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
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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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Some shitty NAFO website is claiming that Russell Bentley was killed: https://russiavsworld.org/russell-bentley-texan-pro-putin-fighter-and-russian-propagandist-found-decapitated-in-russian-controlled-donetsk/
Redditors are rejoicing because they're all bloodthirsty nazis, of course.
you can tell this war is going well for them because they're celebrating a random youtuber's potential death
Not just his death, his unlawful execution and beheading apparently
I am on his telegram and I can’t quite figure out what’s going on with him. Looks like he was abducted by a Russian tank brigade and there’s tons of appeals from DPR people trying to get him released unharmed, but they are panicked and saying things like “perhaps it’s already too late”.
Is this some kind of Russia-DPR feud? He was abducted from Donetsk city in broad daylight. What the fuck is happening?
I, Lyudmila Nikolaevna Bentley, have received reliable and confirmed information about the circumstances of the “disappearance” of my husband, Russell Bonner Bentley, call sign “Texas”.
Invoking the right of a journalist not to disclose the source of information (based on Article 41 of the Russian Federation Law on mass media), I cannot name my source. But the information is ironclad and does not raise any doubts.
My husband was taken and continues to be illegally detained by the tankers of the 5th Brigade (of the RF Armed Forces). Russell was brutally detained on April 8, 2024, between approximately 16:20 and 17:00 hours, in the Avtobaza area of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
I CALL ON EVERYONE to do EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to save my husband, our “Texas”, starting with appeals to the Office of the Head of the DPR, to the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, to the leadership of the Ministry of Defence and the General Staff, to the top officials to the Investigative Committee, the FSB, the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
I ask all Russell’s friends, all caring people to do everything to save my husband, a friend of Donbass and Russia.
Perhaps, there is not much time.
But then the article above says he was detained by Ukrainian special forces. Not sure what is going on
well what the hell, I'm inclined to believe his wife as Russell Bentley was seemingly a very dedicated supporter of Donetsk
Maybe it’s a rogue Russian unit of rightwing nationalists who want to punish Bentley for being an outspoken communist? Perhaps Bentley was actually a spy of some kind and was filming for Ukraine? Perhaps his wife is just grieving and not making sound decisions or reliable info? Perhaps the abductors are forcing his wife to say certain things to the public?
The video of his wife saying these things appears to be legit, so it’s not just that some abductor hijacked his telegram.
I’m thinking the report that he was beheaded was misinformation because that allegedly happened days ago and there’s been no update on his telegram or from other DPR accounts
When you put it that way the NAFO rag making shit up makes the most sense, I think
Sputnik is now reporting that he died, his wife confirmed it and she posted a picture at the ministry of investigation or whatever.
The most normal sane explanation is that he died to Ukrainian special forces and that his grieving widow received some bad info and repeated it. Or they contacted her and made her say that, threatening to kill Texas. Still seems fishy.
The less normal explanations are that it was indeed Russian army members that did this, and there’s some type of investigation ongoing
I suppose if you're ukrop special ops you would be wearing russian uniforms and probably selected for your ability to sound like a native russian speaker
I wish I archived all his videos before they were taken down from Youtube
I will always remember his video from the start of the war where he gave some rootin’ tootin’ pep talk and slapped a tank with a Z on it and talked about how he was going west to liberate Ukraine, and if they are lucky they will make it all the way to the US.
Reddit libs freaked out about it and made it go viral.
The man was a legend
Yes he was well known enough in Donetsk that I doubt this was an accident or the coincidence. I think he was specifically targeted.
This is seriously fucking me up that Russian armored brigades can just go rogue and abduct and kill Donbas citizens. If Russia doesn’t release a formal investigation on this I will have lost a LOT of faith in the professionalism of the Russian armed forces. He was missing for 10 days, DPR officials were probably attempting to get him released the whole time. What the fuck is going on with your chain of command Russia? This is prigozhin tier embarrassment
I think it's still entirely plausible that this was some kind of ukraine thing and his wife was mislead, we just don't have enough information yet
He was certainly a character. A man who walked the talk and now sadly another martyr
He seems like a dude who really rocked.
He was an ornery bastard that wasn't afraid to call bullshit out for what it is. A fella you'd love or love to hate. Another good life lost to this damn war.