Iran's recently been causing some hubbub in South America. Back in early February, Panama allowed Iranian naval ships to sail through the Panama Canal so long as they abided by international norms, an act which has angered the United States. And more recently, Iranian warships were allowed to dock in Brazil - despite pressure on Lula from both Israel and the United States - with Ted Cruz making some rather lackluster threats.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
Here is the archive of important pieces of analysis from throughout the war that we've collected.
March 6th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
March 7th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
March 8th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
March 10th's update is here in the comments.
I'm gonna be researching and writing up an effortpost on rare earth elements and how China owned the West in that field over the weekend so no update on Saturday.
I'd also like to bring to your attention another effortpost I've put on the site, by @ComradeRat, in response to a question about early Marxist thinkers and terminology, like "historical materialism" and "scientific socialism", and who exactly invented these terms and were they misused by others later on, etc.
Links and Stuff
American anti-war rally on March 18th by left groups!
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can, thank you.
Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. I recommend their map more than the channel at this point, as an increasing subscriber count has greatly diminished their quality.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have decent analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources. Beware of chuddery.
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 journalist reporting in the warzone.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
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 still quite reactionary in terms of gender and sexuality and race, so beware). 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 ~ Another 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's army.
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
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.
Last week's discussion post.
USA hegemony is dead, I was hoping the EU, UK and Japan would not follow the desperate attempt by the US to keep its empire together, but it seems they will follow every order the US gives them.
US hegemony is wounded, possibly fatally. It's not dead yet and it's death throes are going to be terrible to live through.
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” -Gramsci
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The UK would nuke itself before leaving the US' pocket.
Our nuclear defense and arsenal requires American permission. Our military is basically a support unit for US forces. Our intelligence services rely on American second-hand intel. Our high-end exports and technology sector already depended primarily on the US and post-Brexit we've pretty much handed what's left of the entire economy over to the US to strip the copper out of the walls. The overwhelming amount of media and political thinktanks in the UK are funded directly from the US.
And those are just the material interests. The levels of inbuilt racism and exceptionalism ingrained in British identity ensures we'll never take a position of anything other than superiority with anyone we don't deem white enough and we already resent and have burnt bridges with all of Europe.
Excuse me what
UPDATE holy shit lmao- "The UK does not even own its Trident missiles, but rather leases them from the United States. British subs must regularly visit the US Navy’s base at King’s Bay, Georgia, for maintenance or re-arming. And since Britain has no test site of its own, it tries out its weapons under US supervision at Cape Canaveral, off the Florida coast.
A huge amount of key Trident technology — including the neutron generators, warheads, gas reservoirs, missile body shells, guidance systems, GPS, targeting software, gravitational information and navigation systems — is provided directly by Washington... The USA has the ability to deny access to GPS (as well as weather and gravitational data) at any time, rendering that form of navigation and targeting useless if the UK were to launch without US approval... If the US pulled the plug on the UK nuclear program, Trident would be immediately unable to fire, making the submarines little more than expensive, undersea follies."
Imagine being so utterly cucked, so subsumed into the leading world power that you have a nuclear weapons program and cannot use it independently. That is an entirely new level of subservience. Lick the fucking boot Angloids
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Holy shit. I knew the UK was cucked to the US but I had no idea it was this bad. Jesus fucking christ lmao
Imagine making yourself look more cucked than Bolsonaro.
Yup. The entire history of the British nuclear defense is an interesting history in failure and farce. There's some good books, but if you're interested in something shorter Episode 135 'Come Friendly Bombs' of the We Don't Talk About The Weather podcast gives an decent overview (starting at 13m 15s).
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"Prior to the cancellation of Black Arrow, NASA had offered to launch British payloads for free; however, this offer was withdrawn following the decision to cancel Black Arrow."
:data-laughing:
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Adventure Time!
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It's always interesting to look at the implicit clout one country has with another. It must play a massive role in political decision-making, but politicians will never say that it is the reason for their actions as it would look bad with both the public and the one holding power over you.
I wonder how the LDP will be without the US there to help them during the elections. If only the JCP was based like Reiwa Shinsengumi.
One good thing of Japan not being under US sphere of influence anymore is that they will probably have better relations with China, DPRK and Vietnam.
I also think the DPRK could easily take out the ROK if the south lack the support from Japan, USA and Taiwan. The elite will just flee back to Japan or the US.
Glory to the DPRK!
Japan and SK are really only as "close" as they are because they're both occupied by the same foreign power who's pulling their strings. While my own knowledge is fairly limited, I think a more natural equilibrium would be SK being somewhat neutral or perhaps slightly aligning with China against Japan. Also NK and SK would at least have had normalized relations by now.
The UK has been entirely captured by the US and its intelligence services since at least Blair in '97. Obviously the ties and controlling interests go back much further, but that was the end of the pretense or any behind the scenes pushback. '97 was to us what '75 was to the Aussies and then some.
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