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Too Good to Check: Hezbollah Collapsing
As Desertions Skyrocket

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 10/29/2024 12:49:37 AM

So much for Iran's encirclement strategy in the Middle East, if these reports turn out to be accurate. Not only did Iran lose much of its advanced air defenses in the Israeli strike over the weekend, their forward proxy army may collapse soon as its terror troops head for Syria. Arabic media report mass Hezbollah desertions in the face of a determined IDF ground campaign, and nearly no effective communications between command and field units: After over a year of launching aerial attacks against northern Israel, Hezbollah has reportedly begun to crack as the Iran-backed terror group has experienced a wave of desertions, sources told the Arabic

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Trigger2 10/29/2024 1:19:52 AM (No. 1821914)
Terrorists are cowards at heart, especially when they're losing.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: john56 10/29/2024 1:22:31 AM (No. 1821916)
Gee. And just when a young, dedicated, and serious young man coukd move up very, very quickly in the ranks! Only downsides is there's no training available and retirement benefits are really not an issue.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: kono 10/29/2024 1:26:00 AM (No. 1821917)
What looks like desertions could be redeployment.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: jayjeti 10/29/2024 3:35:26 AM (No. 1821934)
Obama and then Biden helped Iran's finances to fund all these proxy terrorists. Trump cut the purse strings during his stint. It's shameful for the U.S. to give money to those who would like to see her destruction.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: mifla 10/29/2024 4:12:11 AM (No. 1821942)
One thing is certain, their ranks won't be replaced with Iranians.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: FJB 2022 23 24 10/29/2024 5:44:22 AM (No. 1821957)
Hunt them down and take them out, otherwise they will be back to pick up where they left off.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: rikkitikki 10/29/2024 7:25:44 AM (No. 1821991)
The Israelies are fighting for their existential survival, while Hezbollah is fighting out of pure hatred. It's no surprise as to which is the superior motivation, and none whatsoever as to who will desert first. However, it will take a superior fence to keep the deserters from simply migrating back once the IDF goes home...if they go home.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 10/29/2024 7:32:39 AM (No. 1821999)
Maybe their paychecks stopped coming when they took out the leadership and told where the pile of cash was located?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: DiegoDude 10/29/2024 7:37:38 AM (No. 1822006)
Can you picture a meeting where they're looking for volunteers to head Hezbollah?
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Strike3 10/29/2024 7:47:33 AM (No. 1822017)
If America did one thing right in the Middle East it was to supply Israel with our stealth fighter and bomber technology to augment their superior military and intelligence infrastructure. A first wave of planes knocks out the radar and communications and the second wave bombs the snot out of the blind targets on the ground. As Mister Miyagi says in The Karate Kid, "there is no defense." The third world pedophile worshipers are finding out the hard way what paying the price of bad behavior is all about. What remains to be seen is if Iran is smart enough to quit before they are too badly damaged.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: MickTurn 10/29/2024 12:00:16 PM (No. 1822183)
Even Terrorist understand DYING for NOTHING!
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Reply 12 - Posted by: kdog 10/29/2024 12:00:55 PM (No. 1822184)
Shocking what a military can accomplish when their stated mission is to kill people and break their things. Clearly Israel took NONE of the advice offered by the Biden Administration.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: FLCracker 10/29/2024 12:27:05 PM (No. 1822215)
FTA: " 'Hamas military operatives are present; they are in the courtyards, at the gates of the buildings, in the offices of Kamal Adwan Hospital," the driver stated. "They operate ambulances to transport their wounded military operatives, and to transport them for their missions, and this is instead of using the ambulances for the benefit of civilians.' " For those you who do not know, Geneva/Hague Conventions that define "protected targets", such as hospitals, schools and cultural sites, also say that when the opposing force actively uses such sites for military purposes, that action negates the protection. And. The entity that ordered the protected sites to be used for the military purposes is the one libel for the resulting wounding, death and destruction, not the entity attacking the peviously-protected sites. Sorry, kids; that's war. Legal war. (I used to teach this class. The operative word is "actively"; that's where the lawyers, aka "people screaming in the General Assemby at the UN" come in.)
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