Image is of Donald Trump Jr. in Greenland, proudly demonstrating what he's learned in his standing lessons.


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

If you have evidence of Israeli 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 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.


  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
    ·
    24 hours ago

    For me the main benefit of this "cultural exchange" isn't Americans learning that China isn't 1984

    The benefit is Chinese citizens learning there is no greener grass on the other side, there's no western salvation, no capitalist led utopia across the pacific.

    Honestly, the fact so many Chinese citizens didn't believe a basic fact like American ambulance fees, reveals a serious failure of the Communist Party to inform its populace about basic realities of the world, that goes beyond a simple propaganda failure and right into dangerous 1980s Soviet-style delusions about the western world, which is fertile soil for counter-revoulationary forces

    • Boise_Idaho [null/void, any]
      ·
      9 hours ago

      Your average Chinese citizen does not give enough of a shit about minutia like this. The CPC releases a yearly report of human rights violations committed by the US, and the vast majority of Chinese people aren't going to waste time reading some boring report.

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
      ·
      18 hours ago

      Citizens of the USSR said the same thing about issues like homelessness in the US. AES countries are just awful at getting their message across.

      I’m a little concerned that China will allow meta and google back in, allowing for more US propaganda to fill the country and the brainworms that come with it. Also concerned that they’ll be doing the same with apps like rednote as Americans go in there to spread propaganda.

      • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
        hexagon
        ·
        edit-2
        15 hours ago

        Citizens of the USSR said the same thing about issues like homelessness in the US

        I do wonder whether it was more "There's not actually homelessness in the US, our government is lying to us, we've seen the (carefully curated American propaganda) images and videos for ourselves,"

        or instead "There might be homelessness in the US, but I won't be one of those people, I have a steady and well-paying job in [business that will very soon be bought up and liquidated by American capitalists]."

        the former indicates both a disbelief in the authority and trustworthiness of the socialist state and falling victim to capitalist propaganda due to insufficient inoculation; the latter indicates both ignorance of how capitalists operate and lack of sympathy for more vulnerable people who may be affected

    • TeethOrCoat [none/use name]
      ·
      18 hours ago

      To be fair, if you're used to living under a government that took care of you, there's a certain level of evil that is very difficult to imagine for the average person. I think a lot of this has to do with projection.

      Also, how are US ambulance fees even remotely relevant to a Chinese person's life? Like imagine you're some random middle-aged dude living in Xinjiang. What occupies your mind might probably be the US propaganda on the region's cotton. That is relevant anti-US news for you, where does the state of US healthcare even factor into any part of your thinking?

      IMO it's not so much a failure of messaging as it is just people not having a reason to care in the first place.

      The people who even give a shit about US healthcare past random curiosity on a good day are those actively looking to improve the healthcare system or liberals trying to shill for uncle Sam. If in the former, they already know what US healthcare is like and naturally dismiss it and if in the latter, they also know but just don't care and prefer to lie about it.