🇱🇧 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 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/

📎 Brian Carter

🇨🇳 🇷🇺 🇰🇿 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

📎 UNOSAT

🇷🇺 🇸🇩 🏴‍☠️ Russia pledges military support to Sudan's national army against their fight with RSF. Russia has begun setting up a naval base in Port Sudan in return. | Amhara News Service

🔶️ On a visit to Port Sudan in late April, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Mikhail Bogdanov, pledged Russia’s support and recognition for Sudan’s military-led government.

🔶️ Flanked by the Minister of Mineral Resources, Bogdanov, speaking in Arabic, affirmed Russia’s recognition of "the Sudanese Sovereign Council as the official body representing the leadership of Sudan and Sudanese people".

🔶️ Russia has maintained neutrality throughout most of Sudan’s nearly 14-month conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

🔶️ However, a shift became evident in March of this year when Russia’s Deputy Permanent UN Representative, Anna Evstigneeva, acknowledged during Security Council discussions on the war that the Sudanese government was willing to work towards compromise and urged the "other party involved", implying the RSF, to put national interests over "personal aspirations".

https://www.newarab.com/analysis/will-russias-support-sudans-army-turn-tide-war

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir spoke to the media from Kiryat Shmona a day after Hezbollah's strikes:

“The role of the Israeli army now is to destroy Hezbollah and burn its strongholds. There can be no peace in Lebanon.”

🇺🇸 🇲🇽 Biden announces new executive action to secure the border against illegal immigration

https://www.youtube.com/live/LS0_xC7zUSs

💬 Illegal Immigration Has Created ‘High Threat Level’ for Terrorist Attack in U.S., Expert Says

“It does not take a lot of people to inflict an extraordinary amount of damage...”

📌 Homeland Security Today

✅ New Right News

🇺🇸 🇲🇽 ACLU to sue over Biden’s border executive order

🔶️ The American Civil Liberties Union announced plans to sue the White House over President Biden's new executive order that would close off access to asylum when border numbers surge.

🔶️ "We intend to sue. A ban on asylum is illegal just as it was when Trump unsuccessfully tried it," Lee Gelernt, who successfully argued a similar challenge under former President Trump, told Axios.

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/04/aclu-sue-biden-border-executive-order