Image is from the Wikipedia article on the Sudanese Civil War.
Al-Fashir, the capital of North Darfur (a little east of that deep red zone in the west of the megathread map), is the last major holdout of the Sudanese government in that state, and is currently under siege by the RSF. Losing it would be a significant blow to the SAF, though given how the conflict lines are shaping up, it seems increasingly plausible that there will be a de facto - if not de jure - partition of Sudan, unless the military situation substantially changes. This is because the RSF have been pushed out of central Sudan, while the SAF are being pushed out of Western Sudan - although, the situation is pretty complex and has been known to change rapidly before.
As has been a constant feature of the Sudan Civil War - perhaps the single worst humanitarian crisis on the planet right now when measured by numbers - the civilian situation pales in comparison to the military situation, with hundreds of thousands of children dead from famine, and tens of millions of people experiencing extreme food insecurity.
Al-Fashir has been the destination of many thousands of refugees fleeing genocide, and food and aid supplies into the town are being explicitly blocked by the RSF, resulting in scenes similar to what is happening in Gaza right now. The big difference is that fleeing from major battle zones is at least somewhat of an option, though people are often caught and robbed or enslaved or trafficked while moving to neighbouring towns and cities - and these cities are often experiencing similar conditions to places that refugees are leaving.
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Israel'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 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.

India has very limited choice. It must decouple from the U.S. but export-growth brainworms and oligarch control makes that difficult. The only solution is Government spending to maintain employment, however, neoliberal mindset makes that impossible.
The Russia thing is partly an excuse, they want India to open up its markets (especially agriculture sector) to Americans. However, that would make local agriculture uncompetitive because U.S. ag is extremely subsidized. Even a right-wing neoliberal Government hasn't been able to do it due to domestic political pressure.
Do you think the BJP coalition crumbles in the next election because of this? It's already weakening, but I don't know if there's enough of an organized opposition to really take them down nationally.
The Indian opposition doesn't seem ideologically prepared to govern for more than a term or 2 after the next election.
Take this as the personal annecdore it is, but I recently saw my mom watch an Indian opposition news pundit lambast the modi government for bring too soft on China. And this news segment was interwoven with speeches from opposition MPs supporting the same point about how cowardly modi is being.
My mom (bjp voter) then mutters about how India can't just randomly go to war without preparation and that the opposition folks will drag us into a military quagmire like Russia is facing in Ukraine.
I'm getting major Trump vs Biden deja vu.
I think much of it is jingoistic key jiggling. The opposition can't pass any laws, and I do not think they will start a war with China if they get into power again.
Yes, usually the capitalists and liberals love to jiggle on our keys till we jingo, but this kind of limp contrarian rhetoric is a sign of a party without much organisation or vision.
I'm not sure, but I can say that the opposition is more emboldened after last year and the Parliament has been very dysfunctional since then due to protests and sloganeering. Things have changed a bit and there is more right-wing infighting.
Trump reverting to democrat brand of fascism, aka shooting your vassals for virtue signaling purposes.
Indian nationalists being so pro-Republican and Trump is extremely bizarre because Republicans hate them for being the wrong skin color but for some reason these nationalists don't seem to realize that.
They hope for an indian first lady if trump somehow dies in office.
The US fucking over its most valuable ally in Asia after the Zionist colony was not in my bingo card
I thought India agreed to stop buying Russian oil a few days ago? Was that just smoke and mirrors?
Also, the sentence “they do a lot of business with us but we don’t do a lot of business with them” is giving me a headache
That was a false statement by Trump, India's FM came out saying they would continue buying from Russia
lol. Lmao, even
Trump lied. India literally released a letter saying that they would continue buying Russian oil.
I don’t really understand what Trump has to gain by lying about this kind of obviously fake thing and then going back on it. Just wanted to create some good vibes among his crowd for a day maybe?
This, and he probably thinks he saying something happened will pressure said thing into actually happening.
Trump trying to manifest new sanctions