Friendly reminder: when commenting about a news event, especially something that just happened, please provide a source of some kind. While ideally this would be on nitter or archived, any source is preferable to none at all given.
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.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.
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.
The Country of the Week is still Palestine, though we will switch next week to a new country.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly (biweekly?) update is here.
Links and Stuff
The bulletins site is down.
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can.
Resources For Understanding The War
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.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
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
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.
Last week's discussion post.
Hamas released some tunnel pictures. Notable because this is the first I've seen with vehicles underground.
Hamas Hyperloop
Confidential sources have told me that Elon is in high level talks with the political bureau of Hamas to enlist their aid in expanding his ambitious hyper-loop infrastructure project!
Rumors are that Hamas has declined his offer citing that if they wanted they could just add gamer lights to their tunnels and call it a hyperrloop for much cheaper than what Elon would want to charge them
reports are suggesting that Iran has armed Hamas with spartan lasers and Mjolnir armor suits
And DPRK is providing the super soldiers capable of wearing that armor
I wonder what people in the DPRK thought about the way the KPA was depicted in Crysis.
Notably, there was a DPRK commando unit armed with powerful super-armor suits.
Thats funny i thought crysis was like far off sci fi on a different planet, i know nothing about that game
The first one takes place on some islands off of Korea, I believe. I'm not sure where the other games take place but I think one of them is in NYC.
Unlike the video game suits, these suits do not jack you off.
That's a neat-looking vehicle. Kinda looks like a big cat.
You mean like a Puma, perhaps?
Yeah, there you go.
the One Good Car
Actually nuts, why do you think they made tunnels that big?
To put toyota hilux in
Can't run at 30mph in a tunnel
Gaza has had large smuggling tunnels linked with Egypt for decades. They move a lot of cargo through those tunnels. it's a vital economic link for Gaza in better times. Food, construction materials, medicine, whatever.
well we are told there are smuggling tunnels under the border with Egypt
and for a supply line you want to be able to move cargo in volume, not have everything hand carried
Hyperloop gags aside, the fact that they're able to use cars underground suggests that they have the ventilation problem sorted out. At least, I hope they do. It would come in handy in case of an Israeli gas attack.
Not necessarily. Operating a vehicle or two for a short period underground is a lot different than having a steady stream of commuter traffic filling the space with exhaust constantly.
My understanding is that in better times there's a high-volume of smuggling used to bring goods in from Egypt. The tunnel systems are one of the main economic arteries for Gaza.
There was a funny story years back about a Gazan delivery company that would supposedly bring fried chicken from a KFC in Egypt in like 30 minutes or something.