Given that the map has a tendency to not move for extended periods of time, and this is technically the all-encompassing news thread and not just the Ukraine War thread, I do want to try putting other images for the thread.
I'm undecided about what exactly to put there though. I can think of two ways of doing it: a) doing a similar thing to the general megathread where we pre-plan a topic or concept to display every week and have a small description about it, or b) get an image of an important news event that has happened, maybe over the weekend before the thread switches, and display that instead.
I would appreciate thoughts and feedback.
Regardless, I will continue linking the map in the post text here.
Here is the archive of important pieces of analysis from throughout the war that we've collected.
January 2nd's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
January 3rd's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
January 4th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
January 6th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
January 7th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
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.
Reminder that the Squad could have blocked Pelosi the same way these 20 Republicans are blocking McCarthy.
Briahana must be having a feels day on her podcast
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I mean yeah, but what would the point have been? We get Jefferies 2 years earlier? Or we get a vote on M4A where 300+ congressmen vote down a bill and the media gets to talk about how unpopular socialism is in America?
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I think the goal for healthcare reform more or less died with the Sanders campaign. The left in the United States doesn't have political power in any meaningful sense at the federal level regardless of if they're competent or not.
The good news is that there's still a chance to make an argument for improving healthcare because long covid is going to continue to ravage the population and healthcare prices are only going to continue to go up. The bad news is also that covid is going to continue to ravage this country and healthcare prices are going to continue to go up.
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Why would we get Jefferies? They shouldn't vote for him either.
And I don't mean for the dumb "force the vote" thing, I just mean to not let that ghoul become Speaker again. Vote for Barbara Lee or anyone remotely better than Pelosi then just keep going until the rest give in and switch from Pelosi the same way McCarthy is currently slowly losing votes.
Hell yeah. The left is plenty good to play wreckers in our own ranks but can't do it to that god awful DNC give me a fucking break
Because my understanding is that most of the people against Pelosi being speaker at the time were against her because she was old, not because she was meaningfully different from their politics.
McCarthy, and the Republicans, don't have an agenda because it's a split house. If the Squad tried to do this they would be obstructing the CARES Act, which had provisions that literally reduced child poverty by 50% and gave people $1200 stimulus checks. They would have been blamed for that. Also on the heel of Trumps presidency having Democrats come into power only not to be able to govern would have been unfavorable to them, especially the squad.
Who cares if they're blamed for anything? You know that's the game right? They WILL blame the left for everything and anything, it's like the Parenti quote. It's able to reflect so badly on the left because no one is principled and we're constantly trying to play damage mitigation instead of actually trying to make the DNC fail/collapse to be replaced by a better party.
I do not particularly care if they're blamed for things, because as you said it is in the medias interest to blame the left for everything. If you're saying that the squad should have not voted for the speaker (Nancy Pelosi or whoever) for two years and let funding for COVID vaccine rollouts, stimulus checks, etc. not be secured then that's ignoring the material difference that the bill made, which I think is not a good strategy even excluding the less material consequences.
I did like that money but I never got my 2000 dollars. I would say compromise was short sighted tactics in absence of a (better, longterm) strategy (the left has no strategy, we can't even agree on shit). Whatever good the bill did was part of center right democratic strategy for reelection politics that would have been done anyway. We are not coherent as a political block. We are not important as a political Block. Our only goal in the DNC should be a limited hangout to eventually supplant the DNC with a US labor/movement party. The Democrats are riding the DSA to its grave.
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Yeah, Dems decided to half child poverty and then let it go back. They're fucking useless, but at the time the child tax credit was popular and more importantly, substantial in eliminating child poverty and helping working families.
The point is to TRY. No one will fight for a "left" that won't fight for them. Who gives a shit about craven politicians trying to secure a career in Washington and only giving lip service to special interests instead of FIGHTING for a universalist program.
You are putting the cart before the horse. It’s not bourgeois politicians and left-liberal reformists who are going to suddenly start fighting for the working class, and then the working class will align behind them - instead the working class needs to begin forming consciousness and the organized working class must put forward it’s own representatives who are subject to discipline.