Image is from this article, of protestors in Mexico tearing down a steel fence.
While military, economic, and covert pressure on Venezuela and nearby countries in South America proper continues to mount, a similar process is occurring against Mexico, currently under the leadership of the very popular Sheinbaum, who has generally followed the footsteps of AMLO in terms of policies.
While figures in the Trump administration have made statements to the effect of wishing to bomb Mexican territory, internal pressure within Mexico is rather hard to generate when the government is doing generally positive things for people. As such, protests - comically denoted "Gen Z protests" despite young people being a vanishingly small proportion - have arisen in Mexico, very obviously astroturfed by pro-US and anti-Sheinbaum interests. The first protest, on November 15th, gathered less than 20,000 people, while the second, on November 20th, gathered perhaps 200. Article headlines suggesting that Mexico was "on the verge of collapse" have proven rather sensational and wishcast-y.
While it's easy to poke fun at these farces (I certainly am), it's important to keep in mind that soft coups have long been part of the American strategy in Latin America, and with unlimited money and many resources to throw at a project, even incompetent forces can eventually create enough chaos that it can make the ruling president or party feel forced to resign. Such eventualities are certainly not inevitable, and even weak states can provide enough resistance to force the US to try a hard coup instead, with outright bombing campaigns and covert military operations. Cuba has provided perhaps the best example in the western hemisphere of how such plots can be subverted with enough national support (e.g. the hundreds of times the CIA tried to kill/maim Castro, plus the Bay of Pigs debacle), but you do have to be willing to take extraordinary measures to do this - the sorts of measures figures like Chile's Allende did not take in the 1970s, and the measures Venezuela's Maduro appears to be taking right now. We shall see what path Sheinbaum takes.
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The Zionist Entity'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.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
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.
https://archive.ph/IR7un
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uh, Europeans are getting Mao-pilled?
also very funny to talk about being "powerful geopolitically" when you're a vassal state that barely even has geopolitics of its own - all this power, just to be wielded by your master's hands?
I'm very mixed feelings on this. I think a militarised Europe has a disastrous outcome in its future, but I also think a militarised Europe is necessary if EU is ever going to be sovereign and capable of acting independently of US influence as the international power it wants to be.
I think EU's independence is beneficial to anti-imperialism, in part because this very war was driven by the US undermining european sovereignty and driving them into a corner of reliance upon the US.
I think that EU has too many fault lines and will eventually split though, which is destined for conflict if militarised.
The EU is militarizing through american weaponry, has negative digital sovereignty and the continent is filled with american bases. Sovereignty is a long way off. And as I have spoken before, people need to understand how vassalage actually works because right now we are once again bouncing between "Washington pushes a red button and its puppet dance" to "actually japan & the EU are fully sovereign nations who trick the USA into fighting their wars for them and paying their healthcare" rhetorics.
Honestly should have mostly negative feelings about this. We dont need an American & European Empire, even if it would marginally erode the western empire's power projection.
I think it is a wild underestimation of the EU ruling class to say that the whole reason they took part in this war is because daddy USA said so. The EU capitalists have their own share of the pie that they want to carve out of the charred remains of Ukraine, and now that concessions are being made in favour of Russia, they are seeing more and more of their potential payout disappearing, and so they double down and prepare to escalate to keep the war going and their loot untouched. The people of Europe will soon enough have to bury their kids, just so the construction firms, energy industries etc. get to reap the rewards in the case that the war ends in NATO's favour and they get to be the ones to "rebuild Ukraine"
The EU had its own calculation, and if their initial gamble had played out correctly, it would have been hailed as a masterful gambit by their Fourth Reich descendants.
To be specific, the EU had always wanted to plunder Russia and take its raw materials. In fact, did nobody else remember that the 2013 Maidan coup in Ukraine was directly caused by the EU wanting to destroy Russia’s domestic economy by flooding the Russian market with cheap European goods through Ukraine’s free trade agreement?
When the Ukraine war started in 2022, they saw the opportunity to colonize Russia by leveraging US sanctions. They had mistakenly thought that the combined US + EU sanctions (the two most powerful economic bodies in the world) would instantly destroy Russia’s economy whose GDP was smaller than Italy’s. Turns out Russia was far more resilient than that.
By August of 2022, merely months after the war started, Germany already wanted to resume Russian gas supply. Then in September, the Nord Stream pipelines exploded. They were outplayed by the US.
My friend, I remind you that it took two world wars for Capital to resolve the contradiction of its overcapacity problem in the early 20th century. It ended with the near total annihilation of the European industrial capacity and gave way to the rise of the US and the USSR.
We avoided another great war in the late 20th century because the US voluntarily de-industrialized itself (to crush its domestic labor unions) by switching to a trade deficit strategy and exporting its manufacturing base to the Global South, and the USSR also voluntarily dissolved itself and got rid of its vast manufacturing capacity.
We are now overdue for another world war because China and the EU both want to run a trade surplus strategy, and with the US running a global tariff strategy that stifles consumption (thus intensifying overcapacity on the flip side), that can only mean a mercantilistic fight that, if not resolved in peace (through voluntary reduction or redistribution of productive capacity), will have to end with a war (physical destruction of the industrial base).
One of them will have to lose, or in the case of a war, likely both (and may as well be the entire world). The US as a financial empire will want to see both of them fight to the death and benefit from the fallout (just like it did during WWI).
Recall that after WWI, the US demanded repayment of the war debt of the Allied nations, which had not been a tradition prior to the 20th century. The US changed the game here, and the financial strain imposed on the post-war European nations led them to squeeze the defeated Germany even further, paving the way for the rise of Nazism and the militarization effort.
This has all the marks of the militarization of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.