Image is of a Russian missile impacting Ukraine.
As we rapidly approach the fourth anniversary of the beginning of the Ukraine War (an anniversary I absolutely did not expect would occur while the two sides were still in combat), we have seen Russia turn to a new strategy, starting late last year but intensifying in December and now January.
Russia seems intent to disconnect Ukrainian cities from the electrical grid by focussing bombing on thermal, gas, and hydro stations, causing major power blackouts across the country. Russia is also bombing substations relatively close to Ukraine's three nuclear power plants (Zaporzhye, the fourth, remains under Russia control), studiously avoiding hitting the premises of the NPPs themselves for obvious reasons. Even if they're far away from the NPPs, striking the substations does have risks, because if the nuclear reactors aren't shut off before the substations are bombed, there is a possibility that there will be insufficient backup power to prevent a meltdown - hence why Russia hasn't really attempted to do this for four years.
Most of the electricity generated in Ukraine comes from the nuclear power plants, both because of the infrastructure they had initially (Ukraine was 7th in the world in nuclear electricity generation before the war) and because Russia has bombed most non-nuclear power stations and substations already. Over the last couple weeks, we have seen Ukrainian media fly into a frenzy about long-lasting blackouts, especially in the middle of winter. After the Zionist entity destroyed virtually all civilian infrastructure in Gaza while the West cheered on, they now appear to have changed their mind on whether such strikes are an effective and humanitarian option to subject millions of people to.
Regardless of whether you personally believe these Russian strikes are justified (I'm pretty iffy myself), it must be stressed that Ukraine has been bombing Russian tankers and oil refineries and power stations for a long time now, so in a sense, this is a retaliation. It's also remarkable, compared to Western wars, that Ukraine was even still allowed to possess a functioning electrical grid for nearly four years into a war of this magnitude. That all being said, while Ukrainian strikes have been somewhat but not overly impactful on the Russian oil sector, the response is clearly very asymmetrical: Ukraine's power grid is, according to Ukrainian energy corporations, now 70% degraded and is virtually impossible to now repair, and blackouts can last most of the day.
For everybody's sake, I hope a ceasefire and peace deal will be reached soon. But after four years of seeing opportunities for an end to this war squandered over and over, I'm not holding my breath.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. 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.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
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.
TikTok did have lots of issues for the past two days (after the official US takeover), so zero views and other weird stuff can happen. But now the main app is not having any problems and some accounts are still at zero views, despite having millions of followers. If nothing changes, this is another great self-own by the Dems.
Biden basically surrendered the most left wing social media platform in the US to Nazis just to look cool for like 2 days.
I wouldn't frame it this way, Biden and the democrats had as much to gain as republicans by making sure they could censor one of the media platforms that was broadcasting the genocide in Gaza
I also wouldn't frame it that way because Biden and the DemoKKKratϟϟ are as much Nazis as are the RepubliKKKanϟϟ. I will never stop pointing out that the Dems are Nazis because they worked tirelessly to genocide Palestinians in Palestine.
Also the one with the least censorship. And this happened years after TikTok did everything that the US wanted - they moved all their data to the US (Oracle) and employed a bunch of government officials to "moderate content".
Now the only hope is that TikTok crashes and burns.
Can’t enjoy a clip of Copmala going “I’m speaking” in neon green anymore, smh.
My feed is mostly pro-pali and anti-ice stuff anyway, but I have been seeing an issue of comments not loading that seems to only affect that type of content
The comments section on this type of material is typically full of anti-maga and anti-israel gifs/pictures with thousands and thousands of upvotes, and the amerisraeli bot farms getting at best 20 upvotes.
This might just be coincidence, but I do get plenty of normie content and never had an issue with the comments on those. It makes me suspicious that they are implementing some filtering mechanisms for comments on certain topics.
Also, the other day my entire fyp was giving me repeat content all day.
Maybe I should get off TikTok tbh
Ellison explicitly said that using the term Zionist in a negative sense is hate speech and will get your comments/videos removed and a ban.
Meanwhile, open pedos are creeping on children’s videos with sexually explicit comments and they are never removed or banned when I report them.
TikTok is a vile place and will soon reach X levels of depravity
You should, the new TikTok TOS includes consenting to them collecting GPS data, racial origin, citizenship status, financial information, and whether or not you are trans and queer.
(They are always using every tool to get that information on anyone anyway, of course, but it isn't great to have the app that they explicitly have laid out that they will use to help track people for the pigs and train the pigs' truffle-hunting AI software to help them more quickly and easily digitally profile their latest victims)
Yeah fuck I really should. Especially because of recent edgy comments. Im probably fucked regardless from liking to much Palestine shit on Instagram though
There is no time like the present to pollute your own algorithm by engaging with reactionary content for a while before deleting your account, preferably over a few months.
I already just deleted my account. I left TikTok after it got shut down and saved by Trump last January, I made a new account to see the red shambala memes, but most content that is actual useful to my organizing remains on Instagram.
My sister keeps getting Charlie Kirk merchandise ads.
WE ARE CHAAAARLIE KIRRRKKKK
Novelty Charlie Kirk scarf. Its red and has some wires so one end will stick up in a crimson arc.