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.
“Ammunition in Kirk Shooting Engraved With Transgender, Antifascist Ideology, Sources Say”
Investigators found ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle that authorities believe was used in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, according to an internal law enforcement bulletin and a person familiar with the investigation.
The older model .30 caliber hunting rifle was discovered in the woods near the scene of Wednesday’s shooting at Utah Valley University, wrapped in a towel with a spent cartridge still in the chamber, the sources said. There were also three unspent rounds in the magazine, all with wording in them.
A Justice Department official cautioned that the investigation was still in its preliminary stages, and investigators were still examining the ammunition.
Ah so there is the obligatory
from the feds.
.30 rounds inscribed with “Blacks rule.”
Another blow against the "adventurism doesn't work" crowd because they're going to just pin every single instance of adventurism on leftists anyways.
The best argument against adventurism might be the range time deficit.
A leak about words being on ammunition that editorializes about their ideological meaning without including any mention of the words at all.
yeah NYT is now casting doubt that this report is true
the adjuster is still out there
Op/o9a again? Or this is just the pigs planting evidence?
Yes this is a real article by the WSJ, before anyone asks. Seen a lot of people saying it's fake because AIs like grok or ChatGPT don't have access to the article yet and say it's fake.
Link to Wall Street Journal live coverage article
Second paragraph states
This is very bad...
Yeah added the rest of that in now, thanks
Does it say anything about what was actually written? Paywalled
No nothing about what was written. I transcribed everything important. The rest was just “Charlie Kirk was 31 when he died…” blah blah blah. Basic info stuff. No more info than what I wrote
No more in the article. The original source for this information is from an ATF report that both Steven Crowder (yes, the louder with Crowder guy) and Wall Street Journal sources got sent/leaked to them. This is the apparent text of said report:
“Transgender ideology” ok man. Shame the report didn’t have any pictures. Thank you for sharing the text
I find it wild that we live in a world where the Wall Street Journal and the Louder with Crowder podcast have the same sources. Genuinely bizzare that this guy
has the same info as the WSJ. Also bizzare that Crowder actually gave the primary source in it's entirety with more accurate details than the WSJ. He legitimately did a better job than them.
Podcasters run the FBI now, so not that crazy.
Given who Dan bongino and Charlie Kirk were 5-10 years ago compare to now, I’m not crazy surprised. Right wing podcaster has become government adjacent this term
don't let them find your shit, scatter pieces and sink them far away from each other in a river or a lake or something fuck
this kind of stuff is MEANT to be seen, you wouldn't engrave shit on bullets otherwise.
The shooter wouldn't get their holiday bonus from John Ratliff if they didn't successfully leave the leftist bullets somewhere to be found
Of course it was lol
Unsurprising if true. Republicans will be even more deranged than normal after this.
https://youtu.be/Eu3SdvNmBQY
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: