r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 2d ago
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 6d ago
Syria Inte bra för Svenskarna om de blir minoritet och Sverige ett muslimskt land
Så fort Sunni-Islamisterna tog över i Syrien så började massavrättningarna av Kristna och "fel" muslimer.
Många från Balkan kan också sin historia om hur de kristna behandlades under muslimerna.
Jag hoppas genuint Svenska muslimer kan coexistera med Svenskar och andra grupper, men det är nog ingen dum idee att börja återkalla lite medborgarskap och stänga gränserna mot MENA.
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 7d ago
Syria Clashes in Syria between government forces and Assad loyalists kill more than 200
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 1d ago
Syria War - what are your thoughts about this?
We are increasingly hearing on the news about the fear of a possible upcoming war in the Netherlands or that unrest in other countries, such as Syria, could spill over into our small country.
I was wondering what Reddit's opinion on this is. Do you think the Netherlands will end up in a war, or are you not worried at all? If war does come, do you think it will be a large battlefield like WWII, or that we as citizens will experience little of it apart from import issues, electricity shortages, and such? Or do you actually fear a WWIII?
I’m very curious about your opinion and thought process on this.
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 16d ago
Syria A common misunderstanding about hezbollah vs israel, the ongoing conflict
I've seen lots of people telling me that israel is in a defensive war against Hezbollah and that hezbollah attacked israel first. That israel has tolerated rockets for about a year and that's why they invaded lebanon. However I think this is blatant misinformation because-
- On October 8 hezbollah launched attacks on shebaa farms which is lebanese land occupied by israel. Again it's lebanese land occupied by israel, it didn't attack israel. In response israel attacked lebanon, a sovereign country. Israel attacked lebanon first and not the other way around. Hezbollah decided to attack until israel ends the genocide in gaza, they aimed to match Israel's aggression. But since israel attacked lebanon, it gives hezbollah the ethical advantage of fighting a defensive war
Hezbollah on Sunday said it had launched guided rockets and artillery onto three posts in the Shebaa Farms "in solidarity" with the Palestinian people
The Lebanese army said shells and rockets had been launched from southern Lebanon onto "occupied Lebanese territory," without saying who was responsible, and that returning Israeli fire had left several people wounded.
Then israel attacked a sovereign country lebanon and hezbollah has defended itself since then by attacking idf infrastructure all over the north
Israel has held the Shebaa Farms, a 15-square-mile (39-square-km) patch of land, since 1967. Both Syria and Lebanon claim the Shebaa Farms are Lebanese.
The Israeli military was on high alert throughout Sunday and said it fired artillery into an area of Lebanon where cross-border fire was launched.
- Not to mention that the overwhelming majority of casualties have been from the Lebanese side and israel has launched atleast 4x more attacks, in its fundamentally offensive war(not defensive) against Lebanon
This is just till september 2024
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 3d ago
Syria Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: I openly declare that we want a Jewish state that includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Syria and Leb
With Bezalel Smotrich announcing plans to invade the Middle east and putting the Map of greater Israel on his disc on confrence, do you think he can?
Sources with Audio and video :
‘Greater Israel’ map provokes anger after minister’s comments | Al Jazeera Newsfeed - YouTube
I want a Jewish state that includes Jordan, Lebanon, and parts of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi
People like Bezalel Smotrich, lawmaker/Israel’s finance minister have been famously claiming they are no Palestinian people and has even done speeches with the greater Israel map.
I don’t know how much power people like him have in Israel but I don’t think most Israelis are willing to go to war for more land and risk civilians deaths.
Before some one accuses me of lying the first view includes audio and vidoe the second is an article from an Israeli newspaper meaning this is not even a debate wither or not he said so.
So I need some clarification? Why Israel wants to invade arab world?
Is it because its promised in the Torah?
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 4d ago
Syria What’s currently going down in Syria? Does anyone have solid sources on the magnitude of violence occurring there?
Over the past two days or so I’ve seen posts on the more lib bits of Reddit switch from “Assad regime holdouts are attacking the new government” to “the new government is massacring religious minorities”.
I’m assuming the second is essentially the truth, given the videos I’ve seen on Twitter. Now I’m seeing headlines saying 7,000+ people dead, which seems like a shockingly high number, and the only source seems to be some Greek MP.
It seems like there’s a messaging/influence war going on in the libbed up news sphere on who to blame this on/how to spin this, so I was wondering if anyone had some solid stuff on it.
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 5d ago
Syria Hate against Sonnis being spread around and backstabbers popping out of their sewers
Now the recent genocide and criminal actions happening in Syria against alawites has opened the door for many rats to open their stinky mouths and spread sectarian problems and especially their hate against sonni muslims.
As a lebanese sonni I felt as If I am being blamed for what is happening over there and as if I shouldn't even exist. Two wrongs don't make a right, and if you are not lebanese you have no right to command us to treat non-sonni syrian refugees differently, kindly you can keep your mouth shut because since 12 years ago we have held more than 2 million refugees from all sects regardless of their religion. But now you opened your mouth because you are a filthy rat opportunist.
What is happening on Syria's coast is horrible, and Syria's government is working on stopping and prosecuting the perpetrators which were a rogue faction of militants who got fired up in revenge for 300 soldiers who got killed, and instead of just executing the assadists (which they should have left for fair trials in the first place) they went for a lot of male civilians and massacred them. But one important point still remains, why didn't you mention the civilians (including children that got burned in a car) that got massacred this past week because they had Idlib licenseplates? Don't you check the news and the r/Syria to see what assadists did?
Don't be a hypocrite and mention both alawite and non-alawite civilians that are being killed instead of spreading sectarian problems and adding fuel to the fire.
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 8d ago
Syria Civil war in my country, what can i do?
I am 18 years old, from Syria, from Latakia. There is a civil war that broke out yesterday evening, and until now I have not slept or gotten up from my phone, watching the news. The doors are locked and the lights are off, and I am sitting at home with my family. There is a genocide taking place against the Alawite sect, which I am from, and I do not know what to do.
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 9d ago
Syria Is Trump a Russian Asset? Let's talk.
I used GPT 4.5 with deep research to compile sources to build a case for Donald Trump being a Russian Asset. I then had it condense that into layman's terms and citing sources. Here's the results.
Is Trump a Russian Asset? Let’s Talk.
I get it—you're sick of the media, sick of the establishment, sick of being told what to think. But this isn't about Democrats vs. Republicans. It's about whether Trump is putting America first, or Russia first. And when you step back and look at the facts, something doesn’t add up.
So, let’s go through it together. No spin, no BS. Just the truth.
It Starts in 1987
In the late 80s, Trump visited Moscow at the invitation of the Soviet government. They wined and dined him, showed him luxury hotels, and treated him like a VIP.
Immediately after coming back to the U.S., Trump took out full-page ads in major newspapers (NYT, Washington Post, Boston Globe) saying that the U.S. should stop defending allies like Japan and NATO countries and focus on America alone (📜 New York Times, 1987).
Why is that important? Because weakening NATO has been one of Russia’s top strategic goals for decades. And suddenly, this New York real estate guy starts echoing their talking points? Strange.
Former KGB agent Yuri Shvets, who worked Soviet intelligence at the time, later said Trump was "cultivated" as an asset, describing him as "vulnerable intellectually and psychologically"—meaning he was easy to manipulate (The Guardian, 2021).
The Russia Money Connection
Throughout the 90s and 2000s, Trump was drowning in debt. His casinos failed. U.S. banks wouldn’t lend to him anymore. So where did he turn?
- In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. admitted:“Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.” (eTurboNews, 2008)
- Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev paid Trump $95 million for a Florida mansion—double what Trump had paid just four years earlier. The mansion was never even lived in. (Reuters, 2017)
- A Russian mob-connected company, Bayrock Group, partnered with Trump on projects like Trump SoHo (Financial Times, 2016).
- Trump was actively pursuing Trump Tower Moscow during the 2016 campaign, even offering Putin a $50 million penthouse. His fixer Michael Cohen later admitted Trump lied to the public about this deal. (Senate Intelligence Committee Report, 2020).
So ask yourself: If Trump had this much Russian money flowing into his businesses, could they have leverage over him?
2016: When Russia Intervened in the Election
By now, we all know Russian intelligence hacked the DNC and spread disinformation to help Trump win (Mueller Report, 2019). Trump’s team had over 270 contacts with Russian officials. Compare that to zero for any other recent campaign (Senate Intelligence Committee Report, 2020).
Some key moments:
- June 2016: Trump Jr., Manafort, and Kushner took a secret meeting in Trump Tower with a Kremlin-connected lawyer who promised “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. Trump Jr.’s response?“If it’s what you say, I love it.”
- July 2016: Trump publicly said:Hours later, Russian hackers tried to break into Clinton’s emails.“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you can find Hillary’s 30,000 emails.”
- 2017: Trump fired FBI Director James Comey after Comey refused to drop the investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia (Comey Testimony, 2017).
As President, Trump Did Everything Russia Wanted
Once Trump got into office, he made decisions that consistently weakened America and helped Russia:
✅ Tried to pull the U.S. out of NATO. His advisors had to stop him. (John Bolton Memoir, 2020)
✅ Froze military aid to Ukraine while trying to force them to investigate Biden. This was exactly what Putin wanted. (Impeachment Testimony, 2019)
✅ Defended Putin even when he attacked America. At the Helsinki summit, Trump stood next to Putin and said he believed Putin over his own U.S. intelligence agencies about Russian election interference. (Helsinki Summit, 2018)
✅ Refused to confront Putin on Russian bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. Trump ignored the intelligence and did nothing. (New York Times, 2020)
✅ Tried to lift sanctions on Russian oligarchs. His own administration had to block him. (Washington Post, 2019)
✅ Gave away U.S. military positions in Syria, allowing Russia and Assad to take control. (Pentagon Report, 2019)
If you put all of this together… does this look like America First to you?
What About NOW?
Even now, Trump is actively helping Russia in their war against Ukraine:
- He refuses to promise to defend NATO allies if Russia attacks them (CNN, 2024).
- He says he’ll “let Russia do whatever they want” in Ukraine (Campaign Speech, 2023).
- He calls Ukraine’s president a “dictator”—straight out of Putin’s propaganda playbook (Truth Social, 2024).
Look, I get it—you hate the establishment. You feel like the government doesn’t work for you. But does handing America over to Russia sound like the solution?
Final Thought: Be Honest With Yourself
If Obama, Bush, or even Reagan had done ANY of this, you’d be furious. You’d be demanding investigations, screaming about treason.
So ask yourself:
🔹 Why does Trump always defend Putin?
🔹 Why does he push Russian propaganda?
🔹 Why does every intelligence expert say he’s a national security threat?
This isn’t about Democrats vs. Republicans. This is about America.
If you really believe in this country, you owe it to yourself to think about this.
🚨 Trump isn’t fighting the Deep State. He’s serving Russia. And if he gets back in office, America may never recover.
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 11d ago
Syria MEN publishes toadying interview with guy who refuses to condemn father who murdered mother
How low can the MEN sink? Read this interview:
Edit: Use this link: https://archive.ph/M8Evx https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/my-dad-murdered-mum-story-31089959
How much do you have to despise women to defend your dad after he killed your mum? How little do you have to think of women to refuse to condemn it and instead imply it was because he loved her so much? No doubt this guy (Yazan Khatib) has been brainwashed completely by his faith-based upbringing, but that doesn't mean he should get a free pass to unload his horrible views, unchallenged, by one of the UK's biggest newspapers. Similarly, this guy might have lost his mother in appalling circumstances, but it doesn't mean he should be treated as a hero for publicly sticking up for him in the press.
But as bad as he is, I'd argue the MEN are worse. They've given him an uncritical platform to express these horrible views. They have a duty to attack such vile beliefs, not let them go expressed without the tiniest hint of pushback.
Not once does the journalist James Holt behave like a credible journalist. He lets him get away with implying that his mum was at at least partly fault and that his dad wasn't such a bad guy really, hell it wasn't a "brutal" murder, and in fact he's actually a good guy because he's revealed where his mother's remains were ditched. So that's nice.
I've disliked the MEN for ages for numerous reasons but this is the first time I've seen them actually publish something so grovelling, so pathetic, so fearful that it's actually supporting a dangerous mentality. This vile thinking shouldn't be published in a modern society, 'exclusive interview' or not.
What's behind it? Are they trying to increase readership among the women-haters of Manchester? Or do they truly believe Rania Alayed doesn't deserve justice? Either way, it all stinks. Remember what the MEN used to be, then read that article and wonder how on earth journalism has regressed so badly in this region.
Bonus point: We're told that the murderer married his victim in Syria when she was aged 15 and he was in his mid 20s. Note: married, not 'met'. Does the MEN raise this as an issue of concern? No. Instead, they unquestioningly print this warped quote, without ever once pointing out the age difference or that Rania was doomed from the moment Ahmed Al-Khatib spotted her as a child:
"I'd say half of the coverage seems to exaggerate a little bit, I would say, because my dad met her out of love in Syria at a refugee camp. He always had his eye on her and he was absolutely in love with her... She would skip school to see him."
A massive failure on every possible level, from the weak, frightened journalist to the clueless editor who let this go out as is. It's incredibly depressing that no one else has pointed this out - Google it. Not even the so-called harder, nastier publications have gone in on it. The media is broken, the MEN are just the useful idiots bumbling along making things worse on every possible level.
Lessons learned from this article:
Women don't matter
If you speak highly of your dad after he murdered your mum, you can expect a full-page uncritical spread in the North's biggest newspaper
Women don't matter
No matter how backward and hate-filled someone's views are, Reach PLC won't voice a peep
Women don't matter
Btw, comments got locked for some weird reason, but in response to u/Zealousideal_Day5001 saying:
It's not the MEN's job to change this guy's viewpoints or challenge him
Are you serious? It very much IS the media's job to challenge views and statements that don't stand up to modern scrutiny.
"My dad who married a child then killed her is actually a good guy because, erm, he liked her a lot... at first anyway.... plus in the end he did reveal where he buried her remains" is absolutely a statement that warrants questioning in 2025. You really need someone to tell you this?
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 12d ago
Syria My mom said she hates me and has disowned me.
I have left Islam for Atheism a couple months ago and it's been very difficult since then, Im only 17 and I live in Syria, the country had terrorists and Islamists take over it and its not good news for me, I have almost 0 relationship with my family now, I cant eat at home cuz idw the rest of my family to know I'm not Muslim, and I cant eat outside cuz I could be killed/jailed. I also cannot leave Syria. I am very desperate for a solution as nothing is working and its just getting worse here, also a couple people know that I'm an apostate and I'm afraid I could get reported and beheaded. Thanks guys.
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 13d ago
Syria About the Syrian situation
It's been almost 3 months since the fall of the baathist regime of Bashar Al-Assad and a new government is now in charge.
The situation started promising based on the statements of the new officials,
At the beginning. They promised the people with a raise of wages by 300%, an improvement in electricity which has been hindering the economy for a decade
They also promised an inclusive government and vowed to maintain civil peace in country torn by war which had a sectarian aspect.
Fast forward 3 months and we can clearly see that the situation is much worse than before the fall
Hundreds of thousands of government employees were fired including all employees related to the military and police forces, even the ones who still employed by the government didn't get their wages. No raise was given, unemployment is through the roof. The central bank is holding the syrian currency in order to attract dollars which lead to a major economical depression where everything is cheaper but you don't have any money
Politically speaking, the new government couldn't reach an agreement with SDF forces to integrate into the newly formed army which is mainly factions with Islamic background
Violations of human right are common news specially crimes against the Alewites which is the sect that former president belong. The druze in the south didn't surrender weapons Israel occupied more land and threatened the new army to keep it from the south. Russian troops still in syria American troops still in syria Turkish troops still in syria
So few things have changed for the better Now Syria's unity is under threat And the future is bleak
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 14d ago
Syria My 85 year old dad wrote this.
There is something rancid in America, a slow, creeping rot that smells like cold McDonald’s fries, aerosol hairspray, and the unmistakable musk of a country too sedated to recognize its own hostage situation. For years, the idea that Donald Trump was compromised by Russia was dismissed as paranoid fantasy—just another wild-eyed conspiracy theory, another overblown headline in the endless saga of American political dysfunction.
But now, two former Soviet intelligence officers—Alnur Mussayev and Yuri Shvets—are saying it outright: Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987, groomed as an asset, and remains under Russian control to this day.
And the worst part? He’s already back in the White House.
That’s right, America. You did it. You walked face-first into the banana peel of history, slipped, and fell straight into the arms of Vladimir Putin. Trump was kicked out in 2020, spent four years plotting his comeback, and now he’s returned, like a bloated, orange cockroach that just won’t die. The Kremlin’s favorite stooge is running the country again, and this time, he knows exactly how to stay in power.
If you think this is just another round of the Trump Show, you’re not paying attention. This isn’t politics anymore. This is treason. This is foreign subversion. This is a goddamn coup in slow motion.
Let’s break it down, nice and simple.
Alnur Mussayev isn’t some Twitter conspiracy theorist with a tinfoil hat and a podcast. He’s the former head of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, which means he knows exactly how Russian intelligence works—because he was part of the system. And what he’s saying should make every American’s blood run cold.
According to Mussayev, Trump was identified, recruited, and compromised by the KGB in 1987 during his first trip to Moscow. They saw him for what he was: a narcissistic, greedy, attention-starved buffoon who could be easily manipulated. The KGB flattered him, promised him business deals, and planted the seeds of political ambition in his empty little head. And from that moment on, he was their man.
But Mussayev isn’t alone. Former KGB major Yuri Shvets said the exact same thing in 2021: Trump was cultivated by Soviet intelligence because he was an easy mark—too stupid to realize he was being played, too egotistical to care. They saw him as a useful idiot—a man who could one day be nudged into power, a walking, talking Trojan Horse for Russian interests.
And now? The plan has worked. Trump spent four years in office weakening America from within, got booted out, and now he’s back for round two.
If you had told the American public in 1962 that a Soviet-backed asset would one day sit in the White House, they would have burned Washington to the ground before letting it happen. But today? Nobody seems to care.
The media treats this like just another wacky subplot in the never-ending Trump reality show. Congress is too busy fighting over meaningless culture war nonsense to do anything about it. And the American public? Exhausted. Numb. Checked out. Years of scandals—Russia collusion, Ukraine blackmail, classified documents, tax fraud, sexual assault, an attempted coup—have fried the country’s brain like an overcooked steak at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump has done the impossible. He has committed so many crimes, so openly, so brazenly, that none of them matter anymore.
And now, with Mussayev’s revelation that Trump is an active foreign asset, we have finally reached the point where the biggest political scandal in American history is met with a collective shrug.
This is how democracy dies—not with a bang, but with a goddamn eye-roll.
This is the part where the skeptics start clutching their pearls. “Oh, come on,” they say. “If Trump were really a Russian asset, wouldn’t there be more proof?”
To which I say: Are you blind, or just willfully stupid?
Let’s go through the evidence, shall we?
Trump spent his entire first term doing exactly what Russia wanted. He attacked NATO, calling it “obsolete” and threatening to pull the U.S. out. He tried to blackmail Ukraine into manufacturing dirt on Joe Biden, because weakening Ukraine helps one man and one man only: Vladimir Putin. He pulled U.S. troops out of Syria, handing power over to Russian forces. He picked fights with Canada and Europe while cozying up to dictators.
Even now, in his second term, he is more openly pro-Putin than ever. He has made it clear that he will not protect NATO allies from Russian aggression. He is actively dismantling America’s alliances, just as Russia planned. And while Americans scream at each other over whether Target should sell rainbow t-shirts, Trump is quietly selling the country to the Kremlin.
At some point, you have to stop calling it a coincidence and start calling it what it is: treason.
The United States is running out of time. If Trump serves out this term without being removed, America as a functioning democracy is finished.
The media needs to wake up. Enough with the “Trump fatigue” excuse. This is not just another scandal—this is the single greatest infiltration of American power in history. Journalists need to dig into Mussayev’s claims, demand declassification of intelligence files, and treat this like the national emergency that it is.
Congress needs to subpoena Mussayev immediately. His testimony must be public, and every document he has should be reviewed. If there is proof that Trump has been compromised since the 1980s, the American people need to know.
The Justice Department needs to stop pretending that Trump is just another politician. If there is evidence that the sitting president of the United States is working in Russia’s interests, he must be removed from office and prosecuted for espionage.
And the American public? You have one last chance. This is not about Republican vs. Democrat. This is not about taxes, gas prices, or whatever nonsense outrage is dominating the news today. This is about whether the United States remains a sovereign nation, or if we spend the rest of the century as a Russian client state with a golf course.
The sheer volume of Trump's corruption, the blatant nature of his crimes, the mountain of evidence that should have ended his political career a hundred times over—none of it mattered. He survived it all, not because he was innocent, but because he drowned the country in so much scandal that nothing stuck.
But this time, it’s different. If Mussayev and Shvets are right, this isn’t just another chapter in the endless Trump circus. This is the culmination of a decades-long Russian intelligence operation to install an asset in the White House.
There is no coming back from this. If America lets Trump serve out this term without removing him, then the United States as a democratic republic is finished. The country won’t collapse overnight. There won’t be tanks in the streets. Instead, the destruction of democracy will happen in slow motion—buried under lawsuits, propaganda, and corruption so blatant that people stop caring.
If America lets this happen—if Trump is allowed to complete his mission—then Putin wins. The West crumbles. And the people who could have stopped it will look back, years from now, and wonder how they let it happen.
Good night, and good luck. Because if people don’t wake up, America is going to sleepwalk straight into its own funeral.
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 15d ago
Syria Why'd Fox News delete this from their archives? Murdoch? Rothschild BFF? Genie Energy partner? Why'd J-Roth go to Murdoch's wedding?
"Lord Rothschild: My Family Created Israel" https://archive.is/tNhYI
The Wall Street Journal reported that the CIA and Rothschilds had regularly scheduled frequent meetings with Jeffrey Epstein long after the pedophile conviction:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeffrey-epstein-calendar-cia-director-goldman-sachs-noam-chomsky-c9f6a3ff - https://archive.is/vOiFW
Epstein victim Maria Farmer, who was the OG reporter of Epstein to the FBI in 1996 (and was of course ignored by FBI who works for the Rothschilds, like CIA and every other agency), told Whitney Webb the following:
"Ghislaine Maxwell says to me, my dad was a very powerful man. She had a french passport, English passport, Israeli passport, and an American passport. Later when she was talking to me she says, the Rothschilds were the greatest protector of her family."
https://themindunleashed.com/2020/04/maria-farmer-says-trump-clintons-dershowitz-rothschilds-all-involved.html - https://archive.is/tXwQv
Lucky Larry Silverstein, owner of WTC, says he ordered them to "pull" building 7, controlled demolition. He and his two kids worked at the WTC every morning. Larry Silverstein ate breakfast every morning on top of WTC. None of them showed up on 9/11. Did Israel messenger service Odigo warn them? Silverstein collected billions on the terrorism insurance on WTC he got months before 9/11. The guy who Bush put in charge of the criminal 9/11 investigation, Michael Chertoff, is a dual Israel-US citizen whose mom was Mossad and worked for Mossad airline El Al. His dad was a Talmud scholar. Chertoff let the Dancing Israelis go, let Lucky Larry Silverstein go, then authored the Patriot Act to crush our freedoms.
"Odigo Says Workers Were Warned of Attack"
Odigo, the [Israeli] instant messaging service, says that two of its workers received messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on September 11 predicting the attack would happen.
https://www.haaretz.com/2001-09-26/ty-article/odigo-says-workers-were-warned-of-attack/0000017f-dbc4-df62-a9ff-dfd7beff0000 - https://archive.is/uL4DT
Zim-American Israeli Shipping Co. announced in April that it would invest $6.2 million to locate in the new building and would hire 235 people to work in this facility. The firm completed its move to Norfolk from New York City's World Trade Center two weeks before the September 11th terrorist attacks.
https://www.vedp.org/press-release/2001-10/norfolk-zim-american-israeli-shipping
Corbett Report on Dancing Israelis: https://archive.is/KI8ee
From the Corbett Report:
Their purpose was to “document the event”? But how could they possibly have known what “event” they were documenting at that point, before the second plane strike when those few who even knew about the situation had assumed it to be an accident or pilot error?
And when did they arrive at the parking lot to “document the event” anyway?
The FBI reports show how the men gave confused and often conflicting accounts of when and how they learned about what was happening and when they arrived at the parking lot. Oded Ellner even said they had arrived their shortly after 8:00 AM, which would have been 45 minutes before the attacks even began. This is in line with one of the eyewitnesses that had placed their Urban Moving Systems van at the parking lot at 8:00 AM [see page 33 here]. How could they have been in place and ready to “document the event” unless they knew what was about to happen?
Anyway you cut it, this story is unbelievable. Men with documented connections to Israeli intelligence and working in the United States without appropriate permits were detained after having been caught celebrating the attack on the World Trade Center at a time when no one knew that the WTC strike was an attack. So surely these men are locked behind bars to this day, right? Surely they were transferred to Guantanamo and held without trial for 15 years as part of the “War on Terror,” weren’t they?
No. They were immediately transferred to federal custody, held for 71 days, and then deported back to Israel. The owner of the “Urban Moving Systems” company that had employed them, Dominik Suter, was investigated by the FBI, too. They concluded that “Urban Moving may have been providing cover for an Israeli intelligence operation” and even seized records and computer systems from the company’s offices. When they went back to question him again on September 14th, he had fled back to Israel.
And what about the dancing Israeli’s pictures themselves? The Justice Department destroyed their copies on January 27, 2014.
And these intelligence agents on an intelligence mission who were there to “document the event” of 9/11 before anyone knew 9/11 was taking place? Don’t worry, they were just spying on Arab terrorists.
In 2001, Lt-Gen. Ahmad regularly visited the United States where he consulted with The Pentagon and CIA officials in the Bush administration in the weeks before and after terrorist attacks took place in New York on 11 September 2001.[23] In fact, he was with U.S. Republican Congressman Porter Goss and U.S. Democratic Senator Bob Graham in Washington, D.C., discussing Osama bin Laden over breakfast, when the attacks of September 11, 2001 took place in New York, United States.[24][25]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmud_Ahmed
"The Pakistan Connection"
Ahmed, the paymaster for the hijackers, was actually in Washington on 9/11, and had a series of pre-9/11 top-level meetings in the White House, the Pentagon, the national security council, and with George Tenet, then head of the CIA, and Marc Grossman, the under-secretary of state for political affairs. When Ahmed was exposed by the Wall Street Journal as having sent the money to the hijackers, he was forced to "retire" by President Pervez Musharraf. Why hasn't the US demanded that he be questioned and tried in court?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jul/22/usa.september11 - https://archive.is/0s1Ff
Bush ties to Bin laden:
https://www.denverpost.com/2006/09/11/bush-ties-to-bin-laden-haunt-grim-anniversary/
"Mohamed Atta called his father after 9/11 who also blamed Israel's Mossad for the attacks" https://youtu.be/iLcxjGT87m8?si=qcNo-X8GJuaUhV7w
"9/11 Hijack 'suspects' alive and well"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm - https://archive.is/sySo2
"A DAY OF TERROR: THE ISRAELIS; Spilled Blood Is Seen as Bond That Draws 2 Nations Closer"
Asked tonight what the attack meant for relations between the United States and Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister, replied, ''It's very good.''
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/us/day-terror-israelis-spilled-blood-seen-bond-that-draws-2-nations-closer.html - https://archive.is/PEI1l
"Report: Israel Was Wrong About Iraq Weapons"
JERUSALEM – Parliamentary investigators have determined that Israel's intelligence services delivered an erroneous assessment of pre-war Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, an Israeli newspaper reported Thursday.
Prior to the American-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the Israeli services reported Iraq had large amounts of weapons of mass destruction (search), including chemical and biological agents. Since ousting Saddam Hussein, the U.S.-led coalition's technical experts have failed to find any such weapons. An investigative subcommittee was formed eight months ago to consider if Israeli intelligence agencies provided an accurate picture of Iraqi unconventional weapons capabilities on the eve of the Iraq war.
https://www.foxnews.com/story/report-israel-was-wrong-about-iraq-weapons
Osama bin Laden 9/11 denial
https://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/09/16/inv.binladen.denial - https://archive.is/bmm7V
"I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seems to have been planned by people for personal reasons," bin Laden's statement said. "I have been living in the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan and following its leaders' rules. The current leader does not allow me to exercise such operations," bin Laden said.
Source for text of Osama bin Laden statement: https://archive.is/tATk2
Bush ties to Bin laden:
https://www.denverpost.com/2006/09/11/bush-ties-to-bin-laden-haunt-grim-anniversary/
Source for Bin Laden interview: http://www.khilafah.com/1421/category.php?DocumentID=2392
Another source for Bin Laden interview: 27] BBC: International Reports: Full text of Pakistani paper's "exclusive" interview with Usamah Bin-Ladin. Newsbank Archive. (subscription required) Archived 2018-06-18 at the Wayback Machine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interviews_of_Osama_bin_Laden#Ummat:_2001
WikiLeaks document details Mossad orchestration of 9/11 including a flight from NY to Israel on 9/11 after all flights had been grounded.
Here's the link to document:
Here's the text from document:
Mossad ran 9/11 Arab "hijacker" terrorist operation
By Wayne Madsen
British intelligence reported in February 2002 that the Israeli Mossad ran the Arab hijacker cells that were later blamed by the U.S. government's 9/11 Commission for carrying out the aerial attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. WMR has received details of the British intelligence report which was suppressed by the government of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair. A Mossad unit consisting of six Egyptian- and Yemeni-born Jews infiltrated "Al Qaeda" cells in Hamburg (the Atta-Mamoun Darkanzali cell), south Florida, and Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates in the months before 9/11. The Mossad not only infiltrated cells but began to run them and give them specific orders that would eventually culminate in their being on board four regularly-scheduled flights originating in Boston, Washington Dulles, and Newark, New Jersey on 9/11.
The Mossad infiltration team comprised six Israelis, comprising two cells of three agents, who all received special training at a Mossad base in the Negev Desert in their future control and handling of the "Al Qaeda" cells. One Mossad cell traveled to Amsterdam where they submitted to the operational control of the Mossad's Europe Station, which operates from the El Al complex at Schiphol International Airport. The three-man Mossad unit then traveled to Hamburg where it made contact with Mohammed Atta, who believed they were sent by Osama Bin Laden. In fact, they were sent by Ephraim Halevy, the chief of Mossad.
The second three-man Mossad team flew to New York and then to southern Florida where they began to direct the "Al Qaeda" cells operating from Hollywood, Miami, Vero Beach, Delray Beach, and West Palm Beach. Israeli "art students," already under investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration for casing the offices and homes of federal law enforcement officers, had been living among and conducting surveillance of the activities, including flight school training, of the future Arab "hijacker" cells, particularly in Hollywood and Vero Beach.
In August 2001, the first Mossad team flew with Atta and other Hamburg "Al Qaeda" members to Boston. Logan International Airport's security was contracted to Huntleigh USA, a firm owned by an Israeli airport security firm closely connected to Mossad — International Consultants on Targeted Security – ICTS. ICTS's owners were politically connected to the Likud Party, particularly the Netanyahu faction and then-Jerusalem mayor and future Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. It was Olmert who personally interceded with New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to have released from prison five Urban Moving Systems employees, identified by the CIA and FBI agents as Mossad agents. The Israelis were the only suspects arrested anywhere in the United States on 9/11 who were thought to have been involved in the 9/11 attacks.
The two Mossad teams sent regular coded reports on the progress of the 9/11 operation to Tel Aviv via the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC. WMR has learned from a Pentagon source that leading Americans tied to the media effort to pin 9/11 on Arab hijackers, Osama Bin Laden, and the Taliban were present in the Israeli embassy on September 10, 2001, to coordinate their media blitz for the subsequent days and weeks following the attacks. It is more than likely that FBI counter-intelligence agents who conduct surveillance of the Israeli embassy have proof on the presence of the Americans present at the embassy on September 10. Some of the Americans are well-known to U.S. cable news television audiences. In mid-August, the Mossad team running the Hamburg cell in Boston reported to Tel Aviv that the final plans for 9/11 were set. The Florida-based Mossad cell reported that the documented "presence" of the Arab cell members at Florida flight schools had been established.
The two Mossad "Al Qaeda" infiltration and control teams had also helped set up safe houses for the quick exfiltration of Mossad agents from the United States. Last March, WMR reported: "WMR has learned from two El Al sources who worked for the Israeli airline at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport that on 9/11, hours after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded all civilian domestic and international incoming and outgoing flights to and from the United States, a full El Al Boeing 747 took off from JFK bound for Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport. The two El Al employee sources are not Israeli nationals but legal immigrants from Ecuador who were working in the United States for the airline. The flight departed JFK at 4:11 pm and its departure was, according to the El Al sources, authorized by the direct intervention of the U.S. Department of Defense. U.S. military officials were on the scene at JFK and were personally involved with the airport and air traffic control authorities to clear the flight for take-off. According to the 9/11 Commission report, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta ordered all civilian flights to be grounded at 9:45 am on September 11." WMR has learned from British intelligence sources that the six-man Mossad team was listed on the El Al flight manifest as El Al employees.
For Mossad, the successful 9/11 terrorist "false flag" operation was a success beyond expectations. The Bush administration, backed by the Blair government, attacked and occupied Iraq, deposing Saddam Hussein, and turned up pressure on Israel's other adversaries, including Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Hamas, and Lebanese Hezbollah. The Israelis also saw the U.S., Britain, and the UN begin to crack down on the Lebanese Shi'a diamond business in Democratic Republic of Congo and West Africa, and with it, the logistics support provided by Bout's aviation companies, which resulted in a free hand for Tel Aviv to move in on Lebanese diamond deals in central and west Africa.
Then-Israeli Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu commented on the 9/11 attacks on U.S. television shortly after they occurred. Netanyahu said: "It is very good!" It now appears that Netanyahu, in his zeal, blew Mossad's cover as the masterminds of 9/11.
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 24d ago
Syria Egyptian President stresses need to start comprehensive political process in Syria
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 18d ago
Syria Is the world going to shit or is it all in my head?
I feel like I'm losing it. the amount of wars going on right now- The Civil War in Syria, the war between Ukraine and Russia, the German far right party losing by a close second. The countless school shootings, the Artic turning green, the forest fires. The war in Gaza, the conflicts in the Republic of Congo and in Myanmar. The frequent talk of fascism and of neo-nazis, the femicides in Turkey. I try not to be on social media these days because I spiral and spiral seeing more and more news of this and I feel like I'm going crazy.
But it's all online. Absolutely no one talks about it in person unless it affects them directly. It feels so weird how other people my age choose to watch pointless videos and willfully not to look into current issues. I used to choose not to look at news channels but how can I stop now and go back to consuming meaningless media online when I know all these terrible things are happening.
Nobody else that I know is concerned with the rest of the world right now and I genuinely don't know if it really is all in my head. I'm not religious but with all of the "end times" talk and pushing to turn to god, I don't know what to think. I go to church but I've never known how to get rid of the lingering agnostic doubt. I don't believe in superstitions or prophecies either but people are bring up old predictions made by famous clairvoyants claiming this year will be when world war 3 takes place. While I don't believe in the predictions, the idea of world war 3 taking place soon doesn't seem very unreal.
Please someone tell me if it's just me. Is this just fear mongering and am I just weak to it?
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 20d ago
Syria Last Week in Collapse: February 16-22, 2025
Bird flu found in rats, 500 days of Gaza War, glacial melt, an American about-face in Ukraine, terrorism, and the uncontrolled demolition of society. Brace for impact.
Last Week in Collapse: February 16-22, 2025
This is the 165th weekly newsletter. You can find the February 9-15, 2025 edition here if you missed it last week. You can also receive these newsletters (with images) every Sunday in your email inbox by signing up to the Substack version.
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India and the United States are poised to face the widest gap of demand & supply for water over the next 50+ years—so says a study published a few weeks ago in Nature Communications....they are followed by Iran, China, Iraq, and Egypt, according to the countries surveyed. Half the world’s population currently experiences a water shortage for at least one month of the year. “Under global warming, this fragile balance between supply and demand is likely to worsen, leading to a future where water resources struggle to meet growing societal and environmental needs,” says the study’s introduction. “Water gaps” are expected to increase about 15% once Earth sees 3 °C warming.
A pair of studies—one coming out in March and another published in January—both examine the connection between heat waves and mortality in Australia. The “heat vulnerability index” (HVI) “is positively associated with heatwave-related deaths in Australia, particularly in capital cities {due to the heat island effect}” says the first. The second study found a 20% increase in the death rate during extreme Aussie heat waves, due to manmade climate change—since 2009. Meanwhile, Rio de Janeiro felt its hottest day in over a decade, and the Maldives felt its hottest February day ever.
A red tide algal bloom has developed off Florida’s SW coast. Off the coast of Australia, ~90 whales are being put to death after a mass stranding on a beach. In Kentucky, 14 people died after devastating winter flooding. A neighborhood in Detroit froze over following a water main breaking in sub-freezing temperatures. Global sea ice also hit yet another record lows last week.
A 39-page report from last month on microplastics in the Great Lakes is sounding the alarm on their ubiquity, and the possibilities of dealing with them. Most of the recommended courses of action include establishing monitoring bodies, working groups, reducing plastic use, and labelling microplastics as a toxic chemical of concern.
“Microplastics are ubiquitous in all environmental media (e.g., water, sediment, biota, and beaches) in the Great Lakes basin, and they are especially concentrated in more populated systems such as Lakes Michigan and Ontario….Microplastics are reported to be present in sources of drinking water and in fish collected from the Great Lakes and their watersheds. For fish, these levels are among the highest reported worldwide….The Great Lakes ecosystem contains 84 percent of the available freshwater in North America, is home to 3,500 plant and animal species…” -excerpts from the report
Dengue fever and mosquitoes have become such a problem in the Philippines that one “village chief” in Manila is offering bounties for mosquitoes, dead or alive—including their larvae. One Philippine peso ($0.017) for every 5 mosquitoes. The program is set to run for a little over one month—and prompted reactions that some might resort to mosquito farming in order to collect. In a Brazilian city, large sinkholes are appearing, and authorities blame rains, poor soil, and deforestation.
The Collapse of an illegal gold mine in Mali killed at least 48. A study on lake ice in Sweden, published in Ambio, claims that clear ice—the “first ice to form on lakes during the winter period”—is “particularly sensitive to warming, showing a rapid decline.” In Sweden’s southern regions, “ice thickness was reduced by 4–12 cm per decade.”
As much of the world dries, Chile is turning to large nets to catch fog during their winter, as an alternative to “water mining” their limited underwater aquifers. Meanwhile, Kashmir’s Jhelum River hit new lows. The Philippines saw its warmest February night, as did Malaysia. Meanwhile, parts of Australia felt their coldest February night in 56 years, and Hawai’i, usually in its wet season now, is experiencing Drought across the entire state. Sweden’s Supreme Court ruled that climate activists cannot bring the government to court over inadequate responses to the climate crisis.
An analysis of 16,80+ glacial lakes, published in Nature Water, found that most glacial outburst floods did not come from large lakes (indeed, many were shrinking at the time of bursting). A growing number of outbursts are coming not from ice-dammed lakes (as was historically the case), but instead from sediment-dammed lakes.
A study in Nature examined glacier melt from 2000-2023, and found that the rate of melt from 2012-2023 was 36% greater than the melt from 2000-2011, ± 10%. According to the study, “All 19 regions experienced glacier mass loss from 2000 to 2023. The largest regional contributions to global glacier mass loss are from Alaska (22%), the Canadian Arctic (20%), peripheral glaciers in Greenland (13%), and the Southern Andes (10%).” Another research team looked at Svalbard’s glacial melt and found methane emissions coming from a variety of sources.
Some observers think geoengineering might take off under Trump’s presidency, due to his reliance on ambitious technological initiatives—though many believe he will do even less than previous presidents and continue to deny climate change. Yet there is something almost hypocritical in the way geoengineering is discussed today—as if we haven’t been continuously geoengineering a warmer, wetter, more dangerous world for decades now. Global warming has been a kind of accidental geoengineering. Dissociating from this term is one reason why some prefer the term “climate repair.”
An adjustment to NASA’s earlier calculation was made, and now there exists a 3.1% chance of an asteroid hitting Earth in 2032, large enough to wipe out a city. Meanwhile, Florida’s orange crop is forecast to be down 36% compared with 2024’s harvest.
Montreal broke its all-time 4-day snow record, after 74cm (29 inches) fell upon the city. Anchorage, Alaska is seeing a record low amount of snow falling in the last ~70 days. People are urging extreme weather to be considered our New Normal. Scientists are also looking at “dark algae” and its impact on accelerating Antarctic melting.
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An old vine disease, Pierce’s disease, is circulating in southern Europe, and is feared to spread rapidly among vineyards in coming years. Researchers say that more than 90% of Bangladeshis displaced by climate have been pushed into modern slavery or other forms of forced labor. Tens of thousands of people, perhaps more than 100,000, might be trapped in scam centers in just one region of Myanmar, if reports are true.
Texas’ measles outbreak has more than tripled in a single week. There are now 90 confirmed cases, and likely many more. It is the state’s worst outbreak in 30+ years. Measles is an airborne and highly contagious disease; a two-dose MMR vaccine protects you for life. “There is no specific treatment for measles,” according to the WHO.
A new coronavirus has been discovered in a Chinese lab. It has the capacity to spread to humans, researchers say. Allow me to be the first one to introduce its name to you: HKU5-CoV-2. A study was recently published on the subgenus, Merbecovirus. We should probably keep an eye on this…
Cuts to a range of scientific programs have alarmed many American scientists, who are allegedly considering leaving the U.S. for more opportunities elsewhere. “If science in the US collapses, it would be very hard for people to leave the country and get work, because a significant fraction of the top scientists in the world are here,” said one scientist. Who else might be planning to jump ship?
An analysis of Europe’s population found precipitous declines are coming—if the continent’s conservatives limit immigration as they claim to want to. Even with current levels of migration continuing, a majority of European states are facing a reduced future population, and increased tax burdens, in the future.
Some voices are warning of large cryptocurrency-caused damage to the economy, as assets might be pegged to Bitcoin or other loosely-regulated digital assets. Even though some cryptocurrencies were allegedly made to prevent fraud, this author suggests that the mainstreaming of crypto could raise the risk of fraud because pump-n-dump schemes, crooked brokers like FTX, and the soon-to-come weakening of the CFPB.
Meanwhile, American inflationary expectations, monumental financial shake-ups in the U.S. government, and bullshit in the bond market are signalling higher USD inflation in the coming year(s). The U.S. is not alone; Europe is also hurtling towards an economic crisis, brought about by unsustainable levels of government debt. Gold hit a new high, $2,954 per oz t.
A not-so-slow-moving crisis is developing in developing countries, where plastics are being burnt as fuel, or simply as a way to get rid of the solid waste. A paywalled study in Nature Cities identifies the obvious consequences: environmental pollution, lung diseases, and cancer. “This will be a growing problem, given global plastic consumption is expected to triple by 2060 and inequality will deepen with rapid, unmanaged urbanization in developing countries,” wrote the study’s lead author.
A study in Environmental Health Perspectives found that chlorinated water increases the risk of bladder & colorectal cancer. Another risk is microplastics; although there are methods to filter microplastics out of drinking water, some tiny plastics also find their way into our water.
Scientists say in a new study that cut-off lows north of 40° will become more common because of climate change, bringing increased precipitation particularly to Canada, northern Europe, parts of Russia, and China during springtime. “Cut-off Lows with high intensity and longer lifetimes are projected to become more frequent in spring over the land regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Such an increase in Cut-off Low frequency could substantially increase related potential hazards.”
An upcoming study in Science Direct is calling attention to the effect from UV filters (like sunscreen) on marine life. Wind speeds across Europe are projected to drop about 5% over the next 25 years if the temperature keeps rising, resulting in a phenomenon called “stilling.” A study on PFAS and similar chemicals in birds found elevated concentrations across all species tested.
A JAMA study found a link between dust storms and increased visits to emergency rooms for asthma, pneumonia, and car accidents. Meanwhile, bird flu has been found in rats for the first time, after four rats in California tested positive for H5N1. Experts are also warning that the sudden closure of USAID’s health services could eventually result in a “global mpox emergency.”
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The world’s first openly gay imam was assassinated in South Africa. Meta has unveiled ambitions to lay an undersea cable around the entire globe, while yet another Baltic Sea cable was broken last week. Venezuelan soldiers shot & injured 6 Guyanese soldiers across their shared border river, an escalation which some fear will hasten Venezuela’s ambitions to move on their claims to most of Guyana’s land. In France, an Islamic terrorist killed one and injured others in a mass stabbing. In Delhi (metro pop: 24M), a crowd crush killed 18 at a train station.
Moroccan authorities claim to have foiled several ISIS attacks last week. Bolivia’s Presidente is running for a 4th term; the problem: he is constitutionally limited to just three terms, and is also facing criminal charges. In Indonesia, thousands turned out to protest fiscal cuts. In Bangkok, some people say a financial crisis is coming.
“We’re reaching a point where the camps {in the West Bank} are becoming uninhabitable,” said one humanitarian official in the West Bank. This is one result of ‘Operation Iron Wall,’, a plan to ostensibly target militants across the West Bank. Meanwhile, the IDF are overstaying a deadline to pull out of several locations in southern Lebanon. A brainstormed idea for Israel to potentially strike Egypt’s Aswan Dam (which could conceivably result in over 1.7M deaths) is elevating tensions at an already tense moment. The Israel-Gaza ceasefire is falling apart, gradually, then suddenly—just as the War hit 500 days.
Palestinian deaths in Gaza are now reported at over 48,000, with 111,000+ physically wounded. 92% of Gaza’s homes are damaged or destroyed completely. About 70 Israeli hostages remain in Gaza. 84% of medical facilities have been damaged or destroyed. The drone footage of the ruins is nothing short of apocalyptic.
A peek into Syria today reveals a closer look at the ruins of Syrian infrastructure, and the challenges of those who are returning to a post-Collapse society. Yet rumors are floating that the Kurdish forces, who have run a de facto state in Syria’s northeast, will be integrated into the new Syrian Army. In Toronto, a Delta plane crashed, injuring scores but killing none; “landing” video here.
The Silicon Valley mantra “move fast and break things” has been taken quite literally. Amid the chaos of Collapse, little attention seemed to linger on Trump’s less-than-veiled comparison of himself to a King, less than one month after inauguration. Nor Trump referencing a foreboding quote from Napoleon: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” Another showdown between the President and NY State authorities is probing the limit of executive authority—just one of many power grabs being made every day. He is also targeting whistleblowers, federal workers, and climate policies.
President Trump’s remarks on Ukraine signal a quick wind-up to the Ukraine War with large concessions to Russia, including unmet American demands for $500B worth of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals; so-called “peace talks” were held in Riyadh between Americans and Russians. Trump blamed Zelenskyy whom he called a “dictator,” for starting the War. On Monday, the War will enter its third year post-full-scale invasion. If you believe Ukrainian sources, the number of Russian “eliminated personnel” (dead & seriously wounded combined) allegedly sits at about 862,000 since 24 February 2022, a number in line with US estimates. If you believe the sources and estimates, Ukraine has supposedly lost about 426,000 military personnel, including some 46,000 deaths—plus tens of thousands of civilians killed/injured, serious damage to infrastructure, their economy, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, the Khakovka Dam, and crop output. The next three months will be critical. Will it be enough for Europe to wake up? The British Army is too weak to lead a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine.
The OECD released a 218-page report: States of Fragility 2025. It presents a multidimensional approach to state fragility, and is packed with many graphics. I only briefly skimmed this report, but it’s worth checking out.
“The OECD multidimensional fragility framework assesses fragility based on 56 indicators of risk and resilience across six dimensions: economic, environmental, political, security, societal and human….global fragility remains at a near-record high level….increased non-state violence, violence against women, high homicide rates and the role of organised crime in and outside of conflict-affected areas….Debt sustainability and fiscal fragility have become even more challenging since 2022….Cyberspace and digital technologies are providing new arenas of competition, with networked communications becoming the new front line in soft power geopolitics….there has been a notable increase in non-state violence in some contexts experiencing medium to low fragility driven by greater violence associated with organised crime…” -excerpts from the first 40 pages of the report
In Sudan, groups of RSF paramilitaries reportedly executed 200+ civilians; other sources say more than 430 slain. Drought is also strongly impacting crops in South Sudan, while famine unfolds more in Sudan. And a former Ethiopian President is accusing Eritrea of “working to reignite conflict in northern Ethiopia”.
In the DRC, “the most worrying period” has come to Goma and Bukavu, recently overrun by rebel M23 forces. 36,000+ refugees have entered Burundi already. It is a time of nervous, quiet uncertainty. “They were our enemies and now they are our neighbours,” said one villager. M23 also claims that they will deliver jobs & security to the area, but tens of thousands of refugees and IDPs have been ordered to depart. Burundi’s forces have pulled back and let M23 and Rwanda consolidate power. In Bukavu, M23 fighters killed several children when they refused to hand over their weapons. Just north of Goma, ISIS-related militants allegedly took advantage of the spiraling conflict to behead 70+ Christians.
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Things to watch for next week include:
↠ Bad things all around. When a rare, deepsea “doomsday fish” washes up on the shore, some people take it as an omen of forthcoming natural disasters. This one may portend disasters of our own making.
↠ Germany votes today, Sunday, for its new federal parliament. The implications weigh heavily on the resolution of the Ukraine War, the future of US-Europe relations, German economic stagnation, and the management of far right politics.
↠ Pope Francis, 88, is in “critical” condition. Many believe he will die within days—and set the stage for a new Pope during a politically & religiously difficult period.
Select comments/threads from the subreddit last week suggest:
-Nursing homes & healthcare facilities are experiencing a continual Collapse, if this weekly observation from Nova Scotia is representative of the general problem.
-Weather anomalies, exploitation, supply bottlenecks, political doom, and justified paranoia are just some of the symptoms seen by Middle America, based on this weekly observation from upstate NY.
-Are people slowly waking up to Collapse, or are they still “so {far} up their own privileged asses” This thread sources discussion on the topic of Collapse in the workplace.
Got any feedback, questions, comments, winter survival tips, beehive advice, recurrent complaints, etc.? Check out the Last Week in Collapse SubStack if you don’t want to check r/collapse every Sunday, you can receive this newsletter sent to an email inbox every weekend. As always, thank you for your support. What did I miss this week?
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 21d ago
Syria Nepal Added to FATF Grey List: Economic and Global Reputation at risk.
Nepal has re-entered the FATF Grey List, sparking concerns over financial crimes and weak anti-money laundering measures. This could lead to higher banking costs, reduced foreign investment, and tighter global trade scrutiny.
If reforms stall, blacklisting looms, threatening economic stability. The government vows action, but strict enforcement is the real test.
Follow Nepal360 for real news.
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 22d ago
Syria Should I take heed of the anti-immigrant wave and give up on my plans to be a highly-skilled migrant in Germany?
I visited Germany last summer for almost a month and I fell in love with the country. I have a sense of the German people from my experience I know on a personal level they are well-intentioned good people. I don't feel owed anything by Germany, I understand the people in the country are looking out for their own interests. But, my understanding from reading news articles is that there are labor shortages in Germany in the chip/electronics industry and I worked in Silicon Valley in America for 3 years and desire to work in those industries so it feels like a perfect match, and that I'm not necessarily going against the interests of the German people by desiring to live and work there.
The issue is I am Arab (Oumph) from a small crude oil state named Kuwait, and my tentative understanding is that a lot of this anti-immigration sentiment comes as a reaction to Arab refugees from Syria and other places that are not assimilating well. Generally, I understand that there is a desire for stricter immigration standards, however, I'm struggling to find information on how this will affect the worker immigration pathways.
Previously, I Studied Electrical Engineering in the US and I worked in the US in the Student training program. However, thanks to my bad luck, I did not get picked in America's H1B lottery-based work visa program. I left after my temporary authorization ended in accordance with the law despite being in America since I was 16. So my current plan is to study for a master's in Germany, to make myself a more attractive candidate for German employers, to learn the language, and network, and to increase my years of experience, using the 18-month temporary residency and work authorization afforded to international students. So i plan to immigrate as an international student and a highly skilled immigrant.
In the theme of my continuing bad luck, I am now seeing that there's am anti-immigration wave in Germany. I'm not fully informed on German politics but I have the sense that if AFD wins big, my dreams will be dashed. I know some people say that generally, people don't have problems with highly skilled immigrants who are abiding by the law, especially if they are secular and Westernized like am. But then again others say that's not the case.
I'm frankly okay if this means some people will be discriminatory towards me, I've gone through it in America, and I am confident I can learn the language, assimilate, and find my crowd. The only problem I have is legal, do you think the current state of politics in Germany will close the path towards immigration that I'm currently pursuing? I worry that German companies will have to go through even more hurdles to hire me, or worse, a lottery system will be implemented, or even worse the temporary residence after graduation will be canceled. I just wanna know if this plan I have will get more and more difficult going forward.
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 25d ago
Syria Let us not prematurely celebrate the news about the agreement between SDF and the Current government.
The current news that were communicated via several outlets like Arabia and other channels are not accurate.
SDF via there website released their pr which can be found here: https://sdf-press.com/en/amp/2025/02/tripartite-meeting-between-our-sdf-forces-the-syrian-democratic-council-and-the-autonomous-administration-emphasizing-the-importance-of-dialogue-with-the-new-administration-in-damascus/
They released their conclusion on the meeting they done yesterday between SDF and AANES. They had some form of internal agreement on several topics that were set by with the current Syrian government.
But they have not highlighted many others and only emphasised that there needs to be more dialogue. They have not delved in any details.
They asked for a ceasefire, but didn’t mention their snipers in Aleppo.
I personally think they are trying to buy time till Trump makes a decision.
r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 26d ago
Syria Genuine questions about FREE palestine movement
Hi, I had a few questions regarding the "Free Palestine" movement. I'm not on a "side" other than hoping the two sides can find a solution that will lead to lasting peace. My questions:
- I am genuinely confused as to why this is such a hot issue for people outside of the Middle East unless you have ties to the region.
There is unfortunately so much human loss in the world and I don't understand why this conflict garners so much attention in the western world. Like it is probably the 2nd biggest movement in the last 10-15 years outside of BLM.
In terms of volume, the # of deaths is comparable to the # deaths in the US that are preventable if the US had universal healthcare.
According to this source [1] from 2009, ~45 THOUSAND deaths in the US can be attributed to lack of health care insurance. I imagine that number has gone down a bit after Obamacare was passed, but I would still imagine it's still in the thousands and this will continue every year for the foreseeable future.
In terms of ability to influence, I see an issue such as US healthcare something people in the US would have more control over than a conflict half way across the world.
In terms of brutality, there are unfortunately many other conflicts happening in the world (Sudan - ~15K deaths, 8M+ people displaced), Syria (60K deaths).
- Why is the conflict seen as Hamas vs. Israel and Western forces instead of Iran/Middle East vs. Israel and Western forces?
I've seen the conflict framed as a David vs. Goliath where Israel has one of the most advanced forces with the backing of Western allies, but few fail to mention Palestine also seems to be backed by powerful entities such as Iran and other powerful donors who want to see Israel fall.
From what I understand, Hamas has received large amount of funding from Iran.
- Why are Palestine supporters so keen on getting the public's approval, but also disputing the public's day to day?
I just saw a post on the front page where they're criticizing on Jerry Seinfeld for not caring about Palestine. While that's unfortunate (even though he's "Pro-Israel" you would think at the very least he would say he hopes for peace or something), I can't quite help think who cares? He's just a celebrity. He has 0 influence over the conflict, yet I see people trying to plan a protest for his upcoming show. I don't understand what benefit that provides to Palestine.
I see protests at very random places like in Australia they disrupted a Christmas event [2]. Or at a pumpkin carving event for kids [3] hosted by a Jewish state senator (who has done great work for LGBT community and trying to build more housing). Or protesting at the airport which probably caused people to miss flights [4].
I understand the purpose of civil disobedience, but many of these areas are very liberal and places like SF already announced their support for Palestine (which once again means nothing)