There's way too much going on right now for me to really focus on any one country this week. The aftermath of the fall of the Nepal government has, somewhat surprisingly, reverberated around the world, and not only in countries that are enemies to the West as you'd expect; for example, Morocco's government battle fiercely with Egypt's and Jordan's to be first in line to lick the dogshit off the boots of Zionists, and yet Morocco is currently embroiled in a large protest wave based primarily around a youth unemployment crisis (though their population is also remarkably pro-Palestinian, which generates additional friction). We're also seeing similar protests in Madagascar, Peru, and Paraguay, and perhaps more will come. I'm personally fairly doubtful in the potential for meaningful economic results from these protests (the current imperialist system seems too deeply embedded for a movement that isn't explicitly communist and anti-imperialist to alter conditions), but it is quite possible for new political results at least.
Outside of the developing world, it appears that the unpopularity of western leaders, such as in the UK, France, and Italy, is creating new levels of unrest. In Britain, the political system has become so utterly moribund that even the artificial democracy of a two-party system (more-or-less; the Lib Dems do exist I suppose) no longer suffices, with both Conservatives and Labour gradually sinking. The Reform party appears like it may become the new standard-bearer of the capitalists and petit-bourgeois - that is, the historical wellspring of fascism - and the Left Party (whatever name they eventually choose) may or may not rise to meet the occasion. In France, they're on their fifth Prime Minister in two years, after Lecornu lasted about a month, attempting the liberal classic: promising change, and then appointing the exact same people who have ruled for the last few decades. And pro-Palestinian protests and general strikes have erupted in Italy, in defiance of their rightwing government under Meloni.
While there's plenty of other events (e.g. continuing aggression against Venezuela that might soon erupt into a war) it would be remise of me not to mention the very much ongoing events vis-a-vis Palestine and a potential peace deal there, seemingly supported to some degree by Trump. It could be legitimate, and it could be some big act (very likely the latter, IMO). Both Trump and Netanyahu seem to believe that they're very talented political masterminds, producing manoeuvres and feints that would make Machiavelli blush. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I trust the militant organizations inside Palestine to outplay these American failsons. Hamas and similar groups are not nearly as gullible as the Iranian reformist faction - though few people are!
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The Zionist Entity'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.
...There needs to be a nato-like alliance of latam states to specifically oppose the US doing this shit. Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba, Columbia, Brazil should all be in it.
If they do not come together they will be picked off one by fucking one. Everyone needs to fully commit to mutual defence. ALL of them will be picked apart like this, first electorally and then if that fails they'll go militarily. There is no exception. They will not stop.
None of South America's countries have even regional tier capacity to project power. Hell, we don't even have power projection across all of our territories.
What has historically happened in the past is that neighboring countries try to help economies stay afloat via contraband and transshipment. It's what Brazil's dictatorship did to keep Argentina from collapsing during the Falklands War and its the best you can hope from even from an ideologically committed government in Brasília or Bogotá.
This is doomerist but had anybody gone to bat for Iraq in the early 2000s then all it would have meant is that countries like Libya, Syria, Lebanon and so on would have been destroyed earlier than projected. Its inhumane, it is cruel but even if all 400 million south americans saluted the courage of the Yemeni people, they'd still rather live in Saudi or UAE than Sanaa.
Nevermind the afterglow of the Jakarta Method as applied to South America - we have comprador elites in Brazil, but even those understand that their bottomline at this point requires a tough stance towards the USA and a concilliatory stance towards China. No, none of us can actually fight an invasion of Venezuela without being bombed into statehood failure ourselves. And that's assuming we can even deploy there.
This has always been the fatal flaw of LATAM countries. Mexico lost 60% of its territory due to its inability to exert power outside the capital region for example.
I’m personally losing faith in the region. Don’t let the brown skin fool you. We’re settler colonialists just like the Anglos in North America. The America worship is unbearable and the refusal to do anything because “bad country” is the victim.
The future is in Africa. Anybody telling you it’s Latin America are kidding themselves.
Edit: I should add I’m talking more about our government than the population. We’re still settler colonialists but the people tend to be more proactive than our useless puppet governments.
We had something like that within UNASUR (the South American version of the EU) but the US destroyed that under Obama and Trump's goverments. Lula, Maduro and Petro have been trying to rebuild UNASUR since 2023.
At best Lula is too cowardly and and worst he quietly agrees with some of this regime change.
They forgot to add “former” on his General title alongside his “former” national security advisor label. Makes it sound like a current general saying this stuff.
Something I will truly never understand with burgerlanders. It's never former president, always president obama, bush, clinton etc. That, and colonel being said the same as kernel.
You can thanks the Italians for the spelling and the French for the pronounciation; and the English, for being the shower drain of languages
The French both spell and pronounce it "colonel", I have no idea where Americans got "kernel" from.
According to the History and Origins Section, it comes from the French spelling and Spanish pronunciation, but Merriam-Webster say it's Italian, so idk, English is 90% vibes
Spanish would be "coronel", so that makes sense.
Mike Flynn says a lot of weird stuff lately. His post on Russian strategic bombers after the Ukraine attack on them was riddled with factual inaccuracies, for example. Very surprising that he was ever a natsec advisor given he doesn't know the basics or was not prepared to double check them before posting (or he does know the facts, and knowingly lies on social media for the grift, leveraging his former natsec status as an appeal to authority that adds legitimacy to his lies).
Obviously the war hawks and regime change fanatics want Cuba to fall, but I can't see direct military action happening, unless Cuba decides to host advanced Chinese, Iranian or Russian military equipment. The sanctions and blockade are unfortunately working, so they'll stick to that, I think.