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.
It’s not about harder to pay off but actually about discouraging lending, which will cause a recession because then companies can’t/won’t borrow to make payroll and lay people off.
The inflation is being forced at the top to “balance out” worker’s wages being so high. Fed officials have said as much. Companies are hiring people, every new hire and old hire is demanding higher pay, so companies are raising prices.
The only way the govt can choose to react to this is force a recession to lay people off.
A more rational govt planning would just put them to work on a variety of projects.
Except they can't because we are already in an actual labor shortage in many areas. Normally that is the valve they would release, but it is unavailable. The reason companies have to raise wages is because they have to attract workers in order to remain competitive. I think their hope is to redistribute the population to those labor short areas, which will allow for that pressure to drop, but with housing and rent prices the way they are, most people can't afford to move.
It really is a total clusterfuck, that will probably be floated by more bad credit.
Govt projects are a fiscal policy and not a monetary one. And the govt. is essentially deadlocked. Otherwise you could offload some of the high wages to govt. largesse and boost consumer demand without affecting private companies. That said, the other factor affecting all this is China; they continue to shut down entire cities to maintain zero covid and American companies are paying the price. I would also blame the Ukraine war, lol.