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.

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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.

  • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
    ·
    3 years ago

    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".

    • notceps [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      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.