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.
Do you think Iran should target homes of Israeli commanders and generals?
i think they should mine the strait of hormuz and Bab al-Mandab Strait
always look on the bright side, if Iran brings the oil industry to a halt in the region, that could be a positive side effect
The issue with that is that doing so will piss off most countries in the world.
"We'll de-mine it as soon as Israel is de-nuclearized"
Let's see what the world cares about more. Oil or nuclear weapons for Israel.
The rest of the world has the ability to sanction Israel. If they didn't want to critical economic waterways shut down maybe they should have done that by now.
idk, i figure that israel goes after military leaders primarily for the headlines and symbolic (yet cheap) victories.
i say let Iran continue to target military infrastructure deep within Tel Aviv and throughout the entity. Keep the settlers to their furherbunkers. Shatter whatever is left of the mythology of an untouchable israel, which the entity relies on to sustain itself.
And honestly, as justified as it would be for Iran to target military leadership and their homes, part of me is concerned that it would be too easily propagandized against Iran... Because of course, how evil would it be for Iran to knowingly attack a residential building!?! The humanity!
While this is true, when war breaks out, the usual suspects and their populaces are going to fall in line and parrot the narrative they're expected to parrot anyway, irrespective of whether it's hypocritical or non-factual. People will be very quick to forget that it was Israel who struck first. This is an easy bet I'd take all day.
So with that being said, is it worth avoiding strategic actions for a propaganda game that you stand no chance to win anyway?
Although having said THAT, I admit that it's probably much more valuable for Iran to strike high value infrastructure than people - but the latter would be sweet humiliation for Israel that they desperately need and deserve. And it also means more dead Zionazis which is always cause for celebration.
Tit for tat is usually the most effective game approach
Maybe, but I don't know if it would actually achieve that much. I figure there's like a dozen carbon copies of the exact same dude with the exact same beliefs lined up. I've honestly always been pretty doubtful of the value of decapitation strikes. Even in Nasrallah's case, who was by all accounts a genuinely unique figure in Hezbollah's history, I think the internal civil strife inside Lebanon (encouraged by the West) was the bigger deciding factor towards them being forced into this period of inactivity than several Hezbollah senior figures being killed.
Why waste the ammo, hit things that matter.
Yes absolutely
Iran doesn't target children, even if they're a 17 year old brigadier general.
I doubt it would have much military value but I would be lying if I said that it wouldn't be really funny.
of course
Yes
Why drag Brooklyn into the conflict?
Just hit the desalination plants and port infrastructure and watch Palestinian diaspora return to their stolen homes as settlers flee to the nearest country that still has treats
an eye for an eye, a head for a head, like PFLP said