Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
Here is the archive of important pieces of analysis from throughout the war that we've collected.
January 16th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
January 17th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
January 18th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
January 20th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
January 21st'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.
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I'm not talking about relationship though. I'm talking about military capability. When this war is over, the Russian have to rebuild and reform its military, and depend on how much loss they're going to take, it's might take a few years to decade to rebuild. Which would take them out of any potential future war in west pac if that happen. While for Iran, they just got a huge protest and having economic down turn, they can't help China much unless they want to take a stab at Israel.
The Russians have fought this war with militias, Chechens, and mercenaries with regular army units largely manning the artillery, the Russian military is stronger than it was a year ago, they have thousands of tanks, APCs, missiles, and artillery pieces
Russian military capability is expanding from an already enormous peacetime baseline, their economy shrugged off the sanctions and now 300,000 new reservists are about to complete training, the Russians won this war
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Now if only the rest of Russia could do the same :back-to-me: , it's as if the kind Vladimir Ilyich was right again.
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Especially for one that will undoubtedly have less close ties with the USSR itself
It's kinda the opposite really. As the war goes on the Russia's army is working out its kinks and becoming more efficient and the government has/will ramp up production of weapons and train more personnel. They just announced they are increasing their troop numbers by 50%. Mass production of their latest jets and hypersonic missiles are under way. When/if the war in Ukraine ends Russia will be better equipped than before and will also have experienced soldiers.
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