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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.
The Trump Tower Tesla bomber was a Slava Ukraini guy, who "served" (as a trainer?) in Ukraine and Georgia, and his wife was a libbed-up cheeto-hater.
Signs are pointing to Trump derangement syndrome?
Imagine dying for ukraine when even ukranians try to pay out the ass to avoid dying for ukraine
Lmao the disrespect
Is this the second Slava Ukraini terrorist after the second Trump assassin? Imagine that.
The anti-immigration Chuds are falling behind in assassination attempts. We need another gun nut to try another assassination attempt
I still remember when a bunch of chuds made a plan to kidnap a democratic governor (Whitmer I think) and the FBI found GoPro video footage of them practicing shooting from Jeeps I think? Just incredible stuff, chud Jeep technicals were almost a thing.
Doesn't he have connections to the NO ISIS guy?
Are libbed up ukraini guys doing ISIS false flags now? Is that where we're at? Becoming ISIS to own the Drumpf?
This genuine made me laugh. Joining Jolani to own Cheeto.
Imagine jolani with a pussy hat screaming about Russian disinformation
Jolani becomes a Russiagate truther
This gives me hope there will be a Blue MAGA January 6th
Trump vs the Deep State?
The deep state has got to do better then, this guy just threw a bunch of things that go boom in the back of the truck and hoped for the best. Worst DIY bomb ever.
Not even stuff that goes "boom", really. More like stuff that goes "pop", "whish", "fizz", "snap", "bzzzzz", etc.
Fireworks. Seriously. Like the intent was just to create a spectacle rather than do any serious harm or damage. It really is perplexing that some dude may have thrown his life away for this shit.
self-immolation with american characteristics
Aaron Bushnell, TBF. But yeah: short of any more information about this guy...IDK maybe he was just suicidal and wanted to make it weird.
He was US military intelligence and special ops
The Manchurian Candidate method of brainwashing isn’t always effective, but it’ll do for now.
I imagine the Trump assassins, or attacks targeting his businesses, will just get more and more incompetent as time goes on. Can't wait for the 2027 assassin that manages to shoot themselves in the foot.
american Years of Lead but for the dumbest reasons
Years of lead poisoning
Years Of Lithium
I see more deep state involvement in New Orleans than this. We're entering a period of higher stochastic violence, and it will be very hard to tell where intelligence ops end and desperate individuals begin.
The CIA, FBI and NSA keep trying to kill Donald, but somehow he escapes without even realizing he's in danger.
Mr magoo ass
Idk I'm leaning towards the cybertruck being a genuine piece of shit as the cause, and all these connections with the NO attack are coincidental. What's the point of a person blowing themself up in an area with not alot of people around?
Edit: turns out they found a self inflicted gunshot wound so probably not an accident. Still not sure what he was hoping to accomplish
Both of them do attacks on the same night, served at the same US Army base at the same time, both went to Afghanistan at the same time, both rented cars from the same rental company for their attacks.....
Coincidence? I think not
I'm not ruling anything out. It's weird to me this dude had his passport on him if he drove from Denver to Las Vegas with the intent to kill himself. Maybe he wanted to have his body identified, maybe he was planning on escaping to Mexico. But I also wonder if this dude was already dead and someone put his passport with him to make it clear it was him. The Cybertruck can probably drive itself and also be remotely driven to the building. It could also not be him at all, and it's being made to look like him. Lots of possibilities.
Fitting handle for the assessment
I doubt they could have remotely detonated the fireworks without a trace and if they used a timer I doubt they could have timed its arrival so perfectly but otherwise this is something to consider.
They could have wired something into the trucks wiring itself that would be able to ignite fuses, but I agree that it's not necessarily the most likely scenario. But then again, I think they covered up what happened to United 93, so a car explosion has gotta be childs play, right?