Latest updates on the Special Xmas Operation, raging inland from the Blue States ordered by Soviet Communist Brandon.

  • The new defense lines of the southwestern salient at New Mexico has been hardened after Blue forces gave up Colorado, surrounded as it was on 3 sides.

  • In the northwest, Blue offensives are making incremental progress into Idaho and some parts of Montana. The fighting is bitter now due to the cold.

  • The massive strongholds and disadvantageous terrain around the Rustbass, of course comprising Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Indiana, continue to hamper Blue attempts to make progress, but the Reds are for some reason refusing to evacuate from Pittsburgh, which is the lynchpin of defensive lines in this area. Columbus and Cincinnati would be immediately threatened by the breakdown of Red defensive lines here.

  • The attempt early on in the war to take Florida and seize the key location of Mar A Lago has been long debated, such as on the purpose of the assault, and its efficacy. When Brandon said he was withdrawing forces from there as a good will gesture for negotiations, we were and remain perplexed, but the distance of the supply lines leading there must have been simply too long to be maintained.

  • Much speculation remains of whether Canada will eventually join in the combat to threaten the northern positions of the Reds, such as in the Dakotas.

  • On a personal note, I'm getting pretty tired of all this talk of the Ghost of Orlando and the calls of Slava Christmasi. And it's pretty fucking obvious which side is shelling the Shearon Harris nuclear power plant.

December 19th’s update is here on the site and here in the comments.

December 20th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.

December 21st's update is here on the site and here in the comments.

December 23rd's update is here on the site and here in the comments.

Supreme Dictator Brandon is sending me to the snowball-pocked frontlines of the Special Xmas Operation on Xmas Eve and Xmas Day where I will be assuming my role of shooting down fireworks and making snowmen to distract enemy fire. Luckily I will only be spending two days there because I'm an entitled millennial and nobody wants to work anymore, and I will be back at home with my avocado toast on Monday.

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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.

    • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Yes; and I think it's yet another case of the Iron Law of Western Projection that people in the West say things like "Oh, I bet Putler's feeling so owned that we deceived him into buying Ukraine more time to arm itself against his insane war of brutal aggression!"

      Idiots. Putin bought Russia time to prepare itself for NATO's war of aggression against them. They're angry that Russia didn't immediately collapse and all they can do now is try and pretend that he's as owned as they are.

        • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]
          ·
          2 years ago

          This is the part I don't get. Back when I was a LIB I figured that the UK and USA were on the edge of making peace with Russia so they could unite Russia with the west against China. I was under the mistaken idea that "democracy" fighting against Communist China was more important than cold war grudges. Western warmongering isn't about ideology, self interest or even survival. It isn't even racism honestly I don't understand how they choose who to hate and start pointless wars with.

            • Disgustus [he/him]
              ·
              2 years ago

              I think the logic was described quite well by Mearsheimer when he said “we’re going to be the 800 pound gorilla in the room.” His summary of the American imperial project is more or less “someone’s gonna do it so let’s make sure it’s us.”

              It’s basically prison logic. “If we are the biggest and baddest mother fucker in the room, then we are safe.”

              It’s a kind of toxic concept of preemptive self defense that grows from the genocidal colonialism. There is a cultural assumption that if they aren’t putting their boot on your neck then you’re going to put your boot on their neck.

            • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]
              ·
              2 years ago

              At this point, I think it’s the deranged delusions of grandeur of the elite in America that feel the need to conquer

              Well sure but even the most delusional yanks realize they cant take on Russia and China at the same time. NATO barely won the cold war and even then it wasn't because they won militarily but because USSR's leadership got usurped by traitors. For the west to antagonize Russia who seemed pretty satisfied with their situation in the early 2000s while also being scared shitless of the rise of China makes no sense.

          • wrecker_vs_dracula [comrade/them]
            ·
            2 years ago

            There are still those that wave the red flag in the RF. They were not all killed or driven into hiding. Perhaps the West has unfinished business.