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.

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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.

      • @solaranus20•10 months ago

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      • MitchFucko [any]14•2 years ago

        this 100% deserves its own post. fascinating stuff, thanks

      • CheGueBeara [he/him]7•2 years ago

        The Lenin/Stalin planning programs and dual circulation system are great, but how would a fundamentally capitalist country sustain them, i.e. keep capitalists' grubby mitts off of investment in the means of production? My understanding is that China can only (barely) restrain the capitalist beast in its borders through the communist party. Russia is already fully run by capitalists.

          • CheGueBeara [he/him]4•2 years ago

            I think that makes perfect sense as a forced solution to crisis. My concern is that capital will try to boost its profits over time by skimming off of that investment, as they are the overall dominant force, and eventually convert it away from the dual circulation (effectively, it just becomes capitalist welfare that decreasingly serves investment in the means of production itself) without a countervailing force. My guess would be that the force could be the big capitalists duking it out via the state, but that seems risky.

            China isn't Russia and Russia isn't China, but China's real estate market isn't a totally dissimilar scenario: opened up to capital, including via public investment, but letting capital run the show. The result: a lot of production initially, but over time it became overleveraged and the work became unacceptably bad in many cases because capitalists took profits rather than actually delivering the product. China can take the hit to its real estate capitalists because the party controls the commanding heights of the economy, particularly its financial sector/state investment monetary policy vs. actually circulating money for consumers. For Russia, one would need to bet on a capitalist government recognizing that kind of problem and intervening in a way that didn't still benefit such powerful capitalists, over and over again, rather than repeating the crises by always reacting in a way that bails out said capitalists.

            What is the underlying material mechanism that would make a fundamentally capitalist government address this collective problem on the long-term, when each individual sector no longer seems like an existential threat, but a potential avenue for privatization?

            • meth_dragon [none/use name]3•2 years ago

              re: china

              in theory china could take the hit to its real estate capitalists, but in practice it's a lot more painful. opening up to capital meant collaboration, and in the process many, maybe even most, affiliated party officials became complicit in the process of overleveraging (for structural as well as personal reasons), to the point where this kind of bureaucratic capitalism is now in charge of probably the majority of economic activity in the country, with things like tech, education and agriculture following in the wake of manufacturing and real estate post 2008.

              xi's pushing back on this and has many of the bougies running scared (lots of public figures hedging their bets, cashing in and leaving the country atm) but i honestly don't see a sustainable solution for the proles or the party state under current circumstances. maybe another experiment with direct democracy, but everyone is still so traumatized by the GPCR that xi probably doesn't have it in him to do anything outside of a few superficial concessions to the maoists in the form of limp dick propaganda drives and slogans. these issues are all on the backburner for now, and rightly so as the current primary goals should probably be currency, energy, food and tech sovereignty, but i can't help but wonder how far away from the communism button china will end up once the collective west gets over the initial shock of losing the white man's burden.

      • meth_dragon [none/use name]6•2 years ago

        what were the major shortcomings of such a system and why would corn boy destroy it, outside of the usual ideological reasons?

        was it possible to launder non-cash to cash through things like real estate, rent and education?

    • CarmineCatboy [he/him]30•2 years ago

      It should be noted that the new Gosplan 2.0 implementation will be limited to the defense industry

      we fools thought there was only one communism button. turns out there's at least seven. someone's cat should press them all.