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.
Danish government-affiliated broadcaster DR is bringing an article about how mainstream economists underestimated inflation. Back in may they claimed we had seen the worst and that prices would stabilise. This hasn't happened and like the rest of Europe Denmark has seen the highest inflation in four decades go on and on and on.
DR is asking economists why they were wrong and their answer seems to be "how could we have known energy prices would keep being this volatile and that businesses would increase prices gradually over several months?" which really brings into question what these clowns are actually good for. Nevertheless, after having been completely wrong the economists are back to being right again and now they predict inflation will peak during winter.
One of the economists in the article briefly mentions how the population has been able to weather inflation as household deposits in banks are as high as ever. They don't really talk about how those money are distributed. Some well-off households may have a comfortable economic buffer but at the other end of the scale things are looking a lot grimmer than you're used to see in a Danish context.
Poor households were already squeezed by austerity and welfare cuts on one side and by persons and benefits not keeping up with the general wealth development in society at the other before inflation hit. Now media is full of stories about housing associations seeing more problems with mold as people can't afford sufficient heating, an explosion in food bank use and mutual aid Facebook groups are seeing an increase in number as well as severity of desperate poor and hungry people begging for food and money.
I really like the saying that economists are just the priests of capitalism. Or like the court astrologers. And at the same time none of what is happening is a surprise to any of the Marx based economists...
An anecdote: Recently I talked to a nice and intelligent guy who had a degree in economics and had worked as one for years. We talked about politics and he mentioned a common right-wing concern trolling trope about how the current "high" unemployment benefits meant that it is simply not attractive enough to take a low wage job. You don't have to be very smart to figure out that if this claim is true to any significant degree, then there must be a sizable amount of unfilled "unskilled" positions as well as a sizable amount of unemployed workers. As an economist he should be able to say where all these jobs and workers were but it took him by complete surprise and he couldn't give an answer. He had honestly never thought of comparing these right-wing thought experiments with observable reality.
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