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    UK expected to give Ukraine Storm Shadow missiles to strike inside Russia

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  • Storm Shadow missiles have a range of about 250km (155 miles), similar to the US Atacms, and have in the past been given to Kyiv by the UK and France to strike targets inside Ukraine’s internationally recognised borders.

    This depends. The Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles Ukraine has, have had their range restricted to approximately this so far to comply with missile export controls and treaties. The domestic UK and French variants have an unrestricted range of around 560km/350mi, and there have been talks of sending Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles without restrictions to Ukraine. However, such a range could put Moscow in range of Ukrainian strikes, so I don't think the US/UK or France will give Ukraine unrestricted Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles, it would be seen as too large of an escalation/an unacceptable escalation. But crazier things have happened in this war so far...

  • Ukraine is now struggling to survive, not to win

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  • It's not an agenda, it's the reality. According to Reuters, Russia captured 196 square kilometres of Ukrainian territory in one week yesterday. To give you an idea of what that means in the scale of the conflict, Ukraine currently control 570 square kilometres of Kursk, and controlled a maximum of 1000 square kilometres at the peak of the incursion. This was touted as their massive offensive into Russian territory. In other words, Russia captured the equivalent of over a third of the Russian territory Ukraine holds in Kursk, in one week in Ukraine. Ukraine has lost multiple "fortress cities" over the past month, which has crippled their ability to defend their territory.

    The fact that even the Economist, a source which is usually pro US foreign policy and pro Ukraine, is admitting that things are going bad in Ukraine should be very concerning.

  • Did the recent Linux drama change your views on how you perceived Open Source projects?

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  • It just shows how hypocritical and Western biased the community is. Are Israeli and US maintainers ever going to get kicked out of projects for their countries many crimes? No of course not, they would never apply their own standards to themselves, which defeats the point of them in the first place.

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from October 21st to October 27th, 2024 - Swimming Back To The Titanic - COTW: Moldova

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  • How the hell did he not know this, it's one of the first things you'll learn about when researching Israeli apartheid. People pay to read the nonsense this guy writes when he can't even do basic research? Also it's not just interfaith marriage being illegal, it also mandates that only religious marriages are valid and secular marriage is invalid, the guy STILL can't read even when the words are highlighted for him! Screw it, we should start a hexbear blog. Also lmao at him using Wikipedia as some sort of bastion of truth.

  • i stare it in the face every goddamn day

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  • You can evolve a hundred times or more

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from October 21st to October 27th, 2024 - Swimming Back To The Titanic - COTW: Moldova

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  • I did a super long post on it yesterday, trying to figure it all out. ALBMs are not a new type of weapon, you're correct in saying Russia already has some in the Kinzhal. It's the type of ALBM in "Golden Horizon" that there exists no public record on. If you want more detailed information, you can read the post I linked.

    Do I think it will advance the timeline for the Israeli attack? Not really, I think they'll attack once they are certain that the THAAD system is operational and US support of their actions is guaranteed. I'd expect it to happen sometime soon after Blinken leaves Israel. They might wait for the US elections to happen first and do it afterwards, or do it beforehand depending on whatever Israel believes is most advantageous to them.

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from October 21st to October 27th, 2024 - Swimming Back To The Titanic - COTW: Moldova

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  • South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s arrival: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/sa-arrival:4

    Ahh glad to see oom Cyril made it. Also they gave him some cake. Now we have a video of Cupcake eating cake lol. (One of Ramaphosa's nicknames here in South Africa is cupcake).

  • Survey finds 47% of Americans support putting undocumented immigrants into militarized camps

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  • Trump's winning then.

    Also it should be noted just how much and how far the Democrats and #resistance libs have enabled this anti immigrant attitude and behaviour. As an outsider it's incredibly obvious. We went from libs in 2016 saying that no human is illegal and having Anthony Bourdain (may his soul rest in peace) doing episodes of his restaurant and cooking shows in support of the immigrant community, to Kamala Harris plagiarising Trump's 2016 rhetoric and making up myths about how immigrants are bringing crime and drugs (in fentanyl) to the USA. How far they have fallen in less than a decade. Never forget that. Enablers often get off scot-free when they are just as guilty.

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from October 21st to October 27th, 2024 - Swimming Back To The Titanic - COTW: Moldova

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  • May the RSF keep shooting down their own supply planes indefinitely.

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from October 21st to October 27th, 2024 - Swimming Back To The Titanic - COTW: Moldova

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  • The leak also contained information that the USA definitely would not want to be public knowledge, if they leaked it on purpose. The leak named top secret weapons systems of which there are no official records on, and officially acknowledged Israel's nuclear weapons capabilities. There is no way the USA or any high level operative would've left that information in.

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from October 21st to October 27th, 2024 - Swimming Back To The Titanic - COTW: Moldova

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  • I thought similar, but actually reading the documents changed my opinion on that. The leaked documents contain information about weapons systems that weren't even known to exist prior to the leak. The names of drones and missiles of which there is no public record. It also officially acknowledged Israel's nuclear weapons existence and capabilities. I don't think that the USA would reveal such information on purpose, if the leak was done on purpose such information would've likely been redacted.

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from October 21st to October 27th, 2024 - Swimming Back To The Titanic - COTW: Moldova

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  • President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers' Party) was clipping his toenails when he fell off a stool in the bathroom of his official residence

    Happens to the best of us.

    Also that's pretty unhinged from that journalist saying that everything is staged.

  • ["Listeria, Imma let you finish..." news] E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s quarter pounders has killed one person and hospitalized 10, with 49 cases identified so far.

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  • It is not yet known which specific food ingredient is contaminated.

    Now the question is, is the bacteria in the beef, vegetables or the cheese? I don't eat much fast food, which ingredients are unique to the quarter pounder when compared to other McDonald's burgers?

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from October 21st to October 27th, 2024 - Swimming Back To The Titanic - COTW: Moldova

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  • I still remember those videos from what feels like 10 years ago of Ansarallah destroying export specification Saudi M1 Abrams tanks with RPGs and ATGMs. The drivers of the tanks genuinely seemed surprised to be behind the wheel, they would stand completely still while being fired upon and wouldn't even rotate their turrets to return fire. All that oil money and this was the best they could do?

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from October 21st to October 27th, 2024 - Swimming Back To The Titanic - COTW: Moldova

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  • With how bad the RSF appear at actual warfare when they're not trying to commit genocide, it's no wonder they lost against Ansarallah. Ansarallah are operating hypersonic ballistic missile prototypes, while the RSF can't even co-ordinate an incoming cargo flight without shooting it down.

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from October 21st to October 27th, 2024 - Swimming Back To The Titanic - COTW: Moldova

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  • It also seems as if someone at the RSF doesn't understand the difference between cargo planes and fighter jets, they kept mentioning something about shooting down Egyptian Antonov planes for bombing them.

    Ali Rizkallah ‘Savannah,’ a prominent RSF commander in North Darfur, appeared in one video at the scene of the crash (below), saying they had used “guided missiles” to bring down the “Egyptian Antonov.”

    The only Antonov planes operated by the Egyptian Air Force are the An-74T-200, which are solely military transport aircraft. Unless the Egyptians are just throwing bombs out the back, I don't see how this is a bomber. And why would the Egyptians even bother to do this when they have Dassault Rafales, F-16s and MiG-29s? Sudan have used an An-26 as an improvised bomber in the past, but in that case it would not be an Egyptian aircraft as claimed. Or are they claiming that Egypt buys An-26 aircraft for Sudan to use as bombers? It seems as if there was just some kind of confusion with regards to what they were doing and their planned target, a lack of co-ordination between the main commanders and those on the ground.

    The UAE have been supporting the RSF in Sudan for a while now, likely for natural resources like gold as you stated. Their sub-imperialist ventures into Africa are scaling up, but I think they'll need some more competent proxies if they want success. I guess the RSF will start learning from their mistakes at some point through battlefield experience though.

  • We are Joe-back!

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  • We are Joe-back!

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  • Wasn't Biden so underwater in the polls that solid blue/Democrat states were in danger of going red/Republican?

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from October 21st to October 27th, 2024 - Swimming Back To The Titanic - COTW: Moldova

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  • In an incident straight out of a Hollywood movie: Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militants (formally known as the Janjaweed) in Sudan shot down their own friendly transport/cargo plane, owned and operated by their own UAE suppliers. The UAE operated aircraft they shot down was likely bringing in supplies and engineers to repair another friendly UAE operated aircraft that crashed previously.

    Video here

    AP News article

    "Sudan War Monitor" article

    The RSF shot down their own plane that was bringing in parts and specialists to repair their own damaged aircraft which they crashed... The level of incompetence and lack of co-ordination on display is staggering. The UAE cannot even stop their own proxies from shooting down their own planes!

    Editing to comment on the South African driver's licence being present on the UAE plane, our sub-imperialist arseholes just can't help jump from one sub-imperialist entity to another. If it weren't so tragic it would be comedy.

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from October 21st to October 27th, 2024 - Swimming Back To The Titanic - COTW: Moldova

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  • whereas Israel's responses are usually more covert or via proxies ("oh yeah, that terrorist attack DEFINITELY wasn't linked to us, no sirree").

    The Israeli response to Iran's April attack broke from that pattern and was done to send a message in my opinion. Everyone focused on the quadcopter drone being shot down, but Israel managed to take out the radar component of an S300PMU2 with an ALBM likely fitted with an anti radiation seeker, and likely fired some long range ALBMs with inert warheads, the booster stages of which landed in Iraq. With Israel preparing over 50 of those weapons, who knows what happens next.

    I think Iran is betting on their own version of non nuclear Mutually Assured Destruction with their missile capabilities, to try dissuade Israel from launching too large of an attack or attacking Iran's critical facilities. An Iranian missile attack similar to that which impacted Nevatim, aimed at a soft target like electrical, oil or water/sanitisation infrastructure, would be devastating.

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    Uncomfortable truth: How close is “positivity culture” to delusion and denial?

    jakeseliger.com /2024/06/24/uncomfortable-truth-how-close-is-positivity-culture-to-delusion-and-denial/
  • Africa @lemmygrad.ml
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    Samir Amin's diagnosis of worst-case racial capitalism - Patrick Bond, 11 November 2023

    www.cadtm.org /Samir-Amin-s-diagnosis-of-worst-case-racial-capitalism
  • the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net
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    South African subreddit going full racist again.

  • news @hexbear.net
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    Andrew Huberman (annoying bro science podcaster/YouTuber) has been projecting this entire time.

    nymag.com /intelligencer/article/andrew-huberman-podcast-stanford-joe-rogan.html
  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
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    Tried to log in to Hexbear after finishing work and got this screen lmao

  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Mangosuthu Buthelezi, founder and long-standing leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in South Africa, passes away aged 95

    ewn.co.za /2023/09/09/political-enigma-mangosuthu-buthelezi-passes-away-aged-95
  • cars @hexbear.net
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    A good overview of cars in China

  • the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net
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    South African subreddit running cover for apartheid foreign legion volunteers, in light of the Ukraine situation

  • the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net
    aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    thedonald.lose in full cope mode right now

  • Main, home of the dope ass bear. @hexbear.net
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    In light of recent events...

  • Main, home of the dope ass bear. @hexbear.net
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    I DONT support the troops