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One year on. Hundreds of thousands are dying or dead, millions are displaced, the Middle East is undergoing its greatest changes in a generation, Iran has directly attacked Israel twice in one year, and Yemen has proven that the US Navy ain't worth shit. We are the closest we have been to nuclear war (discounting accidents) in decades, but also the fall of Israel.

Because one day, the prisoners of a concentration camp paraglided over a wall.

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Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

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.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      Apparently 100 000 Ukrainian soliders have deserted their positions, as they don't want to face certain death. This statement came from a pro Western ex BBC journalist in Ukraine, who compared Ukrainian morale to that of Nazi Germany between June 1944 to January 1945.

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      • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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        2 months ago

        This statement came from a pro Western ex BBC journalist in Ukraine, who compared Ukrainian morale to that of Nazi Germany between June 1944 to January 1945.

        That's certainly one thing Ukraine has in common with Nazi Germany.

      • hotcouchguy [he/him]
        ·
        2 months ago

        Can't wait to see what they do with the "stabbed in the back" narrative

        • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]M
          ·
          2 months ago

          My prediction is they'll first blame zelenskyy although whether they manage to grab him or he escapes is up for grabs. Then it's either on to blaming amerikkka or their other European backers. Amerikkka is the most obvious target, but distance and lack of a land border might make striking at Amerikkka more difficult. That leaves terror attacks in places like Germany or Poland, much closer and they share a land border over which they could smuggle all sorts of hardware from Ukraine.

          I think it's not unlikely that we see some of Ukraine's special forces/ideological fighters committing terror attacks against their former backers. And with all the weaponry that's been flooded into Ukraine they'll have plenty of options. Random shelling with mortars, DC sniper style attacks, drone terror bombing, Brabant Killers shooting sprees, hell they could use a portable anti-air missile launcher and take down an airliner. All of these would be possible with fairly small portable weapons that wouldn't be too hard to "misplace" from military stockpiles and smuggled across the border

            • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]M
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              2 months ago

              True, I did overlook that aspect of it. Depending on what the end of the war looks like (Russian occupation, annexed territory, etc) we could see plenty of terror attacks against Russians/those viewed as collaborators

                • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]M
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                  2 months ago

                  I don't think it'll be a popular/public issue, but I won't be surprised if the more ideological (read: fascists) fighters continue an underground insurgency given the chance. How successful that is we'll have to see, those kind of guerrilla movements do need the support of the people after all, and the average Ukrainian might be tired of seeing their friends and family thrown blown to pieces

                • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                  2 months ago

                  The defeat may spur reactionaries who are brave enough for isolated murders but not brave enough to die for their country. It's happened before.

              • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                2 months ago

                Creating a failed state that would generate terror attacks and insurgency on the russian borders is one of NATO's potential win conditions.

            • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]M
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              2 months ago

              I won't rule it out but I think it would be way more difficult to pull of a 9/11 style attack in a post 9/11 world. Even ignoring security theatre and other changes like reinforced cockpit doors I think it's unlikely for hijackings to be as successful in a world where people know an airliner can be a missile and not just a hostage situation.

              Unless the pilots themselves decide to do a 9/11...

              • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                2 months ago

                A big part of why 9/11 worked was that no one was defending against it. A "new" 9/11 would be someone coming up with a similarly unprecedented attack.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
        ·
        2 months ago

        I hope they stop this madness soon. Someone needs to shoot the general staff and sue for peace while their are still men left alive in Ukraine.