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.
🇨🇳 A "highly concerned" response from China, recommending peace talks lol. At least they're not mildly concerned, highly concerned is much more concerned.
From Newsweek:
Imma be real with you, chief. I don't think China is going to "save the day" in any scenario short of actual ww3.
EDIT 🇷🇺 Russia is doing the same, but they have a cooperation treaty. No mutual defense treaty, though.
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/31352
Goes to show geopolitics isn't the avengers, you're on your own in the dark forest...
just you wait until China is "extremely" concerned, then they'll be forced to submit a strongly worded letter to the UN and, of course, continue trading with Israel regardless
Modern Chinese government during the Nanjing massacre:
"China is highly concerned about Japan's disturbance on Nanjing and deeply worried about the potential serious consequences of these actions."
Lin also said Beijing, which has been developing closer ties with the KMT, including a 5-year cooperation agreement, "opposes any violation of KMT's sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity, and opposes actions that escalate tensions and expand the conflict."
"The renewed sharp escalation of the regional situation is not in the interest of any party," he continued.
"China urges all relevant parties to do more to promote regional peace and stability and to avoid further escalation of tensions. China is willing to play a constructive role in helping to de-escalate the situation."
Absolutlely dogshit behaviour, Even the Ming dynasty went to war and empty their treasuries to defended its Vassal state during the Imjin War
Yeah, because Korea was a vassal state that directly bordered China lol. And the Ming dynasty emptying its treasuries is what brought the downfall of the Ming dynasty which subsequent Chinese administrations see as something not to do or at least a Pyrrhic victory at best.
The IRI is obviously not a vassal state of the PRC and Iran doesn't directly border China, so China will just default to what it has always done throughout the centuries, which is leave them to their own devices.
I feel at a minimum, China should now be giving Iran access to all the good stuff.
Lol ironic considering that a strongly worded letter is all iran has done so far and they were trying to negotiate with the US while all there allies in Syria and Hezbollah and Yemen are attacked and weakened/destroyed and the genocide continues. Crying about China is missing the forest for the trees the Axis had the initiative they squandered it.
Iran has done much more than a strongly worded letter, though I agree it's entirely insufficient and they squandered the initiative and now have to battle fiercely if they wish to regain it
It is just so sad how everyone in these comments seem to want China to come in knight in shining armour and save Iran it is almost pathetic Iran was not weak they should have built up and been ready for an attack against them they should have a nuclear arsenal they should have united the Axis and had a battle plan from Syria to Yemen including Lebanon and Iraq they should have taken this more seriously there survival as a state is at risk but now they stand basically alone. Hezbollah have said they won't act it is only Yemen and maybe some factions in the PMF that can help them agains Israel and the US.
This is like how the brandon administration was deeply concerned about gaza
"China is highly concerned about Beijing getting nuked by the USA and deeply worried about the potential serious consequences of these actions." -Chinese MFA 2027
At this point all countries would just actively try to bride Trump to get everything they want. You can always crawl back to China afterward and they'll desperately getting you back to whatever fancy trade show called BRICS or SCO (we all know that Israel will join one of these 2 to hedge their bet once USA outlive its usefullness)
China will absolutely respond if its sovereignty is violated. For other countries, China will adopt a non-interference policy as usual. This is consistent with their foreign policy especially after Mao.
I'm not foreign with the non interference policy of China as we are both Chinese. The non interference policy basically means that China is not really challenging the current global system.
We both know that for a while now
I am highly concerned that China's foreign policy continues to be disappointing.
I mean, from Beijing’s perspective, the more Russia and Iran turn into cannon fodders and soak up Western munitions and drawing attention away from itself, the lesser threat and more distraction it will be for US foreign policy to derail its economic development.
Just like how 9/11 took away Bush’s attention from China after the Hainan Island incident, and how the 2008 GFC took away Obama’s pivot to China grand strategy, the current events will ensure that China is able to retain its stability and prosperity as a dominant economic power for decades to come.
man........... not even pretending to back them just to scare west. idc anymore fuck china. spineless country
"uhhhhh how about you do a successful communist revolution in your country instead of blaming china" so they can sell weapons to the fascists when they go for counter revolution. lets stop the fucking larp, if a communist nation is not going to help a country victim of imperialism, then you might as well hang american flags