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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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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.


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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 70 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Palestine Action handshake IRGC

fucking up F35s

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[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 69 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Happy October Seventh everybody!

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[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 69 points 2 months ago (6 children)

According to this map, MacDill Air Force Base, home to US Central Command and Special Operations Command, will be facing 9+ feet of storm surge.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/instant/sidebar/index.html?appid=7c47f1ae3d214946bc89a327ca87481b

God knows what nasty chemicals they are keeping there that will be released into the bay.

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[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 69 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 68 points 2 months ago

African Stream dunking on a smear piece made by Russiagate-brained academics:
https://xcancel.com/african_stream/status/1844242340724293732

[–] iie@hexbear.net 68 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Why did America try to overthrow Assad, and why did Russia step in? I’ve heard vague things about Americans guarding oil fields in Syria. Was the operation in Syria mostly motivated by oil or is the picture more complicated?

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 66 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Syria is an old russian ally since the USSR, the syrian civil war was an important break in relations between Russia and the west because of those relations

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[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

To destroy Russia. Same playbook with Afghanistan to force the USSR into entering a war that it cannot win.

By 2015, Russia was already embroiled in the Ukrainian Civil War and on the receiving end of unprecedented sanctions after Crimea annexation and the downing of MH17 airliner over eastern Ukraine.

Obama’s doctrine was to hit Russia through crashing the oil price (Shale revolution) and give them endless wars by dragging Russia into fighting on both fronts at the same time.

It was an exceedingly difficult period for Russia that pretty much wiped out its economic growth since the early 2000s. It didn’t collapse Russia but the damage was done.

The broader strategic goal was to prevent Russia from forging economic ties with the EU. The US has already set on destroying the euro currency as a competitor since the very first days it was formed, starting with the Balkan conflicts that sought to discredit the Maastricht criteria of 3% GDP deficit, by forcing EU into unnecessary military spending by creating conflict zones at its periphery. Then Iraq was invaded when Saddam wanted to sell oil in euro. The Maidan coup happened when Nord Stream 1 came online. The strategic plan has to do with the EU being a large economic bloc that (especially when allied with China) could pose an unprecedented threat to US hegemony.

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[–] TechnoAnomie@hexbear.net 68 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is too much. I can't keep forcing myself to bear witness and see it getting worse and worse. We're going to read more unfathomable justifications of why burning a refugee camp never happened, but if it happened, it would be a good thing, and they weren't human anyway.

Just death to Israel, man. I'm welcoming everyone to just launch the nukes for months and months now. Instead, we'll get a few more sternly worded posts from Borell and other useless idiots.

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[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 68 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Apartheid-era South Africa, just like shitty-ass-doo-doo-real, also had a plan for a total war against it's neighbours. Of course, this would also include Tanzania and countries bordering Namibia, as South Africa was already at war with Angola, which South Africa ended up losing along with 800,000km² of illegally occupied land (L bozos, fidel-bat ). Pretty much everything in Africa south of the Equator was on the settler-colonialist regime's hit list.

The casus belli was neighbouring countries to South Africa were hosting safehouses and training camps for the ANC/MK guerillas, gun runners, weapons caches and smuggling routes. It was the 1970s and 80s, "israel" had just given South Africa nuclear weapons, IMI Galil rifles (and a license to produce the Vektor R4-R6 series), electrified fences, border security and other weaponsystems. They also decided to overlook the actually anti-semitic tendencies of their Apartheid cousin across the continent. Tanzania was also a key stronghold for anti-apartheid activity and the immortal Rhodesia turned out to be not so immortal afterall, L ( nuke qin-shi-huangdi-fireball ) and while Tanzania doesn't border South Africa, it likely would have been a target. More likely targets to create a "buffer" would have included Mozambique, Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Angola. With it being the 1970s-80s, this was also the climax of South Africa's apartheid violence and a rapidly escalating period of resistance activity.

Mozambique signed the Nkomati Accord in 1984 with South Africa to expel and prosecute anti-apartheid guerillas, in exchange for South Africa ceasing its covert operations against FRELIMO. South Africa of coursed reneged on this promise and continued to support the anti-communist RENAMO party. This treaty may have also been signed under coercion with Mozambique on the brink of collapse at the time.

Also South Africa, with the possible collaboration of AmeriKKKan and "israeli" regimes, was intending to develop ethnic weaponry for the purpose of creating an ethnostate (and obviously a genocide of half a billion Africans resulting from the planned war), along with other chemical and biological weapons under Project Coast.

40-ish years later, the isnotreali nazi regime is much on the same trajectory.

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 67 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://xcancel.com/jmcevoy_2/status/1843667680697446523

Exclusive -- we obtained leaked Israeli army documents.

They reveal how the British army’s 77th brigade - which specialises in psychological operations - held secret exchanges with the IDF.

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[–] refolde@hexbear.net 67 points 2 months ago (14 children)

Israel deserves to have the most evil villains based off of them in every piece of fiction imaginable, but audiences will probably criticize it for being too "cartoonishly and unrealistically evil"

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 67 points 2 months ago (7 children)

when you don't have mao-style bicycle and homemade jam bling

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 66 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

This is pretty significant assuming the account isn't just mistranslating or taking things out of context because this would mean the DPRK dropping the One Korea policy:
https://xcancel.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1843437239000519136

🇰🇵🇰🇷 The DPRK is not interested in attacking South Korea or forcibly unifying the Korean Peninsula. This was stated by Kim Jong Un, as quoted by KCNA.

"In the past, there was much talk about a so-called liberation of the South, even about a forced unification. Now there is absolutely no interest in that," he added, reminding that Pyongyang has announced a policy that essentially recognizes the existence of two states.

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 66 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Heads up, there's NSFL footage of Gazans being burned alive.

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[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 66 points 2 months ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] Yor@hexbear.net 66 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

death to the zionist entity. I hope this date lives rent free in their minds until the entity is fully dismantled

isntrael

[–] notceps@hexbear.net 66 points 2 months ago (16 children)
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[–] meth_dragon@hexbear.net 66 points 2 months ago (2 children)

listening to some pretty wild theories about how nato/us is going to majorly escalate in europe before elections because the us is unwilling to directly intervene in the middle east and, other than israel, doesn't really have any proxies in the area that can reliably go to bat for it. unlike in europe, where you have the baltics and the rest of nato baying for russian blood. best part about the prediction is that once the escalation happens we'll get to see a dprk intervention in belarus. cant tell if the dude is serious or is just manifesting finno korean hyperwar energies. michael-laugh

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[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago (11 children)

They were projecting hurricane Milton to be a 3.....it is now a Cat 5.

Still projected to landfall as a cat 3 but who knows now.

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[–] rainn@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I am writing with some comrades a megathread on Salafi-Wahhabism, to be able to quickly link to people that aren't familiar with it. If anyone wants to help, DM me here or on Matrix

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Nukes pls:
https://xcancel.com/AryJeay/status/1844496831348343026
https://xcancel.com/AryJeay/status/1844498247601226148

☢️|🇮🇷 More details about the letter from 39 MPs to the national security council (SNSC).

The letter called for a revision of Iran’s defensive doctrine and requested permission and resources to develop nuclear weapons.

Hasan Akhlaqi Amiri, an Iranian MP & signee of the letter, explained: "Today, no international organization or even the so-called European and American countries can control the Zionist regime, as this illegitimate regime commits any crime it wishes. Based on this, around 39 members of parliament wrote and signed a letter addressed to the SNSC, requesting that the defensive doctrine of the Islamic Republic of Iran be reconsidered."

Amiri, referring to the Leader's fatwa declaring nuclear weapons forbidden, which serves as the defensive doctrine of the Islamic Republic, said:

"The Leader's fatwa remains valid, however in the jurisprudence of Shia Islam, time and place play a role in changing rulings, and secondary rulings can replace primary rulings [in time of need].”

Mohammad Reza Sabbaghian, another MP, also called for the possibility of developing nuclear weapons, stating:

"We will ask the Leader of the Islamic Revolution to consider changing the strategy and fatwa regarding the development of nuclear weapons if deemed appropriate. Building 'nuclear weapons' will be easy for us. In the current situation, to establish deterrence and ensure national security, developing the capability to build nuclear weapons is necessary."

He added: "If the Zionist enemy and its supporters believe that by targeting our peaceful nuclear facilities they can hinder the country's progress in the nuclear field, they are making a mistake. Our request to the authorities is to change the nuclear doctrine of the Islamic Republic. For our self-defense and the nation's security, we will, with the Leader's discretion, change our nuclear approach and pursue the very same weapon they possess; building nuclear weapons is Iran's option for creating deterrence."

While another MP, Sayyid Salman Zaker, said: "I have not seen the letter, but our basis in matters of peace and war is the country’s overarching policies and the statements of the Leader. We consider his guidance to be both authoritative and religious. We will act based on that." He added, "If such letters are reviewed by the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) and a decision is made on them, we should not deviate from that decision."

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago

The Colombian National Electoral Council passed a resolution ordering the opening of investigations against Gustavo Petro's 2022 campaign for overspending. Gustavo Petro reacted with a tweet stating that “the coup d'état has begun”.

Another lawfare against a socdem, probably it will fail again, like when the Colombia Supreme Court attempted to remove Petro and the people went to their building and forced them to stop that shit. The judges fled by helicopter, which was pretty funny.

[–] meth_dragon@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago (11 children)

korea opened its us military bases to 'temporary' stays by the jsdf. used to require congressional approval, now nothing. no western sources but do get kr/jp/cn hits.

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas) detonating a rigged tunnel opening to strike a Zionist engineering force in the Al-Rayyan area east of Rafah, south Gaza, Palestine.

https://xcancel.com/TVFreePalestine/status/1845533244646674724

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 64 points 2 months ago (10 children)

From the Grayzone's Twitter:

Jeremy Loffredo remains in Israeli jail.

Officially, police are holding him "on suspicion of serious security offenses for publicly publishing... the locations of missile drops near or inside sensitive security facilities, with the aim of bringing this to the notice of the enemy and thereby assisting them in their future attacks."

The charges stem from Jeremy's report for @TheGrayzoneNews showing the aftermath of Iranian attacks on military and intelligence targets inside Israel—the same exact locations which were openly featured in reports broadcast on ABC News and PBS, neither of which currently face such charges.

Originally, the judge overseeing Jeremy's case ordered him released, saying that since Israeli military censors agreed to allow Israeli media to publish both "word of [Jeremy's] arrest and the publications that led to his arrest," Israel could "no longer justify his continued detention."

However, police appealed this decision. For now, Jeremy remains in custody, and his appeal hearing is scheduled for tomorrow.

The Grayzone unequivocally rejects these outrageous accusations from Israeli police. We stand by Jeremy's legitimate reporting. The claim that Loffredo and The Grayzone represent Israel’s enemy in wartime merely suggests that the Israeli government views the American people and free press as a legitimate target. We represent no one else. We will fight these charges, and ask that you contact the State Department and urge them to act in defense of their citizen detained in Israel. The US has an obligation to defend its journalists who are merely adhering to their ethical obligation to inform the public of pertinent facts."

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[–] jack@hexbear.net 64 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

PSL Atlanta is coordinating money, supplies, and comradepower to aid areas in Florida hit by the hurricane, who will connect with our Florida branches for distribution and delivery.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DA8yEBavaGz/

@combat_doomerism@hexbear.net

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[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 64 points 2 months ago

I’m still baffled that Harris at Univision town hall kept touting her endorsement by Bush’s AG Alberto Gonzales (who resigned in disgrace) as though that would mean anything to the audience. Kinda sums up how well this catering to the center right is going

https://x.com/lukewgoldstein/status/1845532088742891619

Video clip: https://x.com/GringoCamarada/status/1845567578003087430

Deeply unserious campaign lol

[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 64 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Can't they use their huge military might to just kill the hurricane?

That reminds me of when people wanted to nuke Harvey I think it was or something like that

If you're out there, stay safe

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[–] LargePenis@hexbear.net 64 points 2 months ago (2 children)

مَتَىٰ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ أَلَا إِنَّ نَصْرَ اللَّهِ قَرِيبٌ

“When does victory from Allah (come)?” Verily, victory from Allah is surely near.

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[–] Ideology@hexbear.net 64 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Foxconn Building Nvidia Superchip Facility In Mexico

Monroe Doctrine is coming back in full force.

Foxconn has chosen Mexico for the site of the world's largest manufacturing facility for Nvidia's GB200 superchips. These chips are a "key component of the U.S. firm's next-generation Blackwell family computing platform," notes Reuters. From the report:

"We're building the largest GB200 production facility on the planet," said Benjamin Ting, Foxconn senior vice president for the cloud enterprise solutions business group. Nvidia said in August that it had started shipping Blackwell samples to its partners and customers after tweaking its design, and expected several billion dollars in revenue from these chips in the fourth quarter. Ting said the partnership between his company and Nvidia was very important and everyone was asking for Nvidia's Blackwell platform. "The demand is awfully huge," Ting said at the company's annual tech day in Taipei, standing next to Nvidia's vice president for AI and robotics, Deepu Talla.

Speaking to reporters later, Foxconn Chairman Young Liu said the plant was being built in Mexico, and that the capacity there would be "very, very enormous". He did not elaborate. Foxconn already has a large manufacturing presence in Mexico and has invested more than $500 million to date in the state of Chihuahua. Liu said the company's supply chain was ready for the AI revolution, adding its manufacturing capabilities include the "advanced liquid cooling and heat dissipation technologies necessary to complement the GB200 server's infrastructure."

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[–] Sulvor@hexbear.net 64 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 64 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 63 points 2 months ago (8 children)

My 40-something year old cousin is going in for emergency surgery in St. Petersburg tomorrow morning, and his wife has decided to bunker down with their two kids and my uncle despite being in a mandatory evacuation zone. I don't know his wife well enough to try and talk some sense into her about leaving my cousin in the hospital and booking it out of the Tampa area. Really kind of hoping this thing doesn't make landfall near them.

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