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From what I read, the mental health requirements were laxed. Israel isn’t as nuts about civilian gun ownership as the U.S. though, not by a long shot

I don’t believe the IDF ever left behind destroyed vehicles in Gaza before. This is definitely a first

It’s been rebuilt before with the same exact approach, it will probably be done so again. Scale of destruction is significant now but within a decade or two it will probably be back to what it sort of was. Such an utterly pointless conflict IMO.

Technically most of Hezbullah’s recruits are from villages. Individuals living in Large urbanized centers tend not to join militant groups

Not sure how valid this account is, but it may answer some of your questions

Yeah, pretty ridiculous that from May until now, we went back full circle

Well, huge issue is that a some number of bombs dropped by IDF didn’t explode. This has provided Hamas with some pretty significant explosive materials to manufacture large scale IEDs. I agree that they don’t have much of a weapons manufacturer capability at this point. But having several tens of thousands of kg of explosives is a bit concerning

https://x.com/ralee85/status/1879192047204347916?s=46 Mig-29 technicians are now being sent to frontline duties???

Hindustan Times is a very biased news source…they are strangely very pro Russian and pro Palestinian (to absurd levels). I take their reporting with a bit of caution.

Of course it keeps getting better https://x.com/warfareanalysis/status/1877935931698958723?s=46

Well, apparently Syrian jihadists are eyeing other countries. Big surprise right?

On an individual unit level, some Ukrainian units indeed can be better equipped than their Russian counter parts. But you can’t compare one squad and think an entire brigade has similar capabilities. My wife’s former colleague, when he was deployed to the front, they had three civilians SUVs that would break down often and didn’t have slings for their rifles. Doubt they had any kind of NVG

Who needs Alawites to be back on top? While Iran prefers Shia militias, it has no problem backing Sunni groups…aka Hamas. A fragmented Syria, if it happens, will be under the power of various groups and Iran won’t have an issue backing a Sunni based group. A non fragmented Syria is a different ballgame altogether but you are dealing with a jihadist run state. And it doesn’t take a mathematician to realize both Sunni and Shia extremists tend to not like Israel. Right now Julani is acting peacekeeper and savior for the sake of obtaining some sort of legitimacy and unfreezing Syrian funds held abroad. Let’s revisit what happens in a decade or less

There was no way to predict who’d come out on top after the civil war in Lebanon. No way we can predict in a decade with Syria (and quite frankly, even five years ago nobody would have predicted Al Qaeda affiliated groups would rule Syria and push out Iran by late 2024). Your guess is as good as mine on what will happen

It’s a bit too early to tell what exactly will happen either in Syria or Lebanon. I agree that Iranian proxies have been thrashed pretty badly, but if Syria were to collapse again due to internal strife, that would have dire consequences for the region yet again. Too early to tell but it would be unwise to discount it