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01 Jan 2025 21:33

🇺🇦 Ukrainian journalist, Yuriy Butusov wrote a long post about problems with the formation of the 155th Mechanized Brigade.

He says more than 1,700 soldiers deserted before it deployed to the front line, including more than 50 soldiers while training in France.

Among the problems, more than 2,500 soldiers were taken from the brigade during its formation and sent to other units as combat replacements, the brigade deployed to the front with an insufficient number of UAVs and C-UAS equipment, the brigade's leadership had little time to train with many of their soldiers who were assigned to the brigade (but remained in Ukraine) while they were in France, and the brigade's units have now been attached to other units instead of fighting as a brigade despite receiving modern equipment.

🔗 https://novynarnia.com/2024/12/31/spravzhnya-istoriya-anny-kyyivskoyi-dbr-porushylo-spravu-shhodo-155-yi-brygady-ozbroyenoyi-u-francziyi-ta-kynutoyi-pid-pokrovsk-nepidgotovlenoyu-iz-1700-szch/

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01 Jan 2025 19:45

🇺🇸 FBI statement on the New Orleans attacker:

🔶 Suspect is 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar

🔶 U.S. citizen and a U.S. Army veteran

🔶 Ford truck was rented

🔶 ISIS flag was on the vehicle

🔶 IEDs and weapons were in the vehicle

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01 Jan 2025 19:41

🇺🇸 The perpetrator of the New Orleans truck attack, Shamsud Din Jabbar, was raised in Texas and was in the U.S. Army Reserve from 2015 to 2020. Additionally, according to Karol Markowicz of the NY Post and Fox News, he had a stolen Glock and a .308 rifle with him.

🔗 OSINT Defender

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01 Jan 2025 19:32

🇨🇮❌🇫🇷 Ivory Coast announces the departure of French troops by January 2025, ending decades-long military presence in the western African nation

🔗 https://www.trtworld.com/africa/ivory-coast-announces-end-of-french-military-presence-18249345

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01 Jan 2025 18:00

📝 Meanwhile, in the US, long-time Republican influencers have split their support on the incoming Trump administration. Where will that lead to in the coming years?

👤 Andrew Torba on X: "I think it’s awesome that half the people on team USA in this pic can’t stand each other, but the love for our country united us this past week. Let’s keep up that energy and momentum going into the New Year and the first 100 days of the Trump admin."

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01 Jan 2025 17:21

Trump in 2020: “As we speak, we’re finalizing H1-B regulations so that no American worker is replaced ever again.”

Trump in 2024: “I didn’t change my mind… We need competent people. We need smart people coming into our country. We need a lot of people coming in.”

📎 AF Post

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01 Jan 2025 15:34

Americans used to get married earlier in their 20s.

Now the median age for entering into a first marriage is:
- 30.2 for men
- 28.4 for women

📎 The Rabbit Hole

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01 Jan 2025 13:43

🇲🇦 Behind Morocco’s bid to unlock the Sahel

On November 6, as Morocco marked the forty-eighth anniversary of the Green March—the mass demonstration that in 1975 paved the way for the country to take control of Western Sahara from the Spanish—the nation’s King Mohammed VI outlined a new regional outreach effort.

He announced the launch of an international initiative to “enable the Sahel countries to have access to the Atlantic Ocean.” Landlocked Mali, Niger, Chad, and Burkina Faso are at the center of the Moroccan plan, which involves making Morocco’s road, port, and rail infrastructure available to them and implementing large-scale development projects.

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/africasource/behind-moroccos-bid-to-unlock-the-sahel/

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01 Jan 2025 11:21

🇬🇧🧵A thread by Mike Jones on X:

"The Rotherham rape scandal ranks among the top 10 most significant events in British history since 2000. It stands alongside Brexit, the Iraq invasion, foot-and-mouth disease, 7/7, the expenses scandal, and the 2008 Financial Crisis.

Yet, unlike these headline-dominating events, Rotherham was met with an astonishing lack of media coverage."

https://fxtwitter.com/technopopulist/status/1874046619001241911

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31 Dec 2024 23:08

🇪🇺 End of Ukrainian gas transit signals new energy woes for Europe

In latest act of economic self-sabotage, EU green-lights Ukraine's decision to shut down one of the last remaining Russian gas routes to Europe

Despite the war in Ukraine, over the past three years Russian gas has continued to flow to Europe — mainly to Slovakia, Hungary, Austria and Italy — through a pipeline via Ukraine.

Even though the share of Ukrainian transit in EU gas imports has significantly declined compared to pre-war levels, it still made up 5 percent of EU gas imports in 2024 — out of approximately 20 percent of gas still imported from Russia (including both pipeline imports and liquified natural gas (LNG) imports).

Alongside TurkStream — which carries gas across the Black Sea to Turkey and on to Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary — Ukraine remains the only active pipeline through which Russian gas continues to arrive in the EU. Other routes to Europe have been shut down.

However, the contract governing the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine is set to expire today (December 31) — and Ukraine doesn’t intend to renew it. This means that, as of tomorrow, Europe will no longer be receiving gas through Ukraine. The consequences could be dear. The countries most affected will obviously be the direct recipients of the Ukrainian transit route gas, especially Slovakia, Hungary, Austria and Italy.

The stopping of Ukrainian transit will not pose an immediate supply security risk to these countries: though the capacity of alternative pipeline routes —TurkStream, Bulgaria, Serbia or Hungary — to replace the Ukrainian transit is limited, storage levels in the EU remain high and alternative supply sources exist, mainly in the form of shipped LNG.

However, the latter is significantly more expensive than pipeline gas: whereby pipeline imports are governed by long-term contracts, LNG prices are tied to global spot markets, which tend to be significantly higher, not to mention much more volatile, as they are subject to global competition as well as financial speculation, which can drive prices higher during disruptions (e.g., geopolitical conflicts, supply reductions, etc.).

The significantly higher price of LNG — especially that imported from the US — compared to Russian pipeline gas has severely impacted both European households and businesses. Indeed, the Draghi report highlighted high energy costs as one of the main reasons for the EU’s loss of competitiveness.

The report emphasises that European companies face significantly higher energy costs compared to their US counterparts: energy prices remain “2-3 times higher” for electricity and “4-5 times higher” for natural gas. These high costs have pushed large parts of Western Europe — first and foremost Germany — into recession and even outright deindustrialisation, and continue to seriously hinder industrial growth and investment.

In this context, the shutdown of the Ukrainian transit route is likely to make a bad situation worse. Even though the European Commission claims that the end of gas flows through Ukraine will have a “negligible” impact on European gas prices, the reality is that European spot prices, as determined in the TTF virtual trading hub, have shown a high sensitivity to the Ukraine transit route.

More importantly, it is a reminder of the utterly suicidal policies that the EU has implemented in its attempt to wage a self-defeating economic war against Russia, alongside its equally unsuccessful military proxy efforts — both of which run counter to the EU’s core economic and security interests. The EU’s refusal to challenge Ukraine on the shutdown of the pipeline — all while sending tens of billions to the country — is simple the latest example of how EU policy undermines the fundamental interests of its member states.

Indeed, the only real beneficiary of Ukraine’s decision to shut down the pipeline will be, once more, the US, which will be presented with yet another opportunity to deepen the bloc’s reliance on its own LNG exports.

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31 Dec 2024 19:17

🇺🇸 The U.S. Immigration Act of 1924

The explicit goal of the quotas was to rewind the country’s racial and ethnic mix to a time dominated by Western and Northern European immigration.

Reed, one of the lead sponsors, wrote in The New York Times that, with the bill’s passage, “The composition of our population will not change in the future decades in the same way in which it changed between 1885 and the outbreak of the World War.”

The United States would then become “a more homogeneous nation” and a “vastly better place to live in,” he added.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/1924-us-immigration-act-history https://x.com/messages/media/1874125121029362141

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31 Dec 2024 16:32

🇪🇬 A “New Delta” in the Desert

Part of a major push to green Egypt’s deserts, the New Delta project aims to transform 2.2 million feddans (9,240 square kilometers, or 3,500 square miles) of mostly barren desert west of the Nile Delta into productive farmland. The OLI (Operational Land Imager) and OLI-2 on Landsat 8 and 9 captured this pair of images showing the expansion of green landscapes in parts of the Alexandria and Beheira governorates in November 2018 (left) and November 2024 (right).

Much of the new development is spread along a highway that connects El Dabba on Egypt’s north coast to Cairo. Note the canal extending northeastward from the upper left of the image. With the help of several pumping stations, this waterway transports wastewater from a holding lake in Alexandria to a new treatment plant to the south. Completed in 2023, it can process 7.5 million cubic meters of wastewater per day, enough to make it the largest wastewater and sludge treatment plant in the world, according to Guinness World Records.

Plans call for recycled water from the plant to feed into irrigation networks that supply the proliferating croplands in the area, but the system will not provide all the water that thirsty crops need. Pumped groundwater and water from a canal that connects to the Rosetta Branch of the Nile are also important sources of water for the region.

New farmland is also appearing in many other parts of Egypt. Boston University researchers used decades of observations from Landsat satellites to map areas where agricultural lands spread, were lost to urbanization, or abandoned between 1987 and 2019. They mapped 16,000 square kilometers of new farmland in Egypt, mostly in the Nile River valley and delta near existing agriculture. Over the same period, farmers abandoned 1,700 square kilometers, and new development occurred on 2,300 square kilometers of farmland.

📎 https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153752/a-new-delta-in-the-desert

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31 Dec 2024 15:46

🇯🇵🇹🇼 "Japan's Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said in an interview that Japan would give up "a Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency" strategy proposed by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Japan's current pro-China govt makes Taiwan's DPP nervous."

📎 ShanghaiPanda

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31 Dec 2024 14:18

💸 Which U.S. Companies Receive the Most Government Subsidies?

📎 VisualCap

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31 Dec 2024 10:55

Arnaud Bertrand on X:

"Often, especially for "investigation" articles in mainstream media that embarrass a specific country, the main story is not the story itself but why the story is a story.

This 👇 looks like a typical example of this.

So here we have a huge Washington Post article explaining in minute details how India attempted to subvert elections in the Maldives.

According to the article, Indian intelligence services (RAW) were involved in detailed plans to prevent the election of Mohamed Muizzu and, when these efforts failed and Muizzu got elected president, RAW then allegedly pivoted to planning his removal through an elaborate scheme involving bribes to MPs, military officers, and criminal gangs.

The article provides remarkably specific details: exact amounts of planned bribes (87 million rufiyaa), precise numbers of officials to be bribed (40 MPs, 10 military/police officers), and even surveillance records of meetings between RAW officers and intermediaries.

Now I don't question the veracity of this - it's probably true - but what's striking is the level of detail and nature of the revelations disclosed in the article. For instance they cite surveillance records of RAW officers' meetings in the Indian embassy in Washington DC, details about Indian military flights with transponders turned off, and internal planning documents. How on earth would WaPo journalists have access to any of this? This was obviously leaked by intelligence services."

🧵Continue reading: https://fxtwitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1873934609765065173

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01 Jan 2025 20:11

📱 A Tesla cyber truck exploded in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.

📝: Ominous start of the New Year and Donald Trump’s second and final term as president of the US.

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01 Jan 2025 19:42

📰 Mainstream medias are covering up details about the New Orleans terrorist, omitting from their headlines his name or any other information which could reveal his ethnic background and religious beliefs.

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01 Jan 2025 19:35

🇸🇳❌🇫🇷 Senegal says it’s closing ‘all foreign military bases,’ a move aimed at French troops in the country

Although Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko did not specifically name French troops, no other foreign forces have military bases in Senegal.

📝: With Senegal and the Ivory Coast kicking out the French from their countries, only Gabon and Djibouti remain as the only two African countries still hosting French contingents.

The French Empire is coming to an end and the power vacuum left behind is being filled by Turkey rather than Russia or China.

🔗 https://apnews.com/article/senegal-france-military-bases-close-e525f3a11825fbe397b90363c9417224

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01 Jan 2025 19:30

Remigration Summit 2025

👉In 2024 the vision of Remigration became the hope of our entire continent.

🗻In 2025 we will organize the first Remigration Summit: in May we will gather activists, journalists and politicians to unite our ideas, reach and influence. If we work together, Remigration is inevitable.

🎙On the 3rd of January at 19:00 on this account, the initiators of ReSum25 will present the vision and tell more about the project:
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1mnxeAdDzvZxX

💪🏻 Support Resum25 here:
https://www.givesendgo.com/resum25
🎟 Join the waiting list for tickets:
https://campsite.bio/remigrationsummit

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01 Jan 2025 17:46

Zouhir Al-Shimale on X:

"Social media influencers & bloggers are increasingly gaining recognition & high-level engagement w/ Syria's new administration, which appears to be positioning them as key messengers to shape narratives and connect with critical audience segments. This is interesting because..👇

Syria’s youth make up 60% of its population, and they dominate online spaces. With internet penetration at 50% in 2024, that’s millions of Syrians using social media as their primary source of news, entertainment, and interaction.

Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok are particularly popular in and out Syria. Studies show 80% of Syrians aged 18–35 use social media daily—a stark contrast to traditional media, which is viewed as outdated and less trustworthy.

Ahmed Al-Sharaa’s administration recognises and is preparing to capitalise on this trend. By collaborating with influencers and bloggers, it taps directly into the digital pulse of the younger generation, bypassing traditional media, which is was known to be state biased.

Influencers act as intermediaries, presenting the administration’s narrative in ways that feel relatable and authentic to young audiences. Their input value highlighting themes of hope, renewal, and resilience in post-revolution Syria will be critical to Al-Sharaa' public image.

To my view, the goal isn’t merely communication, it's rather image rehabilitation. Ahmed Al-Sharaa’s past as Abu Mohammed Al-Jolani ties him to extremist record/background. The youth influencer-driven narrative seeks to reposition him as a pragmatic leader for Syria’s future.

Nowadays, social media is also key to rebuilding trust with a generation skeptical of politics. By involving apolitical relatable figures, the administration fosters a sense of inclusion and direct engagement, making policies feel more personal and accessible via familiar faces.

In a digitally connected Syria, social media isn’t just a regular entertainment tool, it’s a battleground for influence. By focusing on youth, the administration is betting on the generation that will shape Syria’s future. Will this gamble pay off, or backfire, time will tell.."

📎 Zouhir Al-Shimale

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01 Jan 2025 16:05

🇪🇺 Europe Faces Coldest Winter Spell As Gas Supply Concerns Mount

Northwest Europe is bracing itself for what is expected to be later this week the coldest snap so far this winter, hours ahead of the expiry of the deal for Russian gas transit via Ukraine to central Europe.

Temperatures in the UK, France, and Germany are expected to plunge at the end of this week, which would raise gas demand for heating and electricity generation.

This happens as Europe is burning through its natural gas in storage at the fastest pace in years.

As of December 28, the natural gas storage sites across the EU were full at 73.5% on average, according to the latest data from Gas Infrastructure Europe. The UK, which is no longer part of the EU, had its storage sites at 56.5% full.

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Europe-Faces-Coldest-Winter-Spell-As-Gas-Supply-Concerns-Mount.amp.html

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01 Jan 2025 14:27

🇨🇳Xi Jinping's New Year address:

"People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are one family. No one can break our blood ties, and no one can stop the historical trend of national reunification."

📎 Zhao DaShuai

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01 Jan 2025 12:31

🌍 Africa is currently facing more conflicts than at any time since 1946, according to data from Uppsala University and Norway’s Peace Research Institute Oslo. In 2024, the institutes recorded 28 state-based conflicts across 16 of Africa’s 54 countries—more than any other region and twice as many as 15 years ago. This conflict zone spans roughly 4,000 miles, covering 10% of sub-Saharan Africa’s land mass, an area that has doubled in just three years.

https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/africa-has-entered-a-new-era-of-war-c6171d8e

https://archive.ph/QpZu0

📎 Franz-Stefan Gady

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01 Jan 2025 06:49

🇹🇷 From Syria to Ethiopia, a year of Turkish foreign policy success

For yet another year, the world watched on as existing power dynamics tore at the seams of the failing global order. But from its corner of the map, Türkiye quietly changed the game. From Damascus to Mogadishu, Ankara’s influence shaped some of the year’s most pivotal geopolitical moments, leveraging a mix of strategic diplomacy and steadfast humanitarian assistance.

One of the year’s defining moments came on December 8, when Bashar al Assad fled Syria after opposition forces executed a rapid takeover of key cities from Aleppo to Damascus. “While Türkiye was not directly involved in the military developments, the outcome was, in large part, a result of Türkiye’s policies” that reshaped not only the Middle East but also the country's role in the wider region, Ankara-based foreign policy and security expert Omer Ozkizilcik tells TRT World.

In 2020, Türkiye launched Operation Spring Shield in Syria’s Idlib region, which helped prevent the fall of the Syrian opposition and gave them the space to regroup, retrain, and ultimately gain the upper hand against Assad’s forces.

“The opportunity that was presented by the war in Ukraine and the Israeli escalation with Iran could only be seized by the Syrian rebels thanks to the Turkish protection of Idlib and northern Syria,” Ozkizilcik explains. “After the Syrian people, the biggest winner here is Türkiye.”

Türkiye’s diplomatic outreach in 2024 stretched far beyond its immediate borders. From mediating in Africa to challenging global power structures, Türkiye has positioned itself as a key player in the international arena.

https://www.trtworld.com/turkiye/from-syria-to-ethiopia-a-year-of-turkish-foreign-policy-success-18249125

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31 Dec 2024 22:48

🇮🇳 The 'Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice, other Inhuman and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act, 2013' is a piece of Indian legislation aimed at tackling the problem of religious human sacrifice and other similar activities

The specific clauses of the act cover a range of magical and religious acts that could lead to harm, death or manipulation - eg coercive sex or theft of money. The list is so specific you have to imagine each of these things has been reported before.

The origins of the bill go back to 2003 and every step of the legislative process has faced fierce opposition. One of its greatest advocates, Dr Narendra Dabholkar, was shot dead in 2013 by Hindu nationalists.

Despite the bill being passed in Maharashtra, India has a huge problem with human sacrifice and religiously motivated murder and mutilation.

To take a few examples from just the last few years - in Sept 2024 a seven year old boy in Uttar Pradesh was ritually killed, in order to bring greater fortunes to his school.

In 2023 five men were arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman in a temple in Guwahati, they allegedly used machetes to behead her as part of a religious rite to mark the anniversary of one of the killers' brother’s death.

It is difficult to get a handle on exact numbers for these types of crimes, but it looks like the Maharashtra Act has been useful for law enforcement and the crime figures have increased in that state, reflecting better reporting and sentencing.

It's worth pointing out that this Indian legislative initiative had a direct impact in Uganda, who have modelled their own 'anti human sacrifice' bill based on the Maharashtra example

🔗 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1874102578415624207.html

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31 Dec 2024 17:05

🇵🇱/🇧🇾 Poland aims to fully fortify border with Belarus by mid-2025, senior official says

Poland plans to complete its fortified border wall and close the border with Belarus by next summer, aiming to curb what it sees as Russia's and Belarus's "hybrid war" through illegal migration, Polish Deputy Interior Minister Maciej Duszczyk told the Financial Times on Dec. 29.

Additional reinforcements along the 400-kilometer (250 miles) eastern border include installing night vision cameras, thermal imagers, and a new patrol road, as well as strengthening the five-meter steel fence built in 2022.

https://kyivindependent.com/poland-to-fortify-border-with-belarus-by-mid-2025/

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31 Dec 2024 16:08

🇷🇺🇪🇺 Telegram CEO Pavel Durov writes:

"Access to certain Russian media has been restricted in the EU under DSA/sanctions laws

Meanwhile, all Western media Telegram channels remain freely accessible in Russia

Who would have thought that in 2025 Russian Telegram users would enjoy more freedom than European? "

📎 /channel/durov/387

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31 Dec 2024 14:48

🇨🇳 "The PLA were very busy last week.

Debuting and launching several major systems and platforms:
2 types of 6th gen fighters, the KJ-3000 next gen AEW&C, Type-076 amphibious assault carrier.

You might wonder how can China afford all these with 1/4 of the US military budget.
3 reasons:

💠If you go by nominal dollar terms, then yes, the Chinese defense budget is only 1/4 that of the US.

But if you use purchasing power of RMB in China, then that budget is over 1/3 of the US defense budget.

China's defense industry, other than importing raw materials, almost exclusively buy from domestic suppliers, which means purchasing power calculation is closer to the true spending.

💠China's military industry is subsidized and not for-profit. (profit is allowed, but not at the rate of commercialized deals)

There are 2 types of subsidies, one is direct credit from the central government, the other is the commercial arm of the military company earning profit, main examples are China's very profitable shipyards.

💠Most fascinating point.
China's military industry is supported by a massive civilian industrial sector.

Military-civil fusion is an initiative to utilize China's massive civilian sector for military use.

In recent years, the PLA has conducted a nation-wide thorough investigation into the civilian industries.

EVERY factory above certain scale were visited and catalogued. In war time, they will be given with specific tasks to support the war effort.

In our mantra, peace is just a temporary pause between wars. Hence in peacetime the civilian sector ensures affordable and immediate supply of components, albeit at a much smaller scale."

📎 Zhao DaShuai

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31 Dec 2024 12:17

🇵🇸🇮🇱Middle East security analyst, Seth Frantzman, on X:

"There is one brutal enduring fact about the war in Gaza.

Hamas sees the entire war as a success and if it could go back to October 6 it would do it again.

More jarring is that most of the NGOs and UN orgs that work in Gaza would like the war to end and have Hamas continue to rule Gaza. They don’t see the Hamas attack as a disaster for Gaza. They see Israel’s response as bad, but they think Hamas is a good steward of Gaza. They have partnered with Hamas and profited immensely off its rule. They want to perpetuate Hamas rule and they feed off the disasters and suffering it brings.

Defeating Hamas is made more difficult by the stakeholders in Gaza who prefer Hamas. This is not just the NGOs and UN, but also Ankara and Doha and other countries. Hamas has massive backing globally. And all those backers see October 7 as a success. None of them saw October 7 as a breaking point. There is not ONE example of an NGO or country that formerly engaged with Hamas saying “this is a red line, we now recognize this organization can’t run Gaza in the future.”

The fact is that the longer the war goes on the more western countries also prefer to keep Hamas in Gaza. Also Israel, whose officials once compared Hamas to ISIS, now appear more ambivalent on whether it’s acceptable to have a “weakened” Hamas run Gaza. Hamas understands this and thinks it is winning. This is also why it never gave a list of hostage names. It thinks that it doesn’t need to do any kind of hostage deal. It if holds on another year or two it will get Gaza back. There is already a de facto ceasefire in many parts of Gaza where Hamas operates. Israel long ago dialed back the intensity of the war

The incoming Trump admin is not a magic wand on this either. It will listen to Doha, Ankara and also Israel. And it’s not clear anyone really wants to remove Hamas now. No one has come up with an alternative for a variety of reasons, inertia will keep Hamas in power

If Hamas is not removed from power and its leadership continues to relax in Doha it will continue to view Oct 7 as a success. Gazans suffered in the wake of Oct 7 but Hamas has not suffered any real consequences. It has rapidly rebuilt itself. In north Gaza two and a half months of battles in Jabaliya and Hamas is still there

📎 sfrantzman

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31 Dec 2024 09:42

Sam Hyde calls out Elon Musk for mass banning Groypers, removing checkmarks, and changing the algorithm to deboost dissent, urges him to care about Americans and not just the “idea” of America when it comes to immigration.

📎 AF Post