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.
A funny side story is that of Sweden and Finland. Under great fanfare they announced that they were going to join NATO. Every westoid dipshit rejoiced about how they were really sticking it to Putin and how the war had backfired for Russia who now would have two extra NATO members at its border instead of one. Russia responded by talking of more nuclear weapons in the Baltic region. Happy times.
And then the most funny thing happened. NATO is not like an amateur football club that you can join just by filling out a form and paying a fee, to join you need to get the approval of all existing NATO members. And Turkey, who saw little benefit in committing to a possible war in the far north of Europe, saw is opportunity to scratch some old itches about Sweden and Finland being too friendly to the Kurds. They demanded that the two would-be members started to repress politically organised Kurds in order to allow the expansion. Their demands includes the extradition of a Kurdish-Swedish member of parliament, and the blocks in the Swedish parliament are so equal in size that this one MP can bring the succdem government down.
Essentially the Turkish demands are too humiliating for Sweden and Finland to accept so at the time of writing Sweden and Finland has given up all the benefits of pro forma neutrality and gained none of the benefits of NATO membership.
Just like Ukraine did.