Image is from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ recent article on Kashmir.
It looks like the spat between India and Pakistan could be dying down, due to a new ceasefire. As of the time of me writing this paragraph, it seems both sides want to maintain it (despite some reports of violations here and there).
Both sides have declared victory, which is completely expected given their mutual political parties and nationalist histories. It’s a little harder to say which side has actually won, as both sides seem to have managed to shoot down aircraft and hit military bases. India has, in my opinion, had the more embarrassing moments, but international conflicts aren’t cringe compilations. I feel no good-will towards Pakistan’s comprador government, but it is at least nice to see Modi knocked down a few pegs. Regardless of the final technical victor, it’s obvious that - if the ceasefire is maintained - who won are the hundreds of millions of people who won’t have to live in fear of dying in nuclear hellfire.
This conflict is a good example of what multipolarity will truly entail. Countries that have been previously limited in their nationalist ambitions by American pressure will now take opportunities to revolt, sometimes against America itself, and sometimes against other countries in their regional neighbourhood. It’s also why, as communists, our goals do not stop at multipolarity; it is merely the establishing act of a new era of agitation against peripheral and semi-peripheral capitalist countries that are forming powerful national bourgeoisie classes as the international American capitalists are forced away.
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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.
When he loses the libs are gonna say it was because he was gay and what they really need next time is a straight white male
Join us
I have … HIGH HOPES … for his candidacy!
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Retvrn of the porky watch:
please be saudis
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/South-Africa-v-Israel.pdf
If anyone wants to be reminded of the case against Israel in the ICJ.
I suspect that Netanyahu is prolonging the war to occupy all of Gaza to facilitate the cover up of the corpses and maimed bodies. The bulldozers also crush bone and decayed flesh into sludge; the bodies are erased - they are unidentifiable and near unquantifiable - not unlike cremation.
I think Trump’s Freudian slip of the numbers left in Gaza was likely close to the truth; as he said in his plans to relocate 1.5m people. That the truth is there are 1.5m people left in Gaza.
I think the ICJ/ICC are waiting for the war to end, but more than likely the individuals in charge of these institutions are being blackmailed, bribed, and threatened by the US, Israel, and other Western accomplices.
Pictures of urban destruction like we see in Gaza never communicates the overpowering stench of rotting corpses. There are thousands of people who were buried under rubble that haven’t been included in any official death toll
Likely less than 1.5 million tbh.
🇺🇸🇸🇦🇸🇾 Trump says US to lift Syria sanctions, secures $600 billion Saudi deal
Speaking in Riyadh, Trump said he was acting on a request to scrap the sanctions by Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
“Oh what I do for the crown prince,” Trump said, drawing laughs from the audience. He said the sanctions had served an important function but that it was now time for the country to move forward.
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani said on X that the planned move marked a “new start” in Syria’s path to reconstruction.
Bafoonishly corrupt, but ultimately good for the people of Syria to lift the sanctions. Now this will be used to make the current regime in Syria look better than it should. In the future, be ready with this event in mind when people say Jolani was a saint.
FORMER URUGUAYAN PRESIDENT PEPE MUJICA PASSES AWAY
José “Pepe” Mujica, former president of Uruguay and one of the greatest icons of the Latin American left, died on Tuesday (13) at the age of 89. Battling oesophageal cancer and an autoimmune disease, he was under palliative care and decided to stop treatment in January.
Mujica was a guerrilla fighter, imprisoned for almost 15 years during the dictatorship, seven of them in solitary confinement. After re-democratization, he governed Uruguay between 2010 and 2015, always faithful to a simple style. He donated 90% of his salary, lived on a farm and drove an 82 VW Beetle. Under his leadership, Uruguay advanced progressive policies such as the legalization of abortion and the decriminalization of marijuana. “You need to give meaning to life. Fight for happiness, not just wealth.”
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This is extremely saddening…
Yes, at least he saw his candidate and party win last elections against the neoliberals. And I still find it very sad how the two leftist presidents of Uruguay died of cancer, Tabaré Vázquez was also an oncologist and died of cancer in 2020.
Former Uruguayan President Pepe Mujica Dies at 89 - Telesur English
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Latin America mourns the death of the Tupamaro guerrilla who became a world symbol of political coherence and honesty. Former Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica passed away this Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at the age of 89 at his farm in Rincón del Cerro, Montevideo, after battling a terminal phase of esophageal cancer. He was accompanied by his wife, Lucía Topolansky
Although Jose Mujica withdrew from electoral politics, he remained active in the grassroots work of the Popular Participation Movement, continuing to serve as a prominent figure for the Latin American left until the end of his life. This iconic leader governed Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. In his youth, during the 1960s and 1970s, Mujica was part of the National Liberation Movement–Tupamaros, a guerrilla group remembered for its daring operations in urban resistance against the dictatorship.
He spent approximately 13 years in prison. Mujica was captured multiple times and imprisoned from the early 1970s until 1985, during Uruguay’s civic-military dictatorship. He endured harsh conditions, spending most of his incarceration in solitary confinement. Once released, he became involved in party politics. As president, Mujica became a global reference point for his extremely austere lifestyle and his commitment to fighting poverty and promoting social equality.
“Pepe Mujica was a Tupamaro, a leftist, and anti-imperialist. He was the Uruguayan president who legalized abortion, marijuana, and gay marriage. His political impact on human civilization was so positive, and he remains an icon of freedom and dignity for Latin America.”
Early Steps Toward an Unwavering Social Commitment
Born in Montevideo in 1935, Mujica spent much of his youth working in the countryside. In the 1960s, he became interested in agricultural and social issues, which led him to active political engagement. This occurred as Uruguay’s economy began to stagnate, hitting the middle and lower classes the hardest.
In 1962, Mujica left the National Party and joined the Tupamaros, an urban guerrilla movement with a Marxist orientation inspired by the Cuban Revolution. There, he met Lucia Topolansky, who would become a legislator, vice president and his lifelong partner. Mujica participated in guerrilla actions and was imprisoned multiple times, the last being in 1972 at the beginning of the dictatorship. He spent most of his confinement in solitary isolation until his release in 1985, when democracy was restored in Uruguay. That experience deeply shaped his later focus on dialogue and social peace.
After his release, Mujica entered electoral politics. Alongside other former guerrillas, he co-founded the Popular Participation Movement, which became a faction within the Broad Front, a left-wing coalition founded in the 1970s. Mujica was elected to the legislature in 1995 and became a senator in 1999. In these roles, he contributed to the legalization of informal labor and improvements in social security for urban workers and farmers. From 2005 to 2008, he served as minister of agriculture during the administration of Tabare Vazquez. His impeccable reputation and enduring popularity propelled him to the presidency in 2010.
Mujica’s Latin American Dimension
During his presidency from 2010 to 2015, Mujica implemented social inclusion and welfare policies. A key example of his progressive outlook was the passage of the Equal Marriage Act in 2013.
His “Together Plan” focused on improving housing conditions for the poorest families, while the “Equity Plan” continued financial support for households with children in vulnerable situations.
Although Mujica was unable to carry out a major educational reform, the Uruguayan economy continued to grow, and poverty declined steadily during his administration.
He diversified Uruguay’s productive matrix without abandoning agricultural investment, strengthening the country’s position as a food exporter. One of his most groundbreaking initiatives was the 2013 legalization of the production, sale, and consumption of cannabis—a global first.
Internationally, Mujica sought diplomatic balance and promoted dialogue as a means of resolving geopolitical conflicts. Under his leadership, Uruguay solidified its role in regional organizations such as the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) and the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR).
A Politician Who Shone Through Simplicity
After completing his presidential term, Mujica remained active in both international and national politics, while his image became amplified by his charisma and wisdom. At various forums and institutional settings, he continued to passionately advocate against imperialism and for the self-determination of peoples.
Known for his austere lifestyle and concern for environmental issues, Mujica frequently urged world leaders and citizens alike to adopt a more humane and less consumerist mindset—one that aimed for sustainable development for future generations.
“We have invented a mountain of superfluous needs. Shopping for new, discarding the old… That’s a waste of our lives! When I buy something, or you, we’re not paying with money. We’re paying with the time from our lives we had to spend to earn that money,” he said.
Mujica returned to his Senate seat from 2015 to 2018. Later, he continued to influence public discourse as an active commentator on political and economic developments. In April, he announced his intention to step away from the public spotlight due to being diagnosed with esophageal cancer.
Nevertheless, to the extent that his health allowed, Mujica remained politically active as a committed grassroots member of Uruguayan left. He participated in several campaign rallies during the election that brought Broad Front candidate Yamandu Orsi to the presidency.
“To live in accordance with how one thinks, that’s what I call having dignity. That’s how I try to live. And I don’t say that others should do it, but I do believe that if politicians lived like the majority, they would be respected,” said Mujica, a man who donated most of his presidential salary, drove an old Volkswagen Beetle, and lived in a modest farmhouse—choices that made his words resonate far beyond Uruguay.
For a musical memorium, here’s 13 minutes of afrobeat featuring one of his speeches:
(excuse the automated translation)
We promise a life of waste and waste. Deep down, it is a countdown to nature and humanity. Civilization against simplicity, against sobriety, against all natural cycles, against all natural cycles
But worse
“civilization” against the freedom of having time to live from human relations the only thing transcendent: love, friendship, adventure, solidarity, family…
Today is the time to start fighting to prepare a world without borders
The globalized economy has no other drive than the private interest of very few
The great task for our peoples, in our humble way of seeing… is the whole
It would be imperative to achieve planetary consensus
To unleash solidarity towards the most oppressed
Tax-catching waste
And the speculation
Mobilize the great savings
Not to create disposable
With calculated obsoleence
But useful goods, no frivolities
To help lift the world’s poorest
Yes, the high politics intertwined with wisdom
Our time is potentiously revolutionary
As you have not known the history of humanity
But he has no conscious driving.
Or less driving simply instinctive
Much less still
Organized political driving
Because we haven’t even had precursor philosophies
We need to govern ourselves, or we succumb
This is our dilemma
Let’s think about the underlying causes.
In the civilization of waste
In the civilization of insisting that what you are throwing away is time for wasted human life
Squandering on useless issues
Think of human life as a miracle
That we are alive by miracle
And nothing is worth more than life
And that it is our biological duty, and above all things
Respect life and drive it."
He certainly did.
Trump has decided not to rename the Persian Gulf to the ‘Arabian Gulf’, after Iran reportedly threatened to pull out of the negotiations – CNN
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Two ballistic missiles launched by Yemen at Israel, one launched at Ben Gurion airport, likey intercepted in the terminal phase by THAAD or Arrow 2 triggering air raid sirens (multiple interceptors were launched after the initial launch of Arrow 3 interceptors) with debris landing in Jerusalem, another intercepted or fell over Saudi Arabia, no air raid sirens for that missile. The air raid sirens were for
HamasPIJ’s Al-Quds Brigades rockets, in response to a large Israeli bombing in Gaza, targeting the “European Hospital”, killing 28 people. Apparently this strike was an assassination attempt on Mohammed Sinwar, but that is unconfirmed information.Yemeni Armed Forces statement on the first ballistic missile launch, no statement on the second yet:
Israeli airstrikes on the European Hospital:
You may have explained it before, but why does Yemen send so few rockets at a time? It seems like the best option would be to send many at different targets and push the zio’s ability to intercept them to the max
The simple answer is that a Maneuverable Re-entry Vehicle (MaRV) equipped medium range ballistic missile (MRBM) is very expensive to produce. The first ever missile of this class, the Pershing-II developed in the 1980s, cost $10 million each. Now costs have gone down and these systems have proliferated, but they still are quite expensive. The IRGC has said that a Fattah-1 MaRV equipped MRBM costs $200 000 just to manufacture, excluding research, development and training costs, upkeep and maintenance, deployment cost, etc. The Palestine-2 missile Ansarallah/the Houthis in Yemen use is a Kheibar Shekan/Fattah-1 variant. So even with costs having gone down by quite a large amount since the 1980s, each Palestine-2 missile costs hundreds of thousands, potentially over a million dollars. Only large state actors such as Iran can afford to fire large volleys of these missiles while maintaining readiness and stockpiles.
Given that, Ansarallah’s strategy is to mostly target countervalue targets in Israel like airports, with very limited strikes on counterforce targets like military installations. Now 100% interception of missiles aimed at a countervalue targets, where even a near miss can cause large economic damage (such as the missile that impacted around 500m from the Ben Gurion airport terminal) is impossible. Yemen just needs to trigger the air raid sirens every few days, and have a missile slip through the defensive net every month or two, to achieve their objectives at this level of exchange. Even if Israeli countervalue strikes (like the Israeli airstrikes on airports, seaports and cement factories a few days ago) do a disproportionate amount of damage, Ansarallah is prepared to absorb that, at least for now. This is what Trump means by saying “they’re prepared to take a tremendous amount of punishment”. It kind of breaks the traditional escalation model, usually if you hit your adversary much harder than they it you, the adversary ceases attacks. That doesn’t work in Yemen for a number of reasons, mainly to do with Ansarallah’s ideological commitment to the Palestinian cause, and the US-Iran situation.
i suspect not the cost, but rather oxidizer (i assume they are solid fuel?) and avionics are a crucial snag, you have to import those fuckers, can’t make them for bullshit lying around (well, you can but it would be rather noticeable installation).
*i actually wonder, avionics with modern powerful step motors can become achievable for diy anti-genocide enthusiasts
Also heat shielding, atmospheric re-entry at Mach 14+ is quite a violent experience. The heat shield also needs to be transparent enough to let the GNSS of the guidance system work, while surviving re-entry.
And yes, all solid fuel.
considering the precision, i would think they probably can deal with graphite foam or some shit, they are no exactly precise nor do they need to be for their goals. do they do terminal guidance at all?
*ah but they likely have to to get to 200m, nvmGuidance for the Fattah-1 and Kheibar Shekan series is INS (Inertial navigation using gyroscopic sensors) and satellite navigation in GNSS at all phases of flight, which also provides updates to the missiles current position to reduce compounding errors in the INS.
Accuracy from the missiles launched by Yemen is the same as those launched by Iran during Operation True Promise II, if not slightly better, mean error radius (known as circular error probable, or CEP) is probably around 400-500m now, if Iran corrected the overshoot issue during Operation True Promise II. I think the issue is that the INS system is not great, and the missiles suffer from GNSS jamming by Israel, leading to such a high CEP for a conventional weapon. The Iranian solution to this has been to mount electro optical seekers (likely infrared cameras) to their missiles for terminal guidance to improve accuracy, their longest range missile in this series is the recently released Qassem Basir, 1200-1300km range. There is no such version of the Kheibar Shekan or Fattah-1 though, so you’re right, no explicit terminal guidance system, just the GNSS and INS for all phases of flight.
ah so they do have inertial, interesting. cameras, as far as i know, is the most complicated way especially for the hypersonics (don’t think they do it due to blinding from plasma tbh) and on reentry as well likely wouldn’t work, you have to do complicated filters and stuff (not germanium windows, but close enough), as well as much more modern electronics to deal with information inputs.
They build them underground and can barely import stuff or really transport internal resources without being bombed.
The goal is extended economic damage against the entity, blockade and strangulation. If Yemen did that they would surely inflict damage but then be vulnerable to the response from the Zionists. This way they can keep shutting down the ports and airports indefinitely
I think it’s because they don’t have high volume production capacity and need to build their stockpile. They can probably only do a mass unloading once before they’d deplete what they have. If they lob one of two at a time, then they can keep the zionists on their toes while accruing missiles.
Ukraine , a land with very few problems , has Hungary currently amass its Army on his western borders now. Region of Carparthia in Ukraine is ethiniclly Hungarian and Ukraine Drafted extensivly from there . Also some days ago Ukraine security services made some raids against “Hungarian Sympathisants” there. So he can assume people there would rather be in Hungary. Some play might start there soon. or its just to try to draw some Units from the east to the west , to overextend Ukraine even more.
theres a Fun Joke about this Place that might now soon get an Addition.
spoiler
St. Peter asks a newcomer:
- Born?
- Austro-Hungary.
- Went to school?
- Czechoslovakia
- Married in?
- Hungary
- Kids born in?
- The Third Reich
- And your grandchildren?
- USSR.
- Where did you die?
- Ukraine.
- Man, you traveled a lot!
- Nonsense, I never left Mukachevo.
Hungary currently amass its Army on his western borders now.
“Amass” is a strong word, what is your source? Currently there’s an espionage scandal going on, and they try to use it to influence the next election.
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I’d assume Ukraine despite being outmatched by Russia would inflict horrific casualties on the untested and smaller Hungarian military
In fact if the Ukrainians went wild, I could see them easily pulling a 2014 ISIS-style offensive on Poland and Central Europe and making it all the way to the outskirts of Warsaw and Budapest, a military capable of continuously holding a 1200km attritional front with the likes of Russia poses a grave danger to the poorly performing militaries of liberal Europe
I’ve said this before but Europe is creating a monster in Ukraine, one that is rapidly heading towards “nothing to lose” territory
This is one of the deepest contradictions liberals are expected to swallow in the war.
That NATO had no plans to attack Russia, but that somehow Ukraine was powerful enough to challenge the entirety of Russia.
They built up a monstrously powerful military full of diehard nationalists, all while pretending Ukraine is a small weak country that proves Russia is pathetically weak due to their failure to conquer Ukraine in 3 days.
Ukraine would sweep over most European nations and could easily make a challenge for control of East Europe in its 2022 state.
I’d only visualize something like this occurring if the Ukrainian military still has strategic reserves to deploy to such a theoretical second front while maintaining their current defensive lines. Like I can imagine if they were to allocate the more NATO trained and orientated forces they keep on reserve and the nazi paramilitaries they may have enough manpower and armaments to push out a theoretical Hungarian incursion.
This is not even taking into account terrain difficulties between hungary and Ukraine. If hungary chose to just march over the border and take the small strip of land before the Ukrainian Carpathians and move forward their anti-air systems into the occupied strip and make mountain chokepoints, Ukraine would be hard fucking pressed to take it back.
Most of the pro-bandera regions got off really lightly when it comes to recruiting. In fact Transcarpathia and russophone ukraine were overproportionally drafted.
Past tense. There’s nobody left to recruit at this point anywhere in Ukraine
Here comes the babushka brigades
Yeah cuz they took the first train to warsaw!
yep - probably the most lethal force around , thinking abou it - maybe its some wierd - " lets use ukraine to invade Hungary to toppel Orban that blockades our Insane Policies against russia… " - insanity Plan of the EU & Hungary tries to preempt.
link?
So there’s nothing about this in Hungarian media, and the Hungarian liberals are very keen to prove that Orban wants war against Ukraine. With that said with the current scandal I wouldn’t be surprised if they sent a couple of tanks to the Ukrainian border, hardly a massive military presence though. Any state would be idiotic not to deploy additional forces to its border with a nation currently at war.
There was an air force military exercise happening lately, and there was this:
However, there is a unanimous opinion that what is happening is part of a months-long intelligence game, parts of which have already become public. Our sources also attribute to this same game the incident that happened last week but was not publicized: the Hungarian Defense Forces’ radar in Tokaj detected drones flying into Hungary, one of which was shot down. The Hungarians suspect that the drones came from Ukraine.
and this:
However, our sources maintain that a Ukrainian intelligence operation did indeed occur, and after Hungarian national security agencies leaked this information, the Ukrainian services began to feel the pressure. We understand that they have mobilized significant resources to uncover the sources who are providing information to the Hungarian services.
Given that Hungarian counterintelligence has also been extremely active against Ukrainian intelligence recently, our sources do not rule out the possibility that the Ukrainians carried out a so-called “preemptive strike” with Friday’s announcement, meaning they struck first. The operation appears pre-planned and well-coordinated, as our information suggests that when the Hungarian leadership was informed about it on Friday morning, the international media had already sent them questions.
Considering that in these kinds of intelligence games, both sides, Ukrainian and Hungarian, may have an interest in discrediting the other or engaging in disinformation, these stories are particularly susceptible to requiring a high degree of skepticism when evaluating information. However, it is clear that there is serious tension between the services of the two countries, and in recent times, more Ukrainian intelligence officers than before have been detected in Hungary. “There will likely be a response to the Ukrainians’ recent move,” our sources said.
So there’s nothing about this in Hungarian media
there is never much in Media about Military movements , especially if its the own countries Military Moving Internally. You can pic a better word then “amass” - its not like i now the numbers - but Hungary has only a few tanks (140 MBT) and has stationed Armor in Záhony, Beregsurány, Tiszabecs, Barabás und Nagybodósz apperently - so i consider Amass the right choice of word.
there is never much in Media about Military movements
No, it’s just strange because this is very much in the news cycle right now, the opposition leader is saying Orban secretly wants war with Ukraine, and Orban’s party accusing the opposition leader to be an inside man for both the EU and the Ukrainian secret service
Like this is very much the top story right now this espionage angle, but then this espionage angle is about whether the Hungarian state did any preparations in order to invade Transcarpathia, so I’m pretty sure the Hungarian liberal/opposition media would jump on the fact that the Hungarian army is doing anything out of the ordinary at the border. (And they did cover the drone being shot down)
And the sources you’ve posted is a noname twitter handle, who retweeted an Ukrainian OSINT tweet and a Greek newspaper. For all we know the original Ukrainian OSINT tweet is actually the Ukrainian secret service planting the story themselves
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I’ve opened the link again, and the source is not OSINT but Euromaidan itself. Before I was like 20% sure it was a planted story by the SBU, now I’m more like 90%
so its Ukrainian Media- Fudd to give the opposition a Push ? Tank movements are Fake ? - whats the play here ? I dont think Ukraine is much interested in having to deploy into transnistria , nor can hungary expect to take transnistria - or make a move - something else needs to happen first , transcarpian seperatist declaring a republic or something… , maybe its the other way around with ukraine arming some Gladio-esque groups in Hungary… (probably viewed as an enemy state by Ukraine now- maybe even encouraged from the west) …
Tank movements are Fake
We’ve seen like two tanks on a street? Where are they, and where are they heading?
The footage might be real, but the narrative around it: “Hungary is actively working towards the potential invasion of Transcarpathia” that’s 100% part of the espionage game that became public last week
give the opposition a Push
Every opposition party in Hungary is pro-Nato basically, so yes, Ukraine doesn’t want the Hungarians to impede the EU in giving billions to Ukraine
It’ll be immensely funny if Ukraine get’s attacked by
country, retaliate and then get invaded by other countriesGiven the current geopolitical situation, I wouldn’t be surprised if NATO just outright refused to help Hungary if they declared war on Ukraine. Fuck the charter, everything is vibes now
It was only a matter of time. If Hungary manages to pull it off, then expect other vultures to feast on the dying carcass that is the Ukrainian state. Especially since the “international sanctity of borders” type of liberal imperialism is on its way out.
Understanding the Relationship Between Ansar Allah and Hamas by Moussa al Sadah
Ansar Allah has maintained a principled stance toward the Palestinian cause, even when some Palestinian factions stood against it. Loyalty to Palestine was a revolutionary constant, not a tactical variable. They knew that yielding to divisions or aligning with sectarian polarizations would only serve Zionist interests. Thus, Ansar Allah’s core principles, outlined in the speeches of its leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi, and even the battlefield chants of its fighters amid Saudi-American aggression, all remained anchored amid adversity. Emotionally and ideologically, the movement preserved a deep-rooted, anti-Zionist animus that continues to shape Yemeni political consciousness.
From this foundation, the convergence of the two movements in a moment of revolutionary magnitude on October 7th marked a dramatic shift, one that neither side had fully anticipated. For Hamas and its fighters, a new actor suddenly entered their social and operational sphere, as though they were just now discovering this group long obscured by nearly a decade of Arab and international media distortion and warfare: the so-called “Houthis.”
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For their part, Ansar Allah offered a principled model of Arab political and sentimental solidarity with Palestine and its resistance movements. The Yemeni movement’s ideological foundation, rooted in the revolutionary teachings of its founder, the martyr Sayyed Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi, is exceptional. His vision, forged in the early 2000s and remained unwavering, was pan-Islamic, anti-imperialist, and radically opposed to Zionism. This vision sees the Palestinian struggle not as a slogan, but as an existential Arab cause that demands humility, commitment, and unwavering support.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says, ‘There will be no scenario in which we stop the war,’ adding that even if Hamas releases additional Israeli prisoners, IDF operations in Gaza will continue.
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Civil Registry Law: Cuba could allow legal sex change without surgery or court order. Cuba will debate a bill to allow sex change in documents without surgery or court ruling. The measure faces criticism for not including non-binary people and for possible practical limitations.
The change, presented as an advance by authorities and pro-government activists, comes in the midst of a strong economic crisis, with the health system unable to guarantee gender reassignment operations that were already allowed by the Cuban State. The proposal was detailed in an article published by Cubadebate. The draft bill has been reviewed by the National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX), headed by Mariela Castro, who complained that it is not yet sufficiently advanced because it contemplates the designations of female and male, without including non-binary groups.
The announcement coincides with the celebration of the so-called “conga against homophobia” that took place on Saturday in El Vedado. The mobilization was authorized and led by the government. Hundreds of people carried banners with slogans such as “Socialism yes, transphobia no”. “As a trans person I am advocating for a gender identity law,” Yoilán Balón told The Associated Press. The demand is evidence of the fundamental shortcomings, because Cuba still lacks comprehensive legislation on this issue.
Currently, in Cuba it is only possible to change the registered sex after genital reassignment surgery, a procedure paralyzed in practice by the lack of resources of the health system.
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Ansar Allah movement has declared that new negotiations with the US will not affect its operations against Israel . This announcement comes on the heels of the recent Israeli bombing of Sana airport, which caused an estimated $500 million in damage
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I thought everyone should know that the Australian government told people to do a political compass test to decide who to vote for this election. I’m not even joking.
I think they did that in the previous 2 elections, I remember doing it in 2019, they tell me i’m more right wing than the greens lol
*i’m thinking of the abc news test
The Swedish government tells people to do that every election. They have a political compass test on the state media website and every media outlet uses a modified version of it. Swedish politics are hilariously controlled and they don’t try to hide it at all.
They did the same in Canada, really advertising it hard in the National Hockey League playoffs.
The CBC runs one with every Canadian election too, they call it VoteCompass lol
I didn’t do the test but IIRC it was full of Yank brainrot culture war shit
Are you FAR LEFT (Tony Blair neoliberalism) or are you CENTER RIGHT (deport all non-white immigrants)?
Deeply unserious people…
India denies Trump’s involvement in de-escalation with Pakistan - Prensa Latina
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Foreign Ministry sources said there was no reference to trade in talks between U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 9.
They said there was also no reference to trade in talks after the launch of Operation Sindoor between U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Foreign Minister Subrahmanyan Jaishankar on May 8 and 10 and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on May 10.
On Saturday, India and Pakistan agreed to halt all firing and military actions on land, air and sea in talks between the director generals of military operations.
A statement from the Indian foreign secretary confirmed that the decision was taken after a phone call from the Pakistani side and instructions were given to give effect to the agreement.
In talks the previous day, in a second discussion between the military chiefs, issues related to the continuity of the commitment of both sides not to fire or initiate any aggressive or hostile action against each other were discussed.
According to diplomatic sources in New Delhi, it was also agreed that both sides would consider immediate measures to ensure troop reductions at borders and forward areas.
