There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account.
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.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is Palestine! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly 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.
over/under on Israel not actually doing a ground offensive in Gaza and just bombing it to smithereens for weeks on end, so as to not incite a regional war (at the request of the United States if nothing else)?
if all these proposed actions by various groups are conditional on a ground offensive then if I was Israel then I would just try and set a new world record for the number of bombs dropped per square inch for the next few months and not go in
Odds of no ground invasion are increasing by the hour, in my opinion. I think the Israelis and the West simply do not have the resources to support a protected ground war. I don't think they are going to be able to get away with a months long bombing campaign, either, though.
They shut off the water. Without water people start to die in three days. kids don't last that long. idk what the water situation is in Gaza, but cutting off water is one of the ways to exterminate civilian populations. Seeking bad water sources will spread disease. Without water all kinds of processes can't be done.
So how do they have the control over that? Is Gaza’s water supplied by the Jordan River, and without that they don’t have any or something? Are there points where if Palestinians were to control that territory it wouldn’t be a problem anymore?
at least looking at google maps there doesnt appear to be much in the way of water reserves. Unless Egypt does something idk where the water is going to come from. Anyway denying water and food to Gaza is an atrocity on a completely different scale than whatever Hamas did
I don't see how Netanyahu can avoid going in at this point. It would be obvious that he was cowed by Hezbollah. Israel can't fulfill any of its war aims unless it enters Gaza, and would be committing to a long term conflict that it might not be able to bear.
He's put himself in a situation where his only options are to go all in or back down and pretty much blow up his own career, which is pretty much exactly what he wanted IMO. Between the domestic political discord prior to Saturday and the rhetoric about this being like 9/11 or ISIS but worse from Israel and the West it seems like Netanyahu is using this as his chance to consolidate his position and that absolutely requires following through on his rhetoric no matter the consequences.
I am a bit sus that Netanyahu's speech was unclear about whether he meant the existing carrier or the second carrier.
If he meant the second carrier it means that all the threats from surrounding forces have successfully warned him off of it, and they're not delaying and trying to find a way to back out. It will take 2 weeks, plenty can happen in those 2 weeks where they can find ways to make excuses to back out of it.
If he meant the first carrier then the ground operation could begin within 24-48 hours.
It would make sense to wait for ballistic missile defense (BMD) assets to be available before sending in the death squads if you’re worried about neighboring countries lobbing ballistic missiles at you.
Does Israel have the munitions to do this? Didn’t they send off 80% of their bombs and shells to Ukraine?
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