Here is September 5th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is September 6th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is September 7th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

No updates on Thursdays.

Here is September 9th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is September 10th's update!

A few improvements:

  • I'm gonna try and include more images, now that I've figured out how to do it on my end without things getting confusing. Namely, I now have a whole folder on my computer dedicated to this stuff where I can put things. A truly incredible development. However, a lot of the articles don't have images, and if they do, they aren't all that noteworthy - think "typical stock image of an oil barrel or a dude looking frazzled at a stock market screen". But still, there's usually at least 1 or 2 images that I can and should put in every day for added pizazz.

  • I'm actually using the tagging system, instead of it just being "ukraine" and "russia" the whole time, and will be slowly working on adding them for the previous updates too. Eventually, you will be able to search by country throughout the whole update list, from the ever-present "china" or "united states" to the very rare "uzbekistan".

  • More consistent climate and space updates. Hopefully.

  • 100% more love for our trans comrades.

  • Adding what you people post in these megathreads to the summaries too. The tyranny of only referring to my own work without talking about anything of the comments you guys make shall end.

On that note: do you have a lot of knowledge about the current state of a particular country (beyond mindless electorialism)? Do you, for some reason, have a lot of knowledge about hydrogen power, or the fossil fuel industry, or renewables, or rare earth mining, or have you delved into a wikipedia rabbithole on a topic and became a semi-expert? Hell, are you an actual expert? If the answer to any of the above is yes, please comment more! There are like 200 countries on this planet and I realistically only have time to talk about a fraction of them on a given day, and of that fraction, only a single article. I may have a vibe about certain countries, but if you wanna rant about the current situation in X country or how neoliberalism is ruining Y country, but you think "nah, who gives a shit" - I give a shit. Some of the best content in these megathreads is people being like "The general media narrative around what's happening in this country is wrong, here's what's actually going on here."

I'll even quote your username in the summaries if you do it. It's a meritocratic version of the general megathread's username list that they do every time. The thrill of a purple number next to the bell in the upper right corner of your screen can be yours for the low low price of a microessay for our reading pleasure.

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Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists, for the "buh Zeleski is a jew?!?!" people.

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.

  • Mizokon [none/use name]
    ·
    2 years ago

    Russia takes a slight L and all the western media goes "Russia is done bois, Putler is done!!!!!"

    Western media clearly has been waiting for something, anything for the past few weeks considering how much Ukraine was losing.

      • Vncredleader
        ·
        2 years ago

        Losing land yes, troops and equipment? evidently not. I posted this elsewhere, but ASB points out

        There were no Russian regular Armed Forces in any of the settlements that Ukrainians have taken in the last 7 days. None of the settlements in the Kharkov Region had Russian Armed Forces regulars in them. There was Russian Rosgvardia — which is not designed nor trained to fight combined arms / face a military; as well as other Russian security forces— literally the police. There were no troops there.

        This was the fundamental mistake of the Russian Armed Forces. They did not reinforce the territories they captured in Kharkov with their actual troops. They sent secondary forces in there. This is why we see no losses of Russian troops spread by Ukrainian channels — because there were simply no Russian Armed Forces soldiers present.

        An important point that needs to be said.

        but also

        The tactical success of the Ukrainian counter-offensive is directly related to increased cooperation with American intelligence, - New York Times

        From the very beginning of the special operation, the United States provided the Ukrainian side with the information they had on the movements of Russian troops, the location of command posts, ammunition depots and other key facilities. Now, US intelligence not only shares information, but also directly participates in the planning of offensives, writes the New York Times.

        The success of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was influenced by the operational training of the special forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the organization of the operational exchange of intelligence between the United States and Ukraine. In July-August, the infrastructure for collecting and analyzing intelligence data was greatly adjusted.

        —

        However, we call bullshit on this report. From the very beginning, Americans and Brits planned every move of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and also shared every bit of information they could get their hands on. Basically any successful move of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this war was immediately declared an American win by US media, this is simply propaganda.

        The success of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is thanks to 6 months of hoarding of equipment and reserving trained forces for this exact purpose. They were sending territorial defense civilians into the meat grinder while reserving the remainder of their trained forces preciously behind the front lines.

        It took them half a year to accumulate the equipment from the west, most of which they have now lost.

        The difference between Russia and Ukraine in this successful pushback of the Russian military is that Russia can advance again, they have the hardware, ammo & weapons — pretty much endlessly. Ukraine, not so much. They’re giving it everything they got, quite literally. Everything they were able to mass up over the course of the war. They will eventually run out of the hardware and troops and will be back to square one. They’re currently outnumbering Russian Armed Forces troops 4 to 1. (Or were, when they started the Kharkov counter offensive)

        We’ve seen the Ukrainian Armed Forces counter offensive start strong in Kherson and eventually run out of steam, the same will happen in the eastern direction. As men die, hardware is decimated, Ukrainian Armed Forces have no comeback; because it’s all they got.

        Russia can risk falling back to their own borders, Ukraine cannot take free fire from Russian missiles