Image is a frame taken from this video of Iranian missiles raining down on Israel without interception due to a weak and depleted air defense system after a year of war and genocide.
Mao, 1956:
Now U.S. imperialism is quite powerful, but in reality it isn't. It is very weak politically because it is divorced from the masses of the people and is disliked by everybody and by the American people too. In appearance it is very powerful but in reality it is nothing to be afraid of, it is a paper tiger. Outwardly a tiger, it is made of paper, unable to withstand the wind and the rain. I believe the United States is nothing but a paper tiger.
When we say U.S. imperialism is a paper tiger, we are speaking in terms of strategy. Regarding it as a whole, we must despise it. But regarding each part, we must take it seriously. It has claws and fangs. We have to destroy it piecemeal. For instance, if it has ten fangs, knock off one the first time, and there will be nine left, knock off another, and there will be eight left. When all the fangs are gone, it will still have claws. If we deal with it step by step and in earnest, we will certainly succeed in the end.
Strategically, we must utterly despise U.S. imperialism. Tactically, we must take it seriously. In struggling against it, we must take each battle, each encounter, seriously. At present, the United States is powerful, but when looked at in a broader perspective, as a whole and from a long-term viewpoint, it has no popular support, its policies are disliked by the people, because it oppresses and exploits them. For this reason, the tiger is doomed. Therefore, it is nothing to be afraid of and can be despised. But today the United States still has strength, turning out more than 100 million tons of steel a year and hitting out everywhere. That is why we must continue to wage struggles against it, fight it with all our might and wrest one position after another from it. And that takes time.
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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 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.
cuck n chad ranking: Nasrallah tribute show
Comment restored. I'm open to a struggle session over cuck v chad language and alternatives but I'm not ok with just deleting this straight away
The scolds have broken through the containment comms smdh.
Use of the term "cuck" is going to become a struggle session isn't it?
Wait was the misogynist language cuck??? Lmaooooooooooooo
Time to remove half of the hexbear emotes in that case I guess, we have like 500 chad emotes and like 50 soyjak ones.
Look, they’re 4chan memes, hence reactionary and fascist. We gotta purge
Weren't most of the emotes added to the site by a trans woman anyways? Damn, the reactionary ideology is coming from inside the house!
The woke mind virus has taken Hexbear, smh smh...
First Jerry Seinfeld, now LargePenis, where does it end!!!?
Chad vs beholden to someone not respecting you ranking™️
(Actually we can substitute cuck for olaf or keir, completely devoted to the master)
cuck status for the mod who removed this
I thought I could just flip over to the mod log to read this, but the table formatting is gone
apology for bad english
Where were u when chad/cuck ranking removed by mod
i was on bidet hosing butthole when phone ring
"Chad/cuck ranking is kil"
"no"
“Do not want!”
Some mod must not be in on the extremely long running joke...
Humour is now illegal
The account with the username "LargePenis", who has been doing this bit for years, is definitely 100% serious everyone
#JusticeForLargePenis
Yea
I think Slovenia also recently recognized Palestine, which makes them + Spain, Ireland, East Europe and the Nordics (minus Denmark and Finland) as the only Europeans contries to recognize Palestine. And also the Pope/Vatican recgonizes Palestine.
This fucking cuck decided to make an indirect arms embargo to Colombia and Brazil, because they dared to not help Ukraine.
TikTok voice OLAF SCHOLZ
I feel like we need an honourary gigachad or chad ranking for the Ukrainians going around torching the stupid NAFO press gang vehicles too
The Ukrainian women ganging up and preventing the military recruiters from kidnapping their sons, husbands, brothers and fathers, are heroines.
Here's just one of the many videos of this scenario
Wait what? Did those NAFO people (they still exist?) go to Ukraine to harass random Ukrainians?
Nah, I think NAFO donations have just paid for vehicles used by the press gangs so some of them have cringe references on them and stuff
As far as I know most actual NAFO "members" just go to the baltics to front like they're contributing to the war effort and do sex tourism
Different front in the World War, but do IOF soldiers who cross borders to cum posthumously count as sex tourists?
I feel we'll have to wait for the inevitable IDF Cum Extractor Reddit AMA for answers to that one
According to a certain Islamic street debater, Shia Islam is basically a heretical minority while 90% of the world’s Muslim population are Sunni. (General audience question) Are Sunni civilian populations more pro-Palestine than the governments and what’s up with that?
You're talking about the Madkhali dawah dudes sponsored by MI5.
Idk what madkhali means, nor why British intelligence would sponsor Muslim YouTubers.
After googling I now know slightly more (how bad do you have to be for Wikipedia to mention how much the Feds love you?). How can one tell if an interlocutor subscribes to sincere or false Islamic belief, how do you check dawah for validity?
this kind of makes me think this is a bit, but any observer should know that sunni/shia--besides being a uselessly reductive way of interpreting the world--has NO bearing on the issue of zionism. the 'sunni' states now defending 'israel' used to be its primary opponents. Iran before the revolution was supportive of israel. Ansarallah in yemen are 'shia' but they do not recognize the same religious authorities or doctrine as twelver Iran.
as it has always been, the composition of resistance and alliance is a material and political phenomenon, not springing from ancient religious rifts and conflicts
Which is why I was surprised to see the category in the cuck chad list and searched for enlightenment
they were probably mostly talking about ISIS but since there are a thousand lil groups 'sunni' could be a tempting designation (as the broad majority). i'm sure the CIA and Mossad have gotten shia groups to work with them tho
Hence the statistical question. After reading about Hamas and Hezbollah, my 2d western brain got into the “Shia good Sunni bad” mindset, which is obviously false, but I’m trying to get to the root. It may be material conditions ofc, since the vast majority of Muslims worldwide regardless of affiliation are not genocide enthusiasts
Man maybe I should read ole george