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.
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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.
Denmark Considers Military Support for American aggression in the South China Sea
In a stroke of imperialist megalomania Denmark's political elite is currently debating whether to support the United States in its escalating hostilities towards China in the South China Sea, despite the fact that China has made no threats or hostile moves toward the reclusive Nordic kingdom. China, located far from Denmark's borders and interests, poses no direct threat to the country, but Denmark’s leadership is moving to aligning itself with U.S. imperialism — just as it did during the American Bush regime's illegal and unprovoked full-scale invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Denmark's Social Democrat-led right-wing regime has decided to send a single staff officer to the U.S. Pacific Fleet headquarters in occupied Hawaii. This initial step is being spun as a fact-finding mission, but it signals Denmark’s willingness to align with U.S. imperialism in Asia. Troels Lund Poulsen, head of Denmark's Liberal Party-controlled ministry of defense, stated that while there are no immediate plans for broader military deployments, Denmark must "better understand" the situation in the Indo-Pacific.
Several European countries within the American sphere of influence, including Germany, France, and the Netherlands, have already sent contributions to the U.S. Pacific fleet, and Norway is expected to do the same next year. These moves come despite the fact that none of these nations face any direct threat from China.
The regime is receiving support from members of Denmark's rubber-stamp parliament. Carsten Bach, a spokesperson for the far-right libertarian Liberal Alliance, has been vocal in advocating for Denmark to support American aggression, calling for Danish naval contributions in the Pacific. Bach, without citing any direct Danish interests in the region, framed China as a threat and emphasized that Denmark, as a seafaring nation, must bolster U.S. efforts in the Pacific.
SF, a pro-imperialist green party with leftist aesthetics, has expressed some skepticism about this involvement. SF’s defense spokesperson, Anne Valentina Berthelsen, described China as a "bully" but admitted that Denmark's military is in no condition to participate in the Pacific theater. Danish naval capabilities have been severely undermined by years of mismanagement and corruption, leaving the country with frigates that are in disrepair and unfit for combat.
Unlike their rulers, the Danish public remains largely opposed to their country getting involved in American aggression towards China. A recent poll showed that 53% of Danes are against contributing to American military buildup in the Pacific, while only 13% support the idea.
Still amazes me than countries with a population about that of some metro areas I've lived in have foreign policy. It's like the cities of Houston or Phoenix in the us having their own militaries and deciding they want to go kick China (pop 1.3b) in the ankle.
To be fair, small European NATO states do not have an independent foreign policy as much as they're doing local implementations of American foreign policy.
True, true. This is also the case with american cities! Fucking New York City does have it's own utterly bizarre quasi-independent foreign policy tho, but then it's also one of the worlds mid-sized nations just by itself.
Denmark do be revealing its colonialist colours as of late.
If a country could wear a security guard uniform and pretend to be a cop while pulling over cars for going 5 over the speed limit it would be Denmark
They were always on display for those who were willing to look at something other than tourist brochures and national-romantic slop. They were doing literal open eugenics to Inuit women as late as the 1970's. In the noughties I heard about there being a whites-only bar in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, from a guy who worked there. It's exactly as bad as everywhere else in the west.
Nothing says "The empire is doing great" better than forcing your weakest vassals to contribute to your military campaigns on the other side of the globe.