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.
Man all this "aid" is going to be worse for Ukraine in the long term than the invasion.
Washington, DC : The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved a disbursement of US$1.4 billion (SDR 1,005.9 million) under the Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI) to help meet urgent financing needs and mitigate the economic impact of the war.
https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2022/03/09/pr2269-ukraine-imf-executive-board-approves-usd-billion-in-emergency-financing-support-to-ukraine
Do not, my friends, become addicted to
waterAmerican aid. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!
Cede France to Putin, Not Ukraine—Mayor of Occupied City Newsweek
The mayor of occupied Ukrainian city Melitopol has dismissed any suggestion Kyiv surrender territory in pursuit of a peace deal with Russia, as Ukrainian resistance continues on the southern front and behind enemy lines.
Ivan Fedorov condemned Western politicians—particularly French President Emmanuel Macron—who are accused of advocating for Ukrainian concessions to end the invasion.
“We can give permission to Putin to exchange some part of Ukraine for some part for France, and it will be a great deal,” Fedorov said, when questioned about Macron’s recent urging of Western partners not to be tempted by possible “humiliation” of Russia.
Lmaoooooo
Reminds me of Gaddafi's idea to partition Switzerland
Mr Putin, my country, Occitania, yearns for freedom. Please send Sukhoi Su-57s immediately.
Yeah that was the whole deal. Russians DIDN'T speak it, but the Tsars and aristocrats only spoke it. It was a big sop to the majority from Catherine when she made the effort to learn Russian
Lowest in Biden's presidency so far lmao.
Hate it when I accidentally destroy my country's economy and greatly accelerate the downfall of a global empire that lasted a century because I wanted to defend a Nazi-infested country from an army that they're gonna lose to anyway
I totally believe the Biden regime are fools, but someone is looking at the longer time frame who knows what they are doing. The US economy has been fucked for years, now they are attempting a controlled burn off, maybe trying to drive us down into "too big to fail" zone again since it worked out so well for them the last time, while also boosting the MIC infrastructure. The 1% wouldn't ignore increasing social unrest, so pushing the working class toward desperation, food and housing insecurity, or even a tipping point while the militarized police are strong and well funded works to their advantage. I'm just spitballing and probably bazinga brained today, whatever the angle the working class is going to get fucked.
lobbyists, .1% oligarchs, warhawks, defense contractors, high level spooks, certainly are even if the plan is peace out and turn the US into a prison colony
What's the end game for a empire core that is a prison colony?
Even if this is the case and your right. They're still idiots evil idiots that don't understand what's Infront of them. Russia and China will pass us and we will just become more of a dump than we already are. The profits will dry up. The unipolar we do what we want and profit years are over. And even the powerful are idiots if they don't recognize this. Even if they get a short term gain. Cuz that's all that's left for the usa right now. Is short sighted greed.
That isn't the end game, that is the path of least resistance from where we are now at this stage of collapse. How can they not yet understand that China will pass the US, since it already has by many metrics. I'm not so sure as communists on the internet we have a better grasp of these geopolitics than those who have active influence. I think they are just dishonest and propaganda is an ingrained way of thinking and conveying information. Certainly advantages from a de-wormed perspective, but still a somewhat dangerous assumption they are too stupid to recognize reality when a plausible scenario is they simply don't give a shit about the relative success of the US anymore as long as profits continue to be extracted elsewhere, and they can go live anywhere they want and simply transfer their wealth to another economy at the right time. They are planning for the inevitable collapse. My question is who is pulling for a soft landing, vs who want's to pull the rug and let the boots fall domestically. We see continuous MIC packages and militarized police budget increases, so I'm not optimistic.
I don't doubt that many in the ruling class still believe in the empire, and have plans to use genocidal regime change tactics to maintain hegemony, but I assure you it's not only leftists who understand those days are over. The "long time frame" I refer to is those who prefer a smooth transition from unipolarity and have a less rabid outlook, although it's more satisfying to believe everyone except us is truly deranged. I also have no doubt that some powerful people are death cultists and believe the only alternative is pushing us toward a MAD situation with Russia and China, I think we are witnessing this struggle now.
I see pictures of that guy all the time, news media loves photographing that specific stock market guy for whatever reason.
That, and the idea that the only reason why Russia is needing to inflict massive casualties on Ukraine is pure cruelty rather than that being the reality of war ("Why aren't they rapidly advancing and instead being cowards and bombarding them with artillery from a safe distance?!") and also that taking land from Ukraine isn't necessarily victory. You also see this with people saying that the USSR "lost" their war with Finland.
I hypothetically agree with the idea that Pyrrhic victories exist, but if you're saying that Ukraine can inflict a Pyrrhic victory on Russia despite losing lots of territory if they also manage to weaken Russia's military for a generation or cause massive unrest inside Russia, then I need actual evidence of either of those things happening before I agree, and I don't think there's evidence for either case, despite Ukraine claiming that they've destroyed a billion artillery pieces and half of Russia's army or whatever. And with Zelensky to this day maintaining the fantasy that only 3000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed despite admitting that there are at least 200 deaths a day on the Donbass front, any figures put out by Ukraine are just not at all credible. I generally think that if you give Ukraine's claimed losses to Russia and Ukraine's claimed Russian losses to Ukraine, you will have a substantially more accurate view of the current state of the war, and that the recent admission of massive daily Ukrainian casualties is the first real break from that.
Everything I know about the Fed and the economy in general suggests to me that most of the time, the Fed is playing a video game with a disconnected controller. Everybody's just like "oh my god, Jerome Powell just entered the konami code!" and it just doesn't do anything other than making the markets go a little crazy.
I'm doing this with an ear infection, which kinda sucks. Apologies for any mistakes or weird formatting.
Summary:
News:
Some European factories are closing. European gas prices soar to record highs after Russia cuts off some gas in the Nord Stream pipeline, as well as some gas to Italy due to anti-Italian racism. Europe can't really explain how all this substitution of gas resources helps the climate. The desperation of people in Europe is making them now favour peace as soon as possible, rather than Ukraine getting all its territory back. In the Baltic States, they apparently want a lot more NATO support, but NATO is being spread too thin right now, going off to the Arctic, fighting Islamic insurgencies, and going to space, which is odd for a defensive alliance. The ex-mayor of Russian-controlled Melitopol says that parts of France should be ceded to Putin rather than parts of Ukraine, given Macron's previous comments. Russia causes $4.3 billion in agricultural damage to Ukraine. Ukraine does Orwellian 1984 Chinese social credit but now it's obviously good if they do it. Ukraine intends to take Russia to court for environmental damage. Ukraine needs an extra $5 billion per month - I'll get the GoFundMe up. Ikea officially leaves Russia due to supply chain issues. It turns out that people in Moscow are basically fine economically, and have faced less dramatic changes than Americans have faced. Russia's Foreign Ministry says that the West has shot itself in the head. Navalny is moved to an infamously bad maximum security prison. Germany's steelworkers win their highest pay rise in 30 years, at a 6.5% increase. The EU sues the UK due to them fucking up the Northern Ireland brexit thing. In return, the UK says they might leave the EU Human Rights Court after they were stopped from flying migrants to Rwanda, potentially following Russia's exit from the court. Old people retiring is apparently a serious threat to the UK economy, which is how you know it's stable and good.
Laos says that they can guarantee a fuel supply for three more months. China's BRI is very helpful in Cambodia. Australia wants to nearly half their carbon emissions by the end of the decade, while the coldest start to a winter in decades hits the country. China rejects the label of "major emitter".
Jacobin posts an article/transcript detailing the changing strategies by the American Empire in the Middle East. Suffering is at extreme levels in Palestine, while the US asks Israel to please cut back on the blatant oppression while Biden is visiting, and they can keep doing it afterwards. Pakistan is being fucked over by the IMF. Iran is making more friends in the region. The UAE is banning the export of the Indian wheat it's bought. Turkey hasn't seen anything concrete from Sweden or Finland yet. The Saudi embassy in Washington is now on 'Jamal Khashoggi Way', thus holding MBS accountable.
Libya's oil output is being screwed by political instabilities at a very bad time. South Africa says they might buy Russian oil. Tunisia has a 1-day general strike today. Zambia is also being screwed by the IMF.
The Fed increases interest rates by 0.75%, the largest increase since the 1990s. There might be a recession. There won't be a recession. There will be a recession. There won't be a recession. There will be a recession. There will be a recession. Millennial millionaires says there won't be a recession. Biden writes a polite letter to the oil companies, yelling at them for not doing more to bring down prices for American consumers, while wondering where the hell President Obama is and why he isn't doing anything about this either. Monthly car payments hit a record high of $712 in May, while US prison slaves produce $11 billion worth of goods and services for no real payment. Spy agencies could snare innocent Chinese Americans. It turns out that Biden vaguely saying they'd stop supporting Saudi Arabia in Yemen didn't actually mean anything. Starbucks threatens to take away trans-inclusive health benefits from unionizing shops.
Argentina wants $6 billion in hydrogen energy investment.
Surging wheat prices cause noodle eaters to despair.
Conflict and Climate:
The head of the DPR states that "it is necessary to liberate all Russian cities" when asked if Odessa will be taken; the DPR will hold a referendum on joining Russia after the war; and the DPR will continue past the borders of Donetsk oblast and not stop just because their oblast is liberated. Syria recognizes the DPR and LPR, giving them the Assad Blessing. American electronics are in Russian military gear and the FBI is unhappy about that. Two US veterans in Ukraine have gone missing in Ukraine. The US sends $1 billion in military aid to Ukraine. Russia destroys a NATO depot in Lviv. US general Mark Milley says that the situation in Ukraine favors the Russians. Russia reportedly attacks in Lugansk region in nine separate directions. NATO is becoming increasingly divided over how much military equipment to send to Ukraine. If Ukraine's military wishlist was actually completed, then it would take large amounts of the US's current arsenal.
The Arctic ocean is heating up even faster than previously thought. Canadian Dimension posts an article on how privatization cannot save us from climate change. China confirms the presence of water in certain Moon rocks.
Dipshittery, Good Takes, and Hope:
The Guardian thinks that the lesson of Melechon is that we need less socialism and more social democracy. Ukraine corruption is not actually that bad, at least compared to Russia, says Al Jazeera. Bloomberg suggests that Putin is withholding the grain on purpose, and not because there's a fucking minefield in front of Ukraine's ports. An Egyptian billionaire says that Putin is Hitler. Zelensky says that Russia wants to invade eastern Europe after Ukraine. Putler must have learned his lesson after his epic defeat at Kyiv. The US is overestimating Russia's military might but underestimating China's. The US says that China's support for Russia puts it on the wrong side of history.
A great article by Popular Resistance on how a multipolar world is defined by class struggle, and is being spearheaded by Russia and China against the US. An article by RT showcasing the complete fucking delusion of Fukuyama. An article by Multipolarista on Serbia, the original color revolution.
China says that they'll continue to support Russia on security, on Xi's birthday.
I don't know about specialist/expert roles in the US army compared to mine but the specialist roles aren't that hard or uncommon to get so it could just be that he went on a month long course to get a nice lil ribbon/medal on his uniform, I wouldn't read too much into it.
Yeah, in Vietnam it was like a 3 week course followed by a few years breathing in Agent Orange you were stacking into planes.
on second thaught , he got caputered meaning that he probably was more Volunteere then deep cover false flag operator , he would be much further away for that ..
so i go with you , stupid and he got some badge for wearing a gas mask for 30 minutes in training..
yeah , might be , might not be , we can rest assured that we will be fully informed evtlally by ether Russian or Western Media /s
Interesting news from Kherson and Zaporozhye:
The CAA of Free Zaporozhye informs that all children born in the region after February 24 automatically become citizens of Russia. The same will happen in the Kherson region.
It is also worth noting that marriages in the territory of the Kherson region and Zaporozhye are now registered in accordance with Russian, and not Ukrainian, legislation.
Kinda, yeah. They haven't really "broken off" - Russia just seems to be outright annexing them, they're saying that Kherson and Zaporozhye will become like Crimea. As opposed to the DPR and LPR, which are being given the free choice via a referendum to join Russia.
Russia has been doing stuff like this in Kherson and Zaporozhye for a while now. Forgiving debts, giving out Russian passports, teaching children according to Russian standards, switching the currency to the ruble.
Biden Should Show Iran What ‘Plan B’ Looks Like Bloomberg
Absolutely fucking deranged. These journalists are genuine fucking demons.
President Joe Biden’s administration has said for months that there would come a time when the benefits of reviving the Iran nuclear deal no longer outweighed the costs. That cutoff point, whether US officials admit it or not, may now be weeks away. While diplomacy shouldn’t be abandoned, the US should be using this time to show Iran and its backers what the alternative will look like.
Iran has provoked this crisis. Its stonewalling of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been investigating nuclear material found at several undeclared sites, prompted a dramatic rebuke last week: Thirty countries voted to censure Iran for its intransigence, with only Russia and China dissenting. Iran has retaliated by removing nearly half of the cameras monitoring its nuclear facilities while announcing plans to install more advanced centrifuges. The IAEA says if the cameras aren’t reconnected within a month, inspectors will no longer be able to verify key details about Iran’s production of nuclear material and equipment.
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Even now, the US should remain open to compromise. If Iran can propose a face-saving way to give up on what appears to be the last sticking point — its demand that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps be taken off the State Department’s terrorist organization list — the US should listen. Even an interim deal that freezes Iran’s enrichment and restores IAEA access in exchange for limited sanctions relief may be worth considering.
At the same time, the Biden administration should set aside fears that a tougher approach might derail negotiations. US officials have suggested they’re prepared to shift to a “plan B” if talks fail; they should spell out what that means.
The administration should start by enforcing existing sanctions far more robustly. Iran’s oil exports rose 30% in the first three months of the year; it claims to be selling more oil than at any time since the US reimposed sanctions in 2018, almost all of it to China. The Biden administration needs to track and interdict illegal shipments, and follow through on previous threats to sanction Chinese companies involved in the trade.
Next, the White House needs to assemble a regional coalition to counter Iran. It should work with Arab allies and Israel on integrating air defenses. It should support these partners with intelligence and technologies to counter Iranian missiles and drones, and encourage closer collaboration between Israel and other signatories to the Abraham Accords on weapons research. It should also respond forcefully to any attacks on its forces or interests in the region.
Finally, Biden should reiterate his vow never to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. Without setting any red lines publicly, he should make clear to the Iranians that any attempt to enrich uranium to weapons grade or to kick out IAEA inspectors could be a trigger for military action. The US should work closely with Israel on its own capabilities and plans, while continuing high-profile joint military exercises.
Showing that it’s prepared to defend its interests in the absence of a deal may be the best way for the US to convince Iran to sign one.
They CANNOT be as stupid as to think the US can wage a military conflict against Iran, right … ?
Japan is basically an American vassal. They are an unofficial part of NATO
this country is so unbelievably cucked hahahaha ddr a soviet satellite my fucking ass have u seen japan :agony-soviet:
Japan has been interested for a while. They're kidding themselves if they think it's going to be like the 1940's again.
they literally reignited a territorial dispute with russia over the kurils
they disqualified themselves right there
Everyone wants to be a US ally until the question of hosting nuclear weapons comes into play. I may well be wrong but this is just pandering, there is no realistic chance Japan will join NATO and therefore be required to host nuclear weapons unless some drastic developments happen.
China and DPRK have nukes, this is a key point and again unless I'm wrong I'm not aware of any major change in the average Japanese taboo regarding nukes recently.
But obviously of course that neoliberal shithole got a completely detached political class so anything is possible.
Every inch that the Ruscists advance must be paid for continuously in blood and will stretch their already fragile supply lines ever further.
Once Ukraine has completed it's tactical retreat to Lviv the trap will be set and the Russian collapse will become imminent.
Unironically this could be a real “Ukraine expert’s” tweet
Hmm I wonder why the post got locked when majority of the comments are calling out the Nazis https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/vdsnhk/anyone_have_any_idea_where_the_top_flag_is_from/
Hm sounds pretty bad. Sure hope no one has given them several billions of dollars worth of untraceable military-grade weapons
lmfao
Mod-tagged comment (stay with it to the end; you won't be disappointed!):
Posts with an obvious agenda (in the image or in the comments) will get removed, although admittedly we don't always get to them fast enough. You can help us out the most by reporting - comments about it are much less likely to be seen as we can't trawl through every comment section.
In this case, I can't see any reason from OPs post or conduct to remove it. The fact is a post can be of a fascist flag (or anything else you disagree with) and not necessarily have an agenda, and as this is a neutral flag subreddit we allow all flags. Personally, I'm much more concerned about what goes on in the comments than about whatever the poster's motive is. It's an uphill battle to remind people that we're here to discuss flags, not debate ideology like you can do on any one of hundreds of other subreddits.
We're just posting apolitical Nazism here, boys! :centrist:
His flair says socialism and his bio reads “a better word is possible.” Are these people real or are they Vaush-tier ops? I don’t get it, so many online self described socialists and anarchists are natoids. People don’t know what words mean? The delusion knows no bounds I guess.
"Russian Su-57s began to carry out combat missions during a special operation in Ukraine with links (of four planes) . These fighters are connected into a single information network, with the help of which they can exchange data on the radar field, identified targets, coordinate actions with other participants in hostilities. "...also taking over the nearby drone command quickly when the target is spotted and lots of other stuff - https://vpk.name/en/608516_russia-has-tested-the-technology-of-future-air-wars-in-ukraine.html
Thinking about making an Opensea account just so I can spam every NFT with $1 offers as a joke
