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.
I'm genuinely wondering if Israel will survive this war.
Seems their air defences are toast, Iraqi pmu drones are hitting them right now.
Once their ariforce is also gone then local militias can move in
Is Ansarallah striking now too? I would imagine they are pretty low on their stockpiles by now, as Iran is busy and they've been bombed for months straight
Yes, hypersonic is their word not mine
“ ⭕️ Yemeni Armed Forces Statement:
• The Yemeni Armed Forces targeted sensitive Israeli sites in the occupied city of Jaffa using multiple Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missiles.
• The strikes were carried out at various intervals over the past 24 hours, coinciding with operations conducted by the Iranian Army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
• We salute the Islamic Republic of Iran for its courageous stand in confronting the brutal Zionist aggression.”
https://t.me/alakhbar_english/23504
depends on what happens with the nukes
If they use nukes against Iran, either Iran (or Pakistan apparently) will nuke them back which they cannot survive, or they will be complete international pariahs alienated from the rest of the planet besides the US. The rest of the world doesn't care much about genocide but they do care about an unstable rogue state nuking other nations and making whole continents unlivable if they go too far.
Pakistan ain't doing shit bro. They're not on that good terms with Iran and current gov is basically an American puppet anyways.
If nothing else they can't just nuke the Palestinians so it basically has to be the end of zionisim at least.
It will most likely, it’ll be a slow and then sudden decline, just like apartheid South Africa
That's what I meant. Iran is probably not going to do a ground invasion and completely annex the country. But the fact that a good portion of Israelis are able to leave the country, combined with the fact that no one's going to want to move in while it's being bombarded by missiles makes me think Israel is going to lose its most valuable resource, people.
The satisfaction that I would have if the fundamentalist christian freaks are forced to accept that their bullshit prophecies were wrong due to the end of israel would be so fulfilling.
Cults often double down when their prophesies fail to come to pass, modifying or reinterpreting them or whatever. People can only abandon a load-bearing belief, or the social circle that comes with sharing that belief, when they have the ability to stand without it
Looking firward to a new wave of 1800's millenarianism with people jumping off their rooftops expecting to be raptured as the final missile hits tel aviv
As someone that grew up in an evangelical household I cannot tell you how much I agree