Image is a snapshot taken from the recent Hezbollah video "Our Mountains, Our Treasures", showcasing their extensive underground fortifications, supply lines, and weaponry.
iran can't keep doing this to me, they've gotta respond soon, right? I'm gonna run out of analysis about countries soon, oh god
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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.
It’s like the made up quote of Stalin saying his heart has grown cold after his wife died, but this time it’s actually real. There have been countless wars decades ago, recently ended, and ongoing, but only after the pandemic and the full on wars in Ukraine and Palestine have I seen what it means to be a liberal with my very own eyes. Supporting nazism and genocide with a bright smile.
We tried so hard for so long to believe in their potential and help them. That's the bitterest thing.
I always believed fascist would have to much ick factor aesthetically for liberals to fully embrace it. Seeing the baying crowd at the dnc and the way the delegates mocked protestors outside was one the most chilling thing I've seen.
I kind of agree with you, in the sense that we should probably stop calling this fascism and instead accept that this is what 21st century liberalism is. There's no better form of liberalism, or less violent form. This is just what liberalism does when it's allowed to fully express itself. What existed for the thirty years after the fall of the ussr was a stunted form that had it's growth curtailed by the need to look good compared to communism. Without communism for contrast it can now grow to it's final form, spread it's wings, and begin hunting for livers. "Democrat" is every bit as cursed and evil a word as "nazi".
Liberals are just Nazis operating on a longer time scale. All undesirables will be sent into the wood chipper as long as that's kept out of sight and out of mind.
Look up all the abuses positivism did in the 19th century, liberals with jagged teeth are nothing new.
I remember in my philosophy 101 class in college there were a handful of white debatebros who were really into positivism and effective altruism 🤮
Teacher basically treated them like babies and tried to talk sense into them
We're talking french, Brazilian and Porfiriato style positivism, right?
Yeah we can argue what is or isn't fascism definitionally and within the burgerreich but at the end of the day it is evil and it is the actual existing fascism of the world. At a certain point we're splitting hairs on describing a political party that is supporting a genocide and the words don't matter that much. Liberal regimes have been doing this kind of stuff for hundreds of years.
Dems are already fascist imo. They are fascist-lite, sure, but they never offered anything different. They have no radical difference from the GOP, just a watered down version of the same.
I think it was inevitable that they would end up trying to out-radicalize their competition, so long as no other ideology took hold in the party. And the desperation to win just one more election at all costs, every election, meant that no such ideology could realistically take hold, unfortunately.
The ick factor can be prevented so long as there is an in-group and an out-group, and projection paints the out-group as champions of all things bad. This prevents any significant internal reflection or criticism. It also justifies chasing the more radical fascists because - in their perspective - recruiting those fascists to the party means they can no longer be fascist, because that's the other party's thing. As if a party is not inherently made of people. And once(/if) the majority of fascists join the Dems, that projection will continue despite the new reality.
I don't think there's anything "lite" about it. Fascists have often had good PR/propaganda. The DNC convention was basically a big Nazi propaganda show, as pointed out (surprisingly) by Juan González of Democracy Now.