One year on. Hundreds of thousands are dying or dead, millions are displaced, the Middle East is undergoing its greatest changes in a generation, Iran has directly attacked Israel twice in one year, and Yemen has proven that the US Navy ain't worth shit. We are the closest we have been to nuclear war (discounting accidents) in decades, but also the fall of Israel.
Because one day, the prisoners of a concentration camp paraglided over a wall.
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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 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.
Apartheid-era South Africa, just like shitty-ass-doo-doo-real, also had a plan for a total war against it's neighbours. Of course, this would also include Tanzania and countries bordering Namibia, as South Africa was already at war with Angola, which South Africa ended up losing along with 800,000km² of illegally occupied land (L bozos,
). Pretty much everything in Africa south of the Equator was on the settler-colonialist regime's hit list.
The casus belli was neighbouring countries to South Africa were hosting safehouses and training camps for the ANC/MK guerillas, gun runners, weapons caches and smuggling routes. It was the 1970s and 80s, "israel" had just given South Africa nuclear weapons, IMI Galil rifles (and a license to produce the Vektor R4-R6 series), electrified fences, border security and other weaponsystems. They also decided to overlook the actually anti-semitic tendencies of their Apartheid cousin across the continent. Tanzania was also a key stronghold for anti-apartheid activity and the immortal Rhodesia turned out to be not so immortal afterall, L (
) and while Tanzania doesn't border South Africa, it likely would have been a target. More likely targets to create a "buffer" would have included Mozambique, Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Angola. With it being the 1970s-80s, this was also the climax of South Africa's apartheid violence and a rapidly escalating period of resistance activity.
Mozambique signed the Nkomati Accord in 1984 with South Africa to expel and prosecute anti-apartheid guerillas, in exchange for South Africa ceasing its covert operations against FRELIMO. South Africa of coursed reneged on this promise and continued to support the anti-communist RENAMO party. This treaty may have also been signed under coercion with Mozambique on the brink of collapse at the time.
Also South Africa, with the possible collaboration of AmeriKKKan and "israeli" regimes, was intending to develop ethnic weaponry for the purpose of creating an ethnostate (and obviously a genocide of half a billion Africans resulting from the planned war), along with other chemical and biological weapons under Project Coast.
40-ish years later, the isnotreali nazi regime is much on the same trajectory.
What ethnic weapons were they trying to develop and how do they differ from other tools settlers used against the natives?
"Ethnic weapon" being a biological/chemical weapon that specifically targets individuals of a certain ethnicity (through DNA?), hence the name. It would sterilise the victims and eventually kill them with organ failure. The settlers themselves would be unaffected and then they could take the land without firing a shot. It would have been akin to Agent Orange or a bioengineered virus.
South Africa has considered its use not only within, but to also hose down everything south of the Equator for when it declared war against like a dozen other nations. But it was the mid-1980s with the Apartheid government teetering on collapse and the "turbo hitler supervillain virus", along with aspirations of ~~lebensraum~~ buffer states, fell through.
The people thinking of that idea should be
in front of their families.
There is no such thing as biological race, it's a social construct. If they make a weapon like that, then it will just kill every human in the area. Maybe even the nonhuman animals too.
Border War in Angola was the main one, but there were considerations to cause a continent-wide conflict.