Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:
Ukraine:
- Sep 30 – U.S. Government Media Debunks Ukrainian Propaganda Claim
Related:
– SITREP 10/5/24: Post-Ugledar Landscape Unfurls into Dark Ukrainian Future – Simplicius
– Ukraine’s Donbas Strategy: Retreat Slowly and Maximize Russia’s Losses (archived) – NY Times
– Conscription tactics get dirty as war-weary Ukrainians defy draft (archived) – The Times
Palestine:
- Oct 1 – Israel – Invading Lebanon To Prolong And Expand Its Supremacists War
- Oct 2 – Iran Attacked Israel Only After U.S. Rejected Its Moderate Stance
- Oct 3 – Biden Is Pushing Israel Towards Larger War
- Oct 4 – White House To Meddle In Lebanese Policies – Provoking More Bombings
- Oct 5 – The 'Birth Pangs' Of The New Middle East May Not Be The Ones The U.S. Has Wished For
Related:
– Emails show early US concerns over Gaza offensive, risk of Israeli war crimes – Reuters
– Inside the State Department’s Weapons Pipeline to Israel – ProPublica
– Blinken Approved Policy to Bomb Aid Trucks, Israeli Cabinet Members Suggest – Drop Site News
– Israel’s Paradox of Defeat – Aluf Benn / Foreign Affairs
How the Country’s Military Success Is Producing Political Failure
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Other issues:
Europe:
- Why Europe’s leadership wants war – Aljazeerah
- The EU as an existential threat to Europe – Thomas Fazi
- EU sues Hungary for criminalising groups that receive foreign funding, including NGOs – France24
- EU countries pave way for major new tariffs on Chinese electric cars – Yahoo
The Bezzle:
- OpenAI Is A Bad Business – Edward Zitron
- TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion – Tom's Hardware
Deep State railroading Trump:
- The FBI Entraps Another Fake Assassin – Tom Klingenstein
- Trump courts disaster by underestimating Iranian death threats – Ignatius / Washington Post
Delusional:
- America’s Strategy of Renewal – Rebuilding Leadership for a New World – Antony J. Blinken / Foreign Affairs
"Not agreement capable":
Amal Saad @amalsaad_lb – 13:42 UTC · Oct 6, 2024
What we are witnessing in Gaza and Lebanon isn't just the end of international law, but the possible demise of diplomacy itself, which predates it by millennia. The US' weaponisation of cease-fire negotiations to systematically ravage Gaza and Lebanon have turned US diplomacy into a weapon of mass destruction. Meanwhile, the remainder of the West’s unwavering support for Israel's genocidal war machine risks bringing European diplomacy to the same fate.
The normalisation of genocide on the one hand and the destruction of sovereign states like Lebanon and potentially Iran on the other, is leading to the growing realisation among the Resistance Axis that it can't count on the rationality, let alone the moral compass, of the West to end this emerging Armageddon.
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …