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Image is the famous photograph Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag, taken during the Battle of Berlin.
On Friday is May 9th, which is the 80th anniversary of Victory Day, which Russia, among other places, celebrates as the day when the Soviets defeated the Nazis. Naturally, one of the current hotspots of fascism in the world today, Ukraine, is essentially threatening that they might strike Russia or even Moscow itself during that timeframe. Any such strike would almost certainly be symbolic and not aimed at anything too important, as I doubt even Zelensky and his American handlers would actually want to kill a world leader, not least somebody like Xi Jinping. But I would not be surprised if they tried something nonetheless, if only to disrupt the event in some way and not actually kill anybody.
And, as we're on this topic, @EllenKelly@hexbear.net has reminded me that Tuesday is the anniversary of the Nazis burning the Institut für Sexualwissenschaf in 1933, an early institute advocating for the rights of LGBT people, and which also provided early forms of gender-affirming surgeries, as well as hormone therapies. We are currently seeing a crackdown on LGBT rights throughout swathes of the imperial core (as well as countries in the periphery, to the extent that those rights existed there already), and this Nazi-inspired movement will be similarly defeated in the future.
Last week's thread is here. The Imperialism Reading Group is here.
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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.
I made up a term: "Ethanic Kleiner". And his fans are simply "Ethanic Kleiners".
If that doesn't count enough as news, the zionist astroturfing on 
seems to have ramped up again for some reason, the past few days. Maybe zionists getting desperate due to the seeming spat between Trump and Netangotyou?
Simone Tebet, from the centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement and the planning minister in Lula's big tent "everybody get in here yes even you" coalition said that:
China wants to "tear apart" Brazil with railways.
Despite the phrasing she didn't mean it in a negative way
CNN Economia posted a tweet with the quote. If you want to feel good for a little while go ahead and look at the quote retweets on that, very funny.
The cool thing about that quote is that wherever I go I find an absolute consensus around building railworks. Right wingers, left wing developmentists, communists and boomers alike all think Brazil should massively develop rail. There are always naysayers in news like these but in this case they are in the fringes. And the coolest thing is that China being involved seems to dispel most of the cliché pessimism.
well china is actually capable of completing a rail project, unlike seemingly the rest of the world
Yeah even in the article Tebet seems to imply that they can't do this without China
CNN (yeah I know, 
media) reports that Vance’s involvement started after the US received “alarming intelligence”. I think later on we’re gonna learn how close this was to going nuclear and it’d make Able Archer 83 blush.
Screenshot of Kkkable NewSS Network
Could also be related to this, a geolocated explosion near a suspected nuclear weapons storage facility in Pakistan. Could be an attempt at a pre-emptive strike by India on Pakistan's nuclear capabilities... Yeah not good...
This is the sort of thing the wording had me thinking. The meeting of the nuclear command authority was public knowledge, Pakistan clearly wanted everyone to know about it. But targeting of nuclear facilities or nuclear forces actually mobilizing? That’s the sort of thing that’d wake up the feds monitoring global intelligence extremely quickly.
That could be to do with the rumours that Pakistan's Prime Minister Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif calling a National Command Authority meeting, the government body overseeing nuclear weapons. Pakistan did the same thing in 2019 during that conflict, which also led to US involvement. Remember, Pakistan has a nuclear first strike policy with nuclear rocket artillery with a range of only 70km/40 miles.
Portuguese general election are in a week from now, I'm gonna go vote early tomorrow here are some things the ruling party and the PM has done the past month.
PM went on a talk show to sing with the country's most popular singer
Upon being approach by an old woman on the street who said she was hungry the PM told her "you gotta work"
Intentionally failed to uphold a deal made with railworkers unions in order to get them to strike 1 week before an election and now said that the government is willing to revise the laws regarding labour unions.
1 day before the being publicly revealed that more clients of the PM family business company payed millions to it the opposition leader used the information in a debate, which means he had prior access to it, which prompted a PSD spokesperson to say that journalists' phones should be checked to see who informed him.
For no reason declared that around 20k people illegally residing in portugal would be messaged to leave the country, which in itself isn't unusual it's routine procedure, what's unusual is hording the cases together and publicly declare that you're gonna do it.
PM went to visit his wife who is in a pilgrimage in Fatima and called TV stations to report on it
Now what effect will this have? Idk, polls are negligible, some show the ruling party winning which is believable on the basis that people didn't want elections so they'll just vote for the incumbent and others show the socialist party winning due dissatisfaction with the government.
Some polls show the demsoc Left Block, which in 2019 was the 3rd most voted party, being decimated, now that could be due to party scandals, unfavorable media coverage after years of favorable coverage (intended to dislodge the communist's influence in the left of center field), the fact that there's now a pro-war green eurocuck party which attracts a lot of the pro-eu socially liberal you voters that used to vote for them.
Or it could be due to running a weird campaign which, challenge for you reader, you can decide whether it's cringe or not. Here's 2 videos
With the ceasefire now in place between India and Pakistan (preliminary reports suggest that it has already been violated), it looks like much of the unconfirmed reports about large scale cyber attacks, both sides shooting down each others fighter aircraft, and within visual range engagements/dogfights, and entering each other's airspace, were exaggerated by both sides. There is no evidence for any of these claims.
What ended up actually happening was a tit for tat stand-off strike exchange aimed at each other's military bases and storage locations, with air launched cruise and ballistic missiles, and ground launched short range ballistic missiles and artillery rockets being used. The Indian Air Force managed to carry out stand off strikes without losing any aircraft this time, as they should've done during their first attack. That's the whole point of using stand-off weapons, minimal risk to the aircraft and pilots, high survivability. Lesson learnt by India, they carried out a successful attack on Pakistan this time, at the cost of 4 aircraft during the previous attack.
Pakistan responsed with thier own stand off strikes from their Air Force and rocket forces. Pakistani media published photos and videos of ground launched Fatah-1 guided artillery rockets, and Fatah-2 Short Range Ballistic Missiles, being used.
The most interesting claim from Pakistan is the "use of hypersonic weapons" launched from JF-17 fighter aircraft, to target an Indian S-400 air defence site at Adampur. With photos and videos released, the "hypersonic weapon" in question is the Chinese made CM-400AKG Air Launched Ballistic Missile (ALBM), with its passive radar anti ship seeker likely converted for anti radiation use against air defence radars (there is no official anti radiation version of the CM-400AKG). This makes a lot more sense than Pakistani aircraft entering Indian airspace to carry out some sort of Wild Weasel mission against the S-400 with short range anti radiation missiles, a puzzling initial claim. India has confirmed limited damage at Udhampur, Pathankot, Adampur and Bhuj, but denies that the S-400 system was hit. It is unclear what the truth is.
“Limited damage was sustained to equipment and personnel at Indian Air Force stations at Udhampur, Pathankot, Adampur and Bhuj,” said Indian Air Force officer Singh
“Pakistan Air Force’s JF-17 Thunder hypersonic missiles destroyed India’s S-400 system in Adampur,” state-run Pakistan TV had reported.
This is an “attempted misinformation campaign … India unequivocally rejects” it, said Misri, who was also joined by Col. Sofiya Qureshi.
India says Pakistan attacked with ‘high-speed’ missiles, targeted air bases
JF-17 with 2 CM-400AKG ALBMs.
Either way, hit or not, the S-400 system failed to intercept the CM-400AKG ALBM if there's damage. This is in line with previous performances of these high level air defence systems against ALBMs. Patriot systems in Ukraine have failed to intercept Kinzhal ALBMs, S-300P systems in Ukraine and Iran have failed to intercept Kinzhal and ROCKS ALBMs respectively. S-400s in Russia have even failed to intercept ground launched ATACMS short range ballistic missiles at times.
As for why these short range (250-500km) ALBMs, from ROCKS to Kinzhal to CM-400AKG are hard to intercept, one just needs to look at the flight trajectory. Even though they are ballistic missiles, their short range means that they don't exceed altitudes of 50km at apogee, remaining in the stratosphere and allowing for some form of aerodynamic control. They are even capable of pull up manoeuvres and long glide or cruise phases at altitudes above the maximum altitude ceiling of some lower altitude terminal ballistic intercept systems, similar to longer range MaRV equipped ballistic missiles. Time from launch from an aerial attack vector, to impact, is 300-400 seconds.
For defence against these kind of shorter range ballistic missiles, you need specialised systems, like the S-300V and it's variants, including the S-300V4, S-500 and Chinese equivalent HQ-18, the latest version of Patriot in PAC-3 MSE, Arrow-2. To increase their anti ballistic capabilities, some Russian S-400s have been fitted with the missiles from the S-300V4 or S-500 systems. India doesn't have that for their S-400, overall neither side has these systems, so expect more successful attacks if the conflict goes on. Even if India and Pakistan had these systems, these systems can and will fail. 100% intercept is impossible.
“Pakistan’s information minister, Attaullah Tarar, told broadcaster Geo News: "As of now, there have not been any ceasefire violations."
interesting
The Pakistani prime minister just said they “won the war,” I’m not trusting any claims (literal or metaphorical) from either government or their spokespeople
Yeah me neither, Russian/Ukrainian telegram groups are more reliable than either Indian or Pakistani governments. Guess we gotta wait
And here I was thinking 2022 was bad for conflict related mis/disinfo. How are you STILL reusing Arma 3 footage in 2025
True or bullshit? I fucking hate how hard it is to parse information right now
i'm quoting the article, i just find it amusing he is saying this as there have been reports of the ceasefire being violated. i believe it's bullshit. i'm seeing countries hailing this ceasefire right next to the announcement of the ceasefire being possibly violated that my head just fucking hurts trying to cut through the BS
True or bullshit?
True but not enough to end the ceasefire. Just the usual
Look what the "europe is a garden" guy said.
Trump admin signaled that they are tired of Bibi's laundry and now all of a sudden moral beacons like Friedman and Borrell are talking like they've been against the genocide the entire time. These people are totally spineless, and probably know that the horse has left the barn and will do anything to pretend that they didn't cosign world-historical crimes.
ngl this is one of the last people i expected these words from
Or he's saying it in a positive way, or a "Look how many more bombs Europe needs to supply" sort of way.
These people dont believe in anything except their own legacies.
That fucking asshole probably thinks that's a good thing
Speaking after receiving the Carlos V European Award at the Yuste Monastery in Spain, Borrell said Europe is witnessing "the biggest ethnic cleansing operation since World War II," aimed at creating a "holiday resort" after the elimination of Palestinians.
He described the situation in Gaza as "genocide" and said the EU, despite having the means to protest and influence Israeli actions, is failing to do so. "The EU is not doing what it can," he said.
Borrell also delivered a warning to Europe’s younger generations, urging them to push forward with "financial and military integration as soon as possible," or risk seeing European civilization collapse in a world shaped by "chaos masters like Trump" and "despots like Putin."
He argued that Europe’s main challenge is no longer internal peace, but how it manages relations with the rest of the world, adding that the continent must learn to absorb external shocks.
He also blamed the bloc for its slow response in arming Ukraine, saying the lack of weapons at the early stages of Russia’s invasion had serious consequences.
He said all that with zero self-reflection, literally obama style. Like you had a big hand in that my dude.
So he's saying EU did wrong for arming Zionists, they did wrong by not arming Ukraine enough, and the lesson to learn is arming themselves?
I don’t have any good sources for India or Pakistan, but alleged ceasefire violations along the LoC. Could be the usual firing that happens after ceasefires though
I guess my west Asia sources work in a pinch