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!
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.
Brazilian vice president Hamilton Mourão said that the transition process will proceed normally and prefers to avoid saying whether he or Bolsonaro will be responsible for passing the presidential sash to Lula.
Bolsonaro confirms he will leave the country during Lula’s inauguration.
lol
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.
