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.
It appears that some warmongers in the US are evaluating the posibility to give Ukraine a bunch of A-10s. Of course, at this stage, and in order to look "good" in front of the "free world", these people will just say they're evaluating giving the ukrainians three Ohio-class nuclear submarines, one Nimitz-class supercarrier, reactivate one of the Iowa-class battleship and give it to Ukraine along with a bunch of other wunderwaffe-like weapon systems that will surely, this time surely! give Ukraine the final victory (third reich style).
What they'll probably get are some old Slovak MiG-29s that wont stem the tide. A-10s are a big no-no, first because the US doesn't have a replacement for it yet, second because it's actually quite shitty when compared to other strike aircraft, like seriously the A-10 is pure marketing, a favorite of western reddittors. It did meh in Iraq against modest defenses, and it is expected to be useful against a country that has some of the best anti-aircraft weapon systems in the world? What is it going to do, an attack run on a bunch of T-90Ms protected by SAM systems with it's overhyped 30 mm BRRRRRRRRRT minigun?
A-10 has more fame than usefulness, it's entire combat record is just blowing up static, dug-in tanks in the middle of the desert that never had proper SAM support, and then shooting a few 30 mm rounds and bombs into the Taliban whose entire air defense network were AK-74s and yelling at the aircraft above them. The A-10 wont work in a region where you DON'T control the airspace, there's an insane overabundance of radars, S-300s, S-400s, Pantsir, Tunguskas and even Shilkas for fuck's sake, let alone the number of MANPADs around the place. Technically it can be compared with the Frogfoot, but it's more of the same, the Su-25 is flying combat missions without much threat from the ground...
But here we go, the West showing no clear sign of wanting this absolute madness to stop. Russia will press on, Ukraine will stick with it's NATO buddies who feed them weapons in exchange for bleeding their own people at the front lines and said NATO buddies are making a lot of money out of this. Tell me who the fuck in the world is trying to mediate in this conflict? Who's asking for both sides to sit in a fucking table and sort it all out diplomatically? Nobody, fucking nobody. It's insanity.
Good writeup, this is basically where my mind was upon hearing that news but didn't know how to properly express it.
Erdogan kinda is and maybe Macron, but they're both continuing to send weapons to Ukraine, so it's pretty two-faced. Other than that, the only person I can think of is :xi-clap: (though maybe you could argue that they're helping Russia, they don't seem to be sending any military equipment there, and this entire time they've been begging for a diplomatic solution).
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also, the A-10 is a very different airframe than the Su-25, despite both being designed for CAS. there’s no chance of properly training their remaining pilots in a reasonable timeframe
Other than the complexity of training and transporting larger military hardware, I feel like a lot of Western militaries don't want to give up the aura of invincibility gained after the Iraq invasion where their modern equipment did so well against the much older Soviet tech. It wouldn't do to have this modern Western tank that we advertise as invincible to get blown up on the front line because it wasn't operating under air superiority against an underequipped foe. The A-10 has a similar rep.
Probably not the primary concern per se, but I feel like it definitely is a concern.
At this point I think Ukrainians just want to die. They seem happy feeding their own people into the grinder. Zelensky and the war enjoys high support among the people there.
What “they”? The pro-Russia Ukrainians mostly evacuated at the very start because they didn’t want to fight. Meanwhile, the most rabid nationalists are all either dead in a ditch or too rich for consequences. There’s your answer: nobody wants the war to continue except the money.
Yeah my comment was careless. I was mad and a little drunk when I typed it out. Most anti war people left (like you said)
These days we’re all a little drunk
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