Image is of one of the six salvos of the Oreshnik missile striking Ukraine.
The Oreshnik is an intermediate-range ballistic missile that appears to split into six groups of six submunitions as it strikes its target, giving it the appearance of a hazel flower. It can travel at ten times the speed of sound, and cannot be intercepted by any known Western air defense system, and thus Russia can strike and conventionally destroy any target anywhere in Europe within 20 minutes. Two weeks ago, Russia used the Oreshnik to strike the Yuzhmash factory in Ukraine, particularly its underground facilities, in which ballistic missiles are produced.
Despite the destruction caused by the missile, and its demonstration of Russian missile supremacy over the imperial core, various warmongering Western countries have advocated for further reprisals against Russia, with Ukraine authorized by the US to continue strikes. Additionally, the recent upsurge of the fighting in Syria is no doubt connected to trying to stretch Russia thin, as well as attempting to isolate Hezbollah and Palestine from Iran; how successful this will have ended up being will depend on the outcome of the Russia and Syrian counteroffensive. Looking at recent military history, it will take many months for the Russians and Syrians to retake a city that was lost in about 48 hours.
Even in the worst case scenario for Hezbollah, it's notable that Ansarallah has had major success despite being physically cut off from the rest of the Resistance and under a blockade, and it has defeated the US Navy in its attempts to open up the strait. Israel has confirmed now that their army cannot even make significant territorial gains versus a post-Nasrallah, post-pager terrorist attack Hezbollah holding back its missile strike capabilities. In 2006, it also could not defeat a much less well-armed Hezbollah and was forced to retreat from Lebanon.
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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.
i am so tired honestly. my entire family are sending me t*ktoks about political fash man in romania and voooting and shit. my brain has become fully liquid at this point
every critique against georgescu is "soros backed" and "the mafia is trying to get him out" and that dogshit news channel "realitatea plus" "demasked the usr party's mafia". help
Yeesh
Condoleantele mele
La mine nu stiu cum,dar nici bunicii nu sunt cu ala,ceea ce e ciudat,ca nu sunt de la oras
salut romcom!
toata familia mea se uita la romaniatv si acuma zic ei ca protv e "fundat de soros". si cumnatii mei sunt cu ala. nu-mi plac stirile in romania oricum, toate sunt ca otv-ul sincer
am un coleg care linge slapii elenei lasconi si zice "E BUNA CA NE FACE SA RAMANEM IN NATO SI UE SI TOATE TARILE IN NATO NU SUNT ATACATEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" si cum george calinescu "E CU PUTIN E CU PUTIN L-A PUS PUTIN L-A PUS CREMLINU", credeam ca pootis nu stie romaneste
doar aminindu-ma de toate asta ma face sa strig de nervi. stirile zic ca lasconi e cu diavolul ca foloseste tactici de spalare curcubeu (rainbow-washing) in timp ce poarta IA TRADITIONALA ROMANEASCA !!! cand de fapt vrea sa faca fix ce facea milei in argentina. imi vine sa strig de nervi aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa >:((((
(i am not comfortable speaking in romanian tho, i always write and speak like shit)
Would you like to continue in English?
And yeah,bleak landscape I have to say
Idk how the people I'm with are really the somewhat sane ones, seeing as im doing PoliSci )))))
Still NATO and EU brained,but surprisingly receptive to my stance
Still,the one ray of sunshine in all of this is that the old political stranglehold PSD and PNL had on this country is shattered and that change can come
Of course,the bad thing is no left movement exists at the moment, the people I'm with are more ok,anti-USR SENS voters and they hope that SENS will do something to capitalize on this
Still,it will get worse before it gets better,but change will come and one day we will have a more sane country,that I am certain of
nu mai stiu ce vreau lmfao, vorbesc in engleza mai mult ca sunt la socio-umane si din cauza ca vorbesc engleza mai bine ca romana :))))
anyhow, yea, no left movement or org, there's a party named after the socialist romania party but it's socdem dogshit as usual
nu am pe nimeni care chiar stie ca usr e de rahat, ca georgescu e de rahat, ca toti sunt de rahat
without theory, the psd and pnl opening can't be used properly. adica, toti stiu de comunism ca "DACA COMUNISM, FARA BANANE SI PORTOCALE PANA LA CRACIUN" sau "UNDER COMMUNISM YOU CAN'T LEAVE" and then you have no choice but to cry because they only believe in propaganda even if they lived under it si tatal meu vorbeste de ceausescu pana cand aude de hitler si atunci he emits hitler particles by going "THE JEWS ARE IRREDEEMABLE HITLER WAS RIGHT GASSING THEM". garda de fier chiar a prins oamenii bine si imi vine sa strig de nervi iarasi
sunt a mizerie mentally, scuze. urasc romglish, it hurt doing all of this lmfao
hell, i don't even know anything about the sens party
No prob,communicate however you feel comfortable
I don't really care if people mix the two languages,hell I am in your situation,though personally I like to replace English sayings in Romanian, but that's a personal preference
Social sciences I heard don't really have the best people teaching and I can hazard a guess that the students are 99% turbo libs,but what can you do
Anyway,I know of a streamer,elmurrosa,who is actually leftist,maybe pro Marxist leninist,idk
yea, turbo libs are a way to call them. they're the only people that actually don't like georgescu but they are so smug about it and shout at you "THE KREMLIN PLACED HIM" for no reason :(
i had to do a debate against the us being good at climate change (and that's not even the actual thing, idek how to describe it. i mentioned china ofc) and they were all so fucking smug about it because "joe biden's plan will surely work". pffffffff
we were taught marxist analysis in year 1 and everyone just acts like it never existed in the curriculum lmfao. i used it to my advantage in my essays of course
i did the romanian-english mixing as a joke. the only romanian streamer i heard of that was labeled as a commie is... shudder, shudder... faiar silviu. that guy's basically a tamer romanian vaush i think? heard of it from a classmate at high school who was literally a vaush fan smh
i never heard of elmurrosa tho and i can't find 'em on youtube
He's on twitch and friendly with Faiar,but from what I saw of him he's ok-ish,I think he's pro-China?But I'm not sure
Edit:It's elmurorosa
i remember watching a faiar video and he's very vague in terms of politics, he acts more like a centrist and joked about some people that went to ceausescu's grave because "nostalgic old farts" or something like that
there's a video where he watched a guy talking about how china bad and i don't even remember anything from it
the only thing i remember from his "the communist party dissed me" was the "we have bigger computer with more fps" thing and faiar's reply is "HEY YOU ARE COMMUNIST YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE RICH PEOPLE THINGS"
seize and distribute, something something personal property uhhh things made for quality and need rather than profit uhhhhhhhhhhh, the only good faiar video is the one where he reads mistranslated english at some restaurant from constanta
Soup with over )))))))
Gaskets )))))
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Holy crap I can't believe that a Romanian hasanabi exists (with 1% of the audience but still 18000 followers for what seems to be a communist-adjacent streamer in ROMANIA is mindblowing). Currently checking one of his VODs and he seems to know some theory, I still can't believe he exists.