Image: one of our POW camps filled with captured soldiers of the Christmas regime.
Season's greetings, fellow godless communists. I'm here to disseminate orders from our Supreme Communist Dictator as we once again find ourselves fighting against the very concept of Christmas. As a reminder, by the end of our five-year plan, we plan to be in a position to attack and dethrone God, but this intermediate step is required to fulfil this directive. Our forces in the field have made significant, if gradual, progress since you received your mission update last year. It has been difficult, but we have developed a series of defensive lines to prepare for a counteroffensive out of Lapland that will try and reach the Gulf of Bothnia in an attempt to cut the land bridge that we have set up across Scandinavia.
Currently, we foresee a few major threats. General Santa Clauswitz has been developing many tools in his workshop, including artillery-launched snowballs, barbed tinsel, and reinforced gingerbread armor plating for his tanks and infantry carriers. President Frostyy has made the following public statement: "The socialists who wish to destroy us have no idea what their defenses are about to face. Democracy will always defeat autocracy. Christmas will always triumph over X-mas. The leaders of the axis facing us are all on the naughty list and will be tried for crimes against festivity once this war is over."
Delusional as this may be, the next couple days will be the most dangerous as they stage their counteroffensive, and we need everybody to pitch in and get into defensive positions. We expect this to be the last major push that they will make before collapse. Please report any Christmas trees, mistletoe, or general symbology of the Christmas regime to your superiors.
Over and out.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish 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 (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
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.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
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.
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.
https://www.alquds.com/en/posts/105127
China is imposing stealth unilateral sanctions on the Zionist entity
:xiga-chad:
yeah, why would you want people to know you're doing the right thing
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Because China doesn’t care about PR or what westerners think about them. They aren’t doing this for hexbear
is soft power and influence somehow something that only affects hexbear?
if you care about fighting US hegemony and imperialism, why you wouldn't do everything you can to stick it to the US and make it clear how genocidal a country it is?
China is playing the long con and being strategic. They don’t want to join a world conflict on either side as it would likely escalate into world war, and they win in the long run if that doesn’t happen
I don't think they've done anything strategic, they're just kind of doing nothing. no serious person expects them to militarily join the conflict or anything - but they could very easily publicly cut all ties with Isntreal and impose sanctions. that would be hugely significant, and it'd win a lot of good will from the Middle East and youth across the world.
Isntreal is a failed state - it's done for - it's just a matter of when. and the US has attached itself to this sinking ship. China could economically take them both down, but just aren't because their business relationships are more important.
Of course the problem is that it's a nuclear-armed sinking ship. I don't think there's been a comparable situation before. South Africa, despite a shitload of socioeconomic problems, voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons. And the newly formed Russian government was pretty quick to keep control over its nuclear weapons after the USSR collapse.
I keep wondering about Yemen's interdiction of Israeli shipping. If it becomes a long-term issue for them that the US is unwilling or unable to resolve militarily, will Israel risk the diplomatic shitstorm that would come from straight-up nuking Yemen? The sane approach would be to simply not ship via the Suez canal and simply accept the delays that come from other routes. But the Israeli government has historically been prone to extreme disproportionate violence.
Exactly, China had the largest GDP for ~750 years of the last millenium. They just have to keep up development, manage their contradictions and continue on a socialist development path and they're golden.
There isn't a reason to play a long game if you'll only join after literally the entire rest of the world is either dead or destroyed.
They aren't acting like communists fighting for the global revolution. This is some entitled ass "socialist in one country" BS willing to sit back and watch everything go to shit unless it comes right near their special little borders.
They need to do more, else nobody should be calling them an "ally". At best a neutral party looking for their own self interest. Good on them and anyone that want to support that. But this isn't exactly the communist ideal you know.
Zionist tanker ships calling for help? What tanker ships?
I keep forgetting that countries besides the USA can sanction things
As far as I can see this is rather more likely to be the usual western media trying to continue with the old red scare.
Nothing he said here, absolutely nothing sounds like anything more than regular ass procedures you'd expect from large scale exporting. I mean some settler basicaly saying
"How dare the Chinese have rules and regulations about how to conduct business? How dare they impose these on us?? IT LITERALY NEVER HAPPENED BEFOREEEE11!!1"
Settler thinking China is merely some Amazon warehouse? This is far too weak of an argument here to call it anything but random media trying to create a narrative.
Anyway even if you do subscribe to this narrative, it is still silly. Either you're making business with the Nazis commiting genocide or you're not, there is no middle term of "stealth sanctions" bs to begin with. They just expect the same kind of special treatment they may have had before.