Friendly reminder: when commenting about a news event, especially something that just happened, please provide a source of some kind. While ideally this would be on nitter or archived, any source is preferable to none at all given.
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.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.
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.
The Country of the Week is still Palestine, though we will switch next week to a new country.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly (biweekly?) update is here.
Links and Stuff
The bulletins site is down.
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can.
Resources For Understanding The War
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.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
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
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.
Last week's discussion post.
Israel launches air attack on Syria’s Aleppo airport: Report
- Al Jazeera
Israel does this all the time. I reckon that when Netanyahu stubs his toe he orders Syria's airports to be bombed to make himself feel a little better; the airports get repaired pretty quickly. It's sort of the "Ukrainian forces shell/briefly enter Russian border villages" of this war - sounds vaguely important without actually achieving anything, mostly just a decaying country lashing out a little, trying to rebuild a permanently-demolished sense of deterrence.
In most other instances, one country bombing the airport of another would be grounds to start armed conflict. Why hasn't Syria responded with military force?
Syria as a state is barely standing as it is, they can't afford to retaliate. also there's US military bases in Syria.
Syria is on the verge of being a failed state after over a decade of civil war. There are literally foreign military bases in the country, US bases in particular.
I mostly agree with the other comments but it is worth additionally clarifying that while ISIS is mostly defeated, Syria is still fighting against some forces in the northwest and has to deal with Turkiye's moves as well. Russia has tried to make Assad and Erdogan kiss and make up, and with the normalization of Syria in the Arab League, there is some hope that maybe this could eventually happen, though this new conflict with Israel is probably gonna mix things up there.
Regardless, Syria is still occupied by various forces including US bases that are stealing a large portion of their oil, and while the worst of the fighting is (hopefully) in the rear-view mirror, the country still needs to be fixed. Again, normalization of Syria and China getting involved in the region could help them tremendously towards that. The US is obviously very much NOT in favor of Syrian reconstruction and has been trying to push countries away from Syria, but I think the regional players generally understand that, love him or hate him, Assad won't be removed from power without a large Western invasion, and are just generally tired of the conflict.
An interesting player here is of course Russia, who has helped prop up Assad's government and has several military bases, though I am unsure exactly how involved Russia still is today given that the conflict is mostly over with the defeat of ISIS, and that they're busy with their own war in Ukraine. Putin probably won't like it if the West invades and tries to remove Assad by force given all the effort he's put in to help him, but I'm unsure what he'll do if they try anyway.
All in all, Syria is in a pretty bad state right now even by the standards of 'mysteriously crippled enemies of the US/Israel' like Lebanon and Iran and cannot really divert much to help fight Israel. There's hope that things are looking up in the next few years/decades if they get a chance to rebuild with everybody's help, but obviously this new war now mixes everything up. That all being said, as Syria is a firm member of the Resistance, I can't imagine they'll complain about Iran-backed/aligned militias entering Syria and conducting attacks either on US military bases or on the occupied Golan Heights in their stead.
How many airports can Syria possibly have? I feel like theres an attack on one every day