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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.
I haven't been checking the news megathread all that much nowadays because I just don't want to mentally torture myself anymore. That and also I don't know if it's mentally healthy to try to keep up with the day-to-day goings of the world and witnessing "oh more horrors are happening today. Again. lovely." Significant developments don't come about for long periods of time anyway.
The last thing I've kept up with was Isisrael spreading into Syria, like the cancer that it is, and bombing a bunch of weapons.
But there have been some things that's got me scratching my head a little. Maybe I just don't geography or whatever but why are they bothering to bomb and destroy weapons that were likely not going to be used against them to begin with? HTS are absolutely not beating the "Israeli puppet" allegations. Wouldn't those weapons pretty much belong to them now? It's not like they're going to attack Israel. Hell, they're not going to resist Israel in any capacity if they start looking to take over the whole country. If anything HTS seem like they would record videos of themselves getting killed by IOF ground troops just to make them look good. Jolani would probably run outside, get on his knees and spread his arms out to welcome and embrace a Zionazi bomb being dropped on him, he'd consider it an honor to be killed by the Zionists.
If you wanted to go further with this, you could probably say those weapons belong to Israel through HTS by proxy already, so why bomb them? Wouldn't it make more sense to waltz in and just seize it all for themselves? Not like HTS will do anything about it, other than roll out the red carpet for them.
Then there's Israel stating that they got the ceasefire deal with Lebanon so they can focus on Gaza... while also at the same time talking about countering the Iranian threat. And the next thing you know, their puppets overthrow Assad, and now they're advancing into Syria and dropping bombs on weapons... which is NOT focusing on Gaza. Can they make up their mind? They could have just abided by the ceasefire if they didn't want to deal with Hezbollah during their genocide, but now they seem like they want to gear up for another confrontation.
And then there's Israel rejecting any ceasefire deals with Hamas, despite the fact that Israel has proven it can violate ceasefire terms with absolutely no repercussions. They can just take it and break it immediately as soon as they get what they want, so what's stopping them from taking it? It's not like they'd be losing anything, right?
Considering the trajectory of things I'm expecting to hear about how this is another one of Israel's flawless, masterful master plans to completely destroy any and all resistance and the very idea of resistance itself, prove just how insurmountable and invincible they are, and to build their eternal empire that will outlast the death of the sun and the heat death of the universe and I don't know fucking hijack the lifestream or something.
The Zionist entity either doesn't trust, have confidence, or want HTS to consolidate power in Syria:
Doesn't trust HTS: Those weapons have to be destroyed in case Jolansky harbors greater ambitions than being a Zionist dog.
Doesn't have confidence in HTS: When HTS loses hold in Syria, their replacements might not be as servile as HTS, which means the weapons have to be destroyed as a preventive measure.
Doesn't want HTS to consolidate power: The Zionist entity wants Syria to be divided, so by destroying those weapons, they hamstring HTS from being able to consolidate power.
In the end, they just want Syria to be weak.
Isfake isn't waiting around for the honeymoon to end and the mutinies to begin.
While HTS controls Syria right now it's grip is tenuous. Israel would rather be safe than sorry and have a completely demilitarized Syria north of them that can't do anything one way or the other than gamble on HTS remaining cooperative and stable. Now is a golden opportunity to destroy all of their military equipment without any pushback or fight back, they will never get such an opportunity again
I suspect Israel may have further plans for southern Syria that might involve antagonizing HTS more than even they can accept. There are ridges south of Damascus that would make an excellent defensive line from Mt. Hermon straight to the area just south of Damascus international airport in the desert. That whole chunk of Syria south of Damascus has about 40% Druze or Christian population and it's currently controlled by the Southern Operations Room which seems to have clear ties to both Russia and the Israelis. There's a highway connecting Israel to the main Druze settlement of As Suwayda, route 109. Every settlement along that highway is either Druze, Christian, or has been decimated by the war except for the first city along the highway, Nawa. So far the IOF hasn't moved too far from the former zone of occupation, apart from along the Lebanese border on Mt. Hermon and a small excursion to an intelligence base on a strategic hill near Al Harah. If you see them move on Nawa, which has a population of 60k mostly Sunni Muslims, I would take that as an indication that they basically want to take control of the entire part of the country south of Damascus and set up a puppet Druze region there.
For now I don't see any indication that they're doing this. They'd have to take on the occupation and control of a population of at least half a million Muslim Syrians. That's the kind of thing they might want to disarm HTS-lead Syria before attempting.
Edit: That part of Southern Syria is also one of the most fertile areas of the entire region, far more productive agriculturally than anything the Israelis occupy. It's basically the equivalent of Ukraine for the Nazis from a strategic point of view.
yeah lol, i think there is some quote from one of the stone head dudes who are like, the biggest concern with the proletariat are to first act on the local stuff in your area. sometimes i feel like the site is half taking the bait about terrible shit we can't really do much about - but then again curating information and some feeling that your aren't alone in the world with your ideologies is important?
but i think while HTS are collaborating with israel, israel doesn't fully trust them to do a trust fall or anything - i've seen videos where allegedly members of the rebels would say some anti israel stuff. there is always the chance that hts is broken up by their multiple different ideologies, and that would be headache to find where all the weapons are placed - by destroying all the weapons, airforce, anti air, it would firmly establish that the only great powers in the region are israel, turkey and, whatever is left of iran. safer bet to play
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