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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.
Yossi Melman is an Israeli writer and journalist. He was an intelligence and strategic affairs correspondent for the Haaretz newspaper, and in 2013 he joined The Jerusalem Post and its Hebrew sister paper Maariv in a similar, more analytical role covering also military issues.
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.
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.
real, complex, enthusiastic supporters of genocide
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?
It seems that IOF middle defense systems have been degraded/depleted to a significant point. Will tho allow Iran and Yemen to use kamikaze drones in future strikes?
It has been under constant pressure for a good while, first the sporadic rocket attacks from Gaza that makes the settler run underground and spend a few missiles on them. Then the very impressive Hezbollah missile and rocket campaign, which already showed the "israeli" AD was beginning to give up. True Promises campaigns already showed they cannot stop all incoming iranian strikes, especially in sensitive areas. The only "blessing" for "israel" is that these missiles are not as accurate as one might like, while "israel" retains very good accuracy on their strikes against Iran itself.
I do not think the US will allow for the "israeli" AD to be fully depleted though, they will step in eventually I bet.
"Israel", as many fascist states do, rely on a sense of security. They know they are in very hostile territory and even the most delusional zionist knows that they live in stolen land, therefore a massive security apparatus is needed, They kinda promised their own settlers that nothing will happen to them, that they are protected by a magical shield that kills every "foreign" object thrown at them. Each missile that lands on "israel" and hits anything, doesn't matter what kind of material damage it does, it inflicts damage on the "israeli" morale and sense of security. That alone will not be enough to shatter "israel" of course, but it helps a lot. If they live in fear, as they should because they are colonizers pieces of shit, they cannot live in peace. And if they cannot live in peace, they fuck off.
if drones are on the table then the settlers will look back on the days of just missiles with fond nostalgia
This latest strike seems have been far more successful than those prior. As their interceptor stocks dwindle subsequent strikes might be more successful still. There's been serious strikes against Iran since Friday. The longer this goes on the more it seems the Israelis seirously miscalculated. Not sure where they can go from here. False flag to draw in the Americans?
Are the interceptor stocks dwindling? I mean, I hope so, but it seems an insane miscalculation if they’re already running out after what, less than ten salvoes of missiles? Have they always been this papery of a tiger or are we not getting the full picture?
Well I think they must be, given recent strikes Iran has been launching less missiles with ever greater destruction. Israel is getting choosier with using them as they ration them perhaps. I don't see any other reason why Iranian strikes keep hitting more targets.
EDIT: Maybe the Iranians are putting out some of their more advanced missiles? I know the earlier strikes were using rather old ballistics.
The fed accounts I follow are posting teaser gifs of B-2 bombers. Might be B-2s getting sent out with that large wave of air-to-air refuelling tankers.
Nah they'd fly the other way I think, over the Pacific and Australia. That's what they usually do. Transponders wouldn't be on either.
These tankers aren't dragging any aircraft with them, they're flying to high. It's a repositioning of tanker assets, likely to the Middle East.
Israeli Arrow-3 misfires and destroys its own launcher
Arrow-3 launchers are Hamas
A successful SEAD/DEAD operation by God...
Mashallah baby
Was the launcher destroyed by this? The missfired missile exploded quite a way off by the looks of it.
I didn’t think this would be possible? I thought Israel only had the most competent 18 year olds working anti-missile batteries
Rest in piss to the coward 19 year old Israeli brigadier generals who died in the arrow self-suck incident
does this complicate semen extraction
It pains me to say this... but the semen is gone
I'm on a semen diet. See men and I extract their seed before they get blown up by an IED in occupied Palestine
Al Jazeera
Fires seen at Haifa power plant after Iranian attack
We’ve been reporting on the casualties and damage in central Israel following the latest attacks. Now, we are getting reports of hits in northern Israel, in the port city of Haifa. The UK maritime security firm Ambrey said fires have been observed at the power plant in the vicinity of Israel’s Haifa port. It also said it observed video footage of the Israeli military intercepting the attack, followed by impacts from two hypersonic missiles.
You don't see it in this video, but this is two Israeli interceptors malfunctioning.
Negev did take direct hits though earlier today
Crying and screaming as missile hits Israeli building
they are never going to psychologically recover from this 
hell yeah
chase those fucking settlers out
Music to my ears
i want to laugh at israel getting its ass handed to them but i fear that would bite us in the ass hard if they use a nuke, what's a realistic chance percentage of them being totally batshit enough for them to just press that red button?
If Israel uses a single nuke, Iran survives and wins the war oitright though international outrage
If Israel uses a bunch of nukes, it's destroyed by Russia, Pakistan and maybe even Turkey due to the risk of regional radiation fallout
Israel is in deep shit
The nukes were always for if Israel was going to face imminent invasion from another Arab coalition. There’s no situation that they can use them here and not immediately lose all face on the global stage. They will cease to exist as a state
this is just vibes, but i would say:
if true promise 3 continues as-is; 20%
if "israel" is invaded; 90%
🇮🇷IRGC Aerospace Force:
'In response to the Zionist aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and in retribution to their crimes against Gaza:
The IRGC Aerospace Forces carried out a new missile strike in the series of 'True Promise-3', targeting the command and control systems of the Zionist enemy and various other sensitive military sites.
The attack was stronger and more destructive than before, and we used innovative methods, intelligence, and more advanced equipment.
Our attacks will continue, and they will continue to grow stronger for as long as the Zionist aggression against us continues.'
Aftermath of strike by Iran against Gezer gas power plant, Northern Israel.
Second wave had at least 50 missiles, many impacts outside civilian areas and subject to military censorship.
