October 3rd's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
October 4th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Just a heads up - I'm doing more prep on Wednesday as I'll be moving in the near-to-mid future, so it'll be a four-update week.
October 7th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
October 8th's update is here! TLDR? [Here's the summary.
Next thread here!
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.
thats like gouging your eye out because a dust mote fell on it. I hope they do it.
I mean, is it? Can these states even hold together without American weapons? Saudi Arabia exists purely because the Saudi family became clients to the British Empire after WWI. Can they actually afford to defect to the burgeoning China-Russia-Iran alliance?
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Also, they probably think that Trump will get in power position again in 2024 and Brandon admin are f*cking up too much right now and have zero leverage.
Weapon sales are much more important to the american ruling elte than whatever amount of oil they are not selling. As long as those weapons sales are made money is entering america. And the failsons have cushy jobs in the arms industry.
I agree saudi would collapse in a short time without us suport. It may even collapse any day now with us suport it is a very fragile regime. The houtis alone can do it. Internal friction amongst the royals can do it. Revolution headed by an opressed religious majority can do it.
Both china and russia sell weapons to saudi.
Edit also if they lose in yemen the us loses a very important strategic crossing and eventually al the oil..
The US f*ck the Middle East so badly, that the Saudi royal have them by the ball because majority people in ME hate the yank, and their proxy ins'treal. The yank need to be careful here.
We can all agre on one thing death to america.
Like, the Saudi has been buying up Chinese weapons lately, so they're diversifying. Even UAE cancel the orders of F35 after knowing that they need software that the yank held. As long as China has tech breakthrough ( which they will consider the amount of stem graduates they have), and brings in money, the Saudi will shift position. Also, Isn'treal is still there, and they have a lot of enemies.
To put it another way saudi is a pupet because it buys a lot of very expensive very usles american weapons. It may be irksome that they are taking the cas when their overlord wants to keep oil prices low. But all that money is going back to the usa eventually. More imoortantly its going back to the usual suspects.