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Image is of destruction and damage inside Israel, sourced from this article.
Iran and Israel have struck each other many times over the last few days. There has been a general focus on military facilities and headquarters by both sides, though Israel has also struck oil facilities, civilian structures and hospitals, and in return for this, Iran has struck major scientific centers and the Haifa oil facilities.
Israel appears to have three main aims. First, to collapse the Iranian state, either through shock and breakdown by killing enough senior officials, or via some sort of internal military coup. Second, to try and destroy Iranian nuclear sites and underground missile cities, or at least to paralyze them long enough to achieve the first and third goals. And third, to bring the US into a direct conflict with Iran. This is because the US better equipped to fight them than Israel is (though victory would still not be guaranteed depending on what Iran chooses to do).
Iranian nuclear facilities are hidden deep underground (800 meters), far beyond the depth range of even the most powerful bunker busters (~70 meters or so), and built such that the visible ground entrances are horizontally far away in an unknown direction from the actual underground chambers. Only an extremely competent full-scale American bombing force all simultaneously using multiple of the most powerful conventional (perhaps even nuclear) bunker busters could even hypothetically hope to breach them (and we have seen how, in practice, American bunker busters have largely failed to impair or deter Ansarallah). There are several analysts on both sides who have concluded that it is entirely impossible to physically prevent Iran from building nukes.
I fully expect the US to join the war. I believe the current ambiguity is a deliberate invention of the US while they work to move their military assets into position, and as soon as they are ready, the US will start bombing Iran. After that, Iran's leadership must - if they haven't already - harden their hearts, and strike back with no fear, or risk following the path of Libya, Syria, and Iraq, either into either surrender, occupation, or annihilation. Every day where they do not possess a nuke is a day where lives are being lost and cities are being bombed.
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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.
Iran just launched the largest ballistic missile attack of the past few days on Israel this morning, over 30 ballistic missiles launched. Multiple impacts/direct hits in Tel Aviv (3) and Be'er Sheva (1), including on Soroka hospital.
Lots of interceptors, likely David's Sling, were launched over Tel Aviv
Attacks on hospitals are never okay, though I suspect it wasn't the target here. Since Iran seems to be going tit for tat, and the relative inaccuracy of the missiles, the university right next door could have been what they were going for. At least in my armchair opinion.
Israel already bombed an Iranian hospital a couple days ago. I don't support targeting civilians, but that's tit-for-tat.
Realistically it's Israel's fault for breaking the seal on such war crimes.
Oh, I agree that "Israel" has no right to complain. I just don't think Iran intentionally stoops this low. Of two possible targets in range, a university and a hospital, I think they would have preferred hitting the university 20m away.
Settlers aren't civilians. "Israelis" are all part of an occupying force
Think it's just Iranian deterrence doctrine in action. Israel just bombed the Arak heavy water nuclear reactor/facility in Iran two hours ago (suspected of being inactive, but still), so Iran responds by launching as many ballistic missiles as it can at population centres. This has always been Iranian deterrence doctrine, if Israel bombs our nuclear facilities they'll pay a high price/we'll bomb Tel Aviv and other population centres to inflict maximum damage. Israel will likely respond by bombing some more oil or energy infrastructure.
The entity has a command post under a hospital that they have been posting about online for the past few days, I don't remember if its this hospital, but they are using them as military sites.
It's really always fucking projection with them
I guess Zionists will suddenly care about blowing up hospitals now
That hospital was an IDF base
The smoke on the first image with the pole sort of looks like it is wearing glasses 
BREAKING: SpaceX Starship explodes during static fire test (BNOnews)
I was prepared to laugh but I wasn't expecting such a comically large explosion, holy shit lmao
One of the most expensive fireworks I've ever seen.
Breaking news 
the guy desperately trying to hold back his giggles on the broadcast is killing me lmao
if trump decides to go for it, we're gonna end up with a nazbol Tucker Carlson campaign in 2028 that unites all the worst libs and chuds
I keep seeing clips of him roasting Ted Cruz with a bevy of comments on each one from libs saying "I can't believe I'm agreeing with Tucker now"
Such an opportunist. Tucker loves wars.
ngl after seeing that Ted Cruz interview + other data points, I think Tucker’s anti-intervention streak may be somewhat sincere, even if he’s shit on everything else.
All these so called "anti-war" reactionaries have for years been salivating at the thought of the US attacking "Communist China", and now suddenly they pretend to be anti-war only because they believe it's the wrong target and an unnecessary distraction, and not because they oppose war or genocide.
They're making sure that when they decide to go for it, and the MAGA movement implodes and has outlived its usefulness, they'll have fascist "anti-war" voices standing by to direct all that energy towards them. With Democrats being Democrats, they'll comfortably watch from the sidelines while they do nothing.
~~I like Ike~~ ~~I'm ridin' with Biden~~ I fuck with Tuck
CNN twists themselves into pretzels to avoid the words “Iran successfully strikes Israel”
Fed holds key rate steady, still sees two more cuts this year CNBC
The Federal Reserve kept its key borrowing rate targeted in a range between 4.25%-4.5%, where it has been since December.
However, the central bank expects inflation to remain elevated and sees lower economic growth ahead.
Still, the Federal Open Market Committee expects to make two rate reductions later this year, according to the closely watched “dot plot.”
The Fed still refused to cut rate, once again citing “inflation risks” even though inflation has dropped to 2.7%. This is bad news for China’s local governments who need the Fed rate cut to alleviate their debt burden.
I had previously expected the recent US-China negotiation to have at least involved a small rate cut as a sign of good will, but it looks like the US-China talk is far from over.
If anyone's wondering why there's little to no footage out of Iran: the internet has been down for over 12 hours, only one spike of connectivity. I'd guess to try combat Israeli spying through CCTV cameras open to the internet, and the use of the network by Mossad assets in Iran. War censorship is also another potential reason.
Didn't they announce yesterday that they were planning to shut off the external Internet?
Yeah I think so.
And just after I posted about little to no images from Iran, the first images of Israeli airstrikes on the Arak heavy water nuclear facility have appeared online. So Israel did hit something there. On the off chance anyone on here lives nearby or has friends or family in Arak, please tell them to stay inside and close doors and windows if possible. There is a very real possibility of radioactivity, even if the facility was/is inactive as suspected. It's a completely above ground facility, there won't be any containment of the radiation underground. This is very serious, radiation sickness is no joke, stay inside with windows and doors closed.
This is very worrying and I really hope that there's no radioactivity... What a nightmare
Nothing would cheer me up more than the complete humilliation and utter destruction of "israel"
That being said, isn't this a heavy water reactor for civilian use?
It's Israeli airstrikes on an Iranian reactor yes. It's suspected to be inoperable, was designed for civilian use but the ability to generate plutonium was a big issue.
update on the iran internet situation: it's basically already disconnected from the rest of the world. in the morning it's better and im able to (with some really specific configuration) connect, but otherwise after 6 pm it's dead.
on one hand in a statement they said that the disruptions are not because of cutting off the rest of the world but are due to israeli cyber attacks (which are not unfounded) but on the other hand many data centers became "iran access" (they can only access iranian ip ranges), as well as the normal restrictions they imposed right after the start of the war.
so if you guys aren't getting any footage to doompost over it's because the internet is broken. you can check it with netblocks to see when the internet is cut off.
If you have any family or friends near Arak please tell them to stay inside with the windows and doors closed if possible, Israel just bombed the above ground nuclear facilities there. They were suspected of being inactive, but still there's always the possibility of radioactivity/radiation leaking into the surrounding area.
A former CIA analyst is predicting an Israeli false flag attack against the Nimitz, found this shared on the ResistanceTrench telegram
FLASH ALERT: CAPT, USS Nimitz, expect to be attacked as you near Middle East - NOT by Iran, but by Israel with false-flag attack, blaming Iran. Honor your oath to the Constitution: Do not cover it up, as the US Navy did when Israel attacked the USS Liberty
picture of the tweet:
Llast time Trump went right up tp the line of going to war with Russia and Iran. Then he shitcanned 
. Not without setting the stage at first.
I wonder who will break first this time? Trump or Bibi? It seems thetr is internal struggle between the ranks - and if they can get it out loud enough Bibi is a menance to his own people and draws Pissreal into these fights to prolong his selfish rule - would Trump toss Bibi? Or would Pissreal themselves toss him?
This pending war seems to be the end play of a desperate flailing Bibi with not much more cards up his ass to play.
If Bibi does a false flag on the US to try to drag us in - is there enough internal opposition and awareness to call it out and maybe tell Bibi to go to hell?
former CIA
aren't most people CIA for life?
Yes
Boy... October 7th really did set things in motion huh? Looking back at it, when we first saw the videos of our brave men and women crossing the Wall of Hate with motorcycles, pickup trucks, paragliders... didn't we all feel something really big was going to happen?
There is no going back now, we live in a new world. The brave palestinians who launched an all-out assault against the zionist monster changed the world, with nothing to lose and a lot to win. May that be the date that marks the beginning of "israel's" final moments on Earth.
I've probably said it before, but I hope that when future generations open a history book they will read about the Palestinian struggle and the brave resistance on October 7th that paved the way for the eventual collapse of the Zionist entity and the US empire.
The conquest of Gaza and Palestine was the birth of Israel and so too, I hope, its death.