Image: one of our POW camps filled with captured soldiers of the Christmas regime.
Season's greetings, fellow godless communists. I'm here to disseminate orders from our Supreme Communist Dictator as we once again find ourselves fighting against the very concept of Christmas. As a reminder, by the end of our five-year plan, we plan to be in a position to attack and dethrone God, but this intermediate step is required to fulfil this directive. Our forces in the field have made significant, if gradual, progress since you received your mission update last year. It has been difficult, but we have developed a series of defensive lines to prepare for a counteroffensive out of Lapland that will try and reach the Gulf of Bothnia in an attempt to cut the land bridge that we have set up across Scandinavia.
Currently, we foresee a few major threats. General Santa Clauswitz has been developing many tools in his workshop, including artillery-launched snowballs, barbed tinsel, and reinforced gingerbread armor plating for his tanks and infantry carriers. President Frostyy has made the following public statement: "The socialists who wish to destroy us have no idea what their defenses are about to face. Democracy will always defeat autocracy. Christmas will always triumph over X-mas. The leaders of the axis facing us are all on the naughty list and will be tried for crimes against festivity once this war is over."
Delusional as this may be, the next couple days will be the most dangerous as they stage their counteroffensive, and we need everybody to pitch in and get into defensive positions. We expect this to be the last major push that they will make before collapse. Please report any Christmas trees, mistletoe, or general symbology of the Christmas regime to your superiors.
Over and out.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
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. - 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.
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.
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.
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.
A couple articles about electronic warfare in ukraine-russia
https://archive.is/AeHn3
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/end-of-2023-roundup-update-on-the
What I take away from both of these articles is that electronic warfare has advanced as far as anti-missile/anti-drone techniques go but that the munition side of the equation has advanced faster or at least more cost effectively. Low quality drones are easily produced and while they get stopped, effective defence requires much greater level of effort/industrial production/advancement/integration with local troops. Russia is likely to advance in faster than the AFU in these regards, but they are still a long way off from having drone/ewarfare supremacy, particularly in the context of Russian offensive actions as opposed to defensive ones.
The solution seems pretty obvious though. They need systems that can dynamically target certain ranges instead of systems designed to target specific ranges.
That seems a fairly simple iteration of current technology, with the challenge really lying in miniaturization and scaling production.
Good read. It seems by the end of this war, all of Russia’s military secrets will be fully exposed and have countermeasures specifically designed and built against them.
Meanwhile, high-end Western military tech are still being held closely without giving the Ukrainians access to them. I mean, we haven’t even seen the F-35s participating in combat yet, which could turn the tide of the war very quickly if deployed en masse against the Russians. Combined with all the secret EW and drone tech that the US has been developing, with unlimited funding, it’s going to be very hard for Russia to cope in the coming years.
I am begging you to start putting /s tags on your comments
Yeah, idk about this. Are you new to this site? If anything it seems like the lesson of this war is that "technological wonderwuffens" like the f-35 are a paper tiger. US weapons tech has predominately become a grift to bilk the US of as much money as possible while over-promising and under-performing. Sure, tech changes things, but most NATO tech and war doctrine seems to be predicated on fighting against "weaker" adversaries with small arms. I feel like the lesson to draw from this conflict is that industrial capacity and a doctrine based on lessons from real-world experience can far outweigh tech. Heck, western tech hasn't delivered a victory in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Viet Nam... why would it suddenly change everything?
Disagree. There's not enough fifth gen aircraft in existence to have a significant effect on a modern war not mentioning we do not know the full radar detection capabilities of the RF armed forces.
There is roughly a thousand disclosed 5th Gen aircraft (f22/f35), and somewhere north of two thousand aging 4th Gen aircraft with a small portion of them getting modernization upgrades to "4.5 gen". The number of wings that could be deployed to a proper concentrated front against Russia would be limited due to the sheer size of Russian border.
Massing planes in Europe would weaken Pacific and west asian defenses, leaving holes for Russia to poke through to strike strategic targets of opportunity in Alaska, Iraq/Syria, etc.
Additionally, I am aware of China bragging about how they developed anti-stealth radar tech specifically against f22s a few years after the f22 was produced. It stands to reason that same measures have been made for countering f35 stealth system. It can be argued that its all untested tech and dick measuring between war jockies who don't actually know how much of their shit will work until chips start flying.
Currently as I am aware of it, air force operational plans on the use of their aircraft can be essentially described in ground forces terms. The 5th Gen aircraft are to act as penetrating scout forces on a long-range reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition/designation mission so that the 4th/4.5 Gen aircraft that're operating safely outside of enemy surface to air interdiction zones can launch long-range ballistic/cruise missiles right on their doorstep. In simplified terms, they're acting as artillery with forward spotters wearing ghillie suits. This theoretically seems sound - although it would've been infinitely more intelligent and cost efficient to use drones - the entire concept rests entirely on whether or not the F-35 anti-radar stealth tech had countermeasures developed against it already.
Aircraft are not some sort of guaranteed victory cheat button that can turn the tides of war with a top gun action scene. Their usage must be carefully thought out as they are a valuable asset in limited quantity and vulnerable in contested airspace.
You’re half right, but the real reason is that Putin started a war in Ukraine because his wife divorced him!
No shade to people who are divorced, but this is top tier loser divorce guy energy. Not even Elon Musk could match Putin’s divorce guy energy! Imagine being such loser as to start a war because you couldn’t cope with your wife leaving you.