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Image is of smoke rising after Iranian missiles impact a US military site in Bahrain.


My weekly preamble is in spoiler tags below.

preambleAfter 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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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.


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[-] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 83 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Trump hasn't tweeted in almost 20 hours, they cancelled Trump's (usually) short statement & question time at the WH. I'm very nervous about what this murderous country plans to do. We can probably also expect Israel to join the attacks tonight.

[edit] air refueler activity is below average tho, at least for now.

[-] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

What if Trump just died of natural causes just to fuck with us

[-] demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 day ago

Him croaking while the us rushes into Iran like a headless chicken would be the fun timeline.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 52 points 1 day ago

shit himself to death timmy-pray

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 55 points 1 day ago

It might not be that deep; they've announced "early access" to his "truths" as a paid service to trading firms; there might just be a delay due to that crap.

[-] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't think that scheme is online yet. But it is funny that they are starting to sell his online influence now, when it is starting to go downhill. His last "Iran has called begging for a deal" didn't move the markets at all.

[-] orlando@hexbear.net 40 points 1 day ago

the fuhrer that cried deal

[-] darkcalling@hexbear.net 31 points 1 day ago

That's for high speed trading. By early access they mean like a few minutes at most and more than likely a lead measured in seconds which is enough for trading algos to get an advantage. No way they mean to delay his posts by any significant time-frame because it's just not necessary.

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 44 points 1 day ago

Maybe he's getting his Mitch McConnell onsicko-wistful

[-] WilsonWilson@hexbear.net 43 points 1 day ago

there have been signs that something might be up:

Marmitelover123's post about usa moving air assets to the theater

recent strikes on Iran showing they are moving deeper inside the country

Trump told faux news he wants to wipe out the IRGC

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 31 points 1 day ago

How is that possible? Didn't he say he already wiped out Iran's military before the MoU?confusion

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago

Save file corrupted so now he’s back to square one

[-] Tervell@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

the Iranians got a shipment of the Juche Necromancy Machine during the ceasefire, so they just revived all their guys juche-boi

[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago

Iran used the ceasefire to tech up to the resurrection orb for their necron lord

[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

Fucking juche necrons

[-] Tervell@hexbear.net 44 points 1 day ago

apparently

Yeah the same thing happened after that F-15E went down in Iran. He's probably not happy.

(https://xcancel.com/bonzerbarry/status/2078562595804475564)

so could just be that the Iranians lit a bunch of planes up in a hangar or something

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day ago

He probably forgor and fell asleep

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day ago

Our big wet boy is drying up at record pace

[-] miz@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] OnlyTrueLiberal@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago

Trump hasn't tweeted in almost 20 hours

Time to get those crabs ready

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