not when dealing with bad faith posters, no
i should be writing
not when dealing with bad faith posters, no
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these pagers were issued by hezbollah higher-ups, for one-way communication with their hq. there’s little reason for them to sell them or even lend to family because you can’t call from this thing or communicate with it any other way because it’s receive only. civilian casualties are probably low for this reason
secretive agency does secretive agency shit
tal: how can i make this to be about mee?
don’t put plastic explosives in electronics of your choice that’d be pretty safe i guess
Israeli secret services used exploding phone previously, it’s not a stretch to assume that they tapped into supply chain of pagers and brought a pallet of pagers with a low tens of grams sized bomb inside
also lithium batteries don’t explode like that
that would be the simplest explanation, and they did that covertly, perhaps somewhere further up supply chain, yes
This already happened with phones, but that was a targeted killing:
At 08:00 on 5 January 1996, Ayyash’s father called him and Ayyash answered. Overhead, an Israeli plane picked up their conversation and relayed it to an Israeli command post. When it was confirmed that it was Ayyash on the phone, Shin Bet remotely detonated it, killing him instantly.[3]
does the pope shit in the woods? stay tuned to find out!
have you lived under the rock for the last month? ukrainians rolled through russian border and along the way erased all russian red lines
so her fault was fucking with rich people’s money, not doing what caused actual societal harm, got it. see also: martin shkreli
i mean more broadly. he’s clinging to power because weren’t for immunity all of his motherfuckery would catch up to him
Many Israelis other than Gantz accuse the prime minister of valuing his political survival more than the hostages’ lives: a ceasefire deal could cause Netanyahu’s far-right coalition partners to abandon the government, triggering new elections. The longtime leader sees staying in office as the best way of beating a litany of corruption charges. He denies the allegations.
this was the case at any point for the last decade
this is news?
just go to hungary and you don’t have to worry too hard about it
ukrainians have their own capable humint. remember, lots of ukrainians can speak russian at native speaker level. russians can’t do the same
after capture of sudzha train station, and maybe before that, ukrainians have all the frequencies used by russian trains. i bet they can make good use of their EW capabilities there
oh cool now ukrainians have surrounded korenevo. expect shenanigans today
Autocrats can’t keep a strong, smart, well-trained and somewhat autonomous army since they always fear coups.
that’s only half of the problem. the other half is that maneuver warfare requires encrypted radios, EW equipment, spotter drones, night vision, good sensors on tanks/APCs/helis, everything has to be mechanized or portable, in other words - lots of expensive kit, and importantly it also requires thorough training to use that kit effectively. russians don’t have that. saudis have the kit but no training and their army is crippled by extremely limited agency of field commanders resulting from coup-proofing and petty office politics
russians were able to move freely using deception and surprise against the 2014 ukrainian army. all that training ukrainians have undergone now pays off
I wonder what Ukraine’s long-term game is with Kursk
that’s a good question that only maybe 30 people in the world know answer to. kursk oblast has several interesting things, all of which can be used as bargaining chips by ukrainians:
all of this comes with a massive caveat that everything we know comes from russian telegram channels, because ukrainians maintain very tight opsec and let out only very little specifically cleared information
this is not what i’m talking about. these cases of wholesale destruction and ethnic cleansing happened after russians controlled territory, not as a prerequisite to advance. it’s also quite possible that these units were explicitly ordered to do that, and it’s not a result of poor discipline or anything like this
one wagner soldier was infamously executed with a sledgehammer when he was let back into his unit
by the end of the week it’ll turn out that pagers were made in israel and all these companies were cutouts