My sources for the preamble come mostly from here, here, and here.
The thread image depicts Kenyan police, trained by the Zionist entity, in a meeting with President Ruto before being sent to Haiti, sourced from this article.
As has been planned for the last couple years, foreign police officers have been inside Haiti for a few months now. It will surprise nobody to learn that this has not gone very well. Gangs continue to control much of the country, and violence has continued in the form of massacres and forced relocations (approximately 1.3 million). Something like 80% of the capital, Port-au-Prince, is under the control of one gang or another.
The aim by the US was to import 2500 police officers to Haiti from a wide variety of countries. One of those was Kenya; President Ruto had to fight his own country’s courts to force this through, and ironically is now apparently considering withdrawing those officers once the UN mandate expires on October 2nd. The issue here is not only the limited manpower (Haiti has a population of 12 million), but also very pedestrian things, like the fact that the officers who arrive don’t even speak the language.
The situation in Haiti appears to be a fairly standard operation of American national control, in which both battling sides are being supported by the US in order to create maximum disorganization and prevent a coherent political force from arising and thus threatening their Caribbean interests. While the US funds foreign forces to arrive in Haiti to “control the situation” or similar justifications, the Haitian gangs get their weapons smuggled in from the US itself. That this is happening alongside escalations against Venezuela is obviously not a coincidence - in a world in which American interests are being gradually shrugged off, and where the American state military is becoming rapidly more impotent and unable to dissuade and defeat even tiny states like Yemen, total imperial dominion of their immediate surrounding territory must be ensured by any means necessary.
The police and the gangs are likely designed to be mutually reinforcing, without even much kayfabe of fighting each other. As an example, once the Kenyan police arrived, they immediately began brutalizing anti-government protestors instead of focussing on gang activity. They were trained by the Zionist entity, after all.
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Israel's Genocide of Palestine
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 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.
Translation Notes:
0:50 - “After the resistance leadership studied the enemy’s behavior in its ground maneuvers inside the Strip, by establishing new combat positions within populated areas from which to launch attacks on our people. In doing so, it neglected that the resistance was closely monitoring it. As a result, we detected the establishment of a new site located on the southeastern borders of the Khan Yunis Brigade.” 1:10 - The site of the operation. 1:17 - “Despite the enemy’s complete air superiority and its intensive surveillance of the ground, our fighters were able to monitor the enemy forces from the first moment the site was established. The enemy failed to detect the fighters, as the same tunnel opening was used for the fourth consecutive time, where the location of the operation was monitored from the attack site to gather accurate information exactly one day before the implementation of the operation.” 1:34 - Monitoring the newly established site.
1:50 - “Abu Ibrahim, Mohammed al-Sinwar, may God have mercy on him, before he was martyred, we were talking about the subject of assessing the military situation. The assessment of the military situation. What we learned in the academy and the whole world learns. The mission. The land. The enemy and the friend. Time and distance. The civil expression. These are standards, factors for assessing a situation that are militarily recognized. Our brother Abu Ibrahim said, “I want to add another factor, and it is our right as the Al-Qassam Brigades to add it. We are a military school.” He said, “The factor of certainty in the victory of Allah Almighty.””
2:29 - The exit of the fighters from the tunnel opening. 2:41 - Advancing towards the newly established site.
3:01 - “I ask Allah Almighty to grant us success in this work, and that this work be a revenge and a vengeance for all our martyrs from the leaders and soldiers and all the sons of our Palestinian people in general from the martyrs. And Imam Hassan al-Basri, may God have mercy on him, says that for every path there is a shortcut. The shortcut to the path to paradise is jihad in the way of Allah.”
3:26 - “Allah is the Greatest, and to Allah be the praise. And here, spearheading the mission, the commander of the mission. Our leader, [censored]. Our leadership fights before the soldiers.”
4:51 - “Oh Lord. Oh Lord. Oh Lord. Grant success. Oh Lord, Oh Lord.” 5:09 - “The enemy have not yet reached a successful defensive battle out of fear. And our fighters have extended full control over the place for more than half an hour, inflicting casualties on the enemy, both killed and wounded.”
5:30 - “I am your martyrdom-seeker brother, [censored]. I offer my life cheaply for the sake of Allah Almighty, and let it be a proof against all the mujahideen of the world. And this operation is a good tradition for our brother, the General Commander Abu Khaled Al-Deif. So do not weaken and do not falter, and proceed in fulfilling the promise of Allah.”
5:53 - “We say to the enemy’s leadership and its defeated army, with Allah’s permission, who thought by evacuating all safe residential areas that it had removed our will to fight and achieved its occupation and control over the land, forgetting that the eyes of our fighters are lying in wait for it. And we await the moment when we pounce on you. The Stones of David are still in our hands, we throw them at you, and thus we destroy Gideon’s Chariots, and behind them is your fragile entity, with Allah Almighty’s permission. And they thought that their fortresses would protect them from Allah, but Allah came upon them from where they did not expect, and cast terror into their hearts. And Allah is predominant over His affair, but most of the people do not know.”