I have returned! Here is July 4th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is July 5th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is July 6th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is July 7th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No update today, I'm frantically going through all of my previous social media accounts to delete any negative mention of Assad.
Here is July 9th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on Sundays. Aside from this reminder: Stalin, and the brave Soviet people commanded by him, saved the world from fascism.
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.
Last week's discussion post.
I hate when libs bring this up without mentioning the historical context - that the Baltics were a part of Russia going back to the 18th century and they were only separated after WW1 - so just like 20 years before 1940. Not saying this re-annexation was totally OK but libs completely ignore this and once again act like all of world history started in 1939.
Yep, same with Poland. Obviously Germany had part before too, but understanding the historical context is important.
People just want big bad ebil villains who do things evilly, with no investigation. So yes, they can be right they nazis are bad, but often vaguely because they're "evil" (they are) but without understanding where they came from and why, you then fail to understand your enemy, and the forces behind them and their present day analogs, allowing them the leeway that should have been denied them after the horrors they unleashed.
And then you might not understand that Nazi Germany's mortal enemy was the Soviet Union, so where does that leave you when sides are forming presently? Weak or tacitly helping fascists.
Learn your history! I shout on hexbear
Liberals know so little of history that they will honestly think it is "ironic" that the USSR and Nazi Germany ended up as enemies since they were both ebil totalitarians. It's like talking about history with a golden retriever.
Truly. It wasn't an alliance, but if someone needs to look at two countries invading the same country at once I get why, but not knowing the reasoning effectively makes their argument moot. Not to mention Poland and Germany invading czechoslovskia together a year prior, a liberals brain would melt. So the invasion of Poland as cynical ploy to gain a buffer from territory that had been theirs 20 years prior is more or less what it was. Had the Polish-Soviet war gone differently, then the USSR and nazis would have shared a border and I'm sure barbarossa would've happened before invading France, making liberals at the time soy face and libs today still so confounded as why the 2 fought since they both choose the evil government type.
I do wonder how that alt history would play out
When every history book in the US history course is fabricated or skips a tons of portion, you know they are not gonna learn the critical thinking and the event that led to the war, or how the leaders think. What they know is amerikkka is good, Nazi and USSR is ebil. They don't even know who inspire the Nazi.
At least it's enjoyable talking to a golden retriever.
My Golden fully supports the Socialist struggle to liberate the people of the world from the clutches of Capitalism.
What you have posted is anti-Golden Retriever propaganda
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Exactly. In fact poland exsisting was a joke. Father Ubu from the classic play ubu roi was king of poland and aragon. Implying he was not in fact a king.
As we all know, every nation-state we like has been there since time immemorial, and every nation-state we hate — especially those black and brown ones — are but imagined constructs!