📊 In two days the first phase of the Junta sham elections will take place

☄️ All major active rebel groups have rejected the elections and their results and have sworn to disrupt them in any way possible

👀 These attacks are likely also meant to disrupt the elections from being carried out

🤡 The turnout is predicted to be abysmal and results are basically already known as all parties which didn't swear subservience to the military were banned from running

🇨🇳 The only reason these elections are being carried out is that China insists on it so they can give their new vassal a bit more legitimacy on the global stage

🇸🇾 ✈️ 🇮🇱 On October 11, 1989, Syrian airforce Major Mohammed Bassem Adel defected to Israel aboard his Mig-23 and requested political asylum, citing his wishes to live in a democracy and abuse by other Syrian pilots

The Syrian government initially tried saving face by claiming all of this was due to a mechanical malfunction, but upon inspection, no mechanical errors were found in the plane

This specific aircraft was put against its American counterparts to see what it was made of. It was an MLD version, the most advanced Flogger at that time, which was superior to export versions such as the MF and the Israeli pilots acknowledged that it was a good aircraft, but they were more impressed with the MiG-29s which they leased from the Polish AF

🇮🇱🇸🇴 - Israel has officially announced their recognition of Somaliland, becoming the first country in the world to officially recognize it