Socialism_Is_The_Alternative [none/use name]

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  • Socialism_Is_The_Alternative [none/use name]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Bulletins and News Discussion from September 23rd to September 29th, 2024 - The War In The NorthEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    A recap of events from the Palestine/Lebanon front that occurred during the past 24 hours.

    Lebanese Hezbollah resistance forces conducted Fadi-3 rocket strikes on the Zionists’ Ramat David airbase and a missile strike on a target near Zionist-occupied Jerusalem (al-Quds).

    Islamic Resistance in Iraq forces conducted drone and missile strikes on the southern Zionist port city of Eilat; the northern Kiryat Shmona settlement; two military sites in the Zionist-occupied Golan Heights; and the illegal US occupation base in the Conoco gas field in Syria’s northeastern Deir ez-Zor province. The Iraqi resistance movements also stated their readiness for open war with the Zionists and US imperialists in response to yesterday’s assassination of Lebanese resistance leader Hassan Nasrallah.

    The Yemeni Armed Forces conducted a Palestine-2 ballistic missile strike on Tel Aviv’s “Ben Gurion Airport” during Zionist dictator Benjamin Netanyahu’s plane landing.

    The Russian Foreign Ministry condemned yesterday’s Zionist assassination of Hassan Nasrallah and stated that Israel is responsible for the subsequent escalation. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated, “The world must not forget that the order was given from the United States. The Americans will never be able to absolve themselves of responsibility.” Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani stated that the assassination was, “a crime that shows the Zionist entity has crossed all red lines.”

  • Socialism_Is_The_Alternative [none/use name]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Hezbollah confirms leader Hassan Nasrallah killed in Israeli strikeEnglish
    131·
    21 hours ago

    This is ultimately US imperialism at work. Washington (via its fascist Kiev puppet dictatorship) tried the same assassination “strategy” vs numerous Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics leaders (not to mention the West’s assassinations of an almost infinitely long list of other national liberation leaders over the past 75+ years). At the end of the day, you can not assassinate a liberation movement just by killing leadership figures. When a critical historical reason for such movements exist, new leaders will always replace the old. The Western imperialists’ plan will inevitably fail.

    That being said, Iran should definitely develop nuclear weapons, which is the only real, hard power way to counter fascist Tel Aviv and Washington’s arsenals. All the other “military imbalance” issues are trivial by comparison.

  • Socialism_Is_The_Alternative [none/use name]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Bulletins and News Discussion from September 23rd to September 29th, 2024 - The War In The NorthEnglish
    79·
    6 days ago

    A brief recap of events today on the Lebanon front.

    The fascist Tel Aviv regime carried out another major act of aggression. Hundreds of Zionist genocidal airstrikes on Lebanon killed 492 civilians (and wounded 1,645 others). One Zionist attack tried, but failed, at assassinating Hezbollah resistance commander Ali Karaki. Other Zionist attacks assassinated three Shia clergymen in southern Lebanon.

    Hezbollah resistance forces struck back, firing 180 rockets at the Zionists’ Ramat David Airbase (southeast of Haifa) and the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems military industrial plant (in the Zevulun area north of Haifa). Other rockets struck the Zionist cities of Haifa, Tiberias, and Safad; the Yoav barracks; the Ein Zeitim military base; and several illegal settlements in the Zionist-occupied West Bank (Bruchin, Karnei Shomron, and Maale Shomron). A resistance ATGM also destroyed a “Merkava” tank near El Marj.

  • Socialism_Is_The_Alternative [none/use name]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Bulletins and News Discussion from September 9th to September 15th, 2024 - Viva Sandino! - COTW: NicaraguaEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I think it would depend a lot on how big of threat these ‘long-range’ systems actually pose. If only a modest number were delivered and used, Russian air defenses and retaliatory strikes inside Kiev-controlled territory could easily handle that. Russia would then likely respond by delivering various weapons systems (like S-400 air defense systems, advanced anti-ship missiles, and modern warplanes) to the DPRK, Iran, and other allies.

    However, in the worst case scenario, if the Western imperialists actually tried overwhelming Russian air defenses, Russia would need to respond by conducting strikes of its own on Western military bases inside NATO countries that would be supplying and covertly providing operators for those weapon systems. It’s easy to then see how extremely aggressive acts by NATO could escalate into a nuclear war or “World War III” scenario. Frankly, I doubt that the US ruling class is brave enough to try that – they have far too much to lose, even with their overseas empire in terminal decline, they still have immense riches at home that they’d rather not see vaporized (not to mention their own lives).

  • Socialism_Is_The_Alternative [none/use name]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Bulletins and News Discussion from September 9th to September 15th, 2024 - Viva Sandino! - COTW: NicaraguaEnglish
    67·
    17 days ago

    Some more news from the front.

    Russian forces have now liberated at least 10 Kursk oblast settlements over the past two days (Apanasovka, Byakhovo, Vishnevka, Viktorovka, Vnezapnoye, Gordeyevka, Krasnooktyabrskoye, Obukhovka, Snagost and 10th October): https://sputnikglobe.com/20240912/russian-army-ousts-ukrainian-troops-from-10-settlements-in-kursk-region-1120121317.html

    President Putin also made an important statement today in response to all the NATO chatter about ‘long-range weapons for Kiev’:

    “I have already mentioned this, and any experts will confirm, both in our country and in the West, that the Ukrainian army is not capable of [independently] carrying out strikes using Western modern, long-range precision systems. It cannot do this. This is possible only with the use of intelligence from satellites which Ukraine does not have. This data is only available from satellites of the European Union or the United States, in other words, from NATO satellites. That’s the first point.

    The second and very important, perhaps key point is that only NATO servicemen can make flight assignments to these missile systems. Ukrainian servicemen cannot do this.

    So this is not about whether or not to allow the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia using these weapons, but about deciding whether or not NATO countries are directly involved in the military conflict or not. If such a decision is taken, it will mean nothing short of direct participation of NATO countries, the United States, European countries, in the war in Ukraine. This would constitute their direct participation, and this, of course, changes the very essence, the very nature of the conflict. It will mean that NATO countries, the United States and European countries, are at war with Russia. And if this is so, bearing in mind the change in the very nature of the conflict, we will make appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be posed to us.”

    https://sputnikglobe.com/20240912/putin-natos-direct-involvement-in-ukrainian-conflict-will-mean-it-is-at-war-with-russia-1120123826.html