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Poland asks NATO to invoke article 4
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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.
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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.
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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.
The speed they did this without any length of investigation of a false flag knowing Ukkkraine tried this in the past is sus.
First time since the start of the Russia-Ukraine that article 4 has been invoked (it was last invoked at the start of the war by eastern European member states), and the 8th time in NATO history of my memory is correct.
The text of article 4 is quite short:
The Parties will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the Parties is threatened.
So just consultation in NATO. My guess is they want to decide if further actions (defensive measures) should be taken, and what those may be. For example Turkey has invoked Article 4 for additional defensive measures (such as the deployment of air defence) or deterrence exercises in the past, or to inform NATO of it's actions in response to military activities in Syria. At most I think, NATO may agree to deploy additional C-UAS (counter unmanned aerial systems) and air patrols more specialised to shoot down UAS to Poland. Outside of NATO, such air patrols were deployed by the United States to Jordan recently, and ended up shooting down Iranian one way attack drones headed towards Israel. I think that currently, the United States is the only nation capable of providing such specialised air patrols in NATO. European NATO members are capable of it, but it would require the purchase of laser guided rockets and certifying it on their aircraft. Or they may agree to keep the current posture and say a bunch of word salad.
This is literally just that one Monty Python skit:
And you can bet just as little will come of it. They'll just sit around and have their little circlejerk condemning Russia and beating their chests about how united they are and so on.
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The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi, provides details on the agreement reached with Iran yesterday.
In short, according to Grossi, a framework deal that, if followed, should open up the way for the inspection of all nuclear facilities in Iran. Iran will also be required to report on all the attacked nuclear facilities, including the nuclear material (enriched uranium) present at these facilities. In obligation with the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. This is if the agreement is actually implemented.
~~I guess Iran wants more of its scientists murdered at home with their families by zionist airstrikes~~
hopefully this is just stalling on Iran's part
This all depends on if it goes through, Iran is doing this to avoid snapback. I'm not optimistic though, I think the Europeans will still go ahead with snapback unless this agreement is implemented to its most maximalist demands within a very short period of time, and I don't know if Iran can agree to that.
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Trump allegedly demanding that the EU slap up to 100% tariffs on India and China, according to Reuters.
The EU diplomat said the U.S. had indicated it was willing to impose similar tariffs if the European Union heeded the U.S. request.
So is this where Trump demands that the EU do an economic kamikaze attack and has them take blame if they refuse? Saying that they'll do it too, but the EU has to go first, is kinda suspicious.
Russia violating polish airspace is actually kinda funny. The Europeans have nothing left to give, and they're going to try and possibly fail to rearm no matter what happens. If the Russians violated Polish airspace weekly it would either be Gerans very economically intercepting and destroying European missile stocks, or Europe cringing as they can do nothing to stop the drone raids through their territory. It's 2025. Are we going to continue to believe Europeans hold international law sacred? Fuck with them a bit. Outrage the impotent, depraved ghouls.
Trump pushing EU to slap 100% tariffs on China, India be like:
has expressed growing frustration at the difficulty of reaching a peace deal amid Russia’s escalating attacks on Ukrainian cities.
I feel like I've heard this phrase be repeated in basically every article of the war at every given point of the reporting.
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everything is mostly over now, the line between protesters and mob were blurred in the end hours when governmental building were targeted like supreme courts, National banks, etc
The rage had been specifically against the elite and their properties during the day so the sudden shift in target at the end was very suspicious. It was immediately condemned by the people with several conspiracies floating around about who was behind the attack. felt like mob were going after court, custom office, etc and destroying documents and other evidence deliberately. Currently the Maoist are being blamed for the destruction since they suffered the least damage. Some of it might be even true, just because they called themselves 'Maoist' doesn't mean they are in principle.
Luckily the chaos didn't last long. Nepal army was deployed at 10 pm and order was quickly restored. The suspicion of some foreign power suddenly hijacking the entire thing is entirety valid but don't think thats the case. The army patrolling the street might make it seem scary but they are just providing support. Their arrival made it so that people can sleep in peace.
It was too well focused to be foreign power leading a discontented hoard of protesters. Every sign here is the kind of activity that well organised vanguard groups engage in when they have the cover of a state that has descended into chaos.
In a country with a far right it's often their groups. In a country like Nepal I can only look at various communist groups. Unless we have some right wing suspects that have potential?
Yeah everyone was shocked how just how effective it was. Power of the masses I guess. Really a shame it was not channeled in a meaningful manner so the economic power still remains intact in the hand of capitalist.
The previous government was so inept that the right is now a monarchist -political party- Most of the parties here got 'communist' in their name or a hammer-and-sickel as logo, even if they have nothing to do with Marxism. So just being a communist party is no longer a effective rallying cry for masses, the parties need to show the ability to bring real progress which sadly has only been done by one Juche party. Maybe there are other small parties but have never heard of them yet.
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Today in hellworld news:
So today I was working during the night while listening to the Ecuador - Argentina football match for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers. I wasn't paying much attention, I didn't really care for the match, I just wanted to listen to something while I drive around and do deliveries.
During half time I usually mute the headphones and tune back in around 15 minutes later, however this time I decided to keep them on because I wanted to hear the half time commentary, but in the mean time the radio station was on the commercial break. Suddenly, I heard a message which went more or less like this:
"If you have a relative living illegally in the United States, you will see them again very soon. Tell them to download [name of the app that I can't remember] so that they may deport themselves safely. I am Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security in the United States. We can provide economic aid as well as free tickets to your relatives so that they may return legally, if not, we will find them and we will deport them by force. Under President Donald Trump's strong administration, law is respected and our borders are secure."
I was COMPLETELY shocked to hear this on the radio. It's absolute dystopian to hear the US-version of the Gestapo telling random ass argentinians to snitch on THEIR OWN RELATIVES so that they might get themselves DEPORTED. I really couldn't believe what I was hearing, it's absolutely insane.
The message was spoken in very clear castellano, with a strong Porteño accent (Basically the one of Buenos Aires). It couldn't have been Noem, I don't think she can speak fluent castellano. It must have been a local woman hired for the job or AI.
What in the ever loving name of fuck man, WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS. Literal nazi propaganda in my fucking radio station. For clarity, it's Radio La Red, it's AM, I listen to them only when there are football matches because I like their commentary... but to hear straight up nazi shit my fucking god.
They're playing pro-Trump propaganda campaigns on argentinian radio, it's just... insane. Also, there aren't a lot of "illegal" argentinians in the US, a lot of them travel to Miami to work in bars and what not, a bunch of them are also educated white men who work in financing and whatnot and live with, I assume, green cards or something, or get work visas. But to have ICE propaganda here? Aimed at who? I think this is a large scale campaign aimed at ALL Latin America, this ad must be playing everywhere... also, who the FUCK approved it?
And I think it's trying to sell the idea of deporting people to Argentina. Parts of milei's government have played with the idea of "setting up a wall in the northern border [with Bolivia and Paraguay]" to "stop the flow of immigration", same messaging as in the US. However immigrants are not a huge part of milei's agenda, but the remnants of whatever will be left after he's gone will surely pick it up.
Jesus christ, this 
is no longer a meme, it became reality...
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I really doubt anything will come from gulf States discomfort from Qatar strike. I don't remember his name but an Iranian official made a very good comment about this "do not believe anti semitic lies, gulf states have more lobby power than israhell ever did. All the" Jewish lobby" talk is to deflect blame away from the fact that gulf states want this". All of this was done with the consent of the gulf states
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