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
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.
Nothing is true about the supposed martyrdom of Yahya Sinwar or any other leader until or unless Al Qassam provides an official statement.
Did we learn Nothing this past year!?!
This is fair. Fog of war and all that.
Edit According to Al Jazeera Bibi is about to make a statement 1:30pm EST, 17:30 GMT
Reguardless of whatever the devil says, wait for the official stuff from Al Qassam, Hamas, Iran.
If it’s confirmed
It’s pretty simple really. From shaheed Basil al Araj:
Counterpoint: just post the truth. This is a website that descended from shitposting, not a hezbollah media outlet.
Truth? ever heard of the fog of war? there’s no way to tell truth, this is not call of duty there’s no killfeed that says “Tal 21 year old colonel officer 🔫 Mohammed Deif” you have to actually wait for actual statements as confirmation
Imagine thinking Qaani died from a heart attack.
Liberal
Counter-counterpoint: Just shitpost.
@Boredom is literally doing this right here in this thread lmao
Every time I click more replies and it doesn’t load, I give thanks for being saved
Regardless of if he is dead or not, way too many people place too much stock on the death of one person. Organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah are far more resilient than that, leaders will die, they are targeted, and they know that. The movement as a whole continues, its not so fragile as to break apart from something like this.
Great man theory is not just brain rot, it is foundational to a liberal understanding of history. Important people and their ideas are the levers of history, not material conditions or popular movements.
That can’t be. The front page of the Destiny subreddit says that Hamas is defeated. I’m sure they know what they’re talking about.
Couldn’t bring myself to open the actual thread though lol.
Word. Redundancy, compartmentalized and reslient cells, and flattened hierarchies without any critical nodes are how resistance movements survive. Never let anyone be critical. Lots of western movements should learn this.
The answer seems to be no.
I mean we spent three days getting mad at people who acknowledged that the hezbollah leader died.
When the zionists prepared for a ground invasion, you were all like “noo they wont do a ground invasion hezbollah will lose”
And what did the zionists do?
Ground invasion, straight into hezbollah’s trap, just like everyone else predicted.
You =
…what you said doesn’t make any sense lol, why would they not do a ground invasion if they thought hezbollah would lose?
Because they’re terrible decision makers.
Case in point: the past 12 months and its progressive destruction on the entity’s economy.
Israel now is like Nazi Germany in its final months before hitler shot himself. Just doing anything and hoping it’ll stick.
Israel only cares about genocide. The more it gets sucked into a quagmire that will result in the deaths of millions of Arabs, the better for them. They don’t care.
YOU SAID THAT YOU FUKKIN LIAR
Lol no I didn’t, I said Israel wants to annex southern lebanon up to Sidon.