Bulletins and News Discussion from April 15th to April 21st, 2024 - Between The Darkness And The Dawn, There Rises A Red Star

Image is of Iranian missiles flying over the Knesset, the Israeli parliament building in Jerusalem.

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Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Sources:

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.

Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:

Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.

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All this talk about the imminent Israeli retaliation reminds me of the always just-around-the-corner Ukrainian ubermensch counteroffensive
- It's only been hours and I don't think it's really that comparable.
- Israel has nukes
  
  Iran doesn't need nukes to deter the zionists. They have demonstrated their capability to precisely strike any target in the illegal zionist entity. If they want to, in a Domesday scenario Iran can strike zionist nuclear facilities, thereby irradiating large parts of Palestine.
  
  it would also be relatively trivial for Iran to land a dirty bomb full of uranium in the middle of Tel Aviv and make it uninhabitable for millennia to come (or at least decades if there are mindbogglingly expensive cleanup efforts), which I honestly think is scarier than a nuke
  
  it's what we ostensibly invaded Iraq over
  
  I always viewed "dirty bombs" as massively overrated in any context that isn't purely fictional or propaganda.
  
  Iran would need a lot of them to cover a large area (probably hundreds to meaningfully cover every Israeli city) as opposed to a nuke which has a wider radius, but I imagine Iran has that quantity of both uranium and missiles that can carry it built up
  
  it's not really a viable strategy for large countries because dirty bombs would (hypothetically, it's never been tested) have a small radius of effect, so dirty bombs are imagined more in the terroristic sense of causing mass panic and disorder in a single city or even a single district in a city instead of a viable MAD strategy, but Israel is pretty damn small.
  
  ultimately I don't know if Iran would go there even in a MAD situation, perhaps their conventional explosions are good enough to make Israel collapse all by itself, and it could go badly and affect the Palestinians too, but it is a possibility, alongside a nuclear reactor strike
  
  So just for my own synthesis, it sounds like the fear with dirty bombs used to be that any non-state actor with minimal resources could pull one off, only for it to turn out that to pull one off big enough to be effective, you would need the resources of a state actor, leaving the dirty bomb right next to nerve gas in the in-between zone of weapons that would be a godsend to a small group but which are a sort of niche triviality to an actual country, to be used only under certain circumstances.
  
  So I guess its not outside the realm of possibility, although it would be a serious escalation
  
  If Israel nukes Iran, Israel is over.
  
  yes, I don't expect much from the UNSC, but the nuclear taboo is still pretty strong. Especially since the zionist entity doesn't even acknowledge their nukes. I don't think there would be anything more damaging to the "rules based order"
  
  Umm actually according to liberal Reddit generals, nukes are very self containing and wholesome and will not spread anywhere because we have advanced technology and smart people in the military

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