Bulletins and News Discussion from August 19th to August 25th, 2024 - Our Mountains, Our Treasures - Child of the Week: Hassan LargePenis
Image is a snapshot taken from the recent Hezbollah video "Our Mountains, Our Treasures", showcasing their extensive underground fortifications, supply lines, and weaponry.
iran can't keep doing this to me, they've gotta respond soon, right? I'm gonna run out of analysis about countries soon, oh god
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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.
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.
I've listened to AOC's small fragment at the DNC where she (lied) spoke how "Kamala is working tirelessly to secure a ceasefire in Gaza and bring the hostages home" (the last bit is a zionist talking point lmao). I paid attention to her theatrics, how she physically delivers her speech to a genocide-friendly crowd. And it couldn't get more politician than that. Go on, watch it on mute and you will see, it's quite disgusting. She delivers that speech while presenting it as some sort of "great achievement" as if Biden secured medicare for all or whatever. She's doing theatrics while defending a genocidal regime that is NOT GOING TO STOP FUNDING ANOTHER GENOCIDAL REGIME. Theatrics for the cameras, for the flashes, for the future archive.
It's disgusting. Fucking social imperialists dig really deep into me.
Nice. I transcribed the whole video, since the tweet just did an excerpt:
It has been unconscionable for me, in the last ten months, to witness my colleagues
in this administration refusing to recognize the genocidal war that is taking place
in Gaza. To not see the mothers who have lost countless children; the babies whose
dead bodies are being dumped out. To not understand that working tirelessly for a
ceasefire is really not a thing, and they should be ashamed of themselves for saying
such [things].
This AOC speech though after two of her caucus members just got taken out by AIPAC is just....so fucking yucky. Ugghhh I just hope she fades into irrelevence