How Israel’s Army Got It Wrong: Lessons from Gaza and Lebanon
Hamas regularly moved civilians to make it impossible for Israel to kill Hamas without also killing civilians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOYyfQZV368
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Hamas regularly moved civilians to make it impossible for Israel to kill Hamas without also killing civilians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOYyfQZV368
Putin doesn’t want to use nuclear weapons. If he did, he risks the destruction of his country. Putin, like the Soviet Union in history, uses nuclear weapons as bluster to threaten countries whose leaders and people believe the likelihood of Russia using nukes is higher than it is. Trump is scared. He’s happy to use or threaten military force against countries without nukes, but Russia invades its neighbor in a war of conquest while committing many atrocities, and Trump is obsessed with peace, even, at times, weakening support to Ukraine to appease Putin. Letting Russia gain things with nuclear threats increases the incentive for other countries to get nukes, and one of those countries may be more willing to actually use them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUspOj8Ee0
There’s a reason Finland saw Putin invade Ukraine, and then decided that they had to join NATO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmb8lJjk9U8
“Soldiers hate two things: the way things are, and change.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bp_-JlmFEg
“Attacks include: accusations that a notorious Russian military intelligence hacking group targeted defense, transport and tech firms involved in helping Ukraine; arson attacks on depots containing equipment destined for Ukraine in Poland; Russian ally Belarus weaponizing migrants to destabilize Poland; drones of unknown origin buzzing airports across the continent; and Moscow being accused of undermining the presidential election in Romania.
Poland called a Sunday rail line explosion “sabotage” and on Tuesday blamed two Ukrainians working for Russia.
Globsec, a Prague-based think tank, calculated there were more than 110 acts of sabotage and attempted attacks carried out in Europe between January and July, mainly in Poland and France, by people with links to Russia.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-defense-minister-guido-crosetto-russia-hybrid-war/
We can’t assume other people in history and in the current world think like us. Not everyone is a reasonable person who can be reached with diplomacy. Some people are ideologically psychopaths and are willing to kill many many people to get what they want. Such people can only be stopped by force.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDqn27gl2vg
In secret talks, the Trump administration has been talking with Russia about Ukrainian capitulation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMZqRmMvBnY
Russia is slowly encircling Pokrovsk, but at a great cost in casualties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXPZT6sQDc0
Nigeria’s violence involves herders fighting farmers. Herders have the military advantage so more often slaughter farmers than the other way around.
There’s a variety of violence and not all of it fits the herder VS farmer paradigm, and some of it is religiously motivated or facilitated.
A majority of people killed are Muslim. However, farmers tend to be Christian, and herders tend to be Muslim. The conflict is not a simple Muslims slaughtering Christians fight, but a lot of people are dying and the Nigerian government is too weak to stop it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkXUNGkEtVE
Russia is making slow territorial gains in Ukraine. The city of Pokrovsk has previously stopped being a logistics hub because Russia cut it off on the sides, and the city may fall to Russia soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMVed0_t2TI