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Former USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, former International Rescue Committee. Humanitarian professional, missile and tank weirdo, posts stuff about missiles, the Middle East, and why it matters at https://substack.com/@someforeignfield

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That's crazy, I wonder if maybe she could have done something like visit the USAID Gaza humanitarian response team and personally pressed USAID leadership on their decision to defer to Israel on everything and personally presented the USAID teams findings on, oh idk, Leahy law violations, to Biden

09.12.2025 16:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Due to Turkey's legitimate security concerns (and as the only country for Anatolian Turks in the world, America's most important ally in the middle east, and the only democratic country in the middle east with equal voting rights for all citizens) they must be allowed to demilitarize Israel

09.12.2025 16:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 66    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

"the only difference between Syria and Gaza is the size"

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ErdoฤŸan please place an armored division southwest of Damascus ๐Ÿ™

09.12.2025 16:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thinking about if the Iranian Revolution had happened in 1989 instead and Iran had 180 F-14s, 300 F-16s, and 200 F/A-18s like they were planning

09.12.2025 14:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is not a recipe for military victory.

08.12.2025 14:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Driving a mechanized column into a neighborhood under cover of aerial fire belt, demolishing as many buildings as you can before getting attacked, then withdrawing under an aerial fire belt, all while deliberately limiting contact with the enemy

08.12.2025 14:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Every objective assessment of Hamas's capabilities to maintain a status quo of insurgency boiled down to "yeah they can do this forever"

And that is in part because the IDF ground forces are deeply, deeply incompetent and casualty averse

08.12.2025 14:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Every 3 months or so the IDF would carry out a big operation in a given neighborhood, kill a few thousand people, have a few dozen soldiers killed, and claim to have "dismantled" a dozen Hamas battalions. This pattern never changed, and Hamas never appeared substantially weaker.

08.12.2025 14:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not me checking whether there's iL-76s full of Spike ATGMs and Barak SAMs flying from Israel to Suriname

08.12.2025 01:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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08.12.2025 01:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

KSA spent years threatening Qatar while the UAE has been eating their lunch for 10 years and counting

07.12.2025 15:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At least it's not an Su-27 this time

07.12.2025 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iraq loved Xmas, there were tons of trees and shit in Erbil (especially Christian neighborhood of Ainkawa) but the muzzies loved it too lol. Only ISIS (which Israel had an interesting relationship with) didn't like the Xmas ๐ŸŽ„

07.12.2025 03:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
06.12.2025 22:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 92    ๐Ÿ” 32    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
06.12.2025 22:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Given the news about the likely death toll of the RSF's capture of al-Fasher, we're also getting inundated with another round of smug "where's the campus protests about Sudan?" From people who flood the comments sections of articles about Sudan to talk about Israel. So, I talked about Sudan.

06.12.2025 22:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

So I look forward to the Turkey and KSA funded Normie Popular Mobilization Units vs the UAE and Israel funded white ISIS

06.12.2025 19:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In basically every civil conflict or large scale war, the "warrior society" expert soldier class gets wiped out basically immediately, and then it's a question of recruitment of normies and acquiring external funding. Generally the side with the most normies and most external funding wins.

06.12.2025 19:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Trust me bro we may have lost most direct military engagements, had our allies systematically dismantled, and found out they were watching us 24/7 and had complete operational control of all of South Lebanon, and failed to achieve any military or political objective... But we won actually.

06.12.2025 04:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's so cool reading Israeli veterans talk about 2000. It's a lot of "we weren't military defeated, we were simply forced to rapidly advance out of Lebanon as our outposts were surrounded and cut off and they kept killing our soldiers and also had completely hacked our drone surveillance"

06.12.2025 04:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 89    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Rwandan soldiers with Israeli Negev machine guns and Galil ACE rifles.

06.12.2025 04:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you're an M23 fighter, you either get a 50 year old Chinese or Yugo AK or a brand new Israeli or Polish modular carbine. There is no in between.

06.12.2025 04:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Rwanda has also almost certainly deployed Israeli Spike ATGMs in eastern DRC against the DRC military. And here's other M23 fighters armed with Israeli made rifles, the Emtan MZ-4P

06.12.2025 04:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Rwandan military and its proxy M23, is so weird. Polish GROT rifles, Chinese SHORAD systems, ancient T-54s, Israeli Tavor rifles, Russian Mi-35M helicopters. Really a dog's dinner of gear.

But they are excellent at dumping it into the Congo and making more refugees.

06.12.2025 04:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 107    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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This is a tank of the Rwandan army, used to support the M23 rebel group in eastern DRC.

This tank started its life in Ukrainian SSR, was sold to Syria, captured by Israel in 1967, modified to Ti-67s designation, and sold to Rwanda to end its life in eastern DRC.

What a world.

06.12.2025 03:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 110    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

We need a complete and total shutdown of the United States Navy until we figure out what the hell is going on

05.12.2025 17:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Zoomer Rhino pilot on his phone submitting shitcoin trades on Robinhood: yooo lmao they're shooting missiles that's crazy dawggggg

05.12.2025 17:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 99    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

USS Gettysburg: who want they dronussy ate

Aircraft 107: lmao you crazy dawg not me tho

USS Gettysburg: ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘€

05.12.2025 17:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 54    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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The Turkish soldier enters Gaza, Egypt humiliated

05.12.2025 04:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm glad a lot of congresspeople are shocked and horrified by a video from a US military drone tracking and killing helpless noncombatants. Anyway I wonder if you showed them any number of videos from Israeli drones of the exact same thing, if they'd have the same reaction.

05.12.2025 04:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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