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.
We have to vote for her otherwise the fascist Republicans destroy democracy
But at the same time we need to create a joint council with these fascists because that's how a healthy system works
I said it before, liberals do not believe in ANYTHING!
How much more mask-off can they get about the two parties being the same?
This is just the logical move for the Democrats.
If Trump stops running for president in 2028 as he’d said, then the opportunity for the Democrats to become the new Republican party could be lost forever. Thanks to Trump, never has there been a Republican president that has managed to piss off the
all at the same time. This is also why you’re seeing so many Reaganites and the Bushes and the Cheneys defecting to the Democratic party. This is the one shot they’ve got.
I know the Democrats like to paint Trump as this embodiment of evil, but Trump really doesn’t know what he’s doing. He was born into a New York landlord class family who only knew how to use blatant bullying tactics on real estate managers and property developers. When it comes to managing an empire and enforcing the flow of tens of trillions of capital through the free market, he’s completely clueless.
He’s had a chance to prove himself in 2016. But what really changed the game was Biden’s Ukraine war, and all the four sectors above (what Michael Hudson called ‘the blob’) have tremendously profited from the war since 2022. Harris promised to continue Biden’s policies (even outright saying that there won’t be any difference from the Biden administration) and this is why she will win the election, and Trump will lose.
She’s campaigning to the right of 2020 Biden.
This is why I tell liberals yes, I want your candidates to lose. The lesson they take from Biden's win is they should run to the right. Ok then the next candidate (Harris) runs to the right again. This isn't harm reduction nor the lesser of evil. It is encouraging the Democrats to run to the right. They say that "progress takes time" but they're never moving towards better things, they're moving towards worse things progressively. Do I think Trump is better? Obviously not. But the Dems have to eat shit with this strategy of appealing to "fascism lite".
Sadly when they do eat shit the conclusion will just be that they ran too far to the left somehow
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Idiot. " I want to sabotage my own agenda!"