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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.

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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.

  • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    9,000 Dead Soldiers Weigh On Ukraine’s Ability To Wage War Forbes

    Around 9,000 Ukrainian troops have died since Russia widened its war in Ukraine in late February, Ukrainian commander in chief Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi said Monday.

    It’s the first official casualty figure to come out of Kyiv in six months of fighting—and it helps to put into perspective Russia’s own, much heavier losses.

    But the upshot, for both armies fighting in Ukraine, is that this war is a bloody one. And the death toll is a major factor in what each army can achieve moving forward.

    Zaluzhnyi mentioned the casualty count in a speech at a veterans’ event, when he referred to a Ukrainian child who would need care because “their father went to the front line and, perhaps, is one of those almost 9,000 heroes who died.”

    If 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen have died, it’s likely 20,000 or 30,000 have been wounded, as modern warfare tends to produce several wounded for each soldier killed in action.

    An overall Ukrainian casualty count—dead and wounded—of, say, 39,000 is roughly half the tally of Russian dead and wounded. On Aug. 8, U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl told reporters between 70,000 and 80,000 Russians had been injured or killed in Ukraine since February.

    The Kremlin does not release official casualty figures, and Kahl acknowledged that the number is an estimate. But it’s consistent with other estimates. Way back in mid-May, the U.K. Defense Ministry estimated the Kremlin had buried 15,000 troops as a result of the fighting in Ukraine. Add the likely wounded and you have as many as 60,000 casualties three months ago.

    The actual Ukrainian death toll is believed to be about 80,000, nearly 10 times the "official" figures on which this article speculates.

    • Kanna [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      How is it in any way believable Russia would have so many more casualties?

      • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        They have openly admitted that Russia has overwhelming artillery and fire, that they only launch 1 shell for every 5-10 from Russia

        So how would Russia’s casualties be higher? Western rags contradicting themselves so hard, I can’t imagine what it feels like to be a Ukraine flag emoji following this war and getting whipped around by your own sources so much. How do they live with the dissonance of the western friendly news alternating between despair and gloating?

        • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Umberto Eco's 8th sign of a fascist society: "...the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        It could also be real gullible brainwashed idiot hours