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.
The US military set up a Forward Arming and Refueling Point (FARP), very deep inside Iranian territory to recover the second airman of the F-15E. The location of said FRAP very much sends a message to Iran, and a demonstration of the US capability to conduct such operations. The FRAP was located on the outskirts of Isfahan, Iran. Isfahan is also where they majority of Iran’s 400+kg of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) to 60% is located, entombed underground. The US blew up C-130J series (unknown what exact variant) fixed wing aircraft and AH-6 Little Bird helicopters that were left behind on the ground as the FRAP was abandoned, apparently stuck in soft soil. The wreakage is not dispersed over a large debris field, rather quite close together with no impact crater, propeller blades not showing signs of impact, suggesting destruction on the ground.
Source, with geolocation and more images
Obviously extracting nuclear materials over weeks, with excavation, is a very different mission to personnel recovery over a few days. But it does look like the US will attempt such in the near future.
The soil is Hamas 🗣️🗣️
Some places say that the US blew up two of its own C-130s. IRGC also claims to have shot down one more in the air.
Hindustan times says “…with American forces reportedly destroying at least two of their own aircraft during the operation.” while NYT and TimesOfIsrael are using the plural “US forces blew up their own C-130 transport planes”
This seems to be the landing site, looks like an old runway.
Is it possible they ran out of fuel? These planes should be all terrain capable and do not require paved runways.
Possible, but the MC-130J can bring fuel along and refuel aircraft on the ground. At the end of the day they use tires, if the soil gets too soft or worn out by repeated landings and takeoffs, there’s not much that can be done if there’s no grading or excavation equipment on hand, and aircraft are almost always heaviest on takeoff. Could deflate the tires a little to increase surface area/contact patch, but that has it’s own risks. Could be safer to just blow them up, and get the personnel extracted by other means, than try a risky takeoff and die in Iran after a crash. There’s also the risk of discovery by Iran, they may have not had enough time to prepare the temporary runway and get fuel in or resources, and needed to leave quickly. So blow up the stuff and get the personnel out before the Iranian military arrives.
everything being burnt to a crisp suggests there was a reasonable amount of fuel left behind no?
Yeah, or lots of bombs dropped. The melted propellers, I’d say a lot of fuel left behind. Propellers are also in the feathered position, the engines were off at the time of destruction. So most likely destroyed on the ground.
it was raining a lot this month, clay soil can fuck up even construction site machines get stuck, let alone a plane.
Have a look at this article - it shows the kind of thing that would have to be moved in a uranium extraction operation
https://thebulletin.org/2026/03/analysis-iran-likely-transferred-highly-enriched-uranium-to-isfahan-before-the-june-strikes/
The americans yearn for the bogs.