I'm having increasing difficulty maintaining the time and energy to put into these updates, especially after having moved. My earlier rhetoric about doing this until the war ended (or past that) sounds increasingly foolish now that the war won't be won, militarily at least, for many months longer. I'm also returning to academia soon, which will keep me very busy, and also want to get back to reading theory more, as I've had less time for that, and my reading list is building up.
My choices are thus:
a) fully 'hit da bricks' and stop the updates and the megathreads (presumably somebody would take over posting them, at least while the war continued);
b) stop the updates but maintain the megathreads, posting some of the most important pieces (e.g. from MoA, Naked Capitalism, etc) I find in a few times per day;
c) maintain the updates and the megathreads, but prune the updates to the point where I'm essentially just posting headlines. And might mean that I also couldn't post summaries as, well, I'm not really reading the articles (and the difference between the update and the summary would be fairly negligible anyway).
I don't think the first option is necessary, but I also don't know how useful the third option would be to people. Like, this isn't (just) some kind of self-actualization exercise for me to know more about the news, nor a blog really, it's meant to be a resource. But I'm fine with doing just the headlines, it would take like an hour every day which is a time investment I'm comfortable with. The debate I'm having with myself is whether, at that point, if I'm really filling a niche - i.e. if there are better resources if all you want are the important headlines.
So I'm split between b) and c), essentially.
But for now...
Here is November 14th'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.
:xigma-male: scolding Trudeau face to face on camera lmao https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1592851147684868096
LMFAO actually amazing
Hilarious that Trudeau was still trying to punch in with “in Canada we believe in a free and open dialogue” and Xi is just like “… yeah ok so anyway, try doing that then?”
Bro is literally in charge of the world’s second largest tract of tundra that fumbled its way into being a vassal state of an empire and thinks he has the right to be condescending, scold, and dictate the terms of conversation to the leader of 1/7th of the world’s population (who does genuinely seem to be trying to have an honest and open conversation, given how frustrated he seems at the fact it isn’t). Hubris at best, but in reality most likely internalized colonial mindset and racism.
always is
Yep can-ada is one of the coutries that pises me the most because of this. Its just empty posturing and legalism bullshit. Yet its a completly criminal regim.
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What really pisses me of is that they beleve their laws should apply everwhere. For example when they grabed that chinise lady she is not can-adian why should she care about some iranian sanction? And then all the can-adians in social media "we cant just release them we are a bation of laws" like come n your laws are bullshit. And in any case they shoulndt apply to non can-adians.
Turd-eau does the same thing here reverting to some bullshit about "in canada we bla bla" Parafrasing bernard shaw the customes of your island are not fisical laws you savage
Many white countries are like that i can sort of understand it from the us since its obcenly powerfull. But can-ada sweeden? It really pisses me of. Imagine if said nigeria pulled that shit everyone would be calling it a rouge state and rigthly so.
So yhea sorry you are canadian. But your coutry is a rouge state in my book and thats without considerin its arming of terrorists.
I dont really mimd the hipocricy you mention. Everyone does that to a point. But the legalism and the idea that it aplies to everyone else is the problem.
Well Atleast we got this instead of the putin vs Zelensky boxing match.
How much prep time does Putin have and is Zelensky allowed to be on coke?
I feel like while Zelensky would win in the end simply because Putin is very old, Putin must have some martial arts or KGB tricks up his sleeve so it wouldn't be an instant KO
He’s a judo black belt iirc which is incredibly impressive but irrelevant in a boxing match. Also he is v. old
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Alleged Chinese interference with the previous election According to some unknown source within the Canadian intelligence
What a tool. I'm ashamed that my last political action as a Canadian was to vote for that muppet in 2015... but I did it for legalized weed... that I never got to partake in.
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