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Last musing of the day: have any of the dipshit new atheists followed through on israel biblical rhetoric? Or silly little books moniker is reserved only for enemies of the state? *Ive looked through richard dawkins feed, nothing there, aside from march against anti-semitism, amazing bruh

Yemen fired a missile at, and seems to have hit, the M/V Gibraltar Eagle, a Marshall Islands-flagged, US-owned and operated container ship.

Meanwhile, another division is forced to retreat from Gaza after being defeated by the Gazan Resistance. Three divisions are left to be destroyed.

edit: the video going around of the ship fire is not of the Gibraltar Eagle; however, the missile strike on the Gibraltar Eagle is real and did occur

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!

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

Comparing the lemmy.ml and lemmy.world front pages right now is sort of terrifying.

lemmy.ml:

1. AfD plans to turn Germany into authoritarian state, vice-chancellor warns

2. US forces strike Houthi sites in Yemen as Biden says allied action hasn't yet stopped ship attacks

3. North Korea training, providing weapons to Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis

4. Britain has flown 50 spy missions over Gaza in support of Israel

5. Infertility: Chemical substances omnipresent in everyday life are among the causes

Reasonable enough, right? Now compare it to lemmy.world:

1. Washington to Israel: Turn the lights back on in Gaza

2. NATO admiral warns of potential all-out war with Russia

3. Netanyahu Says 'From the River to the Sea,' a Phrase Zionists Claim is Genocidal

4. Putin could attack NATO in '5 to 8 years,' German defense minister warns

5. Poland is 'Next' After Russia Wins Ukraine War, Putin Ally Says

THREE OUT OF FIVE ARTICLES are just blatant warmongering trying to manifest a future Russia-NATO war. And this is a community that is supposed to be less extreme than Reddit's group of bloodthirsty clowns.

An interesting trend in Central American politics are the victors of recent elections being outsiders with an anti-establishment theme. Some of them more left-leaning and others more right-wing. Bukele was considered an outsider and so was Castro in Honduras, along with Arevalo in Guatemala. Even Costa Rica took a right-wing turn with the anti-abortion/vaccine/lgbt Chaves.

Trump could see a similar result if he continues to position himself as an anti-establishment candidate that the power structures want to take down.

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.

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

From journalist in Sana'a

Special sources tell me that if the aggression continues on Gaza, Yemen and Lebanon, Ansarullah/Houthis will seriously consider taking steps towards imposing what they are calling “The Al Aqsa Triangle.” The Al Aqsa Triangle is the official closure of three of world’s most important water chokepoints which includes the Suez Canal the Strait of Hormuz and Bab El Mandeb to all nations involved in the aggression. #Al_Aqsa_Triangle

https://nitter.net/Ymawryy/status/1748626517796552880#m

Do the Houthis have the ability to shut down the Straight of Hormuz? I guess for all these it would just take a pirate crew to take a few ships and the insurance companies won't cover trips made there. But that's a lot of distance from Houthis home port.

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.

The US and UK bombing Yemen, the terrorist attack in Iran then Iran Pakistan bombing each other and Jordan bombing Syria? Is this the west calling in favors from regional proxies to cause discord to throw shade to the ICJ case?

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/

If Iran and Pakistan could target western military bases instead of each other, that would be great.

Edit: yes I meant Pakistan I am terminally online and very fucking tired. Iran did just hit Iraq but it was Pakistan that hit Iran.

There’s been a lot of talk about the production capacity gap between Russia and NATO as it relates to artillery rounds specifically. Russia has retooled its economy and invested heavily in wartime production and is currently seeing it pay dividends both on the battlefield but also in the overall health of their economy. Meanwhile the NATO nations have refused to make the investment in restarting mass production of rounds, a capability liquidated and sold off under the guiding principles of neoliberalism, and instead has solely relied on draining existing stockpiles bits at a time. The result has been catastrophic for the Ukrainians tasked with dying on NATO’s behalf ever since the initial blitz push from the RusFed was repelled and the war has settled into a WWI style trench and artillery game of attrition.

I think though that we shouldn’t confuse an unwillingness with an inability. There’s no reason to believe that the US or Germany are incapable of making the investment to restart the mass production of artillery shells (or any mass produced weapon of war rather than the big ticket, hyper specialized war toys they prefer now). There’s an entire point to be made that in this moment of profitability crisis the only industries that are succeeding are the ones hand chosen by the state to be made so with direct subsidies and funding (re: Brenner & Riley’s Seven Theses in which they attempt to coin “political capitalism” as the new economic model post-neoliberalism). The general consensus seems to be that there’s so far been an unwillingness to commit to the production process because it’s been thought that the Russo-Ukrainian war will end before the investment will be worthwhile and then the general style of combat will return to anti-insurgency missions relying on drones and laser guided munitions rather than mass produced dumb bombs and shells. My fear is that if this calculation changes and there is heavy investment in restarting the NATO war machine it puts us on the path towards another world war. The European nations may see the success of the Russian economy under wartime policies and see the return of a military Keynesianism as an appealing out to their financial woes but, as we know from the start of the previous century, you can only build up your stock of weapons for so long before the imperative to use them arises. I’m worried that the long duree trends of the 21st century see the return of both multipolarity as well as great powers conflicts, but this time we have nukes. Guess there’s nothing to really do about it tho but enjoy the view