One year on. Hundreds of thousands are dying or dead, millions are displaced, the Middle East is undergoing its greatest changes in a generation, Iran has directly attacked Israel twice in one year, and Yemen has proven that the US Navy ain't worth shit. We are the closest we have been to nuclear war (discounting accidents) in decades, but also the fall of Israel.
Because one day, the prisoners of a concentration camp paraglided over a wall.
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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.
What even is America's interest in keeping Cuba starved? Is it afraid of having a communist country that close?
Also, at this point, it's fair to say that America just DOESN'T negotiate anything, they didn't negotiate with Putin to not invade Ukraine even though they knew he was gonna do it, they don't negotiate with China over Taiwan, the don't negotiate with Iran, they don't negotiate with Venezuela. It's an empire of maximalist positions, "do everything we want and we might leave you alone", and this is internally justified with american exceptionalism but the EU is behaving a lot like this too.
America is the child of Britain and France and Germany. The apple didn't fall far from the tree.
Yes but the EU mediated, for example, the ceasefire between Russia and Georgia in 2008, and even admitted that Georgia ignited that conflict by firing on Russian soldiers.
This is unthinkable right now, the EU has adopted the same "we're better than everybody else and our enemies don't have reasons for their grievances" attitude that reinforces its intransigence.
the nazism from Germany
the nazism from Britain
the nazism from France
Tbh, the US has negotiated with Venezuela, but the US hasn't fulfilled its part of the agreements, which the US itself created.
Yeah that's even worse, when they HAVE negotiated (venezuela, iran, minsk) they never kept up their part
lobbying groups in Miami that have a specific interest of collapsing the country to make it easier to privatize
Yeah, and while the Gusanos aren't huge on the national stage they have some money and clout.
Spite and setting an example.
domino theory. if the cuban socialist experiment were to prosper it would set an undesirable example to the rest of the americas.
I always thought the domino theory was ridiculous when I read about it in history class, but maybe it had a point. I mean, it's obviously not working now, as there exists communist countries, but it's not spreading at all. But I can see the worry of capitalists that if people see a successful revolution and a better way of life following that, it can set some bad precedents for surrounding countries, and it can spread that way.
what would the world look like if the u.s./nato empire had not put so much effort, resources, and violence towards eliminating the "communist threat"? they pursued a deliberate strategy of containment throughout the cold war, inflicting untold suffering in order to prevent the success of socialism anywhere to the extent possible. domino theory was an expression of ruling class fears and the dictates of imperialism: if a working class revolution is successful somewhere, it will necessarily encourage working class revolutions elsewhere, and porky can't allow that. arguably the reason domino theory appears silly -- communism didn't spread and take over -- is because containment has so far been successful.
Any viable example, any existing proof that there is a better way of living must be destroyed at all costs
Edit: And as others mentioned. If something, like a publicly owned economy, stands in the way of profits it must be destroyed
correct
There are a lot reasons: They want to punish Cuba for daring to go against them, and when the US tried to pressure the Cuban government into doing what the US wanted, i.e. total submission, the Cuban government allied itself with the USSR and China. They also want to use Cuba as an example of how communism is a “failed system” and what happens when you challenge the US in Latin America.
In addition to what everyone else said: pure hatred in the political class at being defied is a factor.