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.
STEM moment: Statistical physics rejects theory of 'two Ukraines'
TL;DR they ran some kind of data analytics related to Ukraine in 2021 and determined the civil war isn't happening. I might be exaggerating, just too tired to engage this critically.
spoiler
The key finding of their work is the theory of two Ukraines doesn't hold up against the data. Conflicts do exist within Ukraine but aren't ideologically west versus east. The researchers found these conflicts tend to form a complex network of interactions with no clear geographical boundaries.
"Contrary to Russian discourse, we have not seen any indication of an eastern part of Ukraine being harassed by a western part," said Zanin. "This should be taken into account toward a possible resolution. The data suggest a solution involving splitting the country would be artificial and not guarantee long-term stability and peace."
Yep, I've run the models, plugged in the deficiencies of the Russian brainpan compared to the superior Ukrainian one, carry the two, and... yep. There isn't a west-east divide in Ukraine, and we've scientifically proved that the last 8 years of the war against the Donbas has not actually occurred.
I'm getting increasingly concerned that maybe westerners actually are in an alternate reality. Like, not just propaganda melting their brains, but two parallel universes joined together at the hip, and they're in the one where Ukraine is uniformly united and is repelling the Russians, while we're in what we perceive to be the real reality. Sounds like a :matt: theory, just gotta add the words "demiurge", "ritualized", and "and this is the important part".
Nah this is literally just STEM nerds being paid to do STEM nerd think tank shit. Pay off some dumbasses to do some "science" so that the institute for lethal aid can point at it and say "See? The SCIENCE agrees with us we should fund the Ukraine, look at the SCIENCE" because those nerds then get paid to do this shit they think what they do is actually valuable and a lot of them get the smart idea of just applying their field to various other fields.
Source: I listened to a physics long winded explanation why a squat is really just two levers. Said person didn't even know that biomechanics was a field but was certain they could explain everything.
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Why feel like that when you can instead feel killing themy?
This is a solid theory. It makes only slightly less sense than all western media and governments all being hopelessly delusional/in denial. Maybe all the lethal aid from both dimensions is going to just to one dimension's Ukraine and that is why they are winning over there? (or here? I don't know which dimension I'm in.)
Oh did the 8 years of shelling, sniper practice and white phosphorous pumped into Eastern Ukraine not tip them off? No banning of Russian language? What about when the President of Ukraine proudly exclaiming that “our children will go to school, while their children hide in basements”?
but the data tells us
The divide is actually North-West vs South-East, 15 Pinocchios