Imagine a terrifying world where we are all ruled by monsters of every stripe. And not hot ones like werewolves, but instead decaying zombies and mummies who are both insensitive to, and actively benefit from the immense suffering they cause on a daily basis. The top echelon of society, filled with profit-seeking, bloodsucking vampires. And the worst of it is that they repeat on a daily basis that what they are doing is not only just, but there is no other possible way to do it.
Pretty spooky, right? What if I told you that this world... was our own?
Happy Halloween!
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Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
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Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
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/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/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.
New cuck n chad ranking. RUS vs UKR still gets the first row as I'm a man that respects traditions. The last row is a new addition, mostly covering non-world leaders who have been chads or cucks this week.
Gigachad
Chad
Neutral
Beta (Fe)Male
Virgin Cuck
Lukashenko (Forever chad)
Rybar (has upped the production quality and still has the GOAT maps)
Putin (still chilling doing nothing)
Zelensky (It's so over for the Z-man, even Time Mag are doing hit pieces on him)
Western attention span (crazy how quickly people stopped caring about Ukraine)
Hamas, PIJ and the rest of the boys (keep rocking dudes)
Hezbollah (being annoying in the north is good, but do something pls)
Qatar and Kuwait (American colonies, but still wildly sympathetic to the cause when they could cuck like everyone else)
International law libs (ackshually the rules say that genocide is ok)
IDF losers (colonizer scum)
The people of Gaza (more brave and faithful than any people in the world ever)
Iraqi, Yemeni and Syrian resistance groups (being infinitely more useful than any Arab government)
Erdogan (still the most confusing world leader, but had a nice speech last week)
Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt (reaching levels of cucking for America that I haven't seen before in life)
Europe (the pro-Israel derangement by random Germans and Brits has been insane to see)
Wael Al Dahdouh (bravest journalist in the world, still reporting after Israel killing his entire family)
Hasan, Greta and other left-ish internet personalities that took a strong brave position when others cucked
Piers Morgan (his quest for views and engagement has accidentally platformed great pro-Palestine voices
Faris Al Hammadi (random Emirati sheikh that claimed that boycotting McDonalds and KFC is haram)
Vivek Ramaswamy (being a republican nominee in 2023 is already cucked, but begging for genocide and calling Israel a sacred state when you're literally Hindu sends you to cuck hall of fame)
Its like hes flipping a novelty Two-face Silver dollar from some Batman merch and yet somehow he is still significantly closer to based than your average western Lib.
Does Ramaswamy have any connections to Hindutva? I've seen some Hindutva posters picking up on the war in Gaza as a way to push anti-Muslim propaganda.