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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 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.
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.
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.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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.
According to air raid monitoring channels, Russian 5th generation Su-57 stealth aircraft are carrying out missions again, for now suspected to be simulations of cruise missile launches. The Su-57 can carry the Kh-59 cruise missile on external pylons, or the Kh-69 cruise missile in it's internal weapons bays. The Kh-69 is a stealthier more advanced version of the Kh-59. Both are low observable, terrain following subsonic cruise missiles that fly at low altitude, with a range of around 300km/190mi. The most infamous Kh-69 attack of the war so far was the attack on Trypilska thermal power plant near Kyiv, completely disabling it. Kh-69s launched from Su-57s are reserved for high value targets, Ukrainian air defence operators say that they are even worse to deal with for them than the Kinzhal air launched ballistic missiles.
tfw instead of making 1000 shit reaper look-a-likes you imported usa obsessions
I mean you can't disguise an aircraft or drone visible on a runway, a geosynchronous orbit spy satellite over the airbase will see it. Stealth is to do with reducing radar and heat signatures in flight, and is a valuable technology being developed by the United States, China, Russia and even Turkey.
You can say that, but also patriot missile production is 500 per year. 1000 reapers will fuck up any air defense for 2 years, even assuming 1 to 1 interception.
Expensive toys work for usa cause they can offload like 50 percent on satellite-states, and have 1000 of the fuckers, not like 30.
The purpose of stealth is to penetrate air defenses, not launch missiles from your own airspace
You can't replace an air force with drones though. Look at Iran, lots of drones, but an outdated air force. The lack of a modern air force has hurt them, it's why they want to get the Su-35 form Russia. Drones similar to an MQ-9 Reaper drone also can by shot down by a lot of air defence systems, you don't need Patriot or S300/400 high level system to shoot down a drone of that level. Ansar Allah has shot down over a dozen Reapers using SA-6/Kub SAM systems first deployed in the 1960s, forcing the USA to use drones which fly faster and at higher altitudes for intelligence gathering. And in a direct war with the US, their way of achieving air superiority is with their aircraft shooting down your aircraft and drones and destroying your air defence systems in an offensive action and not a defensive war. So something like AIM-120 and AGM-88 HARM production rates and stockpiles would be more useful than Patriot or SM-3 production rates as a metric.
They have single use, long range suicide drones, not controlled ones. (and they haven't used them, the scaredy cats they are).
High altitude, precisely. fly at 5 km, drop small bombs (-nyt) on training facilities you see. miles better than nerd out @materials, surface angles and radar wavelengths for 10 years, make 5 planes a year and then be afraid to fly them inside aa systems range anyway, and use them to launch expensive missiles.
Usa way requires the runways to be functional, which might be a little hard to achieve with mass drones making small craters in them. Yes repairing a 1m hole is easy, you still can't take off tho.