What if providing people with unfiltered truth makes them come away with the wrong, non-state sanctioned opinions? We simply must censor freedom of information requests about ukrainian nazi immigrants, and censor documentaries that may contain dangerous slivers of nuance. To fail to do this would put our free thinking, free societies at risk.

In all seriousness – we are not safe. If censorship fails and they lose the ability to paint us as cranks, they’ll have to rapidly pivot to treating us like imprisonable enemy agents. Obviously, this already happened in some of the baltic countries, and to a degree in germany.

I understand that conflict might not be worth it at this time, but I surely hope Tehran isn’t counting on the US to stick to any agreements.

This conduct reaffirms the respect for the law that has prevailed in the actions of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the international community.

This fake government in exile and their westoid backers have no regard for law or democracy.

The Venezuelan government really isn’t afraid of these Guaidó plays. That or they are stupid.

She did get to ride through the easiest times - the peak imperial moment.

Incredible, really. Why even pretend to be a democracy at that point.

Any women who took the test during this period should be awarded doctors wages from when they took the test until the court judgement.

It does however appear that Russia applying pressure up and down the entire front line even outside of the main advance around Pokrovsk. This means that the AFU can’t redeploy forces currently on the front to plug up holes, and reserve forces must be held back for future potential holes, not just stabilizing the Pokrovsk collapse. In a way, Russia is checking to see how exsanguinated Ukraine is after two years of losses.

Hexbear is such a unique space to look at this conflict. There is no loyalty to any participant in the conflict other than a keen curiosity on its impacts on geopolitics, and what those impacts might mean for global workers movements in the future. The fact that we can sit here and evaluate sources based on their content rather than whether or not they align with our ideology is magical.

Gaelic is confusing to English speakers because they expect the letters to have the same sounds. Mhath (good) for example is pronounced “vah”

Countries are really starting to draw the lines when it comes to information control.

Internal documents tend to be quite factual.

If they’re using them far from the frontlines, over friendly territory, they’ll be using at least some NATO pilots to get around the training bottleneck. They’ll use Ukrainian pilots if the F16’s are ever used over enemy territory, but, I don’t think that’s likely considering that the Ukrainian F16’s are primitive but precious.

Good news is that all of these places were evacuated and the damage is minimal.

People might even be able to go home and not find a pile of wood and corrugated steel where their house was.

Ukraine MOD claims 100,000 Russian dead, and 10,000 Ukrainian dead for Bakhmut.

Unfortunately for Zelensky, the ongoing fantasist narrative doesn’t actually translate well to real victories.

Further sweeping evacuation orders issued in Ukraine. The Russians are surging forward towards Pokrovsk, capturing many areas intact without much fighting. Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces in Kursk seem to have stalled.

Zelensky has declared that he aspires to make Pokrovsk the new Bakhmut, while simultaneously admitting that the war will only end by dialogue. Seems the mood in Ukrainian command is low, and the only solution they can think of is feeding more conscripts into death pits until that somehow creates a position of strength that Ukraine can negotiate from.

My sympathies if you’re a lib who has been radicalized by the especially intense genocidal horror of this 2024 election cycle. For many people, 2016 and 2020 made it clear that hoping for a better world makes us stand apart from liberals. 2024 has made it clear that we are surrounded by fascists, who, when their mask slips, proudly display their fangs, still dripping viscera from ongoing slaughter.

It’s nothing we didn’t already fear to know in our heart of hearts.

In dark times, should the stars also go out?

To be fair to the TBP trilogy…

The war is moving fast now.

This morning, Ukraine has issued evacuation orders up to 30km from the front lines around Novohrodivka in the Donetsk region. We might be seeing the start of collapses in Donetsk as the Russians push beyond the heavily fortified 2014 lines, and cut the Ukrainian defense in two. Meanwhile, in Luhansk, Ukraine is holding on by it’s fingertips, and Russia is prying them away one by one, seemingly with deliberate intent of declaring the region liberated.

The Sudzha incursion is spreading Ukrainian troops thinner and thinner, while activating increasing numbers of Russian troops that were previously restricted to homefront-only operations. Ukraine has essentially double the number of enemy troops they are in contact with.

Destroying cultural monuments is an actual warcrime.

Wow, when your 8 day trip turns into an 8 month trip.