A reminder that as the US continues to threaten countries around the world, fedposting is to be very much avoided (even with qualifiers like “in Minecraft”) and comments containing it will be removed.

Image is from this Bloomberg article, depicting world oil inventories plunging towards the operational floor at which pipelines and refineries cease operating, which is expected to occur in September at current rates.

A pretty short preamble below, in spoiler tags.

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The conflict continues to be kept at a relatively low level despite Iran’s fiery encounters with US destroyers. I think it’s only becoming increasingly obvious that the US is trying to cobble together some major clandestine operation mixing special forces, the air force, and naval destroyers to either seize Iranian uranium, take control of Iranian seaports, or both. Given a) how the Istafan op went, b) further Iranian preparations around sensitive sites, and c) a seeming strengthening of Iranian air defense around the Persian Gulf (multiple drones and manned aircraft have squawked emergency codes and potentially been shot down over the last few weeks), I find it difficult to imagine this operation fulfilling its objective, and even if did somehow work, why the removal of uranium would necessitate Iran ending the blockade and the war. On that note, I’ve seen reports that Iran is saying that if the US attacks their oil tankers again, they will resume firing on US military bases.

Additionally, Aragchi has stated that not only has Iran’s missile/launcher stockpiles not gone down from pre-conflict, it has actually increased by 20%. This is unsurprising given the total war that Iran is now in; all resources within reason must now be funnelling towards drone and missile production.

Atrocities in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon are continuing. The toll that FPV drones are taking on the common Zionist soldiery are quickly becoming apparent, as we are receiving ever-increasing amounts of footage of vehicles and gatherings of soldiers being struck by Hezbollah’s drones. The casualty situation is, as expected, being hidden, but any kind of serious occupation of even the border villages of southern Lebanon (let alone up to the Litani) seems unsustainable.

Last week’s thread is here.
The Imperialism Reading Group is here.

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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 the Zionists’ 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.

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    Fujimori and Sánchez seek alliances to contest the runoff election in Peru - Prensa Latina

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    Lima, May 14 (Prensa Latina) Presidential candidates Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sánchez continued today seeking alliances for the second round of elections that will define, on June 7, which of the two will govern Peru for five years.

    Senior representatives of the finalists are tasked with sounding out or entering into talks with other forces, with varying levels of accuracy and progress, while awaiting the formality of the imminent proclamation of the results of the first round on April 12, when Fujimori achieved a lead of almost seven percent.

    Together for Peru (JPP), the party of progressive candidate Sánchez, and second place in the first round, faces the challenge of increasing the 12 percent vote obtained in that instance, until achieving half plus one of the votes in three weeks and winning the presidency.

    Fujimori, of the neoliberal Popular Force party, for her part, achieved first place on April 12 with a less meager percentage, of 17 percent, so she also needs to increase her vote to be crowned president after three failures in the endeavor.

    JPP Secretary General Ernesto Zunini stated that his group maintains an advantage over the neoliberal Rafael López Aliaga.

    The talks aim for a programmatic agreement not only to build a political proposal for the runoff campaign, but also to guarantee the governability of a potential Sánchez government.

    He mentioned that there is dialogue or rapprochement with the alliance of leftist groups Venceremos and the centrist parties Primero la Gente, Ahora Nación, Venceremos, Perú Federal and Obras.

    Zunini stressed that the negotiations must be conducted with prudence and transparency, and considered that there could be results in the coming days, despite the complex nature of the talks.

    “A programmatic negotiation means putting at the center of the dialogue with the other parties the public problems that citizens have today and not the group interests that some political organizations may have, much less the economic interests of some groups linked to the Government and to power,” he added.

    Fujimori, for his part, has appointed the vice-presidential candidate, Luis Galarreta, to contact other political forces. Galarreta stated that there are contacts through intermediaries with the centrist Good Government Party, which came in fourth in the first round, and whose leader and candidate denied it.

    Political analyst Enrique Castillo commented that Fujimorism maintains contacts with political forces that decline to make them public, which is negative for Keiko Fujimori, because, he opined, it means that appearing alongside her does not benefit the potential ally.

    The candidate has the advantage of having the support of the party of the defeated López Aliaga, Popular Renewal (RP), despite the latter’s harsh attacks.

    He also has the support of most of the press media, which daily publish comments and information against Sánchez, JPP leaders and their allies.