With it being overwhelmingly likely that Ukraine will receive Germany's Leopard tanks (whether from Germany itself or Poland), German tanks once again roll into battle against Russian forces after nearly a century.
Can the Leopard succeed against the Russian army where it failed in Syria? We'll find out soon enough.
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 23rd's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
January 25th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
January 27th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
January 28th'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.
The New York Crimes is now saying that Brazil punishing the coup plotters might be the death of the rule of law.
Thats the post.
Is this the article you're referring to, or are they doing a full-court press?
https://archive.is/eD4Yk "Alexandre de Moraes, a Brazilian Supreme Court justice, was crucial to Brazil’s transfer of power. But his aggressive tactics are prompting debate: Can one go too far to fight the far right?"
lmfao. not a single doubt in my mind that the NYT would have been completely behind the Freikorps
They were literally pro-slavery back in the day and wrote at least one glowing (in every sense of the word) portrayal of Hitler before WWII
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Yes. NYT is now taking their talking points from Glenn Greenwald. The idea that Alexandre de Moraes is some sort of tyrant judge is a far right talking point that ignores how often 'Moraes did a thing' means him acting with the majority of the supreme court, with the backing of other courts, or by request from other government institutions like the attorney general.
"Using a broad interpretation of the court’s powers, he has pushed to investigate and prosecute, as well as to silence on social media, anyone he deems a menace to Brazil’s institutions."
A "broad interpretation" agreed upon by everyone except the fascists, apparently.
I'm not gonna sit here and tell our American posters to hashtag VOTE but every week new revelations show that Jan8th wasn't a circus. The commander of the armed forces threatened police and the government with mutiny (which is why lula purged him). What this means is that if Bolsonaro had even a timid greenlight from a Trump Administration I'd be living under either Bolsonaro or a junta right now.
What's infuriating however is that it truly doesn't matter what we do. It doesn't matter how good we are for american capitalism. Or that we work with the US. Or that we try to maximize our peripheric economy. It doesn't matter how succdem we get, stunts like these from NYT show that even the Biden Imperium is barely interested in brazilian democracy.
The existential dread of when going online in 2 years and campaigning for the inevitable Kamala Candidacy is the only thing I can do to avert fascism in my country :doomjak:
Wasn't it Greenwald who broke the story of the Brazilian Judges secretly coordinating with the prosecution to jail Lula? Is he now pearl clutching about Lula purging corruption Glen highlighted?
Glen's right wing turn is a storied event, but apparently he was always a lolbertarian and has been a pro Bolsonaro talking head for a long time now.
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gotta ask why someone wouldn't be in favor of silencing dissenting voices if those voices are nazis
NYT: But, Black Dynamite, I enable Nazis in our community!
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Thank you for your input nyt
Now check out this drip