There are Zionist soldiers on record from decades ago admitting to employing mass rape during the Nakba. The western media have been complict for decades in covering up genocidal settler violence and atrocities. They knew this was happening.

I find it very amusing how they want China to intervene on their behalf. Like kids who go to another kid's mom to complain. Except China isn't Iran's mom. Iran is going to do what Iran does. China can't and won't pressure them into stopping something that Iran feels they need to do to protect their existential national interests.

I think it's a tactic betting on the almost certainty that no Democrat is going to undo the changes. This is the well known ratchet effect.

Yet another socdem who chooses to associate himself with the Democrats turns out to be a pro-imperialist chauvinist. Not at all surprising.

Old news indeed. Everyone at the time who was paying attention recognized it as the dog accidentally biting the hand that fed it. ISIS was always an Anglo-Zionist creation. They literally attack everyone in the Middle East except the Zionist entity.

Yup. Cancelled it just as the results were coming in that he was winning by a solid margin. Then they arrested him and disqualified him from running in the do-over elections. They accused him of having been propped up by a Russian disinformation campaign online. Later it came out that a pro-EU liberal group was behind that campaign:

Russia was accused of interfering in Romania’s November 24 presidential election that saw far-right and pro-Russian outsider Calin Georgescu storm to a shock first round victory. But an investigation by the tax authorities has exonerated the Kremlin and revealed the highly effective TikTok campaign was funded by the liberal, pro-EU National Liberal Party (PNL) in an effort to knock out a rival in a plan that badly backfired.

Evidence revealed by the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF), Romania’s tax agency, called into question claims that Russian-induced algorithmic manipulations on the TikTok platform would have brought far-right candidate Georgescu to first place in the second round.

Russia has been accused of hijacking the electoral process, although no concrete evidence has been produced, and that was enough for the Romanian Constitutional Court to take the unprecedented step of annulling the presidential election. The first annulment of elections in Romania in modern history has set a serious political precedent and sent shockwaves through the EU as it potentially undermines Romania’s democratic credentials.

https://www.intellinews.com/romanian-liberals-orchestrated-georgescu-campaign-funding-investigation-reveals-359582/

The Romanian courts did this under pressure from Brussels. A former European commissioner literally admitted the EU was behind overturning the election and threatened to do it in Germany too, should the wrong party win: "We did it in Romania and we will obviously do it in Germany if necessary."

Of course they are also doing it in Moldova. There is absolutely no question about it.

Edit: They are now trying the same playbook in Czechia:

At least the Americans seem to be edging slowly toward acceptance. The Europeans still don't seem to get this concept, that the loser in a war doesn't get to dictate terms to the winner. What world do these people live in?

It's a little frustrating that you seem to ignore everything i wrote about engaging with the content of a piece and just keep doing this "attack the messenger" thing. There's this strange way of thinking that i see most often in liberals where you can never engage with or come into contact with anything that is associated with people who have reactionary views on certain issues, almost like they think that by doing so you somehow become morally tainted by association. As a dialectical materialist i think that this kind of puritanical impulse is not helpful.

To answer your question, no, there is not much out there with this level of quality of analysis on these topics. There just isn't a huge amount of content like this coming from progressive channels, i wish there was.

By the way, this channel isn't even the worst offender as far as reactionary sources of good geopolitical analysis that have been shared here. When we do so we assume a certain level of political maturity from our comrades, such that they can engage with the analysis presented and separate that from whatever other reactionary views that source may have. Are you also going to say we should never post anything from Russian or Middle Eastern sources because they almost certainly hold reactionary views on some issue or other?

If someone is uncomfortable with giving a particular channel views they can use one of the alternative links provided, where the video is embedded on a third party website. I'd recommend doing that anyway for privacy reasons.

The advantage of videos like this is that they use the western media's own reporting and publicly available information to show how, when you actually dissect what they are saying, they frequently slip up and admit the truth even while they try to spin it to fit their narrative. That is helpful when trying to deprogram people who would otherwise not trust any non-western source, or who would refuse to listen to any overtly communist channels.

If you think that sharing videos like this should come with a content warning to caution against listening to these sources on other topics, then that is totally valid and we can absolutely do that.

As for who he used to write for, of course that's fair to point out, but to be consistent you should also take issue with any author who used to write for Washington Post, New York Times, BBC, CNN or any other mainstream media. Genocide apologist, warmongering, imperialist bourgeois establishment mouthpieces are no less reactionary than far right conspiracy theory websites. In fact the latter sometimes stumble onto real conspiracies and have occasional flashes of insight into how the covert and overt machinery of the bourgeois state works in ways that liberals never do. Obviously that's wrapped in utterly deranged, delusional reactionary drivel, but still.

Because it's part of Tibet? Idk, why does India need to claim it? Why does India need to own Assam for that matter? Why can't Bangladesh have it? Or be its own state like Nepal or Bhutan? Historical claims are just like that, they're not objective and they often overlap. Who's to say who's right and who's wrong?

Much, much worse. She is a French citizen with virtually zero connection to Georgia who was placed there to act like a colonial administrator of the olden days doing the imperial master's bidding and keeping the colony on a leash.

supposedly trying to reach the border with Ukraine near Belgorod [...] why go there? You’ll almost certainly get caught

Russia is a big country where you can potentially stand a chance of evading capture at least for a while. Its border with Ukraine is also quite long, and that border is more porous than you think. It is not impossible for a handful of men to manage to cross it unnoticed through some of the more wooded areas.

saying he was promised a “hefty” pay of around half a million, up to 1M rubles [...] by some (allegedly) unknown person who contacted him over Telegram

Terrorists lie. Don't take anything they say at face value. The terrorist who assassinated journalist Vladlen Tatarsky also initially tried to lie and claim less knowledge and involvement in the plot than she actually had. The trial eventually revealed otherwise. This is why i always say, wait and see. Don't jump to conclusions based on preliminary reports.

We have pretty conclusive proof they were trying to make him into the Russian Guaido. There's a clip going around from 2013 claimed to be either Navalny himself or the director of his "anti-corruption" fund (either way makes no difference) that shows them asking a British MI6 agent for 10-20 million dollars in order to plan, in their own words "mass protests, civil initiatives, propaganda, establishing contacts with elites".

My bet is that the West decided now that he was going to serve a decades long sentence for numerous crimes he was no longer worth anything as an asset and they burned him. They did it at an opportune enough moment to create distraction from unfavorable developments and try to use this along with the fearmongering story they ran about Russian space nukes to get the US Congress to give them the money for more weapons to Ukraine.