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.
The whole idea of "#Swedengate is Russian propaganda!" is so funny to me, the actual anti-Swedish propaganda Ive seen from them is like, posters that say that a famous author and a filmmaker that lived during WW2 said they would prefer Germany invading over the Soviets, and also the founder of IKEA had sympathies or something, and that makes Sweden nazi friendly.
And now all of a sudden the propaganda is about how we don't cook food for spontaneous guests and thats why we are bad? Seriously bad propaganda if that is all they have compared to all we have done.
Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA actually was a fascist. Wikipedia says:
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There's only one way to find out
Joining the Nazi party at 16 and staying involved till 19 and then quitting does not make you a fascist. It makes you stupid kid who learner better. Staying "friends" after leaving the party was probably just him trying to help his former friend climb out of a fascist conspiracy hole.
You weren't born a communist. I bet you had some shitty ideology in your teens too. We need to celebrate Ingvar Kamprad as someone who became a better human not deride him for mistakes of young adulthood. Withholding forgiveness and second chances is petty and shortsighted.
AFAIK IKEA is still paying it's employees in Russia and I think even still doing business.
:downbear:
The sweds don't get enough shit, imo.
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Traditionally Russian propaganda has mostly just been the truth, especially back when it was soviet
ehhhh that's a bit of a stretch. The Soviet Union was notorious for playing fast and loose with the truth. I vaguely remember a joke that goes "The difference between the Americans and the Soviets is that the Americans believe their propaganda"
Id say shutting off fm radio, but that was denmark.