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.
Ukrainians advance in Kursk, Russians advance along the east.
I don't think there's that much new other than some sources claiming there's a large Ukrainian force in the North that has not been committed yet, in total similar in size to the counteroffensive last year...
...which begs the question, why didn't they use more of that force when they had the element of surprise? And why advance into Russian territory at all? What's the endgame here?
NPR was interviewing some turbolib think tank guy who actually said something that made some sense (despite talking about how Iran was a military failure that had no chance of retaliating against Israel because 99% of the April strike was shot down). He compared the Kursk incursion to the battle of the bulge as a desparate last-ditch offensive that is basically spending whatever experienced troops Ukraine has left to grab what they can in order to give it up as part of a peace settlement in an area of the front line where they were more likely to be able to gain more ground regardless of its strategic value
Unless Israel managed to suppress every negative post, it seems that Israelis are back at the beaches, invading mosques, and celebrating massacres. Don’t understand how that’s a success for Iran.
it's pretty surprising, but there are countries on earth where the complete destruction of civilian life and the genocide of millions isn't actually the very first aim that they try, and instead they aim at military installations first
The Separatists attacked Coruscant to kidnap the Chancellor. Their thought process was that the Republic would then sue for peace because secret hyperspace routes made their borders insecure and showed that their long sieges were irrelevant.
Note: In actuality this was a ploy to distract from a Jedi led investigation into the Sith and a means of activating forces held in reserve, but I digress.
Kursk stalled, completely and decisively in the case of the direction of the city, Pokrovsk getting closer significantly quicker, F16s still invisible. According to a statement, Ukraine is supposedly concentrating a third of their forces north for something, but there's not much being confirmed, while, in a naive regression of the current pace, Pokvrovsk would be completely surrounded in a couple of weeks.