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.
I don’t think this can be true in a world with nuclear weapons. Unless something changes that disrupts MAD, Germany’s army could be three dudes in a field and it wouldn’t matter because open conflict with them would mean glassing the planet. The depletion of NATO’s equipment only matters in instances of proxy wars and I’m not sure where Russia is planning on invading next where that will mean anything for them. Additionally any point about depletion of arms for NATO has to be true for Russia too as they’re even more directly involved in this war. The rate of depletion may vary but it’s a double edged sword in that way.
I’d also add that most of the financial outcomes from this war are byproducts of the SMO rather than intended outcomes. Overtime the rhetoric has come to decoupling from the west but that wasn’t present in the initial casus belli for invading Ukraine and has appeared to occur in reaction to western sanctions rather than any Russian economic strategy. (Also the dollar’s only gotten stronger since the SMO’s started. Global instability has pushed the varied national capitalist classes to invest in the global hegemon as a place of safety. Seizing foreign money has hurt the image of the US as the bank at the end of the universe, but it’s still deemed the safest investment for the majority of the globe.)
The Euro’s also tanked in that same time period. The real outcome of this war has been the impoverishment of europe, tho again I struggle to see how intentional that was especially since Russia wanted to keep the gas exports to Germany flowing and it was the west that shut that down