Politics

[Pheroze]

South Africa condemns 'fake videos' of alleged xenophobic attacks as Ghana writes to AU

As claims of xenophobia in South Africa mount, Ghana calls on the African Union to send a fact-finding mission.

www.bbc.com

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

Yeah been keeping an eye on these reports for a bit now

Good, short video explaining the data.

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

Ukraine hits Moscow hard.

EDIT: Reading some of the comments, it appears several FAKE Ben Hodges videos are being done. This might be one. Still interesting info. Supposedly YouTube is investigating. Deep Fake is the world we now live in.

 

[spike.t]

Talk about brain dead......

 

[Boyd Brooks]

Talk about brain dead......

You are quite right, it’s obvious she is not the mastermind of any anything. If breathing wasn’t involuntary, I’m sure she would suffocate.

 

[Aaron N]

Hopefully no members here ponied up for the Trump phone. It looks like the T/C’s were changed to say that paying the deposit didn’t guarantee you a phone.

MSN

 

[spike.t]

https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/world-largest-artillery-next-generation-nkorea-juche-howitzers

 

[spike.t]

Not great for the Iranian people.....always had the feeling nothing was going to change for them through this shitshow , even though that's what a lot were hoping for....

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/08/foreign-militias-brought-enforce-iran-crackdown/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_militias-brought-enforce-iran-crackdown%2F

 

[skydiver386]

Not great for the Iranian people.....always had the feeling nothing was going to change for them through this shitshow , even though that's what a lot were hoping for....

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/08/foreign-militias-brought-enforce-iran-crackdown/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_militias-brought-enforce-iran-crackdown%2F

Yep.

I very clearly stated that Regime change from 30,000ft was never going to work. Now a once in a lifetime opportunity has been wasted.

 

[AJ Peacock]

Yep.

I very clearly stated that Regime change from 30,000ft was never going to work. Now a once in a lifetime opportunity has been wasted.

Short lifetime, Obama in 2009 during the Green Movement and election fraud uprising and then Biden had an opportunity in 2022, but all he did was pause nuclear negotiations and give lip service. This opportunity for Trump isn't over yet, I hope it turns out better for the Iranian people.

AJ

 

[JimP]

I watched a short documentary on Curtis Lemay on what he had planned for Japan.

His idea was to just keep up the fire bombing, 3 flights a day over Japan until there was nothing left. He figured that with the surrender in Europe and the additional men, planes, and resources that we would be unstoppable in the process and that boots on the ground in Japan would not be needed.

The fire bombing was more destructive than the two atomic bombs that were dropped.

 

[skydiver386]

Short lifetime, Obama in 2009 during the Green Movement and election fraud uprising and then Biden had an opportunity in 2022, but all he did was pause nuclear negotiations and give lip service. This opportunity for Trump isn't over yet, I hope it turns out better for the Iranian people.

AJ

This hardline Regime has been in power since 1980. Obama wasn't elected until 2008.

 

[AJ Peacock]

This hardline Regime has been in power since 1980. Obama wasn't elected until 2008.

And your point?

"This hardline Regime has been in power since 1980. Obama wasn't elected this time until 2024"

AJ

 

[jruby]

Still waiting for Trump to better Obama's agreement with Iran so far it hasn't happened and now Trumps war no longer being a short two or three week war meaaured in months continues regardless of wether he says it's a cease fire.

 

[skydiver386]

And your point?

"This hardline Regime has been in power since 1980. Obama wasn't elected this time until 2024"

AJ

Obama was elected for his first term in 2008, his second in 2012. Where do you get "this time until 2024"?

 

[AJ Peacock]

Obama was elected for his first term in 2008, his second in 2012. Where do you get "this time until 2024"?

I meant Trump. Using the excuse for Obama that he was elected in 2008 28 years after the Regime, but not giving Trump the same excuse. I don't understand your logic.

AJ

 

[Altitude sickness]

I watched a short documentary on Curtis Lemay on what he had planned for Japan.

His idea was to just keep up the fire bombing, 3 flights a day over Japan until there was nothing left. He figured that with the surrender in Europe and the additional men, planes, and resources that we would be unstoppable in the process and that boots on the ground in Japan would not be needed.

The fire bombing was more destructive than the two atomic bombs that were dropped.

The U.S. determined that after the battles on Okinawa, Tarawa and Iwo Jima. The Japanese would never surrender and it would take a major invasion of troops on the ground.

Projections were 1 million U.S. casualties.
Truman decided to end it.

 

[AJ Peacock]

Still waiting for Trump to better Obama's agreement with Iran so far it hasn't happened and now Trumps war no longer being a short two or three week war meaaured in months continues regardless of wether he says it's a cease fire.

My understanding is that the agreement had zero anti-missile verbage, so under the JCPOA, they'd be building missiles that could likely reach the US and they'd have a nuclear enrichment program that was skirting the IAEA inpections.

I personally feel more comfortable with the current situation after just a couple months of military arms 'adjustment' "Epic Fury". Perhaps others feel more comfortable with the old cheating situation and unencumbered missile/drone development.

AJ

 

[jruby]

My understanding is that the agreement had zero anti-missile verbage, so under the JCPOA, they'd be building missiles that could likely reach the US and they'd have a nuclear enrichment program that was skirting the IAEA inpections.

I personally feel more comfortable with the current situation after just a couple months of military arms 'adjustment' "Epic Fury". Perhaps others feel more comfortable with the old cheating situation and unencumbered missile/drone development.

AJ

So the only thing we can truly say is that Iran doesn't have ballistic missiles and they dont have a nuclear weapon and we know that how? Because our leaders tells us so. I am not a true believer yet.

 

[JimP]

Still waiting for Trump to better Obama's agreement with Iran so far it hasn't happened and now Trumps war no longer being a short two or three week war meaaured in months continues regardless of wether he says it's a cease fire.

You mean the inspections that took Iran's approvals before they could do them?

The U.S. determined that after the battles on Okinawa, Tarawa and Iwo Jima. The Japanese would never surrender and it would take a major invasion of troops on the ground.

Projections were 1 million U.S. casualties.
Truman decided to end it.

That's where Lemay's idea was to go with the scorched earth idea to where there was nothing left.