A reminder that as the US continues to threaten countries around the world, fedposting is to be very much avoided (even with qualifiers like “in Minecraft”) and comments containing it will be removed.

Image is one of many rallies in Iran in support of the government and the leadership.


short summary here, longish summary in spoiler tags below: Western standoff munition stockpiles now substantially depleted, therefore Western aircraft activity directly over Iran increasing (as is footage of attempted and actual hits against them) as the US attempts to transition more to using bombs dropped directly onto targets, Iran is increasingly in the driver’s seat and controlling the conflict, world economy is fucked and yet could still get much worse very soon, if you require a car to live (especially if it’s not electric) and cannot work from home then you have my sincere condolences

longish summary here

While I’ve seen several estimates on the current stockpiles of US and Zionist missiles and interceptors - somewhere in the realm of a third depleted, perhaps even up to half - it seems like we’re reaching the point at which the US does not want to commit even more standoff munitions and is trying their luck against the Iranian air defense network directly.

We have already seen footage of Iran attempting to shoot down, and sometimes actually striking Western fifth generation planes like the F-35, and more footage along those lines is appearing for other plane models (with one side claiming that they evaded interception and the other claiming they hit it, etc etc, propaganda is everywhere, you know the drill). How much the US is willing to test their planes against Iranian air defense is a matter of debate. Strictly speaking, a few fighter jets and bombers shot down would be no catastrophic loss in the grand scheme of things, as the US has hundreds. However, the narrative of such a thing would be quite bad for the US - “You’re telling me an OBLITERATED Iranian military can shoot down some of our most advanced equipment?? What are we gonna do against China?!” - and given Trump’s deranged jingoistic rhetoric aimed to buoy markets, it’s clear that he cares very deeply about narratives. Additionally, with Chinese exports of several critical metals to the US banned, the prospect of replacing these aircraft (and indeed the standoff munitions and the interceptors and the ground radars etc) is looking questionable.

All the while, Iran continues its strikes across the Middle East. Missile and drone strikes are reportedly on the uptick again, demonstrating that Iranian military capabilities have by no means been “destroyed” as Western propaganda claim, though it’s impossible to sure there was ever a significant downtick due to Western censorship and outright fabrications. People around the world are gradually realizing the magnitude of the economic disaster that is occurring and may yet occur. Refineries and factories which deal with oil and gas directly are starting to slow down or stop production, and those who make products downstream of those are starting to follow them like dominoes. Outrage at gas station prices is rising, and many countries are considering limiting civilian driving and implementing work-from-home policies akin to the coronavirus pandemic. And now, threats are being made by Trump against both Kharg Island (where most Iranian oil is shipped from) and the Iranian electrical grid - which is highly decentralized and would require a prolonged bombing campaign to completely take out -and the promised Iranian reprisal would be apocalyptic to the Middle East. It would make oil prices rise to previously unfathomable heights as oil infrastructure turned off and remained off for months, perhaps years, and set in motion one of the world’s greatest humanitarian catastrophes as the desalination necessary for tens of millions of people is shut down. It would also not be a symmetrical problem, as Iran does not rely on desalination for its water supply.


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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine

If you have evidence of Zionist crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA reports on the Zionists’ 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.

Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.

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.


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    Anti-Zionism is not Anti-Semitism

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    In the West, the crimes of the Zionists and Israel are condoned by labeling any critic as an anti-Semite. This approach obscures the following fact: The Zionists promote anti-Semitism to legitimize their crimes.

    Introduction

    The Collective West, which unconditionally supports the war of destruction against Iran, claims that anyone who raises their voice against the Zionists and Israel is an anti-Semite who must be punished. This strategy of the West is not only malicious, but it ultimately leads to precisely what the “anti-Semitism” label purports to want to prevent with all political and, increasingly, legal power: namely, the perception of Israeli policy as a crime of Judaism.

    Anyone who perceives Israel’s policies in this way and is unable to separate the wheat from the chaff is almost inevitably drawn toward anti-Semitic attitudes in the uncritical political debate taking place in the West. This tendency is fueled by the deliberately vague definitions of anti-Semitism, Judaism, and Zionism, as well as the distinctions between them. These definitions, which blur the boundaries of the concepts, form the very basis upon which the West acts with all its might and passes judgment, particularly in Germany.

    And so the circle closes. The Zionists need anti-Semitism so they can portray themselves as its victims and use it to promote and achieve their criminal goals.

    A few thoughts on a topic that is sure to get the blood boiling among Zionists and uneducated fools in the West. Zionism, Israel, Judaism

    Judaism is the sum of the culture, history, religion, and traditions of the Jewish people and has existed for approximately 4,000 years (see also our discussion on this topic in “Judaism, Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and Israel: Misuse of Terms” from October 2023.)

    Zionism is a political movement that has existed in an organized form since the First Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897. This movement has nothing to do with Judaism; rather, it was founded by the Viennese journalist Theodor Herzl, a completely non-religious man. The original goal of this political movement was the establishment or proclamation of the State of Israel, which was achieved in 1948. Today, the goal of Zionism is the creation of Greater Israel, which is intended to dominate most of the Middle East. What will the goal be after that?

    Theodor Herzl made the following statement:

    «The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies.» Theodor Herzl, 1896

    The notion that Jews are under threat is a central element of the Zionist master plan. The Zionists hide behind anti-Semitism and Judaism in order to carry out their crimes. Another goal they pursue is the merging of Zionism and Judaism. The reason is simple: Many people have—rightly so—reservations about criticizing Jews, not only because of the Holocaust, but also because of the countless pogroms that took place in nearly every European country. By merging Zionism and Judaism, the Zionists create an excellent protective shield for themselves.

    As long as Western politicians cannot distinguish between Zionism, Israel, and Greater Israel as Zionist projects on the one hand, and Judaism on the other—and do not seem willing to do so—Judaism is bound to lose, and the Zionist criminals hiding behind it are bound to win.

    Who are the Zionists?

    The US Congress supports Israel as a Zionist project with approximately $5 billion annually. Furthermore, the US provides Israel with every form of political support for war, genocide, land theft, and the complete enslavement of people. In addition to Adelson’s well-known large donation to Trump, hordes of American politicians are being bought off en masse so that they speak and vote in Israel’s interests. In the current 119th U.S. Congress (532 members), only 32 Jews are represented (6%); nevertheless, the U.S. Congress, which consists of 87% Christians, has voted staunchly in favor of Zionism since 1948 (figures: Pew Research).

    To secure a majority in Congress, 50% plus one vote (266+1) is required; thus, at least 235 non-Jews, together with 32 Jews, determine the Zionist policy of the United States, bringing the non-Jewish share of Zionists in the U.S. Congress to a staggering 88%.

    Israel is nothing more than an American outpost through which the US controls the Middle East. In my view, the question of whether Israel controls the US or the US controls and manipulates Israel is irrelevant from a geopolitical perspective. Together, they form a power bloc designed to subjugate one of the richest and most sensitive regions in the world. Distinguishing who dominates whom only becomes relevant when considering how to neutralize this alliance. What do Jews Say about Zionism and Israel?

    In the West, especially in Europe, people are completely unaware that there are many Jews who despise and oppose Zionism and the Israeli project. Non-Jews, on the other hand—such as the German Chancellor—are pursuing a Zionist agenda regardless of the consequences. This goes so far that Friedrich Merz unconditionally and without reservation promotes and supports an Israeli and US attack on Iran, claiming it is necessary.

    His hate-monger Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, who works for the arms industry, supports every war as part of her job, and has no qualms whatsoever about stoking hatred on a Nazi scale, said a few days ago on the public broadcaster ARD:

    “Iran is a plague on this earth” Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, 19 March 2026

    Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann: Form follows function

    People have absolutely no sense or idea that, in terms of communication, we have once again reached the level of Hitler and Goebbels—and ultimately, once again at the expense of the Jews—because many Jews who oppose Zionism are being persecuted anew for something they cannot change: the fact that they are Jewish.

    In the following, I feature two Jewish speakers: a rabbi who assesses the issue from a religious perspective, and an Israeli journalist who touches on a sore spot in Israeli society.

    Rabbi Abraham Silberstein

    Rabbi Abraham Silberstein is a leading Jewish scholar who advocates for animal rights within Judaism and serves as the Executive Director of Voice of Rabbis. He is known for his critical stance on the biblical justification for land claims in the Middle East, based on teachings from the Torah and the Talmud.

    “I want to be clear that violence against anyone is never allowed.But let me explain this further.The Zionist government cannot sustain itself without antisemitism.Zionists need Jewish people to live in constant fear, in order for their existence, as so-called Jewish saviours should look true.Zionists will always use words such as Holocaust and pogroms to describe incidents that don’t even apply to Jewish people, but strictly to this Israeli government.Also, Zionists are working day and night to merge the identity of Judaism and Zionism into one.They need Jews to be responsible for their action, or else they cannot use antisemitism as a shield.They’ll always say it’s about all the Jewish people. Not Israel, to get us to pay.We see this in the streets of Europe, and now also in America. It must be stopped.Zionists are working for their selfish agendas at the expense of Jewish people.” Rabbi Silberstein, 20 March 2026

    Gideon Levy

    Gideon Levy, an Israeli journalist, is a vocal critic of Israeli policy and condemns the widespread belief among Israelis that they are superior to the rest of the world. In the linked speech, he sarcastically criticizes the following points: Israel as the chosen people, Israelis as the great victims—the only victims—and Palestinians as subhuman, since Israelis are superior.

    Conclusion

    Not only does the West give the criminal Zionists carte blanche to commit genocide and wage illegal wars—acts that, under the Nuremberg criteria, would all be punishable by death—but it also finances these malicious deeds at the expense of taxpayers, who are driven into poverty as a result of these wars.

    Anyone who speaks up against this is labeled an anti-Semite and ostracized—by people who don’t even realize that anti-Semitism is the very lifeblood of the Zionists.

    Peter Hanseler is a geopolitical analyst who reports from Moscow. Peter was born in Zurich, Switzerland. He holds a J.D. (lic. iur.) and Ph.D. (Dr. iur.) from Zurich University Law School and Master in International Commercial Law (LL.M.) from Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C. He has lived in the US, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand and Russia. Peter is independent, his work is not supported by government or private entities. Peter’s website Forumgeopolitica.com publishes its content in English, Russian, German and French.