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.
Honestly the further we go on with this the more absurd the whole compromise with Biden gets “okay I won’t have a second term but Kamala can run. Uh also I’m just gonna keep being president in the meantime”
It’s impossible for us to know if this will be the key poison pill for her but it’s actually BIZARRE that you wouldn’t just… Have her run AS president? Like jfc the opportunity is right there???
We can’t know how different things would be if people got a little demo of her as president but from the perspective of running a campaign it just makes so much more sense to do it like that!
This dynamic just comes off as weird and confusing to people. She has to walk a fine line where she has to differentiate herself from Biden but she can’t do that TOO much because she’s literally part of the current administration.
I don’t know how stubborn Biden was but when they got the concession from him not to run a second term these stupid motherfuckers should have twisted the knife and kept pressuring his old ass until he capitulated. Should have got Obama, pelosi and all the wonder libs together and yelled at him!!
I feel like I’m going crazy with how stupid these decisions are. As a communist I don’t fuck with her no matter what but damn they had a fucking opportunity six months ago to make this actually make sense to people and they didn’t do it!!!!
like 30% of her legitimacy is from an imagined separation from the unpopular policies of the admin rn. they couldn't pretend she'd change anything if she took office and pulled the rug before the election even happens
they dropped the ball by nomming her in the first place. literally any generic democrat without a direct association and obligation to defend genocide would be whipping up the polls
I've been told by libs that the genocide is too popular to separate themselves from it yet. Tbh, I can sort of see it, with the bloodthirsty chants for protecting Israel at the DNC. They must have done some polling that it's still too popular to drop Israel, especially with them trying to pick up Republican voters.
there ain't a group less connected to the actual electorate, lmao. saying like
would rile libs but they all would support an actual ceasefire
Respectfully disagree with this. I dunno why you'd want Harris's time split between governing and campaigning. And keeping her out of the administration presents a fig leaf of ambiguity that can be appreciated by both the Never Trumps and the Progressive Dem loyalists (they can project whatever they want on her); plus, there's nothing she could get done in her time on office and would be saddled with everything hitting the fan.
I like to think of this as super-position politics. You can't determine the actual policy position until it collapses via observation/testing. Makes me wonder about applying other physics metaphors to political economy.
Best way to go about this would be to search for symmetries in the system, then you can make analogies to things like conservation laws
Liberals can only achieve climax through rigid adherence to the rules
Can you imagine how deflated they would feel if the first female president got in not by voting and campaigning but because an old fuck retired and she inherited the position?
She is already elected as the first female VP, so it would be totally fitting in any rational sense, but we all know libs aren't effectively rational.
this is how you know Biden fucking hates Kamala now, and probably everybody else too
https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/c75687f1-fbf1-411a-bceb-b348d4b0603b.png?format=webp
They can't have here run as President. Otherwise she can't promise to do all the stuff she definitely totally wants to do but can't because Joe Biden is president and it would be disrespectful to Joe to openly disagree with him right now 😉
For that matter, she could separate herself from him by resigning from the Vice Presidential position now, saying she wants to concentrate on running and not be burdened by being part of Biden's administration and having to stay in line with his policies.
Surprising as it may seem, nothing, in fact, is stopping her from doing this.