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@granit had an excellent comment in the last megathread recommending a podcast on MMT, as well as Marxism and anti-imperialism. Check it out!
Links and Stuff
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can, thank you.
Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)
Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.
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 ~ Gleb Bazov, banned from Twitter, referenced pretty heavily in what remains of pro-Russian Twitter.
https://t.me/asbmil ~ ASB Military News, banned from Twitter.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster - crowd-funded U.S journalist, mostly pro-Russian, works on the ground near warzones to report news and talk to locals.
https://t.me/riafan_everywhere ~ Think it's a government news org or Federal News Agency? Russian language.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ Front news coverage. Russian langauge.
https://t.me/rybar ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
With the entire western media sphere being overwhelming pro-Ukraine already, you shouldn't really need more, but:
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.
Yesterday's discussion post.
There was an interesting podcast episode years back in From Alpha to Omega with a professor about Energy and Empire, the main idea of the professor was that empires rose and fell because of energy efficiencies, the Roman Empire was only able to conquer so much because their system allowed them to support more troops, during those times 10 people would support one soldiering person and romans were able to cut that down to 9 per 1 person. Steppe horsemen would invade and something like the Mongol Empire would come to exist because of unusually positive rainseasons that would make the steppes overflow with feed for their horses. The british empire rose because of their rich and easy to access coal deposits, and during the cold war it was the USA and the Soviet Union, two major oil producing nations. I'll try finding that episode again and really write down what I think this could mean but my initial thoughts reading this is, after the fall of the SU the US was able to indirectly monopolize pretty much all the oil in the world through letting russia provide their oil to it's closest allies.
There's a couple random thoughts I have about this that I might write down a bit later but the two big ones are that russia now providing their oil to India and China for cheap could really shift things around and the other is was the USA wary of the rise of an EU power built off the back of russias efficient energy.