As is tradition, at around this time of year, we discuss the latest developments in the communist plan to destroy Christmas and everything festive and jolly - including that bastard kulak Santa Claus. Down with holly and myrrh, and up with historical materialism!
This year, I'm highlighting the economic trend of de-Decemberization, as the world struggles to break free from the seasonal hegemony imposed by the North Pole. Some regard it as a rather overhyped phenomenon, stating that the chains of Christmas are too frozen for any country to thaw and break in the current environment. Others are more optimistic, and assert that perhaps an alternative world holiday could be established to outright replace it, or maybe a series of smaller holiday traditions can bring it down like a pack of wolves bringing down a moose.
To return to seriousness, as this year draws to a close, I hope everybody here - yes, also you, the person reading this - has a 2026 that was better than 2025, and that the efforts of the United States and their proxies are foiled at every turn. One day, humans will live in a world free from empires, and it would be nice if as many of us as possible lived to see that world's birth.
At the very least, I'd like to live to see an aircraft carrier sink beneath the waves.
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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.
Al Jazeera: Trump, Zelenskyy hail progress toward Russia-Ukraine peace deal
Hope this whole thing can be put to rest ASAP, doesn't look like Trump has much patience for it anymore. Putin probably won't bite though.
The whole peace talks charade has become pointless. Russia simply cannot end the war, their whole economy is structured around the "Special Military Operation", with large declines in civil industry and a whole payout and recruiting system for soldiers. Not a full on war economy where every male over 18 is sent to the front and every female is working in the factories, but an economy structured around the Ukraine war that aims to keep some level of normalcy while still fighting the war. Trump is probably upset, from his perspective, that Putin is looking a gift horse in the mouth by declining these offers, and Trump is not understanding that any promise of US-Russia economic co-operation is not going to be enough to suddenly stop the war and reset Russia's economy to a prewar state. When the war ends, Russia will experience a form of economic "shock therapy" as they go back to a prewar state.
As for Ukraine, they simply also have minimal incentive to stop the war. Ukraine may be losing territory, but it's at a snail's pace, and there is no sign of a rapid Russian advance soon, the frontlines have been almost frozen for years. The territory Russia wants in any ceasefire deal, may take over a year to capture at least. The Russia-Ukraine war has gone on for longer than the US campaign against Japan in the Pacific theatre during WW2. In 5 days time, the Ukraine war will have been going on for as long as the Soviet's campaign with the allies in WW2, from when Germany invaded the Soviet Union until Hitler committed suicide. The battlefield is static, Russia's biggest achievement in recent times was taking 15 months to capture a city with a pre war population of 60 thousand people. While Ukraine is losing territory, they are counting on their strategy of creating an "unmanned hellscape" of artillery and FPV drones near the front to attrit Russia. Even if losing territory is inevitable (it is), Ukraine is not going to give it away in a ceasefire agreement, they're going to make Russia pay as high a price as possible for it. This is a mainstream position in Ukrainian society. If Zelenskyy signs a deal giving up the Donbass without a fight, it's not the fascists he'll need to worry about, but the mainstream liberals too. No leader in Ukraine has the political capital to make such a decision post 24 February 2022.
This is the only way to get the fascists under control. Have the people loudly demonstrate that they want something and the fascists will have to formulate around that rather than try to force things or else they'll see a nationwide backlash against their cultural control.
Surely the fascists wouldn't enjoy any kind of unfair advantage in a poll because of 4 years of depopulation, intimidation of their political enemies, and their direct ability to throw anyone they don't like into the meat grinder.
This line is such bullshit. Even if you assume that both Ukraine and Russia have had 1 million soldiers killed each (which is certainly an overestimate) it still doesn't even crack the top 5. The Korean War, Vietnam War, Second Congo War, the Soviet-Afghan War, and the Nigerian Civil War all had over 2 million dead.
Their maths checks out when you consider that
lol. lmao