A reminder that as the US continues to threaten countries around the world, fedposting is to be very much avoided (even with qualifiers like "in Minecraft") and comments containing it will be removed.

Image depicts the aftermath of a Yemeni missile impacting King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.


My weekly preamble is in spoiler tags below.

preambleIt's been a much slower week than last week, consisting mainly of consolidation and (so far, empty) threats.

In Yemen, Ansarallah continues to battle Saudi-backed mercenary groups. Gains have been relatively slower compared to the lightning offensive earlier that took the western coastline, which makes sense with all the new territory they have to administer and generally sort out, including fortifying towns and cities against potential Saudi assaults from the north. The biggest news so far has been Trump apparently being on the verge of striking Yemen over the weekend due to Saudi insistence, to the extent that embassies across the region issued alerts warning that they might soon be attacked, but then deciding not to when people in his administration told him not to. I haven't cared for Trump's theatrics for several months now, so I won't care to speculate whether this is a bluff or a double bluff and so on; all I will say is that a couple years ago, a significantly stronger US military tried and failed to dislodge Ansarallah's control of the Red Sea, and that this time, they even seem willing to hit Saudi oil facilities in response.

On that note, diesel continues to break new price records, and gasoline isn't too far behind it. Outright shortages haven't yet become systemic, as tempting as it is to look at a couple gas stations running out and drawing trend lines from there, but it's certainly going to be where we're headed if there isn't a diesel export ban eventually, which Russia and others have already implemented. A ban would somewhat alleviate US price hikes, but would cause major instability throughout the rest of the world due to the ubiquity of diesel in transportation infrastructure, and if you've created a favourable international order over the past century or so, you really don't want to blow it up.

Next up: Poland's been amping up their anti-Russian rhetoric to new heights lately, joining Germany and others in advocating for further aid to Ukraine and the creation of modern national armies in Europe to send into Ukraine to battle Russia directly. This type of thing would have been rather frightening to me back in 2023 and 2024, but at this point, all I can do is shake my head. We all saw how the US military, which is more powerful than yours, has faired against Iran, which is weaker than Russia - and you want to arm yourself with largely American weapon systems, or at least systems heavily inspired by the American MIC? Lol. Lmao, even.

Lastly for today, Trump seems to have taken a victory lap over their more-or-less annexation of Greenland after Denmark permitted it. As I and many others noted back when this was all over the media initially months ago, the US has had a military base there for decades already and has been investing in mining there too for a while, so this is more of a formalization of the de facto status quo. Denmark previously technically had a veto on US military activity there, but now seems to be gone; after all, there is little chance that Denmark would ever have the courage to actually use said veto anyway at this point. So, geopolitically, it's a fairly minor news item that serves mainly as yet another humiliation for Europe in a long chain that stretches far into the past and continues to stretch into the future. For the Greenlanders themselves, however, this does seem like pretty catastrophic news, with any and all non-US foreign investment (such as by China) likely to be cut.

(and as a postscript here just before I hit post: yes, the Iranian president physically travelling to the US is embarrassing for Iran and very embarrassing for him. at least Araghchi going makes sense given he's the foreign minister. the silver lining of this debacle might be a further discrediting of the non-hardliner side?)


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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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[–] 79 points 3 days ago (35 children)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu begins his speech at the UN General Assembly. Almost every single delegation walks out, many of them heckling and booing Netanyahu, while only a few remain.

Netanyahu: ‘If we didn’t take out Iran’s nuclear program, they would have killed us all, and I would not be standing here today’

Netanyahu attacks Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa: ‘The Golan Heights belong to Israel and Jews have been there since the time of Moses’

Netanyahu lashes out at the United Kingdom and France, calling them colonial entities. Netanyahu thanks Uganda for erecting a statue of his brother.

Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘On October 7th, Khamas monsters slaughtered Holocaust survivors. They burnt babies alive in front of their parents, beheaded our men, andremovedd our women.’

Benjamin Netanyahu says October 7th was 16 times as bad as the 9/11 terrorist attacks

Netanyahu calls the West Bank ‘Judea’ and claims it is historic Jewish land, belonging to Israel, during Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations, the Iranian delegation left the assembly hall and displayed an image of General Qasem Soleimani

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says ‘maybe 2 or 3’ Palestinians have been killed in settler violence in the West Bank

Netanyahu complains about Iranian ballistic missiles: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, you're sitting here in the General Assembly Hall of the UN. Do you know what just one one-ton ballistic missile would do if it hit this place? It would obliterate the entire compound. In fact, two such missiles would obliterate the UN.’

Netanyahu: ‘The most moral army in the world is the IDF’

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu: "Now, the latest country to become a super spreader of antisemitic lies is Türkiye: Erdoğan. Erdoğan is a tyrant.He jails journalists and opposition leaders. In fact, I think he holds the world's record on this. And that's a tough call, but I think he's number one. He calls for Israel's destruction almost every single day. He says he's going to be the ruler of Jerusalem. No, sir, you won't. This is our country, our city, our eternal capital."

It’s just laughable and delusional. He’s completely tone-deaf. Israel is a pariah.

Netanyahu is now calling Mamdani a terrorist and says his wife supports Hamas.

Netanyahu: ‘To the protesters outside; where were you when Iran butchered and maimed tens of thousands of unarmed civilians?’

Netanyahu on Iran: ‘It’s only a matter of time that in Iran something incredible will happen. The power of the people will overcome the people in power! I want you to listen to my words carefully. One day, and it may not be far away, the Iranian people will be free. Their murderous regime will be toppled by its lies, by its corruption, by its cruelty. This evil regime will fall, and we will all celebrate that day.’

The UAE didn’t leave the assembly during Netanyahu’s speech at the UN

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

    I'm kind of glad he's saying shit that sounds like it could've been a speech by Hitler himself, makes it much harder for libs to "both sides" the situation when Israel is completely unapologetic and mask off about exterminating the untermensch.

    Unfortunately, I do think they are just setting up Netanyahu as the sin eater for Israel and once he's gone they'll be doing a nice civil genocide that will enable libs to go back to brunch and not have to pretend to be concerned about it.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 days ago*

    Libs moved to the "Netanyahu sin eater" rhetoric only a few months into the genocide. Unfortunately, pushing that line doesn't do anything to deter the lib zionist, who thrives on performative hatred of Netanyahu as a shield for their own moral repugnance.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 days ago

    On the one hand yes. On the other hand once he gets replaced they'll just say it was an individual bad great man and now that they have a new leader the zionist entity is much better. By making it about an odious sounding fascist man instead of the entity as a whole it's easy to whitewash and do a dance of "we've changed" once that man is gone.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 days ago

    The problem is that the Israeli public wants maximum genocide, so their next leader will likely be even worse. Can the next guy be more genocidal while also telling the west that the genocide is behind us and was just the last guys fault? Maybe, at least for a while, and western institutions will desperately try to promote that message. But I feel like people are at the point where they'll still notice reality.

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  • [–] 57 points 3 days ago (8 children)

    Really surprised with Peru, Colombia, Panama and Chile.

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

    Guatemala doesn’t deserve Belize

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  • [–] 45 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    It's impressive in a dark way that he can just say this to the assembly, thumb his nose at the idea that there is an international community and that human rights matter, and nobody will do anything. Dude feels like he's won and is dabbing on the entire world.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago

    Well it certainly comes off like that to me. Because regardless of what countries stayed or left during the speech, the reality is that those representatives did so on personal grounds and do not represent the real machinations of the entities they work for.

    Leaving to staying does nothing but make for social media commentary, especially within the general assembly of the doing nothing in the face of genocide club.

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

    Netanyahu complains about Iranian ballistic missiles: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, you're sitting here in the General Assembly Hall of the UN. Do you know what just one one-ton ballistic missile would do if it hit this place? It would obliterate the entire compound. In fact, two such missiles would obliterate the UN.’

    I'd love to see that.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    You can rest assured his estimate is accurate because he asked his generals how many missiles it would take to send a message in case a child threw some ice cream at him on stage or something.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 days ago

    I think he brought that up, because a lot of those have fallen on Zionists targets, and he is genuinely afraid. A dog des not understand reason. These is the language that gets to them. And what those highly educated negotiators fail to realize.

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    ‘Ladies and gentlemen, you're sitting here in the General Assembly Hall of the UN. Do you know what just one one-ton ballistic missile would do if it hit this place? It would obliterate the entire compound. In fact, two such missiles would obliterate the UN.’

    theory-gary

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  • [–] 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Every single video of every single UN speech is full of comments accusing everyone else of being bots lmao

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