Analysis and images of the parades is all over the internet and in the last megathread; for the China-India stuff I recommend this article, as well as the Tricontinental in general.
Image is from @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net's comment in the last megathread.
Last week was the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 2, and on such an occasion, China put on quite an impressive military parade, especially in comparison to the rather drab and corporate parade that the USA recently had. In attendance were many world leaders, including Putin, Kim Jong Un, and a very happy-looking Lukashenko.
This took place shortly after the SCO summit in Tianjin, in which Modi was notably in attendance. That one of the world's most powerful fascists was in attendance in China near the anniversary of the World Antifascist War is obviously pretty ironic. Regardless, the mood was still relatively positive; for example, Xi announced the acceleration of the creation of the SCO development bank, and Indian-Chinese relations are once again in the thaw cycle of their long-term cyclical pattern, with direct flights resumed and links expanded. The fact that there is this much projected optimism from China about a Global South which is being increasingly tariffed, infiltrated, starved, looted, bombed, invaded, and massacred in the hundreds of thousands by rabid imperialist dogs is perhaps a little tone-deaf, but buoying up the SCO is better than doing nothing at all, I suppose.
Any astute Geopolitics Understander can tell you that this is certainly not India joining the side of the Global South, but instead a move somewhat forced upon them as they seek to balance both sides for their own gain. As Trump amps up pressure on India via tariffs, it is natural that India would seek leverage, and there is much that India gains: industrial development, increased intra-regional trade, and scientific knowledge from a China which has, in numerous fields, now pulled ahead of the USA. India is also facing numerous internal crises, ranging from run-of-the-mill capitalist incompetence and corruption, to worsening conditions for farmers, to the ravaging impacts of climate change, and increasing their links with China is a way to vent off a little of that pressure and protect Modi's regime.
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Israel's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. 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.
The reaction of some people to the video (Hasan Piker especially) actually has me wondering a few things, as far as "worst things to see on the internet" it ranks a solid 5/10 in terms of bloodiness, even those ghoulish "Killing in self-defense/heroes shoot robbers" snuff films they allow on Youtube are more visceral and distressing than Kirk getting domed
I can't come to any other conclusion than the realization that the vast majority of people have no fuckin clue what has taken place in Gaza, and by that I mean they can't actually visualize what's happening to Gaza, I think we here on Hexbear because of our access to direct and Arabic news sources have seen things the vast majority of the western left has not
I always wondered why so many "leftist" commentators, podcasters, streamers still have this unspoken hesitation and almost unconscious need to abstract the Gaza genocide, while spaces like TikTok inexplicably have the same serious attitude we here on Hexbear have despite TikTok being filled with right-wingers, and it hit me, people on Hexbear and TikTok HAVE SEEN the videos; the burning people, the kids without faces, the babies hanging dead off rebar. The worst that many of the politics Andies have seen are smoke clouds in the distance, people covered in dust, or the New York Times x-rays
The fuckin commentariat haven't seen shit, they either avoid those videos on purpose or most likely they rely on dry articles, journalistic reports and stats to form an opinion, no wonder when I watch their vids they sound sociopathic to me, I saw a kid missing their face and they're just reading an article, the disconnect is enormous
This whole time I thought most of the left was on the same page concerning the visual knowledge of the atrocities, but if people are fainting over a video of a single gunshot wound, then wtf do people really know about what's happening in Gaza?
I have not watched a single live death on the internet in my life. It’s not something I need to do in order to feel empathy, or be committed to a cause.
Yeah I'm with you on this that it isn't necessary. I've seen some, but I've mostly avoided what's coming out of ukraine and gaza. The core issue is that there's a lot of liberals who not only turn away from the gore, but hide from the reality of the situation entirely. the closest they'll get is a new york times style sanitised, soulless explanation, full of weasel words and euphemism, and not covering the worst atrocities at all. Avoiding the actual direct gore is just correlation, its not the real problem
I'm glad you haven't. Simply browsing Twitter or other algorithmic social media long enough you'll come across a live death eventually. The media will autoplay and before you can stop it or scroll away you'll have watched someone, or some people, lose their life.
Some people are visual learners
Also that's really impressive, I commend your scrupulousness