India has really damaged its international reputation as being the more 'rational' one compared to Pakistan. BJP is straight up criticizing the previous liberal-left alliance Government for being too 'passive' and not responding militarily after 26/11 attacks.
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Image is the famous photograph Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag, taken during the Battle of Berlin.
On Friday is May 9th, which is the 80th anniversary of Victory Day, which Russia, among other places, celebrates as the day when the Soviets defeated the Nazis. Naturally, one of the current hotspots of fascism in the world today, Ukraine, is essentially threatening that they might strike Russia or even Moscow itself during that timeframe. Any such strike would almost certainly be symbolic and not aimed at anything too important, as I doubt even Zelensky and his American handlers would actually want to kill a world leader, not least somebody like Xi Jinping. But I would not be surprised if they tried something nonetheless, if only to disrupt the event in some way and not actually kill anybody.
And, as we're on this topic, @EllenKelly@hexbear.net has reminded me that Tuesday is the anniversary of the Nazis burning the Institut für Sexualwissenschaf in 1933, an early institute advocating for the rights of LGBT people, and which also provided early forms of gender-affirming surgeries, as well as hormone therapies. We are currently seeing a crackdown on LGBT rights throughout swathes of the imperial core (as well as countries in the periphery, to the extent that those rights existed there already), and this Nazi-inspired movement will be similarly defeated in the future.
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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.
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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.
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Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
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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:
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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.
This is just Mussolini type Fascism now. Zero competence, all optics.
The last government congress party had was before 2014, right? Come on now
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I love it hahahahahaha look at my president dawg
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Is anyone else really really scared by the world at the moment? It feels like everything is spiralling so quickly
I'm not, you gotta kinda genuinely unironically slightly embrace the "Nothing ever happens" mentality if you don't want world events to fuck with you too much.
Like the world is getting worse and worse and I'm just supposed to do what? Study for my exams? Clean the dishes? It's so insane
Until social structures become too contradictory to keep in place, thats all you can do really. Maybe do some prep.
Something that struck me about 2020 and the war in Ukraine is how normal life stayed beyond the initial lockdown phase.
You wake up, go to work, even if you might catch a disease that might leave you disabled or worse or if tanks roll down the street, shooting at everything that moves, you return home and repeat.
This happened to most of my (Palestinian) friends in 2023.
The feeling is called anomie
Feeling absolutely terrible rn
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If anyone was wondering the reason for the Oreshnik missile threat: Starmer, Macron, and Merz are in Kiev for talks on the "coalition of the willing" to potentially enter the war against Russia. Clearly Russia sees this as a serious threat this time.
I think they are orchestrating the coalition stuff, the 30 day ceasefire demand, and Trump's sanction threats to create a situation where there is no easy response for Russia. They can either accept a defeat, or lash out and look like the bad guy.
Coalition of the still won’t have any artillery pieces left
Or tanks, or planes, or air defence
An Oreshnik fired on Kiev city itself would be a mass casualty event. 36 sub munitions designed to provide blanket coverage over a large target such as airbase, would cause large amounts of damage to a city block.
Could hit an airbase with it though, Ukraine is set to receive more F-16AM variants (block 15) from European countries, with long term support, including spare parts, provided by the United States, from their inventory of long retired F-16ADF (also block 15) in long term storage. Ukraine is set to receive a total of 85 F-16A variants under this plan. This was announced shortly after Ukraine signed the natural resources extraction deal with the United States.
I think they are orchestrating the coalition stuff, the 30 day ceasefire demand, and Trump's sanction threats to create a situation where there is no easy response for Russia. They can either accept a defeat, or lash out and look like the bad guy.
What do you mean? Can't Russia just keep grinding towards victory on the battlefield? They have the upper hand, and sanctions are ineffective
The Oreshnik threat is there to remind Starmer et al, that there is no victory on the cards for the West if there's real escalation
Not that Starmer et al are rational actors
"coalition of the willing" to potentially enter the war against Russia
Like, boots on the ground or just keep funding ukraine's military? I can't really see them doing the former
Abu Mazen attended victory day and Netanyahu didn’t 😂
How will India vs Pakistan play into WW3? Is Pakistan part of the Axis of Resistance?
Both governments are friendly with the US. For once, I'd say the US has a pretty strong reason to try to de-escalate this conflict before nukes fly. Whether they will, who knows
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Euhhh
Let's see how much sovereignty he will allow that "state" to have. It is probably intended to be the zionist Manchukuo. I will be surprised if they'll even be allowed to have a football team.
Trump’s foreign policy is the equivalent of throwing a couple darts at the map on the wall and seeing what sticks
Palestinian state without Hamas and more nations joining the Abraham Accords was the details in the article. He could tie it into the "Palestine becoming an American protectorate" idea Trump has, Palestine is a state, but administered by the USA.
That's so grim. To make it through decades of genocide and abuse only to end up in a situation like that. I don't want to lose hope that a path to autonomy exists.
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