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Well it seems that the Russian gas tunnel operation in Kursk has worked, they're now geolocated on the edges of Sudzha in the old McDonald's area lmao.

Here's how the Kursk bulge looked around 36 hours ago:

Here's how it looks now:

Pipe/tunnel guys, we are so back.

Photo is supposedly of a Russian soldier infiltrating Sudzha (Kursk region) through a gas pipeline.

It sounds like the operation might have been a failure, but we'll have to wait for more info. I would not be surprised, because it's likely Ukraine expected this and planned for it due to previous events.

God damn look at this:

"The Economist’s country of the year for 2024"

The Economist,[1] a journal that speaks for the British millionaires, is pursuing a very instructive line in relation to the war. Representatives of advanced capital in the oldest and richest capitalist country, are shedding tears over the war and incessantly voicing a wish for peace. Those Social-Democrats who, together with the opportunists and Kautsky, think that a socialist programme consists in the propaganda of peace, will find proof of their error if they read The Economist. Their programme is not socialist, but bourgeois-pacifist. Dreams of peace, without propaganda of revolutionary action, express only a horror of war, but have nothing in common with socialism.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/may/01c.htm

Hey so something interesting (or perhaps a nothingburger) is happening WRT Puerto Rico. According to the Daily Mail (archived link) some lobbyists are pushing for Trump to sign an executive order to give Puerto Rico independence. Those born in the island after 2026 would cease to have US citizenship, and all federal funding would be cut. I'm unsure about how they would deal with all the federal property in the island, or the military bases.

The lobbyists' argument is that the island is costing the federal government $657B so it would be better to just let it go. Now, this is obviously pretty concerning because Trump is a neoliberal who easily could fall for that argument, and obviously they are very racist against Puerto Ricans so they are not concerned at all about the damage this would cause to the island. Now, keep in mind that while there is support for independence within PR, most who are pro-independence want to first create a self-sufficient economy in the island, which is far from the present situation. Apparently one of the lobbyists behind this draft executive order is a bourgeois Puerto Rican living in the US; presumably this is someone who would benefit from Puerto Rico becoming a neoliberal "sovereign" client state, as opposed to a colony.

My personal take is that I still doubt anything will come of this. Resident commissioner (non-voting congressman elected by PR) Pablo José Hernández spent yesterday putting out fires claiming that no one in congress actually supports this draft. Whether or not that's true, it definitely seems that no one wants to be up-front about supporting this. Trump himself hasn't said anything about Puerto Rican independence at any point, he has only ever stated his opposition to statehood for the island. I think Rubio certainly doesn't want to let this go through, since the US bases and military equipment in Puerto Rico are a relatively important part of power projection against Cuba and Venezuela. Also, the dumbest possible reason, Puerto Rican independence is mostly something supported by liberals and leftists in the island, so it'd be kind of a culture war L for Trump to be the one to grant it.

Also, in theory Trump doesn't have the power to make the decision to drop a US territory like that, it'd have to go through Congress, but obviously that's not stopping him.

North Korean media have published photographs of the country's first nuclear-powered submarine, armed with "guided missile nuclear weapons," under construction. Thus, the DPRK is preparing to enter yet another elite club of powers.

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Apparently lots of pigs out protecting Tesla dealerships today in Chicago and New York

92 of the International Republican Institute's destabilization programs in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela have been CANCELED following cuts to State Dept. and USAID grants. 175 of the Institute’s programs worldwide are now in limbo because they directly depend on NED funding.

Yet another open admission that the opposition activists, “political prisoners”, and US-bankrolled “religious groups” in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela exist only because of DEEP, LUCRATIVE and sometimes long-standing CONTRACTS.

Washington's political and media mercenaries (see: “democracy activists”) have been making bank 🤑💰💳 in recent decades in Latin America. SecRubio's friends in Latin America are desperately calling him to try to get their payments resumed. He probably had to change his number.

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Another L for Narco "Nazi' Rubio

Trump 'strongly considering' large-scale sanctions and tariffs on Russia

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36wkpy3497o.amp

What's going on with the Don? Did convince him that Putin is evil actually and can't be reasoned with?

Are the Assadists in the room with you right now?
https://xcancel.com/eu_eeas/status/1898487797348225207

The European Union strongly condemns the recent attacks, reportedly by pro-Assad elements, on interim government forces in the coastal areas of Syria and all violence against civilians.

You can tell Jolani was trained by the west by the public face. Interim government, respecting communities, independent investigation

Also I was right, gag order is back after the initial wave of evidence. There appear to have been more concerted efforts to get rid of bodies/obscure the number of dead, as well as the use of artillery instead of small arms to kill and intimidate coastal residents into flight

This was a good one on nakedcapitalism, a survey on the continuity of American empire under different aesthetics. I thought the section on how both "woke" and "antiwoke" aesthetics have been used as bludgeons against left economic policy was well put.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/03/the-empire-rebrands-foreign-policy-under-trump-2-0.html

Hilarious beyond belief, the new prime minister of Canada saying they "must protect our way of life, and our country" against the threat of American trade war and the threat of invasion

I’ll repost this when the new thread drops, but the Syrian terror regime has started a cleanup operation in advance of any international visitors, specifically the UN delegation. From planting weapons and stripping bodies to put on military gear to straight-up dumping bodies in the ocean, maximum effort is being put in to obscure what really has occurred. They haven’t stopped the killing (despite the announcement of the “military operation’s” end), they’re simply trying to minimize what has already happened.

https://t.me/CoastSyrian24/902

Romanian shenanigans continue:

fascist isolationist guy is not registered for elections after getting first round (which he won) annulled.

On one hand, whatever, he is a fascist dimwit, on the other - shining illustration how well leftist parties can win elections without the power of a strike behind them.

Elon Musk calls Poland's foreign minister a “little man” and tells him to be quiet after Radoslaw Skorski claims that the Polish government pays for the use of Starlink in Ukraine and that it may be necessary to look for another alternative.

Elon Musk says it “makes no sense” for the United States to be part of NATO to “pay for Europe's security”. The Wall Street Journal says that many European leaders regret making their security dependent on the US.

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