September 12th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
September 13th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
September 14th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on Thursdays.
September 16th's mini-update is here, because western journalists are bad at their jobs. Here's the in-thread comment.
Today and tomorrow I'm gonna be doing some prep as I'm moving in a few weeks. The updates will continue as planned on Monday.
:Care-Comrade: to you all.
Links and Stuff
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.
Really fucking awesome how a solid 75% of the people covering this war accurately are chuds who somehow managed to find the correct stance on a singular issue. Like, you read/watch their ongoing videos of the war's progress and they're like:
"So, as you can see, Ukraine is doomed, and Russia is ushering a new multipolar world out of the rotten remains of the unipolar, America-dominated one."
Yes!
"The West is full of bumbling, incompetent sycophants who have no real idea of what's going on in the world, and have lost all touch with the people they govern."
YES!
"And you know why?"
Uh oh.
"Because of Biden's idiotic immigration policies letting all the Mexicans in, and their suicidal attempts to implement a Green New Deal in America and Europe, and especially all their pronouns."
Gets real tiring after a while. I think Naked Capitalism is the only ideologically left place that I know of covering this war in any deal of accuracy, and they're not exactly calling for global proletarian revolution. This is the only place I know of that is both explicitly communist and is generally on the side of Russia versus the side of Ukraine, or at least sees through the western media's propaganda.
Moon of Alabama, Naked Capitalism, Richard Medhurst. Those are like the 3 based commentators on this conflict who are actually lefties.
Certain others are pretty neutral/inoffensive as well such as DPA
It’s pretty fun watching Chuds praising Xi Jingping for his geopolitics and you can just tell they are choking on their words
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Sounds like they had a bad take, but I’ve definitely seen them say straight up pro-Soviet and communist things before. I think for someone outside the country it might be easier to get cultural wires crossed and get confused about something that happens in another culture, not defending any take they may have had.
Also, might be news to some but boomer communists from ex-soviet areas tend to be a bit behind the times on cultural issues. That’s definitely the light that I see him in, and he still has good insight into the topics he discusses and has not said anything reactionary that I have seen - but mostly avoids those topics
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Andrei Martyanov is kind of that; not sure if he's a communist but he sure as hell hates the West and neocons. And he's the most stereotypically Russian boomer guy I've ever seen in my life; he's the mold that they use at the Boomer Ex-Soviet factory where they produce these people
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I achieved it back in March for 12 minutes, been chasing that high ever since
Also check out the conservapedia article on the Russo-Ukraine war if you want psychic damage. It’s like 95% based and true, and 5% absolutely deranged reaction
I'll note that Something Awful's CSPAM thread also largely aligns with Hexbears takes, but the nature of the forum means the cadence and detail of the conversation is a bit different.
Edit nevermind I just popped in and they're now they're attributing all deaths in this war to Russian warmongering, seems like the brainworms got to some of them
Edit edit on the whole still one of the better places