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"Coordinated airstrikes hit two US occupation bases in southern and northeast Syria in the morning of 19 October, in the latest escalation against US troops in West Asia since the start of the Gaza-Israel war.

According to informed sources who spoke with Al-Mayadeen, three drones were able to fly above the Al-Tanf base at the Syrian-Iraqi-Jordanian border and launch several successful airstrikes.

“The attack led to a major alert within [Al-Tanf], with continuous flights of military aircraft and helicopters in the area,” Al-Mayadeen reported.

Sources within the US-led coalition that spoke with Iraq's Shafaq News on Wednesday claimed that the occupation forces “successfully intercepted and downed two of the drones, but the third managed to target the base.”

The US occupation base at Conoco oil field in Deir Ezzor governorate was also hit by multiple rockets.

No group has taken responsibility for the attacks and no casualties have been reported.

Hours before Thursday's airstrikes on US troops, the Israeli air force attacked the Syrian army in the southwestern Quneitra governorate, causing material damage. Explosions were also reported in the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

US troops stationed in Iraq's Ain al-Asad airbase were also targeted by airstrikes on Wednesday, which were claimed by the Kataib Hezbollah resistance faction. Although the Pentagon initially claimed its forces repelled the attack, the official story changed to include reports of wounded soldiers as the hours went on.

“The resistance in Iraq has entered the battle of ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’ and directed its strikes at US bases,” the military spokesman for Kataib Hezbollah declared on Thursday.

Since the start of the historic Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in the Gaza envelope, factions within the Resistance Axis in West Asia have warned they are ready to join the battle against Israel in support of the Palestinian cause and that US occupation troops and bases would become “legitimate military targets” if Washington also decides to enter the fray.

As tensions escalate, the Pentagon has deployed multiple warships and thousands of troops to the Israeli coast. The UK, Germany, and the Netherlands have mobilized troops to support Israel's ethnic cleansing campaign against Palestinians."

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[-] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 43 points 10 months ago

geordi-no Airstrikes hit largest US occupation base

geordi-yes US occupation base damaged in blast

[-] supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 10 months ago

Failed rocket launch by the US. I have tapes of two field operatives talking about it in the shittiest American accent you have ever heard.

[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Honestly that would be a great parody, one of the resistance groups should do that lmao

[-] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago

I don't know whether this is good or bad. Does anyone know whether the blast condemns Hamas?

[-] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 37 points 10 months ago

the escalating resistance is simultaneously very promising and worrying, I just hope won't lead to the US or "Israel" resorting to their nuclear arsenal out of desperation

[-] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 35 points 10 months ago

As long as no one hits one of the two US carriers on station in the area there should be no worry about the US resorting to nukes. It's something like an aircraft carrier getting sunk that would cause the kind of psychic damage required for US leadership to have an irrational knee jerk response involving nuclear weapons.

on a side note: does anyone else hate how because the people of the US are uniquely fkd in the head and have enough nuclear weapons to leave the earth lifeless, the rest of the world has to keep in mind what kinds of events might cause the US to have a complete collective freak out? In recent years I keep thinking about how throughout all of human history hegemonic empires would rise and fall but never before has the decline of an empire come with the very real danger that as they destabilize it could result in them killing everyone on earth rather than just themselves and their neighbors. It feels like being locked in a room with another individual who is experiencing deteriorating mental health and is in possession of a hand grenade no one can take away from them without risking setting it off.

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

China's masterful trick of trapping the West into economic codependency will only be eclipsed by China's judicious management of US decline in order to prevent nuclear holocaust.

[-] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 10 months ago

The world will never be free of the threat of US initiated nuclear war until the rest of the world all has hypersonic nukes pointed at every inch of the US to the magnitude they could wipe out every missile we have. The US will never relinquish their arsenal so long as there is a chance they can still use them effectively. Only until the US is de-nuclearized can the world breath a sigh of relief. I goo I could see that in my lifetime but I doubt it.

[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 10 months ago

Only other way I could think of is somehow sneaking ICBM interceptor missiles into the US and Europe (and I*ael?) because the launch phase is by far the most viable time to intercept, and then hope you can take out all the missiles fired from subs during the midcourse and keep their bombers from getting in range. That would require such an intelligence failure from the US however, so that’s just fantasy anyways.

[-] PoY@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

even then there are submarines that can launch icbms with multiple independently targeted warheads per missile

[-] proletarian_girlboss@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 10 months ago

I tend to not really worry about the US deployment of nuclear weapons at our current stage. If they use them, in a way they lose their leveraging power. Which is why they have been threatened to be used in so many of the wars the US has created, but only deployed twice, when it was only the US who had access to them. I remember one article I read recently that pointed this out in the context of the invasion of Korea. Despite both Korea and China not having nuclear weapons, and the US feeling a strong desire to use them, it never happened, and the US lost anyway. There were strong considerations for using nuclear weapons in the invasion of Vietnam as well, with the same result. It is what Mao referred to when he described the imperialists as paper tigers. When actually pushed, their cowardice is shown. Isn'treal is demonstrating this now I think, given how immensely incompetent its response to the resistance has been, and the fact that it keeps hesitating to send a ground invasion. It is not in their interest to do all the things they threaten to do, I think. At least not yet? It could change if it was undeniable, even to the most deeply unhinged supporters of the settler colony that their own defeat is inevitable. Which, while it seems to us that it may be, to the settlers. there is still this notion that they have the right to what they have stolen, that it is god's gift to them, etc. They cannot imagine a world without isn'treal just as the colonial occupiers of the various African colonies thought their reign was permanent. So their state of panic, I think, is not yet to the point of something as drastic as a nuclear attack.

[-] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 10 months ago

I hope you're right 🫡

[-] DeDollarization@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 10 months ago

Mohammed Al-Deif told the world from the start of Al Aqsa Flood: it is Jihad until victory or martyrdom 🫡

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S FUCKING GO

Is my immediate reaction. My second thoughts are "this is gonna escalate and that's bad" but you know what, I'm always second guessing myself and trying to be measured and pragmatic, I can have little a catharsis watching people throw water on the paper tiger, as a treat.

I know this isnt

[-] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 10 months ago

The more they push the thinner the wests resources get. Now is the opportune moment for other countries to push back. The west has given everything they can to Ukraine and Isn'treal. Their economy is a zombie that doesn't realize it's already dead. Shits crumbing and every country that pushes back is a another chunk taken out.

[-] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 10 months ago

So you're telling me the number one army in the world gets pretty easily hit by a drone strike and they still haven't found out who did it?

With the total surprise attack of Hamas and stuff like this happening I wonder if we aren't overestimating what The West™ is capable of.

[-] supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 10 months ago

Yes, the west's brutality is often visited upon the helpless and that disparity leads to overestimation of their abilities. When they start losing wars, they just drop napalm on children.

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 10 months ago
[-] Nationalgoatism@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

I love it when the trash takes itself out

[-] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

oh yeah I'll believe that when me shit turns purple and tastes like orange sherbet

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