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Bulletins and News Discussion from December 2nd to December 8th, 2024 - May A Hundred Hazel Flowers Bloom - COTW: Russia

Image is of one of the six salvos of the Oreshnik missile striking Ukraine.


The Oreshnik is an intermediate-range ballistic missile that appears to split into six groups of six submunitions as it strikes its target, giving it the appearance of a hazel flower. It can travel at ten times the speed of sound, and cannot be intercepted by any known Western air defense system, and thus Russia can strike and conventionally destroy any target anywhere in Europe within 20 minutes. Two weeks ago, Russia used the Oreshnik to strike the Yuzhmash factory in Ukraine, particularly its underground facilities, in which ballistic missiles are produced.

Despite the destruction caused by the missile, and its demonstration of Russian missile supremacy over the imperial core, various warmongering Western countries have advocated for further reprisals against Russia, with Ukraine authorized by the US to continue strikes. Additionally, the recent upsurge of the fighting in Syria is no doubt connected to trying to stretch Russia thin, as well as attempting to isolate Hezbollah and Palestine from Iran; how successful this will have ended up being will depend on the outcome of the Russia and Syrian counteroffensive. Looking at recent military history, it will take many months for the Russians and Syrians to retake a city that was lost in about 48 hours.

Even in the worst case scenario for Hezbollah, it's notable that Ansarallah has had major success despite being physically cut off from the rest of the Resistance and under a blockade, and it has defeated the US Navy in its attempts to open up the strait. Israel has confirmed now that their army cannot even make significant territorial gains versus a post-Nasrallah, post-pager terrorist attack Hezbollah holding back its missile strike capabilities. In 2006, it also could not defeat a much less well-armed Hezbollah and was forced to retreat from Lebanon.


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  • Just want to point out that whoever the person is that killed the healthcare CEOscum absolutely knew what they were doing. Today is the tree lighting in Rockefeller Center, so there's a fuck ton of tourists out. They knew that the best way to get around the city is on bike, which they used to flee the scene right into Central Park. You can get there way faster on bike than anything else. And they knew that in Central Park, specifically in the forested area of the Ramble, there are few cameras and many places to hide where they could change clothes and then blend back in with the massive crowds hitting the city today. Also apparently used a suppressed pistol, and knew exactly which door the CEO would be coming out of/when to be there. Impressive. I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that this assassin gets away with this. Trump assassins take notes.

  • Hey all, long time lurker, first time commenter. I used to spam up my geopolitics addiction-brained "effort posts" back on r/genzedong but finally decided to leave R*ddit after seeing how large parts of the site turned on LGBT as a scapegoat after the US election.

    Just wanted to post some thoughts on the Syrian tragedy. It’s personal to me in that back when I was a little snot shitlib teenager, I used to volunteer for Amnesty International to fundraise and spread awareness for the “heroic Syrian rebels” fighting for democracy against the “Assad regime” (aka extort white-guilt tithes from schoolmate parents and propagandize for the US State Department). Of course, then Al-Qaeda/ISIS came along with more rebrands than Blackwater, United Fruit and the "formerly known as Twitter" company combined and showed everyone who cared to pay attention whom exactly the “Syrian opposition” really were. Ever since becoming a leftist and a Marxist-Leninist, I’ve tried to keep up with this conflict as best I can and so since I’ve been lurking for a while now and saw some people lost on the complexities of this 13 year long humanitarian catastrophe, so I'll try to fill in some information about the conflict insofar as I understand it. My sources are primarily A.B. Abrams' two books “World War in Syria” and “Atrocity Propaganda Fabrication and its Consequences” (Both on Z-Library and Libgen, both fantastic works that I highly recommend, we seem to be getting an outpouring of actually anti-imperialist published books nowadays when we used to have to scroll through random-ass substacks and twitter threads just to get any information)

    Part 1: Target Syria: Origins of the Syrian Civil War

    As can be expected, nothing about the “Arab Spring” which led to the outbreak of the conflict in March 2011 was organic. Being notorious self-plagiarists, this was the same playbook the West always uses: taking advantage of strained socio-economic material conditions within a designated adversary's society and funneling that discontent into the direction of regime change.

    The origins of Western motives for Syrian regime change:

    • Anti-Imperialist Geopolitics: For such a “small” country, Syria has been the bastion of West Asian anti-imperialism during the Cold War. Since the dissolution of the United Arab Republic after Nasser’s successor Sadat swung Egypt’s foreign policy away from the Soviet Union and towards the comprador role it diligently upholds today under Sisi, Syria "quickly emerged as the primary opponent of the imposition of Western hegemony in the Middle East.” After the collapse of the USSR, Syria began its alignment with the Axis of Resistance (Iran, Hezbollah) and with the DPRK for its Hwasung missiles to counter Israel. Later, this alignment expanded to Russia and China, hosting Russia’s sole Mediterranean naval base and signing onto China’s BRI.
    • Syrian Secularism as Islamist target: The naked alignment of Al-Qaeda and ISIS with the US in Syria at the present moment, closely examined, is actually a long continuation of Western ties with the Islamist groups in the 20th century Cold War that "received considerable support from NATO member states, enabling them to more effectively target a number of Soviet-aligned and neutral governments.” In 1979, the Muslim Brotherhood targetted Syria with a Islamist uprising that occupied the city of Hama, killing over 1000 Syrian personnel before the restoration of the city. This is the origin of the West’s Islamist underlings’ particular hatred for the Damascus government and the lightbulb moment for the West in how they could be used against Syria. Following 1979, "Israeli and Western experts would notably highlight the presence of radical Islamist elements as an asset to undermine Damascus which “would not be difficult to operate again” and offered “increased U.S. opportunities for destabilization activities if this form of pressure proves necessary.””
    • Pipeline Diplomacy: Its closer relationship with Iran in the post-USSR period led to Assad deciding to reject a Qatari oil pipeline project to Europe in 2009 that would have led from Qatar’s North Field through Saudi Arabia-Jordan-Syria-Turkey in favor of a Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline that would ship out via the Mediterranean through the Syrian port and oil refinery of Baniyas in Tartous Governorate without the need for Turkey. Tellingly, the major regional sponsors of Syria’s regime change in the 2010s became precisely those same countries in the Qatari project that Assad sunk. As America's imminent Healthcare Wormbrained Genius RFK Jr. once wrote for Politico:

      Secret cables and reports by the U.S., Saudi and Israeli intelligence agencies indicate that the moment Assad rejected the Qatari pipeline, military and intelligence planners quickly arrived at the consensus that fomenting a Sunni uprising in Syria to overthrow the uncooperative Bashar Assad was a feasible path to achieving the shared objective of completing the Qatar/Turkey gas link […] the CIA began funding opposition groups in Syria. It is important to note that this was well before the Arab Spring-engendered uprising against Assad

    • Syrian sovereignty: Ultimately, Syria’s stance as a sovereign West Asian country unbeholden to the West just like Hussein's Iraq and Gaddafi's Libya was the primary Western rationale. Once again, it goes to show that Western hegemonic chauvinism is the root of it all. I’ll just let Abrams conclude this section:

      While there were multiple converging casus belli which led the Syrian state to be targeted for destabilisation and eventual overthrow by the Western Bloc and its partners, one common factor underlying every rationale for targeting Syria was the country’s position as an independent state under a single ruling party which was outside the Western sphere of influence. All states of this nature, from the Soviet Union and Ba’athist Iraq to Cuba, Afghanistan (pre-1992) and North Korea among many others, have been targeted for various economic, military and information warfare efforts. The final goal of these efforts has been to bring about their downfall, placing Western soldiers permanently on their soil and placing their territories and populations firmly within the Western sphere of influence. All reasons for targeting Syria are in some way consequences of this one single fact.

  • Absolutely pissing myself laughing. This propaganda telegram I follow which I've long believed has some feds in it has a moderator who has been telling people he's Swiss for years now. Constantly posts racist, hateful and homophobic shit in a bid to get me to quit the group because they don't like my presence there constantly undercutting stuff.

    Anyway dude posted a voice message to the chat (quite common on telegram) without thinking about it and the dude has a yank accent so now I call him the fed.

    This isn't news per se but as it's one of the fashy places I get shit from it's tangentially related

  • Zelensky says that the country's army does not have the strength to recover Crimea and that he will have to make “diplomatic efforts”. This is his first statement indicating that he would cede territory to Russia.

  • this assassination is one of the most threathing things that has happend to the US Oligarchy in quite some time imo.

    it happend in the middle of New York , he got away.

    a unrelenting Order was shown to be helpless and unprotected & and somewhere "he" still roams..

  • It's pretty wild that Reddit is universally celebrating this guy's death. Like yeah no shit but just a couple years ago you would get banned for saying whatever

    bit the dirt that month deserved it. Dare I say it, shit is accelerating.

  • The CEO killing is being called a targeted killing, but the MSM taking the opportunity to scaremonger and make this about the safety of the general public. There's probably more people walking the streets that have been fucked over by healthcare corporations. Pretty sure they aren't going to be the targets of a hit or premeditated murder.

  • I hope Yoon just pretends this never happened and continues being president. Then next month he attempts another coup, it would be the funniest outcome lol

  • Fucking tired of hearing about the fucking hostages. In particular these past few days with the video of the hostage being released by Hamas. Guy is a fucking IDF soldier, he willingly signed up for this shit for the glory of being a colonizer. And now they're banging on about another soldier who actually got what he deserved on Oct. 7th, but everyone thought was being held hostage.

    I hate how the media treats these genocidal freaks with more humanity than the all of the innocent Palestinians that are being systemically exterminated by Israel.

  • For everyone that is confused why me and other Syrians might be happy about this:

    A stagnant, oppressive and expired regime has finally been kicked out after strangling us since 1971. Yeah yeah the geopolitical implication and all that, but we're human in the end and there's an emotional weight in seeing the omniscient Baath regime with all the fucking Hafez and Bashar statues and pictures get stomped on and thrown in the trash. Let us have this at least, these fuckers have killed or tortured a young man from every single Syrian family.

  • Libs' favorite Feel Good Stories: 98 YEARS OLD lady picked up a JOB at MC DONALD'S to pay for her RENT. Here's her EMOTIONAL story.

    My favorite Feel Good Stories: Man KILLS CEO in DOWNTOWN Manhattan and ESCAPES. He left some MESSAGES behind.

  • Israel is now starting to sell the story for why they need to invade Syria

    https://tankie.tube/w/nzPuRscsdJmWj6G9E6BgUi

    They intend to cross the Golan Heights (which currently exists as a buffer zone) because they say they need a buffer zone. It's an excuse to take Syrian land.

    Greater Israel is their goal. Has always been their goal. They will never stop.

  • In communist Korea, the Supreme Leader can enact martial law whenever they want. The only ways to end martial law are by Supreme Leader’s decree or by a National Assembly vote, but under martial law the National Assembly is prohibited from convening.

  • This goofy ROK nonsense is a just a big psyop to distract us from Syria, the current focus of Yankee imperialism, how's the Lion doing?

    Well it seems like the SAA has managed to reorganize and prevent further advances into Hama City, but HTS are staging for an assault from the northern suburbs and publicly warning residents of such. HTS still capturing villages in Salamiyah District east of Hama but SAA still holding on to the main road just about 9km south from the new frontline. Seems like a sensible place to make a stand if the SAA has finally gotten its shit together after the shock has worn off. Also, all those rumors about coups were misinformation of course.

    Aleppo is a total defeat, SDF accepted an offer from HTS to withdraw from the city, new civil administration being established already. I shutter thinking of the scores of captured equipment surely now in the hands of the bandits, and likely years of counterinsurgency that it will take to uproot them from the area.

    NATO and the Zionist entity are conducting bombardments, hitting "iran-backed" government militias in Deir Ez-Zor (yet again) and assassinating Hezbollah's liaison with the SAA in Damascus today. Likely to try to distrupt arms deliveries. Turkey, a thousand curses upon them, is bombing SDF targets with air and artillery and sending their puppet army the SNA to attack the SDF in the north, probably aiming for Manbij.

    The Great Satan went to the UN to say they are "happy with the treatment of people in Aleppo" by HTS, which is labeled by the Great Satan as a designated terrorist organization and AQ affiliate, so you know their hands are all over this offensive. Russian aviation must have also been effective the past few days since the Great Satan brought some White Helmet guy to whine about barrel bombs and destruction of hospitals. Old shit and a complete farce considering what has been sanctioned by them in in Gaza. Russia accuses US and allies, including Ukraine specifically, of arming HTS fighters.

    Finally, another huge wave of internally displaced people in the wake of this offensive. The barbarism continues.

  • A little report from Aleppo, I called my aunt yesterday. She stayed in Aleppo, more specifically Hayy Salah Al Deen in the western parts of Aleppo. Life is pretty normal according to her, the Jihadists are actually behaving well in their interactions with civilians. Shops are open, but there's some confusion about currency and prices, because fighters from Idlib mainly carry Turkish Liras instead of Syrian Liras, so all the prices are unstable and people are confused about what to do with their money. They distributed free bread yesterday, which was neatly organised. Electricity has somehow gotten better.

  • lol extremely chad move if he just left the phone on purpose just to fuck with them/waste their time

    Edit: if they do manage to unlock the phone I hope there’s literally nothing on there but hundreds of pig poop balls images

  • China's BYD to produce its EVs in Brazil. “This will be the largest and most advanced electric vehicle production plant outside of China”. 300,000 vehicles are expected to be produced per year by the end of 2026, primarily to supply the Brazilian and South American markets.

  • Hezbollah: Following the repeated violations initiated by the Israeli of the cessation of hostilities agreement announced to come into effect at dawn on Wednesday, November 27, 2024, which take various forms including firing on civilians and airstrikes in various parts of Lebanon, which led to the deaths of citizens and the injury of others, in addition to the continued violation of Lebanese airspace by hostile Israeli aircraft reaching the capital Beirut, and since the reviews of the relevant authorities to stop these violations did not succeed, the Islamic Resistance carried out an initial warning defensive response this evening, Monday, targeting the Ruwaysat al-Alam site belonging to the Israeli army in the occupied Lebanese hills of Kafr Shuba

  • Occupied Korean legislators voting to dissolve martial law is a pure "What are we? A bunch of North Koreans?!" moment if I ever witnessed one. And I don't doubt we'll get "Haha 2 dystopias one peninsula" comments from chauvinist scum.

    DPRK was ultimately correct in severing unification ties with the South. Had they not done so they'd likely would not have pushed on Russian-Korean ties and would be strung along another set of useless agreements which would have left them more vulnerable to attack which seems to be pretty much guaranteed now. DPRK won't fall for another nuclear arms agreement trickery a second time.

    It seems like martial law into civil war is the only path that Occupied Korea sees as to maintain its existence. The contradictions of capitalism can only be suppressed by a total armed conflict.

    Kim Jong Un is so fucking locked in holy shit.

    . Kimjongunism is peak.

  • And just like that, the Baath government in Syria is no more. I'm very emotional right now, many mixed feelings, one part of me is very happy and relieved, another part knows that some American and Israeli ghouls are sharing my happiness, which makes me question that happiness. There's much to dissect in the events of these last 10 days, we'll do that slowly and carefully over the next weeks. But wow, I can't believe that this even happened. 14 years, what was even the point of all this pain and destruction? Congrats to Jolani, he has cemented his place in the history books as the conqueror of Syria, he did what Alloush, Baghdadi and countless others couldn't do. Assad goes into the trashcan of history, another failson goes.

    And for the last time:

    Who must go? 😔

  • Christ, what a miserable state of affairs. Assad has always been a piece of shit, but I cannnot imagine how awful things are going to get once again in Syria without his regime at least nominally committed to multiethnic harmony. And the Axis of Resistance? What a joke tbh, I'm almost glad Nasrallah isn't here to see this. Iran is just watching all its pieces wiped from the board, for what? Some vague hope that Trump of all people is going to dial back sanctions? Disgusting. I hope I'm wrong, but grim days seem to be ahead.

  • So what's up? "Israel" signs a ceasefire agreement and immediately breaks it by continuing the bombing campaign against Lebanon? Fuck this piece of shit nation

    Death to "israel", the absolute worst spawn of capitalism and colonialism. Death to every zionist that exists.

  • South Korean Parliament voted 190-0 to block the President's martial law declaration. South Korean National Assembly Speaker asks police to leave parliament.

    South Korean parliament speaker Woo Won-shik says President Yoon's martial law is now null and void. - Yonhap. Speaker Woo: "All soldiers who entered the National Assembly building have left". Lee Jae-myung: "Martial law lifted... Will protect the lives and safety of the people

    Law enforcement actively leaving South Korean National Assembly building - CNN

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