October 17th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary!
October 18th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary!
Next update will be next Friday, but I'll be poking around the thread during that time. Next thread will go up on Monday like usual.
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.
Unironically I’m starting to think the joke strategy for Taiwanese reunification of just passive aggressively building a bridge to Taiwan is actually not a horrible idea lmfao
That would be very good, actually
Without considering national security, Taiwan would be stupid to not want it really. It would be such a huge economic benefit that even capitalists would be all in on it, completely undermining politicians being against it for independence purposes
until the intelligence state blows it up bc its cozying up to communists or whatever theyll say. they will definitely say, however, that china and/or russia did it to sow tension
it would be preceded by months or years of elected american officials giving statements about their steadfast opposition to the bridge, including at least one undersecretary and the president both saying the bridge will be stopped only a few months before they allege that China blew up their own bridge in a false flag attack
Quite the long fucking bridge though, 100km approx just using the little scale in the corner of Google maps. Maybe a tunnel would work better?
Nvm; the longest bridge in the world is 168km and is in China, proven wrong immediately lmao
Five of the ten longest bridges in the world are in china :xigma-male:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danyang%E2%80%93Kunshan_Grand_Bridge in case anyone else is curious
Great Wall :dean-frown:
Great Bridge :dean-smile:
If you think about it, the Great Wall is just a bridge over land
:thinking-about-it:
Do Taiwanese not regularly go to the mainland and mingle with people? Cause this is how you get mingling and understanding.
They did before COVID. Not sure now.
The US/UK could just blow it up, reunifying them again for approximately 4 hours until it was fixed.
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Status quo is the most popular, and China willing to wait and negotiate. But the current yank puppet in Taipei break the status quo and reject the 1992 consensus and now hammer the populace with constant propaganda of sinophobia. Of course China have to meddle or it’ll turn into another Ukraine situation
This user above likes the Ukraine situation and defends the Kiev government
I don’t like the Ukraine situation… you sound unhinged lol
You have repeatedly defended the Maidan coup and said compared Ukraine to Palestine. You comments have been removed several times and you keep doing it, check the modlog if you don’t believe me
Lol I haven’t once defended or given any opinion one way or the other on Ukraine’s actions prior to the invasion. The last 2 comments I’ve had removed were ones where I called richest man on earth Elon Musk a dipshit and I think another comment where I criticized Putin for saying this war was necessary to combat the gay propaganda of the West or something similar the other week. Pretty sure the Ukraine = Palestine thing I walked back in my next comment but that was in reference to the rhetoric a Russian military leader had been using.
But sure just blatantly lie that I’ve “repeatedly defended the Maidan coup” while I’ve never done so in my life lmao
Edit: never mind none of my comments on Putin’s homophobia were removed, 2 were sarastic Elon comments and the other was the Ukraine comparison with Palestine one, all were dumb comments that warranted removal I suppose but I’ve still never defended NATO or the Maidan coup on here.
Lmao. Love that you always show up to defend Ukraine and Taiwan and compare Russia to Israel
It’s not “meddling” for China to do things in China.
I've heard the same, but unfortunately I don't think the people of Taiwan realistically have a say in their own fate here. This is a conflict between China wanting their island back and America wanting to keep their colony. Taiwanese civilians are just caught in the crossfire.
With this plan they would at least get a nice bridge out of it.
A sweet long ass bridge is always nice. China has some very long ones already but I’d be scared traveling on that one with the US lurking in the water
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No they don't. The government of Taiwan wants Reunification just as much but under their ( fascist ) government not the CPC. Both Taiwan and mainland China agree that there is only 1 China. The only argument is over which government is the real one, the communists government or the that fascists government.
RoC and all its supporters are Crypto-Fascists.
I was referring to the majority of people not the government. I’m pretty sure only a small minority want to either actively move toward reunification or declare independence right now. According to this poll the majority want to maintain the status quo for the time being: https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/PageDoc/Detail?fid=7801&id=6963