If they finally can get this done hopefully this also blocks the US from remaining in Syria as well, as I doubt Turkey will allow the US to remain in Syria using Turkish territory to maintain their bases.

Just the other day I joked about Japan joining BRICS and this could be one step in that direction.

Now I’m wondering what would be the first ex-US state to join. lol

Either way, it will be interesting to see what happens with Taiwan as the US is turning its focus on China. Although unlikely I guess we can’t rule out conflict starting not because of Taiwan being used against China but due to Taiwan going back to China and the US not liking it, even if it takes a decade.

It’s really hard to predict the future when things are so “chaotic”.

Good luck to the people of Yemen on their fight against genocide and hope their hard work can achieve even more than they already have.

And thinking about this whole situation I do wonder if key nuclear weapons infrustructure (like radars) will be hit soon, considering Ukraine has hit some of Russia’s early warning radars and Russia may have started supplying Yemen with weapons. Although I’m not sure the colonists would take that opportunity to dial things back. I guess we will see what happens.

the military spokesperson for the Yemeni group said that “the Yemeni Armed Forces declare the occupied Jaffa [Tel Aviv] region an unsafe area and will be a primary target within the range of our weapons. and will focus on targeting the Zionist enemy’s internal front and reaching the depths.”

I wonder if they will use ballistic missiles, like Iran, or if they would target nuclear power plants. Either way things will likely get very hot very fast.

It seems the US is/was using carrier and land based F/A-18s for the bombings and submarines for cruise missiles but I’m not sure about the exact extent or equipment usage of their attacks.

There’s not much reason for Russia to escalate directly since the status quo favors them already.

While I agree with the overall idead of this statement, the US and its vassals seem to want to escalate very much even if Russia does nothing so I’m not sure if Russia not escalating is the best plan. It may be but it might not.

However, arming proxies is a perfect response that can result in severe consequences for NATO without directly escalating the current crisis.

I’d say this report by western media is already part of their escalation against any acts of Russian support to their advesaries by trying to get the population on board with whatever way they choose to escalate.

Considering Russia’s meek response to the west for their involvement in Ukraine so far I wasn’t really thinking they would do this, despite them saying they would, but I guess I might have been wrong them.

Now what rests to see is what, if anything, was really sent there as I doubt they need AKs or ballistic missiles. So if such a transfer is as a response to the US them we might be seeing such things as:

Anti-ship missiles (from slow things to things that can take down US navy ships)

Cruise missiles (perhaps to attack the colonist entity directly and doing more damage than their last attack)

Anti-air (the Yemenis have taken down a couple drones but they could use better gear for dealling with fighters)

Ballistic missiles (if they want to have deniability of their use because the Yemenis already have some)

Drones (because drones are never enough)

Anything else that could be useful in their situation?

It would be really interesting if Russia were to offer the responsible for the bug some money to see if anyone else takes the opportunity. Although if they do that the other side is likely to do it too.

Anyone who knows well how China works know how hitting such a goal so soon could lead to changes of their plans to accomodate such a reality?

Tripwire soldiers or just training, I wonder…

and will only serve to further empower the coalition rising up to defend themselves from western terrorism and exploitation.

As of now a lot of the world population still buys the idea that the US/west are good and things like that. Even with what is happening in Palestine that hasn’t drastically changed yet. But as you say, each country they bomb is a new country that gets to see the US for what they are, and the same would be somewhat true for the neighbours of these countries and the rest of the world, and who knows, they might be one country being bombed by them away from this mass reaching a critical mass.

For example, if Niger gets bombed by them then Niger’s neighbours at first and then the rest of Africa might come to better understand the situation and try to help Niger as they can and that would likely reverbarate globally, through images and impacts to the global economy, pushing more and more to the same anti-imperialist side.

Yes. But at the same time is night and day the difference of what a right wing government and what one that at least cares at little about the people will do to destroy the country, as the last decade has shown anyone who lives in Brazil.

He does at least have some policies to help poor people but he has been giving a lot of concessions to capital indeed. Not that it’s easy to go against them considering we have the most right leaning congress ever, but he could at least try to get people on the streets in support of good policies and see what can be done but he hasn’t done anything of the like.

I hope I can vote for him in the second round next election though because I really doubt there will be anyone even remotelly close to be as good as him. lol

A system as deeply entrenched as the petrodollar won’t disappear overnight

It might not fall overnight but a quick devaluation of the dollar, perhaps with big US tech companies losing value due to Chinese ones and with big countries pushing for other currencies, followed by a successful military attack against the US or their interests when they can’t do anything about it could scare people away of the dollar and break it enough in a week though.

But anyway, I guess will see how it goes down. But down it will go.

Considering how Russia hasn’t really been reacting to most of what the US and co has done against them, the US likely is confident nothing will come out of it like in most of the other times they did things against Russia, thus, the US will probably escalate this within days. Like many of the other times.

I do wonder how much China, and others, are profiting with this since they can deliver more things between Asia and Europe faster than anyone else. And more importantly, how well is the blockade working in making things expensive for the colonialist entity.

After some searching online it takes about 40% longer for ships to get there while being serviced by smaller ships that take the cargo from Mediterranean ports to there, but I couldn’t find the actual increase in cost.

I think there will come a time- if we’re not there already- where Russia (and China, Iran, etc) will have to question if playing it cool, and avoiding escalation on their part, is actually serving their interests of reducing escalation overall- or if it is just emboldening the west to push further and further than it ever would have if it had been properly cowed in the first place.

Considering western response to the Yemenis blockading western shipping it does seem like force can get them to stop. If everyone did it at once they may lash out, but perhaps if it’s more gradual it may be possible to stop them.

I think they probably need a lot of AA first to defend themselves from aggression.

Can’t blame only him considering the fact that Russia does nothing against it when the US is know for escalation.

It’s not good to blame the victim but when the victim does have the power to do something about it but does nothing it just makes things worse for everyone else as the agressor will take it as an invitation and double down against them and everyone else too.

I guess we will see where this leads us but I’m not sure this path is as good as one that had some resistance.

Russia has been doing a very good job so far of making everyone forget they can use nukes so I’m not really counting on them doing anything regarding this strike or the next few until things get really bad, at which point it may be useless anyway.

Would like to be wrong, or that Russia at least has a good reason to be doing things so meekly, but I guess time will tell.