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.
I agree. The only sensible thing for Russia to do would be to hit those warehouses fast and hard, "accidentally" killing westoid troops stationed there. If they blink on this, NATO troops are going to flood the country, becoming very effective human shields and making sure this war can go on forever.
Very much this.
There's also little in the way of real reason for NATO troops to be there in the first place or claim they're not combatants. If they're inspecting weapon caches to make sure they're not falling into the wrong hands there's UN and independent weapons inspectors for that. If they're needed to make sure weapons caches don't fall into the hands of terrorists or organised crime then they shouldn't send some many weapons unconditionally. If they're literally needed to do the logistics of delivering the weapons to the front then they're soldier - in the same a way a military mechanic, or truck driver, or logistics unit would be.
No one should buy the idea that the U.S. cares about the weapons it supplies falling into "the wrong hands" anyway (unless maybe those hands are Russian).
It'll be "fun" when the images drop of U.S. troops handing weapons to men with swastika tattoos.
I mean, I don't and hopefully neither does anyone else paying attention. I was talking about excuses NATO has already given explicitly or implied.
Sure. I wasn't aiming it specifically at you. Sorry if it sounded that way.
Nah, I wasn't trying to be defensive. Probably in my own head about being clear - I've been in the pub for a while. It's all good.