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.
I'm not gonna lie, listening to Kamala Harris last night proclaim her undying support for Israel's "right to defend itself" against the "rapist Palestinian hordes" and to then turn around and go "but I'm sad for Palestinians uWu" after all the bullshit of this week and the bombs she and her boss have given Israel, it's probably the closest I've ever been to being unironically "I'm voting for Trump to spite liberals". I'm going to vote third party, but I'm still human, and I want these liberals to fucking suffer.
Yea I expected her speech to be bad but holy shit that speech was to the right of Biden. Like at this point I hope they lose but at the same time if the Dems were going to learn they would have learned from Hillary back in 2016.
No they just are fully leaning into becoming the new Republican party but with a rainbow painted on the side
This country deserves worse than Trump tbh (I mean, except us. We're cool). There's a dumb part of my brain that thinks Trump might actually be better on Palestine despite what he's said in the past. 1 - because he's the deal guy, and if he could do a peace deal he'd have a massive political win and how it would benefit his legacy. 2 - is his cheapness. Like the isolationist chuds convince him that Bibi is ripping him off and he tries to re-assert the US as the dominant party in the US relationship with the zionist entity by withholding aid and weapons.
There's a dumb part of my brain that thinks Trump might actually be better on Palestine
This isnt the dumb part of your brain this is stuff but that doesn't mean it is wrong. It is rationally inconceivable that trump could be worse than the democrats on the issue.