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.
No you’re actually wrong about that. The Russians are definitely a bunch of socially reactionary chuds but that’s not the same as being ethnic cleansing Nazis. There are the occasional Wagner Nazi sure and I’m glad to see that those guys have taken heavy casualties, but on the Russian side they’re actually very rare, a handful, whereas on the Ukrainian side well the neonazi party won 25% of the vote and were in control of the defense department and the intelligence agency, with around 30-50,000 members of outright Nazi militias. And that was before the war, before the Nazi azovs were declared to be heroes and feted in the west. Don’t forget the azovs aren’t the only Nazis there, not even close, they just happened to have the best social media game. Svoboda and right sector are not just some fringe element, they are politically dominant.
The Russians are chuds no doubt about it a bunch of socially reactionary homophobic and transphobic chuds but that’s not the same as being a Nazi. If you’re going to horseshoe theory this then do it on Reddit instead.
Maybe you’re using Nazi in the very loose and colloquial sense that Putin is an authoritarian insofar as he uses the power of the state and alliances with oligarchs to remain without serious political opposition, but that colloquial language doesn’t really work when there are honest to god actual SS idolizing nazis on just one side.
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If you are going to pretend the army wearing insignias lifted directly from actual Waffen SS are the same when you think about it as the Russian chuds then you’re engaging in an extremely superficial form of essentialism.
What they mean by Nazi is also the fact that these guys idolize the WAFFEN SS does that not compute for you?
And is that pro-NATO talking points? Please are you really on this forum while believing that Vaushite shit? You think NATO are the military wing of trans and gay liberation?
Like seriously what a fucking Reddit take to say being anti-NATO is the same when you think about it as being an insignia wearing Nazi advocating ethnic cleansing and racial purification through war.
:biden-alert:
You don’t have to support Russia if their transphobic and homophobic social policies are a bridge too far for you, sure I don’t care if that’s your line you draw that for yourself, but to take another step and insist “everyone I don’t like is a Nazi” is actually stupid especially when one side are dominated by actual waffen SS “Hitler was a liberator” Banderite Nazis.
:brainworms: