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.
Liberals trying to work out who's the Good Guy and who's the Bad Guy if Iran attacks Saudi Arabia will be extra funny given SA's recent snub of America and "siding with Russia" by protecting their profits (and perhaps causing the Dems to lose the midterms)
gotta be a little awkward for Russia though. hate it when your friends start fighting
Not to mention the whole Khashoggi bonesaw thing. Oh, and 9/11. Saudi Arabia's reputation is deep in the toilet. They've got all the money in the world so they have powerful partners in elite government and business circles, but that is about it. If the western elite is going to support Saudi Arabia, they are going to do it the same way they do against Yemen. Shipping weapons and sharing intelligence in complete silence. Any public support is a shit sandwich for them. They can't even spin it, so they wont.
For liberals, it is a deeply patriarchal backwards theocratic monarchy. As much as they dislike Iran, the amount of grievances which can be cited against SA by your average r/Politics fart huffing liberal is an order of magnitude longer. For chuds, it brings us back to the Ron Paul days moaning about being the world police and squandering "blood and treasure" for the sake of nation building. They are simple minded people interested only in simple solutions, like "turning the desert into glass." The only constituency for a war with Iran, partucularly on SA's behalf, is a minuscule sliver of elite John Bolton type freaks.