Here is November 7th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is November 8th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
I strategically retreated from doing an update on Wednesday (and I always perform tactical update withdrawals on Thursdays and Sundays) so this next one covers a bit from those two days.
Here is November 11th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
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.
Ok so tldr yes to a heavy-handed police crackdown against Islamic extremism and separatism (which are not very distinct movements) with some inmates anecdotally reporting abuse at the hands of police and administrators (ACAB even in China sure I believe this is likely true) but a huge big fucking no to forced labor camps a huge big fucking no to millions imprisoned (perhaps 40-55k over the entire years long period of the strike hard campaign in reeducation camps) and a giant fucking no to genocide. Shocking it’s not even mentioned actually, surely they looked into it. It seems to deserve a repudiation given the severity of the accusation.
The claims made in this doc aren’t very bad. I mean it sounds like some instances of non-systematic abuse which doesn’t surprise me because pigs will be pigs but overall it sounds like a relatively kinder and more integrative campaign than even the regular everyday treatment of ethnic minorities in many parts of the west with the strike hard campaign mixing swift semi-judicial action against extremism with extensive efforts to reintegrate former religious extremists or those adjacent to it. It doesn’t sound like a summer camp but it does sound a hell of a lot better than a regular western prison for example, without doubt.
Also the document reads like a hit piece with references to places like Bellingcat and an effort to incorporate Zenz’s “muh sterilizations” by misrepresenting the distribution of birth control for free to women as a human rights abuse.
All things considered, this is a nothing burger and I’m sure the BBC will soon apologize for their efforts to instigate ethnic and religious tensions in Xinjiang.