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.
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
I was truly wondering if I was nuts when I would hear people on NPR assuring me that any day now we would see the ghettos of Venezuela rise up and demand that the oil fields be privatized. It seemed unlikely, but I felt like a heretic for thinking it.
Lots of western leftists care very little about the third world. Sure, they would like to be magnanimous and give aid, but they have no functional analysis of imperialism and don't get how the imperial core enjoys the superprofits extracted from the periphery. They still very much see politics as stuff that happens within the confines of the nation state.
Also, the west have no real ecosystem of leftist media, academics and think tanks. There are islands of sanity in a few places, but most leftists in the west are part of liberal spaces and have their thinking dulled by the idealism that goes with it.
In the Ukraine war western leftists only see underdog Ukraine versus the big bad Russian bully. Western leftists share the fecklessness of many liberals and actively detests the notion of wielding power to affect change. Putin crossed a line by making war appear in the television which makes him a bad guy and the people he's against becomes good guys by virtue of fighting the bad guy. The stuff that went before with the fascist coup, the civil war in the Donbass, the western threats was all okay because it was not War On TV™.
deleted by creator