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.
Trump calling bibi asking him to not make a deal on the ceasefire (even though it sucked to begin with) is actually a perfect escape-goat for the Dems to not actually deliver on a ceasefire for their base that might actually be on the fence about voting for Kamala. Harris campaign can go the rest of the year saying “oh yeah we are pushing for a ceasefire deal! All the way through November then when they get the votes they can just forget like nothing ever happened and it’s back to business as usual. Then people will forget all about Gaza in 4 years time which is perfect for the dems to ramp up false promises again and just attach them all to Michelle Obama. People will love it
Ya reddit was eating it up yesterday. "Normal" people (sadly, predictably) don't care about Gaza, but the Trump-Bibi angle is perfect rhetorical fodder for the online BlueAnon folks to wield to shout down the (righteous, beautiful) online "left".
Makes sense. They treated (and are still treating) Russiagate like a rhetorical GoTcHa gold mine. Why not do a little homophobia by talking about Trump sucking Bibi's dick for a while too, or whatever? This is easily achievable for liberals, especially of the online variety.
It doesn't really make any more sense as a narrative, because they could still just not send him bombs? Like how does making Netanyahu look worse make their support for him look any better?
Lib: Biden's hand are tied, dude. There's nothing he can do!
Leftist: He could cut off all the weapons.
Lib: NO NO NO NO! Congress allocates foreign aid.
Leftist: Biden has a great deal of discretion on weapons shipments and foreign policy in general. He has circumvented Congress many times, and a lot of the Zionist aid approved by Congress has been submitted to them by him as well. He also participates in the legislative process through his veto power and otheer, less official means of exerting pressure. You know he's considered the head of the Democrats while he's in office, right?
Lib: WHAT, DO YOU WANT TRUMP TO BE ELECTED?!?! HE'LL NUKE GAZA!!!!!!!!!!!!