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    "news",
    "SeventyTwoTrillion",
    "13 comments",
    "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 of a satellite image from MizarVision, a Chinese firm that has recently shown pride in being sanctioned for showing uncensored images of the Middle East",
    "Marxist economist Michael Roberts has written up a great piece",
    "Last week’s thread is here.",
    "The Imperialism Reading Group is here.",
    "Please check out the RedAtlas!",
    "The bulletins site is here.",
    "The RSS feed is here.",
    "If you have evidence of Zionist crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.",
    "UNRWA reports on the Zionists’ destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.",
    "English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account.",
    "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.",
    "English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.",
    "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.",
    "Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists",
    "Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict",
    "youtube channel",
    "Moon of Alabama",
    "Understanding War",
    "Saker",
    "Alexander Mercouris",
    "Simplicius",
    "Patrick Lancaster",
    "videos",
    "t.me/aleksandr_skif",
    "t.me/Slavyangrad",
    "t.me/s/levigodman",
    "t.me/patricklancasternewstoday",
    "t.me/gonzowarr",
    "t.me/rybar",
    "t.me/epoddubny",
    "t.me/boris_rozhin",
    "t.me/mod_russia_en",
    "t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses",
    "discord.gg/projectowl",
    "t.me/ice_inii",
    "@IbnRiad.",
    "@EyesOnSouth."
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  "textContent": "submitted by SeventyTwoTrillion to news\n39 points | 13 comments\n\n\nmore like thucydideez nuts, gottem\n\nA 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.\n\nImage is of a satellite image from MizarVision, a Chinese firm that has recently shown pride in being sanctioned for showing uncensored images of the Middle East. The West is not allowing up-to-date satellite imagery of the region to hide destruction.\n\n* * *\n\nAs always, my weekly summary/preamble is in spoilers below.\n\npreamble\n\nMilitary news remained relatively subdued last week, with the main front continuing to be the Lebanon border. With dozens of vehicles destroyed and many more Zionist casualties, they are now desperately searching for a solution to the FPV drone threat, with certain analysts characterizing the whole situation as the entity stumbling foot-first into a bear trap (hence the megathread title). Unfortunately for them, two better and more resourceful militaries have spent the last year or two also searching for a solution and have generally failed - with anti-drone strategies consisting mainly of 1) build your own cheap drones designed to physically intercept their cheap drones and 2) separate your forces up rather than conducting large frontal assaults WW2-style and accept that you’re gonna have to fight for many months to gain substantial ground. This also explains why they’re so eager to kickstart a civil war in Lebanon, although as I’ve stated before, I don’t personally know whether that would be a silver bullet given how the Lebanese army has been deliberately not allowed to become a threatening force due to Zionist fears, and indeed, I don’t know how many Lebanese citizens and soldiers would fight against the only force in their country fighting against an army trying to annex their territory and which murders hundreds of people at a time in aerial bombings on their cities. Aside from the ever-worsening global economic catastrophe, the main event has been the US visiting China. Trump clearly _intended_ to time the summit such that it took place after subjugating Iran and perhaps also Cuba. However, with the former goal not even remotely achieved, and the latter goal delayed - hopefully indefinitely, though the US still seems pretty intent on it - it all amounted to a big nothingburger. Marxist economist Michael Roberts has written up a great piece on the current state of the US-China economic conflict, stating among things that, despite the last decade of US sanctions and economic warfare, the Chinese economy has done extremely well, building up their own domestic industries to replace commodities lost from sanctions. China has, up to this point, refused to withdraw its aid from Iran, and seems to be looking to start moving its tankers through the Strait via Iran’s new tolling mechanism. China obviously continues to maintain its position on Taiwan, and Trump has continued the US tradition of respecting this in words and disrespecting it in actions, but it’s becoming clear to everybody but the most delusional diehards that the US will not be fighting China in and around the Pacific for at _least_ a couple decades, and likely never will. There is little choice. The Ramadan War has definitively proven that the US has been severely militarily and logistically weakened over the decades despite skyrocketing military budgets, and much of their equipment, strategies, and tactics are woefully outdated for the modern battlefield. The prospect of the US fighting a war against China and not immediately losing has gone from “almost implausible” to “hilariously absurd”. Unable to meaningfully impede China, the US will have to content itself to increasingly ineffective sanctions campaigns and bullying/overthrowing nations that do not currently have much of a capacity to resist. In that vein, one hopes that Iran and friends will share their expertise in drone technology and underground fortification around the world. The age of the tunnel is upon us.\n\n* * *\n\nLast week’s thread is here.\nThe Imperialism Reading Group is here.\n\nPlease check out the RedAtlas!\n\nThe bulletins site is here. _Currently_ not used.\nThe RSS feed is here. Also _currently_ not used.\n\nThe Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine\n\nIf 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.\nEnglish-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.\nEnglish-language twitter account that collates news.\nArab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.\nEnglish-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.\nEnglish-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.\nEnglish-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.\nMirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.\n\nRussia-Ukraine Conflict\n\nExamples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists\nExamples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict\n**Sources:** Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.\nMoon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.\nUnderstanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.\nAlexander 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.\nSimplicius, 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.\nOn the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.\nUnedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.\n**Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:** Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.\nt.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.\nt.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.\nt.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.\nt.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.\nt.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.\nt.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.\nt.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.\nt.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.\nt.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.\nt.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.\n**Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:** Almost every Western media outlet.\ndiscord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.\nt.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.\n—",
  "title": "Bulletins and International News Discussion from May 18th to May 24th, 2026 - Stuck In A (Thucydides) Bear Trap"
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