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Bulletins and News Discussion from June 16th to June 22nd, 2025 - Iran, Harden Your Heart
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Image is of destruction and damage inside Israel, sourced from this article.
Iran and Israel have struck each other many times over the last few days. There has been a general focus on military facilities and headquarters by both sides, though Israel has also struck oil facilities, civilian structures and hospitals, and in return for this, Iran has struck major scientific centers and the Haifa oil facilities.
Israel appears to have three main aims. First, to collapse the Iranian state, either through shock and breakdown by killing enough senior officials, or via some sort of internal military coup. Second, to try and destroy Iranian nuclear sites and underground missile cities, or at least to paralyze them long enough to achieve the first and third goals. And third, to bring the US into a direct conflict with Iran. This is because the US better equipped to fight them than Israel is (though victory would still not be guaranteed depending on what Iran chooses to do).
Iranian nuclear facilities are hidden deep underground (800 meters), far beyond the depth range of even the most powerful bunker busters (~70 meters or so), and built such that the visible ground entrances are horizontally far away in an unknown direction from the actual underground chambers. Only an extremely competent full-scale American bombing force all simultaneously using multiple of the most powerful conventional (perhaps even nuclear) bunker busters could even hypothetically hope to breach them (and we have seen how, in practice, American bunker busters have largely failed to impair or deter Ansarallah). There are several analysts on both sides who have concluded that it is entirely impossible to physically prevent Iran from building nukes.
I fully expect the US to join the war. I believe the current ambiguity is a deliberate invention of the US while they work to move their military assets into position, and as soon as they are ready, the US will start bombing Iran. After that, Iran's leadership must - if they haven't already - harden their hearts, and strike back with no fear, or risk following the path of Libya, Syria, and Iraq, either into either surrender, occupation, or annihilation. Every day where they do not possess a nuke is a day where lives are being lost and cities are being bombed.
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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
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.
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the ICP is not a communist party, it's not demcent
This isn't an inter-imperialist war, this is an anti-imperialist defensive war against a genocidal empire. you are the liberal here, supporting the statements of CIA infiltrated color revolutionary groups with no mass backing and no demcent organization
lenin himself calling you a kautskyite
lenin telling you that you are simply recreating capitalism </3 (who knew supporting the bourgeoisie meant supporting capitalism!)
question? why does war happen - in a marxist framework? is it because of the heckin wholesome antiimperialists standing up to evil monopoly capitalists? relevant:
(hint: why did ww2 happen)
anyway, "anti-imperialist" posturing at the expense of the proletariat in all the belligerent states is simply the reverse-side to kautskyism, or tailism for the petty bourgoeisie
No he isn't. He explains why a petty-bourgeois opposition arose in the paragraph you have quoted without giving any judgement of it.
The quote you have posted says that challenging imperialism without challenging the trusts and monopolies is a "pious wish", a far cry from the statement that one would somehow be recreating capitalism in countries that didn't even stop being capitalist!
We are to believe that the collapse of the American wouldn't be the single greatest opportunity to advance the positions of the international working in the past 3 decades. Why? Because if we said that then we would be accused of adopting petty-bourgeois viewpoints (never mind that regime change is significantly more popular amongst the bourgeoise)
You people have no interest of actually studying. I quote it here because HSC is assumed to be read. But here you go, since you need me to babybird you
calm down self fashioned preacher. this is exactly what I mean when the kautskyite position is the flip side to your antiimperialist position. you recognize that you are simply supporting camps, likewise the liberal supports the opposite camp and yearns for peace, meanwhile you yearn for the return to the premonopoly capital time, the "multipolar world"
believe what you want, your belief has no bearing on the material conditions same with your "critical" support. the revolution will come when sufficient number of workers gain consciousness - and not "consciousness" as in sitting watching the news and hoping for their bourgeoisie to beat the other bourgeoisie. the critical piece is for them is to know which "marxism" is really materialist and which is idealist bullshit that proclaims the collaboration between the national bourgeoisie as the end-all-be-all with the same petty nationalism.
you can disengage until you read (and I mean, really read) this piece https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/jul/26.htm since hsc is too much for a communist to read nowadays ig
Sure, why not. You aren't arguing in good faith to begin with and making bizzare leaps of logic to accuse me of shit I didn't say.
silly liberals don't they know calling for the overthrow of an imperialist country's bourgeoisie during war is anticommunist cia bullshit? three cia parties. calling for an overthrow of the bourgeoisie without the support of more than 50% of the proletariat. and definitely not demcent. i, definitely a communist, think that the proletariat should rally to the two bourgeois nationalist theocracies, famously because ~~national liberation~~ ~~anti-imperialism~~ a kinder form of imperialist bourgeois rule will make my new vanguard (built entirely in my phone) poised to start a revolution. something these three liberal parties couldn't do.
i'm not in the business of picking my favourite flavour of theocratic bourgeois nationalist rule, lenin had the right of it, and the proof is in the success of the russian revolution, which is unique in history.
Quick,what's your take on Rojava
your "anti-imperialism" is exactly the same as liberals supporting rojava because they're le wholesome smolbean socialists, just that you "anti-imperialists" understand that rojava is cringe because it is petite bourgeois larpers who don't wield the power of the state, whereas you wish to elevate yourself to the level of the state while maintaining your petty bourgeois status.
thought they meant juggalos for a second
might as well be