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
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.
Israel must have gotten smoked really bad by that Iran strike to not do anything on Oct 7
I wonder if Israel is trying to do the same thing to Iran that Iran did to Israel - forcing them to wait for the response and drain their resources by acting like it's imminent every night. I don't really think it'll have the same effect though because Iran is not under the same pressure that Israel is, so time is on Iran's side
Yeah, if Iran moves all their stuff to bunkers they aren't really harmed since they aren't under threat from anyone else (imminently, anyway). Israel has to worry about the four other countries they've bombed in the last week.
I suppose it makes it harder for Iran's nuclear program, but I really have no idea what to make of the progress on that.
We have visual evidence and conformation (in satellite imagery) of 33 direct hits on just one of the airbases Iran targeted. While unfortunately the attack didn't do much damage, and narrowly missed some F-35 hangars with only one or two direct hits on the hangars themselves, it's still quite telling that 33 re-entry vehicles (RV's) made it through without interception. And we still do not have satellite imagery of the other two airbases targeted, one of which we have video evidence of secondary explosions after the Iranian missile attack. Iran only launched 180 missiles of the thousands in its arsenal. In a prolonged conflict, there would be no way for Israel could keep up with trying to intercept continued volleys of Iranian missiles, they simply do not have enough interceptor missiles in Arrow 3 and Arrow 2.
We don't really know what got hit. Israel has a pretty tight military censor. As I mentioned in my post in last week's mega, it looks like Iran got some direct hits on the G550 hangars, which Israel uses for early warning missile detection and reconnaissance/targeting. The Israeli media has repeatedly been talking about the F-35s being fine, but no one has said boo about the G550s, or the Unit 8200 base or Mossad HQ, for that matter. If any of the G550s that are used for airborne early warning were damaged or destroyed, Israel's ability to detect an income missile barrage may already be damaged (more so than it already is), which makes another strike on Iran a more dangerous proposition.
Yeah we only really know what got hit at one of the three airbases, and 1 of 5 targets total, due to the censorship. But I think there is enough video evidence to state two things. Tel Nof, with all the secondary explosions on video, probably got it even harder than Nevatim, which is why we have no satellite imagery of Tel Nof, and that the attack on Mossad HQ was largely unsuccessful, probably due to two things: Iran not firing many missiles at it because it's in a civilian area, and Israel prioritising interceptions over Mossad HQ.
"imminent" were they cowed or was it psyops? who can say
RWN ep had this guy Landis on and he said that Iran utterly failed in its attack lol
I thought that ep was mixed, despite how positive ppl here seemed. Going back to that show has reminded me of the visible limits of their expertise
I had to pause that episode a few times out of irritation that there was no attempt to push back or question his dumbass assertions. IOF says they did no damage so Iran failed, okay buddy
I find them dodgy, as bad on the Xinjiang shit as Mister Empanada
Not a surprise at all if you recall the way their takes went on Ukraine, the Essequibo region, China, the Tigray War, you name it. Also the retweets are NAFO lite the past few years, very embarrassing.