⚪️ 🇺🇸 📊 We can get some interesting historical context as we extend our timeline back before the Civil Rights Era was in full force.
Indeed, from 1964 to 1972, these numbers doubled (on both sides!)

And the 2020s have really taken us backwards...

📝 247 Drip:
"This only gets crazier when you normalize for population

Population: 12.1% black, 57.8% white

155,785/12.1% = 1,287,479

52,518/57.8% = 90,862

⬛️ So a black person is roughly 14.17 times more likely to murder a white person than a white person is to murder a black person"

📎 Datahazard

— 🇾🇪 Leader of Ansarullah in Yemen, Abdul Malik Badr Al-Deen Al-Houthi:

– Our drone and missile forces have been carrying out extensive attacks deep inside occupied Palestine, and this will continue.

– Our eyes are open, monitoring and searching for any Israeli ships in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab in particular, and area bordering Yemeni territorial waters.

– We ask the countries that seperate our territory geographically from Palestine to open a land corridor. If we had a land route to occupied Palestine, our people would have brought hundreds of thousands of heroic Mujahideen to fight the Zionists.

– The Israelis do not put their flags on their ships and turn off their responders in the Red Sea, to try hiding from us. But we will not hesitate to find and target them when possible.

@Middle_East_Spectator

⚡️🇵🇸 Israel has received over 7,000 tons of ammunition, spare parts, and military equipment since the 7th of October.

The aid has been delivered through 123 cargo flights and 7 merchant ships.

However, we have not yet hit the levels of Operation Nickel Grass in 1973, where the US supplied over 24,000 tons of military aid to Israel over a period of three weeks.

@themediterraneanman

⚡️🇵🇸 "Israel Defense", a prominent Israeli outlet in security and political affairs, states that Israel "must threaten Egypt", including facing the real possibility on attacking and opening a new front on Egypt.

The Military Magazine also accuses Egypt, Iran, Yemen, and Syria, of militarily and politically supporting "terrorists", stating that Egypt "clearly" allowed smuggling into the Gaza Strip and that has allowed Hamas to establish a massive stockpile of war material.

The magazine also clearly accused Egypt of violating the 1979 Camp David agreement.

The Israeli Military Magazine states the following violations on the side of Egypt.

1) Egypt constructed three military airports, while there are supposed to be none.

2) Egypt has over 100 tanks in Rafah, while none are allowed.

3) Egypt has established 6 military crossings over the Suez Canal, which is not allowed.

4) Egypt has more than 1 division that is beyond the 60 kilometers allowed by Camp David and subsequent Israeli allowances.

5) 3 Radar stations are in Sinai, which are not allowed by Camp David.

The Israel Defense Magazine states that Israel has also failed , tactically and strategically speaking, due to Israeli negotiations with armed forces and militant groups, and that a militaristic and warlike approach is required.

@themediterraneanman

🇮🇱🇵🇸 As the war escalates, the balance of power does not favor Israel conventionally

Israel threatening to bomb Egyptian aid convoys made a lot of sense once upon a time. But like everything else in the West, at some point people are just trading on 50+ year old narratives of relative strengths and weaknesses.

📎 Sword Mercury

🛢 🇺🇸 💵 US plans to buy 1.2 million barrels of oil for Strategic Petroleum Reserve

🔶️ As oil prices have risen on production cutbacks by Saudi Arabia and Russia, it has been difficult for the administration to buy back oil for the reserve. Last month it raised the price at which it hopes to buy back oil to $79 or less a barrel, up from an earlier price range of about $68 to $72.

🔶️ Last month the Energy Department said it hopes to buy 3 million barrels for December delivery and another 3 million for January at the higher price. It said it expects to issue additional oil purchase solicitations for the reserve on a monthly basis through at least May 2024.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-buys-12-million-barrels-oil-strategic-petroleum-reserve-2023-11-14/

https://archive.ph/BeEG1

🛢 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 Russia And China Tighten Grip On Iraqi Oil Crescent 🇮🇶

⬛️ Lukoil’s oil service contract for the Iraqi West Qurna 2 oilfield got extended by 10 years to 2045.

⬛️ Chinese contractors working in and around the West Qurna 2 field have been instructed by Beijing to expedite their drilling work.

⬛️ ExxonMobil’s exit from West-Qurna is set to benefit both China and Russia.

🔶️ In line with Moscow and Beijing’s objective of keeping the West out of energy deals in Iraq to keep Baghdad closer to the new Iran-Saudi axis and to “end [the] Western hegemony in the Middle East [that] will become the decisive chapter in the West’s final demise,” Russia has struck a new deal in one of Iraq’s biggest oil fields. Around the same time, another Chinese company has been granted full exploration and development rights across Iraq’s oil and gas reservoirs.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Russia-And-China-Tighten-Grip-On-Iraqi-Oil-Crescent.html

📖 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 "The parchamdar documentary showed never before seen footage of a 358 loitering SAM downing an American MQ-1 UAV (likely in Yemen), including high resolution seeker footage

Confirmation 358 is indeed the official designation. It's been supplied to Ansarallah, Hezbollah & the PMF"

📎 Iran Defense (analyst, not an official)

📝 🇾🇪 🇺🇸 "The Houthis in Yemen are using gear you can buy on AliExpress for just over £1000 to shoot down ‘advanced’ munitions.

My essay on assessing materiel using relative cost metrics grows more relevant by the day." - Phillip Pilkington

📝 "In industrial warfare weapons development favors the cheap and reliable." - Carolina Lion

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/02/assessing-the-economic-value-of-military-materiel/

🏗 💵 🏭 "For that price you can have your neighborhood mechanic set up an entire military grade anti-drone system in your back yard...

🚀Step two: necessary parts will come in a kit and manual on Wish."

"Western militaries should copy this. Vastly reduce costs or just reassign spending to more productive uses. It also implies that various countries can massively increase their domestic military-industrial base and save money on expensive imports."

🌐⚖️❌🇮🇹 Council of Europe concerned about Italy-Albania agreement

The Council of Europe on Monday expressed concern about the agreement Rome and Tirana reached last week for Italy to set up migrant centres in Albania.

"The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Italy and Albania on disembarkation and the processing of asylum applications, concluded last week, raises several human rights concerns and adds to a worrying European trend towards the externalisation of asylum responsibilities," said Dunja Mijatović, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights.

She said the agreement was "indicative of a wider drive by Council of Europe member states to pursue various models of externalising asylum as a potential 'quick fix' to the complex challenges posed by the arrival of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants".

She said externalisation measures "significantly increase the risk of exposing refugees, asylum seekers and migrants to human rights violations.

"The shifting of responsibility across borders by some states also incentivises others to do the same, which risks creating a domino effect that could undermine the European and global system of international protection,"

🔗 https://www.ansa.it/english/news/politics/2023/11/13/council-of-europe-concerned-about-italy-albania-agreement_0260dbd0-430f-4757-a450-00baf2f6edbd.html

📢 🇾🇪 🇮🇱 Yemeni Media has Published a Threat by the Houthi movement against Israeli Commercial Ships in the Red Sea stating:

"We will defeat the Israeli enemy ships

In the Red Sea, we will attack them, and at whatever level our hands reach them, we will not hesitate to target them, and let the whole world know about this."

Mr. Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, the anniversary of the martyr 1445 AH