Our Wars, Today - Overview

Ukraine: Russian general 'blown up on mine' https://ground.news/article/ukraine-russian-general-blown-up-on-mine_c573aa?utm_source=ourwarstoday&utm_medium=pap-link#a_aid=ourwarstoday

Israel-Hamas ceasefire extended for another day: https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/status/1730201760541622315

#Myanmar (#Burma) 🇲🇲: Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (#MNDAA) raided a military camp in #Kokang, #Shan State (border with #China 🇨🇳) during the #Operation1027. Fighters captured a rare 87.6mm QF 25-pounder Short (Baby 25-pr) field gun, and possible UAV Signal Jammer. https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1730102464114794925

#Palestine / #Israel 🇵🇸🇮🇱: Al-Qassam Brigades (#HAMAS) published a new video of their fighters releasing hostages in #Gaza. The members are carrying ex-#IDF 'Menusar' and M16A1 carbines (Colt 653 vatiants) AK-103-2 rifle (from #Libya 🇱🇾) and #Hungarian 🇭🇺 AMD-65 rifles. https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1729954074462667052

#Philippines 🇵🇭: #ISEAP (#ISIS - East Asia) militants carried out an attack on Moro Islamic Liberation Front (#MILF) in #Maguindanao (#Mindanao). Militants appear to be armed with a common M16A1 assault rifle (Colt Model 603/613P) and an M14 rifle; both fitted with scopes. https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1730253223292735603

"Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević." – Anthony Bourdain

Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at his home in Connecticut, his consulting firm said in a statement. The notorious war criminal was 100. The Yale University historian Greg Grandin, author of the biography Kissinger’s Shadow, estimates that Kissinger’s actions from 1969 through 1976, a period of eight brief years when Kissinger made Richard Nixon’s and then Gerald Ford’s foreign policy as national security adviser and secretary of state, meant the end of between three and four million people. That includes “crimes of commission,” he explained, as in Cambodia and Chile, and omission, like greenlighting Indonesia’s bloodshed in East Timor; Pakistan’s bloodshed in Bangladesh; and the inauguration of an American tradition of using and then abandoning the Kurds. “The Cubans say there is no evil that lasts a hundred years, and Kissinger is making a run to prove them wrong,” Grandin told Rolling Stone not long before Kissinger died. “There is no doubt he’ll be hailed as a geopolitical grand strategist, even though he bungled most crises, leading to escalation. He’ll get credit for opening China, but that was De Gaulle’s original idea and initiative. He’ll be praised for detente, and that was a success, but he undermined his own legacy by aligning with the neocons. And of course, he’ll get off scot free from Watergate, even though his obsession with Daniel Ellsberg really drove the crime.”

Great news everyone!