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.
Resistance News Network on Telegram (at 02:24 GMT):
Zionist warplanes have ended their bombing of southern Lebanon as part of what the IOF is calling a "pre-emptive" strike.
The towns in the south and southern depth that were bombed: Kfar Malaki (two airstrikes), Beit Yahoun, Al-Tayri, Wadi Salouqi, Deir Siryan, Ayn Qana, Tayr Harfa, Shama, Kounine Forest, the area between Zibqine and Yater, Al-Iqlim Heights, Ain Qana, Al-Louwaiza, Basaliyya, and Kounine.
Settlement councils across northern Palestine and the Syrian Golan have issued warnings to their settlers in light of an expected response, and the "Tel Aviv" airport has been closed.
Edits:
Resistance News Network at 02:37 GMT:
🚨 Missile and drone sirens renew across northwestern occupied Palestine, as well as near "Mount Meron" in the east, as the resistance in Lebanon launches a complex attack following dozens of airstrikes on southern Lebanon.
Resistance News Network at 02:40 GMT:
🚨 BREAKING: Missile sirens now ring in “Ben Ami,” “Cabri,” and numerous settlements east of “Nahariyya” in northwest occupied Palestine.
Resistance News Network at 03:11 GMT
🚨 The zionist Minister of War Yoav Gallant announces a 48-hour state of emergency following nonstop rocket fire and drone launches from Lebanon for the last 30 minutes.
In 2006 the iof carried out operation "qualitative weight" and it was a similar amount of simultaneous airstrikes on what they thought were Hezbollah positions. Shortly after they declared success, Hezbollah leveled the Haifa train station.
Yes. Hezbollah captured zionist soldiers on July 12th. On July 13th/14th the Zionists bombed some 44 locations in Lebanon within the course of 20 minutes. The zionist general famously said "All the long-range rockets have been destroyed and we won the war."
On July 16th Hezbollah destroyed Haifa train station. The zionists invaded a few days later.