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Image is the famous photograph Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag, taken during the Battle of Berlin.


On Friday is May 9th, which is the 80th anniversary of Victory Day, which Russia, among other places, celebrates as the day when the Soviets defeated the Nazis. Naturally, one of the current hotspots of fascism in the world today, Ukraine, is essentially threatening that they might strike Russia or even Moscow itself during that timeframe. Any such strike would almost certainly be symbolic and not aimed at anything too important, as I doubt even Zelensky and his American handlers would actually want to kill a world leader, not least somebody like Xi Jinping. But I would not be surprised if they tried something nonetheless, if only to disrupt the event in some way and not actually kill anybody.

And, as we're on this topic, @EllenKelly@hexbear.net has reminded me that Tuesday is the anniversary of the Nazis burning the Institut für Sexualwissenschaf in 1933, an early institute advocating for the rights of LGBT people, and which also provided early forms of gender-affirming surgeries, as well as hormone therapies. We are currently seeing a crackdown on LGBT rights throughout swathes of the imperial core (as well as countries in the periphery, to the extent that those rights existed there already), and this Nazi-inspired movement will be similarly defeated in the future.


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Israel-Palestine Conflict

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Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

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English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
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English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
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English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
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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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[–] companero@hexbear.net 41 points 13 hours ago (10 children)

Moscow Victory Day parade livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVEiz-floKY

The actual parade begins in about an hour.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 31 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 22 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Traore stands so tall and looks so good, man has got aura

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[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 24 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

windows wouldn't let me paste Xi (ok it was probably hexbear rate limiting)

but it was literally this

coming-to-xi-you

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 21 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)
[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 19 points 13 hours ago

nicaragua apparently

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 18 points 13 hours ago

mahmoud abbas?

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 19 points 13 hours ago

LUKA ARRIVING ON THE SCENE

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[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 38 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Swedish Security Advisor post seems cursed. The first one kept leaving classified documents behind, and the new one has decided to resign after less than 24 hours because a journalist found his Grindr profile.

It is a bullshit post that was started because the Moderates desperately want to be West Wing libs, so hopefully they will just stop trying now.

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 16 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

the new one has decided to resign after less than 24 hours because a journalist found his Grindr profile.

Is this just homophobia or am I missing some obvious reason why a security advisor shouldn't have a dating app profile? Was he already married?

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 16 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Risqué thirst trap pics rather than homophobia. He decided to step down on his own after no real pressure, so probably just that he was embarrassed more than anything. Could be seen as blackmailing material I guess, but he wasn’t in the closet.

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[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 72 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

From the looks of India's drone attack on Pakistan this morning with Israel Aerospace Industries Harpy and Harop one way attack drones/loitering munitions, it looks like India was trying to carry out a Suppression/Destruction of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD/DEAD) mission using the drones. The Harpy has a anti radiation seeker in the nose, while the Harop has a electro-optical sensor, a camera that can transmit footage back to the operator. India were hoping that Pakistan would light up the drones with their advanced air defence systems, such as the HQ-9 and HQ-16, turning on their radars and maybe even firing at the drones, thus revealing their position and opening them up to being targeted by the Harpy anti radiation seeking drones, and potentially ROCKS/Crystal Maze 2, and Rudram-II Air Launched Ballistic Missiles with anti radiation seekers.

IAI Harpy:

IAI Harop:

However, Pakistan quickly wised up to what was happening, turned off the radars and stopped firing from their advanced air defence systems that were targeted, and moved them quickly out of harms way, should their position be comprimised after firing and engaging initially. There are photos of Pakistan quickly moving an HQ-16 battery around to prevent a hit, with a seperate 4x4 truck not part of the HQ-16 system getting hit by Harop drones afterwards. Pakistan made the right choice here, sure India landed some hits as a result and the HQ-16 abandoned it's primary mission of defending those assets that got hit (so SEAD was accomplished for a limited time, system suppressed in fleeing the area) but saving a high value asset like an HQ-16 from damage or destruction during this kind of attack is worth the trade off (DEAD not accomplished, system still operable and undamaged to fight on another day).

4x4 truck taking hits:

HQ-16 command post or radar vehicle fleeing the scene:

HQ-16 command posts or radar vehicle during peacetime, for identification purposes:

Pakistan then resorted to using jamming and anti aircraft guns against the drones, including the ever reliable Soviet era ZU-23, the AK-47 of anti aircraft guns. So while India landed a few hits and accomplished a limited amount of SEAD, they were unable to get a fix or hit on their primary targets, the HQ-16 and HQ-9, long term SEAD and DEAD not accomplished.

Just for interests sake, hexbear users months ago were talking about the added mobility Chinese air defence systems like the HQ-22 and HQ-16 offer, and how that would be crucial to surviving a modern day SEAD/DEAD campaign in the context of drone warfare.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 18 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you for this analysis, love your posts here. Really interesting to watch the development of Chinese anti-air performing in this conflict.

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[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 45 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

If you're thinking "wow, the Harpy looks really similar to the Iranian Shahed 136/Geran-2", you'd be right, they are very similar. If your next question is "How did Israel and Iran develop this technology concurrently?", that's an interesting question. I did some research, and apparently the source of this idea (to use loitering munitions/one way attack drones for SEAD/DEAD or to bait air defence systems) comes from apartheid South Africa of all places. More explanation below:

During their border wars against Angola and now Namibia (both of whom had Cuban and Soviet support), the South Africans had a serious issue. Because of international sanctions, their fighter aircraft lacked the technology and munitions for typical SEAD/DEAD, and struggled to deal with Soviet air defence systems like the 2K12 Kub/SA-6. The solution was, at the time, to fire whatever they could into the air, from rockets to weather ballons, to try bait the SA-6s into firing, revealing their position to forward observers, who would call in artillery strikes on the position of the SA-6. However, this was insufficient, so there was a competition between defence companies to produce a better solution. One company Kentron, now known as Denel, came up with the ARD-10 drone:

The ARD-10 looks very similar to many things we see today.

Reportedly the blueprints for this drone were sold to Israel during the late 80s before the downfall of the apartheid system (IAI Harpy first flight was in 1989), and under the democratic government, the blueprints for this drone ended up being sent to Iran during the early 2000s. Atonement for previous actions by the apartheid regime?

[–] edge@hexbear.net 91 points 21 hours ago (3 children)
[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

everybody loves the New Guy in the Club

Ibrahim Traoré is like the Anime Main Charakter i would build the Movie around.

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 21 points 14 hours ago

love the pic in the back of traore graduating standing school

[–] miz@hexbear.net 64 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

what kind of wizardry has turned them both into centaurs (needs photoshooped horse tails)

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

You've heard of catgirl communism, now get ready for-

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[–] deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml 95 points 22 hours ago (7 children)
[–] Seasonal_Peace@hexbear.net 17 points 13 hours ago

His death isn’t enough retribution for this freak, but we take what we can get. rip-bozo-grave

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 22 points 17 hours ago

22 years old field marshal\oberkommando

[–] miz@hexbear.net 29 points 20 hours ago
[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 76 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Indian news channels have adopted the brilliant strategy of creating as much panic as possible instead of trying to do the opposite.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 13 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Indian TV news has declined so much, not saying it was ever "unbiased", no one is, but everything has gotten so much stupider since 2014. They don't want people to think even a little.

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[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 44 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

On Reddit the two reactions from Indian posters seem to be: Genuine fear and freak out from normal people who don’t want to die in a war, and arrogant self-assured comments about how there’s no risk of a war and that strikes inside Pakistan to kill “terrorists” should continue indefinitely

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 35 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The scope has increased from blowing up terrorist hideouts to bombing Pakistani cities now. Both sides are engaging in drone warfare now.

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 18 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Im aware. Apparently there’s a good portion of Indians who believe all of Pakistan are “terrorists” and want to turn the whole place “into Gaza”. It’s quite disgusting

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Fucking idiots. Pakistan is not Gaza, they have nukes and actual weapons. It wont be just military and civilians in border regions who die, it'll be everyone.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 47 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Are they trying to incite pogroms and sectarian riots?

[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 53 points 21 hours ago

Fascism is a death cult, so yes.

[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 86 points 23 hours ago (35 children)

🇺🇸🇮🇱 BREAKING: Trump cuts contact with Netanyahu, says Bibi & his allies “act arrogant” and try to manipulate him — IDF Radio reports.

Close associates of Trump told Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, that the President feels disrespected and manipulated by Netanyahu, and that there's nothing he hates more than 'appearing as easily manipulated' in public.

(looks like he heard about the Laundry thing )

[–] LoveYourself@hexbear.net 11 points 15 hours ago

Doesn't change the fact that children in Gaza are still starving.

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 18 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

News flash: turn out an egomaniac who is totally transactional is less genocidal than some pro-segregation politician who still fantasize about some dead hag from Israel (actually from Minnesota) 100 years ago

Someone should give him an audiobook version of Yahya sinwah's book and he might become the Laurence of Arabia of 21st century

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[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 60 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (6 children)

The Palestinian flag-adorned Al-Azhar Mosque in Cape Town's District 6 near the city center had received a bomb threat, reportedly having originated from Miami. This also occurred after the conclusion of the Week4Palestine/Red Card Israel demonstrations in Johannesburg and Cape Town. - Salaamedia

Also in Cape Town, a Jewish author of the book Lost Property by the name of Megan Choritz was expelled from the Jewish Literary Festival for "harbouring extremist political views (pearl-clutch)" - wearing a Keffiyeh and being an active member of the SAJFP. She then set up a table outside the Holocaust Museum and was quickly subject to harassment by the police and antisemitic attacks from Zionists, with her stand even being trashed and chairs thrown across the road. Her assistant and another member of the SAJFP Jared Sacks was also assaulted, with the cops of course, doing nothing and just sit back as a Jewish activist is getting attacked by violent extremists in front of the Holocaust Museum. - SAJFP, News24

And in what should arguably be the most damning and critical news of all, the comments of Channel 14's producer Elad Barashi had very recently been brought to light, where he had made incitements of genocide against Gaza, a day or two after the most recent ICJ hearings concluded. The comments originated on 27 February 2025 in Hebrew and were apparently then deleted, either by Twitter moderation or by Elad himself once the reality set in on what he had typed. They have been already archived and translated during the first half of this week, with some traction on non-mainstream media. Channel 14 is also a very major mainstream outlet in ISISrael. Of course, we already know the genocidal intent, rhetoric and actions of the fascist ISISraeli entity and the near-total support for escalatory violence. But these most recent comments are ...quite different. what-the-hell

CW!!! Disturbing Content, Racism, Nazism, Holocaust Inversion, Antisemitism

spoiler Are you REALLY sure you want to view this? Elad Barashi in his exact words, has advocated for a Holocaust in Gaza, "with gas chambers, concentration camps, boxcars, and more (ovens. He means ovens.)" He even spells out the word Holocaust, letter by letter. And yes, these words were actually said and posted. Already long before this filth was published, heads of state in ISISrael were using thinly-veiled Nazi terminology regarding Gaza, with the objective being an actual Final Solution. And now NetanSShatu's favourite programme Channel 14, has put every single crime of humanity in Gaza into the exact same context as the Holocaust perpetrated by the Third Reich. This was just days before Ramadan marked the end of ceasefire and the refusal to accept anymore hostages or further progress on multistage ceasefire plan. As if a sign, even Hamas has already referred to ISISrael as a Nazi entity and as of the 27th of February 2025, ISISrael is very literally a Nazi state, in the fullest sense of the word and not at all hyperbolic. Even the people spamming "Release the hostages" and "Bring Them Home NOW" aren't dissuaded. I confronted one and the response was not "Hamas propaganda" but "they deserve the gas chamber because 7 October". We are literally at this point officially. The moment this kind of evil was posted and translated, 27 February 2025 completely nullifies 7 October 2023 in it's entirety. An admission of Holocaust in the fullest extent of the word should be the most important and damning evidence. And of course, right at the anniversary of the Red Army's holy crusade to send the vile Nazis in Berlin to the eternal hellfire. - CAIR, The New Arab, PressTV, Quds News Network, Archive of the original written in Hebrew

Here is also an image of the offending content translated into English :::

Harden your hearts, Al-Qassam and Ansar Allah

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