People seem to still be struggling with the Israeli strategy. Like many previous genocides, including the Holocaust, which the term originates from, hunger is a primary weapon. The Ukrainian holodomir, the Irish potato famine, the Armenian genocide, the goal is to save ammunition and simply remove the infrastructure of life from the target group. Israeli attacks have destroyed the water, power, administrative, and health care of the population. The issue now is that while the people are dying, international aid is mitigating the effectiveness of destroying infrastructure.
A strike like this is so blatantly targeted because it's a signal. With 3 weapons they have shut down a channel that could provide critical nutrition to tens of thousands of borderline surviving Palestinian people every day. It's meant to have a chilling effect on relief efforts. Combined with the slow border checks, the political efforts to defund UN relief agencies, it helps accelerate the goal of removing the population from Gaza.
It's not an accident, earlier strikes on UN relief warehouses and personnel weren't accidents, and the killing of around 100 journalists and many of their families weren't accidents. They're messages, get out of the way.
This is a little bit silly, that pretty clearly was a mistake, it also led to new ROE regarding the safety cordon around approved targets. Additionally Serbia was a combatant nation, that's why embassies often evacuate nations involved in hostilities. Israel routinely attacks 3rd country targets, they struck with multiple weapons. Syria and Iraq are not parties to the current situation in Gaza. The idea that countries with governments or general population that are not in favour of the IDF massacre of civilians means almost every country is "involved" according to Israeli targeting doctrine.
Well, Canada is a vast country with only 40 million people in it. Honestly pretty much everything said in the article is pretty reasonable. If you read through he points out the economic benefits of a growing population, but cautions that there needs to be a coordinated build-out of housing, transit, and social infrastructure like childcare. It's not really anything crazy. The article was put out in 2019 and states a population of 37 million, it's 2024 and we've ticked past 41 million. It's more or less on track, except for all that infrastructure of course.
We're at least having the argument. America and the EU are just shipping the weapons, business as usual. It's perhaps more useful to support efforts to clean up our arms export system rather than imply it doesn't matter because "historical human rights offences". Every nation has darkness (more or less) but export reform feels like progress.
Unfortunately that option has never been tested against a nuclear weapons state. That makes a huge difference. Iraq was a powerful regional military when they invaded Kuwait, a coalition of forces promptly rocked up and slapped the empire building off their face.
When Russia invaded Ukraine the situation was similar in every way but one, Russia can respond to a catastrophic battlefield outcome with nuclear escalation.
Israel both has nuclear capacity and has very little strategic depth. Whatever doctrinal tripwire they use to determine the deployment scenario for their nuclear deterrent could quickly be reached, meaning that moving in force to end the genocide is functionally impossible.
Currently we would be able to tell that our governments are actively trying to intervene if we see sanctions starting to appear. Right now the Whitehouse can say what they want to damage control the situation, the US is actively providing political, economic, and material support to the activities of the IDF. If that stops, then you know they are trying to do something, until then, keep protesting.
Of course they will. This little spat with America over how difficult the genocide is for Biden's campaign hasn't slowed down the flow of material aid. They know they can do whatever they want, they've pushed as far as broadly declared and publicised genocide without significant consequences, really the only boundary they have left to test is nuking Tehran or something.
This reminds me of the scene in Schindler's List where the Nazi officer takes a rifle out onto his balcony and amuses himself by shooting and killing some of the Jewish camp inmates. Once a group has it's humanity stripped away from it the darkest side of people will show in how they are treated.
There's video of a destroyed patriot launcher as well. No point blaming the new command staff. The freeze on munitions by the republican party in the US has meant rationed fire by the UAF. Their casualties have climbed, and they have been steadily forced back. They are forced to push critical equipment forward to prevent the steady retreat from becoming a break in the line.
Whether consciously or not the US Congress has given the Russian war effort a much needed boost. Artillery is the jab of the battlefield, once the ammunition runs out it's all eye gouging and knees to the groin. Losses are inevitable.
Should put some hustle under that two state solution. Pretty soon one state will just be a genocide memorial in a dirt lot surrounded by Israeli settlements.
The German Airforce is probably wondering why you're worked up as the iron cross is the roundel marking on their aircraft. The symbol is associated with Prussian militarism and far predates any Nazi associations in the German Military.
This is the continuation of settled policy on Taiwan. It is not an internationally recognised nation, it is an autonomous territory within China. Declaring support for independence would be escalatory language from the US and could harm efforts within Taiwan to move in that direction domestically. It would allow the CCP to further push the narrative of foreign interference while lessening the focus on the actual desires of the Taiwanese voters. It's a very complicated situation compared to something like Ukraine.
People seem to still be struggling with the Israeli strategy. Like many previous genocides, including the Holocaust, which the term originates from, hunger is a primary weapon. The Ukrainian holodomir, the Irish potato famine, the Armenian genocide, the goal is to save ammunition and simply remove the infrastructure of life from the target group. Israeli attacks have destroyed the water, power, administrative, and health care of the population. The issue now is that while the people are dying, international aid is mitigating the effectiveness of destroying infrastructure. A strike like this is so blatantly targeted because it's a signal. With 3 weapons they have shut down a channel that could provide critical nutrition to tens of thousands of borderline surviving Palestinian people every day. It's meant to have a chilling effect on relief efforts. Combined with the slow border checks, the political efforts to defund UN relief agencies, it helps accelerate the goal of removing the population from Gaza. It's not an accident, earlier strikes on UN relief warehouses and personnel weren't accidents, and the killing of around 100 journalists and many of their families weren't accidents. They're messages, get out of the way.