After 15 months of genocide - and resistance to it - the Israeli regime realized that they could not win a military victory against Hamas, and were forced to sign a humiliating ceasefire in order to get their hostages returned.
With much of Syria under the control of Al-Qaeda, and an increasing level of covert infiltration into Lebanon, the crisis in the Middle East is not over, and we may still be in its beginning stages, as the center of hegemony continues its gradual shift away from the United States. Their navy, once considered the best in the world, is likely also not very happy about their ships and aircraft carriers being forced to retreat by Yemen, one of the poorest countries; and all eyes are on Iran, who has, over the last year and a half, demonstrated a newfound confidence and strength to directly strike Israel.
The recovery for Gaza will take, at a minimum, decades; it could indeed never fully recovery to even how it was before, considering it is not in Israel's interests to see their concentration camps recover. But Hamas has proven to be steadfast and the tunnel network has proven its resilience, despite facing some of the most powerful conventional bombing in history. This shows that Palestine's liberation is a when, not an if; and hopefully a much sooner "when" than expected before October 7th.
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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.
wtyp to rheinmetal lobbyist pipeline
blows my mind that this asshole is still running cover for Azov Battalion in 2025
The most wrong person you know: Zelenskyy is always right
Germany is literally getting the Israeli Arrow 3 exoatmospheric anti ballistic missile defence system, that's the EU "Iron Dome". The deal was already made months ago. There's also various AEGIS Offshore facilities in Europe. Ukraine's just not a part of that club Zelensky.
Also as a missile enthusiast, I really hate the term "Iron Dome" being used as the generic term for air defence system, like how Kleenex is used for tissues or Heinz for ketchup, while being either elevated to mythical status or dunked on. Iron Dome is a Counter rocket, artillery, and mortar (C-RAM) system, it can't shoot down ballistic missiles, aircraft, cruise missiles, or fast moving drones. Israel uses other systems for that. Arrow 2 and 3 for ballistic missile defence, Spyder for short range air defence and anti drone operations, and David's Sling as a general air defence system capable of targeting all types of targets. And the US operated and supplied THAAD for improved defence against Maneuverable Re-entry Vehicle equipped ballistic missiles.
zelensky is high as fuck all the time
whom amongst us
It's so deep that they got you too. The thing Heinz did was create the brand name "ketchup" rather than "catsup" and it became so ubiquitous that people commonly refer to "ketchup" rather than the actual food "catsup."
I don't know who this would be surprising to if you've managed to listen to an episode of wtyp.
I would love a cut down version of just Roczniak because the rest of them are shit
Wdym?? You don't enjoy having the civil engineer on the civil engineering disasters podcast get interrupted by some loser arguing with his dad by proxy?
Don't they use social services? or just enjoy militarism? tripling uk defense budget is not something i would describe as common sense for a leftist
bit idea: make a patreon where you use an LLM to keep only Roczniak's audio (ok, maybe also keep the soviet anthem drops)
shit sucks I just want to learn about entertaining engineering disasters
Goddamn I’m glad I’m over that podcast. Not least because she blocked me years ago, I believe over the “genocide” in Xinjiang
Is that Liam? A dumbass take screams Liam, but there is only one good host on that show which leads to doubt.
Thats november, formerly alice. You can tell it wasnt liam because there wasnt any soviet bashing or yiddishisms.
Liam needs to be replaced by his based communist dad who continually calls Liam out on his dipshit anticommunism
It’s been years, wasn’t aware of the name change. Tragic to see such a level of decline. I could mistake November for Liam absent knowledge of current name. He’s like rock-bottom in terms of internet nominally leftist.
So has wtyp gotten better? I stopped listening around titanic. Couldn't stand Liam. November (is this right? Alice changed her name to November?) seemed to be getting worse too.
I listened a bit to trash future too, but ended up only being able to enjoy the midwestology/britology episodes.
Been years, is there any new lore? Any worthwhile episodes?
I stopped listening to trash future after one of the hosts did a disgustingly racist "Japanese" accent while all his fellow crackers laughed and made jokes about getting canceled and editing that out, then kept it in
Funyyyy
Israel is around 22,000km^2 and shit still gets through and hits urban areas and that's vs Hezbollah, Houthis, and Iran who do not have the power of Russia or China. the EU is over 10 MILLION km^2, over 460 times larger than Israel.
what the fuck is the actual plan here
Get money from military industrial complex for lobbying, even developing a plan probably like 2 billions
She (and Liam) always sucked.