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.
well time for speculation: if this is the start of the regional war, what are the strategies that each side will likely use? does hezbollah now have the capability to destroy every airfield in isr*el to limit the amount of airstrikes they can do? if the US gets directly involved (i.e. launching airstrikes with US jets, I know they were heavily involved with planning this attack) do they immediately try to sink the carrier? does isr*el even have a win condition here?
Nothing I have seen from any US politician or bureaucrat in the last year makes me think the US will do anything other than full military support for Israel, up to and including US troops on the ground.
And certainly not after Kamala’s “blood for the blood god” speech the other night.
Much like the 3rd reich the zionist regime's only win condition is the extermination of anyone who is not willing to submit to their racial supremacist agenda. "greater israel" is just their mid range goal. They truly have delusions of a world wide theocratic racial supremacist state. They may not say this out loud or even consciously think it but it is the only logical end point for any supremacist genocidal ideology.
The win condition is the US allowing them to bomb Beirut this time and immediately causing Lebanon to become a failed state and/or restoring their occupation of southern lebanon. Ultimate win condition is collapsing all the Shia states and hoping the Sunnis go full salafist trying to occupy them so they have an excuse to destroy Jordan in 30 years if it rebels against the Hashemites.
Win condition for the US is driving Russia out of the region and securing oil fields in Iraq and Syria.
yes I've seen this on twitter but I keep seeing the twitter accounts that just say this without linking anything and I'm never sure how credible they are. thank you for the (at least somewhat) credible source!