The imperial core is continuing the process of self-cannibalization as the interimperial wars between Europe and the US over resource and territorial control continue. Greenland, populated with less than a hundred thousand heavily exploited people, is the newest territory to fall under Trump's gaze. The main draw is the mineral resources present there, of which it boasts nickel, copper, cobalt, and platinum, and much more than remains unexplored under the ice. But the ice is melting, and profit must be made. There is an additional element of wanting Arctic territory to counter Chinese and especially Russian interests and aims; Russia is increasingly eyeing the northern Arctic route as an alternative to more vulnerable routes through the Suez Canal or around Africa, and is investing heavily in icebreakers for that purpose.
However, even if Europe possessed the desire to resist American annexations - and they absolutely do not, at the end of the day - they do not even have the ability. Denmark may, to a lesser or greater extent, make angry sounds and talk about national honour or some such, but their military would be trampled underfoot by even the New York Police Department, let alone a concerted military effort by the US. If Trump wants Greenland, he will have it. This will naturally increase the grumbling in Europe about reconsidering the Transatlantic alliance, and that grumbling may, in the medium-term future, as the American Empire continues its decline, lead to meaningful results. But in the short term, Europe shall have to bear whatever Trump throws at them, for they obviously cannot now ally with Russia, who was the natural counterweight to American interests for decades before 2022.
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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.
Why does he give a shit about the UK?
UK labour sent a bunch of staff to help kamala last year. Starmer is also aesthetically a lot like Trudeau. The married guy vibes that both of them give off aggrevates the divorced guy vibes that elon has
To be fair Starmer stopped wearing his wedding ring a while back and it's pretty much an open secret that he's had multiple affairs lmao - Unimportant I know but I'll always take an opportunity to remind people of it.
Consulting on how to support genocide, I suppose
Strangely, he is at least right that Labour did (openly, not in secret) send advisors to help the Democrats win the election. They brought with them their working strategy of "scold the working class and talk about fiscal responsibility until the opposition coincidentally destroys itself", though I'm not sure you could describe this as undermining the US election
It’s still illegal I believe, not sure what they were thinking
so the US has officially cancelled having allies and junior partners in favor of a vassals-only approach
before you think I'm
, destabilizing imperialist allies like this has been a tool in the toolbox for a long time (see Australia, Sweden) but to do so as the default move and in such a brazen way is absolutely a transformation in imperialist strategy - UK Labour is already totally bought into imperialist neoliberalism but that's not good enough for the empire anymore
Elon “we’ll coup whoever we like” has to be a Deep State agent. The Trueanon series on him pretty much convinced me that he enjoys certain special protection from the establishment.
Which leads to the interesting question of whether Elon has been inserted to the Trump team to steer his policy, or if it is Trump who is using Elon as a sacrificial lamb if he fails (or my favorite theory: to surrender America to China). Who’s using who?
Both are too stupid to be anything. Personally, my theory is that they're not aware of it but they're being controlled by the NSA-FBI-CIA-DHS cabal who meet weekly and schedule bullshit tweets that pop up specifically for Trump and Elon at specific times with specific topics which control the bullshit that comes out of their mouths Ratatouille-style.
neither of them can keep their mouth shut, they would immediately brag about how they're a big shot secret agent
Apparently Musk has his own version of the secret service that act as his personal security and refer to Musk by the codename "Voyager". No, I am not making this up.
He doesn't work, so obviously he has a lot of time on his hands
But why focus on the UK when he can influece the USA Goverment, then again, he wastes his money paying people to play games for him so he can gain "street credit" with 15 year olds and Gen X people.
He is a brit from south africa.