A reminder that as the US continues to threaten countries around the world, fedposting is to be very much avoided (even with qualifiers like “in Minecraft”) and comments containing it will be removed.

Image is of the Jazan refinery complex in southwestern Saudi Arabia, near the Yemeni border. The big squares depict large thermal signatures - i.e. giant fires caused by missile strikes.

My weekly preamble is in spoiler tags below.

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As many predicted quite early on in this conflict, the US simply does not have the stockpiles nor production lines to maintain the firing rates we saw in March and April. There’s at least five strictly military problems:

  1. Not enough interceptors to shoot down Iranian missiles, and many missiles get through regardless. This includes a dearth of interceptors in the Zionist entity proper.

  2. Not enough stand-off munitions to cause a real breakdown of Iran’s military and society. There’s enough left in the submarines and in whatever stockpiles they have mustered to give one last very serious barrage before they’re just completely out (unless they start taking all their missiles out of the Pacific and Europe), but even if this is done, this shock and awe failed the first time around, and the missile cities have proven impregnable to Western military technology.

  3. Not enough penetration of Iranian airspace to allow a transition from stand-off bombs to their near-endless supply of glide/gravity bombs. On the edges of Iranian territory it can be possible, but doing so any further inside causes exponential risk to the bombers. Notably, Reaper drones can carry JDAMs, hence why they continue to be used so much despite how often they’re getting shot down.

  4. Not enough naval power to reopen Hormuz. Otherwise, the US could hypothetically wait out Iran and exert economic and covert pressure to encourage political collapse; with Hormuz in Iran’s hands, the US’s delaying tactics favor Iran instead.

  5. Not enough functioning and safe bases from which to launch counterattacks. Due to debasification (a word that has now spread far and wide after Amerikanet’s coining, lol), the US has been pushed back away from the Gulf. This dangerously overpopulates rear bases with planes and makes it so sortie rates are reduced due to how much distance you have to travel and how many refuelers you need per bomber.

No angry proclamations, media offensives, or tacky AI image posts can change this reality, and boy is Trump putting out a lot of that last one. This is why, after the two weeks of attacks we just saw, we see the US very reticent to try and escalate further, and Trump’s threat over last weekend to really start bombing Iran did not occur. This is being reflected in the US media, with several worried articles talking about how there just aren’t enough missiles to keep the conflict going much longer. One of the only options left is to use ground/special forces to do… something, though pretty much no matter what target he selects, it’s hard to imagine it breaking Iran, or doing much to end the conflict, or even being a successful operation past the point where you’ve landed troops somewhere. We saw the “pilot rescue” (uranium heist) operation fail and aborted before the forces could even step foot off the runway they landed on.

It is into this environment that Ansarallah has suddenly declared a blockade of Saudi Arabia - an architect of the blockade of Yemen and one of the major causes of the country’s internal divisions between Ansarallah and comprador groups - and is turning their ships around at the entrance to the Red Sea, thereby cutting off a good chunk of the Saudi’s remaining oil exports. Ansarallah has proven they were not interested in some cautious, gradual climb up the escalation ladder; when the Saudis hit a couple Yemeni port facilities, they went ahead and hit Jazan and Yanbu so hard that the fires were still raging a day or two after the initial strikes. The US is apparently asking for the MoU back, and this time with Ansarallah also placated, but it appears Iran is much less interested in the MoU now after it was thoroughly violated by the US the first time - and if it does return to it, it might have much more hardline demands.

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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine

If you have evidence of Zionist crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

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 the Zionists’ 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.

Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Sources:

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.

  • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netMEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Inspired by the ‘Mother of the Nation’, Black women in Argentina are demanding historical agendas - BdF

    In Argentina, the Mother of the Nation is Afro-Latina. María Remedios del Valle, born in Buenos Aires in the second half of the 18th century, was one of the key figures in the country’s independence movement and became known for her bravery and solidarity with her fellow fighters. Argentine women see Remedios del Valle as their main historical reference and denounce the policies of the Milei government.

    Article

    In 2024, in a gesture of recognition, the country featured Remedios del Valle’s image on the 10,000 peso banknote. Previously, she had become the first woman to be represented in a portrait in the Chamber of Deputies.

    Given its symbolic significance, one might think that the issue of racism, especially against Black women, would be at the center of the neighboring country’s political agenda. This is not the reality, although the agenda has advanced in recent years.

    “Racism is a delicate and difficult topic. In our society, it was practically not debated until very recently. Even now, the discussion usually happens in a dichotomous way, without leading to a deeper reflection. ‘Argentina is a racist country’ or ‘Argentina is not racist’. But the image that many people have of a racist country does not correspond to the reality experienced by Afro-descendants in Argentina,” explains Professor Miriam Gomes Lima, an Afro-Argentine of Cape Verdean origin, intellectual, activist, and creator of the Africa in Latin America Chair at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA), in a conversation with Brasil de Fato.

    For her, racism is structural in Argentina. “It manifests itself in institutions, in the almost non-existent presence of Black people in the media, in the education system, and in the three branches of government. Furthermore, we face various forms of micro-racism daily,” she points out.

    Nothing very different from Brazil, although the proportions must be kept in mind, due to the different historical processes there and here. According to the most recent Brazilian Yearbook of Public Security, released by the Brazilian Forum of Public Security (FBSP) on July 23rd, Brazil experienced a 13% increase in cases of racism and a 9.2% increase in cases of racial slurs between 2024 and 2025. This is a minimal, but illustrative, sample of a practice that has permeated Brazilian society since its very constitution.

    The myth of “White Argentina” has contributed and continues to contribute to the dissemination of a certain idea of ​​a country where its elites are, broadly speaking, a mirror image of European elites, only residing on the western side of the Rio de la Plata. Frequently – as during the 2026 World Cup – the debate about racism in Argentina takes on broader dimensions.

    In the case of Black Argentinian women, the example of Maria Remedios is far from being lost to time. “Historically, it was women who created and led most of the Black organizations in our country. From centuries ago, with the confraternities, the nations or houses of nation, the mutual aid societies and, more recently, the NGOs, these initiatives were, for the most part, created and led by Black women,” says Miriam Gomes.

    Some important achievements took time, but they arrived. In 2010, the country began including questions about African descent in the census for sampling purposes. The question only became universally applied in 2022. Then, in 2023, the Argentine Legislature approved Law 26.852, which established November 8th (the day of Maria Remedios del Valle’s death) as the National Day of Afro-Argentinians and Afro Culture.

    Regarding gender-based violence, Argentina is one of the pioneers in criminalizing the practice, with a law dating back to 2012. Shortly after, in 2015, the " Ni Una Menos " movement emerged in the country, following protests held that same year, when half a million people took to the streets to protest the femicide of Chiara Páez, a pregnant teenager murdered by her boyfriend.

    Furthermore, in 2025, the country recorded 200 direct cases of femicide, according to data from the National Registry of Femicides of the Argentine Judicial System (RNFJA), compiled by the Women’s Secretariat of the country’s Supreme Court. This figure, which corresponds to one femicide every 44 hours, is the lowest in the entire historical series. Meanwhile, in Brazil, there were 1,517 victims of the same crime last year, according to the Yearbook. This number is 4% higher than last year, and femicide cases continue to break records year after year.

    How then can the agendas of Black women’s movements in Argentina be articulated with the demands of non-Black feminist movements? The question is especially sensitive, given the differences in conditions between white, middle-class Argentine feminists and Black migrant feminists when it comes to participating in strikes and movements.

    Miriam Gomes highlights what is common. “This articulation occurs, above all, through the National Women’s Meeting, held for more than 30 years in Argentina. In 2017, in Rosario, a specific space for Afro-descendant women was created for the first time in the history of this meeting,” she says.

    Black women’s movements in Argentina share common agendas, although their activities are diverse. They are often integrated into the broader scope of Black movements. Examples include África Vive (founded by the historic leader ‘Pocha’ Lamadrid), Afro Mujeres y Disidencias Rosario, Asociación Misibamba, Agrupación Xangô, and Sociedad Caboverdiana, which had Miriam Gomes as its first president.

    • manuallybreathing@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 month ago

      María Remedios del Valle

      According to wikipedia, her portait is on the 10,000 peso bank note as of 2024. Probably something organised before Milei was voted into the presidency.