Pretty much every second Afrikaans family goes on a caravan or camping holiday during the school holidays here in South Africa lol. It’s basically a tradition at this point.

The dude went on a camping trip with a range rover and caravan, along with a rented boat, and that’s somehow worth making a fuss according to the FBI?

Wedding ring on the right rand (in cultures that usually wear it on the left) and the upside down pineapple are the signs I’ve heard/know about for swingers. There’s probably more, but I’m not really involved in that sort of thing either.

You could try some anti fungal vaginal cream. Might get some weird looks buying it, but it’s worth a shot.

Honestly my music taste was heavily influenced by video game soundtracks from games I played as a kid and teenager. Rise Against, TV On The Radio, Queens Of The Stone Age, etc, I heard them all first on video game soundtracks for the Need For Speed and Burnout games. So I guess that’s how I discovered music in the past? I definitely didn’t get it from my parents or classmates.

He cannot be this stupid. It’s impossible for someone to be so ignorant, which honestly makes this worse.

They’re swingers most likely

Appears to be a ballistic missile strike against power infrastructure, causing an almost instant power blackout for the settlement after the hit.

Video on xcancel twitter alternative. Ignore the title of two missiles, only one is visible.

According to Israeli media, apparently three arrow hypersonic interceptors were fired at the missile from Lebanon, and all three failed to intercept. The ballistic missile from Lebanon was moving at very high speed. The Ghadr-110 intermediate range ballistic missile, called the Qader-1 by Hezbollah, has a top speed of Mach 9.

Perhaps I didn’t learn as much as I thought I did from Russia’s campaign in Ukraine, where the red lines are actually red carpets.

I’d say the difference is that Russia has been able to enforce two of it’s biggest red lines, by invading Ukraine after they crossed the red line around seeking NATO membership, and recently the red line around the use of long range NATO weapons in deep strikes into Russia where Russia got NATO to back down. A lot of that has to do with Russia having a relatively large modern army with air, naval and ground forces, and Russia of course having nuclear weapons. Unfortunately that situation is reversed in the Middle East, with Israel having a modern mechanised army and nuclear weapons, and the resistance not having such capabilities.

If you want to do analysis here, I guess it would come down to the five monopolies used to maintain imperial control and reproduce global capitalism: the monopoly of technology generated by the military expenditures of the imperialist centres; the monopoly of access to natural resources; the monopoly over finance; the monopoly over international communication and the media; and the monopoly over the means of mass destruction.

Russia got cut out if the global finance system with SWIFT, and got cut out of “international media” in the West with the banning of it’s media outlets. But with natural resources, technology from China on the civilian front, and their own military technology which is very advanced, and their own nuclear weapons, they were able to do quite well.

With regards to the resistance, they are quite behind the USA and Israel on all five fronts here, although Iran has made great progress in military technology over a short period of time.

I maintain that as long as Hamas, Hezbollah (what’s left of it), and Iran hold back and do not go all in against Israel, they will lose this conflict.

While you’re right about quite a bit, how are the resistance supposed to go “all in against Israel” without risking nuclear war, and/or a NATO - Israel bombing campaign that would eviscerate Lebanon or Iran? Unfortunately we live in a world where both options are a very real possibility.

Just going to edit to say that the way you are addressing this is not constructive. People are mourning the loss of a leader, some people on here have family in Lebanon and this kind of response lacks tact.

Also Israel has a viable way to deliver those nuclear weapons to any capital city in the world through inter continental ballistic missiles and stealth jets, apartheid South Africa didn’t. All apartheid South Africa had were 1950s warplanes to deliver the nuclear bombs, which would easily be shot down by Cuban and Soviet air defence systems and fighters. This meant that the nuclear weapons could only be used internally, and/or as a negotiation tool. Such is obviously not the case for Israel.

Israel’s air bases are heavily protected by arrow hypersonic interceptors, david’s sling (an improved Patriot system/patriot replacement), the warplanes themselves can shoot down incoming missiles, etc. And any major attack on an Israeli airbase would involve the US and UK mobilising rapidly to protect it and shoot down incoming missiles and drones. A saturation attack could work as shown by Iran earlier this year, but that requires a lot of co-ordination and planning, to fire hundreds of missiles and drones at the correct times. The planes themselves are also likely stored in concrete hangars designed to withstand strikes when not performing missions, so you’d need a lot of ordinance or specialised bunker buster warheads to take one out while it’s in a protected hangar. It’s a highly complex operation, and given Hezbollah’s current arsenal, maybe not the most feasible.

Realistically, the only thing that would stop Israel bombing with impunity would be for Hezbollah to confront the Israeli Air Force with modern air defence systems, and start shooting their planes down. Unfortunately Hezbollah do not have this capability. The missile threat was always an asymmetric deterrence or trump card Hezbollah and the rest of the resistance had, to try scare Israel from doing such operations. But at the end of the day if Israel wants to fly their warplanes over a country and bomb it, there is not much the resistance can do with their current capabilities to directly stop the modern US warplanes Israel has. It is important to be realistic about the current capabilities of the resistance in this regard.

That’s a quick way to get nuked or have a massive joint American-Israeli bombing campaign destroy the entirety of Lebanon.

A few of the secondary explosions from the bombings last night definitely look as if some kind of weapons cache was hit and a bunch of ammunition cooked off. But the rest just looked like terror bombings.

The people of South Africa stand with you and your friend forever and always, we try our best to help even though we’re a poor third world country on the other side of the globe. I hope one day that you can rid yourself of this horrible Israeli apartheid and live in freedom and peace in your own land. It seems impossible, but that’s what they said about South Africa in the past.

As for a question, what kind of music does he like/listen to? I always find that can be helpful for the soul when going through difficult times.

It buys time for an appropriate official response, gives the people time to emotionally process the situation, and subdues any initial panicked response. It’s a propaganda tactic at the end of the day. Most organisations or countries would do the same in the event of the death of a senior leader. While us news thread people (including me) would just prefer the brutal honest truth as quick as possible, this might not be the best messaging tactic when communicating to millions of people more invested in the situation than us. I know it’s an overused cliché, but the first casualty of war is always the truth.

It’s just the initial propaganda push that happens after events like this to calm people down and prevent panic. Same thing happened after the Raisi helicopter crash, same thing happened after the US started bombing Yemen last year.

No mention of Nasrallah, I think he’s dead.

Editing to say I just refreshed the thread and saw the latest news, damn…