I'll be putting up effortposts and essays on the bulletins site, both to signalboost it a little more to people who mostly use the RSS feed, and mainly also to preserve them while the site devs need to make posts and comments beyond a few months ago unsearchable. And also to have it one full piece instead of split across multiple posts/comments due to the character limit.
So if you wanna write a long piece up on something you're interested in, or summarize a book or concept similarly to @shipwreck, then you can both write it up as a post (for the internet points and comment notifications), and, if you want, let me know (or I'll ask you permission) to put it on the site.
November 28th's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
November 29th's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
November 30th's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
December 2nd's (big!) update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
December 3rd's (short!) 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.
You can tell when this thread is featured again. It's like we're in suspended animation with only the core users keeping this thread running when something else is featured in its stead, and then it's featured and suddenly the blood starts flowing again.
I never have anything valuable to say here, but this thread is part of my morning routine. Love to see what Z Gang is up to.
Russia retreats from captured bakhmut in some inscurtable strategy move
I think this is the funniest possibility
If I'm at my computer, I have a bookmark for the news subbear, but when I'm out and about the extra effort (and sometimes buggy interface) means the news subbear is harder to access.
Mainly because my attention span is absolutely destroyed so if it's not literally the first page I can't be bothered to look for it lol
Just click “Communities” in the menu and select “news”. It will show up on top.
EU Commissioner lets slip that more than 100,000 Ukrainian troops have died in the war. They edited it out for social media posts.
Zelensky will always say some completely vapid, nonsensical shit like "While you're all spending the holidays watching From Russia with Love, in Ukraine we have to deal with From Russia with Hate" and liberals will go full :soypoint-1: :soypoint-2: and it will get published as front page news in every Western media outlet.
I just realized that "Waterboarding in Guantanamo Bay" sounds great if you don't know what either of those things are.
What the heck, the forcing no strike passed in the senate but not the 7 days paid sick?? Darn it!!! Wait but the squad (yas!) worked really hard on that second bill — I mean that’s why they voted to force a no strike! What the heck is going on here?!? I don’t get it! Man the heckin squad just keeps getting out maneuvered. Darn Moscow Mitch grrrrrrr >:(
All this talk about making it illegal to be a "genocide denier" is also going to make it illegal to deny great replacement.
I am a white genocide denier.
Zelensky has accused Western countries of the "frivolous" price of the embargo on Russian oil.
"The embargo set at $60 a barrel is not a serious challenge for Russia," Zelensky said in his video message.
In his speech, he managed to express his dissatisfaction with "some of the G-7 countries that want to avoid making responsible decisions."
Local man upset with the way the deckchairs have been arranged on the Titanic, wants a re-do
I officially declare a price cap on RTX 4080. I should be able to buy it for $1 and no more
It's so funny and predictable that the libs both in China and out are selectively forgetting that (1) Jiang Zein took over after the 1989 michegoss and was picked by Deng because he managed to prevent mass protests etc in Shanghai, the lib capital of China; (2) Jiang in the end at least was pretty mean to ... that weird dance trope you always see ads about, very not #freezepeach #freedomofcult; and (3)
irrational ramble
HISTORY IS A FUCKING THING YOU CAN'T JUST BE LIKE OH LOOK JIANG WAS MORE LIBERAL THAN XI THEY ARE FUCKING CONNECTED THERE IS NO XI WITHOUT JIANG THERE IS NO CURRENT CHINA AND ALL ITS TRENDS AND CONTRADICTIONS WITHOUT JIANG'S ERA WITH ITS OWN SETS OF TRENDS AND CONTRADICTIONS YOU CAN'T IMAGINE HISTORY AS IF NOTHING BUILT ON EACH OTHER AHHHHHH.
I just find it amusing people would have a hot take on a guy they literally first learned about 30s ago after googling his name. Normal people in the west did not give a shit about China before the mid 2000s. Even today its like with the ME countries I am sure most Americans can't point to China on the map.
The 90s was all about Asia = Japan and maybe HK if you are lucky.
its funny because here in libBrazil press i'm seeing articles claiming that jiang's corruption lead to the ascension of xi
how could you mr ji
The dude was instrumental in modernizing the PLAAF. People need to give him credit for that as well.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/world/03122022
Sweden has now extradited a Kurdish refugee based on accusations of terrorism by Turkey, I'm unsure if this is the first Kurd to be actually extradited since the demands were laid out, recently another Kurd narrowly escaped being extradited on essentially identical grounds of vague association with the PKK. Another detail I've seen in Swedish circles is that the extradited man is suffering from cancer as well, which is salt on the wound.
