Image is of the Preah Vihear Temple on the Cambodian border. Image sourced from the UNESCO World Heritage website.

Over the last few days, Thailand and Cambodia entered into a heightened stage of conflict due to a long-running border dispute. Like many problems on this planet, Europeans are ultimately to blame - specifically France. Certain sections of the border drawn up by France about a century ago were not fully agreed upon by both sides, with the ownership of some Khmer temples being the most visible points of disagreement.

Despite interventions in favor of Cambodia in the 1960s and later 2010s by the ICJ - one of the mainly mostly useless global institutions that liberals periodically disown - the border conflict has simmered at a generally low level. Of the two countries, Thailand is significantly more militarily and economically powerful.

Last Wednesday, a Thai soldier lost his leg by stepping on a landmine, prompting a rapid escalation between Cambodia and Thailand that has since resulted in dozens of deaths and tens of thousands displaced. Cambodia was willing to come to the negotiating table fairly quickly, but Thailand was more hesitant. International pressure on the two countries by Malaysia, China, and the United States eventually forced Thailand to the table, and they have recently agreed to an immediate ceasefire courtesy of ASEAN.

Notably, Trump refused to hold trade talks with either country until they agreed to peace, which suggests that he really wants a Nobel Peace Prize - which he seems a shoe-in for given that he’s met the two most important requirements that several Nobel Peace Prize recipients have needed to meet in the past, which are: 1) start at least one war, and 2) accelerate the genocide of millions of people as billions more people watch on. His policies vis-a-vis ICE creating a domestic terror regime only further increase his chances of winning the prize.

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Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

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.

  • WIIHAPPYFEW [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    64·
    2 days ago

    Mark Carney says Canada will recognize Palestine as a country only if they hold Hamas-less elections by the end of 2026 and completely demilitarize. I would compare this to apartheid bantustans but at least those didn’t have half their de jure territory blocked off from them by their overlords

    • redchert@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      13·
      1 day ago

      No a lot of the bantustans did. Its like demanding the ANC to disarm and apartheid to end by declaring the ciskei republic to be independent.

        • redchert@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          5·
          14 hours ago

          South Africa tried to “launder” apartheid by driving black people into several clusters of disconnected statelets and declaring them independent (aka still using them for labour, mostly economically unviable) because afrikaner are “native” to africa and “black people can just move there if they want equal rights”

            • redchert@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
              2·
              13 hours ago

              Each officially had a military force, but SA often changed their borders and basically entered their territory everytime they wanted. They only outsourced the policing into “native hands” aka the mentioned military defense force.

    • very_poggers_gay [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      35·
      1 day ago

      The Conservative Party said in a statement that it supports a two-state solution, but also said Carney’s decision is a “reward” for Hamas. “A unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood, without peace negotiations or a renunciation of violence, destroys the path to a lasting, two-state solution. Worse, it legitimizes terrorism by handing political rewards to a group that rules Gaza through fear, oppression and brutality,” the statement said.

      Jesus Christ. Conservatives alway finding a way to out-shit the Liberal shitters.

      Interestingly, I do agree that offering Palestine a state without renunciating isareli violence legimitizes *israeli *terrorism and gives political rewards to the *fascist zionist *group that rules through fear, oppression, and brutality.

      • hellinkilla [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        26·
        1 day ago

        Carney said the move depends on democratic reforms, including the Palestinian Authority holding elections next year without Hamas.

        • IF Palestine does “democratic” reforms according to the will of the Canadian State —> recognize Palestine
          • How can anyone in the situation of Palestine do any reforms? That like a sick fucking joke.
          • Since when does being a “state” == democracy ? Don’t we know of many states who are hegemonically understood as non-democratic?
          • Since China is said to be anti-democratic, will it be UNrecognized?

        His remarks come a day after the UK announced it would recognise a Palestinian state in September unless Israel agreed to a ceasefire and other conditions and a week after France unveiled a similar plan.

        • IF Israel “agrees” to ceasefire — > NO recognize Palestine
          • Didn’t they already “agree” to a ceasefire? Over n over again?
          • If they did “agree” again they will be rewarded with all that they desire?

        Israel’s foreign ministry rejected Canada’s announcement, calling it “a reward for Hamas”.

        Sick fucking fuckers fuckem.

        quotes source: https://archive.is/20250730235751/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqyx35d9x2o

        edit: last quote was ambiguous so I removed a sentence to clarify my own comment

          • very_poggers_gay [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            17·
            1 day ago

            Democracy is when you make unilateral decisions against the majority of the public’s will… ^which honestly tracks in the West^.

            Anyways, here are some interesting results from a survey conducted in Gaza and the West Bank, conducted at the beginning of of May 2025:

            • An overwhelming majority (85% in the West Bank and 64% in the Gaza Strip) said it is opposes the disarmament of Hamas in the Gaza Strip in order to stop the war on the Gaza Strip, and only 18% support it.

            • 65% said they oppose the eviction of some Hamas military leaders from the Gaza Strip if that was a condition for stopping the war, and 31% support it. Support for this step stands at 47% in the Gaza Strip and only 20% in the West Bank.

            • Despite drops over time, satisfaction with Hamas’ performance remains at 57% (67% in the West Bank and 43% in the Gaza Strip), followed by Fateh (24%; 19% in the West Bank and 31% in the Gaza Strip), the PA (23%; 28% in the Gaza Strip and 19% in the West Bank), president Abbas (15%; 13% in the West Bank and 19% in the Gaza Strip).

            • When asked which political party or movement they support, the largest percentage (32%) said they prefer Hamas, followed by Fatah (21%), 12% selected third parties, and 34% said they do not support any of them or do not know.

            • But if new legislative elections were held today with the participation of all political forces that participated in the 2006 elections, 62% say they will participate in them, and among the participants in the elections 43% say they will vote for Hamas, 28% for Fatah, 8% for third parties, and 19% have not yet decided.

            • HoiPolloi [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
              19·
              1 day ago

              The people of Gaza already elected Hamas before and the west ignored it. They’re also the closest thing to a Palestinian military. These proposals by the west are worse than the two state solution, they may as well just let Israel annex both Gaza and the west bank.

          • hellinkilla [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            18·
            1 day ago

            can’t wait til each state only has diplomatic relations with other states who only allow parties to run which the current government of the first state is in agreement with. sounds like a very secure, rational way to proceed and will not lead to instant total chaos.

      • very_poggers_gay [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        29·
        1 day ago

        It’s a pathetic and shameful attempt at redeeming the Rules Based Order TM

        After endlessly normalizing, justifying, defending, aiding, and abetting israel’s holocaust against Palestinians, these “Western” leaders are waking up and realizing the blood-soaked stain that their actions have left on all the things that they claim to stand up for: International law, human rights, democracy, dignity, freedom, etc.

        The whole world sees what this Rules Based Order leads to. And these leaders think that if they can take the same bureaucratic tools and value system that enabled this genocide and use it to to grant Palestinians statehood, then the rules based order is redeemed, and they’ve cleansed themselves of their crimes.

        illegal-to-say

        • MarmiteLover123 [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          23·
          1 day ago

          I think it’s to do with Israel’s suspected plan to formally annex parts of Gaza, which is speculated to be announced tomorrow. By “recognising a Palestinian state”, these countries can absolve themselves from a potential Israeli annexation of Gaza, as theyformally recognise it as Palestinian land. As for countries like Qatar signing onto such statements, a last ditch effort to avoid the annexation from happening and pressuring Hamas into surrendering.

    • sexywheat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      37·
      2 days ago

      Yo wtf is up with this? Canada, France and UK all stating to recognise Palestine in September? That’s sus af IMO, but I can’t quite put my finger on why. Maybe they know something that we don’t?

      Or maybe they suspect that by then there won’t be much of anything to recognise anymore, and it’s purely to save face?

      Also lol @ “Hamas-less elections” - you must have elections and vote the way that we want you to, otherwise we will not recognise that you exist.