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@[email protected] @[email protected] I'm gonna start by debunking the myth that Israel is invulnerable because they have nuclear weapons. Since they have so many conventional precision weapons pointed at Israel, without nuclear weapons Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran are still able to take out strategic targets: missile launchers, AA weapons, radar, runways, facilities in important bases, etc. In addition to this, they can use the strategy even against protected locations like these powerplants striking them with barrages that first use a bunch of cheap projectiles like drones to break the air defense then get a bunch of conventional strikes through depriving Israel of electricity. They can also do this to other facilities like water treatment, forcing military logistics to shift to providing food and water for civilians. note that none of this has the domestic and international consequences of using nuclear weapons. Now something to know about Israel is that they're not able to do without these amenities and they require extremely high morale to be willing to fight since they live in a giant strip mall.

John Helmer: "If Israel escalates by attacking Iran and striking at the country’s infrastructure, then Iran’s counter will be Electric War."


John Helmer: "If Israel escalates by attacking Iran and striking at the country’s infrastructure, then Iran’s counter will be [...] Electric War."
Naked Capitalism commentary:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/middle-east-escalation-financial-times-revealing-account-of-israel-risk-of-ukraine-style-air-defense-attrition-helmer-on-possible-electrical-grid-campaign.html
full article source:
https://johnhelmer.net/loose-lips-dont-sink-ships-or-israel/
LOOSE LIPS DON’T SINK SHIPS, OR ISRAEL
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If Israel escalates by attacking Iran and striking at the country’s infrastructure, then Iran’s counter will be to take a page out of Russia’s book and commence the one line of attack which Israel, the US a

@[email protected] I actually just added a gazebo in the form of an Mbin account for this one yes. Edited that because ironic Alex Jones vibe seemed off

@[email protected] No, but https://procial.tchncs.de is. I hang out on tchncs to help target The Weapon

"Iran received messages from mediators to let the regime do a symbolic strike to save face, asked Iran not to retaliate,” the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed to The Cradle
"Iran received messages from mediators to let the regime do a symbolic strike to save face, asked Iran not to retaliate,” the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed to The Cradle
https://orinocotribune.com/us-makes-failed-bid-for-iran-to-allow-symbolic-strike-by-israel/
"Iran has received messages from mediators to let the regime do a symbolic strike to save face and asked Iran not to retaliate,” the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed to The Cradle.
He added that Tehran “outright rejected” the proposal, delivered by mediators, and reiterated warnings that any Israeli attack on Iranian soil would be met with a decisive and immediate response.
The reply was delivered directly to the Swiss envoy in Tehran by officials from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and not the foreign ministry. According to The Cradle’s source, the decision for t

In a recent televised speech, Nasrallah unequivocally debunked the myth that Israel controls America. An opinion he has held for years.
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[VIDEO] In a recent televised speech, Nasrallah unequivocally debunked the myth that Israel controls America. An opinion he has held for years.
https://nitter.poast.org/Aldanmarki/status/1780360238169792528
lebanon #hezbollah #palestine #israel #zionismisterrorism #imperialism #decolonization @[email protected] @[email protected] [@[email protected].p

🇧🇫 Counterterrorism "When I heard the word “Militias”, I automatically knew who is behind these people: the imperialists, especially 🇫🇷."
🇧🇫 Counterterrorism "When I heard the word “Militias”, I automatically knew who is behind these people: the imperialists, especially 🇫🇷."
https://nitter.poast.org/marcusherve/status/1780349462247776652
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"Our goal is to establish sharia law in the whole world, specifically in Burkina Faso 🇧🇫”, he added.
He said that they have noticed that Captain has recruited some militias called the VDP ( Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland). Now, let me pause right here and make a comment. When I heard the word “Militias”, I automatically knew who is behind these people: the imperialists, especially France 🇫🇷.
Why? Because, it was the same imperialists, especially France 🇫🇷 that were accusing us on the MSM and on their media that we recruited militias without training and sent them to the frontline. They even used this as an alibi to refuse to sell us weapons, and even **used their diplomat

@[email protected] seriously why would anyone feel safe protected by something that looks like that lmao. i already heard about them locking people out like crazy

Smart locks securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that can open them remotely.
Smart locks securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that can open them remotely.
The lock's maker Chirp Systems remains unresponsive, even though it was first notified about the critical weakness in March 2021. Meanwhile, Chirp's parent company, RealPage, Inc., is being sued by multiple U.S. states for allegedly colluding with landlords to illegally raise rents.
P.S. never give cybersecurity spooks clicks even after they go "freelance" or whatever
realestate #landlords #latestagecapitalism [#security](https://procial.tchnc

@[email protected] This is precisely how suburban mayors act here too re: the city

NOT THE TREATS!!! Mayor Jeremy Levi says: "This isn't a movie scene. It's downtown Montreal, where the pro-Hamas group disrupts commerce for everyone, not just Jews."
NOT THE TREATS!!! Mayor Jeremy Levi says: "This isn't a movie scene. It's downtown Montreal, where the pro-Hamas group disrupts commerce for everyone, not just Jews."
"Val Plante, where's your courage to stop this madness?"
https://nitter.poast.org/jerlevi/status/1779913237548409337
@[email protected] #palestine #montreal #canada #zionismisgenocide #civildisobedience

15 Million Chinese Streamers Are Struggling 😱😿 (Asmongold TV)
15 Million Chinese Streamers Are Struggling 😱😿 (Asmongold TV)
https://inv.us.projectsegfau.lt/watch?v=dvxm7m0LpZw
original link in case of issues but don't click this trash put it into another frontend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvxm7m0LpZw

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] lol no i couldn't see that in my inbox ksyn i had to be on lemmygrad to see it

This is what any microblog instance looks like when it's being forced into an unholy matrimony with Lemmy. Mastodon looks just like this. https://fedidb.org/software/FireFish is the most advanced ActivityPub featureset available. The only complements it needs are https://fedidb.org/software/Funkwhale and https://fedidb.org/software/Bookwyrm
The translation feature in particular makes it superior even for browsing Lemmy. But also none of you bother to provide alt-text image descriptions for people who have sight and sensory issues, while Mastodon & Misskey forks passively promote its use allowing the blind to interact with the web through our aggregation. The user tags here don't cause any functional issue other than increasing character count. Lemmy posts on instance 1 already create a situation where a reply from instance 2 with a reply from instance 3 won't show the third reply on instance 1. All of our software is shit, but at least it's good shit. Anyways, your nonsense about this obviously superior software aside, let's reply to your trashy analysis of current events.
@[email protected] @[email protected]
I have no idea why you're so invested in the conjectures you've based off reading reports from the Zionists that this attack was successfully fended off and they took no serious damage, because the attack didn't fit some arbitrary guideline.
War isn't about pleasing spectators online, as the Ukrainians have been taught so painfully over the past few years.
Zionists spent over a billion dollars fending off Iran's "wasteful" use of drones. The attack cost Iran something in the millions.
They essentially launched a mass of chaff to break the AA and issued a warning strike.
Let me quote an infamous one-trick pony commentator:
Nevatim was defended by the world’s most advanced integrated anti-missile defense shield which incorporated Arrow 2, David’s Sling, THAAD, and Patriot 3 with the AN/TPY-2 X-band surveillance and targeting radar. You also ignore the fact that this system was designed to exclusively defend against the Iranian medium-range ballistic missile threat.
And yet…5-7 missiles hit Nevatim. The Israelis have acknowledged 2 runways and three warehouse structures hit.
Not a knockout blow—it wasn’t intended as such.
But any BDA expert would note that the point of impact was center mass, a clear indication of precision guidance.
5-7 missiles hit the world’s most heavily defended location, defeating an integrated ABM defense that was custom built to defeat the missiles it failed to shoot down.
I guess I am supposed to trust your intuition that the Iranians are lying about getting more out of this attack than they expected because,,, why? They're biased?

Ugh federation is fucking up my replies again.
You're the fucking moron coming up with depressing fanfiction based off vague headline recollections. Did you even see Iran got hits with basic ballistic missiles that reach hypersonic velocities towards the end of their flight path? Conventional weapons this magic air defense is supposed to work on.
Why don't you calm down with your Game of Thrones brain shit about how Ansarallah and Qassam Brigades and Hezbollah and Syria and Iran are all divided because they didn't escalate the way you think they should. Why don't you go play HOI4 or Warhammer, you illiterate churl?

@[email protected]
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@[email protected] Sometimes stuff that involves multiple layers of federation seems to cause a problem. This happens with just Lemmies, though. For instance if a Lemmy.ml user replies to a Lemmygrad.ml user on Hexbear, nobody on Hexbear can even see it. The worldnews tag here helps, as does commenting on what a federated user replied to rather than replying to them. 😵💫 D-did that make sense? Should it? Will this even show up?

more defeatism and crap about how the resistance is pathetic except for a random redeeming quality. fine, let's have a serious discussion after you spend a few more days doing pessimistic media criticism! seriously, let's go. i'm all for it. i may act like a bit of a dick but it's to make my disagreement unambiguous and avoid misunderstandings in the end

i would simply not be emotionally invested in the powerlessness and ineffectuality of the resistance to the point i start uncritically consuming western media at the moment it is least likely to tell the truth
all the reports are saying
are you kidding me dude? oh wait this is dot world. makes sense, this could be a reddit comment it sucks that much.
did you hear about Yemen laying waste to Eilat or expanding their blockade into the Indian Ocean?? probably not.
just got finished talking with an Israeli arguing they are both "made invincible by the IDF" and "harmed" by fear of "Iranian joke rockets". air defense isn't magic, the good systems we have just spam $2M rockets over and over at $2000 drones
Now Israel gets a greenlight for its genocide
they already have it
the USA comes to the rescue to finish the job
they're already there

Immature and shortsighted
Your opportunities in industries which collect international monopoly rents (easy "email jobs" or high-paying industry with benefits) will rapidly diminish as Africa is lifted out of poverty by Chinese internationalism, scooping out the lower end of the US value chain, leaving your children with nothing but working at McDonalds or revolution, 90% of the USA is already in this situation. None of this is true of Chinese people. They are not embarrassed of their success. You'll never be able to articulate serious arguments against what China has done on the world stage without regurgitating things you barely remember from Wired, but this is just jingoistic slurring. You didn't even try to form a coherent thought.
Aren't you embarrassed to try pass off your humiliation as criticism?

(SCMP) Chinese spy agency says foreign agents targeting rare earth and food technology sectors
(SCMP) Chinese spy agency says foreign agents targeting rare earth and food technology sectors
Report on state broadcaster CCTV says last year two people working in the rare earths sector were jailed for 11 years or more for stealing state secrets.
china #espionage #agriculture #rareearth @[email protected]
I cannot receive almost any replies from Lemmygrad for some reason FYI.

(Tasnim) Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi cautioned the Zionist regime to avoid further adventurism, lest it receive a blow much harder than the lawful retaliatory strike
(Tasnim) Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi cautioned the Zionist regime to avoid further adventurism, lest it receive a blow much harder than the lawful retaliatory strike
that Iran launched against the Israeli military targets early Sunday.

@[email protected] Well now I know what to look up to replace mine if it wears out

@[email protected] It was an honest question. Oh nice I have one of those, been using it like that anyways. Didn't know what it was

@[email protected] How's that different from a normal one

@[email protected] I really don't know, so this is just idle speculation, but I wonder if seeing bodies come out of the sand all fucked up made people want to be preserved, but with dignity, rather than be a desiccated corpse, lost in the sand or rotting

Good plug if so! I had not heard of it. It is right up my alley.

@[email protected] I am literally begging you to use Invidious

Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz said that Hamas fighters "are eliminated or in hiding" declares Hamas defeated, but sees years of fighting ahead
[NOT A JOKE] Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz said that Hamas fighters "are eliminated or in hiding" declares Hamas defeated, but sees years of fighting ahead
https://tass.com/world/1773319
TEL AVIV, April 10. /TASS/. While Hamas has been defeated on the battleground, Israel will need to send soldiers to fight Palestinian radicals in the Gaza Strip for years to come, Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz said.
"From a military point of view Hamas is defeated. Its fighters are eliminated or in hiding," he said following a meeting of his National Unity party in the city of Sderot.
Still, it’s not the end of the battle for Israel, the minister said.
"Fighting against Hamas will take time. Boys who are now in middle school will still fight in the Gaza Strip, like in Judea and Samaria and against Lebanon," he went on to say.
The situation in the Middle East sharply escalated following an incursion of Hamas militants from the Gaz

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Thanks I believe that broken link was because I selected "copy message contents" on the one I'd already sent to hexbear. Interesting!! Microblog federation with Lemmy is so quirked up. Now I know
Ah weird I'm not even getting the federated notifications, I guess this is really not able to be done purely through remote follows without having the server person assist. At least I can send my missives though, I can contribute a bit.

‘Left pan-Africanist’ Bassirou Diomaye Faye confirmed as Senegal’s new president-elect: What’s next? (Liberation News)
‘Left pan-Africanist’ Bassirou Diomaye Faye confirmed as Senegal’s new president-elect: What’s next? (Liberation News)
The 44-year-old Faye will be the youngest president of Senegal. His victory is considered an upset–Faye is a self-described “left pan-Africanist” and his pledge to pursue significant systemic reforms in the country has been well received, in particular by Senegalese youth. Faye won as an independent after his party, the African Patriots of Senegal for Work, Ethics, and Fraternity (PASTEF) was unilaterally dissolved in July 2023 in a crackdown on opposition protests by the incumbent government of President Macky Sall, as covered last year in Liberation News.
The leader of the party, Ousmane Sonko was

@[email protected] Yay it worked!!! Hi Lemmygrad!!! I hope Lemmy starts working, I need the tankie trifecta. Ah!!!! I'm so excited!!! I know it seems silly, but you have good posts and I just can't bear to look at more than one twitter thing and one rss feed!

U.S. ramps up regime change efforts in Solomon Islands in advance of upcoming election (Covert Action Magazine)
U.S. ramps up regime change efforts in Solomon Islands in advance of upcoming election (Covert Action Magazine)
@[email protected] (I still can't get worldnews to appear on this instance so bear with me)
Viewing the South Pacific as part of an “American lake,” as declared by Dwight Eisenhower in 1954, the Biden administration has recently signed security pacts with the Marshall Islands, Palau and Micronesia and is [rebuilding old airfields]([https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2023/09/air-force-clearing-out-jungles-pacific-bolster-airfield-options/390210/](https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2023/09/air-force