October 10th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
October 11th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
October 12th's update is here!. TLDR? Here's the summary!
No updates on Thursdays.
October 15th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Just an update on my situation: I'll almost certainly be moving within the next week or two. The last update for a little while will be next Wednesday, the 19th. I'm going to then take a break to set things up, get to know my surroundings and such. I hope to be ready to start doing this again on the 28th, but I will post that week's megathread on the 24th.
After that, I will hopefully be able to keep doing this more consistently and things will get less busy than they have in recent weeks. I strongly appreciate all the compliments I get and I'm glad to be part of such a great community! :Care-Comrade:
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.
Why do they use so many catchphrases like "If not us, who? If not now, when?" that shit sets off my alarms really hard. Reminds me of "We Are Legion. Never forgive. Never Forget." and they even use the guy fawkes masks elsewhere in the channel.
How long have they been around and do they have anything outside of Telegram?
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https://i.imgur.com/h5yLdwV.png
:funny-clown-hammer:
That'll stop the war effort. Those six Swedish Stalinists who secretly run the Kremlin will have to skip work to scrub their door clean.
:picard:
Travelling to another country to own the tankies because they don't promote sending weapons and bombs to arm nazis.
My mental image is them scrolling on their phones as trainloads of ammunition and artillery rolls past them to fascist paramilitaries in Ukraine and being like:
"Okay, the Sweden Stalinist Party... disbanded... the Party of Marxist Leninists of Sweden... only three members, used to be five but they started a different party... ooo, how about the Stalinist Party of Sweden? That has a full twenty members, they meet up the second Sunday of each month and pretend they've read all of Das Kapital! Let's go get 'em!"
:stalin-gun-1: :stalin-gun-2: but it's a jet washer.
🔫:stalin-gun-2:
This somehow came out even better than I imagined it.
:hahaha:
:sus-deep: :sus-deep: :sus-torment:
Imagine living in the west and thinking "Stalinists" are the big bad event you need to prioritise your energy at.
A fascist party founded by literal SS volunteers just won the Swedish election and these clowns are doing petty crime to a small leftist reading circle?
liberal moment
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so they're CIA assets, neat
Cuz it's :fedposting:
Yeah that was my immediate suspicion. Digging through the VK and finding that they regularly share Navalny stuff "but we totally don't support him because we're anarchists wink wink" was the nail in the coffin for me.