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Image is of a solar park in Cuba, donated last year by China, sourced from this article.


To be honest, I don't have much to say about ongoing geopolitical events that hasn't already been said in previous threads (e.g. with India/Pakistan, Trump/Putin, and of course occupied Palestine), so this is more of a "news roundup" preamble for this week.

As we all know, the US (and the imperial core generally) has only three permitted international actions: sanctions, color revolution, and war. None of these have been going well lately, but sanctions are in particularly dire straits right now. Three examples from the last week or so:

  • The EU is on its 17th sanctions package, apparently, which is surprising, as I thought they were on their 76th or something. It apparently targets Russia's shadow fleet of oil tankers, but I don't think anybody actually gives a shit because we all know it won't achieve anything, so, moving on...

  • The head of Nvidia (as well as many others) have come out and said that the US chip export controls on China have failed, remarking that China's internal motivations to develop alternatives are strong and proceeding rapidly, especially as China's number of skilled scientists is only growing. Nvidia has said that they had a 95% share of China's AI chip market in 2020 or so, but now they only have 50%.

  • Lastly, an interesting one: Iran has received its first set of railway shipment of solar panels from China, and there is hope for accelerating shipments of even more products. Myself and many others have predicted a decoupling of Iran from the West and towards China and Russia (especially if any Western-built product could have Israeli devices implanted into them, such as with the pager terrorist attack on Lebanon's doctors), and having a strong link with China will be a necessary step for Iran and their allies to continue their offensives against Israel.


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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 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.
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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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[–] ourtimewillcome@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

older article but relevant considering jolanis stance regarding the illegal entity:

British NGO behind 'makeover' of Al-Qaeda leader turned Syrian president – the cradle

Former US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford publicly stated earlier this month that he was invited by a British NGO to help bring Ahmad al-Sharaa ‘out of terrorism and into politics’

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[–] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (22 children)

Not sure why people are dooming about the drone attacks.

For one, Ukraine always massively exaggerates their supposed successes. For the other, there have been much worse incidents for Russia in this war, and things went on as if nothing happened.

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For one, Ukraine always massively exaggerates their supposed successes. For the other, there have been much worse incidents for Russia in this war, and things went on as if nothing happened.

Even if Ukraine was only a quarter as successful as they claimed, it's a huge loss. Russia don't make Tu-95s or Tu-22M3s anymore, and they make new production T-160s in the same way they "make" Su-57s and S-500 systems. It might take a decade or more to replace all the lost Tu-95s and Tu-22M3s with new production Tu-160s, a different plane.

If you view the war through the lens of NATO/USA/the west using Ukraine to damage Russia, this is by far the most damaging attack, over a dozen aircraft have been destroyed or damaged, confirmed by the first satellite imagery and videos of the attack. 8 of those Tu-95 aircraft were part of Russia's nuclear triad. Russia's airborne leg of their triad is now substantially weaker. Russia only has 55 in active service, each loss cannot be replaced. And of those 55, only a fraction have been modernised to "Tu-95MSM" standard, with upgraded engines, radars, and capable of firing the Kh-101 (and nuclear Kh-102) cruise missile, the first MSM got officially introduced in 2019, after previous combat tests against ISIS in 2016 and 2017. The other bombers can only fire the now outdated Kh-55 missile. Every MSM loss would be huge. According to leaked documents, taking a Tu-95MS and upgrading it to MSM standard costs $50 million on average...

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[–] sempersigh@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

One goddamn trillion in development spending and maybe none of it was spent productively.

Entire belt and road appears to be in the hundreds of billions btw.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Colombians Continue National Strike in Defense of Their Labor Rights - Telesur English

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The mobilization seeks to pressure Congress to guarantee workers’ rights, said a SintraONGS spokesperson. On Thursday, Colombians continued their two-day national strike in support of a popular referendum on labor reform promoted by President Gustavo Petro.

In Bogota, workers, and students gathered in the morning at the National Park with flags and loudspeakers, organized by the leftist Historic Pact party, the Single Central of Workers (CUT), the Colombian Federation of Educators (FECODE), the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), and other grassroots social organizations.

Citizens marched through the streets to the rhythm of batucada in a spectacle that included some protesters on stilts waving Colombian flags. As the march advanced along Seventh Avenue, people from other parts of the city joined the mobilization, which maintained a festive and combative tone.

The massive march arrived at Bolivar Square, where citizens waved Colombian and Palestinian flags, symbolizing the convergence of social struggles in the agenda of the popular mobilization. “This mobilization is part of the national strike to pressure Congress to guarantee workers’ rights,” said Yeimi Cante, spokesperson for the Union of Workers of Non-Governmental and Social Organizations (SintraONGS).

Bolivar Square was filled with banners proclaiming “The referendum will happen because it will happen” and “The people say so and they are right,” while citizens shouted slogans against 30 years of neoliberal governments that have stripped Colombians of their labor rights with the false promise of creating more jobs.

“Labor legislation is more than 80 years old. We are proposing that it should be more progressive and updated in accordance with reality,” said CGT President Percy Oyola, who announced that another national strike has been called for June 11.

“Today we are here because the social, political, and popular summit determined that we would hold a 48-hour strike,” he added, denouncing that the political elites “continue to steal Colombia’s chances of having better working conditions.”

This week, social protests were sparked by the Senate’s rejection of a referendum on labor reform, which was proposed by President Petro, who called on citizens to take to the streets to defend social justice.

“We’re here because this issue isn’t just about politics, it’s about dignity. We don’t want to grow up in a country where working means precariousness and fear of getting sick,” said Mariana, a sociology student who was marching with a banner demanding the approval of the referendum.

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[–] ourtimewillcome@hexbear.net 36 points 2 weeks ago

translation from unsere zeit, the communist party newspaper in germany:

Meeting of the DKP party executive committee – The pressure against anti-Palestinian policies of must increase

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At the conference of the DKP party executive committee, which took place last weekend in Leverkusen, its chairman Patrik Köbele called for the protest against the genocide of Palestinians to be taken to the streets. UZ documents excerpts from the speech:

There is no word that sounds more terrible than genocide and yet we have to realize that Israel is escalating the genocide in Gaza and is both taking people hostage and starving them out in multiple violations of international law. The media are not above reporting that a Hamas hostage has been starved to death, while the more than two million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip are starving because Israel has been blocking the supply of food and aid for weeks. Then this starving population is urged by leaflets to flee immediately to another, also destroyed part of the Gaza Strip, because a few hours later they are bombed again and ground troops move in. When you see the few pictures in the media showing thousands of people with empty pots hoping for something to eat, it's heartbreaking. And the federal government? They don't think it's great either - although we don't know whether they are talking about the way people are being treated or the fact that pictures of it are being shown on television. The government continues to blather on about the Staatsräson (official euphemism for German-Israeli coercion, translators note).

There is protest against this in our country, some of which is repressively crushed. This resistance is still far too small. We, our party groups, must also do more to organize protest and solidarity with the Palestinian people and take this protest to the streets. The pressure against the anti-Palestinian policies of German politics must increase.

We must also make it very clear that this so-called Staatsräson is anti-Semitic at its core. Why? It is derived from the responsibility for the Shoah, i.e. the industrial mass extermination of Jews by the German fascists. To use this as a justification for claiming that it is Germany's responsibility to defend the so-called security of Israel is to portray Israel's policies as stemming from Judaism. That is in fact anti-Semitism. This policy of Israel has its cause in Israel's role as the agent of imperialism in the Middle East in combination with a murderous policy of Zionism.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good thing is that Dollar exchange rate continues to struggle despite yields going up occasionally. The only thing preventing further crash appears to be in part the other central banks' willingness to buy up Dollars in the forex markets so as to maintain trade competitiveness ie to maintain exports to the US. The "Dollar Standard" remains for now.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi: 'The US-mediated peace treaty between Egypt and Israel is a model that the entire region should follow, to guarantee enduring stability and ending the cycle of vengeance and violence, and every nation should persue a just peace [with Israel]'

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[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago

damn nasser needs to come back asap

[–] Socialism_Is_The_Alternative@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Russian forces liberated 13 more settlements this week (four in Sumy oblast, two in Kharkov oblast, and seven in the Donetsk People’s Republic): https://tass.com/politics/1966097

Plus, another collection of recent Russian FPV drone strikes on Kiev regime firing positions and military equipment: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/fpv-1.mp4

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[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 35 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

A bit late to the topic here, but I know this was extensively discussed when it happened during the short India-Pakistan conflict: did the Pakistani air force destroy India’s S-400 batteries using Chinese-made missiles?

If so, that pretty much settled the score between Russian and Chinese military equipments? If the Russian S-400s can be so easily destroyed by Chinese missiles, then it’s pretty much game over for Russia as a major arms dealer?

I sort of see this as a “proxy war” between Russia and China in their competition to carve out the share as global arms suppliers. It is one of last remaining major industries for Russia and I can see how losing that market in the world will be harmful to their economy.

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[–] Seasonal_Peace@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago (13 children)

What can Russia do to counter the renewed escalation to the same extent? Does someone have to prevent Russia from using nuclear weapons?

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How many soldiers Ukraine got left? Are these bros even rotated out for leave anymore? Who tf is holding this 1,200km long front?

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[–] ourtimewillcome@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago

Iran slams IAEA report as politically motivated, based on forged Israeli documents – the cradle

The IAEA issued a report on Saturday claiming Iran was in non-compliance with the nuclear non-proliferation treaty

[–] PosadistInevitablity@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This is an embarrassing strike on Russia, but it bears remembering that propellor based strategic bombers are nearly obsolete weapons of war.

Their only use in this war is a stand-off distance launching of cruise missiles.

These are nuclear deterrent platforms, which are frankly always oversold in importance. Russian nuclear deterrence is not significantly impacted as long as their nuclear submarines exist.

Destroying an artillery factory would have more impact on the actual war. However, the Ukranians exist a proxy meant to damage Russia, not actually win the war as it is. Thus flashy strikes like this one.

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Their only use in this war is a stand-off distance launching of cruise missiles.

Of which Russia have launched thousands, if not tens of thousands in the entire war. Stand off missile strikes have played a large role in the Ukraine-Russia conflict, were the biggest part of the Pakistan-India conflict, and currently serve as deterrence in the Iran-US/Israel conflict. Stand off missile strikes important. Reducing your opponents ability to carry out these attacks is not a flashy strike, it's taking out a key capability of the opponent. The Tu-95 and Tu-160 are the only Russian aircraft that can launch Kh-101 cruise missiles, no other platform can. This was a key part of the de electrification countervalue strike campaign Russia waged late last year. Which is why we see these attacks take place. Iran tried to take out Israel's Nevatim Airbase. Pakistan tried to hit India's BrahMos storage facilities. Ukraine striking Kh-101 missile storage and now bombers. A large part of a potential NATO-Russia conflict would revolve around tit for tat stand-off strikes.

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