Credit to @ThomasMuentzner for the title idea. No, the goddamn city still hasn't been taken, though excitingly, the Russians have moved like three residential blocks up!

December 12th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.

December 13th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.

December 14th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.

December 16th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.

I feel pretty ill today so I'm taking the weekend off. Might post some articles here and there.

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Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists

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. I recommend their map more than the channel at this point, as an increasing subscriber count has greatly diminished their quality.

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. Beware of chuddery.

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 fairly brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. The Duran, of which he co-hosts, is where the chuddery really begins to spill out.

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 ~ Now rebranded as Battlefield Insights, they do infrequent posts on the conflict.

https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.

https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.

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 ~ One of the really big pro-Russian (except when they're being pessismistic, which is often) telegram channels focussing on the war. 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. 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

Any Western media outlet that is even vaguely liberal (and quite a few conservative ones too).

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.

  • edge [he/him]33•1 year ago

    Funeral homes struggle to keep up in COVID-hit Beijing

    It's starting :deeper-sadness:

    And by "it" I mean both the devastating spike in Chinese covid deaths and the Western media turnabout from "why won't China end zero-covid" to "why is China letting their people die".

    Basically, China did what the West wanted, is going to suffer the consequences, and the West still just attacks them for it.

      • edge [he/him]12•1 year ago

        and suffer negative GDP loss

        Oh no, line go down?! We need to sacrifice a million people to appease the line!

    • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]17•1 year ago

      It’s not just what the west wanted, it’s what a significant portion of their own population wanted. It’s also just not possible to continue zero covid policies forever, the Chinese economy is already under extreme levels of stress for doing it as long as they did and the patience of the population has worn thin. This is the only way this could have gone after the rest of the world failed to contain anything

      • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]M22•1 year ago

        I'm guessing you're in a pessimistic mood?

        Outplayed by Dark Brandon. Ruthless? Yes, sacrificed millions of Americans to COVID, but he still positioned the American empire firmly at the top while eating away Europe’s economy.

        I don't think the impacts of long covid can be so easily waved away, especially if you throw aside GDP as a remotely important economic indicator.

        I wouldn’t be surprised if Biden continues to outplay OPEC and Russia in the next few years, which would probably spell the end of OPEC and the disintegration of Russia.

        I would be extraordinarily surprised if this happened, given current trends.

        The American permanent state should never be underestimated, of course.

      • edge [he/him]14•1 year ago

        The US and Western countries were right and had the headstart in killing all the vulnerable people to save the economy.

        What the actual fuck?