Here is June 20th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is June 21st's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is June 22nd's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is June 23rd's update! TLDR? Here's the summary
No update today unfortunately because personal life got a bit busy. Should be fine tomorrow though.
Here is June 25th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
It's my weekly day off, so no update today.
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.
This war has been really eye-opening to me regarding the trustworthiness of western media. Before the war I still believed that although their perspective might be distorted and some inconvenient topics were avoided, they were basically telling the truth. At least they were more truthful than the propaganda media of "authoritarian" countries.
But then the war came and western media went on a propaganda frenzy, bringing obvious bullshit stories like the ghost of Kiev nonsense, making thoroughly useless predictions about imminent Russian collapse and passing off the shitty imperialism of the west as high-minded optimism.
Western media coverage of the war has been nothing but hamfisted propaganda, not an inch better than what we're made to believe the media of our official enemies are.
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As a fellow old fart this is exactly what I said in the earliest days of this conflict too. It was / is uncanny.
Well we all learned that propaganda alone can't win you a war
Wait you're telling me the pen is not mightier than the sword? :walter-shock:
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"Look, I'm going to shirtfront Mr Putin ... you bet I am."
Western media has been very radicalising. They got me with the original Uighur reporting by trying to claim an increase in sterilisations from 150 to 250 per one hundred thousand people constituted a genocide.
I have a friend who is a Hungarian ex-pat, and he's told me a lot about how the Órban regime operates, specifically its propaganda arm. It was quite embarrassing to realize that I've been doing the lib thing of only recognizing shady shit when someone else does it. Sitting there going "OMG, they control all the media so they can pretty much decide which topics are viable and which will never even enter public discourse?! That's horrible!" and still being enough of a lib to think that our media was any better.