Image is Israeli interceptors trying and failing to intercept missiles over their cities.
Israel just carried out a widespread bombing of Iran, which has killed a number of senior officials inside Iran (though it seems the leadership is more-or-less intact) as well as a number of civilians. Important facilities have been targeted, but the amount of damage is unknown so far (note that many important Iranian facilities are deep underground, making them both hard to damage but also hard to determine if they are damaged from just satellite imagery, so reports of damage will be he-said-she-said).
It appears the attack took Iran by surprise, given that a residential block was targeted that contained some senior officials - if one saw an attack coming, one would imagine they’d be in bunkers. Nonetheless, like the rest of the Resistance Axis, I suspect that Iran has adapted their military structures to be resistant to decapitation strikes by ensuring that replacement figures are ready to take the place of killed officials.
Iran has delivered a massive missile barrage in response to Israeli aggression, even though Israel is continuing to bomb Iran. Iran is now aware of the location of many important Israeli sites, including secret nuclear sites, due to their recent intelligence haul, giving them a distinct edge.
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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.
All 28 USAF Refueling tankers that left mainland US have moved to Ramstein AFB, Germany.
It should be pointed out; with each new sortee western jets and pilots are experiencing cumulative degradation and burnout, every Iranian drone shot down requires missiles, jet fuel, a maintenance cycle and pilot focus and energy to accomplish, radars are distracted and specialists go without sleep
Each Iranian missile that gets thru degrades morale and pushes cumulative maintenance requests to the back of the queue
Israeli and western intelligence agencies are burning through assets, informants, and year long plans on an multi hour basis
Meanwhile Iran just has to keep lobbing missiles and drones while the more extensive operations are conducted on well trodden home soil
Treat for the weapons sickos: video of Iranian ballistic missiles/stage separation taken by someone in flight/at altitude
https://x.com/FaytuksNetwork/status/1934492643662193088
https://xcancel.com/FaytuksNetwork/status/1934492643662193088
Look if im like an elite person i would never trust someone a bodyguard from a “praetorian” firm
Considering the scale of the Iranian counterattack and its clockwork operation, I think Mercouris is right; most of the facilities Israel hit Friday were most likely decoys, following a Iranian strategy that was developed in the Iran-Iraq war
Wapo investigating a cyberattack which resulted in the breach of the emails of a number of journalists, including some working on the security and economics beats.
So how fucked is Iran if the US joins? I assume they’ll start off with just Intelligence support, the flying fuel tankers, things like that. But the US is capable of dropping a lot of bombs. China seems content to just sit and watch the US continually take out all their allies before they get to them, so doubt they will help. Russia is still preoccupied with Ukraine. And without Iran, Gaza is doomed (not that they did much to help during the genocide, but at least the state not turning into Syria helped out other actors who did do something, like Yemen).
I’m so sad by this constant war, but this constant destruction by these fascist entities in Israel and the West. They won’t let anyone just live. Everyone must bow or die. I’ll probably have to switch off this particular news for a bit for my own mental health, but I’m afraid I’ll miss some cool victory by Iran, too.
If we assume that wars are ultimately won by the side with the greatest industrial capacity, how is the Iran-zionist war going?
The illegal zionist entity is a fascist militarised society and enjoy western backing. Arms exports made up a large part of their economy, at least pre-war. I would imagine they would have a non-neglible military-industrial complex. Western support also means that the industrial capabilities of the west are also, at least to some extent, part of the zionist war effort.
I don’t know much about the Iranian economy or Iranian manufacturing but they have suffered under western economic warfare for decades. They have managed to be very innovative in drone and missile tech and have built large stockpiles which indicates serious capacity.
Are there any good comparisons of the economic sides of this war?
So the squirrel is doomer posting about Iran
– they are going to destroy the Iranian state, nation and people. Khamenei and others in the political leadership are going to be killed soon. Iran has failed to establish deterrence
Can someone more knowledgeable than me weigh in here?
The moment of impact when Haifa powerplant was hit last night
EDITED, accidentally posted photo instead of video.
Some Tel Aviv images now it’s morning
So I was watching Hasan’s coverage of the US military parade and when the WW2 soldiers marched they played the Band of Brothers intro theme lmfao, wtf?
Also a lot of people are giving this parade shit because it looks boring (it was really boring) and because the soldiers marched as if they were walking. At least in WW2, US soldiers of that time didn’t do goose step marches, they just walked with some coordination. So it kinda had some historical accuracy… if that counts for anything
28 mid air refueling aircraft in the air now, possibly more taking off, all with transponders on. Big public signal towards Iran. They’re flying too high to be dragging other aircraft with them, so it’s just the mid air refuelers on their way to the Middle East most likely.
Does the Iranian navy, particularly the submarines, have any role to play in this war outside of mining?
is it even remotely possible they could threaten the B2s with drones or cruise missiles on diego garcia? Will the Millenium Challenge copers finally be vindicated when suicide speedboats sink the Nimitz?
