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.
Biden:
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There has rarely been a military campaign like this, with israel killing, maiming,removed, starving, and torturing Palestinians, turning Gaza uninhabitable, determined to protect their zionist delusions with no care for the civilians suffering above ground.
As always, we are eagerly awaiting the day that the israeli terror regime and its "Western" accomplices meet their justice.
Genocide Joe now openly admits that all the bombings and assaults on hospitals, schools, mosques, churches, refugee camps, etc were all done with the aid and guidance of the US military, on his orders.
They killed Nasrallah and yet the frontline against Hezbollah has barely moved, with their soldiers protesting even being sent to Lebanon. No reason to think that Hamas will curl up and die now either.
Boy, they really are just fucking stupid, huh
We killed a guy!!! We win!!!!!!!
Wait where did these missiles come from? Didn't you hear we killed a guy??
Rest in peace Sinwar. May your Martyrdom be another piece in Israel's destruction.
I will piss on your grave, Biden, you old piece of shit. May your last two brain cells forever be trapped in a loop of shame and pain.
This Hitlerite country has fundamentally warped and evil values, and continues to be horrible blight on the earth. I pray that I live to see this evil empire finally die in disgrace.
We're seeing the disgrace part now, so fingers crossed
Martyring one doesn't stop anything. You'd think they know that by now
This rotting corpse of a president doesn't learn anything tho
Surely Kamala will learn right? https://redlib.nohost.network/r/TrueAnon/comments/1g5zrmi/kamala_israel_has_a_right_to_defend_itself_and/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
LOL
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The decrepit half dead ghoul is really saying that while Hezbollah is dunking on the Israeli diaper forces even after Nasrallah was assassinated.
Yahya Sinwar, had/has more honor, integrity bravery, and courage in his pinkie toe than Joe Biden could ever possibly aspire too.
Genocide Joe torpedoing Harris' chances with Leftist voters one bloodstained statement at a time.
The ones they have any chance of winning are already chauvinists that would call Sinwar a terrorist.
Source: I have to interact with them on the regular.
That's fair, suppose he's actually appealing to his remaining base now.
Yeah. Or honestly it might be a weird ego thing. Commiejones made a good point one comment over about how if this was about Kamala getting distance, they would have had her do the announcement.
And Biden is stealing this announcement from kadolf. If he wanted her to win he'd let her announce it.
That is a great point.
Do they try to astroturf twitter anymore? It's sort of amazing seeing Americans react this way.
Never unspoiled and spoil’d a pic so fast. YAWN