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.

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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.

  • StalinistApologist [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    After weeks of resistance, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that, along with allies, the country would provide 88 of the battle tanks to Ukraine, effectively giving Kyiv more firepower to launch new offensives. The Biden administration was also expected to announce a deal to send 30 M1 Abrams tanks to the country.

    Germany is sending the Hitler number of tanks?

    https://www.yahoo.com/now/putin-lackeys-lose-minds-over-143837232.html

    • companero [he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      It's pretty fucking sus. You are literally the Nazi country and you are sending tanks to fight Russia again. The least they could do is go out of their way to avoid Nazi symbolism.

        • VILenin [he/him]
          ·
          2 years ago

          I used to joke that libs think fascism is when swastika but now I realize that even if Zelensky changed his name to Adolf Hitler, adopted the Swastika as the national flag, and started holding book burnings and nazi rallies, they would still find a way to justify it.

        • Azarova [they/them]
          ·
          2 years ago

          Libs: Akshually it’s called psychological warfare and it’s to scare and demoralize the Russian soldiers. I don’t see anything wrong with it.

          Maybe I'm misremembering, but I could've sworn someone here posted a lib saying pretty much exactly this in the early part of the war

      • World_Wario_II [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        Azov was trained on the same parade grounds in Germany that the SS and Wehrmacht were. They see 0 issue with this.

          • World_Wario_II [he/him]
            ·
            2 years ago

            If approved, the new training regimen would take place at a US Army base in Grafenwoehr, Germany, where the US conducts its own combined arms training. The base is also home to the Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine.

            A German official told CNN that Berlin has not received an official request from the US concerning additional training for Ukrainians in Grafenwoehr.

            https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/30/politics/us-military-expanding-training-ukraine/index.html

            The training area was established in 1907, and used to train troops for the III Royal Bavarian Corps.[2][3] Undergoing a major expansion from 96 to 230 square kilometers in 1938, the base was used by the Wehrmacht to practice blitzkrieg tactics.[4][5] During the course of the war a myriad of different units were trained in the area, including foreign volunteers of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS, as well as four divisions of the Italian Social Republic's National Republican Army.

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafenwoehr_Training_Area

            This article only says Ukrainian forces generally, but I did see articles and images earlier in the war of Azov and nationalists training at Grafenwoehr on blitzkrieg tactics

    • SoyViking [he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      The US and Germany is sending a two-digit number of tanks, each with different supply chains (both of which are yet to be established) and training requirements from the tanks already used. Surely, this will break Putin's back.

      • BowlingForDeez [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        Luckily fuel is so cheap in Europe right now for those extra heavy Abrams.

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

      remember when Michael McFaul debated Mearscheimer and randomly claimed to have "EIGHTYEIGHT arguments" about the Ukraine war?