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.
Is it true that Mexico is paying $1.5 billion for a "tech" border with the US? Setting aside how libs think it's good when Biden does it but Trump + wall = bad, why is Mexico paying? They're paying off debt to the US? Even so, how can AMLO allow this after standing up to the US to a degree for example at the Summit of the Americas?
i think a lot of the anti-wall stuff is just how fucking unfeasible and stupid it is. a giant unguarded wall that people will still get over.
Ok, but still.... why the fuck is Mexico willing to pay for it?
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Yes, but it's more about the entry points than the wall itself. Makes it a lot more convenient and easier to pass through.
The question remains, like I asked @Cummunism why would Mexico pay for that? Is it literally being passed off as being "more convenient" and so Mexico sees it as an infrastructure project? Somehow I doubt that, and you were prob joking but see my user name.
Yes, Mexico sees it as an infrastructure project. It's the US press that's acting like Mexico is paying for a lot more and the gleeful reaction is pretty disturbing.
Ok, that makes a lot more sense, thanks. The way I see it being spun by media of course is that Mexico is footing the bill for US aggression against them. So USians can smugly gloat "ha ha Mexico, you bent over for us once Trump was out of office." Still pretty gross if it will impede migrant people, even if Mexico views it as supposedly positive infrastructure.