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Image depicts a destroyed Saudi pipeline pumping station.


My weekly preamble is in spoiler tags below.

preambleIf last week has had a geopolitical main character, it was Ansarallah in Yemen. In under 24 hours, they managed to seize a very large amount of territory to their west from Saudi-backed mercenary groups. Tens of thousands of enemy soldiers fled, thousands more were captured, and hundreds of combat vehicles and all sorts of military equipment and ammunition are now in Ansarallah's hands. The entire Red Sea coast of Yemen is now under their control, as well as some of the islands in and around the Bab el-Mandab, which is the narrow strait connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, which then goes on to connect to the Arabian Sea.

While Ansarallah had a pretty good grip on the Red Sea beforehand and could blockade it to the extent that traffic through the Red Sea plummeted in 2024 and 2025 and remain subdued to this day, it is now capable of much more direct control. And the strait is considerably narrower than Hormuz, meaning there is little hope for any covert operations like those of which the US regularly tries and fails to do over there. The only alternatives for the enemies of Ansarallah both now and in the future are the route all the way around Africa, which becomes even less attractive than usual as fuel prices rise into daily record highs, or the newly inaugurated Northern Sea Route under the firm control of Russia.

While Ansarallah is likely to continue their territorial acquisitions to an extent - with Marib looking like an obvious target - how things will continue from this point seems likely to be increasingly diplomatic. Yemen was once divided between North Yemen (which is, really, western Yemen) and South Yemen (which is, really, eastern Yemen), and this division reflects several genuine historical differences between the populations. Ansarallah has repeatedly stated that they have no intention to militarily occupy the south, and indeed, they ended this most recent offensive at approximately the historical border. Nonetheless, the government in once-South Yemen's capital of Aden is considered the sole internationally recognized government of Yemen, which doesn't sound sustainable for the future, so we'll just have to see how the situation develops geopolitically from here, even if it's unlikely to be militarily in the case of the southern and eastern territories.

While all this has been going on, Ansarallah was additionally applying major pressure on Saudi Arabia itself, by bombing their military airfields and, even more critically, their oil transportation and production facilities. These strikes were mostly limited to the port facilities in e.g. Yanbu and Jazan, and the Western air interceptor famine has meant that these strikes were mostly unopposed and caused substantial losses. However, Ansarallah has now destroyed some pumping stations for the East-West pipeline that spans Saudi Arabia, bypassing Hormuz for some (but not all) of Saudi Arabia's oil production to the tune of around 4 million barrels per day, which is, in a happy numerical coincidence, about 4% of pre-2026 oil production. I've seen several wildly varying estimates for how long it might take to repair the stations, with some saying a few days and others stating at least a month; the damage does look pretty gnarly on the images. Of course, it might not really matter, because Ansarallah can easily just fire another missile at a station once it's repaired, unless and until the Saudis give in to Ansarallah's demands and end the war.


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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine

If you have evidence of Zionist 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 the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA reports on the Zionists' 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.

Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Sources:

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.


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[–] 80 points 3 days ago* (19 children)

Der Linke('The Left', the successor to Socialist Unity Party of Germany of the DDR) set to win Berlin:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/20/two-german-states-go-to-the-polls-after-far-right-gains

A little good news after recent AfD wins

And of course Merz engages in some horseshoe theory conflating two diametrically opposed parties as 'authoritarianism' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvwyz29n0nn2o

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  • [–] 49 points 3 days ago (7 children)

    die zioniste are a grain more useless than the german greens, they'll find some way to funnel the municipal budget to the IOF lol

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  • [–] 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

    Yeah the existence of the antideutsche element isn't great, but I think the anti-genocide contingent is larger and has more internal power? and can oppose them. Regardless they're still the most anti-zionist viable electoral party, a grim situation repeated in most west european countries(that most viable parties are zionist even if the majority of the population is against the genocide, great 'democracies' they have there)

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  • [–] 26 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    most anti-zionist viable electoral party

    sigh

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  • [–] 28 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    Aye it sucks, the capitalist system can't be reformed that's why we can't simply vote in socialism

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  • [–] 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    where can i read numbers about the anti zionist portion of the party? i find it hard to believe but i may just be ignorance

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    According to some polls I just read 66% of Der Linkie members 'support israel right to exist' so not good, but a third don't more than any other party, and these number are shifting with the influx of new younger pro-palestinian members

    The party itself has passed a resolution calling the genocide a genocide, and conversely that 'Israel has a right to exist' https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/2026-06-28/ty-article-magazine/.premium/rejuvenated-german-left-party-affirms-gaza-war-is-genocide-israel-should-exist/0000019e-fdff-d514-a9bf-fdffa6f50000

    Regional ranches have passed resolutions condemning "actually existing Zionism" as inherently tied to apartheid and Palestinian suffering https://www.leftvoice.org/die-linke-leadership-is-attempting-to-silence-pro-palestinian-voices/

    https://jacobin.com/2025/10/germany-die-linke-palestine-genocide https://archive.is/w9oVa

    Not going to defend them but their miles ahead of the SPD, CDU, Genn and AfD on the issue, show you the constraints of electoralism

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    They aren’t in Die Linke, they left at first to form BSW which has its own issues.

    Die Linke “bend” to mainstream consensus and supports NATO, EU, Ukraine and liberal Zionism.

    Berlin’s Die Linke is the epitome of performative, which Berlin is already infamed for in Germany. They care more about Israeli Hipsters living there than the notable Palestinian community.

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  • [–] 43 points 3 days ago* (2 children)

    Looking at current estimates, it seems like the CDU is set to fall below the 5,0 % threshold in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the first time EVER the party is not going to be in a state parliament. It's very funny to me they somehow did it faster than the socdems, who have been PASOKifying for years now.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Aren't they mostly socdems? Don't get me wrong, it's better than AFD. Just, the best we can hope for with them is slowing the rise of the AFD, unless they turn further left.

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  • [–] 46 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 child)

    I should have mentioned they're an amalgamation of many groups, including socdems as you mention, but also MLs leftover from the DDR's SED and also younger people who've embraced it since the fall, hence their name 'The Left' being a tent for all electoral groups to the left of the SPD(the German Social Democrat Party, for many years seen as the center-left alternative to the center-right CDU in a two party system) they're the furthest left party with electoral viability in germany

    But yes I agree it'd be better if they returned being an explicit ML party rather than a leftist unity party, but ig for the current moment gathering as many votes as possible including disaffected SPD voters is the paramount concern, well see what their actually governing policy looks like, obviously they're constrained by just winning Berlin atm and not control of the whole country or even a state but hopefully it is far further to the left than the SPD's

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