A reminder that as the US continues to threaten countries around the world, fedposting is to be very much avoided (even with qualifiers like “in Minecraft”) and comments containing it will be removed.

Image is of a destroyed American AWACS plane in Saudi Arabia, of which there is a very limited supply and each of which is enormously expensive both monetarily and in terms of components. Iran hit this with a precision drone strike that likely cost ~$20,000.

I don’t have much to add from the last megathread description. This isn’t to say that nothing has happened or has changed since then - decades are still happening in weeks - but the general flow of the war is remaining the same. Trump sometimes threatens to open the Strait with troops and flatten Iran to rubble, and other times threatens that he’s gonna back off and let other countries handle it if they really want little trifles like “fuel” and “energy” so much. Iran continues to strike across the Middle East. The West continues to bomb civilian infrastructure due to their relative inability to affect the missile cities. In all: things are generally getting worse for America and the Zionists.

April is the month where the last ships that left Hormuz before it was closed will arrive around the world, so the last month of economic turmoil has been a mere prelude to what’s going to occur in the near-future. The silver lining is that Iran appears to be formalizing the new state of affairs in Hormuz, creating a rial-based toll to allow passage between a pair of Iranian-controlled islands where they can be monitored, meaning that, as long as the US doesn’t do something exceptionally stupid, the global energy crisis may “only” last a couple years instead of simply being the new reality from now on. Some countries have already agreed to this arrangement, and others will inevitably follow despite their consternation as their economies increasingly suffer.

Last week’s thread is here.
The Imperialism Reading Group is here.

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The bulletins site is here. Currently not used.
The RSS feed is here. Also currently not used.

The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine

If you have evidence of Zionist crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA reports on the Zionists’ 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.

Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.

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.

  • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    121·
    22 days ago

    Got this very bad vibes report from a comrade visiting Cuba:

    Situation here in Cuba is quite grim.

    Poverty rampant. Huge piles of garbage in Havana because of no trash pick-up. The vendors are desperate for tourists, so many will harass [Partner] and I (sometimes for blocks). Many people in rags, begging for money. We were warned that a lot of people will try to scam us. We quickly learned most people being friendly to us just wanted money—i’m probably said “no dinero” 100 times in the several days. We were told not trust buying water off the street and that drinking the tap water will make us sick. [Partner] also had her Cross necklace stolen off her neck; I wasn’t able to catch the thief, and she was very upset (her mom gave her that necklace as a gift).

    There aren’t grocery stores like we have in the states. The street food is… questionable. The garbage piles create sanitation and heath problems.

    In sum: we don’t hate imperialism enough for what it did to this country.

    • 3rdWorldCommieCat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      69·
      22 days ago

      I genuinely fear for what will happen to Cuba in the future especially once the US takes their sights off Iran and back to them. They survived the special period but this is ramping up so much and I’m genuinely terrified. Forever death upon the usa for what they did to this nation.

        • 3rdWorldCommieCat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          63·
          22 days ago

          I hate to be a doomer and even saying this but if the situation doesn’t change asap I don’t know how much more the revolution can take after constant brutal attacks and a slow genocide by the most dangerous and rabid dying empire of our time. I will never doubt the Cuban people in their steadfastness but everybody has a breaking point and this is atrocious. If the worst comes to pass, Cuba will be treated like shit still for even daring to resist so next to the underbelly of the machine for so long and nobody will ever bring up the embargo ever again cause it’s gonna be blamed on “evil communism”. I hope hell is real and anybody who’s ever played a part on attacking Cuba has a special place there. Shit keeps me out at night. Muerte a todos estos demonios de mierda.

    • manuallybreathing@lemmy.mlEnglish
      52·
      22 days ago

      Bad Empanada and Hasan have recently released videos on them visiting Cuba, theyre distressing and upsetting but still interesting to see