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.
Important clarification regarding Lebanon:
Hezbollah media has not yet made any official announcement. Those "OSINT" and other outlets that say Hezbollah and its supporters are calling to overthrow the Lebanese government are spreading dangerous lies.
Hezbollah will not willingly disarm as long as the zionist cancer exists and everyone knows it. Even if the leadership of Hezbollah agreed to it (which they won't) the fighters themselves and the mass base for the party would never agree to it. No one can disarm Hezbollah.
Hezbollah is not just a phenomenon of Lebanese Shia. Yes most of its supporters are Shia but those pro-resistance Lebanese across every sect and cultural group in Lebanon. Those turning it into a sectarian discussion are doing the work of the enemies. Georges Abdallah, a Lebanese Christian communist, literally spent 41 years in jail and then came out and said this exact thing last week.
Death to america and death to israel!!!
Two tweets from Elijah Magnier:
There is no civil war in Lebanon, and nothing will happen. No worry! The government's decision is folkloric and will please the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia, but can't be translated on the ground. No army in the Middle East can present a viable military plan to disarm Hezbollah.
How does the Lebanese army implement this decision against 100,000 Hezbollah-trained ground force members and a total of half a million Shia men ready to fight for their existence?
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Israel is effectively acknowledging that only Hezbollah’s military capability constitutes sufficient pressure to compel its withdrawal. In other words, it is Hezbollah—not the Lebanese government or army—that Israel sees as the real negotiating counterweight.
This, in turn, underscores a deeper truth:
The Lebanese state currently lacks the leverage—diplomatic, military, or strategic—to assert its sovereignty over its own territory without Hezbollah’s deterrent force. The call to disarm Hezbollah, framed as a prerequisite for Israeli withdrawal, is therefore both logically flawed and politically revealing. It asks the country to forfeit its only means of leverage before securing its rights—effectively demanding submission, not resolution.
Regardless,Hezbollah won't deliver its weapons.
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Honestly I think the whole situation is much more simple. Hezbollah lost the war with Israel, and in warfare, the terms are never favourable for the losing side. We've had almost 10 months of a "ceasefire" where Israel bombs Hezbollah every few days (with specific clauses in the "ceasefire" allowing for it and the capture and destruction of Hezbollah military equipment), and Hezbollah has not responded with a single rocket towards Israel. Hezbollah even sat out the Israel-Iran conflict completely, again not firing a single shot. Whatever the reasoning behind this, Hezbollah currently is not militarily engaged with Israel, while Israel is free to bomb Hezbollah without consequence. Thus, the US and Israel will push further with their maximalist demands of full disarmament, as they have experienced no resistance in the past 10 months.
I also doubt the 100 000 fighters figure, that's likely from before the war and includes reservists and the like. Current figures are impossible to estimate, but are likely substantially lower.
I appreciate this logic. However, I recall that there are going to be sanctions placed upon Lebanon if they don't disarm Hezbollah? That might challenge this argument...
This charade is designed to provoke instability within Lebanon between the various social/political/religious groups while also building a narrative to justify further war on Lebanon which includes economic warfare.
I dont much like Elijah and there are Lebanese journalists who made those observations with more clarity and background.
Thanks for the links. So the calculus from Hezb is that open confrontation with the state is not on the table, but i fear the state won't agree. We'll simply have to wait and see how things develop.
Glory to the resistance. Glory to the martyrs.