133
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Image is of a solar park in Cuba, donated last year by China, sourced from this article.


To be honest, I don't have much to say about ongoing geopolitical events that hasn't already been said in previous threads (e.g. with India/Pakistan, Trump/Putin, and of course occupied Palestine), so this is more of a "news roundup" preamble for this week.

As we all know, the US (and the imperial core generally) has only three permitted international actions: sanctions, color revolution, and war. None of these have been going well lately, but sanctions are in particularly dire straits right now. Three examples from the last week or so:

  • The EU is on its 17th sanctions package, apparently, which is surprising, as I thought they were on their 76th or something. It apparently targets Russia's shadow fleet of oil tankers, but I don't think anybody actually gives a shit because we all know it won't achieve anything, so, moving on...

  • The head of Nvidia (as well as many others) have come out and said that the US chip export controls on China have failed, remarking that China's internal motivations to develop alternatives are strong and proceeding rapidly, especially as China's number of skilled scientists is only growing. Nvidia has said that they had a 95% share of China's AI chip market in 2020 or so, but now they only have 50%.

  • Lastly, an interesting one: Iran has received its first set of railway shipment of solar panels from China, and there is hope for accelerating shipments of even more products. Myself and many others have predicted a decoupling of Iran from the West and towards China and Russia (especially if any Western-built product could have Israeli devices implanted into them, such as with the pager terrorist attack on Lebanon's doctors), and having a strong link with China will be a necessary step for Iran and their allies to continue their offensives against Israel.


Last week's thread is here. The Imperialism Reading Group is here.

Please check out the RedAtlas!

The bulletins site is here. Currently not used.
The RSS feed is here. Also currently not used.

Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli 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 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.


top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top new old
[-] [email protected] 77 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I am at the point where I no longer know what to say in regards to the news coming out of Gaza. Anything I could say does no justice to the horrors of what is happening here. I feel numb and my lack of words reflects that. This is just as much of an American genocide as it is an Israeli one. I’m not exactly young, but this has crossed the point of being the most evil thing the US has done in my lifetime (saying this as someone who organized protests against the invasion of Iraq in 2003).

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Second round of Russia-Ukraine negotiations ended after an hour, Turkey says "non-negative" outcome.

Looking into it more - Ukrainians presented completely unworkable demands that would effectively constitute Russian surrender. Including allowing them to join NATO, no limits on army size, and usage of Russian funds to reconstruct. Not surprising it was over so soon.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

It's laughable

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago

They still believe that they haven’t been defeated.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

Or are faithfully following US-British instructions to waste as many Slavic lives and resources as possible

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

A senior Iranian diplomat told Reuters that Iran is working on drafting a negative response to the American nuclear proposal that was delivered to Tehran days ago. Iran's response can be considered as a rejection of the completely unilateral American offer.

Starting to seem like there won't be a negotiated settlement. It's been nearly two months of talk. The question is really whether the entity and its allies are ready to swallow the consequences of a strike on Iranian facilities. I'm not convinced the US administration has the stomach for it...

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

Well the US changed the terms of the deal during the negotiations. The US went from "3.67% maximum enrichment and some restrictions on ballistic missiles" in line with previous agreements, which got Iran to engage in more negotiations. Then the US changed the terms to "zero percent enrichment". Iran is currently enriching at 60%, and increased enrichment capacity while negotiations went on, and considers enrichment a fundamental right and red line.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Confirmed Russian losses due to Ukraine's "Spiderweb" attack on Russian tactical and strategic bombers.

Part 1, Olenya Airbase:

  • 4x Tu-95 burning, severely damaged or destroyed:
  • 1x An-12 transport plane burning, severely damaged or destroyed:
  • In this photo, you can see that the 1st and 4th Tu-95s got consumed by flames, along with the suspected An-12 on the left

Belaya Airbase:

  • 3x Tu-95s and 4x Tu-22M3s severely damaged or destroyed, 1x Tu-95 with some minor damage. I'll upload the two SAR images once the website allows me to.

Total so far:

  • 7x Tu-95 severely damaged or destroyed
  • 4x Tu-22M3 severely damaged or destroyed. -1x An-12 severely damaged or destroyed.
  • 1x Tu-95 with minor damage.

For a total of 13 aircraft damaged or destroyed, with 12 of them showing signs of severe damage. Ukraine initially claimed 40, but a success rate of 32.5%, or around 1/3, is nothing to scoff at for an attack like this.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Please also post this in the next mega, this one is about to be locked

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Lmao I forgot about that, I'll do so.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] [email protected] 60 points 3 days ago

China's going to achieve net zero emissions just in time for North American sludge factories to start up due to whatever fucked up re-industrialization plans get pushed out.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

Lmao the US doesn't have the ability to reindustrualise because that would involve a huge investment without an immediate profit. They can barely keep up the costs of their massive military spending, which is what doge and the tariffs are all about. A desperate attempt to keep military funding high by cutting public services and stupidly trying to make some money by taxing foreign imports.

The fuckers are pulling the copper wires out the walls. The ship is sinking and they know it. The whole "Huhuh we're going to bring manufacturing back to the US" thing was just an excuse to keep the masses busy.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Not sure why people are dooming about the drone attacks.

For one, Ukraine always massively exaggerates their supposed successes. For the other, there have been much worse incidents for Russia in this war, and things went on as if nothing happened.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

For one, Ukraine always massively exaggerates their supposed successes. For the other, there have been much worse incidents for Russia in this war, and things went on as if nothing happened.

Even if Ukraine was only a quarter as successful as they claimed, it's a huge loss. Russia don't make Tu-95s or Tu-22M3s anymore, and they make new production T-160s in the same way they "make" Su-57s and S-500 systems. It might take a decade or more to replace all the lost Tu-95s and Tu-22M3s with new production Tu-160s, a different plane.

If you view the war through the lens of NATO/USA/the west using Ukraine to damage Russia, this is by far the most damaging attack, over a dozen aircraft have been destroyed or damaged, confirmed by the first satellite imagery and videos of the attack. 8 of those Tu-95 aircraft were part of Russia's nuclear triad. Russia's airborne leg of their triad is now substantially weaker. Russia only has 55 in active service, each loss cannot be replaced. And of those 55, only a fraction have been modernised to "Tu-95MSM" standard, with upgraded engines, radars, and capable of firing the Kh-101 (and nuclear Kh-102) cruise missile, the first MSM got officially introduced in 2019, after previous combat tests against ISIS in 2016 and 2017. The other bombers can only fire the now outdated Kh-55 missile. Every MSM loss would be huge. According to leaked documents, taking a Tu-95MS and upgrading it to MSM standard costs $50 million on average...

[-] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago

It looked much worse before the smoke cleared. On paper, they had a chance to hit every single bomber that was deployed at the airfields they targeted.

Russia either got really lucky that Ukraine fucked up somehow, or their defense was better than people give them credit for.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

nobody should be "dooming" over a bunch of bombers getting destroyed when those bombers belong to a reactionary capitalist dictatorship

it's definitely not a good indication of the Russian state's national security and general competency, though.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago

One side is demolishing WW2 memorials and directly participating in a genocide while the other is killing Nazis and supporting AES states.

Sure, Russia's motivations aren't pure, but their victory still benefits the cause of socialism.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

It’s Cinaa don’t bother, they are still defending SDF in 2025. They are a social chauvinist you will not get them to understand revolutionary defeatism and their place in the world

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

Keep in mind this is the sdf defender speaking,but I do agree long term at least Russia isn't an ally

load more comments (8 replies)
[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Russia literally funds half of the hexbear approved anti-west states/organizations. North Korea a socialist government decided to militarily support russia. What are your (non-specific person) “credentials” for thinking yourselves to be “above” AES?

Like you can kiss countries like Cuba, Burkina Faso and even Iran to an extent goodbye should russia fall.

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

nobody should be "dooming" over a bunch of bombers getting destroyed when those bombers belong to a reactionary capitalist dictatorship

They were important for global security and stability. What keeps NATO from simply invading Russia? It's nuclear triad, of which these bombers were a part of. Now the aerial leg of triad has been weakened thanks to Russian incompetence and Ukrainian bravado. Russia's power projection goes down, the amount of forward deployments they can do to counter NATO influence and NATO forward deployments goes down, their ability to carry out stand off strikes is reduced, etc. seeing 7-8 Tu-95s going up in flames makes some NSC ghouls in NATO and the USA very happy. Viewing this as some zero sum "everyone is capitalist and reactionary so it doesn't matter" is missing the full picture. It's not even about ideology, it's about the balance of power.

Russia is going to have to respond some way now, they played the "let's escalate the conflict by large scale air attacks" card, and Ukraine had a direct response to that, to destroy some of the Russian aircraft used to carry out these air attacks. What happens next, another escalation?

[-] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

much worse incidents? how many incidents are worse than getting a rediculous number of strategic bombers destroyed

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] [email protected] 47 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Skulls of 19 Black people once subject to racist study in Germany are laid to rest in New Orleans. (Hexbear link) germany-cool

The skulls of those 19 patients have now been repatriated to Louisiana after more than a century abroad. On Saturday, they were honored in a multi-faith memorial and laid to rest in a jazz funeral rooted in New Orleans tradition.

The remains were returned by the University of Leipzig, which in 2023 contacted the city archeologist in New Orleans, acknowledging the skulls had been acquired in a "colonial context and unethically." The two-year return process involved city, state and academic institutions. It culminated in a notable international restitution, a return of African American remains from Europe — with many remains still lingering in archival collections across the U.S. and abroad, at museums and universities.

In Canada, a daughter’s fight to bring her murdered Indigenous mother home. Hexbear Link kkkanada

Winnipeg police were first alerted to the then 35-year-old self-proclaimed white supremacist on May 16, 2022, when the partial remains of Rebecca Contois were found in a rubbish bin. Skibicki was charged two days later, and the following month, police began searching the Brady Road Landfill, a municipal landfill on the outskirts of the city, where they found more of her remains.

Morgan and Marcedes’s families were told that their relatives' remains were likely in the privately operated Prairie Green Landfill, a sprawling waste disposal site north of Winnipeg.

To their dismay, police refused to search the landfill, believing they had enough evidence to convict Skibicki without the remains of his victims.

Utah lawmakers said gender-affirming care is harmful to kids. Their own study contradicts that claim. Hexbear post amerikkka

SALT LAKE CITY — When Utah Republicans passed a ban on gender-affirming health care for children and teens in 2023, they argued it was needed to protect vulnerable kids from treatments that could cause long-term harm.

Years later, the results of a study commissioned under the same law contradict that claim, and the Republican-led Legislature is facing pressure to reconsider the restrictions.

[-] [email protected] 79 points 3 days ago

apparently someone set some zionists in colorado on fire. thats really terrible it's awful that they experienced what israel has been doing to Palestinian children for the past several decades. really really sad. i'm actually upset, i actually feel really upset now.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago

When the embassy staff shooting happened I initially panicked and I was certain it would be used to ramp things up aggressively but then it was just… out of the news cycle within a few days.

If people were straight up set on fire though that’s actually wild and this could be different especially given how recent the last one was.

load more comments (9 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 58 points 3 days ago

I’m watching a video of the ICE raid in San Diego and there’s a man interviewed who “asked to be identified as John Brown”

It was around the same time PSL had an event not too far away. And they don’t have many events in this (notably conservative) area. I’m not saying it’s related, but worth noting.

Shitty embedded vid but here’s the link

load more comments (5 replies)
[-] [email protected] 90 points 3 days ago

IOF babykiller gets wrecked by Irish MMA fighter who screams "Free Palestine" while delivering crushing blows to the nazi's skull.

https://www.sportspolitika.news/p/irish-fighter-defeats-idf-soldier-mma-politics-israel-free-palestine

load more comments (4 replies)
[-] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

for the Polish presidential elections with 99% of the votes counted, the right winger (who visited Trump recently to do a photo op) has 51.08% and the lib (who seems to be losing for the second time in a row) has 48.92%, the right winger is like a more aggressive version of the current right wing president Duda

[-] [email protected] 56 points 3 days ago

There was a bombing in Boulder, Colorado against a march of pro israel "release the hostages".

Fox News is very heavy up front lifting "terror attack". Almost like "this us how you need to frame it". Comments are a cesspool as usual.

Odds of this being a false flag?

[-] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

probably just someone who was tired of seeing people being burned alive in Gaza tbh

could have been one but this is the sort of thing that happens when you shut down all peaceful expressions of dissent

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (12 replies)
[-] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago
load more comments (7 replies)
[-] [email protected] 64 points 3 days ago

Oh so a bunch of ukrainians using a truck and a few drones managed to sneak up and attack a large russian military base, causing almost irreparable damage almost for free? You should be taking notes...

I say, imagine being able to cripple a certain country's airforce in a revolutionary moment with just a few quadcopters and some courage... I'm just saying. Would be very useful in Minecraft...

load more comments (8 replies)
[-] [email protected] 47 points 3 days ago

Exclusive footage obtained by Al-Jazeera from a security operation carried out by Saraya Al-Quds in the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza city, where they seized approximately 170 kilograms of highly explosive material dropped by IOF drones.

https://streamable.com/guuun9

https://t.me/PalestineTunes/441

[-] [email protected] 63 points 3 days ago

There is this trend on hexbear about continuous doomerism, and you need to break out of the cycle else you become defeatist. Some comments sometimes smell of fedposting in this regard. And you need to criticize objectively while maintain revolutionary optimism.

load more comments (11 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 26 May 2025
133 points (99.3% liked)

news

24079 readers
670 users here now

Welcome to c/news! Please read the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember... we're all comrades here.

Rules:

-- PLEASE KEEP POST TITLES INFORMATIVE --

-- Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed. --

-- All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. --

-- If you are citing a twitter post as news please include not just the twitter.com in your links but also nitter.net (or another Nitter instance). There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ or archive them as you would any other reactionary source using e.g. https://archive.today/ . Twitter screenshots still need to be sourced or they will be removed --

-- Mass tagging comm moderators across multiple posts like a broken markov chain bot will result in a comm ban--

-- Repeated consecutive posting of reactionary sources, fake news, misleading / outdated news, false alarms over ghoul deaths, and/or shitposts will result in a comm ban.--

-- Neglecting to use content warnings or NSFW when dealing with disturbing content will be removed until in compliance. Users who are consecutively reported due to failing to use content warnings or NSFW tags when commenting on or posting disturbing content will result in the user being banned. --

-- Using April 1st as an excuse to post fake headlines, like the resurrection of Kissinger while he is still fortunately dead, will result in the poster being thrown in the gamer gulag and be sentenced to play and beat trashy mobile games like 'Raid: Shadow Legends' in order to be rehabilitated back into general society. --

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS