Image is of the aftermath of an Israeli bombing of Beirut in 2006.
We are now almost one year into the war and genocide in Gaza. Despite profound hardship, the Gazan Resistance continues its battles against the enemy, entirely undeterred. Despite Israeli proclamations throughout 2024 that they have cleared out Hamas from various places throughout Gaza, we still see regular attacks and ambushes against Zionist forces. Just today (Monday), Al Qassam fighters ambushed and destroyed another convoy of Israeli vehicles. The predictions early on in the war were that Israel would defeat Hamas in mere months, needing only until December, then January, and so on. This has proven very much untrue. Israel is stuck in the mud; unable to destroy their enemy due to their lack of knowledge about the “Gaza Metro” and, of course, a lack of actual fighting skill, given how many times I’ve seen Zionists getting shot while they gaze wistfully out of windows.
The same quagmire will occur in Lebanon, only considerably worse. Both Nasrallah and Sinwar possess a similar strategy of luring Zionist forces onto known, friendly territory, replete with traps and ambushes, to bleed them dry of equipment, manpower, and the will to continue fighting. The scale of the invasion could fall anywhere on the spectrum from “very limited” - more of a series of raids on Hezbollah positions than truly trying to occupy land - to a total invasion which would seek to permanently take control of Southern Lebanon. Neither is likely to destroy, or even substantially diminish Hezbollah’s fighting abilities. This is not wishful thinking: Hezbollah has convincingly defeated Israel twice before in its history, pushing them from their territory, and both times Hezbollah had almost no missiles and a limited supply of other equipment, relying on improvisation as often as not. The Hezbollah of 2024 is an entirely different organization to that of the early 2000s.
Attempts to drive wedges between Hezbollah and the rest of Lebanon are also unlikely to succeed. Hezbollah is not just a military force, it is extremely interlinked into various communities throughout Lebanon, drawing upon those communities to recruit soldiers. Throughout its history, it has provided education, healthcare, reconstruction, and dozens of other services one would attribute to a state. Amal Saad’s recent suggestion of using “quasi-state actor” as a more respectful replacement for the typical “non-state actor” seems advisable. And the decentralized command structures, compartmented leadership, strong succession planning, and aforementioned community ties almost entirely neutralizes the effectiveness of assassinations. Hezbollah’s Deputy Secretary General Naim Qassem has confirmed that Hezbollah’s path has been set by Nasrallah, and his martyrdom will not stop nor even pause their efforts. Additionally, he confirmed that despite the recent attacks by Israel which nominally focussed on destroying missile depots, Hezbollah’s supply of weapons has not been degraded, and they are still only using the minimum of their capabilities.
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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.
Very early and unconfirmed reports but there is a situation developing in Hmeimim Airbase, Syria, which is operated by Russia. Apparently the ammo depot in the base is gone. No more concrete details are known as of right now.
https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_/status/1841659953230008742
We’ll wait and see. Original poster quickly puts the blame on either Ukraine or “Israel”, could be an accident too.
Syrian air defenses have engaged over 50 targets? That is a very serious development. Those defenses are the only thing that stops Syria from being bombed in the way Lebanon is being bombed now.
Syria is regularly bombed in the way Lebanon is bombed. There are frequent reports of Israeli jets dropping bombs on their runways. Literally multiple times a week for months and months and months. Israel is a fuck.
Netanyahu did not appreciate being left on read by Putin
this does also seem like the easiest way to further piss off Russia and accelerate military equipment entering Iran, but I’m not sure if Israel is thinking terribly far ahead right now considering the strain they’re under to just not implode under the growing weight of contradictions and military strikes
Oh wow a crossover war
It’s Israel’s play to get American Evangelicals to demand the US military puts boots on the ground there. Goad Russia into declaring war on Israel. The evangelicals will think we are seeing Gog and Magog fight - Armageddon! Absolutely brilliant 4D chess on the part of Israel.
(Please don’t think I actually believe this)
This is just a replay of 2015 when the US tried to sink Russia’s economy by dragging Russia into fighting two fronts at the same time: Ukraine and Syria. It’s exactly the same playbook.
If this is indeed an attack, then all cards are on the table. Including “Israel”, Ukraine (after pulling some logistical miracle) and even the Idlib rebels. To which I ask, what is the current situation between the Syrian Govt. and Russia with the Idlib rebels? Are they on a truce? Because they’re not far from Latakia and Hmeimim, and I even recall they managed to strike the base many years ago which forced the Russians to reinforce it with systems like Pantsir.
I don’t want to jump into conclusions with so little information available, not a lot of people seem to be reporting on this too.
Where would Ukraine even be operating from here? This seems like the Israelis.
The Israelis attacking a Russian airbase seems nuts to me, because Russia probably has more ability to infiltrate the Israeli state (and has likely already done so) than any other global super power, simply by nature of so many Russian Jews having immigrated there.
This is not ukraine. This is israel. They struck the russian base. Depending on how many people were killed we will see something happening.
I’m seeing some other twitter reports that they struck Jableh, nearby the base, or that they might have hit a Syrian weapons depot. Probably going to take a few hours at least for us to hear what was hit. I agree that Israel is the much more likely culprit, though.
my money is on HTS or FSA trained and armed out of Al Tanf by Americans / CIA / ISIS
what makes you so certain UKR can’t be involved?
50+ drones is a lot of drones for Ukraine to somehow get into Syria
It’s more likely Hayat Tahrir al-Sham or FSA being supplied by US and Israel from Al Tanf base
There was an article shared in one of the last two megas that mentioned Ukrainian spec ops in Syria. I’ll ping if I find it.
I mean, looking at the map, the area that makes the most sense from within Syria is one of the Turkish controlled areas. Maybe they are with the SDF or down with the Americans near Jordan, but Idlib would be make the most sense. Man, that watermelon seller must have lost his fucking mind if he’s letting Ukrainians attack Russia from Idlib.
Why not? Turkey has always been extremely mercenary. All he has to do is claim ignorance and blame it on the perfidious Anglo pulling a fast one.
That being said, they could have entered the region from literally any western airbase and then moved along the ground for all we know.
Western civilians might be able to buy that the HTS isn’t controlled by Turkey, but I’m skeptical that the Russians are going to buy that. Russia has the ability to cause a lot of problems for Turkey, even if they are tied up in Ukraine. How much plastic explosives would it really take for the PKK to put the country into chaos?
These attacks sound fairly sustained and intense. I can beleive Ukrainians sneaking into Syria and firing off a drone or two. This sounds like a lot more than that, which is why I would skeptical that they have launched this from somewhere that is controlled by the Syrian government. Cypress would technically be another option. Would need to have a better idea of where the first interceptions were and the direction they were flying.