Wars don’t really start or stop anymore. They just kind of drag on indefinitely

Just under 35 years of a world with unchecked Capitalism as the dominant ideology and the world is in great shape

Well of course, Israel isn’t in the Middle East they are in Europe

AOC must condemn

Incoming

Piggybacking off of this, I heard there was a water dispute and India cut off a river or something? Anyone know about that?

There was some sort of terrorist attack in Indian controlled Kashmir a few days ago. India blamed Pakistan, Pakistan denies any involvement. In response to that incident, India carried out airstikes on Pakistan, Pakistan then shot down Indian aircraft, with 1-3 Indian aircraft losses being confirmed so far, one loss with video, and Indian media saying that there are three aircraft crash sites in India.

Its about Kashmir and hindutva fascism as well as the new pro-us government in pakistan and ultimately the root of all evil - the British and their colonial shenanigans.

Arrestor cable or hook failure on landing apparently, still can’t believe that they haven’t rotated the Truman for another carrier, it’s clear that combat fatigue has set in. That’s just incompetence by the US Navy. The Truman CSG has shot down their own jet, lost an aircraft overboard during an evasive maneuver, and now had the arrestor cables or hook fail. While the first two happened during a Ansarallah attack on the CSG, I don’t see how an arrestor failure can be related to that.

The real Nothing Ever Happens gang is in the (lack of) comments.

This isn’t a border dispute. It’s political, there was a separatist extremist attack in Kashmir and India had to strike Pakistan to appease their islamophobic braying nationalists. Pakistan cannot accept this and responded

Try bombing Xi and see what happens

The video from the Indian defence ministry about air raid preparedness entirely in English and almost every shot is AI.

This is just warporn slop for the anglo-treatlerites to consume surely?

However, some US politicians showed no appreciation for China’s magnanimity and generosity. Since they could not conceal China’s aid to the world – including their own country – they smeared it as “mask diplomacy” aimed at influencing the international community. The US was unwilling to assume its responsibility to help other countries, yet it was opposed to China stepping up with such initiatives. Its approach was neither serious nor dignified.

lmaooo China literally calling burgerland deeply unserious

ft detrick truthers stay winning

one thing I find frustrating in these chinese government authored white papers is that they rarely/never have any sources or citations listed. that paper mentions a number of studies using phrases like ‘a study’ ‘numerous studies’ - why not list the actual references? research papers out of china can be cited just as easily as anything else. I’ve noticed this in other white papers by the CPC as well - their rebuttal to the UN’s OHCHR xinjiang report for example contains no reference or citation list at the end of the document and is written in the same semi-polemic style as this covid paper. this seems like an easy gap to fill that would make their english language statements hit harder.

“What were the real reasons for the shutdown of the Fort Detrick Biological Laboratory in late 2019? The US owes the world an explanation.”

They don’t want to fully accuse the US of making a bioweapon but they do want to imply one. If china really believed this it would still have mask mandates going.

Would not surprise me at all if the random cases of “vape lung” or whatever they called it in late 2019 were actually COVID

totally understand why they’re throwing accusations back at the US given the lab leak conspiracism, but there’s no good reason to doubt that the virus crossed over to humans somewhere in southern China given that China is a) a rapidly urbanising country in which the potential for crossover events is significantly greater than in an already-urbanised country like the US, and b) is already known (and has been for decades) to have large natural populations of animals that carry the kind of coronavirus that SARS-COV-2 is. There’s a reason that the first SARS also showed up in this region.

it’s not China’s fault, and they did essentially the best job of any govt on earth at handling the contagion given the scale of the outbreak they were suddenly faced with, but we don’t need to get dragged into shit flinging and start throwing ludicrous accusations to match the enemy’s ludicrous accusations. Better to focus on the facts: China was open about the virus from the get-go, sharing as much information as they could, rapidly carrying out research and giving the world the warning through the established channels; other states such as the US failed to heed that warning and co-operate.

I wouldn’t say nothing was accomplished, that conclusion can only be reached in isolation. The Israeli bombings of Yemen that took place over the past two days would not have been possible without the US carrying out their 50 day bombing campaign, with capabilities only the US has, in B-2 stealth bombers and EA-18G Growler Electronic Warfare aircraft. Yes, even for a force with rudimentary air defences such as Ansarallah/the Houthis, those assets/capabilities are now needed to suppress their air defence network to a sufficient level. Yemen has a lot of systems, many Iranian in design or origin, even if locally manufactured. Israel doesn’t have the capabilities despite their large F-35 fleet (no EA-18Gs or B-2s in Israeli service), in reality the only country other than the US even close is China, and surprisingly I’d also put Australia third with their sizeable EA-18G fleet.

The Israeli bombing campaign did billions of dollars in damages to Yemeni civil society, their airport and airliners were completely destroyed, along with cement factories and their sea ports in Ras Isa (that was a US operation) and Hodeidah. Yes, none of this is explicitly military targets, but as the author points out, there are none left that haven’t been hit multiple times by over a decade of bombings. And blowing up tunnel networks in a country as vast as Yemen, which requires unique “bunker buster” stand in bombs which have to be dropped directly over the target, and where the location and purpose of such structures isn’t as well known as say Iran, becomes a very expensive game of whack a mole that produces minimal results beyond leaving a big hole in the ground. That’s why Israel bombed the cement factories, to try halt the repair and construction of these tunnel networks.

Much like the Gaza ceasefire previously, I wonder how this will hold up long term. Are Israel going to continue bombing Yemen as Yemen continues lobbing ballistic missiles in their direction? Will the UK start more bombings on Yemen with their aircraft carrier arriving in the Red Sea soon (unlikely, but if pressured enough, they might not have a choice). Will the US restart bombings on Yemen?