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Hello and welcome to another episode of Colonial Outcast, your semi-friendly podcast, that is critical of imperialism.

And boy, do we have a lot of episodes dropping this week because the world mostly actually just Western governments are, is pretty insane right now.

Things are getting absolutely wild. For example, this weekend

and is really offensive into Lebanon might very well happen, which would be calamitous for both

Israel in general and the civilians in southern Lebanon in particular, since Netanyahu earlier this

year threatened to, quote, turn Beirut into Gaza, unquote. The IDF's main M.O, as we have learned,

is to target civilian infrastructure. Anyways, the IDF knows it will be bad that Haifa and military

bases in northern Israel will be shut down due to Hezboa rocket fire. So they've made overtures

to the Cypriot government to use air bases in ports like

Lardica in Cyprus to maintain air power and shipping once the front to the north opens up.

And a televised address yesterday or earlier this morning, has bullet chief Syed, Hassan Nasrallah,

said, quote, there will be no place safe from our missiles and our drones in Israel in the event of a broader war.

Israel, quote, knows what also awaits it in the Mediterranean is very big.

In the face of the battle of this magnitude, it knows that it must now wait for us on land, in air, and at sea.

Nasrallah added.

So the group first showed it could hit a vessel at sea by

striking an Israeli warship in the Mediterranean during their 2006 war. Reports by media and analysts

have for years indicated that Hezboa acquired Russian-made anti-ship Yacomte missiles in Syria.

My Slavic pronunciation is terrible, so excuse me on that one, after its forces

deployed there more than a decade ago to help President Bashar al-Assad fight the country's civil

war. He also threatened Cyprus, quote, the Cypriot government must be warned that opening

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