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There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.


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

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.


The Country of the Week is Palestine! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.


Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.

The weekly update is here.

Links and Stuff


The bulletins site is down.

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists

Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Add to the above list if you can.


Resources For Understanding The War


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.

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.


Telegram Channels

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

Pro-Russian

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

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.


Last week's discussion post.


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[–] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

From John Wayne Westerns to horror movies about ancient Indian burial grounds, Orwell's leering 1984 bureaucrats with irish surnames, red Dawn and the turner diaries. Westerners are constantly anticipating the terror our society is built on being revisited on us.

A lie about Israeli babies being beheaded will always resonate with the average political subject in the west than the truth of thousands of Palestinian children murdered or starved.

Nonetheless, even with all their secular resistance slaughtered, all possibilities of diplomacy exhausted, their water and electricity cut off, Palestine and Hamas are still the moral betters of their oppressors.

[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Went ahead and paid my (lack of) respects to the Pissnotreali flag:

[–] edge@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

ukkkraine 🇪🇪‍🔥 🇮🇱‍🔥

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and Ukraine and Estonia, what a fucking gamer

[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Watching a livestream from Gaza at the moment. It's night, and it's very eerie. Pretty much the entire city is pitch black, only a few lights can be seen in the distance. But the sounds, that's where it gets terrifying.

The nights are not calm, the Palestinian does not sleep, the night in Gaza is full of activity and dangers. There's the constant sound of an aircraft engine, it's very likely that this is at least one UAV flying above the city, watching them closely from above. From time to time, a jet engine can be heard, and not long after, an explosion. The explosions are heard intermittently, they break the silent of the night, they wake people up, and those who are not asleep will most likely rush towards the explosion to begin the horrible task of removing debris and see who can be pulled out alive... The average palestinian in Gaza does not sleep, they can't, they know that any minute now could be their demise. There's no shelters, no fancy Iron Dome, just counting on your blessings that the incoming missile doesn't hit your place. These nightly sounds are all meticulously crafted to break the Palestinian's spirit, every sound is there to remind them they're stuck in this concentration camp called Gaza.

To every fucker both-siding this conflict: First, suck every nanomillimeter of my third world cock. Second, watch 5 minutes of live night footage from Gaza. Tell me if the average brooklyn colonizer piece of shit in Tel Aviv has to live through the same horrors EVERY. FUCKING. NIGHT.

[–] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Holy fuck. I have no way of verifying whether this is real (the Instagram account is set to private now) but:

A famous pastry chef from Tel Aviv expressed his attitude to Zelensky with an original cake. He baked a cake in the shape of a gallows on which Vladimir Zelensky is hanged. According to Avi Melamedzon, the high level of corruption of the Zelensky government led to the fact that Ukrainian weapons were transferred to Hamas. And so the pastry chef expressed his anger.

(CW: Cake of a hanged Zelensky)

https://old.reddit.com/r/RussianWarFootage/comments/1764sp7/the_jerusalem_post_avi_melamedson_the_most_famous/

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Liberal skywalker be like

[–] buh@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Remembering how "muslims should stay in their home countries and work to make it better instead of becoming refugees in the west" was a mainstream talking point for almost 2 decades

[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It still is lol. Go to r/europe

[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I would out of morbid curiosity but already got permbanned for saying that Ursula

spoilerdefinetely shouldn't be pushed down a 20-stories plus stairwell, wink
, lmao

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

how do you have a name like ursula von der leyen and arm nazis and not realize you're the bad guy?

[–] buh@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

guy who supports palestine purely because paragliders are more a more eco friendly form of warfare than airplanes

[–] elgonzalors@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is been fucking me up so much that I've been crying the entire last three days. My girlfriend's family is of Palestinian descent, and seeing entire families been wiped out from the face of the planet, people who resembles me and my family holding their dead relatives in their hands it's really devastating. Also seeing the West always portraying themselves as the civilized ones is infuriating, fucking barbarians, they can get away with genocide in this century while the world watches. I cannot believe it.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I wish I could offer you more than my solidarity, this is so fucked up

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[–] LargePenis@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Went to the local library to pick up a book for my wife. Israel flag hung in the window. Went to a local administrative building to pick up some paperwork. Israel flag on a massive pole outside, replacing the Ukraine flag.

How should I feel as an Arab guy in the West at this point? Both my home countries, Lebanon and Syria were bombed by these scum in the last 24 hours. The apartheid state is currently doing an active genocide in a country where my ancestors probably farmed, lived and traded. I feel defeated and completely lost, I feel like any hope of living a dignified life here as an Arab is gone.

[–] MoreAmphibians@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

listen here kiddo, i get it. i dont like the two state solution

and quite frankly, i dont wanna support hamas, it feels like supporting terrorists

but im gonna do it, you wanna know why?

because the alternative is a fucking genocide

a genocide! its a genocide!

so maybe we can have a conversation around dismantling the terror network when a genocide isnt happening

maybe we can do that later kiddo. champ. chief. maybe we can talk about it later

maybe-later-kiddo

[–] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I hate you. I can hear it.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Seeing libs accuse Russia and China of genocide in Ukraine and Xinjiang respectively was one thing, but seeing libs accuse Palestine of committing genocide in Israel is just fucking horrific and monstrous.

I'm starting to think the western liberal tendency of calling all acts of violence they dislike genocide is a form of soft Holocaust denial. They've all seen the way outright Holocaust deniers are rightfully shunned and near universally derided. Now these disgusting opportunists call everything they dislike a genocide because they've gotten it in their heads that using the word genocide means no one is allowed to disagree with them.

In doing so, they continuously trivialize the Holocaust by implying the problem with Holocaust denial is that it is merely the denial of a claimed genocide and not because there exists a massive amount of irrefutable historical evidence demonstrating this totally unparalleled evil actually happened.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Houthis announce willingness to participate in hostilities on the side of the Palestinians - Al-Masirah TV

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[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Absolute banger Chinese meme

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