Image is Israeli interceptors trying and failing to intercept missiles over their cities.
Israel just carried out a widespread bombing of Iran, which has killed a number of senior officials inside Iran (though it seems the leadership is more-or-less intact) as well as a number of civilians. Important facilities have been targeted, but the amount of damage is unknown so far (note that many important Iranian facilities are deep underground, making them both hard to damage but also hard to determine if they are damaged from just satellite imagery, so reports of damage will be he-said-she-said).
It appears the attack took Iran by surprise, given that a residential block was targeted that contained some senior officials - if one saw an attack coming, one would imagine they’d be in bunkers. Nonetheless, like the rest of the Resistance Axis, I suspect that Iran has adapted their military structures to be resistant to decapitation strikes by ensuring that replacement figures are ready to take the place of killed officials.
Iran has delivered a massive missile barrage in response to Israeli aggression, even though Israel is continuing to bomb Iran. Iran is now aware of the location of many important Israeli sites, including secret nuclear sites, due to their recent intelligence haul, giving them a distinct edge.
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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.
Not that public opinion means anything, but anecdotally I am not seeing any support for Israel among Americans from across the political spectrum. US boots on the ground is an obvious non-starter (and has been for a very long time), but idk, it’s possible that just significant materiel support could face strong backlash.
Significant materiel support would also ironically reduce the state’s own ability to control the rising discontent we’re seeing across the nation right now. They have the capital to either suppress domestic unrest in the long term or support mini satan but I would argue that they cannot sustain both for any significant lengths of time.
They also have exhausted themselves in Ukraine. They are stretched thin
US doesn’t do boots any more. They’ll more likely turn “Israel” into Ukraine (not saying that’s about to happen either, though).
not that reddit isnt overrun by bots but the conservative subreddit is loving this and supporting israel, to nobody’s surprise.
conservatives are war mongering pigs and all need to be reeducated because clearly the world cant go on like this
I think the “progressive” libs need re-education. I would have something else in mind for conservatives lol
There’s 100 million conservatives in the USA. Unfortunately we will have to settle for re-education at this scale
Ehhh, I could stomach it. I mean, they all want me dead
A lot of them won’t go peacefully, their numbers will be thinned after the war
Why? Larger numbers of people are not more amenable to re-education but less. Re-education requires significant resources including the especially rare well versed in theory cadre class as well as many guards and can only be practically applied to small numbers relative to the total population and resources of the post-revolutionary society.
Additionally it’s less effective when they are as infected with brain-worms as these types. They are literally stronger together and will not mentally budge because of their numbers and a sense of that strength and consensus and validity which you will not break by placing them in camps of several tens of thousands who they can rely on for support and strength. All you will do at most is teach them how to effectively lie and trick the instructors into thinking they are reformed enough before releasing them so they can carry out terrorist attacks and counter-revolution.
No one has ever forcibly reformed people with the kind of anti-communist indoctrination and counter-programming these people have. I will remind you that comrades have tried to show the light to captured American pilots in Vietnam and Korea and universally to my knowledge they all called their experience torture and were not turned, swayed or shamed but endured it and lived to go on tours talking about the commie menace. Not to mention how many of them are axiomatically convinced of Evangelical Christianity’s truth and that communism is godlessness, they will not be swayed. At best you can beat them into lowering their heads but that only works so long as there are only a few of them and they feel isolated. And these people are organized, they have been organized for a long time and their entire community and identity is built around white supremacy, Evangelical Christianity, and reactionary politics. These are not some treasonous Chinese officials who joined with Japanese fascists for money or because they got swept up in some temporary fervor and ultimately betrayed their people in a plain way, their identity, their national mythology, their being, their community, their afterlife are all contingent on this way of being.
Coworker who is a national guard troop was saying “god I hope we don’t get involved in this stupid bullshit,” for what it’s worth.