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Bulletins and News Discussion from March 24th to March 30th, 2025 - The Genocide Continues - COTW: Qatar (hexbear.net)
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Image is of Gazans breaking their fast with the Iftar meal during the ongoing Ramadan.

Due to a request by @miz@hexbear.net, this thread's COTW is Qatar.

The ceasefire deal broke down early last week after Israel unilaterally changed the terms of the agreement and then blamed Hamas for not meeting them. Violence against civilians has rapidly accelerated to pre-ceasefire levels, with many hundreds dead already, aid once again cut off, and Israeli soldiers once again entering and occupying the attritional labyrinth that is Gaza.

I'm not yet in a position to make any solid predictions or analysis, as the geopolitical situation in and around Israel has changed fairly substantially over the last 6 months; in some ways benefiting Israel, and in other ways not. We know for sure how Hamas and Ansarallah are reacting (thankfully, with open hostility to both Israel and the United States), but the state of Hezbollah has been a giant question mark for months now, and precisely what Iran plans to do (beyond the usual level of supplying weaponry and intelligence to all the allies it can) is unknown. Syria will be almost certainly be a big wildcard, and we'll have to see if the compradors in Damascus can weather the storm.

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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:

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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.
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https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

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Almost every Western media outlet.
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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trump to impose 25% tariff on countries that buy oil, gas from Venezuela - Reuters

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WASHINGTON/HOUSTON March 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that any country that buys oil or gas from Venezuela will pay a 25% tariff on any trades made with the United States. This "secondary tariff" will take effect on April 2, Trump said in a Truth Social post. Trump is imposing the move because, he said, Venezuela has sent "tens of thousands" of people to the United States who have a "very violent nature."

Earlier this month, Trump issued a 30-day wind down of a license that the U.S. had granted to Chevron (CVX.N), opens new tab since 2022 to operate in sanctioned Venezuela and export its oil, after he accused President Nicolas Maduro of not making progress on electoral reforms and migrant returns. Trump earlier this month invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to justify the deportation of alleged members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua without final removal orders from immigration judges.

China, which already has been the subject of U.S. tariffs, is the largest buyer of Venezuela's oil, the OPEC member's main export. In February, China received directly and indirectly some 503,000 barrels per day (bpd) of Venezuelan crude and fuel, which represented 55% of total exports. Tariff impositions in China to imports of certain types of Venezuelan oil in past years led to a decline in the volume of Venezuelan crude received by Chinese buyers, which ultimately forced state company PDVSA to widen price discounts to continue sellin to its most important market.

Spain, Italy, Cuba and India are other consumers of Venezuelan oil. U.S. imports of the oil are set to end in early April unless Trump extends the wind down. There was no immediate response from Maduro's government to a request for comment.

Levies by China in past years on imports of certain types of Venezuelan oil led to a decline in the volume of Venezuelan crude received by Chinese buyers, which ultimately forced state company PDVSA to widen price discounts to continue selling to its most important market.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

Negro Veras Condemns Human Rights Violations in Bukele’s Prisons - Telesur English

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“There is no justification or excuse of any kind to validate the torture of Salvadoran and Venezuelan prisoners in Salvadoran prison hells,” reads the article. Dominican jurist Dr. Ramón Antonio (Negro) Veras, in his article “The Hell of Bukele’s Prisons,” analyzes the inhumane conditions to which Salvadoran and Venezuelan prisoners are subjected in El Salvador’s prisons.

Negro Veras condemns the prison policies of Bukele and Donald Trump, denouncing abuses, humiliations, and human rights violations. Below is the full article:

  1. Cruel and inhumane behavior, savagery, is being implemented in El Salvador’s prisons in plain sight, as if it were nothing.
  1. The infliction of harm upon another’s body, cruelty, is being carried out as if it were part of our peoples’ culture.
  1. No one is prepared to resign themselves to enduring physical or moral harm. Enduring or tolerating such treatment is not part of a normal way of life.
  1. What is happening to Salvadoran and Venezuelan prisoners in these modern-day versions of ancient Roman ergastula (slave prisons) is intolerable in the 21st century.
  1. The treatment of Salvadoran and Venezuelan prisoners is an offense to all humanity. It is a combination of vindictiveness, sadism, and brutal atrocity.
  1. Forcing a shackled man to kneel to have his head shaved is an atrocity, a bestial act, pure barbarism.
  1. Witnessing men forced to comply with degrading commands diminishes civilized humanity and contradicts our aspiration to live in a world of happiness and equal opportunity.
  1. The degradation and mortification of others for being undocumented should revolt any sensitive person opposed to ignominy.
  1. In Bukele’s prisons in El Salvador, there are nationals—victims of the system—and Venezuelans who lack opportunities in their homeland’s labor market.
  1. The treatment of impoverished humans labeled as antisocial in Salvadoran prisons must be rejected by all who oppose dehumanization in any form.
  1. Humiliating, degrading, ignominious, and infamous rulers like Bukele and Donald Trump must not be allowed to belittle, mistreat, insult, or wound the dignity of human beings.
  1. The atrocities committed against prisoners under Bukele and Donald Trump in Salvadoran prisons must be denounced, rejected, and unequivocally condemned.
  1. The hateful and cruel methods employed against prisoners in El Salvador must be censured as inhumane, disapproved for violating human rights, and repudiated for wounding the noblest sentiments of our peoples.
  1. There is no justification or excuse of any kind to validate the torture of Salvadoran and Venezuelan prisoners in these Salvadoran prison hellholes.
  1. Under no circumstances are horror, humiliation, atrocities, abominations, sinister acts, or repulsive methods acceptable to subjugate human beings.
  1. Never, ever, can humane principles be established in society through cruel measures. It is absurd to think happiness can be built at the expense of others’ misery.
[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Repubic of Samsung wildfires turn deadly.

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[–] Boise_Idaho@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

To show you how much China-bashing is manufactured online, I found a Japan watcher channel which is basically identical to any other China watcher channel right down to how the videos and thumbnails are edited except it's targeted at Japan instead of China:
https://www.youtube.com/@NipponNarratives4/videos

Almost none of the videos have more than 1k views.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

It probably helps that Japan has been depicted as a wholesome anime country and a model for what the rest of Asia should be. People want more anti-China shit because they’ve been primed for decades to hate it.

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

MILEI BROKE A WORLD RECORD: We (Argentina) are the country with the largest industrial decline on the planet.

A report by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO in Latin America and the Caribbean) indicates that Argentina, with a 9.4% decline, was the country that suffered the largest industrial decline in the world in 2024, the first year of Javier Milei's administration. Furthermore, due to greater trade openness announced by the government, the organization foresees a worrying 2025 for the sector.

Full article and Hexbear post

ancaptain Campeón del Mundo Carajo!!

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[–] ziggurter@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Pretty good article. Especially the conclusion.

Spoiler: we're not at war with Iran, and the empire is doing nothing new... yet anyway

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I will focus on three articles as a body of work and argue that they create a false sensationalist narrative that can only exist in a vacuum devoid of context.

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What I see in the above three articles is a desire to conflate being at war, undergoing special preparations for war, and the Empire’s routine bellicose statecraft. This gives readers a near existential-threat which widens the window of acceptable non-war responses, and distracts from other material issues.

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The goal here isn’t to defend Trump. It’s to refocus liberals that I feel would otherwise run around pretending like they’re hippie pacifists, all while defending a genocide in Palestine. If you don’t want a War with Iran, and you want an explicit and principled anti-war peace ticket, you need to look at least as far left as the Green Party. Rest assured, the GOP’s rhetoric is always going to be threats and chest pounding. The Democratic rhetoric is always going to trail the GOP by a single hair.

This USA is in bed with Israel and Saudi Arabia both of which view Iran as an existential threat. If The Empire continues to exist in its current form, war will never be off the table and there will always be well maintained plans for a nuclear strike on Iran. A strike which will result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands with an invasion that will easily kill a million. At least until a Mullah figures out how to refine enough Uranium to secure the regime.

If you think Trump is the worst president ever, you’re wrong. George W. Bush ran circles around Trump. I remember George W. Bush. When we’re seriously considering a war with Iran, they’ll bring back Section 9528 of No Child Left Behind (2002) or some similar Obama-era nonsense with a nicer veneer. Then we will again have military recruiters at our high school lunch tables. I remember those days. Iran won’t be a cake walk. If and when we get serious, we’ll give high school kids invitations to the imperial meat grinder.

Good stuff on the rhetoric, nuclear doctrine, etc. in the elided sections. But this summarizes the essence of the message, I think.

[–] companero@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Rumors circulating that a joint statement from the U.S. and Russia was not released at the time it had been announced because of Ukraines objections to the concessions that Russia requires as part of any settlement.

Specifically the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from annexed territories and recognition of said regions.

https://t.me/kalibrated/18544

Just give Ukraine a little more time, bro! They will take a few hamlets in Belgorod that they can trade to push Russia back to 1991 borders!

[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

Zelensky will visit Toretsk to make a video about how Ukraine is pushing the Russians back, only for his eternal curse of visiting front line cities to lead to the city falling for good a week later.

[–] ziggurter@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Somebody tweet at Trump that Zelensky is making a fool of him. Let's see if he does a Trump or stays a Biden.

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[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

When you're winning the war so hard you compare yourself to south vietnam

USAID-funded Ukrainians Pravda wrote an article on the fall of Saigon and what Ukraine should learn from it.

This was reposted approvingly by Zelensky mouthpiece Mariana Bezuhla

Bezuhla is the ukranian MP, formerly of zelenskyy's party, that constantly criticizes all the military people z-man has issues with, including former commander-in-chief Zaluzhnyi but not the current zelensky loyalist Syrskyi

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sometimes it feels like he just wants to the word "tariff" as much as possible. The orangeman-in-chief announces "secondary tariffs" of 25% for any country that "purchases oil/gas from Venezuela." First off, Venezuela sells oil to private companies. And secondly, tariffs are imposed on imports, so it's not really those countries that end up paying for it.

So to see if we understand correctly, Trump is going to impose 25% tariffs on US imports of rice noodles from China because there are Chinese refiners that buy Venezuelan crude? We'd call it absurd, but in these times.

The plan is also very impractical to say the least. For example, Venezuelan crude reportedly gets shipped to Malaysia, rebranded and sent to China. Who gets slapped with tariffs in this case? And also how do you even prove it? Or maybe that's besides the point.

All in all, this is a scare tactic to drive up overcompliance and impose even more control over the oil market. Only companies that get US approval can buy Venezuelan crude. Could be a prelude to push for special deals for US corporations too. It could even be framed in Trump terms, "they're getting a great deal to help us cover the expenses on the migrant crackdown"

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