Bulletins and News Discussion from August 19th to August 25th, 2024 - Our Mountains, Our Treasures - Child of the Week: Hassan LargePenis
Image is a snapshot taken from the recent Hezbollah video "Our Mountains, Our Treasures", showcasing their extensive underground fortifications, supply lines, and weaponry.
iran can't keep doing this to me, they've gotta respond soon, right? I'm gonna run out of analysis about countries soon, oh god
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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.
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.
Seeing Ana Navarro crying at the DNC about “Communist” Nicaragua while her father is a Contra made me almost vomit. She couldn’t help herself from smearing the Castros either while her father probably burned schools and murdered nuns. She even compared them to Trump.
I did some research out of curiosity and she’s also negatively covered Venezuela and Lula in Brazil. But nothing on Bukele or Milei. She only had negative things to say about Bolsonaro because of his friendliness with Trump. Nothing on his policies unrelated to Trump.
my least favourite part of it (as an online spectator) is having to do the same thing over and over again in regards to Latin American elections in which the left candidate wins. there's inevitably a big round of "my country yearns for freedom" with libs boosting it, and even some gullible/unprincipled leftists get caught up in it and go reactionary over it as we recently saw with BadEmpanada (though he's always been kind of a lib), and then after a few days of media focus the protestors magically evaporate into the aether and so does the press coverage.
and the worst part is that Latin America will likely be the last continent that the American frontier passes back through as the empire declines so we could still be doing this for decades to come
The problem is that Central America is always getting fucked by a great power. The US would have to lose a lot to lose its grip on us and even then there’s always Mexico willing to exert more influence on us.
Of course she is not going to say anything bad about the US puppet, Javier Milei. I think there opinion on Bukele will change really soon with him basically having better relations with China than with the US. Didn't Trump say that Bukele was the same as Maduro? That every Latin American country is sending murderers to the US, so that's why some cities in Latin America have lower crime rates than US cities?