Iran's recently been causing some hubbub in South America. Back in early February, Panama allowed Iranian naval ships to sail through the Panama Canal so long as they abided by international norms, an act which has angered the United States. And more recently, Iranian warships were allowed to dock in Brazil - despite pressure on Lula from both Israel and the United States - with Ted Cruz making some rather lackluster threats.
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.
March 6th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
March 7th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
March 8th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
March 10th's update is here in the comments.
I'm gonna be researching and writing up an effortpost on rare earth elements and how China owned the West in that field over the weekend so no update on Saturday.
I'd also like to bring to your attention another effortpost I've put on the site, by @ComradeRat, in response to a question about early Marxist thinkers and terminology, like "historical materialism" and "scientific socialism", and who exactly invented these terms and were they misused by others later on, etc.
Links and Stuff
American anti-war rally on March 18th by left groups!
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 decent analysis. Avoid the comment section.
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 relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the warzone.
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 ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist (but still quite reactionary in terms of gender and sexuality and race, so beware). If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ Another big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia's army.
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
Almost every Western media outlet.
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.
NYT: Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, U.S. Officials Say
that is some amazing ass-covering right here. They are desperately trying to create a counter narrative to Sy Hersh's reporting
The constant hypocrisy and double standards of the mainstream liberals and their outlets have been driving me increasingly up the wall over the last few weeks.
Russians are fighting with shovels because they're stupid and they suck and they're out of weapons and they're gay and oh they took Bakhmut.
The Nordstream - USA connection is bullshit because the Hersh guy used anonymous sources, anyway these anonymous sources say it was actually this undetermined "pro-Ukrainian group".
Medvedev: "The Soviet Union actively contributed to the death of the colonial system in the world. Now we, together with other countries, can drive the last nail into the coffin of the neo-colonial aspirations of the Western world."
:agony-consuming: WHY DO WE HAVE TO DO THIS WITH CAPITALIST RUSSIA THIS WOULD BE SO MUCH COOLER WITH CHINA AND THE USSR ON THE SAME TEAM
So every lib and their mother criticised Seymour Hersh for using anonymous sources claiming (in detail) that the US blew up the Nord Stream pipelines.
Coincidentally just a couple of weeks later NYT comes out with an article citing anonymous US intelligence sources (trust me bro), that it was actually pro-ukrainian quasi-amateurs did it. No details or followups or anything. This supposed to be the preeminent newspaper on the planet.
Did I get this right?
So it definitely wasn't Russia, as every reasonable person already knew, and now they want to feed us that some random pro-ukrainians did it without US intelligence involvement?! :doubt:
If we lived in a normal timeline this would be on the frontpage of every newspaper in Europe. But then again in a normal timeline none of this would have happened.
European politicians are jumping to no conclusions regarding new allegations of Ukrainian involvement in pipeline sabotage.
A senior EU diplomat also warned "against the danger of falling into the trap of Russian narratives."
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well you see, the reason the west doesn't have hypersonic missiles is because they are actually bad weapons and the stoopid Russians haven't realized this yet :rage-cry:
Western media shedding tears over the death of Dmytro Kotsiubailo, one of the leaders of right sector, who said he'd feed russian children to his dogs. I'm not even surprised anymore.
The Academy Awards rejected Zelensky's request to hold a speech during the ceremony. That was not very slava ukraini of them :(
