Image is a snapshot taken from the recent Hezbollah video "Our Mountains, Our Treasures", showcasing their extensive underground fortifications, supply lines, and weaponry.
iran can't keep doing this to me, they've gotta respond soon, right? I'm gonna run out of analysis about countries soon, oh god
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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.
Kamala has to lose. I don't think that she will lose but it's clear nothing will change over Israel. One party has to pay a price for this to change the political landscape and it will never be the Republicans. It probably will never be the Democrats either and electoralism is a total sham but at the very least the Republicans will destroy the US war machine from the inside because they are totally insane.
I am half ironic that Trump winning would be better for Palestinians because then Blue MAGA would actually acknowledge that there is a genocide going on. That's obviously myopic and not the "full view" of what might/would happen under a Trump presidency, but it's going to be some serious whiplash if he does win.
That's exactly what happened last time Trump won with the concentration camps on the border and the blm movement.
Pelosi wore a fucking kente.
The congnitive dissonance blue maga would experience if Trump won would be a spectacle. Choosing between going hysterical over Trump or recognizing Palestinians as humans and Israel as the genocidal rogue state that it is
Ehhh, would they? Weren't there liberals who disagreed with Trump on everything but him killing the Iranian general, or withdrawing from the Iran nuclear agreement? I'm sure they would still completely ignore Palestine if he won and was helping its genocide even more. They'd bring up other social or culture war issues and focus on those instead. Although, I suppose the one good thing is his bloodthirsty rhetoric might make it more obvious.
All that would happen is
but wearing a keffiyeh
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I'm skeptical since the genocide has bipartisan support. The position would have to become something insane like "He's letting Israel go too far and giving them carte blanche to do whatever they want. Joe Biden at least held Netanyahu back". Nothing would probably really change and they'd have to twist their brains into a pretzel to think that though. Maybe the media tries to pin some new genocidal act on Trumps support when the capitalists want to stop Israel or hurt Trump? Idk.
I also feel like there's a small chance that Trump, as a media and PR obsessed freak, might tell Israel to dial it back if he comes to power and the protestors say too many not nice things about him or wants to sell them out for a quick win to distract from whatever scandal he has that week. Anything can happen really.
If they win, palestinians die.
If they lose, they’ll blame the palestinians for losing and they deserve to die.
“Palestinians are irrelevant human scums but they are also the cause for all the ills in the world, for reasons” -Mouin Rabbani
Rather die standing and chop of your enemy’s nose than dying laying down as Finkelstein said
Democrats will never be anti Israel, there are led by people who are too old, many of whom are literal zionists. The black-Jewish alliance is the backbone of the Democrat cooption of the Civil rights movement after all.
with all due respect, you're insane if you think that Kamala losing would make anyone softennon Israel-- dems would just retreat back to neoliberalism (and full-throated zionism). except for maybe those in michigan, this just isn't a salient/determinative issue for american voters, and Republicans doing genocide without any handwringing isn't the win everyone (spitefully) hopes it would be.
Two things. I don't think Dems will soften on Israel. I'm just qualifying my statement.
Republicans doing genocide is still genocide. Dems doing genocide is genocide. Even if nothing changes under Republicans and there is no spiteful win as you say. What changes?
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I still think Trump will win. He just needs to find his mojo again. A debate and a couple rallies and he'll be back on his his game.
If you watched a bit of her speech today. Absolute trash. The progressive agenda is quickly slipping lol. What a shocker