Also Israel has a viable way to deliver those nuclear weapons to any capital city in the world through inter continental ballistic missiles and stealth jets, apartheid South Africa didn't, all they had were 1950s warplanes which would easily be shot down by Cuban and Soviet air defence systems and fighters.
Israel's air bases are heavily protected by arrow hypersonic interceptors, david's sling (an improved Patriot system/patriot replacement), the warplanes themselves can shoot down incoming missiles, etc. And any major attack on an Israeli airbase would involve the US and UK mobilising rapidly to protect it and shoot down incoming missiles and drones. A saturation attack could work as shown by Iran earlier this year, but that requires a lot of co-ordination and planning, to fire hundreds of missiles and drones at the correct times. The planes themselves are also likely stored in concrete hangars designed to withstand strikes when not performing missions, so you'd need a lot of ordinance or specialised bunker buster warheads to take one out while it's in a protected hangar. It's a highly complex operation, and given Hezbollah's current arsenal, maybe not the most feasible.
Realistically, the only thing that would stop Israel bombing with impunity would be for Hezbollah to confront the Israeli Air Force with modern air defence systems, and start shooting their planes down. Unfortunately Hezbollah do not have this capability. The missile threat was always an asymmetric deterrence or trump card Hezbollah and the rest of the resistance had, to try scare Israel from doing such operations. But at the end of the day if Israel wants to fly their warplanes over a country and bomb it, there is not much the resistance can do with their current capabilities to directly stop the modern US warplanes Israel has. It is important to be realistic about the current capabilities of the resistance in this regard.
That's a quick way to get nuked or have a massive joint American-Israeli bombing campaign destroy the entirety of Lebanon.
A few of the secondary explosions from the bombings last night definitely look as if some kind of weapons cache was hit and a bunch of ammunition cooked off. But the rest just looked like terror bombings.
The people of South Africa stand with you and your friend forever and always, we try our best to help even though we're a poor third world country on the other side of the globe. I hope one day that you can rid yourself of this horrible Israeli apartheid and live in freedom and peace in your own land. It seems impossible, but that's what they said about South Africa in the past.
As for a question, what kind of music does he like/listen to? I always find that can be helpful for the soul when going through difficult times.
It buys time for an appropriate official response, gives the people time to emotionally process the situation, and subdues any initial panicked response. It's a propaganda tactic at the end of the day. Most organisations or countries would do the same in the event of the death of a senior leader. While us news thread people (including me) would just prefer the brutal honest truth as quick as possible, this might not be the best messaging tactic when communicating to millions of people more invested in the situation than us. I know it's an overused cliché, but the first casualty of war is always the truth.
It's just the initial propaganda push that happens after events like this to calm people down and prevent panic. Same thing happened after the Raisi helicopter crash, same thing happened after the US started bombing Yemen last year.
No mention of Nasrallah, I think he's dead.
Editing to say I just refreshed the thread and saw the latest news, damn...
I don't think so, the flash was from the secondary explosion after the bomb hit, it's different from the signature "double flash" of an atmospheric nuclear explosion, which usually gets picked up on by spy satellites designed to observe such phenomena. It's how apartheid South Africa got caught testing nuclear weapons in the Indian Ocean, a US spy satellite picked up on the "double flash".
Power play, he authorised the terror bombings against Lebanon from a chair in the UN offices and even got a photo op out of it. He is mocking the world and it's institutions.
Yeah there have been so many of these terror bombings at different locations in Beirut and Southern Lebanon, it's just footage of that particular explosion spread on social media very quickly, because of the visual impact of the secondary explosion with the flash.
The main problem is Israeli nuclear blackmail and the inability for Iran to protect itself from an Israeli air campaign. But yes, this is very disappointing I agree.
A lot of it is to do with the secondary explosions from whatever the bomb hit. I think all three videos awoo linked featured a large secondary explosion with a big flash, in fact they all appear to be videos of the same explosion, just from different angles.
Southern Beirut suburbs are getting flattened and Israeli planes and warships are conducting other strikes that are getting close to Beirut International Airport. I can't believe it's happening again and again and again...
That was the hit with the massive secondary explosion which caused a huge flash. Horrifying, if I saw that I don't think I'd ever be able to sleep again.
The only ones that really make sense are the religion and gaming related subreddits. The rest is just bots.
The UK is going to get a lot worse with all the betting advertising in football. Pretty much every second Premier League team has a betting sponsor at the moment. The marketing campaign has intensified and I can see those statistics doubling within the next few years.
It's also ruining sports, the advertising is everywhere and extremely tacky, while contributing to the financial ruin of the poorest in society. If I see another HollywoodBets advert I will
Specifically, for every $1 spent on betting, households put $2 less into investment accounts. States see big increases in the risk of overdrafting a bank account or maxing out a credit card. These effects are strongest among already precarious households.
Fake society with fake finance. This is terrible.
Looking specifically at online sports gambling, they find that legalization increases the risk that a household goes bankrupt by 25 to 30 percent, and increases debt delinquency. These problems seem to concentrate among young men living in low-income counties—further evidence that those most hurt by sports gambling are the least well-off.
Yeah definitely. I see it all the time with soccer/football.
Matsuzawa and Arnesen extend this, finding that in states where sports betting is legal, the effect is even bigger. They estimate that legal sports betting leads to a roughly 9 percent increase in intimate-partner violence.
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Legalization isn’t yielding many benefits, either. Tax revenue—one of the major justifications for legalization—has been anemic, with all 38 legal states combined making only about $500 million from it a quarter, less than alcohol, tobacco, or marijuana
Of course, these gambling operations are great at avoiding taxes, setting up their operation to be off shore on official paperwork, in office buildings that don't exist.
If you mean Hezbollah then no, because they are preparing for a long drawn out conflict with Israel. They have only fired one long range guided ballistic missile in this entire confrontation. They have a lot more than one of these weapons. Their rocket artillery barrages against Israel "only" consist of a few hundred rockets at a time. They are pacing themselves, and their rate of fire, for a long lasting confrontation.
Context. The commenters getting upvoted are defending this racist meme by local social media personality and racist idiot "The Kiffness".
The commenter that got 270 downvotes is the one calling out the racism.
Yes, many people in South Africa are still so racist that they do the fried chicken stereotype thing and insinuate that this is a tactic that black majority political parties use to "buy votes".
The private and public seductions of the world’s biggest pop neuroscientist.
As someone that always got the creeps from this guy and got tired of seeing him all over social media promoting his nonsense with his whole "I'm a professor at Stanford" act, this article is cathartic and somewhat vindicating to read.
The long and the short of it is that while preaching self control, cutting out toxicity from your life, and creating peace, he proceeded to have affairs with five or six different women at the same time, with unprotected sex and potential spreading of STDs/STIs, along with cheating on the woman he was trying to have a child with, as well as ghosting pretty much everyone in his life constantly. He also made up a dubious backstory to hide the nepotism that allowed him to have a career at Stanford:
> What does seem certain is that in his adolescence, Andrew became a regular consumer of talk therapy. In therapy, one learns to tell stories about one’s experience. A story one could tell is: I overcame immense odds to be where I am. Another is: The son of a Stanford professor, born at Stanford Hospital, grows up to be a Stanford professor.
For context with this paragraph, Huberman talks about the benefits of therapy all the time:
> Andrew’s relationship to therapy remains intriguing. “We were at dinner once,” says Eve, “and he told me something personal, and I suggested he talk to his therapist. He laughed it off like that wasn’t ever going to happen, so I asked him if he lied to his therapist. He told me he did all the time.”
As a summary for how his podcast is filled with projection:
> With repeated listening to the podcast, one discerns a man undergoing, in public, an effort to understand himself. There are hours of talking about addiction, trauma, dopamine, and fear. Narcissism comes up consistently. One can see attempts to understand and also places where those attempts swerve into self-indulgence.
Can't believe this song is almost 16 years old, the lyrics are just heartbreaking in modern context, especially this part:
>And Mary and David smoke dung in the trenches While Zion's behavior never gets mentioned The writings, on your wall And the blood on the cradle And the ashes you wade through Got you calling God's name in vain Leaved the damned to damn it all
It's only gotten 100 times worse since the 2008 Gaza war
Prince Buthelezi, or as many others call him - uMmntwana wakwa Phindangenee – has been without question one of the most polarising political figures South Africa has ever produced.
Seriously. Reading this shit has me almost in tears. This is not the future we fought for. People should not live like this.
Link to :reddit-logo: post because I am a liberal
From the comments of the OP, warning immense racism
> Which part are you referring to exactly? The world did view apartheid in that manner, no argument there. History says these men were on the wrong side. Although the military and political landscape is quite vast. Let's for argument's sake say what one person's experience was true, that he farmed in Namibia for the SADF in attempts to win hearts and minds, did his mandatory service automatically make him a racist? Surely not. As long as targets were military most of the time and in line with the greater goals of keeping communist states disorganized and supporting indigenous resistance, it would be quite hard to label military motives as racist.
:what-the-hell: :fidel-wut: :wut:
Also feel free to brigade that shithole subreddit as much as you want. I think I’m still banned for being anti NATO.
The brainworms in the comments it's just incredible. There's one actual good detailed explanation in the comments, waiting to see what :galaxy-brain: takes show up
For context, Trump tweeted out a video condemning the storming of capitol hill. Trump also said that he is now committed to a peaceful transition of power and that Biden will be the US president in the video.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1347334804052844550
