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.
cleaning house in the upper ranks right before a major operation sure inspires confidence! https://archive.ph/azX9j
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or maybe it's just a fucking petty slapfight over Kid Rock? Pete's really tackling all the important problems facing the Army!
yeah, sure
y'know, we've talked a lot about JDPON Don, but with the amount of institutional knowledge in the military Pete's wiped out by firing everyone who disagrees with him, he might be up for his own JDPON moniker
Frankly, military purges are warranted given the performance of the US military during operation aipac Fury. Literally the newsmega has had sounder military analysis than the Pentagon, and I attribute that to actually paying attention to the lessons of the ukraine war instead of just doing head in sand shit. Trump or no, US military planners should be fucking embarrassed by the last 3 months.
10 out of 10, flawless, no notes. I am going to steal that.
the memes of production belong to us all, comrade
I don't know why the superior analysis of the world's finest gathering of Marxist thinkers would surprise you
Imagine what we could do with a 7.2 trillion dollar budget
Probably a lot of if we’re going by the NATO countries arrogance
"Sir it appears a small group of online posters has shown a remarkable understanding of geopolitical strategy. You'll want to see this report."
Scans through dossier "What's a Beanis?"
Look, these career officers have to understand that Patriots are now in control. How many podcasts has he been in? How many supplements does he sell? How many tweets a day? I'm not seeing any epic based memes here, so what is the point of him staying in the Army? Well done, Mr. Secretary of War, keep it up!
This guy probably said, like a anti-American jihadist coward, that a ground invasion was doomed to be a strategic failure
Yeah this seems good
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I think this is an old story. He did this last October, I can't find a new article about him doing it again. Your sceenshot doesn't have a date.
I’m a fraud smdh
Another this could've been an email meeting where he berates the troops for being too fat and woke.
Ahem... show trials and pruges
In pruges, great film
Lol you got me. I agree it is a good film
lmao so this firing and the call for a mass meeting with the top brass? It's only going to slow operations and logistics, I love this shit
Sky Martial Dienes is being replaced with Sky Martial Tehat Meru. Only a matter of time for the child soldiers, though I suppose in the US's case with the raise of the recruitment age, it may be more a case of a Volkssturm.
Thankfully the situation is such that no military leader could untangle it.