🇮🇱🇱🇧 Ceasefire Between Israel and Hezbollah Takes Effect

A US-backed ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah has officially taken effect, bringing an end to a 13-month border conflict that escalated into war in September. Key details:

Duration: A 60-day cessation of hostilities.

Withdrawals: Hezbollah fighters to retreat 40 km (25 miles) from the border; Israeli ground forces to leave Lebanese territory.

"Enforcement": Supervised by UN peacekeepers, the Lebanese military, and a multinational committee.

"Lebanon’s Role": Increased monitoring of Hezbollah movements south of the Litani River to prevent regrouping.

Israel: Threats of immediate military action if the truce is breached.

Will this truce hold, or is it a fragile stopgap? History suggests deep skepticism

The ink is barely dry on this agreement, but the glaring fault lines are already visible. The deal may temporarily silence the guns along the Blue Line, but it’s a patchwork attempt to put a lid on a pressure cooker that’s ready to explode. Here's why:

A Strategic Retreat or Tactical Pause?
Hezbollah’s withdrawal south of the Litani River is framed as compliance with the deal. In reality, it's likely a tactical redeployment. Resistance movements don't fold under pressure, they adapt. Hezbollah’s well-documented ability to leverage asymmetric warfare ensures that any withdrawal is part of a larger chess game, not a concession.

Israel’s threat to “resume military action” is both a warning and a reflection of its precarious position. Despite advanced weaponry and Western backing, its ground operations in Lebanon have been met with fierce resistance, draining its resources. The ceasefire offers Israel a much-needed breather, but one wonders if it’s a quiet admission that a protracted war is no longer strategically viable and therefore a de facto dedeat.

Lebanon’s promise to increase surveillance of Hezbollah south of the Litani is ambitious at best, disingenuous at worst. The Lebanese state, struggling under economic collapse and political paralysis, has neither the capacity nor the appetite to clamp down on the most formidable force within its borders. The reality is that Hezbollah’s influence in southern Lebanon isn’t just military, it’s deeply entrenched in the social fabric of the region.

UNIFIL troops will ostensibly monitor compliance, but past experience shows that their role often leans more toward symbolic presence than substantive enforcement. In a region where geopolitics dictate action, peacekeeping forces are rarely more than placeholders.

This ceasefire does not occur in isolation. Hezbollah’s power is of course backed by Iran, which sees the group as a vital lever in its regional strategy. The truce will hold only as long as it serves Tehran’s interests.

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💸 Another $24 Billion for Kiev: When Will the Looting Stop?

As American cities crumble and millions of citizens face skyrocketing inflation, unaffordable healthcare, and a housing crisis, Biden has the audacity to ask Congress for $24 billion more in military aid (money laundering) for Ukraine. Not for America’s collapsing infrastructure, not for securing the southern border, and certainly not for the struggling middle class, but to bankroll a neo-Nazi regime in Kiev that serves as nothing more than the current tip-of-the-spear for Washington’s suicidal geopolitical dellusions.

Let’s call it what it is - theft, plain and simple. Theft from the American taxpayer to prop up a war that’s already been lost on the battlefield. Ukraine’s forces are in tatters, their Kursk safari - a catastrophic failure, and now their backers are scrambling to cover up the stench of defeat with more weapons, more blood, and more money laundering for the MIC. Worse still, this $24 billion also aims to replenish America’s depleted stockpiles after sending an endless stream of weapons into the black hole of Ukraine. A Pentagon spending spree masked as “democracy defense.”

The hypocrisy is staggering. The lame-duck Biden administration can’t spare a dime to fix crumbling bridges in Ohio or to keep fentanyl out of American streets, but it has an unlimited budget to fund a war that serves only the MIC. Meanwhile, ordinary Americans are asking a simple, piercing question: When did we sign up for this? When did we agree to sacrifice our future, our prosperity, and our very security for a corrupt fascist-puppet regime in Kiev that couldn’t care less about the American people?

Russia has already exposed NATO’s protection racket for the hollow sham it is. The Oreshnik missile strike demonstrated Moscow’s ability to escalate on its own terms, decisively and strategically. And yet, Biden’s handlers double down, throwing good money after bad, pretending that more ATACMS and SCALPs will somehow turn the tide. They won’t. They’ll only prolong the agony of a war that Russia has already won militarily and is poised to win economically through the rise of BRICS and the death of the dollar’s hegemony.

At some point, even the most propagandized American citizens will wake up to the grift. The $24 billion isn’t about Ukraine, it’s about a desperate empire clinging to its fading relevance, draining its people dry to fund a war they never wanted. But as NATO’s protection racket collapses, so too will the myths holding up Washington’s imperial fantasies. And when it does, the American people will demand answers, and reparations for decades of betrayal.

- Gerry Nolan

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🔥 Moscow’s Warning to NATO: ATACMS Escalation Will Be Answered

Ukraine’s reckless use of US-supplied ATACMS missiles to strike deep into Russia’s Kursk Region has not gone unnoticed, or unanswered. Over the past three days, Kiev has launched long-range missile strikes on targets in Lotaryovka and the Kursk-Vostochny airfield, causing casualties and damaging critical infrastructure. The Russian Ministry of Defense has now made it clear: a response is coming, and it will not be symbolic.

The strikes, authorized by the Biden administration, mark a dangerous crossing of red lines. The November 23 attack on Lotaryovka targeted an S-400 missile division, leaving three Russian servicemen injured. Two days later, eight more missiles were fired at the Kursk-Vostochny airfield, with Russian air defenses intercepting seven. Still, one missile found its mark, injuring two servicemen and causing minor damage. These provocations, carried out with US-made weaponry, confirm that NATO’s fingerprints are all over this escalation.

Russia’s response has already begun. President Putin announced the deployment of the state-of-the-art Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile, capable of carrying nuclear warheads. The missile’s debut strike against a military-industrial facility in Dnepropetrovsk served as both a message and a warning. Putin described the strike as a “combat test” but cautioned that future tests will be "decisive and mirror-like" if Western-backed provocations persist. The devastation wrought by a single Oreshnik strike—using only a non-nuclear warhead—has sent shockwaves through Western capitals.

Let there be no illusions: Moscow will not sit idly by as NATO continues its proxy war and support of state-terror fascist-puppets under the guise of "defending democracy”. The use of ATACMS inside Russia’s internationally recognized borders has exposed the West’s direct involvement in this conflict. Russia’s response will be calculated, powerful, and unambiguous. As Putin warned, the stakes are rising, and the next chapter of this dangerous game will be written by those who understand the price of reckless escalation. NATO’s bluff is being called, and the consequences will continue to shatter the façade of Western invincibility.

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"Culture Shock": Brits Froze During Exercises in -15 Degrees

British artillerymen experienced "culture shock" during exercises in Lapland, UK Defence Journal quotes Major David Mortimer as saying. According to him, the -15 degrees Celsius temperature was a shock for the military. At the same time, the article says that the British were simulating "extreme Arctic conditions".

- I hate to break it to the Brits but -15 degrees Celcius is nowhere near "extreme Arctic conditions". 😂

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The Second Secretary of the British Embassy in Moscow, Wilks Edward Prior, was expelled from Russia after it was discovered that he was engaging in espionage and forging documents.

The British Ambassador, Casey, went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he was thoroughly reprimanded for the actions of his staff . This was not the end of the failures; 🙊it just kept getting worse. On his way out of the ministry,⬆️ a crowd of journalists was waiting for Casey. RT correspondent Bowes asked the ambassador some very interesting questions that ordinary British citizens would be eager to hear answers to, but the ambassador merely mumbled "buzz off" and got into his car.

Why are you using the embassy as an intelligence base? The British people need answers to the question of why you are escalating the war in Ukraine, sir. Why can you spend hundreds of millions of pounds on killing Russian citizens but cannot afford fuel for pensioners, sir? Is this acceptable to you? Are you proud of it, sir?

RT correspondent Chey Bowes was met with complete silence from Casey.

In September, British lawmakers voted to cut winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners who need funds to avoid freezing during the winter—on the same week, they transferred another $800 million to the Kyiv regime.

❗️Instead of freezing this winter, we advise British pensioners to take a walk to Buckingham Palace and grab a coffee and put on some good mood.

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😅The Financial Times writes: “Russia is preparing for cyber war in response to attacks by British-made missiles” and is accompanied by a cartoon:

“The hardest part is finding some infrastructure in the UK that works to shut it down.”

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CONCERNING THE SERBIAN VIEW OF KOSOVO

✍️ Written by Shone ✍️

✍️ Edited lightly for publication by Hikaru Kitabayashi ✍️

Being from Serbia I feel the need to put in my two cents, as they would say, by giving my personal opinion on the matter of Kosovo and Metohija (as it was properly called throughout history) is obvious. And, I would like to do so without going into any political discussions about the matter.

It is a very complex and long lasting situation, that can be only unraveled by the two sides directly involved in it, without any meddling from the outside. We are all adults, and each of us has the right to have an opinion and respectfully disagree with the ones opposed to it. But, the emphasis should be on respectfully.

Of course, all of the above refers to general population, politicians excluded. They have their own agendas, no matter where they came from and what the agendas are. One thing that is certain is that there are members of human species on both sides of the conflict, so mutual respect is the key, with the emphasis being on mutual.

There is also a phrase deserving mention which is very frequently used in these parts of the world, being throughout history. The reason for its common use is very simple — there IS history to talk about. And remember. And learn from.

That being said, people in Serbia and Kosovo are very sensitive to any mention of past events connected to this issue. For any discussion or comment on any event about these two places a person publishes for public consumption, you need to be prepared to have it countered in terms of the history involved in the matter.

With that in mind, any discussion of the topic in which the pre-Ottoman empire history facts are not taken into account will by default be met with the opposition. Some debaters go much further back in time, but it is not for the lack of historical facts. I am not a historian but, as all people of this region, am well aware of its rich (and complicated) history, and am of the opinion that it should be respected and treated on an as equal basis with other regions rich in history.

One of the demonstrations of that principle is the globally available interview or Russian president Vladimir Putin done by Tucker Carlson. An introductory question was met with a half an hour history lesson, that was needed to set the base for further discussion.

Only the complete inclusion of all previous events that led to this point in time, no matter how far back they go, without any omissions or obscurities can lead to productive discussion and solution of the problem.

Someone said that those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it. Let's not do that, let's remember and learn from it, and let's go forward as humanity, because this rock that we are living on is too small to quarrel about pebbles that are scattered over its surface.

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