Israel airstrikes target over 250 strategic sites in Syria.

We know who can't live in peace.

Btw. since the beginning of the Syrian civil war Turkish and U.S. forces occupied Syrian territories too. Like Israel they should then also be called 'land thieves'.

Erdogan wants to prevent the establishment of a Kurdish nation state in Syria (Erdogan's worst nightmare because millions of his Turkish citizens along Syria's border are Kurdish: Shia Muslims opposed to Sunni Turkish). The Americans try to hinder Syrian Islamists from infiltrating Iraq again.

I wonder if those Myanmar generals who orchestrated the coup are now having regrets.

Bloody siege ends Myanmar army control of western border.

The end, when it came for the BGP5 barracks, was loud and brutal. First, a crackly speaker calling out for their surrender; then, a thunderous barrage of artillery, rockets and rifle fire that tore chunks out of the buildings in which hundreds of soldiers were hiding.

BGP5 – the letters stand for Border Guard Police – was the Myanmar military junta's last stand in northern Rakhine State, which lies along the border with Bangladesh.

Video by the insurgent Arakan Army (AA) which was besieging the base shows their rag-tag fighters, many barefoot, firing an assortment of weapons into the base, while air force jets roar over their heads.

It was a ferocious battle - perhaps the bloodiest of the civil war which has consumed Myanmar since the military seized power in a coup in 2021........

Strategic thinking is not one of their skills. Even Xi has lost patience with them.

Yet another not spot brews.

Once firm friends, Afghanistan and Pakistan are now at each other's throats. Here's why.

Once close allies, relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have soured dramatically — with experts blaming a colonial-era border and a backfired strategy of supporting religious extremists.

Pakistan last week conducted deadly aerial strikes on Afghanistan's Paktika province, reportedly killing 46 people, including women and children.

The strikes were purportedly aimed at Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants — who aim to overthrow Pakistan's government and establish an Islamic state — operating from Afghan territory.

Afghanistan's Taliban government condemned the incident, describing it as a "blatant violation of all international principles", and launched retaliatory attacks.

The Taliban Defense Ministry, posted on X, saying its forces targeted Pakistani points that "served as centres and hideouts for malicious elements and their supporters who organised and coordinated attacks in Afghanistan" without elaborating further.......

Once firm friends, Afghanistan and Pakistan are now at each other's throats. Here's why.

"Pakistan simplistically assumed that all problems would vanish with the Taliban in power. But every major issue — refugees, border disputes, militancy — has instead been exacerbated," he said.

It's not only the stupid West's miscalculation of religious and political affairs in war-torn Afghanistan. It is actually a reassuring realization that also Islamic countries like Pakistan overestimate their impact and influence. If it weren't for their nuclear weapons, which will hopefully be controlled forever by a military regime in Islamabad, and not a theocracy of some religious lunatics.

The neighbours are at it again.

Ominous warning as Pakistan, India conflict death toll rises.

One of Pakistan’s top officials has claimed India’s “reckless conduct” has brought the two nuclear states “closer to a major conflict”.

More than 50 people have been killed during India and Pakistan’s biggest armed confrontation in decades, with both sides accusing the other of orchestrating drone attacks.

The escalation between the nuclear-armed rivals follows an attack on tourists in the Indian-run part of disputed Kashmir that killed 26 people on April 22 and Indian air strikes on “terrorist camps” on Wednesday.

One of Pakistan’s top officials has claimed India’s “reckless conduct” has brought the two nuclear states “closer to a major conflict”.

More than 50 people have been killed during India and Pakistan’s biggest armed confrontation in decades, with both sides accusing the other of orchestrating drone attacks.

The escalation between the nuclear-armed rivals follows an attack on tourists in the Indian-run part of disputed Kashmir that killed 26 people on April 22 and Indian air strikes on “terrorist camps” on Wednesday.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister has labelled air strikes on the country from India as an ‘act of war’, after three people were reportedly killed.

In the third day of tit-for-tat exchanges since, the Indian army said that it “repulsed” Pakistani attacks using drones and other munitions overnight and gave a “befitting reply”.

On Friday, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shafqat Ali Khan blamed India for the conflict erupting saying its “reckless conduct has brought the two nuclear-armed states closer to a major conflict”.

“India’s jingoism and war hysteria should be a source of serious concern for the world,” he said during a press briefing in the capital Islamabad.

India accused Pakistani forces on Thursday of targeting three military stations – two in Kashmir and one in the neighbouring state of Punjab.........

The defining myth of nuclear deterrence is that any attack on a nuclear armed power is pointless, because it would be suicide.

However, the aggressor must firmly believe in it. This works for rational, mature, resp. satiated powers concerned about their populations; seemingly less so for those for whom nuclear arms are supposed to distract from their inadequate conventional power—a nuclear fig leaf, so to speak.

If this is compounded by the newfangled hubris of having to drive superior powers into a limited war by means of supporting religious fanaticism and international terror, then nuclear deterrence is reduced to absurdity or even rendered ineffective altogether?

Military clashes started across the border of Cambodia and Thailand. Artillery rockets have been launched from Cambodian MLRS; civilian villages indiscriminately targeted. Thailand's Airforce send F-16 to bomb military installations inside Cambodia.

I still do not understand the reasons that led to this skirmish.

Thailand warns clashes with Cambodia could 'move towards war'

A distraction from other events in the wider world?...


All a game of deadly politics...
Martin

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