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The devil went down to China,
He was goin' to give Xi a spiel
He was in a bind, pension reform enshrined
And he was willin' to sit and kneel
Image from this Politico article.
Macron (and Ursula von der Leyen, though nobody seems to care about her) went to Beijing, with the initially stated aim of trying to convince Xi Jinping to bring Russia to its senses. Obviously, the Chinese were entirely uninterested in this given that they had just formed an alliance in all but name with the Russians, and the two countries are now united in both long term economic deals, and also in their opposition to the Western bloc.
Macron's visit has, unexpectedly for me, been an interesting one. It sometimes feels like every media source I see has an entirely new outlook on what happened. But one thing is for certain: the western media appears to be quite annoyed by Macron, because he supposedly went to tell Xi off for being naughty, and then made statements while there warning that Europe must not become America's followers, thus implying he's pursuing an independent foreign policy.
But at the end of the day, all of these words are just... well, words. We shall see if Europe, or at least western Europe, will actually try and strike a balance or if they will continue to be vassals of the US. I'm certainly not holding my breath.
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.
April 10th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
April 12th's update is here in the comments.
April 14th's update is here in the comments
Sorry everyone, I'm having a busy weekend, so it'll be a three-update week this time around.
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 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.
So the shooter today the media and police quickly identified he was an employee and this was a workplace violence incident. The Tennessee shooting the police still have not released a motive for the shooting or literally any info on the shooter, letting right-wing fashoids set the narrative that it was transgender terrorism. Very curious!
how long until they start planting hormones in shooter's bodies?
I feel like I'm re-treading my old stomping grounds of being a chud who calls all mass shootings ops, like I used to when I was a 4chan chud, but something is up about the Tennessee shooting. I'm NOT defending the shooter, but it's awfully fishy the school was providing cover for sex offenders and here's a former student shooting up the place and the police have been silent on the whole thing. The shooter sent a text to a friend that explained everyone would know why they did it based on the information left behind and we're totally in the dark, giving cover for fascists to spin this into a narrative about transgender people being terrorists.
If the US found Operation Gladio "strategy of tension" effective in Europe, why wouldn't they use it here? We also know that the FBI would find mentally ill Muslims and create terrorist plots for them.
it's only operation gladio if it comes from the european region of eurasia. if its in the us it's sparkling mkultra
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I wonder if part of that program is a sort of entrapment set up to find marginalized people and radicalize them into doing stochastic terrorism? Like what the FBI was doing to muslims that someone else mentioned?
Would explain a lot especially the cops always coming out as heroes from each shooting at a time when police sentiment is poor.
It's easy to fall into this line of thinking - and I'm not sure it's wrong. Law enforcement had really suffered a hit to their popularity in the post BLM zeitgeist, and then Jan 6th came along with their herd of petit bourgeois and FBI informants and agents and whaddya know, the libs fully recuperated law enforcement and they're back to being heroes.
Yeah j6 was a boon for libs and law enforcement respecters, feels like it totally undid the gains made by the George Floyd riots.
We really gotta resurrect Frank Church
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I am putting this in a spoiler since it’s utter conjecture, but you’ve probably heard the theory that the shooter just shot the administrator and maybe the cops shot the students.
No that is the first I've heard this, do you have anymore sources on that?
I think it was a comment on r-TrueAnon - no actual source
Wondering where the cops would have been able to have shot the kids because the bodycam footage showed them rushing in and engaging the shooter.
Good point. I'm not studied on this at all. Haven't watched it or read that deep on it.
afaik they made entry to the school and rushed the shooter, iirc the body cam footage already shows a dead kid on the ground but it's blurred over. So I'm not sure I really buy the cops doing it, honestly sounds like it's giving cover to the shooter, BUT, I wouldn't put anything past the pigs.