How the fuck did the Empire State Building end up in Brooklyn lol. This perspective makes no sense. Cool greenery though.
Yeah, watching a fratricidal war between two armies who mostly don't want to be there and don't want to kill each other hits different than a war of national liberation with a very obvious "good guy/bad guy" dynamic.
And I imagine this state of affairs is because of the privatisations in the 90's, where that city was previously a state owned city centered around resource extraction, and all that administration was then transfered to a private company.
Read a pretty good article on an oil spill in the Russian Arctic and how the company/government has attempted to cover it up. It's in N+1 and not too lib; doesn't go into how sanctions/embargoes and privatization have made things worse, but does briefly mention how during the Soviet Union this kind of shit never happened. https://docdro.id/TSo1nRn (article's behind a paywall but I'm a subscriber so here's the PDF)
Yeah a lot of this is just me reminding myself that WWI took months to kickoff post assassination, and that our minds nowadays are just so wired for immediate feedback it feels wrong to wait for so long for a response to something so incredibly massive. You're probably right.
So we're in what, day 3 of a ground invasion? Though not "official official" it's official, the IDF is attempting to (thus far mostly failing) to invade Gaza. Is Hezbollah going to open up a second front? Has Iran's ominous "time is up" type shitposting fizzled to nothing? The second US carrier group is days away at this point. Seems like the window for anything crazy is rapidly closing, if not closed already. Maybe I'm just dooming, but it looks like nothing else is going to kick off.
Agreed, but I'm assuming that Hezbollah has intelligence and sources inside the IDF that's not public knowledge. I would hope, anyway. I'm not a military strategist, I've no idea what the "right" move is in this scenario. I can only hope they make it!
That's all well and good, but if this ground invasion is happening within the next 24 hours those troops are already committed. You can't just move massive tank columns and battalions dozens of miles within hours.
This is it, huh? Hezbollah et al. has 24 hours to make the first move, if this source is correct. Après nous, le déluge.
Terrorism is when violence and violence is always bad. Non-violence and its consequences etc