Cᴀʟɪʙʀᴇ Oʙsᴄᴜʀᴀ
@CalibreObscura
V. part time Arms Researcher & Occasional Effortposter. Interested in MENA/Asia NSAGs
tfw made mistake of having opinions in public, never doing that again
Oh, look, turns out I wasn't making it up
People talking about HTS forget that amongst other things Jolani is deeply connected with the tribes that span from Lebanon to Iraq across Syria. ISI had many assets that ISIS demolished.
Pantsir-S1 functioning "just as intended", Crimea, 2025, Colourised
Doing this to Jeff later today
Watch what is happening and know that this was not inevitable, and that Bibi and friends do not care one bit.
It is quite possible to hold two thoughts in one's head: 1) Any and all violations against Druze individuals, particularly non combatants, is wrong and should be stopped and punished, indeed must be 2) Israel/Bibi doesn't actually care about (1), and is using it as a fig leaf
Vans MTE UltraRange continue to be the best 👟 I've purchased for a long time.
also pay attention to the abject silence from certain voices now that violations, abuses & massacres are targeting the Bedouin communities in southern Syria To many people, unless violence can further their belief that the new Syrian government is genocidal, it doesnt exist.
This signalling will provide even greater enablement to factions within Ukraine who have been constrained to varying degrees since Feb 2022 by the Ukrainian Presidential Administration. Extremely interesting scenes ahead.
Trump has privately encouraged Ukraine to step up deep strikes on Russian territory, even asking Zelenskyy whether he could strike Moscow if the US provided long-range weapons, according to people briefed on the discussions. w/ @HenryJFoy & @maxseddon. ft.com/content/b66f03…
Big Monke so obsessed with being fruit tsar he now find orange man can fling own banan
If Big Monke managed to fumble the bag with Orange Man then that's a level of L that blows the mind
First we had Abu Ivanka, now it's Azov Melania
Trump on Putin: “I go home and I tell the First Lady, ‘you know I spoke to Putin today, we had a wonderful conversation,’ she says ‘oh really? Another [Ukrainian] city was just hit.’”
OIF Vets would recognise
Breaking. The Security forces thwarted a terror attack involving multiple IEDs in #Homs province, #Syria. The Interior Ministry says the man arrested was working with a Hezbollah-affiliated cell and had brought the IEDs through illegal crossings with Lebanon.
And people ask why I disparage the NYT occasionally
This same author contributed to a Kadyrov propaganda piece for NYT last summer
If Big Monke managed to fumble the bag with Orange Man then that's a level of L that blows the mind