Image is from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ recent article on Kashmir.
It looks like the spat between India and Pakistan could be dying down, due to a new ceasefire. As of the time of me writing this paragraph, it seems both sides want to maintain it (despite some reports of violations here and there).
Both sides have declared victory, which is completely expected given their mutual political parties and nationalist histories. It’s a little harder to say which side has actually won, as both sides seem to have managed to shoot down aircraft and hit military bases. India has, in my opinion, had the more embarrassing moments, but international conflicts aren’t cringe compilations. I feel no good-will towards Pakistan’s comprador government, but it is at least nice to see Modi knocked down a few pegs. Regardless of the final technical victor, it’s obvious that - if the ceasefire is maintained - who won are the hundreds of millions of people who won’t have to live in fear of dying in nuclear hellfire.
This conflict is a good example of what multipolarity will truly entail. Countries that have been previously limited in their nationalist ambitions by American pressure will now take opportunities to revolt, sometimes against America itself, and sometimes against other countries in their regional neighbourhood. It’s also why, as communists, our goals do not stop at multipolarity; it is merely the establishing act of a new era of agitation against peripheral and semi-peripheral capitalist countries that are forming powerful national bourgeoisie classes as the international American capitalists are forced away.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
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.
CNN: Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive form’ of prostate cancer
Zionism gives you prostate cancer.
metastasis to the bone
He’s cooked
Ukraine , a land with very few problems , has Hungary currently amass its Army on his western borders now. Region of Carparthia in Ukraine is ethiniclly Hungarian and Ukraine Drafted extensivly from there . Also some days ago Ukraine security services made some raids against “Hungarian Sympathisants” there. So he can assume people there would rather be in Hungary. Some play might start there soon. or its just to try to draw some Units from the east to the west , to overextend Ukraine even more.
theres a Fun Joke about this Place that might now soon get an Addition.
spoiler
St. Peter asks a newcomer:
- Born?
- Austro-Hungary.
- Went to school?
- Czechoslovakia
- Married in?
- Hungary
- Kids born in?
- The Third Reich
- And your grandchildren?
- USSR.
- Where did you die?
- Ukraine.
- Man, you traveled a lot!
- Nonsense, I never left Mukachevo.
Ahah trump at a press conference was like: what was I going to do? Not accept a free plane? We love free stuff.
Lmao
If they offer you a plane. Take the plane. If tomorrow they ask “what are you doing, I gave you a plane?” say “you idiot, why would you give me a plane”
king shit
fair enough
The New York Times has released a detailed report on why Trump prematurely ended the bombing campaign on Yemen. The article states the following:
After 30 days of strikes, Trump wanted a status report on Yemen. The status report concluded that the U.S. had failed to achieve air superiority, that drones were being shot down at an unprecedented rate, and that the U.S. had spent over a Billion dollars in the first month alone.
Omani officials told Steve Witkoff that the U.S. would be offered a way out of the campaign, but only if Trump agreed to direct talks with Yemen that did not include Israel, to which the President agreed. Saudi Arabia provided the U.S. with a list of 12 Houthi officials to assassinate, in order to ‘cripple’ the Yemeni movement. None were killed.
Several F-16 and F-35 jets were almost shot down by Houthi air defenses, marking a significant threat to American lives and elevating worries about a possible future confrontation with Iran. The U.S. used many advanced precision ammunitions, including bunker busters, but it had very little effect on Houthi infrastructure.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth tried to convince Saudi Arabia and the UAE to sponsor a renewed ground offensive in Yemen, but they declined.
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The US sure showed Yemen why they don’t have free healthcare (because they are a decaying empire that doesn’t care about it’s people).
Congrats on the Yemeni people’s second victory, and I hope they are preparing for the inevitable third.
Insane thing to throw in at the end there. “Hey Saudi Arabia, our massive bombing campaign isn’t doing shit, can you go boots on the ground?”
9am shit-faced off Mr.Boston texting the leader of Saudi Arabia marked as “$Emperor$” in your contacts and asking them to do a land invasion.
Omani officials told Steve Witkoff that the U.S. would be offered a way out of the campaign, but only if Trump agreed to direct talks with Yemen that did not include Israel
W Omani officials
The U.S. used many advanced precision ammunitions, including bunker busters, but it had very little effect on Houthi infrastructure.
Would’ve helped if they actually targeted Houthi infrastructure instead of civilian infrastructure.
Bombing a cement factory, a migrant detention facility, and a civilian airport: “why aren’t the militants’ capabilities degraded???”
Lmfao the first F-35 going down to a hilux-launched R-60, or better yet a Chinese-made MANPADS wouldve had Boeing going for Trump’s scalp before we stopped laughing about it
Yemeni ground based air defences are more advanced than Hilux launched R-60s. When I say it’s rudimentary, I mean that Yemen lacks the high level specialised systems like Bavar-373/Patriot/S-300, and the latest mobile point defence systems like Tor and Pantsir, which countries like Ukraine and Iran have, not that the air defence network is bad, they still have many systems. Many of Yemen’s air defence systems are quite similar to the “frankenSAMs” that Ukraine uses. I’ll provide images below:
Yemen has Thaqib-1, a ground launched R-73 system, equivalent to the ground launched ASRAAM Raven system in Ukraine:
Raven system:
Thaqib-1:
Yemen has Thaqib-2, a ground launched R-27, equivalent to Gravehawk systems in Ukraine armed with AIM-9L or R-27s (Gravehawk is mainly used with R-73s).
Indian Samar-2, very similar to Gravehawk:
Thaqib-2:
Yemen also has Thaqib-3, a ground launched R-77, equivalent to the NASAMS system in Ukraine armed with AIM-120s.
NASAMS:
Thaqib-3:
Good article compiling most available information
When this is combined with passive ground based infrared search and track systems (Sephyr 14 for example) for cueing the infrared seekers on the R-27 and R-73, and the active radar seeker on the R-77, you can get a potent short range air defence system (SHORAD) that’s mostly passive, relying on minimal radar inputs to tell you where to focus your infrared searching. This is how a Ukrainian unmanned surface vessel shot down a Russian Su-30 with an AIM-9.
While Yemen were not able to shoot down any US aircraft directly, they were able to force them into uncomfortable positions.
NYU student talked about Palestine in a speech, was cheered and heckled, and then his diploma was withheld.
Here is a video of the speech: https://xcancel.com/prem_thakker/status/1923027614270128306 (edit: replaced with a non-Zionist source)
And here is NYUs despicable statement: https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2025/may/statement-by-nyu-spokesperson-john-beckman.html
Nothing in that speech was objectionable. There was no radical element, just a basic level of humanity. But even that is too much for the fucking ghoulish administration of these universities.
Civil Registry Law: Cuba could allow legal sex change without surgery or court order. Cuba will debate a bill to allow sex change in documents without surgery or court ruling. The measure faces criticism for not including non-binary people and for possible practical limitations.
The change, presented as an advance by authorities and pro-government activists, comes in the midst of a strong economic crisis, with the health system unable to guarantee gender reassignment operations that were already allowed by the Cuban State. The proposal was detailed in an article published by Cubadebate. The draft bill has been reviewed by the National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX), headed by Mariela Castro, who complained that it is not yet sufficiently advanced because it contemplates the designations of female and male, without including non-binary groups.
The announcement coincides with the celebration of the so-called “conga against homophobia” that took place on Saturday in El Vedado. The mobilization was authorized and led by the government. Hundreds of people carried banners with slogans such as “Socialism yes, transphobia no”. “As a trans person I am advocating for a gender identity law,” Yoilán Balón told The Associated Press. The demand is evidence of the fundamental shortcomings, because Cuba still lacks comprehensive legislation on this issue.
Currently, in Cuba it is only possible to change the registered sex after genital reassignment surgery, a procedure paralyzed in practice by the lack of resources of the health system.
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Story has been making rounds that Ukrainians were outraged when Russia negotiators said that Ukrainian soldiers must leave the four new Russian regions as part of ceasefire, to which the Moscow delegation replied “Next time it will be five.”
Now, our reporter in Istanbul got to ask the Russian side how it really went down:
“We didn’t say five. We said eight.”
Meanwhile in the PRC 🫡🇨🇳
Zhao Weiguo, former board chairman of Chinese semiconductor conglomerate Tsinghua Unigroup, on Wednesday was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for multiple crimes, including embezzlement of national assets worth more than 470 million yuan (about $65 million), according to a court verdict.
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/South-Africa-v-Israel.pdf
If anyone wants to be reminded of the case against Israel in the ICJ.
I suspect that Netanyahu is prolonging the war to occupy all of Gaza to facilitate the cover up of the corpses and maimed bodies. The bulldozers also crush bone and decayed flesh into sludge; the bodies are erased - they are unidentifiable and near unquantifiable - not unlike cremation.
I think Trump’s Freudian slip of the numbers left in Gaza was likely close to the truth; as he said in his plans to relocate 1.5m people. That the truth is there are 1.5m people left in Gaza.
I think the ICJ/ICC are waiting for the war to end, but more than likely the individuals in charge of these institutions are being blackmailed, bribed, and threatened by the US, Israel, and other Western accomplices.
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The audio also appears to validate Hur’s assertion that jurors in a trial likely would have viewed Biden as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Partly based on that determination, Hur decided not to prosecute Biden for improper possession of classified documents, angering Republicans because Trump was facing charges in his own classified document scandal then. Democrats and Biden’s White House blasted Hur for his observations about Biden. They repeatedly insisted he was “sharp” and that Hur was politically motivated. But the audio from the six hours of interviews indicates he and co-counsel Marc Krickbaum were respectful and friendly.
Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia repeated a bunch of neocon talking points and principles (Iran can never have a nuke and needs to submit to American demands, Sanctions against Assad were necessary and good, Hamas is an evil terrorist organization that needs to be destroyed before Palestine can be lifted from siege, Saudi Arabia should join the Abraham accords, etc).
Then he went on to attack “neocons” who failed at nation building in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It’s all such a dumb farce. Whenever rightoids complain about neocons it’s always that Garfield meme. They don’t even realize they are the neocons. Dude you had Bolton, Rubio, Kellog, Walz and more in your foreign policy department. Shut the fuck up!
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UK’s F-35 exports more important than stopping genocide, lawyers to argue
Preserving the British role in the F-35 jet fighter programme takes precedence over the need to comply with UK laws on arms export controls, or any UK obligation to prevent a genocide in Israel, UK government lawyers will argue in court this week.
In papers to the court, the UK has acknowledged that its supply of F-35 components for potential use in Israel is in breach of its own arms export control laws. The laws state that arms export licences must not be granted “if there is a clear risk those items might be used to commit or facilitate a serious violation of international humanitarian law by Israel”.
They’ve given up even pretending that a genocide isn’t happening, too.
I’m not sure which is worse: pretending there isn’t a genocide, or acknowledging that there is with an “…and we’re all in!” stance.
I feel like the former at least contains the admission that genocides are bad
I love the
rules-voluntary non-binding guidelines-based international orderit’s really more of a geneva suggestion
Chat, is this true?
https://xcancel.com/timand2037/status/1921438500794290279#mUnconfirmed Report. Chinese intelligence report 🇨🇳 on the ouster of Syrian President 🇸🇾 Bashar al-Assad (and the dismantling of Syria).
● A report published by Chinese intelligence reveals controversial details regarding the change of power in Syria to Abu Mohammed Al-Jolani.
● The report confirms that what happened was the result of internal betrayal by senior Syrian army officials, bribed with Qatari money, who played a key role in implementing a complex international and regional plan.
● According to the report, on the night Aleppo fell, officers of the Syrian army’s central command committed a serious crime of treason by isolating Iranian consultant commander Bur Hashmi (aka “Hajj Hashim”) in a conference room.
● After isolating the Iranian commander, these officers directly contacted the Israeli Mossad, paving the way for the Free Sham Front to advance and occupy the city in just 45 minutes without any resistance.
● The spread of betrayal.
This betrayal was not limited to Aleppo; other Syrian cities were similarly surrendered. Syrian officials also sent false coordinates to Hezbollah, which trapped it and led to the destruction of a convoy of 100 vehicles belonging to Hezbollah following Israeli strikes.
● Concurrent with this event, the US Air Force targeted Iraqi Popular Militia forces near the Syrian border, in coordination with Israeli operations.
● Deceiving Bashar al-Assad.
• Despite Iranian warnings, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad remained unaware of the extent of the betrayal within his army. He was receiving false reports from his close agents, who kept him isolated and ignorant of the situation on the ground.
• As losses mounted, President Assad began to doubt the loyalty of his superiors. According to the report, the final plan was to hand him over directly to the Al-Nusrah Front (the mock Liberation Authority). Aware of the imminent danger, President Bashar al-Assad sought direct assistance from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
• The report indicates that this operation was planned and executed in coordination with several international intelligence agencies: the British intelligence service (MI6) 🏴, the Israeli Mossad 🇮🇱, and the CIA🇺🇸, under the direct supervision of Turkish President 🇹🇷 Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
● The coming days could reveal more details about this complex process, which combined internal betrayals and international collusion to reshape the Syrian landscape according to the agendas of major regional powers, the Chinese report indicates.
all checks out
The curse of post WW2 Arab Armies strikes again
A regimental and National Guard system paired with a rotating officer corps prevents this shit from happening, but the totalizing and paranoid mindset of most of these former US puppet kings kills even the concept of reform
No it was totally organic revolution by syrians who wanted free syria. Just a coincidence that it served the interests of the great satan and the little satan.
We can’t deny the unpopularity, weaknesses, and brutality of Assad, which only made it easier for the dozens of factions that sprouted in 2011 to be easier to exploit for the ends of said satans.
While international powers can very strongly influence the result of these revolutions, IMO the influence they have in instigating them is correlated moreso to the contradictions that the state maintained before the uprisings ever occurred.
It’s why nations like the DPRK are able to exist despite the constant barrage of propaganda and infiltration attempts. It is much harder to bribe a general who has his family well fed, his countrymen well cared for, and a socioeconomic system that (despite its critiques) is antithetical to the contradictions necessary for revolution.
Assad was unpopular because he was secular and not a fascist sunni freak. It’s really that simple. Every single arab relative and friend of mine I know who doesn’t like Assad didn’t like him because he was secular and alawite. Not a single one had any other critique that didn’t apply double to other sunni arab comprador leaders, of whom they never criticized.
Corrupt? Have you seen the King of Jordan? Brutal? Assad is nothing compared to Sisi. Getting Arabs to hate Assad was a Zionist psyop and it was incredibly successful at dividing the resistance and all Arabs who fell for it are feckless idiots. Honestly sick of the soft-peddling everyone does about how evil the Arab Sunni leaders are, they are cowardly opportunistic evil pieces of shit. Only Shia factions and Hamas have any principles or courage.
This is another pattern that must be pointed out. The entire region has been radicalized by saudi money and chauvinism.
Although assad wasn’t the equal of his fathers and still failed to secure his country.
I don’t think its fair to compare Syria and the DPRK. The DPRK’s socialist model geared towards self sufficiency and close geographical and political ties with the former USSR and now Russia and China also factor into its success. The DPRK has already underwent a class revolution while Syria’s sovereignty hasn’t even been established.
RoK psyops against the DPRK dont work. Most people who illegally leave the DPRK do so for personal economic advantages in the similar fashion to why Chinese people travel to Europe or the US (except the US/Korean comprador class will kidnap and trap them and never allow them to safely go back which is what sets apart the DPRK and other global south nations).
I think that’s exactly why the DPRK or even Cuba are good examples. They have issues of national importance such as developing their economies in the face of isolation, and belligerent states on their borders, but the class struggle has advanced in ways that are much harder to dismantle through external pressure short of war.
If Cuba or Korea developed in ways that did not advance that class struggle, and solved those contradictions, they would have been much more vulnerable to counterrevolution than in reality.
Even with emigration, a reality of any country that has been economically isolated or blockaded for generations, you’re absolutely right that beyond propaganda these people are not a security threat to their homelands. In a country with the class and ethnic antagonisms such as Syria had in 2011, people with much more influence and military significance are more often the ones to step out of line with the state first.
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And thats why stalin did the great purges.
The last 24 hours in Gaza the zionist enemy has killed 120+ martyrs. Every crime is worse than the last…
At least 120 Palestinians, most of them children, have been killed since dawn on Thursday in deadly Israeli attacks targeting crowded residential areas, tents, a clinic, and civilian gatherings across the Gaza Strip.
A whole group of orphans gathered at Al-Tawbah Mosque in Jabalia to receive orphan sponsorship money, and they were bombed! All the orphaned children and the association’s staff were martyred.
(Journalist in Gaza Meqdad Jameel)
The aftermath… oh God
https://tiktokgenocide.com/uploads/horrible-israeli-massacre-at-al-tawba-health-clinic-and-mosque
Trump has decided not to rename the Persian Gulf to the ‘Arabian Gulf’, after Iran reportedly threatened to pull out of the negotiations – CNN
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