Friendly reminder: when commenting about a news event, especially something that just happened, please provide a source of some kind. While ideally this would be on nitter or archived, any source is preferable to none at all given.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's 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 (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.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is still Palestine, though we will switch next week to a new country.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly (biweekly?) 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.
The galaxy brains of the IDF came up with this:
The most common forms of 2-part expanding foam release cyanide gas as a byproduct. Cruelty in every situation even hypothetical
Fucking hell
Can you show a youtube video of the exact chemical reaction or whatever it is
https://core.ac.uk/download/161510371.pdf
Shows the cyanide being released on decomposition. It's mentioned in the abstract at the top.
The release on reaction is certainly in my books but i may have left them in my work truck
I'll get my book. It's from my mechanical insulation schooling
Ani spongi bomb Bomb bomb Ani spongi bomb Kees plastiki
"This isn't a sponge factory, it's a bomb factory. They're bombs."
I'd imagine this would be effective if they were somehow able to cover all of the entrances, but that seems extremely unlikely
It seems bad to me though. Expanding foam is not hard too get through. I can break it with my bare hands, a knife or shovel axe would cut through it in minutes.
Ah, I figured it got harder than that. I feel like I've heard about this strategy before and they make it seem like it'd be difficult for the fighters to escape or deal with it.
It would be. You're trying to cut through a morass of sticky foam and presumably there are guys with grenade and machine guns on the other side. And every entrance they do successfully block is one less passage for breathable air.
Seems like Israel is trying to take the 1st place from Russia on the killing the hostages competition
we need a thicc-hamas emoji
Nah that's actually clever. Close up all the entrances and ventilation shafts and just wait for the people in the tunnels to suffocate.
Any way to kill people in tunnels that doesn't involve your troops going in to the tunnels is worth considering.
This doesn't make much sense though, it doesn't actually close the tunnels. 5minutes with a shovel would sort it out.
Sure but presumably it's not being done in isolation. Presumably there are other military actions going on at the same time, and this is a way to restrict movement and more importantly restrict airflow.