Image is from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ recent article on Kashmir.
It looks like the spat between India and Pakistan could be dying down, due to a new ceasefire. As of the time of me writing this paragraph, it seems both sides want to maintain it (despite some reports of violations here and there).
Both sides have declared victory, which is completely expected given their mutual political parties and nationalist histories. It’s a little harder to say which side has actually won, as both sides seem to have managed to shoot down aircraft and hit military bases. India has, in my opinion, had the more embarrassing moments, but international conflicts aren’t cringe compilations. I feel no good-will towards Pakistan’s comprador government, but it is at least nice to see Modi knocked down a few pegs. Regardless of the final technical victor, it’s obvious that - if the ceasefire is maintained - who won are the hundreds of millions of people who won’t have to live in fear of dying in nuclear hellfire.
This conflict is a good example of what multipolarity will truly entail. Countries that have been previously limited in their nationalist ambitions by American pressure will now take opportunities to revolt, sometimes against America itself, and sometimes against other countries in their regional neighbourhood. It’s also why, as communists, our goals do not stop at multipolarity; it is merely the establishing act of a new era of agitation against peripheral and semi-peripheral capitalist countries that are forming powerful national bourgeoisie classes as the international American capitalists are forced away.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. 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.
Ukraine , a land with very few problems , has Hungary currently amass its Army on his western borders now. Region of Carparthia in Ukraine is ethiniclly Hungarian and Ukraine Drafted extensivly from there . Also some days ago Ukraine security services made some raids against “Hungarian Sympathisants” there. So he can assume people there would rather be in Hungary. Some play might start there soon. or its just to try to draw some Units from the east to the west , to overextend Ukraine even more.
theres a Fun Joke about this Place that might now soon get an Addition.
spoiler
St. Peter asks a newcomer:
- Born?
- Austro-Hungary.
- Went to school?
- Czechoslovakia
- Married in?
- Hungary
- Kids born in?
- The Third Reich
- And your grandchildren?
- USSR.
- Where did you die?
- Ukraine.
- Man, you traveled a lot!
- Nonsense, I never left Mukachevo.
I’d assume Ukraine despite being outmatched by Russia would inflict horrific casualties on the untested and smaller Hungarian military
In fact if the Ukrainians went wild, I could see them easily pulling a 2014 ISIS-style offensive on Poland and Central Europe and making it all the way to the outskirts of Warsaw and Budapest, a military capable of continuously holding a 1200km attritional front with the likes of Russia poses a grave danger to the poorly performing militaries of liberal Europe
I’ve said this before but Europe is creating a monster in Ukraine, one that is rapidly heading towards “nothing to lose” territory
This is one of the deepest contradictions liberals are expected to swallow in the war.
That NATO had no plans to attack Russia, but that somehow Ukraine was powerful enough to challenge the entirety of Russia.
They built up a monstrously powerful military full of diehard nationalists, all while pretending Ukraine is a small weak country that proves Russia is pathetically weak due to their failure to conquer Ukraine in 3 days.
Ukraine would sweep over most European nations and could easily make a challenge for control of East Europe in its 2022 state.
I’d only visualize something like this occurring if the Ukrainian military still has strategic reserves to deploy to such a theoretical second front while maintaining their current defensive lines. Like I can imagine if they were to allocate the more NATO trained and orientated forces they keep on reserve and the nazi paramilitaries they may have enough manpower and armaments to push out a theoretical Hungarian incursion.
This is not even taking into account terrain difficulties between hungary and Ukraine. If hungary chose to just march over the border and take the small strip of land before the Ukrainian Carpathians and move forward their anti-air systems into the occupied strip and make mountain chokepoints, Ukraine would be hard fucking pressed to take it back.
Most of the pro-bandera regions got off really lightly when it comes to recruiting. In fact Transcarpathia and russophone ukraine were overproportionally drafted.
Past tense. There’s nobody left to recruit at this point anywhere in Ukraine
Here comes the babushka brigades
It’s always so depressing when you see a squad of Ukrainian conscripts and they’re all like, 60 minimum (also depressing to see young people dying in war obviously but it’s telling that they’re having to press gang people well beyond fighting age)
Yeah absolutely vile thing to do, especially because by the time they started that it was already clear it wouldn’t help their bargaining position
Yeah cuz they took the first train to warsaw!
yep - probably the most lethal force around , thinking abou it - maybe its some wierd - " lets use ukraine to invade Hungary to toppel Orban that blockades our Insane Policies against russia… " - insanity Plan of the EU & Hungary tries to preempt.
It was only a matter of time. If Hungary manages to pull it off, then expect other vultures to feast on the dying carcass that is the Ukrainian state. Especially since the “international sanctity of borders” type of liberal imperialism is on its way out.
It’ll be immensely funny if Ukraine get’s attacked by
country, retaliate and then get invaded by other countriesGiven the current geopolitical situation, I wouldn’t be surprised if NATO just outright refused to help Hungary if they declared war on Ukraine. Fuck the charter, everything is vibes now
Hungary currently amass its Army on his western borders now.
“Amass” is a strong word, what is your source? Currently there’s an espionage scandal going on, and they try to use it to influence the next election.
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So there’s nothing about this in Hungarian media, and the Hungarian liberals are very keen to prove that Orban wants war against Ukraine. With that said with the current scandal I wouldn’t be surprised if they sent a couple of tanks to the Ukrainian border, hardly a massive military presence though. Any state would be idiotic not to deploy additional forces to its border with a nation currently at war.
There was an air force military exercise happening lately, and there was this:
However, there is a unanimous opinion that what is happening is part of a months-long intelligence game, parts of which have already become public. Our sources also attribute to this same game the incident that happened last week but was not publicized: the Hungarian Defense Forces’ radar in Tokaj detected drones flying into Hungary, one of which was shot down. The Hungarians suspect that the drones came from Ukraine.
and this:
However, our sources maintain that a Ukrainian intelligence operation did indeed occur, and after Hungarian national security agencies leaked this information, the Ukrainian services began to feel the pressure. We understand that they have mobilized significant resources to uncover the sources who are providing information to the Hungarian services.
Given that Hungarian counterintelligence has also been extremely active against Ukrainian intelligence recently, our sources do not rule out the possibility that the Ukrainians carried out a so-called “preemptive strike” with Friday’s announcement, meaning they struck first. The operation appears pre-planned and well-coordinated, as our information suggests that when the Hungarian leadership was informed about it on Friday morning, the international media had already sent them questions.
Considering that in these kinds of intelligence games, both sides, Ukrainian and Hungarian, may have an interest in discrediting the other or engaging in disinformation, these stories are particularly susceptible to requiring a high degree of skepticism when evaluating information. However, it is clear that there is serious tension between the services of the two countries, and in recent times, more Ukrainian intelligence officers than before have been detected in Hungary. “There will likely be a response to the Ukrainians’ recent move,” our sources said.
So there’s nothing about this in Hungarian media
there is never much in Media about Military movements , especially if its the own countries Military Moving Internally. You can pic a better word then “amass” - its not like i now the numbers - but Hungary has only a few tanks (140 MBT) and has stationed Armor in Záhony, Beregsurány, Tiszabecs, Barabás und Nagybodósz apperently - so i consider Amass the right choice of word.
there is never much in Media about Military movements
No, it’s just strange because this is very much in the news cycle right now, the opposition leader is saying Orban secretly wants war with Ukraine, and Orban’s party accusing the opposition leader to be an inside man for both the EU and the Ukrainian secret service
Like this is very much the top story right now this espionage angle, but then this espionage angle is about whether the Hungarian state did any preparations in order to invade Transcarpathia, so I’m pretty sure the Hungarian liberal/opposition media would jump on the fact that the Hungarian army is doing anything out of the ordinary at the border. (And they did cover the drone being shot down)
And the sources you’ve posted is a noname twitter handle, who retweeted an Ukrainian OSINT tweet and a Greek newspaper. For all we know the original Ukrainian OSINT tweet is actually the Ukrainian secret service planting the story themselves
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I’ve opened the link again, and the source is not OSINT but Euromaidan itself. Before I was like 20% sure it was a planted story by the SBU, now I’m more like 90%
so its Ukrainian Media- Fudd to give the opposition a Push ? Tank movements are Fake ? - whats the play here ? I dont think Ukraine is much interested in having to deploy into transnistria , nor can hungary expect to take transnistria - or make a move - something else needs to happen first , transcarpian seperatist declaring a republic or something… , maybe its the other way around with ukraine arming some Gladio-esque groups in Hungary… (probably viewed as an enemy state by Ukraine now- maybe even encouraged from the west) …
Tank movements are Fake
We’ve seen like two tanks on a street? Where are they, and where are they heading?
The footage might be real, but the narrative around it: “Hungary is actively working towards the potential invasion of Transcarpathia” that’s 100% part of the espionage game that became public last week
give the opposition a Push
Every opposition party in Hungary is pro-Nato basically, so yes, Ukraine doesn’t want the Hungarians to impede the EU in giving billions to Ukraine
For when it happens
Where did you die?
Ukraine.
Where were you buried? Hungary
Man, you traveled a lot!
Nonsense, I never left Mukachevo.
Ahah trump at a press conference was like: what was I going to do? Not accept a free plane? We love free stuff.
Lmao
If they offer you a plane. Take the plane. If tomorrow they ask “what are you doing, I gave you a plane?” say “you idiot, why would you give me a plane”
king shit
fair enough
The New York Times has released a detailed report on why Trump prematurely ended the bombing campaign on Yemen. The article states the following:
After 30 days of strikes, Trump wanted a status report on Yemen. The status report concluded that the U.S. had failed to achieve air superiority, that drones were being shot down at an unprecedented rate, and that the U.S. had spent over a Billion dollars in the first month alone.
Omani officials told Steve Witkoff that the U.S. would be offered a way out of the campaign, but only if Trump agreed to direct talks with Yemen that did not include Israel, to which the President agreed. Saudi Arabia provided the U.S. with a list of 12 Houthi officials to assassinate, in order to ‘cripple’ the Yemeni movement. None were killed.
Several F-16 and F-35 jets were almost shot down by Houthi air defenses, marking a significant threat to American lives and elevating worries about a possible future confrontation with Iran. The U.S. used many advanced precision ammunitions, including bunker busters, but it had very little effect on Houthi infrastructure.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth tried to convince Saudi Arabia and the UAE to sponsor a renewed ground offensive in Yemen, but they declined.
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The US sure showed Yemen why they don’t have free healthcare (because they are a decaying empire that doesn’t care about it’s people).
Congrats on the Yemeni people’s second victory, and I hope they are preparing for the inevitable third.
Insane thing to throw in at the end there. “Hey Saudi Arabia, our massive bombing campaign isn’t doing shit, can you go boots on the ground?”
9am shit-faced off Mr.Boston texting the leader of Saudi Arabia marked as “$Emperor$” in your contacts and asking them to do a land invasion.
Omani officials told Steve Witkoff that the U.S. would be offered a way out of the campaign, but only if Trump agreed to direct talks with Yemen that did not include Israel
W Omani officials
The U.S. used many advanced precision ammunitions, including bunker busters, but it had very little effect on Houthi infrastructure.
Would’ve helped if they actually targeted Houthi infrastructure instead of civilian infrastructure.
Bombing a cement factory, a migrant detention facility, and a civilian airport: “why aren’t the militants’ capabilities degraded???”
Lmfao the first F-35 going down to a hilux-launched R-60, or better yet a Chinese-made MANPADS wouldve had Boeing going for Trump’s scalp before we stopped laughing about it
Yemeni ground based air defences are more advanced than Hilux launched R-60s. When I say it’s rudimentary, I mean that Yemen lacks the high level specialised systems like Bavar-373/Patriot/S-300, and the latest mobile point defence systems like Tor and Pantsir, which countries like Ukraine and Iran have, not that the air defence network is bad, they still have many systems. Many of Yemen’s air defence systems are quite similar to the “frankenSAMs” that Ukraine uses. I’ll provide images below:
Yemen has Thaqib-1, a ground launched R-73 system, equivalent to the ground launched ASRAAM Raven system in Ukraine:
Raven system:
Thaqib-1:
Yemen has Thaqib-2, a ground launched R-27, equivalent to Gravehawk systems in Ukraine armed with AIM-9L or R-27s (Gravehawk is mainly used with R-73s).
Indian Samar-2, very similar to Gravehawk:
Thaqib-2:
Yemen also has Thaqib-3, a ground launched R-77, equivalent to the NASAMS system in Ukraine armed with AIM-120s.
NASAMS:
Thaqib-3:
Good article compiling most available information
When this is combined with passive ground based infrared search and track systems (Sephyr 14 for example) for cueing the infrared seekers on the R-27 and R-73, and the active radar seeker on the R-77, you can get a potent short range air defence system (SHORAD) that’s mostly passive, relying on minimal radar inputs to tell you where to focus your infrared searching. This is how a Ukrainian unmanned surface vessel shot down a Russian Su-30 with an AIM-9.
While Yemen were not able to shoot down any US aircraft directly, they were able to force them into uncomfortable positions.
Civil Registry Law: Cuba could allow legal sex change without surgery or court order. Cuba will debate a bill to allow sex change in documents without surgery or court ruling. The measure faces criticism for not including non-binary people and for possible practical limitations.
The change, presented as an advance by authorities and pro-government activists, comes in the midst of a strong economic crisis, with the health system unable to guarantee gender reassignment operations that were already allowed by the Cuban State. The proposal was detailed in an article published by Cubadebate. The draft bill has been reviewed by the National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX), headed by Mariela Castro, who complained that it is not yet sufficiently advanced because it contemplates the designations of female and male, without including non-binary groups.
The announcement coincides with the celebration of the so-called “conga against homophobia” that took place on Saturday in El Vedado. The mobilization was authorized and led by the government. Hundreds of people carried banners with slogans such as “Socialism yes, transphobia no”. “As a trans person I am advocating for a gender identity law,” Yoilán Balón told The Associated Press. The demand is evidence of the fundamental shortcomings, because Cuba still lacks comprehensive legislation on this issue.
Currently, in Cuba it is only possible to change the registered sex after genital reassignment surgery, a procedure paralyzed in practice by the lack of resources of the health system.
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I heard this is already sort of the case like it is in America, it’s not like they ask you to drop your pants all you need is a sympathetic doctor to approve it. Would be great to skip an unnecessary step though
Mariela Castro continues to be cool as hell
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/South-Africa-v-Israel.pdf
If anyone wants to be reminded of the case against Israel in the ICJ.
I suspect that Netanyahu is prolonging the war to occupy all of Gaza to facilitate the cover up of the corpses and maimed bodies. The bulldozers also crush bone and decayed flesh into sludge; the bodies are erased - they are unidentifiable and near unquantifiable - not unlike cremation.
I think Trump’s Freudian slip of the numbers left in Gaza was likely close to the truth; as he said in his plans to relocate 1.5m people. That the truth is there are 1.5m people left in Gaza.
I think the ICJ/ICC are waiting for the war to end, but more than likely the individuals in charge of these institutions are being blackmailed, bribed, and threatened by the US, Israel, and other Western accomplices.
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UK’s F-35 exports more important than stopping genocide, lawyers to argue
Preserving the British role in the F-35 jet fighter programme takes precedence over the need to comply with UK laws on arms export controls, or any UK obligation to prevent a genocide in Israel, UK government lawyers will argue in court this week.
In papers to the court, the UK has acknowledged that its supply of F-35 components for potential use in Israel is in breach of its own arms export control laws. The laws state that arms export licences must not be granted “if there is a clear risk those items might be used to commit or facilitate a serious violation of international humanitarian law by Israel”.
They’ve given up even pretending that a genocide isn’t happening, too.
I’m not sure which is worse: pretending there isn’t a genocide, or acknowledging that there is with an “…and we’re all in!” stance.
I feel like the former at least contains the admission that genocides are bad
I love the
rules-voluntary non-binding guidelines-based international orderit’s really more of a geneva suggestion
Chat, is this true?
https://xcancel.com/timand2037/status/1921438500794290279#mUnconfirmed Report. Chinese intelligence report 🇨🇳 on the ouster of Syrian President 🇸🇾 Bashar al-Assad (and the dismantling of Syria).
● A report published by Chinese intelligence reveals controversial details regarding the change of power in Syria to Abu Mohammed Al-Jolani.
● The report confirms that what happened was the result of internal betrayal by senior Syrian army officials, bribed with Qatari money, who played a key role in implementing a complex international and regional plan.
● According to the report, on the night Aleppo fell, officers of the Syrian army’s central command committed a serious crime of treason by isolating Iranian consultant commander Bur Hashmi (aka “Hajj Hashim”) in a conference room.
● After isolating the Iranian commander, these officers directly contacted the Israeli Mossad, paving the way for the Free Sham Front to advance and occupy the city in just 45 minutes without any resistance.
● The spread of betrayal.
This betrayal was not limited to Aleppo; other Syrian cities were similarly surrendered. Syrian officials also sent false coordinates to Hezbollah, which trapped it and led to the destruction of a convoy of 100 vehicles belonging to Hezbollah following Israeli strikes.
● Concurrent with this event, the US Air Force targeted Iraqi Popular Militia forces near the Syrian border, in coordination with Israeli operations.
● Deceiving Bashar al-Assad.
• Despite Iranian warnings, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad remained unaware of the extent of the betrayal within his army. He was receiving false reports from his close agents, who kept him isolated and ignorant of the situation on the ground.
• As losses mounted, President Assad began to doubt the loyalty of his superiors. According to the report, the final plan was to hand him over directly to the Al-Nusrah Front (the mock Liberation Authority). Aware of the imminent danger, President Bashar al-Assad sought direct assistance from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
• The report indicates that this operation was planned and executed in coordination with several international intelligence agencies: the British intelligence service (MI6) 🏴, the Israeli Mossad 🇮🇱, and the CIA🇺🇸, under the direct supervision of Turkish President 🇹🇷 Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
● The coming days could reveal more details about this complex process, which combined internal betrayals and international collusion to reshape the Syrian landscape according to the agendas of major regional powers, the Chinese report indicates.
all checks out
The curse of post WW2 Arab Armies strikes again
A regimental and National Guard system paired with a rotating officer corps prevents this shit from happening, but the totalizing and paranoid mindset of most of these former US puppet kings kills even the concept of reform
No it was totally organic revolution by syrians who wanted free syria. Just a coincidence that it served the interests of the great satan and the little satan.
We can’t deny the unpopularity, weaknesses, and brutality of Assad, which only made it easier for the dozens of factions that sprouted in 2011 to be easier to exploit for the ends of said satans.
While international powers can very strongly influence the result of these revolutions, IMO the influence they have in instigating them is correlated moreso to the contradictions that the state maintained before the uprisings ever occurred.
It’s why nations like the DPRK are able to exist despite the constant barrage of propaganda and infiltration attempts. It is much harder to bribe a general who has his family well fed, his countrymen well cared for, and a socioeconomic system that (despite its critiques) is antithetical to the contradictions necessary for revolution.
Assad was unpopular because he was secular and not a fascist sunni freak. It’s really that simple. Every single arab relative and friend of mine I know who doesn’t like Assad didn’t like him because he was secular and alawite. Not a single one had any other critique that didn’t apply double to other sunni arab comprador leaders, of whom they never criticized.
Corrupt? Have you seen the King of Jordan? Brutal? Assad is nothing compared to Sisi. Getting Arabs to hate Assad was a Zionist psyop and it was incredibly successful at dividing the resistance and all Arabs who fell for it are feckless idiots. Honestly sick of the soft-peddling everyone does about how evil the Arab Sunni leaders are, they are cowardly opportunistic evil pieces of shit. Only Shia factions and Hamas have any principles or courage.
This is another pattern that must be pointed out. The entire region has been radicalized by saudi money and chauvinism.
Although assad wasn’t the equal of his fathers and still failed to secure his country.
I don’t think its fair to compare Syria and the DPRK. The DPRK’s socialist model geared towards self sufficiency and close geographical and political ties with the former USSR and now Russia and China also factor into its success. The DPRK has already underwent a class revolution while Syria’s sovereignty hasn’t even been established.
RoK psyops against the DPRK dont work. Most people who illegally leave the DPRK do so for personal economic advantages in the similar fashion to why Chinese people travel to Europe or the US (except the US/Korean comprador class will kidnap and trap them and never allow them to safely go back which is what sets apart the DPRK and other global south nations).
I think that’s exactly why the DPRK or even Cuba are good examples. They have issues of national importance such as developing their economies in the face of isolation, and belligerent states on their borders, but the class struggle has advanced in ways that are much harder to dismantle through external pressure short of war.
If Cuba or Korea developed in ways that did not advance that class struggle, and solved those contradictions, they would have been much more vulnerable to counterrevolution than in reality.
Even with emigration, a reality of any country that has been economically isolated or blockaded for generations, you’re absolutely right that beyond propaganda these people are not a security threat to their homelands. In a country with the class and ethnic antagonisms such as Syria had in 2011, people with much more influence and military significance are more often the ones to step out of line with the state first.
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And thats why stalin did the great purges.
Trump has decided not to rename the Persian Gulf to the ‘Arabian Gulf’, after Iran reportedly threatened to pull out of the negotiations – CNN
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Not strictly news, but the BBC have released some utterly stomach-churning details of the British SAS’ activities in Afghanistan.
It is seriously upsetting, grim stuff, so be warned before going in.
Really grim, and very similar to what the American and Australian special forces did in Afghanistan.
Australian soldiers flew Nazi swastika flag from vehicle in Afghanistan, the ABC has confirmed the photo was taken in 2007.
tip of the iceburg but gives you the vibe
I wonder if those british SAS assholes also canoed people
FORMER URUGUAYAN PRESIDENT PEPE MUJICA PASSES AWAY
José “Pepe” Mujica, former president of Uruguay and one of the greatest icons of the Latin American left, died on Tuesday (13) at the age of 89. Battling oesophageal cancer and an autoimmune disease, he was under palliative care and decided to stop treatment in January.
Mujica was a guerrilla fighter, imprisoned for almost 15 years during the dictatorship, seven of them in solitary confinement. After re-democratization, he governed Uruguay between 2010 and 2015, always faithful to a simple style. He donated 90% of his salary, lived on a farm and drove an 82 VW Beetle. Under his leadership, Uruguay advanced progressive policies such as the legalization of abortion and the decriminalization of marijuana. “You need to give meaning to life. Fight for happiness, not just wealth.”
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This is extremely saddening…
Yes, at least he saw his candidate and party win last elections against the neoliberals. And I still find it very sad how the two leftist presidents of Uruguay died of cancer, Tabaré Vázquez was also an oncologist and died of cancer in 2020.
I hate the way Mujica is glazed in the west. He’s portrayed as this “poor president” for living a simple life and rejecting most of his salary and benefits, and what they glaze of him isn’t his revolutionary activity but the fact that he was in jail. Spanish newspapers like El País have his death on the cover page, when they’re everything he fought against during his youth (was his presidency really that progressive economically? I know about the civil rights but it wasn’t really anticapitalist was it?).
Meanwhile, contemporary revolutionaries and anti-imperialists like Ibrahim Traoré are ignored or vilified in western media. The only article I could find about Traoré is from 2024, essentially saying “this junta dictator is likely gonna pass some really bad anti-LGBTQ policy” because of a law proposal that he later rejected. Disgusting shit.
Edit: this is related to socialism being associated to a poverty cult. Anti-consumerism is morally correct mostly because of material necessity, distribution of scarce goods, and ecology. But fuck me if I’m not gonna be happier having a washing machine and access to electricity than breaking my back washing my clothes by hand! Rejecting mindless capitalist consumerism is good, valuing politicians based on their materialist behaviours instead of their actual policy is stupid.
(was his presidency really that progressive economically? I know about the civil rights but it wasn’t really anticapitalist was it?).
Mujica and Tabare Vazquez (The other leftist who was president before and after Mujica, who also died of cancer, but no one in the West talks about him bc he had public disputes with the son of the former Uruguayan Dictator, Bordaberry, and bc he was anti-abortion) were both democratic socialists, but they didn’t openly change the capitalist system, they basically reformed the social programs to grant aid and rights to trade unions and minorities.
Their goverments (the Broad Front Goverment) are more well remembered for their close relation with Brazil (under the workers’ party goverments), Argentina (under the left-wing of Justicialist party) and with Bolivarian Venezuela. Brazil and Argentina (arguable Uruguay and Paraguay are buffer/satellite states of Brazil and Argentina) granted a lot of aid and money to Uruguay during this period, which they used to develop the country and the social programs. Mujica also promoted South American unity.
It was a long time coming, but it is still very sad.
Hasta la victoria, Pepe. Buen viaje.
Someone lit Keir Starmer’s house on fire
I have never heard Starmer speak, so whenever he’s quoted in the news, I just read him in Trash Future’s impression of him
I welcome the fire, and I encourage it to go further…
Omg i didn’t know we had
. What a time to be alive.
Jordan Peterson in an English RP accent, but lower.
Wait, literally? LOL.
…Oops. I mean: what-a-shame-I-condemn-all-“violence”-of-course-of-course!
Don’t usually use this inflection when saying “This Is Fine” though…
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Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia repeated a bunch of neocon talking points and principles (Iran can never have a nuke and needs to submit to American demands, Sanctions against Assad were necessary and good, Hamas is an evil terrorist organization that needs to be destroyed before Palestine can be lifted from siege, Saudi Arabia should join the Abraham accords, etc).
Then he went on to attack “neocons” who failed at nation building in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It’s all such a dumb farce. Whenever rightoids complain about neocons it’s always that Garfield meme. They don’t even realize they are the neocons. Dude you had Bolton, Rubio, Kellog, Walz and more in your foreign policy department. Shut the fuck up!
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says, ‘There will be no scenario in which we stop the war,’ adding that even if Hamas releases additional Israeli prisoners, IDF operations in Gaza will continue.
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I thought everyone should know that the Australian government told people to do a political compass test to decide who to vote for this election. I’m not even joking.
Are you FAR LEFT (Tony Blair neoliberalism) or are you CENTER RIGHT (deport all non-white immigrants)?
Deeply unserious people…
The CBC runs one with every Canadian election too, they call it VoteCompass lol
I didn’t do the test but IIRC it was full of Yank brainrot culture war shit
They did the same in Canada, really advertising it hard in the National Hockey League playoffs.
The Swedish government tells people to do that every election. They have a political compass test on the state media website and every media outlet uses a modified version of it. Swedish politics are hilariously controlled and they don’t try to hide it at all.
I think they did that in the previous 2 elections, I remember doing it in 2019, they tell me i’m more right wing than the greens lol
*i’m thinking of the abc news test
Yesterday, the Zionist occupiers assasinated 12 year old Mohammed Bardawil because he was last surviving witness to their massacre of paramedics last month in Gaza.
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