Image is of a Hezbollah missile attack on a military camp west of Jenin.
The situation between Hezbollah and Israel is rapidly escalating, with massive bombing campaigns on southern Lebanon by Israel predominantly on civilians (as the tunnels in South Lebanon are mostly unreachable to the Zionists, just like in Gaza), while Hezbollah and its allies respond with missile attacks predominantly on Israeli military facilities. Israel is spreading an evacuation order to the residents of southern Lebanese villages while also bombing their routes of escape and civilian infrastructure, similar to a terror tactic used widely in Gaza.
Northern Israel is currently under military censorship to hide their losses, so we get very little information other than what the Resistance provides and what videos and images get through the censors.
I don't know if Israel will dare a ground incursion soon, but it seems fairly likely in the coming days or weeks.
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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.
Oh man, if Putin gets assassinated, the struggle sessions are going to break this site apart.
I don't think there is anyone here that would care unless this means an even more neoliberal turn for the RF.
Based on what I’ve experienced last time with all the Russia defenders on this site when I criticized Russia, there are very passionate people who definitely care.
Besides, all the people who keep dismissing what I’ve said on this thread have offered zero basis as to how Russia would end up “better” with Putin gone.
It is worrying enough that Putin still hasn’t chosen a successor, and that can only mean political instability and massive power vacuum in the country when he eventually dies.
You can’t appreciate Putin until you’ve followed Russian politics long enough. All of his potential replacements are reactionary shitheads. There are politicians who openly talked about using tactical nukes in Ukraine to scare off NATO. These are the people that Putin is being pressured by every day.
Like, despite what the Western propaganda portrays, Putin is possibly one of the most moderate, one of the most dovish politicians in Russia. The country that he has barely managed to glue together over the past 20 years is still extremely fragile. When Putin dies, the country is going to turn fascist before collapsing into total disarray from internal contadictions and power struggles.
Your analysis is completely vibes based exceptionalist doomerism that presents Putin as this great magical glue that keeps Russia from collapsing any second. Do you hear yourself? It is no better than the Western propaganda that you refer to, which claim that Putin is personally responsible for every piece of the Russian social and economic fabric, writing every day that surely this time Russia will collapse if only Ukraine gets a billion more $ and drone strike Putin's house. Consider that maybe Russia is more complicated than a constantly collapsing country held together purely by the will of a single autocrat. This is all I'm asking.
Putin's potential replacements are all more aggressive than him, so that should actually speed things up.
Besides, it would kill the narrative that all you'd need to do to stop the war is remove him from power.
I get what you’re saying, but I think it will be the opposite.
Putin is a tragic figure, the Last Emperor of Russia cursed with the unenviable task of keeping the half decaying corpse of a country alive and limping.
He has done a lot to suppress ethno-nationalist sentiment in the country, held an uneasy alliance between the oligarchs and the nationalists, made pacts with the Chechen warlords that would otherwise have forged a protracted campaign of endless terror and would have thrown the country into perpetual chaos. Putin held together a country that by all accounts should have fallen apart.
And with his death, the country will be torn apart by ethnic strifes, unmitigated looting and plundering, and endless terrorism incited by those who no longer see a reason to work with the next leader. It will be the end of Russia as we know it.
Can you please chill with the dramatic doomerism about Russia.
pffffff
okay sounds good, ussr 2.0 maybe
c'mon, stop trying to make drama where there isn't, nobody gives a shit about putin on a personal level the way they did with nasrallah, and the death of no one person actually changes much for nations of millions because that's not actually how societies work. y'all, kennedy's brains got blown out on live TV. people talk about it a lot, but did that matter in the end, did that fucking end america? if only!
besides, the act of trying to assassinate putin would break this site apart with nuclear reactions. russia's capable and isn't playing around
you haven't met many russians then lol
I don’t know why people keep fantasizing like the communists will automatically gain power if Russia loses the war. The KPRF is completely useless and powerless. They are not in a position to gain power when Putin dies. It will be the ethnonationalists that come out of the woodworks and start their power grabbing, which have so far been suppressed under Putin.
I can tell that you don’t follow Russian politics but anyone who does knows how fragile of a society it is right now. It’s a very reactionary country that is only rivaled by that of a MAGA Republican run America.
Just to be clear, I don't think that. I just think "russia as we know it" is a dumb thing to hold onto when we know Russia can be better.
Do you think Russia being way more "reactionary" than it was under the USSR is just natural? That Russians are just born that way? You project that I "don't follow Russian politics" but you bring up "MAGA Republican run America" presumably because of your own narrow perspective, this is curious.
If Putin gets assassinated, people leave major population centers before shitposting.
Book a flight to New Zealand if feasible.
More like Angola assuming the west doesn't nuke it because the ai was trained off of cold war data.
I think you're wrong and I'll do violence to prove it!