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.
fuck me, I thought it was smart starting a small stocks account for 5-10 years from now, with "safe stocks" but really I just pissed away a couple thousand dollars which is like a big chunk of money for me. I feel so fucking stupid.
From what I understand, as long as the stock market doesn't suffer total existential failure, most safe stocks will survive and recover.
If you need the money shorty then that is trouble. But in the long term it does not matter too much when you bought
I thought you were rapping to me
Yeah that whole long-term thing works till it doesn't. And i think we are entering that phase of it's not going to work any more
Right, like isn't Japan's stock market still lower now than it was before it crashed in the 90s or something?
Probably, but unless you live in a country that has been deliberately hamstrung by the US, then you're still more likely to get something out of a longterm investment in the Funny Line Go Up or Down machinery. Japan is sort of unique because they have been hamstrung by the US fucking with their currency, while also heavily financialising their economy.
Also, Japan in the late 80's and early 90's had like the mother of all economic bubbles, with very little to back it up in terms of real assets. It also royally fucked up their property market if I recall correctly, but that is almost a guarantee when you depend so heavily on the financial sector.
Yeah i remember reading something along those lines.
You know old story about hoja nasreddin and donkey? :shrug-outta-hecks:
no I don't