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Image is a frame taken from this video of Iranian missiles raining down on Israel without interception due to a weak and depleted air defense system after a year of war and genocide.
Mao, 1956:
Now U.S. imperialism is quite powerful, but in reality it isn't. It is very weak politically because it is divorced from the masses of the people and is disliked by everybody and by the American people too. In appearance it is very powerful but in reality it is nothing to be afraid of, it is a paper tiger. Outwardly a tiger, it is made of paper, unable to withstand the wind and the rain. I believe the United States is nothing but a paper tiger.
When we say U.S. imperialism is a paper tiger, we are speaking in terms of strategy. Regarding it as a whole, we must despise it. But regarding each part, we must take it seriously. It has claws and fangs. We have to destroy it piecemeal. For instance, if it has ten fangs, knock off one the first time, and there will be nine left, knock off another, and there will be eight left. When all the fangs are gone, it will still have claws. If we deal with it step by step and in earnest, we will certainly succeed in the end.
Strategically, we must utterly despise U.S. imperialism. Tactically, we must take it seriously. In struggling against it, we must take each battle, each encounter, seriously. At present, the United States is powerful, but when looked at in a broader perspective, as a whole and from a long-term viewpoint, it has no popular support, its policies are disliked by the people, because it oppresses and exploits them. For this reason, the tiger is doomed. Therefore, it is nothing to be afraid of and can be despised. But today the United States still has strength, turning out more than 100 million tons of steel a year and hitting out everywhere. That is why we must continue to wage struggles against it, fight it with all our might and wrest one position after another from it. And that takes time.
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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.
WTH is going on in Chile
What do you mean? Is this about their football/soccer team doing really bad?
nothing in brazilian media so far so maybe the country is facing a fourway civil war and we'll talk about it tomorrow
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The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber aircraft that were first photographed in the sub-imperialist UAE over 9 months ago, have carried out their first attacks against Yemen. The bombings have been confirmed by both Western and Yemeni media. The airstrikes were aimed at several underground Ansarallah weapons storage and bunker facilities, with the US claiming five attacks, and Ansarallah claiming 6 attacks in the capital Saana, and 2 attacks in Saada. The use of stealth B-2 bomber aircraft for this mission was overkill for evading Yemeni air defence systems, this has been done to send a message, and the intended recipient is made clear by US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin's statement:
“This was a unique demonstration of the United States’ ability to target facilities that our adversaries seek to keep out of reach, no matter how deeply buried underground, hardened or fortified.” Austin said.
In other words: This is a warning shot across the bow towards Iran.
The B-2A Spirit aircraft is the only aircraft in the US fleet that can carry the 30 000+lb (14 000kg) "bunker buster' GBU-57 MOP (Massive Ordinance Penetrator) bomb, with each aircraft being able to carry two of these bombs, or 16 2000lb bunker buster BLU-109 bombs. The GBU-57 is the largest non nuclear bunker buster bomb in the world. Here is a video of the B-2 dropping two of them. The GBU-57 is designed to penetrate over 200ft/60+m of reinforced concrete, and is accurate enough to be daisy chained, with one bomb following the other to target the same area.
BBC News, 17 October 2024: US bombers target underground Houthi weapon sites in Yemen
30,000 lb bomb, holy shit. That is a big boom
The existence of this bomb, the US’ eagerness to use it, and Lloyd Austin’s smug face all make me hate America even more than I did before reading this comment. And I was already at my all-time high before.
To further harden your heart, look at the new gigantic "bunker buster" ballistic missile South Korea revealed this month after being exempted from all ballistic missile arms treaties by the Biden Administration in 2021. (How accelerationist has Biden been on foreign affairs?)
https://hexbear.net/comment/5513461
South Korea unveiled this decapitation first strike weapon, designed to take out the bunkers of the DPRK leadership in a first strike, while simultaneously flying drones over Pyongyang. The message was clear.
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I hate it here. I hate being complicit in this country's many crimes.
Instead of [stop fueling genocide] they are going to double tripple down on it. Should we call this Gulf War 3.0 at this point now that Americans are directly explicitly involved?
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I think the west has brought about an evolution of the rules of engagement in modern warfare to skirt legal responsibility. In that all the international effort to build the post ww2 consensus of what constitutes war crimes is being dismantled as they use the T-word to wage total war on an entire population. War crimes cannot be levied against a country fighting enemies designated as "terrorist", also they get around any civil liberties domestically. It's a matter of time before we see more accusations of State actors as terrorists as they are acting as such. The T-word is simply a way for the West to revert to the days when total war on an enemy population was the norm.
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Israel is claiming that maybe they got Sinwar
Sinwar will forever be a legend. October 7th was one of the most momentous events in Palestinian history, and will be remembered 
as the beginning of the end for the Zionist entity. Glory to all the martyrs.
If true, it hardly matters. Sad, yes. Its bizarre to see Zionists cheer this as they haven't learned that they can't just kill their way out of their problems
They've got many of the big name leaders... The resistance continues. They're gonna need to pick a new scary faced brown guy to blame everything on.
Came across the pictures of the body on X, looks exactly like him but I'll wait for further info before standing behind any claim as of now. Tragedy but not like it'll stop the resistance, just a slight moral boost for the zionazis who'll celebrate as they seem to have not learned that killing resistance leaders will never kill the resistance, nothing will.
Not to be that guy, but it's "morale". Moral and Zionism don't belong in the same sentence.
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Gold reached another new high $2700/ounce
It was $1200 an ounce a year before the pandemic. And $250 an ounce in 2003 before the endless wars.
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