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Image is of the damage caused by an Iranian Kheibar Shekan ballistic missile in Israel, causing dozens of injuries.


Now in our second week of the conflict, we have seen continuing damage to both Israel and Iran, as well as direct US intervention which nonetheless seems to have caused limited damage to Fordow and little damage to Iran's nuclear program. Regime change seems more elusive than ever, as even Iranians previously critical of the government now rally around it as they are attacked by two rabid imperialists at once. And Iran's government is tentatively considering a withdrawal, or at minimum a reconsideration, of their membership to the IAEA and the NPT. And, of course, the Strait of Hormuz is still a tool in their arsenal.

A day or so on from the strike on Fordow, we have so far seen basically no change in strategy from the Iranian military as they continue to strike Israel with small barrages of missiles. Military analysts argue furiously - is this a deliberate strategy of steady attrition on Israel, or indicative of immense material constraints on Iran? Are the hits by Israel on real targets, or are they decoys? Does Iran wish to develop a nuke, or are they still hesitating? Will Iran and Yemen strike at US warships and bases in response to the attack, or will they merely continue striking only Israel?

And perhaps most importantly - will this conflict end diplomatically due to a lack of appetite for an extended war (to wit: not a peace but a 20 year armistice) or with Israel forced into major concessions including an end to their genocide? Or even with a total military/societal collapse of either side?


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Israel-Palestine Conflict

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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.
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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

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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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[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 46 points 6 hours ago (9 children)

Democratic congresswoman @RepLauraGillen says of Mamdani: "His comments about intifada, calls for violence against Jewish people, it's really inappropriate for someone like that to lead the city of New York."

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

'Gillen' means screaming in Dutch, which is pretty fitting. peppino-scream

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 22 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It's funny how we're supposed to believe that Mamdani is a radical Islamist terrorist Jihadist scary man, but the strongest thing that a clown like this can say about him is "it's really inappropriate for someone like that to lead the city of New York." I guess I'm glad they're not doing more (yet) but it feels like HR language when they're talking about him like he's a new Bin Laden.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 22 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

you know, that is at least in line with their "trump is an actual literal fascist and we can't be too rude to him" schtick

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 18 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Another reason he seems to be gaining with voters. He seems to be on earth. These dems and Republicans.... Their head is on mars. Just detached. Can't even call out musk for that nazi shit with the same energy they call out anyone left of bush

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 17 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

"Calls for violence against Jewish people"

They're literally just using people's best guesses about what intifada could mean to stoke fear and panic. It's like when they used the words sharia as a replacement for terrorism for awhile.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 16 points 4 hours ago

Goddamn they really are in an impenetrable bubble, this zionist cult shit is just making Zohran more popular

[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 20 points 5 hours ago

don't make me tap the sign

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 18 points 5 hours ago

Can't wait for Dems to start endorsing Republicans in NYC

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 42 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Musk can heil hitler on live TV scot free, while the mildest leftist can't even say a genocide is bad

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 14 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

oh yeah dems tried to recruit elon last month huh

[–] dkr567@hexbear.net 5 points 4 hours ago

Israel lobby working really fucking hard I see.