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.
They still on their cope shit. The counter-offensive is over, it failed. Russia isn't doing this to "stop reserves from moving to key areas of the Ukrainian counteroffensives in the Zaporizhzhya region" there is no such concern from the Russian side. They are assaulting Avdiivka because they have a lot of pressure on them to do it from the DPR and Donetsk officials, it's been shelling Donetsk for 8 years and killing civilians the whole time and it just keeps doing it through the whole war. This is DPR's reward and the biggest obstacle to its full liberation. Russia may pay a heavy toll on the offense but, like Bakhmut, they will grind down the city into dust and eventually take over its husk. They will form a noose, an effective encirclement with fire control and shell the death road as Ukraine again moves all its remaining forces into the area to stubbornly hold territory. I highly doubt the numbers of Russian losses coming out of the Kagan's neocon ISW which has been putting out lies the entire war, but they could have certainly lost a dozen plus armored vehicles. 5,000 ex-wagners who have been integrated into the russian army proper are reportedly in Avdiivka and they are looking to repeat bakhmut kill box again.
If this assault works, Russia will have a plan for future assaults.
If it doesn't, I'm really not sure how Russia can continue to make progress towards strategic goals without just grinding the AFU into a pulp.
what do you mean by "works"? Did you consider Bakhmut to have "worked"? I think it will look much the same. This town is more heavily fortified and dug in, but the Ukraine regime is definitely running lower on steam. I think we'll see high losses on both sides and Russia will take it eventually, but it may take months.
That's the thing, right? Endless Bakhmuts are going to be unsustainable for Russia. Russia needs to be able to break through eventually, or this is just going to be WW1 with more autonomy.
Ukraine basically diverted like 40% of it's donated equipment, shells, fresh troops, etc. during the counter-offensive into Bakhmut. They lost like 50,000+ men in that one city over the course of the counter-offensive. Ukraine can't sustain it either, and they'll break a lot sooner than Russia will. Russia can keep up the current rate of pressure for probably a decade. Ukraine can only do it a couple more months, especially if western support withers up.