Here is June 27th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is June 28th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is June 29th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is June 30th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

I won't be able to write an update for today and tomorrow (as well as Sunday, my day off) due to work and travel - and honestly, due to overexposure to the words "international rules-based order" and "wage-price inflationary spiral" and "insignificant advances", I probably need a little time to unmelt my brain. I'll post some articles - good or bad - where I have an internet connection.

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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.

Last week's discussion post.

    • kleeon [he/him, he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      at this point you should not treat the US as a rational actor. Yes, what they're doing makes zero sense

        • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Pretty astounding really. I think I've read several accounts of generals in war games whose immediate response to, like, an Iranian child kicking a rock at the wall of the US military base is instant global thermonuclear warfare. These people so desperately want to kill themselves and everybody around them.

      • ViveLaCommune [any]
        ·
        2 years ago

        as michael parenti puts it, it's a "rational output of an unjust and irrational system"

      • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
        ·
        2 years ago

        The US had to change its war sim rules after Iran sunk half of the US navy with dinghies filled with explosives. They are not making decisions based in reality but based on what feels good/the least bad

    • xenobian [he/him,any]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Yeah and China and other countries must be thinking they need to divest as much as they can

    • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      The US can gyrate and hop up and down frantically and lob their own shit around the room like a disgruntled howler monkey all it wants, if it doesn't affect Russia then gives a shit about the apparent "optics"? If there was ever the illusion that the West knew what it was doing or had halfway competent leadership then that has been thoroughly dispelled right now.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Result of the US-engineered "default":

      • Loss of trust among the bourgeoisie that their money will be safe in the US financial system
      • Loss of trust in the US dollar as a safe currency
      • A bunch of rich, disgruntled financial capitalists with a claim that US public coffers should cover their losses as they are 100% caused by US government policy.
      • Sending a clear signal to China and everyone else with ambitions of sovereignty that they should dedollarize as soon as possible
    • yellowparenti5 [none/use name]
      ·
      2 years ago

      at the least its bad PR for them? kinda like the media saying china bad and then conducting a poll of us citizens with the majority of them believing that china is bad.