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U.S., Allies Reignite War On Syria
It seems that this earlier assessment of mine of the situation in Syria was wrong:
As the conflict in Lebanon subsides Israel and the U.S. have reignited the war in Syria. There have been signs for a while that this was going to happen. Yesterday Al-Qaeda affiliated HTS fighters, which has been rebuild and sponsored with CIA money, have relaunched their attacks on Syrian government forces west of Aleppo. Syrian and Russian air force attacks have for now stopped their progress. Hizbullah's Rudwan forces have yet to intervene but are deployed to defend Aleppo.
I do not expect the situation to Syria to escalate further.
As of now the situation continues to escalate. I had underestimated the role of Turkey in this.
President Erdogan seems to have taken control of HTS and is using it to pursue his aims. These include to widen Turkish control over Syrian land, to further damage the anti-Turkish resistance movement within the Kurdish population of Syria and to impress on president-elect Donald Trump that he can be a reliable ally in a fight against Iranian influence.
Jihadists under Turkish control have attacked Syrian government position on the western side of Aleppo city and diversion commandos seem to have infiltrated the city itself. A large part of this operation is the (fake) news onslaught accompanying it. Current information from the area is way too confused to state with some certainty what exactly is under who's control.
There are several forces fighting in Syria. The Turkish 'rebel' side, supported by Israel, Turkey and the U.S., includes two distinct groups. The former al-Qaeda Jihadists in Hayat Tarhir al-Sham [HTS] under Abu Muhammed al-Jolani were, and likely still are, financed and armed by the CIA through proxy actors in Qatar. HTS includes a significant number of Turkmen and Uighur jihadists from Central Asia. The second group is the so called Syrian National Army which is a group of Sunni Syria mercenaries paid for and controlled by Turkey.
These 'rebels' immediately distinguished themselves through their depraved behavior:
Hala Jaber @HalaJaber – 17:40 UTC · Nov 29, 2024
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I have just watched a most gruesome footage of the so called Erdogan-backed “freedom fighters,” beheading a Syrian soldier they captured. A POW in western military terms.
I thought those days of ISIS evilness were over, but here we are again as history repeats itself while we are again being told that these are the good “liberators.”
The footage shows a Syrian soldier surrounded by ‘rebels.’
He pleads with them & pleads to their Islamic faith.
They pull his hand away from his neck & one guy with a huge jaggered knife proceeds to slice his throat. When it gets stuck, he pounds the knife into the neck a few times, then proceeds to continue with the slaughter to the cries of “Allahahu Akbar.”
Whoever in the western world is supporting these NATO-Israeli backed extremists should really think again. …
On the other side of the conflict are the Syrian Arab Army (which seem to have forgotten all the lessons it had to learn during the previous phase of the conflict). It is supported by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps which has trained and is financing several groups of Shia fighters in Syria. This is done in strong coordination with Hizbullah in Lebanon which has some units of its Rudwan special forces stationed in Syria. Russia is backing the Syrian government in Syria and is currently using its air power to interrupt further attacks from the 'rebel' side.
The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) is an anti-Turkish movement. It forms a major part of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) which has been supported, on and off, by the Pentagon in east-Syria. It is currently fighting on the side of the Syrian government but has in own interest in securing areas with significant Kurdish populations.
While it was known that the conflict in Syria was soon to be revived the immediacy seems to have come as an surprise:
Sharmine Narwani @snarwani – 9:10 UTC · Nov 30, 2024
Russian newspaper Izvestia: The major terrorist attack on #Aleppo was coordinated between Turkish, Ukrainian and French intelligence with Israeli support and American approval. The planning was two months ago and the attack was supposed to be next March, but the events in Lebanon contributed to the urgency.
As said above there is no information yet that lets one make an unbiased assessment which side is really in control of what part of Aleppo or areas surrounding it. My impression is that many of the claims of Jihadist control here or there are only media operations without military significance.
But what can be said so far is that the Syrian government has obviously failed to secure its lines in the field and to prepare its army for a renewal of the conflict. The Syrian Arab Army seems to have given up many positions without a significant fight.
It will cost a lot of blood and treasure (again!) to regain control of them.
Question is: Whether as you imply the Oilygarchs control V.V. Putin or whether he has tamed them. Perhaps you can give us some insights on this dichotomy.
Posted by: aristodemos | Dec 2 2024 2:33 utc | 450
Russia is a huge country and the pyramid of power has always had many layers.
In small countries everything leaks quickly, but inside information in Russia is hard to get. What happens in Moscow people in Orenburg have no idea of, and what happens in the Kremlin regular people in Moscow also have no idea.
The problem with the oligarchs and the unfolding WWIII is twofold.
First, if Russia was to fight the war seriously, it would have to do mobilization and cut off ties with the West. That means their power base, which is being the middlemen between Western markets and Russian resources, is gone. “But can’t they just export to China?” you say. They can, but it is not the same. Those people see themselves as part of the Western elite. The Western elite doesn’t see them as part of their club, which is the core of the Russian elite’s tragedy, but even after three years of so much dehumanizing rhetoric about Russians in the West, it is doubtful most of the Russian oligarchs have started to viscerally hate the West the same way regular Russians have. Because they don’t see themselves as Russian (and in most cases are not; more on that below), so when Russians are called orcs and mongoloids, they don’t think that applies to them.
And it is not just cutting off business ties with the West. Mobilization means a wartime economy, which means a command economy, limits on conspicuous consumption, etc. All unacceptable to Russian elites because it means the state gaining real power and them losing it.
For all those reasons you expect Russian oligarchic elites to be against fighting the war seriously, and when you hear them comment on it, they indeed are.
Second, look at the personal background of those people:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Rotenberg
Arkady Romanovich Rotenberg (Russian: Аркадий Романович Ротенберг; born 15 December 1951) is a Russian billionaire businessman and oligarch. With his brother Boris Rotenberg, he was co-owner of the Stroygazmontazh (S.G.M. group), the largest construction company for gas pipelines and electrical power supply lines in Russia.
In 2023 Forbes estimated Rotenberg’s wealth at $3.5 billion.[2] He is a close confidant, business partner, and childhood friend of president Vladimir Putin.[3][4][5] Rotenberg became a billionaire through lucrative state-sponsored construction projects and oil pipelines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Abramov
Alexander Grigoryevich Abramov (Russian: Александр Григорьевич Абрамов, born 20 February 1959) is a Russian businessperson, who until March 2022 was the Chairman of the Board of directors of Evraz, one of Russia’s largest steel producers.[1] Since 1998, he has amassed one of the largest steel and iron empire in Russia, which employed 71,591 people around the world, with steel output of 13,57 million tones and turnover of $14,1 billion in 2021, leading to him be widely considered a Russian oligarch. A business partner and ally of Aleksandr Frolov and Roman Abramovich, Abramov was in June 2021 listed by Forbes as having an estimated net worth of $8.0 billion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Abramovich
According to Forbes, Abramovich’s net worth was US$14.5 billion in 2021.[6] making him the second-richest person in Israel,[7][8] Since then, his wealth decreased to $6.9 billion (in 2022), and recovered up to $9.2 billion in 2023.[9] Abramovich enriched himself in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, obtaining Russian state-owned assets at prices far below market value in Russia’s controversial loans-for-shares privatisation program. Abramovich is considered to have a good relationship with Russian president Vladimir Putin,[10] an allegation Abramovich has denied
Who negotiated Istanbul?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Aven
Petr Olegovich Aven (also transliterated Pyotr Aven; Russian: Пëтр Олегович Авен; Latvian: Pjotrs Avens; born 16 March 1955) is a Russian oligarch, economist and politician who also holds Latvian citizenship.[1] Until March 2022 he headed Alfa-Bank, Russia’s largest commercial bank. In March 2022, he resigned from the board of directors at Alfa-Bank and LetterOne Group to help them avoid sanctions.[2] In 2023 he was named the 659th richest person in the world, with a net worth of around $4.2 billion.[3]
Aven is a member of Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s inner circle
Latvian citizenship? Sanctions? See where this is headed?
In the wake of sanctions targeting Russian oligarchs during the Russo-Ukrainian War, media attention debated Blavatnik’s status as a Russian oligarch, and his corresponding connection to Vladimir Putin. Some outlets have suggested Blavatnik reputation laundered his money through philanthropic projects to avoid scrutiny, and that he maintains close connections to Viktor Vekselberg, an oligarch sanctioned by the US.[65][66][67] Blavatnik denies connections to Putin,[65] and has attempted to avoid the label of oligarch.[67] In December 2023, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky imposed personal sanctions against Blavatnik.[68][69]
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Blavatnik made his initial fortune, alongside other Russian oligarchs, after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the privatization of state-owned aluminum and oil assets.[5] He owns most of Warner Music Group and has stakes in several publicly traded assets via his privately held Access Industries Holdings.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Deripaska
He was once Russia’s richest man, but lost a substantial part of his fortune amid the 2007–08 financial crisis. As of June 2022, his wealth was estimated by Forbes at $3.2 billion, making him the 920th richest person in the world.[13] In 2017, Deripaska obtained a Cypriot citizenship through the country’s ‘golden visa’ program, which allows major investors in the economy to apply for a national passport.[1]
He was placed under U.S. sanctions in 2018 for reasons relating to the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia.[14][15] Deripaska was one of seven oligarchs sanctioned by the British government over the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, including asset freezes and travel bans.[16]
As early as 2022 Deripaska was one of a handful Russian businessmen to openly denounce the Russian invasion of Ukraine. After making his statements, he faced pressure from the Kremlin, leading to the seizure of a major asset he owned, valued at USD 1 billion.[17] Nonetheless, he returned to the subject in early August 2024, when he characterized the invasion as “madness” and called for it to be stopped immediately.[18]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Fridman
In 2022, the EU imposed sanctions on Fridman in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Fridman claimed the EU’s allegations were false and defamatory. He subsequently decided to step down from the boards of LetterOne and Alfa Group, so that they could avoid sanctions.[23] As reported by several media, Fridman has already filed lawsuits challenging sanctions on at least two occasions, like in July 2022[24] and in December 2022.[25]
In December 2022, a man reported by Russian state media to be Fridman was arrested in London by the UK’s National Crime Agency, on charges of money laundering, conspiracy to defraud the Home Office and conspiracy to commit perjury.[26][27] The UK National Crime Agency did not name the man, stating only that it had detained a 58-year-old “wealthy Russian businessman” at a “multi-million-pound residence”.[28] He was later released on bail.[29] Subsequently, the agency scaled back its probe.[30] In September 2023 the National Crime Agency closed the investigation.[31][32]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadi_Gaydamak
Arcadi Aleksandrovich Gaydamak (Hebrew: ארקדי אלכסנדרוביץ’ גאידמק; Russian: Аркадий Александрович Гайдамак; born 8 April 1952 in Moscow, USSR) is a Russian-born French-Israeli businessman, philanthropist, and President of the Congress of Jewish Religious Communities and Organizations of Russia (KEROOR). In the 1990s he was awarded the French Ordre national du Mérite[1][2] and the Ordre du Mérite agricole for actions taken to rescue personnel in the War in Bosnia. He holds Israeli, Canadian, French, and Russian nationalities, as well as a diplomatic passport from Angola. Gaydamak’s net worth was valued between $700 million and $4 billion USD in 2007,[3] but following a series of lawsuits, failed investments, and the global economic crisis in 2008, his net worth declined significantly.
Gaydamak invested in real estate in France and Israel, in Kazphosphate – the world’s largest phosphate producer, in a gold mine and a metal processing plant in Kazakhstan, in the Russian weekly Moskovskiye Novosti, in food distribution in Russia and in oil fields and granaries in Angola. In Israel, his assets included the Bikur Holim hospital in Jerusalem, the Beitar Jerusalem football club, 15% of Africa Israel Holdings, and 99FM radio station. His significant and rapid investments in Israel made him a celebrity in Israel during the mid-2000s, with many mentions in the local media.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarakh_Iliev
Zarakh Iliev is known for his close connections with the Russian and Azerbaijani political elite. Ilham Rahimov, a former fellow student of Vladimir Putin, holds shares in many of Kievskaya Ploshchad’s projects.
Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the USA, the UK, and Ukraine placed Iliev on the sanction lists.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viatcheslav_Kantor
Kantor was President of the European Jewish Congress, President of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation (WHF), Chairman of the European Jewish Fund (EJF), and Chairman of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) Policy Council.[2][3]
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Kantor had[citation needed] close ties to the Vladimir Putin regime in Russia.[10] However, in 2014 he allocated at least two million dollars in aid to the voluntary Jewish battalion Matilan, formed to fight the separatists of Donbass backed with Putin regime.[11][12]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Khan
Sanctions (2022)
Khan (along with Fridman and Kuzmichev) was sanctioned by the EU and UK in February and March 2022 as part of an extensive package of sanctions against Russian officials and oligarchs imposed in response to the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine. Khan stepped down from the LetterOne board in March. In April Alfa Bank was hit with sanctions by the U.S.[49] [50]
Khan is an active supporter of the Life Line charitable programme, which provides medicine and surgery for seriously ill children in Russia. Since its founding in 2008, the program claims that 8334 children have been saved as a result of their work.[52] Khan is a supporter of Jewish initiatives in Russia and elsewhere in Europe. An active member of the Russian Jewish Congress,[34][53] Khan regularly contributes to the European Jewish Fund, a non-profit organization aimed at developing European Jewry and promoting tolerance and reconciliation.[18] Khan along with Stan Polovets, Mikhail Fridman, Pyotr Aven, and Alexander Knaster founded the Genesis Philanthropy Group in 2011, whose purpose is to develop and enhance Jewish identity among Jews worldwide.[19][54][55]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Mikhelson
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mikhelson obtained a stake in a privatized pipeline construction company out of which he formed Novatek.[2] He is a business partner of Russian billionaire Gennady Timchenko, a close confidante of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.[2]
According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, he had a net worth of US$28.8 billion, as of August 2022, making him the 44th richest person in the world and the second richest in Russia.[3] According to the 2023 Forbes annual rating, Mikhelson is ranked 4th among Russian billionaires with a net worth of $28.5 billion.[4]
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Sanctions
Mikhelson is one of many Russian “oligarchs” named in the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, CAATSA, signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2017.[27] He was sanctioned by the British government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War.[28]
We can go on, but you get the picture. Notice what is common about all those people — the only one of these who is not Jewish is Deripaska, who is of Ukrainian origin.
And in general you will be hard pressed to find Russian oligarchs that are not of Jewish origin. Of the ones close to Putin practically all are.
And they are not the Chomsky-type, I quoted some examples of what kind of activities they sponsor.
Of the non-Jewish oligarchs, half of the rest are of various Turkic origin, and only a small minority are ethnic Russians.
Meanwhile you will find no Jews in the military command; furthermore, in the Strategic Missile Forces they only take ethnic Russians. You have people like Yevkurov (who is an Ingush) and Shoigu (Tuvan) get to high ranks in the command structure, but the SMF is strictly ethnic Russian.
You can probably see how the two groups — economic oligarchy and strategic military commands — might have different views on a lot things.
Now what is it that Russia MUST do right now? It has to physically take out the NATO infrastructure in Europe and the US bases in the Middle East and East Asia, so that the imminent threat of decapitating attack is removed. It could live with those in the past, but no longer. Not after the US started direct strikes against Russian territory. Certainly not after Toropets.
Russia has the technical means to do it, and if it does it properly, there should not be a global nuclear exchange because the rational move for the other side is to tuck its tail and retreat to its island rather than have everyone dead.
But what happens as a consequence of such a move? What happens is that Israel ceases to exist because NATO in Europe and the US bases in the Middle East are Israel’s rear and the guarantor of its existence.
And you see who owns Russia right now.
Again, we don’t have inside info, but we can judge who has more influence over Putin based on his actions that we do see.
Which are that Putin bluffed against with the Oreshnik strike, but other than that has acquiesced to missile strikes on Russian territory becoming the new normal. What does that tell us?
P.S. Missile and drone strike activity has decrease noticeably the last few days, which I think is because the military managed to take out a lot of launchers and missiles. But that is temporarily — NATO will bring more and it will all resume with renewed vigor.
Posted by: ANON2022 | Dec 2 2024 8:34 utc | 448
@ANON2022 | Dec 1 2024 23:33 utc | 435
>>Israel – it has no strategic depth.
Well you’re right about the geography–which the Izzies are working to fix in their favor every. single. day. But beyond that? Israel has submarines which you don’t mention, built for them by Germany. (Did the Izzies ever actually, you know, pay for them, or did they just take possession?) Let’s see, what would Izzies do with those: study marine biology, or place nukes on them? 🙂 Israel has loan guarantees; not my forte, but sounds to me that at the hour of truth, Tel Aviv can dip into both the US and EU treasuries before actually going bankrupt. And, as my own family don’t like to hear, Supreme Leader Bibi by and large has de facto command control over NATO. Washington pretends to beg Israel for restraint, but when Bibi makes a sovereign decision to bomb Yemen, Iran, Syria, whatever, the entire West gets in line to provide him with intel, refueling assets, air defense, and munitions–it’s surreal.
These are strategic depth which Syria can only dream of. The geography which you cite means that, indeed, Israel can’t nuke its neighbors frivolously without suffering fallout itself; so Hezbollah has room to Resist–up to a point. But note, frivolously: Israeli threats are credible, and the whole world treats them as such. To come back to the IAF: my best take is that Hezbollah are brave fighters and tough-talking machos–which may indeed make them natural allies of Iran. 🙂 They just didn’t have the strength to touch Israeli aviation, while said aviation could touch any Lebanese brick still on top of another brick. Oh and deep-seated bunkers as well, once papa gave them the toys to do so.
Then again, Israel seems close to tearing itself apart domestically. So it’s probably more a dangerous place rather than an appealing civilizational model. Still, don’t count them out.
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@james | Dec 2 2024 5:28 utc | 453
>>ma laoshi is a confusing person to me
It may be that I’ve lived too long outside the West to still be part of it mentally. I count myself lucky to get out before this virtue-signaling mania became hegemonic. (E.g. all those journalists making their reports in 2016 “Of course I will vote for Hillary, but …” What do we care how you will vote?) You may pick the woke, MAGA, or Resistance side to signal from (do the woke still believe they’re actually Resisting something after they became hegemonic)–but signal you must. So if I see the loyalists in Syria asleep at the wheel (how “loyal” are they even if they could just be bribed by the dozen) and I’m being sarcastic about that I get called a Zionist, which is clearly intended as a slur. Now even if this were true, quod non: what’s the point of calling each other names in a discussion thread?
Example which didn’t involve me. Hezbollah consented to withdraw north of Litani, which of course means that the IDF has a free hand to dismantle all their assets south of it. What does anybody think, is UNIFIL going to stop the Izzies by waving a treaty in front of their noses? 🙂 One person here draws the obvious conclusion that Hezbollah was defeated. Now somebody else may rightfully point out that there are nuances; but instead, they get furious for Bad Words having been spoken on hallowed ground. The way I see it, banning an ever-expanding list of Bad Words is a big part of what got the West into its mess–Cultural Revolution and all that.
Upon reflection, I sometimes confuse myself. When I read of Hezbollah entering into a gentleman’s agreement with the Izzies to mutually refrain from hits on the top leaderships, the dark side of my head still feels some vestigial racial pride “Joke’s on you suckers, what did you think would happen?!” Gentleman’s agreements are to be concluded with gentlemen not Zionists: the Talmud takes a flexible, “situational” approach to promises to the goyim. I respect Hezbollah (not SAA) enough to assume that their higher-ups had read themselves some Talmud; seems those lessons didn’t stick.
If my words don’t impress you (and y’day I was at my laptop with time on my hands, so probably there were too many of them): it’s fine really; no need to even mention separately, but do as you must. Peace.
Posted by: Ma Laoshi | Dec 2 2024 8:39 utc | 449
@ANON2022 | Dec 3 2024 9:12 utc | 491
>>Yes, Russia started it first in Khmelnitsky
“started it”: ummm okay. Started what? Indeed the consensus is that Khmelnitsky was not an accident. So are you saying that Russia struck the base, which I think the Moscow MoD acknowledges? Or do you say that Putin just went ahead and nuked it, and all of NATO is covering it up for him?
>>How many thousands of tons of munitions do you think there were there in total?
Look I answered you with integrity, based more on general physics knowledge rather than true subject expertise. This inter alia means I’m not just going to make up stuff about things which I don’t know. But let’s do some numbers together, since it seems emotion intrudes when you do this all by yourself. A single pallet of shells could already be hundreds of kg of TNT; a single FAB-1500 (1500 is gross weight) is close to a ton of the stuff. So could an entire base full of pallets and bombs have a yield of 4000 ton? You bet. This is not the Taliban bringing in kit on mules; this is all of NATO bringing in freight trains, which the Kremlin so far seems cool with for reasons known to itself. So yes we’re talking about *thousands of tons*; NATO’s 2023 counteroffensive was a clusterfuck, but not to the extent they thought they could supply it with just two trucks and the handbag of Ursula VdL.
>>How do several dozen hangars explode all at once given that they are designed
>>and built precisely in order to prevent a chain reaction cook off?
You’re on to something, but I think you’re mixing things up. “Cook off” normally refers to secondary explosions caused by a spreading fire–a gradual release of energy. Tons of video of those online, also from e.g. factories in Bulgaria and what have you. A chain-reaction detonation spreading at the speed of an ever-expanding shock wave (which is also what happens within a single munition, starting from the fuze or blast cap) functions like a single giant bomb, and may look nuclear with a kt-range yield. Hollywood “explosions” are mostly done with gas I believe; yes they employ licensed pyrotechnics of course, but they’re mostly creating flames, with the sound effects added afterwards like with everything else. (Like, real swords are mostly silent of course.) Were they to use TNT they’d kill off cast&crew; that’s what high explosives are for.
I’m not a demolitions guy outside of gaming; I’ve never designed an ammo base. But engineering being engineering, let’s think things through. A design is not “safe” or not intrinsically: depends on what you’re going to store there, and how much. Khmelnitsky works differently [well no more, but you know what I mean :-)] from the safe in a civilian fireworks shop. A properly designed 500-man prison becomes a riot risk if you put 2000 guys there (have there been major riots in female prisons?), because now the inmates are no longer contained; this happens again and again and again. Under wartime pressure, rules get bent; Ukraine was not designed for war with Russia, as they now learn to their ruin. Those NATO trains unload where they can and must, not where it’s necessarily safe. Maybe the base specialists who knew what they were doing were sent off to the trenches, or fled abroad. Maybe the base design didn’t account for an attack with cluster munitions hitting many silos at once.
Yes an entire base going poof shouldn’t happen. Yes after the Yeltsin chaos, United Russia has a mania to project “biz as usual” and papers stuff over, like politicos everywhere; overall Russians still like that, though it may look indifferent, even callous, to those paying attention. Who said of the chess game “the person playing the second-last blunder wins”? If Russia didn’t screw up, they could’ve probably prevented the whole war. The Moskva shouldn’t have sailed in range of the bad guys unescorted; but she did (or did the old girl just hit a sea mine). Hundreds of tons of nitrate fertilizer shouldn’t have been stored next to downtown Beirut, but dozens of people knew and thought “Nah it’ll be fine.” The SAA saw what happened when Hezbollah was caught napping, looked at their own pagers etc, and went “Surely Mossad wouldn’t ever hurt us?”; idiots. And so it goes on all sides, like it always has.
Look up Operation Snowball and its successors, where a pile of TNT was used to simulate an 0.5 kt nuke blast. We don’t have to approve, but those guys knew more than you and me combined: one mushroom is pretty similar to the other mushroom.
>>Once you honestly answer those questions
Look I’ve done what I could, based on partial knowledge. If you question not just my answers which are fair game, but also the integrity behind them, I might get a tad annoyed. But then you seem agitated about many things, so I don’t take it personally. On the computer-chess side there is a Crimean guy who is contributing brilliantly, but he still had to be booted out for a couple months because of his outbursts. Once he was allowed back, he hinted he understood that drink-and-write could cause similar … incidents as drink-and-drive; not that I make assumptions about you by the way.
Learn a bit more about shock waves, convection, Operation Snowball, etc. Or, in the words of Morpheus, believe what you want to believe. From now on, I’ll go DNFTT on this topic.
Posted by: Ma Laoshi | Dec 3 2024 14:08 utc | 482
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