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.

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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.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    The Southern Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a statement on Thursday that it will refrain from announcing the names of the villages that were taken during the counteroffensive in the Kherson direction, so that the Russian Armed Forces could not launch a missile attack on them.

    Because the Russians have no idea what villages they supposedly lost? This is the dumbest statement from Ukraine by far, and that’s not an easy feat.

    :dril:

    • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      I'm trying to find the angle at which Ukraine's statement even remotely makes sense. The only reason you would do this is if the Russian communications system had broken down so drastically that the central command was completely in the dark about what was happening at the front lines - but Russian communications are among the best in the world, as you'd imagine for a military superpower.

      I can't see any other reason except that this is a coping mechanism by Ukraine to cover lack of progress. Any other feasible explanations I'm not considering?

      • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
        ·
        2 years ago

        It’s so they don’t name specific villages and get proven liars or embarrassed when those 2 tiny villages swap back to Russian control in a couple days

      • CommunistBear [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        It's not for Russians. It's for the West/Ukrainians. If they were retaking village after village they would brag about it. They're likely not achieving a whole lot so it looks better to say this versus "the whole counter offensive got us 2 shitty villages"

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
      ·
      2 years ago

      "However, it is suggested that Ukranian troops are in full command of Brigadoon, Shangri La, and Never Never Land"