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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The Child of the Week is Hassan LargePenis! He is chad-and-cuck rater and general commenter @LargePenis@hexbear.net's son, born over a month ago. @Greenleaf@hexbear.net recommended I have him as the COTW for a week and I finally got around to it.
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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.
Danish government broadcaster DR reports that the Social Democratic-led right-wing regime plans to introduce "volunteer buses" in rural areas. This scheme is intended as a band-aid on a rural public transit system crippled by decades of economic mismanagement and austerity. Bus routes in the countryside and provincial towns have been discontinued, bus stops shut down, and remaining routes see reduced service, making life increasingly difficult for non-drivers outside big cities.
The scheme includes increased use of on-demand buses, which riders must book hours in advance, and notably contains no significant new investments in public transit. A recent report by regime-aligned technocrats hand-picked by the Liberal Party-controlled Ministry of Transportation declared "traditional" rural bus routes with paid drivers on low ridership routes "economically and environmentally unviable."
Instead, the regime seeks to address rural transit issues by no longer paying bus drivers on low-ridership routes. Under the proposed scheme, random people from the village, like the priest or shopkeeper, will volunteer to drive a minivan provided by the regional transit corporation. The Liberal Party-controlled Ministry of Transportation has refused to comment on how the removal of drivers' salaries will affect passenger fares or how unpaid volunteers will provide reliable and sufficient service.
Pro-regime outlets like DR present the scheme not as a refusal to provide necessary infrastructure but as a positive action to solve the "apolitical" problem of vanishing buses, uncritically echoing regime slogans about creating "a Denmark in better geographic balance" without addressing who caused the imbalance.
This scheme exemplifies how the neoliberal state shirks its responsibility to provide public services for the common good, offloading it onto individuals who lack the financial and organizational resources to offer a reliable, high-quality service.
Meanwhile, the regime is embarking on an aggressive military buildup, with spending ballooning to well over two percent of GDP. Earlier this year, the regime decided to increase the salaries and perks of the nation's unelected royal family. At least some functions of the state are still seen as viable.
this is just Uber with extra steps, surely?
At least Uber pretends to pay drivers. This is just telling people to fuck off and figure it out themselves if they want transit in their community.
the priest? yeah I would love to get a ride to the shop from an 80-year-old Dane with cataracts
the shopkeeper? maybe if you want a ride to their shop lol
This is one of the countries endlessly worshipped by Western radlibs for their infrastructure because they’re too racist to say anything positive about China lol