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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No.
Not wanting to die for you capitalist state’s geopolitical agenda is under no circumstances cowardly or traitorous.
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You can both want Russia to defeat the fascistic government of Ukraine while also recognizing that the working class of Russia not wanting to be sent to the slaughter for some nebulous idea of a multipolar world is perfectly reasonable.
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This multipolar world order clearly already exists given how the world has (not) reacted since Russia’s actions in Ukraine, and Russia even suffering a complete defeat in Ukraine would only be a setback. This multipolar world is about the rise of China and alignment generally not being so tight to the United States
Multipolar world is more about breaking off the western financial system and force Europe and others to make a choice. They're not really "already exists" given how many countries are still using western system and afraid of backlash. By fending off western financial assault, Russia has proven that commodity is more important than whatever the west tout combine with BRI from China, it give other countries an actual choice to make, give them the leverage that you see with the like of India, gulf nations.
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Ben Norton of Multipolarista has talked about how we're already in the early stages of a multipolar world as well as it's inevitability. I don't have any links on hand to that point in particular but I was recently listening to The Deprogram (podcast) episode with him as a guest and he discussed it pretty extensively. It's a good episode in general. Worth a listen.
It's a moot point anyway, most Russians are going along with mobilization
It also seems to me (and perhaps I'm wildly off base here) that most of the people fleeing aren't necessarily the people who are being drafted. Instead it's the more wealthy and liberal people, who I don't really care about either way.
And I mean, fundamentally, do you want people who are dodging the draft fighting in your war?
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For much the same reasons that the pro-Ukraine people aren't going off to fight for Ukraine in large numbers despite believing that Putin is the antichrist himself, here to devour the Earth with his fangs.
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Because Russia isn't losing the war against Ukraine and aren't lacking in manpower even accounting for draft dodgers. It's like the difference between a British man draft dodging in 1939 and 1945. Draft dodging in 1939 means a coward who refuses to do his duty to snap the necks of fascists. Draft dodging in 1945 means not wanting to go along with consolidating bourgeois rule in Western Europe.
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The Russian start with around 100K, they just annex 4 new territories that need to fully under control and defend. Do you think that's enough? Of course they need to partially mobilize and defend those territories. Also to appease the more hawkish side of the military. As Putin said, the real hasn't start yet, it's kid play until the first missile hit Ukrainian infrastructure.