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Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. is implementing a 'vigorous new visa policy' to prevent foreign nationals with anti-Israel views from traveling to the United States. He adds that they will hold 'international organizations and nations' accountable for criticism of Israel.
Land of the free
The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) has been using Israeli intelligence to dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure south of the Litani River in southern Lebanon, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on 28 May. The Lebanese army’s efforts to implement UN Resolution 1701 and enforce the ceasefire agreement are being carried out “in part with the help of Israeli intelligence,” according to several sources cited by the WSJ. Arab officials told the outlet that the intelligence is being “passed along by the US” and has “helped the Lebanese army find and destroy Hezbollah’s remaining weapons stockpiles and military posts in the south.” The army reportedly destroys some of the weapons while keeping others and adding them to its limited stockpiles.
In an interview with the WSJ, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam claimed that the Lebanese army has achieved 80 percent of its disarmament goals in southern Lebanon – referring to the area south of the Litani River, where Hezbollah has cooperated with the state in handing over military positions.
Under heavy pressure from Washington, the Lebanese government has been escalating calls for a full “monopoly” on arms. This includes a plan to disarm Lebanon-based Palestinian resistance groups, which is reportedly set to begin in June.
Hezbollah has firmly rejected disarmament, and instead calls for the formation of a national defensive strategy that incorporates its weapons into the state for use in defending Lebanon against Israel.
It says it is willing to hold dialogue with the state on this issue once Israeli forces withdraw from south Lebanon and stop their violations of the ceasefire. In a speech on Sunday, Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem said that the resistance is giving the state a chance to diplomatically secure an Israeli troop withdrawal and a complete halt to airstrikes, but stressed that “if it fails to perform its duties, other options exist.”
Israel was meant to withdraw its troops as part of the ceasefire, but has maintained an occupation of five locations along the border in violation of the deal. [...] The Israeli army unleashed a violent wave of airstrikes across southern and eastern Lebanon on the evening of 22 May, striking what it claimed were Hezbollah weapons sites.
I'm very confused by this article, there's like at least three contradictions in it.
I'm welcome to other viewpoints, but this doesn't seem like a tenable position. My prediction of how the Lebanon conflict proceeds is something along the lines of:
It's been long enough that I can safely conclude that the plan by Israel post-Nasrallah appears to be to try and achieve what they have failed to do militarily by instead doing some good old-fashioned deals. For whatever ideological and material reasons, several people and groups, including Lebanon's government, Syria's government (though those guys are just outright compradors put in power by Israel), and perhaps Iraq (at least, I haven't heard much about the Iraqi resistance groups in a while) seem to be going along with those deals, not understanding that the US and Israel cannot be trusted and will break those deals whenever they want, if it benefits them to do so.
I don't think this work in the medium-to-long term, Israel's existence is now fundamentally on a timer because of the declining military and economic power of their backers in the imperial core and without them, the country just does not have the military strength, economic power, or just outright geographical area to exert its whims on the region for decades to come. It might work in the short-term though, perhaps long enough for them to complete their 2.4 million person genocide.
We shall see if Hezbollah, Syria, and Iraq can reassert themselves in time to save the remaining Gazans; but for now, Hamas and Yemen are the lone warriors left. Yemen is still striking Israel with missiles despite Israeli return strikes (I doubt Israel's strikes will be remotely effective if the US Navy couldn't do shit to them), and Hamas has recently posted new videos of ambushes on Israel forces, so we can conclude that despite the occasional death of Hamas leaders or commanders, their military structures remain intact and effective. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they're gaining more soldiers than they're losing; many people in there must be making the calculation that it's better to fight back and very possibly die, rather than just accept certain death by either bombing or starvation.
I find myself completely lost at sea when it comes to Hezbollah and Lebanon post-ceasefire. It seemed to me Hezbollah was strong enough to repel the IOF with plenty of firepower to spare. Loved all their videos of huge underground missile stockpiles, etc. I initially thought they agreed to the ceasefire from a position of strength, but now they’re just… slowly being dismembered without any pushback? I know there’s a lot I’m missing or uninformed about but I can’t seem to connect any of these pieces myself.
Satellite imagery is pretty much useless here, as is Israeli testimony, so I really don't think there's anything to be said one way or another about Hezbollah's current state. Both optimists and pessimists are on equal ground.
My impression is that they're reconsolidating and regrouping after their losses, getting their post-Syria-collapse supply lines solidified, making sure their devices don't have bombs in them, etc - but they can't just take the next five years out to do this or whatever or 2.4 million people will be dead, and Lebanon will be bombed all the while. There's a time limit here.
For the record, I strongly doubt that their missile stockpiles are massively depleted, and I take no stock in reports that Israel has actually meaningfully destroyed their missile arsenals because every single claim that they have ever made that such and such group are "defeated" or "disarmed" or "out of power" is immediately contradicted by facts on the ground (e.g. after 600 days, they've probably said Hamas has been defeated dozens of times, and yet it is still absolutely functioning and killing Israeli soldiers to this very day and the US and Israel are still trying to engage in ceasefires with them, which is odd for a group that they claim doesn't have power anymore).
I have been trying to find information in regards to the current states of Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansarallah, Iraq, etc, but such analysis is becoming annoyingly scarce. I'm not even talking "good news" or "bad news", I'd be perfectly willing to accept well-researched analysis from (obviously non-Western) experts that concluded that the current stage of Resistance is over and Israel has temporarily won - but there's just not really anything from anybody I know of that goes into this aspect at all. The focus is on the civilian aspect, which is 100% understandable because it's so horrifying and getting ever more important as Israel continues to starve and bomb them. It just means that finding information about what the forces in opposition to Israel are currently doing (even in a general sense) is now almost impossible.
Like, does that "joint command room" thing between the leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansarallah, Iraq, and Iran still exist, post-Sinwar and post-Nasrallah? Is there still a regional coordination where Yemen is continuing to apply pressure while Hezbollah is recovering, or are Yemen's actions now more-or-less isolated from the rest of the Resistance (though they could absolutely still be quite effective!)? Does the Resistance have an overarching plan for future actions against Israel, or are we in the licking-wounds stage? I've found no answers to these questions in the last few months. Though I haven't "lost hope" or anything, because my analysis has been guided by Marxism, dia-mat, anti-colonial theory and conflicts such as Vietnam, Algeria, and previous stages of anti-Israel war like 2006 Lebanon, not mere optimism.
What I will say is that, historically, it's enormously difficult to defeat national resistance groups; really the only way to do it is to just kill literally everybody, which the European colonial powers couldn't really do because they needed the population for labor, but Israel is trying to do by e.g. replacing Palestinian workers with others from abroad so that every single Palestinian in the country can be killed/displaced without the resulting economic collapse, and it might work if Hezbollah, Iraq, and Iran continue to hibernate. But that same total-civilian-destruction won't really be achievable for Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and Iran. Given Western imperial decay is inevitable, there is literally no physical method by which Israel could achieve a permanent victory in the region - even nuclear war would result in their own destruction vis-a-vis a full-scale Iranian conventional response with thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of missiles aimed at every power station, desalination plant, military base, and port in Israel. What this conflict is about is "how many people will Israel be allowed to murder before they collapse," and I had hoped that it would be less than a million, but now I'm less sure.
Results from abroad for Portugal's election last week have come in, it's official, the far-right has overtaken the default center-left party by 2MPs, becoming the largest party in the opposition to an already right-wing government, the socialist party didn't elect any MPs from the 2 Abroad circuits for the first time ever.
In fact the far-right got the most votes in both the Europe and Out-of-Europe circuits, nearly 100k votes, including in big portuguese communities like the one in Luxembourg and France (where there are reports of portuguese immigrants being discriminated against). So yeah, an anti-immigration party is the favorite among....portuguese immigrants abroad, fuck these people, it's pure "fuck you got mine"
I remember when I was 13 an uncle of mine who lives in france called my house and I was the only one home so we talked for a bit and he ended up making me look up the website of a literally Salazarist party to learn more about them pretending he was the one who didn't know what it was, I didn't even know what a political party was at the time. I told my mom years later and she just said "yeah your uncle is crazy".
Emigration is oddly romanticized in this country, a bunch had to do it during the austerity years (2011-2015), but since then it has calmed down, however the "I want to leave this country it sucks because of woke/taxes/socialism/big state" discourse is hugely popular among the youth, and if you're young and in a fake job like IT you'll be probably asked by everyone why you're not working in Dusseldorf or some shit.
Ukraine did a straight up terrorist suicide bombing against a civilian (former soldier) and R*ddit is celebrating.
Look into the account of every redditor celebrating and I 1000% guarantee you will find scathing condemnations of Elias Rodriguez
is just like Mossad 
Suicide bombing by a khhwhite person 
Suicide bombing by a brown person 
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He's been doing such an outstanding job of following court orders so far! 
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COVID-19 cases rising as new variant circulates in some parts of the world, WHO says
The new variant is called NB.1.8.1. It arrives as the United States’ official stance on COVID-19 vaccination is changing. On Tuesday, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that COVID-19 shots are no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women – a move immediately questioned by several public health experts.
The new variant, increasing globally, had by mid-May reached nearly 11% of sequenced samples reported. The WHO has designated it a “variant under monitoring” and considers the public health risk low at the global level with current vaccines expected to remain effective.
US court blocks most Trump tariffs, says president exceeded his authority
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-court-blocks-trumps-liberation-day-tariffs-2025-05-28/
Dollar index is up sharply
Please Trump do something.
Trump banned from the tariff button
Surely this will stop him
The walls are really closing in on him
It's the beginning of the end!
This is going to rile up the hogs
Either the fun is over, or it's just getting started
(Nothing ever happens)
Executive-ing from the bench
It took longer than I expected, but Musk is out of the Trump admin. - AP news
I also thought he wouldn't last nearly half a year but I guess that's really not that long for a 4 year administration
And if you consider how deeply obnoxious elon is, its all the more impressive. Probably was smart of him to keep using his kid as a human shield.
Ryanair cancels 200,000 plane tickets to occupied Palestine after extending flight suspensions.
Earlier this month, Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O’Leary said his airline was “losing patience” with security disruptions at Ben Gurion Airport and may consider diverting aircraft to service alternative destinations.
“I think we’re running out of patience too with Israel… flights to and from Tel Aviv,” O’Leary told analysts following the release of full-year results.
“If they’re going to keep being disrupted by these security disruptions, frankly, we’d be better off sending those aircraft somewhere else in Europe,” he said.
“I think we’re running out of patience too with Israel"
somewhere else in Europe
Anyone/thing that includes Israel in Europe sets off the 
Using the EBU definition of Europe
It's an effective strategy by Ansarallah; whether the missile is intercepted or not, I'd imagine it's still going to be an unacceptable risk to pretty much all airline companies. All they need to do is fire a missile there every week or so.
they should blow up all their passenger jets just like what israel did to them
It depends on the airline, the operational risk they're prepared to take, and just how affected they are by delays caused by air raid sirens. Ryanair is a low cost airline that relies on quick turnarounds to make their business model work, having their planes circle the skies above Tel Aviv while the air raid sirens go off makes that infeasible, hence the extension to the cancellation of flights to Tel Aviv. Other airlines or groups can afford more flexibility in this regard, the low cost airlines are most affected, I think Wizz Air is one of the few low cost airlines to have resumed flights, I guess they're prepared to take the risk to exploit a gap in the market. This also leads to Israeli local airlines having a monopoly on these routes previously operated by low cost airlines, with elevated ticket prices. Most airlines still have cancelled their flights to Israel, but from the article OP posted:
Resumed flights to Tel Aviv:
Flight cancellations extended from June 8 to June 15:
Flight cancellations extended to July 31st:
Overall triggering the air raid sirens is an effective form of inflicting economic damage, but it requires the use of the most advanced missiles like Palestine-2 and Fattah-1 with exoatmospheric maneuvering, multiple Rezvan/Zulfiqar missiles (different from the Zulfiqar/Dezful/Qassem series, the Zulfiqar here is a Rezvan variant) have been launched and failed to trigger the air raid sirens as they got intercepted outside of Israeli airspace by Arrow 3, without any debris landing in Israel.
It also comes at an extremely high cost to Yemen, Sana'a International Airport is officially closed now after today's Israeli countervalue airstrikes and the loss of Yemenia Airlines leased Airbus A320-200 aircraft.
To understand why the airport is officially closed now and not after the previous airstrikes, we have to look at the structure of Yemenia's fleet. The previous Israeli airstrikes on Sana'a airport, took out three aircraft that were not in active use, but could be used, an Airbus A330-200, a Boeing 727, and what looks like an IL-76 transport aircraft, but the ID on the last one is unclear. ~~The A320 fleet was not damaged, despite initial reporting saying it was and many, including myself, mistook the A330 for an A320.~~
Correction: 2 A320s were also destroyed alongside the A330, the initial A320 fleet size was six, not four.
Yemenia operates four A320s, two that they own outright and purchased in 2011, and two that they lease and came to a lease agreement on in 2023. The leased aircraft fly out of Ansarallah/Houthi controlled Sana'a, the Yemenia owned aircraft operate out of the STC (UAE backed separatist group) controlled Aden. So after the previous Israeli airstrikes, Yemenia could keep operating out of Sana'a after the airport got hastily repaired, as the two aircraft carrying out flights from Sana'a were undamaged. Today however, one of those leased aircraft got destroyed by Israel in Sana'a. It's likely that the owner of the second leased aircraft has forbidden/grounded it from flying to Sana'a, fearing that would be destroyed as well. Thus, the airport cannot function unless Yemenia is prepared to send aircraft that they own to Sana'a, or work out new lease agreements for more planes with an owner prepared to risk their aircraft getting blown up by Israel.
The previous Sana'a International Airport reopening seemed more like a media stunt than anything else, with aircraft taking off from a hastily fixed runway (with the wreckage of destroyed aircraft visible in the background) and a makeshift terminal that looked like a local market. I didn't post about this reopening because I always feared that it would end this way, with Israel blowing up a recently used plane on the tarmac, given that this is a countervalue strike exchange and that's Israel's modus operandi at this point. I didn't want to be a downer or pessimist.
All this is to say that yes it's effective economic warfare by Ansarallah in Yemen against Israel, but it comes at the cost of committing to a countervalue strike exchange where the Israeli enemy can always inflict a high amount of damage.
Sorry for the infodump, this was supposed to be a short reply, believe it or not. But the information is needed to understand why the Sana'a airport is closed after today's airstrikes, but was reopened within a few days after the previous airstrikes.
I always appreciate the comprehensiveness of your posts. You are very knowledgeable.
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