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.
I've been reading up on the Interwar and WWII era Ukrainian Fascists and I'm kind of surprised Poland is going along with all this. The OUN-b, Bandera's merry band of fascists, killed tens of thousands of ethnic Poles during the war, and... well... his outfit is where Ukrainian Nationalism has it's roots. I'm sure that there are some non-Nazi Ukrainian nationalists but from what I've seen like 30% of Ukrainians view Bandera positively, and that number is heavily skewed to Western Ukraine. Like 70% of Western Ukrainians view him positively, and the number drops off sharply the further east you go. Realpolitik is a hell of a drug.
On the one hand, Poland has this phantom limb pain of the former imperialist glory in the region, and imo they go along with it because they see they can gain control of part of Ukraine that used to belong to them, and it doesn't even have to involve the immediate redrawing of borders or military action, hence we see the "special status for poles" being implemented in Ukraine now
On the other hand, they do remember. There appeared car stickers, for example, saying "Wolyn '43 , We remember!" [ x , x , x , x].
Yea, polish still remember shukevich and bandera, when ukraine accounts do some dodgy heroes, polish people telling them to chill. Interesting how it will interact with possible polish occupation of western ukraine, but :shrug-outta-hecks:
I have a hard time seeing how the Ukrainian nationalist Right would twist themselves in to accepting that. Wouldn't that effectively be an acceptance of Ukrainian balkanization?
Worst case scenario it could become Donbass 2, Lviv edition
I don’t see it as well, which is why recent polish citizens in politics ukrainian law is so baffling
They would be fine with it because the alternative is Russia taking it
I guess they're willing to forget all that because they hate Russia more.