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.
Funny how quickly libs went from worshipping the ground Joe Biden tripped on to never mentioning him again. Really lays bare the cynicism of it all
As a non-American, it's been wild watching them go from seemingly indifferent to somewhat negative about Harris to swap to treating her like Democrat Jesus the instant the media started hyping her up. Really feels like they have no original thoughts and just follow the "party line" the entire time.
There’s also the fact they just by-passed the primary process and installed her as the nominee without a single vote from anyone, and literally not one Democrat seemed to mind. Just total passive sheep they don’t give a fuck about lower case d democracy
The last three Democrat presidential primaries have been completely rigged and mainstream Democrats couldn't be happier. It's kind of amusing to think about what the world would look like if the dnc primary were as actually democratic as the rnc primary. We would never have had trump because Bernie would have won in 2016 and would likely be in his second term now. Conversely if the rnc primary were as antidemocratic as the dnc primary, Trump would have been blocked out early on in the 2016 primary and we would have had some other Republican president.
Same with the Kamala going from mostly unknown with no base of support outside the khive weirdos to liberal darling and new hope. Total whiplash and obviously cynical and forced into existence by the media
and the khive stuff was paid Correct The Record style shit to begin with
So was it Hilary’s machine behind Kamala then? Or do you just mean influence farms more broadly
The khive was paid for by the Harris campaign in 2020 for sure, and the same firm that did it then is probably now getting Biden/Harris money to spin up the same operation
I just meant astroturfed. I shoulda hyphenated it Correct-the-Record-style
That Chapo episode about the West Wing saying that what liberals worship isn't policy or virtues per se but power and the appearance of virtue.
Which is why Trump being President and being the kind of man that he is was more traumatic for liberals than any US foreign or domestic policy failure or success.
Chapo Trap House - The West Wing Review from episode 101
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Some of them don't even seem to notice he isn't running anymore
They must have had so many of these made before he dropped out and they couldn't refund them. Also see the three-stripes DNC logo based on the "JOE" branding
You don't speak ill of the dead and the problem is that joe's still alive.
This stuff was easy enough when it was just a few broadcasters and newspapers they had to get on board, and the thinking when the internet was still young was that it would be too hard to control for this kind of shit, but nope. Have enough resources, get enough influencers on board, and rev up the social media bot accounts and you can flood the zone and invent a movement overnight.
I dunno I'm tired
from Operation Mockingbird to Operation HawktuahgirlThe boomers still love him if the boomer expats are anything to go by. Love Kamala but will still occasionally comment on how people were too mean to Biden.