Get it? The Sturmabteilung?
Anyway, Ukraine will probably launch its counteroffensive soon. Maybe this week. Maybe next week. Eventually, for sure. Probably. So I'm taking the week off to prepare for it. Your regularly scheduled programming will be back on May 1st.
Image is of dragon's teeth fortifications in Ukraine, from the wikipedia article.
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.
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.
Misreading of Kautsky IMHO look where the nations which did WWI are now - the declining NATO+ bloc, Japan, Russia (lost its colonies, of course). IMHO Lenin would probably have the same analysis of neocolonialism and monetary imperialism (superimperialism) as those who lived to see it emerge??? If you teleported him (it would be so cool to do this btw let's pause on this)???
The decline is making us more violent, lawfare coups, proxy wars, nuclear brinkmanship, etcetera, because we can see the funding we use for the interventions to secure the funding for the interventions we use to [...] is at risk of collapsing.
The economies so crudely termed "the jungle" by Borrel aren't built off neocolonialism because they are on the receiving end, and their development is destroying their status as colonies.
The us striving for unipolarity has tremendously increased regional conflicts and internal anticommunist purges. I'm no economist but regional blocs that are all invested in each other's currencies seem more likely to deal with things using diplomacy.
The anticommunist reaction isn't going anywhere but it looks like a tremendous opportunity to me and I don't think many people read Kautsky's silly little letters but us.
I'm not lauding Kaustky, far from it. UltraImperialism is a niave and politically backwards book that makes me see directly how much of a "marxist" he really was. Lenin was right to hate him. I was merely pointing out that I've seen similar sentiment to Kautsky's in some places on Hexbear, and how many need to not let down their guard for the new order and hegemony.
Oh how I wish, Habibi
Oh don't worry I didn't think you were lauding Kautsky. Or even saying a lot of people still do. I've seen the comparison of superimperialism to ultraimperialism before and it seems skin-deep to me. People implying everything is going to be all sunshine and roses now that the US will have less than total impunity to curb stomp people and send in the goons are going way too far but I see a lot (AND I MEAN A LOT) more skeptics because this is somewhat unknown territory.
You know what we need? Popular youtube video essayists to explain dependency theory and world systems theory. Too many goddamn books for me. (Working on it tho)
EDIT: Ah I see this is about Chinese and Russian imperialism and not about the undeath of neoliberalism RIP. It's always some random blog with a guy denouncing "Marcyism, campism, Red-brown alliance, multipolar chauvinism" just made up shit I'm done. I'm going to start posting in Covert Action Magazine or something. I need industrial strength posting warfare. This site is gonna feel artillery. Can't believe people still take this kind of Alexander Reid-Ross-ass writing seriously.
I mean, its not just about that, the other nations like the still shambling USA, France, Israel, Japan, Germany, and other such nations are ones to worry about far more. Russia is nation building with this ukraine war, but found themselves in quite a different position than they thought, the future is open.