USA 🇺🇸 Issues Urgent Warning to Madagascar 🇲🇬 stating “Growing Military Ties With Russia 🇷🇺 Could Bring Sahel-Style Instability, Jihadist Violence, and Resource Exploitation to Vital Indian Ocean Shipping Routes”
The United States has urged Madagascar not to deepen its military ties with Russia, warning that similar partnerships with West African military governments have failed to improve security and could fuel wider instability.
Lt. Gen. John Brennan, deputy head of US Africa Command, said Russia is seeking to “proliferate [the Sahel model] elsewhere across the continent.” He pointed to Madagascar’s strategic position in the Indian Ocean and its proximity to major global trade routes, including the Mozambique Channel.
“Madagascar sits in a location that is extremely important, as is Mozambique, and we don’t want to see those models be applied in those two locations,” Brennan said. He added that countries can choose their own alliances but should understand the risks involved.
The Sahel model refers to Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger turning to Russia after severing ties with Western partners. US officials say the shift has not improved security. Madagascar has not publicly responded, although Randrianirina has expressed support for stronger Russia-Africa ties.
The warning underscores the intensifying US-Russia contest for influence over the strategically located island.
The truth is that the US government is after Madagascar’s resources; that's why they issue this warning.
Em uma semana o Lewis Hamilton foi de visitar escolas e projetos sociais no Brasil a encontro com oficiais do governo no Egito para ver as condições de ajuda humanitária a refugiados palestinos
¡QUE NADIE LO OLVIDE!
Soldados israelíes se disfrazaron de médicos para infiltrarse en un hospital palestino y matar a niños y adultos en su interior.
No fue una hazaña militar. Fue terrorismo y un crimen de guerra. Hay gente que sigue defiendo esto.
So they push the Palestinians into a known flooding area by moving their "yellow line". They refuse to allow mobile homes or any shelter in. But if I call them pure evil, then I'm an anti-Semite. I'm so sick of it. Israel is a massive stain on humanity.
No more delays. No more excuses. We must open all the crossings, mobilize the whole humanitarian community, and get our full Winter plan delivered for Gaza.
🇵🇸🇮🇱 A pro-Palestinian woman shared a video on Instagram showing her removing the Israeli flag while stating she refuses to respect a "genocide flag."
What a legend.🫡
'I've never held a childs brains before, Ive never seen children assasinated before, I've never thought I would see a 6 year olds shot in the chest and head by snipers before, that changes you forever." - Surgeon Mark Perlmutter speaks about the horror of what he say in Gaza.
via @watermelon_pics
जब सद्दाम हुसैन को फांसी के लिए ले जाया जा रहा था, तब अमेरिकी सैनिकों ने उनसे पूछा कि उनकी अंतिम इच्छा क्या है।
सद्दाम हुसैन ने जवाब दिया, "मुझे मेरा कोट दो ताकि मैं उसे पहन सकूं।"
उनकी इच्छा के अनुसार उन्हें एक कोट दिया गया। एक सैनिक आश्चर्यचकित होकर बोला, "आपने कोट क्यों पहना है?"
सद्दाम हुसैन ने जवाब दिया, "आज बहुत ठंड है, कहीं ऐसा न हो कि मेरा शरीर ठंड से कांपने लगे और इराक के लोग यह सोचें कि उनका नेता मौत के डर से कांप रहा है।
Israel is still slowly but steadily torturing an accomplished doctor to death, right in front of the entire world.
A man who walked up to tanks and refused to abandon his patients.
We live in a time where the greatest cowards murder the greatest heroes.
They won't teach you this history in school about the Herero and Nama genocidê in Namibia 🇳🇦, where Germany 🇩🇪 kiļled 80% of an entire ethnic group, which wasn't acknowledged until 2021
Germany wiped out 80% of the Herero people. It took 117 years to say the word "genøcide."
In 1904, Germany issued an extermination order against the Herero people of Namibia.
Those who escaped the guns were driven into the Omaheke desert to die of thirst. Survivors were locked in camps like Shark Island. By 1908, about 80% of the Herero and roughly half of the Nama were dead.
Their skulls were shipped to Germany for "racial science."
Yet it wasn't until 2021 that Germany formally acknowledged it as genocide, offering €1.1 billion in development aid over 30 years.
Many Herero and Nama leaders rejected the deal. They say they were left out of the talks and that aid is not reparations.
So here's the question: can an apology ever be enough when it arrives 117 years late?
Lewis Hamilton: "I'm here with the Egyptian Red Crescent as they load these boxes containing aid they have prepared to send to Gaza. They went to the Rafah border today, accompanied by their wonderful volunteers. They have more than 70,000 volunteers across Egypt, and over 2,000 people here volunteer every day to make sure these boxes are ready and packed as well as possible. They're fully ready to be
deployed. So we really need to put pressure on Israel to
reopen the crossing from the Palestinian side, because not enough trucks are getting through each day."
"The people in Gaza and Palestine are in such urgent need that they could hardly need this aid more than they do right now, so we really must apply pressure.
And work together to ensure this aid gets there. There is a great deal of it, and this center is just one of several different sites that also contain such wonderful supplies, full of food, medicine, and things that individuals and families in Palestine really need."
On Tuesday, voters in Providence, Rhode Island overwhelmingly passed an ordinance requiring the city to divest from companies that enable genocide, apartheid, and human rights violations.
"The ordinance is the Palestine solidarity movement’s first binding municipal divestment law passed through popular vote in the U.S. — and makes Providence the largest U.S. city to vote to divest from Israel."
“Millions of dollars in Providence city funds are invested in companies facilitating and profiting from the Israeli genocide in Gaza, apartheid system in the occupied West Bank, and ongoing assault on Lebanon and Iran,” Jewish Voice for Peace-Rhode Island explained in a press release. “In addition, Providence has a 20-year history of investing millions in Israel Bonds, which function as direct, no-strings-attached loans to the Israeli government and military.”
“It was regular people who said, ‘we are going to create this ordinance, we are going to get enough signatures to get this on the ballot, we are not waiting for our elected officials to do something, we are going to do that work ourselves to make it happen,’”
- via @truthout