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Bulletins and News Discussion from September 8th to September 14th, 2025 - Reconciliation, Resets, and Really Cool Parades
(hexbear.net)
Analysis and images of the parades is all over the internet and in the last megathread; for the China-India stuff I recommend this article, as well as the Tricontinental in general.
Image is from @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net's comment in the last megathread.
Last week was the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 2, and on such an occasion, China put on quite an impressive military parade, especially in comparison to the rather drab and corporate parade that the USA recently had. In attendance were many world leaders, including Putin, Kim Jong Un, and a very happy-looking Lukashenko.
This took place shortly after the SCO summit in Tianjin, in which Modi was notably in attendance. That one of the world's most powerful fascists was in attendance in China near the anniversary of the World Antifascist War is obviously pretty ironic. Regardless, the mood was still relatively positive; for example, Xi announced the acceleration of the creation of the SCO development bank, and Indian-Chinese relations are once again in the thaw cycle of their long-term cyclical pattern, with direct flights resumed and links expanded. The fact that there is this much projected optimism from China about a Global South which is being increasingly tariffed, infiltrated, starved, looted, bombed, invaded, and massacred in the hundreds of thousands by rabid imperialist dogs is perhaps a little tone-deaf, but buoying up the SCO is better than doing nothing at all, I suppose.
Any astute Geopolitics Understander can tell you that this is certainly not India joining the side of the Global South, but instead a move somewhat forced upon them as they seek to balance both sides for their own gain. As Trump amps up pressure on India via tariffs, it is natural that India would seek leverage, and there is much that India gains: industrial development, increased intra-regional trade, and scientific knowledge from a China which has, in numerous fields, now pulled ahead of the USA. India is also facing numerous internal crises, ranging from run-of-the-mill capitalist incompetence and corruption, to worsening conditions for farmers, to the ravaging impacts of climate change, and increasing their links with China is a way to vent off a little of that pressure and protect Modi's regime.
Last week's thread is here.
The Imperialism Reading Group is here.
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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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Ok, so what do we think happens with the flotilla? It's far too large for Israel to just board every ship and arrest everyone in such a simple fashion as they did with the last two single-ship attempts. It has mass support across the Mediterranean, including the direct promise of Italian dockworkers to "shut down Europe". I don't think they can actually do that, but they certainly could shut down a lot of Italy and disrupt a ton of Mediterranean trade, but only 2 or the sea's biggest 10 ports are in Italy. I also don't think Israel will just blow the entire fleet out of the water, but if they did, what happens? That would have to prompt a massive new wave of action across the region, right?
I've been shocked to see the way that the boat flotillas have been escalating. Starting out from 1 to a couple to up to 70 now with promises of far more to join, it's been kind of crazy to see. I think it really represents the strength of mass action and of going through all the trouble and fear to put yourself out there, and put your face prominent and visible so that people see that there are people who care, so that other people join in the struggle.
It's been really heartening to see and really furthers my conviction that mass action and mass organization is the only way that we're going to be able to really approach and end issues like the genocide in Palestine.
Regardless, I think it's nowhere but up from here for us. We need only win once, but they need to keep winning continuously in order to keep us down.
Completely agreed. The large scale protests and other actions across the world for years have been building the courage and organization to take a far more dramatic step like this. The same organizations who've been involved in all of those "useless" protests are sending delegates and resources to this flotilla drawn from the people who attended and were radicalized by their actions.
Participating in these "useless" protests has not only steeled and trained me, but enabled me and others to help build a serious socialist network and presence in my region. I feel incredibly thankful for it!
Love to hear that comrade
I don't know how many flotilla ships will make the journey even without Israel being a factor, they're currently holed up in Tunisia because of the weather, some ships might not be able to go the distance unless the weather's perfect. But even half of the flotilla ships making it would be huge for the flotilla. The Israeli Navy has between 40-50 patrol boats and 10 000 sailors according to most sources, and they've largely been idle aside from sending a corvette to the Red Sea. On the patrol boats front, it could require an all out effort to stop the flotilla, but helicopters and the like can also be used to board vessels. Either way it will be a big showdown or operation if the ships aren't stopped well before the Gaza coastline. Which is what the flotilla wants, they want the footage and images of Israel stopping dozens of ships to be on prime time of every news channel, and on the front page of every newspaper.
The media will refuse to cover it, like they do anything else that embarrasses
How many ships are in the flotilla?
I think approximately 70 as of now
at least 40 if i recall correctly
What are the chances the Israeli navy just blocks them, sinks anyone who tries to go past their arbitrary red line? I'm sure they already have some cool SFM about how there is a secret hamas compound under every ship
That seems probable, because it would leave the choice to push through and potentially get blasted up to the flotilla, and I don't think they have the militant discipline to all commit in the face of death. Making the ships simply turn around and go home without violence would be Israel's best outcome because it could easily demoralize the flotilla movement without garnering the public rage that sinking ships would cause. If an individual ship pushed through and was martyred, I'm not sure what would happen. If all of the ships pushed through, I don't think Israel would just start indiscriminately blasting at them because the price with foreign governments and populations would be too high.
If you're right and I'm right, the best move is for the whole flotilla to continue through the blockade and for everyone to accept a small but very real chance of being killed.
Where’s a good place to keep up with news about it?
Honestly not sure, I'm following some individuals on the flotilla who are giving updates as they can. The usual pro-Palestinian new outlets (Al Jazeera, MEE, etc) are sharing updates.
Gotcha. I’ll keep an eye on those, thanks
8 hours later you've gotten your answer, they'll just attack them and try to sink them before they arrive.
No injuries, so we'll see. This is intimidation and it won't stop the flotilla. They'll need to sink ships.