Image is sourced from this Guardian article.
The Pope’s fucking dead.
He gave JD Vance three chocolate easter eggs, exchanged pleasantries for 17 minutes, and then keeled over and died.
What a way to go.
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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.
What the fuck
Sounds like he was a class traitor.
Why would you fight on the front lines for the Russian Federation? What a waste, if true.
There are people who volunteer to fight for Ukraine, why would someone be a stormtrooper for the empire?, this guy was on the right side.
Throwing your body to the meat grinder in an inter-imperialist conflict is a fucking waste. Yes, weakening the west is a good thing in and out of itself, but your life is much more valuable than to be wasted like that, there’s so much more you can do from within the west.
Truly. It’s not like this guy doing literally anything else would have cost Russia the war. His proximity to power could have been used much better. He could have literally got into a room with many of the most powerful people at the same time.
This is an anti-imperialist struggle against NATO forces. Not a waste at all. This is what peak Revolutionary Defeatism looks like.
Fighting on the front lines for the Russian Federation is far from “peak”. Defect to Cuba or Vietnam or something and do something constructive jfc
Cuba and Vietnam are not engaged in combat with Nazis and imperialists currently.
And the only revolutionary struggle is inter-imperialist overt military conflict? Hell no. If you wanna help the revolution, work your ass off and send money to Cuba or Palestine instead of throwing your body to the meat grinder.
Russia is not acting in an imperialist manner, they are acting in anti-imperialist self defense.
If someone joined the Iraqi military to fight against the US military invasion would you say that’s “an inter-imperialist military conflict”? Your analysis is chauvinist and flawed, so you have incorrectly assessed the correct revolutionary defeatist course of action. Russia needs to win this conflict and it’s your duty under revolutionary defeatism to oppose your own nation above all else. Lenin, Marx, Stalin all clearly demonstrated in their words and actions that you can critically support a capitalist nation when it is fighting imperialists.
Russia is acting in Ukraine essentially the only way it’s been allowed to, in order to maintain its sphere of economic and diplomatic influence around it, it has been essentially forced by the imperialist west to engage in warfare.
The fact that Russia is in a geopolitical position opposed to the west, means that, in a general sense, the fight is anti-western imperialism. It also can be described as Russian capitalist imperialism though, it’s not for the goodness of its heart that it’s engaging in this struggle against the west, it’s for the sake of the profits of its capitalists.
That’s not nearly enough reason, as a westerner, to go throw your body into the meat grinder for a country actively oppressing its minorities, its women, and its LGTBQ. There’s plenty more ways you can engage in anti-imperialism such as donating money to Cuba or time in mutual aid. I don’t see how that’s a chauvinist point of view: I can recognise that the west is actively worse than Russia in terms of imperialism (even if only by the fact that it holds more geopolitical and economical power), and that there are way more effective and less morally reprehensible ways of anti-imperialist struggle.
You are lying to yourself if you don’t see the current state of Russia lol. Going to Cuba would be a billion times better.
It doesn’t do you much good to die fighting nazis on the side of the traditionalist ultra capitalists lol
You could say the same thing about Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Libya, Syria, etc. All of these would have been acceptable battles to fight in against the Imperialists despite being capitalists. You do not understand revolutionary defeatism and need to read Lenin.
What the fuck. Cuba, Vietnam, China, DPRK and Laos are all fighting fascism all the time. Are you seriously suggesting that fighting on the frontlines of a deeply reactionary capitalist country is the only way to combat fascism and imperialism. Because that is delusional.
You fundamentally do not understand Revolutionary Defeatism and fall back into learned chauvinism and “above it all” thinking that is endemic to westoids. DPRK is fighting in Kursk against Ukrainian Nazis btw. They get it, you do not.
Hilarious for you to use DPRK as an example when they perfectly illustrate my point and KJU understands the importance of solidarity against imperialism where you do not.
Nowhere did I say fighting for Russia is the only way to combat fascism and imperialism. But it is one valid way to do so. Hence why DPRK soldiers are killing American-backed Ukrainian Nazis as we speak, and I support it.
Completely dogmatic way of thinking. I should remind you that you just said “Cuba and Vietnam are not engaged in combat with Nazis and imperialists currently.” to the suggestion that materially supporting those socialist countries would be more than/equally as productive materially supporting Russia. So which is it? Are there alternatives, or is “die for a country marginally less fascist than the country they’re fighting because Lenin said so”?
I support DPRK, again critically, that doesn’t mean I think it’s a good idea for young DPRK men to die in this conflict. There are again, thousands of better ways to support socialism than to throw your life away shoulder to shoulder with reactionaries. That’s my two cents. Probably going to stop responding to you once you call me a chauvinist again.
Yeah, seems like a bad case of “I hate my parents” that turned into “I really fucking hate my parents” and they accidentally ended up with confused politics.
This guy could be a poster here tbh, I have seen no evidence he was confused or a chud as of yet. What I saw him say was correct, and he was reflexively anti-America. This is what more westerners should be like, I’m not going to mock him
Didn’t mean it in a mocking way at all. Just that he had the same realization we all have had (at least here), but then also had parents that are directly part of the machine and his rebellion against them unified with his righteous rebellion against the state. His parents are America.
Idk I find this type of comparison quite infantilizing and removing of any agency. It’s the exact type of mockery Liberals often use against leftists, that’s it’s just childish rebellion, etc.
I don’t like the vibes in this thread. Disrespectful and fucked.
I was probably projecting a bit, I had a rebellious phase against my parents between the ages of 16 and 23. My parents were just conservative school teachers and a direct mail guy though. If they were a CIA director and a military contractor executive though, and I had the money in a trust to do it, joining an active war against the US is a reasonable course of action.
If that wasn’t a factor in his decision making that’s fair, but I’m just saying if it was me that definitely would have factored into it pretty heavily.
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Seems way more likely that this is driven by an unhealthy parent-child rebellion than him knowing some state secret rofl
If he knew “something” and was willing to die for it, why wouldn’t he post it on twitter too?
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Wants to die for a revolution, but doesn’t want to wash the dishes. Many such cases.