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Image is of the Power of Siberia natural gas pipeline, which transports gas from Russia to China. This isn't an oil pipeline (such as the ESPO) but I thought it looked cool. Source here.


Trump has recently proposed a 500% tariff on goods from countries that trade with Russia, including India and China (who buy ~70% of Russia's oil output), as well as a 10% additional tariff on goods from countries that "align themselves with BRICS." Considering that China is the largest trading partner of most of the countries on the planet at this point, and India and Brazil are reasonably strong regional players, I'm not sure what exactly "alignment" means, but it could be pretty bad.

Sanctions and tariffs on Russian products have been difficult to achieve in practice. It's easy to write an order to sanction Russia, but much harder to actually enforce these sorts of things because of, for example, the Russian shadow oil fleet, or countries like Kazakhstan acting as covert middlemen (well, as covert as a very sudden oil export boom can be).

Considering that China was pretty soundly victorious last time around, I'm cautiously optimistic, especially because China and India just outright cutting off their supply of energy and fuel would be catastrophic to them (and if Iran and Israel go to war again any time in the near future, it'll only be more disastrous). Barring China and India kowtowing to Trump and copying Europe vis-a-vis Nordstream 2 (which isn't impossible, I suppose), the question is whether China and India will appear to accede to these commands while secretly continuing trade with Russia through middlemen, or if they will be more defiant in the face of American pressure.


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Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
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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.
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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[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 45 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Former Russian minster Roman Starovoyt found dead in his car. Gunshot wound just hours after sacking http://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/7/8/russia-probes-ex-ministers-death-after-body-found-hours-after-sacking

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[–] LoveYourself@hexbear.net 104 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] LoveYourself@hexbear.net 47 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Who remembers when the US communist party invited "Israeli Communist Party Members" to promote the idea of "Israeli and Palestinian Workers"? I do.

[–] Bolshechick@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago

CPUSA have been disgusting revisionists for a long, long time

[–] LoveYourself@hexbear.net 52 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Communist parties of fake countries 🤝

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[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 88 points 2 days ago (3 children)

So, apparently during the 2024 campaign, Kamala Harris did an interview with the liberal podcast @SubwayTakes that was SO bad that they decided not to even release it because the host didn’t want to get blamed for her losing…

https://x.com/Zigmanfreud/status/1942426170823201065

[–] MaxOS@hexbear.net 32 points 2 days ago

contextphobic hitler-detector "nope, not going to publish this"

[–] Test_Tickles@hexbear.net 48 points 2 days ago (3 children)

her take was bacon as a spice, which says something about how she feels about Americans

[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 55 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

That was one thing that the host specifically mentioned, but if it was just that one thing, they would just cut it out. But they pulled the entire interview.

That is why Kamala didn't go on Rogan. What would she say in an one hour open format interview? How she likes Joe Biden? And the DNC couldn't kill that interview, Rogan would just publish it.

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[–] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At least 50,000 dollars was spent on focus groups in the DC area with the most off putting cretins on the planet to generate the opinion "bacon is a spice" which amounts to a tepid pop culture joke from 2011.

[–] BreathThroughTheTube@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

DNC is so behind on meme culture they are just now catching up to the narwhal bacons at midnight and epic meal time

[–] anaesidemus@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

BACON STRIPS x32

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[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What even is the premise of the show?

[–] very_poggers_gay@hexbear.net 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I was only familiar with their shortform content, like reels on instagram or youtube shorts, but I guess they make an actual podcast too. The shortform content regularly gets a 1m plus views, so I think it's pretty popular among lib-left (and left) zoomers and milennials

The shortform stuff is mostly comedy and jokes. Two people on the subway, one person gives their take (often a semi-ironic/absurd but defensible thing), the host agrees or disagrees, and the guest explains/justifies it. They talk into Metro cards like they're mics. It's entertaining stuff imo, a bit sloppish but not a total void.

Imagine Kamala trying to explain in 1-3 minutes why bacon is a spice in an attempt to show that she is funny and relatable agony-deep

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Imagine Kamala trying to explain in 1-3 minutes why bacon is a spice in an attempt to show that she is funny and relatable

internet-delenda-est

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[–] LargePenis@hexbear.net 103 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Of course that Iraqi Kurdistan goes straight into civil war mode the moment I start looking for plane tickets. I'm still seething over my canceled trip to Iraq because of that fucker Netanyahu btw. In slightly related news, my son turned 1 yesterday, and he celebrated that by somehow pushing over a drawer and destroying it in the process. Fucking Mossad agent.

In other unrelated news, I should probably address the current instability in Lebanon here, as the government is openly colluding with Israel in an attempt to disarm Hezbollah. At the same time, I'm genuinely tired hexbears, the barrage of bad news just isn't stopping these days. This is probably counter-revolutionary or defeatist or whatever, but I still haven't recovered from the martyrdom of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah. I have struggled to engage with any Hezbollah news or content in the past few months, I just can't get over that he isn't with us anymore. The death of my own grandparents didn't affect me even 10% of Nasrallah's martyrdom. I desperately want to go to Beirut soon, but it's still risky security-wise and I'm just dreading the thought of actually seeing his grave, I just can't do it.

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[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 63 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

On Russian long range air attacks on Ukraine, since another is taking place.

Russia has fully committed to Geran 2/Shahed 136 one way attack drones for the bulk of their long range strike capacity, as the optimal way to deliver the payload of a 80-100kg warhead. The jet powered Shahed 238/Geran 3 has seen limited use still, with no signs of that changing. It's not long before we start to see 500 Gerans, and 1000 one way attack (OWA) drones total (including decoys) being launched per attack. Current highest numbers are around 300 Gerans and 600 OWA platforms per attack. Even at a very optimistic 90% interception rate, 300 Gerans is 30 impacts, 500 is 50. Sure it's not a half ton warhead from a ballistic or cruise missile impacting at high speed, but dozens upon of impacts per attack is not sustainable for Ukraine.

Some of the Gerans have been upgraded with a electro optical sensor (infrared camera), an onboard Nvidia Jetson mini SoC for image and video processing, and a potential datalink capability. This should allow for Automatic Target Acquisition (ATA) and Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) at minimum, with Digital Scene Matching Area Correlator (DSMAC) navigation being possible. In short, these Gerans should be able to navigate, recognise and accquire targets independently without the use of satellite navigation (GPS/GNSS/GLONASS), like the Tomahawk Block II cruise missiles used in the Gulf war. This would make jamming efforts futile. Russia should look into putting similar systems on their glide bomb kits.

If the datalink capability works as intended and is not jammed, in flight updates to the mission and target set, the ability to hit moving targets, and human-in-the-loop guidance can also be used. Again, Russia should seriously look into putting such technology on their glide bomb kits.

There has also been a serious ramp up in the production of decoys, called Gerbera. These are made of polystyrene/styrofoam, shaped like a hybrid of the Iranian Arash 2 and Shahed 136, and often have no warhead at all. Given the above, they are very cheap and easy to make, similar to many hobbyist projects. Up to half of the OWA drones launched per attack are Gerbera, to act as decoys and overwhelm air defence systems.

With the losses incurred to the Russian strategic bomber fleet, Russia has massively increased the use of the Iskander-K system to launch cruise missiles to supplement cruise missile attacks, to make up for the less frequent and lower number of attacks by Russian strategic bombers. Iskander-K is a ground launch platform for Kalibr cruise missiles, launched from TELs similar to the Iskander-M ballistic missile TELs. While the Kalibr cruise missiles are not as advanced or stealthy as the Kh-101s launched by Russian strategic bombers, they are filling in for now.

On the ballistic front, Russia has switched from using longer range Iskander-1000 or Kn-23B ballistic missiles, back to the Kinzhal air launched ballistic missiles, for striking targets at longer ranges (greater than 500km). The Iskander-M and regular Kn-23 have still seen plenty of use.

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

Geran sounds a bit like gyeran which is Korean for egg, so I read the whole thing thinking about massive launches of ATA/ATR capable attack eggs

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 34 points 2 days ago (4 children)

crashed out for a bit there, what did I miss?

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[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 78 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Pam Bondi says missing minute from Epstein security camera footage was routine procedure

ahaha

[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 50 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We are lying to you in a routine way, why are you getting upset?

Also, didn't they previously say that video was destroyed/lost? Now they are just publishing it? And some people are saying there is more than one way to the cells anyway. I'm sure there are also other ways to fake/mislead with this.

[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 39 points 2 days ago

As Matt Christman said "they are dabbing on us."

[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

yeah i guess it's pretty routine for the US to protect paedophiles.

[–] iie@hexbear.net 74 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

From today: Eyewitness accounts at U.S.-run Gaza aid site say accusations of Hamas attacking GHF employees are fabricated

After the U.S.-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation accused Hamas of attacking two American employees at its distribution center, eyewitnesses and local journalists say the GHF fired grenades on the crowd first before aid-seekers threw them back at them.

Further supporting the witness accounts:

Although the sites where GHF distributes aid are monitored by cameras from all angles, it did not publish any video or photo evidence to support its claim that Hamas members threw hand grenades at its staff, a local journalist told Mondoweiss. Had the story been true, the journalist said, such footage would have been widely broadcast.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 50 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 68 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (10 children)

It looks like Elon/xAI finally managed to get their "AI" Grok to not be woke, after saying that it needs to be 'retrained'. Now it is talking about 'leftist Jews' and praising Adolf Hitler (directly by name!). The funny thing is that it is also using the vocabulary of the soy right, like 'facts don't care about your feelings'.

But don't worry, this is all OK because Elon supports Israel.

[edit] From the RollingStone Magazine;

xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Very good to see. It means it associates with anti-woke with Nazism.

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[–] OnceUponATimeInWeHo@hexbear.net 44 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] ColombianLenin@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago

Telling that Al-Julani is not vandalized

[–] Socialism_Is_The_Alternative@hexbear.net 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] PalestinianDream@hexbear.net 56 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

🇮🇶⚡A short explanation of what is happening in Erbil, Iraq:

The Kurdish Peshmerga forces’ attempt to capture a leader of the Harki tribe, Khurshid Harki, has escalated into a large-scale armed conflict between the Peshmerga forces, the Harki tribe, and allied tribes, with both sides continuing to mobilize their forces in the Khabat area of ​​Erbil province in northern Iraq, where the fighting is currently concentrated.

Source: ResistanceTrench

would love to hear y'alls thoughts and any info to share

[–] LargePenis@hexbear.net 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My short commentary on this:

A collapse of the Barzani-led Kurdistan Regional Government with the return of the Federal Government to Iraqi Kurdistan would be a net-positive for the region. The KRG colludes with Israel and the US, oppresses all revolutionary activity, and is a neoliberal hellhole with no redeeming qualities unlike Rojava. They are only good at building nice apartment buildings and trafficking women, they can't even pay salaries to their teachers and sanitary workers. Anything that breaks this separatist project is good.

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[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 59 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Some more commentary on the passage of the Trump BBB bill;

Mechanically what Senate Rs did was refuse to meet with the parliamentarian because they knew she’d say no. That way, when they did this anyway, they could pretend they didn’t technically ignore her advice.

So instead they had the presiding officer invent a new rule in the spot.

What’s going nuclear? That’s when you have the presiding officer follow the rules of the Senate and then have the body of the Senate vote that the rule was misapplied, thus creating a new precedent to change the rules.

What if the presiding officer chooses to ignore the rules and just assert different rules? Well, then you have to follow what they say, unless you have sufficient votes to appeal that ruling.

tldr: The presiding officer of the Senate (usually the Vice President) can just do WHATEVER, the same goes for the Senate itself, as long as they have the majority of the votes.

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