I don't have a link to direct proof, maybe there will never be any the way these things get lost in the fog of war, but I'll copy in a comment from a couple of years ago

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Bucha was definitely perpetrated by the Ukrainians, specifically the neonazi paramilitary battalions "Tornado" and "Safari" - seriously, "Safari battalion"

Many of the bodies in the streets were clearly from Ukrainian mortar impacts, as on satellite photos they appear at the same time as mortar craters while the Russians were still holding the town (the media's only explanation for this is that Russia shelled their own positions because their asiatic brainpan makes them self-destructively evil). The photos of people who were executed show them with white armbands, which the Russians used to mark friendlies, and even with Russian ration packs. Why would the Russian armed forces, at the very edge of a perilously extended advance with incredibly stretched supply lines, give away rations probably worth their weight in gold to people they were then going to kill, and then leave behind the rations? Conversely, to Ukrainian fascists, receiving aid from the enemy obviously makes you a traitor - a position made law by the Kiev regime just a few months later - and for a fascist that means summary execution. There was even a short video from the time, where one soldier clearly asks "can I shoot the ones without blue armbands?" (Ukraine uses blue for friendlies) and someone else just says "yes".

I expect the same killings by the Ukrainians took place in every town the Russians vacated, but it was definitely a concerted intelligence and media effort to specifically pick out the one town whose name in English looks and sounds like the word "Butcher" (this particularly stinks of MI6). The UK even refused Russia's request for a UN security council meeting about it.

Add in the UAF's behavior in Kursk and it's pretty clear which side is the one purposefully killing civilians.

Western academic and bourgeois intellectual spaces continue to mischaracterize Hezbollah, alongside powers and forces of Islamic Resistance in the region, such as Iran or Palestine, as representing the intellectual pauperization of Arab resistance, inferior to the archetypal Arab left. All too often, Leftist movements and interpretations of history hold a Manichean dichotomy between secularism and religion that, ironically, contributes to a more idealistic and dogmatically atheistic view on struggle. Western academia and its ideological compradors in the Arab world fail to acknowledge the Islamic Resistance on its own terms – doing so would expose contradictions in the Westernized epistemology of history and decolonization devoid of its full spiritual and dialectical dimensions. As Martyr Imad Mughnieh said, ‘The material element is a component that helps the axis, but the essence of this axis is the spirit’ (Tasnim News 2015).

Deficiencies in understanding the Islamic resistance – and its main state backer, Iran – are also due to an adversarial relationship between the US and Iran, the lack of translation and general access to Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Islamic Revolutionary literature. More importantly, there is a widespread hostility against anti-imperialist scholarship in Western academia, where structuralist approaches are seldom offered to understand the Islamic Republic and the regional resistance factions, and the challenges imposed upon them by US imperialism, thus contributing to a ‘poverty of analysis’ (Farnia 2023).

In the UK, sure, even if said laws are upheld arbitrarily. And as far as I know they didn't make any actual statements explicitly supporting Hezb or Hamas anyway. Plus, Kneecap are Irish!

I went to one rally for Palestine in Manchester and one of the speakers was unequivocally supporting armed resistance in Palestine - Not just in her speeches but her entire online presence. She even led chants of "Yemen Yemen make us proud - Turn another ship around!". She was raided by counter terror police and dragged in for questioning but in the end she was let go and she continues to go to events.

I know of another case where someone was being tried for flying a PKK flag at a Kurdish solidarity rally, but that also hasn't gone far yet.

Not that I dont think the UK govt would try to make an example of Kneecap, but there are much more politically exposed people than them getting into less trouble.

IMO the statement is more about protecting their income than anything - They're due to play at Glastonbury this year and their agents are probably threatening them to not jeopardize that gig.

If they were already targeted by the state then does this actually matter, does the English courts generally allow take backsies for "supporting terrorism"?

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They spent most of their statement condemning the genocide and highlighting it. While this isn't my favorite outcome, it makes sense given the risk.

Yeah, this is a media attack. They've been pretty much left alone since Coachella. Sounds like their agents were in panic mode.

How long can they keep these attacks for?

Statement was changed now, from "military strike" to "military action". Still not good at all. Honestly that could be worse. A strike implies a limited action by India, but a generic claim of "action" could mean anything from a limited strike to a full on incursion into Pakistani territory. If you read the article below you'll understand what I mean by that potentially being worse.

Decker Eveleth, 26 April 2025 - Pakistan and Missile Defense Defeat Strategies

markets declaring they're not a measure of the economy is very cool and will definitely have no implications with the imperial core

Yea, local currency bond yields were never a good measure. On the other hand, exchange rates are. DXY hasn't recovered much.

There will always be demand for US Treasuries domestically as long as the US State is functional. It has no risk of involuntary default and is basically money (even long term ones to some extent). Short term treasuries are considered "cash equivalents" in accounting.

Hedge funds and money managers love Treasuries. It's the easiest way to store money. Reserve accounts at the Fed are only accessible to eligible financial institutions, Treausries are accessible to public.

If you are a money manager, you can store money in a commercial bank and earn interest. Even if there were no default risk and all deposits were guaranteed by Gov, the deposits are still a liability of the commercial bank, not the Government.

That is not the case with treasuries, these are direct libablities of the Gov.

I believe - and I think there’s a tremendous amount of evidence that supports me - that the stock market is “efficient” in the sense that all information is processed nearly instantly (that doesn’t mean stock markets lead to efficient allocation of capital, that’s a very different thing). So that begs the question, the market is NOT pricing in an economic crash. Why?

It’s reasonable to conclude that market makers are not on the Trump Train and don’t actually believe he will restart American manufacturing or bring in hundreds of billions in tariff revenue.

OK, so that means the market thinks the tariffs won’t have much of an impact. Given the broad consensus among economists of all stripes about tariffs, it’s also reasonable to conclude that it’s not that the market anticipates there will be no impact from tariffs.

Thus, I think that right now the market assumes these tariffs won’t stick, and that they’ll actually disappear fairly soon. Market makers are not blind acolytes of capitalism, though. They have a laser focus on making money. So IMO, I think they have reliable inside information that the tariffs won’t stick. Like, I wouldn’t be surprised if Bessent is begging China to just give Trump the most nominal, pointless win so he can fold. And the market - looking back on the past - thinks China will end up being the rational grown-up and will spare any economic pain for giving Trump is cookie.

And… they might be right. Or at least, I see why this is the response from bourgeois capitalists. But I think if the market ever gets the notion that the tariffs might actually stick then I think you will see the market crash hard and fast. Maybe not as bad as 1929 because I think the market will hold out hope that the tariffs will be lifted (and why would anyone destroy the economy on purpose?) if things get really bad.

We have stopped all trade with the largest market in the world and stocks are the same. Money is so fucking fake man