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Denmark Fast-tracks Military Expansion Amidst Growing Regional Instability

THE WEST'S DESCENT INTO FASCISM - In a move that is threatening the fragile stability of the Baltic region, the Danish regime is planning to increase the pace of its aggressive military buildup. Just last summer the nearly-unanimous parliament of the American satellite state rubberstamped the succdem-led right-wing regime's plans of a decade of rearmament at an unprecedented scale.

However, recent geopolitical developments have seemingly ignited a fresh wave of anxiety within the regime's inner circles. The increasing inevitability of a NATO defeat in the Ukraine war and the military-industrial capacity of Russia outperforming that of the American bloc is exacerbating existing fears of vulnerability in the Copenhagen regime, prompting hasty revisions to it's military spending plans.

As a result, upcoming negotiations between the regime and it's rubber-stamp parliament on military policy will most likely lead to a hasty expedition of the regime's militaristic agenda, allocating funds at an accelerated pace to hasten the buildup of its armed forces. This abrupt escalation in military expenditure comes at a significant cost to the nation's populace, who are grappling with the harsh realities of rising inflation and deteriorating public services as the regime starves essential social services to fund it's militaristic agenda.

The regime refuses to divulge details on the rearmament plans to the public but reports done by the nation's Liberal Party-controlled ministry of defense suggests that F-35 attack aircraft, ground or sea-based air defences, naval anti-submarine capabilities and satellite capabilities will be included in the extravagant spending spree.

There appears to be a semblance of public support for the accelerated military buildup but dissenting voices seems conspicuously absent from public discourse that is dominated by government media touting the necessity and urgency of militarisation. The authenticity of public support for the building remains unverified by independent sources.

Yemen's Ansar Allah Movement Attacks USS Gravely Destroyer

Houthis will also continue to prevent Israeli commercial vessels or ships bound for Israel from transiting the Red Sea.

On Wednesday, Yemen's Ansar Allah Movement (Houthi) attacked a U.S. warship in the Red Sea with missiles.

"In support of Palestinians in Gaza, and response to the aggression on our country, we fired several missiles at the USS Gravely destroyer," Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said.

"We confirm that all U.S. and British warships in the Red and Arabian Sea participating in the aggression against our country are within the target bank of our forces and will be targeted within the legitimate right to defend our country and people."

Sarea also warned that the Ansar Allah Movement will continue to prevent Israeli commercial vessels or ships bound for Israel from transiting the Red Sea until "the aggression against Gaza ceases and the siege is lifted."

Earlier on Wednesday, however, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said that its navy forces had shot down an anti-ship cruise missile fired by the Houthis toward the Red Sea.

The missile was shot down by USS Gravely, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, and no injuries or damage were reported, it added.

On Monday, the Houthi group claimed responsibility for attacking a U.S. warship in the Gulf of Aden with a ballistic missile, a day after it claimed another missile attack against a British oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden that set the tanker on fire for several hours.

Very interesting interview of President Traoré (Burkina Faso for the unaware). Some interesting bits that stood out to me:

• He once again basically accuses the west of allowing terrorist groups to run wild in the AES, and on top of that actively hindered their efforts to build up their own military. It honestly seems like he might have been implying that they're the direct agents of the west at one point lol, or at least that's what the talk of the "sleeper cells" activating and his wording around it made me think that.

• He emphasized more than once that the AES can be entirely self sufficient in the (near?) future, and they are currently doing lots of experimenting on that front (i assume meaning to increase crop yields in particular). He uses this to kinda just brush aside the concerns of the AES leaving ECOWAS, he honestly barely spent anytime elaborating on them lol.

• He glazed up Russia quite a bit in this interview, really emphasizing that they give access to any weapons they ask for, and will even commit to sending troops to help Burkina Faso if asked, although he vehemently denied they were currently in the country. He also mentioned that Iran and China also give access to their entire market of weapons. He also made sure to shit on the west again here lol.

• I havent read (or at least dont remember) anything about this, but apparently there was concerns that they had given entire mines to Russia? He denied that, although he did say something about giving them a liscense that they have to pay a tax on? idk the english seemed kinda unclear there to me.

• another thing that seemed like a potential breakdown of the english was how the government intends to pay for all this, especially the weapons. I couldnt tell if he was being evasive or the translation was just bad lol. Part of it was him saying that the previous government was extremely corrupt and inefficient (which is also a part of the whole self sufficiency angle he's going for, they have almost everything they need to be self sufficient, they just need to utilize it). There's something about saving ~800 million US$ in subsidies in 2023 alone, although once again the english seemed unclear to me and I'm not sure if he's saying that they've made sure the subsidies arent just being pocketed and are actually being efficiently used, or if this is him bragging about austerity, or some other 3rd thing.

• he addresses the coup situations in a kinda funny, kind of sad way: he basically says he's not gonna get got by sticking to friendship like Sankara did, which is definitely a good thing, I mean we've already seen several coup attempts against him already, but also just makes me sad thinking about how good of a person Sankara genuinely was.

Overall, pretty hopeful interview. Also, makes sense since he has risen to be a very powerful person at such a young age, but he is a quite charismatic person. Nothing obviously marxist that I noticed, but I do think they're definitely taking a very materialist view of the world, he really hammered down that every decision they're making is only made after careful analysis, and I havent really seen anything to contradict that (although I haven't been looking at news from the Sahel all that much so i could have easily missed stufff...). One last thing to leave off on is that he also mentioned his desire to "awaken the people". He framed it in a nationalistic, patriotic way, but a quote someone posted in here a day or 2 ago popped in my head while watching the interview. “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living," and in Burkina Faso the shadow of Sankara looms heavier than anyone, and I honestly wonder even if Traoré doesnt become a communist like I've hoped he might, by raising this patriotism in burkina faso, it might also raise their class consciousness just because of Sankara's legacy.

the drone was allowed to fly into the US base' airspace because they thought it was an American drone. What if there's someone redpilled in the ranks and this is their modern day fragging

Anyone have a link to that research comparing Bandera's approval rating in Ukraine and how it compared/changed from before 2014, to after 2014 ,and just before the war started? I remember seeing it just after the the Ukrainian war started and just being shocked at how blatant it was with Bandera's approval skyrocketing post 2014.

CW: Blood, Partial nudity, Torture, Satanic IOF Cruelty

Maybe it should be on the dunk tank I dunno but should they ask #HBO do you condemn Hamas too?

Rybar Russia lost another boat, a coordinated sea drone attack with support from US intelligence. While nothing can be done about US assistance even Rybar already put their hands in the air basicaly saying its hopeless given the current leadership.

lol

President Andrzej Duda reiterated this position during an interview on YouTube channel Kanal Zero late on Friday. However, when asked if he believed Ukraine would really be able to retake Crimea, he said, "It is hard for me to answer that question".

"I don't know if (Ukraine) will regain Crimea, but I believe it will regain Donetsk and Luhansk," he said.

He said the Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized in 2014, eight years before launching its full-scale invasion, "is a special place... also for historical reasons. Because in fact, if we look historically, it was in Russia's hands for most of the time."

God damn. This fucking YouTube "journalist"...he went so far beyond the usual token "I condemn Hamas". He spent a quarter of the fucking video going "TERRORIST Hamas" and "steals humanitarian aid" and "the ATROCITIES!!!!" and even when he says some of the Israeli claims are "dubious at best" he uncritically repeats shit like "as Hamas fighters went DOOR TO DOOR KILLING EVERYONE"" blah, blah, blah (not to mention the Biden apologia). This shit just isn't worth the rest of the video where he talks about repression of pro-Palestine protests and the self-flagellating Zionism of Germany, IMO.

IDK Hexbear. Should I restore it in /r/BreadTube, or am I correct in assessing that the damage these do to the already "dubious at best" audience there isn't worth it?

• thread: /r/BreadTubet thread
• Direct YouTube link: video

EDIT: What I wrote when removing the post, for anyone who doesn't want to go to the fasci-snoo site:

Pre-emptive Zionist propaganda used to mollify anyone who might be upset over criticisms of Israeli genocide...you can shove that right up your ass, OP/content creator. Removed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68171280

US approves plan to strike Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq, officials say

Lol EU's solution to the widespread farmers protests is reducing imports from Ukraine and reducing environmental regulations

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/31/politics/us-warship-close-call-houthi-missile/index.html

A cruise missile launched by the Houthis into the Red Sea on Tuesday night came within a mile of a US destroyer before it was shot down, four US officials told CNN, the closest a Houthi attack has come to a US warship.

In the past, these missiles have been intercepted by US destroyers in the area at a range of eight miles or more, the officials said. But the USS Gravely had to use its Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) for the first time since the US began intercepting the Houthi missiles late last year, which ultimately succeeded in downing the missile, officials said.

The CIWS, an automated machine gun designed for close-range intercepts, is one of the final defensive lines the ship has to shoot down an incoming missile when other layers of defense have failed to intercept it.

The Houthis got within seconds of destroying a US warship and managed to get a cruise missile to evade all other lines of defence and interceptor missiles, except for the CIWS. That is not good news for the US. Their airstrikes have failed to limit the Houthi's ability to carry out attacks on both cargo and US military ships, and the US only has so many interceptor missiles left, and missile defence with CIWS is too close to rely on. The Houthis will successfully strike a US warship if the current status quo continues. (It will not continue indefinitely obviously, as soon as the US retaliates. But then again, previous US airstrikes have failed to stop the Houthis or hinder their capabilities. )

The Houthis have continued to launch missiles and drones at vessels in the Red Sea, however, and on Wednesday morning were preparing to launch a surface-to-air missile that posed a risk to US aircraft operating in the region, according to US Central Command.

In a statement, CENTCOM said US forces successfully destroyed the missile before it launched.

Again, US Navy and Air Force Suppression of Enemy Air Defence (SEAD) operations are top notch. This kind of thing should worry Iran. The US airforce successfully baited the Yemeni air defence systems targeting radar to turn on, jammed it and destroyed it. A lot of people joke about that one US strike in which only one plane and one missile was fired at a radar site in Yemen earlier, but if it's at a control centre or early warning radar, it shows the capabilities there.

So in essence we have an asymmetric situation where Iran and various other military groups have the capabilities to strike US ships and ground assets if need be, but the US has the ability to suppress their air defence and launch airstrikes. What happens next, nobody knows.

Millennium Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

What happens if Ansar Allah decides to launch like 10 Shahed drones at the same time / in the same tight window at a US military boat ?

Genuinely asking, these interceptor mechanisms must have an incoming throughput limit, right ?

Also and not to mention, IIRC some of those interceptor missiles cost a million+ bucks a piece. They can't have an unlimited number of them onboard.

The King's New Green Clothes

Following a seemingly bloodless transition of power from the aging queen Margrethe to her son and hand-picked successor Frederik, the Danish monarchy and government-controlled media has embarked on a campaign to brand the new king as a "climate king".

In a manifesto published mere days after rising to power, the king talked about wanting to use his position to further the green transition. He repeated that message recently in a speech given in Warsaw while travelling with a Danish business delegation.

Politicians from the radlib and otherwise traditionally republican Social Liberal Party as well as from the green radlib Alternative party has urged the newly-minted monarch to incorporate standards of green sustainability into a revamped scheme for the "purveyor to the royal Danish court" predicate that is given to businesses that are considered established and respectable. The predicate, which has previously been granted based purely on vibes, was put on hold shortly before the transition of power and all existing grants were recalled.

The monarchy seems to understand the utility of attaching royals to progressive causes as a way of constructing a widespread cult of personality, like they did when then crown princess Mary was appointed protector of the 2021 World Pride event in Copenhagen. Associating themselves with climate issues or the LGBT community might earn them some ire from fringe reactionary circles but it serves to make the monarchy seem relevant and relatable to a much wider group of people than those who are swayed by traditional monarchist appeals to authority, tradition and hierarchy.

How deeply felt these progressive sentiments really are remains unclear. The royals, keeping their tradition of maintaining an "apolitical" public image, are certainly not calling for the kind of sweeping social changes that would be required to stop climate change and bring about climate justice. It remains uncontroversial milquetoast liberalism and even that is seemingly superficial. Six months before becoming king, Frederik attended a climate conference in the city of Aalborg. Not only did he chose to fly there rather than suffer the four hour drive (or train ride) from Copenhagen, being too fancy of a lad to take a taxi from the airport he had an empty limo driven all the way from Copenhagen and back, just to ferry him between the event and the airport. While at the event a journalist caught him off-guard and asked him a softball question about what measures the monarchy are taking to reduce their personal carbon footprints, sending the future king into a desperate incoherent mumbling about "hybrid" solutions that made him look more like a student being caught at not having done his homework than a climate-conscious champion of green transition.

Al-jazeera headline: US senate grills tech executives

Me:

@Evilphd666@hexbear.net

I'm replying to your comment here because I can't see your original comment from my instance.

I feel that the state of queer rights is actually getting worse and that Singapore as a whole is getting more reactionary. The stuff below are what got me to this conclusion.

⚡️Al-Qassam (Hamas) published a video showing its forces target IOF militants vehicles & sniping a Zionist officer in the Tal Al-Hawa and Sheikh Radwan neighborhoods, west of Gaza City.

What a beautiful sniper shot directly in the officer’s neck 🔻

https://twitter.com/AryJeay/status/1753105974347596193

Carl Weathers, the actor whose credits include Rocky and Predator, has died at 76. His family released a statement through his agent to announce that he died “peacefully in his sleep” on 1 February. “Carl was an exceptional human being who lived an extraordinary life,” the statement continued.

IOF has confirmed it is pumping seawater into Gaza tunnels. (English articles are available on ynet and Haaretz)

According to the US, it struck 85 targets in Syria and Iraq with the use of at least 125 precision bombs. Long range strategic strike bomber aircraft, such as the B-1 Lancer, were also used. Air defenses over Syria were likely suppressed to allow for the bombers to carry out their strikes unopposed as these are not stealth bombers, but there will be no comments from the US on that.

"US military forces struck more than 85 targets, with numerous aircraft to include long-range bombers flown from United States.

"The airstrikes employed more than 125 precision munitions."

The strikes targeted "command and control operations, intelligence centers, rockets, and missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicle storages, and logistics and munition supply chain facilities".

And as predicted, the strikes were done with advanced warning and communication to the government(s) of the countries in which some of the airstrikes took place.

The White House said it had informed Iraqi officials ahead of the military strikes.

Source for the quotes, Sky News

This is of course only going to be the first of many US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, unfortunately. What happens here is anyone's guess. I expect more strikes against Yemen as well. If Iran responds, it will probably be similar in nature to the response after the assassination of Soleimani. Most resistance groups against the US occupation will likely continue attacking US bases, though I think some will stop out of fear of retaliation. I don't think the US will leave Syria and Iraq and have never thought that, since the US announced the death of those three soldiers, I actually think the opposite, that the US wants to remain entrenched in Syria and Iraq.

I think there is a need for a new term to describe war-genocide. When war is waged with not only the intent to destroy the military completely, but destroy all people of the enemy. Like the amerikkkans in native lands they stole, japan, korea, and vietnam, or the germans in eastern europe, or the japanese in china, and now the zionists in gaza.

Ukrainian media: Zaluzhny refused to write a resignation report during a meeting with Zelensky

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30 January 2024 🗄️

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Lmao white nationalists advertising on “”news”” telegrams

The frigate Iver Huitfeldt has departed for the Red Sea to be Denmark's contribution to Operation Prosperity Guardian, the US-backed attempt to violently evade sanctions against the illegal zionist entity's genocide in Palestine. For the first time since the 19th century the Royal Danish Navy are facing a real risk of getting shot at instead of just being a glorified coast guard. And already now, the armaments of the frigate are being criticised for being insufficient.

The surface-to-air missiles of the frigate has a range of just 18 kilometres but back in 2018 the Danish regime decided to acquire so-called SM2 surface-to-air missiles with a range of 80 kilometres. The missiles were ordered in 2021 but they have not yet been delivered.

A frigate of the Iver Huitfeldt class has fired a SM2 missile exactly once. That missile was a loaner from the Dutch.

The current armaments as well as the back-ordered SM2-missiles are only effective against cruise missiles and drones, making the frigate virtually defenseless against ballistic missiles and it will have to rely on the air defenses of nearby American ships for protection.

In addition to the frigate, the American puppet state has sent a single staff officer to take part in the illegal aggression against Yemen.

Nypost and CBS and Qanon all circlejerking about the tunnel. Deranged comments. Their version of a voice of reason is like "leave them alone!!! as long as there are no children in the tunnels"

https://web.archive.org/web/20240126015917/https://nypost.com/2024/01/24/news/california-homeless-found-living-in-furnished-caves-full-of-trash-and-drugs/

https://web.archive.org/web/20240126042137/https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/hidden-homeless-caves-dug-into-tuolumne-river-bank-in-modesto/

In November 2022, CBS13 took a tour of the cleared-out caves in Stanislaus County in the same location. They were nowhere near as elaborate as they are now.

Sure just come back every few years don't bother housing anyone. I love this country. Anyways huge news for tunnelheads.