Image is of Assad’s presidential palace in 2013. There’s more images of it in this article, though the words in it aren’t worth reading.
Here is Assad’s version of events. I like to imagine he’s making one of those Youtuber apology videos where they sigh at the start and talk in a chastised yet somewhat defensive tone of voice.
As terrorism spread across Syria and ultimately reached Damascus on the evening of Saturday 7th December 2024, questions arose about the president’s fate and whereabouts. This occurred amidst a flood of misinformation and narratives far removed from the truth, aimed at recasting international terrorism as a liberation revolution for Syria.
At such a critical juncture in the nation’s history, where truth must take precedence, it is essential to address these distortions. Unfortunately, the prevailing circumstances at the time, including a total communication blackout for security reasons, delayed the release of this statement. This does not replace a detailed account of the events that unfolded, which will be provided when the opportunity allows.
First, my departure from Syria was neither planned nor did it occur during the final hours of the battles, as some have claimed. On the contrary, I remained in Damascus, carrying out my duties until the early hours of Sunday 8th December 2024. As terrorist forces infiltrated Damascus, I moved to Latakia in co-ordination with our Russian allies to oversee combat operations. Upon arrival at the Hmeimim airbase that morning, it became clear that our forces had completely withdrawn from all battle lines and that the last army positions had fallen. As the field situation in the area continued to deteriorate, the Russian military base itself came under intensified attack by drone strikes.
With no viable means of leaving the base, Moscow requested that the base’s command arrange an immediate evacuation to Russia on the evening of Sunday 8th December. This took place a day after the fall of Damascus following the collapse of the final military positions and the resulting paralysis of all remaining state institutions.
At no point during these events did I consider stepping down or seeking refuge, nor was such a proposal made by any individual or party. The only course of action was to continue fighting against the terrorist onslaught.
I reaffirm that the person who, from the very first day of the war, refused to barter the salvation of his nation for personal gain, or to compromise his people in exchange for numerous offers and enticements is the same person who stood alongside the officers and soldiers of the army on the front lines, just metres from terrorists in the most dangerous and intense battlefields. He is the same person who, during the darkest years of the war, did not leave but remained with his family alongside his people, confronting terrorism under bombardment and the recurring threats of terrorist incursions into the capital over 14 years of war. Furthermore, the person who has never abandoned the resistance in Palestine and Lebanon, nor betrayed his allies who stood by him, cannot possibly be the same person who would forsake his own people or betray the army and nation to which he belongs.
I have never sought positions for personal gain but have always considered myself as a custodian of a national project, supported by the faith of the Syrian people, who believed in its vision. I have carried an unwavering conviction in their will and ability to protect the state, defend its institutions, and uphold their choices to the very last moment.
When the state falls into the hands of terrorism and the ability to make a meaningful contribution is lost, any position becomes void of purpose, rendering its occupation meaningless. This does not, in any way, diminish my profound sense of belonging to Syria and her people – a bond that remains unshaken by any position or circumstance. It is a belonging filled with hope that Syria will once again be free and independent.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don’t want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it’s just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a ‘propaganda tax’, if you don’t believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
https://xcancel.com/Slatzism/status/1868795614491800032#m
It seems the school shooter left a manifesto. It seems from said manifesto that she was quite far-right. No big surprises here.
The head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov was assassinated in a bomb attack in Moscow, along with his assistant.
Russian leadership really needs to wake up and realize that Ukraine/NATO are not going to just sit on their hands and wait to lose the war.
If you keep catering to and appeasing the barbarians, don’t be surprised when they show up at the gates ready to sack the city.
So is Putin going to have another liberal moment and give the barbarians a Minsk 3 while they further encircle Rome, or is he going to enforce his red lines and show them that they will be vaporized if they so much as spit on the ground?
This was the same guy who warned about Ukraine building a dirty bomb in the previous months.
Sounds like the first step to doing a nuclear, biological, or chemical attack
o7 to the DPRK leadership for their uncharacteristically muted response to the drone incursions and SK political meltdown on December 3. Yoon Suk Yeol and SK military leadership tried to elicit a response from DPRK and Pyongyang gently pushed the spotlight back on Seoul where it belongs. Well played.
This person jaq James has written several in depth papers criticizing the various major China bad uyghur genocide reports. I’ve mentioned the ohchr Xinjiang report on hexbear a few times as the maximal credible set of accusations. Working paper 4 in the link below is about that and is worth reading. These are very legal arguments but are quite readable.
Is Freeland’s exit a sign of a turn away from Washington? -Yves Engler
spoiler
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Madame Freeland.
Chrystia Freeland’s resignation from cabinet is a small win for all those who wish Canada would take a more independent foreign policy and not simply toady to the Americans.
A year after becoming prime minister, Justin Trudeau replaced foreign affairs minister Stéphane Dion, who represented a less pro-military and Washington faction of the Canadian elite, with Freeland. When she became foreign minister, the US embassy in Ottawa sent a memo to the State Department in Washington entitled “Canada Adopts ‘America First’ Foreign Policy.” Uncovered through a freedom of information request by Jay Watts, the largely redacted cable concluded that Trudeau promoted Freeland “in large part because of her strong U.S. contacts” and that her “number one priority” was working closely with Washington.
Coordinating the bid to overthrow Venezuela’s government was the highest profile example of Freeland’s “America First” policy. In 2020 Venezuelan foreign affairs Minister Jorge Arreaza pointed out that the Trudeau government’s Venezuela policy took a sharply belligerent turn after Freeland replaced Dion in January 2017. Freeland helped establish the Lima Group and participated in a half dozen meetings of the anti-Venezuelan government coalition. As the Globe and Mail reported, “Freeland spoke with Juan Guaidó to congratulate him on unifying opposition forces in Venezuela, two weeks before he declared himself interim president” in January 2019.
As part of her pro-Washington policy in the Hemisphere, Freeland also supported the ouster of Bolivia’s first indigenous president. Hours after the military command forced Evo Morales to resign on November 10, 2019, Freeland released a celebratory statement declaring, “Canada stands with Bolivia and the democratic will of its people.”
Ottawa provided significant support for the Organization of American States’ effort to discredit Bolivia’s 2019 vote, which fueled opposition protests and justified the coup. “Canada commends the invaluable work of the OAS audit mission in ensuring a fair and transparent process, which we supported financially and through our expertise”, noted Freeland at the time. But the OAS audit mission was designed to precipitate Morales ouster. A slew of studies demonstrated the partisan nature of the OAS audit mission and a year later Morales’ former finance minister, Luis Acre, won 55% of the vote for president and his MAS party took a large majority in the Congress.
Freeland is deeply anti-Palestinian. She’s attended multiple genocide rallies over the past fourteen months and declared that “Canada stands with Israel”. When I asked Freeland in April if she condemned Israel’s killing of 14,000 Palestinian children she declined to respond. During a visit to Israel in 2018 Freeland announced that should Canada win a seat on the United Nations Security Council, it would act as an “asset for Israel” on the Council.
Israel-first Liberal MP Anthony Housefather and his former colleague, turned Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center head, Michael Levitt, bemoaned her resignation. Levitt labeled Freeland’s resignation letter “a devastating blow to the Prime Minister”.
Freeland is particularly hawkish on Ukraine and the NATO proxy war. As finance minister she’s led the international charge to freeze $300 billion in Russian Central Bank assets and give them to Ukraine. Canada has pledged $5 billion to Ukraine that was taken from seized Russian assets. Freeland’s also repeatedly called for escalating the NATO proxy war and sending more arms to Ukraine.
Long before Russia’s February 2022 invasion, Freeland framed the smoldering fighting in eastern Ukraine as a global battle between good and evil. In November 2019 she declared that Ukraine was at the “forefront of the struggle between democracy and authoritarianism” and that “modern Ukraine is the country where the struggle is ongoing and the future of the rules-based international order and genuine democracy in the world will be determined.” But democracy has never been a genuine concern for the hardline nationalists in Freeland’s family. Her grandfather, Michael Chomiak, was a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator and propagandist during World War II.
When it comes to Freeland’s international policy the dominant media act like fawning sycophants, rather than serious journalists. Their portrayal of Freeland is often downright embarrassing. Expect that type of commentary in coming days.
Chrystia Freeland’s letter announcing her resignation suggests she’s seeking to push the Liberals further to the right. She’s likely hoping to force Justin Trudeau to resign so she can take the reins of the Liberal Party. A reminder that the Liberals can get even worse.
Belousov said that the Russian Defense Ministry must be prepared for any development of the situation, including a possible military conflict with NATO in Europe in the next decade
According to him, the decisions at the alliance summit and doctrinal documents indicate that such a conflict is possible.
Other statements:
— The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 560,000 people in 2024
— In total, during the Second Military Operation, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost about 1 million people, and during the “Kursk adventure” — 40 thousand
— The speed of advancement of Russian troops is currently on average about 30 square kilometers per day
— In 2024, Russian troops liberated almost 4.5 thousand square kilometers of territory occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces
— Over 427 thousand people have entered the military under contract since the beginning of 2024
— Compared to 2022, the Russian military will receive 7 times more tanks, 3 times more infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, and 23 times more drones
— In the special operation zone, over 58 thousand units of weapons and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed in 2024, including 18 thousand of foreign manufacture
— Russian air defense shot down 86 Storm Shadow and Scalp missiles, 215 ATACMS, 1,629 HIMARS projectiles, and more than 27,000 drones in 2024
— The US will modernize all components of the nuclear triad by 2030 and create new nuclear warheads
— The US will modernize all components of the nuclear triad by 2030 and create new nuclear warheads
why is he so confident of this, the USA’s missiles are falling apart last I heard. minuteman iii no longer repairable
I’m sure Elon can do it.
A Minuteman III ICBM was actually successfully tested (along with it’s MIRV component) a few months ago, just to re-establish that it still works and reaffirm deterrence. But that’s exactly why the US will modernise their nuclear forces. The Minuteman III ICBMs are so old that they can’t effectively be maintained for much longer. So the US will need to build new missiles and warheads to replace them.
I believe these figures tbh, they correspond with my understanding of the rates of losses and sizes of the armies.
Russian and allied force losses are probably around 300,000, if we include DPR/LPR, Wagner, international volunteers, etc
apparently they shut down airspace over Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio on Friday night because there were a bunch of drones.
article includes audio of air traffic chatter mentioning them.
(sorry if this has already been posted, I searched the name of the base with and without the hyphen and didn’t find any results on this comm)
Only thing that makes sense is military drones or mass hysteria. The military would shoot down anything else.
Some sheriff’s department sent their own drone after the mystery drones and found that they “easily evaded” the police drone. Like no shit, it’s because your toy was chasing a commercial airliner 30k feet up moving 500mph lol.
People claim that government officials and people who work in aviation taking this seriously makes it more real, but they’re all still human beings who take dumps like the rest of us and most of them are just as susceptible to bullshit as everyone else.
This reeks of the inertia-defying capsule spacecraft horseshit cooked up by the CIA in cooperation with some loser grifter circa 2018
but they’re all still human beings who take dumps like the rest of us
Nobody takes dumps like i do thank you very much 😤😤
What i hope it is:
based unity of fields operators trying to catch c17
What it likely is:
just planes
What it really is
americans seeing the sky for the first time under biden regime
It went from one military base reporting that 1 (one) drone violated their airspace to credulous rubes all over the country taking pictures of every light in the sky and saying it’s part of the Muslim takeover plot.
I’m mostly just amazed that even on Hexbear we had a few posts taking the most obvious horseshit fed op of all time at face value.
What it really is
americans seeing the sky for the first time under biden regime
They were toiling in the burger fields, those who would rise their head get beheaded by the woke police #jan6
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
very cool
also isntreal bombing yemen
also isntreal bombing yemen
It was the USA according to the CENTCOM statement. An Al Arabiya Washington correspondent even leaked it last night, thinking that the bombing already took place. Or maybe there was also a bombing last night, who knows anymore.
CENTCOM statement:
On Dec. 16 Yemen time, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted a precision airstrike against a key command and control facility operated by Iran-backed Houthis within Houthi-controlled territory in Sana’a, Yemen.
The targeted facility was a hub for coordinating Houthi operations, such as attacks against U.S. Navy warships and merchant vessels in the Southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
The strike reflects CENTCOM’s ongoing commitment to protect U.S. and coalition personnel, regional partners, and international shipping.
Al-Mayadeen News:
US and British raids targeted the Ministry of Defense headquarters in the Al-Urdi area in the center of the capital, Sana’a
Seems like the first time Sana’a got hit in the US campaign against Yemen and Ansarallah. Wonder what the response will be.
Yeah, maybe usa, i saw confusing statements.
Updated my original comment with some statements from both sides, the USA and a news correspondent on the ground in Yemen (yes I know I’m doing the “both sides” joke, I’m not validating the USA I’m just posting what they said they did).
Too bad now that Isahell has demolished the entire air defense of syria. The bombings will not stop.
It seems like the newsmega has a lot fewer of the regulars recently. I miss the input from the users who are actually proximate to the conflict in Syria, Palestine, and Lebanon. Their input was extremely valuable.
In one way I’m glad some of them aren’t on here to see this and having to deal with our stupid arguments, the last few weeks have just been really bad. They’re probably feeling the same emotions we are feeling times a hundred, and way more complicated and nuanced, as they actually live there and have a personal attachment to their country. Imagine commenting on and correctly predicting the downfall of you and/or your loved ones’ country, for example. And then seeing people, maybe even someone you know being freed from prisions. And then the country gets bombed by a powerful adversary. In another scenario, imagine returning to your homeland after months of bombings, after a ceasefire agreement gets singed (no matter how bad the terms, a ceasefire is a ceasefire). That’s extremely emotional. Being on the internet and arguing with a bunch of people (mostly westerners) who didn’t even know what the SAA, 1974 agreement, the blue line, South Litani area, HTS, SNA, SDF, etc, were until a few weeks ago is probably not the best course of action in such a scenario.
I’ll keep on reporting until the end, no matter how bad it gets, someone has to do it after all. Or good, never give up hope comrades, even in the worst hours, we have to be resilient, there is no other choice.
Being on the internet and arguing with a bunch of people (mostly westerners) who didn’t even know what the SAA, 1974 agreement, the blue line, South Litani area, HTS, SNA, SDF, etc, were until a few weeks ago
Westerners who don’t speak the language or know anything about the culture thinking they know it all and trying to lecture the people who live there about what they should or shouldn’t do? Where have I heard of this before.
Someone has to post the goddamned news
yeah…
With the current timeline:
And Awoo got banned for no good reason. The megathread is the last thing I’m willing to regularly use on this site but the mods are doing their best to ban some of the decent posters and let more be chased off by death threats or debatebros
That shit made me so angry. You literally had some deranged freak gave him death threats (I remember the death threats were pretty graphic too like slitting his family’s throats graphic), admins sitting on their asses not doing the barest minimum of defedding from the lemmy instance (they only did it after I requested it), admins constantly changing their story about who was behind it going from blaming some other pariah ex-Hexbear account to “well, it was a total stranger I guess there’s nothing we can do,” no issuing an apology to him or HelltakerHomosexual (yeah, she sucked, but she was also unfairly dogpiled. Part of basic threshold of maturity is being fair towards people you personally don’t like lol). And to top it off, people were strangely dogpiling him for some bizarre reason in that thread. So not only did the aggrieved party not get anything close to some form of restoration, but he got even more shit for daring to not wanting to see comments about his family’s throats being slit while they’re asleep. The admins turned their backs at him, and even some of the users turned their backs at him. At a certain point, it’s time to call it quits.
We lost such a good user.
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the cops are here :face_with_rolling_eyes:
Why was this removed? If you’re going to do that clean the entire chain. Nonsense moderation policy, the top comment is explicitly about user activity, maybe there are reasons why some regulars stopped posting? That is not fucking drama.
Funny thing is this mod behavior is exactly why this site is going downhill.
Doesn’t help that if you do anything resembling OSINT or technical analysis you get accused of being a government/federal agent lol (think it’s called fed jacketing). Bit discouraging as a new account to posting. I’ll try to take it as a compliment on the perceived accuracy of the information I post (I say perceived as I know that I’ve made mistakes in the past)
SeekTheDeletion also stopped posting after complaining about mod death threats a bunch and getting nowhere with it
looks like he finally seeked it
you are posting misinformation, the user posting death threats was not a part of the mod clique and there is literally no evidence for this besides the ravings of one user.
edit: lol i misunderstood, sorry
Nakoichi posted death threats and is still mod of many large comms. You can find it in the mod history, threatening Bad Empanada in one comment and then SeekTheDeletion in another. Comments are removed for “chill” but they are still mod
oh damn i thought you were talking about the other one, my mistake
users with long histories on the site usually get more protection for dumb shit, mods and users alike. This isn’t a ‘mod clique’ problem this is a site culture problem.
It’s a death threat acceptance problem
There should be zero tolerance for suicide baiting and death threats, but there is tolerance. Instant permanent ban for any actionable death threats or suicide baiting
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After relentlessly bending the knee to “mama bear” Nancy Pelosi and the Dem establishment, all while providing cover for American participation in the Gaza Genocide with progressive voters, AOC lost the vote for top Dem spot on the House Oversight committee to Gerry Connolly, a 74-year old Democrat from Virginia with throat cancer, after Pelosi threw all her weight behind Connolly.
Serves that worm right lol.
I’m with pelosi on this one, always keep the snake in check so you don’t get outsnaked
She debased herself to the Dem establishment, endorsed Biden & Harris without asking for any policy in return (policy that might help Dems win in 2024 as well!!), she lied for them and she was still “TOO RADICAL” for them anyway.
Did she debase herself or was she just playing the game? After all she had a suspicious foreign studies year in Mauritania one of the poorest and most underdeveloped countries in the world.
A tale as old as time.
She played the insider strategy in order to gain power to then pass her radical left-wing agenda… that doesn’t even exist. Since Biden was inaugurated everything died, from M4A to opposing “kids in cages”.
Yep, once you’re labeled a “radical” the system shuts you out forever, regardless of your capitulation. Deserved.
Ahahahaaaaaaa, this was the main part of her case to the Dem committee members.
NEWS - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez privately signaled to Democrats that she might no longer back congressional primary challenges to her colleagues, according to three people familiar with the situation.
She’s doing what the unions wanted
Do you disagree?
This bit will never end lol.
Not as long as there are Power Dynamics.
Live updates: Abundant Life Christian School Shooter was a 17-year-old female student, official tells AP
A teenage student opened fire at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday, killing a teacher and another teenage student in the final week before Christmas break. The shooter also died, police said. Victims: A teacher and a teen student were killed in the shooting by a fellow student, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said in a press conference Monday afternoon. Six other students are being treated at local hospitals, with two in critical condition.
Shortly after the shooting, the school’s Facebook page posted, stating that they had had an active shooter incident and were asking for prayers.
Shooter: The shooter was a 17-year-old female student, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. Police in Madison, Wisconsin, said the shooter apparently was dead by suicide when officers arrived. Location: The shooting took place at the nondenominational Abundant Life Christian School, which has about 390 students, from kindergarten through high school, according to its website.
Looking at some of what’s been released that is claimed to be by her, it seems like she might have been some sort of femcel nazi groyper (???), but it’s still a but early to say definitively.
I think this is the first female school shooter I’ve heard of
looked it up and apparently there have only ever been 4 mass shootings (defined as 4 or more victims) that were done by a woman. this might be number 5
Yea same I think.
I saw a lot of chuds on Twitter claiming she was trans bc school shootings are “man vibes” or some dumb shit like that
Transvestigating school shootings, what the hell is this reality
I’d say gendershredder go brrr but women not being violent is a patriarchal meme that goes way back
Brenda Spencer, the topic of the Boomtown Rats song “I Don’t Like Mondays”, did it back in 1979. I think she might be the first?
lmao this has been happening for 46 years and people really think this is a serious country
As someone who went to one of these nondenominational schools, I’m interested to see what comes out about the school down the line.
They are all either scams or Pedophile rings or both.
Mine was just a factory for turning kids into suburban-type conservatives
It could be regional or just bad luck but my ultra religious relatives refused to put their kids through public schools and went through 2 or 3 that had teachers assaulting students, folding after taking people’s money, and not getting kids to pass state standards.
The US-led mediation efforts to declare a permanent truce in the Manbij and Kobani regions were unsuccessful due to Turkey’s approach in dealing with the mediation efforts and its evasion to accept key points. These points included the transfer of remaining Manbij Military Council fighters and civilians wishing to move to safer areas within north and eastern Syria, as well as the resolution of the issue concerning the transfer of Suleiman Shah’s remains to their former location. Despite US efforts to stop the war, Turkey and its mercenary militias have continued to escalate over the last period. SDF Media Center
I love how absolutely dogshit the media is here. If they wanted the fighting to stop they would have prevented Assad from falling. Turkey just scored a huge W, the whole point of which was to then be able to launch a campaign in Northern Syria.
“In on the hysteria”? TBH this statement sounds like the opposite of that. He says the government knows all about the drones; where they came from, where they went, etc. And he doesn’t think they are “the enemy”, because they would’ve been shot down.
The most he says is that the government seems to want to “keep people in suspense” (i.e. not tell people what they are doing).
This is like one of the least hysterical or scaremongering statements I’ve ever seen the fucker make, actually. He almost sounds “normal”.
Yeah but if I wrote that in the title then I’d have to argue with a bunch of people who wouldn’t watch the video or misunderstand me or something
The fuck is the deal with this story? I thought it was too stupid to have any legs so didnt pay much attention.
Lol what game is this from?
Europa Universalis 4
It’s like the balloon news cycle, or Havana syndrome, so stupid that users here write it off as ridiculous but like 60% of Americans fall for it
At least the weather balloon was actually real and got shot down, by an F-22 lol. I haven’t seen any real evidence of the drones being real.
apparently they shut down airspace over Wright-Patterson AFB Friday night because there were a bunch of drones 🤷
article includes audio of air traffic chatter mentioning the drones
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
It actually seems to be legitimately weird. Here is the best coverage of it so far that I have seen.
As a casual UFO fan, all the legitimate UFO sitings are where the object is able to accelerate and decelerate faster than any modern technology is capable of. Anything else is just meh
I’m at the point where I don’t care about UFOs unless there’s an actual wreckage of one. “Seeing is believing.” No, seeing is absolutely not believing. Touching is believing. And until we get an actual wreckage from an alien pilot crashing their flying saucer after getting wasted on alien booze and we can actually pull alien bodies from the wreckage to see that their blood alien alcohol content is over the level to safely pilot a flying saucer, none of this shit is remotely interesting to me.
the sightings are happening near La Guardia airport too
…lawmakers however aren’t buying it
Actual quotes from this expose.
My theory is that what people think are alien aircraft are in fact Chinese spy balloons.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
There are a lot of social media reports going on that show prosaic lights like aircraft lining up to land.
It seems to me that there are some more legitimate sightings, though, and I suspect that they are part of a large-scale penetration/readiness test.
The sightings have mostly occurred in the US, but also the UK and I think a few other NATO countries. I think a hardening campaign in light of lessons learned from the infrastructure/drone warfare in Ukraine is a reasonable explanation/motivation. This could also explain why so little action has been taken against the drones.
As to what the actual objects in the sky are, the best guess I have seen is that it is a platform from the Replicator 1 or 2 initiatives.
Slow news weekend. More tinfoil hat is they want to move on from CEO killer.
I’m more inclined to believe people’s brains are so mush to believe the drone story and it is good for ratings.
Medieval hysteria cause by eclipse moment
Drones? Wow. This is the first time I’m hearing about it. They’re incredible machines you know, very long lifespan
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Another school shooting
I’m sure that’s great news for the bourgeois who are glad the ruling class is no longer being targeted and we’re back to our regularly scheduled hell world programming
Abundant Life Christian School, the irony
one-star google maps review, “not as abundant as advertised”
Wonder how much coverage it will get compared to the CEO getting shot.
Guessing little to none aside from a headline
