One year on. Hundreds of thousands are dying or dead, millions are displaced, the Middle East is undergoing its greatest changes in a generation, Iran has directly attacked Israel twice in one year, and Yemen has proven that the US Navy ain’t worth shit. We are the closest we have been to nuclear war (discounting accidents) in decades, but also the fall of Israel.
Because one day, the prisoners of a concentration camp paraglided over a wall.
Please check out the HexAtlas!
The bulletins site is here!
The RSS feed is here.
Last week’s thread is here.
Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don’t want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it’s just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a ‘propaganda tax’, if you don’t believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Even with the biggest ancap America fan ever in charge, the US is losing Argentina to China lol.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/frustrated-with-washington-argentina-s-milei-seeks-rapprochement-with-china/ar-AA1rIIuf
yeah, this is really why the US colour revolution strategy is doomed in the medium to long term. the global orientation towards China and away from the US isn’t because of ideological reasons, but because that’s where the goddamn markets and profit are. you’re basically asking countries to sacrifice their economies on the altar of Western extraction, primitive accumulation, and shock therapy. with Western military might rapidly swirling the drain, the strength of the stick is failing alongside that of the carrot.
there are still some true believers that are willing to destroy their countries for the West (Milei is/was among them) but they’re going to get rarer and rarer as the incentives fall and alternatives rise. the ideology of neoliberalism is really the last major bastion of this international strategy and when it crumbles and stops spreading as it inevitably will, whether that takes five years or fifty, it’s gonna be all over for the US
I think it’s over man. Bolsonaro was in power during Trump’s presidency. He wished so hard the Ukraine War was against the Soviet Union, but had he gone to war with Brazil’s source of fertilizers the country’s landlording aristocracy would have executed him on the spot. As you said the reorientation towards China is inexorable on a material basis. Ideology doesn’t get you far and if Milei can’t govern his country in spite of that, then its over. There are american troops in Perú right now and the Chinese still get to invest and build the country up regardless.
The Chinese should make him praise Mao publicly.
After a meeting in China, the leader of the DA (white liberal political party in South Africa, part of the coalition government, foreign policy usually consists of copying whatever the US does) actually backed down on the issue of Taiwan and changed their position to be more in line with China. So anything is possible these days.
They should bring back struggle sessions just for him, as a treat.
Xi: Does nothing. Wins.
Secret CCP PLAN DISCOVERED
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei Xi is a secret Daoist master, confirmed
Surely he wants to use it for building productive capacity and not help rich ppl funnel money out of the country at a favorable exchange rate.
Millie bending the knee to dialectical materialism I see
interesting development. I do wonder if that QE package china had any part in this
is there anything to this beyond a silly interview though? Besides China is closer to the US now than probably any time over the last 3 years maybe even 5 years, hardly a win-loss situation.
Why do you think so? It feels like the rift is still widening, albeit slowly