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Image is of Stepanakert, essentially the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh. It is now a ghost city, and Azerbaijan has recently torn down the parliament building and various other important places. Sourced from this article.


Despite the predictions and assertions of various NATO-aligned commentators that Russia's influence is waning, the opposite generally appears to be occurring. ASEAN has become more strongly aligned with Russia despite claims to the contrary. In Central Asia, there has been a propaganda push to declare that countries there are "emerging from Russia's shadow", while in reality, as Bhadrakumar analyzes, Russia's significant economic growth and ongoing march towards victory in Ukraine is creating opportunities for further integration, not separation, and there are no major political shifts there in terms of Russian ties. And in Niger, Russian soldiers have now entered an airbase which once hosted American soldiers, now kicked out, and generally Russia's diplomacy and economic deals (nuclear power plant construction, military equipment, grain shipments, etc) have accelerated in Africa.

Where Russia's influence has actually seemed to decrease (outside of the West, of course) is in Armenia. Nagorno-Karabakh's remarkably rapid collapse in late 2023 demonstrated that Russia was not willing to escalate things in defense of Armenia to fend off Azerbaijan. One hundred thousand Armenians - most but not all of them in the region - fled in advance to avoid mass persecution, which received remarkably little attention by a West which calls itself overwhelmingly concerned with borders changing due to military action as in Ukraine. Since then, Armenia seems to be on some kind of self-annihilating bender, allured by the potential of Western military and economic deals. Armenia froze its membership in the CSTO due to its failure to protect them, and the head of NATO, Stoltenberg, visited the region in March. The West has offered up hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance to Armenia and is helping them "modernize their military"; given the poor track record of Western military equipment in Ukraine, one wonders why they're even bothering. RAND has advocated for a balancing act; America should, in their eyes, realize that they can't entirely remove Russia's influence but nonetheless should make inroads to protect Armenia from Azerbaijan (which is an interesting position given that Israel provided arms to Azerbaijan to help them take Nagorno-Karabakh).

A quick look at Armenia's geographical position reveals the folly of trying to create some kind of Western outpost. With a hostile Azerbaijan to their east, a very unfriendly (albeit NATO member) Turkiye to their west, an ascendant Iran to their south, and Russia not far from the action, there is little hope of doing much more than causing a little chaos in the hopes it'll momentarily distract Russia while it makes inroads most everywhere else on the planet. The political situation appears miserable for Pashinyan, but there isn't really a popular alternative to take the reins. A truly cursed situation.


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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:

UNRWA daily-ish 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 (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
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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.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

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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.
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:

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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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[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

If you newshounds got horny do you think you'd be into

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

President Dina Boluarte’s Brother and Lawyer Are Arrested

The court decision involves the lawyer of the appointed head of state, Mateo Castañeda, and eight other investigated by the president’s brother for the so-called "Los Waykis en La Sombra" case.

The Judicial Branch of Peru ordered this Friday the preliminary arrest for ten days of Nicanor Boluarte, brother of the de facto president Dina Boluarte, for leading an alleged criminal organization and influence peddling at the State’s expense.

The court decision involves the lawyer of the appointed head of state, Mateo Castañeda, and eight other investigated by the president’s brother for the so-called "Los Waykis en La Sombra" case.

According to reports, the Public Prosecutor’s Office is conducting a raid on 26 homes and also arranges the lifting of the secrecy of communications in order to visualize and extract information from their mobile phones, tablets, computers, laptops, USB’s and 22 external hard drives researched. The PNP began the operation for the arrests around 06H30 local time (11H30 UTC) in different parts of Lima, police action that is still underway.

The operation has been called "Los Waykis en La Sombra", referring to the Quechua word that designates the word friend and that Boluarte used to refer to the governor of Ayacucho, Wilfredo Oscorima.

This official was the person who, both parties have confirmed, lent several luxury watches of the Rolex brand to Boluarte, a case in which the Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation to the president and the governor for corruption and bribery.

The judicial document that launched this Friday’s operation, released by local media, includes the search of 22 people.

It considers the registration, reading, viewing and extraction of information from cell phones, CPUs, laptops, tablets and other electronic equipment, as well as the lifting of banking secrecy and tax reserve, according to media.

The Special Task Force of Prosecutors against the Corruption of Power (Eficcop), points out Nicanor Boluarte of using illicit influences for the designation of subprefects and the collection of signatures in membership cards for the registration of the political party Ciudadanos por el Perú.

The prefects and sub-prefects are representatives of the Executive in the different regions of Peru. They are considered trustworthy administrative positions and are appointed by the Minister of the Interior and the President.

The Ministry of the Interior decided on Thursday night the dismantling of the unit of the National Police that is responsible for supporting the Eficcop, a tax group that investigates exclusively cases of senior officials.

By a ministerial resolution, the Boluarte government nullified the previous ministerial resolution created by this specialized group by claiming "duplication of functions" with other divisions.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

recently usa dunked on the armenian simps btw, not that its important in the grand scheme of things. Also i wonder how azerbaijan will proceed at eurovision

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I also wanted to RE @Teekeeus@hexbear.net with this. I know I already replied, but I think this video says part of what I'm saying about EU too. Skip to 4:30 if 6mins is too much.

https://twitter.com/FareedZakaria/status/1787180840616657322

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