October 31st's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
November 1st's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
November 2nd's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
November 4th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Today's the day I put the extra furniture I need for this place together, so that'll be a bunch of fun. Though I can post some links here and there in the rest breaks.
Links and Stuff
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists, for the “buh Zeleski is a jew?!?!” people.
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.
Last week's discussion post.
According to Telegram Russia will no longer participate in UN-imposed sanctions on Korea and will resume rail traffic between the two countries.
Hell yes
:lets-fucking-go:
But also fuck them for going along with the sanctions to begin with
I've been wondering how the DPRK is going to start advancing economically again. My knowledge is incredibly hazy, but it looks like a convergence of events in the 90s (USSR and its aid dissolving, enormous famine, Kim Jong Un doing fuck knows what) cost them terribly. With China somewhat discreetly ignoring sanctions and Kim Il Sung seeming to have a good sense of planning, plus their nuclear weapons program largely out of the "development" phase, maybe things can start going okay for them again. If Russia actually starts trading normally with them it's going to be a huge accelerant to an already hopeful process.
The possibility of unrestricted trade with Russia will be a huge positive for the Korean economy. If there's one thing Korea needs it's foreign trade and Russia will be able to supply them with everything from minerals to industrial products. Russia might also see the possibilities in investing in Korea whose economy has been woefully underdeveloped due to western sanctions.
As for the nuclear weapons programme I fear that Korea will have to spend a huge part of its income on defense for the foreseeable future.
PS: Kim Jong-Un is the current leader of Korea. Kim Jong-Il was his father. Kim Il-Sung was his grandpa.
Good to hear that the future is looking brighter. I blame uncaffinated me for fucking up the names, thank you