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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.


Last week's thread is here.
The Imperialism Reading Group is here.

Please check out the RedAtlas!

The bulletins site is here. Currently not used.
The RSS feed is here. Also currently not used.

Israel's Genocide of Palestine

If you have evidence of Zionist crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

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.


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[-] dylan_g@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Damn this combined with the air-readiness stats earlier is wild. Is this relatively normal or something? I can't imagine spending trillions on defense just to have fleets of rust-buckets hemorrhaging on planned obsolescence and part shortages, then having to publicly admit your concern about getting caught with your pants down because of it. That's nuts.

[-] Tervell@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Some portion of equipment being out-of-service is to be expected, and the more complex the equipment, the more time it will spend in maintenance instead of working. It could be that for a plane as complex as the F-35, readiness rates simply cannot be that much higher, due to just the inherent complexity of the concept.

But if you notice a very obvious and accelerating downward trend stonks-down , you're supposed to, like, take some action to deal with it? Procure some new vehicles, procure a whole lot of parts to repair the existing ones, anything! Russia for example is still manufacturing BTR-82s, BMP-3s, T-90s (they're also refurbishing a lot of old stock, especially of tanks, but they do have new manufacture going on too), and have been substantially increasing the pace as the Ukraine war has continued.

However, in the American case, a bunch of the equipment cited here has long been out-of-production, or has had its production substantially down-scaled, and for some of them the US is several procurement programs deep into failing to find a replacement:

  • The last Abrams rolled off the assembly line in '91 - there was some continued manufacture of kits which were assembled over in Egypt, but as far as the American military is concerned, it was over in the '90s. Everything since then has been upgrades and refurbs of existing hulls (the exact thing Westerners accuse Russia of doing!)
  • The bulk of the Bradleys was made until '95, after which there was continued low-rate production and upgrades of existing vehicles. It at least lives on in the form of the AMPV (which isn't mentioned here), which is essentially a turretless Bradley - except production of that was scaled back by Hegseth this year. They have tried to replace it several times: FCS, GCV, OMFV (which was actually paused and restarted, so it sort of counts as two programs)
  • The Stryker was manufactured throughout the 2000s, and is now having procurement stopped and upgrades scaled down
  • The LAV-25 was produced in the '80s. Technically, the Stryker is a sort of cousin to it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mowag_Piranha#Family_tree), so at least one of the dynasty's branches survived in production... until this year
  • The M113 is ancient, having production massively scaled down in the late Cold War and then finally stopped in 2007. It was supposed to be retired to mostly rear less-combat-centric tasks with the Bradley and Stryker coming in, but that didn't happen, and so the AMPV (which, as mentioned above, is essentially just a turretless Bradley) was supposed to replace it, this time for real - but that's also not happening anymore apparently.
  • The Paladin is being produced in a modernized variant (at, of course, a slow rate), but most of them date back to the '90s. This one also has a bunch of failed replacements: XM2001, XM1203, M1299, here's a twitter thread going over this
  • The ARVs are still being made ( say-the-line-bart-2 at a very slow rate), but the bulk were made in the '90s and early 2000s, and there's a bunch of even older ones from the '70s too
  • The AAV was produced in the late Cold War and '90s
  • The ACV-P and JLTV are like the only ones to be recent (at least from the combat vehicles, the logistic trucks are generally a lot newer), but the ACV-P is a relatively niche USMC-specific vehicle, with under 400 in service and a total of just under 600 as the final target, and the JLTV... say-the-line-bart-2 was cancelled this year (although tbf, this one is actually reasonable - it was a vehicle specifically designed for the IED-heavy COIN operations in the Middle East, and isn't particularly good when pushed into a more conventional APC role)
  • The Humvee was mostly produced in the '80s, '90s, and I assume early 2000s to some extent, after which production scaled down. And it was - you guessed it - cancelled this year. Although at least the Humvee, JLTV and Stryker will continue production for foreign clients, but I assume there'd be a lot of down-scaling, especially for the Stryker given that there don't seem to be a lot of takers and the 8x8 wheeled APC/IFV market segment has a decent amount of other options.
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