August 1st's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Go here for live updates on the Taiwan situation.
August 3rd's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on Thursdays.
August 5th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
August 6th's update is here! 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.
China isn't fully right at all. Explain how the Qing dynasty controlling (small) parts of Taiwan for periods of time, which other countries have as well, means that the CPC should own Taiwan? The KMT is trash leftover from the war in China, how do they represent Taiwan when they only make up 1/5th of the population of Taiwan INCLUDING their descendants and are referred to as foreigners (外省人） in Taiwan?
Everyone already agrees that Taiwan is Chinese. The conflict is about who the the legitimate government of China is, the PRC or the US puppet regime in Taiwan.
The Qing dynasty controlled the entire island. They literally had to since the last remnants of the Ming dynasty was holed up in Taiwan. The only reason Taiwan is such a question mark and not just another Chinese island like Hainan is due to Japanese imperialism.
And waishengren doesn't mean "foreigner." It means "person outside of this province" to contrast that with benshengren which means "person of this province." The actual word that means foreigner is "waiguoren." And yes, the fact that waishengren are called waishengren and not waiguoren (although hardcore separatists are trying their best to popularize that term in mainstream Taiwanese society) is already a tacit admittance that Taiwan is just another Chinese province (省), not a country (國).
And this isn't even getting into the Taiwanese aborigines, the original indigenous peoples of Taiwan, who by and large vote KMT.
For someone with that username you really don't seem to understand the US empire imperialism MO.
There is no future where Taiwan becomes a sovereign country . Any unilateral break from the status quo by the US is a step closer to Taiwan becoming a giant Okinawa base for the us military and a full on American protectorat miles off Chinas shore and that's the prime reality China understandably has to avoid . And that's beyond Taiwan existence only being able to happen and be safeguarded by foreign colonialism and intervention. It's existence to this dayis a secessionist, balkanizing by product only of Western imperialism and nothing else
Simply, it's either that or the USA fascist regime - with further expansion and escalations all over the region; and you know what it means.