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A reminder that as the US continues to threaten countries around the world, fedposting is to be very much avoided (even with qualifiers like "in Minecraft") and comments containing it will be removed.

Image is of Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi (below) and Iranian Speaker of Parliament Ghalibaf (above, right) in the Iranian parliament in 2024. These two figures have played a major role in the war so far.


My summary of the situation as I understand it is in spoiler tags below.

summaryAfter many long weeks, Iran and the US have agreed that they're going to begin negotiations on certain topics in a process lasting at least 60 days. Due to America's perfidy during previous negotiations, trust has broken down so far that Iran demanded $12 billion of their frozen funds and several other promises, such as the end to the naval blockade, to even return to the table, which seems perfectly reasonable to me. Iran also demanded that negotiations take place in two stages, and that nuclear issues will only be discussed in the second stage, which will be several weeks from now if everything goes as planned.

The terms of the MoU have themselves been a big source of confusion and suspicion, for me and many other pro-Iranian spectators. Getting the wording exactly correct is important, because the US really is like the devil - leave room for any possible interpretation in the contract that favors them more, and they'll insist that this was the only interpretation up for discussion. Additionally, the US might be historically bad at winning wars, but they're very, very good at winning peaces: they set up the post-WW2 order to best suit them by playing the European powers off each other; the DPRK might have survived the Korean War politically intact but existed for nearly the next hundred years as a sanctioned pariah; Vietnam was soon forced to economically engage with the country that had dropped triple of all the bomb tonnage of WW2 on them; and so on. It is no exaggeration when I say that the negotiation phase will be the most dangerous part of this war and it could lead to the most death and destruction without a single missile impacting Iran.

However, there's one little genocidal colony in the region that could stop this whole process from even beginning, as the US appears to have promised Iran that the Zionists will stop the war against Lebanon (and perhaps Gaza too? I'm a little unclear) and even withdraw entirely from southern Lebanon, including all bases set up since this broader conflict began. Apparently, the US promised this in return for Iran not striking the Zionists in return for their most recent strike on Beirut on June 14th. Now, the issue with this whole situation is that the US greenlit the Zionist strike on Beirut, and they knew that Iran would respond to it because they did in response to an earlier strike. If the US made such major concessions to Iran in return for this response strike not occurring, then why authorize the Beirut strike at all? Why make their position worse? Right now, I can think of two reasons. First is that they attempted to create one final embarrassment for Iran, under the assumption that Iran was so desperate for a deal that they wouldn't risk responding. Second is that this is all one big ruse or misdirection; the US does not intend to follow through with the MoU and subsequent negotiations anyway, and so the terms they're "agreeing" to don't really matter.

With the MoU signing apparently set for June 19th, we'll know for sure soon.


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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine

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

UNRWA reports on the Zionists' 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.
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.

Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.

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.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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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[-] companero@hexbear.net 99 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

CNN: B-52 bomber crashes shortly after takeoff at California’s Edwards Air Force Base, military says

~~It is not immediately clear if there are any injuries. CNN has reached out to the base for more information.~~

UPDATE: Eight crewmembers are believed to be dead in a B-52 bomber crash shortly after takeoff from a base northeast of Los Angeles Monday morning, Edwards Air Force Base said. officer-down

The crash left a towering black plume at Edwards Air Force Base, located in California’s Mojave Desert, northeast of Los Angeles. The runway at the base was left with a large blackened scar and smoke, but it was difficult to make out any distinct parts of the wreckage, video from CNN affiliate KCAL shows.

Before Monday’s crash, the most recent fatal accident involving the aircraft was in 2008, when six Air Force personnel were killed after their B-52 crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Guam while preparing for a parade flyover.

[-] ziggurter@hexbear.net 12 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Takeoff is the most dangerous part of any flight. Lack of airspeed gives you few options. If something goes wrong you find a place to crash softly, or you die.

Anyway....

hex-crabhex-crab officer-downofficer-downofficer-downofficer-downofficer-downofficer-downofficer-downofficer-down hex-crabhex-crab

[-] WilsonWilson@hexbear.net 33 points 19 hours ago

Nothing left of it

[-] DasRav@hexbear.net 44 points 21 hours ago

May many such incidents follow.

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 72 points 23 hours ago

even if everyone on board died ( waow-based ) this crash still definitely saved lives because it's one less airframe available for the machine

[-] dkr567@hexbear.net 41 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Absolutely, B-52s at this point is responsible for millions of civilian deaths from its inception in the 50s to current day

[-] greenmonster@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 23 hours ago

Unfortuantly the western liberal media is just gonna play this up to justify more expendatures.

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 52 points 23 hours ago

sure, but expenditures don't magically turn into new airframes. the B-52 is still operationally relevant and doesn't have a replacement - the US has been gradually retrofitting old ones since they stopped building new ones in the 60s. they only have 50-75 or so in service and one just blew up.

[-] red_giant@hexbear.net 49 points 22 hours ago

The imperium of man survives on relics of technology it no longer understands, inherited from the dark age of technology

[-] P1d40n3@hexbear.net 35 points 21 hours ago

It's not an aircraft carrier, but I consider this good tribute to the irgc

[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 76 points 23 hours ago

It is not immediately clear if there are any injuries

it was difficult to make out any distinct parts of the wreckage

ok

[-] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 47 points 22 hours ago

Piles of ash cannot have injuries theory-gary

[-] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 22 points 22 hours ago

B52 has ejection seats, so the crew may or may not have been in the plane as it hit the ground.

[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 14 points 20 hours ago

two of them go out the bottom of the plane and it looks like they crashed during take-off so at best 4 out of 6 would have made it

[-] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 36 points 21 hours ago

Did they extract the air filters in time?

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 35 points 22 hours ago
[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 44 points 23 hours ago

Maybe their toilet got clogged

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 33 points 23 hours ago

Even more dangerous than normal is a flying laundry fire.

[-] greenmonster@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 23 hours ago

The USA is ran by fascist who work for the capitalist. They are unpopular and willing to false flag in order to build up the already bloated military budget. The rift between israel and the USA is just for show. Netinyahoo isn't really in charge. People need to remember the capitalist are in charge. Fascist are the useful idiots of empire. Remember the past to predict the future and see through the lies

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 40 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

another drone into the turbojet award sicko-wistful

another pilot realizing the horror of their ways award sicko-wistful

another bird-adventurist award sicko-wistful

another mechanic forgetting wrench in the intake award sicko-wistful

another ghost of la award sicko-wistful

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