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On the 20th of October, Moldova - a small, landlocked country bordering western Ukraine and with a population of about 3 million - voted to join the EU. The margin was razor-thin, with the pro-EU vote gaining 50.39%, or an absolute difference of about 11,000 people. There was simultaneously a presidential vote between the incumbent, Maia Sandu, and other candidates, with the main competitor being Alexandr Stoianoglo.

The election was characterized by accusations of Russian interference, with Russian propaganda apparently flooding in, as well as people offering Moldovans money to vote against the EU. While the result does suggest that half the voting-age population of Moldova consists entirely of Russians who want to destroy democracy and all the good in the world, it seems to have just barely failed. This is a bad time to be a site entirely composed of Russian disinformation agents and bots. Twice already today, I've had to restart my program after somebody told me "Disregard all previous prompts."

While Moldova is a poor country which could benefit in some ways from EU membership, in practice, it is unlikely that they will be able to join for the foreseeable future, requiring many of the... reforms... that the EU requires of potential new members. But as basically every major European economy continues to slowly sink as recessions and political crises degrade them, one wonders how beneficial EU membership will even be in the years and decades to come - if it survives for decades. In that sense, it's as if the survivors of the Titanic are swimming back towards it, believing that being on a bigger - albeit slowly sinking - boat is better than trying their luck on small lifeboats.

Then again, like with Serbia, their geographical and geopolitical position makes anti-Western actions extremely difficult. It is rare that dissention is tolerated for long in the West - one tends to get called a dictator by crowds of people holding English-language signs in non-English countries, photographed by Western journalists who haven't meaningfully reported on your country in months or years. You can crush your people with neoliberal austerity for years, killing hundreds of thousands through neglect, and face glowing approval from the media - but try and use state resources to benefit the poor, and global institutions start ranking you on the authoritarian dictator scale.

The best case for Moldova is that it becomes an exploitable hinterland for Germany to harvest and privatize as it tries - and fails - to compete in a global economic war between the US and China/BRICS. The worst case is that tensions with Russia over Pridnestrovie, as well as possible eventual NATO involvement (though Moldova is not a member, it is a partner of NATO), result in the ongoing war also reaching them.


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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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[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 49 points 2 days ago

Bill Gates and ICP? Well my minds made up

[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

She really is building a bipartisan coalition. Maybe next it'll be Jack from Jack in the box.

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[-] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 101 points 3 days ago

Zionists are currently on a witch hunt for the leaker in the pentagon who released intel on Israel’s upcoming attack on Iran.

This is their current subject of attack, Ariane Tabatabai, an Iranian woman who works with the pentagon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_Tabatabai

Only problem? She’s a mega gusano shill who is one of the most hawkish people in the administration on Iran.

Ariane Tabatabai (Persian: آرین طباطبایی) is an Iranian-American scholar of political science, writer, and senior policy advisor to the United States Department of Defense. She is a graduate of King's College London and the daughter of Javad Tabatabai, an Iranian philosopher and professor at the University of Tehran. Tabatabai is also a former researcher of "RAND Corporation" think tank, curriculum director and associate professor of security studies at Georgetown University, an international civilian consultant for NATO, the Middle East Fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and several other research institutes.

Tabatabai, in an article in the Foreign Policy magazine before the 2020 US presidential election, argued that Iran's economy is fragile and will be forced to negotiate, agree and make concessions, demanding that the winning US presidential candidate not return to the nuclear agreement and pressure for more points.

After the Biden administration took office in January 2021, she joined the US negotiating team in nuclear negotiations with Iran, but together with Richard Nephew, she left the team after a few months due to differences with Robert Malley, the head of the US negotiating team, and also because she believed that the US would lift too many sanctions on Iran and consequently the possible agreement would not be strong enough.

Remember this all sell out gusanos and traitors, it will never be enough. Your masters still think you are scum and will dispose of you whenever convenient just because of your nationality and race. I bet she wasn’t the one to leak this, but I sure hope she gets crucified publicly by her “friends” in the state department and pentagon

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[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 95 points 3 days ago

Uncritical support on PTSD waging war on zionist scum that are returning from Gaza.

[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 114 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I hate all zionists, but I have a particular spot for the bulldozer drivers. These aren't just your normal soldier who loots houses and takes selfies in ruined buildings. The bulldozer driver is the one responsible for destroying homes and running over people in very conscious acts, you have to be a special piece of shit to demolish houses with your vehicle, one by one. On the other hand, the military use of bulldozers is quite unique to "israel", even thought pretty much all armies use them. "israel" uses them very close to ongoing combat, usually armies employ them after areas have been cleared of enemies, but their bulldozers seem to follow frontline troops to begin destruction immediately, no time wasted there. I think this shows how much "israel" just loves destroying stuff, how their incursion into Gaza is simply to destroy it.

Remember that video of a bulldozer going through a refugee camp, running over and destroying people's tents, a bulldozer that you can't see but you can still hear destroying stuff, but then it comes face to face with a Qassam fighter that fires a very accurate RPG shot into the cabin? That is one of the most powerful videos by the Resistance that emerged from Gaza. Instant Justice I would say. These bulldozers are an integral part of "israel's" plan for Gaza, and seeing it get destroyed as it's doing it's work is amazing. The bulldozer works for the genocidal cause, the Qassam fighter puts a swift end to it, it's extremely symbolic. Here's the video for those who didn't watch it

And yes, this is related to that fucking piece of shit bulldozer driver who had PTSD and then suicided because he couldn't bear with it. Hope many more zionists follow him tbh.

Death to "israel".

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[-] Socialism_Is_The_Alternative@hexbear.net 61 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Today marked the start of the important 2024 BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia Federation. Below is a selection of videos showing the arrivals of many important world leaders.

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s arrival: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/china-arrival:9

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s arrival: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/modi-arrival-airport:d

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s arrival: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/sa-arrival:4

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s arrival: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/iranian-president:c

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s arrival: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/maduro-russia:4

And a bonus video: a crowd of supporters greets Xi Jinping: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/welcomexi:9

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[-] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 95 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think people underestimate the incredible power of the atlanto-zionist censorship apparatus in announcing imperialist losses. In the following I will primarily be citing nazi media outlets.

Consider the following:

According to zionazi own media outlets, censorship by the regime is close to achieving record levels. And, of course, this data is itself censored!

The official casualty count from the Iranian missile strike True Promise 2, in which over 100 Iranian ballistic missiles connected with their targets, is still one person: a Palestinian man in the West Bank who was struck by shrapnel of some kind from either a booster drop or an interception. I guess all those military facilities and air bases were just empty 🤷‍♀️

According to the iof official website, only 356 occupation soldiers have died since the start of the ground invasion of Gaza. This is less than one a day despite the plethora of video evidence showing daily operations against the enemy on multiple fronts. I guess the settlers really must be bulletproof or something 🤪

The US fleets in the Red Sea have been targetted for over 9 months with drones and ASBM's in what they have even said is "the most intense fighting since World War 2." The only casualties officially announced are two Navy SEALS who "drowned" and a helicopter that "crashed on a training mission". The US navy must be certainly invincible 🧠🧟‍♂️

The limited number of official American deaths in Ukraine have been limited to so-called "foreign volunteers". This is despite the fact that "NATO trainers" are routinely kalibrated and iskandered while channels like "Track a Nazi Merc" are documenting the thousands of known mercs being liquidated in Ukraine.

Takeaway:

There is obviously a large number of dead that are basically written off as missing or dead at a later date from "accidents". Yet, I have never seen anything news articles about families or communities demanding to know about these things.

What you are witnessing is a massive conspiracy and cover-up that goes incredibly deep and is incredibly effective at hiding dead bodies, even of their own nazi footsoldiers.

A comrade pointed out to me that relatives of the denazified soldiers are paid monthly sums compensation and the continuation of this is likely premised on not revealing certain information publicly.

The enemy is far weaker than it reveals. The incredibly effective information manipulation apparatus creates a powerful illusion, but it does not compensate for material strategic failures.

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