Jonathan Conricus says Hamas would win “by a landslide” in new election — Sky News Australia

Countries recognizing a Palestinian state while Hamas is in power helps cement their power because Hamas can claim that their strategy worked. Their strategy of terrorist attacks and using their people as human shields worked to get the Palestinian state recognized by more countries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYQkD_vkxRE

Trump’s Caucasus ‘peace corridor’ explained

The Trump administration made a potentially good deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan wants a corridor to its territory that is separated by Armenia. Armenia would consider such a corridor an infringement of its sovereignty. Both sides agreed to let the U.S. and private companies manage the corridor while it remains Armenian territory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzA3CFdEiMM

I don’t know how to cover this anymore

The Israel-Hamas conflict is surrounded by so much misinformation, and people latch on to the misinformation and propaganda so unquestionably, that it makes it hard to tell what’s going on and many professionals don’t want to even touch the story. Everything is so he-said-she-said and stories always change after bad information has already spread, that it is difficult to know what the truth is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaOOi-d-bOU

For Ukraine, ‘Losing Slowly’ Might Be a Winning Strategy

“Day by day, meter by meter, the Russian front rolls ever westward. More than a million casualties in, Russia’s general staff shows no sign of slackening; indeed, it is currently increasing pressure across the eastern front. Far-away analysts talk of “frozen” frontlines and “static” positions, but the truth is that the frontlines are a cauldron of combat activity, with Ukrainians fighting frantically to slow the creeping red tide. And yet, demoralizing as all this might seem, this steady loss holds the key to a potential triumph.

Losing as slowly as possible—husbanding one’s manpower and resources during a careful strategic retreat—is a time-tested strategy against an ostensibly superior force.

the slow retreat strategy only works if the enemy eventually breaks—either militarily, economically, or politically.”

https://reason.com/2025/08/11/for-ukraine-losing-slowly-might-be-a-winning-strategy/

Ukr War NEWS Update (20250813a): Overnight News – Pokrovsk Push Back, Druzhba PipeHit

Europe has given more than twice as much to Ukraine compared to the United States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0W1ULjXaW4

Exclusive: Ukraine prepared to cede territory held by Russia & ‘breach’ sparks eastern front alarm

Exclusive: Ukraine prepared to cede territory held by Russia & ‘breach’ sparks eastern front alarm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkEB6WCgqVU

Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza? | The Ezra Klein Show

Aid workers have confirmed, Gazans are starving.

Seems pretty clear that Israel can argue that their goal is regime change, not genocide. It makes sense that a country would not want to live next to a regime that actively wants to wipe them off the face of the planet. Hamas and other terrorist groups could end this at any time by surrendering and allowing the rule of a non-terrorist entity. As long as they don’t, Israel has to either fight the terrorist group, which cannot be done without civilian casualties, or just wait for the next Hamas attack. Nevertheless, Israel has committed war crimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrhBypHFYPY

The Occupation

“the Israeli military will also start a complete occupation of Gaza in order to stamp out Hamas, with the end goal being to surrender the territory to “Arab forces that will govern it properly without threatening us,” in Netanyahu’s words. This means the 800,000 to 1 million Palestinians who still reside there will be evacuated south, with a deadline of October 7 of this year.”

https://reason.com/2025/08/08/the-occupation/

Why Does Gaza have so many Hospitals?

Gaza has a lot of hospitals relative to their population. This is partly because Gaza has smaller hospitals. Hamas has intentionally built terrorist tunnels under hospitals to make targeting terrorists in them a war crime due to a hospital being in the way. Hamas forces Israel between a rock and a hard place. If Israel doesn’t hit the terrorist/military targets to avoid hitting hospitals, then Hamas can continue to operate there. If Israel does hit the targets, then Hamas propaganda can scream about how evil Israel is for hitting hospitals. Hamas is sacrificing its own people and civilian infrastructure as a tactic against Israel. Many in the West aid Hamas by screaming about hospitals hit while ignoring Hamas’s tactic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONXgdGLNSkw