Image is from this article, of protestors in Mexico tearing down a steel fence.
While military, economic, and covert pressure on Venezuela and nearby countries in South America proper continues to mount, a similar process is occurring against Mexico, currently under the leadership of the very popular Sheinbaum, who has generally followed the footsteps of AMLO in terms of policies.
While figures in the Trump administration have made statements to the effect of wishing to bomb Mexican territory, internal pressure within Mexico is rather hard to generate when the government is doing generally positive things for people. As such, protests - comically denoted “Gen Z protests” despite young people being a vanishingly small proportion - have arisen in Mexico, very obviously astroturfed by pro-US and anti-Sheinbaum interests. The first protest, on November 15th, gathered less than 20,000 people, while the second, on November 20th, gathered perhaps 200. Article headlines suggesting that Mexico was “on the verge of collapse” have proven rather sensational and wishcast-y.
While it’s easy to poke fun at these farces (I certainly am), it’s important to keep in mind that soft coups have long been part of the American strategy in Latin America, and with unlimited money and many resources to throw at a project, even incompetent forces can eventually create enough chaos that it can make the ruling president or party feel forced to resign. Such eventualities are certainly not inevitable, and even weak states can provide enough resistance to force the US to try a hard coup instead, with outright bombing campaigns and covert military operations. Cuba has provided perhaps the best example in the western hemisphere of how such plots can be subverted with enough national support (e.g. the hundreds of times the CIA tried to kill/maim Castro, plus the Bay of Pigs debacle), but you do have to be willing to take extraordinary measures to do this - the sorts of measures figures like Chile’s Allende did not take in the 1970s, and the measures Venezuela’s Maduro appears to be taking right now. We shall see what path Sheinbaum takes.
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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.
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:
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.
At least Russia sent a plane, although it was just a single one. A Venezuelan airliner also stopped at Iran.
The most realistic form of support Russia could give is probably a K-300P Bastion-P battery for P-800 Oniks supersonic anti ship sea skimming cruise missiles, or modifying Venezuela’s Su-30s to launch Oniks as Kh-61, or even giving them Moskits, though those are quite old. Iran or China could also supply some anti ship ballistic missiles. That would give Venezuela some deterrence. But I don’t see that being likely.
Right now Venezuela uses a mix of Russian and Soviet era air defence systems, and Chinese search/observation radars. Some advanced Russian air defences, but in quite small numbers. The Soviet era stuff is quite outdated despite modernisation efforts, as you’d imagine, and makes up the largest portion of Venezuelan air defence.
The biggest issue is that Iran, Russia or China don’t have a way to easily support Venezuela via air or sea. Distance is a huge issue for resupply. And what would they give that could make an immediate impact outside of anti ship missiles? The US has deployed F-35s, that’s very advanced technology. There’s no time to train Venezuelan pilots on say Chinese J-35s.
Do you happen to have a comprehensive list of the capabilities of Venezuelan air defense and what kind of radar systems they have? I’m in a Radar class and writing a research paper on this could be interesting. I’m confident in being able to research all the individual radar capabilities and RCS, but not sure on how to get information on the bigger picture
Sure.
Chinese search radars:
YJ-27 Wide Mat VHF/UHF “anti stealth” array
YJ-11B low altitude surveillance radar
YJL-1 long range surveillance radar
Will add the radars integrated with the Russian air defence systems soon in an edit.
S-300VM/Antey-2500/SA-23:
9S15M Bill Board all round surveillance and target acquisition radar
9S19M High Screen sector surveillance and target acquisition radar
9S32 Grill Pan fire control radar
Buk M2E/SA-17:
9S18M Snow Drift target acquisition radar
9S36 Chair Back fire control radar
S-125 Pechora-2M/SA-3C:
39N6 Kasta 2E2, modernised P-15M Squat Eye surveillance radar
SNR-125 Low Blow fire control radar
PRV-11 Side Net height finding radar, unsure if in use
Thanks for this, il take a look at it for sure
Start the Venezuelan Missile Crisis and see America come back to its knees. Venezuela is way more valuable than Cuba and China should invest heavily into keeping them in their sphere.
Both of them have done the most important economic support of investing in and buying lots of oil
That’s the quickest way to get US nuclear weapons stationed in Japan and Australia.
More like as soon as the US sees even the slightest movement towards Russia/China arming Venezuela with nukes, they will begin their invasion. It’s a little too late for “let’s give Venezuela nukes.”
No way to know whether the AUKUS submarines are nuclear armed or not so I don’t think australia matters much. The assumption has to be the worst with regards to those subs.
Based on what I know of our armed forces, it’s unlikely that they currently are, but they could be if the US decides it is worth it, they don’t really need to though, as their own nuclear subs can dock in Australian ports with no problem.
It’s safe to assum that nuclear armed aircraft would pass through Darwin :
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/us-nuclear-armed-bomber-visits-allowed-under-australian-treaty-obligations-20230215-p5ckrs.html
Or UK. Nothing stopping the UK’s Trident missiles being fitted to them either. I don’t really know who is truly in charge when it comes to Australia though, the US or our mutual head of state.
I shouldn’t comment before I have my coffee, I misread AUKUS as just AUS and thought you were talking specifically about Australia’s military. Yeah, the UK goes above us, and then the US above them if I remember correctly. So we follow the UK’s orders and US orders, but US orders supersede UK orders, failure to follow them results in a soft coup.
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