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.
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One of his go-pro videos went viral a while back, it was just him and a squad running into a residential building while under fire and then running back out of it
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I wonder why Ukraine isn’t winning this war with such stunning command and control as this
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I heard American mercenaries complaining about how the Ukrainian troops lack an “offensive mentality”. They are frustrated that they are just sitting back in fortified positions and not making maneuvers and strikes.
What they don’t realize is all of the aggressive and brave Ukrainian troops had their “offensive mentalities” destroyed by Russian artillery fire and turned into mist. The only ones still surviving have a “defensive mentality” - they refuse to advance or attack or leave their bunkers
Hmm yes I do enjoy not dying to a howitzer shell I think I will opt not to charge across an open field today.
wow you're telling me emergency volkssturm and literal prisoners don't want to be the tip of the spear? smh the slavic brainpan truly lacks the capacity for heroism.
It's really funny when 'Barry' has a more accurate idea of how U.S. marines operate than like 99% of shows and it is presented as a satire.
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Shockingly, the guys on the defense are using defensive tactics.
Sitting in a bunker while you get blown to hell by artillery is a slow attrition loss 100% of the time
I mean, at some point you have to counter attack, yes. But if you can't muster the forces for a broad offensive most troops, most places, should sit in their bunkers and hopefully degrade the enemy over time.
Ukraine are a bunch of Nazis and Zelensky is fucking up their strategy with a ludicrous Kherson offensive. But they're not dumb. They've conducted this war fairly well given the constraints.
Will still lose though, they just don't have the resources.
"finding people, arresting people, kicking down doors" yeah dude sounds like gestapo shit
He just says that so nonchalantly like it’s a normal thing to go to wartorn nations and terrorize civilians with roving goon squads
Really makes you wonder what he was doing for the YPG
snuggling under 13 blankets with :ypg-brace:
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Everyone in his squad all left at the same time, all for different “reasons”. None willing to admit the real unifying reason, that Ukraine is losing and about to collapse and they don’t want to die or be trialed as war criminals.
Pretty funny that an ex-US soldier is debilitated from doing more imperialism by how much shit they inhaled from Iraqi burn pits. Comrade US army exposing all their war pigs to fumes that destroy their bodies and stop them from committing more war crimes
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Only problem with the burn pits is that they didn't stick a few of their imperialist goons inside them too.