https://old.reddit.com/r/sandiego/comments/1lbldh4/no_arrests_no_incidents/ blatantly astroturfed copanganda, fucking libs every fucking time
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Image is Israeli interceptors trying and failing to intercept missiles over their cities.
Israel just carried out a widespread bombing of Iran, which has killed a number of senior officials inside Iran (though it seems the leadership is more-or-less intact) as well as a number of civilians. Important facilities have been targeted, but the amount of damage is unknown so far (note that many important Iranian facilities are deep underground, making them both hard to damage but also hard to determine if they are damaged from just satellite imagery, so reports of damage will be he-said-she-said).
It appears the attack took Iran by surprise, given that a residential block was targeted that contained some senior officials - if one saw an attack coming, one would imagine they'd be in bunkers. Nonetheless, like the rest of the Resistance Axis, I suspect that Iran has adapted their military structures to be resistant to decapitation strikes by ensuring that replacement figures are ready to take the place of killed officials.
Iran has delivered a massive missile barrage in response to Israeli aggression, even though Israel is continuing to bomb Iran. Iran is now aware of the location of many important Israeli sites, including secret nuclear sites, due to their recent intelligence haul, giving them a distinct edge.
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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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What happened to the censorship? Is Israel trying to bait American by playing up the attack (letting the truth be exposed) or am I going tinfoil hat
The most recent missile barrage supposedly came alongside a large cyber attack, which may have also impacted censorship efforts
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/14/israel-iran-war-us-nuclear-program-trump
Israel has asked the US to join their war. Makes sense for them to act like a smol bean now.
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As others have stated they need American assistance now. I believe the reality has set in that they've bit off more than they can chew as demonstrated by their attempt to communicate with the Iranians through a third party which got rebuffed. I suppose now the plan is to garner as much western sympathy as possible in order to draw in the Americans and maybe the Europeans into putting boots on the ground or to at the minimum create enough international pushback towards Iran so that they deescalate.
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OK missile nerds, lots of people are IDing missiles that go really fast when they impact as hypersonics, is this correct? From what I understand, the impact speed should be the higher for the modern generation MRBMs; Natopedia says that Haj Qasem goes at Mach 11 while people talk about hypersonics in the 3-5 Mach range. Isn't the main draw of hypersonics the trajectory rather than raw speed? I know that a missile hitting at mach 50 looks super cool, but is that actually whats happening?
Not much of a war nerd but from my basic understanding the term hypersonic isn't referring to a class of weapons that can go hypersonic speeds but rather those that have a high degree of maneuverability at such speeds. Common missile technology in the modern era should always have result in hypersonic speeds in the terminal phase as at that point the problem is reaching the target fast enough to avoid any terminal phase antimissile defense systems. Insofar no "real" hypersonics have been used as the general trajectory of these missiles should not be in the classical arc pattern we've been seeing in the videos. Instead they would be blitzing over almost horizontally towards the target while moving vertically to avoid any defensive weapons.
Pretty sure the resident missile nerd has corrected the record that none of these are technically hypersonics. Not the nerd though so grain of salt
Discussion here https://hexbear.net/post/5200244/6241697
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I apologize; I was the one who doubted Iran. Mercury was indeed in retrograde at the time. I will not make this mistake again.
I really believed they were infected by liberal brainworms.
they are not
If you had been following AnthonyofBoston you would know that Mars determines when Israel is gonna get slammed.
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non ogs don't remember the first weeks of october 2023 when the servers stopped working after 3000 comments
I was there when russia ukraine popped off 
Me too. The event that birthed the newsmega itself. It's honestly kinda sobering to think of how much I've learned about geopolitics and the world in general from this weekly thread and the people who contribute to it.
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