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.
The parade is a trainwreck holy shit
yankee stormtroopers are too slovenly for a decent parade
They do not want to be there, which neatly reflects the fact they do not want to be there in any warzone they’re deployed to.
This neatly describes why they lose every single war. Their troops do not want to be there.
this is how you walk when you wake up with a splitting headache and you’re putting 90% of your mental energy to hide the pain as you go to the pharmacy, I know from experience
this looks like the sort of army thats been fed a steak dinner ready for deployment to the Persian Gulf, for sure.
‘when does it get cool’
They are so bored lmao
They’re playing Guns n’ Roses and it’s just like 3 Army vehicles spread 50 feet apart from each other rolling down the road. It looks so empty and pathetic
Holy fuck, the soldiers are just casually waving like it’s a small town christmas parade. No discipline whatsoever. This isn’t a military parade.
Holy shit, this looks like Trump went to the local community college this very morning and paid everybody in mcburgers to do their best impression of a march.
I’ve seen boy scout marches with more discipline than this. If you put this in a movie they would say it’s too stupid to actually happen
This literally looks to be at about the quality of a student-led middle school theatrical production
Don’t ever disrespect middle school students like that again
Now it’s just a single tiny quadcopter that the cameras are focusing on for like a minute, it’s so boring that they are just staying zoomed in on a quadcopter
1 trillion dollars in budget yet no aura
DPRK parade for reference lol
That looks like it would be absolutely exhausting on the quadriceps
Hopefully it starts raining like it was forecasted.
Behold, the Guys Walking Down The Street Mostly At Their Own Pace Parade
It took me over an hour for the video to finally load. And the wait was worth it. They’re fucking awful
That’s weird. I saw others saying they had problems loading the site but I had absolutely no issues
The weirder thing is your comment with the parade isn’t even on lemmy.ml.
Interesting. Potentially some problem with the site’s federation then. Maybe filesize caused a problem.
0 drip 0 sauce 0 swag, most lethal military my ass
can’t wait for the vic berger recut of this
That’s how I walk when I try to hold in a log of shit when there’s no restroom nearby.
Aside from special units like Honor Guards and the like, the US military only does drill in boot camp, and it shows.