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Bulletins and News Discussion from August 11th to August 17th, 2025 - Putin's World Tour
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Image is of Putin and Scholz sitting on opposite ends of a frighteningly long table back in 2022. Folks, the table is gonna get ten feet longer.
The latest round of US-Russian diplomacy is taking place on August 15th in Alaska, where Putin and Trump are meeting in-person to maybe try and bring an end to this godforsaken conflict. While I don't want to totally discount the possibility that they may come to an agreement - you truly never know! - there's a lot stacked against this encounter yielding much of anything.
Russia appears to have demanded a land swap; that Ukraine fully withdraw from Kherson and Zaporozhye oblasts (in exchange for unspecified Russian gains, but probably parts of Sumy and Kharkov) as a precondition for a ceasefire that could perhaps lead to a permanent resolution of the conflict, and Ukraine seems completely unwilling to do anything of the sort, saying that even if they wanted to, the process of just giving up a couple oblasts would take significant time and require referendums. I say that Russia has appeared to demand it, because there's been a lot of confusion - probably in bad faith - about what Russian diplomats and Putin himself have said and what the demands even are. There are some who speculate that Trump will sell out Ukraine and blame Zelensky for refusing to agree with Russian demands, and there are others who say that this just the latest of many examples of the US and Russia meeting up with such fundamental differences that a deal is impossible, and that Trump fully expects to put sanctions on Russia after Putin declines some harebrained American scheme.
Anyway. After the summit, in late August, Putin is due to arrive for a visit to India, at Modi's invitation. Previously, I was unsure exactly what India would do in response to American sanctions pressure, and now we appear to be receiving an answer, as Modi has made public statements that suggest that he is only getting closer to Russia. Fascinatingly, Modi will soon make his first visit to China in seven years at the annual SCO summit at the end of August, and Putin will be heading to China too on September 3rd. There is an increasing amount of dismissal about the potential of BRICS (especially one that contains India), and that dismissal is certainly rather justified, but I am still deeply curious about what developments may occur as the global south braces to face the remaining ~85% of Trump's presidency.
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Israel's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. 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.
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🚨 Civil Defense in Gaza: — Daily Report of the General Directorate of Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip
From the morning of Monday, 11 August 2025, until the morning of Tuesday, Civil Defense crews in the governorates of the Gaza Strip carried out 43 various missions, including 3 firefighting operations, 9 rescue operations, 23 ambulance missions, and 8 other tasks.
North Gaza Governorate: • Transported two gunshot injuries from in front of Al-Mashtal Hotel to Al-Shifa Hospital. • Transported one injury from Al-Mashtal camp to Al-Saraya field hospital. • Transported 14 injuries from the Zikim area to Al-Shifa Hospital. • Transported a medical case from in front of Al-Andalus Tower to Al-Rantisi Hospital. • Transported a medical case from in front of Al-Mashtal Center to Sheikh Radwan Clinic.
Gaza Governorate: • Transported 3 injuries to Al-Ma’madani Hospital as a result of targeting Al-Falah School in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood. • Removed hazards from the targeted sites of Al-Falah School and the Rjab family home in Al-Zaytoun. • Retrieved 3 injuries from the targeted apartment of the Daloul family in the Al-Sabra neighborhood. • Retrieved 5 martyrs and 3 injuries from the targeted home of the Al-Husari family in Al-Zaytoun. • Retrieved 2 martyrs and 1 injury from the targeted home of the Al-Nadeem family in Al-Zaytoun. • Transported and provided first aid to our colleague Nuh Al-Shaghnoobi after he was injured in a bombing on Street 8, south of Al-Zaytoun.
Central Governorate: • Extinguished a fire in farmland near the Central Police Headquarters building. • Transported 1 martyr and 2 injuries from near the Central Governorate building after a strike. • Extinguished a vehicle fire caused by a strike on Al-Baraka Street. • Retrieved 2 martyrs from a vehicle targeted on Al-Baraka Street. • Transported one injury from near the Nitzarim aid center. • Transported a medical case from the Al-Sawarkha area to Al-Aqsa Hospital.
Khan Younis Governorate: • Transported 3 medical cases from the Western Camp area to Nasser Hospital. • Transported a Civil Defense officer to Nasser Hospital due to deteriorating health while on duty. • Transported 2 injuries from the targeted tents of displaced persons in the Al-Mawasi area to Nasser Hospital.
Rafah Governorate: • Transported 3 childbirth cases from in front of Al-Attar to Nasser Hospital. • Transported 1 injury from Al-Maslak Junction to Nasser Hospital.
Civil Defense Media Office – Gaza Strip Tuesday, 12 August 2025
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