It's my weekly rest day, so no update today.
I just want to thank everybody who has engaged with these threads, from the frequent commenters, to the background lurkers, and even the people who come in thinking this is the main megathread and start telling us about their banana bread recipe or something like that.
I'm hopeful that my daily schedule will stabilise for at least the next few weeks, if not months, and I can finally get a reliable stream of updates rather than those punctuated by random breaks.
Of course, may the war end soon, and may Azov, Right Sector, and every other group get what they deserve. And, of course, these threads will continue past the end of the war - unless the end of the war coincides with a sudden and brief increase in the air temperature to several million degrees in every city on the planet.
Yesterday marked the 72nd day of me doing this. I'm gunning for 72 trillion more.
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.
So what exactly is the reasoning behind the war being one of genocide? All I hear is that it's because Russia is fascist and attacking Ukraine, but never a full explanation as to how that equals genocide.
Genocide to libs now just means "country I don't like is doing thing I don't like." Anything Russia does is automatically genocide because Putin is Hitler, there doesn't need to be some sort of consistent logic applied.
Yeah. They need to thread the needle between their own imperialism/warcrimes/fascism and their enemies doing that, so they can't just say "this invasion is causing unnecessary deaths" because they're clearly OK with themselves doing that and it's super easy to just compare raw numbers at that point and see that the imperial core is worse on this every time. So they resort to just abstracted labels that they can append to things, especially if they're labels governed or promoted from pseudo-objective bodies like Human Rights Watch, etc.
When liberals cared about kids in cages, they (we) pulled out the UN definition of genocide to explain to chuds why systemic stealing of children counted.
While they (we) were there, they noticed a line about 'erasing national identity'. Putin gave his 'Ukraine isn't a real country' speech kicking off the invasion and the libs went :same-picture:
USA did so many Wars and Invasions , they can not call it War and expect the People to have a Emotional Reaction , so they choose another word..
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I started seeing it after claims of massacres.
Russia is the most evil country ever, therefore they must also be doing the most evil thing a country can do.
The thinking behind it is essentially the same as tht of Pizzagate, where chuds convinced themselves that democrats were pedophiles because that is the most evil thing a person can do.
It doesn't have reasoning yet. That comes later after they've collected enough bullshit stories like they're Pokemon.