September 26th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Next thread here. Sorry, the threads start breaking down at above 1000 comments.
edit: I've found a number of sources to use, mostly based on analysis rather than purely event reporting. I've kept some of the better mainstream sources, but I decided that I was gonna cut the six most aggravating sources out entirely: NYT, WaPo, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, and Politico. I'm not yet sure if I have enough for fully fledged updates (or maybe eventhe new material is too much) so I will do tomorrow's update with what I've found so far, and if I think I need more, I will add more. Unless I managed to get it just right the first time, I think I will end up iterating over the next week towards the best balance of lots of good sources that don't take too much time to sift through.
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.
ASB says...
The “sabotage” on the NS 1 & NS 2 pipelines:
We’ve studied this for the last 14 hours.
There are 3 things you need to understand about these pipelines:
These pipelines were Russia’s leverage over Europe. Massive leverage. Russia doing this is effectively political self-destruction. Not only in terms of economic profit, but in terms of strategic leverage over the EU bloc amid the conflict in Ukraine.
These pipes are built with concrete reinforced steel. They are made to withstand an impact from aircraft carrier anchors. They are basically indestructible without explosive charges.
The only realistic way this could have been carried out is via submarine/ship launched underwater drones.
There are only 3 countries that actively use this technology: USA, Russia & possibly China.
This means that there are gonna be fragments in the area, fragments of the explosives / drones used to destroy those pipelines.
US Navy warships and submarine were active in those exact areas a few days ago.
Spiegel reports that in summer, USA notified Germany about a possible Ukrainian attack on the NS pipelines.
There’s currently no evidence against the US, Russia nor — Ukraine (Ukraine does not have the capability to carry out such an operation)
Make your own conclusion
(Obviously it was the Dutch)
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Cant wait for phase 3 when his mortal shell cant contain him any longer and he transforms into a Lich.
Gonna have to gather my guild for a run in lich king brandons fortress of ramblings
It doesn't matter how well your raid performs; a cinematic shows you all getting struck down as Corn Pop shows up to deal the final blow. He's just that bad of a dude. :troll:
Seal Team could easily do it with an SDV launched from a sub.
But can they shut the fuck up about doing it is the real question
It would be funny if some seal goon spilled the beans on twitter or something.
Just to one-up the guy that got Osama: "I started ww3, bro"
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it's obviously president Xi in a scuba suit, explaining his disappearance
I highly doubt that. ROVs have been around since the 60s, and as far as I know the pipeline isn't in especially deep water. Strapping a couple of packs of C4 to an ROV isn't cutting edge technology. They're in wide use by companies that deal with any kind of undersea structure - cables, pipelines, offshore rigs of any sort.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remotely_operated_underwater_vehicle