Here is June 20th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is June 21st's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is June 22nd's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is June 23rd's update! TLDR? Here's the summary
No update today unfortunately because personal life got a bit busy. Should be fine tomorrow though.
Here is June 25th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
It's my weekly day off, so 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.
At his morning presser, AMLO announced that he will intercede for Julian Assange in his trip to the White House in July, and played a clip of the video "Collateral Murder," which shows a US Apache helicopter in Iraq killing 18, including 2 journalists.
The English professor preached to the class "there are 4 types of conflict. Man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. nature, and man vs. society."
An older student stood up. "Professor" he interrupted, "you forgot the greatest conflict of all."
"And what is that?" The professor asked.
"Man vs. wife" :grillman:
Pretty funny how when you bring up the whole thing about NATO agreeing that they wouldn't go one inch east back in the 1990s and then obviously breaking that promise, people go "Well, Russia should have got it in writing, as a formal treaty!" As if the major export of the West isn't ripped up treaties. The fucking Iran Deal, anybody?
Minsk II was in writing. Native American treaties are in writing. UN human rights resolutions are in writing.
The west ignored all of it. In fact, I can name the number of treaties the west has honored on one hand. They are perfidious, duplicitous liars
Even better is when tribal nations take them to court and the government conveniently loses or accidentally shreds the documents.
UK: Teachers threaten strike next term as government told to solve profession’s cost of living crisis
:party-sicko:
Strikes are gonna bring the UK to its knees. Summer of discontent.
Right now we're in the middle of a nationwide rail strike. Largest in 30 years. Teachers strikes to come, energy unions are balloting. All of them are balloting. It's getting fun.
all we need is some unifying organisation to bring these unions together and co-ordinate their strikes. a trade union congress, as it were.
So you're saying that workers should form into councils, and then there should be some sort of union of those councils?
the organised left in europe (what remains of it, anyway) seems to be waking up rn. this is exciting.
Very good, very exciting protests but ascribing an organized, widespread anti-NATO sentiment to them is wishful thinking
This war has been really eye-opening to me regarding the trustworthiness of western media. Before the war I still believed that although their perspective might be distorted and some inconvenient topics were avoided, they were basically telling the truth. At least they were more truthful than the propaganda media of "authoritarian" countries.
But then the war came and western media went on a propaganda frenzy, bringing obvious bullshit stories like the ghost of Kiev nonsense, making thoroughly useless predictions about imminent Russian collapse and passing off the shitty imperialism of the west as high-minded optimism.
Western media coverage of the war has been nothing but hamfisted propaganda, not an inch better than what we're made to believe the media of our official enemies are.
As a fellow old fart this is exactly what I said in the earliest days of this conflict too. It was / is uncanny.
Wait you're telling me the pen is not mightier than the sword? :walter-shock:
Its mightier than the sword but bullets and bombs are mightier than the pen.
"Look, I'm going to shirtfront Mr Putin ... you bet I am."
- Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
Shirtfront (Australian Rules) noun, "A fierce tackle, usually delivered by the shoulder to the chest of an opponent." verb, "The act of delivering such a tackle." - Oxford Australian Dictionary.
Western media has been very radicalising. They got me with the original Uighur reporting by trying to claim an increase in sterilisations from 150 to 250 per one hundred thousand people constituted a genocide.
I have a friend who is a Hungarian ex-pat, and he's told me a lot about how the Órban regime operates, specifically its propaganda arm. It was quite embarrassing to realize that I've been doing the lib thing of only recognizing shady shit when someone else does it. Sitting there going "OMG, they control all the media so they can pretty much decide which topics are viable and which will never even enter public discourse?! That's horrible!" and still being enough of a lib to think that our media was any better.
Lol. "Luxemberg commits 15% of its defense budget to Ukraine". Sure buddy I'll chip in 10$ and we can double that.
"The only gas that Russians deserve is Cyclone B. Such stickers on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, June 22, appeared in the former Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, reports @news_lv.
On the sides there are inscriptions in Ukrainian: "we hate you."
Cyclone B is a poisonous gas that the Nazis used to massively exterminate people in death camps. Including Ukrainians by nationality. https://t.me/sputnik/7244
Carrington Event but it only destroys Tesla and SpaceX technology for some reason
'Breaking Bad' actor says Americans should 'stfu' about gas prices if they 'love capitalism so much'
https://www.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/vh4eke/breaking_bad_actor_says_americans_should_stfu
Holy fucking shit Hank
He seems like a chill guy, unfortunate that he so perfectly fits the thumb aesthetic
Unrelated, but I completely memoryholed the whole Victory Day thing where everybody was speculating about what Putin would do, and how funny it was when nothing happened.
I remember it and the same people blindly supporting Ukraine being against Lukashenko.
Didn't the west also astroturf Navalny?
I wonder why Russia sees the west as an enemy. It must be some peculiarity in the Asiatic brain pan that makes them irrational and evil I guess.
I remember, a lot of belarussian anarchists who are now jailed were decried here as traitors and CIA plants, it was a very fun time.
Yeah suddenly all my friends who had never heard of Belarus before listening to Behind the Bastards, were in favor of us overthrowing Lukashenko. Really woke me up to Robert Evans being a fed.
I’ve been mentioning it constantly. The foiled color revolution in Kazakhstan as well that Russia paradropped into.
There is a pattern of Russia nipping these natoid revolts in the bud, and it’s good and cool
