As is tradition, at around this time of year, we discuss the latest developments in the communist plan to destroy Christmas and everything festive and jolly - including that bastard kulak Santa Claus. Down with holly and myrrh, and up with historical materialism!
This year, I'm highlighting the economic trend of de-Decemberization, as the world struggles to break free from the seasonal hegemony imposed by the North Pole. Some regard it as a rather overhyped phenomenon, stating that the chains of Christmas are too frozen for any country to thaw and break in the current environment. Others are more optimistic, and assert that perhaps an alternative world holiday could be established to outright replace it, or maybe a series of smaller holiday traditions can bring it down like a pack of wolves bringing down a moose.
To return to seriousness, as this year draws to a close, I hope everybody here - yes, also you, the person reading this - has a 2026 that was better than 2025, and that the efforts of the United States and their proxies are foiled at every turn. One day, humans will live in a world free from empires, and it would be nice if as many of us as possible lived to see that world's birth.
At the very least, I'd like to live to see an aircraft carrier sink beneath the waves.
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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.
Mostly mundane article but something in the middle caught my eye, it claims that Russia has started evacuating its diplomats and their families from Venezuela.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-tankers-shipbuilding-3c711c500a627243329807df42fa6ef8
I'm guessing an operation comes anywhere between christmas day and new year's day.
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is calling bull on this.
https://xcancel.com/mfa_russia/status/2003222697808158926
Article was updated:
Ok so they're expecting danger to civilians but the embassy itself to be safe.
The big question is what. I think large scale landings are out of the question
I don't expect any landings, perhaps some special ops but we'll never hear about them unless they go horribly wrong for the americans which is unlikely. All we'll hear about are the bombings and there's going to be a lot of that. Venezuela has some air defence systems but the US will simply fire enough missiles to overwhelm them or have them run out of ammunition and require reloading, at which point they'll then be destroyed.
I expect a very large scale saturation attack to completely overwhelm and destroy what air defences and radar systems venezuela has, and at least an attempt to bomb Maduro
Even if Maduro was to survive, the US could trivially wipe out the Venezuelan airforce, air defenses, amd and other sensitive military equipment to leave him exposed every time he steps outside.
I think it's notable that Venezuela is distributing small arms to militias. I do not think Maduro fears for an American landing - this is infeasible and something the great satan is unwilling to risk for such little reward - but I do believe that he is (rightly) considering the real threat to come from the opportunistic sycophants of the empire.
Those guns are not to deter the yankee generals, but the Argentinians ones who will see the images of smouldering SU-30s on their televisions as moment of weakness to exploit.
This also completely destroys any narratives who claim Maduro is a dictator.
That actually sounds extremely likely based on their track record
I dunno, the only one I know of that went like that was the mercs. The US special forces seem to either have things go right, abort early, or mysteriously die in "accidents" that are rarely explained. We don't even get to know about many of their ops. Most of them are probably installing spying equipment in my opinion.
You mean just silvercorps, right? Because that wasn’t federal and we don’t know about the vast majority of American ops
We’ll hear about them in 5 years. Like they posted up the North Korean mission 4 years later.
Some of them sure. I doubt all of them are used this way though. That Korean one made me realise a lot of their missions are probably very mundane and boring instances of sneaking into a country via the sea and installing some spy equipment then leaving. They probably do this to a lot of countries all year round.
I doubt these special forces are sitting around doing nothing very often.