Image is sourced from this Economist article.
Most of the information in this preamble is from the Cradle; notably here, here, here, and here.
The features of an effective American war (proxy or otherwise) is that it is a) against opponents with much less military power than you; b) with very low American losses; c) with victories you can visibly show off from time to time to justify involvement, and d) with a profit margin beyond merely giving money to military corporations. The war against Yemen was none of those; airplanes tumbled off aircraft carriers, and the navy complained of the hardest fighting conditions in decades. Conquering Yemen for its resources was inconceivable given the terrain, lack of good intelligence, and the strength of Ansarallah, and all that seemed to be visibly harmed were empty patches of desert and civilians.
Apparently, the ceasefire last month merely stipulated that they stop attacking merchant vessels in the Red Sea; it said nothing about attacking Israel. Therefore, Yemen is absolutely free to create a new blockade of Israel by just striking their airports and seaports, and all Israel can seem to do is try and bomb them in retaliation, a futile strategy which has failed to produce a military or political change in Yemen for the last decade when many other countries have tried it. And if America directly attacks them in response to attacks on Israel, the ceasefire is off, and expensive equipment will continue to be lost.
Across the strait from Yemen is an interesting array of countries. Egypt’s position in this war is well-known, and Somalia is under a kind of US occupation under the guise of fighting terrorism (Trump withdrew most troops, but they were then sent back under Biden). The other three are Sudan, Djibouti, and Eritrea. All three are increasingly being drawn into the anti-imperialist camp, as they cooperate with Iran, Russia, and/or China. Sudan is undergoing a civil war, but the rebels fighting the government are famously backed by the UAE. Djibouti has refused to allow themselves to be a launchpad for US strikes on Yemen.
Eritrea has a fascinating history of flip-flopping between West and East over the past few decades, but has, since 2020, sided with the East. It was one of the five countries to oppose the 2022 UN resolution condemning Russia’s war with Ukraine. Eritrea sends two thirds of its exports to China, and Iran has reportedly supplied them with military equipment. If a stronger link could be reforged, then Iran would have significantly less trouble sending military technology to Ansarallah, and to other friendly groups throughout the region.
Naturally, the lidless eye of the imperial core is shifting its gaze onto Eritrea. Meanwhile, Ethiopia - a country that has experienced frequent conflict with Eritrea - is part of BRICS+ and their economy is increasingly reliant on China (as is most countries’ economies nowadays). If a permanent resolution between the two could be created, it would be a victory for themselves and the Resistance, and a defeat for America, which thrives on conflict and destabilization.
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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 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.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
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.
🇵🇸 Palestinian Resistance Factions: —
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
The American aid distribution centers have turned into death traps and snares, targeting our hungry people who are driven by hunger and thirst to seek refuge there. These deceptive centers have become daily massacres and slaughters before the eyes and ears of the entire world.
In light of all this injustice and oppression to which our people are subjected, we, the Palestinian Resistance Factions, affirm the following:
First: The primary objective of what are called American aid distribution centers is to end UNRWA’s mission and liquidate the Palestinian cause as a political issue, transforming it into a relief and humanitarian issue. This is to accelerate the crime of forced displacement and ethnic cleansing and empty the Gaza Strip of its people and residents, in implementation of the criminal Trump’s plan.
Second: We call on all international and Arab legal and judicial organizations and all free people in the world to pursue the inhumane American security establishment, which is carrying out a suspicious intelligence security role and has caused the martyrdom of more than 126 of our people who are suffering from famine due to the criminal zionist siege.
Third: We call for pressure on the zionist entity and the American administration for the return of humanitarian aid distribution through international United Nations organizations, foremost among them UNRWA, because it is the only one capable of carrying out this mission due to its legal capacity, practical experience, and competencies to execute this task in a way that preserves the lives, dignity, and humanity of our people in Gaza.
Fourth: We warn all our people against being lured by any false promises from the zionist occupation or its mercenaries, agents, and thieves. We also warn any family entity, institutional body, or suspicious companies against identifying with or responding to the zionist enemy’s plans to create suspicious and collaborative bodies as alternatives to UNRWA.
Fifth: We affirm that the Resistance’s security apparatus and its groups now have the full decision and authorization to strike with full force and firmness against any entity or person who aligns with or responds to the enemy’s plans, or any collaborative party that is outside the law and the traditions and customs of our people. All agents, thieves, and criminal armed gangs will be a legitimate target for the Resistance groups and security. He who warns is excused.
Palestinian Resistance Factions Sunday: 12 Dhu al-Hijjah 1446 AH Corresponding to: June 8, 2025
Video summary of unrest from yesterday in the Los Angeles area
National Guard has been seen moving in vehicles through LA, demonstrations are planned later in the day, and I would guess we will see increased numbers of protesters coming out against the presence of federalized troops.
lol, it’s a fucking reflex at this point
an “israeli” stubs their toe, calls the couch anti-semitic
Found something on reddit about an EU human rights report leak on Israel.
A thought occurs to me. Is Trump calling the shit legislation “the Big, Beautiful Bill” some kind of vain attempt to own, dunk on, and supplant Biden’s shit legislation “build back better”?
My pc died, so I might not post frequently here for some weeks
Oh no. Anyways. CW: Blood:
https://colombiareports.com/miguel-uribe-leader-of-colombias-far-right-opposition-shot-in-bogota/I have to give Bukele props for passing his foreign agent law that the EU cucks are crying over. It would be great if Guatemala had the same thing to get rid of the EU, US, Taiwanese, and Israeli influence.
Apparently the war in Ukraine has seen the use of drones controlled via a fiber optic tether instead of wirelessly to prevent jamming. Which is 1) easily defeated with a pair of scissors or even the propellers of another drone and 2) littering the land with fiber optic wires.
I’ve found some footage of recent – over the past 48 hours – Russian missile strikes on Kiev regime weapons/ammunition depots:
Russian missiles striking a Kiev regime weapons depot in Lutsk (very impressive footage): https://news-pravda.com/ukraine/2025/06/06/1403932.html
A Russian missile strike caused a large secondary explosion under a factory in Kiev where weapons were stored: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/06/06/1403486.html
Plus, two other interesting videos…
Anti-fascist partisans blew up a Kiev regime military conscription vehicle in the Odessa oblast settlement of Donskaya Balka, eliminating one conscription officer: https://news-pravda.com/ukraine/2025/06/06/1404150.html
Russian soldiers shot down a Kiev regime fiber-optics FPV drone with a pair of scissors (!!!): https://news-pravda.com/eu/2025/06/07/1406583.html
Trump calling in the national guard on the ICE protests in Los Angeles
Colombia: Right wing presidential candidate Miguel Uribe shot and possibly killed. No culprits yet.
Scenes on the ground of continuing resistence to ICE raids in Paramount, California can be found here: https://bsky.app/profile/acatwithnews.bsky.social/post/3lqzzoky4cc24
Larges amounts of less-lethal munitions being used, some of which causing brush fires. Residential areas are being flooded with tear gas. CW for police violence on any clips, I haven’t seen anything excessively graphic though but it is all generally upsetting.
video out of Paramount California of people pelting a convoy of trucks with rocks as they invade a city to abduct people and imprison them in camps. They really are turning the USA into israel, huh?
Israel raises record $5bn in bond sales to US investors as Gaza genocide strains economy
Israel has raised a record $5 billion through Israel Bonds, a US-based broker-dealer, to help finance its ongoing war on Palestinians in Gaza, marking a surge in foreign support for the country’s economy despite mounting concerns over domestic fiscal sustainability.
Since the start of the war, Israel has spent some $67 billion to destroy Gaza and slaughter some 110,000 Palestinians, an estimated 80 percent civilians. US taxpayers provided Israel with nearly $18 billion in military aid during the first year of the war alone, according to the Costs of War Project at Brown University.
Israel’s war-related spending has ballooned, leading to a record government borrowing of nearly $76 billion last year. While most of Israel’s debt is raised in the local bond market, international placements and Israel Bonds play a vital supplementary role. US states such as New York, Texas, Ohio, and Florida, particularly Palm Beach County, its largest single investor at $700 million, are among the most prominent backers.
But even as capital flows in, experts have warned about the war’s long-term economic toll. Karnit Flug, a former Governor of the Bank of Israel and a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, stated this week that increased war spending threatens to collapse essential public services, including hospitals, schools, and public transportation. Speaking ahead of the Eli Hurvitz Conference on Economy and Society, Flug cautioned that the current path is unsustainable. “Without changes in the government’s course of budget policy and without internalizing the potential snowball effect of sanctions and restrictions, Israel will find itself on a very risky path,” she said.
As taxes rise and public services deteriorate, she warned that the burden is falling disproportionately on high-productivity, tax-paying Israelis—many of whom are the most mobile and capable of leaving the country. Flug urged the government to reassess its budget priorities and reduce dependence on wartime borrowing, citing Israel’s heavy reliance on human capital and infrastructure for future growth.
Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox partners move ahead with Knesset dissolution plan
Ultra-Orthodox (Haredim) Israeli parties in Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition said on 6 June that they are moving forward with an effort to dissolve the Knesset over the government’s failure to pass a law exempting members of the Haredi community from military service.
On Thursday, Israel’s Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara announced that the army will issue over 50,000 conscription orders to ultra-Orthodox students next month, further fueling outrage across the Haredi community. The attorney general said the matter of drafting ultra-Orthodox into the army “is not progressing sufficiently, as the army urgently needs new recruits, which requires imposing personal sanctions on draft evaders,” according to Israel’s Broadcasting Corporation (KAN).
Ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jews of military age have been able to avoid compulsory enlistment into the army for decades by enrolling in yeshivas (religious schools) and obtaining repeated one-year service deferrals until they reach the age of military exemption. Since the war in Gaza began, a manpower crisis plaguing the army has compelled the government to move forward with drafting the ultra-Orthodox into military service – to the chagrin of the far-right, religious parties in the prime minister’s ruling coalition.
