone to all the world they still claim I am a security risk" and, he tweeted "They renew all the restrictions for another year after 14 years and 18 years in prison."
https://thearabdailynews.com/2018/07/03 … ity-risks/

"We shouldn't be spending a dime on humanitarian aid. It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima, get it over quick," Walberg had told his constituents.

Watch: Far-Right Congressman Suggests Nuking Gaza

https://newrepublic.com/post/180306/rig … ution-gaza

Congressman rebuked for call to bomb Gaza ‘like Nagasaki and Hiroshima’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 … ssman-gaza

Rep. Walberg (R-MI) Calls for Gaza to Be Bombed “Like Nagasaki and Hiroshima”

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/1/h … _hiroshima

While the pope called for peace, a Republican member of Congress has publicly suggested Gaza should be bombed “like Nagasaki and Hiroshima.”

Video shows Tim Walberg suggesting Gaza be dealt with 'like Nagasaki and Hiroshima'

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol … 155099007/

Hiroshima locals criticize U.S. lawmaker over A-bomb remark about Gaza

https://japantoday.com/category/nationa … omb-remark

In response world wide media and political outrage Walberg has now changed his mind again and now denied advocating the use of nuclear weapons, claiming that he "used a metaphor to convey the need for both Israel and Ukraine to win wars as swiftly as possible" using Nukes...but not really....and despite his reference to the US dropping atomic bombs on two Japanese cities

https://web.archive.org/web/20240331092 … ssman-gaza

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Mars_B4_Moon · 2024-04-14 01:26:06

Iran retaliates by launching drone strikes on Israel
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/iran-retaliat … 59058.html

Following an airstrike in Syria last week that killed two Iranian generals

As Iran attacks Israel, Biden confronts an escalating Middle East crisis he had hoped to avoid
https://www.aol.com/iran-attacks-israel … 55564.html

For President Joe Biden, an attack on Israel launched from Iranian soil amounts to a scenario he’d greatly sought to avoid

Joe Biden reaffirms US 'ironclad' support of Israel after Iran missile and drone attacks
https://news.sky.com/story/ten-year-old … l-13114842

RAF jets scramble to Middle East to shoot down Iran drones heading to Israel
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-new … t-32582418

Yemen: How one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters could get even worse
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/yemen-ho … e-13111013

US again dismisses Venezuela’s rumour of military base in Guyana
https://guyanachronicle.com/2024/04/08/ … in-guyana/

North Korea’s New Hwasong-16B Hypersonic Glider Heralds a New Missile Era
https://thediplomat.com/2024/04/north-k … ssile-era/

N. Korea's state media highlights ties with Russia amid deepening cooperation
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation … 72367.html

Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv electricity plant destroyed by Russian missiles and drones
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ … and-drones

Jordan Reportedly Says It Will Shoot Down Any Drones Entering Its Airspace
https://gellerreport.com/2024/04/jordan … pace.html/

Biden returns to White House after Iran targets Israel
https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-returns … 68957.html

and in Canada a report by Jewish Israeli media

the islamo alien crowd inside Canadian erupted in celebration, and the protest leader led them in shouts of " al Lahu Ackbars ! " roaring and screaming the claim that a pedophile terrorist Moongod al - Lah is more great, a bigger and better entity they claim, saying their god called al-Lah is 'greater' or superior to other Gods such as the God of Jews or Christians or Pagans.

'Toronto protesters cheer as Iran fires drones at Israel'
https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemiti … cle-796864

'Hamas supporters in Canada are celebrating the news of Iran launching drones at Israel. Funny enough, these were the same folks calling for a ceasefire when Israel was taking the offensive.'

https://twitter.com/SanUvacha/status/17 … 7135156641

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Mars_B4_Moon · 2024-04-14 08:36:55

Japan PM strongly condemns Iran attack on Israel, conflict escalation

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024 … ister.html

Mars_B4_Moon · 2024-04-20 05:07:57

Injuries and 'material losses' after large explosion at Iraq military base
https://news.sky.com/story/injuries-and … e-13118972

Iraqi military force says base was attacked, army investigates
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Middle … vestigates
Two security sources had said earlier that an airstrike caused the blast

Explosion rocks military base in Iraq housing Iranian-aligned forces
https://nypost.com/2024/04/20/world-new … r-baghdad/

North Korea airs song praising Kim Jong-un as 'friendly father' – video
https://www.theguardian.com/global/vide … ther-video

South of the US Border, human exploitation, gun smuggling, traffickers and drug smugglers

Mexico struggling to find medical fentanyl, despite cartels making loads of the illicit drug: study
https://nypost.com/2024/04/12/world-new … cer-study/

Yemen: How one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters is getting even worse
https://nz.news.yahoo.com/yemen-one-wor … 00602.html

Babies are starving as Yemen teeters on brink of collapse - while Houthis use Gaza crisis to earn 'hero' status
https://news.sky.com/story/yemen-how-on … e-13111013

Ethiopia: Bishop appeals for help to alleviate humanitarian crisis in Tigray
https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/49600

Some in French media made claims of incoming turf wars, as UN peacekeeping mission in Mali ends, force will leave behind security 'vacuum'

The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali ends after 10 years, following the junta’s pressure to go
https://apnews.com/article/mali-un-peac … 1a101c8d98

Rift between US and Niger reveals failure of ‘counterterrorism’ in West Africa
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/ … est-africa

Zeihan stated that France would once again be a world superpower and yet the French continue getting kicked out of Africa and having their language banned

Cuban Radio news report

'Burkina Faso orders three French diplomats to leave the African country for subversive activities'
https://www.radiohc.cu/en/noticias/inte … activities

from 1 month ago CNN

Around 170 ‘executed’ in three Burkina Faso villages, public prosecutor says
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/04/afri … ef=mc.news

and Fox

Burkina Faso's military government expels 3 French diplomats from country
https://www.foxnews.com/world/burkina-f … ts-country

Colombia’s Petro Seeks Deal to Let Ecopetrol Produce Venezuelan Oil and Gas
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/colom … 02634.html

Ukraine-Russia war: Russia says it shot down Ukrainian warplanes, Kyiv says it hit Russian command posts
https://news.sky.com/video/ukraine-russ … s-13119070

Mars_B4_Moon · 2024-05-05 03:34:29

The Corpse of Bakhmut
https://funker530.com/video/the-corpse-of-bakhmut/

Video of a drive through the shattered remnants of Bakhmut. Just as life will spring from a carcass, so is foliage growing in the corpse of this grubby industrial city. This is the face of war, an imperial war fought to seize territory from others. Most of the more than 70,000 people who lived in Bakhmut before the war have fled or been killed, and most of the structures in the city are damaged beyond repair. The greenery merely conceals the destruction, the evidence of lives irrevocably changed or snuffed out.

33.2 square miles or 86km² not a lot of ground smaller than Seattle, Marshall Islands, Barbados, Tonga, American Samoa much smaller than Maui Hawaii about the size of Manhattan / Area but to capture one area they could capture major roads and routes to other areas.

As of the end of April 2024, Russia occupies a total of 17.53% (+0.01%) of Ukraine. This figure includes Crimea and areas of Donetsk and Luhansk occupied before 2022.
https://twitter.com/War_Mapper/status/1 … 7798056008
This represents a net gain in Russia's favour of approximately 86km² since the end of March.

Hindu India media WION an Indian International English language news channel and France24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxcv5vpzEXc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYpwp_AVUZY

in 2023

'What do French AMX-10RC mean for Ukraine?'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgj3BdtyZLs

news of captured equipment today

Russia displays Western equipment captured from Ukrainian army
https://www.voanews.com/a/russia-displa … 94174.html

The exhibit, organized by the Russian Defense Ministry, features more than 30 pieces of Western-made heavy equipment, including a U.S.-made M1 Abrams battle tank and a Bradley armored fighting vehicle, a Leopard 2 tank and a Marder armored infantry vehicle from Germany, and a French-made AMX-10RC armored vehicle.
The exhibition, which will remain open for a month at a World War II memorial venue in western Moscow, also displays firearms, military papers and other documents.
Russian authorities have criticized supplies of Western weapons and military equipment to Ukraine, casting them as evidence of NATO's direct involvement in the fighting. At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly declared that Western military supplies to Kyiv wouldn't change the course of the conflict and prevent Russia from achieving its goals.
The exhibition comes as Russian forces have grabbed more land in eastern Ukraine, taking advantage of delays in U.S. military assistance to push back the under-gunned Kyiv forces.
Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, has hailed the Moscow exhibition as a "brilliant idea."

In 2023 a video 'Russian invasion of Ukraine: A visual timeline of the war'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BvOBW3FwbA

Leaders in government, funders, politicians, Davos bankers talking in 'Switzerland' the G7, the EU statements.

also in 2023 WEF on the 'Ukraine War' almost one hour long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIrkIKNcJGY

The city of Bakhmut is just one of many towns, villages and cities in Ukraine almost totally and utterly destroyed, holes in every wall, almost all rooftops collapsed, burnt out holes in floors, unexploded bombs, with no functional building left standing. Putin announces annexation of four break away regions, but he hasn't been able to hold them and territory has been switching sides a number of times. Zaporizhzhia is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper River the centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, armed forces of the Russian Federation control bigger portion of the Zaporizhia Oblast.
While some of the war looks terrible and horrific trend warfare there are movements and stalemates, there have been areas with little or no movement and also territorial shifts in Ukraine since war first began, there was a time when it seemed the Russians had taken half of Ukraine and the other half might fall. The Ukraine counter attack had very high success, Kharkiv seems to be one of the last big wins but the city remains under intermittent Russian fire, with reports that almost a quarter of the city was destroyed by April 2024 in a more friendly time parts of the MIR station were designed at Khartron in Kharkiv.
Cities like Kyiv or Kiev appear relatively undamaged compared with cities near the front lines. Odessa has seen large damage, UNESCO announced that the historical city center of Odesa was added to UNESCO's World Heritage List which would make it easier provide technical and financial assistance if needed. Russian military forces attacked Mykolaiv putting the city under siege, Ukraine opened some roads and retook the city but Russian artillery have continued to shell it, half of the population is reported missing, the city although damaged is important in the South and somewhat South West region and provides Ukraine with access to the Black Sea. In April 2022, Russian troops had taken over Kherson, the city witnessed heavy fighting, over a long period of fighting and political events Russian forces were ordered to withdraw and go back to the other side of the river, Numerous localities with Russia Soviet names or names associated with Russian imperialism – were renamed after Ukrainian, the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine was breached in June 2023 thousands were evacuated, and floods submerged several villages in Ukrainian- and Russian-controlled areas, average flow in the Dnieper River is about 1,670 m3/sec Water from the dam reservoir supplies or supplied a Nuclear Power Plant. Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city also known as Dnipropetrovsk the city had already politically shifted away from pro-Russian parties and figures towards those favoring closer ties with the European Union or USA culture, control of a Dnieper River crossing and the opportunity it would provide to cut off Ukrainian forces in the Donbas makes the city a high-value target for the Russians, it became a logistical hub for aid, the Russian language names have been removed in 2022 Dnipro removed from the city all monuments to figures of Russian culture and history, the Dnieper River runs through the larger Dnipropetrovsk oblast or province/region. Mariupol has been lost and mostly destroyed, Russian military secured complete control over the city. A city named Chernihiv in the North has switched hands, it is not far from the Capital city of Kyiv, during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the city was under siege by the Russian Armed Forces it was briefly shut off from the world and had been completely encircled by Russian forces. Roads were retaken and the siege broken, a Russian sergeant who was captured by Ukrainian forces was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for committing war crimes during the siege. It would seem there is a looming threat from the North from the Belarusian position, in 2022, since Russian troops invaded Ukraine from Belarus.

Cuba?

Desperate Putin offers high pay and passports to lure Cubans into Russian army
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/18 … -passports

As the conflict in Ukraine rages on, Russia is resorting to the recruitment of foreign nationals

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How Russia Recruits Soldiers From Cuba to Fight in Ukraine
https://www.wsj.com/world/how-russia-re … e-709b5ac3
Eager to escape Communist island’s poverty, Cubans are joining Russian army

'British traitor fighting for Russia recruits other Brits to take arms against Ukraine in Putin's war'
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/b … s-32736842
Former British convict and drug addict Aiden Minnis has been trying to lure others

How Iran’s ‘kamikaze’ Shahed drones are being used in Ukraine
https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/04/2 … in-ukraine

Major Ilya Yevlash said he cannot remember one day without the sound of suspected Iranian “kamikaze” drones wreaking havoc in his country.

North Korea says it tested 'super-large' cruise missile warhead and new anti-aircraft missile
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/nort … 31775.html

Frontline report: Russians push further north near Avdiivka despite mounting losses
https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/05/04/ … ng-losses/

Russell 'Texas' Bentley: The life and death of an American from Donetsk
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international … 456_4.html
Based in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region since 2014, 'Texas' committed himself body and soul to the pro-Russian side.

Belarus is also somewhat involved, the Chechens also there as Mercs but might be killed others and switching sides depending on who pays the islamist jihadi the most bitcoins that day.

Exiled Belarus opposition leader says she hasn’t heard from her imprisoned husband for over 400 days
https://apnews.com/article/belarus-luka … 66386b874d

Kadyrov's succession in Chechnya
https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Kadyrov's-succession-in-Chechnya-60632.html

from within America
https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1785374169250562260

quotes from the religious the first Somali American, the Democrats sometimes are embarrassed by her and Republican-controlled House voted to remove Omar from her seat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, citing past comments she had made about Israel and concerns over her objectivity, Omar is pro-muslim immigration and had online fights with Trump when he banned regions with troublesome people and terrorists, she has been very critical of the Israeli government actions, she has made remarks on AIPAC and American support for Israel, Omar and Representative Rashida Tlaib were banned from entering Israel, Omar opposed Biden's cluster munitions to Ukraine in support of a Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russian forces saying, "We can support the people of Ukraine in their freedom struggle while also opposing violations of international law." After the news on George Floyd Omar supported the police abolition movement in Minneapolis that sought to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department, those mobs with the "defund the police" slogans.

'A sitting Senator, labels Americans protesting against a foreign country accused of carrying out a genocide funded with our tax dollars as terrorists and puts a target on their back to be attacked. This is insanely dangerous and somehow no one will condemn it.'

now rumors of fortified regions going down, Russia slowly gaining in the meat grinder and Donbass Lines Collapsing

Ukraine is losing thousands of people, Russia is losing thousands but the Russians also slowly starting to advance so it looks grim

however gains by Russia seem limited for the moment, 33.2 square miles

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Mars_B4_Moon · 2024-05-18 05:06:11

An extremist group and ethnic militias committed atrocities in Mali, Human Rights Watch says
https://www.thespec.com/news/world/afri … ce89e.html
An extremist group linked to al-Qaida carried out mass killings in two villages in central Mali in January, Human Rights Watch said in a report

Venezuela sends more troops to border with Guyana amid growing domestic challenges
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation … 08748.html

North Korea confirms missile launch, vows bolstered nuclear force, its news agency says
https://www.voanews.com/a/north-korea-c … 17248.html

US officials held indirect talks with Iran to avoid regional escalation, Axios reports
https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/world-news … calatio/en

Polish judge sought on espionage charges after seeking asylum in Belarus
https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7784/Ar … in-belarus

Father and daughter tourists are attacked by 'Palestine supporter' who saw them removing an anti-Israel sticker from a wall at Belgian train station
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … ation.html
Shocking video shows his assailant rushing down an escalator at the station in Bruges, Belgium

that story of the Trojan Horse of criminal alien culture immigration, spreading factions and conflicts from other zones into a new territory

Coming to the USA soon?

an issue that may cost Biden the election?

religious groups and charity involved in the smuggling and invasion? Mormons, Latter Day Saints, Utah political operatives, the Vatican or Catholics, the Jewish Charity Hewbrew Immigrant Society, Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC), Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM), the Muslim and Sharia Jihadi Brotherhood linked groups, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, waves and waves gangsters and human traffickers coming through Mexico, guns and human slavery and drugs, unvetted jihadi muslim types dress trendy and arrive from Somalia, Afghanistan, Kenya, Albania, Chechnya...sometimes shipped across the world and flown as near as possible to the Mexican border

Robert F. Kennedy at 2 o clocking in the morning 11 months ago

Warned Of 'Unsustainable' Influx Of Migrants In Video Taken At Southern Border
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_vW00Z-_Co

Peru, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Afghanistan....117 nations arriving at the border

he talks of horrific abuse and an 'open border'

CNN says candidate Kennedy currently does not meet the qualifying threshold for the first presidential debate Biden and Trump agreed to participate in.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-e … rcna152392

RFK Jr. rages at Trump and Biden ‘colluding’ to exclude him from debates
https://nypost.com/2024/05/15/us-news/r … m-debates/

“Keeping viable candidates off the debate stage undermines democracy,” added Kennedy, 70. “Forty-three percent of Americans identify as independents.”

In year 2024, House Republicans indicated their intention to move forward with two articles of impeachment against Alejandro Mayorkas, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, alleging "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law". The US House vote in February to impeach failed to pass in a 214–216 vote, with four House Republicans joining the Democratic Party vote. In April articles of impeachment were delivered to the Senate. The next day, the Senate dismissed the accusations by agreeing to a point of order that the articles of impeachment did not comply with the United States Constitution because they did not "allege conduct that rises to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor".

Rather than accept their political win, some Leftwing news then started to act ridiculous, New-Democrat websites or Socialism Left news agency or group Jewish opponents of impeachment basically accused people of wanting to throw Mayorkas into an Oven and called them Hitlers or Racists and all the usual nonsense politics, some newspapers all the way from Israel even got involved and said the anti-Mayorkas rhetoric has echoed the holocaust or antisemitism

Suspected Terrorists Illegally Entering U.S. Up Over 2,500% Under Biden From Trump Era
https://ussanews.com/2024/05/17/suspect … trump-era/

Biden Admin. Sends Millions to Religious Nonprofits Facilitating Mass Illegal Migration
https://cis.org/Bensman/Biden-Admin-Sen … -Migration
A CIS examination of one subset of 200-plus NGOs helping a mammoth UN-led immigration assistance project reveals pass-through taxpayer funding of the worst mass migration in U.S. history

Fighting rages in Gaza's Rafah after first aid delivery via pier
https://www.voanews.com/a/fighting-rage … 17323.html

Soccer’s Governing Body Delays Vote on Palestinian Call to Bar Israel
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/worl … -gaza.html

Yemen's Houthi rebels claim shooting down another US MQ-9 Reaper drone as footage shows wreckage
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/world/yem … -1.6891763

Ukrainians Fleeing Russia's Kharkiv Offensive Fear Occupation Once Again
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-kharki … sk-1902164

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Mars_B4_Moon · 2024-05-25 05:52:40

Has Trump changed his political views on Israel's war in Gaza?
https://politics.stackexchange.com/ques … 7008#87008

Mars_B4_Moon · 2024-06-04 11:35:07

Biden says 'every reason' to believe Netanyahu is prolonging war for political gain

although not his true words, Joe Biden also stated he would not comment on a statement but before the war, Netanyahu was facing blowback for wanting an overhaul of the nation's judicial system
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white- … rcna155386

Iran-backed Houthis vow ‘escalation,’ fire missiles at U.S. warship in Red Sea; no Americans hurt
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 … issiles-u/

Biden sets asylum limits as large numbers of Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans arrive at border
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/biden-sets-as … 54480.html

On Poland's Border, A Continued Pushback Against Migrants 'Weaponized' By Belarus
https://www.rferl.org/a/poland-russia-b … 78538.html

North Korea to stop sending balloons with rubbish south
https://www.riverineherald.com.au/world … ish-south/

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