I have pondered for a week about how I'm going to cover world events and especially this war in the long term, without losing my mind (and a significant amount of time on my behalf) staring into the abyss that is modern-day journalism.
My solution, so far, is what you can see. The update itself and the summary have performed a fusion dance, becoming a single entity (who even reads thousands of words almost every day just for news?). Only the headlines will be posted, except when a short excerpt from the article is particularly good at summarizing the article's contents (or when the article has a clickbaity headline). To save character space, all links to media will be archived, except for a few special cases like blogs (e.g. Michael Roberts, Naked Capitalism), instead of just the more MSM-y sites.
To the loyal people with attention spans of steel who have been here since the beginning, back when the war looked like it would be over before the first leaves started falling off the trees - yes, I agree, it does look frighteningly similar to what I initially did before the bulletins site was a thing. Just with a different categorization system. Time is a flat circle, after all.
Anyway:
November 21st's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
November 22nd's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
November 23rd's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
November 25th's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
November 26th's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
Links and Stuff
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
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. I recommend their map more than the channel at this point, as an increasing subscriber count has greatly diminished their quality.
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. Beware of chuddery.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are fairly brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. The Duran, of which he co-hosts, is where the chuddery really begins to spill out.
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 ~ Now rebranded as Battlefield Insights, they do infrequent posts on the conflict.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
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 ~ One of the really big pro-Russian (except when they're being pessismistic, which is often) telegram channels focussing on the war. 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. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
Any Western media outlet that is even vaguely liberal (and quite a few conservative ones too).
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.
My update from Belarus is that nothing much is happening. The price caps seem to be actually working, the inflation went down 2% year on year this month, no shortages. Oh, and McDonald's is rebranding into "Vkusno i tochka" too, like in Russia. The dollar is getting cheaper. I sold my $$$ a year ago for 2.49 BYN per 1 USD to make a bank deposit with the crazy interest rate of 22%. Today, even without the interest, I can buy more dollars for the initial amount I used as the deposit (2.44 BYN per USD). This is unheard of in Belarus, where year on year the inflation of 6-10% is just normal (15% as of this month y/o/y) and the USD was heavily used as a reserve currency by households and to sell exports.
edit: oh, and unlike in Russia, :lukashenko-tired: is just not letting foreign companies of any significance sell their stakes in companies they own here. there's a rolling list of companies whose fin assets will be frozen if they try doing that. he also said that those companies that really want to leave will be nationalized. idk how these two things may work together but here we go
Price caps that work: If you break it we will throw you in jail and you don't have any alternatives to selling at the capped price.
Price caps that doesn't work: If you break it we can't do anything besides seething and coping and you can just sell your stuff somewhere else.
a good amount of businesspeople have actually been prosecuted already, yes. 3-4 hundred last time i checked. idk, it's brute force a bit, but the administrative resource is what Belarus really has. the expectation is they will trim their logistics, remove intermediaries, not fire people or cut their salaries. still to be seen what comes of this
Hungary is a great example for the second one.
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ahh, i guess i must now! they haven't changed the signs yet, so i'm waiting for that at least. i imagine not much will change supply-chain-wise. and yes there's a sort of potatoes grown here that's long enough to be french-friable by McDonals's standards
By the way, how are people in Belarus feeling about the war? Would they like to get more involved or are they yearning for freedom?
Freedom from what lol? Idk, at my work, and that's the IT industry where a good amt of ppl gave the country quite some trouble during the attempted color revolution in 2020, my colleagues are chill af, they're buying apartments and raising cats. They don't talk about the war much. My impression, really, if you don't go online, is that nothing extraordinary is happening here at all. But then again I'm working with highly educated people, not just programmers, so that's just one perspective.