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After 15 months of genocide - and resistance to it - the Israeli regime realized that they could not win a military victory against Hamas, and were forced to sign a humiliating ceasefire in order to get their hostages returned.
With much of Syria under the control of Al-Qaeda, and an increasing level of covert infiltration into Lebanon, the crisis in the Middle East is not over, and we may still be in its beginning stages, as the center of hegemony continues its gradual shift away from the United States. Their navy, once considered the best in the world, is likely also not very happy about their ships and aircraft carriers being forced to retreat by Yemen, one of the poorest countries; and all eyes are on Iran, who has, over the last year and a half, demonstrated a newfound confidence and strength to directly strike Israel.
The recovery for Gaza will take, at a minimum, decades; it could indeed never fully recovery to even how it was before, considering it is not in Israel's interests to see their concentration camps recover. But Hamas has proven to be steadfast and the tunnel network has proven its resilience, despite facing some of the most powerful conventional bombing in history. This shows that Palestine's liberation is a when, not an if; and hopefully a much sooner "when" than expected before October 7th.
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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 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.
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.
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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Russian Elon dickriders trying to explain why the Nazi salute was a good thing, actually 
Musk now has a badge to enter the White House complex and is likely to get a West Wing office. Previously, he had been expected to be in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
Guess he got a promotion after that salute 
Note that the trump v1 staffers that lasted the longest were the ones who had stairs between their office and trump
Okay but that was the most pathetic nazi salute I have ever seen dude has negative charisma lmfao
I hope the USSR is revived and this time they do launch the Topol M ICBMs.
Yes, it was high energy but still very cringe. Amazing how this guy is so wealthy and also such a loser at the same time.
Remember tho, we must give subsidies to Tesla and buy their cars to save the world!
Damn I'm so glad I had left the US 4 year ago, at the very last moment sort of. It's not even a Trump thing, it's just generally the mass psychosis thing
Dollar hegemony means the country can be successful without being connected in any capacity to reality. The population is dumb, uneducated, and insane, but Americans just import everything so they don’t actually need to be economically productive.
Let the treat economy continue.
Musk does a nazi salute https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1881433923433169381?mx=2
It is commom to chuds to do a plausible deniability nazi salute like Bannon some hours/day ago and that bimbo fox news lady some years ago. But Musk cant as he is stupid and could not mask well.
I am once again saying that this is the afrikaner version of the nazi salute not him doing it with plausible deniability.
I think it's a stretch, the reactions were making it seem like he stiffened his whole body and did the arm raise thing, or just sieg heileid as a troll, but this literally just looks like him waving his arm very fast and hard to try to look aggressive and cool while saying goodbye
Unless I'm misremembering how nazis salutes look
jfc this is one of the first things I haven't seen him half-ass
I don't even know what the media will call it this time to say it's not a Nazi salute
Sometimes his arm just does that 
I heard “odd looking salute”
Chest to out there. Shit left no doubt. Guy is an absolute clown
In moments like these, I wonder how Ulysses is feeling.
Damn poor guy
Elon did a full Sieg Heil on live TV, not just the vague arm gesture, but a full on salute. And then he turned around and did another to the audience on the other side.
Hey America, how's it goin?
Musk does nazi salute, twice
It seems that Michele Bolsonaro (his wife) and one of his sons were unable to attend Trump's inauguration. They weren't invited and hadn't bought tickets to attend. They paid to meet Steve Bannon at a Heritage Foundation dinner. Now it seems she's been posting random photos of herself around Washington D.C.
Hey would ya look at that, Tik Tok is back and it's tamping down on pro-palestine content like the rest of the American social media companies are.
This is from November 2024 but tiktok hires Israeli intelligence freaks in their operations (https://www.mintpressnews.com/288710-tiktok-isnt-anti-israel-its-hired-unit-8200-agents-to-run-its-affairs/288710/) so it's been kind of funny reading some recent stuff on the whole ban attempt.
is this your screenshot? you seriously can't even post "free palestine" fr fr? fucking hell