Bulletins and News Discussion from December 2nd to December 8th, 2024 - May A Hundred Hazel Flowers Bloom - COTW: Russia
Bulletins and News Discussion from December 2nd to December 8th, 2024 - May A Hundred Hazel Flowers Bloom - COTW: Russia
Image is of one of the six salvos of the Oreshnik missile striking Ukraine.
The Oreshnik is an intermediate-range ballistic missile that appears to split into six groups of six submunitions as it strikes its target, giving it the appearance of a hazel flower. It can travel at ten times the speed of sound, and cannot be intercepted by any known Western air defense system, and thus Russia can strike and conventionally destroy any target anywhere in Europe within 20 minutes. Two weeks ago, Russia used the Oreshnik to strike the Yuzhmash factory in Ukraine, particularly its underground facilities, in which ballistic missiles are produced.
Despite the destruction caused by the missile, and its demonstration of Russian missile supremacy over the imperial core, various warmongering Western countries have advocated for further reprisals against Russia, with Ukraine authorized by the US to continue strikes. Additionally, the recent upsurge of the fighting in Syria is no doubt connected to trying to stretch Russia thin, as well as attempting to isolate Hezbollah and Palestine from Iran; how successful this will have ended up being will depend on the outcome of the Russia and Syrian counteroffensive. Looking at recent military history, it will take many months for the Russians and Syrians to retake a city that was lost in about 48 hours.
Even in the worst case scenario for Hezbollah, it's notable that Ansarallah has had major success despite being physically cut off from the rest of the Resistance and under a blockade, and it has defeated the US Navy in its attempts to open up the strait. Israel has confirmed now that their army cannot even make significant territorial gains versus a post-Nasrallah, post-pager terrorist attack Hezbollah holding back its missile strike capabilities. In 2006, it also could not defeat a much less well-armed Hezbollah and was forced to retreat from Lebanon.
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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.
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Lol maybe they are scrambling harder than we think...
They actually shook down a store over a welrod sale and he was absolutely not using a welrod lmao.
It took how many months for the government to figure out the Unabomber?
Are whole system is 10x more inept than back than
It took Ted’s brother seeing the manifesto in the newspaper and realizing that it had his writing style lol
His brother was a snitch. Lame.
From the first bombing to the arrest, it took them about 214 months.
Based on 10x more ineptitude, the shooter will be caught in a mere 170 years.
Also, it was the postal inspectors that got him, and they are substantially more competent than the NYPD.
idk they deathsquaded the Portland guy in 2020 pretty quick and that was just for shooting a rando chud at a protest
Caught on phone video selfdefensing carries a worse punishment than careful planned targeted assassination. Hmm
I can't remember how long he was on the run before they got him. a few days.
Michael Reinoehl, RIP
what makes you certain it wasn't a welrod. not wanting to argue, I just don't have the expertise
Welrod you pull from the back, kind of like a ruger. The top of the gun doesn't "slide". The slide is inside of the and you pull it from the back to manually rack it. I think they are on this shit because he was racking after every shot. But he's clearly pull the slide back like it's a glock, and it's probably from a poorly setup suppressor, or subsonic ammo that isn't fully blasting the action back. He seems to expect this.
Ian from forgotten weapons thinks it's a malfunctioning semi auto as well. and he DEF knows more than me. I'm just speaking from shooting rugers and glocks myself.
Everything I saw in that video says this was planned. They were very calm manually racking the slide. I would be panicking. But if they'd practiced and knew what sub sonic with a can would do to the gun....
Also I'm not sold that's a man.
Was talking about this with my partner yesterday. This being a woman would mean that she did even better at concealing herself. Would be interesting for sure.
Probably more likely it is a man, but imagining the person throwing the hoody back, letting long curls out, flipping the jacket inside out, then just walking right back past the scene is pretty funny
Yeah if it was malfunctioning unintentionally then this guy is the smoothest operator on the planet. I subscribe to the semi auto 9 with light loads.
FBI dudes playing too much sniper elite.
Reddit speculation was going wild over the idea of it being an expensive and easily traced welrod, so I wonder if the police just got the idea from them...
"Just like video game"
That's incredibly stupid of them, it was clearly a silenced modern pistol and not an integrally silenced relic made of plumbing parts. The gap between gun and can was visible, for fucks sake!
What this tells me is that if he had used a homemade gun, the pigs would have absolutely zero chance of figuring it out.
NYPD's brightest minds are on the case!
