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.
Pakistan vs the Taliban in Afganistan seems to be escalating, with the Taliban opening fire on the border and deploying Humvees to the Pakistan- Afghanistan border.
Taliban Humvees on the move
Taliban attack
Someone from the Pakistani military is also leaking videos of strikes on the Taliban to the Faytuks accounts, which are getting posted.
Afghanistan has announced the end of it’s attacks on Pakistan.
lmao this is still really funny
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Why are they fighting?
to establish usa military base in afghanistan
Pakistani Taliban (TTP) killed some Pakistani troops a few days ago. Pakistan responded with airstrikes against the TTP in Kabul, Afghanistan. Now the Taliban is responding to those airstrikes.
Afghanistan and the Taliban is also getting closer with India, the Taliban foreign minister visited India a few days ago.
That is also kind of just how Indian and Pakistani foreign policy works. One side establishes a relationship with another country? The other side develops one with whoever that new partners mortal enemy is. India started selling weapons to Armenia after Pakistan started selling weapons to Azerbaijan, for instance. I wouldn’t be entirely surprised to see the Iranian-Indian relationship improve/grow post Pakistan-KSA defense pact.
Yeah pretty much. From an Indian perspective (not mine, to be clear), Pakistan is destabilising India by arming terrorists on their border. So why not do the same to Pakistan through the Taliban? What’s really surprising though is just the lack of loyalty from the Taliban. Pakistan have been helping the Taliban directly or indirectly for decades, and now the Taliban has turned against them?
If the Pakistan - Saudi Arabia defence pact first gets invoked to fight the Taliban in Afganistan, I don’t even know anymore…
The birth of true multipolarity will be in India and Pakistan. Expect more conflicts that doesn’t map cleanly to the West vs Russia/China/Iran.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you are saying, but what exactly is the “mighty” Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia going to do? Send a bunch of Colombian mercs?
Also:
I mean, so just throwing the standard Pakistani playbook back in their faces? If the PAF/ISI can play both sides, helping the US and the Taliban, why not the Taliban, too?
I don’t think it will happen, I’m just saying that it would be very sad/depressing. They can bomb them like Yemen I guess.
I guess they could, but I just don’t have much faith that the Saudi Air Force could pull that off. It’s more logistically complicated than bombing Yemen and they have to avoid Iranian airspace. I guess they could fly over UAE and Omani airspace and then through Pakistani airspace. I just don’t know what they can offer that Pakistan can’t already accomplish. I haven’t read much about that defense pact, but I kind of assume it’s more of a “We pay you, your military defends us” sort of deal that threatens Iran with a pretty formidable military that sits on their land border.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure if you made Pakistan and KSA fight each other, the military in Pakistan could flatten the KSA military five times over and hardly even notice the impact on their own forces. Also, one of these countries has nuclear weapons and the other does not. The only thing I can think of that KSA can really provide is money and maybe oil.
They need money and international support desperately. Thats why they turned back to the us.
That’s a bit surprising tbh, pretty sure India supported the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Northern Alliance against the Taliban during the many civil wars of the 1990s. I believe they even offered asylum to President Mohammad Najibullah when he was deposed in 1992.
I know that Afghanistan and Pakistan have a long history of border conflicts and disputes, so that might be related to it. Or they just think having support from Russia and India is better then being loyal to Pakistan.
My understanding is that the initial bombing in Kabul was targeting the head of the Taliban in Pakistan (a separate organization from the Afghan government I assumed). Now that it’s escalated, I don’t know, but I suspect it has to do with America, China, and the air base