Image is sourced from this Economist article.
Most of the information in this preamble is from the Cradle; notably here, here, here, and here.
The features of an effective American war (proxy or otherwise) is that it is a) against opponents with much less military power than you; b) with very low American losses; c) with victories you can visibly show off from time to time to justify involvement, and d) with a profit margin beyond merely giving money to military corporations. The war against Yemen was none of those; airplanes tumbled off aircraft carriers, and the navy complained of the hardest fighting conditions in decades. Conquering Yemen for its resources was inconceivable given the terrain, lack of good intelligence, and the strength of Ansarallah, and all that seemed to be visibly harmed were empty patches of desert and civilians.
Apparently, the ceasefire last month merely stipulated that they stop attacking merchant vessels in the Red Sea; it said nothing about attacking Israel. Therefore, Yemen is absolutely free to create a new blockade of Israel by just striking their airports and seaports, and all Israel can seem to do is try and bomb them in retaliation, a futile strategy which has failed to produce a military or political change in Yemen for the last decade when many other countries have tried it. And if America directly attacks them in response to attacks on Israel, the ceasefire is off, and expensive equipment will continue to be lost.
Across the strait from Yemen is an interesting array of countries. Egypt's position in this war is well-known, and Somalia is under a kind of US occupation under the guise of fighting terrorism (Trump withdrew most troops, but they were then sent back under Biden). The other three are Sudan, Djibouti, and Eritrea. All three are increasingly being drawn into the anti-imperialist camp, as they cooperate with Iran, Russia, and/or China. Sudan is undergoing a civil war, but the rebels fighting the government are famously backed by the UAE. Djibouti has refused to allow themselves to be a launchpad for US strikes on Yemen.
Eritrea has a fascinating history of flip-flopping between West and East over the past few decades, but has, since 2020, sided with the East. It was one of the five countries to oppose the 2022 UN resolution condemning Russia's war with Ukraine. Eritrea sends two thirds of its exports to China, and Iran has reportedly supplied them with military equipment. If a stronger link could be reforged, then Iran would have significantly less trouble sending military technology to Ansarallah, and to other friendly groups throughout the region.
Naturally, the lidless eye of the imperial core is shifting its gaze onto Eritrea. Meanwhile, Ethiopia - a country that has experienced frequent conflict with Eritrea - is part of BRICS+ and their economy is increasingly reliant on China (as is most countries' economies nowadays). If a permanent resolution between the two could be created, it would be a victory for themselves and the Resistance, and a defeat for America, which thrives on conflict and destabilization.
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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.
I mean people called me liar and all that. I didn’t have an opinion on the guy before the empanda stream and then watched a couple of videos and he said these things.
The thumbnail literally is just evidence enough. The cognitive dissonance is strong. Like like three or four times he called North Korea a dynastic dictatorship where the kim family rules as a monarchy. Like ok thats just straight up cia BS.
Wanna take a wild guess what this guy's opinion on Syria and Assad was?
I mean, that's a fan channel, not him
Here's his words from the auto-transcript, edited for legibility, emphasis mine:
First the chauvinism, then the upcoming both-sidesism to whitewash himself. 'Look I'm left as it gets but Ukrainian Nazis are based when the do terrorist attacks inside of Russia against civilian trains and bridges, and it's FUCKING EPIC'
Head pats. Now back to your regularly scheduled western chauvinism
Literal blue anon radlib nonsense. You defend this guy? Really? This is your guy? DRUMPF IS HUMILIATING ZELENSKYY AND GUIDING PUTIN. DO SOMETHING CIA!!! I HATE NATO BUT ALSO PLEASE NATO PROXY BLOW UP YOUR ENEMIES ITS EPIC!
You really defending this absolute libshit? We need to Punish Putler because he's basically Israel, we need to protect American unipolarity to keep Russia (and Israel apparently) at bay! (Don't mind me implying that Israel somehow benefits from America's power waning, so us good anti-zionists should apparently want to keep American hegemony around) Goddamn this is such radlib horseshit how do you even begin to tell me this shit is ok? If someone came into hexbear and started commenting like this, they would be banned instantly.
I was banned from his chat instantly when I posted the Palestine flag in his stream where he was crying about Kamala losing. Everyone in the comments saying anything about Palestine being the cause of Democrats losing was instantly banned. These are his mods. This "fan channel" is given its approval by him. His editors are paid by him. He cultivates this radlib following.
Wait what this is what Hassan says? I've never watched the guy, had no idea the liberalism runs that deep, saying that Putin is controlling Trump. From the way people talk about him, you think he's some kind of online Maoist lol.
Does he not understand the concept of distance? Gaza is next door and has no air defences, Iran is nearly 1000 miles away and has an integrated air defence system protecting key sites, which was targeted. It's a lot easier to bomb people next door with no defences than flying 1000 miles and going up against S-300s. The planes don't teleport to their targets.
Hasan can be very
when it comes to Russia and 
When he had Chris Hedges on a couple of days ago he agreed that russiagate was complete bullshit
Hasanabi Productions isn't an official channel, Hasan has no control over this channel. He's openly explained many times how he doesn't take any action against these channels clipping him and uploading it to YT because
Free advertising
He doesn't really believe in intellectual property in that way and he's totally fine with people reuploading his content
It's not just the thumbnail/vid, but also the things Hasan said in it. Look at Zed's reply to my comment.