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.
What's in it for European elites?
The sanctions seems to be hurting nobody but the west, Europe in particular. You can sort of see why the yanks would like Europe to decouple from Russia and be completely dependent on Washington politically and economically.
But why do European elites commit these acts of self-harm so eagerly? They get hurt by the energy and supply crisis as well but seems to reap none of the benefits.
Are they so afraid of the Russian bogeyman that they want to sacrifice everything to keep the asiatic hordes at bay? This doesn't make sense, you have to be blind not to see how the sanctions are not making any significant dents in the Russian war effort. Are they still high on pure ideology, and how long can that high last?
Just raise prices :think-about-it: why would elites be hurting? They arent afraid of rebellion, europe hasn’t had one for 50-100 years. Spending money on armament is good for your career in think tanks
The elites never get hurt by this if anything they'll do what they've been doing for centuries use this crisis to further their interest, as far as the political elites you got the mix of red scare, idealism and just plain old racism that pushes them to chose to do this.
Europe is beholden to US interests.
Nothing else matters. These freaks are fully ideological, no material analysis goes into this at all.
US = good
Russia = bad
These guys will tank everything to adhere to that.
At a certain point their societies will collapse and stop functioning until they stop acting like this
I just wonder at what point it clicks that they're getting absolutely fuck all from this deal.
I also wonder who it'll click for first, the elites or the people?
Obviously the people. 25% in Germany and UK are already calling their economic situation dire and saying they live hand to mouth. That will only grow.
Epstein and similar. The US is evil.
A lot of the most cringe European moves have been by relative political newcomers such as Scholz in Germany and Marin in Finland. I doubt there’s much Epstein-like leverage on them, but perhaps. It seems to be the Green radlibs and neocons who are really getting crazy with it. The greens are outsiders who have coalition leverage purely by fluke of timing, and they have been the most idealistically zealous in the anti-Russia sanction crusade. Neocon ghouls are definitely all in the baby eating cabal though
I think they probably believe that if they back off now they'll be in a significantly worse position compared to Russia and therefore its a bit of a sunk cost thing going on, maybe.