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Russia has made a big breakthrough in Kursk. According to multiple Ukrainian sources, from various telegrams, war mappers and the Kyiv Post, the Ukrainians are effectively operationally encircled in Sudzha. Russia has taken complete control of one of the two main supply roads, and the other supply road is under complete Russian fire control. Air strikes from the Ukrainian Air Force over the past few weeks, including F-16s armed with GBU-39 small diameter glide bombs, were not enough to break the siege. The Ukrainians, of course, are blaming this on a new brigade of North Korean troops.

Blue on the maps is Ukrainian occupied territory.

How the Kursk front looked like a week ago, for comparison:

Besides the Endless Massacres there are news of the Resitance in the Coast , still ambushing the Al-Jolani Gangs

EDIT: Battles in Tartous

In my view, it appears that the Syrian resistance has retreated to the mountains and other previously established bases of operations, while the regime takes out its failure on ordinary Syrians. The men who attacked yesterday were armed and wearing camouflage while the victims of the current pogroms are wearing civilian clothing and showing no resistance as they’re forced to kneel or lie down and be killed.

The gag order on photos and videos of atrocities that was been put out on the day of the takeover has either been lifted or overridden by the bloodlust of HTS, I’m frankly overwhelmed by the amount of footage that has dropped in the last 48 hours.

Nothing has concluded but the energy has shifted from a resistance offensive to a regime assault. A stated goal of the resistance was to take hostages and exchange them for a withdrawal from the coast, but the regime has responded with overwhelming brutality directed against civilians (stop me if you’ve heard this one before). Now they’ve moved on from the resistance entirely and are looting and burning shops and homes, in addition to the massacres

Syrian civilians have allegedly been let into the Khmeimim Airbase under Russian protection

https://t.me/Alomhoar/59832

Last tranche of atrocities I'm posting, whatever the official number of killed, it is likely 5 times that, minimum.

https://t.me/Alomhoar/59838

In case you think the “door to door executions” is an exaggeration

https://t.me/nayaforiraq/22761

Finally, a channel I’ve been relying on for firsthand news has had several of its workers killed by the government

https://t.me/Alomhoar/59847

private equity death watch

Pope Pancho lives another day

A few thoughts on Syria. “HTS” once again revealed themselves to be exactly what we already all knew them as back in the 2010s: a gang of brutal sectarian extremists and fascist executioners of innocent civilians. Right now, most of their victims are members of religious minorities (especially Alawis). I want to briefly take a closer look at religion in Syria.

So the “HTS” tries to claim that it represents the Syrian majority, which are Sunnis. But there is a tiny little demographic problem with that propaganda talking point of theirs. While most Syrians are in fact Sunnis, most Syrian Sunnis are not Salafis. And “HTS” is a radical Salafist political movement (it’s basically al-Queda rebranded). So they really do not represent the majority of the Syrian population in any way. That’s undoubtedly one major reason why “HTS” does not want to hold any kind of honest elections, because they would obviously lose them.

Another point that I want to touch is that I’ve noticed elsewhere (not here at hexbear) that some people are trying to make apologist arguments for the “HTS” regime by saying something along the lines of “Jolani can’t control his gunmen, the massacres aren’t his fault!” Well, that’s a pretty laughable argument to make. If the new leadership can’t control their own fighters, they won’t be in power long anyways…

I’m not posting any more links or images, but at least a thousand people have been slaughtered by the Al-Nusra regime. Entire families shot in their homes including women and children, mass graves being dug, and homes are looted and burned. Baniyas has been victim to the latest wave of brutality. The silver lining to this very dark cloud is that the only thing these mercenaries like filming more than their crimes are the repeated ambushes the resistance has been launching.

Finally, the regime is backpedaling after the widespread coverage of their crimes, claiming that those who perpetrate atrocities will be punished. Obviously a lie, but I believe they’ve cracked down on filming in the last 12-18 hours to prevent witnesses

While China has responded against Trump's threats by saying it will fight any war, India has been very quiet. It is acquiescing to U.S. demands.

India is much more vulnerable to tariffs, with all the U.S. Private investments allowing it to run a trade deficit.

Musk for instance wants to provide Starlink to India. But the issue is, even if Starlink pays for the dishes in Dollars, the 2% of Indians who can afford Starlink will pay for it in Rupees.

This means for Starlink to realize profits in Dollars, it'll have to be converted in forex markets, which could depreciate the Rupee and make essential imports (eg oil) more expensive, unless U.S. "investors" buy up more Indian stocks ("hot money flows") with Dollars.

And there is also the issue of import tariffs being the only thing keeping many sectors in India competitive against foreign goods. Indian farmers can't compete against US' highly subsidized and mechanized agriculture sector.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/02/25/sri-lankas-new-government-struggles-to-increase-public-investment-amid-imf-constraints/

Communists in Sri Lanka are really stuck in the debt trap from the previous gov

https://africanstream.media/traore-africa-will-be-self-sufficient-sovereign-independent/

Every day I'm a bigger supporter of this guy

Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson on The EU Has LOST its Mind

Nationalists celebrating Roman Shukhevich. I mean this with all sincerity Ukraine needs better heroes to look up to

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kgndd62zlo man holding Palestinian flag climbs Big Ben tower

It's Trudeaover https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/canada-new-leader-dealing-trump-trade-war-119566966