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Bulletins and International News Discussion from December 1st to December 7th, 2025 - LIBRE vs Fascism - COTW: Honduras
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Image is of Rixi Moncada of the LIBRE Party voting in the election.
On November 30th, Hondurans voted to choose their next President, as well as deputies to the Congress, councillors, and other candidates. Like all elections in Latin America, the looming shadow of American intervention will be a major factor in deciding the winner. In this election, that intervention has been fairly naked, with Trump literally stating who he wishes to win (the far-right nationalist guy, Nasry Asfura). Asfura has said that if he does not win, American funding to the country will dry up - a clear threat - and Trump has additionally pardoned the former Honduran president and US ally Juan Orlando Hernández, imprisoned for smuggling cocaine into the US.
The other candidates in this election are Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party, who is essentially running on the same platform as Asfura with some differences (such differences would inevitably vanish if he were to win); and Rixi Moncada of the progressive (self-described as democratic socialist) LIBRE Party. The narrative about this election is - try not to yawn - the neverending battle of democracy against communism. This narrative is obviously very important to uphold in the current environment of accelerated aggression against Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, and others.
Who is going to win? As of me writing this sentence, the results have not yet been fully reported. However, there has been something of a scandal in regards to a plot - with recorded voices, though those guilty plead AI tampering - to show the best possible preliminary results for the right wing, so as to manipulate the narrative and morale of the population. The idea, is presumably, that if LIBRE were to win, the fascists could say "How did LIBRE go from 20% of the vote (which is what the preliminary results showed) to a victory?! It must be communist meddling!"
Of course, it's entirely possible that LIBRE won't win anyway, or get particularly close. We shall see how things turn out very shortly.
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in a shocking display of historical revisionism, this subthread has been downgraded from the posts of the week and is now for discussing explicitly leftist military analysis in the anglosphere or lack thereof.
really, all the discussion under this thread would have stuck with the top of the thread sticky and would have cluttered the thread the rest of the week.
tbf that is just an article being reposted, so I'm not sure if it counts as an effortpost, my effort was reading
(and going through it with a marker I guess)
but maybe we should have a separate thing for good articles, dunno
Do you know who the author of Amerikanets is or their background?
I assume some kind of pro-Russian vaguely chuddish guy, in the vein of Simplicius or Big Serge. He was on RWA, https://x.com/RWApodcast/status/1962602524285804885, I dunno if any details were divulged there, I wouldn't really listen to that.
It's kind of unfortunate to be so reliant on chuds for this kind of stuff, but with a substantial portion of the Western left just throwing in the towel and deciding to support the brave anti-imperialist efforts of... NATO and Ukrainian actual open Nazis, there's not a lot of guys left actually writing on these topics.
edit: I would definitely understand if we would prefer not to highlight such articles on this website though
Yes I agree, military stuff is pretty important in geopolitics but the nerds that get into the weeds are mostly right wing. I'm not aware of any leftists who regularly discuss this kind of thing with regularity outside of hexbear. radio war nerd sometimes but they seem more left amenable than anything.
Anyway, I wanted to know who amerikanets is because 1) I'd like to know if they are reliable in the first place and 2) I'd like to know if this is a source that could be shared with pro-NATO libs in my life without giving them a tummy ache. the name amerikanets suggested no, and if they're also in the same part of the infosphere as RWA then I think no, regardless of how accurate anything they say is.
I fully support discussion of this kind of thing on the comm, but I'd rather that 'posts of the week' focus on content generated by the community rather than turn into 'good articles of the week'.
I think you should decide on a case by case basis. Read their analysis and if you think it's solid and accurate, then go ahead and share it. It's good for people to be confronted with alternative viewpoints.
in general I agree. the specific person I'm thinking grew up in ukraine before moving abroad. I think they have a real blind spot with respect to their country's politics and the nefarious role of NATO, so I try not to give them reasons to discard analysis.
Yeah, it's really unfortunate. On our own side, military topics are obviously quite relevant for any leftist struggle, given how often demsoc attempts fail and it ends up coming down to open warfare against the bourgeoisie anyway.
And more broadly, the presence of leftists in the field could really help to "elevate the discourse" so to say - one of the things plaguing military-related discussions is the wishful tendency, particularly among Western commentators, to approach war as its own isolated little thing where they can completely ignore any political and socio-economic dimensions and just compare technical specifications and K/D ratios. My favorite are the "well, this country's tank/jet/IFV/whatever is better than that country's" discussions where things like, you know, cost and production numbers, are never brought up - this is pretty much intellectually on the level of a bunch of little boys arguing with action figures, and yet discourse rarely exceeds that level.
Everyone's heard the Clausewitz quote, but no one's actually internalized what it's supposed to mean. More people with a materialist perspective could really help to offset some of this, but alas...
Yeah, this definitely isn't going to work out. But for this particular topic, I feel like the article is mostly collating existing info - that makes it convenient to read all in one place as a coherent narrative, but most of the tidbits could probably be found in separate sources. Say, about the Cubans - https://www.americasquarterly.org/fulltextarticle/long-view-how-the-fight-against-castro-once-terrorized-u-s-cities/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cuba%E2%80%93United_States_aircraft_hijackings. Abdel-Rahman and Ali Abdul Saoud Mohamed are probably decently-well documented as well.
Of course, at that point you'd basically just be rewriting the article from first principles, but still, this isn't investigative journalism, more of a compilation of excerpts from wiki articles.
100%. in the past my child has enjoyed a book series called 'who would win' pitting different random animals against one another. fun books because my child is young, not an adult military analyst. another thing those dumbass arguments reminds me of is 'fox only, final destination, no items'.
a sort of opposite article that barely spends any time on military gear but all on logistics and politics associated with the military is this one by aurelien, some nakedcapitalism commenter that started his own thing around 2022. he purports to have some UK based diplomacy experience 30 or so years ago. sometimes there's some chuddishness in his writing but not that often.
tfw people who chant "no war but the class war" have never read a single book about how to wage war
Sorry, maybe my brain farted but I thought you had some analysis in here too. Honestly folks just ignore me today
This part is so annyoying too because they deflect by saying :smuglord: "heh evil tankies support Russia because of a small amount of nazis in ukraine? What about all the nazis in russia? Checkmate."
Noted, I'll read it first and add it later today.