Image: one of our POW camps filled with captured soldiers of the Christmas regime.
Season's greetings, fellow godless communists. I'm here to disseminate orders from our Supreme Communist Dictator as we once again find ourselves fighting against the very concept of Christmas. As a reminder, by the end of our five-year plan, we plan to be in a position to attack and dethrone God, but this intermediate step is required to fulfil this directive. Our forces in the field have made significant, if gradual, progress since you received your mission update last year. It has been difficult, but we have developed a series of defensive lines to prepare for a counteroffensive out of Lapland that will try and reach the Gulf of Bothnia in an attempt to cut the land bridge that we have set up across Scandinavia.
Currently, we foresee a few major threats. General Santa Clauswitz has been developing many tools in his workshop, including artillery-launched snowballs, barbed tinsel, and reinforced gingerbread armor plating for his tanks and infantry carriers. President Frostyy has made the following public statement: "The socialists who wish to destroy us have no idea what their defenses are about to face. Democracy will always defeat autocracy. Christmas will always triumph over X-mas. The leaders of the axis facing us are all on the naughty list and will be tried for crimes against festivity once this war is over."
Delusional as this may be, the next couple days will be the most dangerous as they stage their counteroffensive, and we need everybody to pitch in and get into defensive positions. We expect this to be the last major push that they will make before collapse. Please report any Christmas trees, mistletoe, or general symbology of the Christmas regime to your superiors.
Over and out.
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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 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. - 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.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
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.
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.
Man allegedly impersonated soldier, entered Gaza, stole weapons, posed with Netanyahu (Times of Israel)
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A Tel Aviv resident was charged Sunday with stealing military and police weapons, apparently taking advantage of the chaos after Hamas’s deadly October 7 attack on Israeli communities along the Gaza border, with the intent to sell them on the black market.
Hebrew media outlets reported that the suspect, Roi Yifrach, was even photographed with both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at assembly areas in the south between October 7 and his arrest on December 17, while apparently using fake identities to pose as a combat soldier.
According to the indictment served in, the Tel Aviv District Court, Yifrach, 35, never served in the Israeli military but nonetheless managed to make his way into the war zones. He was accused of stealing arms and equipment while fraudulently posing as a policeman, an officer in the elite Yamam counterterrorism unit, and a Shin Bet operative, in the weeks after October 7.
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Yifrach’s lawyer Eitan Segev asserted that he had volunteered to join the war effort after killing Hamas gunmen on October 7 with his own licensed weapon.
Segev was quoted by Channel 12 news as saying Yifrach had arrived independently to Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7, when some 3,000 terrorists burst across the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing over 240 hostages in border communities amid horrific acts of brutality.
“After that he joined an elite combat unit inside Gaza and fought Hamas terrorists face-to-face, with IDF approval, with military equipment provided to him by the IDF,” Segev was quoted by Channel 12 news as saying. “Absurdly, the State of Israel, which failed to protect its citizens, is now going after a citizen, my client, who volunteered for Israel.”
According to the indictment, Yifrach was in Gaza for a number of weeks, during which time he stole equipment including an IDF assault rifle, two smoke grenades, 14 stun grenades, a police-issued pistol, dozens of rounds of ammunition and three detonators, a drone, helmets, communications equipment and more.
Police searched his house after being tipped off, and found stolen equipment in his house, in his mother’s house, and in his car.
Four other suspects were detained for questioning in the raid, including a police officer. The four were released to house arrest after being investigated and the police officer was suspended from duty.
Theft of guns has long been a problem for the military. According to data released by the Knesset in 2020, there are some 400,000 illegal weapons circulating in Israel, the vast majority believed to have been stolen from the army and police force.
When your military is such a joke that some guy with no military experience can fake it in your war zone for weeks without being caught. Also, the half million guns stolen from the army and police are amazing.
Iranian media alleged that IDF units that were fed up with Netanyahu sold weapons to Hamas in exchange for drugs lol. Hareetz also reported that Netanyahu’s government has been providing intelligence and weapons to Hamas for a long time as a strategy to divide Palestinians. Both bold claims; but very funny.
Man had the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.