Image is from the Wikipedia article on the Sudanese Civil War.
Al-Fashir, the capital of North Darfur (a little east of that deep red zone in the west of the megathread map), is the last major holdout of the Sudanese government in that state, and is currently under siege by the RSF. Losing it would be a significant blow to the SAF, though given how the conflict lines are shaping up, it seems increasingly plausible that there will be a de facto - if not de jure - partition of Sudan, unless the military situation substantially changes. This is because the RSF have been pushed out of central Sudan, while the SAF are being pushed out of Western Sudan - although, the situation is pretty complex and has been known to change rapidly before.
As has been a constant feature of the Sudan Civil War - perhaps the single worst humanitarian crisis on the planet right now when measured by numbers - the civilian situation pales in comparison to the military situation, with hundreds of thousands of children dead from famine, and tens of millions of people experiencing extreme food insecurity.
Al-Fashir has been the destination of many thousands of refugees fleeing genocide, and food and aid supplies into the town are being explicitly blocked by the RSF, resulting in scenes similar to what is happening in Gaza right now. The big difference is that fleeing from major battle zones is at least somewhat of an option, though people are often caught and robbed or enslaved or trafficked while moving to neighbouring towns and cities - and these cities are often experiencing similar conditions to places that refugees are leaving.
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Israel's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. 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.
South African Buffalo Kills American Trophy Hunting Millionaire in Self Defense
Of course The Guardian tries to frame it as an "unprovoked attack" on the defenseless trophy hunters
Obviously the Guardian is a British intelligence backed hellpaper but it's wild that they're defending trophy hunters given they try to project a "sensible" suburban centrist vibe. I suppose you now have Tony Blair blabbering on about how he regrets banning fox hunting so why not.
Maybe the Guardian's editors' standard autocorrect settings always add "unprovoked" to any description of an attack on someone wealthy.
Safari tourism is deeply colonialist.
I think you mean "necessary to bring in revenue which is vital for preserving wilderness preserves" sweaty. /s
I actually see this kind of argument from liberal sources all the fucking time. Gotta let the rich (mostly white) boys have their murderous fun, otherwise all those trophy animals would go extinct anyway. If only there were some way to run conservation efforts without relying on the philanthropy of narcissistic capitalists who don't give a single fuck about the ecology, or about animals other than their species (the capitalist species, that is; other homo sapiens don't count). Hmm.
Yeah and sadly a lot of the national forest/conservancies have also a very troubled history with colonialism and greenwashing. In the US for example they used that whole national forest stick to kick out natives and black maroon communities, like the Great Dismal Swamp and Okefenokee Swamp. So libs are ironically in great company.
But you are right, most of the benign enviromentalism of today is bascially just buying paper straws, throwing your money at billionaire's PR factories, while taylor swift takes her private jet to go to starbucks and emits more CO2 than one produces in five lifetimes.
Death to all trophy hunters.
Trophy hunters are the kind of twisted empathy-less ghouls that can't go for a walk without the promise of killing something. Unlimited charging buffalo upon the trophy hunters of the world
Yeah I support the (anti-poaching) troops
This company immediately tickled my sus detectors. Here's what I found from goggling:
From their website:
They are founded by a white guy in apartheid south africa
This can be found on their website:
And also this, which is too funny to leave out
Now looking at some outside sources for CV Safaris:
Something call the "rowland ward" glazing Coenraad Vermaak. This page pretty much explicitly confirms that this guy is a boer who settled on a farm in south africa and "left his mark" there.
Uh ... there isn't actually much more information tbh. It's not a major company. Instead it's like a club which is part of some ecosystem of rich south african white settlers that are into trophy hunting. The guys who keep yapping about how you can help conservation efforts, while handing you a list of species you can kill and mount on your walls.
The buffalo has a right to defend itself
Absolutely, due to the nature of the trophy hunter/prey dynamic any violence inflicted upon the trophy hunter by the prey is inherently self defense. If he didn't want to be gored/ran over he shouldn't have been out there
sucks to suck ig,
“The animal I was there to kill got me first”
Bro had a shotgun and lost to a dude throwing hands with his bare horns
The buffalo is Khamas, the buffalo is a seeseepee spy, the buffalo works for Putler, etc
Murderer killed in unprovoked attack by woman he was attempting to murder
UNPROVOKED, FULL-SCALE ATTACK on innocent American poachers.
Our expert analysts are currently trying to find potential ties of the Buffalo to Xi and Putin.
GroKKK, is this part of the white genocide in south africa?
Naw, the buffalo was just being a responsible conservationist and thinning the herd of parasitic humans
I read it because I thought you were kidding. WTF? Even a rabid hunter should be able to admit that they’re provoking their prey.