Image is from this article, of protestors in Mexico tearing down a steel fence.
While military, economic, and covert pressure on Venezuela and nearby countries in South America proper continues to mount, a similar process is occurring against Mexico, currently under the leadership of the very popular Sheinbaum, who has generally followed the footsteps of AMLO in terms of policies.
While figures in the Trump administration have made statements to the effect of wishing to bomb Mexican territory, internal pressure within Mexico is rather hard to generate when the government is doing generally positive things for people. As such, protests - comically denoted “Gen Z protests” despite young people being a vanishingly small proportion - have arisen in Mexico, very obviously astroturfed by pro-US and anti-Sheinbaum interests. The first protest, on November 15th, gathered less than 20,000 people, while the second, on November 20th, gathered perhaps 200. Article headlines suggesting that Mexico was “on the verge of collapse” have proven rather sensational and wishcast-y.
While it’s easy to poke fun at these farces (I certainly am), it’s important to keep in mind that soft coups have long been part of the American strategy in Latin America, and with unlimited money and many resources to throw at a project, even incompetent forces can eventually create enough chaos that it can make the ruling president or party feel forced to resign. Such eventualities are certainly not inevitable, and even weak states can provide enough resistance to force the US to try a hard coup instead, with outright bombing campaigns and covert military operations. Cuba has provided perhaps the best example in the western hemisphere of how such plots can be subverted with enough national support (e.g. the hundreds of times the CIA tried to kill/maim Castro, plus the Bay of Pigs debacle), but you do have to be willing to take extraordinary measures to do this - the sorts of measures figures like Chile’s Allende did not take in the 1970s, and the measures Venezuela’s Maduro appears to be taking right now. We shall see what path Sheinbaum takes.
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The Zionist Entity'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.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
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.
The Times: [UK] Army halts use of Ajax fighting vehicles after 31 soldiers fall ill
The absolute state of the Bri’ish military.
the Bond Wiggler is real and it’s a military vehicle
Lmfao
They knew vibrations were a problem since they started testing & they haven’t found a solution other than limiting their speed and working in shifts like they’re Chernobyl liquidators.
And apparently the vibrations are caused because they can’t make the armoured hulls with any consistency? How the hell do you end up with non-parallel sides and inconsistent lengths? Are they making these individually one at a time?
JFC did they use chatgpt to design this thing? I would guess they have actual engineers on the team, why the fuck do they not know whats causing the vibrations lmfaooo
Vibe coding is out, vibe engineering is in
I was told recently by a management type that a software tool could be installed on every laptop because ChatGPT had given him the advice that he should do that. It needs a full server dedicated to even run. I barely convinced him to stop with trying to get people to install it
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You say that, but literally because of how ‘now now now now’ things are, people in the field now make a distinction between ‘engineering’ (barely holding things together with duct tape, spit and prayers to the Omnisiah) and ‘real engineering’ where you actually stop the process and study it in-depth using actual mathematical formulas and principles of physics to understand the proces, diagnose the problem and engineer a solution. Back in the day this duct tape and spit method would be called a ‘cut and try method’ and was pretty much only used during large seasonal orders, but it is so ubiquitous now that it might as well be what engineers do.
And the latter is basically the state of most engineering in the U.S. outside of like, Fortune 500 companies, and I can almost guarantee you that British military manufacturers are not getting really smart and thoughtful candidates, and even if they are, they are likely not actually giving them the time to problem solve things.
that’s the baffling thing - this isn’t even some revolutionary new vehicle, it’s based on the ASCOD, which is already well-proven as an IFV platform in use by Spain and Austria (well, “proven” by modern standards anyway, where only a few hundred examples of anything actually get procured, so it’s kind of hard to judge how it would hold up in a real war - it’s easy to be high quality when you’re being made in essentially an artisanal production process, a lot of faults only pop up when you start manufacturing at properly massive scales)
although I guess it’s not quite so baffling given that the Brits have already been through this fuck-up - the SA80/L85 assault rifle was also a disaster despite being based on the already existing AR-18, which was a perfectly fine rifle design (and served as the basis/inspiration for numerous rifles that weren’t shit)
Another example: The UK trying to integrate domestic weapons on the F-35 vs Israel. I saw you posted about that yesterday.
The UK literally have pilots from the Royal Navy flying US Marine F-35B testbed aircraft with Meteor since last year, but can’t integrate it? Italy must be pissed as they’re relying on UK integration here for their own F-35Bs. I know Israel has their own testbed aircraft, but still. The UK’s struggles here are something else.
£10 Million to build a device that John Kellogg invented over 100 years ago
For those of you who dont know, this is a vibrating chair designed to make you shit yourself that John Kellogg, famous religious health enthusiast and creator of the anti-masturbatory cereal Corn Flakes, invented in the early 1900s to encourage intestinal peristalsis, AKA extreme shitting.
WHY DIDNT HE PUT A HOLE IN IT
YOU WILL SHIT YOURSELF AND YOU WILL LIKE IT
You eat your bran flakes or dad’s gonna sit you in the poop chair again
What the fuck
Kellogg was a fucking weirdo. The road to wellville is a fun fictionalized movie/book about him but it’s not hard to see the dark side of early alt medicine quacks like him
Who’s the bigger weirdo, the person who advocated anti-masturbatory genital mutilation, or the millions of people who follow and defend his advice to this day?
Not really an appropriate use of the emoji but here we are
Fucking WHY?
Incredible
they already went through this excessive vibration business like half-a-decade ago, and it’s still going on? what the hell are they even doing over on that island
Throwing off the yoke of Big Suspension. Not letting “engineers” determine who can/can’t feel every beautiful crease of mother earth in real time. It’s their God given right to be shaken like a hot can of sprite on a county fair 25c foot massage chair. Springs are basically censorship.
Critical support to the British Army for doing everything in their power to fuck up British soldiers
you’re not supposed to use jackhammers for more than like 40 minutes at a time to avoid nerve damage how tf did they design a vehicle that vibrates at that level intentionally
https://archive.is/bQKfJ non-paywall link
Thanks. I didn’t realize it had a paywall.
it’s like the calf cramp tweet about Beto in vehicular form
aPying £10,000,000 for a steel can that shakes the fuck out of everyone inside it. Fuckin awesome