Bulletins and News Discussion from January 13th to January 19th, 2025 - From Mar-A-Lago to Nuuk - COTW: Denmark (including Greenland)
Bulletins and News Discussion from January 13th to January 19th, 2025 - From Mar-A-Lago to Nuuk - COTW: Denmark (including Greenland)
The imperial core is continuing the process of self-cannibalization as the interimperial wars between Europe and the US over resource and territorial control continue. Greenland, populated with less than a hundred thousand heavily exploited people, is the newest territory to fall under Trump's gaze. The main draw is the mineral resources present there, of which it boasts nickel, copper, cobalt, and platinum, and much more than remains unexplored under the ice. But the ice is melting, and profit must be made. There is an additional element of wanting Arctic territory to counter Chinese and especially Russian interests and aims; Russia is increasingly eyeing the northern Arctic route as an alternative to more vulnerable routes through the Suez Canal or around Africa, and is investing heavily in icebreakers for that purpose.
However, even if Europe possessed the desire to resist American annexations - and they absolutely do not, at the end of the day - they do not even have the ability. Denmark may, to a lesser or greater extent, make angry sounds and talk about national honour or some such, but their military would be trampled underfoot by even the New York Police Department, let alone a concerted military effort by the US. If Trump wants Greenland, he will have it. This will naturally increase the grumbling in Europe about reconsidering the Transatlantic alliance, and that grumbling may, in the medium-term future, as the American Empire continues its decline, lead to meaningful results. But in the short term, Europe shall have to bear whatever Trump throws at them, for they obviously cannot now ally with Russia, who was the natural counterweight to American interests for decades before 2022.
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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.
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SHOT:
https://x.com/academic_la/status/1878889705837842653
Israel has capitulated on several factors, allowing for a deal to be reached:
- Isreal has agreed to withdraw FULLY from Gaza leaving no troops or security zone. That includes a full withdrawal from the Philadelphi corridor.
- It has agreed to allow Hamas to rule Gaza. That is not in the agreement, but there is also no mechanism to remove Hamas.
- Israel has agreed not to exile released prisoners but rather let them into Gaza again.
- Israel has waived its demand for a list of live hostages.
- It has agreed to allow residents to return to northern Gaza with only symbolic security measures.
- Israel agreed to accept dead bodies in the first stage.
All of these were red lines for Israel at one point. It is remarkable that all of them are being waived. The victory for Hamas is remarkable.
The reason this happened is clear. Despite incredible victories on the battlefield, Israel has not offered a political program to replace Hamas or moved to remove them from Gaza as a governing force. It has failed to translate IDF gains into political ones. That has, in essence, nullified all of its military achievements.
Given the reaction from other Israeli media, this seems to generally be accurate. Supposedly this is happening because Trump told Netanyahu to have a deal in place by his inauguration or else.
CHASER:
I honestly don't know what to feel or think. What has to be hundreds of thousands have died and those who survived went from living in a concentration camp to a pile of rubble in a concentration camp. It seems like a damned if don't, damned if you do scenario for the resistance.
Assuming Trump doesn't nuke Tehran instead, he was 100% the lesser evil choice if this deal actually goes through. All those Harris voters threw away whatever semblances of morals they had left for nothing.
It's hard to say what's going on. Qatar seems to have been the outside driver of this from a foreign perspective, but it's hard to imagine that they would do this with the explicit bargain being, "Get this peace deal done and we will let you put us directly into Iran's cross hairs."
Trump was the harm reduction candidate
How will Gaza rebuild?
It has been 11 months since I last pasted this:
UN estimates concluded that after the current war, it will take at least a year just to clear the rubble, and between seven and 10 years to rebuild the destroyed homes, and it would take the Gaza Strip until 2092 just to restore the GDP levels of 2022, with GDP per capita and socioeconomic conditions continuously declining. However, even with the most optimistic scenario, it would still take the Gaza Strip’s GDP per capita until 2035 to return to its pre-blockade level.
Mornin!
It wont. The land is already polluted with chemical warfare. It is the equivalent of a superfund site. It needs to be decontaminated first before rebuilding. Since that is unlikely to happen, generations of gazans will suffer genetic conditions caused by the wastes of war, along with the other myriad of pains caused by genocide.
I know its cliche, but I hope China does a lot of the work. They have a nuts construction industry, and it would make them look really good. I don't think it would mess up their neutrality stuff, but who knows.
That would be a wild showboat if it happened.
If rebuilding ever happens (and probably a big if) I gotta think that American companies are going to "win" these contracts. And there will just be some suss shit that happens, like them being armed and picking off civilians, to which they'll get a response and the region will be thrown back into "unrest" cause by US aggression and the US will just say "we were trying to help them and they're being mean to us, they don't want help"
Fuck the kkkUSA
I haven't seen that covered. If I had to guess, funding and construction firms will come in from the GCC, Turkey, and maybe China. I'm sure the West will try to shove IMF loans on Gaza, as well. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump or someone in Trump's orbit was promised a cut of the action by the GCC, either. Usually a peace deal comes first and recovery/rebuilding deals come later.
Given the reaction from other Israeli media, this seems to generally be accurate. Supposedly this is happening because Trump told Netanyahu to have a deal in place by his inauguration or else.
Trump achieving better results without even being in office than Democrats achieved in 2 years
I don’t believe for a second that Trump is playing hardball with Netanyahu. IMO it’s much more likely the “deal” is that Trump told Netanyahu to get this done or else he won’t support Israel annexing the West Bank. Remember that Miriam Adelson gave Trump $100 million allegedly contingent on him supporting Israel annexing the West Bank. Her people denied it but billionaires don’t exactly give away money with no strings attached, and she is a rabid ultra-Zionist.
Can't achieve what you are actively working to prevent from happening.
Funniest outcome here is Trump sees this as an opportunity to give Democrats and the media a taste of their own medicine by prosecuting a bunch of the Biden admin for war crimes lol. Highly unlikely, but very funny possibility. Deal yet to be done though, so don't want to get too ahead of myself.
If this happens I will become a jihadist for Trump.
He'd have to lock up many Republicans too though. I'm worried that this cease fire may lead to another conflict elsewhere, aimed at Iran. It's hard to imagine Isreal can even ever go back to brunch at this point.
He controls the executive branch, he can more or less pick and choose he who wants to prosecute.
This shows how much all the talk about how Biden wants a deal and emis expressing grave concerns was complete bullshit. The US president can make the zionists stop just by making a phone call.
Democrats wanted this to happen. Its not incapability but permissibility.
Of course. I know that and you know that. Normie libs don’t so this is something that will break their brains.
Ask them why their "progressive" team is more permissive of genocide than Trump the fascist? These people need beat into their skulls that Democrats are not their friends or allies or "lesser of two evils". They are evil incarnate, genocidal monstrosities.
I'll believe it when Israel inks a deal and then we go more than 48h without a video of the idf doing a controlled demolition of a hospital for orphans
Fingers crossed though
I'm happy to see this for the sake of Palestine. But can't help thinking it's all about shifting gears and focusing on Iran.
🙏christ pls