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Those who were around in the early days of the news megathread may remember Pedro Castillo, the left-leaning leader of Peru who was deposed in December 2022. He was replaced by Dina Boluarte, the first woman to be President of Peru, who described herself as a progressive but afterwards routinely sided with Peruvian conservatives and American interests. To say she was unpopular is an understatement of titanic proportions - she descended to such lows that she was, at one point, the single most unpopular leader on the planet. As with most deeply unpopular leaders that side with the West, she kept power for a bafflingly long time.
However, on October 10th, after a period of protests against the government, she was impeached and removed by Peru's Congress in a unanimous vote. José Jerí was sworn in as the new President, who was previously the President of the Congress and is a member of a centrist Peruvian party. The government is trying the classic strategy: keep doing the same thing as before, and sacrifice an unpopular figure - here, Boluarte - in the hopes that this appeases the crowd.
Is this strategy working? It doesn't really seem to be - protests are not only continuing, but strengthening, as it is clear that neoliberalism will not reformed and the brutality by police will not stop (there was very recently a high-profile case in which a musician, Mauricio Ruiz, was murdered). Controversies surrounding Jerí, including allegations of SA, are already being reported. If Jerí is deposed, the next person in line to try their hand at ruling will be the former army general Roberto Chiabra, who would be the ninth President in less than a decade.
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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.
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.
The neolib PM of Belgium is blocking the release of interest of Russian assets parked at Euroclear as a loan to Ukraine. I hate the guy but
But, as with anything concerning the EU and Ukraine, its only a matter of time before they go through with it i guess. Truly the most cucked collection of states.
This might go better for larger "industrialized" economies like Germany but it'll be a disaster for financial service economies. This is quite literally a financial Kamikaze.
given that we just saw the Dutch seize a Chinese company and cause European car manufacturers to be cut out of access to the chips they need to actually make anything, it seems European states are quite eager to do shit like this
(although tbf, the Nexperia thing basically doesn't even count as a kamikaze attack - while those are desperate, they do at least carry some chance to actually hurt the enemy, and it's not entirely clear what the seizure has actually accomplished, given that the Dutch didn't get, like, an actual factory that makes stuff, but seemingly just administrative offices - the actual productive capacity is mostly in China itself, so they basically did nothing other than hurt Europe?)
The dutch economy is highly dependent on serving other economies. They don’t produce a lot, besides agricultural products.
They get to keep the precious MBA's
Operation Paperclip, except it's about capturing incredibly valuable CEOs and middle managers
operation clippy
That doesn't actually seem to be true, all of their front-end (fab) factories are in Europe and they have as many European R&D facilities as they do in China. You can run the whole Nexperia production chain without involving Chinese factories.
There are no assembly and testing factories in Europe though, they're located in China, the Philippines, and Malaysia. That seems to be one of the biggest holdups for the Dutch.
Their headquarters and administrative offices are mostly located in the Netherlands though, yes.
I was going by this earlier article about the assembly being done mostly in China, but I guess there are the other Asian plants. However, I'm not sure if the whole process can really work without the Chinese factory, or at least work at anywhere near the same scale - the Philippine plant seems to be pretty small and specialized, the Malaysian one is decently-sized but also seems to have some degree of specialization as per the description on the site. But I dunno, I'm not really knowledgeable about chip manufacturing.
It definitely won't be working at the same scale, since the China assembly factory has the majority of Nexperia's capacity. Going from 71 billion to 21 billion pieces per year is definitely a chip disruption that automakers won't enjoy.
The Dutch still get factories out of this, though, and if I understand the Malaysian plant right they can still produce almost all of the different models. They just can't make enough to meet current demand, so they did indeed hurt Europe.
They might even technically have the majority of the productive capacity since all of the fabs are European, even if they can't finish the pieces.
Most of the feudal remnant European statelets are kept afloat artificially via finance services. Guess we will have fewer of those in the future.
the Luxembourgeoisie are in for bad times
It would be the beginning of the end for the European financial status quo. The most fundamental rule of the game is that property is sacred. The moment you break that rule, you can't be trusted anymore by anyone. Today it's Russian central bank assets, but if they can do it to Russia, they can do it to you. Doesn't matter if they claim they'd never do it again or that these are extraordinary circumstances, they'd be opening Pandora's Box.
That's not to say I don't think they'd do it, just that it would be disastrous if they did.
It's only because Belgium is afraid of being left hanging to pay it all after
stalling coz they blew it all on coke
A two act story:
A few weeks later
The guy seized russian money "to give to ukraine" and then got caught red-handed buying millions of lottery ticket with it lmao. What a champ