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Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 2nd to February 8th, 2026 - The European Satrapies Are Revolting
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Get it? "Revolting" is a double entendre! Anyway...
As the Trump administration continues to accelerate the flagrant disregard of "international law", we have seen various European leaders flock to China (alongside Canada), seeking deals. Some trips have been more successful than others - for example, Macron's was fairly dire despite his lavish reception by Xi Jinping, but Starmer's resulted in some actual deals and tariff reductions. The intent of this wave of diplomacy with China is clear: leverage.
Nobody should be fooled into thinking this revolt immediately benefits the developing world, of course. While a relative weakening of the US compared to Europe is progressive in a limited sense (insofar as the US is the locus of imperialism), every indication shows that, when it matters, the European consensus remains aligned in most respects with the US, such as with them and the Zionist entity against Iran, against national sovereignty in Africa (e.g. ECOWAS), as well as in Latin America (either in support or not sufficiently opposing American designs there against Cuba and Venezuela, to name but two countries). It is also unclear how long such a divide will last - perhaps Trump leaving office in 2028 and a slightly less bellicose leader in power will result in many cancelled deals with China.
Despite the very shaky initial steps over the past couple years, Europe still has many miles it must traverse to achieve sovereignty, let alone socialism. For now, it will cheer on the sanctions against millions of vulnerable people and incoming bombing of Iran and Hezbollah, though perhaps it will also share a degree of the economic/military retaliation.
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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
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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.
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Another logistics issue for the USA in the military buildup against Iran:
After the cold front over much of the continental USA has delayed the transfer of air defence systems to the Middle East last week, the US faces another logistical setback, this time to do with the transfer of tactical fighter aircraft towards the Middle East. While the six EA-18G Growler EW/SEAD were moving from Puerto Rico to Jordan along with mid air refueling aircraft dragging them, they stopped over that Morón Air Force Base in Spain. During the takeoff of one of these KC-46 Pegasus mid air refueling aircraft (2 engined aircraft, converted from a Boeing 767) from Morón, a presumed bird strike disabled one of the two engines of the KC-46. This led to the pilots making the decision to abort/reject the takeoff, while hurtling down the runway full of fuel. While slowing down their stricken KC-46, they blew/punctured 8 tyres, leaving the aircraft immobilised and blocking the sole runway. Thus Morón (ICAO: LEMO) is out of action until February 6th, which meant that only 4 of the 6 EA-18G Growlers made it to Jordan, 6x of the F-35As had to divert to Rota, and the other 6x F-35As never left Puerto Rico. Two KC-46s are now also stranded at Morón, along with 2x EA-18Gs. The loss of Morón until at least February 6th will likely delay the transfer of US tactical fighter aircraft towards the Middle East. They obviously can use other airbases, but two EA-18Gs are currently stranded. Expect some stalling for time here by the USA with regards to Iran.
If a single airbase, with a single runway, can delay the death of likely a thousand Iranian souls by weeks, then their disruption is all the more necessary.
i feel like amerikkka got green light from someone in irgc, same as venezuela, it seems very strange otherwise to bring delta forces to azerbaijan or wherever.
Do we have evidence VZ was an inside job?
riddle me this, how would it look differently if it definitely was? i mean, ramming oil privatization, releasing the political prisoners (tm), accepting cia director and ambassador of great satan. obviously without classified documents, we only get snippets and interviews, but they all (words by usa & deeds by delcy) paint same coherent picture, for me at least.
last couple of years definitely shed some feely-based blinders for me, if you have porky elite in your country, you won't show any solidarity against great satan and you can get bought out at any point if you are under sanctinos, as your cheap shitty assets under auspices of usa empire become very profitable assets, ussr playbook basically.
(i can even make a falsifiable prediction, if there is a daring raid and series of strikes inside iran, where khomenei and some irgc personnel are disabled, they enter some negotiations with end result being same oil privatization, removal of sanctions and abandoning their allies, that is what happened)
Leadership capitulating and giving all these concessions doesn't necessarily mean it was an inside job though. The US did take losses (they lie about having none) and the US also suppressed the air defenses with SEAD/DEAD, cyber attacks, electronic warfare and likely sabotage. Hundred or so Venezuelans and Cubans were killed.
Yes it does, you don’t write such a law in a month, and get it supported by your party unless it was prepared beforehand. I’m not saying it was inside job as in they did themselves, it was inside acquiescence.
To me the curious question is it no-choice betrayal and they continue on the downlow communities movement, or will they dismantle them to get their kids into boards of directors, so betrayal of opportunity
Thanks to our avian friends for their sacrifice
How costly is any of these delays for the US? Is it impactful in any way?
Long and medium term, not that costly. But in the short term, 14 fighter jets that should be in Jordan now, are not in Jordan.
Apoyo infinito al Camarada Pájaro o7