No update today or tomorrow :deeper-sadness:
Courtesy of @TacoGyrosKebabShwama, I have added some Russian and Ukrainian telegram channels to the Links and Stuff, to scratch the itch of propaganda from the Russian people, rather than propaganda from overpaid media ghouls in the west. Note that while they sometimes have good anti-imperialist and anti-West takes, they are also typically socially reactionary in regards to LGBT, and also can show combat footage, so, CW.
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.
A rapid-fire Dipshittery and Cope:
Check the MoA article I posted in the other comment if you wanna know how that's going. Hint: not good, folks.
That's certainly one word for it.
Latvian PM: ‘Russia has to lose’ Politico
Fucking wild to see a Bloomberg columnist describe Putin as having tunnelvision / being in an echo chamber. At some level I think they are doing this on purpose to fuck with me, but I digress.
They are fucking with our minds, that's exactly the purpose.
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"China is the BIGGEST threat, but actually the real threat is Russia..." :very-smart:
I know they are writing for an audience, but this is still an insultingly childish version of whatever condition they are trying to describe, "Oh prosecutors walk around seeing devil horns above everyones head because they are mean and want to put people in jail, while defense attorneys walk around seeing perfectly innocent angels because they want to help everyone".
I remember someone in one of these threads said that these people write about russia in the format of "Putin/Russia believes (objectively true statement), (objectively true statement), [insane made up bullshit]". This seems to fit the bill, although even the last statement is broadly correct if you just adjust that the EU/Western hegemony wishes to encircle and ravage Russia, while the government of Ukraine wishes to align with this for various reasons.
If you are an enemy of the western hegemony then assuming that everything is organized rather than spontaneous is a vastly more correct point of view than to assume that shit just happens on its own independent of your enemies and their interests.
Applies to literally every bourgeoise democracy, objectively projection to imply that any single countrys political system is uniquely built on lying.
And while we're talking about guys with "deformation professionelle" having dangerously powerful positions, Id be way more worried about the tv actor and comedian having power with his acting-poisoned brain than someone with cold war brain being in a position of power while dealing with a new cold war.
I mean... Uh... I hate to tell you, but... Wow this is awkward so a cursory study of history will reveal that...
:very-smart:
I love the "Designated enemy who manages a large, populous country actually suffers from debilitating mental illnesses up to and including malign hypercognition disorder".
Like yes, clearly the guy who stabilized Russia and managed to keep a lid on things for the last twenty or thirty years actually has a diagnosable mental illness, which we have diagnosed from great distance using our dousing rods and oracle bones. It's so fucking malicious, because the Designated Enemies actions are always couched in bogus mental health terms, while when the US or EU does it the worst they ever get accused of is "making difficult choices".
This is so fucking bad. Just straight up saying "We will not tolerate another successful country and we're willing to go to war over it.
It's almost like NATO accomplished it's objective but refused to disband and is now at odds with itself in a post-Soviet world.