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.
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Pretend that there is a ceasefire (which Iran never agreed to), then suddenly attack them with nukes?
Edit: apparently Iran and the entity have also agreed to the ceasefire, which is based on Iran’s proposed 10-point plan.
Edit2: (machine translation from the naya for iraq telegram page):
“Iran rejected all the enemy's proposals and formulated a ten-point plan, which it presented to the American side through Pakistan. This plan emphasized key points such as the orderly passage of Iranian forces through the Strait of Hormuz, granting Iran a unique economic and geopolitical position; the necessity of ending the war against all elements of the Resistance Axis, which would signify a historic defeat for the Israeli regime's child-killing aggression; the withdrawal of American combat forces from all bases and deployment points in the region; the establishment of a safe passage protocol in the Strait of Hormuz that guarantees Iran's dominance according to the agreed-upon protocol; the full payment of compensation to Iran as assessed; the lifting of all primary and secondary sanctions and resolutions of the Board of Governors and the Security Council; the release of all frozen Iranian assets and properties abroad; and finally, the ratification of all these points in a binding Security Council resolution. — Secretariat of the Supreme National Security Council“
Was trump trying to seem super tough today to make it look like Iran was surrendering?
Will the imperialists just use the next two weeks to regroup before launching another attack?
Unreadable shit honestly. Stupid ass pedophile boomer can't write for shit.
@grok summarize this
and translate it to millennial or younger english
A double sided ceasefire? This guy is too used to seeing Israel agree to a ceasefire only to continue hostilities against whoever they agreed to a ceasefire with.
If Iran agrees they lose their biggest point of leverage while allowing the US to reconsolidate. If they disagree Trump will call them an aggressor but they maintain their leverage. They get bombed more either way. I hope they don't agree to a ceasefire while Lebanon is occupied and US troops move in
Seems to me all Pakistan did was provide Trump with a garbage casus belli where the onus is placed on Iran to surrender their greatest point of leverage
Isn't there somebody he forgot to ask. Starts with an I and ends in srael.
I mean, it sounds like he forgot to ask Iran
See the edits, looks like the deal is based off Iran's own plan
PressTV live currently reads (at 2:38 am Iran time) under the headline "U.S. has accepted Iran’s control over Strait of Hormuz, enrichment right, removal of all sanctions"
Update: Subsequent headline (at 2:41 am Iran time) was “U.S. accepted to stop aggression, pay compensation for damages, withdraw its forces from region"
Update 2: Al Jazeera reports:
Did Iran just win?
Only time will tell 😑
Attempting to make Iran look like the baddie by announcing a ceasefire that they inevitably break because they never agreed to one in the first place.
Everything is then deemed their own fault afterwards because they continued the war or whatever.
i didn't get the length of time right but i called it
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-08/iran-war-live-updates-trump-strait-of-hormuz-deadline/106537098
does this just mean his wiz bang bullshit, or all the bombing altogether?
Did Iran phone Trump to tell him they had nukes or something?