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Image is sourced from this Economist article.

Most of the information in this preamble is from the Cradle; notably here, here, here, and here.


The features of an effective American war (proxy or otherwise) is that it is a) against opponents with much less military power than you; b) with very low American losses; c) with victories you can visibly show off from time to time to justify involvement, and d) with a profit margin beyond merely giving money to military corporations. The war against Yemen was none of those; airplanes tumbled off aircraft carriers, and the navy complained of the hardest fighting conditions in decades. Conquering Yemen for its resources was inconceivable given the terrain, lack of good intelligence, and the strength of Ansarallah, and all that seemed to be visibly harmed were empty patches of desert and civilians.

Apparently, the ceasefire last month merely stipulated that they stop attacking merchant vessels in the Red Sea; it said nothing about attacking Israel. Therefore, Yemen is absolutely free to create a new blockade of Israel by just striking their airports and seaports, and all Israel can seem to do is try and bomb them in retaliation, a futile strategy which has failed to produce a military or political change in Yemen for the last decade when many other countries have tried it. And if America directly attacks them in response to attacks on Israel, the ceasefire is off, and expensive equipment will continue to be lost.

Across the strait from Yemen is an interesting array of countries. Egypt's position in this war is well-known, and Somalia is under a kind of US occupation under the guise of fighting terrorism (Trump withdrew most troops, but they were then sent back under Biden). The other three are Sudan, Djibouti, and Eritrea. All three are increasingly being drawn into the anti-imperialist camp, as they cooperate with Iran, Russia, and/or China. Sudan is undergoing a civil war, but the rebels fighting the government are famously backed by the UAE. Djibouti has refused to allow themselves to be a launchpad for US strikes on Yemen.

Eritrea has a fascinating history of flip-flopping between West and East over the past few decades, but has, since 2020, sided with the East. It was one of the five countries to oppose the 2022 UN resolution condemning Russia's war with Ukraine. Eritrea sends two thirds of its exports to China, and Iran has reportedly supplied them with military equipment. If a stronger link could be reforged, then Iran would have significantly less trouble sending military technology to Ansarallah, and to other friendly groups throughout the region.

Naturally, the lidless eye of the imperial core is shifting its gaze onto Eritrea. Meanwhile, Ethiopia - a country that has experienced frequent conflict with Eritrea - is part of BRICS+ and their economy is increasingly reliant on China (as is most countries' economies nowadays). If a permanent resolution between the two could be created, it would be a victory for themselves and the Resistance, and a defeat for America, which thrives on conflict and destabilization.


Last week's thread is here. The Imperialism Reading Group is here.

Please check out the RedAtlas!

The bulletins site is here. Currently not used.
The RSS feed is here. Also currently not used.

Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

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.


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[-] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 1 points 14 minutes ago

Good news from Georgia!

The Georgian Dream regime has announced it is shutting down NATO and EU Information Center is under the pretext of “institutional reorganization.” Reports have also surfaced from former employees who say they were dismissed from their posts.

No official explanation has been provided as to why the government chose to terminate the independent structure rather than reform or strengthen it.

Imagine going to the NATO and EU information center to actually seek out information

[-] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 3 points 53 minutes ago

Looks like all the pressure worked.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 27 points 6 hours ago

This drone attack is only really the start of how bad drone warfare might get. Imagine this kind of attack deployed internally instead of externally. Against dissidents and political problems. You could just deploy 100,000 drones in one night against a mass database of the population where everyone scoring over 90points on your dissident metric receives a drone that night. Overnight every political problem your country has just disappears.

But from the other side... Imagine the terrorist potential of these attack too. Imagine if the IRA had access to this shit back when things were popping off. Think Thatcher would've survived? Fuck no. Car bombs? Who needs car bombs when you can just fly a drone into your target? There isn't even any way to adequately track anyone using these, you can 3d print all the drone parts, you only need to buy a motor and transmitter. Event the software itself can be drag and dropped from open source hobbyist projects. Hardest part is the explosive and the trigger. The hard parts won't be hard for long though, after the first person has done this that wants to encourage others to do it they will include how-to in their manifesto and that's going to cause tonnes of it to happen.

The next Luigi might be a dude they claim did it and the only evidence they have is that he was someone sitting on a bench looking at their smartphone (to control a drone) at the time of the attack.

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago

We need bunkers hoxha-turt

[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 48 points 9 hours ago

Trying real hard not to be a total doomer here, but Intercept Brasil has just published a chilling article: https://www.intercept.com.br/2025/06/04/oficinas-google-meta-partido-bolsonaro/

Essentially, Google and Meta sent representatives to PL's (Bolsonaro's party) latest communication seminar to teach them how to best use the capabilities of AI in order to communicate with their followers. It's not even just an internal event where the worst ghouls chat with each other about how to undermine what's left of democracy, this is literally official representatives from these companies teaching them a masterclass on how to do AI prompts to generate text, images and videos.

Just straight up foreign interference, right there, out in the open.

Next year we'll have our presidential election here, and I think it'll be the world's first major election after the release of Google's boomer brain melting machine, the Veo3 model. This will likely be the first glimpse on what's coming down the line everywhere else in the world. We'll be a kind of lab experiment that the rest of the world should definitely pay attention to.

And, of course, our lovely government is seeking to open our country to foreign investment in the form of datacenters in impoverished cities. There will be zero resistance from the liberals in power. Right now, Bolsonaro's only role is as kingmaker, since he's currently barred from running for office, and at least the right still hasn't coalesced around a new leader. The pathetic centrist liberals in power are bleeding approval by the day. I'd like to huff some copium and say that this means there's fertile ground for an ascendant left, but they are nowhere to be seen.

We are absolutely cooked, and this is seriously yeeting me deeper into uncharted territories of Luddism. This slop factory needs to be fucking razed to the ground.

[-] BynarsAreOk@hexbear.net 9 points 3 hours ago

You're right to be concerned I'll just add that this should not be taken as the core reason behind the near 99% guaranteed Lula/PT loss in the next election.

In the end was its not little fake Whatsup messages that will move the needle. Its the deeply neoliberal ghoulish government and policies so far.

Casual observers and the liberal media, the government base delude themselves exactly with a mirror image of US Democrats, parrotying out of context economic "data" when it suits them and ignoring the material reality.

Literaly asking "but the economy is growing and unployment is low how could they hate ~~Bidenomics~~ Lulanomics" or some shit.

Meanwhile half a dozen massive scandals, Finance Minister Haddad continues to rule with an iron fist pushing neoliberal austerity policies to please the 2 dozen billionaire Brazilian families. They attempted to cut social programs(literaly cutting pensions to disabled people), they did not support the work week protests last year, they let the interest rate go through the roof in the name of Brazilian Central Bank "autonomy"(to fuck the working class) while claiming it was only the bad apple previous BCB president's fault and this would change when he left(spoiler it didn't), they let the price of food skyrocket out of control even though it was all being exported etc...

Bolsonaro is quite irrelevant in the grand scheme. I think people here have a massive focus on him because of the language/cultural barrier since news about this loser is even more stupid than Trump's. The reality is the people will support any reasonable option that rejects the current neoliberal austerity. There is a sliver of hope Ciro Gomes will be this leftist option, but otherwise it will be a massive defeat.

I commented months ago how PT/Lula were trying to copy the US democrat playbook unironically now, as if they didn't get the memo that Biden was absurdly hated and unpopular and you know whats funny? At least US Democrats are able to get the billionaire capitalist class on their side as they got a grip on the two party system just as much as the GOP.

But these idiots, Lula and Haddad have adopted the neoliberal "compromise" route and yet the entire rich capitalist class, the giant agribusiness exporters, the entire rural far-right fascist organized movement that burns the Amazon and kills indiginous people, the half dozen giant banks making billions every year through predatory loans and a ridiculous interest rate etc. All of them continue to hate the left and would kill him tomorrow. The worst thing about being a grifter is failing at it.

So yeah its concerning and it may interfere, but no I do not think stuff like this will be the deciding factor at all. It really isn't as if people need to watch a fake video explaining to them that they will have to work 10-12h a day on a 6/1 schedule, its already the norm. Global south reality is already hell and IMO fakenews shit is more relevant to radicalize westerners who are still comfortable but have a growing anxiety about worsening conditions.

[-] BreathThroughTheTube@hexbear.net 46 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_railway_station_attack

Look at this shit from NATOpedia. Just straight up lying and confidently saying:

On 8 April 2022, a Russian[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] missile strike hit the railway station of the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The strike killed 63 civilians (including 9 children) and wounded 150 (including 34 children).

All of their sources are CNN, The Atlantic, Institute for the Study of War, BBC, etc. (People who are not present at the location of reporting and all pro-west rags).

They even give up the whole game a little later...

The missiles were initially misidentified as Iskander ballistic missiles.[20] Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of Donetsk oblast, later specified that they had rather been Tochka-U missiles armed with cluster munitions.[15]

Huh, no mention of the fact that Ukraine still used Tochka-U missiles in its active service while Russia retired them in 2017. Nor any mention of the fact that video evidence and the various booster wreckage shows that the missile came from the west, all Ukrainian controlled territory at the time. Interesting how Russia managed to launch a missile they don't use from a place where they don't control.

The remnants of one of the missiles had the Russian words ЗА ДЕТЕЙ (za detey), meaning "[in revenge] for the children", painted in white on its outside.[21] It also bore serial number Ш91579, which investigators said could potentially help trace it back to its original arsenal.[22][23]

Blacks rule.

Most obvious false flag shit i've ever seen. Nazis were mad they keep dying and losing, so they perpetrate a false flag to try and wave the bloody shirt and get America more involved. Funny how these investigations from the west never went anywhere and dried up instantly. Huh, why would that happen? Something they don't want to reveal about who owned the missile? Oh wait, they give up the game again later...

Russian media also said that the serial number of the missile was in the same range as one used by Ukrainian forces. Serial numbers cannot be used to prove which side fired the missile, however, since all Tochka-U's were manufactured at a single site in Russia and distributed from there across the Soviet Union. As a result, there was, for example, a close serial number match between a Tochka-U used by Russia in Syria and one used by Ukraine in Snizhne.[39][40][41] Moreover, both Russia and Ukraine have made extensive use of munitions captured from the other side.[42][43]

Oh suddenly it's useless I guess what are ya gonna do.

[-] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 4 points 2 hours ago

::: spoiler If anyone wants to see more evidence

Here is the wreckage of the missile

Here is its travel path and the railway station that it fired its cluster bombs at

Here is a projection of its possible origin points, which just so happens to include Pokrovsk, a Ukrainian rocket artillery park that they used to shell Donetsk for eight years (note that the only Russian-controlled area it could have originated from is open fields on the very front line, you know, the typical place you would find long-range missile launchers).

Here is Zelensky's official telegram saying it's a Tochka-U, at the exact same time western media was calling it an Iskander, plus the follow-up of "Uh actually Russia is using Tochkas as well!" using an image of an entirely different vehicle.

Just in case there was any confusion, as you can see the Iskander and Tochka missiles look completely different, so there's no honest way for western media to have seen a photo of the missile wreckage and mistaken it for an Iskander, meaning they lied on purpose

(Forgive the origin) Here's a compilation of every briefing given by Russia that mentions Iskanders, Kalibrs or Tochkas - the latter of which they never claimed to use once, only referring to times that Ukraine used it, meaning for it to be Russian they must have pre-emptively scrubbed every mention of using Tochkas, and somehow never given the Ukrainians the chance to retrieve a single other Tochka missile body, all so they could conduct one atrocity against civilians, as a false flag of a Ukrainian false flag - which western media obviously wouldn't believe anyway

This also happened immediately after the Kiev regime issued an evacuation order across the area after their lines had started collapsing (waiting until the absolute last moment, instead of advising civilians to evacuate ahead of time), so there were a lot of civilians on the move trying to escape - and suddenly a main transport route is attacked, leaving those civilians milling around panicked and scaring others away from using the train stations, right as the Russian forces try to advance through the area.

If one were being cynical, then based on the way Russians had been treating the civilians in the areas they've occupied, one might think Kiev had intentionally waited to issue evacuation orders, then sowed fear and confusion as soon as they did so, to create a 'smokescreen' of their own citizens knowing that the Russians would be forced to divert time and resources towards getting those civilians to safety, and preventing them from advancing rapidly in a way that might risk civilian casualties.

But the Ukrainian state would never use its own citizens as a disposable resource for inconveniencing the enemy of the west, right?

[-] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 4 points 2 hours ago

Kramatorsk is a Donbas town with a large ethnic russian population that was very difficult for them in April-July 2014 when the Nazis took over, there was a large series of battles there. The Banderite Nazis hate the people of the town and are fine with killing all the civilians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kramatorsk

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