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Image is a frame taken from this video of Iranian missiles raining down on Israel without interception due to a weak and depleted air defense system after a year of war and genocide.


Mao, 1956:

Now U.S. imperialism is quite powerful, but in reality it isn't. It is very weak politically because it is divorced from the masses of the people and is disliked by everybody and by the American people too. In appearance it is very powerful but in reality it is nothing to be afraid of, it is a paper tiger. Outwardly a tiger, it is made of paper, unable to withstand the wind and the rain. I believe the United States is nothing but a paper tiger.

When we say U.S. imperialism is a paper tiger, we are speaking in terms of strategy. Regarding it as a whole, we must despise it. But regarding each part, we must take it seriously. It has claws and fangs. We have to destroy it piecemeal. For instance, if it has ten fangs, knock off one the first time, and there will be nine left, knock off another, and there will be eight left. When all the fangs are gone, it will still have claws. If we deal with it step by step and in earnest, we will certainly succeed in the end.

Strategically, we must utterly despise U.S. imperialism. Tactically, we must take it seriously. In struggling against it, we must take each battle, each encounter, seriously. At present, the United States is powerful, but when looked at in a broader perspective, as a whole and from a long-term viewpoint, it has no popular support, its policies are disliked by the people, because it oppresses and exploits them. For this reason, the tiger is doomed. Therefore, it is nothing to be afraid of and can be despised. But today the United States still has strength, turning out more than 100 million tons of steel a year and hitting out everywhere. That is why we must continue to wage struggles against it, fight it with all our might and wrest one position after another from it. And that takes time.


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Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. 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.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

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.


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[-] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 85 points 14 hours ago

Apparently, Zelensky is flailing around threatening that Ukraine will develop nuclear weapons.

Absolutely delusional, Ukraine is finished.

[-] miz@hexbear.net 31 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Zelensky discussed getting nuclear weapons three days before the invasion

https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/vistup-prezidenta-ukrayini-na-58-j-myunhenskij-konferenciyi-72997

19 February 2022 - 18:14

Since 2014, Ukraine has tried three times to convene consultations with the guarantor states of the Budapest Memorandum. Three times without success. Today Ukraine will do it for the fourth time. I, as President, will do this for the first time. But both Ukraine and I are doing this for the last time. I am initiating consultations in the framework of the Budapest Memorandum. The Minister of Foreign Affairs was commissioned to convene them. If they do not happen again or their results do not guarantee security for our country, Ukraine will have every right to believe that the Budapest Memorandum is not working and all the package decisions of 1994 are in doubt.

Budapest Memo is what binded Ukraine to not pursuing Nuclear Weapons. There's another quote from a Ukr Def Minister or something around this time that is more direct, but this seems like what really caused the invasion once the border build up had been ongoing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

According to the three memoranda, Russia, the US and the UK confirmed their recognition of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine becoming parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and effectively abandoning their nuclear arsenal to Russia, and that they agreed to the following:

  • Respect the signatory's independence and sovereignty in the existing borders.
  • Refrain from the threat or the use of force against the signatory.
  • Refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by the signatory of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.
  • Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used".
  • Refrain from the use of nuclear arms against the signatory.
  • Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments.

https://uawire.org/zelensky-ukraine-may-reconsider-its-nuclear-status

this is from April 2021:

Ukraine will consider arming itself with nuclear weapons if it does not become a member of the NATO military alliance, the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany said.

"Either we are part of an alliance like NATO and contribute in this way to making Europe stronger ... or we are left with the other option, which is to arm ourselves," Ambassador Andriy Melnyk told Deutschlandfunk radio Thursday.

Kyiv would then "perhaps also consider its nuclear status," he said. "How else can we guarantee our defense?"

https://www.dailysabah.com/world/europe/ukraine-mulls-nuclear-arms-if-nato-membership-not-impending-envoy

[-] dkr567@hexbear.net 26 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

It would not surprise me if in future there is a news about zelensky-pain being assassinated by the nazi factions in his government.

[-] weeen@hexbear.net 22 points 11 hours ago
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[-] plinky@hexbear.net 23 points 13 hours ago

Its like he doesnt want russia to sign a shit deal, simply extraordinary

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 39 points 14 hours ago

That is pretty much what started the whole SMO. He was making statements about securing nuclear weapons in violation of the Minsk 2 accords while the fascist militias where accelerating their shelling of Donbas. Is this his play to get more attention?

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 82 points 14 hours ago

My very least favorite phrase today are versions of this "He was suspected of using hostages as human shields to protect himself." Fucking US media parroting hasbara when the general public doesn't even know the word "hasbara".

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 47 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

https://x.com/jeremyscahill/status/1847016025579008481

https://xcancel.com/jeremyscahill/status/1847016025579008481

Where were the human shields? I just see a singular man fighting until the bloody end against an enemy too afraid to even enter the building to face him alive.

[-] PosadistInevitablity@hexbear.net 37 points 13 hours ago

Defiant to the last moment. That sort of bravery is heroic.

[-] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 58 points 14 hours ago

He was suspected of using human shields and that's why he died with a few of his soldiers in full combat gear fighting with the IDF.

i-love-not-thinking

[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 17 points 11 hours ago

Hasbara nonsense knows no logic. Doublespeak. nineteeneightyfour

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 49 points 14 hours ago

In a just world that would be the lesson from the brutal images of his corpse. Instead they’ll just keep up the myth that he tied women and babies to himself for protection

[-] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 39 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Truly. It's clear he was literally currently engaged in the work of resistance when he died. Yet that will barely matter. In a month if a liberal even remembers his name it'll be as the terrorist who always used human shields. Truly pathetic people

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 56 points 13 hours ago

It’s pretty funny how Bukele keeps trying to show he’s one of the good Palestinians by calling Hamas “savage beasts” and playing up his Evangelical Christianity.

Guy’s a Palestinian Christian-Zionist.

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 73 points 14 hours ago

I will drink to the man. might have underestimated just how evil the west is, still fought for liberation to the end.

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[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 79 points 15 hours ago

On September 27th, the Biden regime issued DoD Directive 5240.01: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodd/524001p.PDF?ver=UpTwJ66AyyBgvy7wFyTGbA%3d%3d

This directive does what the libs keep telling us Trump is going to do - it creates a legal framework for the US Military to be called in to "assist" local law enforcement and that they can be authorized to use deadly force against American citizens when doing so.

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[-] very_poggers_gay@hexbear.net 21 points 12 hours ago

Shouldn’t even be surprised that this is happening while Reddit libs are updooting clip after clip of Kamala “owning” Trump for his comments about using the military against American citizens.

They’re all the worst of the fucking worst.

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[-] weeen@hexbear.net 64 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Biden:

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is dead.

This is a good day for Israel, for the United States, and for the world.

Here’s my full statement.

spoiler
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https://xcancel.com/POTUS/status/1846984629573542269

[-] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 26 points 11 hours ago

Yahya Sinwar, had/has more honor, integrity bravery, and courage in his pinkie toe than Joe Biden could ever possibly aspire too.

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 50 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Genocide Joe now openly admits that all the bombings and assaults on hospitals, schools, mosques, churches, refugee camps, etc were all done with the aid and guidance of the US military, on his orders.

[-] Harajukum@hexbear.net 8 points 9 hours ago

Never unspoiled and spoil’d a pic so fast. YAWN

[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 48 points 13 hours ago

They killed Nasrallah and yet the frontline against Hezbollah has barely moved, with their soldiers protesting even being sent to Lebanon. No reason to think that Hamas will curl up and die now either.

[-] dkr567@hexbear.net 36 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

The decrepit half dead ghoul is really saying that while Hezbollah is dunking on the Israeli diaper forces even after Nasrallah was assassinated.

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 18 points 11 hours ago

Do they try to astroturf twitter anymore? It's sort of amazing seeing Americans react this way.

[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 38 points 13 hours ago

This Hitlerite country has fundamentally warped and evil values, and continues to be horrible blight on the earth. I pray that I live to see this evil empire finally die in disgrace.

[-] Yor@hexbear.net 36 points 13 hours ago

Martyring one doesn't stop anything. You'd think they know that by now

This rotting corpse of a president doesn't learn anything tho

[-] Seasonal_Peace@hexbear.net 39 points 13 hours ago

I will piss on your grave, Biden, you old piece of shit. May your last two brain cells forever be trapped in a loop of shame and pain.

[-] very_poggers_gay@hexbear.net 50 points 14 hours ago

There has rarely been a military campaign like this, with Hamas leaders living and moving through hundreds of miles of tunnels, organized in multiple stories underground, determined to protect themselves with no care for the civilians suffering above ground.

There has rarely been a military campaign like this, with israel killing, maiming,removed, starving, and torturing Palestinians, turning Gaza uninhabitable, determined to protect their zionist delusions with no care for the civilians suffering above ground.

Today, however, proves once again that no terrorists anywhere in the world can escape justice, no matter how long it takes.

As always, we are eagerly awaiting the day that the israeli terror regime and its "Western" accomplices meet their justice.

illegal-to-say

[-] ItsPequod@hexbear.net 41 points 14 hours ago

Boy, they really are just fucking stupid, huh

[-] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 54 points 14 hours ago

We killed a guy!!! We win!!!!!!!

Wait where did these missiles come from? Didn't you hear we killed a guy??

hamas-red-triangle

i-love-killing-people

Rest in peace Sinwar. May your Martyrdom be another piece in Israel's destruction.

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[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 72 points 15 hours ago

If it's true he's dead, an absolute hero and a symbol for the resistance shines brighter than ever; after life spent in hiding he's now out in the open and adding more fire to the hearts of the fighters.

If it's a lie, then this might be the best possible scenario for an "if you come for the king you best not miss."

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