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Image is of one of the six salvos of the Oreshnik missile striking Ukraine.


The Oreshnik is an intermediate-range ballistic missile that appears to split into six groups of six submunitions as it strikes its target, giving it the appearance of a hazel flower. It can travel at ten times the speed of sound, and cannot be intercepted by any known Western air defense system, and thus Russia can strike and conventionally destroy any target anywhere in Europe within 20 minutes. Two weeks ago, Russia used the Oreshnik to strike the Yuzhmash factory in Ukraine, particularly its underground facilities, in which ballistic missiles are produced.

Despite the destruction caused by the missile, and its demonstration of Russian missile supremacy over the imperial core, various warmongering Western countries have advocated for further reprisals against Russia, with Ukraine authorized by the US to continue strikes. Additionally, the recent upsurge of the fighting in Syria is no doubt connected to trying to stretch Russia thin, as well as attempting to isolate Hezbollah and Palestine from Iran; how successful this will have ended up being will depend on the outcome of the Russia and Syrian counteroffensive. Looking at recent military history, it will take many months for the Russians and Syrians to retake a city that was lost in about 48 hours.

Even in the worst case scenario for Hezbollah, it's notable that Ansarallah has had major success despite being physically cut off from the rest of the Resistance and under a blockade, and it has defeated the US Navy in its attempts to open up the strait. Israel has confirmed now that their army cannot even make significant territorial gains versus a post-Nasrallah, post-pager terrorist attack Hezbollah holding back its missile strike capabilities. In 2006, it also could not defeat a much less well-armed Hezbollah and was forced to retreat from Lebanon.


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Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA 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.
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.

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.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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.


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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 41 points 6 months ago

Terrorists have broken through to Homs and are 6 km from the city center, military sources report :"The Assad regime is dead. We will establish a government based on the People's Council, which will be institutional and not based on one ruler making arbitrary decisions," said HTS militant leader Abu Muhammad al-Julani.

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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's hard to not look at this and compare it to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Enemy nation of the US run by geriatric leader won't do what the moment actually calls for because he's more worried about dying in his sleep, so he lets all his allies get rolled up one by one.

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[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 41 points 6 months ago

Russia Hands Control Of Baltika Breweries Back To Carlsberg

A presidential decree has handled control of the Russian brewery corporation Baltika back to Danish multinational beer conglomerate Carlsberg, the largest foreign investor in the Russian beer industry.

Baltika was placed under state administration last summer as Carlsberg attempted to sell their Russian business off while failing to provide sufficient information about the new owner to authorites. Carlsberg called the move an "illegal takeover" and wrote off their Russian business completely. In retaliation Carlsberg attempted to transfer licensing rights to brands such as Kronenbourg and Tuborg away from Baltika, leading to a lawsuit in Leningrad that resulted in Baltika keeping the right to use the brands in Russia.

The Russian government has not commented on the motivation for today's decision but according to Danish television, rumors in Russia says that Carlsberg has struck a deal with the Russian government either to stay on the Russian market or to sell the business in an orderly fashion.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 41 points 6 months ago

Syrian Armed Forces have ordered the total evacuation of the SAA General Staff Headquarters and Air Force Command Center in the Capital of Damascus, as Rebel Forces enter the City from the South! Mass panic on the streets of Damascus. People are bulk buying. Most shops have closed. Clashes between the southern Free Syrian Army and IDF troops reported in the Golan.

A Syrian government plane took off from Damascus and is about to land in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates

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[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

first

also pin this unlike last time

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 40 points 6 months ago

barnier more like dernier hon-hon france-cool

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 40 points 6 months ago

I guess it's Assadover for now, HTS will probably control most of the country while Assad attempts to create a state in Latakia (or he flees to the UAE). At this point who knows what is going to happen to Syria, I doubt peace will last long, these terrorists will 100% attempt to invade Iraq and Lebanon, and infighting is also a huge possibility.

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 40 points 6 months ago

Despite openly wanting to destroy Hezbollah, HTS now sends a letter to Lebanon wishing for 'positive relations'. Egypt and Jordan have urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to form a government in exile – Wall Street Journal

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[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 40 points 6 months ago

Democracy is when you just say no if the wrong candidate wins.

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 40 points 6 months ago

CNN is reporting Assad is not in Damascus anymore, no idea if this is true since CNN have been hyping these terrorists for weeks now.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 40 points 6 months ago

Erdogan: Syrian opposition's goal is Damascus! The Turkish leader also openly supported the militants in his statement and expressed hope that they would go to the end.

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