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.

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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.

  • Justaminow [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Why don't we have a map like this about the u.s. and Roe v Wade? Have to be honest, hella disappointed by this male dominated site, like we can't get a fucking pinned post for women and trans people????????? Y'all.......😐

    • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]M
      ·
      2 years ago

      3 comments in 2 months, one of which has been deleted, is pretty sus, but assuming that you're commenting in good faith, this megathread is meant to focus on the world at large, not so much American-specific issues (except where they affect the wider world, such as attempts to build new coalitions abroad and trade flows and such), because this website has a large plurality - if not majority - of Americans on it, so American issues can be discussed everywhere else.

      I mean honestly the Ukraine map above is just a holdover from earlier megathreads now; it moves too slowly due to the size of Ukraine and the rate of advance to be useful on a day-to-day basis unlike at the very beginning of the war, and anybody who actually wants to know day-to-day ground movements in any kind of detail will go to Defense Politics Asia's website or channel (or whatever equivalent you like). But I haven't found anything better to replace it with.

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

      Make a post with a map and then ask a mod to pin it. Hell, get on the mega thread schedule. Be the change you wish to see in the forum.

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I don't need to see my state on a map to know women's rights are fucked in it though, it's not like it's changing on a day to day basis...

    • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Maybe because roe v wade only effects like a quarter of the people in 8 states in the USA where abortion is illegal. Maybe because abortion rights are a minor issue in comparison with WW3 and the end of US hegemony. Especially when you frame it in such a USAcentric way when Poland has recently made abortion more illegal than it already was. Don't get me wrong I think every baby should be born to a mother that want them and that all people should have the right to bodily autonomy but the effects of Roe vs Wade are cut and dry and more analysis is pointless.