/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>492505
New sticky time!

>>492545
I asked this before. Allowing retards to use the reading thread to """debate""" using their faggy-ass sub-literate """libertarian""" cliches was a weird decision, and apparently purely a consequence of us just being very chill.

Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia kill at least five
Russian authorities say three people killed in the Moscow region and one in Belgorod in Ukrainian attacks.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/17/at-least-four-killed-in-ukrainian-drone-attacks-on-russia

I've been too upset about this stupid war to keep detailed track of it, but I've completely been out of the loop about it for months. What's the current high level overview of the state of this conflict? Is it in a stalemate or is there intense fighting still?

>>496578
Ukraine doesn't seem to have much left militarily besides the ability to launch US-assisted drone strikes. The original intent of this military operation by the Russians was to dismantle the Ukrainian military, but it seems like now they need to properly advance already to neutralize these sources of drone production and operations. On the other hand, vast numbers of European leaders have staked their political careers on this war and they are absolutely desperate to escalate it to a full-scale European conflict. The Russian public is fed up with these terrorist attacks by Ukraine against Russian civilians, and people who were once sidelined (including lunatics who think Russia needs to do a nuclear strike to wake Europe back up to reality) are coming to the mainstream of Russian politics. I really think it's time for Russia to target the Zelensky regime and end the war quickly before there is a full-scale NATO-Russia nuclear exchange that ends civilization.

Russia has issued formal warning for people to leave Kiev. It looks like they're finally going to attack the decision making centers that allowed Ukraine-UK-US to attack those students in their dormitory several days ago.

>European diplomats stationed in the Ukrainian capital have refused to comply with Moscow’s suggestion they leave the city.
>“The EU is not going anywhere,” Katarína Mathernová, the EU ambassador to Ukraine, said on Monday. “We are staying in Kyiv.”
>A spokesperson for France’s Foreign Ministry similarly told France Info that it would be “out of the question to evacuate” its staff from Kyiv. In a statement, Poland’s Foreign Ministry condemned Russia’s warning, saying that any attacks on its embassy would be “treated as hostile acts.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/with-missiles-falling-on-kyiv-european-diplomats-stay-put/

Looks like some tough guys are about to win Darwin Awards.

https://x.com/AryJeayBackup/status/2059035727271199006
❗️NEW: Iran shot down one or more MQ-9 drones

What happened in chronological order:

• Yesterday, the US entered the Strait of Hormoz to attack IRGC speedboats & fisher boats, Iran’s air defenses countered the threat & shot down MQ-9 drones.

According to preliminary reports, 2 MQ-9 drones were shot down by the IRGC & one by the Army's air defense.

• The downing of these drones in less than 20 minutes caused the US to become confused and disorganized, and unable to locate the air defense site, they attacked several points on Qeshm and Jask islands.

• US attacked Iranian boats again

• The IRGC responded against US navy vessels tonight.

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🟡🟢 Hezbollah:
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The narrative of targeting the commander of the 401st Armored Brigade in the "israeli" enemy army, Colonel Meir Biderman, on the outskirts of the town of Dibil in southern Lebanon on 20/05/2026.

After a series of attempts to advance into the town of Hadatha from several axes, the enemy did not succeed in breaching the resistance's defenses on the outskirts of the town, where it incurred numerous losses in its soldiers and vehicles.

During the evening of 19/05/2026, the enemy attacked Hadatha violently from two axes of advance with a large gathering of vehicles and 34 soldiers (a force from the 601st Combat Engineering Battalion). Wide-scale clashes took place on the outskirts of the town. At dawn, the advancing force withdrew, leaving behind two destroyed bulldozers and 4 tanks that burned as a result of being targeted by attack drones and direct missiles. As for the soldiers, 28 were seen leaving, and the remaining 6 were transported via a "Namer" vehicle after they were injured, including the company commander, Captain M., and the operational documentation fighter, First Sergeant Sh., both of whom sustained moderate and serious injuries.

This advance was directly supervised by the commander of the 401st Brigade, who was monitoring the progress of the forces, as well as their withdrawal from the brigade's forward position in the town of Rshaf.

At 05:00 AM, Colonel Meir Biderman returned to the newly established headquarters for the brigade's operations on the outskirts of the town of Dibil after the force had completely withdrawn. All of this was under the eye and surveillance of the resistance.

At 07:50 AM, the first Ababil attack drones reached the headquarters and conducted a field survey of the headquarters and circled it. When it detected the positioning of enemy officers behind camouflage on the top floor, and after they fled inside, the drone followed them, managed to enter the headquarters behind them, struck them, and hit the operations room directly. As a result of this targeting, the brigade commander, Meir Biderman, was wounded in his head, along with two other officers.

At 08:10 AM, a medical team evacuated the casualties via a Humvee to the helipad. The Humvee arrived at the helipad at 08:23 AM, where the helicopter took two of the injured, while the third injured person was transported by an ambulance.
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🟡🟢 Hezbollah:
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Statement issued by Hezbollah on the centenary of the Lebanese Constitution:

On the centenary of the issuance of the Lebanese Constitution, the Lebanese people stand before an important milestone in a moment of intense internal and regional sensitivity. This moment requires, more than ever, adherence to the Lebanese Constitution, as amended following the Taif Agreement, as a binding reference for organizing disputes among the Lebanese, managing the affairs of their state, and safeguarding their unity and sovereignty. It also requires moving past the era of mandates, high commissioners, and foreign guardianship, because that era has ended and will not return to Lebanon under any form or title.

Lebanon, as its constitution states today, is a final homeland for all its people, one in terms of land, people, and institutions, within its constitutionally and internationally recognized borders. This finality does not merely mean establishing a geographic entity; rather, it means, before and after that, the establishment of a true national partnership among all its people—a fair and balanced partnership that preserves dignity, protects rights, and acknowledges the existential anxieties of Lebanese groups, which should not be dealt with as a sectarian issue or a transient political demand, but as a supreme constitutional issue connected to the nature of the state, the meaning of partnership, and the guarantees of co-existence.

Lebanon cannot be a final homeland for all its people through slogans, but through protecting its land and its people, through a clear national consensus on rejecting occupation and aggression, and through full adherence to the right of the Lebanese to defend their country, their sovereignty, and their dignity, especially against the occupation and the zionist ambitions that are clearly evident today.

Based on this, all projects of fragmentation, partition, federalization, or permanent settlement, regardless of their labels and pretexts, are confirmed to be in conflict with the essence of the Lebanese Constitution and the idea of a unified Lebanon for all its people—a Lebanon in which there is no place for opposing entities within it, nor for sectarian cantons, security zones, or projects of disguised secession that would turn Lebanese diversity into a pretext for dismantling, civil strife, or seeking foreign patronage, threatening the unity of the land, the people, and the institutiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

🚨🇮🇷 The IRGC announced that its air defense units intercepted US military aircraft violating Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf.

Operations resulted in:
• The downing of one MQ-9 drone following precise intelligence monitoring.
• The retreat of one RQ-4 drone and one F-35 fighter jet after fire was opened on them.

The IRGC stated it reserves the right to a reciprocal response in the face of any ceasefire violations by the US military.

🟡🟢 Hezbollah:
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Video | Footage of the Islamic Resistance operation targeting a Hummer vehicle belonging to the "israeli" enemy army in the city of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon on 26/05/2026 with an Ababil attack drone.

>>496494
It's extremely autistic to go around neurotically obsessing over word usage instead of doing anything even slightly meaningful.

We should start called each other "Buddy" instead.

>>496605
I'm not your "buddy", friend.

We will never stop. Any more than we will stop calling ourselves communists because that scares away the average reactionary.
OP you fall into the category of people that want to police language. This is a tool of control used by the booj to dilute our message and further divide people.

PSL Gainesville - Residents of Brantley county, Georgia are on their 5th week of recovery following the massive wildfire that devastated their community and destroyed over 100 homes. Meanwhile, they have yet to receive any federal or government assistance for rebuilding whatsoever.

When disasters happen, politicians and billionaires are nowhere to be seen. Last week, while we joined the residents of Brantley County in cleaning up the wreckage of their homes, President Trump was accompanied by 6 unelected billionaires on his diplomatic visit to China. These are the extents to which our government will go in order to look out for the interests of the ultra-wealthy, while working class people are left to fend for themselves in crisis after crisis.

We pay into systems like FEMA so that we can count on them when disasters happen.

CUT THE CHECK—FULL FEDERAL RELIEF NOW!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYky0Q2OhAM/?hl=en

Some weird shit on Fox News.

>>496611
Could there be a reptilian underneath?

>>496612
No.
Maybe.

🚨PSL Statement: The announced indictment of Raúl Castro Ruz, historic leader of the Cuban Revolution and former President of the Republic of Cuba, by the United States Department of Justice is a brazen act of injustice and a transparent pretext for escalating aggression against a sovereign nation.

This indictment is not an act of justice; it is another provocation designed to manufacture consent for another war by the Trump administration.

Read the full article on Liberation News ➡️ https://liberationnews.org/psl-statement-baseless-indictment-of-raul-castro-a-pretext-for-another-war/

Strategic Military Movement:

The USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group arrived in the Caribbean Sea sometime two days ago and has taken up station off the coast of Cuba. If that past is any indication for what is going to happen, the US parked a carrier strike group off the coast of Venezuela for months before finally striking, and if diplomacy breaks down Cubans may be looking at getting their butts fucked all the same.

TRUMPED | Xi Humiliates Trump? Beijing Showdown, China Rising & America’s Decline | MOATS LIVE
🔥 TRUMPED – Has Donald Trump just been outplayed by Xi Jinping?

Tonight on The Mother of All Talkshows, George Galloway goes live as the global balance of power shifts dramatically eastward. Washington is rattled, Beijing is confident, and the question dominating world politics tonight is simple:

Who really won the Beijing presidential showdown – Trump or Xi?

As China expands its economic and geopolitical reach, America's dominance is being openly challenged like never before. Is this the beginning of a new world order? Has Trump underestimated Beijing? And what happens next for Taiwan, Ukraine, NATO and the collapsing Western alliance system?

🌍 Tonight George breaks down:
– Trump's high-stakes confrontation with Xi Jinping
– China's growing power and America's weakening grip
– The economic war between Washington and Beijing
– Ukraine, NATO and the new global chessboard
– The future of Taiwan and the Pacific flashpoint
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WARMONGER | Day 82 | Yet another Trump threat | Iran ‘wider war’ response | Xi and Putin renew ties
🚨 Another Trump threat. Another step toward wider war.

Day 82 and the danger is growing.

Trump raises the temperature again as Iran warns of a wider war, while Xi and Putin renew ties in a direct challenge to Western power. The threats are louder, the alliances are shifting, and the world is watching to see whether Washington is bluffing or preparing to cross the line.

Tonight George Galloway asks the question at the centre of the crisis. Is Trump trying to force peace, or dragging the world toward war?

Joining George:

Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi: Professor of English Literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran. Direct insight from Iran on Trump’s latest threat, Tehran’s response and the danger of escalation.

Judge Andrew Napolitano: Host of Judging Freedom. Legal and constitutional analysis of war powers, US foreign policy and the collapsing rules-based order.

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NURSE! NURSE! | Day 86 | The madness of The Don | Iran. Deal of no deal? | White House shooting
🚨 The madness deepens. The deal hangs by a thread.

Day 86 and the White House is spiralling.

Trump lurches between threats, theatrics and talk of an Iran deal, while a shooting at the White House throws the political crisis into sharper focus. Is this leadership, chaos, or the sound of an empire losing its nerve?

Tonight George Galloway cuts through the spectacle. Deal or no deal, war or retreat, strategy or breakdown: who is really steering events?

Joining George:

Jackson Hinkle: US-based political analyst and host of Legitimate Targets. A sharp look at Trump, Iran, Israel and the American political machine.

Donald Courter: Award-winning journalist, host of The Revolution Report and documentary maker. Analysis of US power, media narratives and the global reaction to Washington’s crisis.

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What has happened in Palestine this week?
On May 14, Jerusalem Day – Israel’s annual celebration of its 1967 capture of occupied East Jerusalem – tens of thousands of ultra-nationalist Israelis marched through the Old City, chanting “Death to the Arabs” while attacking Palestinian shops and residents.
Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir raised the Israeli flag in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound while videos circulated of settlers attacking residents in the Old City’s Christian Quarter.
This week also saw one of the most intense periods of violence and dispossession in recent weeks, which killed a 16-year-old and displaced seven families.
In Gaza, Israel killed the head of Hamas’s armed wing on May 15 in a strike that also killed his wife, daughter and four other civilians.
Israel continued to strike across the Strip, including a drone attack on May 14 that killed two brothers.

Read Al Jazeera's weekly Palestine wrap here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/19/palestine-weekly-wrap-jerusalem-day-nakba-surging-attacks

https://x.com/rtenews/status/2057191863715520860
Ireland - The Dáil has voted against legislation seeking to impose sanctions against Israel by 77 votes to 62

why won't Iran just destroy Israel and be done with it already

Well… I won

I think the problem you are picking at is the construct of “woke”. The idea of liberals and by extension “their queer allies” complaining and being sensitive is a narrative created by conservatives and the right wing and it has been extremely successful, you are an example. You are falling for right wing propaganda and you are trying to worm these ideas into the left wing.

The true answer lies in destroying the influence of both parties and religion on the common person.

This culture war bullshit disgusts me

>1) I am not religious
>2) If I reject the idea of the LGBT movement, it is because I have witnessed the damage it causes to revolutionary movements
The main problem I have detected is that members of the lgbt community or their allies are more concerned with winning individual battles than winning the war against the system.

And by the way, there is no scientific evidence that justifies the "trans nature" or that validates it; A woman is a woman because of natural characteristics that until now no cultural construct or deconstruct can change. Same with men

>>496546
>I have witnessed the damage it causes to revolutionary movements
Conflating LGBT with idpol is like conflating women or minorities with idpol. It's just a remnant of right-wing conservative discourse, not a well-thought out position.
>"trans nature"
The fuck are you talking about? Trans people are just born with bodies they don't like, it's not rocket science.