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.
Analysis
Current Affairs has an interview with Tom Wetzel, a libertarian socialist, about his book on overcoming capitalism. WSWS has a great article giving a bird's eye view of the global social movements and strikes, and how despite encouraging signs from unions, the union leadership are increasingly being corrupted by corporations and thus workers must fight to reclaim these organizations for their own use.
Moon of Alabama has an article covering the new sanctions from the EU (the eighth package? I've lost count) and how they will once again achieve nothing but harm for themselves and the decline of the West. There's also an article I barely understand about Wall Street banks and how they're doing extremely risky things that could very well result in 2008 2.0, but even worse given the current economic and energy crisis. Additionally, the Financial Times has an article on how the Bank of England saved - temporarily, at least - the United Kingdom's financial system and pensions from a near-total collapse.
Outside the imperial core, we have another article - this time by AntiWar - detailing how the Global South is revolting - kinda - against the United States and the West by not going along with the sanctions policy against Russia, resulting in the West being more isolated diplomatically than Russia is.
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