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.
Can you explain to me how forgoing a deserved retribution for lifting sanctions that would improve the lives of 10s of millions and a ceasefire deal that would save millions a sellout deal? They probably wouldn’t have gotten any credit for the ceasefire either, the west would have blasted out some other flimsy narrative immediately.
I kind of assume this level of supposed naivete could be a cover for malicious intent. No leader of a country hostile to the US should ever trust an unwritten backroom deal with them.
I understand the cynicism, but what malicious intent do you think is here? Do you think the ceasefire was optional? That could be, but what is making you think that?
there’s not a single person in the US-government that’s seriously trying to negotiate a ceasefire. this should be obvious to everyone, including iran
I mean, the US has saber rattled against Iran for like my entire life without going to war so it’s not THAT crazy to think they might have some degree of escalation management. Even the Putin admin was fooled by American unscrupulousness and they’re pretty sharp.
I guess this sort of means the US is in worse position than these people thought and is going for those last few crap shoots
Well, he’s a “reformer”, so it wouldn’t be surprising if his end goal is to weaken the Axis of Resistance until it collapses and Iran becomes pro-West and liberal.
Oh my god is he going to be the gorbachev of Iran?
The deal on paper was fine, trusting that it would happen is naive. (although that no-retaliation was pending on ceasefire talks was reported like month ago (i think?)
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russia is still naive that putin won’t get assassinated and thus adheres to some 19th century rules of combat
I agree it’s naive, but calling it a “sell out” deal entails a compromise in integrity. And the fact that it necessarily included a ceasefire demonstrates the opposite, that they are actually committed to the Palestinian cause, at least to a point. I don’t really fault them for at least trying for the best case scenario. We’ll see in coming days and weeks how many contingencies they planned for.
Exhausting all possible diplomatic routes is still the most rational options for them. They just keep forgetting they aren’t dealing with rational actors.
No, they are dealing with rational actors, it’s just there is no rational reason for the U.S. to actually negotiate in good faith, because they never suffer consequences for their actions. They just aren’t humane actors.
That’s a good point
Totally dude, adding this deal to the existing JCPOA that is definitely in enforcement will be great for Iran. I heard Biden offered to seller Iran a bridge over the Bering Strait, too.