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.
The bravest people on Earth emerge victorious once again. Hundreds of thousands of corpses, mostly women and children, for what? What has the Entity acomplished in this genocide? Killing Sinwar? Poisoning public opinion of their backers permanently? Remember, Israel entered Gaza in 2023 with these four goals: to destroy Hamas, to free the hostages, to ensure Hamas no longer poses a threat to Israel, and to return displaced residents of Northern Israel. The latter is acomplished, with the partial dismantling of Hezbollah, no question. The other three? Not even close. The hostages return, half in body bags. Hamas is stronger than ever, with a now infinite pool of recruits. Global opinion is irrevocably against them in a way never before seen. What was the point of all this death?
to show you can perpetrate a genocide, your stock market will reach all time high, and nobody would start sanctioning you or fighting you. welcome to global warming century. 0 burned embassies, couple of real attacks across the whole world, 0 exploded factories, 4-5 painted factories, 0 drone intercepted planes, 0 derailed trains.
the europe piggies haven’t even excluded them from eurovision or uefa, the most symbolic useless concessions imaginable.
This is really incredibly inaccurate. The UK factories that were sieged and attacked were meaningfully repeatedly damaged to the point that their operations were ceased until those factories were outright closed and the org responsible for achieving this was proscribed as a domestic terrorist organisation alongside the repeated arrests of literally thousands of people that openly support a “terrorist organisation” in the streets to widespread public backing.
I’m not even up to speed on other countries but I know there were other orgs out in a few countries doing similar.
Why do you want to see the factories burned to the ground? The property is not the important thing here, the operations are the target. Going overboard for the sense of destruction would turn public opinion against the action and is poor strategy. We don’t need spectacle, we need good strategy. Palestine Action even goofed by going too far for spectacle when they hit the military base.
because they are the factories producing explosives? which are not in uk, to be clear, majority are in usa and germany, possibly in sweden.
and i’m not belittling pal action valiant efforts to be non-violent protestors, they are the most efficient one. Unfortunately they are the only one.
(as for protestors getting arrested for signs, one would think, if you are ready to be arrested, to also go to a factory as well, instead of being arrested in a meta debate, but that’s whatever, older people)
arson is flashy but it’s probably harder to pull off than other kinds of sabotage
I understand the sentiment, but, at the risk of sounding snobbish, this is undialectical.
Only porky gives a shit about the stock market
Fifa and Eurovision are lib shit anyways, and Europe is a fascist hellhole.
About the rest of the points about people mobilizing I think it’s the other way around. Do remember the civil societies of the world have been on a DEEP slumber on their revolutionary potential after the fall of the USSR and the pseudo calm years of pax americana. Palestine has given a jolt of revival to that energy and has shown literal hundreds of millions around the world how the US is the Great Satan, especially in the global south.
The consequences of 2 years of jump started proletarian militancy are gonna be felt dearly for the bourgeois around the world in the coming years and decades, I can bet money on that.
undialectical is looking at sentiments and polls, when material reality shapes our societies. Material reality is thusly: change in trade patterns - non-existent (if anything egypt became the beneficiary via gas field), means of production or information sphere - penetration of american imperialists is even deeper (now including tiktok and twitter), military sales same (aside from spain) or even worse, cause euros are paranoid about russia, bds - cautiously optimistic, but not popular enough to be scary (see kimmel vs gadot for disney).
If people believe pisrael is perpetrating genocide, but then vote for parties supporting pisrael even now for a cheaper burger (germany/britain/usa are illustrative enough), they will give even less of a shit later, so material reality of politicians doesn’t change. I’m sorry to be so doomerpilled, but there is no solidarity in the treatlerite masses, arab street became netflix condo, eurocucks are more useless than ever, amerikkkans were always the last to any decent position (as with apartheid).
As for the protests: anti-wto was in the 90s, but say iraq was in 2003, those protestors got their treats, resubscribed to new york crimes, and voted biden.
I see what the issue is, you are only focusing on what happened in the global north.
Trust me, the change in attitude in the global south and the increase in movilization is definitely noticeable. Mostly because you add the outrage at “Israel” with anti-imperialist and anti-trump sentiment.
The US is not respected anymore, that much I can tell you. And the war of position to break imperialist hegemony is very well on its way and advancing, THAT has a material impact.
because that’s the lifeline of entity, not global south. but that aside, anybody kicked out their embassies in global south? or sanctioned them (this side of colombia)? maybe vietnam suspended their military cooperation (for god’s sake)?
as for respect, that again is whatever, respect doesn’t increase surplus extraction, sure usa will operate now under we will genocide whoever we want (as opposed to hiding it), not exactly conducive to nationalizing mines, is it?
Here is the thing, when the economies of the world start going down the shitter that’s when you will see people leaving their seats to do shit.
The fact that Palestine gave a reason for people to get up and mobilize when their material conditions weren’t ripe enough for it can’t be understated. The zionist entity and the Great Satan have jump started the kind of militant and outraged energy to the masses that they shouldn’t have, and they haven’t likely prepared for.
When shit really hits the fan, the experience learnt through this years will be used, and its invaluable knowledge that will make the bourgeois’ life much more difficult than if the only thing the masses had seen in their phones and TVs these years was Shrek 10 and Football (I refuse to call it S*ccer).
TL;DR The revolution takes years, pessimism will not get you anywhere on that regard.
It’s reasons like this why I believe the global south will weather the effects of climate change better even though we’ll see worse effects of it. Community goes a long way and the global north is too alienated for that.
This right here! The struggle is a school, and this struggle in particular gave folks 2 years of valuable experience organizing and facing off against state repression, media, etc. It also stripped bare the contradictions most folks were otherwise oblivious to. It completely changed the layout of organizing in my area just from folks seeing / learning from PSL and applying lessons at their various orgs, unions, etc or seeking help. The knock-on effects can’t be understated and this has absolutely been a formative struggle for the ones to come.
ansarallah demonstrated that they can shut down the red sea and the suez. traffic through there dropped by something like 80% and I doubt it will rebound.
Sales/orders and actual stock on hand are different things. the US military expended a huge amount of materiel supporting israel, especially anti-air defence interceptors. they were used waaay more than their replacement rate. iran’s strikes demonstrated that even the most heavily defended area on earth can still be struck by a majority of missiles in a strike package. multiple fighter jets were splashed in the red sea as well as something like 10-20 reaper drones, which are supposed to be immune to this kind of non-state/semi-state actor. a US carrier collided with a container ship while waiting to transit the suez earlier this year and it’s still not repaired.
these are all real costs to the empire, the effects of which will be seen more in whatever the next conflict is, whether that’s weaker support for ukraine, demonstration of the strength of resistance weaponry (especially iranian missiles), or american military planners being more aware of how much they need to hold in reserve when projecting force elsewhere.
The main Ws of the Zionist entity are assassinating Nasrallah and overthrowing Assad. It’s a curious situation where the internal stability of the Zionist entity is worse than it has ever been and their global reputation is down the shitter, but their immediate regional influence has actually strengthened. Having stronger regional
vassalsallies is worth the cost of burning their entire global reputation, but I don’t think flipping Syria from an Axis of Resistance state into a Zionist vassal is worth the greater political and social instability within the Zionist entity.Just like South Africa of the late 70s into the end of apartheid.
Especially since leaders can be replaced, and regimes can fall.
Yes. We have seen this all played out before in colonial struggles. The French tortured and slaughtered their way through Algeria, the Americans in Vietnam, South Africa… all the brutality accomplishes is making their regime even more unpopular. It deters no resistance, in contrast it strengthens it. Zionism is falling, not today, but the end is coming nearer.
The overwhelming majority of people across the world believe the 60-70k number; and most of them believe it not because they want to, but because that’s the only number they see in the media. When the world realizes the real number is 8-10X that, I think Israeli’s popularity will sink through the floor.
I agree, once we get some actual record keeping back in Gaza and we can do a proper count of the dead, the extent of the genocide will become clear to all.
The big fear I have is that this will never be allowed. The entity understands this too, of course, and has lots of tools still to try to prevent the real counting.
In no way does anyone have to hand it to them, but they did learn from the Nazi mistake of documenting their shit
I am not so sure, the Zionists are actually proud of the killing they did. If the true number comes that 600k people died, they will gloat about it.
People like Norman Finkelstein have argued, throughout the genocide and as a tactic to gather sympathy, that it is a genocide and not a “war” exactly because the resistance is incapable of engaging militarily against the IDF in anywhere near the same level, at some point Hamas was killing less than single digit soldiers a day. For most of it there was no “resistance” at all, indeed it was just a genocide and not a war.
Looking at this trajectory and emerging with “Hamas is stronger than ever”, I’m sorry is just self-delusion at best. I do not fault you or anyone, do not take it the wrong way, Its good propaganda, but its one thing to say and another to wholesale believe it. It implies they do not need urgent allies, it implies the world’s continued cowardice is not a factor, it implies their situation isn’t at all desperate.
Wave a magic wand and pretend everything is as best as it can be since Oct 7th. What are you or Hamas going to do about the mountain of rubble that will take 50 years to clear up? What are you going to do about the complete destruction of every bit of key basic infraestructure. Gaza is destroyed and there is not coming back to pre-Oct 7th. This is Israel’s success. They’ve made Gaza permanently unlivable.
One thing the anti-Israel broad left discourse doesn’t understand, or refuses to understand is that humanity isn’t perfectly rational, this isn’t some Paradox game with clear cut “rules”, with a clean list of objectives you can number from from 1-10 and a map with a gold star saying “this is the objective you win or lose if you capture it”. The objective is the normalization of the genocide, again as he would say Israel has repeatedly done this killing sprees, “mowing of the grass” as he puts it for decades, each time with greater scope, greater violence, greater casualties and expansion of their influence.
Again wave a magic wand and pretend its all over now wash it all away as another “operation”, you look at the track record and its undeniably a success for them. Now defining a success as the same metrics as we do, assuming we share the same core ideas of what success looks like is a massive logical fallacy. Nazi Germany was successful in killing the Jews. They just weren’t successful in building their shitty little ubermench fantasy land. Indeed you’d find for many of them the greater goal may as well be irrelevant, they were in it just for the evil(in violence and pleasure) of it all.
I wont even touch the greater scope of Syria and Iran being cooked as these are gigantic victories on their own.
With regards to the “public opinion” keep in mind the vast majority still sees Oct 7th as Hamas committing war crimes. The original mainstream reporting still goes unquestioned by most. The situation is still just as bad and any such repeats will be met with even harsher measures. We know the only way out is complete destruction of Israel and that means a military victory against both civilians and the IDF. There is no such clean war BS. As far as the global opinion is concerned, as much as they hate the genocide, the majority is not supporting Hamas violent resistance either.
Global opinion is just as irrelevant as before, minus everything Israel killed and destroyed which made them feel bad, realistically Hamas still can’t even throw rocks at their tanks or they’re just terrorists.
The majority of gen z people in the US, aged 18-24, sympathize more with Hamas than Israel. https://www.trtafrika.com/english/article/150871e81987
We will see how Finklestein’s strongest argument that Gaza is unlivable will hold with the ceasefire.
If Gaza is unlivable, by definition the Palestinian’s will abandon it fully once the borders open. If they don’t, then it is not unlivable because the Palestinians will make it livable once again.
The Zionist entity is obviously not making Gaza unlivable, which would involve them dousing Gaza with white phosphorus and other chemical weapons. The whole point of any settler project is to steal land from the Indigenous, not render it uninhabitable to the point where it’s not worth stealing.
“Uh aktually we won the Vietnam War because we killed more Vietnamese.”
But the thing is, America did win the Vietnam War in the end. They achieved their objectives. Vietnam is now more closely aligned to America in many ways than it is to China, it has fully opened up its market, resources and people for exploitation just as the capitalists wished. The Americans may have ‘lost the war’ but they won the peace and achieved their objectives of stopping the spread of communism and causing rifts within the communist bloc.
This is either a decade plus out of date or taking “who do you like” public opinion polls as meaning a damm thing in geopolitics and foreign policy. Vietnam is closer to China than they have been in a long while. China friendly party wing has won out the struggle over the last 3-5 years. There is zero chance the US gets anything meaningful out of Vietnam in terms of China containment stuff in the near or medium term future
it’s hard for me to take this too seriously when America has tens of billions of dollars of investments and there’s entire communities of white sexpats colonizing the area. That’s kind of my criteria for losing to America
By your own logic China has already lost to America for the same reason. But that’s a ridiculous way of analyzing material conditions.
It’s also completely ignoring the lived experiences of the Vietnamese people, which are objectively much better off because the viet cong won the war. They are still a dictatorship of the proletariat and can decide their own economic and foreign policy; their market reforms and normalization with the West were done by their own volition much the same way China did, they did not surrender anything to the Americans, unless you think allowing foreign investment is “surrendering” which I fundamentally disagree with. If you actually want to know how the Vietnamese are doing you should listen to Vietnamese Communists like Luna Oi that talk extensively about their country through a Marxist lens.
Finally, I find your description of White Sexpats as colonizers a bit reductive to the actual meaning of the term. Yes I think they’re absolutely repulsive as well, but they’re still just tourists/ visa workers like any other immigrant and aren’t literally creating another British Raj. Also, it kinda sounds similar to the anti-immigrant/ great replacement rhetoric you see in the west where far-right types say mass migration (which they sometimes call “colonization” too) of non-white people will cause a “white genocide” and is surrendering our countries to the “globalists”. So I’d rather not use this kind of language to describe sexpats as it gives ammo to fascists.
But that’s not BynarsAreOk’s reasoning. Their reasoning is literally arguing over K:D ratio. It’s like saying the DPRK lost in the Korean War because the US destroyed every single Korean building to the point where bombers dumped their payload into the ocean because there was nothing else to bomb.
“The Nazis won WWII in the end because NATO was and is staffed with Nazis and West Germany where all the Nazis winded up to escape justice from the Stasi annexed the GDR while the Soviet Union was overthrown by anti-communist forces from within” is something most people here would agree with while “Aktually, the Nazis won WWII because they killed a lot of Jews” isn’t serious analysis.
The MOST important thing is for the protesters and activists to not „go back to brunch“ and advocate for total isolation/sanctions be placed on israhell. Because libs and hasbara will NOW try to rehabilitate that racist ass genocidal colonial structure.
Is there numerical evidence to this? Cause I would say this is as unlikely as the rest.
Per The Jerusalem Post as of July 2025 (https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-862627)
2023?
Ah typo, yeah.