There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account.
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.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is Palestine! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly update is here.
Links and Stuff
The bulletins site is down.
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can.
Resources For Understanding The War
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.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
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
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.
Last week's discussion post.
I'm honestly still in shock that we haven't seen Hezbollah engage with Israeli. This is the weakest it's ever been, how is this not the time to strike?
As I understand it, the whole Axis of Resistance is basically waiting on the word of Hamas to tell them when to strike. They're gonna do things in a co-ordinated manner to cause maximum destruction and confusion rather than blindly and incoherently rush into a conflict and risk fucking everything up. I wouldn't be surprised actually if Hamas tells everybody to wait until a large part of the Israeli army is engaged inside Gaza before giving the order to let hell break loose. They're all there to help the Palestinians, and so Hamas should be the one in control of the operation given that they're very clearly meticulously planned the strike on October 7th and the leaders have a clear talent for fucking Israel up. It's like that scene in the Pirates of the Caribbean where they're all silently waiting for the Kraken to get into its most vulnerable position before simultaneously striking everywhere at once.
okay, but is, this is how bernie can still win, mega-cope?
The issue is that we (or at least, I) have no idea how much firepower Hezbollah and Iran and others are packing and what tricks up their sleeves they might have.
If earlier this year, you said "Palestinian resistance groups in the Gaza Strip have the ability to break out without triggering the alarms, go to the Gaza envelope settlements and bases and kill/capture the soldiers there, and also Hamas has the better part of a hundred thousand rockets including ones that can hit anywhere in Israel and anti-tank missiles" then that would be incredible amounts of copium. Prior to October 7th, people were talking about how Hamas had basically given up and was trying to aim for reconcillation. There was no indication or feasible way to predict what happened on October 7th.
All we can do is wait and see what the Resistance has planned, and whether it's good enough. Maybe it'll be perfectly co-ordinated but still insufficient. Maybe the United States preemptively acts and bombs Lebanon and it throws their plans into disarray. What's clear to many people is that Israel is wobbling. Can the Resistance push them over? I'm optimistic, but I can't say anything for certain.
What does 'pushing them over' even entail though? Wouldn't the US get involved before that happens, given that Israel has nukes?
In my opinion it would most likely be something like a political collapse that leads to negotiated concessions. As based as it would be I do not think Hezbollah + Palestine has the capability to straight up conquer Israel, that would only be possible if a neighboring state joined the war and that would definitely lead to American intervention.
I guess their line in the sand is a ground invasion?
It seems like a somewhat arbitrary line given how much suffering has been meted out already. But, on the other hand, planning and mobilizing takes time. And it’s certainly possible that hamas really did keep their operation secret enough that hezbollah was taken as much off guard as the settlers were.
even if they attacked today they wouldn't be able to ground the terror bombers. I think they are waiting for the IDF to get caught in a quagmire of urban combat in Gaza City first, the Israelis wouldn't be able to easily move reinforcements between those two fronts once committed.
I like this theory.