Some fucking guy keeps bringing up Sudan in our group chat, always CONVENIENTLY a couple of hours we've been discussing the situation in Palestine. I can't really put it into words, but it fucking disgusts me. "Why aren't you outraged about this, other genocide??? Look at how this it is!!!! Where are all the protests???" Feels extremely fucking disingenuous, like he's trying to minimise what isn'treal is doing. I kind of want to yeet him the fuck out of the group, but I can't argue my point well enough to justify it to everyone else. Not that I have to justify anything, ever, of course, but I still want to. You know?

Uganda just tried to vote against all the measures lol, worst than the Israeli judge

:texas-cool:

Stolen from here

Archive (DoJ site): https://web.archive.org/web/20240127203355/https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/former-soldier-receives-15-years-federal-prison-drug-trafficking-ketamine-and

Archive (The Intercept, 2016): https://web.archive.org/web/20231103135331/https://theintercept.com/2016/02/25/us-extends-drone-war-deeper-into-africa-with-secretive-base/

🎖️ ~~This is wild.~~ ❌❎ The feds busted an AFRICOM drug-trafficking ring, run by Fort Bragg soldiers, that was moving enough ketamine from Cameroon to Fort Bragg to send tens of millions of people down a K-hole. Jan 26, 2024 · 10:01 PM UTC

Another day another banger by the good netizens of the coal and steel nation of the Land of the Germans.

https://feddit.de/post/8315496?scrollToComments=true

The Hamas is a dirty terrorist organisation. And if the UNRWA has any local workers, it is completly logical, that they are completely infiltrated by the Hamas. The UN cannot defend those workers and their families. And so during the night a few armed people come by and want something from you. Or you are completely radicalised from the start because you were in a Hamas school. Or Hamas plants some of their own.

9 Points from the failing Nazi instance feddit.de

https://old.reddit.com/r/de/comments/1acxdz4/nach_vorw%C3%BCrfen_gegen_mitarbeiter_berlin_stoppt/

Insane, how easy the Hamas with their "We are just Palis"-act are able to get money from the West. Without supporting the Palis there would be no Hamas

This is of course joined by a chorus of "Finally" "Down with these terrorists" and "Well this all won't do anything because russia"

I'll just say this against all those mask off faschos if the Palestinian people deserve genocide because Hamas is fighting against Israel, then what do the germans deserve?

https://archive.is/FnJNp

Some delicious brainworms relating to wunderweapons circlejerking dipshits love to do.

USAF Eagle pilot tells why a gun-only F-15 would win an aerial engagement against a fully armed Su-27 Flanker

Yes you correctly read that. Some dipshit pilot actually thinks he'd totally win a one-on-one battle with a peashooter against someone with fucking missiles.

The F-15 Eagle

The F-15 Eagle is an all-weather fighter designed to gain and maintain air supremacy. As the first US fighter with engine thrust greater than its basic weight, the F-15 can accelerate while in a vertical climb. In fact, the Eagle can climb 50,000 feet in less than 60 seconds.

The relatively low aircraft weight, compared to wing area, made the Eagle not just fast, but also highly maneuverable, creating a near perfect platform for air-to-air combat.

Which is why it got retired in favor of more shit planes.

F-15 Eagle Vs Su-27 Flanker

How would a gun-only F-15C Eagle cope against a fully armed Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker? ‘I’m going to assume the F-15C is gun-only and the [Su-27] Flanker has a combat load-out, perhaps minus a couple missiles he expended BVR. Also, assuming the F-15 has internal and expendable countermeasures onboard, both electronic and IR (perhaps BOL-IR and MJU-10),’ Marcus Cade, former F-15 Eagle pilot with the US Air Force (USAF), explains on Quora.

THATS RIGHT! ANOTHER DOGSHIT OPINION FROM QUORA!

‘The F-15 is in a tough spot, no doubt, and he can’t separate against a Flanker. His only option is to fight until he kills the Flanker or a wingman shows up and saves the day.

YOU JUST READ IT CORRECTLY! NO, AN F-15 EAGLE WOULD FUCKING STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE IF ITS DOWN TO IT'S GUNS AND ITS BEING CHASED BY A JET ARMED TO THE TEETH

‘Step 1 – see that yellow button with the black stripes I’ve circled? It reads “Emer Jett.” The Eagle Driver hits that button. If he’s out of missiles, the pylons and launchers under the wings are just weighing him down and creating drag. The Emer Jett button will blow every cart on the airplane, leaving the mighty-mighty Eagle a lean, clean, gun-killing machine. The Flanker won’t know what hit him: first, he’ll see sh*t falling off the Eagle and wonder if there’s combat damage or an ejection about to happen.

Translation: push button to hopefully make it easier to dodge missiles that are hunting it down faster than it flies.

The F-15 Eagle is NEVER doomed

‘Then, as the Eagle driver defends against IR missiles and min-ranges radar missiles, the Flanker will realize he’s losing the fight. “How is this possible?” he asks himself as he trades in all his smash to pull the Eagle in front of his 3/9 as he attempts one last Archer that the Eagle flares off. And now he’s jinking in front of the best air-to-air gun platform ever fielded, flown by a single-mission pilot who is a PhD at finishing this particular fight.

You can viscerally feel this dude just cranking his hog to this top gun level wet dream he's conjuring up

‘As the 20mm HEI rounds start pounding thru his speed-brake and wreaking carnage inside his jet, it’s up to him. Does he bow to the inevitable and eject, or does he stick it out until the Eagle-driver walks the pipper up to the canopy and watches the RATR pop up just as the plexiglass shatters and the Flanker-driver’s last sight is his heart being blown out of his chest and splattering across the instrument panel (I borrowed that particular visual).

It is literally more likely for the f-15 pilot to shit himself mid-flight than it is for him to score a dog fighter style kill on another jet.

Gun Only F-15 Eagle Vs fully armed Su-27 Flanker

He continues;

Oh no

‘I’ve flown this profile many times. While I was at Langley, each squadron would keep a couple jets “demo clean” to support the demo team during airshow season. The clean jets would be assigned to Red air, since they didn’t have a captive AIM-9 to allow full-up blue-air training. They also had a fuel disadvantage of 4–8K pounds. So, we’d fly the card and give blue-air the training they needed … and be lethal as F if we got in amongst them. More often, we’d die like we were meant to and Blue air would bingo out and RTB.

Screams "millennium challenge" forced handicap to me

‘Then we’d BFM or ACM amongst ourselves, to get some training with any fuel we had left. Trust me, a clean Eagle is enormously more maneuverable than a 1- or 2-bag Eagle, and surprisingly more maneuverable than a jet w/ no external tanks, but pylons and missiles on board. It’s a hot knife thru butter for the few minutes until fuel runs out. I wouldn’t walk into this no-missile scenario willingly … but the Flanker driver would have only a short window to get his kill before he was looking over his shoulder and hoping his life-insurance was paid up.’

From my understanding of aerial combat, actual engagements would always occur miles away, waaaaaayyyyyyyy out of eyesight, with modern "dogfighting" taking place closer but still far away as hell. Not even including the fact you would rarely be flying alone if you're in contested airspace.

F-15 Eagle Vs Su-27: Respecting the Flanker family

Cade concludes;

Please make it stop

‘Don’t mistake confidence for arrogance. Air superiority was my job for quite a while, and I was on the receiving end of the information stream provided by a very well-resourced intelligence community. I understand and respect many threat platforms’ strengths (esp. the Su-27 family), and have been part of a community that worked hard to find and exploit their weaknesses.

Okay dude. Totally not arrogant

‘I have flown the MiG-29, and flown against many modern weapons systems operated by various nations. I’ve seen my team rolled up by MiGs fighting in their own back yard after we made just one or two early mistakes. I’ve debriefed at length (occasionally ad nauseam) to understand why a mission failed, or why we took losses in an otherwise successful mission … and how to do better next time. Arrogant tacticians lose. You can only learn to win by beginning with humility and being open to learning (and re-learning) lessons. The end product of that process may come across as arrogance … but it’s actually a very hard-earned confidence.’

Translation: we've been rolled by our allies who were using older commercial versions of Soviet tech and we think we'd win now after getting our asses kicked.

Highest fancy boy court in the land rules country shouldn't do genocide because it's "bad vibes" refuses to enforce a ceasefire because they don't want to be seen as harsh.

Hearing lots of concerning rumors about Israel moving a lot of troops and equipment north. Lebanon may be heating up soon

my non-boring 2024 bingo grid:

In Denmark a binman was detained by homeowners at a residential road. The homeowners were angry that their bins had not been collected due to icy sidewalks making collection unsafe for binmen. The homeowners called the garbage collection company, threatening to detain the binman for 26 minutes, one minute for each day their bins had not been collected. It was first when the company threatened to call the cops on the homeowners they let the man go.

During the days where bins could not be collected, dumps accepted household waste and the company promised to collect extra bags of garbage free of charge once bins could be collected again.

DHS sent TX AG Paxton demanding access to Shelby Park/Eagle Pass by Friday (1/26)

Gaza Strip: EU Calls for ICJ Order to Be Implemented

Last 18th, the Community Parliament approved a resolution in favor of a permanent cease-fire in the conflict between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas.

On Friday, without demanding a ceasefire in Gaza from Israel, the European Union (EU) called for the "full, immediate and effective" implementation of the order issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

The UN agency urged Tel Aviv to take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of genocide in the Palestinian territory under constant siege since last October.

In a joint statement, the European Commission and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, recalled that the UN Court's orders are binding and urged the parties to comply with them, without expressly mentioning Israel.

In its ruling, the ICJ ordered Israel to take effective measures to prevent the destruction and ensure the preservation of evidence relating to allegations of acts within the scope of Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

The case was introduced by South Africa in December 2023 and sought to have the ICJ grant emergency measures to halt the armed onslaught on the Palestinian enclave.

In its request, Pretoria demanded the immediate cessation of military operations in Gaza by Tel Aviv, the adoption of reasonable measures to prevent the genocide of Palestinians, as well as to ensure that displaced persons return to their homes, and have access to humanitarian assistance.

Last 18th, the Community Parliament approved a resolution in favor of a permanent cease-fire in the conflict between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas.

This non-binding regulation received the approval of 312 legislators, 131 voted against and 72 abstained in what constitutes the first demand of the community legislature to the belligerent parties.

The resolution called for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages and the dismantling of Hamas.

The Norwegian housing market is in crisis with a record-low number of new housing being constructed in 2023. Rising interest rates combined with inflation is making new construction unprofitable, leading to projects being cancelled and construction workers being laid off. The fall in construction and sales is making Norwegian state media describe the situation as a housing crisis.

Some key figures for 2023:

• Total housing sales: Down 32 percent
• Apartment sales: Down 40 percent
• Total new housing being built: Down 40 percent
• New apartments being built: Down 51 percent

Numbers like these have not been seen in Norway since a banking crisis in the early 1990's.

Bloomberg: Gas-Addicted Europe Trades One Energy Risk for Another

Rather than replace Russian fuel with next-generation renewables, the continent has increasingly turned to American natural gas. But it’s risky, too.

However:

The European Commission is not concerned about a growing dependency on US LNG because there aren’t the same levels of political risks as with Russia, said a senior EU official who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly.

Boeing Failed To Re-install And Inspect Door Plug On Alaska Airways' 737

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/01/boeing-failed-to-re-install-and-inspect-door-plug-on-alaska-airways-737.html

cnn source

Turkish parliament approved Sweden's NATO application? Please Erdoğan, do something cool and reject it lol

Do you guys think the ICJ is currently engaging in the most incredible display of contortionism in recorded history?

if you want to see some real brainworms, check /r/worldnews thread on the ICJ ruling lol. lots of Oh look Israel's vindicated because they weren't ordered to stop! the killing can continue! yay!

US Carries Out Major Strikes Against Houthis in Yemen

The U.S. named the strikes "Operation Poseidon Archer," suggesting that they might become more organized and last for a longer period of time.

The Central Command (CETCOM) confirmed that the U.S.-led coalition forces launched new strikes on targets of the Ansar Allah movement (Houthi) on Monday.

The latest strikes, carried out at about 11:59 p.m. Sanaa time, were aimed at 8 targets in Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen, the CETCOM said, adding that Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands provided support for the strikes.

"The targets included missile systems and launchers, air defense systems, radars, and deeply buried weapons storage facilities," it stated.

Acting unilaterally or in concert with its allies and partners, the U.S. military has launched eight rounds of strikes against Houthi targets since Jan. 12.

These moves were intended to degrade the Houthis' capability to continue their attacks on commercial and naval vessels sailing in the Red Sea, Bab-Al-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden, the CETCOM said.

The U.S. has named the strikes "Operation Poseidon Archer," suggesting that they might become "more organized" and last for a longer period of time.

Earlier in the day, U.S. President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak discussed Houthi attacks against merchant and naval vessels transiting the Red Sea over the phone.

"They reiterated their commitment to freedom of navigation, international commerce, and defending mariners from illegal and unjustifiable attacks," the White House informed.

Hot take: The border fuckery is preventing Genocide Joe from starting a desastrous war in Iran right now, we must give critical support to Gred Abode and the Texas Oblast

Y'all have to let me crash on one of your couches if Texas goes insane