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Image is of a Hezbollah missile attack on a military camp west of Jenin.


The situation between Hezbollah and Israel is rapidly escalating, with massive bombing campaigns on southern Lebanon by Israel predominantly on civilians (as the tunnels in South Lebanon are mostly unreachable to the Zionists, just like in Gaza), while Hezbollah and its allies respond with missile attacks predominantly on Israeli military facilities. Israel is spreading an evacuation order to the residents of southern Lebanese villages while also bombing their routes of escape and civilian infrastructure, similar to a terror tactic used widely in Gaza.

Northern Israel is currently under military censorship to hide their losses, so we get very little information other than what the Resistance provides and what videos and images get through the censors.

I don't know if Israel will dare a ground incursion soon, but it seems fairly likely in the coming days or weeks.


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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.
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https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

what does DOD do when the well runs dry?

seems pretty obvious they'd expand stores and production? this question is only relevant to the first months of a complete surprise expansion of war, which seems unlikely given the US is the one who starts shit. US allies also have fuel stores and production in the relevant theaters.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

we can just see what the DOD itself is thinking:

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"enhanced energy command and control" take over their allies' and weak third world supplies. not sustainable forever but it outlines a viable stopgap to prevent the machine running on empty after a couple months

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Those lines in the last screenshot about most hydrogen production being based in Europe caught my eye. Bulk hydrogen production comes from a process called methane steam reforming. Take high temperature steam, crack methane (CH₄) with it, capture the H's that are released and vent the leftover C's and O's to the atmosphere, usually forming CO₂ along the way. Hydrogen is only clean at the point of use. It's an ecological disaster at the point of production.

And that's not even getting into H₂ being leaky because it's the smallest molecule in the universe, and the way hydrogen eats away at its containers due to a process called hydrogen embrittlement requiring frequent replacements of tanks and piping. That's the big reason that hydrogen-fueled rockets have a limited number of times that they can be fueled and un-fueled, or "de-tanked", in case of launch scrubs.

Of course the problem post-Nordstream-2-bombing is that Europe is uh... having some issues sourcing methane. If the US decided to tell European NATO partners to decide between supplying US warships and staving off local revolution by their own citizens who are pissed off because they're freezing their asses off in winter due to lack of natural gas, things get politically interesting.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

seems pretty obvious they'd expand stores and production?

Well, the US might pay for expanding stores and production, but we all know that the extra cash would somehow just make its way into various corporations bank accounts with no measurable improvement in capabilities.