I'm not gonna lie to you - I thought Israel would have started shit with Hezbollah by now which would have derailed whatever megathread theme I had planned, so I didn't bother planning one.
If you want a decent couple pieces going over what Hezbollah has done to Israel, then have a look at How 'Israel' Has Lost The North and Hezbollah's Quarterly Report. It's not exactly the most professional analysis, as you'll see if you read it, but it gets the point across and relies on evidence. In essence, Hezbollah has pushed the Israelis back tens of kilometers and decimated their border infrastructure, all while unveiling anti-aircraft missiles that have forced Israel to reconsider bombing runs. They still probably have the ability to turn various towns and cities in Lebanon to rubble, but Hezbollah can do massive damage back to Israel in turn. This has gone on so long with so little meaningful opposition by Israel that border settlements are going a little haywire and tentatively declaring independence from Israel and saying they don't want IDF troops there anymore. I don't take these terribly seriously from a military standpoint but it is indicative of the Zionist settler mindset crumbling over the last 9 months.
We're now at the point where Israel kinda has to go to war against Hezbollah or the entire Zionist ideology of military deterrence and expansion via illegal settlements simply no longer functions, but that war will also lead to massive destruction for military and civilian facilities (ports, power stations, war factories, etc) which is a massive problem for Israel's continued existence. Hamas continues to function inside Gaza despite the surface occupation of significant areas, including the Gaza-Egypt border, and attrition there is leading to big materiel and psychological losses for Israel too. And Yemen has, for all intents and purposes, prevailed against America's failed attempt to thwart their blockade - with some in the army claiming it's the most intense naval battle America has faced since WW2 - and missile strikes are tentatively beginning to hit or at least threaten ships in the Mediterranean Sea.
Nukes are still lurking quietly in the background, of course, but the Resistance is perfectly aware of that and still seems confident to go ahead with operations, so I can't really do anything but shrug and say that I trust them to do what's right.
The COTW (Country of the Week) label is designed to spur discussion and debate about a specific country every week in order to help the community gain greater understanding of the domestic situation of often-understudied nations. If you've wanted to talk about the country or share your experiences, but have never found a relevant place to do so, now is your chance! However, don't worry - this is still a general news megathread where you can post about ongoing events from any country.
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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.
Are we back? Yes we're
Nah dawg, at this point they're supporting Israel against Hamas because "مسرحية وذيول ايران"
Also, call them "Ansarallah" not the Houthis
"Folks, the House of Saud, they are the best Custodians of the Two Holy Mosques. The best! You couldn't ask for better custodians. If the IDF went to Mecca and killed a whole bunch of muslims in front of that yuge beautiful black cube--have you seen that yuge black cube, folks? It's really big and it's black and gold and it's bee-yootiful. If the IDF went in there and killed a whole bunch of muslims, the Saudis, they would have the blood cleaned up in no time! They would shout at their Indian janitors 'Hey Abdul, mop up that blood' and it would look like new in a flash! They're the best custodians folks, you can't beat'em!"
قسما بالله مافي اراء اغبى من هيك. عقول السلفيين السنة في قمة التفاهة
والأغبى هم من قالو "لا نذكر ما يحدث لفلسطين لأنها قضية سياسية وليست دينية" والمسجد الأقصى؟ هذا آثار تاريخية مثلا؟ والله العرص أعز وعنده كرامة أكثر من هذول
There's this 16 minute speech by an Algerian Sheikh talking about this (dw he doesn't emphasize his dialect), he called them "العمائم الأمريكية" which is such an accurate name.
كل ما يحدث نتاج الضغط الثقافي والديني من الإمارات والسعودية والنظام المصري. هدفهم اسلام جديد مخصي وديوث للمصالح الصهيونية والأمريكية وخالي من كل شي يخص الأفكار الثورية والقتالية. المشكلة الكبرى انهن نجحوا بتحقيق اهدافهم. الاخوان رغم سيئاتهم انرموا في سجون السيسي والحركات الثورية سابقا في لبنان وحتى شمال أفريقيا صارو لبراليين خاضعين للسلطة والهيمنة الأمريكية. فكرة الأمة اذا كانت عروبية او اسلامية خلاص انتهت بجهود الإمارات والسعودية. كسم العرب والمسلمين
The fact I feel left out of the conversation for once is a good thing.
Let a hundred languages bloom on the hexbear news mega
ⵙⵉⵙⵉ ⴷ ⴰⵇⵊⵓⵏ
Sounds good!
הסיסי הוא כלב
Amogus
This one stumped me, so i showed the Algerian Press website to my coworker and basically had a double take and went, "yeah, i can speak it but can't write it."
𒇷 𒁀𒆷𒁺𒌑 𒅖𒌓𒌅𒌝 𒂵𒈝
Letting you know that what I wrote wasn't some ancient dead or wingding ass language
Oh shit that’s cool as fuck
𒀀 𒈾 𒂍 𒀀 𒈾 𒍢 𒅕
𒆠 𒉈 𒈠
ᛋᛁᚠᛁᛚᛚᛏ×ᚦᛁᛅᚴᛅᚦ×ᛅᚠ ᛁᛚᛚᛋᚴᚢ×ᛏᚬᛘᛏ×ᛏᛁᛚ×ᛚᚬᚢᛁᛋᛋ ᛏᛅᚢᚦᛅ×ᛁᚱ×ᛁᛋᚱᚬᛚ
هذي الغنية
فهل هذا هو ما تدور حوله الحركات المتطرفة في شينجيانغ؟ لدي شعور بأن الأيديولوجية الوهابية تساهم بشكل كبير في عدم الاستقرار في المنطقة. استخدام ترجمة Google لأنه من الممتع أن تتلاءم معها.
لا اعطي أهمية كبيرة للصراع في تشينجيانج. اولا بسبب بعد المنطقة عن المركز الإسلامي المهم وثانيا بسبب ارتباط الحركة اصلا بمشروع خاسر وزائل. الحركات المتطرفة الايغورية اغلبها مرتبطة بمشروع الحزب الإسلامي التركستاني الناشط في سوريا وتحديدا في مدينة جسر الشغور في إدلب. نشاط هذا الحزب ضعف مؤخرا بسبب فقدان الدعم الحقيقي من امريكا وحلفائهم في الخليج. ايديولوجية هذه الحركة خسرت تأثيرها بعد ابتعاد تقريبا كل الدول الإسلامية ما عدا أفغانستان عن اكتساب الشرعية عبر الإسلام، حتى السعودية صارت تتصرف كمملكة شبه علمانية مهتمة بالتنمية اكثر من الشرع ونشر الدين المتشدد. التحركات في الصين كذلك تأثيرها شبه معدوم على العقل الجمعي الإسلامي بسبب المسافة وقلة التأثير الثقافي من مسلمي الصين. لذلك لا يوجد أي استثمار عاطفي من المسلمين العرب مثلا في شؤون الايغور رغم محاولات البروباجاندا الأمريكية مؤخرا. حتى الحركات الجهادية الإسلامية الأفريقية تعاني من نفس المشكلة، لديهم تحركات اهم بكثير من تحركات الايغور، لكن مافي اي اهتمام او أهمية كبرى للموضوع
Really? Wasn't he a literal Nazi?
I don't think anyone actually likes him as a person. They just thought his entire saga from his attempted coup to death was really fucking funny.
That we could definitely agree on.
This is mostly ironic, I don't know about nazi, but he was a piece of shit. Of course I don't support him, but this list was started exactly one year ago when the Rostov Rebellion happened so I had to pay homage to him.
You're thinking of Utkin
Couldn't be idk who that is. I thought Prigozhin had ties to fascists. That's why it was so funny.
Prigo had ties to outright neo Nazis (such as Utkin) and was a piece of shit who got rich selling mercenaries but that star sure burned bright and sometimes you just have to admire the fireworks
Man had massive balls I will give him that.
It was funny because it was the stupidest thing ever but also rampaging across the country while shooting down helicopters among other things we can't really verify is incredibly ballsy.
Then he got cucked by literally nobody joining his coup attempt I suppose lol. He must have thought people were going to join in supporting him before he reached Moscow but the support just never came.
How can he be a Nazi? He’s Jewish! Just like President Zelenskyyy
The "I pretended to be homeless for a day" guy!? I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
i watched one of his videos out of curiosity and one of the guys he filmed with apparently went to yemen to check out the galaxy leader lmao. wild seeing this subject covered by this style of channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl3VP6qqH9E
Okay. That was pretty cool. Thanks for sharing!