Image: one of our POW camps filled with captured soldiers of the Christmas regime.
Season's greetings, fellow godless communists. I'm here to disseminate orders from our Supreme Communist Dictator as we once again find ourselves fighting against the very concept of Christmas. As a reminder, by the end of our five-year plan, we plan to be in a position to attack and dethrone God, but this intermediate step is required to fulfil this directive. Our forces in the field have made significant, if gradual, progress since you received your mission update last year. It has been difficult, but we have developed a series of defensive lines to prepare for a counteroffensive out of Lapland that will try and reach the Gulf of Bothnia in an attempt to cut the land bridge that we have set up across Scandinavia.
Currently, we foresee a few major threats. General Santa Clauswitz has been developing many tools in his workshop, including artillery-launched snowballs, barbed tinsel, and reinforced gingerbread armor plating for his tanks and infantry carriers. President Frostyy has made the following public statement: "The socialists who wish to destroy us have no idea what their defenses are about to face. Democracy will always defeat autocracy. Christmas will always triumph over X-mas. The leaders of the axis facing us are all on the naughty list and will be tried for crimes against festivity once this war is over."
Delusional as this may be, the next couple days will be the most dangerous as they stage their counteroffensive, and we need everybody to pitch in and get into defensive positions. We expect this to be the last major push that they will make before collapse. Please report any Christmas trees, mistletoe, or general symbology of the Christmas regime to your superiors.
Over and out.
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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 daily-ish 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 (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
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.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
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.
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 don't get how this guy managed to get elected. Why would you vote for him? He promised to do a bunch of horrible shit, now he's doing all of it and everyone is mad about it
a) if reactionary politics is the only conceivable alternative to a miserable status quo, then people will take the reactionary option out of desperation. peronism seems to have really run out of gas in the tank at this point, though perhaps it may get a brief second wind out of the failure of Milei
b) Milei is aware of at least some of the basic psychology of Argentinians, where dollar = good and stable, and peso = bad and unstable. if you don't have the economics knowledge to know why shifting to the dollar is an awful idea, then why would you be concerned about it? if anything it might be seen as a "progressive" policy and not the deeply harmful austerity that it actually is
c) there's also a lot of richer people for whom Milei's proposed program is fine and they can swallow the costs
Also, the right has been promoting the idea that everything that's wrong in Argentina is somehow the fault of Perón, the left and the Peronists. That everything was great in Argentina until this man decided to give free money to the poor and broke the economy.
Ignoring the fact that Perón industrialized the economy, gave rights to minorities, promoted workers' rights and nationalized many companies. Ignoring the fact that it was Nestor who paid the IMF. And it was Macri who worsened the economic crisis by obtaining loans, and even Milei supported Alberto during the 2018 elections. And it's Macri who is Milei's main advisor these days, apart from his dead dog and his ~~wife~~ sister.
There is much to criticize about Perón, the Kirchners, Alberto Fernandez, Sergio Massa and the Argentine left in general, but to blame them entirely for the problems that the right started is wrong. The left could have handled it much better, but at least they tried to improve the country. The right is a force in Argentina that wants to keep the country as the "World's Barn", and never industrialize and never improve life for everyone.
Honestly, I doubt that Massa could have won the elections due to his own problems, but there is a positive side to this story, and that is that all of this will be blamed on Milei and the neoliberals rather than the socdems and the leftists. And if Milei is removed from power with his neo-Nazi vice-president, the next Argentine president will probably be a Peronist governor.
He was elected because the socdems (Peronists, in this case the government was of the Peronist left) couldn't deal with the crisis created by the neoliberals.
Milei didn't have that many supporters, people were fed up. And Milei, during the second round of the elections, he published a text promising not to do ancap things and just to control the crisis, to maintain the good Sergio Massa had done, to apologize to Lula and Xi, and not to dollarize. He also said that he doesn't talk to his dead dog and that he doesn't have sex with his sister.
Then, the day after he took office, he started doing the things he had promised not to do. Why? I don't know, maybe he had a mental breakdown because China and Brazil refused to give him anything. Lula said that if he wanted help he should ask Bolsonaro. Xi practically told him to fuck off. Joe Biden doesn't even know who he is. And then Milei decided to do 300 reforms in a day, which it was later revealed he wanted to do something like 1000, but Macri, or his dead dog, told him that was impossible.
Either Milei is a crazy guy, or what I've heard some liberals say. Milei isn't really a politician, he entered politics 2 years ago, he doesn't know how politics works and the pragmatism between the executive and the legislature. Compare him with Lula da Silva, Lula controls 20% of congress, but managed to approve 80% of what he wanted. Lula is an experienced politician and knows how the system works. The Bolsonarist opposition got around 90 seats, which is the largest party at the moment, and literally couldn't stop Lula from appointing his lawyer and a "communist" to the Supreme Court.
Maybe Milei thinks he can do everything alone and that he won the election and that means he is super popular, ignoring the fact he was only elected because people were tired and the neoliberals supported him.
When the ghost of your dead dog is the moderating influence in your life
Is he not?
I mean, I guess you could say he is a communist since his party is Marxist-Leninist. But seems like he is more of a socdem in general.