After 15 months of genocide - and resistance to it - the Israeli regime realized that they could not win a military victory against Hamas, and were forced to sign a humiliating ceasefire in order to get their hostages returned.
With much of Syria under the control of Al-Qaeda, and an increasing level of covert infiltration into Lebanon, the crisis in the Middle East is not over, and we may still be in its beginning stages, as the center of hegemony continues its gradual shift away from the United States. Their navy, once considered the best in the world, is likely also not very happy about their ships and aircraft carriers being forced to retreat by Yemen, one of the poorest countries; and all eyes are on Iran, who has, over the last year and a half, demonstrated a newfound confidence and strength to directly strike Israel.
The recovery for Gaza will take, at a minimum, decades; it could indeed never fully recovery to even how it was before, considering it is not in Israel’s interests to see their concentration camps recover. But Hamas has proven to be steadfast and the tunnel network has proven its resilience, despite facing some of the most powerful conventional bombing in history. This shows that Palestine’s liberation is a when, not an if; and hopefully a much sooner “when” than expected before October 7th.
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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 can tell you’re all excited about inauguration shitposting and so as a treat I will not remove all these not newsworthy posts. Get it out of your system now as tomorrow we will be back to our usual schedule of mod tyranny. Also, everyone shitposting now had better be thinking about what useful content they can bring to the thread later in the week.
edit: I encourage those shitposting on this blessed day to join the imperialism book club
News thread can have a little shit posting, as a treat
Excuse me, this community is very serious. We would never spend 2+ weeks memeing about a mercenary coup in Russia and comparing it’s leader to a brand of potato chips.
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Is reacting to the inauguration, a newsworthy event, not legitimate content?
reacting with shitposts and emojis is not, no. I’m not sure it’s officially codified, but newsmega Civility and NormsTM call for top level posts to be somewhat substantive, with shitposting relegated to responses to top level posts. also, american electoralism is generally frowned upon (hence the electoralism sub being distinct from the newscomm).
discussion, analysis and reaction of trump v2 policies is absolutely good for the newsmega, especially as they pertain to geopolitics. dragging the first lady for looking like she’s going to steal the washington monument is not.
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Lorenzo Sewell, the pastor who delivered a blessing at Trump’s swearing in ceremony, announced a new meme coin named for him just hours after he prayed in the Capitol Rotunda.
“The crypto community was kind enough to send me $Lorenzo, so I have permanently locked my tokens into a Liquidity Pool, so that I will never sell on the community but rather just earn fees as our token continues to flourish,” Sewell wrote in an X post.
He added: “Amazing day, all the Glory to God!”
Even the prayer dude is a crypto grifter now. Holy shit.
Hexbear is also the name of a cypto coin
harden your heart Jesus
With the media rationalizing Nazi symbols in Ukraine, is it really any surprise that they would do the same for Musk?
I’ve long said it. The Ukraine War won’t result in the Liberalization of Ukraine, it will result in the Ukrainification of the West. They will all turn into weird bitter neo-Nazis who are ashamed of their Nazism but also proud of it in some type of incoherent brew
what can you even say
Endorsing Farage’s party and the alternative for Deutschland party is just an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm.
Also lol
Their Executive Director compared a keffiyeh to a swastika a few months back.
I want to laugh but I can’t
I hate it here
west is cooked. Jfc there is mass delusion there
I decided to get some sleep for a few hours, and I come back to news about Musk doing fascist salutes
There’s a whole thread on the Donald Trump forums saying that Hillary also raised her arm once so it’s okay if Elon did the Nazi salute.
I shit you not.
There’s a whole thread on the Donald Trump forums saying that Hillary also raised her arm once so it’s okay if Elon did the Nazi salute.
What was that quote?
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
Trump is ranting about windmills again, saying that they’re killing wales, all made in China, and cause power outages. This guy really hates windmills lmao. He’s really on a roll right now, classic Trump. Extremely terrifying yet hilarious, both intentionally and unintentionally.
Trump’s calling the people arrested during January 6 “hostages” now, and saying that he was investigated more than Al Capone! It’s just getting better/worse.
He emotionally manipulating the families of the Israeli hostages taken on October 7th now, saying it would’ve never happened under Trump and Iran was broke.
He’s signing executive orders in front of the crowd now, this is wild. It’s like an episode of the Apprentice, but real.
He’s throwing pens into the crowd now, this guy is something else.
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Quickest path to Elon getting shitcanned by Trump is stealing Trump’s spotlight. If the coverage ends up being more about his Nazi salute than Trump, it will definitely bring Elon at least one step closer.
With the way Trump’s going on now, there’s no ways that’s happening. Trump’s hitting all the classics.
Vivek got fired for telling white people to study more and it was Day -1. I’m not saying it happens tomorrow, but the top trend on Twitter right now is about Elon instead of Trump.
Russian Elon dickriders trying to explain why the Nazi salute was a good thing, actually
He’s just trying to get invited to Canadian parliament
ty comrade, i’m going to repeat this for sure
Ukrainian Elon dickriders be like: yeah this is awesome
Are these people stupid? Pretty sure Elon gave stuff to Ukraine during the war
Russian reactionaries are so confused I don’t know how they even get up in the morning and put on their clothes.
They will get angry over US imperialism and cheer on Ansarallah bombing American aircraft carriers but then cheer as Trump says he will make the American military great again and invade Mexico to destroy the cartels.
Like wtf is even going on inside their brains to produce these incoherent outputs?
These people are just racists and homophobes. They will applaud Trump because he said some far-right talking points virtue signal shit, meawhile Trump arms US allies to attack Russia. If they were coherent, they would hate the USA presidents regardless of whether they are Democrats or Republicans, the USA is no friend of Russia and never will be. And the USA will never let Russia form any kind of Eurasian state/union any time soon.
Russia will fold. Its economy is starting to trend downwards now. It was a commendable endeavor for the past three years - Putin gave it his best shot, no doubt about it - but there will always come a moment in the dream when you have to wake up.
he was playing poe2 on neuralink and had a heated gaming moment
Musk now has a badge to enter the White House complex and is likely to get a West Wing office. Previously, he had been expected to be in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
Guess he got a promotion after that salute
Note that the trump v1 staffers that lasted the longest were the ones who had stairs between their office and trump
Yeah I can’t imagine Elon lasts long at a desk job at the White House
Apparently he is voting to end refugee resettlement for Cubans , haitians and Venezuelans.
Dumpf? Welp, the only thing is, what would the gusanos think of it?
So cutting off the gusanos. Will they learn that the country they worship doesn’t give a shit about them and channel that frustration into anti-American sentiments? Of course not! It’ll be the government of Cuba/Venezuela/Haiti that’s at fault.
*though Haiti’s government had been a problem but a lot of it had to do with US intervention
Holy shit. All January 6th rioters just pardoned
This is actual good https://old.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/comments/1i62ja6/biden_commutes_life_sentence_of_leonard_peltier/ nice one Brandon :AIM:
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In December 2024, President-elect Donald Trump stated that he plans to revert the mountain’s official name back to Mount McKinley during his second term, in honor of President William McKinley. Trump’s proposal was strongly opposed by U.S. Senators from Alaska Lisa Murkowski ® and Dan Sullivan ®, along with Alaska State Senator Scott Kawasaki (D). On January 20, 2025, Trump announced that he intends to sign an executive order changing the mountain’s official name back to Mount McKinley on the first day of his second term.
So this what he will be doing now? Changing names of things? Is this because Obamna changed the name of this mountain? Or is Trump such a big fan of William McKinley:
Trump likes McKinley because he captured new territories for the USA, had an anti inflationary monetary policy, and made use of tariffs. He also was assassinated. Lots of parallels to what Trump is promising. Getting to reverse something Obama did is a bonus.
I think you are over-thinking it. No way Trump knows or cares about any of that. What he does “know” is that McKinley is the name the good white people gave it. Then the woke indigenous people got it changed. And since white people are superior, renaming it to McKinley is a way to express that white supremacy.
Does that mean JD Vance is our new Theodore Roosevelt?
Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Based Groyper.
Okay but that was the most pathetic nazi salute I have ever seen dude has negative charisma lmfao
I hope the USSR is revived and this time they do launch the Topol M ICBMs.
I have ever seen dude has negative charisma lmfao
It’s true, he’s not very funny either, he’s like reverse Trump. I think it’s because his “humor” is like Reddit/Gen X humor.
He also can’t speak straight and just mumbles unconfident nonsense. Literal negative rizz is right
That’s pretty much every terminally online Redditor irl
Oh you are back :)
Yes, it was high energy but still very cringe. Amazing how this guy is so wealthy and also such a loser at the same time.
Remember tho, we must give subsidies to Tesla and buy their cars to save the world!
A true “heli hortler” moment caught on live TV
