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.
shitass idea number one : ukraine has been shooting down drones with f-16 gattling gun. way cheaper than aa missiles. but debris can still damage the aircraft
SOLUTION : TURRET JET FIGHTER (if you don't know, turret fighters are a ww2 era concept that were abandoned for not being good enough)
shitass idea number 2 : a lot of times, tanks get neutrolized by its crew abandoning it when it gets immobilezed. most anti tank weaponry have only penetrative power. they rely on hitting and exploding inside shells. when crew is abandonning a autoloader tank, they will press a button and tank will shoot all the shells, high explosive shells first, to a safe distance after few minutes. maybe add a device that safely burns fuel outside too
This is kinda already being done. They're using helicopters with aimable machineguns/autocannons to shoot down drones from the side.
Also kinda being done. This is the concept behind the blowout panels on the M1 Abrams. The ammo is stored in a compartment separate from the main compartment. There's an armored door that opens to get the shells inside the proper part of the tank. If the shells in the blowout compartment explode the explosion blows out the blowout panels and is channelled outwards. The problem is that those blowout panels need to be less armored than the rest of the tank (so they'll actually blowout instead of blow in) and they're vulnerable to FPV drones.
Blowout compartments unfortunately don't work on Soviet style tanks since the ammo is stored in an autoloader in the hull. There are designs for turret bustle autoloaders but I don't think anyone uses them except the French Leclerc.
Welcome back, Boulton Paul Defiant. I knew it wasn't your fault.
Cheaper missiles/aerial rockets seems to be the solution to shooting down drones for now, an APKWS laser guided rocket costs 22 thousand US dollars each, and you can put 42 of them on an F-16, F-15, or even a Eurofighter Typhoon in the future (BAE is "looking into it"). Cheaper than building a whole new plane or turret gun pod.
APKWS works for now but laser guided weapons are very easy to countermeasure in the size of drones they're capable of intercepting.
i remember there was an issue where the american jets were too fast for certain kinds of aerial engagements in viet nam, so bring back propeller planes for anti-drone duty i guess?
The US military had pretty strict rules on engaging planes at the time (presumably to prevent friendly fire), but by the time the pilot could visually identify that they were looking at a MIG, they were too close to fire missiles. Part of the reason the air force did so much worse in Vietnam than like, every other conflict since WWII.
Propeller anti-drone fighter drone. With a turret! (Etc)