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Bulletins and News Discussion from July 14th to July 20th, 2025 - A Golden Age Of Copper
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Image is from this article, of a Chilean copper quarry.
Title is a reference to Trump's social media post about copper, which was, as usual, mostly deranged.
Trying to follow Trump's administration is pretty difficult, but as of right now, he is threatening 30% tariffs on Mexico and the EU starting on August 1st, as well as new tariff announcements on a bunch of other countries (including, bizarrely, a 50% tariff on Brazil), and also apparently a 50% tariff on copper, which the US imports half its supply of and is, of course, a very important metal in many applications.
I'm not sure what the plan is to bring back domestic copper production beyond hoping that it just sorta works out, but prominent copper producers, such as Chile and Canada, seem both concerned and confused. Reuters had a line that made me chuckle:
Boric said he was awaiting official communication from the U.S. government, including whether the tariffs would include copper cathodes, and questioned "whether this will actually be implemented or not."
Big mood, Boric.
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Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
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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.
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Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
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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.
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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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It's pretty wild that I say 'The Doomer faction has completely taken over' and the most doomer poster is telling me 'honestly it's not so bad'. Like you aren't really making your point well but sure I'll bite. You are one of the most prolific doomer posters and I did appreciate your takes when it came to china because afaik you are at the very least living in china and so your perspective was closer 'to the ground'. But just recently you basically engaged in that same behaviour here, this is just an actual garbage take and you didn't bother to read anything. In fact most of the posters there didn't bother to read anything which is the larger point of me saying 'the quality has gone down'. I'm sorry but that just means that your take is just your perspective, and as someone once said 'No investigation no right to speech'.
As for the worst are the NAFO liberal spaces.... You are right this place is better than those youtube channels that go 'THIS IS HUGE' 'CHINA HAS 25 DAYS LEFT' '13 DAYS TO COLLAPSE' because our enlightened 'marxist' discussion is 'Russia has 6 months left actually.' Like I'm sorry but you are actually further proving my point here.
Not sure what’s the problem with my comment that you linked. I asked for clarification, and even added my explanations to note that the principal contradictions of these countries cannot be resolved if those questions aren’t answered. Like, it’s fine to disagree but what exactly about it was garbage?
Also I disagree that I am doomer at all. If anything, I am one of the few posters that say China already has the capacity to take on the US hegemony both economically and financially. It is the people that keep making excuses for China that “it’s still building productive capacity” (China already has 31% of global manufacturing share!) and “China is playing the long game” that’s intrinsically admitting that China is too weak to do anything and therefore cannot challenge the US domination.
When you are the only country with a chance of winning, and when defeat would mean another century of waiting for the working class (and who knows how bad climate change will get under capitalism), wouldn't you want to be absolutely sure of victory before making your move? And would it not be better to get as many of the neutral countries on your side as possible first? Or even to have the request for an alternative system come from a neutral country / ex-US ally who is now being bullied by the US, so even the local bourgs in all the other fence sitting countries can see who is their friend and who is their enemy?
But that’s not what’s happening. China does not want to take action - that’s the whole point. It could, but it doesn’t want to.
And if China doesn’t want to de-dollarize during the first couple years of the Ukraine War, and instead doubled down on defending that and allowed the US the time to recover from that, what makes you think we’re going to get another chance to de-dollarize again?
What we are seeing right now is that the US is actively using global tariffs to reshape the global supply chain by threatening to wreck the export economies in the Global South, and because there is no alternative to absorb their surplus exports, these countries had to make deals with Trump.
China showed the world how easily it could kill the Western industries with its rare earth card. It’s too bad that China wants to use it to restore the neoliberal status quo, instead of forging a new path for the world.
And these aren’t just conjectures or some fantasies I conjured up. Read the Russian proposal at the BRICS Kazan summit last year and it’s clear that the motivation to de-dollarize just isn’t there anymore (and China never even bothered despite the wishful thinking of many, including myself at one point).
The US is only “winning” because the big players don’t want to challenge them properly.