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 forgot to report on this and it's a few months later than it happened. Every year the U.S. does military exercises in Africa (mostly Morocco), known as the African lion this year's event happened in May in Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal and Ghana. Although the U.S. denies its purpose, the exercise is clearly about invading Algeria, in the video African Lion 2021- Command Post Exercise they train against s400 and later on in the video you can see this map with the fake countries they're invading being "Rowand" and "Nehone". Similar to other U.S. invasion exercises like the ones they hold for Iran and the DPRK.
Sneaky edit
This is the map of the oil in the region, now this makes sense
Algeria has the largest army on the African continent (by far) and is one of the most powerful militaries of periphery countries on the planet. If NATO attacks Algeria then Europe will burn in a way it has not burned for 80 years. They know this.
Saddam said that too. Once Europe goes full fascist, it will need a place to send its harkis. Knowing Morroco, they'd leverage their irredentist claims to promise the creation of an exiled autonomous zone.
The Algerian military has taken delivery of the Chinese-made YJ-12B anti-ship cruise missiles after placing order in April 2020.
The YJ-12B is an improved version of the Chinese supersonic anti-ship missile, the YJ-12. Designed to engage surface ships at great distances, this missile enhances maritime strike capabilities. Capable of reaching speeds between Mach 2 and Mach 3, the YJ-12B is particularly difficult to intercept for conventional air defenses. With an effective range of about 500 kilometers, it allows for long-range attacks. The YJ-12B can be deployed from various platforms, including aircraft, ships, and mobile coastal launch systems.
Algeria continues to undertake a significant arms acquisition program designed to enhance its regional position amid regional security uncertainties. To this end, the already powerful North African nation has become a major purchaser of capable missile systems.
Algeria received 4 regiments of Iskander E systems from 2014 to 2017. A missile regiment consists of about fifty vehicles and 48 missiles: 12 launchers, 12 missile carriers and loaders, 11 vehicles of command and personnel, and other vehicles.
Moreover, Algeria is reported to be in talks with China to acquire SY-400 Chinese-made short-range ballistic missiles.
We don't know, the Algerian military doesn't usually announce what it has, but if it doesn't have IRBM I assume they don't plan on striking those countries or that they'll use jets for that.
Algeria has an enormous military, both in terms of inventory and manpower, they're more in line with Iran and North Korea than vulnerable countries like Cuba or Venezuela
3.) Don't stop. Why are you stopping? If they're not convincing you can render dc and nyc down to hot glowing ash they'll flatten your country. Maybe make your missiles hypersonic.