October 31st's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
November 1st's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
November 2nd's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
November 4th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Today's the day I put the extra furniture I need for this place together, so that'll be a bunch of fun. Though I can post some links here and there in the rest breaks.
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.
The people in Donetsk can be either Ukrainian or Russian depending on which is the most convenient option at the time
:kind-vladimir-ilyich: I'm going to shoot anybody who makes a Schrodinger's cat joke
Well, I am Lenin. It's up to me to decide whether or not to shoot everybody here.
From Telegram:
NEW - Biden: "Inflation is a worldwide problem right now because of a war in Iraq... excuse me, the war in Ukraine. I'm thinking about Iraq because that's where my son died."
Biden's son Beau died of a brain tumor at Walter Reed National Medical Center in Maryland in 2015.
:biden-troll:
The actual international community stands unanimously united every single year against the United States’ inhumane and nearly genocidal embargo against the Cuban people, yet I haven’t seen a single media outlet talking about the international community in regards to Cuba.
I’m starting to think this whole “international community” and “rules based order” is only a cudgel the United States uses as a thinly veiled threat held over the heads of nations which dare oppose the US agenda
Remember when the media in 2019-2020 said that things were looking up and the 2020s would be the second “roaring 20s?” It is so funny to me how unaware yet humorously prophetic western media is. They predict that history will repeat, but only Good Historical Thing will come back
As we all know, Hitler came to power in 1939 upon casting a mind control spell over Germany's population that made all the soldiers victims of the Nazi party, not oppressors and mass murderers, and then went to war with the Allied powers after Hitler and Stalin sat in a room together and shouted "To evil!" in agreement, prompting the pact.
There was no history building up to this at all and any attempts to explain this in terms of material conditions or to even imply that maybe liberals and capitalism had a hand in creating Nazi Germany are wrong and misguided. Therefore, there aren't any lessons to learn from the 1920s and 1930s! Let's party like it's 1929!
Awaiting the sino-american nonaggression pact and partition of canada
According to Telegram Russia will no longer participate in UN-imposed sanctions on Korea and will resume rail traffic between the two countries.
FINISHED WRITING A BIG ASS BOOK TODAY
I think this whole art thing might be pretty cool
so twitter has introduced a "Ukraine Affiliated Media" tag ...
i wont complain...
The libs are going to go into full meltdown mode over this
"It's literally called Kiev INDEPENDENT "
:rage-cry:
Because they know what it was originally done for.
Those tags were originally used as a means of tacit condemnation of articles originating from non-Western aligned countries that the West did not like, a means of stating "this piece is something we consider to be propaganda and not to be trusted". Acknowledging that NATO aligned countries have "State Affiliated Media" means that libs have to accept, on some level, that "the good guys" use propaganda as well.
Second good thing that Elon did with twitter, other than shite on New York times
The unpinning of the thread is an act of violence against posters.
But I will not be deterred.
I will Not. Stop. Posting.
:posting:
1,300 Starlink satellites in Ukraine have been disabled due to funding issues - CNN
Ukraine's fears that its troops could lose access to Elon Musk's critical internet service Starlink intensified last week after 1,300 military satellite units were shut down.
Musk is on a roll lately
Damn, they really memory hole an important event like NS2 blowing up huh.
So I saw a post on R*ddit where it showed ukrainian troops capturing an enemy position that was operating a PM M1910 heavy machinegun. The comments are, of course, saying that Russia is about to collapse because they're using WW1-era tech. The position, in all fairness, was probably manned by LPR/DPR reservists, which are using older equipment.
There are other posts that I have seen in the past where it shows ukrainians USING PM M1910's, which is still part of the official inventory of the UA. Which is fine, I dunno, it's a good weapon for reservists I guess? it saves other more capable HMGs from being used in rear areas and shit like that. But when :reddit-logo: finds it's actually their side who's using WW1 era tech, suddenly it becomes wholesome, very clever from the ukrainians to keep even old weapons around to resist the [RACISM] invader!
Same goes with the whole T-62M fiasco, the russians are desperate that's why they're sending tanks from the 60s. Ukraine were given modernized T-55s but that's fine. Slava Ukraini, you know!
I fucking hate westerners and their "football team" logic applied to geopolitics and war.
I think guns are among the only pieces of equipment in a war where it's generally basically fine to use ones from decades ago. Certainly not ideal but it's not a big deal, a bullet is a bullet, and you're limited by what a human can see and carry and by human reaction times and aim anyway.
It'll probably be like that, just minor improvements and adjustments to weight and sights and stuff, until we get something closer to laser or energy weapons (though doing that on a large scale is questionable at best - and on a small scale it's basically impossible unless we get really good lightweight batteries or something).
Larger stuff like artillery and airplanes and tanks are when using equipment from, say, the 1970s gets very questionable, though it can also depend on their exact use (e.g. using older tanks for fire support is okay, but you won't win a tank battle with them).
Older equipment may also have reliability/maintenance advantages.
They pretty much gave up on serious use of lasers in combat. Humans move too erratically so they're really only useful for blinding them, and that and using them against bigger stuff like armored vehicles and missiles is really easy to defend against, as mirrors are cheap.
I'm glad redditors on worldnews aren't in charge of any military decision making because my skin would have probably been melted off by a hydrogen bomb already
Russia is considering further steps to take in response to its allegation that the UK was responsible for damaging the Nord Stream pipelines. The Pentagon has confirmed that there are active-duty US troops in Ukraine, but are doing “on-site inspections to assess weapon stocks” and not actually fighting, and said that this is actually perfectly fine and good and not an escalation at all (surely Russia will agree) and giving no answer to what would happen if these troops were killed.
This will expand if it is allowed.
The presence is essentially a dare, "will you dare to blow up active US troops in order to blow up these stockpiles and supplies that we're giving to Ukraine?"
If you don't take the dare, they put them deeper in the country, and deeper and deeper. Until they are everywhere and you can no longer bomb anything without provoking a war with the US.
Honestly think the Russians should call this one and blow them up. If they don't it's a bigger problem later.
