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.
Shinzo Abe got shot.
The media is saying that he's unconscious and showing no signs of life.
He has also said that Assad should step down.
He's on a fucking roll lately. For the record, I definitely do NOT oppose your almighty and benevolent rule, Bashar al-Assad, the Lion of Damascus. May you rule for a hundred years.
Do we have the classic heaven meme for fallen 2020 candidates, but this time for desposed/dead politicians that have stated opposition to Assad? Somebody should get on that if not.
Hurry up and pronounce him dead you dweebs I want to celebrate before it gets too dark outside
"Celebrating the final death of a ghoul is best done in the light of day." -Dr. Abraham Van Helsing
Confirmed dead
Confirmed dead :sicko-wholesome:
It's only one fash less; Chinese Global Times headline: "Japan's ex-leader Shinzo Abe suffers heart failure after suspected assassination".
:crab-party: :hexcrab-party: :crab-party: :hexcrab-party:
heres hoping its not the cia replacing him with some locally grown fascist freak
He isn't even PM anymore.
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Shotgun: Total War
Matchlock Ashigaru stay winning
Based on images the media are sharing it looks like the gun was home made out of plumbing at tape. And this is purely my speculation, but the blast going off looked like it could have been black powder rather than cordite, so it may have even been loaded with, idk, nails and scavenged black powder from fireworks.
A major political figure getting got by some plumbing and tape stuffed full of fireworks is somehow poetic.
I've heard paremovedo balls referenced, which would basically be loose steel shot I guess.
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Ah, its the tiny steel balls they gamble with in Japan, the word itself kinda amusingly contains an anti-asian slur.
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hard, but it is one of the only types of weapons allowed at all.
the assassin's gun was homemade regardless. if I had to guess, he probably made it like a shotgun so that he could use legal ammunition.
i'm assuming he had a patronage network with which he was still pulling strings
He’s as CIA friendly as it comes.
Or should I say, was?