No update today.
Links and Stuff
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.
I wouldn't go that far on the US is running out of weapons idea, this is way too simplistic when you look at what the US is actualy sending.
It is the same mistake as thinking the US can't fight a war because the F-35s would crash immediately after takeoff or something.
The support for Ukraine contains a lot of shit that doesn't matter, javelins don't matter, artillery doesn't realy matter because the US could build those very easily if they realy need to. What else is left? Shitty drones and NATO APCs and tanks. Maybe some EU countries would have some problems if they get rid of the tanks, but not the US.
You see for one thing the only thing I'd say Zelensky is "right" about is that the US support so far is complete worthless shit. Ukraine needs modern fighter jets, even F-16s would do fine. They need modern tanks and APCs not shit from the cold war museums.
Obviously yes they will never get that, and yes obviously they would need months of training. But this is the truth nonetheless and when you look at what the US army actually uses to fight wars it is modern tanks, APCs, modern aviation, modern artillery and an extremely professional army.
So the US imo can still fight any war, Ukraine is not a significant factor beyond the MIC grifting.
Now when it comes to actualy winning a war that is another matter entirely, you know Iran has all the familiar problems of a large somewhat modern capable army and formidable defensive terrain along with a radicalized population. The US indeed would never win an offensive war against Iran.
But that doesn't mean they can't just go out and try and the point here is that IMO all the media talk about depleting weapon stocks is just media fodder for the benefit of the MIC, you know to simply make it easier to justify more spending, not that the US is actually suffering from this in a truly sensible scale.
Put it in another way, the US has thousands and thousands of modern tanks and fighters, bombers, obviously the entire navy still intact. Giving away shitty anti-armor missiles isn't going to change that. It is not as if the javelin is the linchpin of the US army or anything.
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