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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Overall this piece by the intercept is basically stenography of the press releases by the US State Department. Every statement is sourced by them. Also, the picture of the ballistic missile in the article is not the whole missile, but simply a booster stage.
that's what I thought, Klippenstein's stuff is usually a bit better but this was: none of their missiles even worked, pieces of them fell over Iraq (every picture has just been the booster stages like you said)
Also
Most media reports say that none of the cruise missiles or drones ever entered Israeli airspace
There is literally a video of what could be a drone swarm in the vicinity of a successfull missile hit on an Israeli target.
Yeah maybe it's just a weird cloud reflection or something, but it could also be a bunch of drones.
Most media reports say that none of the cruise missiles or drones ever entered Israeli airspace
Hearing new reports that Iran never actually fired their swarm of drones and missiles at all and every "projectile" in the skies above Israel was an optical illusion; every Iranian missile simply spontaneously combusted seconds after launch
It's the exaggeration that gets me. Like yeah it's fully feasible that some of the ballistic missiles were shot down mid-course where they are most vulnerable to interception, it's possible that some of the ballistic missiles failed mid flight as some of these weapons are so new that Iran has barely had time to properly test them, it's possible that a lot of the drones were shot down once they were detected as they only fly at around 190kph/120mph, and intercepting cruise missiles with fighter jets has existed since WW2 when V1 rockets were intercepted by British warplanes.
However, to claim that half of the ballistic missiles failed mid flight, the majority of the remaining ballistic missiles were intercepted and that not a single drone or cruise missile entered Israeli airspace, when there is video evidence to the contrary, is just staggering. It's propaganda on another level. Also, the Iranians aren't stupid, they know that the majority of their slow drones were going to be intercepted as well as many of their cruise missiles and some ballistic missiles, it's why they launched so much ordinance in the first place. It's part of the strategy, to overwhelm Israel's air defence system. Quantity has a quality all of its own.
At the end of the day, Iran still hit military targets multiple times despite the largest NATO countries and Israel themselves doing everything to stop them, and having had weeks in advance to prepare for the Iranian attack. In what way is that not a successful Iranian counterattack? Iran achieved something no one else has done for decades.
The entity and the US are desperate to keep up the facade of Israeli defensive invincibility.
wow that's bad. Fully implying that none of them hit until near the end of the article, not making any reference to the mysterious "2nd facility" that was struck or asking any questions about that, and just offering nothing but imperial propaganda completely unquestioned on every point.
As weird as this sounds, this might be the first real sign of friction between the US and Israel that's not part of some good cop-bad cop routine. I don't think the US would be so quick to take credit if relationship was still good.
This article does not make things look good for Israel.
IF... 50% of Iranian equipment never made it off the ground/outside of Iranian airspace due to equipment failures...
AND IT STILL TOOK A MULTINATIONAL COALITION OF AIR DEFENSE to take care of the rest of the Iranian attack ...
it makes it seem like Israel got really lucky this time.