Image is of one of the six salvos of the Oreshnik missile striking Ukraine.
The Oreshnik is an intermediate-range ballistic missile that appears to split into six groups of six submunitions as it strikes its target, giving it the appearance of a hazel flower. It can travel at ten times the speed of sound, and cannot be intercepted by any known Western air defense system, and thus Russia can strike and conventionally destroy any target anywhere in Europe within 20 minutes. Two weeks ago, Russia used the Oreshnik to strike the Yuzhmash factory in Ukraine, particularly its underground facilities, in which ballistic missiles are produced.
Despite the destruction caused by the missile, and its demonstration of Russian missile supremacy over the imperial core, various warmongering Western countries have advocated for further reprisals against Russia, with Ukraine authorized by the US to continue strikes. Additionally, the recent upsurge of the fighting in Syria is no doubt connected to trying to stretch Russia thin, as well as attempting to isolate Hezbollah and Palestine from Iran; how successful this will have ended up being will depend on the outcome of the Russia and Syrian counteroffensive. Looking at recent military history, it will take many months for the Russians and Syrians to retake a city that was lost in about 48 hours.
Even in the worst case scenario for Hezbollah, it's notable that Ansarallah has had major success despite being physically cut off from the rest of the Resistance and under a blockade, and it has defeated the US Navy in its attempts to open up the strait. Israel has confirmed now that their army cannot even make significant territorial gains versus a post-Nasrallah, post-pager terrorist attack Hezbollah holding back its missile strike capabilities. In 2006, it also could not defeat a much less well-armed Hezbollah and was forced to retreat from Lebanon.
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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.
Probably a full military take over of the country. He will probably ban all political parties.
Yeah it's really up to the military. Thus far they've declared loyalty to the President, so if they keep firm and arrest all the opposition leaders we're looking like a restoration of the dictatorship. 69 hour workweek law incoming I'm sure.
They will 100% go full reactionary, probably a lot of people will get killed and tortured. I can also see them removing Yoon Suk-yeol, and replacing him with a military officer, I believe there are many factions inside the ROK's Armed Forces and Secret Police.
Don’t worry though the US’s support for the ROK is ironclad
Feels like (hope) it won't fly that well, opposition party are also like pro usa
The Neolibs and Socdem are usually more pro-reunification (peaceful), or at least peaceful coexistance with North Korea. This guy, Yoon Suk-yeol, is a reactionary conservative that hates the DPRK and women. He is very pro-US and Japan. I think the US will support him because they want to keep pressuring the DPRK and punish them for giving aid and military stuff to Russia.
Yoon is a completely shameless and servile dog even by the standards of US vassals. My guess is unless someone from the ROK military makes a case before their US colonial masters that he can do the job better, the US will completely support Yoon and whatever potential military coop against Yoon will either not happen or completely fail.
But torching south korea over it? And with unpopular president? with widespread labor strikes? this is nuts, even for biden
Biden probably doesn't care anymore, it will be left to Trump and the Japanese Prime Minister to deal with it. I think the Democrats really believe that Trump is Kim's friend (which is absurd, nobody likes Trump) and they know that Yoon will never normalize relations with the DPRK. I don't know what will happen, but the US, when it's against a right-wing coup, openly says it's against it and uses its Navy to put pressure on the military. This happened in Brazil during the coup attempts of 2022 and 2023 (Bernie Sanders convinced Biden, who already had a somewhat close relationship with Lula da Silva, to push for a law that would allow the US to intervene to allow Lula's Inauguration in case Bolsonaro attempted a coup, and break relations with Brazil. During the coup attempt of 2023, the US allowed Chile and Argentina to prepare their troops to rescue Lula and his vice-president in case the military tried to seize power).
I mean samsung and lg probably don't need strike breaking via military, it looks bad for your consumers
Samsung and LG were fine under the various other dictatorships in South Korea, not sure why that would be different this time
Cause for 30 years eurolibs were poisoned by civility and duty to protect mind virus?
But considering pisrael maybe not
I feel like at this point the Empire's calculus is wether this destabilizes an important vassal or not. It doesn't matter how pro US you are, if the new pro US dictator can keep things trucking well enough.