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.
I think that's probably the "mission" he mentions in this video that got him kicked out of one unit. Apparently he and his battle buddies weren't ordered to do it, they just went with some guy that rolled up saying they needed to do a mission. He also describes some extreme war tourism shit where he's able to just bounce around to any unit he wants basically.
I wonder why Ukraine isn’t winning this war with such stunning command and control as this
He also describes unit hopping at least once because of "problems with command", ie, either poor officers in charge or officers in charge who didn't want some american cowboys doing rambo shit like they're in a movie
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.
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.
such a good show.
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.
that figures
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.
I’m not talking about Kherson, the mercenaries are technically right - the defenders would do a lot more damage with quick recon strikes and fast moving small squads.