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.
So they really just threw themselves into Ukraine assuming the west wouldn't do anything and Ukrainians would greet them as liberators? At this rate Russia will lose Crimea as well.
This whole thing just put more gas in the nato machine for decades
The eastern Ukrainians are greeting them as liberators, the reasons of which are clear if we're allowed to talk about history before February 24th.
The overall point that Putin thought his troops would arrive in Kiev and then the people there would put down their weapons is yet another Western talking point which I'm convinced is just projection for all the times that the western media said that that would be the case in their wars and then it didn't happen. All wars are done the same as western wars, after all!
The idea that the Russian government wouldn't know the true (general) disposition of Ukraine, a country on their borders which, over the last eight years, has had their politics been virtually defined by conflicts due to whether people living in X or Y region are pro-Russia or pro-West, is absurd to the point where I'm amazed the West got anybody to believe in it. Like, Putin saw the coup in 2014 caused precisely because some people in Ukraine deeply hated Russia, and the widespread oppression and civil war against the Donbass since then, and was just not paying attention or something.
And, no shit it put gas in the NATO machine, NATO has been arming Ukraine for years! They were deliberately trying to cause a conflict there! They were doing that to give themselves a purpose after some countries expressed that they might eventually leave NATO! Those facts are connected!
More likely they really thought a quick victory against Ukraine was possible and then they failed hard before Kiev. The west wasn't going to be much help to Ukraine for a month or so, so they planned to win in that timeframe.