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.
The vast majority of people in Israel and USA don’t want to de-colonize either. Tough titties, the dialectic of history moves on and compradors and colonizers will be swept away
At the very least China needs to install a puppet government in Taiwan and oust the imperialists
I mean, they're settlers living in a settler colony on stolen land. Of course they wouldn't want to decolonize and return land back to the Indigenous. But unless you're arguing Taiwan is some Han settler colony that has to return land back to the Taiwanese aborigine, it's not particularly applicable to Taiwan.
Taiwan was settled and colonized by the KMT, the indigenous population massacred en masse during the white terror, it’s no different than Israel in this regard. The ROC is not legitimate, and the nation and settler-state of “Taiwan” should cease to exist, but that’s very unrealistic in the short term. What is more realistic and still necessary is to kick the separatist factions and imperialist compradors out of power and permanently secure Chinese Taipei as Chinese, and not the puppet state of the west
The White Terror largely targeted suspected communists and dissidents regardless whether they were waishengren, benshengren, or aborigine. "The White Terror was the KMT targeting innocent benshengren" is literally a DPP talking point, you know, the party that's pushing for Taiwanese independence. Furthermore, the conflation of the Taiwanese aborigine and the benshengren is another DPP talking point, where they both get lumped as "indigenous" even though the aborigine was around in Taiwan for 6 millennia before benshengren began migrating there during the Ming dynasty.
"Taiwan" is the Mandarin approximation of the Taivoan people, which sounds like "Taiwan" when spoken. There's no need to change the name.
I wouldn't characterize the KMT as compradors. They're closer to the Chinese national bourgeoisie if anything. Why else would the CPC ally with the KMT during the Warlord Era? The Northern Expedition was essentially the proletariat and peasantry, represented by the CPC, allying with the national bourgeoisie, represented by the KMT, to oust the actual compradors from power.