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.
Possibly, but in my mind it's more likely that it's just because Russia is concentrating troops near Kherson and the distance between Kherson and Mykolaiv really isn't that great, so conceivably Russia could defeat whatever forces Ukraine has on the front and then advance onwards towards the city.
I think - I hope - that if the false flag nuke idea is ever really planned out, then Russia would have some kind of knowledge about it in advance and would do something about it, even if it's just to complain about it to the rest of the world, and that would give us some warning to get in our bunkers.
Well, apparently today Shoigu has talked to France and Turkey about his concerns of Ukraine using a dirty bomb, so the clock has ticked ever-closer to midnight! Eastern Europe Don't Cause A World War Challenge, difficulty: impossible
Thought I saw an article on Russia evacuating Kherson as well. I was thinking they both maybe prone to flooding, idk
as always I very much hope your right man, but I'm not holding my breath. Remember seeing these "oh yeah sure maybe Russia will advance to Nikolaev next week and then Odessa soon after, who knows!" back in April already. Sorry Russia, I keep rooting for you but feel increasingly dumb for doing that. You'll have your hands full with Soledar and Bakhmut and holding Kherson, remember when everybody said those would fall in late August for sure?
Eh, I know I shouldn't treat this like a goddamn soccer match or something. I'll meditate on my shortcomings (and keep trusting the plan™)