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.
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
Israel [sic] abducted starving children at Gaza “aid” sites, then tortured them | Electronic Intifada
excerpt
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.
Yea I don’t think this is good for demand
One of those news aggregator accounts said this, I’m assuming it is bullshit (hope not!!!)!?
BREAKING: China has officially banned cryptocurrency trading, mining, and related services
Posted on EQB Al Qassam official telegram
Captioned: They eat from what we eat ,They drink from what we drink
This is commenting on the recently released videos of settler prisoners talking about how they are starving alongside Gazans.
There were large protests in tel aviv in response to the released videos, demanding a deal.
Yesterday, the White House falsely claimed that India is no longer buying Russian oil. India immediately rejected that claim:
Reporter: Going forward, why should anyone trust the numbers?
Trump: You’re right. Why should anyone trust numbers
‘Year of threats’: Report reveals US-Israeli [sic] campaign to sabotage ICC arrest warrants | The Cradle
Israel [sic] and its allies have used threats, sanctions, and sexual assault allegations to stop the ICC from bringing Prime Minister Netanyahu to justice
this bad faith dinner in the excerpt is really gross to me given the level of current famine:
At the same time, Secretary of State Blinken and Thomas Lynch, a US advisor to Khan, sabotaged the ICC investigator’s efforts to visit Gaza directly.
Lynch also tried to organize a dinner between Khan, Netanyahu, and Jewish-US lawyer Alan Dershowitz. The goal was to embarrass Khan by showing him eating a luxurious dinner with the Israeli [sic] Prime Minister, even as Palestinians in Gaza were starving.
The Kamala Harris campaign has made $7 million in 2025 so far! Being a Dem consultant is awesome.
Some Ukrainians enjoying a nice game of kicktheball with their friends
spoiler
Nothing to see here, just some Nazi salutes at today’s football match in Rivne, Ukraine - video by Azov sergeant Dmytro Usychenko, who fought in Mariupol and returned from Russian captivity in 2022
Sure it’s been said before, but once again, in light of Trump’s new thruthsocials. 1) Medvedev is not the official voice of the Kremlin, that’s what MID (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) is for, while he can say whatever he wants. 2) Nuclear submarines have already been in place and aimed at Moscow/Washington, DC respectively. 3) Medvedev is there to show that if the US doesn’t like the liberal Putin, they won’t get an American stooge for a replacement, they will get a hardliner like Medvedev in his tweets and he will enjoy the popular support too.
This cat is running for Meowyer, does he have your vote?
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;
Rishi Sunak, PM of Israel.
