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.
Yeah, It’s a huge problem here in Serbia, since everything from real estate to wages is listed in euros. People just don’t have faith in the domestic economy, not after the sanction triggered hyperinflation of the 90’s, not the mention the Jezda and Dafiment bank scams during the times of Milosevic. Even saw an article yesterday that our fixed exchange rate with the euro, where the national bank is overall selling off their euro reserves to shore up the dinar, is actually great because it’s “popular” (god forbid the country has any kind of industrial strategy). People don’t have trust in the dinar, and with the way Vucic has been handling the economic front, where foreign direct investment is not only a tool, but the end goal in itself, since he’s not competent enough to run these enterprises into anything other than being the state apparatus for blackmailing people that work in there to vote for him every election cycle. It’s much easier for him to just skirt a little off their profit via income tax and VAT, whilst privatizing literally every single previously state-owned industry, which is especially troublesome when it comes to critical resources. Rio Tinto in particular being a western company with a colorful history of environmental devastation, now mining the critical lithium resource used in manufacturing batteries. Now, Vucic could actually have a state company made to mine these resources, which could in relation to Germany actually give us some leverage, especially if the US forces the EU to cut it’s dependence from China on that front. But of course, being the puppet that he is, that is simply not going to happen, and they even introduced a law recently where any public space can apparently be privatized, that being the cherry on top of his neoliberal shitcake.
Montenegro just accepted the reality of the situation with the euro being the only currency, despite them not being in the EU. They didn’t even pretend to make a move for any kind of monetary sovereignty, although with the kind of mountainous terrain there, they don’t have much prospects for developing into anything other than a tourist resort independently.
And people call Serbia a pro-russian puppet state resistant to western empire smh
Yup, which is why I don’t understand people here that post some of the shit he says, guy is literally the biggest opportunist alive. In the west, he sucks off Trump and Charlie Kirk (he even had his supporters wave a flag with his fucking face recently and paint a mural of him), whereas on the east he always stresses the “brotherly” relations with Russia and our historic friendship. Literally don’t take anything from him at face value, the guy says anything that appeals to whoever he’s talking to. The best you can do is take account of the material conditions on the ground, which indicate that Vucic has simply continued the policies of further integration with Europe from the previous government, even though you would swear based off what he says that they are sworn enemies, considering he likes to evoke them any time there is anything unpopular that he has to do.