One year on. Hundreds of thousands are dying or dead, millions are displaced, the Middle East is undergoing its greatest changes in a generation, Iran has directly attacked Israel twice in one year, and Yemen has proven that the US Navy ain’t worth shit. We are the closest we have been to nuclear war (discounting accidents) in decades, but also the fall of Israel.
Because one day, the prisoners of a concentration camp paraglided over a wall.
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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.
Supposedly the Ukrainian troops in Kursk are getting cooked right now. The fog of war is still pretty thick, but:
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/126087
The Russian Armed Forces have pushed through the left flank of the Kursk group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces , report Ukranian sources
They call today “extremely terrible” because in the Novoivanovka area, the only forces that the Russian Armed Forces encountered from the Ukrainian side were artillerymen and UAVs.
A large group of Ukrainian Armed Forces fled across the border in the Kursk region using equipment, [Russian General] Apty Alaudinov said.
Somewhat related: I saw a few videos recently of large train shipments of vehicles with North Group markings. Notably, there were lots of MRAPs, which I’m starting to think are a good indicator of planned offensives (both Russia and Ukraine seem to use them that way).
UK has denied entry to Mandela’s grandson the day before the start of his speaking tour through Scotland on apartheid in South Africa and Palestine.
Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira said this Thursday that his country will maintain its position in favor of dialogue in Venezuela, a country in which Brazil has great interests.
Brazil actually depends on Venezuelan oil and energy aid for it’s most northern states.
Colombia: The former magistrate of the National Electoral Council, Luis Guillermo Perez assured that the “Uribista” magistrates investigated by the Supreme Court of Justice could be condemned due to the evidence existing against them.
What do I do with this heart-wrentching sick and rage I feel as I move about the world? Everyone going about their business as if we’re not actively and in real-time, complicit in a genocide? It’s surreal. It’s bewildering.
The enemies’ psychological warfare fronts are pushing lies and that is coming at cost of giving themselves away.
MiddleEastEye, a news agency which some might have mistakenly saw as pro-Resistance because of its pro-Palestine publishings have just published an exclusive article claiming this:
Esmail Qaani, the leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force, is alive and unhurt but under guard and being questioned as Iran investigates major security breaches, multiple sources have told Middle East Eye.
Qaani has not been seen in public since Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a massive air strike on Beirut on 27 September, an event that rocked the anti-Israel Axis of Resistance alliance.
Ten sources in Tehran, Beirut and Baghdad, including senior Shia figures and sources close to Hezbollah and in the IRGC, told MEE that even Qaani, one of Iran’s most senior generals, and his team are under lockdown as investigators seek answers.
Qaani had came to Hezbullah’s office in Tehran among many others after Nasrallah’s martyrdom and also recently he had a short interview over phone call on the national TV.
But the bullshit doesn’t stop there and Sky News Arabia adds to it by saying he had an heart attack under the interrogation.
And of course, the Zionist news agencies like JPost and Iran International quickly published articles citing MiddleEastEye.
So, who funds this news agency anyway? I don’t know, but BBC says they are funded by Qatar.
Head of Iranian Red Crescent Society said on the national TV that Israel have bombed the Iran’s Red Crescent field hospital in Syrian-Lebanese border.
Also in Chinese medical news: Three people have been cured of severe autoimmune disorders using genetically modified donor immune cells
New Hezbollah video just dropped:
https://xcancel.com/leb313shihin/status/18444398979037065830:03 - Planting explosives on the potential axes of advancement.
0:11 - Thermal monitoring of infiltration.
0:40 - Confronting military helicopters in the airspace of the area.The allowed aid into Gaza is now down to <200,000 kilograms per day, with food and water effectively now illegal in the northern half. Gaza Soup Kitchen North is also now practically defunct, with them stating they have likely served their last meals 2 days ago.
There is less food in Gaza than in Johannesburg’s hyper-dense Hillbrow neighbourhood of 75,000 people.
https://xcancel.com/IbnRiad/status/1844385329308156256
My neighbor told me the resistance keeps smoking his rescue teams so I asked how many teams he has and he said he just goes to the barracks and gets a new team afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding rescue teams to the resistance and Herzi Halevi started crying
I didn’t catch this. It turns out the IOF loser got out of the tank because he wanted to take a selfie before getting owned by Qassam:
https://xcancel.com/upholdreality/status/1844376334153416910Roll off dumpster sitting on a roof in Palm Beach Gardens cw: link
couple other pictures in that subreddit