Image is of a destroyed American AWACS plane in Saudi Arabia, of which there is a very limited supply and each of which is enormously expensive both monetarily and in terms of components. Iran hit this with a precision drone strike that likely cost ~$20,000.
I don’t have much to add from the last megathread description. This isn’t to say that nothing has happened or has changed since then - decades are still happening in weeks - but the general flow of the war is remaining the same. Trump sometimes threatens to open the Strait with troops and flatten Iran to rubble, and other times threatens that he’s gonna back off and let other countries handle it if they really want little trifles like “fuel” and “energy” so much. Iran continues to strike across the Middle East. The West continues to bomb civilian infrastructure due to their relative inability to affect the missile cities. In all: things are generally getting worse for America and the Zionists.
April is the month where the last ships that left Hormuz before it was closed will arrive around the world, so the last month of economic turmoil has been a mere prelude to what’s going to occur in the near-future. The silver lining is that Iran appears to be formalizing the new state of affairs in Hormuz, creating a rial-based toll to allow passage between a pair of Iranian-controlled islands where they can be monitored, meaning that, as long as the US doesn’t do something exceptionally stupid, the global energy crisis may “only” last a couple years instead of simply being the new reality from now on. Some countries have already agreed to this arrangement, and others will inevitably follow despite their consternation as their economies increasingly suffer.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on the Zionists’ 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.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
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.
https://xcancel.com/HormuzLetter/status/2040256730785804792#m
Also https://xcancel.com/HormuzLetter/status/2040242809135849670#m
Is the Easter invasion happening?
My hunch is that the presence of the E-4B is more for the escalation of war rather than a nuclear strike. The idea is to keep the president / military leadership alive in a nuclear attack.
As far as I can tell the last time it was used was on 9/11/2001 (it was filmed circling DC but I don’t think W actually used it).
I think they’re bringing it in to make Trump feel like a big boy war commander. Gut says we’re gonna see a big escalation but not necessarily nukes.
Given they’re seemingly amassing soldiers in the area, I’d hope that means they aren’t planning to use nukes.
Trump: We have the cleanest nukes folks. People say you can’t nuke a place and then visit it but it’s just not true. My generals, very smart generals assured me we could nuke and then put our troops there later and they’d be safe as can be, absolutely safe, no worse than visiting the dentist twice they told me. Unfortunately you know using nukes is very expensive, the power is incredible you know, lots of people say like my smart uncle John about the power of nukes. So we need to lower the amount put into medicare and medicaid to pay for it folks because we have to make America great again and let me tell you the nuclear erm ah the illegals are taking all the money, all the medical care and we need it for our brave, brave troops.
I’m honestly concerned about the use of nukes because the US has no way to conventionally defeat Iran. Their options are basically capitulation and looking weak, prolonged invasion ending in failure and massive casualties, or trying some sort of massive blow to shock and terrify Iran into accepting some sort of terms and the only thing the US has left there would be nukes and Trump could probably be convinced by the yes-men that nuking Iran will scare them into submission and get him a win. This grows ever more possible with Pentagon purges of the smart careerists who might raise objections to that and their replacement with Hegseth-ian crusader kings LARPers who don’t know how to say no or push back. I guess my biggest hope there is there’s still someone concerned Iran could build and deploy a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb against the zionist entity in that case that would cause them to hesitate.
Even if they did, would nuclear terrorism even accomplish much besides genocidal mass murder of civilians? As far as I’m aware, Iranian capabilities are very spread out across a very large country and the command structure is decentralised enough that a retaliatory strike is likely to happen. If the evil empire resorts to nuclear terrorism, what would stop Iran from blowing up the Zionist entity’s nuclear weapons site in Dimona as well as desalination plants, rendering occupied Palestine universities for the settlers?
From wiki
there’s also a photo of Hegseth sitting in the cockpit with his hands on the controls on the wikipedia page, what a cool guy
No that’s false, they fly regularly and there are four of them.
Past flight tracking data
The did want to go into Venezuela on christmas day, they probably wrap themselves in christianity because they think it gives them special powers
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Probably also why they started this war during Ramadan, in many ways everything the west has done in the last 500 years has just been an extension of that crusader mentality.
Hegseth literally sees himself as a crusader I think he’s mentioned it before
Where can they possibly stage those troops without getting attacked immediately?
Jordan or Israel is probably the ““safest”” place, then a rapid deployment to, what, UAE?
I kinda hope they’re stupid enough to deploy to Prince Sultan lmao
In caskets 6 ft under?
The E-4B Nightwatch, there are four of them I think, and they move quite often. Nothing out of the ordinary to fly to Joint Base Andrews.
Look at past movements here
Yes the USA is conducting buildup for ground operations, I think for over a week now at least. This is part of that. Predicting exact dates and timings is not possible.
Seems too late for an invasion this weekend.
Looks like a target rich area for some hypersonics when they land.
sorry what
There’s 4. I think they’re supposed to be able to act as a mobile command center in the case that the capitol is destroyed or something. Which means they’re also equiped to initiate nuclear retaliation, but I think the naming isn’t technically because of that.
oh right I saw one of those in Doctor Who once
they made David Tennant president of earth
sigh. if only.