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Well it seems that the Russian gas tunnel operation in Kursk has worked, they're now geolocated on the edges of Sudzha in the old McDonald's area lmao.

Here's how the Kursk bulge looked around 36 hours ago:

Here's how it looks now:

Two Alawite families that my mom knows from her university days have been killed in Baniyas. She's in a facebook group with her old classmates and it's just full of obituaries of old people that have been mercilessly slaughtered by the terrorists. I don't know what to say, death just surrounds my people from all angles.

That's a good analysis of the situation. The Jihadis expected that they could rule a devastated country through vibes and positive energy, where people would stop complaining about the complete destruction of the economy simply because Assad was gone. The electricity situation is horrendous, no one except some returning expats has any money, and even the Turks and the Qataris are realising that the country is basically a corpse, all they can do is send aid because there are no institutions or functioning economic organs that can cooperate in any larger projects to rebuild anything. The state has zero control over the fertile Euphrates lands nor the oil, which will remain unsolved because the SDF aren't that interested in cooperating with the Jihadis. Add Israel's continuing sabotage of the state by the constant bombing and the incursions into southern Syria. The situation is basically fucked and will continue to deteriorate, HTS can't consolidate power without their hard-line Jihadis murdering people in the streets, which will only embolden internal and external enemies. A bankrupt state can't fight multiple battles if it's too poor to even pay pensions and operate border crossings.

The language and symbols used by the "resistance" in Latakia today are completely Iranian/Axis-coded. The coverage by Iranian media also seems way bigger than usual and suggests that the Iranians are fully backing this movement and probably smuggling weapons to them through the chaos of the Lebanese and Iraqi borders and SDF-controlled areas. Don't expect anything from Russia, they will be on the sidelines watching for this, and Iran will also not take an official supporting stance as long as this doesn't snowball into a larger armed confrontation.

What is happening in Syria is pure insanity, here's my little breakdown of the wider geopolitical situation from what I'm understanding from scrolling through Arab Facebook and Telegram today.

There are basically two opposing sides when it comes to how to do deal with the new Jihadi government in Syria. One side is pro-cooperation and consolidation of the new government, and the other side is pro-chaos and making it as hard as possible for the new regime to gain any legitimacy both internally in Syria and internationally. Here's how the situation currently looks if we're talking major regional players:

Pro-regime: Saudi, Qatar, Sunni Syrians, most other Arab states and Turkey

Pro-chaos: Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Hezbollah, SDF, minority Syrians and Israel

So we have a rare situation where the interests of Iran and Israel converge and they're both interested in making any effective ruling difficult for the Jihadis. The Israelis' partners in this clusterfuck are the Druze in Southern Syria, and some possible backdoor collaboration with Syrian Kurds in Eastern Syria. The Iranians still have good relations with former SAA members and are popular with Alawites and other Shia-adjacent groups in Syria, which is why they're backing them in Western Syria on the coast. Iranian and Axis media also seems to have shifted towards a more positive coverage of the SDF. I personally don't even have a take at this point, this is all developing way too quickly.

Syria has already speedrunned the 2003-2006 consolidation stage of post-2003 Iraq straight into the free-for-all Call of Duty multiplayer stage of 2006-2007. It's basically open war in the entire south and now the coast. A Hezbollah-Iran-backed group called the Military Council for the Liberation of Syria has suddenly appeared and they've done quite a major operation today against the new Jihadi regime, killing tens of fighters and kidnapping many more. I just wish Assad wasn't a complete dumbass and was more effective in killing the Jihadi dreams earlier, look we're today for the sake of Allah.

cuck n chad ranking: blast from the past edition

Note: RUS vs UKR back in first row

but wait where are my international rules and norms

Gotta give Trump some credit now, his dumbass instincts seem to have accidentally stopped any chance for Saudi-Israel normalisation. Official Saudi media sources are absolutely livid after the latest comments by Trump and Satanyahu and are weirdly enough using resistance-like lingo in describing the Israeli state, which I haven't seen in a more than a decade now. It would be so funny if Trump manages to unite the Arab position just by being an imbecile like always.

Westerners laughed at us Arabs because our revolutionary energy of the 50-70s got transformed into some kind of Failson Republics with the likes of Bashar Al Assad getting to power and Uday Hussein, Gamal Mubarak and Saif Al Islam Gaddafi getting really close to power. Not to mention all the weirdo hereditary political party leader families like the Jumblatts, the Gemayels and the Aouns in Lebanon. Well who's laughing now huh? Our monarchies are mostly ruled by fresh cool guys like MBS and Tamim bin Hamad, and even the republics have fresh faces these days. While westerners are now forever stuck with whatever gets produced by the Trudeau, Trump and the African comprador political dynasty failson factories.

Oh yeah, I already follow his posts, it's pretty much the only English-language analysis that I don't find insufferable and free from either liberal or "Russia-good-gay-west-bad" brainworms.

That's Husayn ibn Ali, basically Shia Muslim Jesus that was also betrayed and murdered by the state.

Ukraine update from a sicko that still reads daily map updates:

3/4 of the big Russian winter battles have been wrapped up. Velika Novosilka, Kurakhove and Toretsk are now done, with Chasov Yar probably wrapping up before the end of this month. Well what's next? The big spring/summer battle will probably be the Pokrovsk-Myrnograd urban agglomeration, which seems to be heading towards the classic Russian maneuver of advancing towards the flanks, then making a quick dash to a village close to the last supply line of the city, putting the city into a semi-encirclement before starting to squeeze out Ukrainian units from the city by entering it before the encirclement really closes.

Other interesting developments are happening in the Oskol front near Kupiansk and the western sector of the Pokrovsk advancement. Russia has achieved a quite remarkable breakthrough on the Oskol front, establishing a good bridgehead on the western bank of the Oskol River, and now advancing fairly quickly due to the dire state of the AFU on that front. Another bridgehead was established closer to the Russian border a few days ago, and there are reports that there's a quite significant Russian grouping on the Belgorod-Kharkov border that might dash to Velkyi Burluk against barely armed Ukrainian border guards very soon.

The western sector of the Pokrovsk front is just 3 km from the borders of Dnipro Oblast. Crossing an imaginary border on a map is not really a major accomplishment, but it is still a bit symbolic and it would be the first time since the start of the war that Russia has a meaningful presence in Dnipro, after driving through a few times during the chaos of the first two weeks of the war. The way I see it, the war is not a decisive victory without at least a small presence in Dnipro, so entering that Oblast is at least a moral victory.

There is a municipal collection service that picks up the blue municipality-issued trash cans from outside the doors of the houses. There is also bigger containers in the end of every street, but my guess is that the municipality is simply struggling to handle the volume. People also love throwing shit out of their cars and stuff like that, which sadly fills the edge of most streets with trash. I feel so bad for the poor municipality trash collectors who have to handle all this shit.

As for the highways and the malls, well yeah, most of "New" Baghdad was built during the 60s where every architect and urban planner thought that suburbs and cars would be the sexy utopian future. Old Baghdad around the Tigris River is pretty nice with old alleyways and things like that. Check out Kadhimiya, Rasheed Street and Mutannabi Street to see more classic city.

That street view in Karbala is from the Arbaeen pilgrimage, you find all kinds of random political and non-political stands there that hand out free food for the pilgrims. I remember commenting here a few months ago about random political stands in last year's Arbaeen.

Thank you!

Assalamu Aleykum to the good people of Hexbearistan. Finally back from my Iraq trip with my wife and the kid. Absolute top tier travel destination, would recommend for sure if you're thinking about doing a lil Middle East trip one day. Here are some little notes on the trip:

• Flew from my city to Istanbul, spent a few miserable hours in Istanbul's expensive ass airport, then flew to Baghdad. My kid was surprisingly chill during almost the whole trip, no extended periods of crying or anything. The plane from Istanbul to Baghdad was filled with non-Arab foreigners, which was quite surprising honestly. Lots of Chinese people for some reason, which usually leads to new schools and ports spawning in any country that the Chinese visit.
• Baghdad Airport is functional but quite rundown. I went in with my Lebanese passport which technically needs a paid visa on arrival, but the guy on the counter waived the fee for me and just said welcome. My wife's uncle was waiting for us outside and we were on the highways of Baghdad after a few kisses and hugs. The first few kilometers must be a shock for every new visitor to Baghdad, as it is filled with posters of Qassem Soleimani, Yahya Sinwar and Hassan Nasrallah. Iraq is still a very anti-imperialist country, you will finds flags of Yemen, Palestine and Lebanon in every corner. I thought it was super cool that one could find posters of the Houthis on billboards and shops selling Hezbollah memorabilia.
• Baghdad as a city has recovered well from the American invasion and occupation. New roads and bridges spawning everywhere, barely any armed military presence, new and shiny malls and restaurants everywhere, massive international schools and it's just alive in a way that only Beirut can reach. The biggest problem is the traffic congestion, which the new Baghdad Metro project hopefully solves in a few years. The trash situation is also annoying, Baghdad is a quite dirty city, the people are as responsible as the government there honestly.
• The food was fucking amazing, but I've gained a few extra kilos from all the fatty foods. Some of the new restaurants are insanely good, and white people will never understand the appeal of a nice proper cafe with hot tea, diabetes-inducing sweets and hookah. Internet was decent, but this website barely loaded without a VPN for some reason. I paid around $10 for a week of unlimited 4G data.
• Made a quick one-day trip to Erbil, capital city of Iraqi Kurdistan. Took a smooth four hour drive there and crossing the inofficial "border" was pretty straightforward. Very beautiful city with great markets and more good food. Lots of new exciting construction projects in Erbil and it's cleaner than Baghdad, but same traffic issues. It's a good intro city for someone that wants an authentic Middle Eastern city, but not too "complicated", nor too artificial like the Gulf cities.
• Finished the trip with a Shia Islam religious pilgrimage megatour with my wife's family. We started in Baghdad and visited the Shrine of Imam Musa bin Jafar Al Kazim, then we drove around two hours to Karbala and visited the Shrine of Imam Hussain and Imam Abbas, then another hour to Najaf and visited the shrine of the greatest Muslim to ever live, Imam Ali bin Abu Talib. Was a great trip even if I'm not really the strongest believer out there. The shrines were magnificent, definitely something I'd recommend to everyone here.
• Overall summary is that Iraq is worth visiting, especially if you want to give your tourist dollars to a country that 100% doesn't use them to murder Palestinians or buy American senators. It will be a culture shock for sure, but Baghdad is a nice and historic city, with the added bonus of having top tier food. I'll upload some pics if I figure out how to do it in a non-doxxing manner.

Hey news nerds, I'm disappearing for a longer period now due to travel and certain life things that need to be addressed. I'll of course pop in here if something funny or cool happens, but expect a very light posting schedule until spring at least. Before I go, I need help on a few things from you nerds:

1. My kid is starting to be fascinated by screens and I feel that we're quickly approaching the cartoon age. I don't want him to watch any brainrot-inducing fascist Cocomelon or make the same mistake that my dad did by accidentally making young kid me watch the American bombing of Iraq on Al Jazeera, so please recommend any communist cartoons for kids.
2. Is there any good books on the Arabs of Latin America and West Africa? I've been quite fascinated recently about random Arabs in Latin America and all those Lebanese families in West Africa.
3. Another book-question. Any good books about connections between sports and politics? I recently read Angels with Dirty Faces about Argentinian football and politics which was pretty good. I would love some recommendations of similar books.

As a non-American and self-proclaimed enemy of the United States of America, I'm pro-annexation of Canada and Greenland. I hold this position for one reason only, my map-brain is tired of the post-1991 borders and wants to see some new borders. South Sudan, East Timor and Montenegro are pretty much the only changes, and they're really not exciting. Give us massive swathes of land changing color on the map.

Supporting HTS is a very unfair accusation, I've always been against them despite being very critical of Assad in the past. Assad is of course the lesser evil, but that reality simply doesn't exist anymore and it's better to move on and adjust to a new reality instead of clinging on to a dead project. After nearly 14 years of instability and half of the population being displaced because of the war, it's hard to look at any wider geopolitical implications or anything like that, what happened happened and hope for the best. I've been one of the biggest advocates for the Axis of Resistance on this website, but that project is now in terminal decline after the assassination of Nasrallah and the fall of Assad, so I don't think that it's bad to point out the shortcomings of the project now that it's pretty much over. Yeah the current situation is shit, Syria is going through it's own Iraq post-invasion phase which will inevitably kill a lot of people, but that doesn't mean that there's zero optimism about the future. Iraq was destined to be an American colony if you would analyse the situation back in 2003, but 15 years later the country emerged as a strong anti-imperialist state in the end.

Well yeah, the Baathist state was stable until it wasn't, and considering the past 14 years, it feels insane that anyone could sit in a car from Daraa to Idlib without getting extorted at a military checkpoint by some NDF robbers. I was also just talking from a bureaucratic standpoint, the overall situation is shitty of course. It's just impressive that simple services such as the streets getting cleaned, border checkpoints working and wages being paid are functioning despite the whole government evaporating in a week.