Image is a frame taken from this video of Iranian missiles raining down on Israel without interception due to a weak and depleted air defense system after a year of war and genocide.
Mao, 1956:
Now U.S. imperialism is quite powerful, but in reality it isn't. It is very weak politically because it is divorced from the masses of the people and is disliked by everybody and by the American people too. In appearance it is very powerful but in reality it is nothing to be afraid of, it is a paper tiger. Outwardly a tiger, it is made of paper, unable to withstand the wind and the rain. I believe the United States is nothing but a paper tiger.
When we say U.S. imperialism is a paper tiger, we are speaking in terms of strategy. Regarding it as a whole, we must despise it. But regarding each part, we must take it seriously. It has claws and fangs. We have to destroy it piecemeal. For instance, if it has ten fangs, knock off one the first time, and there will be nine left, knock off another, and there will be eight left. When all the fangs are gone, it will still have claws. If we deal with it step by step and in earnest, we will certainly succeed in the end.
Strategically, we must utterly despise U.S. imperialism. Tactically, we must take it seriously. In struggling against it, we must take each battle, each encounter, seriously. At present, the United States is powerful, but when looked at in a broader perspective, as a whole and from a long-term viewpoint, it has no popular support, its policies are disliked by the people, because it oppresses and exploits them. For this reason, the tiger is doomed. Therefore, it is nothing to be afraid of and can be despised. But today the United States still has strength, turning out more than 100 million tons of steel a year and hitting out everywhere. That is why we must continue to wage struggles against it, fight it with all our might and wrest one position after another from it. And that takes time.
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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.
US Politicians Are Pressuring Ukraine to Lower Draft Age to 18
If they do this it's total demographic decline, there aren't even a lot of 25 year olds left and really you oughta wait for people to have children before sending them off to die
Volkssturm
And as we all know, that decision was widely respected and the US went on to win the war.
If you tolerate this your children will be next - manic street preachers.
Ukraine will need an awful lot of migration after this...
That's sure to go well, replacing the entirety of the male adult generation Z population in Ukraine with immigrants after they all die in the war. In Ukraine, a country known to have such an accepting culture to foreigners that they have Nazi Azov brigades, and black volunteer fighters are warned about being called racial slurs, including the n-word, before volunteering. Even when evacuating the country at the start of the war, black people were put on seperate trains.
Even if Ukraine was a fully accepting non racist country, replacing an entire gender of a generation with people from another culture would challenging. In Ukraine, it's a disastrous idea.
Are there even any Ukrainians between sthe ages of 18-25 to conscript? This is not a joke by the way, look at their demographic age makeup below:
There's a reason this age group has been exempt from military conscription.
That's fucking grim.
There's a reason the war has been seen as a late millenial to gen X war in Ukraine and you see so many older men in war videos, there just aren't many younger Ukrainians in existence. They have been exempted from conscription to try save any potential future of Ukraine. The country has been in a grim situation for decades, GDP and GDP per capita of Ukraine have been below the levels of quite a few "third world" countries since before the war. It's just not seen that way in the Western world because Ukrainians are seen as white and European, for now.
Going Capitalist is so great for your country…
Jesus that is something
Siri what happened 30ish years ago at the apparent start of this demographic collapse?
Ukrainians are already wanting an end to the war, increasing conscription couldnt possibly help anything
Wow!
Nice to know that behind all the "Western Civilization" brotherhood shit, westerners will always view us pathetic suck up Eastern Europeans as human cattle
I can't wait for my country to get dragged into this shit so my home can get bombed,but it's all ok, because we're taking it all like good little meat shields so that the superior whites can live in their gardens while we continue to belittle our history and believe that we could be part of that if only not for those damn Ruskies
ukrainians who have fled to america and europe are going to to realize that their home was destroyed for american imperialist ego. I can only hope they do something more useful than adventurism against the great satan but
US Politicians are unhappy that Zelensky isn't going all the way with "to the last Ukrainian".
But the answer is obvious -- if he lowered the conscription age to 18 it would destroy the country's last hope for rebuilding after the war, and it could even lead to revolts that would threaten his position.
Whatttt but I thought the GOP loved peace atleast in Ukraine.