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

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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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I guess the most important development is that the Iranian government and media is downplaying this and saying nothing happened. I don't really buy it, given that there were simultaneous strikes within Iraq and Syria. but whatever happened seems to not be so significant that they want to retaliate and escalate into a war.

I don't really see what israel gets out of this. their hogs still want blood, they still want dead Iranians. does this minor strike on an airbase satisfy that? does it really accomplish anything militarily? what was the point?
- US/Israel is calling Iran’s bluff. They know that Iran wouldn’t want to be the country to start a world war, and they’re going to keep prodding like they did in Donbass until the other side finally reacts.
  
  Just like with Ukraine, Russia underestimated the “irrationality” of the US/NATO complex in terms of how far they were willing to go, and here, Iran believed that their warning shots could serve as a deterrent against further Israeli attacks.
  
  They’ve truly underestimated Biden, who will not hesitate to go to the end even if it means a nuclear war that ends human civilization. The Gods of Capital want blood, and Biden is going to give it to Them.
  
  The unfortunate thing is that we might truly be on the brink of WW3. Iran’s eventual response against this is going to be crucial.
  
  But if iran does not respond then the israelis are going to keep killing their technocrats.
  
  Yes, they are putting the Iranians on a difficult position, quite deliberately.
  
  I’m getting the Ukraine war deja vu right now. Russia was placed in a damned if you do, and damned if you don’t situation as the Ukrainians ramped up their shelling of Donbass.
  
  Yhea. Its a boiling frog situation. And honestly with how spread the us is rigth now it seems like a good time to jump away.
  
  difference is that Israel has nukes and Ukraine does not.
  
  Ukraine also doesn't have easily bombed desalination plants, so that needs to be part of the calculation as well.
- The zionst entity can say "we did strikes and were successful" Iran can say "we shot them all down" and the western medai can say "iran was hit by a strike but is claiming they suffered no damage but they are probably lying."
  
  Then everyone just lets things settle a bit and WW3 is put off till someone does something stupid or till the west starts claiming Iran is a wimp for not fighting back.
  
  It's almost a total inversion of what I had assumed Iran's plan was. Question is whose "attack that the other side says didn't accomplish anything" is gonna be the last one I guess.
  
  Lets hope its a race to see who can do less damage.
  
  It just progresses into them both shooting pistols into the sides of uninhabited mountains lol
  
  Playing "swords" in a public toilet in Iraq
- It means Israel called Iran’s obvious bluff for what it is. Now you’re all scrambling to move the goalposts so this doesn’t count as a “real strike”.
  
  Iranian dogs were barking, screaming that they would destroy Israel at the slightest provocation and now they’re doing absolutely fuck-all. A total and complete embarrassment. Where’s the “swift retaliation”. I was assured that it would “come in seconds” and crickets. Looks like Supreme Leader bit off more than he could chew, not expecting that his empty threats would be revealed for what they are so quickly.
  
  I’ll have fun watching your cope narratives be weaved in real time though.
  
  they're not sending their best, folks
  
  Oh come on I just noticed this loser existed
  
  Account age is 18m as of posting this. Lol. Use your main coward
  
  you are an inhuman animal

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