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Image is of many Hamas soldiers supervising the handing over of Israeli hostages to cars heading out of the Gaza Strip.

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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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:

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https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
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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.
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https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

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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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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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 (R) and Dan Sullivan (R), 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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 hours ago (6 children)

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:

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

With the media rationalizing Nazi symbols in Ukraine, is it really any surprise that they would do the same for Musk?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 hours ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

It's fucking Sodom and Gomorrah

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 hours ago

Hexbear is also the name of a cypto coin sad-boi

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Apparently he is voting to end refugee resettlement for Cubans , haitians and Venezuelans.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 hour ago

Dumpf? Welp, the only thing is, what would the gusanos think of it? makima-think

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

With the way Trump's going on now, there's no ways that's happening. Trump's hitting all the classics.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I decided to get some sleep for a few hours, and I come back to news about Musk doing fascist salutes what-the-hell

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Only way to be fair is to execute them both edgeworth-shrug

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago) (1 children)

https://i.4cdn.org/b/1737414753621148.jpg

Edit: I'm not saying this is the case lol, I'm just showing what they're posting in chud spaces(4chan in this case)

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 hours ago (6 children)

Russian Elon dickriders trying to explain why the Nazi salute was a good thing, actually morshupls

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

He's just trying to get invited to Canadian parliament

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

ty comrade, i'm going to repeat this for sure

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 hours ago

Are these people stupid? Pretty sure Elon gave stuff to Ukraine during the war

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 hours ago

Ukrainian Elon dickriders be like: yeah this is awesome

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

he was playing poe2 on neuralink and had a heated gaming moment

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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 amerikkka-clap

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Note that the trump v1 staffers that lasted the longest were the ones who had stairs between their office and trump

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 hours ago

Yeah I can’t imagine Elon lasts long at a desk job at the White House

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