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Been hearing a bit about Tamil genocide and Redditors who claim to be from the global south saying every AES country supports it with only anarchists doing anything worthwhile.

I can usually tell it’s some astroturfed bullshit when anarchists from the global south claim to be the only leftists doing anything for indigenous people.

Still, do any newsheads know much about the topic? I really don’t know much about South Asia.

Hillary was just on some podcast, praising Trump's foreign policy and his "approach to NATO". Very cool.

British actor Terence Stamp, best known for playing the villain General Zod in the Hollywood blockbuster “Superman II,” has died. The artist passed away at the age of 87 on Sunday.

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Bolivia's presidential elections are today. Since 2005, the socialist MAS party has won every single vote with huge majorities. Now they’re set for a massive defeat due to internal splits, currently polling at just 1.5%.

We’ll need to wait for the results for a full analysis, but for 4 years there’s been a rift between Evo Morales and the middle-class faction that took power in 2020, over who controls the party. Evo lost the internal struggle. Luis Arce’s faction used state power to seize control of MAS, but they’re now heading toward a devastating defeat as Evo calls for a boycott of the elections.

This division has opened the door for the neoliberal right, who will hand Bolivia’s natural resources over to US interests. The consequences could not be more dire.

The current MAS candidate, Eduardo del Castillo, was the one who led the factional war against Evo Morales and pushed for him to be banned from standing. As the poll above shows, it’s only a pyrrhic victory for him, the MAS is over without Evo.

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Triumphing for the oppressed Palestinian people and their dear Mujahideen, and in response to the crimes of genocide and starvation perpetrated by the Zionist enemy against our people in the Gaza Strip and in retaliation to the Israeli aggression against our country.

The missile force of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a qualitative military operation targeting Lod Airport in the occupied Yaffa region using a hypersonic ballistic missile, "Palestine 2."

The operation has successfully achieved its objective, and caused millions of herds of usurping Zionists to flee to shelters, suspending airport operations.

What has been happening in Gaza for nearly two years is a clear confirmation of the enemy's disregard for the blood of our people in Palestine and its disregard for the blood of Arabs and Muslims.

The unprecedented crime of genocide has not stopped, and the siege and starvation continue in full view of the entire world. How long will the nation, with its peoples and countries, continue to remain silent and in such a state of abandonment?

Has the blood of children and women in Gaza become insignificant to everyone? How long will this crime, this injustice, and this aggression continue?

We will persist to fulfill our religious, moral, and humanitarian duty toward the oppressed Palestinian people until the aggression against Gaza stops and the siege is lifted.

Sana'a: Safar 23, 1447 AH August 17, 2025 AD

Issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces

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Lots of pics of cool chinese platforms in Beijing streets in preperation for the 80th anniversary Victory Day parade. Someone covered armored vehicles bellow but it there are some other, arguably bigger stuff. Some never or rarely seen before.

Anti-Ship missiles YJ-15, ramjet compact supersonic?

YJ-17, waverider hypersonic glide?

YJ-19, maybe scramjet hypersonic?

YJ-20, biconical hypersonic/aeroballistic?

Air Defense systems convoy

HQ-11: 0:18 - 0:35, HQ-26/32 (designation still unknown): 0:43 - 0:59, HQ-22: 1:00 - 1:26, HQ-9: 1:29 - 1:46, HQ-19: 1:49 - 2:16, HQ-29 (designation still unknown): 2:20 - 2:50

Some new subsonic surface-to-surface cruise missile?

Some long range torpedo or a UUV ?

Another big ass UUV

Some loyal wingman thing and some combat UAV: 1 2

same big ass laser air defense system

and there are more stuff too. Maybe we should do a group watch for the parade

AMK Mapping reports that the Ukrainians have launched a successful counterattack against the Russian breakthrough at the new Donetsk defensive line, and stemmed the Russian advance, along with retaking territory, at least for now. This involved a large amount of Ukrainian reinforcements.

The Russian advance in this area was an infantry only assault heavily supported by Russian airstrikes beforehand and close air support, which is quite rare for Russia. If they attempted to reinforce this advance with mechanised elements, it's unknown at this time.

What really saved Ukraine here is the fact that Russia's FAB glide bombs can only hit static targets, can't readjust their flight path mid flight, lack dedicated precision guidance seperate from GNSS (satellite navigation), and the targeting pods for their strike aircraft like the Su-34 are not high fidelity enough to track targets at stand off distance. If Russia had targeting pods with the fidelity of something like the Sniper XR, and if Russia had glide bombs in the class of the GBU-39 Laser SDB, GBU-53 SDB II, or SPICE 250/1000/2000, they could have picked off Ukrainian formations on the move that came to support the counter attacks, and provided much more effective close air support for Russian infantry behind Ukrainian lines. The only weapon Russia has in this class for their strike aircraft is the Kh-38ML, a missile.

An Su-34 equipped with high fidelity targeting pods, 3 external fuel tanks for increased loitering time, and over a dozen FAB-250 glide bombs with laser or TV guidance would have been able to provide very effective close air support, but that capability does not exist currently.

Remember when Corbin got dragged for saying Zionists have no sense of irony? Then there’s this Israeli hooliganism

🟢 Martyr Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades: — Al-Qassam Brigades targeted a zionist "Merkava" tank with a "Yassin 105" shell yesterday, Saturday, near the Dawla intersection, south of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

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🚨 Sirens ring repeatedly across central occupied Palestine following the launch of a missile from Yemen.

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🟢 Hamas: — The intention of the chief of staff of the terrorist occupation army to approve today plans to occupy Gaza City and accelerate military operations within it, is a zionist declaration of the beginning of a new wave of brutal extermination and criminal displacement operations for hundreds of thousands of residents of Gaza City and those displaced to it.

This criminal declaration of committing a major war crime in Gaza City embodies the clearest picture of zionist arrogance, its disregard for international laws, and its insistence on continuing the war of extermination that has been ongoing for more than twenty-two months, under criminal American cover, and amidst shameful international silence and impotence.

Furthermore, the talk about introducing tents into the southern Gaza Strip under the guise of "humanitarian arrangements" is a blatant deception intended to cover up a brutal crime that the occupation is preparing to carry out, at a time when the United Nations confirms its rejection of the occupation's steps in this context, considering them to lack the minimum humanitarian standards and represent a criminal use of humanitarian pressure on civilians to achieve political and military objectives.

What is happening in Gaza is not isolated from the West Bank, where daily incursions, armed settler attacks, and property burning continue, in a scene that reflects the unity of the zionist project based on expelling Palestinians from their land and seizing their rights, leading to the Judaization of Islamic and Christian holy sites.

The steps and attempts by the criminal Netanyahu and his government to displace our people and uproot them from their land are accompanied by the explicit revelation of his true intentions to establish what is called "Greater 'israel'" at the expense of Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and others. This dangerous plan necessitates and compels support for our people and their resistance, considering it the first line of defense for Arab and Islamic countries against zionist ambitions.

We are at a dangerous moment that calls for a unified national stance to build a comprehensive resistance strategy that confronts the criminal plans aimed at uprooting our people and erasing their identity. Arab and Islamic countries also face the imperative of taking clear steps to confront this fascist entity in light of its declared projects targeting the countries and peoples of the region.

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