August 22nd's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
August 23rd's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates today or Thursday as I have caught coronavirus. I only have a couple symptoms, and a bit of mild brainfog, so hopefully we can be back on track come Friday.
August 26th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
August 27th'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.
Bank bailouts aren't Capitalist.
Yet capitalist states do them all the times.
Just because something is not part of the fairy tale told by capitalist propaganda it doesn't mean that it's not an integral part of capitalism.
By that logic failure of collective farming leading to mass starvation is a integral part of communism. Just because it happens under self described capitalist states doesn't make it part of capitalism. Bank bailouts are a symptom of the flaws in capitalism not an integral part of it. They are a major part of Crony capitalism but bank bailouts are actually antithetical to Capitalist theory.
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Collective farming dramatically increased yields in the USSR after the Kulak class was liquidated. The short term drop was due to their sabotage
it took capitalists a long fucking time to figure out how/when to do bailouts, and many vehement capitalists are very opposed to the idea (never when its going to them ofc lol). its quite incorrect to paint it as an inherent trait rather than a strategy that can be employed to stabilise the business cycle
Wait are you really making the “crony capitalism isn’t real capitalism” argument? Neoliberal capitalism absolutely entails state bailouts and too big to fail financial institutions being propped up