There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is Palestine! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly update is here.
Links and Stuff
The bulletins site is down.
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can.
Resources For Understanding The War
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.
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.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
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
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.
Last week's discussion post.
No they did not. There has always been only three red lines with regard to how the PRC will handle the ROC:
Formal declaration of a Republic of Taiwan.
Formal recognition of Two Chinas (ie Republic of East China).
The ROC receiving nuclear weapons
When those red lines are crossed, the PRC will invade Taiwan and overthrow the ROC.
Everything else is at best black lines. And "nothing happened" is completely untrue. Or did we forget the massive escalation in military drills or the suspension of Taiwanese imports and Mainland exports. There's a reason why the DPP completely ate shit in the local elections that took place a few months after the visit.
What else do you expect the PRC to do exactly, shoot down the plane with Pelosi inside like all the loser netizens on Weibo were screaming? Performatively escort her jet with a bunch of fighter jets?
I mean, it would have been pretty funny for the few days before the nuclear exchanges start.
I'm sorry but you're almost trying to rewrite events here. The CPC literaly sent out their two carriers. PLA’s two aircraft carriers move out from homeports amid Pelosi’s alleged imminent Taiwan visit, satellite images and reports show
They also mobilized near the island.
This was before she landed. Just go back and look at the sort of articles Global times was pushing out China sternly warns Biden admin not to arrange Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, PLA 'will not sit idly by'
It goes on describing that the PLA was already drillling days earlier
Finaly they even talk about what they could have done against her!
The whole idea that this issue is just Chinese netizens on weibo or whatever is just wildly misinformed, even with the absolute lack of context we have as westerners it is extremely obvious the hawkish narrative also came directly from Chinese media and some parts of the government.
Ok lets recap for a bit. The US previously sent the USS Ronald Reagan with a full combat group. On the day of her visit Pelosis's plane was escorted by no less than 8 US figthers.
The US carried out a military operation, they prepared for days(the media reported the trip almost 2 weeks in advance). They achieved their goals successfully despite Chinese threats.
The actual Chinese actions before:
"There will be grave consequences"
"We will not sit idly by"
"The PLA is ready".
The actual reality of what they actualy did?
A blockade for less than a week that the US didn't even contest.
Playing the long game as China wants to do here only works when the game actually goes long enough.
Global Times isn't official Chinese state media. Yes, China watchers like to say "well aktually, every news media is controlled by the CCP and Global Times is a good gauge of what the regime actually thinks," but that is not so. Most of the military buildup winded up just being part of the drill that I mentioned earlier. And as a final point that I didn't mention earlier, the main reason why Chinese media was so saber-rattley was because the visit was only a day after 8/1, the founding of the PLA. Of course the national mood would be more militaristic.
At the end of the day, there's always a chance that the ROC military will either stand down or straight up coup any potential DPP administration that formally declares a Republic of Taiwan. The DPP knows this and even played off fears of "the KMT selling out Taiwan to China" in order to win seats in the 2020 presidential elections. These are the cards that are on the table. This is medium term possibility, and the PRC will not take any action that will jeopardize this possibility. And from the results of the 2022 local elections where the DPP got BTFO, I would say that the PRC not only played it, but played it well. The people of Taiwan have rejected Pelosi's visit and placed the blame of the visit squarely on the shoulders of the DPP.