Bulletins and News Discussion from January 20th to January 26th, 2025 - Viva La Resistance

Image is of many Hamas soldiers supervising the handing over of Israeli hostages to cars heading out of the Gaza Strip.

After 15 months of genocide - and resistance to it - the Israeli regime realized that they could not win a military victory against Hamas, and were forced to sign a humiliating ceasefire in order to get their hostages returned.

With much of Syria under the control of Al-Qaeda, and an increasing level of covert infiltration into Lebanon, the crisis in the Middle East is not over, and we may still be in its beginning stages, as the center of hegemony continues its gradual shift away from the United States. Their navy, once considered the best in the world, is likely also not very happy about their ships and aircraft carriers being forced to retreat by Yemen, one of the poorest countries; and all eyes are on Iran, who has, over the last year and a half, demonstrated a newfound confidence and strength to directly strike Israel.

The recovery for Gaza will take, at a minimum, decades; it could indeed never fully recovery to even how it was before, considering it is not in Israel's interests to see their concentration camps recover. But Hamas has proven to be steadfast and the tunnel network has proven its resilience, despite facing some of the most powerful conventional bombing in history. This shows that Palestine's liberation is a when, not an if; and hopefully a much sooner "when" than expected before October 7th.

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Danish Regime On Arctic Military Spending Spree
The Danish Social Democrat-led right-wing regime, has unveiled a DKK 15 billion plan to militarize the Arctic further. At a meticulously staged press conference, Troels Lund Poulsen, head of the Liberal Party-controlled Ministry of Defence. stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Vivian Motzfeldt, Greenland’s minister for foreign affairs and independence. The message to Washington was clear: Nuuk and Copenhagen stands united in the face of the American Trump regime's threats to annex Greenland by force.
It was also a message to Greenland, intended to placate the increasingly vocal calls for independence. Denmark is blue finally ready to treat you like equals, or at least pretend to.
The spending spree includes drones, satellites, naval vessels, and an expansion of Kangerlussuaq airport to accommodate F-35 warplanes—because nothing screams “Arctic sovereignty” like overpriced American death machines. This, of course, is only the first installment in what promises to be a series of exorbitant Arctic military packages. The regime, ever eager to prove its loyalty to the American NATO pact and its imperial master in Washington, has already burned through DKK 200 billion from a recent defense agreement. But fear not, Danish taxpayers: there’s always more money for war.
The agreement on the military splurge is made between the regime and several regime-loyal parties in Denmark's rubber-stamp parliament. Only the pro-democracy Red-Green and Alternative opposition parties had the decency to stay out of this madness.
Meanwhile, Greenland remains impoverished, its independence aspirations stifled by underdevelopment and economic dependency. Denmark’s schools are mismanaged, its hospitals chronically understaffed, and its public transit groans under neglect. But who cares about such trifles when there are warships to launch and drones to deploy? The regime’s priorities are clear: appease Washington, defy Moscow, and ignore the needs of its own civilian population.
- Danish scaremongering about Moscow always annoys me. If Russia invaded Denmark, we'd be in, at the very least, a massively violent regional conflict. It's not something that would happen out of the blue and it's not something we should prepare for, because the event itself would bring total destruction no matter what.
  Denmark understood this in both world wars. It worked out in the first one, didn't in the second, that's how it goes.

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