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.
About the DNC not allowing ANY palestinian on stage, like, you know AIPAC's maximalism is behind the decision because they COULD'VE just gotten a centrist or right-wing palestinian or arab democrat, who's totally loyal to the regime to be like "hamas doesn't represent me, we want peace but israel has to free the hostages first", obviously any self-respecting adult would see through it but that would've gotten a solid chunk of the woke identitarian left to ease off on kamala and given liberals a token palestinian to shield themselves behind.
But ANY palestinian is a no-go.
I was expecting them to trot out somebody like DJ Khaled to read a two sentence statement about the need for peaceful coexistence before rolling some more hype music and disappearing. Just to check the box and give the shallow illusion that there are Palestinians who support them, that the people outside the convention are some kind of fringe.
When it comes to Black Americans, the Democrats have a well oiled counterinsurgency and cooption machine. They constantly incorporate spiritual leaders, cultural icons, music, discursive vocabulary. They transform civil rights leaders like Reverend Al Sharpton into obedient little sheepdogs. You would expect them to attempt using some of this finesse to protect Israel's reputation from permanent destruction, but they just can't do it. Well, they can do it, but the won't.
For better or worse, at least we won't have to deal with the onslaught of Xeniflores Jardin ass characters
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The khans are Arabs? Khan isn't an Arab surname
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The Hadid family, but the kids keep talking about Palestine
“Israel” can not be appeased. It can never get enough, like a spoiled child on the verge of a tantrum at any moment of the day. Giving an inch to “Israel” was a fatal mistake, because it will not stop until it takes everything.
"all shall love me, and despair"
The speech literally just called for a ceasefire and also endorsed kamala. It also mentioned the death toll in Gaza, which AIPAC doesn't like. And it would've brought uncomfy feelings to all the libs sobbing crocodile tears for God knows what reason
The undercounted death toll from 6 months ago when there was people still counting
The speaker was going to do exactly that! But even that would have been too much
Yep they did a bunch of back room shady shit and lying to activists in order to prevent… checks notes…. A Palestinian Liberal from getting on stage for 2 minutes and both sidesing the conflict and talking about it like it’s a natural disaster
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People are perplexed because the Democrats used to pretend they aren’t evil.
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You are literate and most likely well read. Of course you see the Democrats as obviously evil. However, most Democrats are only vaguely aware of the number of people Obama deported, for example, because they just did their evil without a lot of fanfare back in the day.
Biden shifted and became outwardly anti-immigration. I think people expected Kamala to pretend she was progressive while “trying to win votes” and not try to outflank Biden to the right. You’re too intelligent to fail to understand how this is at least mildly surprising. Biden at least lied his way through the campaign. Where are the lies this time? (Aside from “working tirelessly for a ceasefire” and very obvious lies, they look like they’re not even trying).
I don’t think a lot of people were expecting Kdolph at the convention, even people who know how evil the Democrats are.
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Got it. I’m not angrier than I was, but I admit the lack of pretending to give a shit about anything by the Democrats at the convention was a little surprising.
Like Google. LMAO.