Here is August 8th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
AUGUST 9TH's GENERAL MEGATHREAD IS HERE.
Here is August 9th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is August 10th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on Thursdays.
Here is August 12th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is August 13th'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.
First of all I don't know where you got the "random white guy" visit from, you should look at this infographic about all the visits to Xinjiang, second for years they kept inviting the US, EU and the UN and they refused. Until the UN visit a few months ago the only people that accepted were mostly Muslim countries and some random western delegations. When the UN finaly decided to visit they did this report
I think from very early on China was calling the west bluff and trying to make them actualy go there in person and prove it, but they couldn't do it.
At that point what are you going to do? Do you think the anglos will give a shit if you show the Muslims touring Xinjiang? They'd cry propaganda either way.
I think for the people that actualy care about finding the truth it is pretty easy to find out Zenz is lying. They did most of what they could, do the interviews, documentaries, let anyone visit if they want.
YT already puts a giant label on their channel saying "StAtE aFFiLiaTed". There is zero chance westoids will give a flying fuck about what CPC says on official media either way.