⛺️ 🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Rafah has been emptied of displaced Gazan tents, and the hundreds of thousands of refugees have moved several kms north, back to Khan Younis area.

🛰 May30 satimage vs. 3 weeks ago
Planet Labs PBC

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🇱🇧 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 IDF Army Radio correspondent re: some of the dynamics at Isr-Lebanon border. The IDF isn't going to be publishing their lessons learned, but some of the features of N. Israel are similar to the US Army experience in Iraq in 2023. | Brian Carter

🔶️ West Point's WarInstitute put this out last month about the 10th Mountain's deployment in 23-24, and some of the tactical features of that air defense fight are similar: Iranian-made drones fired in ones and twos at fixed positions.

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/understanding-the-counterdrone-fight-insights-from-combat-in-iraq-and-syria/

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🇨🇳 🇷🇺 🇰🇿 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) as a blueprint for a multipolar world

Kazakhstani expert Pyotr Svoik specially for @CIG_telegram

In 2001, the leaders of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan established the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Over the past few years, several other countries have joined the SCO, and processes in the world have begun to demand clarification of very general goals such as strengthening stability and security.

In late May, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev stressed at a meeting with ministers of SCO member states that further steps are needed in reforming the organization. Under Kazakhstan's chairmanship, the SCO is now moving toward the formation of an "effective multilateral cooperation mechanism".

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization was created for a specific purpose - to delimit the USSR state border with China, which was divided between several countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Russia. After the successful resolution of this problem and due to the emerging geopolitical situation, the transformation of the SCO into the structure we see today began.

Vladimir Putin's return to power in Russia and Barack Obama's accession to power in the United States were landmark events in world politics. America proclaimed its goal to contain China, which is when the SCO began to develop, and Moscow and Beijing began to develop partnership/alliance. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan joined this process as geopolitical partners.

One could say that Obama created two systems when he came to power: a transatlantic community without Russia in the West and a trans-Pacific community without China in Asia. This was the signal for the two countries to unite in the SCO.

Further, in the course of preparing the then unipolar world for fragmentation, India and Pakistan joined the SCO. These two countries, existential rivals, nevertheless joined as an alternative to the UN, the G7/G20 and the Western unipolar world.

Of course, one can hardly count on the creation of military alliances within the SCO or BRICS. Today, these two organizations are the blueprints for a multipolar world, which are now laying the foundation for multi-currency trade zones and may further replace the outgoing International Monetary Fund and others like it.

🛰 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 This map shows a comprehensive satellite imagery-based assessment of damage and destruction in Gaza, Occupied Palestinian Territory, as of 3 May 2024. | UNOSAT

🔶️ According to our analysis, we identified 36,591 destroyed structures, 16,513 severely damaged, 47,368 moderately damaged, and 36,825 possibly damaged structures. A total of 137,297 structures, or about 55% of the total in Gaza, are affected.

🔶️ The governorates of Deir Al-Balah and Gaza have seen the highest rise in damage since April 2024, with 2,613 new structures damaged in Deir Al-Balah.

🔶️ Nuseirat municipality in Deir Al-Balah was hit hardest with 1,216 newly damaged structures.

https://unosat.org/products/3861

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