Israeli article says that the IDF is facing severe manpower shortages due to poor morale. Interesting notes:

Of a platoon of 30 soldiers called for their 11th deployment in Gaza, only 6 showed up.

Hamas repeatedly sets traps in building that have already been cleared, and soldiers feel their task is impossible/pointless. The seemingly endless conflict is the primary reason for the loss of morale.

Many platoons are lacking in manpower due either to physical or mental injury

Problems were occuring before the incursion into Lebanon, reportedly for months now. IDF goon quote: "I don't know with what army they think will enter Lebanon, because there is no army. I'm not going back to the battalion." Another says "We’re sitting ducks in a shooting range. We don’t understand what we’re doing here...The hostages aren’t coming back, and it just feels never-ending—soldiers are getting injured and dying along the way. It all seems pointless."

Israeli government is not prosecuting people that refuse to show up. Internally, the IDF shames/humiliates deserters but ultimately lets them go.

At least some soldiers are being fined for lost/damaged equipment.

There are a lot more quotes from soldiers in the article. Assuming the article isn't totally fabricated or something, the IDF is facing a Vietnam-esque situation, except that all their soldiers are close to home and can just leave. An invasion of Lebanon seems extremely unlikely at this point - other than Israel randomly lashing out with air strikes, the status quo probably isn't going anywhere.

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The Ukrainians were warned that Russia was mobilising. But the Ukrainians, let's be honest, were fighting among themselves. The Ukrainian [politics] were deeply corrupt and I don't think they took the threat very seriously. So when the attack did come, it came as a big shock.

I wonder who was fanning the flames of the infighting the whole time

The Russians also believe that the Donbas region is Russian, because so many people there speak Russian, want to be Russian.

But despite that they're obviously Ukranian, because of line-on-map you see!

The Russians are scared, they have been ever since 1945, when Stalin said to the Politburo to be very careful of the Americans. [...] Russia is surrounded by dangers and, in the Russian mind, the capitalists. That's you and me – we are out to get them and so they're always terrified. [...] They are paranoid and they always will be because they think the West is technically better and richer.

When asked if "western" intelligence services are still as active in Russia as they were during the cold war, the anglo dodges the question:

Overall, all they want to do is keep an eye on Russia. It needs to watch Russia very carefully. But the West is not worried by Russia because Putin does not wish to attack Germany, he doesn't want to invade the Baltics, he doesn't want to come to Vilnius. He has enough problems at home with the economy and with Ukraine and he doesn't want new adventures, therefore, Russia is self-contained – that is the Western intelligence view.

But It does not mean that Russia, trapped in a corner, thinking that we're out to get them, will not react violently.

The way this downplays then fearmongers, then downplays then fearmongers again is just a trip on its own. Not to mention how he dodges the question and still tries to pretend that it's basically all in paranoid Putin's head. If you think about it, we should really be spreading awareness of mental health to help poor Putler :::

Lidia Thorpe shouts this is not your land, you are not my king at king charles, while being forced to leave the event

https://xcancel.com/katemansey/status/1848199959763710154

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80 years ago yesterday the Soviet Union liberated Belgrad, Serbia, from nazi occupation.

Images from Russian language telegram channel

80 years ago, on October 20, 1944, Soviet troops, together with units of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia, liberated the capital of Yugoslavia, Belgrade, from the fascist invaders

The Soviet-led forces engaged in the Belgrade offensive included 660,000 soldiers, 4,477 artillery pieces and mortars, 421 tanks and self-propelled guns and 1,250 warplanes.

The Chairman of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito emphasised that without the USSR "victory over the fascist invaders would have been impossible, the liberation of Yugoslavia would have been impossible, the creation of a new Yugoslavia would have been impossible."

Advance units of the Soviet battlegroup, along with a detachment of Yugoslav guerrillas, reached the outskirts of Belgrade by October 14, 1944.

Seeking to minimise the damage to the city, the Soviet forces refrained from carrying out large-scale aerial bombardments and airstrikes.

Instead, assault teams stormed the German Nazis’ positions using machine guns and grenades, with artillery units firing directly at the designated targets.

The city residents assisted the liberation effort however they could, providing the Soviet and Yugoslav forces with coordinates of Nazi strongpoints.

From communist Russian language telegram channel.

Fethullah Gülen, the leader of Gülen Movement, has died in Pennsylvania at the age of 83.

You may remember the Gülen Movement from the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016.

Moldova is currently split almost exactly 50% on joining the EU now. 1.4 million votes cast and the difference between join and not is <100 votes

German media is currently plastering the image of a Palestinian burning in his hospital bed everywhere - not because they’re outraged over Israel’s crime against humanity, but because they’re demanding a politician who shared said image critically to resign over “antisemitism“

Germans just can't help themselves being nazis

https://nitter.poast.org/frutiger_sof/status/1847665436566933873

Does Israel think all the Hezbollah money is stored as physical cash in bank vaults? I don't think so, they just want to destroy shit.

I get the feeling that the "Freyer" discourse (word which basically means the person taken advantage of) is the beginning of the anti-Semitism which will definitely be terrible once this genocide is ended and the Zionists are forced to flee. And it's the fault of the Zionist settler-colony that this will happen.

Sorry if I'm changing the subject away from the Palestinians themselves (whose suffering immensely eclipses that of anti-jewish sentiments right now, of course), but seeing the comments on Twitter about this concept gave me an insight into the form that the anti-jewish sentiment will be (again) in the future.

Now that's unexpected

DW: Moldova says 'no' in vote on joining EU: partial results

90% of votes counted put it at 47/52

Presidential election, likely going to the second round

"Israel" spent years talking about how Hamas uses human shields when fighting, yet when they found Sinwar (actually, Sinwar found them) he was alone armed with nothing but an AK, a vest and a bunch of grenades. Sinwar proved them wrong over and over again, he was not in Qatar, he wasn't hiding in bunkers never coming out and he wasn't fighting against the enemy hiding behind defenseless women and children. He stood alone against an elite group of "israeli" soldiers that included artillery and tanks, he fought them even as a tank shell severed his hand and left him mortally wounded.., but still kept fighting, all by himself with whatever strenght he had left.

When you read the details about how "israel" got him, it proves that Sinwar, despite his age, was still able to fend off a much larger "israeli" force by himself with inferior tools, and only after they employed overwhelming firepower they were able to take him down. "Israel" will not win and destruction awaits for them at the end of the road.

Apparently nyc dsa are going through it again

Israel is considering establishing a base in the unrecognized Somaliland. - Jerusalem Post

I think Israel used to support Eritrea to attack Yemen, but it seems Eritreia broke their relations with Israel recently.

During a press conference, the Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de la O, estimated that between Monday and Tuesday, the electric system will be re-established. Over 160,000 users in Havana have access to power, according to the Minister of Energy.

Seems like most of the island power plants are online, but only the more central ones are producing energy, the eastern and western plants are only starting up. We will see, but most hospitals, hotels/resorts and goverment buildings use generators. If Joe Biden (and democrats in general) actually cared about the people in Cuba, they would have given aid to Cuba and continue the Cuban Thraw Policies that Obama started (Obama was so well received in Cuba that he literally appeared in Cuban TV and some TV Shows as a special guest).

But no, Biden will continue to pressure Cuba and Venezuela, and continue to give support to Gusanos, people that not only doesn't vote democrat, but are openly strong supporters of Republicans. Meanwhile, they throw Haitians, Mexicans, Central Americans and South Americans in prison camps to appeal for people that will never vote for them.

Some news from Gaza, Kursk, and Odessa.

Palestinian resistance forces released more recent combat footage from Gaza, showing RPG, mortar and IED strikes: https://southfront.press/israeli-army-loses-two-more-soldiers-to-palestinian-tank-hunters-in-gaza/

Russian forces inflicted serious losses on Kiev regime invaders in Kursk oblast over the past 24 hours: https://sputnikglobe.com/20241020/ukraine-loses-over-310-soldiers-in-kursk-region-in-24-hours---russian-defense-ministry-1120607795.html

Someone (possibly an anti-fascist partisan) shot to death Gennady Beybutyan near Odessa, a local oligarch involved in the Kiev regime’s military conscription. He led the so-called “Law Enforcement Assistance Unit” that attacked accused draft evaders: https://www.rt.com/russia/605990-ukraine-murdered-help-draft-officers/

From NYT:

"Vice President Kamala Harris’s advisers say the empathy she has expressed for Palestinians in Gaza should not be confused with any willingness to break from U.S. foreign policy toward Israel as a presidential candidate."

Himmler Harris echoing Genocide Joe's "Nothing will fundamentally change"

The live streaming platform Twitch has banned users with Israeli IPs from creating new accounts, gamers are very mad.

Brazilian President Lula da Silva falls in the bathroom of the presidential palace and is taken to the Syrian Lebanese Hospital. The President of the Republic hit his head and, on medical advice, canceled his trip to Russia for the BRICS summit.

Lula's doctor says the president had head trauma, “but everything is fine”. In an interview with CNN, Dr. Roberto Kalil said that CT and MRI scans had been carried out, which showed a small amount of bleeding in the front of Lula's head. He will be under observation for the next few days.

Lula was treated at the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital with a cut on the back of his head; doctors recommend avoiding long trips, but he can keep to his normal schedule. Foreign Minister to lead Brazilian delegation to Russia during BRICS summit Mauro Vieira, who was already going to be part of the delegation, was appointed to head it after Lula canceled his trip to Kazan.

I have seen some people saying this was probably an excuse, so Lula wouldn't have to meet with Putin and anger too much the US. But anyway, I am glad Lula is doing alright.

I like to think Trump fancies himself a gourmet Chef now that he's slang some fry at WacArnolnds.

"I made the Fish Filet the Qt. Pounder and many, many Big Mac's."

Lt.Col Daksa was the head in charge of the operation in Jabalia. He and his team arrived to the camp to gather intelligence from the field before Hamas blew up his military vehicle

There are others dead. Some senior officers were with him in the vehicle

https://nitter.poast.org/ytirawi/status/1848031646185857362

The IOF bulldozing a UN position

The UN mission in Lebanon, UNIFIL, alleges that the Israeli army has demolished a peacekeeping force position in Marwahin using a bulldozer.

Kuwait taking part in the genocide

https://xcancel.com/MenchOsint/status/1847899301134962876#m

re: twitch banning israel

~~Twitch must have a (corporate) good reason for the ban. They almost certainly didn't do it out of a moral responsibility. (prove me wrong twitch, i dare you)~~

~~I think it's likely because they've recognized a significant algorithm abuse (bot/shill) campaign, which could constitute as fraud or laundering due to the monetized nature of the platform. Spotify has had a lot of issues over the years which you can read about. If there was a campaign and a large part of it was coming from a specific subset of IPs, it would be a crude but potentially effective strategy to just pull the plug on them.~~

~~It sounds like existing users are still allowed, though, which pretty clearly indicates that they wanted to recognize a legitimate pre-existing israeli userbase (and which will likely prevent major retention loss after a few months of protests).~~

~~If that's the case it's kind of funny blowback. But I worry about what it means if a bot/shill campaign reached twitch's threshold for concern right now. Psyops tend to shortly precede physical ops, and if I'm not mistaken the whole world is waiting for Israel's next move.~~

~~edit: some people are saying this policy has been around for several months now so take that into consideration with my last paragraph~~

I take it back! I take it all back.

u/sewer_rat_420 reports that the policy has been active since 10/7/23. Like many others, I saw the big reaction and believed the comments saying it was new. Because that would make sense, right? Too much sense apparently. This is a clown world after all.

I'm filing this one under "lessons learned." Sorry for propagating misinfo.

And since I totally, definitely learned my lesson, here is a source for it being an old policy and more details about it: https://xcancel.com/TwitchSupport/status/1848191418377830708

Up to 450,000 people in Lithuania are short of food, says Simonas Gurevičius, the head of the Food Bank (Maisto Bankas) NGO.

This represents around 15 percent of the population.

“The Food Bank is helping 232,000 people,” the head of the NGO said, adding that even more people are in need of food assistance.

At the same time, 400,000 tonnes of food are wasted in Lithuania each year, he noted.

Food insecurity rises in autumn when heating bills and other expenses increase financial pressure on low-income households, Gurevičius said.

lrt.lt link

This is too bleak. I need to look away for a bit.

The Palestinian Resistance in Gaza uses an unexploded US-israeli missile to annihilate an 'israeli' tank.

East of Jabalia camp. They are still resisting with everything they have.

1 minute video:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/20/rising-dangers-of-imperial-and-sub-imperial-partnering/

Aside from disingenuous framing of gdp over emissions, interesting/concerning article

العصا اللي رماها السنوار ما فاتت، المحرومين مسكوها على طريق القدس

The stick that al-Sinwar threw did not fall, it was caught by the masses on the road to Al Quds (Jerusalem.)

Displaced Palestinian children in Gaza imitating martyr Yahya al-Sinwar by covering their face and wielding sticks.

Leader of the worker's (Trotskyist) party of Algeria calls for updating the 2025 budget to include Palestine and Lebanon:

After commending the current diplomatic mission of Algeria, she called for Algerian authorities to stop funding the Palestinian authorities, as she criticized them heavily for being "Zionist comparadors".

Also she called for coordination with Jordanian authorities to assist in aid and helping injured north Gazans in their situation of famine and shortages due to the continues zionist aggression.

She also left a very large part of her speech to comment the leader Yahia Sinwar, as she described him a "legendary leader", and that although his death is tragic it will not slow resistance down.

She also attacked a lot of Arabic channels and described them as "zionists", saying that they aim to plant strife among Palestinian and Lebanese people, and attempting to isolate the resistance from its population.

She finished her speech by saying that the zionist entity lives in a state of collapse due to the strikes done by the resistance of Lebanon and Palestine, despite of all the massacres and destruction.

I don't understand calling the PA comparadors but in the same time reach for Jordan, but okay.

IT HAS JBEGUN

https://x.com/gc22gc/status/1848062874322948309