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.
Feels good to have the entire western world cheering on and supporting literal Nazis.......again. Does the West think that Russians have no national memory? We're inching awfully close to very destructive timeline. Does Russia decide to clear the the board, since the West will never allow them to peacefully exist?
We are the baddies. Germany may have lost WWII. But fascism was victorious. We're always going to fuck with Russia and anyone else who doesn't let western finance in to pillage. Where does this conflict go?
The number one protection you have against psy-ops is simply having a memory that lasts longer than a week.
Remember when Putin was dying, and Russia ran out of ammunition in April, and Russia's economy could only last until July?
We can't picture anyone having any sort of memory because the Western population has eviscerated theirs.
This is why 1984 is so funny. Wilson's whole job was editing and destroying old news so that it wouldn't contradict the new stuff. Turns out you don't even have to do that. You can just straight up lie and if you make it through week one everyone will forget you ever did it.
Anyone remember when our chocolate rations were 100g a week? Shut the fuck up, Russian bot!
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That reminds me of a time I was watching. :cia: Maddow and she dedicated a whole show to complaining about Trump not reading intelligence briefings.
Here's hoping we avoid nuclear annihilation long enough for Trump to become president again and his incompetence in imperialism helps bring about that new multipolar world
I still hate the man but he may be the only chance for someone who isn't going to escalate this shit to the point where we all die
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if you had told me in 2015 that in 2023 I would be worried that Trump had lost his mojo, I would have told you to fuck off. and yet here we are
Is it that he is listening to them, or is it that no one is home upstairs? Or both, maybe.
Probably, because the "West" absolutely doesn't.
Volunteer with your nearest dolphin charity today :posadas:
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Nobody asked for this war, except for millionaires and billionaires playing their games with us as the pieces. I think it’s time we flipped the board.
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