Image is of one of the six salvos of the Oreshnik missile striking Ukraine.
The Oreshnik is an intermediate-range ballistic missile that appears to split into six groups of six submunitions as it strikes its target, giving it the appearance of a hazel flower. It can travel at ten times the speed of sound, and cannot be intercepted by any known Western air defense system, and thus Russia can strike and conventionally destroy any target anywhere in Europe within 20 minutes. Two weeks ago, Russia used the Oreshnik to strike the Yuzhmash factory in Ukraine, particularly its underground facilities, in which ballistic missiles are produced.
Despite the destruction caused by the missile, and its demonstration of Russian missile supremacy over the imperial core, various warmongering Western countries have advocated for further reprisals against Russia, with Ukraine authorized by the US to continue strikes. Additionally, the recent upsurge of the fighting in Syria is no doubt connected to trying to stretch Russia thin, as well as attempting to isolate Hezbollah and Palestine from Iran; how successful this will have ended up being will depend on the outcome of the Russia and Syrian counteroffensive. Looking at recent military history, it will take many months for the Russians and Syrians to retake a city that was lost in about 48 hours.
Even in the worst case scenario for Hezbollah, it's notable that Ansarallah has had major success despite being physically cut off from the rest of the Resistance and under a blockade, and it has defeated the US Navy in its attempts to open up the strait. Israel has confirmed now that their army cannot even make significant territorial gains versus a post-Nasrallah, post-pager terrorist attack Hezbollah holding back its missile strike capabilities. In 2006, it also could not defeat a much less well-armed Hezbollah and was forced to retreat from Lebanon.
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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.
Russia has soundly won in Ukraine, so there's one glimmer of hope still but man the Axis of Resistance was dismantled ruthlessly and Iran just sat back and let it happen
What are you talking about. Maybe they have lost lots of men and equipment but they are not "dismantled." Resistance movements are by definition less powerful than the oppressors and they always loose more men and equipment. The resistance will always look like it is about to lose... until they win. You can't kill the resistance without killing all the oppressed people.
Yemen is still launching missiles. Hezbollah might be taking a breather but they aren't out of the fight. Iraq sending troops to Syria is an act in support of the Axis of Resistance in Syria. We haven't heard much from Iran but Iran has always been more quiet about it's role and taken more time between its overt actions.
The attack in Syria is an attempt to wear down the resistance militarily but it will solidify the bonds the resistance have to each other. In the long run it will make the resistance stronger. HTS is no match for the combined might of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Hezbollah and Russia. It will take some time and it will be messy but when it is over Russia may even commit itself to the Axis of Resistance.
I hope so, and I previously shared your optimism but it's been brutal watching Hezbollah, Hamas and now Assad being picked apart and destroyed one-by-one while none of the others intervene. Iran needs to declare formal war and move regular troops into Syria before Assad falls or it's over. If Damascus falls it will literally be decades of barbarism in the middle east before we even return to the status quo of now.
It seems Iran was so cautious to avoid war they lost it before it even began. I hope the ghost of Soleimani is haunting Pez's cowardly ass as we speak
The Resistance is not dismantled, and I would hesitate to even call it substantially damaged (compared to say, three months ago). Hezbollah still has plenty of escalation left to do with its missile stockpiles; things were worse in 2006 and yet they still won. Hamas is still operational, and Assad isn't (yet) defeated.
We are getting to the point in the conflict now where it's a contest of basic state survival between Israel and Iran. Israel is doing absolutely everything it can to survive, using every trick it has, calling in every favor from every terrorist group in the region, and Iran will have to join in and fight dirty too and they will possibly win. Or they won't meet the challenge, and therefore may well lose.
We all knew that as Israel got closer to defeat, they would bring down as many countries with it as possible. The rules would be increasingly thrown out. We are now in that phase. The Resistance must rise to the occasion or Israel risks limping out to survive a little while longer. It all now depends on how much Iran is truly willing to risk for their allies, and how much the Palestinian and anti-Israel cause genuinely means for them.