Image is of smoke rising after Iranian missiles impact a US military site in Bahrain.
My weekly preamble is in spoiler tags below.
preamble
After a few weeks of both diplomatic and military manuevering - mostly over Iranian control of Hormuz - we have hit the hottest phase of military exchanges since at least the MoU period began. The US has generally focussed on striking southern Iran, although they have also sporadically hit transportation infrastructure elsewhere, which was repaired in less than 24 hours. Meanwhile, Iran has struck a wide range of targets, with an interesting focus on Jordan, but has, up to the time of me writing this, so far relented on striking the Zionist entity. The US and Iran have had little periods of mutual military strikes during the "ceasefire" before, and so it's hard to tell for sure whether this yet another temporary spat or if it represents a full return to the pre-ceasefire conflict.
A complicating factor in this conflict is that Ansarallah has become increasingly active, and seems eager to start to break the siege it has been put under by threatening to attack Saudi Arabia and Saudi-aligned forces. This has put Iran in a somewhat awkward spot. On the one hand, it has greatly helped Ansarallah resist foreign attackers and has even recently sent civilian airplanes into Sana'a to begin to break the siege. On the other hand, Iran has, with China's help, generally desired to improve its relationship with the Saudis over the years. While in this latest war there have been a major dispute between them over whether Iran is "allowed" to strike US military infrastructure located in Saudi Arabia, the Saudis strike me as considerably less anti-Iran as the UAE, let alone the Zionists, and did send a delegation to Khamenei's funeral. I guess we'll just have to see what happens next, but I strongly suspect that Iran is going to help Yemen over the Saudis.
And finally, Lindsay Graham has died of a sudden heart attack a suspiciously short time after visiting Ukraine. He was a true enemy of civilian populations all the way to the end of his life, and he seemed to particularly despise children. He advocated for using nukes against Gaza and the total annihilation of anybody and everybody who had even the meekest criticism of Zionism. If God (and, more pertinently in this case, Satan) does exist, I hope Graham is extended the exact same level of courtesy and respect in the afterlife that Graham extended to all Palestinians.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
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:
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.
the England vs Argentina match has Ended
Evil has Won
First goal by Gordon
2nd and 3rd goal by Argentina Fernández and Lautaro
A stream https://envivo.tvazteca.com/
Many things have been said of this match, for one Malvinas/Falklands drama started like 3 days ago between both countries and Argentina asked to use their dark blue jersey (the one they used when they beat england with the hand of God) also therr will probably be a few fights since the stadium isnt segregated
Here is an article No, the match between Argentina and England is not ‘just a football match’ https://hexbear.net/post/9027084
It will be a fun match for sure
Should I root for the team Bibi likes or the team that just proscribed support for the IRGC
At the end of the day one created Israel and the other didnt so i dont think you can top that one
That's true lol
This is a tough one to figure out who to cheer for lol.
Do I cheer for the team with fans who were openly racist to iShowSpeed? Or the team where the captain played golf with Trump and said he's a nice person?
I think it's simple enough. Which one is a vassal forced into subordination to the empire and which one is the historic heart of the empire and second only to the US as Chief Demonic Nation of the World?
Rooting for Argentina because them beating England would contribute to the anti-colonial dialect.
Milei is irrelevant. A mere passage of years against the timeless eternity within which Las Malvinas son Argentinas.
Then I’m hoping Spain beats Argentina and they wave the Palestinian flag in the heart of the empire.
Despite never seeing a football match nor even knowing the rules of football, I'm rooting against England for the "invents a sport/sucks at it" memes.
OI U GOT A LOICENSE FA THOSE TEARS MATE
They scored again 2-1 oh my god how many of these games has Argentina won past the 80th minute lmao crazy
I think these (pretty good!) goals will be featured in a "little dark age" meme edit about the downfall of the UK soon
All jokes aside though this was an incredibly physical game lol, did you all see how often they shoved poor lil' Messi just down to the ground and the ref didn't even blink
England players apparently are on average 2 inches taller than their Argentinian counterparts and I thought it was very visible, could have easily resulted in more cards for the English right
imagine losing to a squad comprised of no players over 5'6".
Being tall doesn’t really give you much of an advantage in football unless you’re a goalie
It could help with headers but agility matters more
It seemed like height helped England against Mexico, but I have no idea. They couldn't kick it over their heads or push past them.
It’s the era of the short king. 5’6” is the new 6’1”
Argentina’s say a lot of racist things about Guatemalans and Central Americans. Then you have the English and their racist, transphobic, imperialistic behavior. I guess I’ll support Argentina, just because the non-Latin Americans discourse on us has been annoying as hell
Americans trying really hard to find a country more racist than them (it doesnt exist)
You're right, Israel DOESN'T exist.
They need to find somewhere to scapegoat on, so that their "left wing" faction can be the good cop and keep up the myth of America the enlightened cosmopolitan immigrant-cherishers. The default culture for "humanidy" [themselves].
Look, it’s Spain vs. either Argentina or England.
It’s time to accept the logic of lesser-racistism.
The median argentinian is very racist but too stupid to even know where Guatemala even is so idk who you came across
It’s mostly online tbh where they describe us all as short, fat, and ugly. You’re right in that they just describe all of Central America like that and not a singular country, but whenever people use that description they almost always mean us.
Ooh, the median argentinian online is pure Hitlerium
I frequently remember a conversation I had with my friend’s dad when I was like 15 and he said basically out of nowhere “Buenos Aires es la ciudad más europea del mundo.” Me being a dumb kid didn’t actually understand what he was dog whistling.
South Americans are so fucking racist. Los Prisioneros spoke the truth with that one song
Less than 5 minutes in and they are aleady shoving each other
We LOVE it don't we folks
please feel free to start hitting each other! Fair play, not today!
I feel more sorry for the refs than anyone. Everyone keeps yelling at them lol.
Not that I watch a ton of football, but still, this is one of the most violent matches I've ever seen lol. They really don't like each other.
Hopefully gonna become one of those matches that are referred to as "Battle of .... "
Second battle of Atlanta - Neutral side: America
Oh. My. God. Argentina tied it up at the very last second!!! Wow!
Took forever to get that goal. So many attempts. I thought they were doomed.
Pickford playing real well, but something was bound to slip through
That's what I thought with their match against Mexico before when they were in a similar position of being ahead and then went full defense. But Argentina had a lot more promising attempts than Mexico did in that game (iirc...that game feels like a distant memory now).
Holy shit they did it again!!!!
Holy shit
1-1 let’s FUCKING GOOOOOO
1-2
1-2
1-2
It is not coming home.
PROPER
BREXIT
FOOTBALL
ALLAH AKBAR
I thought the same fuckin thing when I saw this lmao England not bringing their best to the stands
actually they are
That was a nice goal. Gordon has been good