Image is of the Preah Vihear Temple on the Cambodian border. Image sourced from the UNESCO World Heritage website.
Over the last few days, Thailand and Cambodia entered into a heightened stage of conflict due to a long-running border dispute. Like many problems on this planet, Europeans are ultimately to blame - specifically France. Certain sections of the border drawn up by France about a century ago were not fully agreed upon by both sides, with the ownership of some Khmer temples being the most visible points of disagreement.
Despite interventions in favor of Cambodia in the 1960s and later 2010s by the ICJ - one of the mainly mostly useless global institutions that liberals periodically disown - the border conflict has simmered at a generally low level. Of the two countries, Thailand is significantly more militarily and economically powerful.
Last Wednesday, a Thai soldier lost his leg by stepping on a landmine, prompting a rapid escalation between Cambodia and Thailand that has since resulted in dozens of deaths and tens of thousands displaced. Cambodia was willing to come to the negotiating table fairly quickly, but Thailand was more hesitant. International pressure on the two countries by Malaysia, China, and the United States eventually forced Thailand to the table, and they have recently agreed to an immediate ceasefire courtesy of ASEAN.
Notably, Trump refused to hold trade talks with either country until they agreed to peace, which suggests that he really wants a Nobel Peace Prize - which he seems a shoe-in for given that he’s met the two most important requirements that several Nobel Peace Prize recipients have needed to meet in the past, which are: 1) start at least one war, and 2) accelerate the genocide of millions of people as billions more people watch on. His policies vis-a-vis ICE creating a domestic terror regime only further increase his chances of winning the prize.
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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.
Chris Smalls, cofounder of the union for amazon workers, was on the latest Freedom Flotilla for Gaza and has been severely beaten by Israeli cops in detention. Smalls, who is Black, was the only abducted member of the crew to suffer such violence. he and the other activists are on a hunger strike https://xcancel.com/GazaFFlotilla/status/1950053773835108448#m
reminder that the coward zionist Bernie Sanders has used the word “genocide” both for Russia’s attempts to stop Ukraine’s ethnic cleansing of the Donbas and proxy war of NATO encroachemnt, and about China’s supposed treatment of the Uyghurs, but still has not done so for the disgusting livestreamed genocide happening in Occupied Palestine. I expect that when he finally stops defending zionism will be when he dies and then I will spit on his grave. also I want my donations back you scumbag
EDIT: uhh source https://xcancel.com/zei_squirrel/status/1951047259996504123
News thread discussing potential nuclear war, genocide, some ten paragraph analysis of the political situation in Estonia or something:
News thread discussing a certain candidate in the nyc mayoral election;
London underground yesterday:
Persian leopard managed to escape its enclosure, attacks and kills israeli settler zookeeper 36 year old Uriel Nuri at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo.
The leopard is ok 👍
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader Marwan Abdel-Al to L’Humanité:
“The so-called two-state solution conference is not so much a peace initiative as it is a recycling of a political illusion that reality has surpassed. The conference, in format and timing, resembles an official funeral for a solution that no longer exists except in diplomatic statements. What is being presented today under the title of “two-state solution” does not constitute a project for liberation, but rather a permanent management of a colonial tragedy.
Europe, including France, may now theoretically recognize a Palestinian state, but in reality, it finances coexistence projects with the occupation, funded the war—being the mother of the nuclear bomb—and avoids any real measures against settlements, the siege, or stopping the genocide.
Palestinians do not need more words, but clear political action: recognition of a sovereign, independent state, the removal of the occupation, and an end to Western colonial partnerships with the “israeli” apartheid regime.
The real solution begins with changing the balance of power on the ground. Our people want an end to the occupation… not an international absolution.
Most Palestinians—especially the new generation—have come to consider this solution a political trap. How can one speak of “two states” when there are projects of annihilation, ethnic cleansing, annexation, and expansion, and there are more than 700,000 settlers in the West Bank?
Where is the state in the shadow of a wall that separates families, and with crossings managed at the whim of occupation soldiers?
We are not demanding a symbolic entity under “israeli” sovereignty; rather, we want real liberation, the right of return, and historical justice.
The majority of Palestinians, at home and in the diaspora, have come to see it as an illusion. How can we talk about “two states”? The issue has moved beyond symbolic recognition to a question of justice, the right of return, and the dismantling of the apartheid system.
The Palestine Liberation Organization is the product of a national experience and the foundation of Palestinian national action, and its pandemic stems from this basis.
[What is the alternative?] The alternative is the dismantling of the colonial system from its roots. The alternative is not a ready-made recipe, but a long liberatory path. It begins, however, with the recognition that Israel is not a “democratic” state but a colonial regime, as happened in South Africa. We do not reject the “two-state solution” because we are radicals, but because it is no longer viable.
The alternative is a single democratic state on the entire land, where all people are equal without religious or ethnic discrimination. Or, at the very least, a liberation framework that opens the door to all options, far from the logic of “peace in exchange for submission.”
Palestine today is a mirror to the world: between international law and the force of arms, between the victim and propaganda. Standing with Palestine is a test of human conscience, not just a political stance. We do not want the colonial system to use the proposal of a two-state solution to whitewash its record or its inaction. This requires the French left to free itself from the pressure of the dominant imperialist media or the fear of moral blackmail. We expect the left to reclaim its radical language: to say that what is happening in Palestine is not a conflict, but settler-colonialism and systematic genocide. And to stand with the truth without a false equivalence between the murderer and the victim. There is no neutrality in the face of genocide.
We are not asking for emotional solidarity, but for political and moral commitment. Palestine today is not just the cause of a people being slaughtered, but a universal issue in which our humanity is being tested.
If Palestine falls, international standards and justice fall with it. From Paris to Gaza, the battle is one: against fascism and the new racism, and against the colonial memory that has not yet died.”
“ZIONIST SOLDIERS BARBECUED inside their APC
Footage released by Al-Qassam Brigades shows a resistance fighter throw an IED inside one of the Zionist APCs targeted in the ambush 2 days ago (post above); the end of the footage shows a Zionist excavator burying the APC to put out the fire
The enemy only admitted to 3 killed and others wounded in the ambush“
https://tankie.tube/w/tXBZ3xqW6LXUqfhsG3nJFQ
These men are blowing up APCs and setting ambushes in bare feet (separate video). Incredible and inspiring
Just straight up hanging out hatches open yet 0 infantry cover, 0 situational awareness. The iof aren’t even worthy of the grueling training the resistance had to do. If they didn’t have full impunity in the air, they would be absolutely thrashed.
salute to the iof’s absolute refusal to engage in infantry support. really showcases how zionists see every life, even those of their conscripted soldiers, as meaningless when compared to the land grab
yet again, israel is literally starship troopers
This is different from the one of these we saw a few weeks ago, right? Endless praise and support to the heroic resistance fighters of Gaza.
Yes, this was from 2 days ago. New operation, the video dropped today. They should be an inspiration to all of us
Against all odds and armed with nothing more than hand-delivered explosives, the palestinian is truly the bravest warrior out there.
Only someone who has their very existence to lose and everything else to win will do such a thing. Only a person who has a deep desire to survive and emerge victorious against the cruel Genocide can carry out such act of bravery. I have nothing but a profound admiration for these people despite our ideological differences, they shall serve as an example and inspiration to everyone else who wants to fight injustice and death.
Compare this with the Nazis, or the “israelis” (Is there any difference?). When their very existence was up in the air they ran away, backstabbed each other and shot themselves in the head, they just didn’t stand there and made the ultimate sacrifice for their “highest ideals”, they can’t, they couldn’t and they will never be like that.
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I like how when talking about the shooting victims in the NYC shooting they lead with “a mom” and then point out she was a Blackstone executive. Like damn, I wonder why they wouldn’t just say Blackstone executive.
Sky News (tv) has been banging on ALL DAY that China is preparing to invade Taiwan. Why are they suddenly on this shit again? Is it true? I don’t even know anymore.
Israel [sic] abducted starving children at Gaza “aid” sites, then tortured them | Electronic Intifada
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One of the children testified to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights that at the time of the kidnapping, the Israeli [sic] soldiers beat him with his hands and a stick and forced him to take off his clothes. He said that he and the other children were all placed inside metal cages that were one square meter large, where it was impossible to lay down or sit comfortably, and were given rotten food to eat.
“They then took me to a barrack containing four rooms with steel mesh roofs and concrete floors,” the child said. “The rooms had beds without mattresses and only one blanket. We were forced to remain seated on the beds all day and were not allowed to move.”
The child said that he was interrogated for a full week, with daily sessions of four-hour questioning about “Hamas, tunnels, hostages, cameras, handmade bombs, and identifying houses in my residential area.”
The Israeli [sic] interrogator, the child explained, “was dissatisfied with my answers because I had no answers to his questions. He beat me with his hands while my hands and feet were tied to a chair. Sometimes the interrogation was done without anger or threats, because the investigator already knew detailed information about my family, which made me fear for them.”
The child was taken to what is known as the “disco room,” where Hebrew-language songs “were played loudly, and the air conditioner was set to a high temperature. I was blindfolded and my hands and feet were tied to a pipe all day. I remained there for seven days on the floor,” he said.
Despite heavy rainfall, in the capital Sana’a, the people of Yemen once again took to the streets in a powerful show of solidarity with the people of Gaza.
August 1, 2025.
The recent rants of Dmitry Medvedev, ex President and Prime Minister of Russia, and current deputy head of the security council. Medvedev has been Putin’s right hand man since the 1990s, for over three decades, this is why what he says matters to an extent. Russia uses Medvedev’s social media posts and ramblings to portray more controversial (and sometimes straight up outrageous) opinions, allowing Putin to avoid the flak, and allowing for these posts to be seperate from official government statements. A “good cop bad cop” strategy, if you will. Medvedev’s not just a random shit poster, though you’d be forgiven for thinking that, given just how out there some of his statements are. Up until now, no one has taken what he’s said completely seriously, because of the above. But that’s changed.
Medvedev, July 15th, in response to Trump’s press conference with NATO leader Rutte on Twitter:
Trump issued a theatrical ultimatum to the Kremlin. The world shuddered, expecting the consequences. Belligerent Europe was disappointed. Russia didn’t care.
The usual type of thing you’d expect from him. But Medvedev’s tone changed abruptly two days later, July 17th, in a TASS interview. Turns out Russia did actually care, and Medvedev starts talking about pre-emptive strikes:
“We [Russia] need to act accordingly. To respond in full. And if necessary, launch preemptive strikes [against NATO]. What is happening today is a proxy war, but in essence it is a full-scale war (launches of Western missiles, satellite intelligence, etc.), sanctions packages, loud statements about the militarisation of Europe”.
On July 28th, when Trump announced a 10 day deadline for a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war, Medvedev took to Twitter again:
Trump’s playing the ultimatum game with Russia: 50 days or 10… He should remember 2 things:
- Russia isn’t Israel or even Iran.
- Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country. Don’t go down the Sleepy Joe road!
And in response to Lindsey Graham:
It’s not for you or Trump to dictate when to ‘get at the peace table’. Negotiations will end when all the objectives of our military operation have been achieved. Work on America first, gramps!
Medvedev then took to his personal Telegram to issue a thinly veiled nuclear threat, with regards to a second strike this time:
About Trump’s threats against me on his personal network Truth, which he banned from operating in our country
If some words of the former president of Russia cause such a nervous reaction from the whole so formidable president of the USA, it means that Russia is right in everything and will continue to go its way.
And about India and Russia’s “dead economy” and “entering dangerous territory” - well, let him remember his favourite Walking Dead movies and how dangerous a non-existent "dead hand"😂 can be.
In reference to the Perimeter/Dead Hand nuclear weapons control system in Russia, designed to launch Russia’s ICBMs even if all command centres are taken out, by detecting radiation from a first strike on Russia. It’s speculated to be both operational in a semi automatic mode, where a commander must first activate/switch on the system, and after that it can operate in a fully automatic mode, operating without the need of human intervention to launch ICBMs. Medvedev could be hinting that the system is in high alert mode/operating fully automatically at the moment, or threatening to put it in such a mode.
Trump and the United States have, for the first time, chosen to take Medvedev seriously and at his word, and have publicly announced that two Ohio Class Ballistic Missile Submarines are currently patrolling with Russia in mind , via Trump on Truth Social.
Based on the highly provocative statements of the Former President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, who is now the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that. Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences, I hope this will not be one of those instances. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Each Ohio Class SSBN can carry 24 Trident II SLBMs each, with either 8 high yield nuclear warheads (475kt W88) per Trident II, or 12 lower yield warheads (5-100kt W76, depending on variant) per Trident II. Under the NEW START treaty, the SSBNs were limited to 20 Trident IIs each, and averaged around 4 warheads per Trident II. But Russia withdrew NEW START in 2023, neither Russia or the United States are obligated to follow it as of now, and it’s set to expire in February 2026. The submarines were likely already there beforehand, the US has 4 SSBNs on patrol at any time. Trump’s statement just serves as a very public reminder. Russia is not the only country that can play this game in the media with thinly veiled nuclear threats, and mentioning pre-emptive and second strike capabilitiy, is what Trump is trying to say.
90,000 people marched across the Sydney harbour bridge for Palestine, 40,000 more than the organisers expected.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-03/pro-palestinian-march-sydney-melbourne-august-3/105605280
Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma
I have no words. If there is one thing that I firmly believe it’s that the people who supported this and who let this happen should never ever ever be able to live it down. In fact I don’t think they should ever be able to live at all.
