Here is November 7th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is November 8th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
I strategically retreated from doing an update on Wednesday (and I always perform tactical update withdrawals on Thursdays and Sundays) so this next one covers a bit from those two days.
Here is November 11th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
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.
Short answer: nothing.
Longer answer: The balance of the house and senate mean that we might just see a republican controlled legislative branch that might be able to do some weird stuff, but generally will just lead to a deadlock since Biden continues to hold veto capabilities over stuff. It won't stop the money for war, imperialism, theft from the working class, everything in the imperialist machine will continue as it has since Biden took office from Trump, but people will be a bit more mean on TV. People will point to the left as the reason for the Democrat's loss. The temperature against queer folk and reproductive rights will increase a bit more, but until 2024 republicans passing a nationwide ban on abortion isn't really going to happen. This government has been in deadlock basically its entire time with barely any moves to help the working class and anything they've tried has been devastated by the courts because the US isn't a democracy anyway.
And we'll fuckin' do it again if they don't shape up or get outta the way.
We should just claim to be taking the Democrats hostage. It wouldn't be true but they'd get really mad and it would be very funny.
Embracing those accusations would make the left look cooler and more powerful than today.
Maybe actually do it. Leftists voting for republicans. Its like a strike. A strike is a lose, lose. The republicans would win and the dems and left would lose but the left loses either way. If the Left votes for the republicans they make everything worse for the democrats until they actually put together a reasonable alternative. the only problem is they never will.