Here is July 18th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is July 19th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Apologies fellas, the mixture of the heat and work has really exhausted me over the last day or two, so I think I will take a break day today and get rested up for the next three days of updates.
Here is July 21st's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is July 22nd's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is July 23rd's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on Sundays.
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.
Last week's discussion post.
NATO's idea of defense was to stand up and reinforce guerrilla insurgencies behind enemy lines. That's been the strategy since at least Hungary in '56. Everything from the Contras in Nicaragua to the Taliban opposition to Russia in Afghanistan have been proxy wars sponsored by NATO states.
Well, Putin being able to maintain a firm grip on domestic leadership in a country awash in western money, foreign assets, and corrupted local business interests is the real play. The US balkinization of the USSR never truly cracked the Russian core. And by maintaining a sold hold on the internal political sphere, Putin held together the unified Russian economy to leverage it as a kind of national collectivist bargaining chit in world affairs.
Everything today is running downstream of that. Germany can't just buy O&G from The People's Republic of East Siberia while blockading St. Petersburgland.
Its been a bloody, horrific nightmare of brutality and death. The war is an absolute failure of international relations and a betrayal of the Globalist vision neoliberalism promised. NATO states could have very easily looked at the playing field, realized they were in a losing position, and backed off long before a shot was fired. They were just so used to bluffing and winning that they continued to push on Zelensky with the promise Russia would never pull the trigger.
Its definitely a revelation, but the cost of losing has been abhorrent. They gambled with the lives of an entire nation and now millions of Ukrainians are paying for it.