Bulletins and News Discussion from August 19th to August 25th, 2024 - Our Mountains, Our Treasures - Child of the Week: Hassan LargePenis
Image is a snapshot taken from the recent Hezbollah video "Our Mountains, Our Treasures", showcasing their extensive underground fortifications, supply lines, and weaponry.
iran can't keep doing this to me, they've gotta respond soon, right? I'm gonna run out of analysis about countries soon, oh god
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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.
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.
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesman, Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naeini:
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The enemy should be prepared for precise strikes at the appropriate time.
Today, the zionist regime has admitted defeat, and even American politicians acknowledge this fact, as they have not achieved any of their goals so far.
The people of Iran are intelligent and know that the commanders of the armed forces carefully assess all conditions at the highest decision-making levels, make precise and calculated decisions, and through effective actions, change the enemy's calculations.
Time is on our side, and the wait for this response may be prolonged.
For now, the zionists must remain in a state of imbalance, and must taste the bitterness of waiting for the next Iranian response.
Iran's response may not necessarily be a repeat of past operations. The response scenarios are not uniform, and our commanders have the experience and skill to effectively punish the enemy without rushing into action.
No attack against Iran's objectives has gone unanswered, and the enemy should be prepared for calculated and precise strikes at the appropriate time.
Tehran does not consider US moves sincere; it is a party to the war on Gaza.
Iran supports any move to end the war and help Gazans.
Political developments have nothing to do with our right to respond to "israel."
There it is, folks: stop holding your breath, the response will come when it comes.
Perhaps. To me, it sounds like you're being critical that I didn't link to a presstv source that had not been published until after I posted the original statement and articles that corroborate it.
It's not just presstv. There are other outlets as well.
The specific content is not my concern as I said it is relatively benign.
My concern is the principle of the thing. Anyone can say "an IRGC official said this." We live in the era of weaponized disinformation. It is a requirement to post legitimate sources with this kind of news.
Whenever things really do come to a climax or crescendo then it will be imperative to confirm news with reliable sources first otherwise we are prone to accidentally participating in the US-empire social/media machine of lies and half-truths. Therefore, all news (generally) but especially regarding resistance movements must be cited. A reasonable standard we should hold ourselves too.
I was direct and blunt in my original message and I understand why it may have provoked defensiveness. I was short because I have written about this extensively. But I realize not everyone has seen that so I apologize for being rude originally.
I hear you, I guess I'm also defensive because I feel like I provided more than enough of a clear attribution to a statement that is perfectly in line with previously reported statements from Iran and the axis of resistance.
Do you think that providing a link to the RNN telegram is appropriate (see: https://t.me/PalestineResist/53606)? It's definitely more credible than CNN and Bloomberg, but as you can see, it's not exactly user-friendly as it prompts you to view the link in a telegram app. I'm more than happy to provide links like that when I post breaking news from RNN in the future, I just personally think it's inconvenient to use.
Telegram is inconvenient but its the only place for some sources. If someone cites RNN and it turns out to be incorrect then we can know that for the future.
I'm also defensive because I feel like I provided more than enough of a clear attribution to a statement that is perfectly in line with previously reported statements from Iran and the axis of resistance.
I still feel like we are talking past each other. I am going to disengage now.
Don't be a jackass, besides I updated it to CNN. The source, as clearly stated in the original post, is the IRGC in Iranian media. What more do you want?
Except it's not "a poster on my communist forum". It is IRGC spokesperson Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naeini. How much more of a direct source could you possibly want? If you don't trust that he actually said that, it's actually trivial to corroborate yourself with any number of outlets because I included at the top of the post the exact person and title who delivered this statement, a translation of which was also included in full.
Without a link it literally is just a poster on my communist forum. I don't think you're making it up, but without linked attribution it could absolutely be made up. If you're already looking at the source copying and pasting the text why in the world wouldn't you just copy and paste the link too???
So you're saying that a quote with direct attribution is substantially less credible than that plus a link to the telegram channel that broke it? Lol, I disagree.
Without linked attribution you are an anonymous poster on a communist forum. We all are. That's why I always directly link anything I post to the news mega, and why the vast majority of others do as well.
Which is all well and good, and I try to where possible. I provided links that corroborated after the fact. When I initially posted, I'm not even sure that there were any english language sources that published the statement.
I feel like you're just complaining about being too lazy to do a simple google search to verify some well-cited information instead of clicking a convenient link.