On December 4th, Rwanda's Paul Kagame and the DRC's Felix Tshisekedi signed the Washington Accords for Peace and Prosperity (pictured above). Trump boasted that he was settling a war that had gone on for decades, and remarked, idiosyncratically, "[...] and now they’re going to spend a lot of time hugging, holding hands [...]"
A few days later, the M23 militia (backed by Rwanda) advanced into Uvira, a city near the DRC's eastern border with Burundi and a major commercial and strategic location in the region. Burundi, although a small country, is a significant ally to the DRC and has sent thousands of soldiers to aid them during conflicts; this offensive by M23 aims to cut off a direct route between the two, though they do still share quite a long border over Lake Tanganyika. Tens of thousands of civilians (possibly up to 200,000) fled as M23 approached.
Signed almost simultaneously with the Accords was a Strategic Partnership Agreement between the DRC and the United States, which effectively threw open its critical minerals in the east to American exploitation. These minerals include tin, tungsten, and tantalum, which is vital for many industries. The irony is that M23 has been taking territory in the eastern DRC in order to transport these very minerals to Rwanda and onwards to global supply chains. Signing the Accord was, therefore, a remarkably pointless endeavour for everybody involved. Burundi and the DRC have complained, calling for sanctions on Rwanda, and appeasing to Trump's pride, calling this a "slap in the face to the United States", though I doubt the US is ultimately all that bothered about it one way or another.
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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.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
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.
Sadly west is already two moves ahead on the chess-board and continuing to make plays and set up pieces for their advantage. Even many of the planners of keeping China down use phrases like "10 years behind" because they don't think they can stop Chinese development, they just desire to keep it behind them enough to allow them freedom of movement and supremacy.
By controlling global oil (Venezuela being next), commanding control of global maritime shipping passageways, having successfully defused the belt and road by gaining key control along it at several points to block China's use of it in the event of sanctions/blockade/war, and by doing what Trump is doing with tariffs to reshape debt, consumption, geopolitical alliances and loyalties, monetary supplies, they are still placing China in a precarious position which chip independence on its own cannot break. That and their moving ahead with getting their euro-vassals to tariff and decouple from China being not far in the future in my opinion and they can exert a lot of pressure on China that isn't simply denying them the latest chips for AI slop and such.
You're way too XHS-pilled. All the major global trade changes this year have been to the US's clear detriment. BRI is in no way defused. Mass exporting of cheap solar is enabling development independent of the oil empire.
At the US's pleasure. Never make a move until you're ready or you give your enemies time to adapt. They have absolute operational freedom to shut it down at a snap of their fingers. The overland routes anyways and US/NATO navy was always stronger so they planned on some sort of seaborne interdiction regime. Attacker always has an advantage in that situation as you as defender have to either group your cargo ships up into huge, unprofitable, logistically complex conveys escorted by at least one navy ship or you have to play chasing around the attacker and trying to drive them off over vast stretches of ocean. Costs for attacker and defender are also in advantage of the attacker. They can be anywhere so you're forced to spend money and resources anticipating and defending everywhere whereas they may only pop up one or two places in actuality. China's navy even now is still mostly structured for defense in the SCS region, not for going out and projecting power deep into the Indian and Pacific oceans off the coast of Africa.
As to how. Yes the US probably can't cut off their route to say India (who wants to take China's industry and replace it as a producer for western consumers so not a great situation to be in) without terrorism but their middle and southern routes are both running through countries that are US vassals in ways that matter and will heel when the US calls them to cut it off. There are several key points I think around Azerbaijan and that general region where China's rail/road network can be easily cut off without even resorting to special forces placing explosives which the US is absolutely also prepared to do and will bring down bridges and so on without a second thought once the moment arrives. Anyways several key transit countries are in the US pocket and mean the B&R to Africa and the middle east are cut off. Routes through CIS/Russia are not particularly helpful as Europe is an obedient dog and if US tells them to sanction Russia further by not buying any Chinese cargo that transits they'll do it and for their own reasons of liberal delusions will want to decouple from China once US instigates against it (provoking a response in Taiwan that lets them sob about 'democracy' and make it into a Ukraine type cause celebre even if it falls right away) as well as whipping up the old Tibet and Xin'jiang saw-horses of atrocity propaganda.
I suppose India could surprise me and decide to side with China and help it export its cargo to get around such a blockade and that would indeed be game over for US plans but I'm not convinced that will happen given who runs India and its own interests. One can hope the US is foolish enough to blow things with India even worse than they have but good plans rely on worst and plausible case scenarios not best case scenarios as those hardly need plans at all if everything goes your way.
US still has a lot of cards to play. A lot of pawns to forcibly throw on the fire as kindling to increase their own advantage, a lot of loyal lapdogs sitting at their feet or admiring them from a distance, a lot of dirty tricks and a lot of experience in doing them. They will still be a threat to China and the world for decades to come sadly. Right now US is regrouping, re-consolidating power, licking some wounds and planning to leap out furiously in the next 2-10 years to seize the world again. Lot of color revolutions, lot of palace coups, lot of "moderate rebel" and ISIS types they can cause to occur in that time to change the landscape. I'm not saying it'll go all well for them, I certainly hope not but there are a lot of challenges and it looks to me like rough seas ahead.