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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.
https://al24news.com/en/algeria-mauritania-armies-sign-cooperation-protocol/
Algeria and mauritania sign military cooperation protocol. Interesting to note that at the same time morocco bombed mauritanian civilians in the liberated territories of western Sahara and just recently unveiled a drone developed with the help of the entity. Morocco took the habit since normalization to bomb civilians from other nations in western Sahara as a response.
3 front liberation war againt the moroccan monarchy 
Mauritania also acquired a few months ago Yitian-L short anti-air systems from China
Every little detail I hear about Sinwar's life and death makes it feel straight out of Shōnen Jump. A man born in a refugee camp that outlives him. A man who went from emiseration to a college degree. A man who became fluent in his oppressors language in captivity. A man who went from indefinite imprisonment to leading the resistance. A man who projects a Samsonian level of indomitability. They have to keep making excuses that 'he's in another country', 'he's underground' for why they just can't kill him for years, but you can find him walking down the street in Gaza and just pull him aside for an interview.
He's still above ground fighting, a year into the entire region being carpet-bombed with the expressed intent to kill him specifically. He gets hit with tanks, missiles, dronefire, he's still fighting with a severed hand–he's 61 years old! Even when he's bleeding out in a dusty-old chair exposed to the elements, the surveillance drone pilots are still instinctively dodging the pieces of rebar he's chucking at the damned thing in a final 'fuck you' to his oppressors with his one good hand.
They have to finish him off with a sniper round. They can't touch this man. They can't be near this man. He's the bogeyman. It feels intrinsically embarrassing to even make the comparison–it makes me feel like my analysis is fundamentally juvenile, but I just cannot shut it out of my mind, it keeps coming back to me the more I think about it–this man went out like Gojo Satoru. A life and a death that can only be rivaled by Che Guevara's in terms of it feeling straight out of fiction. What a guy.
His death in the chair reminds me of another time the fascists tried killing him. Sitting in the rubble of your own home daring them to try again. Only took the most over equipped military ever years more to kill one old man. What a badass.
IDF should have buried that footage 10,000 leagues under the sea. but along the way, everyone who viewed it before approving its release didn’t think of Sinwar as a human. they saw footage of a crushed bug twitching its leg, and viewed the release as a well-earned victory lap
Fascist values are so ass-backwards that Zionists see Sinwar's last moments as weakness. Fascists can't comprehend what real heroism looks like.
I'm just one episode away from finishing listening to Blowback Season 5, about Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge. I encourage newsheads to listen to it, like all their seasons it's very well put together and detailed. Every so often in the newsmega there are posts about 'why don't the vietnamese like the chinese very much?' Without being vietnamese myself or having any special insight into vietnamese public opinion, I can't help but think that China's actions actively supporting the viciously murderous Khmer Rouge regime in the late 70s has something to do with this. It's pretty wild to me that there was a time within living memory where China and the US were working together to support the Khmer Rouge against their shared foes of Vietnam/USSR. Bizarre and ugly history.
blowback season 5 is paywalled but the hosts appeared on free episodes of radio war nerd and chapo earlier this month if you want to get the jist.
The podcasts failure to really materially interrogate the origins behind Chinese revisionism instead just hand waving away "its all realpolitik now" is fairly disappointing, although of course this same issue comes up with soviet revisionism in the Cuban and Afghanistan seasons as well. Its very very well put together(although the Korean season I think better exemplified its desire to be a high production value drama) and obviously the soundtrack does a great deal of adding emotional weight, but overall its superficial discussion of the class structure, land reform efforts, and revolutionary wartime activity I think places it in an almost unhelpful place since it can give the impression to someone who listened to it that they now "understand" the topic at hand. In a way that is obviously very common to the high speed flow of ideas we all exist in. But not helpful to make any downstream conclusions such as "why did land reform in much of southeast asia succeed and or fail", why is vietnam now also "market socialist" and how does this play into their modern revisionism. But perhaps I ask too much of a 10 hour podcast.
I came away not understanding anything about why China acted how they did and was disappointed. I had hoped there would be more explicit reference to what seemed like a history of Vietnamese dominance over Cambodians, which can explain some more. But that seemed to only be mentioned in like episode 1 or 2 then not repeated when relevant. But I honestly checked out part way while listening so I am open to correction
Yes I agree, there was not very much in the show about the reasons for the sino-soviet split or why China was so antagonistic to Vietnam. I'd like to learn more about the sino-soviet split in general, it's not something I have a good understanding of. if anyone has articles/podcasts to refer to on this I'm open to. I guess books also, but I have too big of a reading list already so I'd appreciate something more digestible.
Where to even begin? Yugoslavian regional desires? Vietnamese Doi Moi and how it emerges from Le Duan and how that stems from the differences in the north and the south's unequal development despite a common struggle? Che's writings on USSR/Cuba/Free Trade/Sugar? Defining what differs between Khrushchev or Deng(its nothing)? How soviet "social imperialism" is in retrospect clearly subordinated to American imperialism and now China repeats the same mistakes today. The eurocommunism-maoist split and how that really does derive from various European communist parties and just about every single USA communist parties revisionism, which plays out now in various rightist deviations towards what "actually exists" and from that "what is actually possible".
And of course all of this precedes the answer to why post colonial bourgeois nationalism flared up in border struggles with Vietnam and China, and now regrettably we have a china that continues many of these trends. Laos and Vietnam still at least exist as a good model of interstate relations, or much of the Soviet unions internal borders at least before capitalist restoration and the return of genocidal ambitions we see today.
not to be trite with you, this question is massive, and arguably as fundamental to communism as any other question nowadays, given its real applicability on how revisionism re-asserts itself time and time again, although its particular contours are obviously not at all limited to "who gets to own a couple islands along the amur river". No easy book to start with, but Albania-China relations is probably as good a starting point as any.
The USSR coming closer to nuking China than arguably any other country has since WW2 didnt help
Also
why post colonial bourgeois nationalism flared up in border struggles with Vietnam and China, and now regrettably we have a china that continues many of these trends.
China has diplomaticaly resolved the large majority of the border and maritime disputes it found itself in with the establishment of the PRC due to the massive changes from decolonial movements in the region, constantly changing and uncertain borders for China in the previous period, lack of border treaties with its neighbors before 1949. Often by surrendering the majority of the disputed ereas to the neighbouring country. Since its inception the PRC resolved border disputes with Vietnam, Myanmar, Nepal, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, North Korea, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Russia without maximalist demands, without domination through coercion and without lasting negative impact on their relations (from that aspect at least).
The point that the USSR would have invaded China due to the cultural revolution(or perhaps you are referencing something else I am completely unaware of) is absurd. It only intervened when bourgeois counter-rev was impending within the warsaw pact when it was invited.
The real nature of the question here is not persay the thought process behind how someone could mistake the USSR as an imperialist power equal to the USA, but how the theoretical underpinnings there intertwined with the great proletarian revolutions struggles within military politicization. Once we have that we do not have to throw the idea away wholesale, and it certainly ties into social imperialism in a real sense, and SPD's being critiqued by Lenin as an origin of that phrase. I do not have persay finalized thoughts there.
To your second point it feels a bit callous to list off a couple points and not grapple with the fundamental failure of decolonizing the world along socialist lines. Certainly China, the USSR, and Mongolia were able to draw reasonable borders all together, but the sino-vietnam-cambodia war is just one example that is clearly formed by colonialism and chinese revisionism and persists to this day. And that underlying issue, not making up a tally of W's and L's, is what I am interested in. But certainly point taken that successes are possible, although quite a few of them likely have to due with quelling nationalistic urges in border regions more so than socialist-oblige.
someone always posts a mega link of the full season here lol
The question usualy isnt "why don't the vietnamese like the chinese very much?" but "why do the vietnamese like the US that much more". Negative public opinion towards China is understandable. Negative public opinion towards China along with very positive public opinion towards the US much less so
China also invaded Vietnam not long after too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-v4-W6tUns
this channel has all seasons including the latest afaik
The "North Korean troops heading to Ukraine" story is such an absolute mess. None of the sources agree on the number of troops, their mission, where they currently are, or whether they are actually soldiers instead of civilian engineers.
And then there's the possibility that there are no such troops, and NATO/Ukraine are being racist to Buryats.
I like how apparently hundreds of them have surrendered but they can't show any proof. I suppose 
types would argue that's because you're not meant to record/take pictures of POWs under the Geneva convention but when has that stopped Ukraine (or Russia, to be fair) from parading around prisoners before lmao
You can take non-identifying photos of POWs to show numbers of captures, including showing their badges and info. You just can't show their faces or make them say things pretty sure.
Like you said, nobody seems to give a fuck about this rule on either side though
And the footage of "North Korean troops on the frontlines in Kursk" was geolocated to the far east of Russia, near North Korea Itself!
Well those will be the front lines when le epic Ukraine marches all the way there and liberates Russia from big bad putler. So when you think about it...
The Polisario Front rejects Staffan de Mistura's proposal as being considered contrary to the "legal framework of the question of Western Sahara".
for anyone not up to date, the proposal was cutting the country in half and giving one to the polizario and the other to the monarchy
“Germany should give a part of its territory to the Israelis.”
This comes after Germany’s immense support to provide Israel with weapons.
— Seyyed Hassan Ameli, representative of Iran’s leader to Ardebil Province
from https://xcancel.com/MiddleEastIndex/status/1847269751665369252 retweeted by AryJeay
the problem with the idea of setting up 'israel' in europe is that it doesn't actually meet the needs of european antisemites. a large part of the appeal of project israel for the british and euros was that it allowed them to support the concept of 'get the jews out of europe' but framed in a way that wasn't as obviously antisemitic as the nazi Final Solution. creating a jewish state in germany or austria or whatever would have required a real commitment to root out antisemitism instead of just pushing it out of sight, out of mind.
I mean, also:
I'd agree that people who suggest this seriously don't understand Israel's purpose.
But I used this idea as a rhetorical device with my lib dad to pretty good effect. It got him thinking about why he laughed when I said it, as though it's an obvious joke. But then he had to reckon with the fact that it's at least as reasonable to have a Jewish ethnostate in Germany as in the Levant.
Obviously, I know the very idea is ridiculous, but saying it out loud can bring the reasons that it's ridiculous to the surface in a sometimes helpful way.
I used this idea as a rhetorical device with my lib dad to pretty good effect....
That makes sense. Similarly, asking why the U.S. (and many other places) refused to accept (many) Jewish refugees from the Nazi Holocaust but do support the Zionist project often gets those juices flowing a bit. (Though a bit different, of course, because places SHOULD accept all kinds of refugees and other immigrants; just similar in terms of highlighting hypocrisy, propaganda, etc.)
I think people who suggest shit like this mistake what Israel's purpose is.
Of course, but getting people to that point is basically left-pilling them which is challenging, understatement. There’s a huge chasm between whatever, say, John Oliver is and hexbearist thought. In my experience, non-libs (chuds, conspiracy theorists with strange politics, “regular, apolitical” Americans, etc) are more open to learning than libs, but they come with their own reactionary biases.
In other words, I can see libs tepidly exploring Why didn’t Germany give up land to create Israel as reparations, but they’re not ready for even a theoretical understanding of Death to America.
I think sometimes when leftists say Why wasn’t Israel in Germany they are trying to do a logic-appeal to progressives and left-libs who would need hours of education that they are willfully closed off to to understand that Israel is America’s largest unsinkable aircraft carrier.
Your first point stands!
Fair enough. There's a difference between having them examine the reasoning and history and actually advocating for the different location. I've actually seen people do the latter in places like 
, so I probably knee-jerked a bit. LOL.
Hey is 
still paying reparations to Namibia for the genocide 120 years ago, or did it get canceled because Namibia (and South Africa) hurt the KKKraut ambassador's feelings?
Give them Long Island and Florida. Americans deserve the punishment of having to interact on a daily basis with the Zionist settlers our country loves so much.
The B2’s that bombed Yemen flew out of Australia. British warplanes are thought to be participating in the bombing of Lebanon. German ships are taking down drones. France is contributing to the Iron Dome. The US is tracking targets for assassination. It’s basically a fucking crusade at this point.
It’s basically a fucking crusade at this point.
Lets hope "Israel" goes the same way as the other crusader states did
To quote a blogger I've been reading a lot recently "It's all one white empire". They just moved the capital to America some time back.
Always has been