Image is of a harbor in Tasiilak, Greenland.
NATO infighting? You love to see it, folks.
The latest incident of America's satrapies becoming increasingly unhappy about their mandated kowtowing involves, of all places, Greenland. As I'm sure most people here are aware, Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark with a degree of geopolitical and economic importance - the former due to its proximity to Russia, and the latter due to the proven and potential reserves of minerals that could be mined there. It's also been an odd fascination of Trump during his reign, now culminating in outright demands.
Trump has called for negotiations with Denmark to purchase Greenland, justifying this by stating that it would be safer from Russia and China under America's protection. Apparently, Norway's decision to not give him the Nobel Peace Prize further inflamed him (not that the Norweigan government decides who receives the prizes). He has also said that countries that do not allow him to make the decision - which not only includes Denmark, but also other European countries - will suffer increased tariffs by June, and that he has not ruled out a military solution.
This threat has led to much internal bickering inside the West, with European leaders stating they will not give in to Trump's demands, and even sending small numbers of troops to Greenland. The most bizarre part of this whole affair is that the US already basically has total military access and control over Greenland anyway, and has since the 1950s, when they signed an agreement with Denmark. There are already several US military facilities on Greenland, and B-52 bombers have famously flown in the vicinity of the island (and crashed into it with nuclear bombs in tow, in fact). Therefore, this whole event - in line with his all-performance, little-results presidency so far - seems to be largely about the theatrics of forcing the Europeans to continue to submit to his whims. I would not be surprised if they ultimately do sign a very imbalanced deal, though - the current European leadership is bound too tightly to the US to put up even half-hearted resistance.
This is all simultaneously occurring alongside the Canadian Prime Minister's visit to China in which longstanding sore spots in their bilateral relationship are being addressed, with China reducing tariffs on Canadian canola oilseeds, and Canada reducing tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, as well as currency swaps between their central banks, among many other things. It seems no accident that Canada's reconsideration of their relationship with China is occurring as Trump has made remarks about turning Canada into the next US state, as well as the demand for the renegotiation of the USMCA.
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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.
The US has solved the SDF’s ISIS prisons problem. Rather than yanking the leash to attempt to prevent Jolani’s goons from freeing the prisoners, the US is moving thousands of ISIS members to Iraq (presumably ahead of the Jolani government asserting control over the region)
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Following the Iraqi government's monitoring of the security developments in the Syrian Arab Republic and the evolving security situation on the ground regarding the control of detained ISIS terrorists, the National Security Council, in its recent emergency meeting and in cooperation with the international coalition to combat ISIS, agreed to Iraq's reception of terrorists of Iraqi and other nationalities detained in prisons that were under the control of the Syrian Democratic Forces and to transfer them to government correctional institutions. The first batch of 150 Iraqi and foreign terrorist elements, who have shed the blood of innocent Iraqis, has already been received.
The number of subsequent batches will be determined based on the assessment of the security and field situation to contain the risk of the spread of those who are considered top-level leaders of terrorist gangs.
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Sabah Al-Nuaman
Spokesperson for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces
January 21, 2026”
“US Central Command: We expect the number of ISIS detainees to be transferred from Syria to Iraq to reach 7,000.”
https://t.me/nayaforiraq/47380
“The advisor to the Iraqi Prime Minister, Hussein Alawi: Iraq has prepared centers to receive ISIS detainees in batches and the judiciary will review the files of ISIS detainees coming from Syria.”
https://t.me/nayaforiraq/47386
“A source for Nayya
The American military will transport ISIS detainees from Syria to Iraq today via a plane. The plane will carry around 77 foreign fighters. It's worth noting that the ISIS organization is more like a private security company that the US administration uses when needed..”
https://t.me/nayaforiraq/47387
Presumably the eventual stick to the “carrot” of legal disarmament and dissolution of the militias
Hmm
“ A source for Nayya
The Turks informed Jolani that America wants to end the QSD file as quickly as possible, and Jolani's gangs will announce that the truce has failed in order to liberate the remaining QSD territories for the benefit of the Nusra gangs.”
https://t.me/nayaforiraq/47398
Shows how little the US actually trusts the new HTS Syrian government.
This feels less like trusting or not trusting HTS and more like sending our modern Dirlewanger Brigade to "escape" prison in Iraq and fight the PMF and do terrorism to anyone against the Western Axis.
They move them to Iraq and then over the border into Iran as part of their regime change efforts. After maybe giving them some additional training if necessary.
They are going to wear down the PMF first. Their strategy has been to wear down Iran's allies from the periphery inwards. First they started with Palestine, then Hezbollah, then Assad, next the PMF. They will pause until the PMF is engaged and then Yemen will likely be back on the agenda before they go all in on Iran. This is what I have been worried about since December of 2023, and seemingly Ansarallah was the only group that understood what was going on when they urged a united attack I believe during True Promise 2 (or 3 I can't remember).
QSD is the Arabic abbreviation for the SDF, for those who don't know what that is.
Put on trials and execute all of them or they will be a problem in future when they're released, mark my words.
The US's actions causing blowback? No way.
And just like in Northern Syria, the Americans will leave the majority of costs for security to the local authorities. Very cool! :DDDD