No update today or tomorrow :deeper-sadness:

Courtesy of @TacoGyrosKebabShwama, I have added some Russian and Ukrainian telegram channels to the Links and Stuff, to scratch the itch of propaganda from the Russian people, rather than propaganda from overpaid media ghouls in the west. Note that while they sometimes have good anti-imperialist and anti-West takes, they are also typically socially reactionary in regards to LGBT, and also can show combat footage, so, CW.

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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, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.

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.

Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.

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 ~ ASB Military News, banned from Twitter.

https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.

https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster - crowd-funded U.S journalist, mostly pro-Russian, works on the ground near warzones to report news and talk to locals.

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 ~ 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.

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine

With the entire western media sphere being overwhelming pro-Ukraine already, you shouldn't really need more, but:

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.


Yesterday's discussion post.


  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This is so bizarre. Russia and the EU are writing each other checks with one hand and stabbing the shit out of each other with the other hand.

    and here Russian overwhelmingly see their national survival at stake.

    I've been reading up on WWII atrocities and it's a very stark reminder that the Allies basically had a lovely picnic in France while the Soviets were engaged in absolute hell on earth like nothing the world has ever seen. A nation having Nazis in it's formal government structures is a red flag. A nation having open, avowed Nazis formally integrated in to the military is a flare visible from Space, especially given that Ukrainian nationalism still lionizes UON-b figures as heroes while ignoring or denying their participation in ethnic pogroms, Nazi collaborations, and postwar insurgency.

    Add to that all the Eastern European countries taking down statues. Taking down Statues of Lenin or Stalin? Sure, whatever, Stalin was an asshole, it's understandable people would have bad feelings of him and not want to see his face everywhere. But taking down the monuments to Soviet soldiers who liberated Europe from the Nazi? That sends a very clear message to everyone involved.

    • Dingus_Khan [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Allies basically had a lovely picnic in France while the Soviets were engaged in absolute hell on earth like nothing the world has ever seen.

      Thought this recently while watching Operation Mincemeat. If you took every soldier under arms in Sicily on both sides, that's approximately how many Nazi casualties the Red Army was inflicting at the same time the British were hemming and hawing about a second front. Even Churchill himself admitted that the Red Army "tore the guts out of the German war machine" at Kursk