Image is of Trudeau and Trump together at Mar-a-Lago in November 2024. Source is here.
The Liberals, headed by Trudeau, have not been doing so hot lately. Polls have been rather poor, showing the party far behind the Conservatives, and the Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland (an outspoken apologist for Ukrainian Nazis) resigned recently, with more MPs following her lead. Trump’s return to power has shaken the Canadian establishment due to his threats to impose massive tariffs on Mexico and Canada, which will have substantial economic consequences given that Canada sends most of its exports to the US, compounding the economic malaise that has affected most of the world over the last few years.
With all this bad news, there are rumors and reports that Trudeau will soon resign, ending his nine years of rule. His fall would be yet another casualty in the wave of incumbent parties falling across the imperial core, only to be replaced by more conservative parties that have very similar policies but wish to cast all blame and hardship onto minorities.
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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.
I wonder what the realistic chances are on Trump’s proposed expansionism. Like for the most part I think they’d be very low, but part of me thinks he could get away with just landing troops in Greenland and saying “this is ours now” without a fight. Europe is totally cucked to America at this point anyway.
His idea for Canada seems to be economic warfare. How dependent is Canada on the US? How fucked would they be if Trump said “statehood or embargo”? (Although I very much doubt that one would happen.)
And we’ve invaded Central American countries before with no repercussions.
Again I think the likelihood is probably pretty damn low, but at the same time it does seem possible, if Trump really wants to push it and the Republicans in Congress obey him.
Trump wouldn’t even need to land troops in Greenland by the way, they are already there as Greenland has been under American military occupation since the cold war with the blessing of the Danish government.
There are already thousands of US troops in Greenland anyway, they have a base near the site where they accidentally did a dirty nuclear bomb in the 60s
I think Trump is continuing the role he had in his first term, as a clown shocking people with a spectacle while less loud people around him push through ultra-right policies. Trump’s threats against Canada, Greenland, Denmark and Panama should probably be seen as the “bad cop” part of a good cop, bad cop act.
The act seems to be working, continuing the Biden regime’s project of subjugating western vassals and extracting increased tribute payments from them in the form of military spending. In Denmark’s case the Social Democrat leader Mette Frederiksen could not give in to Trump’s insulting demands but she was cowering like a whipped dog as she said the line of Greenland’s future having to be decided in Greenland, reaffirming the atlanticist mantra “The US is our most important ally!” over and over as she welcomed American interest in Greenland. Prior to that her Liberal Party minister of defence had made a similarly embarrassing performance in which he expressed willingness to let the yanks have greater influence in Greenland.
Denmark has already committed to massively increased military spending in Greenland. Trump’s threats are working.
If Trump wants Greenland he 100% gets Greenland. The NYPD is twice the size of Denmark’s entire army. The EU will capitulate without a fight because they’re terrified of American tariffs. I think there’s a very real shot Greenland is annexed.
Canada will obviously not happen, but they are already effectively the 51st state. Their entire economy is dependent on being a resource colony of the United States, so whatever the US says they need to obey.
Which would mean if Trump really got serious about forcing it to be a state, it could be a real possibility. So I guess the question is how serious will Trump get. He’s pretty unserious in general though.
Entirely and completely. Canada is nothing but an American resources colony, it’s legitimately harder to trade between provinces than it is to just dump oil and minerals over the border
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It is very funny he said we need Greenland for national security purposes, and that we just can’t have Chinese and Russian ships everywhere without owning Greenland lmao this is already much funnier than all of Brandon’s four years
They could annex it without issue, its only political decorum and muh international optics that prevents the us from doing so. But the global south is losing faith in that, making it further and further an non-issue.