This is a big issue. Last to last night, I tipped a guy 50 bucks. I'm a frugal man. Anyway, his demeanor totally changed after and he didn't even open the door for the missus. Sheesh!
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| Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
| Attack on Israel: War changes orientation |
| 2023-10-09 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Victoria Nikiforova [RIA] The conflicts that flare up in the world today (this is how a grandiose steppe fire usually begins with small, isolated fires) are completely different from what we are accustomed to consider military actions. "Strange War" in Ukraine , where thousands of Ukrainian men go to certain death not in order to conquer territories, but in order to lose them. Well, a very strange war in Karabakh, to which the Armenian army did not show up at all, but for some reason the idea arose in the Armenian society that Russia should fight for them . And now October 7 in Israel - “more and more strange,” as Carroll’s Alice would say. It’s not even clear what to call what was happening in the south of Israel on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. Numerous groups of Palestinian fighters took control of entire cities, took dozens of hostages, destroyed enemy military equipment, and killed people. It’s too large-scale, coordinated, and well-thought-out for an intimidation campaign. Not enough for a full-fledged invasion. Massive attack? Rather, this is still a new type of war, structurally in many respects similar to what is happening now in the Ukrainian theater of operations. This new war destroys all the usual patterns; no one is really ready for it - neither armies nor civilians. How was it before? For twenty years, humanity lived under the dark spell of the American doctrine of “Shock and Awe.” There was a clear algorithm: the most powerful and rich army in the world first launches a massive propaganda strike against an obviously weak enemy, then bombs it into the Stone Age, then carries out a ground invasion, occupies the main centers and mercilessly clears out partisans and civilians who come to hand. All this implied that the country that is richer and more equipped with technology wins, and wins almost instantly. Blitzkrieg - and kings. The Hamas attack on Israel showed the futility of high technology. Israeli Merkava tanks, considered practically invulnerable, were burning from explosives dropped from cheap drones. Well-equipped, motivated, and enjoying the highest respect from society, the Israeli military died and was captured by Palestinian fighters, who in the strict sense are not an army at all. That is, spending on the army and taking care of it also, it turns out, did not play a decisive role. The legendary Israeli Mossad , whose employees, as we understand, work in the Gaza Strip on a permanent basis, were unable to warn the country's leadership of the impending danger. At the same time, Palestinian intelligence worked successfully - what kind of preliminary work had to be done to simultaneously invade several cities, attack people gathered for a music festival, and capture dozens of military and civilians. The British The Guardian draws attention to the fact that over the past two years, Israel has issued more than 18 thousand work permits to residents of the Gaza Strip. This policy was intended to pacify the Palestinians and prevent large-scale terrorist attacks. In fact, it played against Israel: the Palestinians, who retained their former loyalty, could well have helped Hamas fighters carry out the attack. So, for a successful attack today, good reconnaissance is needed - it will provide the factor of surprise. Weapons, which are easy to obtain through all sorts of illegal channels, are resold to the left by the widest range, by the way, in Ukraine. Small mobile sabotage groups, as well as their own “waiters” on the other side of the border. With such an arsenal, a poor, technologically backward country may well be able to inflict a significant blow on its rich, developed opponent. Another advantage of a poor country in this context is the low price of human life; they will not spare either their own or others. It's easy to see how this is structurally similar to the military operations in Ukraine. The huge role of drones, the importance of reconnaissance and counterintelligence, attacks by small sabotage groups in border zones, the problem of "waiters". And simply the opposite attitude towards the lives of fighters - our own and others. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are dying themselves and do not spare prisoners. Our military strives to save every life, including those of Ukrainians captured. In the information field, a new type of war also looks extremely unusual. On the one hand, bloody videos from Israel are seen by the whole world almost live. On the other hand, speaking out on this topic is extremely dangerous. One careless word and you already find yourself in a conflict. Someone on one side will read your tweet, get inspired and go kill the other side of the conflict. And you will suddenly find yourself either an anti-Semite or an enemy of the Arabs, but rather - both at the same time - and you will wait for the humiliated and insulted to come for you. As a result, pure, wordless cruelty reigns supreme. Scenes of horrific massacres by Palestinian fighters. Israeli rocket attacks on residential buildings in Gaza. The pain, death, and suffering of thousands of people are broadcast live, and the world community sits and is afraid to open its mouth, so as not to provoke anyone. Of course, we are not talking about any blitzkrieg on the part of Palestine now. On the contrary, a new type of war is doomed to be protracted. After all, it takes place in dense urban areas and represents an alternation of sabotage, terrorist attacks and missile attacks. Understanding this very well, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on his fellow citizens to prepare for a long and bloody war. For the civilian population, a new type of war is a complete nightmare. There are no rules, no compassion, the Geneva Convention goes to waste, everything is ruled by a passion for violence. In the information field, the task is to intimidate the enemy, so bullying and torture, shelling of civilians and using them as human shields will become routine. Alas, all these practices have been demonstrated to us by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass for several years now. There will be no one to stand up for civilians - the world community will prefer to remain silent or speak out in an extremely neutral manner. Residents of Donbass understand what I’m talking about: they were killed in the complete, deafening silence of all human rights activists and disobedient journalists. This means that the protection of civilians will fall on the regular army, and it will be even more difficult for it to fight in such conditions. In general, the war as we knew it from CNN reports and Hollywood films is becoming a thing of the past. We can say that she changes orientation. This is bad news not only for the military, but also for civilians - if in doubt, you can watch videos from Israel, Lebanon and Palestine in recent days. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #4 I don't see anything new or strange about it. It's just fucking terrorism committed by people who are well known for terrorism because they are too stupid and weak to do anything else. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-10-09 14:27 |
| #3 War changes orientation From a vertical to a horizontal perspective. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-10-09 10:47 |
| #2 counterintelligence, attacks by small sabotage groups in border zones, the problem of "waiters" This is a big issue. Last to last night, I tipped a guy 50 bucks. I'm a frugal man. Anyway, his demeanor totally changed after and he didn't even open the door for the missus. Sheesh! |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2023-10-09 02:56 |
| #1 War changes orientation Indeed. The abnormal situation where the weak attack the stong - and hide behind "international community" afterward, is over. But you, Russians, started this when you started repaying Salo Reich for it's treatment of Russian minority |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-09 02:22 |