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The war in Sudan has so far been marked by a lot of incompetency and mismanagement by government forces (the SAF). After months of bitter fighting, in late 2023, the opposing Rapid Support Forces suddenly expanded their control towards the southeast of Khartoum after not a lot of resistance, most notably taking the city of Wad Madani. This led the SAF supporters and officials to panic and point fingers at each other about what the hell the army is even doing, while RSF soldiers looted the city.

These victories led to a short period in late December and early January where diplomacy and peace talks were considered, but such attempts fell apart. The leader of the RSF visited various African countries, including meeting Paul Kagame in Rwanda, to boost his legitimacy. Then, the RSF attacked into South Kordofan and consolidated their hold on other areas.

The Sudanese capital of Khartoum sits on a river which divides it from the city to its west, Omdurman (see the post image). The SAF and RSF have been fighting over this grand urban area for the whole war, with the RSF holding most of Khartoum (with an entirely cut-off SAF force holding on in the center), with a similarly cut-off SAF force also in eastern Omdurman, up against the river. For 10 months, this force has been under siege - but no longer. In perhaps the first actual W of the war for the SAF, they finally managed to break the siege a week ago, pouring supplies in. This leaves a section of the RSF now cut off, though Omdurman is still not under full SAF control (and, who knows, the whole situation could once again go badly for the SAF).

Meanwhile, the Sudanese socioeconomic situation has completely collapsed, with potentially a 20% fall in GDP and 8 million people displaced, with 2 million from Khartoum alone. 18 million Sudanese, or about a third of the population, is in acute hunger, and 20 million children are out in school. The refugees streaming out of the country are causing knock-on effects in neighorboring countries like Chad. Nobody is even really counting the dead anymore.

Red is the government forces, the SAF. Blue is the RSF opposition. Other colours are various factions.


The Country of the Week is Sudan! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.

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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 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.


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[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 42 points 9 months ago (6 children)

From the beginning of an article I won't read the rest of:

Now in his mid-nineties, Jürgen Habermas is one of the pre-eminent philosophers and public intellectuals of our time. In Germany his generation enjoyed the mercy of being born too late. In 2004, in a speech given on receipt of the Kyoto prize in arts and philosophy, he observed that “we did not have to answer for choosing the wrong side and for political errors and their dire consequences”. He came to maturity in a society that he judged complacent and insufficiently distanced from its recent past. This experience sets the context for his academic work and political interventions.

Only took him twenty years after this to find a wrong side he could choose. ("Despite all the concern for the fate of the Palestinian population, however, the standards of judgement slip completely when genocidal intentions are attributed to Israel’s actions.")

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[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 42 points 9 months ago

The crimea bridge might be the strongest bridge on earth since Ukrainians launch a terrorist attack on it every month and nothing really happens except making crimeans hate them even more.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 41 points 9 months ago
[–] batsforpeace@hexbear.net 41 points 9 months ago (3 children)

new cope dropped, interview with a recently retired Polish general, translated by duckduckgo with slight edits:

The former Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army stressed that "the Russians do not attack when they have a strong opponent against them." "They always attack when they feel weakness" he said, adding that "the European 'Fit For 55' program, which was supposed to tighten the European Union's climate policy, was like using a red cape on a bull."

(The Russians) have understood that this is the last 5 minutes when they can use their energy advantage to implement their strategy to push the US out of Europe, destabilize individual countries and at the same time prevent the integration processes of Ukraine and Belarus. Otherwise, they may lose the battle for energy supremacy, as the U.S. and China compete to build an advantage when it comes to carbon-free energy. (...) They simply began to calculate and estimated that the West is weak, that there are no arguments in this clash, and there will be no better opportunity. I think that they were aware of their impeding loss in the energy race during the 2020-2030 window" argued General Rajmund Andrzejczak.

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[–] THIRD_WORLDIST@hexbear.net 41 points 9 months ago (9 children)

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-plots-sweeping-infrastructure-boost-pre-election-economic-push-2024-02-29/

Putin plots sweeping infrastructure boost in pre-election economic push

I'm just now hearing that Putin rubbed his hands together and gave out a comically evil cackle while "plotting' this change

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[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 41 points 9 months ago (8 children)

News mega has seen better days

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[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 40 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Just learned that the Megachurch shooter is supposedly an anti semitic crank with a Palestine sticker on her gun. Have any of these ghouls try to capitalize on this? Also, she was using her son as a human shield and they shot him anyway.

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Lakewood Church asked people to "pray for Lakewood and our community".[8] Joel Osteen, its pastor, said: "Of course, we're devastated. We don't understand why these things happen. We're going to pray for the 5-year-old little boy, the lady who is deceased and the other gentleman. We're going to stay strong and continue to move forward."

Bro is literally the leader of this cult and this is all he had to say to comfort people lol. Live Joel Osteen reaction:

[–] edge@hexbear.net 40 points 8 months ago (11 children)

How might I deal with a giant and high up loser flag? I was thinking a flare gun, but there's trees below so that probably wouldn't go well.

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[–] THIRD_WORLDIST@hexbear.net 40 points 9 months ago (5 children)
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[–] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 39 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I know this is self indulgent but if you still have a reddit account please go upvote this so it manages to get some algorithm steam: https://www.reddit.com/r/animememes/comments/1b5hv7f/free_palestine/

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