My sources for the preamble come mostly from here, here, and here.
The thread image depicts Kenyan police, trained by the Zionist entity, in a meeting with President Ruto before being sent to Haiti, sourced from this article.
As has been planned for the last couple years, foreign police officers have been inside Haiti for a few months now. It will surprise nobody to learn that this has not gone very well. Gangs continue to control much of the country, and violence has continued in the form of massacres and forced relocations (approximately 1.3 million). Something like 80% of the capital, Port-au-Prince, is under the control of one gang or another.
The aim by the US was to import 2500 police officers to Haiti from a wide variety of countries. One of those was Kenya; President Ruto had to fight his own country’s courts to force this through, and ironically is now apparently considering withdrawing those officers once the UN mandate expires on October 2nd. The issue here is not only the limited manpower (Haiti has a population of 12 million), but also very pedestrian things, like the fact that the officers who arrive don’t even speak the language.
The situation in Haiti appears to be a fairly standard operation of American national control, in which both battling sides are being supported by the US in order to create maximum disorganization and prevent a coherent political force from arising and thus threatening their Caribbean interests. While the US funds foreign forces to arrive in Haiti to “control the situation” or similar justifications, the Haitian gangs get their weapons smuggled in from the US itself. That this is happening alongside escalations against Venezuela is obviously not a coincidence - in a world in which American interests are being gradually shrugged off, and where the American state military is becoming rapidly more impotent and unable to dissuade and defeat even tiny states like Yemen, total imperial dominion of their immediate surrounding territory must be ensured by any means necessary.
The police and the gangs are likely designed to be mutually reinforcing, without even much kayfabe of fighting each other. As an example, once the Kenyan police arrived, they immediately began brutalizing anti-government protestors instead of focussing on gang activity. They were trained by the Zionist entity, after all.
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Israel'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.
Did any fellow newsheads see Trump’s speech at the UN? He went on about what is essentially the “great replacement” theory towards Europe (being invaded and replaced by immigrants who don’t share “western values”), ranted about renewable energy, praised Israeli and US military strikes on Iran while criticising UN inaction, said that Europe must completely stop buying Russian oil, etc. The whole thing was just a big middle finger to the UN. Any thoughts?
I did. I just sounded like my racist MAGA uncle when he’s had a bit too much coffee. I don’t even know what to make of it.
I find I can’t really laugh at this stuff anymore. What everyone on Planet Earth needs to realize right now is that the United States is starting to get really fucking dangerous. While I am someone who is skeptical of early reports of the demise of the American Empire, I do think we are seeing the empire lash out in the face of challenges internal and external. It’s not just that the US has a death drive, but that the US has a death drive and the plan is drag everyone down to hell with us if we can’t be the imperial hegemon.
At least with Nazi Germany, one could look over the horizon and see that there were forces like the USSR and US that could stop them. Who is going to stop the US now? It seems like everyone in positions of power outside the US thinks they can just kiss Trump’s ass and it will all go back to normal. Hell even China seems to just want everything to go back to 2012 again.
I am not an accelerationist or a doomer. I have kids and I don’t want to see them suffer in their lives. But right now I cannot see a way out for humanity unless there is sufficient pressure for the US to implode on itself and inshallah not take the rest of the world down with it. Because right now it seems the rest of the world does not understand the seriousness of the situation.
I really feel like Gaza was the turning point. The US has been allowed to subcontract out a genocide that everyone knows is evil incarnate, but no one dares to cross the US (other than the heroic people of Yemen of course).
It was never going to end any other way. The ruling class of the United States can accept no peer, let alone being number two - but they are constitutionally incapable of investing in the social infrastructure necessary to remain at the pinnacle of technology and culture. We are going to witness a temper tantrum of world historical proportions.
I think the issue is any country that tries to stop the rabid dog is gonna get nuked, so it is better to wait the dog to die of rabies on its own.
Death by climate change and fascism vs nuclear hellfire, I guess.
i fully agree, but i feel like they’re way more dangerous internally than externally. i don’t think there’s enough social cohesion for america to do too much externally, they’d have to fix that first. given trump is a hyper capitalist i don’t think he’d be able to
Do we tell him or…
the exact opposite is the case
Brother, they are enabling a genocide and now bombing people in the caribbean.
so, nothing new?
my point is america is not gonna be able to do much more than what they’ve always done
I understand what you are saying about external danger, but consider this: if the US started to threaten countries by saying “give us exclusive rights to your lithium at a steep discount or we nuke your capital city”… would anyone try and stop them?
Maybe the US isn’t quite there yet, but after a massive economic downturn like the Great Depression, you don’t think they might try it in order to reclaim hegemony and jump start the economy?
i would say that the current conditions of the domestic economy, as well as the general sentiment among americans, don’t allow america to do that. they don’t have the industrial base, nor economists or an administration who would be willing to set off the necessary state policies, even for a preparation phase. the downturn wouldn’t change that
the real change in america is that the violence of the american state is increasingly turning inwards, this is what i mean. that’s the real change, the growing fascism. everything else is the same, and can’t be much more than that because the country simply doesn’t have what it takes. and this is the assessment of not only trump’s own advisors, like stephen miran, but of trump himself. we’ll see lots of posturing, as well as random violence against smaller countries, but no larger war will take place (for now)
domestically, though? things are probably gonna get much, much worse
sometimes I have a horrible vision where I wind up getting a postcard like the one sent to Dr. Bronner
I liked the part where he told Europe it was going to hell lol. It’s refreshing to see the US being honest about how it sees Europe. The message of “you have to stop using energy and stop importing labour” just adds up to what we’ve been saying here the whole time, the US forcing Europe to de-industrialise in order to prop up the US export market.
Most of the rest of it seemed to be just random incoherent boasting and ranting.
Went on to blame climate change on immigrants. But wasn’t that a hoax according to him? This idiot has told over 30 000 lies on television… I shit you not.
“The escalator and teleprompter not working are auspicious signs from Heaven that the UN that once served the interest of the US is now unfit due to rot and decay from within.” - Great Khan Trump