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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.
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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.
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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.
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:
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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.
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We interrupt the Qatar news cycle with reports about a Russian drone strike on a target in Poland. 5+ drones already crossed Polish airspace a few minutes ago and now there are reports that Russians struck something in Polish territory. I'm logging out for the day after a day of furious posting, see you on the other side.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're living in the age of happening, the nothing ever happeners are dead.
Same pattern as always, kneejerk reactions going "OH SHIT THIS IS IT", which is followed up by nothing happening.
This is true for both Qatar and Poland here.
Looks like NATO forces shot down all the one way attack drones in Polish airspace. Whatever happened, it caused serious mobilisation of NATO assets. This hasn't happened in the war so far, a first with Poland closing the airports temporarily.
Update, event still ongoing.
Doesn't make sense. Sounds like bullshit. Best I can come up with is Ukrainian false flag to try and drag the west into deploying troops
The event is actually still ongoing, more one way attack drones have entered Polish airspace and the Prime Minister out out a statement. Russia just launched dozens of cruise missiles, we'll find out soon what the targets are.
Russian sources are very quiet on this at the moment, usually they'd be the loudest about this being a Ukrainian false flag. Some of the drones are reportedly entering Polish airspace through Belarus.
Still doesn't make sense. Does not appear big enough for a Russian first strike against a nato member? They would be going bigger if this were the opening salvo of a war against nato.
Yeah we would see at least a few Oreshniks and Tsircons dropping if they were actually doing a first strike
PSA for the news thread: Don't take every rumor at face value and jump to conclusions. Wait for reliable confirmation.
There is a Rammstein meeting later today. The drone thing could be connected to that. But let's not lose sleep over this, we lack reliable information.
And it doesn't matter if this is either a lie, a willing incursion by the Russians, an accident, or interference by the Ukrainians. This incident will be used to justify funneling more money to the MIC and to create more consent for more militarization.
Didn't this literally happen in 2022 except it was a missile and a guy died?
I'm not holding out my breath on this causing anything
IIRC that was a failed Ukrainian air defense missile. Impacted on a Polish field and killed two people
Ukrainian false flag surely?
Or some sort of Ukrainian hijinks as Russians wouldn't want to do that.
If they hit Poland intentionally I have to figure they'd use high precision cutting edge hypersonic missiles and make the strike count as a big "fuck off" type move (or at least something debilitating like taking out a big base, aircraft, spy agency, war manufacturing) rather than this kind of low end stuff that the Ukrainian terrorists love doing. Why risk getting into a war with NATO by delivering some tiny munitions on easily intercepted conveyances? I'd get it if Poland say sent some NATO drones to attack Russian troops as a tit for tat but given Russians haven't mentioned anything of that happening and given their tendency to turn the other cheek I doubt that too.
Do any of these have the range to hit Poland from Russia (excluding the use of Kaliningrad) or the plausible deniability that drones give Russia? That's the big advantage of drones here, the plausible deniability. I don't think Russia wants to start an all out war with NATO with a big intentional hit, but rather chip away at it's credibility. Launching shorter range weapons from Kaliningrad would also eliminate plausible deniability.
Russia's only hypersonic is Zircon, which has been deployed less than a dozen times in the entire war, and only once this year, after being rushed from testing in 2023 to combat use. It's fair to say that it's more of a combat prototype at this stage. Range is estimated at 1000+km. Furthest forward launch point would be Crimea, and Crimea to Lviv in Ukraine is already over 900km. So it would be a stretch to try hit anything in Poland. Kinzhal, Iskander-M/1000 and Oreshnik are ballistic missiles, and Kinzhal and Iskander, similar to Zircon, likely don't have the range. Which leaves Oreshnik for publicly known about systems. An intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM). Launching that would be an act of war with no plausible deniability, and forewarning would have to be provided so that NATO doesn't think it's being nuked. US troops operating AEGIS ashore (the system that can shoot down an IRBM) are also stationed in Poland operating that system.
Kh-101 and Kalibr cruise missiles do have the range to hit Poland from Russia, but these are subsonic low flying cruise missiles launched from bombers and ships, not ballistic or hypersonic weapons. If Russia is to do an intentional strike, this is the most likely option.
Either Russia is getting serious, or Poland is lying in order to protect western Ukrainian airspace. Big escalation either way.
Some are saying Ukraine is guiding the Gerans using EW.
That sounds like telegram cope? Not an expert on anything
Maybe
Online poles are going to be bringing up "USSR imperialism" a lot over this I'm sure
As I want sleep I hope to believe that this is a complete accident
but I’ve also seen that Poland closed the Belarus border due to zapad military exercises sooo