This guy used to be a Maoist activist in the early 90s.

More than 8,831 metric tons, or approximately 19.4 million pounds, of humanitarian aid was delivered since the pier became operational on 17 May, Singh said, calling it a “great success”.

At max load a truck can carry between 15-20 tonnes. Let’s say 18 tonnes as an average.

8831 tonnes delivered over 40 days (since May 17). That’s 220 tonnes of aid per day (or 11 trucks per day).

According to UNRWA, Gaza needs around 500 trucks of aid per day. That is 9000 tonnes per day (500*18). Or, for those following the math, Gaza needs every day as much aid as the pier “successfully” delivered since its operation in total.

Who in their right mind would call this shameful operation “a great success”?

All these reports and articles attempt to cunningly manipulate the numbers regarding humanitarian aid. They use pounds (here they throw the 19.4 million pounds) or kilograms or pallettes to make it seem like the amount of aid was a lot. In reality, it’s only a very small fraction of what Gaza actually needs. And they never ever say how much Gaza actually needs. They never mention the needs.

Not only that, but they also always talk about the aid reaching the pier, but not what happens afterwards. Never about Israeli settlers hijacking the trucks and destroying their cargo, Israel military confiscating or blocking the aid for arbitrary reasons, or the myriads of issues that occur before even aid is shipped.

And as for “great success”, they don’t even mention that the stated goal of the pier was to reach 200 trucks per day at this point, but they never went further than 12 trucks a day. So even by their standards, this operation has been a massive failure.

And now they are removing it. Because the actual goal of the pier was never to help Palestinians. It was to give the illusion aid for calming down the protests in the West and in the UN. It was to act as a surveillance point on Hamas, and to act as a staging ground for operations, such as the slaughter that was the hostage “rescue” operation recently. And long-term, it was to act as a port to deport Palestinians to Northern Africa and Europe.

Yeah, that’s not exactly how that works…

I don’t think he’s the one managing the channel. At least right now. He does the live streams, but I’m guessing someone else is clipping them and uploading 1 video every day. During the periods he’s on break (like these past 2 weeks), the titles get more clickbaity than normal.

Yes, from “southern” Cyprus

Certainly the government is kind of panicked right now. There’s this weird thing going on where Hezbolah has accused Cyprus of participating in Israel’s war crimes, but at the same time, the Lebanese government is saying the Cypriot government isn’t involved in any hostilities with Lebanon, and ambassadors have been exchanging friendly compliments.

People in general are not willing to be entangled in war at all. But at the same time, most live in a bubble where they think nothing bad will happen.

Still, the majority of people assume that the government is lying. The communist party (AKEL) has been against whatever Cyprus is doing to aid Israel since almost the beginning, and has been organizing marches in support of Palestine since December. The right-wingers are more apathetic and critical than supportive, with few exceptions. Even parties that are cooperating with the government, are now unsure what to do, and some have started criticizing the government.

I’m Cypriot, and our government for the past 11 years has been neoliberal right wingers. Cyprus has always had a steady line of neutrality. We were one of the very few European countries to recognize Palestine’s statehood since the 70s and we were condemning Israel’s occupation,

These neoliberal idiots have been steadily trying to get Cyprus into the US bossom. They think (or at least present it this way) that being closer to the US will help reunite the island. They’ve even tried to get us into NATO, but thankfully there was too much backlash for that to happen.

One of the first things they did to signal to the US we want to be their vassals was to start getting better relations with Israel. A bunch of blunders occured because of this. Namely and most famously, Cyprus has served as a testing ground and tradehouse for Israeli surveillance technology. There was even a whole international scandal of spyware being found on journalists’, activists’ and politicians’ phones all over Europe, which originated from an Israeli company registered in Cyprus, with ties to the Cypriot government (look up the Predator spyware case).

Long story short, we thought Israel’s military might would help make us secure, so we made treaties with them for bilateral military assistance. Turns out, nobody thought the bilateral nature of those treaties would bite us in the ass, and they did.

There’s something to be said about the 2 british military bases on the island, and 1 american surveillance station, which have been used extensively for Israel’s sake, and obviously Cyprus can’t really consent about that.

There’s also something to be said about Turkey always trying to fuck around with Cyprus in an effort to get their illegal military occupation entity recognized as a state.

But we’ve also fucked up, because we enabled the Americans to start constructing the “humanitarian” dock in Gaza, that was used for that massacre a few weeks ago. Not only that, but our government (before the incident) had been boasting that it was their idea. Essentially they gave Israel and the US the excuse to end UNRWA’s humanitarian aid to Palestinians.

It’s not worth splitting up with your sister over this stuff. There’s more to life than politics. You need to both calm down, sit down and figure out each other’s red lines, and then avoid stepping over them.

Ukrainians have announced recently that they are mobilizing 5000 a day, but that’s probably just PR. Even if true, the quality of this troops is most likely shit, due to age, health issues, unwillingness to fight and extremely short training.

Last week they lost 15000 soldiers in a week, according to the Russian MoD weekly report.

There was another social media post by another Ukrainian commander (regular army, I think their formation is defending Novovasilevka?) that says that the newest recruits are being blindfolded when transported to the front. The most recent mobilization has been so forceful, that even the Ukrainian government expects their new recruits to surrender immediately and give up information to the Russians.

But those kinds of posts are of course ignored.

Agreed. Putin had been building up to it for years though. The first sanctions made it possible to hasten this process. And the Russian oligarchs aren’t extinct or anything. They are still super-rich compared to the average Russian. They just can’t mess with the government right now, and they have to support the renewed semi-planned economy.

I’m sure the two things are totally unrelated!

The sanctions targeted the Russian oligarchs quite a bit, by threatening their investments, properties and deposits in EU tax havens, like Cyprus and Greece. They were forced to transfer a bunch of assets back in Russia, which gave Putin the opportunity to crack down on their corruption and demanding that their wealth remains in Russia. Also, most importantly, he basically curbed their political power and political meddling. A big reason the Russian economy is doing so well is this returned wealth. So the first sanction packages basically backfired. The Europeans thought the Russian oligarchs would overthrow Putin if pressured. Turns out, Putin overthrew the Russian oligarchs.

The new sanction packages leave the oligarchs alone and target Russian government assets in Europe. And yes, all packages have targeted the ability of simple civilians to interact economically with anybody in the US or Europe.

Oh look at that. The Nazis have very little influence on the government of Ukraine, but one guy from Azov Battalion writes a social media post, and the next day Zelenski abides.

The US national debt is 35 trillion dollars. The interest alone is around 1 trillion dollars, which is about how much the Federal Reserve is printing every year. If the dollar starts losing its backing, all that money printing, used to mitigate the debt, is going to cause such an inflation, that it will essentially make US debts unsustainable. US banks essentially operate with the assumption that that will never happen. So when it happens, and they start calling in the debts they hold to back their other endeavours, and then start declaring bankruptcy, the US economy will collapse. For most people, it will likely be sudden, as it was in 2007.

And this will likely pull the Euro (and the EU) down a similar death spiral.

The US and European governments have a vague understanding of this, which is why they are trying so desperately and dangerously (and unsuccessfully) to weaken China and Russia. The whole point of the Ukraine provocation and the sanctions on Russia were an attempt to break up BRICS before it would become a problem. And ofcourse it backfired spectacularly.

To me it’s mind-boggling that other Israelis don’t see this.

They official Russian statement says that 5 missiles were launched, 4 were shot down, and the fifth detonated over the beach and released its cluster bombs.

Oh, I’m definitely not against deplatforming. It does work. Just saying it’s a short-term solution. Within 5 years, something else will pop up to serve the same purpose.

If you shut down Discord, it’ll just be replaced by Telegram or Signal or some other similar app. Maybe won’t be as popular as Discord, since Discord got popular because it started out as free Teamspeak for gamers, but still…

At the end of the day, it all comes down to awareness and education. Kids have phones and tablets from an early age, but the adults have no idea how to teach them to be safe on the internet.

At this point, most of them are aware of this stuff. They just choose to not remember them. This is deliberate because it allows them to reconcile their racism, their support for Nazis, and their obedience to their governments, with the fact that they are supposed to be against these 3 things.