Image is of the drying Canelon Grande Reservoir in Uruguay as the country battles three consecutive years of drought, its worst in nearly a century.
Quoting every country and region that is currently suffering under unprecedented climatic conditions and posting every graph showing extremely concerning things happening would make this preamble way too long, so I'm gonna keep it short and merely say that, holy shit, the consequences of fossil fuel executives' actions are looking real fucking bad.
Hundreds of millions of people, if not billions, are currently enduring higher than average temperatures sometimes reaching up 48 degrees Celsius or 120 degrees Fahrenheit or even beyond. Drought is putting pressure on water supplies basically everywhere around the world. And El Nino is activating, which will only do further damage.
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.
This week's first update is here in the comments.
This week's second and third update have done the Dragonball Z fusion dance and created this long-ass thing that took me... a while to get done.
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.
https://archive.ph/sVZuw
One of America's subs hit some shit while at sea while doing surface travel and needs emergency repairs but can't because a bunch of the shit needed to fix it isn't made any more. Lol lmao even
It's like in Stellaris (or any 4X game) when you build and send out a fleet of ships and by the time they get to their destination they are already a generation behind
American military go 15 minutes without embarrassing yourself challenge [IMPOSSIBLE]
The article says they only ever built three submarines of that class, even aircraft carriers aren't usually built in such small numbers. Even MIC is a victim of capital
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Was the Connecticut one of the ones modified as well for carrying a Seal team to do... Things with?
I also vaguely remember the rumor was this sub was very close to the Chinese coast and the Chinese used sonic depth charges or something until it surfaced, which is how it "hit" something.
Edit: Found the theory again. I remember it didn't sound completely far fetched at the time but I'd have to see if more info came out since.
Edit again: Looks like the redacted but more official story from the US is the CO, XO, NAV, and ANAV really suck
There's a few more good pictures here
that was a very interesting article
EDIT: doing more reading on this and the author's credibility took a big hit when I saw he has UFO stuff and something about building a teleporter
maybe if China is nice, they'll let the US go to war with them by offering them the parts needed to fix all their broken shit
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Yes, yes, it "hit something".
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I salute our brave Kaiju warriors in their ongoing anti-submarine campaign in the pacific
It's very funny that the us is so deep in to autocannibalization it can't keep critical aspects of it's nuclear deterrent floating. I have complete confidence that the F-35 fleet will self own due to maintenance needs and extremely tenuous supply chain within a week of real combat.
I was just reflecting that the most unrealistic thing about X-com and it's successors is the idea that the Western arms firms could rapidly reverse engineer alien equipment, prototype new weapons, and field them in four months instead of forty years. Someone should do a black comedy X-com meets Dr. Strangelove narrative game.
In my 2 edits in another post trying to figure out how they hit the underwater mountain found this banger:
From here
Man, and I had some dork ass
a couple weeks back trying to act like China doesn't spend enough to keep its nukes in working order. Lol they have to tell themselves that because facing the reality of just how much of a paper tiger the US actually is scares them too bad.
It's honestly incredible how much waste there is and how little the US Military achieves with all the money they spend.