August 15th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
August 16th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
August 17th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on Thursdays.
August 19th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
August 20th'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.
Latvia has proposed a bill to officially discriminate against Russian speakers in the country. This is definitely ethnic cleansing.
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Learning about this proposed language law sent me down a rabbit hole with regards to this situation. Like 10% of the population is stateless, which is actually significantly better than when they gained independence and made 1/4 Latvians (if I'm reading correctly 700k stateless people with a a 2.8 million person population) stateless in the early 90s.
Just horrific.
The Baltic states have always been fascist strongholds. Lithuania is like the only country in Europe where 96% of its Jewish population died during WW2 and the Nazis were not the one to kill most of them.
Reading up on the Baltics is nightmarish. Like just open support for their nazi past, they dont hide it, they dont try to pretend it was some third-way nationalism. They fucking go after Holocaust survivors and their activists for defamation if they publish factual documents about crimes committed. We are talking about some truly evil countries
If I start hearing automatic gunfire in the Tallinn commieblocks - might not be far off from actually happening soon (esp. Lasnamäe where I live with 2/3rds Russian population), this should "probably" be my cue to buy a 1-way to Johannesburg. Again.
My "baltics-cool" submissions in emoji is very much appropriate
Latvian government doesn't represent it's people; anyway: USA is becoming desperate, since the exact same scenario (you know how it began) failed in much bigger & better trained/equipped Ukraine. They really are just giving Russia easy reasons to keep on expanding - same with China in Taiwan, at least I don't see any long term USA strategy? What is their supposed endgame?
They are likely just trying to score another short term "victory" before the upcoming US elections; no strategy, just cheap tactics.
0.25 year plans
Well, I guess ww3 it is then. A year ago I was sure it was gonna be USA provoking China that started ww3 but instead we got eastern Europe provoking Russia.
What the fuck is wrong with the Baltic states? They seem to have a grotesquely out-sized view of their own weight and clout give that they would be mid-tier cities in any real country.
it's because they were the first republics to secede from the USSR so the west rolled out the red carpet for them and accelerated their entry to NATO and everything to own the commies. Also their history of collaborating with Nazis probably helped. Now they think they're hot shit.