Or perhaps the end of the beginning, if you’re a little more pessimistic.
Image is from this Bloomberg article, from which I also gathered some of the information used in the preamble.
While Trump was off in the Middle East in an incompetent attempt to solve a geopolitical and humanitarian crisis, China has been doing something much more productive.
Chinese officials, including Xi Jinping, had a summit with CELAC (a community of 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries). There, he promised investment, various declarations of friendship, and visa-free entry for 30 days for citizens of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay. Lula signed over 30 agreements with China. Colombia is joining the New Development Bank and hopes to gain the money for a 120-kilometer railway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as an alternative route to the Panama Canal. Even Argentina, ruled by arch-libertarian and arch-dipshit (but I repeat myself) Milei, was uncharacteristically polite with China as he secured a currency swap renewal to shore up their international reserves.
It wouldn’t really be correct to say that Latin America is “siding with China over the US” - leaders in the region will continue to make many deals with America for the foreseeable future, and even Trump’s bizarre economic strongman routine won’t make them break off economic and diplomatic relations. What’s significant here is that despite increasing American pressure for those leaders to break off all ties with China, few appear to be listening - and given that China is perhaps the most important economy on the planet right now, that is a very predictable outcome.
As the current American empire takes actions to try and avoid their doom, those very actions only guarantee it. As Latin America grows ever more interconnected with China and continues to develop, America will grow ever more panicked and demanding, and this feedback loop will - eventually - result in the death of the Monroe Doctrine.
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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.
How come Israel can shoot at diplomats, but when someone shoots Israeli diplomats it’s suddenly a big deal?
Highlights include:
The survey was conducted by one of the HMs at the request of Penn State University, among 1,005 respondents who constitute a representative sample of the Jewish population in Israel.
To the question “Do you support the claim that the IDF, when conquering an enemy city, should act in a manner similar to the way the Israelites acted when they conquered Jericho under the leadership of Joshua, that is,* kill all its inhabitants*?” 47% of all respondents responded in the affirmative.
…82% of those surveyed expressed support for the forced expulsion of residents of the Gaza Strip, and 56% supported the forced expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel. In the 2003 survey, the positive answers to these questions were “only” 45% and 31%, respectively.
…69% of secularists support the forcible expulsion of Gaza residents, and 31% of them see the extermination of Jericho residents as a precedent that the IDF should adopt.
…66% of those aged 40 and under support the deportation of Arab citizens of Israel, and 58% want to see the IDF do what Joshua did in Jericho.
…It is difficult to find anyone who would refuse clearly illegal orders, such as starving hundreds of thousands, creating extermination zones, or bombing densely populated residential neighborhoods. Only 9% of men under 40, the main group from which regular and reserve servicemen in Gaza come, rejected all the ideas of deportation and extermination that were presented to them.
I wasn’t sure what “Joshua did to Jericho”, and I was unsurprised to find out that the story ends like this: “Following God’s law, the Israelites killed every man and woman, the young and the old, as well as the oxen, sheep, and donkeys. Only Rahab, her parents, brothers and all “those who belonged to her” were spared. They were incorporated into Israel.”
What a repulsive society. Completely irredeemable. A stain on humanity and history.
Comrades, I have something to say. After studying history for many years, and suffering from certain personal experiences like periodic economic crisis, friends losing their homes and jobs, myself being overly exploited by bosses without names or faces, the material conditions of those around me become much worse, misery all over the place, I have reached a conclusion: The collapse of the Soviet Union is the largest tragedy in human history. Since 1991 things have only deteriorated. Everything gets progressively shittier over time.
However: It will stop being like that. It will be over.
Our journey towards emancipation begins with the thorough destruction of “israel”. We need an example, our “Bastille”, to begin our counteroffensive. “Israel” is the representation of the “western values”, their most precious creation. Break it. Break the spine of the genocidal west.
Amen. It WILL happen. Not if, WHEN.
The collapse of the Soviet Union is the largest tragedy in human history. Since 1991 things have only deteriorated. Everything gets progressively shittier over time.
I was literally thinking this today on the bus to work
my beautiful social democracy
Netanyahu says Israel won’t stop the war until Trump’s plan to remove all Palestinians from Gaza has been implemented, calling the idea “so correct and so revolutionary https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/22/ccyi-m22.html
Everyone in that oval office can die a thousand deaths and it will not be enough to pay back what they’re doing
THOMAS SANKARA MAUSOLEUM UNVEILED IN BURKINA FASO
https://xcancel.com/african_stream/status/1925020553313759581I always see people asking why world leaders don’t speak up about Gaza, the Palestinian hostages, the WB, or the famine… The thing is, there is a leader who talks about all of that, and more, in great detail every single week. His name is Sayyed Abdulmalik Al-Houthi, the leader of Ansar Allah and the man leading Yemen’s fight against imperialism and Zionism.
Y’all better start listening to him instead of complaining, and stop looking in the wrong place for guidance and support. Press TV dubs his speeches live each Thursday.
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I’m fairly certain Biden’s handlers have known about his cancer and kept it secret for a couple years, which is bad enough on its own.
But I just realized that would also mean they purposely forwent any treatment that might have been publicly noticeable, like chemo.
They let his cancer get worse to keep up appearances. That’s literally elder abuse in probably one of the worst forms.
(Not that he doesn’t deserve it. But it’s insane that they did it.)
IIRC, Biden said that he has cancer at some point in the middle of his presidency. But it was presented as “a gaffe”.
It was specifically about how he lived near toxic sources in Delaware due to petrochemical industry. The cover was that he was speaking about some minor skin cancer he had treated previously, which of course doesn’t really fit too well.
From what I can gather, prostate cancer is often treated with testosterone blockers which I assume wouldn’t be all that noticeable.
I agree that the idea his cancer was only recently discovered is probably bs though
Trans girls
Genocide JoeBeing put through a kafkaesque process to deny them T-blockers
Maybe this is what he meant when he said there’s at least three genders
PROstate
PROnouns
People didn’t lie when they mean that expected kamala to take over. They ran a dying man because they thought kamala couldn’t win on her own.
*knew she couldn’t win
They only swapped him out when he was already slipping in the polls and his decline became undeniable so the polls started getting even worse. Like single digits in New York. At that point his chances were looking worse than Harris’s.
But they doubled down and swapped him for someone they knew couldn’t win when they could have picked anybody.
I’m still a little disappointed that we didn’t get the chance to see NY flip red on Biden, as unlikely as it would have been.
Probably would have led to NY Dems being even more right-wing to please the Upstate vote.
That will probably be dismissed as a conspiracy theory for at least a decade, but eventually it will be an open secret that most of the public will never know like Reagan’s Alzheimer’s.
🤔 could there end up being a BlueAnon offshoot down the line screaming for a purge of Dem operatives bc “they hit grandpa Joe with the cancer gun and got away with it!!” ?
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So Russia and Ukraine planned a big Prisoner exchange 1000 for 1000
now the first 300 batch was exchangend and Ukraine did exhange a bunch of(ukrainian) Civilians instead of POW - they had imprisioned because of the Pro Russian Views, - As well as 50 just straight up Kidnapped Russian civilians from Kursk Oblast…
According to AP news, 2 Israeli embassy staffers were just killed in DC
https://apnews.com/article/israel-embassy-jewish-museum-shooting-10307b3b1a2a337e76730736b12ebbcb
If Corbyn ever gets into government by some miracle turn around in Britain I sincerely hope he’s feeling vindictive enough to go after every single one of these ghoulish fucks for their part in supporting and defending this genocide. They deserve to rot in prison and he would be in a position to get supreme revenge for what they did to him in the party.
I don’t think he is vindictive enough but holy shit he really should go after them all if that opportunity arises.
They all deserve worse than jail but i’d settle for it. Watching kids starve in real time live with nothing we can do about it is breaking my heart and filling me with a fire for inflicting pain to the ghouls that I can not describe.
Kazakh university student in Russia arrested and charged with terrorism for belonging to a Marxist discussion group.
Israeli forces stationed at Jenin refugee camp have fired live ammunition at a diplomatic delegation as it was entering the camp to view the living conditions of the refugees.
The diplomats that visited the camp on Wednesday were from Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, France, India, Japan, Jordan, Lithuania, Mexico Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Sri Lanka, Spain, Turkey, the EU, and the UK, along with representatives from several other countries and journalists accompanying them.
The Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates had organized the visit for the international community to witness the Israeli regime’s ongoing aggression against the Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank.
The Ministry had arranged a similar visit to Tulkarem city and the refugee camp in the northern West Bank last week.
WAFA news agency reported that the delegation wanted to enter the camp from the eastern gate, where the regime has installed an iron gate, when the soldiers fired live ammunition directly and heavily at the diplomats and their entourage.
In a statement, the Ministry said, “This aggressive act constitutes a flagrant and serious violation of the provisions of international law and the most basic rules of diplomatic relations stipulated in the 1961 Vienna Convention, which guarantees protection and immunity for diplomatic missions and delegations.”
After the incident, the delegation visited the Jenin Governorate headquarters and reviewed the situation in the camp and the city.
The camp governor, Mohammed Jarrar, explained in detail the city’s disastrous economic condition, the war’s impact on its facilities, and the destruction of infrastructure.
More importantly, he described the extremely inhumane circumstances under which 22,000 Palestinians have been forced to abandon their homes and live in the tyrannical conditions the Israeli regime has forced upon them.
Later, the Ministry condemned the assault by the occupation forces on the diplomatic delegation invited by the Palestinian Authority.
Since October 7, 2023, when the Israeli regime began its genocidal war against Gaza, the number of attacks by settlers and occupation forces on the Palestinians of the Occupied West Bank has increased dramatically.
The Israeli regime has also killed at least 1,000 Palestinians and abducted 7,000 in the occupied West Bank.
Israel’s going to literally be firing on your fucking diplomats and you’re still not going to back off from them. There’s just absolutely no limit to anything they can do.
In case you nerds missed it, Lemmy.world beat us by having the first domestic terrorist of lemmy
President Javier Milei has dissolved the Argentine government unit investigating the $LIBRA crypto scam, which he promoted in February.
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