The Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (also known as Russian Support Forces) just keep on expanding their murderous crap and disturbing the peace. :-(

UN says up to 300,000 Sudanese fled their homes after a notorious group seized their safe haven.

The military junta is in trouble and now want to recruit those that they are oppressing. :-O

Why Myanmar is only now enforcing a conscription law it's had on the books since 2010.

The Myanmar junta's decision to begin enforcing a conscription law first enacted 14 years ago is an attack on the country's young people, a "pronouncement of psychotic resolve" and likely to have unintended consequences, analysts say.

The junta's State Administrative Council (SAC) made the announcement via state media on Saturday.

All men aged 18 to 35 and women aged 18 to 27 must serve for up to two years, while specialists like doctors aged up to 45 must serve for three years.

The service could be extended to a total of five years in the ongoing state of emergency.

"The duty to safeguard and defend the nation extends beyond just the soldiers but to all citizens," junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun said.

"So I want to tell everyone to proudly follow this people's military service law."

Those who fail to comply with the draft face up to five years in prison, the legislation says......

Conscripting those who don't want you there will likely cause them more serious problems in the end.

But will it bring peace to this disfunctional country?

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry tenders resignation after Jamaica talks.

# In short: Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has tendered his resignation as head of the Caribbean nation after an escalation of violence in the capital Port-au-Prince.

# Mr Henry, who many Haitians consider corrupt, had repeatedly postponed elections saying security must first be restored.

#What's next? US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called for the creation of a "presidential college" which he said would be tasked with meeting the "immediate needs" of Haitian people.

But will it bring peace to this disfunctional country?

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry tenders resignation after Jamaica talks.

What means peace? The absence of daily violence or street killings? Or a functionining constitutional state, even a democracy? Haiti needs peacekeepers... no... "peace enforcers" from abroad who would have to establish an occupation regime first. Nobody wants that. The same as in Gaza. So the international community (UN, US, EU, NGOs, ...) will give a few hundred million dollars for the hope that the coutry's misery disappears from world news for as long as possible.

A sustainable solution is known in El Salvador.

Poorly run governments certainly don't lead to peace.

‘Violence and anarchy’ on streets of Kenya as youth rally against crippling tax hikes.

Disturbing images have emerged from Kenya after a massive protest against a proposed tax hike spiralled out of control, leaving at least five dead and buildings ablaze.

The clashes between police and demonstrators came as the parliament compound in the capital Nairobi was stormed.

The military was immediately brought in to quell the madness, with authorities reportedly deployed tear gas, water cannons, rubber bullets, and in some cases live ammunition, according to human rights organisation Amnesty Kenya.

“Despite the assurance by the government that the right to assembly would be protected and facilitated, today’s protests have spiralled into violence,” several NGOs said in a joint release reporting the casualties.

The White House has called for calm, and more than ten Western nations, including Canada, Germany, and Britain, expressed shock over the violent scenes outside the Kenyan parliament.

The protests, mainly driven by disaffected youth, stem from outrage over a proposed tax raise and a cost-of-living crisis that has whittled away at law and order in the nation of 52 million.

Late on Thursday, Kenya’s President William Ruto said he had axed the tax rises in wake of the protests. But that will leave the government struggling to provide services due to a $120 billion debt burden that swallows up half the nation’s current tax revenue in repayments.

It’s not clear if the tax backdown will quell the anger. ......

Poorly run military also don't help.

Bolivian soldiers ram armoured vehicles into door of government palace, raising fears of coup.

Armoured vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia's government palace as President Luis Arce warned an "irregular" deployment of troops was taking place in the capital, raising coup fears.

Mr Arce warned on Wednesday local time that an "irregular" deployment of troops was taking place in the capital and he called for “democracy to be respected" on social media.

Heavily armed soldiers and armoured vehicles were seen gathering in the capital's central Plaza Murillo, according to videos shared on social media.

Former Bolivian president Evo Morales, also in a message on X, denounced the movement of the military in the Murillo square outside the palace, calling it a coup "in the making."

The general commander of the army, Juan José Zúñiga, confirmed the movement of uniformed officers. .......

But will it bring peace to a largely dysfunctional country?

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigns after month of protests.

Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned and fled the country after weeks of deadly anti-government protests.

Military chief Waker-Uz-Zaman confirmed reports she left the Bangladesh capital for a "place of safety".

He said an interim government would run the country following her resignation.

Multiple media outlets have reported that Ms Hasina has landed in the eastern Indian city of Argatala and the Indian government is expected to offer her safe passage.

Local media reports thousands of people have entered the prime minister's residence.

The Business Standard newspaper estimated as many as 400,000 protesters were on the streets but it was impossible to verify the figure.

Soldiers and police using armoured vehicles and barbed wire barricaded routes to Ms Hasina's office in Dhaka on Monday morning, but the vast crowds flooded the streets and tore down the barriers........

Maybe it will.

A Nobel laureate will head an interim government in Bangladesh after unrest ousted Sheikh Hasina.

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will be the chief adviser of Bangladesh's interim government after former prime minister Sheikh Hasina stepped down and fled the country amid a mass uprising against her rule.

Mr Yunus was appointed to the post by Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin after he held meetings with student leaders and chiefs of the three military services, local media reported late on Tuesday, citing a statement and officials from the president's office.

A longtime political opponent of Ms Hasina, Mr Yunus is expected to return soon from Paris, where he is advising Olympic organisers, according to local media reports.

Mr Yunus called Ms Hasina's resignation the country's "second liberation day" after its 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.......

With India's agent in East Bengal (oh it's not called that now is it, though it was when said agent was born), umm East Pakistan (no it's not called that anymore either), ah Bangladesh being ejected will this lead to this being another flashpoint in the world as the pot calls the kettle black?

Bangladesh leader’s ‘megaphone diplomacy’ irks India.

The relationship between neighbours India and Bangladesh continues to remain frosty more than a month after former prime minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted from power. While Hasina’s stay in India remains an irritant, a recent interview by Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus also took India by surprise. The BBC’s Anbarasan Ethirajan examines where ties stand now.

Sheikh Hasina was seen as pro-India and the two countries enjoyed close strategic and economic ties during her 15-year rule. Her time in power was also beneficial for India’s security, as she cracked down on some anti-India insurgent groups operating from her country and settled some border disputes.

But her presence in India, with no clarity on how long she will stay, complicates the two countries’ efforts to maintain a strong relationship.

That was made clearer last week when, in an interview with news agency Press Trust of India, Yunus urged India to stop Hasina from making any political statements while staying in Delhi.

“If India wants to keep her until the time Bangladesh wants her back, the condition would be that she has to keep quiet,” said Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who is currently leading an interim administration after Hasina’s exit.

Yunus may have been referring to a statement released days after Hasina’s arrival which had stoked anger in Bangladesh. She has not issued any public communication since then.

There have been calls within Bangladesh to bring Hasina back to stand trial for killings of people during the anti-government protests in July and August........

Those corrupt Myanmar generals are in a panic and are now wanting to talk peace. They got rejected by the people.

Myanmar military urges anti-coup forces to give up struggle and join talks.

Myanmar’s military coup leaders have urged their opponents to put down their weapons and start political dialogue, in a surprise move that was swiftly rejected.

The State Administration Council (SAC), as the military has styled itself since seizing power in February 2021, urged the ethnic armed groups and People’s Defence Forces (PDF) fighting against military rule to give up what it described as the “terrorist way” and start political dialogue.

The armed groups have taken control of swathes of the country since combining forces to launch a major offensive in October last year, putting the military under immense pressure.

“Ethnic armed organizations and PDF terrorists fighting against the State are invited to contact the State to resolve the political issues through party politics or electoral processes in order to be able to join hands with the people to emphasize durable peace and development by discarding the armed terrorist way,” the SAC said in a statement published in Friday’s edition of the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar.

The National Unity Government (NUG), which includes elected lawmakers removed in the coup, swiftly dismissed the offer.

NUG spokesperson Nay Phone Latt said it was not worth considering, according to the Reuters news agency........

I wonder if those Myanmar generals are now happy with what they're sown.

Continued conflict leaves Myanmar mired in crisis.

Myanmar is mired in crisis as conflict escalates, with criminal networks “out of control” and human suffering at unprecedented levels, a United Nations report has warned.

UN special envoy for Myanmar, Julie Bishop, told the UN General Assembly’s human rights committee on Tuesday that “Myanmar actors must move beyond the current zero-sum mentality”.

Bishop called for an end to the violence, stressing that there can be little progress on addressing the needs of people while armed conflict continues across the Southeast Asian country, causing rising civilian casualties.

The conflict has “so severely undermined” the rule of law that “transnational crime emanating from Myanmar is proliferating,” she added.

“The sheer scale of arms productions and trade, human trafficking, drug manufacture and trafficking, and scam centres means Myanmar now ranks highest among all member states for organised crime,” she said. “The criminal networks are out of control.”........

But will this latest action eventually bring peace to a broken country?

A nation of more than 23 million is teetering on the brink of total collapse as rebel forces take hold, with a dictator now facing an uncertain future.

Syria’s 13-year-long civil war had quietened into a general standoff. But Israel’s attacks on Lebanon-based Hezbollah and Iran have changed the balance of regional power.

Now, the fighting has erupted again.

The Bashar al-Assad regime’s defensive line in the northwest of the country has collapsed surprisingly fast. Syrian rebels surged into Syria’s second most prominent city, Aleppo, within days. Another 250 towns and villages have fallen under their control in the first week.

Advancing rebel fighters dealt another strategic blow to the regime and its Russian and Iranian backers on Thursday when they seized the crossroads city of Hama. Now, President Assad’s forces are marshalling to defend the next major city on the road to Damascus – Homs...........

But will this latest action eventually bring peace to a broken country?

It's broken by design. I don't think there ever can be peace within a unified Syrian nation state without autocratic rule (Assad) or foreign domination, e.g. a powerful Sultan in Istanbul (ohhh... is that Erdogan's plan???).

Today's borders of Syria had been drawn by British and French in the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 which prepared the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after WW1. So, Syria's borders only represent parts of the former French zone of influence and control in the Middle East... The Syrian borders totally ignored the many different peoples within (Shia and Sunni Muslims... and minorities like the Shia sect of Alawites or the non-Arab Yezidis in Syria's Kurdish Northeast). Then the Kurdish people, also no Arabs, still today the largest people (40 Million) without an own nation state who spread across Eastern Turkiye, Northern Syria... Iraq) since centuries.

Eventually, we will witness a process similar to the desintegration of the former Ottoman Empire or the Austria-Hungarian Empire at the end of WW1: lots of new nation states evolved from the previous crisis ridden multi-national, multi-ethnic, multi-religious compound states which have failed because of their unsurmountable internal conflicts and contradictions.

Hopefully, the people of Syria are capable to establish some kind of Confederation or Federation which respects the rights of all and distributes power among all nations instead of the autocratic rule of an Alawite minority: Bashar Al-Assad's clan. A couple of new independent, weak nation states in this region will supposedly just form playgrounds for their powerful neighbors (Iran, Turkiye), just like Lebanon.

But if I think of all the rebels, supported by Turkiye, and Erdogans passion for ruthless and brutal Islamists (like Hamas) one must expect the worst. That is, an autocratic Sunni Arab theocracy, the long-yearned-for "Caliphate".

If I may insert some facts from one of my contacts https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/12/syria-matters-russia/680858/
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Bashar al-Assad and his family have fled to Moscow after the collapse of his dictatorship.

Rebels have stormed the palace of Bashar al-Assad, posing behind his desk, and uncovering a massive fleet of luxury cars, including Mercedes, Porches, Audis and Ferraris.

If I may insert some facts from one of my contacts https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/12/syria-matters-russia/680858/

“Global Russia“ ends…

instead: „Taiga Russia“.

Good news.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/world/middleeast/syrias-frozen-conflict-is-now-red-hot.html

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/retreat-of-syrian-forces-threatens-saigon-moment-for-russia-c17ccc22
Like Russia's "Saigon Moment."

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When equilibriums are disrupted, chaos can ensue.

When you are confronted with a Nazi-like death camp; piles of corpses, clothing, and shoes in a so-called "prison", then.... "the equilibrium" must be disrupted and any chaos that erupts from that is justified and will offer a better choice than what was there before. At least it offers opportunities for a fairer society with less violence and terror. Of course, another Islamist terror regime could emerge; just as deadly and brutal as Assad's. Nevertheless, there is no need to shed a tear for Assad.

Those Russians are on the run again.

Russia seemingly pulling forces from Syria, satellite imagery shows.

Meanwhile Adolf Benji and his Nazi butchers are just making more enemies and building more hatred against Israel.

Israel orders forces to set up ‘sterile defence zone’ in southern Syria. (more land thieving)

Israel airstrikes target over 250 strategic sites in Syria.

Meanwhile Adolf Benji and his Nazi butchers are just making more enemies and building more hatred against Israel.

Israel orders forces to set up ‘sterile defence zone’ in southern Syria. (more land thieving)

Israel airstrikes target over 250 strategic sites in Syria.

Formally, there is a state of war between Syria and Israel since 1948. At the end of the Yom-Kippur-War (1973) the latest ceasefire with Syria was agreed on in May 1974 which stopped the fighting. The collapse of the Assad regime means, the signatory of this agreement no longer exists. In the 50 years since 1974, the Assad regime has not managed to conclude a peace treaty with Israel (according to the "Three Noes of Khartoum" (Arab policy on Israel)). Israel can't passively watch a revolution in Syria and allow Islamist rebels to take over the equipment of the formerly powerful and well-armed Syrian Army and then watch them taking control of the territory at Israel's northern border.

Thus, the current occupation of a defence zone along Syria's border with Lebanon is a safety measure. In theory, since the ceasefire of 1974, this zone is safeguarded by the UNDOF peace keeping force. There are lots of lines to be respected by IDF, Lebanese and Syrian forces ('purple', 'blue', 'alpha' and 'bravo' lines). Israel witnessed in Southern Lebanon how UNIFIL forces passively ignored the illegal buildup of massive military infrastructure, arms and rocket stocks by Hezbollah. The now occupied territory in Syria (in UNDOF's zone) is a mountainous region (Mt. Hermon 2,814 m (9,232 ft) which was repeatedly misused by Syria's Army and PLO terrorists in the past to start dangerous assaults on Israel's north. Syria attacked with long range artillery and massive tank formations making use of the mountain heights above Israel's northern lowlands west of the Sea of Galilee. This way Israel's existence was endagered in the Yom-Kippur war of 1973. Israel will not repeat the mistake of allowing a Syrian enemy to deploy an army on these high grounds.

It will be the task of a future Syrian government to agree on a replacement for the 1974 ceasefire and hopefully a final peace treaty. Until this day Israel has the obligation to secure its northern Galilee region from further Arab non-state aggressors. So, Israel will not wait until another bunch of brainwashed Islamists deem it a good idea to launch rockets from Mt. Hermon at northern Israel. There is a massive pressure within Israel to enable the return of the thousands of Israelis who were forced to leave their homes in the North due to Hezbollah's missile terror.