Image is Israeli interceptors trying and failing to intercept missiles over their cities.
Israel just carried out a widespread bombing of Iran, which has killed a number of senior officials inside Iran (though it seems the leadership is more-or-less intact) as well as a number of civilians. Important facilities have been targeted, but the amount of damage is unknown so far (note that many important Iranian facilities are deep underground, making them both hard to damage but also hard to determine if they are damaged from just satellite imagery, so reports of damage will be he-said-she-said).
It appears the attack took Iran by surprise, given that a residential block was targeted that contained some senior officials - if one saw an attack coming, one would imagine they'd be in bunkers. Nonetheless, like the rest of the Resistance Axis, I suspect that Iran has adapted their military structures to be resistant to decapitation strikes by ensuring that replacement figures are ready to take the place of killed officials.
Iran has delivered a massive missile barrage in response to Israeli aggression, even though Israel is continuing to bomb Iran. Iran is now aware of the location of many important Israeli sites, including secret nuclear sites, due to their recent intelligence haul, giving them a distinct edge.
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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.
Big "oh fuck our plans didn't result in the immediate collapse of a state of 90 million people we're fucked whoops" vibes.
"kick in the door and the whole rotten structure collapses"
Now where have I heard that before...
seems to be working in the other direction though
They broke their leg trying to kick it in
Real dick in a blender hours.
Israeli's really seem to be high on their own supply. Is there no material analysis to understand that bombing defenseless women and children isn't the same as fucking IRAN?
They are fascists. They inherently believe in their own superiority, which causes severe miscalculations. Like the Nazis going to war with the USSR and Japan with the US.
Iran played it all pretty defensive, being content so far to build up their reservoirs while pushing their own technological developement in a very similar manner to China. That seemed to have been working for them, given the capabilities they have already shown. That gap would have only grown further as time stretches on, but it also restricted them when it came to their actions.
Personally, I think it was just an act of insane fascist idiocy that caused this attack on Iran. Sure, they wanted to get rid of the country that supplied their enemies in the region, but I doubt Iran itself would have ever intervened directly after they showed they wouldn't in Gaza. Having nukes would have changed nothing for Iran in that regard, as using them offensively would have been suicide. Which was why Iran had not really pursued them. Pissrael's best bet would have been to continue their push against Iran's allies like they had successfully done so far, depriving Iran of its allies while slowly expanding their settler project.
By attacking Iran under the pretext of swarting the developement of nukes, they aimed to beat Iran militarily now that they deluded themselves into thinking they might still have the upper hand. Ironically playing directly into the type of war Iran had been preparing for decades. Much like with the Nazis and Japanese, they saw a situation that would only get worse for them as Irans technological and military capabilities would keep growing, and the resistance was at its weakest point so far.
It was basically now or never for them for toppling Iran, but as it turned out, it could very well be never or never. If they cannot win this war conventionally, which it looks like, they might just be straight up fucked with no buts about it. The fallout of this might be literal though.
I'm really hoping the phrase "the euphoria was short lived" is an awkward translation, any maybe more akin to excitement or optimism. Although even a gentler phrasing makes it really fucking hard to remember that everyone dying is a person as real and complex as those I hold beloved.
The Zionist entity is full of pedos. Some of those pedos are probably necrophiliacs as well. The "euphoria" is a lot more literal for those freaks.
Well, I'm not aware of the cultural differences in meaning, but the first word is literally "euphoria" transliterated into the Hebrew script. I'm a complete beginner in Hebrew, but the machine translation sounds pretty much on point to me. "The euphoria lived for a short time" or simply "The euphoria was short" is the most literal version possible.
That's fucking hideous. Nobody should feel euphoria about killing, at best it is a regrettable necessity.
What a fucking feral person.
real, complex, enthusiastic supporters of genocide
Yeah, bleak as fuck.
they can be super real and complex in the
, not a shred of empathy should be given to these genocidal demons who cheer on the mass slaughter of babies
Lmao what a username + account creation date combo
lmao yeah i had deleted my last account and been lurking for the last month or so, saw the news and wanted an account to comment in the news mega again lol