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Bulletins and News Discussion from June 30th to July 6th, 2025 - Alas, Poor Boric - COTW: Chile
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Image is sourced from this People's Dispatch article, depicting communists attending the 2023 funeral of Communist Party President Guillermo Teillier, who was tortured for years under Pinochet's regime and helped rebuild the Communist Party while under a fascist dictatorship.
We had the Six Day War in 1967, we had the Nineteen Day War (Yom Kippur) in 1973, and now we've had the Twelve Day War. I wonder how many more very short wars will plague the region until Palestine is freed?
However, moving on from Western Asia from a little while, we have some interesting news from Chile - the former labor minister and communist, Jeannette Jara, has won the primary election for the left-wing bloc in a landslide (~60% of the vote), as the current President, Gabriel Boric, is term-limited. Her achievements include a minimum wage increase and a reduction of the work week to 40 hours.
In November, Jara will face down the contenders from other parties, including José Antonio Kast, who is analogous to Brazil's Bolsonaro. Unfortunately, Jara is now the lead figure of a party that has been taking quite a few Ls under Boric's leadership. Ostensibly a Democratic Socialist, he ruled as - you guessed it - a neoliberal, bending the knee to the US and EU. He not only failed to overthrow the Pinochet-era constitution, he actually allowed the right-wing to turn the proposed new constitution into something worse, and had to settle for campaigning against the new one and keeping the old one. And he had very little solidarity with other left-leaning leaders on the continent, like Maduro, Lula, Petro, or Castillo.
With this in mind, I cannot help but look at Argentina's very recent history and feel a little dread - but if anybody can save Chile at this point, it can only be a communist.
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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.
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⭕️ Iran opts for Chinese J-10C jets instead of Russian Su-35 jets
Following the 12-day US-backed Israeli war on Iran, the Islamic Republic, which had initially set its sights on the twin-engine Russian Su-35, is now shifting toward the Chinese single-engine J-10C, a jet priced around $40–60 million less per unit, due to delays in Russian deliveries.
Of the 50 Su-35 jets promised under a 2023 agreement, only four have been delivered so far, prompting Iran to turn its attention to the Chinese J-10C, the same model operated by Pakistan.
The J-10C is a single-engine, multi-role fighter that Chinese manufacturers market as a more affordable alternative to Western aircraft like the F-16 and Gripen. Its cost ranges from $60 million for the base version to $90 million for fully equipped variants that include weapons, spare parts, pilot training, and warranties.
The Military Balance 2025 report states Iran’s air force had as many as 150 fighter jets prior the the US-backed Israeli war on Iran.
(Khorasan News) Source: The Cradle
anyone with more military expertise able to weigh in on the implications of this?
my questions:
Russia cant build them very quickly and is at war.
not much?
Probably not unless they do it all in house? Israel has more stealth aircraft than Iran has all aircraft atm.
They're at war with Ukraine and have lost at least 8 Su-35s so far. Production is prioritised for this. The original lot of export Su-35s Iran was set to receive were first headed for Egypt, then Iran, and finally ended up in Algeria. Algeria has the cash to pay upfront and then some, they can even overpay for certain features, apparently the Alegrian export specification Su-34s will be better than those fielded by the VKS.
Quite a bit once fully operational and integrated, Israel will have to think twice before a future attack. J-10CEs have quite advanced AESA radars, active radar guided missiles (Fox threes) in the PL-15E that are at least on par the AIM-120C, probably better. Ultimately Israel will still have the advantage with the F-35s, 5th generation capabilities such as stealth and sensor fusion are legitimate "game changers". But any future attack by Israel would have to dedicate a lot more resources to countering Iranian J-10CEs, should Iran accquire them. How effective the J-10s will be depends on the integration with airborne sensors (AWACS) and a ground based integrated air defence system, Iran has neither at the moment, so this will also require significant investment. Pilot training in realistic scenarios is also vitally important.
It's an existential issue at this point, either Iran exists in a permanently weakened state vulnerable to Israeli airstrikes, or they put serious effort, with foreign partners like China, into reconstructing the state's security. Airborne (fighter jet squadrons) and ground based air defence is a big part of that, arguably more important than nuclear weapons in an Iranian context.
Manufacturing in Russia is probably being hampered by sanctions and focused primarily on the war.
China has no such problems. And can be relied upon far more even if sanctioned.
I think we should ask a different question. How much does it change the equation for China.
If China is selling to Iran, they are significantly more incentivised to care about Iran's survival.
To compete with the US? No absolutely not. It will never be "strong" if that is the comparison.
Takes time to manufacture jets, especially in a war.
They were effective under Pakistan, but the jet requires different training than the jets Iran have, so it'll take a few years to train them, but it's far better than the F14 they have, massive difference
Their current military budget is 2.5% of their GDP, but you have to keep in mind that when a country buys new jets, you are able to retire older jets which cost money to operate
ive always wondered this, why does it take so long to train fighter jet pilots? i understand they're very complicated, ludicrously expensive machines so the last thing you want is an undertrained pilot to lose one of these things through an easily avoidable error, but even still the training time seems crazily long
because humans aren't meant to fly in a piece of metal able to kill an entire village in a few minutes.
I just think about the price points and see that China's advanced manufacturing is about to be a serious global competitor and the negative implications that carries for the West. China is going to be a significant player on the global stage and the West's diminished production can not compete with the price. Of course in the West the only real industry left is automotive, some chemical production and the defense industry. Threatening those industries with an anologe or superior product is a production based threat possibly greater in the long run than any tariff. There probably is a economic crash coming and also probably happens in Asia first, but China has the best position to take advantage of that situation IF they have the political will.