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Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 2:13pm On Aug 24, 2024
🇰🇵🎈🗑🇰🇷Reuters has visualized how North Korea "bombed" South Korea with garbage and manure

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 2:13pm On Aug 24, 2024
🇹🇼🇨🇳Taiwanese Armed Forces Command believes China will use A2/AD access denial strategy against the island using three aircraft carriers

📌🛳After the commissioning of the third Chinese aircraft carrier Fujian, the PLA Navy will be able to deploy it along with two others, Liaoning and Shandong, in the northern Philippine Sea, 300 and 800 kilometers east of Taiwan. This position will allow China to confront Taiwan on two fronts simultaneously.]


❌The PLA Rocket Forces will provide fire support with medium- and long-range ballistic missiles and cruise missiles against foreign troops in the area between the first and second island chains.

©Su Ziyun, an official with Taiwan's National Defense and Security Institute, said China's three aircraft carriers are part of China's transition from a land power to a maritime power.

🔝According to him, the introduction of the Fujian aircraft carrier will turn the PLA Navy into a “high seas fleet” and allow China to encircle Taiwan more effectively. The Chinese aircraft carriers will be deployed 300 kilometers or more east of Taiwan, putting them out of range of Taiwanese missiles. Meanwhile, the range of the fighters to be deployed from the carriers is about 800 km, so attacks on Taiwan can be conducted from a safe distance.


🔖Su noted that Taiwan could use anti-ship missiles to attack incoming PLA Navy vessels, but would have to rely on submarines to combat long-range aircraft. In the event of war, it will be difficult for PLA aircraft to traverse the airspace over the Bashi Strait or the Miyako Strait.

🇺🇸🛥If the US provides assistance to Taiwan, Chinese aircraft carriers in the waters east of Taiwan will come under pressure on both sides.  In the strategic triangle, which includes Hawaii, Guam and Taiwan, Chinese aircraft carriers will become a target for the US military and will also be cut off from supply.


📣“Since the passage of supply ships through the Bashi Channel or the Miyako Strait would be too dangerous and China has no bases abroad, supplying aircraft carriers would be impossible. Any advantage provided by aircraft carriers would be quickly lost,” he said.

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 2:08pm On Aug 24, 2024
WritterNg:
⚡Russia destroyed an Israeli radar installation inside Ukraine using a Lancet drone.

These radar sets are specifically designed for drone detection.
Israel just scammed Ukraine, the radar wey no detect Hezbollah drone 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 2:06pm On Aug 24, 2024
🌐🔫🔝In the ranking of the world's most powerful armies, Global Firepower 2024:

🇷🇺🥈the Russian army retained its second place;

🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇩🇪the Ukrainian army moved to 18th place, behind Israel but ahead of Germany.
hamas has pulled down the Israeli forces 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Hamas don downgrade the (IDF)Israel diapers force

Iran Don comes up👍👍👍👍👍👍

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 2:01pm On Aug 24, 2024
🌐♟Western Missteps in the Global Geopolitical Chess Game

📌The geopolitical situation we find ourselves in today is not as complex as it may seem. As has been suggested many times, the Western elites are playing a chess game that cannot be won.

🔴🗣Western leadership plays checkers or horseshoes in a grand chess match with leaders like Vladimir Putin and his advisors. It’s time we elected leaders with a clear view of the long game and not the sacrifice of pawns.]


🖥Let’s examine the events of the last few weeks as a window into how this geopolitical game is being played. A good starting point is the much-advertised Ukraine incursion into the Kursk region of Russia.

🌎💬Western “experts” have heralded the desperate military action as everything from a Napoleonic charge at Moscow to a brilliant move to force a better peace accord with Russia.


👀If we look beyond Western mainstream media and press releases by various NATO states, we find a reality that is light years distant from the one in which Americans, Canadians, and Europeans are being fed.

🔖Take the stories that suggest the Kursk incursion will force Vladimir Putin to relinquish territorial gains in Southeastern Ukraine and toward Karkov. President Putin says no negotiations can take place with Ukraine forces inside Russia.

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 8:00pm On Aug 23, 2024
🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Several rocket strikes in Kiryat Shmona and surrounding areas following non-stop red alert sirens.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 7:58pm On Aug 23, 2024
GENERAL APTI ALAUDINOV: “I AM RUSSIAN. THEY CONSIDER WE ARE ALL RUSSIANS, WHY DISAPPOINT THEM.”

“I was born into a full-fledged Chechen family, grew up in the Stavropol region. Now the Russian Orthodox Church has been outlawed in Ukraine, what other proof is needed that we are at war with the possessed.”

I will add on my own behalf. Today is a very difficult day, and in the Northern Military District, all nationalities are fighting in one formation, the war is going hard. And the tragedy in Surovikino. And I am interested and pleased to hear what Apti says about our unification.


This phrase: “We, both Orthodox and Muslims, are waiting for the coming of Jesus, he will defeat the demon.” I understand that where there is faith, religions and confessions, everything is very subtle. And I try to be extremely delicate.

We are close. The enemies are before us. Times of important affairs and difficult decisions.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 7:53pm On Aug 23, 2024
🇮🇱🖥Israeli media falsely quoted former Israeli captive Noa Argamani as saying that Hamas beat her all over her body and cut her hair while she was in captivity, during a meeting with representatives of the G7 embassy in Tokyo.

📷She later took to social media to clarify:

“I was not beaten or had my hair cut. “I was in a building that was blown up by the Air Force,” explaining that she had “cuts all over my head” and was “injured all over my body” from a wall collapsing due to Israeli shelling.

“As a victim of October 7, I will not allow myself to be a victim of the media again,” she concluded.
empire of lie
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 7:47pm On Aug 23, 2024
📹 From the wild fires in Beria as a result of the rockets from Lebanon.

A total of only 15 rockets were fired towards Qiryat Shmona. Majority intercepted, no reports of impacts in the settlement.

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 7:46pm On Aug 23, 2024
📸 The first impact today was on a road, during the attempt to intercept the rockets towards Ein Zitem

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 7:45pm On Aug 23, 2024
📹 For the second time today, an Israeli Iron Dome missile did a U-turn and impacted the ground. (From the attempted interceptions a few ago)
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 7:39pm On Aug 23, 2024
6- Hezbullah is still using 122mm and smaller munitions, refusing to utilize higher caliber weapons like Fajr rockets (M302), a weapon known since 2006, despite 10 months in this battle.

Hezbullah for some reason, Hezbullah's leadership for reasons they are better aware of and the importance of, are operating with their hands tied to their backs.

Why would Hezbullah not fire a Burkan rocket at an Israeli settlement when Israel destroys several buildings in a Lebanese village?


Hezbullah is steering the war in way, I do believe as: "Accept losses now, feel like the underdog, operate at low capacity and hope the war ends. If the war ends, less strategic weapons used, the better and more we'll have for later. If war doesn't end, we will operate freely, and we will use these weapons when they mean something and cause the damage was want. This isn't the final battle, this is one of the battles".

His eminence (may he be protected by Gods own elite angles) implies that clearly, when he says that if a widescale war happens, one that involves an actual intense Israeli air and ground war, they will operate without any redlines, rules, or limitations.

(Okay now I'm distracted and forgot what I want to say, idk sorry I'll continue maybe later)
what a good analysis!

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 7:37pm On Aug 23, 2024
where is that mungun wey dey talk shey Hamas dey hide inside tunnel like rats🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
World best soldier in the mud, Hezbollah turn Dem to rat🤣🤣🤣

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 7:22pm On Aug 23, 2024
🇮🇱/🇱🇧 A recent photo of an Israeli soldier inside the underground tunnels of an Israeli base on the Lebanese border

Writing this as a reminder to many in the comments who ask about Hezbullah's casualties and lack of acknowledged Israeli casualties.

I've explained it a few times, and will do again so briefly, because my thoughts are not very consistent now:

1- This is an unprecedented type of battle/war between Hezbullah and Israel, where neither is operating at highest capacity and due to the difference in abilities (and tools), Israel has an advantage in how to operate


2- Israeli soldiers are not operating in danger, and are mostly located in secret and/or secure location near the border area. The Israeli army is exclusively operating from air, in safety, and utilizing efficient and modern tools to attack and detect. Israeli soldiers are only operating recon operations and are on guard, but not offensive operations, not even ATGM attacks

3- Aside from drone attacks towards Israeli bases, where several successful attacks resulted in Israeli casualties, Hezbullah is forced to operate in the Lebanese border villages and outskirts to engage Israeli armor and equipment at bases and deploy in those areas for defense and rest when retreating from the forested areas. These movements put the fighters at risk, and subject them to attacks. The Israeli recon soldiers are operating to detect any suspicious movements, and call the air force to attack.


Moving from forests to houses is not easy, and is detectable, as Hezbullah doesn't build tunnels into people's houses.

Rocket launch teams also have to retreat from operation areas to houses or underground tunnels. Or anyone from the battlefield to back home. This is all dangerous, especially that fighters aren't staying in the battlefield but rotating.


4- Back in 2006, Hezbullah suffered much higher casualties in the first two weeks as the Israeli attacks were from air only. However after the Israeli army attacked on ground, in raids and part of their invasion, Hezbullah's casualties decreases to a level that on some days Israel had more casualties than Hezbullah. Israel even has the highest number of casualties a day vs Hezbullah in 2006.

Israel's failure in 2006, in terms of invasion has many reasons, one being their hesitance and lack of will and determination to accept casualties and suffering. Hezbullah was aided by God, defending with a few against hundreds.]


On the other hand, Lebanon sufferered a lot of civilian casualties as a result of Israeli attacks in 2006. About 248 (up to 251) Hezbullah fighters were killed, however 1,000+ Lebanon civilian murdered.

So imagine, that two weeks period, extended to 10 months, what's happening then is happening now for much longer with better tools and abilities and way more accurate intelligence.

5- Hezbullah considers anyone fighting in south Lebanon is like a martyrdom fighter, as south Lebanon is a very dangerous zone to operate from. This was dictated by the type of this battle, where the limitation in the fighting and lack of escalation in forcing Hezbullah to offer less protection than wanted to its fighters]


To explain this point better, Hezbullah is firing 10-20 rockets a day, maybe 30-50 tops. On special occasions 100-200 a day. So imagine because of the current stage in this war and the will (+need) to keep it limited and not full fledged, you are putting at risk members of your rocket units to fire few rockets, exposing the launch site and them to danger.

In a full fledged war, you'd fire the full load, dozens from each launch site, hundreds an hour, thousand/s a day from all around, causing chaos at the Israeli bases and population centers. This makes the launch site and fighter achieve more vs what are the possible risks and losses.

So imagine it as, these honorable fighters are presenting themselves on an altar of sacrifice. Yes I refuse to believe otherwise and refuse to assume that this is Hezbullah's peak of ability. We know them well, 1993 1996 2000 2006 2011 and so on

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 7:17pm On Aug 23, 2024
📸 The artillery on Khiyam hit the oil storage tanks, causing a massive fire and smoke

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 7:16pm On Aug 23, 2024
⭕️ In response to the attack on Lebanese villages, Hezbullah announced attacking Ein Zitem base with a barrage of rockets.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 7:14pm On Aug 23, 2024
Dead terrorists

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 7:12pm On Aug 23, 2024
🇮🇱❌🇮🇱🇮🇱 — 🌐 Defense minister of Israel Yoav Gallant on his X page (formerly Twitter) in most likely a sign to Ben Gvir's storming of Aqsa and destruction of Israeli Arabs homes:
In the face of Minister Ben Gvir's irresponsible actions that endanger the national security of the State of Israel and create an internal division in the nation, the head of the General Security Service and his people perform their duty and warn against the serious consequences of these actions.


🌐🇮🇱 Ben Gvir then responded to him in a comment:
You promised to return Lebanon to the Stone Age, meanwhile you are returning the North to the Stone Age. Instead of attacking me on Twitter, start attacking Hezbollah in Lebanon.
🔗Link

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 7:00pm On Aug 23, 2024
🇺🇸⚡️- Trump says he will be "great" for women and their "reproductive rights."

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 6:10pm On Aug 23, 2024
🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡️- Fires emerging from Homs airport following an Israeli airstrike.

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 6:10pm On Aug 23, 2024
🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in the Gaza envelope (Sderot direction.)

Following claims by Palestinian Islamic Jihad of rocket attacks against Ashkelon and Ashdod, rockets were detected above Sderot near the Gaza Strip.

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 6:09pm On Aug 23, 2024
🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Residents in the Gaza Envelope (Otef) have been asked to remain near shelters after Palestinian Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for rocket attacks against Ashkelon and Ashdod.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 6:08pm On Aug 23, 2024
🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - Saraya AlQuds (PIJ) report bombing Ashdod and Ashkelon with rockets. indeed Hamas has been defeated 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 6:07pm On Aug 23, 2024
❗️About 20 US Abrams tanks out of 31 delivered to the Ukrainian Armed Forces have already been destroyed — Military Watch Magazine

"The Ukrainian Armed Forces have suffered such losses over the past six months," the Korean English-language reported.

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 6:07pm On Aug 23, 2024
❗️Russia's new domestically produced Yakovlev passenger plane is capable of performing impossible maneuvers.

Very impressive.👍👍👍👍👍

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 6:04pm On Aug 23, 2024
SEALING DEFEAT
It’s impossible to identify any military objective in Kursk incursion

You would have thought a German tank would have turned round and ran when asked to go to Kursk. The strategic balance in favor of Russia is ‘off the charts’ says Lt Col Daniel Davis

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 5:18pm On Aug 23, 2024
❗️ British expert Alexander Merkuris stated in his blog on YouTube that Zelensky* is covering up the withdrawal of units from Donbass with the attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Kursk region.

*former president of Ukraine, recognized as illegitimate head of state
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 5:17pm On Aug 23, 2024
‼️🇿🇦 🇵🇱 South Africa blocked the supply of ammunition to Poland, fearing that they could end up in Ukraine — Rzeczpospolita

▪️The contract was signed with the German giant Rheinmetall, but production was to take place at the facilities of their South African subsidiary Denel Munition.
▪️As a result, in July 2023, the contract was cancelled, leaving Poland without much-needed ammunition.
▪️ This move by South Africa, a BRICS member country, has hit Poland's defence capabilities.

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 5:15pm On Aug 23, 2024
Ukraine loses over 4,700 troops in Kursk border region — MoD

The Ukrainian armed forces have lost more than 4,700 servicemen and 68 tanks since the beginning of the operation in the Kursk area, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) said on Thursday.

Units of the Russian Battlegroup Sever repelled attacks by Ukrainian troops near two villages in the Kursk region and thwarted attempts by Ukrainian troops to attack in five directions in the region, the ministry said, adding that Kiev lost over 45 soldiers and one tank.

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 5:14pm On Aug 23, 2024
US Navy Installs Starlink System
on the aircraft carrier CVN 72 Abraham Lincoln, providing high-speed Internet access anywhere they go for a fraction of the cost.

The Navy said it "has dramatically changed the seafaring experience for sailors; the new system provides reliable communications, improves morale and increases productivity."

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 5:12pm On Aug 23, 2024
NATO armored brigade of 4-5 thousand soldiers to be created close to Russian border – Finnish media

Troops from several NATO countries may be stationed in the Finnish city of Mikkeli, near the border with Russia, the publications specify. The decision on the deployment of NATO headquarters in Finland will be made in the fall, Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen said.

According to the head of the Finnish Ministry of Defense, the tense situation on the border could provoke a situation in which the allies begin to conduct additional exercises near the Russian border.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Vic2023: 5:11pm On Aug 23, 2024
Modi’s Poland visit, an opportunity for PM Tusk to build stronger defence industry ties with India — Reuters

Poland wants to deepen its cooperation with India in the defence industry, PM Tusk said on Thursday. Warsaw seeks to benefit from New Delhi's drive to modernize its armed forces and diversify away from Russian suppliers.

Indian PM Modi is visiting Warsaw en route to Kiev, where he has said he will "share perspectives" on the peaceful resolution of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. A Polish official claims that India still has a lot of Soviet-era equipment such T-72 tanks which Poland was able to repair or refit, creating an opportunity for cooperation.

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