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.
[🇫🇷🇲🇱⚡️The French army has left Mali, abandoning all its military bases and installations after years of presence.
The playing field is left for "PMC" Wagner ", which by its activity has achieved the displacement of competitors from Mali.
Not least due to mutually beneficial relations with the local government of the military, who use the rhetoric of the fight against French imperialism and colonialism with might and main.
France to the last tried to cling to Mali, but, just like in the Central African Republic, failed. During Macron's presidency, 2 countries fell out of the French colonial empire at once. Largely due to the inconspicuous, but effective work of "Wagner".
It will be interesting if this trend spreads to Burkina Faso and especially Niger, with its uranium deposits.Source
La Réalité (Official Audio)
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Edit Arte Doku on Wagner in africa,
Dang those Nazi Russians… checks notes… fighting for decolonizing Africa??
I was told “Wagner” were all just like Azov. Can anyone here imagine Azov fighting to decolonize Africa and rid it of European leeches, working hand-in-hand with African soldiers and leaders?
I mean, for cash? You can find people to fight for any cause if you pay them enough. Mercenaries don't necessarily have any ideology, and if they do it's almost always in favor of colonialism, imperialism, and fascism. The idea that Russian mercs are acting out of an anti-colonial ideology is a stretch. Russia is a capitalist country. They're there because someone with nine zeroes in their bank account thinks it'll be profitable. This isn't Cuba sending troops to support independence movements in the 20th century.
This is pretty much what I was going to say.
Wagner is doing here the equivalent of the police arresting some rapist, you know broken clock occasionaly does something good but its so rare it is meaningless.
PMCs in general are not friendly to leftists anywhere, but if you have the money you can put them to good use.
Sure they aren’t doing it out of charity, nobody said they were. Azov would always be on the opposite side and you know it, just like their Rhodesia freak friends. The difference between bonafide fascists and mere rightwing mercs
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Wake me up when they get rid of the CFA Franc
here in another Doku on wagner
:chefs-kiss:
segment begins with "lets check what the Academie Frainches is doing§
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Wait what? How did 450 vaguely Russian mercs kick France out of Mali and the CAR?
It's kind of wild for them to be trying to go "Ooh sinister Russians!" when the other side is literally the fucking French.
“They just want to colonize these unsuspecting Africans!”
“Like you have been doing for centuries?”
“Shut up Russian bot”