The imperial core is continuing the process of self-cannibalization as the interimperial wars between Europe and the US over resource and territorial control continue. Greenland, populated with less than a hundred thousand heavily exploited people, is the newest territory to fall under Trump’s gaze. The main draw is the mineral resources present there, of which it boasts nickel, copper, cobalt, and platinum, and much more than remains unexplored under the ice. But the ice is melting, and profit must be made. There is an additional element of wanting Arctic territory to counter Chinese and especially Russian interests and aims; Russia is increasingly eyeing the northern Arctic route as an alternative to more vulnerable routes through the Suez Canal or around Africa, and is investing heavily in icebreakers for that purpose.
However, even if Europe possessed the desire to resist American annexations - and they absolutely do not, at the end of the day - they do not even have the ability. Denmark may, to a lesser or greater extent, make angry sounds and talk about national honour or some such, but their military would be trampled underfoot by even the New York Police Department, let alone a concerted military effort by the US. If Trump wants Greenland, he will have it. This will naturally increase the grumbling in Europe about reconsidering the Transatlantic alliance, and that grumbling may, in the medium-term future, as the American Empire continues its decline, lead to meaningful results. But in the short term, Europe shall have to bear whatever Trump throws at them, for they obviously cannot now ally with Russia, who was the natural counterweight to American interests for decades before 2022.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
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.
Of course they are from the Brazilian south
Is this where Bolsonaro supporters live?
I beg you please ignore most of the information by some posters here, I get the feeling there are literaly no other brazilians here these days.
The right wing in Brazil controls every part except the northeast and smaller parts of the southeast. This was 2022.
https://noticias.uol.com.br/eleicoes/2022/analise/presidente-2-turno/mapa-mostra-quem-foi-mais-votado-nos-estados-e-municipios-no-2-turno/?uf=sp
As you can see the last vestiges of the brazilian left are concentrated in the North and Northeast regions. Keep in mind these regions have a much lower population density so it is somewhat misleading.
São Paulo is one of the biggest cities in the world and it was always divided between the suburbs and surrounding smaller cities being a somewhat leftist tendency and the metropolitan urban area being a right wing tendency.
This changed in the 2010s with the complete destruction of labour unions which were the massive source of the Worker Party’s political base. Now the entire south east including these previously left wing cities have turned to the right.
Now as I’ve maintained earlier a few months ago, Lula will most likely not be reelected given the extremely neoliberal government and the massive right wing political shift across the country.
This was already true in 2022 and it got even worse after the last municipal elections a few months ago where they won literaly in 90% of the cities.
The Brazilian left got absolutely crushed winning barely 12% of the total mayoral elections.
You can check this interactive map too The left wing parties, with a huge caveat of “left” here being the usual extremely neoliberal left are only PT-PDT-PSB. Actualy somewhat sucdem left like PSOL continue to not elect literaly nobody and actual socialist parties like PCdoB and PCB have no political power.
It is absolutely pointless to talk about regional differences without this context. Please for the love of god ignore anyone who doesn’t understand this.
To answer your question, Bolsonaro supporters live everywhere, regional stereotypes are not meaningful anymore.
Thanks for the context. I remember the last election was very close and Lula eked out a victory in the end.
Yes, but I think parts of the big cities and most of the border cities are Lulista and Trabalhismo strongholds (This is like Brazilian Peronism, social democracy but a bit more radical) or at least tend to vote for leftists. Bolsonaro’s strongholds are in the central states of Brazil and in the small towns in the southeast that tend to vote for conservative candidates. The left tends to do well in the northeast, the Amazonian states, Rio de Janeiro and Brazil’s southernmost state.
Completely and utterly wrong, please double check your information about Brazil because I realy don’t get where you get your information from these days, this is so completely wrong its harmful actualy. Please don’t mischaracterize the situation.
Bolsonaro won in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in 2022 more state capitals than Lula, 16 vs 11, including some of the biggest wins in the state of 56.5% in Rio de Janeiro 55.5% and São Paulo.
Likewise the vote given the state capitals shows a massive bolsonaro victory accross the board.
Lula only barely managed to win because of the northeast, thats it. The entire country is otherwise captured by the right wing already for years since 2016.
I do not know where you get your information about Brazil but Rio de Janeiro hasn’t been a leftist state for for over 20 years after Brizola’s death.
before the invention of standard maoist english, there was the brazilian state of Santa Catareich
It’s where a lot of German descendants live.