August 29th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
August 30th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
August 31st's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on Thursdays.
Alright, I guess it's fucking "SeventyTwoTrillion gets sick all the time" season. It isn't coronavirus again (would be super unlucky if it was, lmao) but I am getting headaches and other symptoms which are not optimal conditions for collecting articles and doing media analysis (AKA shouting at journalists).
Might be a 3-update week, we'll see if I feel any more functional tomorrow. Apologies for people who like the updates. I'll either be back tomorrow or on Monday.
No updates on Sundays. Updates will resume tomorrow, provided that the CIA doesn't point their illness gun at me again.
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 always point out that the dissolution of the Soviet Union was never voted on by the Soviets and likely would have been considered illegal if it hadn't had the backing of the American government and thus the U.N. It was, in fact, a gross move of authoritarianism on the part of Gorbachev to dissolve the Soviet Union.
Very true, although I guess to liberals authoritarianism is when anti NATO countries/causes do things.