Image, sourced from this article, is of George Bush in 2002 meeting with María Corina Machado, who was even then being trained as a figure to oppose Venezuelan socialism, and very briefly succeeded with the Carmona Decree. Now the latest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, she has begged the Zionist entity to drop bombs on the Venezuelan people.

As of me writing these sentences, it appears that the ceasefire in Gaza is underway. Zionist ceasefires are, of course, an oxymoron - not only in the grand sense that their work to continue genocidal atrocities against others locally and regionally will not cease until the Zionist entity’s occupation of Palestine is overthrown and Palestinians can resume the governance of their territory - but also in the literal sense; that bombings and shootings are often only merely reduced, and rarely cease entirely (as was/is the case on their northern border with Lebanon). Nonetheless, hopefully the population can receive some aid, and the long process of rebuilding can begin.

On the other side of the world, it seems increasingly likely that a new war is set to begin. Because the US is eschewing the usual process of generating pro-war propaganda and casus bellis (aside from a laughably transparent Nobel Peace Prize award) and seems content to just skip straight to the “bomb and depose” step, it’s quite hard to predict what precisely they want to do. Anything seems to be on the table - from freely striking Venezuelan territory where “drug dealers” are to try and prompt a Venezuelan response, to assassinating Maduro and/or his generals and hoping a power vacuum can be filled with compradors, to attempting to outright invade Venezuela and establish direct American control over important government sites. All appear to be possibilities, though as of right now, the most drastic measures seem unlikely due to their difficulty.

We know that the US has almost totally abandoned diplomatic communication with Venezuela, and that the US has deployed warships, a nuclear submarine, F-35s, surveillance planes, and at least 4,000 military personnel to the Caribbean, with some sources putting the numbers higher. Some people have suggested that the point is to try and force Maduro into a situation where he must begin hostilities, or be seen as weak and perhaps overthrown from within. It is at least encouraging that Maduro is not like Allende in Chile, and is taking this situation extraordinarily seriously; the masses are being trained and mobilized in the event of an invasion, and military drills are ongoing. Venezuela has no real capacity to stop the US from attacking and bombing them, but it is much more possible to prevent a West-friendly puppet from gaining meaningful control of the country. A comprador might be able to make a brief statement or decree in a Venezuelan city saying that Chavismo is over, but actual power will hopefully prove very elusive.

2020, and particularly 2022, has clearly become a turning point for the Western imperial system, in which increasingly aggressive and reckless moves are required to keep the system functional (stability is, at this point, out of the question). Unfortunately, this has also resulted in the deaths of many long-lasting, inspiring figures, such as Nasrallah, and many more will certainly die before the empire collapses. If Maduro is assassinated - and I’m having trouble imagining how he won’t be doggedly pursued in the days. weeks, and months to come - I have hope that a successor will rise to continue to lead the Bolivarian Revolution.

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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine

If you have evidence of Zionist 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 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.

  • Torenico [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    Libs: the US doesn’t intervene in foreign electoral processes

    The US:

    Trump: US ‘would not be generous with Argentina’ if Milei loses

    The presidents and their teams shared a work lunch at the White House after a private meeting was canceled due to Trump’s trip to “Israel”

    U.S. President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said a proposed support package for Argentina is predicated on Milei doing well in the upcoming elections. “We would not be generous with Argentina if he loses,” Trump said, referring to Milei. However, it was not clear whether the US president was referring to the October 26 midterms or the 2027 presidential elections. He said that Milei would be running against an “extremely far left” person, a possible reference to Peronist governor of Buenos Aires Province, Axel Kicillof.

    What is he even going to do? Bomb us?

    Anyways, Kicillof, my beloved extremely far left person.

    “If he doesn’t win, we’re not going to waste that time, because you have somebody whose philosophy has no chance of making Argentina great again,” Trump added.

    Trump’s comments came during a press conference during a work lunch with their respective teams in Washington D.C. to discuss the economic agreements announced over the past couple of weeks, including a full-on bailout and the purchase of Argentine pesos by the United States Treasury. Bessent spoke more directly about the midterms. “We’re confident that the president’s party and the coalition will do well in the election,” he said. “And this aid is predicated on robust policies, and going back to the failed Peronist would cause a US rethink.”

    After Trump’s remarks, Argentine bonds and stocks plummeted in both the local and US markets. The peso also weakened slightly.

    (lmfao)

    Milei campaigned on a promise to dollarize Argentina’s economy, which he has since abandoned. Asked whether he would support such a move, Trump said that “anybody who wants to deal in dollars, they have an advantage over people that aren’t.” He also criticized the BRICS bloc of emerging economies as a project seeking to displace the dollar. However, Bessent said the U.S. administration was “very happy with the current currency arrangement.”

    Before entering, Milei and Trump briefly posed together for photos at the doors of the White House. Asked by the press to give a message to the people of Argentina, Trump said: “We love them, we’re there for them, and they have a great leader.”

    The Argentine president was scheduled to meet Trump for a 15-minute private meeting at the White House at 2 p.m, before the working lunch, but the tete-a-tete did not take place. An Argentine government source told the Herald that Trump’s trip to Israel for the Gaza ceasefire talks appeared to have forced the U.S. leader to rearrange his agenda. Trump returned to Washington on Tuesday at 3 a.m.

    milei always left in the dust when he tried to speak with Trump lmao. I honestly think the orange man absolutely hates milei, he sees him as an inferior loser that achieved nothing in his life. Even Trump, despite everything, ran somewhat “successful” businesses, all milei did was yell, have sex with his sister, say he hates food and claim “he doesn’t ejaculate for 3 months”.

    Milei and Trump were originally scheduled to have a 45-minute private meeting before lunch, but that was cut down to 15 minutes over the weekend. Milei arrived in Washington on Tuesday at 1 a.m. after leaving Buenos Aires on Monday afternoon. He is staying at Blair House, the president’s guest house.

    Milei stood beside him, holding his thumbs up and smiling for the camera before the two went inside the building. They were followed by the Argentine delegation, including ministers Luis Caputo (Economy), Gerardo Werthein (Foreign Ministry) and Patricia Bullrich (Security), as well as Central Bank head Santiago Bausilli and Presidency Secretary Karina Milei. The lunch was livestreamed and press were allowed to be present in the room.

    Afterwards, Milei attended a homage to Charlie Kirk, the far-right activist and Trump supporter who was killed by a sniper in September. His flight back to Argentina will leave at 10 p.m.

    lmfao x2

    Bailout

    President Milei received a strong backing from the U.S. three weeks ago when Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent announced that the government was “ready to purchase Argentina’s USD bonds,” and that they would be granting a stand-by credit as well as a $20 billion swap line. The support was symbolic as well as economic, giving the Argentine government a boost of much-needed confidence and helping to strengthen the peso ahead of the October 26 national legislative elections. “We stand ready to do what is needed to support Argentina and the Argentine people,” Bessent said in his September 24 post announcing the measures.

    The moves are part of a strategy by the U.S. government to assist the Milei administration after the peso reached an all-time low against the dollar. Argentina’s international reserves are critically low, and trust in the government has fallen after several political scandals and a defeat in the Buenos Aires province local elections. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent justified these decisions saying that Trump is “showing his confidence in [Milei’s] government’s economic plans and the geopolitical strategic importance of the relationship between the United States and Argentina.”

    Asked about what’s in it for the U.S., Argentine Economy Minister Luis Caputo said in an interview on Sunday that Trump had not asked for anything in return and that the negotiations “benefit both countries.” He added that Argentina’s swap line with China remains in place despite the tensions between Beijing and the Trump administration. During Tuesday’s lunch, Bessent confirmed that was the case. “The American assistance is not predicated on the swap with China being closed. Any reporting to that effect is incorrect,” he said, adding that last week, when he said that Argentina was “committed to getting China out,” he was referring to Chinese “ports, military bases, and observation facilities.”

    (There are no chinese ports or even military bases, there is one chinese satellite tracking post in Patagonia but that’s it)

    Doubts among investors

    Wall Street was wary about the bailout ahead of the meeting. A Monday report by the US multinational investment bank Morgan Stanley said that the Argentine and US interventions in the foreign exchange market “seem unsustainable post elections” and expressed optimism that Milei and Trump would offer more details on Tuesday. This had not happened at the time of writing. In a separate report, British multinational bank Barclays said that investors were worried that Bessent could be creating a “communicational bridge to the upcoming election.” The document added that the government could keep its banded exchange rate system after the election, “relying on easy financing,” which they considered “very negative.”

    “The economy would likely remain stagnant, real wages would not rebound, and Milei’s popularity would likely erode,” they wrote. The bank said that if Milei underperfoms in the midterms, “political pressure could mount on Trump if Milei looks like a lame duck.” The report said that this scenario was improbable, but cautioned that “the prospect of losing US support and facing governability problems is a risk that needs to be considered [going] into the election.”