Well, Iran and their allies' response may happen sometime this week and apparently they aren't talking to the US in order to negotiate how and where they will hit Israel (and Shoigu arrived in Tehran rather auspiciously), the Bangladeshi government just fell, F16s have been given to Ukraine, there are fascist riots in the UK, and Japan just had its worst stock fall since 1987 and seems to be taking several other countries/corporations with it. I don't really know where to look right now.
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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.
The Chairman of Tsargrad TV is calling for nukes:
spoiler
"WELL, HOW MUCH CAN YOU??
The war has come to the Kursk region. This is no longer shelling or a saboteur raid, but a planned army operation to seize strategically important equipment and territory, developed in Kyiv and approved in Washington.
The enemy has taken control of more than a dozen settlements. On the way to their goals, the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not spare women, children, doctors, or shrines. The enemy deliberately struck at the churches of the Gornalsky Monastery, according to Orthodoxy, which has united the Russian world since time immemorial.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces Nazis have no chance of success. Russia knows very well what it means to defeat the Nazis near Kursk. However, the local success has clearly encouraged Kyiv, which means that such attacks will be repeated. The red line has been crossed once again, the population and infrastructure of the central Russian regions of Russia are in danger. We have no right to abandon our own in trouble.
We can and must deliver a truly powerful counterattack that will force the West to stop supporting Ukraine and thus put an end to the SVO.
Russia's tactical nuclear weapons have waited for their hour - they must become the weapon of Victory. The military command will determine the specific point of attack, give the civilian population 48 hours and finally end this war.
History is completing another circle. 79 years ago, in August, the Americans demonstrated their nuclear power over peaceful Japanese cities and thus ended World War II. Now, the demonstration of Russian nuclear power over military and infrastructure facilities should prevent a third world war."
Original text: https://t.me/kvmalofeev/2876
Does this guy have any real influence or is he just some monarchist media weirdo ranting?
His audience is people that hate Putin, from the right.
These people would be breaking rocks in siberia if the world was just, or perhaps, if the USSR wasn't illegally dissolved, they wouldn't have descended to such reactionary thought in the first place.
tsargrad tv is a mouthpiece for konstantin malofeev, a fairly prominent oligarch with interests in telecommunications companies (among other things) and monarchist/orthodox christian politics. they even had alex jones on at one point.
If Russia followed that advice barrier troops would be stationed around the announced target to force them to either backdown because the civilians can’t leave or cross a red line that would actually alienate them from their allies and necessary partners.
Not that I expect reason from a Russian monarchist in their current year of freedom from monarchy 105.