Bulletins and News Discussion from April 15th to April 21st, 2024 - Between The Darkness And The Dawn, There Rises A Red Star
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
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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US makes failed bid for Iran to allow 'symbolic strike' by Israel - The Cradle - 16 April 2024
Washington used diplomatic backchannels to ask Tehran not to retaliate to an Israeli strike, which would allow Tel Aviv to 'save face' following the massive retaliatory attack launched by Iran
“Iran has received messages from mediators to let the regime do a symbolic strike to save face and asked Iran not to retaliate,” the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed to The Cradle.
He added that Tehran “outright rejected” the proposal, delivered by mediators, and reiterated warnings that any Israeli attack on Iranian soil would be met with a decisive and immediate response.
“Iran successfully embarrassed all of the integrated radar network and anti-missile systems of the US and the [Israeli] regime. The US even activated its parked satellites over the region to do maximum protection and failed miserably,” the Iranian military official added.
Does it get any more embarrassing for the US? They are constantly begging Iran and its allies to stop, and keep getting told no.
Please let us attack you so we can save face is pretty embarrassing lmao
The US did a similar thing with the airstrikes against the Houthis and resistance forces in Iraq and Syria. The US gave Iran advanced warning so Iran could pull out all their important assets and generals, to avoid killing any Iranian officials.
Only for Israel to go assassinate Iranian officials months later...
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Iran already did the "symbolic strike" when they struck the zionist entity, taking care not to cause casualties. The real strike was the illegal and unprovoked terror bombing of the Iranian consulate in which people actually died.
The symbolic strike was against the consulate... Dumbo
From what I understood the Israelis took out some top Iranian generals. It seemed more like a tactical decision rather than a symbolic one.
I mean, attacking an embassy is akin to attacking that country on sovereign soil. So although the goal may have been just taking out generals the effect was a full-on attack of Iran
I wonder how much more abuse Syria can take before their population goes apeshit and counterattacks Israel regardless of what their government thinks.
I think if that was going to happen, it would have happened by now.
The population of Syria has been brutalized by the US, “israel”, and their rebel proxies in Syria. Keeping that country out of the game is the reason they’ve been terrorizing Syria for years now.
HOW RELIABLE IS THE CRADLE GENERALLY?
GENERALLY VERY RELIABLE !
IT HAS THE OCCASIONAL MISTAKE BUT IS BETTER IN BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF NEWS THAN ANY WESTERN REPORTING ON THE MIDDLE EAST THAT I'VE FOUND
THE CRADLE IS LEGIT
You should take any report based on an "anonymous official" with a giant spoon of salt, but its funny so why not. Personally I think this is just fluff though.
Very funny how I'll read endless western loser blurbs making fun of "primitive" east Asian cultural norms of 'saving face' or 'face culture' and then see or read the many instances of western states pull the same shit without even blinking