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.
@Z_Poster365 is correct.
On the broader scale... a lot of shit has happened, so just as a stream of consciousness:
The EU instituted an oil embargo on Russian tankers (but not pipelines, as Hungary kept blocking it). However, it seems like there's some shady, undercover-y stuff going on which is keeping them on the seas. Meanwhile, India has taken in 8x as much oil from Russia as they did pre-war, and China is also filling up. Russia's oil production is definitely down, but not nearly as much as the West hoped, and oil prices have meant that oil revenues have largely kept Russia fine economically.
China is anxious about getting sanctioned because they have the biggest foreign reserves on the planet (something like $3 trillion) and really don't want that seized like Russia's reserves were seized. So a lot of their companies are temporarily pulling out, or operating more secretively, while China figures out how to solve that problem. Also, China's economy is slowly but surely waking up from the lockdown.
The weapons shipments into Ukraine are getting increasingly desperate. We've endured a couple months now of the West hyping up a weapon system, saying it's a game-changer; it entering Ukraine; then it turns out there were either too few of them to make a difference or they're just worse than Russian weaponry. The latest thing has been long-range missiles, but the ones the West are giving are actually about the same range as Ukraine's stuff because Putin threatened to do strikes on "places he hasn't yet struck" in Ukraine if missiles that could hit Russia are sent to Ukraine, and the West was cowed by that. I don't really know precisely what he meant, but I personally assume he meant he would strike decision-making centers that contain western analysts.
Aside from those wonderweapons, the stream of weaponry has slowed down, and getting more and more aged. The stuff they send sometimes doesn't even have the right ammo (or ammo at all). Germany seems like they're more-or-less out, promising weaponry that hasn't even been built yet. France just sent 6 (I repeat, 6) howitzers, in a war which is basically an artillery battle where Russia outmatches Ukraine 20 or even 40 to 1.
The Western world continues to suffer the results of their sanctions. The whole world, really. Food rises, energy prices, etc are up by quite a lot, everywhere. Just yesterday, there was an article about how UK healthcare workers are calling off work sick because it costs too much to buy the fuel to get them to work. The United States is among the most insulated from these changes, but it's still getting hit hard. Somewhat humorously, US economists keep going back and forth as to whether there will be a recession, whether inflation has peaked (it hasn't), but in Europe it's virtually certain that there will be a recession.
Meanwhile, the US is looking at a Summit of the Americas where they're missing several countries that were banned or refused to go because other countries were banned; a project in Asia in which they can't offer nearly enough to persuade the countries of Southeast Asia to side with them over China; Russia still has plenty of support in Africa and South America; Denmark and the Netherlands don't want Ukraine in the EU; and Turkey doesn't want Sweden and Finland in NATO. The hegemony is collapsing, slowly but surely. Meanwhile, countries like Argentina want to join BRICS, and Iran has proposed a potential new currency for countries in Central and East Asia to use rather than the dollar.