warning no drama, just combat news

Leaked by US officials

When Zelensky met with Biden he apparently promised to finally send ATACMS missiles. They denied it as a policy but the same day 3 different "anonymous sources" leaked it to NBC that they were coming.

U.S. President Joe Biden has informed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Washington will provide Kyiv with ATACMS long-range missiles, NBC News reported on Friday, citing three U.S. officials and a congressional official.

another Biden W confirmed

Now less than a month later it was confirmed on CNN:

US officials indicated to CNN on Tuesday that Ukraine has already used the ATACMS, some variants of which have a maximum range of approximately 186 miles, to attack Russia's and Luhansk airfields in eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian military tweeted on Tuesday that the attack destroyed several Russian helicopters, an ammunition depot and an air defense launcher, but did not specify whether they used ATACMS to do it.

Airport strike

Losses = Reports are it was a mix of K-52s and MI- helicopters

/r/combatfootage gloats

Hilarious reddit jokes

War is officially over now that Ukraine has a couple long range missiles. Even though helicopters and fighter jets have been almost non-existent in this war, offensives are basically impossible now:

STUPID RUSSIANS!! why would you store multiple helicopters at an airport 100km from the frontline instead of in some field?? Bunch of fricking amateurs:

https://old.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/179xyk6/video_showing_some_of_the_aftermath_from_last

ATACMS cluster munitions

Apparently it was the cluster variant circa 1996 (instead of the single large explosion variant)

Some RU telegram posted pictures of exploded MGM-140 submunition

https://x.com/RALee85/status/1714291525981786265

From wiki:

M39A1 (ATACMS Block IA) missile with GPS-aided guidance. It carries 300 M74 Anti-personnel and Anti‑materiel (APAM) bomblets. Range: 20–300 kilometres (12–186 mi). 610 M39A1 were produced between 1997 and 2003. During Operation Iraqi Freedom 74 M39A1 were fired at Iraqi targets.

There is some skepticism but seems to be pretty much confirmed

In closing I love this Marsey, nice work @Igor_Konashenkov

>"You can avoid reality, butt you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."~

The Negro River, the Amazon's second largest tributary, on Monday reached its lowest level since official measurements began near Manaus 121 years ago. The record confirms that this part of the world´s largest rainforest is suffering its worst drought, just a little over two years after its most significant flooding.

https://apnews.com/article/amazon-brazil-negro-river-drought-manaus-88421d0cbadca79007b4485cbf497c11

Impact:

20 years from now you would have a Taliban government that is a legitimate part of the Eastern world mentioning in their history books how the West tried to put them down but got beaten instead.

That's a legitimate blow to Western propaganda and displays of strength.

I don't think Taliban is a morally great government, but it is impressive how any place in the world where there is an anti-west group, China has its hands all in.

Afghanistan might end up being one of the actual examples of Chinese funding developing a very backwards region of the world.

Currently China also has continued to fund Sri Lanka and assist them in keeping afloat.

They have a strong economic network developing across Mongolia and Russia, with the Russian president coming in to form stronger bonds with China right now.

The current move to stabilize relations with Afghanistan also gives China the opportunity to build up a strong footing in its western sphere, thus expanding its geopolitical influence to more widespread areas than anybody else in the western sphere ever managed to do previously.

That is to say, China has become versatile in its economic and geopolitical dealings.

Another advantage that China has is that it limits its control of global events to its own geographical sphere, which makes it harder to push it into a wasteful conflict on the other side of the planet.

With an ever weakening US ( in comparative strength ), this is very beneficial.

Long term impact:

If China is able to develop Afghanistan it would have done something that the west failed to do. A display of its capabilities right there.

It would also open up China to further geographical expansion as it continues to stabilize the regions around itself.

https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/mexican-sinaloa-cartels-message-to-members-stop-making-fentanyl-or-die-b96d3e09

https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/178vu18/mexican_cartels_will_punish_the_sellinglacing

https://www.uscc.gov/research/fentanyl-chinas-deadly-export-united-states

https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/178vu18/mexican_cartels_will_punish_the_sellinglacing

The average Ameriburger redditor: YOU MUST ALLOW THE HOBOS FENTANYL THEY NEED IT ITS A HUMAN RIGHTERINO!!!

The Chad ( This once ) Mexican Drug Cartel: We have first hand experience of decades with drugs. Fentanyl is an evil that must be eradicated root and stem.

Between this and the calls for murdering everyone in Gaza. 2023 is the year when the Mexican Drug cartel has now reached a higher moral ground over the average Amerimutt social media user.

The US is only going to morally degrade further from this point onward.

#2024 Average redditors explaining how eating a 2 year old alive is just someone processing anxiety so we need to let them back out into society and give them a free house for supporting antinatalism.

What scandals or other interesting events should I demand from the Leaf Government?