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Here we go:

https://nitter.net/revolutionaryem/status/1748873388595040545

This is amazing.

Ships in the Red Sea are going a step further by signaling to Yemen that not only are they not involved with Israel, but with the US too.

“NO ISRAEL/US INVOLVED”

The blockade on the US is in effect.

twitter thread

I just got back from Ukraine, where I was visiting some friends. Everything we have heard about what’s happening in Ukraine is a lie. The reality is darker, bleaker, and unequivocally hopeless. There is no such thing as Ukraine "winning" this war.

• By their estimates, they have lost over one million of their sons, fathers and husbands; an entire generation is gone.

Nazis and destroying the demographics of their own people, name a better duo

• Even in the Southwest, where the anti-Russian sentiment is long-standing, citizens are reluctant or straight-up scared to publicly criticize Zelensky; they will go to jail.
• In every village and town, the streets, shops, and restaurants are mostly absent of men.
• The few men who remain are terrified of leaving their homes for fear of being kidnapped into conscription. Some have resorted to begging friends to break their legs to avoid service.
• Army search parties take place early in the morning, when men leave their homes to go to work. They ambush and kidnap them off the streets and within 3-4 hours they get listed in the army and taken away straight to the front lines with minimal or no training at all; it is "a death sentence."
• It's getting worse every day. Where I was staying, a dentist had just been taken by security forces on his way to work, leaving behind two small children. Every day, 3-5 dead bodies keep arriving from the front lines.
• Mothers and wives fight tooth and nail with the armed forces, beg and plead not to have their men taken away. They try bribing, which sometimes works, but most of the time they are met with physical violence and death threats.
• The territory celebrated as having been "won back" from Russia has been reduced to rubble and is uninhabitable. Regardless, there is no one left to live there and displaced families will likely never return.
• They see the way the war has been reported, at home and abroad. It's a "joke" and "propaganda." They say: “Look around: is this winning?”.
• Worse, some have been hoaxed into believing that once Ukrainians forces are exhausted, American soldiers will come in to replace them and “win the war”.

There is no ambiguity in these people. The war was for nothing - a travesty. The outcome always was, and is, clear. The people are hopeless, utterly destroyed, and living in an unending nightmare. They are pleading for an end, any end - most likely the same "peace" that could have been achieved two years ago. In their minds, they have already lost, for their sons, fathers and husbands are gone, and their country has been destroyed. There is no "victory" that can change that.

Except the peace offer then (see under the The Objectives and Strategy of Russia section) was incredibly favorable for Ukraine (and naive on Russia's part), basically just security guarantees and no NATO membership, without any territorial changes. That ain't happening anymore.

Make no mistake, they are angry with Putin. But they are also angry with Zelensky and the West. They have lost everything, worst of all, hope and faith, and cannot comprehend why Zelenky wishes to continue the current trajectory, the one of human devastation. I didn't witness the war; but what I saw was absolutely heart-breaking. Shame on the people, regardless of their intentions, who have supported this war. And shame on the media for continuing to lie about it.

also lmao at the fucking community note

um actually the US says that only a few Ukrainians have died (based on propaganda fed to them by the Ukrainians)

South Africa to Sue US and UK as Complicit in Gaza Genocide

The U.S. should at least receive sanctions as happened with Germany, a country that is still paying compensation for the Holocaust.

On Monday, South African lawyers handling the Genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced that they are preparing a separate lawsuit against the United States and the United Kingdom for complicity in Zionist war crimes.

The new legal action would aim to bring those complicit in the genocide before civil courts, said Wikus Van Rensburg, who said that the team of South African lawyers has maintained contact with American and British lawyers to finalize the new judicial action.

Even if the U.S. does not accept the ICJ ruling, it should at least receive sanctions as happened with Germany, a country that is still paying compensation for the Holocaust.

The United States must now be held accountable for the crimes it committed,' says Van Rensburg, who is leading the 47-lawyers team.

“We intend to bring legal proceedings against the U.S. Government based on overwhelming evidence that the U.S. Government has, and is, aiding, abetting and supporting, encouraging or providing material assistance and means to Israel and the Israeli Defense Forces. This conduct by the U.S. Government has enabled and continues to enable Israel to engage in international crimes against the Palestinian people,” the South African lawyers said in a letter sent to US President Joe Biden on January 2.

“These crimes resulted in, among others, the displacement of the Palestinian people from their homes and property, destruction of Palestinian property, theft of Palestinian land and which facilitate and assist Israel in committing the ongoing and current war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide , and intentional killing of innocent civilians, including men, women, children and babies as well as the elderly and disabled.”

“The U.S. Government has recently used purported emergency authority provisions to provide 14,000 tank shells, among others, to Israel without Congressional review. In particular, the U.S. Government has indicated that it supposedly used the Arms Export Control Act (presumably P.L. 90-629 as amended through P.L. 117-263, Enacted December 23, 2022, as amended through P.L. 117-263) emergency declaration for the tank rounds worth approximately US$106.5 million for delivery to Israel early in December 2023," they added.

“The tank shells so supplied by the U.S. government to Israel is part of a bigger sale for which Congressional approval will be sought for the larger arms package worth more than US$500 million and comprises of, amongst others, 45,000 shells for Israel's Merkava tanks, which tanks are regularly deployed in Israel's offensive in Gaza, which offensive has killed thousands of civilians' and which continues to kill civilians on a daily basis,” the lawyers pointed out.

South African Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana stressed that lawyers are complying with the “rule of law” by going to an institution established by the United Nations.

“Of course, Israel's supporters, including the UK, will say our request is nonsense. However, there is global support for our view that our case was substantial,” he stated.

Acting precisely in that sense, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron expressed that the accusations are “nonsense.” Meanwhile, White House Homeland Security spokesman John Kirby said the lawsuit is “counterproductive and completely baseless.”

people keep calling me alarmist for suggesting that world war 3 has already started. "but context," they say, "countries don't declare wars anymore, so it can't be world war 3. it's merely an expanding series of interrelated special military operations with a global scope."

or "fam, this is an arby's," they say.

it's always the weirdest things that stick in your craw, right? like i've always been fairly, perhaps obnoxiously critical of the anti-US countries, and extremely disapproving of religious policies therein

but the way motherfucking reddit MFs talk about yemen & the houthis, on god the fury in my heart is unreal. were these motherfuckers alive for the past 10 years???? my entire conscious existence has been a parade of headlines about crises in yemen punctuated by US support for blockading and bombing them to kingdom come. HOW could you possibly think the US did not provoke them? HOW could you think the only people putting their fucking lives on the line to oppose the GENOCIDE in Gaza are in the wrong? these dumbasses would declare an attack on a US base in Iraq (illegally invaded, illegally occupied, illegally retained bases in) a fucking war crime because the US soldiers there haven't killed an Iraqi in the last year (and that probably isn't even true)

I suddenly remembered that time when the US "mistakenly" bombed Syrian Arab Army positions in Deir ez-Zor, which was being besieged by ISIS. Moments after the bombing ISIS launched an attack that was barely repelled.

Sus

Fukuda Tatsuo, son of former Prime Minister Fukuda Yasuo & grandson of Seiwakai founder Fukuda Takeo, indicated that he will seek the dissolution of the Abe faction created by his grandfather.

Total Victory

~nitter~ ~|~ ~twitter~

How are redditors so fucking dumb? They are saying "heh, Iranian missiles are so bad that they can't even sink the ships"

My dude, if they wanted to destroy the ships they absolutely could. Maybe their goal isn't to put civilian lives at risk?

Why is the Westoid brain always so focused on killing and hurting as many people as possible?

Biden can bomb Yemen without any approval from Congress. But smol bean Biden can't do anything but threaten Texas with a lawsuit to stop Operation Lone Star.

And if airstrikes working in Yemen, Biden on South Lawn said: “Well, when you say 'working' -- are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes.”

Source is the Twitter account of the White House Bloomberg correspondent

Update: video of him saying it, it's an exact quote

CW NSFW blood everywhere - dead summary executed bodies shot in the back.

“To Western governments: it is so disturbing to see you not condemning the horrendous, unspeakable crimes that ISR occupation commits in Gaza daily, IN THE SAME WAY as you did for the crimes on #Oct7,” Albanese said in a social media post on Saturday.

“The West’s double standards is what got us here. Time to end it.”

raided an apartment building, lined up all the men, made all the women strip, separated them and mowed down all the men execution style.

Macron is managing to exceed his previous levels of fascism to a point that is remarkable. In speeches recently:

• He said that France needed a "demographics rearmament" - meaning "make babies, you fucks".
• He said that "order goes along with progress, authority with emancipation, they're inseparable, it's always been true".
• He wants all schoolchildren to wear uniforms.

Also he recently said in Davos that France would make it much harder to obtain unemployment benefits - that's after a battery of similar measures those past few years that already made it incredibly harder. They also opened a denunciation online platform where employers can signal when someone unemployed refused a new job, in order to eventually remove their unemployment benefits.

Love the new "Houthis are slavers" talking point liberals are trying to grasp at. Yemen has the second lowest prevalence of slavery among Arab states. KSA, Turkey, Kuwait, and UAE are in the global top 10 for slavery prevalence, and Jordan is in the top 25. Will we be cutting off our relations with these slave states?

https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/map/

Back in the day, the US would at least make up some grand lies about whatever Arabs they designated as enemies. Weapons of mass destruction, throwing babies out of incubators, whatever.

With the Yemenis they're literally just like "yeah they're making number go down so kill them for us, peasants" and Americans are like "Ok!"

Have some self respect, come on.

Britain has zero active naval supply ships for first time

For the first time ever in the modern era, the Royal Navy has no active supply ships and currently depends entirely on allies for the replenishment of stores, including ammunition, at sea.

These ships provide food, spare parts, and ammunition and are key to maintaining the operational effectiveness of deployed Royal Navy vessels. The absence of these ships poses a considerable logistical hurdle, making the Royal Navy heavily dependent on either land-based supplies or support from allied nations.

As of today, RFA Fort Victoria is currently the UK’s only vessel capable of providing solid stores logistic support to the Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers. In a year, she is capable of conducting around 44 replenishments at sea, transferring 27,000 tonnes of fuel and 350 tonnes of ammo, as well as food and spares. The problem? She’s laid up with a skeleton crew.

The lack of stores ships has immediate and significant implications for the UK’s ability to project power globally. Historically, the capability to operate task groups or aircraft carriers independently at a distance has been a hallmark of the UK’s status as a global power.

suckers can't admit they're no longer relevant

https://nitter.cz/LucasFoxNews/status/1748759058163659130#m

BREAKING: Over 15 U.S. Patriot surface-to-air missiles fired from al-Asad air base in Iraq to intercept incoming Iranian missiles - source

$30,000,000 gone and the base was still hit.

There is disagreement about what weapons were used against the base, and it could have been dumb rockets costing only a few thousand dollars each.

milei at Davos:

"We can see how from year zero to the year 1800 the GDP of the world has maintained stable levels.."

This is unbearable.

Libs currently insisting on twitter that the yemen humanitarian crisis and charlie hebdo getting shot up are completely equivalent in terms of inspiring bigotry as a reaction.

Uk labour party: will only recognize palestine if it is acceptable to the state of israel

Yemen is sending some of their handsomest and best dressed warriors: https://nitter.cz/comrademika/status/1746958702207259042#m

Hasan Piker makes the worst internet neocons / fascists mad. Yes the Highway of Death was a war crime.

Confirmation from Brigadier General Yahya Saree that Ansarallah did strike a US warship today and achieved "direct casualties" (Al-Mayadeen Arabic)

Additionally, in an interview today, member of the Political Bureau of the Ansarallah movement, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, claimed credit for the elimination of two US SEAL operatives in the Red Sea that CENTCOM admitted to earlier this week but had said they "drowned" on accident lol; Al-Mayadeen Arabic (Headline)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Khash%E2%80%93Zahedan_suicide_bombing

Iran seems to retaliating for years of terror attacks against them. They stated yesterdays attacks on ISIS, US, Iraqi Kurds and Mossad was in revenge for Kerman bombings. Now they just struck Pakistan and hit the Balochistan Separatist group connected with this attack from 2019, this group has ties to Al Qaeda and Iran states it is US backed.

The upcoming war in the Middle East will clearly reveal that the Americans and Israelis are allied with ISIS and Al Qaeda to anyone paying attention, just as Syria pointed at the same

Ukraine having a normal one

it is january 16 and stalin saved the world from fascism

Biden's approval rating is now at 33%, lower than Trump had at any point during his presidency

K-pop stars criticized for drinking coffee from 'pro-Israel' Starbucks

Korean artists have received criticism for using products from Starbucks as fans call for boycotts of the franchise regarding the company's alleged stance on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

Enhypen’s Jake was criticized for drinking the company's product during a Jan. 5 live show on Weverse. Fans complained in the livestream's chat, telling him “not to buy and consume drinks from Starbucks.”

“I made a mistake, I’m very sorry, won’t happen again,” the singer said on Weverse in reply to one such comment.

Singer Jeon Somi was also criticized for using a tumbler with a Starbucks logo in a makeup video uploaded to TikTok last month. The clip has since been taken down following the backlash.

An Instagram post depicting Blackpink member Jisoo holding a Starbucks tumbler, which was uploaded last July, has also received a number of critical comments, with users demanding that she boycott Starbucks.

Starbucks received backlash last October when it sued its workers' union, Starbucks Workers United, after a member of the union tweeted a pro-Palestinian message. Online critics interpreted Starbucks' action as indicating support for Israel, though the company has denied that claim.

Starbucks Korea is owned by Shinsegae Group and operated separately from the U.S.-based Starbucks.

But it pays royalties to the US Starbucks as the article fails to mention.

BDS is alive and thriving in... k-pop?

This got lost because of all the things happening, but there was also a car ramming attack today in Ra'anana, a little north of Tel Aviv, in which 17 Israelis were wounded and one was killed. It's being called a terror attack in the Western media, obviously. With that, plus Yemen's attack, the withdrawal of a division from Gaza, and now Iran, it's not a great day for imperialists overall.

Fuck france fuck france fuck france (warning NY times)

France Rejects Genocide Accusations Against Israel in Gaza “To accuse the Jewish state of genocide is to cross a moral threshold,” France’s foreign minister said on Wednesday.

XI JINPING: "Western modernization was fraught with sanguineous crimes such as war, slave trade, colonization, and plunder, which inflicted untold misery on developing countries. Having suffered from aggression, bullying, and humiliation by Western powers, we Chinese are keenly aware of the value of peace and will never follow the beaten path of the West."
"The biggest problems with Western modernization are that it is capital-centered rather than people-centered and that it seeks to maximize capital gains rather than serve the interests of the vast majority of the people."

From a speech by Xi last year, recently translated

Genuinely incredible how effective western propaganda is.

You can say to somebody “maybe at least one or two things you were taught about the DPRK are not true” and that person will many times genuinely answer back that “YOU are spreading North Korean propaganda” by suggesting that.

Lmao hasan DM'd the hot houthi pirate guy

Libs freaking out that Hasan interviewed literally some guy in Yemen

Two ships have collided in Bahrain

New slammer meme on the moderate wing of fascism

In new attempt to destabilize the Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas, the IDF strikes their Center of Intelligence and Political Analysis, known colloquially as Hexbear

Insurers Seek to Exclude US, UK Ships From Red Sea Coverage

underwriters are seeking exclusions for vessels with links to the US, UK and Israel when issuing cover for trips through the area, according to Marcus Baker, global head of marine and cargo at Marsh. It essentially means they won’t provide insurance.

“Underwriters are adding clauses saying no US, UK or Israeli involvement,” he said. “Just about everybody is putting something like that in, and many include the words ‘ownership’ or ‘interest’.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

today is both an anniversary of the US overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom (hawaiians are marching today, they are here and they remember)

it is also the anniversary of Patrice Lumumba's assassination by the CIA. He was the first and only true leader of the DR Congo.

Iran fires Ballistic Missiles On US Targets in Northern Iraq !

Edit: Cant find Poster on Nitter. And might not be a US Site but a US Proxy Site..

Edit: 🚨| 🇮🇷 CONFIRMED: IRAN attacked israeli/American sites:

The IRGC announced in a statement that it targeted and destroyed spy centers and gatherings of anti-Iranian terrorist groups in the northern-Iraqi region with ballistic missiles.

This attack is likely in response to the Kerman terrorist attack!

The Department of State today is announcing the designation of Ansarallah, commonly referred to as the Houthis, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group, effective 30 days from today.

Since November, the Houthis have launched unprecedented attacks against international maritime vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, as well as military forces positioned in the area to defend the safety and security of commercial shipping.  These attacks against international shipping have endangered mariners, disrupted the free flow of commerce, and interfered with navigational rights and freedoms.  This designation seeks to promote accountability for the group’s terrorist activities.  If the Houthis cease their attacks in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, the United States will reevaluate this designation.

The Houthis must be held accountable for their actions, but it should not be at the expense of Yemeni civilians.  As the Department of State moves forward with this designation, we are taking significant steps to mitigate any adverse impacts this designation may have on the people of Yemen.  During the 30-day implementation delay, the U.S. government will conduct robust outreach to stakeholders, aid providers, and partners who are crucial to facilitating humanitarian assistance and the commercial import of critical commodities in Yemen.  The Department of the Treasury is also publishing licenses authorizing certain transactions related to the provision of food, medicine, and fuel, as well as personal remittances, telecommunications and mail, and port and airport operations on which the Yemeni people rely.

god these motherfuckers. holding ansarallah accountable for trying to do anything to work against an active genocide

Belgium, welcome to the resistance.

Caroline Gennez, the country’s minister of development cooperation, says on X that if the International Court of Justice issues a ruling calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, Belgium will “fully support it”.

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/South-Africa-to-Sue-US-and-UK-as-Complicit-in-Gaza-Genocide-20240115-0009.html

OMG just listened to a bit of the speach milei gave at WEF and it's incredibly hilarious, completely unhinged ancap ideology and culture war stuff. They should bring in more like him