Uh oh! I UNDERSTAND Aaron Bushnell!
I don’t want to understand extremism, but I understand Aaron’s shame (though I don’t urge anyone to imitate his rash deed). And I understand Hezbollah and Iran. What I don't understand is America.
Children are dying of malnutrition:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1761996781565423796
But a US-backed Israeli soldier gloats as he crushes food by running over it with his tank:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1761461886690718101
Dear reader, do you understand this kind of sadism and why US politicians (on both sides of the aisle) support it?
Do you understand how Trump can find it funny?
Do you understand why Americans, who can barely afford food and shelter, must send billions to Russia-hating Nazis in Ukraine and child killers in Israel?
(your daily air strike update for Feb 26, 2024 follows this article)
What do we stand for?
Can you understand how BOTH political parties have ganged up on We the People like this? What do they have against the taxpayers?
Do you understand why the Biden regime and US Congress wants to reward the Israeli sadists with $14 billion of YOUR tax money?
What have we done to deserve having our money thrown away on killing innocent children instead of spending it on social programs so we can afford medical care?
Is this REALLY what America stands for?
I fully understand why Aaron Bushnell couldn’t bear the shame of being a US service man defending evil Israel, but we need people to sacrifice without immolating themselves.
Let’s think about it and pray about how we the people can stop the evil.
Maybe we can start by no longer thinking of ourselves as the good guys.
Enough food is waiting across Gaza’s borders to feed entire population – Day 142
CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG FEBRUARY 26, 2024 AARON BUSHNELL, BEDOUIN, CHILDHOOD MALNUTRITION, FAMINE, HIND RAJAB, HUMANITARIAN AID, ISRAEL BORDER CROSSING, MALNUTRITION, PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY, SELF IMMOLATION
Photo link: https://israelpalestinenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2-26-gurl-1024x733.jpg
Enough food is waiting across Gaza’s borders to feed entire population – Day 142
Palestinian child crying amid a crush of children in line to receive food prepared by volunteers for Palestinian families displaced to southern Gaza by Israeli attacks, on February 10, 2024 (photo)
Injuries surpass 70,000; famine while food is almost within reach; babies, children die of malnutrition; West Bank government resigns, seeks a new, consensus government for the “new reality”; burning books to keep warm; update on Hind, 6; Palestinian Bedouin under attack; active-duty US airman self-immolates in front of Israeli embassy in Washington DC, more
Middle East Eye reports: “We have enough food across the borders, even from Jordan and Egypt, to be able to support 2.2 million people,” said Samer Abdeljaber, the World Food Program’s (WFP) director for emergencies.
“But we need to make sure we have the right access to Gaza from different crossings so that we can actually reach the people – whether they are in the north or the south or in the central areas,” added Abdeljaber.
He noted that the WFP hoped to specifically resume operations in the north of Gaza, where it has had to suspend work due to the unsafe conditions but where there are “lots of people in need”.
“Safe routes is one of our requirements to continue assistance to the north and that can only be guaranteed if that is a speedy process,” Abdeljaber said. “Delays at the checkpoints are making it impossible for us to reach deeper into the north.”
UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says the last time food was delivered to northern Gaza was January 23. Since then, together with other UN agencies, “we have warned against looming famine, appealed for regular humanitarian access, and stated that famine can be averted if more food convoys are allowed into northern Gaza on a regular basis.”
Lazzarini says that the UN’s calls to send food aid have been denied and fallen on deaf ears.
“This is a man made disaster. The world committed to never let famine happen again. Famine can still be avoided, through genuine political will to grant access and protection to meaningful assistance. The days to come will once again test our common humanity and values,” he said.
Displaced Palestinian children gather to receive food at a government school in Rafah, February 19, 2024
Displaced Palestinian children gather to receive food at a government school in Rafah, February 19, 2024 photo link https://israelpalestinenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2-25-pots-768x513.jpg
Al Jazeera reports: A two-month-old Palestinian boy has died from starvation in northern Gaza, according to media reports, days after the United Nations warned of an “explosion” in child deaths due to Israel’s war on the besieged enclave.
The Shehab news agency said Mahmoud Fattouh died at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Friday.
Another report from Al Jazeera adds: Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, the head of Kamal Adwan Hospital, says the facility has seen a steep rise in malnutrition cases among children, especially newborns, in some cases due to malnutrition in the mother.
The hospital, in the northern Gaza Strip, has treated babies with advanced dehydration and other complications from malnutrition, he says.’
“Unfortunately many kids have died in the past weeks. If we don’t get the proper aid urgently, we will be losing more and more to malnutrition.”
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Here’s your daily air strike update for Feb 26, 2024
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Missile strikes on Ukraine today: Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed aircraft at enemy airfields
02/26/2024
Summary of night strikes by the Russian Armed Forces on the territory of Ukraine
The Kanatovo airfield in the Kirovograd oblast was hit; according to preliminary information, two fighters were destroyed
On the territory of the 62nd arsenal of the Southern Operational Command of enemy forces, after the strike, a fire and detonation occurred; a railway train was involved in extinguishing the fire. Previously, this arsenal was one of the largest storage facilities for ammunition of the armed forces of Ukraine, over 74 thousand tons of ammunition were stored on almost 800 hectares of its territory.
In addition, two objects in the Dnepropetrovsk oblast were hit:
One of the workshops of the Yuzhmash plant, where the enemy produces drones and the Dnepropetrovsk airport, on the territory of which not only enemy Sushki [Sushki is a slang word referring most likely to Su-27 or Su-24 fighters used to launch AGM-88 HARM missiles received from the West] are located, but also missiles are stored.
Massive attack in the Kharkov oblast: last night the Russian Armed Forces bombed enemy military targets
Explosions were recorded in Burluk, Zmievsky district, two strong explosions in Balakleyevsky district, and there were also strikes in Chuguev.
A strike was also recorded in Pesochin, as a result of which an enemy weapons depot was hit.
Analysis of the destruction of enemy flight infrastructure based on the results of a massive attack on the evening of February 25, 2024
The testing of the enemy's flight infrastructure continues: on the evening of February 25, 2024, the Russian Armed Forces launched strikes on enemy targets in the Dnepropetrovsk and Kirovograd oblasts - missiles with a ballistic flight path, cruise missiles and Geran-2 attack UAVs were used.
Kirovograd oblast
Coordinates: 48.5548505, 32.3664160
The first strikes were carried out on the Kanatovo military airfield - missiles penetrated two reinforced hangars in which MiG-29s of the Ukrainian Air Force were stored. At the moment, at least two fighters have been confirmed destroyed.
Coordinates: 48.7734900, 32.5019755
Another target was the territory of the 62nd arsenal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the north of the village Bogdanovka, Kirovograd oblast. After the strike, a fire broke out at the facility, which was accompanied by multiple secondary detonations. A railway fire department and armored vehicles were deployed to eliminate the consequences of the strike.
According to available data, the enemy has placed air-to-ground missiles in the arsenal storage facilities (the exact names or markings of the ammunition are unknown). In addition, local residents report an established logistics connection between the arsenal and the military airfield. [Most likely, these locals were pro-Russian informants. The Ukraine war is not popular in Ukraine and most citizens know the Russians will win and that as long as the useless war drags on, their countrymen will die needlessly]
Dnepropetrovsk oblast
After some time, at least one missile hit the Dnepropetrovsk airport in the village of Aviatorskoye. A fire broke out at the arrival site, and local residents heard a voluminous secondary detonation - up to 5 (five) explosions. There is currently no exact data on the results of the hit.
The airport is actively used by the enemy to deploy and service Su-24M bombers and launch attacks in the southern and eastern directions, in particular using Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles. In view of this, at a minimum, damage to enemy aircraft cannot be ruled out.
Coordinates: 48.4360482, 34.9834742
Another strike in Dnepropetrovsk hit Workshop No. 7 of the Yuzhmash State Enterprise - according to local residents, distinct sounds of secondary detonation were recorded for a long time [Yuzhmash manufactures aerospace products]. The plant's facilities are actively used by the enemy for the production of attack UAVs - given the specifics of the affected objects, it is possible to assume that the target was a workshop that housed the necessary equipment or stored ready-made UAVs and components.
🔻Local authorities immediately managed to report on the “shooting down” of all weapons. At the same time, they showed the consequences of such downings by massively publishing photos and videos from the private sector where the fragments fell - which once again proves the direct relationship between the destruction of civilian infrastructure and the operation of air defense systems. [As usual, the Ukrainian reports were disinformation, for PR purposes]
📌As noted earlier, the destruction of the enemy’s aviation infrastructure is an important strategic task aimed at reducing its combat effectiveness and ensuring an advantage in air battles and various types of operations. In addition, such attacks affect demoralization and lead to disruption of the enemy’s combat capability, creating difficulties in its organization and control.
Earlier on the night of February 24, massive attacks on the aviation infrastructure and military-industrial complex continued for the third night in a row - this time enemy targets in the Nikolaev, Khmelnytsky, Kirovograd, Chernihiv and Sumy oblasts were attacked by the Geran-2 UAV.
Coordinates: 47.5062462, 31.2554196
🔻Two strike UAVs “Geran-2s” managed to hit the control tower on the territory of the Martynovskoye military airfield. The impact disabled the airspace control and landing system.
Coordinates: 49.7431173, 27.2768010
🔻The second group of attack drones once again attacked the Starokonstantinov military airfield [this airfield gets hit very frequently]; only one of the Gerans managed to reach its target - damage was caused to the Su-24M multifunctional bomber; according to available data, the vehicle is subject to restoration/repair.
Also, the official authorities indirectly confirmed the defeat, stating that an “infrastructure facility” was damaged.
Coordinates: 48.5643298, 32.391588
In addition, another group of UAVs tried to hit the Kanatovo military airfield - explosions were recorded in the area of the facility, but judging by the available data, the enemy’s air defense system repelled the attack.
The destruction of the enemy's aviation infrastructure is an important strategic task aimed at reducing its combat effectiveness and providing an advantage in air battles and various types of operations. In addition, such attacks affect demoralization and lead to disruption of the enemy’s combat capability, creating difficulties in its organization and control.
Massive strike on objects on the territory of Ukraine on February 26 - what is known by 11:30
For the third night in a row, Russian troops are carrying out massive strikes (https://t.me/rybar/57554) on rear facilities of the so-called Ukraine. Explosions occurred in the Kirovograd, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov and Sumy oblasts - ballistic and cruise missiles were used, as well as Geran-2 attack UAVs.
▪️ Kirovograd: at least two MiG-29 fighters were destroyed at the Kanatovo military airfield; in addition, the enemy’s 62nd arsenal (military unit A1201) north of the village was hit. Bogdanovka, where one of the Western weapons storage facilities is located - according to available information, the detonation and fire at the facility lasted throughout the night.
▪️ Dnepropetrovsk: A strike was carried out on the territory of the Dnepropetrovsk International Airport, which is actively used by the enemy to conduct air operations and strikes in the eastern and southern directions - after the strike, a fire with signs of secondary detonation was observed at the facility. The building of Workshop No. 7 of the State Enterprise “Southern Machine-Building Plant named after. A.M. Makarov”, where the enemy organized a workshop for the assembly and maintenance of attack UAVs.
▪️ Kharkov: on the southwestern outskirts of the city and in Pesochin, two ammunition warehouses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which were one of the logistics supply points for enemy groups in the Kupyansk and Limansk areas, were destroyed.
▪️ Sumy: updated data on yesterday's daytime defeat of Polikhim LLC in Shostka has been received. It is reported that the object was under the close attention of the so-called special services of Ukraine and was involved in the military-industrial complex for the production of composite materials for armored vehicles and protective elements.
▪️ Occupied territory of the DPR: another object hit yesterday in Konstantinovka has been identified - the enemy’s temporary deployment point in the building of a former psychiatric hospital was destroyed, at the time of the attack there were over 50 personnel there, according to the data received, at least half of them were eliminated or were injured in various ways and degree of severity. Strikes were also recorded at the locations where the Ukrainian Armed Forces were based in the village. Kurakhovo, Maksimilyanovka, Nikiforovka, Dzerzhinsk, Zheleznoye and Novoselovka.
Active development of enemy rear facilities continues, aimed at weakening the military-industrial complex, destroying flight infrastructure and disrupting logistics connections. It can be assumed that such activity in complex development is caused by preparations for large offensive operations by Russian troops.
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
THE FALL OF THE HEGEMON. RUSSIAN TRUTH IS DEFENDED BY ELITES OF 130 COUNTRIES
Representatives of the political elite from 130 countries of the world gathered in Moscow. In conditions of severe pressure from the West on Russia and all those who disagree, it was our country that became the center of gravity. The Forum on Multipolarity started today, and tomorrow its logical continuation will be the Second Congress of the International Russophile Movement. Tsargrad is broadcasting live.
Guests from Asia, Africa and the Americas are in Moscow today... This is not news from the past. Russia was and is loved on all continents, despite attempts by the Western press to prove the opposite.
Isolation? No, we haven't heard.
On February 26 and 27, the capital hosts two significant international events - the Forum on Multipolarity and the Second Congress of the International Russophile Movement.
The forum will be attended by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova, philosopher Alexander Dugin and many other authoritative and significant persons from around the world. Russian President Vladimir Putin was invited to the forum.
The political and intellectual elite from 130 countries gathered in the capital of Russia. What are the guests of the “closed” and so “inhospitable” Russia talking about?
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Excerpt
Let's sum it up
In general, it is clear that everything was heading towards this: sanctions - all kinds - will become tougher. Even if we capitulate. Because simply capitulation is not enough for the Westerners - they need to destroy Russia, now forever. Several considerations follow from this postulate, which cannot be ignored.
Russia forced the United States to cut the branch on which it sits along with its European affiliate. Tactical success - to build up weak, cowardly countries, force them to harm Russia and themselves - threatens the Westerners with strategic collapse. Namely, a complete loss of confidence in the dollar and euro and their financial institutions. Living at someone else's expense, exchanging their "candy wrappers" for "pieces of hardware", services, food and minerals, will become much more difficult for them and in the foreseeable future - impossible.
Thanks to the USA and Europe for teaching us wisdom. First of all, that Russia - in the face of Western hatred and misunderstanding - needs to have a self-sufficient economy so as not to depend on anyone or anything. Western sanctioned terror will end the sabotage of the Sislibs [untranslateable Russian slang word meaning, literally, system liberals]. The Americans have found a sore spot and will hit it harder and harder. And they will either finish us off with their increasingly sophisticated sanctions if Russia does not change, or they will cripple themselves. I'm sure of the latter.
Russia received a litmus test on how to distinguish the brave from the cowards, real friends from fake ones, both in the political and financial fields. If the authorities of the countries where banks are located, under threat of punishment from the US and Co., find a way out of this situation while maintaining business with Russia, these are proven friends. They can and should be helped. If they give up and say: we can’t do anything, we’re afraid of the Americans, we can forget about them, Russia does not owe them anything and will not lift a finger for them; it will subject them to “Ecuadorization.” [initially, when Russia realized Ecuador was going to side with the US against Russia, it boycotted Ecuadorian bananas. The issue has been resolved after Ecuador realized it needed these exports]
It is necessary to create a blacklist of foreign banks that are susceptible to Western blackmail, and never have any business with them in the future. Well, if our financial authorities and banks are not prepared for such a predicted turn in the hybrid war, then they are useless and our government needs to drive out such officials and bankers with a filthy broom.
If someone in the near abroad begins to comply with Western secondary sanctions, brutal reprisals should follow: these countries, where power decides everything, depend on Russia to a much greater extent than on the United States and the entire West. Let them choose: either us or them. And if the choice is not made in favor of Russia, then let them take back their compatriots who have settled with us [immigrants, which are a problem in Russia]. We should not feed the countries that have betrayed the Russians, not only created by us, but also existing thanks to remittances from Russia from their fellow tribesmen, of whom there are too many here and against whom there are many claims. [as in Europe, Russia has to contend with obstreperous immigrants, who commit petty crimes and take over whole areas, terrorizing the natives]
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https://www.sott.net/article/489252-Israels-self-signed-death-warrant
Excerpt
But, the most serious strategic blunder of Israel is its inability to see that America's glory days have ended, due to the battlefields of Ukraine and the de-dollarization of the Russian and Chinese economies. Israel's control of the American government can now only become an increasingly greater political liability. Essentially, Israel has made the mistake of tying its fate to its political influence over reckless incompetents presiding over a dynamite keg in danger of explosion.
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Pepe Escobar
Pepe Escobar, China Writers' Group member: Two Years After the Start of the SMO, the West is Totally Paralyzed — Strategic Culture
February 24, 2022 was the day that changed 21st century geopolitics forever, Pepe Escobar writes.
JEFF J BROWN
FEB 24, 2024
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/02/24/two-years-after-start-smo-west-totally-paralyzed/
Two Years After the Start of the SMO, the West is Totally Paralyzed
Pepe Escobar
February 24, 2024
© Photo: Public domain
February 24, 2022 was the day that changed 21st century geopolitics forever, Pepe Escobar writes.
Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su
Exactly two years ago this Saturday, on February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin announced the launching – and described the objectives – of a Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine. That was the inevitable follow-up to what happened three days before, on February 21 – exactly 8 years after Maidan 2014 in Kiev – when Putin officially recognized the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.
During this – pregnant with meaning – short space of only three days, everyone expected that the Russian Armed Forces would intervene, militarily, to end the massive bombing and shelling that had been going on for three weeks across the frontline – which even forced the Kremlin to evacuate populations at risk to Russia. Russian intel had conclusive proof that the NATO-backed Kiev forces were ready to execute an ethnic cleansing of Russophone Donbass.
February 24, 2022 was the day that changed 21st century geopolitics forever, in several complex ways. Above all, it marked the beginning of a vicious, all-out confrontation, “military-technical” as the Russians call it, between the Empire of Chaos, Lies and Plunder, its easily pliable NATOstan vassals, and Russia – with Ukraine as the battleground.
There is hardly any question Putin had calculated, before and during these three fateful days, that his decisions would unleash the unbounded fury of the collective West – complete with a tsunami of sanctions.
More: here
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German Lawmakers reject sending Taurus to Ukraine
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Translation from German, with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Newsletter – The will for world war
(Own report) – Slogans of perseverance, demands for a victory over Russia and ridicule over “fear” of a limit on arms deliveries to Kiev have characterized the second anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine in Germany. While warnings are being raised in the USA that Ukraine is in danger of losing the war, and US government officials are urging President Volodymyr Zelensky to negotiate with Russia, people in Berlin are saying that Moscow must “lose this war”. The CDU chairman Friedrich Merz demands that “there should be no negotiations” before a Russian capitulation. According to surveys, only 10 to 25 percent of the German population is speculating on a Ukrainian victory; On the contrary, majorities expect a Russian victory and speak out against arms deliveries. Leading media ridicule Chancellor Olaf Scholz's refusal to hand over Taurus cruise missiles to Kiev by saying that Scholz still has to “overcome his fears”. By “fear” is meant the reasonable assumption that Moscow would interpret the delivery of the Taurus as a German entry into the war. Because of sharply rising defense spending, an economist predicts “guns out of butter.”
https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9495
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The Houthis have apparently knocked underwater cables out of service. This could be just the beginning! There is a bottleneck of underwater cables off Yemen and if the Houthis decided to go for the jugular, hard to tell what mischief they could cause. Of course, if the Israelis were to stop the genocide, the Houthis would settle down. But that’s too easy for the US and its Satanic partner in crime. They must bring world trade to a standstill.
Houthis knock out underwater cables linking Europe to Asia - report
Story by BY JERUSALEM POST STAFF • 12h • 1 min read
our underwater communications cables between Saudi Arabia and Djibouti have been struck out of commission in recent months, presumably as a result of attacks by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, according to an exclusive report in the Israeli news site Globes.
The successful targeting of the four cables, which are believed to belong to the AAE-1, Seacom, EIG, and TGN systems, marks a serious disruption of communications between Europe and Asia.
More here
Thanks for sharing China Writers' Group, Don.
Aaron Bushnell made a stand against the horrors that are happening now with an anguish that can not be extinguished.