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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.
According to Telegram resistance may have just drone striked Bibi's house, tons of cops there and media has been shut out, it's not clear if he was home tho
This is the 1488th comment in this thread ugh
According to israhell pm office he wasn't home :( But it doesn't matter. We only have to be lucky once.
Abyonw know of a Blackwolffeed for American prestige?
The first actual evidence of North Korean troops being present in Russia has just been released, with a video showing soliders speaking what sounds like Korean, and getting outfitted with Russian military gear likely in the far east of Russia, near the border with the DPRK. I wonder what will happen with these troops, are they in Russia just for military drills, or will they be deployed to the front lines.
I think if they do end up on the front lines (which seems more likely as time passes), it is a negative signal for stability in the Korean peninsula, and shows that the DPRK are preparing for war and want battlefield experience in a modern conflict. This would likely be in response to the military escalation by the ROK, who unveiled the gigantic bunker buster Hyunmoo-5 IRBM, a missile the weight and size of an ICBM, but with a range of only 3000km, while simultaneously flying drones over Pyongyang this month. The message is clear. This is a first strike weapon designed to take out the leadership of the DPRK in a decapitation strike, and the ROK can track them with surveillance drones.
The DPRK's reaction to this massive escalation in the media has been to deny the effectiveness of this weapon and call it useless, but to me the actions taken by the DPRK in response (stating that reunification is not possible, blowing up roads connecting to the ROK, artillery on high alert) show that they think the opposite with regards to this escalation. If North Korean troops end up fighting in Kursk or Ukraine, it would be one further sign that the DPRK are preparing for war and improving their combat readiness.
The video realased has bullshit providence and proves nothing imo
NIS (ROK intel agency) says DPRK has deployed 12,000 to Ukraine.
Obviously they lie like shit but we will see eventually if they have.
I don't see anything in that video that says "North Korean fighting for Russia in Ukraine" I see a bunch of Asian men getting some kit. The South Korean r*dditor is saying they aren't sure that the accent is even North Korean. How hard would it be for korea or some think tank to get a bunch Russian replica kit and some actors and make a poor quality video to prop up the claims that DPRK is fighting in Ukraine?
Even if these really are North Koreans and those really are Russian uniforms and kit... Russia have just restarted officer training agreements with DPRK so these could just be Koreans getting enrolled.
Nobody seems to care that hundreds or even thousands of polish army regulars fighting under polish army commanders have been fighting in Ukraine. Nobody was shocked when the videos of the invasion of Kursk region featured Americans speaking English. Nobody is surprised when a hotel blows up in ukraine and turns out to be full of french men. So why should it be a thing if some Koreans want to join the Russian army and fight in Ukraine? It doesn't "say" anything about the state of the war. It doesn't change the facts on the ground or geo-politically.
This is a western media nothing burger to distract from zelenskys latest speeches and world tour. To distract from the fact that the peace summit was canceled. To distract from the fact that Ukraine is cooked.
If North Korean troops end up fighting in Kursk or Ukraine, it would be one further sign that the DPRK are preparing for war and improving their combat readiness.
That's a point I haven't considered. It makes a lot of sense.
A new report by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee highlights how Donald Trump's hotel charged the Secret Service rates up to 300% or more above the authorized federal government rates.
The US Secret Service lost about a fifth of its experienced agents by 2024, with the remaining personnel overworked, underpaid, improperly educated, and without the newest technology, The New York Times reported.
The attempt on Trump's life "revealed deep problems in the Secret Service," ranging from a lack of technology to "failures in command" and communication. For example, the Butler shooter researched the site with a drone, but the protective detail lacked one and their radios did not function correctly.
The major training site is so "decrepit" that it frequently floods after heavy rains, according to the NYT.
Meanwhile, a plan to compensate for attrition by rehiring recently departed agents failed catastrophically, as agents raced to retire early so they could get both a pension and an income while avoiding serving in the field where bodies were most needed.
With any luck it’ll keep getting worse bit by bit
The major training site is so "decrepit" that it frequently floods after heavy rains, according to the NYT.
??? is this as confusing to anybody else as it is to me? like, is this a basement video game level kinda training field that got flooded or what? a terribly built building that leaks horrifically from the roof and walls and floods? what does this actually mean
Maybe it's in a valley or something
At what point in the history of the roman empire did the Praetorian guard fall apart?
I love how Kdolf Hitler is just making all the statements now. They’ve completely given up on the pretense that Genocide Joe is still conscious
new drinking game: we do a shot/take a drink every time they wheel out Genocide Joe before inauguration day
I challenge anyone to total them all up at the end of January and try desperately to catch a buzz
Joe Hidin'
I could probably get really far in this game, and I don't drink alcohol. I haven't seen him on the TV in ages.
Some news from the Lebanon, Kursk, and Syria fronts.
Lebanese Hezbollah resistance forces have eliminated around 55 Zionist invaders (and wounded over 500) and destroyed 20 Merkava tanks along the border since October 1st: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/10/18/735470/Heds
Russian forces inflicted significant losses on Kiev regime invaders in Kursk oblast today (with videos): https://southfront.press/kiev-forces-take-more-losses-during-failed-attacks-in-kursk-videos-2/
Russian Aerospace Forces recently conducted airstrikes on Washington’s al-Queda proxies in Syria’s Idlib province: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_7868.mp4
Let's take a closer look at the UN resolution on the eradication of colonialism: https://xcancel.com/EmbassyofRussia/status/1847260063506812974
Not going over the people of NATO^TM^ countries, but some things stand out:
Armenia abstained. I guess the current regime continues to think sucking up to the West would benefit them somehow.
Argentina voted yes while Chile abstained. Imagine being somehow worse than Milei's regime.
Côte d'voire, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, and Senegal abstaining just shows everyone where the new front against the AES is located at. Senegal is especially revealing since a lot of people were hyping them for being a progressive force. Even Nigeria voted yes.
Fiji just shamelessly licking the boots of their US masters for the entire world to see.
Eastern pacific abstentions:
ROK, Japan, Philippines
It's always these 3 (ANZ don't count, they're anglo settler societies)
What is the Resolution Symbol (the unique ID the UN uses to label documents that goes something like 'A/RES/[number]/[number]') of this resolution? I am trying to consolidate all the votes of similar topics but I can only find the 2023 poll on the UN website (symbol is A/RES/78/83).
Also does anyone have any suggestions on UN vote resolutions relating to anti-nazism/ racism aside for the 'Combat glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance' polls?
Boric is such a loser
A bit surprised with Ireland abstaining as well.
Interesting take here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1847318553495470362.html
He reckons Britain has fully dropped involvement in Ukraine after the operation to expand the war failed.
The zionists are trying to accelerate their extermination campaign in North Gaza at these moments.
Hossam Shabat, journalist in North Gaza:
What’s happening in the Jabalia refugee camp can be summed up as a rapid extermination mission; we have never seen anything like this.
With full, unconditonal backing from the west. The west, and western ideology is a fucking disease, a virus that must be purged if the world is to ever know peace.
Damn... feeling sick. I hope they can make it, but shit sounds grim.
Good God Almighty, no one is going to stop the genocide. Iran is focused on defense. Hezbollah is slowly escalating, but not enough. Even noble Yemen can only do so much...
I pray we see the end of the zionist project soon...
EDIT:
I fear it may take another World War to finally put the zionist project out of all of our misery. But then who will be alive to celebrate?
feel the same
Preventive deployment of Iraqi security forces was reported around the premises of MBC TV, a channel majority-owned by the Saudi government, following the broadcast of a report that labeled several leaders of Iraqi militias, part of the Axis of Resistance, as “terrorists,” along with leaders of Hamas including Al Deif, Haniyeh, Sinwar and even Hassan Nasrallah.
Several armed groups issued threats against the channel over these statements, and even declared Saudi Arabia as a target.
