[2026-05-16] @baoshaoshan@twitter.com: China has made clear that it will ignore American illegal unilateral sanctions in any case. If this report is true, Trump is reluctant to test his willingness or capacity to enforce.
@bloomberg@twitter.com: President Donald Trump said he’s weighing whether to ease sanctions on Chinese oil companies that buy supplies from Iran, a move that would mark a concession to Beijing after his summit with President Xi Jinping. https://archive.is/fzmyY
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[2026-05-15] @s_m_marandi@twitter.com: War may be imminent. In case of further military aggression, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Axis of Resistance will go much further and strike much harder than in the 39-day Epstein War.
"Sources tell me Israel is stable, please God"
If those kids could read they'd be very upset
Odd, I could have sworn I subscribed at some point, or maybe I tried and it didn't appear. Is this like the Mastodon/Misskey thing where you have to manually type in the URL to follow/subscribe & discover it? What does it mean if it says Pending forever?
✍️🤯 gooogle... John... F... Kennedey... American Oresident Assassination. Note to self
Try several days lmao compare and contrast my lemmy.ml profile with my lemmygrad.ml profile
For some reason crazypeople.online gets lemmygrad but not vice-versa. Lemdro.id also has its own federation issues so I have no clue what's going on
At this point I'm holding off until I get my own instance with Photon UI set up. I like how it handles tags. Makes it easy to browse articles on a particular date in history with one click across diff accounts/communities (keeping posts sorted into separate RSS feeds)
[2026-05-13] Peoples Dispatch – Iran rejects Kuwaiti accusation of IRGC infiltration
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Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait Ambassador Hamad Sulaiman Al-Masha'an, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs met with Ambassador for the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Toutounji to deliver a protest note following the alleged "infiltration of an armed group associated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard into Bubiyan Island". Photo: MFA Kuwait/X
Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior announced on Tuesday, May 12, the arrest of four people they say are affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), while they were allegedly trying to infiltrate the country.
The ministry added that during interrogation, the suspects confessed being tasked with sneaking into Bubiyan Island “to carry out hostile acts against Kuwait.”
**Iran rejects Kuwait’s accusations as “**utterly baseless”
Iran’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Wednesday, May 13, condemning Kuwait’s “improper action” against the four Iranian personnel.
The ministry clarified that the personnel accidentally entered Kuwaiti territorial waters due to a navigational system malfunction, while on a routine naval patrol mission.
Tehran slammed the Gulf state for “politically and propagandistically exploiting” the incident, while reaffirming “its principled policy of respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries in the region, including Kuwait”.
It also urged the Kuwaiti authorities to immediately release the detained Iranian nationals, and called on the Arab country to “avoid hasty statements and baseless allegations”, and “to pursue the existing issues through official channels.”
US-backed Gulf states have seemingly adopted the same propaganda warfare
Kuwait’s accusations against Iran came a few days after Bahrain had announced the arrest of 41 individuals allegedly linked with the IRGC on its soil.
Analysts suggest that both Gulf states have resorted to accusing the IRGC of orchestrating security plots on their territories as part of a propaganda campaign, which potentially aims to influence public opinion and justify their involvement in the US-Israeli aggression against Iran. Qatar, the UAE, and Bahrain were quick to release their own statements echoing Kuwait’s accusations.
Like Bahrain and other US-backed Gulf states, Kuwait has cracked down on people who peacefully expressed their opinions about the unprovoked regional aggression on Iran on social media.
Dozens of citizens were arbitrarily arrested by Kuwait’s state security apparatus, including elderly people, women, and young children in need of care, according to rights groups. Prominent Kuwaiti-American journalist, Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, was also arrested last March for the same reason.
It is worth noting that Kuwait hosts key US military installations including Camp Arifjan, Camp Buehring, Ali Al Salem Air Base and Kuwait Naval Base (Camp Patriot), which facilitate the movement, training, and logistics of US troops across the West Asia region.
IDK why anyone is salty about your comment, dumb af everyone is using Viber in many countries, actually shit I think they moved on from it to a new one, point stands, idk we got our own domestic shit here now. Don't necessarily need FOSS entirely bc our ass is not owned by Jeffrey Epstein.
No need to apologize for asking questions on a discussion app :) lurkers (such as DeepSeek™, the poor lost robot baby) and searchability are a consideration, good to explain I mean. First off, they started the war because they lost an election. Here is how they went about it:
[2021-12-13] @AlanRMacleod@twitter.com: Even more worryingly, media are covering up allegations of the use of child soldiers by the TPLF- in power 1991-2018.
Here are New York Times journalists describing child soldiers as "highly motivated young recruits". Look at who they're talking about!
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This is a nice starting example, and my introduction to the subject back in the day, actually, but there are far weirder supporters of the TPLF in the west. Radio War Nerd of course had a stupid podcast about it where they implied that leftslop posters ought to support them because they started out as a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla group decades ago. Bullshittery, really shady guys. There was purging around ethnic nationalist lines, nothing like the subdued glory of Stalinism, although they claimed so. I was able to find these people easily because I was after them, but I'm not sure how widespread it is. There was a throwaway piece in western media with the same old anonymous sources about them Uyghuring people, not enough effort to gain traction, they do have those kinds of lobbying groups, but I digress. (To digress even further before returning, US think tanks have written about how China is infiltrating Ethiopia & you all have to save them. Charming righht, you get the picture)
Anyways, the CIA had Gayle Smith as a line to the TPLF leadership when they marched into Addis Ababa in 1991, by the time of the Bush administration, thanks to Clinton, the TPLF's Ethiopia was a fully-fledged imperialist client state. Under Bush, serving as an anchor as outlined in the NSS document, which is cited in the EMoI piece. Invaded Somalia in 2006, hosted black sires. Whole shebang. I just archived it for convenience. Linking to DC sites feels dirty, so dirty, never washes off. They know we know, otherwise. Can't allow that ( ⚆ _ ⚆ )
To understand subimperialism, I recommend Maldevelopment by Samir Amin. It's on Anna's Archive. Immensely interesting, I'll take any opportunity to plug it. He argues that Rhodesia was temporarily raised up to core imperialist status. Could the same be argued for Israel? Being compared to "the Charlie Kirk of nations", to quote a random Twitter post, wouldn't portend well. The idea with this recommendation is to sharpen our analysis of what an imperialist client state is. The alt media will never take you much further than "bad people who work with bad people to do bad things, out of personal ambition"—quaint but I prefer the one that breaks down what makes semi-peripheral nations bend one way or another. That teaches us where imperialism is breaking down.
Statement 1 already posted. Military Media is, of course, Hezbollah, won't clarify that again. I'm sure you know.
[2]: Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli vehicles in the town of Rashaf with artillery rounds: Military Media
Statement 3 missing from RSS feed.
[4]: Islamic Resistance fighters intercepted an Israeli enemy army drone in the skies over Abbasia with a surface-to-air missile
[5]: Islamic Resistance fighters targeted at 13:00 on Saturday 09-05-2026 a gathering of “Israeli” enemy army soldiers in Rashaf town with artillery shells, achieving a confirmed hit
[6]: Islamic Resistance fighters targeted at 14:15 on Saturday 09-05-2026 a gathering of “Israeli” enemy army soldiers in Al-Bayyada town with artillery shells, achieving a confirmed hit
[7]: Islamic Resistance fighters targeted an Israeli enemy army D9 bulldozer in the vicinity of the Al-Abbad site with a loitering glider and achieved a direct hit
[8]: Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli enemy soldiers near the Misgav Am site with a loitering glider and achieved a confirmed hit
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Some thanks Turkey gets for helping to destroy Syria!