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.
bahahaha, my dude, you would have cheered for every single war in American history. you would have complained the Japanese internment camps didn't go far enough.
one of Matt's (from chapo) sayings that I have drilled into my skull is, to paraphrase, "a value is only a value if you stick to it when under pressure; otherwise, it's simply an affectation." many people say they are pacifists when their country isn't at war with The Big Bad Enemy. you are actually a pacifist if, despite the media and everybody around you saying that we must fight The Big Bad Enemy, you still believe that we shouldn't be at war.
if this war has done anything, it has been the final nail in the coffin for the idea that the zoomers would see through American propaganda better than their parents and grandparents before them. the zoomers are just as mentally susceptible to these techniques, just in slightly different ways given their digital upbringing. the millennials and zoomers and gen alpha and every generation hence will follow the boomers into deranged fascist nationalism so long as their material conditions are better than those outside the imperial core.
your grandparents might hate the vietnamese or japanese, your parents might hate muslims and arabs, and if you're the average 10 to 30 year old, you probably hate the russians and chinese. your children will hate whoever is The Big Bad Enemy in 20 years time, and on it will go until the empire collapses from without or the last freshwater source in America dries up after the entire continent is converted into a gigantic golf course or a runaway carbon release makes the atmosphere unbreathable or nuclear armageddon is started because America can't bear to lose a single island miles off the coast of China or we get hit by a giant asteroid due to Musk's epic mining program or something else.
Great example of this right now in the LabourUK sub of libs shidding and farding out their doodoo ass about Jiminy Crumbin, a man with actual principle, wanting the war to stop and for negotiations to start immediately.
No wonder they had to take him out.
Jeremy is the center of the anti-Semitic conspiracy that Palestinians are human beings.
It's very funny that his anti-Semitic crime was a Seder dinner with a bunch of anti-Zionist Jewish shitposters.
i am hitting the griddy for ukraine
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Thank you for reminding me that the generation gaps are an op to divide us. If we're equally terrible, then that means we all have equal potential to be better.