December 26th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.

December 27th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.

December 28th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.

December 30th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.

Going out with friends today and tomorrow! Next week and onwards things should return to normal and we can continue drudging through in the second year of this war.

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Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists

Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

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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.

  • Disgustus [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    Russia says U.S. intelligence services, pharmaceutical companies involved in military bio program in Ukraine

    The Russian Defense Ministry has a document with the names of key U.S. officials supervising Ukraine's military biological programs, Igor Kirillov, chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, said Saturday.

    http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/view/2022-12/26/content_10207583.htm

      • CetaceanPosadist
        ·
        2 years ago

        ever since it came out that there were biological warfare labs in ukraine i have been lathing that they end up getting captured and the russians release undeniable proof that the US started the covid pandemic

        from a dramatic storytelling perspective on reality it would be perfect

          • SoyViking [he/him]
            ·
            2 years ago

            If that happens the consent manufacturing machine would either simply bury it or paint it as ridiculous Russian lies. The world has never before seen a propaganda apparatuses as formidable as the western "free press".

              • SoyViking [he/him]
                ·
                2 years ago

                I don't consider Europe distancing itself from the Evil Empire and aligning with Russia. There might be internal bickering as the more perceptive European leaders realise that the yanks are ripping them off but a real breakup seems unlikely. Europe is too deeply entangled in the US imperial infrastructure for that to be a decision that is possible. European finance depends on wall street, European militaries depends on the American MIC and would be rendered unable to function if the tie was broken. On top of that Europe has strong ideological and cultural ties to the Evil Empire that would be extremely painful to sever.

                  • SoyViking [he/him]
                    ·
                    2 years ago

                    European rules are not the ones who will be hurting and Europe already have the ideological groundwork in place to shift blame for the hurt to politically convenient scapegoats like refugees, ethnic minorities or BadCountries. Europe will be able to make a glorious last stand for a long time and things will get get really nasty inside Europe before the structure breaks down under the weight of its own contradictions.

      • ides_of_Merch [none/use name]
        ·
        2 years ago

        what is Umbrella Corp is not a more war industry focused Amazon? Horror Vanguard pod has covered that terrible movie series extensively