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Bulletins and News Discussion from May 5th to May 11th, 2025 - Fuck Fascists Friday

Image is the famous photograph Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag, taken during the Battle of Berlin.

On Friday is May 9th, which is the 80th anniversary of Victory Day, which Russia, among other places, celebrates as the day when the Soviets defeated the Nazis. Naturally, one of the current hotspots of fascism in the world today, Ukraine, is essentially threatening that they might strike Russia or even Moscow itself during that timeframe. Any such strike would almost certainly be symbolic and not aimed at anything too important, as I doubt even Zelensky and his American handlers would actually want to kill a world leader, not least somebody like Xi Jinping. But I would not be surprised if they tried something nonetheless, if only to disrupt the event in some way and not actually kill anybody.

And, as we're on this topic, @EllenKelly@hexbear.net has reminded me that Tuesday is the anniversary of the Nazis burning the Institut für Sexualwissenschaf in 1933, an early institute advocating for the rights of LGBT people, and which also provided early forms of gender-affirming surgeries, as well as hormone therapies. We are currently seeing a crackdown on LGBT rights throughout swathes of the imperial core (as well as countries in the periphery, to the extent that those rights existed there already), and this Nazi-inspired movement will be similarly defeated in the future.

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Western insecurity about Victory Day is palpable. Historical revisionism abound, while European countries desperately try to threaten and obstruct leaders traveling to the Moscow celebration.
Once again I may be too conspiracy brained, but the timing of this India/Pakistan stuff seems awfully suspicious.

This is exactly what happened (Twitter link)

Sweden is giving 20 million SEK (€1.83 million) to Radio Free Europe, hoping that other countries will donate as well.
I fucking knew somebody would come along and help keep the bad parts of USAID afloat

Indian Government Media is labelling Indian civilians killed in Jammu as Terrorists to avoid responsibility. https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedstatesofindia/comments/1khn7fl/indian_media_wrongly_labels_victim_of_crossborder/

From the Economist :
Pakistan shot down 12 drones that entered its airspace from India, warning that its neighbour would “pay dearly for this naked aggression”. Earlier Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan’s prime minister, vowed to “avenge each drop of blood” after India launched air strikes on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. India was responding to an attack in Indian-administered Kashmir last month. Pakistan denies involvement.
So thus far the entire conflict has been mostly India failing in breaking Pakistan's air defenses.

Too Far For The Far Right: Danish Regime Moves Toward Total AI Surveillance
Even the fascists in Denmark’s rubber-stamp parliament think the regime’s new bill on AI-powered mass surveillance is a step too far. A sweeping new law, set to be passed by the Social Democratic-led right-wing regime before the summer, would grant the Nordic hermit kingdom's shadowy secret police agency PET unprecedented access to the personal data of every individual in the country — collected, processed, and analyzed in real time using artificial intelligence.

https://x.com/PeterSchiff/status/1920259912669495361
Wtf is he thinking?

Google stock down today bc Apple says it's okay for them to keep paying us $20 billion bc searching is down I safari is an amazing reminder in how capital with always protect itself. Google could care less about stocks going down for a day, but Apple showing bourgeoisie solidarity publicly is something to always keep in mind. Their solidarity is strong, but if we had that same solidarity they can't stop us. Don't forget.

(from a Cradle article someone posted recently)
According to reports in Hebrew media, Israeli authorities were caught unaware by Trump's capitulation to Yemen. “[Authorities] were surprised by his words, and do not understand the implications of his statement,” Yedioth Ahronoth revealed.
Translation: We do not understand any of the implications of going to war without the full backing of the USA.

Houthis and US Reach Oman-Brokered Ceasefire Amid Regional Tensions - Telesur English

Russia Willing to Help Broker Fair U.S.-Iran Nuclear Deal - Telesur English

Yesterday, a Russian FPV drone destroyed a US-built M142 “HIMARS” launcher, near the Kiev-occupied DPR city of Konstantinovka. While many “HIMARS” launchers have been destroyed during the conflict, this is the first time that a small FPV drone has taken one out: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7,--%F0%9F%92%A5Drone-Operators-of-the-Rubicon-Center:b
Plus, another group of around ten Kiev regime troops surrendered to Russian forces on the Kursk/Sumy front: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/05/06/1302862.html

Ukrainian Drones Attack Moscow During Preparations for Victory Day - Telesur English

We all laughed at the trots for their physical newspapers in the digital age but if nuclear bombs drop they're going to be the only ones in the left with media when the internet or power goes offline.

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro Arrives in Moscow for WWII Victory Anniversary & Strategic Talks with Putin - Telesur English
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro visits Moscow for the 80th anniversary of WWII Victory Day and key talks with Putin. Details on the new strategic partnership agreement. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has arrived in Moscow to attend the 80th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War Victory, marking eight decades since the Soviet Red Army’s defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
During his visit, President Maduro will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, where the two leaders are expected to sign a strategic partnership and cooperation agreement. Kremlin advisor Yuri Ushakov emphasized the deal’s significance, noting it will deepen long-term collaboration in critical areas between both nations.
Ushakov added that the meeting reflects ongoing political dialogue, with discussions focusing on global security, counterterrorism efforts, and preserving historical memory. President Maduro will also join other world leaders at commemorative events honoring WWII heroes. Over 30 international dignitaries are expected in Moscow, underscoring the event’s geopolitical relevance amid current global tensions.

Brazilian President Lula Travels to Russia and China - Telesur English

German President Appoints Conservative Friedrich Merz as Chancellor - Telesur English

Drone Strikes Intensify in Port Sudan Amid Deepening Sudanese Conflict - Telesur English

WATCH | As part of the 'Gates of Hell' series of operations, Qassam Brigades fighters carried out a complex ambush targeting Israeli soldiers and vehicles east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
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https://t.me/thecradlemedia/34613

Trump's statement on Ansar Allah.
“You know, we hit them very hard. They had a great capacity to withstand punishment. They took tremendous punishment. You can say there’s a lot of bravery there. It was amazing what they took. But we honor their commitment and their word.”

~~My little brothers little rinky dink Temu digital camera has a moomin frame option… it was meant to be :,)~~ SHIT WRONG THREAD

Where's the best place to read NAFO cope about J-10s shooting down Rafales?

French official says Pakistan downed Rafale jet as officials examine possible further losses - CNN
A high-ranking French intelligence official told CNN today that one Rafale fighter jet operated by the Indian Air Force was downed by Pakistan, in what would mark the first time that one of the sophisticated French-made warplanes has been lost in combat.
Pakistan claimed earlier today to have shot down five Indian Air Force jets in retaliation for Indian strikes, including three Rafales. Indian officials are yet to respond to the claim.
The French official told CNN that French authorities were looking into whether more than one Rafale jets were shot down by Pakistan overnight.
Pictures taken of parts of an aircraft that crashed in Indian-administered Kashmir show the label of a French manufacturer, but experts said it was not possible to say whether the part came from a Rafale aircraft.
Dassault Aviation, the French manufacturer of the jet, has not responded to CNN’s requests for comment.

I have to admit, the Trump White House continuing to enable the Ukrainians while putting Israel on a relative back foot is not something I would have predicted even a week ago. I don't know how a doofus like Zelensky is proving to be better at manipulating Trump than Netanyahu of all people.

BBC reporting on preparations for the Victory Day parade was mostly predictable (no mention of Zelensky threatening to do terrorism, a bunch of snark about how Russia has been 'unable to secure victory in Ukraine', criticising Russia for militarism right before a news segment about how awesome Churchill was and how we won WW2 single-handedly etc etc blah blah blah) but strangely they were quite positive about the WW2 Red Army - I presume to try and build a narrative of "Russia fought the Nazis before but now they are the freaking Nazis we live in a society" - but I expect it's still going to make a lot of terminally Reform UK brained gammons who think the BBC is leftist and hack pop historians mad. Feels strange to see a BBC journalist interviewing Red Army veterans and their relatives and not constantly doing Office Jim asides to the camera, which shows how low the bar really is.

https://xcancel.com/RT_com/status/1920096327565808031
Russia thwarts LARGEST drone attack in history
524 Ukrainian drones, 5 Neptune missiles, 6 JDAM bombs & 2 HIMARS rockets intercepted in just 24 hours.
Ukronazis are keeping their word of attacking the Victory Day events.

The Indian copium on social media about losing four flighter jets during an attack they started themselves is ridiculous, I've never seen anything like it. It makes Ukrainian NAFO and Zelensky cope seem normal by comparison. Modi supporters and bots are just spamming community notes, and official India government accounts are calling everything "disinformation".

President Maduro and President Putin sign "Treaty on Strategic Partnership and Cooperation" between Russia and Venezuela. Not sure details.
https://t.me/news_kremlin_eng/5424

Multiple media outlets reporting that the big announcement Trump said he will make next week is that the US will begin referring to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf.
That'll show the Iranians.

Yemen - U.S. Concedes Maritime Defeat | Moon of Alabama
highlight:
The U.S. Navy has spent over a billion dollar on ammunition on Yemen. It lost more than half a billion in flying equipment and managed to achieve nil.
Others will take note of that record.
this post has been checked for brainworms ✅

CPC says based on testing, covid was present in the US before it was present in China

https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/26801-finnish-fighter-jet-crashes-near-rovaniemi-airport-pilot-survives.html
A third F-18 has now crashed (though this was a genuine accident in Finland)

Germany's Merz secured enough votes to become chancelor
As the ballot was secret nobody knows who the SPD members who dissented in yesterday's vote were, regardless enough of them buckled and voted for him anyway.

Oh no I posted in the wrong thread smh 😔

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna205266 Second fighter jet crashes into the sea after landing failure on USS Harry S. Truman
and another one

Here's hoping these drills are just for propaganda purposes and India doesn't wish escalate further/expect Pakistan to escalate

Lula, Traoré, Maduro, Diáz-Canel, and Xi Jinping will all be in Moscow to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Nazis eating shit to the Soviets. A very cool guest list.

Whenever you wonder "Why India and Pakistan hate each other?" it is important to remember the British, that goddamn good for nothing piece of shit country that created chaos and misery everywhere they went. And while of course there are local actors who are very responsible for this entire clusterfuck of a shitshow, ultimately the blame falls into Britain.
Thanks to their colonization of the land, the absolute and utter destruction of local peoples and societies, the stealing, the looting of the indian subcontinent's riches and the genocides, we came to this awful situation. The stupid ass princes and local monarchs who allied with the British colonial administration for protection and to keep "everything under control", one of whom created this whole Kashmir mess to begin with, the stupid ass Indian Nationalism (especially the Far Right one, can't really attack Nehru's secular nationalistic ideals) and the Pakistani nationalism, spearheaded by Jinnah, who willingly or not became Britain's agent of chaos to cripple India as it inevitably became independent...
It's impossible to know what would have happened if Britain never made it to the Indian Subcontinent, or France, or the Netherlands or Portugal. It's counterfactual, it's "what-if" history that serves no purpose other than mere entertainment.., but we do know what happened when Britain intervened and colonized India, you're seeing it right now.
Death to Britain and of course, death also to "israel", another hellspawn of theirs.

Tehran IRNA – U.S. President Donald Trump says he will be making a “very, very big announcement” before an upcoming visit to West Asia.

Tldr, Trump might refer to the Gulf of Persia as “Gulf of Arabia”

I don't want to die in a nuclear holocaust, but I do miss the days of having like 500-1000 comments a day in here.

Three fighter jets crashed in India's Jammu and Kashmir, local govt sources say - Reuters
Three fighter jets crashed in India's Jammu and Kashmir territory on Wednesday, four local government sources told Reuters, hours after India said it struck nine Pakistani "terrorist infrastructure" sites across the border.
A Pakistani military spokesperson told Reuters five Indian aircraft had been shot down, a claim not confirmed by India.
Update: another crash site confirmed by Indian media in Punjab, India has lost at least four aircraft...
So India actually did lose three fighter jets in beyond visual range combat, shot down by Pakistan using Chinese PL-15 air to air missiles or the Chinese HQ-9 air defence system (Pakistan claims these systems were used). Included in the article is debris from a French aircraft, either a Rafale or Mirage 2000. Could be a drop tank, but there's more evidence of one of these French aircraft being shot down. Chinese hardware proving itself in combat against European aircraft. Pakistan do have more AWACS aircraft than India and more fighter aircraft with AESA radars, which could explain the initial advantage. See first, shoot first.
This is incredibly embarrassing for India, they lost at least three aircraft while carrying out stand off strikes with all the launches of air launched ballistic missiles and cruise missiles taking place well within Indian airspace, with all the targets close to the border. This is designed in every way to be a low risk operation. How in the world did they lose three fighter jets! Do they not train? Did they not target air defences? The maximum range of the PL-15 and HQ-9B systems is estimated at 250-300km, and Indian stand off weapons like the Rudram-II have a range of 350km, ROCKS/Crystal Maze 2 has a max range of 250-300km. Surely you just fire and retreat? This should not have happened.
The French are probably regretting selling advanced fighter jets to India now. China will definitely be pleased by the performance of their systems though.
The stock market of all things has reacted to this news. Chengdu, the Chinese company who manufacture and designed the JF-17 and J-10C aircraft in use by Pakistan, has had it's stock price go up by 20%. China having some war profiteering. Expect stocks in Dassault Aviation, the French company that manufactures and designed the Mirage-2000 and Rafale aircraft used by India, to go down.

USS Truman was annoyed with the attention shifting to India , so it lost another F-18

Ww2 target ship sinks prematurely denying Philippines and US drill satisfaction

Obviously not the most important thing going on in the region as of now but as far as I remember Pakistan and I think India both produce ammunition for Ukraine so it could be about to get even harder for the Zelensky government to feed their artillery

US President Donald Trump called Indian strikes in Pakistani territory "a shame". - Reuters

The U.S. Navy lost another F/A-18 Super Hornet this week, after it fell in the Red Sea during an attempted landing on the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier. The reason for Trump's sudden announcement stopping the U.S. bombing campaign against Yemen is becoming more and more clear.
Telegram

India launches air strikes on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir - BBC
India stated that its forces have launched "Operation Sindoor" hitting "terrorist infrastructure" in Pakistan. Indian forces struck nine sites in Pakistan with missiles. According to reports, intense shelling and loud explosions took place in border areas of Pakistani-administered Kashmir. Pakistan vowed to respond to the "cowardly attack."

fog of war and all of that , especially this region , but loosing 3 (5 now ? wtf ) Jets when its your own Opening Move is a real big Fucking L. - worst omen to start a war under..
- losing ~1% of your combat aircraft (5 out of 580) in the span of two hours when you had the element of surprising is just embarrassing. That is more than both Ukraine and Russia combined have lost this year.
  
  God it would be so funny if this is what did Modi in.
  
  Not really comparable because there's now established zones of control in the Ukraine-Russia war after years of fighting. If you look at the start of the Ukraine war before any established aerial control zones, there were noticable fighter aircraft losses on both sides, with Ukraine facing the majority of losses, but still some noticable Russian losses with some Su-35s and Su-34M/NVO aircraft being shot down.
- Update: India did in fact lose three fighter jets, Chinese technology has now proved itself in combat against European aircraft.
- There's only been one confirmed loss so far, (update: maybe 3 confirmed losses according to Indian media saying there are three crash sites) however 4th generation aircraft have hit their expiry date in peer conflict. This was already apparent during the Russia-Ukraine war, and made more apparent by the latest US Navy and Air Force campaign in Yemen. Pakistan has very long range air to air missiles like the Chinese PL-15, and the HQ-9 air defence system (Chinese version of the Russian S-300PMU system, with American/Israeli inspired radar, fire control and command). Indian aircraft have the very long range European Meteor air to air missile (largest no escape zone of any air to air missile) and India has the Russian S-400 air defence system. Neither side has 5th stealth aircraft or good suppression/destruction of enemy air defences (SEAD/DEAD) capabilities. Pakistan has more AWACS aircraft though. In an air war, both sides will suffer a large amount of losses until a stable frontline/zone of control is established.

Pakistan has shot down five Indian planes and has taken some Indian soldiers prisoner, the country's defense minister said. -Bloomberg
Wild if true. Source
- At the current rate they are in Delhi by Friday

In more US Air Force Strategic Bomber Task Force deployments, 2 more B-52H Stratofortress bombers are headed towards Diego Garcia. This means that a total of 10 bombers will be forward deployed to the island in the Indian ocean.
Twitter open source SIGINT source
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There are now a total of at least 14 United States Air Force Strategic Bombers forward deployed (all photos are of said bombers at the respective locations, however only the B-1 photo is from the current deployment):
Stationed at Diego Garcia:
6x B-2A Spirit stealth bombers.
4x B-52H Stratofortress bombers at minimum.
Stationed in Japan:
4x B-1B Lancer supersonic swing wing bombers.

jdpon don hehe
https://x.com/tksshawa/status/1919866961346892022
- Trump didn't actually say that, notice how the only source of this information is a poor Google translated tweet. Trump's actual statement was:
  "I will discuss that if something happens with Israel and the Houthis.”
  
  Telling that an Israeli journalist twisted what was said in Hebrew.
- He said he will make a huge announcement before going to the Middle East next week. Imagine if it was dropping Israel as an ally
  
  Probably the opposite, though
  
  iSSrael replaces klanada as the 51st state
- https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1919879890238591374
  This may be the video related.
  Reporter says "You said that the Houthis are backing down. We're seeing conflicting reports that the Houthis are continuing to attack Israel in support of Gaza. Does that change the equation?"
  Trump says "I don't know about that but I do know that they want nothing to do with us."

Why do India and Pakistan fight over their border? Is it more economic or more social?

alright time to disconnect from the internet, hope I can wake up in one piece. hope things don’t get any worse
(and one more thing before I truly go, it was my fault asking last week if anything became of the attack threat from India)
- If I die in nuclear hellfire I will hold you personally responsible

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