Image is of smoke rising after Iranian missiles impact a US military site in Bahrain.
My weekly preamble is in spoiler tags below.
preamble
After a few weeks of both diplomatic and military manuevering - mostly over Iranian control of Hormuz - we have hit the hottest phase of military exchanges since at least the MoU period began. The US has generally focussed on striking southern Iran, although they have also sporadically hit transportation infrastructure elsewhere, which was repaired in less than 24 hours. Meanwhile, Iran has struck a wide range of targets, with an interesting focus on Jordan, but has, up to the time of me writing this, so far relented on striking the Zionist entity. The US and Iran have had little periods of mutual military strikes during the “ceasefire” before, and so it’s hard to tell for sure whether this yet another temporary spat or if it represents a full return to the pre-ceasefire conflict.
A complicating factor in this conflict is that Ansarallah has become increasingly active, and seems eager to start to break the siege it has been put under by threatening to attack Saudi Arabia and Saudi-aligned forces. This has put Iran in a somewhat awkward spot. On the one hand, it has greatly helped Ansarallah resist foreign attackers and has even recently sent civilian airplanes into Sana’a to begin to break the siege. On the other hand, Iran has, with China’s help, generally desired to improve its relationship with the Saudis over the years. While in this latest war there have been a major dispute between them over whether Iran is “allowed” to strike US military infrastructure located in Saudi Arabia, the Saudis strike me as considerably less anti-Iran as the UAE, let alone the Zionists, and did send a delegation to Khamenei’s funeral. I guess we’ll just have to see what happens next, but I strongly suspect that Iran is going to help Yemen over the Saudis.
And finally, Lindsay Graham has died of a sudden heart attack a suspiciously short time after visiting Ukraine. He was a true enemy of civilian populations all the way to the end of his life, and he seemed to particularly despise children. He advocated for using nukes against Gaza and the total annihilation of anybody and everybody who had even the meekest criticism of Zionism. If God (and, more pertinently in this case, Satan) does exist, I hope Graham is extended the exact same level of courtesy and respect in the afterlife that Graham extended to all Palestinians.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
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:
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.


Argentina vs Spain is about to start
lol they are playing Aserejé in the water break
they are singing some gringo song ew, if i remember right i think this game was going to have a halftime thing which is ew, also Tom Cruise was doing a speech lmao
here is a stream https://envivo.tvazteca.com/
i agree with his
Cool the muppets are there in the midtime thing also BTS too? Nerds didnt you heard your country died in the group stage
Esta culero el medio tiempo no voy a mentir
Red Card for Argentina, Fernández is out
Something dystopian about a halftime show, in a sport that doesn’t typically have one, with a message about love while the host nation bombs other countries and enables genocide.
A chud coworker today told me “oh it must really be a dilemma for you, between your colonizer and your fellow South American country that you hate”. And I just said “nah it’s pretty fucking easy. Anything that makes Argentinians unhappy makes me happy”
For me 🇲🇽, I support Argentina even though the situation there right now is… not great, to put it mildly
I’m south American. I have a great love for the Argentinean people, and I really wish things start going better there for once. But when it comes to their overinflated ego, especially about soccer? Nah, eternal humiliation on the AFA. I can’t stand argies talking about their national team.
The next time I hear “vos cuántas copas tenés?” I’m gonna lose it istg.
Pero cuántas copas tenés tho?
trump and infantino behind bulletproof glass
if you’re gonna have a half time show i want to see video of the dressing room while coldplay plays fix you in the background
lmao wtf is Tom Cruise doing there??? hahahaha
these celebrity cams really piss me the fuck off
can’t wait for this world cup to be over
It’s so fucking boring. These people have terrible energy. It used to be that the camera would find the most extra, high-energy fans (or hot women
) and it spawned so many fun memes, like the Brazilian grandpa hugging his plastic world cup.
But no, let’s see Trevor Noah be fucking bored, that’ll make people excited.
They still do the hot woman thing. I remember that Algerian woman going viral because of it.
The US broadcast sounds horrible lol
why the fuck didn’t they shoot
Mossad must have amazing dirt on this referee with the calls he’s making in favor of the South American entity
They (the Argies) are shockingly unskilled and it would already be over if they couldn’t grab and pull people down with impunity. #
Do you think the ref knows it’s boring to watch Argentina kick and pull people down for 100 minutes?
Red for Enzo, fuck that little racist shithead.
It felt so good
FINALLY
watch messi score a banger out of nowhere, ain’t over yethe’s not coming back
It will never make sense to me how the team that’s in the lead always ends up in such a precarious situation where the opponent is constantly in their penalty area. Like why couldn’t Spain hold on to the ball like they had been the whole rest of the game?
Football is scripted like pro wrestling
Damn that free kick by Yamal was a thing of beauty. Goalie did great, too, unfortunately
Yamal is really going for that early goal. May Allah guide his foot and the ball.
I thought the ref had lost his cards.
They should be down to nine, but that’s a start.
Didn’t realized just jumping to the ground every time the ball gets near your goal worked so well.
They were already down to 9 with Messi in the team.
yaaaaaaaay halftime show (what the fuck is this)
It’s so fucking cringy lmao. Why is Madonna here? Why is she singing a 25-year old song??? Justin Bieber singing some weird hallelujah thing, and Shakira really trying to steal black people’s culture for a second time (unsuccessfully).
Not to mention the love thing while the host nation is bombing water treatment plants and bridges.
BTS was fine. Nothing special tho.
Lovestop killing childrenDamn what a falloff for Shakira. Weird how BTS is the only recent talent there.
ICE about to deport those children
Very on brand to have child laborers bussed to new jersey
Yay bloodbath delayedDang bloodbath resumedDang torture prolongedWell it was embarassing but not a bloodbath
People are really playing like they don’t have a career after this. Thunderdome vibes.
I’m sure Argentina has wrestling of some kind.
It sure did https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanes_en_el_ring
Oh yea its Juego Bonito time
Spain played as an amazing collective effort. Argentina had hardly anything beside a solid goalie and a mess of fouls and cards.
The winning goal off the foot of a player in the game for less than a minute. What a strange event, but the better team definitely won despite everything.
The Argentinian goalie didn’t even have that good of a game Spain just kept shooting it straight at him, perfectly central into his hands. Like he didn’t even react fast enough half the time and just bobbled it but because it was straight at him it didn’t matter. I don’t think Spain had a shot on goal that wasn’t straight at the goalie until the 80th minute or something.
What the fuck was that call lmao
Fuckin bullshit is what it was.
oh dear 1-0 right when extra xtra time begins lol
VAR ref is german – it’s over!
Si España gana, se van a alegrar por una semana y les va a valer verga después. Si Argentina gana, nadie se los va a poder aguantar (más de lo insufribles que son normalmente) por 4 años.
Además, España es el equipo más étnicamente diverso. Que se jodan esos blanquitos argentinos.
Obvio que Paredes es de Boquita