Friendly reminder: when commenting about a news event, especially something that just happened, please provide a source of some kind. While ideally this would be on nitter or archived, any source is preferable to none at all given.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish 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 (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is still Palestine, though we will switch next week to a new country.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly (biweekly?) update is here.
Links and Stuff
The bulletins site is down.
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can.
Resources For Understanding The War
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/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
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.
Last week's discussion post.
Israel doing for China what China was too chicken-shit to do
It's a good thing, no? China can now recognize that they've pretty comprehensively burned the bridge with Israel without having actually done anything
People are still confused by China's FP? It's basically "if you're not China, our relationship is purely transactional."
It's not confusing, but people would like to see something a little more... Soviet in nature, I think. I don't see it as particularly realistic though
You'd think so but then you look at what the US has been doing to China over the last 6 years and that "burned bridge" turns out to be... meetings between Xi and US politicians in the middle of multiple wars supported by the US including against or involving direct Chinese partners.
Nah previous comment was right the current CPC leadership deserves to eat shit over their recent FP moves. Absolute worthless and embarassing period.
I disagree. There is absolutely nothing wrong with talking. If that talking leads to concessions, then you have a problem.
I don't disagree with that in principle, but "talking" in 2018 is vastly different than talking in 2023 and 6 years of escalation, sanctions and provocations. Stand for nothing and are always on the receiving end, there should be no surprise people start questioning your morals let alone your competence imo.
They went for the last 6 months leaving the U.S. on-read, which is incredibly unprecedented for your biggest trading partner. Them re-opening dialogue on their own terms is fine as long as it doesn't lead to them making concessions that they do not need to make to the foreign aggressor.
Saying they 'stand for nothing' is some idealist horseshit. They represent the continued and rising prosperity of over a billion people, if you think that is nothing you have completely lost the thread here.
Sanctions are politically ineffectual and do not affect war efforts. All it does is punish the civilian population. We know this and say this whenever the U.S. does it to other countries, and yet somehow we expect it to be different when China is the one supposed to be sanctioning others.
To be fair US sanctions are specifically designed to target civilians, because of the goofy state department theory about how color revolutions start
I don't think it's out of line to expect the world's largest socialist country to cease military and technical collaboration with hostile capitalist states, especially genocidal ones, it's not gonna collapse Israel, but goddamn don't make it easy for them