Image is a snapshot taken from the recent Hezbollah video "Our Mountains, Our Treasures", showcasing their extensive underground fortifications, supply lines, and weaponry.
iran can't keep doing this to me, they've gotta respond soon, right? I'm gonna run out of analysis about countries soon, oh god
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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 daily-ish 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 (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
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.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
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.
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.
One thing I don't get is how Argentina is still standing as a country. I've read the UNICEF reports about kids being forced to skip meals and adults having to sell off their insurance and valuables. But really, forget Iran's measured response, how tf is Milei still standing after months of pulling copper wire out the walls.
It really proves that if you are backed by the US the military won't fuck with you. Bangladesh was 100% a color revolution and Sheikh Hasina would still be in power if she acquiesced to US demands.
I think the big part of the problem is that Western liberals and left have fetishized non-violence for far too long.
It's tragic! I just finished If We Burn and I was struck by how there was never a plan for what to do after nonviolent resistance overcame the government. The radlibs and anarchists were able to use protest and mass disruptions and demonstration to bring down governments, but only the right-wing was ever ready for what comes next.
Contention definitely works as a tactic of struggle, but after a certain point Mao is always proven right i.e. political power grows from the barrel of a gun.
I was scoffed at in meetings for asking this back in the day, fucking sucks. Really cemented to me how useless nonviolent resistance orgs would be. They all tend to be completely horizontally organised too so it's very easy for liberals/wreckers to take over groups and push them completely into the mainstream NGO sphere. Combine that with a weird unwillingness to learn any kind of political theory deeper than a general sense of "Capitalism bad" or work with groups like trade unions and the whole thing just comes across like a tragic waste of time and effort - made all the worse by the fact people now serve hard time for groups that forget about them and achieve nothing.
Yup, If We Burn had plenty of critique for horizontal organizations. The truth is, leaderless movements don't exist. The leaders just pick themselves and there's no democratic accountability for their selection, so the most energetic and charismatic grifters always dominate the movement.
Yeah, couldn't agree more. Really need to check that book out, loved/was horrified by The Jakarta Method and feel like it would be very cathartic for me lmao
I think the subjective conditions in general just aren't there. Milei was voted in for a reason. I think, ideologically, for Argentinians, outside of Peronism TANA. If that makes any sense.
What does that have to do with Argentina?
Why would the military, even if it wasn't totaly (luckly) dismantled, care about poor people being poor, the role of this army has always been to protect the interests of the big burshwá.
It's down to wether they are getting paid or not. And wether their quality of life is collapsing or not. Unless you're soldier caste living in a compound, there's at least family around you not to mention the general collapse of society.
lmao, forces are the only ones getting paid. And even if they weren't, lose all hope in SA armies, you shouldn't have had any in the first place.
thats what those IMF loans are for
You gotta take into account that we as leftists on the internet are probably receiving sensationalized accounts about how bad things really are over there, like how right wingers have received news about venezuela the past 6 years.