The war in Sudan has so far been marked by a lot of incompetency and mismanagement by government forces (the SAF). After months of bitter fighting, in late 2023, the opposing Rapid Support Forces suddenly expanded their control towards the southeast of Khartoum after not a lot of resistance, most notably taking the city of Wad Madani. This led the SAF supporters and officials to panic and point fingers at each other about what the hell the army is even doing, while RSF soldiers looted the city.
These victories led to a short period in late December and early January where diplomacy and peace talks were considered, but such attempts fell apart. The leader of the RSF visited various African countries, including meeting Paul Kagame in Rwanda, to boost his legitimacy. Then, the RSF attacked into South Kordofan and consolidated their hold on other areas.
The Sudanese capital of Khartoum sits on a river which divides it from the city to its west, Omdurman (see the post image). The SAF and RSF have been fighting over this grand urban area for the whole war, with the RSF holding most of Khartoum (with an entirely cut-off SAF force holding on in the center), with a similarly cut-off SAF force also in eastern Omdurman, up against the river. For 10 months, this force has been under siege - but no longer. In perhaps the first actual W of the war for the SAF, they finally managed to break the siege a week ago, pouring supplies in. This leaves a section of the RSF now cut off, though Omdurman is still not under full SAF control (and, who knows, the whole situation could once again go badly for the SAF).
Meanwhile, the Sudanese socioeconomic situation has completely collapsed, with potentially a 20% fall in GDP and 8 million people displaced, with 2 million from Khartoum alone. 18 million Sudanese, or about a third of the population, is in acute hunger, and 20 million children are out in school. The refugees streaming out of the country are causing knock-on effects in neighorboring countries like Chad. Nobody is even really counting the dead anymore.
Red is the government forces, the SAF. Blue is the RSF opposition. Other colours are various factions.
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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.
George Galloway's response to the Prime Minister is fucking good: https://youtu.be/J7p7CAyxHgg
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this is what leftists need to be like to be effective. the 'nice' Corbyn thing is just not going to work. we need leftist Trumps.
leftist trump is bad way of putting it: trump just constantly makes shit up and lampoons his opponents with it, galloway is actually going at the interviewer with real substance
Huey Long and Hugo Chavez are great examples of this.
Long for the days of Huey based leftism... Newton too.
I will be your leftist trump.
I've trained my whole account for this moment.
wow he's a great speaker, fucking crushed the interviewer on the fly
edit: holy fuck this reporter is seething, this should be a crime to put out onto the internet, that man needs to retire immediately
His face just getting more and more red when he realises his concern trolling isn't working is
he even starts desperately licking his lips like the little snake he is at the end, so so good
Yo that shit made my day. These pompous fucking draculas in the British propaganda super structure deserve the wall. Sunak's speech is so blatantly anti democracy and hypocritical it's laughably disgusting. All the BS talk, shallow, fickle, fair weather friends of the west is collapsing on our incapable bourgeoisie who are just as phoney as their egos. Suddenly their mad people are against genocide and it may cost them their phoney bologna job
The small crowd gathering to back him up made me tear up a bit tbh
The way the atmosphere in the room instantly changes to hostility is very funny
They did a great job shutting him down at the end there where he tried to do his little cope session and make them all out to be angry haters who are just fueled by hate and rage. LOL. They should've started sooner, but otherwise well done.
Oh my god, incroyable. I thought the interviewer was going to cry. Anyone in this thread, watch the video, I promise it will make your day. It was like watching Simon from The Inbetweeners conduct a hostile interview.
Edit: his response vis-a-vis Hezbollah was about as good as a western politician can express. Anything further and they probably charge him with sponsoring terrorism.
If we just had a 3 ghosts of christmas trans to fix this guy up he'd be unstoppable
ngl I'm just going to pretend he's not transphobic. This interview was amazing and if we have to have a transphobe in power I'd rather it was him than Sturmer or Sunak
the UK will nuke themselves before they allow Galloway to become PM
I actually agree. If you think it was bad when Corbyn got close to PM... The shitstorm that would occur if it were Galloway instead? It'd be monumental. They'd coup him 100%, try to kill him probably, whether he survives it or not would determine what happened after.
Still better than Sunak or Stürmer
Watching his face slowly change colour made my day just now.
Improved my day immensely
Goddamnit, why does he have to be a massive transphobe?
What kind of transphobe is he? Where are we on the "old guy who's out of touch" to "weird terf dreaming up a secret cabal of trans people" scale?
That was the most cathartic thing I have seen in years. Holy shit. THAT is how you deal with reporters. The British media is perhaps the most vile, subhuman, wretched, thing on earth. Spineless to the very end. Corbyn tried not to outright antagonize them and it made sense, but for Galloway it makes no sense to appease these bastards.
The palpable disdain for democracy these people have, the constant need to worship their authority and norms of their "betters", they have no place in society, they have no right to speak to anyone. When we call journalists, at least in the first world, scum, we fucking mean it
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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