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.
Rant about the DNC and my jumbled feelings
Seeing all the DNC shenanigans is the first time I feel physically ill after seeing just how callous and uncaring people are. Specifically, the guy mocking the protestors reading the names of every dead Palestinian child outside. Like, I've seen pictures of the holocaust and stuff like that and of course that's also evil, but the current situation is one where basically every friend I have supports these people at least passively. It reminds me of the Disco Elysium quote that gets posted around a lot:
It's very cringe to type, but for fans of God Emperor of Dune, I refer to moments like this as "the worm overtaking me" in my head where any amount of empathy or human connection I feel for them leaves my body and my animal instincts take over. In that moment, I feel they do not belong in society, the world would be better without them, and I don't entertain the slightest excuse for any past atrocities that may have been committed against people like them in the pursuit of freedom. Make no excuses for the terror, etc.
It's a feeling of being actively radicalized in an instant, having immense anger and nowhere real to direct it, no productive outlet, so instead it goes inward and fills the body. It's powerful enough to bring me to tears because these are the people considered the 'good guys'. Not that I still believed that, but everyone around me does while they continue their mass killings and starvation campaigns, jerking each other off by chanting 'USA'. Those that do and still consider themselves good people truly disgust me in a way I can't describe.
I feel such a disconnection from everyone I know in the same manner as when I first turned vegan and began to notice people's casual cruelty and mockery of the animals they gleefully slaughter. No regard for life, human or animal, it doesn't matter. It's very hard to reject doomerism sometimes.
It is so absurd that shitlibs argue for voting for the lesser evil, but then they literally cheer and clap for it.
There was a slight disillusionment among libs when the Biden/Trump debate happened, but now they all literally cheer for the same ghouls and literally plug their ears when you try to remind them of the genocide that is still happening.
Lesser evilism is stupid anyway, the whole point is that they are both evil... but then they cheer?! They don't even pretend that the DNC is evil. Even the speeches were militaristic. At least Jon Stewart kinda made fun of them, just a tiny bit. He wouldn't play the video of the libs plugging their ears.
It's almost like lesser evilism is not sincere, but sophistry in order to get the left to cooperate with establishment parties.
We always jest about jokerifying moments, but this is clearly one of those. After you've seen it you can't unsee it.