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.
(Warning twitter link) My take Kursk is a British operation US unhappy about has gotten lot of pushback, so let's dive into this. Key point is previously, Washington distanced iself from Kiev's escalatory actions by claiming a lack of foreknowledge. It has never actively condemned them. Until now.
Walking around my city and finding any house with a blue & yellow flag, knocking on the door and shouting DO YOU CONDEMN UKKKRAINE
there's a lot fewer Ukrainian flags up around here now, but it's pretty funny to me how many of them I saw were were hung with the blue on the wrong side. the "in distress" excuse might work for the ones that are horizontal but that doesn't work for vertical afaik. hey chud the flag you claim to support is facing the door of your garage!
Flag fuckers have never followed flag codes. The people who fetishize flags the most and drape them on everything care the least about their actual symbols and importance and rules
sort of like how the biggest nationalist freaks care the least about the actual people who live inside that nation. Definitely a correlation here with using the idea of nationalism/flags/patriotism to cover up their own unappealing policies and plans
It’s all a stage play. The US knew the whole time and is fine with it, they are feigning ignorance. They run the entire Ukraine war room it’s like 80% NATO officials in there at this point
The UK is betting on starting WW3 to jump start their shitty economy.
It’s what all imperialist nations do as the rate of profit declines, ramp up their imperialism until it hits a breaking point. Fixed capital needs to be destroyed to reset the rate of profit
I believe it's more complex and long-term than this. Ukrainian Billionaire Viktor Pinchuk has been involved with British figures going way back as far as Tony Blair, this is all from 2013 before Maidan:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/9859780/Revealed-Tony-Blair-and-the-oligarch-bankrolling-his-charity.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/what-do-tony-blair-dominique-strausskahn-and-hillary-clinton-have-in-common-8830374.html
https://yes-ukraine.org/en/about/press-about-us/guest-post-ukraines-european-challenge
I don't think this is to do with weapons sales. I think this is more to do with what Pinchuk wants, Britain is doing Pinchuk's bidding and it will secure British access to reconstruction or other lucrative things in the post-war.
Someone still gets rich in a Ponzi scheme though, so this serves the purpose. The brits have a shitty economy inside the wire, but vulturing ukraine is still something.
Weren't there us troops involved? I remember someone posted a video of "Ukrainians" speaking English with an American accent going around some building in Kursk.
Mercenaries, probably.
“Mercenaries” who are recently “retired” from the US military and “volunteer”