By the way, I absolutely do not accept the irony regarding Putin's statement that military tasks in Syria were solved brilliantly by Russia. They were solved brilliantly at that time. No irony. Russia preserved Syria as a state and gave it 8 years of a quiet life.

But circumstances tend to change, and those who, resting on their laurels, do not feel this, lose. Putin won the war in Syria, but lost the peace. The saddest thing is that such a matrix can be reproduced today (as it is regularly reproduced with dreary predetermination) with Ukraine.

You can win the war but still lose the peace. Can Putin keep the peace in Ukraine? That’s the question.

'When You Leave Israel and Enter Gaza, You Are God': Inside the Minds of IDF Soldiers Who Commit War Crimes

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CW: Nazi shit that is so Nazi one of the soldiers has to literally ask "Are we the fucking Nazis?!"

Here is a tweet with screenshots of text if you don't want to read the whole thing: https://xcancel.com/shaabiranks/status/1871208919994958023

Here's my last post about the protest in Serbia since the thread got locked

@Eldungeon2@hexbear.net They were coopted in years past by the neolib opposition, but this one is the initiative of the students, so the likelihood of it happening is pretty slim (at least not by the opposition). Also, as far as I'm aware, occupy was just camping on wall street, not literally obstructing government institutions from working like it's happening here.

@starkillerfish@hexbear.net I'll probably do a write-up when I get my bearings in order. As for the universities, I don't think it makes a difference as long as there exists a mechanism by which students can legally organize and close it down in protest.

What I forgot to mention is that the protest was attended by some 100k people, one of the largest in Serbia ever. Oh, and here's eurocucks getting what they deserve

Shortly after Trump's speech, Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino released a video declaring that “every square meter of the canal belongs to Panama and will continue to belong” to his country. Without mentioning Trump by name, Mulino addressed Trump's complaints over rising fees for ships crossing the canal, saying they are set by experts who take into account operational costs, and supply and demand factors.

“The tariffs are not set on a whim” Mulino said. He noted that Panama has expanded the canal over the years to increase ship traffic “on its own initiative,” and added that shipping fee increases help pay for improvements. “Panamanians may have different views on many issues” Mulino said. “But when it comes to our canal, and our sovereignty, we will all unite under our Panamanian flag.”

Trump then took to his social media site to offer in response, “We'll see about that!" He also posted a picture of a U.S. flag planted in the canal zone under the phrase, “Welcome to the United States Canal!”

Trump is going to push Panama towards China and Venezuela, isn't he? At this point it's US tradition to antagonize a Latin-American country until they seeks closer relations with either Russia or China.

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Kinda interesting that the state went for the terrorism angle but the feds are treating it more like a targeted murder. It's somewhat contradictory and could make it difficult for some of the charges to stick.

Officer dresses as Grinch for drugs raid in Peru - ABC News

The police say the Grinch costume enabled the officer to approach the target building as part of seasonal celebrations without being detected by suspects. An undercover Peruvian officer dressed as the famous Dr. Seuss character has led a police operation in Lima to dismantle a drug trafficking gang.

An agent in the Green Squadron, a specialised unit of the Special Operations Division in Peru, went "unnoticed" before he busted open the home of suspected drug traffickers in San Bartolo, southern Lima. A video released by police shows the Grinch in a Santa suit, searching the house and finding money and drugs.

The Grinch had participated in a Christmas activity prior to the drug bust, ensuring the police presence in the neighbourhood went unnoticed, according to head of the Police Green Squadron Colonel Carlos Lopez Aedo. “Using the ingenuity and cleverness [of the unit] we used the Grinch after an activity for Christmas,” said Mr Lopez Aedo. “The presence of the Grinch went unnoticed."

"He was the one who initiated the operation by breaking the access door and we managed to capture these three drug traffickers," he said. Authorities said they seized packages of cocaine hydrochloride and cocaine paste, as well as precision instruments such as scales and strainers.

Police officers said they made three arrests. After the successful raid, the Grinch only had one thing to say. "I hate Christmas and criminals." The Peruvian police unit involved often dresses its agents up as famous characters as they carry out operations during holiday periods. Agents in the past have dressed up as superheroes, as well as horror movie characters like Freddy Krueger.

Feels like we sort of passed over the massive news of the Northvolt (Europe's only EV battery producer) collapse a few weeks back, so I'm going to re-up it here to highlight how monumentally fucked the European automobile industry is long term. Not exactly news to anybody here that's been paying attention, but the staggering mismanagement of what is so obviously a key and strategic piece of European industry is perhaps still baffling. The article's name is "The Northvolt dilemma: can European EVs avoid relying on Asian batteries?", and as the Betteridge law of headlines states, the obvious answer to this question is "No."

Two months before Northvolt filed for bankruptcy in the US, Robin Zeng, known as China’s “battery king”, had a quick but grim answer as to why European battery makers were struggling to make good products. “They have a wrong design . . . they have a wrong process . . . and they have the wrong equipment. How can they scale up?” the chief executive of CATL told Nicolai Tangen, the head of Norway’s $1.8tn oil fund. “So almost all mistakes together.” The bleak assessment from the world’s biggest electric vehicle battery manufacturer captures the scale of the failure for the industries behind the critical technology for Europe’s decarbonisation, leaving governments, companies and investors at a loss as to how to recraft the continent’s strategy to compete with China.

Northvolt’s demise means the battle for dominance of the European market is likely to play out between Asian battery makers. LGES and SK On both have European plants, in Poland and Hungary respectively, while CATL has a factory in Germany and a second site in Hungary due to begin production next year. But Tim Bush, a Seoul-based battery analyst at UBS, said there was little prospect at present that the Asian battery makers would be able to help the EU to meet its target for 90 per cent of the continent’s EV batteries to be produced locally by 2030. Bush noted that Korean battery makers were already paring back their investments in Europe, having invested billions of dollars in plants in North America that have been running at low utilisation rates because of lower than expected consumer demand for EVs. Potential Chinese battery investments on the continent were also likely to be complicated by the ongoing trade dispute between Brussels and Beijing over EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, he added. “The Koreans are not expanding, the Chinese have suspended construction and Europe’s new entrants are dropping like flies,” said Bush.

With European start-ups still behind in their ability to manufacture batteries at scale, industry executives say the only solution may be to continue their reliance on Asian participants until homegrown companies can absorb technology knowhow on battery chemistry, mass production and equipment manufacturing. “We need to find a deal with China because we won’t be able to compete . . . without the support of the Chinese companies that control the mining industry, chemicals, refining and their capacity and competence,” Luca De Meo, Renault’s chief executive, told reporters last month.

So basically, the Europeans destroyed their only chance of domestic battery consumption by epic mismanagement, and their acquiescence to USAmerican empire means they're fucking up their opportunity to draw Chinese EV investments into Europe proper due to tensions and sanctions, and the US/South Korea can't even begin to supply the necessary battery supply for the EU, so their car industry is basically fucked. The USAmerican destruction of European industry proceeds apace...

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We joke about the war on Christmas, but it’s literally happening in Syria as Christians have reportedly been murdered in Wadi Al-Nasirah and threatened with expulsion in Maaloula. Less immediately harmful, but symbolic, is the arson of the Christmas tree in Suqaylibiyah

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Cubans protest against US embargo outside US embassy in Havana

Hundreds of thousands of Cubans, led by former president Raúl Castro and current president Miguel Díaz-Canel, protested this Friday (20) outside the US embassy in Havana against Washington's trade blockade, a month before Donald Trump's return to the White House.

The “March of the fighting people against the blockade and the permanence of Cuba on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism” started from the Anti-Imperialist Tribune, an iconic esplanade in front of the US embassy, located on the Cuban capital's main seafront avenue, known as the Malecón. “We are marching now to tell the US government to let the Cuban people live in peace. Down with interference!” said Díaz-Canel, addressing the crowd, who were waving Cuban flags.

Despite being 93 years old, former president Raúl Castro, who officially retired in 2021, was at the head of the march, along with the Cuban president. “Tear down the blockade” and ‘We're not terrorists, take us off the list’, chanted the participants. “We need them to open their doors to us so that we can trade with all countries,” Rogelio Savigne, 55 and head of transportation at a state-owned company, told AFP. “If there hadn't been the blockade, the difficulties we're going through wouldn't be like this,” said Faustino Miranda (85), a pensioner.

Díaz-Canel denounced that, “when they persecute and prevent financial transactions [...], they are denying the people of Cuba food, medicine, fuel, goods, supplies and essential commodities for survival.” During his first term in office (2017-2021), Trump, who takes office on January 20, interrupted the historic rapprochement that both countries had begun in 2014 under Barack Obama (2009-2017). Trump applied 243 measures that reinforced the embargo, which has been in place since 1962, including the reincorporation of the island on the US list of “countries that sponsor terrorism”, along with Iran and North Korea. Democrat Joe Biden barely eased these sanctions and kept Cuba on the list, which blocks financial and economic flows to the island.

According to the authorities, around 700,000 people attended the demonstration in Havana, a figure that AFP was unable to verify independently. Mobilizations like this were started by Fidel Castro in the 1980s and have been organized at times of strong tensions between Havana and Washington.

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Turkish foreign minister says no room for Kurdish militants in Syria's future

The new Syrian government is either gonna allow or get assistance from Turkey to wipe out the SDF aren’t they?

HTS called for all weapons and arms within the country to come under their control, and I highly doubt SDF is gonna comply.

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Video shows Zionazi automated robots placing explosive boxes at the gates of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

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With the escalation in Jenin, the resistance threatens suicide bombings while the PA deploys RPGs

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@Redcuban1959@hexbear.net, I didn't have a chance to respond to you before the last thread was locked. With regard to the Unification Church,

They believe that due to Japanese imperialism in Korea, all Japanese people have "negative ancestral karma."

This can only be corrected via ruinous financial donations to the unification church, which is what happened to Tetsuya Yamagami's mother.

I don't think this put them at odds with the Japanese government at all to be clear, which is why it continued for so long prior to Abe's assassination.

As far as the DPRK goes they're definitely extremely Anti-Communist, however, they are also pro-reunification of Korea. I'm not sure exactly where that lands them on any given issue, but there is a reason that they have a lot of CIA ties.

Slow news day 😃