Image is of destruction and damage inside Israel, sourced from this article.
Iran and Israel have struck each other many times over the last few days. There has been a general focus on military facilities and headquarters by both sides, though Israel has also struck oil facilities, civilian structures and hospitals, and in return for this, Iran has struck major scientific centers and the Haifa oil facilities.
Israel appears to have three main aims. First, to collapse the Iranian state, either through shock and breakdown by killing enough senior officials, or via some sort of internal military coup. Second, to try and destroy Iranian nuclear sites and underground missile cities, or at least to paralyze them long enough to achieve the first and third goals. And third, to bring the US into a direct conflict with Iran. This is because the US better equipped to fight them than Israel is (though victory would still not be guaranteed depending on what Iran chooses to do).
Iranian nuclear facilities are hidden deep underground (800 meters), far beyond the depth range of even the most powerful bunker busters (~70 meters or so), and built such that the visible ground entrances are horizontally far away in an unknown direction from the actual underground chambers. Only an extremely competent full-scale American bombing force all simultaneously using multiple of the most powerful conventional (perhaps even nuclear) bunker busters could even hypothetically hope to breach them (and we have seen how, in practice, American bunker busters have largely failed to impair or deter Ansarallah). There are several analysts on both sides who have concluded that it is entirely impossible to physically prevent Iran from building nukes.
I fully expect the US to join the war. I believe the current ambiguity is a deliberate invention of the US while they work to move their military assets into position, and as soon as they are ready, the US will start bombing Iran. After that, Iran's leadership must - if they haven't already - harden their hearts, and strike back with no fear, or risk following the path of Libya, Syria, and Iraq, either into either surrender, occupation, or annihilation. Every day where they do not possess a nuke is a day where lives are being lost and cities are being bombed.
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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.
Carl Zha getting roasted by Hasan about China's non intervention stance lol. He called him a lib. Incredible things are happening
Carl Zha was saying it would be “an empty gesture” for China to cut off trade with Israel because America would just supply whatever they need. No it would not be an empty gesture, it would apply economic pressure to both the entity and its sponsor. Every dollar counts. Boycotts, Divestments, Sanctions do have a tangible effect. This is a lib excuse for crossing the picket line and breaking a boycott, “I don’t make a big difference anyway it would be an empty gesture”. Fuck off
If America declares war, why doesn’t China apply boycott and sanctions to America and corner Trump. You can easily defeat America in a trade war if it’s distracted with an actual war. Why isn’t he calling for this instead of arguing on behalf of the status quo of doing nothing forever?
Which part of the “do nothing, win” meme do you not understand?
China is literally going to do nothing, and win.
Remember, China is playing the long game that is likely beyond your comprehension.
Everyone here has been saying it for the past few years.
Who cares what China will win in 100 years, big beautiful Chinese socialism they'll inherit a destroyed world with billions of nationalist eco fascists on their borders.
This has been going around climate science circles since Jan 2025
(Planetary Solvency — finding our balance with nature. Global risk management for human prosperity. Jan. 25th, 2025 Institute and Faculty of Actuaries University of Exeter, pg 32.)
China doesn't want to fight now based on some delusion they have 50 years when we have not even 10 or 20 lol. But sure believe whatever you want though it would be faster to drop the mask and admit they don't care.
Like I seriously hope to god you're not actualy thinking cheap Chinese solar panels will solve climate change, specialy when they are about to destroy their whole industry because the west complained about overcapacity. Its such a beautiful contradiction to witness.
hasan calling anyone a lib is rich
About as rich as China calling themselves communists at this point. Probably done more for Gaza than these larpers too. He almost immediately organized that charity stream while these dipshits were meeting Hitler in San Fransisco.
Mr. Settler Sanders Softball Sitdown calling someone else a lib?
the girls are fightingggg
Imagine being a streamer.
Also imagine being a streamer and criticising anyone for not intervening.
To be fair to him, he went to the anti-ICE demonstrations in LA and had rubber bullets fired at him.
Criticizing other nations for their geopolitical actions (or lack thereof) is valid
Yeah, I don't know how many rubber bullets you need to take to let you criticise China when you did a very soft interview with AOC and Bernie while they're on their democratic party rehabilitation tour
lol let them meme, for some people its perpetualy 2021, its cool to meme about people being "streamers" as if nothing happened since then while posting
China winning doing nothing.
I don't think it's a meme? What have streamers done since 2021 that I have missed?
I tend to immediately zone out if it's a streamer so I could genuinely have missed a lot
This thread is about Hasan and this is usualy the cheap ass shit people will say to discredit him. "lol streamer, rich streamer even what a lib, don't practice what he says" etc. All of that despite the fact its not 2021-22 anymore and he has been on multiple protests and supported Gaza from day one(one huge donation stream in the first week) and he literaly almost took an ICE bullet the other day. Yes he is not perfect, he supports Ukraine etc.
Now if you want to argue about random Twitch streamers sure I guess it applies, death to Asmongold or whatever but who cares though, I just think dunking on Hasan with 2021 rhetoric is pathetic that is all.
Yeah sorry mate, I'm old so 2021 was like, the future a week ago
Kids and their electrical gizmos and doohickeys
It's what?
Probably its (China’s) non-intervention stance
Yeah fixed. Should have reread the post