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.
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Painting the designated enemy as willing to use nukes justifies escalation against them by convincing the populace they are depraved and evil.
Lib media fearmongering on the line of "russia bad"
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I think in this case it's a bit different as a) Russia has been trying to maintain its allies and win international support (and succeeding) and use of nukes would instantly make everybody hate them except maybe their very closest allies, and b) there's honestly not a lot that you can do with a tactical nuke that you can't do with conventional weapons. Like, even if tomorrow Putin went completely deranged and was like "That's it, let's genocide Ukraine" then he could just do that with regular weapons. Just start carpetbombing the cities and/or dropping thermobaric bombs on residential areas.
In contrast, the war was the response to years and years of failed diplomacy, it wasn't just a blind reaction because Putin woke up once day in Evil Mode.
I'm not going to say that it's impossible that Russia will nuke Ukraine, I have no idea what the Russian command is planning, it would just genuinely make no sense and would only work against their goals of creating a multipolar world.
projection
Some people inside the Russian side have entertained the idea of tactical nuclear strikes, Obama style, at least that's what I got from ASB military/battlefield insights.
Russian official public response to this has basically been "no wtf that's idiotic, ignore these fools calling for nukes".
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NATO propaganda priming westoids to believe the upcoming false flag.
Or just racism.
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Because they absolutely will if they get pushed to that point lmao
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I would expect any country with nukes to use them if their territorial integrity was at stake. Will NK nuke SK? No. But if pushed I'm certain they would to severely punish whoever tried them. It's common sense. Same with Russia vs Ukraine. If Russia is forced back to Crimea I can see them tactically nuking Ukraine. No guarantees, but can you really say 100 percent its impossible?
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And if wishes were horses we'd all have horse meat for Christmas.
Even still Russia has a no first strike policy. Russia understands MAD. It is suicide to fire nukes. Russia may be conservative but they aren't fanatical reactionaries like the west. They wont kill us all just because they lost a fight.
Check your brain worm levels. TRhey are starting to leak form your mouth.
Like almost everything the west says about what Russia is going to do, or why Russia is did anything, it is 100% projection.