Image is of Iranian speedboats spotted by a satellite in the Strait of Hormuz.
Not terribly much has happened in the last week. The main two developments is the very much expected resumption of fire in Lebanon as the ZIonists are famously agreement-incapable, and the continuing supply of equipment to the Middle East, including the George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier. This means there are now three aircraft carriers in the general vicinity, and while I'm uncertain how much of a role the burnt-out Ford and the increasingly exhausted Lincoln will ultimately play (they were rather ineffective during the first round), there are also a good ~20 destroyers and however many submarines that are carrying their own munitions. I have a couple more paragraphs of exposition below, but it's unlikely to be major news to anybody here, so I've spoilered it.
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On the one hand, it feels like a resumption of the war for the US at this point would be complete madness. We are getting article after article from even the Western media admitting to US standoff+interceptor missile shortages, as well as detailing the extensive damage to US bases. The Zionists are also getting ever more mired in Lebanon, with Hezbollah's unjammable fibre optic drones playing an ever more prominent role in causing substantial long range damage to invading forces. On the other hand, it is very unlikely that most of the US's remaining firepower is being brought to the region on a mere bluff. For its part, Iran and their allies seem to have their finger on the trigger, with their own extensive repairs, upgrades, resupplies, and adjustments having been made for round two.
Assessing the overall global economic situation is difficult, not least because of a degree of financial manipulation that is almost admirable in its sheer scale and recklessness - to quote Ghalibaf: "Their frontline is the yield curve." Multiple countries are now facing real and desperate shortages, including major economies like Japan. Diesel prices continue their record rises, and reports about the potential impacts to all sectors of the global economy are streaming in, with famines around the world now very likely. While the US is profiting from the rise in oil prices, it seems like it will be unable to meaningfully increase production for at least a year or two, and so the US will certainly not be replacing the massive oil barrel deficit to create an energy hegemony, as some have suggested. In contrary: this is the best opportunity in a generation for China, Russia, and Iran to collectively make economic decisions that could cripple entire pillars of American hegemony. However, if the response is lacking - and we've all seen before over the last four years how China's responses to crises have been on the lacking side - we could see a (albeit temporary) strengthening of the US's financial power, as this global crisis will almost certainly result in debt climbing even higher as Western financial institutions grant loans en masse to struggling countries in the developing world. It's very uncertain times.
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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 the Zionists' 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.
Copying this over from a different sub: After the US Bombing, a Venezuelan Community Under Siege Speaks
Incredibly validating to be able to come to the same conclusions as actual revolutionaries by utilizing dialectical materialism. I hope to continue learning from their examples and am very thankful that so many here are able to utilize the same tools to independently come to the same conclusions
We starting the
anti-doomerism here again? We gotta get to 3k comments again, comrades. I'll take the doomer position this time if needed to get us there 
What don't you bastards understand about the fact that material conditions are in every important way giving in to reactionary forces, and that is seemingly being done willingly by the new leadership? They are class traitors, whether or not that is their intent, and this is nothing to be celebrated. The communes are trying to survive but are being hindered by reaction by the rest. It's anti-materialist to think that diplomatic choices can be the basis of a revolutionary movement's strategy. Losing the economic base, through introduction of ownership by external private parties and decreasing strength of the state apparatus, is a clear loss and we should be discussing what it means in those terms!
(any doomers please correct me where I misconstrue the argument, I'm doing my best to represent you well. I'm pretty sympathetic to it, though much too influenced by Losurdo to believe it)
They also lock in imperial gaze on the country, venezuela was basically worthless to usa, now couple of gold mining ops, dozens of oil extractions and they can’t revert this shit for two generations (one for inevitable mcdonalds gen, one for this time is different reformism). And also paying reparations to porkies
Oh wow dang you really got a point there
The part you quoted highlights that this is a strategic posturing: emphasizing unity, avoiding infighting. This is not the same as not having a scathing disagreement or analysis, but that it is not what one focuses on, particularly to foreign press - exactly the opposite. Everyone understands the concessions as a loss taken at gunpoint, including the article you cited. The only question is whether that loss is at odds with a revolutionary political base, that it means leadership is making too great of concessions to be themselves trustworthy and that undermine the project itself. These are not things you will find in foreign press or really even most press, it is restricted to communist formations that have geocities-esque pages. Their work is on the ground, it is on the street, it is directly with community. And even then their complaints are more directly about the power of and support for the communes (e.g. what is undermined by increased imperialist control of oil), they aren't going out of their way to declare the project lost because their struggle now is identical to their struggle before.
Of course the internal struggle will continue in Venezuela until capitalism is destroyed, the point is that while onlookers who say they are leftists declare the movement dead, the leadership compradors, the state a neo colony, the people themselves who go through this reject all of those notions. The movement is alive, the leadership have the support of the people, and the state is under siege particularly because they refuse to be a neo colony. They understand that the concessions they are being forced to give to avoid being massacred by bombs are a continuation of the decades long struggle they have been going through, not some new phase where the quality of their revolution has changed. In fact, on the ground they understand that they are making serious political victorious and strengthening their movement in the wake of these concessions and despite them.
I had a vision, Chavez spoke to me through the clouds, "dudar es traición"
seems there's an extra
]in the link, which breaks it (opening the link from the view source version of the comment does work, at least on my browser, since I guess it figures out the link ends at the final/and opens it correctly)[After the US Bombing, a Venezuelan Community Under Siege Speaks](https://venezuelanalysis.com/opinion/after-the-us-bombing-a-venezuelan-community-under-siege-speaks/])
https://venezuelanalysis.com/opinion/after-the-us-bombing-a-venezuelan-community-under-siege-speaks/
Fixed, thank you