Image is of a destroyed American AWACS plane in Saudi Arabia, of which there is a very limited supply and each of which is enormously expensive both monetarily and in terms of components. Iran hit this with a precision drone strike that likely cost ~$20,000.
I don't have much to add from the last megathread description. This isn't to say that nothing has happened or has changed since then - decades are still happening in weeks - but the general flow of the war is remaining the same. Trump sometimes threatens to open the Strait with troops and flatten Iran to rubble, and other times threatens that he's gonna back off and let other countries handle it if they really want little trifles like "fuel" and "energy" so much. Iran continues to strike across the Middle East. The West continues to bomb civilian infrastructure due to their relative inability to affect the missile cities. In all: things are generally getting worse for America and the Zionists.
April is the month where the last ships that left Hormuz before it was closed will arrive around the world, so the last month of economic turmoil has been a mere prelude to what's going to occur in the near-future. The silver lining is that Iran appears to be formalizing the new state of affairs in Hormuz, creating a rial-based toll to allow passage between a pair of Iranian-controlled islands where they can be monitored, meaning that, as long as the US doesn't do something exceptionally stupid, the global energy crisis may "only" last a couple years instead of simply being the new reality from now on. Some countries have already agreed to this arrangement, and others will inevitably follow despite their consternation as their economies increasingly suffer.
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The Zionist Entity'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 the Zionists' 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.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
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.
COMING SOON: President Trump Makes Oval Office Address To The Nation About The Iran War - Forbes Breaking News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9j2JSOLJEo
9pm ET, so I think that's in like 2 minutes
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Iran is decimated and no longer a threat, we have plenty of gas don't worry, Europe should open the straits, epic fury will be over in weeks. If Iran doesn't make a deal we will do war crimes.
Yep that's the gist of it
He committed to nothing, so we'll probably be sending in troops soon and probably destroying all their energy infrastructure when we can't capture their oil.
If he doesn't decouple the US oil market from the rest of the world, and he won't because oil tycoons would make less money, everyone is screwed.
Talked a lot but didn’t say anything
That fucking “This is an investment in our children” line did make me wish great misfortunes upon everyone in the executive branch for the rest of their lives, it feels like I’m being told that my pet rat who got torn apart by hawks in front of my own two eyes went to a nice farm in the upcountry
nothingburger speech of all time?
We should have expected that tbh
If I had a cent for every time the newsmega gathered to watch a nothingburger speech by a world leader I would have enough money to retire
I'm thinking we get a Wolf of Wall Street moment where everyone including him is expecting to say Epic Fury is done but then he's up there just thriving in the moment and he says you know what we're gonna keep fuckin goin
this is absolutely what's going to happen lmao I'm sure of it
edit: yep lol just gloating, Iran BTFO, USA number one confirmed
lmao what a waste of time
So far, so boring
Yes bro list more war lengths
ok nothing new, 2-3 weeks i guess
almost hit a Numberwang there, shoulda kept going
of course we have an emote for that lol
We have the best emotes!
The Hundred Years War . . . that was a long one. They shouldn't have called it that, should have called it the 116 Years War, it was like something no one had ever seen, and no one did see it, because everyone was dead from all of the diarrhea.
very ~low~ energy
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Edit
I stopped listening when I posted this comment. That teleprompter Trump is low energy is not news but what I noticed is that his heart wasn't in it at all. Not even stuff about "we have destroyed Iran's blah blah".
I. am. in. middle. school. and. I. am. giving. a. book. report. on. a. stupid. book. I. didn't. read. But. I. must...
lmao, he said he won the war and that he doesnt need the hormuz strait so Europe should just use it and its up to them jajaja
"Death to America" - Donald J Trump
Completely hinged
grab your strait folks, grab it and cherish it while there's time
Just a summary of his Truth Social posts. Nothing new really.
I can't stand hearing that guy's stupid voice, so hopefully you all will let me know if he says something interesting.
Seems like he's just declaring victory?
I don't know why I expected this to start on time, I guess watching the Aus PM simulcast a pre recorded message onto every television station got to me
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