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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

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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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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 11 points 38 minutes ago* (last edited 38 minutes ago)

Uruguayan Elections Polls:

Yamandu Orsi-FA 46,0% - 48,0% (Leftist, Mojica/Vazquez Party, Socdem to Demsoc, this is a united coalition of every relevant leftist party)

Álvaro Delgado-PN 20,2% - 24,0% (Neoliberal, Current President Pou Party, Conservative, Establishment)

Andrés Ojeda-PC 15,0% (Neoliberal, Liberal, The Party that ruled Uruguay during the Civic-Military Dictator of the 1970's)

Manini Rios- CA 4,0% (Far-Right, Pro-Dictatorship, Pro-Military, Pro-US)

[-] companero@hexbear.net 16 points 53 minutes ago

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/11132

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/11140

US/Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army rebels are reportedly blowing each other up

let-them-fight and also who-must-go

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 24 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Kamala is getting cooked in a Fox News interview right now, complete surrender to the far-right on immigration

Edit: lmao holy shit she is just falling for one trap after another, she's noticeably flustered

[-] Pentacat@hexbear.net 8 points 25 minutes ago

I never recommend benzos before doing an important interview.

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 12 points 49 minutes ago

So far, more than 6.6 million people have voted in the US elections. In Pennsylvania, 631,000 people have already voted, with the majority of counties voting Democratic.

Georgia, considered a pendulum state, has just reached 10% of the 2020 election vote in just 2 days of early voting. Fulton County (a Democratic stronghold) is the county with the most votes cast so far.

[-] companero@hexbear.net 9 points 25 minutes ago

https://xcancel.com/AryJeay/status/1846686153098846403#m

🛑| Footage shows an Israeli Merkava tank on fire in Labbouneh, South Lebanon, after being targeted by Hezbollah.

🛑| Israeli army rescue units are unable to reach the burning tank in Labouneh.

[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 6 points 52 minutes ago* (last edited 51 minutes ago)

Just realised 'copy and paste' sounds kinda like 'coca paste' give me a day and I'll get a joke out of this

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 23 points 1 hour ago

Liam Payne, ex-One Direction, dies at the age of 31. The singer was found dead in the Casa Sur hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

According to La Nacion, the musician died after falling from the third floor of the hotel in Palermo. According to the newspaper, police were called to the scene to restrain “an aggressive man” who may have been under “the influence of drugs or alcohol”. The police confirmed the death.

[-] newmou@hexbear.net 8 points 43 minutes ago

I mean that’s the thing with gravity. You only go one direction

[-] GrumpigPoopBalls@hexbear.net 4 points 21 minutes ago
[-] plinky@hexbear.net 3 points 18 minutes ago

Why would russians do this? puzzled

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 12 points 1 hour ago
[-] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 36 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

me frantically waiting for that one street in Johannesburg to officially be renamed to Leila Khaled Drive so as to socialist fraternal kiss under the Leila Khaled signpost, haha jk, unless...

Also yesterday (15 October) was apparently the anniversary of Stepan Bandera getting no-scoped by the KGB crab-party

[-] P1d40n3@hexbear.net 30 points 2 hours ago

Has there been any news about the Zionist 'counterattack' on Iran? Kinda shocked they haven't responded by now.

[-] companero@hexbear.net 26 points 2 hours ago

They were waiting for the US to finish setting up their new air defenses (THAAD) in Israel, which seems to be mostly done now. I'm expecting their attack within a few days.

[-] Boredom@hexbear.net 8 points 1 hour ago

It'd be smarter to do it right after halloween to dominate the news cycle and rat fuck Kamala Harris so Trump wins and threatens to embargo any country that cuts off aid to Israel.

[-] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 15 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I think the explosion at the Iranian oil refinery was the first part. Israel will hit oil infrastructure via proxies and terror attacks, not as official actions, to maintain plausible deniability.

Israel wants to have its cake and eat it too, they want to destroy a bunch of Iranian nuclear and oil infrastructure but be able to tell the US that they were restrained and diplomatic and only hit a limited amount of military and proxy targets. This will make it harder for Iran to hit back against all the oil production in the region, since it will be scattered one-off attacks instead of a single large military strike. Iran really likes to straitjacket itself with diplomatic norms and rules as well, so they probably won't respond militarily to these terror attacks.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 18 points 2 hours ago

gigachad Iran missiles

wojak-nooo THAAD noises

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